The Straits Times, 24 December 1981

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    14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1981 35 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 101/1/81
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    Lock icon Army gaining upper hand?
    709 1 Warsaw lifts curfew' report VIENNA, Wednesday POLAND'S army rulers have apparently won their struggle to impose strict order on the country as they lifted curfew and some travel restrictions for Christmas. Latest reports reaching the West from Warsaw said today that Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski, Prime Minister
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    No change in working hours
    166 1 No change in working hours CIVIL servants will keep to their present working hours and are likely to be untouched by Singapore's decision to adjust to Malaysian time by starting New Year on Dec 31 at 11.30 p.m. A Finance Ministry spokesman yesterday said that so far there has been
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    Lock icon High-flying Santa
    71 1 SANTA Clans Is apparently keeping up with the times as he discards his sleigh and instead, drops in by Jumping from a Twin Otter aircraft. Santa, who wishes to remain anonymous, was free falling 3 km high over Perris Valley, California, at the weekend during training. It is
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    Lock icon Dial a video picture
    64 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. The American Telephone and Telegraph Co yesterday proposed offering a two-way video teleconference service beginning in 1982 that would allow face-to-face meetings among people thousands of miles apart. AT and T said the new, fullcolour picturephone meeting service would be available in 16 cities
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    Lock icon Top car
    34 1 TOKYO. Wed. Toyota's twodoor passenger car "Soarer" has been picked as Japan's Car of the Year for 1981-82 by a 14-member committee of experts in the motor and mass media fields. AFP.
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    GRANTS TO AIDED SCHOOLS DOUBLED
    330 1  - GRANTS TO AIDED SCHOOLS DOUBLED MAY HO By FROM the Education Ministry at Christmas time: Some cheery news for principals of aided schools. The ministry announced yesterday it is doubling its capitation grants to these schools to $3 million from next year. The money is used for day-to-day running of
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    Lock icon Pakistan asks for planes
    53 1 NEW DEljHl, Wed. Pakistan is seeking four surveillance planes from the United States to keep watch on its borders with Afghanistan, India and Iran, the Times of India reported today. The newspaper said Pakistan wants the EC-2 planes, nicknamed Hawkeyes. which are a smaller version of
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    Lock icon Dance killing
    35 1 BANGKOK, Wed. A hand grenade which apparently (ell from a soldier's belt exploded on a crowded dance floor at a village fair, killing four people and injuring 46 others, police said today. AP.
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    Once a year chance to become a millionaire
    218 1 Once a year chance to become a millionaire BECOME a millionaire for two dollars. This is the plan being considered by Singapore Pools. If It gets the go-ahead, the $I,*M,*M prize will be given once a year. Sweep tickets for that month will cost $2 instead of $1. For the
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    Lock icon 'Malaysia to buy British tanks'
    145 1 LONDON, Wed MALAYSIA has signed a letter of intent to buy 90 Scorpion tanks from Britain despite a trade crisis between the two countries, The Financial Times reported today. The deal, which includes an option for a further 30 tanks, would be the first major
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    Lock icon Embassy fire
    37 1 MANILA. Wed. A 30-minute fire broke out at the Brazilian Embassy, which was empty, and caused U*****,000 (5J256.000) worth of damage, police said today. Arson invesigators are looking into the cause of the fire. UPI.
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    Lock icon CHURCH STEPS UP EFFORT
    73 1 j VATICAN CITY, Wed. i The secretary of the Polish Bishops Conference headed back to Warsaw I today as the Roman Catholic Church stepped I op Its efforts to mediate between Poland's military rulers and the Soil i darlty trade union. "The role of the church
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    Jeya out as adviser to six Anson organisations
    632 1 JOB GOES TO CIVIL SERVANT THE government has decided not to appoint the MP for Anson, Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam, adviser to the six grassroots organisations in that constituency, picking instead a civil servant for the job. A Prime Minister's Office statement yesterday
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    Lock icon Guerillas burn rail station in the south
    253 1 Guerillas burn rail station in the south BANGKOK, Wed ABOUT 40 armed communist insurgents today burned a railway station and two other nearby buildings in southern Thailand. A railway spokesman said the incident at the Chawang district of Surat Thani province was witnessed by many passengers waiting to board a
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      714 2 Tardy officers DISCIPLINARY action is being taken against four or five police officers for tardiness in answering a distress call. This follows a complaint by National Development Minister Teh Cheang Wan to the Police Commissioner that police cars took more than 15 minutes to respond to a robbery at
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      COMMENT
      160 2 I THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: MINISTER of State (National Development) Lee York Suan offered a persuasive reason for Housing Board residents to keep common areas clean: smaller service and conservancy fee increases. There may be other savings if the HDB examines whether all improvements and redecoration, such as building
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      TIMES BUSINESS
      235 2 GIANT JAPANESE INVESTMENT IN MICROCOMPUTERS THE small computer revolution has reached Singapore in a big way. By next April in Bedok, the first Japanese microcomputer plant here will be producing the complete range of microcomputer systems. Sord Computer Systems Inc. which is Japan's second largest microcomputer company and
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      BACKGROUND
      86 2 UNEMPLOYMENT WILL WORSEN ABOUT 25 million people 7Vi per cent of the labour force will be out of work in the 24 Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD countries this Christmas. This is the highest level of unemployment experienced by OECD countries since 1973. And the worst is
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      SPORTS
      204 2 Self-made success STRICT discipline, sacrifice and lots of practice these are the self-confessed ingredients for Malaysia's Marimuthu Ramayah's success at the President Marcos invitational golf tournament in Manila. It was an outstanding win because just last year, he failed even to make the cut at the wicked, windswept Puerto
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      AROUND THE WORLD
      619 2 'No' to jnore credit WESTERN banks have turned down a Polish request for another $717.5 million of credit to help it meet interest payments due on its debts this year. Some bankers feel pressure should be put on the Soviet Union to help its ally, banking sources
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      SECTION 2
      282 2 The rage in Paris THE Orient is the rage in Paris, judging from two recent happenings there. Jean-Louis Scherrer's Winter in Beijing haute couture and Boutique Collection 1981/82 and the Autumn Winter Collection that recently travelled the world feature coolie trousers, sheath gowns, cheongsams, mandarin jackets and more,
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      ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
      202 2 Hasty demolition DEVELOPERS are angry with the Housing Department, some of whose officers have unwittingly demolished about 80 low-cost houses in Kluang. They are planning to take the department to court if they are not compensated. The developers claim they are losing money building low-cost houses and
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      SECTION 3 (S'pore edition)
      151 2 The various female roles in Beijing opera TODAY all Beijing opera troupes recruit both male and female members. It was not until 1911 that women were allowed for the first time to go to a public opera. Deep-seated feudal influence had barred women from the stage
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      408 2 The largest exhibition and sale of classical Chinese furniture, arts and crafts. December 18-27, 1981 10am to 6pm daily. fff "5 A. i \t |mPi!!9 i If you have always hankered for a piece of Chinese culture, or a magnificent suite of Ming style furniture, now is the time to
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      Lock icon Polish request for $700m turned down
      419 3 Polish request for $700 m turned down WESTERN BANKS 'NO' TO LOANS FOR INTEREST PAYMENTS ZURICH, Wed WESTERN banks have decided to turn down a Polish request for an extra US$35O million (*****.5 million) of credit to help it meet interest payments due on its debts this year, banking sources
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      Lock icon ON LAST LEG OF TOUR
      66 3 PARIS, Wed. US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Lawrence Eaeleburger left for London today on the last leg of a tour aimed at working out a consolidated Western position on th* military crackdown In Poland. Mr Eaglebnrger, who arrived In Paris this morning
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      Lock icon 'West German govt against sanctions'
      391 3 BONN, Wed. THE West German Government opposes the imposition of sanctions against the military government of Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski in Poland at the present time, informed sources here said yesterday. The sources said that United States Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, who stopped in
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      Lock icon Christmas with little to rejoice about...
      336 3 Christmas with little to rejoice about... VIENNA, Wed CHRISTMAS will hardly be a time for rejoicing in Poland. The 3,000 strikers occupying coal mines in Silesia will probably spend it underground. The 8,000 workers reportedly barricaded inside the steel works at Katowice would much rather spend Christmas at home. Many
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      Lock icon More flights to the West
      58 3 VIENNA (Austria), Wed. Official Polish television reported more (lights to the west will leave Warsaw today for New York and cities in Europe. .The report, monitored by the BBC yesterday, quoted a Polish airlines announcement saying (lights are scheduled (or New York, London, Paris, Zurich,
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      Lock icon Asylum quest
      32 3 CANBERRA, Wed. Twelve people aboard a Polish cargo skip that stopped in Sydney this week sought political asylum in Australia, the Association of Free Poles in Australia said today. AFP.
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      More aid
      27 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. Red Cross societies have been asked to almost double their contributions to the Polish Red Cross Society, the American Red Cross said today.
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      Lock icon POLES ABROAD TO GET MORE NEWS OF HOME
      213 3 POLES ABROAD TO GET MORE NEWS OF HOME LONDON, Wed. Polish and foreign radio stations have Increased programming fer Polish listeners craving fer news of their homeland since marital law was imposed. Warsaw radio has resumed programming for sailers away from home, many of whom have defected as their ships
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      Lock icon Pressure on France to stop N-tests in Pacific
      267 4 WELLINGTON, Wednesday NEW Zealand and Pacific trade union bodies have decided to mobilise public opinion against continued French nuclear testing in the South Pacific at Mururoa atoll. New Zealand Federation of Labour president, Jim Knox, said his organisation and the Pacific Trade
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      Jumbo jam after elephant falls off truck
      193 4 Jumbo jam after elephant falls off truck SYDNEY, Wed. Tars the elephant was nursing a fcunlw-eixed headache yesterday after falling off the back of a track on one of Sydney's busiest roads. The l&-year-old, fourtonne Indian elephant was one of four elephants being transported across Sydney's northern suburbs on Monday
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      Lock icon ROMULO ATTACKS RUDENESS OF U.S. OFFICIALS
      165 4 ROMULO ATTACKS RUDENESS OF U.S. OFFICIALS MANILA, Wed. Philippine Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo today Erotested to the United tates over what he said was the rude way in which Filipinos were treated by immigration and customs officials at US ports, the Foreign Ministry said. In a strongly worded note to
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      Lock icon Hongkong delighted with Youde's appointment
      302 4 HONGKONG, Wed. SIR Edward Youde, a 57-year-old former British Ambassador to China, who is to become Hongkong's 26th Governor next May, has won the hearts of the people of Hongkong even before his arrival, judging by the big splashes on front pages of leading newspapers
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      OPIUM WAR RAGING BENEATH PEACE
      88 4 OPIUM WAR RAGING BENEATH PEACE HMONG hilltribe women harvesting potatoes In the Golden Triangle, the mountainous area alone the borders of Thailand, I Burma and Laos, which Is the biggest source of opium-based narcotics in South-east Asia. Yet beneath the apparent peace surrounding these women, an opium war is raging
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      Lock icon Ties with Delhi likely to improve: Beijing
      229 4 Ties with Delhi likely to improve: Beijing BEIJING, Wed. China today said Sino-Indian relations, which have been strained for two decades, were likely to improve following recent border talks in Beijing. The communist party newspaper People's Daily said the talks were a "good omen signifying not only a good beginning
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      Lock icon Too crowded' warning
      67 4 JAKARTA, Wed. The people in Java will sleep standing up in 250 years' time if they (ail to increase family planning and transmigration programmes, Antara news agency quoted a leading lecturer of the Gajah Mada University as saying Prof Herman Johannes said today that in the next
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        Lock icon Bomb blasts in Paris
        66 4 FOUR BOMB explosions damaged commercial premises in different parts of Paris yesterday. The targets were a Rolls-Royce car dealer's shop, a toy shop, a restaurant and a clothing shop. An anonymous telephone caller told the French news agency shortly after the simultaneous blast? that the attacks
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        Lock icon 2 Iran officials killed
        62 4 IRAN REPORTED yesterday that two senior officials in Ayatollah Khomeiny's regime have been assassinated in a grenade ambush in the north-eastern city of Mashhad. The state-run Teheran Radio, in a broadcast monitored in Beirut, identified the victims as Mojtaba Ozbaki, parliament deputy from Shahre-kord in the
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        Lock icon Robbers captured
        80 4 PHILIPPINE SOLDIERS yesterday captured three members of a 37-man gang of robbers, on a mountain trail in the southern Philippines an hour before the army's noon deadline expired, the rh'Uppipe News Agency said. The agency said the soldiers nico rescued one of the hostages, reducing to 12 ih<=
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        Lock icon 'Dozier is not dead'
        71 4 AN ANONYMOUS claim that kidnapped US General James Dozier had been killed by his Red Brigade captors was denied by the Pentagon in Washington last night. The Italian news agency, Ansa, said an anonymous telephone caller, claiming to speak for the Brigade, told its Beirut office
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        Lock icon Guerillas 'in control'
        68 4 GUERILLAS IN Afghanistan have virtual control of the province adjoining Kabul, Western diplomatic sources in Islamabad said yesterday. The sources, who declined to be identified, said the governor of Kapisa province stayed outside the province and entered it only on short visits with a military escort. They
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        Lock icon $50 b budget
        74 4 INDONESIA'S BUDGET for the next fiscal year (beginning on April 1) is estimated to reach 15,200 billion rupiahs (about S$50.6 billion), Member of Parliament Hamzah Haz said in Jakarta yesterday. Mr Hamzah said the new budget was 1,300 billion rupiahs more than the the present budget. The
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      Lock icon Annexation not a fait accompli: Israel
      344 5 GOLAN'S FUTURE STILL OPEN TO NEGOTIATIONS' BRUSSELS, Wed tHE Speaker of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) said yesterday that Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights \fras not a "fait accompli" and the future of tjie area was open to negotiation with Syria. Speaking after four
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      Lock icon Why Washington wasn't consulted
      117 5 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. Israel did not consult t»e United States before annexing the Golan Heights because "we did not want to embarrass opr friend," the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Yehuda Blum, said yesterday. "No one should have been surprised at the Knesset's (Parliament's)
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      Lock icon Reagan will not raise taxes, says official
      371 5 Reagan will not raise taxes, says official WASHINGTON, Wednesday PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan, still confident his economic programme can pave the way to prosperity, will not raise taxes to avoid potentially huge budget deficits, a White House spokesman said yesterday. A number of the President's political and economic aides have recently
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      In other words...
      56 5 In other words... 4 IF I were courageous, I weald have killed Gaddafi when I Interviewed him. I think it's a shame Gaddafi dies In his bed. Oh God, it I had had the goto to do It I should die with him, of coarse. Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci after
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        Lock icon Dinosaur footprints
        53 5 GEOLOGISTS looking for salt wells stumbled upon a maze of dinosaur footprints in Sichuan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported in Beijing yesterday. The well-preserved fossilized footprints, which scientists say are 150 million years old, were found last summer at the commune in Sichuan's Zizhong county, the
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        Lock icon Hiking across Himalayas
        62 5 TWO American adventurers set out from Kathmandu on Monday on the second leg of their 3,218 km, 10-month hike of the Himalayan mountain range. Ms Arlene Blume, 36, and Mr Hugh Swift, 38, who hope to reach the city of Leh in India's Kashmir region by July
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        Lock icon Traffic over the bridge
        50 5 THE world's longest bridge, running 5.57 km across the Ganga River at Gulazarbargn, will be open to traffic by March, it was announced yesterday. The 457 million rupee (5592.3 million) bridge will have two lanes initially, with two more scheduled for completion in three years.- AFP.
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        Lock icon Device to save fuel
        58 5 A FUEL-SAVING device which could double the life of the world's oil reserves is being displayed at the University of East Australia in Perth. It was invented by Mr David Van Dal and Mr John Quinsee, both from Perth, who have formed a syndicate called Quindal
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      Lock icon 22 jailed
      28 5 JAKARTA, Wed. Twentytwo Portuguese nationals of Chinese origin were each Jailed for 4' 2 months for possessing false Indonesian passports, it was reported here today. AFP.
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      California farmers threaten to boycott Japanese products
      368 5 SACRAMENTO (California), Wed. Threatening to launch a massive, nationwide, boycott of Japanese products, California fruit and vegetable fanners have given Japan until Feb 1 to ease fumigation requirements on their produce. California growers are protesting restrictions Japan imposed on produce imports from the
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      Lock icon Still checking
      49 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. The date of the third experimental flight of the US space shuttle. Columbia, will not be announced until the middle of next month. Space agency specialists had not finished Inspecting the craft's three fuel cells, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said yesterday. AFP.
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      Beatty's film 'Reds' wins Critics Circle award
      265 5 Beatty's film 'Reds' wins Critics Circle award NEW YORK, Wed. THE Him Reds, Warren Beatty's 33-mlUlon-dallar (S$M mllUon) epic tribute to radical Journalist John Reed and the Russian Revelation, was named best pictore of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle. Mr Beatty, who starred In, wrote and
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      Lock icon Scandal involving tax on donations looms in Germany
      454 6 Scandal involving tax on donations looms in Germany BONN, Wed FEDERAL authorities have disclosed that more than 700 companies and individuals are now suspected of dodging taxes on donations to party funds, a potential finance scandal that may well affect both the government as well as opposition leaders. Payments totalling
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      Lock icon British minister linked to woman's hanging?
      172 6 British minister linked to woman's hanging? LONDON, Wed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ordered a report last night into the alleged relationship between Minister Nicholas Fairbairn and a woman found hanged from a lamppost outside his London apartment last October. The London Times reported that the information Mrs Thatcher had received
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      Lock icon OECD forecast for 15 in Europe: Fall in inflation but...
      288 6 PARIS, Wednesday MOST smaller European nations should experience lower inflation but higher unemployment next year as they pull out of the world recession, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said today. The OECD said in its half-yearly economic
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      47 6 BEIRUT, Wed. Rescue teams digging through the rubble of the Iraqi embassy, destroyed in a massive explosion a week ago, found one of its staff still alive today, an official announcement said. Iraqi sources identified the man as Mohammed Abbas Fleih, an embassy official. Reuter.
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      Lock icon Four papers to leave their 'parent'
      88 6 Four papers to leave their 'parent' LONDON, Wed. Four of Britain's leading newspapers are to be demerged from their parent company, their owners said today. The Trafalgar House Property and Construction Company said in a letter to shareholders that it plans to ask them next month to agree to float
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      Lock icon $1 b Xmas lottery windfall for Spaniards
      254 6 $1 b Xmas lottery windfall for Spaniards MADRID, Wed. Thousands of Spaniards, including an unemployed father of three behind with his rent, received early Christmas gifts yesterday as Spain's special lottery, the richest in the world, handed out some US$500 million (S$l,025 million) in prizes. Most of the winnings were
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      Lock icon Beatle items snapped up at auction
      154 6 LONDON, Wed. PUnoe, clothes, paintings and other Items which once belonged to the Beatles were snapped up yesterday at the first motion of rock Mid roll memorabilia at Sotheby's London salerooms. Telephone lines wen kept open for bidden In the United States as reminders
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      Lock icon Sea rescuer's body found
      123 6 A SEA KING helicopter winching up the body of one of the crewmen of the Penlee lifeboat that overturned on the way to rescue the wrecked freighter, Union Star, off the Cornwall coast on Sunday. In the past two weeks, Britain has been hit by some
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      Lock icon Venice flooded by sea water
      131 6 Venice flooded by sea water VENICE, Wed. Adriatic Sea waters flooded the entire centre of Venice and, snow storms covered the rest of northern Italy yes-' terday in the worst weather of the season. Officials said the flood waters reached 1.45' metres above sea level, the highest in several years,
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      31 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. The United States will train about 1,600 soldiers from El Salvador at army bases in Georgia and North Carolina early next year, administration officials said yesterday. UPI.
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      Lock icon New Soviet reactors
      42 6 MOSCOW, Wed. The Soviet Union is building 18 large nuclear power reactors, each of 4,000 to 6,000 megawatts, Energy Minister Piotr Neporozhny announced today. Each plant will save about two million tonnes of petrol a year, he said. AFP.
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    Ex-UF man disappeared with typewriter court told
    211 7 Ex-UF man disappeared with typewriter court told FORMER United Front candidate Johnny Wee Lai Seng "disappeared" with an electric typewriter left in his office after a demonstration, a magistrate was told yesterday. Wee is charged with misappropriating the typewriter at his Maritime Building office in Collyer Quay on May 27
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    Thief walks off with $10,000 gems
    92 7 Thief walks off with $10,000 gems A THIEF walked away with nearly $10,000 worth of jewellery from Davin Gift Store in Lucky Plaza on Tuesday. The store's managing director. Mr K.P. Leong, 32, told police that the store was crowded at about 11.30 a.m. that day. Later, a salesgirl from
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    Skin problems
    33 7 THE Radin Mas community centre's women sub-committee will hold a talk on common skin problems at the centre on Dec 29 at 7.30 p.m. The speaker is Dr Y. C. Giam.
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    Nine in 10 Pr 6 pupils get the schools of their choice
    446 7  -  JUNE TAN By Education Reporter ALMOST nine out of 10 Primary School Leaving Examination pupils have been sent to the schools of their choice this year a 3 per cent rise over last year's total. The figure follows
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    Principals give recipe for PSLE success
    260 7  -  LOW GUAT TIN By SOME of the principals praised this week for getting good Primary School Leaving Examination result* have been spelling ont their secrets for saccess. Each has set up special learning projects at his school which has resulted in a higher level
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    NCC girls to be given nursing and first aid lessons
    191 7 GIRLS in the National Cadet Corps will, for the first time, be taught nursing and first aid. Teachers who are officers-in-charge of the NCC will soon be taught the finer points in the subject. The NCC headquarters at Nee Soon
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    VITB using four schools for course registration
    89 7 Registration for the Vocational and Industrial Training Board's parttime continuing education and training courses will be held at four centres this year. They are East Payoh Secondary School, St Joseph's Institution, Tanghn Technical School and Tanjong Katong Girls' School. Registration at these centres
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    Electricity shut down
    63 7 THE Public Utilities Board will shut down electricity supp'y from 10 a m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday to Join two electricity cables at Hongkong Street on Dec 30. The residences in the area affected by the shut down are No 41 to 99, South Bridge Road,
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    Teaching of English course for teachers cut to six months
    284 7 THE Teaching of English in Singapore Schools course conducted by the British Council for the Education Ministry will be shortened to six months. The course for graduate English teachers in secondary schools and junior colleges, will be the third in
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    Bouquet to 'giant' HDB union from Chee Onn
    242 7 Bouquet to 'giant' HDB union from Chee Onn PRAISE was heaped on the Public Daily Rated Housing and Development Board Workers' Union by NTUC secretary-general LJm Chee Onn yesterday. He said the union was not among the giants in terms of membership. But in terms of its ability to look
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    Ang Mo Kio fiesta
    34 7 THE Ang Mo Kio community centre youth group will hold a fiesta at the centre on March 14. For details, telephone *****36 or *****44 from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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    FACSIMILE SERVICE NOW UNDER STUDY
    96 7 AN island-wide facsimile transmission service is being considered by Telecoms. Machines similar to photocopiers would be installed in post offices and copies of documents could be transmitted in seconds. However, Telecoms have yet to solve a number of problems. Among them are the price and
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      Pas and Front taking struggle for Trengganu to grassroots
      513 8 Pas and Front taking struggle for Trengganu to grassroots KUALA TRENGGANU, Wednesday EVEN coffee-shops are taking sides when it comes to grassroots politics in Trengganu a reflection of the intense struggle between the ruling National Front coalition and Pas to capture this state. Trengganu is at present in the hands
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      Lock icon Assemblyman evicted
      76 8 PENANG, Wed. State opposition leader Karpal Singh, who had been suspended from the Penang state assembly since November last year for being absent without official leave, turned up a session yesterday and had to be evicted. The Speaker, Datuk haji Hassan Noh, suspended proceedings and walked out, after
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      Lock icon Uproar over baby mix-up in Seremban hospital
      176 8 Uproar over baby mix-up in Seremban hospital SEREMBAN, Wed. A couple was about to leave the general hospital here with a baby boy last Sunday without realising that the bundle of joy they were carrying was not theirs. Meanwhile, another couple, who declined to be identified, found that they been
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      Lock icon 'We're ready'
      43 8 We're ready' PORT DICKSON, Wed. UMNO Youth is fully prepared for the next general election, its leader, Datuk Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin said here recently. He said plans had been drawn up at all levels to face the election, expected early next year. NST.
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      Lock icon Builders see red over hasty demolition of Johore houses
      303 8 JOHORE BARU, Wed MANY Housing Department officers here "shoot first and ask questions later," with the result that several low-cost houses were torn down when they should not have been. About 80 low-cost houses in Kluang were demolished by these officers
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      In other words..
      47 8 WE get up in the morning to a Sony alarm clock, listen to the news on a National radio and brew a cap of coffee on a Sanyo coffee-maker. a trade official in Kuala Lumpur talking to Newsweek magazine about the "Japaning" of Asia.
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      Lock icon Owners want fair deal
      70 8 PENANG, wed. Owners of rent-controlled buildings here have called (or the Rent Control Ordinance of 1948 to be amended to allow them to raise rents when their assessments are increased. The call was made through the Penang Ratepayers, Taxpayers and Landowners' Association. Landlords of the 6,000
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      Lock icon 3 hurt in blaze at furniture plant
      174 8 3 hurt in blaze at furniture plant PORT KLANG, Wed A TWO-HOUR fire following an explosion destroyed a multi-million-dollar furniture factory in Pandamaran here last night. Two workers and a Japanese adviser of the factory were injured in the explosion in the spraying section. They were taken to the Klang
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      Reminder for Christmas
      56 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Sixty-two road users were killed and 153 seriously injured in the 1,775 accidents that occurred during last year's Christmas and New Year season. These figures were released by the Malaysian Road Safety Council as a safety reminder to road-users during the coming Christmas and
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      A grave problem
      52 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Costly marble slabs, urns and crosses have been spirited away from tombstones at the Christian cemetery in Petaling Jaya. the Malay Mail reported yesterday. Three marble beams costing $1,000 have disappeared at night early this month, a grave-digger was quoted by the Malay Mail
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      Lock icon Five Filipino gunmen held in Sabah
      178 8 Five Filipino gunmen held in Sabah KOTA KINABALU, Wed. Five Filipino gunmen have been detained under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on suspicion of planning to stage armed robberies on timber camps in Sabah, police sources said today. They were arrested on Saturday at a roadblock 90 km from here during
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      For libraries
      48 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Under the Fourth Malaysia Plan, $17.8 million has been allocated to the National I> brary to build libraries throughout the country, Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister, Datuk Haji Abdul Jalal bin Haii Abu Bakar, the National Echo reported him as saying yesterday
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      Peeping torn on the prowl with camera
      125 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A peeping torn who preys en ceurttng couples at a park here is blackmailing his victims with snap-ahete of them "caught in the act," the Malay Mall reported today. A married lawyer at a lakeside lovers' haunt in Taman Tltiwanna
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    Servicemen get sound advice
    258 9 Servicemen get sound advice NATIONAL servicemen are exposed to harmful levels of noise during their 24 to 30 months of service, says the latest issue of the Singapore Armed Forces magazine Pio- neer. The magazine calls on servicemen to use ear plugs issued to them to prevent hearing loss. An
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    How air defence system works in crisis
    260 9 How air defence system works in crisis IN a remote part of Singapore, the radars of the Mobile Air Defence Centre scanned the Republic's air space ceaselessly for any sign of unidentified aircraft. The country of Pangavia had expelled the ambassadors of Singapore and Malaysia on Sept 10 and their
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    Five fined for stealing
    69 9 THREE men and two teenagers were eachjailed for a day and fined $300 yesterday for stealing 10 cartons of detergent from Harper Gilfinnan (S) Pte Ltd in September. Delivery clerk Zainal Abidin bin Halim, 26, iorry attendants S. H. Murad bin Sanoesi, 17, Hasri bin Mahfodg.
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    Man found dead on pavement
    75 9 Man found dead on pavement A 41-YEAR-OLD man, Mohamad bin Bujang, was found dead on the pavement along Outram Road yesterday. Police said a bicycle was lying beside his body when it was found at about 9 a.m. It is not known if he was a victim of a road
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    Sisters improve English with new family
    259 9 STUDENT Chla Hwee Ping, 18, thanks the McCamon family with a hristma.s carol on the piano. She and her sister Hwee Ling, 15, spent four weekends with the Canadian family who live In Seranxoon Road. Diamond specialist Mr Peter McCamon, offered a weekend home
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    Show in aid of centre
    80 9 A FUND-RAISING film show will be held at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday at 8.30 a.m. Proceeds of the film, The Crippled Heaven, organised by the Kebun Bam Zone B residents' committee, will go to the maintenance of its activities' centre on the void deck
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    Bigamist woos wife again after 10 years
    158 9 LABOURER Lau Ene Hock, who left his wife 10 years ago for another woman, told a court yesterday that he is now wooing his first wife who had exposed him as a bigamist. Lau, 42, was jailed for a day and fined $2,000
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    SDF approves grant for child care centres
    109 9 THE Skills Development Fund (SDF) has approved, in principle, a grant for the Young Women's Christian Association to improve services at its new childcare centres. The grant will help finance a one-year training programme for more than 20 teachers from the association's five
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    Action taken against cops who came late
    369 9 DISCPLINARY action is being taken against four or five police officers for tardiness in responding to a distress call, a police spokesman said yesterday. This follows investigations into a complaint by the Minister for National Development, Mr Teh Cheang Wan, that patrol j
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      278 9 WISHES GOME TRUE L CWfflfsf] TIHSQIRLSTNIAS QSiU Wishes come true for children, V^* <KJ^f J ILAkJ^^S with gift ideas from Metro. {Tj And come Christmas Day their stockings *2^L will be filled with all the goodies their METHIfI hearts can ever wish for. w PIB I Itli Enter the wonderful
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    Squatters pose problems on building worksites
    230 10 Squatters pose problems on building worksites SOME contractors are facing a squatter problem right on their worksites. Foreign workers not employed by these contractors have been found squatting at site quarters provided for their ownworkers. After a complaint of "undesirable elements" found hiding in a worksite, the Singapore Contractors' Association
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    Hong bao for needy at MacPherson
    75 10 Hong bao for needy at MacPherson THE MacPherson constituency will hold its annual welfare day before the Lunar New Year starts on Jan 25. Home Affairs Minister Chua Sian Chin, who is MP for the area, will distribute gift parcels and hong bao to the needy. Residents who are above
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    MP urges people to change work attitudes
    169 10 MP urges people to change work attitudes IT IS ironical that while all Singaporeans want to own homes, few want to help build them, the MP for Boon Lay, Mr Goh Chee Wee, said yesterday. Because of this, Singapore has to bring in foreign workers for the construction industry and
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    New Year joy
    32 10 THE Toa Payoh community centre is organising a get-to-gether, Welcome 32, on Dec 31 at 8 p.m. Tickets are at $2 each, and details are obtainable at Tel. *****49.
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    Designs that will change the skyline
    340 10 SPACE-AGE living and garden city delight these are featured In two of the eight winning designs In the Hth Urban Redevelopment Authority land sale recently. The designs are for condominiums and promise to change the skyline in two outlying areas when completed. This glimpse
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    Car park fight: Two helping police
    144 10 Car park fight: Two helping police TWO men are helping police in investigations into a fight which broke out in the car park of Times House, Kim Seng Road, yesterday. Police said two groups of. vendors were waiting for newspapers in the car park at about 12.15 p.m. when a
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    Dole list shrinks to half that in 1971
    594 10 Dole list shrinks to half that in 1971 THE number of Singaporeans on the dole dropped by almost 50 per cent last year compared to 1971 figures. The Ministry of Social Affairs' annual report shows that there were 8,915 people on public assistance in 1971 as against 4,580 last year.
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    Five hurt in mishaps over past two days
    154 10 FIVE people, including two women, were injured in two road accidents in the past two days. Scooterist Ng Yang j Hiok, 30, was involved in i an accident with a pedestrian, Madam Ho Ah Bian, 60. along Bencoolen Street on Tuesday at
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    A HEALTH RECORD THAT IS HARD TO BEAT
    359 11 MESSENGER HaJI Sinawi HaJI Abdul Rahman may be M years old, but he boasts a health record that any man half his agr will find hard to match. For the past 44 1 -i years, he has never taken sick leave or
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    No shortage of pigs, ministry tells sellers
    277 11 No shortage of pigs, ministry tells sellers THE National Development Ministry says there is no shortage of pigs and any rise in pfR prices is probably due to increased festive demand. This is in response to pork merchants who are considering raising pork prices again, &s they are alarmed Dy
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    Award for 42 pupils who showed they care
    116 11 Award for 42 pupils who showed they care PRIMARY A's gift to charity was their way •f saying "we care tO,H» times over. The 42 boys and girls found time Just before their final examinations to collect from their friends, schoolmates, neighbours and relatives 11,1 ft one-rent coins for the
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    Day work permit reminder
    36 11 THE IMMIGRATION Department and Work Permit Division yesterday reminded all holders of Day Work Permits that they are not allowed to reside in Singapore under the conditions laid down in their permits.
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    Two in three cars fail Vicom inspection
    480 11  -  EDMUND TEO By Transport Reporter ABOUT two in three cars which went through trial inspections at Vicom recently failed to make the grade. Failures involved brakes, wheel alignment or undercarriage tests. "These are major faults, and failing any one of them will mean
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      308 11 Wamake everyone a winner! Here are the fabulous prizes! Would you like a free National video recorder this Christmas? A super-efficient refrigerator? Or your dream washing machine? Well, when you buy a National Quintrix TC-21 1M colour TV from 17th November to 17th February 1982, you'll W§M get a Lucky
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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      157 11 Bringing Up Father By BUI Ka vanagh Hal Gamp kAV BROTHER OINAKAV Pi C? VdU FC43SET MO, I DOIT WAKIT IT TICKS Go ICHJO jy^-^josric^es^iS to take ivatcm it woke nae op JJ tgx- WKTCM^tf'S I &(KM>y, DEN?? TO WORK- yfr^ > )Oi_i^™ ksHr Blondie By Chic Young "\j I
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    The Straits Times says...
    460 12 I Cheap dirt the expensive way SO IT pays to be clean. Of all the reasons not to litter, the one given in Parliament this week by the Minister of State (National Development), Mr Lee Yock Suan, should be the most persuasive for Singaporeans. If Housing
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    Lock icon No going it alone on the seabed
    582 12  -  MAKS WESTERMAN By in New York PRESIDENT Reagan is soon to decide whether to continue US participation in the Law of the Sea Conference. He may be inclined to pull the delegation out of the eight-year-old negotiations or demand changes in the almost
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    Cambodians still living in conditions of distress
    1337 12 What the EEC mission saw... THREE representatives of the European Parliament visited Cambodia on a fact-finding mission from March 27 to April 3 this year. The group passed through Ho Chi Minh City on their way to Phnom Penh. The purpose of the
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    Lock icon Elite schools in China face mounting criticism
    727 12  - Elite schools in China face mounting criticism CHRISTOPHER WREN By in Shanghai ZHAO Jianping, a lively seven-year-old in a green sweater, selected another colour from his crayon box, shifted his sheet of paper and sketched the white plastic rabbit that the teacher had set out as a model on her
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      Sounder way to traffic control
      364 13 I WAS disappointed to read in an issue of your newspaper (ST, Dec 19) that, in a new campaign to reduce pedestrian accident and death rates on our roads, "a whistle will be blown to warn pedestrians crossing the road when the green light has
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      Golan Heights' people approve of Israeli action
      434 13 I REFER to your editorial entitled "Israeli Action Will Not Pay" (ST, Dec 18) You mentioned, in passing, the "Strategic importance" of this "bleak volcanic plateau". Having been on the Golan Heights, I can attest that the importance of this area to the
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      Where to go for hang-gliding
      429 13 I WRITE this to those who own a hang-glider (powered or non-powered) in Singapore and wonder where they can take up the sport without fear of being fined by the authorities. I brought my glider (Flexwing, Type Cirrus SA) to Singapore in 1979 and found
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    • Letter
      Are these preserved fruits save?
      104 13 I WOULD like to know more about the preserved "junk food" we take in such as ginger slices, plums etc. Most of these preserved fruit have rather strong colouring which stains the fingers Tor some time. Is it true that this artificial colouring is not
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      Vicom should check for radio . interference
      100 13 Vicom should check for radio interference FROM Vicom's leaflet, I observe that there is no inspection of radio interference from motor vehicles, which are to be inspected from next year. Years ago, suppressors were fitted and now, with the latest technology, high quality carbon cables are available. I think the
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      More could be done for goods vehicles
      394 13 More could be done for goods vehicles The new road tax structure for goods vehicles is designed to encourage the use of larger capacity vehicles, thus reducing overloading of vehicles on the roads. While the Registry of Vehicles' initiative is greatly appreciated, there is still room for improvement and it
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    • Letter
      Heping boys to be good citizens
      189 13 AS A member of the Boys' Brigade, I feel that it is my duty and honour to enlighten those in doubt about the BB flag day on Dec 5, particularly "Scorpio''(ST, Dec 15). The parent movement of Uniformed Youth Organisations (UYOs) has survived 96
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      Flag day approved by the Police
      157 13 I REFER to the letter "Keeping flag days for the' charities" by "Scorpio 1 (ST, Dec 15). We would like;to assure "Scorpio" that thePolice is very discriminating in processing applica- 1 tions for "selling flags" ana takes utmost care to ensure that only those
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      526 13 THE 2nd Wrangler WALKARUN Get in step with our charity drive on Sunday, 17th January 1982. The exciting Wrangler Roadrace start point Participants may walk, jog or run to complete is on. And anyone may join in this //a O (MENI the given distance. Those who finish within the extraordinary
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      What 25 million need this Christmas...
      672 14 The main reason for the grim tidings is simple: The capitalist world is growing slowly and the United States on its own, onethird of the OECD's total GDP may now be in a full-blooded slump. Even if that proves so, the OECD's recession has
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      Soviets trying to break the no-exit policy of Kremlin
      972 14  - Soviets trying to break the no-exit policy of Kremlin NICHOLAS DANILOFF By in Moscow 6 One big reason for Russia's refusal to let people depart is the fear that they will make common cause with political dissidents abroad. Another is to stem the brain drain created by the exodus of
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        Simbl appointments
        60 15 THE board of the Singapore International Merchant Bankers (Simbl) has appointed Miss Veronica Eng Siang Yang as Assistant Director, Corporate Finance. Simbl has also appointed six assistant managers namely, Messrs Peter Chan, James Foo, Siek Tjiep Hoe, Lawrence Wong and Miss Khoo Siew Bee and Miss Phua Ah
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        More growth
        54 15 GROWTH Industrial Holdings has incorporated two new wholly-owned subsidiaries, Growth Vessels Pte Ltd and Rizmus Marine Pte Ltd, to engage in vessel chartering. Each was formed with an authorised and paid-up capital of $500,000. None of the directors of the company nor the group has any personal interest
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        Alexandra Holdings
        79 15 ALEXANDRA Holdings Ltd has announced a 84 per cent rise in group income to $988,964 with pretax operating profit doubling to $854,652 for tHe first six months ended Sept 30 1981 compared to the previous period. The improved overall result of the group was due to the increase
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        Superluck share
        34 15 SUPERLUCK Rubber Co Pte Ltd has become a substantial shareholder of SPP Ltd on the purchase of 1.94 million ordinary shares of $1 each of the SPP Ltd on Dec 7, 1981.
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    • International
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        Lock icon Third best approach
        75 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Faced with the normal year-end slack in business, representatives of commodity futures trading firms have resorted to "cold canvassing" by flipping through the telephone directory to obtain clients. Brokers are advised that they should preferably approach people they know, then go through recommendations by
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        Lock icon More home demand
        63 15 TOKYO, Wed. An upturn in domestic demand pushed Japan's car production in November up 5.2 per cent as against last year, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said. The officials said Japan produced 941,621 cars in November, up 5.2 per cent from a year earlier. It was the
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        Lock icon Partner scouting
        71 15 MANILA, Wed. The government is looking for new partners to develop a US$45 (SJ92.25) million palm oil plantation in southern Philippines, after Dunlop International of London withdrew its investment, an industry ministry spokesman said today. He said that the government-owned National Development Corporation, the only Philippine company allowed
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        Lock icon Winding up
        101 15 TOKYO, Wed. The Japanese Government will dissolve the semi-government aircraft maker, Ninon Aeroplane Manufacturing Company Ltd, because of mounting losses, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said today. The company, founded in 1969 with a 54 per cent government interest and the rest of the ownership spread
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        Lock icon Sharp Philippines
        73 15 TOKYO, Wed. Sharp Corp, a major Japanese electric firm, said today that it will inaugurate a joint venture in the Philippines on Jan 1 to manufacture colour television sets. The company, based in Osaka, Japan, said the Philippine partner is Ricardo C Silverio, a home electric aopliance dealer.
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        Lock icon Honeywell help
        38 15 TOKYO, Wed. Japan's second largest maker of measuring instruments, Yamatake Honeywell Co and its American partner, Honeywell Inc have signed an agreement with China's Beijing Automation Industry Corp for technical collaboration on building management systems. AFP
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      Lanka project looks to bank loans
      356 15  - Lanka project looks to bank loans LEE YEW MENG By TWO-THIRDS of the US$4O million ($B2 million) needed for the largest foreign plantation investment in Sri Lanka, between national trading company Intraco and Guthrie Overseas Holdings, will be raised from bank loans. The venture is for a 4,856 hectare palm
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      KLSE chairman asks for names
      165 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Stock exchange chairman Tunku Noone has issued a challenge to members of the public to name those syndicates whom they accuse of manipulating share prices. "Give me the names of these manipulators and provide me with evidence and I will investigate," he
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      Lock icon Latest multifibre accord seen as victory for EEC
      355 15 HONGKONG, Wed. The European Economic. Community (EEC) was today considered here as having triumphed in its tough stance at the 50- nation Geneva negotiations which have led to the extension of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) to July 1986. This was the main
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      Bedok to get $16m microcomputer plant
      708 15  -  NAJEEB JARHOM FIRST SUCH JAPANESE INVESTMENT By THE small computer revolution has reached Singapore in a big way. By next April in Bedok, the first Japanese microcomputer plant here will be producing the complete range of microcomputer systems. Sord Computer Systems Inc, which is
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      NOL takes a berth at Oakland
      172 15 NOL takes a berth at Oakland THE Pert of Oakland on the west edit of the US has agreed to let Neptune Orient Line s (NOL) vessels have exclusive use of one of Its berths. The 11-year agreement, the first between aa Independent Asian shipping line ami a part in
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      Lock icon Big surplus of US grain
      101 15 WASHINGTON, Wed. The Agriculture Department Tuesday predicted a US$28 billion ($58 billion) surplus In America's agricultural trade this year ana even more exports In 1962, a year in which the Soviet Union may import record amounts of grain. US agricultural exports will be led by
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      Treasury bill tender
      35 15 THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore (MAS) invites banks and discount nouses to tender for a total of $140 million 91-day treasury bills. Tenders close today. Tenders must not be less than $250,000.
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      Share prices fluctuate undecidedly
      405 15 Share prices fluctuate undecidedly SINGAPORE: The stock market closed narrowly mixed after fluctuating uncertainly throughout the day on baylag support alternating with profit-taking, In moderate slectlve trading. Among leading Industrials and finance*, Genttng, Haw Par, National Iron, Straits Steamship, Hong Leong Industries, Singapore Finance and Hone Leong Finance firmed between
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        Rises
        53 15 8*1 Properties S2S Si Steamship 472 Hong Leone Ind 1200 Spore Bus 258 H Leone Pin 880 lilmd 1 Pen 785 M T C 870 Tlaee Pub 820 Keeo 580 Kin*. 510 PMC 466 Carlaberg 460 Town City 480 35 22 20 12 10 10 10 10 10 10
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        Falls
        27 15 C Sugar* Gnthrte Ol'B U B O U B Keppcl Skip Prim. 1400 51S 520 248 800 829 575 -40 -20 -15 -14 -10 -10 -10
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        Volume Leaders
        15 15 •MC IBT ■en tings «1 Prop "otal turnover: 6.07m 315,000 2M.0O0 205,000 204.000
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        35 15 Dec 22 Dec 23 BT Indicator: ll>1214 *****0 Industrials: 766.67 766.78 Finance: 1698.38 1694.74 Hotels: 1210.04 1209 68 Properties: 763.33 768.24 Minings: 330.39 ***** Plantations: 933.42 934.47 OCBC: 746.18 743.70 SESInd 669 23 667.96
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      ST INDUSTRIALS INDEX COMPONENTS
      75 15 B— stood Bad -2 Benb Skip +5 C*C -4 MaaoM NBT +10 Sap Corp 4 CCM Gatarto BM -20 Nat Ireo +5 Sum Darby -5 CeM Storage -2 Haw Par +2 PMC +10 8* Steamship +22 r Dulep lad +2 Paa-Hee -8 Pertti Plaat 8« Trading
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      2409 16 INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL Gr'i 1980 Last Div Pith Low Company Sal* -for- Net P/E Vol Day COOO) High Low ■404 248 Aetna 302 -4 14.5 US US Alcom 115 4.8 340 130 Allied Choc 210cd 7.0 312 ISO B A T 242 -8 455 420 308 Bat* 370
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      Shares end steady after uncertainty
      604 16 THE Inability of the stock market U sustain Its upward momentum on Ti» day sent Investors lit* ft canUons meed again yesterday »nd prices closed mixed. Trading opened quietly with prices a shade «fl their overnight levels. A few coulter* then began to press ahead
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      More falls in KL
      395 16 PRICES fell across a broad spectrum of stocks in lacklustre session at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Turnover also plunged below the four million level. The market opened on a softer note and the lack of buying interest soon brought prices to a lower level
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      185 16 SINUAPOSE UNIT TBUOT (Maaagen- prime ler Dee The Commerce 3.27 3.44 The Savings Fund 1.93 2.03 Spore Prog Fund 1.44 1 .51 Spore Sec. Fund 2.17 2.28 Spore Invest Fund 111 1.16 Spore Equity Fund 1.36 1.43xd ABUUNTTTBUBT (Msaasirr price, tar Dee 14) Mai Invest Fund 2.92 3.10
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        Hongkong
        269 16 HONGKONG: Stocks closed the half-day trading session steady in relatively quiet and featureless trading yesterday, brokers said. A holiday mood prevailed, they said, adding the appointment of Sir Edward Youde as Hongkong's next governor had little impact. The Hang Seng index gained 8.37 points to close at 1361.48, partly
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        304 16 SYDNEY: Trading was thin and lack-lustre yesterday, ahead of the Christmas holiday, with the All-Ordinaries Index down V 8 points to 590.7, dealers said. They said major stocks were traded in a narrow range and turnover was low with situation stocks inactive. One of the few features was the
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        366 17 TOKYO: Share prices rose, led by big capitals and other blue chips yesterday, with interest encouraged by a sharp fall in the outstanding balance of margin buying announced earlier in the day, dealers said. Ulnomolo ikal XB U-hl Cnm 33* __hi o__ MO lank Tk Si lanju Ml IrtdfWtoM
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        424 17 NEW YORK, Tues. Stocks closed lower after trading in a narrow range all day as Investors cast a wary eye on economic news at home and political events overseas. The Dow Jones industrial average, up fractionally most of the day, eased late in the session to finish 1.14
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        678 17 LONDON, Wed. Share prices started the new account mainly steady in very quiet trading today, dealers said. Industrial leaders showed occasional mixed movements of a penny or two, with ICI 2p lower at 268 p. Huntley Palm er jumped lOp to 97p after Rowntree A Mackintosh said it intends
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        Selected indices
        52 17 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 518.8 Monday 520.7 Week Ago 513.5 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 871.98 Monday 873 10 Week Ago 875.85 H.K.HANG SENG Wednesday 1381.48 Tuesday 1353 11 Week Ago 1376.15 AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIALS Wednesday 738.0 Tuesday 738.4 Week Ago 738.2 ALL ORDINARIEB Wednesday 590.7 Tuesday 592.5 Week
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        253 17 AMSTERDAM, Tues. Share prices were mostly lower with Rayal Ditch down 1.10 guilders and KLM one in Dutch internationals, dealers said. ABN dropped 2.50 in lower ordinary banks but mortgage banks were higher. Investment funds were narrowly mixed with Rabee* one lower and lU_m» 0.50 higher. Amev gained 1.40
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        218 17 ZURICH, Tues. Share prices closed quietly steady in moderate trading, supported by slightly higher bond prices, dealers said. Euro-franc rates seem to have stabilised below the 10 per cent mark, and the firmer tone in the Swiss franc seems to have stimulated modest demand for bonds again, they said.
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        105 17 MANILA: Mining shares were higher while the commercial industrial and oils feU yesterday, dealers said. Turnover fell to 1.05 million from 9.4 million pesos, they said. icoje Mining 002] hUaj Con. A itlu Con B is ao kfulo Oold 002 Icntuct Con B 47.00 ir Goodrich -0 0004 -01
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        104 17 BANGKOK: Stock prices again closed lower in light turnover and weak trading yesterday, with investors showing reluctance to trade, dealers said The Book Club index fell 0.44 point to 93.31 for a turnover of nine million baht ItehU lala Fibre \jruin*jm Inv And Trtut auiikok Bank 3&nE Of AyudhAjrm
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      BUSINESS DONE
      1586 16 Singapore BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Times Settlement Contract* are quoted after the world "sett". Bin Board
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      1703 16 BDJ and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. MDUBTBIALB ABsmmw (3.208) Alesas (1.475) (2) 1.50 (9) 1.48 (2) 1.47 Aba BsM
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      35 16 Industrials Finance Hotels Properties (Ml Palms Tins robbers robbers Deb/Loans Up 11 3 2 3 4 7 1 Down 57 5 1 5 1 6 5 Inch 15 4 1 2 3 1
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      RUBBER
      635 17 PRICES in the Singapore rubber market closed quietly steady yesterday, with January RSS One buyers quoted at 179.50 cents per kilo, unchanged on Tuesday's close, dealers said. Prices fluctuated narrowly in quiet morning trading before ending at around Tuesday's closing level, they said. The market remained quiet in the
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      88 17 1A8 SR20 SR50 4REI.B iMRCV IMR1. iMR5 IMRGP IMR 10 MR 20 >MRS0 I!M pallet) M-ton pelletl 1 1 ton pallet) (1-ton pallet) (itonpmUH) (I -Ion pallet) II ton pallet) (Moo pallet) (1 ton pallet) January February ll'urreat MU) (Forward Mlk) Buyert Seller! Ruyeri Sellera ***** *****N
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      CLOSING PRICES
      32 17 Rubber Dec 23 Singapore: Jan: 179.50 cents (unchanged) Malaysia: Jan: 200.50 cents (up 1.50 cents) Tin: M 535.36 per kilo (up 36 cents) Official offering: 131 tonnes (down 170 tonnes)
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      141 17 CHINESE Prodnw Exchange, Singapore, n««fi elaalaf prices per IN kg yesterday. CaetMt «U: Bulk fob $101.00 sellers, old drum (in second hand drum) fob $113 00 sellers, new drum fob $117.00 sellers C«pra: Mixed (loose) $53.00 buyers. Pepper: Muntok white pepper fob Asta NLW $372 50 sellers, Sarawak
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      GOLD
      198 17 THE kilobar market for gold deliverable in Singapore opened at 126.870 and closed at $26,795 yesterday. In the Far East, gold opened at US$4O3 75 $404.50. and was traded to a high of $405.50 406 00 on shortcovering before closing at $405.30 405.80 for lunch. It re-opened at that
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      TIN
      186 17 THE STRAITS tin price perked another 36 cents to Ms3s 36 per kilo in Penang yesterday, on an official offering down 170 to 131 tonnes. The overnight London market was steady with forward buyers falling £40 to CB,OBO per tonne. LONDON: The afternoon market was subdued on Tuesday, with
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      PALM OIL
      138 17 KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian crude palm oil market closed slightly easier on lack of fresh buying in quiet trading yesterday, dealers said. January in the south fell $2.50 to MJB9O per tonne while central and north were unchanged at $890 and $880 respectively. In February, the central region
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      COPPER
      29 17 LONDON: Copper prices on Tuesday (previous In brackets). Wirebar Spot £863.0" (E860.50); sellers £863.50 (£861.50); Three Month buyers £889.50 (£888.00): sellers £890.00 (£889.00). Market taae: Steadier. Sale.: U,57V
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      34 17 Tms Mas Mew York 8.248 8.248 8.315 8.31S Zurich 8.206 8.488 8.30S 8.58S Wet) Tar, Singapore 8.208 8.208 8.35S 8.35S Closing prices in US dollars a troy ounce. Ba«rae: Credit Salaae, Spare.
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      Money and exchanges
      310 17 THE US dollar finished slightly firmer against most major currencies in another quiet, pre-Chrtstmas trading session in the Singapore forex market yesterday. ACU interest rates firmed closing j about 3/8 per cent higher than Tues- j day's close, due to firm Fed Funds rates. Trading in US
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      NOMINAL RATES
      341 17 INTERBANK rates at 3.00 pm Cufrend— Nominal ratet Smithsonian Percentage quoted yeaterday (croM)parity change Local dollars to one jnlt of foreign currency: LJS dollar 2.0535 2.0545 2.8196 -27.17 Sterling pound 3.8790 3.8875 7.3469 -47.20 \ustralian dollar 2.3175 2.3200 3.4286 -32.40 MZ dollar 1.6900 ***** 3.4286 -50.59 Canadian dollar
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      46 17 RANGE of prices offered by discount bouse* on Dec 23: Overnight: 2% to 4'. r Call deposits: 2S to 4.<* Buyiof Srllint month rreasury bills 2M 2W 1-month ESank bills 8* 8 3 months CD 8* 8S 6 months CD 9H 8M iwrae: N»O*uJ Dhnul
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      35 17 Closing Interbank rates ngapore dollars on Dec 23: Offer Bid vernight 5W S 1 month 7 TH 2 months 8'^ 8H 3 months 8 1 1 8H Overnight mode 6 l los: (or
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      29 17 I THE average rate at which major Singapore I I hanks are currently prepared to lend to their best I customers is 11.18 per cent. I
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      570 17 -I STATE OF SABAH THE LAND ORDINANCE, 1930 IN THE OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT COLLECTOR OF LAND REVENUE, KUDAT LAND ENQUIRY NO. 12 OF 1981 PROCLAMATION OF SALE Sabah Credit Corporation Chargees AND Datu Salam B. Datu Harun Chargor Pursuant to an order of sale by the Assistant Collector of
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      495 17 SYARIKAT PEMBINAAN JOHOR BERHAD Taworon dipelawa daripada Pemborong-Pemborong yang berdaftar dengan JKR dalam kelas C keatas ataku PKENI kelas C bagi ker|a-kerja berikut: 'CONSTRUCTION A COMPLETION OF EARTHWORKS FOR BUILDING AND ROAD PLATFORM. DRAINAGE WORKS FOR RANCANGAN PERUMAHAN 264 UNIT Dl PER JHtANAN 10, PASIR GUDANG JOHOR". Dokumen tawaran boreh
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      Singapore rubber brokers deny charges
      308 18 Singapore rubber brokers deny charges SINGAPORE rubber brokers and dealers have denied charges by their Malaysian counterpart that some of them have been manipulating the market to push prices down. Rubber prices for RSS One last week plunged to register a six-year Tow of below 180 Singapore cents per kilo
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      ABS council to be expanded
      238 18 THE Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) is about to expand the size of its council by another two members from 14 to 16. A special general meeting will be held on Jan 13 to elect the new members and to change a section of
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      G. Ceramics takes on new identity
      432 18 GENERAL Ceramics Bhd (GCB) changed its name to General Corporation Bhd on Tuesday to reflect its transformation from merely a tile manufacturing company to an investment holding company, with interests in a range of fields, particularly properties and construction. The company assured shareholders at
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      149 18 SYDNEY, Wed. A slump in gold futures continued here today with some impetus from the collapse of a second major bullion dealer. The Sydney Metal Exchange Pty Ltd announced that trading has ceased with a deficit of AJ800 000 ($1.88 million). This was the second commodity trader
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      Longer hours for forex dealers
      459 18 FOREIGN exchange dealers of banks will nave to work harder and longer in the evenings when Singapore moves its time ahead by 30 minutes from Jan 1. This is because the London and European markets, which trade heavily with Singapore banks, will then open half
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      Lock icon Indonesia seeks tin price rise
      146 18 JAKARTA, Wed. Indonesia, the world's second biggest tin producer, will seek a price increase at the coining meeting of the International Tin Council (ITC) in London next month, a spokesman for the Indonesian tin company "PN Timah" said today. The three-day meeting, scheduled to open
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      Lock icon Pertamina wants more oil funds from Japan
      157 18 Pertamina wants more oil funds from Japan TOKYO, Wed. Indonesia's state-run oil company, Pertamina, is seeking more funds from Japan to increase its oil exploration projects in Indonesia, a spokesman for the Indonesia Nippon Oil Cooperation Company Ltd of Japan (Inoco) said today. Pertamina has asked Inoco to raise its
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      134 18 i WASHINGTON, Wed. The US International Trade Corn- mission ruled Tuesday there is a "reasonable indication" the domestic steel industry has I been hurt or is threatened I with injury as a result of steel i imports from four nations. The cases involve imports of carbon steel
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      Big spenders
      58 18 Big spenders NEW YORK, Wed. Exxon, the world's largest company, today announced record spending on major protects next year with much of it, (about $7 billion, and with 75 per cent of this allocated sum to exploration of oil and gas resources) going to the search for more oil in
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      Asian markets pass with flying colours
      496 18 Asian markets pass with flying colours KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Asian bourses have been star performers among major world markets up till June this year, according to a survey reported in a London-based financial weekly. The Investors Chronicle said the Singapore stock market was the star in their league, topping the
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      719 18 I SUMMIT CO (S) PTE LTD invites applications for the following positions SALES CHEMIST THE JOB Responsible for Marketing, Promotions and Sales of Calgon watertreatment chemicals and process chemicals THE PERSON This is a senior position and the applicants should have A degree or diploma in Chemistry, Applied Chemistry Chemical
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      43 18 B SINGAPORE usiness MC(P) 16/12/81 VOL.S NO. 12 15th DECEMBER 1981 PRICE: $3.00 monthly mum mm mlim 4*JAt«/rimr £j •jfirnKKAti Hie li3Blikl Hv^^HHl jnUWI I flic. H***""" 4PBfr BE a!! BFREt c *jm. w Li>tES|fnpfltafl S£ Tl' m- ■*^A/^^B J^^K" Aw^ bMH! aa^^^^^^^^_
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      351 19 AFTER A BUSY day. eaae away tension at the Queen's Health Centre. Queen's Hotel (Next to York Hotel). Massage/ Steambath Tel *****80/ *****88 ext 124. GREAT EASTERN HEALTH Centre. 4th Floor, Great Eastern Hotel. Massage' Sauna Bath/ Facial. Opens dally 10 am 3 am. Tel: ******4 O«C mo MN HEALTH
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      383 19 36 Houm R#f>O V fl iKMI H9p6l F I aBBBBBBa«BBBBBBB..HBBBBBai Brl«M Plata Mariar Daoaraaan Co 44S SwnbMang Road, nu StagaparaZTTl TafcaSTSSSS HOB UoanoK PW/17M W# apociaHaoo In aa atrvctwrM ooa* I atructton, inlortor itoooration anal oMoa/honaa potnMwa. I W* atoe ttock a «M« rang* at at i tracttv* lmc«rtad/tocal vail
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      517 20 1^23/11 n Personal Services L— l! D Merchandise 38 TV/Video/ Sound System AT MICRO SEpXI. we call It total musical performance and It's turntables and lonearms set new standards for the serious audlophlles Audio Synergy. 305/306 Parklane Shopping Mall Tel: *****01 HURRYt STOCK CLEARANCE: Lett of Hlfl and Portable sets
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      347 20 SEE FWA SPECIALIZES In Video. j Colour T V HI-FI system rej pairs, antennae li.stallatlon Tel: *****14,*****95. SONY BETAMAX C7E with unique picture search. 1 year old Selling $1,400. Tel: *****29 Michael after 7p.m SPECIALISED IN COLOUR TV antennae Installation All antennae installed guaranteed Call: *****88 1 39 Photography ACADEMIA
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      448 20 Q Business To Business CARGO VESSEL FOR CHARTER SINGLE HATCH Whole Capacity: 580 m 3 D/W: 750 tons Q/W: 427.17 tons N/W: 212.76 tons Interested please ring: *****73 52 Office Furniture SURPLUS TABLES ANO Chairs for office, school, canteen uae. All In good condition. Going cheap! Interested please call *****64
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      225 20 IIM 0 Emptoyment 65 Situations Wanted DRIVER LIKES TO work Part time. Preferably 3-lOp.m Other flexible hours arrangeable. Speaks English Chinese. *****63. 68 Situations Vacant c) Tutorial WANTED A YOUNG trained or qualified lower primary school lady teacher to teach one Primary 2 boy, English and Maths, In Thomson Hill
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      165 20 nxtvi SINGAPORE Re. Limited Subsidiary of motoren turbinen union GMBH j Friedrichshafen, W. Germany invitee application for: SYSTEMS OPERATOR for computer department to be In operation In 1982 Applicants ara expected to have: 1. At least two years experience In a Computer Department and be familiar with the opera- tlon
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      171 20 Ijjli! Q Emptoyment /A Well EstablisherA American Marine Engineering and Construction Company invites applications for the positions of: Computer Operator This is a challenging position involving the operation of an IBM 4341 Computer System running VM/370, DOS/ VSE and OS/VSI Requirements c 4 GCE 'O' level credits including Mathematics, GCE
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      232 20 require* CLBK/TYHST R fXj v tf •nwn tt a GCE 'O1O 1 level with credit in English a Typing speed 40 50 wpm 2 years' experience in timilar position Banarns. a Free meal and tea a Attractive annual wage supplement Interested applicants. please write in with full particulars, telephone number
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      217 20 ■ijjlil 0 Employment I W Marina Contractors require Immediately PERSONNEL ASSISTANT Tha responsibilities will include assisting tha Per aonnei Managar in recruit m*nt. maintananca of paraonnal Waa. achaduling worldwida paraonnal movamanta. liaison with traval aganciaa, embieaiaa, govai imiaiit bodtaa. The Ideal candidate will be Singapore citizen, age between 25 and
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      252 20 I requires for its Customer Engineering Service Centre in Singapore GENERAL CLERK I CUM TYPIST Requirements: 1) GCE O' level with credits in English Maths 2) Mature and pleasant personality 3) Someclencal experience; ability to type 4045 wpm. 4) Ability to communicate with people effectively. Apply with full personal details
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      471 21 lii II Employment 66 Situations Vacant d) Secretarial Clerical Construction Company At Eng Kong Cardan Invitee Applications For Tha Post GENERAL CLERK a GCE O1O 1 level with good command of English a Ability to type Age 17 and above Interested applicants plisn apply in own handwriting with full particular*,
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      490 21 Q Employment Sound Electric Centre (Changl Airport Branch) Requires SALES ASSISTANT For Ha Radio/Camera Shop In the passenger terminal Building. Uniform and transport allowance will be pfov*d#o. c Singaporean above 16 years a Conversant In English Interacted pleeee call personally for Interview between 10am 2pm together with 2 paesport photogrepha
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      535 21 IRON WORKS American OtHleM Equipment manufacturing Company re quires: Q.C. INSPECTORS (Male) VITB Trade Certificate In Metal Machining or Mechanical Fitting Completed full-time National Service We work c 5-day week and offer free bus transportation and other generous fringe benefit! Please apply giving full personal particulars, qualifications, working experience, present
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      517 21 h) Domestic REQUIRED STAY-IN AMAN for small family of 4 In Katong Area Preferable Cantonese speaking Salary 8350 to 8400 depending on experience Interested please call: *****89 for Interview at 29 Wilkinson Road. Singapore 1543. FEMALE CLEANER REOUMEO urgently Age below 40. Preferably staying In Kallang Basin area. Interested tel:
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      436 21 CATERPILLAR FAR EABT LIMITED requires MATERIAL HANDLERS Qualtftcatton. c Completed minimum sec. 2 education c Robust and able to perform physical work c Prepared to work shifts Starting salary: Between 8420 u> 8800 pm Work week: 5 days (40 hours) Annual bonus: 1 1/2 months salary Attendance incentive: 1 month
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      431 21 [fill D HOTEL ROYAL requires 1. FRONT OFFICE CASHIER 2. CHAMBERMAID 3. SECURITY GUARDS Interested applicants please apply personally or write to: THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT HOTEL ROYAL, NEWTON ROAD SINGAPORE 1130 OKAMOTO PAINTERS c Males age below 25 years old and have completed N.S c Must be prepared to work
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      521 21 OTTO SHIPYARD Tuaa Road Jurong requires 1) BOOK-KEEPER (2 years experience) 2) TYPIBT 3) CRANE MECHANIC (Experience In crawler crane) 4) SECURITY GUARD 12 hours shift) Tr n*P°rln *P° r1 P">vt<*ed Interested applicants please contact:TEL: *****16/ *****83 for appointment/ Interview Wea ulebHehod tra«Bng_ company rm vsctftcy toe ttw following: 1)
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      523 21 fjjlA Q Ewptoymetit STEEL MANUFACTURING/ TRADING FIRM requires 1) MALAY DRIVER tor Manager c Preferably staying In Buklt Tlmah area 2) FEMALE CORRESPONDENCE CLERK CUM TYPIST 1) MALE SALES REPRESENTATIVES P**##* sppty p#ttofteswty tor •1-B. LAVENDER STREET SINGAPORE 1233 SWISS INN RESTAURANT/ COCKTAIL LOUNOE requires: PARTIME/ FULLTIME HOSTESSES S 6-day
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      724 21 FINANCE AND INSURANCE Company requires Female Secrevary/ Personal AsslstanL Telephone Operator/Clerk Typist. Oeneral Clerk Typist. Chauffeur/Office Boy/Messenger Please write with full resume and photograph (non-return-able) to: Room 1016 International Plaza, An son Road. Spore 0207 VWCA StVTTES FEMALE applicants as lvesldentlal Staff for Hostel In Jurong Age above 25 Man.iarln
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      55 24 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE KOH TIAN HOCK WISH TO EXPRESS THEIR DEEPEST APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE TO ALL RELATIVES, FRIENDS, BUSINESS ASSOCIATES AND CLAN ASSOCIATIONS FOR THEIR KIND ASSISTANCE, ATTENDANCE, CONDOLENCES, DONATIONS, SCROLLS, WREATHS AND FOR SHARING THEIR GRIEF DURING THEIR RECENT BEREAVEMENT. THEIR APPRECIATION IS EXTENDED TO DOCTORS AND
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      45 24 In loving memory of my mother LATE MDM. AJAIB KAUR DHILLON It is two years now but your warm and loving memoriea Hnoera in my heert forever Your Beloved Son KIRPAL DHILLON Prayer end lunch on Sunday 27/12/11,10 am at Silat Reed, Sikh Temple Singapore
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      46 24 Retired Regional Senior Vice-Preakient Deperted 22nd December IMI. The President. Committee and members of the LIFE UNDERWRITERS SALES EXECUTIVE BOARD of the American International Assurance Co. Ltd. wish to expreae their heertfett sympathies to the family of the L late MR. HORACE WANG > MR HORACE WANG
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      19 24 pimd away on 15.12.81. (eons el Rattan Singh) Bhog on 27 12.81 al Pardeal Khal*a MOHAN SINGH KALWANT SINGH
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      143 Acknowledgements
      142 24 The Family ot the late MR VEO ENG SU AN Wish to thank all ialaU»ss and iriend* lor their kind assistance, wreaths and gifts during fHalr reC*>nt D#TfM V#fT>#f>t The Family of The Late: SOLOMON MOK KHOON Bjajaj Wish to thank doctors and nurses of wards 47 and
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      104 24 passed away peacefully on 22.12.81 leaving behind: Sons: Oay Eng Klam Oay Eng Tlong Oay Bah Chlk (Cecil) Oay Ylng Soon Oay Eng Hock Lawrence Daughters: Toh Chew Yet Oay Lay Oeok Doris Gay Lay Hua(USA) Oay Nancy Sona-ln-Law AngOlmCheow Ooh Tlan Sung (Cary) Dbn Wilde Chew Kla
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      79 24 IN LOVING MEMORY OF 22.11.81— 24.12.79 LIFE HAD BEEN SO WONOERFUL WHEN WE'RE TOGETHER THINGS HAVE CHANGED WHEN WE'RE PARTED BUT MEMORIES OF YOU WILL ALWAYS LINGER IN MY HEART YOUR DEAREST WIFE CHRIS In Loviftfj HMfnory Of Mr. Kennoo Sutheyvell Departed: 24.11.1878 Dearly missed and always
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      51 24 SBMT 2 BRAVO COMPANY WI3HES TO EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO KEVIN da SOUZA and his FAMH.V FOR THE LOST OF HIS ORANOMOTHER OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHIES to the family of the late Mr S Narayanan father-figure to all of us 80EA5. National Junior College le tor the whom
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      Superspeed sharpens up for last big race of year
      356 25 ON THE TRACK...with TIPTOP PENANG, Wed. Superapeed, with Bruce Raymond in the saddle, sharpened up for the Governor's Gold Cup on Sunday with a good gallop over 600 m in 40.2 sec. here this morning. The going was good. The four-year-old
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      74 25 CHIBA (Japan). Wed. Anbah Shadai, a four year-old horse sired by Canadian-bred Northern Taste, won the 123.5 million yen (Ssl million Arima Kiren race here Anbah Shadai, ridden by Shin j i Azuma, pulled clear in the last 300 m to beat the favourite, Houyoubohl, a six-year-old
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      Trainer clarifies
      135 25 IVAN ALLAN wishes to clarify his relationship with Upali Stable. "True, most of Upali's horses have left my stable but he is still one of my owners. At the moment he has two horses with me, Passionate Prince and Wine And Roses, and has indicated he will place
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      Allan bids for grand slam
      294 25  -  EPSOM JEEP By CUP specialist Ivan Allan bids for a record when he saddles Taman Singapura to contest the last of the season's big races the $100,000 Governor's Gold Cup at Penang on Sunday. Allan has already made a clean sweep of the season's classics
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      Pro-am entries
      508 25 A TOTAL of 271 horses has been entered for the January combined amateur-professional meeting. They comprise 102 professional horses in Classes 4 and 5 and 169 in amateur c lasses: PnfHdNil Claw 4: Althermore, Asian Fantasy, Ban Tong Mah, Beautiful Orchid, Bravo Bravo, Bullet, Concentration, Contract m. Direct
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      Schedule of racing
      79 25 FIRST DAY: Professional Class 4: Divs 3 and 4 1,400 m. Class 5 Div 3 -1,200 m. MARA Class 11,200 m; 1,200 m; Class 2- 1.200 m. I.Boom. Class 3: 1,200 m; Class 4: 1.100 m; Class 5: 400 m. SECOND DAY: Professional Class 4: Divs 1
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      406 25 IntopOf* COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS Asian Computer Services, the leading computer bureau in Singapore, invites candidates for the following positions vacant due to internal promotions. SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST An experienced project leader with an extensive background in commercial applications systems design for mainframe computers is required to head up a team of
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      263 25 PENERB ANGAN SABAH SON. BHD. (SABAH AR PTE LTD) Require pilots for BE2OO and GAF Nomad operations based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Minimum qualifications Malaysian ATPL/IR Type rated on either of the aircraft. Apply in writing to Chief Pilot Local Operations, Sabah Air Pto. Ltd. Locked Bag 1 13, Kota
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      701 25 aeiiDß Separate tenders are Invited for each of the following:(1) SEWERS at Neighbourhood 3 Contracts 8 to 11, Jurong West New Town. (2) CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD AND CARPARK In Upper Aljunied Estate Extension. (3) CONSTRUCTION OF 18.00 METRES WIDE ROADS at Potong Pasir Estate. (4) CONSTRUCTION OF CARPARK at Neighbourhood
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      358 25 THE BANKRUPTCY ACT (CAP. 18 1970 ED.) IN THE HIGH COURT OF SINGAPORE IN BANKRUPTCY NO. 981 of 1981 Re: KIM KAM EXIN HOUSE (a firm) Ex parte: JOSE CASPAR FERRIERA BASTOS A FILHOB, L. DA a Creditor In the Matter of a Bankruptcy Notice Issued on the 28th day
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      Ramayah owes much of his success to himself
      733 26  - Ramayah owes much of his success to himself BERNARD PEREIRA fl Strict discipline, sacrifice and lots of practice helped me win, says Malaysia's leading golfer 4 ITS one of the world's most difficult couFses. And I swore that I'd get even with her one day, if not this year, then
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      Lock icon Burkinshaw calls for mid-winter break
      390 26 LONDON, Wed. Keith Burkinshaw, manager of English First Division soccer club Tottenham Hotspur, yesterday called on authorities to reorganise the British season. Burkinshaw is in favour of a mid-winter break to minimise the chances of the current chaos caused by icy conditions and heavy snow.
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      Lock icon Snow and ice play havoc with schedule
      125 26 Snow and ice play havoc with schedule LONDON, Wed. Ice and snow caused the postponement of all the English League soccer matches scheduled last night. Seven of today s 13 English Football Association Cup second-round games or replays have already been postponed until next Wednesday, which makes it virtually certain
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      79 26 SINGAPORE IN TOP FORM JOHORE BAKU, Wed. Favourites Singapore continued to display terrific form at the sixth national youth softball championship on the second day here yesterday. Showing all-round superiority, Singapore now have maximum points after two matches beating Penang 11-0 and Perils 21-1. But their girls' team had mixed
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      Lock icon Indons and Thais for boxing meet
      95 26 Indons and Thais for boxing meet PENANG, Wed. About 100 boxers from Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia will take part in the two-day championships here, beginning on Saturday. Penang Boxing Association secretary P. Elangovan said that the Malaysian boxers would include S. Vijayan and Ayob Sulaiman. He added that the competition
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      Walkover
      27 26 THE Singapore Cricket Club received a walkover from Prisons, who failed to turn up for the Singapore Hockey Association's junior knock-out first-round match at Tanglin yesterday.
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      Lock icon DISPUTE OVER CUP MASCOT
      262 26 LONDON, Wed. English Football Association secretary Ted Croker and British Minister of Sport Neil MacFarlane are locked in dispute over "Bulldog Bobby," the England team's mascot for next year's World Cup finals. MacFarlane has criticised the aggressive looking bulldog and described it as "inane." He believes
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        Chargers win
        17 26 AMERICAN FOOTBALL: San Diego Chargers beat Oakland Raiders 23-10 in the National Football League yesterday.
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        Erhardt out
        26 26 IN Foxb*rw, Massachusetts, Ron Erhardt, who piloted the New England Patriots through the worst season in the National Football League team's history, was sacked.
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        Injured
        59 26 ATHLETICS: World triple jump record-holder Joao de uliveira, of Brazil, was badly injured in a car crash near Sao Paulo early yesterday, a hospital spokesman said. After a three-nour operation, he was still unconscious and in a critical condition from multiple injuries. De Oliveira, 27, captured the world record
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        Award
        35 26 BOXING: Sugar Ray Leonard, who won the undisputed world welterweight championship in September by stopping Thomas Hearns in the richest fight in boxing history, was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine.
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        Withdrawal
        32 26 TENNIS: Pakistan have withdrawn from Davis Cup competition because of Taiwanese participation, Muneer Ahmad, president of the Pakistan Lawn Tennis Association, said. Pakistan were due to play Taiwan on Jan 4.
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        Ella magic
        29 26 RUGBY UNION: Two magic touches by Mark Ella sent Australia cruising to a comfortable 16-3 victory over the South and South West in Gloucester, England, last night.
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        Surprise
        27 26 SKI-ING: France's Elisabeth Chaud was the surprise winner of the women's World Cup giant slalom, beating West German and Swiss champions Irene Epplc and Erika Hess.
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        Pakistan 7-4
        22 26 HOCKEY: Pakistan defeated the visiting Polish team 7-4 in Lahore in the first of their four friendly matches in Pakistan.
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        Czechs lose
        23 26 ICE HOCKEY: The Soviet Union edged out Czechoslovakia 4-3 to win the Izvestia tournament. Sweden beat Finland 4-2 for third place.
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        78 26 WEIGHTUFTING: Russian Leonid Taranenko broke two of his own world records in the 110 kg division, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. It said he had a record snatch of 192.5 kg and a record total lift snatch plus jerk of 427.5 kg. Meanwhile, Yuri Zakhare.ich snatched a world
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      Lock icon Athletic body on right side of track
      209 26 INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana), Wed. The Athletic Congress, track and field's governing body in the United States, appear to be winning a battle against the breakaway Professional Road Run- j ners following the decision of another four athletes to j put their cash prizes into
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      2-0 win
      27 26 CONTAINER Warehouse Transportation qualified (or the second round of the Staminade Cup soccer tournament yesterday when they beat Far East Publications 2-0 at Jurong Stadium
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      Meet's date
      22 26 THE 19th national bodybuilding championships will be held at the Cultural Theatre in Grange Road on Monday (7 p. 0.)
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      Lock icon Ovett, Coe in Eugene Mile
      176 26 Ovett, Coe in Eugene Mile EUGENE, Wed. Britain's fabulous milers, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, who have agreed to face each other over the 3,000 metres in London next year, will put their reputations at stake over the mile here on Sept. 25. These enormously-tal-ented athletes between them lowered the
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      1167 26 [TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 19 50 (No, 26 of 1950) This Advertisement appears by direction of the Registrar of Trade Marks, Semenanjung Malaysia, under the provision of Section 49 (7) of the Ordinance NOTICE is hereby given that the following Trade Mark registered in the name of The Boots Company Limited,
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      181 26 q£\ CcmsertrßC Bi SEMINAR ON COST EFFECTIVE I 4 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD) SYSTEM CHINESE COMPUTER SYSTEM I FIRST DAY 7.00 p.m. MONDAY, 28TH DECEMBER 1981. Opening ceremony by Guest-of-Honour, the Education Secretary of the British Computer Society. 7.45 p.m. Presentation of the CAD System and Applications by CAD Project
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      Lock icon Gloomy year for the once mighty Rovers
      323 27  -  WILFRED YEO By TAMPINES ROVERS, National Football League Division One champions for the last two years, will not cherish looking back at 1981. Their aspirations of a hattrick died months ago and, last night, their hopes of a consolation were buried at the
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      FIFA stick by their decision
      314 27  -  JOE DORAI ...but FAS are still hopeful of venue switch By THE International Football Federation (FIFA) will stick to their decision of playing off the crucial New Zealand-China World Cup qualifying match in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 9. Peter Velappan, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
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      Lock icon Boycott breaks Sobers' world record
      191 27 Boycott breaks Sobers' world record NEW DELHI, Wed. England were comfortably placed at 190 for one at the end of the first day's play in the third cricket Test against India, marked by a world Test record by opener Geoff Boycott. In a slow day's play, the highlight was the
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      Sponsors not keen to come forward
      275 27  -  HAKIK AT RAI By THE race is on for the 1983 South-east Asia Games. But local sponsors, who should be leading the challenge towards excellence, do not seem keen at all to come forward and give Singapore athletes a helping hand. Six months ago,
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      TODAY'S EVENTS
      13 27 TODAY'S EVENTS SOCCER Staminade Cup: Metal and Ores v Marathon Letoumeau (Jurong, 5.15).
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      Former stars help Police to fine draw
      259 27  - Former stars help Police to fine draw J. RAJENDRAN By POLICE staged a remarkable recovery from 0-16 at the interval to 16-16 (two goals and a try to a goal, a try to two penalty goals) to hold Singapore Aimed Forces Reservists' Association in their Singapore Rugby Union Division One
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      Zainal may play in India
      121 27  -  PATRICK BASTIANS By NATIONAL squash champion Zainal Abidin will be the first Singaporean to play in India if he accepts an offer to compete in a Bombay tournament from Jan 9-13. ASEA, a Swedish electrical engineering firm with operations in Bombay, recently extended an invitation
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      The problems with bowling in Singapore — by Tan
      575 27 The problems with bowling in Singapore by Tan HENRY TAN looked more like a doctor than a bowling centre manager in his all-white attire yesterday and it was perhaps appropriate, because he was diagnosing the ills of Singapore bowling, reports WILFRKI) YEO. And few would argue on Tan's qualifications for
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    Lock icon Argentina's new head
    37 28 3UENOS AIRES, Wed. Army chief Gen Leopoldo Galtieri, an admirer of the United States, was sworn in as Argentina's President yesterday with a pledge to reduce the country's 100 per cent-plus inflation rate. UPI.
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    574 28 REAGAN ON ANTHJ.S. DEMOS IN EUROPE WASHINGTON, Wed PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan said in a television interview made public today that recent anti-American peace demonstrations in western Europe were indirectly paid for by the Soviet Union. "Those (demonstrations) are all sponsored by a thing called
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    39 28 SEOUL, Wed. Seoul, the South Korean capital, had a population of 8,676,037 as of Oct 1 this year, an increase of a little over 300,000 or 3.69 per cent in a year, city authorities said today. UPI.
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    Lock icon Fahd puts off US trip after Assad visit
    374 28 RIYADH, Wed CROWN Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia has decided to postpone his scheduled visit to the United States, the official Saudi Press Agency reported today. It said Prince Fahd had communicated his decision to President Ronald Reagan and that the two
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    Lock icon Syrian guards to protect Gaddafi
    181 28 LONDON, Wed. Syrian President Hafez Assad has sent an elite battalion to protect Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Daily Mail reported here today. "Colonel Gaddafi has posted most of his 500strong Syrian bodyguard around his palace, the conservative newspaper reported, adding that "others are at
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    202 28 Walesa on hunger strike' report LONDON, Wad SOLIDARITY union leader Lech Walesa has began a hunger strike, British travellers arriving tram Poland said yesterday, according to the BBC. The BBC said it interviewed British travellers arriving In Helsinki by ship tram Poland, and one businessman, who asked not to be
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    Lock icon Loses job over label
    84 28 CAPEL GARMON (Wales), Wed. A Welsh nationalist has lost his factory job because he refused to stick "Made in Great Britain" labels on washing machines manufactured in wales. Mr Goronwy Fellows, 33, said yesterday he quit after being given the choice of resigning or being sacked
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    Lock icon Gift planes for Jakarta
    46 28 JAKARTA, Wed. The Indonesian navy has received two more Nomad N-22 aircraft from Australia, the navy announced today. The aircraft, which landed at Juanda Airbase in East Java yesterday, were officially received by the navy chief of staff Admiral Walujo Sugito AFP.
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    120 28 WASHINGTON, Wed. President Ronald Reagan yesterday decided to share surplus cheese with the needy for Christmas. The Federal Government owns 254 million kg of cheese, bought from farmers. The cheese is stockpiled to keep prices up. About 13.6 million kg of cheddar
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    31 28 NEW YORK. Wed. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 0.19 to 872.15 in the first half hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange tadny. ap.
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    71 28 Late CLASSIFIED DEATHS MRS. CHUNG SWEE POEV j nee Mdm Wong Ah Klew. aged I 76 passed away peacefully on Wednesday 23/12/81 leaving be- hind sons, daughters. In-laws and grandchildren to mourn her loss Body lying at 224. TembeUng Road (Katong). Funeral on Sunday 27/12/81. RICHARD WONG TENO HOE of
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    388 28 Romulo's hope for united front MANILA, Wednesday PHILIPPINE Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo expressed hopes today that more Cambodian nationalists would join a united front against the Vietnamese occupation force in Cambodia. He told a news conference that two groups representing the former Cambodian Prime Minister Son Sann and ousted Prince
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    Lock icon Begin govt defeats vote of no faith
    234 28 JERUSALEM, Wed. Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government defeated a parliamentary motion of no confidence today over its handling of deteriorating US-Israeli relations. The vote was 57-47. Mr Begin's coalition plus the three-member, right-wing Tehiya (Renaissance) Party and the two-mem-ber, right-of-centre Telem faction opposed
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    Lock icon Israel-Egypt air accord
    31 28 JERUSALEM, Wed. Israel and Egypt have struck an agreement to coordinate civil air traffic in the Southern Negev desert and the Sinai, it was announced here today. AFP.
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      387 28 One China possible? Will one China ever become a reality? For more than three decades, Chinese on Taiwan and Chinese on the mainland have been at each other's throats. Even as Peking presses for reunification, the split between them grows wider. Xmas concerts Want to listen to Christmas music played
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      194 28 UP TO Ip.m. TODAY: Mainly Fair. 6a.m. TOMORROW: 31 max., 24 mm. SUNSET today: 8.35 p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow- 5.33 a.m. Amsterdam -8 -3C Snow Los Angeles 10/22 C Clear Athens 7/14 C Rain Madrid 8/14 C Cloudy Bahrain 15/23 C Hazy j Manila 16/30 C Gear Bangkok 18/ 29C Clear
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      Winter in Beijing
      801 1 Winter in Beijing Chinese-inspired creations mark Jean-Louis Scherrer's winter collection now being worn in the French fashion capital. And no wonder, for all Paris is sold on "the Orient" theme. Stories by TAN CHUNG LEE in Paris. Paris goes OrientaJ COOLIE trousers in cool black satin, sheath gowns that envelop
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      Xmas Eve treats
      381 2 PRE-HOLJDAY MOVIE THE GIFT OF LOVE (Ch 5, 11.19 p.nu): O'Henry's short story, The Gift Of The Magi, comes to life, and so too Marie Osmond, in this movie. The setting is turn-of-the-century New York. A rich girl reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage with a wealthy
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      PICK of the DAY
      851 2 PICK of the DAY C SBCS THE Young And The Restless (Ch 5, 3 p.m.): Lance finds out from Leslie that Brad had accidentally hit her in the abdomen. He reluctantly promises not to tell Brad what is going on. Brock arranges the "chance" meeting between Jack and John, at
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        The magic of brush painting
        546 3 The magic of brush painting w i Contemporary Chinese Brush Painting < By Yang Chang- Yi, Prof Kuo Yan-Chiao and Prof Chan Tien Chinese Chamber of Commerce Dae 23-27 Reviewed by TEO HAN WUE Fluence of the brush makes the painter look almost like a performing artist. With just a
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        Where to hear Xmas carols
        240 3 CHRISTMAS EVE CanllImg: The St Francis Choir from the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. York Hotel, Upper Lobby. 6.30 p.m. to 7 15 p.m. The Blessed Sacrament Choir from the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Queenstown. Mandarin Hotel lobby. 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., 7
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        Caring for Christmas blooms
        466 4 IF SOMEONE gives you a poinsettia or azalea for Christmas, treat it gently to make sure you have these lovely blooms the whole of the Christmas season. With luck and care, the plants could last to Chinese New Year. When you buy, give or receive these
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        205 4  - BERTILLA PEREIRA By GALLIANO was splashed Into pineapple juice; rich apricot nectar oozed onto gin and frothed the exotic result of each was teen and tasted In all of Its drilled glory when each of the eleven finalists for the Singapore Hotel Association Cocktail Competition IWI had finished. Garden City
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        H dis po Pl ow to isplay otted lants
        771 4  - H dis po Pl ow to isplay otted lants ANNE TOFIELD By DISPLAYING potted plants is the best part of having them. They can be contrary, however and where you might want to put one, to show it off to its best advantage, might not be where the plant would
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      • Creating that cup of good cheer
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            Garden City
            69 4  -  Mary Teo by Shangri-La Hotel 1 oz light rum 1 oz Galliano 1 oz fresh lemon juice 4 oz apricot nectar 4 oz green sugar syrup Garnishing: A straw, a red cherry, a figurine of Merlion, Vanda Tan Chay Yan orchid, fresh mint leaves, a slice of lemon.
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            Beautiful Lady
            55 5  -  Colin Lim Siong Hock by Shangri-La Hotel Ltd 1 oz Beefeater Gin' 3 oz guava juice 2 oz fresh milk 3/<3 /< oz Cointrreau 3/<3 /< oz grenadine syrup Garnishing: A red cherry, an orchid, a yellow cocktail fan. Preparation: Shake all ingredients well with cracked ice and
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            Winter Dream
            61 4  -  Peter Damian by Mandarin Hotel 3 /4 jigger Beefeater gin (one jigger is about IVi oz) M jigger fresh lime Vt jigger Galliano 1 jigger pineapple/grapefruit juice a dash of sugar syrup. Ganlahlng: One cherry, fresh mint leaves, a slice of lime. Preparation: Shake well with crushed ice
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            Rainbow Connection
            73 4  -  Douglas Chew Kok Hwei by Mandarin Hotel 1 jigger Borzoi VJodka 1/2 Jigger CreimeJIe Cassis VA jigger pineapple juice l A jigger GraiwtjMarnier M jigger fresh Sine juice V* jigger grenadine syrup Garnishing: Oq^ cherry, a slice of 01 a slice of lemon, lime peel, fresh leaves. Preparation:
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            Island In The Son
            67 4  -  Steven Lim Lak Thong by Shangri-La Hotel 1 oz Beefeater gin Vi oz Blue Curacoa '/2 oz pineapple juice ■'-4 oz fresh lemon juice M oz sugar syrup Garnishing: A slice of lemon, one red cherry, a red cocktail umbrella, a straw, a figurine of Merlion.
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            Scare CrOW
            55 5  -  TanHui bv by Cheng Marco Polo Hotel M oz Borzoi vodka M oz Grand Marnier M oz fresh lime M oz Martell Brandy 2 oz mango juice Garnishing A wedge of lemon, one cherry, orange peel, lime peel. Preparation Shake all ingredients in shaker with cracked ice and
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            Sexy Lover
            61 4  -  Philina Teo by Shangri-La Hotel 1 oz Beefeater gin 2 oz apricot nectar x h oz Galliano Drop of egg white Garnishing Pineapple (cut to heart shape), plastic arrow (stuck through pineapple heart), a straw, one red cherry, one green cherry, a red cocktail umbrella. Preparation Shake all
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            Wheeled-of-Fortune
            51 4  -  William <-nia by Hilton Hotel V4 oz Borzoi vodka 1 oz Cointreau l 3 oz pineapple juice A dash of Mandarin orange liqueur A dash of grenadine syrup Garnishing: One cherry, green lim lemon shell carved into wheel, fres leaves. Preparation: Shake well with ice an< in cocktail glass.
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      How this new scheme applies to you
      1543 6 How this new scheme applies to you The Central Provident Fund announced more than a year ago that it was planning to start a compulsory Home Protection Insurance Scheme for buyers of public housing. In this article, the board explains further how the scheme, which will come into effect on
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      Three case studies
      705 6 CASE ONE AN ELDERLY, 58-year-old father purchased a fourroom HDB flat costing $37,600 with his 25-year-old son in Dec 1979. The son withdrew $7,600 from his CPF credit for the 20 per cent deposit payment for the flat, and his father paid $3,000 cash for the initial
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      Lock icon World warms up to Antarctic research
      1893 8 The Americans are waking up to the fact that the rest of the world is actively involved in prospecting for minerals in the Antarctic, says ROBERT REINHOLD, writing from McMurdo Station in the white continent, in this concluding part of an in-depth look at
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      87 1 L\ L Smokes Bringing oSi r m With a few deft strokes, a ,i U~~j. S\ brush painter creates a the DeSl 1' VV^ r" masterpiece TEO HAN Jl- fS WUE reviews an exhibition \f\ VOUf I*7 I^^ of contemporary Chinese V ft l:« brush paintings potted plantS jß^rJr LEISURE,
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      28 2 BLI NdVlOlldl create* fctUitiuuu} l-+mx m Get yourself something to sing with RX-5010F 4-band stereo cassette recorder U m£3sK\ with 2-way 4-speaker system Readagood book recently? Times Bookshops
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      231 2 Straits Times Crossword Hi IF flV*~ "^B* WK^ IF I ACROSS 6 H strivtt to debate with work8 Declare girl has put on weight 7 JjeiUtt) send schoolboy up (6) <*) 13 Be fully sensible of rite In 9 Town man acted wildly (6) value (1) 14 Ordered ten gross
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      140 2 EXHIBITIONS: Chinese Opera: Chinese opera characters dramatised in a collection of watercolours by Lim Siew Yong. Gallery 10-12, Hyatt Hotel. Until Dec 28. 11 a.m. 7 p.m. Free. Recycling: Turn the useless into the useful. Science Centre. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. Fifty cents for children and $1 for adults. Until
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      1125 2 TV and Radio SBC 5 3.00 PM Openini folowed by The Younf j 6-25 CJtural (En B|ish) And The Restless A Snow White Christinas 3.25 Reincarnated (Mandarin, r) 73°(MaS *"d 4.15 Diary Of Events (Mandarin) 7.50 The bcredMe Hut The Phenom 4.20 Alice (Last Episode) 4.45 Discovering Language The 8.50
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      431 3 VISIONHIRE'I I I 8 Fortnightly Cash Draws. I I With increasing numbers of cash prizes. I |j£ USA Holiday for two to be won I V* TBIPr Multiple Draws PJBIb^ There'll be 2 draws every fortnight for 8 weeks. One for new B^--^^a J and the other for existing subscribers.
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      293 3 Have you won? Results of the December 14th weekly contest Ist Prize Sony radio cassette recorder model CSF-7S: Cheng Han Tong I/C No. *****24/Z Dealer SILO Supermarket, Jurong Branch, Yung Kuang Road 2nd Prize Sony Walkman III: Chee Keng Leng I/C No. 0071 163/ B Dealer John Little Pte Ltd,
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      145 5 CRASH SALE See the full range of Power Spring Collection at this crash sale! Mo)«tttc trttonnio I tg>lrJ>n luxury "Luxury Dipt" for all visitors "Luxury Dip" We guarantee that no one will Hong 800 prizes: leave empty-handed 2aooo Lafge German Witness this special occasion I °9 er F °P m
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      170 8 At the time when your child needs you most. As a mother, you know what's best I^^^mnun fe daytime or night-time, it works for your child. Especially when he M i comfortingly. suffers from the discomforts of colds. 1 m Vicks Vapoßub works quickly to clear You know Vicks Vapoßub
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        Female roles in Beijing opera
        470 1 Female roles in Beijing opera FOR several thousand years, Chinese women were confined in the home. As late as the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), with the exception of a handful of rich women from noble families who owned their own opera troupes, women never had a chance to see an opera.
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        Imaginative Chinese
        768 2 If 11 Lesson 12 *m a m Wti sno shl cong AN OLD man and ids grandson drrve a donkey laden with goods to sell In a small town. On the way back, the grandson rode on the donkey's back while the old man walked behind. A passer-by
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      65 1 lllilJ m j H m -41. I I d^^^^^F EVI Merry Christmas pieirehdmain jpi H2jsh(X?S, SOcks. CtMMM"I •< howa I uir ly;onOnturJ I<kii H.ueUl *Jacfc/s> KLisst LiKkvPLta Klasse PeninsuLi •Mckani\ Menu Clr.ind Muto l^nharJ M*l*l'l Sin)»p>'rf Shut Hinn Y.u.h.in -I „mo Piu-Shanvn 1^ H»n-I •Yum fillH Pltwin WniiHlir MmcoPolp Hotel
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      412 2 A NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY BOARD 4fP|fc SINGAPORE invites applications from citizens/permanent residents and other ASEAN citizens for the post of: RESEARCH OFFICER Requirements: A honours degree in Economics or Statistics from a recognised university with working experience. Duties: To plan and conduct research programmes on productivity and other related subjects; and
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      269 2 LONGMAN MALAYSIA SDN BHD We are a leading International Publishing Company and we are looking for suitably qualified candidiates to fill the following vacancies: 1) PRODUCTION CONTROLLERS/ CO-ORDINATORS EXPERIENCE Printing or typesetting background STARTING SALARY RANGE $650.00 to $800.00 MIN QUALIFICATION GCE 'O' level with credit in English and Maths
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        Mutu cerpen merosot tapi sajak dan esei nampakkan kemajuan
        1167 4 Mutu cerpen merosot tapi sajak dan esei nampakkan kemajuan Oleh ZAKARIA BUANG Darl segi tema 9 pnla, lsn yang disentoh adalah yaag lumrah y»ng menyentnh teateag krlttk terhadap masyarakat. Malangnya nuudh banyak masalah y»ag belnra dlsentnh dengan berjaya sepertl peagllbatan bella dengac dadah serU mawalah pelajaran dan ekonoml orang- •ramg
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        247 4 SIEMENS (MEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPT) has vacancies for 2 COMPUTER SYSTEM ENGINEERS (1) Have Minimum GCE 'A' level (2) At least 2 years relevant working experience. (3) Completed National Service. (4) Should possess full C and G certificate or equivalent. Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications This is a challenging
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        348 4 REGIONAL PRODUCT MANAGER We are looking for an experienced male or female Marketing Executive with ElectroMechanical background and who is able to work independently and be responsible for all sales, marketing, promotional activities and inventory control for the region. Be fluent in English and able to discuss at senior management
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        428 4 P We are a large organisation with diversified interest. Owing I to rapid expansion in our operations, we are now looking for Marketing people. Applications ffbm suitably qualified I I Singapore Citizens are invited for the following positions: I Marketing I I Executive I The person we are looking for
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        214 4 TENDER NOTICE Experienced Contractors are invited to tender for: SUPPLY, INSTALLATION, ft COMMISSIONING OF AIRCONDITIONING ft MECHANICAL VENTILATION SERVICES AT PULAU BR ANI (NOMINATED SUBCONTRACT) Tender documents are obtainable from: Tlw Quantity Sunning Section Singapore Engineering ft Consultancy SwviOM Pirn Ltd (SPECS) 2nd Floor, ESD Building Maritime Square Singapore 0409
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        338 4 GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OP BNOAPORE THE PLANNING ACT (cap m, ir» ed> THE MASTER PLAN RULES, BJBJ N«Mee u4ar tM» It Notice Is hereby given that the following proposal for alteration to the Master Plan was submitted to the Minister for National Development for approvalRezoning of Lots 4496 (SL)
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