The Straits Times, 20 August 1986

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  • 859 1  -  RAV DHALIWAL Dr Yeo Ning Hong Minister: Very serious trouble if declining birth rate is not reversed By by Not enough men to defend Singapore Fewer workers; higher labour ccst Less income tax collected, so more of other forms of tax to maintain government
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  • 115 1 DETAILS of the scheme to retain a minimum sum m a person's Central Provident Fund account when he reaches 55 are expected to be released when Parliament sits on Monday. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said at the National Day Rally on Sunday
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  • 74 1 THE Prime Minister's National Day Rally speech last Sunday, in which he shared his thoughts on crucial issues facing Singapore, will be telecast again tonight at 9.30 on Channel 5. Subjects covered by Mr Lee Kuan Yew included the competitiveness of the economy,
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  • 430 1  - Big spending cuts in tough Aussie Budget LIM SAY BOON By Melbourne Correspondent MELBOURNE The Hawke government, m a show of strength to the international financial community, has handed down one of the toughest Budgets seen m Australia since World War 11. In a bid to restore international confidence m
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  • 337 1 THE Court of Civil Appeal yesterday rejected an appeal by Mr 4. B. Jeyaretnam over the dismissal of his suit for slander against the First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong. The appeal by Mr Jeyaretnam, the Workers' Party Secretary-General, was dismissed with costs m
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  • 356 1  -  H. L. LIM Prime Minister's visit to Brunei Story: BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN It's the kind of wind that rips roofs off buildings. And that was exactly what happened on Friday and Monday nights m Brunei. An unseasonal high wind tore off some roofs and damaged
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  • 92 1 Money laundered with official blessing JAKARTA Five government officials have reportedly worked round the clock to launder 32 million rupiahs (5563,000) m notes. But the officials were not doing anything illegal, the Suara Karya newspaper said yesterday. They were simply ironing dry thousands upon thousands of bank notes left m
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  • 34 1 NEW DELHI India is to acquire Soviet-built heavy-lift MI-26 helicopters, some of the latest Warsaw Pact technology, to augment its air force transport fleet, a Defence Ministry official said on Monday. AFP
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  • IN SUMMARY
    • 519 2 Price index down SINGAPOREANS CONTINUED to get more value for their money as consumer prices fell m July for the sixth consecutive month. The consumer price index dropped 0.1 per cent last month compared with June. The lower index was mainly because food cost 0.4 per cent less m
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    • 297 2 Opec starts cutback SAUDI ARABIA and other key members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries are taking significant steps to curb oil production before the two-month Opec cutback agreement comes into force on Sept 1, the authoritative Middle East Economic Survey said on Monday. The Iranian
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    • 167 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: THE DISCLOSURE that the Government Is prepared to consider exemption for those who object to anti-killer litter legislation boggles the mind. In the absence of clear, convincing arguments for It, we must urge caution. Too many important principles seem to be at stake. Page 16
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    • 303 2 Not good enough SINGAPORE'S ANG Peng Siong swam his fastest 100-metres freestyle of the year at the World Swimming Championships m Madrid yesterday. But his 51.64 was nowhere near good enough to get him into the final. Nor indeed, to get him within two seconds of American Matt Biondi,
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    • 329 2 Platform for elderly IT'S OKAY to be grey. It's even sexy to be grey! Ageing is, after all, not a disease but a change or development that takes place m the body over the years. Several professionals and volunteers have banded together to form the newly-registered Gerontological Society
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    • 329 2 Product Advertiser Section/Page Art EihfcrBon Hua Bao Gallery I —10 Baby's Drink Woodwards Gripe Water I —14 Beauty Centre Wong Tat Too Beauty Centre I —26 Books Butterworth Co I -16 Cameras Fuji Photo I -11 Tithes Corporation I 1 Campaifn Ministry Of Health I —15 Carpet Gnee
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    • 197 2 AUDIT SHOWS HIGH-FLIERS LIFTED OUTPUT BY 2.9% THE FIRST in-depth audit of Singapore's productivity is out and it shows companies m the transport, storage and communications sector as the nigh fliers and those m trade as the worst performers. Overall, productivity was up 2.9 per cent m the last
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    • 144 2 4 Wage restraint' call MALAYSIAN LABOUR MINISTER Lee Kirn Sai yesterday urged unions to restrain wage demands to check growing retrenchments m the private sec* tor Mr Lee told a business conference m Kuala Lumpur that 43,844 workers were retrenched last year, more than 60
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    • 102 2 HARDER TO GET INTO IE THE MINISTRY of Education explains m reply to a letter from a graduate who joined the Temporary Graduate Teacher scheme but who has not been selected for admission to the Institute of Education that the performance of the temporary graduate teachers during their teaching
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  • around the WORLD
    • 441 3 ISLAMABAD DEMONSTRATORS clashed with police, blocked roads and attacked government offices yesterday as opposition leaders vowed to carry on their campaign for new elections. Opposition leader Mohammad Shah Amroti told reporters at least 40 people were killed on Monday, 25 m southern Sind
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    • 157 3 NEW DELHI Indian Presidents have been sitting for the last 30 years on v a solid-silver throne made for Britain's King George V when he was Emperor of India. The half-tonne throne, which was presumed lost after independence m 1947, has been carefully
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    • 133 3 PERTH More than 360 sacked workers yesterday ended their occupation of Australia's biggest natural gas rig after being threatened with heavy fines. The workers were told they would each be fined ASIMH (S$l3,5W) a day if they did not end the siege, Western Australian state
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    • 253 3 SEOUL South Korea's ruling party has published constitutional proposals that would drastically reduce the President's role and hand substantial executive power to a Prime Minister and Cabinet. The draft constitutional amendment, published on Monday, calls for both a Prime Minister and a
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    • 426 3 NEW DELHI THE Indian government has asked the five main Tamil militant groups to support the Colombo peace talks between the moderate Tamil United Liberation Front (Tulf) and the Sri Lankan government, according to the Press Trust of India (PTI). The
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    • 232 3 Seoul chalks 10.9% growth in first half SEOUL POWERED by strong exports and brisk investment m plant facilities, South Korea's gross national product (GNP) m the first half of this year grew 10.9 per cent m real terms, compared with 4.3 per cent m the same period of 1985, the
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    • 182 3 Canberra lifts uranium export ban CANBERRA Australia lifted a three-year ban on uranium exports to France yesterday, conceding that the sanction didn't work and represented a lost export opportunity. Treasurer Paul Keating, who made the announcement while outlining the 1986-87 Budget, said the ban failed its original purpose and "was
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    • 54 3 TEHERAN Twenty people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb exploded m central Teheran yesterday, Teheran Radio said. The blast ripped through morning rush hour traffic m Ferdowsi Square, shattering windows of buildings and setting several vehicles ablaze. The radio accused "American agents" of
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    • 440 4 NICOSIA SAUDI ARABIA and other key members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) are taking significant steps to curb oil production before the two-month Opec cutback agreement comes into force on Sept 1, the authoritative Middle East Economic Survey (Mees) said
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    • 331 4 Pretoria names 8,500 held under emergency rule JOHANNESBURG The government has made public for the first time the names of more than 8,000 people held without charge since a nationwide state of emergency was imposed m June. Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange listed about 8,500 detainees on Monday
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    • 171 4 Heroine mum expects 12th baby MOSCOW The Soviet Union's youngest holder of the order of Heroine Mother (First Class) Is pregnant again four months after delivering her 11th child. Mrs Antaran Kirakosyan, 32, of the Armenian city of Erevan, is the mother of six girls and five boys and is
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    • 148 4 THE 13-year-old greatgrandson of American Indian chief Crazy Horse stepping of the plane m Israel on Monday. The young Indian, known as Little Son Bordeaux, was dressed m a traditional Sioox costume and accompanied by his Jewish mother, the former Armalona Greenfield. He
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    • 204 4 PHILADELPHIA A defendant m a rape case bolted across a courtroom, dived through a window and plunged six storeys to his death on Monday as the jury was returning a guilty verdict, authorities said. Robert McPeake dashed to the window, looked back at the jury
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    • 244 4 Israeli official prepares Mubarak summit TEL AVIV A senior Israeli official has left for Egypt to meet President Hosni Mubarak and arrange a summit meeting between him and Prime Minister Shimon Peres, state radio reported yesterday. It will be the first Isra-el-Egypt summit since June 1981 when Israeli Prime Minister
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    • 211 4 Moscow contacts to go on Shamir JERUSALEM IsraeliSoviet contacts are likely to continue, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir has said. "It was a good beginning," he said, even though their first official bilateral talks m 19 years broke up on Monday after just 90 minutes. "We presented our case. We listened
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    • 448 5 WASHINGTON The tax reform package worked out by a HouseSenate panel over the weekend could have a devastating impact on the capacity of US industry to confront competition from foreign firms, businessmen and economists have warned. The reforms would require businesses to pay
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    • 332 5 Call for 1 5% cut in staff to ease UN cash crisis UNITED NATIONS A 15 per cent reduction m the United Nations' staff of 11,000 and fewer meetings are the key proposals of a report sent to Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on Monday on how to solve the
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    • 175 5 NEW YORK Passion is like an addiction to cigarettes or coffee, complete with withdrawal symptoms that include irritability and loss of appetite, according to a Yale University psychologist. People m a passionate frame of mind need increased amounts of exposure to the person
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    • 225 5 First private satellite launch 3 years away WASHINGTON The first launch of a commercial satellite by private industry will not take place until at least 1989, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said on Monday. Private companies, she added, were ready and eager to fill the launch void created by the Challenger
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    • 49 5 HONGKONG Police yesterday launched a massive manhunt here for the killer of a 12-year-old girl whose naked body was found hanging from railings on Sunday. The body of Lam So-yee was found near her home m a residential estate. Police said she had been strangled. AFP
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    • 227 5 NEWPORT (Rhode Island) An American heiress was robbed of up to US$ll million (5521.7 million) m Jewellery on Monday and later declared: "From now on I'm only going to wear costume jewellery." It was Caroline Skelly's fourth robbery m nine years and up to
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 339 6 Anwar to look into dissolution of Chinese student panel KUALA LUMPUR Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he would look into the problem of the recent dissolution of the special committee for Chinese students of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He said he would study the problem after getting a report from
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    • 126 6 'Dr M to resign report baseless' PORT KLANG Umno Youth Leader Anwar Ibrahim has described as "untrue and baseless" a newspaper report that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad would resign soon. Mr Anwar, who is also Education Minister, said such rumours were being spread by those wishing to
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    • 42 6 KOTA BARU Kelantan Umno will hold a post-mor-tem to determine the reasons why the party lost six state seats to Parti Islam (PAS) m the recent general election, the party's liaison committee secretary, Haji Ahmad Shahibuddin Mohamad Noor, said. NST
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    • 36 6 KUALA TRENGGANU The Trengganu government will give priority to ex-servi-cemen m the allocation of low-cost houses, agricultural land and jobs m the public sector, said State Executive Councillor Datuk Haji Abdul Rashid Ngah. NST
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    • 308 6 KUALA LUMPUR Labour Minister Lee Kirn Sai yesterday urged unions to restrain wage demands to check growing retrenchments m the private sector. He said 43,844 workers were retrenched last year, more than 60 per cent of them from the manufacturing sector. Another 9,429
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    • 145 6 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara is considering introducing a number of financial instruments into the Malaysian banking system, Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin has announced. These are expected to include a secondary mortgage market, note issuance facilities, floating rate notes an revolving underwriting facilities. The plans
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    • 154 6 KUALA LUMPUR A syndicate is smuggling foreign women into the country and hiring them out as maids for a high service charge. However, after a few months, the women resign so that the process can be repeated, the Star reported yesterday. City CID chief Osman Awal
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    • 98 6 KUALA LUMPUR The problem of publishing higher education textbooks m Bahasa Malaysia is a national problem, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Di-rector-General Datuk Haji Hassan Ahmad has said. The problem involved the creativity of academics and intellectuals as well as mastery of the language, he said.
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    • 176 6 IPOH A securities firm, Y. K. Fang Securities Sdn Bhd, is seeking an order for third-party directions against Malaysian Chinese Association president Tan Koon Swan m the High Court here m connection with his alleged involvement In a Ss24 million civil suit between
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    • 107 6 ALOR STAR A padi planter and his son were jointly charged m the High Court here yesterday with drug trafficking. Ali Hanafiah, 47, and Azemi, 30, pleaded not guilty to trafficking m 7,273.76 gm of ganja at an unnumbered house at Kampung Gandai, Air Hitam,
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  • AROUND ASEAN
    • 298 7  - Give me more time to recuperate, says Queen Sirikit ALBERT RAMALINGAM By Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK Thai Queen Sirikit has made her first public appearance m about six months and appealed to the people to give her more time to recuperate from her illness. Addressing a large audience, including Prime Minister
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    • 148 7 BACOLOD (Philippines) The United States would condemn any military coup d'etat m the Philippines and never help deposed President Ferdinand Marcos return to the country, US Senator Richard Lugar said here yesterday. The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told reporters
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    • 158 7 BANGKOK Government and opposition MPs have joined hands la poshing far parliamentary proceedings to be broadcast live aver radio aad television. The MPs also want the policy statement of Prime Minister Prem Ttasnlaaonda's new government to be broadcast live when It to presented to
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    • 54 7 JAKARTA Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk arrived here yesterday. He is on a four-day visit and said he would be discussing the Cambodia issue with Indonesian leaders. He answered no questions, but said he would talk to reporters after his discussions with President Suharto and Foreign
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    • 727 7  -  H.L. LIM Briefed on Brunei's five-year plan with a longer-term aim By Look who's welcoming whom: Mr lm Kuan Yew shakes hands down the line of YIPs, thanking those who say "Welcome to Brunei" at Bandar Serl Begawan's airport yesterday. Guess who he meets near
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    • 939 8  - Findings of fact should be respected judge AHMAD OSMAN Judgment on the Jeyaretnam appeal By, MR JUSTICE Lai Kew Chai yesterday reiterated the well-established principle that an Appellate Court must give the highest respect to the findings of fact by a trial judge. Such findings, he said, should not be
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    • 166 8 THE largest gathering of naval vessels for an exercise under the Five-Pow-er Defence Arrangement will assemble m the South China Sea off Pulau Tioman by the end of this evening. The task force of 26 ships and one submarine from Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Britain and New
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    • 239 8 DANCERS from different Chinese minority groups will go on stage at the Kallang Theatre tonight m the first of seven performances by the Guangxi Song and Dance Troupe. The troupe will perform 14 tribal dances from six of the minority groups that live m
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    • 156 8 SINGAPOREANS continued to get more value for their money as consumer prices fell m July for the sixth consecutive month. The consumer price index, the most widely-used indicator of inflation here, dropped 0.1 per cent last month compared with June. The lower index was mainly
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    • 128 8 A WOMAN died and her neighbour was seriously injured when they were knocked down by a car at Picadilly Circus, m Seletar Camp m Jalan Kayu, on Monday. Madam Foo Ai Ten, 36, was walking with Mr Toh Hock Guan, 56, when the
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    • 468 8  -  SUMIKO TAN The fake Han Dynasty corpses By $5,000 each. The man who brought them to Singapore from China and had them rented out three times, Mr Kun Kay Hong, 45, makes no bones that they are not the real thing. "Yes, they
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    • 287 10  - Avoid using expressway phones police CHUA CHIN CHYE By TRAFFIC Police are urging motorists not to use public telephones along expressways, except m emergencies, pending the re-lo-cation of the pay-phones. Vehicles parked along expressways while their drivers use the phones pose a danger to other road-users. The reminder came m
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    • 1059 10 What most of 31 MPs and residents say 4ln practical terms, it is almost impossible to implement. We will end up with signboards all over the place saying "this constituency does not observe the killer-litter law. You are advised to wear crash helmets when you
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    • 198 10 AN INCREASE m the number of babies with diarrhoea over the past fortnight has authorities at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital baffled over the cause. About half a dozen newborn babies have come down with diarrhoea, said a spokesman for the hospital. Four are still
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    • 209 10 Trial flights to Taman Negara A NEW company, Orient Airline, will provide the first air links between Singapore and the Malaysian national park m Pahang. The company will fly direct to Taman Negara on Sept 9, 11, and 13 to gauge demand for such a service. If the flights prove
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    • 239 10 TWO hours of mock sessions every day for the past two weeks helped Victoria Junior College Team A dethrone last year's champions m the first semi-finals of Visquiz '86 last night. The three members of the winning team were provided with research materials and
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    • 340 11  -  S. KUMAR 60 workers referred to labour-short firms By THE Ministry of Labour has gone to the rescue of at least two major shipyards which were crying out for more workers because of a sudden increase m business. It has referred more than
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    • 408 11  -  WONG AI KWEI By A LEADING American medical care products manufacturer is investing another $25 million to expand its highly profitable operations here. Travenol Laboratories Pte Ltd's new investment includes an 8,000-square-metre extension of its $70 million Woodlands plant and the purchase
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    • 734 13 PM: Seize opportunities and go for winners SINGAPORE must seize the opportunities when they come, and go for the winners, said Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Our future depends on staying competitive and finding the right niches across the whole spectrum of the world economy. amHMHHH "We have to seek them,
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    • 739 13  -  IRENE NGOO PAUL JACOB PM's National Day Rally speech Reports by and IN HIS National Day Rally address, the Prime Minister spoke at some length about future challenges facing Singapore's economy, and of the social and cultural factors that affect economic performance. Singapore's small
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    • 132 13 THE Prime Minister suggested that Neptune Orient lines, the national shipping carrier, go private when the shipping market improves. Mr Lee Kuan Yew said the Government should be out of NOL to make it more competitive. He cited shipping as an industry which
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    • 491 13 SINGAPORE Airlines has made the difference where it counts: In its reliability, safety, and service. These have made for its success, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said. But with competition looming from friendly neighbouring skies where wage costs are lower, SIA will have
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    • 145 14 QCCs help firms save 1m a year QUALITY control circles have helped companies achieve annual savings of almost $1 million, the National Productivity Board said recently. The cost-cutting came from trimming wastage, using time more efficiently, reducing defects and complaints, better housekeeping and improving the work environment. The NPB listed
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    • 52 14 A MAN was jailed yesterday for two weeks for throwing an empty drink can into a crowd at a rock concert at the National Day carnival m East Coast Park on Aug 10. Amdan bin Senin, 24, was detained by a policeman for disorderly behaviour. He
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    • 123 14 THE Institute of East Asian Philosophies will hold its second open house at Kent Ridge on Saturday. The highlight of the day is a forum m English on The Inquiry and New Direction of Contemporary Confucianists, at 10 am at the National University of Singapore's
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    • 223 14 Four charged over 91 kg of raw opium A CONTRACTOR, his girlfriend and two others were charged m court yesterday with trafficking m and possession of 91 kg of raw opium. Inspector Zainal Abidin asked that no plea be taken. He said the four are believed to be involved m
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    • 94 14 Two charged with hurting attendant TWO men were charged on Monday with threatening and kicking an attendant at a service station m Queensway on Aug 6. Choo Heng Liew, 42, allegedly threatened Mr Muniandy Kumarasamy, 32, that he would burn the petrol kiosk with a lighter held to a petrol
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    • 889 14  -  BEN DAVIDSON Joint trial a failure of justice, says judge m quashing Alan Wong's convictions By 4 HE (trial judge) greeted the appellant at a conspirator m a conspiracy with which he was not charged and m which he was not named. The consequence was
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    • 335 15  - Manila talks to focus on economic co-operation CATHERINE C. ONG By PROSPECTS for economic co-operation among Asean countries will depend largely on the outcome of a three-day meeting next week of the members' economic ministers m Manila. The Asean Economic Ministers (AEM) meeting from Aug 28 to 30 will focus
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    • 251 15  -  IRENE NGOO By ASEAN Directors-General and senior officials begin a two-day meeting here today to prepare the agenda for the standing committee meeting on FViday. Top on the agenda is the appointment of members to the high-level steering committee to carry out the preparatory work for the
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    • 381 15  -  SALMA KHALIK Life-raft springs a leak m airport rescue exercise Story by Pictures by SOME "survivors" who took part m a Changi Airport rescue exercise had to be saved twice yesterday morning when their life-raft sprang a leak and collapsed. The exercise was
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    • 233 15 DOCTORS were reminded on Monday that cases of unnatural or sudden death must be reported to the coroner to determine their causes. State Coroner Sarjit Singh said this after rejecting a doctor's explanation of how he had determined the cause of a man's death. Mr Lam
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    • 191 15 A BOOKMAKER pleaded guilty yesterday to cheating the brother of a secret society headman of $2,5 W. The court heard that bookmaker Eng Boon Slang, 32, also known as Ah Ter, said the money would be used to "cover up" the case against Chua liong Boon,
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    • 447 15  -  NG WENG HOONG By FIRE officers have been carrying out surveys on occupants of buildings hit by fires as part of a long-term plan to reduce fires. Since the beginning of this month, the Singapore Fire Service has been conducting these surveys immediately after
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    • 325 10 7hano- Shioei i Painting Exhibition Organiser Hua Bao Arts Crafts Date 19 Aug 25 Aug 1986 Time 10.30 am 6JO pm Venue 160 Orchard Road, #03-21 Orchard Point, Singapore 0923 Tel: *****19 Computers and Communications "'^iite,, i 1 y-- ,»f5®.,*.-'^BJ^^^^^N^. sBI BfiisSisßßi ■j^p^'" f^Mi Printer ribbons are also *jmMr available
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 713 11 HAVE YOU WON THIS WEEK'S TOP PRIZE? Just drive into any BP station, and find out if you've won the top prize m BP's weekly big, big draw. Every Monday, there'll be a new set of winning car numbers on a big notice board at every BP station. Because there'
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 257 13 I Hnll jI W m W mHi faffi ■■>■■■ MHBfl SHOTS; HBMBHHHBHI ■BBMKR MMBfIBV nHMHHHHHr ofcVHLm B^^^ 'nfSBwR? kT^ Sb HbrH Ha fit '*r?BE&rj 9 H wS3B&& Hn Dl R. A BHBBBmbsß^^: HPBHS ■^^t» ff^^W engineering, hanking or any other Rcdial automatically if the -^fl *^4Em P It has a
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 206 14 F readers read Over a million Singaporeans prefer N §^tfi to speak Chinese. Over 700,000 read (L\^y^^ M W^^WKBiSmm the aobao A Quarter of them flew at [>^^^ h P 1 least once last year. F ml^" n acti a our b ll5 ***** travellers flew a? teas/ s/x frmes
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    • 89 14 When baby needs a comforter. IW«stt 1 >>«.-«*;■> itlWWlilJ ft*<»»*' i*K}yt*TS. POMMM Hl^ Uf O».T f «E. Mt AC MOl CHtU3ft£K >V L Om*t*ntoiXmit**t**< S !«ewJ <««? nC^t-nmt. iytvp tt f Wfaodward^ GripeM&ter. JBB&B& 1\ /T others know that K. 1VA comfortable babies jl^^hl Hfek make happy babies. That's Ifr*-,y
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 384 15 Jordan* The Winning Toothbrush You May Be jgWjjfcj j A Winner! WS J§* x How to Win IK v it^m* I, All you need to do is purchase ANY *i im JH 1 two Jordan toothbrushes, attdch their H W JKf back foils to the entr, forrr and IHV* BfMßf
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    • 162 15 Are you overweight? You are not alone the only way to lose excess fat is to eat less and exercise more. Training Health Education Department. -~jfS^- Mlnltti? of Health. Singapore. c VIV.«* icV^^mHßhJbiWhßl An rX( itin^ line-up of the I la test collections by this year's Tl^^^^^^^BSsßMWm to P designers
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  • COMMENT/ Perspective
    • The Straits Times
      • 621 16 THE DISCLOSURE that the Government is prepared to consider exemption for those who object to anti-killer litter legislation boggles the mind. Small wonder. Barely a fortnight ago, the Government, stressing the need to protect all those living in HDB and HUDC estates, steered the Housing and
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    • 1559 16  -  JANE ITTOGI Securities Industry Act 1986 and the stock market trickster By Exchanging tips over dinner, talking about your company to another person do these acts amount to insider trading? The new Securities Industry Act, examined here in the first of two articles on the subject
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    • 668 16 Editorial, headlined After Anzus, published in the Times of London on Aug 14. TO END the "Greenpeace affair", Mr David Lange's government in New Zealand was eventually prepared to put the phrase was coined by the leader of the Opposition trade before morality.
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    • 218 16 f LET me tell yon about one of our sunrise indusJL tries, one where there are new millionaires w every day. One where the government and business are pumping in money. It's called design. Government support is quite clearly sincere there aren't that many votes in design.
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    • 1186 17  -  E.S. BROWNING By i writing for The Asian Wall Street Journal 4 The Japanese government is encouraging industry to start thinking about the 21st Century. Many companies didn't need any encouraging. A trait common to the top tier of Japanese business is an
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    • 336 17  - Letter from a stork HO CHIN BENG Table talk By DEAR Mum-to-be, I'm Papa Stork. I've just flown back to Kandang Kerbau Hospital after making deliveries to Kaki Bukit, Boon Lay and several other places. I did not visit Kreta Ayer and Telok Aycr this morning. I will be making
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous

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    • 357 17 HADE IN SINGAPORE '^Isft Profile of our newborn babies £Kf^f^\( a> f x How many Where born OW* Number bom hi bi m each year government private ottw hospitals hospitals places 1980 41,200 1981 42 300 1979 84.2% 10.9% 4.9% 1982 42J00 1984 73.4% 24.9% 1.7% 1983 40i600 1984 41,600
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    • 78 17 Then for those who take things at a more leisurely pace, there's the 21" TC-2160MR with a 35-key TV/video remote control. For the technically-minded, it incorporates an on-screen status display and audio/visual-in terminals. It even switches itself off with its own timer. But as we said, don't take our word
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  • FORUM
    • 600 18 I AM writing to express my helplessness as a Save-As- You-Earn (SAVE) account holder. I sincerely hope that your paper would help to redress my plight, as my attempt to solve the problem with the POSB has been fruitless. I have two $500
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    • 141 18 ON July 30, at about 2.45 pm, I went to the Post Office Savings Bank at Telok Blangah Drive to deposit an assortment of new and old coins totalling $100. A teller told me to sort them into old and new coins because the coincounting
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    • Reply
      • 163 18 I REFER to the letter "Panel's 'No' to Untrained Graduate Teacher" by "Misled" (ST, July 31). The Temporary Graduate Teacher (TGT) scheme was introduced to meet the increased teacher requirement m 1986 arising from the review of the Secondary 4 normal (S4N) promotion/retention criteria. Graduates
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      • 216 18 'Medical audit' proposal a welcome idea I BELIEVE the letter by Dr Toh Keng Kiat (ST, July 11) has delved into the crux of the issue of continuing education for the medical profession. Dr Toh proposed some form of "medical audit" to check the performance of medical practitioners. A few
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    • 74 18 WE HAVE observed that most carpark lots and certain pedestrian malls m housing estates are now covered with precast aeration slabs. We prefer that carparks and footpaths be laid with bitumen as we feel that the aeration slabs are a hazard. They have
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    • 74 18 Old folk with walking sticks may have the end of their sticks caught m the gaps. For other pedestrians, there is the danger of their shoes or sandals getting caught m the gaps, causing them to trip and fall. We hope that the authorities concerned would consider
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    • 162 18 I RECEIVED the keys to my new flat m Block 799, Yishun Ring Road, two weeks ago and found that the ceiling and concrete floor had some defects. There were hair-line cracks 0.5 to lmm wide and 1 to 2mm long m about eight places.
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    • 67 18 I have made a survey of other flats m my block. Cracks of the same nature can be found. Could the authorities please take positive action and do a survey of these defects? I am sure my neighbours would want to know something about the future safety
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      • 97 18 VITB offering more places for electronics WE REFER to Mr C. Manoharan's letter, A Student's View of VITB Courses (ST, Aug 7), and wish to thank him for his comments on our part-time courses. The electronics courses have consistently attracted a large number of applicants. When it is not possible
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      • 273 18 However, the Vocational and Industrial Training Board has been expanding its full-time training capacity since the early 1980s. For example, m 1982, there were a total of 366 training places for the electronics courses. The number has increased to 1,220 this year. Facilities for electronics courses will
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      • 196 18 WE REFER to the letter "Our fishermen should use modern gear" (ST, Aug 4). The Primary Production Department, which licenses fishing vessels m Singapore, continually encourages fishing vessel owners to improve their efficiency and productivity. About 85 per cent of the licensed fishing trawlers
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 145 18 Chinese Carpet Fair OD Over $3,000,000 worth of Chinese carpets on display for your selection 1^ Ho^S^s^2^^^to^^ m H^?n J^Vo w r rt^ r i IHB hand-knotted carpets- in pure wool, pure RHfijT \T...^* Mom m* kS "-3 silkand wool/ silk combinations. From Tianjin, |P k \.A>-' Wm r l--^-
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  • TIMESDOLLAR
    • In the markets
      • 86 19 THE Straits Times Industrial Index suffered its first decline m eight sessions as speculators took profits on the Singapore stock market yesterday. Despite a strong opening, the ST Index lost 6.49 points to 803.35 and the Business Times Composite Index fell 4.67 points to 681.81.
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      • Chief price changes
        • 12 19 UOL 769,000 City Dcv 733,000 UIC 676,000 Metro Holdings 596,000
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        • 72 19 Durlßhd 530 +10 Hleontfn 260 +10 KiAn Msia 50c 113 +9 Siunfri-La 320 +8 MFk» 231 +8 OUf 271 +6 SBS 225 +6 ICS 610 +5 NST 520 +5 Landmarks H 50c 140 +5 HwaHont 110 +5 MM Hotels 60 +5 UOB 414 +4 Guinness 50c 193+4 IC-MPH Wrls
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        • 70 19 Metro Hk)[s 384 -36 Nil Iron 418 -16 OCBC 780 -10 OUB 304 -10 Acmj 146 -9 Transnurco 130 -9 Sea View 158 -8 Unite 90 -8 Ijetan 50c 299-7 CIC 162 -7 S Steamship 50c 154 -7 I M 50c 111-7 Spore Land 468 -6 Gentmjs 450 -6
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        • 84 19 Aug 18 Aug 19 Aug 18 Aug 19 BT Composite ***** ***** SI Properties ***** 387 82 BT Indicator *****512 *****513 ST Minings ***** ***** BT OB OS +231 +127 ST Plantations *****8 1962.17 CAW -6456 -«28 OCBC ***** ***** OBV -***** -***** OUB Composite 367 75 364 70
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      • 33 19 INDICES Highs Lows Straits fines Business Times Industrial Composite 1985/86 High 852.65 (7/3/85) 757.79 (8/3/85) 1985/86 Low 563.34 (28/4/86) 470.92 (28/4/86) All-time High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 983.06 (8/2/84) All-time Low 74.75 (17/9/64) 470.92 (28/4/86)
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      • 14 19 THE US dollar gained 122 ticks to close at DM 2.0717 m Singapore.
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      • 21 19 DM V FF S| HK$ US| UBs 2.0795 154.15 Unq 2.1540 Unq 1.4900 2.0717 154.18 6.7405 2.1540 7.8060 1.4920
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      • 12 19 In Singapore, gold lost US$6.3O to close at US$372 an ounce.
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      • 33 19 Eurodollar: Gained four ticks to 93.83 a contract. Deotschemsrk: Lost 24 ticks to 0.4837 a contract. Japanese yen: Lost 13 ticks to 0.*****0 a contract. Gold: Lost US$4.5O to U*****.70 an ounce.
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      • Short stops
        • 97 19 HONGKONG Merrill Lynch and Co Inc said it is participating m a Tai-wan-based joint venture that will launch an investment fund m October to facilitate the entry of overseas capital into the Taiwan stock market. A Merrill Lynch spokesman said the joint venture, China Securities Investment
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        • 50 19 SEOUL Encouraged by growing trade surpluses, the South Korean government has ordered the country's banks to suspend plans to borrow overseas, the state-run radio station KBS has reported. The report, quoting unidentified official sources, said the ban on overseas loans would continue at least until October. AP
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        • 73 19 HONGKONG Jardine Insurance Brokers group (JIB), a subsidiary of Hongkong flagship trad- ing house Jardine Matheson, has formed an insurance broking company m Taiwan. A JIB announcement said the Taipei subsidiary, Jardine Insurance Brokers (Taiwan) Ltd, will be headed by Mr Terence Yuen, who has been JlB's
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        • 77 19 HONGKONG Far East Holdings (1982) Ltd (FEH) said it has agreed to acquire a 37.5 per cent stake m Asia Television Ltd (ATV) for HK$l5O million (5541.37 million) m cash as part of a plan to float the station's assets. A company statement said FEH will
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        • 71 19 LONDON Jaguar, the British luxury sedan manufacturer, has reported a 23 per cent increase m sales during the first half of this year. Turnover grew to £426 million (551.36 billion), representing a 6 per cent increase on the C4Ol million m the first half of last
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    • 487 19 Ailing VDH will be injected with new capital VAN der Horst chairman, Mr Edward Goh will provide the ailing marine engineering group additional working capital through its former holding company, Malaya Tin Printing. A VDH statement to the Stock Exchange of Singapore said the undisclosed sum of money will be
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    • 421 19  -  N. BALAKRISHNAN By THE effect of the rising yen has reached the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) with the futures exchange having to halve the size of its Nikkei Stock Average futures contract even before it is launched next month to make
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    • 451 19 output First in-depth audit indentifies growth sectors THE FIRST in-depth audit of Singapore's productivity is out and it shows companies m the transport, storage and communications sector as the high fliers and those m trade as the worst performers. Overall, productivity was up 2.9 per
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    • 381 19 Copyright Bill lures Microsoft to Singapore THE proposed Copyright BUI which aims to tighten copyright laws was a key factor which persuaded one of the world's largest software companies m the United States to appoint an agent m Singapore. Microsoft has appointed S.S.Technology, as its exclusive distributor for Singapore, Indonesia
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    • 143 19 Productivity growth, 4th quarter 1985 compared to same period 1934 Total (manufacturing) +1.2% Industrial, chemicals gases +58.2% Cigarettes other tobacco products +38.5% Paints, pharmaceutical other chemical products 15.2% Transport equipment 14.9% Sawn timber other wood products except furniture 10.3% Food +10% Iron steei +4.2%
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    • 506 19  -  MARA FERNANDEZ By THE advertising industry is going through a rough patch. In the past two years, eight major advertising agencies reported losses. Though several agency directors say this was due to business start-up costs and accounting methods, rather than falling business, there is no
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    • 3110 20 READERS should be aware of the imitations of this information. Not every transaction, nor every price dealt m at the stock exchanf e, is covered m "business done". Further, because al deafngs at a particular price are lumped together, the table does not show the trend
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    • 1950 20 INDUSTRIALS Acmo 1 84S) xd Ajinomoto (3O8S) Alcom (70S) (1)71 (7)70 AISB (59' -B 60S) (5) 60' 2 (2)60 API (72 '.-S> (10) 72 (9) 71". (2) 71 (20) 72' 2 (6) 73 ASMO 12SMI0) 113(11) 112 Antoh (2708 27 15) (1) 275 (13) 274
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    • 2813 20 Al shares quoted have a par value of SI, unless otherwise specified. Adjusted for scrip/rights N las-exempted dividend. ABN is traded m lots of 10 shares each, with the price quoted m dolars. Trustee stocks under CPF Approved Investment Scheme. 19S6 Last Yield Vol Day Hfh
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    • Stocks markets round-up
      • 603 21 SPECULATORS dominated trading on the Singapore stock market yesterday when they took profits for the greater part of the day. Although share prices opened strongly, the Straits Times Industrial Index only managed to rise a marginal 0.27 points when brokers broke up for lunch. And by
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      • 302 21 Aut 19 HKS Chanie Assoc Intl Hotels 1.02 +0.01 Bonk Of Eost Asia 18.30 -0.1 Cathay Pacific Air 5.60 unch Cheung Kong 24.40 -0.3 China Light 1650 -0 2 Cross Horb Tunnel 9.85 unch r^E Consortium 0.405 -0.03 G I Cement 8.50 -0 05 Great Eagle 084 +0.01 Hang
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      • 354 21 Aut 19 Yen Chw|e Aimomoto 1930 +100 Akai 381 -16 Amoda 800 +38 A.oh. Chem 870 unch Aiahi Glass 1280 +90 Bank Of Tokyo 963 +13 Bridgestorw 655 +8 Canon 903 13 Casio Computer 1220 -10 Citizen 497 -5 D Nip Print 1950 +50 D Nippon Screen 745 -5
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      • 331 21 Au( 19 Cents Change (Aust) A C I 356 +1 A N I 274 +2 Aberfoyle 780 10 Age 295 unch Artici* 335 unch Ampol Exp 200 -5 Ampol Pet 210 -4 Anz 495 +7 Ashton 163 +3 B H P 800 +10 Beach Petroleum 60 unch Bell Group
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      • 66 21 i i i i i i i i I m i NST Index Tuesday 1,221.73 (1,224.98) Hongkong Hang Seng -r^ Tuesday 1,935.69 (1,950.12) OL. Australian All-Ordinaries Tuesday 1,185.30 (1,185.90) Nikkei Stock Average Tuesday 18,792.61 (18,597.44) Financial Times Industrials Monday 1,273.60 (1,271.00) Dow Jones Average ?g$ Monday 1,869.52 (1,855.60) (Figures
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      • 204 21 hut It US* ctun t* Alcoa 37* Allied Sig 41* Amox Inc ll* Am Corp 54* Att 23* Bethlehem Stf 8* unch Boetng Co 60* Burroughs Cp 70V4 Caterpillar Co 45* Chase Manhtn 40* Chrysler Cp 39* unch Citicorp 55 +V 4 Cons Not Gas 30 Consol Ed
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      • 562 21 Auf 18 Pence Change INDUSTRIALS Allied-Lyons 336xd +1 Ass Dairies BTRPLC 286xd unch Babcocks 185 -2 Barclays 489 -3 Beechom 401 -2 BICC 268 unch Blue Circle 533 +7 BOC Group 327 -2 Boots 224 +3 Bowoter 323 -5 BATS 406 +11 Britonnia 145 unch BP 610 +9 B
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    • Commidities, Finance
      • 380 21 Mm J 1.000 2 For best customers only. 3 OCBC Finance. 4 available at DBS Finance. UOf s rates." also available at UOf also available at DBS Finance. OCBC OUB UOB DBS DEPOSIT RATES Savings: daily 4Vi 4 4 4 4' 4 Monthly 4'/ 2 Autosave 4 Fixed
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      • 163 21 Interbank Over the counter Foreign Local doHars to Foreign currency currency one unit of to Sslo foreign currency Australian dollar 1 3556 1.3584 7.63-7.29 Canadian dollar 1.5448-1.5466 6.54-6.43 NZ dollar 1.0864-1.0890 9.59-9.11 Sterling pound 3.2065-3.2102 3.15-3.10 US dollar 2.1535-2.1545 4.67-4.63 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency
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      • 136 21 THE kilobar market PHYSICAL Ruym-Seßers traded between 5525,482 GOU) y and 5526,145 yesterday. Kilobd mio-koo In the Far East mar- igm v—x ket, gold opened at sgm no-uo U*****.90/6.40. 2SO""J j 20 gm 320-533 It dropped dramatical- 50 gm 1 284-1.299 ly to U*****.50/1.50 m 100 gm 2.564-2.589 the
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      • 106 21 THE US dollar closed higher against most major currencies at 3 pm yesterday. Against the Singapore dollar, it closed unchanged m quiet trading. It fluctuated within a range of 2.1530 and 2.1560. Against the deutschemark, the greenback opened at 2.0705/15 and closed at 2.0720/30. Trading was active, fluctuating within
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      • 26 21 GOLD USS/oz lues Mon Singapore 372.20 373.20 378.60—379.10 Hongkong 372.20—373.20 378.30—378.80 Mon Fri New York 376.00—376.50 383.20— 383.70 London 376.75 377 25 382.00 383.00
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      • 227 21 Managers' prices for Aug 20 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 0 88—0.95 The Savings Fund 0.78—0.84 S pore Frog Fund 0 35— 0 39 Spore Sec Fund 0 61 0 66« d Spore Invest Fund 0 61—0 66 S pore Equity Fund 0 42 0 46 Asia Unit
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      • 106 21 Eurodollar 3-month deposit DECEMBER Eurodollar opened five ticks higher at 93.87 but encountered heavy resistance at this level. Prices gradually slid under profit-taking to 93.85 but rebounded to test a new high of 93.88 m the afternoon. However, Liffe opening saw the December contract trading sideways, with the
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        64 21 CURRENCY futures opened lower as there was short-covering of the dollar on the spot market. September deutschemark touched a low of 0.4825 but rose to close off the day's high at 0.4837. (US dollar Deutschemark Open High Low Sett Est Vol Sept 86 0.4835 0.4838 0.4825 0.4837 575 0.4833
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      • 47 21 SEPTEMBER yen traded to a low of 0.*****4 and moved sideways before closing at 0.*****0. (Japanese Yen) Open High Low Sett Est Vol Sept 8C 0.0064% 0.*****7 0.*****4 0.*****0 180 Dec 0.*****8A 0.*****4 Mar 87 0.*****0A 0.*****0 Open Int (Mon): 1728. Act Vol (Mon): 184.
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        40 21 GOLD for December delivery closed at U*****.10 an ounce. (USS per troy ounce) Open High Low Sett Est Vol AugBC 372.70 Sept 373.40 Oct 375.40 Dec 382.80 382.80 373.50 379.10 Seven Open Int (Mon): 53. Act Vol (Mon): Five.
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      • 21 21 SEPTEMBER pound dosed at the day's high of 1.4885 after; Aching a low of 1.4850. Reports from BA Futures
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      • 18 21 Rubber Closing prices cents/kilo Singapore 2 September 177.50 up 0.50 cent Malaysia September 219.00 down one cent
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      • 18 21 Tin Closing prices MS /Mo XL Tin 14.05 down three cents Turnover 84 tonnes down 8 tonnes
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      • 22 21 Closing pricesCopper tonne Mon Spot 864.00-865.00 (876 00-876 50) 3 months 883.50—884.00 (895 00-895 50) Market tone: Easier Sales 13,500 tonnes
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      • 24 21 Clown prices Silver USJ troy 02 Tims Mon 507 112 520 5?5 Mon Fri 50? 512 V 25--5 30. Source Credit Swsse Spore
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      • 29 21 i Closing prices Aluminium £/toraw Mon Spot 745 00 745 50 (746 00-746.50!"--3 months 752 00— 752 50 (755 00-755 50 V Market tone Easier Sales 4.750 tonnes
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      • 117 21 Crude MS tonne palm oil Aug 440 (central > ***** (north) 455 (south) Sept 447.50 (north) 455 (south) Refined palm oi US$/ tonnes RBD palm oil Aug 202 50 (sellers) Sept 200 (sellers-)' Oct 194 (sellers)' Nov 192 50 (sellers) RBD Stearin Aug 157 50 (sellers)'. Sept/Oct/Nov 155
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    • Article, Illustration
      236 21 Vessel Berth Arr Dep Keppel Wharves Angelique Kl6 aside 20 8 Auby K2SW aside 20/8 Jirrsha Kl5 aside 20/8 Mans Otter Kl2 aside 20 8 Als Endeavour Kl2 20/8 22/8 Bintang Belait K2SF. 20 8 21 8 Frances Bay K27 20 8 21/8 Konkar Poseidon KO9 20/8
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    • 693 21 LCL Receiving Receiving Ship (Voyage) Arr Cargo Time Block E Greet (010RW) 21/8 (1600) fl *****100/*****000 L2/N2 Johore Br (58A) 20/8 (1530) Fl *****730 W5 China Cont (36W) 20/8 (1700) Fl *****900 G3 Maiapahit (10NB) 20/8 (1800) F7 0800-1000 W3 Ms Mango (8634) 20/8 (1900) F5 1000 1100
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    • 392 22 DESPITE a disappointing first half, directors expect to maintain full-year profits at Tat Lee Finance at last year's level. The finance company, which is 66.7 per cent owned by Pan Malayan Holdings Ltd, reported a 29 per cent fall m pre-tax profit
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    • 26 22 MR A.J. Shackel has resigned as a director of Promet Bhd. Dato Syed Hassan Nazari bin Syed Mohamad has been appointed to the board.
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    • 645 22  -  CONRAD RAJ Securities Industry Act 1986 Most are uncertain of impact of accompanying regulations By 4 GOOD boys don't have to worry too much, m It's the bad boys who have to watch out. A broker, who was describing the new regulations. STOCKBROKERS
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    • 228 22 Kamunting Tin posts 55.5% rise in group profit KAMUNTING Tin Dredging (M) Bhd has reported a 55.5 per cent rise m group bottom-line profit to Msl.2 million for the year ended March 31. Although Kamunting suffered a marginal fall m pre-tax profit to Msl.4 million, a 73.4 per cent lower
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    • 99 22 IN REPLY to queries by the Stock Exchange of Singapore, Dan Yung Investment Ltd has said that Kindol Theatre and National Oxygen did not contribute any income to the group and the sale of its interest m these companies would not affect its earnings. Dan Yung also
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    • 370 22  - Bank offers free technical consultancy besides loans MARA FERNANDEZ By BUSINESSMEN who approach the Indian Bank for loans under the Small Industries Finance Scheme (SIFS) could get more than just the money they need. The state-owned bank is the first of the 16 banks participating m the scheme, which is
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    • 365 22 Suspended co-ops 'need credit line before resuming business' KUALA LUMPUR THE 23 suspended Malaysian co-operatives, which were taking deposits from the public, would need a credit line to ensure that they can withstand a run before resuming business, Malaysian central bank governor Datuk Jaffar Hussein said. Speaking to reporters here
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 238 19 For you m electronics In Southeast Asia, it's the only exhibition devoted to the latest Access to the latest. That's what you need advances m electronic technology. to succeed m electronics. Visit Intemepcon for electronic Internepcon/Semiconductor and semiconductor packaging production International '86 makes it easy for you to processing assembly
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 101 20 NOTICE BAILIFFS SALE In the Subordinate Courts of the Republic Of Singapore Writ Of Seizure Sale No. 3149 Of 1986 In The Cause Of Texchem (S) Pte Ltd ...Plaintiff Versus Tan Cheng Hong t/a Sing Lian Plastic Industries Defendant AUCTION SALE OF Injection Moulding Machines TO BE HELD AT No.
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    • 81 20 DAVID ABODAHER'S BIOGRAPHY OF THE MOST DYNAMIC BUSINESSMAN OF OUR TIME IfilKilHtfil David Abodaher's life of Lee lacocca provides a fascinating appraisal of a man whom many observers would like to see as a force not only m business, but m the world of international politics. Here is a portrait
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 222 22 sub-trac-tion /seb'trael^/h/ n The process of taking away something from a sum or total amount. sub-trac-shin /seb'traek/W n The process of taking away or reducing duplication from the gross readership of all Chinese newspapers. Shin Mm has a gross of 292,000 readers m all. About half reads only Shin Mm
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  • RACING
    • 348 23 THREE horses owned by Singaporeans and Malaysians and racing m Australia or New Zealand have been nominated for both the 2,400 m Caulfield Cup and the 3,200 m Melbourne Cup, highlights of the spring racing carnival m Victoria. The three are Regimental March,
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    • 649 23 He should easily pass first test m top class ON THE TRACK with PEDIGREE PENANG Five-year-old Vanda 11, winner of two of his three starts, showed that he is maintaining form when he worked brilliantly here this morning. With a riding boy up, the Irishbred, who has
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    • 46 23 SARATOGA SPRINGS (New York) Empress, a three-year-old daughter of triple crown winner Affirmed, won the US$B7,OOO (about S$185,000) Nijana Stakes (1,700 m) at Sa ratoga Racecourse on Monday. She was third favourite and ridden by Jose Santos. Eleven fillies and mares ran. UPI
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    • 72 23 What's so Lucky about Starch? WINDSOR (England) Jockey Greville Starkey escaped injury when he was involved m a spectacular fall m the Stratfieldsaye Selling Stakes here on Monday. Starkey seemed to be coasting to victory on the favourite, Lucky Starch, when the colt suddenly veered left and crashed into the
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    • 216 23 •At the 4OOm *At the £itllsh •Pictures at the Kim!by ALBERT SIM Class 3 Div 8 1,200 m 1. Prize Hunt 2. Wing Commander II 3. Martinique 4. Tiger Town Dist: Ns, 4'/ 2 2 Time 1:12.5 Class 3 Div 4 1,200
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 149 23 183 Condolences 183 Condolences 183 Condolences With deepest sympathies condolences to the family colleagues of the late MR HONG HO HUAT (Marketing Director, Lam Soon Group, Singapore) From The Management Staff of CHILEWICH CORPORATION SINGAPORE NEW YORK, U.S.A. The management and staff of Orient Vacations Pte Ltd SS=> Deluxe Coach
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    • 171 23 181 Deaths 181 Deaths MISS IVY FOO Al TEN Age 38 passed away suddenly on 18/8/86 leaving behind Mother: Tan Sung Choon Brothers: Sister-in-law: Poo Tiang Hong Lesley Lim Guat Ngoh Foo Tian Lek Sisters: Brothers-in-law: Foo Juat Queen Gaw Tah Cheow Foo Jua Ngoh Teo Boh Chee Foo Juat
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      154 23 MR. LIM JOO BIANG AGE: 65 Gone To Be With The LORD On Monday, 18-08-1986 Leaving Behind: BELOVED WIFE: Lee Wee Tong SON: Lim Boon Kiat DAUGHTERS: Yvonne Lim Pheck Huang Linda Lim Hiok Huang Lim Khee Huang Rosemary Lim Ghee Huang Joyce Lim Lee Huang Lim Seoh
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    • 40 23 With Deepest Condolences to our Board Member MR OTHMAN WOK on the demise of his beloved mother MDM EMBON BINTE MOHAMED on 17th August 1986 From the Management Staff or SINGAPORE TOURIST PROMOTION BOARD More obituary Announcements on Pg. 25
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    • 152 23 MRS. VISWALINGAM W/O late Dr A Vlswallngam passed away peacefully on 19/8/86 leaving behind son Dr. Uma Viswalingam I Ut (Canada), daughters: Mrs. Ma- fit halakshmi Navaratnam, Mrs. Mahadevi Rajadural (UK), Mrs Sarvamblkal Shanmugaratnam (Spore). Miss Parimalakanthy V I Hdl I V (Spore), Mrs. Shivananthanay- O I llfll I O
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  • TIMESPORT
    • 291 24 Hagler will fight Ray in March BARTLETT (New Hampshire) Undisputed middleweight champion Marvellous Marvin Hagler ended the suspense on Monday and said he was willing to fight Sugar Ray Leonard but not until March. Hagler has agreed to ftght the former welterweight and junior-mid-dleweight world champion, now retired, m a
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    • 356 24 RIO DE JANEIRO Fifa want to hold the 2002 soccer World Cup m China, their president said m an interview published m the newspaper Jornal do Brasil on Monday. Dr Joao Havelange said the World Cup Organising Committee were to decide whether to hold the
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    • 339 24 Men's lMm fly final 1 Pablo Morales 53.54 (US) (meet rec) 2 Matt Biondi (US) 53.67 S Andrew Jameson (Brit) 53.81 4 Michael Gross (WG) 53.87 5 Anthony Nesty (Surinam) 54.53 S Marcel Gery (Cze) 54.54 7 Tom Ponting (Can) 54.69 8 Benny Nielsen (Den) 55.10. lMm
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    • 332 24 MADRID East Germany upstaged Michael Gross, Matt Biondi and the rest at the World Swimming Championships on Monday by scooping three gold medals, setting a world record and scoring a surprise men's relay win. Silke Hoerner supplied the world record m the 200 metres breaststroke,
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    • 316 24 AMERICAN FOOTBALL Quarter-back Jim Kelly became the latest player from the sinking United States Football League to sign a lucrative contract with a National Football League team, and he instantly became the biggest mon-ey-maker m his new league. The cocky, run-and-gun passing virtuoso signed a five-year contract
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    • 224 24 LKSDFKLGFKDFLGDFF MADRID East Germany's Silke Hoerner was chased all the way to a world record on Monday when she won the 200 metres breaststroke title at the World Swimming Championships here. The 20-year-old swimmer from Leipzig posted 2min 27.405 ec, beating the previous mark of
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    • 711 24  -  ALAN HUBBARD Singapore ace fails to qualify for 100 m free and butterfly finals REPORTS FROM MADRID MATT BIONDI may sound as if he has stepped straight from the script of a television series about a Californian cop and, as Singapore's Ang Peng
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    • 315 24 CINCINNATI Top seed Mats Wilander, of Sweden, cruised to a straight-set victory m the opening round of the U*****,000 ($806,250) Association of Tennis Professionals championship here on Monday. Wilander, one of four Swedish players among the top five seeds, defeated unseeded American Glenn Layendecker 6-3, 6-4.
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    • 251 24 PORTLAND (Oregon) The team of Greg Norman and Gary Player on Monday advanced to the championship round against Peter Jacobsen and Curtis Strange m a U*****,000 ($537,500) best-ball golf tournament. Four teams competed at the Portland Golf Club m the first Fred Meyer Challenge. Emerging
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    • 323 24 Stars urged to pull out over form crisis BONN Several stars oT the West German athletics team were urged on 1 Monday to withdraw from the European Championships starting m Stuttgart on Tuesday because of a form crisis. The West German Ath-, letics Federation named their squad of 84 for
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    • 140 25 F&N champion upset by Hongkong ace BADMINTON HONGKONG'S top junior Mong Ka Chun defeated F&N under-18 champion John Lim 15-13, 15-13 m a badminton friendly at Toa Payoh last night. The tie was part of an overall encounter between the Hongkong juniors and the F&N training scheme's elite squad. Other
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    • BACK IN BUSINESS
      • 377 25  -  J. RAJENDRAN By IN A week's time, Chua Koon Siong will be 38 but, while most of his generation of sportsmen have long since called it a day, his thirst for weightlifting remains unquenched. He had briefly harboured the idea of quitting largely due to
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      • 240 25  -  PETER SIOW By REMEMBER Loh Kong Wing, the ace karateka who left Singapore a decade ago to seek his fame and fortune abroad? Kong Wing, now 34 and a part-time instructor m Melbourne, has indicated he wants to be considered for the World Union
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      • 340 25  -  JANICE SEAH By PATRICIA HY, the Hongkong tennis star who held the 1983 junior Wimbledon doubles title with Betty Fendick, and was run-ner-up m the singles, wants to use the Singapore Women's Open as her all-important comeback tournament. Patricia, who was
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    • 160 25  - League hit by recession ALBERT JOHNSON By THE current economic slowdown has hit the Jurong League soccer competition with only 15 teams taking part m the tournament, starting on Aug 29. Said K. Suppiah, chairman of the organising committee yesterday: "The current recession is also being felt on the soccer
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    • 254 25 CYCLING COPPER MOUNTAIN (Colorado) Maarten Ducrot, of Holland, took an unbeatable lead with 10 kilometres to go on Monday and won the 11th stage, from Vail, of the Coors International Classic. Ducrot was timed at 3hr 21min 39sec. Italian Valerio Piva was second, llsec behind, and
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    • 228 25 Move sparked by 'equaliser' and rough play JAKARTA Indonesia A will meet Algeria m the final after scoring a controversial 6-1 win over Rumania m the semi-finals of the Independence Cup soccer tournament here on Monday. Watched by a crowd of 12,000, Rumania refused to resume play
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    • 389 25  -  JOE DORAI Pathma, Au-Yeong, Malek m contention for skipper's role MERLION CUP FOCUS...By THE honour of leading the Singapore squad m this year's Merlion Cup soccer tournament, starting on Sunday at the National Stadium, has developed into a three-cornered fight. The trio m contention for
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    • 231 25  -  JOE DORAI STRIKER Ivan Quah, one of the surprise discards of the Singapore Asian Youth squad last month, is back on the international scene with a place m the 17-strong Combined Schools squad for the Asian Schools soccer competition m Brunei from Sunday to Sept 3.
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    • 398 25  -  PETER SIOW Thin may be m but bulging biceps provide the pep W I First By SLIMNESS has always appealed to me. Unlike the vagaries of the weather, the needle m my bathroom scale hardly deviates from the 65-kilogram mark. I tone my muscles through
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    • 168 25  -  ALBERT JOHNSON SWIMMING DESMOND KOH, Singapore's four gold-medal hero of last month's Asean swimming championships m Manila, will be back m action when he competes m an international invitational age-group meet m Hongkong from Saturday to Monday. Desmond, 12, splashed to victory m the 200 metres backstroke,
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    • 194 25  -  J R AJENDRAN JARRI JOUKO overcame Koh Theng Heng 10-8, 6-9, 7-9, 10-8, 10-9 m the men's D grade of the Ovaltine Individual Graded squash championships at Kallang last night. Other results: Ngai Kok Leng bt David Tan 9-7, 9-5, 9-4. E: Sunny Goh bt Giam Kok
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    • 334 24 Train As A Company Sales Executive §and leave that poor job behind you! Mai HB i f E L" J i r i L* a* J JKT— i m r*l »l I B J j^mimp The happy family, the house and Holders of the MAMSA Part 1 1 Diploma the
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  • OBITUARIES
    • Obituary, Illustration
      94 25 MR TAN POH CHUA Age: 93 patted away peacefully on Tuesday, 19/8/86 leaving behind: BELOVED WIFE: Chng Soo Buay SONS: Tan Bak Nam Tan Scow Chye Tan Lark Bah DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW Yeo Choon Hlok Scan Geok Eng DAUGHTERS: Tan Choon Heok Tan Kalt Hoon SON-IN-LAW: Lav Koon Mun GRANDSON:
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    • 122 25 INFANT JESUS SISTERS of COOLING CLOSE wish to express their heartfelt thanks to Rev. Fr. Abrial. prieets, religious and friends of the late SR. FRANCOtSE LEE, Ml Alvernia Sisters, doctors and nurses for their care and concern, their kind assistance, attendance, condolences and donations. The family of the
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      211 25 MR. CHOO WING Departed: 20.8.85 AATA THEVASAM MR. MATHAVAR BIVARAJABINOAM Retired Clerical OfHcw, Malayan Railway*. Departed on 20/8/85 The first Thlthl prayers will be held at 9.30 am on 8/9/86 at Blk 114, Bukit Purmel Road, #10-255; (Tel: *****30) and thence to lunch thereat. From beloved wifo:
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      36 25 IN LOVING MEMORY OF MRS EMN SWAMY We often think of bygone days When we were together: The family chain is broken But memories live for ever. Dearly misted by family and loved
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 68 25 More obituary Announcements on Pg. 23 The TtmeMcmager Seminar Profit is the bottom line on every balance sheet. But profit cannot be achieved without people, which is why Time Manager addresses not only the world of facts, figures and profit attainment, but also the world beyond the bottom line, where
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 53 25 HOCKEY SHA Premier League: IA v Combined Schools (Balestier Rd, 5.30pm). SWHA Div 1 League: SRC v GSC, Schools v SCC both at Padang, 5.30pm. SOFTBALL Schools National A Boys final (Victoria JC, 3). SQUASH Ovaltlne Ind Graded r'shlps (Kallang, 6pm) VOLLEYBALL Friendly: Japan's national junior boys v VAS selection
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  • 486 26 Fixed fines for offences in public carparks MOTORISTS who flout the law m public carparks will pay fixed fines from Sept 1, m line with those imposed by the Traffic Police. The fixed fines will be generally lower than the present fines, which can be negotiated between the offender and
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  • 67 26 What it should have been IN A report on the Delos Quartet m Section 2 on Aug 14, we mentioned that the leader Susheela Dcvi is a former member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, based on a press release sent by her. Mrs Lv Sinclair, General Manager of the Singapore
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  • 30 26 NEW YORK The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 9 points to 1,860.52 m the first hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday AP.
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  • 263 26 Sluggish US growth in 2nd quarter WASHINGTON The US gross national prodact (GNP) grew at a sluggish 0.6 per cent m the second quarter instead of 1.1 per cent as estimated earlier, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The weak economic performance, following strong 3.8 per cent growth daring the first
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  • 404 26  -  IVAN LIM Historic transition m union leadership, says Teng Cheong By THE leader of a house union has been chosen as the new President of the National Trades Union Congress. Mr Oscar Oliviero, 50, president of the Union of Telecoms Employees (Utes) was unanimously elected
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  • 475 26  -  SURESH NAIR By POLICE have arrested five men m connection with an exhibition of two Han Dynasty corpses that turned out to be fibreglass replicas. The five, who have been released on bail, were questioned on alleged false promotion of the replicas as "2,100-year-old male
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  • 352 26 Soviets extend nuclear test moratorium to Jan 1 MOSCOW Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev has extended the Soviet Union's nuclear test moratorium to Jan 1 next year, putting new force into Moscow's campaign for a complete ban on atomic explosions. But the United State has dismissed the Soviet move as "a
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  • 127 26 BERNE The Swiss Red Cross is appealing to citizens who replace their gold false teeth to hand m their old dentures and help thousands of Nepalese suffering from eye diseases. It said yesterday that it persuaded nearly 2,000 Swiss to give up
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  • 219 26 4.1% more visited Spore in June AUSTRALIANS, Indians and Americans brought welcome news m June. They helped bring about a 4.1 per cent increase m visitors to Singapore that month. A total of 28,052 Australian residents came m June, which meant an 8.7 per cent increase over the same month
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  • 23 26 TOKYO Soviet Vice-For-eign Minister Mikhail Kapitsa is to visit Tokyo next week for talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari. AFP
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    • 72 26 IKINGOFI I 20th Aug- 7th Sep 1986 I I ZVaZ taSted he ho e »deu, I I d Wr melons. None\ I I Val n Melon X*BG3^ White Knights appointed to Stanchart's board m London. Is Khoo Teck Puat one of them? Find out m today's BT Newly-appointed director of
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    • 135 26 CLAYDERMAN Here's our checklist for you to consider before buying one. [21 Made from the finest materials from England and West Germany, using precision machinery to make sure it is duraole. f/I Elegant appearance no matter where you place it. Excellent tone and touch that'll glue your ears and hands
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 146 26 Weather UP TO 1 p.m. Showers over a few areas from late morning onwards. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 31 max., 25 mm SUNSET today: 7.13 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.03 am. GLOBAL MATHER Adelaide 10 17 C Cloudy Melbourne 8 15 C Cloudy Bangkok 26/33 C Sunny Moscow
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  • The Straits Times
    • 12 1 The Straits Times Section Two THE STRAITS TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1986
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    • 1733 1 O2 wßrdttf OlOfltnu J2yoCt£lU Several professionals and volunteers have banded together to tackle the problems of a greying Singapore. The newly registered Gerontological Society will study the process of ageing and the problems of the aged, dispel myths and, perhaps, provide feedback to the government
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      • 198 1 I m wd**^ft£b wT\£m£K%T Let's assume, for a moment, that you have an VJCWLISC WJ%MXy* American Express®Card. If that Card is lost, stolen or vanishes m a puff of green smoke, we'll get you another one within twenty-four hours (or the next business day) at any of our 1,400 Travel
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    • 906 2  -  NANCY KOH By President Dr Sylvester Yong (geriatrician) Vice-president Dr Anne Merriman (physician m geriatric medicine, and Senior Teaching Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Department of Social Medicine and Public Health) Secretary Nicon Chin (gero-psychologist, project eo-ordinator for senior citizens at Peoples' Association) Treasurer
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    • 822 2  -  NANCY KOH Tips for a healthy old age By Dr Lim Su Mm m his book, Your Doctor Says: Understanding Common Medical Problems. Good dietary habits. Moderate or no consumption of alcohol. No smoking Adequate bed rest. Relaxation. Habitual and light physical exercises.
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      • 822 3  -  TAN BAN HUAT speaks to Huang Pao Fang, who will be the first Singapore artist to hold a one-man exhibition m Beijing next month. 4 "As I have been living m Singapore for nearly half a century, I think it is only proper that I
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      • 551 3  -  LEONG WENG KAM previews the performance by Guangxi Nationalities Song and Dance Troupe, which begins tonight at Kallang Theatre. ACTRESS Huang Wanqiu, who played the legendary song fairy, Liv Sanjie, m the famous Chinese movie of the same name, may not be
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      • 583 3 Dragon Tales CAO CAO was outraged when he found himself fooled by Zhuge Liang. Someone suggested to him that he should send two officers to Zhou Yu to pretend to surrender. To make the surrender more believable, they should bring 500 soldiers with them.
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      • 878 4  -  HANIM M. S. By IT has become a tradition with the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) to produce special programmes for special occasions such as Chinese New Year Day, Christmas Day, Deepavali, Hari Raya and National Day. And this time it was the
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      • 768 4  -  Oleh HANIM M. S. SEMPENA menyambut Hari Raya Aidiladha yang baru lalu, Perbadanan Penyiaran Singapura (SBC) telah menghidangkan rancangan hiburan Ole-Ole Lebaran yang disiarkan pada malam Hari Raya Haji 15 Ogos menerusi Saluran 5. Memang sudah menjadi tradisi SBC menerbitkan rancangan
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      • 538 7 54 Book-keeping/ Secretarial/ Answering/ Translation Services ACCOUNTING/ INCOME TAX/ Book-keeping services include mini accounts forms filling. Tel *****11. Henry Tan BOOKKEEPING, CO. SECRETARIAL and management services Incl. incorporation of ltd. Co., income tax returns. Tel: 339-1228 PRESTIGEOUS REGN. ADDRESS, answering services, telex, typing, direct mails it other general secretarial work
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      • 1027 7 57 Business 57 Business Opportunities Opportunities INVESTORS WANTED 1 Ultramodern HI-TECH Health Centre, Beauty Farm, Fitness Studio medically supervised and endorsed by world renowned scientists. Location at hot mineral spa m S. Thailand only one m S.E. Asia. All necessary buildings available. 2. Bottling and marketing of mineral water from
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      • 831 8 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical WANTED TEMPORARY OFFICE Assistant for 2 mths Must be able to type accurately, filing, simple accounts. Mm. 1-2 yrs. 1 office experience. Residing m D.19, 20, or 28 preferred. Please call Joyce at 4562.V75 for appointment ESTABLISHED TRDG. CO reg female Cieneral Clerk. Able to
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      • 850 8 71 Situations Vacant: Sales FEMALE SALES PROMOTERS (Fulltime A Part-time) required for established brand of ladies wear to be stationed m leading dept. stores Please call personally at 68 Orchard Rd, Plaza Singapura, #02-07 between Ipm 6pm. FULL-TIME SALES PROMOTERS/ SHOP ASSISTANTS required urgently by Company dealing with men's fashionwear.
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      • 618 8 71 Situations Vacant: Sales INSURANCE CO. PART/ Full-Tlme Agts. Professional training g'teed. Allowances commission. Jimmy *****16/ .'*****33. JEWELLERY SALESGIRLS Required. Attractive remuneration. Please call personally at: =03-62, Far East Plaza, Bcottl Rd. (0922). JEWELLERY SHOP AT Raffles City reqs. Sales Staff. Mm. 1 to 2 years experience. Interested pis. call:
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      • 531 8 72 Situations Vacant: 72 Situations Vacant: Technical Technical CICINCKIC is a Mum-National ?>■ f** j\ii I fM^^ Corporation and one of the largest Electrical/ Electronics has vacancies for Groups m the World W[f[[\ c VITB/ITC or NTC m Mechanical W{* I Engineering or EDB Training I s Centre Certificate. Jjt
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      • 140 8 CAD/CAM MARKETING SUPPORT with Company m Science Park. a Degree/ Diploma m Mechanical Engineering a 1-2 years' working experience a Computer literacy preferable Please apply with n.r. photo and expected salary to: Tiong Bahru P.O. Box 619(G) Singapore 9116 Urgently required A) OUTFITTING DRAUGHTSMEN a Minimum 1 year's experience m
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      • 490 9 72 Situations Vacant: Technical Join us for a Requirements: Male, age below Completed Natic GCE 'O' level wi WALK-IN INTEI (Please bring along or write to: The P 160 X Market leader m waste disposal invites jj applications V R for the post of H H •Minimum fel qualification: X
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      • 481 9 72 Situations Vacant: Technical Secure Technics 26 years old )nal Service th a pass m Maths or Scienc RVIEW (TODAY TO F your relevant documents) ersonnel Department allang Way, Singapore 133< M SANDEN INTERNATIONAL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD urgently requires MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Possess Diploma m Electrical Electronics Engineering or ITC m
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      • 603 9 72 Situations Vacant: Technical il (Electronic) Car ,&v 'ft RIDAY) VMff t > WORKSHOP TECHNICIAN required c Young and hardworking c Completed National Service c Applicants should preferably possess relevant trade Cert. Interested applicants please call: *****22 to arrange for an interview. AIRCON. MECHANICS WANTED. At least 2 years' experience.
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      • 422 9 72 Situations Vacant: Technical eer 73 Situations Vacant: Production Mttgßichgold jfciS Industries I f Pte Ltd requires Age 1 6 ■30 years old I Experienced m soldering ana I touch up oWCBA products 1 Preferably NTC' ITC m Electronic Servicing Must be familiar with DYNAPERT' auto-insertion and wave-soldering machine used
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      • 1128 9 73 Situations Vacant: 73 Situations Vacant: 73 Situations Vacant: 73 Situations Vacant: 73 Situations Vacant: 73 Situations Vacant: Production Production Production Production Production Production JSSSSt |^S&% j%& B%J^^^fTb Singaporeans Age 16 and above Wjjfc W Working hours from 5.30pm •No experience required BBmtfili^r^ Production Technicians (Male) ■BSWB Kflowtia^y Singaporeans Secondary
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      • 408 10 73 Situations Vacant: 73 Situations Vacant: Production Production GM Singapore w r PtaLtd. FEMALE PRODUCTION OPERATORS (Permanent Day Shift) Singapore citizens between 16 years to 35 years old Interested applicants please bring along your IC and call personally for an interview between B.ooam to 4.00pm at: GM SINGAPORE PTE LTD
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      • 243 10 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous RESTAURANT LOUNGE PTE. LTD. seeks young, energetic suitably qualified personnel for the following positions: HEAD CHEF COOKS HELPERS BAR MANAGER SUPERVISOR LEADING HOSTESS BARTENDERS WAITRESSES CASHIER LIGHT SOUND TECHNICIANS Interested applicants please call personally at: 80 Marine Parade Road #04-08 Parkway Parade Singapore 1544 I on
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      • 769 10 74 Situations Vacant: 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous Miscellaneous ■Eouaar EXPRESS (S) PTE LTD m-^^^i (Affiliated to International Shipping Line) resulting from rapid expansion of its Courier jEE Division, invites applications for 1) SALES EXECUTIVES Age Below 35 years E= Qualifications Minimum GCE '0' level Requirements Previous experience m related courier
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      • 584 10 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous DAI-ICHI HOTEL SINGAPORE requires 1. WAITERS/ WAITRESSES Secondary education 2. COOKS (For Coffee House and Muslim kitchens) 1-2 years' experience m a similar capacity 3. PANTRYMAIDS Ability to communicate m simple English 4. STEWARDS Below 45 years of age Completed National Service Interested applicants are reI
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      • 514 10 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous I SAWS (A subsidiary of Singapore Aircraft Industries) requires Female Clerk/ Typists Possess GCE O 1 level Able to type at least 35 wpm I Sales Assistant Possess GCE '0 level with credit m Mathematics Able to type at least 35 wpm Possess some experience m
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      • 566 10 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous CHEF WANTED URGENTLY Requirements: a Experience m Western cuisine and local 10 course dinner. c Must be willing to stay m Batam (mln. 26 days). a Must be able to start work Immediately a Must possess International Passport Intaraatad plaasa call personally tor an interview trom
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      • 857 10 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous REQUIRED 1) Chinese Waitresses Working hrs.: 10am 2.30pm, 2.30pm 10pm 2) Experience Western Cook Interested please call personally between 2pm spm for Interview. Golden Hill Caterer The Warren Golf Club Folkestone Rd., 8(0513) (near Clementi Dover Rd.) Tel: *****83 SECURITY GUARDS Wanted A company m Jurong
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      • 1320 10 83 Vehicle Financing/ 83 Vehicle Financing/ Insurance Insurance FAST MONEY Prompt processing of applications Up to 90% financing Attractive interest rates New car Used car 12 mths 4.25% 5.25% 24 mths 4.50% 5.50% 36 mths 4.75% 5.75% 48 mths 5.00% (Instalments payable m advance) Call 533-3737 today ISI FORWARD OVERSEA
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      • 827 11 86 For Sale: BMW ENTHUSIAST AGENCY PTE. LTD. VERY KEEN IN BUYING YOUR USED BMW, HONDA CONTINENTAL VEHICLES Show Us Your Vehicle, We Will Show You THE UNBEATABLE OFFER!!! 4 NEW INDUSTRIAL RD. #01-09, OFF UPP. PAYA LEBAR RD. SINGAPORE 1953. TEL: *****55 S.N. TAN (The Licensed Used Car Dealer).
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      • 1007 11 88 For Sale: Ford/Fiat 1880 'Q' PLATE Ford Escort 1300 c.c. Aircon., radio cassette. Good cond. $1,900 0.n.0. Tel: *****67. 1982 LASER 1.3, 5-door, 1 pte. owner, aircon., cassette, new tax. $17,800. Tel: *****24. 4/85 SBB FORD Laser 1.3 GL 5 speed 1 owner radio cassette cond. like new. *****63.
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      • 1013 11 SS-s 90 For Sale: Toyota ALMOST '84 TOYOTA Corolla DX Aircon, s/rims, radio cassette. 1 pte. owner. Showrm. cond. $22,900. Accept trade-in and loan arrangeable. Phone *****22. CO. REGN. 1980 Toyota Cresslda 2000 GL auto. 1 onwer. Done 66,000 km Accident free. Extremely good condition. Tel: *****55. MID '84 TOYOTA
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      • 1000 11 91 For Sale: Mitsubishi SEPT. 1983 MITSUBISHI Tredia GLS. 1 company owner, showroom condition. Best offer secures. View at: 47 Scotts Road, #01-06, Goldbell Tuwers, *****. 1 LADY OWNER, 1984 Lancer GLX Bluupunkt set, new s/rims, aircon., tax 11/86, orig. paint. $16,800 above. 19, Jin. Kechubong. 5.2879, off Jin. Woodbrldge.
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      • 3664 11 97 For Sale: 97 For Sale: 97 For Sale: 97 For Sale: 97 For Sale: 97 For Sale: Commercial Vehicles Commercial Vehicles Commercial Vehicles Commercial Vehicles Commercial Vehicles Commercial Vehicles NOW YOU CAN DRIVE TO JOHORE BAHRU EVERY WEEKEND V Nett PARF $21,923 )n the road with~Air7on, but without Imuram
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      • 778 11 106 Accommodation Available: Houses ATTRACTIVE 2-STOREY TOWNHOUSES FOR RENT AT UPPER THOMSON ROAD (oppoeite Thomson Plaza) Built-in area: 3842 sq.ft. a Extra large master bedroom, 2 other bedrooms and 1 study room. a At very reasonable rental a Unique indoor garden and courtyard a Private carporch Please call *****92 ext.
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      • 607 12 KAUb IWELVE 106 Accommodation Available: Houses D.ll CHANCERY LANE new d/storey bunglw. 4 bdrms./ t.v./ study. $4,000 Everton *****11. O 1128 PARKVALE D/STOREY bunglw. 4 1 rms. Mature gdn. Avail immed. Owner: *****22. D.15 D/STOREY SEMI-D, 3+ 1 rms 6,000 sq.ft $1,100. Eastwood Estates: *****15 D.15 SIGLAP S/STOREY bunglw 3
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      • 943 12 107 Accommodation 107 Accommodation Available: Available: Apartments Apartments mT/^S^~ Long or Short Lease^^ \J( f) Fflß EAST PUtZA I Hotel Style lUDOIRKXJSI UDOIRKXJS fIPfIRTMENTS I At the junction of Scotts/Orchard Road, next to Hyatt Hotel. j 14,000 sq. ft. Hotel Mini golf course style lobby Reception lounge Large swimming pool
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      • 961 12 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments Tanglin Hill $2,600/ $4,500 Shelford View $4,000 Beverly Mai $2,800 Palisades Apt $2,000/ $2,500 Grangeford $2,200/ $2,500 Sommerville Pk. $1,200/ $2,200 Balmoral Park $1,800 People's Pk. Ctr. $1,500 Himiko Ct. $1,500 Cavenagh Ct $1,400 Hilltops $1,400 Bayshore $1,000 CONTINENTAL REALTY 253-7188 LUCKY TOWERS. BREATHTAKING view from,
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      • 974 12 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments CHATSWORTH COURT 5-ROOM Apt for rent. Immediate occupation. $4,000. Classifone *****30 (off. hrs.) Ref. *****. CLEMENTI CONDO, 3 bdrms. Facilities. $1,000 furn. Pandan Valley. Poinciana Twr. Large living/ dining. $1,800 furn. N&W *****55. DIST. 10 SOMMERVILLE Park Blk 75 partially or fully furnished apartments for rental.
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      • 981 12 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments DIST.4 TELOK BLANGAH Rd 2 or 3 bdrms $500/ $600 Colliers 5359b22 Mr Teo. DIST.S GREENACRES APT 3 bdrms. Furnished. $1,60 U. Mc-Hobertson. *****88 DIST.S HONG LEON.G Shopping Ctr Tastefully furn. 3 bdrm. flat. $850 Tel: *****33. DIST.S STARPOINT APT. 3 1 bdrms., s/pool 1.820 sq.ft
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      • 876 12 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments RIDGEWOOD KAMEHAMEHA RISE, high fir., 4 bdrms.. f 'furn $2,500 neg Avail, now. *****28. agt RIDGEWOOD TERRACE APARTMENT, 3 bedrooms, large patio, full facilities. $2,800. VIA *****63. RIVER VALLEY RD. walk-up flat Partly furn For immediate rent. $750 0.n.0. Contact: *****78. SOMMERVILLE PK. 3 bdrms Full
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      • 726 12 113 For Sale: Houses 113 For Sale: Houses 113 For Sale: House* You make the choice. We make the arrangements. Buying a home is now easier. Just choose the home you want: a bungalow, a terrace house, an apartment or a condominium unit. Then call at Credit POSB m the
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      • 736 12 D.20 THOMSON TERR. 2> 2 storey corner terr., 3300/ 3000 sq.ft. 3+ 1 rm., f'hold, just renovated, reasonable offer secures. Bernard Valuers *****49. D.21 2-STOREY SEMI-D. Off Hua Guan Aye. Land area 2.800 sq.ft. Built-in 1,700 sq.ft. 3+2 bdrms./ 2 bathrms. Terrazzo fir. $390,000 *****66/ *****09 Associates D.28 BEGONIA DRIVE
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      • 730 12 D.28 SERENE PK. D/storey semi-d. 5,000 sq.ft. 3+l bdrms Modern design. $510,000 neg Citiprop *****75. D.28 2-STOREY LUXURIOUS Bungalow. 4 bedrooms. 1 study, 1 servant's. 20,000 sq.ft. Pleasant environment. Tel: Agent *****13. D.5 BRAND NEW d storey seml-d Approx. 4000 sq.ft. 3 bdrms., servant's, spacious living/ dining. $550,000. Holland *****79.
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      • 731 13 113 For Sale: Houses D.5 FABER HILL d/storey semi-d. 5.500 sq.ft. 4 1 rooms, lnground s/pool. Highpeak: *****27. D.5 HOMG LEONG 2-1/2-storey terr 2000 sq.ft. 999 yrs. 3+ 1 rms. $420,000. Holland *****79. D.5 HOMG LEONG Gdn 2-storey terrace. 1,850 sq.ft. Marble/ parquet $400,000. *****80/ *****82. D.5. HONG LEONG Odn
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      • 2594 13 114 For Sale: Private 114 For Sale: Private 114 For Sale: Private Apartments Apartments Apartments Be One Of Only 12 Homeowners To Enjoy Living In a luxurious Maisonette Complex Located On A Hilltop Many will come to view, and admire, the luxurious showroom maisonette |E at Shelford Mansions. Only 1
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      • 1031 13 116 For Sale: HDB Apartments 5-ROOMED A.M.Kio Blk 642 $129,000 Bt Merah Blk 116 $160,000 Bedok Blk 21/ 96/ 120 $115,000 Chai Chee Blk 52 $133,000 Clementi Blk 413/ 604 $133,000 Dover Cres Blk 26 $1 19,000 Eunos Cres Blk 23 $122,000 Marine Parade Blk 12/ 27 $133,000 Spottiswoode Pk
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      • 1012 13 116 For Sale: HDB Apartments 4-RM. BEDOK NORTH 81k .507, $85,000 neg. 3-rm. Bedok North, blk. llo, $42,000. 4-rm. A.M. Kio Central 81k.325, $79,000 neg. Aziz All: *****07/ *****09. 5-RM. BEDOK NORTH Point Blk 505. 4-rm. Telok Blangah Dr. 81k. 55. 3-rm. Clementi corner Blk 364. 2-rm. Outram Pk. 81k.23.
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      • 1287 13 117 Properties Wanted 117 Properties Wanted We are urgently seeking sites suitable for residential developments. Please send information on the exact location, size, price, contact name and phone number. A quick decision will be made. ST. Box A9 7911 IJI^ 390 Kirn Seng Road, Singapore 0923. /A 116 For Sale:
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      • 1285 13 119 Warehouses/ 119 Warehouses/ Storage Spaces Storage Spaces K. B. WAREHOUSE COMPLEX (KoM BuM Rood 2) BEADY FOR OCCUPATION SING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Ang Mo Klo Industrial Porte 2) j >t Bjj ijjirr^ L/f 0W TrffPl thi.~. M.aaai^B^K 99HH1 *a*a^» mim aww HB Wi T^jr" A ■BvHbaiflal JK- SFWumjtfW J CNQUHcHcS
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      • 1180 14 120 For Sale: 120 For Sale: Office Spaces Office Spaces JF Mortgagees' Sale Of Properties By Public Auction To Be Held At No. 6 Cecil Street #02-04 People's Insurance Building on Wednesday, I 27th August 1 986 at 3.00 p.m. No. 7500A Beach Road, The Plaza Unit No. Floor Area
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      • 890 14 121 For Rent: 121 For Rent: Office Spaces Office Spaces WORLD TRADE CENTRE SINGAPORE The office address that makes business sense An office at the World Trade Centre is a definite business advantage for many reasons: instant business recognition close to C B D and port facilities excellent link to
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      • 894 14 123 For Sale: 123 For Sale: 123 For Sale Shop Spaces shop Spaces Sho P Spaces IRPWPIKI Prime retail space For Sale or Lease With 5-year buy-back guarantee Strategically located; overlooking the Singapore river; within the heart of the financial and business districts; a location earmarked to be a major
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      • 263 14 135 Air Travel YUGOSLAV AIRLINES Top grade airline. Dollar saver to 30 European countries. We provide an airline seat worldwide for 7« a mile. Please contact: *****40/ *****68/*****48. TA4OB ECONOMICAL AIRFARES WORLDWIDE, Europe tours etc. available. Travel Trend Pte. Ltd. #04-17 Orchard Towers. Tel: *****19/ *****54 TA 179. JASON'S TRAVEL
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      • 433 14 127 Other Real Estate 127 Other Real Estate Development site for sale by Tender Under instructions from the Department of Local Government and Administrative Services "What a siter Chancery House, 483-489 Bourke Street, Melbourne AUSTRALIA The Chancery House site, high on the hill m the C.8.D., next door to Eagle
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      • 290 14 137 Tours PPANGKORA I S^rlude d hidciwi) Bf arh Rrsort 1 I Hawaii StykVaialiuiiuiParadbe I Uxunous Mcl Hti Aqua I bnurkelmj;. wuidvirfmg. Tithing. in(i>xjr I I games cli I4D Thu/S.! $159/$ 1 79 I I 5D Wed $209/$229 J ■ITIOMANBI BEST BEACH KAMPONGI 1 1. Season Hydrduil Ser. avail. I
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      • 1079 15 137 Tours 137 Tour* 137 Tours 137 Tours 137 Tours 137 To(JrB 137 TourB 137 TourB 137 TourB 137 TourB 1 HOLIDAY PUKE BUSTER 4 JAPAN BgP* s I FlytheSlA'BigTop'B747 M? SAPPORO QTrmdSWte \?TtCWj AMERICA NtnZtAlAßll Ksasssa, flrSa San Francisco/Las Vegas/Omnimax Theatre/Los Angeles/ Auckland 711/IVC I W^U H 9nT'iLTi°'2^Ti^o/Vi^ I^-1
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      • 398 15 BEST OFFER Tl IN THE MARKET *Fu«y Escorted Qnaß^yTow Most Com hc^l!!J!!!!^L t INDONESIA DUNIA tf*"**^ am.y to FANTASI 45 Days %fv^p|^#% from $428 WWB^ *W Indonesia's Disneyland/Jakarta' jf I^^f*f^ > i g Taman Mini/Bogor/Puncak Cipanas' Tangkuban/Ciater/ Bandung 25/8, 27/8, 30/8, 1/9, 6/9, 8/9, 10/9, 13,9, 15/9, 17/9, 20/9, 24/9,
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      • 451 15 lEUUATOP TRAVEL SERVICE TFI »1«On JmT I^f&WVVZS I 1 1 Cdlyer Quay #03-24 The Arcade ItL Z2'-""" &Md7CrT^¥Gi^ TEL:*****72/»l«r?4<TAi9B) (§J*&lnMlwllJS through l.Aiy 3 Days/2 Nights Jakarta I Businessman Package i Daily Departures \^S^KBSSSSSuStS^^* International Corp Ltd Hotel Indonesia *****.00 Hotel Sari Pacific *****.00 Hotel Mandarin S ss2o 00 Tour Fare
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      • 929 16 137 Tours 137 Tours %J^m HONOLULU PACKAGE PRICE INCLUDeS r^r^\ Return economy class \XLI2I-- 1 ft excursion airfare Jk J%^%%3 4 nights hotel accom- C^m f ■f*'TJ[ modation on twin share An 3 American breakfast Addftiooa I i/i day city skjhbeeing NW* _J Thomas Thomas Cook Boustead Re Ltd TMO4
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      • 799 16 146 Foreign Education 146 Foreign Education re Connaught College jrS ?pj Bath, Avon, England \C Connaught College, located m one of the safest and most beautiful historic cities m Britain, recognised as efficient by the British Accreditation Council, A.I.F.E.E. and C.I.F.E: invites applications for G.C.E. 'OVA' level, Business Studies and
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      • 909 16 148 Computer Courses 148 Computer Courses GET A RECOGNISED COMPUTER QUALIFICATION AT INFORMATICS COURSES OFFERED Fortran, Pascal, 1. NCC DIPLOMA IN Wordstar, dßase il/IH, COMPUTER STUDIES tx>tus 1-2-3, Symphony, (Incorporating City Guilds Framework, Accounting, 747 (418), designed for G.C.E Micro-processor, "O"or"A" level holders. No prior Assembler. computer knowledge is Courses
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      • 1243 16 150 Commercial/ 150 Commercial/ 150 Commercial/ Technical Courses Technical Courses Technical Courses LCCI Diploma m^^^^^»^^pitman Commercial Managerial Principles Group Certificate Module A 6 months Full-time (day) 9 months Principles of Bookkeeping Management Accounts Advertising Commerce Public Relations English for Business Commencing 16 Communication September evening. understanding Module B 6 months
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      • 605 16 159 Fitness/ Sports Instruction "aerobics^ IF YOU THINK YOU ARE FIT THINK AGAIN In this modern day of constant rush, little thought Is given to fitness and health. We are starting AEROBICS classes m our New premises at JURONG EAST. Beginners, Intermediate and Advance programmes are being conducted by qualified
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    • Page 17 Advertisements
      • 577 17 APPOINTMENTS/ NOTICES HaHMMI CTAMTC RC^nftfti HHHH Telefax No: *****59 Kates: Box Service: iMniwimiiii OIMWId naJUOO I MMwiiMwmi SaJes Service: Straits Times: 5525.00 psc. cm. Collected: 555.00 Telex Service: S.T.A.N.T.S. RS ***** TIMEAD Tel *****11 ext 5724/5/6/8 5669 Sunday Times: 5525.62 psc. cm. Posted: Sslo.oo APPOINTMENTS M neb National Computer Board
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      • 235 17 The MRT Corporation invites applications for the following position: MRT LABORATORY LABORATORY ATTENDANT Salary Scale: ($350:365) 380x15—485 Function: To assist the Technical staff m the assembling of equipment, the more heavy aspects of testing sam- pies, transporting of tools and equipment to and from the laboratory. In addition, successful candidates
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      • 579 17 Are you one? Reliance Shipping Travel Agencies Sdn Bhd. (Malaysia) OVERSEAS MANAGERS This is a senior position for people who are prepared to be based overseas. Previous working experience m a foreign country is necessary. At least 3 years m a middle management capacity is required. SR. TICKETING OFFICERS At
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      • 557 17 We've got the direction for you! Take on a career at i^^^i^^ Gv Jcdydii? Our expansion program is creating more more opportunities for professionals interested m a successful career m the 111 111 disk drive industry. H ill; Q I IVPQC Hi Diploma m Mechanical/Production Engineering i;|i| ;|l:|l Minimum 1—
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      • 460 18 APPOINTMENTS We are an established company involved m precision metal machining works. Due to our requirements, we are inviting you to join us as: PRODUCTION MANAGER Production/Mechanical Engineer (Degree or Diploma) Minimum 3 years of production management experience Good knowledge on production control and planning and relevant knowledge on inventory
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      • 221 18 We are a large conglomerate with diversified interests m Asean. We now have a vacancy for the following position: SALES ENGINEER The successful candidate is required to sell a well-known range of analytical equipment. The selected candidate would possess a Diploma m Chemical Process Technology. About 2 years' sales experience
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      • 820 18 NOTICES If AIRCRAFT I! WANTED! i Air-India is interested m purchase of a Boeing 747 SP aircraft powered by P and W JT9D-7J/-7A/-7F Engines (-7J preferred) with airframe hours not exceeding 25,000 T.T. If you have such aircraft for sale please urgently advise (a) Price (b) Date of availability (c)
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      • 679 18 f[ f> THE SHIPPING CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD. BOMBAY TENDER NOTICE FOR HIRE OF MARINE CONTAINERS (SPECIALS) QUOTATIONS ARE INVITED FOR MARINE CONTAINER (SPECIALS) FROM LEASING COMPANIES OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTE FOR THE LEASING OF VARIOUS TYPES OF MARINE CONTAINERS (SPECIALS) TENDER DOCUMENTS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM 21ST AUGUST AT OUR
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      • 51 18 YOUR NAME IS AVENGER! NINJA WARRIOR! MASTER OF THE MARTIAL ARTS! TRAINED IN tMWW of we XIG&R .A Hi? Available at all good bookshops F77^ distrtbuttd bf kU FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS Find out all these and more In ■'kl 4 I A Pan Book Available at all good bookshops 0 FEDERAL
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      • 127 19 Latest Cologne designs Adult Bedroom Set 20 new models on display Cash Carry Items AMBASSOR^^ CASH l^P <^ X^rf^^JPW^ srs/^wCtt^l Various high low Wall Units on display Latest model Youngster Jffl^fc" p 1 0,000 Sq. ft. Showroom Bedroom Set J JUSUt oTHi^*™!k ART FURNITURE PTE LTD ■HMfig|mWMM| nfl^ LEADING USA
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      • 265 19 I The Management Committee of the! Singapore Malay Chamber ofl Commerce congratulates the President of the Singapore Malay Chamber ofi Commerce (SMCC), i HBr i j HAJI SYED ALI REDHA ALSAGOFF for being conferred the PUBLIC I SERVICE STAR (PSS) medal on the I occasion of the 21st anniversary of
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    • Page 19 Miscellaneous
      • 467 19 SUN TAN By Collette THE BOHN LOSER «r Art Saiuom WELL, I'M OFF ON *W VA^ATIOIOi <f^% K)H ,TTmiAPPL^)fiOp(L |/^?U WEJZEUT OUST 6AYIM6 1 THE GAMBOLS *jr Aoirr E ]W.TgUCK^\ l^i TMQU^MT WAT MEW CAES WEgeMY) X JiS 1 J^ 1 i Opposed to po ,TT4ATl BLONDIE B^ Dean ?<""«
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      • 152 19 PEANUTS By ScAnlz l^rrs^ 1 1 1 1 fe)(^) I LSHTSF A BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker ANDY CAPP By Smythe j I p*""~ I j WHATDOVDU 1 A./O-, 1 €xy WHICH THEV^ /VVNi-^b O'XAH'V EVERY UVSS IS I USUALD/AREy §S£ (wra-IN^^O^^^^ U^lt^ ANMF j p^ 1 1 1 S
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    • Page 20 Advertisements
      • 630 20 TAV3C I YYCIN I T X (*****00) 5 SHOWS: 11AM, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 I 9.00PM "I LOVED IHj^jMH Al/Kf^" -W JUS Of* ON ELM STREET 2 X FREDDY'S REVENGE XLii A (&)SttnN|MiUKHTTON-iaMMYEItS WWTT WSO» ||Ui-JBIKIJ 8 ORCHARD: 207H BIG DAY! Q (*****88) 4 SHOWS: 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 9.00PM p gHMHH|
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      • 843 20 >Q Nyatoh Solid Swivel I with hydrojet '4tt> I FURNITURE FAIR JKiP^CfIMT <J> Venue: Supreme House, 2nd level, Penangßa 4 j^—" i *&H lt <* l'£r sfc *J ]< Venue: Apollo Hotel, 3rd level, Havelock Road f^ > r~^ v^rs^ X Date: 20th 25th Aug '86 Time: I2nn 10pm I
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      • 339 20 —^^i... -t sr-i LADIES NIGHT EVERY WEDNESDAY PLUS FASHION SHOW BY CARRIE MODELS. Gents $17.65+ Ladies $B.Bo+ Blk E, Car Park Level 1, The Plaza, 7500E Beach Rd, Singapore 0719. Tel: *****75. 2£/^A^tAtAtAtAtAtAtAtAf~ 1 ■> lT»; ;«Ti S A BORNEO RLEMs I ©til I //ill i I P I s?L_^_J
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      • 410 20 ■"'BinB!!!lBP!!BniBlBI!!!BI!IIBII!!B! !!B!ffli > LIDO: LAST DAY! (*****14) 5 SHOWS at 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 8.45, 9.15 j The Brothers of Saint Basil's School preached against vice lust and disrespect. But that never stopped these guys. I HEAVEN 44E^ US it .<*(BiJ^^Bi J I /Via m~ 1 cnurtni ;<• i TaVt' vab»m
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    • Arts & Leisure
      • 901 21 Violinist Siow Lee Chin, the only Singaporean to have been admitted to the highly-regarded Curtis Institute m the United States, will perform with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra m the Familiar Favourites concert on Saturday. She talks to RICHARD MM. For an European to
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      • 795 21  -  PAT D'ROSE reviews Class Acts 2, the second compilation of original songs by five Singaporean bands which was released last Thursday. CLASS ACTS 2, although not radically different from the Class Acts 1 album, clearly shows that Singaporean bands are beginning to come up with
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    • Page 21 Miscellaneous
      • 123 21 What's On PERFORMANCES THE HUNDREDTH BRIDE. Chinese opera by Sing Sheng Philharmonic Society. Victoria Theatre. 8 pm. Tickets at $5, $8, $10 and $30 available at Central Booking Office (Victoria Theatre), Centrepoint and Tangs Superstore. Ends tomorrow. SERANGOON GARDEN COMMUNITY CENTRE CONCERT. By the percussion and woodwind sections of the
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      • 136 21 Mall, Peranakan Place Orchard Road. 8 10 pm. Free. PIANO MUSIC by Sam Gan. Repertoire of popular classics and evergreens. UIC Building. Lunchtime. INSTANT ASIA SHOW. Features Malay, Indian and Chinese dances, as well as a lion dance and a snake charmer's act. Pasir Panjang Paradise Restaurant Theatre (opposite Haw
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      • 103 21 sor Chang Shi-kuo. Organised by Asiapac Books and Educational Aids (S) Pte Ltd. Regional Language Centre auditorium. 30 Orange Grove Road. 8 pm. LUNCHTIME MOVIES THE PERSONAL TOUCH. DATA PROCESSING, CONTROL, DESIGN. Marine Parade branch library auditorium. 12.15 12.45 pm, 1.15-1.45 pm. Free. AT THE ZOO SEALION SHOW. By Kelly
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      • 132 21 A-V Theatrette, National Museum. 12.30-1.30 pm daily except Mondays. Until Aug 31. Free, but entry charges to the museum are $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. EXHIBITIONS POTS AND LADLES FROM GRANDMOTHER'S KITCHEN. Straits Chinese Gallery, National Museum. 9 am -4.30 pm daily, except Mondays. Free, but entry
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      • 144 21 Peck Pte Ltd. #02 09 Orchard C E, Orchard Road. 11 am 6 pm. Free. On till Aug 30. SUPER-FIT LEISURE EXPO. Exhibition on exercising and sea sports equipment. Raffles City Shopping Centre. Mondays to Fridays, 11 am 6 pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 11 am 8 pm. On till Sunday.
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      • 113 21 photographs taken secretly by (Jeorge Aspinall, a Japanese prisoner-of-war at Selarang Barracks m 1942. Group Lounge, lobby level, Hotel Meridien, Changi. 8 am 7 pm. MING VILLAGE. See how traditional craftsmanship is used to reproduce handpainted Chinese porcelain pieces. Includes a guided tour. 32 Pandan Road. 9 am 5 pm.
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      • 1016 21 I Radio One 1 FM Service 90.5 mHz m VHF Band II 5.58 AM National Anthem, followed by Opening Announcement 6.00 News m Brief 6.05 Another Morning; Another Show 7.00 News and Weather Report 7.10 Morning Digest 7.20 Another Morning, Another Show (cont'd) 7.30 Morning Financial News 7.40 Another Morning,
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    • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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