The Straits Times, 3 January 1989

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    14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, I*B9 50 CENTS MCI (P) 44/12/88
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    Lock icon Premadasa calls for unity
    704 1 Premadasa calls for unity New Lankan President invites separatist groups for dialogue COLOMBO Sri Lanka's new President Ranasinghe Premadasa yesterday began his six-year term with a call for "mutual dialogue, compromise and consensus" with Sinhalese and Tamil rebel groups fighting to undermine the island's embattled government. Chief Justice Parinda Ranasinghe
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    Boy stabbed to death on New Year's Day
    337 1  -  SHARON LIM By A 15- YEAR-OLD boy died after he was stabbed m the stomach during an assault by at least five youths outside a 7-Eleven store m Jurong, m the early hours of the New Year. Too Scow Loong, the first
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    Lock icon Leaning Tower tilted another 1.29 mm last year
    140 1 PISA The Leaning Tower of Pisa tilted over another 1.29 mm last year, its custodian announced on Sunday. Professor Giuseppe Toniolo, m a year-end report, said the rate at which the tower's tilt worsened during the year was m line with the
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    Lock icon 2 cheated Bank Negara of $16 m
    422 1 2 cheated Bank Negara of $16 m Documents forged to transfer money from bank KUALA LUMPUR A lawyer and a Bank Negara officer have cheated Bank Negara, Malaysia's central bank, of M 522.2 million (Ssl6 million). The two men are believed to have fled the country when the authorities discovered
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    Folk-dancing seniors join New Year crowd at Istana
    439 1 A GROUP of about 30 senior citizens from five community centres found a special way to celebrate the New Year they brought a huge cassette player to the Istana grounds yesterday and started to dance. To the strains of Chinese folk music,
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    Lock icon 39 held for steel strike
    69 1 SEOUL South Korean police staged a pre-dawn raid on a defence industry steel plant m south-eastern Angang town and arrested 39 people m a bid to end a 10--day-old strike, press reports said yesterday. Twenty-two workers who had been staging a sit-in at the Pungsan
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    Lock icon Bus in river
    42 1 BEIJING At least 10 people were killed and 32 injured, nine seriously, when a bus m which they were travelling plunged off a bridge into a river near Shanghai on New Year's Eve, China Daily reported on Monday. Reuter
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    Lock icon Indira murderer loses mercy plea
    220 1 NEW DELHI Indian President Ramaswamy Venkataraman yesterday turned down a plea for mercy for Kehar Singh, one of two men sentenced to death for the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi m 1984. The sentences on Kehar Singh, convicted of conspiracy, and Satwant Singh, one
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    Lock icon 28 tourists rescued
    86 1 I BEIJING Twenty-eight tourists from Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan were rescued after being trapped m a remote 1 part of southern Tibet by a freak snowstorm, the official China Daily said yesterday. The paper said all were suffering from exposure when a rescue team
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    Lock icon New ministry gutted by fire
    71 1 NEW DELHI A major fire gutted the offices of the Federal Environment and Wildi life Ministry yesterday m a high-security government i complex m the Indian capital, a fire brigade spokesman here reported. He said the fire apparently started m the building cafeteria two hours
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    Lock icon Visitors down
    39 1 LONDON The number of tourists visiting Britain fell by 100,000 last year, with 5 per cent fewer Americans among them, the British Tourist Office said on Sun- day. Some 9.2 million tourists visited Britain last year. AFP
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      103 1 SOON IT'LL BE BONUS TIME AGAIN Soon after the December bonus, some finns will pay a Lunar NewYear or mid-year bonus. THIGH HIGH FASHIONS The old mini was last year's hot new look no matter that it did not flatter some legs. See more of what they wore m 88
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      21 1 Inside i i Summary 2 World News 3-i/J Caasewav t AYP 14 Comment/ Perspective 11,17 Letters 18 Racing It S^rta M
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  • IN SUMMARY
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      420 2 Ferry still aground TWO attempts to dislodge the Malaysian cruise ferry, Cruise Muhibah, which ran aground early Sunday morning m Indonesian waters, were unsuccessful. Tugboats were used for the operation. But by today, some of its 346 passengers would have been flown to Kuching or Kota Kinabalu to continue
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      Comment
      194 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: THE Malaysian ringgit has been weakening steadily against the Singapore dollar, markedly so In the past six months. For the pragmatic Singaporean, this has meant a welcome chance to shop In Johor Barn, take In the seenlc sights, dine and perhaps wine, and top np
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      Around the world
      225 2 Africans m China AFRICAN students should continue studying m China despite anti-black violence m Nanjing and racial tension m the eastern city of Hangzhou, Chinese officials and African diplomats said yesterday. The diplomats said the training provided low-cost technical skills needed for development and that students would
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      255 2 Liverpool beaten A SUPERB three-goal blitz m the second half gave Manchester United a thrilling 3-1 victory over champions Liverpool and strengthened their title hopes. United, trailing by a 70th-minute goal by England winger John Barnes, recovered a minute later when Scottish striker Brian McClaire volleyed home a cross
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      Section Two
      619 2 Teens tall and short ABOUT 100 teenagers write about the agonies of being too short or too tall, of growing too fast, or seeming not to grow at all. If you are young and at one end or the other of the height chart, it helps to understand
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      Around A9ean...iffcggj
      146 2 Talks on refugees THAILAND is to open direct talks with Laos on voluntary repatriation of some 80,000 Laotian refugees m Thailand, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported yesterday. Thailand's National Security Council secretarygeneral Suwit Suthanukul said the Thai-Laos talks on the repatriation would begin soon. About one-tenth of Laos'
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      83 2 CHRISTIANS 'NOT INTOLERANT' A READER refers to the letters against Christians on Dec 27 and says "it is quite bewildering what harm we Christians have done to society to deserve such criticism". He says Christians are loyal Singaporeans, peaceful citizens, love their neighbours, never complain against the noise and
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    Buyers' Guide
    221 2 Product Advertiser Section/Pace Aircon Carrier II i Airfaes Singapore Airlines I 5 Banks Bank of China I 9 Citibank —10 Tal Lee Bank I 4 UOB 1-13 Books Antara Publications I —24 Car Respray Centre General Automatic Services I 6 Counts Informatics Computer School I _15 NUS I
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      259 2 SECTION II Classifieds Sect. II 9to 22 Notices Sect. II 7& 8 Cmemo Sect. II 5 Comics Sect. II 23 LEARN ENGLISH FROM THE EXPERTS Write and Speak Better English with Specialist training The ability to speak and write English fluently is such a valuabte asset You can impress your
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  • around the WORLD
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      Lock icon Tighten your belts, Peres tells Israelis
      470 3 Year-long Palestinian uprising takes its toll on economy JERUSALEM Finance Minister Shimon Peres, unveiling a stringent austerity programme to rescue the nations troubled economy, has appealed to Israelis to tighten their belts and accept a lower standard of living. He told reporters that he
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      Lock icon Afghan president says he won't quit and warns guerillas
      323 3 Afghan president says he won't quit and warns guerillas ISLAMABAD Afghan President Najibullah said his Soviet-backed regime will not quit and warned that Westernbacked guerillas will be taught a lesson if they continue fighting, the official Bakhtar news agency reported on Monday. The President spoke on Sunday night on Afghanistan's
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      Lock icon Strong currents stop search for Rio boat victims
      273 3 Strong currents stop search for Rio boat victims RIO DE JANEIRO Strong currents forced rescue workers to halt the search for bodies after an overcrowded tourist boat capsized and sank, killing at lee.st 51 people, authorities said. "The seas need to be very calm for us to search the deep
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      Lock icon Israeli troops destroy homes of 2 Palestinian firebombing suspects
      292 3 JERUSALEM Israeli troops yesterday demolished the homes of two Palestinian activists suspected of involvement m firebomb attacks and of distributing anti-Israeli leaflets, the military command said. The house wreckings at the Balata refugee camp m the Israeli-occupied West Bank came one
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      Lock icon 15 killed in prison fire
      50 3 SANTIAGO Fifteen youths died and four others were feared dead m a fire which swept through part of a boys' prison here when inmates set fire to their dormitories during an escape attempt, police said on Sunday. At least 18 yo-* 1 portedly escaped. AFP
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      Lock icon Girl held for graffiti on Hawke home
      130 3 CANBERRA Security guards caught a 17-year-old girl painting devilish graffiti early yesterday on the wall surrounding Prime Minister Bob Hawke's residence here. An Australian Federal Police spokesman said the girl was caught after painting the slogan "Constantine is 666" on several spots along
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      Lock icon Journalist jailed under Zia to head state news agency
      134 3 Journalist jailed under Zia to head state news agency ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has named a journalist jailed under the former military regime to head Pakistan's state news agency. Mr Aslam Sheikh was appointed director-general of the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) on Sunday. He replaces Mr Farooq Nisar,
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      Lock icon $5.8 m worth of gold found hidden in ship
      116 3 NEW DELHI Antismuggling officers have seized gold worth US$3 million (Sss.B million) from a Pakistani vessel captured off India's western coast almost a month ago, the Press Trust of India said yesterday. PTI said the officers had painstakingly dismantled the ship
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      Lock icon Africans 'should go on studying in China'
      385 4 Officials of embassies to help settle student problems BEIJING African students should continue studying m China despite anti-black violence m Nanjing and racial tension m the eastern city of Hangzhou, Chinese officials and African diplomats said yesterday. The diplomats said the training provided
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      Lock icon Everything linked to Solzhenitsyn still a closed area, says historian
      361 4 MOSCOW Unofficial Soviet historian Roy Medvedev says Soviet publications plan to distribute many of his works but will not publish his essays disputing the still-banned writings of expelled writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In an interview published on Sunday m Moskovsky Komsomolets,
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      Lock icon First known protest by Tibet varsity students
      359 4 BEIJING About 300 Tibetan students have demonstrated m Lhasa, calling on Chinese authorities to respect their culture and stop carrying weapons, Western witnesses said. The demonstration, on Friday, was the first known protest led by students from Tibet University. Buddhist monks have been
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      Lock icon Armenian newspaper prints threat to KGB
      199 4 Armenian newspaper prints threat to KGB MOSCOW An Armenianv Communist Party newspaper has published what purports to be an ultimatum to the KGB, threatening to use American-made Stinger missiles m a campaign of mass terror if jailed Armenian nationalist leaders are not set free. Armenian dissidents said it was a
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      Lock icon Tiger bones smuggling ring broken
      170 4 NEW DELHI A forestry officer has broken an interstate ring involved m smuggling Indian tiger bones to China and other countries m north-east Asia, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported yesterday. The Times said m a report from Tumsar, m the western state of Maharashtra, that
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      Lock icon Strutting to the beat on a Philadelphia street
      55 5 A BRIGADE of Philadelphia Mummers doing their version of the Mummers Strut In front of Philadelphia City Hall daring their annual New Year's Day parade, m which 20,M0 people took part. A mummer Is someone who dresses ap m a costume to
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      Lock icon Castro: Revolution will last 100 years
      197 5 SANTIAGO DE CUBA President Fidel Castro said Cuba's socialist revolution, .which celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sunday, would last at least 100 years. Speaking from the same balcony where 30 years earlier he proclaimed "the revolution begins now", Dr Castro reaffirmed the socialist and
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      Lock icon Soviets ban export of consumer goods
      483 5 Move to overcome shortage of basic items MOSCOW The Soviet Union will soon ban the export of consumer goods ranging from caviar to children's shoes and will limit travellers to 100 roubles (Ss27o) worth of souvenirs, Tass news agency said on Sunday. The radical
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      Lock icon Gorbachev will succeed with reforms, predicts Thatcher
      442 5 LONDON Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has predicted that Soviet reforms will succeed and bring an end to the Cold War. Mrs Thatcher, mixing politics and personal matters, discussed her religious views and hailed President Ronald Reagan for restoring America's confidence m a television
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      Lock icon Hanoi issues decree to protect free trade
      279 7 Move to prevent harassment of private businesses BANGKOK The Vietnamese government has issued a decree stepping up legal protection for individual rights to engage m free enterprise, the official Vietnam news agency said yesterday. "All commercial and service activities undertaken by economic institutions
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      Lock icon Old-style balloons launch French Revolution revels
      467 7 niMmllbllul»M hot air balloon, m the Parte Tullerles Gardens, Im fr!-*, of the oid Mont «»lfler balloon which made the world's first successful manned flight m 1783. More than IM ofthese balloow ?weS lannched on Snnday to mark the first day o" the l
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      Lock icon Politician hits out at IRA over killing of civilians in attacks
      186 7 Politician hits out at IRA over killing of civilians in attacks BELFAST Irish Republican politician Gerry Adams has hit out at the Irish Republican Army for killing civilians m a string of botched attacks last year. Mr Adams, leader of the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein, said. "I think the
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      Lock icon China letting rural sector bear brunt of austerity drive
      345 7 BEIJING The Chinese government is letting the nations thriving rural enterprises bear the brunt of its austerity programme and appears willing to trigger a recession m the countryside, analysts here say. "Just look at China's retrenchment since September and every measure
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  • AROUND ASEAN
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      Lock icon Thais to hold refugee talks with Laos
      437 8 Thai official says meeting to take place soon paper BANCKOK Thailand is to open direct talks with Laos on voluntary repatriation of some 80,000 Laotian refugees m Thailand, according to a press report yesterday. The Bangkok Post quoted Thai National Security Council secretary-general
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      Lock icon Foreign activists warned not to contact rebels
      215 8 MANILA The Philippines' national police commander warned foreign peace activists yesterday they will be treated "like common criminals" if they contact communist rebels during a regional conference here. More than 140 foreigners, mostly Australians, arrived last month for a series of conferences, seminars
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      Lock icon Call to control use of fireworks
      282 8 MANILA President Corazon Aquino asked Congress yesterday to lift a fireworks ban and instead regulate the industry after 11 people were killed m a pyrotechnics factory fire. Mrs Aquino acknowledged that a 1966 ban on fireworks had been unenforceable because use of pyrotechnics m
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      Lock icon Terrorist suspect sent back to Manila
      236 8 Terrorist suspect sent back to Manila MANILA A Syrian national was detained at Manila airport after the Australian authorities sent him back to the Philippines because they suspected he was linked to a terrorist group, immigration officials said yesterday. Commander Ruben Domingo, chief of the Travel Control Service of the
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      ‘US backs Suharto's E. Timor policy'
      246 8 JAKARTA The United States government has rejected allegations by Congress of human rights abuses m East Timor, The Jakarta Post reported. The report said Mr John Edward Fox, US State Department's Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs, had written to Congressional leaders stating the Reagan
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      Lock icon UN officers for Thai refugee camps
      189 8 BANGKOK The United Nations is to send liaison officers from four countries to the Thai-Cambodi-an border to help maintain security m Cambodian refugee camps, Thai and diplomatic sources said yesterday. They said the UN had signed an agreement with Thailand allowing one or two
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      Lock icon 26 ill after eating corn
      512 9 JOHOR BARU Twentysix people, including 12 children, from Air Bernban, near Kulai, were admitted to the Sultanah Aminah General Hospital here after eating corn, suspected to have been contaminated with pesticide. Nine of them were discharged yesterday while the remaining 17 are still undergoing treatment.
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      Spirit of '46 by-election campaign workers 'beaten up'
      287 9 Spirit of '46 by-election campaign workers 'beaten up' By a correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Three campaign workers of the Spirit of '46 movement claimed that they were attacked by a New Umno supporter yesterday. They suffered minor injuries on theii foreheads, necks and hands when they were beaten by a man
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      PNG teachers against hiring of Malaysians
      314 9 KUALA LUMPUR Papua New Guinea teachers are protesting against their government's decision to recruit Malaysian teachers and have asked Malaysians not to accept the offer, The Star reported. The PNG Teachers Association, m a letter to a Malaysian teachers' union here on Sunday, said
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      Lock icon Mara institute sacks 30 for taking drugs
      167 9 SHAH ALAM The Institut Teknologi Mara here has sacked 30 students for taking drugs m the last two years, said its director, Dr Mohamad Mansor Salleh. He said those who had been blacklisted by the institute will not be given a second chance
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      Lock icon KSM co-op depositors to get another 10% back
      281 9 KAMPAR Bank Negara, Malaysia's central bank, will pay out another 10 per cent to depositors of the troubled Multi-Purpose Co-operative (KSM) this week, Malaysian Chinese Association President Datuk Dr Ling Liong Sik said. This will bring the total payment to KSM, the
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      Lock icon Kelantan police smash fake notes smuggling rings
      270 9 Kelantan police smash fake notes smuggling rings KOTA BARU Kelantan police believe hey have smashed two counterfeit currency smuggling syndicates with the arrest of 12 people and the seizure of 274 fake Msso (Ss36) notes. The Chief Police Officer, Senior Assistant Commissioner (SAC) Mohamed Ismail Che Rus, said yesterday the
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      Lock icon Tugs fail to dislodge ship on the rocks
      771 10  -  SERENA TOH MATHEW PEREIRA Grounding of Malaysian ferry Passengers weren't aware that ship had hit reef By and TWO attempts yesterday to dislodge the Malaysian cruise ferry, Cruise Muhibah, which ran aground early on Sunday morning m Indonesian waters were unsuccessful. Tugboats
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      House moving may cost more than ads imply
      410 10  -  CHAI KIM WAH By HOME removal firms are advertising their services for as little as $15, but the unwary beware: This eyecatching figure screens hidden costs that can push the final bill to more than $200. One such ad m The Straits
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      Needy Teck Ghee pupils get $20,000 in bursaries
      118 10 NEEDY students from Teck Ghee received bursary awards totalling $20,000 from the constituency's welfare fund committee last night. A total of 134 students from primary to pre-uni-versity levels received the annual awards of between $100 and $400 each. Speaking at the presentation
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      Road crash girl still can't speak
      441 11  -  DOMINIC NATHAN She communicates by blinking her eyes By COMMUNICATING with her parents by blinking her eyes, Miss Tan Lian Lay, 21, is on the long road to recovery more than a month after a car accident which killed her boyfriend. She suffered serious
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      Package tours to scenic Poland on the cards
      422 11  - Package tours to scenic Poland on the cards MAYLEE CHIA By WANT to vacation m Krakow or Zakopane? The names of these two scenic cities m Poland may sound strange now, but they may soon become familiar when travel agents start taking Singaporeans there on package tours this year. Poland,
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      Six new police posts open today
      139 11 SIX new neighbourhood police posts op£n today. They are located at Block 128, Kirn Tian Road; Block 101, Jalan Rajah; Block 129, Jalan Bahagia; Block 549, Ang Mo Kio Street 54; Block 680, Hougang Avenue 8; and Block 124, Pending Road. The opening of
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      Some getting early start in stock market
      509 12  -  IRENE ANG A few teenagers trading under parents' names, say brokers By SOME Singaporean teenagers are investing m shares, mostly under their parents* names, because they are too young to become shareholders. Stockbrokers said that these young investors, mostly from well-to-do families, are
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      $100m target for Chinese trade fair
      180 12 $100 m target for Chinese trade fair OFFICIALS from three north-eastern Chinese provinces hope to clinch $100 million worth of business from an eight-day trade exhibition to be opened here tomorrow by Mr Alan Yeo, chairman of the Trade Development Board. The China Northeast Three Provinces' Export Commodities Fair, to
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      Relatives of these two asked to call ministry
      85 12 Relatives of these two asked to call ministry THE Ministry of Community Development (MCD) is asking the relatives of these two men, who were picked up by the police for vagrancy, to contact them. Teh Kay, 67, was found loitering along South Buona Vista Road on Dec 20. Ong Ah
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      Police seek kin of two who died
      132 12 POLICE are seeking the next-of-kin of two people who died last Monday. Madam Elsie Sim, 59, was found dead m a flat m Block 90, Pipit Road at about 1.30 pm, police said. No foul play is suspected. Relatives should contact Assistant Investigation
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      New Year gathering
      56 12 THE People's Association will hold a New Year gathering for 300 community leaders from community centre management committees, citizens' consultative committees and residents' committees. It will be held at the People's Association Auditorium m Kallang on Friday at 7.30 pm. The guest of honour will be Mr
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        Crazy craft take to the water for river raft race
        152 12 ONLY the innovative and the creative could qualify for the Singapore River Raft Race on New Year's Day. To take part, rafts had to be made of scrap material and some which showed up were indeed pieces of art. A
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        Tour became feast for MP
        98 12 THE MP for Ayer Rajah, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, got to try some of his favourite foods cooked by some residents yesterday. Together with residents of Ayer Rajah Zone 4, he feasted on ondeh-ondeh, thosai, curry and other dishes at the potluck gatherings held on
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        Doubie attack
        98 12 VETERAN Malay film actress Saadiah Ahmad Daud (top left) is m hospital after an asthma attack. A Berita Minggu report said her husband Mr Ahmad Daud (top right), who was m Kuala Lumpur, suffered a heart attack when he received word of her asthma attack. But he recovered
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        It'll snow again
        132 12 DISSATISFIED visitors called it "ice-kachang without the syrup"; others said the snow flakes had the texture of hailstones. They said they saw ice cubes, not snow as promised by one of Singapore s newest recreational attractions. Wonderful Snow Park m Kallang. But snow or hailstones, it looks
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        Monks remembered
        75 12 THE staff of the Thai embassy celebrated the New Year by making a traditional food offering to Buddhist monks on New Year's Day. After a 2 -hour religious ceremony by the monks, the offering called sanghathana "was made to about 100 monks. The offering Included canned and fresh
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      Many came early for this dinner
      541 13  -  KOH BEE ANN But Mr Courtesy Campaign's wedding wish is only partially fulfilled By SOMETHING quite unheard of happened at a Chinese wedding dinner over the weekend. The guests started streaming m at 6.55 pm when their invitation cards had asked them to be
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        Share your experience
        70 13 WHAT other methods can be used to persuade Singaporeans to make punctuality a way of life? Punctual not only at wedding dinners, but also for meetings, appointments and concerts? Or is it acceptable to continue with the bad old way of always being late? Call The Straits
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        Praise for 9 Mandarin drama groups
        199 13 NINE Mandarin drama groups were praised by the Minister of State for Community Development, Mr Ch'ng Jit Koon, on Sunday for merging to produce better and more professional productions. He told them that the groups could now pool funds, talent and manpower to achieve
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      Hawkers get dress-up call from Environment Ministry
      583 15  -  FRANCESCA NATHAN Inconvenient, says stallholder; this is not a high-class area, says customer By DRESS UP, hawkers! cha-kiaks (wooden clogs), shortt and singlets are out. But uniforms are m, though, says the Ministry of the Environment m an advisory note on hawker-couture. It
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      Drunk driver gets fine and ban
      64 15 ABRAHAM Koshy, 35, a technician, was fined $1,000 and banned from driving for two years after he was found guilty of drunken driving by a district court on Saturday. The court heard that Koshy was arrested by a traffic police officer along Kampong Kayu
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      755 11 At Carlton's Cafe Victoria, Nasi Padang returns to Bras Basah every Sunday. I Even though we're a new aWmXa' hotel, we have a decent AK_w kmA respect for tradition -Li V jtm Afm And one that's ver)' close mMaMMMMMm ls v s,asl ,>u an X stalls that not so long
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      197 13 B m<^<&& m. This map will lead you to a free microwave oven, a colour TX a hi-fi sound system, a vacuum cleaner and a washing machine. (Not to mention our new branch location). The Ang Mo Kio Branch of the Far Eastern complement of financial services from simple savings
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  • around YOUR PLACE
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      More HDB homes get a touch of the outdoors
      521 14  -  EUGENIE LEE By MORE Housing Board flat dwellers are spending money on mini-waterfalls and rock gardens to bring a bit of the outdoors into their homes. The residents, especially those m bigger flats, do not seem to mind spending up to
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      Face to face
      86 14 WITH YOUR MP WITH the redrawing of the electoral boundaries for the general election last year, Kampong Glam, which already had four community centres, inherited two more to make it six m all. It was later decided that three CCs should be closed down and put to
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      MP's personnel experience helps in moving grassroots leaders
      701 14 How do you feel about losing three of your six community centres? Frankly, before getting into Kam pong Clam, I did not imagine there would be constituencies having more than one CC. When I took over six, of course it was a
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      Profile
      99 14 MP: Mr Loh Meng See, 39, (Kampong Glam) Occupation: Group Personnel Manager, Keppel Corporation Ltd Family: Married with two daughters Education: Raffles Institution, BA from the University of Singapore, Diploma m Business Administration from the Australian Institute of Business Administration, and Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and
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      SEEN AND HEARD
      386 14 Cheng San GRC Prompt action RESIDENTS who bring their problems to Mr S. Chandra Das at his meet-the-people sessions know exactly what he means when he says he will take up their problems immediately. The MP for Cheng San GRC does not believe m waiting until government
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  • The Straits Times
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      Reason and the ringgit
      605 16 SINGAPOREANS cross the Causeway more often these days, a good part of the reason being the widening disparity between the two countries' currencies. The Malaysian ringgit has been weakening steadily against the Singapore dollar, markedly so m the past six months. A hundred dollars, which bought
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  • COMMENT/ Perspective
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      NIC trade bloc is not advisable, says PM Lee
      2970 16 The Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, was interviewed by Ms Diane Ying, Editor and publisher of Commonwealth magazine, a Taiwanese business monthly, on Dec 9 at the Istana. We publish here a transcript of the interview m which Mr Lee
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      What the four should do
      40 16 We should meet from time to time and discuss our problems and learn from each other. We have nothing to lose by discussing our problems because we face more or less common problems. s PMLee.
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      China: ‘Hurricanes and tidal waves will follow'
      895 17  - China: ‘Hurricanes and tidal waves will follow' REN WANDING By BEIJING It has been 10 years since the Democracy Wall and "Beijing spring" came into being, only to disappear the next year. In this decade, great changes have taken place m China and elsewhere. Detente has replaced the Cold War.
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      Gene-altered animals, a resource for studies, enter marketplace
      543 17  - Gene -altered animals, a resource for studies, enter marketplace HAROLD M.SCHMECK JR By New York Times How transgenic animals are helping scientific research •Transgenic mice produce milk containing a human blood substance that is used to treat heart attacks; c Industrialists hope to use transgenic animals to produce valuable drugs;
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  • FORUM
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      Woman took 12 X-rays and asked for more
      323 18 Woman took 12 X-rays and asked for more WITH reference to the report "Dentists allay fears of over-exposure to Xrays" (ST, Dec 22), I wish to relate my personal experience. I had a temporal mandibular joint (TMJ) problem and was referred to the National University Hospital for a series of
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      Speed up work on the eastern MRT line
      165 18 I BELIEVE there are many people like me who live m the eastern part of Singapore, waiting anxiously for the MRT construction to be completed and the trains running on the eastern line. Those who live m Ang Mo Kio or Clementi
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        Child care centres must be licensed
        174 18 I REFER to the letter "Any rules on child care centres?" by Mr Liang Dingzi. (ST, Dec 22). All child care centres are required to be licensed under the Child Care Centres Act 1988. The Act stipulates conditions which operators of child care centres
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        Empty cabs should have headlights on
        95 18 Empty cabs should have headlights on I REFER to the letter "Many flag down the wrong taxi", by Mr Goh Boon Hai (ST, Dec 21), who said it is irritating to have to flag down a taxi m the daytime because it is difficult to know whether it is empty.
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        Empty cabs ply on nearside of road
        105 18 PLEASE refer to the letter "Many flag down the wrong taxi", from Mr Goh Boon Hai. (ST. Dec 21). Empty taxis usually ply on the nearside of the road and the drivers normally would slow down whenever they see potential hirers waiting at
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      Criticism of Christians' activities uncalled for
      691 18 I WAS enjoying my nice, peaceful post-Christmas holidays when this sudden barrage of letters against Christians appeared m your columns (ST. Dec 27). It is quite bewildering. What harm have we Christians done to society to deserve such criticism? We are loyal Singaporeans, peaceful
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      Dad hospitalised, but no one informed me
      452 18 ON DEC 13, my father left the house for his usual evening stroll. He did not return that night. I thought he might have put up for the night at my younger brother's house m the same area. I only became uneasy when
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      Don't equate religion with matters of the heart
      491 18 Don't equate religion with matters of the heart I REFER to your editorial "Live and let pray" (ST, Dec 17) and m particular to the second paragraph which says, "Religion is about the heart, which is capable of inciting runaway emotions beyond the control of the head. Rationality is not
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      516 18 MMmmmWmmm^m^^^MMM^^^m^^^^mmmmm—^mmAmmmmmmmmmM m^^^^^^^^^^—^^^^ m^ m^~^^mmmMmMmmmmmmmmmmmmm i M 'Tk J Mr Richard A Zeif, the Co-Fbunder and ■^^KwBK Secretary of the Negotiation Institute \\\\\W^4lrtlr will be m this region to lead a series of ,T seminars on J& Richard A Zeif The Art of Negotiating® Singapore (9-10 March, 1989) You will learn
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  • RACING
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      Lock icon You've come a long way, Danny
      394 19  -  TAN THEAN LOON Star apprentice reaches the big time m just two years of race riding By PENANG In just two years of race riding, apprentice Danny Chee has reached the dizzy heights. He rode his 20th winner last October and within the past
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      Lock icon How they ran at Penang on Saturday
      204 19 At the 400 m Pictures at the 4Mm by At the finish 1 EElgm i__M_Ur\ArA IsETbIJA IsEhldEl IsMo-lAi liOsi^y Ifgjtyy UM SIN THAI Class 4 Div A 1,400 m 1. Hawkeye II 2. Boniface II 3. Eurawan 4. Perigueux Margins: 3, V/i, 1
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    • Article
      Ipoh weights
      1018 19 IPOH Weights and ratings tor this weekend's races here SATURDAY Claw 3 Div B 1,200 m (Ratings: 111 68-51) Gentle Breeze 57 68 Superbid 57 68 Command House 56.5 67 Graceful Stride 56 66 Strong Campaign 55 64 Glorious Future 54.5 63 Le Joueur 54.5 63 Solidarity m
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      Follow these horses
      226 19  -  TAN THEAN LOON PENANG These horses did well over the weekend and it will pay to follow them: Boniface n kept up his consistency with a late-closing second to Hawkeye II over 1,400 m. He won well at his previous start and was fourth at his debut.
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      Dream start for new trainer Ong
      119 19 Dream start for new trainer Ong KUALA Lumpur-based trainer Steven Jay Ong, 29, who was granted an 'A' licence only two months ago, won "first-up" at Penang on Sunday. Ong entered only two horses, Twink and Robber Baron 11, for his debut meeting. Both did not accept on the first
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      Gallant St Gallen always rises to the occasion
      461 19  - Gallant St Gallen always rises to the occasion TAN THEAN LOON PENANG St Gallen is nine years old. He has had 52 starts for only seven wins. At first glance, this may not seem very impressive a record. But then, four of those victories were m classic races, including the
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  • OBITUARIES
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      321 Deaths 321 Deaths
      512 20 321 Deaths 321 Deaths MDM. ONG KAY CHOON Age 80 passed away peacefully on 31.12.88 laaving Monm: Daughters-in-law: Chua Hock Guan Choo Leh Lee Chua Kee Soon (Peter) Susan Chla Daughter: Son-in-law: Chua Bee Choo Wee Beng Alk Grer.dsons Grand-daughters-in-law Tony Chua Jessie Tan Jimmy Chua Susan Wan Wee Wei
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      323 Condolences
      46 20 Our deepest sympathies A condolences to the family of MR. MRS. KOH AH POY on the demise of their mother MADAM TAH AH NIA Departed 31.12.88 FROM: KEE LEX KHENG JAMES HO YEO CHA TIAU CHAN KIT LIAN ANO YIAN LENG LIM KENG BEE
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      322 Acknowledgements
      225 20 The Family Of The tete MRS. ALIMAH VEERASAMY axprat. their gratitude to all friend* and relative* for their kind condolence! and donations during their recent bereevement. They elso thenk Profeseor CS. Seah. Doctors LB Teh, K.V. Ng, CT. Yeo. L.t. Cheong and other Doctors and hospital Staff of
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      324 In Memoriam
      36 20 16TH ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory of THE LATE REV. CHARLES BLACKSHEAR PAUL 'Gone from our lives one so dear But In our hearts forever near.' Always remembered by Wife. Children, Relatives and Student*.
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      324 In Memoriam
      143 20 IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF TSHE CHENG KUAY Departed 3.1.1969 Twenty years have passed since you left us. You will always be remembered as a kind-hearted, charitable, unassuming man who spent most of your life In the furniture trade. Cherish momo les of you remembered forovor and
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      324 In Memoriam 324 In Memoriam
      143 20 324 In Memoriam 324 In Memoriam In loving memory of our parents R. MURUQAIAH KULLAPPA NAIDU ALAMELOO Departed 25.1.79 Departed 3.1.88 They who think that you are gone, because no more your face they see, are wrong for our m hearts you live; and always will, m memory. Inserted by
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      324 In Memoriam
      69 20 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmim In Loving Memory of SIMON LUM WAI KEONG Departed 3rd January 1983 Gone from our lives one so dear. But m our hearts forever near. Always remembered by loved ones. In loving memory of JAGJIT SINGH BAL (LUDTHAMUNDA) Path DA BHOG 4.1.89 Silat Road Temple (8
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      325 Requiems
      88 20 ANTHIYESHDI CEREMOHIES MR. JAY ABAL AN THAMBIRAJAH Deported 5.12.5S The family of the late Mr. T. Jayabalan wishes to express their gratitude and heartfelt thanks to their relatives and friends, doctors and staff of Mt Elizabeth Hospital and Management and Staff of Esso <S) Pte Ltd for their
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  • TIMESPORT
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      Lock icon Six-minute blitz sinks Liverpool
      518 21 Soccer highlights: Manchester United m scintillating form Francis wants Wilkins as right-hand man Battle of Glasgow giants at Ibrox ENGLISH LEAGUE Man United 3 Liverpool 1 MANCHESTER Manchester United declared their English title intentions m devastating fashion on Sunday with a thrilling 3-1 victory over champions
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      Lock icon QPR boss wants Wilkins as assistant manager
      211 21 LONDON New Queens Park Rangers manager Trevor Francis is reported to want his former Glasgow Rangers team-mate Ray Wilkins as his No. 2 at the English First Division club. Francis, a one-time England colleague of Wilkins as well, originally tried to tempt his
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      Lock icon Celtic out to put record straight
      144 21 Celtic out to put record straight GLASGOW Celtic are determined to get even with Scottish League leaders Rangers when the Glasgow giartts square up for their traditional New Year battle at Ibrox today. The Celtic players have still not forgiven Rangers for the 5-1 mauling they suffered at Ibrox at
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      Lock icon Scottish team upset Soviets
      353 21 BASKETBALL LONDON Former United States college star Tom Collier scored 19 points on Sunday to give Livingston, of Scotland, a 72-66 upset over the Soviet Union and a shot at the title m the 12th annual World Invitational Club basketball tournament. Livingston, third this season m
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      Watchara tames the seas for speed title
      509 22  - Watchara tames the seas for speed title Shirlynn Ho BOARDSAILING By WITH a disarming smile and a nonchalant "You never know", Watchara Witchithong had earlier dismissed his chances m the speed-crossing event of the first Singapore Shortboard Open at Changi beach yesterday. Beware of the Thai charmer the next time
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      Lock icon Ickx keeps lead over Vatanen
      214 22 PARIS-DAKAR RALLY DIRKOU (Nigeria) Finland's Ari Vatanen turned m the best time for cars m the fourth timed leg of the 11th Paris-Dakar rally on Sunday, but his Peugeot team-mate Jacky Ickx, of Belgium, still led m overall standings. The motorcycle event was cancelled because
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      Lock icon Czechs chalk up a Cup double
      290 22 TENNIS PERTH Czechoslavakia's 2-0 victory over Australia m the inaugural Hopman Cup mixed team tennis tournament on Sunday completed a Czech Cup double m Australia. Three weeks ago Helena Sukova led the Czechs to victory m the Federation Cup women's team event m Melbourne.
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      Lock icon The 49ers storm back to form in style
      499 22 AMERICAN FOOTBALL SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco 49ers displayed the form that won them two Super Bowls m the 1980s as they defeated the Minnesota Vikings 34-9 m Sunday's semi-final of the National Football Conference (NFC) play-offs. "We're back where we've been,"
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      Safsa are Under-20 champions
      139 22 Safsa are Under-20 champions SINGAPORE Armed Forces Sports Association won the 1988 Singapore Amateur Swimming Association Under-20 water polo League yesterday, beating Queenstown 13-12 m a thrilling encounter at Toa Payoh. Queenstown, led by internationals Ho Vim Hong and Aw Kum Mun, started off strongly by leading 3-1 m the
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      Hanley's record
      51 22 Loose forward and British captain Eaiery Hanley set a rugby league scoring record m Wigan's English League match against Warrington on Sunday when he scored his 166 th try m the First Division. The previous best of 165 was set by Salford's former England rugby union winger Keith
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      Nykanen wins
      70 22 Olympic triple gold medalist Matti Nykanen, of Finland, won the second-leg of the traditional Four-Hill ski jumping tour by soaring 109 and 102 metres on Sunday. West German Dieter Thoma, who captured the first segment of the event m Oberstdorf two days earlier, managed only a fourth-place finish
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      MCC rethink
      67 22 MCC, cricket's most famous club, have been stung into action by the approach of the 21st century and may allow women to watch play from the pavilion at Lord's. The 202-year-old Marylebone Cricket Club, who administer Lord's, have asked their 18,000 members their views. In a news letter,
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      Curtis' best
      60 22 Irish athlete Gerry Curtis won the 24th running of Spain's St. Sylvester international footrace run over 7.6 km m an urban circuit m Madrid on Saturday night. Curtis outpaced other competitors m the last metres to win the race m 21min 49sec. Suleiman Nyambui, of Tanzania, was second
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      Gun fight
      58 22 Orient and Pacific Boxing Federation super featherweight champion Henky Gun, of Indonesia, will fight Tong Fepch, of Thailand, m a title bout next month, a boxing official said yesterday. Promotor Setyadi Laksono said Fepch had agreed to fight for T TSS2,OOO ($3,860) m a 12-round bout m the
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      Top team
      53 22 Australia's Danny Clark and Britain's Tony Doyle, top team on the European track cycling circuit, won the Cologne Six Days race on Sunday night. They finished a lap ahead of West Germany's Andreas Kappes and Roman Hermann, of Liechtenstein. Third were the Belgian pair of Stan Tourne and
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    • SCORES AND STATISTICS
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        AMERICAN FOOTBALL
        22 22 National Football League AFC semi-final: Buffalo Bills 17 Houston Oilers 10. NFC semi-final: San Francisco 49ers 34 Minnesota Vikings 9.
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        BASKETBALL
        15 22 World Invitation lub tournament semi-finals: Murray Livingston (Scot) 72 S. Union national team 66.
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        CRICKET
        153 22 Sheffield Shield m Brisbane: Queensland 184 and 170-6 (P. Clifford 61 n.0., B. Henschell 41, Ken MacLeay 3-36). Western Australia 293 (W. Andrews 82, T. Moody 69, M. Veletta 59, C. Rackemann 6-65, D. Tazelaar 3-57). Shell Cap one-day match m Wellington: Auckland bt New Plymouth Central Districts by
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        CYCLING
        45 22 Cologne six-day race, final standings: 1 Danny Clark (Aust) Tony Doyle (Brit) 288 pts One lap behind: 2 Andreas Kappes (WG) Roman Hermann (Liech) 265 3 Stan Tourne Etienne de Wilde (Bel) 250 10 laps behind: 4 Roland Guenther (WG) Hansruedi Maerki (Swit) 105.
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        ICE HOCKEY
        28 22 World Junior Championship m Auchorage, Alaska: Sweden 5 Canada 4, Finland 5 West Germany 3. National Hockey League: Toronto 3 Chicago 3, Montreal 4 Vancouver 0.
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        MOTOR RALLY
        81 22 Paris-Dakar rally, overall standings Cars: 1 Jacky Ickx Christian Tarin (Bel), Peugeot, 3hrs 56:27 2 Ari Vatanen Bruno Berglund (Fin) Peugeot. 6min behind 3 Patrick Zaniroli JeanMarc Andrie (Fra) 1.51:50 4 Henri Pescarolo Patrick Fourticq (Fra) Land Rover, 1.54:22 5 Patrick Tarnbay Dominique Lemoyne (Fra) Mitsubishi, 2.11:00. Motorcycles:
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        RUGBY
        60 22 English Div 1: Castleford 38 Bradford Northern 20, Leeds 48 Oldham 4, Wakefield 19 Featherstone 12, Widnes 29 St Helens 22, Wigan 26 Warrington 10. Div 2: Batley 14 Dewsbury 6, Carlisle 9 Whitehaven 8, Fulham 10 Rochdale 20, Hunslet 15 York 29, Keighley 28 Bramley 22, Leigh 40
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        TENNIS
        320 22 South Australian Open m Adelaide, Ist rd (Australians unless stated): Broderiek Dyke bt Johan Anderson 5-7 6-4 6-4. Neil Broad (SA) bt Tom Nijssen (Hoi) 7-5 3-6 6-1, Wally Masur bt Glenn Layendecker (US) 6-4 7-5, Mark Koevermans (Hoi) bt Simon Youl 6-4 6-2, Jason Stoltenberg bt Brad Drewett
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        VOLLEYBALL
        30 22 Women's two-day international tournament m Healing, England: China bt Peru 3-0 (15-8 16-14 15-5). Poland bt England 3-0 (15-6 15-9 15-4), Czechoslovakia bt Poland 3-1 (15-9 15-9 3-15 16-14).
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      Lock icon KL intend to make Fandi their coach
      549 23 KUALA LUMPUR Kuala Lumpur Football Association have grand plans for top striker Fandi Ahmad, which is why, much as they hate to see him go, they are willing to lose him to Europe. KLFA president Datuk Elyas Omar said yesterday that they have
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      Record crowds likely this year
      335 23  -  JOE DORAI reviews the opening day of soccer's Premier League CROWD support for this year's Premier League competition is expected to be an all-time high based on attendances at the three matches on opening day of the tournament last Sunday. There were more than 4,200
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      Poh Leong may decide on Friday
      262 23  -  JOE DORAI SINGAPORE national coach Seak Poh Leong is likely to decide on Friday whether to accept a three-year contract with the Football Association of Singapore. Poh Leong, whose two-year term of office expired last Saturday, is scheduled to meet FAS secretary Lav Teng
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    • THE LATE NEWS
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        Wimbledon strike at Venables
        98 23 Wimbledon's players have hit hack at public criticism from Tottenham manager Terry Venables that they are wrecking football with their long-ball style. Northern Ireland midfielder Lawrie Sanchez, scorer of the goal that won the London club the FA Cup last year, and forward Carlton Fairweather are
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        Build-up woes
        32 23 Nigeria's World Cup soccer build-up is m disarray as officials wait anxiously to hear from their "missing" West German coach Manfred Honer and players play truant from the training camp.
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        Davis out-cued
        30 23 World snooker champion Steve Davis crashed out of the Mercantile Credit Classic to world No. 51 Tony Chappel, of Wales, m the third round m Blackpool last night.
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        Flo-Jo again
        44 23 American triple Olympic gold medallist Florence Griffith-Joy-ner has been elected the 1988 Champion of Champions by an international jury of sports writers, French sports daily L'Equipe said yesterday. Second was East German swimmer Kristin Otto, winner of six Olympic ti f les.
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        Malik's present
        65 23 Aamir Malik celebrated his birthday a day early by making 90 runs and taking two wickets to help Pakistan to a 38-run victory over Australia m their World Series Cup one-day cricket match m Perth yesterday. Brief scores: Pakistan 216-7 m 49 overs (A. Malik 90, J. Miandad
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        Jurong win
        20 23 Jurong Town Selection beat Sweden's Eneby bergs IF 2-0 m a friendly soccer match at Jurong Stadium yesterday.
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      Parents and sister give Ardy support in person
      181 23 ARDY WIRANATA, one of Indonesia's leading badminton youngsters, will receive the support of his parents and sister who accompanied him to the Fuji Grand Prix finals starting tomorrow. Father Leo, mother Paula and sister Hedy decided to give him support for the
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      Icuk in confident mood
      444 23 Mahmood Gaznavi reports from Hongkong on the Grand Prix badminton finals ICUK SUGIARTO, Indonesia's top badminton player, feels he is m the right frame of mind to win the Fuji Grand Prix finals starting here tomorrow. The 27-year-old says he has just finished an intensive 10--day
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      387 21 Learn a new language m 3 months through LINGUAPHONE 1 INSTITUTE OF LONDON SSSSb** FIRST YOU THEN YOU THEN YOU ;gjU LISTEN UNDERSTAND SPEAK iSr" (Modern) Listening to cassettes specially programmed for As you listen, you follow what you hear m With Linguaphone you find yourself speaking the If| a
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    Man, 78, jumps to his death after slashing wife
    336 24  -  SHARON LIM By A 76-YEAR-OLD woman was seriously injured after her husband, aged 78, slashed her m the abdomen with a chopper before i jumping to his death from their fifth-storey Tiong j Bahru flat. The incident shocked i their neighbours,
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    Lock icon Giant card from US arrives in Moscow
    171 24 MOSCOW A gigantic New Year's greeting card carrying the signatures of 20,000 people from the United States arrived m Moscow on Sunday, the most festive holiday on the Soviet calendar. The card also carried drawings, photos and inscriptions wishing Soviet citizens a happy
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    Task force soon to be set up to help Malay students
    466 24 Its work will not duplicate Mendaki's programmes, but will build on them: Sidek A TASK force to map out a new strategy to improve the academic performance of Malay students is likely to be set up soon by Mr
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    2 Turf Club regulars robbed of $27,000
    521 24 First was going to races, second loses winnings TWO regular patrons of the Bukit Turf Club were robbed separately on Sunday of a total of more than $27,000 m cash and valuables. In the first robbery, two men pounced upon a businessman on
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    Lock icon 100,000-strong crowd marks funeral of Aung San's widow
    503 24 RANGOON Huge crowds, some singing anti-government songs, poured into the streets here yesterday to mark the funeral of the widow of national independence hero Aung San but dispersed peacefully after the ceremony. Witnesses said more than 100,000 people, led by Buddhist monks
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    Lock icon France to ease law on illegal migrants' repatriation
    223 24 PARIS France will ease a restrictive law which allows the authorities to repatriate suspected illegal immigrants, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. The move follows a New Year's anti-racism message by socialist President Francois Mitterrand who said he wanted "immediate revision of legal
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    Lock icon Fatal blast
    43 24 MOSCOW Two people were killed m an explosion at a fertiliser plant at Shohekino, about 200 km south of Moscow, the government paper Izvestia reported yesterday. A committee of inquiry had been set up to investigate the blast on Saturday. AFP
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    Lock icon 'Dink' is in but 'computer virus' is still out
    244 24 'Dink' is in but 'computer virus' is still out SPRINGFIELD (Massachusetts) The words "microwaveable," "dink" and "couch potato" may offend English-language purists but the United States' most popular dictionary is giving them legitimacy through inclusion m its new edition. In the absence of any official language monitors, the G. C.
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    Lock icon Restaurant chef cooks most costly meal
    167 24 HAVERFORDWEST (Wales) Chef Albert Grabham cooked the most expensive dish of his career this New Year's Day his restaurant's earnings from the night before. Mr Grabham hid the money collected on Saturday night m an oven, but forgot about it the next day when
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    • YOUNG TIMES
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        Lock icon A LONG STORY & A SHORT TALE
        510 1 A LONG STORY A SHORT TALE Pictures by and More letters on Page Four. 'Whatever my height, it's me.' So say teenagers who wrote about being tall or short. Husaine Amir, 18 (far left) WHEN I was 15, my height was 1.82 m. I was the tallest guy m school.
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        Nuclear madness among super powers
        824 2 Background Irene Pates IN December, 1987, the superpowers the United States of America and the Soviet Union agreed for the first time to reduce their medium-range nuclear weapons. This was the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. But both powers still have about 2,500 nuclear warheads each,
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        Why our life becomes better when the economy grows
        511 2  -  Murray Seeger ECONOMICS made easy EVERYONE wants to live better. All parents want their children to have a better life than they have. To make life belter, an economy must grow. Growth means there will be more money to spend, more
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        In Brief
        850 2 SINGAPORE'S seventh Parliament sits for the first time next Monday. The House (or Parliament) will meet to elect the new Speaker, Mr Tan Soo Khoon. Mr Tan is a Member of Parliament of the Brickworks Group Representation Constituency. Mr Tan, who is also the former Deputy Speaker, succeeds
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          LITTLE GIANTS
          122 2 HAVE you noticed how some boys and girls tower over their parents and are also much bigger than them? By the time he is 16. the Singapore boy is an average 1.72 m tall. This is 8.6 per cent taller than teenagers of the same age 14 years
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          BOYS ARE FATTER
          73 2 DID you know that obesity (or being overweight) is the second biggesl problem among schoolchildren these days? The first biggest problem is poor vision. For every 10.000 boys entering school m 1980. 441 were fat. In 19*7. the number of cases of obesity was 1,174 boys to
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          LAW-ABIDING CHILD
          58 2 THE Singapore child goes by the book and is law-abiding. For children below 16, 343 were charged m court last year. Of these, 340 were boys. Well, according to the nursery rhyme, little girls are made of "sugar and spice and everything nice" while little boys are made
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          WHAT YOU COST
          49 2 DO YOU know how much it costs your parents to raise you from the time you were born to the time you finish university education?. A good estimate is $90,000. That's what one family spent. But this included extras such as music, ballet and swimming lessons.
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          DENTAL FILLINGS
          47 2 THE average 12-year-old today has two fillings compared with six fillings for a child of the same age m 1970. If you're 12 years oid, why don't you check your set of teeth. Call us, if you think you have a record number of fillings.
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          IN THE NEWS
          94 2 DO YOU remember schoolboy Keh Chin Ann° He disappeared mysteriously with his classmate. Toh Hong Huat. m May 1986. Both boys were 12 years old then. They are still missing. Guo Chaoming is a 12-year-old who won two awards m a yeai through a single courteous gesture.
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        The brother I accept
        594 3 My Say BEING a true Singaporean, descended from educated immigrant great-grandparents from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on both sides of my family, I have a vested interest m the proposed national ideology. For a Second Language m school, I learn not my mother tongue Tamil, but
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        Mellow elderly can help the brash young
        493 3 A LETTER to the Forum Page of The Straits Times last week was written by a 16-year-old. The writer was upset by what some teenagers said about old people. Some teenagers had been quoted as saying old people "don't behave well", "don't take
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        The aged as seen through the video-eye
        257 3  - The aged as seen through the video-eye B. Sunuja SCHOOL of the week THE tale of an elderly person being abandoned at a home for the aged has been told often. But for four Audio-Visual Club members of St Joseph's Institution, it was a winning story. They won the annual
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        To write, be imaginative and kaypoh
        1277 3 Author Catherine Lim tells Juliet Chew how children can get started m creative writing HOBBY CHILDREN are reading extensively at an early age. Some are reading my books which are meant for adults, Little Ironies and Or Else The Lightning. They are very depressing
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        Lock icon The tall and short of it all
        440 4 A long story and a short tale Teens TOO TALL or too short whatever adjective you think fits you, the question to ask next is: "Too tall or too short for whom?" After all, somebody has to be the smallest m any group.
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      • THIS WEEK'S WINNING LETTERS
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          Please pull my legs
          176 4 AT one stage, I had my brother and sister pull each of my legs much to the amusement of the rest of my family while I lay on my back, m a bid to stretch my legs. I gave up after thinking how silly it was.
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          I'm losing the race
          254 4 WHEN I was m Secondary 1 and 2, I was one of the tallest m class. But as time passed by, many of my short classmates began to grow taller. Some of them are even taller than I am now These tall classmates of mine are
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          Please stop the sniggers
          192 4 I AM the butt of my friend's corny jokes as I am a diminutive 1.35 m. "Can you guess his standard?" is the inevitable question addressed to people meeting me for the first time. Those people would unfailingly guess anything from Primary 2 to 5, amidst
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          Tallboy comes in handy
          172 4 I'M around 1.82 m tall. But my size does not correspond with my height. I am definitely underweight. I prefer to describe myself as tall and slim. I've been nicknamed "Tallboy" (for the ignorant, that means a high chest of drawers), "Bamboo Stick" and "Mr Panjang"
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          First shall be last
          219 4 WHEN I started school, my teacher made the whole class line up according to height. I was the last girl. During my six years m primary school, I really hated my height. I was always last to get to do everything. Every year, I sat at
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          Blame it on junk food
          304 4 MY size is comparable to a 12-year-olds. I'm barely 1.54 m and hit the scales at 40.5 kg. I'm not exactly short but my extra-small frame makes me look smaller than I really am. Hence the nicknames: "Xiao Mei-mei" (little sister, which is the mildest),
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          My short and likeable steady
          165 4 MY boyfriend is shorter than I. He's already 18 and his growth has slowed down. His whole family is short too. I'm still growing and come from a family of "giraffes". The latest trend of thick-soled boots makes me even taller, by an extra two
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          Very feminine, very tall
          176 4 I'M 16 and already 1.76 m tall. If that is not a problem, I don't know what is. On group dates, I feel more like a chaperone than one of the crowd because I'm taller than everyone else. The boys I like never like me. They
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        More talk, less worry for parents
        565 4 THOUGHT for Tuesday AS teenagers, we are slowly getting rid of the childish thoughts we once used to have and we are slowly maturing on our way to becoming adults. As you know, adults think a lot and m much greater depth. Since we
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        415 3 More of 'Singapore 9 m Singapore Business Red carpet treatment is becoming the norm not only m the hospitaliy industry hut m hospitals. To woo patients. J*fj^w BW_ai^^^^H^^a^B private clinics are going high-tech and pampering the J^__^^jl__fWj^^mm^ y^ "y^M s c k w >th first-class services that even hoteliers are
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        64 4 hj; T f^jCj/JDi i£*J A A mule and a donkey were carrying a load of sacks. The donkey groaned. The mule asked: "Why are you complaining? If you gave me one sack, I would have twice as many as you. "If I gave you one of my sacks, we would
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        105 4 The lure of pop music NETTY Salmiyati Senawi, 15, suggested this week's topic. She wants to know: "How do teenagers feel when they listen to songs, pop, sentimental, slow, heavy-metal, etc? Which type of songs are most popular among teenagers? What do the lyrics of a song mean to a
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    • Arts & Leisure
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        All in the family
        488 5  -  Griselda Loo By LIKE father, like son. That is the story of the Chan family. Conductor and violin teacher'Chan Yong Shing had his first lessons from his father, an amateur musician. Today, the tradition is carried on through his son. Chan Yoong Han, 14, has been
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        Watts the name to remember in March
        568 5  -  Kannan Chandran By MANY will probably remember him for his Grammy-win-ning version of Vangelis' Chariots Of Fire. But there is a lot more to Ernie Watts than just that racy tune. Watts, 43, is one of the most versatile reedmen around and a
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        Lock icon TV station for Indonesia's elite
        420 5  -  Bill Tarrant By INDONESIA'S newly-emerg-ing middle class is tuning m to L.A. Law and slick advertising with the return of commercial television to the country after a seven-year break. The government m 1981 banned advertising on the country's only television station, state-run TVRI, saying it
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        14 5 What's On and radio programmes on Page Twenty-three. Pop Parade will appear on Friday.
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        Risk that paid off for Taiwan reporter
        797 6  -  CHEW SENG KIM Hsu Lv, a woman journalist from Taiwan, made headlines m the world press a year ago when she and a colleague openly defied an official ban on travels to China. What has she been doing since then? Chong Wing Hong
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        Where there's still hope for a Chinese teahouse culture
        615 6 A BLIND man m a white cotton shirt and sunglasses was sitting on a brown wooden stool before the painted stone wall. A score of old people sat still on worn bamboo chairs tasting tea, while a quick, neat waitress busied
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        Opera songs, dances and music by Up-and-comers
        337 6  -  Goh Beng Choo THE Chinese Theatre Circle is staging its first Up-and-comers' concert to put its young members m the limelight. Up-and-comers are a group of opera enthusiasts m their 20s who joined the troupe a year or two ago to learn opera
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        Taking Malay writing to the world
        491 7  -  S. Jaafar Husin Malay Literature is a new journal which seeks to introduce to the world the works of Malay writers m and outside of South-east Asia. Anuar Othman meets its editor OBJECTIVE: To promote creative writing m Malay. Target: The world. Strategy: To
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        First issue focuses on Malaysians
        259 7 THE first issue of Malay Literature begins with an article called Contemporary Malaysian Literature by well-known writer and lecturer from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Professor Muhammad Haji Salleh. Out of 13 contributors, 12 are Malaysian writers and one, Budi Darma, is Indonesian. From the second
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        Sastera Melayu untuk tatapan dunia
        335 7 PARA penulis Indonesia. Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam dan Singapura yang menulis dalam bahasa Melayu kini berpeluang mennampilkan karya kreatif mereka ke dunia luar. Memandangkan bahasa Inggeris adalah bahasa dunia yang penting, penonjolan karya mereka dalam bentuk terjemahan akan membuka mata masyarakat asing bahawa karya berbahasa Melayu
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