The Straits Times, 29 January 1995

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  • 11 1 The Sunday Tmes No: 3051 55 CENTS MITA(P) 025 12 94
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  • 672 1 'Each community has to feel that it has all the room it needs to express its identity and culture. It must not feel hemmed in by the others, especially by the majority Chinese community.' BG Lee. THE Government aims to
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  • 158 1 Rescued from the lift by a long-distance phone call JOHANNESBURG An international call on a mobile telephone helped save a chronically claustrophobic man trapj>ed in a lift here, said the Star newspaper When the lift shuddered to a halt prematurely, the 24-year old unnamed man pressed the alarm but no
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  • 406 1 Agreement on opening liaison offices signed HANOI The Cnited States and Vietnam took a major stride towards full diplomatic relations by signing an agree ment yesterday which clears the way for the former <-ne mies to open liaison offices in each other's
    AP; Reuter  -  406 words
  • 879 1  - PM: Europe-Asia summit likely in 10-16 months Hen Fook Kwang By I m Davos Weak signals 'Channels of communication between Europe and East Asia are weak. It is as though we are using radio waves instead of fibre optics for communications.' Prime Minister Goh. A FIRST-EVER summit meeting o! European
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 520 2  -  Irene Ngoo By >n Geneva Negotiators work over weekend to narrow gap TRADE negotiators from im porting and exporting nations are continuing last-ditch talks over the weekend to try to narrow their differences over a textile dispute that mayforce the postponement of
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    • 189 2 KUALA LUMPUR A 57-year-old Austrian tourist was shot dead early on Friday in a struggle with a group of assailants in his hotel room, police said. Mr Zakaria Mohamad, an officer in the police Criminal Investigations Department, said Mr Rudolf
      AP; Bernama  -  189 words
    • 49 2 SURROUNDED by a sea of flood waters, some inhabitants of the Dutch village of Itteren were evacuated by a mechanical shovel on Thursday. I Itteren was completely isolated by high water after the river Mense overflowed its banks following heavy rain falls AFP picture.
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    • 492 2 BEIJING Last-ditch SinoUS talks on their copyright protection dispute ended in failure here yesterday, leaving both sides on the brink of a destructive trade war. "We have concluded the talks and we have not reached an agreement," said Mr Lee Sands, deputy
      Reuter; AP; AFP  -  492 words
    • 139 2 CAIRO Greek archeolo gists have found two documents at a temple in Egypt' 8 western desert saying that Alexander the Great was buried at the site, antiquities officials said yesterday Mr Abdel Italian Nur Ed din. chairman of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation, went to
      AFP  -  139 words
    • 486 3 Work attachment to be included MENDAKIS Enrichment Programme for top Malay Muslim students will be extended beyond secondary school level to junior college level this year The extension is necessary because many students from the programme's pioneer batch, who sat their GCE
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    • 121 3 BEIJING Flaming wreckage of B Chinese rocket that exploded during failed satellite launch killed six people and injured 23 near the south China launch site Xinhua news agency said yesterday The Chinese-made Long March booster exploded about 40 seconds after launch
      Reuter  -  121 words
    • 201 3 THE Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) had a chance to try out two of its 11 new water-cannon-equipped fire engines yesterday when a fire broke out along Rochor Canal After the SCDF was informed of the fire at about 5.20 pm.
      LIM SIN THAI  -  201 words
    • 489 3 'What I said, to be more accurate, is that my father is not as healthy as before. What I was trying to say is that he was getting older and older Ms Deng, who denied saying her father's hearth was declining day by day.
      AFP; Reuter; AP; Xinhua  -  489 words
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    • 445 2 Seoul bent on pushing its candidate for WTO post: Page 7 XjkT' ®P hsbß pr Was mmm Shunted at Gilstead Road and Gentle Road of District II Opposite the Novena MRT Station 'The Exclusive Residential Area Nearest to the City Centre Prestigious 3-Storey Semi-Detached Bungalows and 2-Storey Detached Bungalows ■Yaa^Baa
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    • 105 3 Pupils do well, thanks to AMP scheme: Pg 16 i PERFORMANCE MOTORS WISHES ALL OUR CUSTOMERS A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. To celebrate the Lunar New Year, our workshops and offices at Alexandra Road and Dunearn Road will be closed from 31st January to 2nd February. In the unlikely event
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  • WORLD
    • 569 4  -  Han Fook Kwang World Economic Forum Strategy to get others to lower their tariffs if there are threats of protectionism By m Davos picture. Here's the rationale 'My own view is if Apec simply gives away whatever it has agreed for one
      Reuter  -  569 words
    • 627 4  -  Warren Fernandez By in Davos EAST Asia and the West should learn from each other and try to reach a balance between their competing views on how to organise their societies. Professor Tommy Koh said yesterday. Asians, he said, needed to
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    • 207 4  -  SINGAPORE would host the Fourth Europe-East Asia Summit a meeting of top government officials, businessmen and academics in September, a spokesman for the World Economic Forum said yesterday. The conference is one of several annual meetings organised by the WEF, a Geneva-based independent
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    • 273 4 Davos a paradise for networking among high-powered individuals DAVOS (Switzerland) Making friends and influenc ing people can be a key asset to any business and at the World Economic Forum's Davos annual meeting, the net working is like the skiing ab solutely first-class The whole six-day talkfesi ostensibly to brainstorm
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    • 432 5 NEW DELHI The split within India's ruling Congress Party was reaching a climax with Prime Minister P V. Narasimha Rao laying formal party charges against leading dissident Arjun Singh, newspapers said yesterday A "show cause' notice served on the former Cabinet
      Reuter; AFP  -  432 words
    • 372 5 WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton's US$4O-billion (SssB-billion) loan-guarantee package for Mexico is in serious trouble in Congress because the administration has failed to convince the public that it is needed. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has said Despite two days of high-profile lobbying
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    • 201 5 picture. WASHINGTON Kven the most powerful man In the world finds It hard to compete for attention with the sensational O. J. Simpson murder trial. IS President Bill Clinton said as much on Friday at a meeting on welfare reform, which, despite
      Reuter; AP  -  201 words
    • 232 5 UNITED NATIONS Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) negotiators on Friday failed to reach agreement on how to vote for an extension of the key 1970 arms pact credited with limiting the spread of atomic weapons over the past 25 years. Signatories to the NPT
      Reuter  -  232 words
    • 772 6  -  Felix Soh UN plan aims to fight poverty, unemployment and social alienation •y 'This is the first time in history that we have reached a consensus that poverty is morally and politically intolerable. Ambassador Juan Somavia of Chile. 'We are firmly convinced that major
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    • WORLDFILE
      • 65 6 Vice-President Ai uore on Friday directed Voice sf America (VOA) to shut down its radio broadcasts in western Europe and ordered a streamlining at the State Department and three foreign-affairs agencies Mr Gore said that he was ordering "a major restructuring and integration of the government's foreign-affairs
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      • 51 6 Saudi Arabia yesterdav denied claims by Yemeni President All Abdallah Saleh that Siiuiii troops had massed along then disputed border 'President All Abdallah Salens remarks to th»- BBC that the Saudis had concentrated then troops on the border with Yemen are without foundation." a Saudi official said
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      • 65 6 Five Islamic militants, two civilians and one policeman were killed yesterday in clashes in southern Egypt, bringing the death toll in unrest sin^e Friday to 18 Sixty-eight people including 36 militants and 23 policemen have been killed so far this month, making it the deadliest since the militants
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      • 68 6 Gunmen shooting from cars killed three men in South Africa's Soweto township yesterday, bringing to at least 11 the number of people who died violently nationwide in the past 24 hours The number of killings in the past 24 hours was not unusually high in a South Africa
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      • 58 6 The Smithsonian Institution on Friday destroyed nude pictures taken decades ago of Yale University students who were not aware that the pictures were used to advance a since-discredited research. From the 40s to the 60s. researcher W H Sheldon took photos as part of his research on
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    • 603 7  -  Irene Ngoo By n Geneva While the WTO had the machinery and people in place, "the ship cannot leave the harbour because there is still no captain". A WTO official. AS TRADE leaders from the United States and European Union meet
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    • 192 7 JERUSALEM Israeli forces raided an Islamic college in the occupied West Bank and arrested suspected militants in a crackdown spurred by a suicide bombing earlier in the week, the army said on Friday It did not say how many people were arrested in the
      Reuter  -  192 words
    • 588 8 Analysts expect Federal Reserve to act on Tuesday to pre-empt inflation WASHINGTON News that the United States economy grew at a strong 4.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year means that the Federal Reserve will probably raise interest rates by
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    • 114 8 NEW YORK United States blue-chip stocks closed lower on Friday as investors sold the shares of economically sensitive companies because of mounting fears that the Federal Reserve will boost short-term interest rates again this week. But stocks in the broader market held steady as long-term
      Reuter; Los Angeles Times  -  114 words
    • DATELINE: ASIA
      • 22 8 Gen Arthit: "Wives seem to agree on the need to share everything except our pay cheques."
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      • 152 8  -  LEE SIEW HI A THAILAND: A recent constitutional amendment granted equal rights to men and women but. as Thai Deputy Prime Minister Arthit Kamlang-ek noted, with tongue firmly in cheek, nothing much has changed in so far as the purse strings at
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      • 93 8  -  PAUL JACOR INDONESIA: Administrative Reforms Minister T.B Silalahi, faced with a long wait at the Bandung airport for his return to Jakarta, found that it was useful to have friends in high places. An aircraft delay last week forced the minister to remain at the airport
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      • 113 8  -  KHAN WENG KIN JAPAN: One of the many nurses taking care of injured survivors of the earthquake in western Japan on Jan 17 has been through a traumatic experience herself Miss Keiko Kawakami was one of a few miracle survivors of a jumbo-jet crash in Japan
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      • 124 8  -  NIRMAL GHOSH THE PHILIPPINES: The ruling coalition in Manila is stepping up its rhetoric campaign against congressman Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who will bid for a Senate seat in May elections Mr Marcos grabbed the headlines some days ago when Kris Aquino gave him a kiss on
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      • 74 8  -  MARY KWANG HONGKONG: Home Affairs Secretary Michaei Suen. 50, gave his views on marriage proposals at a recent dinner reception He said: "I didn't ask for my future wife's hand by getting down on my knees because only a fool would propose that way." Neither
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 452 7 SINGAPORE General *>ndy aW pas&ng I Htoh Sunset today: showers r the afternoon l|| 32 719 P" 1 ■II i n_- Sunrise tomorrow at n6am For an update on the local weather. caß 542-7788 AIR QUALITY. Good PSI: 30 The PSI reflects an average reading over a 24 -hour period
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 198 9 Fragile Kobe buildings hit by mild aftershock KOBE A mild aftershock jolted fragile highway overpasses and apartment buildings in downtown Kobe yesterday, rattling the wreckage from a massive quake that ripped through the port city 11 days ago. The morning jolt yesterday, of 3.0 magnitude, was among the largest of
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    • 576 9 Why March? US tinder-Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Jeffrey Garten (right) says "the end of March is an important date for us" as: It marks the end of the Japanese fiscal year. It is the date set by the
      AFP; Reuter; AP  -  576 words
    • 39 9 picture. AFP South Koreans crowding the traditional Harndaamoon market in downtown Seoul on Friday before the Lunar New Year. rVaaons of Seoul residents are expected to leave for their hometowns during the holidays.
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    • 413 9 It must reflect changing realities: Taipei TAIPEI Taiwan said on Friday that it would reshuffle its highest advisory body dealing with the issue of reunifying with China to reflect changing realities in its relations with its powerful neighbour. The National Unification Council, which advises President
      Reuter  -  413 words
    • IN A NUTSHELL
      • 82 9 China's state-owned Xian Aircraft Company was taking orders (or a newly developed low-cost two-seat aircraft, the Eaglet 100, Xinhua news agency said yesterday. With a price tag of 110,000 yuan (SJ18.720), the plane could be used for sports, flight training, aerial photography and tourism, the official agency
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      • 65 9 Hongkong legislators called for a meeting with government officials yesterday to discuss a recent 'incident" at the nearby Daya Hay nuclear power plant, and stressed that more communication might help quell unnecessary fears The Hongkong Nuclear Investment Co Ltd said two French maintenance workers were very slightly contaminated
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      • 78 9 Tare abducted women who kdled their abusive husbands with axes after related attempts to flee failed were sentenced to jail, the Tianjin Kvening News rapertad yesterday The defendants, Li Liqun and Kan Zhiqun. were kidnapped at the age of 19 and 18 respectively from their farm
        UPI  -  78 words
      • 82 9 Eighty gamblers, including 30 Communist Party members and 40 party and government officials, were arrested during a recent raid on an underground gambling den in southern China's Hainan ihe China News Service rtod that 13 managers of panics, the majority of 'h are state-owned, were he illicit
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      • 60 9 china plans to provide Improved protect km and support for the endangered giant panda in south western Sichuan province by investing nearly US$6O million (5586.4 million) to improve its living conditions There are about 1,000 giant pandas in the country, all in the mountainous areas of the province.
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    • 293 9 HONGKONG One of the largest contracts in the development of Hongkong's new airport had been awarded to a Chinese, Japanese, British and local joint venture, the territory's Provisional Airport Authority (PAA) said yesterday. The HKSIO.I billion (Ssl.9 billion) contract for the passenger
      AP; Reuter; Bloomberg  -  293 words
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 373 10  - Jakarta plans stricter curbs on distribution of alcoholic drinks Simon Sinaga By in Jakarta THE Indonesian government has announced measures to in.pose stricter controls on the sale and distribution of alcoholic drinks throughout the country. Health Minister Sujudi said his ministry and the ministries of trade and industry, which will
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    • 299 10 PHNOM PENH Cambodia's top economic boosters, the Cambodian Investment Board (CIB), plan aa international campaign to attract badly needed foreign capital to tao country. "We're still finalising oar programme bat we will certainly be making major presentations la London aa well aa a number of
      Reuter  -  299 words
    • 61 10 These Thai women in Trang province have become fishermen. This is because the depletion of fish in the coastal seas has robbed their fishermen husbands of their livelihood. But there is no paradox. The women are fishing within a 3-km coastal zone where the large trawlers used
      Bangkok Post  -  61 words
    • 213 10 YANGON Operators of Europe's Orient Express and the junta in Myanmar signed a US$35 million (5551.5 million) contract on Friday to operate a floating hotel and a river cruise liner in Myanmar The contract was signed between a government agency, military-owned Union
      AP; AFP  -  213 words
    • 209 10 CEBU Negotiations between the Philippines and the United States to amend a bi lateral air-transport agreement are deadlocked and will have to continue in October according to officials. "We are proposing amendments that would grant the Philippines reciprocal rigBBJ but it looks like
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    • REGIONALFILE
      • 65 10 The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Cambodian armed forces flew into the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet on Friday for a "top secret" meeting with a Thai regional army commander. General Nhek Bunchay. who arrived by helicopter from the north-western Cambodian province of Siem Reap, discussed "military
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      • 66 10 Thailand's public debts totalled 637.6 billion baht (5536.1 billion) at the end of last year, up 25.9 per cent on the previous year, a news report said in Bangkok yesterday. Of the total. 3356 billion baht, or 52 6 per cent, was owed to external creditors and
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      • 58 10 Vietnamese police had seized a record 15.2 kg of heroin and arrested two foreigners caught with the drug in a car, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan army newspaper reported in Hanoi yesterday. Since Vietnam introduced the death penalty for drug trafficking in December 1992, the courts have sentenced
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      • 54 10 A newly wed couple and seven other people drowned when their boat sank in the Yangon River after a collision with a bigger ferry, the City News has reported There were 17 passengers in the unlicensed smaller boat when it sank on Jan 23. the newspaper said in
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      • 62 10 The leader of the Muslim secessionist movement returned yesterday amid tight security to attend the third round of talks to settle the more-than-two decade-long conflict in the southern part of the Philippines Moro National Liberation Front chairman Nur Misuari arrived in Zamboanga city with a 115-member security force,
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 518 11 Don't depend forever on privileges: Mahathir KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir has said that the Malays should be able to compete with the other races in the country without being accorded any protection and privileges by the year 2020
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    • 326 11  -  Kalimullah Hassan By n Kuala Lumpur .n.ILn 101.1 ami iiiaiiiiiiu have expressed confidence that the territorial dispute at their joint border in Padang Besar could be resolved by the end of this year Speaking at a joint news conference
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    • 115 11 Batik pottery that is also a plug for Malaysia HATIh patten en display at Malaysia's handicraft centre, karyaneka, in Kuala Lumpur. Managing director Abdul Halini Daod, t»een with one of the pieces, sa\ s the pottery is being exported worldwide ok a handicraft that will also promote the country. The
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    • 220 11 PEKAN Malaysia wants the new United Nations military commander in BosniaHerzegovina to ensure Serbs comply with the latest peace plan put together by international mediators. Berita Harian Malaysia yesterday quoted Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as
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    • 169 11 KUALA LUMPUR Amsteel Corporation Berhad yesterday expressed regret over the Singapore Government's decision to impose an interim an-ti-dumping duty of Sslll per tonne on its reinforced steel bars. In a statement here, the company said that it was expressing regret even though the investigation
      Bernama  -  169 words
    • 137 11 MADAM Chan Ah Chin, 78, has been staying at the Kuala Kubu Baru District Hospital in Selangor for the past four years. She said on Friday that her two children had not visited her since she was warded in 1991. "I
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    • MALAYSIAFILE
      • 56 11 Malaysia has detained 12 tankers on suspicion of illegal entry and for carrying out desludging and cleaning activities in the waters off Johor. Johor Harbour Master Captain Zulkarnain Ayub said on Friday that three of the 12 vessels were found to have carried out cleaning operations and had
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      • 71 11 Malaysia had banne<l the import of Indonesian cakes, popularly known BB kueh lapis, because they contained excessive amounts of ascorbic acid and benzoic acid that could lead to cancer and gastric problems. Health Minister Datuk Let Kim Sai Mid I'tusan Malaysia reported that among the brands of Indonesian
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      • 66 11 Malaysian Syariah courts need to expedite divorce proceedings so that affected wives will not face undue hardship caused by delays, National Unity and Social Development Minister Datuk Napsiah Omar has said. The Sun yesterday quoted her as saying that there were many cases which had dragged on for
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      • 78 11 Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik yesterday ordered a stop to media exchanges between the parties involved in the Msl.s billion (Sfflßß million) electric commuter-train service over the delay in implementing the project All parties must commit themselves to the work to meet the Oct
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  • HOME
    • 628 12  -  Brendan Pereira Success of pilot project convinces lawyers ■y AMONG the 197 cases which have been settled through the Court Dispute Resolution scheme since June last year were: A DEFAMATION case brought by a plaintiff against someone who made remarks during a dispute
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    • 158 12 11! Look out poachers and illegal fishermen. Here comes the lean, mean, patrol machine. This Toyota Landcruiser Hardtop four-wheel-drive a gift presented to the National Parks Board by Borneo Motors yesterday will be used for daily ranger patrols in parks and reserves. Up until now,
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    • 317 12 Info on body received Johor police make search Sack with grisly contents found THE skeletal remains of Catholic High School student Ang Choon Foong have been found in Johor, over three months after he was kidnapped by a gang. Johor police made the
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    • 254 12 FOUR men assaulted and robbed the owner of a neighbourhood department store in Tanjong Pagar Plaza on Friday. Thev made off with $461,500 Police said that the owner, Mr Lim Hock Bee, 47. and an employee were on their way to buy
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    • 322 14 THE hongbao today is no longer a small red envelope which stains vour fingers easily A Sunday Times check found that packets are bigger to- accommodate modern genjflpDsity and are artistically aesigned. unlike the plain red ifljaes of yesteryear Fox
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    • 668 14  -  Tan Hsueh Yun Wrangle over property bequeathed to NKF Two children of late businessman Lucky Tan express pride in father's actions By We were surprised and happy that my father donated the money to the NKF. We are very proud of him. 'I remember that
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    • 223 14 A DRUG rehabilitation centre inmate on the Revised Electronic Monitoring Scheme cut her EMS tag in a bid to escape monitoring by drug officers, but was sent to jail for three months instead. Chand Kaur, 36, was arrested after Central Narcotics
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    • 237 14 TEMPTED by an unguarded refrigerator placed along a flat corridor, a store assistant tried to steal $20 worth of uncooked chicken wings, prawns, fish and potato chips. However, Abdul Latiff Abdul Rahim, 36, failed to make a quick getaway and was caught
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    • 675 15  -  Alan John Bert Wee Reports by and THERE are seven good rea JBons why the speed limit on Holland Road is 50 kmh and flkely to stay unchanged. That is the number of people who have died in accidents over the past three years on
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    • 537 15 TRAFFIC Police Commander Benedict Cheong answers some questions on the new speed detection cameras. Does the camera catch only motorists who speed in the fast lane? No. All lanes are covered, and motorists have been caught speeding in the slow and middle lanes too. Is it
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    • WHAT THEY SAY
      • 108 15 "THE speed limits can be increased because car engineering has improved. The build quality of both Japanese and European cars has become much better and they are now much safer. 'Raising the limit to 90 kmh on the expressways would be all right as many people
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      • 101 15 "In Singapore, people seldom plan their journeys. If you have to get to the office at a certain time, you should plan how long it will take and give yourself an allowance. If not, you'll always be rushing. And then? You get impatient and look for
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      • 92 15 "While 80 kmh is all right for highways, I think the speed limit should be lowered, not raised, on certain roads. "In housing estates, there are schoolchildren and the elderly on the roads and they are sometimes not careful when they cross the roads. I think
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      • 48 15 "Whether you have a family will affect how you drive. When they have children themselves, people will be more careful." Teacher Magdalene Ng, 35, mother of two. Her pet peeve: Motorists who speed in shopping centre carparks just to get a parking lot first.
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      • 77 15 "Motorists are basically impatient, and when they see a pedestrian crossing, they'll just zoom by if they can. "Over here, the pedestrian is not king. Sometimes when I stop to let people cross, they get so startled and they dash across like they're afraid I'll
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      • 56 15 The only way fine them "Some people just become very aggressive behind the wheel. I think they are kiasu and don't want to lose out so they become impatient and can't wait for others. Basically, unless you fine them, you can't do much. It's hard to change people's behaviour overnight."
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    • 32 15 Several weeks ago. j i nr Yomeishu is a 400 -year-old Japanese health tonic containing 14 herbs that... ...reduces fatigue, improves blood circulation, increases appetite and strengthens your body.
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    • 411 16  -  Geraldine Kan By PRtx>K of the power of plastic Last year, the Community Chest received $1 4 million from people donating money by credit cud The number of donors, mostly people from higher-in-come groups, has also been increasing, said the National Council
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    • 331 16 A GROUP of Malay pupils who might have failed their Primary 6 examinations last year passed them, thanks to an education programme run by the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP). The AMP's Upper Primary Programme helped 61 per cent of the pupils to
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    • 490 16 One who crossed over ONE in 10 police national servicemen sign up as regulars The Sunday Times speaks to one Responding to an armed robbery convinced Constable Seow Quak Keong (above) to rejoin the Police Force as a regular after his
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    • 347 17  -  Malcolm Bastians KL ROUND-UP Bv APPRENTICE Sofhan Abdul Latif, defying Sungai Basra uphill straight with front-run-ning tactics, eclipsed his more experienced colleagues at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The 20-year-old rookie, who has. never been in the limelight since ho first started out in
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    • 267 17 US RACING HALLANDALE (Florida) Holy Bull, already voted the three-year-old champion race horse of last year, was resting in Barn No. 3 at Gulfstream Park on Friday night while 75-year-old Jimmy Croll. his owner and trainer, flew to Washington to gather the biggest
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 328 18 850 Deaths 850 Deaths 850 Deaths 850 Deaths 850 Deaths CHUA TECK MENG Age 78 caßad noma to bo with the Lord Jesus on 28.1.95. Seaßa mis— d by loved ones. Wife: Eng Ski Hong Bona: Daughters-in-law: •-,«■>•• i g rereea Chua Eng Bung. Andrew Seah Geok S>*i- MM) Chut
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    • 173 18 851 Acknowledgements 851 Acknowledgements 851 Acknowledgements 851 Acknowledgements 1 The Family Of The Late MR. SIM CHWEE LYE Departed on 23 Jan. 1995 Wishes to express their heartfelt thanks appreciation to the former President of The Republic Of Singapore, Mr. Wee Kim Wee, relatives, friends, colleagues business associates for their
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 545 19 PREVIEW SUPER BOWL MIAMI In a week of endless interviews, only one question left Carmen Policy momentarily speechless. What if the San Francisco 49ers lose the Super Bowl? The team president gave the inquiring reporter a puzzled stare, his mouth open, but silent.
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    • 1130 19 Cantona' s woes not over yet Palace bans fan In Cantona case LONDON Crystal Palace has banned its supporter, who taunted Manchester United's Eric Cantona in their notorious clash at Selhurst Park on Wednesday night Matthew Simmons reportedly shouted abuse at Can tona after the Frenchman was sent off in
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    • 306 19 ONE of the major story lines tor Super Bowl XXIX has been the attempt of San Francisco quarterback Steve Young to win the NFL title after his predecessor. Joe Montana, won four with the 49ers. Said San Francisco coach George Seifert: "Steve has played some games that have equalled
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    • 224 19 ASIAN CLUB CSHIP BANGKOK Thai Farmers will take on Qatar's AI Arabi here today, aiming to become the first club to retain the Asian Club Championship title. The clash was set up after the two sides won their semifinals at the National Stadium in differing styles
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    • SOCCER STARS MAKING HEADLINES
      • 144 19 ZURICH World soccer's governing body confirmed on Friday that Saudi Arabia striker Majed Abdullah had overtaken former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton as the international game's most capped player. Fifa said in its latest newsletter that Majed, 35, also known as Majed Ahmed
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      • 157 19 RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian star Romario made a disap pointing return to South American football on Friday, with drawing to boos after 75 minutes of his new side Flamengo's 1-1 draw in a friendly with Uruguay Romario. bought by the Rio club for
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    • 1133 19 RACE 1: Yin replaced John on Resolute Star when the latter was certified unwell Apprentice Oh became unbalanced on jumping, resulting in Tevero being slow into stride On jumping. Resolute Star was inconvenienced when Linford Din (Sharrol) laid out Rounding the turn at
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    • 1493 20  -  Tay Chang Khoon By Tay Cheng Khoon reports from Manila on the Johnnie Walker Classic golf tournament Upstarts rock the rankings MANILA Two young "upstarts" from the Australasia Tour gate-crashed the all-star party in the third round of the £600,000 ($1.36 million) Johnnie
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    • 194 20 Johnnie WaJker (lassie 3rd rd scores (British unless stated): 28C Fred Couples (US) 72 67 67 288 Michael Campbell (NZ) 74 68 66 288 Robert Allenby (Aust) 71 70 68. Colin Montgomerie 73 68 68. Nick Price (Zim) 71 67 71 SI I Andrew Coltart 70 72 69. Robert
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    • 693 20  - Knuth's record round gives her title Lee Yulin By Picture by RESULTS 1 2tH Estefania Knuth <Spn 75 67 6»> 211 Huang Yui'hcn [Bi 72 iiy tiy ;ii Corriae Dibnah (Ausl 7: 70 6y 212 Dak lead (UK) IB 71 7! 213 Lisa BackaW) (UK) 70 IB n 2IC Uaa
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    • 243 20 TENNIS is responsible for Estefania Knuth's introduction to golf. The Spaniard from Barcelona raptured the Singapore leg of the kosaido Asnhi Golf Ladies Asia Golf Circuit at the TonoJi Meroh Country Club'a Garden course yesterday with her three-day score of 288. The 21 -year
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    • 385 20 BADMINTON Japan Open, Men's s-flnals: Her van to Arbi (Indon) bt Ardv Wiranata (Indon) 15-6 10-15 15-4. Joko Suprian lo Indon bt Alan Budikusuma (Indon 15-4 15-3 Women's sflnals: Susi Susanti (Indon i bt Ye Zhaoving (Chi) 11-5 113. Bang Soo-Hvun (SK> bt Lim Xiaoqing (Swe) 11-3
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    • 214 21 'You alright Pete? We can do this tomorrow.' Jim Courier, after noticing Pete Sampras in emotional distress during the fifth aet of their epic five-set quarter-final. You think that when you have a stadium with a roof, you've got all your angles covered.' Andre
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    • 964 21 Australian Open Tennis Championship women's singles final Pierce's win a triumph over herself too MELBOURNE Mary Pierce's triumph over Spaniard Aranxa Sanchez Vicario yesterday gave her one of the crown jewels of tennis and. perhaps moie remarkably, a triumph over herself and
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    • 481 21 BASKETBALL: NBA PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia 76ers was calling for an exorcist after its latest heartbreak on Friday. Danny Ainge made a steal and a free throw with under two seconds left to give the Phoenix Suns a 108-107 win over Philadelphia. It was Phoenix's seventh straight
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    • 175 21 BADMINTON TOKYO Susi Susanti yesterday moved a step closer to a stunning fourth consecutive title at the Japan Open that would crown an amazing comeback since a surprise upset at last year's Asian Games. Indonesia's world and Olympic champion beat
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    • 378 21 ARANTXA Sanchez Vicario will still become world No 1 even though she lost the Australian Open final to Mary Pierce yesterday. Sanchez would have replaced inactive Steffi Graf at the top of the rankings with victory here But she will now get the No. 1 ranking on a
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  • The Sunday Times
    • 312 22  -  Peter Khoo SOCCER by THE FOOTBALL Association of Singapore has decided to meet with its Malaysian counterpart to discuss the Republic's future participation in the Malaysian Premier League and Malaysia Cup. But no date has been fixed for the meeting. Timesport learnt
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    • 222 22 AT LEAST 30 Malaysian footballers have confessed to fixing matches over the past two years. But, said a high-ranking Malaysian police source yesterday, not all will be charged in court. He said: "Even though some of them confessed, there is insufficient evidence to charge
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    • 204 22 MALAYSIAN footballers implicated in match-fixing will be suspended until they have been cleared by the authorities. But if they have contracts with state teams, they will continue to be paid full salaries. Football Association of Malaysia deputy president Tengku Abdullah said: "Those with existing contracts with
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    • 782 22 MELBOURNE Mary Pierce kept the ball deep and pounced on Arantxa Sanchez Vicario's mistakes yesterday to win the Australian Open women's singles final her first Grand Slam title. Pierce, the No. 4 seed, defeated top seed Sanchez Vicario 6-3.
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    • 395 22 WBA may strip Foreman of his crown BOXING NEW YORK The World Boxing Association championship committee unani mously voted on Friday to de ny George Foreman's request to fight Axel Schulz and threatened to strip him of his world title if he does Foreman is scheduled to fight the German
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    • 570 22  -  Joe Dorai ATHLETICS By TALENTED student athletes have been urged to consider a career in athletics as the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association and Schools were prepared to help them attain excellence. SAAA president Loh Lin Kok said yesterday that the time had come for junior
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    • THE LATE NEWS
      • 330 22 ON a day when its challengers were busy with their Football Association Cup programme, Blackburn Rovers increased Its lead at the top of the English Premiership with a 4-1 win over Ipswich. The victory put Kenny Dalglish's team four points clear of
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  • SUNDAY Review
    • 5 1 S UN D AY Review
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    • 562 1 In what ways can ancient monuments in Asia be saved without eating into the resources needed for present-day priorities like food and housing for the teeming millions in the region? Bangkok Correspondent Lee Sew Hua reports on the practical and quirky routes around this tricky question
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    • 489 5 LIKE Indonesia, many Asian countries can claim some level of legislation or at least a bundle of preservation policies. But it is when such laws arc matched with the force of national will that success stories will emerge. So tar, the successes are relatively few in a continent
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    • 376 5 BESIDES the power of the law and proper training, another factor in successful conservation appears to be the protection of the physical environment around the site as well as the community living in the area. Mr Michael Lane, a heritage consultant to I'nesco. made this point about some
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    • 241 5 OTHER ideas to save Asia's architectural heritage at the lively gathering of minds in Chiangmai ranged from sober proposals to set up a heritage trust and the micro-management of sites to more offbeat gems like view- ing Myanmars ancient city of Pagan by hot-air balloon to spare
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    • 337 5 ON THE issue of funding. Dr Anand appealed to captains of industry in booming Asia to support conservation, saying: "The private sector in Asia has been the prime mover in the economic development of the region, and now is the time for business to put its considerable expertise and
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    • 243 5 MONEY matters were never far from the delegates minds. Thai Pnvv Counsillor I sni Pramoj. for instance, urged the conference to bring to the world's notice how conservation could be handled to produce "a future which is economically productive without being detrimental allyEven Third World economies like Laos.
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    • 281 5 ASIDE from the bottomlme. other values figure large in the argument for preservation of Asian monu ments. and delegates were quick to reel off the reasons. In the case of the Angkor Wat. it is a resonant symbol of Cambodian identity and pride, according to Cambodia's Minister
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    • Viewpoints
      • The Sunday Times
        • 268 2 IF PASTOR \l cue in schools in rough)) equivalent to teaching life skillv and broadly speaking, it is. the extension of the programme to primary schools is overdue. Even then, this is to be a pilot scheme confined to 30 sehools. Ihe cautiousness is a surprise,
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      • 128 2 On (his day ASIA'S only countertenor, Mr lay ChengJim, has recovered fully From a temporary loss of voice, and is all set Tor his performance tomorrow at the Victoria Theatre. A very happy Mr Tay said today: "Loss of voice for a singer is a serious thing,
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      • 1073 2  -  TAN SAI SIONG WHEN the Prime Minister's press secretary declared that those who wanted to influence Singapore's political agenda should join a political party, little did I anticipate that his words would be borrowed b> some stockbroker-,
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      • 1086 2  -  CHUA MUI HOONG SOME call it a clash of cultures. They see in the Christopher Lingle controversy a case of an academic from a nation which champions free speech getting into a scrape because what he wrote had
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    • Profile
      • 1393 3  -  RAVI VELLOOR Although his methods may sometimes cause alarm within his Marxist party, Mr Jvoti Basu 's line seems to prevail. RAVI VELLOOR of the Foreign Desk profiles the Chief Minister. H 'est Bengal 's open wooing of merchant capital is a
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      • 1082 4  -  NARENDRA AGGARWAL Daimler-Benz has designs on China and India. reports. The company is so bullish on Asian business prospects that it is planning to invest at least DMS billion (554. 75 billion) in the region over the next five years. A
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    • Cover Story
      • 349 5 COLONIAL buildings are part of the historic fabric of many Asian cities, Singapore included. Ihe British, French, Dutch and Portuguese built classical administrative blocks, beach and mountain resorts, grand hotels and homes, and even entire cities in the lands under their rule. Two
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    • Focus
      • 1275 12  -  PETER SEIDLITZ his first interview to a foreign correspondent since joining the Chinese Communist Party's top body in 1987 Mr Qiao Shi tells that Beijing understands the fears Hongkongers harbour about the changeover. 'Whatever happens between now and 1997, we will keep to our word
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