The Straits Times, 21 September 1997

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  • 575 1 WASHINGTON Japan has agreed m principle to give key military support to US forces m an Asia crisis, including access to bases, while maintaining its ban on the use of offensive military might, the Pentagon said on Friday. Deputy Assistant Defence Secretary
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  • 508 1  -  Ahmad Osman By EMERGENCY medical centres will be set up m HDB estates if the haze reaches a dangerous level, Environment and Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said last night. He did not discount the possibility of the Pollutants Standard
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  • 359 1  -  Ginnie Teo By SINGAPOREANS may be irked by the haze but for this asthmatic girl, the effects are far more worrying. Since the haze started over a month ago, 11 -year-old A. Bavani has cost her parents $3,000 m medical treatments. She has had to be
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  • 445 1  -  Ravi Velloor By m Hongkong MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday called for a ban on all currency trading, a day after his deputy said international hedge fund operators should be as tightly supervised as bankers are now. Delivering a keynote address
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    • 918 2  -  Tan Ooi Boon Radical change is unfair to the accused, it says By ST, June 28. jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww IF the Attorney-General goes ahead with the radical proposal to change the plea-bargaining process, lawyers want their clients to sign their pleas only after the
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    • 351 2 Hearing of Tang Uang Hong's appeals THE Government welcomes Amnesty International's representative, Queen's Counsel Gerard McCoy, who will be here tomorrow to attend the hearing of lawyer Tang Liang Hong's appeals. "The Government hopes that he will stay and monitor carefully the case from beginning to
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    • 235 2 FIVE prisoners figured that they had come up with a foolproof way to smuggle drugs into Changi Prison. They were certain no prison officer could discover a few sticks of cannabis stashed among more than 10 tonnes of dirty hospital bed linen
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    • 123 3 Picture by THIS is a common scene on many Singapore roads several times a day, every day. A bus needs to change lanes, but must battle other motorists to cut across traffic. In this case, it is an SBS service 190 bus trying to
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    • 491 3  -  Dorothy Ko Situation will have 'adverse effects on studies, sports' By jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww SPECTACLES can sometimes hinder a soldier's job, and the Singapore Armed Forces has to find ways to combat myopia among young Singaporean men, the director oftne Defence Medical Research Institute, Colonel Lionel Lee,
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    • 274 3 A SUB-CONTRACTOR has been sentenced to 100 weeks behind bars for hiring 132 illegal foreign workers, the largest number of such workers by a contractor m the past 1v 2 years. The jail term is believed to be the
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  • WORLD
    • 643 4 6th USAF plane mishap m 7 days WASHINGTON A United States Air Force B-i bomber has crashed m Montana, killing all four crew members and bringing to six the number of US milii tary air crashes m a week. The 818 was
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    • 286 4 QUANTICO (Virginia) The Pentagon has hosted quietly an unusual bazaar of weapons and strategies for ferreting out terrorists. The two-day trade show last week of the latest anti-ter-rorist technology was open only to selected federal agencies and local governments which could be vulnerable to
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    • 99 4 ROME It took some dummies to solve the speeding problem m a northern Italian town. The mayor said setting up the wooden policemen by the roadside has proven effective. "It's the first impact that counts when people see a uniform, they
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    • 114 6 LIMA A last-minute appeal from Peruvian animal lovers has persuaded the authorities to cancel a festival of cat cookery intended to celebrate a local saint's day. Organisers announced with regret on Friday that the Great Gastronomic Kitty Festival, scheduled for yesterday
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    • 394 6 LONDON Police have Suestioned and released the river of an express train which slammed into a freight train on Friday, killing six people and injuring more than 150 m Britain's worst crash for almost a decade. "He has not been charged with
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    • 344 6 OTTAWA Ministers responsible for small- and medi-um-sized enterprises m the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum have wrapped up two days of talks here after failing to agree on a major demand from businessmen to cut visa red tape. For the second
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    • WORLD FILE
      • 60 6 Switzerland on Friday returned to Mali 3.9 million Swiss franc (Ss4 million) of funds stashed away by Mali's former president Moussa Traore. The move could have implications for millions of dollars believed to be secreted m Switzerland by corrupt dictators from the late Mobutu Sese Se ko of
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      • 54 6 Unidentified gunmen m Pakistan shot dead the son of an influential Sunni Muslim party chief m Karachi on Friday m suspected sectarian killing. Mr Anisuddin Dark hawasti, whose father Abdullah heads the Jamiat Ulema Islam faction, was returning from a mosque when he was killed. His killers fled
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      • 68 6 An Earth-observing satellite, hailed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as an example of its new "faster, cheaper, better" philosophy, appears to be a failure and is likely to burn up m the atmosphere this week. The satellite spun out of control last month, days after blasting
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      • 59 6 AIL ident Nelson Mandela's grandson, Ntsika Dlamini, was on Friday sentenced m the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court to 20 months' jail for fraud. Dlamini, 32, was found guilty of stealing a cheque for 5,000 rand (S$ 1,600) from Investec, an investment company he was working for temporarily, and
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      • 71 6 jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww:a Brazilian judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed against Brazilian cigarette maker Souza Cruz over the ill effects of smoking, m the first-ever ruling m such a case m the country. Ceara state court judge Inacio de Alencar Cortez Neto said that it was the plaintiffs "free
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      • 79 6 The US State Department said that it was protesting to the Nigerian embassy over an incident on Thursday m which armed men broke up a send-off party held m Lagos by pro-democracy groups for US envoy Walter Carrington, who is ending his posting. A group of armed men
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    • 166 9 CHELSEA (centre) and her parents, First Lady Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton, laughing during the Stanford University Convocation m Palo Alto, California, on Friday. The Clintons escorted their daughter to Stanford where she'll begin classes tomorrow. They were caught m a
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    • 330 9 Gore hires lawyers in face of mounting fund-raising woes WASHINGTON US VicePresident Al Gore has hired two private attorneys to defend him against mushrooming money-raising allegations that could lead to the appointment of an independent counsel. The Vice-President's office said Mr Gore had on Friday hired lawyer Jim Neal of
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    • 451 9 PALO ALTO (California) A purported transcript of dozens of intercepted pager messages sent to President Bill Clinton's Secret Service detail was posted on the Internet on Friday by a computer hacker. The messages included minute-by-minute updates about the President's whereabouts as well
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    • 415 11 jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. RAROTONGA (Cook Islands) Australia's already soured relations with the
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    • 337 11 WASHINGTON A hearing officer has recommended that the US Army's top enlisted soldier be courtmartialled on sexual misconduct charges brought against him by six women, a source close to the case said. The source on Friday confirmed a Washington Times report that
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    • 558 12 Turner suggests Scrooge and Heart off Gold awards to attract more donations LOS ANGELES Media mogul Ted Turner suggested last year that if charitable giving were more competitive, the rich would eagerly open their purse strings. In addition to The Forbes 400 list of
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    • DATELINE: ASIA
      • 80 12  - From diving champion to youngest party congress delegate MARY KWANG CHINA: China's Flying Angel Fu Mingxia (above), who won diving golds for China at the Olympics m Barcelona m 1992 and m Atlanta last year, has entered her name m a record of sorts at the recently-concluded 15th Party Congress
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      • 157 12  -  KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN: Mr Kazuo Inamori, a leading business figure m Japan and honorary chairman of semiconductormaker Kyocera, still attends major business events m the western Japanese city of Kyoto despite having officially entered the priesthood earlier this month. His head shaven
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      • 166 12  -  LEE SAN CHOUY TAIWAN: Taiwan Governor James Soong (above), who was likened by President Lee Teng-hui to the Monkey God character of the classic Chinese novel Journey To The West, has put the analogy to creative use. Complaining on Friday to members of the
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      • 87 12  -  EDWARD TANG THAILAND: Finance Minister Richard Hu is never too busy to speak to the press, as Singapore reporters covering the Asia-Europe Finance Ministers Meeting here last week discovered. The Singapore minister was generous with his time on at least two
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    • 422 13 Too many differences between North and South QUEBEC CITY The idea of creating a free-trade area stretching from Tierra del Fuego to the Yukon by 2005 is feasible but faces huge obstacles, several delegates at a conference have said. The
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    • 297 13 Tight security m Cairo following killing of tourists CAIRO Egyptian police have picked up three people for questioning and have increased security, following a bomb and gun attack on tourist buses m Cairo which killed nine Germans and the Egyptian bus driver. Soldiers
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    • 160 13 MIAMI A homeless man who was apparently sleeping m a trash container was decapitated during a garbage pickup, police said. The severed head of the man was found on Monday near the trash container at a furniture store. His body was found
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 381 14 Leader wants to reassure PLA after loss of place on Politburo standing committee BEIJING Chinese President Jiang Zemin, fresh from his triumph at the 15th Communist Party Congress, swiftly sought to win the military's backing for decisions which will have a sharp impact
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    • REACTIONS TO CHINESE CONGRESS
      • 149 14 TAIPEI Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui acknowledged tnat Chinese President Jiang Zemin had emerged more powerful from a justended Communist Party Congress, but said it did not mean peace talks were any closer. "It is clear that Mr Jiang has increasingly secured his position," he
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      • 116 14 WASHINGTON The United States expects no dramatic change m policies from China's revamped Communist Party leadership, State Department officials said. They said that it was too soon to tell whether President Jiang Zemin's re-election as Communist Party chief and the promotion of reformists
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    • 115 14 THIS robot (above) is expected to do your bidding about the house and even at the worksite just like its predecessor (right). Developed by Honda and unveiled m Tokyo recently, P3 is however more slender, weighs less and resembles a more human shape than
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    • 548 15 NEW YORK Four-nation talks on an agenda for Korean peace negotiations have broken down after famine-stricken North Korea persisted with demands that US officials said were unacceptable. Washington blamed the communist Pyongyang government for the failure of the discussions, part of
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    • 132 15 WASHINGTON North Korea is m the early stage of developing a long-range missile that could hit Alaska, the State Department's top arms proliferation expert said on Friday. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Einhorn also said Pyongyang's sale of missile
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    • 41 15 picture. SOUTH Korean firefighters scaling down a building m Seoul on Friday during a civil exercise for earthquakes. South Korea is occasionally hit by earthquakes but its strength has been a lot weaker than m neighbouring countries. Reuter
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    • EASTASIAFILE
      • 64 15 The Beijing authorities have approved the export of two steamers and a 300.000-kw stabiliser to the Chasma nuclear power station m Pakistan, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday The equipment are the main components for the power station and "are crucial for preventing nuclear leakage", it said. The power
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      • 49 15 Taiwan may ban tobacco products containing nicotine beginning m 1999, making its already stringent anti-smoking laws even tougher, lawmakers said yesterday. About 100 Taiwan lawmakers have endorsed a motion to bar imports and sales of tobacco prooucts with nicotine, Nationalist Party legislator Hsieh Chin chung said. Reuter
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      • 60 15 Tokyo police launched another mass raid of the offices of Japanese crime syndicates, which are currently embroiled m a bloody gang war over dwindling underworld spoils. A Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said no arrests were made m the swwep through the suspected offices of the war- ring
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      • 63 15 Hongkong activists hoping to land on disputed islands m the East China Sea are being forced to make another port call after their boat's radar broke down. The pleasure craft left Penghu island m the Taiwan Strait yesterday and headed for Keelung port to find spare parts for
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      • 43 15 :a traveller has been detained at a southern Chinese airport after security officers found pornographic photos pasted m a book he was carrying. The Chinese-lan-guage Tin Tin Daily News reported yesterday that the traveller was detained m Guangzhou on Thursday. AFP
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      • 43 15 The Hongkong government has asked manufacturers and suppliers of diet pills which are thought to cause heart damage to withdraw the products. A government spokesman said yesterday the Pharmacy and Poisons Board has proposed deregistering products containing Fenfluramine and Dexfenfluramine AFP
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  • IMF-WORLD BANK MEETINGS
    • 540 16 Scheme will be worked out m negotiations with IMF, says Indonesian official HONGKONG South-east Asian economies would negotiate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to establish a mechanism to deal with the currency crisis battering the region, Indonesia's central bank governor said yesterday. Bank
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    • 441 16  -  Wang Hui Ling Upgrade infrastructure Maintain free trade By Hongkong Correspondent UPGRADING the region's infrastructure and maintaining a liberal trade regime are two major tasks facing Asia which have to be tackled to maintain its spectacular growth m the past decades, said
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    • 366 16 HONGKONG The executive board of the International Monetary Fund recommended a big increase m IMF resources yesterday, aiming to make more money available to meet future fUnding demands. The IMF said the board would ask governors to approve both
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 314 17  -  LUZ BAGUIORO PRESIDENT Fidel Ramos yesterday renounced a perceived ambition to stay m power m the face of intense public pressure and a resounding rebuff of a campaign to give him a second term. "I shall be happy
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    • 455 17  - Bombs found in two Manila churches on eve of protest Luz Baguioro By m Manila BOMBS were found yesterday inside two churches m Manila, where the mood has crown more tense on the eve of a rally expected to draw at least one million people opposed to a second term
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    • 155 17 HANNOI Thirty-three people were killed and 20 injured, five seriously, after a packed bus plunged from a mountain pass m central Vietnam into the sea, local officials said yesterday. Police said that the bus had been carrying at least 53 people when
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    • 419 18 ...and Jakarta tabloids are abuzz with talk of a marriage JAKARTA The talk of the town m many circles these days is not about the presidential election but the reported proposal made by Manpower Minister Abdul Latief to starlet Desy Ratnasari. According to a
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    • 506 18 HANOI Vietnam Communist Party chief Do Muoi opened the National Assembly yesterday with a strong anti-corruption message following unprecedented protests m the countryside blamed by the government on corrupt officials. He said corruption threatened the central tenet of socialist government power to the people
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    • 179 18 BANGKOK Fourteen people, including a private secretary to Thailand s Queen Siri kit, were killed when a helicopter m a royal entourage crashed m southern Thailand, police said yesterday. Seven others were injured seriously when the air force helicopter crashed late
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    • REGIONALFILE
      • 72 18 :a Philippine court has given the nod to a novel antidrug campaign pursued by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim that identifies the homes of suspected drug pushers, court officials said yesterday. Judge librado Correa of Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 164 on Friday dismissed a petition filed by
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      • 91 18 INDONESIAN police yesterday released two senior Australian trade unionists after an overnight detention but continued to hold 10 local union activists, the Australian embassy and local activists said. Police detained them on Friday following the annual congress of an officially unrecognised local union after the authorities
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      • 53 18 At least 154 people have died m Indonesia's remote eastern province of Irian Jaya due to a cholera outbreak resulting from a severe drought, an Indonesian newspaper reported yesterday. Suara Pembaruan evening newspaper said that the cholera deaths were caused by drinking unsanitary water after rivers m the area
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      • 64 18 The death toll from antiChinese riots m the Indonesian city of Ujungpandang rose to five with the discovery of a charred body m a fire-gutted building, a report said yesterday. The body was found by teams clearing the rubble of a discotheaue which was torched during
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      • 48 18 Some 1,000 Thai journalists have been made redundant from newspapers and television stations amid deep cutbacks brought on by the biting economic crisis, a journalists body has said. The Journalist Association of Thailand reported on Friday that journalists working for business publications were hit hardest Reuter
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    • 301 18 13 Kirn Keat koad L/^-^rWTffPß?^ (Near Balestier) Prices range from $725.000 ($654 per sq.ft.! ..m... «ite to $829.000 ($740 per sq.ft.) Z m m 1 Forenquiries 9 pleasecall:%9oo3o3 y 9816ni4 Visit us on: Sundays from 10am to spm Weekdays (Strictly by appointment only) 111 flt r^o- "t-vSn^'u °Ptc/b*t/ fli m
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 479 19 Johor embarks on austerity drive State to export farm produce directly JOHOR BARU Johor will set up a centre to export its farm produce directly abroad. Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said on Friday that farmers could then bypass middlemen m a
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    • 350 19 Community asked to tell on Muslims who skip mosque 3 times running MUAR Local Muslim preachers m a district m Johor have asked the community to report to the kadi the district religious officer, Muslim men who failed to turn up for compulsory Friday prayers three
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    • 216 19 Ipoh cops seek woman friend of rape suspect IPOH A 21-year-old woman believed to be the companion of a suspected rapist is being sought by police. The Malay Mail reported on Friday that the woman rented a terrace house m Tasek and hid the 33-year-old suspect there during a police
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    • 596 21 Malaysia's attacks on Soros 'fuelled by American eccentric' Soros is 'Hungarian-born, of Hungarian-Jewish extraction, who spent the war m Hungary living on false papers and working for i he pro-Nazi government m identifying and expropriating the property of wealthy Fellow Jews'. Report by Mr Lyndon Laßouche (above). KUALA LUMPUR A
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    • MALAYSIAFILE
      • 40 21 Firemen managed to save a century-old Chinese temple m Kuala Lumpur on Friday night. Twenty-one of them prevented flames from a store burning nearby from spreading to the Temple. The store was destroyed. No one was injured. Bernama
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      • 40 21 :a security guard was killed during a predawn armed robbery at a bungalow m Kuala Lumpur early yesterday. Mr Sanusi Ghafar, 39, died after he was hit on the head with a hard object by the robbers. Bernama
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      • 56 21 Malaysia will host the third private sector international conference on drugs at the work place and the community fromOct4to6. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayob, who is the chairman of the organising committee, sai a yesterday that more than 160 delegates from 40
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      • 55 21 A Malaysian was shot dead m Danok, Thailand, on Friday after a fight at a disco. Mr Tong Chin Siang, 24, was hit once m the chest. Thai provincial police said Mr Tong and his four friends were involved m a quarrel with another group of Malaysians shortly
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      • 51 21 Special lanes for motorcycles would be implemented only on new roads for space reasons, Transport Minister Datuk Sen Dr Ling Leong Sik said yesterday. The lanes are being introduced because a study has shown that the motorcycle accident rate is six times higher than that for other vehicles.
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      • 56 21 Telekom Malaysia announced yesterday that it would invest Msso million (5525.4 million) m the next 12 months to develop and encourage public use of Information Technology (IT) and the multimedia m Pahang. The amount would include the cost of technology transfer to the state to upgrade the
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      • 50 21 Foreign labour was still needed m Malaysia's primary commodity sector, Primary Industries Minister Datuk Sen Dr Lim Keng Yaik said m Kuala Lumpur on Friday. He said the sector was suffering from a labour shortage and should be exempted from curbs on the use of foreign workers. Bernama
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    • 181 21 GUA MUSANG (Kelantan) Police have arrested 19 people suspected of involvement m illegal logging and have seized 1,200 tonnes of logs m Kelantan. Equipment, including seven bulldozers and two excavators, was also confiscated. State Criminal Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner Mangsor Ismail said
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    • 200 21 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian civil servants will be paid a bonus this year despite recent calls for belt-tightening m response to the downturn m currency and stock markets. This was announced by the president of the public sector union Cuepacs, Mr Mohamed Mat Jid,
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    • 1051 22 WHAT IS ERP? 1 HOW DOES THE ERP SYSTEM WORK? ERP, as its name suggests, is simply an electronic system of "■^te* ,^*£*MKk. The ERP system consists of three main road pricing. It is designed to automate our current road pricing iEsSnf components: the In-vehicle Unit (IU), the system -no
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  • THE BIG HAZE
    • 489 23  -  Derwin Pereira Reports by m Jakarta 44The government should teach companies a hard lesson tliis year. Show them that crime does not pay and there is equal justice under the law. We can't exactly tell our neighbours to put the haze m their
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    • 411 23 INDONESIA'S Environment Ministry has identified 70 "hot spots" m Sumatra and Kalimantan where forest and land fires are raging beyond control. Satellite pictures obtained by The Straits Times yesterday from the Environmental Impact and Assessment Agency (Bapedal) revealed that
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    • 527 25  -  David Miller By m Hengat, Riau province THE proposal to evacuate the 50,000 residents m the town of Rengat m Sumatra because of the thick haze has been put on hold. Rengat s chief administrator, Haji Purnomo Rizal, 45, told The Sunday
      AZIZ HUSSIN  -  527 words
    • 330 25 PORT KLANG— Two cargo ships have collided m the Straits of Malacca near here m an accident which could be linked to the haze. A Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) spokesman said yesterday that no casualties
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    • 436 25  -  Brendan Pereira By m Kuala Lumpur Mohamed kicks off fund with $509 MALAYSIANS have been told to dig deep into their pockets to help Indonesia fight forest fires m Sumatra and Kalimantan. Disaster Committee chairman Datuk Mohamed Rahmat said yesterday that the haze,
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  • THE BIG HAZE: Singapore
    • 448 27  -  Ginnie Teo By When It tops 300, Education Ministry will decide whether or not to close schools PHYSICAL education lessons m schools vill be stopped when the haze level, measured by the Pollutants Standard Index, reads above 200, the Education
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  • HOME
    • 727 28  -  Chang Ai-Lien Reports by jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww Why prisoners act as informers PRISONERS tell on one another frequently for a variety of reasons, said Deputy Superintendent Kwa Chee Ngee, who heads the Prison Department's intelligence unit. They may disapprove of an activity such as drugtaking,
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    • 204 28 If we had not stopped the fight, the results could have been disastrous, and some inmates could have been killed.' TWO rival gangs of hard-core drug traffickers were about to have a big fight m a workshop, but the clash was foiled by alert
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    • 365 28 Guns, ambush, plastic explosives, number of traffic lights family thought of everything FOR two years, a prisoner on death row devised plans to escape but each time he was foiled by intelligence officers. The man, who was m his 30s, had been found guilty of
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    • NUS Convocation
      • 496 29 "Unlike the generation of my parents, you have not had to be subservient to colonial masters; m their case, first the British, and then the Japanese. My generation have had to carry some part of the baggage of subservience which my parents'
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      • 571 29 jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww FOR the first time, the National University of Singapore's Law faculty has awarded first-class honours to four graduates. The previous average was about two a year. The faculty dean, Associate Professor Chin Tet Yung, said: "It speaks well of the quality of students. About
        BERITA HARIAN  -  571 words
    • 522 31 Sage targets grassroots bodies and schools 'People provide the elderly m their families with three square meals, a roof over their heads, and think "Hey, I'm looking after my elderly", but that's not enough.' Sage Counselling Centre consultant Winnie Phoon. SINGAPORE'S
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    • 168 31 DEPUTY Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony Tan left yesterday for a week-long visit to Britain and Sweden, to meet defence officials there and launch Singapore's first submarine at Malmo, Sweden. Dr Tan will be m Britain from today until Wednesday. He will
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    • 270 31 A GROUP of eight teen gangsters went to a block of flats m Jalan Rurnah Tinggi to settle a score with a rivaTgang. They did not find the members of the other gang. Instead, they found themselves m hot soup with
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    • 598 33  -  Tan Shzr Ee Row over common area By jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww Businessman tiles over garden area to improve uneven patch Neighbours upset because area is common property. One of them complains to the Public Works Department Businessman is ordered to demolish platform. Tiling and undoing
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    • 735 35 Bus drivers throw their hands up m despair over inconsiderate road users 'It's like a challenge to them, not to let us go first. Even if we stick our arms out and wave, they don't want to give way, some honk at us and
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    • 400 35 BUSES which have to change lanes m order to turn at a junction are not allowed to, stop at bus-stops located too close to the junctions. A Public Transport Council guideline states that the buses should use a bus-stop at least
      LAU FOOK KONG  -  400 words
    • 356 35 SINGAPORE Bus Services (SBS) said it is not short of bus drivers any more, so fewer drivers now work the 14-day roster, which gives them a day off after 13 days' work. While more than 80 per cent used to work that shift
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    • 1064 29 This kind of luxury comes at a price... bisons. J LET GH|LP And it will surprise you. villlCrS 1 50 -63 WALUMETTA DRIVE, WOLLSTONECRAFT |^^B 1^ ||jll^ |"^S^S S 1 A i\ j^^ML Kb ByjPlilfSllSi Somewhere above a quiet, secluded cove f^ V/ Va/ f^ IM W S»i <fl HSfeilJUUUfl
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    • 285 31 P»S>T ISI I P H f O*l^Rl jy St Nicholas View consists of eighty units of terrace houses with ames or baaemena and two urns of semi- f ~~j detached houses with attics. Land areas range from 1,615 sq ft (150 sq m) to 5,220 tq rt(4Bsjqm). i»- >^ lg
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  • MONEY
    • 457 37  -  Tammy Tan By THE number of Internet subscribers m Singapore which more than doubled to 230,000 m the last year will continue to surge as new services like Internet telephony catch on, analysts say. Leading the pack so far is SingNet the oldest
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    • 464 37  - Non-oil exports rise by a mere 5.5 Narendra Aggarwal By SINGAPORE'S domestic export of non-oil products rose by 5.5 per cent last month, a disappointing figure which some analysts say could have dampening effects on local share prices tomorrow. Most analysts had expected double-digit growth m export of made-in-Singapore goods
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    • 488 37 Strong showing NCS, a subsidiary of the NCB, is one of Singapore's biggest information technology companies. Following its corporatisation m April 1996, it has been Instrumental m implementing Singapore's multi-million dollar Civil Service Computerisation Programme. In Its first year
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  • RACING
    • Tan Thean Loon assesses the chances of today's Singapore Gold Cup runners
      • 414 38 Zatopek's year-old record m Singapore Gold Cup likely to fall m afternoon thriller at Bukit Timah THIS afternoon's Singapore Gold Cup is so open that there is no obvious favourite. Whoever starts as the top fancy will show reasonable odds. Trainer
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      • 766 38 No. 1 Confidence V (seven-year-old Australian-bred by Ser-heed-Cherie Avion; 26 starts for eight wins from 1.200 m to 2.200 m). This Francis Nathan-trained galloper should get strong support as he is m sizzling form. He is going into the race fresh from his Penang Sprint Trophy victory over
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      • 531 38 No. 10 Wonderful Mitch (six-year-old New Zealand-bred by Deputy Governor-Palace Jewel; 19 starts for six wins from 1,200 m to 1,900 m). The best National Stud Farm Premier Sale product, this chestnut galloper with the prominent white blaze deserves a classicwinning break. From five attempts so far,
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      • 306 38 'He has been training on nicely. I just hope he can create history by being the first horse to win the Gold Cup m his first start.' Jockey Saimee (Three Crowns) 'Hippo Valour, he's the one to beat. My horse has no chance.'
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      • 1568 38 RACE 1: Trainer W.K. Scow was fined $100 for failing to declare the use of blinkers on Mr Dasher. Trainer Bernard Ang was warned for declaring, without permission, apprentice Hairin on Absolute Power, who was racing with blinkers for the first
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      • 72 38 Any going: Confidence V (prefers wet), Glide Away (prefers wet), Three Crowns, Vibrant Virgo, Wonderful Mitch (bit of wet better), Great Machine, Hero's Return. Good going: Gold Bound, A Class Above 11, Grand Jury, Peak Of Perfection XI, Hippo Valour (ability on wet unknown), Lucky Treasure (at worst
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    • 280 39 WITH a reputation to maintain, it was natural for South African Michael Roberts to be concerned after his first few rides yesterday. The l l-time South African champion, who topped the 1992 British premiership and is ranked alongside the likes of Pat Eddery, could
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    • 399 39  -  Malcolm Bastians Singapore round-up By FOUR-DIGIT DRAW Sept 20 1997 FIRST 2595 SECOND 1356 THIRD 7836 STARTERS 3812 2033 5765 9563 9463 8101 8569 6110 0058 8300 CONSOLATIONS 7522 0296 5078 0334 1473 3862 3892 2009 4390 7538 AS ACE South African rider
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    • 1039 39 YESTERDAY'S BUKIT TIM AH RACE RESULTS RACE 1 RES TERMS 1 ,600 m 6 RENAISSANCE 57 (14-6) SaimM (8) 2 2 1 9 ABSOLUTE POWER 49 c 47.5 (101-20) Hairin (10) 1 1 2 3 DANCE TO QLORY 57 (34-9) Lloyd (7) 6 3 3 Others In finishing order: Jolly
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 2413 39 TODAY'S BUKIT TIMAH RACE GUIDE GOING FORECAST: GOOD I ■ifflilaff**!^^ I TIMESPORT SELECTIONS I 0 Hard Cash 10 (4reg Goh-Hard Cash) Marwtng 57 3 7 E^V^mSh^^is^'^^'Z 'So* 56 5 5 I TANTHEAN I DANNY I MALCOLM I MARC TAN 4 099 Flying Steed 1 (4am V Nathan-Mdm Wong Van LOON
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 595 40 YIP UN AGE: 91 passed away peacefully on 19 September 1997 leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Foong Seng, deceased) Son*: Daughter-in-Law: (Foong Kok Wai, deceased) Foong Kok Meng Lim Kirn Lan Grandson*: Granddaughters-in-Law: Foong Chee Luen Wong Joon Siew Foong Tze Foon Joy Toh
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      37 40 I ll* CINDY YON 6 FUNG FUNG i DEPART! D2l SEP 92 Forevar In The Heerw of Gey, Tets Afcert. Mum Oed, Shitng Bryan. Shoo, Clam .j All, Tionfl, Nat, Zac, Jo S Cas
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      82 40 IST ANNIVERSARY j In Loving Memory of I CHAN KUM KHENG (Mr* Gem Chia) Ompartßd 21/9/96 God be with you till we meet again S#dly ifMeeev tnd fortvflf cHedeli#o m ow h#erts oy Huebend Eric Chia Son Clifford Chia D—9M— Constance Chia lis^nniveiisaiiyl In I nvinn Momnrv
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    • 417 40 OH AH CHEE AGE: 65 passed away peacefully on 19/9/97. (HUSBAND: TAY CHWEE KIAT. deceased) SONS. DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW: TAY HOCK LYE. FRANCO TAN Mill GEOK. SANDY TAY HOCK BENG WONG LAN 01. SERENE GODSON: LEOW CHEE WEE DAUGHTERS: SONS-IN-LAW: TAY BEE LAY CHONG TECK HWA
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    • 224 40 WBBT FOHDEST M EMORJEsT^^KSk fIU WE ALL AUSS YOU TERRIBLY BARBARA LLM POH CHOO (BARBARA ANGOVE) who passed away suddenly on 21 September 1996 Hatband San Son* Scan Baby Luc Father A Mother Bernard Helena Lim Brother* Hilary Gregory Sisters m Law Gillian Joolyn
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    • 1079 41  -  Shirlynn Ho-Pereira SWIMMING By Team manager quietly confident that his 1 3-swimmer squad will do well m Jakarta jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww Name: Jonathan Chua. Age: 16. School: Raffles Institution. Medal hope (personal best): 200 m fly (2:06.11). 1995 SEA Games winning time: 2:05.34. He has chosen the right
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    • 295 41  -  Joe Dorai SOCCER By FORMER national soccer team captain Thambiayah Pathmanathan has graduated to the elite ranks m his first job as a coach. Pathmanathan, 41, who turned to coaching this year, has guided his National Football League Division Two club Tessensohn Khalsa Rovers
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    • 472 41 BASEBALL American league: Kansas City 10 Cleveland 3 (1st), Cleveland 6 Kansas City 2 (2nd), Chicago 5 Boston 4 (10 innings), Detroit 5 Baltimore 3 (10 innings), Toronto 3 New Yoric 0, Milwaukee 7 Minnesota 4, Anaheim 7 Texas 1, Seattle 9 Oakland 4. National League: Colorado
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    • 214 41 THAILAND'S hopes m the pool lie with a man who practically grew up m the United States Rattapong Sirisa nont. The double Asian Games gold medallist is to Thai swimming what Joscelin Yeo is to Singapore's. Before an adoring home crowd two years
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    • 403 41 SOCCER LONDON Terry Venables authorised a £50,000 (*****,500> payment to Nottingham Forest when he signed Teddy Sheringham for Tottenham, and the England striker lied about the deal, according to the English Premier League's inquiry into payments made m contravention of the
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      • 133 42 ITALIAN soccer powerhouses AC Milan has pulled out of a deal that would have ended Fabrizto Ravanellt s spell with Middlesbrough and now the £7-million <Ssl7-million) Italian striker has agreed to return to Teesside next week to discuss his future. The former Juventus ace
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      • 70 42 MALAYSIA will host the playoff to determine Asia's third berth m next year's World Cup finals m France, Football Association of Japan officials said on Friday.. Soccer's world governing body Fifa has designated Malaysia the neutral site for the Nov 16 match which will be contested by
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      • 93 42 ALL BLACK winger Jonah Lomu, the man who steamrollered everything m front of him at the 1995 World Cup, made a low-key return to rugby yesterday after a long absence due to illness. There were just 200 supporters when the rugby icon took his first step towards
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    • 699 42  -  Santokh Singh Freak accident m 1 995 does not deter sabre team member from 'switching sides' FENCING By TWO years ago, national fencer Kwek Hyen Chee was looking forward to making his South-east Asia Games debut m Chiangmai. But five months before his departure,
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    • 317 42 ITALIAN SOCCER ROME Brazil's "top gun" Ronaldo clashes with Argentine ace Gabriel Batistuta when joint league leaders Inter Milan and Fiorentina meet m a mouth-watering Serie A clash at the San Siro today. The Brazilian, Inter's US$2B-million (Ss42-million) import from Barcelona, goes
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    • 365 42  -  Thomas Koh jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww SILAT by HE AIN'T heavy, he's my brother the evergreen classic by the Hollies is one of their favourite songs but the one tune that Hidayat and Iskandar Hosni really want to hear next month m Jakarta is the Majulah Singapura. Hidayat, 24,
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    • 664 43  -  WILFRED YEO SPORT LIGHTS I HAVE just peeped into the mail of Ronaldo, Alan Shearer, David Beckham, Jamie Red knapp and Paolo Maldini And I had every right to. More right, m fact, than those who used the names of the
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    • 538 43 TENNIS Davis Cup WASHINGTON Michael Chang taught Patrick Rafter a lesson. Pete Sampras gave Mark Philippoussis a clinic. And the Australian Davis Cup team, which arrived here toting a flashy US Open trophy, a boisterous spirit and a boatload of expectations, found
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    • 213 43  -  Mahmood Gaznavi CRICKET By NOTHING short of a win will suffice for both teams m today's key Division One cricket encounter between Singapore Cricket Club and host Ceylon Sports Club. While the winning team will move to the top ofthe Division One table, the more
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    • 289 43 MOTOR RACING ZELTWEG (Austria) Canadian Jacques Villeneuve boosted his chances of catching Michael Schumacher m the world title race when he grabbed pole position yesterday for today's Austrian Grand Prix (live from 7.15 pm on SCV's Channel 24). Villeneuve, timing the final qualifying
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    • 309 43 GOLF COVENTRY (England) The cream of Europe's Ryder Cup team continued to struggle at the British Masters yesterday as Australian Peter O'Malley snatched a one-shot second-round lead m the weather-hit event. O'Malley, joint-third at last week's Lancome Trophy, maintained his excellent lateseason form by firing
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    • 212 43  -  Tay Cheng Khoon By LAST Thursday, when the haze was really bad, Orchid Country Club considered suspending its night golf. But there were so many diehards prepared to risk their health that the club allowed play to go on. However, to show that it
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    • 121 43 STILL on driving ranges. Orchid Country Club had to close its 160-bay range for one day just to change the balls last week. Not surprising, considering that 100,000 old balls had to be collected and 122,700 news ones let loose. Said a club official: "Some
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    • 126 43 A GOLFER is m the doghouse after bringing his pet into his club's premises. According to sources, he not only refused to take the dog out but started "barking" rudely at club officials, too. Now unless he wags his tail before the disciplinary committee, he will be
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    • 141 43 KEPPEL CLUB is 93 years old. To prepare for its centennial celebrations, the club is looking for any old pictures, medals and other mementos which can help tell a 100-year-old story. If you can help, contact the club's general manager. CONGRATULATIONS to last month's holes-in-one: Jurong
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    • 199 43 SOCCER TEHERAN Saudi Arabia had goalkeeper Mohammed Al Daeyea to thank for its 1-1 draw with Iran m a World Cup Asian Zone Group A match. Al Daeyea, whose penalty saves helped the Saudis to the Asian Cup last December, saved a
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    • 161 43 Remaining matches Sept 26: Qatar v China, Kuwait v Iran. Oct 3: Iran v Qatar, China y Saudi Arabia. Oct 10: Kuwait v China. Oct 11: Saudi Arabia y Qatar. Oct 17: Kuwait v Saudi Arabia, Iran v China. Oct 24: Saudi Arabia v Iran, Kuwait v Qatar. Oct
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    • 201 43 GOLF KUALA LUMPUR Former American college star Charlie Wi fired a three-under -par 69 to take the lead after the third round of the US$3OO,OOO (*****.000) Kuala Lumpur Open golf championship at the Saujana Golf and Country Club yesterday. The South Korean, who
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    • 118 44 JAKARTA President Suhar to yesterday suggested the abolition of the overall champion's title for next month's Southeast Asia Games here next month, said Sports and Youth Minister Hayono Isman. 'The overall champion's title is no longer relevant because this does not
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    • 89 44 THE LATE NEWS Leicester Into top three as Man Utd draw LEICESTER City got to taste the rarefied air of English Premier League soccer action yesterday after a Steve Walsh header gave it a 1-0 win at Leeds while Bolton held Manchester United to a 0-0 draw. Results: Aston Villa
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      • 635 2 BRITISH-BORN Jonathan I.v, 26, is a portfolio manager looking after the Southeast Asian equity market. He has been staying m various hotels here for the past six months. Growing up m Britain: His accountant-father and housewife-mother studied m London, then decided to settle
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      • 421 2 MR TYE LEE TZE, 28, moved to Australia when he was one. For the last five years he has been a podiatrist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Growing up m Australia: He was born m Malaysia to a cameraman-father and a teacher-mother. They
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        • 98 3 On this day THE new Ministry for the Environment is spending $5 million m the first phase of its hawker resettlement programme. Disclosing this to The Straits Times, the Ministry's Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Chor Yeok Seng, said that the resettlement would be completed m three phases. "In
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      • 1058 4 THE Scots, it used to be said, keep the sabbath and everything else they can lay their hands on, the Welsh prey on their knees and on their neighbours. Those old English cracks may come home to roost, thanks to Mr Tony Blair's
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      • 1786 10 Basskaran Nair, managing director of Gavin Anderson, a 'boutique' corporate public relations firm, addressed graduates of the Arts and Social Sciences and Education Faculty, at the NUS Convocation Ceremony on Thursday and five tips Do not rely on conventions; career paths that were winners for
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      • 887 11 Who's smartest of them all? CLEAR your storeroom and look for the old Chinese chess board you have forgotten about. Or that mahjong set. Or that scrabble board you threw away when you lost out to your kid brother. The Mind Sports Olympiad is coming. Fresh from the "astounding" success
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      • 1194 12 MARY KWANG THE Little Master, a popular Shanghai-based newspaper, is billed as the only one pf its kind m China a publication for children by children. Its notebook-toting reporters and photographers #c often barely into their Wens. The editing, layout and art work
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      • 1505 12 The Port of Singapore Authority will be corporatisea on Oct I to boost its competitiveness. But not many know that the idea to build a port came from the late Dr Albert Winsemius, Singapore's former economic adviser, who died last December, aged 86. Shortly
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      • 1241 13 Is Serbian Iron Lady turning into a pussy cat? Biljana Plavsic, a 67-year-old retired biology professor, is at the centre of a growing battle of wills between Nato forces and Bosnian Serb hardliners. As a woman who has made inflammatory statements m the past, she is being embraced gingerly as
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      • 441 13 THE bitter power struggle between the forces of Mrs Biljana Plavsic and Radovan Karadzic centres on who will gain the upper hand m the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia. The Serb-controlled region was effectively divided into eastern and western sectors under the
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    • Family Money
      • 1169 5 Profit and loss statements will be sent out next month to those who invested under the CPF Investment Scheme. NG WEIJOO checks out how investors fared. Weighted average cost If you buy the same share a few times over a period, the cost of
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      • 376 5 SMALL CHANGE NgWelJoo Travel insurance discount IF YOU plan to fly soon to countries m this region, you may wish to check out Citibank's Phone and Fly insurance scheme which is offering a 1 S per cent discount on published prices. For example, instead of paying
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      • 1649 6 Professor Shih Choon Fong is the archetypal cosmopolitan son of Singapore who has returned home to help m its development, as JASON TAN reports I could feel that his heart was still m Singapore. So I told him that if he wanted to
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    • SAUDI ARABIA
      • 746 7 Exemplary water resource management Managing a scarce and extremely valuable resource like water is a priority for most countries. Perhaps none has managed it better than arid Saudi Arabia. Its urban life, industry and above all agriculture are highly dependent on water. In fact, agricultural activities consume far more water
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      • 708 8 Location: Situated m southwest Asia between the Red Sea m the west and the Arabian Gulf m the east. Land Area: Covering 2.23 million sq km, the kingdom occupies four-fifths of the Arab Peninsula; the kingdom is about a third the size of the United States of America.
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      • 1295 9 On the first day of Libra (Sept 23) of each year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia celebrates its national day, m commemoration of the founding of the country by his majesty the late King Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud, who unified the segmented regions
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        • 148 14 Fancy singing i R Mongolia at -20° C? Yet another unusual opportunity cropped up m the Classifieds recently the chance to be part of a 5Gf-strong choir to perform m Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong and Mongolia. Dr Joseph Sim, leader of Oriental Singers, the local choir 'Which set a Guinness record
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        • 168 14 Boat-owners love taking their vessels out but dread cleaning them. Now, they can rely on Faith Technology professional boat cleaners who recently advertised their services m Classification 80 (Pleasure Boats/Sea Snorts) -to crer rhe inh sports) 10 get Uie JOD done. "We've ways to get just
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      • 700 2 DESPERATELY SEEKING ASIAN ARMANIS J CATONQ M THERE an Asian style of dressing that is Rt a modernised ethnic costume or a copy the latest Western trend, m lighter fab iWcs with tropical prints and colours? The Trade Development Board and Singapore Tourist Promotion Board are
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      • 171 2 HARD AND SOFT: 19-year-old Jonathan Scow won the $20,000 top prize at the Singapore Designers Contest and the Asean Young Fashion Designers Contest top prize of $5,000 plus an overseas scholarship at the Montreal LaSalle College. To him, Asian style means combining
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    • 272 5 THERE are three main health hazards posed by pigeons and their droppings, said the Primary Production Department the Ministry of Environment. According to their joint-ly-produced pamphlet: You may get cryptococcosis, an infection of the lungs and the brain which is transmitted through their droppings. About
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    • 811 6 it looks like in-line skates but feels like a trampoline. SELINA LUM jumps into hot new fitness craze Kangoo'Robics. IMAGINE doing high-in-tensity aerobics while wearing boots that weigh 2 kg each. If the notion sounds daunting, think again. One of the latest aerobics trends
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    • 253 6 STEP AEROBICS INTRODUCED in 1991, it involves stepping on and off a special rectangular platform. It is popular as it allows stepping movements in all directions. The latest variation is the triple-step, where one uses three platforms at once for more variety of movements.
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    • 123 6 AEROBICS trends are set in the United States, but not every one will take off here. "Singaporeans are more conservative and they just refuse to try certain things," says Ms Jasmine Teo, 34, manager of Amore Expressions, an aerobics studio chain THE SPIN (INDOOR CYCUNG) A CLASS of
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      • 943 9 Don't take pictures, until we say yes SINGAPORE AIRLINES and Korean Air have regular scheduled flights to Seoul. The best times to go are m April, May, October and November. The rainy months of late June and July should be avoided. No visa is required for Singaporean tourists. Very few
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    • 213 18 THE Tolman Collection, an art gallery which was responsible for bringing m celebrated Japanese artist Toko Shinoda's exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum last year, has brought m another top Japanese artist. The recent works of another printmaker, Shin'ichi Nakazawa, are being exhibited at its premises at
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    • 1336 19 Casting the not-quite muscular Nicolas Cage as the Man of Steel raises controversy, long before a frame has been shot Fans of the comic-book hero are outraged that the slimly-bullt Cage plans to portray the superhero as a lonely, angst ridden freak who performs
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    • 325 24 ELISABETH QWEE START them young, and get them hooked. That is what the Singapore Goldsmith and Jewellers Association wants to do to get more women from their early 20s interested m all things that glitter. According to its president, Mr Wan Shung Ming,
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    • 263 24 WHEN health-care consultant Cynthia Koh, 36, was given a jade and gold bracelet by her mother, she simply could not imagine herself wearing it. "These days, people are into the retro look, but I think this was a bit too retro," she said, referring to the
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    • 229 24 It's OK to drill holes in the pearls JEWELLERY designer Chua Gek Noi, 32, loves drilling holes into her South Sea pearls, much to the horror of many middle-aged clients who come to her shop, Loang and Noi, at the Promenade shopping centre. "Some of them think that I do
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    • 200 24 INSTEAD of the well-heeled tai tais who flock to neighbouring jewellery shops like Je T'aime Jewellers and Larry Jewellers, it is mainly career women m their 20s and early 30s who are drawn to the minimal interiors of Flower, A Diamond Boutique at Ngee Ann
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    • 1072 14 It has been 73 years since the inauguration of the big race. Tan Thean Loon traces its history Twice m 1925 THERE were two Gold Cups m 1925. The first race, worth $3,000 and run at the Spring Meeting m May, was
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    • 739 16 MALCOLM BASTIANS PRESSURE from friends and foes has forced trainer Malcolm Thwaites to kgep a low profile off the tracKS m his biggest assault eve»\&n the Singapore Gold Cup^The hotel he has been staying at m Singapore does not tdmit to his residency. One has
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    • 452 16 DANNY KHOO THE pressure is on me, so says jockey Saimee Jumaat. A fair statement for he is last year's Singapore Gold Cup-winning jockey and will also be aboard the likely favourite at Bukit Timah this afternoon. But he is not complaining for
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    • 508 16 jalksdjlkfjalsdjlfjasldjfljasldjffww MALCOLM BASTIANS AS SEVERAL socialites see it, the Singapore Gold Cup has become the best occasion m the Republic where a lady can wear a hat and not be coy about it. It provides the better excuse than the May/June Queen Elizabeth
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      • 250 18 What's On Today MUSIC AND PERCUSSION IN BEUING OPERA The Chinese Opera Institute, 111 Middle Road. Today: 2 pm. A seminar on the role of music and percussion m Beijing Opera. Conducted by Wang Van long and Ma Jian Li, musicians from Beijing and Hebei, China. Tickets: $10. Call 339-1292.
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