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1.  IN KASHMIR, 4 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 16 INJURED WHEN A LANDMINE EXPLODED NEAR SRINAGAR. POLICE SAY ALL THE VICTIMS WERE CIVILIANS. OUT: MILITANTS WERE FREED. DUR: 50.

2.  DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER  LEE HSIEN LOONG SAYS THE COUNTER-OFFER BY AMERICAN COLUMNIST WILLIAM SAFIRE TO DEBATE WITH THE SENIOR MINISTER LEE KUAN YEW INSTEAD OF PRIME MINISTER GOH CHOK TONG, IS TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE MAIN ISSUE. BRIGADIER GENERAL LEE HSIEN LOONG SAYS MR SAFIRE HAD, IN REALITY, CHICKENED OUT. OUT:....BIRD VIEWING GALLERY. DUR: 1.33 STILL ON THE SAFIRE DEBATE, ACTING MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT , REAR-ADMIRAL TEO CHEE HEAN SAYS THE DEBATE WILL SHOW SINGAPOREANS HOW A FREE PRESS WORKS. SPEAKING AT A COMMUNITY VISIT TO KOLAM AYER, HE SAID THE EPISODE ALSO SERVED ANOTHER IMPORTANT LESSON --THAT SINGAPOREANS SHOULD STAND UNITED AND DEFEND THE COUNTRY WHEN ATTACKED. OUT:...ARE THREE ROOMERS. DUR: 2.06.

3  .A GOVERNMENT DECISION ON THE FEASIBILITY OF THE NORTH EAST MRT LINE MAY BE EXPECTED BY THE END OF THE YEAR, SAYS MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS MAH BOW TAN. SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AT A TAMPINES-EAST CONSTITUENCY FUNCTION, MR MAH SAID A DECISION WILL BE MADE ON WHETHER TO BUILD THE LINES NOW OR FOUR YEARS LATER,AS RECOMMENDATION BY A FEASIBILITY STUDY. THIS IS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO BE CLEAR ABOUT WHETHER THERE WOULD BE SUFFICIENT PEOPLE TO USE THE LINES. IN PUT FROM GRASSROOTS LEADERS, ADVISORS AND MPS WOULD BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN A FINAL DECISION'S MADE. THE LINE, WHICH WOULD RUN FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE TO UPPER SERANGOON IS EXPECTED TO COST FIVE BILLION DOLLARS.

4  .PLANS ARE UNDERWAY FOR HDB'S MAIN AND INTERIM UPGRADING PROGRAMMES IN BISHAN-SERANGOON TOWN, SAYS MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS  WONG KAN SENG. MR WONG, WHO'S ALSO MP FOR THOMSON, SAYS THE MAIN UPGRADING PLANS FOR THREE BLOCKS IN SIN MING ROAD WILL START IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1997...WHILE THE INTERIM UPGRADING FOR EIGHT BLOCKS IN SERANGOON AVENUE ONE BEGINS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR. MR WONG WAS SPEAKING AT THE BISHAN-SERANGOON TOWN'S RESIDENTS DAY THIS MORNING.

5.  THE 28TH ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING WILL START THIS WEEK IN BRUNEI. DEBRA SOON LOOKS AT WHAT'S LIKELY TO BE ON THE AGENDA. OUT:....ISSUES LIKE TRADE. DUR:1.49

6.  HONG LIM COMPLEX -- THE FIRST OF THREE CIVILIAN WORLD WAR TWO SITES, WAS MARKED TODAY. THE COMPLEX WAS THE HEART OF THE ANTI-JAPANESE CLEANSING OPERATIONS. THE EVENT TODAY BROUGHT TOGETHER THE SURVIVORS AND SOME OF THEIR MEMORIES.OUT: ...AND ITS PEOPLE. DUR: 1.35.

7.  FROM THE HDB TO THE MRT, THINGS YOU AND I TAKE FOR GRANTED IN SINGAPORE, HAVE BECOME EYE-OPENERS FOR 14 SCOTTISH YOUTHS WHO END THEIR CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME WITH THE PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION YOUTH MOVEMENT TODAY. AND THE LADS AND LASSES ALSO MADE SURE THEY LEFT SOME OF THEIR OWN SURPRISES BEHIND. OUT: ....SCOTLAND NEXT YEAR. DUR: 2.00

8.  JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER TOMIICHI MURAYAMA'S COALITION IS EXPECTED TO REAMIN IN POWER WITH EXIT POLLS PREDICTING HIS GOVERNMENT WILL WIN 66 SEATS IN THE UPPER HOUSE. MR MURAYAMA'S SOCIALIST PARTY IS LIKELY TO RETAIN 15 SEATS. 126 OR HALF THE NUMBER OF UPPER-HOUSE SEATS ARE AT STAKE. VOTER TURNOUT IN TODAY'S POLLS HAD BEEN HIT BY APATHY.... WHEN POLLING ENDED EARLY THIS EVENING, ABOUT 43 PERCENT OF JAPAN'S 97.3 MILLION VOTERS HAD TURNED UP TO VOTE. THIS IS LOWER THAN THE POLLS IN 1992, WHICH SAW JUST OVER 50 PERCENT OF VOTER-TURNOUT. TODAY'S ELECTION IS A REFERENDUM ON PRIME MINISTER MURAYAMA'S COALITION GOVERNMENT WHICH TOOK POWER LAST YEAR. ALSO MAKING ITS DEBUT IS THE NEWLY FORMED SHIN-SHINTO PARTY, WHICH IS NOW THE MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY. IT'S PROJECTED TO WIN 38 SEATS. VT:1 MIN.

9.  BOXING.....AND INDONESIA HAVE WON THE OVERALL TROPHY AT THE 9TH ASEAN AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD AT THE TOA PAYOH INDOOR HALL. HERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS OF SOME OF THE BOUTS HELD LAST NIGHT. OUT:....BY A UNANIMOUS DECISION. DUR: 55.

10.  MALAYSIA SAYS IT'S WILLING TO SELL ARMS TO THE BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES IN DEFIANCE OF THE UN ARMS EMBARGO. THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWED A STATEMENT BY THE ORGANISATION OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE DECLARING THE ARMS-BAN ILLEGAL. OUT: WOUNDING THREE OTHERS. DUR:41

11  .VIOLENT CLASHES HAVE ERUPTED IN SOUTH KOREA/AFTER A DECISION NOT TO CHARGE 2 FORMER PRESIDENTS WHO LED THE KWANGJU UPRISING IN 1980. MORE THAN A THOUSAND STUDENTS FOUGHT WITH POLICE OUTSIDE YON-SEI UNIVERSITY. THEY WANT FORMER LEADERS CHUN DOO-HWAN AND ROH TAE-WOO TO BE PROSECUTED FOR USING EXCESSIVE MILITARY FORCE TO END THE REVOLT IN KWANGJU. MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED DURING THE UPRISING. VT:1 MIN. THERE WAS ALSO UNREST AT THE SITE WHERE A SEOUL DEPARTMENT STORE HAD COLLAPSED LAST MONTH. ANGRY RELATIVES CLASHED WITH POLICE TO FORCE THE AUTHORITIES TO RESUME SEARCH-AND-RESCUE OPERATIONS FOR THEIR MISSING LOVED ONES. 140 PEOPLE ARE STILL LISTED AS MISSING SINCE THE BUILDING COLLAPSED ON JUNE 29. RESCUE WORK WAS EARLIER STOPPED BECAUSE OF FEARS THAT THE REMAINING STRUCTURE COULD COLLAPSE. BUT THE CITY-AUTHORITIES LATER ACCEDED TO THE DEMONSTRATORS DEMANDS.NEARLY 500 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE DISASTER. VT: 1 MIN.

12.  TYPHOON FAYE, PACKING WINDS OF MORE THEN 150 KILOMETRES PER HOUR, HAS HIT THE SOUTHERN COAST OF SOUTH KOREA. IT LEFT A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION AND AT LEAST 40 PEOPLE MISSING. EARLIER, THE TYPHOON HAD TORE INTO THE SOUTHERN JAPANESE ISLAND OF KYUSHU. IT WAS FOLLOWED BY WARNINGS OF HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED IN KYUSHU AND THE NEIGHBOURING ISLAND OF SHI-KOKU. AIR AND SEA TRAFFIC WERE DISRUPTED BY THE TYPHOON, WHICH ALSO AFFECTED ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES TO SOME HOMES.

13.  BADMINTON AND THE KONICA CUP SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. INDONESIA WON TWO TITLES WHILE CHINA AND SWEDEN CLAIMED ONE CROWN EACH AT THIS YEAR'S CHAMPIONSHIPS. THE FINALS WERE PLAYED THIS EVENING AT THE SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM. OUT:..15-12, 15-7. DUR: 53.

14.  CYCLING AND THE THIRD STAGE OF THE EVIAN SINGAPORE MOUNTAIN BIKING CHAMPIONSHIPS. LYNN HIGGINS WON THIS YEAR'S SERIES AFTER ONLY THREE LEGS WHEN SHE CAME IN SECOND AT THE CLEMENTI TRACK THIS MORNING. OUT:...UBIN IN SEPTEMBER. DUR: 1.02.

15.  A 22 YEAR-OLD MOTORCYCLIST WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN AN ACCIDENT ALONG INDUS ROAD AT ABOUT 3PM YESTERDAY. JAMAN JALIL SALEM WAS HEADING TOWARDS LOWER DELTA WHEN HE COLLIDED INTO THE REAR OF AN SBS BUS. HE'S WARDED AT SGH WITH SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES. EYEWITNESSES CAN CALL THE POLICE AT 221-0000.

16.  THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX LAST MONTH ROSE MARGINALLY COMPARED TO MAY. THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS SAYS THE 0.1 PERCENT INCREASE WAS DUE TO HIGHER COST OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS. HOWEVER, THEY WERE OFFSET BY LOWER PRICES IN FOOD WHICH FELL DUE TO CHEAPER VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. COMPARED TO JUNE LAST YEAR, LAST MONTH'S CPI WAS 1.8 PERCENT HIGHER.

17  .IN HORSE RACING, STARMAN 2 WON THE 250 THOUSAND DOLLAR RAFFLES CUP AT THE SINGAPORE TURF CLUB. RIDDEN BY KIM CLAPPERTON, STARMAN TWO LED FROM START TO FINISH TO CLOCK ONE MINUTE 34.7 SECONDS FOR THE ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED METRE COURSE. IT'S THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE TIME CLAPPERTON HAS WON THE RAFFLES CUP. THE WIN ALSO GAVE TRAINER, TEH CHOON BENG, HIS FOURTH VICTORY IN THE SERIES WHICH BEGAN FIVE YEARS AGO.

18.  MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND TAIWANESE HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS OF TAIPEI TO PROTEST AGAINST CHINA'S MISSILE-EXERCISE IN THE SEA NORTH OF THE ISLAND. THE PROTESTORS ALSO SHOUTED SLOGANS CALLING ON PRESIDENT LEE TENG HUI TO RESIGN. THEY ALLEGE HIS ACTIONS -- TO ASSERT INDEPENDENCE FROM CHINA -- HAD PROMPTED BEIJING TO STEP-UP ITS MILITARY ACTIVITY. TAIWAN HAS CONFIRMED CHINA FIRED FOUR BALLISTIC MISSILES IN ITS WEEK-LONG EXERCISE.

19.  FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN FIRE BROKE OUT AT A GARMENT FACTORY IN SOUTH CHINA'S HUNAN PROVINCE. IT TOOK A WHILE FOR FIREMEN TO PUT-OUT THE BLAZE BECAUSE OF THE LARGE QUANTITIES OF FLAMMABLE PRODUCTS STORED IN THE BUILDING. THE FIRE ALSO CAUSED A GAS EXPLOSION. INVESTIGATIONS ARE UNDERWAY TO FIND OUT WHAT CAUSED THE FIRE. VT: 1 MIN.