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1.  SINGAPORE'S FIRST WORLD STAMP EXHIBITION OPENED THIS MORNING. AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE RUSHED TO BUY ITS SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE PACKS AND FIRST DAY COVERS. ENDS...FROM NEXT YEAR.

2.  ONE OF SINGAPORE'S TOP COMEDIANS YE FONG HAS DIED. HE WAS 63. YE FONG DIED AT TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL AFTER COLLAPSING THIS MORNING. YE FONG WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE 60S AND 70S FOR HIS DUET WITH FELLOW COMEDIAN WANG SA. THEY WERE OFTEN DUBBED THE LAUREL AND HARDY OF SINGAPORE AND THEIR FAME SPREAD TO MALAYSIA, TAIWAN AND HONGKONG. YA FONG, WAS BASED IN HONGKONG IN THE 1980S WHERE HE WAS CAST IN SEVERAL CANTONESE MOVIES WINNING THE MOST OUTSTANDING COMEDIAN AT THE 20TH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL. BUT HE WILL BE BEST REMEMBERED FO RHIS ANTICS ON TV. UPSOT AT 26 SECS. VT: 0.46 SECS.

3.  THE SECOND TYPHOON TO HIT SOUTHERN CHINA IN A WEEK HAS KILLED 47 PEOPLE. CHINESE OFFICIALS SAID TYPHOON  RENT WAS THE "BIGGEST ONE TO HIT THIS YEAR. THE TYPHOON FLATTENED BANANA PLANTATIONS AND BLEW DOWN HOUSES, CAUSING AN ESTIMATED 87 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE. MOST OF THOSE KILLED WERE FISHERMEN WHO DROWNED WHEN THEIR BOATS CAPSIZED IN THE FIERCE WINDS. HONG KONG, WHICH WAS PREPARED FOR THE WORST, ESCAPED MAJOR DAMAGE AS THE STORM BRUSHED PAST THE COLONY. AUTHORITIES HAD POSTED A HIGH LEVEL NUMBER 8 TYPHOON WARNING LEADING TO THE CLOSING OF OFFICES AND SHOPS AND SENDING WORKERS HURRYING FOR TRANSPORT HOME. HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN DISRUPTED TRAFFIC THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY DOWNING POWER LINES AND TREES AND CAUSING SEVERAL LANDSLIDES.

4  .AND FROM BOOKFAIR TO EDUFAIR - AN 80-BOOTH EXHIBITION FEATURING THE LATEST TOOLS IN DEVELOPING A CHILD'S MIND AND BODY. THE 5-DAY FAIR BEGAN TODAY AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE.

5.  TOMORROW WILL BE THE START OF THE NATIONAL READING MONTH. ALTHOUGH SINGAPOREANS ON THE WHOLE SEEM TO BE BUYING AND READING MORE BOOKS, SOME POINT OUT THAT THE ACTUAL READING DIET IS LESS THAN HEALTHY.  ENDS:CRIME AND GHOSTS DUR: 1.20"

6.  THERE ARE UNCONFIMED REPORTS THAT THE BOSNIAN SERBS ARE WITHDRAWING THEIR HEAVY WEAPONS FROM AROUND THE CAPITAL SARAJEVO. IT'S A DEMAND THEY HAVE TO COMPLY IF THEY WANT AN END TO NATU AIR RAIDS. THERE'VE BEEN  MORE THAN 500 SORTIES SINCE THE OPERATION BEGAN ON WEDNESDAY.  ENDS... OF ATTACK" VT:1.07

7.  SOUTH KOREA HAS PASSED A TOUGHER ANTI-SMOKING LAW BY EXPANDING NO SMOKING AREAS. A HEALTH MINISTRY SPOKESMAN SAID SMOKING WILL BE BANNED IN MAJOR PUBLIC FACILITIESS SUCH AS MEDICAL CENTRES, SUBWAY AND RAILWAY STATIONS. THE LAW ALSO BANS CIGARETTE SALES TO ANYONE BELOW 19 YEARS, WITH FINES OF NEARLY 400 US DOLLARS. SOUTH KOREA'S CIGARETTE CONSUMPTION FELL TO 4.83 BILLION PACKS LAST YEAR FROM 5.31 BILLION IN 1993, DUE TO A NATIONWIDE ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGN.

8.  VIETNAM WATCHERS ARE WARNING THAT THE COUNTRY'S INTEGRATION INTO ASEAN WILL BE "SLOW AND SOMETIMES PAINFUL. DIRECTOR OF THE SAIGON BUSINESS CORPORATION DAVID TROONG SAID VIETNAM'S ENTRY INTO ASEAN HAS FORCED ITS GOVERNMENT PARTY STRUCTURE TO "ADJUST. HE SAID WHETHER BETTER COORDINATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WILL COME ABOUT IS STILL AN OPEN QUESTION. BUT GOVERNMENT COORDINATION WILL BE CRUCIAL IF ASEAN'S TRADE FREEING MEASURES ARE TO BE IMPLEMENTED.  OUT: ... BARRIERS ARE LIFTED. DUR: 1.05"

9.  RIOT POLICE AND ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTERS HAVE CLASHED AT TAHITI'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. A FIGHT BROKE OUT WHEN 60 RIOT POLICE WITH SHIELDS, SURROUNDED THE GROUP OF PROTESTORS, INCLUDING SOME ELDERLY WOMEN. THE ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTERS HAD MARCHED ONTO THE RUNWAY, CALLING ON FRANCE TO LEAVE TAHITI. PROTESTERS SAID THEY WANTED TO STOP SOME FRENCH MILITARY PLANES AT THE AIRPORT FROM LEAVING FOR MURURUA. TENSIONS HAVE BEEN RISING IN TAHITI AHEAD OF THE FIRST FRENCH NUCLEAR TEST, EXPECTED ANY TIME TODAY. A LEFTIST UNION, REPRESENTING WORKERS IN STRATEGIC LOCATIONS SUCH AS THE AIRPORT, HAS ALREADY DECLARED IT WOULD CALL AN INDEFINITE GENERAL STRIKE IN TAHITI STARTING NEXT WEDNESDAY.

10.  IN SPAIN, A GAS EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE KILLED 14 MINERS.  OUT:... PERIOD OF MOURNING DUR: 1.03

11.  TCS ACTRESS NORLEENA SALIM WAS FINED ONE THOUSAND DOLARS FOR STEALING A WOMAN'S COMPACT WORTH ABOUT 18 DOLLARS. THE 22 YEAR OLD WAS FOUND GUILTY OF STEALING THE ITEM FROM THE S-MART SUPERMARKET STORE IN MARINA SQUARE IN MAY THIS YEAR. NORLEENA, WHO ACTS IN THE TCS COMEDY SERIES UNDER ONE ROOF, ADMITTED TO TAKING THE COMPACT, BUT SAID SHE HAD SIMPLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE ITEM AND HAD NO INTENTION OF STEALING.

12.  THE FAMILY VALUES PROMOTION COMMITTEE IS NOW TURNING TO TV COMMERCIALS IN THEIR LATEST EFFORT TO GENTLY NUDGE SINGAPOREANS TOWARDS MORE HARMONIOUS LIVING AT HOME.  OUT: SCHOOLS AND WORKSHOPS.

13.  THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE MORE SESSIONS TO EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF NEW SCHEMES - ESPECIALLY SINCE MANY ARE VERY COMPLICATED. THIS WAS AMONG THE SUGGESTIONS AT A FEEDBACK UNIT DIALOGUE WITH MANDARIN-SPEAKING PARTICIPANTS LAST NIGHT. THEY WERE GIVING THEIR RESPONSES TO THE PRIME MINISTER'S NATIONAL DAY RALLY SPEECH.  OUT:...AND MORAL VALUES. DUR: 1.04

14.  THE NEW SIX-DIGIT POSTAL CODE SYSTEM STARTS TODAY. BUT THERE'RE STILL SOME PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FIGURE OUT THE NUMBERS. OUT: USING THE NEW CODE.

15.  TEN PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AWARDS THIS EVENING, FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SINGAPORE. THE AWARDS WILL MARK THE BEGINNING OF "TECHMONTH" - AIMED AT PROMOTING AWARENESS 0F SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HERE.  OUT:... AND GENETIC ENGINEERING DUR:1.26

16.  THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IS STARTING A TRAINING PROGRAMME TO IMPROVE SERVICE QUALITY. SINGAPORE IS THE FIRST COUNTRY IN ASIA TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAMME WIDELY USED IN THE U.S. BRITAIN AND CANADA. OUT:... DEVELOPMENT FUNDS. DUR: 1.03"

17.  4 BLOCKS OF 3 ROOM FLATS AT TOA PAYOH MAY BE NEXT FOR THE SECLECTIVE EN BLOC REDEVELOPMENT SHCEME. AND BY YEAR'S END, BRADDELL VIEW HUDC RESIDENTS WILL KNOW WHETHER THEIR FLATS WILL BE FOR PRIVATISATION. ALL THIS IS PART OF A STRATEGY TO REJUVENATE ALL OF TOA PAYOH, AN IDEA MOOTED BY PRIME MINISTER GOH CHOK TONG EARLY THIS YEAR. ENDS... LIKE GUILLEMARD"

18.  THE ASSASSINATION OF THE CHIEF MINISTER OF PUNJAB HAS SIGNALLED THE RETURN OF TERRORISM TO THE INDIAN STATE. POLITICAL ANALYSTS SAY THE ATTACK, CLAIMED BY THE BABBAR KHALSA GROUP, LOOKED LIKE AN INSIDE JOB. IN A FAXED STATEMENT TO AN INDIAN NEWS AGENCY, BABAR KHALSA SAID BEANT SINGH HAD BEEN ON TOP OF THEIR HIT LIST AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED OF BETRAYING THE SIKH COMMUNITY. THE STATEMENT APPARENTLY REFERS TO THE 1992 PUNJAB POLLS - WHICH WERE HELD IN SPITE OF DEATH THREATS BY SIKH MILITANTS FIGHTING FOR AN INDEPENDENT HOMELAND. INDIAN POLICE HAVE LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ASSASINATION. THEY WANT TO KNOW HOW THE ASSASSINS MANAGED TO BREACH THE TOP SECURITY SURROUNDING THE CHIEF MINISTER. BEANT SINGH WAS KILLED IN A MASSIVE BOMB BLAST OUTSIDE THE STATE GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS. A TOP OFFICIAL TODAY SAID THE BOMB WAS HIDDEN INSIDE HIS ARMOUR-PLATED OFFICIAL CAR AND TRIGGERED BY REMOTE CONTROL. 15 MEMBERS OF HIS ENTOURAGE WERE ALSO KILLED.

19.  POURING RAIN HAS PUT A DAMPER ON THE WORLD WOMEN'S FORUM IN CHINA. MEETING TENTS FELL AND AN EIGHT METRE HIGH WALL COLLAPSED AFTER AN ALL NIGHT DOWNPOUR ON THE SITE OF THE NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS FORUM FOR WOMEN. MANY DELEGATES VOICED THEIR FRUSTRATION SAYING THE MUD HAS COMPOUNDED THE  PROBLEM OF MOVING ABOUT TO NETWORK WITH OTHERS. BUT MANY WERE DETERMINED TO PRESS AHEAD WITH THE WORKSHOPS AND DEBATES. ISSUES BEING DISCUSSED AT THE N.G.U INCLUDE EQUALITY, AND CHOICES IN FERTILITY FOR WOMEN.