New Nation, 11 August 1982

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    18 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Wednesday, August 11, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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      Lock icon A wave of jitters runs through HK money marts
      183 1 UPI HONG KONG: A wave of jitters over Chinese designs on Hong Kong rippled through the British colony's financial markets yesterday, sending stocks falling, capital fleeing and the Hong Kong dollar plunging to a record low. Market sources said a "panic"
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      Lock icon Japanese shares tumble to five-month low
      112 1 Reuter TOKYO. Japanese share prices tumbled to a five-month low today as investors at home and abroad underlined their growing loss of confidence in the performance of the country's already-sluggish economy, stockbrokers said. By the end of the day the brokers had marked prices
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      Lock icon Man denied wish to be electrocuted
      77 1 UPI RICHMOND: A Federal Appeals judge yesterday granted an llth-hour stay of execution for ex-policeman Frank Coppola who had wanted to die in Virginia's electric chair and who refused to help lawyers who fought for a postponement. Coppola has maintained he is innocent of
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    'Disneyland' park to be built here
    325 1  -  It will be largest entertainment project By CATHERINE ONG A $100 MILLION Asianstyle Disneyland will be built on a 40-hectare site in Singapore when plans being studied by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board receive government approval. Called Theme Parte, it will be larger and
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    Lock icon NEVER A SHARP WORD FOR 87 YEARS
    97 1 AP BEIJING: Zeng Zhaohe and Yu Shangymg, who have been married 87 years, are described as a couple with even tempers who rarely have a sharp word for each other. That has been suggested as among the reasons for their longevity, China's official
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    Lock icon We'll take them, Syria says
    184 1 AP Reuter DAMASCUS, Wednesday THE Syrian government, which was previously adamant in not accepting PLO guerillas now besieged in Beirut, yesterday dramatically changed its mind and now says it would be willing to play host to the Palestinians. The Syrian rejection of the PLO fighters
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      Jobs ahoy for seamen
      354 2  -  Shipping firms can pick crew from open market By SALEHA SALLEH IT will be simpler for shipping companies to employ seamen from next month. They will no longer have to go to the office of the National Maritime Board to interview seamen from a list supplied
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      You can have your cake – and cut it
      96 2 You can have your cake and cut it THE baker had to cat his owa cake at the 17th National Day reception at the Istaaa. The 79-kllogramme cake with 17 canities prepared by Mr Tosi Rob Yam of the Maadarta Hotel. Bat ao-oae kaew who was sapposed to cat the
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      Language aid for the businessman
      165 2  -  By FOO CHOY PENG SMALL businessmen and students eager to improve their business acumen will soon be able to learn marketing, accounting and production. These will be some of the subjects available at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry's resource centre. The centre,
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      '82 NATIONAL DAY
      155 2 W I am pleased to note that W Hewlett Packard is among the pioneer firms which have provided opportunities for employees to improve their command of the English language. Since June last year, IS7 workers have successfully completed an Rngifarfi language course for beginners. Another 118 are
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      Two who deserve a big thank-you
      241 2  -  a* PAT D'ROSE ONE good torn deserves another that is just what two businessmen thought about two woman clerical officers from the Imports and Exports Department ol the Ministry Of Trade ana Industry at the World Trade Cf^Hr declare some urgent ddcumenta,'the counter girls
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      Stationer behind float success
      585 4 DRAGON HITS THE JACKPOT FOR 14 years Richard Stationery sold stationery. It never went out of its way to compete against the department stores and big trading houses. But this year the firm went off on a tangent and hit the jackpot It designed and built
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      A plan that may not see the light of day
      349 4  -  By YONG POW ANG AN ambitious plan to develop a privately-funded library with the collection of a local scholar is likely to be shelved. Two members of the committee set up to form the library are to resign. Businessman Yeh
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    • Article
      Turning the heat on Thai prostitutes
      191 4 THE Immigration Department is stepping up its action against Thai prostitutes who enter Singapore by making false declarations at the Woodlands checkpoint and Changj airport. The girls, mostly from south Thailand towns, have been describing themselves as tourists on embarkation forms in order to
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      Still going strong after 45 years of friendship
      495 5  -  By FAEZAH ISMAIL WHEN Australian John Miller, 61, chose Michael Chong, 68, a Singaporean, to be lils pen-pal about 45 years ago, never in his wildest dreams did he think that the friendship would last this long. "I was 16 and a
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      'Instant' limbs
      253 5  -  Made-to-measure moulds for handicapped within 24 hours By JULIE LIAU SINGAPORE is becoming as well known to handicapped foreigners for instant artificial limbs as it is for 24-hour made-to-measure suits. People are coming from all over Asia to be fitted out with the latest limbs. A patient has
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      172 2 THERE'S A GREAT NEW PAPER IN TOWN AND ITS BRINGING YOU GRAND PRIZES! -Mr' v. SV' *t'iiisi AGFACOUOR 100 POUR 24 EPREUVE* COULEUft SINGAPORE COLOUR CENTRE ENDORSES A GREAT NEW PAPER AND FILM! Singapore's premier photo-processing service now endorses new Agfacokx paper and film. So you're assured of the best
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      293 4 CABIO Clock-Calculator Compact CA main features quartz clock teMs you the hour, minute, second and am/pm. Gentle hourly time signals sound every hour on the hour. A daily alarm gives you a pleasant tone signal every day until cleared Professional stopwatch times to 1/10 th of a second and delivers
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      357 5 <Jl N t. N a N INTERQUARTZ 79 OS The effective no-fuss BURGLAR ALARM and DOOR CHIME This is the latest electronic device that can effectively protect your house from intruders and shield your loved ones from frightful encounters or possible bodily harm. Burglar Alarm Fitted onto a door or
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      Lock icon The other side of war-torn Beirut
      516 6 UPI BEIRUT, Wed. RESIDENTS of Christian east Beirut listen to a war every night that is only a few streets away, then turn off the lights and go to sleep. Although Palestinian shells have landed in the eastern half of the capital during the
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      Lock icon Terrorist protest
      138 6 UPI PARIS, Wednesday. SOME 700 French jews rallied yesterday and stopped traffic on the busy Champs Elysees in a protest against the terrorist attack that killed six people in the city's Jewish quarter. Shouting "PLO assassin, Mitterrand accomplice," referring to the French president's apparent sympathy for the Palestine
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      Lock icon Turks smash Armenian church
      133 6 UPI ANKARA, Wednesday. ANGRY Turks smashed an Armenian church yesterday in a growing antiArmenian backlash as Turkey buried its six victims of Saturday's Armenian terrorist attack on Ankara airport. "These murders will bring nothing to their imaginary causes," internal minister Selahattin Cetiner said at the state
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      Lock icon Officials want new probe on Marilyn Monroe
      125 6 UPI LOS ANGELES, Wednesday COUNTY supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to ask the District Attorney to reopen the investigation into the death of Marilyn Monroe, whose death 20 years ago was ruled a suicidal drug overdose. The board of supervisors voted 5-0 to pass
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      Lock icon Fonda in hospital again
      100 6 AP LOS ANGELES, Wednesday. ACTOR Henry Fonda has been taken to hospital again in serious and worsened condition because of a "chronic and longstanding heart condition," a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday. The 77-year-old star, who this year won the best actor oscar for "On golden Pond,"
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      Lock icon UN peace role for Japan army?
      400 7 AP TOKYO, Wed. A LEADING advocate of Japanese defence has proposed that Japan's military forces be allowed to join United Nations peacekeeping units. However, Dr Masamichi Inoki, president of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, said Japanese forces should be limited to areas
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      Lock icon No more textbook revisions – Minister
      93 7 No more textbook revisions Minister UPI TOKYO, Wednesday JAPAN'S Education Minister defended revisions in Japanese history textbooks yesterday, spurning criticism that Tokyo is whitewashing its wartime brutality. No further changes are planned, be said. But the unbudging stance of Education Minister Heiii Ogawa appeared to differ slightly with what the
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      Lock icon Rebuff for Reagan
      87 7 AP WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday voted to approve a bill that may repeal sanctions imposed by the President on equipment intended for building a controversial Soviet natural gas pipeline. Seven Republicans joined 15 Democrats on the vote, which came despite a last-minute appeal
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      Lock icon SWAT-style teams pay off
      139 7 UPI MANILA, Wednesday A SPECIAL police task force with shoot-to-kill orders from President Marcos yesterday gunned down eight robbers in an intensified campaign against crime in Metro Manila. The eight holdupmen shot dead in three incidents in Manila and nearby Quezon City brought to 12 the
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      Lock icon Pakistan wallows in heroin glut
      347 8 UPI KARACHI, Wed. HEROIN made abundant after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan blocked drug routes to the West is spreading addiction through Islamic Pakistan at an alarming rate, the outgoing U.S. consul-general warned. Mr Richard F. Post, in a speech to a Rotary Club luncheon
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      Lock icon Strike against papers
      71 8 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN will have no national newspapers today as electriciinfe on the presses downed tools last night to show support for health workers locked in a pay dispute with the government. The 1,500 electricians struck as the evening's print run was due to begin, defying
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        Lock icon SAN FRANCISCO:
        73 8 UPI An immigration judge granted political asylum to 29 Afghans who fled from the Soviet invasion of their country and were duped into buying false visas in India. The afghans, many of them professionals, fled on foot from Afghanistan. They applied to the United States for visas when
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        Lock icon PRETORIA:
        43 8 Reuter Fifteen members of the South African defence force died when their helicopter was shot down in Southern Angola. A military spokesman said the helicopter was hit while dropping soldiers in an assault against Swapo (South West Africa People's Organisation) positions. -Reuter..
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        NEW YORK:
        44 8 A Chinese mathematics professor committed suicide, apparently because he felt disgraced by being charged with shoplifting, a medical examiner said. Li Hua Zhao, 46, died from multiple skull fractures in hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, after jumping from his third-floor apartment window.
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      Lock icon 1981 good for Western tourism
      260 8 AP PARIS, Wednesday TOURISTS visiting Western nations are shortening their stays but spending more money while abroad, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development indicated yesterday. The 24-nation OECD said in a report that the tourist industry in maior Western nations posted a real 5
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      58 8 A New York City Police Emergency Service officer risked his life, dangling from a rope 14 floors above Manhattan's East 44th Street near Second Avenue on Monday to rescue a man who had threatened to leap from a window. The officer succeeded in wrapping his legs around the man
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      Lock icon Salvage work on Sub No. 1
      151 8 UPI PLYMOUTH, Wednesday BRITISH, American and Canadian navy divers have begun salvaging the wreck of Britains's first operational 1901-vintage submarine, which became the prototype for the first undersea vessels in the United States and all over Europe. If the five-week-long operation is successful, the
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      Lock icon 885-year sentence confirmed
      75 8 Reuter BANGKOK, Wed. THAILAND'S Supreme Court has confirmed a prison sentence of 885 years imposed on a woman convicted of embezzling 36,000 baht (about 553,400). Mrs Penchapong Imsap, 49, was originally sentenced to 1,001 years but the Appeal Court reduced the term to 885 years. She worked
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      150 6 Want to get away for a short vacation? You needn't go further than a7-minute ferry ride! Apollo Sentosa has so much to offer. Come for the outdoor activities. The Monorail, the magical Musical Fountain. And so much more. irrrrr 2 days/1 night package Weekday Budget Vacation* Sun-Thurs except eve of
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      23 7 FOR YOUR HOUSING MORTGAGE LOANS PLEASE CALL US AT: *****8 *****9 ISLAND FINANCE LIMITED 696, UPPER SERANGOON ROAD, SINGAPORE 1953 A.P. No. 3088
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      183 7 Bosch V 428 i BOSCH v-j:H BOSCH V 471 Bosch I'l7l JPW #jj» With the new generation computcrmatic Bosch washing mac hines it's easy. Just jx)p in the c lothes. Select the appropriate programme, put tip your feet and enjoy it. The Bosch V 428 lias 9 fully automatic wash
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      114 8 TODAYS FASHION Experiertce o fashion extrovogonzo •very THURSDAY ot ®be v jfkballum Pi #riU Coimhill Hotel Graceful models from t;lsa Yep Agency are ready 10 stun and impress sou with an extensive collection of exclusive wear While enjoying the fashion parade, treat yourself 10 an irresistible buffet spread. Superb dishes
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      268 9 "Watson,we've murdered the competition." I I iI j S I; III!,, m. is®/ W m mJMI 1 m -4 pi fff SSjf-, §£l P*l m J m Holmes never fails to ||;|j startle me. Here we were, IB! talking about The Case of If. The Indecipherable Copy and w .'i!
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      Will nobody learn anything?
      368 10  -  MICHAEL MALIK FOR most of my generation, who lived through toe Second World War, there were some images which will never be erased from the mind. Some of them were personal and some of them were shared with the rest of Some of these were the
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      550 10 LAT-WP MOSCOW, Wednesday BY AIR, Warsaw is about as far from Moscow as it is from Amsterdam. Psychologically, however, the distance is even greater. It's ironic, but one of the first things that strikes a visitor arriving in Moscow from Poland, which is under a state of martial law, is
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      WORLDWATCH
      507 10 RF VIE W Of ANALYSES and OPINIONS IN CAPSuLE FORM t THE Japanese government has made virtually no headway in efforts to curb its huge financial burden of having to support too many rice farmers, because it faces a seemingly impossible task implementing an economically rational rice policy without
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      164 10 Ideal Car For The Small Family 1 -V I Cuore.Open the door to smart economy Cuore the car that answers the needs of the small family. Roomy for relaxing comfort. Excellent overall economy. Easy to handle and convenient. The chic gtat aerodynamic body and 550 cc engine have won awards
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      How the Ministry deals with errant hawkers
      98 11  -  CHUA KOK SWEE Sr Public Relations Officer, Ministry of the Environment. WE THANK B. H. Goh for his interest in how the Ministry should deal with recalcitrant hawkers. We would like to inform him that this Ministry does suspend or revoke licences of
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      Magazines that weren't ordered
      78 11 ORDERING magazines and books through the mail is certainly convenient, but some friends and I have been receiving several copies of international ana local magazines which we did not order. One of us returned a few copies, unopened, to the distributor only to receive more copies
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      Minus their bodyguards
      73 11 I refer to the article, "Tycoons Lose Guards" (NN, Aug 5). The only possible good reason that t can think of for such action is that armed bodyguards could threaten Singapore's security and it's quite clear that it is not so in this instance. If millionaires can't
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      Open plea
      38 11 THE bus stop opposite Wareham Road, oil Tanjong Katong Road, is in dire need of a bus shelter. Every day commuters have either to stand under the scorching sun or brave the rain. TAXPAYER, Singapore 1544.
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      $550 plus for a maid
      292 11 REFERENCE your article of Aug. 4 on the move by the Philippines and Indonesian embassies to protect their citizens employed as domestic servants in Singapore, one cannot imagine now these embassies get the impression that their citizens here are getting a raw deal. Generally, Filipino
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      So many competing for donations
      77 11  -  STEVEN, Singapore 1024. "TIGHTER rein on charities" (NN Aug. 1) is long overdue. There are so many charity organisations (some of an obscure nature) competing for donations that people are likely to get wary about making donations if they are not reasonably assured that their
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      68 11 I[TT ns .n any suf)|PCt <if public inV'est will Dp at.' ►'ptPd for puDlii:afion Th.-y should typed and "i,,s' [H> S'QnPd They n- r,' t >nc l.jde thp wn( s M i ind address ,\r 'iv to JSP .1 pWiifi "y'ti in tat telepfv A«'u>d {>»• >jse';jl 'O f'tl 1
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      406 11 Here's your chance to win fabulous prizes in the Duro Mend Win Lucky Draw. The contest is simple. No questions to answer. No slogans to write. Just buy any Duro FixIt product for your mending jobs and fill in the contest sticker. Send the blister packing to us and you
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      172 11 TODAY is the 223rd day of 1982, with 142 days to follow. On this day... In 1786, Penang was ceded to Britain by the Rajah of Kedah. In 1929, Arabs launched attacks on Jews in Palestine over disputes on Jewish use of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. In 1941, Britain's
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      19-year-old student recovers – after two mis-diagnoses and two weeks in bed
      373 12/13 19-year-old student recovers after two mis-diagnoses and two weeks in bed A LARGE black mosquito with two white stripes landed on a 19-year-old boy's exposed flesh and sank its proboscis into his flesh. He scarcely felt it, but within a week, he was in hospital racked with fever, and with
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      92 hit by dengue haemorrhagic fever
      574 12/13 But all 92 have recovered assures ministry SIX men spread out at a block of flats in Tanglin Halt Road. Armed with ladles and specimen bottles, they started peeking at flower vases, bottles and empty containers. They were looking for a killer the aedes
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      Stock market plummets 28 points to 437.95
      470 14 IT WAS a sell-out. Shareholders continued Monday's selling spree in Kuala Lumpur when the Stock Exchange of Singapore reopened yesterday. Share prices plunged in the aftermatn of a sobering National Day speech by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The Stock Exchange Industrial Index
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      Ayala group rebuilds hotel in F'risco
      192 14 THE Ayala croup which controls the Hyatt Regency Singapore is spending US$25 million to reconstruct a small luxury hotel in San Francisco. Campton Place Hotel will replace the 16-storey Drake Wiltshire Hotel at Stockton Street, overlooking San Francisco's Union Square. Extensive renovations will be
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      New prime rates
      142 14 ALL the four big banks have brought their prime rate into line at 10 per cent with the latest round of interest rate cuts. Overseas Union Bank cuts its rate by a quarter point today. DBS made a similar cut yesterday. Both banks have also reduced rates
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        Compete on quality, says Chandra Das
        86 14 WOOD manufacturers must phase out "traditional and comfortable" activities such as simf»le saw-milling and production of cheap furniure and plywood and compete on quality, marketing and other non-price factors, MP Mr S. Chandra Das said yesterday. The member for Chong Boon told a National
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        Strategic approach to marketing course
        30 14 THE National University of Singapore is running an intensive two-week executive course to provide a strategic approach to marketing. The course starts on August 23.
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        Straits Times buys 45pc of Sin Min
        31 14 STRAITS Times Press has bought 45 per cent of Shin Min Daily News at $2.50 a share for a total cost of $1,125 million.
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        Lock icon Weling suspended from trading
        36 14 Reuter HONG KONG: Weling Development has been suspended by the commissioner for commodities trading for allegedly failing to maintain close supervision over staff and to ensure all sales staff were registered Reuter.
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      Lock icon OVERNIGHT WALL STREET
      136 14 WALL STREET AP STOCK prices showed little change in late trading yesterday as the market struggled to brake its steep slide of the past five sessions. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, having slumped 41.76 points in the past five sessions and opening at its lowest
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      The Multi-Purpose way to acquisitions
      662 15 Mr Lee Loy Seng, subject of speculation over whether he would continue as chairman of Multi-Purpose Holdings, has confirmed that he will stay on. In an interview with the Malaysian newspaper, The Star, he looks to future expansion. QUESTION: Do you believe in corporate expansion
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      KL urged to protect its local steel industry
      408 15 THE Malaysian government has been urged to protect the local steel industry from the dumping of steel into the Malaysian market t>y international manufacturers, mainly Japan. Mr Boey Soo Nen, manager of the business department of Malaysia's largest steel producer Malayawata steel,
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      Shipbuilding industry runs into sudden stormy weather
      772 16  -  SHIPREPAIRINQ and rig-building have been great eucceee stories for Singapore. But can they leaf? In a two-part eeriee beginning today, we analyee the probleme facing marine induatriea. First, ahlp repairing. By N BALAKRISHNAN THE Singapore shipbuilding industry, which as recently as last year
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      Automation not indispensable
      370 16  -  By MASAKI WATANABE SINGAPORE'S shipyards could raise productivity without automation and mechanisation, by adopting routine firocedures used in Japan, said indusry experts. They say Japanese methods have not become widespread here because of the industry's heavy reliance on subcontractors and a "just get the job done" attitude.
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      South Johore profits decline
      73 17 SOUTH Johore Amalgamated Holdings announced group pre-tax profit of M 5870,000, a decline of 22 per cent over the M 51.14 million achieved previously. For the year ended March 31, the company made a profit of $145,000 compared to $121,000 before tax owing mainly to lower
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      Palmco in $4m acquisition deal in Thailand
      177 17 PALMCO Holdings, together with three Thai companies and fifty Thai investors, is to acquire all the issued and paid up capital of the Continental Illinois of Thailand (CIT) for Baht 40 million ($4 million) from the Continental International Finance Corp of Chicago. Palmco
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      Lock icon Better volume boost Ban Hin Lee earnings
      173 17 Star FOLLOWING improved business volume, Ban Hin Lee Bank has reported high earnings, j Pre-tax profit for the year to December 31, 1981, rose 30.7 per cent to $6,075 million from $4,648 million the previous year. Tax charged was lower because of an
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      Your $ (Foreign Exchange)
      82 17 Your (Foreign Exchange) Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DD US$ 2.1790 2.1690 2.1570 sterling 3.7135 3.6854 3.6644 Australian 2.1462 2.1236 2.1036 Canadian 1.7489 1.7253 1.7093 New Zealand 1.5984 1.5769 1.5569 S$ to 100 units of foreign currency Deutschemark 87.1791 85.9790 85.5290 French franc
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      Business Calendar
      73 17 Annual meetings Time Utd Malacca Rubber 12 noon i Date Aug 12 Venue Malacca Proposed dividends Payment on Bt S'bawang Est Aug 16 Dividend 20 cts final On book* July SO M'sia Feedmill Aug 16 Pan M Cement Aug 16 IS cts bonus 10% final 5% interim Aug
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      COMPANY BRIEFS
      142 17 OVERSEAS Union Bank has fixed the conversion price of its loan stock rights issue at $4.50 a share. The price represents a premium of 5 per cent over the $4.28 average last dealt price in the week August 2-6 FEDERAL Flour Mills has been admitted to the second
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      GOLD
      88 17 HAVING broken port level of US$34l-342, gold is trying to find a lower support level around US|332-334, United Overseas Bank says. "Technically, so long as the metal can hold the US$33O level, the current setback may be interpreted as a continuing consolidation of the recentsurge to US$36B," the bank
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      My pro plans — by Piyapong
      306 24  - My pro plans by Piyapong By SURESH NAIR FANDI AHMAD has indirectly inspired Thailand's 17-year-old prodigy striker Piyapong PueOn to attempt a similar breakthrough into the world of professional soccer. Piyapong, better known as Thailand's Diego Maradona, confirmed this morning that Fandi's recent pre-profession-al trials with Holland First Division champions
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        Blessing in disguise
        260 20  -  10 races a day now By B J SMITH THE syces' boycott of the Pesta Sukan meeting caused an initial disaster but has proved to be a blessing in disguise. The Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh syces, who signed a two-year collective agreement earlier in the year, demanded
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        Lock icon 'NO OVERTIME, NO TRAVEL'
        278 20 Star IPOH, Wednesday THE 392 syces here have refused to go down to Singapore for the races this weekend unless they are promised overtime pay by their employers. The secretary-gen-eral of the Race Course General Employees Union, Mr Salleh bin Haji Murshidi, said yesterday: "The trainers
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        JOINT COMMAND IN STORMING GALLOP
        533 20 JOINT Command showed he has retained good form when he stormed down the 600 metres in 36.2 with CH Tan astride at Bukit Timah yesterday. Trained by Garnet Bougoure, Joint Command was last seen racing in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup when he finished a
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        Lock icon Hit by Sweep Six fever
        564 20 Reuter OTTAWA, Wednesday TORONTO hairdresser Andre Nader fulfilled every gambler's dream when he went through the card and piched six consecutive winners at a Friday night horserace meeting. But then, he did it again on Saturday. For his fellow Canadians, smitten with a new gambler's
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        DAZZLING JUVENTUS
        925 21  -  IT IS HOT FAVOURITE FOR EUROPEAN CUP World Cup stars 1 who can win the 1 European CupJ By BRIAN GLANVILLE ONCE again, England mounts a double challenge for the European Cup which it has held for the past six years. Aston Villa has it in its grasp
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        ROUNDUP
        331 21 FORMER England international winger Laurie Cunningham could return to English Football League First Division club West Bromwich Albion, Ronnie Allen, the club's general manager, said in Birmingham yesterday. Albion is now negotiating with Real Madrid, which has allowed Cunningham to train with Albion. NAPOLI has decided that Argentine star
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      Bonn fears tag of 'Ugly Germans'
      749 19 Soccer THE injury-hit West German side went all the way to the World Cup soccer final before losing 3-1 to Italy but, as the rejoicing fades, disquiet is growing about some of the less savoury aspects of its performance in Spain. Fans, officials and
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      Singapore in easy opener
      257 22 SINGAPORE is expected to kick-off the Lion City Cup soccer tournament on a winning note when they take on Brunei in the opening match on Aug 29 at the National Stadium. The other opening day's match features an intriguing clash between reigning champions South Korea and
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      Veterans back in the arena
      247 22  -  Razali Rashid to skipper Lion City Cup squad By SURESH NAIR FIVE "veterans" are among 19 players short-listed in the Singapore Under-16 squad for next month's Lion City Cup soccer tournament. The five are goalkeeper Abdul Malek Mohammed, defender Rozi Sahmat, midfielder Chong Pek Ket
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        Refs honour Alex
        323 22 THE Football Referees' Association of Singapore monthly meeting will be held on Aug 13 at 7.00 p.m. at the Indian Association Auditorium, Balestier Road. Alex Vas, the Asian Football Confederation Referees' Committee member, will be the VIP guest speaker. The nine foreign FIFA referees, officiating in the
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      Not one of our best nights
      514 23  -  JITA SINGH HE needs no introduction to the soccer fraternity. JITA SINGH took appointment as Singapore's manager-coach two years ago. He brought back the Malaysia Cup in 1980. He deservedly earned the Coach of the Year accolade. He lost the Cup the following year
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      Lock icon Second-half burst carries Brazil
      440 23 Singapore provides early surprise Brazil 4 Singapore 1 The Star BRAZIL'S Santa Catarina switched from football peasantry to nobilty to douse the fitting flame of hardfighting Singapore at the Merdeka Stadium last night. It was a remarkable transformation by the Brazilians who, after playing like "Bogus
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      Lock icon Malaysia out of reckoning
      193 23 SJtorea 2 Malaysia 1 The Star SOUTH KOREA came from behind to send hosts Malaysia packing out of the tournament at the Merdeka Stadium last night. The elimination of Malaysia was painful after this second successive defeat and it will be a bitter pill to swallow
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      ASIAN YOUTH TOURNAMENT TABLES
      112 24 23rd ASIAN YOUTH (GROUP 2) TOURNAMENT 82 GROUP A P W D L F A PTS NORTH KOREA 4 4 0 0 14 1 8 THAILAND 4 3 0 1 20 5 6 Japan 4 2 0 2 11 10 4 Indonaaia 4 1 0 3
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      Short passes
      119 24 HUHl, RUIHV uuu u uiiuppumuuy IVPIIIUK wuiuii ing the National Day at the Paaang. When they arrived they were surprised to see the stands packed on a first-come-first-serve basis, presumably despite assurances that there will be seats reserved for them. Frustrated at their inability to And suitable seating
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      KOREANS STOP AT FOUR
      215 24 NORTH KOREA 4 PHILIPPINES 0 IT rained cats and dogs last night but it did not rain goals at the National Stadium where North Korea was tipped to score a doublefigure win. Fair enough. The warning "we'll stop at three" came from North Korean coach Pak
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      Shower of delight for Japanese
      153 24 JAPAN 4 INDONESIA 0 "RAlN, rain come again, little Japan want to play!" These slightly amended verses of a children's poem aptly describe Japan's delight as they welcomed the wet conditions in which to run the Indonesians into the ground last night. If only the
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      179 25 His In the dead of the night while Singapore sleeps, they are awake, at work. The graveyard shift in factories, all night services these are the people who keep Singapore ticking while we rest. RAADHIKA MAHADEVAN sits through a shift with them for a taste of the working life in
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      70 25 SECTIONS B C Sections A, B and C of this paper come off the presses folded into one, mainly for ease of distribution. At your door, there is less risk of pages coming loose. To derive maximum benefit from the design of the paper, you should pull out sections B
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      ...and the beat goes on...
      1010 25 STUDIO 2, Rediffusion. Saturday night, 1 am. It's a tiny room. Three turntables and a cupboard line one wall, a cartridge rack and notice boards deck the others. The disc jockey's Lshaped control panel fills three-quarters of the room. Behind him, a large window looks
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      Its line is entertainment
      72 25 REDIFFUSION S late night phone-in show is not designed as a counselling service although it does elicit response from people with problems. The show aims to entertain, provide information, a sympathetic ear for people with problems and allow listeners to communicate with each other on air.
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      Dealing with ambiguities
      1089 26  -  r all about WORDS by L Graham Colin Jones WE have previously considered the problems of semantic ambiguity, that is ambiguity arising from the meanings of words. Example: How many different meanings can you think of for "We need a light switch"? However, there are also syntactic
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      Plug on to 'Crazy Dutchman' Mark
      499 27  -  Live-wire in the studio i I 1 ttt ill H! Hi MhlHiinu tjiijji Bv f RAADHIKA MAHADEVAN HE IS pent-up energy tightly controlled. A livewire plugged into the studio console. He's an extrovert thriving on the power he holds, wooing his unseen audience with
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      Lock icon The French Connection
      629 28/29  -  Table Talk with VIOLET OON THERE'S something about French food, especially when it's cooked by a Frenchman. It has a certain mystique and glamour about it. True, the food is exquisite, but the sum total is also made up of a large dose of Gallic charm, the
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      675 31 Book tells it all: Sex, drugs and infidelity I v i VIL BEHIND THE SCENE L A UPI ARE Hollywood wives, the women married to stars, directors and producers, a breed apart? "Absolutely" is the resounding reply from Jackie Collins, who recently completed a romsm-a-clet novel titled
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      French honour for Charlton Heston
      252 31 CHARLTON Heston, who won the Best Actor Oscar in the title role of Ben Hur in 1959, will be honoured, Sept 912, at the Deauville Film Festival with a retrospective of his work. Ten of Heston's films will be shown, including the European Premiere of
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      102 26 POCKET fngush PIC TIONARV IX3CKET ENGLISH i )l< fl( )NAivY O A DIC IK )N WIN ONE OF THESE DICTIONARIES If you have seen an ambiguous statement in a newspaper, magazine or official notice at work, then send it to the address given on the right. We will send a
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    Fireworks after the fireworks
    407 30 IT started off a pleasant evening. Obediently armed with transistor radio, we set off to the East Coast Parkway to enjoy the National Day fireworks lighting up to music by Tchaikovsky and Handel. SBC was going to telecast only 10 minutes of the fireworks display because
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      1208 32 Doc Severinson and Arthur Fiedler IN SANDIWARA Ngah Udin (7.50 pm Ch 5), a pensioner, longs for the love and attention of his two married sons but ultimately resigns himself to living a lonely life with his wife. Zulkassim Daud is Ngah Udin, Zainon Ismail is Mak Ngah, Jainon Pari
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