New Nation, 22 September 1982

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  • 20 1 new nation CTW* vwkiwii PUBLI&HbU UV THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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    • 83 1  -  By B.J. SMITH KUALA LUMPUR: A leading jockey is being kept under 24-hour police protection after being threatened with a gun and warned not to ride any winners at the Kuala Lumpur race this coming weekend. The jockey, who does not wish to be named,
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    • 109 1 Reuter UNITED NATIONS: The 37th General Assembly of the United Nations opened yesterday, with delegates in sombre mood over the crises that have buffeted the world and the UN all year. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, in a report issued two weeks ago, voiced
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    • 61 1 Reuter GENEVA: Environmentalists could seriously block expansion of world airline traffic, expected to double by 1995, the International Air Transport Association (lATA) said yesterday. The 108 per cent growth forecast for the 1980-1995 period could be jeopardised unless airports, opposed by environmentalists, were expanded, lATA said
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    • 75 1 Reuter BRISBANE: A series of daring inflight attempts to steal money from cargo holds of Australian passenger aircraft were foiled tonight with the arrest of five men hiding in boxes consigned as airfreight, police announced. Queensland Assistant Police Commissioner Tony Murphy said the men had planned to
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  • 488 1 TEL AVIV PAPERS SAY TOP GOVT MEN KNEW OF KILLINGS BUT FAILED TO ACT LAT-WP JERUSALEM, Wednesday SENIOR Israeli government officials were told that widespread killing was taking place in two Palestinian camps in Beirut but failed to take any action, Israeli newspapers have reported.
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  • 122 1 BRITAIN COMING TO A STANDSTILL Today (Wednesday, Sept 22), the British will have to do without their national 19 morning newspapers, all three television channels will go blank for part of the evening, the buses will not run for a couple
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  • home
    • 513 2  -  More school kids are becoming fat By CHUA NGENG CHOO AN increasing number of school children, especially those in Primary Six, are becoming too fat for the good of their health. And the reasons are small families, affluence leading to indulgence in too much food and lack
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    • 216 2 PARENTS were yesterday assured that their sons would be able to cope with army life and that every serviceman would be treated fairly by the officers. The assurance was given by the acting Minister for Social Affairs, Dr Ahmad Mattar, at a sending-off party for
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    • 208 2 SOME 1,000 community leaders will discuss ways to motivate workers towards higher productivity at a national seminar on Nov 13. These representatives from the Citizens' Consultative Committees, the Community Centre Management Committees, and the Residents' Committees will have many of their
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    • 71 2 THE Happy Valley Restaurant, one of the most expensive in town, has been hit by thieves who got away with $15,417 on Sunday night after the restaurant nad closed. The money was stolen from a cash register. Police say there was no sign of damage
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    • 203 2 A BRITISH tourism sales team is due here soon to seek more Singaporean visitors as part of an effort to increase the flow of Asian tourists who are becoming increasingly important to the British trade. Last year, visitors from Asian countries excluding Japan
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    • 225 4 PROFESSOR Cham Tao Soon, dean of the National University of Singapore's engineering faculty and president of Nanyang Technological Institute, leaves on Sunday for Sweden and Britain. In Sweden he will study new methods of educating engineers and developing university-industry cooperation. In Britain he will
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    • 219 4  -  They hit on brainwaves to solve operational problems By TOH SU FEN TWO firemen could hop on a motorcycle and weave through backlanes and traffic jams to get to the site of the fire in double-quick time. False alarms, which accounted for more than 90 per cent
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    • 66 4 WATER, noise, air and solid pollution are the main topics to be discussed in the coming First International Conference on Industrial Pollution and Control from December 14-17 at the Hotel Equatorial. About 150 environmental specialists from 18 countries are expected to attend the conference organised
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    • 32 4 INDONESIAN chess Master Edhi Hondoko yesterday remained in the lead in the First Parkway International Chess Tournament by scoring his fourth successive win, defeating Jimmy Liew of Malaysia.
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    • 174 4 ASEAN countries should develop more tourist resorts in the outskirts and the rural areas to disperse tourist traffic from cities, according to Dr Wong Poh Poh, a National University of Singapore lecturer. "At present, most visitors in Asean tend to keep to the
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    • 182 4  -  By K. K. FONG TOA Payoh police have picked up a 29-year-old man they believe is a wanted "thief among thieves," who had allegedly stolen |26,000 in jewellery from other members of a housebreaking gang. The man was arrested in an ambush at
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    • 303 5  -  By JACKIE SAM SINGAPORE'S first "no-punches-pulled" full contact karate tournament will be held next month at the Gay World. Taking part will be two contestants each from India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Malaysia. Singapore will have four participants. Entrants from Indonesia and
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    • 111 5 SINGAPOREAN motorists are honest, if "voluntary" parking fees collected by a hotel are anything to go 6y. A signboard at the exit of the Holiday Inn Hotel car park in Scotts Road requests motorists who leave after 11 pm to put their parking slips and $1 into the
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    • 189 5  -  Picture and story by CHEW YEN FOOK WELL it may look like a scene in the morning market and just about anybody would have thought so, except that it happens at the purchasing areas of all the major hotels
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    • 287 6 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is asking all tour agencies to have proper supervision over their tour guides in providing after-sales service to visitors here. This comes in the light of complaints from a group of Venezuelan tourists who said they were charged $300
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    • 818 6  -  Commodity expert says investors are 'too greedy and too stubborn' to cut losses By SIT YIN FONG THE majority of Singapore investors in commodity futures trading who lose money are "too greedy or too stubborn to cut their losses" when advised by their
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    • 73 6 He said: "All companies worth their salt should supply such elementary documents as Purchase and Sales Statements; Executed Orders Statements; Trading Balance Sheets; and Monthly Accounts Statements. All of these should be signed by the assigned broker, and counter-signed by the company's Senior Business Executive "He
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    • 141 7 "It's an open and shut case, Watson No Ammonia." Wmmk Wmmmm v W V- V w>"N ik. j m-:-, Holmes had put away his violin and turned his attention to the plans that had just been slipped under the door. "Beautifully reproduced", murmured Holmes. Once again Holmes was well ahead
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  • world
    • 158 8 AP LONDON, Wed. BRITAIN faced widespread disruption today with hundreds of thousands of workers due to walk out to support striking health employees in what has become a major confrontation between union leaders and the Conservative Government. "The strikes are unlawful," Mr Norman
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    • 235 8 Agencies MOSCOW, Wednesday INDIAN Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi broke her silence on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and expressed "serious concern" to President Leonid Brezhnev on the Soviet troop presence there, official reports said. Mrs Gandhi met Mr Brezhnev at the Kremlin within
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    • 135 8 UPI SAN PEDRO SULA (Honduras), Wednesday HONDURAS' President Roberto Suazo Cordova has pledged to grant guerillas holding 82 business and government leaders safe conduct out of the country if their hostages are released, according to a top government official. National agrarian
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    • 285 8 Reuter LONDON, Wed. THE staid world of Lloyd's of London, centre of the international insurance trade, has been rocked by allegations of misconduct involving US$55 million (*****.5 million) that have led to the suspension of moneyspinning underwriter lan Posgate. A US firm, Alexander and
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    • 218 8 UPI NEW DELHI, Wednesday THE Soviet-backed Afghan Government has ordered all boys and girls aged 10 to 16 to take weapons training in a risky move aimed at boosting the regime's military strength, Western diplomats said yesterday. The government decree, which the diplomats said
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    • 85 8 UPI CHICAGO, Wed. A 810-ENGINEER is testing miniature artificial red blood cells which, he says, could someday solve blood transfusion problems and might even make it possible to convert animal blood for safe use in human veins. Dr Irving Miller says the new cells can be used
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    • 44 10 TOKYO British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pose with two popular wrestlers of Japan's traditional sport Sumo, during a reception at a Tokyo hotel. On the prime minister's left is grand champion Chiyonofuji and at right is Hawaiian-born Takamiyama. Picture: UPI
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    • 490 10 Major off-shore exploration projects to provide huge foreign exchange earnings LAT/WP BEIJING, Wed THROUGH a series of partnerships with Western oil industry service companies, China is planning to capture a large share of the estimated US$lO billion that major international oil companies will spend during
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    • 198 10 AP BANGKOK, Wednesday THAI economic planners have unveiled an ambitious multibillion dollar project to develop a rural seaboard area into tourism resorts, heavy and light industrial areas and export processing zones. They hope the Eastern Seaboard Scheme will propel this South-east Asian country into the ranks
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    • 190 10 UPI NEW DELHI, Wednesday THE nationwide toll in flash floods, cloudbursts, house collapses and drownings since the annual summer monsoon began in late June passed 1,000, reports said. Thirty-six new flood fatalities were reported yesterday, 26 of them in Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, where 28,100 villages have
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    • 100 10 UPI NEW YORK, Wed A POLICE spokesman saysd New York City's pregnant finest will be donning regulation maternity uniforms in the months leading up to the blessed event. Sgt Edward Burns said a three member committee of police officials has been established to develop a
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    • 268 11 Agencies WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE new multinational force in Lebanon will be larger than its predecessor and could stay as long as six months, US officials said yesterday. The force of US, French and Italian troops would play a strictly limited role in support
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    • 364 11 r MASSACRE IN BEIRUT b Reuter TUNIS, Wednesday. THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) last night accused Washington of moral responsibility for last week's massacre of Palestinians in Beirut and urged the Arab world to impose sanctions against the United States, sources at an Arab
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    • 121 11 AP NEW YORK, Wednesday. ISRAEL took a full page advertisement in yesterday's New York Times to publish the statement it issued on Sunday denying that its armed forces shared blame for the massacre in Palestinian camps in Beirut. The "10-paragraph statement, in large type under the
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    • 161 10 f »/>j I r» ft •>' Mi ZO&a--t' f* -.1 V >'x' f •'"v s ,> ■•s 1.1. >V <• £s v// >!1n P N vv*Jss*. X*/ t >, i A Jeweltime '82. The Third International Jewellery and Watches Exhibition will be held in Singapore from 22 to 26 September.
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  • opinion / background
    • 538 12  -  COMMENTARY BY N. BALAKRISHNAN EVERY profession has its temptations. That of journalists is to be historians. With the possible exception of looking for something "ironical" (which in the journalistic lexicon means anything that is not totally predictable), nothing delights journalists more than looking
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    • 536 12 WORLD'S TOP SCIENTISTS DONATE TO SPERM BANK AP BILLIONS of sperm from some of tho world's top scientists are frozon in a load cauldron and storod in a tiny, underground laboratory on a ranch naar San Diago. "You don't nood much room for sperm," says
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    • 223 12  -  By DELTA HONG I HEAR that at this week's press conference on the latest trishaw rip-off, one reporter asked an innocent-sounding question: "If we can redevelop most of Chinatown without sentimentality about the past, why don't we do away with trishaws as well?" Officials didn't have an answer.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 48 12 Beyond the headlines l 11 Mi Ml •I W, .v TN m. m m f? sx a? r3 &S> 5/ Menachem and I have been vacationing here in Miami Beach for years. Then one day we figured, what the heck, why not just go ahead and annex it?...
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  • opinion / letters
    • 267 13 ONE EVEN HANGS UP HIS PHONE IN EVENING I WOULD agree that there is a lot of truth in the account by "Aggrieved" (New Nation, Sept 16) about the doctor who refused to make house calls not even for an "ang pow."
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    • 149 13 VIEWPOINTS I READ with interest various discussions on moral and religious education and Confucian ethics. The teaching of religious and Confucian ethics at whatever level is a sensitive subject, especially in a multi-racial and multi-religious society. There is a tendency for people to disrespect the rights
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    • 93 13 I PATRONISE Chinese nightclubs occasionally and the atmosphere in such places is vastly different from that in clubs catering to an Englishspeaking clientele. Club-goers wearing shorts and slippers are allowed admission to Chinese nightclubs. What are these people trying to prove? Could the management of
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    • 80 13  -  S.K. TNG RECENTLY, I was reading a newspaper and tucking into a packet of a cheese-flavoured snacks at the same time and almost swallowed a tiny plastic machine-gun toy which was given as a free gift inside the packet. I am sure the manufacturer has put in all
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    • 34 13  -  N. HONG HOW can I be encouraged to buy locally-made products when even the retail price of a dry-cell battery made by a neighbouring country is cheaper than one made herer
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    • 216 13  -  REPLIES KOH LIAN CHOON I REFER to the letter from "ACCS Commuter" (New Nation, Aug 27). The Air-Conditioned Coach Service (ACCS) was started some seven years ago with the cooperation of tour coach operators who agreed to provide this bus service in conjunction with
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    • 67 13  -  CHEW KING HWAN I REFER to the letter "One must earn respect with respect" by "Justice Please" (New Nation, Aug 31). I agree with your writer that teachers should not slap their pupils even when they (the teachers) are provoked and angry. For a
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    • 55 13 I REFER to the letter by "Concerned Citizen II" (New Nation, Sept 13). The Law Society would certainly look into the matter if 'Concerned Citizen II" would supply to the Society full particulars of the case and the name of the Solicitor concerned. SECRETARY
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    • 60 13  -  WANG TING MIN Research/PR Manager Emporium Holdings WE REFER to the letter by "Anti-bully" (New Nation, Sept 14) and apologise for any inconvenience caused to him whilst shopping in our store. As we are investigating the matter and require more information from, we would appreciate it
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    • 47 13  -  EVELYN LOH (MISS) I REFER to the letter "Is marriage null and void?" (New Nation, Sept 1) from Madam Yao Li-Hun. In order to advise her on the question of permanent residence, could the writer kindly contact me at *****31 ext 114.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 252 13 prove Ernesto "Che" Great Man is sparing in words but Guevara of Cuba is op- prodigal in deeds. To engage in gos- a '"f w,th ucr,llas ln sip is to cast aside Ep 1970 Ki Husseins who follow different roads cannot A a ir force attacks Syrian take counsel with
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  • special report
    • 738 14  -  Thai Reds in disarray after top leader defects THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THAILAND 1 Reports compiled by K. MOHANAN THE Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) began as an offshoot of the Chinese Communist Party before World War 11. Until the communist victory in China, it
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    • 391 15 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THAILAND 2 THE leadership struggle in the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) took place against a backdrop of of the Sino-Soviet split in the international communist movement. The CPT was originally a Beijingaligned movement. Then came the Vietnamese alliance with
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    • 298 15 BEFORE joining the Communist Party of Thailand in the late 50s, Udom Srisuwan made a name for himself as a writer whose articles and books served to inspire stadent activists and intellectuals of that generation. According to published reports, Udom is of Chinese parentage. There are no records about
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  • business
    • 537 16  -  By RODNEY HOBSON BELGIUM is the latest country to look to Singapore as the trading gateway to Asia. But many Belgian companies there have been put off by Dad experiences with fly-by-night agents here. Exports from Belgium, including those from landlocked
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    • 199 16 AP NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE dollar was mixed against major currencies in US trading yesterday after posting earlier gains in Europe amid reports of two straight quarters of US economic growth. Gold prices rose as much as US$ll an ounce after falling in Europe.
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    • 119 16 AP THE stock market ran up a sharp gain yesterday in a carryover of buying from late in Monday's session. Analysts found no single reason for the upswing. But they said hopes persisted for an economic recovery that might pick up momentum by this winter. The Commerce
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    • 87 16 THE US Department of Commerce, as part of its "ASEAN Regional Marketing Strategy," will sponsor an American Pavilion in ENEX-ASIA 82 at the World Trade Centre next month. The US Pavilion, organised bv the US International Marketing Center (USIMC) in Singapore will feature the latest
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    • Update
      • 60 16 New entry into Asian market UNIBANCO-UNIAO De Bancos Brasileiros Of Brazil will issue US$lO million of floating rate certificates of deposit in the Asian dollar market, lead-manager Morgan Guaranty Pacific said in Singapore. The two-year issue, maturing on Sept 28, 1984, carries an interest rate 0.5 point above the Singapore
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      • 32 16 DEMAND at the Tea Auction Association of Singapore sale yesterday was below sellers expectations in many cases, resulting in frequent withdrawals. However, many withdrawn teas were subsequently sold.
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      • 32 16 Reuter TOKYO The Japanese Labour Ministry said it will designate Japan's nine major steel makers as depressed businesses and will provide government subsidies to help retrain their workers.
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      • 65 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government will continue with expansion plans expected to cost about Ms47o million, to develop the country's largest port at Port Klang, Deputy Transport Minister Abu Hassan Omar saia. He told reporters the expansion programme will add a
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      • 45 16 Reuter JAKARTA The Indonesian government plans to phase out food subsidies on rice, corn, sugar and wheat flour and use the money to finance government development projects, the Deputy Chief of the National Logistics Agency Sukriya Atmaja said. Reuter
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      • 30 16 Reuter TOKYO Japanese banks' exposure in Mexico at end-July 1982 totalled an estimated U5512.50 billion, including long and short term loans, financial sources said. Reuter
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      • 39 16 Reuter MANILA The Philippine government hopes to secure from the International Monetary Fund a new standby credit line to help the country cover its balance of payments deficit, a central bank spokesman said. Reuter
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    • 235 17 THE GOLD market is finding support at the US$42O ($714) level, United Overseas Bank says. The market may fall back into the US$4OO 420 ($6BO-$714) range if the technical support is breached, UOB feels. Bullish traders are now hesistant as gold failed to hold above
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    • 322 17  -  By RODNEY HOBSON LOSS-MAKING Newman Industries continues to plague Cycle and Carriage. Plans announced last month for two British institutions to take a stake in Newman have run into a snag. Preparation of detailed documentation "has revealed certain problems relating to the disposal of
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    • 405 17 OTHER COMPANY NEWS PRE-TAX profits declined by 32 per cent at Malek Industries as a result of "difficult economic and trading conditions." During the six months to June 30, the company reported pre-tax profits down to M 53.12 million from $4.5 million. Turnover
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    • 114 17 Annual meetings Time Date Venue Malayawata Steel 11.30 a.m. Sept 18 Kuala Lumpur Pegi Malaysia 11.00 a.m. Sept 24 Kuala Lumpur Jack Chia-MPH Noon Sept 25 Mandarin Hotel Khong Guan(egm) Noon Oct 6 Kuala Lumpur Payment on Dividend On books Straits Trading Oct 116 cents interim Oct 9
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    • 95 17 JACK Chia-MPH has delayed its annual meeting because of a technical hitch. The company says the notice dated September 10 convening the meeting on 25 September 1982 was not served on the same day and the directors have accepted professional advice that it should be postponed in view
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    • 175 17 the stock market SINGAPORE share prices closed higher on buying support in selective moderate trading. Central Sugars rose 10 cents to 8.70, Cold Storage 14 to 3.56, Fraser and Neave 15 to 5.60, National Iron 15 to 5.70, Hong Leong Finance 10 to 6.10, Malayan Bank
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    • 273 17 MOPPING-UP exercises conducted in the money market last week proved to be ineffective, DBS says in its Weekly Money News. Overnight rates started the week at 7.5 per cent. Failing to find any support at this level, rates were traded gradually lower and were
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    • 254 17 The Star CSR, one of Australia's leading resources companies, has acquired a piece of land near Kuala Lumpur to set up a rockwool insulation factory. Its general manager, R. G. Jackson, said construction work would begin shortly and the factory would start production in October next
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    • 219 18 NEW YORK, Wednesday. AMERICAN banks are in sound financial shape despite recent scares over economic problems facing several major borrowing countries and the high level of US corporate bankruptcies, according to industry analysts. Worried about the chances of a major bank collapse and the
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    • 596 18  -  When the taxman's overzealous diligence goes askew and leads to strange results By AWTHER SINGH BY a suitable selection of a one year long accounting period for business accounts, it was at one time possible in both Singapore and Malaysia to delay for a while the payment of
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    • 619 18 The Star THE fluctuating fortunes of tin are for better or for worse closely intertwined with developments and advances made in the metal packaging industry. It has been estimated that 40 per cent of all tin produced is used for the manufacture
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  • sports
    • sports / racing
      • 775 20  -  By B J SMITH LEADING trainers Ivan Allan of Singapore and Teh Choon Beng of Penang look formidable to dominate this year's running of the Singapore Turf Club s $150,000 Gold Cup at Bukit Timah next month. The way this pair filled
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      • 468 20  -  Track work by TRACKSTAR THE Mohamed Ismailtrained Laju Laju, who looked like a winner in his last start before being beaten in the last 50 metres by John's Gift over 1200 m in July, underlined his chances of making amends this
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      • 189 20 OFF-COURSE betting will be conducted at Bukit Timah on the amateur meeting to be held in Penang next Tuesday. Over 100 entries have been received and eight races have been scheduled for this Penang meeting which coincides with Hari Raya Haji. The two leading amateur
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      • 193 20 $150,000 Stakes 2200 Metres. Air Marshall (Auric) Teh Choon Beng Blanc Sur Blanc (Ace-in-the-hole) George West Blaze Ahead (Auric) Teh Choon Beng Bold Punter (Shenanigans) Ivan Allan Breakthrough (Credit) Teh Choon Beng Chief Admiral (Chief Admiral) E T Breukelen Country Lord (Agasam) Garnet Bougoure Creme De
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      • 361 20 TWO classy newcomers, My Great Pleasure and Tag Rag, have been registered in Class 1 with the high rating of 137. My Great Pleasure, a 4-year-old ch nz rig by Ashabit-April Lass, raced in New Zealand as My Bit O'Class and
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      • 48 20 LONDON, Wednesday BRITAIN'S Lester Piggott will ride Spanish Pool and American Willie Shoemaker will partner Prince's Gate in a challenge race between the two horseracing greats at Ascot on Friday. The Piggott-Spanish Pool combination is 5-4 on favourite to win. It's even money for Shoemaker's mount.
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      • 582 21 mm Athletics IS» Reuter LONDON, Wednesday SEBASTIAN Coe's withdrawal from England's Commonwealth Games team for Brisbane is a final admission that he has lost his race against time. Coe's decision to pull out, made last week after he flew home from the European athletics championships
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      • 332 21 SSjP Tennis WESI L SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday DEFENDING champion Eliot Teltscher rolled to a first-round victory in the Transamerica Open yesterday, but admitted he was not sure he could defend his title against the likes of Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. "I don't feel all that
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        • 166 21 JAPAN became the first country to clinch a place in the final round of the women's world volleyball championship when they beat South Korea 15-0 153 15-5 in Lima yesterday. South Korea could still be one of the three other teams to go through the
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        • 131 21 ships which ended yesterday, said GS Sivia, secretary of the Indian Amateur Athletics Federation, said in New Delhi. The four include Gita Zutshi, winner of the women's 800m in the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok. The three to go are Chand Ram (50km walk), Mercy Mathews (women's long iump) and
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        • 145 21 Northampton lost their home match 0-3 to Bury. A SPARKLING performance by Yurik Sarkisian of tne Soviet Union won for him the gold medal at the world weightlifting championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, yesterday. He won the featherweight (60 kg) class with a twolift total of 302.5 kg to equal the
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    • 207 22 f t Soccer Reuter COPENHAGEN, Wednesday. BOBBY ROBSON, England's new manager, will be determined to lay to rest the ghost of the team's last disastrous visit to Scandinavia when they meet Denmark in a European soccer championship Group Three match today. English soccer is still
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    • 500 22 Adviser unable to produce enough coaches for clubs BURKHARD ZIESE, West German technical adviser to the Football Association of Singapore has been unable to realise his ambition of producing enough advanced level coaches for Division One clubs, the reservoir from which the majority of national players
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    • 442 22 RAZAK CUP Selangor 5 Penang 1 SELANGOR showed why they were favoured to retain the Razak Cup Hockey Title with this convincing win over Penang at the Stadium Tun Razak yesterday evening. The defending champions showed all round class and indepth strength
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    • 81 22 Armed Forces: 9 Brunei: 1 BRUNEI, competiting by special invitation in the Razak Cup, were trounced by Armed Forces in this group D match at the national hockey stadium yesterday morning. Relative newcomers to the game, Brunei, who are competing in the tournament for the first time could
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    • 90 22 GROUP A P W D L P A PTS SELANGOft 2 2 1 11 1 4 PENANG 1 I 1 1 S JOHORJE 1 111! GROUP B FT 2 2 1 11 1 4 1 S 4 2 111 2 2 17 I GROUP C P W D L
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    • 177 22 Federal Territory: 4 Kedah: 0 FEDERAL TERRITORY was still not impressive with this win and may just upset pretournament forecast that it was one of the favourites for the Razak Cup Hockey title. Despite having a wide array of stars Federal Territory was hard put
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    • 322 23  -  Bowling n L A By R MANORAJ THE Singapore Tenpin Bowline Congress has formed a panel of coaches to improve the standards in Singapore. Most of the panel members attended the clinic held by leading American professional coach Dick Ritger's early last year. They are
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    • 362 23 THE Singapore Sports Council will be organising a 20-hour course, designed to provide coaches with basic knowledge of sports sciences The course, which also includes basic principles of physical training and conditioning, will be conducted in English at the National Stadium theatrette on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from Oct
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    • 238 23 WHEN Brown Boveri forward Ali Bakar scored the goal that beat Mobil 1-0 and put his team into the semi-finals of the Singapore Business Houses Football League junior knockout competition, it was as if he'd netted the winner in a World Cup Final. There
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    • 486 23 AN invitational side has received the blessing of the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress to make a trip to Seoul and become the first foreigners to take part in the third national championships for the Flag of Korea from Oct 5-9. The domestic competition,
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    • 302 24  -  Cops called in after gunpoint threat By BRENTON SMITH A LEADING jockey is being kept under 24-hour police protection after being threatened with a gun and warned not to ride any winners at the Kuala Lumpur race this coming weekend. The jockey, who does not
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    • 190 24 ALL FOR MISBUN... MISBUN SIDEK'S relative fans him while close friend Ajib Mohideen is waiting on call as the national champ tries to get back wind for the rubber in the final match against Liem Swie King in the Second Alba World Cup
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      • 150 24 UPI BIRMINGHAM, Wednesday SOCCER'S European Cup was stolen from holders Aston Villa of England on Monday. Villa coach Tony Barton saidne was when he heard the news. "I could not believe it, and obviously the board will be holding an investigation into now it
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      • 118 24 AP ZURICH, Wednesday THE Soviet Union, which has raised a series of complaints about preparations for the 1984 summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was among the first countries to sign up for the preliminary Olympic soccer competition, according to a list distributed
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      705 25  -  PAULINE GOH reviews the recent 27th Asian Film Festival PAULINE GOH THE feature film entries at the 27th Asian Film Festival held in Kuala Lumpur recently were clearly the crowd pullers. It was interesting to note that each of the 10 participating cities had its own brand stamped on
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      1172 26 Action Woman Lo Tien Yin takes on a weighty assignment A day with Fatholomein Ali Mr Asia, also Mr Singapore turns out to bo a kaleidosQopo of straining muscles, sweating faces and, perhaps more than anything else, food. THE day starts early when Fathol appears in his
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    • 260 26 Action Woman versus the dumb-bells BACK at the gym, I am glad I have not eaten as much as Fathol. This is the part of the day I have been dreading. Now it is my turn. He takes me to the pulley chain. "Do ten
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      51 27 £~l took up this sport to fain wight. I was vory Impressed by a film on body builders and decided to bo like them. But I did not know how to begin. I trained without any guidance oxcopt from a magazines and books. When nourishment is food for
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      98 27 dents."Do one more." "One more? Why do I torture my body like this? I love it," said the student as he gathered his strength and started flapping his body up and down on the bench. "Fathol, Fathol, why do I feel this twinge at the small of
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    • 838 28/29 MOON gazing and time here again, and for food lovers it has been an orgy of those rich, heavy, sweet mooncakes even though the Moon Festival on the 15th day of the eighth month is two weeks away on Oct 1. If one is to judge by
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    • 310 28/29  -  ...BY THE LEGENDS Table Talk wi»h VIOLET OON I CAN still remember it well. The excitement, the thrill waiting for the Mooncake Festival to come. The daily prayers that it would not rain on full moon night so that I could light my lantern, go round the garden, gaze
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    • 1037 30 Stardust lingers after the show THE Asian Film Festival is over but the stardust still lingers in the air. The Taiwan delegation, for example, came down to Singapore en masae for charity performances and appearances on stage and television. throb with gentle looks and manners, showed quite another side to
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    • 322 31 Today's top TV shows Dramas and Documentaries Thacker's World (Channel 5, 4.55 pm) BILL THAKER will introduce some nocturnal creatures and their feeding habits and habitat. This educational programme will feature the owls, bats, mongooses and hedgehogs. Around the World with Brian Adams (Channel 5, 6.25 pm) BRIAN ADAMS takes
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    • 812 32 channel 5 3.00 Opening followed by The Jaws (C) (r). 4.35 Exercise with Gloria. 4.55 Thacker's World. See Top Shows B7. 5.20 The Electric Company. Words ending with the letter Y are introduced, for example, silly, crazy, celery, bouncy, greasy, etc. 5.50 Maggie's Moor. After reading a book on buried
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    • 714 32 radio 1 12.00 PM Your Lunchdate 1.00 News 1.10 Your Lunchdate (contd) 1.30 Mid-day Market Report 1.35 Your Lunchdate (contd) 2.00 Programme Summary followed by On The House 3.00 News-In-Brief 3.05 On The House (contd) 4.30 Musical Treats: The repeat of morning's programme 5.00 News-In-Brief 5.05 Music My Way 6.00
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