New Nation, 30 September 1982

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  • 18 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Thursday, Sept. 30, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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  • 307 1  -  Authority to oversee operations of firms which are not Exchange members THE GOLD BUST news special By SIT YIN FONG, CATHERINE ONG THE host of bullion firms which have escaped supervision are to be placed under the control of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). MAS
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    • 150 1 PRIZE-WINNING PICTURES... Al2 13 The news agency UPI is celebrating its 75th anniversary tomorrow with an exhibition here of top action photographs. We give you a sneak preview o£ some of the best pictures MORE REPORTS ON THE CRACKDOWN: A 2 INSIDE f THE BRISBANE GAMES Singapore is in for
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    • 11 1 WEATHERi Partly cloudy with showers In several areas In early afternoon
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    • 175 1 MIKIMOTO Cultured Pearls Since 1893 C. T. HOO 27. lanolin R«md. Singapore I0?4 Tci jmvv 7U4W New Nation broke the gold story with this report on Sept 17 THEOCBC SINGAPORE DOLLAR TRAVELLERS CHEQUES WIDELY ACCEPTED My in asia Since their recent mtroduc- tion, the OCBC Singapore Dollar Traveiiers Cheques have
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    • 292 2 REPORTS: Sit Yin Fong and Catherine OngJ THE element of surprise was used when the police backed by officers from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday cracked down on 24 of the 70 companies dealing in gold and commodity futures. Without warning, a 120-man
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    • 144 2 THE GOLD BUST news special THE police raids against the 24 commodity Arms yesterday came 12 days after the New Nation broke the story of the first police action the seizing of books from three commodity firms four months ago. In that exclusive report, the Head
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    • 135 2 THE managing director of a bullion firm raided by the police yesterday said it was a good move. Mr Gilbert Ng of Trivest Bullion Enterprises explained that the raids would help to stamp out unscrupulous dealers and restore the image of
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    • 241 2 EIGHT of the 24 commodity trading companies involved in the government crackdown yesterday are members of the Gold Exchange of Singapore. Of these, only two Bellink International Pte Ltd and Khong Guan Commodities Pte Ltd are full members, meaning they have fiduciary funds
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    • 131 3 FREDDIE GOH stood in the doorway of the Siglap Secondary School Art Club. He put out his hand and was about to switch on a light. But, for a moment he paused.... Rays from the evening sun filtered though the colourful stained glass panels and suffused
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    • 78 3 FIVE houses in the Thomson Hill Estate have been broken into over the weekend. Paya Lebar police believe a three-man gang is responsible for the burglaries. The three men are believed to have burgled two homes in Thomson Green, two in Thomson
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    • 78 3 CRACKING your brains over that Merger advertisement on page nine of tbe New Nation yesterday? The full details will be out tomorrow. But if you cannot wait until then, the advertisement deals with the merger of the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore and the Postal
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    • 229 3  -  Registrar wants rival groups to merge By YONG POW ANG A six-year row between two rival groups of Chinese physicians, resolved in court-room recently, has now gone to the conference room of the Registrar of Societies. It is learnt that the two groups have been
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    • 98 3  -  By GIAM CHOO KWEE INDONESIAN chess master Edhi Handoko last night defeated Filipino International Master Rice Mascarinas in the final round of the First Parkway International Chess Tournament. His win earned him $3,000 and a first norm for International Master By achieving a similar
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    • 243 5  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to study how it can help its 20 trade associations affected by the new definition of a trade union. It is to set up a committee, as soon as the new
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    • 316 5  -  Firms cut back on operations By TO CHEE ENG BAD business has forced two electronics manufacturing companies to trim their operations. One of the two companies, Toko Electronics in Toa Payoh has retrenched nearly naif of its workers in less than a month, with more to
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    • 113 5 UNIONISED staff at the Singapore Polytechnic will no longer enjoy automatic deductions from their salaries for purchases from the Singarjre Armed Forces En-erprise-Credit Instalment Scheme (SafeCis). Last week, the polytechnic wrote to the Amalgamated Unions of Public Employees (AUPE) advising them that it can
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    • 60 5 YOUR furniture and furnishings can be a fire hazard, according to the Consumers' Association of Singapore (CASE). Unlike the developed countries, Singapore does not have standards and regulations for furniture and furnishings to cover safety, utility, workmanship and durability. In its latest issue, the CASE Bulletin argues
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    • 98 5 THESE pin may breed a twinge of jealousy in our home-grown animals. Looking npne the worse for their 22-hour flight from Chicago to Singapore, these breeder pigs 1,500 in nil murk the sturt of a new ern in intensive pig fnrming here in n project undertaken by
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  • world
    • 161 6 Reuter BEIRUT, Thursday A SURVIVOR of the recent massacre at Palestinian refugee camps here told Lebanese government investigators yesterday ne had heard some of the attackers speaking Hebrew, judicial sources saia. The witness, a schoolteacher, was speaking to members of a government commission investigating the massacre as
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    • 63 6 A CLOTH to her face for protection from the dust, a woman walks past Italian troops stationed at the southern entrance to the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday. Huge dust clouds are being raised as camp buildings are levelled in
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    • 261 6 WASHINGTON, Thurs. PRESIDENT Reaean said yesterday US Marines would leave Lebanon when Lebanese authorities said they could ftrovide their own securiy, even if some Israeli and Syrian Forces remained in the country. But he said he expected an Israeli and Syrian withdrawal
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    • 62 6 AP BANGKOK, Thurs A SINGAPOREAN was among five South-East Asians to win a 1982 writers' award sponsored by American novelist Gore Vidal and Thailand's Princess Sirindhorn. Mr M Balakrishnan of Singapore, a novelist and playwright, writes in Tamil. The other winners were Usman Awang of Malaysia. Marianne Katoppo
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    • 123 6 Reuter AP UNITED NATIONS, Thursday THAI Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila, calling the Cambodian conflict a threat to world peace, urged the UN yesterday to repeat its demand that all foreign forces withdraw from Cambodia. "We once again call on Vietnam and its allies to participate in the
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    • 118 6 AP LUXEMBOURG, Thursday A SOVIET airliner carrying 77 people crashed and then expired yesterday after landing at the Findel Airport here killing 12 people and injuring 65, officials said. Authorities said the plane, an Ilyushin 62 of the Soviet state air carrier Aeroflot, skidded to
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    • 252 8 'NO TEARS' AT CABINET MEETING AS SCHMIDT BRACES TO MEET OPPOSITION CHALLENGE AP BONN, Thursday THERE were "no tears" at what may be Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's last cabinet meeting yesterday as he braced for an attempt by his opponents to unseat him tomorrow, a
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    • 82 8 UPI LONDON, Thursday THE author of the best-seller "Watership Down," an allegory about survival in the rabbit world, resigned yesterday as president of the animal protection society in a dispute over policy. Richard Adams, President of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
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    • 124 8 Reuter BLACKPOOL, Thursday BRITAIN'S opposition Labour Party committed itself yesterday to fight the next general election on a platform of unilateral nuclear disarmament. But it rejected demands for withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The party's annual conference said a Labour government should also
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    • 246 8 AP DETROIT, Thurs. GENERAL Motors Corp's Chevrolet division yesterday announced a new incentive programme to boost car and truck sales with an unprecedented offer of free airline tickets worth up to U552,098 (554,405) to vehicle buyers in the next six weeks. In
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    • 268 10 LAT-WP UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday DESPITE President Reagan's televised view that the nation by every indicator is turning the "corner or the curve," most of the economic signs this summer actually show a nation still floundering along at the bottom of a recession. Even
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    • World Briefs
      • 100 10 UPI PARIS: Exiled King Leka I of Albania said yesterday that the men who launched an ill-fated weekend landing on the coast of his communist-ruled country were members of his royal "National Liberation Army." The 43-year-old Leka said he had considered the
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      • 59 10 UPI LONDON: The Soviets are boosting their edge over the West in nuclear and conventional forces in Europe through the deployment of SS-20s, but the two superpowers are still roughly equal in overall nuclear strength, an authoritative research institute said today. The SS-20 medium range
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      • 40 10 AP WARSAW: Hundreds of Solidarity supporters gathered in the baltic port city of Gdansk yesterday Tor a Roman Catholic Church mass marking the 39th birthday of interned Solidarity Union chief Lech Walesa, church sources said. AP.
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      • 34 10 UPI UNITED NATIONS: Declaring British distrust of Argentine intentions, Britain announced yesterday it would press ahead with self-determination plans for the 1,800 people of the Falkland Islands. UPI.
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    • 48 10 Changing landscape done in 24 hours! SLOW-MOVING lava from the latest eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii creeping along the landscape to create a new landscape. The eruption lasted less than 24 hours but provided a spectacular show with lava fountains shooting up to 70 metres into the air.
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    • 454 10 A sign of army-party conflict, say observers AP BEIJING, Thursday IN a sign of party-army conflict, the China's People's Liberation Army published an artical criticising the reformist leadership of Deng Xiaoping on the eve of the 12th Party Congress, a Shanghai newspaper reports. Foreign diplomatic
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    • 121 10 Reuter NEW DELHI, Thurs PRIME MINISTER Indira Gandhi's estranged daughter-in-law Maneka yesterday suffered a setback in the Indian Supreme Court when it dismissed petitions relating to two colleagues arrested on a murder charge. The arrest of leading members of Mrs Maneka'! recently-formed political grouping,
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    • 246 10 UPI MANILA, Thursday AT least 51 people died in clashes throughout the Philippines during the past five days, but Defence officials yesterday denied the fighting marked the beginning of a major rebel offensive. Deputy Defence Minister Carmelo Barbero said there was no indication
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  • opinion / letters
    • 166 11  -  MKS I AM a teacher in charge of flag days in my school. Almost every Saturday we sell flags in aid of some charitable organisation. But I am appalled at the incentives offered to pupils who volunteer to sell flags. Some organisations offer up to
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    • 125 11  -  SECRETARY The Law Society of Singapore. I REFER to your report (NN, September 19) under the heading "Probe on top criminal lawyer." I have made inquiries and regret to say that the report does not appear to be correct. I know of no "top criminal
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    • 92 11  -  ANTI-LION IT seems that the Football Association of Singapore has run dry of ideas after working so hard maintaining the soccer fever in Singapore. Couldn't they think of better names than the MERLION CUP? The Lion City Cup was bad enough, but it seems the
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    • 234 11 TODAY is the 273 rd day of 1982. There are 92 days left in the year. On this date in... 1787 sailing ship Columbia left Boston, Massachusetts, on first voyage around world by American ship. 1846 ether is used for first time as anesthetic in Boston, Massachusetts,
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous

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    • 288 12 / 13 THE BEST OF THE ACTION PHOTOGRAPHS A selection o£ awardwinning pictures from the UPI library ranging from the tragic to the titiiiating An exhibition of prize winning news pictures goes on display tomorrow at the Raffles Hotel In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of
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  • business
    • 435 14  -  Why governments should play low-key role DR TONY TAN, Minister for Trade and Industry, spoke at an NUS faculty of law conference on current problems of international trade financing at the Dynasty Hotel. WHAT RECESSION BREEDS DR TONY TAN MARKET forces rather than government
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    • 101 14 UPI THE stock market suffered its worst loss in more than A month yesterday as investors cashed in on profits amid fears interest rates might rise. Trading was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average skidded 13.06 points to 906.27, the worst setback since it fell 16.27 points
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    • 224 14 THE Hilton Hotel is to appeal against an increase in its' valuation for property tax assessment, its owner Hotel Properties says in announcing interim results for 1982. The effect of revaluation, which is backdated to September 29 last year, is to increase the
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    • 147 14 THE Provisional Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Authority is planning to lease about 2,220 sq metres of office space in Thomson Plaza to cope with additional staff. A spokesman says yesterday the lease for the office space above the Yaohan shopping centre in the plaza will be
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    • 103 14 THE recession has bitten hard into departmental store Robinsons Co. It made a group operating loss for the financial year ended June 30. Group operations went into the red at $313,000 against a profit of $3 million in the previous year. After accounting for income from
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    • 121 14 NEPTUNE Orient Line has confirmed fears that it will be unable to match last year's profit. Interim figures for the first half of 1982 show group pre-tax profit down from $13.3 million to $12.2 million on turnover also trimmed, from $409.1 million to $387.2 million.
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    • Update
      • 70 14 AP Reuter GOLD inched higher in Hong Kong, but fell the remainder of the day, winding up at US$393 a troy ounce in late New York bidding yesterday, down US$l9 from Tuesday and the lowest level in more than a month. In Zurich speculative selling of gold in
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      • 29 14 SHARES of Harrisons Malaysian Plantations began trading on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange today on an immediate delivery basis. It is listed under the "oil palms" section.
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      • 32 14 TRADING in City Developments was suspended on the stock exchange yesterday at the company's request "pending certain announcements to be made in the course of the next few days."
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      • 26 14 SINGAPORE share prices closed higher yesterday. The SES Industrial Index gained 6.63 points to 491.95 and the UOB Composite Index 4.69 points to 412.43.
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    • 135 15 mm AS the gold market continues to consolidate, it should be noted that the metal is undeniably on a long term uptrend with support provided by concern over the international debt problems, Hunt's Bullion says. The strong US dollar and fear of possible sales
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    • 201 15 SNPL group has announced the appointment of division heads following centralisation of operations resulting from the merger of Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh. They are: business operations, Mr Ung Gim Sei; finance and administration, Mr Chew Keng Juea; and corporate services, Mr
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    • 154 15 BOUSTEAD Holdings and Boustead Co both report a gloomy first half of 1982. For Boustead Holdings, the unaudited consolidated profit for the six months to June 30 was halved to $4.02 million from $8.02 million last time. While the group's turnover increased by eight per
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    • 66 15 MALAKOFF'S profit for the half vear to June 30 fell to $821,000 compared with $2,816,000 in the previous year. Its subsidiary La dang Segaria incurred a loss of $1,750,000 of which 70 per cent is attributable to the company. Crops which were slightly below estimate in
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    • OTHER COMPANY NEWS
      • 83 15 COLD Storage Ltd group increased its after-tax profits to $9.5 million in the first six months of this year from $6.8 million in the first six months of last year. Turnover also showed an increase to $372.50 million in the first half of this year.
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      • 60 15 PROFITS of Kuala Sidim Rubber Company Berhad declined to $3.54 million in the year ended June 30. This figure represents profits after deducting those attributable to minority interests. The similar figure for the previous financial year was $4-42 million. The board has declared a final dividend of
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      • 45 15 PREMIUM Holdings Berhad showed increased profits and increased turnover in the first half of this year compared with the first half of last year. Turnover increased to $5.41 million compared with $5.30 million, while pre-tax profit increased to $1.29 million compared with $658,000.
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      • 48 15 DUNLOP Estates Berhad showed a steep decline in after-tax profits and a decline in turnover in the half year ended June 30 compared with the same period last year. The directors have declared an interim dividend of eight per cent less 40 per cent income tax.
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    • 169 16 SANYO Industries Malaysia's first half-year profit for 1982 was, in the company's own words, "extremely poor because of rising wage and labour charges which increased by almost 40 per cent. Coupled to this, the factory could not absorb higher costs by increasing production as
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    • 60 16 The Star RALEIGH CYCLES (Malaysia) is selling its Klang industrial site to United Motor Works (Malaysia) Holdings for $8.5 million. The sale is subject to the approval of the relevant authorities and shareholders of Raleigh Cycles. Raleigh Cycles expects to make a profit of $3.2
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    • 359 16 Group pre-tax profit of $3.5 mil expected LION Corporation expects to make group pre-tax profit of $3.5 million in 1982, the company says in its introductory document for its application for listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore The figure compares with $3.26 million last
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    • 174 16 Annual meetings Time Date Venue Jack Chia MPH 12 noon Oct 9 Mandarin Public Textile (egm) 10 am Oct 20 Penang B.K Rubber 9.30 am liiiiHAnHi Oct 26 Malacca rroposeaG nviaenas Payment on 1 Dividend On books Marco Polo Oct 11 3 [CT] interim Oct 9 B.K.Rubber Oct
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    • 188 17 IN THESE troubled times, there is one particularly worrying development: The tendency of countries to shore up their depressed and declining industries by resorting to restrictive trade practices. In recent years governments, unfortunately, have been giving in more readily to demands for protection on the grounds of
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    • 85 17 GOVERNMENTS should only concern themselves with creating the environment for private investment to be made to catch up with the backlog of necessary adjustments. In a world of rapid technological advancement and increasing flows of technical knowhow between countries, countries must ac- cept the fact that new and
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    • 42 17 PROFESSOR Lim Chong-Yah, professor and head of the department of economics and statistics at the National University of Singapore, was speaking on Development Performance and Experience in Singapore. He was addressing the SEANZA central banking course at the Hotel Royal.
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    • 262 17 IN 1980 and 1981, the rates of inflation in Singapore were very high: 8.5 per cent and 8.2 per cent respectively. Some may attribute these high rates of inflation partly to the high wage policy of the National Wages Council. But if we look at the corresponding
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    • 178 17 SINGAPORE is not shackled by any particular ideology or dogma. This is one of Singapore's greatest assets. Thus, it does not have to follow Keynesian or monetarist dogmas. Neither must it follow Marxist class conflicts. The main policy guideline is rationality, not ideology. The acid test is
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    • 70 17 IN MY view and in my study of economic development, the size of a nation is not the crucial determinant whether that nation will develop economically or not. If small population size is a sine qua non to success, then the 41 nations that have a population
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    • 89 17 THERE has been the realization that both private and public enterprises can play a very useful role in economic development. And more often than not, the State acts as a supporter, promoter and catalyst in this quest for economic upgrading. Where private enterprise is slow to
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous


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    • 845 19 THE BUKIT KATIL RUBBER ESTATES BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That an Extraordinary Gen •ral Meeting ol the Company will be held at the registered office, No. 22 (Upper floor of No. 20), Jalan Gelanggang, Malacca on Tuesday the 26th Day of
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    • 367 19 THE BUKIT KATIL RUBBER ESTATES BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, the SixtyEighth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the registered office No. 22 (Upper floor of No. 20), Jalan Gelanggang, Malacca on Tuesday the 26th day of October, 1982
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  • sports
    • sports / racing
      • 304 20  -  By B J SMITH THE number of horses to be handicapped in this year's Singapore Gold Cup will not W decided until after the racing on Sunday. This is because the committee consults the handicappers before deciding on the maximum number of horses to participate.
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      • 616 20  -  Wednesday's trackwork by B J SMITH SINGAPORE trainer George West's veteran sprinter Alvarona showed a welcome return to form on a good track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. This seven-year-old gelding, which has won five races from 24 starts, has
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      • 270 20 HORSES which did pacework on the grass track: Oriental Pearl, Better Mark, Legend Reborn, Shan Ko, Trooper Star, Biloxi, Young Regent, Tanayar, Shanti Shanti, Forest Archer, Quiet Touch, Tag Rag, Parteen, Lovencare, Bingo. Horses which did slow work on the grass: Wayahead, Chen Wan Siong,
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      • 152 20 Reuter PARIS, Thursday FRENCH trainer Olivier Douieb yesterday withdrew his challenger, General Holme, from Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe. Douieb now intends to run his unbeaten horse in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket on Oct 16. There are 23 horses left in
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      • 171 21 UPI BENIDORM (Spain), Thursday FIFTY British soccer fans, following their team Manchester United in a European soccer match, began a bar brawl that left seven people in hospital and 39 fans in police custody yesterday. The fans, spending the eve of the UEFA Cup game
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      • 216 21 REAL Madrid was the top team in European Cup soccer competition, according to a chart drawn up by the Italian sports press. The team with the best average was Liverpool. The top teams: Real Madrid 220 points from 167 games; Barcelona 219 points from 172
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      • 454 21 LONDON,Thursday RENAT Dasayev, the Soviet Union's outstanding World Cup goalkeeper, punched a ball into his own net but Moscow Spartak were still more than a match for England's Arsenal in the UEFA Cup here yesterday. Spartak, 3-2 up in the first leg in Moscow,
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    • 273 22  - F N 'bottled up' by Boveri BROWN BOVERI 2 F N 0 By GEOFFREY EU THANKS to an effective 'bottling up' of their defence, Brown Boveri managed to score a 2-0 semi-final victory over Fraser and Neave in the Singapore Business Houses Football League junior knockout competition at Farrer Park
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    • 268 22  -  Athletics By SURESH NAIR THE Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will insist on team officials accompanying athletes for future overseas training stint regardless of the duration of the period to avoid any unnecessary unplesantness. This assurance came from SAAA vice-presi-dent Lt-Col Kesavan Soon
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    • 277 22 Squash A PULLED leg muscle during training last night robbed pretty Singapore woman squash star Tracy Oh of a berth in the East Asia individual championships to be held in kuala Lumpur this weekend. Tracy candidly told caretaker national coach
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      • 56 22 JAPAN'S No. 1 squash player Seiji Sakamoto is in town acclimatising himself with the sweltering conditions in preparation for this weekend's East Asia individual championships in Kuala Lumpur. Seiji, who arrived here on Saturday, is having sparring sessions daily at the East Coast
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      • 80 22 A MAXIMUM of 64 teams will be elifible to play in the Alexandra Hornets 'ootball Club seven-a-side soccer tournament on Oct 24 at the Dover Road Complex. The Hornets soccer captain Dr Koh Ai Peng this morning appealed to teams to return the entry
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      • 57 22 THE Indian Association will play Ceylon Sports Club on Saturday at Balestier Road to decide the Singapore Hockey Association Premier League title. The IA needs only a draw to win the title CSC must win the game to take the title, held by
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    • 352 23  -  GAMES ASIDES KEN JALLEH JR WITH just one day to go before the Commonwealth Games begin, the organisers have faced their first "problem" eveything is going too smoothly! Brisbane Games Foundation General Manager Dan Whitehead has spoken of his "gnawing" concern that, on the eve of the
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    • 171 23 Reuter BRISBANE, Thurs. PRINCE Philip opens the 12th Commonwealth Games at the Queen Elizabeth II Stadium tomorrow in front of a sell-out 58,000 crowd undaunted by a news blackout surrounding the details of the ceremony. The organisers, eager to ensure maximum impact, have imposed
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    • 211 23 AP BEIJING, Thurs. A 27-year-old North Korean runner, Li Jong Hyon, won the second Beijing International Marathon on Sunday with a record time of two hours 14 minutes 43 seconds, race officials reported. Italy's Allesandro Rastello, 22, took second with a time of 2:15.51, and
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    • 117 23 MALAYSIA'S badminton pride Misbun Sidek is out of the Commonwealth Games. The Badminton Association of Malaysia will, however, not take any action against him for being absent from national training. The national champion has informed the BAM that he has a neck injury which prevents
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      • 58 23 Reuter MEMBERS of the England Commonwealth Games cycling team have been told to cut out the high jinksDy manager Jim Hendry. Headquarters official Mike Lawson said: "There was some high spirited behaviour involving some leg pulling and practical joking that got out of
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      • 49 23 AP FORTY-FOUR teams were housed yesterday in the athletes' village at the Commonwealth Games. A Games official said five countries were not coming Antigua, Bangladesh, Lesotho, St Kitts and Seychelles. Fifty-eight countries or territories are eligible to compete in the Games, which open tonignt.
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      • 48 23 Reuter INDIA'S Wrestling Federation faces a heavy fine for not sending two officials to act as judges, competition director Hugh Williams said yesterday. He said all nations taking part in wrestling are obliged to supply officials to act as judges or referees. Reuter.
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      • 60 23 AP DAVID BONN, a 16-year-old 10,000 metres runner, is one of only two athletes from the Cayman Islands competing. His parents, Joel and Debi, are the team officials. Bonn will be the youngest runner ever in a 10,000 meters event at the games. All three family members,
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      • 41 23 AP DOUG SAM, an Australian middleweight boxer who is considered a Commonwealth Games medal prospect, hat been barred from talking to the Press. Sam, 22, is related to two of Australia's most prominent aboriginal activists. AP..
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      • 42 23 Reuter CANADA has a clear advantage on paper following the release yesterday of recent t>est times of swimmers in the Commonwealth Games. Canadian top the seedings in 13 individual events, followed by Australia (7) and England (4). Reuter.
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    • 379 24  -  Singapore team unaware of opponents' strength even on eve of Brisbane Games KEN JALLEH JR SINGAPORE'S four-man contingent, which remains blissfully ignorant of its opponents' strength, is in for a rude awakening when the games begin tomorrow. Though the team swimmer Ang Peng Siong, marksmen
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    • 215 24 BRISBANE, Thur. THE Commonwealth Games Federation has drawn up a draft code of conduct which forbids any of its members from having sporting links with South Africa. The draft, which includes a recommendation for expulsion or suspension of individual sportsmen, team, administration
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    • 175 24 EUROPEAN CUP of Spain to a 1-1 draw Reuter. LONDON, Thursday EUROPEAN Cup holders Aston Villa made it a great night for Britain yesterday when they assured themselves of a place in tomorrow's secondround draw in Zurich by holding Besiktas of Turkey to a goalless draw
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