The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 23 July 1988

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1988 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MUI(P) 222/8/87
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  • 385 1 Kl ALA L( M I*l R Singapore and Malaysia would find themselves in deep trouble if either tried to oeeupy the other, Trade and Industry Minister and Seeond Minister for Defence (Services) Ix*e Hslen lining said on Thursday night. In
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  • 1109 1  -  ay BERTHA HENSON KUALA LUMPUR Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loong this week reaffirmed the need for strong and lasting tics between Malaysia and Singapore, two neighbours whose destinies are closely intertwined. Occasional hiccups in relations should be treated as “differences
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  • 114 1 THE Yang di-Pertuan Agong will pay a three-day visit to Singapore from Tuesday, it was officially announced In Kuala Lumpur. It will be the first state visit by a Malaysian King since Singapore was ousted from Malaysia In 1965. Diplomatic sources in
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  • 106 1 KUALA LUMPUR Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loung told a questioner at the Q-and-A session after his speech that First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will be Singapore’s next Prime Minister and declared this “stale news”. “We settled this after the last
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  • 516 1 MR LEE KUAN YEW may bo elected to the new post of Executive President before the years ends, the Senior Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office. Mr S. Rajaratnam, said yesterday. Parliament will probably amend the Constitution this year to
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  • 92 1 KI’AI.A LUMPUR: The Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for the Tun Salleh affair Judicial Tribunal to submit its findings on the charges against the suspended President to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. In an unanimous decision, the five-man Bench allowed the
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    • 85 1 ■sM?]hiu(j sil srcj (licjsucXjmd jy u LOOTb SSLf \v* O'**, 9 .Li \M .rr-rTVS-Trcrr»-v.^ Y* at) HOME NEWS Seow to contest polls PAGE 2 Civil servants to have pay cuts restored PAGE 4 Hotel cleaner who returned 520.000 she found in lobby PAGE 5 Hotelier's 30year wait to be a
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  • HOME
    • 813 2 K«*uUt. LAWYER Francis Scow, a key figure in the Hendrickson affair, was released last Saturday 72 days after he was first arrested by the Internal Security Department on May 6. But two other' detainees, lecturer Chng Suan Tze and businessman
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    • 414 2  -  By ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM NOT your typical lunch fare this, In fact, it is a whole lot of croc. Thinly sliced, stewed in thick soya sauce and topped with onions and ginger, crocodile meat a la chao guotiao has been drawing tourists
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    • 188 3 BATTLES are not always fought in the open fields or in the thick of jungles. They can be right at the doorstep of homes. Or on the corridors and staircases that jteople walk up everyday. The three Singapore Armed Forces servicemen in the
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    • 138 3 SINGAPORE Democratic Party secretary-general Chiam See Tong appeared in court last week on a summons charge of publishing a newspaper without a permit. It was alleged that Chiam, 53, who is MP for Potong Pasir, published the party newspaper, Demokrat
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    • 474 3  -  Mammoth gatherings with 10,000-or-more participants expected By MAYLEE CHIA SINGAPORE will be swamped when the era of the mega-convention arrives. Crowds never before seen in the Republic’s convention history will converge on the island over the next three years. These mammoth conventions are
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    • 87 3 A MAN was charged last Saturday with phoning a police corporal to say that he had planted a bomb at Shaw Towers in Beach Road. Ang Teik boon, 24, a Malaysian, allegedly told Woman Corporal Foo Mui Fong at 4 pm on Friday last
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    • 158 3 TOURIST arrivals here continue to climb, leading to a high occupancy rate in hotels. The latest figures released by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board show an increase of 9.3 per cent to 318,454 arrivals in May as compared with last year. This brings the
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    • 213 3 THE 30,000 Filipina maids in Singapore send home an estimated $3 million to $4.5 million every month A check with 20 Filipina maids here showed that, on average, each sends back about $lOO to $l5O a month. The salary of a
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    • 417 4 Payment of extra bonus likely too ABOUT 140.(MX) civil servants and statutory board employees will get a full restoration of the pay cuts made last year in their 1984 National Wages Council (NWC) pay rise. The pay cuts 30 per
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    • 278 4  -  By BRENDAN PEREIRA DIM lights, piped music and cubicles with beds for a massage hardly the ideal setting for a good haircut. Yet many hair-dressing salons have created such an atmosphere, and are employing attractive women barbers to entice the men.
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    • 189 4 A BAR waitress is believed to have fallen five storeys from a block of flats, picked herself up, walked home for a bath, then collapsed and died. The circumstances surrounding the death this week of Miss Tan Siew Lian,
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    • 248 4  -  By ALAN HUBBARD: Europe Editor LONDON A Singaporean student has won an award in the United States for work on a project that could wind up in the design of a new Boeing aircraft. Mr Tan Ming Jen, 27, a final-year I’hl)
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    • 205 4 SIX Chinese nationals, including two women, wept in court when they were sentenced to two years’ jail each for deceiving immigration officials at Changi Airport with tampered passports. Lin Da Sheng, 41, Zhang Ming Sheng, 27, Zhang Ming Mao, 24, Zheng Zheng Ding,
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    • 22 4 ONTARIO’S Minister of Industry, Trade and Technology, Mr Monte Kwinter, will be in Singapore on a threeday visit starting Monday.
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    • 460 4  -  Action by 3 former club directors fails By ELAINE KOH in Business Times SIX PRESENT and former partners of law firm Shook Lin Bok, including a High Court judge and a Judicial Commissioner, have succeeded in having a $3l million negligence suit
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    • 160 4 Business Times. SHOOK LIN BOK partners faced with the $3l million suit have taken legal action against their insurers, the Insurance Corporation of Singapore. BT understands that when the partners were faced with the suit in April last year, they informed ICS. The insurance company said
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    • 332 5 25pc drop in 15-29 year-olds likely THE number of Singaporeans in the 15-29 age group will fall sharply by the turn of the century, and this is exacted to hit the hiring of clerks and production workers hardest. According to Dr Paul
      Sourer Moutry of Labour Annual Labour Fore* Survey, 1 see  -  332 words
    • 134 5 LOWER food prices resulted in the Consumer Price Index falling by a marginal 0.1 per cent last month over that of May. Rut compared to June last year, it was 1.4 per cent higher. For the first half of this year, the CPI
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    • 210 5 APPLY now, marry later is fine, says the Housing Board. Going by recent queries, many couples seem to have forgotten that they can apply for a flat first before tying the knot, said an HDB official. What the couple must
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    • 275 5 ONE worker received the Most Outstanding award and eight received Special Mention at SHA’s annual honesty awards presentation at Restaurant Shatec (Singapore Hotel Association Training and Education Centre) last week. In all, they found and returned more than $150,000 in cash and thousands of
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    • 171 5 SUBWAY commuters with their noses buried in books or magazines are one sign of a nation of readers. But not many mass rapid transit riders here do that, observed the Minister of State for Education, Dr Tay Eng Soon, at the first
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    • 377 5  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ in Business Times THE Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) appear to be on a collision course on the question of wage increases. Addressing about 40 Canadian Business Association members at a
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    • 159 5 INDONESIAN women can continue to come here as maids. The Indonesian Ministry of Manpower told The Straits Times that its minister, Mr Cosmas Batubara, was not referring to Singapore when he said his government was against its citizens working abroad as domestic
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    • 98 5 SINGAPORE Airlines will ban smoking on all its flights between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur from Aug 1. The "no-smoking” decision by SIA comes as n result of a successful trial period which began on April 4. In the two-month trial period,
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    • 714 6  -  By GERRY DE SILVA REDUNDANT government servants w ho cannot lie redeployed elsewhere are being offered generous benefits if they resign from the service. This special option to resign the first such mass offer by the Government represents
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    • 137 6 SINGAPORE'S largest civil service trade union is unhappy with the provisions of the Special Resignation Scheme set up to give benefits to redundant government officers who cannot be redeployed elsewhere. Mr Randasamy, general secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees, which represents
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    • 396 6  -  By SHAUN SEOW F"ANCY eating rhao guo tiao in a Moscow restaurant jointly owned by Singaporeans and Russians 0 Or- savouring Soviet-made instant noodles with curry flavour 0 These may soon become realities in the wake of high-level talks between the Republic and the Soviet
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    • 454 6  -  By DOREEN SIOW THE Big Sfwnders in Singapore charge more than $1 million a year each on their Gold credit cards and there are at least two dozen of them around. Credit card companies are understandably mum about who these people
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    • 298 6 SINGAPORE-MADE leather sofa sets are a hit with the Japanese because, unlike European-made ones, they fit easily into small Japanese homes. In one of the three Trade Development Hoard (TDB) trade missions to Japan last month, orders secured and negotiated by 11 furniture
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    • 36 6 THE body of a Thai worker was found in a stream off Island Club Road on Monday. The man, believed to be in his late 30s, died of head injuries, police said.
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    • 500 7  -  Post-graduate R and D enrolment to be doubled to 300 students By LIM YEEN FONG THK National University of Singapore’s Engineering Faculty hopes to double its postgraduate enrolment in research and development to .UK) students by 1990. And as part of the effort to
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    • 607 7 TOKYO PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said he does not expect a big exodus of Hongkong residents emigrating to Singapore before 1997, when the colony reverts to China. “I don’t think that is good either for Hongkong or for
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    • 312 7 A MALAY language and cultural month will be held once every two years to promote the correct usage of Malay and help younger members of the community preserve their cultural values. This was disclosed by Mr Sidek Saniff, chairman of the
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    • 192 7 MAJLIS PUSAT, the largest Malay grassroots body in Singapore, will step up efforts to encourage Malays to serve the community centres run by the People’s Association. This was disclosed by its president, Mr Zulkifli Mohammed, who is also Political Secretary,
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    • 98 7 Singapore mouse wins third place A SINGAPORE "mouse” came in third In an international competition, sharing top honours with "mice” from America and Britain. Three third-year electrical engineering students from the National University of Singapore have won the third prize in the International Micromouse Competition held in London recently. The
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    • 456 8  -  $1.4 million pay-off to quit $450-a-month hotel By BRIDGET TAN in MtMNDeast HOTEL Morningside operator Han Pai Yuan will soon join the millionaire class after patiently playing a waiting game for 30 years. The operator of the rented budget pre-war hotel (rental $450
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    • 169 8 A BAIIY BOA horn two weeks ago is being treated for ehleken pox, which doctors say is rare among new-born infants. The symptoms appeared 111 days after his birth. The boy is one of 2.5 M people in Singapore who have caught chicken pox
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    • 483 8  -  By TAN TECK HUAT WOULD you work for a company in Tuas? "No! It’s so ulu." How about one which has a five-and-a half-day work week? "No way!” These responses from Miss Choo Mei Yan, a secretary in an executive search firm,
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    • 226 8 MR RIDZWAN DZAFIR, an experienced administrator, has succeeded Dr Ahmad Mattar as chairman of the new executive committee of Mendaki, the foundation for the education of Muslim children. He was elected by members of the Mendaki council at a meeting on Wednesday. The move
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    • 46 8 THE case against the former executive director of Dah Yung Investment, David Cheng Heng Soon, for alleged cheating and criminal breach of trust, will be heard over a month, from Jan 9 next year. Cheng, 34, faces charges involving nearly $lO million.
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    • 471 8  -  By SHARON SIMON TEN days of fun and mer-ry-making to be enjoyed by a million people that’s the aim of organisers behind this year’s National Day Carnival. Between the time the carnival opens on Aug 5 and the final curtain on Aug
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    • 211 8 AN ESTRANGED couple who had been engaged in a protracted and bitter legal tussle over property worth more than $1 million came to the final parting of their ways in the High Court on Thursday. Madam Foo Stie Wah, 58, who operates
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 202 9 KUALA LUMPUR The Education Ministry has prepared a questionnaire seeking personal details from teachers, including marital status, attitude towards life, sleeping pattern and mental health. According to The Star, the 74 questions on the list include:
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    • 351 9 No need to call it New Umno, says Mahathir BANGI (Selangor) PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who is New Umno president, said the party can be called Umno because it comprised basically the same people who made up the old Umno.
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    • 72 9 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad said that there would be no public rallies for the Johor Baru parliamentary by-election next month. “There’s no need for public rallies,’’ the Malaysian Prime Minister said. Former Umno MP Datuk Shahrir Abdul Kamad, who vacated the
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    • 256 9 Bernama. PENANG The Democratic Action Party will decide in by the end of the month whether to contest the Johor Baru by-election, its acting secretary-general, Mr I.ee Lam Thye, said last weekend. He would be visiting the constituency this
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    • 111 9 AFP LONDON Malaysian banker Lorrain Esme Osman, who is wanted on fraud charges in Hongkong, failed in the House of Lords last week in a bid to challenge his pending extradition. A committee of three law lords dismissed an application by Lorrain, former
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    • 116 9 NST. KUALA LUMPUR About 100 convicted drug traffickers are awaiting execution. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayub, who disclosed this, said that said so far, more than 50 convicted traffickers have been executed while another 300 were serving life sentences for drug-related
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    • 38 9 PENANG The High Court on Thursday postponed to Sept 6 the hearing of an habeas corpus by DAP leader Lim Kit Siang, challenging his detention under the Internal Security Act. Bernama. ternal Security Act. Bernama.
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    • 437 9  -  By R. VASANTHI KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) has expelled vice-president M. G. Pandithan after a disciplinary committee found him guilty of several charges of indiscipline. Another vice-president, Mr S. S. Subramaniam, was suspended for 12
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    • 242 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP, Bernama. A HIGH Court in Penang has postponed for the second time the hearing of a habeas corpus application by detained former parliamentary opposition leader Lim Kit Siang. Justice Dzaiddin Abdullah adjourned the hearing to next Thursday to enable government lawyers to
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    • 647 10  -  The Tun Salleh affair: Supreme Court lifts restraining order By ISMAIL KASSIM Kuala Lumpur THE Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for a tribunal to submit to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong its report on the position of suspended Lord President Tun
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    • 80 10 Hernama. KUALA LI Ml'l It Only one tribunal will hi* set up to decide on the position of the five suspended Supreme Court judges, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. He said it was not necessary to set up
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    • 181 10 SYDNEY A Malaysian student who had been missing on a cross-country skiing expedition was found dead on Tuesday, just 250 m from a mountain road, police said. He was identified as Mr Hong Sun Chen, 22. after being reported missing. However, police refused
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    • 431 10 Strong surge expected to continue NST. KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian economy performed strongly in the first quarter of this year, registering a growth rate of about 7.5 per cent and indications are that this surge will continue for the rest of 1988. The
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    • 80 10 NOT. ALOR STAR The State Veterinary Services Department has discovered that hsrse meat Is being said as heed. This has been getng sa far a laag time, especially daring the festive senses, aad a syndicate Is believed te be engaged In the Illegal slaughtering of
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    • 238 10 Jllg UIC UPI. KUCHING Sarawak police have arrested five people, including the managing director of a Kuching-based newspaper, under the Internal Security Act. Sarawak Police Commissioner Mohamed Yassin Jaafar said in a statement the five men aged between 36 and 49 were picked up
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    • 489 10  -  By ISMAIL KASSIM KUALA LUMPUR The Supreme Court has overturned a High Court decision last March to release opposition politician Karpal Singh from detention under the Internal Security Act. In upholding the appeal by the government, Acting Lord President Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Omar
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  • ASEAN
    • 440 11 MANILA Reuter THE powerful body set up to track down former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos’ illegal assets has itself become the target of corruption charges. President Corazon Aquino. acting on complaints, this week, ordered an audit of companies which the Presidential Commission on
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    • 359 11 UPI. BACOLOD CITY (Philippines) Some 2,000 anticommunist demonstrators this week barricaded the compound housing Bacolod Bishop Antonio Fortich to protest against a churchwide re-organisation they fear will bring radical priests into the city. Last week, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of
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    • 75 11 AFP. JAKARTA A 35-year-old man who died last month in Bali was the first Indonesian to succumb to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids), a senior health official said here. The man died in a private hospital on June 23, said Mr Suriadi Gunawan, secretary
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    • 109 11 Reuter. BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN The Sultan of Brunei has said Income from the country’s foreign investments had doubled over the past five years. “Despite the fall in oil revenue, investment Income has helped support the nation’s l'Ssl.s billion (553.06 billion) national development plan,” Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
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    • 285 11 UPI JAKARTA The Minister for Women’s Affairs blasted those who skirt Indonesia’s ban on beauty contests by continually trying to unveil more of a woman’s body. But the organiser of a “beautiful calves” competition vowed his show would go on. "Why complain now?”
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    • 369 11 AFP. JAKARTA In a flurry of activities, contrasting with its usual slow-paced, relaxed nature, the Indonesian city of Bogor is preparing to host an informal meeting on Cambodia scheduled to open here on Monday. All around the presidential palace, where the meeting is to
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    • 345 11  -  By By YANG RAZALI KASSIM: Jakarta I: Jakarta ARMED forces commander General Try Sutrisno has reminded the United States that it is not welcome to move its military bases in the Philippines to Indonesian territory. "Indonesia has never thought about inviting
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    • 99 11  -  Lekra. YANG RAZALI KASSIM. JAKARTA The Indonesian Defence and Security Minister, General Benny Murdani, has named several people described by the government as either returned communist cadres from abroad or writers propagating communist ideas through their publications. According to press reports quoting Gen Murdani, the
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 585 12 JULY 23. 1988 THE recent statements of Prime Minister liee Kuan Yew, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, and Trade and Industry Minister' I-ee Hsien Loong have answered the question of leadership transfer in Singapore as clearly as it can he right now. As BrigGen (Res) Dm*
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    • 609 12 JULY 22, 1988 INDONESIAN Foreign Minister' Ali Alatas has warned against unrealistic expectations when the four Cambodian factions, Vietnam and other concerned parties begin informal talks on Monday to find a solution to the nine-year-old Cambodian conflict. It is not insignificant that the warning should come from Indonesia
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    • 604 12 Jill V 21. 1988 PEOPLE on both sides of the Causeway are aware of th<> importance of having close relations between their two countries. They have heard this so many times in the past that an editorial on this subject runs the risk of sounding platitudinous. There is,
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    • 590 12 SINGAPOREANA SINGAPOREANA means all things Singaporean. Especially old tales and tidbits from old local history. Last Saturday, I left open and unanswered a question about De Souza Street simply because I didn’t quite know the right answer On Monday, a reader and
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    • 187 12 “Someone who is well-read will want to imitate their favourite author’s style when they write. Thus a child who reads a lot will be able to write well.” Dr Catherine Lim, a well-known local author on why reading is important. “Given the choice to go out and earn
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  • TIME$
    • 623 15  -  Conditional deal involves purchase of 12.75 mil shares By DAMIEN LIM KEPPEL Corp yesterday said it has entered into a conditional agreement to buy a 51 |*»r cent stake equivalent to 12.75 million shares in listed Sim Urn Finance (SLF). The purchase
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    • 355 15  -  By SHARON LAU WHEN City Developments’ rights issue is completed, shareholders funds will swell by $118.5 million to $*»01 .4 million —orto an even larger figure about $817.9 million if all existing warrants are converted into new shares, according to its
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    • 205 15 UNDERGRADUATES at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological Institute can now borrow up to $5OO in overdraft facilities and take up computer and travel loans without having to bring along a guarantor. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation's offer is the first
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    • 122 15 TIIE ceiling for foreign ownership of Malaysian stockbroking firms has been raised from 30 per cent to 49 per cent. Disclosing this on Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad said only foreign stockbrokers who demonstrate they can
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    • 4850 16 Friday, July 22, I9HX 1988 Tel Last Grs Vol Week Last Quote High Low Code Company Sale orYld 000) High Low Buyer Seller SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL ADEF A 1005 1005 ADEF B 1005 139 95 1 1000 Acme 127 *d -3 08 19 129 126
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    • 60 17 THE day-to-day ST Industrial indices and daily turnover for the week: MONDAY: 1,116.58 points (up 15.62); 61.2 m units (value $196.18m); TUESDAY: 1,136.22 (down 10.36); 52.49 m units ($95.62m); WEDNESDAY: 1,145.54 (up 9.32); 53.71 units ($87.16m); THURSDAY: 1,152.50 (up 6.96); 53.31 m
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    • 47 17 HONGKONG share prices yesterday closed lower on a quiet day enlivened only bv an after-hours placement of shares in major property Cheung Kong The Hang Seng Index fell 25.6 points to 2,661.77 Turnover was a low Hh’s7l4.9 million against Thursday's HK5637.20 million.
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    • 389 17 U 2? HKS Chanjf Assoc Inti Hotels 3 175 unch Boot. Of Lost Asio 18 40 -0 1 Capitol Corp 0 87 -0 02 Cothov Pacific An 8 655 -0 145 Cheung Kong China Light 7 85 -0 15 17 30 •0 2 City Resources 1 22N Cross Hart)
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    • 413 17 Weekly sharemarket report THE Singapore stock market continued to show resilience this week, but finally buckled under Wall Street's poor showing to end Friday's trading in minus territory with a drop of 9.70 points in the ST Industrial Index from the previous day's
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    • 129 17 SHARE prices on the KUALA LUMPUR stock market were taken broadly lower yesterday in lacklustre trading with business volume dipping below 30 million units. One analyst said most operators were cautious ahead of the long weekend. The exchange will be closed on Monday for
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    • 242 17 Interbank Over the counter Foreign currency local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Foreign currency to SJ10 Australian dollar Canadian dollar N7 dollar Sterling pound US dollar *****-1 6579 1 7010-1 7033 1.3556-1 3583 3 5260—3 5298 2 0370—2 0380 614-5 98 5 93-5 85
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    • 690 18  -  For stockholders, free shares in new properety company By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI, of Business Times COLD STORAGE Holdings PLC, one of Singapore’s oldest food-based companies. is to bring home its foreign domicile and float its principal property unit on the Stock Exchange of Singapore.
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    • 391 18 UNITED Engineers Ltd has sold its remaining interest in United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd for nearly $27 million. A UE statement on Monday said the sale of the 9.06 million share block for $26.99 million, or $2.98 a share, to a stockbroker
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    • 73 18 Week ended July 15. Compiled by Business Times. Final results Company Gross dividend "L Group net profit/loss 000) Year lo General Corpn Harrisons M'sia Raleigh -0) 20(15) MJ7.286UJ775) MJ85 527($48.314) MS923L ($3.3881) Ian 88 Mar 88 Ian 88 Preliminary results Company Gross dividend Group pre-tai profit/loss (’000) Year
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    • 95 18 MBT. KUALA LUMPUR Southern Bank helped Killinghall (Malaysia) to a sparkling profit lift. The tin miner’s group pre-tax profit before extraordinary items soared 104 per cent to M 513.45 million (5510.49 million) in the year to last Dec 31 (M 56.58 million previously). Southern Bank’s earnings contributions
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    • 357 18  -  By CATHERINE C. ONG A SHARP increase in its holding of gold and foreign exchange boosted total assets of the Monetary Authority of Singapore by 22 per cent to $27.4 billion for the financial year ended March 31. The latest MAS annual report
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    • 614 18 Current El Books Dste Total tor Total tor peyment del* close payable the year last year Alex Hldgs tty, ibi Aug 30 Sep 9 Sep 26 6% 6% Ayer Molek •0%IM Jun 29 Jul 13 A u g 5 20% 20% B Sembawong 15% lot Jul 19 Jul
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    • 204 19 RAFFLES City, a $1.2 billion hotel-office and shopping complex, has proved its critics wrong by breaking-even within IS months of operation. Three years ago, when the massive complex was first opened, market opinion was that the project would have to suffer operating losses
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    • 630 19 Stocks outperform main hoard’s SESDAQ. Singapore’s second securities market, is coming of age just 17 months after its birth in February last year. Though neglected during much of the previous bull run. Sesdaq stocks performed remarkably well this year, outstripping the main board's recovery from
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    • 190 19 year to April 30, 1989. Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Raleigh Bhd has to borrow M 5143.14 million <*****.49 million) to finance its proposed acquisition of a 54.16per cent stake in Berjaya Corporation Bhd, 30 per cent of Sports Toto Malaysia Bhd and a
      year to April 30, 1989. Bernama.  -  190 words
    • 336 19 MBT. THE LONG-AWAITED flotation of KFC Holdings is finally taking off but could well be disappointing for any investor not holding Innovest Bhd shares. For one thing, the offer is not open to the public at large as it is going to be
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  • FORUM
    • 1153 20 Devan agrees ‘to let matter rest’ I NOTE that the First Deputy Prime Minister. Mr (loh Chok Tong, urged in a press interview on July 11. that the issue of the "White Paper" on my resignation he put to rest. I agree with his sentiments.
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    • 724 20 IJS magazine has presented a distorted picture of Republic LIKE other young Singaporeans, I do at times have my share of criticism of certain government policies but I hope this does not in any way make me less loyal or unSingaporean. I can
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    • 403 20 I REFER to your report "Bolshoi promises treat for S’pore ballet buffs” (ST, July 5). I find it rather absurd that the organiser of this excellent cultural event should dictate that the audience must put on evening gowns
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