The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 9 September 1989

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1989 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI(P) 37/8/89
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  • 724 1  -  Electronic Road Pricing set to become a reality By TAN EE SZE THE Government has taken the first step towards an Electronic Road Pricing system for Singapore. An invitation went out to companies here and abroad to submit pre-tender qualifications for the project a
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  • 105 1 THE Straits Times Industrials Index smashed through the psychological 1,400 barrier on Thursday, and then surged further ahead to end the week at 1,419.69 points for a hefty gain of 55.% points over last Friday’s close. It was the fourth successive post-October 1987 Crash high
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  • 693 1 FOREIGN Minister Wong Kan Seng has urged countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to respond to the dramatic improvements in SovietAmerican relations by not seeking to dominate other member countries or engaging in conflict among themselves. “If we ourselves do not
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  • 532 1 A US$4O MILLION loan, hailed by senior local bankers at its signing in 1985 as the first of many such deals to be arranged in Singapore for developments in China, has turned sour, reports Business Times yesterday. The borrower. China Empire
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  • 198 1 A NATIONAL council has been set up to advise the Government on issues related to the family and the aged in Singapore. Minister of State for Education and Community Development, Dr Seet Ai Mee, heads the 19-member body the National Advisory
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 76 1 Asians in UK and Australia Special reports: Page 11 mm President Wee sworn in for second term PAGE 5 NEWS FOCUS 100 HK forex and treasury staff likely to work in S'pore PAGE 2 HOME Maths wizards of RJC win world contest PAGE 4 CAUSEWAY Is Musa Hitam back in
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 367 2  -  Survey also shows whites feel as prejudiced against as non-whites By ALAN HUBBARD Europe editor Support for taxpayers’ cash to promote voluntary repatriation is greatest among Afro-Caribbeans 69 per cent were in favour, and 13 per cent against, compared to 54
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    • 346 2  -  By CATHERINE C. ONG Hongkong Correspondent HONGKONG Leading liberal leader Martin Lee and several legislative councillors are joining hands to launch what is set to become Hongkong's first political party. Mr I,ee has been invited to be a founding member of
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    • 140 2 Reuter. HONGKONG Former Far East Bank chairman Deacon Chin, 63, will face 14 new (rand and false Information charges when he next appears In a Hongkong court, the Central Magistrate Court heard last week. His son David, a former director of the
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    • 452 2  -  for Hongkongers. ALAN HUBBARD. LONDON Britain is being urged to offer China billions of pounds to “buy” a longer lease on Hongkong, according to a report in a British newspaper. The plan, to be put to Foreign Secretary John Major when
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    • 147 2 A SINGAPOREAN was among three priests killed in a road accident in Chicago after their car was involved in a predawn crash with a van driven by a suspected drunken driver last Saturday. The three were identified as Rev Father John Bosco D’Cruz, 37
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    • 547 2  -  By SHARON LAU ABOUT 100 Hongkong foreign exchange and treasury staff are expected to come over here in the next year to work, says the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee. The committee's chairman, Mr Lim Ho Kee, said this week
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    • 131 2 AFP. HONGKONG Almost half of Hongkong’s 5.7 million population want to emigrate before the British colony reverts to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, an independent survey showed here recently. The poll, conducted by Consumer Search Hongkong Ltd, said 43.46 per cent wanted to leave.
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    • 374 3 BANGKOK Thailand will offer work permits and permanent residence to font groups of foreigners in a new move to lure businessmen and professionals from Hongkong into the country. The special offer is part of a new law which will come into
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    • 276 3 IMMIGRATION laws in Singapore still favour employers of illegal workers despite a new move to cane the bosses for the offence, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Thailand told the Lianhe Zaobao newspaper. The paper reported on Tuesday that the spokesman
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    • 586 3  -  Building declared structurally sound after checks By YANG MEI LING ABOUT 40 workers rushed out of a factory building in Moonstone Lane, off Serangoon Road, on Tuesday evening after rows of floor tiles in the canteen started popping out with loud fire
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    • 367 3 KUALA LUMPUR Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Muhammad Taib has taken a month’s leave abroad to enable him to sort out a family problem arising from his second marriage to a member of the Malay royalty, the Ma-lay-language
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    • 201 3 A SALES executive stole wallets from the unattended handbags of four women while they were on the dance floor during their company’s dinner and dance. Ronnie Christopher Smith, 27, admitted in a court on Thursday to stealing cash totalling $6BO and some cards from
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    • 79 3 Reuter. BANGKOK A US Navyship has rescued more than 140 Vietnamese boat people drifting at sea and took them to the Thai seaside resort of Pattaya, a Thai immigration official said. Colonel Thawatchai Charoenporn said the combat supply ship San Jose picked up 143
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  • HOME
    • 485 4 Singapore’s top scorer Yong Yeow ranks among world’s Top 10 RAFFLES Junior College has beaten 6,000 schools worldwide to emerge tops in an international mathematics competition held in March this year. The college which took part in the test by the Mathematical Association
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    • 390 4 SINGAPORE’S economic progress in the last 25 years will be highlighted in a new American television series on developing nations. Mr Pranay Gupte, 41, managing editor of the International Commentary Service, was in Singapore for about 10 days to
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    • 443 4  -  By BRENDAN PEREIRA THE instant urine-testing machine installed at Woodlands Checkpoint last year to detect drug addicts has sharply curbed "ant trafficking" by Singaporeans but the menace still remains their role has been taken over by foreigners. Unlike Singapore "ant
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    • 335 4 THE deputy managing director of Inchcape Investment Singapore Pte Ltd, Mr A. C. Nicholson, was found dead at his home in Regent Garden, West Coast Road, last Friday. He was found dead in bed by his wife at about 8.45 pm Mr Nicholson,
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    • 77 4 THE South-West Monsoon has made last Monday the coldest September day in 56 years. The meteorological service said that the lowest temperature on Monday was 20.8 deg C, recorded at its Tengah weather station. This makes Monday just a shade warmer than the coldest
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    • 309 5 SEEING Singapore improve every year in the faee of “gloomy predictions" is newly re-elected President Wee Kim Wee’s “greatest wish” for his second four-year term. Replying to reporters’ questions after being sworn in at the Istana State Room last Saturday, the 73-year-old
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    • 206 5 ROSES and reminiscences those were the main subjects of conversation between President Wee Kim Wee and teachers at a garden party held in their honour at the Istana last Friday evening. The roses cropped up as teachers revealed how many they received during Teachers’ Day.
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    • 408 5 THE Government will introduce legislation by the end of the year to pave the way for government schools to go independent. Education Minister Dr Tony Tan said Saturday night that this was being done because more schools are
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    • 244 5 THE loudest applause at the third session of this year’s convocation went to top medical graduand Dr Toh Kong Leong, who achieved the rare distinction of MBBS (Honours) and also walked away with six prestigious prizes. According to a National University
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    • 654 6 Firms warned: Govt may act sooner if you move too slowly Employment Act may also be amended to attract housewives, retirees to workforce TO EXPAND Singapore’s labour pool, the Government may soon introduce new legislation to raise the retirement age to 60. It
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    • 266 6 A HOUSEWIFE was on Wednesday ailed for five years and two months for trafficking in heroin and consuming morphine. Patricia Jane Weers, 24, admitted selling two straws of heroin with a combined weight of 0.03 g to a narcotics officer posing as a
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    • 557 6  -  But many find explicit diagrams are helpful By CEPHAH TAN FIRST they were embarrassed. Then they agreed that the pamphlets they were reading were educational, after perusing them thoroughly' These were the reactions of some people when shown the explicit step-by-step diagrams in the
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    • 271 6 ACTION For Aids (AFA), the organiser of an Aids education campaign, is taking a pragmatic approach despite having created ripples among some religious groups. The message of the two-week campaign, “Aids and Safer Sex”, is that Aids can he prevented through abstinence, harrier
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    • 278 6 ONE of Singapore's biggest shrimp processors. Hock Bee Frozen Food Enterprise, is gearing up its Jurong plant to enable it to comply with European market standards. This follows its clinching of a manufacturing contract from British-based Fathom Seafood, the wholly-owned subsidiary of food giant CIM
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    • 364 7 VISITORS to Sentosa will in less than three years’ time soon be able to experience a potpourri of Asian culture in one visit. The tender for the proposed Asian Cultural and Entertainment Village, won by Jit Leisure, was signed
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    • 371 7 BOAT Quay in the 19th century, the Hock Lee bus riots, the Japanese invasion and other milestones in Singapore’s history will be part of a special Omnimax film to celebrate the nation’s 25th anniversary next year. The film, Homeland, to
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    • 461 7 OPPOSITION politician J. B. Jeyaretnam this week called on the Government to waive diplomatic immunity for Singapore’s High Commissioner in London, Mr Abdul Aziz Mahmood, over a letter the diplomat had written to The Times in response to
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    • 312 7 USERS of car phones, hand phones and portable phones will soon be able to know who is calling them even before they pick up the phone. A new service, to be introduced by Singapore Telecom from October 1, will
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    • 85 7 NEARLY 1,300 people are currently being detained in Singapore under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act. This was disclosed in Parliament by Home Affairs Minister S. Javakumar in a written reply to a question from Non-Con-stituency MP Lee Siew Choh. Of the total of
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    • 85 7 DATES for the trial of Hong Leong Corporation executive director Kwek Leng Keow on a corruption charge will be fixed next week. The prosecution last Saturday asked a district court to order Kwek’s passport impounded. Mr S. Rajendran. defending, did not oppose the application. Kwek,
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    • 132 8 AMID the wailing of sirens. }x?ople ran helter-skelter along a smoke-filled corridor of a block of flats, while on the ground lay the bloody bodies of the dead and wounded. Screams of pain filled the air. This scenario in Singapore after a
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    • 297 8 A BOOK on how intellectuals. ideology and information affect the workings of a democracy was launched this week by the National University of Singapore Students’ Political Association. Entitled Thinking About Democracy, it is a collection of nine essays by various academics, lawyer and writer
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    • 125 8 FINAL-YEAR law students do not have to wait until they are called to the Bar to join the Singapore Academy of I «aw. Unlike the Law Society, which only allows legallyqualified persons to join its ranks, the academy will admit final-year law students at
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    • 203 8 A TEAM of six Members of Parliament, four of them Government Parliament Committee chairmen, leave for the United States today on a three-week visit. The team, led by the Defence and Foreign Affairs GPC chairman Mr S. Chandra Das, will visit Washington, New
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    • 356 8 IndonesiaS’pore panel on Batam to be set up Visiting minister meets PM A JOINT Indonesia-Singa-pore working committee is to be set up in a month's time to work out the specifics of developing closer economic co-operation between Batam and Singapore. The visiting Indonesian State Minister for Research and Technology, Professor
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    • 286 8 THE British government has doubled the number of scholarships awarded to Singaporeans this year. Last year, the British High Commission awarded 12 one-year post-graduate scholarships to Singaporean students. But this year, with additional contributions from members of the British Business Association (BBA), 15 more
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    • 34 8 MORE than 5,000 suspected illegal video tapes worth about $40,000 were seized by a raiding party at Genting I-ane early yesterday morning. Police have detained five men in their mid-20s.
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    • 150 8 CANADIAN Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will visit Singapore next month to deliver the 1989 Singapore Lecture. The 50-year-old premier will speak on the topic, Trade Outlook Globalisation or Regionalisation. He will be the third serving Prime Minister to speak in the lecture series, the others
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 773 9  -  By KALIMULLAH HASSAN, Writing for The Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR The appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam as Malaysia’s special envoy to the United Nations could signal his return to national politics, political observers say. But it could also
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    • 346 9 KUALA LUMPUR Two Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) ministers have called on the government to adopt a national culture that reflects the multi-racial composition of the country’s population. "Malaysia being a multiracial society, its national culture should include cultural traits of the various
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    • 100 9 KUALA LUMPUR Two former prime ministers and an ex-minister have withdrawn their appeal here against a lower court decision rejecting their application for an interim Injunction to stop Umno from recruiting members. No reasons were given for the withdrawal. The application by Tunku Abdul
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    • 273 9 KOTA BARU The leader of the Spirit of ’46 party, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, has said that the opposition Islamic United Front (Angkatan Perpaduan Umah) needed only a 2 or 3 per cent swing in votes to capture Kelantan and onmly a
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    • 684 9  -  KALIMULLAH HASSAN. KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s recent nationwide tour shows that while Umno has consolidated its position as Malaysia’s premier political party in most states, it is still facing problems in the eastern states of Kelantan
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    • 165 10 AFP. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have identified several terrorist groups planning to sabotage the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) to be held here next month. “We believe the groups will take full advantage of the summit meeting of so
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    • 629 10 PENANG Motor tycoon Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew does not believe that his son. Kah Kheng, committed suicide more than two years ago. The Star newspaper reported yesterday. In his testimony before a coroner's court here on Thursday. Tan Sri Ix>h
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    • 74 10 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Immigration officers at the Malaysian-Thai border are questioning Thai women entering Malaysia to screen prostitutes who could spread the Aids virus, officials said. “Only women suspected of prostitution are being quizzed." said Mr Baharom Talib, the immigration chief in Kelantan. He
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    • 95 10 JOHOR BARI A coun-try-wide hunt is on for eight prisoners all facing possible death sentences on drug trafficking charges escaped who escaped from jail here early on Monday. Johor police said the eight men escaped b\ using ftedsheets to scaie tne prison's 8-m high wall
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    • 232 10 THE Malaysian Chinese Association is planning to sell 39 per cent of its stake in The Star newspaper to settle bank loans amounting to Ms2o million (5514.5 million), Lianhe Zaobao reported on Wednesaday. It quoted senior MCA sources as
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    • 42 10 JAKARTA At least nine young children have died after eating contaminated biscuits in Palembang and Jamb: in southern Sumatra. according to reports yesterday. Police have detained two retailers and o>-dered the local biscuit factory to stop production.
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    • 353 10 BANGKOK The Thai Education Ministry is considering easing restrictions on the teaching of the Chinese language in the country. The Bangkok Post said the ministry's move, if approved by the Cabinet, would allow government and private elementary schools to expand Chinese language
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    • 308 10 BANGKOK Anti-Aides campaigns in Malaysia and Singapore have plunged the tourism industry in the southern Thai city of Haadyai into one of its worst crises in recent years. The Nation reported. It quoted local businessmen and officials as saying that the number of
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    • 139 10 AP. AFP. MANILA President Corazon Aquino has defended her brother against allegations that he was involved in gun running and promised there would be "no whitewash" of a case that has implicated one congressman. Last Tuesday, Customs agents at Ninoy Aquino International Airport seized 314 handguns
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    • 121 10 BANGKOK Thailand's Cabinet has agreed to draft a wide-ranging internal security act to replace an an-ti-communist law which the army considers obsolete, a government spokesman said. Spokesman Suvit Yodmani said the Cabinet had assigned the National Security Council (NSC) and the Juridical Council, which
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  • COMMENT / Perspective
    • 968 11  -  By ALAN HUBBARD Europe Editor Racial discrimination is often a fact of life for Asian immigrants living in “white” countries. In Britain, however, young Asians, fed up with years of abuse from white neighbours, are now hitting back, often with violent results.
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    • 1005 11  - Just how deeprooted is antiAsian feeling in Australia? By NICHOLAS WAY, in Melbourne writing for The Straits Times Case 1: Five members of the extreme right-wing organisation, the Australian Nationalist Movement, were charged in court recently with offences against members of the Chinese community in Perth. The charges link them
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    • 1200 13 People need to feel wanted, if not loved, especially by a government which seems always to talk from the head and not from the heart, writes BERTHA HENSON in The Sunday Times. “LOOK, why are you talking to people
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    • 984 13  -  By TAN SAI SIONG in The Sunday Times FRANKLY can you take seriously anything said by a man who professes a deep-seated fear that eating bananas without peeling off the fine string*threads running along the segments of the fruit would give him leprosy?
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 628 12 SEPT 9. 1989 GOING by what happened this week in Belgrade. the Non-Aligned Movement may not be about to slip into oblivion after all. or worse, die at the ripe old age of 28. For one thing, its moderate members have succeeded in recapturing the movement from
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    • 652 12 SE p ■989 THF. new and controversial dental health care scheme being marketed by the American International Assurance, which led many dental surgeons to make unhappy noises last weekend, bears analysis because dental p; tients may willy-nilly find themselves shortchanged. It also deserves closer scrutiny because
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    • 599 12 SE°T 7. 1989 JUST over a year ago, Singaporeans returned to power a People's Action Party dominated by second-generation leaders. At the traditional post-election news conference in the wee hours of the morning of Sept 4. Mr Lee Kuan Yew said of his party’s decisive victory: “The
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    • 587 12 DOING IT BIG DOING it big. doing it in style. The Old Pupils’ Association (OPA) of the Anglo-Chinese School in Sitiawan, Perak, did exactly that and with passion too when, for the first time, it held its recent reunion dinner here for
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    • 155 12 “Wang Meng is a famous writer and has several times asked to withdraw from his post to put all his energy into literary work and arts criticism. A National People’s Congress standing committee meeting decided to respect his wishes.” The Chinese media reporting the removal of Mr Wang
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  • TIME$
    • 643 14  -  Design scheme submitted with $369m bid 'unacceptable' By DOREEN SIOW ONE day after the Urban Redevelopment Authority said it had postponed awards for three prime sites under a major land sale held in June, it announced results for two of the
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    • 56 14 RIVERVIEW Rubber Estates Bhd has reported a loss after tax of M 5484.000, compared with a profit of M 51.19 million, for the six months ended June 30. 1989 Loss per share came to 4.5 sen (EPS of 11.1 sen). An interim dividend of 10 per cent less tax
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    • 458 14  -  By CHOW CHEE SUN PRIMA Ltd’s Cheng family has failed to get full control of the diversified flour miller through its general cash offer. At the close of the offer last Friday, Cheng Wang, a Hongkong-incorporated company owned by Prima’s executive chairman and founder Cheng
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    • 158 14 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to ona unit of foreign currency US dollar Buying OD 1 9670 Selling 1 9850 Sterling pound 3.0364 3.0877 Australian dollar 1 4885 1 5275 Canadian dollar ***** 1 6801 NZ dollar 1.1493 1.1831 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling
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    • 354 14 TWO men behind TradeNet the Singapore-devel-oped computerised network for trade documentation have been nominated for an international award in the United States. Mr Yeo Seng Teck, Chief Executive Officer of the Trade Development Board (TDB), and Mr Ko Kheng Hwa, Divisional Director,
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    • 161 14 HTP HOLDINGS made an extraordinary gain of $34.7 million from the sale of TaiPan Ramada Hotel, after deducting expenses and professional fees, chairman Jack Chia has disclosed in his annual statement. The sale helped to push HTP’s net tangible assets to 99 cents
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    • 210 14 Town City goes deeper into the red THE first half year has been another dismal period for financial-ly-troubled Town City Properties Ltd, which went deeper into the red. Group pre-tax loss worsened to $176,000 for the six months to June 30 from a loss of $43,000 in the previous corresponding
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    • 719 15  -  One-for-two bonus issue proposed as profit soars to record $365m By DOREEN SIOW SIME Darby shareholders are in for a bonus as the Malaysian conglomerate reports a record group pre-tax profit of M 5505.3 million (*****.07 million) for the year ended June
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    • 168 15 KINGS Hotel Ltd, the listed hotel arm of the Hong Leong group, has entered into an agreement to buy the Orchid Hotel in Penang for Ms 46 million (5533.2 million). A statement from the company said the purchase is through its
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    • 212 15 KI'ALA LUMPUR Genting Berhad. the holiday resort operator with interests in plantations and gaming as well, has turned in a group pre-tax profit of M 5139.6 million (*****.34 million) for the half-year ended June 30. up 39 per cent from the previous
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    • 362 15  -  HERMAN PHUA in Business Times GUINNESS Malaysia Bhd. which is proposing a merger with Malayan Breweries (M) Sdn Bhd, a whollyowned subsidiary of Singa-pore-based Malayan Breweries Ltd. has turned in a sturdy 4()-per-oent rise in group earnings for the six months ended June
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    • 258 15 INCREASED consumer spending, partly from the improved tourist trade, led the way for Japanese department store Isetan to declare a 19-per cent increase in interim after tax profit to $9.31 million. Turnover also increased by the same percentage to $120.13 million, while
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    • 687 15 Sharemarket review STRONG buying support pushed the Straits Times Industrial Index to four successive post-October 1987 Crash highs this week and saw the key indicator of the market’s health clearing the psychological 1,400-hurdle with ease on Thursday. Prices continued to surge ahead yesterday, and although
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    • 6969 16 Al shares quoted have a par value of $l, unless otherwise specified. Adjusted for scrip/rights. N Tax-exempted dividend. P/E ratios and gross yields of foreign shares are adjusted for currency differences. Trustee stocks under CPF Approved Investment Scheme. Margin stocks. ABN is traded in lots of 10
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    • 263 17 Manager's prices for September 9 11 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce l 23 —130 The Savings fund 1 09- 1 15 Spore Prog Fund 049-0 53 S pore Sec Fund 077—0 82*d Spore Invest fund 0 86 0 91 Spore Fquity Fund 0 58 0 62 Asia Unit
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    • 691 17 Frktay Siplinbir 9 HKS 1Amoy Properties 3 225 0 075 Asia Sec Int't 015 0 075 Asia Sec War 91 056 002 Bank ot EA 14 40 040 Bond Corp Int'l 1 79 0 01 Bond Corp War 91 084 0 01 Cable Wireless 70 00 250 Cate de
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    • 64 17 THE Straits Times Industrials Index roar 55.96 points on the week to 1,419.69 points. Dav-to-dav indices: MONDAY': 1,382.28 points (up 18.55); 131.98 m units (slM.49m); TI'ESDAY: 1,388.88 (up 5.8); 92.8 m units (3179.55 m); WEDNESDAY: 1,391.88 (up 8.8); 198.82 m units (8193.8 m); THIRSDAY: 1,496.83 (up 9.95);
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    • 61 17 THE New Straits Times Industrials Index rose 114.33 points on the week to 2,523.21 points. MONDAY: 2,439.47 points (up 39.59); 47.789 m units (valued M592.193m); TI'ESDAY: 2,449.17 (up 9.7); 47.615 m units (M597.141m); WEDNESDAY: 2,464.66 (up 15.49); 57.228 m units (M3197.721m); THI RSDAY: 2,491.19 (up 26.44); 76.714
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    • 48 17 THE Hongkong Hang Seng Index rose 81.72 points to 2,629.63 on MONDAY: 2,559.25 points (up 404); turnover HK5728.74 million; TI'ESDAY: 2,572.41 points (up 22.16); turnover HK3841.25 million; WEDNESDAY: 2,577.62 (up 5.21); HK3693.87 million; THURSDAY: 2,583.16 (up 5.54); HK5796.54m11U0n; FRIDAY: 2,629.63 (up 37.47); HKSI.I2 billion.
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    • 423 18  -  Several other companies may follow suit By KOH BEE ANN HONGKONG shipping company. International Maritime Carriers Holdings, on Wednesday applied for a listing of its entire share capital and warrants on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. If successful, it will be the
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    • 120 18 A LITTLE-KNOWN Hongkong company has emerged as a substantial shareholder of food-hased QAF Ltd. In a statement to the Stock Exchange of Singapore, QAF said It had been notified that Beauty Centre Investment Ltd had bought 22.6 million QAF shares on Sept 5.
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    • 480 18  -  By Catherine C. Ong Hongkong Correspondent HONGKONG Hongkong businessmen looking to cross-list their companies in Singapore and other regional bourses such as Bangkok to redress their low ratings at home may find the exercise futile, investment analysts here said. Cross-listings have not achieved the
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    • 191 18 KEPPEL Corporation Ltd has appointed Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd’s general manager and director, Mr Tong Chong Heong, as a group executive director. Mr Tong, who has been with the Keppel group since February 19(10 and who was seconded to subsidiary FELS in January
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    • 495 18  -  this year KOH BEE ANN. AN EXTRAORDINARY gain of $50.8 million from the sale of The Promenade in Orchard Road boosted First Capital Corporation's bottom-line profit to $66.34 million for the 18 months to June 30 this year. This was
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    • 100 18 DIVERSIFIED property group Parkway Holdings has incorporated a Malaysian subsidiary, Gleneagles (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, to be its holding company for the proposed purchase of a Malaysian hospital. Parkway recently entered into an agreement to pay about $lO million for a 70-per cent stake in
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    • 309 18  -  ELAINE KOH. DBS BANK has sold 1.9 million shares in the Insurance Corporation of Singapore, garnering $14.5 million, and losing a subsidiary at the same time. With the sale, DBS Bank’s shareholding in the insurance company has been reduced to 49.8 per cent,
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    • 161 18 HIGHER commodity prices have raked in a hefty profit for plantation group Highlands and Lowlands Bhd for the first six months of the year ended June 30. During the period, group after-tax profit rose 19.14 per cent to M 522.55 million from
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    • 80 18 SINGAPORE reinsurance Corporation posted an 8-per cent increase in pre-tax profit to $3.8 million for the six months ended June 30. For the period under review, group turnover increased 11.2 per cent from $22.9 million to $25.4 million. Investment income rose 16.4 per
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    • 413 19  -  By SIVAM SUBRAMANIAM WHILE operating at full capacity right now, two of Singapore's largest shipyards are hedging against any possible future downturn in the industry by going into long-term ship-repair agreements with one of the world’s largest tanker operators. The two, Jurong
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    • 503 19  -  By DOREEN SIOW MANUFACTURING and property group United Industrial Corporation (UIC) has sold its entire 19.2-per cent stake in Brunei-back-ed QAF Ltd, reaping a profit of $11.7 million in the process. The 54.25 million shares of
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    • 235 19 UNITED Industrial Corporation’s l-for-2 rights issue of 151.75 million shares is 98.3per cent accepted. At the close of the rights issue at 4 pm on last week, acceptances and excess share applications for a total of 180.88 million rights shares at $1.50 each were received.
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    • 183 19 FOREIGN Investors got nearly $l7 billion in profits out of their investments in Singapore over the nine years from 1979 to 1987. Finance Minister Richard Hu said this in a written reply to a parliamentary question from Non-Constituency MP Lee Siew Choh, who
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    • 800 19 Week ended September 1 Compiled by JULIANA TAY AUDITED RESULTS Company Year to Group Net Net earning* Groaa profit/Iota (L) per ahare dividend (’000) (centa) Berjuntai Apr 89 M$7,04K$1.052) 23 M3 41 30(71 J C Em Mo- 89 M$2.557($2 444) 9 2(88) 10(8) PRELIMINARY RESULTS Company Year to
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    • 258 19 CENTRAL Properties, a listed company controlled by hotelier Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat, has made a small comeback by registering a 5 per cent increase in its interim pre-tax profit to $1.77 million for the first half of the year. The result is achieved
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  • FORUM
    • 469 20 Consider their applications before those of others ON THE LIBERALISED IMMIGRATION POLICY AWARE supports the policy of selective immigration from traditional sources (Population: An Issue of Current Concern Aware Position Paper No. 1, 1988) as one of the ways of tackling the problem of
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    • 503 20 ON THE BRAIN DRAIN I REFER to the speech made by Non-Constituency MP I>ee Siew Choh at the recent Workers' Party National Day rally held at the Queenstown Sports Complex. Dr l,ee over-simplified the problem of emigration by concluding that
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