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Title Section20 1989-09-30 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1989 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI(P) 37/8/8920 words
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Article, Illustration614 1989-09-30 1 PRIME MINISTER l*e Kuan Yew told the IIil;h Court trying his libel suit against the Ear Eastern Economic Review that he stood to lose a “hefty sum” of several hundred thousand dollars” out of his614 words
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Article, Illustration983 1989-09-30 1 Contents not disputed; statement irrelevant because Review has amended its defence, says judge THE High Court yesterday ruled that a sworn Vatican statement affirming that the Government had not attacked the Catholic Church could not be admitted as evidence for Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s defamation suit983 words
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Advertisement11 1989-09-30 1 PM’s libel suit against the Review more reports in Pages 4-911 words
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471 1989-09-30 2 THE Singapore Foreign Ministry has expressed doubts that ail Vietnamese troops have been withdrawn from Cambodia and has declared that Vietnam must be held responsible for the continued suffering of the Cambodian people. Commenting on the Vietnamese announcement that it had withdrawn its troops,471 words
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Article, Illustration884 1989-09-30 2 DESPITE the apparent Vietnamese troop withdrawal from Cambodia. Hanoi wants to retain total control there and Western countries should not be fooled into believing otherwise This was Foreign Minister Wong Kan Seng's message on Tuesday when he addressed the884 words
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93 1989-09-30 2 FOUR Independent schools are likely to raise their fees next January but no poor student will be deprived of a place as a result, their officials said. The current monthly fee paid by students at all four schools Anglo-Chinese, Chinese High, Methodist Girls’ and St93 words
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Article, Illustration372 1989-09-30 2 ISMAIL KASSIM - By ISMAIL KASSIM KUALA LUMPUR The United States has no desire to set up new military facilities in Singapore. or in any other part of the region, similar to the US bases in the Philippines. Vice-President Dan Quayle372 words
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299 1989-09-30 2 A SINGAPOREAN couple, allegedly involved in a futures transactions fraud, have been arrested in New Zealand and ordered to be extradited to Australia to stand trial. The couple are said to be part of an international futures syndicate believed299 words
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Article, Illustration563 1989-09-30 3 ‘I pleaded guilty so that I could come back with her body’ WITHIN 24 hours after his sister’s death in a campervan accident last week, Singaporean Him Kim Tech was charged in a New Zealand court and fined NZ$5OO563 words
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Article, Illustration388 1989-09-30 3 A WATCH touted as the "anti-status” status symbol is at the centre of a controversy here. The advertisement for the so-called Soviet paratroopers’ time piece has been pulled out of newspapers and television following objections from the Soviet Embassy. The distributor, Dickson388 words
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Article305 1989-09-30 3 Yang Razali Kassim - By Yang Razali Kassim, Jakarta Correspondent JAKARTA Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and President Suharto will meet in Jakarta for high-level talks on Oct 6 and 7, Indonesia’s State Secretary Murdiono announced here this week. He told reporters that the talks, which will be305 words
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Article, Illustration534 1989-09-30 3 HONGKONG Dame Lydia Dunn, a senior member of the Executive Council, has warned against Hongkong people becoming involved in mainland political activities because such an involvement could "jeopardise the territory’s future under China’s one country, two systems policy”, the South534 words
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PM’s libel suit against the Far Eastern Economic Review
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Article, Illustration1446 1989-09-30 4 PAUL JACOB; SUMIKO TAN; HAN FOOK KWANG; KOH BUCK SONG; ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM; CHENG SHOONG TAT; and SALIM OSMAN - ‘Old wounds bound to be re-opened, but Review’s hard line forced court action’ Reporters: PAUL JACOB, SUMIKO TAN, HAN FOOK KWANG, KOH BUCK SONG, ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM, CHENG SHOONG TAT and SALIM OSMAN MR LEE Kuan1,446 words
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Article, Illustration1273 1989-09-30 4 QUEEN’S Counsel John Previte revealed to the court what took place at the Lstana on June 2 1987, to show that Roman Catholic Archbishop Gregory Yong was not tricked into meeting the press that day. In an afternoon of meetings,1,273 words
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Article1104 1989-09-30 5 Catholic priest answers Jayakumar’s allegations The Review article in question SOME new light has been shed on the Singapore Government’s detention of 22 people in May and June this year for alleged involvement in a Marxist conspiracy, by Roman Catholic priest Fr Edgar D’Souza’s account of1,104 words
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832 1989-09-30 5 THE Review’s article on the Istana meeting between the Prime Minister and Archbishop Gregory Yong in its Dec 17, 1987 issue was based on a garbled, inaccurate and biased report by a third party, Mr John Previte, QC, told the court.832 words
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Article596 1989-09-30 6 PM in the witness box THE Prime Minister denied in no uncertain terms that he had tricked Archbishop Gregory Yong into attending a press conference held immediately after their Istana meeting on June 2.596 words
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Article, Illustration1051 1989-09-30 6 MR LEE Kuan Yew told the High Court on Tuesday. the second day of his libel suit hearing, that it was “grossly malicious” to suggest that he wanted to attack the Catholic Church because he had been “particularly respectful" of1,051 words
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Article, Illustration513 1989-09-30 6 THE Prime Minister said on Tuesday that the actions and statements of former priest Edgar D'Souza were reminiscent of communist front tactics, and were not those which a concerned man of the cloth would use. He said Father D’Souza portrayed himself as spokesman513 words
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Article, Illustration238 1989-09-30 7 ARCHBISHOP Gregory Yong's predecessor, Monsignor Michael Olcomendy, held very firmly to the view that there was a line separating Church and the Government, Mr Lee Kuan Yew noted. He said this was because the late churchman had had the experience of being Archbishop of both238 words
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940 1989-09-30 7 PM on the danger of using emotion and invoking God’s name THE Prime Minister told the court that he detected signs as early as 1985 which pointed to the beginnings of political penetration of the Catholic940 words
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445 1989-09-30 7 THE Prime Minister denied he had asked The Straits Times and the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation to omit from their reports a qualification made by Archbishop Yong over the arrest in May 1987 of Vincent Cheng and 15 others. This qualification came in445 words
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727 1989-09-30 7 MR LEE explained to the court why it was "utter lunacy” for the Review to have suggested in its Dec 17, 1987 article that the arrest of the 16 persons in connection with a Marxist plot was an attack727 words
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Article, Illustration1115 1989-09-30 8 PAUL JACOB; SUMIKO TAN; HAN FOOK KWANG; KOH BUCK SONG; ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM; CHENG SHOONG TAT; and SALIM OSMAN - Cross-examination of the Prime Minister Reporters: PAUL JACOB, SUMIKO TAN, HAN FOOK KWANG, KOH BUCK SONG, ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM, CHENG SHOONG TAT and SALIM OSMAN THE High Court on Wednesday (third day of the hearing) heard how preventing a collision between1,115 words
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853 1989-09-30 8 MR Lee Kuan Yew said under cross-examination that he reached out to Catholic lay leaders when Church-State tension built up in May 1987, in order to assure them that the Government’s attitude to the Church had not changed. He also wanted853 words
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450 1989-09-30 8 MR LEE Kuan Yew made clear at his June 2,1987 Istana meeting with Vatican envoy Giovanni D’Aniello that he preferred the Church and not the Government to defuse the situation in which priests were getting involved in politics here. But the Prime Minister wanted450 words
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Article, Illustration1484 1989-09-30 9 ‘One of my key aims was to get the Archbishop away from D’Souza’s side’ Day Two of the cross-examination THE Istana meeting with Archbishop Gregory Yong and leaders of the Catholic Church on June 2, 1987, was meant to be a serious1,484 words
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1136 1989-09-30 9 ‘Stormy meeting? No, it wasn’t’ PM QC GEOFFREY Robertson took the Prime Minister through various parts of the Review article, New light on Detentions, on which the defamation suit is based. For more than an hour, he sought to pin Mr Lee down to saying that the article was, for1,136 words
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Article, Illustration756 1989-09-30 10 'No proof he is aware of proceedings’ case adjourned A DISTRICT court on Monday refused to try lawyer Francis Seow on 60 tax summonses in his absence on the grounds that there was no evidence that he was aware of the proceedings756 words
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Article, Illustration485 1989-09-30 10 A FORMER banker was jailed a month and fined $lO,OOO last Saturday for corruptly accepting $30,000 from the managing director of Hock Tat Development. a propertydevelopment companylinked to the Teh Cheang Wan affair. Lim Jun Ying, 56. who485 words
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167 1989-09-30 10 A SINGAPOREAN woman who fled to Indonesia after allegedly swindling U *****,000 (*****,320) from the Hongkongßank in Singapore was arrested in Medan last Friday, the Indonesian Observer newspaper reported on Monday. It said the woman, a former teller in the foreign currency167 words
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169 1989-09-30 10 ENDING months of speculation. Burger King confirmed this week that it will be moving into Liat Towers, ousting arch-rival McDonald’s from its Singapore birthplace. The confirmation ended talk that McDonald’s would not renew its 10-year lease, which expires next month, and that169 words
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491 1989-09-30 10 NG WEI JOO - By NG WEI JOO CHINESE High School, which went independent last year, will be the first school in Singapore to have an underground airraid shelter. To be built under a brand new 2,000-seat auditorium, the shelter is part of an491 words
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155 1989-09-30 10 ZAM ZAM, the North Bridge Road south Indian restaurant popular for its murtabak. has been ordered to close for a fortnight following its conviction and $2,000 fine last week for having contaminated cucumber salad and cockroaches in the storage cabinets. It was the restaurant’s second155 words
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377 1989-09-30 11 Kalimullah Hassan - Relationship like that between brothers: Ghafar By Kalimullah Hassan Writing for The Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr Ghafar Baba, has described relations between Malaysia and Singapore as “a true brotherliness which can never be disrupted”. In an interview with The Straits377 words
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Article, Illustration578 1989-09-30 11 KUALA LUMPUR Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba has said that anyone aspiring to become the Prime Minister or Deputy Premier of Malaysia must have two key qualities broad-minded views towards multi-racialism and loyalty. In an interview with The Straits Times,578 words
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263 1989-09-30 11 KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian court has sentenced a senior police officer to death for trafficking in 27.2 kg of marijuana. A High Court judge in Kuala Terengganu rejected the defence of former Asst Supt Abu Bakar Othman that he had been framed263 words
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311 1989-09-30 11 Bahasa or English? KUALA LUMPUR Judges would still be allowed to decide whether to hear a case in Bahasa Malaysia or English under the proposed amendments to the National Language Act, The Star newspaper quoted the Minister of Justice, Datuk Dr Sulaiman Daud,311 words
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Article350 1989-09-30 11 KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has accused the Hong-kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review of “totally incorrect” reporting on Malaysian affairs. He said that if the Review was to be believed, Malaysia was rife with racial conflict and corruption and that no economic350 words
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Article, Illustration206 1989-09-30 11 KUANTAN A Muslim man married nine women in Thailand and then forced them into prostitution in Malaysia, Pahang’s chief Kadi, Datuk Abdul Mutalib Mohammad Ali, said. Datuk Abdul Mutalib said las Saturday that further details would be made206 words
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COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
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Article663 1989-09-30 12 SEPT 30. 1989 FOR 21 years, the destiny of the Philippines and its former President. Mr Ferdinand E. Marcos, was inextricably entwined. That his death last Thursday will be largely irrelevant to his native country is therefore a sign of how far down he had come663 words
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Article620 1989-09-30 12 SEPT 26. 1989 BECAUSE of Vietnam's duplicity in the past. Hanoi cannot be believed when it declares that at midnight tonight all its troops would be withdrawn from Cambodia. For it is in Vietnam’s interests to leave some of its Khmer-speaking soldiers behind dressed in Cambodian620 words
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Article656 1989-09-30 12 SEPT 25. 1989 IN VIOLENT America, one of the more pointless ways of dying is to get shot for queue-cut-ting on the freeways of Los Angeles. Fortunately for motorists here, driving is a less lethal business. Small mercies one should be thankful for? Hardly. While Singapore maybe656 words
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633 1989-09-30 12 WAR MEMORIES WORLD WAR II broke out in Europe this month 50 years ago. Two years on, in early December 1941. Japan entered the war with the assault on Pearl Harbour and the invasion of Malaya. Memories of World War II (1939-1945).633 words
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Article208 1989-09-30 12 I have to pay my own costs If I lose. When I take on Dow Jones as a defendant, owner of the Review, I am taking on a very formidable adversary. Mr Davies doesn’t have to pay his costs if he loses his action. I have to pay208 words
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FOCUS/ VIEWPOINT
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960 1989-09-30 13 TAN SAI SIONG - If academic qualifications alone are enough to buy dream houses, then academics who mostly have doctorates should mostly be millionaires VIEWPOINT TAN SAI SIONG writing in The Sunday Times IT WAS possibly the saddest revelation I have come across in the960 words
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1355 1989-09-30 13 If you must emigrate, these then must be your only destinations: China for Chinese Singaporeans, India for Indians, and Malaysia for Malays, Eurasians, writes former journalist YEO TOON JOO, in this letter to The Straits Times Forum Page. WHY do1,355 words
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281 1989-09-30 13 M Letter in The Sunday Times Sept 17 CONGRATULATIONS to Miss Bertha Henson (“Government should say it cares for all, and say it loudly”, The Sunday Times, Sept 3) for encapsulating the concerns and fears of the minorities and the not so talented281 words
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917 1989-09-30 14 ELAINE KOH - Group has a ‘war chest’ close to a half-billion dollars By ELAINE KOH in Business Times IT WAS undeniably the week of United Industrial Corporation. First, it stunned the market by getting $690 million for the Paragon, and then917 words
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514 1989-09-30 14 KOH BEE ANN - Bond interest controversy By KOH BEE ANN HOTEL Properties has finally spoken out on the bond interest controversy. It said that while it is not legally bound to pay accrued interest on bonds which were surrendered before Aug 11, an extraordinary general meeting would514 words
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177 1989-09-30 14 THE Sogo group, which last week agreed to buy The Paragon shopping complex in Orchard Road and an adjoining piece of land for $690 million from United Industrial Corporation, plans to maintain its store in the Raffles City complex. Mr Masao Nakano, managing177 words
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Article, Illustration373 1989-09-30 14 LOCAL distribution company, the Wywy group, has grown so large it can no longer ignore a listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES), said its chairman and managing director, Mr Wong Yip Yan. In a rare interview, Mr Wong added373 words
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168 1989-09-30 14 FOR the first time in Singapore’s capital markets, a US-dollar bond has been issued together with Singa-pore-dollar equity warrants. Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd (FELS) signed a subscription agreement with Bankers Trust International on Monday for the issue of FELS US$BO million168 words
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87 1989-09-30 14 SINGAPORE’S petrochemlcal/chemlcal industry has been ranked Number One In “overall business attractiveness” out of nine Asian countries surveyed by management consultants Arthur D. Little. Next came the other three “tigers”, Taiwan, Hongkong, and South Korea, in that order. The others, in order of ranking,87 words
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400 1989-09-30 15 KUALA LUMPUR Foreign funds, largely from Japan and Hongkong, have helped catapult Malaysia’s stock market to new highs this month and shares are expected to soar farther, Investment analysts said. The Koala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KL£E) Composite Index rose 7 per400 words
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485 1989-09-30 15 MALAYSIA has completed a privatisation masterplan which will set the pace next year for the country’s biggest national sale, The Financial Times newspaper reported in London. A report distilled from the 40-inch thick volume of the masterplan is to be sent to the485 words
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Article65 1989-09-30 15 JURONG Engineering Pte Ltd (JEL) turned in a weak first half which saw pre-tax profit decline 32.8 per cent to $1.63 million. At the bottom-line, profit attributable to shareholders declined by a sharp 59 per cent to $648,000 from $1.59 million previously resulting in earnings65 words
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271 1989-09-30 15 APOLLO Enterprise Ltd, which successfully fought off a takeover bid by the Hong Leong group earlier this year, continues to be in the red. For the half-year ended June 30, the group, which owns a hotel of the same name in Havelock271 words
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Article56 1989-09-30 15 IN a move towards becoming a fully computerised manufacturing operation, food and beverage group Yeo Hiap Seng this week signed a 51.6 million computer package deal. The deal, for both software and hardware, with Electronic Data Systems Singapore (EDS) and IBM Singapore brings YHS' total investment56 words
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784 1989-09-30 15 Sharemarket review IT was a week that started on a dull note and ended dull. The Straits Times Industrials Index dipped below the 1,380 resistance level mid-week, and closed yesterday at 1,375.25, for a loss of 17.55 points on the week.784 words
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Article, Illustration345 1989-09-30 15 Industries. CONRAD RAJ - Industries. CONRAD RAJ. FORMER Law Minister E.W. Barker, who is now chairman of the Bukit Turf Club, is expected to become the next chairman of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The exchange's current executive chairman. Mr Tan Chok Kian. a former permanent secretary,345 words
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Article6637 1989-09-30 16 All shares quoted have a par value of SI. unless otherwise specified. Adjusted for scrip/rights. N Tai-eiempted dividend P/E ratios and gross yields of foreign shares are adjusted for currency differences. Trustee stocks under CPF Approved Investment Scheme, t Margin stocks. ABN is traded in lots of6,637 words
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Article245 1989-09-30 17 Manager's prices for September 30 A Oct 2 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.22-1 29 The Savings Fund 1 06-1.12 S'pore Prog Fund 0 46—0.50*d S pore Sec Fund 076-0 81 S'pore Invest fund 0 81-0.86 S'pore Equity Fund 0.57-0 61 Asia Unit Trust Ma 1 Invest Fund245 words
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Article664 1989-09-30 17 CfMaw M r ikiij vvpivnipvr Cm MM 3 275 -0 025 Asia See Int'l 2 575 0 075 Asia Sec War 91 061 unch Bank of EA 15 40 ■0 10 Bond Corp Int'l 1 81 0.08 Bond Corp War 91 081 005 Cabia 9 Wirelsss 69 00 Cals664 words
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Article66 1989-09-30 17 THE Straits Times Industrials Index dropped 17.55 points on the week to 1,375.25 points. Day-to-day indices: MONDAY: 1,385.54 points (down 7.26); 62.97 m units (valued 9144.09 m); TT'ESDAY: 1,387.62 (up 2.08); 74.83 m units (9175.64 m); WEDNESDAY: 1,379.02 (down 8.6); 63.62 m units (9139.29 m); THURBDAY: 1,371.4066 words
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Article59 1989-09-30 17 THE New Straits Times Industrials Index rose 18.23 points to 2,546.06 points. MONDAY: 2,517.29 points (down 10.58); 36.343 m units (valued M367.683m); TUESDAY: 2,514.77 points (down 2.52); 33.435 m units (valued M558.786m); WEDNESDAY: 2,518.80 (up 4.03); 29.36 m units (M563.141m); THURSDAY: 2,525.10 (up 6.3); 36.449 m units59 words
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Article49 1989-09-30 17 THE Hongkong Hang Seng Index rose 51.89 points to 2,758.25 on the week. MONDAY: 2,738.70 points (up 32.34); turnover HK31.59 billion; TUESDAY: 2,725.41 (down 13.20); HKSI.2B million; WEDNESDAY: 2,712.57 (down 12.84); HK5820.68 million; THURSDAY: 2,755.32 (up 42.75); HKS96IJS billion; FRIDAY: 2,758.25 (up 2.13); HKSI.OB billion.49 words
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Article, Illustration601 1989-09-30 18 LEE HAN SHIH - Group sold stake in Jakarta company too early By LEE HAN SHIH in Business limes A DEAL STRUCK eight months ago has cost United Industrial Corporation (UIC) the chance of making a paper profit of about ***** million. In January, UIC sold601 words
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313 1989-09-30 18 been recommended. DOREEN Slow - been recommended. DOREEN Slow. A SHARF reduction in interest expenses and strong contribution from associated companies helped Neptune Orient Lines Ltd chalk up an impressive 51.5 per cent growth in interim pre-tax profit to $35.15 million. However, the national shipping line only managed to313 words
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Article172 1989-09-30 18 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to on# unit ol foreign currency US dollar Buying 00 l 9500 Selling 1.9680 Sterling pound 3 1344 ***** Australian dollar 1 4971 1 6360 Canadian dollar 1 6494 1 6777 NZ dollar 1.1374 1 1710 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency172 words
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172 1989-09-30 18 KUALA LUMPUR Two of IGB Corporation's subsidiaries, Grapevine Investments (GIPL) and Ipoh Garden (Igal), together with l.ee Hing Development have withdrawn from a proposed joint-venture with Singapore's Parkway Holdings to develop a waterfront pr operty project in the United States. The four172 words
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Article51 1989-09-30 18 Latest results THE Straits Trading Company Ltd has posted a 21 per rent rise in Interim pre-tax profits to $39.51 million from $23.97 million in the previous corresponding period on a 45 per cent higher turnover of $162.34 million for the six months ended June51 words
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296 1989-09-30 18 CAROLINE CHAN - Sale gives BAT and Steamship s6lm profit By CAROLINE CHAN AS PART of his plan to have a greater business presence here, Japanese property tycoon Paul Sun on Tuesday signed a $llO- deal covering the purchase of Sanford Building from296 words
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255 1989-09-30 18 and Hongkong. KOH BEE ANN - and Hongkong. KOH BEE ANN. MARINE-BASED Chuan Hup Holdings has returned to the the black with shareholders bottom-line profit a healthy $ll.B million for the year ended June 30 compared with a massive loss of $62.82 million previously. Pre-tax profit also went255 words
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Article267 1989-09-30 18 CONFIRMING market speculation which has been pushing up its share price, Electro-Magnetic Singapore on Wednesday announced a l-for-2 bonus issue following a 55-per cent increase in pre-tax profit to $6.23 million. But this was still below market analysts’ forecast of $7 million. Turnover for the videocassette267 words
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Article, Illustration366 1989-09-30 19 ly NARENDRA AGGARWAL - Healthy 32pc jump in August exports By ly NARENDRA AGGARWAL INCREASED shipments of Singapore-made goods helped the Republic’s total trade to grow by a healthy 9.5 per cent last month to $16.5 billion, ending two months of sluggish growth. Latest figures366 words
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270 1989-09-30 19 SIM Lim Investments, which is the target of a takeover by the Indonesian Summa Group, has appointed merchant bank BNP International Financial Services Singapore Pte Ltd as advisers to Sim Lim shareholders on the offer. In a statement issued late Friday, Sim270 words
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100 1989-09-30 19 CATHERINE C. ONG - CATHERINE C.ONG. HONGKONG The Kuwait Investment Office (KIO) Is using cash realised from last week's sale of Its Singapore Land stake for an aggressive baying spree of Hongkongßank shares, market sources here said. In heavy trading on Monday, Sassoon Securities, part of the broking100 words
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87 1989-09-30 19 HIGHER operating profit, together with higher investment and interest income, helped Resources Development Corporation (RDC) post group interim pre-tax profit of $l.lB million compared with a loss of $1.3 million previously. Bottom-line profit attributable to shareholders was $323,000, compared with a loss of $1.4387 words
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Article167 1989-09-30 19 CONSTRUCTION group Lee Kim Tah Holdings Ltd, which has been in the red since 1986, has returned to the black for the interim period ended June 30. The building and engineering group turned in a pre-tax profit of $364,000 for the first half-year,167 words
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Advertisement231 1989-09-30 19 7 In* Sf milsTiHU's K3f*Sni Mud Now, keeping in touch with what’s happening in Singapore couldn’t be easier. Or more economical. Because all the major news of every week is condensed into one paper. The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition. Printed on lightweight paper in convenient tabloid size, it fills231 words
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More letters on the emigration issue
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920 1989-09-30 20 ‘Quality of life’ cannot always be measured in quantitative terms LONDON’S Royal Albert Hall is stormed once a year. Thousands of revellers stomp their feet, demanding “more”. Crackers explode, flags are unfurled. All in good-humoured celebration of music, summer and all things920 words
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448 1989-09-30 20 I AM writing to express a personal view on the emigration situation in Singapore. At issue appears to be the expectation of national loyalty. The Singapore Government feels strongly the need for Singaporeans to remain in their homeland because it perceives that448 words
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482 1989-09-30 20 I CANNOT agree more with the letters “Try and understand problems of those who emigrate" by Tan See Keen and "Undue emphasis on second language” by Dudley Au. (ST, Sept 16). I would like to share my experience. Two months ago, my482 words
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Article387 1989-09-30 20 I REFER to the letter "Siew Choh would have emigrated if govt policies are unbearable" from Mr Philip Choe. (ST, Sept 6). I do not have to repeat why I believe that the most important reason why people emigrate is the unhealthy political climate in387 words
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Advertisement141 1989-09-30 20 Dear Readers THE Straits Times welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name, address, and home and office telephone numbers. They should preferably be typed, doubled-spaced, on one side of the paper. Brevity is an advantage. We do not accept for publication letters from writers who141 words
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Advertisement1022 1989-09-30 21 APPONTMENTS ARE YOU READY FOR A CAREER IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY OUTSTANDING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES TRUST AND MARKETING OFFICERS HONGKONG BANK TRUSTEE (SINGAPORE) (LIMITED) A MEMBER OF THE HONGKONG BANK GROUP I* The Hongkongßank Group has, over the past two years, reorganised its international Trustee Operations and is now a market1,022 words
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Advertisement1227 1989-09-30 22 APPOINTMENTS DOWELL SCHLUMBERGER W* am alaadlng oWtold sarvlce company providing a rang# of •paclallzad sarvtcas to lha oil industry worldwide. Sijf» We are currently looking for qualified candidates to join our organisation as ACCOUNTANTS Candidates should have 2-3 years of working experience, preferably with the Big 8 or MNCs This1,227 words
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Article, Illustration667 1989-09-30 23 FAM SEMI-PRO DIVISION ONE LEAGUE by JOE DORAI SINGAPORE 1 K LUMPUR 1 FOR the second time in five days, Singapore were deprived of a victory in a Semi-Pro Division One Malaysia Cup soccer match by a referee's controversial decision. The decision helped MalaysiaPicture by JERRY SEH. - 667 words
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433 1989-09-30 23 JOE DORAI - KELANTAN 3 SINGAPORE 1 JOE DORAI. KOTA BAHRU Singapore went through hell and high water but could not stop Kelantan from posting their first win in the Semi-Pro Division One Malaysia Cup at the Sultan Mohammed Stadium last night. Singapore lost 3-1433 words
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294 1989-09-30 23 SPRINTER Haron Mundlr will not get the money promised by the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association to their South-east Asia (iames medal winners. Haron. 26, was Singapore’s most hemedalled athlete at the Games with a 100-metre silver and a bronze in the 200 m.294 words
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Article, Illustration483 1989-09-30 23 ATHLETICS by PETER KHOO SINGAPORE Amateur Athletic Association president Loh Lin Kok is confident that Singapore will be given the nod to host the sixth World Cup in 1993 at the National Stadium. The SAAA boss said that although the decision483 words
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1032 1989-09-30 24 PM’s libel case against the Review HEARING of Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s libel suit against the Far Eastern Economic Review took a dramatic turn on Thursday when he produced an affidavit from the Vatican affirming that the Government had not attacked the1,032 words
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Article, Illustration390 1989-09-30 24 ALAN HUBBARD - By ALAN HUBBARD, Europe Editor LONDON Singapore's Changi airport, again acclaimed the world’s best, received the title officially here on Wednesday at a gathering of some of Britain’s highest-fliers. Mr Tan Guong Ching, Permanent Secretary (Communications and Information) made a flying visit from Singapore390 words
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Article77 1989-09-30 24 NO SMOKING will be a rule in a whole host of new premises come November. The anti-smoking legislation, introduced in 1970, has been extended to cover public access areas ranging from smoke-filled howling alleys to department stores. The biggest group of premises affected are 60077 words