The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 8 June 1991

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    21 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI (P) 71/8/90
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  • Article
    PM calls for grassroots Parliaments
    886 1  -  Community leaders should gather residents’ views and relay them to him By Bertha Henson GRASSROOTS Parliaments. That is the Prime Minister’s latest move to give Singaporeans a greater say in the running of the country. Mr Goh Chok Tong wants community leaders to fan out
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  • Article, Illustration
    New court rules to speed up cases
    900 1  -  Trials of civil disputes to be more open and efficient By Sumiko Tan THE Supreme Court is changing some age-old procedures and introducing new ways to speed up the judicial process and make it more open and efficient. The measures, seen as among
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  • Article
    Possible six-month trial for non-transferable COEs starting August
    322 1  -  By By Warren Fernandez MR GOH Chok Tong has said he would ask the Communications Ministry to consider having two types of car Certificate of Entitlements, transferable and non-transferable ones, to test whether speculators are in fact forcing up COE premiums. This
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      Page 1 Advertisements Column 1
      155 1 INSIDE Asian-born Australians returning for jobs HAVING emigrated to Australia and worked in Sydney for four years, senior foreign exchange dealer Thomas Ng, 35, returned with his wife last year to a job with Continental Bank. Mr Ng, who described his overseas stint as a “four year struggle in the
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • Article, Illustration
      Multi-lingual public signs will give Singapore an Asian feel, says PM
      646 2  -  ‘Rut not all signs should be in four official languages’ PM’s first community visit Reports by Warren Fernandez PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Sunday that he would be in favour of having some public signs, such as
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    • Article
      Ageing of people ‘biggest problem’
      188 2 THE biggest problem that governments of the future will face is pressure from an ageing population to raise taxes to subsidise health rare and other facilities, Mr (»oh Chok Tong warned on Sunday. And if the government gave in to such pressures to tax the
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    • Article
      Middle class the worst-hit by rising health, education costs
      499 2 IT IS those who are not so rich and also not so poor who would be hardest hit by rising cost of health care or education, Mr Goh Chok Tong said on Sunday. Discussing this middleclass squeeze several times during his
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    • Article
      Open university and mail courses being considered
      320 2 THE Government is looking at ways to meet Singaporeans’ growing aspirations for higher education by linking up with foreign institutions and considering the possibility of an open university here. Mr Goh Chok Tong disclosed this on Sunday in response to a call from
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    • Article
      Mr Lee should remain as Senior Minister: PM Goh
      672 3 Present role benefits S’pore more than his being Elected President SINGAPORE and the Government will be better off if Mr Lee Kuan Yew remains as Senior Minister rather than be the Elected President, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in an
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    • Article, Illustration
      CPIB may press more charges against Glenn Knight
      442 3  -  Four others are helping in the investigations By Gerry de Silva THE Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau has held out the possibility of pressing more charges against former white collar crime buster Glenn Knight. At least four persons are helping the bureau in
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    • Article, Illustration
      Convicted man sues Govt over number of strokes he received
      449 3 A MAN, convicted of armed robbery and given 48 strokes of the cane twice the legal maximum allowed for an adult at a single trial is suing the Government for damages and expenses. Qwek Kee Chong, 26, who was convicted
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    • Article, Illustration
      Man who raped JC girl gets 22 years
      739 3  -  By Ben Davidson AN unemployed man who raped a 17-year-old junior college student and also sexually abused her and a schoolboy on separate occasions was sentenced to 22 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane by the High Court last Saturday.
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  • HOME
    • Spotlight on two wonderboys
    • Article
      Feedback Unit to ask for study on foreign students
      558 4 Concern that they are usurping university places FEEDBACK Unit chief S. Chandra Das has said he would ask the Education Ministry to do a study on foreign students here, to show that Singaporeans benefit from having them in the local universities.
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    • Article
      Non-transfer able COEs ‘will kill off speculation’
      654 5 But don’t expect low premiums, caution industry sources Views on PM’s proposal for two types of COEs SPECULATION and proxy bidding, and the possibility of anyone cornering the market, would be wiped out if car certificates of entitlement (COEs) were to be made
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    • Article, Illustration
      China songbirds hit local circuit
      256 5 SINGERS from China have begun performing at Singapore nightclubs and Chinese restaurants, long the domain of songstresses from Taiwan and Malaysia. Two girls from Shanghai, Miss Wang Huijuan, 23, and Miss Li Yali, 20, started singing at the Golden Phoenix Sichuan Restaurant at Hotel Equatorial
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    • Article
      It is true, say some; no evidence of this at all, others insist
      626 5  -  Is Singapore smearing Australia’s image to stop emigration? By Cherian George IS SINGAPORE deliberately tarnishing Australia’s image to prevent emigration Down Under? Yes, claimed Australian Tourism Commission’s managing director Tony Thirlwell last week. Certainly not, said Singapore’s
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    • Article
      SIA launches new service to Toronto
      461 5  -  More links to eastern seaboard in the offing By Yap Koon Hong TORONTO The launch of Singapore Airline’s service to Toronto, the first by a South-east Asian carrier to the important eastern seaboard of North America via Europe, is the prelude to more air
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    • Article
      $10,000 prize launched to nurture creative writing in English
      382 6 A SINGAPORE Literature Prize, worth $lO,OOO, has been launched to encourage the growth of higher quality creative writing in English by Singapore writers. The prize, believed to be the biggest offered for local unpublished works, is expected to give a boost
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    • Article
      Law Ministry may change Moneylenders Act
      556 6  -  Move possible after report that credit card firms may be flouting law By Serene Lim THE Law Ministry may amend the Moneylenders Act, an archaic statute which has not kept pace with recent developments like credit card transactions. It was learnt on Tuesday that
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    • Article, Illustration
      New ICs can now have Chinese characters
      465 6 Jawi and Tamil scripts soon; technical details being worked out YOU can now have your name engraved on your new credit-card size identity card in Chinese characters and soon, in the Jawi and Tamil scripts as well. This was announced by Mr Peter
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    • Article
      All thumbs at re-registration
      123 6 THOSE MacPherson residents who had to wait some time to get re-registered for their new ICs on Monday should blame it on their neighbours’ stiff thnmbs. National Registration Office (N'RO) staff had a hard time getting people to relax their thumbs on the thumbprint scanner. This
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    • Article
      Six-week stints in Canada for Asean journalists
      369 6 A NEW fellowship programme has been set up for journalists in Singapore and other Asean countries to help them widen their perspective of the international environment The six-week stint in Canada, offered by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, is also aimed at
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    • Article, Illustration
      Schoolgirl found dead in bushes: Killers still unknown, court told
      315 6 SIX years after the body of Winnifred Teo Suan Lie. 18, was found in the undergrowth off Holland Road, her assailants are still unknown despite extensive police investigations. This was told to a coroner's court last Friday by the investigating
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    • Article, Illustration
      Bride shocked to find hubby was once female
      365 7  -  By Serene Lim A BABYSITTER married a ma-cho-looking person, only to find on their wedding night that her husband was once a woman. Madam Lim Ying, a Malaysian, created legal history in Singapore when she filed for annulment on the grounds of
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    • Article, Illustration
      $63m academy for civil defence
      425 7 It will offer centralised training when completed in four years SINGAPORE’S civil defence force will get a qualitative boost when its $63 million purpose-built training academy is completed by 1995. Besides being able to offer centralised training for 1,000 men. the academy will have an
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    • Article
      Students go on overseas trips to boost foreign language skills
      334 7 A GROUP of 24 secondary students have left for Japan while another 10 have headed for Germany all with the aim of brushing up their foreign language. These students study either German or Japanese as a subject in school under
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    • Article, Illustration
      Legal poser: Was the marriage void from the start?
      671 7 Woman who married sex-change man WAS the marriage void right from the start, or was it just voidable? That was the legal poser the High Court said it has to tackle before deciding how a babysitter’s marriage to a sex-change man
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    • Article, Illustration
      S’porean tops New Zealand varsity exams
      242 8 THE outstanding graduate of New Zealand’s Victoria University is a Singaporean who cannot study without the TV'. Not only was Mr l,oh Ji Meng. 23, named the top scholar of 1990 at the university in Wellington, he also won its top scholar- ship for
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    • Article
      4 more advisers recruited to help keep overseas students in touch
      572 8 MORE counsellors have been sent overseas to keep Singaporean students there in touch with home and attract them back when they graduate. In addition to the two who are already in London and Washington, another four student advisers have
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Drop-in day centre for elderly
      519 8 Senior citizens can spend time meaningfully and socialise SENIOR citizens can pick up handicraft skills, learn a new language, play a game of bowls or simply chat with each other at Singapore's pioneer batch of Senior Activity Centres (SACs). On Monday, the first of these
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    • Article, Illustration
      RSAF pilot on training course in Britain bags five awards
      503 8 FLYING a five-minute sequence of rolls, dives and other difficult aerobatic manoeuvres was what it took for RSAF pilot Lieutenant Liaw Chin Min to bag the top aerobatic flying prize while training in the United Kingdom. Lt Liaw won a
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    • Article, Illustration
      S’pore bans import of five breeds of dangerous dogs
      508 9  -  By Mathew Pereira THE import ot American Pit Bull Terriers and four other breeds of dogs traditionally used for fighting has been banned with immediate effect. The Primary Production Department (PPD), announcing the import ban on Monday, also said that it
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    • Article
      Charged with biting SIA stewardess’ rear
      92 9 A PASSENGER was charged on Monday with biting the buttock of a Singapore Airlines stewardess. Narayanasamy s/o Palari, 27, an Indian national, allegedly hit the woman on her left buttock while on board Flight SQ4tt from Madras on Sunday. The shopkeeper was charged with
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    • SPORTSFRONT
      • Article
        FAS to re-think on Malaysia Cup
        300 9  -  -By Joe Dorai. SINGAPORE is having a re-think about playing in next year’s SemiPro Division One and Malaysia Cup competitions because of an extra 15 per cent levy which will be imposed next season by the Football Association of Malaysia. The Football Association of
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        Singapore should pull out
        788 9  -  Cons of staying on in League and Cup competitions outweigh the pros COMMENT by Tay Cheng Khoon I STILL remember the day I was locked out of Jalan Besar Stadium. Together with 10,000 others, I was trying to squeeze into an arena built for 7,000. We
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        Dutch giant’s goal tames gusty Lions
        178 9 Trengganu 1 Singapore 0 KUALA TRENGGANU For the first time in three matches this season, Singapore finished an away SemiPro League Division One soccer fixture with U men. But that did not prevent the Republic from going down 1-0 to Terengganu at the Sultan
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        A week of training for 11
        211 9 YACHTING NG XI AN HU, the Sportsgirl of the Year, is used to packing her bags and flying overseas daring the school vacation though more often than not the trips are training stints rather than holidays. This time she joined 1« other sailors in
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      • Article
        Darwin stint for boys
        216 9 RUGBY TWO national youth rugby internationals, Darren Armin and Huang Luoyi, will lead the cream of Singapore’s schoolboy players on a 10-day trip to Darwin from today. Singapore Combined Schools team leader Priscilla Krempl said on Monday that the 21-strong side would take part in the
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  • MALAYSIA
    • Article
      Lock icon King: We have resources to be developed nation by 2020
      391 10 All must co-operate to achieve this, he says NST. Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Yang di-Per-tuan Agong, Sultan Azlan Shah, said Malaysia had the necessary natural and human resources to achieve the vision of being a developed country by the year
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    • Article
      Lock icon No passport plan to lure HK investors, says Rafidah
      356 10 AFP, Bernama. HONGKONG Malaysia does not plan to introduce any passp rt scheme to attract Hongsong businessmen to invest in the country, the Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said here on Tuesday. “We don't believe in
      AFP,; Bernama.  -  356 words
    • Article
      Senior civil servants ‘to brush up their English’
      263 10 KUALA LUMPUR Senior civU servants, especially those dealing in international trade, will have to undergo courses to brush up their English, The Star newspaper reported on Wednesday. “The move is to help the officers negotiate well at international trade talks,” the newspaper
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Penny Chang charged with misappropriating shares
      413 10 NST. Bernama. KIJALA LUMPUR Penny Chang Siang Pin, wife of former Malaysian Chinese Association president Tan Koon Swan, was on Thursday charged in the sessioas court here with criminal breach of trust involving 249.000 units of shares worth M 5500.000 Chang, 42, a former
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    • Article
      Most top PAS incumbents returned for another term
      402 10  -  By Ismail Kassim KUALA LUMPUR Almost all the incumbents in the Parti Islam national leadership have been returned for another two-year term of office in the elections held during its annual congress which ended on Sunday. PAS information chief Haji Subky Latif
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    • Article
      KL to ban use of satellite dishes by individuals
      150 10 KUALA LUMPUR The government is to bar individuals from using satellite dishes to receive foreign transmissions, according to The Star newspaper. Energy, Telecommunications and Posts Minister Datuk Seri S. Sarny Vellu told the newspaper last Thursday that he hoped to get
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    • Article
      Students urged to pay new Aussie visa fee
      305 11 KUAIJV LUMPUR All foreign students in Australia, including 10,000 Malaysians, have been advised to pay the new visa-processing fee, following their unsuccessful protest against the fee increase. The spokesman for the body representing the students was quoted in The Sunday Star as
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    • Article
      ‘Foreign models’ posed for sexy shots in Johor
      180 11 JOHOR BAKU The Johor Islamic Affairs Department has confirmed that 60 models “from a neighbouring country" were the subjects of glamour photographs on islands off Mersing, according to a report in Nanyang Siang Pau on Sunday. An unnamed source from the department
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      Lock icon New blue uniforms for police next year
      214 11 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian policemen will shed their khaki uniforms for blue ones early next year as part of a move to create a new image for the force, police director of management Datuk Ang Phaik Chin said on Tuesday, The police had
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  • ASEAN
    • Article
      Keep up efforts for Cambodian peace: Yang
      323 11  -  By Paul Jacob Jakarta Correspondent JAKARTA Visiting Chinese President Yang Shangkun on Thursday called for continued efforts to bring peace to Cambodia, and Jakarta officials said there were indications Beijing would use its influence to persuade the Khmer Rouge to be more flexible.
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      Lock icon Jakarta to give 15% pay increase to civil servants
      390 11 Move comes ahead of planned hikes in electricity and fuel prices AFP JAKARTA In an unexpected move on Wednesday, the Indonesian government announced that it would raise salaries in the public sector by an average of 15 per cent from next
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      Lock icon Students on the march in bid to rattle smokers
      63 11 STUDENTS in costumes with skeletons painted on them march on Pin Klao Road towards two department stores in Bangkok as part of a drive against smoking. Hie campaign, organised by the Anti-Smoking Campaign Project, marked World No-Smoldng Day last Friday in
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    • Article
      Lock icon Pilots ‘mistook engine trouble for false alarm’
      361 11 Lauda Air crash in Thailand UPI, AP. Reuter. BANGKOK The chief Thai investigator into last week’s crash of a Lauda Air Boeing 767 jetliner said on Tuesday that the failure of the pilot to respond quickly to a light warning of an engine
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
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      Mandarin by any means
      647 12 JUNE 8. 1991 ONLY dead languages remain pure Others, like all living things, have a dynamic of their own. So it is with the English language and so it is, to varying degrees, with other languages. The more a language is used, the more it undergoes
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    • Article
      Drive for better car tenders
      663 12 JUNE 7. 1991 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong's agreement to give non-transferable certificates of entitlement (COEs) a try is not a government Utum but to let critics of the transferable COE have a chance at proving their case. As he has said often enough, this
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    • Article
      Human factor is the key
      644 12 JUNE 3. 1991 IT IS usual, and by no means wrong, for Singaporeans to feel elated whenever an international survey praises the Republic’s business and social conditions. However, to stop there would be dangerous. The fact is that whereas Singapore often emerges at the top
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      How angst contributes to economic growth
      900 12  -  Viewpoint By Chan Hwa Loon TO slog or not to slog that is the question that, every once in a while, Singapore will come full circle to pose itself. The latest occasion was when Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Ix>ong met 250 Singaporeans living
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  • COMMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      A peek into a networked Singapore society
      975 13 Big, exciting plans are afoot to make Singapore the world’s first fully-networked society in which computers will link up the homes, businesses and government ser- vices. If the goals are met, they would bring about nothing less than a revolution in the way
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      Will there be trees?
      503 13 THE Intelligent Island, in which computers will hook up homes, offices and government departments, is a term much bandied about since the National Computer Board announced that it was working on the IT 2000 masterplan. But how it will come about will only be clear later
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  • INSIGHT: A look at the issues of the day by The Straits Times Political Desk
    • Article, Illustration
      Head-hunting, PAP style
      1544 14 Bertha Henson examines the People’s Action Party head-hunting philosophy as it searches for candidates for the 1993 polls A HIGH-LEVEL committee has been sitting almost every Saturday at the People’s Action Party headquarters in Thomson Road interviewing potential election candidates. Party sources said the interviews conducted by
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      The party’s hunting grounds
      352 14 IN 1984, the People’s Action Party had a data hank of 2,000 names of potential candidates compiled from the lists of local scholars, returned scholars and registers of professionals. In 1988, chief talent scouts Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong and Prof S. Jayakumar sieved through several
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    • Article
      Cable TV: No monopoly please
      550 15  -  MEDIA WATCH Sumiko Tan THE recent statement by SBC and Singapore Telecom on their joint study to develop a cable television network here is bound to raise eyebrows in the private sector. Some read the announcement as laying the groundwork for these two statutory boards
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      Is party politics being put on the back burner?
      975 15  -  THINKING ALOUD Han Fook Kwang Preparations for the 1993 general election appear to have begun in earnest, at least for the ruling party. Three balloons have gone up in quick succession lately to signal the People’s Action Party’s run-up to the
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  • MONEY
    • Article
      SES MAIN BOARD
      5293 16 TRANSACTION DATE: JUNE 7, 1991 Or’» 1M T«l Last Vet Day Lad Ousts Dtv Net High lm 1 s Sal* arOOOHIah Lew Surer le*er P/E INDUSTRIAL A COMMERCIAL 285 162 1000 Aetna 236 id 1« 1006 236 228 235 236 «0 ON 156 256 200 «142 Alai
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    • Article
      Local bourse ends weaker for the week
      510 17 The weekly share market report SHARE prices on the local bourse ended generally weaker for the week after briefly touching a new year high on Monday. Brokers had expected the market to gather momentum for a rally after the strong start but most
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    • Article
      DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      159 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Indei dropped 4 points on the «reek to 1550.11. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1565 58 4 11 40) 64 69m (J154 18m) Tuesday 1557 82 (-7 76) 3891m (*****m) Wednesday 1558 06 4 0 24) 38 30m (5105 05m) Thursday
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      HONGKONG
      649 17 Friday June 7 HK* Amoy Properties 4 425 -0 025 Allied Overteas 0 77 +001 Asia Sec Inn 2025 -0 075 Asia Sac War Ql 0010 unch AIIkkJ tw 0 87 uneh -0.01 Bond Corp Int'l 093 Bond Corp War 91 0 101 +0 001 Bank of EA 17
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    • Article
      Oil industry is looking to Riau islands to build new facilities
      436 18 Move as a result of land in Republic getting scarce, say sources SINGAPORE’S oil industry is looking to the neighbouring Riau islands of Karimun. Ratam, and Bintan to build new facilities, with the Singapore Government encouraging the move. The
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    • Article
      COMPANY RESULTS
      726 18 AUDITED RESULTS C—MU) Bat* Yaaf Craup Nat Nat aaraiaft Cross am ta praflt/lasi (l) par skara dnntfand COM) (cants) •■m mar Mi. 77 Ok 90 S3 370(96 4.7) 77 1(42 7) 10(10) lit It» Biol Mi, 11 Ok 90 S77.6S7iS77.S79 131(144) 8'8< tit 1« tmiocf Mi, 11 0k
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    • Article
      Insider trading: New SES curbs on directors
      594 18 FROM July 1, directors of listed companies and their subsidiaries will not be able to deal freely in the shares of their companies, with the board and directors concerned jointly held responsible for compliance. They have also to ensure that associated companies entities
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    • Article
      YOUR SINGDOLLAR
      169 18 Singapore dollars to ona unit of foreign currency Buying 00 Seing US dollar 1.7560 1.7810 Sterling pound 2 9459 ***** Australian dollar 1 3000 1 3500 Canadian dollar 1 5247 1 5623 N/ dollar 1 0065 ***** Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNIT
      98 18 Contract data: 7/6/91 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CAU VALUE USJ DATE 53/, 54 54 5‘/. 54 44 11/6/91 A$ 9 >/ 4 94 94 94 94 8 12/6/91 NZJ 83/4 84 84 83/. 84 74 11/6/91 STG 104 10 V.
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      Singapore firms moving into Myanmar
      433 18 SINGAPORE companies have awakened to Myanmar’s immense potential for trade and investment, with several setting up joint ventures there recently to gain a foothold in the newlyemerging economy. One such firm is engineering and trading firm, Ace Pressureweld International (API), which entered into a project
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      338 18 Manager’s prices for June 8 10 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1 27-1 35 «d The Savings Fund 108 1 15 Spore Prog Fund 0 51-054 S pore Sec Fund 087—0.93 S pore Invest Fund 0 93- 0 99 S'pore Equity Fund Asia Unit Trust 0 6? -0
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    • Article, Illustration
      Ban Hin Leong reaps $5.5m from sale of 4 retrofitted houses
      423 19 FOUR retrofitted semi-de-tached houses along Greenleaf View have fetched developer Ban Hin Leong $5.47 million less than a week after they were launched. The project which involved the developer buying and then upgrading the old houses before putting them
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    • Article
      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1255 19 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last year Actru 5%TE Jun 5 Jun 17 Jul 1 10%TE Amal Steel 50( 10%(S) Vay 16 May 31 Jun 7 10% 12.6% Boustead 50c 5%<l) Apr 25 May 10 Jun 7 5% 15%
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      Hotel Properties to make $220m profit from condo project
      390 19 THE sale of the Orchard Boulevard residential development by Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) is expected to rake in at least $220 million in profit for the group. Speaking to The Straits Times on Tuesday, Mr Thio Gim Hock, executive director of
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      302 19 Company Rights Issue Alcorn One-for fwo (a, MSI 00 per share Issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (CRPS) of M$010 each at MSI per share with 10m detachable TSR on the basis of 1 CRPS with 1 TSR for every 4 CRPS Ex-date Jun 7 Books close
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    • Article
      UIC censured for not informing shareholders about its losses
      855 20  -  Tighter rules soon to make firms more accountable to shareholders By Caroline Chan THE Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) on Thursday publicly censured United Industrial Corporation (UIC) and served notice that rules will be tightened to make listed companies more accountable
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    • Article
      Asian-born Aussies are heading for jobs in Singapore
      563 20  -  By Tan Sung JOB opportunities and better employment prospects in Singapore are beckoning to Asian-born Australians who are finding it harder to earn a living Down Under. Local companies and recruitment firms have in recent months received a flood of enquiries from
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    • Article
      Parkway, Hwa Hong may shelve fashion mart
      163 20 PARKWAY Holdings and Hwa Hong Corporation might shelve their plan to convert Singapore Warehouse into a wholesale fashion mart by 1992 if they cannot resolve outstanding issues including development charge in its negotiations with the Government. Parkway Director Jeffrey Hong said that it
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    • Article, Illustration
      Ex-S’poreans who return home to greener pastures
      315 20 SENIOR foreign exchange dealers Thomas Ng, 35, and Lim Seng Chye, 31, have found that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Having worked in Sydney for four years as a forex manager in Manufacturers Hanover Australia, Mr Ng returned
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    • Article
      Three-pronged strategy pays off for S’pore Aerospace
      304 20 A CONCERTED effort to sell abroad has paid off for Singapore Aerospace, which saw its export sales making up half of its total 1990 turnover of $234 million. Selling overseas is part of a three-pronged strategy for long-term growth, according to a joint
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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      Page 21 Advertisements Column 1
      787 21 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE Applications arc invited for teaching appointments in the Department of Medicine in one of the following areas of Internal Medicine: Neurology Rheumatology /Immunology Medical Oncology Gastroenterology Candidates should possess an approved basic medical degree with recognised postgraduate qualifications and preferably training in one
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  • FORUM
    • Article
      COE speculators perform vital economic function
      503 22 THE recent calls to make COEs (certificates of entitlement) nontransferable is unwarranted. If people accept the basic premise that COE is the fairest available means of distributing car ownership, then they must also accept that prices will fluctuate with demand. Not surprisingly, therefore, the
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    • Article
      IE aware communicative approach has its limitations
      411 22 IN HIS letter “Let’s be fair to Singapore's excellent JCs, teachers" (ST Weekly Overseas Edition, May 25), Mr Arthur Syred asserts that the source of the problem of poor proficiency in the English lan"appears to be the over-enthusiasm, on the part of teacher
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    • Article
      Fixing supply of COEs inhibits market forces
      665 22 Good to have two types of COEs, but better if all are non-transferable I REFER to the recent correspondence calling for COEs to be non-transfer-able and the reply by Mrs Maria Choy, Ministry of Communications (ST, Mav 30). The argument that transferability of
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      Govt should act decisively to stop COE speculation
      330 22 I REFER to the Communications Ministry’s reply (ST, May 30) regarding COE speculation. Firstly, I would like to ask why the Government reduced the validity period for COEs from six months to three months if indeed it was its intention to “allow
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