The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 15 June 1991

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    19 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY. JUNE 15, 1991 Price: 551.20 (in by subscription only MCI (P) 71/8/90
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  • Article, Illustration
    4m mark ‘could be reached by 2010’
    713 1 But pro-birth policy must go on: Population planner Population of Singapore: SINGAPORE could reach the four-million population mark sooner than earlier expected, but the oro-birth population policy should continue, chief copulation planner Paul Cheung said on Wednesday. Among the reasons: the 1990 Census
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon You could call it an arms race
    115 1 THESE women intend to use every strong arm tactic In the book to win the Asian Women’s Bodybuilding Championships to he held at Kailang Theatre from July 26*28. They are, from left, Antonia Chua, Jenny Teng, Jojo Sinclair, Jeannle Chla and Joyce Shearer.
    chance.” Picture by WONG KWAI CHOW.  -  115 words
  • Article, Illustration
    Selling S’pore workers to the world
    632 1  -  Ads in international mags will lure top investors: Mah By Ng Wei Joo THE qualities of the Singapore worker will be extolled worldwide in advertisements appearing in selected international magazines. The advertisements, said the chairman of the National Productivity Board, Mr Mah Bow Tan,
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • Article, Illustration
      Extended BMT recruits end up trimmer, fitter
      530 2 ALMOST all the 173 obese recruits who underwent the first extended basic military training course have come through trimmer, fitter and combat ready. The final results: an average weight loss of 13 kg, 97 per rent passes in shooting tests; and very good
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    • Article
      No cause for concern on ethnic balance
      453 2 THE latest census results show no cause for concern that Singapore’s ethnic balance will be fundamentally changed. Dr Paul Cheung said on Wednesday. The Chief Statistician revealed that among children aged five or below, Chinese made up 70.4 per cent, Malays 20.1 per
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    • Article
      Productivity growth lower than what figures show
      607 2 ST analysis reveals discrepancies SINGAPORE'S past productivity figures have been thrown off the mark in some sectors by a wide margin with the release of the latest workforce data from the 1990 Census A Straits Times analysis showed that based on the recently
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    • Article
      Official productivity growth figure given was 4.6%, not 5.7%, says Chief Statistician
      665 2 Official productivity growth figure given was 4.6 not 5.7%, says Chief Statistician THE Department of Statistics, responding to a Straits Times report, said on Friday that the official figure given for the average yearly productivity growth rate over the last 10 years was 4.6 per cent, and not 5.7 per
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    • Article, Illustration
      Call for non-transferable COEs: GPC to ask for views
      539 3  -  By Leong Chan Teik THE Government Parliamentary Committee for Communication}; will ask for the views of a range of parties on the issue of the transferability of vehicle certificates of entitlement. Its chairman, Mr Eugene Yap, yesterday extended an invitation to
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    • Article, Illustration
      Merlion spouts again ... but not for long
      171 3 Merlion spouts again but not for long THE Merlion has started to spout water again, but not for long. One of Singapore's most recognisable symbols started gushing again on Thursday, but will stop on June 24. It will remain spout-less until September, when a new water pump is installed. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      Swimmer who exposed himself underwater is caught on film
      419 3 A MAN who exposed himself and masturbated underwater in a public pool was fined $l,OOO last Friday nabbed by a lifeguard who took underwater photographs of him in all his indecency, then made sure he also got a picture of his
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    • Article, Illustration
      New cultural centre opens at Fort Canning
      368 3 A NEW cultural centre has been officially opened in a building that was previously used as barracks by British and Japanese forces. Fort Canning Centre houses a ballet studio and a theatre. The National Parks Board, which manages it, plans to promote the
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  • HOME
    • Article
      Nigerian village chief charged with trafficking in 4.1 kg heroin
      208 4 A NIGERIAN village chief was charged in hospital on Saturday with trafficking in heroin worth more than $3.6 million while two others were charged with abetting him. Chief H. C. Ihejirika, 57. who had taken ill, was charged at Changi
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    • Article
      High-tech ‘Hamburger University’ opens in S’pore
      423 4 Regional training centre for McDonald’s SINGAPORE looks set to become the regional training centre for the fast-food industry with McDonald’s Singapore’s newly opened "Hamburger University." The centre, located in its new $l5 million corporate headquarters in King Albert Park off Bukit Timah Road, will
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    • Article, Illustration
      S’pore students show their mettle in Nepal
      513 4  -  By Ng Wei Joo YOUNG Singaporeans can handle projects under tough conditions in a foreign country. That was the verdict of Mr Martin Allinson who led 20 Ngee Ann Polytechnic students to Nepal for a twomonth feasibility study on the building of a
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    • Article
      13 pupils picked for science stints abroad
      379 4 THIRTEEN bright junior college students have been picked for prestigious overseas science programmes that will take them into the world of esoteric subjects from cancer diagnosis to climate changes The three programmes, in the United States, Britain and Australia, are of varying durations,
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    • SNIPPETS
      • Article, Illustration
        Thieves’ cool, cool loot
        147 4 WAS it the hot weather or coincidence that ice-cream was some thieves’ loot? Two shopowners have reported that the contents of their ice freezers were stolen. Police said both incidents happened between 11 pm on Monday and 8 am on Tuesday. In the first case, Mr
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      • Article, Illustration
        Cartoon-inspired cars
        163 4 AS DAFFY Duck would say: “Devilishly clever!" These words perfectly describe the Daffy Duck Dragster, a converted Volkswagen with Elmer Fudd at the rear, shotgun cocked in readiness for duck hunting Inspired by Looney Tunes cartoon characters like Sylvester the Cat and Bugs Bunny, the Dragster and three
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      • Article, Illustration
        Shopping break for circus
        110 4 “KISS my nose," urged Kim the clown, and that was what Jess Lee, 18, did on Tuesday right in the middle of Orchard Road. Kim, from the Royal London Circus now performing at the open ground next to Parkway Parade, surprised shoppers by showing up in
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    • Article, Illustration
      Proper Mandarin in our schools, please
      779 5 CHINESE intellectuals feel that encouraging the use of pasar Mandarin will cause a drop in the standard of written Chinese. While they concede that encouraging Us use would get more Chinese Singaporeans to speak Mandarin, they made it plain that students should be taught
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    • Article
      Education guide to help parents out next year
      435 5 A HANDBOOK will be published annually from next year to help parents and others to keep track of what is going on in education. This initiative by the Government Parliamentary Committee (Education) is in response to requests from parents who often have
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    • Article
      Student projects probe mysteries of stars
      272 5 BUDDING Carl Sagans from 10 junior colleges had their chance to put up their own "astronomy shows" on Tuesday, using the $4 million high-tech planetarium at the Singapore Science Centre. As participants in the Astronomy Through The Planetarium seminar, the students had to research,
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    • Article, Illustration
      Man killed after woman singer was jeered at karaoke lounge
      450 5 A MAN was stabbed to death early on Monday morning because one of his companions jeered a woman singing in a karaoke lounge. Three others were hurt in the attack. Mr Lay Chee Chew, 20, was stabbed twice in the
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    • Article
      New era for Chinese literature in Singapore
      535 5 A NEW era for Chinese literature begins this year, with writers turning out sensational novels written in a simple style and with a local flavour. And this is due to the more open political climate under Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, which gives
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    • Article, Illustration
      High Court grants annulment to babysitter
      537 6  -  Sex-change marriage By Serene Lim THE babysitter who claimed she did not know about her husband's sex-change operation until after their marriage in July last year was granted an annulment by the High Court on Thursday. The decree will be made absolute in three
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    • Article
      More advisers sent abroad to help students keep in touch
      575 6 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 been
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    • Article
      ‘I’m so glad my nightmare’s over’
      432 6 RELIEVED at having been granted an annulment, the outcome of her divorce petition. Madam Lim Ying turned to her family members in court and smiled. “I'm so glad my nightmare s over at last," she told The Straits Times later, smiling broadly as she
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    • Article
      Hot Sunday many found unbearable
      382 6 AT 34.7 degrees Celsius, last Sunday’s maximum temperature was the highest for June so far but it is not the highest ever recorded for the month, nor even for this year. Yet Singaporeans are saying that the heat was unbearable, with many of them seeking
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      Revamp S’pore’s education system to meet future needs: JC Students
      536 6 REVAMP the education system to meet Singapore's future needs, said several junior college students at a dialogue session last week. They argued that students should be trained to think, given a wider choice of subjects and allowed to apply the
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    • Article, Illustration
      Govt approves Mendaki and AMP proposals
      698 7  -  By Cherian George THE Government has endorsed plans by Mendaki and the Association of Muslim Professionals to improve the lot of the Malay Muslim community and allocated about $1.5 million and $250,000 a year to them respectively. The funds come from the Muslims’ extra
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      School is out, but for teens stripes are in
      417 7  -  By Yvonne Lim SOME Singapore teenagers have started to sport bare stripes on their heads. But it is just for fun, and just for the holidays, because schools do not allow the hairstyle. Basically, it involves some creative fine-shaving to form
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    • Article
      Help will be given on basis of need, not race: BG Lee
      418 7 WHAT do other ethnic groups think of the attention given to the Malays in Singapore? Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong broached the issue in a dialogue session with Malay youth leaders yesterday after announcing Government plans to
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    • Article
      How the $1.7 million pie will be divided
      242 7 THE allocation of funds to Mendaki and the Association of Muslim Professionals announced on June 8 has its roots in Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s offer in March to match dollar-for-dollar money raised hy the community up to a total of $2
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    • Article
      POSBank to give daily interest from next month
      591 7 POSBank depositors will enjoy daily interest on their savings accounts starting from July 1. The move announced on June 8 by the bank’s chairman, Mr Chua Kim Yeow, means that the bank will be computing interest based on the average daily balance
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    • SPOTLIGHT
      • Article
        Number of halls may double to 115 by 1994
        749 8  -  on what’s in store for movie-goers By Julia Goh IN three years' time, the number of cinema halls in movie-crazy Singapore is expected to double from 55 to 115. By then, the grip on the industry now exercised by two organisations
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        MEMBERS OF THE REVIEW PANEL
        141 8 Professor Koh. Singapore's Ambassador-at-large. will chair the 18-member committee made up of: Mrs Hedwig Anuar (former director. National Library) Mr Thomas Yeo (Artist) Dr Robert Balhetchet (Institute of Education lecturer in Moral Education) Dr Lee Soo Ann (economist Mr Robert Yeo (Lecturer and writer) Mr
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      • Article
        Panel set up to review censorship policy changes
        289 8 A CENSORSHIP review committee has been set up to review and recommend changes to censorship policies here. A press statement from the Ministry of Information and the Arts on June 9 said that Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore's Ambassa-dor-at-large, will chair an 18-member
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      • Article
        AKAN DATANG...
        174 8 Double the number of cinema halls and nearly 40% more cinema seats and an even wider choice of films This is what Singaporean movie buffs can expect in three years' time. Number of seats 1991 1994 Shaw Organisation 12.016 16,947 1992 Lido 1 to 5 1993 Oriental 1
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        GOING MULTIPLEX
        194 8 ALL the major cinema operators in Singapore have plans to convert some of their old-style cinemas into multiplexes or build new ones: SHAW ORGANISATION: The IJdo. In Orchard Road, will re-open next year as a flve-ln-one complex with 2,331 seats. Oriental Theatre in Chinatown will be converted to
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    • Article
      Stewardesses ‘much nicer to male passengers’
      699 8 THE way some stewardesses behave towards male passengers is upsetting some women, including those travelling with their husbands. These women travellers said the stewardesses are so flattering in their attention that they are not surprised that men on board think they can get away
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    • Article
      Book used by Japanese School in S’pore has more details of war
      561 9  -  By Siow Yu-Ming A TEXTBOOK which gives more details of the Japanese Occupation and is being used by the Japanese School in Singapore has been proposed for adoption by educational institutions in Japan. The Japanese ambassador to Singapore,
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    • Article
      Speed detection cameras to be set up along ‘danger roads’
      393 9  -  By Brendan Pereira SPEED detection cameras will he installed along certain stretches of accidentprone roads next year. And if the cameras prove successful in reducing the number of speed-related accidents and speeding violations, the Traffic Police may install them along
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    • Article
      On bilingualism, ‘half-baked’ students
      326 9 MOST younger Singaporeans are "half-baked” students as a result of the bilingual education here, lamented a Chinese language expert last Friday. Mr Loo Shaw Chang said that they spoke languages at a sub-standard level which is far from adequate for formal communication. He explained that the
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    • Article
      Switch to black ink, Cambridge advises students
      266 9 CAMBRIDGE examiners have advised Singapore students to switch to hlack ink in the O examinations as it makes for clearer writing and easier marking. The appeal was made when Cambridge examiners met secondary school teachers and English department heads at a seminar in
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    • SPORTSFRONT
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        Players want soccer manager booted out
        775 9  -  Row in women’s soccer team following problems during Asian championship in Fukuoka By Joe Dorai THE Women’s Football Association of Singapore wants to kick out its secretary, Azimah Sayam, the Republic’s only woman referee. But the 44-year-old housewife said that she was prepared to
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      • Article
        FAM asks FAS to act in Subra case
        224 9 PSTALING JAYA The Football Association of Singapore will be asked to take action against national assistant coach Vincent Subramaniam for lying to the FAM Disciplinary Committee that Nazri Nasir had been suspended from school. Datuk Zaman Khan, chairman of the committee, said
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  • MALAYSIA
    • Article
      Lock icon Territorial claims: Call to avoid use of force
      600 10 NST. Bernama Router. AP KUALA LUMPUR Countries with conflicting claims in the region should avoid taking provocative actions in the pursuit of the disputed territories. Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said on Tuesday “I think a first and fundamental step to maintain
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Varsity brain drain ‘so acute it may lead to drop in standards’
      445 10 NST. KUALA LUMPUR ViceChancellor Professor Monamed Taib Osman has warned that the brain drain from the University of Malaya was so acute that in the long run it might experience a drop in academic standards And the main
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon RMAF copter 'exploded before crashing’
      462 10 Bernama, NST, AP, AFP. KUALA LUMPUR The American-made S-61 Sikorsky helicopter, which crashed at Banding in Perak late on Tuesday, had exploded in the air just before landing, killing six military personnel and injuring another seriously, an air force official said on Wednesday. Malaysia has
      Bernama,; NST,; AP,; AFP.; – NST picture.  -  462 words
    • Article
      TV3 screens series on racism in Australia in tit-for-tat move
      481 10  -  By Kalimullah Hassai KUALA LUMPUR TV3, Malaysia's privately-owned television station, this week telecast a four-part news series focussing on racism in Australia, in retaliation against the bad press about Malaysia in the Australian media. TV3 broadcast interviews with Asians living
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    • Article
      Lock icon KL family leaves Perth home after racist abuse
      290 10 AFP. PERTH A West Australian government minister said last Friday that she was shocked to learn that a Malaysian Chinese migrant and his family had to leave their Perth home because of racist abuse and violence by neighbourhood children. The case showed
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    • Article
      Lock icon Medical body says 'no' to foreign doctors
      348 11 Medical body says no' to foreign doctors medical schools. Bemama. KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), which represents more than 5,000 doctors in the country, is against any move to allow foreign doctors to practise in Malaysia. "The MMA is strongly of the opinion that health care in the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Indians will not be put in separate category: Anwar
      275 11 non-bumiputras.” Bemama. BANGI (Selangor) Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar rbrahim has said that the Indian community will not be grouped separately from other non-bumiputras in the Outline Perspective Plan (OPP), Malaysia’s next blueprint for development and distribution of the nation's wealth.
      non-bumiputras.” Bemama.  -  275 words
    • Article
      Two cars that 'run on palm oil' to be tested
      149 11 TWO cars fitted with engines that can run on crude palm oil will go on a test run next month to piomote "green” energy in Malaysia, reported the Sunday Star on June 9. The multi-fuel engines will also be able
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  • ASEAN
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Marriage of Italian man to Thai ‘man’ annulled
      205 11 AP, Reuter. BANGKOK A Thai court has annulled an Italian man’s marriage to a man he thought was a unman. The Bangkok Civil Court ruled on Wednesday that the marriage of Paolo Edoardo Boeris, 27, of Asti, and Kiem Kuemjan, 2fi, of
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      Opponents trying to destabilise govt: Sudomo
      412 11 A SENIOR Indonesian minister has warned that opponents of the government were spreading rumours and manipulating political issues to destabilise the government in view of next year’s general election. The Indonesian Observer reported on Tuesday that the Co-ordinating Minister for Political Affairs, Mr Sudomo,
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      2 more ex-Thai ministers named as unusually rich
      362 11 BANGKOK Another two former ministers of the deposed Chatichai government have been named by a military-appointed antigraft committee as being “unusually rich” after preliminary investigations showed that they could not prove they had acquired their assets legally. Mr Banharn Silpa-archa, secretary-general of
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    • Article
      Khmers ‘agree Sihanouk will chair SNC meeting’
      372 11  -  By Tan Lian Choo Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK All the four rival Cambodian factions have agreed that Prince Norodom Sihanouk will chair a meeting of the Cambodian Supreme National Council (SNC) to be held in Pattaya on June 24, a spokesman for the Prince
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • Article
      Enrich the brew
      687 12 JUNE 10. 1991 SO long as Singaporeans hold a university degree to be essential to entry into a high-pay-ing. high-status job. it matters little how many more university places the Government provides or how few are given to foreigners There will still be cries for yet more
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    • Article
      Misreading the signs
      677 12 JUNE 11. 1991 PRIME! Minister Goh Chok Tong’s recent remark that he was in favour of putting up multi-lingual signs at selected public places to give the city an Asian 'feel' cannot but leave many wondering why the issue, generally thought to have been laid to rest,
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      All brothers under heaven
      665 12 JUNE 14. 1991 TAKE a family with three sons. Buffeted by the winds of fortune, one brother is given away for adoption, on the understanding that he will return to the fold when older. The other two children grow up and. like many brothers, they fight
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      Why it may be no big deal to be middle class
      892 12  -  Viewpoint Bv lan Sai Siong THERE is a new problem afflicting Singaporeans. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong diagnosed it as the middle-class squeeze during his community visit to Ang Mo Kio and Thomson last Sunday. The squeeze he said,
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  • FEATURE
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      Polytechnic pacesetters
      1286 13 In Singapore, pacesetters in industrial innovation are not all I snow-haired profes- sors. Some are polyi technic students who play Madonna on their Walkmans. People seek them out to help solve problems, says Mary Rose Gasmier. SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC T-shirt design printing machine SINGAPORE Polytechnics manufacturing engineering students produced
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      PROJECTS TO HELP THE HANDICAPPED
      373 13 THE majority of the finalyear protects by polytechnic students have commercial and Industrial applications. Many arc sponsored by companies as the polytechnics maintain contacts with industry for this purpose. But the institutions also produce devices to help the handicapped. Ngee Ann's Mechanical Engineering Department created
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  • INSIGHT
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      Politics: Why some S’poreans shy from it
      1371 14 Bertha Henson takes a look at some of the reasons A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK “I AM a very private person. My wife and I decided that politics is not my cup of tea.
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      Even more shun opposition parties
      411 14 IF THE People’s Action Party has a hard time looking for potential MPs, then the opposition parties are in an even worse state. Mr Ken Sunn of the National Solidarity Party blames the "materialistic instincts” of Singaporeans who weigh the pros and cons of being
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    • OFF-THERECORD
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        For his eyes only
        163 14 “My goodness, Mr Goh really has a photographic memory,” a Business Times reporter remarked in hushed wonder during the recent Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference. He had just heard the Prime Minister deliver a seven-page speech with nary a glance at his script. Clearly he did not
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        Seeing eye to eye
        134 14 Still on eye contact: Soldier-turned-politicians Lee Hsien Loong and George Yeo appear to have more in common than their military rank. BG Yeo has been wearing contact lenses for the past month or so just as BG Lee has been doing since 1989 in a move
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        Seeing double?
        90 14 Perhaps the two generals do have many more things in common, or at least enough to make at least one compere see double. At a function in the Geylang Serai Malay Village last month, the crowd rose to their feet as the VIP arrived. The compere Doomed: “Please
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      People should seize chance to get to know their PM
      951 15  -  thinkingl ALOUD Han Fook Kwancr THE Prime Minister skipped lunch and had to change his sweat-soaked shirt halfway through the hectic six-hour programme. By all accounts, his community visits got off to a flying start at Ang Mo Kio and
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      Gust of fresh air in the Supreme Court
      620 15  -  LEGAL WATCH Sumiko Tan IN THE nine months that Mr Yong Pung How has been Chief Justice, he has given the Judiciary a shake-up considered by some in legal circles to be long overdue. And though it is early days yet for
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  • MONEY
    • Article
      SES MAIN BOARD
      5433 16 TRANSACTION DATE: JUNE 14. 1991 Grs 1991 T*l Last voi Day Last Quote Div Net High Low Cod* Company Sal* or* 000 High Low Buyer Seller P/E I INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 285 162 1000 Acma 231 xd -1 46 233 231 230 231 10 ON 15.3 255 200
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      Prices end weaker because of uncertainties
      488 17 SHARE prices on the local bourse ended weaker for the week as the result of the uncertainties created by the spate of rejection of companies’ proposed rights issue. The Stock Exchange of Singapore publicly censured United Industrial Corporation for failing to adhere to standards
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    • Article
      DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      154 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index dropped 22.68 points on the week to 1527.50. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1529.6? (-20.56) 30 43m (S70 00m; Tuesday 1538 31 (-*-8 69) 30.19m ($64.63m) Wednesday 1541.84 (+3 53) 34 54m ($83 85m) Thursday *****7 (-5.17) 35.46m ($87.25m) Friday
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      HONGKONG
      619 17 Friday Juna 14 HKS 4-7-Amoy Propartia» 4 35 uncti Allied Overseas .0.74 uncn AM Sec Int'l 2025 unch AM Sec War 91 0.010 unch Allied TW 0 82 4-001 Bond Corp Int'l 0.90 -0.01 Bond Corp War 91 0 97 -0 004 Bans ot EA 16 90 -0 10
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      Insider trading: Govt says no case against Oei, Lee
      546 18 Liem knew of UlC’s losses when he bought shares THE Government says there is no case against Messrs Oei Hong Leong and Lee Kim Yew for insider trading, in its first comment on the controversial affairs of listed United Industrial Corporation
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      COMPANY RESULTS
      626 18 AUDITED RESULTS ftrmpiny Oat* tear Group Net N*t earnings Cress ann t* profit/loss (l) per slur* dividend COM) icents) 96 •torn Foe lun 5 Oec 90 J24.020i$3.306) 176(79*) 2(1.6*) H*a Hong Jun 5 Dec 90 99.926(18.092) 6 9(9 9a) 4(3 2») kmt H 4 Dec 90 99.296(98.1891) 15
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      YOUR SINGDOLLAR
      161 18 Singapore dollars to ona unit of foreign currency Buying OD Selling US dollar 1.Z720 1.7940 Sterling pound 2.8801 2 9565 Australian dollar 1.3155 1 3634 Canadian dollar 1.5413 1 5764 NZ dollar 1 0032 1.0369 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14 9515 14
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNIT
      125 18 Contract data: 14/6/91 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE us$ 5 3 5‘/2 5 s 5 7 5 7 4 7 /s 18/6/91 A$ 9 'A 9% 9‘/, 9 1 9 1 8 18/6/91 NZJ 8 3 /4 8
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      SES rejects cash plan; UIC to sell some investments
      586 18 DEBT-LADEN United Industrial Corp (UIC) will have to dispose of some of its investments, including those in its property subsidiary Singapore Land, following the rejection of its proposed rights issue. The company said in a statement on June 8 that its
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    • Article
      Lock icon KL minister raps US lobbyists over GSP petition
      397 18 NST, Beraama. KUALA LUMPUR Human Resources Minister Datuk Lim Ah Lek has described as baseless the petition by American lobbyists demanding that the US government deny Malaysia du-ty-free trade cuts under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). He also held the Malaysian
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    • Article
      UNIT TRUSTS
      312 18 Manager’s prices for June 15 17 Sinfapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1 26-1 34 xd The Savings Fund 1 06—113 S'pore Prog fund 0.50—0 53 S pore Sec Fund 0.86—0 9? S'pore Invest fund 0.88 0 94 xd S'pore Equity Fund Asia Unit Trust 061-065 Mai Invest Fund
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    • Article
      S’pore 1st-quarter investments in KL dwarfed by others
      583 19 SINGAPORE'S investments in neighbouring Malaysia in the first quarter were dwarfed by the large capital injections into the country from sources like Japan. South Korea and Taiwan, the latest data from the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (Mida) showed. Traditionally ranked among the
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      Republic ‘a large domestic market for engineering goods’
      256 19 SINGAPORE'S expanding manufacturing sector is a large domestic market for engineering products, according to the Economic Development Board. Citing figures from the American Machinist trade magazine. EDB said in the latest issue of its newsletter Singapore Investment News that the per capita
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1088 19 Current Ex Books Oate Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last year Acma 5%TE Jun 5 Jun 17 Jul 1 10%TE HMFP NYA(e) Jun 19 Jul 4 Aug 15 NYA 28C Bausteadco 4% May 15 May 27 Jul 8 7% 54%(a) etc 5%(l) May
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      406 19 Company Rights Issue Mean One-to'-two (d MSI 00 oar share issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemed* Preference Shares (WPS) o* M$0 !0 aaefi at MSI sd' share with !0m detachable ’$R or tha basis of 1 CUPS •nth I TSR for aairy 4 CRP$ Ei-date Jun 7 Books close
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      Great World project gets in-principle nod from URA
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