The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 22 June 1991

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1991 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI (P) 71/8/90
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  • 838 1 Major task in the next lap is to develop a strong civic society, says BG Yeo THE major task for Singapore in the next lap will be to create a strong civic society which will help anchor Singaporeans to the country, Brigadier-General (Res) George Yeo said
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  • 405 1 SINGAPORE has been given a glowing report card by The World Competitiveness Report, retaining its top spot as the most competitive Newly-Industrial-ising Economy (NIK) for the third consecutive year. The just-released report considered the most authoritative of its kind also has a separate ranking
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  • 360 1 SENGAPORE has agreed to a United Nations request for a police and military contingent to help supervise a referendum in Western Sahara. The Straits Times has learnt that seven Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) men and 10 police officers are slated to
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 586 2 ANY government ruling Singapore would not have a completely free hand as it would have to balance the pressures put on it by the Chinese- and Englisheducated sections of the population here. BrigadierGeneral (Res) George Yeo said He said that while the majority
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    • 211 2 ENGLISH scripts should accompany the various dialect plays in Chinese opera to interest English-educated and younger Singaporeans, said an opera writer-cum-per-former on Monday. Singapore Press Holdings corporate relations manager, Mrs Sng Poh Yoke, suggested translating Chinese libretti the actual words uttered or sung
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    • 474 2 THREE brothers, detained since 1987 for the alleged murder of their broth-er-in-law, were released unconditionally from Changi Prison on Friday. Mr Ramayah Radhakrishnan, 35; Mr Shanmugam Chandra, 32; and Mr Ramiah Balakrishnan, 39; were among six family members charged
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    • 562 2 CARS and houses in most parts of Singapore were blanketed with a layer of dust as volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo settled on the island on Tuesday. The Meteorological Service said that the ash may have been carried about 2,500 km
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    • 392 2 Select Committee on Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors Bills THE Parliamentary Select Committee scrutinising the Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors BilLs is recommending some safeguards to allay the concerns of professionals. In written representations and hearings held last month, a number of professionals' groups
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    • 580 3 Another wants pupils weak in Chinese to be identified early and given remedial lessons Formation of Chinese language review panel TWO educationists named as members of the Chinese language review committee were quick off the mark with their reactions on Tuesday. One wants
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    • 258 3 THERE is no question of the Government holding back students who are good in Chinese from pursuing their interest in the subject, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education said on Thursday. In a statement to The Straits Times, he pointed out
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    • 627 3 SINGAPORE: The Next Lap is not a document cast in stone. When circumstances change, plans will be changed accordingly, Mr Mah Bow Tan told students at the opening of the Pre-lJ Seminar on Monday. His challenge to them: think of it not as
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    • 565 3 THE comings and goings of talented people seemed very mueh on the minds of Singapore's teenage talent at the Pre-U Seminar. Most of the 19 questions posed to keynote speaker Mah Bow Tan had to do with Singapore’s policy of attracting foreigners
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    • 327 3 THE Singapore copy-watch tout, a common sight in Orchard Road, has now spread his wings to as far as Britain and Australia. Lawyers and private investigators engaged by major watch manufacturers said they have been receiving information on the activities of
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  • HOME
    • 422 4 THE night courts were to have lasted three hours but in Court 23N, cases were heard at the rate of one per minute on Monday night. All 39 cases were heard within the first 45 minutes. Courts 23N and 13N were the first
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    • 107 4 THIS is the latest popular spot for newlyweds seeking novel backgrounds for their wedding pictures. Gty Hall’s weatherworn greyish entrance and steps provide a vivid contrast to the virgin white tulle and lace of the new brides. The tall columns and doorways make for a dramatic
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    • 277 4 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has called on the People’s Action Party's 81 branches to systematically rally the people behind the Government’s goals in the next lap of Singapore’s development In a message printed in a commemorative book to mark the
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    • 144 4 BANGKOK Army Com-mander-in-chief General Suchinda Kraprayoon will host a round of golf, followed by lunch, for Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong when he visits Thailand next week, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said here on Tuesday. Mr Goh, who will be in
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    • 512 4 THE, chairman of the Education GPC, Dr Ong Chit Chung, has laid down what he considered to be the five challenges of education here in the Nineties He emphasised the need for Singapore to go interna tional. to keep up with lifelong
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    • 576 4 STUDENTS are flocking to hotels to work .as part-time waiters and waitresses during the school holidays because hotels are paying twice the hourly rate of fast-food restaurants. But more students have also been working during school term as well, mostly during
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    • 593 5  -  Factory among many others getting tough on smoking By Phan Ming Yen WORKERS of a manufacturing company who are found smoking on its premises will soon have this recorded as a negative factor in their performance appraisal. AMP Manufacturing (S) Pte Ltd,
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    • 288 5 TAOISM will become more popular here if its philosophy and theology are taught, instead of just its rites and rituals. This is because younger Singaporeans no longer follow a faith blindly or go through the motion of a Chinese ritual
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    • 374 5 PASAR Mandarin should be allowed only if it prevents Singaporeans from falling back on dialects, said Mr Peh Chin Hua. But the Jalan Besar GRC MP encouraged the Chinese intelligentsia to continue to speak “pure Mandarin" so as to maintain the standard
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    • 577 5 Seminar on Taoism and Chinese Culture A DIRECTORY of Taoist priests being drawn up will help helievers weed out bogus priests. The Taoist Federation (Singapore) will compile the directory so that the public can distinguish genuine priests from bogus ones who do
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    • 292 5 CONTRARY to popular belief, Taoist temples, not elan associations, were the first grassroots organisations to serve the Chinese community here, according to Taoist scholar Peng Song Toh. Mr Peng, 75, a retiree who specialises in Taoism research, surprised the audience of about 1M
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    • 395 5 THE Malay language must be developed constantly if it is not to lose out to other languages, said Acting Minister for Information and the Arts George Yeo. Speaking in Malay, he said that for Malay to remain a major language, it
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    • 612 6 But he warns against protectionism, instability MR LEE Kuan Yew has aid that he is bullish about he prospects of the AsiaPacific region in the 1990 s Addressing a closed-door meeting in Osaka of top blinkers on June 3. the Senior Minister drew
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    • 399 6  -  By Retocca Lim JASMINE Ng Kin Kia. 18. is taking a firm step towards a career in the film industry. She beat more than 100 candidates to clinch a 5300.000 scholarship for film studies at New York University's prestigious
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    • 265 6 SINGAPORE Airlines has given more than 100 passengers on board the hijacked Singapore Airlines plane on March 26 a $l,OOO ticket voucher each. The voucher is valid for a year and passengers can use it to buy SIA air tickets. “It is
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    • SNIPPETS
      • 158 6 QUICK hands, an eye for detail and 20 years' experience that combination helped housewife Yip Cheng Yuen win a rice dumpling wrapping competition last Thursday. Mrs Yip, 49. wrapped seven dumplings with bamboo leaves within the three minutes allowed in the
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      • 200 6 WHEN a policewoman saw a man driving away from her home at around midnight with a pair of panties hung out to dry, she did not report it. However, she noted down sales executive Yeo Kee Heng’s car registration number. But when the 25-year-old constable again lost
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      • 95 6 POLICE, acting on a complaint, found a man lying naked on the ground floor of a block of flats last Thursday, a court heard last week. The explanation which Joga Singh, 41, gave to the judge was that he had downed a few drinks earlier that
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    • 590 7  -  By Chua Chong Jin WORKERS, especially older ones, will soon find it easier to upgrade themselves as the Vocational and Industrial Training Board makes its courses more accessible. Announcing this on Saturday, Senior Minister of State (Education) Dr Tay Eng Soon said that three
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    • 418 7  - Tang’s clocking out after keeping time for 50 years By Susan Loh THE man who has kept Singapore’s historical clocks ticking for decades was yesterday recognised for his years of dedicated service. Mr Tang Wing Cheong, 68, has been working for Motion Smith, now a division of Sime Darby Singapore,
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    • 397 7 Lim Chin Beng is new man in Japan THE Government has appointed Mr Cheng Tong Fatt as Singapore’s first Ambassador to China. Singapore Airlines’ deputy chairman, Mr Lim Chin Bong, wilt take over his place as Ambassador to Japan. A press statement
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    • 413 7 YOUTH Challenge, whose survey in 1985 trained the spotlight on “Contrepoint Kids”, is embarking on a new nation-wide survey of youth trends. This time, attention is likely to locus on the so-called Marina Square kids, whose occasional outbreaks of violence make their
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    • 239 7 AN AIRLINE passenger had one drink too many and a bite too much. The shopkeeper said he had taken four glasses of whisky when he bit the buttock of a Singapore Airlines stewardess. The 20-year-old stewardess was serving liquor to another passenger when
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    • Article, Illustration
      616 8  -  By Yvonne Lim BRAS Busah Park is where some 200 three-wheeled vehicles congregate every evening turning it into Singapore's unofficial "Trishaw Square". Once a dying trade carried out by aging men. trishaw riding is today attracting freelancers, many of them in their 20s and 30s. They include a
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    • 49 8 Mr Robert Loh, 43, an ex-motoreyele grand prix winner, doing a few stunts. The trishaw men start gathering in the park at 3 pm. They then draw lots to determine the order in which they get to pick up tourists.
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    • 799 8 SPORTSFRONT GODFREY ROBERT reviews Singapore’s sorry soccer showing against KL and spells out the lessons to be learnt. THF no-show of the official coach to fetch the Singapore soccer team to Kuala Lumpur's Sttbang Airport for the return journey home
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 730 9 Mahathir calls for commitment from both bumiputras and non-bumiputras Second Outline Perspective Plan KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has presented Malaysia’s New Development Policy (NDP) with a hard-hitting message to both humiputras and nonbumiputras that no single race in the
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    • 170 9 AFP, Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has imposed a ban on the import of dogs in a move to stop people from'bringing in dogs which are bred to kill. The director general of Veterinary Services Ahmad Mustafa Kahjee, however, said that in special cases, he would
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    • 424 9 AFP. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, enjoying its biggest boom in foreign investment, said on Tuesday that it would favour capital- and technology-inten-sive investments to ensure better use of dwindling labour and other resources. International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said a review of
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    • 187 9 KUALA LUMPUR The leader of Malaysia's Indian community was given a dressing down on Thursday for wearing expensive Italian suits while many of his followers lived in poverty. Opposition leader Lim Kit Slang criticised Energy Minister Datnk S. Samy Velio for wearing
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    • 588 9 Only PBS pledges full support for new policy KUALA LUMPUR The four opposition parties in Parliament have expressed divergent views on the country’s new economic strategy with one, the Parti Bersatu Sabah, pledging full support for the policy tabled on Monday by Prime Minister
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    • 305 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Primp .Minister IMtuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad is now on a two-week official visit to Chile, Brazil and Argentina. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the visit, which started on Wednesday, was at the invitation of the
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    • 421 10 THE Malaysian government will not do away with the use of English even when Eahasa Malaysia becomes the language of the courts. Justice Minister Syed Hamid Albar said. “English will continue to be an important language,” The Star quoted him as
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  • ASEAN
    • 412 10  -  By Tan Lian Choo Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK Fugitive politician Chalerm Yubamroong, who fled Thailand after the military seized power in February, has boon granted political asylum in Denmark, the Bangkok Post has reported. A retired police officer, Mr Chalerm, 44. was leader of
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    • 457 10  -  ‘Too early to put forward names of contenders’ By Paul Jacob Jakarta Correspondent JAKARTA Home Affairs Minister Rudini has said that the selection of a presidential candidate was not something decided “at random" and warned against the issue of candidacy being used as a ploy
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    • 307 10 THAILAND’S army chief General Suchinda Kraprayoon has said that a general election would be held by next April at the latest. The Nation quoted him as saying that the general election was clearly stipulated in the interim Constitution and that it
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    • 261 10 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia has said that it would allow Hollywood studios to sot up offices but maintained that distribution of films would have to stay in local hands The issue has long been a sore point with the United States, whose film studios
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    • 380 10 Bernama. JAKARTA The demarcation of the boundary between Malaysia and Indonesia on the island of Borneo was likely to take decades to complete, according to a senior Indonesian official. Chief of General Staff of the Indonesian armed forces Vice-Admiral Sudibyo Rahardjo
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1471 11 The proposed joint development of the Malayan Railway land in Singapore signifies the growing economic interdependence between Malaysia and Singapore. A. Kadir Jasin of the New Straits Times discusses the benefits ot the project for the two countries. NST. KUALA LUMPUR The
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 657 12 JUNE 21. 1991 AFTER months of anticipation, the Stock Exchange of Singapore rules, which come into force on July 1, to check the growing practice of directors trading in their own companies' shares, have turned out to be less stringent than indicated in initial drafts.
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    • 647 12 JUNE 20. 1991 WHEN the Malaysian government set up a consultative council in early 1989 to review its about-to-expire New Economic Policy (NEP) and to make recommendations for a successor programme, the country’s two main races came up with such sharply divergent demands that Malavsiaas and outsiders
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    • 650 12 JUNE 17. 1991 THAT the United States and Japan are going through a bad patch is not news. What is significant is the kind of bad patch they are going through. Even before the end of the Cold War removed the common, and central, military threat
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    • 893 12  -  Viewpoint By By Warren Fernandez ANYONE who has travelled to City Hall on the Mass Rapid Transit will be familiar with the chirpy little voice that cries out; "Next stop. City Hall Interchange.” And not just in English, but in Malay, Chinese
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  • FEATURE
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      1733 13 Ho Rih Hwa belongs to the generation of Singaporeans who swallowed the salt of hardship and made something of their lives. Koh Buck Song talks to the former diplomat and businessman and dips into his newly-published autobiography. ON LABOUR DAY this year, Ho Rih Hwa fell off a
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  • INSIGHT A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK
    • 1660 14 Warren Fernandez looks at how Singaporeans try to preserve cultural uniqueness, and finds a school that may have the answer THE school bell never rings at Si Ling Secondary in Woodlands. Instead, the blaring of a martial tune over the school's public
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    • OFF-THERECORD
      • 171 14 I .aw enforcers were everywhere at the recent extraordinary meeting of the Kheng Chiu Tin Hou Kong, a trustee body that manages Hainaneso properties and assets here. The EGM was expected to be a stormy affair, which was why some heaved a sigh
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      • 70 14 During Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s first community visit to Thomson, residents flocking to see him had colour co-ordinated stickers on their collars. A round yellow sticker indicated that one was a Thomson grassroots leader, a red one meant that one could join the dialogue session
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      • 86 14 Reporters writing up the recent Census reports were left scratching their heads when there was no sign of a Page Four in a volume highlighting the results. After some to-ing and fro-ing, a Department of Statistics official admitted that, yes, the pages had indeed jumped from
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      • 158 14 Former diplomat and journalist George Seow sure knows how not to let the truth get in the way of telling a good joke. Introducing his old friend Tommy Koh at a public forum, he gave an example of the resourcefulness and pecuniary instincts of Singapore’s
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    • 1014 15  -  THINKING ALOUD Han Fook Kwang THK current debate over whether certificates of entitlement (COEs) should be made non-transferable shows how difficult it is to predict the outcome of a public policy, especially one as complicated as the vehicle quota scheme. It
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    • 422 15  -  MEDIA WATCH Cherian George AMONG the satellite television companies aiming to stamp their electronic footprints on Asia in the coming years is a broadcaster that already has a home in Singapore: the BBC, whose World Service radio has some 200,000 Singaporean listeners. The
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  • MONEY
    • 450 15 FROM Oct 1, substantial shareholders of public listed companies who are late in reporting changes in their shareholdings will be liable to be fined. On composition of an offence, the fine for late reporting will be a minimum of $5O,
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    • 308 15 EFFORTS by the German government to attract Singapore investors to what was previously East Germany, seem to be paying off. Dr Karl Spaleke. the German Ambassador to Singapore, said last week that some Singapore companies are now planning new investments
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    • 5551 16 TRANSACTION DATE: JUNE 21, 1991 Qrs 1M1 Tal Last Vol Day Last Quota Dlv Net High Low Cod* Company Sale Of000 High Low Buyer Sailer PIE I INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 285 162 1000 Acma 244 -4 223 249 244 244 245 10 ON 162 255 200 1142 Alex
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    • 518 17 CONTINUED uncertainties continued to plague the local stock market as the big institutional players avoided taking up big positions Dealers contacted said the scenario is likely to continue for the next few weeks unless sentiment on major stock exchanges such «as Tokyo and Wall Street
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    • 155 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Inde* dropped 28.44 points on the week to 1499 06 DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1534 08 6.58' 26 15m ($60.90m) Tuesday 1523 27 1081) 3141m ($73 43m) Wednesday 1514.22 (-9 05) 4016m ($94 36m) Thursday 1502 47 11.75) 43 44m
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    • 637 17 Friday Jun# 21 HKS Amoy Prop#*1i»*5. 4.30 -0 026 Allied Overseas 0.73 4-0 02 2 000 unch Asm Sec War 91 0 010 unch Allied TW 0 7F -0 04 Bond Corp Ini 1 090 4001 Bond Corp War 91 099 unch Bans ot EA 16 60 -0 30
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    • 519 18 HONGKONG Singapore Airlines is negotiating with the Hongkong government to substantially increase its existing 19times weekly service to the territory before the end of the year, the South China Morning Post reported last week. The carrier’s spokesman, however, declined
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    • 683 18 AUDITED RESULTS Company Oale Year Craap Nat Nat aaremgs Crate aim ta profit/ lots (l) par tkare divMtand COOO) tcaatt) lauseway Inn ton 12 Oec 90 J! 80*41 864 5843) inler Roller ton 12 Dec 90 J2 45-' tl 408 190(121) lOTtdOTl Grand Central ion 11 Dec 90
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    • 164 18 Singapore dollars to one unit ot loroign currency Buying 00 Selling j US dollar 1.7640 1.7860 Sterling pound 2 8529 2 9290 Australian dollar 1.3272 1 3752 Canadian dollar 1 5356 1.5708 N7 dollar ***** 1.0395 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling *****1 14.3109
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    • 102 18 Contract data: 21/8/91 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE USJ 54 54 54 54 54 44 25/6/91 AS 94 94 94 94 94 8 25/6/91 N2S 84 84 84 84 84 7 25/6/91 STG 10V 4 104 10 94
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    • 445 18 SOFT drinks giant Fraser Neave plans to build a $3lO- high-tech industrial park next to its new corporate headquarters in Alexandra Road. The industrial park, comprising two blocks, is expected to have a total floor area of about 120,000 sq m,
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    • 162 18 INDONESIA’S PT Igata Harapan group has officially launched a membership drive for its $5O-million Tanjung Country Club (TCC), unfazed by the pulling out of listed Haw Par Group from the project. It is understood that two Singapore public-listed companies are finalising participation
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    • 316 18 Manager’s prices for June 22 25 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1 ?4- 1 3? *d The Saemp fund 1.04-1.11 Spore Prog fund 049 05? S'pore Sec fund 0.84-0 90 S'pore Invest fund 0 86 0 9? >d S'pore Equity fund 061—066 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest fund
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    • 462 19  -  By Tan Sung and Jean Chia BILATERAL trade between Singapore and Indonesia, which expanded by 7.9 tier cent to US$3.l7 billion (555.6 billion) last year, is expected to grow further, following Indonesia's recent move to reduce import tariffs on 887 trading items
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    • 170 19 SINGAPORE Airlines has dismissed market rumours that it is considering a stock split. It issued a statement last Thursday in respoase to a recent Business Times report which said that according to market talk, the national carrier was considering a stock split. SIA described the market
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    • 1032 19 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date dose payable the year last year Aetna 5*I>TE Jun 5 Jun 17 Jul 1 10%TE Amcol 25c 10% lul 5 Jul 17 Jul 31 10% 10% AMP NYA(e) Jun 19 Jul 4 Aug 15 NYA 28C Avuno 20c
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    • 107 19 Shortage of notes THE drop in the value of sterling in recent weeks has led to a rather unusual situation in Singapore a physical shortage of pound notes Moneychangers and banks attributed the shortage to the hoarding of the British currency by people, in the hope that it will recover
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    • 340 19 SINGAPORE is one of the two likely sites for BASF’s proposed 500 million deutschemark (Ss49o million) acrylic acid plant which will cater to the fast-growing Asia-Pacific market The other site being considered is in Malaysia. A feasibility study is underway and is
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    • 394 19 Company Rights Issue Bolton One-tor-tour fa M$2 00 per share Issue of $90 978m nominal amount of 35$ Redeemable Unsecured Guaranteed Bonds 1991 96 with AS 489m detachable warrants on the basis o* $2 nomm*. amount of Bonds to' every three eitstrng shares held Every $2 nominal amount
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    • 739 20  -  Foreign Correspondents Association lunch talk By Mary Kwang SINGAPORE’S financial market is not over-regulated and its successful development has depended heavily on ensuring sound prudential standards, according to Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu. But government supervision cannot prevent fraud entirely or ensure that
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    • 369 20  -  By Kevin Lim A GROUP of investors led by construction company Low Keng Huat will be opening Singapore’s first “boutique hotel" in August. Called The Duxton, the $5O-million hotel is the construction group's first direct v-enture into hotels in Singapore. although
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    • 326 20 INVESTING overseas, Singapore style, has to be different from that of Britain and the Netherlands because the Republic lacks the manpower and expertise to supervise direct investments abroad. For this reason, Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu yesterday said Singapore has to concentrate on
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    • 656 20 LOCAL bank interest rates, which have stabilised in the first half of the year, are set to rise over the next six months in line with a brighter economic outlook. Another reason for the uptrend is that banks are stocking
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  • FORUM
    • 458 21 I REFER to the controversy over the banning of pit bull terriers and other attack dogs Recent studies have shown that such animals are vicious killers and have a high capacity for pain. In fact, they respond aggressively even if a
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    • 286 21 NTU admission rules 1 REFER to the letter “Dreams of a varsity education shattered by inflexible rules" bv Diong Bee Chu (ST. June 10). Mr Diong Yong Siang applied for admission to the Business. Engineering (Nanyang Technological University) and Engineering (National University of Singapore)
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    • 340 21 I REFER to the letter "Dreams of a varsity education shattered by inflexible rules” (ST, June 10). 1 am of the view that the writer has unjustifiably accused Nanyang Technological University’s Registrar of an arrogance which he certainly is not guilty of. The
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    • 165 21 WEEKLY The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition. A crisp summary of happenings in Smgap>ore. Politics, the economy, investment opportunities appointments... And snippets on Malaysia and Asean. A convenient tabloid delivered to you every week, whereever you may be. Subscribe now. And be in touch. The Straits Times WEEKLY OVltttfftt EDiTIOH
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    • 813 22 The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition The Ministry of Defence offers challenging career opportunities for TECHNOUOGY ANALYST The successful candidate will be responsible for promoting defence technology especially R&D as well as formulating policies for, monitoring and co-ordinating the management of various defence technology areas within MINDEf Applicants should possess
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    • 362 23 CAREER PAIR 1 91 o mi. m A «L W CAREER FAIR'9I This is a recruitment exercise organised by the Professionals Information and Placement Service, the Economic Development Board and the National Computer Board together with the Singapore Student Advisors in Australia. At Career Fair '9l, the leading Singapore companies
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  • 927 24  -  Teng Cheong heads 22-member panel to improve study of the language in schools By Sunny Goh THE Government has named 22 Chinese- and English-educated academics, MPs, parents and principals as members of the review committee to improve the study of Chinese language in schools. The Chinese
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  • 239 24 LEGENDARY Chinese figures such as llua Mulan, Zheng He and Guan Gong, will find a permanent place in a park at Marina South. Four craftsmen from China are here to put the final touches on statues of these and five other
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  • 483 24 THE Government is not shirking its responsibility in promoting the “many helping hands" approach and will continue to play a major role in social services, said Dr Tay Eng Soon. But, it also wants to build a partnership
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