The Straits Budget, 16 November 1966

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  • 39 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O. U.K. AS A NEWSPAPER M KIES 735. KUALA LUMPUR, 16 NOVEMBER, 1966. Price 40 Cents (Malaya or 1 Shilling) KDN 2035.
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    • 316 2  -  A- B.B Singapore C. D. FRANKLIN Singapore \VTHILST the trans- portatlon of abnormal loads by road is a rather rare occasion In Singapore, it Is about time that a definite procedure Is laid down to prevent the occurrence of the traffic lams that blocked
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    • 281 2  -  ORION Singapore I AM sorry to have upset 1 the president or the University or Singapore Pharmaceutical Society 1 do not dispute the ract that the pharmacist Is an important member of the medical profession. My earlier letter (S.T Oct 19) was only
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    • 172 2  -  A. HENG Singapore AM a young man. 1 started working several years ago. My chance of gaining further academic qualifications and Improving employment prospects is to engage In part-time studies after work The University of Singapore offers several degree courses in business administration, courses most
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    • 118 2  -  CHONG Government Printer Kuala Lumpur 8TUDENTS Singapore 'I'HE Printing Depart A ment regrets reader LYMs luck with a bad copy of the 1964 Official Year Book It has to be said that synthetic adhesives used for binding of books vary according to atmospheric conditions In the
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    • 145 2  -  FED UP Gong Kapas \|Y nusbana, one of many Division 111 Government Servants now serving at Kuala Trengganu, is paid 120 25 as housing allowance per month since his transfer to this new place, whereas Division 111 officers serving at Kota Bharu and Kuantan
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    • 53 2  -  PUBLICO Kuala Lumpur npHE Attack on tourists ,bv gangsters k only P q rt of th* exnars’o" of activities by the extortion industn® Some time back these extortionists expanded into the building industry Contractors and workers were intimidated and made to pay ‘subscriptions” on the threat of damage to
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    • 258 2  -  SR S’ngapore J B 8 Seremban IT la the fashion now for employers advertising vacant office jobs to require applicants to send their latest photos In practically every advertisement. with rare exceptions, it is stressed that photos are nonreturnable I do not think photos are all that
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    • 238 2  -  N.P Singapore IjO we need the Welfare Department the kind we are having now In Singapore? ThV Dre Department and its set up is the same as it was about twenty years ago. in 1946 Then It had to deal wiih many urgent and importan social
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    • 128 2  -  IMPATIK> r Jeleba TEACHERS seem worse off than beggars We seem to be forever at the receiving end and waning for our housing and medical benefits, and now for news of our transfers. Examinations are well under way and in tht twinkling of an eye. the
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    • 763 3 —Straits Times, November 7 The Chief Replanting Officer has made an intriguing statement. Next year, said Mr. Tan Teng Poey, speaking at the annual conference of senior officers of the Rubber Replanting Board, a new scheme will be introduced which “will ensure that there will always be sufficient
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    • 355 3 —Straits Times. November 7 Singapore’s Tourist Week, now under way with a gamut of attractions ranging from golf to bird-singing contests, marks an effort to make up lost ground, to bring the number of visitors back to and above the total for 1963. In that year they numbered
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    • 729 3 —Straits Times, November B Some new American aid to I Malaysia may confidently be 1 expected. The United States Government knows too much about political psychology to have built up hopes the way it has without having decided in advance to satisfy them in some degree.
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    • 355 3 —Straits Times, November 8 Tun Ismail, the Malaysian Minister of Home Affairs, did not give much away when he answered a question in tlie Senate yesterday about gangsters under restricted residence. There are more than a thousand of them, their numbers are beginning to pose pi oblems
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    • 141 3 —Straits Times. November 8 The timber construction conference which began in Ku;da Lumpur yesterday, with its accompanying exhibition at the Stadium Negara, draws attention to an absurd .situation in which other countries seem to value MnTOyan •Hnlber more highly than does Mrdaya. Elsewhere wood j>_ often a prestige
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    • 191 4 —Straits Times, November 9 The cut-rate early morning and late night flights which Malaysian Airways will introduce between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur from the first of next month should prove extremely popular. Despite bus or taxi fares at each end, bringing the cost of a one-way ticket below
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    • 243 4 —Straits Times, November 10 Something perplexing is going on in Penang. The Penang University Project Committee, which at last report was preparing to launch a drive for money, now says the university college will open next year with faculties of science and architecture. A faculty of law will
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    • 399 4 I —Straits Times, November 11 1‘heie seems to be only one move left in the Rhodesia game, mandatory sanctions approved and supported by the United Nations Security Council. London and Salisbury are still looking for openings to avoid this, but without much heart, as if they are fed
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    • 186 4 —Straits 'Times. November 11 Imagine walking up to a railway ticket office in Kuala Lumpur or Singapore and saying. “A return to Karachi, please,’* or, “A single to Teheran.” There are people in Japan, important people, who say the notion is not as absurd as It seems.
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    • 215 4 —Straits Times. November 12 The United Malaysian Chinese Organisation seems to have been formed to catch the fall-out from the disciplinary exercise now under way in the M.C.A. Only one leader has been sacked so far in connection with the “rebellion" on the Chinese language issue. But opposition
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    • 754 4 —Straits Times. November H Some time next year, the people of Sabah and Sarawak will choose new State legislatures by direct election, to replace the present assemblies which were tilled by District Council members acting as an electoral college. Sabah will lead the way. The Chief Minister,
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    • 255 4 —Straits Times, November H Encouraging Malayan work, ers to go to Sabah (and Sabah employers to hue Malayan workers) seems about to pay off. According to Mi. Manickavasagam, the Ministei of Labour, since the Migration Fund Board was set up eight employers in Sabah have asked for about
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  • 522 5 ANXIOUS TO SEE THA T MALA YSIA ’S NEEDS ARE MET, BLACK SAYS ON ARRIVAL KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4 "VTALAYSIA is regarded by the United States as a “very good credit risk,” the U.S. presidential adviser on SouthEast Asian economic and social affairs, Mr. Eugene Black, said
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  • 30 5 PENANG. Nov. 7 —The PnnMalayan University of Hong Kong Alumni Association will hold their annual re-union dinner and dance at the Chopsticks Restaurant. Ambassador Hotel, on November 12.
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  • 36 5 BUTTER WORTH. Nov. 4—Mrs. A H. Dcverell. wife of the manager of the Chartered Bank here, will give away the prizes at the St. Mark’s Private Secondary School's annual speech dav on November 7.
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  • 162 5 lOHORE BAHRU. Nov. (i. —The Ministry of Transport will soon set up a commi 11 e e with the Johore State Government to look into the possibility of having a port at Tanjong Putri here. This project was first .>.uggested by the State Government.
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  • 107 5 Kuala lumpur. Nov 7. —Only 12 piranhas have been imported into Malaysia, the Miniserter of Agriculture and Co-opera tives, Haji Mohamed Ghazali bin Jawi, said in the Senate today. Replying to a question bv an Alliance member, Inche Saidon bin Keehut, the Minister said that
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  • 320 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4. r jTlE Labour Party demonstrations against President Johnson s visit on October JO, stemmed more from communalism than any ideological conviction, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, said todav. V Writing in Merdeka the Umno official
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  • 151 5 KIJAI.A U MPUK Nov b The Selangor MCA today decided it could not support the central workins committees resolutions of Oct. IK on the language issue and the expulsion of Mr. Sim .Mow Vu, one of the national vice-chairmen of the MCA Youth.
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  • 57 5 TAIPINO, Nov. 7 The Minister oi Education, Inch*.* Mohamed Khir Johari. will attend the annual speech day and prize giving of the Teacher Methodist Girls’ Secondary School here on Nov- 14. He will present certificates and proficiency prizes to the pupils. A dinner will be
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  • 26 5 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 7—The Indian High Commissioner. Mr Mustapha Kit mil Kidwal. has returned to Kuala Lumpur after a 14-dav visit to New Delhi.
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  • 379 6 KOTA BAHARU, Nov. 6. appeal to MARA to help organise a marketing system for Kelantan's batek industry was made by Senator Nik Hassan bin Nik Yahya, president of the Malay Chamber of Commerce, here today. “If nothing is done to safeguard this industry
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  • 233 6 I KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 6 For the first time in 17 years em-ployer-employee rela- tions in the National Electricity Board have reached breaking point because of “per- sistent” interference by the Government. This was stated today by Mr. 8 8 Nayagam. secretary of
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  • 65 6 BRUNEI TOWN. Nov. 7—Bru- lan Buage and literature laboratory has commissioned four members of the University of stafl to help compile a fxt book on the geography of Brunei, an official Government spokesman said today. The team of teachers—Che Zaharah binte Mahmud, Dr W D McTaggert.
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  • 32 6 PETALING JAYA, Nov 6 Students of the University of Maiaya Agricultural Society' will hold a three-day seminar on the Progress and Importance of Agriculture in West Malaysia” from Nov. 14.
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  • 90 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. 7 One hundred Singaporeans planning to study in Australia sat for a special English test at the Australian High Commission here on November 5. The test is the result of recent decision by the Australian Government and applies to all overseas
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  • 132 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6 Almost all the 1,550 teachers in 502 schools, whose attitudes towards health education, including sex education, are being sought, have returned the questionnaires sent to them. Dr Nalla Tan. a University of Singapore lecturer, who is conducting this first-ever survey, today
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  • 240 6 PENANG, Nov. 6. 'pWO hundred Malay businessmen in Penan# and Province Wellesley last night resolved to launch various projects to help boost Malay economy in the State. The businessmen, attending a special meeting organised, by the Penang Malay Chamber of Commerce at Batu Maung.
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  • 56 6 S1TIA WAN Nov. 7—The Ass.- ant Minister of Education. Mr Lee Siok Yew, Rave an assure rut yesterday that the Government > educational policy was to «lv< equal treatment to all types oi schools in the country He was opening an extension to the Tit Bin
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  • 48 6 TAIPING Nov. 7—The Sudan of Perak. opening the Tuiplng Merdeka Memorial Library, expressed the hope that the people would make full use of it. The library has about 1 0t'< members. The fee is $10 a year for ordinary members and $4. year for school-children.
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  • 316 7  -  MENTRI: PROOF IS THERE FOR ALL TO SEE From KHOR CHEANG KEE pENANG, Nov. 6. The Mentri Besar of Perlis, Tan Sri Sheikh Ahmad, said today he would not withdraw the allegations he made on November 3 that undergraduates of the University of Malaya
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  • 270 7 KLA NG, Nov. 7. THE Sultan ol Selangor this morning advised 1 more students to switch over to the sciences and not to completely discard the use of the English language. Speaking to the pupils of the Tengku Ampuan Rahlmah School here,
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  • 135 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. G A Bill to provide for the regulation of insurance business in Singapore, which has been read a first time in Parliament requires all companies operating in the Republic to be registered and to deposit a sum of $300,000 with the AccountantGeneral
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  • 26 7 SINGAPORE. Nov 6 -A Singapore student. Mr. Ngee Pul lsow now studying at the University ot Hawaii. ha« obtained a BSc 'n tropical agriculture
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  • 504 7 Senu hits out at ‘disloyal Opposition parties PENANG, Nov. 6. THE Minister ot Information and Broadcasting, lnche Scnu bin Abdul Rahman, said here today that disloyal Opposition parties were trying to come into power over the ruins of Malaysia. “If leaders ot the Opposition parties are dissatisfied with the manner
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  • 106 7 Kuala lumpur, Nov. i. —A special consultant to the United Nations, Sir Robert Jackson, will arrive here on Wednesday for a three-day visit. He will call on the Minister of Transport. Tan Sri Sardou bin Haji Jubir. and have discussions with officials of the
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  • 656 8  -  By FELIX ABiSHEGANADEN Kuala Lumpur. Nov. 7 FOR the first time Malaysia today sought specific American aid which it listed in an aide memoire to Mr. Eugene Black. The bulky document was handed to Mr. Black, U.S.
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  • 143 8  -  By Jackie Sam CINGAPORE, Nov. 7. A big-scale probe has* been started into construction work for Housing and Development Board estates here. Experts now making an intensive study of some of the methods adopted in these estates are on the look-out particularly for short-piling. In
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  • 391 8 K. LUMPUR. Nov. 7 REPRESENTATIVES of British, Australian and New Zealand commercial organisations were in the Federal capital today with one aim in mind to get as large a share of the Malaysian market as possible. The British mission, sponsored by
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  • 62 8 PENANG. Nov. 6 Filteen members of the Hindu Youth Organisation today donated a pint of blood each to the Penan* Blood Bank a* part of their Youth Week activities The donors, led by Mr. M Kanalingam. president of the organisation. were met bv Mr Mak Slice
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  • 183 8 IPOII. Nov. 7—More than lu members of the National Union of DayTrained Teachers from the rapah. Teluk Anson. Kinta and Dindings districts met here yesterday for a quesi ion-and-answer session with the union’s secretarygeneral, Mr. Chew Choon Ming. The discussion centred mainly on equal
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  • 66 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 7. —Partai Raykat today bacKed the current Ngee Ann College students’ agitation against the Thong Saw Pak report In giving this support, the leftwing party also condemned the police for breaking up the Friday demonstration at City Hall. Meanwhile, the University of Singapore
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  • 27 8 TAIPING Nov. 6 —The Kilat Club here will hold a dance at the Town Hall on Dec. 3 in aid of the Convent Orphanage Fund.
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  • 97 9 jfUALA LUMPUR. Nov. iIV 7. The Democratic Action Party said today that “wild and irresponsible” outbursts by Alliance Ministers would not solve the linguistic, cultural and racial problems confronting Malaysia. In a statement, its assistant secretary general, Mr. Goh Hock Guan, took strong exception to
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  • 55 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 7—The oth Bn.. Royal Malay Regiment, stationed at Semfeawang. Singapore today carried out exercises In the jungle area north of Kota Tinggi. The exercise code-named “Ikan Duyong will last till Sunday The public are reminded not to lie alarmed by the shooting and
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  • 34 9 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Nov. 6 The Province Wellesley Hindu Youth Organisation will give a Deepavali treat to more than 100 underprivileged children at the Indian Association premises in India Lane on November S.
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  • 221 9 l/UALA LUMPUR, **Nov. 7. The only Japanese delegate at the first timber construction conference now being held at the University of Malaya plans to carry out research on Malaysian timber. He Is Professor Tsuneo KLshima, of the Wood Research Institute, Kyoto University in
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  • 57 9 SINGAPORE Nov 7 A new commanding officer will take over the 4th Bn., Royal Australian Regiment, in Malacca this month. He is Lieut, 00l C. H. A East, who succeeds Lieut.Col. D. S Thomson. Col. East was a Brigade Major. Headquarters Australian Component. 28th Commonwealth Independent
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  • 159 9 K. LUMPUR, Nov. 7 MORE than 65 delegates 1T from Asia and the United States today attended the opening of a flve-day conference of overseas schools, sponsored by the International Schools Services This 15th annual conference, held at the American School in King’s Road, was opened
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  • 432 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7. 'J'HE timber industry the third biggest industry in the country after rubber and tin is providing about 40,000 people with employment and last year earned $402 million in foreign exchange. This was stated by the Minister of Lands and
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  • 28 9 SINGAPORE Nov. 7 A all* man Malaysian liaison team headed by Capt Hamid, has been stationed in Tarakan. East Kalimantan, Radio Jakarta announced today.
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  • 43 9 IPOH Nov 7 The Minister of Education. Inche Mohaqici Khir Johari will open three schools in Perak the Sekolah Kebangsaan at Kampong Beng. near Lenggong, tomorrow, the Min Tet School. Ipoh. and the Sekolah Kebangsaan in Padang Rengas on Thursday.
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  • 159 10 $60,000 ‘showcase’ for Bangkok trade fair is ready Kuala lumpur, nov. 8 —The $60,000 Malaysian pavilion at the first Asian International Trade Fair to be held in Bangkok from Nov. 17 to Dee. 10 has been completed. A statement from the Malaysian Embassy in Bangkok today said that
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  • 372 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 7. Alliance Party Singapura chairman, Dr. Thio Chan Bee, said today that Singaporeans could have a choice of several roads to a happy, prosperous and secure future provided the Government ensured “fair play at till elections under an independent
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  • 50 10 TAIPING Nov. 6—The Sultan of Perak yesterday opened (he Taiping Merdeka Memorial Library and expressed the hope that the people would make full use of it. The library has about 1,000 members. The fee is $lO a year for ordinary members and $4 a year for schoolchildren
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  • 35 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 6—The new-ly-formed Students National Action Front, comprising representatives from three students' R2 ,< ln sin 8 a Pore. today held its first meeting at the premises Road* Ann Co,,P2e ,n Ta nk
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  • 100 10 Kuala lumpur, nov. 7 —The Australian antisubmarine frigate Stuart will pay an operational visit to Port Swettenham from Friday to next Monday. The ship will be ODcn to the public from 2 p.m. to 6 pm. on Sunday. No passes are required for entry.
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  • 258 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8. 'J'HE next step in Malaysia's drive towards industrialisation is expected to be taken here on Thursday at a meeting of importers of motor-cycles, scooters and mopeds. About 15 importers art* expected to attend the meeting at the invitation of the
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  • 82 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4— The 100,000-ton Liberian tanker World Standard, which was temporarily disabled in the South China Sea last week, is now in a Singapore dock undergoing repairs. She arrived on her ov.n steam. The Anglo-French Trading Co., agents for the ship, said that
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  • 25 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 6 About 230 delegates from Australia. Japan, Singapore and Malaysia will attend a three-day timber construction conference beginning here tomorrow.
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  • 286 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8. PRESIDENT Johnsons adviser on SouthEast Asian economic and social development, Mr. Eugene Black, today congratulated Malaysia lor her initiative in speeding up development of her economy in harmony and co-operation with neighbouring countries. Mr. Black cited as examples the
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  • 41 11 PENANG. Nov. 6 —The vice-pre-n e ?t of the First National City «ank of New York, Mr. C. M. Stewart arrived here today to tour 'ocal industrial development sites ncl discuss the bank’s joint venProgramme with local bank officials
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  • 121 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The University of Malaya Students’ Union today regretted that the Mentri Besar of Perils, Tan Sri Sheikh Ahmad, had failed to substantiate his claims that students in the University had indulged in subversive activities. A statement signed by the union's acting president, Inche
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  • 64 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 7 Some 200 employees of Singer Sewing Machine Co. have broken away from the Left-wing Singapore Commercial Houses and Factory Employees’ Union to join the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers Union, an affiliate of the NTUO. Announcing this today, the acting secretary of the
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  • 21 11 RAUB Nrv. 8 The district rural development committee in Jerantut will build five shophouses in tlv town for bumiputras
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  • 261 11 l/UCHING, Nov. 8. Dato Stephen Kalong Ningkan, leader of the Sarawak National Party, has rejected Tan Sri Temenggong Jugahs recent proposals for a reconciliation of SNAP with the Alliance. In a speech at Bintulu. in the Fourth Division, he said; “We are not interested in
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  • 66 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. B—A total of 53 teachers from Malaysia and 13 from Singapore have so far been trained in Britain under the Commonwealth teacher training bursary scheme, a statement from the British High Commission here announced today. They were among the 1.815 teachers from 38 countries and
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  • 35 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 7 French dress designer Pierre Balmain will arrive in Singapore on Saturday to design new uniforms for Malaysian Airways hostesses. His original date of arrival was to have been today.
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  • 274 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8. r |UiE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, wants to ensure that MARA ‘‘delivers the goods" and today he called on the organisation to show “rapid progress” for all to see. He issued a directive to this effect at
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  • 44 11 KLUANG. Nov. 8— A Remembrance Day service for soldiers killed in th e two World Wars will be held at the St. Luke Garrison church here on Sunday. More than 250 soldiers from various units of the Kluang garrison will attend.
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  • 212 11 IPOH, Nov. 8. The 1 air and ground search for the singleengine Pioneer aircraft, missing in the jungle on the PerakKelantan border since Tuesday, entered its eighth day today. A detachment of the Royal Malaysian Air Force planes and helicopters which took part In
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  • 232 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. B—lnternationally famous architect. Mr. Richard Neutra, said here today that Singapore would be “sunk” within the next 10 years if the island failed to double its present rate ot progress. Singapore, as a world port, should not compare its
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  • 274 12 Kuala lumpur, Nov. 8.—The Chief of the Armed Forces Staff, Gen. Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa, today appealed to all Malaysians to donate generously to the Poppy Day Fund. He said here “Let us not forget that so many died so that
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  • 48 12 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. B—The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has sent a congratulatory message to the Head of the State of Cambodia on the occasion of its National Day tomorrow. The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman. sent a similar message to his Cambodian counterpart. Prince Norodom Kantol.
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  • 213 12 IPOH, Nov. 7 £OMMUNIST terrorism in Malaysia is lik< “very contagious disease” which must be got rid of, once and for all, before it spreads This view was expressed strongly by Gen Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa. Chief of the Armed
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  • 72 12 SINGAPORE. Nov B. A building foreman, Chan Chwee Kit, was found murdered in a track oft Taman Bunga Abu, in Toa Payoh, last night. Chan, 32, of Kampong Tiong Bahru, had injuries in the lower part of his face believed to have been inflicted by a heavy
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  • 40 12 IPOH Nov S A sample aiu of knowledge, attitudes and prartio* of family planning will begm here tomorrow The three-week survey, undertaken by the Statistics Deparnnw and conducted by women, will con t 750 households here
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  • 47 12 SINGAPORE, Nov 6 An liman New Zealand “selling 1 mission will visit Singapore later this month. Organised by the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, the team is a follow-up group of the successtul trade mission which visited South-East Asia in April his year.
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  • 38 12 PENANO. Nov. 8 Penang Batek artist Tay Mo-leong will exhibit his works at the Samat Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur from Nov- 21 to 26. The French Ambassador. Mr. Pierre Anthonioz, will open the exhibition, t
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  • 78 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. B—The -0 senior officers of the Rubber Industry (Reptantingi Board ended iheir three-day conference here on Saturday with a visit to the Sungei Buloh Leper Settlement and a 8318 lonation f o the Malayan Leprosv belief Association 3 :3 h^ Chi i Re
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  • 192 12 JESSELTON, Nov 8 liHE Federal Minister tor Sabah Affairs, Tun Mustapha bin Dato Harun, today hit out at certain Alliance politicians who were saying that the adult education scheme was a cover for the Alliance Government to influence rural people with its beliefs and
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  • 206 12 PENANG, Nov. 8. H ow did the Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, advise the Finance Minister on the reaction of the people of Penang to the proposal to amend the 1952 Customs Ordin- a nee? The UDP Oppos.t’o i leader, Dr.
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  • 217 13 Kota bharu, Nov. 8. Two PMIP leaders here today accepted the challenge of the Mentri Besar of Trengganu, Tan Sri Ibrahim Fikri. to hold a public forum on whether the PMIPs policies are in line with the teachings of Islam. They are
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  • 165 13 KANGAR, Nov. 8. An English hitchhiker. 19-year-old Anthony Sut(,liiV, who was rescued from 'ho Kerman desert in Iran after being lost there for >e ven days earlier this year, j arrived here yesterday in die course of a round-the world trip. II of South Port,
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  • 780 13 FACULTY OF SCIENCE FIRST Main aim ‘to check the exodus abroad. n PENANG, Nov. 9. T Penang bmversity College will take shape next year with the establishment ol faculties ol science and architecture, it was announced here today. The Penang University Project Committee, in
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  • 137 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 9. SIX-MAN team from the Far East Fleet in Singapore will be flying to East Malaysia later this month in a bid to climb 13,544ft. Mount Kinabalu. Two officers and four sailors have been specially .selected for the climb, which is regarded as
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  • 45 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 9 The visiting head ol the policy planning directorate in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, Mr J.igat S Mrhta. today nald a courtesy call on the Singapore Prime Minister. Mr Lee Kunn Vew at his office in the City Hal)
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  • 353 13 PENANG, Nov. B—A motion to fully support the view expressed by the Prime Minister last month that “the use of the English language in Malaysia must continue” will he moved at the State Assembly’s Budget meeting on Nov. 16. Tli e UDP opposition leader,
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  • 23 13 EUKIT MEETAJAM. Nov. The Province Wellesley Central District Council will meet on Thursday to consider its draft budget for next rear
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  • 575 14 FESTIVAL AND JAMBOREE pENANG, Nov. 9. Penang expects record influx ol tourists and outstation visitors next month when the island stages two big events the State Festival from Dec. 3 to 25, and the first Malaysian Scout Jamboree from Dec. 4 to 10. After
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  • 318 14 ttEREMBAN, Nov. 9. A new political party, the United Malaysian Chinese Organisation, has been formed to “unite the Chinese community to achieve their legitimate interests in Ma laysia Registered on Monday after an application for registration was made in March this year, its first
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  • 29 14 SUNCIEI PATANI, Nov. 8 The Sultan of Kedah will lay the first wreath at the Remembrance Day parade at the Kedah Volunteer Force Cenotaph here nex» Hyiiday
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  • 123 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 9.-A Frenchman here to boost the sales of his firm’s perfume today regretted the “British mentality" of some males in Malaysia and Singapore Mr F. Bertrand, export manager of the famous Pa rf unis Christian Dior of Paris, said that like
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  • 254 14  -  From Bill Campbell IESSELTON, Nov. 9 J The duel Minuter, Mr. Peter Lo, today left for Tokyo via Hong Kong for talks with Japanese Government officials on more technical aid for Sabah. Before flying on he said his vh>it to Japan
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  • 116 14 IPOH, Nov. 9.—The protest against the opening up of 40,000 acres of land near Teluk Anson for oil palm cultivation will be considered in the light of national land policy. This assurance was given today by the Commissioner of Lands and Mines. Perak.
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  • 101 14 Kuala lumpur, nov 9 —The senior consultant to the administrator of the UN developmen programme. Sir Jackson, today said thJi was rreativ impressed Malaysia’s first develop ment plan. (l c, r In an airport inter'"’ Robert- who is here on 1 day visit said:
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  • 347 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 9. M R Eberhard H. Herzog a director of Daimler-Benz AG, one of West Germany's biggest car manufacturers, flew into Singapore today for talks with officials of the Economic Development Board about the Mercedes-Benz motor assembly plant in Jurong. The plant is
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  • 93 15 Kuala lumpur, Nov.« —An 18ft python was whot dead tonight when M tried to raid a chicken coop belonging to Inche Yunos bin Ahmad at the sth mile Gombak road. It came up from the bank of the Gombak River and killed a duck.
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  • 69 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. B—The president of the Malaysian Hindu Gjganisation. Mr. K- Paramabngam. today called on all Hindus in the country to spare jo efforts to ensure that Mak'Vsia was a peaceful and harmonious nation. Jn a Deepavali message, he s ;"d the Hindus here should
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  • 46 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 7—One l f) cer and 24 technical personnel If> RMAF will leave for Canada "morrow for a five-month training course on CL-41 aircraft. Clj -41 aircraft are expected t bf in service with the RMAF in oear future
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  • 205 15 (IfUALA LUMPUR, Nov. Tengku Beswr Mukhnv. only son of the *»ng di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Serabilan. became the youngest-ever persoa to have attended the Conference of Rulers now in session here. He was 18 on Jan. 14. He attended the meeting in his capacity
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  • 59 15 SINGAPORE Nov B—Mi Jagal S. Mehta, head of the policy planning directorate In the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, arrived in Singapore this morning from Kuala Lumpur on a two-day visit Mr. Mehta was India’s head of the mission in Peking earlier this year- He will
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  • 42 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. ft The Minister of Agriculture and Cooprratives. Haji Ghazali bin Haji Jawi, will open a three-day seminar on the progress and importance of agiiculture in West Malaysia at the University of Malaya at 9am on November 14
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  • 406 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 9. specific projects for American assistance to Singapore were discussed at meetings between the U.S. presidential adviser, Mr. Eugene Black, and the Republic s leaders. Instead, the discussions centred on possible Ameri- I can assistance in the context of regional co-opera-tion
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  • 215 15 PENANG, Nov. 8. The Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, will ha asked in the State Assembly next week If tha Penang Government hat received any assurance from the Minister af Agriculture and Co-ope-ratives, Haji Ghasalt iawi, that the dispute between trawler and inshore
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  • 36 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. fr-Tbe $4 million Esso rights .ssm ha* been over-subscribed by 1C million, a company spokesman announced today. He described the response from the public to the IsMie w» encouraging and exceptional
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  • 347 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 10. r JpiIE Finance Minister and MCA national president. Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said today that the appearance of another political party might enhance the political consciousness o t the people or merely serve to confuse them. He was commenting on
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  • 148 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 10. —About 250 American tourists on a world tour arrived here this morning on board the American President Lin e s’ luxury liner President Roosevelt. They include 150 from the University of Michigan Alumni Association. Officials of the company and the Tourist
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  • 279 16 Kuala lumpur, Nov. 10. MARA i is to sponsor the formation of a Batek Producers Association to establish quality control and a pricing system for the industry. This move today received the approval of the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak. during his
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  • 46 16 SUNGEI PATANI, Nov. 10 Mr. Ong Boon Seong has been elected chairman of the Kerian branch of the United Democratic Party. Mr. Hoe Soo Chong, of Alor star, is vice-chairman, with Mr. m Henu Hal as secretary and Mr Oeh Tlang Kheng as treasurer
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  • 46 16 St/NGEI PATANI, Nor. 10 Sycd Man tor bin Syed Kassim Barakbah has assumed duties as chief assistant DLstrict Officer. Kuala Muda. in place of Haii Shafiee bin Haji Abdul Wahab who has been transferred to Alor Star a.s secretary to the Kedah Religious Department.
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  • 176 16 JESSELTON, Nov in Federal Minister of Sabah Affairs and’ Civ i 1 Defence, Tun Mustapha bin Datu Harm! today welcomed the plan to build a port on theast coast of West Malaysia. He said: “The port will help bring Sabah closer to
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  • 51 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10—T;, Vane di-Pcrtuan Agong ha- i a congratulatory message t 0 K.;, Ciu>tav VI of Sweden on the oi casion of the Swedish Nation Day. The Prime Minister, Tei a* Abdul Rahman, has also sen" similar message to the Sv c! Minister for Foreign
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  • 65 16 BATU PAHAT, Nov. 10. Tii Assistant Minister of Educati Mr. Lee Siolc Yew, yesterday i assured Chinese schools that a languages and cultures in tli country would be sustained am the Government would contiiv. giving aids and grants to a national type schools. He said this
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  • 208 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 10. THE Chief Education Officer here, Inche Murad bin Mohamed Noor, said today that his department would be losing 56 trained teachers by the end of the year, including several headmasters of lower secondary schools. “All teachers here who have completed their
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  • 27 16 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Nov. 10.— Mr. R. Ramakolundu, a Malayan Railway traffic inspector, has been elected president of the Bukit Mertajam High School Old Boys Association.
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  • 96 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14.Singapore’s National Language month, wh'.ch opens on November Illwill be a* busy month ot forum discussion-", free lessons and contests reading, debate, essay writing, speech, translation and conversation. These activities are being organised by the Adult Education Board to encourage not
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  • 52 16 IPOH, Nov. 10.—The Muni(if iu Council will hold a special nice' next Wednesday to pass n fur provision of $4OOO under ns four'' supplementary vote for this t,: which now amounts to $31.810 The additional sum is foi Menglembu market for vht 1 budget provision of $32,000
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  • 189 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. gINGAPORE’S diplomatic envoys to two major Afro-Asian centres New Delhi and Cairo are likely to be appointed before the end of the year. The Foreign Minister, Mr. 8. Rajaratnam. hinted at this possibility before he left Singapore
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  • 109 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. A British Parliamentary delegation will formally present a bookcase to the Singapore Parliament at a ceremony next Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the library of Parliament House. The Speaker. Mr Punch Coomaraswamy, will receive the gift from the British delegation
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  • 231 17 OINGAPORE, Nov. 10. A 16-man Singapore delegation led by Mr. Lim Ho Hup, Director of the Economic D e v e 1 opment Board, will leave for Bangkok on Saturday to attend the Ecafe talks on intra-reglonal trade promotion. An officer of the
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  • 192 17 IPOH, Nov. 10.—The Perak Town Board, Town Council and Municipal Employees’ Union has given the town council in Teluk Anson two weeks to comply with the Government circular on payment of arrears. The circular states that *ll workers in the government industrial
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  • 66 17 KOTA BHARU, Nov. 10—The State Information Officer of Kelantan, Haji Nik Mohamed bin Nik Mon. ha* been appointed Press attache to the MHlaysian Embassy in Bonn. West Germany. Haji Nik will leave for Kuala Lumpur on November 15. He will be attached to the external publicity
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  • 25 17 —Reuter. NEW DELHI. Nov. 10—India and Czechoslovakia today concluded an agreement providing for cooperation in the development of atomic energy lor peaceful purposes.—Reuter.
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  • 351 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 10. IN a Deepavali Day message tonight Tengku Abdul Rahman appealed to all Malaysians to strengthen further the boncjs of unity, trust understanding, and goodwill that exists among the various races of the country. He also urged the people ''not to
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  • 150 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10 Seven Japanese trade unionists of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sohyo) arrived in Singapore today as guests of the National Trade Union Congress. NTUC leaders will discuss with them the problems of workers In developing countries. Views will also
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  • 55 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. Pro! K B Shaw, a newly-appointed associate professor of the new Department of Government and Public Administration at Nanyang University. has arrived from Hong Kong The department was set up earlier this year on a reccm mendation of the Wang GangWu Report on
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  • 187 17 fPOH, Nov. 10. Ch« 1 Sofiah binte V. K. Maracan, 18, wife of the missing air traffic control officer here, Mr. David Gnanapaul, today expressed her gratitude to “all those who helped look for my husband.” Although the RMAF Pioneer carrying Mr. Gnanapaul and
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  • 50 17 PENANG, Nov 10—The districtlevel Koran reading competition will be held at various centres in Penang and Province Wellesley before Dec. 15 This was decided yesterday at a meeting of the State Koran Reading Competition Committee headed bv the president of the Islamic Council Haji Ahmad Malik
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  • 34 17 PENANG, Nov. 10. Thieves fished out a handbag belonging to Miss Mona Williams, a teache* at Minden Barracks school through a window of her home while she watched television. It contained $7O
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2068 18 From Our Market Correspondeni I.\ a nutshell the holiday shortened week on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore saw an easier inonslrial seel ion completely dominated by Gammon, with comparatively neglected and also easier mining and properly sections. Due to the obsession with
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    • 45 18 olNGAPOnE'- Nov. I'J The straits Tin*'fine# *ftxiay *ic k 6\ $1.26 to S$(»5 picul tai <»1> qffiring estimated up 5 .tons to tons. V .V; 'A. ’V Singapore "C 'cmntt On '.''•ociatioir prices: BftllL-'; Pi*um $441:, STllort. The lone wilt:toyi? 1 >3 ,-*rs
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    • 27 18 KIHRKK TIN (per lb*. (per |*i» iilt Nov.?, 81 ct\ SBOX.H* 1 K. Bll'.rk 9607.'!$ 83', tt* $607.75 10. 8 els 6606.*!5 11. I‘J. 7«os.imi
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    • 50 18 i No y V. JN w-ht. Ntj v<*; 90tti '.jpO.lfl lH, £%v aJLBA -T. |MLj)4 *M'» M.HQj 10p.91 UIKtP V W}l’ rubbet lltfltf •lTfl'Jf* 'llllTH j f,, fy .b>' J IMT. Xl 19ttt «>•* -C* *♦<*, V -v >•' -’V. o-' pftitJi.; 19AI 100 wj T m*
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    • 39 18 y-’ tr 4 7*»o ekT'ihei feirirkn rt> 1 Hong Kuns or, S i'ui.l iy..,i*y» .u g dollar w.ts u>io:*'.l ~f i ol ft sfM'CW**!*!. Stern*** WHS tt‘o!ed,iit. 1> |.H» ihd teef 'of 2Sid if du( > v. .r-ij,..
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    • 76 18 F 1 MMi *61 t> Nor; pu<> Ko\ rtii'jtT-f.a'FV'lDrfims (juoiti i'orttie iAi»’| ptfrtution in’o Sinmipoiv'of knitted undi'ru.ivjir.ii.) iv l-> per ctuit ol nfKit inip<JH4>d<H«nVdih4 oltioi.il 910 cuvrr.s rpicicrgarmertfs ,ol cotrnn not plrrxftt* n&V rfibberiJ- But t&d.tu cfdcliof ed," sited un-:| ’dovgornients not plastic uou rub* knitted pr
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    • 216 18 (JINGAPORE, Nov. 13. Sohyo, the four million strong labour arm of Japans major Opposition Socialist Party, today promised to help Singapore get loans from their Government at low interest rates. “We are in a position to request this from the Government,” said Mr. Shogo
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    • 98 18 Kuala lumpur Nov. 13. A 250room clinical students hostel, part of the $70 million medical complex of the University of Malaya, is scheduled to be completed at t: the end of the month.The/hostel/ situated near the teaching -hospital, comprises two'irosidetttiftl block' a cafeteria and a game*
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  • 313 19 KUCHING, Nov. 11 lndonesian Army is going “all out” against the Communists on the Kalimantan and Sarawak border and are “sorting out and deciding what to do with” the Azahariled TNKU. The Director of Operations, East Malaysia, Major-General Dato Ibrahim, said this in an
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  • 230 19 Manila, Nov. n— a Manila Times editorial today described as “disturbing" reports that Malaysia was working towards a private settlement with the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu which would end the Philippine claim to the Sultan's old territory of Sabah. The Sabah claim,
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  • 252 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 SINGAPORE has got the goods that can capture an Australian market. This was stated here tonight by Mr A A Luciano, leader of the 20-man Australian trade mission in a farpwell Interview Tomorow the team leaves for Bangkok Mr. Luciano’s
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  • 425 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 'J'HE price of four brands of petrol has gone up by three cents. They are Shell, Esso, Caltex and Mobil Oil. The “outsider” is British Petroleum whose “Super” remains at the old price of $2.10 a gallon and the Ordinary at
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  • 137 19  -  From Geoffrey Geldent IfUCHINO, NOV. 11.— The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, will be given a big welcome by youth organisations when he arrives here tomorrow. Representatives of all youth organisations In the First Division will be at the alrpori to greet
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  • 1014 20 |fUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 12. Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman foresees a SouthEast Asian Games among government servants materialising very soon He made this forecast at the opening of the Malaysian Government Services sports carnival at the Police Depot today. The
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  • 474 20 •SINGAPORE, Nov 12 ohiong Wal Hing, the 21-yeai-o.d penta.h.on athlete, today put he seif into Aslan Gam?s reckon ng by sco-lng 3,311 po r*ts n one afternoon in the liveevent test. SAAA officials feel that vitn the right competition and over ,he regulation
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  • 27 20 MAT ACCA, Nov. 14 Amfy Malaya: held Malacca Burnley Cup Selection to a scoreless draw in a soccer match at the Kubu Stadium here yesterday.
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  • 28 20 SEPEMBAN. Nov. 12 —NpgrlMalacca received a walkover In the Malava Cup rugger match to have been plaved here today when their, opponents, Johore, failed (o turn up.,
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  • 27 20 KIANO. Nov 14— r beat (MS Stuart bv 19 coin's troals, two tries, penaltv) to 1 in a friendlv at the K Padang yesterday.
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