The Straits Times, 1 May 1984

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1984 40 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 62/1/84
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  • 726 1 PM, in his May Day message, says how we can tick even after foreign workers have gone in 1992 4 Our success will hinge not merely on continued industrial peace and harmony, but on greater understanding and cooperation between workers and management, and among fellow workers.
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  • 65 1 THE Kuok Group, which planned to redevelop the former Great World site at Kim Seng Road into a residential-shopping-hotel complex, has decided to drop the idea. This latest move, coming soon after Mr Ng Teng Fong's decision to give up two URA residential
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  • 67 1 MANNFORD (Oklahoma) Mon. National Guard troops today patrolled the devastated streets of an Oklahoma town where a tornado smashed 100 homes and slashed through four churches filled with worshippers, killing one person and injuring almost 30 others The same tornado, the second killer storm in east
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  • 136 1 SEOUL, Mon. The Yonhap news agency reported today that a 17-year-old high school girl hanged herself because of South Korea's loss to Iraq in a soccer game in Singapore. The agency said the girl, identified as Lee Jin-Hee, was found hanged early
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  • 300 1 MR ONG Teng Cheong has called for a closer alliance between employers and unions to underpin Singapore's economic success. Singaporeans, he said in his May Day message, can aspire to better growth rates with the prevailing harmonious relations between employers and unions.
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  • 64 1 Peng Siong beaten ANG Peng Siong's twoyear reign as Asia's fastest swimmer is over. The 1982 Asian Games HMMnetres freestyle gold medallist and record holder was beaten Into second place at the Asian championships in Seoul yesterday. The winner was China's Mu La Ti who won a race shrouded in
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  • 200 1 DRIVING Instructor Chan Ching Hal wants to raise some money for his senior citizen's club. So he simply calls up his friends for help. Not one, or two. Bat more than 100 of them. Read on Page 14 how Mr Chan, with
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  • 317 1 JOHOR BARU, Monday THE Malaysian and Singapore governments have agreed to appoint a team of five consultants to study the multi-million dollar joint venture to develop water resources in southern Johor. Mentri Besar Datuk Ajib Ahmad told newsmen here today
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  • 69 1 Latest POLICE ENTER EMBASSY LONDON, Mon. Police today blew out the back door of the former Libyan embassy with a remote-controlled shotgun and entered the building to search for booby-traps and arms, a Scotland Yard spokesman said. Inside, police said, ail the doors were locked and it would take hours
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    • 9 1 Text of PM's message Page 18 Editorial Page 18
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  • IN SUMMARY
    • 727 2 'Booked' and warned TRADER Chua Kim Hua, 24, of Block 48 in Toa Payoh East, had two unexpected visitors yesterday. A warning notice was handed to him politely by two Housing Board officers. The notice said that he had to remove two bird cages which were hanging on the
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    • 197 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: IF the labour movement had chosen the confrontational path in the late sixties and seventies, May Day would not be the restful day which we have come to expect. It is fortunate that our unionists realised they had to adapt to the times. The acceptance
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    • 251 2 Top scorers FIRST-HALF goals from World Cup stars Antonio Cabrini and European Footballer of the Year Michel Platini gave Juventus an easy win at Internazionale of Milan on Sunday, and kept them four points clear of Roma at the top of the Italian League. Platini's goal was his 20th
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    • 231 2 A NEW AMUSEMENT PARK TO RISE AT GREAT WORLD SITE? THE developers who tore down the former Great World Amusement Park in Kim Seng Road to make way for a modern residential-shopping-hotel complex are now back at square one. After more than three years of indecision and despite several
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    • 77 2 TOTAL DEFENCE GOALS THERE are two basic reasons why we need total defence, says Mr Lim Siong Guan, First Permanent Secretary (Defence). One is our limited national resources and the other is that modern warfare today does not spare civilians from the sufferings of war. Total defence's ultimate objective
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    • 584 2 Eyes on Asia WESTERN bankers and businessmen are eyeing the Asia-Pacific region for business and investment prospects. And many businesses and commercial banks were represented at the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank, which ended in Amsterdam on Sunday. One banker, explaining the interest in the
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    • 375 2 Model principal IN an article published recently in The Educational Administrator by the Singapore Educational Administration Society, its vice-chairman, Mr Eugene Wijeysingha, said the work of noteworthy retired principals should be brought to public attention in order to build up a tradition that would command respect and honour.
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    • 187 2 Mahathir unopposed DATUK Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was returned unopposed as Umno president yesterday, but all other party posts will be contested. Three people incumbent Datuk Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and Datuk Haji Harun Idris will vie for the deputy presidency. Seventy-eight nominations have been received
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    • 175 2 Two in focus PUBLISHED by the Friendship Publication Company in Beijing, Rainbow Across The Equator is a book that bridges the cultural gap and promotes understanding between China and Southeast Asia. It is a collection of 99 photographs by 26 well-known photographers in the region. They include Tan
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    • 203 3  - Viet guns shell Thai village NANCY CHNG By Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK, Mon. A Vietnamese artillery unit, based opposite the Thai northeast province of Surin, directed its guns on a Thai village this afternoon. One person was killed and scores of villagers injured. Surin governor Saner Mullasart said shells hit more
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    • 246 3 BEIJING, Monday CHINESE troops along the southern frontier with Vietnam were on "full combat alert" today, amid warnings from Beijing that Hanoi stop border provocations or face the consequences. Xinhua news agency said Chinese forces in Yunnan and Guanxi provinces were on "full
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    • 40 3 9 m visitors BEIJING, Mon. Nearly nine and a half million people visited China from abroad last year as tourists or on business, bringing in 1.86 billion yuan (Ssl.B billion) in foreign exchange, the state statistical bureau said today. Reuter.
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    • 32 3 ISLAMABAD, Mon. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone arrived on a four-day official visit today during which he will meet President Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq and visit an Afghan refugee camp. UPI
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    • 293 3 HONGKONG, Mon. Two other doctors gave evidence today that Mak Foon Than was mentally alert whilst in hospital. Mak injured himself when he fell down from a flat just before he was arrested for the alleged crime. Dr Li Yuen Hoi,
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    • Around the region
      • 96 3 Burma shells rebels BANGKOK, Mon. Dozens of artillery shells fell on Thai territory today as Burmese troops bombarded Karen rebels along the Thai-Burmese border, Thai border police said. They said more than 60 shells hit the Thai village of Wang Kaew, about 600 km north-west of Bangkok, and that a
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      • 91 3 JAKARTA, Mon. Indonesia will ask its Asean partners to forget about politics and allow Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma to take part in a Southeast Asian bridge tournament, press reports said today. "The regional bridge tournament should be expanded to include the Indochina states
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      • 84 3 BANGKOK, Mon. Thailand's Senate today elected Mr Ukris Mongkolnavin as its president, a post that also makes him Speaker of Parliament, a Senate spokesman said. The election, the first item on the agenda after Parliament convened, filled a vacancy created by the death on March
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      • 64 3 BANGKOK, Mon, A 12-year-old boy was killed and eight people were injured when a hand grenade was tossed in a bar at the beach resort of Pattaya, police said today. They said the boy was killed instantly in the explosion yesterday and the owner of the
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      • 170 3 Foreign media rapped MANILA, Mon. President Ferdinand Marcos lashed out at foreign newsmen today, accusing them of being the "tools and lackeys of the communists" and trying to destablise his government. In a presidential statement, Mr Marcos, 66, said the American media had "delivered Vietnam to the communists" and were
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    • 423 3 Part of it went to lawyer's account, court told HONGKONG, Monday BUMIPUTRA Malaysia Finance (BMF), the Hongkong subsidiary of Bank Bumiputra, channelled US$4 million (SsB million) to one of the Carrian companies here through a bank in New York, the Jalil
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    • 315 3 The Jalil Murder Trial To questions by the defence. Mr Or said he did not know if Ong Finance was a Hongkong company or a subsidiary of Cardan. Mr Or maintained that there was "nothing unusual" about BMF. which was only a few hundred metres down Gloucester Road here from
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    • 248 4 BANGKOK, Monday INDONESIA has cancelled a plan to hold a special session next month of Asean foreign ministers, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetasila said here yesterday. Marshal Siddhi said his Indonesian counterpart, Dr Mochtar Kusumaatmadja, scrubbed the meeting because of the difficulty of finding
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    • 324 4 It's the most promising market since the recession, they say AMSTERDAM, Monday THE Asia-Pacific region is attracting increasing interest among Western commercial banks for business prospects and investments and is considered to be the most promising major market in the world. Large numbers of Western
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    • 268 4 BEIJING, Mon CHINA'S one-child-per-couple birth control policy is being relaxed in Beijing to compensate grandparents who limited themselves to one child, the city government announced at the weekend. From the second half of this year, couples who were only children themselves will
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    • 133 4 ARANYAPRATHET (Thailand), Monday FOUR Phnom Penh soldiers had been captured near an embattled stronghold along the ThaiCambodian border, a Cambodian resistance group said today. A radio broadcast by the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF), monitored here, said the soldiers had been taken prisoner
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    • 155 4 BANGKOK, Mon. AS IF they didn't have enough problems, Thai citizens living along the tense border with Cambodia are facing a plague of "communist grasshoppers." Agriculture officials told Thai Rath newspaper that the eastern Prachinburi province, along the Cambodian border, has been under
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    • World briefs
      • 63 4 LEADERS FROM six Black African states concluded a one-day summit in Arusha, Tanzania, with a declaration of support and understanding for peace aggrements recently concluded by Mozambique and Angola with South Africa. The declaration came on Sunday at the end of a closed-door summit attended by the
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      • 67 4 INDIAN PRIME Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) Party on Sunday scored an upset election victory in the strategic state of Mizoram, giving it a boost for national polls due in the next eight months. Of 26 seats declared so far. Congress (I) has won 16, giving it an
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      • 65 4 FOUR OUT of five Britons think Mrs Margaret Thatcher is the toughest Prime Minister since Winston Churchill, a Harris poll said in London. However, the poll also showed people think Mrs Thatcher is dictatorial and does not care about ordinary people. The survey was timed to coincide
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      • 64 4 THE JAPANESE ambassador to the Soviet Union cancelled his scheduled televised address after refusing to give in to Soviet demands to alter certain parts, Kyodo news service reported in Tokyo yesterday. The Soviet Foreign Ministry had demanded that portions of Mr Masuo Takashima's speech that touched upon
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      • 60 4 THE POLISH government banned alcohol sales and tightened security in potential trouble spots around the country yesterday in an attempt to prevent Solidarity demonstrations on May Day. Riot police began massing in cities and towns where Solidarity was expected to attempt counter-demonstrations today during official parades extolling the
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      • 63 4 AUSTRALIA'S MAIN political opposition said yesterday that if it regained power, it would be more conciliatory towards Pretoria and would allow visits by South African politicians. Mr Michael MacKellar. foreign affairs spokesman for the opposition coalition of the Liberal and National parties, said in Canberra the parties would
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    • 185 7 AREA: Sudan is Africa's largest country, covering some 2,5*0,800 sq km, bounded by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea and Ethiopia to the east, Kenya, Uganda and Zaire to the sooth and the central African republic, Chad and Libya to the west. POPULATION: 21
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    • 450 7 Numeiry acts to combat opposition to Islamic law, labour unrest and rebellion in the south KHARTOUM, Monday PRESIDENT Jaafar Numeiry has imposed an indefinite state of emergency and declared martial law to combat opposition to Islamic law, labour unrest, corruption and rebels in the
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    • 300 7 Reagan 'thinking of moving Tel Aviv embassy' WASHINGTON, Mon. The Reagan administration, fearing an embarrassing election-year showdown with Congress, is considering moving the US embassy in Tel Aviv to west Jerusalem, the Washington Post reported today. The administration has previously said it would not consider moving the embassy to Jerusalem,
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    • 353 7 Work to start soon on $1.2 b coal mine in Shaanxi BEIJING, Monday CHINA signed a project agreement yesterday to begin work on a US$6OO million (551.26 billion) coal mine in China's Shaanxi province, the largest-ever joint venture between China and foreign interests. Mr
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    • 172 7 JERUSALEM, Mon. Israeli security authorities plan to focus their investigation of suspected Jewish terrorism on previous unsolved attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Israel Television reported. Quoting an unidentified senior police source, the state-owned television said yesterday investigators had successfully wrapped up their probe
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    • 96 7 Sporting gesture from Koreans SOI TH Korean chief delegate Kim Chonghyu (right) shake hands with his North Korean counterpart Kim Duk-Jun when the two sides resumed talks at the truce village of Panmunjom yesterday to discuss the possibility of sending a Joint-team to the Los Angeles Olympics and other International
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    • 307 8 MOSCOW, Mori. Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko, who has cut an increasingly high public profile since being named President early this month, went to Moscow's state metal works yesterday for a rare meeting with ordinary workers. Tass news agency said Mr Chernenko told the workers to
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    • 379 8 US to consult European allies on taking joint action WASHINGTON, Monday THE United States is to consult Britain and other allies in a bid to convert the latest concern over Libyan activities into concerted international pressure on Col Muammar Gaddafi, Reagan administration officials
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    • 251 8 Russian press sees red over tipsy women WASHINGTON, Mon SOVIET newspapers are alarmed at the growing number of women alcoholics in the Soviet Union, including milkmaids who get so tipsy they forget to milk the cows. "Just consider how much milk is lost," an indignant reader wrote to the publication
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    • 56 8 WASHINGTON. Mon. The number of bombing incidents in the US dropped in 1983 for the third year in a row, with the number of terrorist cases declining from 38 to 22 last year, FBI director William Webster said yesterday. The total for the year was 687 bombings, including
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    • 415 8 NEW YORK. Mon. Conflicts in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) between the United States and Europe over joint arms procurement appear to be worsi ening, according to British and other Nato diplomats. While Michael Heseltine, Britain's Minister of Defence, and i other high-level spokes-
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    • 47 8 LONDON. Mon. Striking British miners stepped up picketing at some pits today and police said at least 15 were arrested as the strike entered its eighth week and became the longest dispute in coalfields since the general strike of 1926. which lasted six months. AP
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    • 136 8 PALM BEACH, Mon. Police said the death of 28-year-old David Kennedy might ultimately be listed as murder. A task force of law officers is searching the last haunts of Mr Kennedy for the drug dealer authorities believe supplied him with cocaine so strong it may
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    • 234 9  - Police nab hell-rider as they are pelted PAUL WEE By HELL-RIDERS are back again. And in one incident last weekend, they were backed by "killer" litterbugs who pelted Traffic policemen with missiles. Bottles and milk cans were flung out of a block of flats in Aljunied Crescent early on Sunday
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    • 310 9  - HDB books the 'hardcore' cases MATHEW YAP By dBB TWENTY-FOIIR- YEAR-OLD Chna Kim Hua of Block 48, Toa Payoh East, had two unexpected visitors yesterday. Before he could close the door on what he thought were two salesmen, a warning notice was handed to him politely by two Housing Board
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    • 172 9 Cooling off in demand for air-con buses THE novelty of Singapore Bus Service's air-condi-tioned service seems to be wearing off. The average number of passengers a day has declined in the second week of operation of air-condi-tioned service 168, which runs between Ang Mo Kio and Orchard Road. Last week,
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    • 344 9  -  STELLA DANKER By SINGAPORE exporters may lose the duty-free status that some of their goods enjoy in the United States if the Singapore government fails to make a real commitment to wipe out tape piracy. This threat was
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    • 48 9 ADDITIONAL tariff preferences will be given to 48 new items from Asean countries starting today. Some of the products in the list, announced by the Customs and Excise Department yesterday, are honey, chocolate, bread, garments, gloves, stockings, hats, fluorescent lamps, furniture and mattresses.
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    • 145 9 THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday decided to donate $100,000 to the government for the celebration of Singapore's 25th year of nationhood. Chamber president Tan Keong Choon told its monthly council meeting yesterday that the chamber had received letters from several
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    • 122 9 SAF exercise THE area around Bedok Jetty will be closed to the public from 7 a.m. tomorrow until 5 p.m. on Saturday. And from tomorrow until Sunday, exercises will take place in Lim Chu Kang, Hong Kah. Marsiling, Mandai, Pulau Übin, Bah Soon Pah. Loyang and Ulu Sembawang. There are
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    • 43 9 MARINE Police will conduct livo firing exercises at the Southern Islands Live F-'irin^ Range on Pulau Senang on three Saturdays this month. The exercises will foe held from 9 am. until 2 n.rn this Saturday, May 12 and May 26
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    • 489 10  -  BEN DAVIDSON Case of pupillage and postgrad course By A THREE-JUDGE appeals court yesterday held that a law graduate, seeking admission to the Bar, must do his pupillage and postgraduate course in separate stages. It disagreed with Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin's ruling last
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    • 269 10 Wee: I'll try to help improve SBC MR WEE KIM WEE, Singapore's former ambassador to Japan, returns home today to take up his new job as chairman of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. "I'm looking forward to my new post," said Mr Wee in Japan in a telephone interview with The
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    • 423 11  - Six under gr ads make history at the NUS JUNE TAN They score first class honours in only 3 years By SIX undergraduates at the National University of Singapore have made history. They are the first to score class-one honours under the new direct honours programme. The programme was started
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    • 469 11  - Students call for delay in priority scheme registration HEDWIG ALFRED By STUDENT union leaders yesterday made a lastminute appeal to the government to delay the Primary One registration for children of graduate anc professionally qualified mothers which begins tomorrow. The union leaders felt that the priority scheme, which favours graduate
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    • 224 11 Thousands of tall vehicles still have no permits AT LEAST 34,000 vehicles exceeding 3.2 m in height have not yet been issued with permits to go on the roads since the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, which makes such permits compulsory, came into force on Friday. But Traffic Police are not
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    • 86 11 OMAN'S Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Yousuf bin Al-Alawi Abdullah, will arrive here tomorrow lor a three-day official visit. Mr Yousof will be received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Culture, Mr S. Dhanabalan. at Changi Airport. Mr Yousuf will also meet the Minister
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    • 130 11 SIX people, including a woman, were yesterday fined a total of $5,400 for offences connected with the Betting Act at premises at Stangee Place on Sunday. The occupant, Lim Lai Keow, 36, was fined $1,000 after she admitted allowing the premises to be used as
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    • 248 11 TWO businessmen were yesterday charged with 13 counts of abetment-by-conspiracy to cheat eight banks of a total of about $11 million. Tan Cheng Chow, 58. and Arman Suwono alias Lim Lai Guan, 34, an Indonesian, did not give their pleas. Suwono
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    • 128 11 ST JOSEPH'S Church Cemetery, which is more than a century old, is now closed. Even those- who had reserved plots have been told of the government's decision to close the cemetery in Chestnut Drive, said Father S. Yim of the church, which oversees the cemetery. A French
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    • 195 15 Man in plane died after drinking A MAN choked after eating and drinking in an aeroplane and was pronounced dead shortly after the aircraft landed at Changi airport. Mr Matsumura Tadatomo, 66, a pensioner from Kyoto, Japan, was travelling from Hongkong to Singapore with his wife and sister on the
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    • 55 15 A BOY, Goh Keng Hock, 8, was injured in an accident, along the Pan- Island Expressway, near Bukit Timah Plaza, on Sunday at 7.45 p.m He was sitting in the front seat of a car when it hit the rear of another car. He had slight neck injuries
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    • 140 15 Delegates go on tour of sites DELEGATES to the seminar yesterday toured a dozen historic areas of Singapore. Mrs Geraldene Ismail, a third-generation Singaporean, led a group of about 70 delegates from Singapore and abroad on a bus-and-walking tour of the city that began in the Orchard Road area and
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    • 478 15  -  WONG Al KWEI By URA plans guidelines for new buildings in central area THE seminar on how to adapt old buildings and areas into a modern city entered its third day yesterday with discussions focused on Singapore. Jointly organised by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of
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    • 187 15 '11 unique areas deserve to be preserved' A MEMBER of the Preservation of Monuments Board yesterday singied out 11 areas with unique architectural features and of historical significance which merit "serious consideration" for preservation. At a seminar on conserving old buildings, Mr Christopher Hooi, who is also head of the
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    • 195 15 ANYONE who makes, imports or sells crash helmets which are not certified by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) will either be fined or jailed from today. A statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs last night said a first
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    • 439 17  -  PAUL JANSEN Move to attract staff and correct discrepancies By THE SAF is giving heftier pay packets to non-commissioned officers in different combat vocations. These NCOs will be receiving between $45 and $175 more a month in vocation pay, which all soldiers get
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    • 354 17 20 years each for opium trafficking THREE men were each jailed for 20 years by District Judge Dalip Singh yesterday for trafficking in 47.149 kg of opium. Bek Ah Lek alias Beh Ah Lek, 36, and Cham Phoo Chiw alias Chiam Poh Chew, 37, will also be given 15 strokes
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    • 466 17 THE Workers' Party has accused the government of trying to break up large unions to weaken the labour movement. In its message for Labour Day today, the party says large unioas will be fragmented under the government's policy of having one union for
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    • In brief
      • 136 17 Boy gets $35,500 damages A SCHOOLBOY, who fractured the right side of his skull after he was knocked down by a motorcycle, was awarded a total of $35,517 in general and special damages. Hang Jong Juan, 14, was hit by a motorcycle ridden by Mr Tan Yeo Soon, 29, when
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      • 74 17 TWO foreigners came to blows after they were involved in a traffic accident at Newton Circus in the small hours of the morning of Feb 4. Timothy Howard Gillingham, 30, an American engineer, and South Korean salesman Koh Jae Hu, 29, both pleaded guilty to fighting.
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      • 67 17 Man stole from church A CAR washer was jailed for eight months yesterday for stealing at two places of worship. Nadrajan Thachanamoorthy, 47, pleaded guilty to stealing an amplifier worth $500 and a guitar worth $120 from the Orchard Road Presbyterian Church on Jan 14. He also admitted stealing a
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      • 77 17 A BAR waitress was jailed for eight months yesterday for shoplifting at a shop in Centrepoint, Orchard Road, last Saturday. Yong Siew Hong, 32, who had five previous convictions, pleaded guilty to the theft of two pairs of shorts worth a total of $78 from Royal
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    • 258 14  -  TEO LIAN HUAY Jalan Besar Ideas needed on use of CC roof deck By RESIDENTS of Jalan Besar will be given a chance to suggest how the roof deck of their new community centre can be used. The CC management committee was at a loss as
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    • 207 14  -  LIM KWAN KWAN By OF COURSE you don't have to pay to answer your own phone. But when friends of Mr Chan Ching Hui answered his calls, it cost them quite a bit. Some parted with $20, others as much as $1,000. In
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    • 71 14 Kampong Übi Fair hopes to net $7,000 KAMPUNG Übi Zone 1 RC is organising a food and fun fair to celebrate May Day today. It will be held on the void deck of blocks 9, 10 and 13 along Eunos Crescent from 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Coupon booklets at
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    • 343 14  -  THIO LAY HOON Havelock By THE kitchen may not be the place every young man would think of spending a Sunday morning but 23-year-old John Chua finds it "meaningful" to be there. On some Sundays, he even does the marketing. John, a JapanSingapore Training Centre
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    • 261 14 Nee Soon A POTENTIAL source of danger in the Nee Soon area has been identified and remedies taken because a resident bothered to make a fuss over it. Excavation work for the Seletar Sewerage Scheme has made it necessary to dig more than 20 large
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    • 116 14 It's fun for the young and joy for the old Jalan Besar ON STAGE, a magician was performing his tricks while backstage, the Peoples' Association Girl Pipers were tuning their instruments. Outside, the chatter of friendly conversation could not drown the music blar-ng from speakers. Such was the scene at
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    • 192 14 New CC takes root as a result of residents' efforts Yio Chu Kang IN 14 months' time, Yio Chu Kang residents will see the fruit of their labour when their new $3 million community centre is completed. Their fund-raising efforts during the past two-and-a-half years, supported by well-wish-ers and non-residents,
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    • 128 14 Bukit Merah FOR more than six months, Mrs Evelyn Loh, 25, a receptionist, discovered that whenever her laundry was hung out to dry in the night, all her undergarments and some other clothes would be gone the next day. Several of her neighbours on the
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    • 123 14 Serangoon Garden HERMINIA llano, subprincipal cellist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, is going to "plant rice" at Serangoon Garden CC on May 18. With four other SSO musicians, she will give a musical treat featuring the Filipino folk song Planting Rice as part of the
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 369 16 All other posts to be contested, says organiser KUALA LUMPUR, Monday DATUK Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was returned unopposed as Umno president for another threeyear term when nominations for the party elections closed at 4.30 p.m. today. All other posts in the party, including those of
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    • 338 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday MORE than $15 million worth of study awards and loans are given away each year by both the government and the private sector but not all of these reach those who truly need them. This has prompted Deputy Education Minister
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    • 56 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Pakistani ambassador to Malaysia, Mr S. Abid Ali Bilgrami, died of a heart attack at his residence here yesterday. He was 65. Mr Ali Bilgrami, who had served as Pakistani ambassador here since August 1981, was survived by his wife, Madam Izzat Bano,
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    • 229 16 Tunku expresses confidence in new Aaono 9 PENANG, Mon. Former Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman expressed confidence yesterday that the new Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Mahmood Iskandar of Johore, would carry out his official functions wisely and justly for the sake of the country and the people. "I hope His
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    • 148 16 Boulder threat on Penang Hill PENANG, Mon. A huge boulder perched precariously beside the Penang Hill railway track Is posing "great danger" to people and property at the bottom of the hill. The boulder crashed down the hill during Saturday's torrential downpour. The Penang Hill railway service between the ground
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    • 125 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon SATAY may become a popular international snack when Sate Ria opens its restaurants worldwide soon. The director of the kampung industries division of the National and Rural Development Ministry. Datuk Mohamad Faisol Hassan, said yesterday that among the
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    • 552 16 CONGRA TULA TIONS to BERNARD TAY and Family members On the occasion of the 70th 60th Birthdays of their parents Mr. Mrs. Tay Chin Kiat From: Mr Mrs Alan Lee Staff Management of: Mr Tony Cheong Greenvalley Enterprise Mr Tay Kok Nam Pte Ltd Mr Louis Tay Forespand Food Enterprise
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  • 442 18 The Straits Times says Keeping up with the times LABOUR DAY is more than just another holiday. It is a day when workers the world over (with the exception of Americans who observe Labour Day on Sept 3) demonstrate their desire for better living and working conditions. In 1889, the
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  • 598 18 Productivity the key to success IS^tf l^^^^^^o I .^^^T^^^^^^^^^^^^K L*i ff^^i^^^^^^* '^^L^^^^^m k J *Bk 'fl| |t *bL \^^^B kJ h Ll^y* W M 4 IN the last three years of world recession, few countries have enjoyed full employment, low inflation, and good economic growth rates. Singapore is fortunate in
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  • 990 18 BEIJING President Reagan's mission to China invites comparisons with President Nixon's visit 12 years ago. Yet much has changed in the world situation, in China internally and in the interaction between the two countries. When Mr Nixon arrived
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  • 842 18 Asean notes INDONESIA J AYAPURA Indonesia Recently, a Westerner and an Indonesian exploring for oil in Sorong, the Bird's Head region of Irian Jaya, were killed by tribals. They were drilling in the tribe's sago stand, the Melanesian "food barn" which is often a woman's domain.
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  • FORUM
    • 198 19 I HAVE recently returned to Hongkong from an enjoyable few days in Singapore. I wanted to see as much as possible in a limited time and so it was necessary to travel by taxi at times. It was basically a disagreeable experience. On several
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    • 141 19 )N March 29, I made use of my Post Office Savings Bank cash-on-line card at the Bedok North outlet to withdraw some cash. My card was rejected thrice on the ground that it was damaged. I was too embarrassed to make a fourth
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    • 254 19 On 'meddlesome medicine 9 LET me state very clearly that I have only one life, unlike a cat which is purported to have nine. I value it very much and I wish people like "Dr Know", who wrote the letter "Meddlesome medicine:
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    • 166 19 IN Singapore, where living accommodation is limited and where industrial complexes readily offer employment to the young, there is a feeling among elderly people that they may become a burden. The old and ageing person is threatened, first from the deterioration of his
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    • 89 19 Don't leave droppings behind THERE is now pressure against littering, the throwing of objects from high-rise flats and spitting in public places. Let us add to the list a campaign against littering by dog droppings. Ever since flat dwellers were allowed to keep pet dogs, it is a common sight
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    • 224 19 A bigger venue for Baba Playplease FURTHER to "LKL" s i letter "Good response, so extend season of Baba play" (ST. April 25) about Felix Chia's play "Pileh Menantu'", may I state that extending the season of the play will i not be of much help. From the handouts, I
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    • REPLIES
      • 160 19 Shooters were downing nuisance crows WE refer to the letter "Man came out of car and shot at my roof". (ST, April 13). The Primary Production Department has received many complaints about crow nuisance. The department controls the crow nuisance by shooting them. Members of the Singapore Gun Club have
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    • 530 19 Be careful when accepting cheques I REFER to the letter "Dud cheque recipients need more protection", by "Victim of Archaic Law". (ST. March 19). The contention of the writer that the police only take action when a 'dud" or dishonoured cheque is one made out to "cash" and when the
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    • 369 19 THE polarisation of views on "meddlesome medicine" between some doctors and the general public concurs neatly with the heading of the report on Professor G.B. Ong's 1984 SMA Lecture, "Doctors 'losing bond of confidence with patients' (ST, April 15). Prof Ong's prescription was for the
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    • 209 19 Works of the well-known Japanese woodblock print artist, Tsunao Harada, to be shown for the first time in Singapore "^^!8l ><^|^^ The woodblock pnnt is a traditional medi- His works combine the stark draughtsman- Venue Mandarin Court A a^^^gj^3^|i#l^-^ *)^^^«i um of Japanese art, but Tsunao Harada like, black and
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  • 1515 20 This year, the Ministry of Defence has started educating people on the concept of Total Defence that it is not enough just to have an effective military defence; the individual and the community at large must also be prepared to defend the nation should the need
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  • Total Defence is:
    • 105 20 The enemy will do everything it" can. from distorting facts to manipulating sensitive issues, i to divide a nation. Once psychological j warfare succeeds in weakening a people's will j to fight for a common cause, the enemy has al- ready scored a major j victory. In a
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    • Article, Illustration
      58 20 We must be careful not to allow ourselves to be swayed by subversive elements out to sow seeds of distrust and discontentment in our community. Through tolerance and respect for each other's race, religion, language and culture, we can maintain social harmony It is the cohesiveness of the
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    • 82 20 It is essential that our commerce and industries organise their operations in such a way that they will be able tb cope with major problems like manpower and material shortages. A Total Defence effort requires the support and participation of individuals and organisations in the economic sector. Therefore,
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 20 Studies have shown that in modern war, civilian deaths outnumber military casualties by about 20:1. With a Civil Defence Force, our people will be able and ready to respond to emergencies. By performing tasks like fire-fighting, casualty evacuation, first-aid and looking after the safety and basic needs of
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    • 113 20 Ours is a citizen-army and between 15,000 and 20,000 go into the Reserves each year. There are now 200,000 reservists who form the main bulk of the SAF and 50,000 fulltime national servicemen and regulars. But sheer number alone cannot be equated with defence capability. The quality of
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  • TIMESDOLLAR
    • In the market
      • 283 21 IT WAS a very cautious and nervous market yesterday at the local stock exchange. The aborted extraordinary general meeting of the MCA had left the issue at a stalemate and some investors preferred to remain non-eommital. But there were others who decided to
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      • 40 21 INDICES Highs Lows Straits Times Industrial Business Times Composite 1983 84 High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 1983 84 Low 712.29 (5 1 83) All-time High *****1 (8/2/84) All-time Low 74 75 (17/9/64) 983 06 (82/84) 684 88 (4-1/83) ***** (8/2/84) 550.78 (12/8/82)
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      • Chief price changes
        • 60 21 UtdMaUccj 960 +90 ST P 1975 1210 +80 NS T 2650 +50 KTPkj 1300 +50 DKeramat 1020 +40 SeUofwDredt 685 +40 CCM 488+32 Suit* Be* 1170 +20 Ortdißaby 755 +20 Kanuitinf Me 840 +15 SthMsaM 610 +15 MFhw 480 +12 Spore Glass Me 194 +11 MA A 1650 +10
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        • 37 21 rap** Com Time* Pub 800 —25 VanDcrHont Promet 380 -20 Htikor 620 -15 DjfiYwi 376 —12 SPKSentmj 268 -12 ICS 750 -10 Prim 625 -10 Gtnfap 540 -10 Kentucky Sp«« 454 -10 OUE 410 -10 KGrtdp
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        • 63 21 Apr 27 Apr 30 BT Composite 919 38 913 96 BT Indicator *****08 *****31 ST Industrials 998 12 993 96 ST Finance 3015.43 3013 87 ST Hotels ***** 960 20 ST Properties 660 54 657 34 ST Minings: 405 45 407.26 ST Plantations 2648 69 2650 76 OCBC *****
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        • 22 21 Promet 1,549,000 Pan-Electric 336,000 Van der Horst 300,000 Faber Merlin 288,000 NOL Wrts 194.000 Total turnover: 6.91m Total value: $24.75m
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      • 33 21 Singapore barometer Up Down Uhch Industrials 29 68 18 Finance 5 6 9 Hotels 4 4 1 Properties 2 8 2 Plantations 3 7 3 Mining 4 3 1 Deb/Loans 1 2 5
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      • 39 21 K. Lumpur barometer Up Down Unch Industrials 35 63 24 Finance 0 10 3 Hotels 1 0 1 Properties 1 5 4 Oil Palms 3 3 4 Tins 11 6 2 Rubbers 12 12 4 Deb/Loans 1 1 1
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      • 83 21 SELECTED tin-based counters featured prominently amid generally dull trading conditions on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Share prices opened on a barely steady note and thereafter drifted within narrow margins for most of the morning session. The 30-counter New Straits Times Industrial Ordinary Share index rose
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      • 69 21 i BousteadßM -3 &*nns CtC _4 Han Par CCM +32 Inchcaoeßhd CoWStorite J^PP* ***M +1 Ejio +10 Mim-Purpose FIN _5 NBT Gentnp —10 Iran +10 PMC —1 Pan Dec unch -1 Peril Plant +5 -2 _10 Ul\ h Promet -20 —4 -3 Robinson's —15 Rottwura I
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    • 320 21  -  DOREEN SOH By M vrsA I LATE last month, an American woman made history when she used her Visa card to withdraw cash from a Visa member bank in Arkansas, USA, at an ATM (Automated Teller Machine) at Sydney airport, the other side
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    • 456 21 Face in the news SAN FRANCISCO Just weeks before he formally took over on April 4 as president and chief executive of Levi Strauss and Co, Mr Robert D. Haas pulled the plug on one of the company's more successful television
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    • 557 21  -  IRENE NGOO Developers now thinking of another amusement park By THE developers who tore down the former Great World Amusement Park at Kim Seng Road to make way for a modern residential-shopping-hotel complex are now back at square one. After more than three years of
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    • 484 21  -  S. KUMAR By in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian Capital Issues Committee is looking into the possibility of having a secondary listings board on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange to bring it in line with Singapore. Mr C. Rajandram, the secretary of the CIC,
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    • 370 21  -  RONNIE LIM By ESSO is currently moving its Malaysian offshore oil support operations lock, stock and barrel out of Singapore to Trengganu. And this could mark just the beginning of an exodus, as Indonesia has recently clamped down new measures against foreign
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    • Short stops
      • 73 21 NEW BRUNSWICK Johnson and Johnson said its domestic sales for the first quarter were affected by the absence of dialysis sales and a general softness in its professional segment. The company reported net profits of US$l49 million (Ss3lo million) for the quarter, compared to U*****.2 million for
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      • 58 21 SINGAPORE'S M-l money supply fell 4.5 per cent in February to $8.38 billion after a two per cent increase in January, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said. MAS said the February contraction was due largely to a seasonal reduction of $346 million to $4.44 billion in currency in
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      • 27 21 BATTLE CREEK (Michigan) Kellogg Co said it had a first quarter net profit of US$69.B million (Ssl4s million) on sales of U*****.1 million. Reuter
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    • 2473 22 READERS should be aware of the limitations of this information. Not every transaction, nor every price dealt in at the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges, is necessarily covered in "business done". Further because all dealings at a particular price are grouped together, the table does
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    • 1827 22 INDUSTRIALS AJnamata (3.905) Aleam (2.408 2.425) (1) 2.42 (2) 2.43 Antah (2.038 2.065) (3) 2.08 (13) 2.07 (9)2.05(1)206 AISB (5.558 5.605) (8) 5.65 (1) 5.70 (5)5.55(1) 5.50(20)5.60 AMD (4.10B) (10) 4.06 (4) 4.08 (2) 4.10 API (1.768 1.775) (1) 1.76 (2) 1.77 ASM (1.738 1.745)
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    • 2763 22 Al shares quoted have a par value of SI unless otherwise specified Adjusted for scrip rights N Tax-exempted dividend ABN is traded in lots of 10 shares each, with the price quoted in dolars 1984 Last Yield Vol Day High Low Company Sale Change ('000) Hijh
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    • Commodities
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        19 23 Ck)sin S P"" 5 cents/kik) Singapore May ***** down 2 25 cents Malaysia May 225.00 down 4 cents
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      • 15 23 Closing prices MS kilo Straits Tin $29.15 unch Turnover: 95 tonnes, up 4 tonnes
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      • 41 23 GOLD USS/oz Moo Fri Singapore 375 80— 376 30 377.40 377 90 Mm Sat Hongkong 375 90 376 40 *****—***** Fri Thurs New York 377.00— 378 00 377 00 378 00 London 377 50 378.00 376 00 376 50
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      • 117 23 SINGAPORE'S gold futures closed little changed. Trading was at a standstill due to lack of interest. Prompt closed little changed at US$376.50/ 378.00 an ounce against New York's Friday US$377 378 close, June at US$380.50 382.50 against US$381.20, 381.70 and August at US$388 390 against US$388.00 40. Reuter. (Our
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      • 26 23 Closinf prices COPPER £/tonne Fri Spot 1045 00-1046 00 (*****0-1052 00) 3 months 1063 00—1064 00 (1070 00-1070 50) Market tone Easier Sales 37.530 tonnes
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      • 28 23 Ctosiif prices ALUMINIUM [tonne Fri Spot 957 50— 958 00 (963 00-964 00) 3 months 977 50-978 00 (984 00—984 50) Market tone Steady Sales 14.075 tonnes
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      • 236 23 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed higher on short covering and renewed buying due to firmer Chicago soya futures last week. PALM Cknin( prices Crude M$/t«*w palm oi May 1620 (buyers) 1615 (south) 1620 1605 (north central) Jun 1600 (buyers) 1550 (north) Refined palm oi RBD palm oil
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      • 67 23 THE Singapore rubber market closed lower with May One RSS buyers quoted at 207.25 cents per kilo, down 2.25 cents from Friday's close. In Koala Lumpur, the rubber market closed at 225.00 cents per kilo for May Int One RSS buyers, down four cents from Friday's close. The International
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      • 59 23 THE Straits Tin price in Penang remained at the International Tin Agreement's floor level of MJ29.15 per kilo. The high premium it holds over the price in London reflected continuing shortage of demand. The Buffer Stock Manager took most of the 95 tonnes on offer, up from 91
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      • 28 23 SILVER Cto« P«« USS/troy oi Mm Fri Singapore 9 00-9 05 9.25-9 30 Fri Thn New York 9 04 9 09 9 05-910 Source Credit Sursse Spore
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      • 316 23 FOB in bales RAS MRELB (S cents/klo) <M Closint tone: Quiet (RAS). Easier (MRELB) Forward prices RAS KLCE (S cents/iklo) (M cents/kilo) Noon Close Noon Close Int. 1 RSS Standard rubber prices (noon) 1 ton paiets RAS MRELB Int. 1 RSS prompt Int. 1 RSS May Int 1 RSS
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      • 256 23 Oar usual prices for Tokyo redbeans were not available as there was a market holiday in Japan yesterday. Gam bier 100* 2nd class 265 fOB NSW 300 00 (sellers) l° 0% 3rd class ?60 Source Produce Exchange [g<j 250 15% 245 $/klo,«.godown HI RtCe 35% 233 SMGWOtt Broken
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    • Overseas markets
      • 334 23 Apr! 30 Cents Chanf c (tat) A C I 187 +1 A N I 288 O A P M 20! (inch Aberfoyle 940 -10 Age 2808 Alliance OH 87 +1 Allied Mill 22S unrh Ampol Kxp 425 unch Ampol Pet 175 unch Am 500 unch AjhUin 118 +6 B
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      • 256 23 LOS ANGELES Recent Walt Disney productions stock purchases by Reliance Group Holdings Inc show Reliance intends to pressure Disney to buy back its own stock at a premium, industry analysts say. A subsidiary of Reliance Group, Reliance Financial Services Corp, said it plans to
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      • 316 23 DETROIT General Motors said it sees strong sales of its vehicles, which totalled U5522.9 billion (5547.6 billion) in the first quarter of this year, continuing into the second quarter. But chairman Roger Smith and president James McDonald said earnings will be affected in the
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      • 132 23 HONGKONG Prices of Swire Pacific shares fell at the start of the afternoon session yesterday after being suspended from trading in the morning at Swire's request. Swire announced on Saturday a plan to bid for minority shares of its 72.5 per cent-held subsidiary, Swire
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      • 294 23 Hongkong Hang Seng L Monday 1037.06 (1054.30) Week ago -closed- Australian M-Ordinaries —V- Monday 756.0 (753.2) Week ago -closedAustraian Industrials —h Monday 994.0 (993.0) Week ago -closed(Ftpjres in brackets refer to those of the previous tradnf day) HONGKONG, Mon. Share prices closed mostly lower on a lack of buying
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      • 258 23 *pri 30 HKS Chanje Associated Hotel* 081N Bulk Of East Asia Carrlan Invest Cheung Konf 8 15 -03 Chlnm Light 12 10 -0J Cross Hub Tunnel 11 40S F E Consortium 051 unch Far East Exch Phllex 0 085 «0 005 O I Cement »JB unch Great Eagle 050
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    • Finance
      • 232 23 THE US dollar opened at SS2.0875 85 and trading was quiet and thin with a low at S$2.0870 80 before closing back at S$2 0875 85. The greenback was also narrowly traded against major currencies ahead of the month-end closing. Against the Deutschemark, it opened at 2.7090 00 and
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      • 206 23 Interbank Over the counter Foreign currency Australian dollar Canadian dollar NZ dollar Sterling pound US dollar Austrian schilling Belgian franc (com) Danish kronor Deutschemark Finnish mark French franc Hongkong dollar Indian rupee Indonesian rupiah Italian lira Japanese yen Korean Won* Malaysian dollar Netherland guilder New Taiwan dollar* Norwegian
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      • 218 23 Managers' prices for May 1 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 3 33- 3 54 The Savings fund I 95—2 07 Spore Prog Fund I 42-1 51 Spore S«c fund 218—2 31 Spore Invest fund 117-124 S pore Equity Fund 1 41—1 50 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest fund
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    • 572 23 Receipt of Export FCL containers and LCL cargo LCL containers unpacked at the containers freight on Apr 30 (2300) Ship (Voyaie) Arr CFS Tambang VI! (7234) 29 4 TA3 As Winds (403) 29 4 TA3 I Bridge (30A) 29 4 FSA Chev Valbelle (35 535) 29 i FSA
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    • Article, Illustration
      308 23 Vessel Berth Arr Dep Vessel Berth Arr Dep Keppei Wharves Druzhba Narodov 13/4 aside 15 SC 434 0 (BGE) 8 9 15 2/5 Kim Soon Li 22 aside 15 SC 459 Z (BGEi 8 9 15 2 5 Ned Leuve 44 aside 1/5 D««ip D. n i.
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    • 124 23 From Page 22 KT Pm i 14.008 14.405) (1) 14.40 Uarfnuuto (3.548 3.565) (7) 3.54 M»l»k«a -4.288) Mstea PUat (2.168 2.205) Mratafeb 1 1T.00B 18.00S) New Sdak (5.008 5055) (2) 5 20 (1) 5.00 (U) 5.05 Partt Penk < 41 008 50.00S) Blvervtew (8.568 9.005)
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    • 240 24 UNITED Pulp and Paper, which has twice unsuccessfully tried to diversify into property, suffered a larger than expected loss last year. Net lasses were up from $4.39 million in 1982 to $8 14 million. And again, there is no dividend. Directors say the losses are due to bad
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    • From the companies desk
      • 47 24 Kl ALA Lumpur Kepong Bhd has received the approval of the Foreign Investment Committee for its acquisitions of Sri Kunak Plantation Sdn Bhd, Kulumpang Development Corpora- tion Sdn Bhd, HAP Plantation Mills Sdn Bhd and 3,055.8 hec- lares of plantation land I in Sabah.
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      • 43 24 SHAREHOLDERS of United Oversea Land Ltd have given approv- al to their directors to issue further shares in the company as and when they deem fit, provided these shares do not exceed 10 per cent of the present issued share capital.
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      • 54 24 PROFITS were halved last year at Bedford Plantations. At the pretax level, profits slumped from M51.56 million to M5763,000. Turnover fell from M535.88 million to M511.71 million. Despite the poor performance, the directors are paying a final dividend of 2 per cent, making a total of 5 per
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      • 40 24 FEDERAL Hour Mill Bhd increased its pretax profits from M521.2 million to M526.06 million last year. Turnover rose from M5377.54 million to I M5458.88 million. EarnIngs per share were up I from 16.8 sen to 19.6 I sen.
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      • 22 24 KECK Seng (M) Bhd will hold its 14th annual general meeting on I May 23 at 11.30 a.m.
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    • 386 24  -  IRENE HOE Hong Fok Corporation By ONE year after it reported stunning losses totalling more than $33 million, Hong Fok Corporation Ltd is back in the black with a pretax profit of $540,000. The group is paying a first and final dividend
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    • 210 24 THE twin prongs of the recession-hit motor vehicle industry and the keen competition in the heavy vehicle industry have stabbed profits at United Motor Works (M) Holdings Bhd. UMW, one of the giants in the Malaysian motor industries, reported that group
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    • Article, Illustration
      592 24  -  DOREEN SOH By QWHAT Is a share Index? How is it derived? A THE purpose of an index is to summarise many ingredients into a single number, and then to measure changes in that derived number by changes in its parts over time. A share index, then, is a
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    • 323 24  -  IRENE HOE Town and City Properties TOWN City Properties enjoyed an incredible 53,681 per cent jump in sales to $23 million last year. But shareholders have nothing else to celebrate. Every profit figure on the group's balance sheet is free-fall-ing. Town City is the locally-listed
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    • 48 24 Bank to open in 11 US cities LOS ANGELES Standard Chartered Bank PLC's Union Bancorp subsidiary said it has filed applications with the Federal Reserve to open offices in 11 cities across the nation. The offices will seek consumer business, but will not engage in commercial lending. Reuter
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    • 708 26 66 Situations Vacant e) Secretarial Clerical AUDIT ASSISTANTS/ TRAINEES required by eipanding firm of Pubhe Accounfanls working on a 5 -day week Interested applicants please TEL: *****567 *****49 to arrange lur an interview or appl) In own handwriting slat ing qualifications, experience and ialar) expected lo THE ADVERTISER 257 SELEGIE
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    • 702 26 74 Vehicle Financing HOSIN ENTERPRISE. USED ai Immediate I one *****74 LM MOTOR CREDIT offers Uu 75 Registration Numbers POTENTIAL CAR BUYER vantl I 01 7265 ~76 Vehicles For Sale A a) Alia/Peugeot ALFA BERLINA 2000 Saloon excellent condition Nun-PARK Highest offer secures Tel *****35. END '77 ALFETTA 1.6, very
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    • 524 27 76 Vehicles For Sale c) Datsun /Nissan JUIY IKB3. NISSAN s.niliy 1.30L, 1 ki cassette sports rims, tufl 124,900 IV: ii: .290 Rli hard MID 1977 DATSUN IOOA I J With sports nm-. aircond ladio i as iette Asking 19 100 negotiable I (tirt.ci MID 1981 DATSUN IOOA owners. radio
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    • 434 27 76 Vehicles For Sale c) Datsun Nissan 1978 DATSUN 120Y Ql i ondltton Tel 4569 1979 DATSUN 120Y. Saloon I private owner tip top condition Contact Oiik *****12 *****51. 1979 DATSUN 140J. Aircon cassette radio 18,750 Hlk 161 *02 ini6 Lorong I, Toa Payoh d) Flat JUNE '79 fiat I3ICL
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    • 423 27 76 Vehicles For Sale e) Ford must sell! 1971 Cortina 2000F automatic, exi ellent 1 01 asking $3.6000 n 0 1976 FORD CORTINA l.fl Station wagon Very good condition Aircond., radio cassette Pel *****42 1979 ESCORT GHIA Ili 4-dOOI I owner PARF atrcon >■ engine Selling neap 449 1980 DEC
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    • 399 27 76 Vehicles For Sale S Honda 1980 ACCORD 4-door 5-speed mobile telephone, aircon hi ti tuff-kote. accident free ful condition 821,300. *****46 1980 HONDA ACCORD. Auto Ipnvatc owner Cassette I lood .■ondltion Asking $20,200 ono Tel: 338 1980 HONDA ACCORD Aircon. radio 2 owners Tip-top condition $211,100 ono. Tel *****19.
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    • 448 27 76 Vehicles For Sale g) Mazda 73 MAZDA CAPEII A ft o.n o I 1646), tel '24. I '81 MAZDA 15 Gl 2nd owner with nice number plate, webei extractor cam and expensive rim*, and hi ft, front rear spoiler 1 APRII 1978 MAZDA 12 1 1000 3dooi I ovi
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    • 438 27 76 Vehicles For Sale h) Mercedes END '79 MERCEDES LJiHI auto private owner. EL number plate, new road tax i m m aculate i ondltion Highest otter Interested call *****51 1979 MERCEDES 200, private owner, expensive hifl set power Windows, new road tax. tie lutiful condition $50,000 o n Tel:
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    • 424 27 76 Vehicles For Sale i) Mitsubishi 1980 MITSUBISHI LANCER GL. private owner, aircon, high powered issette, Ip top condition $16,500 Interested call Steven yap, tel *****6 1982 COLT SIGMA Galant ***** > Aircon. sports rims, 1 owner Pi., neer radio cassette $19,250 Blk 161, *02-1616 Lorong 1, Toa Payoh 1982
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    • 435 27 76 Vehicles For Sale 76 Vehicles For Sale j) Toyota j) Toyota M TEST DRIVE... "TJQ THE EXCITING NEW CORONA 1.6 PARF $26,800 ARF $34,900 OR o o w SPACIOUS. POWERFUL, ECONOMICAL fg S NEW COROLLA 1.3 °-S DX PARF $21,770 ARF $28,650 "o 2| GL PARF $24,110 ARF $31,790
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    • 341 27 NOVEMBER 80 TOYOTA Corolla DX. Aircond, radio cassette, new tax. very good condition. $18,000. Tel: *****77. NOV. 1978 TOYOTA Corolla. Sports rims, aircond. Stereo, excellent condition. $13,000. Call 4»i'>8269. NOV. 1981 TOYOTA Carina 5- speed, radio/ cassette, sports rims. Selling $18,800 0.n.0. Call i *****29. REGISTERED 1979 TOYOTA Corolla. 1200c.
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    • 275 27 76 Vehicles For Sale J) Toyota 1982 TOYOTA CELICA XT 2000 1 private owner aircond. radio cassette Done 8,000 km. showroom condition *****52 •77 CELICA 1600. Am on rims, new tax, hi-ti set 513.600 Mo Kio Ave 8. •80 TOYOTA COROLLA DX 1300 C.C aircond, hi-fi tip top condition (17,000
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    • 815 28 76 Vehicles For Sale 76 Vehicles For Sale 76 Vehicles For Sale k) Others k) Others k) Others *i£— V<\ y% 4 4 1600 2 seater Your only opportunity this year to own a splendid 4 4 1600 4-seater Mnpte of hand built craftsmanship. Firm order. 4 4 1600 2-seater
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    • 618 28 76 Vehicles For Sale i) Commercial Vehicles JULY 1982, TOYO ACE Light t ruck j Oood condition. I owner, petrol, aircon cassette recorder. Selling $8,800 Tel: *****62 MAY, 1982, DAIHATSU 55 van 5 doors. New model I owner $8,500 0.n.0. Loan arrangeable Tel: *****41 1979 DATSUN 120Y Blind Van Just
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    • 634 28 jg± ACCOMMODATION H PROPERTIES 86 Accommodation Vacant a) Houses FOR TOP EXECUTIVES A SWEET HOME IN LEEDON PARK vicinity majestlr hill-top bungalow with its own architecture charm. 5 bedrooms spacious living/dining, iwimming pool, gym and roof garden. BINJAI PARK semi-colonial bungalow in quiet CUL DE SAC 4 bedrooms, lovely patio
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    • 567 28 86 Accommodation Vacant b) Apartments DIST. 1130. BEAUTIFUL 3-bedroom walk-up apartment to let. Contact 4 Jalan Novena Barat. > c) Rooms BENG'S LODGE OFFERS luxurious furnished airconditioned rooms with own bathroom, private entrance anl telephone available in dist. 15. Linen, daily cleaning and 24 hours security/ reception provided. Laundry and
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    • 789 28 86 Accommodation Vacant c) Rooms katong JOO CHIAT area Modern cheap accommodation for female students working ladles Ail facilities LOOKING FOR ROOMS? We fiavt nice and cosj room: await you I Call ih t'ii immediate reaction *****19 2234 MASTER BEDROOM PLUS hall In private flat (Teacher's I fridge cooking, washing.
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    • 840 28 89 Properties For Sale 89 Properties For Sale 89 Properties For Sale a) Houses a) Houses a) Houses 5 SPANISH-STYLE DOUBLE-STOREY TERRACE HOUSES IGffcfffCflßßEßj 55 mUTEH KATONG HIGHCLASS RESIDENTIAL AREA. S ADJACENT TO JACKIE'S BOWL KATONG OCEAN PARK.S FREEHOLD LAND .ffcOVS ~oN° X ftAO/ HOUSING O*K\^y&ra*tf 90% LOAN V£o*So^ LOW
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    • 502 28 89 Properties For Sale 89 Properties For Sale b) Private Apartments b) Private Apartments HJ HEIGHTS Low rise Condominium Development on 5 acres of Prime land in district 2159. opposite Bukit Batok School and International School. 4-storey maisonette 2 levels to each unit of built up area from 190m2 to
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    • 251 28 89 Properties For Sale d) HDB Apartments 5-ROOM ANG MO KIO Point Bloc] 430, morning sun. high flooi near Central. MRT. market swimming pool Ceramic tile* Kitchen cabinets. Sandtex ceil ing. Plastered walls, grills. Fur nished master-bedroom, man; extras. Ist offer above $158,000 se cures. *****17 HIGH FLOOR WITH good
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    • 875 28 89 Properties For Sale d) HDB Apartments DIST 22. TEBAN darden Verj good location Bigger than urdiied Furniture .uid than i $25,000 Selling price $138,000 Tel. SPOTTISHWOODE PARK 5-ROOM-ED, parquet terrazso, kitchen cabinets, room wardrobi r see to appreciate 222-; i TOA PAYOH 3-ROOMED I.orong 1. neai MKT. shop, market
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    • 649 29 89 Properties For Sale 89 Properties For Sale 89 Properties For Sale b) Private Apartments b) Private Apartments b) Private Apartments I .your 'Home Sweet Home 9 I where values are rising Opposite Mandarin Hotel of Orchard Road i silver tow irtnwnls and penthouses Outdoor amenities include m$ ideally located
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    • 300 29 93 Office Spaces 93 Office Spaces I b) Rental b) Rental J PEACE CENTRE/MANSION 1 Sophia Road Singapore 0922 SHOP/OFFICE SPACE Office space from 55 sq m to 4.000 sq.m (with or without toilet faclitiesl Shop space from 35 sq m RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS Luxurious 3 4 bedroom, split level apartments
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    • 287 29 <^ffcS TRAVEL GUIDE 100 Air Travel CHARTER FLIGHT TO Haadyai Dep: 15 27/31 MaySpecial One W"y Air'One Way i Coach $199 Daily Dep. > Direct Flight to Haadyai Dep: Every Mon Sat Direct Flight to Phuket Dep: Tue Thurs/Sun Haadyai/Songkhla Tour 3 Day by Air $399 Daily Phuket Special Dep:
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    • 52 29 nil 't \IM I B 1 Tl?i^B:i Something For Everyone In Today's Straits Times Classified Keen on travelling 3 Then start from the Classified, where there's a host of tour agencies and itineraries at today's competitive prices to choose from r- 1 c.a!t.s. 7371 166J The Straits Times Classifieds Travel
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    • 709 29 102 Tours 102 Tours 1 _■> NAM HO I WF- TRAVEL SERVICE (Si PTE LTD Head Office: Pearl's Centre Gr. Poor. 100 EuTong Sen St *OH4 -01-16. *01-18 Singapore 0105 Tel: *****33 (7 lines) Branch Office: Peoples Park Complex. Gr. Floor 1. Park Road -01-19. Singapore 0105. Tel: *****1-3/*****6/*****8/*****63 g
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  • OBITURIES
    • 159 30 141 Deaths 141 Deaths MR VINCENT TAN KIONG HOE Aged 80 passed away peacefully on 29th April 1984 leaving behind WIFE:- LEE SIEW GUAT SONS DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW Eddie Tan Helen Tang Tony Tan Julie Loh Francis Tan Sean Guet Lian. Anne Fredie Tan Gwendoline de Silva DAUGHTER SON-IN-LAW Dolly Tan Andrew
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      112 30 Chuang Peck Wan Passed away peacefully on 28.4.84 Leaving behind: SonChuang Keng Chok Daughters Chuang Woo Yap Chuang Toy Him Chuang Sheue Ling Chuang Siew Chin Chuang Sheve Mei Daughters-in-law Wan See Lui Son-in-law:-Wong took Chuan Grand daughters:Zhuang Chiew Ping Wong Choon Yee WongChoon Fong Wong Choon Yeow
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      80 30 KARTHAYANI MAKAPOO Passed away peacefully on 30th April 1964. Cortege will leave 12A Jalan Novena Barat at 2.30pm on Ist May 1984 for Mount Vernon Crematorium. (Tel: *****10). 143 Acknowledgements THE FAMILY OF THE LATE I MISS 001 BEE BEE I n extend their deepest gratitude i to
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    • 90 30 143 Acknowledgements The family of the late PATRICK TAN THONG HAI Departed 24/4/84 withes to express their gratitude to Rev. Fr. Vincent Lee members ot the OLPS Church, start of Ward 34. TTSH. friends and relatives for their condolences, assistances, attendance, contributions and wreaths during their recent bereavement. The family
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      51 30 At Mark of Respect To The Late MR CHUA SENG KIM Age 71 Passed away peacefully on 29th April 1984. Father ol our M.D Mr Damten Chua Kee Meng Our office will be closed till 4th May 1984. TECON PTE LTD Blk2S. Unit 01-25 Pandan Loop (0512) Tel:
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      124 30 In loving memory ol Stephen Lee Teck Tong Departed 1.5.83 Painfully missed but never forgotten by loving wife, daughter and all at home. MR. BOON KIM YEW Departed Ist May 1982 Fime changes many things. But not the memory this day orings. Always remembered by wife, son*,
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    • 808 30 102 Tours 102 Tours 102 Tours EUROPE 1984 Cheaper Better Than Ever Before! T 16 days DINERS EUROPE only $3499 j Italy France Switzerland Liechtenstein Austria Germany Holland Belgium England y^\ L Dep: May 13. 27. 31. June 3, Aug 6 1 Fly by our national carrier Stay in first
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    • 774 30 102 Tours 10? Tours 102 Tours EUROPE SAVE @L^i£&r ALL -EXTRAS' £j|Ks^) Madamme Tussaud s, London. Tyrolean Folklore show. Visit Madurodam see the miniature Visit Volendam, a scenic traditional Holland. Dutch fishing resort. Thrill to the passionate Spanish Mount Titlis in Engelberg Flamenco dances in Barcelona See the magnificient fountains
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    • 520 30 114 Music INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP Chinese pop song singing course conducted by responsible tutor. Contact =09-06, City Plaza, *****51. ORGAN LESSONS FOR Beginners at teacher's home (Cavenagh House). Fees $45 individual. Call *****87, Evelyn Hang. POP PIANOFORTE MUSIC Made easy to learn, the improvised method in 14 months. *****2 page
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    • 11 30 i 'In Memoriam' is for the loved ones whom you remember
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  • RACING
    • 1625 31 [POH, Moil Weights, barrier draws ■ind ratings for this WMfcend'l racci here SATURDAY Claas 1 Div. 1 I.loom •traighl (Ratinga: 185-157) IT Anderniatt 61 5 IRS 15 Paps'i Uvc6o US 5 Adik 59 180 I Wayah-'ad 56 174 13 Freedom Fighter tl 55.5 173 I 18 Win-Em-AU 55
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    • 144 31 LOUISVILLE, Mon THE heavily-supported Devil's Bag led all the way over the weekend to capture the 57th Kentucky Derby trial over 1,600m at Churchill Downs by 2 lengths from Biloxi Indian, anoth- er Derby contender. Five ran. Devil's Bag was the early favourite for
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    • 1956 31 FOUR-DIGIT tickets for today's amateur race meeting at Bukit Timah will be on sale only at the racecourse from 12.15 p.m. mmmmtimmmAAS MARA CLASSES 4 5 OIV B n i 'iWn ifffng IOOm JACK AND JILL STAKES 1 •44*** Hlohlr 71. S Selangor Polo Riding
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    • 379 31 Saint -Martin wins seventh 1,000 Guineas PARIS, Monday ACE French jockey Yves SaintMartin rode odds-on favourite Masarika to a smooth victory in the French 1,000 Guineas for three-year-old fillies at Longchamps yesterday, finishing a length in front of Boreale (Freddie Head) with an unlucky Speedy Girl (Gerard Dubroeucq) a head
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    • 30 31 Penang race results THERE is no offcoarse betting at Bukit Timah for the races at Penang today. The race results and the Stipendiary Steward's report will be published on Thursday.
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    • 183 31  -  PENANG, Mon. Bay Thunder, who won by 14 lengths in the last race yesterday, tops the list of horses to follow. It was one of the easiest wins in a long time and he made the rest of the field look ridiculous. Jot
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    • 137 31 LONDON, Mon THE Sandown Classic trial, which has produced three Epsom Derby winners in the last five years, was won by trainer Guy Harwood's Alpha batim at Sandown Park over the weekend. The colt, a 4-1 chance, earned an immediate 10--1 quote for the big race
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    • 378 31 H Rff **V aK >^aWa^P The story of how they are made what they mean sf^fe^^)) The enormous land mass of China is the /ff \Zz^&^ birthplace of an astounding number of /l^&rjfc magnificent crafts rendered in materials as s&liSb ub various as ceramic, lacquer, bronze, ivory, jade //^rfn ■L^'
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  • TIMESPORT
    • 200 32 KINGSTON, Mon. Australia's tenacious and accurate bowlers loosened West Indies' firm grip on the Fifth Cricket Test at Sabina Park yester- day. Replying to Australia's modest total of 199, West Indies were 162 before they lost their first wicket. But at the close of play
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    • 161 32 LONDON, Mon. Worcestershire got the best possible start to the English county cricket season, completing a twoday victory over Sussex at Worcester yesterday. Brief mswtm At Worcester: Sussex 207 and 222 (G. Mendis 116. J. Winchmore 4--71). Worcestershire 281 and 131-4 (D. Smith 53 no). Worcs
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    • 446 32 ROME, Mon. First-half goals from World Cup stars Antonio Cabrini and European Footballer of the Year Michel Platini gave Juventus an easy win at Internazionale, of Milan, yesterday and kept them four points clear of Roma at the top of the Italian League. Platini
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    • 150 32 THE European Football Union have confirmed that Roma's left-back, Aldo Maldera, will miss the European Cup final against Liverpool in Rome's Olympic Stadium on May 30. Maldera was booked for the second time this season in the second leg of Roma's semi-final tie with Scotland's
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    • 579 32 AuHtrlun: Neusiedl 0 Adtnira Wacker 0. Sturm Graz 3 Gak 1, Austria Salzburg 0 Rapid 1, Wiener Sportclub 0 Lask 1, St Veit 2 FAV AC 1, Voest Linz 1 Austria Klagenfurt 2, Austria Wien 5 Eisenstadt 1. Belgian: Lierse 2 Anderlecht 1, FC Liegeois 2 Courtrai 0,
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    • 284 32 Whirlwind White storms past Charlton SHEFFIELD. Mon. England's Jimmy White and Welshman Doug Mount joy, the 1981 runner-up, both reached the quarter-finals of the World Professional Snooker Championship in convincing style last night. Eleventh-seeded White, 21, lived up to his nickname of "The Whirlwind", by completing a superb 13-7 victory
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    • 406 32 It's Clark with three to spare MADRID, Mon. Brit- ain's Howard Clark, whose last big victory was in the same event six years ago, shot a 71 for a 14-under-par 274 total to win the Madrid Open Golf Championship yesterday. His five-birdie round i left him throe strokes clear of
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    • 156 32 DALLAS, Mon. John McEnroe yesterday underlined his current mastery of the sport when he crushed arch rival Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 to win the US$5OO,OOO ($1,040,000) World Championship Tennis final. Top-seeded McEnroe seized control from the start, breaking Connors in his first service game
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    • 458 33  -  Hakikat Rai Spotlight on the Asean Schools track and field championships Borrowed pair of shoes prove uncomfortable and Pandian can manage only a silver Stories. ..By PHUKET, Mon. Singapore's S. Pandian had to settle for a silver medal on the final day of the Asean Schools' track
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    • 484 33 A centimetre to greatness Elma just short of making LA PHUKET. Mon. The weather outside continued to remain as unpredictable as a baby's bottom, forcing Elma Muros to seek the sanctuary of the hotel lobby. With her hair pulled back neatly into a bun. the Filipina long-jumper slithered into a
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    • 315 33  -  TAY CHENG KHOON Run at your own pace, urges chairman THE Singapore Marathon is not a competitive race, according to Mr Chan Chee Seng, chairman of the organising committee. "Competitors should run at their own pace," he stressed. "They may run, jog or walk,
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    • 181 33 Boys' 2Mm: 1 V. Pongsak (T) 2 T. Supas (T) 3 Andrew Scully (M) 22.655ec. 4Wm hurdles: 1 R. Somkid (T) 2 H. Badrul (M) 3 V. Chaiuongsik (T) 5T.72. BMm: 1 S. Chuen (T) 2 S. Pandian (S) 3 S. Ganesan (M) lmin 59.29 sec. s,Mtm:
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    • 233 33 ZOLDER. Mon. Italian Michele Alberto led from start to finish in his Ferrari to win the Belgian Formula One motor racing Grand Prix here yesterday It was Ferraris first World Championship points of the season after failing in the first two rounds in Brazil and
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    • 124 33 HWEE SENG have been aroused of fielding three ineligible players in a crucial Singapore Business Houses Football League Division Two match last Friday. Tien Wah Press claimed that Hwee Seng had employed the trio for less than month before they were fielded against them. The players
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    • 155 33 TEMASEK Junior College, victors in 1980 and 1982, returned to the scene of their triumphs with a storm-trooping 51--44 win over Raffles Junior College in the final of the National Schools Girls' Under-20 basketball championship at Gay World Stadium. Raffles had looked like sewing things up when Temasek
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    • 208 33 YUGOSLAV shot putter Jovan Lazarevic has been banned for using drugs, the European Amateur Athletic Association announced in Stuttgart. Lazarevic 's offence was dis- covered during last month's j European indoor championI ships in Gothenburg. He did not win a medal. VERRIL YOUNG, of
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    • 423 34  - Zheng Jian sings sweet Seoul music JANICE SEAH SEOUL, Mon. Pain, like gold, is a four-let-ter word, but the common denominators don't stop there. As a certain Shanghai student will testify, you cannot have one without the" other, not if you want to add more four-letter words to your resume.
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    • 487 34  - Robbed by act of amateurism JANICE SEAH By SEOUL, Mon. STARTER Chi Bong Kyu single-handedly robbed Ang Peng Siong of a gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle in the Second Asian Swimming Championships at the Seoul Sports Complex here today. Instead of firing the second shot immediately following the
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    • 209 34 Men's 1M metres free: 1 Mu La Ti (C) 52.93 sec. (rec) 2 Ang Peng Siong (S'pore) 53.96 3 Johnny Li (HK) 4 Kozo Hasegawa (Jpn 5 Wan Qiang (C) 6 Takahiro Tasawa (Jpn). 2ttm back: 1 Kazuya Ikeda (Jpn) 2 min 08.53 sec 2 Wang
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    • 160 34  -  GODFREY ROBERT SEOUL, Mon. Singapore hope to win a bronze medal in the men's 4xlM metres freestyle relay the final event of the fourth day of the Asian swimming championships here tomorrow. With China and Hongkong likely to fight it out for
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    • 414 34  - My boy was lucky, says Chinese coach GODFREY ROBERT By SEOUL, Mon. He was still smiling. He was not even asked to pose for a photograph. The Singapore camp kept appealing to Pressmen not to interview him until he had cooled down. We obliged. For we shared in his bitter
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    • 324 34  -  TAY CHENG KHOON Stuart in line for final fling By QAMAR ZAMAN, the most seasoned player on the professional squash circuit, has been seeded to meet young rising star Stuart Davenport in the final of the Yeo's-Pepsi Challenge Series to be held at Kallang from May
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    • 121 34 THE annual hockey match between Singapore Cricket Club and Ceylon Sports Club for the K. Muthucumaru Memorial Trophy turned out to be a one-sided affair as SCC overran CSC 5-1 at the Padang yesterday. CSC took the lead after two minutes through Sarabieet Singh, but
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    • 274 34 NEW YORK, Mon. Darryl Dawkins scored 32 points, including two three-point plays in the final 90 seconds, to lead the New Jersey Nets to a 106-100 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in the first game of their National Basketball Association play-offs yesterday. New Jersey took
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    • 172 34  -  PETER SIOW TAN KAY HUAT defeated Lim Yew Rang 21-16, 21-18 last night to reach the national junior men's singles table tennis quarter-finals at Poi Ching School. Otter results Men's singles fourth round: I.uai Poh Soon bt Yeo Chee Beng 21-9, 21-13: Yieh Kua Poh
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    • 1274 35 Q&P_ Jeffrey Low on the lessons to be learnt on the rocky roadshow to LA Three cheers as the Middle East go West The sights of success.. .as members of the three Los Angeles-bound teams go wild with Joy. Iraq's flag was literally flying (above) as
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    • 102 35 Best team: Iraq Best match: Saudi Arabia 5 South Korea 4 (April 24) Best goal: Chun Jong Sun's 40m sizzler against the Saudis. Best referee: Christopher Bambridge (Australia) Most entertaining team: Saudi Arabia Most disappointing team: New Zealand Most sporting team: Japan Dream team (4-2-4): Hamood
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    • 227 35  -  JOE DORAI DEFENDING champions Kuwait's threat to boycott the Asian Cup finalround tournament in Singapore in December could lead to their expulsion from the International Football Federation. Kuwait had pointed an accusing finger at poor refereeing for their failure to reach the Olympics in Los Angeles.
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    • 94 35 QBMJF A UROI'P B P W n I. F A Pt V W I) I. F A Pt Saudi 4 3 1 0 13 7 7 yatar 4 4 0 0 7 1 S S Korea 12 117 5 5 Iraq 4 3 0 1 5 4 t,
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    • 222 35  -  JOE DORAI THE support of more than 4N,M9 fans for the 21 matches made It a meaningful and successful pre-Olympic soccer qualifying final round tournament. Besides the record turnout, probably the highest for a competition in South-east Asia, the organisers the Football Association of
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    • 522 35 It's euphoria in the Desert with new-found success RIYADH, Mon. Look out for soccer's "Arabian knights". Suddenly, Saudi Arabia, where 10 years ago there was scarcely a grass pitch to play on, is the wild card of Arab football. And they dream of surprising the world in July.
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    • 129 35 1 WEST BERLIN, Mon. Eligibility rules for the Olympic Games soccer tournament in Los Angeles this summer must be clarified soon and not seconds before the Games open, the International Olympic Committee eligibility chairman Willi Daume said yesterday. Daume said the issue of professionals playing
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    • 65 35 6: Majed Mohammed (Saudi). 5: Mehaisen AlDosari (Saudi). 3: Piyapong Pueon (Thai); Ibrahim Khalfan (Qatar). 2: Hara Hiromi (Jpn); Wahid Munir, Adrian Derjal (Iraq); Choi Soon Ho (SK), Khalid Salman (Qatar). 1: Fathi Kamil. Yousuf Al-Sowayed (Kuw): Chalermvudh Saghapool, Chalor Hongkajohn. Vorawan Chita vanich (Thai); Kazuki Kimura,
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    • 273 32 TAN CHONG salutes the achievements of Singapore's workers ...on the occasion of A. TQWfifxDS lIEUI HORIZONS Your spirit of endeavour and teamwork r y pk x M^ A nissan-Tadvanced technology" has made Singapore a shining example /^^^TiSK^" v^x^^i^M^K^lCui"^^^ An Exhibition of Nissan's Futuristic Cars to the rest of the world.
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 26 32 Todays events HOCKEY SHA Under-23: Armed Forces v Police (Fairer Park, 5.15 p.m.). Friendly: Indian Association v Port Authority Recreation Club (Balestier Road, 5.15 p. m.).
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 311 33 FREE! SIOOA (worth of Pentax accessories /jf BUY A PENTAX SUPER-A EUROPEAN CAMERA OF THE YEAR 1983 KIT OR OUR NEW MODEL PENTAX PROGRAM-A CAMERA and collect your free accessories at our Pasir Panjang Showroom PENTAX ARank O'Connor's 98 Pasir Panjang Road Singapore 051 1 Tel: *****4 I |ki All
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    • 286 34 By J' > H JSBaB I K <; -V'. S; w^UB/m BE|l > _i» fleaHl^Sr OK, all you budding Picassos out there, it's time Pick up your brushes and get cracking. We want your again to start cleaning your brushes, sharpening your masterpieces! pencils and priming your canvas. Because for
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    • 131 35 (^SS^y A FINANCIAL TIMES I \J^^ PUBLICATION I invites you to AN INVESTMENT FORUM I to be held at spm at the Lake Club, Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday June sth, 1984 S or the British High Commission, Singapore, Wednesday June 6th, 1984 Distinguished speakers from private banks, leading firms |jj of
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    • 66 35 Poh Heng Hougang is open today Hougang opening offers still on! 70% off all jewellery set with diamonds and precious stones. Till May 1 3. Free workmanship on jewellery. Till May 13. Free Pierre C *ardin ballpen with every purchase. \X hile stocks last All other Poh Hensj retail centres
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  • 469 36 He calls on China to focus instead on peace in the Pacific SHANGHAI, Monday PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan called on China today to play down differences with the United States overTaiwan and focus instead on peace and economic progress in the Pacific. Mr Reagan made
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  • 216 36 GENEVA, Mon. Whether a highway tax sticker should be displayed on the front or the back of a car may seem singularly unimportant to most people, out in Switzerland it has burgeoned into a major national issue. The question is at
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  • 117 36 Weedkiller that people use to commit suicide DALLAS, Mon. The herbicide paraquat has been linked to a rash of suicides in the Caribbean and Asia, and US medical authorities now warn of its increased potential for misuse. In many Third World nations, which eagerly adopted the use of the potent
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  • 307 36 AMERICAN First Lady Nancy Reagan is seen here choosing some hanging ornaments at a "free market" in the central Chinese city of Xian on Sunday as President Reagan looks on. Mrs Reagan said she plans to hang it on the White House Christmas
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  • 29 36 NKW YORK. Mon fhc Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose O.m points to 1.1C8.91 in the first halfhoui of trarJint' on the New York today AP
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  • 338 36 'Restore ties or we'll let IRA open an office in Libya' PARIS, Monday LIBYAN leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi warned Britain today that his country would support the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and let it open offices in Libya unless London restores diplomatic ties with
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  • 42 36 MR MAH Bow Tan is not the chairman of the SNPL newspaper group as described in Saturday's issue of The Straits Times. He is the deputy chairman of The Singapore Monitor. We are sorry for the error
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  • 230 36 A MOVE has been made to amend the wording of a motion tabled in Parliament by Health Minister Howe Yoon Chong seeking approval for his committee's Report on the Problems of the Aged. An amendment tabled by the MP for Kebun
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  • 142 36 Mother in-law wrote those love letters MANILA, Mon AN ALASKAN man was hit by the cold truth in steamy Philippines. Mr Tommy van Ostrand, a newspaper reported yesterday, flew to Manila last month to marry his 23--year-old Filipina penpal of several months. They tied the knot on April 5. Then
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  • 20 36 FRANKFURT. Mon. Suspected arsonists set fire to a home for foreigners seeking asylum, police said yesterday" UPI
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  • Page 36 Advertisements
    • 241 36 BUSINESS TIMES Singapore's Financial Daily IN TODAY'S ISSUE Plans to make the heart of Singapore's business and shopping district throb after dark was made public by the Urban Redevelopment Authority yesterday. LISA LEE has the details. A US trade delegation has threatened to lobby its government to take trade actions
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    • 417 36 EUROSTOFF B4 Europe's leading textile manufacturers at Exhibition include Abraham Ltd HGut&CoAG Almar Hehtex Braghenti Mario Gerlin Cuccireh Noblaine Fisba Niedieck AG Brillantsamt Foschi Reichenbach Co AG Gandim Riechers SA Sarti Telene Weisbrod Zurrer AG Enquiries Trade Fairs Exhibitions Pte Ltd P. O. Box 2303 Singapore 9043 Tel: ***** 19'
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 132 36 Weather UP TO 1 p.m. Showers in several areas late morning onwards. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 31 max., 25 mln. SUNSET today: 7.06 p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow: 6.56 a.m. Adelaide 724 C Fine Manila 24 34 C Fair Amsterdam 4 17C Clear Melbourne 7 23C Fine Bangkok 26
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  • SECTION TWO
    • 19 1 SECTION TWO Colour: Luxurious hotel suites OUTLOOK, Pages Two and Three Director John Huston's latest project LEISURE, Page Six
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    • 1546 1  - What Mama Neo did for Rosyth HEDWIG ALFRED In an article published recently in The Educational Administrator by the Singapore Educational Administration Society, its vice-chairman, Mr Eugene Wijeysingha, said the work of noteworthy retired principals should be brought to public attention in order to build up a tradition that would
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    • OUTLOOK
      • 1633 2  - Hotel suites the inside view HUO MEILI Where do the sheikhs and stars stay when they breeze into town? The VIP suites in our hotels, of course. Each suite is unique and has its own particular character. In this and the opposite page, our contributor goes on a tour of
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      • 118 3  -  Photographs by NIK Writers 1 Suite (above): An invitation to dream of the literary titans of a vanished era. Garden Hotel Suite (right): This dressing table is one of the many details which add to the "charm" of this suite Hilton's Royal Suite (extreme right): Oriental
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      • 1300 6  - Huston triumphs where others fail GORDON BOWKER By The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation telecasts A Salute to John Huston on Channel 5 at 3.45 p.m. today. The veteran American director (right) was in Mexico shooting Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry's modern classic, which was said to be unfilmable. The writer visited
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      • 853 7  -  CATHERINE TAN By IT WILL be one of the biggest local shows and will launch the nation's Silver Jubilee celebrations. Talking about how she thought of a title that would capture the essence of the Singaporean, Mrs Maureen Liew, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's television
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      • 710 7 A taste o£ French film fare FRENCH FILMS Cultural Theatre, Cuscaden Road Every Tuesday at 9 p.m. Previewed by JOHN de SOUZA WIVES of film or stage actors almost never become directors themselves, let alone getting a chance to direct their husbands. But back in 1973, Nadine Trintignant had the
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    • BILINGUAL
      • 798 2 Legend of a goddess that was a god And how she came to have 1,000 eyes and hands A STATUE of Guanyin, the Goddess or Bodhisattva of Mercy, is an essential feature of any Buddhist temple in China. Its gracious and amiable looks are intended to arouse a feeling of
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      • 832 4 DRAMA is without doubt one of the best media to transmit social values and norms to children. And it is not surprising to find a students' literary, debating and dramatic society in almost all secondary schools. And, many such societies are active in producing their own
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      • 742 4 OIehBUDIMANA R PADA hari Sabtu dua miAggu yang lalu telah berlangsung satu pertandingan Drama Purba antara sekolahsekolah dan institusi-in-stitusi pendidikan yang dianjurkan oleh Persatuan Bahasa Melayu, Sekolah Menengah Perempuan Tanjong Katong (PBMSPTK). Sebanyak 12 buah sekolah dan institusi pendidikan telah mengambil bahagian. Ini merupakan
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      • 180 4 Book discussion to help GCE 'A' ML2 students TWO active Malaysian writers who are also lecturers from the Malay Studies Department of Unlversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) will be discussing (erita seorang seniman, a collection of short stories and Di penjuru mata ma, an
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    • 275 1 At\fangAnPark, we have a luxurious future^ all laid out for you. V i Typeß JP% Pnced nett from $673,000 (5296 sq h) upwards luxurious space Wc °<v #A foSttfirT All 211 sq. m. (2271 sq. ft.) «g Q JB»# of Yong An Park's Type R apartment Jfcr T ~JI L^'S^^nW
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    • 286 2 Lm^ jaS^ All -The -Advantages. A $150 value. Yours for $49 with any \s39 Estee Lauder purchase. i K -:-:,:,m*Zi. r I M*x»w»jM Jf You'll start out way ahead with this privileged set of beauty experts from Estee Lauder. Everything here is ready to do something good for you l
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    • 187 2 Train tote? Success** 1 Writer The Writing School, founded in \^4'>. shows you how to write articles, short stones, novels, romances, radio and IV scripts that sell and keep on selling, lop professional wnters. through the medium ot the school's comprehensive home-study courses, give you individual tuition, showing you how
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    • 107 3 12 w^s to say "I love you" CpnMakr c lionet J) 'np^he Monet Love Links, a delicate, X^ X gold-plated bracelet engraved with """V /j the word love' in 12 languages, is a Q most appropriate gift for Mother's Day. From May 1 to 15, it comes to you free
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    • 249 3 1 APPOINTMENTS/NOTICES JBflflJMflCfß Telex s^ rvire; Address: Rates: STANTS S.T.A.N.T.S Appointments Notice Section Straits Times: 5523.75 psc. cm. DQCrtOQ-i RS ***** TIMEAD TIMES PUBLISHING BHD Sunday Times: 5524.40 psc. cm. Sales Service Times House Box Service: BHHHBfflfflS Tel: *****11 ext 2724-7 2669 390, Kim Seng. Road Collected: S$ 5.00 Singapore
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    • 277 3 '^r s 1! ii <r Y^r 4fr-^^^r iL >^r^ to fill the following r j^f new positions %Jr PRODUCT A ENGINEERS Degree or Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical oi Eiectronicsi with minimum 2 yeais relevant experience in a manufacturing environment Re iwre to work with oar corporate designers in Italy to
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    • 190 3 I NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 AND IN THE MATTER OF LEEWARD PETROLEUM COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-IP Notice is hereby given that the creditors of the abovenamed company. j which is being wound up voluntarily, are required on or before
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 948 4 i^^K Summer Collection '84 Jr^ THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE THE GRAND EUROPA ~M^l "JDF K V 1^ USA West Coast/Hawaii/Mexico/Louisiana a Denmark/Austria/Eastern Europe/Hungary/ 9 ti y Mjl 1 I f/ V.^ f ;^worla Expo/New Orleans/Epcot Centre/Orlando/ Yugoslavia/Italy/San Marino/Vatican/Spain/ w y^. LlJl^^ I f/f USA East Coast/Canada East West Coast/ France/Monaco/Switzerland/Germany/Holland/ Lm^l
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    • 179 4 I I Australia New Zealand Perth/Yanchep Park/Crystal Cave/ Swan River Cruise/Atlantis Marine Park/ El Caballo Bianco-Spanish dancing horses 6DaysSsllBs(Twoinaroom) 3/5.11/5. 18/5 24/5.25 31/5,1/6.7/6,8/6.14/6 15/6.21/6 22/6 Every Thursday Friday All New Zealand North South Islands /Australia Sydney/Melbourne 10 Days *****0 11/5.25/5. 1/6. 8/6. 15/6. 22/6. 29/6. 6/7 13/7. 20/ Australia/Melborne/Sydney/Canberra Sydney/Blue
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 259 5 COMICS G ARFIELD By Jim Davis ~7* OKAV, GET I J I LOVE TOVS REVVB-P UP J (THAT PONT NEEPJ -V S THERE,OV\E J O V 7 V V^ps Uinn 1984 United Feature Syndicate. lnc I *=aw s-»a-t^ BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY By Bates Sparling nH_V ANADROSCOMPUT&R.\ZEP 1/
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    • 222 5 PEANUTS ByScHulz Pear Sweetheart, toil are more precious (^suppertimeM I think of you to me than anything \f I night and day. in the world. />. KING TUT By Clm BEETLE BAILEY B^ Mort Walker LET'S \H[ JBL V TMIS IS I KslOW rn] u r RArk AIW TRVTH/S/ y^Y
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 299 6 k* 1 KJ Some started i t li jeweller) and went into fashion; Alfredo Bendini started with high fashion and is now in exclusive jewellery. ()i course, Italian all the way. Alfredo Bendini® at the Presidential 'Asean' Suite, New Wing The Mandarin Singapore. Bv Appointmeni Tel: *****11 Alfredo Bendini from
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    • 135 6 international Furniture Fair n Imported from Italy. O Ny 24 carat gold plated bed f FrameworK or cold bent steel tube ot remarkable section, completed ittth F/^ 'J "oofy, N. with precious brass castings Galvanic goldpiatmg at 24t<^_____/ r> H m and subsequent protection with transpare_ni__—— m AmoriranlniiriPPSuitP j _F
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    • 262 7 Wl/IIM with TULIP MtM£ pork i^p^k. LUNCHEON Strike gold with Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat! Just buy234ogm tins of Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat. answer£ simple questions and you stand a chance of winning a grand prize Complete the Lucky Draw Coupon, attach two Tulip logo stickers on it and post the
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 238 7 What's on SSOOITDOOR German environmental EXHIBITION CONCERT artist Dieter Magnus at Featuring the works Second in the series of the Goethe-Institut Art of Zlatko Jakus, a Swedoutdoor concerts by the Gallery, Singapore Shop- ish stamp engraver, at Singapore Symphony Or- ping Centre «06-01. the Lone Pine Gallery, chestra. The orchestra
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 168 8 When long-term illness strikes your employee, we'll pay him a #H» monthly income. wWm What can you do for an employee who is prevented $$z^ working because of long-term illness or an accident? tf^^o*,K- X^ As a caring employer, you continue to pay him a |V K| salary to help
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    • 1746 8 \OUR VIEWING AND USTENING GUIDE 'Q* Surfers who make waves i sbcs i [^0™ 9.30 »M SBCTEXT "live" Sample Pajes 6. 1 0 Programme Highlights SJ« AM National Anthem Your Lunchdate (cont-d) I 1 1 1000 *«™l and Propamme WiWifhts folowed by 6.15 News SSS_S _TSS™ A K 5? H_,"'»_l£5
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  • SECTION THREE
    • 4 1 SECTION THREE :4'#.^flL *Li*
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    • 701 1  -  TAN BAN HUAT A book featuring outstanding photographers in South-east Asia has just been published in China. Some of the Singapore lensmen selected are excited by the attention which they feel they rarely get from local publishers. By RAINBOW Across the Equator the title
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
      • 229 1 APPOINTMENTS A fast expanding manufacturer of liquid crystal displays invites suitably qualified candidates for the following positions:A. PRODUCTION ENGINEER Diploma in mechanical engineering At least 2 years relevant experience B. GENERAL SUPERVISOR Diploma holder/GCE 'A' level Experience in electronics field, preferably in LCD Matured individual with drive and initiative C.
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      • 210 1 SALESMAN A local subsidiary of a multi-national company requires a highly motivated person to join our clothing division. The applicant should have: At least one year experience in men's wearing apparel and accessories Possess a driving licence Conversant in English and Mandarin. The successful applicant will assist in the marketing
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      • 7 1 GO MAGAZINE ■P FOR YOUNG CAREER WOMEN
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      • 361 2 APPOINTMENTS aih q^| We area subsidiary of SIEMENS AG, 91 Wm I^l BN9 Germany, one of the 5 largest electronic companies in the world with over 313,000 employees. We require PROCESS ENGINEERING MANAGER Degree in Physics or Electronics Engineering. (A higher degree in the above discipline is advantageous). Candidate must
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      • 276 2 SEA SCAN INTERNATIONAL (PTE) LTD A trading subsidiary of a large and progressive group of companies seeks qualified candidates to join our growing sales team. MARKETING EXECUTIVE SALES REPRESENTATIVE Requirements: Candidates should have excellent contacts with specifiers, contractors and dealers in the building industry. Possess technical qualifications in mechanical engineering,
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      • 334 2 NOTICES SUBORDINATE COIRTS, SINGAPORE D.C. Summons No. 8527 of 1983 Between Singapura Developments Pte. Ltd. Plaintiffs And 1. Mohamed Haneefa Abdu Rasheed 1. Sivasupramaniam s u Nachimuthu (both trading under the name and style of Trans-Oceanic International) Defendants NOTICE OF ADVERTISEMENT Mr. Sivasupramaniam s o Nachimuthu trading under the name
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      • 202 2 We Specialise In PEKING CUISINE and 'LIVE* SEAFOOD ■«BHBi^^^^S^j^B^ H __r sVht i^jy^B ■r _B_fv *t***^ f m wH I i_jii__| -^jf __V _Hf h; 1 St EBe£ 'I ■'^881 IMF _flM_t_^ ___IB DL I -I IV -4*^ _r^ mI -BKfeJBWWW^^ _^H ■______^P .r^V 5^ 8^ HF-W ;^SBffil^iPi^ n w
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