The Straits Times, 1 May 1985

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1985 40 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 95/1/85
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  • 340 1  -  SHIRLEY TAN By FIVE motorists have learnt that petrol in Johor Baru does not necessarily come cheap not if they were caught trying to evade duty by smuggling in the fuel in containers. The men, all Singaporeans, were fined a total of $750
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  • 37 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. Mr William Brock, former US Trade Representative, was swam into office yesterday as Secretary of Labour at a private White House ceremony attended by President Ronald Reagan, a White House spokesman said. AP
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  • 566 1 Teng Cheong: NTUC team confident, able to win over younger workers NTUC CHIEF Ong Teng Cheong says that the labour movement's new leaders are equal to the task of winning over the new breed of younger and more demanding workers. He said in his May
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  • 637 1 Troops, hardware in big parade to mark that 10th anniversary 4 The people may look happy to you but we are not We have no liberty and little to eat When I think back II years ago I feel sad because it only reminds
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  • 105 1 BROOKLINE Massachusetts). Tues. A bank cashier who counted quarters (25 US cents) from town parking meters has been charged with stealing an estimated USss*«,Mi (Ssl.l million) from the town over two years. The Norfolk county district attorney's offlce alleged that Carol Young, 34, had taken nearly
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  • 28 1 PARIS, Tues. A bottle of 1811 Chateau Lafite-Roth-schild claret was auctioned here today for 120,000 francs (5525,308). There were no details about the buyer. AFP
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  • 59 1 MR LEE Kuan Yew and former United States President Richard Nixon will be seen live en American network television today in aa interview on ABC's Nightline. Mr Ted Keppel, the widely-watched programme's anchor, will conduct the simultaneous interview from Bangkok via satellite link-up with Mr
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  • 496 1 PM: No going back to low wages THE Prime Minister has assured workers that Singapore is not going back to low wages because of the Government's move to phase out foreign employees substantially. The presence of a large number of work permit holders can cushion the country against severe retrenchments
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  • 60 1 HONGKONG, Tues. An unknown Chinese tycoon todav put up a HK$5OO,OOO (*****.050) reward for infor mation about the brutal murder of two British teenageers a week ago, police said. The battered bodies of Nicola Myers. 18. and Ken neth Mcßride, 17. were found in a park.
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  • 32 1 CAIRO. Tues As many as 40 people were feared drowned when an overcrowded boat carrying a funeral party sank in the River Nile, the newspaper Al Gomhouria said today AFP
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  • 80 1 DANBURY (Connecticut). Tues Union Carbide Cor poration has pledged US$l. 000 (552.220) to two Indian students who are on what they call a fund-raising "run for Bhopal,'' a company spokesman said yester day. Mr Ramon Subramyan and Mr Kaman Chandrapahl began their run in Boston on
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    • 68 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. IS Secretary of State George Shultz will recommend that President Ronald Reagan impose a trade boycott and halt all airline traffic with the leftist government of Nicaragua. Texas Democrat Senator Lloyd Benteen said today he was Informed of the recommendations by the State
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  • IN SUMMARY
    • 544 2 Power station tunnel WORK will begin this month on a 2.6-km undersea cable tunnel that will bring electricity from Singapore's first offshore power station on Pulau Seraya to the mainland in 1987. The $170 million undersea cable tunnel, believed to be the first of its kind in South-east Asia,
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    • 278 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: •IF Vietnam is to make anything of Its future, it must rethink one fundamental premise above all else. That is, it must focus its attention inwards, to its own polity and economy, to itself rather than to other countries. It must put a stop to
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    • 304 2 The circle game "FOOTBALL'S a funny old game." Indeed. Arriving in Rumania with England's World Cup squad, Luther Blissett could afford to laugh at the game's latest joke his replacing the man who replaced him. Two years ago, Blissett was the England centre-forward, haa scored a debut hat-trick and
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    • 178 2 GOVERNMENT COMPANIES GET SLICE OF CHINESE BUSINESS MORE China business is coming the way of government companies in Singapore. Intraco Ltd is poised to sign a trading agreement with a Chinese shipping group, while Keppel Shipyard and Sembawang Shipyard are also negotiating with the same group to set up
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    • 84 2 POLICIES AND THE PEOPLE TWO letters today on government policies one supportive and the other critical. The first calls on those people who voted against the Government in the last election to "sober up" because the Government has done a lot of good for them. He says they could
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    • 587 2 EC willing to deal THE European Community is ready to start a new round of trade liberalisation talks next year under Gatt, the world trade regulating agency, if the United States shows willingness to discuss international monetary reform, diplomats in Luxembourg said on Monday. Reporting on talks
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    • 174 2 Around Asean...and Across the Casuseway EGM to be held THE Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday dismissed applications by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) to stop the extraordinary general meeting of the party scheduled for May 12, ruling that the EGM .mould be held in the interest of the party's 350,000
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    • 381 2 Home-based work DAISY (not her real name), is among the 392,000 women in Singapore classified as "economically inactive." But in the living room of her three-room Housing Board apartment, she works at her sewing machine, stitching a pair of trousers. Many of these women, mostly housewives over 30,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 98 2 TV update Channel 3 3.02 PM Quran Reading 3.06 Programme Summary 3.07 Holiday Movie When the Circus Came to Town 4.30 Waktu Asar: Prayer Call 4.37 The Manhattan Transfer 5.26 Sesame Street 6.42 Documentary 6.57 Muqaddam: Islamic Holy Book 7.07 Bimbingan Ugama: Religious programme 7.23 Nasyid: Religious Songs 7.28 Tafsiran
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  • around the WORLD
    • 388 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. VIETNAMESE leader Le Due Tho said today, on the 10th anniversary of the American pullout from Vietnam, that his "country wanted normal diplomatic relations with the US with both countries attaching no conditions. Western journalists now in Vietnam for the celebrations said
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    • 68 3 HONGKONG, Tnes. Cambodian Khmer Range leader Pol Pot Is In hospital in Beijing suffering from malaria and high Mood pressure, it was reported here today. He is staying in an international hospital in the Chinese capital under a false name, the latest edition of the China-watching
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    • 65 3 Shot, but still flying An example of Man's cruelty to animals A mallard dock with an arrow in its body eluded Wisconsin Humane Society rescuers who tried to capture it to remove the arrow. A humane society officer shot at the dock three times with a tranquilliser gan, bat missed.
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    • 315 3  -  PETER H AZELHURST Increase faster than that of US and Europe By Tokyo Correspondent TOKYO, Tues. Asean's exports to Japan are growing at a "remarkable" pace and are expanding at a faster rate than Japanese imports from the industrialised nations of Europe and the United
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    • 145 3 TOKYO, Tues. Japan accumulated a record trade surplus in the financial year ending March 31, selling the world U5545.62 billion (*****.3 billion) more goods than it imported, the Finance Ministry said today. Rising shipments of electronic equipment, cars, machine tools and steel increased exports by 11
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    • 429 3 HO CHI MINH CITY, Tuesday VIETNAM is host to the largest number of Western journalists ever to come to this communist nation since the Americans pulled out 10 years ago. The foreign media invasion began earlier this year, when Vietnam's door was opened after
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    • 188 3 MELBOURNE, Tues. A Vietnam veteran hurled his artificial leg at a group of women protesting against rape In war who tried to disrupt a parade honouring Australia's war dead. A tearful Michael Lahey ea Thursday jumped ea to a track carrying the women,
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    • 209 3 BEIJING, Tues. Several hundred exiled Beijing residents today appeared to have abandoned an eight-day public protest in the face of stern warnings from the city authorities to return to remote Shanxi Province. In mid-morning there was no sign of the demonstrators outside the offices of
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    • 78 3 LOS ANGELES, Tues. Three teenagers were arrested yesterday in the US$2O (Ss44) robbery and slaying of a small Tokyo restaurant chef whose car had stalled near the housing protect where the suspects live, police said. A detective said two 15--year-olds and a 16-year-old were arrested in
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    • 445 4 LUXEMBOURG, Tuesday THE European Community is ready to start a new round of trade liberalisation talks next year under GATT, the world trade regulating agency, if the United States shows willingness to discuss international monetary reform, diplomats said yesterday. Reporting on
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    • 161 4 WASHINGTON. Tues. The United States ls ready to discuss with any of its trading partners reciprocal, freetrade arrangements similar to those being launched with Israel, a senior trade official of President Ronald Reagan's administration said yesterday. "Very preliminary discussions" had heen held on the subject
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    • 280 4 ROME, Tues. Queen Elisabeth, the temporal head of the Anglican Church, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, the spiritual head ot the church, went their separate ways todav aver how close the Protestant church should be to the Roman Catholic. The controversy
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    • 381 4 I'm morally right to visit cemetery, says Reagan WASHINGTON, Tuas. PRESIDENT Reagan yesterday blamed the media for "some of the distortions" surrounding his planned visit to a West German military cemetery and said he was determined to go ahead with it because he was "morally right to do so". Mr
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    • World briefs
      • 75 4 TAMIL separatists blasted an army headquarters building in Colombo and ambushed an army convoy in Jaffna peninsula on Monday, leaving 17 people dead, the National Security Minister said yesterday in the Sri Lankan capital. Minister Lalith Athulathmudali, told Agence France-Presse that he had warned Parliament that Tamil
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      • 59 4 CHINA has imposed a wage freeze as part of a package of tough measures to curb the growth in money supply, the China Daily reported in Beijing yesterday. The package, which includes tighter credit controls, followed an increase in the money supply of eight million yuan
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      • 62 4 SWEDEN headed for its worst strike in five years after all-night talks aimed at getting public employees to accept a virtual freeze on 1985 wages broke down yesterday. A spokesman for the civil service union TCOS said there was no longer any way an indefinite stoppage by
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      • 79 4 CHINA yesterday confirmed that two former ministers of China and Vietnam had met in Beijing on Friday in the first such encounter since the Sino-Vietnamese split seven years ago. The meeting at a major hotel between former Chinese Foreign Trade Minister Li Qiang and his former
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      • 59 4 THE RAND Daily Mail, long a champion of human rights and the underprivileged in South Africa, ceased publication yesterday, after 83 years, a victim of endemic financial problems. The newspaper, founded as a conservative publication catering for gold diggers in Johannesburg, then a mining camp, had developed into
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      • 52 4 PROTEST strikes by government workers shut down four cities in Gujarat yesterday after police baton-charged strikers, the Press Trust of India reported. The news agency said many shops and offices were closed in the state capital Gandhinagar and three other cities. There were no reports of
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    • 263 4 US Senate agrees to condemn actions of Sandinistas WASHINGTON, Tues. A resolution to "condemn the actions of the Sand; nista regime in Nicaragua," including President Daniel Ortega s trip to Moscow, was unanimously approved by the United States Senate yesterday. The resolution blamed the leftist Sandinista government for continuing a
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    • 61 4 WASHINGTON, Tue? General Motors Corp can be held accountable for dirty air coming out the back of your '75 Cadillac, the Supreme Court says. The justices yesterday let stand a ruling tha; GM and other car manufacturers may be held liable for repairs on recalled
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    • 168 4 WASHINGTON, Tues. US Customs officials on the Mexican border yesterday reported trouble with two men, two camels, six deer, five wallabies and a zebra. The men were said to have tried to drive two lorry loads of animals across the frontier into Mexico near
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    • 393 5 Time ripe for settlement talks, says Jumblatt MUKHTAR A (Lebanon), Tuesday LEBANESE Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, whose fighters have overrun a swathe of territory south of Beirut and forced the exodus of thousands of Christians, said he would like them to return to their communities.
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    • 161 5 Blasts at S. African mining offices JOHANNESBURG, Tues. Bombs exploded early today at the central Johannesburg offices of two major gold mining companies involved in a dispute in which more than 17,000 Black miners have been sacked. Police said a bomb caused extensive damages to the Anglo-American Corporation offices. A
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    • 218 5 AMMAN, Tues. Sudan's new military leader said yesterday his government will put on trial any officials involved in the airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel when Gen Jaafar Numeiry was in power. "Investigations have begun" to determine those involved in the airlifting of the
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    • 63 5 BANGUI, Tues. A swarm of bees on Sunday broke up a football match in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, as terrified players ana officials ran for shelter and the referee called off the game. Bees invaded the same stadium a week ago and soccer
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    • 165 5 TEHERAN, Tues. Six ef 48 seriously we— died Iraqi prisoners ef war who were te he returned home today made a last itaate request for political asylum as they were about te heard their plane, the Iranian news ageaey IRNA reported. The six stayed
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    • 185 5 BEIRUT, Tuesday WITHIN hours of the departure of Israeli troops from Tyre in southern Lebanon yesterday, Shi'ite militiamen took control of the port city. Checkpoints were set up at the approaches to three Palestinian refugee camps, apparently to head off the return of Sierillas
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    • 403 6 LONDON, Tuesday Analysts doubt sales will remain stable this year THE underlying demand for oil in major markets seems to be slipping again even after the big rundown in oil stocks during the winter, the Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW) newsletter said. A modest drop in
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    • 60 6 SINGER Michael Jackson is mw selling a line ef stuffed animals replicas ef the live enes he keeps at heme, including his favourite snake, it was announced in Hollywood on Sunday. The animals, which cost US$22 (Ss4B.Bi) each, are called "Michael's Pete" and US$l from each
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    • 296 6 BONN, Tues. The five leading West German economic institutes have embarrassed the government on the eve of the Western industrial summit by forecasting record trade and current account surpluses for this year, and faster tax cuts to speed economic growth. It is the timing of
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    • 144 6 PARIS, Tum. PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand has moved to cut short speculation about bis political future by saying he will not resign Lf the opposition wins next year's parliamentary elections. Mr Mitterrand, speaking in a television interview last night, abandoned his usual tactic
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    • 46 6 BASLE, Tues. Third World nations deposited more money, with international banks last year, but their borrowings fell as the banks devoted the bulk of new lending to the United States and other industrial countries, says a Bank for International Settlements report published today. Reuter
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    • 108 6 PARIS, Tues. President Francois Mitterrand yesterday made soccer star Michel Platini a member of France's most prestigious order, the Legion of Honour. After a solemn ceremony at the Elysee Palace, the new "Chevalier" Platini told reporters: "It does you good to serve a country, to feel
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    • 221 6 3 associates of Walesa arrested WARSAW, Tues. Police arrested three associates of Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, who the authorities denounced for urging Poles to support the outlawed union m May Day demonstrations "May Day has already started," Mr Walesa said yesterday. "It has begun with arrests." During the weekend, he
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    • 155 6 LONDON, Tues. A replica of the 17th century sailing ship Gadspeed begins ite voyage today to retrace the vayage that took the first successful settlers to America in IM.. Under shipper George Salley, a US space scientist, the Godspeed will follow the 9,655-km
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  • AROUND ASEAN... The Causeway
    • 551 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday Judge: It will be in interest of party members and public' THE High Court today dismissed applications by the MCA to stop the extraordinary general meeting of the party scheduled for May 12, ruling that the EGM should be
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    • 114 8 MANILA, Tues. Militant unionists said today that they were snubbing an invitation to join President Ferdinand Marcos in a May Day celebration tomorrow at his palace. They said they might hold a protest march there instead. The snub came as security forces were
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    • 237 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad today met Berjaya President Datuk Harris Salleh for an hour at the Prime Minister's Office here. Sources said Datuk Harris, who was defeated in the recent Sabah state election together with his party, briefed
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    • 307 8 PETALING JAYA, Tues Govt urged to control unscrupulous shippers FOREIGN carriers and chartered ships flying flags of convenience are committing extensive maritime frauds in Malaysia, leaving the country's underwriters with millions of dollars in losses. This may be because of the lack of government
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    • 150 8 PAR-TBUNTAR (Perak), Ties. A 33--year-old woman beat ap her husband with a length of chain, tied him to a tree and hurled a nest at ants at him ln Tanjong Plandang near here yesterday. The reason: The
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    • 316 8 JAKARTA, Tuesday CHINA poses a challenge to Indonesia in luring foreign investments, the Chairman of the Investment Co-ordinating Board, Mr Gi nan jar Kartasasmita, said yesterday. He said that China's recent efforts to attract foreign capital had been a "heavy blow to Indonesia". Mr Kartasasmita,
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    • 57 8 JAKARTA, Tues. Nuclear technology will be included in Indonesian senior high school curricula starting in the next academic year. President of the Jakarta Teaching Institute, Prof Conny Semiawan, told the press yesterday that "students are required not only to follow (the) development of advanced
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  • HOME
    • 265 9 16 to vie for oight key SMNO posts THE Singapore Malay National Organisation, an opposition political party, will hold a delegates conference today to elect its leaders. More than 100 delegates will also discuss the measures needed for the party to reach out to the non-Malays. Achieving this aim and
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    • 159 9 Two force collision and rob women of $60,000 TWO robbers, one carrying a knife, robbed tw* women petrol kiosk employees of $38,000 In cash and $22,500 In cheques after forcing a collision between their car and that of their victim- Monday. Miss Goh Siek, 21, aad Miss M JK. Paik,
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    • 101 9 A BUSINESSMAN and a Japanese boy died in hospital after they were seriously injured in separate road accidents on Friday. Mr M.M. Shaik Mohamad, 62, who was travelling in the front seat of a lorry, died after it was involved in an acrident with
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    • 623 9  -  STU GLAUBERMAN By WORK will begin this month on a 2.6-km undersea cable tunnel that will bring electricity from Singapore's first off-shore power station on Pulau Seraya to the mainland in 1987. The $170-million undersea cable tunnel, believed to be the first of
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    • 257 9 Man who came in illegally jailed for cheating A MAN prohibited from entering Singapore came back using another person's passport, and then bought $1,632.62 of goods and food using a stolen credit card. On Monday, Ng Ah Liak, 38, a Malaysian, was jailed for a total of four years for
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    • 138 9 IF YOU like to write letters and are a student under 16 on Jan 1 this year, you can take part in a letter-writing competition on Asean and My Country. The letter should be between 500 and 1,000 words and can be in English, Chinese,
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    • 609 11 No intention of internationalising dollar, says Dr Goh •"ORMER Deputy 'rime Minister Dr GJoh Ceng Swee said those vho thought Singapore vould benefit by "interlationalising" its dollar that is, by allowing oreign banks here to end Singapore dollars reely to foreigners vere mistaken.
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    • 63 11 Family seeks woman THE family of Madam Chaw Shook Sin, 45, is looking for her after she left her home in Jalan Kemuning on April 13. She was last seen wearing a beige blouse and white skirt. She is slim, has collar-length hair and is fair-complexioned. Anyone knowing her whereabouts
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    • 87 11 A BUSINESSMAN was yesterday fined $1 4,0__ fer having IM oncensored video tapes and an obscene one. Two policemen saw Um Thye Seng, 35, behaving suspiciously with another man in a ear at the fourth-storey car park in Bukit Tlmah Shopping Centre en the
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    • 324 11 ACCOUNTS clerk Miss Seah Nan Lin knew yesterday was special and it was not only because she turned 21. It was made memorable because she won the first prize of a colour TV set on the third day of International Classified Advertising (CATS) Week.
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    • 51 11 NO PLEA was taken from Enge Eang Lim, 45, yesterday after he was charged with stealing a Chinese idol worth $6,000 From a hut in Chestnut Avenue on March 18 this year. Enge's case will be mentioned on May 28 and he is on bail until
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    • 207 11 Shell cut staff by 6% in 3 years SHELL, the largest oil company here, says it has reduced its workforce by between 6 and 7 per cent in the past three years and is continuing to examine its manpower requirements. 'The changing business situation demands a trim organisation," said Dr
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    • 234 11 Midwives and nurses in jog to raise $40,000 THE Home Nursing Foundation will receive a boost in funds through a walk-a--jog organised by nurses and midwives in the public and private sectors on May 12. About half of the $40,000 expected to be raised will go to the foundation, while
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    • 288 11 Dr Hu praises ADB for stressing training THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been commended for recognising the importance of "investment in education and training". The Minister for Trade and Industry, Dr Richard Hu, said he was "cheered" by the bank's support for manpower development in its lending operations, especially
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    • 384 13 THE Singapore River is looking smarter by the day, thanks to these workers who have been busy sprucing ap the once murky waterway. Damaged upper walls are being repaired aad quay steps re-aligned along 1.6 km of the eightkm river. The men have already completed N
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    • 228 13 A MAN who intended to embarrass his friend by putting up notes announcing she owed him money has been fined $500. Tan Tiong Huat, 31, lent Miss Bagwathy d/o Karoppiah, 28, whom he had known for 10 years, $3,000 to renovate her new flat in
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    • 575 13  -  BEN DAVIDSON Allegation of attempt at fraudulent transfer By TWO brothers now living abroad have made the High Court the arena for their feud over shares in their late father's holding company, S. Q. Wong Holdings Pte Ltd. Mr Wong Peng Fun (P.
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    • 241 13 COMPUTERS in action will be a highlight of the productivity campaign for the civil service this year. An exhibition, which includes computerisation programmes in public bodies, will be held in November in conjunction with the National Productivity Month. The Chairman of the Civil Service Productivity
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    • 289 15  - Top China Dolls coming LEONG WENG KAM By ELEVEN top models from China will make their debut in Singapore for a series of fashion shows in July. They will appear in the Trade and Industry Fair '85 at the World Trade Centre from July 27 to Aug 4. The models
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    • 205 15 Parkway tenants consult their lawyers MORE than IM Parkway Parade tenants: met yesterday following a High Court order that prevents them from closing shop. Hie order was gnu-ted to Parkway Properties. The tenants were tlgh t-Upped about what was discussed with their solicitor at the closeddoor meeting ln the &6&VICW
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    • 52 15 MEMBERS of the Singapore Optical Trade Association will participate in the First International Optical Fair in Shanghai from Nov 11 to Nov 13. The association's President, Mr Pang Hick Loong, said a mission would go to China in October to discover the needs of the Chinese
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    • 57 15 A JOBLESS youth joined a six-year-old girl and her friends in a game of hide-and-seek and later molested her, a court heard on Monday. Goh Cheng Kwang, 18, pleaded guilty to molesting the girl on Sunday at Block 419, Avenue 10. Ang Mo Kio. He is
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    • 93 15 LATE morning and early afternoon showers are expected for about seven to nine days in the next two weeks. Widespread rain with occasional strong gusty winds at dawn and in the early morning are predicted for a few days as well.
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      • 297 15 Work as a team to beat hard times, says NTUC NTUC President George Chua has described the existing co-operation among the Government, bosses and unions as providing the flexibility needed to weather the changes in the economy. In the difficult times ahead, this harmonious relationship must continue among these three
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      • 248 15 Workers 'can help develop vibrant nation' ACTING Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan is confident that the National Trades Union Congress will adopt a far-sighted and positive approach to help the Government achieve its vision of a well-developed, vibrant society in Singapore in future. That vision, Mr Lee said in his
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      • 58 15 THE Deputy Chief of General Staff, Colonel M.S. Gill, will be the guest-of-honour at a seven-a-side soccer match between SAF formations and Safra at Tanglin Football Pitch on May 4 at 2 pm. The event is held under the SAF-Safra partnership programme which was set up
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    • 391 16 Pillay expects different results than in talks with Sri Lanka HIGH-LEVEL talks begin today in London on Singapore Airlines' application to fly to Manchester. And SlA's Chairman, Mr J.Y.M. Pillay, is hopeful that the talks will not meet the same fate as the Sri Lanka
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    • 116 16 THE preliminary inquiry into the murder of Mrs Judy Quek at Westpeak condominium in September last year, w'ticn was scheduled for y.»sterday, has been post wned to Sept 19. A man, Neo Man Lee, 27, has since be»?n arrested and accused of murdering her. Neo
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    • 137 16 RESPONSE from stallholders who want space at the pasar malam at the Singapore Handicraft Centre has been overwhelming. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, which organises the night bazaar, has decided to increase the number of stalls from 65 to 140 nightly, and pasar
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    • 51 16 THE Public Works Department will install be ms for a new pedestrain overhead bridge across Clementi Road near block 352 tomorrow between 1 am and 5 am. During this period, a portion of Clementi Road between Clementi A.venue 2 and Commonwealth Avenue West will be closed to
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    • 589 16  - Peter Chew's faces winding-up petition TONG YOKE THO By PETER Chew's department store now faces a winding up petition for a debt of $8,000. The petition by Hin Seng Pte Ltd, the distributor for Atari home computers, is the most serious court action to be taken by a creditor against
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    • 250 16 MORE Singaporean artistes are expected to take part in fringe activities during the ■ext Singapore Festival of Arte from June C to 22 next year. The Ministry of Community Development, which a— aaeed the festival dates yesterday, said mare local talent
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    • 501 15 SHAINGHAINESE Food Festival I I lstMay-l2thMay *>£ Shanghai, lying along the Yangtze estuary is China's **w. VfT 1 largest city with seven million people. One that evokes mixed /^^amj^\ feelings of sentiments: 4&*f N_WL Jf "A cross between Chicago and Berlin' l__^3&___ r^'*l* It is a city whose very core
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    • 480 18 THOUGH much of the media's spotlight is currently being focused on the 10th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, to reflect on Vietnam today it is probably more instructive to go back a further 15 years, to 1960. Then, the National Liberation Front of South
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  • 1326 18  -  HENRY TANNER By EVER since President Ronald Reagan's plans to visit the German military cemetery of Bitburg were announced last month, controversy has raged on both sides of the Atlantic. Central to the controversy is the fact that among those buried at Bitburg were
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  • 1023 18 LONDON Economic summits seldom live up to the high hopes that too many people pin on them. They are better seen as a chance for seven heads of government, usually preoccupied with pressure Soups at home and the test opinion poll, to take off
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  • 522 18  - Broadway, Parkway and Maxwell Road Tan Bah Bah's IiMVI.'.'AM THE Housing Board story really started with three momentous words Home Ownership Scheme. I shall return to these three words in the near future. Meanwhile, for all HDB flat owners, their own story begins with The Decision. Of course, the decision
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    • 1706 19 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has lately been stepping up its efforts to sell the Rfepublic. Our reporter, CHRISTINA TSENG, accompanied a STPB team on one such sales mission to Australia recently. She gives her impressions of a sales pitch made in
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    • 444 19 IT RAINED heavily in Sydney and the Australians were sympathetic. They had had gorgeous weather just a few days ago, they said. We should have come earlier. But the Singapore team couldn't. They had two days in Sydney. The guests had been
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  • FORUM
    • 707 20 The Government and its policies are the subject of today's two main letters. One says those people dissatisfied with the Government played a "silly and dangerous game" when they voted opposition candidates into Parliament when they could have voiced their grievances
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    • 1628 20 Why the feedback mechanism did not function well People will look for alternative 4 Supporting a government is like supporting a product or service from a company. If that product, though made from the best components, is priced so high that it is out of the reach of people, then
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    • Replies
      • 207 20 PLEASE refer to the letter "Re-open this CC, children need a place to play" by Mr John Abrams (ST, April 9). The facilities of the Sennett Community Centre and Lorong 8 Toa Payoh Community Centre were inadequate to meet the demands of the
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      • 119 20 Choked drain and culvert caused puddle of water I REFER to the letter "Plug this sewer leak" by "Special Perfume of Singapore" (ST, March 20). The puddle of water at the junction of Market Street and Battery Road was not sewage. That section of the road was wet because water
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      • 143 20 Why the street lights can't come on at 7.15 pm WE wonld like ta thank your reader Mr Steve Yeo far his suggestion an changing the swltching-on time far motor vehicles and street lights from 7 ta 7.15 nm ta save energy. (ST, March 23). The Public Utilities Board and
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      • 82 21 VOLUME improved from Monday's low level but overall, the market was still quiet and trading lacklustre. Yesterday's turnover rose to 6.3 million shares valued at $12.8 million, compared with 4.8 million shares traded the day before. The Straits Times Industrial Index lost 3.72 points to close at 791.81.
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      • Chief price changes
        • 62 21 ICS 580-15 MSrewtrwt 540 +15 OwnUlHdjs 308 +11 CaMStC 310+10 KubnMuSOc 227 +7 SuttntXap* 316 +6 OBS 595+5 t»dß*tjHsoc 295 +5 MHrtM 213 +3 Sin* Dart? 50c 194 +3 WOqpiMC 90 +2>2 CCM 448 +2 MafunCorp 334 +2 PwfcPhnt 334 +2 3M 292 +2 Tit Let B** 273 +2
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        • 72 21 F Mtrfh CUls 100 -30 F»CBSOc 171-29 MDn 540 -IS tm*} CltS 380 -10 SIS 210 -10 8 T 22c 182-10 Kentucky Spore 259 -8 CtC 382-6 TDM 294 —6 HmPv 213-6 Bousttad SIC 161 -6 EwpMCt top 107 -6 0 C I C 890-5 tbhuMa 780 -5 Sf
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        • 13 21 Consplant 357,000 Sime Darby 311,000 United Plantations 250,000 Federal Cables 230,000
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        • 62 21 Apr 29 Apr 30 Apr 29 Apr 30 ST Properties 457.96 456.77 BT Composite 710.56 707.61 ST Minings 317.74 317.67 BTMcatoi *****70 *****11 ST FTantahons 2453.68 2453 52 BT 08/ OS 138 156 OCBC 611.35 610.91 ST Industrials 795.53 ***** OUB Composite 403.62 402.86 ST Fmance *****6 2313.73 SES
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      • 33 21 INDICES Highs Lows Straits Times Business Tines Industrial Composite 1983/84 High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 983.06 (8/2/84) 1983/84 Low 712.29 '5/1/83) 684.88 (4/1/83) All-time High 1071.91 (8/2/?*> 983.06 (8/2/84) All-time Low 74.75 (17/9/64) 550.78 (12/8/82)
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      • 12 21 THE US dollar closed at DM3.0810 in Singapore, losing 41 points.
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      • 20 21 DM V FF S| H$ US$ 1.2440 3.0870 252.20 unq 2.4810 7.7970 1.2430 3.0810 251.60 9.3920 2.2210 7.7990
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      • 9 21 In Singapore, gold ended at U*****.50, gaining US$l.5O.
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      • 33 21 Eurodollar: Lost 17 ticks to 90.86 a contract. Deutschemark: Gained four ticks to 0.3258 a contract. mmmmm yen: Gained seven ticks to 0.*****5 a contract. Gold: Gained US$l.4O to U*****.80 an ounce.
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      • Short stops
        • 81 21 LONDON, Tues. Cathay Pacific Airways of Hongkong has become the first airline to hack a Rolls-Royce project to improve the efficiency of the RB-211 engine, a spokesman for tne airline said yesterday. The major developments will mean a further decrease in fuel consumption and more thrust,
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        • 82 21 LONDON. Tues. Smiths Industries PLC and Glazo Holdings PLC said they had agreed in principle for Smiths to buy Glaxo's surgical products and hospital equipment business, Eschmann Brothers Walsh, and its related surgical companies in Prance. Germany, Spain, Singapore and Australia. A spokesman tor Smiths
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        • 63 21 WASHINGTON, Tues. The Securities and Exchange Commission an- nounced that Mr Gary Lynch was named Director of the agency's enforcement division. Mr Lynch was named Acting Director of Enforcement following the Feb 26 resignation of Mr John Fedders, who left the agency after acknowledging that he
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        • 87 21 NEW YORK, Tues. Sony Corp Chairman Akio Morita said he is concerned about growing sentiment in favour of US Erotectionism in the nited States but cautioned against either side becoming too emotional. In an address to securities analysts, Mr Morita painted a rosy picture for Sony's
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        • 59 21 WASHINGTON, Tues. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) said it is preparing to pay off insured depositors of the First Enterprise Bank in California, which was closed by state authorities on Friday. Owners of uninsured funds will share proportionately with the FDIC in the proceeds realised
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    • 383 21  -  ANGELINE TAN By MORE China business is coming the way of government companies in Singapore. Intraco Ltd is poised to sign a trading agreement with a Chinese shipping group, while Keppel Shipyard and Sembawang Shipyard are also negotiating with the same group to set
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    • 332 21 Housing loans OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corporation has regained its traditional position of charging the lowest housing loan rates among commercial banks. From tomorrow OCBC loan rates for homes will be down by a quarter point across-the-board, making OCBC's the cheapest rate after Credit POSB and
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    • 152 21 Brunei bank plans office in Hawaii BANDAR SERI BEG AWAN, Tuesday BRUNEI'S Island Development Bank, controlled by the country's royal family, is eyeing banking prospects in Hawaii. The bank's Managing Director, Mr Francisco Tuazon, said, however, it would take another two to three years before the IDB could open an
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    • 452 21 Small business RODENSTOCK, Polaraid aad Christian Dior are names which spectacle users can thank Sin Kwang Optical Pte Ud for. These famous lines were brought to Singapore by Sin Kwang, which was one of toe first few optical wholesalers in Singapore when Mr Lee Glam
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    • 433 21 The world's oldest bank to set up branch in S'pore THE world's oldest bank and one of Italy's largest, Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena, will set up an offshore branch here. It received the verbal green light from the Monetary Authority of Singapore last month and expects to get a
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    • 267 21 Swire to develop complex on prime HK land HONGKONG, Tues. London-based Swire Properties announced yesterday that it would develop a commercial complex on a prime local site which the company bought for HKJ7O3 million (Ss2o2 million) at a recent government auction. The Victoria Baracks site on the outskirts of Hongkong's
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    • 2379 22 ■I j READERS should be aware of the Mtatiem of this information. Not every transaction, nor every price dealt in at the stock eichanfe, is covered in "business dene". Further, because al deafngs at a particular price are lumped together, the table does not show the
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    • 1651 22 INDUSTRIALS A Choc (2.038) (1)2.06 Aiinomtoto xd Alcorn (1 008 1 OIS) (1) 1.00 (3) 1 02 (54) 1 .01 AMD (3.005)0) 3.00 Antehd .228X2) I 21 (2) 1.23 API (0 898) (11) 0.89 12 (8) 0.89 Asiatic (3.508 3.525) (8) 3.54 (1M)3.52(2)352c8i ASM (1
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    • 2761 22 M shares quoted have a par vahit of $1, unless etht-wc specified -I Adjusted for scrip/rights. N Tai-e.empted dividend MN is traded in lets I of 10 shares each, with the price quoted in dolars -m 1984/85 Last Yield Voi Day H0 Low Company Salt Chance
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    • Commodities, Finance
      • 277 23 OCBC OUB UOB DBS DEPOSIT RATES Savings 6 6'/ 2 6 6 Autosave sVfe Fixed deposit 1 month 5 5 5 5(1) 3 months 5% l A S K A b I A 6 months 5Va 5% 5V 2 5 l 2 9 months 5% 6/4 5 3
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      • 152 23 Interbank Over the counter Foreifn Local dotes to Foroifn currency currency one unit of to Sslo foreifn currency Australian dollar 1.4467—1.4507 7.09—6.86 Canadian dollar 1.6240-1.6257 6.22-6.12 NZ dollar 1.0055-1.0082 10.17-9.76 Sterling pound 2.7671-2.7699 3.66-3.60 US dollar 2.2173—2.2183 4.54-4.49 Local dotes to 100 units of foreipi currency Austrian schilling
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      • 97 23 THE Singapore dollar closed at 2.2170/80 at 3 pm yesterday after opening at 2.2190/06. It traded within a range of 2.2165/75 and 2.2205/25 in quiet pre-holiday trading. The greenback eased in the afternoon against most major currencies after opening with a firmer tone. Against the deutschemark, it opened at
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      • 115 23 THE KILOBAR market traded between 5523,116 and 5523,39_ yesterday. The Far East gold market opened at the day's low of U*****.20/ 324.70 and rallied rapidly to the high of U*****.60/-26.10 before dosing lor lunch at U5J324.80/325.30. After lunch, it made U*****.30/325.80 briefly before drifting off to U*****.30/324JD. It settled
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      • 19 23 GOLD USS/oz Tuts Mm Singapore 324.90-325.20 323.00—323.40 Hongkong 324.50—325.00 323.00—323.50 New York 324.80—325.30 322.70—323.20 London 323.25—323.75 322.00—322.50
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      • 160 23 Managers' prices lor May. Singapore Unit Trust XmCmmm a 1.96-2.08 The mmm Fund 1.39 1.47 Spore Prm Fund 0.82— 0.87 S'pore Sec Fund 1.22-1.29 S'pore Inmt Fund 0.89—0.94 S'pore Eqwtr Fund 0.83—0.88 Asia Unit Trust MU fern. Fund 2.07-2.20-d UU Prof Fund OJS-0 .90 aU Security Fund 0.92-0.97
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      • 649 23 VOLUME improved from Monday's low level but overall, the market was still quiet and trading lacklustre. Yesterday's turnover rose to 6.3 million shares valued at $12.8 million, compared with 4.8 million shares traded the day before. Brokers said the Dow Jones Industrial Index's
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      • 262 23 April 30 MS dunct Auoootad Hotata 0.92 -0 04 Bonk Of Eos» Asw 24.40 +0 1 Chouna Kong 16.30 +1.7 Own Lght 14.80 +0.2 Ctoa Ho* Tunnel 10.10 unch F E Consortium 068 -0.01 Far East Exch PMbi 004 unch ■G I Cmrmrt 773N <Sf~» Eo^« 0.89 +0.02 Wang
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      • 324 23 *ri3o Tin Ctav A^Kwnoto 1080 +10 Akoi 441 -9 Amodo 1090 30 Asohi Cham 873 -12 i/Ma GtaM 892 -t-2 'Bonk TV 808 -6 'Bhdg«tooe 515 -10 > Canon 1310 +10 Cosjo Computar 1730 +50 >CWMn 530 -7 D N*> Prmt 1000 -10 D Mppon Sewn Don. 624 +3
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      • 308 23 fIW) ACI 210 +1 A N I 272 +2 APM .^265 +3 Abarfoyt* 1000 unch Aoe 245 +5 Alone* <M 106 unch Alwd «AI 255 3 Ampd Exp 254 -4 Ampol P«t 182 42 Am 470 -4 Aihton 88 -2 B H P 626 +24 Bmcr PMrataum 75 +2
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      • 66 23 NST Index Tuesday 1270.73(1274.27) Honrkoni Ham Sent "3 0 mmwmm^_mmmimm _t*-t^ vwif^ Tuesday 1520.56 (1497.37) itAustrafan Al-Ordmaries it Tuesday 875.2(868.7) Nkkri D J Average Tuesday 12,426.29 (Closed)' Financial fines Industrials Monday 968.5 (970.9) ji Dow Jones Average |gf Monday 1259.72 (1275.17) J__ (Figures kt brackets refer to those of
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      • 234 23 April 29 IBS On* Alcoa 31* A*«d Cham Cp 44* -I AfcOiabnan 6% unch Am Tal ft Tal 20* -H Amax bK 17** Am Corp 39 -I* BatMatwm SM 16* Boring Co 61 -IM Burroughs Cp 59* -1 CatwpSor Co 32* unch Chat* MantNn 53* Chryitw Cp 34*
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      • 547 23 fcrftt Ptnte Chute MDUSTRMLS ACadtyons 176 unch Asv Doirie* 148 unch BTRPLC 707 +5 Bobcocks 149 +2 Barclays 347 unch Baacham 356 -2 BKX 233 +3 BhMCircto 503 -2 BOC Group 268 -3 Boon.™ 176 +1 Bowotar 245 +4 BATS 320 -8 Britannia 94 unch BP 555 unch B
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    • Simex futures
      • 79 23 Eurodollar 3-month deposit MARKET sentiment was bearish at the outset and the Eurodollar futures opened below IMM's closing prices. Prices fluctuated narrowly and edged lower to 90.85 when Europe came in. The June Eurodollar future closed at 90.86 in very active trading. (100 -implied interest rate) Opw Hlgk Uw Bett
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        85 23 THERE was much activity in the deutschemark pit. Prices were extremely volatile and seesawed during most of the day's trading under the influence of the erratic US dollar. Some market operators were awaiting the release of leading indicators and merchandise trade figures to give them a guide to the
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      • 60 23 ALTHOUGH there was little turnover in the June yen pit es traders preferred the more liquid deutschemark futures, prices were more volatile than usual. June yen ended at 0.*****5, near the day's high. OfM Bgk L»w Sett Brt fU JuU 0.*****3 0.*****8 0.*****7A 0.*****5 7 *fl 0.*****0 DM
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        64 23 JUNE gold fluctuated through a wider range due to the volatility of the greenback. Unwinding of long gold positions led to June gold settling slightly above the day's low. Reports from Stcvrity PtafK Nttnntl Bsak/SPAFI (In US$ per Trvy ounce) Opea High Uw Sett Brt Jai 327.90 327.90 338.704
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    • 18 23 C*__|pricet m^ mm cwb/kk Singapore May ***** up 0 50 cents Malaysia May 192.50 up 0.25 cents
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    • 17 23 Tie Ctafe. pncti -Mat KL Tw 27.80 down 30 cents Turnover: 110 tonnes rose 40 tonnes
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    • 20 23 CkMfcv trim WmW US$/trej« %_m mm Seaport 6.31-6.36 623-628 mm r« Me V«rt 6.3.-6.37 6.28-6.33 Soerct CraWt Sees* Sport
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    • 17 23 Coppor i/mm Mm Spot 1261-1263 (1283.00-1285.00) 3 months 1211.00—1212.00 (1238.00-1240.00) Market tone Steady Sates: 18.275 tonnes
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    • 23 23 mmntmm Warn am Spot 910 00— 911 00 (939.00-940.00) 3 months 925 00— 925 5C (944.00-945.00) Market tone Steady Sales 13.700 tonnes
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    • 90 23 Ctrani price* Crude MS/tonm paknoi May 1660 (south) 1655 (north) June 1550 (smith) 1545 (north) My 1420 (sooth) 1417.50 (south) KC II Wo paknoi USVtomes RBO parm May 775 (setters) Mr 735 (seders) My 675 (solers) RBO Olein May 770 (sellers) Mw 730 (setters) My 670 (solers) RBO
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    • 51 23 TOKYO, Tues. Member lines of the Indonesia- Japan/ J a pan -Indonesia Freight Conference said they will raise most of their rates and charges from Japan to Indonesia by 4.2 per cent from July 1. But lengthy and bulky cargo surcharges and ad-valorem rates will remain unchanged.
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    • 140 24 PETALING JAYA, Tues. Stock market investors must give greater emphasis sn the sales turnover sf companies rather than sn their Income sr profit, aa academician said. Mr Zainal Abidin KJtam, Deputy Dean sf Ess— res, Economics aad Agri-business at the Ualversiti Pertanian Malaysia, said many investors
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    • 177 24 ANOTHER Malaysian cable company, Federal Cables, Wires and Metal Manufacturing Bhd, has announced a lower set of results for last year, though still better than that forecast earlier. Group pre-tax profit for the year to .December 1984 was M54.70 million, nearly 40 per cent below that
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    • Latest results
      • 71 24 THE intense competition in the Singapore cement industry took Ssangyong Cement's gross earnings down 74.1 per cent from $26.9 million to $6.97 million for the year ended December 1984. Ssangyong's sales dived 27.9 per cent to $97.3 million as overseas suppliers dumped cement stocks on the market. Ssangyong's
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      • 75 24 JOHAN Holdings, with businesses ranging from manufacturing to financial and charge card services, posted better earnings of M516.8 million for the year ended January 1985. This is 42 per cent higher than the $11.8 million earned previously. At the net attributable level, Firofits jumped 85 per cent rom
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      • 142 24 AMBASSADOR Hotel Ltd will pay $1.05 million to diversify into oilfield servicing. The company will pay an initial $104,601 and the remaining $941,399 by 1988, either in cash or shares, for a 51 per cent stake in oilfield products and services company Botco-Parkham Ltd of Hongkong.
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    • 327 24  - Sapura to sell subsidiary for M$70m NORA CHENG By TELECOMMUNICATION-S-BASED Sapura Holdings will be selling its subsidiary, a major turnkey contractor for the Malaysian Telecoms, to their listed company, Malayan Cables, for M570.4 million. Uniphone, which sells telecommunications products, will increase MCB's expected earnings from M5510,000 to Ms27 million for
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    • 516 24  -  ANGEUNE TAN By THE motor car industry is going through another bumpy ride. Many car retailers will moan when they look at the depressing results of two large motor vehicle distributors. Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd's group pre-tax profits for the calendar year
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  • OBITUARIES
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      111 31 Mra Lim Ah Kow nee Khoo Geok Chang dsperted 2Mb April 1985 Leaving behind: SONS: Um Kian Lye. K.L.Lim Kian Huat, Francis Kian Cheng Ah Chwee. Lyndon 3 DAUGHTERS: Hock Huay Lim Huay Lim Lian Ah Poh. Helen DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW: Florence Wong Shirley Tiong Jennifer Ho Siew Poh SON-IN-LAW:
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 385 31 MADAM GOH AH CHAH Aged: 62 Wife of Mr. NG SOH passed away peacefully on MONDAY, 29th APRIL, 1985 at 3.45 pm Leaving behind har beloved Sons Daughters Ng Yok Ng Geok Suan Ng Ah Chew Ng Geok Lan Ng Poh Hua Ng Geok
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    • 118 31 MDM BONG MEE YOH Age: 71 passed away peacefully on 30th April 1985 leaving behind husband: LEE SZU YIN Bona: LEE PENG YEE LEE PING MING LEE PENG SHU daughters: LEE NANA LEE DIN DIN daughters-in-law: WAN YUET SENG KHOO AH LAN LIM BIN CHU sons-in-law:
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    • 36 31 The Family of the Late MDM KOH KAH CHENG wishes to express their sincere thanks and appreciation to all friend*, colleague* and relatives for their assistance, wreaths, donation* and condolences during their recent bereavement.
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    • 87 31 The family ol the late MOM CHIA CHENG UAN (MRS OOH HOCK UM) Wish to express heartfelt gratitude lo th* ministers from various churches, congregation, retstives, neighbours, fi lends sod business essocistss lor thsir wreaths, messages of condolences, donations, visits and constant prayer during their recent bereavement* Th*
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      64 31 In loving memory of MDM. CHIA JOO ENG departed on 1.5.65. Always remembered by her In Loving M*mory Of STEPHEN LEE TECK TONG departed 1.5.83 Always remembered by: Edwin Chng, William Thian, Robert Lim, Ronnie Chia, Alan Sof| I _H#jH_6fic Wong. In Loving Memory of our Beloved
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      61 31 In Loving Memory of Foo Seng Kow Oep: 1-5-79 Sadly missed by Heng Neo, Kenneth_^Godjo-Soo^^^^^^ MR. BOON KIM YEW Departed: I*l May 1982 Dearest Father, You toiled all those years for us, And then you had to go To eternal peaceful rest Promised to the just and
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      58 31 In Loving Momory SIMON LOW KENG CHOON Departed: Ist May 1984 Dearly missed and remembered by Mum, Brothers, Sisters, Brothers-in-law, Sister-in-law, niece^^jeDhews^^^^^^^^^ In E vsrloving Memory of JACOB SAVRIMUTHU Departed on 2nd May 1984 Deeply missed and always remembered by loving wife, daughters and loved ones. Mass
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  • TIMESPORT
    • 349 31  -  ALBERT JOHNSON Athletes reminded of commitment to nation By 4 Think of what you want to be two years from now. I believe in this programmeInvolvement in sport means commitment. I want all of you to be as proud of the programme as I am.
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    • 80 31 CALIFORNIA, Tues. Carl Lewis' (above) 9.995ee far the ltt metre- Lb Sunday's Mt Saa Antonio College Relays might have been the world record bat for wind assistance it was 2.5m per second, 1.5m above the allowable for records. Bat it was onlv the third
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    • 236 31 KOBE, Tues. Foreign competitors dominated an international athletics meeting here yesterday by winning four of six events contested. Kenya's Joseph Chesire, fourth in last year's Olympic final, won the 1,500 metres in 3min 46.615ec and compatriot Julius Kariuki won the 3,000m steeplechase in
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    • 230 31 Singapore are the third seeds HONGKONG, Tues. Singapore have been seeded third in the eight-team Dunhill Nations Cup golf championship Asian qualifying round at the Royal Hongkong Golf Club at Fanling from Thursday to Saturday. The Republic begin their quest for a place in October's final round at St Andrew's,
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    • 325 31  - Henry gets ready for Beijing task PETER SIOW By BOWLING coach Henry Tan will leave for Beijing on May 29 to teach the Chinese the ABC of bowling. lJuring the fortnight that he will be in China, the 41-year-old bowling manager hopes to cover the whole gamut of the sport.
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    • 251 31 Czechs break Soviet monopoly PRAGUE, Tues. Czechoslovakia scored an emotional 2-1 win over the Soviet Union and Canada overcame a scrappy American team 3-2 in the medal-round games at the World Ice Hockey Championships here yesterday The Czechs ended the Soviet Union's 42-game. five-year undefeated record in world and Olympic
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    • 276 31 REST OF SPORTS IN^HORT^ BOXING Mexican light flyweight German Torres has lodged a protest over his points defeat in a title challenge against South Korea's Chang Jungkoo. Torres said the judges did not take into account that he had floored Chang during the fight in Pusan,
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    • 430 33 It's a crazy ball game BUCHAREST, Tues. Players will tell you the world over that "football's a funny old game". And, arriving in Romania with England's World Cup squad, Luther Blissett could afford to laugh at the game's latest joke his replacing the man who replaced him. Two years ago,
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    • 314 33 Today s ties: Belgium v Polamfr-Romania v England. N. Ireland v Turkey. Luxembourg v Yugoslavia. Holland v Austria. Eire v Norway ROTTERDAM, Tues. Holland and Austria, overshadowed in their World Cup qualifying section by Hungary, meet in what promises to be a fiercely contested European Group Five
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    • 60 33 ASUNCION, Tues. Hosts Paraguay seat unimpressive Argentina cn.t_.tf te their fifth defeat since Carlos Bilardo succeeded Cesar Lata Menottl aa manager ia IKS when they keat their South American rivals 1-t in a friendly soccer International here yesterday. The only goal came from striker Mora ia the
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    • 173 33 ZURICH, Tues. Injuryplagued Grasshopper Zurich striker Claudio Sulser has withdrawn from the Swiss squad, and Servette Geneva goalkeeper Erich Burgener has been recalled for the World Cup European Group Six qualifying soccer clash against the Soviet Union in Moscow on Thursday. Sulser is the
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    • 318 33 ENGLISH champions-elect Everton have emerged as the firm favourites to sign Portsmouth's talented England Under-21 international Neil Webb. The First Division leaders have begun the bidding for the midfield player, who is rated at £500,000 ($1.3 million), now that Portsmouth's chances of promotion from the Second Division this
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    • 125 33 Fulham offer ground LONDON, Tues. English Second Division soccer club Fulham have invited Oxford United to play their home First Division games next season at Craven Cottage here. The London club made the offer because of newly-promoted Oxford's disagreements with their City Council about their Manor Ground. Fulham chairman Ernie
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    • 189 34 Changes to hockey rules LONDON, Tues. The Hockey Rules Board have introduced a mandatory experimental rule to try and eliminate the dangerous practice of goalkeepers lying fulllength to stop goalbeing scored from penalty-corner shots. Instead of six defenders behind the goal-line at penalty corners, only five will be permitted. The
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    • 568 34 Carl admits he's the unlikely lad for Larry NEW YORK, Tues. His nickname is "The Truth". And, if the truth be known, Carl Williams hardly seems qualified to step into the ring with Larry Holmes. Even the 25-year-old Williams conceded yesterday that "a lot of people
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    • 78 34 GREG PAGE was stripped of more than Iris title against fellow-American Tony Tubbs aa Monday night. Befare his world championship bant, he had personal belongings valued at L'Ss3l,tM ($_6,«M) stolen from his hotel room. Among the objects taken from the .oxer's ream was a gold-plated wristwatch
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    • 425 34 Lightly-regarded Tony upsets three-time victor Greg for WBA heavyweight boxing title Z You can't win in 15 by danc- ing. The champ has got to fight. Page was in there throwing shots but not landing any m blows. 7 New world champion Tubbs BUFFALO,
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    • 454 34 ON THE TENNIS SCENE LAS VEGAS, Tues. There were some anxious moments but no surprises for the three seeded players in the opening round of a U*****,000 ($686,000) tennis tournament here yesterday. Americans Eliot Teltscher rallied to beat Larry Stefanki 2-6, 7-5, 64, Scott Davis
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    • 147 34 PARIS, Tues. John McEnroe remains on top of both the Association of Tennis Professionals rankings and the Grand Prix standings following his win in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday. ATP rankings: 1 John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, 3 Jimmy Connors, 4 Mats Wilander, 5 Andres Gomez, 0 Anders Jarryd,
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    • 360 34 LONDON, Tues. Former England fast-medium bowler John Lever produced an irresistible burst of five for 27 and launched Essex's defence of the English County cricket Championship on a victorious note yesterday. Lever, 36, who has just ended a three-year international ban for touring South Africa, sealed an
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    • 80 34 LAGUNA MIGUEL (California), Tues. The "golf club bandit", who planned to open his own pro shop with stolen clubs, is out of business. The suspect, Randal Labeda, 29, was arrested while allegedly carting off a set of clubs taken from an open garage.
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    • 72 34 SHEFFIELD (England), Tues. Two of Britain's top bookmakers Hills and Mecca last night banned bets on snooker games. They fear that some players rigged results to land betting coups. They have also asked the World Billiards and Snooker Association to stop players from betting
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    • 442 35  - First things first, welcome to our new arena SPORTS EDITOR GODFREY ROBERT By f-M- GOOD Morning. Today is the first of the month... and an exciting new first for Timesport readers. Meet First Person. This is the title of a regular column we'll be featuring whenever we have something to
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    • 427 35  -  PETER SIOW By Another defeat and Jurong return to Div. Two TONG WHYE triggered off the trap door to send newly-promoted Jurong hurtling back to ignominy in the Basketball Association of Singapore Cup tournament at Gay World Stadium last night. They pounded Jurong 94-74 in a
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    • 589 35  - Gul's boast with a toast J. RAJENDRAN One-time coach Rahim sets his sights on clash with Zainal By PAKISTANI Rahim Gul may not end up winning the men's open title in the Ascot 10th Singapore Closed Squash Championships. But if what he says is anything to go by, then the
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    • 289 35  -  JOE DORAI Singapore request turned down, so second-leg will be on Monday By THE Malaysia Cup quarter-final second-leg soccer match between Singapore and Trengganu will be played, as scheduled, at the National Stadium on Monday night (8). The Trengganu Football Association yesterday turned down Singapore's request to
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    • 227 35  -  JOE DOR AI TWO former "problem boys" of Singapore soccer, Trevor Arnold and Syed Ismail Anuar, were among the top five "students" on the Football Association of Singapore introductory coaching course conducted last week. Arnold, one-time player with League Division One club Tampines Rovers, was
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    • 281 35  -  JOE DORAI NEWCOMER Ishak Saad, who made his national debut in the Malaysia Cup tie in Penang two weeks ago, has nudged out experienced Marzuki Elias for the last spot in Singapore's party of 16 for tomorrow night's quarter-final first-leg clash against Trengganu at the
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    • 260 35 TOKYO, Tues. Japan produced a superb defensive display to hold North Korea to a 0-0 draw and consolidate their lead in the World Cup Asian Zone Group 4B qualifier in Pyongyang, North Korea, today. The Japanese now have five points from three matches and need
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    • 101 35 Rajindar's late winner RAJINDAR Singh's goal five minutes from time fave Ceylon Sports Club a -1 victory over Singapore Cricket Club in their annual hockey match for the Muthucumaru Trophy at Balestier Road yesterday. Penalty-corner specialist Sajiv Mukandan put CSC ahead in the 16th minute when he hammered a powerful
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    • 299 35 CHINESE Association captain Ricky Chew sounded a warning for this week's National Snooker Championships with a couple of useful breaks in club matches. Ricky made a 47 in CA's 4-0 victory at KepEel, then a 46 in a 3-1 ome win against PUB. The two
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    • 34 35 CHANGI Constituency beat Telok Blangah 24 in a National Football League Division Two match at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. In a Div. Three game, Hai Sing Park beat Bedok Youth 24.
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    • 189 35 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Bowler Michael Chuah won the 1964 Malaysian Sportsman of the Year award, but for the first time in history of sport in the country, no woman was considered worthy enough to win the Sportswoman title. At the award presentation ceremony here today,
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  • RACING
    • 572 32 ON THE TRACK with TONTO IPOH, Tues. Laststart winner Sunny Smile showed top form in his workout here this morning. With Bakri Hayon up, the seven-year-old English f elding reeled off 600 min 6.4 sec, finishing with plenty in a hand. The going was good with
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    • 241 32 LONDON, Tuesday TOP jockey Greville Starkey will ride second favourite Dafayna in the English 1,000 Guineas on Thursday if the filly's regular partner, Walter Swinburn, is suspended. Swinburn faces the Jockey Club disciplinary stewards tomorrow after being found guilty of reckless riding at
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    • 82 32 Heffernan, Grylls get nod IPOH, Tues. Melbourne's Robert Heffernan (above) and New Zealander Gary Grylls have been given permission to ride as visiting jockeys at the Perak Derby meeting starting on Saturday. Heffernan made his first appearance in this circuit at the just-con-cluded Penang meeting. He rode four seconds. Grylls
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    • 236 32 a At the 400m At the finish Pictures at the 400m by JONATHAN CHOO Restricted Terms Div C 1,200m 1. Big Shot n 2. Long Lake 3. Nine Lines 4. Little Master Dist: 6, V/_ 3 3 < Time 1:16.5 a 4 Div
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    • 1553 32 There will be off-course betting ot Bukit Timah and at the town office of the Singapore Turf Club ■WPMP«I.3O MARA CLASS 3 1,200m 1 11*7 J-B rey 78 (Selangor Polo A Riding Club) DUa 1 2 1*35 Mystaat 78 (Selangor Polo A Riding Out MT
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    • 59 33 f With Deepest Sympathies 1 and Condolences to Our Chairman MR NG SOH on the demise of his wife _H aWW\ H__MH^_______^ |H H^E* j \\\\M.__W£ ww^^W__W^^___W 'w' *T§ii> ia^%______Ww—\y- —_—f" ————f*. ww MADAM GOH AH CHAH On Monday, 29th April, 1985 From: NG SOH CONSTRUCTION CO. PTE. LTD. NG
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    • 710 33 Singapore Turf Club NOTICE SELANGOR May Amateur Meeting 1985 TOTALISATORS The Bukit Timah Racecourse and The Town Office will be open for betting on Wednesday, Ist May 1985. A gate admission fee of Sss per person per entry will be levied at the Bukit Timah Racecourse. There will be no
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 124 35 GOLF SICC Charity Open Day competition (Island Course ana New Course, 7 am). HOCKEY Civil Service League: IE v Customs (Tanglin, 5 pm). Friendly: Punggol CSC v National U -20 (FPAC, 4.30 pm). SOCCER NFL Div 2: Cairnhill FC v Kaki Bukit SC (Jln. Besar), Pioneer Arsenal FC v Ayer
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  • 151 36 Test children for high blood pressure CHICAGO, Tues. Children should be tested train infancy for high blood pressure once m year to detect possible hypertension problems before adulthood, a group of American doctors have recommended. The advice, la a report from a task force studying the ailment, was released at
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  • 257 36 CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Tues. Plumbing problems, the failure to launch one of two tiny low-cost satellites, and a troublesome experimental airlock marred the first day in orbit of the shuttle Challenger after its smooth blast-off yesterday. The airlock problem was the latest in a series of
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  • 525 36  -  LILLIAN CHEW Rebuff expected to undermine American position at Bonn summit By Washmgton Correspondent Warning on terrorist attacks WIESBADEN, Tues. West German authorities warned today that leftwing terrorists might be planning "spectacular attacks" during mis week's economic summit in Bonn. Appealing te
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  • 137 36 Hu Na in the spotlight again on TV FORMER Chinese tennis star Ha Na, dressed In Western clothes, did a stu* torn ef a different kind at a Taiwanese TV station en Monday. It was the first time she had appeared en a TV variety shew, she said. Ha Na,
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  • 235 36 J AK ARTA, Tues. THE Indonesian government has ordered the reorganisation of the Customs Department in a drastic move to rid all ports and airports of corruption and bureaucratic delays. An announcement signed by Finance Minister Radius Prawiro todav said more than 6,000 Customs
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  • 128 36 NEW YORK, Tues. A task force of 45 police and FBI agents was expecting a break today in the robbery of nearly US$B million (5517.76 million) from an armoured car company here the second largest theft in United States history. FBI spokesman Kenneth Walton yesterday
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  • 427 36  - Three private car parks cut their rates BENG TAN By SOME private car paries in commercial buildings are reducing their charges from today to woo customers. A check by The Straits Times yesterday show that these include Plaza Singapura in Orchard Road, Golden Mile Complex in Beach Road and DBS
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  • 207 36 Visitors who overstayed being sought ELEVEN Indian nationals among the group of 139 granted special passes to enter Singapore on April 17 are still here although they were all to have left by yesterday. The last group of 25 flew back to Madras yesterday, bringing to 128 the total number
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  • 127 36 Officials at UN Hq wage war on 'bad food' UNITED NATIONS, Tues. United Nations officials left aside the grinding issues of world poverty, hunger and war briefly to join a protest against bad food and smaller drinks served in their glasstowered headquarters. Hundreds of UN workers, among the world's best-paid
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  • 31 36 NEW YORK, Tues. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 2.76 points to 1,256.96 in the first half-hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. AP
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    • 336 36 EC sets terms for new round of trade talks Page 4. Bonn embarrassed by economic forecast Page*. A summit package possible Page lf aaamm mmt \_w\_mw I Uaal llk I V^l i«%^« 111 i^ kA pkcouot carrra SMff YOUR PKCK>us "ME HUNTING AROUND 100% ROSEWOOD fc^rjl MAnRESSES PACKAGE OFFER^mptefl DISCOUNT
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    • 117 36 Weather UP TO Ip.m. Showers over several areas late morning onwards. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 32 max., 25 min. SUNSET today: 7.06p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow: 6.56 a.m. GLOBAL WEATHER Adelaide 11/29C Fine Manila 22/33C Cloudy Amsterdam 4/11 C Cloudy Melbourne 10/26 C Fine Bangkok 24/31C Cloudy Moscow 15/17C
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  • Section Two Family&Society
    • 3 1 Section Two Family&Society
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    • 684 1  -  CHOO SOH ENG ■y hi tie room tf aw HDB flat Mei-li (not her reat name) trims the hair of a customer. Next door, hi the hitches, her teenage daughter goes through net iiuincwvi n> In the labour statistics, meni wouio nave oeen listed as one of the
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    • 105 1  - Handwork permitted but CHOP SOH Egg LESSEES, particularly housewives who ttve In HDB Oats, are aUowed te de light handwork tai their flats to supplement their family income provided it ie done m a small scale and does net cause nuisance ar disturbance. An HDB spokesman said light handwork included
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      • 159 1 _2_lE^£^^ MmmMmmmWmmmmS m Equality begins at home ___mam_______________________________t~ _i*_ 'VBl P9 JH__ ______________m W__\__m____M_\_£mL _KL -_tmw- *JB_l____s___! HEP Ip!" t.« *_r_f^j_B I— _____r^r'^l^l^__-?'^lH r _Hr^ tm^m L r ______<_■_§_ KB vL_f<T__eß P ,<3am. y r vf IFI I -M^S m_t___j___ml A JM_______ H________ L. 3_si t_^* "V rB H_> BR___a____ri___.
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    • Kids & Things
      • 471 2 Answers to Spot-the-Noses Contest KMs'ir Things Uncle Otak ONCE in a while, there _tre contests in which there are no winners. The Spot-the-Noses Contest was such a contest and proved too difficult for our readers. No one was able to guess the noses
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      • 297 2 THE winner of the essay entitled The Three Talents That I Hope For is 13-year-old Yasmin Fareed Khan. Her essay, which combines humour and the ability to avoid being self-centred, makes it good, light-hearted reading. Some essays I read were "heavy" where authors
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    • About Women
      • 1098 4 EVELYN WONG looks at how women from poor, middle-class and affluent households manage their budget and suggests how we can have happier marriages, families and individuals just from sharing home chores IT IS not widely known that the word economics originates from the Greek oikonomei, meaning
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      • 605 4  -  ANGELINA CHOY A journalist Personally Speaking "AFTER seeing your husband and children off, you are left to the day's chores. What should you do first? The dishes, the ironing, the beds, or should you go marketing?" Strangely, this little snippet from the radio on
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    • Bilingual
      • 1114 5 Singaporean Chan Man Seng has made a name as a violin-maker and restorer in London since he went there 10 years ago. Here on a visit, he was at the Victoria Concert Hall last weekend to see how his creation sounded in the hands of China's
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      • 242 5 li_.miL# nmt%_VrT<musis > zmmfs > <bmv.nm m~*a °&%_m<_iw.ik mit SSffi-fif^A^W^^B J-C^-H^Htffi^JA^^ii ifeM?_?sEafnflßHtl WjfiL^ I*l m«mtL^ 1756— 1791 totem j_tfi*-^w ftb_h#+Ai_t *_*%fj*T-it:-i' mm m »asAtPJ_ugm*m^ HiH:. HtLt*^2:^^ A%*w&ft ISlft" "*&i*9t" to BPi-ft_*=iA-i£^ &tt-®««_n.t*# fiU^^-^^tltA^^ S^i itS'_.6ljiiii*° T-i± fniomfflfgmtL#g-_ia^ -_'fi.^ißfr_r-,B_-6U^rll-^ Jii^^9_6_ei»&tiS_ig_ &mtift<bu&)ft_x_i%ipi*: zxmmmA° m --^ffi _tit#M« _p J_B c ft n° &rYttmiftzy:mm
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      • 115 5 i_lS_a*Jii'ha^W^^«;l« S£**fe6lJ*g_snfpJ° ft ttH6_WfeH.#T'VfA mm ffe_i#^j_:ffi^^3i »ifte_*r^2> xffc&^tt j£~ifaf_.i£«& ft_#Bff_&/l_'Mtfrfo**fl__?° "#l¥-_A**?*_t__ M ffe-_° ?«/£i_*e7__^Mtfj-*rf_:t-_3*r£&>j'h-t^ -T 7 —'_>*}• I<#U>A. ft -£.f_ffc#*tt fife ttftfe us s m tfohfes; ton m SBfißS&ttt_^»]&U°" m&i%° "¥j££7fc_.rf*ffl 3 s Aj£ W&#R_ M*E*&-_im&skmmm _z ft° "«r_E_«,6u#_c m u ftvtm&&&t_i^ > &7-T7- i£s:S_{+£^ t_\K%%* n%LW.%m7 IS ffsSf-lft7£±6_*g*__° «&f_j*g.£--
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      • 936 5 When China completes the building of the world's largest hydro-electric dam on the Yangtze River in 1986, the timeless beauty of the famous Three Gorges will have a new look. The magnificence of the hazardous gorges has for centuries inspired poets such as
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    • Bilingual Dwibahasa
      • 807 6 Among friends: Frank views on dramatists Part 4 TO INTERACT with dramatists is an experience laced with the 'give and take' concept. The 'give and take' spirit will be better appreciated if one has been involved in the production of a play, such as in
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      • 623 6  -  SAPIEE AHMAD RAZALY Oleh BERMESRA dengan orangorang drama adalah satu pengalaman 'memberi dan menerima'. 'Memberi dan menerima' akan mengundang pengertian yang lebih besar lagi sekiranya seseorang itu terlibat terus dalam kerja-kerja pementasan seperti penulis, pelakon, pengarah, penata kesan, penata cahaya, pereka set dan sebagainya. Jika
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      • 31 6 BACA karangan di bawah dengan teliti dan jawab soalan-soalan yang bertkutnya sebagai satu latiban: Bead the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow as an exercise:
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      • 429 6  - Lesson 149 A Easy Steps to Malay Haron A. Rahman By TERDAPAT dua aspek penting yang telah menjadi isu perdebatan hangat ketika Pesta Teater Komputer Terengganu berlangsung dari 4 hingga 9 April lepas. Perkara ini telah diterangkan sendiri oleh Encik Mohd Lut Ali, 28 tahun, yang turut menyertai rombongan seramai
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      • 1119 6 CTAIITQ RQRfIItAI I Telefax No: *****59 I Rates: I Box Service: OIMU I O nOJUOOI j^,-^. Straits Times: 5525.00 psc. cm. Collected: 555.00 Telex Service: S.T.A.N.T.S. RS ***** TIMEAD I Tel: *****11 ext 2724-7 2669 I Sunday Times: 5525.62 psc. cm. I Posted: Sslo.oo APPOINTMENTS m m tm wm^_^_ w
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      • 540 6 NOTICES SUBORDINATE COURTS SINGAPORE DX. Sam-tons Ne. 7882 of 1184 Between BP SINGAPORE PTB. LTD. ...Plaintiffs Aai LEE PUAY GUAN trading as KLNGSAWA INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIER ...Defendant NOTICE OF ADVERTISEMENT To: Lee Puay Guan trading as Klngsawa Industrial Supplier of No. 51, Jalan Pemimpin, #05-01, Mayfair Industrial Building, Singapore 2057. Take
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    • Family Health
      • 601 7 A weekly series on developments in Singapore medical services and family health Nodical Update Irene Chua In last week's Medical Update, It was stated that a renal transplant at a private hospital In Singapore would cost $BMM. A Mt Elizabeth Hospital spokesman said that in three recent
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      • 437 7 RENAL failure, Singapore's ninth killer disease has, in recent years, been the focus of public attention. Unlike heart failure or brain death, a person can go on living with the help of kidney machines if he cannot get a kidney transplant (see last week's
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      • 930 7  -  BILL POWER By MADELEINE JOHNSON'S family was nearly destroyed by psychotropic drugs which have an effect on the mind. She fought her way out of the hands of a psychiatrist whom she said nearly killed her on drugs. Then her daughter went through a
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      • 971 7 NOTICES I Johan Holdings Berhad fl (Incorporated in Malaysia) 1 PRELIMINARY FINAL STATEMENT AND DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT I The Board ot Directors is pleased to announce the audited results tor the year ended 31 st January fl 1985 as follows: B COMPANY GROUP I 31.1.85 31.1.84 31.1.85 31.1.84 Change B $000
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      • 84 7 Every I Think Any Think YOl WANT IN MAG E >* fqf __g Company $4.25 monthly WWa^ep '"'WM _____'"*^_fl E_^ 35b3i3| Good Housekeeping $4.25 monthly match Weekly $2.25 weekly _\_m_v* 9 Ka___\\____\\ *_*__j_ mr T B _T^^_W _w 12 ''!L______^k I 1 *^_L^__-*' SwWa W\r OU m ontrily _s:<^ Evonr-**
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      • 618 8 APPOINTMENTS Telemecanfque International company world leaders in automation control equipment. 50 years experience in Europe 25 years worldwide Established in Singapore for over ten years has a vacancy for: SALES ENGINEER Singapore citizen below 30 years old Minimum technician diploma in engineering Must possess a Class 3 driving licence Some
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      • 114 8 APPOINTMENTS I AN ESTABLISHED PLASTIC INJECTION #3 I Hlmmf I HUI I MOULDING COMPANY REQUIRES: W^ m w ww w m-a ASSISTANT MANAGER ,/ms* (FINISHING DEPARTMENT) ff l//i/ff /f^k To Manage and Supervise of Finishing %T if J&f ffftt Department (Spray-Painting, Hot- L (&7 \M Stamping Sllkscreen Printing) X_____. mot*
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    • Page 8 Miscellaneous
      • 641 8 ~-~~~~~^^-^^-**'»mammmmmm^^mmmi^aaaaaamamaaammmmmmaaaaaaaamm SUN TAN By Coiiette PEANUTS By Scholz /boVcxA KNOW THAT YOU Am.\\ Y©u COKStDtR. THt TluT 'n£4 _j^fj^ LL y ou^ r "^tN |X^ I JKCffl VES, MAAM, IT'S THE FIRST j TMOU6WT ABOUT FcOULP VOU USE A /r&Jr^Z -==--i v H^v_To ConcluDc in FACT I l"\ _fWW-X j
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      • 843 9 > GOLDEN SULTArTI I I A WISE-CRACKING COP SENT FROM THE FUTURE INTO THE PRESENT< j |lt »N PURSUIT OF A MEGALOMANIACJrVjTHSTRANGE POWERS. (jl > i 1 I Pjß WW M ___s.\___S___bsj _-_-^BB I i !j! I Warn JM k W I Tim Thomerson Ji j Helen Hunt JQ ii\i
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      • 440 9 LIANG KEE RESTAURANT (Air-Con) Come, savour Teochew cuisinePar Excellence Down by the Singapore Riverside in a' HDB block there is a cosy airconditioned Restaurant, famous for their excellent cuisine and personalized service. So when we say Come, savour Teochew cuisine Par Excellence'. We are not exaggerating. We have a reputation
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    • Family&Society
      • 551 10 Self-employed housewives My children are still young and need me to look after them as we cannot afford a maid. To get some pocket money and help pay for household expenses, I work at home and this gives me the flexibility of working when my
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      • 677 10  -  CHOO SOH ENG By "MANY are called but few are chosen." Women comprise over one third of the workforce but very few make it to managerial levels. To help them reach the top of the corporate ladder, the Singapore Business and Professional Women's Association (SBPWA) is organising
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      • 194 10 MM l|__B _kl _^Wvl^_^2_iiß»*___l m\ _I_B fc __^jP^^^^^ j___________________l Is proud to announce the appointment of kentur KEN-AIR TOURS PTE LTD ftrklane Shopping Mall, 35, Selegie Road #09-28, Singapore o7lB. „:*****11 as General Sales Agent in Singapore with effect from Ist May 1985. PETER STUYVESAMT TRAVEL Holidays with a difference
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