The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 6 August 1988

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1988 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI(P) 222/8/87
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  • 119 1 JOHOR BARIJ The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has appointed a three-member Royal Commission of Inquiry to look into the Butterworth jetty disaster which killed 31 people and injured more than 800 last Sunday. The commission will comprise retired judges Tan Sri Chang Min
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  • 816 1 FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has set himself the task of drawing more young Singaporeans into politics when he succeeds Mr Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister. Many of them are uninterested in politics and may have to he "dragged in”,
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  • 406 1 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew joined a very select number of men and women worldwide in being made an honorary fellow of the prestigious Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh last night. He is the first Prime Minister and first Asian to receive
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    • 49 1 INSIDE HOME NEWS Govt White Paper on elected President PAGE 12-14 Group calls for referendum PAGE 2 sBlm extension for Raffles Hotel PAGE 4 Parliament PAGES 6-7 ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY PAGES 8,9,19 I Comment PAGES 10-11 I TIMESDOLLAR PAGES 15-18 1 FORUM PAGE 20 TIMESPORT PAGE 23 I I
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  • HOME
    • 917 2  -  But group agrees: Nation’s assets must be protected Only logical to get people’s assent, professionals argue By BERTHA HENSON THERE should bo a referendum to let voters deride if Singapore needs an elected President with powers to safeguard national reserves and the integrity of
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    • 346 2 THK elected President should not have the power to block appointments to the public service as this would undermine the authority of the Prime Minister and lead to public servants having “dual loyalties”, said several professionals at a Feedback Unit session. Most
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    • 104 2 THE proposal for an elected president with powers to protect the nation’s financial reserves and the integrity of the public service will be debated in Parliament next Thursday. The MP for Kebun Baru, Mr Lim Boon Heng, has tabled a motion in support of the
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    • 739 2 THE High Court on Tuesday dismissed with costs the application of detained lawyer Teo Soh Lung who sought to be released on the grounds that her detention was illegal. Mr Justice Lai Kew Chai said the Constitution and the Internal Security Act gave the
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    • 432 3  -  They may be among party’s candidates for general election By BERTHA HENSON and CEPHAH TAN MURK than a dozen professionals, mostly in their 30s and 41s, have become familiar faees in various eonstitueneles, sparking off speculation that they may he among the
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    • 1000 3 MOST of thorn sit in on meet-the-people sessions, attend constituency functions as VIPs and meet residents. Are they the People's Action Party's new crop of ele<'t ion candidates? That is the (piestion being asked in several constituencies. HURTH HKNSON and CEPHAH TAN
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    • 392 3 MR S. RAJARATNAM is hoping there will be at least five or six good, “intelligent opposition MPs" in the next Parliament. “This will be good for the people, good for the Government and good for the country,” the
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    • 213 3 MEMBERS of Parliament in some of the new Group Representation Constitueneies (GRCs) have begun touring their wards in teams, meeting residents and explaining the Team MP eoneept to them. MPs from Redok, Pasir Panjang, Cheng San and Tiong Bahru GRCs
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    • 507 4  -  Owners’ s3om bid for state land the lowest, but their design was ‘far superior’ By AGNES WEE THK owners of Raffles Hold have won tho government tondor for a plot of stale land behind its Beach Road site with an SKI million expansion proposal.
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    • 178 4 A SINGAPORE doctor, Dr Patrick Goh (above), has boon namod tho Outstanding Student of tho Year for 1988 by tho prestigious Unitod States Sports Aeadomy, making him tho third Singaporean to receive the honour. According to Mr Tan Eng Yoon, also a graduate from
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    • 350 4 Union to take up case of alleged abuse THE Singapore Airlines union wants to discuss with the airline's management an incident in which an SIA traffic officer was allegedly pushed and verbally abused after he declined to upgrade the airline ticket of
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    • 207 4 A MULTI-MILLION dollar public information system called Teleview will go on field trial in Singapore in October prior to a full-scale launch in the early *****. The system, developed by Telecoms and billed as the world’s most advanced videotex system, uses both
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    • 231 4 THE shark's fin soup served in restaurants is the real thing, says an official survey hut a lingering suspicion is still around that some shops are selling fake stuff. Prompted by talk about "artificial" or "synthetic" shark's fin, the Ministry of the Environment took
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    • 64 4 CHARITY SWEEP 88, carrying a top prize of $1.5 million, was launched last Saturday by First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The lottery Is aimed at raising more than $2 million for the Community Chest of Singapore’s M charities. A total of I.C million tickets, at
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    • 515 5  -  SIA acts to curb gold smuggling by cabin crew By SALMA KHALIK SINGAPORE Airlines has come up with a list of 13 “forbidden cities" places its flight stewards and stewardesses cannot ask to fly to. The airline imposed this ruling a month ago
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    • 404 5 Buildings will be no taller than coconut trees LAZARUS Island, lying eight km south of Singapore, between St John's and Kusu islands, is to be developed into an idyllic village-like beach resort in about two years' time. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is
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    • 69 5 CHANGI Airport has raced past Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport as the No. 1 choice of seasoned business travellers after being in the runner-up slot for four years. And it could not have come at a better time. It is a “most appropriate present” just as
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    • 163 5 PERANAKAN Place Complex Pte Ltd, the operators of Peranakan Place, have sold their entire shareholdings to a group of local entrepreneurs. The new owners include Mr Chua Tiang Hee, a former director of Cycle Carriage, a name synonymous with Mercedes cars. Sources said the sale,
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    • 476 5  -  By SALMA KHALIK in Kathmandu A FORMER Singapore Airlines stewardess is home after her family paid 3.6 million rupees to free her from a jail in Nepal. The money is worth about SS.tIO.tMH» at the official exchange rate or just
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    • 197 5 SINGAPORE’S largest toy shop. Kids’ World Marina in Marina Square, has closed after being in business for barely nine months. The 2,700 sq m store, which boasted of $1,499.95 Barbie dolls decked out in real mink last Christmas, closed two-and-a-half weeks ago. leaving behind a
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 785 6 My job is to forge consensus, not to encourage dissent, Chok Tong tells House But I don’t think we’re ready yet to freely discuss sensitive issues, he cautions 11 IK First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh t’hok Tong, has assured younger
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    • 673 6 LET’S get back to Action! That, in short, was the call by Dr Aline Wong to the Government yesterday to quickly put behind it recent events that have caused "bewilderment, confusion and sadness to the nation". Dr Wong (Changkat) also
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    • 136 6 GOVERNMENT Parliamentary Committees will he allowed to conduct public hearings on specific topics of importance to Singapore after the general election, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong announced in Parliament. The hearings would he similar to those conducted by congressional com-
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    • 1084 7 Debate on non-constituency MPs THE Government is confident that Singaporeans want the People’s Action Party to be in charge but it also believes that the desire of some, particularly the younger ones, for opposition MPs in Parliament should be accommodated and
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    • 150 7 THE Home Affairs Minister, Professor S. Jayakumar, said in Parliament that security officers of former President Devan Nalr never left him unprotected when they were on duty. But he told Mr Chiam See Tong (Potong Pasir) that the duty of the security
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    • Answers to questions
      • 95 7 THE Home Affairs Minister, Professor S. Jayakumar, said the United States government did not request the Singapore Government to release lawyer Francis Seow. Mr Seow was detained on May 6 under the Internal Security Act and released conditionally on July IC. In his short reply,
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      • 159 7 LABOUR Minister Lee Yock Suan urged the private sector to follow the Government lead in raising the retirement age of workers from 55 to 60 to prevent wasting Singapore’s scarce labour resources. He said: "Private sector employers and their workers, or the unions representing them,
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      • 79 7 THE question of whrther detainee Teo Soh Lung would he allowed to take part in elections while under detention did not arise because neither she nor the other detainees had indicated any wish to stand (or office, the Home Affairs Minister, Professor S. Jayakumar, told
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      • 168 7 THE Housing Board will stick to its throe-offer policy for flat applicants because to relax this rule would be unfair to others on the waiting list. Dr Lee Boon Yang, the Minister of State (National Development) said. He was replying to Mr Chng Hee
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      • 97 7  -  Parliament reports by Parliament reports by KONG SOOk CHIN, SI MIKO TAN, TAN TARN HOW, ZI RAIDAH IBRAHIM, CATHERINE C ONG, LOONG SWEE YIN and LEONG WENG KAM. A BUSINESS park will he built in Jurong, with amenities to attract skilled professionals and
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  • across the CAUSEWAY Photospecial
    • 346 8 THE HORROR of the Butterworth jetty disaster last Sunday is vividly depicted in these pictures victims being carried by volunteer helpers to waiting buses at Kedah pier to be rushed to hospital (above); a badly bruised father, his face covered in blood, with his young son whom
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 267 9 KUALA LUMPUR Politicians must discuss racially sensitive Issues behind closed doors so that these are not exploited to create problems, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said this week. Such matters must be discussed diplomatically and
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    • 373 9  -  By ISMAIL KASSIM KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association will present to the ruling National Front coalition an economic plan emphasising racial unity for the post-1990 period. Called the Malaysian Unity Perspective Plan (MUPP), it represents the contributions of
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    • 253 9  - Dr Ling and I by Dr M ISMAII, KASSIM. KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday spoke of his close relationship with the Malaysian Chinese Association President Datuk Dr Ling Liong Sik. He also complimented Datuk Ling, who delivered his presidential address for the first time
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    • 125 9 KI AI.A LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association has unanimously approved a plan by the president, Datuk Dr Ling IJong Sik, to settle the party's outstanding Ms3l million (Ss2l million) debt within the next six months. Under the plan, a company would he set
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    • 330 9 KUALA LUMPUR A former chief executive and managing director of Malaysia’s largest co-op-erative bank, the Co-oper-ative Central Bank (CCB), has been arrested for alleged criminal breach of trust of about MJ3 million (552.31 million), The Star reported. R. Mathimugam, 49, was picked
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    • 114 9 NST, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A 140,000-member civil service union has been expelled by its fellow-govern-ment-unions from a joint committee co-ordinating wage claims for civil servants. The committee decided to expel the National Joint Council (Staff Side) for Statutory Bodies (NJCSB) after a three- hour meeting
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    • 542 9  -  By SALIM OSMAN: Kuala Lumpur DATUK SERI Dr Mahathir Mohamad has assured Malaysians that the government had no intention of wiping out their ethnic identities in the drive towards evolving a Malaysian identity for the country. Malaysians of all races are free to
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    • 110 19 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR The tribunal looking into charges against suspended Lord President Tun Salleh Abas has submitted its report to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong,Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday. The Prime Minister however did not say when this took place.
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    • 216 19 NST, KUALA LUMPUR Fifty thousand Malaysians have migrated to Australia since the early *****, according to a recent publication of the Australian High Commission. The booklet, Australia and Malaysia, said that in the past three years, there had been a steady increase
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 648 10 AUG 6. 1988 BOSSES and unions have managed to halt a slide downhill by agreeing to some key ground rules for this year’s round of pay rises. But the uphill task remains the bulk of companies have yet to successfully conclude pay deals. The test
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    • 590 10 AUG 5, 1988 FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has indicated that the Government plans to draw more young Singaporeans into politics. The arguments for that are self-evident. The involvement of young people in the affairs of the country is vitally important to the well-be-ing of
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    • 607 10 AUG 4. 1988 FROM the views that were expressed at last Tuesday’s Feedback Unit discussion it would seem that Singaporeans want a more thorough examination of the issue of an elected, non-ex-ecutive President. Wider public debate will give Singaporeans an opportunity to understand better the significance of the
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    • 585 10 RAFFLES PLACE THERE'S no place, I dare say, in Singapore like Raffles Place with a history and tradition of its own that endure to this day even after being in it for more than 150 long years! Raffles Place is still at
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    • 190 10 “The Prime Minister believes there is a possibility that the one-man-one-vote system ean be abused. It is not distrust of the individual, but of the system.” First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in an interview with the Malaysian Malay language daily, Utusan Malaysia when making the point
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  • HOME/ Focus
    • 3265 12 White paper on the proposal for an elected President A Government White Paper released last Friday spells out proposed changes to the Singapore Constitution to provide for an elected President who will safeguard the Republic’s financial assets and protect
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    • 1681 14 The proposed amendments to the Constitution CONSTITI TION to pro\ide for the election of the office of President by the electorate in Singapore The President is now elected by Parliament for a period of four years. This will be changed. The President will be
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  • TIME$
    • 677 15  -  Govt move to put it on equal footing with other banks By CATHERINE C. ONG THE days of special privileges for DBS Bank are numbered. The Government is looking at changes in the law to place the former development bank on an equal
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    • 289 15 Managers' prices for August 6 8 Singapore Unit Trust II» Commerce 10S 1 12 The Savings Turn) 093 099 Spore Prog Fund 0 44 0 48 S pore Sec Fund o to o ;s.d S pore Invest Fund 0/4 0/9 Spore fquity Fund 0 53 0 5/ Asia
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    • 273 15 STRAITS Steamship Co has extended its strong performance last year with another big jump in earnings for the first half of this year. The property and shipping group, which saw a doubling of its pre-tax profit to $17.09 million last year, achieved a 65-pet
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    • 144 15 Week ended July 29. Compiled by Business Times. Final results Gross Group net Tear to Company dividend profit/loss (’000) Company Preliminary results Gross Group pre tai Year to dividend profil/loss ('000) Beriunlai 7(5) M$?.270($290L) Apr 88 Khong Guan 5(75) $2 79 ($4/01) Apr 88 Interim results Interim
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    • 26 15 HARIMAU Investment Limited has announced a net tangible asset backing of $1.71 for each of its shares based on unaudited accounts as at June 30.
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    • 146 15 THE days of cheap money may soon he over as the United Overseas Bank group became the first of the Big Four to raise lending rates in two-and-a-half years. The group, comprising United Overseas Bank, (’hung Khiaw Bank, Far Eastern Bank and
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    • 459 15  -  By LIM ENG HAI KEPPEL Corporation Ltd brought a string of good results from its subsidiaries to a climax on Wednesday by announcing a 53 per cent jump in pretax earnings to $34.1 million for the first half of this year. With that
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    • 217 15 AFP. NEW DELHI An Indian entrepreneur plans to start marketing what he believes is the world’s first software package giving computerised astrological stock-market predictions. Mr Arun Bansal, managing director of New Delhi-based Future Point, hopes to export his package if a local direct marketing campaign
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    • 5812 16 Friday, Aug 5, 1988 Gr'a Gr'e 1988 Tel Last Olv Olv Yld Net Vol Day Last Quote mgn Low Code Company Sale or- C'vr V. PI E (000) High Low Buyer Seller SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL A COMMERCIAL 140 95 t 1000 Acme 139 7 1 ON
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    • 61 17 THE day-to-day ST Industrial indices and daily turnover for the week: MONDAY: 1,162.63 points (op 19.22); 67.97 m units (value $113.93); TUESDAY: 1,169.83 (down 1.8); 74.94 m units ($122.72m); WEDNESDAY: 1,171.29 (up 9.37); 79.51 m units ($127.79m); THURSDAY: 1,165.56 (down 4.64); 89.49
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    • 61 17 HONGKONG prices yesterday recouped early losses after finding firm buying support at lower levels. The Hang Seng Index fell 6.20 points to 2,671.17, but looked healthier than its position just after the opening when it was down 24 points. The Hongkong Index was down 2.82 to
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    • 365 17 Hut 5 HKS Chwtt Assoc Inti Hotels 3 075 0 05 Bonk Ot East Asia 1760 unch Copitol Corp 0 78 -0 02 Cothoy Pocific Air 890 •0 05 Cheung Kong China Light 7 65 unch 17 20 unch City Resources 1 12 Cross Horb Tunnel 1550 0 1
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    • 223 17 Weekly sharemarket report THE Singapore stock market got off to a flying start on Monday, boosted by Wall Street’s 46.4-point jump of the Dow on Friday, but more teething problems in the new trading system caused a twohour breakdown in business in the
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    • 185 17 Friday report RUMOURS day of a proposed takeover bid of Malayan Credit by Haw Par Brothers International helped fuel an afternoon rally on the Singapore stock market. The rumour was that Haw Par was offering a l-for-2 share-swap deal to acquire Malayan Credit, with one Haw
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    • 82 17 PRICES recovered in KUALA LUMPUR yesterday to close broadly higher. Trading pace was particularly brisk in the afternoon. Reflecting the late rebound, the 30-counter New Straits Times Industrial Share Index rose 4.43 points to 1,872.44. The Index de- dined 3.06 points on Thursday. At the close,
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    • 284 17 Interbank Over the counter Foreign Local dollars to Foreign currency currency one unit of foreign currency fo SS10 Australian dollar 1 644/ 1 64/6 6 16 6 03 Canadian dollar 1 6966 ***** 6 94 6 86 N/ dollar 1 3602 1 3629 /49
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    • 504 18  -  Stockholders to get shares for free By DOREEN SOH NEWSPAPER and publishing giant Singapore Press Holdings will hive off subsidiary Times Publishing Bhd, and offer it for a public listing. Times Publishing will become an independent company which will seek a listing for
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    • 205 18 LISTED Bonvests Holdings’ takeover bid for Tonhow Industries closed last Friday, attracting acceptances of only about 0.66 pei' cent of Tonhow’s issued capital from the public. The pool’ response may have been due to the changed stock market conditions since Bonvests through its subsidiary
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    • 351 18 FRASER NEAVE and Goodman Fielder Wattie (Asia) Pte Ltd have each sold a block of 9.68 million shares in Cold Storage Holdings PLC to Food Investments (SKA) Ltd at $4.36 a share. With the sale, Food Investments a joint venture set
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    • 221 18 THE recently-formed joint venture between Britain’s Metal Box PLC and Fraser Neave has embarked on its expansion programme starting with a $5O million two-piece beverage can-making plant in Thailand. Two other projects, in Indonesia and the Philippines, are being actively considered and MB
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    • 126 18 TIIK amount of Central Provident Fund savings invested by members in approved trustee stocks has breached the $1 billion mark, the CPF hoard announced this week. It said the number of members who have made use of the CPF Approved Investments Scheme, launched
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    • 458 18 A $4B MILLION suit has been filed by Pan-Electric Industries against its former director Peter Tham for breach of fiduciary duties. The suit, which includes unspecified damages, was reported to have been filed in the High Court late last month. Tham, who
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    • 241 18 DESPITE a relatively buoyant stock market, closed-end investment trust company United International Securities (UIS) experienced an earnings drop for the six months ended June 30. The United Overseas Bank-backed company suffered a six-month income fall of almost 38 per cent, to $2.43 million, compared with
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    • 711 19 REACH SINGAPORE FROM HOME. To advert ise, contact our representatives below: MALAYSIA: The New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd 31. Jalan Riong, Kuala Lumpur ***** Tel *****44 Cable New Times' Tele* MA ***** Fa* (03) *****34 U.K.: Mr John Armour /Mr R Ramesh The Straits Times Press (London) Ltd 102/106
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  • ASEAN
    • 105 19 ‘Ghost’ roads that cost 800,000 a year to maintain AP. MANILA Missing: 1.700 kilometres of Philippine highways. If found, contact the Philippine Department of Public Works. Public Works Secretary Juanito Ferrer told a House of Representatives committee this week that a recent survey found the government had been paying about
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    • 83 19 MANILA President Corazon Aquino has hinted the Philippines may call a referendum on the future of US military bases in the country. She held out the possibility of a vote on whether or not to keep the bases at a meeting with advisers,
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    • 397 19  -  By TAN LIAN CHOO Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK Deputy Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan was yesterday appointed Thailand’s first elected premier in 12 years. A decree signed by King Bhumiphol Adulyadej, appointing the retired army officer to the post, was handed to him
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    • 153 19 Reuter, AP. MANILA Police have arrested a Japanese businessman who tore up a handful of pesos at Manila airport alter customs officials said the money exceeded the limit visitors could take out of the Philippines. hiaki Uncoka, 37, ripped up 15
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 215 20 >< Sf »;t if' litlt'N Now, keeping in touch with what’s happening in Singapore couldn’t be easier. Or more economical. Because all the major news of every week is condensed into one paper. The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition. Printed on lightweight paper in convenient tabloid size, it fills you
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    • 92 20 Dear Overseas Readers The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name and address. They should preferably be typed, doubledspaced, on one side of the paper. You may add a pseudonym if you wish, but we would prefer your using your
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  • FORUM
    • 717 20 LIKE other young Singaporeans, I do at times have my share of criticism of certain government policies hut I hope this does not in any way make me less loyal or unSingaporean. I can accept that certain government policies or campaigns may not
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    • 293 20 ‘Let S’pore be S’pore’ lAN Buruma sees Sin- gapore as a "city of home-owners... a city without slums, where women can safely walk the streets at night, in many ways an ideal society,” but suggests that the absence of Westernstyle democracy makes Singapore a
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 1036 22 APPOINTMENTS L RAFf LES CITY We? wish to invite applications from suitably qualified persons to fill the following positions (A) ACCOUNTANT (B) ADVERTISING PROMOTIONS OFFICER RESPONSIBILITY For Post (A) The successful candidate will be responsible for daily financial administration which includes preparing timely financial and management reports, planning, budgeting and
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  • TIMESPORT
    • MALAYSIA CUP: SINGAPORE HELD TO FOURTH DRAW IN A ROW
      • 475 23  -  By J. RAJENDRAN ALOR STAR Singapore’s fast-growing reputation as draw specialists was enhanced at the Darulaman Stadium here last night when the toothless Young Lons played a goaless draw with Kedah in a bruising Malaysia Cup soccer tie before a full house. The
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      • 220 23 with a 2-0 scoreline. Bernama, NST. JOHOR BAKU Striker Dollah Salleh (above), slapped with a three-year ban, has filed a summons in the High Court here against the Johor Football Association, seeking a declaration that the suspension is null
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      • 188 23 KUALA LUMPUR Olympic medals do not come cheap. So the Badminton Association of Malaysia will be spending Ms 2 million ($1.55 million) in a bid to win Malaysia’s first medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The money will go to the
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      • 106 23 NKCiRI KEMHILAN, second from the bottom in last season’s Malaysia Cup league tournament, leapfrogged six teams to take top position in the current season with a shock 3-1 victory over Perak, who themselves had taken over the lead from Sarawak with a mid-week
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    • 410 23  -  GODFREY ROBERT LAST September, in his first major international, he was a nervous little boy overwhelmed by the sporting occasion. It was the South-east Asia Games in Jakarta and Desmond Koh was on the starting board for the 400 metres individual medley event.
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    • 385 23  -  BOXING wins and one draw. R. RAJKNDRAN. NEWLY-CROWNED World Boxing Council flyweight champion Kim Yong Kang will make the first defence of his title in Singapore on Nov 4 against Nana Yaw Konadu, of Ghana. It will be the first
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  • 41 24 PRESIDENT Wee Kim Wee has given his assent to the Town Councils Act 1988, the latest government gazette said. The Act provides for the town councils to control, manage, maintain and improve the common property of Housing Board estates.
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  • 411 24  -  By Gillian Pow Chong THE day w ill come, probably in about 10 to 15 years’ time, when the Government will have to grapple with decisions over allocating resources between the needs of the older and the younger generations. First Deputy
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  • 52 24 FIVE smokers were fined $350 each this week for smoking in fast-food restaurants. They were the first to he fined for violating a new law which extends the han on smoking to fast-food restaurants, roller discos and hospitals. The maximum fine for the offence
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  • 426 24  -  By ALAN HUBBARD Europe Editor LONDON A young Singaporean who wanted to be a teacher but joined the SAF because he did not want a nine-to-five job has won top honours at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy in Britain. Second Lieutenant Kelvin Koh Chi
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  • 127 24 LATEST THE United Overseas Bank group has turned in a record interim after--tax profit of $102.12 million for the six months ended June 30. This is 20 per cent higher than the $85.12 million profit reported in the first half of last year, and just
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 35 24 SUN TAN You wow son, You will find that* PEOPLE THE wok U) OViRAk£Au7HZ, SAME Thti kc JUST Li*c RAMUMe By Collette AND THAT'3 WHi Y OU s would be suspioous of eseditoDi Ttf ts
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