Eastern Sun, 13 December 1967

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  • 27 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 499 Wednesday, 13 December 1967. ft MC(P) 2251 ft KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 982 1  -  More than 320,000 pupils will have to pay more due to rubber price fall By Musa Scully ITUALA LUMPUR, Tues. More than 320,000 secondary school pupils will hare to pay more school fees in the new year. In announcing this today, the Minister of Education,
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  • 525 1  -  By MUSA SCULLY Kt'ALA LUMPUR. TuesPrime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman stressed this evening that South-east Asian countries should stick close together to fight against the threat from the Communists. •South-east Asian countries should realise this common danger.*’ the Tunku said on
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  • 214 1 KOYNA NAGAR, India, Tues. (Reuter) New earth tremors shook Western India today as rescuers hunted amid the rubble of the township for survivors of yesterday's earthquake which killed more than 100 people and injured 1,300. The new tremors, milder then yesterday's shook Bombay, Poona. Kolhapur
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  • 35 1 BRUSSELS. Tues (UPI) The Common Market s Executive Commission today recommended negotiations for British membership and said failure to hold them would bring on a “grave crisis inside and outside the community.*
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  • 258 1 T ONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Commonwealth Secretary George Thomson today spelt out Britain's obligations for Malaysia's external defence. He said in a written reply to a question in the House of Commons: “We have undertaken to afford to the Government of Malaysia such assistance as they
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  • 103 1 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) A border patrol police unit killed one bandit in a clash with 11 bandits in a village of Yala Province on the Malaysian border last Sunday, Pollco sources said today. The sources said 20 police who were sweeping the area ran
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  • 87 1 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Dealers rushed to buy gold bullion on the London market today as sterling slumped to its lowest dollar level since devaluation. When the foreign exchange market opened, conditions were confused and. according to dealers, sterling was vulnerable to even small sales.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 212 2 Wife refuses to part 4-D winnings slashed Court told SINGAPORE, Tues. A trisha-rider, Low Chee Cheng, chopped off his wife's left index finger and slashed her head and arm with a meat chopper, when she refused to give him $5O from her 4-Digit lottery winnings, a preliminary inquiry was told
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    • 169 2 SINGAPORE. Tues Registration f° r admission into the Adult Education Board’s 1968 Secondary Evening classes will be held between Dec. 20 and 29. (excluding Sunday, Dec. 24 and Monday, Dec. 25) from 9 am. to 4 pm. daily There will be five registration centres
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    • 73 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The St Andrew’s Orthopaedic Hospital will hold an annual sale of work by patients at its premises at Tay Lian Teck Road tomorrow from 3 p m. to 5 p.m. The hopsital will also hold a sale of work on Saturday Dee. 16. The
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    • 63 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The first meeting of the SingaEore Surgical Society and the urgical Chapter of the Academy of Medicine will be held at the Pathology Lecture Theatre of the General Hospital on Saturday, at 2 p.m Scientific capers on a wide range of topics in surgery
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    • 259 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. A well-known scholar and writer Mr. Wu Tee Jin, will hold an exhibition of his collection of famous ancient and modern Chinese calligraphy and paintings at the National Library Hall from Dec. If to 18. Mr. Wu studied Chinese classic' under his father
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    • 180 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. —Tan Chin Huat, wno threatened to set a sawmill on fire if the proprietor did not hand over $l,OOO to him within three days, was jailed for nine months by the Ninth Magistrate's Court today for attempted extortion. Tan had earlier pleaded
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    • 200 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Band of the Life Guards, one of the most ceebr&ted bands in the British Army, will arrive in Singapore on Friday for a 24-day tour of Army units in the Far East. Their first engagement in Singapore will be on
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    • 106 2 SINGAPORE Tues The Ministry of Education. Singapore. has issued the results of the Michaelmas Bar examinations held here in September. PART II FINAL Class 3 Kwok Khoo HP ONE SECTION ONLY UNDER C.R. 22 Passed Chong. Yue K PART I ROMAN LAW Class 3 Chan. Miss
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    • 415 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. Delegates who attended a seminar on South East Asia here agreed that regional organisations should initially select projects which are not likely to fail, and which are non-politic-al and practical. The Seminar on Socio-economic change in South East Asia ended today. The
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    • 52 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. A number of Barisan Sosialis members and supporters this morning staged an illegal procession along Pesiaran Keliling. Many of them were carrying banners. The Police later stated that this unruly crowd threw some black oil and rotten eggs when they passed a kindergarten
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    • 280 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. Sixty-nine years of age but with devotion, determination and dedication, the “magic brush” of one of China’s greatest contemporaries, Professor Chiang Dai-Chien still flicks vividly with a magnetic quality across the canvas likely to perpetuate traditional Chinese art for all
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    • 454 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. "The Asian region, is not only the largest and most populous region of the world but it is one which has made brilliant contributions to human relations, philosophy, religion, literature, art and many other aspects of human civilisation. This was
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    • 128 2 KUCHING Tues A radio survey for a troposphere scatter communication link between here and Johora Bahru has now been completed. Preliminary reports indicate that the survey was successful and that there is a strong feasibility of establishing a communication link of 48 channels or
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    • 164 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Members of the Singapore Tourist Association, their families and friends will assist the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board to set an example to the citizens of Singapore On Sunday, they will help to clean the beaches at Changi Point in connection with
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    • 186 3 SINGAPORE. Tues The Xembaga Tetap Kongress (The Permanent Board for the Congress of Malay Language and Culture) is organising a cultural art and dance festival at the Victoria Theatre from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3. next year. The main aim of this cultura’ festival is to
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    • 176 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The S,ngapore Malay Teachers Union and the Lembaga Tetap Kongress (The Permanent Board tor the Congress of Malay Language and Culture) will hold a three-day seminar on “Malay Education in the Republic” at the University of S ngapore from Jan. 13 to 15 next
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    • 370 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. An Indian classical dancer who won a golden robe award at the age of 15 and subsequently acclaimed as a “wonder dancer” is to start her own school of dancing soon. She is petite, Kumari Vasantha Mani, 21, who was
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    • 90 3 SINGAPORE Tues —The University of Singapore’s Department of Extramural Studies will hold a number of courses from January to June next year The programme which covers various fields of interest includes courses on management, law’, education, psychology, politics and international relations. There will also be one course on
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    • 53 3 SINGAPORE. Tues A salesman-cum-bill collector, Jimmy Tan Liang Ann was iailed for nine months by a District Court today for criminal breach of trust of $6,900.44. He pleaded guilty to committing the offence on his employer Sardar Corps. Ltd. of High Street between June 1 and Nov.
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    • 154 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The year 1968 will be a standstill year for the National Library, according to estimates of government expenditure presented in Parliament last week. The first full-time branch, now under construction in Queenstown, will be completed in early 1969, At present, the two
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    • 171 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. Lee Boon Keng, who caused hurt to his wife, a bar waitress, and her lover, was jailed for a day and fined a total of S6OO in default five months’ imprisonment by the Fourth District Court today. Lee pleaded guilty
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    • 155 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. Employees of an Iron foundry arrested two men and tied them up after both had tried to extort money from the foundry’s proprietor, Ng Leong Tuck. 32, a District Court was told today. Senior Inspector M. A. Smahon. prosecuting, told the Court that
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    • 118 3 FESTIVAL ’68: SINGAPORE. Tues. The best decorated stalls in the Singapore Festival 1968 will receive attractive trophies and consolation prizes from the organising committee A primary purpose for this competition is to upgrade the exhibition and decoration standards of the stalls All stalls are eligible to
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    • 47 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Director of Training (Finance), Mr. G.G. Thomson will speak on ‘‘Devaluation and Singapore’s Export Drive; Parity of the Singapore Malaysian Dollar,” at a luncheon of the Singapore Association of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries on Thursday at the Adeiphi Hotel Roof Garden.
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    • 313 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Australian Ballet the largest professional ballet company to come to Singapore will give four performances at the National Theatre from Feb. 20 to 23. The Australian Ballet will perform two completely different programmes. On Feb. 20 and 21 they will present
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    • 160 3 SINGAPORE. Tues.—Three people killed in separate road accidents died yesterday. One of them, was a woman, an unidentified pedestrian and a 19-year-old youth. The first accident occurred at the junction of Kallang Road and Mill Lane after Tay Yeok Toh was thrown off his motor-cycle
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    • 74 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. In order to facilitate Christmas, New’ Year and Hari Raya Puasa shopping, shopkeepers mav open their shops on Friday, Der 22. Sunday Dec. 24 and Friday Dec. 29 for business. Shop assistants working on any of these four daydurine their weekly rest day.
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    • 171 3 SINGAPORE Tues. Ten community centres and 10 post offices will issue the new 20 cents and 50 cents coins in multiples of $2 up to a maximum of $lOO This is because the issue of coins at these community centres and post offices which began
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    • 46 3 SINGAPORE. Tues The Management Committee of Serangoon Park Residents' Association will hold the first children’s Christmas party in Serangoon Park Housing Estate on Sunday, Dec 17 at 2 p.m. Mr. Ang Nam Piau. MPfor Thomson, will officia’e the opening ceremony of the children’s party,
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    • 68 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Singapore Red Cross Society has transported another 468 bales of cloth to the Burma Red Cross Society for distribution to the flood victims. The consignment consists of over 18.000 yards of cotton material and the cost of SIO.OOn was met by
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    • 159 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. A three-day special programme has been arranged by the Faith Methodist Church, Queenstown for school leavers. The programme, which begins on Thursday, includes talks and discussions on topics which are relevant and helpful to the young people of today. The meetings
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    • 105 3 730 p.m.:— Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Jalan Baling 'Kampong Teban), Kampong Lim Teck 800. Peck San Teng Car Park (Upper Thomson Road) and West Coast Road <9 m s.) 8 pm.:— Teochew Opera at National Theatre, Clemeneeau Avenue. 6.30 pm.:— A play. “Hans, The
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    • 44 3 SINGAPORE, Tues A public lecture on “Our Inland Waters and their Life” will be given by Dr. D. S. Johnson tomorrow at the Newt Lecture Theatre No. 4. University of Singapore. The lecture is organised by the Singapore National Academy of Science
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    • 222 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues A youth who tried to rob a man at a bus stop in Klang Road here last night lost his nose instead. He was later taken to the police station and then sent to the General Hospital with nose injuries. Another
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    • 86 4 PENANG. Tues. The Penang aquarists and aviarists society will hold its third aquarist and aviarist show at the Khek Association premises in Burmah Road here from Dec. 21 to 24. The Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. will open the show while his wife, Puan Sri
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    • 248 4 Khir’s call to businessmen: KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, today called on the private commercial sector to play its part in contributing towards educa- tion in the country. "At present contributions of this nature are not available, except in a
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    • 131 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues The Democratic Action Party here today strongly urged C?ntra. and State Governments to stop sending delegations overseas in order to avoid the country from going bankrupt In a statement issued here, the branch secretary. Enche Nor Jettey said: “The DAP has no
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    • 54 4 Forty students of the Historical and Geographical Society of the Kulai Secondary English School, Johore visited the Eastern Sun printing office at Petaling Jaya, last night. Picture shows the students being shown a full page which had been transmitted from Singapore through a facsimile machine the only kind in this
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    • 193 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Tne Selangor Orphanage Society will hold a film premiere of “The Hour of the Comedians.’’ at the Pavilion Cinema at 9.30 pm. on Jan 10 next year in aid of its building fund. The society hopes to raise S 12.001' from the show, an
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    • 60 4 MALACCA. Tues A man and a woman both well dressed, entered a goldsmith shop at Jalan Bun*a Raya in town yesterday and when they left 20 minutes later without making any purchase, the goldsmith found a diamond earring valued at $3OO missing The goldsmith. Mr. Yew Liang Ping
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    • 234 4  -  By JAMAL ALI KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The National Chamber of Malaysian Manufacturers af its extraordinary meeting here today passed a resolution to form a new organisation called the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers. The NC.M.M. reached an agreement with the Malayan Manufacturers Association to
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    • 324 4 IPOH. Tues. Alliance member for Kuala Dipane, Mr. Oh Kay Senr. today called for public support and co-operation with the Government to eradicate subversive elements. These subversive elements intend to create chaos in the state." Mr- Oh said during the debate on the Royal Address by
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    • 46 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Mr. Henry Y S. Kao. Mayor of Taipei and Mrs. Kao are scheduled to arrive here on Thursday for a fourday visit from Bangkok where he has been making a visit under the invitation of the Thai Government.
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    • 78 4 PENANG, Tues. Three youths struggled with two detectives when they wanted to check their identity card? in the Dato Kramat area here last night. This incident happened behind a coffee stall. It is believed that one of them was arrested by the police. Meanwhile. mopping-up
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 334 5 SAJV FRANCISCO. Tues. (I PI) Self-styled sorcerer Anton Lavey went to a cemetery yesterday where he performed the final ntes or his Satanic Church of San Francisco ror the first time. Lavey presided at a funeral for a sailormember of his church who was killed
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    • 179 5 NEW ORLEANS, (UPI) Tues. A Pulitzer prizewinning newspaperman said yesterday tnat he is resigning as adviser to Tulane University's student newspaper, calling the publication's staff "dishonest little jerks.” Hodding Carter, whose permanent residence is Greenwood. Miss., said tie Is quitting his post because the newspaper’s
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    • 269 5 LIBERTY. New York. (Agencies) Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, who is seeking the democratic presidential nomination, said last night that the l nited States had a “policy vacuum” “in the Middle East which is a “grave risk" to Israel and to U S. security.
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    • 264 5 Rusk refuses Q and A session on V’nam In Washington Secretary of State Mr. Dean Rusk has refused to submit to a public question and answer session on Vietnam before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, it was disclosed today. Mr. Rusk wrote to com mittee Chairman J. William Fulbr-.ght last
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    • 324 5 TOCLOCSE. France. Tues. (Reuter) The Anglo-French Concorde airliner, a gleaming white giant which will carry passengers at about twice the speed of sound, made its official world debut here yesterday. To the strains of the national anthems of the two countries, government ministers cut away ribbons
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    • 190 5 LONDON. Tues. (CPI) Security guard Bill Walker began his trickiest assignment on Monday bodyguard for a white Persian cat valued at more than U 554.809. The cat, named Marcus, is going on show this week at the National Cat Show in London and his owner. Miss Elspeth
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    • 50 5 LA MIRADA. Calif Tues. (CPI) Robert Mecum. 40. made a n emergency landing in his light plane on Sunday in a dairy pasture. He told Sheriff’s deputies he had run out of gas on a flight between Orange County Airport and Fullerton Airport, a distance of six miles.
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    • 29 5 HOUSTON. Tues (CPI) A 15-pound. 2-ounce boy was bom on Sunday to Mrs. Dorothy Fischer in Hermann Hospital. Doctors said the Texas baby was a week premature.
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    • 195 5 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) China yesterday authorised a British diplomat to leave China the first since it imposed a ban on exit visas for British diplomats about four months ago. Britain's Foreign Office announced It had received word that First Secretary Anthony Blishen. who
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    • 177 5 3-year-old kills two-month baby BRISTOL. Conn Tues (CPI) The death of two-monTh-old baby was blamed on his three-year-old brother who told police he ranged the infant's head on the floor stuffed him into an oven and then ran water over him. The baby. Russell Rock, was
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    • 84 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) President Johnson's anti-poverty legislation cleared Congres s yesterday when the House of Representatives voted 246-149 to extend his "Great Society'’ programme to help the nation's poor for another two years. The measure, authorising US$l,9OO million for 1963 and $2,200 million for
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    • 158 5 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Foreign Secretary George Brown said yesterday the United States regretted any damage that might have been caused to the house and office of the British ConsulGeneral in Hanoi during an American air raid on November 17. He was reaffirming
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    • 374 5 US may have to convert into ‘wholly paper money’ Guided inflation at home WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) The foreign demand for gold, spurred by a rising U. S. balance of payments deficit, may soon force the administration to request removal of gold backing for the dollar, the Republican Party predicted today.
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    • 174 6 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) American Marines battled North Vietnamese soldiers on the edge of the monsoon-racked demilitarised zone yesterday and U. S. 852 bombers hit the northern half today, spokesmen said- At least 54 Communists were reported killed. Fresh fighting erupted in the one-time “Buffer
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    • 138 6 BANGKOK. Tues (Reuter) Two policemen, two Meo tribesmen and one villager were killed when 100 rebel tribesmen ambushed a platoon of border police patrol in Northeastern Nan Province on the Laotian border on Dec. 10. police reported today. The report said the tribesmen lying
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    • 50 6 CAIRO, Tues (Reuter) Two Soviet supply ships arrived ir Alexandria port today, the Egyptian Middle East news agency reported. The report did not say how long the ships would Stay. A Soviet depot ship which arrived In Alexandria last month Is «till there, the agency said.
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    • 64 6 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) Terrorists planted a live bomb in a public (dephone bcoth before dawn here today. The bomb, one of there live devices found on the island during the night, was safely detonated bv army experts before it did any harm. The two
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    • 355 6 DEBATE ON JUVENILE CRIME TTEHSAILLES. France, Tues. (UPI) The 15-year-old alleged killer of seven- year old Emmanuel Malliart was transferred to a solitary prison cell yesterday while the French national assembly began a debate on Juvenile crime. The deputy for the Versailles district
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    • 192 6 UNITED NATIONS, Tues. (UPI) South Africa has again reaffirmed that it has “no intention of abdicating its responsibility” to the people of South West Africa and charged the United Nations has no right to concern itself with the territory. South African ambassador Matthys Botha told
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    • 108 6 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) Nationalist China is to give technical aid to South Vietnam In dredging rivers in the Mekong Delta, the Central News Agency reported today. The official agency, quoting government sources, said the aid project was aimed at boosting food crop
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    • 136 6 MOSCOW, Tues (Reuter) A group of nearly 200 Moscow Intellectuals have written to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's Parliament, urging greater freedom for the Soviet press, it was reported here today. Usually reliable sources said the Intellectuals urged the Supreme Soviet to pass a law
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    • 115 6 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) Philippine authorities raised the rewards today for the capture, dead or alive, of Communist Huk leaders as part of a renewed drive against dissident guerrillas operating in the central plains north of Manila. The increased bounty covers nine top Huks including Pedro
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    • 76 6 Hovering over a patrol boat of Japan’s Self Defence Force is a new unmanned helicopter "Dash” that made a successful trial flight debut in Japa n recently over waters off Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo The Dash is Japan’s Maritime Self Defence Force's re-mote-controlled anti-submarine chopper with
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    • 56 6 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) The Ministry of Agriculture last night relaxed restrictions on the movement of livestock from areas of Britain infected with foot and mouth disease. Licences for livestock movement will be allowed in certain areas of Lancashire, Derbyshire and Cheshire where the disease .is thought to have
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  • 308 7 HONG KONG. Tues. Reuter) President Liu ShaoChi, China’s mueh-abused Head of State, came in for further strong attacks in the Peking press today in a s f epped-up wave of criticism of chairman Mao Tse-Tung's number one enemy. The Peking People’s Daily devoted
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  • 217 7 MOSCOW. Tues. <UPI). Four American sailors who jumped ship in Japan and fied to Russia have vanished from their Moscow hotel, it was learned today. But it was believed all four j. were still in the Soviet Union. Two days after they reportedly left
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  • 11 7 Cape Town—Louis Washkansky seen much Improved after heart transplant. UPI radiophoto
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  • 29 7 RABAT. Mon. (Reuter) Snow fell in Rabat today for the first time since the meteorological office here began to keep weather records in 1914.
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  • 407 7 CAPE TOWN, Tues. (UPI) No more heart transplant operations will be performed at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital this year, pioneer transplant surgeon Dr. Chris Barnard said last night. The 44-year-old surgeon, who made medical history with the first human heart transplant on Dec.
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  • 116 7 MIAMI BEACH, Florida, Tues. (UPI) The AFLCIO convention raised US$514,550 yesterday in support of the 60.000 workers involved in the fivemonth strike against the United States copper industry. Accompanying the money was a pledge from the leaders of the 26 unions involved in the dispute
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  • 40 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI). Woodfall Films Ltd., announced yesterday that it will produce a movie of the life of Castro revolutionary leader Che Guevara next year. Director Tony Richardson and author Alan Sillitoe were reported writing the screenplay.
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  • 75 7 JAKARTA. Tues. (UPI) A regional adviser of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. A1 Abbas, is in Indonesia to inspect various institutions of nuclear energy training in Java, it was reported today. Indonesia operates nuclear reactors for educational purposes in Jarkarta. Bandung and Jogjakarta. Meanwhile.
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  • 84 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI). Chile has asked the British government to arbitrate its territorial dispute wih Argentina over the Beagle Channel at the southernmost tip of South America. Chilean ambassador Don Victor Santa-Cruz made the request to British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
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  • 50 7 AYLESBURY, England. Tues. (UPI) Student Stephen Stanley, 19. claimed a world's record On Sunday after downing a pint of beer in 2.4 seconds “He isn’t really a drinking man”, explained his girl friend. Sandra Kane. “He just does this once a week to heln raise money for charity”.
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  • 142 7 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Twelve men were jailed here today for siphoning £3OO a day out of car parking fees at London airport into their own pockets. One man, a 46-year-old supervisor. got seven years and the rest of the gang operating what the
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  • 261 7 COLOMBO. Tues. Ceylon has issued a commemorative stamp honouring an American benefactor. Colonel Henry Steele Olcott. He is the flrst foreigner to appear on Ceylon’s postage stamps. The stamp was issued on Dec. 8. Col. Olcott, who came to Ceylon in 1880 and became a
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  • 73 7 JAKARTA. Tues. (UPI) Indonesian Moslems making their pilgrimage to Mecca may now carry US$5OO worth of foreign exchange instead of the usual US$lOO. The Foreign Exchange Bureau said today the ruling was made to lend better facilities to Moslems In observing their religious duty. The pilgrims
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  • 678 7 As quake-hit India cleans up HOISOLIILU Tues. (L’PI) A Touer of steam and lava vaulting out of the Pacific Ocean near Samoa yesterday signalled uhat may have been the birth of a neu- island. The freighter Tofua, which was about 200 miles
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  • 37 7 PARIS Tues. (UPI) French and Syrian leaders ye»terday opened a five-day series of talks designed to strengthen France’s cooperation with the Arab bloc. Dr. Youssef Zayyen. Prime Minister of Syria, arrived here on Sunday.
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  • 747 8 A COLUMNIST of the Manila Times is making a mountain out of a mole-hill. He is not satisfied with the Malaysian Governments explanation why the arrival of the Philippine liaison officer in Jesselton was not known to the local authorities. The letter notifying them of his arrival
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  • 1318 8 A RECENTLY published report entitled, "Pacific Visitors Surrey, October, 1967", a Consumer Marketing Study cf tourists to the Pacific, conducted for the Pacific Area Travel Association, the National Geographic Magazine and the Time Magazine by Travel Research International Inc. of
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  • 474 8 Indian Red Cross in War Peace Recently the Indian Red Cross Society launched its annual Fund Raising and Mem bership Campaign. The role of the Rod Cross has now become a s vitally important in peace time as in times of war. The biggest peace time operation undertaken by the
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  • 226 8  -  By Harry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Erldane# for Criminal Trials") WHEN Corinne went to the post office to buy some stamps, she ended up “licking her wounds instead of some stamps. Corinne sued the United States Government for her injuries. “I went into my local post
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  • LETTERS...
    • 390 8  -  complaints as have been made bv the public against the behaviour of bus conductors and drivers employed by the bus companies. These complaints do not seem to be effective. No-one wants to make a complaint unless it is absolutely necessary and justified. By making frequent
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    • 132 8  -  T REFER to the complaint 1 by Mr. S. Ramachandra in the Eastern Sun of the 18.11.67, that Pedestrian Bridges lack sufficient lighting, and that users, dazzled by the strong headlights of the moving motor traffic cannot see the steps All access stairs to the bridges
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    • 41 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1967 l]-l. Cantonment Road, Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39. lalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77. Brewster Road. Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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    • 20 8 LETTER WRITERS MUST GIVE THEIR NAMES AMO ADDRESSES IM GOOD FAITH. LETTERS WITHOUT NAMES AMD ADDRESSES WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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  • COMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 397 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. A new Qantas Boeing 707 will arrive in Sydney today after a delivery and maiden flight, which will take it two thirds of the way around the world. The convertible passenger/cargo V-Jet will be delivered from Seattle to London so that it can
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    • 168 9 CANBERRA, Tues. Five Australian professional consultants’ organisations have formed a council to help their members win overseas commissionsThis was announced by Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, MrJ. McEwen. The formation of the council follows a recommendation by an
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    • 99 9 FRANKFURT. West Germany, Tues. (UPI) The British Motor Corporation (BMC) launched an “export offensive" In West Germany slashing car prices as much as ten per cent to undercut Volkswagen for the first time. A BMC spokesman said the sales drive, taking advantage of the pound devaluation, will
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    • 58 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Monday's commodity prices: Tin 14.00 Lead 14.00 Zinc 14.00 Aluminum 25.00 Cocoa (Bahia) 27 75 Cocoa (Accra) 30.50 Coffee (Columbian) 42-1/4 Coffee (Santos) 36-1/4 Sugar (Raw) 7.29 Sugar (Refined) 10.25-10.60 Wool 112.0 Wool tope 156.0 Cotton 25.00 Rubber 17-3/4 Raw Cotton Futures 25 00
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    • 132 9 LONDRINA, Brazil. Tues. (UPI) Brazilian coffee King Horacio Coimbra, yesterday accused the United States of seeking to “eliminate” Brazil's booming instant (soluble) coffee exporting industry. Mr Coimbra, President of the Brazilian Coffee Institute which controls the nation's chief export. was made a “citizen of merit”
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    • 120 9 TOKYO. Tues. A unique device to be used as “walking telephone” was developed by Japans Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and Is scheduled to be tented out to companies from June next year. The device, slightly larger than a cigarette case, is designed to inform the bearer that he
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    • 193 9 NEW YORK. Tues <UPI> Stock prices yesterday moved slightly higher in fairly active trading, but profit taking during the first hour was fairly heavy and many issues were down from their opening levels. Shortly before 11 a.m.. the United Press International stock market indicator picked
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    • 82 9 LONDON. Tues The rubber market was idle with spot 16-3/4-17-1/4 nominal seller. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Jan 16-7/8 17 Feb 17 17-3/16 March 17-3/16 17-3/8 Jan/March 17 17-3/16 April/June 17-1/2 17-5-8 July/Sept 17-3/4 17-7/8 Oct/Dec 17-15/16 18-1/8 Jan/March 18-1/8 18-1/4 April/June 18-1/4 18-7/16 July/Sept 18-3/8 18-9/16 Oct/Dec 18-1/2 18-11/16
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    • 166 9 KUALA LUMFUR. Tues. Dr. Richard Hu has been named Marketing Manager of Shell Malaysia Limited and the Shell Marketing Company of Borneo Limited Dr. Hu succeeds Mr. W. P. Bird, who will be proceeding on reassignment to the London offices of the Shell
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    • 109 9 SINGAPORE, Tues The Association of Banks in Malaysia today marie the following changes in its rates to merchants: New York: Buying TT 32-13 16: Airmail OD 3215 16: 90 d st 33-7 16 credit bills: 33-3'4 trade bills Canada: Buying TT. 35-1 '2; Airmail O D 35-5 8;
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    • 22 9 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) No offers were received today to buy go-vernment-owned tin. a General Services Administration spokesman said.
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    • 700 9 SINGAPORE. Tues—Very quiet conditions ruled the Stock Exchange, with turnover amounting to 981,000 units of stocks and shares and valued at $1,712,930. In the industrial section, prices or the whole were steady with no real trend. Ben A Co advanced from $2 04 to
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    • 292 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. December First grade rubber fob buyers closed at 5 p.m. today in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 48- cents per lb., unchanged from previous close The tone was quietly steady. The market ruled lower to begin with in sympathy with London but steadied bark mid-morning
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Tues— The tin price for today was $581.50 per picul, up 50 ct*.
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    • 24 9 HONG KONG. Tues (UPI) Money quotations: HK56.065/6.065 per US dollar for cash HK$l4 45 per pound sterling HK5292.5 per tael gold.
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    • 23 9 LONDON Tues. (UPI) Rubber market opened very quiet with Spot 16-1 17-$. No 1 RSS CIF basis ports Dec. 16-9/16 16-J.
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    • 487 9 S1.VOAPOKB—Stock Exchange old and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ren Co 2.09 2.12 Rnustead 1.61 1.64 C Sugar 2 n« 2.09 1 hemlcal Co 1.44 1.45 old storage 4.20 Dunlop 2.25 2 27 F. Smelting 4.52 El 1 2.40 Fsso Ord« 2.93 Fitzpatricks
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    • 54 9 (Managers’ Prices) first Mala> an 2.42 2.51 Spcond Malayan 1.74 1 83 Third Malayan The Commerce 1.10 1.19 Industry Fund \D .89 98 The Savings f und 1.41 1.50 Malavan Investment Fund Ml 1.05 1.15 First Hongkong .79 •84< Second H’konz XD .Ho 59< S'ng Commodity 4/2 4/
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    • 105 9 SINGAPORE. Tups. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese produce Exchange today are sBuyer Belief Coconut on (FOB.) Bulk 60.25 Coconut Oil (FOB Drums 62.75 Loose Copra Mixed Nov/Dec 85.50 m Muntok White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.L.W 125.00 Sarawak W htte Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.I..W 122.50 Sarawak Special Black
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    • 82 9 STOCKHOLM, Tues Sweden's exports oi ears and commercial vehicles in the first quarter of thig year totalled 36.523 units This is 761 more than in JanuaryMarch 1966. In terms of value, exports were up by Kr. 33.3 million to Kr. 354 7 millionimports of motor vehicles,
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    • 171 9 SINGAPORE, Tues —The following ships are expected to be in port today Godnwns Vessels 3/4 S_A. Huguenot 5 Golden Spring 6/7 Astrid Bakke 8 9 Bakuriani 10/11 Eisho Maru 13/14 Promehteus 15/16 President Taylor 18 Tulane 21/22 Kinabalu 23/24 Sohryu Maru 25/26 Hoi Ying 27/28 Manoloeverett 29/30
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    • 814 9 AIR MOViMENTS-SPORE, K. LUMPUR] ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 6 a.m Airline MSA 309 from Perth. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.50 a.m Airline JAL 712 from Jakarta Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 254 10 A multi-million dollar complex: KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Italians are keen on helping Malaysia to set up its first ground satellite station here. Senator G. Zannini, leader of the 25member Italian trade mission currently visiting Malaysia, said this in a courtesy call on the
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    • 298 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The former commander of the third Malaysian Infantry Brigade, Kuching, Sarawak, Brigadier Ungku Nasaruddin bin Ungku Mohammad has been selected to attend a year's Imperial Defence College course at Imperial Defence College, Seaford House, London. The course
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    • 54 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The Assistant Press Secretary to President Marcos, Mr Roberto Gracia, arrived here today to pave the way for the visit of President Marcos to Malaysia on Jan. 7. He was accompanied by Mr. Luis Tabuana, the General Manager of Philippines
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    • 92 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Fifteen artists will hold the Fourth Modern Art Exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall here from Dec. 15 to 17 from 10 a m. to 8 p.m. daily. Dr Goh Poh Seng, ViceChairman. Singapore Arts Council, will officiate the ooening of the exhibition on Dec.
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    • 282 10 PENANG. Tues A 41-vear-ola detective corporal, Koh Teck Chye. who was dischaiged not amounting to an acquittal in a Lower Court in June, was acquitted by Mr. Justice H. S Ong in the High Court today He was charged with arresting Kang Chap Chai. on
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    • 44 10 SELAM. Tues. A 57-year-old woman. Tong Ah Hon was found hanging from a rubber three in Rantau Panjang here yesterday. The discovery was made by her son, who went to look for her when she did not return home the previous night.
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    • 312 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Postmaster General. Enche Mohamed Ibrahim Varshay today appealed to the public to send their Christmas and New Year greeting cards early. Within the next few days, the post offices will have to handle thousands of cards. Sending them early would
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    • 121 10 TAIPING. Tues. The Malaysian Armed Forces annual Koran reading, religious lecture and Berzanzi will be held at the 2nd Regiment Malaysian Artillery Camp here from Friday to Saturday commencing at 8.00 p.m. This is the first time that the competition is being held here. This competition
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    • 55 10 MALACCA, Tues. The Democratic Action Party's public rally on Saturday has been called off “on the suggestion of the police.” the Secretary Mr. Yap Tuan Thye said today. Instead. the National Chairman. Dr. Chen Man Hin will address members at the branch premises that night. The
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    • 154 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Enche Mohamed bin Jamil has been elected President of the Agricultural Institute of Malaysia. Other officials: Vice president, Mr. Koh Theam Hee.. Treasurer, Mr. Ajit Singh.. Hon. Secretary. Enche Abdullah oin Ujang and Councillors Mr. K.T. Joseph.. Mr. Lee Sin Fook.. Mr. G. Moir
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    • 127 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Dr. Ungku Omar Ahmad, Director of the Institute for Medical Research, left for Manila yesterday to attend the South-east Asian Ministers of Education Secretariat Central Co-ordinating Board meeting starting tomorrow. The three-day meeting will discuss tropical medicine and general problems of
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    • 71 10 KAJANG. Tues. The mobile x-ray unit from the National T B. centre Kuala Lumpur will be visiting here on Dec. 22 and 23 to provide free x-rays to the public. The x-rays will be given at the District Hospital on both days. Hawkers and persons employed in restaurants
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    • 47 10 KAJANG. Tues The Kajang branch of the Hokkien Association will hold a dinner on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. in honour of some members of the association who were awarded the P.P.M Pingat Peringatan Malaysia. It will held at the association's premises at Jalan Sungei Chua.
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    • 825 11  - in Penang P.W. Tunku satisfied with situation but POPO remains in force By Khoo Boon Choo TDENANG, Tues. The curfew in Penang Island and Province Wel- lesley was lifted today, but the Public Order Preservation Ordnance remained in force. This was announced by the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, at
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    • 149 11 A LOR STAR. Tues. A curfew was imposed in the Kota Star administrative district of Padang Lalang. Sungai Baharu, Kubang Rotan and Margong from 9 p.m to 6 am. until further notice. The curfew was imposed following the burning of a house at night
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    • 33 11 IPOH. Tues A taxi driver. Mansor bln Sulaiman 30. was held up by hls passenger near the entrance to Bukit Merah New Village here yesterday. He was robbed of $5O
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    • 86 11 Left The things some people do for a living this is the topsy-turvy world of the Duo Capris, a pair of daredevil roller skaters, now performing at a leading nightclub in the Federal Capital. Another picture and story of the Duo Capris will appear in the Entertainment Page in this
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    • 87 11 IPOH. Tues. Nine teenagers will v»ie for the “Teen Princess 1967” title in a-beauty contest organised by the “Y’’ Youth Club of the Y.M.C.A. at St. John Ambulance Association here at 7,30 p.m. on Saturday. They had earlier sat for a general knowledge test to
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    • 53 11 YAM Seng and long life!” the Minister of Finance, Tun Tan Sieve Sin (right) toasting Mr. Ong Chee Keng on the occasion of the latter’s 73rd. birthday in Kuala Lumpur recently. Mr. Ong is the father of Malaysia's ambassador to the United States, Tan Sri
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    • 111 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Police today appealed to the public to co-operate with them during the coming Christmas and the NewYear. The Chief Police Officer, Haji Mohamed Ariff bin Darus appealed to the public to safeguard their properties. He advised the public to notify the
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    • 34 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A mining labourer. Lau Chok Lam. 27. from the Jalapang New Village. Ipoh. died suddenly while attending a show at the Rex Cinema here at 8.30 p.m. yesterday
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    • 372 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Nothing less than a thorough overhaul of the new Master Plan will lift Kuala Lumpur from its present squalor into the safe, beautiful and inspiring capital city that Malaysians can all be proud of. This was the opinion of architect
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    • 66 11 MALACCA. Tues. Four hooded men armed with knives and iron rods held up a schoolboy in his home at Lorong Panjang here late last night and escaped with $3O cash and a transistor radio. The victim. Hashim bin Yeop. 17. is a Taipmg schoolboy now spending
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    • 76 11 PENANG. Tues. Pupils in Penang, who have sat their LC E examination this year, may apply for admiss on into Form Four in Sekolah Menengah Teknik Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra. here in January next year Application forms and further particulars can be obtained from the headmas'er of
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    • 46 11 PENANG. Tues. A housewife reported yesterday that she was robbed by two men armed with knives while she was a.one in her house in Reservoir Avenue, Ayer Itam on Dec. 8. The robbers took away her wrist watch, jewellery and cash, worth about $97.
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    • 141 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.—A youth was arrested by police yesterday for allegedly possessing stolen property. Earlier, a police constable spotted the youth who was carrying a bag furtively. He stopped the youth and on checking the bag. found 20. bars of copper inside Another youth was
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    • 74 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Police today offered a reward of 52.000 Tor information leading to the arrest and conviction of the youth responsible for throwing acid at the face of Mr. Ong Say Beng. the Senior Registrar and Inspector of Motor Ve* hides, vesterday morning.
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    • 86 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A vouth. accompanied by a lawver, walked into the High Street Police Station here yesterday. and gave himself up.He is believed to be invoived in the $15,000 payroll grab last month in which the cashier of Highland's Estate in Jalan Banting. Klang.
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1264 10 YOUR TV and sHflßnf vj^S TODAY :v > TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and PulaTi Pinang; 6 lpoh and Melaka; 3 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang P.M. 5.45 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary: 548 News Outlines in the National Language. 5.53 Announcement For Commencing and
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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 3100 12  - That mouthwash —the girls want to know To your good health By Joseph G. Molner, M. D Q: As students ot a beauty school, we study o course in good grooming. We have found an article saying that mouth* wash is useless. The girls would like to know your views
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    • 280 12 THE air-minded State of lowa, which has more than 200 airports, boasts of having the world's only flyin cinema and fly-in supermarket. Mr. Harlan Anderson opened the fly-in cinema near St. Ansgar, some 120 miles north-east of Des Moires three years ago. In
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    • 675 12  -  WHAT'S YOUR LINE? By HAROLD GROSSMAN VI/HAT are you best equipped to do in life? What, in fact, is your line? Here are a set of intelligence tests which seek to discover the talents, hidden or otherwise. which you may have. You have just twelve minutes
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    • 510 12  -  By SOEHARJONO nPHOUSANDS of Communists detained in Indonesia are building their own brick-and-bamboo prisons to help overcome an acute shortage of prison space. Another problem confronting Indonesian prison officials is finding the money necessary to feed some 60.000 Communists rounded up shortly after
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  • 631 13  -  by Sheilah Graham Hollywood. Tues. (NANA) “What is it like to be famous?” I asked British actress, Rosemary Harris. “It’s to be Rosemary Harris and to have nobody know who you are outside the theatre world.” replied the star who is making
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  • HOLLYWOOD EVERYWHERE
    • 573 13 VIEW YORK, Tues. (NANA) When Marlene Dletrich decided she would not. after all. extend her one-woman show on Broadway, she had a reason. She just didn’t like New York. ‘‘lt has become too loud and dirty. I keep cleaning all the time, I'm finished
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  • 75 13 Alas, the California sun was missing, for it happened at Pinewood Studios in a scene from the Peter Rogers film "CARRY ON
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  • 112 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues “The Naked Runner.” a Sinatra Enterprise Film starring Frank Sinatra, of course, has a beautiful plot. And a beautiful Fraulein in Nadia Gray who makes an all-t o o-brief appearance In film. Sinatra now in Civvy Street said thev spent some beautiful days and
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 55 13 LIDO (SINGAPORE) OPENS TODAY The Bobo is that cunning matador who flees from the bulls so that he may chase the chicks!! Peter Sellers is Hie JBobo 5 SHOWS DAILY 11, 1.45, 4, 6.30. 915 s fJO»Y BERSHWIN ELLIOTT KASTNER Prodjct-CP SSI TECHNICOLORS. Cl Vi FROM WARNER 8R05.4 BRITT EKI
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    • 193 13 VDEI THE DISTINGI ISHED PATRONAGE OF MM THE FIRST tADY OF THE REPI'BLIC OF SINGAPORE PUAN NOOR AISHAH GRAND CHARITY PREMIERE in aid of Singapore lot Retarded Children ORCHARD: TOMORROW AT 8.30 P.M. TICKETS AT *3.o#. *5.00. *lO.OO DONATION SEATS iNaaMH sV Ml ABLE AT THF ORCHARD THE ATRF SEASON
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    • 278 13 LAST 4 SHOWS: 11am. 1.30. 100 6.50 p m Paramount'* “COWBOY In AFRICA” Hugh O'Brian. John Mill*. Color Premiere: TONIGHT at 9.15 tvm THE FIRST SWORD" 'Mandarin' Chiao Lei. Cathay Scope. Color English Chinese Subtitles > PLUS ON STAGE Fashions f0r,196* SEASON FROM TOMORROW No Free UP' CATHAY ***** 21ST
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  • Sun Sport
    • 141 14 LONDON, Tues (Reuter) The Lord’s Taverners, one of the world’s most exclusive cricket clubs, has named 90-year-old Wilfred Rhodes, the former Yorkshire and England all-round-er, as “cricketer of the century”. Members stood cheering and singing “for he’s a jolly good fellow” when the announcement
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    • 401 14 PERTH, Tues. (Reuter) The touring Singapore cricket team suffered their third successive defeat in Western Australia when they lost by six wickets to the Incogniti Club here yesterday. The Singapore side batted first and crumbled before the persistent pare attack of lan Gallsh (five
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    • 215 14 Taylor downs Santana as Britain clinch 2-1 win over Spain STOCKHOLM, Tues. (Reuter) Britain, winners for the past three years, last night beat Spain 2-1 in the semi-finals of the King's Cup indoor tennis competition. Britain now meets Sweden in the final tonight. Swedish captain Birger Folke said after watching
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    • 227 14 LONDON, Tue s The training squad of the British Olympic swimming team will be off to Spain on Dec 26 for 10 days to be sent 7.000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada in order to experience altitude conditions they will face in Mexico City
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    • 77 14 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Results of football matches played last night were: English Football Association Cup Ist Round Peterborough U. 5. Falmouth 2. (winners are away to either Yeovil Town or Margate in the second round) English Football Association Cup Ist Round Replay Bradford 4, Grimsby Town 1.
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    • 200 14 LONDON. Tues The Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in the West of England, has stepped in with £15.000 offer lor the services of the world's leading cricketer. Garfield Sobers of Barbados, West Indies. The club has offered him a three-year contract at £5.000 a year. They
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    • 130 14  -  By M.T. Lingam BANGKOK. Tues. Dr. Mani Jegathesan, Malaysia’s glamour boy who had a recurrence of an hamstring injury in the 200 metres finals race will be out of athletics for at least the next couple of months. Jega who was
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    • 376 14 COLOMBO, Tues. (Reuter) Thailand, champions of this years South East Asia Peninsular Games made strong claim for top honours when the first set of quarter finals in the Third Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were continued here last night. Thailand had three winners
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    • 58 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Malaysian High Commissioner to Britain, Tan Sri Abdul Jamil Rais has donated a challenge trophy for a series of games between Prime Minister’s Department and Treasury Sports Club at the beginning of next year. The games are soccer, hockey, carrom, netball, sepak
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    • 109 14 LONDON, Tues. (UPT) British and Empire heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper has rejected a 25,n00-dollar (Canadian offer) to meet George Chuvalo in Canada. Manager Jim Wicks said: “We’re certainly not interested in a fight for this sum II they offer 100,000 dollars plus
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    • 383 15 CHICAGO, Tues. (UPI). Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Association, said today there was "no question" that Mexico City would have all athletic and housina facilities readv for the IQfiS Olympic Games. “The only question I've had.’’ Brundage said, “has been
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    • 289 15 SINGAPORE. Tues—The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has said it would not be in a position to extend the services of professional German soccer coach. Mr. Dettmar Cramer, for a further year to the Asian Football Confederation. The
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    • 147 15 LONDON, Tues. The London pre-Olympic hockey tournament may show surplus. Gate receipts during the tournament were approximately £6.000. As hockey has been becoming somewhat unpopular as a spectator sport, the news that the international tournament has not resulted in a loss is bound
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    • 136 15 Having his first fight for seven months, British bantamweight Alan Rudkin (right) puts In a determined attack, forcing Chicago’s Ronnie Jones to cover up during their short-lived contest recently at the Albert Hall. London. Rudkin sparked off a double for British boxing by producing the perfect right-hand
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    • 213 15  -  By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Three jockeys shared riding honours at the recently concluded Singapore Turf Club’s December meeting. They were Glynn Pretty. Les Coles and Luk e Kang, each rode four winners Pretty scored on Regal Note, Tien Tien Lai. Easy Wi
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    • 418 15 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Runcorn, the little Cheshire league side who provided the major shock in the English F.A. soccer cup first round on Saturday, face one of the hardest tasks in the second round. In the draw made here, Runcorn received an away tie
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    • 464 15  -  By STEVE SNIDER NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI). Golf, or flog spelled backwards, basically is a simple game consisting of playing a ball from the teeing ground into the hole by successive strokes in accordance with the rules. The rules, unfortunately, are even more
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    • 65 15 MUAR, Tues. Johore table-tennis fans will see some of the top men and women table-tennis players from all parts of Malaysia in action in the Fourth National table-tennis Championship from Dec. 21 to 28. The venue will be the Diamond Jubilee Hall in Kluang.
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    • 349 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Following are the weights for the Selangor Turf Club Amateur Race Meeting on Saturday, Dec. 16. (Patron’s Cup): Class 1— 7F. Peak of Perfection 12 12 Royal Meadow 12 11 Oleander II 12 09 Arouse 12 07 Green Jungle 12 03 Punter's
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    • 22 16 Malaysia's M. Rajamani seen at the finish of the 800m. event for women at the Seap Games. She won a gold medal.
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    • 311 16 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI). The managers of world junior lightweight champion Yoshiaki Numota and challenger Hiroshi Kobayashi today agreed to rules for their 15-round title match on Thursday night at the Kuramae Suma Stadium. Iwao Kodaka and Shinichi Nakamura, managers respectively of Numata and Kobayashi, the
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    • 282 16 Marciano ‘stops Jeffries in 14th round MIAMI BEACH, (Florida), Tues. (Reuter) Rocky Marciano pounded Jim Jeffries to a 14th round defeat here last night to win through to the final of a computerised boxing tournament designed to find out who was the world's greatest heavy- weight champion. The answer to
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    • 81 16 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Malaysia's Chang Kuo Hwa. crewed by Abjullali bin Mohd Yunus, was In a first place tie with Thailand's Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapva after the first two races today in the SEAP Games international Flying Dutchman competition Chan won the morning race
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    • 126 16 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Johnny Gleeson. the Australian rugby league player, who broke his jaw on Saturday against Britain at Swinton. arrived home today and announced his retirement. Gleeson, a stand-off half, who played in 13 Tests, expects to enter hospital later this week for
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    • 99 16 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) New Zealand lost the final match of their Australian tour against New South Wales by 131 runs here today. Set a target of 329 runs for victory, the touring team. 87 for one overnight, fell to the bowling of Dave Renneberg, who
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    • 86 16 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Denis Hulme. who won the 1967 world drivers' championship in Brabham cars, has Joined the McLaren stable run by his fellow New Zealander Bruce McLaren. Hulme. 31, will race for the McLaren team for the first time on January 1 in the South
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    • 129 16 ADELAIDE. Tues. (Reuter) Australian Davis Cup players Bill Bowrey and Tony Roche had to work hard to win their men s singles second round matches in the South Australian tennis championships here today. Bowrey was troubled by young Australian Bill Lloyd before winning
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    • 59 16 BANGKOK. Tues (Reuter) Singapore s golden girl Pat Chan added another Gold Medal to her swimming honours tonight with a recordbreaking victory in the SEAP Games 200 metres bacx stroke event Her time of two minutes 45 0 seconds was 4 9 seconds below the previous
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    • 119 16 BANGKOK, Tues. (Reuter) Princess Übolrat again outsailed her father King Bhumibol Adulyadej today and put herself ahead for the Gold medal in the OK. Class of the SEAP Games yachting. Sailing in fair w r eather at the Pattaya Bay. the 17-year-old Princess finished
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    • 577 16  -  She fights off fatigue to win pentathlon By PETER GREGSON BANGKOK, Tues. (Reuter). Malaysia dominated the final athletics events at the six-nation Seap Games here today smashing records as they hit the medal trail again. Dilbagh Singh Kler in the men’s 3.000 metres steeplechase and Cheryl Dorall in
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    • 170 16 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Malaysia and Singapore suffered initial shock defeats today when the badminton event of the SEAP Games opened here. Myint Myint Khin of Burma beat Sylvia Tan of Malaysia in three sets in the women's singles while Singapore's champion Wee Choong Seng
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    • 195 16 BANGKOK Tues (Reuter) Burma captured two SEAP Games weightlifting Gold Medals today, with Army corporal Pe Aye up6ettmg Singapore's veteran Tan Howe Liang with a record-breaking performance. In winn’ng the light-heavy, weight Gold. Pe Aye set new SEAP records in all three lifts and in
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    • 94 16 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Thailand's Somsri Chotichutl and Pismai Samerpong won the Gold Medal for womens doubles in SEAP lawn tennis today defeating their country women Panou Sudsawat and Rachnivan Homsukon 6—l. 6—3 in the final. Malaysia's Radhlka Men on and Ltan Lai Yee won the
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    • 88 16 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Burma won the first match of the SEAP Games men volleyball tournament here today, beating Ma'a.vsia three sets to two n one hour 52 minutes. Burma won 12 —15, 15—7. 15—8 4—15. 15—7. The five men s teams play a round robin series to
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    • 245 16  -  By M. T. LINGAM BANGKOK, Tues. Two Malaysian athletes kept their pledge here this afternoon to bring the gold medals. Last night at the hotel Dilbagh Singh Kler said: “My pet event is the 3,000 metres steeplechase. I will go
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    • 157 16 BANGKOK. Tues (Reuter) Malaysia's courageous team, in the lead most of the distance. fell behind in the last two laps of the SEAP Games 100 kilometre team time trial today to lose the Gold Medal to Thailand's veterans by the narrowest of margins. Andrew Micheal.
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    • 155 16 BANGKOK, Tues. (Reuter) Singapore’s gold medal hope for the Seap Games decathlon. Mahmood Mansoor. saw his chances tumble this morning as he tripped over the last hurdle of the 110 metres race In the event. At the end of the first events yesterday, Mansoor
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    • 212 16 BANGKOK, Tues. Singapore won a silver and bronze, while Malaysia took a bronze medal in the third day of the SEAP Games shooting competition at the Hua Mark Shooting Range here today. Hsu Heng Tack of Singapore took the silver medal in the individual
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    • 135 16 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Singapore won the women's team gold medal last night in SEAP Games table tennis competition beating Thailand three matches to one in their final series. Malaysia took the silver medal, after scoring a three match to one victory over South Vietnam.
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    • 117 16 BANGKOK, Tues. (Reuter)' Two Singapore girls advanced to the women's singles semifinals when the SEAP Games individual table-tennis events opened today. Results: Women's singles, first round: Tan Kek Hiang (Sgp.) beat Fong Kwee Chin (Mai.) 22—20, 21—11. 21—14. Vu Tuong Oanh (Vtn.) beat Vilai Tuntiteeraboon (Thai) 23—21.
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