Eastern Sun, 12 September 1968

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 761 Thursday, 12 September 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cent*
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  • 522 1 ‘Dogs of war must not be unleashed again’ WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) T3RESIDENI Johnson has warned the Kremlin to pull 1 back in Czechoslovakia before it plunges the world back to the harsh confrontations of the Stalinist era. The invasion of Czechoslovakia was a setback to peace but
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  • 496 1 T3RAGUE, Wed. (Reuter) Slovak Communist Party leader, Gus- tav Husak, has joined with other Prague leaders in a pledge that Czechoslovakia will continue along its progressive path. Mr. Husak. a deputy Premier and a progressive, signed a proclamation read on Czechoslovak television
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  • 136 1 PARIS. Wed. (Reuter) American and North Vietnamese negotiators met here today for the 21st full scale session of the Vietnam preliminary peace talks. The negotiators faced each other across the conference table within hours of President Johnson's statement in New Orleans vowing once more not
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  • 247 1 Malaysia adopting ‘wait and see attitude on P.I. move BY BEN D'CUNHA KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Malaysia is adopting a “wait and see" attitude against the Philippines move to verbally annex Sabah. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak said here today that Malaysia wanted an explanation to the Bill passed
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  • 88 1 CANBERRA. Wed (Reuter) The Government will report to Parliament on its assessment of the Defence Committee's report on Australia's future strategic needs. Prime Minister John Gorton said today. The report is now being studied in the Cabinet, Mr. Gorton said. He told Labour member. Dr. J. F.
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  • 25 1 NICE. Wed (UPI) An Air France Caravelle carrying 95 passengers and crew members was “definitely lost’’ over the Mediterranean today, French authorities said.
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  • 193 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Director of Operations, LieutenantGeneral Dato Ibrahim b. Ismail, flew in from East Malaysia today to hold further talks with armed forces officials here. Speaking to newsmen at the Subang international airport, General Dato Ibrahim said that the talks
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  • 115 1 MANILA. Wed. <LPI>— The Philippine has drafted a new diplomatic note rejecting Malaysia's protest against the Bill declaring Sabah as part of Philipp ne territory, loreign Office sources said today. The draft, sent to President Marcos for approval. said that passage of the Bill was a
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 211 2 Bv M. T. LINGAM SLREMBA.N. Wed. Negri Sembilan police have intensified their crackdown on the underworld here during the past few days. Following the assault on an Indian woman behind the Town Hall, off Birch Road, on Sunday, police have detained seven people,
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    • 182 2 SINGAPORE. Wed A research scholar from New Zealand. Miss Jeanie Williams today told Rotariana that she was aniseed at how Singapore and Malaysian student* valued the education they received in schools. One example she said was how schoolchildren in the Republic made full
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    • 53 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. An appeal by a youth, Mohamed Salleh bin Daim against a death sentence will commence before the Federal Court of Appeal tomorrow Mr. David Marshall will argue the appeal for Mohamed Salleh. Mohamed Salleh was convicted for the murder of a fireman at the Bukit
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    • 62 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. A former police officer. Mr. T »-> D E. Fernando was ad- tted to the Singapore Bar Mr. Justice Chua in the ;n Court today. Mr. G. Murugaiyan moved the application for Mr. Fernando. Mr. Tan Lian Ker aopeared for the Attorney General
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    • 744 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The proposed changes in Parliamentary and State constituencies announced by the Election Commission will not be implemented for the forthcoming General Elections next year. All the constituencies for the elections will be t h e same as those for the
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    • 273 2 SINGAPORE Wed. The University of Singapore has appointed Professor Jao Tsung-I. an eminent Chinese scholar to the Chair of Chinese Studies. Privately educated in his childhood. Professor Jao was a research fellow at the Institute of Kwangtung Provincial Historical Records. Sun Yat Sen
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    • 55 2 Ann Smith, who is the wife of Sergeant Smith serving in Singapore, has just started to learn judo. She finds it a little difficult to throw Sergeant Nancarrow. an Army Physical Training Instructor who has just returned from the Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo and is
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    • 182 2 SINGAPORE. Wed The Singapore chapter of AMORC (The Ancient. Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) will celebrate the traditional pyramid buildina ceremony at the YWCA Hall. 5 Raffles Quay on Sept. 23 at 7.30 p m. Rosicrucians throughout the world will commemorate the building
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    • 110 2 Methodist Church Teaparty by Conference Board of Lay activities to welcome Bishop Yap Kim Hao at Methodist Girls’ School, Jaian Young. 5 p.m National Art Gallery (Jaian Ampang): llth National Art Exhibition 10 am. to <5.30 o-m. Peninsular Art Gallery (Jaian Raja Mudai: Works of prominent Malaysian artists
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    • 280 2 SINGAPORE Wed—More than 1.300 flats of the Housing and Development Board have been signed up for within the last nine days. The sudden rush for the purchase of the flats were made by Central Provident Fund contributors when the amendment to the ordinance
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    • 240 2 PENANG. Wed. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong will open the deepwater wharves at Butterworth at 4.10 p.m. on Oct. 27. The first three berths will be ready for commission by Sept. 17. These are conventional berths fully provided with alongside transit sheds and ether cargo handling
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    • 114 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Impressed with the quality of Australian wines, the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak. ordered a quantity of Australian Moselle for today's Cabinet luncheon. The order followed an informal preview visit to the Australian food and wine display now being staged
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    • 317 2 Whirlwind that hit Sungei Nibong was ‘omen —headman PENANG, Wed. The two-minute whirlwind that struck the Sungei Nibong area, causing damage to 24 houses and padi fields, amounting to $27,000, was an “omen”. “Whether it is a good or bad one. we do not know.” Enche Mohamad Isa. the headman
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    • 216 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Four University Lecturers will take part in a two-day symposium on education organised by the Malay Language Society University of Malaya, beginning on Sept. 28. The secretary of the society, Enche Marzlan bin Othman, told Bernama the symposium would discuss to what
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    • 60 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The. Singapore Chess Federation will hold a film show to raise funds for its junior members’ activities and international events. The film. United Artists’ “McLintock”, a western comedy starring John Wayne, will be screened at Lido Theatre at 8.30 p.m on Sunday
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    • 1021 3  -  By MARTIN LIM SINGAPORE, Wed. A contractor, Lee Choh Pet, 25, confessed to a police inspector that he took port in the kidnapping and murder of the 19-year-old son of a business man, On g Beang Leek, a preliminary inquiry was told
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    • 838 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The High Court was told today that the Director of Gleneagles Company, Ong Kiow Choon. intended to make "a big coup or killing” when he imported 1,355 tons of rubber in various shipments from Indonesia over a
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    • 334 3 From the frying pan $98,000 Toto winning SINGAPORE. Wed.—Three British Navy personnel are the joint winners of the $98,000 prise for submitting a five Plus one combination correctly in the last Toto draw. The three Bob Rowe, a leading radio electrical mechanic: Kevin Hart, and Dave Tebbit both radio electrical
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    • 997 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. An Opposition politician today called on the UMNO Youth Executive Council to withdraw a draft resolution denouncing as "an act of aggression" the Philippine Bill to include Sabah in its territory. Mr. D.R. Seenivasagam, President of the People's Progressive Party, in
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    • 267 4  -  By YAP KOON HUI KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A police constable was yesterday morning stabbed In front of the central market here before a large crowd of horrified onlookers. P. C. Pritam Singh was beside his parked scooter at the junction of Leboh Foch and Jalan Rodger
      — Eastern Sun pic-; ture by Yap Chew Yan.  -  267 words
    • 123 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Deputy to the Chairman of MARA. Dato Mustapha bln Haji Abdul Jabar. has called on the public not to be deceived by people who claim to be MARA officers. In a statement, he said it had come to his knowledge that
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    • 27 4 SEREMBAN Wed—A labourer, Karuppar. s/o Sungamuthu. 30 was found dead at his home He was found hanging from beam m his room by a neighbour.
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    • 283 4 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. Australia is anxious to see an increase in the level of two-way trade with Malaysia. the acting Australian Trade Commissioner. Mr. P. B. MacKenzie. said today. "Our trade agreement with you is just 10 years old and already has
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    • 53 4 SEREMBAN Wed A modern three-storey hostel costing $200,000 will shortly be ready at the King George V School here Three hundred students will be able to use the new hostel. The existing hostel caters for 110 pupils of all nationalities A modern air-conditioned library block is also to
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    • 69 4 TELUK ANSON, Wed. —The Minister of Health. Dr. Ng Kam Poh. arrived at his constituency here today for a round of political discussions with both the Malaysian Chinese Association and the Malay- sian Indian Congress He will be in Teluk Anson till Saturday night before proceeding
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    • 138 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Board of Directors of the World Bank today approved two loans for Malaysia. A Ministry of Finance statement here said one loan of $ll million is to finance the exchange component of the project to improve and expand water supEly facilities
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    • 150 4 IPOH. Wed The Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Ahmad bin Said, chairman 0 f UMNO. Perak, announced today that more than 200 members from Perak would be attending the forthcoming Genera! Assembly of UMNO at Kuala Lumpur shortly. He said at present Perak had
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    • 246 4 ‘SWEETS ROBBERY’ KUALA LUMPUR. WedThe Selangor Police mounting up their hunt for the gang responsible for the $50,000 ‘Great Sweets Robbery’ from the Teck Huat confectionery godown at Jalan Cheras. here on Aug 11, have come up with considerable success in the last few days.
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    • 60 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Minister of Justice. Enehe Bahaman Samsudin. left for Kota Kinabalu today to attend the opening of the $1.5 million new court house there tomorrow. The Yang di-Pertua Negara. Sabah. Tun Pengiran Haji Ahmad Raffae, will open the building. The Minister was
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    • 322 4 SEREMBAN. Wed. The Director of the National Family Planning Board. Dr. Ariffln Marzuki. said today it was hoped to bring down the three per cent rise in the country’s birth rate to about 2.2 per cent by 1980. It was also envisaged by that
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    • 52 4 IPOH. Wed. The Democratic Action Party will hold a public rally in Pusing on Sunday. Among the speakers will be the party’s national chairman. Dr. Chen Man Hin; Secretary-General. Mr. Goh Hock Guan; Deputy Se-cretary-General. Enche Dair.g Ibrahim and the Vice-Chair-man of the Perak branch, Mr. Loh
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    • 403 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. No one can be a passive passenger in Singapore's efforts to achieve national identity and progress and in its battle for survival. This was stated today by the Defence Minister, Mr. Lim Kim San, at the annual Special Constabulary
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    • 136 10 PERTH, Wed. (Reuter) A hole-in-the heart patient, Chan Yin Ling, 16, cf Singapore, is making good progres* In the Royal Perth Hospital after an operation last month. He is expected to return home soon. A Singapore man, Mr. Michael Chan, raised money through colleagues
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    • 69 10 1 p.m.—2 pm.: Rotary Club of Singapore-West weekly luncheon at the Hollandsche (Dutch) Club. Camden Park off Adam F.oad 7.30 t>.m.: Free film shows bv Ministry of Culture at Kampong Sommerville Estate, (Farrer Road), Lorong Tai Seng Malay Kampong. Yook Kiau School (Tampines Road), Lee Choon School (6
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    • 295 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The moder D library today is concerned with the use of every possible media of communication. including traditional books newspapers or periodicals. gramophone records, slides, tape recordings films and filmstrips and eve n television. This was stated today by the Director of
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    • 366 10 SINGAPORE. Wed —Another $7.8 million worth of contracts were signed today between local traders and Russian trade organisations at the close of the first Russian Trade Exhibition held in the Republic. This brings the total amount of contracts signed with local traders to
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    • 60 10 SINGAPORE. Wed The Singapore Hotels and Restaurants Association will be holding its annual dinner on Monday. This year, the function will be held on board the new luxury riverbeat restaurant. Singapore Lady. Over 200 guests have been invited, including managers and directors of the leading hotels in Singapore,
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    • 21 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Photographic Society of Singapore will hold its annual picnic on Sunday at Pasir Ris Holiday Camp.
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    • 379 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. So at last they've found a double for Tsai Chin! She is ravishing 22-year-old Ng Lee Ngo. who is a final year science undergrad of the Iniversity of Singapore. Ng has the closest resemblance to actress Tsai Chin that the producers
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    • 192 12 SINGAPORE. Wed. A young Indonesian painter, Mr. Lian Sahar is currently holding a one-man exhibition of paintings at the Wisma Indonesia in Orchard Road here. The one-week exhibition of some 50 paintings valued at 5250 to $350 a piece is of a high
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    • 58 12 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Theatre World Association will hold a final audition on Sunday at 8 p.m. at No. 8 Balmoral Road for two leading European male parts. The association needs someone with experience, good voice and aesthetic looking face to take a leading part. Anyone interested can
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    • 73 12 SINGAPORE. Wed A mission of 11 Industrialists from Queensland, Australia. headed by the Queenslands Minister for Industrial Development. Mr. F. A. Campbell, will arrive here on Oct. 1 for a sixday visit. Also in the mission will be Sir David Muir. Queensland's Director of Industrial Development Apart
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    • 284 12 MALACCA, Wed. The breakaway Umno group in Jasin, which has called itself the Malacca Selatan Division of Umno Malaysia, has been found to have the support of only nine and not 26 out of the 46 branches there. An UMNO working committee assigned
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    • 167 12 SINGAPORE. Wed. Three delegates from Singapore have left by Lufthansa for Berlin to attend a seminar on “Possibilities and Problems of Fisheries Development in South East Asia." The three delegates are: Mr. Chang Kwang Seh. Acting Principal Assistant Secretary. National Development Division;
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    • 90 12 SINGAPORE. Wed Mr. Llm Beng Tee. chairman of the Singapore National Union of Journalists left for Taipeh this morning for a two-week ILO seminar on trade unionism. The seminar begins on Monday. Mr Lim. who is also a member of the Central Committee
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    • 123 12 iHt n.L. Auto fcxenange and Agency aimed at bringing prospective car buyers and sellers together opened for business in Kuala Lumpur recently; For a small commission (1-J per cent of the buying and selling price) you register with them to sell or buy a
      — Eastern Sun put shows Mr Peter Yong (centre) and Mr. William; Hsiong (seated) toasting to their continued success.  -  123 words
    • 196 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Selangor Traffic Police today appealed to motorists to enter the "safe driving competition” to be held on Sept. 22. at Merdeka Stadium here. The competition in conjunction with the Road Safety Week is very simple, the Traffic Police Chief. Supt.
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    • 239 12 SINGAPORE. We d. Singapore has so impressed an Australian showgirl. Miss Brenda Long, that she is determined to return here for her honeymoon when she marries. And the time? Maybe in five years the projected time by which she hopes to give
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    • 93 12 ‘Learning For Living SINGAPORE. Wed. The YMCA’s new "Learning For Living” programme is indeed a unique one that will help the participant not to get a degree or diploma but to live a full. rich, happy, wholesome life. The series of courses includes classical guitar for beginners, conversational Ja- panese.
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    • 34 12 KAMPAR. Wed Lim Theam Thve. 17. was today find $l5O or six weeks’ jail for possessing documents containing Mao's thoughts in his house at Jalar. Gopeng on July 20. He pleaded gull-
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 532 5 'M'EW ORLEANS, Wed. (UPI) Nothing less than an "honourable, stable peace" will do in South-east Asia and "no man can predict when the day will come" that the United States brings some of its troops home, President Johnson said on Tuesday. Mr. Johnson
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    • 157 5 ISEHARA. Japan. Wed. (UPI) Two armed bandits robbed the Isehara branch of the Chuei Shinyo Bank of 1.500.000 yen (roughly US$4,OOO in broad davlight yesterday and made their getaway In a waiting car They entered the bank through a side door shortly after closing
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    • 61 5 CHICAGO. Wed. (Reuter) A strike by more than 2.000 dustmen has left Chicago streets and alleys littered with 4.500 tons of uncollected refuse. The strikers refused to work today because of a dispute between their union and the powerful Teamsters Union and grievances against Mr. James
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    • 197 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said on Tuesday the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had “seriously damaged’’ relations between the United States and Russia. But Mr. Rusk added that the Soviet Action against Its East European satellite “does not remove the
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    • 172 5 TOKYO. Wed. (Reuter)— United States and Japanese experts on Military and foreign affairs today opened a two-day meeting to discuss the Asian situation and security matters involving US. Military bases in Japan. The U.S. officials attending the meeting included Mr. U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador to
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    • 54 5 PORT ALEGRE. BRAZIL. Wed. (Reuter) Sixteen million pine trees are estimated to have been destroyed by a forest Are that has been blazing in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul since Sunday, according to the owners the Cambara Cellulose Company. They said their plantation
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    • 201 5 DES MOINES, lowa Wed. (UPI) Four men took a king cobra to lunch on Tuesday. The 16-foot serpent so poisonous It could fell an elephant or kill between 30 and 100 men with the venom from a single bite, came to the Des Moines
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    • 75 5 THE election of “Mademoiselle France 1968" one of the most coveted titles, took place recently at Migennes, a small town 150 kilometres southeast from Paris, for the first time. A 19-year-old blonde secretary, Maryvonne Lachaze. with vital statistic* of 90-58-90 took the crown of "Mademoiselle France
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    • 176 5 JAKARTA, Wed. (Reuter) Indonesian troops were today reported to have smashed an armed Commuoist band at Purwodadi. Central Java. The Armed Forces Bulletin reporting this said members of the Communist “People's Defence Troops" had been captured and their weapons seized. The bulletin quoted
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    • 220 5 HOUSTON, Texas. Wed. (UPI) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey on Tuesday endorsed the neutralisation of Vietnam and hailed the withdrawal of a U.S. Marine Regiment as an indication of support for his “hope” that American troops may start returning home soon. Mr. Humphrey said a proposal
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    • 96 5 GLASGOW. Scotland. Wed. (Reuter) In this land of traditional whisky drinking, a tiny island has sent out an SOS. —for water. And today, the Royal Navy water carrying ship "Freshpool" will deliver 50.000 gallons of water to the drought-stricken Isle of Cumbrae off the Coast of
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    • 137 5 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter) President Suharto has reaffirmed that West Irian is an inseparable part of Indonesia. The President gave the reaffirmation in an interview with the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf which was published by the Antara news agency today. President Suharto said the people
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    • 559 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) U.S. officials indicated yesterday that Washington may be offering to apologise to Communist North Korea in an effort to secure the release of the captured intelligence ship Pueblo and its crew, even though the United States contends the seizure was "illegal."
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    • 156 5 CANBERRA. Wed. (UPI) Two opposition party members have demanded that External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck either apologise to Parliament for a statement on Rhodesia or resign. Mr James D. Killen, leader of the Rhodesia lobby In Parliament made the demand after Mr. Hasluck announced
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    • 167 5 FORT WORTH. Texas. Wed. (UPI) The automobile stopped for a light and the driver pushed open the door and said to the hitchhiker “get In.” The 19-year-old hitchhiker, weary from a 54-hour bus trip from Portland, Oregon, rlimhed In the car and
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    • 51 5 FORT WAYNE. INDIANA, Wed (Reuter) A passenger train bound for Chicago from New York was derailed here today, injuring about 35 passengers. The diesel engine and the first five coaches, all baggage cars, toppled over an embankment as the train was passing through the Fort Wayne switching
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    • 218 6 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (UPI) Israel warned yesterday the United Arab Republic has embarked on a "new policy of preventive action" along the Suez Canal ceasefire line and called on the Security Council to stop. Israeli Ambassador. Joseph Tekoah. speaking
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      66 6 SEOUL: Korean Foreign Minister Choi KyuHah is teen in centre presiding over the executive board of the Cultural and Social Centre of the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) at the Capitol here Sept. 6th. Ambassadors and Charges 6' Affaires from nine-member countries of the Council discussed the
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    • 243 6 JOHANNESBURG, Wad. (Reuter) Student* tod»v held an on-campua demonstration here against alleged Government Interference in academic affairs while two Cabinet Miniaters warned of a crackdown on student unreat sweeping the country. The Johannesburg Municipality refused permission for the Witwatersrand University students to
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    • 140 6 BANGKOK, Wed. (Reuter) An amateur Thai ornithologist has discovered a new bird species and King Bhumibol Adulyadej has named it “Pseudochelidon Sirintarae” after his young daughter Princess Sirlnthom. Mr. Kitti Tonglongya, an official of the Applied Scientific Research Corporation, said that he discovered nine of the
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    • 92 6 SYDNEY. Wad (Reuter) —School children denning the support of thousands of people in New South Wales today flooded Sydney schools and colleges with «n anti-Vietnam underground newspaper. The four-page paper introduced itself as the work of an organisation named “High School Students Against the War in
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    • 260 6 DACCA, Pakistan. Wed (Reuter) An Army Captain told a Speeial Court here today that Pakistani Army Officers were not keen to join an alleged East Pakistani secessionist plot Opposition Awsml let rue leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, and 34 others, including
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    • 147 6 LUSAKA. Wed. (Reuter) Zambian President Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, announcing strong measures to beat “shameles*” currency smuggling declared tonight that the Zambian currency the Kwacha would no longer. be negotiable on repatriation to Zambia. The Bank of Zambia will not accept the Kwacha from foreign banks,
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    • 59 6 LONDON. Wed. (UPI). The British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) said yesterday It has formed a new organisation to help British and European firms Interested in the American market. Intratec International Trading and Technical Services Division will operate through B.A.C.’a American headquarters in Arlington. Virginia. Clients are expected
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    • 93 6 LITTLE HULTON. England, Wed. (Reuter) At one time or another every boy s ambition Is to be a bus driver And for Geoffrey Lister. 14. at least half of the dream has come true after saving for three years he has paid
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    • 80 6 LISBON. Wed. (Reuter) —The improvement in the condition of the Portuguese Prime Minister. Dr. Antonio De Oliveira Salazar, continued today, a medical bulletin said tonight. The 79-year-old Prime Minister walked about the room without feeling tired and sat for four hours in an armchair where he had
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    • 148 6 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Wed. (Reuter) James Earl Ray. alleged killer of the American Negro leader Martin Luther King, has received $25,000 (about 10.417 sterling) for his life story and may expect more, according to novelist William Bradford Huie. Mr. Huie. who plans a biography
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    • 46 6 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) —Filipinos who want help In a hurry can now dial the number 16 and be connected immediately to the nearest police station The new emergency call system, initiated »v defence Undersecretary Ale Ando Melchor. covers Manila and its suburbs.
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    • 208 6 ADEN. Wed. (Reuter) Twenty-two Senior Yemeni Republican Army Officers, including two Colonels and six Lieutenant Colonels, were expelled to Algeria today following recent fighting between rival army units, Sanaa Radio reported. According to the Radio, not all the officers were concerned with the
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    • 142 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Gold prices were mixed In uninspired trading on market* In New York and abroad yesterday. Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals Corp. lowered Its selling price to licensed industrial users by 10 cents to $40.55 per troy ounce. The company said it was able to
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    • 190 6 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos today pardoned the man who led the Communist Huks in their bid to topple the Philippine Government in the early 50s. A Presidential Palace announcement said President Marcos was pardoning 165
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    • 165 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UP!) The U.S Department of Commerce has reported that textile imports rose to an all-time record high of 299 million square yards in July with Japan supplying much of the increasing imports. The Commerce Department also said man-made fibre products reached
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    • 177 6 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) Junk-loads of Chinese are still trying to get into Hong Kong, following the illegal arrival or nearly 300 Chinese in the British colony recently. A Government spokesman said today that Marine Police had turned away two more junks
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    • 112 6 CANBERRA. Wed (Reu- Action* by both sides in the Blafran war had “seriously disrupted” delivery of aid to civilian victims of the war. Australian Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Paul Hasluck said today Mf- Hasluck was replying in Parliament to an opposition member,
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    • 248 6 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) A Hong Kong newspaper reported today that thousands of flghtmgmad Red Guard* who fled to Canton after a massacre in the nearby Chinese city of Wuchow had been told to leave. Reports in Red Guard publications received here have
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    • 383 7 CARMARTHEN, Wales, Wed. (Reuter) Detectives bom a Royalty Guard Squad hunted bomb fanatics in Wales today following a blast that wiped the comic opera look from the pursuits of extremist Welsh Nationalists. The Police quarry was a gang which planted a gelignite bomb
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    • 205 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) Chinese busihessmen in Hong Kong were today starting preparations for the Canton Trade Fair next month, but there was still no official word in Hong Kong whether British businessmen would again be excluded. Communist newspapers yesterday gave the
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    • 58 7 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) Thai soldiers wounded in action fighting guerrillas in Thailand or Vietnam are to get very special treatment in future. Each soldier will have his own nurse in full-time attendance. “They reserve special medical treatment”, a Government spokesman said approving the Defence
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    • 115 7 HAMBURG. Wed. (UPI) A computer in the service of nutrition was displayed for the first time io the Federal Republic of Germany at LEFA 68. the foodstuffs trade Fair in HamAny visitor to the fair need only supply details of age. weight, height, profession and temperament to learn
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    • 294 7 LIMA, Wed. (Reuter) Russia today condemned the “violation of the nghts and fundamental liberties of citizens” in Greece in a motion presented to the 56th World Parliamentary Union meeting here. But a British delegate. Mr. WT. william, said the Russian motion was
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    • 110 7 TOKYO. Wed. (Reuter) Japan's exports reached an all-time monthly high of $1,226,250,000 m August the Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced today. The figure, based on bank certifications of export declarations. was 29 9 per cent higher than for August. 1967 The Ministry attributed
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    • 51 7 AMMAN. Wed (Reuter)— A military spokesman «aid here today that Jordanian force* silenced Israeli artillery posts during an exchange of fire in the Northern Jordan valley late last night. Israeli troops started the shooting. and Jordanian Forces suffered no casualties io the seven-minute duel, the spokesman
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    • 30 7 SOUTH VIETNAM: A fat healthy Viet child watches with curiosity as Vietnamese soldiers search for Vietcong in his village on the outskirts of Saigon. UPI photo.
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    • 318 7 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Scarlett O'Hara Is back In town “Gone With The Wind,” the epic 1939 film of the effects on southern life of the American Civil War opened a new British run tonight. And it is literally—bigger than
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    • 115 7 KUWAIT. Wed. (Reuter) The three founding states of the Arab organisation of petroleum exporting countries resumed their meetings behind closed doors here today. Although the conference's agenda had not been announced. informed sources expect the conference to discuss. among other things, marketing Arab oil internationally.
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    • 65 7 PRAGUE. Wed ißeuer) The Czechoslovak Communist Party has received its first foreign delegation since the occupation —a visit by Austrian Party polltburo members The Communist Party newspaper "Rude Pravo" said the Austrian Communists Egon Kodicek and Josef Lauscher held lalks with Josef Lenart. a politburo
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    • 53 7 PRETORIA. Wed (Reuter) South Africa’s gold and foreign assets dropped slightly last week from 903.700.000 rand (528.300.000 sterling) to 907.200.000 rand <527.500.000 sterling), the Reserve Bank announced today. Its gold holdings last week stood 733.600.000 rand <426.500.000 sterling) compared with 720 200.000 rand (418.700.000 sterling)
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    • 72 7 NEW DELHI. Wed (Reuter) The Indian Government today decided to set up the country’s 18th state in the Garo. Khasi and Jaintia hills of Eastern Assam. An official spokesman said details would be announced later today. He confirmed that the new state would have
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    • 65 7 BANGKOK Wed. (Reuter) Thailand and Malaysia have Increased the size of their combined anti-guerrWi border patrols. Thai officials announced here today. Larger police patrols are only one of the precautions taken to prevent further ambushes by Communist guerrillas, the officials said. Other precautions were the use
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    • 98 7 KUCHING. W'ed (Reuter) Sarawaks external trade for the first six months of this year rose bv 10 per cent compared with the same period last year and a balance of payments deficit of $l5l million (over two million sterling' was turned Into a $4
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    • 52 7 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) The Hong Kong Government is quizzing officials and businessmen on whether British colony should change over to the metric system of measurement. A recent survey by the Hong Kong General of Commerce showed 84 per cent of its 1.500 members favoured
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    • 175 7 MANILA. Wed (UPI) Mr. Eugene R- Black. President Johnson's adviser on Asian Economic and Social Development, said todav he would try hard to secure approval of the proposed US$2OO million contribution to the Asian Development Bank’s special funds. Mr. Black said he
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    • 139 7 NEW DELHI. Wed (Reuter) India’s high infant death rate was slowing the progress of the family planning programme in some parts of the country, It was reported today. Surveys showed that some parents thought they ought to have a lot of children
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    • 88 7 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter) South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu today posthumously promoted Brigadier General Truong Quang An killed in a helicopter crash last Sunday to the rank of Major-General. Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky. Prime Minister Tran Aa Huong and American Military Commander General Creighton Abrams attended the
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  • 725 8 IN the ideological war the United States is waging against world Communism, some American diplomatic officials stationed in the countries of South-east Asia have acquired a fixed attitude. Those of them, who have learned the Chinese language in Taiwan, imagine they know more about the Chinese than
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  • 639 8 'T>AG down and inflated' may some day join the phrase 'gear down and locked' in air-craft-to- control tower landing procedure jargon. For these are the words used when coming in on a remarkable new wheelless landing system ACLG, or aircraft cushion landing gear.
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  • 308 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (kutner, ”K.rxsbo«r at S»l «tM< For Crlalnal trio I,') PATRICK xucd Dennis for Injuries he suffered in an automobile accident. Before the trial. Patrick made a motion to have Dennis' insurance company disclose the identity of a witness to the accident. “I know
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    • 345 8 I READ an Interesting artic.e In “Americas” for March 1968. a monthly magazine published in English, Spanish and Portugese by the Division of Cultural Relations, PanAmerican Union of Washington. D.C., U.B.A. The writer, Sol Biderman, touched on prophecies being folk poems or ballads in
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    • 174 8 ONE might be baffled to hear that the Philippine House of Representatives has passed a Bill declaring Sabah to be part of the Philippines. But if one digs deep Into the reasons for Manila’s recent chronic action, one would know what can really be expected of
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    • 255 8 1AM not here to belittle the good work of the Singapore Government, but sometimes in the midst of showers of praises from overseas visitors, some mistakes and drawbacks of the Civil Administration connected .with industrialisation must be pointed out. The Singapore Ministers frequently shout their
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    • 131 8 COUTH-EAST Asia is a O turbulent area but with e dln of Confrontaaii’/wiP'r^s. 00 ,hat h.I!l e forn l atlon of A BEAN help* in a large measure to reinforce prospects of peace and good nelghbourllness this region. Recently a disturbing territorial claim comes
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    • 738 8 Chinese press comments From Sin Chew Jit Poh Dr. Peter Lyon, a schoisr on international relation*, who had spent over five -.ears in the study of the problems on the war and peace i n S-E-A, has recently visited these parts
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 42 8 Eastehn Sun Independent National Newspaper THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1988 23-t. Cantonment Read. Singapore 2. Ttlcphona: *****/7 Penant Office IpoK Offiea 39, |alan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur. Malayaia. Talaphana: *****/6 8. Leith Street, Tel: ***** 77, Brewster Read. Te1:***** Cable Addre an. AW NEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 195 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The new Malaysia VeTsln factory which has been erected on a nineacre site at Sungel Besl, KuaJa Lumpur, representing a $3,000,000 investment. will be officially opened on Sept. 15. Announcing this, the Comt)any Chairman, Mr Tay How Seng, stated that the
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    • 289 9 Rubber down cent SINGAPORE. Wed.—September first grade rubber buyers f o.b. closed at 5 pm. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 33-7/8 cents per lb., down a quarter of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. There was very little movement again during the morning. Turnover was
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    • 142 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Qantas has won its second major export award in 12 months, this time the Hoover Award for Marketing. Qantas had previously won in 1962 and 1966 Hoover Awards of Merit for specific marketing campaigns. but the present Export Award recognise the Qantas
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    • 184 9 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) The market trend was upward during the first hour yesterday but with The momentum of the previous session lacking. Turnover was moderate. Shortly before 11 am the UPI stock indicator was up 0 08 per cent on 1.296 issues crossing the
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    • 48 9 NEW YORK. W#d (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded on the N.Y. Commodity Exchange yesterday. Sept. 20.10 bid. Nov. 20 60 bid. Jan 20.10 bid. March 20.10 bid. May 20.10 bid. July 20.10 bid. Sept. 20.10 bid. No. 1 RSS wag 20-1/2 cents unchanged.
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    • 59 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money Quotations HK $6 1037 per U.S. dollar HK *6 1175 per U.S dollar TT HK514.55 per pound sterling HK5300.75 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK 162.7 per 10.000 Japanese yen HK5149.0 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers HK5149.2 per 100
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    • 117 9 SINGAPORE. Red The aeon prior* at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange in day area. Buy at Seim Coconut Oil (FOB Bulk 49 50 Coconut on (F OB) Drags SI 50 Loose Copra Mixed Sept *8 00 Montng White Pepper (F. 0.8.1 •Ml A VL W 115.00 Sarawak Whit# Pepper
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The tin price for today was $586.25 per picul, up 12} cents.
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    • 174 9 SINGAPORE Wed. In keeping with the Company's policy of exposing its young management development plan trainees and executives to the latest innovations in all aspects of the footwear business and technical and market ing improvements. Bata. Singapore recently sent their Costing and Efficiency Officer.
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    • 47 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Association of Banks in Maiayaia-Singapore today made the following changes in its rate* to merchants: Selling T.T. O.D ready were Deutsche Mark* 1283/8; Holland Guilders 1173/4; Swiss Francs 139-1/8; Belgian Francs 1621; Italian Lire *****; Danish Kroner 243-1/4 and Japanese Yen *****
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    • 298 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Seventeen top British businessmen will arrive here on Bept. 29 for a week’s visit to Malaysia. The team will be led by Mr. W.R p. King. Managing Director of the Mint Birmingham Limited, a firm producing coinage and non-ferrous products.
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    • 170 9 SINGAPORE. Wed The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 West Bree» 3/4 Bengkalis 5 Domina fl/7 Thorsorient 8/0 Hongkong Producer 10/11 Antenor 13/14 Menmotl 13/16 Neieua 23/26 Kimania 27/28 Altalr 29/30 Waitaki 31/32 Rhexenor 33 34 S.A. Huguenot 38/39 Centaur 40/41
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    • 1402 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Conditions were generally easier on an uninspiring Stock Exchange today when the pattern of the previous market day continued. The market once again exhibited no feature except for the heavy dealings of PMC and Ming Court Rights. On a turnover of 408.000 units.
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    • 124 9 SINGAPORE. Wed Air India will introduce a fourth weekly frequency on its Bombay-Tokyo route from Sept.. 7, 1968. The additional service will operate every Saturday via Delhi. Bangkok and Hong Kong. It will depart Bombay at 0600 hrs. (LT) and reach Tokyo at 2245
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    • 35 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Tuesday’s volume was 11.430.000 shares Of a total 1.541 issues traded. 507 were higher and 794 lower. American Exchange volume was 5.780.000 shares bonds volume amounted to 16,750.000.
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    • 462 9 SINGATOU Stock hachance told and offer price* officially Utted at bnsmeaa. tbe cIom of INDUSTRIALS ACMA 2 38 Ben .V Co XBI 2.85 2 90 Borneo Rhd 1.87 1 66 Houston 1. r «ngar 4.50 Chemical Co. 178 1 60 Cold Storage 4 4.86 Dunlop CD 3 44
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    • 45 9 (Manager** Price*) First Malayan 2.72 Second Malayan 1.95 Third Malayan 124 The Commerce Industry 1IW 1 09 The Satin* Fund XD 1.10 119 FI rat H’knn* l.OB 1.11* second H’kon* .71 78» Malaysian Investment Fund 1.20 1.30 Sterling f’cnudlty 5/7 Bong Kong Currency >
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 155 11 MY young sister named Patricia is a very sweetlooking girl of six. She is plump and hB* round eyes ana two long plaits streaming down her shoulders. She has lost many of her upper front teeth because of tooth decay. She is the youngest and is
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    • 116 11 STAMP collecting is one of the many hobbies I have and the most interesting one 1 collect stamps for many reasons. I like to sort out certain ■tamps and paste them in my album. The stamps I collect depict certain pictures which attract me. I began stamp collecting
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    • Article, Illustration
      188 11 ONE night after a heavy meal. I went to bed. I had a horrible dream. I dreamt that I was walking to my friend’s house. It was very quiet and I could hear dogs barking loudly. I was quite frightened. I continued walking until I reached her
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    • 490 11 A group of youths once formed themselves into a gang to fight for their country France, which was at war at that time. Their meeting place was at an old mill because it was the only place not occupied by the
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    • 206 11 LAST week while I was boarding a bus to go to school I saw a traffic Jam. It was due to a heavy downpour. All vehicles were moving at a slow speed for there were floods along the roads leading to my
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    • 225 11 I AM a shoe and I wa« made in England. I was latar taken to Singapore by ship and was loaded into a lorry and brought to a shop. I was bought by a shop-keeper to be sold. He kept me in a showease I mad#
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    • 167 11 I c*n never forget August 1. lt«7. It was the happiest dav in my life because on that day my sister got married A few days before the marriage, many people gave presents to my sister. My sister and my mother prepared delicious food for
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    • 315 11 AUGUST 9. 19«* Singapora’a third Anniversary slnee the left Malaysia In 19*5. During the recent National Day Celebrations, many parts of the city displayed the National Flag To ahow our patriotic love foi the Repjblie, the eltlsena should not only defend the country, but must also know
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    • 175 11 EVERYONE has a family. Some have big families while others have small ones. I have a small family. We all live together in peace and happiness. My family consists of eight people. They are my parents, my brothers, my sisters and me. We live in Pontian.
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    • 212 11 Memories are dreams of the past. The childhood activitiea and tales of our early lives may be sad as well as happy ones. My earliest memories are hard to analyse for they show an incredible contrast to my present life. I still remember
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    • 198 11 A POSTMAN is a man who delivers letters from house to house. He wears a brow?n hat and a brown uniform to deliver the letters. He rides a red bicycle which has a brown bag containing letters and parcels for delivery. The postman delivers letters
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    • 244 11 IT was a Sunday jnorning and my brother, sister and I planned to go boating. We took the things that we needed and bought bread, lemonade, a few tins of canned food and some fruits, for our lunch. After packing, we left for the beach. On
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    • 186 11 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN’S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 311 12 TODAY and YOU... it Thursday, September 12, 1988. 3' •m ARIES MAR. 22 APR. 20 STAR GAZER^O •By CLAY R. POLLAN--7-1 0-12-15 33-34-38 TAURUS APR. 21 A MAY 21 4-14-16-22 B/24-31-32-90 GEMINI J~jO MAY 22 JUNE 22 ■sx6o-71-72 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 36-37-39-501 55-59-81-89 LEO M JULY 24 AUG.
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  • 107 13 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) The Malaysian Ambassador to Indonesia. Tan Sri Yaacob bin Abdul Latiff. last night met Foreign Minister Adam Malik to discuss the Sabah issue between Malaysia and the Philippines. The Ambassador declined to answer when asked what Malaysia would do if President
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  • 51 13 MALACCA. Wed. A cigarette salesman stationed in Muar was killed in a road accident at the 6th mile Ma-lacca-Muar Road this morning. The salesman. Soh Kim Kong. 22. who was driving a van. was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry. He died on the
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  • 594 13  - Peking NOT an aggressive power professor By BEN D'CUNHA KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. "Red China aggressive power? 'No'. This is the opinion of a visiting professor of Chinese studies, Dr. Wolfgang Franke, who had spent 13 years in China. In an interview with the Eastern Sun he said the objective of
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  • 148 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Two scooterists, one armed with a pistol, held up a petrol pump attendant at Jalan Ipoh here last night and robbed him of 8385 in cash while the proprietor and a girl attendant look on helplessly. They had gone to the Sing Seng
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  • 66 13 PENANG. Wed. The Penang Chinese Ladies Chin Woo Athletic Association will soon have a new building, costing $150,000. at its old site in Anson Road The new- tw’o-storey building will be completed some time in March next year The association is now temporarily
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  • 65 13 SEREMBAX. Wed. V Kumarasan. 20. an employee at the Rasah Camp w>as today committed for trial in High Court for allegedly raping a 16-vear-old girl on June 11 between 2.10 p.m. and 530 p.m. behind the police inspectors' quarters at Rasah. The Magistrate. Enche Murad
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  • 202 13 KUCHING, Sarawak. Wed. (Reuter) The SecretaryGeneral of the leftwing opposition Sarawak United People Party (SUPP). Mr. Stephen Yong. has denied knowledge that some of its members are known Communist*. At a press conference yesterday. Mr. Yong also refuted a charge that his party
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  • 51 13 LUMUT. Wed. The Dirdings District Welfare Council today donated $1,500 towards the Sri Rama Temple Building Fund here. A cheque for the amount was handed over to the President of the Temple. Dr. P. V. V. Menon. by the Council’s Chairman. Raja Shahriman bin Raja Abdul
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  • 113 13 KAMPAR. Wed —A tapper. Tan Bin Bon. 40. was today sentenced to two years’ Jail for armed robbery. He was found guilty in the Sessions Court of robbing a cattle-owner. G. K. Elan Din. of about SlOO in cash and jewellery at the Ten* Samg Tin
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  • 36 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A hawker. Khue Chow Kong, 22. accused of intimidating a health officer. Fong Kong Yu, on June 17. at Jalan Pasar Bahru, was today acquitted and discharged in the magistrate’s court here.
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  • 217 13 KOTA KINABALU. Wed (UPI) Civil aviation authorities here yesterday put a strict security guard on a privately-owned light aircraft after its American pilot alleged that gravel and sand were dumped into its engine to sabotage it. The aircraft, a Piper Cherokee 2358. is
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  • 76 13 IPOH. Wed. Mr. Justice Pawan Ahmad in the High Court here yesterday dismissed the appeal against the sentence on a tapper. Mohamed bin Bahman. 28. who was fined $3OO or a month's jail for voluntary causing hurt to Mr. C. Janieson Black. Manager of a rubber estate in
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 261 13 SHAW Ovßamlantlon Opfns Today! 11, I.M, 4, 3fl Harry S»:t7lßtn-.< "Shock Troops Technicolor A: Techmscnpe UA» c»m.i iißiinnwin SATURDAY MNTTE BY DEMAND WANO YU and LI CHINO Si •THE SWORD OF SIVOHDB” <A SHAW PRODUCTION! Mano*r;n tn Bhawxcope Color LMT 4 SHOWS! 11 am. IS*. 4no «30 pm only Shaw
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    • 108 13 ODEON i opens PALACE TODAY! I 11 am.. ISO. in. M a so r m Awwmuummuni 1 so. 4 00. 0.45 A 0.30 p m. AN ADVENTURE IN ESPIONAGE FILLED WITH ACTION AND SUSPENSE! A DOUBLE AGENT IN DOUBLE-DANGER! >r A COLUMBIA PICTURES Release An ANTHONY MANN Production OXEICDBEO MBOBTJ
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    • 576 13 ODEON 71-116 PALAC I 447 5 76 OPENS TODAY! 11. 1.3*. 4.00, 1.30. 400 6.30 930 pm II 6.45 A 9.30 pm Columbia 5 •not BLE AGENT” Laurence Hanrev Mia Farrow Panavisioo. Color Odeon A Palace: SAT. MIDNIGHT* -DAYS OF WRATH” Color-Scope Otu 1 *no Oemm* Lee Van Cieef OPENS
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  • 821 14  -  On the lookout... By Shullen Shaw rpAIPEI, (UPI). The farmers and fishermen of Quemoy live under muzzles of Communist Chinese artillery and more trouble may be ahead. Civilians But Quemoy's 57,900 civilians continue to increase their production of vegetables, corn and fish despite the dangers of
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  • 590 14  -  by PETER JOB wAM ENA. West Irian. Wed. (Reuter) Bold missionary pilots in Western New Guinea have developed their own regular air service into a territory of cloudcapped mountains and deep fertile valleys housing one of the most primitive peoples in the world. Their single
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 504 14 j Eastern Sun Classified advertisement can j be eceepted at the folio wins addresses: MONT DOR MILK BAR Ngee Ann Building. Singapore. S.S. MUBARUK Brothers. 63. Bras Basab Road, and 2. Maiu Avenue. Serangoon Carden Estate. Singapore TAY BU AN CUAN LTD.. SUPERMARKET. 83. East Coast Road, Singapore 15 Tel
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    • 67 14 TENDER PEMBERITAHU TAWARAN .IKK MELAKA TAWARAN daripada Pemborong2 yang berdaftar diJ.K.R. dal a m Kelas ‘D’ dan ka-atas akan di-terima di-Pejabat Jurutera Negerl. Melaka, sa-hingga pukol 3.00 petang pada 23hb. September, 1968 untok:— MEM BEN A DAN MENYIAPKAN SEKOLAH TAMBAHAN UNTOK SEKOLAH KEBANGSAAN DI-GANUN DAN SEKOLAH RENDAH JENIS KEBANGSAAN (TAMILi
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  • Sun Sport
    • 353 15 MEXICO CITY, Wed. (Reuter) Eastern European domination of the Olympic soccer tournament seems certain to continue in Mexico next month and Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the finalists in Tokyo four years ago, are again the favourites. Czechoslovakia. beaten 2-1 by Hungary
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    • 423 15 ALOR STAR. Wed Rajinder Singh, the Malaysian schoolboy tennis doubles champion this year, won two titles at the Kedah novices tennis championship which concluded here over the weekend. He won the singles beating Sobry Baharom easily in the final by 6-4. 6-2. In
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    • 61 15 BRADFORD (England) wed. < Reuter) Former Test cricket match batsfnan Wilfred Barber died in hospital here yesterday aged 66 During 21 years playing lor the county of Yorkshire he scored over 15.000 runs. Barber played for England In two Tests against South Africa In 1935. His
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    • 65 15 SEREMBAN. Wed. The two-day N. 8. Government services annual athletic championships will be held on the King George V School ground here on Saturday and Sunday starting at 2.30 pm. each day. There will also be a gala dance at the Town Hall on Saturday at 9.15
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    • 243 15 SOUTH LAKE TAHOE. (California), Wed. (Reuter) Jimmie Hines equalled the official world 100 metres record of 10 sec. flat here yesterday at the final US. Olympic athletics trials. Hines, who won from Charles Green, got an exceptionally fast start and led all the
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    • 200 15 SYDNEY, Wed. (Reuter) —The North Sydney Rugby League Club has been given clearance by Leeds to sign its coach. Roy Francis, for a three-year term. The North Sydney president Harry McKinnon said today that as managercoach Francis would enjoy the widest powers
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    • 97 15 NANTWTCH, England. Wed (UPI) Con O’Kelly. British heavyweight boxer who gave up the sport to become a Roman Catholic priest, died on Sunday at the age of 61, it was learned yesterday. O'Kelly, one of Britain's leading heavyweights between the two wars, never won the
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    • 74 15 STAFF Serjeant Adrian Bunting of the Royal Engineers. a very successful competitor in local cycling events, leads the field in the later stages of the “Tanglin Grand Prix” fortymile road race. He is followed by Petty Officer Arnold Pearson of the Royal Navy and Ahmad Alimau
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    • 109 15 BROOKLINE. Massachusetts Wed Reuten Rod Laver won his fourth United States professional grass court tennis championship in five years here yesterday bv trouncing his fellow Australian. John Newcombe. 6-4 6-4. 9-7. at the Longwood Cricket Club. The final, originally scheduled for June 16. was
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    • 98 15 SEREMBAN. Wed. The annual knockout soccer competition for the Hose Cup will begin here on Sunday at the N.S. padang. Eight teams 17th Gurkha Signals. N.S. Indian Association. Kilat Club PWD. HQ 17th Malaya District. Chin Woo and N.S Malays will take part. In
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    • 290 15 FOREST HILLS. (New York), Wed. (Reuter) The World's leading tennis players moved west yesterday for next week's Los Angeles open tournament, the amateurs among them buoyed by spectacular success in the first I'.S. Open Tennis Championships at the West Side Club here
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    • 210 15 DONCASTER. England, Wed. (Reuter) Inyanga owned by R.G. Angus won the Great Yorkshire Handicap run over one mile, six furlongs and 132 yards here yesterday. J. Rcgerscn's National Gallery was second and the Queen's Home Park finished third of four runners. David Coates rode
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    • 1281 15  -  By CHARLES CHAN KI’ALA lUMPII, Wed. Johnny Kim. the Ming Ming bowler who was stripped off the right to defend his Masters title at the MTBC championships here last month, came storming from behind to snatch the title of the Malaysia-Singapore Airline's Big
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    • 196 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Better Than and Picasso II (Kingston) revealed striking form when matched over 3f clocking 39 on a good track this morning. Better Than won the trial by half a length while Picasso 11. who also went well, has trained on
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    • 178 16 SEREMBAN. Wed.—Negri Sembilan Club made a winning debut by trouncing King George V School by two goals and two tries (16 points) without reply in the Negri Sembilan-Malacca rugby union league played on the school padang here this evening. Star of the club side was
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    • 58 16 TPOH. Wed. Perak will meet Negri Sembilan in the annual Stanislaus Trophy cricket match at the municipal padang here on Saturday and Sunday. The following will represent Perak: Patmalingair. (capt.). Joginder Singh, Mahinder Singh, Letchumanan, Kanagasingam. Kirpal Singh, Sivaramurthi. Joe Marshall. Santhanadass. Sri Ram, and Lai Singh.
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    • 43 16 RODNEY SEOW receiving the winner's laurel from the Sultan of Selangor after winning the Anchor Beer Trophy for Sports and G.T. Cars over 20 laps (42 miles) last Saturday at Batu Tiga tracks in his Elva 7 S. Sunsport pix.
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    • 160 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Malayan Railway will hold Its 31st annual athletic sports meet at the Brickfields Railway Recreation Club grounds on Friday and Saturday. The meet will be opened by the General Manager of Malayan Railway. Enche Waad bln Jamaluddln who will be provided with
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    • 56 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) —Results of football matches played last night were: English football league Cup Second round replays Burnley 6 Grimby Town 0 Swindon T. 4 Bradford C. 3 Swansea T. 3 Walsall 2 English Division One Coventry City 0 Chelsea 1 English Division
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    • 362 16  -  By ALBERT JOHNSON SINGAPORE, Wed. SEAP Games heroine "golden girl" Patricia Chan said here todgy that she has no plans to quit aquatic sport for many more years to come. Although I had seriously given thought to park it all up after I
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    • 284 16  -  By L. D. BAPTIST PENANG, Wed. Australia's top-seeded men’s tennis player, Collin Stubbs, is tipped to win the singles title at the 37th Malaysian Tennis Open Championships here, beginning tomorrow. However, the Australian, who was runner-up to fellow countryman. Allan Stone the
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    • 129 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Adult Education Board will be holding its Second InterArea Athletic Meet on Sunday at the Farrer Park stadium from 3.00 p.m. The Inter-Area Athletic Meet is the climax to a series of games and competitions conducted over the last eight months
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    • 42 16 BATU PAHAT, Wed A big walk, organised jointly by the Johore State Photographic Society and the Johore State Table Tennis Association, Johore Bahru branch, will be held on Oct. 27 to mark the 74th birthday of the Sultan of Johore.
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    • 185 16 SINGAPORE. Wed Singapore's “Golden Girl” Patricia Chan and her brcther Alex shattered one record each on the second day of the Singapore Combined Secondary Schools four-day swimming carnival held at the Chinese Swimming Club, today. Pat of Methodist Girls School set her record in
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    • 1287 16 HORSES CLASS 2 DIV. 1-6 FURS. 023 Mahseer 5y 9.00 Dato Datin K L. Chong West 1 Werribee 4y 8.n8 Mai Pen Rai St. R. Bkelen 222 Skvborne 5v 808 Goodman Stable Daniels 171 Intan Terpcleh 9v 807 Alliance Stable Rodgers 220 El Supremo
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    • 60 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 3.00 am. (80 ft.), 3.11 pm. (7.2 ft.). Port Swettenham: 8.10 a.m. (14.9 ft.), 8.17 p.m. (13.8 ft.). Port Dickson: 9.13 a.m (8.8 ft.). 9.19 p.m. (7.7 ft.). Singapore: 1.43 a.m. (8.3 ft.). 1.34 p.m. (8.7 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 12.54 am. (7.1 ft 12.16 pm. (6.9
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