The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1963
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Advertisement14 1963-01-01 1 The Strait] ANNUAL S*a |H m 1 a '"i s r >1. 1 31*14 words
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Advertisement75 1963-01-01 1 tir 1 i i 'mTHIS IS THE FRIENDSHIP Progressively from May 1963 Malayan Airways will introduce five Fokker Friendship F. 27 Jet-prop aircraft into scheduled service in Malaya and Borneo. These aircraft will revolutionize Malayan air travel and set new standards of speed and comfort. Equipped with the world renowned75 words
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Advertisement130 1963-01-01 2/3 Tropic heat ..and a long, cool gin sling. Seems to go naturally together, doesn’t It? A Gin Sling has become part of the way of life in the East and that Gordon’s Gin has achieved a wide distribution in this area is a tribute to the Borneo Company’s sales organisation.130 words
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Advertisement114 1963-01-01 4/5 RESEARCH DESIGN MACHINERY 4 THE METAL BOX COMPANY OF MALAYA LTD. CONTAINERS 8 Metal Box is ready to serve the growing industries of Singapore and Malaya covering both primary and secondary products, and with its international associations covering manufacturing and research offers specialist advice and information over a wide field.114 words
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Advertisement120 1963-01-01 24/25 'JS-P i U What has Ah Chong got to do with us? Plenty. He is one of 10 million consumers in Malaysia whom we serve in one way or another. For more than 134 years we have been selling in Malaysia and our knowledge of marketing here has been developed120 words
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Advertisement338 1963-01-01 30/31 To help make Singapore what it is today Percy Carpenter’s painting of ‘Singapore at Sunrise from Mount Wallich in 1856’ is one of the best records of the settlement of that time. But today Mount Wallich cannot be found. Where has it gone? It was completely removed in 1887 from338 words
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Article, Illustration6 1963-01-01 36/37 by Stephen Yapby Stephen Yap - 6 words
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Advertisement146 1963-01-01 46/47 1 MACHINES A wide range of modern INTERTYPE Composing machines are now available. The East Asiatic Company Ltd. will be pleased to arrange demonstrations so that you can see which machines will best suit your composition. Technical advice is always available from our experts. Spare parts can readily be provided.146 words
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Advertisement357 1963-01-01 48/49 fly JAL’s new I 99 to Europe Like the Silk Road of antiquity, Japan Air Lines' new southern route links the Orient with Europe along an historic route of trade and cultural centers. India, Pakistan, Egypt, Italy, Germany, England! You can reach them all aboard JAL’s magnificent 88OM Jet Couriers.357 words
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Advertisement112 1963-01-01 48/49 sTiTT y' ym, m v a sP k hr 4 i V ■p^'~ r fit* w* 'USA Jfi Building Singapore’ When you build, Goodyear makes what you need In Malaya, as in other parts of the world, whenever men build, In Malaya, as in other parts of the world, whenever112 words
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Article, Illustration163 1963-01-01 1 THE STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL FOR 1 963 KDN 042 THE YEAR OF MERGER Allington Kennard 2 STATELY HOMES OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND Donald Davies 8 AMBASSADORS OF 'KAMPONG KIRKBY’ Dennis G. Rattle 10 THE KING'S DAUGHTER WEDS Tuan Haji Mubin Sheppard 12 MODERN JUNK NAVIGATORS William Fish 18163 words
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Advertisement147 1963-01-01 1 /N addition to the cover picture of Che Rohanna binte Zubir, Staff Photographer Larry Leon has contributed pictures to The King’s Daughter Weds, Bukit Besi Hill of Iron, and Collecting Pottery. Other colour contributions have come from Chief Staff Photographer Leon Shiu Hung (Stately Homes of Prince of Wales Island147 words
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Article, Illustration3329 1963-01-01 2/3 Allington Kennard - By August 1963, the Federation of Malaysia, comprising five States, Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, Brunei and Sarawak, will be a reality —a sovereign cure for a major political problem in South-East Asia. by Allington Kennard TN the affairs of nations, as in the affairs of men,3,329 words
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Article, Illustration776 1963-01-01 8/9 DONALD DAVIES - DONALD DAVIES. SUFFOLK House depicted in the engraving above, must rank as the first of the stately homes of Prince of Wales Island. The private property of W. E. Phillips, former Governor of the island, Suffolk House was built on land which had776 words
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Article, Illustration1950 1963-01-01 10/11 Dennis G. Rattle - The Ambassadors of KAMPONG KIRKBY’ by Dennis G. Rattle TN the small village of Kirkby, Lancashire, a few miles to the North of the great sea-port of Liverpool, half a blizzard was blowing on the second day of January 1952. It was a chilly reception for an excited, smiling though1,950 words
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Article, Illustration2583 1963-01-01 12/13 Tuan Haji Mubin Sheppard - The King s Daughter Weds by Tuan Haji Mubin Sheppard “T> AJA KERJA” ‘the Ruler is busy’. In these two words, concise and dignified, the Malay public have been informed for centuries past that a royal occasion usually a wedding was imminent or was in progress Many other people were2,583 words
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Article, Illustration7 1963-01-01 16/17 by Chin Wan Fa».by Chin Wan Fa». - 7 words
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Article, Illustration1231 1963-01-01 18/19 William Fish - •Modern JUNK NAVIGATORS by William Fish jC'OURTEEN young Hong Kong Chinese fishermen, the sons of junk owners, pored over marine charts in the after cabin of the 60ft. trawler Alister Hardy as the vessel ploughed through a long swell down the Lamma Channel, south of Hong Kong Island. The trawler1,231 words
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Article, Illustration1226 1963-01-01 22/23 Itielianl NcTkuii - The Governments of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are spending about 370,000,000 in making the new military cantonment at Terendak a model of its kind. i»y Itielianl NcTkuii OPRAWLED somewhat improbably amid the rustic charm of Malacca’s kampongs and ricefields is the large coastal military base1,226 words
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Article, Illustration1341 1963-01-01 26/27 f jwty - b f jwty In 1962, Perak’s State Capital gained Municipal status —first town to do so since Merdeka TPOH, centre of the richest tin mining area in the world, earned a new distinction in 1962 when it became the first town to be elevated to a Municipality1,341 words
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Article, Illustration6 1963-01-01 30/31 by Lim Ming Loon,by Lim Ming Loon, - 6 words
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Article, Illustration2019 1963-01-01 30/31 Tuan Syed Nasir bin Ismail - by Tuan Syed Nasir bin Ismail r pl I ERE was a time, not even 50 years ago, when the Malay language was extensively used in the administration of most, if not all, the states that constitute the Federation of Malaya today. Certainly the2,019 words
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Article, Illustration1131 1963-01-01 34/35 Ijetm - BUKIT BESI Hill of Iron’ (j Ijetm MORE than half Trengganu State’s local annual revenue is derived from Bukit Besi the 1,100-ft. high hill of iron thrusting upwards from the coastal plain near Dungun. The hill is the restless, never silent focal point of Asia’s biggest iron mine developed and1,131 words
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Article, Illustration1005 1963-01-01 38/39 Ly Singko - F ACE- PAINTING in the Chinese Theatre by Ly Singko NCIENT actors used masks and a trace of this practice may still be seen on the Western stage in the bizarre facial make-up of the clown. But in the Chinese theatre, the clown is not the only actor who paints1,005 words
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Article, Illustration310 1963-01-01 40/41 Homai Vyarawalla - by Homai Vyarawalla T> AM LILA, the epic of Rama, is celebrated throughout India, with all religious zeal and fervour during the month of Aswin (SeptemberOctober). The epic relates to the ancient tradition of two powerful races, the Kosalas and Videhas, who lived in Northern310 words
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Article, Illustration2037 1963-01-01 42/43 You will not find the real Malay food in the hotels or resthouses. To do so you must be invited to a Malay home, says AZAH AZIZ, describing dishes prepared and arranged by AZIZAH JAAFAR. is Malay food really like? Is it the rice-and-curry, accompanied by the so-called2,037 words
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Article, Illustration7 1963-01-01 44/45 by Peng-Seng Wu, FRPS.by Peng-Seng Wu, FRPS. - 7 words
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Article, Illustration3188 1963-01-01 46/47 G. L. PceX - Before and After the East Coast Highway Lj G. L. PceX TfflE outstanding change in the map of Malaya, for anyone looking at it through pre-war spectacles, is the East Coast Highway. Before World War II nobody had ever attempted to drive a car up the coast from3,188 words
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Article, Illustration1355 1963-01-01 50/51 Anthony Ratos - by Anthony Ratos TT started out as a simple case of a fond father and a plastic doll. Batin Hitam, headman of a proto-Malay community of some 1,700 Aborigines from Ulu Cheka, which lies in central Pahang, was the father while the doll bought in town was something1,355 words
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Article, Illustration1783 1963-01-01 54/55 Tom Harrisson, D.S. 0., O.R. E - by Tom Harrisson, D.S. 0., O.R.E. 'PEN years ago I wrote on the Turtle A Islands of Sarawak, in The Straits Times Annual. Since then, I have spent several months of every year on those same three remote, exquisitely beautiful coral islands in the extreme south-west1,783 words
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Article, Illustration1471 1963-01-01 56/57 Laurie Weston - by Laurie Weston T'WO surveys that will have a major A influence on future industrial development in Malaya were carried out in 1962. On the findings of the first, conducted by Mr. Philip Stuchen, a Canadian economist loaned to Malaya under the Colombo Plan, assisted1,471 words
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Article, Illustration1618 1963-01-01 60/61 Kijang Puteh Him l il ■■ «iim w - by Kijang Puteh Him l il «iim w TF a stranger had joined the crowd A pressing into Kuala Lumpur’s Merdeka Stadium at about 8.45 p.m. on February 27, 1962 he might have been at a loss to know what he could expect to see. The stands, both1,618 words
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Article, Illustration2742 1963-01-01 62/63 Dato W. H. Wilcock - by Dato W. H. Wilcock TN introducing to Parliament on Oct. 23. 1958, the Bill to set up the Bank Negara Tanah Melayu (Central Bank of Malaya) the then Minister of Finance, Tun Sir Henry H.S. Lee, said that the establishment of the Bank was an2,742 words
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Article, Illustration1714 1963-01-01 66/67 EmpText - EmpText TT was rough at Pulau Rumbia when we arrived at dusk. Four sea-eagles were circling over the point; their strangely haunting cries matched my mood, a melancholy one, for we had just said goodbye to Kuala Lumpur and this was a farewell visit to the Nine1,714 words
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Article, Illustration8 1963-01-01 68/69 by F. C. H. Allenby F. C. H. Allen - 8 words
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Article, Illustration1845 1963-01-01 70/71 J. N. McHUGH tells of the colourful world of Chinese ceramics, part of Malaya’s cultural heritage T OCATED at the cross roads of SouthEast Asia, not the least of Malaya’s many charms lies in the wide variety of peoples, customs and cultures which have influenced her development, or1,845 words
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Article, Illustration1824 1963-01-01 74/75 In Hong Kong they stage these thrilling races on the “Double Fifth” to mark the end of the dry season —by KATHLEEN WALKER. T'HE Dragon Boat Festival, so popular in Hong Kong, is celebrated elsewhere by many overseas communities of Chinese, but I have found no* evidence1,824 words
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Article, Illustration1092 1963-01-01 78/79 Kathleen Clark - by Kathleen Clark TT is over a quarter of a century since I first heard the great drums of Kelantan, but the memory of their unique beauty and thrilling sound has remained vivid through the years. I first heard these Rebana (as they are called1,092 words