The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1982
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Advertisement161 1982-01-01 6/7 i V O o The Hongkong Bank in Singapore lends a hand to international finance. We’re in the money management business. And have been for well over a century. Backed by years of experience and, an extensive network of branches spanning the financial centres of Asia, the Middle East, the161 words
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Advertisement86 1982-01-01 12/13 Malayan Banking .1 i sr TheTigerBesidefcu He’s got the confidence of the tiger beside him. Its strength, its security, its protection. And the backing of a group that includes Finance Companies, a Merchant Bank and an Insurance Company. Therefore, with assets exceeding 9.2 billion dollars, Malayan Banking Berhad is the86 words
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Article, Illustration306 1982-01-01 18/19 MC (P) 81/8/81 20 BRINK OF A CULTURAL FLOWERING Italy nurtured the Renaissance. Is Singapore poised for something similar? ANDREW LESLIE poses the question through history and the views of an artist, a dancer, poet and conductor. 44 LIFE AMONG LEAVES Insect photographer, KWAN HUN, and306 words
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Article, Illustration110 1982-01-01 20/21 Andrew Leslie - Text: Andrew Leslie Everyone agrees that the ground is rich and fertile. Singapore the junction where three major races mix and mingle, each heir to an ancient culture has the climate and the exotic seed to produce a flowering of the arts. The historic parallelPhotography: Yow Yun Woh - 110 words
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Article, Illustration2241 1982-01-01 22/23 Culture today and tomorrow Those who are concerned with the development of culture in Singapore worry over certain questions. They are questions which re-emerge in different forms whenever a group of people start discussing the subject of art and culture in Singapore. Is Singapore too small a nation to makeJean-Luc Bozzoli - 2,241 words
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Article, Illustration1882 1982-01-01 24/25 Culture where it came from Roots of folk-culture, nationalism and religioi There are few records of the popular culture of Singapore during the first hundred years of its existence. It is a difficult task to find out how the average Singaporean would have spent his leisure time in those earlyJean-Luc Bozzoli - 1,882 words
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Culture – what exponents say
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Article, Illustration1658 1982-01-01 36/37 Edwin Thumboo, professor of English and Dean of the Arts Faculty at the National University of Singapore describes himself, nevertheless, as “Originally a science student. Chemistry and maths were my best subjects at school though, mind you, I always enjoyed English. But I strayed intoJean-Luc Bozzoli - 1,658 words
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Article, Illustration1551 1982-01-01 38/39 Mingling not muddling the cultures Madhavi Krishnan is known to Singaporeans as the leading exponent of Indian classical dance on this island. And her fame is not limited to Singapore: Her dancing and her choreography have brought her recognition from Russia to Australia, from India to America. She is probablyJean-Luc Bozzoli - 1,551 words
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Article, Illustration716 1982-01-01 40/41 Rachel Barnes - by Rachel Barnes Although Tan Swie Hian is not a full time artist he in fact has a full time job at the French Embassy he is one of the most gifted and original men at work in Singapore. He is a Buddhist andJean-Luc Bozzoli - 716 words
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Article, Illustration1589 1982-01-01 42/43 Choo Hoey, conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, sits behind the desk in his small office behind the stage of the Victoria Concert Hall, and beams expansively as he prepares to answer my questions. In the main office outside, the staff of the Singapore1,589 words
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Article, Illustration2925 1982-01-01 44/45 D.H. Murphy - Beyond the relentless roar of piledriver and bulldozer, away from the highrise concrete that symbolises the new Singapore, there’s a busy, buzzing, living, dying world hidden by tropical green. A world of adaptation and deception predator and prey. For those with the patience to perceive, this smallPhotography by Kwan Hun - 2,925 words
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Article, Illustration5676 1982-01-01 54/55 In the gay Twenties and Thirties Raffles Hotel was the favourite venue of bright young things and their class conscious parents. “Pip pip old thing, see you later at Raffles,” was Singapore’s social password. But the Forties brought a new customer to the illustriousCourtesy Olivia Hamilton; Arshak C Galstaun Collection.; Arshak C. Galstaun Collection; The Imperial War Museum, London, Collection; Courtesy Mary Cecilia Stenberg; Raffles Hotel Collection; Yow Yun Woh; hr I _o I —I I I 0) I E lh I to '5 ■ co I $ 1 ~ |z - 5,676 words
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Advertisement143 1982-01-01 64/65 UMBC Connecting the international markets for your convenience Vt J J<. S3? s* -T“> > > 3S A$e w: :X*e j 4: 4, V7* v' 1 I Z&fM E -j-x. K J v v— «i ‘«sSv.: >v v.*'-- -> 0 2 'vN C-S* It always helps to know the right143 words
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Article, Illustration905 1982-01-01 66/67 Turn a quiet street corner any time of year and there it is neon-lit, cacophanous wayang. On bamboo stilts a tarpaulin roofed stage pulsates with riotous colour, glistening costumes, preposterous posturing and the wailing horns, clashing gongs and cymbals and the string instruments and hollow woodenPhoto essay by Ronni Pinsler - 905 words
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Article, Illustration1267 1982-01-01 78/79 Richard Lim - Text by Richard Lim Gwee Bock Huat had just returned from a holiday in the United States, where he visited Hollywood and saw for himself the kinds of gimmicks the technologically advanced film industry employs to make entertainment bigger and better. “We1,267 words
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Article, Illustration2665 1982-01-01 80/81 Gretchen Mahbubani - Text: Gretchen Mahbubani Singapore architecture came of age in the second half of the 19th Century when power of empire was mirrored in prestigious, pomp-filled civic buildings. And clubs from whose verandahs the cityscape could be surveyed. The designs had their rootsPhotography: Yow Yun Woh - 2,665 words
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Article, Illustration2995 1982-01-01 90/91 The origins of the shophouse Straits Chinese style, or terrace house Malacca style, or Singapore Eclectic or Chinese Baroque or Chinese Palladian as it has been variously called is a matter of conjecture. Unfortunately, their very uniqueness inJean-Luc Bozzoli - 2,995 words
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Article, Illustration4049 1982-01-01 103 Teo Han Wue - Text: Teo Han Wue An ancient proverb holds that when the time is right the dragon will slither across the sky, riding rain and clouds, blazing in all its serpentine glory. The fiery ascent will bring peace and harmony under heaven. In Singapore today more tangiblePhotograph: YowYunWoh Montage: Jean-Luc Bozzoli; Philip Little; Jean-Luc Bozzoli; Xi Leng Gallery collection.; Photography: Philip Little; Bob Davis: Stock House; Yow Yun Woh - 4,049 words
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Advertisement185 1982-01-01 112/113 Lasting Impressions Many am the times I have stayed in hotds around the ivodd The Marco mlo is sutdy amongst the finest" H. R. H. Prince Berti! of Sweden Many wordly wise travellers attest that The Marco Polo is one of the finest deluxe hotels in the world. We pride185 words
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Article, Illustration1813 1982-01-01 114/115 T.K. Sabapathy - They were Singapore’s first modern artists. And reflecting the dreams of a man who urged them to express “the reality of the Southern Seas” and the “localness of the place we all live in” they fused the perceptions and disciplines of Chinese scroll painting with the exuberantLim Yew Kwan Collection; Jean-Luc Bozzoli; Yow Yun Woh - 1,813 words
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Article, Illustration2158 1982-01-01 120/121 The aesthetic positions made available by Chinese painting traditions and the School of Paris established significant components of the framework for the Nanyang Artists. What do these positions imply in terms of the processes and techniques entailed inJean-Luc Bozzoli; Jean-Lucßozzoli_ - 2,158 words
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Article, Illustration2392 1982-01-01 128/129 Whatever happened to all those devoted mothers, grandmothers and great-aunts who rose with the dawn to pound, stir, grind and knead the delicious foods of our childhood? They and the gourmet labours of love they produced are an endangered species; their food secrets ground up and discarded inPhotographs: Berita Publishing - 2,392 words
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Advertisement274 1982-01-01 138/139 CARPET I I IE PADANG? 1 TJ < How fast can the largest carpet manufacturer in Malaysia produce a carpet the size of the Selangor dub Padang?" In200hours 54 minutes flat, using the latest computerized machine! Now why would anybody want to carpet the Padang? There isn’t any need, certainly.274 words
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Advertisement114 1982-01-01 142/143 The Wheel Of Progress Our logo shows thirteen stylized P’s, one for each Malaysian State, around a hub representing the central part of a wheel. A wheel which like our national economy is ever moving and ever progressing. At the unifying and coordinating centre of it all stands PERNAS, Malaysia’s114 words
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Advertisement126 1982-01-01 146/147 The Legacy of Behn and Meyer One hundred and forty-one years ago, Behn and Meyer, two merchants from Hamburg, established a trading house in Singapore which soon gained a reputation for efficiency, dynamism and an in-depth knowledge of all that they handled. That reputation has prevailed for generations. It has126 words
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Advertisement286 1982-01-01 148 Everything about David Plastow represents his company’s philosophy. Which is why he wears a Rolex. David Plastow is the custodian of a long and famous engineering tradition. He is the Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce Motors, and indeed, his manner and personal appearance exactly reflect the ethos of that company. That286 words
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Advertisement208 1982-01-01 149 ONLY THE STRONG AND RELIABLE SURVIVE THE TEST O? CHANGING TIMES Wi 8 fSpgg 0 Of? >gSJ A" T tt‘f •reNs-» H ii II li :’f W -i-j .*rtf« 4 IfiSL 8 It ssisii v > 1 ■>: .V S3g %*5 if The Four Seas Communications Bank was incorporated in208 words
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