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Title Section20 1987-09-26 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1987 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI(P) 222/8/8720 words
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373 1987-09-26 1 AHMAD OSMAN - By AHMAD OSMAN THE Government will be asked to consider setting up a military academy, modelled after West Point in the US, to produce professional soldiers with both military and academic training. The proposal will be made by the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC)373 words
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Article, Illustration170 1987-09-26 1 NEW YORK The world’s richest person is Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (left) of Brunei, says Fortune magazine, which estimates his wealth at US$25 billion (Sss2 biUion). What about Japanese landlord Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who recently was rated as the170 words
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191 1987-09-26 1 NST, AFP, Bernama. PENANG Police will question the former Malaysian Chinese Association president, Datuk Lee San Choon, about investments made by the Koperatif Serbaguna Malaysia (KSM). They said they would talk to Datuk Lee when he returns from abroad. They will question andNST,; AFP,; Bernama. - 191 words
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885 1987-09-26 1 YOUTH members of the People’s Action Partyended a two-day convention last Sunday in full agreement on the basic issues facing Singapore, and resolved to play a more active role in the party. They pledged to rally other youths to the PAP's885 words
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129 1987-09-26 1 SINGAPORE, with 2.6 million people, has more than a million telephones 1.08 million to be exact. That works out to a telephone for every 2.4 people, or a phone in virtually every home and makes the Republic the N 0.2 in Asia, second129 words
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Advertisement18 1987-09-26 1 Indonesian group makes s77om cash offer for three of Khoo Teck Puat’s hotels See Back Page 6 .418 words
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Advertisement69 1987-09-26 1 UL.-U* VAJ CPO' ijJciJ 31b? SlOOl JO* I Membership has its privileges INSIDE HOME NEWS Overseas grads look for mates through SDU PAGE 2 Should discussion be allowed on racial issues? PAGE 3 The dream of Singapore’s young leaders PAGE 4 ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY/ ASEAN PAGES 8 t 9 FORUM/69 words
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Article, Illustration583 1987-09-26 2 HEDWIG ALFRED - Many find circle of friends limited after years abroad By HEDWIG ALFRED MANY Singaporeans who find themselves lost for friends after they return home from studies abroad have been turning to the government matchmaking unit for help. And the Social Development Unit has583 words
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154 1987-09-26 2 Shangri-La slips to No.9 spot in bankers Top 10 SHANGRI-LA Hotel has again made the list of the II hotels which hankers rate as tops but It was a close call. For the hotel has slipped yet again In the ratings from seventh last year (1981) to ninth this year154 words
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242 1987-09-26 2 NATIONAL Day next year may be an even brighter affair, with a light-up stretching all the way from Orchard Road to Marina Square, where the carnival to celebrate the occasion may be held. The Minister for Communications and Information. Dr Yeo242 words
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Article, Illustration419 1987-09-26 2 CATHERINE C. ONG - Coopers accountant files appeal against decision By CATHERINE C. ONG THE disciplinary committee of the Singapore Society of Accountants (SSA) has suspended a senior partner of international audit firm Coopers and Lybrand for five years for professional misconduct. Mr Chew Kia Ngee, a public419 words
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195 1987-09-26 2 MALAYSIA and Singapore have resumed talks on supplies of natural gas from offshore Trengganu to power stations here, a Malaysian official has indicated. The resumption comes aftei a delay in the construction of the Malaysian gas pipeline because low oil prices195 words
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Article127 1987-09-26 2 A GIRL was found hanged at the Toa Payoh Girls' Home yesterday 11 days after she was sent there by her parents. Police said Goh Geok Hong, 15, was found hanged with a pair of pyjama trousers tied to some iron grilles at the127 words
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287 1987-09-26 2 THE People’s Action Party has assured professionals that their views on the National Agenda would be taken seriously by the party. The assurance was given by Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hslen l,oong In a letter to Dr Tan Cheng Bock, chairman of287 words
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Feedback on National Agenda: The professionals’ views
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586 1987-09-26 3 AHMAD OSMAN; and BERTHA HENSON - Some say Singaporeans not ready yet, others say it will lead to progress Reports by AHMAD OSMAN and BERTHA HENSON SHOULD racial matters be discussed openly? This was one issue which aroused considerable debate among the professionals. Some felt that Singaporeans were not586 words
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80 1987-09-26 3 SINGAPORE should be more open and friendly to allay suspicions and dispel wrong impressions held by its neighbours. Political stability here depends on how well Singapore gets along with its neighbours. There Ls jealousy within the region over our economic success. Some80 words
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Article68 1987-09-26 3 WE MUST also offer more expertise, such as that in housing and health care, to help neighbouring countries. But the Government must not hesitate to stand firm and tick off those who meddle in the Republic’s domestic politics. As Singapore is located in a politically volatile68 words
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Article70 1987-09-26 3 TEACHING in schools should move away from rote-learning to encourage more creative work and a lively intellectual environment. And for creativity to thrive. Singaporeans should learn to tolerate those who appear to have “deviant” and "undisciplined” behaviour. Independent schools are not the answer to more creativity. Instead,70 words
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137 1987-09-26 3 A STRONG, efficient and clean government is needed to achieve political stability. While there may be a need for unpopular policies, the Government must never be insensitive to the feelings and aspirations of the people. Likewise, Singaporeans must also not allow personal and137 words
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355 1987-09-26 3 THE (own council concept is inevitably linked with that of Team MPs, said the professionals who see this as a political move to “handicap” the opposition. They said if this were not true, then candidates from different political parties should be355 words
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259 1987-09-26 3 COUPLES are likely to have more children if the Government provides a strong support system for mothers, especially those who want to go back to work. For example, women who wish to return to work should be given some259 words
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The PAP Youth Wing convention
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Article, Illustration960 1987-09-26 4 PAUL JACOB - The dream of S’pore’s young leaders to bring about the joy of living to all Goh By PAUL JACOB FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has said that the dream of Singapore’s younger leaders is to bring about the joy of living to everyone in a middleclass Singapore. And960 words
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Workshop reports
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Article116 1987-09-26 4 THE workshop recommended that religious and political leaders should meet regularly to discuss issues and seek common ground. It also suggested that the Government brief religious leaders regularly so that the latter could keep their own members well-informed. Singaporeans were also encouraged to be tolerant of and116 words
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Article152 1987-09-26 4 THE workshop felt that multi-racial representation in Parliament could be ensured by the Team MPs concept. If Parliament was not multi-racial in character, there was the danger that political parties might be set up along communal lines. But the workshop felt that any new electoral system should not152 words
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Article143 1987-09-26 4 SINGAPOREANS should not take their country’s stability for granted, stressed the workshop. But one delegate felt that Singapore was neither stable nor unstable, only finely balanced on a knife-edge or “astable”, a word he coined himself. Workshop chairman Mohd Abdul Akbar bin M A Kadar143 words
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Article172 1987-09-26 4 IN ORDER to inculcate loyalty among party members, the workshop suggested having a party pledge and a party song. But it emphasised that loyalty must come from within the party member himself, otherwise the proposed pledge and song, as well as the party logo, would simply172 words
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Article94 1987-09-26 4 WORKSHOP chairman Dr Lim Boh Soon of Jurong said workshop members felt that most Singaporeans were no longer pursuing the basic necessities of life, but seeking intangibles to better their standard of living. Although some members said it was no longer necessary to identify a person’s race94 words
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447 1987-09-26 5 THE PAP’s Youth Wing called on the party to reach out to people from all walks of life and get them to understand and identify with the party’s objectives. It also asked the party to demonstrate its concern447 words
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Main points from BG Lee’s speech
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Article148 1987-09-26 5 4 SOME people have suggested that we are schizoid. Some foreign journalists have said to me, ‘Something is wrong with you Singaporeans. On the one hand you buy the E-2C (early warning aircraft), F-16s, and on the other hand, you talk peace. You are either schizoid or148 words
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Article239 1987-09-26 5 HOWEVER long we build our nation, however long we raise our economy, Singapore will be a small country, will be in South-east Asia, will depend on the rest of the world for its trade and economic links, will depend on stability and security for its survival. As239 words
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Article156 1987-09-26 5 THIS is why the Japanese have succeeded. There was a programme called Faces of Japan, from Swords to Factories. It explained the philosophy of the Japanese. It showed a steel factory making industrial steel products and a sword-maker, a traditional Samurai sword-maker. The steel factory had156 words
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433 1987-09-26 5 MAYLEE CHIA - By MAYLEE CHIA TRUK to expectations, the Year of the Dragon Is to have its bountiful harvest of babies next year. Maternity hospitals are so heavily booked in advance and the services of private gynaecologists are in such great demand that both have433 words
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Article, Illustration204 1987-09-26 5 SINGAPORE’S new $1 coins, that will eventually replace the $1 notes, will be issued on Monday. The Board of Commissioners of Currency will issue these coins at the same time as the new one-cent coins and $5 National Museum Centenary commemorative coins. The204 words
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309 1987-09-26 5 THE Foreign Maids Employment Agency Association has said the Filipina maids its members engage for clients will be paid $250 a month. But the maids will have to pay for their own air tickets to Singapore contrary to the conditions set by309 words
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468 1987-09-26 6 CATHERINE C. ONG - SDF-subsidised scheme offers free training to boost retail and electronics sectors BY CATHERINE C. ONG EMPLOYERS in the electronics and retail industries have mounted a concerted drive to recruit housewives and unemployed Singaporeans to help ease the labour shortage. The two groups468 words
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Article, Illustration398 1987-09-26 6 SURESH NAIR - By SURESH NAIR AKTOT1CS officers hove mashed a Thailand-based turn ring with the arrest i six saspects and the eizore of 218 kg of raw plum last Sunday. Hie Deputy Director of he Central Narcotics tureau, Mr lahman Yew,398 words
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514 1987-09-26 6 HEDWIG ALFRED - By HEDWIG ALFRED SOME teachers from St Patrick’s Secondary School are unhappy that they have to accept students from the four Christian Brothers primary schools who don’t make it to St Joseph’s Institution when SJI goes independent next year. Feelings ran so514 words
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400 1987-09-26 6 LAWYER K. E. Hilborne has been restored to the rolls of advocates and solicitors more than three years after he was struck off for misconduct. This followed a settlement between him and the Law Society of Singapore while he was waiting for his appeal400 words
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Article, Illustration237 1987-09-26 7 THE tender for Tudor Court closed last week with no takers. The former Singapore Tourist Promotion Board office at Tanglin Road with its Tudor facade had aroused some interest, said a Ministry of Law official. Five interested parties turned up for the showaround and several237 words
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283 1987-09-26 7 MORE and more motorists are making or receiving telephone calls while in their cars on the roads. Once seen as a status symbol of the rich and the important, a car phone is now for anyone who can afford it. According to Telecoms,283 words
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Article, Illustration554 1987-09-26 7 ANNIE CHIA - They think we may sell, but we’re not’ By ANNIE CHIA SELLING prices of highSuality small offices in the entral Business District have approximately doubled from the rock-bottom levels of a year ago. Checks by The Straits Times show554 words
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275 1987-09-26 7 A CHECK with 196 banks has confirmed that the late National Development Minister Teh Cheang Wan and hLs family had accounts in only three banks in Singapore. This was disclosed by Mr Evan Yeo, Director of the Corrupt Practices275 words
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88 1987-09-26 7 ILLEGAL advertisements on trishaws for a Japanese camera company have been removed. The Registry of Vehicles told the 154 trishaw riders to stop displaying the advertisements because they had not got permission to act as moving billboards. The ROY says trishaws are public vehicles and,88 words
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292 1987-09-26 7 THREE Muslim leaders have urged Muslim Singaporeans to shed any minority complex and start working to be dynamic like the minorities in the United States. They spoke about issues facing Muslims at a half-day seminar organised by the Islamic Fellowship Association attended by 400 people292 words
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438 1987-09-26 8 46,000 looking for jobs, says survey KUALA LUMPUR NST. UNEMPLOYED Malaysian graduates are looking hopefully to Singapore for jobs. Representatives of Pakar, the national movement of united artistes and cultural organisations which is helping the graduates to find employment, are to meet membersNST. - 438 words
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239 1987-09-26 8 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Indian Congress President Datuk S. Sarny Vellu has said he will not seek a ban of the song Ayo Ayo Sami and advised party members not to make a fuss about it. Datuk Sarny Vellu, who239 words
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344 1987-09-26 8 NST. KUALA LUMPUR All Umno Cabinet ministers who decided the tender for the North-South Highway project are guilty of corruption, lawyer Karpal Singh told the High Court here on Thursay. Mr Karpal Singh, acting for Democratic Action Party leaderNST. - 344 words
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100 1987-09-26 8 Bernama. SKKKMBAN While (tome of the women want castration for ehlld rapists, the rountry’t* .Justice* of the Peace have recommended mandatory public hanging for the crime which haw been on the upnarge In the coantry lately. The National Council of Jutttier* ofBernama. - 100 words
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192 1987-09-26 8 PENANG SINGAPORE is keen to introduce the university twinning programme practised by several Malaysian universities with foreign ones, its Education Minister, Dr Tony Tan, has said. Dr Tan, who is on a working visit, told a news conference after a two-hour private meeting192 words
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Article, Illustration563 1987-09-26 8 NST. KUALA LUMPUR Nine present and former directors and several senior executives of the Central Cooperative Bank (CCB) have been questioned by the police in connection with allegations of malpractices and bad loans totalling more than $5OO million. Sources said more seniorNST. - 563 words
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220 1987-09-26 8 Bernama, NST. KUALA LUMPUR Koperasi Pembangunan Pemuda Malaysia (Komuda cooperative) was last Friday allowed by the High Court Senior Assistant Registrar to serve a writ for MJ1.2 million against former Malaysian Chinese Association president Tan Koon Swan in Singapore. Senior Assistant Registrar HarmindarBernama, NST. - 220 words
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Article, Illustration524 1987-09-26 9 NST KUALA LUMPUR About 12,000 drug addicts are roaming free in the city and virtually all of them are wanted by the police for jumping bail. A chronic shortage of holding centres has forced the police to allow them personal bail a systemNST - 524 words
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116 1987-09-26 9 NST. KUALA LUMPUR Agriculture Minister Datuk Seri Sanusi Junid has suggested to Bank Pertanian Malaysia (Agricultural Bank) that It records details of borrowers’ private lives as a means of assessing their credit worthiness. “We want to know whether a borrower is a gambler,NST. - 116 words
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AROUND ASEAN
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Article, Illustration206 1987-09-26 9 Reuter. BANGKOK Bangkok’s top madam has moved from behind the bar to behind bars. Chintana Bunnag, 43, known by leading generals, politicians and other less celebrated clients by her nickname of “8.M.,” gave herself up to police at the weekend to face chargesReuter. - 206 words
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Article96 1987-09-26 9 Reuter. JAKARTA A Javanese farmer wbe caught his wife •mi her lever In a tryst decapitated them bath with a stride and teeh the heads to his village chief, pellee said. The Si-year-eld farmer, Identified ealy as Ban, calmly tied the head» together with aReuter. - 96 words
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Article271 1987-09-26 9 Yang Razali Kaasim - By Yang Razali Kaasim Jakarta Correspondent JAKARTA Armed Forces chief General Benny Murdani has urged the powerful Indonesian military to ensure that parliament does not become a forum for confrontation. The legislature should also not be a platform for political showmanship or a forum to continue271 words
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Article, Illustration429 1987-09-26 9 MANILA AFP, Reuter. VICE-PRESIDENT Salvador Laurel says that the Philippines is in “grave peril” with hundreds of communists employed in the government of President Corazon Aquino. “This is not a case of someone crying wolf to call attention to himself. “The truth is,AFP,; Reuter. - 429 words
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143 1987-09-26 9 AFP. Bemama KOTA KINABALU A tug-of-war between the Roman Catholic Church and Muslim authorities over the remains of an assemblyman buried at a Christian cemetery has gone to a court. Officials of the Sabah Islamic Religious Council petitioned the High Court here forAFP.; Bemama - 143 words
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FORUM/ Pick of the letters
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405 1987-09-26 10 On the word ‘charismatic’ LATELY, the adjective “charismatic" has been applied quite indiscriminately to: 1. The recent Korean cult leader responsible for the mass murder-cum-suicide; 2. Some Christian churches; and 3 The Lutheran pastor in the current television series Murder Ordained. To the unwary and uniformed405 words
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553 1987-09-26 10 Why St Patrick’s should take in SJl’s spillover students I REFER to your report “St Pat’s staff see red over SJI •castaways' (ST, Sept 22 See Page 6 of this issue) regarding the concern expressed by some teachers of St Patrick's School over the553 words
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275 1987-09-26 10 I RECEIVED the first two copies of your Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition today (Sept 14). I enjoyed reading a summary of the Singapore news, as did my wife. 1 am English but lived many years in Singapore; my wife is Singaporean. We have been275 words
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Advertisement223 1987-09-26 10 Filin someone overseas about Singapore. ■XT' The Straits Times pil i WEEKLY OVERSEAS EPWON virunoAV, scrrcMM* s n- r I r. NO *72. «.nr awwatei» The Straits Times Overseas Weekly. It's the new weekly newspaper, printed on lightweight paper in convenient tabloid size. It will carry business, economic, political and223 words
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Advertisement88 1987-09-26 10 Overseas Readers The Straits Times welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name and address. They should preferably be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the paper. You may add a pseudonym if you wish. But we would prefer your using your real name. Brevity is88 words
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COMMENT/ Perspective
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Article, Illustration525 1987-09-26 11 HUMOUR MACAW in The Sunday Times WHEN Wee Koh fell ill last week, his neighbour Mahmood decided to do the neighbourly thing and visit him in hospital to cheer him up. We void-deck loafers were at our usual stations, in the void deck, when Mahmood returned525 words
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Article, Illustration983 1987-09-26 11 TAN SAI SIONG - You don’t need to be a tourist to resent being bought and sold like a bit of merchandise, even if the transaction is made out of sight and you’re unaware that it occurred. By TAN SAI SIONG in The Sunday Times EVEN to thein The Sunday Times - 983 words
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Article, Illustration1017 1987-09-26 13 What is the Hongkong stock exchange coming to? Eyebrows were raised and tongues wagged in this free-wheeling colony when it was announced that Club Volvo, a girlie club of the brassiest kind, will be listed in November. An El Dorado of hedonism, it is home to 1,0001,017 words
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713 1987-09-26 13 Yang Razali Kassim - Our correspondent’s file Yang Razali Kassim JAKARTA JAKARTA The drama in the Philippines, the Gulf war, the South Korean upheaval and such headline-grabbing developments in the turbulent world must provide great relief for Indonesian newspapermen. Not that media people here are stone-hearted creatures who delight713 words
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Article584 1987-09-26 13 build-up to Volvo’s proposed listing promises to be just as tantalising .as a visit to the club. Indeed, the club’s vastness was my most enduring first impression of the place when I visited it last year. All the numbers at Club Volvo are big584 words
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Page 11 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous36 1987-09-26 11 It’s Cheah t IT'SJUST A MATTER. OF USIN& vtXJR. INNER strength AND... AND... -KNOWING HOW TO CONTROL IT QIGONG HARMFUL? NONSEHStI L—L-J--LJ CXJ R I i! i vV 01 /V* 1 ..A-AND... f'-» T 1 f36 words
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COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
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Article635 1987-09-26 12 EDITORIALS published in this page are from The Straits Times unless otherwise acknowledged. Sept 25, 1987 THE disclosure of plans by the HDB to hive off its maintenance responsibilities to a Govern-ment-backed company should not come as too much of a surprise. For some time635 words
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Article616 1987-09-26 12 Sept 26, 1987 FOREIGN Minister Wu Xueqian has put China on record that it is willing to settle for a non-communist coalition government in Cambodia under Prince Norodom Sihanouk. For the sake of the unfortunate Khmers, we hope that this is no mere tactic. Because of the616 words
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Article640 1987-09-26 12 Sept 24, 1987 THE Iranians may be fast running out of options in the Gulf war. International pressure, from both the United Nations and the Arab League, on Iran to accept a ceasefire is mounting. Teheran’s hitherto effective strategy of hitting out at shipping associated with Iraq’s640 words
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Article432 1987-09-26 12 ALAN HUBBARD - By ALAN HUBBARD Europe Editor LONDON Britain’s finest etymological minds have finally decided that the world is ready for a new word for having sex. Bonking. The verb "to bonk" has already made it into the newly-published Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and is one432 words
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Article3265 1987-09-26 14 e Friday, Sept 25, 1987 1987 last Yield Vol Day Htfh low Company Sale Change 000) High low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS ft COMMERCIAL 27b 130 Aetna 212 F 4 04 4b 213 210 96 b6 Alcom 61 *08 109 Ama! Staal 50« 26b 33,265 words
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150 1987-09-26 14 AFTER another sharp drop of 35.27 points on Monday, which brought the total loss In the ST Industrial Index for five successive trading days to 199.69 points, the Singapore stock market recovered over the next four days to finish the week at 1,381.67150 words
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311 1987-09-26 14 THE Singapore stock market opened on fairly strong buying interest and closed generally firmer yesterday although most counters slipped slightly from the day’s high towards the close. The Straits Time Industrial Index rose 11.06 points to 1,381.67, the broader-based Business Times Composite Index311 words
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Article68 1987-09-26 14 IN KUALA LUMPUR, buyers made a strong comeback yesterday and share prices were higher across the board. Plantation stocks led gainers with double-digit gains. Brokers said investors displayed much confidence and were picking up shares again. The New Straits Times Index surged 22.92 points to 2,071.93.68 words
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Article60 1987-09-26 14 IN HONGKONG, the Hang Seng index surged to another record high yesterday on record turnover as the booming economy continued to attract funds into the stock market. The index climbed 71.69 points to 3,840.11 as turnover rose to HK53.45 billion. The index has risen for six60 words
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ON THE INVESTMENT FRONT
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434 1987-09-26 15 Peter Hazelhuret - Asahi Glass to spend $200m $300m on TV panels plant in Juring By Peter Hazelhuret Tokyo Correspondent TOKYO Asahi Glass, the world’s leading producer of television tubes, has announced that it will go ahead with plans to start a large manufacturing base in Singapore. The company is expected to invest434 words
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404 1987-09-26 15 AMERICAN oil giant Esso will pump $lll million more Into Its Pulao Ayer Chawan refinery, It was announced this week. The money will be spent on a visbreaker plant which will enable the company to upgrade lower* value fuel oil404 words
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Article390 1987-09-26 15 S«pt ?s HKS Ch4fl(« Assoc Inti Hotels 3 95 0 375 Bank Of lost Asia 3S00 1 5 Capital Corp 4 3S ■0 175 Cathay Pocitic An 8 2S 005 Cheuna Kong Chmo light 1300 0 1 29 60 -04 City Resources 4 8S 0 125 Cross Harb Tunnel390 words
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Article, Illustration299 1987-09-26 15 CONRAD RAJ - By CONRAD RAJ MRS THERESA Foo-Yo Mie Yoen, who recently resigned as executive vice-president of corporate banking at Oversea-Chi-nese Banking Corporation, will join Standard Chartered Bank as the manager of its restructured corporate banking division on Nov 2. Standard Chartered Area299 words
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613 1987-09-26 16 DOREEN SOH - Group is back in the black after 4 years with slom interim profit By DOREEN SOH WITH one hand, national carrier Neptune Orient Lines Ltd on Tuesday gave its shareholders $10.6 million in pre-tax interim profit and good hopes for the group's613 words
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Article324 1987-09-26 16 Managers' prices for September 26 A 28 Smeapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1 21 128 Th* swings fund 10/ 1 14 S pur#* Prog f und 0 48 0 S2id Spore Sec fund 081 08/ Spu»* insesl fund 0 89 098 Spore fquitf fund 060 0 68 Asia324 words
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INTERIM RESULTS
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384 1987-09-26 16 proving economy. CONRAD RAJ - proving economy. CONRAD RAJ TRUE to their earlier forecast and in line with general trends in the financial sector, Hong Leong Finance and its subsidiary, Singapore Finance, have reported vastly improved results for the first half of the year and look set384 words
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261 1987-09-26 16 CENTRAL Properties Ltd, a listed company in the Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat stable, has cheered shareholders with a 71 per cent jump in group pretax profit to $10.85 million for the six months to June. The group whose chairman, Tan Sri261 words
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382 1987-09-26 16 RETAILER Robinson and Company has turned in its first full-year operating profit since 1981 but, after taking into account other items, pre-tax profit fell by 32 per for the year to June 30. In line with the improved climate in the retail sector,382 words
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480 1987-09-26 16 LIM ENG HAI - 19.67 m share offer By LIM ENG HAI SINGAPORE Reinsurance Corporation, whose public share offer was opened for subscription from Wednesday, is poised to cap five years of rapid growth with a further 53 per cent increase in profit this480 words
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Advertisement789 1987-09-26 17 APPOINTMENTS Personnel Organization Development (PTE)LTD Leader in Personnel Management Consultancy Employee recruitment and search Off company training In company training Industrial relations and local labour laws Salary and benefits Performance appraisal Job Evaluation Personnel policies Personnel systems Licence No B 0040-01 Personnel Organization Development, a leading management consultancy has been789 words
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Advertisement975 1987-09-26 18 Bank Manager Around $90,000 A major London-based bank, active in Singapore and the region for many years, seeks a solidly experienced credit manager who will supervise branch operations and become part of its senior management committee. The successful candidate will be a credit administration expert who is in tune w975 words
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Advertisement817 1987-09-26 19 A career opportunity with KODAK SINGAPORE in CUSTOMER EQUIPMENT SERVICE Kodak Singapore, a subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Company of the U.S.A. is looking for highly capable and technically competent persons to join its team of technical personnel engaged in the installation, maintenance and servicing of a wide range of817 words
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TIMESPORT
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South-east Asia Games in Jakarta
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Article, Illustration1098 1987-09-26 23 Hosts boast the most as Singapore earn a small toast GODFREY ROBERT reviews the 14th Sea Games and finds it weary and unwieldy FOR many, the fully-prepared Indonesians aside, the 14th South-east Asia Games has been a long yawn. The two-week duration (from arrival to departure),1,098 words
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220 1987-09-26 23 PATRICIA GOH became the lint local golfer to be •warded u oversew scholarship when she ww offered a place at the University of South Alabama. He tt-year-old Warren Premier League player ww sc bed sled to leave yesterday for a marketing and management conrae220 words
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Advertisement162 1987-09-26 23 I Roll Of honour \'7 V Singapore’s gold medal winners Bodybuilding Ibrahim Sihat (bantam); Fatholomein Ali (welter) Haahim Salim (middle). Bowling Five-woman team (Grace Young. Adeiene Wee, Sandra Chua. Katherine Lee, Tamgelia Chua); Men's trios (Jansen Chan, Sam Goh, Patrick Wee). f f/ Judo Ho Yen Chye heavyweight Pencak Silat162 words
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540 1987-09-26 24 CONRAD RAJ - By CONRAD RAJ AN INDONESIAN party has offered to buy all but one of hotelier Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat’s Singal>ore hotels. Sources said negotiations with the Indonesian party for the sale of Tan Sri Khoo's flagship Goodwood Park Hotel540 words
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100 1987-09-26 24 SWIMMER David IJm will receive an Olympic gold coin for being Singapore’s most outstanding performer at the recent South-east Asia Games In Jakarta. David, who won five golds and a silver, will receive the half-ounce coin, worth SI,N9, at next year’s sports awards ceremony.100 words
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Article, Illustration383 1987-09-26 24 JANICE SEAH - Story by JANICE SEAH STRANGE, this doesn’t look like swimmer Nurul lluda Abdullah. The smile does look vaguely familiar, and she Ls by a pool, hut where are the lyera, the goggles, the unflattering swim cap, the steely eyes, the gold medals? The Nurul that SoutheastPicture by ALBERT SIM - 383 words
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