The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 7 November 1987

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1987 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI(P) 222/8/87
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  • Mind the doors!
  • 92 1 KOALA LOMPOR An appeal by the banned Star newspaper to have its printing permit restored has been rejected, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. The other two papers banned the Malay biweekly Watan and the Chi- new dally,
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  • 371 1 KUALA LUMPUR A TOTAL of 93 politicians, MPs and social workers are now under detention in Malaysia following the crackdown on Tuesday last week by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad on people allegedly involved in inciting communal violence. No
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  • 356 1 ASIAWEEK, whose sales here have been restricted to 5N copies per Issue, has published, In full, the two letters correcting errors and distortions In a recent cover story on the Marxist conspiracy which the Singapore government wanted It to print. The letters were published In the
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  • 144 1 How stock market crash may hit S’pore by Dr Hu THE global stock market crash would have severe longer-term etfects on the Singapore economy if growth in the industrialised countries slowed down. Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu said yesterday. Although the short-term impact of the crash was marginal, a recession
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    • 97 1 INSIDE Patriarch Khoo calls the shots at home PAGE 15 HOME NEWS Misadventure verdict on parachutist's death PAGE 2 Schools show more interest in sex education PAGE 3 Bugis Street, 1989 PAGE 5 Business hopes high despite mart gloom PAGE 7 ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY/ ASEAN Mahathir defends ISA arrests PAGE
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  • HOME
    • 431 2  -  By SALMA KHALIK MARINA Square could soon be providing Singaporeans with a bewildering choice of films at a cineplex, or cinema complex, housing as many as lb cinemas under one roof. Fairly advanced negotiations are going on with
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    • 281 2 A DRUG trafficker has lost his appeal against the death sentence imposed by the High Court last year. Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin. sitting in the threejudge Court of Criminal Appeal. on Monday rejected the claim by Tan Sek Cheong. 48, that the trial
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    • 681 2 First fatal case of skydiving in S’pore, court told THE State Coroner has recorded a misadventure verdict on the death of a commando parachutist after noting that the main and emergency chutes had no defects. Mr Lim Keng Siong said he was satisfied that Sergeant
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    • 278 2 FOUR men convicted of gang-raping a teenage girl two years ago at the foot of Bukit Timah Hill have been jailed a total of 46 years and ordered to be given 54 strokes of the cane. Mr Justice
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    • 748 3  -  Principal: I was shocked by some of the questions-. 3y SANDRA DAVIE SEX education classes offered by voluntary groups, once virtually ignored by Singapore educators, are being taken up by more and more schools. Both the Singapore Planned Parenthood Association (SPPA) and the
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    • 119 3 THE People’s Association’s Social Development Section has more than tripled Its membership In the past six months. It signed up about 19,0 M singles In that period, adding considerably to the 7,25(1 already registered In March. The SDS has been organising activities for O-level
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    • 202 3 A LOCAL shipyard is in the final stages of completing a $5 million Mississippi-style paddlewheel showboat to be used for Sydney Harbour cruises. The 41-metre-long vessel, to be named Sydney Showboat, is being built by Siong Huat Shipyard and is expected
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    • 346 3 THE number of Singaporeans who turn to Australian hospitals for heart surgery is now down to a handful, due to a significant improvement in the standard of heart surgery done here. This is the observation of Dr Victor Chang, a leading cardlo-thoracic surgeon from
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    • 193 3 A PAEDIATRICIAN has suggested a way for couples who are carriers of hereditary diseases to have normal babies. Professor Wong Hock Boon, head of the Paediatrics Department at the National University of Singapore, said such couples should get another
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    • 151 3 A PRIVATE hospital is offering 10 nursing scholarships to encourage more people to take up nursing. The American Hospital will offer scholarships targetted at those in the Ministry of Health’s nursing training programme intake in May next year. Said Mrs Phillippa W’yber, executive director of
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    • 555 4 Only those guilty of dishonesty or moral turpitude will suffer FINANCE Minister Richard Hu has allayed the accounting industry’s fear that the new Accountants Act would forbid both accountants and non-accoun-tants from working in an audit firm should they be fined $2,000
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    • 321 4  -  By PIER ANDREWS THE Environment Ministry is investigating reports by the Hongkong Consumer Council that high levels of cancer-causing agents were found in at least six makes of baby-feeding bottle nipples, pacifiers and teethers. But the distributors of two brands. Pigeon
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    • 126 4 A COMPANY director lost her handbag containing $84,391 worth of Jewellery and S6M In cash after she left It unattended for Id minutes In her car. The woman, 31, whose name has been withheld by police, was about to drive to
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    • 39 4 FINGERPRINT records at the CED will be computerised soon to boost efficiency and effectiveness of crime detection. Computerising the 240,000 sets of fingerprints will speed up search tremendously, from a few days to a few minutes.
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    • 181 4 Reuter, Be mama, AFP. JAKARTA Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and President Suharto will hold an informal meeting ahead of a planned Asean summit, Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja disclosed last week. Dr Mochtar told reporters after talks with President Suharto that the
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    • 84 4 A FORMER assistant assessment officer of the Income Tax Division has been charged with having taken a $20,000 bribe from a businessman seven years ago. Aw Yong Leong Gan, 39, is alleged to have received the money on Nov 25, 1980, as a reward
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    • 301 4 SINGAPORE waald have 36,999 mere workers available If all Singaporeans new aged bev tween 61 and 69 had net retired, Labour Minister Lee Yeek Suan said. Speaking at the Central Provident Pond Board annual dinner and danee, Mr Lee said even if half of those
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    • 177 4 THE watches bore de-signer-names like Rolex, Piaget and Cartier, and glittered nnder the lights. But the brilliance was not the sheen of gold, silver or platinum. Instead, these were garish counterfeits seized by police last Saturday. In a three-hour raid,
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    • 328 4 MR WONG Hong Toy, who has been chairman of the Workers’ Party since 1974, has resigned from the party, “heartbroken” over its failure to allow more younger and better-educated members to help lead the party. He accused WP secre-tary-general J. B. Jeyaretnam of resisting changes
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    • 663 5  -  Tourist board in sBm bid to to resurrect night spot By SALMA KHALIK DATE: January 1989. TIME: 3am. PLACE: Bugis Street. SCENE: A good mix of Singaporeans and tourists are scattered around on wooden stools looking at the roof of the public toilet where boisterous sailors are
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    • 352 5 IN FUTURE, the elderly who wish to do so may be able to live together in private housing projects specially designed for their needs. The projects will incorporate shared facilities such as exercise equipment. Miss Lim Hsiu Mei, the Community Development Ministry’s Deputy Secretary
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    • 270 5 NINE top Singapore architects shortlisted by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board aboat four years ago were ashed to satonlt proposals to tom a part of Albert Street Into another Bngls Street. Many of their suggestions appalled the hoard. Here Is a sampling: o A MULTI-COLOURED
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    • 539 5 BRIGADIER-GENERAL (Res) Lee Hsien Loong took Singapore’s productivity campaign into its seventh year this week by explaining why the movement is here to stay. Unless productivity increases year after year, economic growth must sooner or later slow down, said the Trade and
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    • 196 5 A FORMER main branch manager of Malayan Banking Berhad has been charged with accepting a $30,000 bribe in return for recommending a multi-mil-I ion-dollar overdraft facility. Khoo Teck Slew, 61, is accused of corruptly taking the money on Feb 1, 1981, from Mr Pek Chen
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    • 578 6 TWO Government leaders have urged Chinese dan associations to update and simplify traditional rituals and customs so that these can remain relevant to younger Singaporeans. This major challenge to them came from First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Community Development
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    • 145 6 MR J. B. Jeyaretnam has been granted leave by a court of three judges to appeal to the Privy Council against an order which bars him from practising as a lawyer. He was also ordered to pay security of $3,000 to the
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    • 345 6 THERE is no need to hoard the new $1 coin as ample stocks are available. Neither should banks ration them to the public. The Board of Commissioners of Currency made these points following reports that very few of the coins are being
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    • 237 6 VISITORS taking the ferry from the World Trade Centre to Sentosa will now arrive at a spanking new terminal building which resembles a sprawling colonial mansion with stately white columns and a red-tiled roof. The ride to the new $14.5 million ferry terminal takes four minutes,
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    • 117 6 PRINCESS Anne, doe here next week for i foor-day official vltrit, will call on President Wee Kim Wee and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. According to a statement from the British High Commission, she will also attend a dinner hosted by
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    • 370 6 ASEAN parliamentarians, here for a population conference, learned about Singapore’s new population policy in greater detail when they met First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong this week. The 20-minute meeting at Parliament House was a lively session as the visitors questioned
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    • 648 7  -  Tour agencies and restaurants upbeat but retailers fear spending cuts By BRENDAN PEREIRA SOME executives from the retail, hotel and travel sectors have voiced optimism hedged with a touch of caution that sharp plunges in the stock market will not hurt business prospects for
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    • 224 7 REPORTS that the United States may soon deprive Singapore of duty-free benefits were dismissed as "grossly premature” by the US Trade Representative, Mr Clayton Yeutter. Mr Yeutter, who was in Singapore to meet Asean economic ministers, confirmed however that a study was under
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    • 347 7 POLITICIANS, business leaders, academics and journalists meet here next week for a conference to examine developments and prospects In the Asia-Pa-cific region. Prime Minister Lee Koan Yew and United States Ambassador to Indonesia Paul Wolfowltz will provide overviews on the opening day of
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    • 97 7 YUHUA MP Mrs Yn-Foo Yee Shoon flashes a smile before going down an emergency escape chute from the seventh floor of a block at Jurong West Street 41 last Saturday to experience how this Civil Defence Force-operated apparatus worked and to show constituents
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    • 176 7 SINGAPORE Airlines is the number one airline, and Changi the top airport in the Asia-Pacific region, according to regular regional travellers. These are two of the findings of a survey conducted by the International Foundation of Airline Passenger Associations, a non-profit organisation
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    • 139 7 FOREIGN workers are being issued with a new work permit card which will be easier to carry than the six different booklets currently in use. The new cards were issued this week to workers whose permit applications have been approved. Present permit holders can continue using
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    • 147 7 A 14-YEAR-OLD girl woke up one morning to find her Filipino maid, knife in hand, in her bedroom, a district court heard on Thursday. The maid, Wichelmina Fernando, 21, accused Miss Oey Ying Erh of not showing her respect and threatened her with
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 690 8 Profiles of some of the top people held Dr Chandra Muzaffar, 40. Aliran President. Founded Aliran in 1977 and has been active in human rights and other issues. Lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia from 1970 to 1983. Holds BSc, a masters in social
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    • 125 8 Be mama. KUALA LUMPUR All new trlrvision and radio programmes should highlight racial solidarity and promote Inter-radal understanding, Information Minister Datuk Mohamed Rahmat has said. Dramas should also portray this theme and not concentrate on the problems of any one race, and
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    • 229 8 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, has condemned the arrest of MPs and other politicians in last week’s government crackdown on people suspected of inciting communal violence. The former leader said the country’s parliamentary system could be threatened.
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    • 151 8 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR The Foreign Ministry has sent to Malaysian missions abroad copies of the text of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s speech to Parliament explaining the reasons behind the Internal Security Act detention of 93 people since Tuesday
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    • 336 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuter, Bernama. MALAYSIA, which banned three newspapers last week because of racial tensions, will establish a Press Council to promote racial harmony. An official statement said a council was necessary in view of "the important role played by
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    • 70 8 KUALA LUMPUR The National Union of Journalists has said it regretted the government’s decision to revoke “arbitrarily” the publishing licences of The Star and Sunday Star, Sin Chew Jit Poh and Watan. An NUJ statement said although it supported any action by the government to safeguard
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    • 200 9 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama. A TOTAL of 2,742 army personnel, 2,084 civil servants and 518 police personnel have been involved in drug abuse up to July this year. Disclosing these figures, Public Services Department Deputy Director-Gen-eral Datuk Wan Mansor
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    • 127 9 Banned lawyer: I didn 't meddle in S'pore affairs AFT, Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian lawyer Param (umarasamy, one of four people banned from Singapore last week, has denied doing anything to undermine security In the Republir. "During my visits to Singapore I never worked up or attempted to work up
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    • 287 9 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama. THE meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba and leaders of public sector union officials last week failed to produce any concrete result towards settling outstanding claims for a salary adjustment in the civil service. “We are disappointed the government
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    • 125 9 NST. KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Highway Authority (MHA) has denied reports that there are conspicuous cracks in several sections of the Penang Bridge. MHA Deputy DirectorGeneral Yeo Eng Han said there were cracks only in several sections of two interchanges. He said there
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    • 96 9 NST, Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Parliament was told that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu had transfused unscreened blood in emergency cases. Deputy Health Minister Dalu.H K. Pathmanaban said his ministry «2 s aware the hospital had done so in several emergencies to save lives.
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    • 133 9 KUALA LUMPUR Former Prime Minister Tun Hussein Onn has been discharged from the Seaton Hospital in San Francisco after undergoing a successful heart operation, The Malay Mail reported. A hospital staff member said Tun Hussein had fully recovered from the operation.
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    • 225 9 MC'T HO A JOHOR BARU A search is going on for a missing Pontian magistrate who is alleged to have accepted a M 525,000 bribe as inducement for acquitting three Indonesians facing Customs charges. There is speculation that Balbir Kaur, 29,
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    • 135 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Officers of the crop protection branch of the Agriculture Ministry have been making weekly visits to Cameron Highlands since March to ensure that vegetable farmers exercise control on the use of pesticides, Deputy Ag ricuiture Minister Kassim Ahmad said. He told the Dewan
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    • 262 9 MP tells Parliament: Profession Act. Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR A government backbencher has questioned the role and integrity of the Bar Council, which he claimed had acted beyond the bounds of its responsibility. Mr Zubir Embong, the MP for Kuala Trengganu, criticised Bar
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    • 206 9 NST. PENANG a 12-year-old girl has been arrested for alleged drtiff trafficking. Police also arrealfd a 30-year-old unemployed mail who was with the girl when anti-narcotics officers raided a house in Pengkalan Weld at about 8 pm on Friday last week. Sources said the
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    • 146 9 here pending trial. Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR A soldier was charged on Monday in a magistrate’s court here with the murder of a rubber smallholder two weeks ago. Private Adam Jaffar, 23, of the Sixth Rangers Regiment in Ipoh, also faces two other charges
      here pending trial. — Bernama.  -  146 words


  • CAUSEWAY/ASEAN
    • 971 10 THE Japanese newspaper ASAHI SHIMBUN interviewed Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad last Monday about the present situation in Malaysia. Here are excerpts from the interview: Hurstion: llim would you assess the situation in Malaysia today? Mahathir: It's very stable The action that the
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    • 647 10  -  THE National Bank of Brunei fraud trial was adjourned until next Monday, after a brief hearing last Tuesday, to allow counsel from both sides to sort out differences over how to approach the second part of chief prosecution witness
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    • 254 10  -  By ABBY TAN, Manila Correspondent ANGELES CITY “No Americans, no money,” complained a petite Filipino bar hostess polishing her nails while sitting atop a bar stool in the Vampire Club. On the walls were posters advertising Halloween Night with witches on
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    • 153 10 BANDAR SFRI BEGAWAN Bars, lobby iounges and restaurants of hotels in Brunei could go “dry” from early next year, according to a report in The Borneo Bulletin. It said some hotels in Bandar Seri Begawan and Kuala Belait had already been told by
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    • 402 10 AP WASHINGTON Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej is transferring many royal duties to his children but “I don’t think he will ever abdicate in the true sense of the word," a Thai palace official has said. In Thailand, “when you become a king,
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    • 160 10 BANGKOK Police have arrested a former deputy minister, a senior Buddhist monk and three other suspects on charges of forging documents to help unqualified candidates win royal honours. The five were arrested or. Thursday last week for involvement in forging documents for
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  • FORUM
    • 366 11 THE Ministry of Communications and Information has suggested (ST, Oct 23) that I should share my unpublished (by the Far Eastern Economic Review) rebuttal to a negative letter on Singapore by a Mr Charles de Trenck Jr carried in the July 2 issue
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    • 61 11 I WISH to thank Mr E.L. Lim (ST, Oct 26) for his comments on cigarette posters at outlets selling cigarettes. Measures to further tighten the control on the advertising and promotion of tobacco products, including control on the use of posters, are being
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    • 83 11 I REFER to the report on MRT rules and regulations which cover 36 offences (ST, Oct 27). I don’t see any justification for imposing a fine of $2,000 for travelling without a ticket and 15,000 for having a damaged ticket. What happens if someone were to lose
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    • Less freedom for prosperity and peace
      • 298 11 AS SINGAPOREANS studying overseas we have the opportunity to observe the developments and consequences of the recent difficulties with the foreign press, from an objective point of view. Many allegations were made against the Government which were later proven untrue. While the foreign
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      • 110 11 IT IS Indeed i grant relief to note that so for (and I hope It remains this way) no letter has been published In the Forum page regarding the political situation In Malaysia. To say the least, It Is very commendable of Singaporeans to he
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    • 91 11 Dear Overseas Readers The Straits Timas Weakly Overseas Edition welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name and address. They should preferably by typed, doublespaced, on one side of the paper. You may add a pseudonym if you wish, but we would prefer your using your
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    • 197 11 wm overseas about Singapore. F nn The Straits Times H lijl; r WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION utuumv, MriMtu i <«-> N* ZTL%%' BBBpgags The Straits Times Overseas Weekly. It’s the weekly newspaper, printed on lightweight paper in convenient tabloid size. It carries business, economic, political and general news on Singapore as
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 632 12 EDITORIALS published in this page are from The Straits Times unless otherwise acknowledged. Nov 7,1987 THE start of MRT operations today is a proud moment for all Singaporeans. Of all the qualitative improvements to living standards in recent history, the MRT’s impact is particularly significant
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    • 647 12 Nov 5,1987 IT IS that time of year again when, for a month, the National Productivity Board labours to engage our attention on why productivity matters to each and every Singaporean The focus this year is on encouraging pride of work among all workers, from
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    • 607 12 Oct 31,1987 FOR some time now, Singapore has been grouped together with other newly industrialising countries in East Asia, namely Taiwan, Hongkong and South Korea, and referred to conveniently as one of the “four dragons’’. When it is obviously meant as a compliment, it is certainly
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    • 341 12 cial way. The Sunday Times Nov 1,1987 IN A WEEK when Singaporeans were preoccupied with the bad news that continues to dominate the headlines, it was pleasant and heartwarming to learn of a crippled young man’s effort to raise money for the National Kidney Foundation. Though
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  • COMMENT/Perspective
    • 1296 13  -  Her role in rallying people power not enough to influence peace committee All her attempts for peace so far have foundered Our correspondent’s file Abby Tan MANILA ADMIRERS of Mrs Corazon Aquino must have felt keenly the disappointment that
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    • 1168 14 They don’t call RONALD LI ‘Chairman Li’ for nothing, although the autocratic bourse boss is now under siege HE it like the Hang Seng Index a force to be reckoned with. But like the Index, Hongkong Stock Exchange chairman Ronald Li has been
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    • 557 14 new town .J YOU have these things to do, all within perhaps one hour during lunchtime get certain primary school textbooks, duplicate a set of your Income Tax declaration forms, register for a commercial studies class, have your watch repaired, buy a pair
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    • 1217 15 What is Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat as a family man? Reputed to be one of the richest men in the world, the multi-millionaire financier and hotel tycoon is now reportedly in Seoul, South Korea, having left Sydney, Australia, two days after a
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • TIME$
    • 3196 16 Friday, Nov 6,1987 1987 last Yield Vol Day High low Company Sale Change 000) High low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS COMMERCIAL 27$ 80 Acma I 16 1 08 75 121 116 96 56 Alcorn 66 308 100 Amal Steal 50« I 34 +11 29 345
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    • 449 16  -  time being. LIM ENG HAI SHARE prices in Singapore edged up yesterday in line with the New York, London, Tokyo and Hongkong markets as trading activity dwindled to its lowest level since Black Monday. Turnover, which had been falling for six days, contracted to
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    • 155 16 KUALA LUMPUR Promet was again a feature of what was a slightly steadier Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. The recently-relisted counter again headed the most active list, with 2.683 million shares changing hands including a married deal of two million shares at 49 sen.
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    • 137 16 HONGKONG share prices closed sharply firmer yesterday on strong late buying interest focused on Li Ka Shing o C heun Kon B Sr° u PThe Hang Seng rose 152.77 points to end at 2,113.67 despite a brief bout of profit-taking that threatened to push the
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    • 344 17  -  By K. F. TANG IT HAS been open season for brokers and dealers, as embattled investors caught in last week’s market crash and its after-shock scrambled feverishly to free themselves from the full-nelson hold the bear clapped on the
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    • 177 17 THE stock market crash will make it hard for Amcol Electrical Industries to persuade its shareholders to approve its proposed acquisition of Golden Bay Realty, the owner of a sizeable proportion of Orchard Towers. But Amcol’s directors have said they still believe the purchase
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    • 443 17  -  Interim results boosted by increased traffic and aircraft sale By DOREEN SOH INVESTORS who grabbed Singapore Airlines shares at what seemed to have been bargain-basement prices in the recent stock market slump have good reason to smile. The national airline last week reported a
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    • 377 17 Nov t MS Change Assoc Inti Hotels 1 97 0 17 Bank Ot East Asia 17 10 02 Capital Cotp 0 98 unch Cathay Pacific Air 550 0 55 Cheung Kong 690 0 75 China l ight 17 70 09 City Resources 1 18 •0 22 Cross Harb Tunnel
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    • 500 17 MBT. KUALA LUMPUR United Malayan Banking Corp (UMBC), long rumoured to be the next commercial bank to seek a public listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, has pasted a set of reasonable results despite the economic downturn. For the 18 months ended
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    • 672 18  -  By K. F. TANG DEBT-RIDDEN hotel group Faber Merlin Malaysia Bhd is unable to redeem M 517.8 million worth of loan stock and has alluded to the depressed stock market as the reason. The outstanding 17.8 million units of its 8.75 per cent
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    • 324 18 MBT. KUALA LUMPUR UMW Corp will carry on with its rights issue regardless of the fall and volatile conditions in the stock market, sources said. The sources said the company's rights issue proposals were going ahead on schedule. Trading in UMW shares
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    • 281 18 MALAYAN Banking Bhd more than doubled its group pre-tax profit in the year ended in June an excellent performance considering it had been 25 per cent down at halftime. Maybank reported that it made M 5160.91 million before tax for the year
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    • 135 18 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is inviting bids for a new auction of $350 million in five-year government securities. The closing date for applications is noon on Tuesday while the issue and settlement date will be Friday. The bonds, which will mature
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    • 36 18 THE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation has bought another 200,000 Fraser Neave shares worth $l.B million. It now directly and indirectly holds 38.12 million shares or 30.3 per cent of F&N’s issued capital.
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    • 29 18 AUSTRALIAN company FAI Insurances Ltd has made a profit of A 5131.38 million ($181.30 million) from the sale of its stake in British merchant bank Hill Samuel.
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    • 238 18 Forbes’ list of America’s richest shrinks after the Wall Street crash NEW YORK The Forbes 400 ranking of America’s richest people has become a little more exclusive since the global stock market collapse. The list this year required a minimum of US$225 million (5J463.5
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    • 158 18 Reuter. liONDON A major British investment firm has announced an inquiry Into how it allowed a trainee accountant to run up debts of more than £3 million (5519.8 million) during last month’s stock market crash. A spokesman for County Natwest Capital
      Reuter.  -  158 words
    • 287 18 THE financial adviser to First Capital Corporation has set out the advantages of shareholders accepting United Industrial Corporation’s takeover offer, but it has also drawn attention to UlC’s heavy dependence on share dealing profits in the past. The adviser, Baring Brothers
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 993 20 1 BECTUN DICKINSON Our client. Becton Dickinson Medical Products Pte Ltd is a United States based manufacturer of medical products. They are establishing a major facility in Singapore to manufacture high quality products for export worldwide. Their factory is currently under construction at Tuas where they are projecting a total
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  • TIMESPORT
    • 390 23  -  Two other Swiss clubs watching him By JOE DORAI SINGAPORE striker V. Sundramoorthy's progress as he attempts to make the grade in professional soccer in Switzerland with FC Basle is being eagerlywatched by two other Swiss clubs The first team keeping an eye on him from
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    • 352 23 BADMINTON WONG Shoon Keat has turned down the Singapore Badminton Association's offer to become a professional coach because he feels that he isn’t qualified enough for the job. He will, however, remain the national coach and receive allowances for his training
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    • 60 23 CHANGKAT won the interconstituency soccer final for the Prime Minister’s Cup with a last-minute goal against Nee Soon at Toa Payoh stadium last Saturday. The match looked set for a penalty shootout when Changkat's Jamaluddin Hassan swooped down on the ball following a defence misunderstading in front of
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    • 179 23 SINGAPORE will help to promote sepak takraw in China as part of an effort to have the sport included in the 1990 Asian Games which will be held there. The Singapore Amateur Sepak Takraw Association (Perses) have agreed to assemble a regu
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    • 261 23 PAUL LLM once again gained fame for tiny Singapore in the world of darts when he finished joint third in the World Championships in Copenhagen last week. This was the highest position that the Republic’s No.l had achieved since taking part in the
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    • 396 23  -  By TAY CHENG KHOON LONDON Zainal Abidin and Peter Hill reserved their best for the last to gain Singapore a creditable seventn position in the World Team Championship. which ended nere on Sunaa The Republic beat Canada 2-1 to relegate the North Americans to eighth
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    • 247 23 Pakistan make it four--in-a-row World team squash tourney LONDON Squash maestros Pakistan had little trouble making it four-in-a-row in the World Team Squash Championships when they defeated New Zealand 3-0 in the final in the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, although Ross Norman put up a valiant fight against world
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    • 113 23 KUANTAN The Regent of Pahang, who resigned as president of the Pahang Football Association after the state failed to score a double in the Malaysia Cup tournament, has agreed to reconsider his decision, vice-president Ibrahim Taib said this week. Pahang won the league
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  • 430 24 KL hopes to step up military ties with Singapore Rithauddeen MALAYSIA and Singapore hope to step up military co-operation, Malaysian Defence Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen said on Wednesday. He said there was room to further improve what he described as the happy state of military co-opera-tion at present. Ways of
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  • 255 24  -  9y RITA GOMEZ in Hongkong HONGKONG Johor tycoon Datuk Yap Sing Hock, arrested here by Interpol on Monday, has been refused bail despite a character reference from the former Sultanah of Johor, Nora Ismail. The risk of bail for
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  • 72 24 KUALA LUMPUR MCA president Dr Ling Llong Sik returned here from Europe on Monday night. Hr Ling, who left the capital hours after the security swoop began on Tuesday last week, would not comment when asked why he was away. The party’s vice-president, Mr Lee Kim Sal,
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  • 386 24 Last week we published the names of the first 63 people detained by the Malaysian government under the IT A. Here are the names of the 30 others arrested since then: 1. Ong Tin Kim, 45, Parliamentary Secretary to •he Ministry of Energy, Telecoms and Posts.
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