The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 23 January 1988

Total Pages: 24
1 24 The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition
  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 1988 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI(P) 222/8/87
    20 words
  • 514 1  -  Institute of Policy Studies will be forum for discussion of issues affecting nation’s future By BERTHA HENSON FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Gob Chek Teas has announced the setting ap of a think tank to provide a farnm far free aad trank dlscuMton at tones affecting
    514 words
  • 662 1  -  Sealion share deal probe By CONRAD RAJ BUSINESSMAN Allan Nr and the manager of Standard Chartered Bank’s Singapore operations, Michael Raymond Taylor, were charged on Monday with two counts each of making misleading statements to the Securities Industry Council on Jan 23 last year. They
    662 words
  • 497 1 KUALA LUMPUR FORMER MCA president Tan Koon Swan, recently released from Singapore's Changi jail, pleaded guilty here on Monday to an amended charge of criminal breach of trust involving M 523.2 million (Ss2o million) belonging to Mul-ti-Purpose Holdings. An application by Tan's counsel
    497 words
  • 129 1 NST. KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Chinese Association Youth leader Datuk Kee Yong Wee on Thursday pleaded guilty to two reduced charges of criminal breach of tnist involving M 53.3 million belonging to Komuda. a co-op-erative society. Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Wang Choon Wing
    NST.  -  129 words
  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 124 1 Team MPs: Govt releases Cabinet papers P 5 INSIDE Job outlook sunny for most finance, engineering and computer graduates PAGE 14 HOME NEWS PM: Retire? Anytime my successor is ready PAGE 2 Transplant law helps woman, man get kidneys PAGE 4 Sri Lenka’s sad history holds lessons for S’pore PAGE
      124 words

  • HOME
    • 412 2 Nihon Keizai Shimbun interviews the Prime Minister TOKYO Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew says he is ready to retire anytime his successor feels he can take over. Mr Lee. who will be 65 this September, told the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan’s leading
      412 words
    • 398 2 THE Singapore Democratic Party and the Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS) have rejected a suggestion from First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong that they should consider merging. To Mr Chiam See Tong, the SDP secretary-general and MP for Potong Pasir, a
      398 words
    • 138 2 THE red lion head symbol, Singapore's national symbol, will soon be emblazoned on the packaging of locally-made goods. The Singapore Manufacturers’ Association (SMA) said the symbol has been chosen as the export logo to give Singapore products a distinctive identity and to project
      138 words
    • 308 2  -  By CEPHAH TAN SINGAPORE students studying abroad now have a Link to the government’s matchmaking service back home. Link is the name of the magazine of the Social Development Unit, which started sending copies to 11 high commissions, embassies and permanent missions abroad
      308 words
    • 328 2 QUOTE f I don’t think I want to model my life on the Anglo-Saxon. I want to catch up with his material and scientific progress. I want to pick up and emulate some of his methods of organising
      328 words
    • 192 2 TWO directors of the Lim family, who formerly owned the Emporium Holdings retail chain, were made bankrupt last week. Mr S. Nabham, for the Lim cousins, Mr Lim Tow Yong and Mr Lim Tow Kian, failed to have the bankruptcy petitions postponed in a
      192 words
    • 256 2 THE Parliamentary Select Committee set op to scrotinise the Team MP legislation has invited members of the public to send in their views in writing by Feb 1. The Committee Is looking at two Bills Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill and the Constitution of the Republic (Amendment
      256 words
    • 682 3 Use free trade system to ease imbalances, he urges DEVELOPING countries should not bear the brunt of protectionistic measures by developed nations attempting to correct their worldwide trade imbalances, Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu said on Wednesday. This is important because
      682 words
    • 315 3 THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has protested to the United States Embassy here and sought an assurance that it will not interfere in Singapore's internal affairs. This follows the publication, in two foreign newspapers, of an embassy spokesman’s statement expressing regret at the Government’s
      315 words
    • 417 3 THE LATE Gnh Choo San, who achieved International acclaim as a choreographer with the Washington Ballet, left a hefty (IBSSM,MI (about $1 million) legacy for yonng dancers and choreographers. Slagapere-bern Choo Saa, who died la November from aa Aids-related disease, left
      417 words
    • 265 3 ON the morning of his death last November 28, Goh Choo San. 39, choreographer extraordinaire, asked to see the Cultural Medallion he was awarded in 1986. Holding it close to his heart he said to his sister, Soo Khim: "Please keep this for me,
      265 words
    • 205 3 LIGHTED-UP bumboat floats will cruise up and down the Singapore River as part of the Hongbao celebrations to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Dragon next month. And cultural performances by Chinese clan associations will be staged on three of them as they join
      205 words
    • 223 3 SINGAPORE has condemned North Korea’s involvement in the bombing of a South Korean jetliner on Nov 29 last year as an outrage against international law and civilised behaviour. A Foreign Ministry statement said the Government was shocked to learn that the horrendous act of
      223 words
    • 495 4  -  Organs from accident victim who hadn’t registered objection By MAYLEE CHIA A FATHER of two and a housewife on Wednesday night became the first recipients of a kidney each under the Human Organ Transplant Act 1987 which came into effect this week.
      495 words
    • 311 4 THE] Prime Minister has sent a message of condolence to the widow of the late President of Taiwan, expressing his deep sense of personal loss. Mr l>ee Kuan Yew said he and Mrs Lee had treasured memories of President Chiang Ching-kuo. who
      311 words
    • 218 4 JURONG Bird Park’s latest attraction, the SIII, IN Fuji Hawk Centre, was officially opened last week by Brlg-tien (Res) Lee Helen l/oong, the Minister for Trade h Industry and Second Minister far Defence (Services). In renjnnrtlon with Its establishment, the park plans
      218 words
    • 144 4 CALIFORNIA has passed a law requiring all cans and bottles of alcoholic beverages to carry health warnings on the hazards of drinking alcohol and Singapore’s Traffic Police are keeping a close watch on what happens next. A spokesman said that if the Californian law helps
      144 words
    • 322 4  -  BY L.E. PREMA THE new Thomson Fertility Clinic has become the first private set-up to achieve a successful pregnancy by the In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), or test-tube baby, method. The clinic, a Thomson Medical Centre subsidiary, has made local medical history with the
      322 words
    • 322 4 THE Singapore navy is getting six Missile Corvettes, and will ask the public to help name five of these warships. The first, named RSS Victory, will arrive from Bremen, West Germany, at the end of the year. The other five ships, built here by
      322 words
    • 1750 5  -  PM was already working on idea to ensure Malay presence in Parliament way back in 1981 By LESLIE FONG THE Government has released Cabinet papers on the origins of the Team MP concept to nail
      1,750 words




  • Parliament
    • 1323 6 SRI LANKA and the deep-rooted problems between its Sinhalese and Tamil peoples are a world apart from Singapore. But In its sad history of racial politics gone tragically wrong lies vital lessons for multi-racial Singapore, Mr («oh Chok Tong said. The Team
      1,323 words
    • 558 6 ONE issue raised by Malay MPs was the definition of Malays in the legislation. Some urged that Islam be included in the definition but Mr Goh explained why this could not be done. He also responded to a call about including Indians in
      558 words
    • 2436 7 Why other alternatives to Team MPs were rejected MR GOH outlined the two main issues involved in GRCs ensuring that Parliament is always mul-ti-racial, and how to achieve this. He also tackled other questions raise<l by MPs ALTHOUGH many points have been
      2,436 words


  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 2450 8  -  Govt gets Supreme Court nod to sign M 53.4 billion highway contract No cause for action, says Lord President, but dissenting judges say opposition leader has a duty to the people as an MP BY ZAHARIAH AZIZ KUALA LUMPUR
      2,450 words
    • 606 9 Minister hits back at the Lord President ‘We must respect and honour each other’s rights, prerogatives’ hold its principles. Bernama. PENANG Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said the judiciary, like the executive and legislative branches of government, should be prepared to face public
      hold its principles. — Bernama.  -  606 words
    • 81 9 borutm». KUALA LUMPUR Malayolass will be allowed to let off firecrackers daring the Lanar New Year and Chap Gob Mel celebrations this year. Depoty Home Minister Datok Megat Junld Megat Ayub said tbe ministry had agreed to lift tbe baa for
      – borutm».  -  81 words
    • 465 9  -  By ISMAIL KASSIM KUALA LUMPUR Acting Democratic Action Party leader Lee Lam Thye has successfully defended the moderate line adopted by the party’s central executive committee following the arrest of its top leaders. Mr Lee, who was made
      465 words
    • 251 9 Bernama PULAU KETAM (off Port Klang) Deputy Agriculture Minister Datuk Alex Lee is to ask the Foreign Ministry to protest to the Indonesian government about Indonesian boats harassing local fishermen. He said he had received reports of uniformed personnel in patrol
      Bernama  -  251 words
    • 297 9 NST, Reuter. KUALA LUMPUR The United States will support Malaysia’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council should there be a consensus among the other Asean countries. This was disclosed by the US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian
      NST,; Reuter.  -  297 words
    • 261 9 KUALA LUMPUR DAP secretary-general Lim Kit Staag and deputy chairman Karpal Singh, both nnder detention nnder the Internal Secnrlty Art, may lone their party posts nnder the Societies Act. The Registrar of Societies, Madam Zaldah HashIm, said this week that the Act
      261 words


  • CAUSEWAY/ ASEAN
    • 258 10 PENANG NST, Be mama. PRIMK Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad hait called on bumiputra entrepreneurs to study their weaknesses and seek the reasons for their problems without being over-dependent on government aid. The government was prepared to
      NST,; Be mama.  -  258 words
    • 274 10 NST. KUALA LUMPUR Star Publications and its chief editor have withdrawn their appeal in the Supreme Court against a High Court decision disal lowing their application to have a constitutional point, raised in their defence to a libel suit filed by
      NST.  -  274 words
    • 160 10 KUALA LUMPUR With Thaipusam barely two weeks away, controversy is brewing among the Hindu community on whether the carrying of the kavadi should be banned in the country. While several academicians and educationists are calling for a total ban of the kavadi, religious
      160 words
    • 197 10 KAJANG (Selangor) NST. KAJANG Prison has instituted a new measure to ensure prison security. It is entrusting prisoners with patrol duties A selected group of prisoners work for an hour each between midnight and 6 am, patrolling certain blocks of cells.
      – NST.  -  197 words
    • 882 10  -  The Philippine local elections By ABBY TAN Manila Correspondent MANILA The implications of the administration victory in the Philippine local elections this week are many. President Corazon Aquino, criticised lately for not effectively harnessing the national will, has prevailed, a two-party system seems certain to
      882 words
    • 278 10 JAKARTA HOME Affairs Minister Soepardjo Rustam has called for an immediate halt to waste and misappropriation of public fundis, the Jakarta Post reported. Opening a conference of provincial governors here, he said: "There is a lot of evidence that many irregularities still
      278 words
    • 80 10 AFP, UPI. BANGKOK A total of Ml Muslim rebels, some trained in Libya, have surrendered to the Thai army, apparently ending a long and (irotraeted armed struggle or autonomy in south Thailand. Thai army Commander-In-Chief General Chavalit Yougehalyudh and senior stuff officers attended an official “welcoming home"
      AFP,; UPI.  -  80 words

  • FORUM
    • 520 11 Call to restrict them not widely supported I REFER to the heading “Australians call for strict limits on Asian migrants” for a Reuter report in your Jan 12 edition. This heading could convey a quite misleading impression about the attitude of the Australian community towards
      520 words
    • 232 11 I READ with concern the recent proposed legislation to institutionalise minority representation in Parliament. Such a move will be a step backward for Singapore. Since independence we have stressed the need to work towards a Singaporean Singapore. Singaporeans have consistently elected MPs
      232 words
    • 312 11 I REPLY to Wong Kin Hong's letter "How can grandma beat a young woman?” (ST, Jan 8). The Mrs of the World Pageant is open to national winners from all over the world who are at least 18 years old, with
      312 words
  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 92 11 Dear Overseas Readers The Straits Timas Waakly Ovarsaas 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
      92 words
    • 215 11 77K‘Sf!?!ifsTinM‘s Now, keeping in touch with what’s iim happening in Singapore couldn’t be easier. Or more economical. Because all the major news of every week is condensed into one paper. The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition. Printed on lightweight paper in convenient tabloid size, it fills you in on the
      215 words

  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 628 12 JAN 22, 1988 IT WAS no doubt pure coincidence that the latest White House report on threats to United States security was released smack in the middle of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze’s first foray into Western Europe since the signing of the intermediate nuclear forces
      628 words
    • 620 12 JAN 21, 1988 FILIPINOS in general must have been relieved that Monday's local elections turned out to be relatively trouble-free, after a vio-lence-ridden seven-week campaign that had reportedly taken 86 lives, many of them election candidates. President Corazon Aquino must have felt the same, for
      620 words
    • 608 12 JAN 20. 198 e SOVIET leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent overtures to China are the clearest sign yet that he meant business when he called for improved relations between Moscow and Beijing in July 1986 at the Pacific port of Vladivostok. His willingness to accept China’s position
      608 words
    • 687 12  -  Ning Juita in Kuala Lumpur FRIENDS tease me about my ‘‘chauffeur-driven limousine" the city radio-taxi. The service is invaluable for people like me who are apt to get hopelessly lost even in familiar places. Looking for an address in the labyrinth
      687 words





  • TIME$
    • 410 17 HONGKONG AP, Reuter. RONALD LI, the controversial former chairman of the Hongkong stock exchange, was charged last week with accepting a special allotment of shares from a Japanese construction company in exchange for approving the company’s listing. He was charged
      AP,; Reuter.  -  410 words
    • 370 17 NST. KUALA LUMPUR Petronas made a pre-tax profit of M 54.3 billion in the financial year 1986/87 34 per cent or M 52.216 billion less than the year before. The results, announced by chairman Raja Tan Sri Mohar
      NST.  -  370 words
    • 360 17 BUOYED by the economic recovery, Stagapsre’s total trade rose 2$ per cent to $128.6 billion last year from $1*4.5 trillion In 1886. Wi reversed the position of the previous two yean, which saw total trade declining by 4.1 per cent In 1885
      360 words
    • 192 17 THE Marco Polo Singapore has denied rumours of a takeover bid by The Wharf (Holdings) Ltd, flagship of Hongkong shipping magnate Sir YueKong Pao. Recent reports in The Straits Times and Business Times have mentioned that the stock market was
      192 words
    • 529 17  -  By CONRAD RAJ JAPANESE securities houses are lining up to establish their presence here to cater to the increasing number of Japanese individuals and companies planning to invest their surplus cash in Singapore and the region. This was slated by Mr Akihiko
      529 words
    • 364 17 A LEADING maker of industrial process control instruments and systems, Foxboro Far East, has become the ninth company to be awarded operational headquarters (OHQ) status by the Economic Development Board. An EDB statement said the American company is dedicated to high-quality products
      364 words
    • 3162 18 Friday, Jan 22, 1187 1987/M Las) Yield Vol Day High Low Company Sale Change 000) High low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS COMMERCIAL 27b 80 Aetna 119 -i 08 20 121 1 19 96 26 Alcorn 50 308 96 Amal Steal SO* 158 -1 25 613
      3,162 words
    • 383 18 AFTER starting the week with a hefty jump of 47.79 points in the ST Industrial Index, following the USft4 billion fall in the US trade deficit for the month of November, the Singapore share market returned to lacklustre trading but still ended
      383 words
    • 156 18 THE Kuala Lumpur market finished steadier yesterday on bargain-hunt-ing and short-covering. Except for a handful of stocks, most counters were traded within narrow margin. The New Straits Times Industrial Index closed at 1,442.96, up 15.22 points. The sharper gain is due largely to component stock
      156 words
    • 64 18 HONGKONG prices yesterday closed higher after a day of see-saw trading, supported by slightly improved sentiment due to a steadier US dollar. The Hang Seng Index ended the day 10.06 points higher at 2,422.38 after a strong opening and a late morning pullback. Turnover slip- ped to
      64 words
    • 165 19 THE Malayan Law Journal Pto Ltd (MLJ), a Singapore company specialising in law reporting and stocking legal textbooks, has been bought by internationally known British publishers Butterworths. Butterworths, which deals in legal publications and other books, is owned by Brit-ish-listed Reeds International and
      165 words
    • 501 19 THE Singapore stock market offers certain good value despite the prevailing uncertainty which has kept investors at bay, said British stockbrokers Phillips Drew. Its latest World Investment Review has advised investors to adopt a “safe-ty-first” strategy favouring blue chips such as Singapore
      501 words
    • 137 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sistem Tolevisyen Malaysia Bhd, which last week reported higher earnings for 1987, will be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in April. STMB chairman Datuk Mohamad Desa Pachi revealed this after the company's annual general meeting. Shareholders approved the issue of
      Bernama  -  137 words
    • 371 19 Jan 22 HKS Chanfe Assoc Inti Hotels 2 IS 0 075 Bonk Of Eost Asia 20 50 03 Capital Cotp 0 78 ■001 Cathay Pacific Air 6 05 unch Cheung Kong China Light 6 85 1830 uni h 02 City Resources 1 20 unch Cross Horb Tunnel 1380 unch
      371 words
    • 231 19 Interbank Over the counter Foreign currency local dolars to one unit of foreign currency Foreign currency to SS10 Australian dollar Canadian dollar NZ dollar Sterling pound US dollar 1 4429- 1 4446 1 5777-1 5797 1 3459—1 3486 3 6159-3 6197 *****-2 0205 701-683 640-6 28
      231 words
    • 263 19 THE Singapore International Chamber of Commerce is against the proposal that auditors of public companies in Singapore be rotated every five years. It feels that appointment of audit committees would be a better solution. "The consensus of the chamber’s members is that, from
      263 words
    • 299 19 Managers' prices lor January 23 A 25 Singapore Unit Trust The Commute 0 92-098 The Sawings fund 0 81 —0 82 Spore Prog fund 0 32-OAI Spore Set fund 062 06/ S pore Invest Fund 066-0 20 S pore Equity Fund Asia Unit Trust 0.44-048 Mai Invest fund
      299 words



  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 937 20 APPOINTMENTS tfbob M NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE If auditing is your number... remember... ...you and Hewlett-Packard. If you are a high-calibre individual with high integrity to perform audit reviews of marketing manufacturing operations throughout Asia-Pacific, here is your opportunity to be a member of our Regional Audit team. REGIONAL INTERNAL
      937 words

  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 801 21 Mtam, Applications are invited from suitably qualified high calibre and dynamic young professionals for the position of ACCOUNTANT The Job The successful candidate will be a member of the management team in the Finance Control Division After a brief period of orientation, the appointee will initially have primary responsibility for
      801 words

  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 1140 22 IS HI-TECH TRAINING IN EUROPE OR USA r OVERSEAS WORK ASSIGNMENTS t BE IN THE FOREFRONT OF TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENT CAREER GROWTH POTENTIAL THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING FOR A CAREER IN SALES, APPLICATIONS OR ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT Schlumberger Technologies is the industry leader in Automatic Test Equipment, CAD/CAM Systems, Computer Graphics
      1,140 words

  • TIMESPORT
    • 333 23  -  Our top woman shooter gets Olympics slot By PETER SIOW SINGAPORE’S woman shooter Khatijah Surattee will be competing in the Seoul Olympics in September. After weeks of uncertainty, her name finally appeared among the Seoul participants in the latest UIT (International Shooting Union) journal. It’s a dream
      333 words
    • 503 23  -  Former shuttle greats reminisce about good old wooden rackets By J. RAJENDRAN THE meeting between Wong Peng Soon and Erland Kops may not have been as closely-monitored as the encounter between Reagan and Gorbachev. But, be it politics or sports, there is
      Picture by ALBERT SIM.  -  503 words
    • 169 23 SINGAPORE jockey K.H. Chew, M, died In Auckland General Hospital on Thursday without regaining consclousneos after a race fall last Thursday. News of his death was sent to the Malayan Racing Association by Jim Fleming, racing control manager of the New Zealand
      169 words
    • 243 23 SOCCER ace V. Sundramoorthy has been given a six-month free transfer, starting from this month, by the Football Association of Singapore to join First Division club FC Basle, of Switzerland. The only condition imposed by the FAS is that Sundram must re-apply for a
      243 words
    • 262 23  - Sacked exSingapore coach Hartley to sue Spurs By ALAN HUBBARD LONDON Former Singapore national coach Trevor Hartley is to sue London soccer club Tottenham Hotspur, who fired him almost three months ago following the departure of manager David Pleat. Hartley, 40, who was Pleat's assistant, has been out of work
      262 words

  • 310 24  - Guinness gracious! A 224-metre-long dragon kite that actually flies... Story: SANDRA DAVIE THE successful launch and five-minute flight by a Singapore kite last Sunday hold the promise of a lofty place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest kite. The 224-m long dragon-shaped kite is just two
    Picturo: YAP YEW PIANG  -  310 words
  • 138 24 THE Prime Minister will attend the funeral of Taiwan’s President Chiang Ching-kuo on Jan 30, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. Mr Lee Kuan Yew will be accompanied by Mrs Lee, Second Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong, Mrs Ong and officials. Three
    138 words
  • 91 24 SINGAPORE’S 1987 Businessman of the Year is entrepreneur Alan Yeo, chairman and managing director of the food and beverage group Yeo Hiap Seng. Mr Yeo. 56, the third winner of the prestigious award since it was inaugurated in 1985, was presented with
    91 words
  • Page 24 Advertisements
  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 51 24 SUN TAN 7 to FVfA ADDREE Votf A nindtdtwe non paoAoumd METAPh/’Jiou.GuESTioHSTWT us J r/iu I-J2. flj Collette 1 iIT and what* THE AN*wfi> of course i Do-V I often AJk V WHAT ISTMC MIAHtMC h OFUft AND WHV A M/MEAE? THEAHiwEH H«JT HEAC/u INTHC HOU! TbIUTENTB v MAMiw* 1
      51 words