The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 4 June 1988

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1988 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI(P) 222/8/87
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  • 1684 1  -  International panel of 3 experts can decide if Hendrickson and others acted legitimately By LESLIE FONG MR LEE Kuan Yew has proposed that Singapore and the United States agree to let an international panel resolve their row over the Hendrickson affair. He told Parliament
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  • 203 1  -  By ONG MING SEING, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The United States has welcomed Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s reaffirmation that Singapore wants to put an end to the dispute over whether American diplomats had interfered in Singapore’s internal affairs. But it was non-committal on Mr Lee’s
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  • 593 1  -  Tun Salleh suspended, to be tried for alleged misconduct By ISMAIL KASSIM: Kuala Lumpur KUALA LUMPUR Tun Mohamed Salleh bin Abas has been suspended as Lord President, the highest judicial office in Malaysia, and he will Ik 1 tried by a tribunal for alleged
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  • 201 1  -  up bv next week. ISM AIL KASSIM. KI’ALA LUMPUR Suspended Lord President Tun Mohamed Salleh hin Ahas has called for a public hearing into his ease. Me said this would enable the people to know the reasons if he were tound unlit
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    • 74 1 THE MARXIST PLOT PM defends role of the ISD: See 4-page pullout inside HENDRICKSON AFFAIR Chok Tong lays down the line on meddling: Page 2 INSIDE HOME NEWS Francis Seow’s girlfriend expelled from Spore in 1956 PAGE 5 Devan instructs his lawyers to file libel defence PAGE 6 Habeas corpus
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • Debate on the Hendrickson affair
      • 1586 2  -  US has no right to sermonise us... If interference persists, we will cut US embassy staff, expel newsmen and be more non-aligned By LESLIE FONG MR GOH Chok Tong on Tuesday laid down the line on foreign interference in domestic affairs and warned
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      • 326 2 f At the start of World War 11, the Japanese captured the Philippines. The I’S fought hard to liberate the islands from the Japanese in 1944. 2M.9M troops were involved. 11,00« Americans were killed. If I were a Filipino, I would feel obligated to the Americans,
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      • 768 3 Hostile editorials likely to increase THE Government expected a hysterical reaction to the Internal Security Act detentions in April and the foreign press delivered exactly that, Home Affairs Minister S. Jayakumar said yesterday. Citing reports in three foreign publications the Bangkok Post,
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      • 911 3  -  FROM THE GALLERY By LIAK TENG KIAT ABOUT midway through his speech on the Hendrickson affair, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong quoted an American author, Freeman Dyson, on how “the American Constitution is designed to be operated by crooks, just
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      • 329 3 When will the 8 be freed? Chiam OPPOSITION MP Chiam See Tong on Tuesday criticised the continued detention of eight people arrested under the Internal Security Act since April 19. He wanted to know when they would be released and demanded to know what crimes they had committed. In his
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  • 464 4  -  $250,000 show to launch Arts Festival 88 By JACQUELINE WONG SINGAPOREANS heralded the start of the Arts Festival last Saturday when no fewer than 80,(KM) of them turned up for the biggest-ever sunset party by the sea. The sundowners, out for two hours of fun, soaked
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  • 44 4 FOR durian lovers abroad who plan to make a trip home to Singapore this month there is good news: the season is in full swing. Prices are higher though, ranging from $5 to $12 a kilo for top quality fruit.
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  • 456 4  -  Wage Council proposes flexible guidelines By TAN TECK HUAT IT IS pay-out time for workers after two years of wage restraint. The National Wages Council (NWC) has recommended a “moderate wage increase" for this year, its chairman. Professor Lim Chong Yah, announced. The lifting
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  • HOME
    • 256 5 GIRLFRIEND WHO LENT SEOW $350,000 MISS Siah Mooi Guat, spotlighted as Francis Scow’s girlfriend who lent him $350,000 to settle a bank overdraft, was ordered to leave Singapore in 1986. Miss Mei Siah, as she is better known,
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    • 98 5 A GROUP of 50 local businessmen will be going to India in November to try to develop business and investment opportunities there. The two-week mission, organised by the Singapore Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SFCCI) and the Trade
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    • 346 5  -  Not happy with her account' By GERRY DE SILVA MEI SIAH has had a $700,000 line of credit cancelled and a mortgage arrangement shelved by her bank. The Banque Nationale de Paris Singapore branch withdrew its line of credit to Miss Siah last
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    • 351 5 ‘An unnecessary battle with a close friend’ A CONSERVATIVE think tank in the United States has described the recent diplomatic row between the US and Singapore as a “bitter, unnecessary battle” with “one of America’s closest friends and most loyal backers”. Mr
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    • 253 5  -  By GRACE CHNG TWO Singapore "mice” will be going to London next month to take part in a high-tech rat race. No relations of the ordinary cheese-chasing rodents, the two mice, called MIR 3 and SUNEE 11, are computer-controlled robots developed by
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    • 377 5  -  By Gillian Pow Chong AN AUSTRALIAN tourist who arrived here on Sunday is in hospital in Singapore because of Aids and the hotel where he stayed has isolated his room and drained the swimming pool. The hotel has burnt all shoots,
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    • 207 5 MOKE job openings for Singaporeans as a result of the robust first quarter economic growth has led to an “increasingly tight” labour market. About 20,000 jobs were created In the first three months of this year nine times the number of new
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    • 130 5 A MAN, angered over a summons ticket, intimidated a carpark attendant into cancelling it by driving his lorry behind her. Lim Seng Huat, 23, was sentenced to six months' jail by a district court. He pleaded guilty. The court heard that on Jan 30
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    • 431 6  -  Woman dies in fall from flat, husband found stabbed By BRENDAN PEREIRA A COUPLE signed a “written agreement" to save their marriage, whereby the wife had the right to kill her husband if he was unfaithful. Family sources
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    • 126 6 NKARLV a million tourists visited Singapore in the first quarter of this year a trend which, it continued, Mill leave the target of 3.8 million visitors this year within the tourist industry’s grasp. The figure is IS per cent up on
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    • 421 6 More hotel rooms needed to avert shortage warning IF THE current healthy trend in visitor arrivals continues, there will be a need to increase the supply of hotel rooms in Singapore. “Otherwise a shortage of hotel rooms may occur," warns a special study by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board and
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    • 99 6 A SUPERMARKET executive officer was stabbed to death while trying to help his manageress who was being held at knife-point by three men last Monday Police said Mr Stanley Tan, 50, put up a struggle when two of the men, one armed
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    • 311 6 FORMER President Devan Nair has named the law firm of Godwin and Co to represent him in the libel action which Prime Minister I ah* Kuan Yew has instituted against him. The writ of summons was served on Godwin
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    • 299 6 HIM. HONGKONG Mr Devan Nair has said he was leaving Singapore for the United States to he able to speak freely about the policies of Prime Minister 1/ee Kuan Yew. Mr Nair told reporters here that he was no longer able to freely participate
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    • 163 6  -  Ministry. DOREEN Slow. A PRIVATELY organised trade tour to Vietnam, for businessmen to explore business opportunities there, has been cancelled. The travel agency here which was organising the tour with the Vietnam Import and Export Corporation said that it had decided to cancel the tour
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    • 120 6 INTERNATION ALA welfare organisations were advised to keep out of politics and confine themselves to serving welfare needs. Minister for Community Development Wong Kan Seng, who served this reminder, said that such organisations which play a significant role in Singapore’s welfare scene,
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    • 154 6 CHANGE Alley, the rascally but attractive old fogey of Collyer Quay, may soon be renovated beyond recognition. Twelve shopkeejiers in the cramped shopping lane have been served notice by the Housing Board's Resettlement Department to move out by the end of
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    • 263 7 SPECIAL Roman Catholic religious services that have been conducted weekly for Internal Security Act detainees since last month have been stopped. Archbishop (iregury Yong, the head of the Catholic Church here, told The Sunday Times he had directed his priests to discontinue the masses,
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    • 495 7  -  By MARSHALL WILSON MELBOURNE The Singapore High Commission in Canberra issued a statement last Friday refuting claims by Australian churches that detainees held under the Internal Security Act (ISA) are being subjected to human rights abuse and torture. In its statement, the High
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    • 127 7 THREE-MEMBER Group Representation Constituencies are set to feature in the next general election, as the Team MP legislation became law after receiving President Wee Kim Wee’s assent last week. The legislation, passed by Parliament on May 18, amends the Constitution and the Parliamentary Elections Act
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    • Judgment on validity of re-arrests
    • 6156 11 PM Lee’s speech to Parliament on the ISA detentions Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew spoke last week in Parliament on an amendment moved by Mr Chiam See Tong (SDP, Potong Pasir): (a) calling for a rejection of the recent action of
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    • 90 14  -  STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY By Ibrtndr* Auirwtl 1 More doctors (or everyone OVER the past 22 years the number of doctors has increased by more than three times, resulting in the second best medical coverage in Asia after Japan. Last year there were 889 people per doctor,,
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    • 494 13 The Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations presents its compliments to the Permanent Mission of Singapore to the United Nations and, with reference to the Notes 14/87 and 15/87 dated 31 May and 1 June 1987
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • The Tun Salleh affair
      • 362 8 NST. Kl ALA L( MPI'K The Federal ((institution empowers ;he A'ang di-l'ertuan Agong (King) to appoint a tribunal to consider action against members of the judiciary. This is provided (or under Article 12a of the Federal Constitution pertaining to the tenure of office and
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      • 396 8 KUALA LUMPUR Lord President Tun Mohamed Salleh Abas said on Monday the people’s confidence in the judiciary has now boon shattered because of Prime Ministei Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s decision to remove him from office. Speaking on a British
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      • 108 8 KUALA LUMPUR The Chief Justiee of Malaya, Tan Sri Abdul llamid Ilaji Omar, has been appointed Acting: Lord President following the suspension of Tun Mohamed Salleh Abas. Tan Sri Hamid was born in Perils in 1929 and had his early education at the
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      • 466 8 77//-; following is a translation of the letter dated May 29. 19SS. sent by the Lord President to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad, which was released to the pivss on Sunday: 4 1 refer to my letter dated 28th May and to
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      • 550 8 No pressure on Lord President to retire or resign Govt Text of official statement It is regretted that Tun Mohamed Salleh bin Abas should make public what is obviously an official letter dated Sunday. May 29, 1988, addressed to the honourable the Prime Minister which had not even then reached
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      • 371 8 The Bar Council is deep- ly shocked by the news regarding the suspension of the Lord President. The Prime Minister has been publicly attacking the judiciary for quite some time and eroding the public confidence in it. From his attacks, it appears
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  • across the CAUSEWAY/ ASEAN
    • 305 9 KOTA BAKU The Sultan of Kelantan did not permit Mentri Resar Datuk llaji Mnhamed Yaaeoh to aeeompany an ambassador who was granted an audienee at the Istana Negri Kuhang Kerian on Sunday. Datuk llaji Mnhamed was to have aeeompanied the Saudi Arabian
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    • 355 9 AFP, NST, Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Seven people, including two MPs from the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP), were released yesterday from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA), a senior DAP official said. Mr Madhavan Nair, DAP Selangor state assemblyman, said the
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    • 94 9 NST. KUCHING There are 42 communist terrorists remaining in the jungles of Sarawak, where they survive by robbing timber camp workers, an army officer said. The General Officer Commanding (Region Two), Major-General Mustafa Awang, said there had been at least 26 robberies
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    • 181 9 NST. KLANG A senior interpreter of the Kuala Lumpur High Court and former national cricketer Daljit Singh Gill (above) was found dead in his orchard last weekend. Mr Daljit Singh. 53, a former secretary of the Malaysian Cricket Association, is believed to have
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    • 58 9 Bernama. KUALA TRENGGANU Four sisters were burnt to death in their sleep when a fire broke out and destroyed their wooden house in Kampung Losong Haji Long near here. The four were identified as Nurul Huda, 17, Nor Munirah, 7, Mahfuzah, 6, and Nadiah Rabiah,
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    • 316 24  -  Only course open to me. he says By ISMAIL KASSIM KUALA LUMPUR Former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hltam announced on Thursday that he would not join Now Umno and would give up his appointed post as head of the party’s Segamat division. He
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    • 354 9  -  Run-up to the Thai elections By TAN LIAN CHOO, Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK In his first public response since a group of academics petitioned the Thai King against him. Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda warned that “caution should be exercised” in matters concerning
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    • 117 9 AFP. BANDAR SKRI BEGAWAN Brunei is upgrading its already modern armed forces, said Sultan llassana! Bolkiah this week. At a parade marking the 21th anniversary of the armed forces, he said the military would he getting new jetfighters and patrol aircraft in a few years’
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    • 210 9  -  TAN MAN 1100 BANGKOK A senior opposition politician has alleged that some former MPs who stand a good chance of being re-elected are demanding up to 3 million baht (*****,000) to join a party. Dr Arthit Urairat, secre-tary-general of the Community
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    • 113 9 Reuter. JAKARTA At least ’(MI people are feared to have drowned when an overloaded ferry sank in the Java Sea off the Indonesian coast, the Java Post reported from Suraha.va, capital of East Java. It said 18 people had been rescued and divers
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 592 10 JUNE 4, 1988 THE past few weeks have not been very comfortable for Singapore and Singaporeans. The unseasonable heat aside, the discovery that an American diplomat had been running around encouraging opposition to the Government has come as a nasty shock particularly because the United
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    • 632 10 JUNE 3, 1988 SUPPOSE, for the sake of argument, that the Internal Security Department and the Government got Mr Hank Hendrickson and his superiors all wrong. In the light of one of the explanations given to the Prime Minister by Mr Tommy Koh and Mr
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    • 619 10 JUNE 2. 1988 SINGAPORE has reached a new phase of its development. Our people have progressed beyond simple livelihood and are turning to the kind of pursuits that make for a more fulfilling life. Some may argue that the concern with the enrichment of the soul is
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    • 535 10 THE MONKEY WHO wouldn’t know the Monkey? The Monkey in The Journey to the West... a world-famous Chinese allegory which gave rise to a television serial of that name in Chinese (with English subtitles), is now being shown by the Singapore Broadcasting
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    • 176 10 “We are not supplicants. We are small, we are poor they say we are not so poor hut still we say we are not rich hut even when we were poor, we did not use a begging howl. And we were never supplicants.” Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
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  • COMMENT/ Perspective
    • 365 14 f THE present director I’ve worked with W 11 directors of the Special Branch since June 1959. The first one was an Englishman called Linsell. Ten others, competent, professional men. The present one, Mr Tjong Yik Min, I would
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    • SPECIAL REPORT
      • 1300 15  -  Search for balance between economic benefits and racial harmony Migrant vote destined to play a major role in Labour’s strategy By MARSHALL WILSON, of the Foreign Desk MELBOURNE With a population of only 18 million in an island continent the size of Western Europe,
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      • 615 15  -  Our correspondent’s file Tan Lian Choo BANGKOK BANGKOK A prominent Thai political scientist confessed a few years ago that he secretly wished he could write the definitive textbook. “It can only be titled Sex, Astrology and Politics in Thailand," he said.
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    • 1773 16  -  Even a doctor sold his kidneys to get cash to set up his practice... Reports by GILLIAN POW CHONG Some deals go smoothly, some don’t... Receipts and deeds of agreement are all part of the plethora of paperwork that stems from the shadowy
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    • 573 16 IT HAS been nearly a year since Dr Tan, 55, (not his real surname) returned from India with a new kidney and a new lease of life. But his decision to buy a kidney came only after months of agonising deliberation in
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  • TIME$
    • 812 17  -  By EDMUND LOH IN A show of optimism for the Malaysian economy. United Industrial Corporation is proposing to acquire a major stake in listed Roxy Electric Industries (M) which could cost up to M 5135.65 million (5J105.8 million) or about
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    • 349 17  -  in recent years. HSI NG BEE HWA. WEARNE Brothers Ltd is looking ahead to better results for the whole year after having turned in a 40 l>er cent increase in gr oup pre-tax profit to $14.09 million for the six months to end-March. The
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    • 261 17 Week ended May ?7 Final Results Gross Group net Year to Company diyidend 4 protit/loss 000) Ambassador V -<-) J4.173KJ3.714l) Dec 87 fu Yan Sang 7 S( 7.5) J469IJ453) Dec 87 lat las! Asset —< J453(J1.130) Dec 87 Gtand Central 5(5) J1.138( J7./78) Dec 87 Magnum
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    • 694 17  -  By CONRAD RAJ THE Commercial Affairs Department is looking into the affairs of Goodwood Park Hotel, the listed flagship of fugitive hotelier Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat. At least one member of the hotel group’s top management has been called up to help in
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    • 186 17  -  HSI'NG BEE HWA. RETAILER C.K. Tang Ltd has announced bumper results and a l-for-2 rights issue at $2.25 a share with transferable subscription rights to raise up to $57 million. The money will be used to pay
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    • 190 17 Kl ALA LUMPUR I .atest forecasts indicate that Malaysia will produce close to 2041,1NN1 tonnes of cocoa beans for the crop year ending September well in excess of earlier estimates. More interestingly, both the International Cocoa Agreement (ICC'A) and the authoritative Gill Duffus trading
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    • 127 17 UNITED Engineers Ltd (UE) has confirmed that it has reduced its interest in United Engi neers (Malaysia) (UEM) by almost half from 29 per cent to 15 per cent In a statement, UE said the cash sale of 11 million UEM
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    • 3364 18 Friday, June 4, 19H8 1988 Last Yield Vol Day High Low Company Sale Change 000) High Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS COMMERCIAL 136 95 Acma I06cd 6 09 44 106 102 ADEF a 1005 1005 ADEF e 1005 6b 42 Alcom 58 3 2 58
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    • 224 18 Weekly sharemarket report WALL STREET’S strong performance on Tuesday, in which the Dow made a spectacular leap of 14.88 points, which was followed hy another sharp rise of 32.88 points the next day, provided the impetus for the Singapore share market to record
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    • 304 18 SINGAPORE share prices closed marginally higher yesterday in active trading as buyers moved into retail counters and storks that had been previously ignored in the recent upturn. Strong interest in selected blue chips also helped The Straits Times Industrial Index rise a further 2.98 points
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    • 101 18 IN Kuala Lumpur, market dabblers were in an indecisive mood yesterday as prices fluctuated under bouts of buying and selling to close mixed to firmer. At the close of trading, the scoreboard showed gainers outnumbering losers by 118 to 71 while 47 counters were traded
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    • 68 18 HONGKONG share prices yesterday closed higher supported by active buying, mainly from local syndicates. The Hang Seng Index rose 21.68 points to 2,568.35 after gaining a total of 50 points over the previous two days. The broader based Hongkong Index was 15.02 points higher
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    • 562 19  -  Higher rental incomes likely with strong demand for office space By LIM ENG HAI STOCK analysts are projecting bigger profits for most listed property companies this year in view of the strengthening market in office, shop and dwelling space. Strong demand for office space
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    • 372 19 km 3 HKS Chjnje Attoc Inti Hotel» 2 80 0 025 Bank Of Ea*t Ava 16 70 0 1 Copital Corp Cothoy Pacific Ait ns To 05 Cheung Kong China Light 7 50 0 05 1800 03 City Re»ource» 1 19 006 Crow Harb Tunnel 16 30 0 1
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    • 100 19 Rubber (per kilo) S’pore Malax sIh (cents) (sen) May 30 NA NA May 31 315.00 400 00 June 1 305 00 NA June 2 285 00 390 50 June 3 290.00 381.50 Palm oil (tonne) Price IjuiI Trade (Ringgit) Sales June 1043-1047 1047 52 July 1038-1042 1039 190
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    • 220 19 Interbank Over the counter Foreign currency Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Foreign currency to SJ10 Australian dollar Canadian dollar NZ dollar Sterling pound US dollar 1 6315—1.6343 1 6386—1 6408 *****-***** 3 6470-3 6508 2.0205-***** 6.23-6 08 615-6 06 7.22-7 02 2.76-2.73 4
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    • 265 19  -  Morgan. CATHERINE C ONG. THE Overseas Union Bank (OUB) is to get a new chief executive officer soon a move, investment analysts say, is a bullish development. Mr Foek Siew Wah, Senior Vice-President and ReRional Treasurer of Morgan Guaranty Trust, confirmed yesterday that he
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    • 290 19 Managers' prices for June 4 A 6 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 0% 1 0?id The Savings fund 08V 091 Spore Prog fund 0*0 0 44 Spore Sec fund 0 6; 0 7? Spore Invest fund 0 70 0 76 Spore Equity fund 0 48 06? Asia Unit
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  • FORUM
    • 1153 20 ‘Dangerous fancy skating on thin ice... I SEE that Mr Devan Nair has quite prudently evaded responding to a number of points and questions raised in my letter published on May 23 (STOE, May 28). All that Mr Francis Seow's self-appointed guru could
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    • 96 20 RECENTLY there have been advertisements on intimate underwear on both SBC 5 and 8. They are televised in the early part of the evening at about 7 when children are still watching television. I am sure many parents will agree with me that the
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  • TIMESPORT
    • Thomas Cup special
      • 135 23 kl ALA LI MITK A reward of MS3O,(HH) and a Proton Saga ear will he given to eaeh Malaysian badminton player if they wrest the Thomas Cup from China tonight, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Najih Tun Kazak said yesterday. The eoaeh and officials involved in shaping
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      • 602 23  -  PAST CHAMPIONS 1919: Malaya bt Denmark 8-1 in Preston. 1952: Malaya bt United States 7-2 in S’pore. 1955: Malaya bt Denmark 8-1 in S’pore. 1958: Indonesia bt Malaya 6-3 in S’pore. 1961: Indonesia bt Thailand 6-3 in Jakarta. 1964: Indonesia bt Denmark 5-4 in Tokyo.
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      • 199 23 UBER CUP FINAL KUALA LUMPUR A familiar scene unfolded at the Stadium Negara here last night when China, led by coach Chen Fushou, stood on the winners’ rostrum to receive the Über Cup for the third time in six years. The Chinese completed a hat-trick of
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      • 39 23 INDONESIA finished third in both the Thomas and Über Cup competitions. Their men’s team beat Denmark 5-0 while their women defeated Japan by the same margin. Beither Icuk Sugiarto nor Morten Frost played in the singles.
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      • 658 23 Soon Kit Malaysia’s overnight sensation KUALA LUMPUR CHEAH Soon Kit looked more nervous than the teenaged girl standing next to him, as he posed for a photograph with his new-found fan. Somehow you get the feeling that he would have been more at east* standing next to his doubles partner
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      • 292 23 KUALA LUMPUR Denmark's team manager Krland Hops welcomed Malaysia’s semi-final victory over Indonesia, saying that it is good for badminton because it has broken the monotony of China-In-donesia finals in the Thomas Cup. The two countries have met in the last three finals, and the
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