The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 28 January 1989

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY. JANUARY 28. 1989 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only \1CI(P) 42/8/88
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  • 1052 1 Parliament passes Bill to end appeals to Privy Council in detention cases A NEW body to guard against any abuse of the enormous powers given to the Government by the Internal Security Act (ISA) is under study, Mr Goh Chok Tong told
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  • 984 1 AT LEAST three strokes of the cane and three months’ jail that is what a foreigner who overstays for more than 90 days or enters Singapore illegally will get with the passage on Thursday of a Bill to give Singapore's immigration laws
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  • 195 1 KUALA LUMPUR Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamaa was sitting up ana making good progress on Wednesday, a day after quintuple heart bypass surgery at the General Hospital here, according to a hospital bulletin. The Prime Minister, <i3, who was admitted to the hospital on Jan
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    • 61 1 Chok Tong now more than heir apparent Page 2 mm HOME Overseas hunt for top Asian graduates PAGE 8 Parliament reports PAGE 2-6 Better pay, prospects ahead for civil servants PAGE 8 Cult Killer’s doctors face medical council probe PAGE 9 CAUSEWAY Anwar refers rumours about father to antigraft agency
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • Debate on the ISA (Amendment) Bill
    • More reports from last week’s session
      • 1191 4 ‘Make it an integral part of our value system if we want to be a great nation’ BRIGADIER-GENERAL (Res) George Yeo (GRC Aljunied) rose in Parliament yesterday to deliver what was, in effect, an ode to democracy. He argued passionately for it to
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      • 1085 4  -  FROM THE GALLERY By PATRICK DANIEL TO THOSE still harbouring residual doubts about who is in charge of Singapore, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong made it known last week that, to all intents and purposes, he is now the executive Prime Minister.
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      • 576 5 Chok Tong on the problem of finding men with the right qualities THE earnings of some top people in the private sector were made public last week by Mr Goh Chok Tong to underline the difficulty of attracting talent into
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      • 310 5 THE notion that Singapore is a thought-controlled society is “ridiculous”, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said. He was responding to the charge made on Wednesday by Non-Con-stituency MP Lee Slew Choh that the Government’s programme outlined in the President’s Address
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      • 126 5 AYER RAJAH MP DrTan Cheng Bock had misunderstood the context of the oft-repeated phrase among Government leaders that Singapore “had little or no margin of error” to refer to the mere airing of views. Mr Goh Chok Tong said. Ministers, when using
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      • 377 5 How I got BG Yeo to join the team and what a catch! BRIGADIER-GKNFRAL (Res) George Yeo would not be In today’s Parliament if not for the persuasive powers of First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Last week, Mr Goh, when emphasising to the House just how limited the
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      • 567 5 FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Parliament he was "not at all afraid’’ of using the different strengths of his Cabinet colleagues for the effective running of Singapore. “We work closely as a team. No minister is out to corner power,
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      • 520 6 WHILE Government leaders and MPs must keep in mind that Singapore is a secular state and must serve all Singaporeans regardless of their religious beliefs, the corollary is also true. Religious groups should not force MPs of different faiths to
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      • 438 6 A NEW idea was advanced by the Government last week to allow more people lo take part in the political life of Singapore and so give the country greater political stability the creation of a category of MPs who are non-govern-ment and
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      • 205 6 DK TAY Eng Soon (Eunos GRC) suggested an elected or appointed Presidential Council as an alternative to the proposed Elected Presidency. He said the main strength of such a council would lie in its ability to alert Parliament and the public if it should disagree with the
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      • 727 6 SOCIETY before self might seem a laudable ideal which MPs are proud to profess in Parliament, but it is a different thing when given the status of National Ideology and invoked as a moral precept, Mr (’hay Wal Churn (Brickworks GRC)
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      • 217 6 ARE Confucian values basically undemocratic? This question was debated between the Minister of State (Finance and Foreign Affairs), BrigadierGeneral (Res) George Yeo, an? *lr Chiam See Tong (Potong Pasir). After praising BG Yeo for his "most enlightened” speech on the importance of democracy, Mr Chiam asked
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  • HOME
    • 623 8  -  Recruitment trips to Canada and the United States in March By ANNA TEO TWO statutory hoards the Economic Development Board and the National Computer Board are helping local industries talent-hunt Asian graduates. particularly Singaporeans, in North America. Two separate
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    • 326 8 CIVIL servants can expect an improvement in pay and service conditions, making them more comparable to those in the private sector. The Finance Minister, Dr Richard Hu, said details on the new pay structure and service prospects will be announced in his next
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    • 125 8 THE Singapore General Hospital will set up a cancer centre in four to six months’ time, It was learnt. Dr Ong Yong Wan, who will co-ordinate activities of the SGH Oncology Centre, said Its establishment Is part of a larger plan to
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    • 301 8 AFTER almost four years at the helm of the Government’s Feedback Unit, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, MP for Ayer Rajah, has decided to call it a day. Confirming this on Tuesday, Dr Tan told The Straits Times he had informed
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    • 202 8 A NEPHEW of the Sultan of Pahang, who went on a week’s hotel-hopping in Singapore with three friends and left a trail of debts, faces “further punishment, including caning, from the Sultan” on his return to Kuantan a Singapore court was told
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    • 330 8 FORMER Ka Wah Bank director Low Chang Hian, 42, was charged in a districts court last Saturday with five counts of criminal breach of trust involving about $2O million. The alleged offences, to which he claimed trial, were believed to be connected
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    • 390 9 THE Singapore Medical Council (SMC) is looking into a complaint against two doctors who testified at the trial of cult killer Adrian Lim. reports the afternoon tabloid The New Paper. The complaint was made to the SMC against Dr Yeo Peng
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    • 308 9 FLASHBACK TO THE HEARINGS THIS is a summary of what the two doctors said at the Adrian Urn murder iriai on April 13 and 14,1983. Dr Yeo said he drew out blood from IA young women on different occasions at the
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    • 121 9 i SCHOOLBOY, on las way home from a provision shop, was hit on the head by a cardboard box thrown from the fourth floor of a block of flats hy a Housing Hoard sweeper. Mohammad Noh Iskandar, 8, received a 2-cm cut
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    • 345 9 TRAVELLERS who t>ook airline flights and then do not turn up to board the planes are going to be hit hard in their pockets. From Feb 1. a $l5O fee will be slapped on these "ghost” ticket holders to get a ticket, it
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    • 716 9 No word from his NY doctor A DISTRICT court on Wednesday warned that lawyer Francis Seow’s trial on a tax-evasion charge might go on without him on Feb 15 if he again absented himself without
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    • 97 9 SINGAPORE Airlines has postponed the launch of additional services to Japan, Hongkong, Australia and Taiwan because of the late delivery of two megatops from Boeing. The two Boeing 747-400 s were to have been delivered last month, and a third this month, an airline official
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    • 570 10  -  By CHENG SHOONG TAT THK Law Society has urged the Government to retain appeal to the Privy Council for disciplinary actions against lawyers and to continue to allow the courts to review the lawyers’ convictions when hearing these actions. A
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    • 411 10 He helped uncle in s3om fraud, court told FORMER Dah Yung director David Cheng Heng Soon, who admitted 16 fraud-related charges involving $3O million, was jailed for three years by a district court yesterday. District Judge Dalip Singh told him: "In my view,
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    • 39 10 PHYSICAL education teacher Loo Hock Seng, 58, collapsed on the school stage while warming up with students of Dunmman Secondary Shool for a jogging session last Saturday morning. He died soon after admission to hospital.
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    • 155 10 INSTANT pratas? From next month, this light Indian pancake, usually served at hawker centres for breakfast, can be bought off the shelves. Mrs Dolly Tan, 32, of Kart Food Industries, which will be introducing the instant pratas to Singapore, said: “The
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    • 106 10 A FORMER air stewardess was charged last Saturday with accepting bribes for carrying gold from Singapore to Kathmandu. Peggy Teo Boon Lin. 23, allegedly accepted $5,400 in bribes at the void deck of Block 9, Gloucester Road on Feb 12 last year. This
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    • 256 10 AMERICAN-Chinese Confucianist scholar, Professor Tu Wei Ming, has taken Opposition MP Chiam See Tong to task for criticising him in Parliament last week. In a letter to Lianhe Zaobao’s Forum Page last Saturday, he said the Potong Pasir MP’s remarks were politically-motivated and showed only his
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    • 361 10 A JUDGE on Wednesday described as "shocking and unbelievable” the action of a lawyer’s wife who burnt her three naked children and a niece with heated forks. Her children who were tied up during the act told police that their
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    • 590 11  -  By Gillian Pow Chong A DOCTOR ran go ahead and tell the spouse or sex partner of an Aids-virus infected patient of his condition even without the patient's consent. This is provided for in the Singapore Medical Council's guidelines
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    • 345 11 A SINGAPORE retiree has severed his relations with his daughter and son-in-law, who is Malaysia's Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, Datuk Kok Wee Kiat. Mr Seet Keng Jin, 79, made public his action by placing an advertisement in the Malaysian English language
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    • 118 11 THIEVES who raided an oven were treated io an unexpected find of $3,300 in cash and valuables inside. The thieves did not even have to break into a house to get their loot, for the oven was left at a void deck for
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    • 97 11 AFP SINGAPORE’S Miss Chinatown 1988, Jasmine Ng (above), won herself the $50,000 black Lama mink coat w hen she was placed third in the Soviet Union’s first-ever beauty contest in Moscow Sunday. The winner was Turkish model Hakarar Meltem
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    • 297 11 ROTARY clubs which have barred women from becoming members now have the option to break with the 84-year-old tradition as an all-male enclave. They can admit women as members from July 1. following a decision taken in Singapore this week. The proposal
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    • 305 11 PINETREE Town Country Club is up for sale, if a buyer can strike an acceptable deal with the owner, reports Business Times. The owner of the club, Mr Chng Heng Tiu, is known to have been negotiating with several public-ly-listed companies for the sale
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    • 105 11 OPPOSITION politician Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood has resigned as vice-chair-man of the Singapore Democratic Party, but will remain as a member His letter of resignation went to all the other 11 members of the SDP Central Executive Committee (CEC), including secre-tary-general Chiam See Tong. Mr
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  • COMMENT/Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 635 12 JAN 27, 1988 SINGAPOREANS reading about this week’s OECD-NIE meeting in Paris should feel proud They are represented as one of the four newly-industrialising economies to talk to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a club of 24 developed nations which have largely managed
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    • 638 12 JAN 25 1989 THE First Deputy Prime Minister. Mr Goh Chok Tong, last week sjxdt out what Members of Parliament should and should not do. Ho said it was not the MP’s duty to attack the Government and repea* merely criticisms they heard He also lamented
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    • 639 12 JAN 24 1989 AT THE end of the parliamentary debate last week, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Goh Chok Tong, ruefully observed that MPs appeared uninterested in developments in the region that could affect Singapore's security. He cited two examples. one
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    • 609 12 THE SNAKE AND 1 THE Snake Year is around the corner, with a gorgeous Snake now waiting in the wings for its turn to slither in and take centre-stage with the slithering out of the mighty Dragon. Snake Year 'B9 begins on
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    • 186 12 “Our position on the ISA, however, ean only be as strong as the people’s. If the people are not eonvineed on the need for the ISA, they have the right to take it away. If they want the ISA but feel that we have abused our powers under
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  • COMMENT/Perspective

  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 560 14  -  Razaleigh group claims it can offer non-Malays better deal By KALIMULLAH HASSAN of the Foreign Desk KUALA LUMPUR The delicate question of political power among the races is becoming the main issue facing the 68,500 voters in the Ampang Jaya parliamentary by-election today. Amidst
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    • 395 14 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba has accused former Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Harun Idris of using racial politics to ’’fish" for votes in the Ampang Jaya by-election. Mr Ghafar claimed Datuk Harun was emphasising in his campaign
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    • 91 14 kt ALA LUMPUR A group of women members of the MCA’s Ampang New Village branch is known to be helping Datuk llarun Idris to campaign against Mr Ong Tee keat, according to MCA Vice-President Datuk ban Slang Sun. lie said the MCA disciplinary
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    • 336 14  -  ISMAIL KASSIM. KUALA LUMPUR Former trade and industry minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said this week that Umno dissidents in his Spirit of 16 group want to work with existing opposition political parties to provide an alternative to the ruling National Front coalition. He said
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    • 268 14 Anwar refers case to anticorruption agency BUKIT MERTAJAM Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim revealed on Sun day that he was referring allegations about his father accepting M 5400,000 (S$280,000) worth of shares to the Anti-Corruption Agency. He said he would not mention the matter
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    • 67 14 KUALA LUMPUR Anti-Corruption Agency Direc-tor-General Zulkifll Mahmood, confirming that the agency had heen asked by Mr Anwar Ibrahim to investigate his father’s alleged receipt of the Industrial Oxygen shares, said it was also Investigating rumours that the minister’s house in Damansara Heights was built
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    • 235 14 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Former Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said on Monday he does not remember giving M$ 400.000 (Ss2B6, worth of shares to Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s father and will leave the matter to the Anti-Cor-ruption Agency (ACA) to
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  • CAUSEWAY/ASEAN
    • 251 15 NST KUALA LUMPtJR Anti-Cor-ruption Agency (ACA) officers, looking into alleged corruption in the issue of slot machine licences, have seized several files from the Finance Ministry. The ACA director-general Zulkifli Mahmood said the files were taken from the licensing
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    • 351 15 Co-op bank failure investigation KUALA LUMPUR In its continuing investigation of a massive bank failure, Bank Negara has ordered four more people who owe money to the Co-operative Central Bank (CCB) to surrender their monies and assets by Feb 8
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    • 142 15 NST. KUALA LUMPUR Police here have recovered (Ss42t,Mt), believed to he part of the M 522.2 million missing from Bank Negara. The recovery followed the arrest of an officer from Bank Bnmlputra last week. The suspect was released on police bail of
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    • 139 15 Bernama, AFP TAIPING Three prisoners, sentenced to death for drug trafficking two years ago, were hanged last Friday at the Taiping prison, bringing the number hanged this year to six. S. Rajindran, 32, D. Namasivayam 37, and Siah Ah Kew. 39, were convicted
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    • 38 15 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Justice Tan Sri Hashim Yeop Abdullah Sani, 67, has been appointed Chief Justice of West Malaysia, succeeding Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Omar, who was appointed Lord President on Nov 20 last year.
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    • 114 15 KUALA LUMPUR Selangor is considering introducing whipping as a penalty for Muslims caught drinking liquor in public, The Malay Mail reported. Director of the State Religious Department Datuk Mahmad Mahtar Mahmad Salleh said an enactment is being drafted. “Since a number of states have
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    • 599 15  -  By YANG RAZALI KASSIM, Jakarta Correspondent JAKARTA The question of succession in Indonesia previously discussed only within private circles has now become a matter for public airing after President Suharto's disclosure that this will be his last term in office. Open talk
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    • 290 15 UPI, Reuter NEW YORK An attorney for deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife has denied reports that they were negotiating an out-of-court settlement with US attorneys on a US$26B million (SSSIS million) international racketeering indictment. "Absolutely not," said Mr John Tigue
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    • 113 15 Reuter. BANGKOK Thailand faces a massive Aids outbreak and the killer disease is already rampant among the country’s heroin addicts, according to health experts. More than half the estimated IN,MI heroin addicts in Bangkok may have the virus, specialists told a conference on Acquired
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  • TIME$
    • 4541 16 TRANSACTION DATE: JAN 27, 89 Or’* *988/89 T*l Last Y’ld Vol Day Last Quota High LOW Cod* Company Sal* or- 000) High Low Buyer Sailer SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 162 95 t 1000 Acm* '57 2 06 173 162 156 156 159 as 42 '001 Alcorn
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    • 53 17 THE day-to-day ST Industrial indices and daily turnover for the week: MONDAY: 1,096.00 points (up 0.69); 46.5m units (value $70.2m); TUESDAY: 1,087.68 points (down 8.32); 36.99m units (value $61.5m); WEDNESDAY: 1,101.39 (up 13.71); 56.8m units ($95.2m); THURSDAY: 1,108.71 (up 7.32); 78.3m units ($136.8m); FRIDAY: 1,115.48 (up 6.77);
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    • 55 17 THE New Straits Times Index rose 27.98 points on the week. MONDAY: 1,888.63 points (down 2.8); 12.56 m anils (value M522.72m); TUESDAY: 1,818.33 (down 11.36); 15.97 m units (M533.16m); WEDNESDAY: 1,889.58 (up 11.25); 17.58 m units (Ms36.B€m); THURSDAY: 1,961.4« (op 14.82); 23.17 m units (M556.82m); FRIDAY: 1,919.41 (up
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    • 45 17 TIIK Hongkong llang Seng soared 59.94 points on the week. MONDAY: 2,897.53 points (down 1.38); turnover HKsl.9i billion; H KSDAY: 2,991.13 (up 3.59); HKSI.23 billion; WEDNKSDAY: 2,999.71 (down 9.29); 11K91.3 billion; THI'KKDAY: 2,919.57 (up 9.83); HKJI.22 billion; FRIDAY: 2,959.95 (up 48.38); HK91.89 billion.
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    • 81 17 Rubber Closing prices cents/kilo Singapore 226 SO cents February down one cent Malaysia 315 SO cents february up 150 cents Tin Closing prices Ms/kilo HI Tin 20 4? unchanged Turnover 130 tonnes down 36 tonnes Palm oil Crude MS tonne palm oil February 96/50 (southi Refined ,cefl,,al palm
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    • 320 17 Weekly sharemarket report THE Singapore stock market continued its consolidation on Monday, then eased across the hoard on Tuesday following news that Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad had undergone quintuple heart bypass surgery at the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital. The market lost
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    • 379 17 I*n 27 Hk J Chinjt Assoc Inti Hotel» 3 20 0 075 Bonk Of East Ana 21 50 0 1 Capitol Corp SUSP Cathoy Pacific Air 920 0 1 Cheung Kong 9 35 0 05 Chino Light 1460 0 1 City Resource» 0 9IN Cross Hart) Tunnel
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    • 183 17 Counter rates Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Foreign Currency Buying OD Selling US dollar 1 9205 1 9390 Sterling pound 3 3812 3 4340 Australian dollar 1 6731 1 7121 Canadian dollar 1 6142 1 6432 NZ dollar 1 1641 1
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    • 538 18  -  ssom polymer factory to start with, then another s2som in 1995 By SIVAM SUBRAMANIAM DU PONT, the American chemical giant, plans to invest about $3OO million in Singapore over the next five years. For a start, it will inject $5O million into
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    • 405 18 Meek ended Jan 20. Compiled by Business Times. Final results Gross Group net Year to Company dividend protit/loss ('000) H Leong Credit 10 (12) MS11.318 ($8,696) June 88 Petaling Tin 87 (50) M$5,599 ($3,584) Oct 88 Interim results Interim Group pre-tax Half-year to Company
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    • 232 18 SINGAPORE came out tops in eight of the 20 categories of the Asian Freight Industry Awards announced in Hongkong last week. Among those which kept the Singapore flag flying high was Singapore Airlines, which has been named the best cargo carrier in
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    • 226 18 KENTUCKY Fried Chicken franchisee Inno-Pacific Holdings has appointed Mr Herman Ronald Hoehstadt as its new chairman. Listed Inno-Pacific said in a statement on Wednesday that Mr Hoehstadt, who recently retired after more than 29 years as a civil servant. would join the company as
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    • 387 18 Curront Ki noon Onto Total lor Total tor payment date CloM payable Iho yoar laatyoar A 1 S I 10% (bl Jan 6 Jon 20 Jan 31 >0% 5% Amol Stool 8%TEIbl Dm 1 Doc 15 Jan X 8%TE 8%TE Avimo I5%TE Mar 1 Mar 13 May 15
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    • 62 18 DBS Bank has described as "unfounded" a report this week that it was interested in buying over Hang Lung Bank in Hongkong. The report in The Straits Times had said DBS Bank was interested in buying over Hang Lung Bank and that speculation in this had been fuelled
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    • 242 18 Managers' pricaa for January 28 A 30 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce I.ol—l 07 the Savings Fund 0 89 -0,94 Spore Prog fund 0 38—0 42 S pore Sec Fund 066 0/I Spore Invest fund 0 71—076 Spore Equity Fund 048—052 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest Fund 1
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    • 550 19  -  By By SIVAM SUBRAMANIAM WITH both exports and imports booming, Singapore's total trade last year surged by a dramatic 30 per cent to a record high of $167.3 billion. Trade last month amounted to $15.7 billion, according to figures released yesterday,
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    • 343 19  -  By DAMIEN LIM DETERGENT and property group United Industrial Corporation will make $12.6 million profit from the sale of its remaining stake in Indonesian associate P.T. Unggul Indah Corporation (PTUIC). The group is selling its 24-per cent stake to an existing PTIJIC
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  • FORUM
    • 266 20 WE REFER to the report “Bosses say why they state special conditions for jobs*’ (ST, Jan 19) and the letter “Job ads should specify skills" (ST, Jan 21) by Mr IJm Boon Henx, MP for Kehun Baru. We would like to correct
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    • 297 20 I FIND the recent letters on religious tolerance i>oth interesting anti illuminating. Interesting because they are about a subject close to my heart Christianity; and illuminating because they reveal to me how much or how little the non-Christian community in Singapore knows about
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    • 289 20 ON THE NATIONAL IDEOLOGY VARIOUS proposals have been made about the possible contents for the national ideology. Singaporeans should be asked, if not through a referendum, then at least by an opinion poll with a very large sample, whether they want a national ideology.
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    • 234 20 RECENTLY while awaiting my flight at Belgrade airport I chatted with this stranger from Nigeria. He said that he was a seaman and had visited many Asian ports. When I asked what he thought of Singapore you should have seen the expression on
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    • 245 20 I The Straits Times 00 Now, keeping in S. i touch with what's *"****—"—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
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    • 96 20 Dear Overseas Readers THE Straits Times welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name, address, and home and office telephone numbers, if any. They should preferably be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the paper. You may add a pseudonym if you wish. But we would
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  • TIMESPORT
    • 363 23  -  Austrian club want a striker, not an attacking midfielder By J. RAJENDRAN F’ANDI Ahmad will not be offered a contract with the Austrian IMvision One cluh FT Swarovski Tirol, hut he In not disappointed by their decision. Tirol were looking for an orthodox striker and,
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    • 399 23  -  By MAHMOOD GAZNAVI SWISS-BASED Singapore striker V. Sundramoorthy wants to return to play for Singapore even if it means being paid less than what he receives from Old Boys of Basle. Sundram also disclosed that he may not renew his contract with Old
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    • 108 23 AFP. TOKYO China’s world ehampion long Yang and his female eompatrlot 1,1 IJngwel won the men’s and women’s singles titles at the t SSIM.OM ($193,0M) Japan Open badminton championships here last Sunday. Pre-tournament favourite Yang Yang, 25, who has also won the Japan
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    • 209 23 SINGAPORE should uphold their pledge of hosting snooker's World Championship in October But it would he impractical for the Intel national Billiards and Snooker Federation to force them if they are facing financial trouble. Brien Bennett, the IBSF president, said this during
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    • 353 23  -  TENNIS by SHIRLYNN HO SINGAPORE has been put on the map of the new Association of Tennis Professionals circuit, scheduled to begin next year, as men's tennis enters a new era. The Singapore men's Open Grand Prix championships the Republic's first Grand Prix tournament
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    • 364 23 FORMER Olympic sprinter Mary Kiass was on the verge of tears after her treasured medals and mementoes, won in five years of international track and field meets, were damaged in a fire lasi week. “They are all gone. My
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  • 504 24 KUALA LI MPI R The armies of Singapore and Malaysia will take part in live firing exercises in eaeh other’s eountry this year. Singapore has Invited one Malaysian army company for a live firing exercise in the Kepuhlie, while Malaysia has extended an
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  • 146 24  -  Kota Melaka. ISMAIL KASSIM. KUALA LUMPUR Five detainees, including the opposition Democratic Action Party's (DAP) national deputy chairman Karpal Singh, were released on Thursday after 15 months of detention. Mr Karpal Singh was freed from detention last March when the Ipoh High Court
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  • 60 24 BANKER Lien Ylng how, 82, group chairman of Overseas Union Bank, has been voted Singapore’s Businessman of the Year. Mr Lien, who until last year was also chairman of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd, received the award at a dinner last night from the Minister for Communications and
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