The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 29 September 1990

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1990 Price: 511.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MCI (P) 71/8/90
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  • 703 1  -  Better mixing and more shared views among races, survey shows By Bertha Henson RACIAL lines in Singapore are blurring with the different communities recognising that they depend on one another to defend the country and make it tick. Malays, Chinese or Indians no longer see issues
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  • 1007 1  -  By Liak Teng Kiat LENINGRAD Singaporean businessmen should start investing now in the Soviet Union if they want to reap the benefits of the economic restructuring taking place in the country, Mr Lee Kuan Yew has said. If they wait until the
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 738 2  -  By Koh Buck Song THE marathon of life must see all Singaporeans running in the same race, with more consolation prizes so that everyone gets something, Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. Runners should also take
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    • 202 2 MALAYSIAN authorities have accepted Mindef's latest statement on allegations that Republic of Singapore Air Force helicopters had intruded into Malaysian airspace. BG Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. Mindef has explained that Malaysian authorities knew about an RSAF helicopter near Gelang Patah,
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    • 570 2  -  Travellers and SIA crew mostly hit in Los Angeles By Serene Lim FREQUENT travellers and Singapore Airlines employees say they have been the target of robbers and snatch thieves overseas especially in Los Angeles, where there was at least one Rolex robbery a
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    • 426 2  -  By Ng Wei Joo THE Singapore General Hospital is among the world’s best when it comes to producing babies the IVF way. Using in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), the hospital’s Centre for Assisted Reproduction (Care) achieved a take-home baby rate of 28.6
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    • 302 2 TWO deaths and a number of serious illnesses among Singapore Airlines cabin crew are worrying some of them, even though the incidents are unrelated. A chief steward and a stewardess died in the past two weeks, one from brain haemorrhage
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    • 451 3 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Obstetricians Gynaecologists (RCOG) for contributing to Singapore’s high standard of health care. In the citation for the award, read out by Prof Ronald Tindall, senior vice-president
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    • 768 3 PM’s interview with Ming Pao Daily News WITH communism collapsing world-wide, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said that China too will have to change to become more like Taiwan, Hongkong or South Korea. But he pointed out that this did
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    • 742 3 Language elective programme SECONDARY school students who have studied French, German, or Japanese at O level will soon be able to take them at A level through the language elective programme (LEP). Scholarships will be offered to a number of them. Those who
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  • HOME
    • 1074 4  -  Real hope for the world body to play a positive part in world conflicts now, he says PM’s visit to Soviet Union Reports by Liak Teng Kiat MOSCOW Thanks in part to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, there is now real hope
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    • 297 4 Political contacts are growing, says Soviet Premier MOSCOW Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov on Monday described Singapore-Soviet relations as being on the upsurge. He said this in a speech welcoming the visiting Singapore delegation at a banquet given in honour of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
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    • 414 4 MOSCOW Prime Minister I.ee Kuan Yew has urged the Soviet Union to continue with its restructuring programme or perestroika (restructuring) despite the pain it is causing because “you can’t get a good harvest without some effort". In an interview on Soviet television
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    • 808 5  -  By Serene Lim ALMOST 500 members of the legal fraternity turned up at the Supreme Court Building on Thursday to bid farewell to Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin, in a brief but touching ceremony which left several misty-eyed. Mr Justice Wee, who retires
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    • 590 5  -  Change in line with new Cambridge syllabus By Choo Siew Bee SINGAPORE schools have drastically cut back on the inhumane practice of dissecting animals during their biology classes. Often, they show videos and other audio-visuals instead. This is due to a change in the
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    • 569 5 THE Government is exploring the possibility of teaching Chinese as the first language to Chinese Singaporeans in primary schools. In an interview with the Hongkong Chinese-lan-guage daily, Ming Pao Daily News, excerpts of which were published on Thursday, Mr Goh Chok Tong
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    • 1066 6  -  Survey on Singaporean attitudes towards race and religion Reports by Bertha Henson THE different races in Singapore are getting together and mixing more often, going to each others' homes for family functions and festivals. But the Chinese can improve on
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    • 459 6 NO, IT is not true. Most Chinese do not typecast the Malays as lazy nor do the Malays think that the Chinese are money-mind-ed. There is no strong ethnic stereotyping today, as no particular trait was mentioned by more than half of each
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    • 579 7 One suggestion is to set up an Ombudsman SINGAPORE can endure as a nation if some of the existing institutions in Singapore are restructured and new ones set up, said Professor Tommy Koh, director of the Institute of Policy Studies. Speaking on
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    • 304 7 SINGAPORE’S fighter aircraft can now operate longer in the air thanks to the air force’s air-to-air refuelling capability. Air-to-air refuelling requires keen skills and coordination on the part of both tanker pilot and the pilots of the aircraft receiving the fuel. The key
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    • 349 7 SINGAPORE’S First Deputy Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong donned his tennis gear and was an instant hit with four of the world’s top women tennis stars when he took to the courts at Mount Pleasant last Saturday. Former world No. Is
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    • 565 7  -  By Rav Dhaliwal BUS and taxi fares will go up starting from next month because of steep increases in operating costs. Bus fares, which are being increased for the first time in almost a decade, will be raised by 10 cents for each
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    • SNIPPETS
      • 160 8 AN ACTRESS with the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation said she nearly drowned while filming in Kuching According to a Shin Min Daily News report on Tuesday. Miss Sun Baoling was on a three-day location shooting in Kuching last week for a new SBC serial on
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      • 121 8 A SIKH originally from Singapore was jailed for six years in Melbourne on Tuesday for paying Australian women to marry Sikhs so they could live in Australia. Satwant Singh, 31, paid eight Australian women up to A 57.500 (SSU.IOO) each to marry Sikhs from
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      • 220 8 MR GOH Joon Seng. 55. an advocate and solicitor, will be Singapore’s newest judicial commissioner from Oct 1. His appointment, announced last Friday in a press statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, makes him the seventh judicial commissioner appointed under an 11-year-old scheme providing
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    • 425 8  -  By Leong Chan Teik SCENE: Over Phuket Island in Thailand, a Qantas jumbo jet with some 380 passengers and crew aboard is flying towards Singapore. Suddenly a huge US Air Force transport plane heading north looms into view, barely missing the jumbo by
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    • 480 8 FOOD is going to be big business at Changi Airport’s new Terminal 2. And firms have been bidding fiercely for a chance to open their business there. Apart from continental, Chinese and Japanese restaurants and fast food outlets, which Terminal
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    • 260 8  -  By V. Prema THE Board of Film Censors has lifted its ban on the film, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), after an appeal by the Singapore Film Society The film, which was to have been shown to the society's members at the
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    • 375 9 FOUR Singaporean women went shopping over the weekend and splurged more than $60,000 on exclusive Gianni Versace gowns. Three of the big spenders, who all declined to give their names, each ordered a $lO,OOO black crepe wool gown, which was the
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    • 564 9  -  Joint training to promote a singular spirit and common set of values By Mathew Pereira FUTURE officers of the thrpe services of the Singapore Armed Forces will forge even closer ties among themselves with the introduction of joint cadet training. They will train together
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    • 476 9 Shortage of training grounds on mainland reason for using island SAF troops are now training on Pulau Sudong in the Southern Islands as one way of maximising the use of training areas. The Southern Islands are used by the Republic of Singapore
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 489 10 He hopes disclosure of $325,000 loan will pre-empt graft charges Bernama CHANGLUN (Kedah) Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has disclosed a plan to build a new house for himself, using a M 5500,000 (*****.000) government loan. He said he was disclosing
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    • 391 10 Operators of get-rich-quick scheme abscond with millions NST. ALOR STAR Thousands of people swamped the office of the operators of a get-rich-quick scheme here on Tuesday as news spread that the operators had absconded with millions of ringgit. The crowd had to be dispersed
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    • 205 10 PENANG Gerakan wants Penang Chief Minister Datuk Dr Lim Chong Eu to contest the next general election and defend his Padang Kota state seat which he has held for 21 years. The Star newspaper on Tuesday quoted party president Datuk Seri Dr Lim
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    • 473 10 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Mass rallies, which have been banned in Malaysia for more than 20 years, could be held during the coming general election if the police could maintain peace and safety, the outgoing chairman of the Election Commission told Bernama
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    • 93 10 THE Home Ministry held its Family Day in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday and the life and soul of the party was none other than the boss himself, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The Home Minister and Prime Minister gamely took part in most of
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    • 218 10 NST. JOHOR BARU Malaysia Airlines plans to make Johor Baru a major base for domestic and international air travel with direct flights to Hongkong. Jakarta and Perth, MAS district manager Michael Gua said. He said the move was in line
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    • 145 11 Bernama JOHOR BARU Singapore’s “plastic money" is creating quite a stir in Johor. People in the state are reacting with amusement and perplexity, wondering how to use it. Most of all, they were curious to know if the new form of Singapore currency
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    • 344 11 KUAI,A LUMPUR Deputy Education Minister Woon See Chin has assured the Chinese community that Mandarin would remain the main medium of instruction in Chinese primary schools under the new Education Act. The status quo would be maintained with the schools using Bahasa Malaysia
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    • 230 11 Bernama. SHAH ALAM A prince who killed his own father has been adjudged guilty but insane by the court here. The High Court which passed the judgment last Friday, ruled that the 26-year-old prince, Tengku Raihan Tengku Datuk
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  • ASEAN
    • 479 11 AFP MANILA The Philippines has told the United States that it wants joint use of Clark Air Base by January and American troops completely withdrawn from the base in 12 months, a top negotiator on the issue said on Wednesday. Manila
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    • 129 11  -  PAUL JACOB. JAKARTA Trade and Industry Minister liee listen lowing and hLs wife attended a wedding reception hosted by newly-wed Retired Admiral Sudomo and hLs wife here on Tuesday night. Mr Sudomo, Indonesia’s Co-ordinat-ing Minister for Political and Security Affairs, and
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    • 133 11  -  TAN LIAN CHOO. BANGKOK Mr Rama Kannabiran, 47, a Tamillanguage writer, is the Singapore winner of this year’s South-east Asia Write Awards. The annual regional literary awards were presented on Tuesday by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at The Oriental hotel. Mr Kannabiran
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    • 420 11  -  By Paul Jacob Jakarta Correspondent JAKARTA President Su harto said the practice hert of always seeking “direc tives” and "guidance” frorr superiors could stifle initia tive and creativity and has called for the habit to bt abandoned. “People still asking foi guidance and
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 631 12 SEPT 28. 1990 IN a climate of sometimes hot debate about managing race relations in Singapore, the results of a recent survey have come like a cool breeze. There had been some concern that Singaporeans were beginning to think more in ethnic than in national terms,
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    • 633 12 SEPT 27. 1990 THE importance of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s visit to the Soviet Union becomes clearer when it is examined against the state of bilateral relations since the first trip Mr Lee made to the country in 1970 Those relations scarely moved forward
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    • 644 12 SEPT 25. 1990 THE Parliamentary Select Committee hearings on the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Bill which ended last Friday demonstrate clearly that there is general acceptance among Singaporeans of the need for legislation to establish ground rules on what is, and is not, acceptable behaviour
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    • 878 12  -  Viewpoint Independent schools’ fee hike By Alan Johr AS NEWS broke out two weeks ago of the new round of fee increases at independent schools, a family friend with two children in secondary school described what it will mean for
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 2428 13 As the chip becomes smaller in size, its contribution to manufacturing grows bigger. Dr Goh Keng Swee examines what makes the chip tick so strongly in the economic progress of Singapore and the region. Part Two of Singapore and the development issues of the 1990 s
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  • FEATURE
    • 752 14 Magdalene Lum gains an insight into life in two kampung in Singapore, before they made way for progress BALIK kampung. In Malay, this means going back to your own village or roots the community where you grew up. The word ‘‘kampung’' is associated with nostalgia for days
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    • 712 14  - Joget days are here again and it’s full house almost every night By Ismail Kassim OLD-TIMERS in Singapore can still remember fondly the cabarets in the three entertainment worlds known as Great, Happy and New and of course, Bunga Tanjong the “joget moden” dance hall at New World. Those were
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  • MONEY
    • 467 15  -  Its mega-stores will offer ‘lifestyle’ shopping in massive complex By John Tan BT YAOHAN, which changed local shopping habits with its first supermarket here 16 years ago, is about to do it all over again. Its new project will see "lifestyle” shopping
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    • 414 15 JAPANESE department stores in Singapore have begun to diversify into other activities such as specialty retailing and advertising. According to a recent issue of The Japan Economic Journal (JEJ), a leading Japanese financial weekly, the move was prompted by fierce competition, rising rentals and a
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    • 484 15 SEVERAL local companies, stuck with shipments of goods that their Middle East customers have cancelled, have been forced to find new markets in places like Eastern Europe and Africa. Several local companies said that the Aug 2 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq
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    • 301 15 A $lOO-MILLION wholesale fashion mart will be set up on the present Singapore Warehouse premises by 1992. It will be jointly managed by Parkway Holdings and American company Mart Management Inc, which runs a similar project in the 325.000-sq
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    • 3169 16 TRANSACTION DATE: SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 Gr 1990 T*l Last Vol Day Last Quote niv N#l High Low Cod* Company Sale Of* 000 High Low Buyer Seller P/E I INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 277 152 1 1000 Acma 169 -4 40 173 16« 168 169 290 165 1142 Ale» mdgs
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    • 514 17 The weekly share market review NEWS of higher oil prices and concern over a sliding Straits Times Industrials Index breeching the psychological 1,000-mark, led investors to engage in stop-loss selling on the Singapore stock market. The main factor for the current bearish phase was the
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    • 2238 17 TRANSACTION DATE: SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 1990 Tel Lest Vol Day Last Quote Gre Dlv Net High QC< Lew Qn Code Company an Sale or* 000 High Low Buyer Seller P/E at 157 all 88% 4000 Amtek Eng20c 95 82 99 12 ON 11 4 128 80 4008 F
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    • 175 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index led 49.71 points on the week to 1098.68. DAY CLOSK TURNOVER Monday 1132.7r<—15.65) 32.27 m ($56 80 m) Tuesday 1113 19 (-1955) 43 10 m ($74 82 m) Wednesday 1104 24 (-8.95) 43.33 m ($83 73 m) Thursday 1107.05
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    • 642 17 ►ftO«y September 7t MKJ Amoy Properties 2 975 »0 07$ Allied Overseas 063 •001 Ash Sec Int'l 16' -001 As a Sec War 9' 0 25 unch Allied rw 064 001 Bond Corp Int'l f 39 -00' Bond Corp War 91 064 unch Bank 0* EA 12 TO -0
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    • 455 18  -  Firms move from property and hotel development to manufacturing By Yong Pow Ang BT. SINGAPOREAN investment in China is gradually moving beyond property and hotel development and into manufacturing, says Mr Wang Jiu An, the Commercial Representative of the People’s Republic of China in Singapore.
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    • 530 18 Week ended Sept 21 Week ended Sept 21. Compiled by Business Times itifMTPn nrcm tc AUDITED RESULTS Company Date Year Group Nat Nat earning» Grots ann to profit/:«>i (l) par thara dividend COOO) (cants) 1 Cement Sep 10 Mai 90 *1.771(*l.019t) 5 0(—) 25(05) Argi Mua Sep 8
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    • 152 18 Singapore dollar* to one unit ot foreign currency Buying OD US dollar ***** Sterling pound 3.2593 Australian dollar 1.4348 Canadian dollar 1.5024 NZ dollar 1 0628 Singapore dollars to 100 units ot foreign currency Austrian schilling 15 8493 Belgian franc 5 4030 Danish k f onor 29.1469 Deutschemark
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    • 110 18 Contract date: 28/9/90 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE uss 7 V, 7Vh 73» 7 Vi 73» 7'. 02/10/90 4$ 12 5 12 1 4 12'» 12' 12'/« 11 '2 03/10/90 NZ$ 12’/» 13'' 13*4 13 13'« 11 »3
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    • 365 18  - July’s 22.3 trade rise highest since Jan: TDB By Caroline Chan SINGAPORE’S total trade volume grew by a robust 22.3 per cent in July compared with the same period last year the highest monthly increase since January. The increase was on the hack of a 26.5-per cent growth in import
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    • 422 18  -  By Mary Kwang INDIA, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which had depended heavily on Kuwait for oil products, are turning to Singapore refiners for their supplies. A Singapore Petroleum Company spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that Pakistan has invited international tenders for diesel and
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    • 322 18 Manager's prices for Sept 29 Oct 1 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 108-1 15 The Savings Fund 0.86 —0.92 S’pore Prog Fund 0.39-0 42xd S’pore Sec Fund 0 69-0 73 S’pore Invest Fund 0.72-0.77 S'pore Equity Fund 051-054 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest Fund 147-1.56 Mai Prog Fund
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    • 416 19 THE five member bodies of the Singapore Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SFCCI) failed to see eye-to-eye again at Tuesday’s election of a new president, and had to resort to a secret ballot to resolve their differences. At the federation's annual general
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    • 1103 19 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last year Alei HkJgs 6% Aug 28 Sep 7 Sep 26 6% 6% AMDS 25% Sep 14 Sep 28 Oct 27 2.5% 2% AMW 10% Sep 21 Oct 5 Nov 1 10% 75%(a) A
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    • 369 19 SINGAPORE Airlines has been named among the top 10 corporate giants in the Pacific Rim excluding Japan by Fortune International, a leading business magazine. It is also the only Singapore enterprise to make it to the list of up-and-coming companies
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    • 140 19 Sales in millions Prolltt in millions Business activities Samsung (South Korea) $35,189 $515 Electronics, shipbuilding, insurance, trading Daewoo (South Korea) $19,981 $115 Electronics, construction, autos, hedvy machinery lucky-Goldstar (South Korea) $19,964 $285 chemicals, trading, «instruction Ssangyong Group (South Korea) $7,422 $172 Cement, trading, oi refining, cohstruction
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    • 377 19 Company Rights Issue Industrial Oiyt«n One forone (a M$0 80 per share Rights issue of SI 00 nominal amount of 5% Redeemable Unsecured loan Stock 1990 1995 with one Transferable Subscription rights for every two existing shares held Ex-date Aug 23 Books close Sep 6 Acceptance Payment Oct
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    • 520 20 Massive hotel, office and retail development will revitalise area JAPAN’S Saison Group has become the latest partner in the massive SHOO-million Bugis Junction project. Comprising a hotel, retail and office complex, the development will help revitalise the once-infa-mous Bugis Street area. Earlier indications
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    • 388 20 TOUR prices for all major destinations from Singapore are likely to go up by about five per cent from Nov 1. The Intra-Orient Marketing Programme (IMP), a travel industry group that sets the minimum selling price of tour packages, is
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    • 349 20 SINGAPORE is setting the lead in promoting international co-operation in the fight against commercial crime and abuse, a prominent British specialist in legal and enforcement matters has said. I)r Barry Rider, the executive director of the Centre for International Documentation on Organised and
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    • 423 20  -  Firm plans to invest s2b in S’pore over next 10 years By Steven Pak UNFAZED by the uncertainties caused by the Gulf crisis, American chemicals giant Du Pont is proceeding with plans to build a $lBO-million synthetic elastic fibre plant in Singapore.
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    • 752 21 The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition APPOINTMENTS Singapore Aerospace Systems Singapore Aerospace Systems Pte Ltd is involved in the repair and overhaul of a wide range of military and commercial aircraft components. We invite suitably qualified candidates for the following position: AERONAUTICAL/MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Aeronautical/Mechanical Engineering degree with a minimum of
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    • 732 22 The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition APPOINTMENTS '**o MINISTRY <)I DKFKNCK The Ministry of Defence invites applications for the post of R ESEARCH OFFICERS \\V arc looking Tor Research Officers to work in the area of Military Tactics <S; Military Technology for our SAFTI Exhibition Centre. We promise that the
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  • FORUM
    • 471 23 I AM alarmed by the open-minded and easy-going attitude expressed by Mr Peter Boyd in his letter, “Teenagers need more respect, not restrictions” (ST, Sept 13). The views expressed by Mr Boyd may go down well in a Western society, but I do
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    • 133 23 HOME has never meant as much to us as it does now, when we are away. While in Singapore, we are contended with our lives and never realised our good fortune. Now that we are thousands of miles away, we realised how much we
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    • 206 23 A TEACHER'S lot is not to be envied. Having taught for 12 years, I was beginning to fall into a rut. 1 thought the creative part in me as a teacher was gone. But then I was sent to a drama centre.
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  • 520 24  -  By Koh Buck Song IT WELL be tough finding candidates who meet the stringent criteria for the Elected President, but the man for the job must be competent because the stakes are high, Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said.
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  • 310 24 Asian Games Peng Siong (silver) 50m free Seng Mok (bronze) individual trap Peng Siong, Harold Gan, David Lim and Kenneth Yeo (bronze) 400m relay SINGAPORE won a silver through swimmer Ang Peng Siong, and their second bronze from gun-tot-ting businessman Chng Seng Mok on the fifth
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