The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 27 April 1991

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    19 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION SATURDAY, APRIL 27. 1991 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere b^yfecr|ptiop.^niy x (P) 71/8/90
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  • Article, Illustration
    Produce new breed of worker, PM tells unions
    844 1 Growth Triangle will benefit us, so don’t H worry about losing jobs because of it, he say& PRODUCE a new breed of workers who can work without supervision and do not worry about losing jobs because of the Growth Triangle, Mr Goh
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  • Article
    2,500 HK 1 families have settled in S’pore so far
    284 1  -  By Foo Choy Pong, Hongkong correspondent HONGKONG About 2,500 Hongkong families have so far taken up resilience in Singapore unuer the Government s policy of attracting foreign skills and talent. Acting Minister for Information and the Arts George Yeo disclosed
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  • HOME
    • Article
      University tuition fees to go up in July
      924 4 S'poreans will pay between $9OO and $3,600 more but they can get bigger loans to cover 60 of fees UNIVERSITY tuition fees will go up in tne new academic year starting in July, with Singaporean students having to pay 35 to 50
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      Ten-year-old girl murdered during robbery in flat
      416 4 A 10-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl was strangled with a towel during a robbery at her flat in the Alexandra Road area on Tuesday. Kuah Bee Hong, a Primary 4 pupil of Keng Seng Primary School, was also slashed on her left wrist with a kitchen
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    • Article
      Dr Tan to meet student leaders on fee hikes
      489 4 EDUCATION Minister Tony Tan will meet student leaders from both NUS and NTI early next week concerning the latest fee hike. In announcing this on Tuesday, he said fee increases are inevitable due to rising costs, but stressed that no student
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    • Article, Illustration
      Tiffany at the Raffles – soon
      409 4 Tiffany at the Raffles soon Queen Elizabeth’s couturier and designer Hanae Mori also setting up shop there TIFFANY, the famed jewellery company immortalised in the Audrey Hepburn classic. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, will open in Singapore for the first time in an equally classic setting the Raffles Hotel. Other first-timers in
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      Easy riders pedal for good cause
      263 5 WHEN it comes to cycling, Mr Li Hock Hung believes that one can enjoy the sport in a laid-back way. The 57-year-old architect owns three bicycles with backrests which turn the rider into an "armchair cyclist". He and two of his four children daughter
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    • Seventh NTUC Triennial Delegates’ Conference
      • Article, Illustration
        Unions welcome Growth Triangle
        793 5  -  Impact on workers must be studied: Teng Cheong By Ahmad Osman THE labour movement welcomes the Singapore-Johor-Riau Growth Triangle concept, but it also wants to study how workers will be affected by it, Mr Ong Teng Cheong has said. "It will mean economic growth for all
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        Workers ‘should get 9 per cent pay hike this year’
        569 5 Labour leaders expect the economy to grow by more than 6 LABOUR leaders expect workers to receive a wage increase of about 9 per cent this year. The figure for this year should be comparable to the total increase of
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    • Article
      Private homes turned boarding houses: Owners will be taken to court
      541 6 Foreign workers will be evicted, says URA OWNERS of private houses who use their premises as lodgings for foreign workers will be taken to court. And the workers will be evicted. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), which administers the
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    • Article
      Golf courses: Clubs to pay market prices?
      389 6 Review of policy may see such groups paying more than a nominal fee A WIDE-RANGING review of the land ownership policy governing golf courses is being carried out that could result in country clubs paying market prices for the land for which they
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      SAF officers off to join UN peace team in the Gulf
      279 6 SINCAPORF: should join other countries in making every effort to bring about greater world peace and security. Senior Minister of State (Defence) Dr Lee Boon Yang said on Wednesday. He was speaking at Changi Airport where he sent off
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    • Article
      COEs for first batch of weekend cars is $3,600
      362 6 THE first group of weekend car owners will have to pay $3,600 for a licence to buy their cars, the Registry of Vehicles (ROV) announced last Saturday, In the first bidding exercise for weekend cars, there were 1.333 tenders for 250
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    • Article
      Jeya withdraws appeal over disqualification as MP
      447 6 WORKERS Party leader J B. Jeyaretnam on on Monday 'withdrew his appeal against the decision of the High Court which last year dismissed with costs his application for an order declaring that he was never disqualified from Parliament. Mr Jeyaretnam. who filed notice
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    • Article
      Govt acts to woo people to Woodlands
      871 7  -  By Cephah Tan WOODLANDS, commonly perceived as a far-flung town in the north, will be given all the conveniences of modern living including an “Orchard Roadtype” commercial district anti three MRT stations to encourage more people to live there. To be developed as
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      More stars in these gazers’ eyes than in the skies
      597 7  -  By Yvonne Lim ARMED with high-tech telescopes and binoculars, they came to Sentosa for a night of heavenly activity but the skies clouded over. Almost 300 people gathered on Siloso beach last Saturday for Astro Nite, an annual all-night star-ga/ing
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      Queueing parents touched by President Wee’s gesture
      281 7 PARENTS queueing up for kindergarten places in the Katong area on a rainy evening recently were in for a double surprise of the pleasant kind First, President Wee Kim Wee stopped by to chat with them. Later, his nephewbrought them cakes and hot
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    • Article
      Two doctors found guilty of gross negligence
      216 7 TWO doctors have been found guilty by the medical profession’s watchdog body of managing a patient in a “grossly negligent manner". In a statement on Wednesday, the Singapore Medical Council named the doctors as Dr Tan Chin Leong and Dr William Clyde l-ine.
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    • Article
      Find ways to make better medicare affordable, Cheow Tong tells panel
      485 8 THE new Health Review Committee will have a year to grapple with the key questions of medicine and money facing Singapore's health service before submitting its recommendations. Outlining the challenges of health care in the 1930 s to the
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    • Article
      New team elected to lead the medical association
      443 8 Move signals positive changes and new direction for the body REFLECTING a recent trend affecting professional bodies here, a new team has taken over at the Singapore Medical Association (SMA) in a development which signals positive changes to the profession. Besides the
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    • Article
      Salvation Army HQ sold to Cockpit
      120 8 THE Salvation Army headquarters, a historical monument, has been sold to the Cockpit Hotel for $2O million. The headquarters, which has been housed in the Clemenceau Avenue building for 51 years, will be relocated in Changi temporarily The money from the sale of the
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      Satellite dishes: 37 firms get go-ahead
      336 8 Demand for licences have come mostly from banks THIRTY-SEVEN organisations have been given approval by the Economic Development Board or the Monetary Authority of Singapore to install satellite dishes. This follows a move by the Government last month to allow institutions, but not hotels
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    • SNIPPETS
      • Article, Illustration
        World’s longest flying dragons for May Day
        173 8 THE world's longest flying dragons will take to the skies over the National Stadium at the May Day rally on Labour Day. Appearing for the first time outside China, the two 76-metre-long helium-filled dragons will spiral, roll and dance up to 100 metres
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        Deng’s daughter here to exhibit paintings
        116 8 THE paintings of Ms Deng Lin (right), the eldest daughter of China's top leader Deng Xiaoping. will be on show at the Empress Place from this today. Ms Deng’s 25-oiece collection has fiora as its theme. The works depict the lotus, plum blossom, pine
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    • Article
      More S’poreans now take to ‘affluent’ sports
      760 9  -  But once-popular squash suffers a drop in interest By Wilfred Yeo SINGAPOREANS are going for the more “affluent" sports in a big way bowling and snooker indoors; tennis, golf and sea sports, particularly yachting, outdoors. Squash, which was the game of the Eighties,
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    • Article
      NJC rewards sports excellence to widen students’ horizons
      456 9  -  By Ng Wei Joo A JUNIOR college has broken away from the tradition of emphasising only academic excellence and has, among other moves, created a scholarship for top sports students. The aim is to encourage students to look beyond the "paper chase”,
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      Dutch firm comes up with 30 ways to eat soya beans
      551 9 Cooking method perfected after 10 years A DUTCH company has come up with 30 ways to eat soya bean from using it as an ingredient to enjoying it as a snack. The company, Solnuts B V, took 10 years
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  • MALAYSIA
    • Article
      Malaysia agrees to release railway land to Singapore
      398 10  -  By Ismail Kassim KUALA LUMPUR Depu ty Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said on Tuesday that Malaysia had agreed to release prime land belonging to Malayan Railway (KTM) in Singapore to the Republic. He added that the land could either be sold or
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    • Article
      Ministry taking steps to better standard of English in schools: Report
      312 10 THE Education Ministry is taking steps to improve the standard of English in schools, according to a report in The Star on Monday. It quoted the Deputy Director-General of Education. Datuk Asiah Abu Samah, as saying that, for a
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      Lock icon Royal couple grace ceremony
      64 10 Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang chatting with his wife, Ok kalsom, during a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the site of a new jetty complex at Tanjung (iemuk, near Kompin. C'ik Kalsom is from Pakistan and the royal couple were married last March. The Sultan’s consort, the
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      Woman tells of sex ordeal at the hands of police group
      782 10 ‘I was raped, forced into prostitution and porn films over six years' KUALA LUMPUR A do tective's wife claimed that she underwent a sex ordeal lasting more than six years at the hands ot a group of nolicemen including
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      Musa 'to quit politics after stint as UN envoy'
      254 10  -  source said. b> K ait mullah Hassan. KUALA LUMPUR Former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam is to end his term as Malaysia's special envoy to the United Nations at the end of the year. Close associates said on Tuesday that
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  • ASEAN
    • Article
      S.Korea will become Asean’s seventh dialogue partner
      409 11  -  By Tan Lian Choo, Bangkok correspondent BANGKOK South Korea is to become Asean’s seventh dialogue partner in June when Asean foreign ministers, meeting in Kuala Lumpur, will ratify an agreement to give Seoul full-fledged dialogue-partner status. Thai Foreign Minister Arsa Sarasin said here
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      Martial law to be lifted next month: Thai PM
      403 11  -  By tember. By Ian Uan (hoo. BANGKOK Prime .Minister Anand Panyaraohun has announced that martial law in Thailand would he lifted early next month. He declined to tie specific on the date hut observers here said that martial law is likely
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      Lock icon ‘Love affair' reports about Kris upset mum
      157 11 MANILA President Cora/.on Aquino said on Sunday that she was upset over reports romantically linking her movie actress daughter, Kris, to her leading men especially married actors. "I was a little upset" by the reports. Mrs Aquino said in her weekly radio talk
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      Lock icon Australia keen to boost tie with S-E Asia
      287 11 Reuter UPI. CANBERRA Australia is no longer an isolated An-glo-Saxon outpost but a dynamic economy looking to strengthen its relationship with South-east Asia. Dade Minister Neal Blewett told envoys from the region on Monday. "Broad-ranging ties between Australia and Southeast Asia, be
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    • Article
      Lock icon Chatichai leaves for European exile
      189 11 Renter BANGKOK Ousted Prime Minister Chatiohai Choonhavan has left Thailand for indefinite exile in Europe after receiving a medal from the King but little eise in the way of public support. Sinning thinly for television cameras Gen Chatichai gave brief and non-committal answers to reporters
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    • Article
      Kaifu to visit five Asean capitals on 10-day tour
      231 11  -  By Kwan Weng Kin Tokyo Correspondent TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu leaves here today for a 10day tour of five Asean capitals. including Singapore. He will also visit Malaysia. Brunei. Thailand and the Philippines. The Japanese leader is due to
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mr Lee Kuan Yew is ideal Asian ruler, says Filipino presidential candidate
      227 11 AFP. MANILA With his academic background, honesty and global outlook. Mr Lee Kuan Yew-. Singapore’s 67-year-old Senior Minister, is the ideal Asian ruler, a maverick woman Philippine presidential candidate said on Wednesaday. Mrs Miriam Defensor Santiago, an ex-Land
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  • COMMENT/ Pick of the week’s editorials
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      How to build a better House
      647 12 APRIL 22. 1991 WHEN Government Parliamentary Committees were set up in 1987. they were hailed as a way of raising MPs' participation in the House by allowing members to specialise in a particular area. In addition. MPs could also draw on a resource panel
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    • Article
      Quality comes at a price
      678 12 APRIL 25. 1991 IT IS natural for consumers to resist any price increases. So it is not surprising that university students and the chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Education. Dr Ong Chit Chung, are reacting adversely to the tuition fees hike announced by
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    • Article
      Not a merry old Kohl
      688 12 APRIL 26. 1991 GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl is fond of saying that he has made a career out of being underestimated. Ironically, he is now paying the political price of being somewhat overrated in last year’s pan-German elections. Hailed as WundorKohl for successfully riding the
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    • Article
      Do our young really know who Uncle Sam is?
      891 12  -  Viewpoint By Sumiko Tan THERE is a person I know who speaks with a Californian accent so thick a knife could not slice through it. American slang tumbles off him like water from the Niagara Falls. He did his university, or
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  • COMMENT/ ANALYSIS
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      Lessons from S’pore
      2556 13 Classical economic theories, originating from the West, are difficult to apply to countries in the Third World. From Singapore’s growth experiences, Dr Goh Keng Swee attempts to arrive at a new understanding of the term ‘entrepreneur’, an economic factor that has not taken root in textbooks. Part
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  • MONEY
    • Article, Illustration
      Move into Hongkong’s assets ‘will lead to spin-offs for Singapore’
      679 15  -  By Mary Kwang THE Singapore Government's move to take a stake in Hongkong s real assets should help boost investor confidence in the British colony. In turn, it would lead to political and economic spinoffs for the Republic, said businessmen
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      Resource-rich Trengganu keen to play role in the Growth Triangle
      362 15 TRENGGANU, with its abundant land, cheap labour and natural resources. wants to play a positive role in the Growth Triangle concept, its Mentri Besar Tan Sri Haji Wan Mokhtar bin Ahmad said on his arrival here on Wednesday. Leading a
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    • Article
      Sharp increase in CPF withdrawals for stock investments in first quarter
      356 15 CENTRAL Provident Fund withdrawals lor approved stock investments jumped 50 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared with the last auarter of last year, according to latest figures released on Tuesday by the CPF Board. The
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      Telecom unit to join Jakarta firms in Batam park venture
      502 15 SINGAPORE Telecom International (STI) is entering a joint venture with two Indonesian parties to provide telecommunication services to the Batam Industrial Park (BIP) initially, and later for the whole of Batam, and even possibly Bintan This was announced by the
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    • Article
      SES MAIN BOARD
      5787 16 TRANSACTION DATE: APRIL 26. 1991 (art 1991 T*l Last voi Day Last Quote 01» Net High Low Cod* Company Sale or- 000 High Low Buyer Seller P7E I INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 261 162 1000 Acma 227 cd -3 56 230 227 227 228 10 ON 15 1 255
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      Market makes gains on cautious buying
      409 17 The weekly share market report THE local bourse was resilient last week despite dampening effects from overseas markets. Although the market seemed to be out of its consolidation, dealers said investors were still cautious because of weakness on Wall Street and Tosyo. The market
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      DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      167 17 ST Industrials Index The Struts Times Industrials Indei rose 28.32 points on the week to 155MI. DAY CLOSE TURNOVEK Monday 1532.08 1 99) 62 05m (J145 34m) Tuesday *****9 5 99) 66 20m ($144 29m) Wednesday *****7 10.58) 88 66m ($187 86m) Thursday *****« (-H 7.27) 106.12m
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      HONGKONG
      665 17 fr May April N HKS Amoy P'oportm 4 90 0 1?5 Allied Overseas 0 8? -0 0’ Asia Sec Irrt’f 12S 0 185 As a See Wa' 9’ 0 05f »0 016 Allied TM........ OS* -ooBond Corp Int i 1.03 *0 01 Bond Corp War 9' 0.20 unch Bank
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      Lock icon S’pore is cheapest Asian city for tourists: Survey
      594 18 BT. SINGAPORE emerged as the cheapest among nine Asian cities in the annual travel cost survey conducted by the Japanese National Tourist Organisation (JNTO) last year. In all, 22 cities worldwide were surveyed. Singapore emerged as the fourth cheapest, behind Sao Paulo
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    • Article
      COMPANY RESULTS
      724 18 AUDITED RESULTS CAnpMy Date Ytar Group Nut Not comings Gross AIM to profit/lots (U por share dividend (OOO) (cents) out Apr 1/ Dec 90 825 033(89 149) ’0 7(7 4) 1601) MS Apr 12 Dec 90 8285,348 (8250 3 38 60 4(57 8a 16(14 50) Pnmj Apr 1?
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      YOUR SINGDOLLAR
      172 18 Singapore dollar* to on* unit of foreign currency Buying 00 Selling US dollar 1 7540 1.7790 Sterling pound 2 9558 3 0287 Australian dollar 1 3426 1 3930 Canadian dollar ***** 1 5490 N7 dollar ***** ***** Singapore dollar* to 100 unit* of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNIT
      129 18 Contract data: 26/4/91 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE US$ 5 V* 5 '4 5 Vi 5V« 5 3 4 4 7 4 30/4/91 AS 10‘4 10 10 10 9 3 4 9 30/4/91 NZS 9'/« 93, 9 Vi
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      Lock icon Business travellers give S’pore the thumbs-up
      312 18 BT. SINGAPORE’S international airport, national airline and five-star hotels are big favourites among business travellers, according to the latest Euromoney survey on travel facilities around the world. In turn, these facilities have helped make Singapore one of three most favoured cities for holding conferences,
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    • Article
      Plan to give new life to upper Orchard Road
      338 18 MORE than $1 billion is being invested in hotel projects that should bring the Tanglin Road and upper Orchard Road area back into the mainstream of Singapore's main tourist belt. One of the latest additions to the list of projects is
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      321 18 Manager’s prices for April 27 29 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 133—14? The Savings fund 1.07-1 U Spore Prog fund 0 SO —0 53 S pore Sec fund 0 85 -091 Spore Invest fund 0 9? -0 98 Spore fquity fund Asia Unit Trust 0 61-065 Mai Invest
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      Taiwan firms ‘should set up joint ventures here’
      316 19 TAIWANESE companies wishing to invest in the Growth Triangle of Singa-pore-Johor-Riau should consider setting up joint ventures with firms in the Republic, said the leader of a visiting Taiwanese business delegation on Monday. Mr Douglas Hsu. who is president of Taiwan’s Far
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1535 19 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total lor payment date dose payable the year last year Acma 5%TE Jun 5 Jun 17 Jui 1 10% TE Amtek Enc 6%TE(I) Apr 11 Apr 17 Apr 26 6%TE 12%TE Awno 5%Tt Feb 25 War 7 Way 15 125% TE 25%TE
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      Prices of residential properties up 15%, thanks to Gulf crisis
      282 19 Prices of residential properties up 15 thanks to Gulf crisis THE Gulf crisis has been a blessing in disguise for the residential property sector here. The pent-up demand for such units has resulted in a 10 to 15-per cent price increase over the pre-crisis levels, said a property consultant last
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      196 19 Company Others Bivwl HMp Open offer of 1152m new shares of HK$010 each (Offer Shares) on the basis of one Offer Share for every four existing shares held at a subscription price of HK$0 75 per Offer Share with one warrant for every one Offer share Ex-date Apr
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      PROPOSED ISSUES
      453 19 Company Rights Issue Ateom One-for-two MSI 00 per share Issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (CRPS) of M$010 each at MSI per share «nth 10m detachable TSR on the basis of 1 CRPS with l TSR for every 4 CRPS Bolton One for four M$2 00 per
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      SRC plans $30m rebuilding of Padang clubhouse
      519 20  -  By Steven Pak THE Singapore Recreation Club founded in 18X3, and one of the oldest social clubs in Singapore is finalising plans for a major $3O-million redevelopment of its clubhouse. Prominently situated at the eastern end of the Padang, near the Raffles City
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      New business research centre doing nine projects
      397 20 WHAT will consumers taste be like five years down the road, one advertising company wants to know. A computer company is interested in finding out which will be the growth sectors in Singapore, while a government Ixxiy is interested in studying the problems
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      700 21 The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition V SINGAPORE CAREER FAIR'9I AN OPPORTUNITY COMES TO YOU s r m > 1 CAREER FAIR '9l A Career Fair is a recruitment exercise in which the employers Interview shortlisted candidates. The Job Interviews provide the candidates the opportunity to take up employment Immediately
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      776 22 The Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition APPOINTMENTS A COMMUNITY CHEST SCHOLARSHIP 1992 The Community Chest of Singapore is inviting scholarship applications for undergraduate studies in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Soeecn Therapy, at approved Australian and New Zealand Universities. The scholarship will be administered through the Singapore Council of Social Service
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  • FORUM
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      141 23 Dear Readers THE Straits Times welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name, address, and home and office telepnone numbers. They should preferably be typed, doubled-spaced, on one side of the paper. Brevity is an advantage. We do not accept for publication letters copied to us
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  • Article, Illustration
    Senior lawyer to be first woman on High Court bench
    522 24 SENIOR lawyer Lai Siu Chiu will become the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday said that Ms Lai. 42, and Mr Kan Ting Chiu, 44. another senior lawyer, will be
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    Japanese fans here to see Dick Lee
    298 24 SIXTY ardent and extremely game Japanese fans of popular singer-composer Dick Lee gathered around him last Friday to sing along with him as he belted out his hit song, Wo Wo Ni Ni. The occasion was a special party at the Zouk discotheque
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    Five-nation defence ministers to reaffirm their commitment
    379 24 DEFENCE ministers of Australia, Malaysia, New Zea-. land, Singapore and Britain will meet this weekend to reaffirm their political commitment to the Five Power Defence Arrangements. The ministers will be meeting in Singapore today and then in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The last meeting
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