The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 11 May 1991

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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      Training, re-training the way for workers to beat changing world
      681 2 Mr Lee’s TV interview on labour issues SINGAPORE workers need to b< trained and re-trained to develop their analytical and problem-solv-ing skills and compete in a world of rapid technological advances, said Senior Minister Lee Knan Yew. Making it clear
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    • Article
      I no longer hold the reins of govt, says Senior Minister
      442 2 Mr Lee’s interview with the IHT SENIOR Minister Kuan Yew has said that he no longer holds the reins of power in the Government. In the recent hijack of a Singapore Airlines plane and the rescue of its passengers,
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    • Article
      Japan expresses sincere contrition
      526 2  -  Kaifu on war atrocities: We resolve never to do it again; we’ll educate our young Kaifu’s visit to Singapore By Cherian George PRIME Minister Toshiki Kaifu has expressed Japan's sincere contrition for its past aggression in a gesture aimed at setting the scene for Tokyo to
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    • Article
      Don’t be afraid to talk about past openly, Mr Lee tells Kaifu
      569 2  -  Such openness ‘necessary and useful’ By Chai Kim Wah JAPAN should discuss its militaristic past and not be afraid to talk about it openly, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has told Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu Such openness
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    • Article
      Under-18s to be banned from buying cigarettes
      816 3  -  By Koh Bee Ann THE (Government will ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone under 18 years old, in an effort to stem the rise in the number of teenage smokers. Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said last Saturday that new legislation will
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    • Article, Illustration
      Singapura cat used in posters to woo tourists here
      501 3 SINGAPORE’S newest tourism mascot, Kucinta the Singapura "love cat", is being used abroad to draw visitors here. Despite a controversy over the origins of the breed, the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has launched [Misters of the cat and is going ahead
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    • Article
      Night courts to hear minor cases
      338 3 NIGHT courts will be introduced in Singapore next month to hear adjourned traffic and certain types of departmental cases. Under the pilot scheme, cases now being dealt with in Subordinate Courts 13 and 23, which do not hear trials, will have night sittings, starting
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    • Article, Illustration
      Maid and boy killed in flat; toddler found safe in room
      466 3 TODDLER Natalie Huang, two, was safe in her mother’s arms last Saturday, the sole survivor of a murder tragedy which left her older brother and Filipino maid dead. Nicholas Huang, four, is believed to have been drowned in a
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • Article
      Higher rents for golf clubs on state land
      736 4 Six clubs paying revised rates will be given 30-year leases in return SIX golf clubs on state land will have their rents increased substantially to near market prices, but the increases will be phased in over 10 years starting next January In
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      Future university fee hikes will be ‘smaller and more gradual’
      728 4 EDUCATION Minister Tony Tan on Tuesday gave the assurance that future university tuition fee increases would be smaller and more gradual, and announced new measures to help undergraduates pay the new rates He told Parliament that the Government had considered
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    • Putting golf within the reach of more Singaporeans
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        Seletar nine-hole will be open to public
        284 4 MEMBERS of the public will be allowed to use Seletar Country Club's ninehole golf course for a nominal fee when the club is handed over to the Government for the development of a business park there. Law Minister S. Jayakumar said the Government
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        SICC can make its membership transferable
        274 4 THE Government has agreed to allow Singapore Island Country Club one of the most exclusive private clubs here to introduce transferable membership. The move would allow more Singaporeans to join it and raise more revenue for the club, which will K required, like other
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      Decision made after all options were considered: Dhana
      889 5 Demolition of Eu Court THE Government's decision to demolish Flu Court was made after it considered both traffic and conservation alternatives, National Development Minister S. Dhanabalan told Parliament on Tuesday. But all the other options were found inferior, he said in a
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      Stamford House ‘architecturally richer’
      302 5 WHICH building should go to make way for the widening of Hill Street? Eu Court or Stamford House? To find out, National Development Minister S. Dhanabalan personally inspected both buildings and consulted architects and engineers. Their verdict: Stamford House is architecturally richer and has more potential
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    • Article
      Bank employees got largest wage rise last year
      412 5 Their 16.56 per cent increase was more than twice national average PRIVATE-SECTOR bank employees received a big boost in income last year with an average built-in wage increase of 16.56 per cent more than twice the national average. Thanks to the continued
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  • HOME
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      Political stability must come first for Asia: Mr Lee
      977 6 Senior Minister Lee at the Asahi Shimbum symposium TOKYO Asian countries should not blindly imitate Western forms of democracy but must place political stability above ail other considerations. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said on Thursday. He added that stability was
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    • Article, Illustration
      New Chief Abbot installed
      232 6 Over 10,000 Buddhists turn up for installation at Phor Kark See Temple A SMILING Venerable Yen Pei. 74. (right) after his installation as Chief Abbot of Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Temple on Thursday. In his hand is the symbol of appointment, a multi-coloured piece
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    • Article
      Boy, 13, held for alleged molest of woman
      298 6 A 13-YEAR-OLD school boy was arrested for allegedly molesting a housewife in the lift of an apartment block in Marine Parade last month. The woman, 32, said the boy. who is her neighbour, was armed with a paper cutter when he allegedly
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    • Article
      Man faces charge of seeking $250,000 bribe from Khamis
      192 6 A MAN was charged in a district court on Thursday with soliciting a $250,000 bribe from Moroccan businessman Elyamani Khamis who is being investigated by the Commercial Affairs Department. R. Sekhar s o R. G. Van, 32, the owner of a
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    • Article
      Singaporeans enjoy benefits of many rules, says Prof Koh
      429 7 SINGAPOREANS like to grumble about over-regu-lation. but they enjoy the benefits that flow from Singapore's many rules. Professor Tommy Koh said on Wednesday. “We can’t object to regulations but at the same time want to enjoy their social benefits." said Singapore's
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    • POLICIES THAT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED: 2 EXAMPLES
      • Article
        Don’t bar high-flyers from medical faculty
        166 7 THE Government is wrong to limit the number of Kgh-flyers who can study medicine in Singapore. Professor Tommy Koh said. Responding to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s recent offer to review stifling rules, he cited this as an example of a policy which smothered
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      • Article
        Citizenship law on those abroad ‘outdated’
        172 7 THE law which says that Singaporeans who stay away from Singapore for 10 years can lose their citizenship was another that earned the ire of Prof Tommy Koh. “It is the kind of petty-mindedness that you find very often in our bureaucracy," he said.
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    • Article
      Singapore must strive to be a caring nation: Kan Seng
      288 7 SINGAPORE has excelled in many areas but it must also strive to be well-known as a nation which cares for the less fortunate. Making this point on Wednesday, Mr Wong Kan Seng, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Community Development,
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    • SPORTSFRONT
      • Article
        Singapore scores 5-0 rout over Kuwait
        334 7 TENNIS THERE were pats on the backs, enthusiastic handshakes and celebratory hugs as Singapore chalked up an historic 5-0 win over Kuwait in the Davis Cup Asia-Ocea-nia Group Two tennis tie on Sunday. The party, however, was marred by an unnecessary incident before the
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      • Article, Illustration
        FAS official’s spectacles broken by stone thrown by fan
        223 7 Johor wins match by 2-0 FOOTBALL MR STEVEN TAN. executive secretary of the Football Association, escaped serious eye injury last Saturday night at the Larkin Stadium when an unruly soccer fan hurled a stone at him. It cracked a lens of
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        Kenneth and Xuan Hui clinch top awards
        300 7 SPORTS AWARDS SWIMMERS and sailors dominated the 1990 Singapore Sports Council’s Sportsboy and Sportsgirl Awards, which ’«’er* announced on Monday. As expected, freestyle specialist Kenneth Yeo swept the boys’ title while Ng Xuan Hui took the girls' crown. Six other swimmers Alvin Tan,
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    • Article
      Free flow of drinks, lavish attention blamed
      671 8  -  Four passengers fined recently, but many cases go unreported Men who molest airline stewardesses By Rohaniah Saini FREE-FLOWING alcohol and being waited upon hand and foot by today's serviceoriented airlines are making some male passengers more inclined to molest stewardesses. Since January last
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    • Article
      SPH newspapers to downplay suicide stories
      415 8 Guidelines on coverage aimed at discouraging copycat attempts ALL newspapers published by Singapore Press Holdings have agreed to cut back reporting on people killing themselves to help discourage copycat suicides. The group's English and Malay newspapers have adopted a set of guidelines that limit
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    • Article, Illustration
      Club for Hongkongers enjoying fast-growing membership
      522 8  -  By By Laong Weng Kam THE Kowloon Club, formed a year ago to help Hongkong immigrants settle down in Singapore, must be the fastest-grow-ing social club in town. It started with 11 members in April last year. Today it has more than 450 families
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    • SNIPPETS
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        Chantel is top on her third try
        69 8 IT WAS third time lucky for 17-year-old Chantel Goh (right), who won the Singapore Model Award last Friday. She was second run-ner-up in both the Discovery of the Year and Asean Model Search last year. Miss Goh. who started modelling about a year
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      • Article
        Tang Dynasty treasures coming to Empress Place
        188 8  -  By Sunny Croh. ONCE again. Empress Place Museum will play host to an impressive collection from a famous Chinese era the Tang Dynasty. Museum chairman Yeo Seng Teck said the $2 million exhibition, called The Silk Route Treasures from the Tang, will be
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      • Article, Illustration
        Annie the parrot digs macaw Joe
        185 8 EVEN birds of different feathers can flock together. The Jurong Bird Park has noted that Annie, a parrot whose claws are malformed, has virtuallyadopted Joe, an eight-year-old macaw which is almost blind. Annie, which is three years old. preens Joe s feathers an important
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    • Article
      Girl lost interest in family and career’ after joining the cult
      799 9  -  SPOTLIGHT on the Moonies banned but still active By Siow Yu-Ming WITHIN two years, the Moonies turned an ambitious, outgoing and independent young Singaporean woman into a secretive person who had lost all interest in her family and career.
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      First all-woman team from S’pore to climb peak in Himalayas
      522 9 LOVE of the outdoors and the challenge of the Himalayas have brought nine Singapore women together for the first major all-woman mountaineering expedition. Members of the month-long trip, which starts on Monday, come from varied backgrounds, from hairdressing to photography
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    • Article
      Young people befriended, then isolated from family members
      539 9 The cult and its tactics MOONIE leader Sun Myung Moon’s theology is a strange mixture of pseudo-Christian-ity with mystical, psychological, philosophical and charismatic ingredients. Recruits, mostly the young and impressionable, are first won over by friendship and then subjected to long hours
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon KL fire destroys factory, homes
      557 10 23 died and 112 injured, according to latest estimate of the casualties Ghafar orders commission to look into cause of blaze Bernama, Reuter. AFP, AP KUALA LUMPUR A blaze completely destroyed a fireworks factory at the Sungai Buloh new village, about 20 km from here
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    • Article
      Lock icon Many Muslims not facing up to reality, says Anwar
      496 10 IHT. KUALA LUMPUR Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has said that many Muslims around the world are marginalised, selfdeluded and living with the outmoded bogeymen of the West and the United States. “Instead of talking about hunger and poverty, there
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    • Article
      MCA to proceed with project despite criticism
      355 10  -  Proposed Chinese cultural centre By Ismail Kassim KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association will proceed with its proposed Chinese cultural centre despite criticisms from several Umno leaders and Malay academicians that the project would undermine national unity, MCA treasurer Datuk Loke Yuen Yow
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      Johor to stop buying water from S’pore in 2003
      156 11 KUALA LUMPUR The THE Johor government will stop buying treated water from Singapore once the state's water projects are completed in 2003, according to a report in Malaysia’s Berita Harian newspaper. The report quoted Road and Public Utility Committee chairman Datuk
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      Better terms to woo grads into joining the army
      253 11 KUALA LUMPUR The Defence Ministry plans to attract more graduates into the armed forces officercorps by offering them a higher salary scale and rank. The Star quoted Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as saying that with the changing nature
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      Lock icon Film board confirms ban on Ninja Turtles II
      159 11 KUALA LUMPUR The movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze, which was scheduled for a charity premiere in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, has been banned. The Star reported on Monday that a film censorship board official confirmed that the
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  • ASEAN
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Painful reforms necessary, Japan tells Philippines
      440 11 Moves to write off foreign debt may backfire, Manila warned Kaifu’s visit to Manila Reuter, AFP. MANILA Japan has urged President Corazon Aquino to implement painful reforms of the Philippine economy and warned Manila that attempts to write off part of its overseas debt
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    • Article
      Thai baby smuggling syndicates uncovered
      142 11 BANGKOK Five Thai syndicates specialising in smuggling babies into Malaysia, complete with forged Malaysian birth certificates, have been identified by a Thai welfare organisation, The Malay Mall reported. The Bangkok-based Centre for the Protection of Children’s Rights said it uncovered the activities following a raid
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    • Article
      Lock icon Money no longer an issue in bases talks, says Manglapus
      308 11 AFP Reuter MANILA Philippine Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus said on Tuesday that money was no longer a major issue in snagged bases talks with the United States, and that the delay boiled down to the duration of a new lease.
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Thai toddler dies after acid attack by father’s ex-lover
      212 11 BANGKOK Three-year-old Thongthawat Ruenrom was instrumental in bringing his father and mother back together after a year of separation. But the Thai boy had little time to enjoy the family reunion. Thongthawat, nicknamed Rock, died on Sunday, four days after he
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
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      Learning to survive
      673 12 MAY 9. 1991 SINGAPORE’S economic success over the past two decades sometimes obscures the fact that no one owes the country a living. Indeed, it may be said that much of the Republic’s success stems from its ability to accept, and capitalise on, this stark truth: the
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      Smoking out young victims
      699 12 MAY 7. 1991 THE Government's proposed move to ban the sale of cigarettes to those under 18 is part of a series of welcome steps taken to make Singapore's anti-smoking effort a bigger success. In a sense, the move is not as tough as previous actions,
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    • Article
      A place in the sun
      689 12 MAY 6. 1991 IT IS not surprising that Japan should undergo a great deal of soul-searching to find its role in the new international order. It is a newworld. and to pretend that the old order can continue is to delude oneself. Many other countries,
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      Why ‘better’, ‘best’ not good enough for S’pore
      843 12  -  Viewpoint By Chua Mui Hoong THE way language is used is a valuable index of a society’s values and assumptions. In Singapore, English has rapidly become the lingua franca, and the way Singaporeans use some English words reflects a great deal about
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  • ANALYSIS
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      A case for full-time MPs?
      2658 13 Town councils. GPCs. Select committees. MPs have less and less time for family and career. Ravi Veloo asks if it is time to go full-time. WHERE exactly is the Singapore Member of Parliament heading? Town councils, GPCs. select committees the picture is one of MPs
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  • NEWS FEATURE
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      New Bugis St to open in July
      795 14  -  24-hour fun place with lots of food, music and transvestite shows By Rav Dhaliwal A CABARET dance hall dating back to the 1950 s and 60s, complete with dance hostesses, and a theatrette with live entertainment provided partly by transvestites. These will be
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  • MONEY
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      First-ever sale of govt land for development of houses
      528 15  -  By Eddie Toh IN’ A landmark move, the Government on Thursday released for the first time from its landbank a site at Sixth Avenue for private development of houses This was under a land sale launched by the Urban Redevelopment Authority
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      Chip Bee flats to make way for new condominium
      203 15 THE seven blocks of gov-ernment-owned flats at Jalan Merah Saga in Chip Bee Gardens one of the latest URA sites slated for condominium development have some structural defects and will be demolished soon. A spokesman for the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
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      Lock icon China and Singapore to explore joint development in Pudong
      517 15 BG Lee’s visit to China Reports by Sunny Goh BEIJING China and Singapore have agreed to explore the feasibility of jointly developing a piece of land in Pudong. Shanghai. The plan is to develop the land and sell it to banks,
      den City by guide yun Bao Cheng (left). — Picture by WONG KWAI CHOW.  -  517 words
    • Article
      EDB appointed agent in industrial development
      375 15 SHANGHAI The Econom ic Development Board has been appointed as the Singapore agency to help in the development of Pudong, BG (Res) I/ee Hsien I>oong announced on Wednesday. EDB will organise visits for officials from Singapore Government agencies and private sector businessmen interested in
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      Two-way trade between China and Singapore ‘set to rise this year’
      544 15 BEIJING Two-way trade between Singapore and China is set to rise this year because of the increasingly complementary needs of the two countries, Mr Li Lan Qing, the Chinese Minister for Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, said yesterday. He
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    • Article
      SES MAIN BOARD
      5608 16 TRANSACTION DATE: MAY 10, 1991 Gr's 1991 T*l Last Vol Day Last Quote 01« Net High Low Cod* Company Sale or* 000 High Low Buyer Seller Pit I INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 285 162 1000 Acma 211 cd •2 34 213 211 211 216 10 ON 14 1 255
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      Dull week as investors stay by the sidelines
      530 17 The weekly share market report IN yet another week of dull and featureless trading, the local bourse appears unable to get back on its feet despite the return of activity in the Tokyo market on Tuesday. Apart from Monday's 27point fall, the
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      DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      160 17 ST Industrials Index Th« Straits Times Industrials Index dropped 13.63 points on the wee* to 1532.32 DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1518 80 (-27.15) 53.89m ($104 87m) Tuesday *****3 (-1-6.23) 46.72m ($82 07m) Wednesday 1523.15 (-1 88) 41 37m ($81 83m) Thursday 1525 74 2.59) 45 60m ($111
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      HONGKONG
      645 17 Friday May 10 Mi T7T Amoy Properties 4 375 ■0 05 Allied Overseas 08? 0.01 Asia Sec inn 2 025 -0 025 Asia Sec War 91 0.C34 -0 003 Allied TW 0 85 -0 02 Bond Corp Int'l 1 01 unch Bond Corp War 9i 0 170 -0 009
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      Lock icon Glaxo breaks new ground with gift of shares to S’pore staff
      384 18 BT. PHARMACEUTICAL giant Glaxo has given all its 340 Singapore employees shares in the London-listed parent company Glaxo Holdings pic, a move that is unprecedented in the company's worldwide operations. The move is believed to be unique in Singapore
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    • Article
      FELS bags $437m contract
      172 18 A CONSORTIUM comprising Far East Levingr**" Shipbuilding (FEL) and Brazilian company. Tecnica Nacional De Engenharia SA (Terienge). has won a major US$25O-mil-lion (*****.5 million) contract to build a semi-submersible oil production platform This is for the state-owned Brazilian oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA. better known as
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      COMPANY RESULTS
      575 18 AUDITED RESULTS C»«MT Dili Year Cnee Nat Nit oarnlagi i trau MB ta pndlt/laai <L) par Man 4M4aa4 CONN) (Mato) to H i aon* Crrtt Ian If Jan 90 *4824 442(118.074) 21.6(164) 10(10) etc JM U Sac 90 893.947(834 649) 30 3(23 91) 15(8.91) F6N lan M Sac
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      YOUR SINGDOLLAR
      180 18 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollar* to on# unit of foreign currency Buying 00 Seing US dollar 1.7510 1 7730 Sterling pound 2 99? 1 ***** Australian dollar 1 3508 1 3989 Canadian dollar 1 5084 5431 NZ dollar ***** ***** Singapore doilara to 100 unit* of foreign currency Austrian
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNIT
      121 18 Contract data: 10/5/91 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE USJ 5>/« 53/, 53/, 5 Vi 5 Vi 4 Vi 14/5/91 A$ 10 V» 9'» 9 7 i 9 3 /4 9 Vi 9 14/5/91 NZ$ 8V« 8% 9 8
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      I am under CAD probe, says Amcol managing director
      406 18  -  By Gerry de Silva AMCOL Holdings managing director Kang Hwi Wah has confirmed that he is under investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department. In a letter to the Amcol board on Monday, Mr Kang informed directors that the CAD “has interviewed
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    • Article
      Companies Act under review to prepare for scripless trading
      415 18 SINGAPORE'S Companies Act will be amended to prepare for a new era in scripless trading. According to an official source, the amendment will mean that the beneficial owners those whose names appear on the depository register of the Central Depository Pte
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      304 18 Manager’s prices for May 11 ft 13 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.32-1.41 The Savings fund 1.06—113 S pore Prog Fund 0 49 -0 5? Spore Sec fund 0 85-0 91 S'pore Invest fund 0 91—0 97 S pore Equity Fund Asia Unit Trust 061-065 Mai Invest fund
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      Forex trading volume rises 30% to $35 trillion
      372 19 Gulf crisis said to be the cause of market’s volatility SINGAPORE'S foreign exchange trading volume registered an increase of 30 per cent last year, as a result of the market volatility caused by the Gulf crisis. According to figures released by the
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1479 19 Currant Ex links Date Total ter Total for payment date dm pqraMe the ynar last jmar tona 5%TE Jun 5 Jun 17 Jul 1 10%TE Aaimo 5%TE Feb 25 Mar 7 May 15 125%TE 25%TE BAT 104 8% Apr 15 Apr 26 May 10 152.4% 100% Banter) 5%(D
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      137 19 Company Rights Issue Ountop Est Restricted issue of J*****m nominal value of 10% Convertible Redeemable Unsecured Loan Stock (CULS) 1991 issued on the basts of $1 nominal amount of CULS for every 3 ordinary shares of $1 each held at nominal value Ex-date Apr Books dose Apr 12
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      PROPOSED ISSUES
      492 19 Company Rights Issue Alton* One-for-two (a, MS 1.00 per share Issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (CRTS) of MS0.10 each at MSI per share with 10m detachable TSR on the basis of 1 CRPS with 1 TSR for every 4 CRPS Bolton One-tor-four <* M$2 00 per
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      United Engineers gets nod to redevelop River Valley complex
      249 20 A KENZO TANGE designed intelligent complex will begin to take shape on United Engineers’ (UE) River Valley Road site later this year. This follows the provisional approval given to the group for its architectural plan for the redevelopment of its 3.1-ha
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    • Article
      More Singapore firms visiting Vietnam for business potential
      500 20 MORE Singapore companies are heading for Vietnam for a first-hand **feel" of the country, and to explore trade opportunities there, so as not to lose out to competitors from other Asian countries. Mr P.S. Tan, director of the tour agency Maple Aviation,
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      Turkey seeks investment guarantee
      130 20 TURKEY hopes to begin discussions with Singapore next year on signing agreements covering investment guarantee and the avoidance of double taxation between the two countries, the leader of the visiting Turkish trade and business delegation said last Saturday. Mr Osman Unsal, who heads the Foreign Investment
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  • FORUM
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      GCE A levels may be outdated for Singapore’s needs
      896 23 It’s not a good assessment tool and does not ensure well-rounded education SINGAPORE'S adoption of the GCE A level examination as a criterion for entry into the university may have outlived its usefulness. Its application should, thus, be re-examined. The problem
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      Golf clubs must pay market rate for land
      588 23 I READ with interest your report “Golf courses: Clubs to pay market prices?” (ST, April 25) on the possible review of the disproportionately low rental fees currently paid by some golf clubs in Singapore for the leasehold land used as gold courses.
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    • Article
      S’poreans must not fall prey to self-deception
      432 23 I REFER to your report "PM: Let's make this the finest nation" (ST Overseas Edition. May 4). As a Singaporean. I feel obliged to sound a word of caution concerning the jingoistic verbiage reported in your papers Nationhood needs its champions, sure. But
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  • Article, Illustration
    Joint naval and air exercises to resume soon: Najib
    483 24 KL Defence Minister calls for new basis of bilateral relations to be charted VISITINC, Malaysian Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Kazak on Thursday announced that bilateral naval and air exercises between the Malaysian and Singapore armed forces will resume shortly.
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  • Article
    Status of reservists may be made clear in passports
    205 24 A CLEARER explanation of reservists’ status may be stamped on their passports to assure foreign immigration officers that they are not undesirable characters with restricted passports. Senior Minister of State (Defence) Dr Lee Boon Yang raised this possibility on Tuesday in
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  • Article
    Both sides may resume land drills ‘if all goes well’
    319 24 THE Malaysian and Singapore armed forces can consider resuming bilateral land exercises if their naval and air exercises go well, said visiting Malaysian Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak last night. He was responding to reporters who asked why
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