The Straits Budget, 19 February 1964

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Tdiies *3. A KUALA LUMPUR, FEBRUARY 19, 1964. Price 40 Cents (Malaya) or 1 shilling. KDN 001.
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    • 624 2  -  DOCTOR Ipoh ONG EE LIM I poll AS a doctor myself 1 feel that a term of compulsory duty in the health service will in effect benefit the doctors when and if they turn to private practice eventually. However, any form of conscription requires,
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    • 29 2  -  STEVEN HUANG Singapore I HAVE been fined $20 for carrying two passengers in the front seat of my car. I did not know it was an offence.
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    • 219 2  -  G. L. MAH Superintendent Car Parks Division Singapore IT is unfair of “Motorist” (ST. Jan. 18) to accuse the Singapore authorities of trying to find new and effective ways to prevent motorists from parking In all parking places and car parks there
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    • 44 2  -  RESIDENT Singapore COULD the department concerned look Into the possibility of transferring the bazaars now held on Race Course Road to Hampshire Road (adjacent to Farrer Park)? This would definitely ease traffic congestion. Race Course Road is on a main bus route
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    • 165 2  -  PENANGITE Penang PENANG before the war could boast of being the cultural and educational centre of Malaya Qone are the days of the municipal band, the Dondana y whi?P an< the lea 2 ln llst of Quin’s Bcholt?s and a new^fafltyTh^naml Drivti e ge“ l and r p
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    • 225 2  -  P.G.P. HILLS Singapore Mr. Needham’s letter headed “Half the rifle story” gives a wrong impression of the facts; he is too clever “by half.” I carried out continuous and detailed teats on the AR-15 for four years and recommended Its adoption throughout the territories
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    • 102 2  -  OBSEr.vta Singapore IN reply to the Police secretary's letter i Feb. 4> I have noticea mat the “Turn Left" sign at the Pickering Street-South Bridge Road Junction has now been altered to read “Turn Left—One Way Only which Is less ambiguous than before. I agree that traffic policemen
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    • 104 2  -  STIDtNT Penang 1 AGREE that limitec ro motion should be en to candidates who r ai n the necessary credits ven though they fail ther na. tional language p per When the national i.. g U age paper was made i ;m. pulsory in 1962, fear.s srew in
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    • 114 2  -  H J > ..V Singapore rN the Tanglin Halt are* of Singapore there seems to be some confusion as to which i s the correct side of the road to park on The result Is that cars now park on both sides The police in Queenstown do not seem
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    • 75 2  -  .IRC Kuala Lumpur MR. Tan Slew Sin might find some ammunition to fire at the “socialists" in this passage from Boswell’s Lift of Johnson: “Sir, your levellers wish to level DOWN as far as themselves; but they cannot bear anyone levelling UP to themselves They would have some
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    • 84 2  -  CON' VFP Singapore HOW does a gang o: robbers escape the tlngnej of a hundred polu-'-meir Let us say a road is fci >cked by a police sign and there are about five pot- wen around. Every r:> r screened, but by th time the tenth vehicle h
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 614 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 10 I solves the ceasefire problem, there will certainly be no Malaysian objection. But if we are to play with words, we had better be sure that this formula does not require the return of British units to the United Kingdom. The thought of
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    • 427 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 10 It is the healthiest of signs that the three main organisations of Chinese teachers in Singapore should be meeting to discuss ways to raise the standard of English language instruction in Chinese schools. As recently perhaps as a year ago, such a conference could
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    • 601 3 —Straits Times, Feb, 11 Bigger mountains have laboured to produce a smaller mouse than the Bangkok agreement. In all truth, however, the Ministerial confertnce wears an air of success only because the talkr did not break down. They nearly did. The achievement is confined to confirmation of
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    • 709 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 12 The Bangkok agreement looks no better in daylight than it did on Monday night. The ceasefire is a" full of holes as a colander, and there has been no headway in the direction of likely conditions for a political settlement. There is comfort,
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    • 230 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 12 The Perak State Forest Officer’s account of illegal cultivation in fores* reserves points to a ludicrous situation. On the one hand there are elaborate land development schemes which offer new setlers all manrer of assistance; their land is cleared, their houses built, tools, seed
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    • 639 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 13 The truest remark about the ceasefire and the Bangkok talks comes from Dr. Subbandrio, now back in Jakarta. The agreement reached “is very fragile.” It is indeed, and the fragility is underlined by Dr. Subandrio’s further comment. While he thinks the ceasefire will
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    • 679 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 13 The suggestion that the date and th£ place of the next meeting of Foreign Ministers of Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia will be announced in a day or two implies that much more progress was made in Bangkok and Phnom Penh than was
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    • 641 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 15 during the talks to policy j n South-East Asia and “to the problem of assisting countries in this area to maintain their independence.” There is full British support for American policy and actions in South Vietnam, and full American rupport for “the
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  • PERSONAL
    • 14 4 ROBINSON: To Esther anrt a son. Peter Ravlndran, on 19 at K.K. Singapore.
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  • 269 5 PENANG, Feb. 9 tHE Socialist Mayor of George Town, Mr. C. 1 y (jhoy, today suggested that the Alliance rovernment invite representatives of trawler nd inshore (ishermen to a meeting to settle ■heir diiferences. Aurcement could De reuch.C SUCh K e H T lnl
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  • 78 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 9—A group of American ousinessmen and women fiew in here tonight on a two- day sight-seeing tour. The party ot 24 11 wo"er, and 13 men. arrived here on a BOAC flight from Sydney They are all members ot the American People-to-People Council
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  • 144 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12—For several thousand old folks in Malaya and Singapore, yesterday was “Ang Pow Day.” Shaw Brothers threw open the gates of their amusements parks to distribute to each of the old folk a Chinese New Year gift parcel worth about
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  • 35 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 9—The Finance .Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, will lay the toundation stone ot the Bridgestone Malaysia factory at Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim. Jurong Industrial Estate on Feb 21 at 3 30 p.m
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  • 25 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 9.—The Catholic Women's League will hold its monthly luncheon meeting at St. John’s Cathedral at 10 am. on Feb 12.
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  • 204 5 11 HELD AFTER THREE-DAY WATCH SINGAPORE. F©b. 10 POLICE party early today surrounded a threestoreyed building in Mosque Street and arrested an 11member gang described as “bigtime” house-break-ers on the top floor. One oi the gang was a woman, whose little son
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  • 154 5 IPOH, Feb. 9. Six Indonesian pirates, armed with a revolver and parangs, robbed three Malayan fishermen of their catch of fish and other goods worth $4OO in international waters 24 miles from Pantai Remis in the Lumul area. The fishermen. Mohamcd Sa'ad bin Mat Isa, 39.
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  • 69 5 KUCHING, Feb. 11—The curfews in the border areas of Sarawak’s First and Second Divisions have been extended for another month and that in the Second Division now covers a slightl; wider area. The Federal Secretary, Tengku Mohamed bin Tengku Besar Burhanuddin. today ordered all people
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  • 210 5 SINGAPORE, February 9. lndustrial Workers’ Union of Singapore today praised Walls Fitzpatrick's Singapore Ltd. for its “realistic approach” in settling the union’s claims. Mr. James Soh. the union’s secretary general, said in a statement that he hopea other managements in Singa pore would treat unions more
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  • 55 5 IPOH, Feb. 9 Speeding motorists along busy Brewstei Koad here have been warned to heed the traffic control lights and warning bell at either end of the Fire Brigade station ’*Manv motorists are falling to observe these control signs." said Mr. P. A. O'osz, Superintendent
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  • 158 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 9. The Department of Social Studies of the University of Singapore will start a new course of intensive training in professional social work on March 3. The course is for graduates Thj Head of the department, Miss Jean Robertson, said today; “The
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  • 71 6 f|i»vii Malaysian nurses, X Miss Tan Ah Choo (left) and Che Zaharah biutc Kedam. with the Governor of Western Australia, Sir Douglas kendrew, on his first visit to Fremantle General Hospital in Western Australia. The two nurses were presented to Sir Douglas. Introducing them to
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  • 253 6 KUALA LUMPUR, February 10. r £HE Selangor Government is to give top priority to developing the industrial estate in the new satellite town to be built between Batu Tiga and Klang. It has asked the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for a $4 million
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  • 64 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10—The Prime Minister, lengku AOdul Rahman, has sent this message to President Macapagal ot the Philippines’ on the death ol Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo: "It is with great sorrow that 1 learned ol the death ot Gen Aguinaldo. the Philippine Na tional hero. Please accept
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  • 178 6 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 10.-Railway passenger services on the AmpangSultan Street line which was closed down ifter the 23-day rail strike last year, were resumed today with a railcar service on a “sixmonth trial.” The Malayan Railwa \dministration decided o* the trial after the Arnp'im Local
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  • 64 6 SINGAPORE, Feb 11.—A bread seller, Madam Wee Ah Eng. uho was injured when she was knocked down by a lorry in Queen Street in July. 1962, was today awarded total damages of $13,445 with costs by Mr. Justice Ambrose in the High Court. Madam Wee. 57,
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  • 201 6 SINGAPORE, February 11. STRONG rumours that Mr. Shaw Vee Ming, 13 son of cinema magnate Mr. Run R un Shaw, was ieleased today were denied by the family. Mr. Run Run Shaw told tht Straits limes that tin rumours were not trut Police also
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  • 78 6 SINGAPORE. Feb- 11—The construct.on ol a proposed SJS.UOO mosque at Queenstown has been held up due to lack of funds. The chairman of the Misque Jame Fund Comm.ttee, Inche Huron Abdul Latiff, said construct on of the mosque was to In ve begun
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  • 214 6 gINGAPORE, Feb. 10 Russia is back in the local rubber market again after ar absence of three months, but dealers were asking here tonight whether it was the beginning of the resumption of steady buying or just a Hash in the pan. The Soviet steamer
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  • 16 6 KLANO. Peb. 11.— The To» D Council will meet at 2 3U pm lliullOW.
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    • 106 6 THE H.K. AND FAR EAST rj»d A Bi-Monthly periodical oi Building of Real Estate Activities in the Far East. A Magazine dealing with building, architectural and real estate activities m Malaya, S.i.g port Hong King, Siam, The Philippines, Ba nco and The far East '♦tablished in ia.it th s bi
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  • 362 7 ALOR STAR, February 10. 4 BUSINESSMAN, Lee Kim Mean, 26, today A told a preliminary inquiry of the day acid was thrown at him after he gave three men a lift in his car. "One of them fjung the liquid at
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  • 174 7 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 10.—The sixth set of twin tickets in the Social Welfare lottery drawn today in Ipoh was discovered by Mr. Lim Meng See, chairman of the Segamat division of the United Democratic Party. The twin tickets bear the number *****84 and
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  • 68 7 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 10. —The Primp Ministry Tengku Abdul Rahman, will give a combined Harl Raya Puasa-Chlnese New Year buffet party for 2,500 guests at Parliament House at 8.30 p.m. on Feb. 16. For the public there will be a Pesta Harl Raya In the Lake
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  • 259 7 ‘WE CANNOT DO WITHOUT THE TENGKU,’ SAYS PENANG UMNO CHIEF SYED HASSAN PENANG, Feb. 9 TtVGKU Abdul Rahman was desfnbed as “indispensf b,e ’to Malaysia by lhe Penang Umno president, Syed Hass?J,Aidid, last night. Although no man is to us, withn S a !l S wp cann °t do
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  • 212 7 SINGAPORE, February 10gOMEONE tried to stop publication of medical, dental and pharmaceutical examination results sent to the newspapers today by the University s Deputy Registrar, Mrs. Lu Sinclair. A few hours after the Straits Times had received the results, an ‘‘express” registered letter arrived at
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  • 156 7 JZUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10. Rounds of applause filled the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka hall here tonight when a group of blind musicians from the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind gave a splendid first night’s performance. The 20-member troupe entertained the crowd
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  • 28 7 BATU PAHAT. Feb. 10—The Rotary Club here today distributed gifts to Inmates ot the Old People’s Home for Chinese New Year and Hari Raya.
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  • 260 7 IPOH, Feb. 10. —Mr. Jus--1 tice All bin Hassan today acquitted a farmer, Yeop Rashid bin Khalid, 64, on a charge oi raping his 13-year-old school girl stepdaughter. At the end of the prosecution case, conducted by Inche Mohamed bin Yaacob, D.P.P.,
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  • 91 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 9. Seven local musicians will give a combined concert at the Victoria Theatre sponsorship of the Singapore Chamber Ensemble. They represent various schools of training. Pianist Miss Cheung Mun Chit and violinist Mr. Alphonso Anthony are London trained. Ous Steyn
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  • 532 8 ILLEGAL CULTIVATION RAMPANT KUALA LUMPUR, February 10 OFFICIALS of the Malaysian Forest Department are fighting a losing battle against illegal tobacco and tapioca cultivators on forest reserves and State land in Perak. This is stated in the latest issue of The Malayan Forester, official
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  • 201 8 Big S’pore Edinburgh airlift of troop replacements begins SINGAPORE, Feb. 11 The big two-way airlift of Scottish troops between Singapore and Edinburgh involving the Ist Bn., Queen s own Highlanders, and the Ist Bn., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders —got off to a good start today. A BOAC chartered aircraft, carrying
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  • 204 8 PENANG, Feb. 10 A FTER a heated two- hour debate, the Penang branch of the Asian Customs Services Union last night decided to reject the new schedule of salary conversions for revenue officers offered by the Government. The revised scales were circularised to members
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  • 325 8 TAIPING. Feb. 10 IT is the Alliance Government’s belief that 1 deeds are better than words, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, said here yesterday. “Many people are not aware of the Government’s achievements because very little publicity
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  • 119 8 PENANG, Feb. 10. The Socialist Mayor of George Town, Mr. C. Y. Choy. today appealed to Malaysian leaders to strive for the three P’s—peace, progress and prosperity -In the coming year of the dragon. In a Chinese New Year message to the
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  • 135 8 PENANG, Feb. 11.—A senior police officer Deputy Supt. Dershan Singh, helped an R.A.F. technician, Richard Nestfield, to chase and arrest two boys at Green Cross here last night. The police officer was having a drink in the Hamilton Road house of Mr. Hari
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  • 56 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11 laysian High Commissioner in rachi, Inrhe Mohameci bin back for a holiday, said that Pakistan would short y r, a trade delegation to Malays'® )(i Pakistan was making a b.a sell its cotton and Pak s-a-traders were anxious to set up Jute
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  • 354 9 KUALA LUMPUR, February 11. THE Government has launched an educaA tional plan to help Malay building contractors to take a more active part in the commercial and industrial life of the country. Announcing this at a news conference today. the Assistant Minister of Commerce
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  • 34 9 ij r PAHAT. Peb. 11— A Pub»l„ h. and Trade Fft l r from p d Kim’s Park here f'OMwn 16 t 0 March l Th* *»a Industries?" 1016 loC ade
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  • 169 9 KLANG, Feb. 11—All 25 kampong penghulus here employed by the State Government today told the District Officer. Inche Johan bln Mohammed Yassin, that they intended to resign from their posts. This followed the State Government’s decision to pay them only a quarter of their
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  • 62 9 vSI> T GAPORE Feb 9.— Three Canadian destroyers arrived here today for an eight-day goodwill visit before joining Commonwealth navies for exercises in the Pacific. The Fraser arrived here this morning. The two other vessels Mackenzie and St. Laurence arrived in the afternoon. All three
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  • 245 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. —The left-wing Barisan Sosialis, in a statement commenting on the release of several political detainees recently, alleged today that the Federation Government had obtained the services of a prominent ex Communist from Britain, Mr. D. Hyde, to act as a “master
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  • 34 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 11— A shop in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here was broken Into on the night of Feb. 10 by thieves who took away cash and valuables totalling $526-
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  • 185 9 CINGAPORE, Feb. 11.— An eight-member delegation from the American Newspaper Study Mission Inc. is ir Singapore to “clear away any misconceptions” they may have about this region. A spokesman for the group, Mr. A 1 Spiers, editor of four newspapers
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  • 76 9 SINGAPORE, Peb. 11. There was a good attendance when tne department of extra-mural studies of the University of Singapore started its extension course on crimonology and penology at the university last night. Altogether 14 peop'e, including a psychiatrist, a psychologist, an RAF squadron leader, police
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  • 54 9 ALOR STAR. Feb 10.—A robber beat up a 73-year-old woman. Bok Tai. and then robbed her of $240 at a lonely spot in Tambun To’Alang, near Kangar. She was taking the money home after selling her padl when the robber confronted her. He assaulted
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  • 222 9 Kuching, Feb. 10. The Sarawak Government Aslan Officers Union today threatened to go on strike over the Government’s refusal to grant advances to employees for Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Puasa. After the request for advances was rejected last week,
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  • 45 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 10. The Malayan Red Cross Society is to form a national disaster relief committee with representatives drawn from all voluntary organisations. The plan was announced here yesterday by Mrs. M. Koruth. g©» neral secretary of the Red Cross Solcety.
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  • 44 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb- 11.—The vice-president of the International Federation of Journalists. Mr. William Farson, arrived here today for a three-day visit during which he will have talks with leaders of the National Union of Journalists, which is affiliated to the federation.
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  • 99 9 IPOH, Feb. 10.—A mining engineer, J C P. Corttrall. 36. of Kinta Kellas Tin Ltd., was killed early yesterday morning when the car he was driving went off the road and somersaulted at the 6th mile GopengBatu Gajah Road Another mining engineer F J
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  • 201 10 KUCHING, February 11. SARAWAK’S Minister lor Local Government, Mr. Dunstan Endawie, said yesterday that much of the success of Sarawak’s ambitious five-year development plan would depend on the response of youth to the challenge of the coming years Speaking at the annual meeting of
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  • 73 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11.— A telephone call last night cost a confectionery factory owner $2,000 Mr Chan Bon Chau, 25, of Jit Sin and Co. in Sixth Avenue Bukit Timah Road, had parked his car in Rangoon Road to make a call, leaving the money in a
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  • 40 10 PENANG. Feb. 11—The Chief Police Officer, Mr. J. J. Raj. today issued a warning that no crackers may be let off within 100 yards ol any hospital or mosque during the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya festivities.
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  • 97 10 pENANG, Feb. 11.— Police here are looking for a welldressed man who, posing as a police inspector, assaulted a restaurant assistant, Tan Guan Soon, after taking 58.65 from him yesterday. The man, aged about 30, identified himself as “Inspector Lee” from
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  • 536 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10.—The University of Singapore today announced, the results of the preliminary examination for the degrees of M. 8.. B.S and B.D.S: and the Intermediate examination for the degree of B. Pharm, held last month. The following candidates have passed the preliminary examination for
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  • 261 10 TRAWLING BAN RESULT PENANG, February 11. AS a result of the Government ban on their main means of livelihood, hundreds of trawler fishermen face a “miserable” Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Puasa this year, Mr. David Tan, chairman of the Federation of
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  • 189 10 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 11. —A broken cable live miles from here was given as the cause for the “interrupted, very scratchy and low- powered” transmission during the lunchtime English programme of Radio Malaysia today. The normal English broadcast at 1 p.m. did not
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  • 65 10 SINGAPOFE, Feb- 11- The Yang di-Pertuan Negara, Tun Yusof bln Ishak, has ordered the grounds of Istana Negara to be opened to the public from 8 a.m to 6 P-m- on Chinese New Year day Feb. 13 and on Harl Raya Pua|a <|iy Peb. IS.
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  • 40 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 11—The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will be the host at a party at the Residency on Feb 17 for delegates attending the AfroAslan rural reconstruction organisation conference opening here on the same day.
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  • 27 10 PENANG. Feb 11— Mr. Cheah Pnnrt E< T'f a ret,red sen,or Supreme Court interpreter, died in the General Hospital last night He was 67.
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  • 268 10 OINGAPORE, Feb. ll.„ Malaysia provides a healthy economic climate for future Japanese participation in the industrial field. This is the verdict of a 15member Japanese industry mission from the Mitsubishi group who left here today f or Manila after a week-long Investigation of Malaysia’s
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  • 43 10 KUCHING. Feb. 11 Wj* authorising the borrowing from Federal Government ol $3 mi.dor for loans to aided schools i<nd million for providing water supple, will be considered by the Coun r N'-"*-’ of Sarawak when it me< on Peb 24.
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  • 852 11  -  PREMIER: ‘WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER; WHATEVER HAPPENS THERE WILL BE NO TROUBLE’—LOPEZ: 7 ENTIRELY AGREE WITH THESE SENTIMENTS’ from SAMAD ISMAIL Editoi of Berita Harian. reporting from SIEMREAP (Cambodia), Feb. 11 TENGKU Abdul Rahman today described the progress of his talks with President
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  • 130 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11.— The Finance Minister, Dr Goh Keng Swee will lay the foundation stone of Bridgestone Malaysia Ltd., Singapore’s new $2O million tyre- manufacturing company at the Jurong industrial complex, on Feb. 21. The company is a Joint Investment
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  • 35 11 SINGAPORE, Peb. 11 The University of Singapore today announced the following candidates have passed the examination for the Diploma In Public Health: Chew Pin Kee. Choi Shi Rvong and Sun-woo Chang Won.
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  • 844 11 WHY WE’RE NOT HAPPY—BY RAZAK KUALA LUMPUR, Fab. 11 (NDONES lAN terrorists found on Malaysian soil in the Borneo territories will be disarmed and sent back across the border. This was stated by Tun Abdul Razak at the airport here today on
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  • 302 12 Kuching, Feb. 13. The Sarawak Government Asian Officers’ Union yesterday morning made a lastminute appeal to the Government to pay advances of salary to its Muslim and Chinese employees but up to the time the offices closed in the evening for the
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  • 87 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11 11.M.N.Z.S Taranaki. the latest of New Zealand’s fast anti-submarine frigates will arrive in Penang on Feb 14 morning tc pay a four-day roodwill vlsP The Taranaki serving in the Far East Fleet as part of New Zealand's contribution to the Commonwealth
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  • 278 12  -  A new house for polio victim Jumahir, his mother and sisters -by- EVELYN TU: Singapore, Feb. 12 E>OR 18-year-old polio victim Jumahir bin Jumadi, his widowed mother and his two elder sisters, this Hari Raya Puasa will be their happiest in 10 years.
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  • 161 12 A LOR STAR, Feb. 11- Pretty Arfah binte Abdullah, 17, reported kidnapped by two men near her house at Telok Wanjah last Sunday on the night of Feb. 9. is back home. A relative found her yesterday at Pompong, about three miles away.
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  • 79 12 JESSELTON. Feb. 10 The Yang di-Pertua Negara of Sabah. DM Mustapha bln Dato Harun, stay In office as requested by people and the Sabah All.ar.ce Party, according to his prvate secretary, Inche A.R. Khal.d Inche Khalid said that the Da.o had been erroneousiy repor.ed
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  • 166 12 KUALA LUMPUR, February 1 1 EXPECTATIONS of Formosa doubling its imports of iron ore from Malaya from 50,000 tons to 100,000 last year were in vain because the new Formosan steel mill has not yet started operations. Mr Henry Wong, secretary of the
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  • 224 13 SINGAPORE, February 12. the Shaw family have cancelled social engage1 merits for the Chinese New Year until the return of Mr. Shaw Vee Ming, kidnapped son of cinemoanntp Mr. Run Run Shaw. nia magnate mi. i\uw uu* “in a statement to the Press XI Mr.
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  • 100 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12—The Maiaysian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting na s awarded EMI Electrodes Ltd. a further contract o supply equipment for the j,st phase of the Malaysian television service, included in the contract are two &2teri orimCOn cameras and equipment. picture
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  • 212 13 CINGAPORE, Feb. 12. K —The acting Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, today described Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Puasa falling almost on the same date as “more than a good omen for Malaysia." “It Is as though by this symbolic coincidence
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  • 40 13 SINGAPORE. Feb- 11 The Min ster lor Culture, Mr S. Rajaratnam, will speak at the next luncheon meeting of the Singapore National Union of Journalists at the Capitol Room on Feb. 20 The subject will be announced later.
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  • 131 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 11twepn t!^ s held toda y bethn Japa n Air Lines and Manua l and at r fu i e T Workers> Union endH tn abour Ministry dhnnt thout settling their Sor P ke^. and Strike 45 assistant the t\’ k l Mr-
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  • 303 13 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 10.—The visiting former Maharajah of Patiala said he was greatly impressed by the tremendous progress Malaya had achieved over the last 20 years. His Highness Farzandi-i-Khas reminisced: “I remember the sad and bitter year of 1941 when I lirst came to
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  • 43 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10— The Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, was today presented with a $5,000 cheque by the Sffuw Foundation for the 400 fire victims in Batu Lane. The fire wiped out about 40 homes on Feb. 2.
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  • 240 13 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 12.—Extra coaches will be provided for day and night express trains during the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya period from today till Feb. 18. According to a Railway statement today, the night express trains in each direction between Kuala Lumpur
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  • 50 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 11—Mr. S. V. Lingam. Assemblyman tor Aljunled opened on Feb. 9 the MacPherson Road (South) market built by the Government at a cost of $140,000 The market, the fifth to be opened by the present Government, consists of a main building accommodating i 26 stalls
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  • 194 13 KUALA LUMPUR, February 12. A WORKING committee has been set up to look ,r into the problems of Sarawak’s labour shortage. The Assistant Minister of Kura) Development, inche AbduJ Rahman bln Va’acub, said here today that the committee was setting up offices in each of
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  • 146 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. Rumours continue to circulate tnat Mr. Shaw Vee Ming, kidnapped son of cinema magnate Mr. Run Run Shaw, has been released. There l s even talk that he left lor Hong Kong after being released, to avoid publicity The
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  • 87 13 Ipoh, Feb. 12.—Inspector Chew Tit Chye, 41, attached to the Centra] police station here, was allowed $7,000 ball in one surety in the Sessions Court here today when he pleaded not guilty to criminal breach of trust. He was alleged to have committed the offence when entrusted
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  • 383 14 TENGKU OSMAN TO CADET OFFICERS: BE AN EXAMPLE OF HIGHEST ORDER LUMPUR, Feb. 12. The Chief of the A9rmed Forces Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa, told short service commission officers today that theirs was the beginning of
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  • 141 14 PENANG, February 12. pLEVEN Malaysians—eight Malays, two Chinese and an Indian —will leave for Tokyo at the end of the month for six months’ training in a Japanese sugar refinery. The eleven. all Higher School Certificate students, were selected from about 100 candidates who applied for
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  • 44 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 12—The USIS Library will resume regular hours on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The library and the American Embassy will be closed from tomorrow to Monday. From Feb. 18 normal hours 930 a.m. to 5.30 pm. will start again-
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  • 55 14 JESSELTON. Feb. 12 Six house were gutted by fire at Kampong Ulumunsok in the Tambuan district, according to a report received here today. No lives were lost. Tambunan District Officer visited the kampong this morning to arrange for food and clothing to victims eight men.
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  • 23 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12 The Sabah Minister for Works and Communications. Dato Khoo Siak Chiew, flew In here today from Phnom Penh-
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  • 61 14 PENANG, Feb. 12—The Governor Raja Tun Uda, will take part in Hari Raya prayers at the Kapitan Kluig mosque. P.ti Street at 9 a m. on Raya day. On his arrival at 8.45 a.m. the Goverp r will be welcomed by mosque officials, Muslim members of
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  • 117 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 12—The Federation Ordnance Services (Territorial Army), which will be formed here soon, are looking for clerks, storemen and general duties personnel. Minimum educational requirements are a pass in Form II Malay or English, or the equivalent in Chinese or Tamil. The Ministry
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  • 219 14 OINGAPORE, Feb. 12 The Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the University 0 f Singapore is beginning a course entitled “The rise and fall of the Kuomintang” on Feh 28 Te course, consisting 0 f 10 weekly lectures, will be given by
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  • 42 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 12The National Art Gallery in to pang Road will be closed on tit first day of Hari Raya On tit other four days of the holidays the gallery will be open irom a.m. to 6.30 p m.
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  • 293 14 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 11.—The Sliltan ot Selangor today noted “with very great pleasure” the important role the National Art Gallery here is playing in the artistic and cultural life of the nation. He opened the two-month exhibition ot the "National Collection of Photographs.*' a
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  • 345 15 KUALA LUMPUR, February 12. rpHE Deputy Prime Munster, Tun Abdul Razak 1 today called on Malaysians to give the Alliance a fresh mandate if they wanted progress stability and prosperity to continue uninter- rupted. in a Cninese New Year message, lun Abdul
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  • 80 15 4 ING h', i RE Feb U A Chi- h0Q Student. Koh Eng a r ho suffered injuries a c d accldent 21 months r 000 h« a^ arded damages of e k y Mr. Justice Chua in H-Ph Court today. f r.vdru was made against
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  • 60 15 wo Feb-12—Surveying of hrm,u''L r r lana development s s'arr P H .u rural development ct u 111 ,he Ulu Langat dis- e at Bukit Damar. r, l Jf l i k 1 about 20 miles from •he on V c ,ver A 1.100 acres and acr<
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  • 141 15 OINGAPORE, Feb. 10.— Water rationing in Singapore will be lifted lor six days, from Feb. 12 to Feb. 17, to enable tfie public to celebrate the Chinese New Year u n d the Hari Raya Puasa. The Public Utilities Board *ald today that
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  • 35 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 12— The 129th birthday anniversary of Sri Ramakxishnan. will be celebrated at the Chettiars Temple Halj, Sentul. at 6.00 p.m. on Feb 15 with special worship- devotional music and talks.
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  • 34 15 JESSELTON. Feb. 11. Three scouts from Beaufort District led by their scoutmaster, Inche Ayub Aman, are expected to leave on Feb. 16 for Lahore to attend Pakistan’s national scout conference lext month.
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  • 194 15 IPOH, Feb. 12. The x $998-a-month head postmaster of the Ipoh General Post Office. Cng Slew Hooi, 53, who has become a bankrupt on his own petition, blamed heavy family responsibilities and medical bills for his plight. Ong, Who was testifying at his
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  • 83 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 13 The head of the Department of Indian Studies at the University of Malaya, Professor Xavier S. Thani Nayagam. is to make a sixweek study tour of West Germany under the German academic exchange service in May and June 4. Professor Thani
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  • 21 15 TELUK ANSON, Feb. 13—Gifts totalling $2,290 were distributed to 059 fire victims of Langkap new viliaee here yesterday.
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  • 90 15 KLANG, Feb. 12.—Twentyeight clinics have been built by the Health Ministry in Selangor in the last three years. A spokesman of the State Health Department said building of clinics was Intensified under the rural development programme. “The 28 clinfcs cost the
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  • 598 15 KUALA LUMPUR, February 12 jyjALAYSIANS are going all out to celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime double festivals Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Puasa which start tomorrow and will continue right through the weekend. For this double-bang occasion, which occurs once in 3o years, and especially
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  • 42 15 TAIPING, Feb 12—A mother of six children. Tan Lang Tee. 37, was fined $4OO or three months’ jail by the magistrate's court here yesterday when she pleaded guilty to making a false statement in order to obtain a citizenship certificate.
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  • 26 15 JESSELTON. Feb. 12—The cur few’ In Tawal district has been lifted from today till Feb 19 for Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Puasa.
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  • 33 15 SINGAPORE. Wed Cathav Pacific Airways has announced f hat its two weeklv flights to North Borneo will be directed temporarily to Brunei while Jesselton Airport is closed for six weeks
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  • 23 15 IPOH. Wed. The Monglembu division of Umno will celebrate Hari Rava Puasa at the Malavan Chinese Association building here on Sunday.
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  • 370 16 Stephens: Indonesians have no contact with troops in jungle KUALA LUMPUR, February 14 PRESIDENT Soekarno’s order to guerillas operating in the Sabah jungles to remain at their positions was tantamount to asking them “to starve to death,” Dato Donald Stephens, Sabah’s Chief Minister, said
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  • 176 16 Feb. 14. k There should be no relaxation of vigilance, said the Governor of Sarawak, Dato Abang Haji Openg, in his Hari Raya message today. “1 ask all of you to be vigilant and loyal to Sarawak ’Sarawak has gained her independence and sht has
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  • 98 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 13. TWO Japanese women teachers arrived here today 1 to teach Japanese to Malaysians. They are Miss Mlyeko Ohso, 22 Min lef t» and Miss Takako Ayusawa. 21 They will De here for two years under the Japanese Clovernment’s
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  • 68 16 PENANG, Peb. 13. —A military band and a local music party will perform here on Sunday. The band of the Ist Green Jackets. under the baton of Mr. B. E. Simpson, will give a concert at the Esplanade, starting at 5.15 p.m. followed by Beating Retreat
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  • 160 16 2, 000 victims in New Year blaze A LOR STAR, Feb. 13More than 2,000 people were made homeless by a hre which razed about half of the Chinatown area in Telok Wanjah, half a mile from nere. early this morning. There were no casualties except for a fireman who slipped
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  • 47 16 PATRICIA AUGUSTUS (above), an 18-year-old student dental nurse, was the winner of the “Commercial Queen” crown at the Penang branch of the National Union of Commercial Workers’ Chinese New Year dance at the E. O. Hotel- Straits O. Hotel- Straits Times picture.
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  • 51 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14 a memorial service for a former senior official of the Football Association of Selangor and ua Football Association of Malay, the late Mr. S- C. Singam. the died on Feb 16 last year, will v. held at the Cheras Road ceme:e.7 tomorrow at 5
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  • 139 16 PENANG, Feb. 13 'J'HE Malaysian Immigration headquarters placed an order through the Crown Agents in Britain for the supply of 56,000 new Malaysian passports. The new passports, which will eventually replace the present Malayan “Double Tiger” passports, are expected to be ready by the
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  • 49 16 SUNGEI PATANI. Feb 13' The Sultan of Kedah will hois* reception for State and community leaders at the tana Anak Bukit at 10.15 air. Hari Raya day. The Sultan will attend H J Raya prayers at the Zahir In Alor Star, at 9 a m
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  • 144 16 gINGAPORE, Feb. 12.—The Minister of Finance Dr Goh Keng Swee will drive the first pile to start the foundation works of a new factory of the Singanorp Galvanising Industries Ltd at the Jurong industrial estate on Feb 18 The company which Is being started with
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  • 699 17  -  ‘THE INDONESIANS MUST LEAVE OUR SOIL. WE CANNOT HAVE THEM HOLDING GUNS UNDER OUR TREES...THERE MUST BE A PROPER ATMOSPHERE OR THERE WILL BE CLASHES’ by TONY HERMON: Kuala Lumpur February 14 MALAYSIA must be guaranteed “a proper atmosphere 91 if another Foreign Ministers’
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  • 163 17 Reuter. DANGKOK, Feb. 12. 33 Thai police recently shot dead a Chinese girl Communist terrorist in a gun battle behind the Taksinari Hotel at Amphur Betong. South Thailand, a police statement said yesterday. Police said the girl, Yoke Mu] Loke, who was
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  • 264 17 KULIM Feb. 14.—Afire last night gutted 36 stalls in a bazaar at Jalan Aman here. Total loss was estimated at $150,000. Most of the stalls were stored with cloth and piece goods. They were locked as their owners were away for
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  • 74 17 JESS ELTON, Feb. 14 Muslim rubber tappers ol Bengawan Estate, near Papar, have threatened to go on strike because they did not get their Hari Raya advances A group of 29 tappers led by their mandor Jikan bin O. T. Momln saw the district officer
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  • 645 17 Offer of $9m. shares will be made in late February or March KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14. from every waLk of life are to be invited to invest $9 million in a public company which in three years has become one of the most successful investment companies in
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  • 192 18 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 13. —A leading Australian education official will arrive here in May to see how his country can be of assistance to Malaysia. He is Mr Paul Radford, of Scotch College, Adelaide, and the Australian College ol Education. He holds a Masters
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  • 31 18 SEREMBAN, Feb. 14.—Miss Helen V. Zahara, general secretary of the Australian Theosophlcal Society, will speak on “the Panorama of Human Relationships” next Tuesday evening at the Vlvekananda Hall here.
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  • 291 18 SINGAPORE. February 14 MR. GORDON B. Seavey, leader of a group of 18 newspaper publishers from the United States, said here today that Singapore had more to offer tn tourists than Hong Kong. From the cultural aspect, h? said. Hong Kong had nnlv
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  • 229 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14. chairman of the Malayan Stock Exchange Mr. Lee Kai To, said today that the change had set up a new seat in Malacca. Malacca Traders, the new sharebroking firm established there, had paid the usual $50,000 for
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  • 77 18 KUAL* LUMPUR, Feb. 14. The secretary general of Interpol, Mr. Dean Nepote, flew lnfrom Singapore today on a 24-hour visit here in the course of a South-East As.an tour He said at the airport: *1 am here for personal contact with aojiod bjsXbjbim
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  • 171 18 CINGAPORE, Feb. 14._ Employees of K.P.M, (Far East) Ltd. are assured of a yearly wage increase under an agreement concluded between the company and the Singapore Business Houses Employees Union. The agreement, published today, allows all married women employees two months’ maternity leave with full
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  • 33 18 KLANG Feb. 14. The KM South M.C.A. Youth Sect uns distribute money, cakes, anfl fruits to patiems in the Distr.c: Hospital here and the Ku»* Langat T.B. Hospital on Feb.
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  • 122 18 JESSELTON, Fob. 14.—Drivers of the Penampang Union Transport Co went on strike today, paralysing traffic between Penampang district and Jesselton The drivers are in dispute over overtime pay claims for the Chinese New Year period The administrative staff of the company are trying
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  • 21 18 KLANO, Feb. 14.—Mrs. line K D’Cruz. of th e 1 nM( j Hospital here, has been pro® to District Matron.
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  • 908 19 i a LUMPUR t'x'uary 1 2 |Qj; Ken Smith, J was off the ma rK v h a rank outsider the first day, gain* lot her spectacular ;in when he landt rolden Master a $18V inner in the Cl. 2 IV’. 1 5£f handicap here today.
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  • 159 19 TELUK ANSON, Febduary 13. AN attap house on stilts and the kitchen at the rear of a coffeeshop, off Paulin Street here collapsed this evening into the Perak River as a result of erosion. There were no casualties. A week ago a 12-inch crack
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  • 52 19 IPOH, Feb. 12.—The Perak Flying Club will give 15-minute joy rides from the Sungei Biput landing strip. 16 miles north of here, during Chinese New Year. The club's new four-seater Airdale aircraft will be used. The rates are $lO a person with a reduction
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  • 41 19 SINGAPORE. Feb. 13.—Joyrides organised by the Royal Singapore Flying Club were a popular feature of this year’s Chinese New Year celebrationsThe Joy-rides, at $lO per adult and $5 for children, will continue until Feb from 0. a m
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  • 172 19 KUALA LUMPUR, February 13. JHE Central Government has accepted in principle the recommendations of a United Nations expert, Dr L. A. Jordan, to set up a Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to assist the development of industries. The Secretary to the Ministry oi
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  • 79 19 KUALA LUMPUR Peb. 13. The following have been appointed to the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board for one year oeglnnlng from Peb. 18. Mr. T. H. Tan (chairman). Da tin Fatimah binte Haji Haahim. Mr. Chan Kwong Hon, Mr. S. Murugesu. Mr. Wong Tham Soon, Inche
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  • 136 19 JESS ELTON, Feb. 13. A demand by oil palm Planters tor seedlings is growing according to an Agriculture Department statement, which said the Sandakan area alone wanted a quarter million seedlings. The department na> Dieted the building ol an oil palm research station at
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  • 158 19 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 13.—Television Malaysia will have two channels as soon as a transmitter and equipment for its second studio at the Tengku Abdul Rahman Hall here arrive from Britain. The equipment two image orthicon cameras, picture monitors, vision and sound mixing consoles and
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 26 19 BIB SWEEP TOTAL POOL 91M.SU 1st No. *****4 936.605 2nd No. *****9 I10.4&9 Sri No. *****1 95.229 Starter* (91.045 each): Noe. SIMM. *****9, *****0. *****9. 194S42.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2252 20 From Our Market Correspondent Malayan Stock Exchange can always be relied upon to do the unexpected and in this short week of 2} trading days lived up to its reputation. The exchange trading rooms and brokers’ offices are now closed until next Tuesda/ morning in the longest
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    • 253 20 U’EBRUARY first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at S p.m, in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 65J cents per lb. up seven-eighths of a cent on Tuesday's closing level for the position. The tone was very quiet. R A.B. and F.M.R.I, closing prices in cents per lb.
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    • 133 20 Rubber was generally steadier during the period to noon on Tuesday, especially in the later stages when the market received a fillip through the publication of a USSR February offtake figure of 10,000 tons. This news coupled with the f eeling In some quarters that further Soviet activity
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    • 18 20 RUBBER TIN* (per lb.) (per picul) Feb. 10 65!* $534.12% 11 64% $532.75 12 65*i $532.50
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    • 29 20 *i **!>•. 18 Feb 11 F «b- 12 ’lndustrial*: 113.10 113 41 114 84 Tins: 127.81 128.76 130.39 rulbers: 104 72 194.72 104.72 31. 19«3 lort 29. 1362 100
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    • 27 20 Current Date of Total T «i.i Payment payment Gopeng Con 3H 4. y*ar year Cinggi riant. rh iur Q r/*K interim MarCh M 8(1 «Hd.
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    • 434 20 *|*HE main v j n J 1 point durii th J few days of a ln J was the return o U8 sian interest t the Malayan Rubbn ar ket report H.C.K Q Ltd. in their t ent circular. The report add: thit 1 although
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    • 159 20 (OFFICIAL QUOTA' f-NS) February 12. Threr tth* INDU8TRIA 1 Houstead 13 eta. M. Be Dunlopa 18 eta. McAli ctl City Dev. 5 eta. M Im l« c,s E. Smeltera 21 eta. Roblr Esso 10 eta. C Rio /Oct» Fed. Dlap. 1* eta. Rothr i3ct*F. St N. 21 eta.
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