The Straits Budget, 20 January 1965

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATtOKAI NfWs»AJ»tt KUALA LUMPUR, JANUARY 20, 1965. REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O. U.K. AS A NEWSPAPER B*>ES MO.
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    • 136 2  -  K.N. 4 1 Tthtt. v- (f jri v*.«' Kuala Lumpur rrHE new comprehensive schools have opened but many are without teachers. Many schools are sending children home early because headmasters do not have the teachers to staff their classes. How long is
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    • 125 2  -  G. B. S. Singapore 0 Lf'+j}.? s£7 •*V' v'‘ Y*4 v r l f 'i" 4 jEjsy%?v(L v> i\■' r tTHE reasons given by certain school principals a (B.T. Jan. 7) in condemning the cash awards at a Malacca school are not very
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    • 154 2  -  WAITING m Serein ban A LITTLE more than a month ago, my friends and I applied for permits to enter one of the local Institutions of higher learnt lng. This Is the procedure under the Internal Security Act. We are told that all applicants will
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    • 48 2  -  WORKER ol Singapore rE Government thinks the new taxes Justified attime national need. We are spending one million dollars a day for the defence of our country. Why dont we just agree and show the world that we will do everything to save our country? >{*7.
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    • 103 2  -  RESIDENT Singapore J FEEL bound to draw attention, on behalf of Kampong Loyang dwellers, to the state of affairs concerning that kampong. About 15 months ago the Work Brigade made an attempt at making up the road at the kampong end, but after two months achieved
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    • 93 2  -  RESIDENT Kuala Lumpur A 8 a o the recent fire In Kampong Semarang. new houses are being put up. All the debris has been piled up a a rubbish dump. But the municipality, Instead of collecting It. has put up a notice prohibiting the accumulation of rubbish at
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    • 89 2  -  motorist Kluang I AM sure most of the people of Kluang will agree that the road tax we pay annually Is not Justified. Money Is spent on road-expansion and road development in other towns of Johore but not Kluang. Road conditions here are going from bad to worse.
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    • 135 2  -  TAX PATER Kuala Lumpur J'HE suggestion by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, to bring profiteers to book is not practical. Dr Urn calls on the public to come forward to give evidence in court In view of the time and cost,
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    • 233 2  -  GORDON LIM Kuala Lumpur ''VI ■> I READ with interest your report headed ‘‘Minister: Boycott profiteers”. Dr. Lim Swee Aun’s suggestion to boycott shops which have increased prices out of all* proportion to the new taxes is impractical in areas where there are
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    • 105 2  -  M. A. WU Teluk Anson SCHOOLS have reopened for 1985. It is such a pleasant sight to watch the vast migration of Standard Six pupils to secondary schools as a result of the ne w comprehensive system. The newcomers to the secondary schools are excited parents are
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    • 32 2  -  T.G.K Singapore HAVE often read about countries exchanging television programmes to strengthen friendship Isnt it strange that not a single ’ocal programme from K.L has ever appeared on T.V. Slngapura?
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    • 126 2  -  S. VENGADASALAM Penang I READ the comments by Mr. Ow Kheng Law, head of Television Malaysia, with somewhat mixed feelings. Wh.le appreciating his explanation. I must point out that people in Penang and Butterworth are being made to pay the full
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    • 76 2  -  SANTHAGOPAL Anson AN a recent visit to Koala M. Lumpur I observed the following incident at Foch lle were boarding it a bus m eved from the stand. When an official from the company (I noticed him in uniform) shouted for the bus to stop, the driver slowed
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    • 25 2  -  ,W Ipoh Malaysians should not grumble about the effect Of the taxes imposed by the Minister of Finance. Our defences have to be
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 700 3 —Straits Times, January 11 It is difficult to disagree vith the Indonesian contention t the United Nations has tailed to solve world problems. But all reasoning breaks down when the Indonesian Government explains that withdrawal from the world body is a protest against ,he United Nations
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    • 735 3 —Straits Times, January 12 A record number of deaths on Singapore’s roads, and an increase in road deaths in the Federation, turn attention again to the baffling problem of traffic safety. Most of the victims are pedestrians and cyclists. The main killers, of course, are the car
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    • 311 3 —Straits Times, January 12 After three weeks hoping the South Vietnamese situation would not worsen, the American Government can now hope it will get a little better. The ‘‘Young Turks” who seized power three weeks ago have agreed to transfer authority to civilian hands and have made small
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    • 683 3 —Straits Times. January 13 The warning by the Minister of Commerce that he will invoke the considerable powers he has under the Control of Supplies Act if shopkeepers continue to profiteer is welcome evidence of the seriousness with which the Government views the recent rise in the
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    • 194 4 —Straits Times. January 13 The next few days can be expected to produce proposals for averting the threatened strike by the National Union of Hospital Assistants rather more constructive than those already put forward. And the union itself may also take a more mellow view of a dispute
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    • 654 4 —Straits Time*, January 14 Tlie replanting of smallholders’ rubber has greatly increased in the last three years, in which time over a quarter of a million acres have been added. Since the scheme began in 1953, about 700,000 acres have now been replanted. This sounds a very
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    • 668 4 —Straits Times, January 15 It is not altogether a new tune that came out of Jakarta yesterday. Soekamc would like a peaceful settlement of “confrontation.” But let the “real feelings” of the people of Sabah and Sarawak be investigated. He is ready to abide by any decision
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    • 696 4 I —Straits Times, January 16 In suggesting that the people of Sabah be asked to decide in the State elections later this year whether they want to join the Philippines, the Federal Minister for Sabah Affairs made what he hoped would be a helpful contribution towards the
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  • 295 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16. REPRESENTATIVES of three transport unions met here today and decided to send a delegation to meet the Registrar of Trade Unions, Mr. K. G. George, over his objection to a plan for a single, giant union representing
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  • 54 5 IPOH, —an. 10—The Minister of ur Mr. V. Manikavasagam. P a y a three-day official visit Camwon Highlands and Tapah on Jan. 14. Toi U n his tour h e will open a v,^ 1 school at Tanah Rata and •u f Bat »ng Padang hydrotlectr
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  • 218 5 SINGAPORE, Jan. 10.— The Tourist Promotion Board has introduced a new service for tourists. It has begun publication of a weekly bulletin for tourists called “What's on This Week." The bulletin is In two parts One is a summary of the week’s events, and the
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  • 555 5 HOSPITAL MEN’S STRIKE ON JAN.IB ‘A THREAT TO INDUSTRIAL PEACE’ KUALA LUMPUR, January 10 'JENGKU Abdul Rahman was today urged to intervene in the dispute between the 700strong National Union of Hospital Assistants and the Government over recognition and direct negotiations concerning
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  • 140 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. rpHE anti-rat campaign launched in the Federal capital last year, has now become a permanent operation. “We have established a Rodent Control Section to fight these pests,” the Deputy Municipal Health Officer. Dr. T. Visvanathan, said today. He described the
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  • 100 5 IPOH. Jan. 10—The director of the Ipoh Free Library, Mr. Kari Reeh, of the U S. Peace Corps wtio has been here for 22 months, has decided to extend his stay for another 18 months. Under Mr. Reeh’s direction the library has doubled
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  • 39 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10 Tengku Abdul Rahman will open a two-day Malayan National (All Communities) Cultural Show at the Chin Woo Stadium here on Jan. 23. Proceeds will go toward the National Defence Fund.
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  • 27 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10— The Singapore Modern Art Society will hold a one-week exhibition of paintings at the British Council Centre here beginning tomorrow.
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    • 35 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In advance) Singapore b Kuala Lumpur—No postal Fed Malaya 6 Br, North Borneo incl. postage Br C’wealth 6 Foreign incl. postage United Kingdom 6 Eastern Australia Only by Express Airfreight
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  • 628 6  -  VOLUNTEER FIGHTING UNITS FOR ALL COASTAL KAMPONGS -By LOKMAN HALIM: Kuantan, Jan. 10 THE Central Government is to set up well-trained volunteer fighting units in every kampong along the coast to meet further Indonesian landings. This was disclosed here
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  • 149 6 OINGAPORE, Jan. 15. A gunman and two accomplices today grabbed a $5,000 payroll from a driver at the 8$ mile, Bukit Timah Road. The robbers’ car had intercepted Wee Cheok Sim’s van just past the Hume Industries in Bukit Timah Road at about 2.25
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  • 136 6 I/'ANGAR. Jan. 15 7) ie rJ4s A^ rntri Besar.Dato l !S} kh lI Ahmad bin Moha*ncd Ha.shim, is to liave a new political secretary. He is expected to bo Inche Wan Abmati bm I Fuji Abdullah, who lection he ,St!,t0 Alliance l. n/
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  • 113 6 TAPAH, Jan. 15 The Minister for Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, who arrived in the Cameron Highlands yesterday for a three-day visit, cut short his stay today and returned to Kuala Lumpur to attend the funeral of Mr. M R. Naidu, the acting Commissioner for
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  • 201 6 MALACCA, January 15 PEOPLE living in certain areas of the town here were furious today as they have not had a water supply since yesterday morning. Residents living in these areas complained that they should have been given warning of the water restriction, especially since it
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  • 33 6 SIJNG-I PATANI. Jan. 12—Mr. A M. Reutens has been transferred from Malacca to Alor Star as controller of telecommunications. TA. Narayanan who has gone to Johore as controller of telecommunications there.
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  • 324 7 Her arrival completes the naval build-up and the Far East Fleet is now the Royal Navy's strongest in the world SINGAPORE, Jan. 11 DR I T A I N's most powerful warship, H.M.S. Eagle, steamed into the Straits of Malacca tonight and will arrive
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  • 338 7 I ESS ELTON, Jan. 13. Sabah Alliance leaders have denounced the Federal Minister for Sabah Allairs, Dato Donald Stephens, for calling °n the Malaysian Government to hold a referendum over the Philippines claim to the State. hjciie Harris bin Moham- .‘y.
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  • 123 7 I/UALA TRENGGANU. Jan. 12.—An Indonesian medicine peddler, M. Dawanir alias Munir bin Abu Nassau, 28. had another three months added to his current one-year jail sentence in the Sessions Court here today. He was found guilty of entering Malaysia at the
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  • 29 7 SINGAPORE. Jan 11—The Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Kong Suee, v.ill open the Malaysia Garment Manufacturers Ltd. factory in Little Road, oil Paya Lebar Road on Jan. 14.
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  • 277 7 OENANG, Jan. 11.—A retired senior entomologist of the Department of Agriculture in Malaya, Mr. H Pa S del L has offered an explanation for the “weeping tree’* phenomenon which has been attracting crowds to York Hoad dally. “I hav e seen the same tning
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  • 129 7 F 4 r UAL A LUMPUR, Jan iV i3.__The Metal Box Company of Ltd., will expand its bittiness here this year, the company’s London director, Lord Murray, said today. “We have confidence in Malaysia’s economic future j despite the current distur- j bailees,”
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  • 254 8 GUTHRIE CHIEF TAX WILL HIT RUBBER KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13. THE chairman of the Guthrie Agency (Malaya), Sir Eric Griffith-Jones, said here today that the payroll taxes would ‘‘substantially’' increase the cost of producing rubber. Sir Eric, who was speaking to reporters on his arrival here on a seven-day tour
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  • 116 8 riiHE Yang di-Pertuan Agong X and the raja Permaisuri Agon? being greeted by the American Ambassador. Mr. James D. Bell, and his wife on their arrival for the charity premiere of the 111m on the late President Kennedy at the Cathay
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  • 145 8 Jan. 10.— A Lebanese, Antoine George Sayegh, was today charged in a magistrate’s court with attempting to exp o rt U 5517,280 and £950 from the State on Jan. 10 without the permission of the Controller of Foreign Exchange. Major D. Phipps, of the Royal
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  • 235 8 i/UALA I.UMPUH, Jan. 12. The largest i > of teachers from f abah and Sarawak 13 in all have arrived lor specialist training the S da list Teachers’ Training Institute here. The institute has been acceptin'* teacher trainees lr>im i lie two states since If
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  • 106 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12—The president of the Australian Teachers’ Federation, Mr. John Harris, Is noy in Singapore for talks with teachers’ unions. Mr. Harris is a member of the World Confederation of OrganisuUons of the Teaching Professor r.s Asian committee. He flew in on Jan.
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  • 69 8 L. UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12The director of the Hennessy Company Mr. F. Hennessy, arrived here today on a South-East Aslan tour of the progress his company is making in this region. He was accompanied by his wife. Mr. Ilennessy said he was Interested In Malaysia
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  • 95 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan—-11—-The Minister for Sarawak AfTairs, Dato Temenggong Jugah, said here today that the people in Sarawak were confident that the Central Government’s security measures were adequate to defend them from Indonesia's border buildup. He said the people of Sarawak were not alarmed over
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  • 161 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. Barisan Sosialis leader and Member of Parliament, Mr. Chia Thye Poh. today was served with a writ for libel —the second in three months. The writ was filed by the law firm of Lee and Lee on
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  • 35 8 T AIPIN Jan. 12 Mr. Qua anew Kooi, a senior teacher of the Hua Lian Chinese Secondary School here, has been transferred to take charge of the comprehensive education classes in Batu Kurau.
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  • 45 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12—Mr Victor G. Reuther, director of the Department of the International AfTairs of the International Union. United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, will be the guest speaker at tomorrow's lunch meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club.
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  • 59 8 TESSELTON, Jan. 15.—The people of Tawan are being what to do in case of an air attack Thousands of leaflets in English, Malay.'Chinese and affi'eS" b<,|nß di st r lb,lt e<l by the Civil Defence anothoMnH.i h er *.’u exp^l 1 25 what t 0 do The leaflets
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  • 464 9  -  from' R. D. PATEL JESSELTON, Jan. 13 CABAM'S Chief Minister, Mr. Peter Lo, said today that the chairman of the Election Commission, Dato Haji Mustapha Albakri, would visit Sabah soon to prepare for general elections in the State. Speaking at his flrst
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  • 125 9 TENGKU Abdul Rahman takes a good look at the Indonesiansponsored Tentera Nasional Malaya flag (red and white with three yellow stars) which security forces took from Major Abdul Talib bin Osman, leader of a group of Indonesian infiltrators who landed at Ulu Sungei Belukang Kechil
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  • 59 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 13—Work on the multi-million-dollar Ulu Pandan industrial water project will begin soon. The Economic Development Board has awarded the $4.18 million contract to a British hrm. Paterson Candy International and their local agents, Harper Gilftllan and Co. A condition in the contract stipulates
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  • 25 9 SUNGEI PATANI. Jan. 15—In? che Mohamed Noor bln Ibrahim. 57, headmaster of the Malay Secondary School here, has retired after 37 years’ service
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  • 735 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13. Three more defence training centres are to be set up immediately in Malaya as part of the mass military training scheme for youths called up for national service. They will be in Perak, Trengganu and an additional one to the
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  • 48 10 FIRST TRIALS BEING HELD AT NAVAL BASE THE first of two Westland A SR-N5 Hovercraft which arrived at the Singapore Naval Base on Wednesday had its first trial run 90 minutes after it was unloaded. The hovercraft had been in mothballs for about six weeks.
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  • 237 10 Kuala lumpur, jan. 15. The prices or coconut oil, palm oil and groundnut oil have gone up between 33 and 42 per cent between January last year and January this year, the chairman of Lever Brothers (M) Ltd., Mr. R. D. Chandler,
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  • 204 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 14. jyjORE doctors from the Philippines will be welcome to Malaysia, the Minister of Health, Inche Bahaman bin Samsuddin, said today. “At the moment we have one doctor to about 7.000 people. This shortage must be solved immediately.” he
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  • 137 10 PENANG, Jan. IS—A neulyestablished Malay enterprise, the Sharikat Keyakinan Melayu Jelutong, is to ask the Government to lift the ban on trawler fishing. “We have made a study of trawler-fishing and found it would be more lucrative.” Inehc Amir bin Abdul Hamid, the secretary,
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  • 106 10 IZUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 15— The United Nations Special Fund will give $2.23 million to the Government to help the expansion of the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Malaya here. A statement issued today by the UN Special Fund here said that its
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  • 59 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. Two cadets of the Malayan Air Training Corps left here today to attend a 10-day training camp in New South Walts, Australia. Sergeants Soh Chye Lee, 19, and Karamjit Singh, 18, will attend lectures during their Australian stay. The visit is under
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  • 41 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14 An exhibition of Renaissance drawings in facsimile from the Chatsworth collection is now being held at the National Library. The exhibition, which opened on Tuesday, will continue till Feb. 3, it is organised by the British Council.
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  • 36 10 IPOH. Jan. 14—A teacher. Mr. Khoo Chuan, 30, returned home after a dinner last night to find hi* house in Cherry Park housing •■tate broken into and a $lOO lnn*lPtor radio and $lB3 stolen.
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  • 45 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 14 Prof Ernesto Ziercr. Professor of Linguistics at the National University of Trujillo in Peru, will give a public lecture on “A Panoramic View of Present-Day Peru" in the Art Museum. University of Singapore, at 8 pm. on Jan. 22.
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  • 45 10 SINGAPORE, Jan 14 Most of the 3.000 crew of HMS Eagie, Lsn tain’s biggest aircraft carrier today spent their first day in Singapore on board their ship. Only a few came ashore in the afternoon for shopping and sightseeing.
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  • 37 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 15— An 18-member Japanese Youth Goodwill Mission, sponsored by the Central Council of Juvenile Problems of the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office, will pay a week s visit to Malaysia from Jan. 31
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  • 164 10 TELUK ANSON, Jan. 10. A TOWN Councillor and treasurer of the Teluk A Anson Malayan Chinese Association youth division, Mr. Tan Ah Hee, 35, has resigned from the party. Mr. Tan, a businessman, who said he resigned because of “differences with other MCA town
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  • 98 10 IPOH, Jan. 10—The 21 Perak A divisions of Kaum Ibu. the women’s section of Umno. will take part in a membership campaign competition. The division which gets the highest number of new members will be awarded the Datin Zainab Trophy, which was won by
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  • 313 11  -  By Chong Chee Seong: MUAR Jan. 13 TWO hooded and armed men were arrested early this morning at Jalan Maharani here after a desperate attempt to break through a police and vigilante corps dragnet One of the men who tried to escape over
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  • 120 11 JESSELTON, Jan. 15 Sabah’s Finance Minister, Inche Harris bin Mohamed Salleh, said here today that the State Government was determined to curb profiteers who took advantage of the new taxes. Inche Harris, who left for Kuala Lumpur for talks, hopes to meet the Minister
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  • 68 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15.—Lee Ah Hock, 27, charged with housebreaking and theft of $7,900 worth of goods on July 7, was acquitted yesterday by Mr. K.T. Alexander, a district judge. The judge upheld a submission by Mr. Khoo Hing Hiong, defending. that a statement, purporting to have been
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  • 32 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 11 The Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. will attend a dinner at the Hui Hwa Art Association premises in Tras Street, Tanjong Pagar, on January 12.
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  • 71 11 CINGAPORE, Jan. 15 Mr. Whang Tar Liang, chairman of the Singapore Manufacturers’ Association, has been appointed deputy chairman of the Public Service Commission. His appointment fills the post vacated last year by Mr. Lim Kim San, who is now the Minister for National Development. Mr.
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  • 289 11 Prime Minister’s hints on the new constitution AP. BANGKOK, Jan. 14. THE Premier, Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, said today Communist activity against Thailand had intensified recently. He hinted it might have a bearing on the promulgation of a promised new constitution. The Premier’s comments
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  • 140 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. VfR. S. J. CATRAVAS, an electronics expert attached to the Technical College here for the past three years, will leave on Jan. 12. Mr. Catravas has been here under the United Nations technical assistance programme and was responsible for modernising the
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  • 49 11 PENANG, Jan. 11—The former Mayor, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew. who recentry resigned as chairman of the Penang division of the Socialist Front, was yesterday elected vice-chairman. Mr. Lim Kean Siew, former secretary-general of the Labour Party of Malaya, was elected divisional chairman.
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  • 26 11 TANGKAK, Jan. 11. A community hall costing $20,000 has been built under the rural development programme at Bukit Kangkar. eight miles from here.
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  • 53 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 15 —A cleric, E. Chianayah, of Outram Road, Singapore, was killed instantly yesterday after he was knocked down by the south-bound train from Ipoli at 5 p.m. at Batu village here. A police spokesman said today that Chianayah was dragged about 100 yards
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  • 22 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11 —Donations to the Lady Templer Hospital Fund in December last year amounted to $8,069 48
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  • 18 11 KLUANG. Jan. 15.—The Rubber Research Board ofTice here has been moved to 10, Jalan Lambak.
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  • 65 11 Reuter. JAKARTA, Thurs. Bas- rah Lubis, the former mayor of Medan, North Sumatra, has been arrested in Jakarta, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. Antara said the former mayor was charged with misusing his power in a land dispute. He was placed under
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  • 117 11 Malay on signs: Be patient appeal PENANG, Jan. 15. 1 The Mayor, Mr. C. Y. Choy, said today that it was the City Council’s intention to add the national language to all road signs. He said the council was just as anxious as lovers of the national language to have
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  • 116 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 15— ,v' e Johore Bahru section w Ka P m Ibu today sent nr n" xes to members Tf,h„l e s cu rtty forces In the dlstri r cts ßahrU and Pontlan binte Hajl Abdul RiftewStM K today that similar d sent
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  • 35 11 by Ap ORE. Jan. 11,—A strike Shaw* st udio technicians of Ltd in y 1 ay Fi!m Production claimc o*,; aIa Am P as over pay entered its 41st day today.
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  • 157 12 ...AND NO FOLLOW-UP MOVE TO U.N. WITHDRAWAL JAKARTA, Jan. 13 PRESIDENT Soekarno said today Indonesia would not declare war but if she were attacked she would strike back, Antara news agency reported. He was speaking to foreign and Indonesian reporters at the
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  • 126 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. The Singapore Taxi Dr i ve rs Association has made five suggestions to the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board with a view to improving the present taxi service to tourists IN the Port of Singapore Authority areas, signboards should be put up
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  • 165 12 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 15. —The Municipality has stopped collecting the three per cent water rate from property owners here on behalf of the Selangor State Government Disclosing tills today a Municipality spokesman said: “We used to collect about $2 million a year and pass the
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  • 206 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12. pORTY-SIX American business and newspaper--1 men will arrive here on Feb. 7in the course of an Asian tour organised by Time Magazine. The assistant publisher of Time, Mr. L. E. Laybourne. who arrived here today to organise the itinerary
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  • 39 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 14 The Minister of Transport, Dato Sardon bin Haji Jubir, will inaugurate the service of 22 taxis belonging to the Selangor Transport Co-operative Society at the Sultan Sulaiman Club, Kampong Bahru, on Jan. 16.
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  • 107 12 J£UALA LUMPUR. Jan. IS-Wing Commander D. E. Jamieson, commanding Royal New Zealand Air Force unps in Malaysia, arrived here today from Singapore for “routine” talks with the New Zealand High Commissioner. Mr R. H. Wade. He flew in a Canberra bomber of
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  • 40 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 15. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdu\ Rahman, will open a two-day National (All Communities) Cultural Show at the Chin Woo Stadium here on Jan. 2. Proceeds will go to the National Defence Fund
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  • 28 12 KUALA KUMPUR. Jan. 15—The Kuala Lumpur Junior Chamber will hold a Chinese New Year’s Eve dance at the Chinese Assembly Hall here on Feb. 1.
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  • 255 12 What we want —by hospital assistants who are planning a big strike KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11 'THE National Union 1 of Hospital Assistants, which has threatened to call out its men on strike next Monday, wants to be affiliated to the Staff Side of the National Whitley Council. But. we
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  • 97 12 JESSELTON, Jan. 15.—This will be the quietest Chinese New Year and Hari Raya in Sabah since the days of Japanese occupation No fire-crackers will be allowed to be let off and no gambling licences Issued. Mr. Donald Matheson, Commissioner of Police, Issued a warning
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  • 35 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 15—The Arts Council of Malaysia will present classical dances of India by Indranl Rahman at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka here at 8.30 p.m. on Jan. 27 and Jan. 28.
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  • 547 13 COMTREHENSIVE SCHOOL SYSTEM HITS A SNAG It’s only temporary, say most school principals KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12 r > HE shortage of teachers is the main problem faced by schools under the comprehensive education system. But most school principals contacted today agreed that
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  • 103 13 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 12. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, have sent congratulatory messages to President Ayub Khan of Pakistan for his victory in the recent presidential election. THE KING said: “The Raja Permaisuri Agong joins me in conveying
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  • 125 13 1/ U A L A LUMPUn. Jan. 12. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will speak to the Chief Minister of Sabah, Mr. Peter Lo, at 11 a.m. on Jan. 15 from the Dewan Tengku Abdul Rahman here to mark the opening of
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  • 170 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 13. —A visiting committee member of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession, Mr. John Harris, told a news conference today that Singapore teachers deserved a better deal. He was in sympathy with their fight for improved conditions of service
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  • 86 13 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 13— The New Shakespeare Company will perform at the Town Hall here for five days beginning from Feb. 6. While the company was staging: “The Tempest” in Ceylon the island was hit by a cyclone. The weather was so bad that the
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  • 56 13 PARIT BUNTAR. Jan. 15. About 181 families, who are padi planters in the Selinsing area of the Krian district, will receive cash aid from the Ministry of Social Services before Hari Raya. They were badly hit when their padi yield in the last harvesting season was
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  • 160 13 UVALA LUMPUR, Jan. IZ~ Families and friends of Malaysian troops serving in Sarawak and Sabah will be able to send food parcels for the Chinese New Year and llari Raya Puasa next month through the Ministry of Defence. Senders are asked
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  • 136 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. The posting of successful candidates of primary school-leaving examination to secondary schools will be left at the sole discretion of the Ministry of Education from next year. Tills was announced bv the Minister for Education. Mr. Ong Pang Boon, after many
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  • 515 14 MALAYSIAN WHO TOOK PART IN PONTIAN LANDING ON TRIAL ON GRENADE CHARGE JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 12 A MALAYSIAN who took part in the first Indonesian landings at Pontian told the High Court here today that his only military training in Indonesia uas to be allowed
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  • 347 14  -  By P. KRISHNAN: Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 11 (COMMONWEALTH countries are helping to plan our defence against any large-scale attack by Indonesia, the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Inche Abdul Kadir bin Shamsuddin, said today. “In fact, the Commonwealth nations are being
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  • 95 14 U A L A LUMPUR, 1V Jan. 11. —More volunteers from Britain’s International Voluntary Service--the British Peace Corps-will bo arriving in Malaysia this year, The volunteers will be either graduates in the arts or science, or have had training in medicine, engineering or agriculture.
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  • 210 14 CINGAPORE, Jan. 11. Gen. Sir James Cassels, the British Army's Chief of the General Staff designate, will begin a 10-day visit to Malaysia tomorrow. He will arrive In Kuala Lumpur and will go on to Singapore and Borneo. Gen. Cassels is on a world
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  • 83 14 KUAT A LUMPUR. Jan. 12~ ,C;ipt Va’acob bill Ha a Si!!c ii of Hi.' Armed Forces M «i:.■, Corps will leave here tomorrow i 11-month peti 1< um li I st illation course at the Rov il i Army Service fv.rp Train:! Ct’iitto fit Aldershol In
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  • 33 14 KOTA HHARU. Jan. 10 Malayan Banking Ltd. here today presented o $10,000 cheque to the Men* trl Besar of Kelantan, Inche Mohammed Asrl HajI Muda for I the National Defence Fund.
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  • 62 14 KUALA LUMPUR,. Fri.-An American trade fair ship, the Tradefair. will visit Malaysia next. year, the US Embassy said today. n American companies will •p. i.v their latest products on board the ship. Ihe ship is scheduled to leave New York late this year
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  • 127 14 [POIL Jan. 11. The 1 freak Siamese twins, born to a tapper’s wife, have been moved to a third centre—the General Hospital here within 43 hours of their hirth. Since Saturday night they have been in the childrenward of the hospital. Dr. Abul Talib bin LatifT.
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  • 492 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. II CHINESE CHAMBERS TOLD TO HOLD TALKS ON STEPS TO END PROFITEERING JHE Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce has called on its members throughout Malaysia to hold emergency meeting to end profiteering. The appeal follows yesterday’s ultimatum by the Minister of Commerce
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  • 32 15 KUALA LULMPUR. Jan. 10Seven teachers, including six girls, arrived here tonight from Sabah to attend a one-year training course at the Special Teachers’ Training Institute, Cheras under Sabah Government scholarships.
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  • 146 15 |(UALA LUMPUR. Jan. 12. —The seven! 24ft high bronze figures for the $1 million National Monument in Lake Gardens here are expected to arrive from Italy in June. wA, spokesman °f the Prim* Minister’s Department said today: “They are now in the
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  • 326 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11. LEGISLATION for the establishment of an agricultural marketing board has already been drafted. The board is to protect both rural producers and consumers from the exploitation of un- scrupulous middlemen. It will ensure fair prices for the rural producers
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  • 107 15 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 11—Major Mohammed S h a r i ft bin Ahmad (above). Senior Personnel Selection Officer of the Malaysian Armed Forces, has brcai promoted Lieutenant Colonel and appointed OfTicer-in-Charge of the, Armed Forces Combined Records. He succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Ishak bin Shafie who
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  • 234 15 PONTIAN, January 10. THE Minister of Welfare Services, Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, today gave away a total of $40,744 as cash aid to 1,169 families of fishermen here and in Kukup and Benut. Speaking at the presentation, Haji Hamid assured the fishermen who were
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  • 74 15 KUAI.A LUMPUR. Jan. 12 Mr. Tan Seng Siar, of the Malayan Film Unit, was installed as president of the Junior Chamber of Malaya last night. Other officials are: Vice-presi-dent. Mr. Lim Peng Kim; secretiry general. Mr. Daniel Leow; treasurer. Mr. Wang Swec Tong; directors. Mr. S. Nagaretnam.
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  • 67 15 JESSELTON, Jan. 12—Inrhe Abu Bakar, adult education iser in Sabah, said today that women outnumbered men when he opened an adult education class in Semporna last Kedah and Perils, in place of Mr. on Jan. 8 He added that women were showing keen interest in
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  • 44 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Sarawak will send two candidates to the sixth national Koran reading competition to be held here from Jan. 18 to Jan. 24. They are Che Aluyah btnte Nor and Inche Dahlan bin Matrang. Both arc from Kuching.
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  • 349 16 Cuepacs to Govt: Say no’ to hospital assistants KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 15. THE Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services Council today called on the Government to reject the hospital assistants’ demands. The council, at an emergency meeting today, asked the Government to direct the National
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  • 225 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. O Malaysia’s future depends on the preservation of her tolerant, multi-racial society, Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said last night. Once each racial group could not tolerate another, acute conflicts would develop, leading to a great deal of
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  • 54 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 11—An American trade union official Mr Victor Reuther, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Labour. Mr. V Manlckavasagam, at hi* office here today. Mr. Reuther, who Is the Director of the United Automobile Workers (International Affairs Department), is on an eight-day
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  • 305 16 DOCTOR DIES 9 MONTHS AFTER OPERATION... NOW Malacca, j<m. 10.—The General Hospital here is sending to Australia part of a synthetic aortic valve removed from a local doctor after his death on the afternoon of Jan. 7. of acute heart failure. Dr.
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  • 38 16 TELUK ANSON. Jan. 10—Mr A K. Dev from Seremban has taken over duties here as assistant rural Industries officer, Lower Perak, in place of Inche Abu Bakar bin HaJI Awang who has been transferred to ipon.
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  • 466 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11. 'J’HE National Mining Workers’ Union said here today that the Malaysian Trades Union Congress must be the only organisation in the world with a serving civil servant and a serving British military local civilian official as president and
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  • 126 16 UPI. Brunei town, jan. 10 —T>e president of the Brunei People’s Freedom Struggle Party, Inche Awang Arshad Marsal, has called for immediate indeocndence for this oilrich Sultanate. Commenting on views by some people here that Brunei is not prepared yet for immediate independence. he said:
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  • 62 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11—The Malaysian charity film premiere of “John P. Kennedy: Years of Lightning. Day of Drums’’ will be held at the Cathay cinema here at 930 p.m. tomorrow. It will be attended by tne Yang di-Pertuan Agong. the Raja Permaisuri Agong. the Prime
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  • 43 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues—The National Productivity Centre will be conducting its fourth “Management of Personnel” course from Jan. 18 to Jan- 29 Twenty people from 16 organisations in commerce, Industry, quasi-govemment and government departments have been selected for the coudse.
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  • 338 17 KUCHING, Jan. 13 BRITAIN’S Minister of Defence for the Army, Mr. Fred Mulley, said here today that British troops in forward border positions had a high morale. Mr. Mulley, who visited British troops along the Malaysia-Indonesia border during the afternoon, was speaking at a
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  • 149 17 If UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 1Y 13.—“ French Commercial Fortnights” to popularise French products in Malaysia will be held here from May 3 to 17 and in Singapore from May 10 to 25. The exhibitions are being organised by the French Ministry of Finance and Economic
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  • 196 17 l/'UALA LUMPUR, 11 Jan. 13.—The 18th Umno general assembly will be held in April. This is stated In the latest issue of the Umno organ. Merdeka. The meeting (the date has not been fixed yet) is to be attended by more than
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  • 32 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. The Minlster for Culture. Mr. S. Rajaratn?m *>ll speak at the second day ,l >c Tamil festival celebrations at breeze Plain, off Kampong s.«nru Road, on Sunday.
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  • 49 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 13 A lawyer, Mr. E. V. Devadason, 28. was today admitted to the Federation Bar by Mr. Justice Ong in the High Court. Mr. Devadason, a former student of the Anglo-Chinese School. Ipoh, obtained his law degree from the University of Singapore.
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  • 61 17 KANGAR. Jan. 15.—The Perlis Kaum Ibu will have a busy Hari Raya this year. Its programme Includes collections of donations to buy cakes and seasonal gifts for the Malaysian security forces in Borneo, a treat for patients in the Kangar General Hospital and a Harl
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  • 123 17 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 11. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said today that the United States had still not offered to start new negotiations on a defence loan to Malaysia. The loan offered by the Americans recently was turned down because
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  • 208 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11. THE Federal Minister for Sabah Affairs, Dato A Donald Stephens, today suggested that the people in Sabah be asked to decide in the coming State elections there whether they wanted to join the Philippines, in a bid to solve
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  • 85 17 CINGAPORE, Jan. 13—The first of two Westland S.R.N. 5 Hovercraft, which are to carry out in-Serv'ce trials in the Far East, arrived in the Singapore Naval Base yesterday on board the s.s. Soudan. The hovercraft had been In mothballs for about six weeks but
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  • 134 17 IZUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12— Plans will be made soon to form a joint fishing industry between Japanese and Malaysian fishermen to bring about closer trade ties between the two countries. This was stated today by Mr. Masumi Mizobuchi, Governor of Kochi
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1977 18 From Our Market Correspondent THE Malayan Stock Exchange last week re--1 verted to its old reputation and its behaviour went against what would appear to be the obvious political trend. What was it that sent 23 industrials up in price and added nearly four points
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    • 255 18 I FEBRUARY first grade rubber f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 713 cents per lb., down one-eighth of a cent ou Thursday's closing level for the position. The tone was Very quiet, R.A.S, and F.M.R.E. closing prices in cents per lb. yesterday:
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    • 38 18 (Managers' Prices) First Malayan 1.87 1.97xd Second Malayan 1.32 1.42xd Third Malayan 99 1 11 Malaysia Commerce .78 .91 First Hong Kong 1.18 1.23* Second Hong Kong .87 .91* Sterling Commodity 3/10 4/5 (•Hong Kong currency).
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    • 31 18 KI'BBFK TIN lper lb.) (per picul). Jail. 11. 7»2 cts. $629.00 12. 711 cts. $632.00 13. 71i cts. $628,121 14. 712 cts. $626,371 15. 712 cts. $623,621 16. $623,871
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    • 67 18 'THE Malayan Exchango Banks’ Asso--1 elation made these changes In Its rate* to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): Canada: buying TT 352, airmail OD 35J, 90 d/st. 35i credit bills, 35 13/18 trade bills. Selling TT or OD ready: Canada .14 13/16; Dsutsehs Marks 1282; Holland Guilders
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    • 73 18 (HINESE Produce Exchange, Sings--4 P® r< n °on prices per pieul yesterday Coconut oil: bulk $B4 sellers, drum $67 sellers. Copra: Jan. 'Keb, UK/Contlnent: Unquoted. Muntok white $1722 sellers. Sarawak white $l7O sellers, special Sarawak black $1572 sellers, garbled efTT??!!* hl *M k ~67i<N> setters, ASTA $1772(N) sellers.
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    • 728 18 fPHE following is a complete list of revised quotations for the week ended on Saturday. January 16. industrials B. s. Alex Bricks 15.50 16 50 Boustead 1.52 j.sg C.S, Holding 2.02 2.07 C.T.S. ords 41/- 42/unl °P 1.69 1?70 f;” 0 1.79 1.81 Ksso deb l.yo
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  • 34 18 and^mokl'nf*?- sl Mus l '"s. found eating, drinking i?! 1 5?.? n sh °P s have hern arrested by officers of iefa* 6 OUB Department and P° ,,t; e here since fasting
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  • 248 19 Jfl IPOH, Jan. 14. ABOUT M parents and guardians spent a fruitless day in the Education Department heK "day trying.to settle the school problems of th ir chlldred or wards. Most, of them who had waited In vain this morning, returned to
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  • 122 19 Kuala lumpur. Jan, 14.—The Japan&ese Government will soon hold talks with officials on sending its first batch of Peace Corps volunteers to assist In development projects. The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Fumlnlko Kal, said today: “Our Peace Corps Is similar to the American corps.’*
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  • 282 19 KU A L A LUMPUR. Jan. 14.—The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak will open the first phase of the South-East Aslan Commonwealth (Searom> telephone cable link tomorrow by callins: the Chief Minister of Sabah. Mr. Peter Lo. i Tun Razak, who will
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  • 56 19 KUANTAN. Jan. 14—The Minister of Health. Inche Bahaman bin Shamsudin, will make a fiveday tour of Pahang from Feb. 22. He was originally scheduled to make the tour from Jan. 19. Dur«ng hts visit, Inche Bahaman will open health sub-centres at Maran. Mentakab and Raub and
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  • 407 19 KUALA LUMPUR. January 11 LEADING firms here today assured the public that there was no shortage of essential goods in the country. They also stressed that they had not raised the price of their commodities. The firms said that there was no cause
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  • 71 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 14. The Telecommunications Department will test the audibility of the newly-installed air raid sirens at strategic points in various parts of the capital on Monday. > v The sirens will be tested in the morning and evening and the walling sound
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  • 91 19 K lIALA LUMPUR, Jan. 14,- v The National Union, of Jr Training Centre and c< Teachers V; t0 bring every one of u.ooo teachers under the me into its fold. nf V" asslat »nt publicity officer JJ v un, °n. Inche Kasslm
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  • 80 19 .—AP. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 14. —Brazil is planning to up establishment of a Brazilian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur to try and boost its exports to Malaysia. At present Brasil exports less than S3 million worth of goods annually to Malaysia while imports are nearly
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  • 31 19 SUNOEI PATANI, Jan. 14 A Telecoms technical assistant. Mr Louis Goon Swee Kean, kfthere for Australia yesterday for' 1st medical treatment at the Peter McCallum Clinic in McUxwin
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  • 41 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. M A motor-cyclist. Nirwer Singh. 25. of Petaling Jaya. was knocked off his machine when he crashed Into the level-crosslne banier across Bungsar Road, near Brothers here, tonight. He» admitted unconscious to the (general Hospital
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  • 94 19 RAISING FUNDS FROM ‘SINS OF BABYLON 8ITIAWAN, Jan. 10/— A charity film premiere of “Goliath and the Sins of Babylon** will be held at the ,<5 Grand Theatre here on Jan. 29 in aid of Sitiawan Rotary Club ch&ritieflL Dr. V. Menon, the club’s director of community service, said that
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  • 1893 20 DO YOU MIND EQUALS 5FISTRAIGHT JPOH, Jan. 17. Do 1 You Mind, ridden by apprentie* Wohamed Yusoff, won the main sprint here. Do You Mind clocked 59sec. for 6f straight, equalllrg the course record set by Jesselton In 1955. The new season opened with a shock when Frangipani
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  • 276 20 A.P. JESSELTON, Jan. 15. 'JHE Malaysian Government will clamp down soon on the immigration of Philippines nationals to Sabah, the Deputy Federal Secretary, Mr. Yeap Kee Aik, said here Mr. Yeap and Sabah’s Controller of Immigation. Mr. R J. Arrowsmith. have Just concluded
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