The Straits Budget, 24 February 1965

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    • 199 2  -  PERTURBED Malacca iktf -Jti** X "ww* [WEAKLY a month ago a 11 person who had sat for his final examinations at the university applied for a teaching post in Batu Pahat. Since the headmaster there needed a teacher with the qualflcatlons that this
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    • 249 2  -  MALAYSIAN Singapore \\7E are daily being reminded by our leaders of the seriousness of confrontation and the dangers of communalism. When the Chinese and Malays celebrated Jointly their main religious holidays of the year. Tun **tazak recalled “he had been able to sense and feel, as never before, the
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    • 172 2  -  A. B. AVERY Singapore representative 0 I.E.R.E. Singapore I WRITE to comet cer- tain i inaccuracies in recent correspondence in which the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers was mentioned. The I.E.R.E. is a chartered institution whose status is in every way equal to that enjoyed by the
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    • 164 2  -  B.G.P.K. Singapore ('AN someone please explain the current mania for digging up even*. major road in Singapore (fcs woU as most minor‘ones)? We hear much these days of the marvellous progresstn the State with new roads planned all v over the .place to connect up the
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    • 58 2  -  TAN BOON MENG Singapore. view oi ’,ne senous threat of Indonesian confrontation to our economy, every effort must be made to preserve it. The Government must therefore take oareful consideration when spending the taxpayer’s money. The implementation of 18 hours of broadcasting daily seems ridiculous, if not an
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    • 150 2  -  PHUNG KIIYE SUN Public Utilities Board Singapore I REFER to the letter from “Agent" (B.T. Feb. 16) *1 which he complains about estimated bills. If have to point out thwt this matter of meter reading and estimated him,has been fully ventilated In the Press only
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    • 163 2  -  VC. E. GREEN k. General Manager Central Provident Fund Singapore mt-" jpJjT W.‘ d y t 'i f J V O U R correspondent P. J. seems bent on increasing the rate of i contribution payable to the Central Provident Fund for employees with incomes
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    • 113 2  -  PUZZLED Singapore NOW I have seen everything! On my latest bill from the P.U B. only the water consumption has been estimated, the tom reading “W Dial Dirty.” V.v t To substantiate this I v Inspected the meter myself and found that it was indeed coated with a
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    • 93 2  -  J. LE CAIN Commissioner of Police Singapore I REFER to the letter by Fair Go (S.T. Feb. 6) in which he Inquires why policemen hide behind trees to nab their victims. Faf Go 1* lawabiding, he need have no reason to be apprehensive of policemen whether thev
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    • 203 2  -  NEGLKCTE1) Singapore SINCE the PAP came Into power, mam kampongs, even the most remote, have been provid’d with electricity Roads leading into then, have been metalled or M covered with graphite. But what about the few kampongs situated at the far end of Florence Jtoad
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    • 122 2  -  LCK Kuala Lumpur THE Prime Minister has hinted that pay cuts of civil servants may be necessary as the country needs every cent for defence. Many civil ser vants are prepared to make that sacrifice it the Government itself shows some restraint in its spending. *4 As a
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    • 29 2  -  BUYER Muar I SUGGEST that the postal authorities issue a 15 cents stamp, making things more convenient for the public as well as post office st aff.
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    • 671 3 —Straits Times, February 15 Socialist Front demonstrations in the capital, quickly snuffed out by the police and troops, rubbed the gloss off the personal story of a selfconfessed traitor, a well advertised early morning broadcast programme on the national network. There was no apparent connection, although
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    • 659 3 —Straits Times. February 16 Socialist Front leaders who assert the organisation’s purity of heart and innocence of mind never condemn treachery and subversion. This makes it impossible to treat their protestations with respect. Lip service is paid to the necessity of restricting opposition to Malaysia to constitutional
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    • 130 3 —Straits Times. February 16 Dato Dr. Ismail’s tribute to the Marine Police yesterday will find reflection in the hearts of all those people aware of the force’s services in defending Malaysia and in maintaining order around our shores. Since confrontation began police launches have been incessantly engaged in arduous
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    • 694 3 —Straits Times, February 17 The healthier atmosphere which followed the cessation of work-to-rule by the postal services and the withdrawal of the Cuepacs “ultimatum” on a large number of claims has the expected beneficial results. There has not been any general settlement of claims, but the meeting
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    • 690 3 —Straits Times, February 18 The preliminary recommendations of the committee appointed by the Government last August to review rent control legislation in Malaya will naturally be examined, first of all, for what is said on ihe removal of inhibitions to development. It was this weakness of the
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    • 372 4 —Straits Times, February 18 Few people will quibble about Mr. Tan Siew Sin’s suggestion that industrialists should consult the Central Government before setting up factories in Singapore. Such a move would be an obvious first step towards ascertaining, for one thing, whether or not similar factories were planned
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    • 128 4 —Straits Times, February 18 Singapore's war against straying cattle is really a war, without the conventions. A hapless cow caught in Kheam Hock Road has been slaughtered and her meat distributed to welfare homes. But will one such lesson be enough to convince the cattle (and their
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    • 377 4 —Straits Times, February 19 Hard on the heels of Premier Sato’s announcement that he will shortly try to mediate in the dispute between Malaysia and Indonesia, comes news that President Ayub Khan is also contemplating a peace initiative. Both the Japanese and the Pakistan leaders were host to
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    • 186 4 —Straits Times, February 19 Mr. Tan Siew Sin’s statement on the need for Government economy will, it is to be hoped, lead to more energetic action than has followed similar statements in the past There can be no question but that the services provided by the Government can
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    • 372 4 —Straits Times, February 20 The Federal Highway through Petaling Jay a, already one of the most dangerous roads in Malaya, is bidding fair to become still more perilous. The Selangor traffic police chief, who should know, has condemned traffic systems proposed for the highway’s junctions with Jalan Gasing
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    • 158 4 —Straits Times. February Though the Establishment Office’s notice that a committee will be formed to consider foreign degrees as qualifications for entry into the public service adds little to Inche Khir Johari’s announcement three weeks ago, it is welcome as further indication of a more enlightened approach to
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  • 1920 5 ‘WRONG TO REGARD IT AS A CRISIS WHICH AFFECTS ONLY MALAYSIA’ Call to loyal citizens to stand with Govt SINGAPORE, Feb. 14 l THE Deputy Prime 1 Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today warned newlyemerging nations not to underestimate the seriousness of Indonesia's confrontation
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  • 308 6 Ismail It’s pvoof that Front is tool of_ Reds K. LUMPUR, Feb. 15 T'HE Minister of Home Affairs, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, said today that the police had arrested all those connected with the Socialist Front riots on Feb.
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  • 125 6 OEREMBAN, Feb. 15. At least four parties are expected to contest the by-election of the Seremban Town Council for the vacant seat in the Temiang ward caused by the resignation of Mr. Chin See Yin (Independent). The four parties are the Alliance. Peoples’ Action Party.
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  • 74 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15—The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will officially receive six deer from Denmark at the National Zoo in Ulu Klang here at 5 p.m. on Feb. 22. The deer—three red and three fallow—are gifts from the Danish Government. They were shipped
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  • 42 6 KLANG, Feb. 15 —Dr. Lim Chong Yah. lecturer in economics at the University of Malaya, will speak on “Forecast of the Malaysian economy this year" to members of the Klang and Port SweUenham Rotary Club here on Feb. 18.
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  • 74 6 ITUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15 The off-shore curfew imposed on the whole of the Selangor coast, on Feb. 12, was lifted today. This decision was made by the Operations Security Committee of Selangor. The curfew, which extended three miles out to sea, was from 7 p.m. to 6
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  • 366 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14 A TOTAL of 166 people were today charged In the Sessions Court here with taking part in yesterday’s disturbances. A further 72 were charged before the Senior President of the court. Sycd llassan AI-JefTri, with breaking the curfew.
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  • 157 6 IJUALA LUMPUR. Feb 15 The new Canadian Hag —bearing a red maple leal on a white field flanked by red bars—was raised here at noon today at the residence of the Canadian High Commissioner, Mr. C E. McGaaghey. Watched by about 20
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  • 21 6 BENTONG. Feb. 15—A van will offer free X-rav« at the DisU'ii't Hospital here for three days from March 17.
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  • 190 7 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 17. —The Malaysian Trades Union Congress today asked the Government for permission to see Mr. V. David, who was detained under the Internal Security Act on Sunday. Mr. S. J. H. Zaidi, the general secretary, made a request to Dato
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  • 455 7 ‘Umno leaders the founders of inter-racial Malaysian govt Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 17 rpHE Umno secre-tary-general Dato Syed Ja’afar Albar, today denied the charge that there were Malay ultranationalists in the organisation. The charge was made by the Singapore Prime Minister,
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  • 30 7 KANGAR, Feb. 17—Muslims in Perlis set a new record during the month of Ramadhan thus year when there was not a single arrest for breaking the fast
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  • 194 7 KUALA LUMPUR, February 17. THE Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives today announced five schemes in the gigantic $l7l million irrigation project in Kedah. Tenders amounting to $lO6 million for these schemes have been called for. The whole project when completed
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  • 97 7 IPOH, Feb. 17—The second intake of national servicemen for civil defence in the Ipoh division began here this afternoon when 50 men turned up to register for duty. Mr. Ooi Kar Seng, assistant instructor. civil defence, Ipoh division said that the second intake would total
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  • 375 7 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 17. —The secre-tary-general of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress, Mr. S. J. H. Zaidi, today called on all Ministers to “set an example” to the people in the present “economy drive” by “voluntarily reducing their salary by half.”. He
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    • 36 7 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable Singapore 0 Kuala Lumpur—No postage fed Malaya 6 Br. North Borneo incl. postage Br. C wealth 6 foreign ir>d postage United Kingdom 0 Western Australia Only by Express Airfreight In advance)
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  • 819 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. Tengku Abdul Rahman today called on the people to unite against Malaysia’s No. 1 enemy the Indonesian confrontationists. Speaking at the opening of (itnno House in Changi Road, the Prime Minister said: “They (Indonesian confrontationists) are our No.
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  • 1586 8 He walks into police station to inquire about his Front colleagues held the previous day—and is arrested, too by STRAITS TIMES REPORTERS: Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 14 II FE in Kuala Lumpur returned rapidly to normal this afternoon after the lifting of the curfew at 3.30 p.m.
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  • 120 8 Second time in for ex-M.P. David LUMPUR, Feb. 14.—Mr. V. David the Selangor State Assemblyman, former M.P., and trade unionist, who was arrested today, is joint secretary of the “Detainees’ Day Organising Committee" which backed yesterday’s demonstrations. He is being held under the Internal Security Act. This is his second
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  • 34 9 Harriman’ s new job WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—President Johnson yesterday announced a State Department reshuffle In which the Under-Secretary. Mr. Averell Harrlman, will become a roving ambassador. Mr. Thomas O. M»nn will succeed Mr. Harriman.
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  • 625 10 PHOTONEWS SPECIAL PANDEMONIUM AT BADMINTON HALL AS BRITISH POP GROUP CLASHES WITH CHAP GOH MEH SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. k The Rolling Stones, the shaggyhaired pop group lrom Britain, last night fought a los- ing battle to be heard against a barrage of Chap Goh Meh
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  • 303 11 AREAS IN JOHORE, MALACCA FIRST Kuala Lumpur, Feb. IQ THE Tenants’ Re1 gistration Regulations will be enforced for the first time next week since the Emergency was declared on Sept. 3 last year. For a start, residents in certain areas of J o
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  • 325 11 Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 8. 4 LL the utterances of PAP leaders on the racial A problem are in themselves evidence of the party’s communal base, Inche Musa bin Hitam, political secretary to the Minister of Transport, said
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  • 118 11 STATE OF MADRAS’ DUE IN S’PORE ON MONDAY Singapore, Feb. is.—' The hnc u a^e of Madras which P?r e be^„ 0Verdue in slnEa Monday. now arrlve on R T £?mtll nts for the ship. annn l abhov and Sons. In tochv nC n^ the arrival date th G y
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  • 103 11 CINGAPORE. Feb. 18. A total of '18 Malaysian guests, Including 12 from Singapore, left here for London today on BOAC’s inaugural VC-10 flight between Singapore and London. They comprised representatives from Government, Press, film, and radio, and commercial organisations. The VC-10 jet took
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  • 50 11 ANGKAK, Feb. 18. Inche Abu Bakar bin Ali. the former supervisor of the Secondary Continuation School here, has been appointed the first headmaster of a new Malay medium secondary school. The school which is the first of its kind has an enrolment of about a hundred pupils
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  • 161 11 SINGAPORE, Feb 18 A man detained yesterday by Singapore police when the Greek liner Patris docked here from Australia was released today. The local police acted on the request of Canberra police, who were looking for a man wanted in connection with the double
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  • 72 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. Residents of Kampong Hajijah. off Siglap Road, have urged the Singapore Government to improve living conditions in the kampong. In a statement to the Straits Times, the Umno Kampong Hajijah Branch requested attention to these services: Better roads; pipe water; and electricity.
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  • 229 11 IfUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 18- —Top priority will be given to agriculture despite the Government’s efforts to step up industrialisation, the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Hajl Mohamed Ghazali bin Jawi, said today. I n d u strialisation, he said, was more or less confined to
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  • 175 11 —AP. Kuching, Feb. 18. Some soldiers from Malaya and Singapore are exploiting a legal technicality to seduce Sarawak girls and then abandon them, according to Ustaz Abdul Kadir Hassan. religious lecturer and member of the legal committee of the Majlis Islam. ‘This
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  • 58 11 BEN TONG. Feb. 18—The president of the Town Council here has warned that action will be taken against those who fall to pay up their arrears in assessment rates, conservancy and scavenging fees before the end of this month. The president, Mr. Tan Kung Chuan. said that
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  • 27 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 18—The Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swec. will open the Min Ngal Knitting Factory (S) Ltd. in Jurong at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
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  • 210 12 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 16. -An economy drive at all Government levels was announced today by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin. A committee of Government officials is to be set up soon to recommend ways to effect savings to meet defence
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    970 12  -  ‘1 AM CONVEYING THE CABINET’S DECISIONS’ HE TELLS STAFF SIDE MEN IN HIS OFFICE By P. KRISHNAN Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 16 TENGKU Abdul Rahman today offered postmasters, postal clerks and Division IV Government servants salary increases which would involve the Government in additional expenditure of $4,003,180 lyThe offer
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  • 75 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16.—A labourer, V. Arunasalam, 56, who vva« charged with using criminal jorce on a 16-year-old girl with intent to outrage her modesty was acquitted In the Magistrate's Lourt here today without his do- I fence being called. The magistrate, Mr. Fong Seng Yee.
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  • 320 13 Singapore, Feb. 16. —As more British troops continue to arrive here for Malaysian defence, it is becoming apparent that Federal and Commonwealth military units are being swiftly deployed to take Snap action against CommunistIndonesian united front operators in Hie Malayan “danger zones.” The zones, which
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  • 151 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. THE Minister for Social Affairs, Inche Othman Wok, last night urged the people to help to isolate and expose the corrmunalists and racia- lists in the country. He Maid that for the past year comm un all sts and racialists had used a
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  • 26 13 dan? 1 Peb 16 The Le .staitwf nd a ry Sch0 °l here has Maiav Malay classes for nonihe 'pubUc Wernment sorvants and
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  • 98 13 cOIIOKE BAHRU, Feb. 16 J A three-month antirabies vaccination campaign was started in all parts of Johore today. All dogs above the age of three months are now required by law to have an anti-rabies vaccination. After Mav 15, dogs found without the purple 1965
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  • 300 13 JPOH, Feb. 15. The 1 Perak State Govern- ment has decided to press the Central Government for early approval of a $1.2 million loan for the development of the Kamuntirio: industrial estate at Taiping. An eight-member delegation. headed by Mr. Goh Chok Sam. a
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  • 286 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. r £HE success and survival of new industries in Singapore can only be ensured by the implementation of training schemes to increase skills, a new productivity code, standards and I quality control and export promotion. This is stated by Singapore’s Finance
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  • 75 13 PENANG. Feb. 15. Burglars broke into the house of an R A.F. airman, Junior Technician B. Cameron. in Tanjong Bungah yesterday and stole $B9O in cash and goods. They also took his car. The burglars smashed open the rear door, ransacked the house and escaped
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  • 172 13 IPOH, Feb. 16.—Eighty 1 youths were today picked to join the Malaysian armed forces at the end of a two-day recruitment drive at the Territorial Army headquarters here. The recruiting officer, Lt. Omar Azaddin bin Mohamed Ali, said that the response to join the
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  • 54 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16.—A passing out parade for 49 short service commission cadets of the Malaysian Army and the Royal Malaysian Air Force will be held at the Federation Military College, Sungei Besi, tomorrow morning The Chief of General Staff, MaJ.-Gen. Dato Abdul Hamid bin Bidin.
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  • 112 13 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 15—The House of Representatives is to meet for five days beginning from March 1, it was announced here today. It will meet for two days, on March 9 and 10. The White Paper on the arrest of three Opposition
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  • 477 14 I PENANG. Feb. 18 DR. LIM CHONG EU, secretary-general of the United Democratic Party, today urged all political parties to “restrain extreme elements among their members." He said these elements could be a great danger to internal unity. Malaysia, after all. was a
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  • 126 14 CINGAPORE, Feb. 18. A Territorial Army sentry in Pulau Bukom Besar opened fire last night at what he claimed was an unidentified man rowing in a sampan towards the Shell oil installation. The next moment, he told police, be saw the man rowing
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  • 61 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 18—The Temerloh bridge over Sungei Pahang along Route 2 in the Temerlioh district of Paliang will be closed to all traffic —for the second time in three months —from midnight on Feb. 20 to 6 am. the next day for “urgent repairs." The last
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  • 345 14 j IPOH, Feb. 18 A $25 MILLION extension to the Perak River Hydro Electric Power Company, Ltd., the “power house of the mining industry in Perak,” was inaugurated by the Sultan of Perak at Malim Nawar, rear here, today. The ceremony was
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  • 190 14 1/UALA LUMPUR, Feb. 18- The trial of Christopher Bertram Campos. 33, was put off again today as the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Inche Idris bln YusofT, wanted more time to prepare his case. Inche Idris, who has taken over from Inche Harun M. Hashim. told the
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  • 85 14 LUMPUR, Feb. 18 The Tariff Advisory Board is now preparing a report on its first public inquiry held to consider the inclusion of 101 items for the Malaysian Common Market, and will submit it shortly to the Central Government. The Minister of Finance, Mr.
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  • 230 14 Kuala lumpur Feb. 18. —The Deputy President of the French National Assembly, Mr Jean Chamant. said today that there was a possibility of an increased flow of French capital into Malaysia this year Mr. Chamant said this before he left by air for Bangkok
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  • 108 14 |£UALA LUMPUR. Feb. 18. Fire destroyed a house at Sungel Best Road here today. Damage was estimated at about $14,000. The fire, which made nine people homeless, is believed to have been caused by an overheated insulator at about 4.20 p m. Two fire
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  • 62 14 STAR, Feb. 18. Police are investigating the death of a five-year-old boy, M. Rajendran, found shot in his house at Jalan Puteh, Seberang Perak, yesterday. Z 1 I*Jboy 1 *Jboy had a gunshot wound in his throat. The shoMs believed to have been fired from a revolver
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  • 294 15  -  By A. SRIPATHY: Malacca, Feb. 17 'pHE DUKE of Edinburgh arrived here in a Viscount of the Queen's Flight this evening for an informal visit to the 28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade at Terendak Camp, 13 miles from here. He was accompanied by his
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  • 284 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. An American, Dorald Michael Zubrisky, accused of issuing dud cheques ir> Singapore, was today charged in a magistrate’s court with seven counts of cheating. Zubrisky, who pleaded not guilty, was alleged to have cheated: MusUfa b:n Abdul Rahman. of
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  • 21 15 ire I^ GA r° RE 17—The po«n ,1,e Ral Indonesian 11 n O ueen Street at a -ro. yesterday.
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  • 58 15 PRINCE Philip is to visit Kuala Lumpur on March 4 after his Australian tour. In Kuala Lumpur, he will be received in audience by the Yang di-P e r tuan Agong. and will also meet Malaysian leaders. He will spend three days in
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  • 227 15 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 17 T h e Singapore Minister of Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, today assured industrialists in Singapore that they could get “every assistance and advice” from the Singapore Economic Development Board If they wished to set up factories there. Mr.
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  • 33 15 MACHANO, Feb. 17— The Kelantan branch of the National Union of Teachers has collected $940 from the dance held lest December The money will go to the National Patriotic Fund.
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  • 124 15 IT V ALA LUMPUR, Feb. 17. The Selangor Malayan Chinese Association today appealed to all Malaysian youths not to be deceived or misled by the Socialist Front. In a statement. It said last Saturday’s riots in the Capital showed that the Front members
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  • 138 15 1/UALA LUMPUR, Feb, 17. —The Liberal Arts Society here needs a soprano and a light baritone or tenor for major roles in its production of Franz Lehar’s operetta “Land of Smiles” in June. The soprano is to play the second leading role of
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  • 109 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17.—The secretary of the new Sembawang branch of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Tan Hock Lim. today claimed that agents of the People’s Action Party had infiltrated all Government departments in Singapore, and a “veil of fear” had descended on civil
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  • 43 15 A P. KUCHING. Feb 17—Mass Anak Mawang, a Sea Dayak woman, travelled more than 120 miles by boat, bus and taxi to the offices of the treasurer of the National Defence Fund, to give him $37 for the fund. A P.
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  • 194 16 SHAW FILM ACTRESSES ACT AS THEIR PARTNERS SINGAPORE, Feb. 15—The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, last night headed some 500 guests at the Rnmah Persekutuan at a belated party to celebrate his 62nd birthday, and also to mark the official opening of the new Singapore Umno House.
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  • 127 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. The recent spate of holidays may be the reason for some Singapore employers not paying up their payroll taxes yet. The deadline to pay up ended yesterday but some of the State’s 5.000 employers. who come within the “payroll bracket” have
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  • 123 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15. 4 $5(k\000 Government bungalow for “very, very important persons’’ in the Cameron Highlands will be ready by April. It was to have been completed last month but rain and the late arrival of imported fixtures accounted for the delay, a spokesman
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  • 41 16 SINGAPORE. Peb. 15 The Minister for Finance, Dr. Gob Keng Swee, will open a new knitting factory at the Jurong industrial estate on Feb. 21. It is the Min Ngal knitting factory (Singapore) limited factory.
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  • 168 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15.—The Australasia Line, Malaysian shipowners with registered offices in Singapore, will Inaugurate a new passenger service to Australia on March 4, when its newly refitted 8,060-ton liner 8 5; Malaysia, arrives here. rhe company’s manager, Mr R. f. a. Plowright, in. a statement
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  • 132 16 IPOH, Feb. 15. —Mr. D. R. A Seenivasagam, Member of Parliament and president of the People’s Progressive Party, who was injured in a road accident earlier this month, will be in hospital for another three months. This was disclosed in a medical
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  • 31 16 SINGAPORE, Peb. 15 The Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, will open the Hon Lion Feather Works (Malaysia) Limited factory at the Jurong industial estate on Feb. 28.
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  • 187 16 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 15. —Four leaders of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress today met the Minister of Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, over the arrest of Mr. V. David, who had styled himself the secretary of the Detainees’ Day Organising Committee. The four
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  • 423 17 ‘But Soek must be sincere’ Kuala lumpur, Feb. 16. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today welcomed Japan’s effort to bring about peace in this area. He described it was a “good thing” to hold another summit meeting with president Soekamo to solve the confrontation
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  • 435 17 PENANG, Feb. 16 THE secretary-gen-eral of the United Democratic Party, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, today blamed the Socialist Front “and the Front alone” for last Saturday's riots in Kuala Lumpur. He believed—as the Minister for Home Affairs had stated—“that Socialist Front
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  • 142 17 QINGAPORE, Feb. 15. Sabah’s Chief Minister, Mr. Peter Lo, today predicted that Indonesia would launch “multiple attacks from various sectors” in the Borneo border areas later this year. But he stressed that Malaysian security forces had been geared to expect such further Indonesian guerilla incursions.
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  • 79 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16. A gardener, P. Krishnan. 22. was assaulted by three youths who held him up behind the Coliseum Theatre, in Gombak Lane here yesterday. The robbers then searched h 1 trouser pockets and took away his wallet. They returned it to him when
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  • 245 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16 THE Port of Singapore Authority is to select 10 more local youths for training as harbour pilots. Selected candidates will undergo a one-year pre-sea course at the Singapore Polytechnic, to be followed by sea training in a foreigngoing vessel
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  • 246 17 MARINE POLICE VITAL TO SECURITY, SAYS DR. ISMAIL OINGAPORE, Feb. 15. —The Federal Minister of Home Affairs, Da to (Dr) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, today performed the commissioning ceremony of two Marine Police patrol launches —The Mahkota art 4 Temenggong
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  • 52 17 IPOH, F< b. 14.—A leading trad* unionist from West Germany, Mr, Rudulf Outte. t< day addressed a seminar for members of the Amalgamated National Union of Local Authority Employees, Ipoh branch, here. He talked on the various trade union structures in the United States. Britain
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  • 30 17 TANGKAKt Feb. 15.—The Chinese School Teachers’ Association here hat decided to call upon all its members to contribute one day's pay to the National Defence Fund.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1832 18 From Our Market Correspondent rONDITIONS on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia last week followed very much the forecast pattern and the market was still characterised by an extremely small turnover. On some days in the trading rooms up to noon only a handful of shares
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    • 20 18 6 %>,’ I rakkm' JJJf? iJs's? Ills'!? ***** «M.H »"'V\n™An ***** ***** 105 4! Dec. 29. 1992 190.
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    • 38 18 ON the free exchange market In Hong Kong on Saturday the U.S. dollar was quoted at 3.731 for T.T. and 3.71 i for eash. Sterling was quoted at 16 and one tael of gold at 238.
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    • 156 18 HPHE Hongkong Land InvestA ment and Agency Company on Friday announced a new share Issue to holders of Its 5.6 million Issued shares In the proportion of one for seven existing shares. The directors of the company decided at a meeting to recommend to
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    • 57 18 ’-pHE Malayan Exchange Banks.* Asseelation made these changes In Its rates to merchants on Saturday (all rate* to 8100): Canada: buying TT 35*. airmail OD 35 3/8, 90 d/at. 35 7/8 cradlt bills, 35 15/18 trade bills. •tiling TT ar OD rsady: Canadian dollars 34 15/18; twist Franea
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    • 32 18 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (per picul*. Feb. 15. 72 cts. $616.50 16. 71% cts. $622.37*4 17. 71% cts. $623.87% 18. 72 cts. $623.87 19. 72*4 cts. $620 12*4 20. $617.62*4
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    • 10 18 In January Amalgamated Rubber Estates produced 1,335,500 lb.
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    • 52 18 Current Date Total Total payment payable for for the previous en J Ti *oo%t Mar. 26 S SSS 2‘ Sll 'sirs I 3 M. Rub. Plant 25% Mar Ift tiiv NarborouKh (FMS) 5%f Mar! 30 li 7 JS M l 3l Taiping Rub. U*% Apr. I 20% l\V%
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    • 642 18 CONDITIONS this week In rubber have been similar to last week with moderate turnover at times In the midst of long periods of Inactivity, and the tedious and .seemingly Inescapable 72 cents mean level remains, as Indeed It has since the January 28. say H.C.B.
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  • 244 19 nGAPGBR, Feb, 19. 4$»lrtHptancy .dents at', me SlngaPolytpehnlu today m e Anst hrt^twydea; be JjKjG# 11 t i; t‘ l r < vstem. noon, the W /wdjflrt rd boycott ora3|ui*#6 by accountancy stnaibM ,f written on it beside t%e v injNto 1 car
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  • 69 19 Gangster headman h eld '/'PORE, Feb. 19— PoH^ e yesterday arre&ted a described as a headOf the Gl Hai Lent: society of the “24" l> Kt g ln a h «t 1b Geylan« d 1 ?/'//her raid ln Kams, ;.;l nb< r member of the 1 J r ri F
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  • 408 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 19. ||HRli|retaiing Jaya Traffic Advisory Committee met today for more than two |nours to discuss the implications of the proi posed traffic arrangements at the Jalan Casing and Jalan Timor junctions with the Federal Highway. The
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  • 35 19 SINGAPORE. Peb. 19-~Some 15 employees of the Diamond Theatre to North Bridge Road, went on strike today in a new wage dispute with the management. The management cancelled the 7.30 p.m. •how. 1
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  • 32 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Peb. 19—The Straits Times has received $10 for the National Defence Pund from Inche Yeop Allp bln Haji Abdul :jC*rim. of Lenggong. bringing its total to $46,441.
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  • 98 19 If U ALA LUMPUR, Feb 10— The Assistant Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Sink Yew, today warned that the Government might have to take over the publishing of school textbooks. He said this after visiting three leading Chinese schools here. > Mr. Lee
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  • 47 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19—The executive committee ol the University of Singapore Students’ Union has approved a plan to send Mr. A. Sivallngam, the unions administrative assistant, to the International Students* Conference Secretariat at Leiden, Holland, for a twomonth training in administrative and secretarial work.
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  • 32 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 19—Chow Nga Nga. 19, of Sun gel Buloh new village, was fined $200 in a magistrate’s court here today for not possessing an identity card.
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  • 194 19 ITU ALA LUMPUR, Feb. tv —one hundred and thirty-one pre-univer-sity science students at i four schools here are ftill waiting for their Higher School Certificate results,*, although about 2,500 v other students have already received theirs.^ are from the Methodist Boys School, the
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  • 22 19 PENANG, Feb. 19—The Penang branch of the Malaysian Association of Youth Clubs collected $1,681 during its flag day last Saturday.
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  • 166 19 Ktjala lumpur, Feb. 19. Inche Musa bin Hitam, Ithe political secretary to the Minister of Transport, was today asked to pinpoint specific evidence of PAP communalism. The Singapore Minister of Culture. Mr. S. Rajaratnam. made the call following Inche Musa’s claim yesterday that
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  • 28 19 SINGAPORE, Peb. 19 The YWOA ip Singapore will celebrate its 90th birthday with a dinner and concert at its centre in Outram Road on March fl.
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  • 186 19 DONTUN KECHIL, f «b. 19. —The Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, today visited the people of PonUan to thank them for their loyalty and patriotism in, resisting Indonesian confrontation. Tun Razak .said that the people had been directly involved in confrontation and
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  • 140 19 IfUALA LUMPUR, Feb, 19 A committee will be set up soon to look into the tlask of inculcating civil defence consciousness among the people, the Minister of Sabah Affairs and Civil Defence. Dato Donald Stephens, said here today. He was speaking to reporters
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  • 50 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19-The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, and other Cabinet Ministers will attend the annual dinner of Rubber Trade Association of Selangor and Pahang here tomorrow. The Association wtU hand over to Tun Razak about $146,000 as its contribution to the National Defence Fund.
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  • 921 20 ■/'gtHSKwH? > QINOAPORE Feb 20. *5— Jockey Alan Trevena had a great day at Buklt Tim ah today. He scored an early hattrtck on Tapageur, Owana and Bainarajlam and brought his total to five When j /he won on Crown Boy and Mighty Missel. ACE^
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  • 953 20 taINGAPORE, Feb. 21. Malapin (Ken Bmith), one of the heaviest backed favourites, was disqualified- after beating Qtiisana by a length in the Class 2 Div. 1 7f handicap at Bukit Tlrtiah today. ■aee Ohe|| ,V 4» t wv 1 ,Qhiu73Pii« Klm'» J: GOLCONDA s.l* parr 8.9 Y*
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 117 20 ss f* «r *a. 5*£ fllilflfllll (A I 1° ~£SS m ISSIH2S55| 51s .8 5C I w BP a' < BIG SWEEP TOTAL FOOL $111,718 1«*. No, M3SM Hljll Ind. No. *****2 $16,68^ 3rd. No. *****3 $8,341 «ofh rter <fi;KW «•*>: *****6 *****9 *****4 *****5 |*1I69 imw W«M *****3 *****2.
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