The Straits Budget, 29 December 1965

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  • 38 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES v MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REGISTERED AT THE Q.P.O. U.K. AS A NEWSPAPER SERIES <B*. KUALA LUMPUR DECEMBER 29, 1965. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling KDN 1102-1012
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    • 79 1 HOM« MOW LOOM A' l KOTA tHARU0 BPS l limiMVOIITH iron KUALA LUMMIN MALACCA •AIAH firm efi warn Board of Directors Mr. KO TICK KIN (Choirmon) DATO LEI CHEE SHAN.D.K.M.P.. J.P. (Managing Director) DATO AW KOW, D.K.L.P. B.B.M., (Director) DATO Dr.) AW CHENG CHYE, D.P.M.J., B.B.M., LL.D. (Executive Director) DATO
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
    • 563 2  -  AHMAD bin MOHD. IBRAHIM. State Advocate. General Singapore I REFER to Dato David 4 Marshall’s letter (S.T. Dec. 21) Dato Marshall’s original plea was that we should not rush through a new constitution for Singapore without giving every interested person an opportunity to express h
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    • 105 2  -  E. S. TEY Labis, Johore JJOW about a New Year tfft to Labis from the Central Electricity Board Labis has been experiencing many difficulties due to the insufficient supply of electricity. We are supplied from the evening to early morning only. Moreover, each house is rationed. On
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    • 56 2  -  CITIZEN Benton* JT is ridiculous that the State Assemblyman of SjlJP. 8 J °hore should think of stopping the sale of sand to SinSSin order to defeat Singapore s housing project. Whatever and whoever the government of the project is for the good of the
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    • 268 2  -  L- A. VARTY Comptroller-General of Inland Revenue. Kuala Lumpur UNIMPRESSED Johore Bahru MAY I again use your 1Tm column to make one final point clear. The notion has apparently become widely held that “local" manufacturer* will not be liable to turnover tax to any great extent.
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    • 420 2  -  DAVID MARSHALL Singapore (COPIES of the Republic of Singapore Independence Bill and the Constitution (Amendment) Bill are now available. A preliminary perusal suggests that Singapore will have the untldiest and most confusing constitution that any country has started lire with, in so far as I am aware.
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    • 117 2  -  local Singapore I READ with great Interest your report on “New Post for Bishop Salisbury I am now awaiting an announcement, on Bishop Sansbury’s successor, and I trust that the incumbent will be a local senior priest. No matter what arguments are put forward to support the appointment
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    • 139 2  -  PARENT Singapore TER making a thorough study of my children’s Primary VI history syllabus I have come to the conclusion that the syllabus is unsuitable for., twelve-year-olds. I wrote to a principal of a college in America and asked his views regarding the syllabus
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    • 102 2  -  RASHID bin Y.VU° B Seremban IT was recently dkclosed 1 by Mr. Tan Slew Sin that nearly $370 million will be remitted .overseas In the form of dividend and profits for 1W5 Why has the Minister evolved no sures to encourage holding of shares by cal investors In
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 680 3 —Straits Times. December 21 Appreciation of the benefits of economic co-operation with Singapore had its place in Tun Razak’s speech winding up the debate in Parliament on the First Malaysian Plan. On both sides of the Causeway moods have changed as the necessity of co-operation Is realised.
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    • 352 3 —Straits Times. December 2! At first sight it seems that the Zambia airlift has set some form of time limit to operations against the rebel regime in Rhodesia. If the airlift should end with the rebels still in power, Britain will have admitted defeat. The question then is,
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    • 665 3 —Straits Times, December 22 Mr. Harold Wilson has said little, and President Johnson even less, of their two day talks in which the co-ordin-ation of British and American defences in the Far East was among the principal subjects of discussion. It is possible that President Johnson did
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    • 158 3 —Btraits Times. December 22 The SEAP Games flame goes out but its light lives on. The third event of the series, following the pioneer meetings in Bangkok and Rangoon, has been of such success as to confirm that the Games are here to stay, a biennial festival of
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    • 671 3 —Straits Times. December 23 What does the Government plan to do, in 1968, about the more than 100,000 pupils who enrolled in Form I this year and by then will have completed their lower secondary education? They will be 14plus—neither old enough to be employed, nor trained
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    • 191 4 —Straits Times. December 23 cost of living is seeing to that. The historical pioneer flourished in the absence of government. a condition no longer possible or desirable. The inevitable comment on Mr. Peter Los remarks, therefore, Is that the modern pioneer, whether wage-earner or entrepreneur, must be able
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    • 681 4 —Straits Times, December 24 More remarkable perhaps than the amendment of Singapore’s Constitution to provide that it can be amended in future by a simple majority of Parliament was the passage of this amending bill without debate. There were no questions, no anxieties. Of course the Opposition
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    • 375 4 —Straits Times, December 24 The Christmas truce which both sides in the Vietnam war have offered to observe may have little real significance. But the fighting lately has grown so savage and remorseless that the smallest sign of the survival of more humane instincts is to be welcomed.
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    • 515 4 Times. I** embfr :3 A Merry Christmas! With which greeting it is customary to couple sincere wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. These are indeed our wishes. Not merely a happy New Year, or a prosperous one, but both happy and prosperous. We leave the
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  • 70 4 are. *syvg« State’s commerce an dustry. j w v gabAb s This was disclosed by Inche Minister of WnAnce- of| Haris bin Molded > his return from Kua»A c0in He said ***jff e Un »P' mittee had already con gress pointed to
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  • 596 5  -  From G. GELOARD: KUCHING, Doc. 16 OPPOSITION members in Sarawak's Council Negri today urged the Government to adopt policies aimed at making Sarawak more self-reliant. During a lengthy debate on the Budget, the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Ong Kee Hui (SUPP) said it
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  • 157 5 Kuala lumpur, Dec. le. Malaysia’s efforts to inform the world about Its national situation and aspirations will receive an “Immense fillip” with the re-organlsation of the external publicity division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. This was said today by the Minister, Inche
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  • 98 5 IZUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 16. The Speaker twice ordered the division bell to be rung in the House of Representatives today for a lack of a quorum. The first occasion was a few minutes before the House adjourned for 15 minutes at 8 p.m. Inche Abu
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  • 233 5 If UAL A LUMPUR, Dec. 16.—Tengku Abdul Rahman today spoke of a “change of heart" among S Ing a p ore leaders who not so long ago were “drifting away” from the Separation Agreement. Because of this “drift”, he said, the Malaysian Government had not
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  • 173 5 JOHORE BAHARU, Dec. JOHORE’S road development had to be drastically slashed this year because the original $3 million grant promised by the Central Government was reduced to $1.3 million. This was stated by Dato Chua Son* Llm, chairman of the Public Works Committee, in the State
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  • 21 5 RAUB, Dec. 15 —The Medical and Health Officer here. Dr. Haroajan Singh, has left on transfer to Malacca.
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  • 24 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 15—The Liberal Arts Society will hold its second annual meeting at the Selangor Club Card Room on Dec. 18.
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  • 23 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec 16 Tengku Abdul Rahman will visit Johore Bahru tomorrow to o|>en a Kaum Ibu course at the Dia*
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  • 50 5 SINGAPORE. Dec. acre 4.209 full-time Malaysian and Singapore students in Bi i* tain during M» .endemic year 1964-65, according to a 2 rU Council supplement Issued in London recently. Of this figure. 3,271 came from Malaysia Malava 3.037, Sabah 85. and Sarawak H»and 938 from Singapore
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  • 91 5 Kuala lumpur, Dec. 16.—Dr. P. V. J. Solomon. the Deputy Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, mill arrive here on Dec. 18 for a four-dav visit to Malaysia. lie will be accompanied by Mr. Hamid Mohamed. First Secretary. High Com- mission for Trinidad and
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  • 1047 6 MALAYSIA PLAN DEBATE By Our Parliamentary Reporters Kuala lumPUR. Dec. 16. A Government backbencher and an Opposition member today called for direct trading with Communist countries. They made the call during the debate on the First Malaysia Plan in the House of Representatives.
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  • 356 6 KUANTAN, Dec. 15 r T HE Mentri Besar of Pahang, Da to Yahya bin Haji Mohamed Seh, said today that the State Government was determined to exploit more revenue by introducing a local timber processing industry in the State. He was speaking
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  • 64 6 PENANO, Dec. 15—At a preliminary meeting at Umno Hall today, convenors of the proposed East Coast Flood Victims' Relief Committee decided to call another meeting on Dec. 18. The proposed committee will strive to raise funds to help the flood victims in Trengganu and Kelantan. The Asst.
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  • 136 6 tv'll ALA LUMPUR. Dec. A 16—The Malaysian Government has agreed to train more South Vietnamese police officers from next year here. The Director-General of the National Police of Snath Vietnam. Colonel Pham Van Lieu, said this on his arrival here today. Sosth Vietnam
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  • 39 6 BANGKOK. D«. 011 Ambassador to p V Ngah bln Tengku Sri seated hi* CT T^ nt l?L,. l( i pala« Bhumipol at the Grand U *tL now M*uysl»n rived earlier this month to his post.—A J*.
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  • 16 6 K KAJANO, D« S.' Wifne*waran htf Dorai MMldcAm Hospl tal. Officer. Kftjanf District n
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  • 119 7 JESB ELTON, Dec. 17. About 50 Japanese experts will arrive in Malaysia next year to help implement the first Malaysia Five-Year Plan. In addition. If Japanese Peace corps members are expected to arrive to work in departments of agriculture. Ninety Malaysians
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  • 718 7 M-Plan debate: Ministers reply K. LUMPUR, Dm. 17 THE benefits that will accrue to both Malaysia and Singapore from close economic cooperation are “fully appreciated” by the Central Government, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Kazak, said today. He was winding up
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  • 398 7 SINGAPORE, Dm. 17 'pHE Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, explaining why Singapore declared itself non-aligned immediately on independence, told Parliament yesterday: “It was not, as some believed, simply a case of following a current Afro-Asian fad. “Alignment with one of the power
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  • 80 7 IPOH, Dec. 17.—The first prize-winners In both the men's and women’s section of the Perak State Koranreadlng competition will get a free passage to Mecca. The Mentrl Bamr. Da to Ahmad bin Said, announced this last night at the competition at Parit, 2t miles
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  • 116 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 17. —The Ministry of External AfTalrs said today that at no time had any British diplomat In Malaysia been declared “persona non grata.” A statement Issued by the Ministry, referred to reports in the Press that a British diplomatic official had recently left
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  • 913 8  -  Tengku: Breaking away by member countries will be like cutting off one’s nose from the face... By Roderick Pestana: Johore Bahru, Dec. 17 THE Malaysian Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, todoy appealed to Commonwealth countries severing diplomatic relations with Britain over the Rhodesian issue, not to break
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  • 68 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 20—The Ministry of Culture revealed In Parliament today that about 59,500 copies of the Ministry’s publication. The Mirror (known as the Malaysian Mirror before Singapore s Independence) were being printed each week. In a written answer to a question by an absent Barisan
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  • 469 8 K. LUMPUR D«c. 19 I L 'J'HE National Union of Plantation Workers today urged the Central Government to amend the Employees Provident Fund Ordinance to double contributions to it both from employers and employees. This was one of 26 resolutions passed
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  • 145 8 rpHE Minister of A Home Affairs, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, said today that stability was essential in the attempt to attract local and overseas Investments in Malaysia. Hence the substantial allocation for his Mini»try was inevitable, he said. Dato Ismail said
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  • 29 8 KOALA LUMPUR. Dec Minister of Lands and Inche Abdul Rahman Ya akub. present certificates *•£*s* the Maktab Hutan, Kepong morrow. They have 1-month course in fore uy-
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  • 437 9 MALACCA, Dec. 20. 'J'HE Governor of Malacca, Tun Haji Abdul Malek bin Yusof, today appealed to the people of the State to herald the new year with greater determination and ambition to bring more progress. He said that although they now lived
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  • 169 9 Kuala lumpur, Dec. 19.—The British High Commissioner, Lord Head, said here tonight that Tengku Abdul Rahman was right in suggesting that the countries which broke off diplomatic relations with Britain should remain in the Commonwealth. Speaking to newsmen at the InternaUonal Airport on
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  • 488 9 Kuala lumpur, Dec. 20.—The Government will spend $12.2 million next year to plant rubber on a big scale in Sarawak, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, told the House of Representatives tonight. Introducing the development estimates for
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  • 67 9 TIPINO. Dec. It. About 75 families have received cash assistance from the Anglican Churcn which has flvt centres in North Perak. The money was for their children to buy school books. In addition, the Church has also contributed to the St. Nicholas Home for the
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  • 577 10 MINISTER ACCUSES PMIP AND ASKS: WHY HAVE THESE PEOPLE NOT BEEN ARRESTED? K. LUMPUR, Dm. 20 THE Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, today accused the Kelantan PMIP Government of having shirked its responsibility by allowing 1,300 illegal rice mills
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  • 186 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. Tenfki Abdul Rahman today reiterated his desire to see "Sinrapore come back closer to Malaysia.'* “If they do come back instead of drifting away, then somethin! could be done to please the businessmen of both countries,” he told reporters
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  • 31 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 19—Two former Penang students. Khoo 800 Keat and Ong Eng San. both oJ’ raduat l in medicine at the University of Queensland. Brisbane. *ith first-class honours.
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  • 36 10 SEREMBAN. Dec. 19 Mr. Ho Yoon Kuen was re-elected president of the Negri Sembilan Fui Klan Association. Other officials: Vice-president. Mr. Ho Tan Sze; secretary. Mr. Hew Yoon San: treasurer. Mr. Yee Yew Ng
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  • 37 10 PENANG, Dec. 19 A total of 2.480 loans, amounting to $1,373,400, was granted by the Penang Port Commission Employees’ Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society last year. Of these 1,682 ($966 885) were for medical expenses
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  • 210 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. IS. gINGAPORE is to have a People’s Defence Force patterned along the same lines as the State’s professional military forces. A Bill called the People’s Defence Force Act, 1965, has been tabled ir. Parliament The Bill provides for the raising and
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  • 19 10 TANOKAK. Dec. 17 A health clinic is under construction at Bunge* Mati, eight miles from here.
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  • 110 10 IfUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19.—Tse capital *s to have a civic wrothy of its name at last. In the development estimates for the Ministry of Local Government ana Housing presented Parliament, the Mr. Khaw Kal Boh. sought approval tor million to implement the first phase
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  • 900 11 By Our Parliamentary Reporters 1(UALA LUMPUR, Dec. 20.—The first stage Qf the Malaysian defence build-up programme to be carried out next year will cost $150 million, and will include a base for strike aircraft and 22 vessels, including a frigate. The overall build-up
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  • 434 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. ■pHE Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, today expressed regret at the Malaysian Alliance Council's recommendation to withdraw Malaysian student facilities overseas from being used by Singapore students. Winding up the debate on the motion of thanks to
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  • 95 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29 Zambia’s Minister for the Western Provinces, Mr. A.B. Mutemba, said today that Singapore was “absolutely Justified" in retaining the British bases because it was not strong enough to defend itself. He added that if there were no British ba'-cs the
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  • 131 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20 The K Singapore Polytechnic Photographic Society has announced the winners of Its fourth Singapore and Malaysia student photographic competition. Winners of the Oolden Statuette are: Heng Chlang Yens (Johore Bahru), Ong Chon Chong. (Muar). Onn Cheow Long <Muar), Foo Kok Heng (Ipoh),
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  • THE SENATE
    • 204 12 Kuala lumpur. Dec. 20 —The Ml- nister of Health, Inche Bahaman bln Samsudin, said In the Senate today, that massaging is a source of “good health" to the human body. Inche Bahaman was replying to s question by Vnche Said on bin
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    • 518 12 TAN HITS OUT AT ‘DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM’ OF HIS BUDGET j Z? KUALA LUMPUR, Dee. ao T»HE Minister of FinA ance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, today criticised businessmen who disagreed with his tax proposals but did not offer alternative arrangements that would yield similar
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    • 213 12 DATO TAN: ITS A SECURITY RISK ITU ALA LUMPUR, Dec. 20. Senator Dato T. H. Tan warned today that Malaysia would face the danger of Communist subversion by trading with Communist countries. Speaking during the debate on the Bupply Bill in the Senate.
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    • 95 12 RUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 20. —Five commemorative Malaysian stamps issued In 196# will be Invalid for postage and revenue purposes from April 1 next year. The stamps of fourcent, 19-cent, 12 -cent and 30-cent denominations were Issued to commemorate the coronation of Sultan
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    • 196 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 20 MALAYSIA should hare its own tin buffer stock system to offset any manipulation of the world market now that she is out of the new International Tin Agreement. Mr. Chan Kwong Hon made this suggestion during the debate on the
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    • 71 12 17 UAL A LUMPUR, DeC-% —The Minister of ess? Forestry, Kepong. Among the foresters n pleted the 11-monti h gn d forestry 10 were from one from BruneL th# The Minister told course was merely the** tWo and urged them to y selves by studying
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  • 781 13 An instrument to weld national unity and build tolerance, says Ong SINGAPORE, D«c. 20 THE Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, told Parliament today that from now onwards the four-fold emphasis on education in Singapore would be on: THE IMPROVEMENT of
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  • 286 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20 THE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, has again said that Singapore wants to co-operate with Malaysia, but this must be on a basis of mutual benefit. He was speaking at a dinner last night at the Coronation Road community
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  • 371 13 K. LUMPUR, D«c. 19 J 'J’UN MUSTAPHA bin Dato Harun, the former Yang di-Pertua Negara of Sabah, today thanked the Central Government for its allocation of $373.6 million for development projects in Sabah under the First Malaysia Plan. In a Press statement issued after
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  • 174 13 IESSELTON, Dec. 17. —This State capital is to be expanded and beautified under a $l5 million reclamation project to be completed within the next three years. This was stated by Sabah’s Finance Minister. Inche Harris bln Mohamed Salleh, when he returned from
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  • 524 14  -  NEGOTIATIONS FOR JET AIRCRAFT—AND THE PILOTS ARE ALREADY BEING TRAINED By P. KRISHNA N: Kuala Lumpur. Dec. 21 Malaysia's first "strike air base" is being built on Hit east coast of the mainland and will be operational by the middle of next year. Last
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  • 55 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 11. The Mentri Beaar of Selangor. Da to Harun bin Haji Idris, said today that tolerance among the various communities was an essential requirement for progress and prosperity. He was speaking at the opening of the new $6,500 community centre of Batang Berjunta!
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  • 465 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 21 QVERSEAS experts have been asked to come here to help the Government in a bold plan to tackle the country’s unemployment and skilled manpower problems. These experts should be arriving here early next year. The Minister of Labour, Mr.
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  • 57 14 KUALA LUMPUR. *>«£ A 21 The Sarawak Minister for AgrJgAgJ and Forestry. Da to Kui Seng, said today th* Sarawak would p, K rapidly once road com mnnlcatlons were c0 pleted in the State. He said this at the International Air pot his way heme after
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  • 672 15 By Our Parliamentary Reporters KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 21. —Another 3,600 landless families totalling 24,000 people would be resettled on 32,000 acres of Federal Land Development Authority schemes by the end of next year. This was announced by the Assistant Minister of
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  • 138 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21—The Singapore Government is now looking into the possibility of setting up its own student facilities abroad, the Minister for Social Affairs, Inche Othman Wok, said today. This follows the Malaysian Alliance Council's recommendation to withdraw all facilities to Singapore
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  • 616 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22. TWO Ministers, two junior Ministers and an Alliance backbencher today clashed with a Socialist Front MP in the House of Representatives over remarks that Penang was being left out in the industrialisation programme. It led to the Socialist
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  • 201 16 If UAL A LUMPUR, Dec. 21.—A woman senator today spoke about the dangers of extending full diplomatic recognition to Formosa. Che Aishah Ghanl thought that the presence of a Formosan Government representative with full diplomatic status In Kuala Lumpur would further
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  • 35 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 21. Additional accommodation will be provided on all day and night express trains and local trains during the Christmas and New Year holidays from today till Jan 4.
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  • 192 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19.— The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, last night denied that he had said that Singapore was expanding i t s volunteer force to defend Malaysia. He was referring to a statement made by the Malaysian Prime Minister, Teng. ka
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  • 148 16 CINGAPORE. Dec. 21 O —The Minister for Social Affairs, Inche Othman Wok, has welcomed the assurance by the Malaysian Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, that the Central Government did not want to interfere in the internal affairs of Singapore. At the same time he
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  • 164 16 ttINGAPORE, Dec. 19— The Singapore Institute of Management will conduct two special management courses in Chinese next month. The courses on budgetary control and management, and personnel management and Industrial relations in Singapore, are designed to improve the knowledge of company executives on important
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  • 147 16 1/UALA Ll/MPUR, Dec. 19.—Australia has shipped $287,500 worth of earth-moving equipment to Sarawak for drainage and irrigation work. The equipment, donated by Australia under the' Colombo Plan to the Sarawak Public Works Department, will arrive in Kuching on Jan. 9. v It is
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  • 178 16 Kuala lumpur, dm. *iSenators today applauded a suggestion that the Upper House boycott consideration of all Bills sent to it from the House of Representatives during this session. The suggestion followed complaints by Senators that most Ministers were absent from the Senate. First to
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  • 119 16 VUALA LUMPUR. 1V Des. 21.—The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, will leave tomorrow for a week-long official visit to Burma to strengthen the relations between the two countries. Among the 21-man delegation accompanying Tun Razak will be Inche Senu bin
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  • 219 16 K Dec. 21-TH UN i PUR Minister, Tengku 2£| yanan, the secretary general, of the N a tional Union of Plan, tation Workers, for his contribution to the Malaysian trade union movement. Speaking at the openini of the NUPW's new $3 69 000 students’ hostel
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  • 78 16 PENANG, Tues. The 1 Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce will submit a resolution at h* annual meeting of the Associated Chinese Cham bers of Commerce reQ>ie ing the Central Govern ment to modify the turnover tax. imDro ved It will also urge imP‘ 196 methods
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  • 49 16 <Ph{ till SEREMBAN. DeC-2 1 Royal Tank Regime"? 2 9 hold an "Open Day from 2 30 p.m. to 6jrn Bov s Pupils of the Paul's I”. Home, Batu Tiga. y stitution; the King Kur School and the Tens in vited Girls School have been
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  • 452 17 K. LUMPUR, Dm. 21 MORE than 82,000 primary school children in Malaya will be admitted into secondary schools next year as a result of the new comprehensive education system introduced this year. And another 56,000 chUdren will be going to school for
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  • 320 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 21. THE Mentri Besar of Kelantan, Dato 1 Mohamed Asri bin Haji Muda, today desscribed as “unfair” the accusation by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, that the PMIP State Government was involved in “political
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  • 55 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11—The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Rasak. today received $1,500 from the Postal and Telecoms Co-ope-rative Thrift and Loan Society as a donation towards the National Defence Fund. The cheque was handed over at the Ministry of National and Rural Development by the
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  • 32 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21 Miss Agatha Barbara, former Education Minister of Malta, who attended the recent Commonwealth Parlia roentary Association conference in New Zealand, is now in Singapore on a visit.
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  • 128 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. Pour Singapore students have been awarded scholarships by the German Carkl-D u 1 s burg Foundation to study engineering and mining in Germany foi four years. The four students Koh Chlap Mens. Law Fatt Ring. Lee Ctaoy Chin and Tan rook
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  • 31 17 KAJANG. Dec 21—The Union of Teachers of ttiglb>b in Vernacular Schools, Malaya, will bold Its annual delegates' conference at the Central Welfare Council conference room here an Dec. 23.
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  • 140 17 PENANG, Dec. 21 THE Penang division of party Rakyat, at an executive committee meeting last night, decided not to support the re-election of the Deputy Mayor Mr. Tan Chong Boo, at the CHy Council mayoral election on Dec. 31. Mr Tan recently resign
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  • 294 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. WORK permits for non-citizens working in Singapore will be issued on a year-to-year bosis, but they can be revoked ot any time by the Commissioner for Employment. An employer must terminate within 30 days the service of any
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  • 45 17 81NQAPORE. Dec. lb—Mr Choy Peng Seah has been elected president of the newly formed Singapore Buddhist Youth Mission. Others eleotod: Mr. Tan Chuan Chla, vice-president; Mr Loo ttong Teck. secretary; Mr. Yao Kuan Bang, treasurer; and Mr. Chua Kim Chong, assistant treasurer.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1773 18 From Our Market Correspondent r jpHE behaviour of the Stock Exchange in the four-and-a-half day trading week before the dose down for the Christmas holidays on Friday was something of an enigma. It was generally expected that the week before Christmas would be a
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    • 66 18 MtMCtC Predttae Kxahange, tingaMr* naan priees per ptoul ysstsrday: Caoanut a«»: bulk ,52 sellers, drum (55| sellers. Dec. /Jan. UK/Cootlnent Unquoted. Paaaar: Muntok white (217* seller* Sarawak wlittn ,215 aellera, Vpiciai Sarawak black ,157* aellera, gaYbled I.a on poo, r lack ,157*<N> aellera tall nS«% N NL^>. ABTA
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    • 31 18 S M,B i 'r ng Singapore Harbour wharves ar oxpsctsd ta°*T are: Mohammcdl 1/2 cn v nr veitbit Ta£d.°; n MarU 29 34, nnm Hope 42/43, Nara 46.
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    • 50 18 (Managers' Priest) Kirst Malayan 2.03 2.13 Second Malayan 1.42 1.52 Third Malayan 1.08 1.17 Malaysia Commerce .81 .92 xd Mai. Saving Fund 1.13 1 23 Kirst Hong Kong .98 1.00 Kirat Hong Kong .96 1.00* Second Hong Kong .70 .74* Sterling Commodity 3'® 4 4 i*Hong Kong currency*
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    • 330 18 rE month’s rise was extended during the past week’s trading, which has seen fair turnover, taking levels to 72 cents for January and February for first time since June this year report RC.B. ft Co. Ltd. in their weekly rubber report. Unconfirmed report# of oontinu*
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    • 85 18 THI Arsaelatien if Banks in Malay* •la mads tbaa* changes m Its rate* to merchants yesterday (all rates to >100): Maw York: buying TT 32 13/16, air* mall OD 32 13/16, 90 d at. 33 3/8 redit Dills, 33 9/16 trade bills. Canada; buying TT 35/3/16, airmail OD
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    • 181 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. —The retiring British High Commissioner to Malaysia, Lo r( j Head, today made this plea to both Singapore and Malaysia- “Work closely together/* Before he flew back to Kuala Lumpur after a one day farewell visit to Singapore, Lord Head
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    • 23 18 Dec. 24. MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 714 cents (down C C$6*4.5O (down ,S Onofflci»l esUmatfi offering *25 lons (d° wn 5 tons).
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    • 52 18 Current Date Totel for f ar payment payable the year prrrlo f C.S. Holdings 5% Jan. 17 \q<*„ <• nod wood Park 15% 13% ifnj r r Straits Times 16% Jan. 14 21% 1 ‘Jer, (astlefleld 22K’% Feb. 9 50% gg r c Chersonese 12‘4% Feb. 16 12«
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    • 39 18 Dec. 20 Dec. 21 Dec. 22 Dec 2 A 83*1 Industrials: 62.03 62.50 83.04 l*-” ioU»* Tins: 100.85 101.15 102.25 104.'1 I rubbers: 104.73 104.73 104.71 104.73 Dec. 30, 1963 100 Dec. 28, 1862 m 100
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  • 630 19 By Our Parliamentary Reporters K. LUMPUR, Dm. 22 rpHE Government is to carry out a four--1 pronged plan through research, extension and subsidies to promote a sound and viable agricultural economy in this coun- try. ine Minister of Agriculture and Co-operaUves, Hajl Mohamed
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  • 257 19 V UA L A LUMPUR, 1V Dec. 22.—Tun Abdul Razak, who left here today for Rangoon on a week-long official visit to Burma, is to invite Gen. Ne Win, chairman of the Burmese Rev o 1 u tionary Council, to visit Malaysia. The Deputy Prime
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  • 50 19 IPOH, Dec. 22—Three standing committees were set up by the Legislative Assembly at the Anal sitting of its Budget meeting todav They are the Public Accounts Committee, the Standing Orders Committee and the Committee of 68 committee includes a member from the People’s Progressive Party.
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  • 28 19 IPOH, Dec. 22 There will be no Novena devotions at the Redemptionist Chapel in Tambun Road here this Saturday as it falls on Christmas Day.
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  • 466 19 K. LUMPUR, Dm. 22 ANOTHER row over Sharikat Matahari Ltd. the Malay taxi company which operates at Subang international airport occurred in the House of Representatives today. It was sparked off when Dr. Tan Chee Khoon (SF-Batu) commented on remarks made on Dec. 10
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  • 83 19 Kuala lumpur. Dec. 22. The American destruction of rice crops in the Vietcong controlled areas of Vietnam with chemicals was today condemned as an “abominable act" by Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamed, chairman of the Malaysian Afro Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation. Dr. Mahathir said in
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  • 567 20  -  By I P. KRISHNAN: KUALA LUMPUR. Dm. 22 MALAYSIA is. to invite the Philippines President-elect, Mr. Ferdinand Marcos, -'to pay us a visit" soon after diplomatic relations between the two countries are normalised. His visit, the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today,*
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  • 852 20 Tibetan’ s cup shock pENi&NG, Dec, 26 Habu Kongsi’s Tibetan, ridden by Moses Lee, sprang a surprise to pay $l2O in the Governor’s Cup here today. Race One CLASS 2, DIV. 2 7F. Sunbeam.. Stable’s (1) BAY DRAGON 11,8.13 (540—178) Cole* J (2) Crown Boy 8.12 749 —294) Bougoure 2
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  • 100 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 23, The House of Representatives last night approved $2.9 million for work to begin next year on a home and chancellery for the Malaysian High Commissioner In New Delhi, and for chancelleries and a consulate in Tokyo, Washington, and Songkla.
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  • 142 20 1£UALA LUMPUR, Dec. 22. —The Thai Deputy ‘.Prime Minister, Gen. Praphas Charusathian, today said that Thailand was preparing Itself to face ifurther Communist activity In the country. Gen. Praphas said an Increase in Communist activity was “natural" since Thailand was bordered by Cambodia and
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  • 33 20 PBNANO. Dec. 22 -The Bungah Divisional tive committee will hol&K n( j. Ing at the Tanjonft Sfcru* a Club on Dec. J* for build lnR raising pro?" headqua-'T r mon*>
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 41 20 —BIG SWEEP—TOTAL POOL $47,178 1 No. <***** (888,314) 2 No. *****8 ($7,078) 3 No. *****8 ($3,538) Starters ($674 eaofc): Nos. *****3, *****3, *****$, *****6, *****7. *****3, *****4. Consolations ($333 eaeh) :Koo. *****3, *****5, *****1, *****4, *****7, *****7, *****1. *****8. *****7, *****3.
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