The Straits Budget, 5 January 1966

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  • 39 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA S NATIONAL NLWSPAPCR REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O U K AS A NEWSPAPER SERIES 690 KUALA LUMPUR. JANUARY 5 1900. Price 40 cents (Mulava) or 1 Shilling hl>N *>o3s
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    • 375 2  -  AIiMAI) BIN MOIIAMFD IHKAIIIM At'«rney-(ieneral Sin&aDor«‘ REFER to Dato David Marshall’s and Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam’s letters published in the Straits Times of Dec. 23 and 24. 1905, respectively. Both Dato Marshall and Mr. Jeyaretnam have read more into the repeal of Article 13 of the
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    • 439 2  -  ANXIOUS Kuala Lumpur I T is encouraging to see that at last one Muslim woman has been brave enough to voice the unspoken feelings of many women in this country and it is hoped that more will come forward to swell the ranks in
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    • 379 2  -  HASSAN AIIMAD Kuala Lumpur IT would be worth remembering a few facts about the acceptance of Malay as the national language and the sole official language of this country. First of all, let us discard the genera] impression that Malay was accepted as the national
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    • 598 2  - ‘CANDID CAMERA GOES TO THE SEAP GAMES FRI STRATED VIEWER Klang WANG GUNGWl) Professor of Historv Iniversity of Malaya Kuala Eumpur LIM PANG KWANG Pegawai Perhubongan Awam Lembaga Perumahan clan Pcmbangunan Singapore (Miss) CONSTANCE PINTO for Permanent Secretary. Treasury Smgapon* NAUSEATED Singapore are the outside cameramen of Television Malaysia going
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    • 700 3 -Straits Times December 28 Malaysia is as good as its April word. The Government has now reversed its decision (which was “very, very carefully” considered) not to join the third international tin agreement. In April Mr. Ramani told the U.N. commodity conference on tin that whatever
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    • 318 3 —Straits Times. December 28 In his criticisms of the control of land schemes in Pahang the Auditor-General, Mr. Bompas, has presented the dark side of what may be a much more cheerful picture. The other side is now awaited, in the hope that grave doubts will be cleared
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    • 612 3 —Straits Times. December 29 The suspension of American bombing raids over North Vietnam strongly reinforces the belief that a fresh attempt to negotiate has begun. What other interpretation is there? The flying weather is good, but the bombers are grounded. That the fighting in South Vietnam has
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    • 340 3 —Straits Times. December 29 The Sabah employers’ organisations which have denied the Malaysian Labour Minister’s charges that they have been “half-hearted” about recruiting workers from Malaya seem to have reason for their indignation. Within recent months they have sent three teams to Malaya to find workers. virtually without
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    • 571 3 —Straits Times, December 90 Closer ties of friendship with Burma, the probable resumption of normal relations with the Philippines and the possible revival of the Association of South-East Asian States are valuable rewards for Malaysia’s new diplomatic initiative. Tun Razak’s visit to Burma has been an immense success,
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    • 354 4 —Btralts Times, December 30 It is a measure of Malaysian progress that in the next four years Malaya’s biggest producer of electric power, the Cameron Highlands hydro station, will be twice supplanted. In 1968 the second phase of the Highlands scheme, the Batang Padang project, will be
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    • 186 4 —Straits Times. December 31 Kuala Lumpur will get its through highway, eventually, and much of the traffic which now frets so painfully along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman will move by easier routes. But when will this be? More than $6 million has been allocated for Federal capital road
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    • 763 4 —Straits Times, December 31 We are reaching the end of a year not easy to forget and s year without any warm claim to memory. Yet a shaft of hope shines on the horizon. There is a possibility of talks which could end the war
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    • 649 4 —Straits Times January 1 The dark shadow of Vietnam falls across the whole of Asia. Because of it, the future is everywhere obscure. But it would be wrong to think that the past year brought no compensation anywhere, or that there are no pointers to progress.
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  • 394 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 24. THE Deputy Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Mr. Lew Sip Hon, is to become Deputy Controller of Rubber Research from Jan. 1. In a statement today, the Malayan Rubber Fund Board announced that Mr.
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  • 61 5 KANOAR, Dec. 23.—For the first time the Perils State Assembly has appointed a Bergeant-at-Arms Capt. Abu Bakar bin Ayob to carry the State’s new $2,500 silver mace. The mace, which is four feet high. has a star and crescent symbolising Islam, standing on a crown which symbolises
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  • 273 5 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. Singapore will soon be a centre of international e hib i tions, to keep local industries abreast with world developments. The Economic Development Board has decided to have a permanent site for this purpose. It will be chosen in the next
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  • 74 5 If UAL A LUMPUR, Dec. 23. Seven members of the Japan Overseas Volunteers, the Japanese counterpart of the US. Peace Corps, will arrive here next week. Four of them will be assigned to Sabah. The formal exchange of Notes between the Ministry of External
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  • 510 5 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. DR. GOH KENG SWEE, Singapore's Defence Minister, today gave Parliament "a lesson in infant subversion." This subversion of the infant mind, he said, could be done in two ways: By getting toddlers to sing anti-government jingles, or by, access
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  • 75 5 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24.—A Singapore student, Mr. Thia Teck Hoe, has graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne. He was one of.eight young doctors from Hong Kong and Malaysia who received their degrees at a convocation at the university on Dec. 18. Dr. Thia. second
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  • 45 5 PENANG, Dec. 24.—The Chief Minister of Sarawak, Dato Stephen Kalong Ningkan. is spending his Christmas holidays in Penang. He arrived here on Dec. 23 and was the guest of the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee a* dinner the same night.
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  • 349 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23 'J'HE Minister for Finance, Mr. Lim Kim San, today called on workers to practise discipline and ensure that their efficiency and productivity was such that Singapore manufacturers would be able to compete successfully in overseas markets. He
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  • 70 6 KOTA BHARU, Dec. 23—Three of four PIiXP councillors who defected to the Alliance In April have now returned to their party —and helped the PMIP to regain control of the Dual Periok local council. The three are Inche Omar bin Osman. Inche Nor bin Hat All
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  • 170 6 CINGAPORE, Dec. 26.Singapore has been chosen as the venne for a seminar organised by the International Union of Socialist Yonth to be held next year. This was disclosed today by Mr. Gilbert Chai Teik Leong, a representative of the union, who returned recently from
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  • 100 6 CINGAPORE. Dec. 23. The retiring British High Commissioner in Malaysia, Lord Head, flew into Singapore today to say farewell to friends here. Among the VIPs he saw were the Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Tew, the British C-tn-C Par East, Air Chief
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  • 448 6 IPOH, Dec. 23 PROMISES made years ago by “certain high ranking officials” of the Government to the people of Kampong Timah near Tan Jong Tualang have not been fulfilled even up till now. This was alleged by Ur. Cheong Kai Choong,
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  • 134 6 Kuala lumpur. Dec. 23. As the year runs out so, too, are the hopes of attractive Chan Poh Chee of ever finding her parents. Nine months ago she taken to the General Hospital here suffering from “bulbar” paralysis paralysis from the netk
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  • 60 6 ALOR STAR, Dee. 33. T> v Governor of Bongkhl&, Prince Phongkamban Phongyai, was rmong a Urge gathering who attend ed the Kedah-Perlis contingent police annual Christmas and New Year dance held here last night. Also present were new Thai Chief Police Officer for South Thailand Col.
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  • 161 6 JESSELTON, Doc. 23 A DELEGATION of A local importers and exporters will leave for Singapore on Jan. 2 to foster better trade relationship between the two States. The 20-man delegation will be headed by Mr. Wong Tfee Fat, chairman of the
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  • 474 7 CABINET TO RECONSIDER DECISION ON Dec. 29 IN A ‘SPIRIT OF GOODWILL AND CO-OPERATION KUALA LUMPUR Dec. 26 TENGKU Abdul Rahman is to ask th© Cabinet on Dec. 29 to reconsider its earlier decision to stay out off the Third International Tin Agreement. The Prime
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  • 47 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27 The Singapore Airport expansion programme will cost $2.75 million next year, with another $8.13 million required to oomplete the job later. The main part of this programme calls for extension of the present 9,000 ft runway to 11 000 ft.
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  • 140 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 26 The Singapore Government has invited applications from Singapore and Malaysian citizens for entry into the Singapore Legal Service. Candidates must be barristers or solicitors or graduates lr law of the University of Singapore, and have a minin'um of three years’ experience.
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  • 119 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 26 A k total of 2.075 tourists are scheduled to arrive in Singapore in five round-the-world cruise liners in February and March. The first three liners to call at Singapore will be the "President Roosevelt” with 275 passengers on Feb. 18.
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  • 235 7 PENANG, Dec. 27. J*HE Malaysian and Singapore Governments will be urged to establish early a Common Market for the two territories. The call will be made by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce In a resolution to be moved at the annual meeting
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  • 122 7 IPOH, Dec. 26.—Geochemical prospecting—lnvestigating the contents of the soil with the aid of chemicals Is attracting the attention of more tin mines in this country. According to Mr. Leong Pak Cheong. assistant director (geochemistry) of the Geological Survey Institute here, the method has
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  • 58 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27—The first phase <J a 100-ton capacity garbage disposal plant Is to be built at Redhlli industrial estate next year at a cost of sl.sB million. The money will come from the Health Ministry’s allocation of $5.8 million for development In 1900. The cost of
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  • 83 8 JFJS8ELT0N, Dec 27 Two more officers from the L- an ds and Survey Depart, ment here will leave tomorrow for overseas traintf«»r,»«hPfKSal]eh Zalnal 27, will ml vL he nt «national Trainn!?i#5^ ent f e or Aerial Survey at lft in the Netherlanda, to *11
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  • 502 8  -  From SAMAD ISMAIL: Rangoon, Dec. 28 THE Chairman of the Burmese Revolutionary Council, General Ne Win, has accepted Tengku Abdul Rahman's invitation to visit Malaysia. This was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, at a Press conference here on the eve
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  • 98 8 KANOAR Dec. 28—The Mentri Besar. Dato Sheikh Ahmad, today clarified a statement he made in the State Assembly on Dec. 22 on the collection of zakat and fitrah tithes. Referring to a report that he had said, in reply to Inche Yob bin Che Choh, that
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  • 489 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. citizens are to be barred from holding office in, or from being employed by, a trade union, or any of its branches in Singapore. This is provided for in a Bill introduced in the Singapore Parliament to amend the Trades
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  • 113 8 PENANG, Dec. 2 The Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, said today a survey of industries would soon be carried out in Penang by a team of final-year university undergraduates. The State Government had invited Prof. Hamzah bin Sendot of the University of Malaya
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  • 259 9 FIVE times more electricity than Highlands scheme KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 28. A giant thermal power station, which will ultimately produce about five times more electricity than the Cameron Highlands hydro-electric scheme, will go up soon at Port Dickson. Initially, the Port Dickson thermal power station will produce
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  • 144 9 KfUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 27. —Senoi Praak—Malaysia’s all aborigine refluent has been further strengthened with the passing-out of an additional 47 men here this morning. The Minister of Home Affairs, Da to (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, took the salute at the parade
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  • 207 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28 QUESTIONS regarding the registration of the Malayan Chinese Association, Malaysian Indian Congress and United Malays National. Organisation, which were described as communal political bodies, were raised In Parliament today. Inche Mahmud Awang (Kampong Kapor) asked whether the Government was still allowing the registration of
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  • 378 9 Chambers ‘can still work closely together PENANG, Doc. 26 THE Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and the Singapore Chinese Chamber can work independently, "yet very closely with one another,” the ACCC chairman, Dato T. H. Tan, said here today. Addressing the ACCC’s annual delegates' conference, Dato Tan spoke of many
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  • 164 9 Why we stayed out—by S’pore ’s Mr. Soon (SINGAPORE, Dec. 28— The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce is not attending the annual meeting of the Associated Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Malaya in Penang today because of an item on the agenda on whether the Singapore body should be a
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  • 73 9 pONTTAN, Dec. 28.—The Minister of Welfare Services, Hajl Abdul Hamid Khan, today distributed $15,375 to 205 fishermen in the Benut area near here. The money was to assist them In overcoming difficulties as a result of the curfew imposed on Johore waters. Haji Hamid said that
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  • 235 10 bah and Sarawak.—Reuter. Kuala lumpur. Dec. 28.—The Minister of Home Affairs, Da to (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, will leave for the Philippines tomorrow to attend the inaugural ceremony of the Presidentelect, Mr. Ferdinand Marcos. He will be accompanied by two officers of the
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  • 680 10 DATO TAN MAKES PLEA ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE PENANG, Dec. 28 rpHE chairman of the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce, Dato T. H. Tan, today urged delegates attending the chambers annual meeting here to view the Chinese language question in "a fair,
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  • 319 10 DENANG, Dec. 28—The As--1 sociated Chinese Cham* foe-rs of Commerce at its annual meeting here today decided after a debate not to consider the membership of the Singapore Chinese chamber. The item was down for discussion today, but was withdrawn from the agenda.
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  • 220 10 ITUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28.—The general secretary of the National Union of Plantation Workers, Mr. P. P. Narayanan, today welcomed the introduction of the National Land Code, which comes into force on Jan. 1. In a statement, Mr. Narayanan said that the
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  • 57 10 KANGAR, Dec. 28—Perils has now a women’s co-operative society the first of Its kind in the State. It was formed at Jejawi. three miles from here at an inaugural meeting yesterday Che Khatjah binte Yahaya was elected chairman with Che Meriam binte Nopiah as secretary and
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  • 35 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28 Inche Zainal Abidin bin Osman, deputy secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, left here todav to attend a one-year course at the Imperial Defence College in London.
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  • 253 11 lESSELTON, Dec. 28. —Arrangements are being maae with the Prime Minister’s Department in Kuala Lumpur for manpower experts to come to Sabah to assess the State’s personnel requirements for planning purposes. Sabah’s Chief Minister. Mr Peter Lo, disclosed this on his return from talks
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  • 25 11 KAJANO. Dec. 27—The Friends uf Kajang Society has donated a miniature fountain costing $l,OOO the town. The fountain is at J »<an Hill.
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  • 770 11  -  DATO ISMAIL IN MANILA WITH A PROPOSAL FOR EARLY TENGKU-MARCOS MEETING By CHEW LOY KHOON Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 29 A MEETING between TenglcM Abdul Rahman and President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines in the New Year appeared almost certain today. The Minister of Home Affairs,
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  • 41 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 29—The closing date of the Exhibition of Decorative Aits of Modern Japan, on show at the National Art Gallery here since Nov. 15. has been extended to Jan. 26. About 7.000 people have visited the exhibition.
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  • 28 11 KANGAR, Dec. 28. A new 1 Umno branch and a youth section have been formed at Sungei Bam in Utan Aji. four miles from here.
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  • 110 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. —The Registrar of Societies, Mr. Goh Sin Tub, has reminded the Malayan Chinese Association (Singapore branch) of its failure to furnish annual returns since 1961. The latest letter to the association from Mr. Goh dated Dec. 23, said; “I am to
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  • 28 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec 29 Dato T.H. Tan will open an exhibition of Chinese paintings at the AIA Building Exhibition Hall. Jalan Ampang, on Jan. 9
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  • 245 11 Kuala lumpur, Dec. 28. —Immediate plans for the establishment of an Army Staff College to train senior military officers are being kept secret. No details of the proposed college are available from Ministry of Defence officials here. They said it waa a policy matter
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  • 46 11 SUNGEH PATANI, Dec. 29. Assistant Superintendent B. Mutt usamy of Alor Star will be going on transfer to Kuala Lumpur next week to be police liaison officer to the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman. He succeeds Inche Long Uu Mph Mat Unah
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  • 491 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. The man who became chairman of the People’s Action Party for 10 days in August, 1957, when the party was captured by the proCommunists, is to be released from political detention soon. In a statement released by the Government today. Chan
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  • 119 12 IPOH, Dec. 29.-A delegation of three members from the Federal Youth Council of West Germany including a woman, will make a tour of Malaysia from Monday. They are Mrs. Inge Lenders. Mr. Helnz-Josef Nuchel and Mr. Hanspeter Weber. Mr. Weber has written to Che
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  • 206 12  -  From Alan Harman WGKOK, Dec. 28. i> Drought and floods .e forced the Thai uovernnunt to cut back export (fuotas for next year’s rice crops. The Economics Minister, Mr. Sunthorn Ilongladoram. said: 'The yield this year is going to be lower than last year
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  • 48 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 29 The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, who ended a weeklong official tour of Burma yesterday. is now in Bangkok on a private visit. His wife. Toh Puan Raha, and their children flew to the Thai capital on Jan. 3.
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  • 36 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29 The Australian Trade Commissioner, Mr. R.G. Tallboys, will leave Singapore in February to take up an appointment in the head office of the Department of Trade and Industry in Canberra.
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  • 127 12 PENANG, Dec. 29. The Mayor, Mr. C. Y. Choy, and his predecessor, Mr. Ooi Thlam Siew, both of the Socialist Front, have been nominated for the mayorship next year. The election will take place at a special meeting of the City Council oi Dec. 31.
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  • 207 12 TAIPING, Dec. 28 rrHE five Alliance members in the Taiping Town Council are not serving in any of the standing committees, Mr. N. M. Krishnan, leader of the Taiping coalition, which controls the 15-member council, said today. He said that when the standing committees for next
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  • 42 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29 —Parliament ended its debate on the Singapore Government’s 1966 Budget tonight with the passage of a formal resolution approving that $472,554,830 be supplied to the Government under the vari< >u> heads of expenditure for the public services.
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  • 30 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28— Tv.o non-commissioned officers Mohamed Noor bin Atan and n )l Abdul Ohani bin Haji Alwi—wiu leave for Britain tomorrow for three-month platoon weapon* course.
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  • 219 13 PENANG, December 29. A BIG air and sea search was mounted today in the sea off Penang for four fishermen missing since Nov. 18. An RAAF Valetta aircraft, based at Butterworth, set out this afternoon to search a wide area between Pulau Langkawi in
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  • 58 13 IPOH- Dec. 28 A Cessna 150. being considered by the Perak Plying Club as a light training aircraft, will be used for demonstration flights at the aerodrome here for three days, beginning on Dec. 30. The Beagle aircraft at present used by the club for training purposes
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  • 14 13 KAJANG, Dec. 29 The Ulu Langat District Town Board will meet tomorrow.
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  • 303 13  -  By I Pram Kumar Kuala lumpur. Dec 29.-A young Malayan, who has become a blues and ballad singer in England, revealed here today that he was paid only $42 for his first record “The Yo-yo Twist”—which sold 36,000 discs. But for his
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  • 32 13 SUNGEI PATANI, Dec. 28—Mr Ch'ng Thean Teik of the Sungei Patani District Hospital, has returned from Australia after completing a three-year course in radiography at the Prince Henry hosnital- Melbourne
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  • 133 13 SINGAPORE, Doc. 29 RADIO and television gave more coverage to the Barisan Sosialis than to a lengthy speech he made during the Budget debate, complained Mr. Ho See Beng (Bras Basah) in Parliament today. He was speaking during the committee debate on the estimates
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  • 37 13 SEGAMAT. Dec. 29—The OCPD. Segamat. Asst. Supt. Akil bin Adam, will be transferred to Police Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 2. He will be succeeded by Asst. Supt Dams bin Bakar, OCPD. Port Dickson.
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  • 341 13  -  Govt urged: Let consumers get limestone elsewhere By PADMAN GOPAL: Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 29 SENIOR member of the botanical division of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya today urged the Selangor State Government to dedicate Batu Caves as a national monument by encouraging consumers
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  • 105 13 PENANG, Dec. 29 —One of the greatest needs of the world today is that people of all religions should live in peace and unity. Cardinal Cardijn, founder of the (world-wide) Young Catholic Workers’ Movement, said here last night. “There must always be a spirit of
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  • 49 13 PENANO, Dec- 27—Inche Amran bin Abdul Hamid of Radio Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, will assume duties as programme organiser of the Malay section of Radio Malaysia. Penang, from Jan. 1. He succeeds Che Siti Hawa Zaln who Is returning to Kuala Lumnur after two years in Penang.
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  • 239 14 J/UALA LUMPUR. Dec. 29. —A Joint vocal recital by Tien Ming En (tenor) and his wife Joy Tien (soprano) will be given at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka here on Jan. 15. Joy Is currently performing at the Wlgmore Hall. London, while
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  • 67 14 PEN ANO Dec. 29—A new bank a branch of the Southern Banking Ltd. will start operating in Ipoh on Jan. 3. Occupying the ground floor of the Asia Insurance Building in Hale Street, which had been renovated at a coat of about 1100.000, the Ipoh
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  • 181 14 Kuala lumpur, Dec. 29. —The Central Government has set aside $134,000 for the Standards Institute, which will act as the nation’s watchdog on the quality of Malaysian manufactures. The money was approved for next year, under the First Malaysia Plan. A British Colombo Plan
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  • 80 14 tfUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28 i Maj.-Oen. A. O. Patterson, the new general officer commanding the 17th Division, Malaya District, today called on the Governor of Malacca. Tun Hajl Abdul Malek bin Yusof. He was accompanied by Brig T. D. H. McMeekin, commander of 28th Commonwealth
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  • 172 14  -  From CHAN BENG SOON: Alor Star, Dec. 29 r JENGKU Abdul Rahman today urged the Chinese to "think in terms of Malaysians" when making any demand from the Government on the Chinese language. “Whatever the Government does, the Chinese can
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  • 70 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 29 Becond Lieut. Lai Kin Chee. 22. of the Malaysian Army Ordinance Corps, left here today to attend an 18-month course at the Royal Military College of Science. London. Two others Cpl. Abdul Ohani of the 6th Bn. Royal Malay Regiment and
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  • 59 14 ARAU. Dec 29 The Raja of Perils today conferred on the Raja Muda, Byed Sirauddin. the Darjah Kerabat Baginda Sved Putra (the Most Esteem Royal Family Order of Perlis) in a ceremony at the palace here. The Raja Muda, 22. is at present serving as a
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  • 207 14 OINGAPORE, Dec. 29. —Madam Chan Choy Si o n g (PAP-Delta), yesterday called on the Government to put a stop to advertisements in a Chinese daily which she described as “harmful to women.” These she said were inserted in the paper by herbalists
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  • 130 14 IT UANTAN, Dec. 29. An Alliance town councillor today accaused the central Government of “suppressing” the people, while Cabinet Ministers and Malaysian diplomats were living in luxury. Inche Tajuddln bin Haji Chik (Alliance, Telok Slsek Timor) made this accusation at the adjournment of
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  • 94 14 |(UALA LUMPUR, Dec. 29. —More and more estate workers are taking up family planning, according to the Ministry of Labour’s monthly report for October. Workers of an estate in Selangor, said the report, were making full use of family planning facilities available there. The
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  • 22 14 'MUAR. Dec. 29 The Kluang Khek Association will hold its annual meeting at the association's premises here on Jan. 2.
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  • 25 14 PENANO, Wed. 29—'The North Malaya Tyre Retreading Association will hold Its fifth anniversary tea party and dinner at its premises on Jan. 9.
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  • 382 15 Jesseiton, Doc. 30 THE Chief Minister, Mr. Peter Lo, today turned down a suggestion that all expatriate officers in Sabah be invited to 'Vacate their posts voluntarily. He said that these officers, who had been given a guarantee of a minimum tour of service,
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  • 88 15 TELUK ANSON, Dec. 30 The Lower Perak Town Board is collecting conservancy fees from residents at Kampong Batu DuaTengah for the free services provided by the Teluk Anson Town Council, an Alliance member, Mr. Tan Ah Hee, told a meeting of the town council here last
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  • 51 15 and hundreds made homeless. Reuter. LIMA. Dec. 30 Twelve people, Including nine children, were reported yesterday to have died in widespread flooding in Huanuco 340 miles north of here the third disaster to hit Peru in less than a week. Crops were ruined and hundreds made
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  • 334 15  -  From JEFFREY FRANCIS JESSELTON, Dec. 30. —Anxiety over Sabah’s first general elections was express- wi* n Legislative Assembly here today as a Bill to put off for another year the local elections scheduled for next March was passed. But the Chief Minister, Mr. Peter
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  • 121 15 KANGAR, Dec. 3#.—The Raja of Perils yesterday conferred the exclusive Darjah Kerabat Baginda Byed Putra the Most Esteemed Order of the Royal Family of Perils on the Raja Mnda, Second Lieut. Syed Slrajuddln. The Raja Muda. 22, Is now serving with the RECCE Regiment
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  • 376 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 36. BILL which will enable the young men and women of Singapore to serve in a part-time volunteer fighting force was passed in Parliament today. Moving the second reading of the Bill, the Minister for Defence, Dr. Goh Keng
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  • 200 15 pENANG, Dec. 30. —The 1 Association of Teachers of English in Chinese Schools Is to protest against the proposed licensing of teachers. A resolution to this effect was passed by the association’s executive council at its meeting here yesterday. If also decided that
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  • 23 15 TELUK ANSON. Dec. 30 The Rotary Chib here has donated $6O for the relief of flood victims in KelanUn and Trenfganu.
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  • 126 16 l/UALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30 Istana Negara, official residence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, is to have another “face lift” and extension. The Prime Minister’s Department has sought, and Parliament has approved, $200,000 for the work. This will be the third time In five years
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  • 107 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. From Saturday, the Employees Provident Fund Board and post offices will stop accepting payments of payroll tax. All payments must be made direct to the controller of Payroll Tax, Suleiman Building, Kuala Lumpur. Announcing this today, the Inland Revenue Department said
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  • 45 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. Sl—The Prime Minister, rengku Abdul Rahman, today sent a message to the Prime Minister of Sudan. Saved Mohamed Ahmad Mahgoub, expressing "the congratulations and warm wishes of the Government and people of Malaysia" on the occasion of Sudan's National Day
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  • 304 16 LONGER CAMPAIGN TO EXPLOIT THE IMPACT, SAYS SYED NASIR KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. The Director of the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Syed Nasir bin Ismail, has proposed a six-month long: National Language campaign for 1966. Syed Nasir, who is also chairman of the N a t i
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  • 50 16 IPOH Dec. 30 The Ipoh Boys Club has sent cut appeal letters to help poor school children by providing free text books foi their new term beginning next year. Members will make a door-to-door collection and will also stage a concert at the St. John’s Hall here.
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  • 109 16 KUANTAN, Dec. 30Several Korean doctors have arrived here to famiiiarise themselves with Government departments before starting work in rural health centres in the State. They are Drs. Yee Choon Shik. Rhee Eun Suck. Lew Chung Moo. Park In Kya. Lee Chong Hak. Kim Hong
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  • 25 16 SUNGEI PATANI. Dec. 31—The retiring Inspector-General of the Royal Malaysia Police. Date C. H. Penner. paid a farewell visit to Kedah this week.
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  • 312 16 K. LUMPUR, D#c. 29 qPHE fate of Batu A Caves, the popular tourist attraction near the Federal Capital, depends on two quarrying operations. The leassees of these two quarries hold the quarrying rights to areas near the caves, which the Central Government,
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  • 21 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec 31—The total collected by Bank Negara Malaysia for the National Patriotic Pund now stands at $1,373,320.57.
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  • 175 16  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Dec. 30 The Stock Exchange is ending the year in almost boom conditions and today the turnover reached nearly one million shares, the highest for over two months. At one stage of trading this morning it was found necessary to suspend
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  • 60 16 TELUK ANSON, Dec. 30 An Alliance member. Mr. Au How Cheong, protested at the town council meeting here that the Central Government hud not paid the $31,933 contribution due to the council for this year. The council chairman, Dam Ishak bin Mohamed Essa, said that he would
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  • 47 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 30 The Australian High Commission today presented a set of Australian encyclopaedia to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The gift was handed over to the Secretary to the Ministry Syed Zainal Abidin, by Mr. Rov Mitchell. First Secretary (Information).
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  • 226 17 SENU: THE ABILITY TO THINK AND ACT AS ONE PEOPLE If IT ALA LUMPUR, Dm. 34 A True unity. wMariiy, the ability think and act as one body of people are the vital needs of Malaysia, the Minister of Information and BroadcastInf, I ache Sean bln Abdul Rahman, said in
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  • 341 17 GOVT DETERMINED TO CREATE ‘JUST SOCIETY’ FOR ALL KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. V. THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said in his New Year message today the "cardinal principle" of the Alliance Government was to weld together people of diverse racial origins
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  • 135 17 Penang. Dec. 31. An event of "very special significance" took place when the band and bugles of the 2nd Green Jackets (the King’s Royal Rifle Corps) beat Retreat at Minden barracks here this evening. “This ceremony brings to a close the 110-year history
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  • 68 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. The search for a Japanese trawler skipper, Shozo Ono, 45. who vanished after his fishing vessel sank in the Straits of Malacca on Wednesday night, was called off this morning 24 hours after It began. The 367-ton trawler, the Mlyajl Maru, collided with
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  • 265 17 PENANG, Dec. 31. CARDINAL Cardijn, Belgian founder of the International Young Christian Workers, Movement, left Penang today for Kuala Lumpur with a promise that he would try to persuade the Pope to visit Malaysia. ‘The Pontiff is very lntersted in all the
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  • 56 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. Sl—Employment In the tin industry rose by 734 Jobs from 44.241 in October to 44,975 in November, according to latest tin statistics. During the same period, tin production increased by 400 piculs to 124,491 piculs. The average November daily rate of production
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  • 28 17 PENANO, Dec. 31.—The Plre gade headquarters and administration office, hitherto at Beach Street, will be transferred to the I Perak Road Are station as from tomorrow.
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  • 254 17 ‘Need to achieve integration in plural society. ITUALA LUMPUR, D:c. 31. A plural society like Malaysia must “constantly strive to increase its unity and achieve that Integration which would no longer make it plural”, the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Slew Sin, said in a New Year message today. Mr.
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  • 29 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. The acting Director of Marine, Mr. D. T. Brown, has sent a circular to ships in Singapore requesting them to “dress ship” tomorrow.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 25 18 Rubber Tin fpei Ibi (per picul) Dee. *B. 71‘*cU. $681.50 !9. 7lT H c4s. 5683.25 30. 71|;cts. 5f84.37!i 31. 71*4 cU. $688.12 !4
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    • 2418 18 By Our Market Correspondent T11K Stock Exchange closed alter its three-and-a-half day trading week on Friday on a firm and confident note having put up a preholiday performance better than Ihe biggest optimist could have expected. In the short week no less than 2.799,050
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    • 42 18 Doc. *8 Dec. 29 Dec 30 Dec 31 Industrial* 84.14 86 16 87 06 8M7 i liok 104 86 105.51 108 19 105 84 104.73 104 85 194 98 104 98 *Der 30 1983 100 Dc J9 1902 100
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    • 68 18 T Mt .f lank. tn Malay »ta mad# these change* ,n <t• ra f e IiooT yMle,d “y Uli rites to »r"d. Ml. ,,d,t b 38 I S tatting 7T *r 00 rtiii* r Oallar< is n '••ay- Canadian 'V 3ft D»uU#h. Mark* 130 3 -a w.a Fr.no,
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    • 337 18 1 TRADING during the limit ed poit-hoiiday period produced little in the way ot new features report H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their weekly rub ber market review. Conditions were quiet and generally rather easier apart from a mid-week rally, at tributed to interest stemming from
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    • 76 18 MINES! Prsduas B«ohan|«, Sings n n p#r pieul yiilir d«r: Ceoenuf *11: bulk *52 sellers drum sos* sailers Capra: Dec- Jan. UK Continent unquoted. Pepper: Muntok white $222* sellers Sarawak white $220 sellers, sperm i Sarawak black sls7* sellers, garbled tampons black sls7*<N) seller, ran 98% NLW) A
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    • 26 18 Dec. 31. MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 7I{ cents (up one-eighth of a cent). TIN: .$(>88,121 (up $3.75). Unofficial estimated offering 275 tons (up 35 Ions).
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    • 18 18 f urrenl Date r»f Total for Total fo» H» rjuntai K.^Td^ 1 preTioua vo* Inlet mi
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  • 195 19 [£UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. Umno headquarters here is confident that the party will have half-million card carrying members by the middle of this year. In'he Musa Hitam, executive secretary of the party, said today the oasis of his forecast was the
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  • 17 19 KOTA BHARU, Dec. 29—The Islah School here is to have a new $90,000 hall.
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  • 354 19 K. LUMPUR, Jan. 2 A SPECIAL R ;yal Malaysian Air Force recruiting n team will for Penang tomorrow to inter- view candidates. An RMAF spokesman said today that the team is looking for about 120 candidates to train as mechanics and technicians in
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  • 149 19 KANGAR, Jan. 2. Inche Taharim bin Ariffm, the lone PMIP representative in the State Assembly, said today that the formation of a new IJmno branch in his Utan Aji constituency was no threat to his political future. “Utan Aji
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  • 438 19 LACK OF CLUES FROM THE PUBLIC... K. LUMPUR, Jan. 2 murders in the capital last year may go unsolved through lack of information from the public. Police investigations have come to a standstill m spite of rewards offered for information. This year there were 20
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  • 58 19 SEREMBAN, Jan. 2. Inche Mohamed Shahran, 26, a religious school teacher from Jelebu, last night won the Negri Sembilan Koran reading competition in the men’s section. Puan Maimunah binte Osman, 27. a housewife from Port Dick* son, was the winner in the women’s section. The
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  • 35 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2.—An exhibition of Japanese medicines will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall from Jan. 5 to 8. It will be open to the public from 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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  • 25 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2.—Shell petrol prices have gone up by three cents a gallon. Shell diesoline is one cent dearer a gallon.
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  • 186 19 CINGAPORE, Jan. 2.—The Foreign Minister Mr. S. Raiaratnam, said tonight it was the duty of the People’s Action Party to make complex political and economic problems understood by the people. He said the PAP should never act, as though the the people were stupid.
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  • 915 20 pKNANfi n»'(* PliL- !I■ is !j id a hectic i, af 1 in rac«*> iicrt* 1 1 1' i moon. Race One if m\ I mii.mi h i:i oIps 1 Hum a..11 <10 Coleman 2 u vi I l.unr 8 2
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  • 1046 20 |>ENANG, Jan. 2. Triangle Stable’s IHalapin, ridden by Lyall liar bridge, won the Penang Gold up the last classic of (he season here today. Race One i c i x<s i. div. M .Sullivan'* 3 i I IKS I \M| 8 4 *130] 475 i Johnson
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  • 67 20 KALUA LUMPUR. Jan. 2—The ""'ork to rule" ordered by thf National Union of Hospital Assistants has hardly affected work m major hospitals throughout the country. 1 his is because these hospitals have already implemented th( shift system of working for hospital assistants. A union spokesman
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 91 20 BIG SWEEP TOTAL 1*001 S 11.:#.. I I Si No. *****1 SI 2.179 ‘inti No *****9 S6,29< 3rd No. *****3 S3.II* Starii'i's ($699 rarni: No-. 2<*K«i.~»S. *****1. 21 120 2. *****9. *****6. *****8. (onsolaiio.. ($13 i*ac h): Nos. *****5, *****1. *****0 1923 *****1, *****9, *****2. *****7. *****8, *****6. BIG SWEEP
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