The Straits Budget, 9 February 1966

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  • 38 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA S NATIONAL NCWSPAPCR SERIES 695. REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O. U.K. AS A NEWSPAPER KUALA LUMPUR, FEBRUARY 9, 1966. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling KDN. 2035
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  • 411 2  -  By 808 NG KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4 TWO steps to streamline the civil service and give it a "new look" have been announced by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. They are: THE CREATION of the Development Administration Unit in the Prime
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  • 122 2 CANDAKAN, Feb. 4.—The Chief Minister Mr. Peter Lo, today spoke of a challenge that faced Sabah for a ne w and respectable social c’ass of technicians and skilled tradesmen to take their rightful place in society. “We are all aware that there is an
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  • 221 2 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 4. The decision to reopen its mission here shows the importance the Ceylon Government attaches to Malaysia, Ceylon’s High Commissioner here, Mr. M. M. Maharoof, said in a broadcast tonight marking his country’s national day. “We share so many things in
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  • 371 2 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 4. —Legislation making it compulsory for all men between the ages of 18 and 55 to serve in the Vigilante Corps throughout Malaysia was gazetted today. Under the law, enacted under the Essential Regulations Ordinance, only the following persons
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  • 220 2 KAJANG* Feb. 4.— The Selangor Mentri Besar, Dato Harun bin Haji Idris, today warned Government servants of his power to “throw the book” at them for any default in their service to the public. He delivered this, warning in a “pep talk”
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  • 112 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. iv 4.—xhe Malaysian Government would bt 1 “most happy” to welcome any official lifting of fingerprinting Malaysians of Chinese origin by the Philip* pines Immigration Department. A spokesman of the Ministry of External Affair said this today. He was commenting on a
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 656 3 —Straits Times. February 1 Malaya’s rubber estates and smallholdings will be pro- j ducing in two years time over a million tons of rubber, two years earlier than the cautious J authorities of the Rubber Re- j search Institute were willing to predict as recently as 1961.
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    • 414 3 Straits Times, Februarv 1 One does not know whether to commend the University of Malaya upon its development or to bemoan the problems it still must solve. On the one hand lies undoubted achievement in a university roll expanded from 356 in 1959 to nearly 3,000 today, and
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    • 372 3 —Straits Times. February 2 I Preparations for construction work to begin on the gigantic Muda River irrigation scheme in Kedah and Pcrlis, to cost more than $200 million, 1 are going well. The essential World Bank loan of $135 milj lion has been secured, surveys completed and
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    • 189 3 —Straits Times. February 2 The Bank Bumiputra, which i opened for business yesterday, I v\as conceived only six j months ago. Few Government- i j sponsored schemes can claim < to have fructified so fast. The growth of the bank, its di- i rectors intend, shall be
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    • 673 3 —Straits Times. February 3 New regulations under the Emergency Act of 1964 come into force today “to provide for the control of publication and the safeguarding of information during the period of emergency.” The Press was given notice of them yesterday. Parliament's approval is not required, although
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    • 363 4 —Straits Times. February 3 The Malaysian Government has made at least a good start in its quest for foreign loans and grants for the new development plan. A most encouraging interest has been shown by that pivotal institution, the World Bank, whose vice-president and top Far Eastern
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    • 385 4 —Straits Times February 4 The aerial photographic survey of Malaya announced yesterday promises to bring some order within a couple of years into the rather confused state of local cartography. At present three main aeries of topographical maps, plus a few odds and ends, cover different parts of
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    • 187 4 —Strait* Time* February 4 Members of the Singapore trade mission to visit Africa next month will carry with 1 them more than high hopes of orders for their firms and I factories. Ever since it was founded nearly 150 years ago Singapore has depended on trade for survival,
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    • 645 4 —Straits Times. February 5 President Soekarno can still make headlines with a quip or a phrase, but from outside Indonesia the aftermath of the October coup continues to look more like a tidal wave than a ripple on the ocean of revol- ution. From the
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    • 381 4 —Straits Times. February 5 Of all the aspects of the Malaysia-Singapore rift, none is more regrettable than that concerning the treatment of students. To sow divisive seeds among the young is to lay the ground for permanent estrangement the very opposite of what both Governments profess to want.
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    • 226 4 —Straits Times, February 5 The moon is giving up it« secrets with remarkable spent Since the first space probes crashed home in 1959 more sophisticated rockets have scanned the moon from all angles. Our satellite's unseen other side has long since been photographed anti in 1964 an American
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    • 65 4 TELUK ANSON, Feb. 4~ A 4ft. 6in. long cobra was killed in the magistrate's chambers here yesterday during the absence of the magistrate. Inche Mohamed Yusof bin Chin It was found slithering along the brick wall by Inche Marican bin Puteh, the clerk-cf-court, who promptly killed
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  • 239 5 LOR STAR, Jan. 28. A The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, reiterated today that Malaysia would not take reprisal against Singapore despite the Singapore Government’s decision to introduce work permits for Malaysians working there. “We can do a lot of things against
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  • 19 5 SUNGEI PATANI. Jan. 31—The birthday of the Sultan of Kedah u dl b** celebrated officially on Feb.
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  • 170 5 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30-Re-presentatives of all Indian organisations in Singapore will meet on Feb. 12 to approve a hiemorandum to be submitted to the constitutional commission set up to safeguard minority rights. They will also discuss the question of Singapore citizenship and work permits for non-citizens.
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  • 261 5 If UALA LUMPUR, Jan. IV 28.—The Minister of Home Affairs, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Haji Abdul Rahman, said here today it was not the Government’s intention to “drive away” all expatriates from the country. "The Government does not envisage total
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  • 34 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 31 Malaysia's permanent representative to the United Nations. Mr. R. Ramani, returned home tonight for consultations with the Central Government. He will be here for two to three weeks.
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  • 171 5 OENANG. Jan. 28 1 Puan Sharifah Rodziah, wife of the Prime Minister, will be among thousands of well-wish-ers who will be at the wharf tomorrow afternoon to bid farewell to 2,000 pilgrims who are leaving Penang for Jeddah by the liner Kuala Lumpur. The
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  • 82 5 MALACCA.. Jan. 31—The new Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia. Mr. A. J. Eastman, today paid his first official visit to Malacca. He called on the Chief Minister. Inche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, and later lunched with the Governor. Tun Haji Abdul Malek bin Yusuf. Mr.
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  • 36 5 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31—Thailand's Deputy Defence Minister. Air Chief Marshal Dabe Dawee Chullampya. will arrive here on Feb 6 for a two-dav unofficial visit as guest of the Malaysian High Commission here
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  • 251 5 pEN’ANG. Jan. 31—The 1 Mayor. Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew. today urged that the present suspension of local elections be lifted. Addressing the City Council at its monthly meeting, he said: “The existence of local authorities gives the people their best opportunity to become
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  • 75 5 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31 The British naval destroyer, Cambrian is now speeding to the rescue of a British merchant ship, which ran aground on a reef 105 miles off Gan Island in the Indian ocean. A Royal Navy spokesman said the merchantman, the 1i.804-ton Port
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  • 167 5 Kuala lumpur, jaa. 28.- The Mentri Besar of Selangor, Dato Harun bin Haji Idris, disclosed today that the State Government is considering a plan to buy the old Istana at Morib and turn it into a camping ground for the student exchange programme. It can
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  • 132 5 Kuala lumpur. Jan. 31.—The College of Agriculture, Serdang, today started a crash programme to train agricultural science teachers for comprehensive type schools. Forty trainees this morning began a special course at the college. They are all secondary school teachers who have taken agricultural /tdence as
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  • 205 6  - Don’t pilfer Chinese property’ plea to Dayaks From GEOFFREY GELDARD: Kuching, Jan. 31 Dayak chiefs are to tour the “Operation Hammer” area along the KuchingSerian road to appeal to their people not to pilfer the property of the 8,000 resettled Chinese. I Sarawak’s Chief Minister. Dato Stephen Kalong Nlngkan, called
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  • 62 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 30—Prof. Wang Gungwu. head of the History Department of the University of Malaya, and Dr. Syed Hussein Alatas of the Malay Studies Department, will leave for Tndl* tomorrow to attend a week-long seminar on South-East Asia beginning in New Delhi on Feb.
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  • 54 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 30* Mr otun Kon Kah, 20, formerly oi Malacca High School, will leave here tomorrow to take up a chartered accountancy course in Bntain Mr Chin, son of Mr. Fun luan .1 member of the Masjid T.mih O.strict Council. Malacca will be
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  • 221 6  -  From JEFFREY FRANCIS IESSELTON, Jan. 31.— J The Sabah Civil Service Union has proposed that the State Government lower its entry qualifications for the civil service so that Sabahanisation could be speedily achieved. This, It said, should be done only where It would
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  • 190 6  -  By JACKIE SAM SINGAPORE. Mon. Dr. Lee Slew Choh, chairman of the Barisan Sosialis, today rejected a conciliatory statement from hi s supporting unions, and opened the way for a complete break between his party and these unions. Dr. Lee repudiated the
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  • 79 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. The Minister for Social Affairs, Inche Othman Wok. this morning Jed a group of 45 people in a ‘self I help project to ease flooding in Kampong Lorong Tahar in Pasir Panjang. They cleared a 200-yard drain which caused flood during the
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  • 89 6 .—Reuter. J ESS EL TON, Jan. 31—The Malaysian Deputy Premier and Defence Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, will address a two-day Bumiputra economic congress here on Feb. 19, it was announced here. This will be the first .such congress held in Sa- bah. It aims
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  • 481 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30 POPULATION exchange on racial lines between Singapore and Malaysia was mooted by Tengku Abdul Rahman before the separation last August, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said here last night. Mr. Lee said he was informed of this
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  • 103 6 pENANG. Jan. 31 A rural district councillor. Inche Saidin bin Che Mat. today complained of late postal deliveries sometimes as long as three days in his ward (Pengkalan Terbang). “This has caused a lot of trouble, especially to people muted to attend Interviews for jobs They
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  • 71 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 31- A team of three research expert s from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia will arrive here tomorrow to niak< a survey of trading problems in this country. On completion of their threemonth research here, in th» Philippines and in
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  • 29 6 TELUK ANSON, Jan. 30—Th# 1.300-strong Lower Perak Mai v Government Servants’ Co-opera-tive Thrift and Loan Society L' here made a net profit o! S40.863.51 in 1964.
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  • 240 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 31. rpHE Government is to spend a total of $30 million for the expansion of the University over the next five years under the First Malaysia Plan, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today. He was speaking at
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  • 163 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 31.Singapore’s third oil refinery, the $55 million Mobil Refinery in Jurong, is expected to begin production in March. This was announced today by Mr. James G. Riordan. president of Mobil International Oil Company, who is here on a visit to
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  • 21 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31 Date Ng Quee Lam has been unanimously re-clected the chairman of tlie Singapore Rubber Packers' Association.
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  • 221 7 LUMPUR. Jan. 30. —An entourage of 49 people will accompany South Korean President Chung Hee Park during his four-day State visit to Malaysia beginning on Feb. 7. They include 16 government officials among them four Ministers, an unofficial party of 14 and a Press party of
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  • 267 7 4 LOR STAR. Jan. 30. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, today cleared doubts expressed by some State Governments over the Central Government’s move to spend $204 million on Kedah’s gigantic Muda i River irrigation project. Inche Senu
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  • 64 7 PENANG. Jan. 31 Dr S. T Yeoh has been elected this year's 1 resident of the Penang Medical Practitioners’ Society, with Dr. Tow Siang Yew as president-elect and Dr. Lim Ewe Soot) as secretary and treasurer. Other committee members are Dr. Cheah Saik Eng, Dr. Ch’ng
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  • 299 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. gELANGOR State government officers are to be reminded in a month-long campaign starting tomorrow that courtesy and friendliness is to be their watchword when dealing with the general public. The first-ever of its kind to be held in Malaysia, the
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  • 58 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 32 Four bandsmen from the Malaysian Armed Forces left here yesterday for Australia to attend a four-month advance course at the Balcombe School of Music, Victoria They are Bandsmen Daud bin Abdul Manan, Shaifuddin bin Hashim, Mohamed bin Jonet and Met Asin btn
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  • 134 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31 The chairman of the Singapore National Tracies Union Congress. Mr. Ilo See Beng (above), has warned of a resurgence of Communism in the State if Malaysia firings about economic dilliculties in the island. Speaking at a dinner of the
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  • 32 7 TAIPING. Jan. 30—Miss Moriel Mathilda Ke.vworth, 19, a former oupil of the Methodist Treacher School, here, has left for Britain to take up psychiatric nursing at St. Bernards Hospital, Suffolk.
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  • 510 8 ‘Close ties can benefit both territories’ SINGAPORE, .Jan. 30. r |MIE Singapore Finance Minister, Mr. Lim Kim San, said today that the new local chocolate factory at Tanglin Halt, which imported about 80 per cent of its raw material from Malaysia, was an example of
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  • 98 8 |(UALA LUMPUR. Feb. 1. —The worst is over for the East Coast States, a spokesman of the Meteorological Office here said today, as thousands of people evacuated from the flood stricken areas returned to their homes. "It is unlikely that there will be more heavy
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  • 43 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. The Singapore Taxi Drivers’ Association w’ill launch a courtesy anti safety week campaign this month The week is aimed at instilling among the association's 1.000 members a greater sense ot courtesy towards tourists and th» public.
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  • 41 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30.-The miliuuy will carry out training exercises at the Colombo Health tTi? pIh* <i Ce^ re J rom tom °rrow tiu Feb 3. Blanks and pyroteehnus will be used. The public art advised not to be alarmed
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  • 135 8 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 31. A 16strong Thai delegation will arrive here on Feb. 2 for another round of border talks which a Government official said today would be ‘one of the most important” in the series. The Thai team will be led bv
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  • 70 8 |(UALA LUMPUR. Jan. 31. Tengku Abdul Rahman today urged the United States Government to consider carefully the consequences before resuming bombing raids on North Vietnam. The U.S., he said, should try to settle the crisis by a “peaceful approach.” The Prime Minister disclosed that
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  • 298 8  -  Tengku says it again By 808 NG: Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 31 TENGKU Abdul Rahman today announced that his deputy, Tun Abdul Razak, wiII become the next Prime Minister "if anything happens to me. Speaking to newsmen after opening an educational seminar in the University of Malaya, the
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  • 122 8 LUMPUR. Jan. 31. The new Societies Law, covering the whole of Malaysia, comes into force tomorrow. Under it, members of political parties must be given equal rights to vote and hold office in the management committee. Only Federal citizens may be members, executive
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  • 260 9  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND: Singapore, Feb. t MALAYA last year beat all records in tin production, spurred on by an average price of $702.84 a picul—$83.43 higher than in 1964 The 1965 production was 63,670 tons compared with
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  • 347 9 PENENG. Jan. 31 T'HE Mayor, Mr. Ooi A Thiam Slew, today warned a Labour Party councillor, Mr. Tan Chong 800, not to make political capital out of City Council decisions by showing ratepayers that a change of council without a Labour majority
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  • 140 9 OENANG, Feb. 1 Trawler and inshore fishermen, who attended a meeting of the Penang Fishermen’s Goodwill Committee, agreed today to observe a ban on night trawler fishing. “We have also agreed on new fishing times and a new operations base at Bagan Jermal
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  • 120 9 SINGAPORE Feb. I.—A combined publicity campaign by Singapore, Malaysia, Ceylon, Nepal, India and Thailand to lure move tourists to the East is now under study. This joint publicity campaign was one of the major proposals brought up at the recently-con-cluded Pacific Area
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  • 27 9 PONTIAN, Feb. I.—A mobile X-ray unit from the National Tuberculosis Centre will be at the District Hospital here from Feb. 12 for free X-rays.
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  • 334 9 K. LUMPUR, Jan. 31 A tripartite defence agreement betMalaysia and Singapore, on the one hand, and Britain on the other, was today suggested by Tengku Abdul Rahman. But, the Prime Minister added, if Singapore wanted a separate agreement with Britain, “it is something we cannot
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  • 45 9 KANGAR. Feb. I.—The Perlis Alliance will hold a tea party at the Mentri Besar's residence at Jalan Kolam on Feb. 8 to celebrate the Prime Minister's 64th birthday. This is the first time the three Alliance partners will hold joint celebrations.
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  • 117 9 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 1 Sixteen pewter water lilies costing $14,009 will be installed in the water around the fountains at the National Monument, to be opened by the Tang di-Pertuan Agong on Feb. 8. The Selangor Pewter Company took two months to make the
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  • 357 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. smear campaign against the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, was being carried out by “anti-national elements,” the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman said here tonight. "Actually there is no difference, whatsoever between Tun Razak and me. except
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  • 206 10 IPOH, Feb. 1. A 1 record 82 deserving students from all communities in Perak will be given scholarships this year for study in universities as a result of an allocation of $694,000 more than three times that of last year by the
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  • 234 10 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 1. The $75 million Mala yawata Steel Ltd. —Malaysia’s first integrated steel complex—envisages an ultimate capital investment of $800 million, its president, Dato T. H. Tan said, today. The company, he said, marked the beginning of a vast enterprise
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  • 180 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. /hjLONEL Ismail bin Ibrahim, former commandlng officer of the 3rd. Bn., Royal Malay Regiment, left here today for Kuching to command Malaysian troops in Sarawak. His appointment is one of three moves to restore the good name of Malaysian soldiers
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  • 30 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30The Methodist Afternoon School Old Boys' Association will hold Its sixth annual meeting at the school library at Davidson Road here on Feb. 5.
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  • 187 10 MALACCA, Jan. 31. MAJOR campaign is to be launched in thr State soon to promote greater economic progress among the rural people. The Chief Minister, Inehe Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, said the emphasis would be on land utilisation, industrialisation and education. He said this when
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  • 42 10 TAIPING. Feb. 1. The Government Servants’ Co-operative, Thrift and Loan Society of Larut, Matang and Selama has awarded scholarships worth $2,355 to 31 children of its members, who passed their Lower Certificate of Education examination last year with grade one.
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  • 50 10 KUAI.A KUBU BAHRU, Jan. 3: —The first youth leadership coui>. offered by the National You Leadership Centre began her. yesterday. More than 100 youth leader from all over the country are at tending courses in dramatics, taiT°h me H 1C CiCn( -ach course i* n
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  • 49 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 31. The vice-president of the Woiul Bank. Mr. S Alderwereld. toda\ met the Minister of Finance. Mi. Tan Stew Sin. for two hours their second round of talks sino his arrival in Malaysia kweek. A statement on the meeting will be tomorrow.
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  • 49 10 PENANG. Feb. I.—A 12-mentbri Japanese youth goodwill mission will be visiting Penang from Ftb 6 to 10. The visitors will be paying courtesy calls on the Chief Minister Dato Wong Pow Nee, on Feb. 7. and on the Mayor, Mr. Ooi Sifu, on Feb. 8.
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  • 46 10 SEREMBAN. Feb. I.—Malaysia* recruits are required in the British Army for training and employment in the Corps of Signals Medical Corps, Transport, Or dnance and Catering Corps. Applicants should apply in person at the Seremban tout hall on Feb. 14 at 8.30 a.m.
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  • 46 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 30 The BBC “Quiz International pi"gramme, in which a Malaysian. Mr. Kenny Khaw, is taking part as a member of the Lowin' 1 School of Economics team "t* l be broadcast at 8.45 p.m '<>- morrow, instead of tonight as earlier reported.
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  • 28 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. rlv German Ambassador in Singapoy will present about $60,000 worm of meteorological equipment to y 1 Singapore Polytechnic on 3 at 4.30 p.m.
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  • 25 10 SUNGEI PATANI, Jan. 31 Chap Goh Meh fancy dress will be held at the Surgel Pat*" 1 Club here on Feb 4.
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  • 946 11 By STRAITS TIMES REPORT ERS SINGAPORE, Feb. 1 A MAJOR'S error sparked off a riot in a Shenton Way army training depot this afternoon. Fifteen people, including two policemen, were injured during the hour-long fighting. Almost 500 recruits on the point of attestation for service
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  • 148 11 jy[ALACCA, Feb. 1 Date Tan Cheng Swee, chairman of the building subcommittee of the $820,000 Malacca State Community Hall at Jalan Hang Tuah here today appealed to members of the public for donations. The community hall which includes four shophouses will be officially opened by
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  • 58 11 BANGKOK, Jan. 31. —Five more countries last week added their signatures to the charter of the Asian Development Bank in a brief ceremony at the Economic Commission for Asia* and the Far East (ECAFE) here They are: Singapore, South Vietnam, Denmark, Finland and Norway.
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  • 164 11 SEREMBAN, Jan. 31 'J'HE Negri Sembilan Malaysian Chinese Association working committee at an emergency meeting on Jan. 29 resolved to give full support to its secretary, Mr. Joseph Siow Loong Hin, who criticised the distribution of land in Parliament on Dec. 20 This counters the
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  • 213 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. I. The Minister of State for Education, Inche Rahim Ishak, today said no political party in Singapore could hope to form a government without the support of all races, which made up her multi-racial society. He was replying to a remark
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  • 149 11 |(UALA LUMPUR, **Feb. 1. Business was brisk at the Bank Bumiputra here today when it threw its doors open for the first time. In the first hour more than 20 people most of them civil servants had become the bank’s “ordinary” depositors. At
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  • 337 11 IPOH, Feb. 1. guilty of '‘wilful delay” in dealing with applications for mining land will be subject to disciplinary action, the Mentri Besar, Dato Ahmad bin Said, said here today. This was one of several steps to be taken by the State Government
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  • 53 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 31. Colonel Ibrahim bin Mohamed Said has been appointed Chief of the Logistics Staff, Ministry of Defence, from today. He was formerly the Principal Staff officer tn the Logistics Division and takes over from Colonel T. P. Hughes, who will be returning to
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  • 162 12 BENTONG, Feb. 1. THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Kazak today described as “mischievous’ 1 attempts by some people to smear his name by calling him anti-Chinese. He told more than 300 Chinese residents of Pertlng new village here that he had never had that feeling towards
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  • 79 12 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Feb I—A Member of Parliament, Mr. Tan Cheng Bee. complained m the Province Central District Council yesterday of the Inefficient telephone service in Buklt Mertajam. Often. Mr. Tan alleged, a subscriber had to wait several minutes before operators would answer. Pointing out
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  • 147 12 MALACCA, Feb. 1.—Men 1 1 of the 4th Bn., Royal Australian Regiment, trooped their regimental colours for the first time at a parade held at Terendak Camp today to mark the unit's second birthday. The colours were presented to the battalion at Adelaide in
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  • 67 12 BATU PAHAT, Feb. I.—Three Indonesian barter traders were remanded In custody after they pleaded not guilty in the magistrate’s court here yesterday to entering a controlled area. Shalwy bln Urosa, 24. Mohamed Hassan bln Pulak, 23. and Abdul LatifT bln Ahmad, 21, all from Pulau Karimon, are
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  • 214 12 IfUCHING. Feb. 2. Sarawak’s Chief Minister, Dato Stephen Kalong Ningkan, last night criticised “slogan shouting” trade union leaders in the StateThe Government, he said, was disappointed that some of these leaders were saying that the Government was suppressing their freedom and depriving them of their
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  • 160 12 Goodwill committee's do's and dont's PENANG, Feb. 1. 'TRAWLER and inshore fishermen, who ai--1 tended a meeting of the Penang Fishermen's Goodwill Committee today, agreed \o observe a ban on night trawler fishing. The committee comprises police officers and representatives of the Fisheries Department,
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  • 18 12 KANGAR, Feb. 2—The Perlis Selatan Urano division will hold its first annual meeting on March 0.
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  • 154 12 P*nang. Feb. I—a debjj* the coroner. Mi*. T, Aria Rajah, today how an escape bid by two wanted men on Sept, z* last year ended in death for one of them. “They were on motorcycle. When I attempted to stop
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  • 87 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2 The Malaysian Committee ol U' Afro-Asian People’s Solidan" Organisation regrets the resumption of bombing of North Vietnam by the United States. In a statement issued here t >- day the committee said: apparent that the United States has not learnt any lesson trom
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  • 33 12 KANGAR, Feb. 2. The PerlL branch of the Ex-Services A&fr elation of Malaysia will cons' launching a 8tate wide rof” 1 ship campaign when it holds annual meeting here on Feb-
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  • 313 13 T KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. HE Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, today pledged the "wholehearted and unreserved" support of the Malaysian Chinese Association for Tun Abdul Razak as heir and successor to Tengku Abdul Rahman. He conveyed this support in
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  • 41 13 SEREMEAN, Feb. BalSingh has been re-elected of the Negri Sembilan C l° unci l for the second year David Ng as secretary H. W. Tan. Edgar p h Atma Singh Gill and V. ueorge as committee members.
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  • 107 13 I/OTA BHARU, Feb. 2 The Mentri Besar of Kelantan. Dato Mohamed Asri bin Haji Muda, Is to make a pilgrimage to Mec-8 ca. He will fly to the Holy City on Feb. 27 from Kuala Lumpur. He will also make a two-month four of Middle
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  • 44 13 PENANG. Feb. 2—The Penang and Province Wellesley Malav Writers’ Association will hold a cultural night at the Town Hall on Feb. 39. The programme will include a Malay cultural exhibition and other show's. FToceeds will go to the associations fund.
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  • 195 13 K. LUMPUR, Feb. 2 A TWO-MAN delegation will leave here tomorrow for Bangkok to represent Malaysia at the United Nations conference on natural resources and industrial promotion on Feb. 4. They are the Controller of Industrial Development, Inche Jamil bin Mohamed Jan,
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  • 203 13 IZUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 2. —The Ministry of Loeal Government and Housing wants the old airport here now the Royal Malaysian Air Force base, to be turned into a light industrial and housing estate. But the Cabinet today decided against the move because
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  • 35 13 KUALA LUMPUR Feb. 2—The Governor of Bank Negara. Dato Ismail bin Mohamed All. left here this morning for Bangkok to attend a two-dav meeting of Governors of Central Banks in South-East Asia
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  • 238 13 I/UALA LUMPUR, 1V Jan. 31.—The Bank Bumiputra plans to open 15 branches in all State capitals and some small towns in Malaya—this year, the managing director. Inche Mohamed Raslan bin Dato Abdullah, announced today. In an eve-of-opening Press conference in the
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    195 13 races. It would not limit its activities to one racial group or sector of the economy. The aim of the bank. Inche Raslan said, was to assist, encourage and promote the expansion of enterprises in the agricultural sector of the economy. Co-operation Speaking on the expansion plans of the bank
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  • 93 13 CINGAPORE, Feb. 2—Dr. Lee Siew Choh. chairman of the Barisan Sosiaiis, today denied that he had said that left-wing unions were “talking ‘hrough their hats” when he referred 1o a recent statement by them. He said his actual words were: “They don't know
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  • 46 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. The Labour Ministry has already received a large number of completed application forms for work permits from non-citizens, A Ministry spokesman said today: “We are now processing these forms, and will start issuing the applicants with permits this month.”
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  • 23 13 JESSELTON. Feb 2. The retiring Inspector-General of Police. Dato Sir Claude Fenner, today ended his two-day farewell tour of Sabah.
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  • 317 14 1/ U ALA LUMPUR, Fob. 2. —Thailand’s Dt'puty Defence Minister, Air Chief Marshal Dato Dawee Chul lasapya, arrived here today for another round of talks on border co-operation with Malaysia In separate Press conferences, Dato Dawee and the Malaysian Minister of Horne AtTatrs, Dato
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  • 175 14 Agencies. IAKAKT Feb. Pre- sident Soekarno has warned that if the British dared to attack Indonesia Singapore would he sunk within one day. The President was speaking to naval officers at a conference at the Merdeka Palace yesterday. lie denied that he had
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  • 36 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. A total of 231 people were killed in Singapore road accidents last year five fewer than in 1964. The total number of accidents also decreased by 728 to 31,909
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  • 193 14 K. LUMPUR, Feb. 2 rpWO Dutch experts arrived here today to study what type of assistance the Netherlands Government could extend to Malaysia under the First Malaysia Plan. They are Dr R. Kool. an economist from the Directorate of
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  • 145 14 Feb. 2.— Copies of a Kuala Lumpur-printed newspaper. Utusan Melayu, destined for Singapore were held up by Special Branch officers at the Woodlands check- point this morning. The papers were released an hour later after the officers went through the newspaper's report of the
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  • 48 14 MUAR. Feb. I. The Muar Town Council has decided to levy an education rate of l.*» prr rent of the assessment rate of every house in the town. The decision was reached at a weekend meeting. The estimated total collection is $63,000.
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  • 334 14 LUMPUR. Feb. 2. Tengku x'lbdul Rahman said today that he was glad to have the opportunity to repay the courtesy extended to him by President Chung Hee Park and the Korean people during his visit there last year. He was speaking
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  • 38 14 SINGAPORE. Peb. 2 —The Industrial Arbitration Court will band down an award tomorrow in a trade dispute between the Port of Singapore Authority and the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association, relating to conversion of salaries.
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  • 21 14 SEGAMAT. Feb. 2.—The Sfßarrat Belia Jaya Youth Association will hold its annual meeting at its clubhouse on Feb 4
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  • 173 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2 The resignation >r political detainee, Mi S. T. Bani, from flit* Bari sail Sosialis has been accepted by the party. Mr. Bani, who was th party's M.P. for Crawl resigned from the pa following his denunciation of Communism in a star
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  • 156 14 —Agencies Feb In donesian Armv Chief Ft.-Gen. Suharto, today announced I n d o n e s i i would intensify it' “Crush Malaysia” campaign in the near futon Radio Jakarta in a broadcast monitored here quoted Gen. Suharto as saying (he intensify alio” was
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  • 294 15 MR CHIN SAYS NO’ TO DAP Party constitution does not conform to law KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. THE Registrar of Societies, Mr. Chin Hon Hian, today turned down the application for registration of the Democratic Action Party. One of the reasons for the refusal is that the constitution of the
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  • 104 15 MR. Warren S Titus (above), president of P. and O. Orient Lines, is confident Singapore will enjoy a big share in the Increasing South-Last Asian tourist traffic. Singapore, which had a good image, was very popular around the world, and was a very
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  • 46 15 KANGAR, Feb. 3 The Minister of Agriculture and Co-opera-tives, Inche Ghazall bin Jawi will visit Perils next week to consider a proposal by the State Government to build a jetty and cold storage plant for the use of fishermen In Kuala Perlis.
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  • 405 15 1JUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3.—Two thousand flag-waving school children will line the mile-long road from Jalan Lomie to Istana Negara in Taylor Road to welcome President Park Chung Hee of South Korea when he arrives here on Feb. 7. President and Madam Park,
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  • 29 15 MUAR. Feb. 3. The Johore Boy Scouts’ Association is to hold its annual meeting at the Gandhi Memorial Hall here at 10 a.m. on Feb. 11.
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  • 199 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. THAILAND takes “great comfort” in the fact that south of its border there is Malaysia to help suppress Communism. This was stated by Thailand’s Deputy Defence Minister, Air Chief Marshal Dato Dawee Chullasapya, in his address at the opening of
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  • 80 15 TAIPING, Feb. 3 —About 600 children will be entertained to a Hari Raya and Chinese New Year party by the Malaysian Service Corps at the airfield here on Feb. 5. More than 300 of them are under-privileged children from the Convent, the St. Louis Orphanage
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  • 55 15 JESSELTON, Feb- 3.—A Malayan Civil Service officer. Inch® Wan Hassan bin Haji Wan Teh, has taken over from Mr. M. A. Robert as District Officer of Papar. Inche Wan Hassan was formerly Assistant District Officer in Kroh. Perak, and has been transferred to Sabah under the
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  • 149 15 I£l T ALA Lt’MPUR. Feb 3. —Canada is giving $9 million worth of teaching equipment to 53 technical schools in Malaysia, the Canadian High Commissioner, Mr. B. C. Butler (above), said today. This form of educational aid, which started some time back and was now
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  • 54 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 The new British High Commissioner to Malaysia. Sir Miclmcl Walker, today presented his credentials to the Yang di-Peituan Agong at Istana Tetamu. Sir Michael, the former British High Commissioner in Ceylon, arrived on Jan. 30 to take over the post previously
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  • 200 16 I/UALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. —A $3.5 million aerial photograhic survey project, jointly financed by the Malaysian and Canadian governments, was launched today. The survey, expected to last a year, will cover all 52,000 square miles of Malaya’s area and will involve the production of
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  • 299 16 SINGAPORE, Feb 3 UUSSIA emerged last year as far and above the largest customer for our rubber and her purchases which totalled 195.470 tons were very nearly double those of 1964. Not only was she the biggest buyer for the year, but
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  • 202 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. An 18-man Singapore mission will go on a “trade safari” to Africa next month to explore new markets for the island s manu- factured goods. The mission, which will i visit eight countries in six weeks, is a private
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  • 176 16  -  From G. Geldard Kuala lumpur. Feb. a The Sarawak Information Services was completely unaware this morning of the introduction of the new emergency Press regulations. Correspondents here who asked what they should do to have Emergency stories checked were told that no
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  • 28 16 SUNGEI PATANI. Feb 3 Scout Week this year will be fron Feb 22 to Feb. 28 and odd tohs week" irom March 1 to March 7.
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  • 114 16 y\GAFORE. Feb .1 Sin■apore will take part n the Asian international Dade fair in Bangkok in December the Minister of State for Culture. Mr K.C. Lee. disclosed here test night. Mr. Lee who flew in from Bangkok where hr attended the 11-day
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  • 208 16 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 3. A reshuffle in the Ministry of External Affairs has left it without a full-time Principal Assistant Secretary (Information) for the time being. Mr. Jack de Silva, who was in charge of political information and responsible for the overseas information drive, has
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  • 91 16 LUMPUR. Feb. 3.—Malaysia, excluding Sarawak, exported 51,500 tons of lish worth $9.7 million, and imported 44,000 tons worth $11 million in 1964. according to figures released by the FAO Asian nations as a whole, with the exception of China. Indonesia, Singapore, Laos and a few
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  • 162 16 OINGAPORE, Feb. 3. From the day Singa pore attained independence, its “new frontier” has been foreign markets for Singaporema d e products, the Minister for Finance Mr. Lim Kim San, said today when he formally opened the modern factory of Fibreglass Reinforced Products (Singapore) Ltd.
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  • 92 16 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 3. T h e secretary general of the Alliance Party Dato T. H. Tan, today gave three reasons for the party’s success in three elections. They were: Good leadership. li° e/> policies; and the fad tW it is the only party fought
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  • 41 16 MUAR, Feb. 3. division here will laun< 11 trict-wide publicity can: ‘,7, i> morrow to enrol new n> The publicity onicer. I[U nv ran bin Snbtu. said th* n -tv would be concentrated semi-urban areas
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  • 500 17 K. LUMPUR. Fab. 4 IF a decision of the Board of Architects was an act of honest gentlemen, "then we do not speak the same language," said Dato David Marshall in the Federal Court of Appeal today. It was his final submission
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  • 36 17 PENANG, Fri. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, will be guest speaker at the Penang and Province Welle.dey Malay Writers’ cultural night to be held at the Town Hall here on Feb. 20.
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  • 179 17 KUCHING, Feb. 4 THE answer to Sarawak's rural education problem lay not only in the provision of more school buildings but also in the willingness of teachers to serve in the rural areas, the Deputy Chief Minister, Dato James Wong, said last night. Speaking at
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  • 177 17 I/'UALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. —Orders to step up the war against the 400 terrorists straddling the Thai-Malaysia border went out from here today. They were sent to the Regional Border Committee in the names of the Malaysian and Thai Governments at
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  • 61 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. British exports to Malaysia and Singapore increased by 10 per cent to £92.2 million last year, compared with £84.2 million in 1984. according to figures released by the British Board of Trade. Imports from Malaysia and Singapore were down by six per
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  • 50 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Journalist Winston Churchill, 25, who is named after his famous grandfather, made a brief stopover here today to meet the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman. “I’m gathering material on South-East Asia to write articles for Look magazine and the Sunday Express. he said.
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  • 590 17  -  By P. KRISHNAN ITUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. P r o p osals to form a Grand Opposition will be discussed by leaders of four political parties here next week. At the closed-door meeting—the first of several to be held during the next
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2197 18 From Our Market Correspondent pOR the third consecutive week trading on the Stock Exchange was curtailed by holidays with the close down on Friday for the Thaipusam festival. The exchange therefore, apart from Saturday morning, had four full trading days compared with three full
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    • 24 18 Frb. 4 MALAYAN RI'BBF.RPRU'F: <0, (down three-eighth* o( a rent». TIN: S71 4 (down $3.1! J1. I'noflicial rdinulcd offering tuns {duwn %> tons).
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    • 49 18 '|'Hh prrwnl rate of Ihe Malayan dollar against the pound Met •uig fixed on November 14 I9t>4 is selllnc T.T. or O.I). *s. 3 13 IM O.U. is. 4 i,d. The dollar is at its statutorv middle position in relation In its range against tire r>< xmd
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    • 58 18 .Tan 31 Feb 1 Feb. 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feo 5 Industrials: 89 82 89 24 88 3b 89.12 89 19 Tins: 1 1 4 78 1 14 24 113 32 113.16 113 35 t rubbers 105 95 103 95 105 87 105 87 105 87
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    • 27 18 'urrent Bale Total for 'total for l»avm*n! pavablr last year previous ve*r VI C emenl March J6 221'’’ Perak Rubber 71", March 4 ]Q', Interim
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    • 278 18 U'EBRL’ARY fust sr;idr rubber 1 f.o.b. buyers closed at .V p.m. in Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 70% cents ped lb. down three-eighths of a cent on Thursday’s closing level lor the position. The tone was stagnant. F.M.R.F. closing prices in eenta per lb. yesterday: Buyers Sellers Int 1
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    • 365 18 Fallowing the thin and and rather uncertain conditions of late last week and the early part of this week the local Rubber Mar ket has shown a sharp im provement state H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their review of the holiday shortened week Whereas the resumption of
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    • 84 18 1MN outputs to Dee. 31. 1965; Ampat 1.066 Aokam 2,053 Austral Amal. 2,065 Ayer Hitam 1.678 Berjuntai 6.650 Chenderiang 293 Gopeng Con. 3.63:» Hongkong 462 Idris Hyd. 549 Kam. Lanjtit 2.43Kamunting 2.262 Kent 310 Killinghall 310 K. Kellas 85] Kramat 551 K. Kampar 1.594 Larut 765 Lower
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  • 312 19 MALACCA, Feb. 6. MEMBERS of the new $100,000 Ayer Keroh Country Club, eight miles from here, had i a pleasant surprise last night when the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, announced t that the Government had decided to give the club a donation
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  • 331 19 K. LUMPUR. Feb. 6 |>OBIN LANGDALE held off strong opposition from Rashid Mallal in the final to win the Royal Selangor Golf Club championship 7 and 6 on the club course today. Langdale, who had a fourhole lead yesterday after the first round of
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  • 74 19 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 6—Abdul Ghani. Selangor’s former international soccer captain, who Is on the comeback trail, came through his first test yesterday with flying colours. Ghani scored a goal and “made" the other in Selangor’s 2-2 draw with Malacca in a friendly match at Kubu Stadium
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  • 86 19 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 6. Thirteen teams have entered for the Malaysian Armed Forces FA’s inter-corps/reglment knockout competition for the Tan Chong Cup to be held at the Rifle Range Road Stadium from Feb. B—l 2. The draw is: Feb. 8 General Service Corps v Recce
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  • 22 19 SUNGEI PAT AN I, Feb. 6—The annual meeting of the Central Kedah Cricket Association will be held on Feb. 11.
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  • 17 19 SEREMBAN, Feb. 6 TPCA Kuala Lumpur beat Negri Sembilan Club 6-3 at lawn tennis here.
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  • 278 19 MALACCA, Feb. 6. lfM Malacca will see its biggest gathering of VIPs this weekend when Tengku Abdul Rahman opens the $200,000 Ayer Keroh 18-hole golf course, eight miles from here, on Sunday. A special match between the Prime Minister’s 40member team and
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  • 466 19 CRICKET —Sydney, Feb. 4—Centuries by Bobby Simpson (123) and Grahame Thomas (129) helped New South Wales, Australia’s strongest cricket state, to total 372 for four on the first day of their match against the MCC here today. The state completely mastered the MCC attack on a
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  • 230 19 Train harder call to sportsmen SINGAPORE Feb 6 THE Minister of State for Education/ Inche Rahim Ishak, today urged sportsmen in Singapore to train harder and improve their skill in all sport. “Singapore can certainly make its mark in international sport regardless of whether it is on land or in
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  • 68 19 SINGAPORE, Peb. 6. Khalsa beat Ceylon Sports Club 2-0 in the final of the Singapore Hockey Association’s six-a-side competition at Seletar today. Khalsa opened the scoring after two minutes when Nadarajah beat two CSC defenders before flicking the ball past goalkeeper Salleh. One minute after
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  • 137 19 OINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Thailand’s Deputy Minister of Defence Air Chief Marshal Dato Dawee Chullasapya, who is also president of the Fifth Asian Games organising committee, arrived here from Kuala Lumpur today for a three-day unofficial visit. Dato Chullasapya will spend most
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  • 31 19 KLUANO, Feb. 6 Kluang retained the Jisa Cup for Johore inter-district Indians’ competition for the third successive year when they thrashed Cha'ah Bekok 7-1 in the final here today.
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  • 946 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. Racing after a month’s ban for bleeding Shaw Stable’s money-spinner Entertainer III with Des Coleman up scored a runaway win from the Joint favourites Leader and Realm of Gold to pay $66 in a Class 6 Division 1 6f
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  • 911 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Les Coles, the jockey with the biggest following at present, had to wait till the last race today to ride a winner and it was All Smiles. Race One CLASS 6—IF Newton Stable's (13) NAZAFAT 8.6 <968 —486) Nelson 1 (5) Nava?
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 102 20 BIG SWEEP Total Pool: $93,345 1st: No. *****5 ($48,191) 2nd. No. *****1 ($13,769) 3rd: No. *****0 6,884) STARTERS ($1,000 each): Nob. *****1 *****6 *****0 *****0 *****8 *****9 *****5 CONSOLATION ($750 each): Nos. *****5 *****6 *****2 *****0 *****8 *****0 *****8 *****8 *****5 *****3. extra CONSOLATION ($200 each): Nos. *****6 *****7 *****3
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    • 21 20 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $108,865 1st No. *****0 $55,555 2nd No. *****9 $15,873 3rd No. *****7 $7,936 Starters $1,000 each Nos
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