The Straits Budget, 27 July 1966

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  • 36 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O. U-K. AS A NEWSPAPER KUALA LUMPUR, 27 JULY, 1966 Price 40 Cents (Malaya or i Shilling.) KDN 2035
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    • 385 2  -  The opportunities for up-to-date service PHYSICIAN Kuala Lumpmr YOUR editorial on part time service by general practitioners reminds the public that government efforts to enlist the help of the private practitioners in running the hospitals have not brought about the expected response. It is remarkable
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    • 112 2  -  UNION MEMBER READING your editorial “Peanut Unions” one must conclude that with exception of a few exemplary cases, unionism in this-country is in the doldrums. There are unions which are functioning for the sole benefit of their presidents and secretaries. I know what 1 am
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    • 122 2  -  JOHN H. POPPITT Johore Bahru sympathise with *“Pos Hilang” (who reported the loss of a registered letter) but even If he had been eligible for compensat.on h e would have had to wait an even longer period for satisfaction I posted a registered
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    • 74 2  -  RESIDENT Singapore TO get to office from sig- lap l have to take two buses -> one running the rural route the other into the city This is a nuisance and time wasting and what reason can there be for not arranging this public transport so
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    • 50 2  -  JAMES LOW Singapore NOW that Singapore has its own Post Office Savings Bank headquarters, there ought to be better withdrawal facilities for depositors. Could the Post Office Savings Bank emulate the local Dunks m granting unlimited withdrawal on demand at anytime? Also why limit deposits? The bangs don’t.
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    • 97 2  -  NN 8A y Seremban M A LJ ?i eW o the M n “on of the Ministry o{ Health motor acclrff.,?,,” to lhe ,act tha victims of lnr.m,H l« ad d i° hos Pltal »re contln on ly are d?s?ro«« „rh emplo J’ e d hJ, certal solicitors
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    • 404 2  - Ungrateful teachers PABENI Kluang S NADRAJA Kuantan THE OTHER SIDE {TIE Hon Minister for Education, Mohd Khlr Johari has criticised teachers for their 'ungrateful behaviour* in running away from rural areas once their contract* have expired There is another side to it. In >mail towns some of the boards of
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    • 169 2  -  AHM4D NORDIN B! HAJI MOHD ZA> Ministry of Fore)? Affai Kuala Lumpur WITH reference to the letter from “Disgusted" in the Straits Times of July 2. the Malaysian 'Assistant High Commissioner In Madras has categorically stated that no enquiry was ever received by his office on
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    • 33 2  -  CHAIN-SMOK* Singapore FI reference to ti “smoking” ban In cin mas. is it not ironic that patrons requested abstain from smnkir should have to sit throw so many advertisemer for cigarettes?
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    • 638 3 —Straits Times. July 18 I >0 .dies in Penang over tl week-end, both the Minister. Tengku Aband the Educ- .ter, Inche Moha- hail, dwelt on the i> increasing the ply of technical Mt'ie manpower. It Mcr, said the Tengku. country's long-term «mii survival. This is the domed truth.
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    • 152 3 —Straits Times. July 18 Is there no end to this vexatious nonsense which denies university students their scholarship and bursary money on time? Perhaps in some eases it is the students' own fault, as the Ministry of Education claimed last week, but in others blame seems to lie
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    • 667 3 Straits Times. Julv 10 The small trade union has been the banc of the labour movement for many years, and no amount of exhortation or protest seems to make any difference. The 304th union has just been registered, an increase of eleven in the lost two years,
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    • 376 3 —Straits Tunes. July 19 The Sarawak Chief Minister’s speech on the national language makes refreshing reading. If should do a lot to take tin- heat out of a subject that should never have become controversial in the' first place. The language position where Sarawak is concerned is clearly
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    • 670 3 —Straits Times, July 20 Mr. Wilson hav ing apparently accomplished nothing in Moscow, it is as well that little, or nothing, was expected. The British Prime Minister spent nine hours with Mr. Kosy gin, and discussed the Vietnam war for nearly the whole of this time. He
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    • 353 4 —Straits Times. July 20 The Health Ministry ap- parently is not having the, success it hoped for in getting private doctors to work for the Government part-time. Perhaps a better response can be obtained by making the scheme more flexible. At the moment, private practitioners are being invited
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    • 196 4 —Straits Times, July 20 Relations between Malaysia and the Philippines will steadily improve of that there is no doubt. The exchange of ambassadors will help the process, and such problems as the Sabah claim and the cigarette smugglers will be dealt with in proper form. But in the
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    • 681 4 —Straits Times, July 21 The decision to restrict replanting by rubber smallholders to 45,000 acres a year, beginning in 1967, is a shock which may be alleviated before this year is out. Yet not too much hope should be pinned to upward revision of this figure. The problem
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    • 189 4 —Straits Times, July 21 Knowledgeable persons from 14 countries will meet in Kuala Lumpur next month to discuss trade unionism and the co-operative movement. 'Hie Malaysian participants will seek to learn rather than teach, for both forms of organisation in this country are relatively weak. Particularly backward are
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    • 644 4 —Straits Times, July The Communist rebels of Sarawak and Sabah are in an unenviable position. The new leaders in Jakarta have initiated a policy of rapprochement with Malaysia, and there is no reason to doubt that they will carry it through. As confrontation ends, so must material aid
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  • 473 5 SINGAPORE. July 17 SINGAPORE'S Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, today expressed the hope that leaders of the Muslim community would always interpret Islamic doctrine in a way that would be to the benefit of its followers and the general good of the
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  • 197 5 in T ALA LUMPUR, Julv —The Government was today accused of systematic illy emasculating” the labour movement by encouraging tin* formation of a multitude of peanut” unions. Mr. C.V. Devan Nair, Alp. secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party, made the accusation when he spoke at
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  • 37 5 KUALA LUMPUR. July 17 Mr. Ferdinand Gul. secretary of the University of Malaya Students' Union, left here yesterday lor Tokyo to attend an international student conlerer.ce organised by the International Students Union ol Japan.
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  • 164 5 KUALA LUMPUR. July 17. r rHE Labour Party of Malaya today welcomed an Umno division’s call lor the establishment of a Welfare State in Malaysia based on “moderate” socialism and parliamentary democracy. The Seberang Prai Utara division will move a resolution calling for the setting up
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  • 43 5 TAN AH RATA. July 17—The British Garrison. Ca.meron High* lands, has presented a $2,000 cine projector to the Tengku Ahmad secondary school here. The garrison had previously donated a piano, several reference books and four scholarships to the school.
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  • 51 5 KOTA BHARU. July 17 The Minister of Education. Incite Mohamed Khir Johari, will meet chairmen of boards of governors of 65 rn'a.vat schools in Kelantan on July 19 at the St. John Ambulance Hall here. Incite Khir will discuss with them the problems faced by these
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  • 213 5 IPOH. July 17. Co- operative societies could play a dynamic role in education in this country by pooling part of their profits for scholarships for needy children, specially i'or those in rural areas. This was suggested bv the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives.
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  • 44 5 SINGAPORE July 18 Dr SC. Jamir. India's Parliamentary Secretary to tlie Ministry of External Affairs, will fly to Kuala Lumpur early tomorrow. Ho is on a two-week familiarisation tour of places east of India including Burma Thailand Hongkong and Japan.
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  • 30 5 SINGAPORE. July 17—The Society of Chinese Artists will hold Its annual exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall on July 21 The exhibition will be orjen until Julv 24.
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  • 230 5 KANGAR, July 17. r ]TIE Mentri Besar, Tan Sri Sheikh Ahmad, has claimed that Perlis never had any Budget deficit before the launching of rural development in 1961. “This deficit was incurred only because the State Government wanted to improve conditions in the
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  • 111 5 1/UALA LUMPUR. July 17 The 1,500-strong Educational Institutions Employees Union today condemned the attitude ot boards of governors and heads of schools for not implementing the interim award of $12.50 to Its Division Four and industrial and manual group workers. Passing a resolution
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  • 52 5 PENANG. July 18—The found ition stone ot tiie proposed .sevenstorey North Province Wellesley Umno building in Butterworth will be laid by the Deputy Prime Minis, ter. Tun Abdul Ruzak. on Sept 2. LVnno officials say that when completed it will be the taPeat Umno building in
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  • 648 6 ‘Use unaltered English words 9 K. LUMPUR. July 18 f rHE Minister of Fin- ante, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, today suggested that the Malay langu- age should be simplified with the introduction of English words —as it has been done In Kedah—so that
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  • 60 6 FFNANG. July 18- A $400 000 headquarters for the MCA here will be built soon, the president of the Penang State MCA. Tan Sri Saw Seng Kew. announced last night. A committee had been appointed to finalise the plans for the building. which would
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  • 16 6 PENANG July 18 —The Penang file brigade had 59 false alarms last year.
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  • 149 6 K. LUMPUR, July 18 r pHE Department of Inland Revenue will be completely Malayanised by next January. The Comptroller-Gene-ral, Mr. L.A. Varty, is now training his successor who will take over when he leaves the country early next year. Another Malaysian officer will be
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  • 166 6 KUALA LUMPUR, July 17. rpHE Technical College Students’ Union has set up an accommodation bureau to overcome the problem of finding places for students studying at the college. The chairman of the interim committee, Mr. K. Chandrasegaran, said today that for the past
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  • 99 6 SINGAPORE. July 17 A priest who is well known for his welfare work among thousands of refugees In Macao is here for a private dual-purpose visit. Father Lancelot Rodrigues, formerly of Garden City, Malacca, flew in on the night of July 15 to
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  • 41 6 SINGAPORE.. July 17 The chairman of the Singapore Muslcal Society. Mr. K.M. Palmer, will l speak on the work of the society at a luncheon meeting of the Rotary C’ub of Singapore at the Cathay Hotel _pn July 20.
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  • 166 6 CINGAPORE, July 17 The l4th Singapore and pan-Malaysian photographic exhibition will be held at the National Library in Stamford Road from July 28 to July 30. A total of 725 prints and slides was -eceived by the Photographic Society of Singapore which is organising the
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  • 109 6 Kuala lumpur. July n.. Malaysian culture v fade away if youths d> play an active role to m tain it, the Assistant •Min. ter of Culture. Youth »> Sports. Duto Engku Mohwm bin Abdul Kadir. said u-t night. 4 He asked them to taM
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  • 34 6 MUAR. July 17.—Foul Mo. sian barter traders from Bengkalis were detained by here today. They were found said r Malaysian waters this nx> L Their boat was loaded with rubber.
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  • 421 7  -  F rom GEOFFREY GELDARD KUCHINS, July 19 iwak Chinese Assoc iaun was pro* two portfolios in the Suite- Cab.net t Abdul Rahman. and h s deputy. Razak, an SC.*. obic i i. c a ••I ii Seng, vice he SCA. addid of two
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  • 68 7 MAI ACC A. July 18 -The Chief MiniJn- of Mulici. incho Abaui Ghuf.n b n Bnba. has call'd on Ur Malays to chseard old tradition." and chance their out’ook m lite “it you want to progress.” He added that progress could only be achieved through hard
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  • 261 7 U ALA LUMPUR. u July 13. About t'.iMv 1 liiUiiiud women rvino in G.n .t inn nt >artn as “tei L-orarics" are anxious to become permanent employees but are not willing to accept a Government condition. They are not willing to take
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  • 353 7 SINGAPORE, July 18 (J I N G A P O RE must sharpen her competitiveness and efficiency by the use of the most modern management techniques available, Mr. Hon Sui Sen, chairman of the Economic Development Board, said today. “The days are
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  • 286 7 KUALA LUMPUR. July 18. BUSINESS firms here have been urged to offer scholarships to children of indigenous people for business and professional courses at the MARA College in Petaling Java. Inch** Aiv ad bin Ayu j, 11'-* pi' p 11 ’1 -c college. ’Ll
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  • 154 7 SINGAPORE. July 18. The University of Singapore's 3.000 stud aits atv beini* asked to decide on a boycott oi classes, a peaceful demonstration outside City Hall or to send a delegation to meet the Government on academic freedom. The campaign, which also cm bra re
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  • 24 7 Router. KUCHING. July 18 Saruvuik exported more than 100.000 foul of timber in May. according to oltlcial .statistics announced here today. Reuter.
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  • 133 7 Kuala lumpur, July is —The Malaysian Council for Child Welfare will hold a charity premiere of the film “Billie” at Federal Theatre here at 9 p m. on Aug. 3. The screening of the Him Is being organised under the chairmanship of
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  • 457 8 KOTA BJ IARU, July 19. TUB Ministry ot Education is prepared to take over the scholarships lor tho«8 Kelantan students at the University of Malaya it the State Government has no money. The Minister oi Education, Inche Mohametl Khir Johari, said this when
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  • 111 8 IPOII. July 18.-The Perak 1 Flying Clubs fourseater Airedale aircraft which was bought for $45,000 in 1963. will be flown on July 20 to London to be so/d. The aircraft is considered too sophisticated for powered thing bv the club which
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  • 45 8 SUNGEI PATANI. July 19—The marriage took place at Alor star hhi t tn^2n"2 ul T f n,?ltu Aminah °fM n l^ ll Za 'nul Abidin, niece of the Pr.ne Minister, and Inche Oiiwr bin Mohamed Rejiab. son of nr Kedah Scout Commissioner.
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  • 246 8 vJ INGA PORE. July 18. Mr. A. T. Rajah, >2, Deputy Commissioner ul Police, retires trom the Singapore Police Force on Aug. 3 alter 30 years’ service. A Gove rnment .spoke, man today confirmed that the Singapore Government h d a -a Mr. Ra
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  • 54 8 KUCHING. July 18 Senator Da'o Temenggong Oyong Lawai Jau. paramount chief of the Kenyans left here this morning for a holiday in Europe and Britain. Although he has been to Australia and New Zealand, this will be his first trip to Europe. He is expected to
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  • 31 8 BE8UT. July 18—The Yang dlPeituon Akoiir and the Raja Permaisuri Agon* will start their East coast tour by visiting Pulau PerS hentinn near here, on Aug. 4 and
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  • 321 8 1/ UA L A LUMPUR, July 18. tain du< to lack of control by school boards are “playing havoc*’ with school i'utids. the Minister of Education, Inche Mohumed Khir Johari said today. H" al- 11s ed a scries of her
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  • 273 8 SINGAPORE, July 19. ENI -FIVE Singapore families have “aclopfed 52 visiting American college students. The students 27 girls and 25 boys are members of the Mount Union College choir from Ohio. The choir gave one performance last night and two today. They
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  • 37 8 SINGAPORE, July 19— To < lebrate its 16th anniversary. Singapore Printing Employe.Union will hold a “PrinterDance” on Oct. 1 at the Fra •>' and Neave hall. The highlight will be ‘b" "Printers’ Queen 1966' b< contest.
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  • 307 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 19. foreign policy is a personal 4 1 triumph for Tengku Abdul Rahman to the extent that he personally is deeply committed to a positive philosophy and approach to national and international problems. This view was expressed by the Permanent Secretary to
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  • 30 9 SINGAPORE. July 19 The Barisan Sosialis has extended its A'd Vietnam’’ campaign to M.i f a ya, according to the latest issiie 0 f the party organ Plebeian.
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  • 95 9 Kuala lumpur, July 19 —A 113-member Japanese survey team arrived here today to study how Japan’s technical aid to Malaysia could be more effectively used. Called the Japanese preliminary survey team for development projects, it Is sponsored by Japan's Overseas Technical Agency. **ir.
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  • 28 9 PENANG. July 19 —A -‘Co-opera-tive Queen" will be elected at the Penang International Co-operative Day celebrations in Westland* Primary School on the afternoon of July 23
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  • 25 9 PENANG. July 19—The Muslim Pilgrims Savings Corporation will open a branch here on Aug. 1 at the Pilgrimage Control Office In Beach Street.
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  • 211 9 kUALA LUMPUR, July 19—India welcomed the ending of Indonesian confrontation of Malaysia, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, Dr. S.C. Jamir, said here today. Speaking to reporters on his arrival here for a twoday visit, he said: "Though confrontation ls
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  • 139 9 Kuala lumpur, j«iy is. —Arrangement* for I $42 million loan the largest for the East Coast from the World Bank to finance the Kemubu irrigation scheme in Ke~ lantan are being final!*ed. The State Financial Secretary, Dato Abdul Axis bin Idris, will
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  • 33 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July 19—Indonesian journalist, Mr L. Pattiradjawane, now on a study tour of the country, will visit Indonesian prisoners captured during confrontation, at Johore Bahru on July 21.
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  • 231 9 J. BAHRU, July 19 'J'HE Johore Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has passed a resolution urging its Malaysian parent body to seek more funds from the Central Government without delay so that anti-TB work may be effectively carried
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  • 348 9 IN SARAWAK KUCHING, July 18. rrHE Chief Minister of Sarawak, Penghulu Tawi 1 Sli, said today that it would be up to the Council Negri to decide when Sarawak should adopt Malay as the official language. Speaking In a radio broadcast, he said that
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  • 24 9 PENANG. July 19—The Ballk Puau branch of the Famliy Planning Association is to launch a campaign among the rural poeple next month.
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  • 30 9 KANGAR. July 19—Registration of pilgrims for the 1966-67 season has started In Perils. Intending pilgrims are asked to register at the Department of Malay Customs and Religious Council.
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  • 302 10  -  By CHEAH BOON KHENG Singapore, July 19 SINGAPORE, a non-rice-producing country, was today complimented for playing the role of ‘‘broker” so ingeniously that she was able to sell rice to the Philippines recently. The tribute came I from Mr. Ezzat, head of the
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  • 45 10 IPOH. July 19—St. Anthony's School, Teluk Anson, bent Government English School, Tapah in the final of the first Perak .secondary interschool national language dr bate for the Jaycees gold cup here last night. Eleven schools in the state took part in the debate.
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  • 156 10 JPOll. July 19. The Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives has issued 10 licences to trawler fishermen on Pangkor Island on condition that they operate 1:2 miles oil' the Perak coast. The licences, the first to be issued in Perak, are effective until Dec. 31.
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  • 67 10 KUANTAN. July 18.- Mr. R. T. Ga 11away, the District Commissioner for Papua and New Guinea, will arrive here on July 23 for a seven-day private visit. During his stay here, he will visit rural development projects in Pahang to see the progress achieved Mr.
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  • 273 10 l/UALA LUMPUR. July 19. Malaysia’s top soldier, Lt.Gen. Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa, Chief of Armed Forces Staff, has been made the nation's first full General by the Yang di P e rtuan Agong. The Ministry of Defence today announced that the King
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  • 220 10 l/lALA LUMPUR. July 19. A pan Malaysian co-operative congress is to be held at the Deuan Tengku Chancellor. University of Malaya, from Nov. 15 to 17 with the object of forming a national co-operative organisation. It will be jointly sponsored by the Co-operative Apex
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  • 74 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July I"—The Malayan-Ameri-can Commission on Educational Exchange is offering a limited number of scholarships and travel grants for studies in the United States in September next year. The scholarships are of one year duration and the grants for past-graduate studies. Application forms
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  • 261 10 KUALA LUMPUR. July 19. THE Government plans to spend $2O million on the expansion of Kuching and Jesselton airports to take modern jet aircraft in 1969. Announcing this here today on his return after a four-day visit to Sarawak and Sabah, the Minister
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  • 92 10 VUALA LUMPUR, July 19. —The Sultan of Kelantan will preside at the two-day Conference of Rulers at the Istana Negara here beginning tomorrow. He takes over from the Sultan of Kedah, who is the Timbalan Yang diPertuan Agong. who is unable to attend the
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  • 453 11 KELANTAN MOVE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF PUPILS: KHIR KOTA BHARU, July 20 the Ministry of Education yesterdav took over another 26 ra’ayat schools in Kelantan io "ensuie the best possible education ior the children.” The Minister of I Education, I n c h
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  • 260 11 \|L T AR, July 19. —Police here have launched an extensive sea-hunt for two Indonesian barter traders disappeared after tncir boat capsized in international waters off Tan j on g Tohor, Batu Pahat at 10 p.m. yesterday. rim* 6 other Indonesian who were ln
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  • 195 11 lESSELTON, July 20. **—Native contractors in Sabah are to be given bigger government contracts to help them play an important part in the economic life of the State. Announcing this today, the State Finance Minister. Inche Harris bin Mohamed Salleh. said that preference would
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  • 263 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 20. Abdul Rahman today spoke of how he was embarrassed by a report that Malaysia would be sending a dancing troupe to mark the fifth anniversary of the Association of South-East Asia in Rangoon. It all started when the Malaysian, Thai
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  • 57 11 SUNGEI BULOH. July 20 By the end of the First Malaysia Plan, there will be 676 postal agencies. 76 mobile post offices and 254 post offices in Malaya. This was stated by the Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications. Tan Sri V. T. Sambantan at the official
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  • 32 11 SUNGEI PATANI. July 20 Inche Ahmad bin Salleh, headmaster of Sultan Abdul Halim School. Jitra. will talk on “Kedah in 1856" at the Alor Star museum on July n.
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  • 197 11 YfUAR, July 20.—Police yesterday rescued a man who was clinging to a log in international waters off Tanjong Tohor, five miles from Batu Pahat. He has been identified as Mohamed Maidin bin Katib Suleiman, one of two Indonesian barter tradeis, who disappeared after their
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  • 33 11 SINGAPORE. July 19—Mrs. Le* Kuan Yew. wife of the Prime Minister, will attend the Pounder's Day service and graduation ceremony of the Methodist Oirto" School at Mount Sophia on July 26.
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  • 329 12  -  By JOSEPH MIRANDA: Kuala Lumpur, July 20 'J’AX sleuths of the Department of Inland Revenue are now checking on the spending and also the savings of businessmen, whom they suspect of not paying their full share of the
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  • 34 12 KUALA LUMPUR. July 20—The Indian High Commissioner here. Mr M K. Kidwai. underwent a successful kidney operation at the General Hospital here today He is not being allowed visitors for two days.
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  • 175 12 LUMPUR, July 2fl —The National Union of Malaysian Students today suggested that every school day should begin with the national anthem to instil respect for it among the nation’s young eitimens. In a statement issued here today the NUMS expressed concern at the
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  • 145 12 4 LOR STAR. July 19. A The Mnister of Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam said here last night that no force could ever disrupt the present harmony among the various communities in Malaysia. “This racial unity can never be broken,” he told a public
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  • 192 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 20 T'HE president of the National Union of Heads of Schools. Mr. Lum Kin Tuck, today suggested that the Government should prosecute any school heads who “messed about' 1 with the school fund. Mr. Lum, who was commenting orr a statement yesterday by the
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  • 36 12 SUNOEI PATANI. July 20—The Archbishop of Singapore and Malacca. Monsignor Olcomendy. has asked all Catholics in the country to pray for the full and early restoration of peace between Malaysia. Singapore and Indonesia
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  • 91 12 UUKIT MERTAJAM, July 20 —A mile long candle light procession, in which over 15.000 pilgrims are expected to participate, will highlight the celebration of the Feast of Saint Anne on July 30 at the Shrine of Saint Anne, here. Thousands of Catholics from all
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  • 209 12 KOTA BHARU, July 20 vyORK on an $8 mil- lion school complex here —the first of its kind in the countrywill begin later this year, the Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir J o h a ri, announced today. Inche Khir has
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  • 199 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 20.—More than 500.000 people visited Zoo Negara last year —an increase of more than 100,000 over the previous year’s figure This is stated in the 19G5 annual report of the zoo issued by the Malayan Zoological society today According to
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  • 59 12 TELUK ANSON. July 20-' Mohamed Zain bin Abdul 17. a peon in the Lowei Malay Government sen Co-operative Thrift ancJ Society Ltd. here opened drawer of a table to get a of carbon paper this 01 he found a five-foot long s curled inside The snake,
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  • 306 13 .JOIIORE BAHRU, July 21. ;.nn igi ition control heie, which is aim- f( eounsovcrcignty. cannot be likened by any h ot imagination to the Berlin Wall, the r ol Education, Inche Mol.anv d Khir i i. s iid today. tking at the
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  • 29 13 '’o* RI sL BUNTAR J*"y 20 VIT. f^' la ni an bill HaJi Taib. t PDointpH Kr,an has been r, Wr Bo member of ,he Krian
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  • 63 13 SINGAPORE, July 20. —Nanyang University is expected to introduce its first oneyear honours courses in 1969. A Nantah spokesman said about 570 new students who are now taking three-year courses under the new system recommended by the VV an g-gang-wu Curriculum Review Committee would graduate
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  • 75 13 IPOH, July 21—The Sultan ot Perak will inspect the $147 million Batang Padang hydro-elec-tric project on the final dav of a four-day tour of the Batarg Padang district beginning on July 27. The tour will begin In Tnpah where he will address people gathered to
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  • 356 13 SINGAPORE. July 19. Singapore's best chances of survival lie in producing a tightly organised society, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. said. In a speech to civil the I S'lidy Centre, lie add J that there was no itli t way for
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  • 33 13 PENANG. July 20—The staff of Hutchings School held a tea party today to congratulate their headmaster. Mr. Chin Yoon Neean. on the award of AMN in the Klng> Birthday Honours recently.
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  • 481 13  -  By 808 NG KUALA LUMPUR. July 21. VI IE World Bank today approved a $lll million loan to the National Electricity Board to increase electric powci production and facilitit sin the country. The loan will liiuuicc the addition of 231.400 kilowatts ot generating capacity
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  • 77 13 KUAI.A LUMPUR July 21. —-Japan, France and the Netherlands are to send missions here soon to discuss aid for Malaysia’s First Development Plan, a spokesman of the Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department, said today. A top Irvel Japanese mission will be sent to negotiate
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  • 67 13 SINGAPORE, July 21. One hundred and thirty items will be on display at the university science and photography exhibition which will be opened by the Education Minister Mr. Ong Pang Boon, at the University of Singapore tomorrow morning. This is the 10th biennial exhibition It will
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  • 130 14 Nona has the makings of a crackshot, he says I IKE father, like son the old saying goes. But in the case of Staff Sergeant Othman bin Darns, it is his daughter, Nona. 19, who is taking after him as a crack shot. With 28 other Terriers
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  • 161 14 SINGAPORE, July 21. All non-citizen civil servants in Divisions One and Two have been told to apply for citizenship, if they “wish to continue in the employ of the Singapore Government.” They must apply regardless of whether they quality for citizenship or
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  • 24 14 PENANG. .July 21 More than 30 Malay Contractors in Penana and Province Wellesley have decided to form a Malay Contractors' Co-operative Society.
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  • 131 14 1/ U A L A LUMPUR, July 21. The Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Joliari, has suggested that children of Commonwealth troops here should be t a u g h t “something about this country or things Malayan.” Inche Khir was speaking
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  • 28 14 LUMUT. July 21— The Malaysian Flour Mill At Batu Undung near hero has donated $25 000 for tin* construction of .1 town clock touer her?
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  • 159 14 [(UAL A LUMPUR, July 20.- Malaysia will hold a six-nation “technical workshop” here from July 26 to work out details of educational projects sponsored by the United States Government for implementation in South-East Asia. The five-day workshop will be declared open by the Minister of Education.
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  • 72 14 KSSKLTON. July 21. The Sabah Teachers’ Union has submitted a memorandum to the Federal Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, urging that teachers here should he considered for housing and medical facilities. The memorand 11 111 spoke of the difficulties of the teachers
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  • 52 14 KUALA LUMPI'R, July 1— Tengku Abdul Rahman will lead the Malaysian delegation to the ASA Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Bangkok on Aug 3. The Foreign Ministirs' meeting will he preceded by special meeting of the joint working party which wo take place from .lulv 27 also
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  • 355 15 Kuala lumpur, July 21. The Chief Minister of Sarawak, Penghulu Tawi Sli, said today that he was confident the Sarawak Alliance crisis over the allocation of portfolios in the State Cabinet would be settled soon. “As soon as I return home, I shall call
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  • 27 15 PENANG, July 21—The Penang branch of the Malayan leprosy Relief Association has given $5OO to leper patients in Pulau to start an occupational therapy scheme
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  • 250 15  -  By JEFFREY FRANCIS: Jesselton, July 21 THE Central Govern--1 merit is to provide 5-1.5 million towards the cost of a low-cost housing scheme at Sandakan. The scheme, unlike those u Malaya, will consist of detached houses on Milts. Work on the project
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  • 65 15 PENANG. July 21—A ladies’ gvmkhana race will be the main attraction at the Penang State Welfare Dance at the E and O Hotel on Aug. 20. First prize for lucky numbers to be drawn in conjunction with the race will be a return air trip
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  • 190 15 SINGAPORE, July 21. —A top-level 30man Indonesian mission is expected here next week to complete resumption of trade and communication links with Singapore. The mission, the Straits Times understands, will leave Jogjakarta on July 25 by sea and will arrive in Singapore on July 27.
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  • 119 15 SINGAPORE, July 21 Thf chairman ot Singapoie Umno. Inche Ahmad Haji TalT, has said that if there were further delays by the Registrar of Societies to approve amendments to his party’s constitution, his party might the Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew,
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  • 20 15 MALACCA. July 21 —Mr. Khong Chye Huat ha? be<*) elected Malacca chairman of the Democrat if Action Part?.
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  • 224 15 1/UALA LUMPUR. July 21. The visiting Japanese technical survev team today had detailed discussions with officials of various Ministries to find out what specific projects Japan could best undertake in its $l5O million aid programme for the First Malaysia Plan. Since their arrival
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  • 25 15 PONTIAN, July 31—A mobile X-ray una will visit the Genera Hospital here to give free X-ray-to the public on Aug 6 and 7
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  • 235 15  -  By ROOERICK PESTANA: Johor# Bharu, July 21 yiSITING Antara News Agency correspondent L. Pattiradjawne was greeted with shouts of "Kami mahu pulang,” (“We want to go home") this morning when he visited 445 Indonesian prisoners of war in the Johore Bahru
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  • 150 15 LUMPUR, July 21. —The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, today briefed the Rulers and other heads of Malaysian States on details of the Bangkok peace agreement reached by the Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak. and the Indonesian Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik The Tengku.
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  • 614 16  -  by FELIX ABISHEGANADEN Kuala Lumpur, July 22 TURKIC million leaflets inviting Borneo terrorists to give up “and regain your freedom’’ are to be airdropped over the jungles of Eastern Malaysia at dawn tomorrow. Signed by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, the pamphlets are designed to persuade about
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  • 97 16 JESSE! TON, July 22 The Federal Ministry ot National and Rural Development plans to build a $3O. 000 boat-building yard a* Pulau Nunuyan Laut in Sandakan Bay to train local boat builders. Disclosing this, the state MARA Haji Mui Mohanied Shah, .said that.
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  • 157 16 IfUAU LUMPUR. Fri Sabah Alliance chairman. Tun Mustapha bin Datu Harun (above) has been appointed Minister of Sabah Affairs with effect from today. The appointment was announced today by the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, at a Press conference. The Tengku has agreed
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  • 72 16 'ANAll RATA. July 22. The Government was financing overseas publicity and promotion as well as undertaking development projects at home to enhance the existing tourist attractions of the country This was stated by the Deputy Secretary for Commerce and Industry. Inche Junid bin Ilaji Abdul
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  • 206 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 r rHE chief of the Indonesian contact team i, 1 Kuala Lumpur, Col. L. B. Moerdani of th Indonesian Strategic Army Command, returned here today after routine talks with his leaders in Jakarta. I Col. Moerdani told
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  • 162 16 Kr.UA I.I'MPIR. July -2—The Government has set up a directorate of national mapping to facilitate rural and urban land development in Sabah and Sarawak. this was disclosed by the Secretary to the Ministry of Lands and Mines. Inche Mahyuddin bin Hail Mohamed Zain. in
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  • 160 16 The big bang 25 years later JiJKREMBAN. July 11— fi# lb. bomb—believed to br war relic—was exploded at noon today by a bomb disposal unit 10 miles from here on the Kuala Pilah road. The explosion shook the surrounding bills alone (lie Kuala Pilali pass and could be heard two
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  • 120 16 KIAI.A IT MPI R. I" ,f 2:> —An internation.il Ivknown Thai econonml Mr. Paul Sithi-Amnuai-arrives tomorrow to terview the “10 most important Malaysians m the country. Among those he to meet in the “Top 1,1 are Tengku Abdul l’ |h man: the
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  • 41 17 IPOH, July 22—Miss Elizabeth Savnmuthu of Taiping was adjudged “Miss Golden Vo ce” at the Perak Telecommunications Department “hello girls" contest here yesterday. Second was Mrs. M. Viveka of Ipoh and third Che Norzaini bintc Mohamed Yunus.
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  • 30 17 KUANTAN, July 22—The opening of a health centre by the Sultan of Pahang at Kuala Rompin. scheduled to be held yesterday has been postponed to Aug 13.
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  • 195 17  -  By SOH TIANG KENG QINGAPORE, July 22. A Malaysian Airways Comet took off from here for Hong Kong this morning with a “very important parcel" on board. Inside were a pair of human eyes flown here last night from Colombo by BOAC
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  • 53 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Julv 22—The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has sent a congratulatory message to President Nasser on the occasion of the National Day of the United Arab Republic. The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, has also sent a similar message to the Prime Minister of the UAR.
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  • 212 17 JESSELTON, July 22 pEOPLE of certain cate--1 Kories from Commoncountries who have r 'o employed here on w,| rk permits ar e to be Sab f ermanent domicile Most of them are labourThere is a serious v oortage of these people
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  • 42 17 KANGAR. Julv 22—The Kuala Sanglang Fishermen's Co-opera-tive Society will send a deputation to see the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Haji Ghazali bin Haji Jawi. to discuss its application for trawler licences. The society has applied for 10 licences.
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  • 251 17 Vital that all should be given the chance: Ong SINGAPORE. July 22. r Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, said today that it was vitai that Singaporeans with intelligence and ability should be given the opportunity to go to the top whatever their financial circumstances. That
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  • 96 17 July 22.—Students should take pride in carrying books like Salina. Oesa Pingitan and Peg up Jan tong current Malay best sellers instead of Hamlet and Oliver Twist, the Mentri Besar of Negri Sembilan, Dato (Dr.) Moha med Said, said today. Speaking at
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  • 153 17 SINGAPORE, July. 22. Two American educationists from the University of Hawaii arrived here today to study local agricultural needs and to look into possible assistance programmes. They are Dr John Hendrickson. vice chancellor of the East-West Centre’s Institute for Student Exchange at the university.
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  • 34 17 KUALA LUMPUR. July 22—The D* puty Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, will open a one-day seminar on computers organist d bv the Malaysian Institute of Management at Shell House net* tomorrow
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  • 22 17 PENANG July 22—The Central Government has approved expenditure of more than $llO,OOO for minor development projects In Bal.k Pulnu district.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2483 18 From Our Market Correspondent r |'H K steam had gone right out of the Stock K\change last week and prices in all sections drifted to lower levels as turnover was reduced to just under 600,000 units a day in the trading rooms. The market
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    • 44 18 (Managers' Prices) Kiint Mala san !i 20 <" >1 second Malayan t sd Third Malayan t.it l Malaysia Commerce I "t Mat. Sac. Fund 1 Til J 4‘t Fits! Hong Kong 1 "2 J K'-eond Hong Kong .71 Bteiling Commodity < >• Hong Koux curtcltcs
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    • 38 18 \.N tfie tree eaehange maiket ti Horig Kong on Saturday the I dollar va* <| iote t at for T T and .*> m*s tor cash tteihng was *4'so**ul a' 1H II ml •ne tael of gold ai
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    • 85 18 Am pal. 7.18, Aokam. 2.045 Austral Arnal. 2.327 Ayer Hit am. 2.203 Berjuntai. 7.037 Chonderiang. 232 Gopeng Con. 3.370 Hongkong. 712 Idris Hya, 421 Kain. Lanjut 2.381 Kamunting 2.301 Kent. 365 Killinghall. 9<U K Kellas. 342 Kramat. 510 K. Kampar. 1.416 La rut. 350 Lower Perak. 1.097
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    • 27 18 Julv Vl Itl HIIF.R PRICK: 654 rents (lip one eighth of a cent). TIN: 0*032.25 (down #2.75). F.stimatrd unofficial offering 190 tons (up 15 tons).
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    • 65 18 Current Date Total for Total for payment payable the year prrvloua >ear \l Container* Vl\ <7 9 A% l‘!i r r >l. Tpb.it to 6 r rS \U*. :t« IVe Strait* Tiniee s<Vi An*, la 21*r Coped* Sept. LVITi lanjons Tin IJ r < Sept. I*> 17 a
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    • 339 18 rilHE week's trading wa* i u X fluenced by the ♦*«•.x. >- mic scene in the Kingdom and the la >sr evrnts m the Vietnam 1; flift. but it was the factor and its prevailing certainties which re. .j tlie most attention and i
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    • 77 18 'HINSSC Prndm.* f ichre.t S" por* noon price* per picul *r day Coconut oil: hud* |l.>j aellr. r* l $4 7 seilflft Copra I'li* A'.a. K I'ontlrienr •ino’eii Pepper M rli'ok "line *1*. wl/ei v bite *iai»*ak bit*, k HI.'* Ijunpong h M. w *i*?i se i Pb-,
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    • 87 18 I H I Association of Hank* < (Id tlll'le tin I'll M *1 g e M to rtinri hsnt* ye.stetdMV f 1001 United State* buying I t Mirmnii od i t i«v t»" «i 1 itoiln bill*. 3.'1 7 1# trad*' Canada: buvtng fl .'<5* 3*>t $*0 d
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    • 55 18 r TIIE present rate of flip dollar against the P oU,, 1 sl lirieC fixed on November t!4 t I selling T.T. or O.lf. I*. 4 Busing T.T. is. 4 1 h»«* 1 O.D. 3s. 4 1 *d. Tlte dollar I* at it« 1 middle position in relatin'*
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  • 251 19 K. LUMPUR, July 20 IE Central Government will limit its b b e r replanting ->ts for smallholdto 45,000 acres ually from next is to ensure 'hat will be sufficient -0 keep the scheme mclng this at a Nnet Press conferee 1 e today, the Minute-
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  • 159 19 CING \PORB, July 21. itcaUiU* oi an opinion poll conducted by the University ul Singapore Stuuents’ Union among Its members yesterday that 1.350 students voted in support ol the union leadership’s agnation for university iutu' my and academic trtnom, while 71 stud cr o voted
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  • 44 19 M*' ;A; A LUMPUR, July 23re, 400 guests attended re itl the Jalan Kia Peng dor the Belgian AmbassaP. Taelemans, here yesterofv '-‘ark the National Day Atv f pu ty P* l Minister. Tun B drank a toast to the Government.
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  • 46 19 o .ft* LUMPUR, July 22—The ii J on T f metaphysical paintp i ohn J 00- For at the o Building, has extended to July 27. p* request of many j vL??" *1*° «tay open on n from 10 a.m. to 0 p.m.
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  • 91 19 Kuala lumfur, July 21— Tengku Abdul Rahman will announce the surrender terms for member* of Sarawak’s Clandestine Communist Organisation at 11 a.m. tomorrow. The terms of the surrender have been drafted by a special Cabinet committee headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Raxak.
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  • 84 19 KAULA LUMPUR, July, 20 —Artists aged 18 and under and resident in Malaysia are invited to participate in the 10th Young Artists Exhibition Organised by the Arts Council of Malaysia. The exhibition will be held at the BrltUh Council Centre here from Oct. 10 to 15.
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  • 54 19 KUALA LUMPUR. July 22 I The National Elecrtlclty Board yesterday signed a $2 million contract with a local civil engineering firm for engineering and building works associated with the first extension of the Sultan Ismail Power Station in Johore Bahru. The successful contractors are the Nanyang Engineering
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  • 57 19 PENANQ, July 22 —Malay villagers In Telok Kumb&r have started a relief fund to help the families of two fishermen who died at sea 'ast week when their boat capsized in a storm v* Zalnul bin Mohamed Zain, SO. and Ibrahim bln Tallb. 60, are
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  • 244 19  -  From Jeffrey Francis: Jesselton, July 21 VEW ZEALAND has offered to pay for a $2 million building for the Jesselton trade school, which would later be converted into a vocational training school the 3rst in Sabah. Disclosing this today, the State Director of
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  • 136 19 RAUB, July 22.—The Deputy pr.me Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, will pay an official visit here on July 25. He will fly to Benta airstrip, 28 miles from here, and then travel by road to Raub. On the way, he will open a mosque
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  • 40 19 KUALA LUMPUR, July 21. The Yang dl-Pertuan Agong today sent a congratulatory message to Emperor Haile Selassie on the occasion of his 74th birthday. Tengku Abdul Rahman sent, a similar message through the Lord Mayor of Addis Ababa.
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  • 172 19 K. LUMPUR, July 22 CIUEPACS today'urged the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, to give “iair” consideration to their plea for further discussions on the proposal to transfer powers of dismissal and promotion from the Public Services Commission to heads of departments. A letter to the Prime
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  • 142 19 IfUALA LUMPUR, July 22. Members of the public were today invited to compete in the designing of a MARA seal and crest. The designs of the seal and crest should reflect the objectives of MARA, which are to stimulate promote, facilitate and undertake
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  • 106 19 UfALACCA, July 21.—Ten people have been selected to take part in the Malacca Jaycees ‘“Leaders of Tomorrow” speaking contest at the High School hall here on July 23. Contestants will have to speak for three minutes In English and another three minutes
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  • 381 20  -  PESTANA AND TAN SCORE MRU FIRST By MANSOOR RAHMAN: K. Lumpur, July 24 'J'HE Malaysian rugger team for the seventh match in the biennial series against Thailand for the Vajiralongkorn Cup at Bangkok in December will be composed entirely of national citizens. It will be
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  • 192 20 l/’LUANG, July 24—Malacca 1 qualified for the Tun Razak inter-state hockey finals when Jonore shocked fancied Singapore 2-1 in the last match of the South zone championship here today Malacca who oeat Johore 2-0 on July 22 and lost 1-0 to Singapore yesterday, finished
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  • 74 20 KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 Lee Kee Ching and Chan Kong Lam today won the four-ball best-ball golf competition for the Senior Golfers trophy on the Royal Selangor Qolf Club course. They had seven up against bogey while three pairs tied for second place w’th six
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  • 307 20 SINGAPORE, July 24. The Singapore contingent of 13 athletes and four officials left today with the hopes of winning one gold and two silver medals at the Eighth Commonwealth Games In Kingston. Chef-de-mission Tang Tuck Wah said he was confident the Singapore athletes
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  • 125 20 IfUALA LUMPUR. July 24 Recreio drew a step nearer to dethroning defending champions, Kilat Club I. in the Btonor Shield cricket competition with a first innings victory over Selangor Club on the KL padang today. Kilat, who have completed their fixtures, head the table but an
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  • 274 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Ji 24 T'HE Minister of Local Government and 1 Housing, Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, who had )eeu appointed Chef-de-mission of the Mai? ;ian team to the Commonwealth Games at Kir next month, will not make the trip owing i
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  • 111 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Ji 24 Selan 0 or qualmea to n. ,t sin. gapore In the Malay n Milays cricket final for the Huler* Shield when they beat Perak on first innings at Rifle Range Road today Selangor, who were set t- score 124 runs for an outright
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  • 37 20 F N sweep CINOAPORE July 21— Tr*—r and Neave Sports Cluo etalned the Singapore Badr ton Association Senior club title when they < -d Rose Partv 5-0 in the h I it the badminton hall here t* night.
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  • 15 20 TAIPINO. July 23 Selar »r beat iaiping 5-1 at hor y here today.
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  • 424 20 IPOH, July 24 Perak won 4 16 out of the 25 events at the first M.A.A.U north r*» gional championships against Penang and Kedah, on the Anderson School ground here today. Perak finished champions with Penang second, Kedah third and Perak Schools fourth. A breakdown
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  • 18 20 TAIPINQ. July 23—T) neae Recreation Club be? coma 4-0 in a league match here yesterday.
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