The Straits Budget, 15 November 1967

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  • 37 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REGISTERED AT THE Q.P.O. U.K, AS A NEWSPAPER series -trr KUALA LUMPUR, NOVEMBER 15, 1967. Price 40 Cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling KDN 2582
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    • 264 1 AliT-i MCREASE M CKCUUTION M 8 YEARS! Reflecting the countries* consistent economic development the Straits Times has since 1957 soared from an average net sale of 80.683 per issue during that year to 160.249 in October 1965, and is still rising! A continuous rise in income levels (from an estimated
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    • 141 2  -  (Dr) OTTO STECKELHUBER Austrian Trade Commissioner Singapore THERE U only one 1 word (or the way the staff of the Malaysia-8in~ lapore AirLnes treated the passenfers of flight No. 128 on Tuesday, Nov. 7 lousy. There should be no misunderstanding: 1 am not complaining about
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    • 152 2  -  HO KOK ENG Singapore ONG LIN PA! Singapore I LIVE In a fairly quiet area, quiet until the weekend. Then the peace is disturbed by a band of electric guitars, that can be heard within a radius of one mile, making a mockery of the
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    • 306 2  -  TUNKU MONG JIWA Alor Star THIS business or duty of a citizen to learn a word a day in furtherance of the national language as sponsored by the national radio has gone one for many yeai s. Yet, not many can benefited from
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    • 246 2  -  CITIZEN Pantal VaUey. COCH Avenue situated in the heart of Kuala Lumpur has great potentialities as a tourist attraction. Instead It is neg ected and has become an eye-sore, a shame and disgrace to the city's status. Tourists inevitably complain of the traffic congestion and
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    • 168 2  -  YOUNG CITIZEN Singapore 15 TT is Singapore’s policy that no secUon of the community should Impose its own moral standards on others. This is not quite the practice, however, in film censorship. The argument put forward is that the movie going public is made
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    • 144 2  -  JUSTICE Teluk Anson •THE General Manager 1 of the National Electricity Board recently descilbed 1966 as the “worst year” for the last 10 years In electrical accidents. He said the majority of the accidents were "due to the carelessness of the consumers.” To teach the public
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    • 290 2  -  TNG CHUA HOCK General Secretary Singapore Teachers Union. (But nothing about the standard of education In the schools.—ED. S.T.). L. B. WING Singapore 8 IN an editorial you state that because of “the very rapid expansion of the school system In recent years,” educational standards in
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    • 162 2  -  (Mm) PATRICIA LIM Tronoh LAST year 1 subscribed to a young girl’s magazine, on the understanding it was published twice monthly. I found after receiving the first issue that it was Issued only once a month and It has since been reduced to once
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    • 640 3 -Straits Times. November 7 On radio and television last night Tan Sri Jamil Rais, the Chief Secretary to the Government who has been appointed Malaysian High Commissioner to Britain, spoke of the collective responsibility of the public service. There is a tendency, he said, for officials
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    • 423 3 -Straits Times. November 6 Three weeks ago, Tengku Abdul Rahman spoke of the need to strengthen national language instruction in nonMalay schools. The Government, he said, intended to assign more and betterqualified language teachers to these schools and to switch instruction in selected subjects to the Malay medium.
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    • 335 3 —Straits Times, November 7 Although Sir John Barlow may have exaggerated the dangers of a war of attrition igainst natural rubber by the manufactured of synthetic, the possibility of fiercer competition is more obvious at the moment than co-operation in a common interest. Whether control bv the governments
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    • 677 3 —Straits Times, November 8 Bribery and corruption, no. Malpractices and inefficiency. 1 yes. In a nutshell this is the verdict on Georgetown City Council, the finding of tlie Commission of Enquiry which began its work in July last year, over three years after Mr. D. S. Ramanathan, the
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    • 126 3 Strait* Times. November t The British army and navy have been many months gone from Sabah and Sarawak. Yesterday the Royal Air Force hit as w’**ll ending a military association w’ilh Borneo which dated hack to the last century and which saw its proudest moments in the
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    • 652 4 Strait* Time* November 9 Whatever else can be said about the Abdul Aziz Commission's report on the affairs of George Town City Council it is not “wishy-washy and inconclusive," which is the Mayor's description of it. The Commission was not asked to make any recommendations. 1
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    • 328 4 -Straits Times. November 9 Trade figures illustrate the task that Mr. B. Kokorev, the first Soviet trade commissioner to Malaysia, must tackle after he sets up office in Kuala Lumpur later this month. Last year West Malaysia sold Russia rubber woith $225 million and tin worth $22 million-
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    • 357 4 —Straits Times, November 10 The Selangor Government is likely to find the most flamboyant of .several kind.*' of illegal use of state land the easiest to control. This is the variety that sees land cleared with heavy machinery and then planted with commercial crops. It has little in
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    • 362 4 -Straits Times, November 11 The Royal Malaysian Air Force inquiry into Nov. 8th’s helicopter crash is presumably a technical affaii •rimed primarily at discovering what went wrong after the flight began. Us findings could be valuable, and so could the eloser look now being taken at all helicopter
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    • 190 4 —Straits Times, November 11 The Sarawak United Peoples Party has thrown the fat in the fire at last. An invitation to attend a proposed conference in West Malaysia ol Opposition parties is being rejected, says the party’s publicity chief, b*cause none of them dared support its campaign for
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    • 177 4 Strait* Times. November 13 Fringe alienation remain* in bad odour. The AuditorGeneral's riport for 1963 to be tabled in the Malax sian Pail ament today eontinucs the sorry tale of previous years of ill-chosen site#, of unsatisfactory contracting, an I of M-ttler neglect. Pahang. Kedah and Negri
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  • 107 4 |£UALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 The total number of voters In the Parliament tavy and State elections register In West Malaysia has reached 3.064.000. This is not. the final figure. Although the yearly registration ended on Oct. 12, West Malaysians serving in the Armed Forces in
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  • 820 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. U-S. VICE-PRESIDENT Hubert Humphrey said tonight that Malaysia had given the world a case study in the vital inter-relation-ship between national security and develop- ment. He was speaking at a dinner he gave for Tengku
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  • 154 5 pENANG, Nov. 3. The former Governor of Penang, Raja Tun Uda Al-Haj, has accepted an oiler to be a director of the Oversea -Chinese Banking Corporation and the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd. Raja Uda, who will be 73 next month, was appointed
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  • 106 5 lESSELTON, Nov. 3 Twenty-one members of the Sabah component ol the Royal Malaysia Police are to be honoured b.v the Yang di-Pertua Negara. Tun Pengiran Ilaji Ahmad Rallae. on the occasion of his GOth brithday on Nov. 4 Two of the police officers will receive the
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  • 316 5 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5 gINGAPORE was today linked to Scandinavian nations by a 15-hour direct air service. A giant DC3 airliner with 100 guests oil board, including two Scandinavian Cabinet Ministers, touched down at Paya Lebar Airport this afternoon to mark the inauguration
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  • 26 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 7. A British expert in school curriculum planning, Dr. A.Q Hov son. will arrive here on Saturday for a one-veek visit.
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  • 233 5 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. It will be an offence to dissuade or attempt to dissuade electors from voting between nomination day and polling day at any election. This provision is made in a new .section to the Singapore Parliament Elections Ordinance, which was
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  • 68 6 IPOH. Nov 8 Wong Hon Fee. 19. a carpenter, was fined 9600 or six months' jail here today for causing the death of his friend, Wong S*ee Kwong, 18, on Sept. 3 by dangerous driving. He pleaded guilty. 9The court aus told that Sa ee
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  • 120 6 A PORTRAIT OF Mr. HUMPHREY IN 48 HOURS KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5 IT took 14 year-old Lim Jee Yuan only 48 hours to paint this portrait of U.S. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey —his third portrait of a celebrity in six weeks. •‘I really had to concentrate on
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  • 106 6 |(UALA LUMPUR. Nov. 3 —The Prime Minister will be asked in the Dewan Ra'ayat if it is true that the proportion of Malays to non-Malays in the civil service is nine to one. The question will be raised by Dr. Tan Ghee Khoon (Lab.-Batu)
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  • 38 6 IPOH. Nov 8 Three youths one of them armed with a knife, robbed a petrol attendant, S; ed Nariyat bin Syed I«ope. 20 oi $4O at a filling .•station in Anderson Road here lost night.
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  • 439 6 LONDON, Nov. 5 'J'WENTY-NINE teachers from Malaya. 10 from Sabah, and 14 from Singapore are among the record number of 549 teachers from Commonwealth countries who have received training awards from Britain this year under the Commonwealth teacher training bursary scheme. MALAYA: S.
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  • 60 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. 7 A man fell to his death from a block of seven-storey flats at Tronoh Road yesterday. The man a Chinese aged about 60. of medium build, wore a khaki shirt and black trousers. Police found his body near Block Nine His relatives and
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  • 128 6 IPOH. Nov. 5. The Sultan of Perak today opened the new $60,000 Wah Yim Kok temple, adjoiniim the famous Sam Poll Tom: cave temple. He .-.aid that the countlJ comprised various races of dillerent religions and ml lures and in the spirit of give and take
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  • 90 6 PORT DICKSON, Nov 5 The president of tlx Sikh Union of Malaya. Mr. T. Mahima Singh. M I’ declared open a fun fair to raise funds to build new Catholic church here yesterday. The Bishop of Kuala Lumpur. Msgr. Dominic Vendnrgcn was present.
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  • 271 7 JfUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 5. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, and Singapore’s Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, today held private talks for about five hours over a session of golf in the morning and later again at lunch Although Singapore
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  • 248 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 5. fj'HE Government was today urged to introduce effective legislation to control unjustified high prices of commodities. Speaking to members of the Kuala Lumpur Psychology Club on “High Prices and Consumer Action.” Mr. Ng Kctig Hoh. an
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  • 47 7 SEHEMBAN. Nov. 9 The Assistant Shite Secretary. Inche Abdul Rashid bin Abdul Rahman. 2:1 died in the General Hospital here yesterday of leukemia. A bachelor and a B.A (honours* graduate from the University of Mnlava, Inche Abdul Rashid started work here in July
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  • 143 7 Malacca. Nov. 5. Mate I xCi'Uihe Councillor, .Mr. Yoong Your Piiw (above) will not offer himself as candidate for Speaker of the State Assembly This was unanimously decided at an emergency meeting of ll»e Malacca MCA here today. In a statement issued after
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  • 199 7 1/ r.ALA I.LMPI K. Nov b An agreement for assist;*nee on two projects costing almost SIJ million to be operated as joint ventures between the Malaysian Government and the t’niled Nations Development Programme (I NDPI, was signed here today. The projects. which will last fi\e
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  • 325 7 MALACCA. Nov. 5. 'JHE Malacca State Government was urged to speed up its plan to set up an industrial estate here. The call was made by the president of the Malacca Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Tan Kee Gak MP. at a dinner
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  • 56 7 KUCHING. Nov B The Mill is try of Education has approved i grant of $40,000 to St Elizabeth* Convent primary School here for the construction of a (Ime-morcycd building at Bute it Asek Road Over f>oo pupils ot the school arc at present being taucht in
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  • 329 8  -  EXTRA WORK ROW By LEE KIM SENG LUMPUR, Nov. 6. —Two teachers’ unions will fight the Government in court should it implement the proposed increased workload for teachers next year. They are the National Union of Teachers and the National Union of National School
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  • 93 8 \1ISS Sylvia Rajendran (centre), an Air-India ground hostess, won the Deepavali Queen title at a dance at the Ocean Park Hotel on the night of Nov. 4. She beat 10 other finalists to win the contest, highlight of the dance organised by the Singapore
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  • 107 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 5 Air India has omitted Bangkok from its services to Hong Kong and Tokyo because no agreement has been reached so far at governmental level regarding reciprocal operations by Air India and Thai International. Talks at ainim- Ipm l at Which Air India
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  • 61 8 SINGAPORE Nov. 5- Dr. •Mrs) Elizabeth Hibbard of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Liverpool will give a public lecture on the diagnosis and treatment of folate depletion in pregnancy’’ at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital Lecture Theatre at 5 p.m. tomorrow. The talk is
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  • 58 8 PENANG. Nov. 5—A further $043 has been received for the St. Nicholas Development Plan appeal bringing the total of the fund to $2B 533. The latest donations include $250 from the Penang Turf Club and $lOO each from Mr. and Mrs. R.I. Rawlings, Mr. Lim
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  • 244 8 U U ALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5.—Four students of Waseda University in Tokyo are now in Malaysia to “sell Japan through photo graphs’’ and hand Tengku Abdul Rahman a s p ec1a1 message. The students Mr Kongo Mochizukl. Mr. Tateki Wada, Mr. Katsuhiko
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  • 76 8 KUALA LUMPUR. N«>v. S The Selangor Wine and Spir.' Dealers' Association celebi'a > d its golden jubilee anni versaw Ittl a dinner at ttM Ch Auditorium last night It was attended b.v aboir 1 000 wine dealers in the country. Among the guests were the
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  • 236 9 JESSELTON Nov. 6. aRE the uniforms of Malaysia-Singapore Air- line hostesses making the girls too attractive? The airline thinks so. for the uniformed girls in Malaysia and Singapore—both air and ground hostesses —are forbidden to travel in public buses in their uniforms.
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  • 83 9 U.P.I. JAKARTA. Nov 6. One Officer and three othei ranks of the Malaysian Army have passed the Indonesian Army Special Forces basic training course, the official news agency Antara reported today The four Malaysians were the Urst to follow training courses at the special forces training camp
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  • 67 9 si I I (WAN N<>\ 9 A Ul* Kong an out crew men were Hoed t >'a (It $33 j by the magUtratf'.* ceuri here lur Illegal trawler fishing near Pangkir bland on Nov 3 They pleaded guilty Keok Han l.in the tuikong. was fined $200 while
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  • 140 9 VifcPANG, Nov. More neveacrumb factories a lUld be set up in tin c uintry to process smalln ilders latex the Deputy »r.tne Minister. Tun Aboul. Razak. said iiere tort ay -.leaking at the opening ot *320.000 Encash Secondary mol, lun Ra/ak s.*ul
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  • 80 9 Kit AI a LUMPUR Nov 12 Tlie director ot tire Mira Training Division. Inche M i >»n bin Osman left today for a two-week study tour oi India. Inche Mansor told reboners at the ah port that his Indian tour was brine made
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  • 212 9 SINGAPORE. Nov 5 Another 52.971.8il has been received from Straits Times readers for tlie five children of textile salesman Leong Feng Sang, who was killed in a road accident last month Their mother died four years ago. Their fund now stands at $32,713 Heading
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  • 258 9  -  SHE BEATS THE MEN AND WINS BOOK PRIZE TOO By LEE KIM SENG LUMPUR, Nov. 5. A girl who just likes to have something to do with building” not only obtained her diploma in building design from the Technical College
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  • 239 9 K LUMPUR, Nov. 5 |>AKISTAN is eager to give eapital and technieal assistance to Mara to help It set up factories using Pakistani raw materials such as cotton, jute and leather. This will be in the form of joint-ventures, the vicepresident
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  • 112 9 MalaysiaThai talks on malaria menace BUKIT MF.RTAJAM, Nov. 10— The Minister of Health Incne Bahamnn bin Samsuddin, will open a three-day Mulaysia-Thai conference on malaria and public health at the Penana stall nurses' hostel on Nov 23 Twenty-tour delegates representing th two countries 10 Item Thailand and 14 trom Malaysia
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  • 249 10  -  Probe into romours said to have been spread by a foreign-based firm By 808 NG: Kuala Lumpur, -Nov. 7 THE authorities are investigating the activities of a large foreign-based rubber firm which is believed to be spreading rumours aimed at disrupting the market and sabotaging the Malaysian Government’s
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  • 92 10 KLANG, Nov. 7.— Two men, armed with men. armed with knives, rohhed the cashier of Midlands Estate here of a $15,000 payroll at 12.50 p.m. yesterday in Jalan Ranting. The robbers used their ear to force the cashier's car o(T the road. The two men
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  • 237 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. The Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, left by air this morning for an eight-day official tour of Scandinavia. He told newsmen that he would hold exploratory talks on Norwegian shippers’ making more use ot Singapore's marine facilities. He
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  • 164 10 |>ENANG, Nov. 6 -A 1 World Bank research team is now in Kuala Lumpur to study the proposed East-West Highway project to find out if it would be feasible, the Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, said here today. He told a visiting
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  • 238 10 PENANG, Nov. 7. THE State Government has decided that in the public interest all the functions of the City Council of Georgetown should continue to be transferred to the Chief Minister until the Council meets after a new election is held. An
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  • 172 10 Kuala lumpur. Nov. 6.—A photographic exhibition opened today at the University of Malaya Students Union canteen with the hope that it will “pave the way towards a better understanding of Japan” among Malaysian youths.” The exhibition was ar ranged bv Mr. Kengo Mu ehizuki.
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  • 18 10 SINGAPORE. Nov.—An overhead pedPflnan bridge will be built at the 7J milestone. HukJt 'I imnh Road.
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  • 324 11 BRANCHING OUT AGAIN... SINGAPORE, Nov. 7. f |MIE ‘phenomenal success” of a Singapore-American joint venture which increased its exports by 60 per cent in two years and built a $1 million extension solely from profits, was related today by the Minister
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  • 65 11 PONTIAN. Nov. 7 Nine Ini tiui.esi ms were charged in a matiatrate’s court here today with robbing four Malaysian fishermen ol their gear and boat, two notes oil Kukup. on the south-west tip of Johore. in September Five of those charged were ni< mix r*
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  • 348 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7. (Dr.) G. A. Lopez, of the Medical Directorate of the Malaysian Armed Forces here, has good reason to be jubilant today. He recently received news that his son. Francis, now a Marist Roman Catholic* Father, has
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  • 57 11 JOHORE BAHRU Nov. 7—The .lohme Government has built a $350,000 you'h training centre at Bukit Senyuin to replace the present ceiUe at Jalan Scudai here. The Mentrl Besar, Datn Ifaji Othman Sa'i today appealed to youth organ sat ions to ra ise hinds on t lie tv
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  • 310 11 KUALA LUMPUR,'Nov. 7. TEAM of high ranking Alliance officials, including several Ministers, will tour the country before the end of the year to meet State Alliance leaders to select 386 candidates for the next general elections. The team will be led by the
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  • 140 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 7. A s e v e n-man Canadian trade delegation flew in tonight to explore the business potentials of a new market in educational equipment created by the Republic’s present educational policy, which lays emphasis on technical and vocational training. The
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    118 12 Sultan meets nurses and donates $4OO THE Sultan of Selangor, meets the nurses of the Lady Templer Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, during his visit on Nov. 6. He was accompanied by his consort. On arrival at the hospital, they were received by the Minister of Health. Inche Bahaman
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  • 233 12 KU ALA LUMPUR. Nav. 6. VIUSLIMS will have to pay $36 more in dowries m (mas kahwin) from next year, the Sultan of Selangor announced today. Until last week the dowry was $44. Then the State Religious Department announced that this was
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  • 30 12 KUAI A LUMPUR. Nov. fi Professor T. T. Williams of Louisiana University left today after .sending 10 months at the College of Agriculture here as a Fulbright lecturer.
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  • 82 12 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs The start of Rothmans Ltd. have collected a total of $9OO for Madam Lim Kim Hua of Triang after reading of her plight In the Straits Times. M.«darr Lt. lost her leg* In a train accident 13 years ago and Nr
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  • 66 12 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 9 The Professor of Chemistry University of Malay.*, Prof R L<. Huang, will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (D.Se.) by Oxford University A university .statement said nerc today the degree was awarded only for outstanding research and was based
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  • 156 12 IESSELTON, Nov. 7— The Chief of Armed Forces Staff. General Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa, who arrived yesterday Tor a fourday visit to troops here, today inspected barter trading strongholds on the Malayan side of Pulau Sebatik The island, divided between Sabah and Indonesian
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  • 206 12 Kuala lumpur, nov. tt—The Overseas Information Division is to be streamlined and »teps are being taken to turn it into a separate and independent department within the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Minister, tin lie Senu bin Abdul Rahman, disclosed this when addressing
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  • 88 12 SINGAPORE. Nov 7-The Ministry of Education, announced today the award of the 1987 Singa-pore-Borneo scholarship of the Associated Board ot the Royal Schools of Music. London, to Miss Lee Chin Yen of Singapore. Ihe board normally provides seven .schol.ir.siui>* annually for overseas students. Eich scholarship
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  • 64 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 9 Foreign bank* operating in Mu* Inv.sla will soon be requited to bold funds of at least $2 million in die country. A Bill seeking to amend M e Banking Ordinance. 1958 con ideis that die capital requirement provisions for foieign bank*
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  • 594 13  -  By y RUDY BELTRAN and JOHN OWEN-DAVIES Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 8 'VTINE people, four of them children, were killed when an RMAF Alouette helicopter on a mercy flight caught fire and crashed near the Sentul Golf Club course here this afternoon. The two pilots killed were
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  • 61 13 PENANO. Nov. 8 Puan Sri Saadi.l' Sardon, wife ol the Miniate* i,t Transport will launch a ne\ $1 million berthin? nra fire-fighting tug at the Choy Lee shipyard in Hong Kong on Nov. 10. The Penar.v Pott Commission, nnnoum in* tills today, said the tug would
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  • 33 13 iron. Nov. 7. M. Vivapudi. 45. a mining labourer, was found dead in a 1 mine at the eighth mile Tanjong Rambutnn Hoad near here ca v y this morning
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  • 263 13  -  By ELIZABETH WONG I/UALA LUMPUR. Nov. B.—Projecting Malaysia’s image to “the ordinary man in the street” is an important objective for Tan Sri Abdul Jamil Rais when he takes over as Malaysia’s new High Commissioner in Britain. Ttllf he hopes to do
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  • 275 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. JJENMARK and Norway, two of the world s greatest maritime nations, may provide Singapore with training facilities and other forms of technical assistance for its proposed national shipping line. Strong indications of this possibility were given today by the Communications
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  • 199 13 U U ALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8. —The pi Csident of the Selangor Poultry Farmers’ Association. Mr. Donald Wong, told the High Court here today that it cost a farmer $6 to rear chicken until it started to lay eggs. He was giving
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  • 28 13 PENANG. Nov. 8. A hawker's wife. Madam Tye Gaik Choo 28. Ml to her deaih from the fourth floor of the General Hospital's "A" block yesterday
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  • 667 14  -  By HENRY PAUL IPOH, Nov. 8. —A Cinderella-type romance of rags to love and riches has come true for a rural beauty from southern Thailand. She is to wed the 43-year-old Sultan of Perak, who has three other consorts the Raja Perempuan, whom he
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  • 32 14 IPOH- Nov. B.—The body of a cook K Bawa 54, was found in the Kinta River near here yesterday afternoon after lie had been reported missing on Nov. 5.
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  • 88 14 IZ t AI.A LI MPLR. Nov. K. A new Malaysian mineral. I T hkh n br usr d in the production of rockets and colour teleiision, is now being exported to America. Britain and Japan. Tin minei Mr. lap Yin Kah. who disclosed this today said
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  • 62 14 |>K V\NG. Nov. B.—The Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Vi WI a balanced Budget for l!»S8 when the State Assembly meets on Nov. 15. sig iin ra fc* shows estimated revenue at 51 7,4 9 from state sources and lif/Vi f l ederal «™nts) and expenditure of
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  • 154 15 1/ UALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8. Tengku Abdul Rahman will personally move a Bill relating to football pools at the next Dewan Ra’ayat session beginning on Nov. 13. Toe Prime Minister told hi s weekly post-Cabinet Preys conference today that he would take the
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  • 126 15 1/1 ALA TRENGGANIJ, Nov. K.—I’m no and Alliance Iradcrs should not be afraid of giving constructive criticism if it is for the good of the party, the deputy chairman of Trengganu I'mno. Dato Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman, told 126 leaders attending a political
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  • 63 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 7.— Five Mala.vsinn children from Penang have won prizes in the painting section of Shankar's International Childrens’ Competition in India. They arp. Chew Swee Leng. 7 Cat may Llm Siow Chiow. 8. Von Lai Klicng, 12 and Chin Poy Cliee. 12. ail
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  • 295 15 EQUAL PAY FROM JANUARY? K. LUMPUR, Nov. 8 r |MIE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, could not guarantee equal pay for women early next year because the question is being examined by the Suffian Salaries Commission. This was announced today by the president of the National
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  • 211 15 K. LUMPUR. Nov. 8 'PHE Cabinet today instructed the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lini Swee Aun, and the Minister of Labour. Mr. V. ManickavasaRam. to find ways to settle the differences between the National Electricity Board and its employees.
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  • 53 15 JESSEI.TON. Nov. 7. Th* chairman of Unilevers. Lord Cole, arrived here today with his wife. They were accompanied by their son the Hon Jonathan Cole. They will be attending the opening of the Tungud factory which houses a processing plant for the Unilever-owned Pamol estate in
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  • 191 15 I/UALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8. The estimated 1.000 vendors and 00 distributors of Wall's and Magnolia ice cream have reversed their earlier decision to call oft their boycott of the two companies’ products. This is because they want the two companies to withdraw
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  • 235 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8 Fourteen year old Leong Lai Kuen <aho\e), the eldest of the Leung orphans, today thanked Straits Times readers for their help. Since the report of the death of their father. I.eong Peng Sang, last month in an accident, about S.33,000
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  • 70 15 (SINGAPORE, Nov. 8 The Customs and Excise Department collected a total of $154.1 million for the first 10 months of this year an increase of $1.5 million o\er the same period last year. Biggest revenue earner was petroleum which yielded $44.1 million. This was
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  • 1858 16 gPNGAPORE, Nov. 8. The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, told a grQup of foreign journalists tonight that it would be rather sad for foreign capitalists who had invested in Singapore if the Communists should come into power. In an
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  • 179 16  -  By R. CHANDRAN SINGAPORE, Nov. 9. Mr, Barry D’Almelda, a retired businessman from Perth; West Australia, Is now on a sentimental Journey to Singapore and West Malaysia where his ancestors were well-known. He Is the great grandson of Sir Joze D’Almelda. who
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  • 32 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Not. g The Yang di-Pertuan Agong this morning granted an audience to the new South Korean Ambassador. Mr Hong Kee Karl, and his wife at the Lstana Negara.
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  • 93 16 Kuala li mpi r. Thurs. —The second Economic Congress for the Bumiputras will be held by the middle of next year. This was decided at a meeting, chaired by Tun Abdul Razak with members of the t nited Malay Chambers of Commerce at the National
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  • 50 16 IPOtf. Nov. 9 Inche Abdul Aria bin Ismail, former Federal Secretary to Sabah, is now the State Secretary of Perak. He takes over from Raia Mokhtar bin Raja Ya’acob, who is in Australia undergoing treatment for a spin.«l injury received in a car crash four month.*- ago.
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  • 98 17 I/UALA LUMPUR. Nov. 9. The Olympic Council of Malaysia's Selection Committee yesterday approved another 85 tor the Seap Games in Bangkok from Dec. 9 to 16. This brings the total to 305. the largest ever contingent to go abroad. The 85 comprise
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  • 115 17 CINGArORE. Nov. 9—The L’.S. Ambassador to Singapore, Mr. F. J. Galbraith. today said Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr. I>ee Kuan Yew. made "unite an impact" on the American people during iris recent visit to the r.s. Mr. Galbraith, who accompanied Mr. I.ee throughout his
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  • 200 17 LUMPUR, Nov. 9. —Two Minis, ters will meet the staff side of the National Electricity Board’s Joint industrial council tomorrow in a bid to settle the dispute over wage claims. They are the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun,
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  • 74 17 KUAI.A LUMPUR. Nov. f The wife of r he former Chief of Ihe MaVal Stutf, Mrs. Leslie Doiurd, has been awarded iCe Bed Cioss Meriioiiouv Service Medal. Mrs. Dnllord has been ennnectrd with the Mnlavsisn Red Oram since January 1964 and was ie.spon.dble for orirarising
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  • 53 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 7 The last Royal Air Force aircraft to be based in Borneo were withdrawn todav after completing their final mission in support of Malaysian forces They are Whirlwind nehcoptera of No 110 Squadron which have been detached to Kuching from their home base at
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  • 362 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 9. glX MPs all from the Op|>osition will ask between them 18 questions in the Dewan Ra'ayat next, week on the result of the Government's intervention in the rubber market. DR. LIM CHONG EC (UDP-Tanjong) will ask the Minister of Finance, Tun
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  • 104 17 I/UALA LUMPUR, Nov. 9 Three countries so lar, have accepted Malaysia s invitation to take part in the two-day international Koran reading competition to be held a* Stadium Merdeka from Dec. 21. They are Singapore. Bouth Vietnam and Ceylon. Nigeria had replied she was unable
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  • 51 17 iron. Nov. B Mr. Mn Yoke Keen. principal and proprietor of two private schools here St. Anthony's Institution and St. George's Girls’ School, was lined a total of $450 by a magistrates court todav on three summonses for failing to contribute to tne Employees Provident
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2787 18 From Our Market Correspondent TIIK chief characteristic of a very active Sl(K*k Exchange last week was the size of the turnover, which as reported through the trading rooms alone, amounted to 8,8<>9,000 units of stocks and shares valued at $18,282,658. Both the volume and its
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    • 35 18 RI BBKr TIN (per lb I. (per picul). Nov. S. 48Vi ft*. 7. 47 Cta>. it,til on 48'iets. SbOJ.li'j 9. 48'S, tin. StiOl trt' j 10. 48 7 id». StiO.VSJ' 4 lit a
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    • 41 18 /VN the frM exchange market In Hong Kong on Hatuiday the U.g. Oetar wax quoted *t 5 74« ror T.T. aml 8 76f for each r •eerltng wax quoted at 14 tig and ana tael of geld at 260|
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    • 36 18 the frss exchange market In Kong Kong yeateiduv the US Cellar was quoted St 6.7>ii for T.T. and 5 76J for sash. Sterling was quoted at 16.02 and She tael sf geld at 2604.
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    • 54 18 Nov. tJ Nov. 7 Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Nov. 16 Nov. 11 Industrials: 1*8.16 128.74 l!f».4:t 1*8.83 1*9.27 130.0* Properties: 130.18 131.80 132.54 111.64 131.96 132.13 1 Minings: 91.06 91.23 91.21 91.0.3 91.23 91.38 t rubbers: 16*.81 10* 14 102.76 102.76 102.76 102.76 I»ec. 29. 1962= 100.
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    • 35 18 (Current Oatr Total for Total for p*ynifnt parable the year previous* vear Kings pot e (.and 5 Jan. 2 5 4 f>'„ S. Dff !l 40<% «g|% Str. Klibber l>e«. 71*. 1 Interim.
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    • 410 18 PRICES have fluctuated within limits of ljf cents dui-in* the past week’s trading to finish oft better on balance than the previous week, report H.C.B. L Co. Ltd. in their current review of the local Rubber Market. The market remutned sensitive to any new featutes
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    • 58 18 (Manager*’ Fries*) First Malayan 252 261 Second Malayan 142 1.91 Third Malayan I 14 1 2X id The Roving Fund I 33 1.42 The Commerce Ind. .95 1 04 Mai. Invest. Fund 1 of> 119 xd First Hong Kong .40 .45 xd* K-o.ond Hong Kong .55 .99 xd*
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    • 78 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10.— A 200-.stronß combined church, choir will sing at the Asian Evangelista Commission cam* pa inn here, from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2. The enmpaien features six Asian evangelists. including Mr. Bob Harrison, the wellknown Negro linger-preacher from Manila. Practices have
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  • 220 19 ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE DARK DAYS JESSELTON, Friday. 'J'HE Sabah Government today thanked one of the world’s largest companies for its faith in the State during the dark days of confrontation. The State Minister for Local Government, Dato Pang Tet Tshung, described as “courageous and
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  • 111 19 ITU ALA LUMPUR, Frl. The visiting Fijian Minister of Social Services, Mr. VlJay R. 81ngh, today said he would like to send some officers from FIJI to study the low-cost housing projects here. Mr Singh said this after an hour-long discussion on
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  • 170 19 Kuala lumpur, Frl. An eight-man Canadian Educational School Equipment mis. sion which arrived here last night, called on the Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari. today. They spent half an hour talking with the Minister on the scope of educational systems
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  • 39 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 12. Inche Ramin bln Haji Mohamed Yunos, of the Selangor Legal Department is the new Magistrate at Court Hul here. He replaces Inche Abu Bikar bin Awang, who wdl be transferred to Ipoh tomorrow
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  • 257 19 CEREMBAN, Thors. J Tengku Naqulah, 22, eldest daughter of the Yang dl-Pertuan Besar and the Tengku Ampuan, who has obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science, plans to Join the Foreign Service. In an Interview today at the
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  • 64 19 SEREMBAN, Frl. The national president of the Jaycees in West Malaysia, Mr. Daniel C. M. Leow, was elected a world vice-president of the Junior Chamber International at Its world congress In Toronto recently. Mr. Leow, 31, Joined the jaycees here In 1959. He was awarded
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  • 72 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. The New Zealand Chief of Air Staff. Air Vice-Marshal, C. A. Turner, arrived here yesterday for a brief visit. He called on the newly appointed Chief of the Air Staff, Air Commodore Sulalman bln Sujak. and visited the RMAF base at Kuantan.
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  • 295 19 REPUBLIC'S RUBBER FOR BUCHAREST SINGAPORE, Friday. THE visiting three-man Rumanian trade team are to sign a sales contract soon, in which Rumania will buy among other things, 15,000 tons of rubber from the Republic next year. This was disclosed today by Mr. Ovidiu
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  • 158 19 PENANG. Frl The various MCA d visions and ward branebes here have already lined up potential candidatea for the Parliamentary and State elections in 1969 “They are now work mg to win the confidence of the electorate,” the Penang State MCA secretary. Mr
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  • 39 19 PENANG Pri Mrs K. S Llm. secretary of the Automobile Association of Malaya will leave Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to attend thr ninth general assembly of the Wond Touring and Automobile Orga (nation at Monte Carlo
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  • 404 20 KASETSART 76 S PORE U. 0 1JNIVERS1TY of Singapore never had it so bad. That was the conclusion of spectators at the second match in the South-East Asian Universities rugger carnival at Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, yesteiaay, reports TONY F KAN CIS. •'ine singaporeans, beaten
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  • 19 20 Jalan Acob Dec ame the Klang Oumct estate soccer champions when they beat Highlands 5-0 at Klang yesterday
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  • 186 20  -  ATHLETICS By IAN PEREIRA M ALAYBIA 8 100 metres record holders, M Jegathesan and G. Rajailngam leave for Jakarta on Monday looking forward to a "showdown" between themselves at the Indonesian open athletics championships on Nov. 16-19. Both have plans to an attack
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  • 305 20 SEAP GAMES MALAYSIA will be represented by an eightmember yachting team in the Seap Games at Bangkok on Dec. 9-16. The Malaysian Yachting Association, which was formed yesterday, selected the team from the squad of 12 who began training In Singapore on Nov. 2. > The
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  • 361 20  -  UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA 6 KASETSART U. of THAILAND... 3 Bv MANSOOR RAHMAN ITNIVERSITY of Malaya played resolutely in mud and rain to beat Thailand’s Kasetsart University by two penalties to a penalty (6-3) to retain the Dato Lee challenge Cup in the South-East Asian universities rugger tournament at
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  • 70 20 KLANG District Football Association senior knock-out quarter-.inal between n me s Indian Youngsters and Port Swettenham T&miliana at the Klang Town Padang yesterday was abandoned alter a free-ior-all five minutes before full time. The Incident started when referee L*e Chin Huat tried to Intervene when B«bramaniam of
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  • 242 20  -  By At. RAHMAN T’HE Malaysian AAU will send nine athletes to Jakarta for tne Indonesian open champiousmps on Nov. 16-19. The team will prooaoiy leave next Tuesday. Tire announcement, made bv Maau secretary JOnn Kanagaratnam yesterday reverses an earner decision not to send a
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