The Straits Times, 4 January 1982

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1982 35 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 99/1/82
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  • 618 1 Positive response by Solidarity? VIENNA, Sunday IN the first positive response to a call for talks by the Polish military rulers, branch leaders of the free trade union, Solidarity, have begun hush-hush negotiations with the authorities in Warsaw, reports reaching here said last night. The
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  • 341 1 Two shot in prison riot PENANG, Sun HARD-CORE criminal detainees on Pulau Jerejak rehabilitation centre here went on a rampage this afternoon, refusing to eat and destroying property and starting fires In their domitories. Reserve unit troops had to be called in to the island to quell the rampage, but
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  • 32 1 JERUSALEM, Sun. The appointment of the Army Chief of Staff, Lt-Gen Rafael Eitan, has been extended for a fifth year His term was to have ended in April Reuter
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  • 435 1  -  LOWGUATTIN By VETERAN police officers will soon undergo specialised training by professionals to make them more sensitive to the public's feelings. They will attend courses to learn, among other things, how to coax the violently insane into submission, to steer the suicidal away from
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  • 55 1 NEW DELHI, Sun. Pakistan Foreign Minister Agha Shahi is likely to arrive here on Jan 29 on a three-day official visit to discuss a no-war agreement which his country proposed to India, the Press Trust of India reported. The agency said an alternative date under
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  • 30 1 TEL AVTV, Sun. A Ghanaian soldier was killed and another injured when gunmen attacked a unit of the United Nations peacekeeping force in South Lebanon last night. Reuter
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  • 115 1 BEIJING, Son. Too late for the Western New Year, a Beijing food research laboratory has reported finding a care for the hangover. The Beljbig Evening News reported yesterday that the sweet syrnp can be ingested either before or after drinking. It said the "relief
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  • 40 1 A split second away from 'doom' IN lew Uuui secMd, It iMks as If the bu wIU hurtle through the gMtry. The three men fth*ve the baa appear doomed. To Hod oat what happened to them, tan to Page 9.
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  • 85 1 BEIRUT, Sun. Iraq said today that Israeli fighter-aircraft had violated its airspace for the second time in five days but had been driven off by Iraqi aircraft. The Iraqi news agency said two Israeli F-15 planes flew GO km over Iraq's Western Desert
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  • 1043 1  -  BRUCE PRESTON f W L J .W I A A 1 f 1 J.M By n Tokyo TAKING the world by surprise, Japan has begun to usher in the Third Industrial Revolution, an era in which unmanned factories, equipped with robots and automatic
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  • 202 1 TOKYO, Sunday THE United States has sent engineers to an army base in north-western China to monitor Soviet military activities, including nuclear experiments, the mass-circulation newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, reported today. I The newspaper quoted I Japanese Government and Defence Agency sources as saying the
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  • 52 1 LATEST BLAST, THEN JAILBREAK ROVIGO (Italy), Son. Poor women Jailed as suspected members of the Red Brigades escaped from prison today after a bomb blasted down a wall, prison officials said. One passerby was reported killed and six or seven others wounded by the explosion In this town south of
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    • 79 1 48 pages today PROPERTY TAX TO FUND EDUCATION PLAN FOR MUSLIMS? Pag* 7 No let-up in morning Indian classical music Page 7 Animals looking for godfathers -Page 8 Refineries here not hit by world glut Times Business Page 18 SUMMARY WORLD NEWS S, 4, S CAUSEWAY II COMICS II EDITORIAL
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    • 705 2 New quota system THE Primary Industries Enterprise has, at the request of the Singapore Pork Merchants' Association revised its quota system of slaughtering pigs to thwart any bids at bribery. And the quotas are to be revised periodically "to avoid the irregularities which may induce corruption." The former quota
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    • 194 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: THE professionals being called In to train police officers in how to handle difficult human situations will not torn oar policemen into instant people-experts. Bnt the courses being planned look like a better method of training than the present practice of expecting them to learn
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    • 277 2 'NO LIKELIHOOD OF UNEMPLOYMENT HERE' DESPITE bleak predictions of higher unemployment in the industrialised world, joblessness remains remote in the minds of Singapore economists and workers. A senior economist with the National University of Singapore said the Republic is unlikely to face unemployment in the next 5 to
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    • 74 2 BEHIND THE ANTHRAX OUTBREAK TWENTY years ago, an epidemic of deadly anthrax struck the Russian city, Sverdlovsk. What caused the outbreak of anthrax? Was it an unfortunate case of tainted meat, as the Russians claim? Or was the disaster caused by an explosion of virulent spores during the secret
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    • 149 2 Day for the underdogs THE third round of the English FA Cup is traditionally a day for the underdogs. And so it proved on Saturday when mighty Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Southampton and Stoke lost to their Second Division rivals. United was humbled 1-0 at Watford, Forest crashed 3-1
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    • 531 2 Economic details POLAND'S martial law authorities have disclosed more details of its economic austerity programme but have assured the private sector that the measures will help develop, rather than hurt, it. Finance Minister Marian Krzak was quoted on Warsaw Radio as saying benefits for private businessmen prevailing
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    • 404 2 Proverbial origins PROVERBS had to be learnt by rote in school but HOWARD RICHARDS finds that in later life they are very seldom used. He therefore wonders if they may have been easier to learn if we had been taught their origins as well. He gives us a
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    • 178 2 Usno party revamp UNITED Sabah National Organisation president, Tun Datu Haji Mustapha, breaking a long spell of political silence, announced recently that he will revamp Usno in a move to prevent the party breaking up. He said there will be changes at all levels, especially at the
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    • 181 2 An American learns Mandarin GU YUECHENG is the Chinese name adopted by an American woman who married a Singaporean and who has learnt the Chinese language. She says a Westerner who studies Mandarin must be either slightly mad or highly motivated. Her affair with Chinese began
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    • 113 3 Deputy PM's son wants to live in Australia WIESBADEN, Sun. The af deputy Palish Premier MWiysUw R*k«wskl, who Uvm In West lirrmuy, mM yestrnUy tar pUu U emigrate to AutnlU. Mr Artnr lUkowskl, 23, wh« kM lived la Wiesbaden wltk hliwUrud tw«ywriM dace Jue IKI, MM he Ml PaUad "far
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    • 143 3 ODESSA ESCAPES U.S. BAN ON SOVIET SHIPS THE Soviet liner Odessa (above) was made an exception when American authorities allowed it to dock in New Orleans after US President Ronald Reagan banned Soviet ships from entering US ports because of Russian involvement in Poland's martial law. The Odessa, which was
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    • 130 3 Reagan may announce a revamp say officials PALM SPRINGS (California), Sun. United States administration officials said yesterday President Ronald Pcagan is expected to announce a major overhaul of the White House foreign policy machine next week. The officials said Mr Reagan has decided to remove Mr Richard Allen as his
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    • 80 3 Seven die in six plane crashes DENVER (Colorado), Sun. Blizzards and storms in the Rockies have left seven people dead in the crashes of six light airplanes in the -past week. Colorado aviation authorities blame the inexperience of some pilots for the string of accidents and have stressed the danger
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    • 415 3 VIENNA, Sunday POLAND'S martial law authorities today disclosed more details of the country's economic austerity programme and announced a big devaluation of the country's currency. But the government also said that martial law did not mean any restrictions on the private sector of the
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    • 198 3 Anti-Soviet sanctions a flop says Pravda MOSCOW, Sun. The Kremlin yesterday called President Ronald Reagan's sanctions against the Soviet Union and Poland an "obvious flop" and said Washington was now trying to blackmail European nations into taking an anti-Soviet stance by threatening to break off arms talks. "The US Administration
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    • 31 3 DACCA, Sun. Ten people have died in a cold wave that swept the northern Bangladesh district of Rangpur over the past three weeks, lo.al newspapers reported today. Reuter.
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    • 408 3 Communist party lashes out at young Poles WARSAW, Sun. POLAND'S communist party lashed out at the country's young people yesterday, saying the Solidarity-affiliated students union has tried to stage "various actions" on campuses to break martial law. Another attack on the young said many of them were among 200,000 "social
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    • 256 3 Schmidt: West's problems more pressing NEW YORK, Sun. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an interview published today, expressed greater concern over the West's economic problems than the crisis in Poland. Mr Schmidt warned in an interview in The New York Times that the current world recession, "if we're not
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    • 247 3 HAMILTON (Ontario), Sun. Brendan Foley entered the New Year a poorer bat wiser man. He learned wealth, like fame, can be a fleeting thing. 'The 31 -year-old unemployed crane operator was overjoyed when he checked the lottery numbers in a Toronto
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    • 428 4 FAHD'S PEACE PLAN CONDITIONS SEEN AS 'MUST' NEW YORK, Sun. SAUDI Arabia is prepared to recognise Israel if it returns occupied Arab lands and recognises Palestinian rights, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said in an interview published here today. Prince Saud said in
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      • 77 4 THE LEANING Tower of Pisa stood nearly still in 1981, recording its smallest increase in tilt in 15 years, scientists reported in Pisa yesterday. Scientists who watch the movements of the tower said the increase in its famous lean last year was hist 0.73
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      • 68 4 VAN HELMS may owe his life to a US99-cent (Ss2) disposable lighter that deflected a 38-cahbre bullet fired at his chest. Mr Helms, 30, escaped with only a bruise when he was shot following an argument in Cincinnati last Monday night, thanks to the plastic
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      • 72 4 A TOTAL lunar eclipse will occur on Jan 10 and will be visible over Bangladesh and its surroundings areas. Officials at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said the moon will be totally obscured for one hour and IB minutes from 1.17 a.m. to 2.35 a.m. local
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      • 83 4 THE LAWS formulated in the Wisconsin State Assembly Democratic Party caucus room are legal but the room may not be. Mr Ergun Somersan, of the State Department of Industry, Labour and Human Relations, said this week the caucus room apparently violates building codes. The room has
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    • 158 4 TEHERAN, Sun. Lest they be aeeased of lacking revolutionary seal, nine major Teheran cinema* have dropped their Western-In-spired names for titles more In keeptag with the Islamic revival. The Beyal Theatre has been rebaptised "Revolution" while residents who ased to spend Saturday night
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    • 390 4 CAIRO, Sun. Prime Minister-designate Fuad Mohieddin today submits a new Cabinet list to President Hosni Mubarak, who has dismissed the government he inherited from assassinated President Anwar Sadat. Dr Mohieddin, 56, who was First Deputy Prime Minister, will announce the new line-up tomorrow.
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    • 24 4 BOGOTA, Sun. Fourteen people died and scores of others were reported missing in flooding In south-west Colombia, local authorities amid. Reuter.
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    • 104 4 BEIRI T, Saa. Sevea people were killed last alght at Tripoli la aofthtiia Lebanon la rlsnhrn betweea rival clans, newsmen there reported. In addition, unidentified individual* oa the coast fired roeketo at aa oil tanker preparing to take ea fuel at the
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    • 306 4 Ghana's President dismissed by new ruler ABIDJAN, Sun GHANA'S new military ruler, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, has dismissed the country's President, dissolved Parliament, scrapped the Constitution and proscribed the six legal political parties. Announcing this in a broadcast last night, following the New Year's eve coup in which he took
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    • 27 4 MEXICO CITY. Sun. Eighty-nine earth tremors were detected here from 9.30 p.m. on Friday until 11.30 a.m. yesterday. No damage or injuries were reported. AFP.
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    • 517 5 DEBATE OVER MAO A THREAT TO PARTY BEIJING, Sunday CHINA has indicated that m ijor efforts are still being made by the communist party to broaden the consensus needed to move ahead with reforms and modernisation. The China Daily, the English-language sister paper
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 76 5 A SECTION of a pipeline carrying Iraqi crude oil to Lebanon blew up yesterday, halting pumping to the northern terminal and refining installations at Tripoli, the state-run Beirut radio said. It gave no cause for the explosion near Tel Abbas South, 28 km north of Tripoli, but said
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      • 69 5 VIETNAMESE FORCES swept through a Khmer Rouge base area in northern Cambodia near the Thai border in mid-December, inflicting heavy casualties on guerillas of the ousted regime, the Nation Review reported in Bangkok yesterday. Quoting "reliable sources," the newspaper said a fierce battle raged for several days
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      • 77 5 IRAN SAID yesterday its forces had crossed the border into Iraq In the northern sector of the Gulf war front and had killed or wounded 700 Iraqis in a fierce battle. Teheran radio, monitored in London, said the battle began on Saturday in the Toileh and Biareh
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      • 78 5 A BOMB exploded last night off Fleet Street where many of Britain's newspapers are printed. Police believe it was detonated by Welsh nationalists who earlier set two other bombs one of them in Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon. No onf was hurt in London or Birmingham where the other
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      • 63 5 A HELICOPTER carrying out oil exploration work for a foreign firm in an isolated part of Pakistan was shot down last week, authoritative sources said in Islamabad yesterday. The pilot was the only person aboard and escaped unhurt. It was shot down on Dec 30, near the
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      • 79 5 SOME MM troops of the People's Liberation Army were used recently to curb clan warfare in China's southern Hainan island, radio reports said in Beijing yesterday. Radio broadcasts from Hainan in recent months have revealed that clans on the islands have set up roadblocks, built towers and
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    • 125 5 OPPOSITION TO SHANXI SHAKEUP SAYS RADIO BEIJING, Sun. China is carrying out a shakeup of the leadership in Shanxi province, but some officials are resisting re-assignment, radio reports said today. A broadcast from the provincial capital of Taiyuan, a translation of which became available today, indicated that local authorities loyal
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    • 35 5 BANGKOK, Sun. Hanoi and Vientiane have signed an agreement for the transportation of petroleum goods to landlocked Laos via Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said in a report monitored here today. AFP.
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    • 153 5 The answer to India's people 'explosion' NEW DELHI, Sun. How will a country cope with the addition of one million children a month? That is the problem facing India today, according to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and she feels only science could find a solution. Inaugurating the Indian Science Congress
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    • 331 5 MAIftLA, Sob. A Filipino sportsman, alleged to have recently married a daughter of President Marcos secretly, was still being sought today following his mystery disappearance. Tomas "Tommy" Manotoc, a 52-year-old basketball coach and amateur golfer, was last seen dining with Imee Marcos, a, In Manila
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    • 109 5 SOLDIERS TOOK PART IN ROBBERY: REPORT JAKARTA, Sun. Army troops were involved in a USJSO.OOO (S$102,000) armed robbery in Jakarta last week, the semi-offi-cial Antara news agency said today. The agency quoted national security chief Admiral Sudomo as saying all the robbers had been tracked down and arrested by police.
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    • 288 5 Chun drops PM and other ministers in reshuffle SEOUL, Sun SOUTH Korean President Chun Doo Hwan carried out a major cabinet shakeup today and replaced his prime minister and cabinet members in charge of economic affairs. Appointed new Prime Minister was Mr Yoo Chang-Soon, 64, a former Deputy Premier and
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  • 166 6 THE Housing Board has rejected applications by residents in Block 27, Upper Changi Road, who want a 30 per cent discount on their flats. The board is selling three-room flats at $24,000 and corner units at $26,000. There are 214
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  • 34 6 FORMER history professor at the Nanyang University, Mr Ho Shin Chun, will hold a three-day exhibition of his collection of porcelain, painting and calligraphy at victoria Memorial Hall from Friday to Sunday.
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  • 347 6 STUDENTS from the Chinese stream were encouraged to come forward and communicate directly i with the university on any problem they face, be it related to their studies or otherwise. A story in a publication of the National University of Singapore, Campus
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  • 146 6 Queueing to pay up at City Hall DESPITE the fact that the public can pay their bills under the MultiRevenue Collection System (MRCS) at 18 centres, the queue at the City Hall centre last Saturday was very long, probably due to the holidays. Under the MRCS, the public can pay
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  • 391 6  -  NGIAM TONG HAI By THE Primary Industries Enterprise has revised its quota system of slaughtering pigs, sent by butchers to its abattoirs, to thwart any attempts at bribery. A spokesman, for the National Development Ministry-owned PIE, told The Straits Times the recent
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  • 151 6 NEW STAMP ISSUES COLLECTORS CAN LOOK OUT FOR STAMP collectors can look forward to getting new issues of stamps shortly. Postmaster-General Wong Lee Hoong said a stamp showing various types of butterflies will be out next month. This will be followed by an issue commemorating the World Cup soccer tournament.
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  • 91 6 30-lecture course on manpower A 30-LECTURE course on Manpower and Industrial Relations in Transport will begin on Tuesday. It will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. at Dexion Hut 4, Bukit Timah Centre. Fee for the course, organised by the Department of Extra Mural Studies
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  • 53 6 Jeya's second New Year party THE MP for Anson, Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam, held a New Year party for his constituents at Blair Plain yesterday. Scores of children turned up with their parents for ice cream, snacks and games. The Workers' Party MP organised a similar function at Jalan Bukit
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  • 71 6 THE Department of Extra Mural Studies of the National University of Singapore will hold a 14-lecture course on Fundamentals of Business Finance. It will begin on Thursday and will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 6.30 to 8.00 p.m. in Rm 37C Waterloo Centre. The course,
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  • 429 6  - DCA training centre now one of best in Asia-Pacific K. S. SIDHU By THE Department of Civil Aviation Training Centre is recognised today as one of the best in the Asia-Pacific region. But back in 1958 when it has set up, it was a modest unit for training local' air
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  • 103 6 Girl, 18, found strangled near home By IDAH LATIFF AN 18-YEAR-OLD seamstress, missing after a New Year's eve outing, was found strangled on Saturday 75 metres from her house In Tampines. Ng Kirn Moey (above) was found sprawled (ace downwards behind some bashes by her two younger brothers who had
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  • 108 6 Combined band concert THE Big Band sound of brass will come to the Singapore Conference Hall this Saturday, when a number of brass bands combine for the first major concert of its kind this year. Called Symphonic Sounds X, the concert will feature the National Theatre Symphonic Band, and the
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  • 27 6 THE Brickworks community centre management committee will hold a talk-cum-demonstration on Emergency Aid at its premises in Lengkok Bahru on Friday at 8 p.m.
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  • 98 6 WHEN a man threatened to strangle secretary Miss S C. Tan, 23, if she did not give him money, she fainted. Miss Tan was finishing her day's work around 2 p.m. at her office. South Pacific Lines at Robina House on Saturday when
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  • 248 7 Ch'ng is 'waiting to be briefed by P M' THE newly appointed Senior Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr Ch'ng Jit Koon, said yesterday that he was waiting to be briefed by Mr Lee Kuan Yew on his duties. Only then will he be able to say what he
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  • 435 7 More 'serious' Indian music despite airing of grouses CLASSICAL music is hardly the stuff to wake up to and have breakfast with, say some listeners who tune in to the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's (SBC) Indian radio pro- grammes. They would like to start the day right with a bright, peppy
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  • 117 7 Robbers hold up manager and flee with $17,000 TWO armed robbers held up the manager of Rajah Niteclub in MacPherson Road in the early hours of Saturday morning and got away with $17,000 cash. The manager, Mr T.H. Lim, 34, was alone in his office checking accounts at 3.20 a.m.
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  • 86 7 SINGAPORE cltltens by descent or by registration, who fall to Uke the oath of renunciation, allegiance and loyalty, within a year after their 21st birth, day, will lose their rltilenahlp. In a press statement, the Home Affairs Ministry said Singapore cJtl- tens who are oversww may
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  • 429 7  -  GRACE CHNG MOVE TO HELP SCHOOLCHILDREN By A DETAILED and systematic plan to help Malays and Muslims improve their educational levels has been worked out by the Council on Education of Muslim Children (Mendaki). It may be financed by imposing a property
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  • 204 7 Taiwan, S'pore accord on genetic knowhow SINGAPORE has signed a deal with Taiwan which could give our genetic engineering industry an important tonic within the next decade. Genetic engineering or biotechnology is the commercially successful technique by which material from one organism is grown in another. An understanding has been
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  • 79 7 Step-ping up to 3 more centres THE Singapore Teachers' Union will extend its Step (Special tutorial enrichment programme) to three more centres this year. They are Bedok North Primary, Woodlands Primary and Da Qiao School. Step is for primary pupils preparing for two important examinations the Primary School Leaving Examination
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  • 39 7 LABOUR and Communications Minister Ong Teng Cheong will open a road safety exhibition organised by Kirn Keat Zone C Residents' Committee and the Traffic Police at Block 231. Lorong 8, Toa Payoh on Sunday at 10 a.m.
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  • 33 7 Computer course A NEW computer training course will be held every Wednesday beginning January 13, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the PAP Toa Pay oh Education Centre. For more details, telephone *****00.
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  • 190 8 CANTONESE CLAN TAKES LEAD IN PROMOTION OF ARTS CHINESE clan associations, better known for their education, mutual aid, charity and recreational programmes, are now diversifying into the promotion of arts. A Cantonese clan, the Char Yong Association, has taken the lead in this direction and will hold a three-day art
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  • 186 8 A DONATION draw is among some of the fundraising projects planned for the year to raise money for a new home for animals. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals needs to raise $500,000 for the new home because the present one at
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  • 308 8 PC missing after rescue bid at sea POLICE constable Baharudin Mohd Shariff, 19, is missing after he tried to save four colleagues when their sampan capsized in pitch darkness off Coney island on Saturday. His four friends clung to an oil drum and were saved later. Frogmen and marine police
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  • 348 8  -  GOH LEE KHUAN By BEING cute like orang utan Ah Meng means getting a bath every day and being fussed over during public appearances at the zoo. But, cute as she may be, Ah Meng is not adopted like many other animals in
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  • 184 8 Residents of Kimsia Court find dust everywhere AN angry storm is brewing in Jalan Jintan blown up by dust. About 400 flats in Kimsia Court, along the road lust behind Lucky Plaza, have been swamped by clouds of powdery white dust everyday since demolition work started at a nearby block
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  • 35 8 Computer course THE Ulu Pandan community centre will hold a computer course at its centre in Ghim Moh Road from next Monday. < The course is limited to 36 I participants and will cost $70. i
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    • 262 8 SPECIAL Direct from the U.S. itself, NOW! LOCTITE. PERMATEX, OURO. products ore specially airfreighted in for your requirements at very competitive prices. Coldroom facility at Chrislane Warehouse, is specially designed to stock chemical specialty items at 5°C where aging process is minimised. Our Technical Consultants do not recommend total feezing,
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    • 68 8 I h^l Worm and Btvel/ Helical Gear Units '> Ritespeed ,>^^^ Ge*r Units and Geared Motor Units Shaft Mounted Hehcal Gear Units > Distributor. United Engineers Group Kuala Lumpur Tel *****3 Singapore AUTHORS WANTED BY N.Y. PUBLISHER Leading book publisher seeks manuscripts of all types: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, technical, scholarly
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  • 150 9 Residents of two homes get into swing of things STEPPING forward with the rhythm, and belting ont her song, Singapore artiste Lara Tan takes the lead In entertaining residents of the Cheshire Home and the Singapore Red Cross Children's Home. It was certainly one New Year's party they would never
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  • 94 9 Course on handicapped children PARENTS of disabled children and other interested individuals will soon be able to attend a course on The Handicapped Child. The lecturer, Dr Freda Paul, will cover such topics as causes, diagnosis, management, prevention and longterm care of the disabled child. This 6-week course is organised
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  • 307 9 MOVE WILL BENEFIT REPUBLIC IN LONG RUN, SAY 3 LAWYERS THE move by the Singapore Law Society to open the door to foreign lawyers will benefit Singapore in the long run, three lawyers said yesterday. They were responding to the latest move by the council of
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  • 84 9 More SIA festive flights to Malaysia SINGAPOREANS and Malaysians now have little to worry about flying home to their loved ones to celebrate Chinese New Year. Singapore Airlines will be operating extra services Detween Singapore and Malaysia during the festive season. These services will be on for five days beginning
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  • 45 9 MR SIA KHOON SEONG, MP for Moulmein, will officiate at the first balloting ceremony for sale of flats this year today at 2.45 p.m. Ninety-six five-room flats in Kampong Java estate will be balloted at the car park behind^ 810ck52, Kent Road.
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  • 120 9 THE bos heading towards Merdeka Bridge ha* passed the barrier, bat the trio are safe and sound. The entire drama was ■•thing more than a trick of perspective. The young men, apparently being carried on the bos, were In fact climbing down a platform
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  • 67 9 6-day Sisir course THE Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) will organise a six-day course on injection moulding techniques ana faultfinding Tor moulding technicians, production supervisors and engineers from February 15 to 20 at its lecture theatre. The course, costing $900 a participant, will be led by Mr
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  • 145 9 Iron-works owners to set up association TWO HUNDRED owners of iron-works factories are forming an association to have a stronger voice in mutual interest matters. The pro-tern committee chairman, Mr Chin Fook Siang, managing director of Crafts Engineering Pte Ltd, said they also hope to get rid of unhealthy competition
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  • 112 9 THE National Computer Board has been appointed purchasing agent of computer hardware and software for all government ministries and departments. The board will work closely with ministry officials to draw up the technical specifications for the required computer systems to match the needs of
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  • 273 9  - First of new-style fire stations at Changi GERALD PEREIRA By FIRE! The kampung or farm bucket brigade goes into action. Now more modern help is on the way. The first in a series of new fire stations to serve the outlying areas of Singapore will be opened today. The $1.5
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  • 54 9 LOCAL artist Ching Hing King will give watercolour painting demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. respectively at the National Museum Art Gallery. During his demonstration, he will describe in watercolour one of the scenes from his travels to the Middle
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 42 9 W Lj 1 r~H~F Tit 1 I H' I jT I T *l Victoria Memorial Hall Uam -9pm An exposition and sale of new lines of quality classical furniture of American and European desiyns, at rock-bottom prices. -ma* W^~ SVMt y* _-/*v
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    • 360 9 A beautiful home in a beautiful locality luxurious maisonettes on Balmoral Crescent near Orchard Road Balmoral View is in the serene and lush green surroundings of Balmoral Crescent, just a shot distance away from the bustling city. It is in the heart of town, just stone's throw from Orchard Road's
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 414 10 'No more one-man shows' pledge KOTA KINABALU, Sun UNITED Sabah National Organisation president, Tun Datu Haji Mustapha, breaking a long spell of political silence, announced recently that he will revamp Usno in a move to revive the party. Tun Mustapha, in
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    • 272 10 GUERILLAS BELIEVED HURT IN PERAK CLASHES IPOH, Sun SEVERAL communist terrorists are believed to have been wounded in a series- of clashes with security forces in Perak jungles early this week. Second Brigade commander, Brigadier-Gener-al Mustaffa Awang. said four clashes occurred on Dec 28 and 29 near the Orang Asli
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    • 58 10 PENANG. Sun. Fifty-two workers of a hotel here have been sacked, it was reported here yesterday. The National Union of Hotel, Bar and Restaurant Workers, Mr M. Doss, alleged that the hotel's action was a form of reprisal against the workers. The union recently won a case
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    • 53 10 PENANG, Sun. Penang DAP Chairman Mr Karpal Singh claimed on Friday that he nad received a :etter from a group calling itself the "Sungai Golok Peace Brigade" which threatened to "punish" him if he created any disturbance in the country. Mr Karpal Singh has reported the matter to
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    • 251 10 30 ex-village chiefs file suit against state govt KOTA BARU, Sunday THIRTY former penghulus (village chiefs) who were sacked in 1978 are suing Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Haji Mohamad Yaakob, the state secretary and the state government for wrongful dismissal. Their counsel, Datuk Wan Mustapha Haji Ali, yesterday filed a
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    • 54 10 PENANG, Sun. A bus company here was besieged by stone-throwing vandals several times last week. Drivers and conductors who feared for their safety, refused to take the vehicles out after vandals smashed the windscreens of three buses. Police are investigating the case. Motive for the vandalism is
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    • 184 10 Mahathir on why repairs are done at S'pore shipyards XI ALA LUMPUR, Sun. Malaysia* Prime Minister Datuk Serl Dr Mahathir Mohamad bu confirmed that Malaysian ships are being sent to shipyards In Singapore for repairs although the government Is giving priority to Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering (MSE) at Paslr Gudang,
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    • 150 10 KUANTAN, Sun. Two hundred and thirty-five tractors worth $fi million had been left Idle at the agricultural centres In Taaah Putlh and Bukit Goh near here for the past six years, the Auditor-General, Tan Sri Ahmad Nordln HaJI Zakaria, said in his IVIB report on Pa-
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    • 281 10 Guards who may not know how to use their guns KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Some security guards escorting payrolls may not know how to use the firearms they are carrying. What's worse, said the Malay Mail, the guards might not have the licence to carry them. The report added that if
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    • 274 10 Motor firms stage protest in Ipoh IPOH, Sun. About 200 representatives of motor firms in Perak assembled at the Road Transport Department here yesterday morning to protest against the "unnecessary hardships and difficulties" created by the department. It was called off when the Perak Motor and Fi- nance Association re-
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 566 10 *> We wish to announce the official closing of the 'China Machinery and Equipment Display 1 However Exhibits remain on display during the office hours All Are Welcome S£HJRJa4HtiifiPi£Hi I EAST MACHINERY PTE LTD I EAST ELECTRIC PTE LTD East Building 2 Kung Chong Rood (off Leng Kee Road) Alexandra
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 546 11 Continuous video entertainment and service surpassing anything offered by ouraxrpetitors. When you purchase a National ascertain that it can be repaired not lost. Because we'll loan you a NV-7200EN or the new NY- on-the-spot, we'll do just that for set for the period of repair. So 2 years' peace of
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  • 470 12 The Straits Times says Law with the human touch THERE are probably some raised eye-brows over the latest police move in enlisting the help of such organisations as the Association for Mental Health, the Counselling and Care Centre and the Samaritans of Singapore to train their personnel. These organisations are
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  • 803 12  -  JOHN DORNBERG By in Munich Writing for the International Herald Tribune CAN West Germany's Social Democrats ever again find happiness, not to mention the votes needed to win the year's series of state elections or the national one in 1984? The major governing party is
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  • 1471 12  -  JAIME FLORCRUZ Now flexible adoption of different production systems By Writing for the Asian Wall Street Journal There are two things that will re- main unchanged the public ownership of land, mountains and rivers and the system of prodnc- tion responsibility. 7 Chairman Hu Yaobang,
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  • Across the Causeway
    • 300 12 FROM tomorrow, a girl with the stated dimensions of 90-60-90 will not be one afflicted with an unfortunate weight problem. Just a girl dutifully and lawfully using a tapemeasure marked out in centimetres. The new measures will not alter her proportions one millimetre.
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    • 325 12 NEARLY a thousand drug addicts have been nabbed by the police in the cur- rent nationwide antidadah sweep. Substantial quantities of drugs have been confiscated. The commendable feat is, however, in danger of turning into an administrative nightmare. Remand centres are bursting
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 8 12 RADO FLORENCE New horizons in time I o,
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    • 144 12 f/m <^k j^JiL. X^^^M M Ir A cool offer from Champion Motors With every Suzuki 800 sold from now till Jan. 24. 1982 with features you'd expect to find only on much larger, more Champion Motors will install absolutely free, a Suzuki expensive cars. Even the price tag is a
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  • FORUM
    • 386 13 Ministry explains building rules WE refer to the letter "Give us a clear picture of building rules" by "Curious" concerning the rules relating to the construction of buildings (ST, Dec 1). We wish to inform your writer that the current guidelines on boundary
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    • 465 13 Y' we concentrate on community work I REFER to the letter "Keeping flag days for the by Scorpio (ST, Decis). He wanted to know how the Metropolitan YMCA qualifies to nave flag days to obtain funds and claimed that it is a "rich organisation" and "conducts nurses for which it
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    • 116 13 Yuks to that hymn-and-dance act MY foreign friends and my family enjoyed watching the SBC Christmas Eve show until the part where the male singer started to sing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" when female dancers in slinky off-shoulder costumes started to move in waving their hands and swaying their
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    • 149 13 I WISH to answer to the SBC reply (ST, Dec 30) to "Interrupted's" letter (ST, Nov 30). I think the SBC missed the whole point which "Interrupted" was driving at about the abrupt insertion of advertisements during programmes. Television stations around
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    • 291 13 I SOMETIMES wonder whether my countrymen expect a little too much of our men in blue. I read recently that some policemen were penalised for not responding to a call promptly, arriving at the scene of call fifteen minutes late. Making scapegoats
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    • Replies
      • 264 13 Ministry clears am over student who left school Student smM^Y was forcV v^\o leave schci head denied Sunday Times, Dec IS and ST, Dec U PLEASE refer to the article "Student says he was forced to leave school but head denies it" and "Pre-U student quizzed over 'forced to leave'
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      • 101 13 I REFER to the letter by "Reader" (ST, Dec 29) complaining about an ROY officer not stopping to remove a box lying in the middle of the road. The ROY expects its officers not only to enforce traffic rules but to be exemplary riders on
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      • 95 13 I REFER to the letter "Way to put off tourists" by "Concerned" (ST, Dec 19). We do not condone the conduct of the police officers who, as maintained by "Concerned," persuaded a tourist to submit to the demand of a trishaw rider. We
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  • BACKGROUND
    • 1741 14 THE events at Sverdlovsk have all the elements of an international spy novel What really happened two years ago inside Compound 19, deep in the Soviet Union's Ural Mountains? What caused the epidemic of deadly anthrax? Was it an unfortunate but internationally insignificant case
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  • TIMES BUSINESS
    • NEWS BRIEFS
      • 81 15 AIR freight business in Singapore has been badly hit by the world recession. An upturn is not expected in the first half of this year. Airlines and freight forwarders are only hopeful of a very slight recovery in the latter half of the year. Last year was
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      • 79 15 ANOTHER 14 financial institutions have signed up as members of the three-month-old Leasing Association of Singapore (LAS). This brings the total member strength of the association to 24, inclusive of the 10 founding members headed by Hong Leong Finance and Orient Leasing (Singapore). Though it has adopted a
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      • 90 15 THE Singapore Manufacturers' Association (SMA) is sending a trade and study mission to the Pacific islands in mid-April this year. Places to be visited by the mission include Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and New Caledonia. For the first half of 1981, exports to Papua New
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    • International
      • 56 15 HONGKONG, Sun. The local Trade Development Council is greatly expanding and diversifying its overseas activities this year. Over the next 15 months, the council is planning to open three new offices in America to augment the 25 operating in Hongkong's major markets. It will also step up
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      • 57 15 TOKYO, Sun. Japanese commercial banks will start selling and buying gold over the counter from next April, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. The paper said some major commercial banks, including Sumitomo and Sanwa, and Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp, have already obtained the tentative approval of the authorities
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      • 63 15 MANILA, Sun. The Philippine Government will continue its policy of banning log exports totally after April this year to encourage the country's logging industry to go into the export of processed and semi-processed wood products. President Ferdinand Marcos reiterated this policy in a talk with newsmen. He
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      • 96 15 TOKYO, Sun. Five major Japanese exchange banks have forecast that the Japanese yen will tend to appreciate generally in the first half of the new year against a background of sagging US interest rates, reaching 200-210 yen against the US dollar at peak time, according to Nihon
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      • 85 15 BEIJING, Sun. The People's Daily, China's leading newspaper, told critics of China's new higher interest rates for business loans the new rates would force enterprises to tighten management and avoid waste. The paper also published a full list of the new rates, which include an increase in
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      • 51 15 E.EIJING, Sun. Beijing gained 2,509 new private businesses in 1981, the Peking Daily reported. Another 1,800 businesses were set up by collectives-groups of people pooling their resources as the Chinese capital added a total of 4,600 new retail and service shops for the year, the paper said.
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    • 459 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The bold move made by the government to manufacture motor cycle engines locally by 1984 has touched off a spate of criticism, some of it obliquely in the form of questions. Critics point out that there is uncertainty about the
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    • 682 15 DESPITE 25m JOBLESS IN OECD By CHAN 01 CHEE DESPITE bleak predictions of higher unemployment in the industrialised world, joblessness remains remote in the minds of Singapore economists and workers. A senior economist with the National University of Singapore said the Republic is unlikely to face
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    • 363 15 THE New Year saw bank loan rates slip further when Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) cut its prime rate on Jan 2 and two other local banks announced they would follow suit. DBS, one of the four largest local banks, reduced its prime
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    • 465 15 BANGKOK, Sun. Thailand looks forward to brighter times for the industrial sector in the Year of the Dog as world economies are expected to emerge from tight money situations. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), in a year-end review published here today,
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  • Market Chat
    • 573 15 SINGAPORE shares in general are much higher priced than their counterparts in the world's leading stock markets. According to a report in US magazine Institutional Investor, based on figures from Capital International Perspective of Geneva, the Republic ranked thiid highest in its price earnings ratio (PE) among
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    • 88 15 (C««pM by MMM kimtar on pnco prttdhf on Oct 31. 1M1) r»h« TtaM 1) Ntthtftmts 2) Nvway 3) Frwct 4) CmikU 5< Brian US 7) Sm*n 5) Dtnturt 9, Rfanmi 10) Austrati 11) Mffcai .2) SsMzatand .3) Honf Konf 14) Sp«i M tap* i6 r«s*raK 17) *«tnj
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    • 92 15 THE fallowing U a list of the 1* moat actively traded stocks on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last week. It gives the turnover In thousands «f nnits, closing prh< -> on Friday and the high and low for 1981 ■m DeeM mi 101 MC rating! Leong
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    • 73 15 LOCAL STOCK INDICES SINGAPORE •BT Indicator: '•IndustrUli: 'Finance: 'Hotels: '•Properties: pfePteaUtton :v«l« *SESInd: *****0 m.« *****2 1227 67 779 31 329 96 836 63 750.85 877 32 *****0 7717* *****7 12X69 777.08 329 75 938 39 749 31 C72.M *****0 778.80 1773.33 1228.39 784 11 329 77 930 94 *****
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    • 75 15 "BT Index: *****2 •InduitrUli 937 18 •Finance: 1630 92 •Hotels 637 06 ••Propertie*: 9SB II MiTlnt 375 0* HitlßiiUim 12».«7 «MS7B ***** IM3K US S3 970 59 370 45 urn J0743S *****4 ***** ***** *****1 1666 83 636 83 636 71 ***** ***** ***** 368.90 *****2 *****1 Ctawd Closed
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    • 2440 16 WEEKLY detailed analysis of shares on the Stock Exchange of Singapore, with the year's high and low, followed by the weeks movement in prices, the dividend, the net price earnings ratio and I the volume of business. Turnover figure* in this table are unofficial. Adkuted for scrip
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    • 457 16 DOMESTIC GENERALLY the US/ Sing dollar market moved lethargically between the $2.0440 and $2.0510 band in the Singapore forex market last week. Except for some strong commercial support during midweek, the exchange activity was thin and featureless. While the other major currencies remained basically unchanged against the
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    • 60 16 THE AVERAGE discount rate on 91-day Treasury Bills finned at the latest tender to 2.610 per cent from 2.375 per cent previously, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), said. Applications totalled $243 million for the $150 million of bills on offer. About 75 per cent of bids
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    • 172 16 ASIAN eamacy average depart ratea far the week eaaXDeett: 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 8 months 9 months 12 months 1 month 3 months (months 12 months 1 month 3 months 6 months 12 months 1 month 3 months 6 months 12 months 1
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    • 43 16 FOR THE ween ended Saturday Jan 2, the range of call rates received from Short Deposits (M) Bhd was as follows: teak twmi: 3 to 5 per cent. Geaeral taad: 4.70 to 5.125 per cent. Mtvemeata of funds totalled $1,062 million.
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    • 398 16 BANK'S prime lending rates as at the close of business on Thursday. Dec 31, 1981. BANK'S M'l.R Algemene Bank 12 American Express 13 Am'dam R'terdam Bank 12 Asia Commercial 12 A NZ Banking Group 12 Ban Hin Lee Bank 12 Banca Commerciale 12 Banco Do Brasi]
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    • 520 17 THKRF: was no year-end flourish at the Stack Exchange of Singapore last week. All the steam that could be gathered after the market crash In late Jane, It seemed, was expended during the scintillating November rally. Bu< share prices during the week did make seme gains. Movements were
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    • 659 17 THE Kuala Lumpur stock market managed only a modest year-end rally last week and it appeared that investors were still in holiday mood. Although the week saw its fair share of speculative activity, conditions were relatively less buoyant and it was felt that institutions were more interested in
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    • 62 17 (a) Adjusted (or scrip issue (b) First and Final I Interim TE Tax-exempted Lanjot Vr,\ and N 7%I L Cre«t 12%(b) •aatmde* 5%I MStMUl 5%I IHedCkM 7% Land 5%<b) Jan7 Jan 9 Jan n Jan 14 Jan 15 Jan 18 Jan 18 tkeyntr 6.7 r T, 12% 5%
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    • 646 17 LONDON: Share prices ended the short week between the Christmas and New Year holidays firmer on a broad front. The FT index ended last week up 12.3 at 536.4 points. Trading was thin throughout and small buying demand led to sustained rises among equities, despite the worsening UK
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    • COMMODITIES ROUNDUP
      • 341 17 ACTIVITY at the Singapore lethargic last week because tr holiday mood. A coffee dealer said demand for the commodity has been very dull and, jokingly said he is hoping for some disaster to stir up the buyers. For the coconut oil and copra market, the situation
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      • 42 17 D»c2B D*C29 DKW Dk3l JiNI Jan 2 •Tin 34.55 34.60 34.58 34 68 Tonne* 261 156 265 300 Rubber (S) 177.00 177.00 179.00 178.50 Rubber (M) 197.00 198.00 201.50 201.00 •in M$ per kilo In cents per kilo
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      • 54 17 HONGKONG: The international gold price ended the shortened Saturday session steady at US$4OO 401 an ounce against New York's $399 400 close on Thursday, dealers said. S.i Frl Hongkong «0008 closed *****6 closed Singapore* 1) closed closed closed closed Export prices in non-sterling areas in IS dollar per ounce.
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      • 185 17 QUIET and thin conditions predominated during the seven trading days interrupted by the Chrisitmas holiday overseas, says Holiday, Cutler, Bath and Company in its weekly report of the Singapore and Malaysian rubber markets last week. Current RSS One fluctuated just below the 180 Singapore cents
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 137 15 Factories Like Pilkington S.E.A. Pte Ltd Are Spending Less On Overheads These Days Because NESTAINER- Portable Storage Rack System Allows k j I ■WH m MB 1 bd bd U fcdbrfcrM Maximum use of air and floor space Maximum product protection Full visual control Reconvert when not in use V
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 747 16 I Singapore Tourist I I Promotion Board I invites applications from suitable candidates for the posts of: (A) REGIONAL DIRECTOR (Eastern USA) based in New York (B) REGIONAL DIRECTOR (Germany) based in Frankfurt The successful candidates are expected to operate independently with a small staff strength. They must be able
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    • 716 16 Leading International Publishing Company seeks a SECRETARY To provide "in office" support to the sales team and to execute all other tasks required by the. fob, including those of a general clerical nature. Applicants should possess a secretarial diploma and be experienced in general secretarial duties. Personal attributes required are
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 586 17 A newly established company invites applications for the following vacancies:I) FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT The successful candidate should be aged below thirty and have a recognized qualification in accountancy, preferably University graduates, with a minimum of 1-2 years experience; Initiative, maturity of judgement and good interpersonal skills for interfacing with staff of
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    • 538 17 w m INTERNATIONAL PAINT the world's most extensive point orgonisation ond major supplier of marine, protective and can coatings is expanding its operations in Singapore and requires competent candidates to fill the following positions: A. TECHNICAL SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Requirements: GCE 'O' level, preferably with Science background. a Singapore citizens, preferably
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    • 584 17 I_^l B^ H I I 818 Q^P^g, THE BANKRIPTCV ACT (CHAPTER 18) IN THE HIGH COI'RT OK THE KKPIHI.II OK SINGAPORE IN BANKRUPTCY NO. M OK mi Re UN HO HOCK Ex parte OVK.RSK.AN I NION BANK LIMITED NOTICE OF ADVERTISEMENT In the Matter of a Bankruptcy Petition filed the
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    • 708 17 IN THE MATTKR OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 184 AND OOLDEN MIKADO THEATRIC CABARKT NITE-CLUB PTE. LTD. (la Vriaatary LJaaMaaaa) Sandal Rmlattoaa At an Extraordinary Oene--1 ral Meeting of the members of Golden Mikado Theatre Cabaret Nile-Club Pte Ltd duly convened and held at 4th Floor, Peninsula Shopping Complex, Coleman
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  • TIMES BUSINESS
    • 879 18  -  WONG MAI YUN By LOWER demand for oil products all over the world has led to a glut of refining capacity with many refineries running at a loss. But Singapore refineries say their favourable geographical location has allowed them to continue operating normally
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    • Indonesian Focus
      • 799 18 FOREIGN investment in Indonesia's oil and gas industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last two years and in real terms is now approaching the record levels which prevailed in the middle of the last decade following the first Opec
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      • 362 18 BRITISH firms are playing a leading role in helping to get Indonesia s newly-revived stock market off the ground. British American Tobacco's local subsidiary accounts for over 30 per cent of all the shares currently listed on the market and when the AngloDutch conglomerate
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      • 428 18 DESPONDENCY and recession now hold sway over Indonesia's once mighty timber industry with the important exception of plywood. For many years, this sprawling archipelago, vast tracts of which are still covered by dense jungle, has been the world's top exporter of tropical hardwood
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 1720 18 Biochemie. Austria Gedeon Rithter Chinoin tm^^ Km Hungary Hungary kii cv PDftllP At rnyPftNIFC EGYT. Hungary Sumitomo. Japan Mepha Ltd., KAI FU GROUP COMPMIU Switzerland I A well-organized group of companies with &£?&S£^£^ to' The MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES I following position: We are the exclusive agent tor (he iihove international pharmaceutical
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    • 37 18 CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES ON THE OCCASION OF THE 34TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF BURMA UNITED STEVEDORING LIGHTERAGE CO. PTE.LTD EXPRESS SERVICE ENTERPRISE (1979) PTE. LTD. ICAB PRIVATE LIMITED
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 977 20 fjjli Q Employment 66 Situations Vacant A l^icrhtjuse d) Secretarial tt y Clerical Applications are invited from Singapore citizens for the following vacanBBBBBBbbbVßßßßßbbbbbbbbbbbbbTSl c es #1 t. Ai"fl/M UB C LERaCAL QICuuSIQUt Assi&rSrr (Kxecutive Recruitment where outstanding Services) people work. GCE A levels (com aßaaaßSMasaaSßßßeeVasaaajaSßSaV i merce) with a credit
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    • 869 20 si I EUROPEAN STANDARD THE EAST ASIATIC pte ltd CO. (S) PTE LTD SiRAM^TF^nc 0 V££?t, Ing veeenciee In our Businees We have Immediate vacanSyatems Dhrieton: cles for the posts of:GENERAL CLERK SOURCING/ Age 18 to 25 years PURCHASING 1 c O C.E. O' level certlfl- CLERKS I cate. ws-e-rw.*
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    • 1026 20 ill Q Employment An expanding Shipping Immmamm Company has Immediate *«W^^ vacancies for the follow- ~^mr Ing positions:- f (A)RECEPTIONIST/ mP^fi TCI EBUAUC I^WIUI I J^R^TOR sangaprxe^yo c O.C.E. "O" Level ln- DEPARTMENT STORE eluding English has immediate vacancies lor c Should have a pleas- FEMALE CLERK ant voice, a
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    • 1335 21 114 Q Emptoyment LJLLJI t m Situations Vacant lfmo #ly e^a%aa*aaaaaaaaaaaaaasßlßaßSßß*la*l JUNIOR FEMALE CLERK/ TYPIST CUM TELEPHONE 4) Secretarial switchboaro operator Clerical '•put'O** > m oftic F Pteeeetel: c EatabH^^dfirmmJuronflr^uire. compen, S«:r.l«y (A) OENCRAL CLERK/ TYPIST on: 2M1»44 c A ble to type at 35 wpm frJiy"* 1 SCHOOL LEAVERS
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    • 1174 21 a a aaja^ li^ p Employment lENIOR ACCOUNTS CLERK relulred for temporary asstgnnent (2 months) Please call: ■■inip a.ipa *****4 FEMALE SALES EMALE CLERK/TYPIBT required Ball latskla jr%LUJ r e a^ford r postOfflce PRnMOTFR^ EMALE CLERK/TYPIST. Ability riWIfIVICIW 0 type Those interested please :ontact: *****28 An AmerKon multi national organisation
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    • 1157 21 ill Q Emptoyment several showroom Hi HI Jiff SALESGIRLS lent commission and TECHNICAL SALES I generous annual bonus REPRESENTATIVES tjl r !E& 2 year> 11l c Age above 21 required oy Internallenal HI speak Mandarin and scaKo'ldTnq ."-"dFon'iV I WORK a i 'ljf™Vi_!^ IN Minimum OCE O' level MATERIAL STORAGE
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    • 1377 21 ill AN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LADIES SWIMWEAR. OUTDOOR requires a Trainee Salesman Representatives wanted to pro- preferably with mechanical or mote very well known bra' d electrical background There Is Apply personally 45 Arab Street, i scope for Improvements in the Ist floor company with salary plus com- coaiiCTics mission Interested
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    • 900 21 qpß TRAVEMOL LABORATORIES OCNaTHAI MHI PTELTO W»» «r*» a mnltl nollnnnl Nl»lt»« m*P* and t*fTla>H> atppMcompany specialising In the |WTO w manufacture of medical .M products Our company Is ELECTRICIANS now embarking on an expansion programme NTC In Electrical Fitting Applications are Invited Installation or workfrom enthusiastic young knowledge of
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    • 772 22 (ii Q Employment 66 Situations Vacant •P BB fBVaT H>I ML! t) Technical A leading American I Electro-Plating Company aaßjl BaY rfuuires r 1 AN AMERICAN COMPANY J MAINTENANCETECHNTCIANS IN JURONG, l^^' MANUFACTURING A WIDE a mßUUmmmHtm RANGE OF SPECIALISED -AIR FILTERS FOR EXPORT tD Vocational or NTC Grade 3
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    • 984 22 Vai D Employment DRAUGHTSMAN VIDEO required TECHNICIAN Experience or no experience required Qualifications/ Eiperlence: Please call Mr Loh 9am-spm c NTC Orade 3 certificate In electronic servicing or Tel j,^,,, 1W ITC In electronic engineering. c Minimum Ito 2 years experlence In repair and Required by Engineering Compeny servicing work
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    • 725 22 ijjli Q Employment Olivatti. Europe i o manufacturer of f '_>\r»* A off ica equipment «oS '*^aa»a#B has immediate \**cd^\.^fFSk vacancia* in it» .^c, manufacturing PRODUCTION Jffiidn^S^ OPERATORS WSi^^ Sg^Si At laaat 3 incramanti 9<^^°^o*^^ in tha first yaar i \!il»»^^^ Candidate* with r*« t\ experience in t>**ntf<^*» 2> «.«mblvof
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    • 1027 22 Wai Q tUnptoyment MALAYAN BREWERIES (SI N( j A POX F HHMyiHßpßiUjU||Ajitii^^U PTE I ID Im Earn up to Brvnlt^f't 'M 'M/jMIW 1 $400 r9|E pt-r month iHlil production fcicr?*ttiS*M operators 9GtfSm!Mm (\t3lf) KMMM|MiAaRr4aJMiBBiB>BI ■■IBHb^H Requirements:- S«i(indar> education Age helnw -10 years V Must work on shifts (3 rotating shifts
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    • 1000 23 ijjli Q Employment M SHuations Vacant 1 •**sx DMB t) Nlscel 'aneous J DESIGN MANAGEMENT SERVICES PTE LTO i (Mechanical A Electrical PELMEC ™> -v TOaVIMCB Oraduate from a recognised 1| I nAinCE university, preferably with 2 MACHINE years' experience in building TaYataTa tabb services and familiar with OrcRAIOHo/ the
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    • 966 23 ijjli Q Employment II T II j Urgently required applicants 1 to fill tha following positions: I A) PRODUCTION COORDINATOR jL SJISJ We need an active person having I_S £w)a<asil I a wide knowledge of garments I s^s*s*s»Pa»aß"aa»ass*s*s*s*swl and fabrics to work as a production Co-ordlnator with an or- noivpp
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    • 900 23 HTII Setmic Data Processing Company V ha* vacsneiee for the following COBAMOLD (8) trainee tape librarians PTE LTD a Prepared to work on 3 rotat--1 Ing shifts An International company Must have completed or exanoagad in the manufec empted from fulltlme N.S lura ol high praclsion c Should have OCE
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    • 1426 23 APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED u> j LAROE INTERNATIONAL FOR fill In the following positions for WAMMMQ company has Imtnedi our various projects Mechanl- ate opening for Its town office cal/ Electrical/ Civil Engineers/ I A) Messenger B) Female Office Technicians Electricians/ Pipe Helper Interested applicants Welders/ Pipe Fitters/ Instru- please call
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    • 1012 24 1 1 £3 Vehicles Boats 3-MONTH OLD Newly resprsyed, accident It—: BMW 635 CSI Poor spares availability and service by Agents •nd Manufacturers forces sale. OFFERS TO: TEL: *****11. 72 Vehicles For Hirt "73 Vehicles Accesso- s^mmmaam ries/Maintenance T>« MARTIAN BHBS! mmmmwwmmmm (Em (\!H7Z< c« ta> OWNERS OF CAR Ia
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    • 518 24 d) Flat ALMOST 1980 FIAT Lada, alrcond. sporu rims, high power radio cassette, excellent condition $15,500 0.n.0. Loan $12,000 Call: *****1 ALMOST 1878 FIAT 130 (3235 cc) Automatic One company owner. alrcond. cassette, new tyres Price $14,900 ono. Tel: *****35. BEAUTIFUL 1874 FIAT 132 1600. Company regd Alrcond. cassette, accident
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    • 891 24 1979 MERCEDES BENZ 200 (AUTOMATIC) Complete with concealed alrcondltlon. power steering and radio/ cassette One owner director's second car In showroom condition Original paint with 4 new Dunlop' 185SR lyres. Regularly maintained by agent. Low mileage Highest offer secures. Principals only. Plaaaecali. *****11/ 235M06 MRNG (to 08*700^9 foe Appointments) 1980
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    • 1453 24 IMO SUBARU 1300 DL. Ist owner, ItTS MAZDA PICK-UP. Showroom alrcond, radio, low mileage, new condition, only $4,500 See to aptax, showroom condition predate. View: 90, Serangoon *****82. Oarden Way. IS7S SUZUKI M 0 pickup. 1 owner Excellent condition throughout 1) Others »-2»0 only. Loan $3,500 arrange- able *****80 It
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    • 574 24 _m|| r Accommodation 4 ■■[I r Properties _______B__J _a________i Choice office accommodation at prime locations from $70.00 psm (s6.sopsf) mth to $91 .00 psm (sB.sopsf) mth. BUILDING SM SF The Octagon Fr 120 Fr 1,300 The Arcade Fr 147 Fr 1.600 ShentonHse Fr 114 Fr 1.200 Anson Centre Fr 70.9
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    • 552 24 Accommodation Bill r Properties Pp_e;^:rV?ll Enquiries Bookings ORCHARD PLACE PTE.LTD 15th Floor, Far East Shopping Centre Orchard Road Singapore 0923 Tel: *****11 (20 lines) W 1 .4 "Jl.i »llr» JJ, V*^ KS INDUSTRIAL BUILDING Prime Investment *s For ugnt \C<c builcmng Industries \>^f 2 Storey Terrace FactoriesX r^^^X with Mezzanine
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    • 1316 25 You find the home CR>^ and just 10% of its value —^dBr\AL we'll find the rest! For owner-occupied homes of $500,000 or less, and with CPF savings of 20% you could qualify for Citibanks Private Home Ownership Plan All you need is 10% cash 1 Competitive interest rates: I 10
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    • 988 25 PEMIMPIN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING I Sited at Jalan Pemimpin, just off the new Marymount Road Features Ready source of Ample parking lots labour supply from for cars lorries .Toa Payoh Convenient loading/ Ang Mo Kio unloading area Nee Soon About 10 minutes Sembawang drive from city .Sin Ming Expected dale of
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    • 1437 25 jg^ w Accommodation I II troparpw j i STOP LOOKING ELSEWHERE. WE HAVE THE BEST!) RELC INTERNATIONAL HOUSE Luxurious epertments wllh swlmm'SlKSiLXSr" 0 1 l ClW 3-bedroomed apartment Top c BalmoralPcMnt S.JOO. "oor. furnUhed. 2 alrcondltlon- Futura -$MOo! ers. servanfs faclllUes c Orange Heights $s!ooo For Inspection: c Shelford Oarden
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    • 1651 25 ■■II T Proptyttt SEMBAWANO VICINITY. (GARDE- DAILY/ MONTHLY RATED furNIA Court) walkup apartment nlshed room, at dlst 1. Fook Hal with swimming pool. 3 bed- Building avallable Tel: *****1/ rooms/servant',, partially fur- *****26 $"^S d Wes, V Assoc'ateT. I ?fSm' y J"™™ ZS"^** SHERWOOD TOWERS MAISO- peaceful envtronment° V From
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    • 1540 25 All r iccMe—odiUon 4 ■hbS srT h ■■■■I 1 rfupmUM DISTRICT 18, EAST COAST x'^^ HaU. 2 1 /2-storey seml-de- tached with 3 bedrooms, ser- vanfs 1400 »oJI. Terraao/ /esr*^^^ parquet flooring 8840,800 saafe^BHßSkeV DISTRICT 19. SERANOOON ■F BJBJBJ GARDENS ESTATE Single- /JB BBF 1~~ J storey semi-detached 3,700 i
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    • 1658 26 JUcuwmb oditton A DIST. 102$ BALMORAL COURT M PiiMi«it_ia Fnr ftaki studio apartment available for 09 rruf— ii— i rw« oai on sl floor FuMy r um i S h cd.e d. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I selling with tenancy at $310,000 Call *****86 for more details hi Flat* D'ST 9 IDEALLY LOCATED apartw
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    • 1223 26 «p AccofiMnoosiiOfi MH r Properties FACTORIES/WAREHOUSES/ OFFICE R»nl/ Sate! aT—aft a) UpfMr Thomaon Araa |T_B Simon L m 1) 2 1/2-storey corner terrace C*arwr»</ Sunryon factory store/ office 9681 f_ ..v»s«» sq ft 3 tons overhead crane facilities 2) 2 1/2-storey Intermediate terrace factory/ store/ office For t-.m.jHata „i, W
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    • 1557 26 _k p Accommodation ■■[I f Proptrttiw store/ office required m it r^~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^~^^ be approved usage About 2.000 to j FOR SALE/ RENT 1 2.500 sq ft Storing very light and (WHOLE/ HIGH I clean Items Tel *****28 FLOOR OFFICES) i^^^^^ DIST 9 ORCHARD TOWER QK«« Cn_»_> (outside cbo) S "°P
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    • 1151 26 *^4^ l_ Travel Guide Bb^T'TJH TMKI $f MICE FTI LTD R\> /^__3| Htrt Offlct 014-16-18.o 1 4- 16- 18. Pearrs Centre. Eu Tong Sen Street. (Yangtze Theatre) Singapore 0105 I ••K^B I Tel: 22 1 8433 1 7 lines) __V£VHl__^ Brwcli Office: 1 1 9 Peoples Park Comptex, '^^P~ k
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 910 27 II Education Instruction a^HLk "V=, -'^B^B^bHb^B^B^ Stamford Professional Academic courses 1982 (Fult-liine'Parttime) Commence today Administrative Institute ot Administrative Management (UK) Parts 1 2 Institute of Chartered Secretaries Administrators (UK) LCCI Group Dpiomas in Managerial Pnncples Accountancy Association of Certified Accountants Institute of Cost Management Accountants Institute of Accounting Staff c
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    • 1056 27 P| Education Instruction Singapore's BIG Language School with the SMALL classes ENGLISH GERMAN FRENCH ITALIAN SPANISH MANDARIN JAPANESE MALAY INDONESIAN Registration hours: B a.m-9p.m TEL:*****66 J r RAJA'S COLLEGE offers new sessions Secretarial, Stenography, B. Keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Com. English, Telex, etc. Register now RAJA'S COLLEGE 37C Bras Basah Complex
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    • 1173 27 (IH H Education Instruction NEW CLASSES GRAPHIC ARTS BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE (Three Month*) AND REPORTWRITING Friday 800 9 30 p m BOO^VEPING fi a BCQINNERS l^l" 0 m 0 mn <»**" Thursday 7 30-9pm Commencing 7 Jan Commencing 15th Jan IM3 BOOKKfEPINO-INTERMCDIATE OUCENSWAY COMMERCIAL Monday 7 30-9pm TRAINING CENTRE M.r rriuiiTiMr
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    • 1235 27 0 H Education Instruction 115 Driving 116 Dancing 118 Otbtc, i BEOINNCRS REPEAT. "/HULA- aociAL BCOMNEM CLAM (Rock SSS P^S?S f» "-aaar*****5 (Oueenswavi Payoh)/ 2p m Beginners Jazz Ballet tuixu.-><viueensway) Saturday 9/1/82 4pm Freestyle a Pturtnnraphr (B»ninn.ri) CHAMPION ORiVINQ tCMOOL. Disco Wednesday «p m or Sun- [TurK Sai 5 lffiT^
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    • 2509 28 METAL CONTAINERS UMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore under the Companies Act. Cap 185) New Issue of 22,077,690 Shares of $1 .00 each of the Company at $1.30 per Share payable in full on application Managed and Underwritten by WARDLEY LIMITED The Shares which form the subject of the
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    • 3637 29 J0 METAL CONTAINERS LIMITED MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES (vi) 0 rate of 1 5 per cent has been used to calculate the interest payable on the 159 Gul Circle One smgle-storey factory with ********** Ot the members of the Board of Directors, Mr Whang Tar Choung and Dr Whang b rr
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    • 2855 30 METAL CONTAINERS LIMITED In 1 979, depreciotion rotes adopted by 0 subsidiary were charujed to bring the Dividend income is accrued on the basis of the dates dividends ore declared by the The rates of interest charaed for bank ov*rHrn4t» ™h deprec.at.on rates of the subsidiary in line with the
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    • 4593 31 METAL CONTAINERS LIMITED purchased on the spot market by T.C Whong Co (Pte.) Ltd and is sold to the Notes: 8. STATUTORY AND GENERAL INFORMATION Group at cost plus a mark up to cover expenses ond provide a nominal profit These innnnn purchases represent approximately 30 per cent of the
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE ONE
    • 2241 32  -  EQUESTRIENNE By FIRST: *****4 SECOND: *****1 THIRD: *****0 STARTERS: *****5, *****8, *****9, *****0, *****0, *****7, *****0, *****6, *****7, *****6, *****3. CONSOLATIONS: *****4, *****2, *****5, *****0, *****9, *****6, *****5, *****3, *****9, *****3. CHRYSANTHEMUM, with Christine McCulloch in the saddle, remained unbeaten when he attained his fifth successive
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    • 1032 32 THE Stipendiary Steward's re- 1 port on yesterday's races: RACE 1: C. MoCuUoch was shown the patrol film of her riding of Angelina over the final 400 m and severely reprimanded for continually looking round. RACE I: Miracle n (Philip Lain, Blue Jeep (NY Ho) and Brandy (K.S.
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    • 586 32 WftMcome I We ore o fully owned subsidiary company of I I the Wellcome Foundation Ltd UK engaged in I I manufacturing and marketing internationally I I well known pharmaceutical and veterinary I I product. As part of our expansion pro- I I gramme, we invite applicants to challenge the
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    • 898 32 f|||| UMVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA NOTICE OF PREQU ALIFICATION FOR MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES SUB-CONTRACT I PROJECT The Proposed Development for the School of Medical Science I LOCATION Mukim of Kubang Kenan. Kota Bahru. Ketantan Malaysia I SCOPE OF WORK: I Sub-Contract Package I Steam and Hot Water Services Plumbing and
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    • 1009 33 FA CUP THIRD ROUND Bamet 0 Brighton 0, Birmingham I 2 Ipswtch 3. Bolton 3 Derby 1, Boor- nemouUi 0 Oxford 2, Coventry 3 Sheffield Wednndav 1. Doncuter 2 Cambridge 1, Enfold 2 Crystal Palace 3. Leicester 3 Southampton 1. Luton 2 Swtndon 1. Manchester City 3 Cardiff
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    • 61 33 Leading English scorers LONDON, San. LeadIng goaLscorers after yesterday's English soccer matches (League, Enrcpean competition, FA Cap, Leagae Cap, total): Division One Kevin Keegan (Southampton) 14,2,1,1,18; Cyrllle Regis (WBA) 12,i,M,18; Terry MoDermott (Liverpool) 7^,2,12; lan Rash (Liverpool) 3,2,2,5,12. Division Two Steve White (Laton) 13,1,1,1,14: Simon Stainrod (QPR) 1M,1,2,13; Trevor Aylott
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    • 168 33 BRISTOL (South West England), Sun. Bob Houghton last night resigned as manager of Bristol City, a job he took over only last October. Houghton, 35, joined City from Greek club Ethnikos and was previously with Malmo, whom he steered to three First Division championships in
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    • 520 33 United, Forest, Southampton and Stoke crash, to rivals LONDON, Sun. The third round of the English Football Association Cup, the stage at which the top clubs join the annual scramble to Wembley, is traditionally a day for the underSo it proved yesterday when
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    • 295 33 SUN CITY, Sun. Johnny Miller fired a six-under-par 66 yesterday to share the lead with Spain's Severiano Ballesteros after the third round of the US$l million ($2.04 million) five-man challenge golf tournament at the Sun City gambling resort in the South African homeland
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    • 452 33  -  ERNEST FRIDA By THE Singapore Island Country Club made a poor start in their defence of the Singapore Golf Association Premier League title yesterday when they shared points with the Keppel Club at the Bukit Course. The SICC, who have won the title
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    • 220 33 COURAGE fcl^l CONFIDENCE V A LEADERSHIP 4^M DALE CUN€CIf 10w?ys the Dale Cdrnegie Course heir j men and women Acquire poise and confidence Spwh effectively Sell yourself and your ideas Be at your oest with any group Remember names Think and speak on your teet Control fear and worry Be
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    • 304 34 Tasmania need 94 runs to escape defeat LAUNCESTON, Sun. Tasmania, with six wickets intact, need 94 runs to avoid outright defeat tomorrow on the fourth and final day of their cricket match against Pakistan. When play finished today Tasmania were 221 for four wickets. The not out batsmen were Roger
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    • 490 34 Windies paceman puts Aussies in trouble near close of play SYDNEY, Sun. West Indian paceman Michael Holding took the prize wickets of Graeme Wood and John Dyson to plunge Australia from one for 108 to three for 111 at the close of the second day
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    • 360 34 MELBOURNE, Sun. South African Johan Kriek, who had to qualify for a tournament berth three years ago, claimed the Australian singles crown today with a gruelling win over American Steve Denton at the Kooyong Stadium here today. Fourth-seeded Kriek finally subdued the tenacious Denton
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    • 230 34 Changes in the air as ITF gear for future MELBOURNE, Sun. The concern of the International Tennis Federation over the challenge being presented by World Championship Tennis was reflected today in proposals to revamp the Australian Open. Philippe Chatrier, French president of the ITF, unveiled plans which he hopes will
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    • 497 34 CALCUTTA, Sun. England, 49 for one in the second innings, were in a strong position at stumps on the third day of the Fourth Test against India at the Eden Gardens here today. Earlier, the home side were all out for 208,
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    • 110 34 Doggart about world umpires CALCUTTA, Sun. The International Cricket Oafereooe were actively c»MJderl«g a Cvpawi for paael of U>rn»tion*l ampin* to reduce complaints against umpiring decisions, chairman Hubert Doggart tald here today. Dcggart, who la also prerideat of the MCC. ■aid International umpiring weald also help improve cricketing He said
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    • 332 34 Heather and Janet in upset wins PORT WASHINGTON, Sun. Americans Janet Lagasse and Heather Ettus scored upset victories to reach the girls' 18-year-old I final in the Rolex inter- j national junior tennis championships here in New York. Francesco Cancellotti, i of Italy, and Henrik Sundstrom, of Sweden, also made
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    • 143 34 MELBOURNE, Sun. Veteran John Alexander was today the surprise choice of the Lawn Tennis Association to join the Australian Davis Cup squad. The five-man squad announced here by LTA president Brian Tobin are Alexander Mark Edmonson, Peter McNamara, Paul McNamee and John Fitzgerald. Sydney pair Phil
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    • 59 34 (Pangutulations PKfl COLOUR SEPfIRHTIOn PTE LID on your removal to New Premises and your installation of the first SGBOB DAINIPPON SCREEN COMPUTERIZED SCANNER in South East Asia. NEW ADDRESS PKfl COLOUR SEPRROTIOn PTE LTD 10A-15A, BLK. 6, AVER RAJAH IND. ESTATE, SINGAPORE, 0513. TEL: *****70,*****22 Dflinippon screeh siogapore pte ltd
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    • 501 35  -  J. RAJENDRAN By TEAMWORK is more than just sharing the kitchen chores to husband-and-wife Mohammed Noor and Azimah Sayam, who yesterday officiated in the national under- 19 soccer tournament at Farrer Park. Mohammed ran the lines after the interval in the Marine Pararfe versus Geylang
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    • 356 35 PERAK I SELANGOR S FT 3 PAHANG 1 IPOH, Sun. The prospect of toppling defending champions Selangor on the strength of their reknowned poor start to the season looks enchanting enough for Perak. But, in the end, they were battered beyond recogni tion before
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    • 286 35  -  PATRICK BASTIANS By THE Singapore Judo Federation plan to meet on Wednesday to discuss criticism by three judokas Stephen Loh, Koh Eng Kian and Low Chee Kian and then look for solutions. Contrary to popular opinion and the expressed fear of the three, the SJF may not
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    • 285 35  - Oman, Bahrain to play f riendlies JOE DORAI By DACCA, Sun. Oman's national soccer squad, one of the four foreign teams in the Aga Khan Geld Cup competition here, will be in Singapore for three weeks to prepare for the prestigious Gulf tournament. The Middle East team, with six Brazilian
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    • 406 35  -  R. MANORAJ COMMENT.By SINGAPORERecreation Club's withdrawal from the inaugural Fraser and Neave Elite Cup hockey tournament from Jan 8-10 is saddening. SRC have won the Premier League formerly Division One title a record 14 times since 1961 and finished runners-up 11 times. They have
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    • 342 35 RESULTS: Pool A Poland 1 Spain 0 (1-0), West Germany 2 Argentina 0 (1-0). Pool B India 7 Soviet Union 2 (3-0), Australia 2 England 0 (0-0). BOMBAY, Sun. Australia played a subdued, but superior, game to score a 2-0 victory over England in Pool B
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    • 229 35 Chinese take titles in both sections CLEVELAND, Sun. China won both the men's and women's team titles in the butterfly international event in the Cleveland Open table tennis championships here in England yesterday. The English women provided the only real opposition to the Chinese and reached the final after defeating
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    • 260 35 THE Singapore Rugby Union have yet to receive a letter from the New Zealand Rugby Union confirming that they will Lsend them coaches and referees to conduct courses in Singapore on j an annual basis, reports J. RAJENDRAN. It was reported last month
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    • 48 35 DACCA. Sun. Indonesia and local team Rahmatgan} drew 1-1 yesterday in the Aga Khan Gold Cup soccer tournament at the Dacca Stadium here. The half-time score was 0-0. In another match, Pakistan International Airlines also failed to break the deadlock against B.J.M.C. club, drawing M. -AFP.
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    • 194 35 BOMBAY, Sun. Olympic champions India scored an impressive 7-2 win over the Soviet Union in Pool B of the fifth World Cup hockey championship here today. At half-time, India led 34. The Russians, who held England to a di~>w yesterday, were completely outplayed today, and Lam
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    • 62 35 HONGKONG, Sun. Seoul beat Canton 1-0 to win ttae Inter-City schools invitational soccer tournament here today. The winning goal came from striker Yoo Kwang-yol in the51st minute. Bangkok beat another Chinese team from Meizhou 2-0 to take tha third place. Hongkong defeated Jakarta 5-4 on
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    • 113 35 BOMBAY, Sun. Fancied West Germany scored their third consecutive Pool A win in the World Cup hockey tournament here, but today's 2% over Argentina was a laboured affair. The Germans struggled to overcome the Argentinians, who had been swamped 12-3 by Pakistan yesterday. The Germans, who
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 99 35 FOOTBALL SBHFL: D1V. 1A: HK Bank v Rothmans (5.15). SIA v Holidav Inn (7). Both matches at Jin Besar. Div. 3: Hume Industries v Singapore Tobacco (Tanglin. pitch 2, 5.15), Cold Storage v Corona SC, Chartered Bank v Inchcape Group, Western Geo v May bank (All matches at Farrer Park.
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  • 27 36 HONGKONG, Sun. British Deputy Foreign Secretary Humphrey Atkins arrived here today on a stopover to China. He will also visit South Korea and Japan. AP
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  • 438 36 CAIRO, Sun ...ON WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP EGYPT, going beyond the 1978 Camp David framework, has called for the establishment of a Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied Jordan West Bank and Gaza Strip. The hardline Egyptian position was announced by Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan
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  • 183 36 Soviet anxiety over rift with Jaruzelski MOSCOW, Sunday SOVIET leaders are showing increasing signs of anxiety over their differences with Polish soldier-Prime Minster Wolciech Jaruzelski, political analysts here said yesterday. They said it was clear from reports carried by the Soviet Press that there was serious concern in the Kremlin
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  • 42 36 RIO DE JANEIRO, Sun. Boisterous New Year's Eve carousing left 30 people dead In the streets of Rio. During the all-night festivities, some 3,700 people received medical care for injuries received in muggings, brawls and car accidents. AFP.
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  • 70 36 LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas). Sun. A baby born with no natural immunity to disease received a transfusion of white blood cells from his mother's bone marrow to be spared life In a germ-tree plastic bubble, a newspaper reported yesterday. The medical experiment has been performed successfully
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  • 56 36 ATHENS, Sun. All flights by foreign airlines were cancelled today because of a three-day strike by the Greek Federation of Workers for Foreign Airline Companies The strike follows the breakdown of talks to renew terms of employment with management. Flights by the national airline Olympic Airways are
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  • 291 36 Saudis ask Egypt to return 2 islands RIYADH, Sun SAUDI ARABIA has said that it expects Egypt to return the islands of Tlran and Sanafyr. Crown Price Fahd was quoted by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) last night as saying that Egypt is "directly responsible for the return of the
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  • 33 36 JAKARTA, Sun. Two people were killed when the Japanese oil tanker Taiyo Maru exploded and sank near Pakan baru in southern Sumatra on New Year's D«y. the newspaper Korapas reported today.
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  • 195 36 LONDON, Sun WORSENING relations between Britain's newest political party, the Social Democrats, and their allies, the Liberals, have reached "showdown" point, newspapers reported today. The two parties, which formed an alliance to fight Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's ruling Conservative Party in elections which must be
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  • 36 36 BEIRUT, Sun. Five more leftist opponents of AyatoUah Ruhollah Khoeminy's fundamentalist regime have been executed and two others were killed In street clashes with revolutionary guards, the official Iranian news agency reported today. AP.
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  • 84 36 MOM. LUNG YEE ENO. aged «7 passed away peacefully on 3/1/82 leaving behind sons Llm Heng Knew, Llm Thang Fon, Llm Heng Ton. Llm Hlng Jong, daughters Llm Low Lan. Llm Loh Yang, daughter-in-law Tan Al Lan and grandchildren Llm Jit Shyan, Llm Jye Yunn, nephews and nieces For
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    • 163 36 UP TO 1 p.m. TODAY: Cloudy with showers 1b several areas.S a.m. TOMORROW: 28 max., 24 mla. SUNSET today: 7.11 p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow: 1M a.m. Amterdain 3/7 C Cloudy LmJmi 10/12 C Cloudy Atfceaa 10/15 C Clear Lm Aogelea 8/15 C Clear UtagM 23/31 C Clear M*4rM 1 18 C
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  • SECTION TWO
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    • 1252 1 The tale behind the gift horse NOT MANY of us will, or can, for that matter, forget those good old days in primary school when we had to learn unending lists of proverbs and quotes by rote. It will stand you in good stead, was the reason our teachers gave
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    • 457 2 PICK of the DAY SBC 5 THE Young And The Restless (Ch 5, 3 p.m.): David Mallory stops by and Jill Foster tells him that she still has not made up her mind about his marriage proposal. Women! The next day, at the Golden Comb, Jill gets the chance to
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    • 240 2 KNOTS LANDING HITCH HIKE (Part One) (Ch 5, 8.45 p.m.): It's returned! The inevitable has happened. Soap after soap on every Monday night. In the first of two par Us, Sid Fairgate is returning home after helping his sister move to San Diego. Enroute, he is
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    • LEISURE 1
      • 724 3 Benjie Toledo is SBC's new choreographer. Only 26, this Filipino dance man has lots of ideas. He shares them with JOHN de SOUZA. 4 'That doesn't mean TV dancing isn't all work, work, work. But hard as it is, I love it. It's my life.
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      • 395 3 10 Discoveries Spore Science Centre Until Feb 28 10 a.m. 6 p.m Story by GANEBH VIJ A Y AN HAVE you seen the chick which has the features of a rooster (picture above)? Did you know that it takes 9,000 Murex snails to produce
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      • 588 4 FRENCH FILMS RELC Auditorium, Orange Grove Road Tomorrow to Feb 3 Tuesdays (6.30 p.m.), Wednesdays (9 p.m.) Free admission Previewed by JOHN de SOUZA ONE funny film stars a veteran of the French screen. The other, a thriller, has in the lead role
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      • 852 4  - Soviet and US films on the life of American writer DAVID MINTHORN By THE short, stormy life of writer John Reed, an American buried as a hero on Red Square, is coming to the screen in Soviet and US films. Franco Nero stars in the Soviet version of Reed's adventures
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        1167 5 First-day blues or otherwise, thousands of children face school again for a new session from today. How do they feel? MANJIT KAUR finds out their reactions. THE fourth of January were you dreading this day, sulking in some dark corner wishing it'd come later, or were you
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      • 581 5  -  SUSAN CHIRA By AT THE age of six, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi had already been labelled a problem child. Her elementary school teacher asked ncr mother to withdraw her from school for such offences as staring out of the window and opening and closing her desktop
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      • 665 5  -  M. I. EDWARDS By 4 Never mind the fact that, according to the Ministry of Health, most of our chicken rice is writhing with bacteria.... just get into those uniforms. If we're going to get dysentry, let's have it in style. I WANDERED down to my local
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    • 1254 6 4 The treatment is particularly useful for the old and frail, or for those who cannot stand up to major abdominal surgery. The great advantage of the laser is that you do not have to touch the surface of the ulcer. A THE surgeon bends over the patient,
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    • 1012 8 Like the AWACS and the U-2, the TR-1 was built under conditions of great secrecy in the section of America's Lockheed Aircraft's top-security factory known as the "Skunk Works". However, the TR-I's task is greatly different from that of its notorious predecessor and up to now
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    • 529 8  -  JEFF BRADLEY By in London 61 presume that if I had presented myself at the doors with a dead snake round my neck, a collection of blackbeetles pinned to my shirtfront and a grouse in my hair, I should have been refused admission. Why
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    • 598 1 Twinkletoes Toledo Y^r? jj J Benjie Toledo, SBC's new Invisible School /t^rtbd irW^'^^ choreographer from the ray If I Ak?\ Philippines, has brought with /-J him lots of new ideas and inaican are f 1\ Mt a simple but precise kill here Ml r 1 *W i style of choreography.
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    • 166 2 Mraits I imes Crossword 7 ACBOBB 5 space traveller smiles, making 4 w^r h Uday K'moLntlng moun.T (4) 6 HSL needs help .0 get the 8 1 9 £nrUU t^er ugSiL*...SA«-. 10 frosf^om returning call 13 fOr mjde by a former premier, in j^.^ U T^!^ T* 'Z Vel OTitingt
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    • 308 2 Display of an expert archer s skills. Contact lenses to correct the vision of near-sighted horses. Live tram Stodlo One (Ch 8, 8 p.m.): Hosted by Tan Soo Seng, this musical-game and magazine programme, a repeat, features entertainment by Luo Van Li, Sin Yun, Sia Ching, the Xuang Zi Kin
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    • 1054 2 TV and Radio SBC 5 3.00 PM Opening fofcwed by The Young (Part 2 > And The Restless 6.45 The lunfless Salamanders 3.25 The Sword Of Romance (r) 7.00 Mickey And Donald 4.05 Diary Of Events (English) I 7.30 News And Weather Forecast 4.10 Aspects Of Indian Culture Cos (Malay)
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    • 870 7 7 a^H J X m\ i I H H ,Ti I Baj H I^^^^H V^sSj" I M WAH-CHANG GROUP OF I f COMPANIES I WAH-CHANG ENGINEERING CORPORATION PTE. LTD., 5, Kwong Mm Road, Singapore 2262. T«fe *****47/*****25 WAH-CHANG INTERNATIONAL (MALAYSIA) CORPORATION SON. BHD., Lot 1, Blk D, Jalan SSI3/2 Subang
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    • 755 7 r.z^K mr* nil. in f%lF*'f'S '"■■"'i l lUr() l |f s largest manufacturer ol office I jSjpJ^S equipment is expanding its operations in Singapore I \9 *$>f «nd seeks to fill the lolluwinK professional and techni- f cal positions: jA PRODUCT ENGINEERS Candidates should have a Degree in Mechanical Engineering
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    • 588 7 An International Geophysical Exploration Company requires PURCHASING MANAGER Duties will include setting up and maintaining a Materials Control Department for an International Geophysical Co., rapidly expanding in the Far East. The successful applicant will report directly to the Operations Manager. Requirements: Singapore Citizen (Male aged 25-45). Smart appearance. Fluent in
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  • SECTION THREE
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      • 760 1 An American lady, who is married to a Singaporean and has adopted the Chinese name of Gu Yuecheng, recalls her experience in learning Mandarin. A Westerner who studies Mandarin most be either slightly mad or highly motivated. Indeed, knowing the secrets of the language sets you apart
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      • 353 2 THIS programme is compiled by Kediffusion and broadcast daily in Teochew, Hokkien and Cantonese over both Rediffusion and SBC's Chinese service (Mon Sat: 8.31 a.m. and 9.51 p.m. Sunday: 11.55 a.m. and 6.41 p.m.). The English notes are provided by us. Lesson 119: Going home VOCABULARY: 1)
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      • 650 2  - A tormenting decision to make Ancient Chinese Justice Han Sui Chin Case 14: The emperor's wayward son-in-law HftK&l by PRINCE Zhao Ping, married his cousin, Princess Vi An, the daughter of Emperor Han Wen (Zhao's mother, Princess Longlu, was the sister of the emperor). Zhao was a wayward and unruly
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      • 75 2 LIAN lionguJn link up lio'nxu (ju) senolised (dramas), contmuous li6nhuon chain of rings **„«*<• lia'nzbi (xiooshuo) senalionji^ join; link I'se (stories) lion lei involve, get lionsuo fanying chain somebody into trou- reaction ble For example, you JiTL may say, liinnufng promptly, at ,U!; s ft f;once J
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      • 291 3 I VERSATILE KOREAN SINGER _-_-l HISS KIN IS BACK AGAIN TO SING YOUR FAVOURITE KOREAN, JAPANESE. ENGLISH. CHINESE MALAY HITS DAILY 8 PM IAM EXCEPT SUNDAY i A A *^*T A t i I* CLUB DUET fi HOSTESS LOUNGE 4TH FLR. SUPREME HOUSE, PENANG ROAD, TEL *****37 Angalo Gift Vouchers
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      • 347 3 Conforming to BS 1052 MANUFACTURERS <&. 15raJ.inq (°e. Sdn. (&kd. Lot 4, Jalan Perusahaan Empat, Industrial Area, Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur. 1 Tel sO3 ***** 1 &03 663 1 75 Postal Address: G.P.O. 733, Kuala Lumpur. m 1 Coffee Powder Manufacturers High quality coffee powder made from selected coffee beans,
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        • 975 4 Oleh DEWANI ABBAS Penulis-penulis Melayu Singapura tidak seharusnya menjauhkan diri dari kalangan para penyajak bukan Melayu. Sebaliknya, mereka harus berusaha bukan saja untuk bercampur gaul dengan mereka demi mendapat perspektif yang lebih meluas tentang alam persajakan, tetapi sama-sama berusaha menterjemahkan karya-karya mereka. 7 PADA
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        • 111 4  -  Ehsan Hj Ali and Haron A.R. Retold by SebaiK baik S3|a 1a melihat ramai orang berada tidak jauh darmya, 1a pun berlari pantas menu|u ke arah darat. lalu hilang As toon at he taw a lot of people nearby, it darted away landward and disappeared Sang Nila
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          449 4  -  Haron A. Rahman By Vocabulary 1 Vocabulary from Lesson 7C 1) orang Jepun—a. Japanese. 2) k ira -k ira about, approximately. 3) baba a Straits-born Chinese man. 4) hah Ahad— Sunday. 5) kadang-kadang— sometimes. 6) makan angin to go sightseeing. 7) ke sana-sini— to go here and there,
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      • 303 4 An established commodity commission house in the process of expansion invites ambitious young personnel to fill in the positions of: (1) Business Manager (a) above 28 years old. (b) at least 2 years experience in Japanese commodity market at managerial level. (c) Mm GCE 'A' Level Preference will be given
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      • 283 4 I ff LABORATORY X| I ANALYSTS 1 I Oil Service Company invite suitably qualified persons to apply I I for the above positions based in Jurong. S THE K)B involves laboratory analysis of fluids and petroleum products. THE PERSON should have: a degree/diploma in Science experience in fluid analysis, but
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      • 258 4 Oil Industry Professionals Bring your experience to the North Sea Local interviews in Singapore this week Production Drilling Reservoir Engineers Engineers Offshore Construction Geologists Design Engineers Geophysicists Project Engineers Petrophysicists Our client is a rapidly expanding oil Our client offers highly competitive company with major exploration and salaries, and a
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      • 127 4 The YMCA of Singapore invites suitable candidates for the appointment of: CLERK OF WORKS Duties include the supervision of all building works including piling, architectural and struc'ural works of the proposed new YMCA multi storey Complex Must be able to work independent iy Formal qualifications is desirable but all applicants
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      • 89 4 A large Klectro-Plating Company has career opportunities with bright prospects for PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS We are looking for committed and dynamic persons who have completed National Service and possess GCE A" Level with 2 years supervisory experience. Successful candidates will be responsible to lead, motivate and supervise a team of Production
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