The Straits Times, 5 January 1982

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1982 35 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 99/1/82
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  • 355 1 Asean ministers to view plan to rotate committees KUALA LUMPUR, Mon A PROPOSAL to rotate the seats of the five Asean economic committees is expected to made at the Asean economic ministers' meeting here on Thursday. The rotation, suggested by Malaysia and Thailand, is aimed at giving each member country
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  • 179 1 Aussie ports face closure after pay talks fail SYDNEY, Mon. Australia's waterfront moved a step closer to a national stoppage today when talks on a strike affecting some major ports broke down, employers and union sources said. Waterfront employers have said they will start laying off other dock workers from
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  • 465 1 Almost life -long service to nation In-camp stint extension likely By PAUL JACOB RESERVIST in-camp training is likely to be extended beyond the present 10-year limit into an "almost life-long commitment" with national servicemen liable for in-camp stints right up to the age of 50 for officers and 40 years
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  • 62 1 BEIJING, Mon. One of China's best known non-con-formist artists, Wang Keping, married a French woman here last Wednesday. Mr Wang, a 33-year-old sculptor and member of the King King (Stars) group, said he had never doubted that he would be allowed to marry Catherine Dezaly. 31.
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  • 342 1 THE sky is d*rk and the llgkte are still on Aa first, It l«*ks as though the popite and ftdalta (above) in waitlag to catch late bus tome. Bat It Is actually time to go to school. This is a bos-stop 1b Commonwealth Avenue at
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  • 698 1 VIENNA, Monday POLAND has accused France of suspending deliveries of "important quantities of wheat" and semi-finished products to Poland. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski was reported by Warsaw Radio as saving that France was applying "restrictions" to its normal trade with Poland. He
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  • 489 1  - Surprises in the line-up for TV stardom LEONG WENG K AM 8, CALL it the lure of the bright lights, a chance at fame... when the bug bites, it gets them all. University graduates and factory workers, teachers and students, secretaries, bank clerks, and air stewardesses. Some from as far
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  • 79 1 TOKYO, Mon. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd had to postpone indefinitely, a scheduled trip to Japan, due to a drastic change in the Middle East after Israel annexed the Golan Heights, a Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said today. The postponement of the official four-day visit planned
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  • 218 1 Police quell one more rampage on Pulau Jerejak PENANG, Mon. Another rampage erupted at the Pulau Jerejak rehabilitation centre this afternoon when 23 armed detainees burst out from their dormitory in an attempt to free 30 fellow detainees locked up in another room. They broke down the door of the
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  • 77 1 BELFAST, Mon. Two hood ed IRA gunmen shot and critically wounded an alleged informer yesterday as he watched television with his two children. A police spokesman said the attackers burst into the house in Belfast's predominantly Catholic area of Andersonstown and shot the 29-year-old man three times
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  • 38 1 VICTORIA (Seychelles), Mon The shootout last November at Mahe airport between Seychelles troops and mercenaries trying to overthrow the government caused VSS2 milDon (Ss4 1 million) damage. Minister (or Economic Planning Maxime Ferarri said today. UPT
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  • 65 1 NKW DELHI. Mra. The Sovirt I nl«a has seat ever 2t,Mt mere troop* Into Afghanistan In recent weeks In a cantinning build-up that Is expected U urcreaae the Soviet tr*«p strength to ISMM mea by April, Afghaa military mitcw said today. Mere plsaee and hellcopters have
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  • IN SUMMARY...
    • 513 2 New activities at CCs THE People's Association is going to introduce several new activities and classes this year to keep up the tide of people taking part in the sports, nobby and continuing education classes at more than 160 community centres. The proposed new activities include macrame, pin and
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    • 341 2 THE STRAITS TIMKS SAYS: THE Saudi Government's denial that Foreign Minister Prince Sand Al-Falsal did say that the kingdom is prepared to accept Israel under certain conditions, highlights the different polls within Riyadh and the difficulties of negotiating the narrow, stony path to lasting peace. The Arab moderates will
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    • 230 2 Dream soccer clash NEXT Tuesday, a clash that soccer fans have always dreamed about will come true in Kuala Lumpur. Singapore's ace striker Fandi Ahmad and one of the world's most brilliant attackers, Argentina's Diego Maradona, will meet in a friendly match between Selangor Invitation and Boca Juniors. "We've
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    • 258 2 YEO HIAP SENG GIVES NEW YEAR BONUS ONE of the larger soft drink bottlers in this region, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, has greeted the New Year with a bang a one-for-one bonus issue and a modestly priced rights issue in the same ratio at $1.50 a share. The
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    • 54 2 EFFECT OF ANTHRAX PART Two of a two-part article on the anthrax epidemic in Sverdlovsk examines the implications the incident have for future arms control agreements between the US and the Soviet Union. The Sverdlovsk incident underlines the difficulty both superpowers encounter in ensuring the arms agreements can be
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    • 584 2 Price pledge CHINA has declared it will keep in check prices of basic necessities, such as food, clothing and heating fuel, to counter a widespread inflation scare that has threatened to discredit the government's promise of a better life. However, the country's chief price control executive has
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    • 292 2 Singapore Maxim's EXCVSEZ-MOl Mademoiselle et M'sieur, but did you know that France's most famous restaurant, Maxim's, is going to open its fourth overseas branch here? Yes, TAN CHUNG LEE reports that the restaurant that began as a head waiter's dream in 1893 and almost went bankrupt until a
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    • 218 2 New study approach ABOUT 35,000 Primary One pupils in 302 schools that are taking part in a pilot project, were seated in groups instead of along in rows when they turned up for their first day in school yesterday. They will also not sit for any test
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    • 129 2 Ballet master Goh SINGAPOREANS are in for a rare treat from choreographer and ballet master, Goh Choo Chiat, who after 30 years of studying under the likes of Russian ballet master, Nikolai Grusief, performing in the Beijing National Ballet Company, learning at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
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  • AROUND THE WORLD
    • 102 3 LEUKAEMIA FOUR WHO NEVER SAY DIE THEY we winning their battle HP*™* leukaemia a* (from left) Sarah Jessica Parker, IS, Shelley Brace, 18, Andrra McArdle, 18, and Rose Ann SorrenUno, 14, have reason to rejoice together In some good fun. They are carrying Anita Smith, 11, star of the long-running
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    • 168 3 KGB HEAD IN U.S. EXPECTED TO LEAVE WASHINGTON, Mon. The head of the Soviet Union's KGB inUUigence operations in the United States is expected to leave Washington this month after a six-year assignment, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The Post said Dmitri Yakushkin, the fifth-rank-ing official in the State
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    • 285 3 WASHINGTON, Mon PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan will meet Richard Allen, his National Security Adviser, in the next few days to discuss the latter's position in the administration, White House officials said yesterday. Mr Allen said that he had requested the meeting but declined
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    • 361 3 Marcos threat to sue over reports on Manotoc MANILA, Mon. President Ferdinand Marcos has issued a veiled threat to sue foreign news agencies for 'libellous" reports on a Filipino sportsman who disappeared after reportedly marrying his daughter. The warning came in a government statement last night in which Mr Marcos
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    • 85 3 TOKYO, Mon. Japanese industry and other research bodies increased spending on research and development by 14.5 per cent to 5.25 trillion yen (about Ss4B billion) in the financial year which ended last March, the Prime Minister's Office said today. This made Japan the biggest research spender after
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    • 206 3 BEIJING, Mon. In the Orient's Year of the Dog, a Shanghai newspaper had a good word for the animal: "Dellclous". While the West may look on the dog as man's best friend, Tan Vl-Hln had a different outlook: "A dog'N whole body
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    • 163 3 Sino-Viet peace can be attained but BEIJING, Mob. China today dismissed as hypocritical a Vietnamese proposal for a ceasefire oa the tense Slno-Vletnamese border during the Lunar New Year, bat said peace could be attained at any time so long as Hanoi ended Its military provocation. The official Xinhua news
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    • 402 3 INFLATION SCARE THREATENS TO DISCREDIT GOVT BEIJING. Mon CHINA has declared it will keep prices of basic needs in check to counter a widespread inflation scare which threatened tr« discredit the government's promise of *a better life for the people. Hoping to dispel rumours
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    • 200 3 LAS VEGAS, Monday FTFTEEN fires have broken out at two casino-hotels on the Las Vegas strip and a nearby flat in a span of just over an hour. A Fire Department investigator said: "We apparently have an arsonist on the loose. He's
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    • 366 4 CAIRO, Mon THE Egyptian Government is to release nearly ,500 people detained four months ago following religious violence, it was revealed here today. This came shortly after Egyptian Prime Minister Fuad Mohieddin announced a new government, including a nigh-powered economic team, pledged
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    • 95 4 DES PLAINES (Illinois), Mon. A high school student who may have set a new world record for crawling, says yon see a lot of squirrels and rabbits from a worm's eye view of the world. Todd Baldwin, 18, covered 22.7 km on his hands
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    • Sideliners
      • 64 4 CONTORTIONISTS, magicians, musicians, strongmen and other street performers are now banned in Beijing, police said on Sunday. They inserted a notice in the Beijing Daily that anyone staging performances in city streets or public squares faced fines or detention if they refused to stop. The notice
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      • 78 4 THREE brothers who describe themselves as fundamentalist Catholics face court proceedings on Wednesday on charges of accosting Santa Claus in church on Christmas Eve. Don, Ed and Nick Steffel, aged 20, 23, and 27, tried to block a man from appearing as Santa during a
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      • 65 4 WOMEN on the average live to be much older than men, especially in Finland, where more women outlive men in the over 100 year old age group. Judging from latest statistics released in Helsinki, of the 123 inhabitants over 100, only 13 are men. But Finland's oldest
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    • 71 4 TEENAGER DIES TRYING TO REACH TOY ELECTRIC company workers lowering the body of an unidentified teenager who was electrocuted when he climbed a power pole to retrieve remote-controlled model gUder that became entangled In the wires on Sunday in Long Beach, California. The youth's body remained atop the pole for
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    • 295 4 ABIDJAN (Ivory Coast), Mon. Ghana's new military rulers today arrested former President Hilla Limann, who was ousted in a coup on New Year's Eve, Accra Radio reported. The radio, monitored here, said Dr Limann was detained at a police barrier on the outskirts of the
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    • 345 4 BAHRAIN, Mon. Saudi Arabia has officially denied published remarks attributed to its Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, that the kingdom is prepared to recognise Israel under certain conditions. "There is absolutely no truth in what has been attributed to his highness (Prince
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    • 176 4 BEIRUT, Mon. Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat yesterday reviewed a military parade in which T-54 Soviet tanks were seen for the first time. T-34 tanks had been seen for the first time among Palestinian armament al a similar parade a year ago.
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  • AROUND THE WORLD 3
    • 656 6 Canadians show support at dock demo WHEN EVEN BUYING A KNAPSACK'S AN OFFENCE VANCOUVER, Mon VIENNA, Monday i i SOME m supporters of the newl> -formed Canadian commltw In support of Solidarity iui nationalist song* around three decked Polish ship* yesterday to protest Warsaw's military recimr. '"It's an amazing turnout,"
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    • 357 6 Gdansk workers return after an extended break VIENNA, Monday WORKERS at the Gdansk shipyards, birthplace of the suspended Solidarity trade union, returned to work today after a Christmas break that had been extended once by Poland's military authorities. Warsaw Radio, monitored here, meanwhile, said nine Solidarity members had been sentenced
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    • 382 6 Guerillas blast 4 out of prison ROVIGO (Italy), Monday FOUR women urban guerillas were on the run today after a daring jailbreak in which a commando squad of accomplices blasted the prison with explosives and fought off guards with machine-guns. One of the fugitives from Rovigo women's prison was Susanna
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    • 231 6 Churchill master of the sharp memo LONDON, Mon. Released government documents show that Winston Churchill was as sharp-penned a memo-writer when he was Prime Minister as he wax a sharp-tengned public speaker. The document*, declassified ever the weekend after M years In British files, shew that seen after Church11l returned
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    • 38 6 BELTING, Mon. Chinese astronomers say a total eclipse of the moon will be visible throughout China on Sunday between 2.14 a.m. and 5.38 a.m. (1814 and 2138 GMT), the official Xinhua news agency reported today. AFP.
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 76 6 YUGOSLAVIA IS closing its Singapore and eight other diplomatic missions abroad from the beginning of this year to save an estimated US$236 million (SJ4BI million in 1982 as part of government austerity measures. The foreign ministry is closing temporarily Yugoslav embassies in South Yemen, Madagascar, Senegal, Singapore,
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      • 100 6 ISRAELI GOVERNMENT officials said in Jerusalem yesterday that if Egypt hands over two strategic islands in the Aqaba Gulf to Saudi Arabia after their evacuation, it would be regarded by Israel as a violation of the Camp David peace agreements. The official Saudi press agency quoted Crown
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      • 63 6 CHINA YESTERDAY again dismissed arguments that it would not object to future American arms sales to Taiwan because it needed help from the United States against a Soviet threat. "This view is completely wrong," the official weekly Beijing Review said in an article by its international editor Mv
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      • 82 6 ENGINEERS will take about 24 hours to repair a vital pipeline carrying Iraqi crude oil exports across north Lebanon following Sunday's apparent sabotage, a Lebanese oil official said in Beirut yesterday. The director of oil installations at the northern port of Tripoli, Mr Walid Mawlawi,
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      • 65 6 MORE THAN 600,000 people are expected to leave overpopulated towns and villages in Vietnam to settle in relatively uninhabited regions this year, the Vietnamese press reported in Hanoi yesterday. The figure, which includes some 250,000 labourers, is four tin.es higher than that of 1961, when 160,000 people,
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  • 159 8 Warning on missing PQSB cards THE following advice was given yesterday: Report missing Post Office Savings Bank Cash-on-Line cards at once. A POSB spokesman warned that card-holders have to pay for all withdrawals even if they are made by unauthorised people. Once cards are reported stolen or lost, the bank
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  • 15 8 THAIPUSAM will be celebrated at the Sri Thandayuthapani Temple in Tank Road on Feb
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  • 129 8 SPRAWLING, modern and replete with amenlties...Thl« la the shape of things to come far the tatare resident* of t> welfare eeatre la Puggs! Itetd. IV gnud-breaUßg eeiwoMßy far Its construction l»st Wednesday was ■tte«ji>«' fey the Parliamentary Secretary (SaeUl Affairs), Mr le* ChMg Tee.
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  • 352 8 Ministry helping homes to pick applicants A TEAM of Social Affairs Ministry workers are helping several homes for the aged to interview new applicants. The mgve is to ensure that inmates at the homes are really aged and destitute or sick, and not merely old folks left there by families
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  • 44 8 AT. THE next sitting of Parliament, the MP for Thomson, Dr Chau Sik Ting, will ask National Development Minister Teh Cheang Wan what types of Housing Board flats have been planned for Kampung San Teng and when they will be completed.
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  • 124 8 SOME canned soft drinks will be sold cheaper than usual during the Chinese New Year. About 1,200 provision shops in Singapore will take advantage of the festive season to encourage consumers to switch from bottled drinks to canned drinks. A case of 24 canned Fraser and
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  • 94 8 Corruption trial adjourned THE trial of customs officer Yeo Kong Meow, 34, was adjourned to today as his counsel, Mr Leo Fenando, was taken ill yesterday. Yeo is alleged to have accepted {28,000 from Sng Soo Kiang alias Lav Chek. 52. now a Criminal Law detainee, in return for not
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  • 26 8 THE Tanjong Pagar community centre wiL give free tuition in English, Chinese, Mathematics and Science to Primaries three and six. and Secondary four students.
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  • 17 8 Half a million took part in CC activities A MODEL of thj welfare centre in Punggol Road.
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  • 314 8 MORE than half a million people went to community centres in the first 11 months of last year to play games, take up a new hobby or pass their j time constructively. To keep them coming in, the People's Association is introducing a num- I ber
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  • 39 8 THE Mountbatten community centre youth group will conduct tuition classes for Primaries 3 to 6 pupils at its premises in Jalan Sam. Those interested may enrol at the centre during office noun between 3 and 10 p.m
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  • 120 9 MAS will have own 'home' THE Monetary Authority of Singapore will have Its own building In 1985 at the site of the former Sata premises In Shenton Way. Rising M-atoreya, the MAS Building wtU also bouse the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, the Securt ties Industry Council and related •rgaateations.
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  • 72 9 A PEDESTRIAN. Madam Jayah Abdul Kadir, 59, died instantly after she was involved in an accident with a car in Semhawang Road on Sunday afternoon. In another case, Madam Khoo Gek Hong, 78, was detained in hospital after she was hit by an SBS bus
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  • 38 9 THE New Year's day party at Blk 128, Kirn Tian Road, attended by Tiong Bahru MP, Mr Ch'ngJit Koon was organised by Tiong Bahru RC Zone E and not RC Zone C, as reported yesterday.
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  • 64 9 POLICE yesterday recovered the body of Constable Baharuddin Mohammed Sharif, 19, who drowned after the sampan he was in with four others capsized on Saturday. They were on their way home after a police party on Coney Island when the mishap occurred. PC Baharuddin, from the
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  • 90 9 KONG Kun Lin, 25, was acquitted yesterday by a magistrate on a charge of acting rashly by throwing her four-year-old son from the first floor of Block 60, Lorong 4, Toa Payoh last May 12 on grounds of her mental illness. She was ordered to
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  • 427 9  - Makers don't want to say mother's milk is best Case NICHOLAS ROTHWELL By We prefer not to influence people, say firms LOCAL manufacturers of infant formula foods have stopped advertising in the press, but they deny this is because they refuse to admit that mother's milk is best. Their low
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  • 292 9 MANY airlines flying into Frankfurt are still undercutting airfares despite efforts by the Bonn authorities to "clean up" the air travel market there. Lufthansa, the West German airline, will call a meeting later this month of airlines flying into West Germany and warn them against
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  • 160 9 Essay on PSA's work can bag you a prize BUDDING writers have the chance to enter an essay contest organised by the Port Authority. The idea is to draw attention to the PSA's work and to promote Singapore as one of the world s principal ports. Writers have a choice
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  • 74 9 Blasting at Woodlands site WORKMEN are expected to carry out a blasting job at a construction site in Woodlands near the Singapore Metal Box Company today at 12 30 p.m. Similar blasting work will be carried out from this month till March on Tuesdays and Fridays, and only one operation
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 158 9 Bringing Up Father By BUI Ka vanagh Hal Gamp /^SI I POK£R?\ UsQMETMIMKSHefe I I MERES THE BOKfeR, I I WHAT APE vtXJ Tl-UM- N dU2~J I GORB- dj GCXNS TDSMeAK TiTIJS-POJ'T Z DOiM6 THERE MOW PIGMT Mt OUTIDAFOKEP FOP&6T TO t f WITH IW6 /WOULD vbO n\\ V AWAV/yrcJ?
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  • 885 10  -  NANCY LOH Trial of bank and its chairman By I A DISTRICT court heard yesterday that credit facilities granted by a bank to a firm totalled $20.7 million at one stage but the value of securities pledged to the bank
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  • 117 10 STUDENTS who have difficulties pronouncing Tamil words will soon get help. The Tamil Language and Literature Unit at the Institute of Education is preparing audio-visual aids to teach Tamil phonetics in primary and secondary schools. If the material is approved by the
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  • 137 10 GETTING TO THE HEART OF MORAL LESSONS A CALL waa made yesterday for more kindhearted citizens. Opening Singapore's first secondary school to be sponsored by Buddhists, Environment Minister Ong Pang Boon said this could be done through moral education. He said schools should produce "a rounded personality" with the qualities
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  • 20 10 GREAT World before the demolition squad moved In. BELOW: Yesterday's picture ...Sky Theatre going, going...
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  • 234 10 Police quiz five after beauty course at clinic AT LEAST four beauticians have been questioned and a man detained by police after several women complained about beauty care courses run by a "clinic". It is understood many of the women responded to advertisements in magazines and Chinese newspapers offering "specialised"
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  • 354 10 'Formula' used in valuing minister's land THE High Court heard yesterday why the government in 1973 assessed the value of a plot of vacant residential land at (26,000 or $35 per sq foot when the same property as a whole had last been valued 20 years earlier at only $1,340.
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    • 115 11 XI ALA LUMPUR, Mon. j The Foreign Ministry is to conduct an investigation into the activities of some Malaysian students In Canada who were alleged to have smeared the good name of the Malaysian Government. A ministry spokesman said here today that the Malaysian I
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    • 640 11 THOUSANDS of Malaysian pupils in 300 primary schools who turned up for class yesterday and today found themselves put in groups instead of being arranged in rows. Also, there will not be any tests for them for the rest of the school year,
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    • 230 11 More lessons to be learnt outdoors KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. If the 3R curriculum is implemented to the tee, chances are that the public will seeing a lot more of Primary One pupils pottering around at the zoo, the fire brigade station or even the police station. Learning through experience and
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    • 90 11 Two feared drowned in sinking PENANG, Mon. Two crew members of a Burmese coastal vessel are feared to have drowned when their vessel split into two and sank during a storm on Saturday night off Penang Island. Eighteen other crew members were rescued by fishermen and marine police boats off
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    • 26 11 JOHORE BARU, Mon. Police have destroyed 450 ganja plants worth a tew thousand dollars found in a blukar near here recently, police said. NST.
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    • 293 11 Election panel won't bar use of video- KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. There is nothing wrong with political parties screening video tapes at functions as part of their election campaign as far as the Malaysian Election Commission is concerned. Commission Secretary Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman said today there was no provision in
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    • 120 11 ALUR STAR. Mob. A study Is being carried out to make "lastaat rice" like the familiar Instant noodles, the general manager of the Kedah Regional Development Authority (Keda), Dr Aflfnddin Haji Omar, said yesterday. He said the authority had sought the help of the Malaysian
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    • 237 11 Honda won't pull out Of Malaysia PENANG, Mon. Honda Motor will not withdraw from the Malaysian market, the managing director of its parent company in Tokyo, Mr K. Okayasu has said. He said Honda's continuing interest could be seen from the joint ventures it set up with Malaysian partners to
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    • 318 11 Reds stepping up raids in bid to win back support KUALA LUMPUR, Monday COMMUNIST terrorists have stepped up their attacks at the Thai-Malaysian border because they are losing credibility among their supporters, it was reported here today. The Star newspaper, quoting the commander of the 10th Malaysian Infantry Brigade, BrigadierGeneral
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    • 70 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mm. An EdKattoß Officer, Mr Pml R»J, wlm BMgkt a tin of sweet r»rn, had a rarprlM yesterday wben he opened the r*n It eMtauef smrtfMS. He eMtaetea' the Natlaial Echo newspaper and reporter west to the shop and bought similar brand of sweet corn.
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    • 134 11 A MIXED ARSENAL FOUND AT CAMP PENANG, Mon AN assortment of weapons recovered in the aftermath of the rampage at the main detention camp of the Pulau Jerejak rehabilitation centre yesterday pointed to a planned demonstration of violence. Police showed reporters a pile of weapons at a press conference in
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    • 1790 12  - The colony in a Chinese puzzle i Hongkong MARTIN WOOLLACOTT reports from AS WE drove towards the shiny tip of Kow!oon, where the sun glittered on the marble and glass of new hotels and shopping centres, the Chinese civil servant asked which country offered the best prospects for emigrants Australia
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    • 494 12 WHAT Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, who is currently visiting Washington, was reported to have said about his country's attitude towards Israel is both significant and promising. It is the first tune an Arab leader has said publicly that his country would
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    • 679 12  -  l JONATHAN POWER B> in New Delhi Writing for the International Herald Tribune INDIA'S nuclear bomb lobby has many voices. There are those who feel that nuclear weapons are simply "currency of power India will always be regarded as a second-rate developing country until it
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    • ASEAN NOTES
      • 646 12 BANGKOK Bangkok residents who wade through streets knee-deep in filthy floodwater several months a year and whose kitchen taps produce only a contaminated trickle need no experts to tell them that the city has a water problem. But the Thai Government's National Environment Board (NEB)
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  • FORUM
    • 207 13 Rule that results in pay cut on promotion A FRIEND of mine was a recent victim of mindless bureaucracy. He was employed as an operations assistant in the Departmen' of Civil Aviation in December 1980 with a salary of $320 a month on the salary scale 290 x 15-335 400x20
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    • 168 13 I REFER to the letter written by "Wake-Up" (ST, Dec 29) on claiming compensation from the insurance company for his friend's damaged vehicle. His friend should consider himself fortunate in that only the vehicle was damaged. My aged mother was not so fortunate.
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    • 162 13 THE Singapore Turf Club (STC) charges $5 for entry to the Race Course because of the close circuit TV for viewing by the punters. The amount collected on each race day more than covers the cost of the close circuit TVs, etc.
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    • 209 13 Court should set date for contested divorce suit DIVORCE cases for hearing in the High Court are divided into two categories uncontested and contested. In the case of the uncontested cases, though they make up about 95 per cent of the total, arrangement for their hearing is made by the
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    • 155 13 - YOUR Melbourne reporter (LJm Say BoonVs article "White Australia no longer exists today" would leave the casual and uninformed reader with a poor impression of life vi Australia for Asians. Such reports do nothing to lift the self-esteem, of Asians. The overall perception of Australia given does
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    • 403 13 IT has been almost impossible to get out of Colombo Court car park in the afternoons because drivers are not able to filter into Coleman Street from Colombo Court. As a result, vehicles are unable to enter the car park and sometimes,
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      • 106 13 TO THE best of my knowledge, Bukit Timah Road is the longest road in the Republic, if one includes Upper and Lower Bukit Timah roads. Yet I received a letter addressed to my wife and myself, when the cover gave only the name of
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      • 54 13 I AM writing on behalf of my recently wed aunt to thank the anonymous Singaporean who found and sent her lost identity card to her a day before my aunt left tor her honeymoon. Whoever the kind sender is, you have truly eased my aunt's nerves. EDWARD
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    • 172 13 Beauty of Kallang River THE Kallang River that passes near St Andrew's School, Toa Payoh and Potong Pasir to Ang Mo Kio was once beautiful and teeming with kam pung life. But soon, it will be sandwiched between cold, towering blocks of flats. I wonder whether some of its natural
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  • 1087 14  - Shadow of Sverdlovsk hangs over Soviet-US arms control talks LESLIE GELB BACKGROUND By in Washington ONE of the most surprising developments in the case occurred last February, when another piece of negative evidence, another nonbarking dog, cropped up that seemed to favour the Soviet view. On a plane ride from
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  • TIMES BUSINESS
    • NEWSBRIEFS
      • 53 15 THE Double Taxation Agreement between Singapore and India will be signed tomorrow (Jan 6) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Protocol Conference Room at 3 p.m. Mr Chia Cheong Fook, Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mr Shri M. Oza, the Indian High Commissioner here will
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      • 67 15 PALMCO Holdings Berhad is proceeding with the acquisition of Casuarina Beach Hotel at a cost of M 522.5 million, MJ2.5 million less than orginally proposed. This was the condition stipulated by the Malaysian Capital Issues Committee in approving the purchase to be satisfied by the issue of 11,250,000
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      • 112 15 THE Ayala group has obtained permission from the Securities Industry Council to waive the general offer as stipulated under Rule 33 of the Singapore Code on Takeovers and Mergers. Ayala Hotels, a member of the Ayala group, bought 11,542,244 shares, constituting over 20 per cent of
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    • International
      • 97 15 KOTA KINABALU (Sabah), Mon. A copper smelter and a converter plant, estimated to cost US$l52 million ($311.6 million) and to be sited near Kota Belud, are expected to be launched once a decision on the tender bids is made. Chief Minister Datuk Harris Salleh said today ti.at bids
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      • 96 15 MANILA, Mon. The Philippine Government is currently negotiating a long-term coal supply agreement with China in anticipation of the expected increase in domestic demand this year, Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco said. He told newsmen the negotiations were initiated in view of the five-year Energy Development Programme which
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      • 114 15 TOKYO, Mon. Japanese industry and other research bodies increased spending on research and development by 14.5 per cent to 5,250 billion yen (5548.67 billion) in the financial year which ended last March, the Prime Minister's office said today. This made Japan the biggest research spender after the United
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      • 87 15 JAKARTA, Mon. Foreign contractors will soon start a one-year general survey for coal deposits on a 1.2 million hectare site in east Kalimantan, Antara news agency reported today. A 30-year production sharing agreement provides that contractors turn over 13.5 per cent of their coal production (in kind) to
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      • 93 15 LONLON, Mon. Opec will find it difficult if not impossible to raise its oil output this year much above 1981's 10-year low of around 23 million barrels daily, the Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW) said today. The New York oil industry newsletter said government and industry analysts forecast that
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    • 319 15 THE six-month old Asean Finance Corporation (AFC) is still searching for a chief executive after Yale-trained economist Francis Yeo has rejected an offer for the post. A former director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr Yeo is currently adviser to Mr
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    • 628 15  -  I LEE YEW MENG By MARKET OBSERVERS NOT SURPRISED YEO Hiap Seng Limited, one of the larger soft drink bottlers in this region, has greeted the New Year with a bang a one-f or-one bonus issue and a modestly priced rights issue in the
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    • 156 15 SYDNEY, Mon. The Minister for Finance, t Mr Hon Sui Sen, com- pleted talks with the t Australian Treasurer, t Mr John Howard, here 1 today. t The discussions were a the beginning of a r series of official moves t to ensure efficient g guidelines
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    • 308 15 THE government-backed shipping company, Neptune Orient Lines, has, for the first time, concluded a collective agreement with the Singapore Maritime Officers' Union (SMOU). This agreement is believed to cost the company an additional $4.3 million a year. Concluded on Dec 29 last year, the
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    • 123 15 Less cargo at Free Trade Zone CARGO throughput at the Entrepot Cabinets of the Free Trade Zone dropped 8.3 per cent in 1980 from the previous year from 71,864 tonnes to 65,905 tonnes. According to the annual report of the Free Trade Zones advisory committee, this was due to the
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    • 227 15 MR CHUANG Kwong Yong, director of the Management Services Department (MSD) of the Ministry of Finance, has been appointed deputy managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He will fill the seat vacated by Mr Herman Hochstadt who was in charge
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    • Market Highlights
      • 135 15 I nfa*fr].l '=I«7JZIiM 1 HONGKONG: Storks closed easier after falling Umwhout the day op technical adjustment,. Tfce Hang Seng Index closed ITK.SS, down 29.17 Mints from Thursday's finish. SYDNEY: Selected oil Issues scored small Rains In doll and feawreless trading which had the All-OnUnarles Index
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      • CHIEF PRICE CHANGES
        • 58 15 ■laaeas ■tkrtoßM »w Par w-Elee eheapeßM TC MWarha 1 -2 -2 +2 +5 25 NBT S»tlr« PMC PeriiaPlMt Prim* B iMmnii -4 -5 -5 10 -4 Vmb Ship S«pC«rp Shoe Darby St Steamaklp StTnUtag TlmcaPih rKmtawß 25 -2 -7 •60 10 -2 c*c CCM C«M Storage
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        • 51 15 Strait. Trading Srmb Shipyard U M W Spore Fodder Shell Dunlop Ind Intraco 0C B C OVI 1 C B Tine* Pub IVima Prumrt 990 865 SSS 324 410 400 388 1170 »4S 885 830 580 424 60 25 25 22 16 16 16 10 10 10 10 10
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        • 34 15 Sy Resin* 400 Sel Properties 770 Honf I-eong Ind 1250 H Leong Pin 91S Town City 450 M B P Hides 810 Grand Central M 0 -50 -45 -40 -35 -30 -25 -2S
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        • 26 15 Int T F 250,000 FYomet 668 000 PMC 494.000 U M W 392.000 S Finance 255,000 Total turnover: 6.87 m Total value: $28 98m
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        • 36 15 Dec 31 Jan 4 BT Indicator: *****3 *****7 Industrials: 780.78 787.75 Finance: 1770.27 1771.16 Hotels: 1231.80 1221.83 Properties: 786.28 773.83 Minings: 329.80 329.56 Plantations: 929 98 827.74 OCBC: 756.54 756.23 SES Ind: 682 02 680.48
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  • Singapore closing prices
    • Kuala Lumpur
      • 41 16 Dunlap Est Set Prop Gadek HLlnd C Sugars MBFHoId Kl.lnd MA A HL Finance Syn Resins Rahman Hyd 6.00 8.60 5.20 13.90 15.40 8.90 4.98 5.80 10.30 4.32 5.90 -.50 -.35 -.30 -.30 -.30 -.25 -.22 -.20 -.20 -.18 -.15
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      • 17 16 S Trading I Cables UM Works Promet 10.50 3.98 6 IS 4.68 .50 .38 .20 .16
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    • 580 16 CAUTION bans; over the SUgapor* stock exchange yesterday «rtth the pattern of trading very similar to that seea in the last day* of ML There was lmltUl firm rapport at the opealag, partly due to the eoafldeace derived from the sabttaaUal premium Investors accorded to
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    • 1043 16 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. All Times Settlement Contracts are quoted after the world "sett". Big Board deal
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    • OVERSEAS MARKETS
      • 239 16 HONGKONG: Stocks closed easier yesterday, after (ailing throughout the day on technical adjustments, brokers said. The market was quiet and trading subdued due to a general lack o( Incentive andmost traders were reluctant to take new positions. The Hang Seng index closed at 1376.65. down 29.17 points from Thursday's
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      • 285 16 SYDNEY: Selected oil Issues scored small gains in dull and featureless trading which had the All-Ordinaries index unchanged at 595.5 yesterday, dealers said. Industrials and metals were traded In a narrow range. Brokers said the market appeared to be drifting and expected this basically directionless tendency could continue through
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    • 581 16 PROPERTIES B Raya (3.128) (1) 3.16 (1) 3.14 (12) 3 12 (5) 3.10 B Sembawaag (4.10 B) Boltoa (2.805) City Dcv (4348) (15) 4.88 (12) 4.64 (26) 4.66 (5) 4.62 (9) 4.60 (8) 4.58 (1) 434 (6) 436 Island •> Pea (8.308 8.406) (3) 8.40 (1) 830 M Credit
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    • Easier close in KL
      • 36 16 Industrials Finance Hotels Properties (Ml Palms 11ns rubbers y. robbers Deb/Loans Up 15 1 1 1 2 Down 53 6 1 6 2 5 10 1 I rich 19 2 1 1 5 1
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      • 194 16 ABBITHNOT SECT TUTIEB ASIA (Miaaiara' fttna tar Jaa 6) Spore Growth Fund 096 101. 01 B-MONTAUI (Maaagwi' prim Car Jaa f) Union Spore Fund 1.49 1.57 DIAMOND MOT STORE (Maaacen' prim ler Jaa 6) Diamond Spore Fd (US) 0.80 0.85 St 1.73 (DecHtoday) INCOME BOND UNTT (Carnal prim)
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      • 361 17 TOKYO: Share prices rose, led by high technology issues yesterday, in a trading session shortened to half-a-day for the first business day of the new year, dealers said. Full-day trading resumes today. AJlnomoto Altai (10 Aiahl Crmn M 6 Amhl QUm 919 Bulk T» 2M nairni f|§ Brtd|»u>nt 4_
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      • 46 17 RANGE at price* offered by discount houses oo Jan 4: Ovwnighl: 3"t% to 3V»» Call deposits: to 3> i<* Byyiu S«Ui»i 3-month Treasury bills 2H 2H 3-month Bank bills 7 T 7 s 3 months CD 7> 7H 6 months CD 8H 8H Swm: NillnilDheiMtft.
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      • 28 17 Closing Interbank rates (or Singapore dollars on Jan 4: Overnight 1 month 2 months 3 months Overnight 10 TV. 8 8 mode 10 7H V\ 10
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    • COMMODITIES
      • 429 17 PRICES In the Singapore rubber market closed easier yesterday, with January RSS One buyers quoted at 175.50 cents per kilo, down three cents on last Thursday's close, dealers said. The morning session lost two cents on lower Japanese advices and stale bull liquidation, they said. The afternoon market lost
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      • 34 17 Rubber Jan 04 Singapore: Jan: 175.50 cents (down 3.00 cents) Malaysia: Jan: 199.00 cents (down 2.00 cents) Tin: M 534.00 per kilo (down 68 fents) Official offering: 284 tonnes (down 16 tonnes)
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      • 141 17 IN THE Far East, gold opened at rSMOO 50 401 00 and was traded narrowly to $401 20 401 70 before closing at $400 75 401.25 at lunch. It re-opened at that level but was taken down to $399 30 399 80 In featureless afternoon trading before closing at
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      • 88 17 NOON SSR md SMR pno. ywUnUr RAB Juurr Fcfcnary (Carnal Mta) (Forward Mia) Buytrs S«ll»r« Bmyn S*U*n SSR» lluopallat) 161.50 163 SON 163.90 165.50N SSR 50 (1-bwpaUtll 167 00 *****N 159 00 181 00N MMLB Jaaaarr F.bru.ry BMRCV (l-toapallM) 187.00 *****N 159.00 ItI.OON SMRL (1-toopallM) 1M.60 ISB.SON
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    • STRAITS TIN
      • 144 17 CHINESE Predict ExchMge, Slngaparr, Dean rlMing price* per 1M kg yeatertoy: C«e«Mt all: Bulk fob $100 00 sellers, old drum (In second hand drum) fob $112 00 sellers, new drum fob $116 00 sellers. OlfM! Miied (loose) $50 00 buyers. Ptpfißf: Muntok white pepper fob Asu NLW $372.50
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      • 160 17 KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian crude palm oil market closed firmer yesterday, on further covering Interest in quiet trading, dealers said. January in the south rose $10 to Ms9ls per tonne and central moved up $5 to $907 50 while In February, the central region firmed $20 to $910
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    • 24 17 THE average rate at which major Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers la 11.71 per e*nt.
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    • 186 17 THE US dollar opened at $2.0430/40 against the Singapore, and was traded up to a high of $2.0475/85 but eased to closed at 2.0460/70 after a day of moderate trading in the Singapore forex market yesterday. The upsurge of the US/ Sing dollar may be due to
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    • 356 17 ASIAN currency deposit Interbank rates as at close on Jan 4: Closing Asian dollar certificates of deposit for prime names on Dec 31: INTERBANK rates at 3.00 pm CwMdM Nominal rate* Smithsonian "fcanlaga quoted yoatorday (croaafeartty changa Local dollars to one unit of foreign rurreaey: US dollar 2.0460
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    • London
      • 29 17 H.K.HANG SENG Monday 1378.85 Friday 1405.82 Week Ago 1408.11 AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIALS Monday 739.4 Friday 741.2 Week Ago closed ALL ORDINARIES Monday 585.5 Friday 585.5 Week Ago closed
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  • TIME BUSINESS
    • 373 18 JAKARTA, Mon. Indonesia today slashed its generous domestic fuel subsidies and raised petrol and oil prices by an average of 60 per cent. The move, on the eve of a major budget speech by President Suharto and only four months before parliamentary
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    • 235 18 JAKARTA, Mon. Prleea of w—wtUl commodities began to rise fallowing; the drastic fuel price Increase annoanc*d laat night. Many bases and taxis were not operating, with their owners sayIng they had to calculate new tariffs die to the fuel price Increases. Armed troops
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    • 80 18 Devaluation rumours JAKARTA, Mon. Rumours of a possible devaluation of the Indonesian rupiab left most money changers here short of foreign currencies, mainly the US dollar, banking sources said. Foreign bankers said the rupiah could drop to 1,000 for U&l ($2.04) in 1982. but were expecting at most a 20
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    • 489 18 ANOTHER financial institution has teamed up with the Central Provident Fund to provide up to 100 per cent financing for purchases of private sector houses. Singapore Finance (Sinfin) is the second institution to introduce a loan scheme for buyers of private residential units to
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    • 388 18 Colossus of Malaysian banking KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Bank Bumiputra with consolidated assets totalling MJ12.82 billion at the end of 1960, is the undisputed colossus dominating Malaysian banking. In terms of shareholders' funds, it is also the leader with Ms37o million. according to the 1982 edition of the Kuala Lumpur Bankers
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    • 158 18 Honeywell plans to double output HONEYWELL-SYNER-TEK, a subsidiary of the Honeywell Corporation of the US, plans to double its production of integrated circuits and upgrade its testing facilities this year. The volume of its integrated circuit memory devices and electronic components will be increased significantly through the use of more
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    • 429 18  - MBL to spend $27 m on improvements ANGELINE TAN By MALAYAN Breweries Limited (MBL) will spend some $27 million to upgrade its buildings and plant at the Tiger Brewery in Alexandra Road during the year. Chairman Tan Sri Tan Chin Tuan revealed these plans m MBL's 1981 annual report The
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    • 282 18 HARPER Gilfillan group has announced a new top management structure to reflect the change in new equity ownership. The new group board is headed by Mr Peter Fatharly as chairman. The other board members include Mr George Lemon of BTR Limited, Mr Jim Currie of John
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  • 87 26 MUSIC wu In the air •n Sunday when the St Patrick's school band struck a p at the Esplanade. Crowds gathered tor the hour-long performance organised by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board na part of Its parks sad gardens programme. The band wUI give
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  • 72 26 YEO Knee Fatt. 24. was charged in a magistrate's court yesterday with hurting Miss Tan Slew Cheng in his attempt to rob her at her office in Robina House, Shenton Way, on Saturday at 1.50 p.m. He was alleged to have choked her. No plea was
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  • 577 26  - Police officer sues driver for making 'false' report MAUREEN CHUA ACTION FOR DAMAGES AND COSTS By I A SENIOR police officer was accused of behaving in a "threatening and insulting" manner at an accident scene when he was nowhere there, the High Court heard yesterday. This point was brought up
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  • 122 26 IT'S headed for Singapore business worth $80 million. This artist's impression shows what is said to be one of the largest drillships to be built in the region. The Far East-Leving-ston Shipbuilding Ltd (FELS) won the order from Global Marine Drilling Company of the
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  • 421 26  -  Rewards for improvement methods THE government is to continue with all the three existing schemes under which civil servants are rewarded for suggesting ways of improving methods, work procedure or saving manpower. This decision was made after a study showed each
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  • 234 26 An easy time for Vicom VICOM, one of two car inspection centres, has had an easy time since its official opening two days ago. The centre's executive director, Mr Raymond Llm, said yesterday that 26 cars were inspected on Saturday and 28 yesterday. Today, 53 bookings had been made for
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  • 145 26 CAMPUS NOW ALIVE TO JOY OF MUSIC MORE undergraduates are taking time off to enjoy the musical things in life, says the latest edition of Campus News, the monthly newsletter of the National University of Singapore. The focal point of musical life on campus is the Centre for Musical Activities
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  • 61 26 THE Secretary of the Council on Education of Muslim Children, Mr Manser Sukaimi. was reported as saying that if only 100.000 of the 400,000 Mus Urns in Singapore contribute $100 to the proposed property tax (zakat narta). there would be 110 billion in the kitty.
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  • 185 26 Dust storm may be over 500n THE angry storm stirred up by dust in Jalan Jintan, off Orchard Road, may settle down soon. Efforts are being made by the Environment Ministry and the Public Utilities Board to help contractor Soon Ann and Company reduce the duet when demolishing the nearby
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  • 109 27 behind MiUer and Ballesteros at the turn, then put on one of his great charges. He reeled off a string of three consecutive birdies one with a chip from off the green starting at the 12th, and got a share of the lead with another birdie on the
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  • 876 27 AMERICANJohnny Miller snatched the richest single prize in golf history US$5OO,OOO (511.02 million) when he won the Sun City Challenge here; the superstar competition that brought together the arguably five best players in the world today: Miller, Severiano Ballesteros, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Gary Player. Miller subdued
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  • West Indies in the driving seat...
    • 119 27 CAI.CUTTA. Mon. England's cricketers will enjoy the rare luxury of a match-winning position when the fourth Test against India resumes here after today's rest day. Keith Fletcher's tourists will restart tomorrow at 49 for one in their second innings, a lead of 89 runs. It
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    • 53 27 LAUNCESTON, Tasmania, Mon. Pakistan today beat Tasmania by 10 wickets on the final day of their four-day cricket match here. Sccres: Pakistan 472-5 declared and 4-0; Tasmania 158 and 316 (R. Jeffrey 37, D. Boon 49, B. Davison 72, R. Wooley 37, P. Clouyh 34, Imran 3-84.
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    • 99 27 Erika wins slalom title again MARIBOR, Yugoslavia, Mon. Erika Hess, of Switzerland, captured her third consecutive World Cup slalom victory here yesterday with a combined time of 1 mm. 37.58 sec. Second was Maria Rosa Quario, of Italy, in 1:38.43 and third Olga Charvatova, of Czechoslovakia (1:38.53). In Imwbrnrk, Austria,
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    • 50 27 ADELAIDE. Mon. Germany's Andreas Etten has taken the outilght lead after three heats of the world 420 yachting championship af Bri(fhton-Sea-cllff. Leaders: Overall placings: 1 Andreas Etten (17). 2 Robert Lea (10), 3 Andrea Mula (Italy, 13.7), 4 Geoff BackshaU and Ezra Flda (Ist) (19). AFP.
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    • 32 27 NEW DELHI, Mon Davis Cup player Shashi Menon retained his men's Indian lawn tennis championship singles title when he beat Nandan I-il 7-6, 6-3. 6-7, 6-3 in the final. AFP.
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE TWO
    • J obituaries
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        168 28 May He Attain The Bliss Of Nibbanai Paased awa* peacefully on 3rd January IM2 Leaving behind: Beloved wHe: Mdm Pang Ah Mul Son: Peter Leong Slew Cheong Daughters: Judy Leong Kum Toh (Ratana) Linda Leong Mcl Yoke (Nanda) Mrs Dolly Loh Mcl Chan (Paduma) Mrs Chew Mcl Leng
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      • 113 28 wish to thank relatives, friends, the doctor, pastor and members of Prinsep Presbyterian Church for thair assistance, attendance, donations ate during thair recent bereavement THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR. SAMUEL DE SOUZA WASHES TO THANK ALL RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND STAFF OF CP F FOR THEIR KINO ATTENDANCE,
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      • 80 28 Wish to thank all Relatives Friends for their kind attendances, condolences, donations Wreaths during their recent bereavement ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM OLORD; AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SMINE UPON HIM loved wife of the late Mr. Koh Kong Thlan, sons Dennis. Daniel and daughter Nancy
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      • 35 28 One full year has gone by. Your cheerfulness and sudden departure has and will always linger in our hearts Dearly miaaed and forever remembered by Deddy. Mummy, brother and all loved once.
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        166 28 Jesus said "I am the resurrection, and the life Whoever believeth In me, although dead, yet shall live" John 11:25 A face we loved Is missing. A voice we loved Is still; A place Is vacant In our hearts, That never can be filled; The golden gates were opened. One
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      • 74 28 IN LOVING MEMORY OF In loving memory of Two years has passed since you've left us without bidding goodbye. Your sudden departure was a sad one but memories of you still lingers dearly In our hearts. Dearly miaaed 4 elwayt remembered by Dad. Mum, Brothers all K)V#O 00#* Though 2
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      • 25 28 1 year has passed, memories stay fresh and painful. Ahvaya remebered by wife, daughter and loved onea. V BALAGURU Departed 3/1/(1
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      • 45 28 MR. LIM MUN PANG Departed: Sth Jan. 1973 Within our home when all was bright. God took from us a shining light; We miss that, light, and always will, His vacant place no one can fill. Deeply mewed by loved oner
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      • 45 28 ABISHEGANADEN called to eternal rest sth Jan. 1981 Jeeue said, "I am the Reaurrectton and the LHa." Ha thai believeth in me, though he were dead, yet *naH h«li». Beloved mother ot Paul. Geoffrey. Fetli. E»ther, Alexander and Diana. MBS ELIZABETH
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      • 12 28 Departed 2.1.79 Inaerted by Jennifer Yee. Lilian Tan
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    • 398 28  -  EPSOM JEEP PRO-AM RACE REVIEW By THE 1982 Malaysia-Singapore racing season began on a bright note with racegoers having a betting spree at the two-day pro-am meeting at Bukit Timah during the weekend. Betting on the $5 win and place tote compared favourably with a
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    • 267 28  -  EQUESTRIENNE By! FOUR-MAN TEAM WILL TAKE OVER THE STIPE'S FUNCTION IN THREE MALAYSIAN CENTRES A POUR-MAN panel will take •ver the functions of the Stipendiary Steward at race meetings In the three Malaysian centres. The panel's first assignment will be the Tonka Gold Cap meeting
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    • The big tennis challenge
      • 48 28 SINGLES: John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Wojtek Fibak, Ivan Lend], Jooe-Lols Clerc, Die Naataae, Eliot Teltscher, VIUs Geralaltte. DOUBLES: Peter MeNamaxa-Peter McNamee, Victor Amaya-Haak Pfister, Sherwood StewartFerdl Taygan, John LJoyd-Bnster Mbttram, Peter Fleming- Fritz BuehnJng, Balazs Taroci> -Heinz Oundhardt, Vljay Amritra}- Anand Amritraj, Kevin Cnrren-Steve Denton.
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      • 165 28 ROSEMONT. Illinois, Mon. It will be an international who's who of men's tennis beginning tomorrow night when eight top professionals compete in a US$3lO,OOO ($632,400) 'championship at the Rosemont Horizon. John McEnroe, the world's No. 1 player, who earned nearly U*****,000 last
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      • 417 28 Connors will take on Teltscher. McEnroe will not begin his competition until Wednesday when he faces the controversial Nastase, LONDON, Mon. Australians Peter McNamara and Paul McNamee will have to face up to a posse of big servers when they start the
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    • BRIEFS
      • 22 28 AMERICAN FOOTBALL Dallas Cowboys swamped Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38-0 in a National League playoff. Other results: San Diego 41 Miami 38.
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      • 64 28 BASKETBALL Atlanta Hawks scored a narrow 97-95 victory over New Jersey Nets in the American National Basketball Association tournament. Other results: Boston 106 Cleveland 103, Washington 107 Indiana 103, NY Knicks 121 Detroit 108. Milwaukee 128 Chicago 121. San Antonio 148 Denver 133, Phoenix 120 Seat tie 97.
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      • 35 28 BOXING Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation middleweight champion Park ChongPal, of South Korea, retained his title in Seoul on Sunday by stopping Thai challenger Mana Prenchai in the fourth round of a title bout.
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      • 35 28 In Pagan, the OPBF welterweight champion, Hwang Chung-Jae, also of South Korea, retained his crown for the 12th time with a fourth-round knock- out win over Japan's Dtuya Toshinai in a title bout.
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      • 43 28 CYCLING West Germans WUfl-ied Peffgen and Albert Fritz won the 30th Cologne sixday track event as the first three pairs finished in the same lap. The German pair beat compatriot Gregor Braun and Belgium's Patrick Sercu, the runners-up. by 85 points
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      • 22 28 ICE HOCKEY Canada won their first world junior championship n six attempts when they drew 3-3 with Czechoslovakia on Sunday.
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      • 59 28 In New Yark, Quebec Nor digues defeated Bulfjflo Sabres 6-3 in an American League match Other results: Boston 4 Edmonton 4, NY Rangers 6 Montreal 5, NY Islanders 5 Chicago 3. Minnesota 6 Toronto 2, Pittsburgh 9 Hartford 4, Washington 5 Vancouver 2, Detroit 3 Colorado 1, Philadelphia
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      • 41 28 Rl GBY LEAGLE British Div. 1 results: Castleford 34 Warrington 13 Hull 11 Hull Kingston Rovers 1 Leeds 30 St Helens 4 Leigh 18 Fulham 11 Whitehaven 9 Wakefield 9 Wigan 15 Barrow 18 York 13 Widnes 16. Agencies.
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    • 384 28 CANNES, Mon West German First Division club Hamburg yesterday won the Second Cannes international soccer tournament when they beat French First Division club Nice 4-1 (half-time 1-1) here. Magath, Bastrup, Uessen and Hieronymus scored for Hamburg while Schaer replied for Nice In a play-off for
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE THREE
    • 242 29 ROTHMANS. who boast one of the quickest promotions to Division One of vie Singapore Business Houses Football League, look set to make just as hasty a U-turn to Division Two after yesterday's 5-0 defeat by joint-champions Hongkong Bank at the Jalan Besar Stadium, reports WILFRED YEO.
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    • 85 29 PORT WASHINGTON, Mon Francesco Cancellotti, of Italy, and American Janet T ■fllf won the boys' and girls' junior international under-18 tennis titles respectively here in New York State yesterday. Cancellotti beat Sweden's Henrick Sundstrom 6-4, 7-5 ets in the final of the boys' competition, while Janet beat
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    • 241 29  - Newcomers lift fans' eyes with their football PETER SIOW By NEWCOMERS Corona, guided by former international Yunos Baba, should open the eyes of their more fancied rivals more often in the Singapore Business Houses Football League Division Three tournament. Yesterday, at Farrer Park, they lifted the fans' eyelids with entertaining
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    • 343 29  -  WILFRED YEO By ...despite outstanding players in Bavarian All-stars team FOUR men stand in the way of a victory that Singapore Selection need against the visiting Bavarian All-stars soccer team, of West Germany, at the National Stadium tonight (7.30) to kick off a year of
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    • 293 29 FOUR club records, all in the 4 x 50 metres individual medley, fell at the Singapore Swimming Club's annual single age-group swimming meet at Amber Road yesterday, reports JANICE SEAH. Amos Mok, swimming in the boys' under- 13 section, bettered Bernard Chan's 1979 record of
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    • 66 29 PARIS. Mon. French yacht Gauloises 111 lost its mast on Saturday, the eighth day of the third leg of toe round-the-world race, skipper Eric Lolzeau said in a radio message received here yesterday The yacht, placed 12 in compensated time standings on the second leg, from Capetown
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    • 109 29 TODAY'S EVENTS HOCKEY SHA Junior ko final SCC v SIA (Padang, 5) MM ('KB SBHFL: Div. IB: Tien Wan v Oberoi Imperial (5.15), BNP v Heli Orient (7). Both matches at Jalan Besar; Div. 2: Hyatt Hotel v Hitachi Consumer (5.15, FPAC), OCBC v FAN (Geylang, 5.15); Div. 3: Promet
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    • 39 29 Singapore Yacob Hashim, Phua Ching Loon, Au-yeong Pak Kuan, Norhalis Shafik. Selvakumar, T. Pathmanathan, R. Suriamurthy, Salim Mom, Fandl Ahmad, Rosli Amri and Kannan Kuniuraman; Reserves: David Lee, Jeffrey Lazaroo, V. Sivalingam, Abdullah Noor and Malek Awab.
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    • 237 29  - Fandi to pit skills against Diego GODFREY ROBERT a> FANDI AHMAD versus Dlege Maradona; (wands like a dream, doesn't It? Bat It will become a reality next Tneaday when the Republic's ace striker turns out for Selangor Invitation In a friendly match against Argentina's Boca Janlon. Fandl Is one of
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    • 141 29 Jansenites defeat Khalsa in play-off JANSENTTES' superior team-work helped tnem to a comfortable 2-0 win over a poorly organised Khalsa in the Singapore Hockey Association Fraser and Neave Elite Cup play-off match at Balestier Road yesterday, reports R. MANORAJ. Jansenites, attacking from the word "go", forced five penalty corners and
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    • 128 29 LONDON, Mon. Tottenham's remarkable run of luck in the English Football Association Cup continued today when they received a home tie against Leeds United in the fourth-round draw. The draw: Manchester City v Coventry, (JiUingham or Oldham v West Bromwich. Tottenham v Leeds, Shrewsbury or
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    • 233 29  -  R. MANORAJ By SINGAPORE Recreation Club president Professor E. S. Monteiro has asked his Singapore Hockey Association counterpart Mansor Sukaimi that his club be entered for the Fraser and Neave Elite Cup tournament from Friday to Sunday. Professor Monteiro's appeal came after an
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    • 315 29 YEO HIAP SENG (MALAYSIA) BHD. PRELIMINARY FINAL RESULTS The Board of Directors of Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia) Bhd are pleased to announce the audited results for the year ended September 30, 1981 as follows: 1981 1980 Group Company Group Company ($000) ($000) Net Sales 119,803 87,450 100,263 79,407 Profits before
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    • 163 29 L^sfl sn^n^sn^^^^^^^^^^^snW I Lfl I MR. LEE TECK KOOI AGED: 87 YEARS passed away peacefully on 3rd Jan.. 'B2 leaving behind his beloved wife I LIM SIOK and 1 BROTHER: LEE TECK HIANG (Deceased) i LEE TECK PHONG i SISTER: LEE CHIEW GUAT 1 SONS: DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW I LEE LIAN TENG
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  • 482 30 CAPTAIN Tay Cheng Keng, was singled eat as aa officer keenly aware of the SAP's need for senior reservists to take on more responsibility and help build a strong reserve army. He had completed five yean in the reserve early
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  • 111 30 LONDON, Mon. Union leaders representing 54,000 production workers at Ford Motor Company called off a general strike at Ford's 24 British plants scheduled to start today after receiving an improved contract offer. The basic increase remained the same as that oreviously rejected by union
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  • 220 30 PARIS, Mon. Poland's soldier-Prime Minister Wojciech JaruzeLski was on the verge of suicide 10 days ago, according to a report received from Warsaw. The report, described as private and based on high-level information, said yesterday that he was in despair when he learnt that
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  • 67 30 BANGKOK, Mon. At least two boatloads of Vietnamese refugees, pushed back to sea by Thai authorities when they tried to land in Thailand last month, are still unaccounted for, aid agency sources said here today. Under Tnailand's policy of deterring Vietnamese refugees from coming here, boat people
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  • 36 30 BANGKOK, Mon. A Soviet trade mission will visit Thailand this month to exp nd trade relations between the two countries, Mr Bajr Issarasena, director general of the Foreign Trade Department, told reporters today. Reuter
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  • 61 30 Holy statue stolen PALERMO (Sicily). Mon. A headless statue of St Lucy, the Roman Catholic saint whose remains were stolen and recovered in Venice late last year, was stolen from a market square here during the night, police said today. The statue, which was sculpted in 1575 and appeared often
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  • 34 30 TOKYO, Mon Miss Kirn Bok Sin, a delegate to the Supreme People's Assembly. has become the first female Vice-Premier in North Korea, according to a Pyongyang Radio broadcast monitored here today. AFP
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  • 338 30  - Bejing 'in no position' to force Khmer Rouge LEE KIM CHEW By uur BangKOK correspondent BANGKOK, Mon. China appears to have turned down Asean's request that it put pressure on the Khmer Rouge to form a loose coalition with the non-communist Cambodian forces. Thai Deputy Foreign Minister Arun Panupong said
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  • 491 30 THE United States is seriously considering appointing a high-level negotiator to the Egyptian-Israeli n c g o t iations on Palestinian self-rule to emphasise President Ronald Reagan's commitment to securing an agreement by the end of April. Aides to Secretary of State
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  • 59 30 TEL AVIV, Mon. Blr Zeit University, the largest college In the occupied west Bank. reopened today after being closed two months ago following violent student demonstrations. The all- Arab college, 20 km north of Jerusalem, was ordered closed on Nov 4 following three days of violent demonstrations
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  • 48 30 LONDON, Mon. Three people were killed and two others wounded when a bomb exploded in a house (n Teheran. Teheran Radio, monitored here, however, did not say when the blast took place, ft only said a revolutionary guard and two colleagues had Been killed. Reuter
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  • 317 30 CAIRO, Monday EGYPT has agreed to buy 20 French Mirage-2000 combat aircraft in a US$l billion (552.04 billion) deal financed by the French Government, French Defence Minister Charles Hernu said today. At a joint press conference with Egyptian Defence Minister AbdelHalim Abou
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    • 221 30 World's hot spots Which are the world's most troubled places that are likely to erupt this year? We zoom in on six likely flash points which seethe with bitter conflict and explosive rivalries. More. KHNG EU MENG interviews Goh Choo Chiat, Singapore ballet dancer who's made good in Cana-' da.
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    • 222 30 Geha Mark 2 Text-Marker The Gena Mark 2 text-marker is extraordinary in design Its smooth black matt body incorporates a practical clip for any shirt pocket. The new tip is specifically developed for wide and narrow marking so that exact text marking is no longer a problem and you only
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 152 30 UP TO 1 p.m. TODAY: Showers in several areas after midday. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: M max., 24 mm. SUNSET today: 7.12 p.m.; SUNRLSR tomorrow: 7.M a.m. Anmterdftm 58C Goudy Vm Angeles 4IK Ra> n Atfcerui 9 18C Clear Madrid 0 11 C Gear Bangkok 22 30
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  • SECTION TWO
    • 2 1 SECTION TWO
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    • 1804 1 The colourful-stained glass ceiling and mirrored walls of France's most famous restaurant are soon to be reproduced in Singapore. Maxim's the name is synonymous with status and snob appeal— is scheduled to open in April. TAN CHUNG LEE profiles the restaurant's fortunes, from its humble origins
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    • 272 2 SPIRIT Of Asia The World Of Shadows (Ch 6, 11.15 p.m.): David Attenborough returns to the small screen with a new study topic Asian countries. In this first episode, he looks at the tribal lands of Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 13,677 islands spanning 7,500 km.
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    • LEISURE
      • 1102 3 The play, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, which was a Broadway hit in 1962, skyrocketted author Edward Albee to fame. But since then, life has been a series of ups and downs for him. Not being a quitter, Albee has gone on writing, directing and doing adaptations,
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    • OUTLOOK
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        980 4 HE doesn't look, well, fashionable enough to be a budding designer. Too shy, too softspoken, not enough pizazz. But just one glance at the blaze of colours and daring originality in i young Wilson Choo's portfolio, and you know that this is one designer to watch in the
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      • TUESDAY COLUMN
        • 374 4 IT WAS extremely comforting to read the other day that Twiggy the superskinny (40 kg) fashion model sensation of the sixties was rounding (52 kg) in middle age. "Aha," I thought, placing a hand under my chins, "so even scrawny models are attacked by the battle
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        • 545 4  -  FREDERICK WINSHIP By THE return to romance in today's fashions is being underscored by the theme of America's most prestigious annual fashion show "The 18th Century Woman" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition, which opened on Dec 16, will run through August; it
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      269 5 kck in the late -sold. have always h)ung girl, begin until 40 rding to those iat perhaps the set and that I t left me only a |igh the rest of «r, later, don't |en I'm ready, how long was suppoaed to then: Middle Sty at 38
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    • 375 5 IHIP %ge of Reason, from domestic tnd the throne jjectual salons, observed, that siness and the s, painted, and pitta pie country into ferment in all and women of J»ss, and coqueijind lovers, and if the century.' ially h «e two on of 1789, are lends with
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    • 769 5  -  MEG JUMP WHEN Maxim's de Paris opens in the new Pavillion Inter-Continental (scheduled at the moment for April) Singapore can boast of yet another international-standard French restaurant to its gastronomic credit. This one, though, promises to be something very special supremely sophisticated, ostentatiously exclusive, unashamedly elitist and
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    • 2024 7 It is New York's oldest enduring ethnic community, seemingly unchanging and insulated from the world around it. But Chinatown is being transformed. Suffused by the politics of Asia and the press of new immigrants, the Chinatown of tradition is losing ground to a Chinatown of
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    • 1989 8 Honolulu Marathon '8 1 ON THE stroke of 6 a.m. on Sunday, Dec 13, 7,556 people of all shapes and sizes and some 30 different nationalities set off from the foot of Aloha Tower in downtown Honolulu, to the backdrop of a dazzling fireworks display, on the 42.196 km course
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    • 577 1 The Third Honolulu World in Marathnn IM I America caramon W*SA (or NY's Chinatown) tUmOUI M Messages of Edward Albee Page Seven Page Eight LEISURE, Page Tkr«« Bm^^^ssHs| Your Travel Agent has Sg^g^f^^V^jfnjr^V. ree *k' iverv anc installation L 1 HHs^ifl^Hl I m^r Wmmr Great Stuff I something tie wl
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    • 692 2 NEW STUDENT ADMISSIONS Applications for places at St. Aldatcs College are invited from students of either sex wishing to prepare for the General Certificate of Education JGCE) at 'A'-level for University or Professional Career entry. "O'-level tuition is also available. St Aldates is one of Oxford's largest independent College specialising
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 174 2 Straits Times Crossword ACBOBB 5 Anodyne for 17't creature 9 S..U dog. partly Chine«. 2^.?' "S? wltt, Mr Wder once-twtee 1 U So^XSuontT (7) 4 f— U X^" "2ST— wrongs 13 Loot after objects (5) <"> aortal during 14 AUIe end, unhappUy ra«n, -o, during ST* 5 17 strmue yen
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    • 844 2 ■^^■■■^■■I^H Blind, offers shelter and VSB^HI| protection to the fleeing B^l W^md W^m\ brothers. C SBC V dmm Tt* Great Detective Vil |l« BlMdhwuids Can't ArfA|A|3| Fly (Ch 8, 1.15 p.m.) The Inspector hires a A[Wi*WM bloodhound for a day to mM F^^^t^H assist him in the search wLw^j m^m^\
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    • 1141 2 TV and Radio SBC 5 1 3.00 PM Opening folowed by The Young (Malay) And The Restless 7.50 Barbara Mandrel And The Mandrel 3.25 Seriating Star (r) Sisters 4.05 Diary Of Events (English) 8 40 Little House On The Prairie The 4.10 Afternoon Matinee The Pursuit lent Cm 5.40 Champoion
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    • 184 3 &p Malaysia V Helps Rubber I Bounce Rack As opposed to synthetic rubber, the share of the rubber market by natural rubber has been on the decline. However, Malaysia believes that there is still a bright future for the crop. And the RRIM (Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia), with its
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    • 634 3 makes noteworthy points Mitsubishi Urn-ball. -^^SSSk. young and old include the ball pen with the 3*pp^ m the Urn-ball. Uni paint. The tip of the M» JPf Exceed pencil ball the plastic tips of -^i^Sl mtltKF^lMfin? we're points ahead in others in the market S^3BP «VflW////aWO our iel<^ The metallic
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    • 488 6 A fast growing trading company in colour TV, hi-fi stereo, car stereo, video recorders has vacancies for:A) Assistant Sales Manager B) Sales Representatives (taooma Up To &SX ,000.00 pa) R*qulr*m*nts:+A) Singapore citizen age 30 and above +B) Singapore citizen age 23 and above Able to convene in English, Mandarin and
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    • 130 6 ACCOUNT ASSISTANT A leading Engineering Company, subsidiary and a division of a large regional engineering group based In Singapore requires an account assistant. The ideal candidate would be a person with the following qualifications: 1. GCE O-Level with English 2. Higher Accounting or part qualification in professional Examination such as
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    • 135 6 (ft lATA TRAVEL AGENCY (You Can Grow With Us) We are one of the top leading lATA Agents in Singapore and to cope with our 1982 expansion, we ore embarking a training programme to tram personnel for the post of: SALES PROMOTERS (Female) This is a rewording and challenging career
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    • 519 6 MARKETING/SALES ENGINEER (FIRE ENGINEEBINO) The BUILDING SERVICES GROUP <* McAlister A Co Ltd is seeking an experienced Marketing /Sales Engineer to promote sales of its fire engineering based products and systems to architects, consultants, contractors and end users. QUALIFICATION Preferably a Singapore dtl»n with a Degree or Diploma In Electrical
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    • 2 1 SECTION THREE
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      • 1075 2 in Most calligraphy inscriptions have something to do with the subject matter, but there is a warning to readers who are eager to know what has been written on Chinese paintings especially in the form of poetry NO DISCUSSION of the design,
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      • 930 4  -  DEWANI ABBAS By I ON December 12 and 13 last year there was a literary function which although small left a big impact especially on exponents of Malay poetry. The function, referred to as 'Puisi Temasik I', was organised by the Literal y
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      • 431 4  - Let's learn MALAY Haron A. Rahman By Answers for Revision 7 Exercise 1 1) That girl is from a good family. 2) That man prays five times a day. 3) That naughty boy wrote a few words with a nail on Ali's car. 4) Asmah started working last year. 5)
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      • 377 4 f 8 PUBLIC BANK BERHAD invites applications for the posts ot a) Clerks b) Clerk/Cashiers tor its' Kota Briaru/Pasir Putehfianah Merah branches in Keiantan Bumiputras are especially encouraged to apply Applicants should 1* possess a minimum of MCE I qualification with passes in /A Bahasa Malaysia. English and AM f/
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      • 445 4 PERSONNEL EXECUTIVE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT We are looking for an individual with drive m and initiative to join our Employee mb Relations Department. |P The successful candidate will initially take charge of the Company's progressive human 9 resource development activities. This includes assisting line management in the I analysis of
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      • 296 4 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIKB ACT, cap. m aai IN THE MATTEH OF LEE WAI (PTE.) LTD. (Member. 1 ViluUn WWtagUp) NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN that the creditors of the above-named company which U being wound up voluntarily, are required on or before the S February 1982 to send
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      • 137 4 SANG NILA UTAMA Retold by Ehmn Hj All and Haron AJL Demang Lebar Daun berdatang sembah. "Tuanku, ada patik mendengar Mendengar penerangan dar.pada Demang Lebar Daun itu. maka Sang Nila keterangan mengenai bmatang seperti itu dan jika patik tidak silap bmatang Utama pun memenntahkan Indera Bupala supaya pulang ke Bentan
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