Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, Soriano controls or has a major interest in 14 companies ranging from Philippine radio and TV stations to breweries in Hong Kong and Spain and a fishing business in Borneo. Last year, the major firms controlled by his A. Soriano & Co. netted $6,400,000 on sales of $74.8 million. Since World War II, his enterprises have averaged a breathtaking 35% annual return on invested capital...
...British, who hastily put their stamp of approval on the sensible plan in exchange for a promise that the Royal Navy would enjoy continued use of its strategic Singapore base. Next question: the willingness of three other British-run territories in the area-Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo-to join the new political grouping. If they agree, federation could be a fact within two years...
...since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution is to widen the federation to include the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, whose predominantly non-Chinese populations would offset Singapore's Chinese, many of whom are openly proCommunist. But Lee, who has lost two by-elections in recent months, fortnight ago rushed to Kuala Lumpur to argue that his situation was deteriorating, and he cannot afford to wait until the Borneo...
...cases, with six deaths, in the colony's islands and mainland territory. Within ten days, the doctors vaccinated 1,750,000 (out of a population of 3,000,000). Cholera vaccine was arriving daily by jet from the U.S., Britain, India (the birthplace and permanent home of cholera), Borneo and Australia. Among the U.S. shipments was a Government gift of 450,000 shots...
...bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...