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...guerrilla success. Meanwhile, by severing trade relations with Malaysia, Sukarno has invited economic failure. More than half of Indonesia's rubber, which supplies 50 per cent of the nation's foreign exchange income, was formerly processed at Singapore. Indonesian tin will have to be refined in Europe, instead of Penang. And Indonesia's refined oil products, over 60 per cent of which went to Malaya and Singapore in the first half of 1963, will have to find new markets. Indonesia will also forfeit $300 million in proposed American and European foreign aid. The seizure of key British businesses will discourage...
Social Security. In Penang, Malaya, public notice in the Straits Times announced: "All persons residing in Kedah and Perlis who are in possession of Orang Utans are required to declare them to the ame Warden. Kedah and Perlis. Sungei Patani, within ten days for Registration...
Died. Dr. Wu Lien-teh, 81, plague expert who saved thousands of his fellow Chinese by rushing vaccine to them when the 1910 pneumonic plague epidemic struck, by convincing them that the plague was not a visitation of the gods but a curable earthly ill; in Penang, Malaya...
...Hard Workers. Britain's entry into the Orient brought new swarms of Chinese to Nanyang as indentured coolies to work in tin mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As agents and middlemen, the ubiquitous Chinese followed the Dutch troops into Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, the British into Burma, the French into Indo-China. Even in Thailand, which never became a European colony, the Chinese were advisers to the king, and controlled the nation's commerce...
Snarevoyance. In Penang, Malaya, Medium Cassim Bin Osman was asked to go into a trance and locate a missing corpse, did so, was convicted of murder...