SINGAPORE- Meeting of Significance

LAST month, a three-day meeting of great interest to international business and South-East Asia was held here under the auspices of the Stanford Research Institute. The chairman of the meeting was Max Leuis. General Manager and Director of Fraser and Neave (Singapore) and the Prime Minister of Singapore was the guest of honour at dinner on the opening day. Yet, the meeting received little attention in the Singapore press and newspapers in other countries failed to take notice of it, maybe because the sessions were not open to the press and the hand-outs released by the organisers contained only some extracts from the papers read by a few delegates. These were not very exciting, nor were the discussions at the plenary session particularly stimulating. The meeting did not adopt any resolutions, A processed version of the discussions will be published by Stanford Research Institute at a later date.