The Business Times, 6 December 1977

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  • 10 1 Business times M.C.(P) 300/1/77 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1977 50 CENTS
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF
    • 48 1 AFP LONDON, Mon. Construction firm Bernard Sunley and Sons announced a £14 million (Ss6o million) order for a residential complex at Abu Dhabi. The order, placed by Abu Dhabi national petroleum company, brings to £180 million the firm's contracts In the Gulf region. AFP
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    • 62 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Preliminary studies on the urea-ammonia plant to be established by Malaysia as one of the five Asean projects have been completed, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Datuk Abu Samah told Parliament today. The report on the study, conducted by stateowned oil corporation Petronas
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    • 59 1 LONDON, Mon. A Chinese trade team flew from London to Paris, leaving orders for the Harrier Jump Jet and Concorde planes still in the balance. "My visit will certainly lead to orders for British Industry and we will get Into concrete business later on," said the leader
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    • 42 1 Reuter BONN, Mon. West German Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorf said he exoected the Organisation of Oil Exporting Countries (Opec) to increase next year's prices between 5 and 7 per cent at their Caracas conference later this month. Reuter.
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    • 38 1 Reuter SEOUL, Mon. South Korea had a record rice harvest of 6 million tonnes this year to mark one of the world's high&t levels of rice productivity, Agriculture and Fishery Minister Choi Kak-Kyu said. Reuter.
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    • 37 1 AFP TOKYO, Mon. The Soviet Union's trade representative here Mr. Victor Spandarlan renewed Moscow's hope of concluding a long-term economic cooperation agreement with Japan as a basis for bilateral relations and peace In Asia.
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    • 53 1 AFP NICOSIA, Mon. Exports of Saudi Arabian oil In October were at their lowest since September 1976, the Middle East Economic Survey (Mees) said today. Shipments came to 7,974,000 barrels a day against 8,109,000 the previous month. Aramco exported 7,829,000 Arabian Oil 92,534 and Getty 52,628 barrels
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    • 68 1 UPI NEW YORK, Mon. Stocks were slightly lower early today amid year-end selling and bargain hunting. Trading was moderately active. Analysts said many institutional traders were selling stock to establish losses for tax purposes. Against this background, the Dow Jones Industrial average was off 0.35 point to 823.63
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 170 1 TRADING was quiet amid generally easier conditions on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. Profit-taking wiped out substantial gains chalked up by some shares the previous week. This resulted in a 0.19 point drop in the Business Times index to 479.41 while the Straits Times industrial index
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    • 109 1 Rite* Most octive Tractors M.U. Ind Sel Dredge Esso Tronoh Petallng Tin Supreme Corp Tan Chong Malex 3.85 1.45 5.05 2.30 5.75 6.55 1.79 2.33 3.34 .47 +.11 .07 .06 .06 .06 .04 .04 .04 M. Weaving 372.000 Fed. Cables 274,000 Fusan 106,000 O. Lumber 94,000 Total
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  • 967 1  -  DOOMSAYERS PROVED WRONG By JOHN TAN THE pessimistic gospel that continuing recession and increasing protectionism are bound to take their toll of Singapore's exportoriented industries has been proved wrong after all. A lot of brickbats thrown after allegedly lethargic Singapore entrepreneurs may have been misdirected.
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  • 182 1 Reuter JAKARTA, Mon. Heads of Asean Cooperatives began a three-day conference here to discuss the setting up of an Asean cooperatives organisation. Besides looking Into the possible structure of a regional cooperative body, the meeting is to debate problems facing the movement. In his opening speech,
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  • 813 1  -  »y COLIN CHEE PRIVATE housing developers were delighted when they learnt yesterdaythat the Governmentbacked Housing and Urban Development Company (HUDC) had bought over from the private sector more than 100 units of terrace houses in Paslr Rls housing estate for re-sale to Its long list
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  • 288 1 MR. Goh Sin Tub, assistant general manager of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), is to join C.K.Tang from Jan 1 next year, to work on the company's new hotel project. Mr. Ooh headed the special control committee that supervised the construction of the OCBC Centre. A
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  • 258 1 UPI GENEVA, Mon. The world's major pro* ducing and consuming nations began last* minute negotiations on preventing anarchy next year in the US$5O billion-a-year (SSI2O billion) trade in textiles. Negotiations aim at renewing or rewriting the 1974 international multi-fibres arrangement (MFA) which
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  • 491 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The tragic Malaysian Airline System crash yesterday has reduced MAS' Boeing 737 fleet to eight and thrown some flight timetables Into disarray. All MAS flights to Senal airport in Johore Baru will be cancelled tomorrow, said a MAS spokesman
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  • 115 1 SHIPOWNERS have sent small ships and tugs back here to be re-bullt by other yards because of shoddy work. Bome of the defects mentioned by customers are poor welding, poor furnishings, haphazard painting and the use of substandard steel. A spokesman for Intveld Shipyard in Jurong confirmed
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 593 2 CARTER GIVES BACKING Reuter WASHINGTON, Mon. The United States Is preparing to embark on an unparalleled effort to provide a Job for virtually every adult and teenager In the land. A "full employment" bill now pending and likely to be passed by Congress early next
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    • 131 2 AP RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon. Brazil's coffee producers, faced with a buyer's market, have lowered their minimum export price from US$3.2O to $2.10 (554.95) per pound. Camillo Calazans de Magalhaes. president of the Brazilian Coffee Institute (IBC) said the price decision was an, "adjustment to the
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    • 384 2 UPI LONDON, Mon. The strike by Britain's 35,000 firefighters entered Its fourth week yesterday and union leaders predicted it would last through the Christmas holidays, a peak fire period. The government showed no sign of backing down on Its 10 per cent antl-lnfla-tion pay
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    • 269 2 AP WASHINGTON, Mon. < President Carter's energy plan faces Its stlffest test yet this week in votes scheduled by two deeplv divided congressional conference committees. "The moment of truth is finally here," said Senator Bennett Johnston, a member of the conference panel
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    • 215 2 UPI WASHINGTON, Mon. United Mine Workers president Arnold Miller rejoined government-super-vised bargaining sessions with coal operators yesterday, while a nationwide strike deadline set for midnight today neared for 130.000 coal miners. Mr. Miller was absent from two previous sessions. A union spokesman predicted that
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    • 102 2 AFP LUSAKA. Mon. ImErters of foreign goods to mbla have been warned that the government will refuse licences to businessmen Importing from expensive sources. Commerce and Foreign Trade Minister James Mapoma said yesterday that all local businessmen should now start thinking of getting supplies from
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    • 854 2 AP MIRONOVKA (Soviet Union) Mon. Soviet scientists claim they have created new strains of high yield winter wheat with a Process first developed by toflm Lysenko, once the virtual czar of Soviet biology until he was denounced as a fraud. By treating sprouts of
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    • 701 2 NYT WASHINGTON, Mon. Negotiations for the sale of Mr. Bert Lance's 200,767 shares in the National Bank of Georgia hinge on whether he will be allowed to take an active part In Its management, sources familiar with the transaction said. The potential
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    • 217 2 AP WASHINGTON, Mon. Fierce competition by European and Australian suppliers has bitten deeply Into the United States' share of the lucrative Saudi Arabian farm market. Mr. John Parker Jr. of the Agriculture Department's economic research service said that US farm exports
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    • 335 2 Reagan still owes half a million UPI WASHINGTON, Mon. It has been well over a year now since Ronald Reagan ended his 1976 presidentialbid and the government still has not asked him to return more than a half million dollars in taxpayers' surplus federal campaign Former President Gerald Ford also
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    • 232 3 AP DETROIT, Mon. Design flaws could lead to chronic engine stalling In more than 1.3 million cars built by Chrysler Corp. The defects are peculiar to the 1975, 1976 and some 1977 models with 318-cublc-Inch V 8 engines or 225-cubic-lnch six-cylinder engines.
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    • 228 3 AP WASHINGTON, Mon. Azie Taylor Morton's name may not be a household word but she should be able to identify herself easily when travelling her signature appears an new dollar bills. Mrs. Morton, succeeding Franclne Neff, was the first black US Treasurer. She says,
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    • 536 3 NYT NEW YORK, Mon. —.The nation's beleaguered steel industry Is finding some relief, with most of the major producers reporting that there has been a significant upturn In their orders In the last month on a broad range of products. Executives from some of
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    • 470 3 Reuter NEW YORK, Mon. A pick-up in US economic growth, and recent and anticipated Increases In price Indices have combined to depress prices In the government securities market during the past week. Market analysts expect this trend could continue over the near-term. Alan Lerner
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    • 358 3 NYT NEW YORK, Mon. Home mortgage interest rates in the US are expected to edge higher by spring, and many economists believe the days when homebuyers could expect levels substantially below 9 per cent may not return in the foreseeable future. The immediate rise
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    • 172 3 Reuter BRUSSELS, Mon. Belgian commercial banks will raise their base rate for secured lending to 7.75 per cent from 6.75 per cent today. The Belgian Banking Association said today it decided to raise the spreads within which commercial banks can set their base rates to
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    • 59 3 Reuter SANTIAGO, Mon. The Chilean government has devalued Its currency by 4.3 per cent to the dollar, fixing a new rate of 27.39 pesos per dollar compared with 26.23 pesos previously. It would also gradually adjust the peso-dollar rate over a two-month period up to Feb 5
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    • 1101 3 AP WASHINGTON. Mon. The Carter administration is assembling a package that Includes tax cuts of up to US$3OO *****) for Individuals and a crackdown on deductions for business meals and club membership dues. Although President Carter h*s dropped several of the more controversial tax
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    • 56 2 HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR NOVEMBER ISSUE PROPERTY The Condominiums will be ready soon and the w inner is the developer who offers the best package. LIFE AT THE TOP Personality profile of British Airways' David Lowe: Watching the birds go by. TRENDS What is influencing metal prices? C offee: Bluff and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 330 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER report for 24 hours prior to 7.30 pm on Dec 5 at Singapore airport. Maximum Temperature 26.7° C Associated Humidity 86 Minimum Temperature 22.9° C Associated Humidity 98 Hours of Sunshine Nil Rainfall in Millimetres 1.4 Total Rainfall for the Month 21.7 Total Rainy Days for the
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 597 3 THE TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Equal In a game (5) a Pait of one's person shot off? 9 By which process the convict was shortly unlocked! (7) 10 Tired, maybe, but did one's best (5) 11 Do fully as before (S) 12 Boot fasteners (3) 13 Farm bird
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1050 4 SINGAPORE Land foresees an end to Its declining profit trend as from the purrent year. Indicating this In the just released 1976/77 annual report, the chairman, Mr. S.P. Tao, says earnings from 1978 onwards from Its commercial properties should suffice to compensate for the
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    • 220 4 KILLINGHALL Tin, a UK company, which holds mining leases from Killinghall Rubber, has announced a substantial increase in earnings and dividends for the year ended Sept 30,1977. After-tax profit jumped 114 per cent from M 51.23 million to $2.63 million. This was
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    • 105 4 SOUTH East Asia Lumber: Group pre-tax profit MS3.30 million (146.844) for the year ended June 30, 1977. Tax $159,764 ($64,482 surplus), extraordinary losses 149,864 (142,234), minority interests 1844,435 (1112,204) leaving net attributable profit at $2.25 million (losses $39,112). Veneer Products: Group pretax profit $715,000 ($965,000) for the six
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    • 721 4 MALAYSIAN Wood Wool Products has put the blame for Its poor financial health squarely on the shoulders of Its former chairman, Mr Amos Dawe. This Is the gist of Its belated reply given to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange when asked to comment
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    • 276 4 Current payment Ex Date Date payable Total for the year Total for previous year PMRI 10% Nov 18 Dec 7 10% 20% Aokam Tin 35%I Nov 25 Dec 7 45% 25% Austral Enterprise* Talam Mine* Rah Hyd PMC Riverview Taaek Cement Mineral Securities Toshiba UIC B.M. Truat Sovran
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    • COMPANY MEETINGS
    • 76 4 The Confederation of British Industry correspondent, Mr. Leonard Rayner, Is to relinquish his appointment as area representative of the British Executive Service (BESO) at the end of December 1977. BESO Is arranging to have separate representatives in Singapore and Malaysia to carry on Mr. Rayner's work. Mr.
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    • 41 4 INTRACO says Its recent 25 per cent stake taken in Polsin was satisfied by cash. This Information was rven in reply to the Stock xchange of Singapore query of how the 75,000 Polsin shares were paid for.
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    • 1733 4  -  By JOHN WYLES FT WALL STREET thrives on rumour and this year those rumours more than usual have been about the Impact of a changing world upon the tribe of investment banks and brokerage houses. As Investors and circumstances called for a broadening of capital bases
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 262 5 EUROPEAN COMPANIES BONN: Degussa, the Frankfurt based chemicals and metals concern, appears to have come relatively well out of a year which has hit most West German chemical companies hard indeed. Despite low growth and reduced earnings in the second half, the company reports
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    • 47 5 Reuter THE 100 million mark Eurobond for Petroleos Mexlcanos will be for eight years with a 7 per cent coupon, bond market sources said. Invitations will go out this week and final conditions will be set on Dec 19. Lead manager is Deutsche Bank. Reuter.
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    • 286 5 ROME: Increasing disagreement with Montedison chairman Giuseppe Medici are said to be behind the surprise resignation of the troubled chemical group's senior vice chairman, Alberto Grandi. Grandi, who had been in charge of the overall general management of the group during the
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    • 165 5 AFTER reporting a buoyant first half-year, Rothmans International has said that results for the current half ending March 31, 1978 are likely to be affected by the recent strength of sterling and higher tobacco tax in some European markets. For the first haii-year ended Sept 30. 1977
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    • 136 5 Reuter BASS Charrington reported a pre-tax profit of $90.4 million (£68.6 million) for the year ended Sept 30, 1977 on sales of £904.5 million (£801.7 million) Earnings per share were 16.4p (10.7p). It declared a final dividend of 13.*****3p (2.*****8p) which makes a total of 4.*****6 net (4.*****0).
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    • 110 5 ON A sales Increase of 5.1 per cent. Johnson, Mat they and Co, made a pre-tax profit of 10.02 million for the six months ended Sept 30. 1977. This is about 10 per cent higher than the previous hatf-year's profit of £9.14 million. Sales excluding Johnson Matthey
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    • 43 5 THE European Coal and Steel Community expects to float an 80 million franc 15 year loan on the Swiss market later this month. Banking sources said the loan would be managed by Credit Suisse, where officials were not immediately available for comment.
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    • 280 5 SAO PAULO: Karlos Rlschbieter, president of the Banco do Brasil, has confirmed that his bank will shortly be Issuing shares abroad, possibly in New York. Other state-owned bodies, such as Petrobras, the oil company, and Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, the mining complex,
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    • 32 5 UNAUDITED group net profit at Ocean Land Development rose to HKSS.O9 million in the first six months ended Sept 30, 1977 compared with $4.82 million in the previous corresponding period.
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    • 852 5 ASIAN COMPANIES NYT YO6HITOKI Chlno, deputy president at Dalwa Securities. one of the Japanese big four brokers, has a lovely 17th century gold screen In his Tokyo office inherited from his Samurai ancestors. But the same man decreed that all Japanese works
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    • 246 5 FT ON THE strength of the higher yen exchange rate and recent increases in electricity rates. Japan's nine regional power companies have reported sharp gains in current and net profits, over the year earlier figures, for the half-year to September. The gains were made although sluggish Industrial
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    • 122 5 Reuter NISSAN Motor Co said its profit before tax and special items in the second half year ending March 31 will probably fall to 64 billion yen from an original target of 74 billion as a result of the yen's appreciation. The group is expected
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    • 30 5 LAP Heng has announced a maintained interim dividend of 20 HK cents for the year ending March 31, 1978. Books will close from Dec 20 to Jan 3.
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  • 1427 6 BlDaadeffsr prioM officially Itotod and business to and r»»wlW to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday wit* Um ink at shares traded shown la brackets to toU of 1,000 units unleee otherwise •pacified. AU Time Settlement Coo tract* are quoted after tke word "Bett." Big Board deal*
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  • 75 6 STRIKING prices of the stock options officially listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore, the periods, bid and offer prices and business done yesterday, with the number of options traded shown in brackets. C and C (Dec $1.90) (0.608 0.645) (1) 0.62. (March $1.90) (0.688 0.725) (March $2.30)
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  • 146 6 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST INCOME BOND UNIT (Manager*' pno The Commerce far Dec 1.77 1.88 Hurreat pi INCOME BOND nee*) 1.09 1.19 The Saving Fund 1.06 1.12 MARA BUMIPUTRA FUND S pore Prog Fund 0.84 0 89 (manager* price First Bumiputra far Dm C> S 'pore Security 2.24 2.29
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  • 1372 6 L. otttr price offlcuiJy luted and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets i* lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. Industrial* Ailosmsts (2 168 2 208) Alsem (1.688 1 718). A. ChM (1.07B)
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  • Article, Illustration
    505 7 PRICES ended generally mixed in a slower tempo of trading at the Stock Exchange at Singapore yesterday. An air of uncertainty crept in and moet price* moved erratically throughout the better part of the day. Among the 10 moet active counters of the day, there were both moderate
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  • 454 7 THE Kuala Lumpur stock market closed on a mixed to slightly easier note In selective trading yesterday. Interest was generally confined to industrials, and in particular to the handful of speculative second and third liners which saw narrow price movements In contrast to the generous price increases
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  • 1020 7 NYT NEW YORK: There are times when the stock market is so Irrational that even hindsight doesn't help very much. Take, for example, 30 stocks that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Smith zeroed In on recently In Its market letter. All 30 of the
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  • 649 7 NYT NEW YORK: The venture capitalist has suffered a long drought In his efforts to raise money for new enterprises, with today's depressed stock prices providing almost Insurmountable competition for Investor funds. The following example of a typical approach by a venture capitalist to an
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • 172 7 MANILA: The market closed firmer yesterday with all sectors advancing, dealers said Turnover rose slightly to 2.40 million pesos from Friday's 2 24 million. Philex and Atlas rose four, and one point respectively while other mining Issues gained slightly. Trans-Asia and Phil Overseas rose three and two points respectively
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    • 14 7 BANGKOK: The stock market was closed yesterday as It was a public holiday.
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    • 351 7 HONGKONG: The market closed mixed with a firmer undertone In moderate trading yesterday, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.59 point to 421.13. Local Investors although remaining cautious appeared encouraged by removal of some uncertainty surrounding the textile talks between Hongkong and the EEC. Interest centred on blue
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    • 476 7 TOKYO: Share prices closed sharply lower led by export orientated issues yesterday, dealers said. ifThe Dow Jones average fell 52.34 to close at 4,904.40 with volume of 220 million shares. The New Index closed at 365.95, down 2.82. Vehicles, elegtrlcals and precision Instruments lost ground on reports that the
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    • 390 7 SYDNEY: The market closed firmer yesterday on hopes the government will win next Saturday's federal election, dealers said. The Sydney All-ordinaries Index rose 4.47 points to 445.02. BHP rose 20 cents to A 55.54, Pancontinental gained 90 to $8.40 while Peko advanced 15 to $4.90. CSR rose seven to
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  • 932 7 FT TWO deadlocked and bitter corporate battles may be resolved within the next few weeks if the companies Involved succeed In gaining governmental approval for a series of re-organisations of shareholdings. The two situations which may now be In the process of
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  • 60 7 TOKYO: Toyo Menka Kalsha (Tomen) of Japan announced It has signed a general agent contract with Sener Ingenleria Y Slstemas S.A. of Spain to Introduce the Spanish firm's advanced liquefied natural gas (LNO) carrier producing technology to Japan. Tomen officials said the Spanish technology would enable them
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  • COMMODITIES REPORTS AND PRICES
    • 306 8 THE SINGAPORE rubber market yesterday opened unchanged but later eased marginally on lack of buying Interest and some stale bull liquidation, dealers said. Some covering Interest for December was evident at the lows which narrowed discount by half a cent. Turnover was small. The morning
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    • 30 8 Rubber: Dec 5 Singapore: December 202.00 cents (down 1.75 cents) Malaysia: December 201.50 cents (down 2 cents) Tins: $1,781 (up $21) Official offering: 190 tonnes (down 6 tonnes)
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    • 326 8 Price* In cents per kilo yesterday: Noon (per kilo) Close (per kilo) Buyers Int. 1 R.S.S. prompt f.o.b. 202 50 Int. 1 R.S.S. Dec 1977 203 00 Int 1 R.S.S. Jan 1978 204.00 Int. 2 R.S.S. ***** UK/Cont. 200 00 Int. 3R.S S. 197 50 UK/Cont 196 50
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    • 106 8 NOON S8R and SMR prices yesterday: Decen iber J •auary HAS (Current Mth) (For ward Mth) Buyer* Seller* Buyer Seller* (cenU per k() (cen it* perkf) SSR20 (1—ton pallet) 106.50 198 SON 197.50 199.50N 98RS0 (1—ton pallet) 194.50 196.50N 195.50 197.50N MRELB SMR5CV (1—ton pallet) 212.50 214
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    • 353 8 HONGKONG, Mon. Total turnover for sugar futures rose to 23 lots from Friday's 14. March rose 0.03 US cent, while other months rose 0.04 to 0.08 cent. Sugar futures closing prices: Previous Closing Closing Mch 9.35/36 9 30/33 May 9.83/85 9.75/77 Jly 10.01/06 9.99/10 02 Sep 10.24/26 10
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    • 93 8 HONGKONG, Mon. The market was steady with prices up to 1.50 cents higher, dealers said. (Price In HK dollars per plcul ex-Oo-down) Thai White: 100 pet old crop Ist class 108 00 nom. 2nd 107 00 sir. 3rd 105 50 sir. Spl 3 pet old crop 104 50 sir,
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    • 323 8 THE ABSENCE of renewed buying Interest from overseas made for a quiet trading day on the Singapore produce market yesterday. Prices of all commodities were at best steady. Apart from the usual small lot orders received from West Asian countries, sales were not significant enough to inject life
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    • 222 8 LONDON, Mon. The cocoa opening call was very quiet, with 37 lots traded and only minor price changes from Friday. Dealers said the market Is still cautious on the question of nearby physicals availability. Little, If any cocoa, is coming through from Ghana. But cocoa from other West African
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    • 122 8 LONDON, Mon. Coffee futures opened £12 lower to 18 higher compared with Friday's close. Turnover was 140 lots and the official tone "slightly steadier". Local dealer and commission house buying, together with some scattered jobbing activity, made for a steadier end session after initial losses of up to £20.
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    • 92 8 LONDON, Mon. Terminal sugar opened £1 to £0.20 per tonne higher than Friday's afternoon closing levels. Sales totalled 671 lots. Prices initially gained up to £1.50 on trade buying, but there was no followthrough Interest and the market quietened and drifted back, possibly due to steadier sterling, dealers said.
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    • 94 8 LONDON, Mon. Copper wire bars finished the morning with gains of £4.50 for cash and £6 for Three Months. Dealers said the pre-mar-ket was restralnted Initially by steadier sterling, but some fresh buying Interest soon developed following the news that Zambia had urged a 15 per cent copper production
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    • 161 8 THE STRAITS tin price In Penang yesterday rose MS2I to $1,781 per plcul on an official offering down 6 tonnes to 190 tonnes. Last week's London Metal Exchange conditions and continued buying demand from Japanese and US dealers aided the price rise, dealers said. Low supplies of tin
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    • 1268 8 AFP LONDON: Copper and lead were firm exception* on the commodity markets last week, where trading generally was quiet and prices steady. Forward tin touched a new record before retreating, while at the other extreme cocoa made a modest rally after touching
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    • 162 8 THE KILOBAR In Singapore opened at 5512,096, and closed at 5512,082 with narrow fluctuation. In London, the metal opened at US$l5B.OO/30 and closed at US$ 158.05/35. The London morning fix was U*****.60, down $0.15 on the previous fix. Source: Singmaa Retail prices per tael quoted by the Singapore Chinese
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    • 44 8 LONDON. Mon. Zinc showed no basic change from previous closing ring levels. The market remained subdued In the absence of fresh physical demand, but held around Friday's closing levels In sympathy with other base metals. Sales of 1,000 tonnes were about half carries.
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    • 35 8 LONDON, Mon. Silver showed gains of mostly 0.3 pence. Steadiness In gold prompted a little covering but the market remained generally quiet with only 30 Tots changing hands. Three Months closed at 262.9 pence.
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    • 62 8 LONDON, Mon. Lead finished the ring with gains of mostly £3.2. The market worked higher during the morning on some trade buying and fresh speculative Interest which lifted Three Months to £372. The movement developed despite a 1,600 tonnes rise in stocks and, according to some quarters, reflected reports
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    • 194 8 Reuter ABIDJAN, Mon. The Ivory Coast Commodity Stabilisation Board forecasts a large Increase In production of palm oil and copra for 1977-78. The office says palm oil production should be up to 178.000 tonnes from 120,000 last year and copra up to 23,500 tonnes
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    • 61 8 LONDON, Mon. World natural rubber production rose to 2 02 million tonnes in the first seven months of 1977 from 1.97 million In the same period last year and compared with 3.54 million for the whole of 1976, International Rubber Study Oroup figures show. Synthetic rubber production
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 430 8 THE FOREIGN exchange market was quiet but steady yesterday, with most of the activity concentrated In the afternoon after London's entry. Sterling opened against the US dollar at U551.8220/30, and rose slightly to 1.8315/20 when the London market opened. It opened against the yen at 242.40/50 and remained
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    • 26 8 [1 r Firct Chicago Citibank 7 H8BC 7 Malayan Banking 7 Mitaui Bank 7 OCBC OUB 7 UCB 7 L'MBC 7 COB 7
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    • 171 8 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on Dec 5. US Dolla Offer 7 days 6 11/16 6 8/16 1 mth 6 15/18 6 13/16 2 mths 7 6 7/8 3 mths .7 1/8 7 0 mths .7 3/8 7 1/4 6 mths .7 7/1# 7 5/16
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    • 47 8 RANGE of price* offered by discount houses on Dec S: Overnight to 3** Call deposit 3* to 3%% Cloataf Buyin* Selling 3-Month Treasury bills 31/4 31/8 3-month Bank bills 4 7/8 43/4 3-Month CD 55/8 31/2 •-Month CD 5 15/18 513/16 Source: National Discount Co. Ltd.
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    • 137 8 Euro rates LONDON, Mon. Trading In Eurodollar deposits was light at the outset and prices firmed slightly where changed, dealers said. Period deposits rose 1/16 on the bid side, reflecting occasional buying interest. The One-Month was quoted 3/8 lower because of the loss of a Friday end, while the Four-Month
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    • 47 8 FRANKFURT exchanges opening quotes on Dec 5: us 2 soso/ao Can 1 9770/9810 Stf 4 018/026 DPI M 31/41 8 FT 103 22/32 Ut 2 498/506 F Ft 45 31/41 N Kr 41.04/14 B Ft (con) 6 345/355 B Fr (fin) 6 33/34 Yen 0 9065/80
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    • 259 8 LONDON, Mon. The dollar came under renewed selling pressure against leading currencies In opening trading, especially the Swiss franc and the mark, dealers said. Trading was fairly active and both the Swiss National Bank and the Bundesbank are now believed to be intervening in support of the dollar, the
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    • 144 8 TOKYO, Mon. The dollar for overnight delivery closed at 242.65 yen, up from a 242.60 opening and 242.30 at Friday's close, dealers said. Trading was light with volume of US$224 million. No central bank intervention was detected, they said. The US unit fluctuated narrowly with traders waiting for tomorrow's
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    • 107 8 HONGKONG, Mon. The US dollar closed marginally higher compared with New York's closing levels on Friday in slow trading, dealers said. The dollar traded at 2.1380/400 Swiss Francs against 2.1375/85 In New York, at 2.2055/65 marks against 2.2030/40 and at 242.55/65 yen compared with 242.35/45. Sterling eased to $1.8215/25
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    • 54 8 AUSTRALIA/NZ exchanges opening quotes on Dec 5: AUSTRALIA US dollar 1.1319/1.1271 Sterling 6227/ 6160 Ninety-day airmail buying rates: Sterling 6395 US dollar 6194 Ninety-day forward buying rates Sterling 1 1603 US dollar 1 1249 NEW ZEALAND Sterling 5501/ 5471 U8 dollar 1 0038/ 9938 Ninety-day forward rates: Sterling 5825
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    • 449 8 LONDON, Mon. Straight Eurobonds traded quiet and little changed, dealers said. Dollar Issues were easier, reflecting dollar weakness against European currencies and sterling bonds were softer. The finance for industry £20 million 9.75 per cent bond due 1981 was traded around 96-1/2, 97 after being around 97-1/4, 97-3/4 on
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    • 304 8 from Penguin ii IN PENGUINS Yukio Mishima firmly upheld the traditions of Japan's imperial past, whiqh he believed were being slowly eroded by Western materialism. Disillusioned he astonished the world* in 1970 by committing hara-kiri or ritual suicide by disembowelment. One of his last works, Runaway Horses, is now published
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  • TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
    • 1115 9 US AIR CARGO INDUSTRY NYT NEW YORK, Mon. In thfe face of deregulation legislation to take effect in early January, the airlines are braced for some intense competition for air freight that could end in a shakeout within the air cargo industry. The sudden
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    • 94 9 Reuter BRUSSELS, Mon. EEC industry commissioner Etienne Davignon called for EEC merchant fleets to play a bigger role in international seaborne trade. Outlining plans for modernising the Community's shipbuilding industry, he said the EEC needed an efficient, specialised industry to provide the fleets of
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    • 73 9 Reuter HONGKONG. Mon. Rooftops on the densely populated run-in to Hongkong airport have been dotted with strobe lights to guide pilots down to the runway. The 12 strobe lights, which flash twice a second in sequence, help pilots in poor visibility alone the curved' approach path
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    • 458 9 AP MADRID, Mon. The Soviet Union has asked Spain for major port facilities at Algeclras near the NatO naval base on British Gibraltar, Spanish Government officials have reported. "A decision is not expected soon," a high official said yesterday in confirming the request. But other
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    • Article, Illustration
      330 9 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Clifford Maersk (after Centaur Ragna Bakke Class I on board) 3/4 Emily Star (3EGQ Car carrier) (2300 after Oriental Lady) 45 Kalgo (3EAA) (0800 after Oriental Lady) 44 King Tower (0600 23 Manoloeverett (2100) 38/39 Musing (HOXN) (2300) 13/14 On Shun (3ENT) (after
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    • 326 9 AP LONG BEACH, Mon. The Queen Mary, Long Beach's floating white elephant, is not earning Its keep as a tourist attraction, and local residents don't want to pay the once-proud ocean liner's bills. "Sink It," wrote one resident to a local newspaper. Another
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    • 111 9 WAREHOUSING and Transportation Pte Ltd has finalised plans to build a new container depot at Qui Circus in Jurons. The new depot, scheduled for completion In mld-1978, will be on a 9,814 sq metre site on a 25-year lease from Jurong Town Corporation. The new site
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    • 192 9 UNITED Arab Shipping Co (UASC), the largest fine servicing the Arabian Gulf area will increase the frequency of Its services and by mid-1978 will have a fleet of 58 modern dry-cargo multipurpose vessels. The line now has 43 vessels and. with four monthly
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    • 158 9 AP LONDON, Mon. North American chartering remained slow but the rate tone for medium-size bulkers continued to be fairly steady on the London freight market last Friday. Marubeni repeated $10.50 (FIO) when working 31.000tons of US gulf grain to Japan aboard a NYK vessel loading in January.
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    • 206 9 KAWASAKI Kisen Kaisha (KKK) of Tokyo are the owners and managers of "K" Line. "K" Line is a member of the Ace Group which comprises Neptune Orient Lines, Orient Overseas Container Line, Franco Belgian Services and Korea Shipping Corporation. The Ace Group vessels serve both Far East and
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    • 708 9 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time From CAL CI331 0040 TPE/HKG/KUL CPA CX003 0145 HKG TMA TL303B 0215 BEY/DXB/ BOM/KUL MAS MH601 0715 KUL MAS MH682 0810 KCH SIA SQ101 0815 KUL 4 MAS MH621 0850 PEN MAS MH607 0900 KUL MAS MH671 0945 PEN/KUL CAL CI806
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  • 2057 10 THE OECD SECRETARIAT, WORRIED ABOUT FULFILLING ITS 4 PER CENT GROWTH RATE FORECAST HAS URGED REFLATION ON SOME OF ITS MEMBER '"5- COUNTRIES, ANTHONY HOPKINS REPORTS ON THE PAINFUL AWAKENING OF THE OECD COUNTRIES TO THEIR ECONOMIC WOES. FT THE industrialised countries which
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  • 963 10  -  After searching for it for many years, Israel has finally struck oil in substantial quantities. The supreme irony of the find is that it happened just as President Sadat arrived in Jerusalem to talk about peace with Israel and the field lies in Egyptian territory occupied
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  • 620 10 NYT WASHINGTON: There are a couple of things that connect the fabled stories of Col. Edward H. R. Green, the colourful klngflsh of Terrell, Texas, and Howard R. Hughes Jr., the eccentric tycoon who hid In hotels. Green and Hughes each died
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  • 834 10 NYT PARIS: While the United States Is moving to extend the mandatory retirement age to 70. Western Europe is dealing with the opposite problem. Earlier this year, the French Government passed legislation permitting employees to retire at 60 years of age. In Italy, where
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  • 689 11 TEXTILE DRAFT TERMS AFP Reuter HONGKONG. Mon. Spokesmen for Industrial organisations were today critical of the lack of official Information on the draft terms of the new textiles agreement reached between Hongkong and the European Economic Community in Brussels last week. Regret was expressed over
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  • 170 11 CATERPILLAR Tractor Co has announced plans to manufacture the world's largest track-type tractor, the 700 hp DlO. This was disclosed by Tractors Malaysia Berhad, the Caterpillar dealer for Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Christmas Island. The DlO, measuring 4.57 m high, 3.65 m wide and
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  • 74 11 A SWEDISH special envoy, Ambassador Sverker Astrom will arrive in Singapore on Thursday for three days of economic talks with Government representatives. Announcing this yesterday, Mr. Rasmus Rasmusson, Swedish Charge d'Affaires here said Mr. Astrom will be reviewing bilateral relations with Singapore as well
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  • 272 11 Reuter HONGKONG, Mon. Hongkong's cotton spinners and weavers have called on the government to consider Import controls against other Third World textile producers. Their associations made the call after Hongkong and the EEC initialled a fiveyear textile agreement In Brussels on Saturday after weeks of protracted
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  • 281 11 Reuter PEKING, Mon. A conference called to discuss the development of China's electronics Industry has ended here with the People's Dally stressing its Importance to the country's modernisation goals. The conference began on Nov 7 with many top leaders attending yesterday's closing ceremony. The New
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  • 229 11 UPI HONGKONG. Mon. China charged yesterday that the Soviet Union's economic gains from the West have boosted economic potential for the Kremlin's sustained arms drive, war preparations and rivah-y with the United The official New China News Agency (NCNA) said: "Inadequate economic power is the Soviet
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  • 265 11 Reuter SYDNEY, Mon. A spokesman for CSR Ltd, marketing agents for Australian sugar exports, said current taTks here with Malaysian officials are normal commercial discussions which take place during the term of any contract but declined to comment on details. The spokesman
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  • 166 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Heavy monsoon rain Is causing a greater than nor* mal seasonal dip in Malaysian palm oil and palm kernel oil production. Estate and trade sources said rain Is affecting accessibility and the ripening of fruit for harvesting and also damaging flowers which
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  • 104 11 AP TOKYO, Mon. Chilean Economic Affairs Minister Pablo Baraona said today Chile wants to strengthen its economic relations with Japan and other Asian nations at a meeting with leaders of the Influential Federation of Economic Organisations and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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  • 98 11 THE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) will soon start a seven-point plan to encourage Its staff to be polite to customers following a study which has Identified weaknesses In courtesy at the bank, according to the bank's house publication, Berlta, The steps Include more emphasis on "selling",
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  • 91 11 THE Singapore Institute of Statistics and the Department of Economics and Statistics will jointly organise the Second Southeast Asian Statistics Seminar here, from March 27 29 at the Regional English Language Centre (RELC). About 100 participants, including 3d from foreign countries, are expected to attend the
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  • 261 11 CANBERRA, Mon. The Australian Wheat Board exported a record 9.5 million tonnes of wheat worth about ASI billion (552.67 billion) during the year ended on Nov, 30 1977. This quantity was 900,000 tonnes above the previous record set in 1970/71, and 1.5 million tonnes above
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  • 948 11 Reuter SYDNEY, Mon. Australia's election campaign has entered its final week without any clear sign from voters who they will choose to restore the country's economic health. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's conservative coalition was rocked at the outset of the campaign by the resignation
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  • 330 11 Reuter UPI BANGKOK. Mon. Thailand's rice exports will fall sharply next year from this 'year's expected 2.8 million tonnes due to the effect of a recent drought. Deputy Under-secretary for Agriculture Thalerng Thamrong said that 1978 exports will be at least one million tonnes and
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  • 137 11 AFP HONGKONG, Mon. Hongkong's trade statistics will soon go metric and be reclassified to bring them In hne with those of its major trading partners. A spokesman for government's Trade Department said today that the changes would take effect on Jan 1. He added that to give
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  • 614 12 Agencies KUWAIT, Mon. Oil Minister Mana Otelba of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) declared here yesterday that his oil-rich country will support Saudi Arabia In Its quest to freeze oil prices for 1978. "We will support Saudi Arabia, even If It stands alone,
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  • 501 12 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The European Economic Community has agreed to provide the services of Its business corporation centre at Brussels to assist Malaysia In finding possible European joint venture partners. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Datuk Serl Hamzah Abu Samah, said
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  • 111 12 TWO LARGE Scandinavian trading and Industrial groups are In Singapore scouting for business contacts. If we are to believe a somewhat mysterious advertisement which appeared in the English-language press over the weekend. They have, however, kept their identities secret, so that even the Scandinavian embassies here
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  • 35 12 TOKYO, Mon. Japan's motor vehicle registrations rose 6.2 per cent last month to 324,987 from 306,090 in October, but fell 4.3 per cent from 339,559 In November last year.
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  • 381 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Dow Jones Inc. publishers of the Asian Wall Street Journal, will acquire an Immediate 19 per cent of the equity of Financial Publications Sdn. Bhd., publishers of Malaysia's financial daily, Business Times. In the agreement with Financial Publications and Its parent
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  • 181 12 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Malaysia's oil output Is expected to reach 230,000 barrels a day by the middle of next year and could reach 400,000 in the next two or three years. Output has already expanded to 190,000 barrels a day from 150,000 In
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  • 204 12 THE GOVERNMENT will invest more in the three Joint Government Industry Training Centres to cater for the expected higher future demand for skilled apprentices. It will also promote Increased enrolment at the Centres. According to Singapore Investment News, a publication of the
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  • 51 12 AFP BANGKOK, Mon. China Is Thailand's leading sugar buyer Importing 43 per cent of the total crop In the first to months of this year. The Board of Trade of Thailand said China had bougnt 1.5 million tonnes for a total of U***** million (SSBOI million).
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  • 83 12 AFP WASHINGTON, Mon. The drop in commodity rates which came to a halt in September resumed In October. International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics showed the index (base 100 in 1970) was 227.7 in October against 229.3 In September and 229.2 In August. Last April It was at
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  • 763 12 LONDON, Mon. The market turned mixed after showing Initial gains in dull trading, dealers said. At 3 p.m. the Financial Times Index was down 0.4 at 486.3. The strength of sterling helped government bonds retain its early gain of H point With the wholesale price Index helping to
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  • 755 12 AFP Reuter WASHINGTON. Mon. The United States will maintain pressure on Japan to cut its ttade surplus. The pressure will be maintained over the next few weeks, Informed sources said, as Mr. Nobuhiko Ushlba, assigned to Washington to discuss the surplus problem
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  • 376 12 SINGAPORE'S food and beverage Industry, which has previously catered largely to domestic and Asean region requirements, Is now looking further afield at new export markets like those In west Asia, according to the Economic Development Board's publication, Singapore Investment News. The latest
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  • 416 12 TWO joint managing directors of Singapore Contractors Corporation Ltd (SCC) are reported to be in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with two others, negotiating deals for $100 million worth of construction cbntracts. This is the team's fourth visit together. It comprises Mr. Lee Choi
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  • 156 12 A LEADING European manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and blochemlcals, Boehrlftger Mannheim, has opened a regional representative office In Singapore. The regional manager for Africa. Asia and Australia, Mr. H.G. Schmidt, Is In Singapore for the official opening today. "The company already has distributors In the
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  • 69 12 AFP TOKYO, Mon. Toilets at government offices were occupied by officials who were "secretly" counting yen notes they have received as year-end tjonuses. The bonuses paid to central and local govern- ment officials totalled nearly 1 trillion yen (559.28 billion) which represented only a slight 2 per
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  • 315 12 LONDON, Mon. A British inter-departmental committee is expected to be set up to study the growth In manufacturing capacity In developing countries including Singapore and possibly Malaysia and the impact It has on the industry here. A spokesman for the British
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  • 137 12 THE HIGH Court has directed the Sheriff to sell "at the best possible price" $3.7 million worth of tea which was to have been shipped to Port Sudan from South India in August, when It was diverted off Aden and bro.ught to Singapore. The Sheriff
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