The Business Times, 31 May 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 THURSDAY, MAY 31,1184 60 CENTS
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  • 650 1  -  Share issues should perk up languishing stockmarket By CHAN OI CHEE TWO ESTABLISHED homegrown companies are planning a big public issue of shares over the next one to two months. Both Jurong Engineering Ltd and Lim Kah Ngam (S) Ltd recently submitted applications for
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  • 543 1  -  By ALVIN TAY THE YEN may eventually rival the US dollar as a major currency of denomination in the Singapore-based Asian dollar market. Firstly, the floating rate certificate of deposits market may in the long run witness the emergence
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  • 78 1 DON'T SWIM in the Singapore River during low tide. Even though the river is much cleaner today, analysis of water samples taken during low tide indicates that the coliform count or bacteria concentration is still high and the water is not safe
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  • 204 1 Bernama BANK NEGARA governor Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Taha has confirmed that the central bank will come out with a new directive to commercial banks to limit their lending to a single customer, with the prudent limit set at not
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  • 55 1 Reuter DESPITE the Gulf crisis, crude oil prices are likely to remain stable, thanks to a continuing world surplus. Officials of Elf Aquitaine said yesterday that 2.5 million barrels of oil a day could be made available to the market if there was a sharp cut in
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  • Article, Illustration
    79 1 SHARE prices managed to stage a comeback yesterday alter getting off to a slow and easier start. Dealers said this was probably due te booksq oaring ahead of the new settlement period tomorrow. Selected Issues, particularly those la the frtinking sector, made some good gains, bat the market
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  • 383 1  -  By BOEY KIT YIN THERE ARE still 36 registered sawmills in Singapore, but fewer than 10 are actually turning logs into planks. Sawmilling in Singapore, which dates back to 1902, is dying a slow death, and its future is far from clear.
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  • 453 1 THREE second echelon leaders will be promoted to full ministers from tomorrow. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office yesterday said the three are Dr Ahmad Mattar, Dr Yeo Ning Hong and Professor S Jayakumar. DR AHMAD MATTAR, who is now Acting Minister
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    • 246 1 }^~;%~[_/|/]\+=>$!;<)^|!^:\\]~] mm DR TAN Cheng Bock, MP for Ayer Rajah, has called for legislation to regulate the transfer of data on individuals between the data banks of both privote institutions and government bodies. Page 3 ARAB STATES are considering stationing a multi-nation-al peace-keeping force comprising member states of the Organisation
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 393 2  -  By AMY BALAN THE US budget deficit, the bane of the country's European allies, may finally end up choking off more than half of the US's net savings, which could otherwise go into private investment. This is the
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    • 486 2  -  By LISA LEE GOLDEN LANDMARK will soon have the largest gathering of jewellers in town, but special security precautions have yet to be finalised. Set in the historical base for the gold and jewellery trade in North Bridge Road, the centre, owned
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    • 332 2 SO SAY Cheong Pte Ltd, a local construction company, has won a $19.58 million contract to build a new library-cum-lecture theatre complex for the National University of Singapore. The new complex will comprise two lecture theatres and a five-storey
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    • 133 2 THE manager can be effective not only as a leader but also as a follower if only he knew the various techniques and concepts of the situational approach. The National Productivity Board is inviting participation at a one-day workshop on Situational
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    • 597 2  -  By CHUANG PECK MING FALLING DEMAND for Italian and French high fashion goods has caused a leading local distributor to change its pricing policy. F J Benjamin Sons Pte Ltd, sole agent for exclusive merchandise such as Gucci and Lanvin products, has cut prices
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    • Article, Illustration
      380 2 AUSTRALIAN PARTICIPATION at the Homemakers Exhibition was a record success, with more than 511.2 million in confirmed sales. Many of the Australian companies said sales had exceeded expectations and their investments in the largest pavilion at the exhibition had certainly paid off. The best selling items were furniture,
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    • 138 2 PICTURE shows the new headquarters of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the 30storey MAS Building standing at the junction of Shenton Way and Prince Edward Lane. MAS, the overseer of Singapore's financial sector, will be moving in early next year. Costing $120 million, the building
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    • 420 3  -  By LEE HAN SHIH THE SINGAPORE sales office of Hewlett-Packard has listed a series of tough, if not impossible, targets to make itself more competitive. Its general manager Victor Ang yesterday launched a "total quality control" campaign in the office, outlining eight objectives to
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    • 195 3 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE J un 2 Receptionist Workshop June 4-5 Managing Technological Innovation June 4-28 Marketing Skills June 5 Seminar On Hotel Security June 5-Sept 28 Administrative Management Programme June 6 Promoting Your Own Business Conferences VENUE POD Training Centre Novotel Orchid Inn POD Training Centre Equatorial
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    • 364 3  -  By JOANNE YAP IRELAND is taldnq a bigger step to establish a presence la Singapore and tbe surrounding Asian region, markets it previously did little trade with. Over tbe next tbree days, a ttmember delegation, much bigger J'®**' B will promote Irlsb Industrial products
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    • 423 3  -  By JEFFREY TSANG LEGISLATION may need to be enacted for the protection of personal privacy with regard to computer data transfer. Member of Parliament for Ayer Rajah, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, called for a legislation to regulate the transfer of data on
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    • 155 3 TRAVEL TIME for tourists from Singapore heading for the Desaru holiday resort in south Johore will be reduced when a ferry service between the two destinations is introduced towards the end of the year. The Malaysian Tourist Development Corporation director-general Mr
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    • 414 3  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE house union to be formed for employees of the Changi International Airport Services will be open to administrative officers. To be known as the Changi International Airport Services Employees' Union, it will have a potential membership of about 1,000
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    • 179 3 THREE regional delegations are in Singapore on official visits this week. Mr Ahmad Matnor, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communications from Negara Brunei Darussalam, arrived yesterday on a oneday official visit. Mr Matnor visited the Marine Department and paid a courtesy call
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 369 4 NST CHINA and not the Soviet Union is more of a military threat in South-east Asia, former Malaysian prime minister Tun Hussein Onn said yesterday. He said that the perceived Soviet threat, if it had been there at all, had not altered since
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    • 153 4 Reuter FRANCE and West Germany have agreed to study a joint project to build military observation satellites for the 1990s which would be used, among other purposes, to help back up France's nuclear strike force. The accord, reached during the two-day Franco-German summit meeting
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    • 165 4 Reuter THE Philippine currency is expected to be devalued again, possibly in June. Bernardo Villegas, vicepresident of the independent Centre for Research and Communication (CRC) in Manil told a meeting of foreign business executives yesterday that he expected the peso to be devalued to
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    • 100 4 THIS IS IT. The world's most luxurious yacht, the Abdul Aziz, which was brought out of dry dock for the first time in Southampton on May 26. The yacht was specially built for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia at a cost of £30 million. The project was undertaken
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    • 76 4 Reuter SEXUALLY transmitted disease is the world's major health problem and has now reached epidemic proportions in the Third World, says the head of a World Health Organisation conference being held in Montreal. "It's our number one health problem in the world," said
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    • 187 4 AFP MORE THAN a third of the workers on Christmas Island will be sent back to Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore, following agreement on major redundancies from the local phosphate mining industry. Australian Federal Local Government and Territories Minister Tom Uren succeeded
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    • 718 4 ARRIVALS Operator Service Loco From number time KAL KE687 0020 SEL/KUL PAA PAS 0020 JFK/SFO/HKG CAL CI009 0040 TPE SIA SQ43 0750 DHA MAS MH68I 0820 KUL TMA TL35I 0830 BEY/DXB MAS MH60I 0905 KUL SV SV378 0910 JED/RUH MAS MH67I 0935 KUL MAS MH8II 0940 PEN
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    • 415 5 UPI AN ISRAELI newspaper on Tuesday charged that Defence Minister Moshe Arens saw two Palestinian hijackers being taken alive off the bus they seized last month just before they were beaten to death by security forces. The newspaper, Hadashot, and its photographer, Alex Levak,
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    • 49 5 "P taprie® evea m.ney. Arob merchants la Eut Jerusalem have (Mad the liAmn eqelvelert to of > shekel, b werth Ave time. ItoSS *fj copper content. With Inflation the way It is la Israel, the coins are literally geod only (or scrap. UPI pictnre UPI picture
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    • 352 5 UPI US MARINES have built new fortifications outside the US embassy in Beirut and are patrolling the American University campus in response to threats of new terrorist actions against Americans. The stepped-up security came on Tuesday as Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim spiritual leader declared
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    • 567 5 Reuter JAPAN'S victory over US companies in producing thin display screens which are at the heart of digital watches makes it a strong bet to cash in on the burgeoning market for similar flat screens used in portable computers. Last week, Japan's
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    • 234 5 Reuter TWO AMERICAN car giants were locked in combat yesterday over a plan by General Motors to produce Japanese-designed cars in California. The Chrysler Corporation, claiming that the GMToyota production plan violates anti-monopoly laws, was given the goahead by a Judge in Washington
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    • 68 5 UPI BRITAIN'S Princess Margaret snubbed Culture Club's lead singer Boy George at a radio deejay awards ceremony on Tuesday night, saying he looked like "an overmade-up tart". A report yesterday in the Sun said the 53-year-old princess shook hands with the 22-year-old "pretty boy of
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    • 232 5 Reuter THE CONFLICT over a 35-hour week in the West German engineering industry intensified yesterday. This turn for the worse came about after negotiations to resolve the dispute, which has all but halted West German car and truck production, broke down. Employers on Tuesday locked
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    • 515 5 Agencies ARAB STATES are considering stationing a multi-national peace-keeping force comprising member states of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) along the Iraq-Iran border. Qatar Radio reported yesterday that Palestinian Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat is now having talk»; on this issue with the heads
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    • 256 5 AFT A FTJLL bench of the Australian Federal Court has ruled that computer programs are entitled to copyright protection. The three judges on Tuesday overturned a decision by a single judge of the court, Justice Beaumont, that computer programs are not "new and original literary works"
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    • 82 5 Reuter THE SOVIET Union has announced a summit meeting of leaders of the Comecon East bloc trading pact next month, scotching rumours in the diplomatic community in Moscow that the long-postponed gathering had been put off again. Tass news agency said the summit would
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    • 703 6 Reuter AN AGREEMENT to open up Japanese markets to foreign investment will have little immediate impact on the massive US trade deficit, but may defuse this as an issue in the American election campaign. The Reagan administration says the accord,
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    • 339 6 Reuter INDONESIA could raise its oil production by 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.6 million bpd and sell more to Japan if Gulf supplies were cut off. The country's Mines and Energy Minister Subroto was quoted by the official Antara news agency yesterday as
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    • 183 6 UPI NATO foreign ministers enter their final day of talks yesterday with the blame for deteriorating East-West relations and heightened tension in the world laid firmly at the door of the Soviet Union. Vice-president George Bush, in a speech on Tuesday to the opening
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    • 537 6 Reuter BRAZIL and China yesterday concluded five technical and economic accords in Beijing during a visit by Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo, who is heading an effort to boost links between the two giants of the developing
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    • 435 6 Reuter, UPI FIFTEEN BRITISH coalmines face the prospect of closure with the loss of almost 20,000 johs because of geological problems arising from a threemonth miners' strike. The Times newspaper yesterday quoted officials of the National Coal Board as saying that most problems were caused
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    • 323 6 UPI PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan of the US will acknowledge that American interest rates are unusually high when he attends the economic summit in London next week, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said on Tuesday. Mr Regan said US interest rates and their
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 46 6 BRITAIN suffered a record trade deficit last month of US$l.l6 billion, goverment sources said on Tuesday. They attributed the massive shortfall to the country's 11-week-old coal strike and to purchases of oil as a hedge against the possible disruption of supplies from the Gulf.
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      • 51 6 IRISH Republican Army (IRA) guerillas said they set off a 45 kg landmine that killed a British soldier and wounded another in Northern Ireland on Tuesday. The landmine was operated by remote control close to a British army foot patrol near Northern Ireland's border with the Republic of
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      • 60 6 THE US Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a ruling denying US citizenship to a British homosexual because he failed to state his sexual preference when applying to enter the country. The court said he did not qualify for citizenship because, in applying for a visa, he concealed his
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      • 51 6 R J Reynolds Industries (RJR), the largest US cigarette company, said on Tuesday it had become the first foreign cigarette maker to gain access to the Chinese market. Under the US$2O million agreement, the two sides will produce and market a jointly-owned brand for sale in China and
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      • 59 6 LEADERS of the major trade unions in 55 countries will meet in Dublin from June 5 to 8 for the annual meeting of the International M e t a 1 wo r leers' Federation, the federation announced on Tuesday. Issues to be discussed include the European campaign for
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      • 61 6 THE Paris-base Interna- tional Federation of Human Rights said on Tuesday that thousands of political prisoners were being detained in Pakistan under martial law which violated world human rights agreements. A delegation which visited Pakistan last month said that although some detainees had been released in recent weeks, up
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      • 34 6 Agencies JAPAN has resumed underwriting short-term export insurance for Brazil in response to a request made by Brazilian President Joao Baptista Figueiredo during his visit last week, Japanese officials said on Tuesday. Agencies
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    • 82 6 Reuter SOVIET scientists have bred amphibious chickens which fearlessly leap into pools and spend hours pecking grain under water. Tass News Agency said yesterday that scientists at a research institute had also carried out similar experiments with mice, rabbits, cats and monkeys
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    • 169 6 UPI THE SOVIET Union is building new bases in Czechoslavakia to position short-range nuclear missiles aimed at West Europe, Jane's Defence Weekly said yesterday. Jane's, which specialises in defence news, said Soviet deployment in Czechoslovakia and East Germany was to counteract Nato's siting of cruise and
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 384 7  -  By SOH TIANG KENG ONE of America's biggest securities houses and investment bankers, Dean Witter Reynolds, has revamped its Singapore setup and management as part of its drive to expand and diversify in Asia. It has recruited two senior local executives from its
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    • 191 7 Reuter A BAN ON Swiss banks actively assisting flight of capital from other countries should be included in the Swiss banking law which is about to be revised, Finance Minister Otto Stich said. In a speech to the annual
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    • 302 7 Reuter JAPAN will liberalise its interest rates in phases, starting with those on large-lot deposits such as certificates of deposit (CDs), the Japanese Finance Ministry said. A commitment to liberalisation of rates was one of the measures announced by the US
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    • 549 7 Reuter ANALYSTS do not expect a rapid and automatic expansion of the Euroyen market, which accounts for less than 3 per cent of the dollar-dominated Euro-market, following the easing of restrictions. "The future of the Euroyen market depends on investors' willingness to hold yen
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    • 449 7 Reuter THE SHARP decline in US bond prices this year has been a bloodbath (or securities dealers and investors. Prices are likely to continue falling near term without a sharp increase in retail demand, dealers and economists said. "The market is totally
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    • 255 7 UPI THE MEETING of Latin America's most heavily indebted nations will be held on June 18 or later, not before the June 7 London economic summit, a top Argentine official said. Jorge Romero, head of the Foreign Ministry's
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 283 7 SINGAPORE: The local currency closed firmer yesterday at 552.1055/65 against the US dollar compared with Tuesday's close of $2.1070/80 but were unchanged against the Malaysian dollar and the Hongkong dollar at 5191.00/10 and 5526.95/ 27.00. KUALA LUMPUR: The US dollar closed at 2.3135/ 45, and the Singapore dollar
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    • 183 7 Interbank rates at 3pm Local dollars to ono unit of foreign oroao parity akoHfa US dolor Staffing pound Australian dollar NZ dollar Canadkm dolor 2.1065 2 9090 1.8916 1.3624 1.6260 2.1075 2.9125 1.8940 I 3646 1.6274 2.8196 7.3469 3.4286 3.4286 3.4206 -25.29 -60 41 -44.83 -60 26 -5246
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    • 146 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the local interbank money market closed unchanged at 7% per cent yesterday. Term rates also regained at yesterday's closing levels. Treasury bills THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks and discount houses to tender for a total of $120 million 91-day Treasury bills.
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    • 183 7 SINGAPORE Gold futures fluctuated narrowly yesterday before closing steady to slightly higher than New York's levels. Total sales for the day were recorded at six lots. Prompt closed slightly firmer at U*****.50/386.50 an ounce compared with New York's $384.75/385.25 close and August at $392.50/383.50 compared with $392.20/392.50 while December
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  • FEATURES
    • 456 8 THE JAPANESE will not be driving Chryslers and Chevrolets. Nor will Americans stop buying Toyotas and Nissans. Although steps taken to liberalise Japan's capital markets are bound to raise the value of the yen in the long run, it will still mean that beef and
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    • 852 8  -  Enigmatic millionaire Bob Jones could become New Zealand's king maker By SELWYN PARKER 808 JONES is a 44-year-old New Zealand property developer who has made a million or two from his trade. But that's not enough for Jones. He wants to become prime minister, ousting the redoubtable Sir
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    • 908 8  -  Economic woes and political rivalries feeding the fires of India's religious feuding By DEV VARAM Reuter GREEN AND saffron flags fluttering over southwestern India's riot-hit textile towns symbolise the fears and frustrations behind the Hindu-Muslim clashes that have so far claimed more than 200
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    • 1405 9  -  More arid more US firms are finding the business of packaging the winning program an unpredictable one By DAVID SANGER NYT ON THE FIRST night of Com- dex, the personal computer industry's premier trade show that opened in Atlanta on Tues- day, most of
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 294 10 Reuter A GROUP led by Reliance Financial Services Corp has decided to seek to oust the board of directors of Walt Disney Productions. The group told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it asked Cede Co, the record holder of its shares,
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    • 225 10 AP CHRYSLER Corp has worked out a deal to obtain a US$l billion line of credit, another in a series of breakthroughs the Number Three US carmaker has racked up since its brush with bankruptcy less than five years ago. Financial and industry
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    • 281 10 Reuter WEAKNESS in the bond market on Tuesday infected stock prices, which closed moderately lower, with blue chip issues barely surviving a dip below a major technical support level. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 26.69 points last week, retreated another six points
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 337 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed slightly firmer for the half-day session yesterday, but trading was quiet and lacklustre. Investors were reluctant to develop fresh positions in view of the new round of Sino-British talks on Hongkong although they anticipated no surprise from the two day meeting between China and
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    • 408 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed weaker yesterday in quiet trading on selling of international populars, banks and damage insurances after the fall on Wall Street on Tuesday. The market average fell 23.00 from Tuesday's close to 10,140.97, after rising 47.93 on Tuesday. The stock exchange index closed down 2.87 at
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    • 67 11 Moy 30 Bonk Seoul Won 660 652 unch 2 Hyundai Corp Hyundoi Motor KAL 620 545 450 705 +5 -5 +4 700 856 Doetm Ind 595 +20 Korea Shfi 406 -4 Daewoo Cofp Oo«woo Ind Dona Ah 392 548 675 +2 unch +10 Samsung Co Samsung Eke 730 618
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    • 426 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed at a new nine-month low following negative indicators from abroad. The all-ordinaries index was 7.6 points weaker at 668.7, its lowest mark since 661.6 on August 12 1963. The all-industrials marker was off 6.7 at 921.2 and the all-resources 8.1 at 470.7. Turnover was
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    • 178 11 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mostly steady on improved turnover in quiet trading yesterday. The Book Club index rose 0.10 to 117.62 on turnover of 82.4 million baht with 233,276 shares traded. Bangkok Bank, Industrial Finance Corp and Siam City Cement closed unchanged at 230, 136, and 390 baht respectively.
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    • 147 11 MANILA: Share prices closed mixed yesterday in continued dull trading reflecting lower copper prices abroad and the tight domestic money situation. The Commercial and Industrial index rose 0.27 to 134.73, the Mining Marker fell 2.24 to 1,084.08 and the Oils index lost 0.005 to 0.727. PT.DT firmed to 50
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    • 56 11 THE OUTSTANDING balance of margin buying positions on the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya stock exchanges rose 41 billion yen to a record 2,784 billion yen last week. The Tokyo Stock Exchange said it was the fourth consecutive record week. The balance of selling positions fell
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    • 137 11 Reuter TOSHIBA CORP said it and American Television and Communications Corp have agreed to form a 5050 joint venture company in Denver, Colorado, to market a new Jointly-de-veloped subscriber terminal system for cable television starting next month. The two companies are discussing
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    • 79 11 MITSUBISHI Motors Corp has forecast a rise in vehicle sales in the year to next March 31 of 10 per cent to 1.15 million from 1.04 million in 1983/84. It said sales are expected to include 590,000 exports, up from 552,000 in 1983/84. The company,
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    • 524 11 CONIC Investments Ltd, which recently disclosed that outstanding loans to a single debtor may prove i irrecoverable, has asked the Hongkong Stock Exchange for more time to sort out its problems. This will also allow the controlling shareholders of Conic, comprising China Resources
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 467 12 Technical reasons ruled out AP CHINA has given no explanation for its decision to cancel orders for 340,000 tonnes of American wheat, in spite of assurances given US President Reagan a month ago that Beijing would fulfil its grain commitment. The cancellations, announced
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    • 289 12 Bernama EXCESS CAPACITY and low-priced imports continue to make the Malaysian aluminium industry vulnerable. The chairman of Aluminium Company of Malaysia Bhd, Tunku Tan Sri Mohamed bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin, said although Alcom increased tonnage by 49 per cent to 13,406 tonnes with
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    • 31 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil production in April rose to an estimated 272,000 tonnes from an upward revised 222,738 in March and 233,434 in April last year.
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    • 145 12 Reuter FIJI HAS begun harvesting its sugar cane crop following settlement of a dispute involving farmers who had earlier refused to work. Cane crushing will start at the sugar corporation's Penang and Lebasa mills, said chief executive Rasheed Ali. Cane growers had
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    • 279 12 Singapore A-1 special C-l special C-l Ordinary Loonzoin 100% 210 (S$/kilo, en-godown) unq unq Thai white 100% 1st class (kongaroo) new crop first grade 100% second grade 1 05 grode 253 unq 100% 2nd class 0.78 Parboiled 100% 3rd class 25% new crop B-10% 0.76 5% No stock l0
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    • 866 12 COFFEE Nearby robusta futures finned in thin volume in late morning trading yesterday to close £25 higher to £35 lower. July touched a high of £2,340 to stand unchanged from Tuesday at £2,328 after reaching a low of £2,290. The partial recovery stemmed from light commission house buying
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    • 172 12 Bernama THIS YEAR'S world pepper supply is estimated to fall 28,000 tonnes from 1963 because of the long spell of dry weather in pepper producing countries. This was disclosed by the executive director of the International Pepper Community on Tuesday following the
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    • 215 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday recovered from the day's lows on late covering sparked by expectations of Pakistan's presence in the market today. Sentiment was earlier depressed by lower Chicago soy futures. June deliveries in the north region fell Ms4s to $1,585 a tonne, south $30 to
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    • 147 12 Chinese Produce Exchange (Sellert noon dosing pnc« S$/ 100 kg) Coconut oil Bute FOB 240 00 OW drum FOB 253.00 CAO TCI /V\ Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW B W FOB NSW Gambier FOB NSW 487 50 355 00 256 00 305 00 vnuiii rvo
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    • 145 12 Yarn Shirhng 116 50 (hi HK$ per bat* of 400 lb) Hongkong Golden Peak, 60x60 115.50 China carded yarn, Blue Phoenix 16'* Blue Phoenix 20's Bkje Phoenix 32's cones 3,500 3,550 4,000 4,500 White cloth Japan No. 10,000 Three Peaches 221 50 Bfcje Phoenix 4Cs Japan No 2003 Unq
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    • 327 12 R AS prices (in S c«nts/kilo, FOB in boles) NOON CLOSE Int 1 RSS prompt 197 00 Buyers S®ll#fS I98.00N 195 50 196 SON Int 1 RSS June 197 25 197.75 195 75 196 25 Int 1 RSS July 202 25 202 75 200 75 201 25
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    • 102 12 (w M cwm/1 H mi polWti) June July (current mth) (forward mth) RAS NOON NOON lliytn Sedan B«(y«rt SSR20 J 95 50 197 50N 197 50 199 SON SSR 50 ***** 195.50N 195 50 197 50N MRELB lnyti Siim ftuy«rs Stilt n SMRCV 252 50 254 SON
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    • 203 12 WHEAT futures recovered from early lows to close mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday, with prices ranging from down one US cent per bushel in July to up one in distant July. Nearby July moved in a 5 V« -cent range. Trade talk that the Eastern
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    • 105 12 THE Straits tla price 1m PeiMg yesterday was unchanged at the ITA fleer level e( M&1.15 a We. Dealers said iemsai was still lacking despite sterling's rise against the Malaysian dellar which helped marrow Penang's pre ml am te araoad £121 a teane ever the spet price in
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    • 121 12 SOYBEAN futures closed sharply lower in old crop, down 20 to four cents per bushel, with july posting a 25V«-cent range on the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday. Weakness in precious metals and some European currencies, coupled with a lack of new export business, pushed July to within
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    • 121 12 THE INDIAN government is limiting the stockpiling of sugar by private traders in cities. It said limits are being put on private stocks with the aim of checking speculation. All dealers are required to declare their stocks to government inspectors. The statement said the
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    • 323 12 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly lower yesterday with June One RSS buyers quoted at 196.75 cents a kilo, down 3.50 cents from Tuesday. The morning session was marked down slightly on freer offerings of July and August after an unchanged opening in quiet trading. Levels slipped three quarter cent
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4552 13 THE Singapore stock market came to a mixed close yesterday after an easier start. Selected stocks, including banking issues, managed to make some good gains. At the final bell, the BT Composite Index, which gauges a cross-section of the market, finished 4.19 points
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    • 258 13 SINGAPORE Rises 5 1 930 30 Tomortoh 975 +2 5 OCK 1030 +20 0 s 900 +15 Oriontol Hldgs 600 +15 JOM 257 +13 1570 +10 Kowwrtmg 50« 800 +10 515 +10 Wmtm* 440 +10 C A S H 50c 404 +8 L 4 M 50c 302
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    • 516 13 SELECTIVE interest punctuated an otherwise quiet session at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Shares were marginally lower at the start of trading but interest managed to seep through towards lunch break. Thereafter, trading remained quiet with only selected stocks attracting fresh support. Analysts said
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    • 3094 13 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 brackeU In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 485 14 NATIONAL Bank of Brunei, the newly-independent state's largest bank, has experienced a slowdown in its rate of profit growth. After years of strong growth culminating in the 85 per cent jump in net profits after tax to a record 8526.43 million in
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    • 100 14 HONGKONG Hang Seng Index Wednesday 928.60 Tuesday 923.03 Week ago 912.15 Australian Industrials Wednesday 921.2 Tuesday 927.9 Week ago 956 3 NEW YORK TOKYO Tokyo Dow Jones Wednesday ***** 97 Tuesday *****.97 Week ago *****.46 TSE Index Wednesday 790.74 Tuesday 793.61 Week ago 787.40 SYDNEY Dow Jones Tuesday
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    • 228 14 Managers' prices for May 31 MARA Bumiputra First B'putro 6 22 6 27 Second B'putro 5 52 5 57 Singapore Unit Trust Third B'putro Fourth B'putro 4 82 4 87 5 51 5 56 367 372 361 366 The Commerce 3.17 3 37* Fifth B'putro Sixth B'putro The
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    • 180 14 C I HOLDINGS Bhd has told the KLSE that the acquisition of Daya Leasing Sdn Bhd will be paid in cash and that it will not have any effect on group profits for the year ending June 30, 1984 as the acquisition is unlikely to be completed before
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    • 73 14 Reuter INCHCAPE PLC expects improved results this year, chairman David Orr said. Earlier, the company announced that pre-tax profits rose to £53 million last year, from £50 million in 1982 as turnover increased to £1.77 billion from £1.7 billion. Inchcape now plans to give greater
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    • 247 14 FT NESTLE, the Swiss food and drinks manufacturer, is expected to retain a controlling majority stake in its Malaysian operations when ownership of the business is restructured, probably later this year. The concession by the Malaysian government would represent a major change in
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    • 280 14 Bernama MALAYSIAN Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) will provide the financial backing to Cheq Point (M) Sdn Bhd following its proposed acquisition of 60 per cent of the credit charge card company, MRCB chairman Senator Kee Yong Wee said. Speaking at a press conference after
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    • 428 14 FT VOLVO, the Nordic region's biggest industrial corporation, increased its profits by 154 per cent in the first quarter of the year, the strongest performance in the company's history following a record result in 1983. Its profitability has been boosted by the continuing surge in car
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    • 2451 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Ajinomoto (3 88S) Alcom (2 266 2 275) (I)
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    • 105 14 UNITED Overseas Bank Limited: 15th AGM on June 1 at noon in UOB Buildng, 30th Floor, No 1 Bon ham Street (0104), INDUSTRIAL Commercial Bank limited: 30th AGM on June 2 at noon in ICB Penthouse. ICB Building, 8th Storey, 2 Shenton Way (0106). KUCHAI Development Berhad: 15th
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    • 542 15 WIRE ROPE manufacturer Berjaya Kawat Bhd is to embark on a diversification programme into other profitable lines of business following its proposed takeover by Nautilus Corporation Bhd. In its formal general offer document, Nautilus said however, that at the same time, it will
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    • 56 15 CHEMICAL Company of Malaysia Bhd has reported higher group pre-tax profits of MJ7.B million for the half-year ended March 31, 1964 ($2.8 million previously). A higher interim dividend of 15 per cent less tax (7.5 per cent) will be paid on July 20 to shareholders on
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    • 305 15 TRADING in Veneer Products Ltd shares will resume today. DBS BANK has sold 70,000 shares of Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd for a consideration of $277,520, thereby reducing its holding to 7.71 million shares or 6.22 per cent of OUE's paid-up capital. TWO directors of National Iron and Steel
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    • 257 15 MALAYSIAN Resources Corp Bhd is again on the property acquisition trail. The well-diversified property-based group is now proposing to acquire a controlling 60 per cent stake or 400,200 shares in Paka-Übat Raya Sdn Bhd for M 512.4 million cash. Paka-Übat, incorporated
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    • 119 15 .8,6.98UK1T Sembawang Estates has confirmed that there was a Gazette Notification of the intended compulsory acquisition of some land belonging to its wholly-owned subsidiary, United Singapore United Rubber Plantations. It said the declaration was made under the provisions of Section 5 of the Land Acquisition
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    • 991 15 THE market closed sharply lower yesterday on concern over Tuesday's higher than expected UK April trade deficit, news that Bolivia is to suspend temporarily foreign debt payments to private banks, the continuing lower trend on Wall Street as well as renewed worries over the British miners dispute, dealers
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    • 620 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM CONSTRUCTION Supplies House Bhd (CASH) has managed a good first half, giving it added confidence that the forecast full year pre-tax profits of M|6.85 million will be achieved. And for the first time, CASH has disclosed that it intends to
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    • 381 15 Reuter THE SALE of Dunlop Holdings PLC's 51-per cent stake in Dunlop Malaysian Industries Bhd will feature prominently in the former's financial re-organisa-tion, details of which will be announced in August. At the company's annual shareholders meeting in London, chairman Sir Maurice
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    • 114 15 SINGAPORE Land Ltd and Cosmopolitan [Development Pte Ltd have together acquired 37 apartments in Arcadia Gardens for a total consideration of $38.51 million. Singapore Land and Cosmopolitan Development are the joint venture partners in Arcadia Gardens Pte Ltd, the developer of the namesake condominium
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    • 307 15 Berautt CLOSE m the beds sf Hi abortive kid 1» take wer Geaeral Lamber Bbd, Baleigh ku tuwuMd ptoas to Mqilre a M per coat stake la a Freaeh eagtoeertog eampaay eagaged la the all aad gas ladsstry. A late statemeat
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    • 139 14 0"" I*l »*00U« rji-wr 4*OM*M -maPiMHP I' *w at MM Mr 555 5>3 SALf. Ml 8,391 sq m (90,320 sq ft) of freehold office space 120 car parks For sale by auction on Thursday 28th June 1984 at 2.30pm Venue: The Gallery, 4th Floor, The Mandarin Hotel, 333 Orchard Road,
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    • 266 14 NOTICE To the holders of the floeting rete U.S. Dollar Certificates of Deposit due 29th November, 1985 of: V THE SAITAMA BANK, LTD. 16, Raffles Quay, #38-01, Hong Leong Building, Singapore 0104 We hereby certify that the rate of Interest payable on the above mentioned Certificates of Deposit for the
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    • 191 15 ITALIAN PAVILION Leather Fair '84 Hall 3, World Trade Centre, Singapore June 6 to 9, 1984 June 6 8 (10am to 6pm) June 9 (10am to 4pm) In shop windows around the world, Italian shoes find a place in the front row displays with well-earned pride. The appeal of Italian
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  • 150 16 EXECUTIVE housekeepers of hotels have united to form ASH or the Association of Singapore Housekeepers. The association was founded with 28 members and was formally registered last November. It will have its inaugural annual general meeting today. ASH is expected to serve as a centre
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  • 86 16 THIS BUNNY is not smiling, and rightly so. If it did, It would have been mistaken for another one of those advertisments which demean women. This male bonny, which appeared in three French newspapers on Monday, was put np by the League for the Rights of Women
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  • 451 16  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE Singapore Bus Service will be able to recoup within 12 to 18 months all the $11 million to be paid out to retrenched conductors, managing director Tan Kong Eng indicated. This will come from
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  • 299 16  -  By LISA LEE LOCAL companies and individuals are showing active interest in a piece of freehold land in district 10 which is up for sale. The 2,532.3 sq metres of built-up land at number five, Draycott Drive has attracted more than 20
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  • 101 16 Reuter CHINESE Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang met French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris yesterday at the start of a sanation West European tour that will take him to Belgium, Scandinavia and Italy. Mr Zhao, who will spend five days in France, was
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  • 512 16  -  By LOH HUI YIN CASH-RICH Sembawang group is making its presence increasingly felt in the other Asian countries. Sembawang's latest expansion takes it to Indonesia where it is investing in a $30 million steel fabrication yard. This comes just nine months after a
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  • 345 16 THE GROWING and important group of professionals who are now working for multinational companies should be encouraged to become entrepreneurs. Mr Toh Tse Ming, executive director of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association, in a farewell interview with BT, said that "for
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  • 96 16 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board was officially established in Taipei yesterday, with the task of attracting more tourists from Taiwan. Mr William Cheng, Singapore's trade representative in Taipei, officiated at the opening of the board's office during a reception attended by hundreds of guests.
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  • 95 16 Reuter BRITISH POLICE jesterday arrested Arthur Scargill, leader of the country's striking miners, during a protest action outside a northern England cokine plant. The president of the National Union of Mine workers was leading a column of about 100 pickets when he was stopped by police.
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  • 65 16 Reuter WALL STREET stock prices were moderately lower in early trading yesterday as new worries about the US banking system surfaced. The Dow Jones industrial average, which fell nearly six points on Tuesday, was down about three points to around 1098. Overall, losers led gainers about two
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  • LATE FILE
    • 29 16 I say, what a crowd Reuter TOKYO'S population reached 11,787,049 this month, the city government said yesterday. There were, as on May 1, 5,947,581 men and 5,839,468 women. Reuter
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    • 37 16 Reuter CHINESE Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian met his Malaysian counterpart Tan Sri Ghazali Sha fie yesterday and told him their two governments should trust each other, the New China News Agency said. Reuter
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    • 51 16 Reuter THE Soviet press yesterday attacked Western celebrations of the Allied landing in Normandy and said the invasion was of less importance than the fighting on the Russian front. It also said that the offensive was delayed so Germany could inflict maximum damage on Soviet forces.
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    • 31 16 AFP LEBANESE security officials yesterday put the finishing touches on elaborate precautions for today's opening of parliamentary debate on a vote of confidence in Premier Rashid Kara mi's government.
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    • 42 16 AP A SUDANESE martial law court on Tuesday banned all forms of European style dancing and punished the owner and manager of a nightclub with 25 lashes for "perpetrating obscene acts", the Egyptian Middle East News Agency reported.
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    • 18 16 Reuter AUSTRALIAN police arrested 31 aborigines and whites during an illegal protest march yesterday.
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    • 56 16 Outlook for today: Fair; showers in a few areas in the early afternoon. Report for 24 hours pr»or to 7 30pm on May 30 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.0 Associated humidity 59 Minimum temperature 25.8 Associated humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 10.55 Rainfall in millimetres Nil Rainfall this month
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 276 17 CEYLON Shipping Corporation, the national line of Sri Lanka, is using Singapore as a transhipment base for its United Statesbound containers. The arrangement is the result of a recent connecting carrier agreement made with Maersk Line. Under the contract, containers loaded
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    • 545 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ A WELL-DEFINED cost control measure has been implemented at Malaysia Shipyard Engineering in an attempt to push up its productivity and profits. The yard has set a target to bring down costs by at least 10 per cent this year
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 67 17 SONAT Subsea Services, a Sonat subsidiary, has expanded its international underwater services business with the establishment of a regional facility in Singapore. Mr Rodney Stanley has been named senior vice-president, Asia /Pacific region and will assume responsibilities as the Sonat Subsea Services regional executive based in Singapore.
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      • 50 17 JAPAN'S biggest shipbuilder, Mitsubishi HI t has agreed in principle for the transfer of technology with Todd Shipyards Corp, the biggest independent shipbuilder in the United States. The agreement specifically covers methodology for the modular construction of new ships as well as for major conversions and retrofits.
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    • 669 17 Shipping Lin* P*g* Col Shipping Lino Pag* Col Abex Transport TV 4 Franco-Belg m 4/5 Afea VI 3 Frata Shpg VI 2 Ahrenkiel Liner vn 5 Freight Links VI 4 Alpac VI 5 Frota V 1 An tar a Shpg IV 1 Fujiwara Line IV 5 A
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    • 910 18 Lloyd's List THE expansionist strategy of US Lines and Evergreen will have a dramatic impact on mainstream container trades and send shock waves throughout the liner industry. This is the main conclusion of a report from Container Insight on the round-the-world plans of the
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    • 441 18 Fairplay IN A CASE of considerable importance regarding the shipowner's leave to limit his liability in the case of negligence, the House of Lords recently dismissed an appeal by the owners of the Liberian tanker Marion, which fouled an oil
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    • 1525 18 INCREASED chartering has developed in the coal section of the freight market on Monday with business arranged from Dalrymple Bay to Kaohsiung at U557.25 and from New South Wales to Fos at $13.75, brokers said. Coal shippers also arranged cargoes from Richards Bay to the Continent at $7.75
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    • 766 18 AFP ENQUIRY in the coal and ore trades continued apace on the freight market throughout last week, while more sporadic activity in the grain sector was confined to the earlier part of the week. Good demand for the larger bulk carriers helped to maintain rates in many sectors
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    • 179 18 AP MALAYSIA HAS proposed to India that the two countries work out a shipping arrangement to boost trade, a Malaysian Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday. Secretary general Zakaria Ali of the Foreign Ministry said the Malaysian proposal was presented at the fourth annual IndiaMalaysia joint
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    • 192 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East Europe, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia Straits
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    • 494 19 AN AVERAGE of one ship a week is disappearing from the Danish shipping register with the decline hitting mainly the smaller vessels. The Danish Shipowners Association, which published its annual report, warned that this trend threatened the diversified structure of the industry.
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    • 366 19 SHIPPING companies and agencies in the Philippines file an average of five claims a day for damaged cargo and/or containers against Metro Port Services, the exclusive arrastre contractor at the Manila South Harbour. The majority of these claims remain unanswered; almost all are unsettled.
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    • 297 19 UPI THE HONGKONG company that operates a tanker heavily damaged last week by a missile attack in the Persian Gulf has no immediate plans to halt shipping in the region, the company president said. "I think everyone has overreacted," said Frank Chao,
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    • 7455 24 «asms A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 661 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Ship Voy Arrival for LCL movement date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Anders 1WB 31.5 84 2300 African FSB 0800-1100 S4 Harvester 31/84 31.5.84 2300 SMS FSB 0700-0800/1000-1100 B7 8 Dahlia 207/84 1.6 84 0700 Leo Shpg
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    • 1807 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B 4FEA African Shipping Agencies (Si \lr*-Kimlt linr Trans group i Si Ahrenklel iiiwr Service Kim Shpg (St Alfred Taepfer Oceanus Shipping Agency (S) Manntpx Enterprise (PK) Alpac Inlrasea (Si BmUng Shpg (KL) (stand Cargo Handling and Forwarding iPNi.
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    • 1166 26 ALGIERS Algiers April 30th. About 4 to 5 days delays. Annaba April 29th. 6 vessels waiting. Bejaia April 29th. 3 vessels waiting. Mostaganem April 29th. 5 vessels waiting for berths. ARGENTINA Bahia Blanca April 23rd. 7 days delays. 6 grain vessels waiting and another 6 due. Buenos Aires
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    • 509 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth KEPPEL WHARVES Chidambaram 33/4 Jenhol 22 Kota Angkasa 25/6 Montauk Gannet 1/2 Shoun Ambassador 15/6 Straits Pride 20 Willine Taro 47 Belo Kosmo 33/4 Da Feng 47 Equator III 22 Lampung 45A Li Shan 29/30 Ned Baltimore 44 Rajah Brooke 21 Regent
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    • 559 17 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korea Flag Vsls Regular Liner Semi-Container Service To: P. Ketang/Penang/Bangkok/Keelunt/ Busan/Inchon Fm: Busan/Moji/H. Kong S'pore Agent: Neptune Agencies Pte Ltd Tel: *****77 P.K. *****4, PN *****5 K.L. *****0 mm LONDON Freights 11/11 l WEEKLY Freights II CONSORTIA 111 SHIPPING Schedule VIII/IX CONTAINER Schedules IX WHO Acts for Whom
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    • 123 17 DEPARTURES TO USA. CANADA. CARIBBEAN AND INLAND AMERICA Feeder Vessel Line Haul Vessel WORLD DON 1 SI/FREEDOM 43 WORLD LION 158/PATWOT 49 WORLD TIGER 1(0/ENXJRANCE 44 WORLD TIGER ISO/EXPLORER 44 WORLD LION 159/N CORAL 23 WORLD UON 159/ DEVELOPER 4€ Vessel/Line Haul Vessel l.ir'ME!,'.!!.!,!;! ■zaoo ea^cLand SINGAPORE TEL: *****22 PORT
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    • 258 18 ML FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE To Europe. From Europe too Accepting Fr 1) Barcelona. Genoa. 2) Amsterdam. Antwerp, LHawe. Basic. UK. 3) Bremen Bremerha»en. Aarhus. Copenhagen, Helsinki 4) Malmo Stockholm Oslo 'Accepting Europe cargo lor feeder na S pore 'Also direct cargo tor Spore t Bangkok Ph contact PERMSC P
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    • 403 18 Y.S. LINE YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAIMER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South Wnl Pacific North Wast Faadar at Tokyo Faadar at Koba RMh. m U/LB OAK kMw VSI »T Kt Atlantic/Canada Faadar at Koba Also accepting LCL Cargo for USA Ports only. irw »l lIOH 18/7 26/7 21/7 27/7 25/7 8/8 15/8 10/1
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    • 805 19 The Straits Steamship Group i Overseas Containers Limited SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT Spa* PM* 13/1 M/I l»/« 21/ C m i N/7 K/7 12/7 14/7 a/7 a/7 a/7 */7 M/l M/I 14/1 12/1 ■JI CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE FROM UK CONTINENT H berg Brm Ktm It Hi S"toe I P.Kefcei S port
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    • 40 19 EIC ui EAC LINES BUIK/BREAKBULK SERVICE ton INQUIMS BOOKINGS PIEASI CONTACT SINGAPORE: J ARK ART A: JAQKARTA: BAKKE SIMF DARBY SHIPPING PTE LTD TEL *****8/*****6 PT. DJARKARTA LLOYD TEL *****8/ *****6/*****2/*****0 THE EAST ASIATIC CO LTD TEL *****1 OWNERS REPRESENTATION
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    • 743 19 NOTICE We advise the shipping community that neither MR. JOKANAN GUILLEN NUNEZ nor PANAMA REGISTRATION BUREAU INC. are authorized to promote any kind of business on behalf of Honduras Maritime Bureau (HBM) or Honduras International of Naval Surveying and Inspection Bureau (HINSIB) or to accept money or documents on our
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    • 608 20 m Hapag-Lloyd TO CONTINENT UK EXPORTS J'*?* leiidei BDm Genu H'hurj Rdam Bha.en Antwerp TSU 23/S 26/6 21/6 20/7 2«/7 31/7 2/| Kurama tbru Toka Eipress Benaran Connecting in Tokyo Connecting m Kobe "Also occeptmg cargo tor ATLANTIC GULF PORTS vio mmJandbridge, and US MID-WEST by microbndge" fROM CONTINENT UK
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    • 360 20 FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE ]TO EUROPE Vl* SUEZ Member ot the Oct Comorttgn PUILY CONTAINERISED '0 fROM NORTH iMfeirA (AST COAST FULLY CONTAINERISED 10 FRUM NORIH AMFRICA WEST COAST CONVENTIONAL SERVICE To/From BUSAN CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO IRAN PFRSIAN GULF cn a n u=>//_•!/ o^juJl Algerian National Line WEST BOUND FAR EAST/MEDITERRANEAN
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    • 314 20 EVERGREEN LINE r~ FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE FAR EAST/MED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE SGP PKL ED ICA lIU PSD *LC BCN IfS GEN FOS Accord 7/0 10/4 24/4 24/4 27/4 3/7 »/(30/i 1/7 Acloeve 10/4 30 6 05/7 05/7 17/7 14/7 10/711/712/7 ALSO ACCEPTOK CARGO 10 US PUMAS HOWE Quit MO
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    • 807 20 KIE GWAN SHIPPING (M) SDN. Bl KK GV *> 26 berangan >Mmmok KELANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA V TEL Nos *****2. *****5 3W162 W *****4,3W122,3tt097 W. MALAYSIA/S'POftE TO E. MALAYS!* sn»npr< T;,AMB( I A KKblu. S'kan Tawau tHATI SENANG KKblu S kan. lawau tKHA KKblu. S kan SAIU KKWu S kan. LDatu
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    • 345 20 HXSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF KM IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES S«{aport Loadmc 3/( D kbb MAN BORHAN Tfl/c B Abbas, B Khomcn do POfil HUANG PINANC SWOSI MARITNK PT| LTD HI ??***** 7 4 *****70 MAIOSf MARITMf SDN BHD T«< *****2,3 MAIAYSIA TRADt 4 TRANSPORT LTD T«t
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 590 21 KOTA WANOSA KOTA MURNI KOTA AQUNQ KOTA BEJATI KOTA BALAM KOTA SEGAR PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES VOVAOE E-501 E-90S E-507 E-509 E-511 E-513 SINGAPORE lnPt-2/B 1-4/6 15-20/6 4-7/7 5-10/7 10-15/7 LOADING FOR. HOOEIOAH, JEDOAH, PT SUDAN, ADEN, MOMBASA, D'SALAAM MOGADISCIO. HOOEIDAN, ADEN. AQABA Si UTI HOO€ AH JeODAH, AQABA,
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    • 254 21 MALAYSIA SHIPPING CORPN. SDN. BHD. VOY. PENANG 5/«4 5/S4 (-10/6 5/M 5/14 P KELANG LOAOMG FOR MO/I KK/SKN/TA 11-I®/® KU/KK/SKN 14-19/6 KK/SKN/TA 20-26/6 KUC/KK/SKN Agents SINGAPORE Pit P KEIANG SEIATAN AGENCY KL SEIATAN AGENCY PENANG IE AN BEE &CO TEL *****33 TFI *****6 *****32 TEL *****9 *****2 TEL ***** *****
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    • 584 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS CKJJEBSEN LINE NEW ZEALAND SINGAPOW PO#T KUANG K lUMPUP P[ NANG BEN I INI Bf NDfRA BfNWRA I AKSAMANA lEI *****44 TCI *****1 Ifl 55??55 Ifl ***** 1 M O PRIVATE LIMITED i IVI TEL: *****87. *****28, If W *****77 TELEX: ***** SMSPL PORT KELANG PENANG WEEKLY FULL
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    • 608 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINE STOW P KEIANGTUBURY/ R'DAM H'BURG ANTWERP LON A DAM BREMEN MAT AS AM V9N6 25/6 20/7 22/7 24/7 27/7 BAAB UILAH ¥718 5 7 >/7 l/« 6/1 WE ARE ACCEPTING BOTH CONTAINERS, CONVENTIONAL CARGO AND BULK LIQUID CARGO FOR BOTH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AND ALSO
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    • 604 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon S'pore P.Kelong Pen Poon V 72 10/12 June Htontowywo 15/17 June Pogon V 75 20/22 June Phoshwegyowywo 28/30 June BANK LINE EXPRESS INDEPENDENT SERVICE TO UK/ CONT SPORE R'DAM HULL HMBG IVYBANK 23 June 17 July
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    • 742 22 K KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD FEEDER' MOTtCR *Sl JOHORE BRDGE *31 ANTO FAGASTA *1415 CENTRAL AMERICA /CARIBBEAN SEA FEEDER/VSL WHORE BRDGE V3l MOTHS *si It *SL W< ANTOfTA VALPARAISO J *UJ I Au( 11 Auf PT CJU.mil PAPRMCE S ANTOMO 13 km AISO AC CEP TUG PUERTO QUETZJU (23 U)
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    • 517 22 Accepting Break bulk and containerised cargoes Direct to South Africa Accepting Contains I BmH>utt Accepting Containers on<» S-* VAAL S7lsf ned cot umbo vcouf I S P OMrtMR Bar Clmm FL* Maputo tOi 1/7 10/7 J/7 |12/« I 2S/C 1 10/7 30/4 n/« 15/7 13/7 KD COLOMBO V ttlOG u
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    • 647 22 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE WißtAfHOr lAWtr AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Acctpt** Fa/FO Calw, «ceptan, tr*. tar Aucl IM |,tt Sp« M* ta.^ 14/1/ lumr 11/19 3M« «u. r —>- ECUS sS sss: M ?»tar 3 Auf Fim Am r>« iMta, tar A*. Ou*j VTSMVA AAJfUNA VtSMVA MAOHURt
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    • 604 22 SANKD ASIA F*Om JAPANESE PORTS ANO HONGKONG 1. BERDKARI 2. REGENT RANGER GON 19/1 fen 2/3 Jin 3. FUKUZAKI MARU 2/4 fen 5S 4. GREAT MOUNT 9/10 to 5. SITI NORMS 10/12 Jut 13/14 7. OVERNAVE 13/15 Juw 18/17 Jun A!K l C F Sharp Co (M) P»e Ltd Tel
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    • 494 22 t INTRASEA (PTC) LTD 10 Anson Road *27 16 International Pia/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 (10 Lines) MTOMfIAUKI <► BREfIKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK KONKM) THETIS *****06 FORT KLSON *****07 S'port P KeUof Ludnc f«r:fort 2/8 ant/rott/u.k 23/8 28/8 STTE/ANT/ROTT/U.K V TAI MARINE CORPORATION REGULAR LINER SERVICE POUT KELANG/SINGAPORE/PMLIPPINES KAOHSIUNG/KEELUNG
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 592 23 FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE [flsl iHVifil WfiQ OCNEF39W+ HKCONTAMERAOW.. SSMD6E4CN.. C PAUL 40ft C CONTAfO 26ft... C ROZE 39ft Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia 0 CHIEF S pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 1400 3/6 LCI Cargo 0200 3/6 FROM EUROfE (VIA SUEZ) C PMJL 39E C CQNTAMER 2SE. C
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    • 493 23 IHEUNG-A SHIPPING J Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: BANGKOK. KEELUNG. BUSAN. INCHON ,(VS NtPTUM AGINCKS PTI ITO Tel *****77 P*****4 (BooAmjsi ???7SIO (Operations! ????48 7 ??09?84 (Terirwiil) ??0?450 ??0?S04 (CFS > vii »>si* *r,(M TUNAS SfTIA SON BHD KL Tel *****0 *****4 PK Tel *****4 PfN Tel *****5
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    • 952 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SiISOV BUILDMG 55, Marfcet Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SJNSOV SINGAPORE Tetei Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** t KELANG M/S SHAMMT NAH SOON SON. BHD IST AND 2ND FLOOR NO 1 JALAN CEMPtNWG PORT KLANG. MALAYSIA
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    • 58 23 ahrenkiel liner service gmbh DURBAN. JOHANNESBURG. MAPUTO _MAURITIUS REUNION WESTBOUND BEL A MONDO 9W/84 ETA PT SIN LOUIS DURBAN GDN 33/34 16/5/84 EASTBOUND ALS CONFIDENCE SE/84 ETD ETD ETA R BAY DURBAN SIN 17/5 23/5 8/6 Agents: Kim Shipping Trading Pte Ltd 63 Market Street. *06-06 Tat Lee BWg S
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 754 24 Itcjltonal Container Lines i f jmi 2 Sailings Weekly llniflnll Reliable Regular Punctual .Berthing PS A 1500Hrs Tuesday Saturday REGULAR FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGKLA *oy RATANA BHUM 113/114 VOY STOW 247/241 5 )u* -5, ISLANDS USE MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER S'pore PK lAA4AI. SHAH k#t/l tun (Mauritian Flag) KUSU ISIAJO
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 124 25 I ICOIiNh aNERAL AGfNTS \l. SINGAPORE SALES/BOOKINGS TIL ***** I French Line REGULAR SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO BAN6LA-DESH/INPIA/SRI LANKA/PAKISTAN SEAIIOH SHAPING (S) PTE LTD SALES/BOOKINGS TEL *****81 (8 LMES) M/V ANJOU VSLS4 M/V ARMAGNAC V6LS4 M/V ARTOIS V7LS4 I' HALDIA-CALCUTTA 17/5 26/6 8/7 10/7 COLOMBO 24/5 2/7 16/7 DIRECT FULL CONTAINER
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    • 205 25 Scan Dutch 9 To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) 2) ROTTERDAM 3) HAMBURG 4) GOTHENBURG To Red Sea/Mediterranean From Europe SINGAPORE MOTHER VESSEL N Depma i/o Suna 6/6 8/6 11/6 10 6 15 6 17/6 Toyama 13/6 15/6 18/6 17/6 22/6 74 N Houtman 20/6 19/6} 25/6 24/6 29/6 1/7 S"C, T, S
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 124 26 Regional Weather K bl 'i rrr.^ a I M a 05 ft 1® m ti s SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND• R Thunderstorm Temperature °C /<\ V Shower Weather ,-V Wind direction with speed in knots Rain Cloudy Sky Wave height SmrtMee winds are
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