The Business Times, 17 October 1984

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIM ES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17,1984 60 CENTS
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  • 762 1  -  Far East-Levingston has no new orders but plans to spec-build a jack-up By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN FAR EAST-Levingston Shipbuilding, the cash rich member of Keppel group in charge of offshore activities, is considering a US$4O million (SJB6 million) gamble. It is thinking of spec-building a jack-up.
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  • 605 1  -  By JAIME LYE THE NUMBER OF tourists who came to Singapore last year may have fallen, but the spending power of those who did arrive more than made up for the absentees. So while tourists fell by 3.5 per
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  • 221 1 THE BATTERED British pound yesterday plunged to an alltime low against both the Singapore and US dollars in active trading in the foreign exchange market. Against the Singapore currency, sterling sank to its historic low of 2.6060 at about 4
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  • Article, Illustration
    67 1 THE SINGAPORE stock our ket el—ei mixed ywtwfcy alter prsflt taken enM YeSmtay's lacklsstre performance came la spite ef a storting shewing by Wall Street stocks Meaday, ratelag fears that fee widely expected technical rally sa fee toeai market may act came afcsat. IV) BT Ccmpestte iMex cteced
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  • 434 1  -  By JOANNE YAP WAITING time for taxis could be cut with a new computer to be made in Singapore by Weston Electronics. The company is investing $2 million to build a computeraided communications system which will allow taxi companies to confirm bookings
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  • 389 1  -  By RAY HEATH A FALL in the world oil price to a level which could cause further problems for the global financial system has become a real danger, following European price cuts. A decision by Norway to virtually cut the price of its
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  • 174 1 Bernama THE REAGAN administration is drawing up programmes to intensify research and development to increase the consumption of tin. Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Datuk Paul Leong disclosed yesterday that contacts are underway between the US and Malaysia to boost BAD efforts, first raised by
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    • 270 1 Fcwtr visitor® went shopping, Back Pag* KNOCKED-DOWN furniture exports climbed to $75.8 million in the first eight months of this yeor. Exports so for this year ore $16.2 million more than the $59.6 million in the same period lost year. Page 2 CHINA HAS moved towards total elimination of its
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    • 167 1 FuM report, Pag* 13 Asian stocks, Pago 11 I M A MA I aif. r L a aA initrniiionii stocki, rtye iu SERIES FT3OOO m FT 3050 W A The new compact copiers from Ricoh. The series FT 3000 range of compact copiers can meet the needs of any office,
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 488 2  -  By JOHN LIM KNOCKED-DOWN furniture exports, enjoying sustained high growth, climbed to $75.8 million in the first eight months of the year. Exports so far this year were $16.2 million more than the $59.6 million recorded in the same period last year. The increase
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    • 276 2 THE INTERNATIONAL Conference On Tall Buildings, initiated two years ago as a regional meeting, has grown to become a gathering of the world's top engineers, architects and consultants. And on Monday, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Culture, Mr S Dhanabalan, will open
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    • 183 2 AFTER its successful cruise in the Straits of Malacca last year, the National Productivity Association is organising a second "Productivity Cruise", this time to Penang. The 10,000-tonne luxury liner Coral Princess has been chartered for the trip. The five-day cruise in December is designed for members
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    • 321 2 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE Oct 19-20 Office AutomationA Practical Course In Planning Implementation Oct 20 Latest Amendments To The Employment Act Oct 21-Nov 2 Company Directors' Programme Oct 22 Value Analysis Oct 24-Dec 28 The Secretary In Practice Programme Oct 25-27 Supervisory Power Oct 26 Marketing Excellence Oct
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    • 318 3  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF SINGAPORE has been invited to study the information service of West Germany. The invitation comes at a time when the government has expressed an intention to set up an information ministry. The invitation is, however, unofficial but a senior West German diplomat
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    • 262 3 SINGAPOREANS paid more for transport, housing and other items in September than they did in the same month last year. The consumer price index in September rose by 2.4 per cent as lower prices in housing and clothing failed to
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    • 340 3 DARWIS BIN MOHD' DAEK has been appointed general manager of Malaysian Industrial Development* Finance Bhd, Kuala Lumpur. A chartered accountant by profession, Mr Darwis has worked for about 14 years with various companies of the Shell group in Australia, the UK, Singapore and Malaysia. ONG LECK KEONG
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    • 197 3 THE SINGAPORE Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) is to introduce a good manufacturing practice scheme to encourage local industries to exercise quality control. This was disclosed last night by Dr Wong Kwei Cheong, Minister of State (Trade and Industry), when he
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    • 377 3  -  By GRACE YU ABOUT 500 units of the first ever locally designed and manufactured computers are expected to be sold every month beginning from November. Sales of the computer, called Cubic 99, is expected to double to 1,000 a month next year when
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 376 4 Reuter CHINA HAS moved towards total elimination of its dual exchange rate system by allowing the official rate for the renminbi to slip to a new low of under 2.70 to the US dollar yesterday, diplomats in Beijing said. The official rate has
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    • 180 4 AFP CHINA IS to open its domestic market wider to products made by joint-venture companies, the New China News Agency (NCNA) reported. Chu Baotai, director of foreign investment services at the Trade Ministry, said that joint ventures producing import-sub-stitute goods would now be allowed
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    • 125 4 Reuter WEST German corporate earnings rose by nearly 8 per cent in the first half of this year, in spite of a sales drop caused by summer strikes, and plans for investment have not been interrupted by labour disputes. In an analysis of corporate profits
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    • 301 4 Reuter INDIA HAS strongly denied it was planning to launch an attack on Pakistan and expressed serious concern to the US over a statement that Washington would help Pakistan if it were attacked by India. "The attempt to project India as a
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    • 303 4 AFP A LAWYER who linked the armed forces chief and a business tycoon to the Aquino murder was jailed by Manila police yesterday on a libel charge, but he refused to post bail until a report on the opposition leader's assassination
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    • 268 4 AFP THE 1984 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology was awarded jointly yesterday to Briton Niels Jerne, Argentinian-born Cesar Milstein and West German Georges Koehler. In the citation the Karolinska Institute described Niels Jerne, 73, as the "great theoretician in immunology". It
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    • 112 4 AP THE Tokyo Grain Exchange is planning to get a tie-up with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT) for the interna tionalisation of commodity futures transactions. A spokesman for the exchange said a four-man CBT team was expected in Tokyo for talks with Japanese counterparts
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    • 540 6 FT NORWAY has announced measures amounting to a unilateral cut in the official price of its North Sea crude oil of about US$l.5O a barrel. The move has put the British National Oil Corporation (BNOC) under enormous pressure to cut UK North
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    • 99 6 UPI A SEVENTH person has died from Hepatitis B in one of the largest and deadliest outbreaks pf the disease ever recorded in the US, officials in Massachusetts said on Monday. A man in his mid-2Qs, described as a probable druguser, succumbed to the
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    • 415 6 Reuter TALKS to end Britain's coal strike broke down on Monday and Marxist miners' leader Arthur Scargill said there was no sign of an end to the 32-week-old dispute. The talks were promoted by the independent conciliation service Acas, and their failure left the
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    • 228 6 UPI BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has called for the reintroduction of the death penalty in response to a bomb attack that killed four people in the hotel where her Conservative Party held its conference last week. "People who go out prepared to take the lives
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    • 375 6 FT ITALY's financial establishment was rocked on Monday by the news of the arrest of two of its leading figures on charges of having embezzled US$l25 million from state-owned companies. Fausto Calabria, chairman of the powerful Milanbased Mediobanca merchant banking group, was
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    • 209 6 Reuter THE SOVIET daily Pravda has condemned the coverup of a scandal involving a senior police chief, in an article demanding more honesty and openness in reporting the misdemeanours of senior state officials. The Communist Party newspaper charged that Alexander Kovinyev, deputy head
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    • 341 6 AFP FRANCE IS close to winning a contract to supply two nuclear reactors for China's first nuclear power station in spite of stiff competition from Europe, the US and Japan. Officials from the French company, Framatome, were expected to attend a meeting in Beijing
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    • 184 6 UPI THE FAMOUS child-care expert, Dr Benjamin Spock, his wife and at least four other people were arrested on Monday during a peace protest at the White House. The group had unfurled a large banner that read, "Choose for the future, disarm now." Police
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 692 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar and sterling closed lower against other major currencies yesterday in moderate trading. It closed softer at 3.1425/35 marks against New York's 3.1500/15 close and at 2.5715/30 Swiss francs against 2.5780/5800. Sterling recovered slightly to US$l.2OlO/20, after falling briefly to a new record low of
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    • 160 7 HONGKONG The market closed very steady in active trading yesterday. It closed at U*****.00/40 an ounce compared with the New York close of $340.50/341.00 and the previous finish here of $338.90/339.30. On the local scene, gold closed at HK53,179 a tahil compared with $3,170 on Monday. The krugerrand gained
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    • 220 7 Interbank rates at 3pm quoted y**lecd*y c in i|i ii chans* Local dollors to on* unit of foreign currency -23 00 US dolor 2.1710 2 1720 ***** Sterling pound ***** ***** 7 3469 -64 54 Australian dollar 1 0475 1 0501 3 4286 -69 45 NZ dollar Unav
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    • 320 7 BA Futures Inc EURODOLLAR futures in Simex opened lower yesterday than its previous close following a late sell-off in Chicago last night. Although Bankers Trust's prime rate cut had resulted in a rally, failure of other banks to follow and firm federal funds pushed prices lower. December Euros opened
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    • 342 7 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady yesterday at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading. Short-dates finned between 1/8 and 5/16 point at the outset following higher US federal funds rate and were unchanged after that. Overnight closed at 10-5/ 8 10-1/2 and week fixed at 10-9/16 10-7/16.
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    • 74 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate fell by 7/16-point from Monday to close at 73/8 per cent on the Singapore interbank money market yesterday. One, two and threemonth maturities fell by 1/16 point each. ■MNCATB Mm ot Mm print ImAv rate! tf 12 mj« banti ap*rit fell hi Snfipart. >
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    • 356 7 Reuter MAJOR banks will not rush to match Monday's half-point prime lending rate cut to 12'/« per cent by Bankers Trust, economists say. Larry Leuzzi of E F Hutton and Co Inc said: "Banks will tend to resist a half-point prime rate
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    • 142 7 Reuter C/ T CITICORP has arranged a HKJSOO million credit facility for Hongkong Mass Transit Railway Corp (MTRC) using transferable loan certificates. The five-year facility is in two equal tranches. The first is a revolving tranche at Hongkong prime rate flat with no management
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  • FEATURES
    • 485 8 POOR SKILLS Development Fund. Conceived some five years ago and now with between $300 million and $500 million in its coffers, it has consistently borne the brunt of attacks on the government's high wage policies. Hardly has the hue and cry died down in
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    • 638 8 China's open-door policy is beginning to look much more promising after years of upheaval FT THE SIZE of the DMSOO million Volkswagen deal signed last week makes it a landmark in China's efforts to attract foreign investment. However, foreign companies are
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    • 789 8  -  By ALAIN CASS FT CHINA'S first 3-D kungfu film got under way last week in a SinoJapanese co-production called The Chivalrous Woman Shisanmei. The Beijing Film Studio has guaranteed its Japanese partner in audience of 200 million inside China, which, in a nation of cinema fanatics
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    • 547 8  -  By MAX COMMANDER BRITAIN'S trade surplus with Singapore last year was US$2BO million. Judging by the approach of a recent British trade mission to Singapore, the question has to be asked, "How?" The 26 Englishmen who came to sell their wares flew out
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    • 781 9  -  By BOB KING FT TAIWAN IS in an enviable position: it has too much money. what would be manna to •some governments is poison to •Taiwan's, which holds monetary Stability as a major priority and which fears rampant inflation may yet again appear in
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    • 329 9 FT TAIWAN celebrated its National Day, the 73rd anniversary of the October 10, 1911 revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty, under mostly rainy skies that nevertheless failed to dampen the spirits of those in the parades and thousands of onlookers, Bob King reports from Taipei.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 672 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 One n the eye? (5) 6 Morch, perhaps (5) 9 He succeeds at f»gh speed (7) 0 American tomahawk port (5) 11 Reads about «ce people (S) 12 Vn thrusts a key m (5) 13 Brown boy? Just (7) 15 Figure I'm not very bright (3)
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  • SPORTS
    • 459 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS SINGAPORE'S (30,000 effort to reach new heights in the squash world begins on Saturday with a three-pronged approach. Newly hired Kiwi coaches Neven Barbour and Rob Crothall have mapped out a strategy that will be directed at the seniors, juniors and the
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    • 556 9  -  By BRIAN MILLER GUAM will not be represented when bowlers from 15 nations assemble at Jackie's Bowl Magic Score for the prestigious Eighth Asian Zone FIQ championships next month. This tiny Pacific island has not responded to the invitations sent out to them
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    • 114 9 UPI WHEN hockey star Wayne Gretzky has one of his patented four-point evenings the spotlight usually descends on him. However, in New York on Sunday night, it was a rookie who snatched centre stage from the great one. Rookie Gord Sherven scored three goals and
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 890 9 TO UK® 2.30 PM SBC Text "Live" Sample Pages 3.00 Opening and Programme Highfigtits folowed by This Land is line t 4.30 The Richard Simmons Show *4.55 Animals in Action Baby Birds 5.20 Romper Room (English) 5.50 Unicorn Tales The Stowaway 6.10 Programme HighSghts 6.15 News (English) 6.25 Once Upon
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 239 10 FT THE TAKEOVER of Italy's troubled Zanussi home appliance group by Electrolux of Sweden has again hit last-minute snags which could threaten the long-awaited rescue. Although a working body representing the 19 foreign bank creditors of Zanussi reached agreement with Electrolux three weeks
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    • 117 10 Reuter EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society of the US, Merrill Lynch and Co Inc and E F Hutton Group Inc have ended negotiations to acquire Charter Co's three insurance subsidiaries. The three companies say that Charter advised them it is in discussion with another potential buyer
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    • 82 10 GT to spend US$270m on R D Reuter GOODYEAR Tire and Rubber Co (GT) says that it will commit an estimated US$27O million to research and development this year. Goodyear's 1983 R&D spending of $251.4 million led other manufacturers by a wide margin. It outspent its closest competitor by better
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    • 300 10 UPI THE STOCK market, battling to sustain a rally which began last week, rose sharply along a broad front on Monday after Bankers Trust cut its prime lending rate. But the trading pace was not enthusiastic as investors weighed a flood of
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 419 11 HONGKONG: Share prices rose sharply yesterday in very active trading as small investors followed overseas institutions' buying lead. Jardine Matheson and Hutchison Whampoa led the across the broad gain. Utilities, properties and trading firms were among the outstanding performers but industries were lacklustre. The Hang Seng Index finished the
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    • 285 11 OCT 16 NT Chem Indus 18 70 -0 1 Lien Hwo Indus 13 20 -0 05 AD Sincere Indus 7 25 0 05 Nan Y a Plas 29 50 -03 Ajjo Cement 24 70 -0 5 Pacific Cons 25 60 -04 Cothoy Cons 25 20 -06 Pacific Elect Chang
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    • 381 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed steady yesterday in moderate turnover on mixed signals from abroad. The All Ordinaries Index was 1.4 higher at 754.5, the All Industrials 1.8 up at 1,087.1 and the All Resources 1.1 firmer at 496.8. Rises outnumbered falls by about three to two. BHP was steady
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    • 93 11 Oct 16 Won Hyundai Corp 1000 -15 Hyundai Motor 608 -4 656 unch K AL 506 -4 Bonk Seoul Korea Frit 710 -10 Choheung Bk 620 unch Korea Oil 1285 37 Commercial Bk 672 -2 Korea Ship 430 unch Daebm lod 568 7 Lucky Ltd 790 Daewoo Corp 485
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    • 321 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed lower yesterday as late profit-tak-ing triggered by the yen's fall against the dollar more than offset morning gains. The market average fell 22.29 to close at 10,757.89 after rising 95.60 on Monday. Turnover was an active 400 million shares against 260 million on Monday. The
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    • 166 11 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed higher yesterday in quiet trading. The Book Club Index rose 0.34 point to 120.02. Turnover fell to 1.06 million shares from 1.54 million on Monday. Siam Citizens Leasing Ltd led the activity for the second consecutive day with 828,400 shares changing hands. It closed 1.25
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    • 51 11 MANILA: Share prices closed largely unchanged yesterday despite lifting of foreign exchange curbs and approval of the Philippines letter of intent by the IMF. The Commodity and Industrial Index was unchanged at 102.16 and oil issues at 0.607. The Mining Index was down 1.87 to 853.82. S56 BnHlp iVM
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    • 57 11 Reuter NISSAN Motor Co signed a contract with Australia's General Motor-Holden's (GM-H), a subsidiary of General Motors Corp, to supply its new in-line sixcylinder engines from the end of next year. The engines will meet compulsory lead-free petrol requirements for all Australian cars built
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    • 444 11 SUN KING FUNG Development (SKF) has filed a writ against the Miramar Hotel and Investment Co claiming HK518.76 million for breach of contract, according to the South China Morning Post. SKF, trading in whose shares was suspended on August 31, lodged the writ last Friday
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    • 127 11 Reuter STANDARD Telephones and Cables PLC (STC) says that it has won a £104 million contract for the Australia, Indonesia and Singapore (AIS), 4,600 kilometre undersea cable system. The cable will carry 1,380 telephone circuits and is scheduled to be operational by late 1966. The
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    • 90 11 Reuter THE HERALD and Weekly Times of Australia is making an agreed bid for Gordon and Gotch Holdings PLC through its newly formed British subsidiary. Fa Icon world. A joint statement says Falconworld is offering 140p cash per Gordon and Gotch ordinary share. Falconworld will also
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 510 12 Reuter GHANA'S COCOA industry today is a shadow of the size it was nearly 20 years ago when it had the biggest crop in the world, but the government is making strenuous efforts to revive this key cash earner. An ambitious programme
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    • 793 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended on Monday at £2,478 a tonne, £62 above the previous close and £7 below its high, while other positions gained £45 to £24. January rallied on trade and commission house shortcovering to end £45 up at £2,330, widening its discgunt to November to £158
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    • 153 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 502 50 Exchange (Sellers' noon dosing puces on Oct 16 U/lOOka) Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW 363 00 B W FOB NSW 256 00 Coconut oil Gombier Bufc FOB 195 00 FOB NSW 305 00 CHd drum FOB 208 00 New drum FOB
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    • 94 12 SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade held steady to close iVt to 3Vi US-cents per bushel higher on Monday. November posted an 11-cent range on the day. CAD Commodities and Shearson, Lehman were the featured outright buyers of November, with Illinois Co-op spreading November/January at 10 cents.
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    • 118 12 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade eased to close I'/« cents to V< US-cent per bushel lower in light trade on Monday. December was held to a narrow 2-1/4 cent range. Mocatta was the featured seller of December on the close, with Cargill buying at the lows.
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    • 288 12 Singapore A-l special C-l special C-l Ordinary Loonzoin 100% 227 unq unq (S$/kilo, ei-godown) Thai white 100% 1st class (kangaroo) new crop 1 03 first grade 100% second grode 100% thrd grade unq 260 unq 100% 2nd class 073 Parboiled 100% 3rd ctoss 0.71 5% 252 25% new crop
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    • 75 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices were unavailable yesterday. Futures were quoted lower in featureless trading. November was quoted Ms2s lower at $1,115 per tonne and December $27 to $1,096. Turnover was nil compared with Monday's nine lots. LONDON USV tonne doling prices an Oct 15 Sumatra 5% Oct
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    • 51 12 Bernama DATUK PAUL Leong, fresh from a two-week visit to three important commodity market capitals, has forecast that the current firm palm oil prices may well rise further for the rest of this year, within sight of the $1,300 per tonne which he predicted earlier.
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    • 86 12 The Koala Lumpur Tin Market price yesterday remained at the International Tin Agreement floor-price d M 529.15 per k«Demand was poor from ether sectors as the buffer stock manager con tinned to provide strung support. Tstal turnover fell to 117 tonnes from 213 on Monday. Dealers said KL's
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    • 165 12 Yarn (In HKJ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones B»ue Phoenix 16'$ 3,350 Blue Phoenix 20's 3,500 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,800 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,150 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 2l's 3,550 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,850 Blue Phoenix 40's 5,000 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 86 12 Reuter WORLD use of tin to make tinplate is predicted to fall by an average annual rate in the next five years of some 2 per cent from around 56,000 tonnes this year, Malcolm Farrow, International Tin Council director of policy and research, said. But
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    • 311 12 SINGAPORE The market finished lower yesterday with November One RSS buyers quoted at 175.75 cents per kg, down two cents from Monday. Prices in the morning session lost 1.75 cents on lack of buying interest and some liquidation. In the early afternoon, values held steady until towards the closing
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    • 333 12 RAS prices (in S cents/kilo, FOB in boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Setters Buyers < i>H>n Irit 1 RSS prompt 175 00 176 00 174.50 175.50N lot 1 RSS Nov 176 50 177 00 175 75 176 25 lot 1 RSS Dec 179 00 179 50 178 25
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    • 104 12 (cents/kg, 1-ton pallets) November December (current mth) (forward mth) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers SCMti SSR 20 172.50 174 50N 173.50 175 50N SSR 50 170 50 172 50N 171 50 I73 50N MRELB Buyers Scllcrl Buyers SilUn SMRCV 205 50 207 50N 207 50 209
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4136 13 A WAVE of profit-taking trimmed much of the early gains on the Singapore stock market which closed mixed yesterday. The BT Composite Index closed at 766.85, up 1.40 points, while the Straits Times Industrial Index dropped 0.18 point to close at 858.61. Trading volume
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    • 221 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices M A A 1500 Inehcap. 263 ICS 560 Sato*** Dradg 535 SAMmM 510 Baiaifh 380 0 lumbar 184 0 C 8 C 940 N S T 670 Falls Kentucky Sport 440 SmKM 525 MTC7I< 372 Grand Control 254 M8F Corp S0« 230 CCM 490
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    • 465 13 SHARE prices on the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed on a steady note yesterday, thanks to some light buying interest. Trading, however, remained quiet, with investors cohtinuing to stay on the sidelines. Turnover, improved slightly to 4.95 million units valued at M 110.27 million
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    • 2912 13 810 and otter prices offlclaUy listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with tbe number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of l,ooo.unlU unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "BETT". Big
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  • COMPANY BRIEFS
    • 719 14 PETRONAS is looking into the problems of Bank Bumiputra so that it could chart the bank's future. The man entrusted with the job is Petronas's finance director Haji Ismail Hashim who has also been appointed to the Bank Bumiputra board. He will get feedback on
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    • 2174 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 Alcorn (1 456 I 465) (36) 1 47 (35)
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    • 209 14 UAC Bhd is spending M 51.52 million to acquire the entire interests of a company engaged in the supply and installation of fire-fighting equipment and systems. The directors have entered into an agreement with Harper Gilfillan (1980) Sdn Bhd to
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    • 695 14 NYT FOR MONTHS, the Wall Street analysts who follow their own industry have been far from shy about biting the hand that feeds them. These analysts, who track stock brokerage companies, have been unanimously bearish, especially about the retail-oriented houses such as Merrill
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    • 226 14 TBACTOBS Malaysia BaMags Berhad: 19th AGM on Oct 24, at 9.30am in Melati Room, 3rd Floor, Subang View Hotel, Subang Jaya, Selangor. TAIPING Consolidated Berhad: 44th AGM on 25th Oct, at 11am in Melati I, 3rd Floor, Subang View Hotel, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. SINGAPORE News aad Publications
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    • 100 14 HONGKONG Austrolion industrials Tuesday 1087.4 Hong Seng Index Monday 1085.3 Week ogo 1066.3 Tuesday Monday 1020.01 999 09 NEW YORK Week ago 982.38 Dow Jones Monday 1202.96 TOKYO Friday 1190.70 Tokvo Dow Jones Week ogo 1176.89 Tuesday Monday ***** 89 Stondord and Poors ***** 18 Mondoy 165.77 Week
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    • 205 14 Mowoqti' prices Second B'putro 4.92 4 97 for Oct 17 Singapore Unit Trust Third Bjputro Fourth B'putro Fifth Bjputro Sixth B'putro 4.08 4.13 448 453 301 3.06 The Commerce 2.65 2.81 293 2 98 207 2.12 Th« Sovngi Fi*xJ 1.76 1.87 Seventh B'putro (A) Spore*? Fund 1.12 1.19*
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    • 850 14 YESTERDAY'S share prices were not available. The following are Meatey*! closing middle prices of selected stocks, excluding stamp duty. INDUSTRIALS Oct 15 Pence AkmRrom 157 inch Au Doras 186 +4 BTR PLC 487xd Bobcocks 141 1 -f 2Borcioy» 522 +3 Beechams 368 5 ■CC 230 inch Bk* Orel*
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    • 530 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE UNCERTAIN world conditions have prompted Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) Bhd to be conservative in using its growing cash. This would not only help the group prepare (or possible difficult times ahead but also en» sure that there are
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    • 277 15 FORMER Malaysian lawyer Stephen Chew has bought a strategic stake in Rothwells Ltd, the merchant bank controlled by, Perth millionaire Laurie Connell. Mr Chew invested Ass million in Rothwells for a 19.9 per cent stake, his prescribed limit without having to bid for control. Mr
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    • 582 15 HUME Industries (Malaysia) Bhd is planning a significant increase in capital expenditure next year in property, plant and equipment. Chairman Tan Sri Datuk Taib Andak notes that capital expenditure amounted to M 577.6 million during fiscal year 1984. The significant increase in capital expenditure
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    • 150 15 MR JACK Chiarapurk has increased his shareholding in Haw Par Brothers International to 20.58 per cent or 30.678 million shares with the latest purchase of another 58,000 shares last week. OVERSEAS Union Securities Ltd's unaudited consolidated net tangible asset backing per H share was $2.25 as at Sep
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      • 58 15 ISLAND PENINSULAR BHD: Group pre-tax profits for the half-year to July 31, 1984 rose to M 514.45 million ($10.31 million) on a total turnover of $38.5 million, up from $20.24 million previously. Group net profits amounted to $6.36 million ($6.43 million). Directors have declared an interim dividend of 12 per
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      • 54 15 Group pre-tax profits for the half-year to July 31, 1984 stood at M 56.7 million ($540,000) on a total turnover of $13.61 million ($4.89 million). Net profits amounted to $3.45 million against $453,000 previously. An interim dividend of 10 per cent gross less tax (same) will be
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      • 61 15 Group pre- tax profits of M 5529,000 for the half year to July 31, 1984 down from $679,000 in the previous interim. This was achieved on a total turnover of $1.42 million ($237,000). Net profits stood at $464,000 ($612,000) and directors have declared an interim dividend of
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    • 307 15 SPK-SENTOSA Corporation Bhd has reported higher group pre-tax loss of Msl.B million for the first six months ended June 30, 1964, compared with a $1.35 million loss previously. Directors blame the poor performance on sluggish demand and keen competition in the group's principal export markets
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  • 230 16 MR TEO SOO CHUAN of the See Hoy Chan group of companies has been made a director of the Overseas Union Bank (OUB). He fills a vacancy left about 20 months ago when Mr Hsu an Owyang joined the Post Office Savings Bank as
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  • 377 16  -  By LEE HAN SHIH A WHIFF of incense, some offerings to the gods for good luck and construction of the tallest office building in this part of the world was officially launched on Monday. With staff of the Overseas Union Bank, Japanese construction workers
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  • 127 16 AP ANOTHER unofficial member of Hongkong's Legislative Council abstained yesterday from endorsing the Sino-British draft agreement on the future of the territory. In the second day of debate in the council on the agreement, Chan Kam Cheun voiced concern for the future of about half of
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  • 272 16  -  By LOH HUI YIN BAKER'S yeast will replace blood plasma in a revolutionary process to produce a cheaper vaccine < for the liver disease, Hepatitis B. The inclusion of new technology will delay Singapore Biotech's startup from mid-1985 to 1986 at the earliest. The new
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  • 253 16 THE Singapore Democratic Party has called (or more local participation to counter foreign dominance in the economy. Dr Chiam Joon Tong, an SDP central executive member, told about 190 people at its fifth fortnightly forum last night that there was a need to redress the
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  • 290 16 FEWER VISITORS to Singapore went shopping last year compared with 1982 However, the number of Thai and Malaysian visitors who went shopping at local shopping centres increased. Clothing was the most popular item, with cosmetics and perfumes coming in second, followed by
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  • 403 16  -  By JOHN LIM RECORDING companies in Singapore have decided to offer better terms to retailers and distributors of music tapes in their latest attempt to fight music piracy. Retailers and distributors have been asked to join the scheme by selling only original
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  • 75 16 THE stock market was mixed yesterday, pausing after Monday's broad advance. The Dow Jones Average of 30 industrials slipped 0.99 point to 1,201.97 in. the first half hour of trading. Gainers took a very slight lead over losers in the early tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed
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  • LATE FILE
    • 53 16 Reuter HONGKONG Diamond Bourse Ltd, the first diamond exchange in the Far East, will begin trading in January 1965. A spokesman for the organising committee said yesterday that the exchange will allow physical trading in diamonds and other valuable stones, but will not be responsible for
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    • 36 16 UPI BLACK Anglican bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, a passionate but peaceful crusader against South Africa's racial segregation system, yesterday won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee announced. UPI
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    • 46 16 AFP AT LEAST 15 more people have been arrested and charged in connection with the three explosions in Jakarta's Chinatown on Oct 4. The evening newspaper Sinar Harapan yesterday quoted police sources as saying the 15 were arrested last week. AFP
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    • 35 16 UPI A LANDMINE exploded yesterday on a military jogging track in Thailand, killing three army rangers and seriously injuring at least 20 others. Officials blamed the explosion on communist insurgents. UPI
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    • 50 16 UPI A GROUP of South Korean government critics inaugurated a new dissident organisation yesterday, vowing peaceful struggles for democracy and national unification. A statement in the names of 96 dissidents said they formed a "congress for democracy and unification", merging two similar groups operating separately. UPI
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    • 60 16 vmfim Outlook for today: Portly cloudy, with showers over several areas ot down, clearing in the afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Oct 16 at the airport Maximum temperature 31.5 Associated humidity 68 Minimum temperature 22.8 Associated humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 3.55 Roinfoll in millimetres
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 393 17 Agencies IRAQI warp lanes have successfully attacked a large naval target on Monday south of Iran's main oil export terminal at Kharg Island in the northern Gulf. A military spokesman over Baghdad radio said the attack took place at 1400 GMT. There was no
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    • 365 17  -  By LINDA CHEE THE trans-Pacific spacecharter agreement between EAC Lines and Seawinds from the US west coast to Asia will be launched in early November. The first vessel under the arrangement, the Orient Winds, will leave Oakland on Nov 1, arriving in Singapore on Nov
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    • 821 17 IMpptngUfw Col Afeo VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner VI 5 AC Toepfer X 5 Alphotram VI 4 Alpoc VI s Antah Orient Line X 3 APC Line V 4 APL N 4/5 Arrow Lines X 4 ASCL 1 Asiobroker V 5 Atlos Lines X 5 Austasia Lme V
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 129 17 Reuter JAPAN has built its first craft capable of rescuing crew from submarines in difficulty in very deep water, a navy spokesman said. Only the United States and the Soviet Union have similar crafts. The craft had just been completed at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Dockyard in
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      • 57 17 AFP THE NORTH-east Port of Yingkou in the -Gulf of Liaodong on Monday became the 28th Chinese port opened to foreign ships, the New China News Agency (NCNA) reported. NCNA said that Yingkou, in Liaoning province, was opened to foreign merchant ships and had the capacity to
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      • 46 17 DET NORSKE Veritas is making a two-hour technical presentation today on the topic: "High speed light craft interesting transport concept." The paper is presented by Mr KM Wilkund, head of the DnV light craft section, at the DnV Marine Technology Centre in Science Park.
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    • 417 18 Reuter FOUR OF Japan's six major shipping lines will report higher than expected profits in the first six months ended Sept 30 and the year ending March 31, 1985. •The expected favourable performances are all based on increased container and car carrier demand and the
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    • 191 18 Reuter A NEW monthly shipping service from Latin America to India and Pakistan will begin this month, Pakistan's official App News Agency reported. It said the service will be operated by Cross Line, a subsidiary of Continental Lines of Antwerp, Belgium. It will, ply between
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    • 188 18 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 Container Line.
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    • 456 18 AP A NORWEGIAN man with a lifelong interest in viking history has decided to become a modern-day Eric the Red by having a boat built as a replica of a Viking ship of 1,000 years ago and sailing it around
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    • 1843 18 A BROAD range of trades and commodities reported moderate business on Monday on the London shipping freights market. The US Gulf-Japan grain rate recovered slightly further from recent low levels when the Anniversary Thistle secured U5514.25 (fio) for a 52,000-ton late October shipment. In other grain fixing, Tradax
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    • 907 18 AFP GRAIN chartering dominated the freight markets last week, as hints of further Soviet enquiry circulated. The trend looked somewhat uncertain, as seen from rates paid in confirmed fixtures. There were rumours of higher payments being obtained, but as usual details were not forthcoming owing to the strict
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    • 223 19 Agencies DOCK workers at Bombay Port on Monday called off a two-day strike after port authorities agreed to pay them a festival bonus but will continue a go-slow. SR Kulkami. president of the All-India Port and Dock Workers Union, said nearly 8,000 onshore workers went
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    • 608 19 THE CHAIRMAN of the Far Eastern Freight Conference, Mr Kerry St Johnston has predicted a new all-out rates war in the Far East Europe trade. In his first public statement on the issue, Mr St Johnston who is also the chairman of
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    • 205 19 Reuter WORLD merchant shipping laid up for lack of employment fell to 65.89 million dwt or 1,454 vessels in August from 67.76 million dwt or 1,456 vessels in July, the General Council of British Shipping said. The latest total represents 10 per cent of the world
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    • 198 19 OFFICIALS from the UK Poj-t of Bristol will be visiting Singapore and the Philippines to promote its timber facilities. The promotion will be made in conjunction with one of its premier customers. Norasia Lines. They have scheduled a series of meetings with shipowners, shippers
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    • 64 19 AFP AT LEAST 34 people drowned or were eaten by sharks last week after a boat capsized off the northern Philippines, Red Cross officials said. The officials said that eight children and 13 women were among the dead in the Oct 8 accident in the Babuyan Channel, some
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    • 3874 24 3®aBGX!EB 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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    • 678 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 Ming Fortune low 18.10.84 2359 M States FSB 1100-1300/1700-1900 Ul As Pallas 468 18.10.84 0800 IAPL FSB 0800-1000/1900-2000 F1 Euro Eagle 6 18.10 84 0900
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    • 1816 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S) Afra-Knraala Liae Trans group (S). Akrrnklel Liacr Service Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Tnepfer Oceanus Shipping Agencies (S) Marintex Enterprise (PK) Alpac Inlrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KL> Island Cargo
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    • 441 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Agnes Venture 37/8 Borneo alongside 17.10.84/2300 Anwo Venture 35/6 Borneo alongside 17.10.84/2300 Bona tide 45 Llan Huat alongside 17.10.84/0000 Hand Tal 10 Sharp alongside 17.10.84/1200 Jenson 22 T Soon alongside 17.10.84/2300 Klmia Maju 15/6 Van Ommeren alongside
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    • 517 17 REACH YOUR AUDIENCE EFFECTIVELY TIMES lUisiiH ss l)irv( lory of Singii|M>iv Wf. IAKDINK AXTAH I OiyCIMT ConLi*t\ Linel FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE T MDtt *22* 72/10 23/10 OHMTM. CHEF 41N 3/11 4/U m CONTMOt 42* 10/11 11/11 |cm«Lnna42« is/11 19/11 I CMM com MIO 28* 24/11 .25/11 I CICVALE* ROB 41*
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    • 981 17 SINGAPORE Business FOR PEOPLE WHO MATTER *r MAERSK LINE EXPORT TO USA. EUROPE. MIDDLE EAST. WEST AFRICA ASIA M H M M RANDO M RANDO M RANDO 18 18 10 25-25/10 1-1/11 M/ll 23/10 30/10 6/U M/ll 9-10/11 LUNA MAERSK 13/11 15-15/11 16-17/11 REGMA MAERSK 20/11 22-22/11 23-24/11 DRA6OQ MAERSK
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    • 290 18 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE From Europe 21/10 11/11 (WON 2/12 SUANDW Mu Atcepteig Far. 1) Barcelona. Genoa. 2) Amsterdam. Antwerp. L Havre. Basle. UK. 3) Bremen. Bremerhaven. Aarhus. Copenhagen. Helsinki 4) Maimo Stockholm. Oslo. •Accepting Europe cargo tor feeder na S pore 'Also direct cargo tor Spore t Bangkok -I-
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    • 1028 19 The Straits Steamship Group QCI MANSFIELD CONTAINER SHIPPING PTE LTD Overseas Containers Limited Aho accepting cargo for: Hamburg to CopciOufen. Aarhus Gothei Ratter dam to Antwerp. Amsterdam. Oslo BrcmcrOuten to Bremen Southampton UK repom. Betfast I (tain Makno Stockholm Hetsmki. Sondtrburj CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT Mm Accepti* LCI And FCI
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    • 374 19 NOTICES JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the appointment of ASSOCIATED CARRIAGE WAREHOUSING (S) PTE LTD as our general agent. For all cargo bookings and enquiries please contact: ASSOCIATED CARRIAGE WAREHOUSING (S) PTE LTD #04-07, PHOENIX BUILDING PALMER ROAD SINGAPORE 0207 TEL: *****65 (6 LINES) TELEX: R*****0 ACWA CREST
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    • 606 20 w Hapag-Lloyd EXPORTS TO CONTINENT/UK On carriage to Scandinavia. Med, Carribean S. America Inland haulauje to inland destinations in Europe S port r Keianf Pent Leiioes Bibao Genoa H'burj Adam B'ha»en Antwerp SophM Rkkmers 5/11 0/11 7/1121/11 3/12- 5/1210/12 1/12 13/12 HK Lont Oakland Seattle Beach Tacoma 1/11 14/11 IC/11
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    • 923 21 PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES SINGAPORE 26-30/10 4-7/11 7-9/11 •-11/11 LOADING FOR: COLOMBO. MOGADISCIO. REUNION TAMATAVE. MOMBASA. D'SALAAM, MORONI HOOEIOAH, JEDOAH. PT SUDAN. MUKALLA HOOEIDAH. JEOOAH. AOABA, PT SUOAN VOYAGE CP/4S/M E-529 E-531 E-533 VESSEL KOTA MUTIARA KOTA PETANI KOTA AGUNG KOTA SEJATI KARACHI/P GULF SERVICES COLOMBO/CHITTAGONG/RANGOON SERVICES ■k: ess
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    • 758 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAMER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE snuuTs !oa*°n store pkeiang J*' s** 21/19 22/u 21/ It 39/10 T vii «/n HM|ktn| E>*rtn 12/n M /U £**»*"M/11 21/11 2S/1I 21/11 b"*?**'. 8 1 «/12 C/ 12 12/12 14/12 n/12 21/12 "•»21/12 21/12 UK HAM 1/11 11/11 11/11 11/11 24/11 26/11
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    • 460 21 Far East S'pore Service FuM Container Vessel. Bwan Takahama KM* Kaaina«| rto«ftoojS pore I| Pnot emuiiw 20/» hi l/ii 1110 MAMMHT *13 W 21 21/0 110 5/10 7/11 10/10 12/10 GOMVI3M 11/10 10/10 71/10 25/10 27/11 1/U 3/11 IMMfWfT Vl4 20/10 21 10 30/10 3/11 S/ll 10/11 12/11 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER
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    • 399 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon Toung Gyee V 166 Loikow VB9 Myomoymo VB3 Po-an V 76 Spore lnPt/17 Oct 26/27 Oct 31/4 Nov 15/18 Nov P.Kelang Penong BANK LINE EXPRESS INDEPENDENT SERVICE TO UK/CONT SPORE R'DAM HULL HMBG IVYBANK 10 Nov
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    • 967 22 K LINE KAWASAKI RISEN KAISHA, LTD. USA CANADA PACIFIC COAST (Including DESTINATIONS INLAND vU IPI MICROBRIDGE A MINILAND BRIDGE) FEEDER/ MOTHER VESSEL S PORE PKLG PENANG STORE WHORE BRDGE V 36 PLANTIN V 6 15 Oct 16 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct RICHMOND BUDGE V2O 15 Oct 16 Oct 18
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    • 498 22 < Accepting BfMfcbulk and containerised cargo** Direct to South Africa Acccptim Container i BreaHwtt U VCRGEIEGEN 073 Acceptint Containers Only KDUOYD COUMO UI3F OSAKA MAM V Hl* HATAKA*A MAM ***** SA CONSTANTIA V 044 Mil// im 70 SHENTON WAY #04 03 MARMA HOUSE SMGAPORE 0207 TEL *****11 TEIEX NO RS
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    • 648 22 CALIFORKIA/PACIFIC NORTH WIST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAMER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE IM*C tor lOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE. TACOMA VANCOUVER B C AcctpUnj FCL/FCI Contoowri P **tAn| Seaport I Anr*' IRATEJRJr I MM 0/10NM (Ok AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accoptni Fa/Fa Contoowri port fnm IM Sf* Mm kc« 20/71 Oct 21, 73 Oct 30
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    • 565 22 SANKD ASIA FROM JAPANESE PORTS ANO HONGKONG Seaport P KeUnt 11/19 Oct 20/21 Oct 23/24 Oct 27/21 Oct 31/ 1 Nov 3/4 Nov 5/ 6 Nov Pen** 1. :MND TM 2. YAMASUGI MARU 3. HAKKAISAN MARU 4 FUKUZAKI MARU 5. GREAT MOUNT 6 RAM TMOR 7. EDO MARU GDN 19/19
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    • 515 22 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD. 10 Anson Road 027 16 Internationa' Pta/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****11 (10 Lines! o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S pare P. Ketone loMfinf for FORT NANAMO 8M4911 11/10 21/10 ROTT ANT/U.K. (AVON) BUN6A KENANGA 88M913 3/11 8/11 ROTT/ANT/UJt. (AVON) PS SEAWOOD SHIPPING CORPORATION S pore P Kelang
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    • 667 23 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia TW BRIDGE S pore Closing Times FCL Cargo 1700 21/10 LCL Cargo 0500 21/10 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA PACIFIC COAST EXPORT Feeder Vessel I HUang Spare! Mother Vessel LBeac* Oakland Vancouver Seattle N TOPAZ 37N 21/10 0 EDUCATOR
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    • 571 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels 1 SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO BANGKOK. KEELUNG. BUSAN. INCHON Mi i Donjm 40M 24/11 lb t Omm tOrn 27/11 1/11 Hi 7 Owm «MM 4/11 S/ll Hi I Ovum 40W It'll fl/ll »/ll 12/11 15/11 21/11 2/12 HO I DOMM/407N GHOUI SUTWY IS/lt/M FftOM WOO
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    • 712 23 m sinsov SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BULDMG 55. Market Street Sinfapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SMGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG M/S SHAMKAT NAM SOON SON M IST AND 2ND FLOOR. NO 1 JAIAN CEMPENMG PORT KLANG.
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    • 59 23 DURBAN. JOHANNESBURG. MAPUTO. MAI IRITIUS REUNION /fi\ SHENG TAI LINE v®/ BEfiULAR LINER SERVICt TAIWAN-STRAITS-TAIWAN Vessel KAQ KEE. S POKE P KELANC BRIGHT FORMOSA 6/10 8/10 25/10*" "tt/lO DORIS 12/10 14/10 3/11 5/11 LAWN 16/10 19/10 10/11 12/11 EAGLE CORPOMfibN (PTE) LTD lit: mrm (4 km) Triri Nt 237*2 PORT
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    • 307 24 Itc«|i«nal Container Lines [jTTrfj^yT |1 3 Sa,lm 9 B Week| y II Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hrs. Tues. Thurs Sat HINOOE KISEN CO. LTD MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER I LTRA lIKAW LIFT \KKIKK SINGAPORE ISLANDS LINE Pt. Low. Reunion, Tanutive. Madagascar VEB DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK HONG KONG ISLANDS
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    • 79 24 r lV >FARGO SHIPPmC COMPANY (PTE.)TTD^ Air EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICF I SINGAPORE/BANGKOK EVERY 2 DAYS Sport Bkk THAN* BMM 141N 20/21 Oct 24/25 Oct BHUM 191N 23/24 Ocl 20/27 Oct THANABHJM 142* 27/21 Oct 31/1 No* nw 30/31 Oct 2/ 3 No* Py»W, 143N 3/4 Oct 7/ I Nov FCt
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    • 252 25 ITWinWI Singapore 5 Continents 1 Forwtrdvr Offering direct LCL Service to Hamburg with connection to European destinations (Germany/ Austria/Switzeriand/Denmark) and vice versa. Nut dapartwes: ETD Sbfipore 11/10, 25/10, 4/11. 11/11, 21/11, 30/11 PANALPWA WORLD TRANSPORT (S) PTE LTD Tel: *****11 Tclei: RS ***** PASIN BALTIC ENTERPRISES ,PTE) LTD mm* 19
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    • 628 25 LIZENA PTE LTD T«fc *****#7, *****68 T«tex: *****141 ETA ETD Loadng for lEKON6 VENTURE hNrt 19/11 HCM/PSm PW* an SABANt In Nrt 19/10 Durai/F*« Ban SERVICE TO EAST KNJMNTM (MXNCSM FUG) CONCORD LINES REGULAR CONVENTIONAL LMER SERVICES n» no LOAOMG FOR CONCORD ANGEL 22/10 24/10 CMTTAGONG CONCORD MARINE PTE LTD
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 51 26 SANTA FE SHIPPING LTD-HK. DIRECT LINER SERVICE TO CHINA/ HK. Boohing Aqenfv HAN SHIPPING PTF ITD SANFE FORWARDING A 7 Go!(1«»n TPTN P T t LTD i n«japo?e O7 1 9 Singapore Tel 22^922 22 3 SANTA rE TRANSPORT INT I LTD TJ. HS iSHt)f> HANSPI Hi.nt) K.,nq T«-i S
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    • 40 26 PALMYRA TSIRIS LINES S.A. Loading tor G 5/11 9/U DAAMAM, DUBAI I 15/11 19/11 DUBAI. BAMRAM. DAMMAM osu acuccs (S) m ltd #0243 ANSON CENTRE. SMGAPORE 0207 111 R*****5 OSAL Tat *****77 (5 tan) ML MULTfOUT SON BHD TEL: *****3
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    • 499 26 C.Y. LINE > (A M»mb*f Of Th« ACE Consortium) CHO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD nut comunstD sonnet to eumk <«u siz) S>»rt rjta( IMmUai filow KW| Bran Unv iUß«mona;2« 22/1423/10 11/11 12/1114/11 u/u 17/1119/11 WT« OB (I* 3/114/11 22/11 23/11 2S/11 27/11 21/1131/11 HONGKONG CONTANO M2W 110/11 11/11 21/11 31/11
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    • 524 26 Everett Lines COMPANA PERUANA DE VAPOREES (C.P.V.) "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" loadmf lot CaOao Mata<am lo and all ottef Penman poets »ith transhipment at Rote On CPV Throufli Bi«s ot lading to tmal destination jowmßcn mubrayeverett RAAMNEVERETT P KtUnf Sevjaporet 19/21 Oct 22/23 Oct 21/30 Oct 31/1 No* 9/10 Nov "EVERETT
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    • 580 26 ZIM non-conference MKPFcorT fui com mo soviet accept* fo/lc c«|Mt to USA East I r«t Coast CarrMtw and East Canada PI .9 v.v ZIM EILAT CONTAINER LINE Spore EM Trintt hp* Nnct »m« m SNGAPWE a Oct 12 Mm 21 Nn 20 Nm 11 Nn 24 to MTBESTE 11 Mm
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 161 26 Regional Weather m zv A t SI K 'A 1S In SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature c Shower Weather Wmd direction with speed m knots R° ,n O Cloudy Sky Wave height Surfoce winds ore indicoted by arrows which fly with
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