The Business Times, 27 November 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 77,1984 60 CENTS
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  • 430 1  -  SGS Semiconductor first in Singapore to produce silicon chips By JEFFREY TBANG A HIGH POINT In Singapore's technology drive will be reached when the first locally-pro-duced micro-chips roll off the production line next month. SGS Semiconductor (Pte) Ltd will be the first company to manufacture
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  • 709 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE People's Action Party yesterday named its last three new candidates for the coming elections. Dr Richard Hu, Mr Heng Chiang Meng and Mr Ibrahim Othman bring the total number of new PAP faces
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  • 364 1 THE BUYING treaty eon tinned snahotrl for the third straight sesslsa at the Btanpore stock market yesterday. Tradtag was more active thaa nsaal. The BT Composite ladex ssared IJ.II petals to 731.51, while the Straits Times tadaotrial Index shot ap ISJC potato to 824.43. The two tadleaters
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  • 449 1  -  By JOHN LIM A TEST CASE on copyright law in Singapore is before the High Court and although it involves only books, businessmen in the music, film, video and computer software industries are following the trial closely. The issue before Mr
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  • 433 1  -  By JAIME LYE LOCAL TRAVEL AGENTS are highly sceptical of the Tourism Task Force's belief that the presence of international travel agents will help them to be more professional or bring in more tourists. Charges of fiercer undercutting, less professionalism, discrimination against
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  • 115 1 A MAJOR NEW SERVICE is to be offered to Singapore motorists next year by General Automated Services (GAS). The company will use new workshops to provide motorists with a wide range of facilities from emergency tows to spray jobs and vehicle maintenance. GAS is expected to
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 293 1 mm L nilD l/IBUI COMPANY NEWS aood A for° S o computer OUR VIEW THE HARAPAN GROUP is industry but more efforts AN 'SOS' CALL hos been sent by the Singopore Organisation referring to arbitration its are needed before the indus- of Seamen, which is proposing a series of measures
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 460 2  -  More efforts needed, says expert By LEE HAN SHIH SINGAPORE had built up a good base for a computer industry but it was still too early to tell whether the industry would be successful. More efforts were needed before the industry was firmly established, said
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    • 93 2 A THREE-MEMBER team from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will arrive tomorrow for visits to the Economic Development Board. They are Mr Takashi Sasaki, technology and skills training expert; Mr Eiji Hashimoto, from the JICA Training Institute; and Mr Hiroaki Yama- guchi, a JICA
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    • 276 2 ASIAN COMPUTER Services Sdn Bhd (ACS), one of the newest computer software and services companies in Malaysia, has become the first local value added dealer (VAD) of IBM personal computers. An agreement between ACS and Mesiniaga, IBM's exclusive distributor in Malaysia, will make
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    • 276 2  -  By BOEY KIT YIN THE FIRST THING any jobseeker needs is a resume. The Business Administration Society and the School of Management from the National University of Singapore are compiling a set of graduating students' resumes to help employers find suitable staff. The new match-making service,
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    • 276 2 THE Vocational and Industrial Training Board holds its Third Combined Graduation ceremony today at 3pm at the Singapore Conference Hall. Mr DC Dunn, chairman of the American Business Council, will be the guest-of-honour at the ceremony. This year, 77 graduands will receive special awards for their outstanding
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    • 395 2 CHARLOTTE THAM KIT YIN has been appointed Tourism Officer (Hongkong) by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board with effect from Dec 1. Miss Tham is a business administration graduate from the National University of Singapore. As Tourism Officer (HK), she will report to the regional office (Asia) in
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    • 345 3  -  By MONICA GWEE GIMMICK OR NOT, a small traditional crafts group is part of Marina Square's plans to be slightly different when it opens next year to join Singapore's jungle of shopping centres. Marina Square's sales team has taken out full-colour advertisements
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    • 181 3 ART EDUCATION is not solely for the purpose of producing artists but also to develop a more perceptive pupil who is able to respond to his visual environment intellectually and emotionally. Mr Ho Kah Leong, Parliamentary Secretary (Education), was speaking yesterday at the
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    • 273 3 AN AMERICAN consultant company is suing Adelphi Development Pte Ltd for alleged breach of contract. ICOS Corporation of the US said in its statement of claim that Adelphi development owed it U*****,538 in management and consultant fees and travelling and communication expenses. Adelphi Development has brought
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    • 520 3  -  By JOANNE YAP SINGAPORE consumes about 67,000 tonnes of pork a year. This substantial demand suggests that local farmers could team up with their Asean counterparts to rear pigs outside the Republic for eventual export here. The potential for
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    • 513 3  -  Singapore accounts for 55pc of total value By BOEY KIT YIN ASEAN EXPORTS to Australia increased in the first eight months of this year. At the same time, new Asean investment in Australia in the second quarter represented the largest foreign
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    • 123 3 THE NEW American ambassador to Singapore, Mr J Stapleton Roy, will officially open the American Club's new facility at Cecil Street on Friday, Nov 30. The new restaurant on the 18th floor of Keck Seng Towers is the first phase in the American Club's
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    • 270 3 NEW GUIDELINES to boost two-way tourism trade between Singapore and Taiwan have been drawn up. The guidelines are the result of a dialogue between a 56member visiting Taiwanese delegation comprising tourism officials, travel agents, tour operators and their Singapore counterparts yesterday. Mr Dick
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 127 3 PEAT MARWICK MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS PTE LTD presents A One-Day Workshop on Financial Futures Tuesday, 4 December 1984 23rd Floor, Hong Leong Building, 16 Raffles Quay FINANCIAL FUTURES THE MARKETS, AND THE RELATED ACCOUNTING, INTERNAL CONTROLS AND TAXATION CONSIDERATIONS Objectives: To give participants an appreciation of financial futures understanding of the
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    • 531 3 S .1 r THE CHARTERED BANK BUILDING Location Rattles Place, beside the Singapore River Features -43 storeys Superb finishes throughout Current tenants comprise international banks, insurance companies and professional firms Directly linked to Raffles Place MRT Station Each floor approx 1186 sq m (12.700 sq ft) Minimum office suite 84
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 377 4 Reuter THE WORLD trade body, General Agreement on Tariffs and trade (Gatt), began its annual meeting yesterday amid calls for new global trade negotiations in spite of complaints from developing nations that more must be done first to stem a rising
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    • 117 4 AFP VIETNAMESE troops overran the Nong Chan Khmer guerilla base near the Thai-Cambodian border early yesterday, according to eyewitness field reports. This followed an artillery duel over the weekend. The reports said artillery shells rained down on the camp and spilled over into Thai
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    • 196 4 UPI MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen has urged Vietnam to stop its current offensive against Cambodian nationalist strongholds near the Thai border. He said Vietnam should match its protestations of peaceful intentions towards its neighbours with the immediate cessation of attacks
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    • 79 4 Bernama THE UNIVERSITY of Malaya has set up the Tunku Abdul Rahman Chair in international law, and it will begin functioning next year. The Chair is a project of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Foundation which has raised $400,000 through donations from the private sector
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    • 137 4 Reuter PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand's announcement (Mi Sunday that Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko will travel to Paris next year has highlighted improved relations between France and the Soviet Union. Diplomatic analysts in Moscow said Mr Chernenko might have been expected to choose one of
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    • 293 4 Reuter THE Confederation of British Industry expects an acceleration of economic growth and modest inflation next year, with continued high unemployment. The CBl's Economic Situation Report predicts GDP will rise 3>'« per cent next year, after this year's 2'/j per cent increase. In sfrite
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    • 159 4 UPI SUITCASES stuffed with up to £500,000 have been secretly delivered to Britain's striking miners' union to help finance the BVi -month-old strike. The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Express said the money, collected from other unions, was being delivered secretly to miners' union
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    • 144 5 AFP FORMER Indian defence minister YBChavan died on Sunday of urinary infections. Mr Chavan, 71, had been in a New Delhi hospital since Friday. He was chief minister in his home state of Maharashtra before moving into the federal Cabinet to take over as defence minister
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    • 319 5 UPI PRESIDENT Reagan's national security adviser has said that Washington is seeking equality in arms control talks with the Soviets and that progress in the negotiations may take as long as four years to achieve. Robert McFarlane, the top foreign affairs
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 37 5 PHILIPPINE AUTHORITIES said about 80 members of a Muslim clan in Zamboanga surrendered yesterday after a gunbattle and 22-hour siege at their family compound in which at least five people were killed and 15 wounded.
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      • 24 5 THE UNITED STATES has sighted crates of Czechoslovakian 1-39 jet trainers at a Bulgarian port, reportedly from Libya and destined for Nicaragua.
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      • 49 5 A GROUP of extortionists has turned down Japanese novelist Kohan Kawauchi's offer to give it 120 million yen if it would promise to stop poisoning candy. "We are not beggars. If we want money, we can get whatever amount from the rich and companies," said the group.
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      • 48 5 MORE THAN 25 of the biggest names in British pop music, from Boy George and Duran Duran to Sting, got together on Sunday to record a Christmas single, with all of the proceeds going to buy food and medicine for the famine victims in Ethiopia.
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      • 34 5 CARDINAL Jozef Glemp, Poland's Roman Catholic pri- mate, left for Rome yesterday to report personally to Pope John Paul on the murder of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko by secret police last month.
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      • 24 5 TRACERS from anti-aircraft weapons crossed the night sky over Seoul yesterday when a South Korean military helicopter strayed near restricted air space.
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      • 37 5 BRITISH coal mine strikers pelted police with rocks, torched trucks and tossed a petrol bomb into the canteen of a Yorkshire mine yesterday to keep fellow workers off the job. No one was injured. Agencies
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    • 232 5 AP KISSING is just a chemical addiction, says an American dermatologist. Writing in the current issue of the British Journal of Dermatology, Dr Bubba Nicholson said kissing was a kind of sucking behaviour intended to sample chemicals called "semiochemicals" which rest
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    • 148 5 Reuter CAR THEFT has become big business for professional criminals in the US, with more than a million cars with an estimated value of US$3.4 billion stolen every year, according to a US Justice Department study released on Sunday. The National Institute of
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    • 140 5 Bernama THE JAPANESE Finance Ministry has begun its investigation of the New York office of Fuji Bank to discover how a chief foreign exchange dealer there incurred a huge loss in foreign exchange futures, and what measures the bank is taking to prevent
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    • 264 5 AP US WARSHIPS will be aUowed to visit Chinese ports on ceremonial call, the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Mr Hu Yaobang, said. It was the first time a Chinese leader has said publicly that such visits may take
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    • 299 5 Reuter TRADE BETWEEN China and the Soviet Union is set to rise by 60 per cent this year and the estranged communist giants may establish a joint committee to increase it further. China's Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang was quoted in the China Daily
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    • 492 5 UPI THE AMERICAN-LED United Nations Command (UNC) yesterday demanded that North Korea punish its men who triggered last week's shoot-out at Panmunjom which killed four Koreans and wounded two others, including a US army soldier. US Navy Rear Adm Charles F Home, the UNC senior delegate
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 827 6 Major cause of loss of expertise AFP WOMEN MARRIED to expatriate management executives find life in the Gulf states particularly difficult, and between 80 and 90 per cent of those who break contracts or do not renew them do so because of
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    • 744 6 AP NEARLY a month after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, more questions than answers have «merged about the slaying and the suspected conspiracy behind it. Were there two assassins, or tKree? Were they acting on their own or as part of a broad
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    • 524 6 NYT PETROLEUM prices have continued to fall even though the cold season has arrived and Opec has trimmed its output ceiling. Prices on the oil futures market in New York this week were at their lowest level since the futures began
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    • 483 6 NYT SOUTH KOREAN analysts and foreign diplomats in Seoul say they see possible, policy changes in North Korea that are pushing it towards more regular contact with non-communist countries, including South Korea. The start of economic talks between the two Koreas last week
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    • 768 6 ARRIVALS Operator Service number Locol time From PAA CV MAS MAS MAS MAS MAS RBA SIA CPA GIA SIA SIA THAI SIA MAS GIA MAS SIA GIA GIA SIA SIA SIA THAI GIA THAI SIA SIA KLM LUFT CPA MAS MAS MAS ANZ BA SIA MAS SWR
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 125 6 Doonesbury ustentoths, vmt.mrm RJCK*REA6AN YOU STTLLIDRIIJRAISO RECEIVED ING YOURSELF UKTH \6ii»oFTneei- election r&ulb? 1 perly mi, stfl its over, man. OF THE YOUTH VOTE, f AND 6TH OF I THE YUPPIE VOTE'! I > m f I* m mil ss\: RJCK, IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, I'VE HANDLED SYMBOLS FOR
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 1044 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed higher yesterday against most major currencies after fluctuating within a narrow range in light trading. Operators were unwilling to open fresh positions on uncertainty over the direction of the US dollar and fears of possible Bundesbank intervention. The dollar closed firmer at 3.0420/
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    • 194 7 HONGKONG Gold closed lower yesterday on steadiness of the US dollar and some overseas selling of the metal. It finished at U*****.40/ 90 an ounce against an initial $339.40/80 and compared with the $340.25/65 close here on Saturday and New York's $340.00/50 on Friday. On the local market, gold
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    • Article, Illustration
      240 7 Asian market The Asian dollar market report was unavailable yesterday. •MNCATtSftc ivirat* of ttit print Mh| rates of 12 major bantu aporat inc in Seaport Interbank deposit ratM uss Offer Bid 7 doys 8 15/16 8 13/16 1 month 8 15/16 8 13/16 2 months 9 3/16 9 1/16 3
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    • 385 7 BA Futures Inc EURODOLLAR futures trading saw some switching of December to March contract yesterday as the former is approaching its delivery date. There could be a temporary correction due to this switch over effect but prices were still well supported as interest rates were expected to be easy
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    • 119 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate fell by 3/4-point from last Friday to close at 5-1/4 per cent on the Singapore interbank money market yesterday. The one, two and threemonth term rates fell by 1/8-point each yesterday. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Offer Bid Overnight 5 1 /4 5 1/8
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    • 402 7 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN ringgit, which fended off a bout of speculation in early October. is one of the most stable currencies in the South-east Asian region. Banking sources say those worried about a devaluation of the ringgit fail to understand the
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    • 156 7 Reuter THE SWISS National Bank wants changes in banking law which will give better leverage to press Japan and other countries to open their financial markets. National Bank governing board member Markus Lusser says foreign bond issue houses and other socalled "non-bank banks" ought
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • FEATURES
    • 457 8 AN 'SOS' CALL has once again gone out for all who are within hearing distance Save our Seamen. The 'SOS* has been sent out by the SOS (Singapore Organisation of Seamen), which has proposed a series of measures to boost flagging employment prospects for its
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    • 354 8 THE PACE of automotive innovation is turning even modest family saloons into electronic wonders. That progress, however, is causing major problems for the old-time mechanic whose skills and equipment have been left far behind. They may have moved from greasy back
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    • 1415 8  -  By ZHOU MEI REGULAR customers of the General Automotive Services Pte Ltd (GAS) will be offered new services next year, which will dramatically widen the company's business. Details have yet to be finalised but it appears that customers will be given the chance to become members
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    • 350 8  -  letters to the Editor P K Tan,Associates Chartered Surveyors DEAR SIR, Please refer to the report "Office rentals here below HK's but service charges are higher" (BT, Nov 22, 1984). In Singapore, property tax is normally paid by the landlord and not by the tenant. Therefore,
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    • 104 8  -  Garry A Prior DEAR SIR, I refer to Mr Church's letter of Nov 22, 1984, in your paper. If Santa must have his mode of transport modernised (in the name of productivity?), then surely the appropriate vehicle, given Mr Church's salient point relating to roof top parking. is
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 606 9  -  By BRIAN MILLER WITH 12 racing days remaining ori the 1984 calendar, apprentice jockey Luke Danis Navaratnam appears to be riding high in the sajddle and is poised to surge into the record books as the only apprentice to boot home 50 winners
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    • 324 9 AP ANNE MINTER, playing before a hometown crowd in Melbourne, powered her way into the second round of the US$l.5-million Australian Open tennis championships. The 21-year-old Australian Federation Cup player scored an upset 60, 3-6, 6-2 victory over 11th seeded Catarina Lindqvist
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    • 381 9  -  By ANNA TEO THE SINGAPORE Triathlon may soon become a part of a Far East circuit next year, if ideas in Alec Kuok's mind materialise. Hongkong will be staging its second annual triathlon in April next year. Mr Kuok, head of
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    • 219 9 Reuter JACK NICKLAUS patted far a USs24i,Mt birdie aa the 18th Me te wte fee l fan*, tatteaal galf tearaameat at Scottadale, Arlseaa, aa Saaday. The eight-feet patt was fee richest ia the history sf galf. It waa fee aaly hale won that day. Tarn
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 924 9 HIGHLIGHTS Classical Moments Shlomo Mintz Performs Paganini 8.55 pm, Channel 12 The-young virtuoso performs the extraordinary feat of playing Paganini's Capricci, probably the most difficult piece in the violin repertoire. Twentytwo years old, this Russian-born Israeli violinist has already been acknowledged by celebrated interpreters of the instrument as a musician
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    • 690 9 24 33 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Swampy area that possibly harms (5) 8 Sen#or member to serve for money (5) 10 Like a cold but bearable region (5) 11 Figure in the late news 12 Run away with an artist amid much clamour (5) 13 Dare to scout? (7) 15
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 988 10 New computer system to be introduced in two stages FT THE LONDON Stock Exchange's new computer system to back up its reformed securities market is to be introduced in two phases. An initial system, which will use existing technology wherever possible or will build on
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    • 89 10 Reuter TELEFON ABLM Ericsson's disappointing ninemonth results were lower than expected because of a shortage of computer components and the tough US telecommunications market. President Bjorn Svedberg said the shortage of components had been especially grave in Ericsson's information systems operations and that
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    • 309 10 Reuter SCHERING AG expects this year's group net profit to go up by 50 per cent to 120 million marks from 80 million last year. Managing board chairman Klaus Pohle says shareholders can expect an "attractive" dividend after an unchanged 10.5 mark
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    • 234 10 FT THE DUTCH government plans to introduce a permit system for stock brokers and regulations for retail securities sales as part of new draft legislation intended to protect investors and combat fraud. Draft proposals were unveiled by Onno Ruding, the Finance Minister, under which stock
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 329 11 HONGKONG: The Hongkong Stock Market Index rose 17.92 points to close at a seven-month high of 1,113.96 yesterday, following a half-point cut in local interest rates. It was the highest closing since April 19 when the index finished 25.65 points higher at 1,115.85. Cheung Kong gained 15 cents to
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    • 294 11 NOV 26 NT Chem Indus Lien Hwo Indus Non Yo Ptas 18 40 950 28 80 -0 1 -0 95 -06 All Smcere Indus 5 55 -12 Pootic Cons 25 80 -02 A ski Cement 25 40 -0 1 Pacific Elect -0 1 Cottxjy Cons 27 50 •0 1
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    • 409 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed sharply lower yesterday in thin trading with dealers taking a wait-and-see attitude after slow New York trading last Friday, a lack of fresh factors, and the yen's weakness. International populars, pharmaceuticals and electronics lost ground while non-ferrous metals and opto-electronics gain- ed. TDK shed 140
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    • 167 11 MANILA: Share prices closed mixed yesterday with a heavy drop in the Mining Index which brokers said was due to a sevencentavo fall to 14 centavos in the price of Benguet Exploration (BX) shares. The Mining marker fell 65.26 to 761.53, the Commercial and Industrial Index was up 0.14
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    • 466 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed easier yesterday after starting the week sluggishly, with traders mostly influenced by negative factors from abroad. At 1515 hours local time, the All Ordinaries Index was 4.5 points lower at 765.6 points, the All Industrials marker 5.8 weaker at 1109.4 and the All Resources 3.4
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    • 171 11 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed higher yesterday in active trading. The Book Club Index rose 0.35 point to 124.92 and gainers led losers by more than four to one. Turnover climbed to 662,624 shares worth 76.4 million baht from last Friday's 609,324 worth 55.6 million. NOV 26 •akts S«om City
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    • 88 11 Nov 26 Bonk Seoul Choheung Bk Commercial Bk Doekm tnd Daewoo Corp Won 655 615 713 540 481 2 +2 •7 unch unch Hyundai Motor KAL Korea F*st Korea Oil Korea Sf*p Lucky Ltd Soms**>g Co 624 535 730 1244 410 795 730 4 3 unch 1 -4 -4
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    • 49 11 Reuter NISSAN MOTOR Co has developed a ceramic turbocharger for cars, using light, heat-resistant nitric silicon ceramics. The new turbocharger is about 40 per cent lighter than conventional nickel alloy models and will be used in Nissan sports cars next year, the company says. Reuter
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    • 422 11 Bernama PILECON Engineering Bhd, the piling and foundation engineering group, has secured firm contracts worth MJ3OO million for completion between July this year and 1986, establishing itself way ahead as the leader in the business. The list of projects at which the Pilecon signboard
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    • 262 11 FT SECURITY PACIFIC National Bank, the eighth largest US bank, has announced that a scheme for the acquisition of minority shares of the Hongkong-based Bank of Canton has been approved by the Supreme Court in Hongkong and is now unconditional in
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    • 127 11 Reuter N M ROTHSCHILD and Sons Ltd is in no way involved in a rumoured consortium said to be negotiating the purchase of a 9 per cent stake in Jardine, Matheson and Co Ltd, N M Rothschild and Sons Hongkong Ltd managing director Gordon
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 477 12 Smuggling of the metal is on the rise AFP A GOLD RUSH is underway in China, bringing an upsurge in smuggling, the China Daily reported last Friday. Lured by the higher price the yellow metal fetches beyond China's borders, China's smugglers often pay with gold for
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    • 313 12 AP THE BULK OF the funds held by the International Sugar Agreement (ISA) will go to its producing member countries on liquidation, it was decided last Friday. The total sum involved is estimated at about U5535.5 million. Delegates said it was decided that about
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    • 348 12 Reuter SUGAR producing and consuming nations last Friday agreed on a new International Sugar Agreement to replace the current accord that runs out at the end of this year, but the new agreement will be a shadow of its predecessor. The new
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    • 315 12 AFP, Reuter TALKS ON Chinese grain imports from the US, which are below agreed levels, have run into trouble, New China News Agency (NCNA) has said. Both US and Chinese negotiators expressed concern with "various factors affecting the implementation of the agreement", in talks which
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    • 262 12 AP THE CHINESE government is paying peasants to store grain in their houses because of a lack of storage for China's record 1984-grain crop. State granaries are overflowing with 400 million tonnes harvested, up from 387.28 tonnes last year, and purchasing stations
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    • 1115 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended the morning session yesterday higher with gains mainly reflecting continued strength of the dollar against sterling. Contracts advanced further from midmorning levels to post gains from last Friday's close of £25 to £16 a tonne. January finished at £2,335 a tonne, £25 above the
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    • 248 12 SINGAPORE The market finished lower yesterday with December One RSS buyers quoted at 170.50 cents per kg, down 1.75 from last Friday. The morning session lost 1.25 cents on a general lack of buying interest in light trading. Prices lost further ground in quiet afternoon trading on continued lack
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    • 359 12 R AS prices s ce«t*/k.io, fob «botes) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers lr»t 1 RSS Prompt 168 50 169 50 168 00 169 00 Int 1 RSS Dec 84 171 25 171 50 170 50 170 75 kit 1 RSS Jon 85 173 75 174 00
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    • 106 12 (c*ntt/kg, 1-ton December 84 January 85 (current mth) (forword mth) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Sellers SSR20 167 50 I69 50N ***** 171 50N SSR 50 165 50 167 50N 167 50 169 50N MRELB Bwy«n Seller* Bvr*n ScHcn SMR CV 195 50 197 50N 197 50
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    • 83 12 The Knala Lumpur Tin Market price remained at the International Tin Agreement fleer-level of Ms2f.ls per kg yesterday. The buffer stock manager was again the sole buyer amid con tinning absence of other buying interest, as sterling's weakness against the Malaysian dollar further widened the Kuala Lumpur premium
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    • 159 12 Yarn (In HKS per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16 3,100 Blue Phoenix 20'» 3,200 Blue Phoenix 32'» 3,780 Blue Phoenix 40'» 3,950 Carded yorn, hank Blue Phoenix 21'» 3,450 Combed yarn, cones Bkie Phoenix 32'» 4,750 Blue Phoenix 40'» 4,900 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 76 12 Reuter THE Indian State Trading Corp (STC) bought seven 5,500-tonne parcels of refined, bleached, deodorised palm olein last Thursday. Four parcels were for Nov 25/ Dec 20 shipment with two priced at U*****.5 a tonne and two at $681 FOB. Three were for Dec 16/J an
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    • 155 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% 492 50 Exchange FOB NSW Nutmeg (Sellers noon closing prices on Nov 110 FOB NSW 438 00 26 >>/100 kg) B W FOB NSW 28) 00 Coconut oil Gombier Bulk FOB 180 00 FOB NSW 305 00 OW drum FOB 193 00 New drum
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    • 281 12 Singapore A-l speciol 192 (SS/kilo, Mt-godown) Thai white C-l special C-l Ordinary Loonzam 100% urvq unq 100% 1st doss fcrst grade unq (kangaroo) 100% second grode 235 new crop 096 100% ttwd grade unq 100% 2nd class 100% 3rd class 070 070 Parboiled 232 25% new crop No stock
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    • 127 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed slightly higher yesterday on late covering and speculative buying after a generally weaker opening prompted by a lower Chicago soybean complex close last week. November and December deliveries in the central and south regions recovered from the day's lows of M 51,222.50
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4265 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market rose sharply yesterday for the third consecutive session with the major indicators scoring double-digit gains. The BT Composite Index gained a hefty 13.17 points to 731.51 while the Straits Times Industrial Index soared 13.56 points to 824.43. Turnover was
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    • 482 13 SHARE PRICES continued to move steadily upwards in active trading on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Values advanced across the board as investors took the lead from the better performance on Wall Street last Friday. Turnover rose to a high of 13.55 million shares
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    • 4523 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 brackets In lots of 1,000 jmlts. unless otherwise specified. All Time SetUement Contract* are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 547 14 Paid-up capital will go up to Ms7sm UNITED Asian Bank (UAB), Malaysia's fifth largest bank, is to increase its paid-up capital by Ms2s million to $75 million through a one-for-two rights issue at $1.50 per $1 share. The rights issue haS already been
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    • 195 14 THE SO-CALLED "big bang" on the London Stock Exchange, which will dismantle fixed scales of commission on securities deals, is not likely to take place before autumn 1986, about a year later than some had expected and just weeks ahead of a deadline set by the
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    • 3453 14 BID and otter 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 A Owe (2 808 2.835) (14) 2 78 (I)
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    • 208 14 DAVID FULLER, due to be in Singapore to conduct a threeday session on behavioural technical analysis and charting on Dec 8, believes that the local bourse could be bottoming off soon. A firm advocate of how crowd psychology can cause shifts in
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    • 529 14  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM MINORITY shareholders of QAF Ltd (formerly Ben Co) who are not prepared to take a longer term view of their investments in the rejuvenated company should sell their shares in the open market. In making the obvious recommendation that the current
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    • 98 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hang Seng Index Monday 1109.1 Friday 1115.2 Week ago 1121.8 Monday 1113 96 Friday 1096.04 Week ago 1067 61 NEW YORK Dow Jones TOKYO Friday 1220.30 Thursday Closed Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1187.94 Monday *****.96 Friday Closed Week ago *****.12 Standard and Poors Friday
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    • 222 14 Monogors' prices (5) for Nov 27 Second B'putro Thrd B'putro Fourth B'putro 479 402 431 484 407 436 Singapore Unit Truat Fifth B'putro Sixth B'putro Seventh B'putro (A) 498 287 503 292 The Commerce 2.56 2.72 The Sovngs Fund 174 185 S'porc Prog Fund 1.10 1.17 S'pore Sec
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    • 683 15 mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW WHO SAYS Sime Darby is not fast on its feet? Sir Michael Edwardes is hardly through the board roorri door at Dunlop Holdings and Sime Darby has struck a deal to acquire Dunlop's 51 per cent stake in
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    • 409 15 THE KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange is likely to see a total revamp of its committee at its annual elections to be held on Dec 16. According to sources, six current committee members will either step down voluntarily or refrain from seeking re-election. Only the current
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    • 979 15 EQUITIES opened higher yesterday, responding to Friday's firm close on Wall Street and weekend press comment on the encouraging response to the British Telecom flotation. At 0945 GMT, the FTSE 100 Index was up 5.7 at 1,164.5. Dealers said hopes of a further cut in British interest rates
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    • 593 15  -  Termination of Hotel Nikko contract By AMY CHEOK THE HARAPAN GROUP is referring to arbitration its dispute with Japan Air Lines Development Company Ltd over the latter's termination of the agreement to rim the group's 509-room Hotel Nikko. At the same time, the hotel
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    • 235 15 MR NG SOO PENG, honorary president of the Stock Exchange of Singapore, is stepping down from his advisory position at the end of the month. His resignation comes 17 months after he was appointed to the honorary post in July last year.
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    • 52 15 CERTAIN shareholders of Rexy Electric Industries (M) Bhd have given irrevocable undertakings not to accept the unconditional cash offer by Irex (Sdn) Bhd. They are Low Chan Tian (with 3.086 million shares), Daim Zainuddin (1.882 million). Young Enterprises (865,200), Seventeen Co Ltd (833,700), Felix Tan (448.633) and Credit
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 70 15 Group pre-tax profits for the year ended Sep 30, 1964 more than doubled to M 515.9 million ($6.9 million). Directors have recommended a final dividend of 15 per cent gross, making a total of 30 per cent for the full year (20 per cent previously).
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      • 67 15 Group pre-tax earnings rose to M 55.51 million (from $593,000) in spite of lower turnover of $37.33 million (from $57.88 million) for the year ended June 30, 1964. Favourable palm oil prices coupled with effective cost control and rationalisation have resulted in the significant improvement. A first
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    • 495 15 LION Corporation Bhd has diversified into building materials distribution through associate Amalgamated Steel Industries Bhd (ASM), which -has acquired a controlling 51 per cent stake in cement distributor Simen Dagangan Sdn Bhd. ASM said Simen Dagangan had been appointed the sole distributor for the 'Cap
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    • 263 14 ECONOMIC CRIME THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION Highly specialised international workshop Singapore 7-11 January 1985 Crown Agents Training Services and the International Chamber of Commerce's International Maritime Bureau have joined together with the support of the British Securities Institute to organise this highly intensive 5day workshop on the practical and legal issues
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    • 112 14 *r n- v,£: IP JUL Fixed Deposits 1 month 7V4%p.a. 12 months 3 months 7Vz% p.a. 6 months 716% pa. 8%D.3. 9 months 7% p.a. Savings 7% p.a (calculated daily) ON CALL **6V£%p.a. All interest rates subject to change without notice. •♦Minimum $10,000 Minimum $2,500 PROPERTY LOANS (Commercial residential) at
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    • 414 15 IN THE MATTER OP THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 185) AND SI Jflv, f.V 11 > "«l: CHIN CHENG REALTY (PTE) LID (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 272 of the Companies Act XChapter 185) that the Final Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed company will
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    • 83 15 This announcement appears as a matter of record only Bank of India London Branch U5530,000,000 NEGOTIABLE FLOATING RATE CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT DUE NOVEMBER 1987/89 Lead Managed by DRESDNER (SOUTH EAST ASIA) LIMITED Managed by AUSTRALIA-JAPAN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE LIMITED BERLINER BANK A.G. London Branch CITICORP CAPITAL MARKETS GROUP CREDIT LYONNAIS (SINGAPORE)
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  • 463 16  -  By LISA LEE TECHNOLOGY transfer in Singapore's construction industry is not working as it should because some foreign firms are reluctant to impart their knowledge in spite of constant persuasion by the government. Mr Leong Cheng Chit, divisional director of the Economic Development Board, said
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  • 356 16 THE PROSPECT of a rapid appreciation in the value of land close to Mass Rapid Transit stations was ruled out yesterday. Close government regulation of property prices, property taxes and the costs of acquisition were advanced at a Construction Industry Development
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  • 575 16  -  By MONICA GWEE FREE DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES in South-east Asia ought to consider preparing for military cooperation in time of war, said Dr Joseph Luns, former chairman of the North Atlantic Council and secretary-general of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).
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  • 120 16 Bernama SINGAPORE has agreed in principle to Malaysia's proposal for an anti-drug pact which provides for the confiscation of assets of drug traffickers in each other's territory. The Republic's Second Deputy Prime Minister, Mr S Rajaratnam, gave Singapore's commitment to the proposed pact during discussions with
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  • 195 16 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA will not dump its petrochemical products on the world market to keep production running at full capacity, the vice-chairman and managing director of Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) said. Ibrahim Salamah told a Tokyo symposium on Japan's long-term future and world
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  • 143 16 THE CONTROVERSY ever the question ef production fees fer covering the Asiu Cap Championship *84 has been resolved. la a Joist statement released yesterday, the Asian Football Federation, the Football Association of Singapore and the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation said all details
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  • 171 16 CONSTRUCTIONTECHNOLOGY (Contech) was fined $12,000 yesterday for failing to provide adequate safety measures at a worksite. On March 18, Che Abdul Halim bin Chewli, a worker, fell and died while working on the 10th storey of a building under construction at Bukit
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  • 452 16  -  By AMY BALAN LENDING by banks and finance companies recorded a substantial drop of $217 million in September, after months of sluggish growth. The latest monthly statistics from the Monetary Authority of Singapore showed banks bearing the biggest brunt of the
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  • 69 16 WALL STREET stock prices were mixed in early trading as blue chip issues succumbed to profit taking after a recent impressive rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose by more than 32 points last week mainly because of a reduction in the Federal Reserve's discount rate,
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  • LATE FILE
    • 41 16 MALAYSIA has posted a small (314.6 million external trade deficit for the first eight months of this year, reflecting a healthy recovery from being $2.11 billion in the red in the same period of 1983. Be mama
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    • 48 16 AFP LONDON INSURERS have dropped their war risk premium for tankers loading at the Iranian terminal of Kharg. Lloyd's said they were now 0.75 to one per cent of load value and 2 to 2.5 per cent of the ship's value. AFP
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    • 28 16 Reuter AUSTRALIAN opposition leader Andrew Peacock appeared to have emerged the winner in a television debate with Labour Prime Minister Bob Hawke last night. Reuter
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    • 25 16 AFP OFFICI ALLY-REGISTER-ED unemployed rose one per cent to 12.8 million during October in the European Economic Community excluding Greece. AFP
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    • 26 16 Reuter PRESIDENT MARCOS yesterday appeared on government television and was seen signing the 1985 national budget in the presence of his Cabinet. Reuter
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    • 29 16 UPI a serious problem PRESIDENT SUHARTO has warned that Indonesia would face serious overpopulation problems if it failed in its ambitious family planning programme.
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    • 23 16 Bernama MALAYSIA has proposed to Singapore that welfare officials from both countries meet more often to exchange ideas. Beraama
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    • 53 16 \S3aQDCI3Q Outlook for today: Overcast with intermittent light to moderate rain. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Nov 26 at th« airport: Maximum temperature 26.3 Associated humidity 84 Minimum temperature 23.2 Associated humidity 91 Hours of sunshine 0.10 Roinfall in millimetres 5.9 Rainfall this month 126.9 Rainy days
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 341 17 THE INSTITUTE of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) has introduced corporate membership for companies with at least one qualified shipbroker. From this year, membership is also be open to citizens from any country, said Mr Colin Peerless, a council member of the ICS. Mr Peerless, who is
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    • 483 17 THE FAR Eastern Freight Conference, would peg any rate increase for next year at less than 5 per cent. Though the 33-member conference in the Far East/Europe trade has not made any decision on this matter, it said that should there
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    • 652 17 Shipping Lin* P«g* Cot Shipping Um Pag* Col Afeo VI 3 HK Cont VI 2 Ahrenkiel Lm« VI 5 HK Islands VII 1 Alpha trons VI 4 Hsing Wen VI 1 Alpoc VI 5 Hungonon V 3 APC Line V 4 Hyundai V 5 APL 4/5 Indogutt
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 112 17 AFP A CHINESE private enterprise shipping owner is due in Hongkong shortly, aiming eventually to open up shipping routes to Hongkong, Japan and South-east Asia. Mr Lu Guo-Wei, 65, recently set up the Ta Tong Industrial Co Ltd a private Yangtze River shipping company, based in Wuhan, Hubei
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      • 49 17 A LEADING electrical machinery manufacturer in Japan is now looking for an alternative to conference lines for shipping its goods abroad, according to reports in The Kaiji. The company, says the report, is looking for a shipping line that villi render "specially attractive" services to it.
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      • 60 17 THREE banks, Den norske Credit bank, the American Manufacturers Hanover Trust and the Norwegian Bergen Bank, have joined forces to extend the biggest shipping loan ever granted in Norway. The loan constitutes the entire financing of Norwegian Caribbean Lines and is worth about US$2BO million. The loan
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    • 1218 18 Seatrade THE Tatiana is not particularly exceptional. Adverts for the judicial sales of ships like this are becoming more common every day. The 141,318 dwt bulk/ oil carrier built in West Germany in 1970, was impounded in Richards Bay, South Africa "at
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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
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    • 1420 18 ACTIVE ALL sections of the freight market were extremely quiet reflecting Thursday's closure in the US for the Thanksgiving Day holiday on Friday. Scattered timecharter business included a 63,000-ton-ner with delivery Denmark for 12 months trading at $7,200 daily and a 21,000-tonner from Escoumins for a trip via
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    • 236 18 FT LLOYDS War Risks Rating Committee has put cargo rates for Kharg Island, Iran's main oil terminal, on "held cover" meaning that they are now negotiable rather than set at the recent level of 2 per cent. The shift to "held
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    • 384 18 AP SALVAGE that found Nazi "wonder weapons" in a recent probe of Toplitzsee, Austria, and its rugged surroundings are planning another mission amid rumours of even greater hidden wartime treasure. Army frogmen found two primitive rockets launched from underwater,
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    • 67 18 MR JENS E Dahl has been appointed managing director of East Asiatic Co (New Zealand) Ltd. He assumed the position on Nov L Prior to his appointment, Mr Dahl was the general manager of Nedlloyd EAC Agencies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, a position he had held for the
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    • 225 19 CEYLON Shipping Corporation has applied to join the India, Pakistan, Bangladesh Conference. But its application is not likely to find favour with the conference members. European owners in the conference have demanded a change in Sri Lanka's cargo reservation policies as a condition of conference
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    • 579 19 UPI JAPAN'S first and only nuclear-powered ship may get a chance to resume test voyages cut short 10 years ago by a radiation leak and repeatedly delayed by the jinxed vessel's many detractors. The trouble-plagued history of the Mutsu, an 8,214-ton cargo ship propelled
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    • 209 19 JARDINE Matheson has concluded a joint-venture agreement with three China firms to provide improved shipping services between Hongkong and northern China. The new set-up has been named Tian-Yee-Hwa International. The South China Morning Post said Jardines' Chinese partners are Tianjin Marine Shipping Co, China
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    • 497 19 AP THE trickle of Poles who regularly seek asylum in West Germany turned into a flood the past week with the defections of more than 400 people from ships that docked in German ports. There has been no official public
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    • 440 20 Nov at The risk of crankcase explosions in oil engines and dual fuel engines, 1730 hours, Institute of Marine Engineers, 76 Mark Lane, London EC3. Nov 2S-3# Inert gas and crude oil washing, Wilson Walton International course in conjunction with College of Nautical Studies, Warsash, Southampton. Nov 2*-29
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    • 3996 24 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 Singapore.
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    • 654 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Siri Bhum 196N 27.11 84 2300 S'pore Shpg TA 3 1000-1100 Jl E Pioneer 105WA 27.11.84 2330 Green Asia FSB 1000-1100 P4 Chev Roze 41W
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    • 1806 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S) \fro-Earasia Line Transgroup (S|. Ahreaklel liner Service Kim Shpg (Si Alfred C Ttrplrr Oceanus Shipping Agencies (Si Manntex Enterprise <PK). Alpae Intrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KLI Island Cargo Handling
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    • 379 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrivol Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Daning De Du Jenhol Kim Soon Li Stolt Avance Straits Pride Waheng Bowoon No 9 Barber Nara Dai Yun shan Vega Zhi Hu Yuan Trans Hav 44 44 22 23 15/6 20W 27/8 15/6 46/7 18 29/30
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    • 331 26 AFP COVERT fixing out of the Gulf states area, particularly Iran, featured on the tanker market last week, but rates were rumoured to show little change on previous levels. With holidays in the United States, Japan and West Germany, business has been somewhat compressed, particularly in the Caribbeans.
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    • 214 26 IMPROVEMENT in freight rates over recent weeks has stimulated buying interest in "Panamax" bulk carriers. Lloyd's List reports that a number of vessels constructed in the early 1970s are thought to have changed hands on the freight market, traditionally shrouded in secrecy. The following shipsales were concluded last
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    • 272 17 /-%'%>+;@|))%!|~''_!?',\<\\,{"' Ma UASC UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) SEALORO SHIPPING AGENCIES 70 Shenton Way 04 02C Marini Nome Singapore 0/07 Tel *****91 Tele. No BS?S4i9 CFS office TPC 03-30 Tel *****31 and *****32 Terminal office TPC 03-29 Tel No *****90'*****93 NATIONAL LINE OF BAHRA EXPRESS FULL CONTAINER SERVICE FKOM JAPAN
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    • 252 18 i©, FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE To Europe From Europe Aha Accepting Far 1) Barcelona. Genoa. 2) Amsterdam Antwerp. I Havre. Basle. UK. 3) Bremen. Bremerhaven Aarhus Copenhagen. Helsinki 4) Malmo. Stockholm Oslo 'Accepting Europe cargo lor feeder via S pore 'Also direct cargo tor Spore Bangkok Ms contact MISC AGENCIES
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    • 1182 19 The Straits Steamship Group yj Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd QCL Overseas Containers Limited CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT RTMUDni FRANKFURT EXPRESS KOMLOON BAY HAMBURG EXPRESS RHNE MARU BENAVON TOR 10 EXPRfSS CARDIGAN BAT OSAKA BAY FRAHFURT EXPRESS P KeUnf S'ton 29/11 16/12 06/12 23/12 14/12 02/1 21/12 10/1 25/12 17/1
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    • 781 21 V\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel: *****33 EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES VESSEL KOTA AGUMG KOTA SEGAR KOTA ABAIM KOTA WARUNA KOTA WISATA VOYAGE SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: 3-7/12 5-9/12 1-4/1/85 10-12/1 14-19/1 .VOYAGE HOOEIOAH. JEDOAH. AQABA, PT SUDAN JEDDAH. ADEN. BE IRA, D'SALAAM, MOMBASA DJIBOUTI.
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    • 779 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE Bana»gn Toko tipms CarStan Bit Oukj lUy EUIOPf STRUTS HAM B HAVfN IDMt HAVRE U K PKEIANGSTOM FOR sjm skm sjm nll jo/u mg. r« SjM SjM Sated 5/12 HI. IK. SjOrt Sj4W SJM C/ 12 1/12 MG TR SjM SJM 11/12 Rj
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    • 714 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF Far East S'pore Service Full Container Vessel. GODDA DM MAMPAHT D 15 ffi COM *15 t® Kate kMinutf HaifkaitSpwc I{ Prnt (Brt) 17/11 22/11 23/11 21,11 29/11 2>/U 3/12 4/12 J/12 11/12 1(/12 20/12 21/12 24/12 24 12 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE (Spat A
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    • 683 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia C ROZE S pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 1800 27/11 LCL Cargo 0600 27/11 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) SS BRIDGE 47E. TW BRDGE 22E, HK CONTAINER 42E. Jayakarta Also jccepting cargo to trom Bangkok and t Malaysia A AUSTRALIA S
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    • 561 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55. Market Street Sinfapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telei Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KCLANG M/S SHARMAT NAM SOON SON BHD IST AND 2ND FLOOR NO 1 IALAN CEMPENING P»RT KLANG MALAYSIA
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    • 563 24 Regional Container Lines 3 Sailing* Weekly Reliable Regular Punctual ltd. Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hr». Tuet, Thurs Sat REGULAR/FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGKLA VOY SM SKLA BKK FWT SKLA RATANA BHUM 300/301 Saied 29 30 No. RAT ANA BHUM 302/303 ,25/28 No* 21/30 No«RATANA BHUM 304/259 5/6 Dec HINODE KISEN CO.
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    • 81 24 V? QJ SII FARGO SHIPPmC COMPANY (PTE.) LTD. EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICF SINGAPORE/BANGKOK EVERY 2 DAYS Spor* BU SM BHUM IMM h«/2| Nov 30/1 Dec THAMA MM 147N 1/2 Dec S/C Dec BMW 197N 4/5 Dec 7/1 Dec THANA BHJM USM 1/9 Dec 12/13 Dec BMUM 19W 11/12 Dec 14/15 Dec
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    • 182 24 Regional Weather m 1 s^r/ *<>/■ y*s 3 37 I. Cm 4 B! *LA s m «a 5? 5V> SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND P T Temperature °p /S\ m hunderstorm Weather Wind direction with speed in knots Shower Ram Wave height O Cloudy
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