The Business Times, 14 February 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1985 60 CENTS
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  • 601 1  -  Corporation's latest concession will ease financial burden of manufacturers By CHUANG PECK MING FOR THE FIRST TIME, the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) has decided to put a freeze on rents for factories and industrial land. With the move, rents for flatted factories, standard factories, industrial
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  • 536 1  - Motor Leasing Group vying for Bangkok bus project By LIM SOON NEO THE Motor k Leasing Group, whose Singapore company is better known as a distributor of Cadillac and Isuzu cars, has worked out a competitive $492 million bid to help it clinch a turnkey project to revamp the Bangkok
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  • 327 1 FEWER NEW CARS were i bought last year compared with the previous year. Latest offi- cial statistics show that there was a drop of 29 per cent in the number of new motor cars and station wagons registered for the whole of
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  • 210 1 Reuter AFTER major opposition successes in national elections, leading dissident Kim Dae-Jung called on the South Korean government yesterday to start talks on a full restoration of democracy and warned of social unrest if it did not. "The day of the rubber
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  • Article, Illustration
    89 1 THE Singapore stock market closed mixed yesterday after selling pressure in the afternoon erased the small gains made In the morning. With only a few mere days left before Chinese New Year, many observers expect the Year the Rat to close with a whimper after a roaring start
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  • 521 1  -  By FLORENCE CHONG AUSTRALIA will shortly launch high-tech cooperative ventures in bilateral deals with Asean member countries. Four ventures are already under joint study a space science venture with Indonesia; tapping of solar energy from solar ponds and development of scientific instrumentation with Thailand and micro-electronics
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  • 422 1 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) will be working more closely with the national carrier now that the board has enlisted the airline's deputy chairman to strengthen its own leadership. Singapore Airlines' Lim Chin Beng began his duties as STPB's deputy chairman
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    • 269 1 WE® RAW MATERIALS 14 DOONESBURY S CROSSWORDS 11 THE SCARCITY of suitable building land, and its high cost, is threatening to reduce the number of private housing developments in Singapore, meaning little hope of new house prices being cut. Pag* 2 PRESIDENT Konstantin Chernenko, who took over the Soviet leadership
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 488 2  -  French-Singapore Institute opens tomorrow By JEFFREY TSANG THE $29.6 million French-Singa-pore Institute (FSI) officially opens tomorrow with plans to provide training in electronic chip design by September. This will provide the manpower support for the eight integratedcircuit (IC) design centres which will be set
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    • 391 2  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF ASIA, especially China and South-east Asia, will continue to be a very important market (or the world's biggest manufacturer of cooling towers. Mr Donald W Meeker, president of the Marley Cooling Tower Co of Kansas in the US,
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    • 395 2 WITH ABOUT one-third of all accidents involving hands or upper limbs, the setting up of the hand surgery unit at the Singapore General Hospital is most timely. The unit, which started on Jan 1, treats the "more serious and complicated cases
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    • 177 2 FINAL-YEAR Singapore Polytechnic students have created a mechanical "opponent" for ping-pong ball players and a machine which promises to take the chore out of removing roots and husks from bean sprouts. These and other machines are on display at a
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    • 235 2 THE HIGH COURT has lifted an injunction against Silver Star Shipping Pte Ltd which prevented the company from selling its two ships. Silver Star's two shareholders were involved in a dispute over the company chairman's handling of the sale of the two ships for $1.5
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    • 220 2 THE TUSSLE over retrenchment benefits between the Singapore Bank Officers Association and the Moscow Narodny Bank remains unresolved despite the bank's latest offer to increase the quantum. In the latest round of discussions held at the Labour Ministry, the bank offered to increase
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    • 218 2 AT LEAST three more overhead bridges at Clementi Road, Henderson Road and Jalan Bukit Merah will be built in the next six months. A contract for the construction of the three pedestrian bridges of prestressed concrete was one of six recently awarded by the
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    • 66 2 TELECOMS has added another 20,000 lines of digital telephone switching equipment at the Jurong East telephone exchange. This brings the working capacity of the three-storey exchange to 65,000 lines. Another 10,000 lines are expected to be installed in October at the exchange, which
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    • 35 2 THE insurance service for surface and air-letters and parcels to Malaysia will be re-intro-duced from Feb 18. The limit of insurance for the above to Malaysia will be $1,000 per insured item.
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    • 174 2 PONY MOTORS chief, Chee Seok Yong, 48, and another Korean were yesterday charged with another 338 counts for customs duty evasion totalling $613,100.47 on 476 Hyundai cars. Both Yoo Jong Hoon, 33, a Hyundai representative from South Korea, and Mr Chee, a permanent resident,
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    • 309 3  -  By LUCY NG SINGAPORE Colour Centre Pte Ltd, a local photo-finishing company, and a Japanese corporation have joined hands for a major sales campaign. Under the agreement, Konishiroku, the company better known for manufacturing Konica cameras, will supply SCC with Sakura films.
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    • 155 3 A BUS is a bus unless it's a B6FA Mk 11. Sixteen of these special 44-seater buses have been built by Volvo's Singapore importer, S M Motors Pte Ltd. The contract was awarded to SM Motors by the Singapore army authorities. The bus chassis
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    • 17 3 THE parcel post service with El Salvador, suspended since June 21 last year, has resumed.
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    • 294 3 MORE COMPANIES will now be visited annually by Vocational k Industrial Training Board members than in the past eight-and-a-half years. VITB has adopted a new visit-to-industries format for this year. Instead of arranging the visits by industry sectors, the board now bases it on
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    • 78 3 A CONFERENCE on inspection, repair and maintenance for the offshore and marine industries will be held from Feb 26 to 28 at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Of about 150' people from several countries who were expected to take part, more than 120 have confirmed their participation.
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    • 705 3  -  By QUEK SWEE PENG THE SCARCITY of suitable building land, and its high cost, is threatening to reduce the number of private housing developments in Singapore. This means there is little hope of new house prices being brought down below those already or
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    • 370 3 DON NEESE has been assigned to Singapore as vice-presi-dent, Asia-Pacific region, Lockheed Corporation International, and managing director of the corporation's subsidiary, Lockheed Aircraft (Asia) Limited. Prior to his present appointment, Mr Neese was director, international market development; manager, China affairs; and senior coordinator, international marketing at Lockheed.
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 407 4 Soviet president cancels meeting with Greek premier UPI PRESIDENT Konstantin Chernenko, who took over the Soviet leadership one year ago yesterday, is ill and apparently being treated at an undisclosed location outside Moscow. Soviet officials said yesterday that the ailing 73-year-old leader, who has
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 81 4 CANADIAN Defence Minister Robert Coates, accused in a newspaper report of risking a breach of security by visiting a West German strip-tease nightclub, resigned his Cabinet post on Tuesday but denied any wrongdoing. His voice breaking as he spoke to a hushed Parliament, Mr Coates said the news
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      • 76 4 A REQUEST from Nigeria's military government for the extradition of former Transport Minister Umaru Dikko is under study, as well as Mr Dikko's application for political asylum in Britain, the Home Office in London said as the central criminal court Jailed four men for kidnapping Mr Dikko last
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      • 58 4 A HIGH COURT Judge banned mass picketing at 11 more coal mines on Tuesday as Britain's miners' strike entered its 12th month. Deciding a suit brought by 19 working miners, judge Richard Scott ruled that not more than six pickets could be stationed at each of the
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      • 54 4 A HONGKONG civic leader who openly attacked the agreement under which the British colony will be handed over to China in 1997 has resigned from public service. A government statement said Lo Tak-Shing's resignation from the executive and legislative councils, Hongkong's top policy and lawmaking bodies, took
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    • 241 4 AP INCOMPETENT army officers in China will be demoted in future and should regard it as good for the revolutionary cause. A Chinese military leader has said that the change caps a restructuring of the country's 4.2-million-member People's Liberation Army in which ageing
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    • 125 4 AP PREMIER Zhao Ziyang, an architect of economic reform in China, has promised that the government will not nationalise private businesses and property. Mr 7hao made the remark on Tuesday in a meeting with a Belgian delegation headed by A Leysen, president of the Confederation
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    • 439 4 AP AFP A FIRE that spread quickly through one of Manila's biggest hotels early yesterday has killed at least 24 guests and employees. Firemen said many of the dead were foreigners, including at least three Americans and one Japanese. Only Edward Carroll, c
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    • 195 4 AP PHILIPPINE Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile said communist rebel strength grew by 23 per cent last year and that the guerillas pose the most serious threat on the southern island of Mindanao. Replying to questions from an opposition member in the National Assembly, Mr Enrile
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    • 250 4 Bernama EXPORTS of Malaysian manufactures have slowed down and this trend is expected to continue unless new exports become available. Deputy governor of Bank Negara, Dr Lin See Yan, said that the underlying export trends in Malaysia were a cause for concern as gross
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    • 213 5 AFP PRO-CHINESE Khmer Rouge guerillas yesterday claimed Vietnamese gunners killed 45 Khmer civilians as thousands of others reportedly fled into Thailand from what is termed this year's heaviest Vietnamese assault on Cambodia's communist resistance. Thai deputy army spokesman Colonel Anussorn Krisnaseranee said that the
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    • 91 5 Reuter CHINA has launched more attacks on Vietnamese positions along its border, wiping out several posts. Beijing television news said yesterday that the attacks countered repeated shelling by Vietnamese forces against the Chinese side which reached a crisis on Tuesday. It gave no details of casualties
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    • 175 5 Reuter JAPAN'S cyanide candy extortion gang planted more poisoned sweets on supermarket shelves on the eve of Valentine's Day when women in Tokyo like to send candy to men in a secret expression of love. Nine sweets carrying threatening messages were
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    • 130 5 Reuter POLISH government lawyers are studying anticommunist sermons by radical priests to find out whether they have broken the law. This follows a warning by Religious Affairs Minister Adam Lopatka that the authorities will not hesitate to future to arrest priests whose attacks on the re- gime are
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    • 772 5 ARRIVALS >perotOf Servicc Local From number time ;al KE687 0030 SEL/KUL AA PAS 0155 JFK/SFO/HKG UFT LH688R 0250 FRA/DXB AAS MH681 0820 KUL AAS MH603 0905 KUL AAS MH67I 0935 KUL AAS MH8I1 0940 PEN IBA BM2I 1000 BWN ilA SO 103 AC858 1005 KUL KC 1015
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    • 439 5 Reuter AP NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister David Lange has denied that his country would counter any US economic reprisals for its anti-nuclear policy by being less cooperative militarily. A New York Times report quoting him as suggesting that less military cooperation would follow such
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    • 71 5 Reuter A SENIOR West German official said the Bonn government resented American press reports painting his country as a security sieve through which military Ugh technology was escaping to the Soviet Union. "We do not like the question asked regarding our reliability," Lothar Spaeth told reporters
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    • 254 5 Qsbwrnner^^^oHaee i Str anhf.Tai js Of Imperial Feasts (Or a hundred birds greeting the phoenix) Sumptious stories about how Imperial chefs were inspired to create culinary delicacies abound in Chinese cuisine. But few for such a grandoise occasion as the Empress Dowagers 60th birthday A temple was newly erected and
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 633 7  -  By DAVID GABRIEL THE EFFICACY of the British Official Secrets Act, long attacked by statutory reformers, has been called to question with the aquittal of a civil servant charged with disclosure of secret information to a Member of Parliament. A row
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    • 1030 7 Seoul's ruling party will work with the opposition A hastily formed organisation of political dissidents in South Korea has emerged as the country's second strongest party and is expected to pose a challenge to President Chun's ruling party. AP FACED WITH a meaningful new opposition challenge,
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 353 8 NYT TOUGH NEW RULES are being drawn up by the authorities of Lloyd's in the London insurance market in an effort to stamp out abuses within the community and prevent the misappropriation of funds belonging to the 23,438 members. The ruling council of Lloyd's
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    • 149 8 UNITED OVERSEAS Bank will open its new branch in Chinatown today the group's 61st branch on the island. It is situated in UOB Chinatown Plaza at Craig Road. It offers customers a wide range of computerised banking services including the sale of gold; current, savings
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    • 53 8 Reuter THAI FARMERS BANK Ltd and Siam Commercial Bank Ltd raised their interbank lending rates half a percentage point to 15.5 per cent. The rises followed an identical move on Tuesday by Bangkok Bank Ltd, Thailand's largest commercial bank, in response to tight Thai money
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    • 991 8 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed sharply lower yesterday against most currencies in active and nervous late trading on suspected Bundesbank intervention in Frankfurt. The dollar fell sharply to a late 262.15/30 yen from an early 263.70 high and London's 263.05/20 and to 2.7910/30 Swiss francs compared with 2.8075
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    • 239 8 HONGKONG The metal closed higher on some speculative buying in the afternoon yesterday, following a sell-off in the US dollar on suspected central bank intervention. It finished at U*****.40/ 80 an ounce after touching a high of $302.75/303.15. This compared with New York's $301.80/302.30 close. Trading was thin and
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    • 101 8 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by Hpoint from Tuesday to close at 5Vi per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate fell by 1/16-point, the twomonth rate remained unchanged; and the threemonth rose by 1/16-point. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Off* Bid 0
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    • 58 8 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks and discount houses to tender for $80 million of 91-day Treasury bills to be issued at the option of the tenderer on Feb 18; and from Feb 19 to Feb 22. Each tender must not be for less than ISO,OOO.
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    • Article, Illustration
      278 8 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposits closed steady at mixed opening levels in thin afternoon trading yesterday. Periods were unchanged to >4 point firmer at the start on market expectations of a rire )t between US$4 billion and $5 billion in US M-l money supply figures due today. Rates then hardly
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    • 250 8 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday. Local dollars to quoM yeel •rdey c roe* parity one unit of foreign currency: US doBor 2 2600 2 2620 2 8196 -19 85 Sterling pound 2 4656 ***** 7 3469 -66 44 Austrokon dolor 1 6859 1 6897 3 4286 50 83
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    • 375 8 BA Futures Inc MARCH EarWatku- futures opened at 90.58 at Simex yesterday, higher than Tuesday's close but lower than CME's close of 90.61. Trading was confined to a narrow range as traders assessed the spate of economic data to be released in the next two weeks. The March Eurodollar
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 639 9 NYT THE BANK of Boston plans to issue its first major statement an Monday explaining in detail why it failed to report US$l.22 billion in international cash transfers, mostly with Swiss hanks, a spokesman for the bank said. At the
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    • 109 9 Reuter THE Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) and the Comptroller of the Currency are expected to act next week on rules raising banks minimum capital requirements to 6 per cent of assets. The rules would raise banks capital requirements from a current 5 per cent. Banks
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    • 351 9 AFP THE 19 foreign banks in Egypt, whose main work is to smooth the way for imports, have been operating at a snail's pace since the new year due to government regulations. The bankers said the system for financing private and public sector
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    • 242 9 AFP THE TOTAL assets and liabilities of Bahrain's 76 reparting offshore banking uaits (Obus) reached USH2.7 billion by the end of December 1964, (or a 0.7 per cent rise, or $500 million, over November. The monthly report of the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA), released
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    • 108 9 AP ARAB BANK, Jordan's largest commercial bank, has received permission to open a branch in one of China's coastal economic zones. The official China Daily newspaper reported on Monday that Arab Bank was one of six foreign banks expected to be allowed to
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    • 212 9 Reuter ONE BRITISH and one French bank have been given letters of Intent to open branches in Nepal, reflecting growing foreign banking interest in the country. Finance Minister Prakash Chand Lohani said yesterday that Grindlays Bank PLC had received permission to conduct full
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    • 388 9 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN dollar's fall through the US$O.75 level to a new low has taken the currency into a new area of uncertainty. The dollar touched a new low of U550.7485 on Tuesday afternoon, compared with its 1965 high of 0.8265, but later bobbed
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    • 516 9 UPI TAIWAN OFFICIALS are seeking to ease a bank crisis that has left the Tsai family conglomerate more than US$25O million in debt and heading for bankruptcy. It could become the worst bank crisis in the nation's history. The 10th Credit Cooperative Bank returned
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    • 471 9 FT LEBANON'S increasing financial deficit as a result of the worsening security situation has been blamed for the depreciation of the Lebanese pound. A recent confidential report by the International Monetary Fund estimated that government spending amounted to 333
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    • 124 9 Reuter A BRITISH decision to seek membership of the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System (EMS) would remove much of the uncertainty about UK exchange rate policy. Group economic adviser of Lloyds Bank PLC, Christopher Johnson, said in a currency analysis: "The penalties for
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    • 197 9 Reuter JAPAN will start to issue money market certificates (MMCs) from next month as part of the deregulation of Japanese interest rates. The Finance Ministry said yesterday that smaller banking institutions, including mutual savings and loans associations, will issue the new saving instrument from
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    • 34 9 Reuter POLAND'S foreign debt is now US$27 billion in convertible currencies. Prime Minister Wojciech Jarazelski said that Poland earnestly wisbes to fulfil its commitments although debt servicing is a serious burden. Reu-
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  • FEATURES
    • 499 10 THE "DAFT BUGGER with usual disgusting habits" who wrote to a Lonely Hearts column wanted "someone who could possibly tolerate them". His request shared a similar quality with "Discriminating nymphomaniac" who sought a "permanent relationship with fridge and professional owner". These whacky, witty advertisements in the
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    • 1430 10  -  Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke stirred up strong feeling over his secret decision, later reversed, to allow the US to use Sydney as a base to monitor tests of the MX missile. The nuclear issue in Australia is now not merely confined to Labour Party infighting it
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 554 11  -  Singapore's challenge for the Admiral's Cup needs more hands By WALTON MORAIS THE SEARCH for talent to spearhead Singapore's bold challenge for the Admiral's Cup yachting competition in Cowes, England, has not ended. This is the message that the men behind Singapore's first serious
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    • 443 11 AP SWEDEN'S Stefan Edberg upset top-seeded Ivan Lendl in the men's singles on Tuesday, while the two top women's seeds Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd gained the semifinals of the US$l.B million Lipton International Players championships tennis tournament at Defray Beach, Florida. With
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    • 302 11 NYT AS THE American National Basketball Association makes its halfway tarn, the elite three are again leading the pack. Bat seme impressive tharsnghhreds might jnst he in the maaey at the finish. Boston, Philadelphia and the Lm Angeles Lakers are agnln sat
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 325 12 NYT THE SECURITIES and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a group of investors with taking part in a scheme to defraud some of the largest brokerage firms in the US, including E F Hutton A Co, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc and PrudentialBache Securities
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    • 131 12 Reuter CARL ICAHN has revised the terms of his offer for Phillips Petroleum to about 70 million shares at US$6O cash per share, in the light of disclosures made in the company's supplemental proxy material. If the offer is successful, it will result in
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    • 310 12 Reuter TECHNOLOGY STOCKS were sold in massive amounts by investors scurrying for cover in the face of disappointing earnings forecasts. Overall, however, the Wall Street market improved slightly on Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average regained only about half a point of the 14
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 362 13 HONGKONG: Share prices closed mostly lower yesterday after a fairly quiet and featureless halfday session with investors reluctant to establish new positions ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays next week. The Hang Seng Index finished 20.90 points off at 1,336.32 after it shed 12.06 at the midmorning fix.
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    • 343 13 TOKYO: Share prices closed slightly lower yesterday in active trading after the market average started soft, rallied to a record high 12,049.62 at midday, and fell back in the afternoon to close down 2.18 on balance at 12,025.71. Turnover was 410 million shares against 370 million on Tuesday when
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    • 99 13 MANILA: Share prices closed generally higher in dull trading yesterday. The Commercial A Industrial Index was up 0.67 at 115.86 and the Oil Index closed 0.004 higher at 0.620. The Mining Index was down 0.94 at 747.08. FEB 13 Pnoi MotVMI Onantol B Phi OvarMo* Phfax B 0 009
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    • 397 13 SYDNEY: Share markets closed firmer yesterday on lower volume. Near the close, the All Ordinaries Index was up 5.8 points at 773.5, the All Industrials 6.1 at 1,164.9 and the All Resources 5.5 at 473.6. National turnover totalled 35.96 million shares compared with 41.04 million on Tuesday and rises
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    • 141 13 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed mixed in quiet trading yesterday. The Book Club Index fell 0.22 point to 124.72. Turnover stood at 140,538 shares compared with Tuesday's 267,327. FEI 19 A ok ham Thai A wo fix* Ayuthoyo kn» And Tru»t tafcri 206 132 unch 1 -6 1 Sam C«nwnl
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    • 83 13 Fob 13 Won Hyundai Motor 591 522 675 -3 +2 -5 Bonk Sooti 629 -6 K A L Chohoung Bk Commercial Bk Do«ln i kid 600 674 496 498 -5 2 +6 -2 Kor«o Ol Kor«aSh*> 1850 373 708 30 -7 ■1 580 -7 791 6 563 3 806
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    • 75 13 Reuter PAPUA NEW GUINEA Minerals and Energy Minister Francis Pusal said that Ok Tedi Mining Ltd stopped mining as scheduled last Sunday but it has approval to process gold ore already mined. The site is due to shut by the end of this month.
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    • 200 13 FT THE FRENCH government has given approval for Toyoda, a Japanese machine tools group, to take effective control of H Ernault Somua (HES), a loss-ridden company which was once France's most important lathe manufacturer. Following agreement on a salvage plan which has been under
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    • 87 13 Reuter HONDA MOTOR COMPANY has denied a British press report that it intends to build an engine-mak-ing plant in Britain to be followed by full car production there. A Honda spokesman says that the report is incorrect. "We have been studying various possibilities but
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    • 110 13 AFP IDEMITSU KOSAN, a major Japanese oil company, has agreed with Canadian and French companies to process uranium ores in Canada in a joint venture. Idemitsu officials say that details have not yet been fixed, but the joint venture company is likely to be
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    • 73 13 Reuter LEIGHTON HOLDINGS said that its work in hand increased substantially in the second half of last year in spite of difficult conditions in Australia and Asia. Group companies at Dec SI were working on construction projects with an uncompleted value of AsB92 million
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    • 47 13 Reuter ALCAN AUSTRALIA said that its profit turnaround last year reflects high business activity in most operations and effective cost-cutting. The 70 per cent-owned unit of Alcan Aluminium recorded a AJ15.51 million profit last year against a 121.22 million loss in 1983. Reuter
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    • 54 13 Reuter CRA has declined to comment on a Duesseldorf report that the planned merger between Krupp Stahl AG and Kloeckner-Werke AG, in which CRA is a 35 per cent partner, could still fall through. A CRA spokesman says that discussions on the deal are still moving
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 140 14 CHHmn Produce Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 477.50 Exchange (Sellen' noon doaing p IS. SV100 kg) rices ON Feb Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW B W FOB NSW 438.00 281.00 Coconut oil Bull Foe 157 00 Gambier 330.00 Otd drum FOB 170.00 FOB NSW New drum FOB 174.00 Copra Mixed
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    • 269 14 Singapore (S$/Uo, ex-gedown) Thai whit* A-l special C-1 spocial C-l Ordinanr Loonzoin 100% 177 unq unq 100% 1st doss first pod* (kangaroo) 100% second grade 225 new crop 0.96 100% third grade unq 100% 2nd doss 100% 3rd doss 0.70 0.65 Parboiled 227 222 25% now crop B-10% No
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    • 97 14 THE Knala Lemper Tin Market price stayed at the htwiittwil Tie Agreement fleer-level price ef MO.U per kg yesterday. Ike buffer steck manager eeetteeei te sopCrt actively at this level the nkneaee ef Interest from ether seeters. Tstal tenever increased te 14» tsnnes against 132 tsnnes sa Tnesday
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    • 145 14 Yarn (In HK$ par bote of 400 fc) China corded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16'* 2,650 Blue Phoenix 20** 2,800 BkM Phoenix 32'* 3,350 »u« Phoenix 40"* 3,700 Girded yarn, hank BkM Phoenix 21 's 2,800 Combed yarn, cones BkM Phoenix 32 4,450 BltM Phoenix 40'* 4,600 Open-end yarn
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    • 203 14 SINGAPORE The market closed lower yesterday with March One RSS buyers quoted at 169.75 cents per kg, down 1.75 cents from Tuesday. The morning session lost two cents on selling of nearbys in fairly active trading. Prices fluctuated narrowly In quiet afternoon trading on some covering interest and liquidations.
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    • 258 14 RAS prices <« s fob «b alw) NOON CLOSE <-»— Int 1 RSS Prompt Wy 165 00 166.00 165.00 166.00N Int 1 RSS Mar 85 170.00 170.50 169 75 170 25 Int 1 RSS Apr 85 174.50 175 00 174 25 174.75 Int 2 RSS 159.25 160.25N
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    • 149 14 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed off the day's lows on late covering yesterday after early sentiment was dampened by the fall in Chicago soyfutures. Trading was thin, with February deliveries in the south failing MJ7.50 to H,187.50 per tonne and central and north $5 to $1,190. March
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    • 126 14 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed on or near the lows on Tuesday, off 13 to 6V4 US cents per bushel in moderate trade. March settled at $5.77 after posting an 11 Vi -cent range. The persistent strength in the US dollar and the outlook for
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    • 131 14 WHEAT futures on the 1 Chicago Board of Trade re- 1 bounded from mid-session < lows on Tuesday but still t ended two cents to V« US cent per bushel lower. < March settled at 13.57 Vi I after posting a 4V< -cent range on the day. persistently strong
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    • 97 14 (cants/kg, 1-ton pa Nan) March 85 April 85 (currant mth) (forword mth) NOON NOON RAS Rayacs SoNari luyar* Saltan SSR 20 167.50 169 SON 169.00 171.00N SSR50 165 50 167 50N 167 00 169.00N MRELB SaNan lliyiri Saltan SMRCV 204 50 206 SON 206.50 208 SON SMR
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    • 874 14 COFFEE Robusta futures ended on Tuesday with pared gains from the previous close of £12 to £1. May finished at £2,403, up £6 and below the high at £2,412. The market firmed from the opening on light commission house buying based on the New York close and easier
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4131 15 IMPROVED SENTIMENT yesterday morning evaporated after lunch, resulting in a mixed close for the Singapore stock market. The BT and ST indices ended with losses for the third consecutive session. The BT Composite Index fell 1.02 points to 712.61 while the Straits Times
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    • 256 15 SINGAPORE Rises Indices Poe-CI 50< 289 Grand Utd Hldgi 140 Federal Flow 267 G 1 HUfs SO( 216 0 S 585 *«»o 505 MTP 384 H Leoag Fa 328 Spore Land 287 Londinorfcs H S0« 300 U 1 C 195 Falls Partis Wont 362 Bedford 50« 129
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    • 453 15 SHARE PRICES closed on a slightly easier note at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday in spite of some light buying support in the morning. Trading conditions were dull for the better part of the day except for some interest seen in situational issues.
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    • 3104 15 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 units unless otherwise specified. All Time SetUement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 472 16 PERLIS PLANTATIONS Bhd, owner of a 34 per cent stake in Shaw Brothers (M) Sdn Bhd, has big plans to redevelop some of the latter's properties. This strategy is necessary in view of the continuing decline in cinema attendances which has led
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    • 166 16 Bernama CHEQ Point (M) Sdn Bhd. the credit card company recently bailed out through its acquisition by Malaysian Resources Bhd, has landed in the good books of a major outlet the Malaysian Airline System (MAS). From Friday, the airline will accept Cheq Point for
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    • 107 16 STANDARD TELEPHONES A Cables PLC plans to raise about £168 million, after expenses, through an underwritten one-for-five rights issue of about 91 million new ordinary shares at 190p each. ITT Corp's subsidiary, ITT United Kingdom Ltd. which holds a 24 per cent stake
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    • 250 16  -  Letter to the Editor Kee Siew Koon DEAR SIR, With reference to the Business Times report of Feb 8, (Hartaban Holdings buys 24 per cent of UPP), I would be grateful if you could assist me in the following: Has the sale
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    • 1793 16 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. INDUSTKIALS Alex Hldo (I 328X2) I 30 A Ooc (2
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    • 101 16 HONGKONG Hang Seng Index Tuesday 1158 9 Week ogo 1168.2 Wednesday J ***** Tuesday Week ago 1333 31 TOKYO Tokyo Dow Jones Wednesday .J*?? 5 Tuesday Week ogo *****.17 TSE Index Wednesday 924.12 Tuesday Week ago 918.93 SYDNEY Australian Minings Wednesday 2 Tuesday <35-7 Week ogo 448.8 Australian
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    • 223 16 Monogers' prices for Feb 14 MARA Bumiputra First B'putra Second B'putra 548 5.53 4.90 4.95 Singapore Unit Trust Third B'putra Fourth B'putra 398 4.03 438 4.43 The Comntrc* 2.23 237 Fifth B'putra Sixth B pcitra 298 3.03 The Savings Fund 158 1 68 288 2.93 S'pore Prog Find
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    • 461 17  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI A SLIGHTLY better performance in the second half helped to slow the earnings rate decline at the Insurance Corporation of Singapore for the year ended Dec 31, 1964. The audited group results for the year showed that consolidated net profits in
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    • 96 17 TEfcASEK Hidings (Pte) Ltd has sold 200,000 DBS Bank shares for $1.21 million, reducing its stake from 49.05 per cent to 48.96 per cent. National Iron Steel Mills Ltd is the registered shareholder of the shares and Temasek is deemed to have an interest in the company. THE
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    • 268 17  -  By AMY CHEOK WELL-DIVERSIFIED General Corporation Bhd has signed an agreement with a unit of UK publicly-listed Avon Rubber PLC to manufacture tyres in Malaysia. The technical tie-up between GCB's wholly-owned subsidiary, Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory (M) Sdn Bhd, and
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    • 1049 17 EQUITIES opened mixed yesterday with Tuesday's sharp decline prompting a technical reaction in some issues. Turnover was low. Government bonds firmed as much as half a point as sterling rose two basis points to 71.2 in tradeweighted terms. At 10 am the FTSE 100 share index fell 0
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    • 530 17  -  Paper Products confirms sale By CHAN OI CHEE PAPER PRODUCTS (M) Bhd has confirmed BT's reports last week of an agreement in principle to sell a 24.9 per cent stake in subsidiary United Pulp Paper Ltd just 0.1 percentage point short of the
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    • 345 17  -  By TERESA LIM THERE IS persistent talk in both the Singapore and Hongkong stock markets that .a Singapore company is party to a transaction involving a major block of Wheelock Marden shares. Hongkong brokers said while the rumour had been making the
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    • 282 17 FOOD-BASED QAF Ltd has confirmed BT's report last week that it is acquiring a substantial interest in NCS (Singapore) Pte Ltd, operator of one of the largest and most modern commercial cold store facilities in the Republic. Two separate agreements have been
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    • 596 16 i THE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF SINGAPORE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (A Subsidiary of DBS Bank) H( Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (A Subsidiary of DBS Bank) (I) AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1964 Or Group Company °/o (8.8) (14.6) 1 (a) Gross Premium
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    • 3 16 See page 17
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    • 287 16 8 THE NSURANCE CORPORATION OF SINGAPORE UD ftnovpmmm* m oi S*>gapor«> (A Subsidiary of DBS Bank) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the Fifteenth Annual General Meeting of The Insurance Corporation of Singapore Ltd will be held on Monday. 6 May 1985 at 12.00 p.m. at
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    • 156 17 APPOINTMENT f ZSJtjZM&Z* ARAB BANKING CORPORATION (8.5.C.) BOND TRADER Wc are expanding. We are seeking for the services of a highly professional person to assume the position of Bond Trader in our Treasury Department in Singapore The suitable candidate should be a graduate or holder of professional qualifications with at
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    • 74 17 'A splendid read who could resist it?' THE PYRATES George Mac Donald Praser On a voyage to the Indies. the fabled Madagascar crown and the lovely Lady Vanity Brooke were lost to The Pyrates. Wil our hero. Captain Ben redeem the treasure and rescue his love from the lascivious clutches
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    • 134 17 Let Sling Loong help your business grow •j Vs,f '•S -H J .w *v A t £-Vr v «*> VJ Shing Loong Finance has been selected by the Economic Development Board to operate the Small Industries Finance Scheme (SIFS) and the Extended Small Industries Finance Scheme (ESIFS). A&i Through these
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  • 497 18  -  By JAIME LYE THE HOTEL manpower squeeze affecting the recruitment of rank-and-file staff has made its way into middle management level. Especially hit are the new hotels scheduled to open for business this year and the next as they face the problem of finding
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  • 125 18 AP CHINA has said that it is opening 109 more cities and counties to foreigners, bringing the total to 257, one of the biggest relaxations under the Chinese Communist Party's programme to open the country to the outside world. The foreign ministry in Beijing
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  • 403 18 THE HOTEL industry's earnings from room sales continued to drop last year, in spite of the moderate rise in the number of visitors to the Republic. While exact figures are not available, an estimate can be made from the
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  • 360 18 Reuter CHINA IS severely scaling down its expectations from its fledgling offshore oil sector while inviting more foreign participation in oil exploration. Mr Chen Junren, spokesman for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), said yesterday offshore output could be around 300,000
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  • 378 18 LONDON EXPRESS Aviation will start its twice-weekly chartered flights to Singapore from October two months earlier than originally expected. The chartered flight company is going ahead with its plans even though it has yet to obtain formal approval from the
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  • 25 18 THE BANK of America yesterday reduced its prime lending rate by a quarter point, from 9 Vi per cent to 9V* per cent.
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  • 256 18 Reuter MALAYSIAN commodity brokers have stopped trading palm oil futures ahead of reforms to the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) and the Kuala Lumpur Commodities Clearing /House (KLCCH) which are expected next month. Not a single contract has been traded on the exchange
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  • 170 18 RAIN yesterday washed out the mixed pro-am tournament of the Singapore Ladies Open golf eham-, pionship at Jurong. Only 31 of the 56 women pros completed their rounds. The American girls stole the show with Nancy Tomich and Sandy posting the day's lowest
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  • 472 18  -  By SOH TIANG KENG Banking Correspondent THE US DOLLAR scaled new peaks yesterday in the foreign exchange markets, with sweeping gains against the Singapore dollar and major currencies. It hit a 6V4 year high of 2.2720 against the Singapore dollar, touched a
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  • 103 18 UPI BRITAIN'S tax collectors are more prone to mental disturbance than even hospital patients under treatment for psycho-neu-rotic illnesses, a, university professor said. Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Manchester University, blamed excess workloads and unresponsive management for making tax collectors more liable to becoming anxious, depressed,
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  • 73 18 WAT J. STREET stock prices were slightly higher in early trading yesterday, after moving a notch lower at the opening. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up about half a point to over 1277. Overall, a few more issues rose in price than fell. Volume was about
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  • LATE FILE
    • 50 18 Reuter SMALL depositors withdrew US$6O million in three hours from a finance company owned by the Cathay group of companies. The run on the Cathay Investment and Trust Company followed one on its sister company, the tenth credit cooperative in which $150 million were withdrawn in two days.
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    • 53 18 Reuter THREE people were reported missing after fire broke out aboard the Indian passenger ship Chidambaram in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday night. The vessel was carrying about 500 people from Singapore to Madras when the fire broke out about 480 km off the southeast
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    • 33 18 UPI A PLASTIC SURGEON has filed a US$3O millon lawsuit against the 3 M Co after patients complained that breast implants marketed by the firm deflated and leaked. UPI
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    • 30 18 AP FOR the first time since the communist takeover in 1949, the Chinese government plans to allow credit sales to encourage turnover of consumer goods. AP
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    • 38 18 AP HONGKONG'S total trade in 1964 reached US$57 billion, up 32 per cent from the previous year. Exports rose 32 per cent to $17.7 billion, and re-exports 48 per cent to $107.1 billion. AP
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    • 43 18 AFP THE Japanese semi-conduc-tor maker NEC has being reported to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development for failure to recognise trade unions at its factory in Livingston, near Glasgow in Scotland, where it employs 250 people. AFP
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    • 50 18 Reuter POPE JOHN PAUL said yesterday the destruction of surplus agricultural crops was unacceptable while there were starving people in the world. Speaking to members of an Italian farmers organisation, the Pope called the destruction of surplus crops because of market interests "a discouraging phenomenon". Reuter
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    • 108 18 Toss the traditional raw fish salad to hearty cheers of 'LaoQi'(Lo Hei). The auspicious New Year dish that symbolises success and the renewal of ties between family and friends. At sundown the Music ComesJo Life' from the turntables of Bernard Solosa.Satin smooth and so danceable. Yu Sheng and other festive
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    • 53 18 Outlook for today: Showers in several areas in the afternoon. Report for 25 hours prior to 7.30pm on Feb 13 at the otrport Maximum temperature 33.0 Associated humidity 69 Minimum temperature 23.4 Associated humidity 95 Hours of sunshine 6.55 Rainfall in millimetres 6 2 Roinfall this month 42.3 Roiny doys
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 318 19 Bernama KONSORTIUM Perkapalan Bhd, a bumiputra-owned haulier company, plans to buy 10 prime movers to beef up its container operations on a counter-trade basis from Rumania. Its executive chairman, Datuk Syed Abbas Alhabshee, said that he visited Rumania recently and found that there was
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    • 457 19  -  By G DURAIRAJ CHINA Ocean Shipping Line (Cosco), which inaugurated the China-South-east Asia service this week, hopes to cover more Chinese ports in its direct sailings to Singapore and Malaysia. The current schedule of 10 conventional sailings a month is expected to include
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    • 685 19 Shipping UfW Cot Af«0 VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner V 4 Alphotrarts VI 4 Andeka Shpg VI 1 ANL 1 1 APC Line V 4 APL III 4/5/6 ASCL HI 1 Asiabroker V 5 Ausfova Line V 1 Bait-Orient VI 4/5 Bangkok Cont VI 2 Bank Line V
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 106 19 AT LEAST 14 Bombay dock workers were injured when a drum containing chemicals exploded and started a fire on a Spanish-owned cargo ship, port authorities said. They said Monday's fire aboard the 11,500 ton Faethon was extinguished but unloading of drums containing sodium chloride was suspended pending
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      • 43 19 A LIBERIAN-registered oil tanker, damaged by an Iraqi missile in the Gulf, headed for Dubai yesterday. The Friendship L was attacked on Tuesday when it was heading towards Dubai after having loaded 230,000 tons of Iranian crude from Kharg Island.
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      • 58 19 INDIA'S second largest port, Kandla, will handle a record 15 million tonnes of cargo in 1964/85 ending March, up from the previous record of 14.15 million last year, the Indian Shipping Ministry said. In the first nine months of 1984/85, it handled 11.74 million tonnes, up from 10.44
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    • 686 20 Fairplay WORLD production of motor vehicles increased tremendously after the second world war up to 1978. The market has now reached a saturation point, such that between 1978 and the end of 1982, production fell by 15 per cent. It is estimated
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    • 236 20  -  UIC By Kingsley Wood TWO OF the world's top cruise liners converge on Sydney today the Cunard's Queen Elizabeth U and Sagafjord, which is on charter to Cunard. And on Friday, the P A O 44,807 tonne Canberra will arive in port from
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    • 274 20 MORE unions have joined forces to lobby the UK government to support the national flag fleet. The two unions the Merchant Navy and Airline Officers Association and the Engineers' and Managers' Association say that British shipping and shipbuilding will not survive unless the government
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    • 626 20 Lloyd's List BRITAIN'S Institute of Freight Forwarders, which is embarking on a programme aimed at raising the profession's status, is to embrace a liquidation bond. It will give much-needed protection to shippers who are faced with paying freight twice when a forwarder goes bankrupt. With
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    • 1831 20 EUROPEAN time-charter i bookings dominated business reported on the London freight market on Tuesday. Other sectors were sluggish, with no coal and iron ore fixings reported and little new business in the fertiliser and sugar markets. In scant grain fixings, the US Gulf-Continent bulker rate edged down again
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    • 212 21 SANKO Steamship shares sank to a new low of Y63 on Feb 1 before recovering to YBO by Feb 6 as Sanko's main bankers demanded a review of the cmpany's rehailitation plan. Kyodo News Service reported on Feb 5 that Sanko had decided to cancel
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    • 348 21 GOVERNMENT-owned Yang Ming Line has announced plans to expand its capacity. The company plans to order four more 3,000-TEU container ships from the national China Shipbuilding Corporation. And it will jumboise all 11 of its 1,900-TEU vessels. This massive expansion in capacity by 24,000
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    • 1361 21 ARGENTINA Rosario Jan 15. 2 days. 4 vessels berthed. Necochea 8 days. 4 vessels waiting for grain berths. Bahia Blanca 8 days. 11 vessels in the roads waiting for grain berths. All 3 elevator berths are now operative. 10 vessels expected shortly. San Lorenzo 1 day. 1 vessel
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    • 191 21 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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    • 5187 26 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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    • 663 27 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Hokata Maru 55/463 14.2.85 2000 Borneo FSB 0700-0800 B6 Zim S'pore 10W 14.2.85 2000 Star Shpg TA 3 0700-0800 L4 Tonah Air 14NB 14.2.85 2300 NAPL TA 3 0900-1100
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    • 1830 27 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from loeal ports and their agents. A-B \FE.A African Shipping A gen. i«*s < S > Alrt-Kirtdi linr Transgtoup i S i Ahrealdel Liner Service Kim Shpg ISI \II red C Toepler Oreanus Shipping Agen ips (Si Marintex Enterprise iPKi %|pac
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    • 514 28 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Hrvatska 35/6 East Mount alongside 142.85/2300 Kota Wirawan 13/4 PIL alongside 14.2.85/0600 Ned Amersfoort 44 Ned-EAC alongside 14.2.85/1100 Stolt Energie 15/6 Stolt Nielsen alongside 14.2.85/1030 Billiton II 19 Marina 14.2.85/0800 14.2.85/1500 Eagle Blance 15/6 Bohler 14.2.85/2230 15.2.85/2230
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    • 345 19 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korea Flag Vsls Regular Liner Semi-Container Service To: P. Ketang/Penang Bus an/Inchon Fm: Busan/Moji S'pore Ajent: Neptune Afencies Pte Ltd Tel: *****77 P.K. *****4, PN *****5 K.L. *****0 •JARDIXK AMAH m wv. Jardinn FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE nwmb na «i IftßVm OtTSTM. 21* IIKIHUa M IxnxttWEW IIQKJW MCUH 21*
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    • 240 19 UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) UASC SEAIORD SHIPPING AGENCIES 70 S*>»nton Way 04 0?C M»nn« Mou»» Singapore 020? T»i *****94 No RS7'»4' C CFSoM.ceTPC 03-30 T»l *****3 1 and ??2063? Terminal oM.ce TPC 03 79 T«l No 772?«90 *****93 NATIONAL UK EXPRESS FULL CONTAINER SERVICE I K()M .1 \l* N
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    • 989 19 S, Pubkatmd by TIMES BOOKS INTERNATIONAL Times Centre 1 New Industrial Road Spore 1953 Tel: *****44 A meme»i o* ">• time* oigarxiaorSS6 50 MAERSK LINE 11' I 111] I fl 14• 1 f S Till iilßl MMi JiV j 'ill J 11 T* 1 M-iIA-. u»K ■i > rol FA(IH<
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    • 366 20 YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES FMdar at Tokyo Fe«*rt W RtS ACE FAULT ACE Pacific North Wast Faadar at Koba Mothei VSt SEAT VC« TOKYO M 27/3 ?*/3 MKANA M 1/4 2/4 S KISHU 10/4 11/4 HYUGA 14/4 15/4 Atlantic/Canada Faadar at Koba ih« *si n rows** Mother VSL N TOM
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    • 897 21 I I K CONIAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT The Straits Steamship Group STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok TOKO EIPBESS 14/3 15/3 01/4 CMOKMUT 21/3 23/3 09/4 OSAKA BAT 29/3 31/3 17/4 LIVERPOOL BAT 04/4 06/4 24/J TOKTO BAT 12/4 14/4 01/5 KIT AM MAW 19/4
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    • 524 21 Franco Belgian Services Mf MHf M Of Act CON SOU TII jM I nn cowtmp sonwa to eumk STOtt P.KUNKL<H*m I'tfan fittm* Has Wb« te omo MS 17 F* II F* liter 12 ter Uk Ufer tth l»ter KPTUK CRTSIN. 23 Fa* 25 F* It Mai If Nv 21 ter
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    • 596 22 I Hapag-Lloyd EXPORTS TO CONTINENT 'UK On carriage to Scanflnavia. Mad, Cambean tS. America Wand haittfe It Mand (testations in Europe Sport P Keianf Penal* Leu Mi Hm Genoa If bur t R dam Bhaven Antwerp PETER US 14/2 13/2 11/2 0/3 12,3 H/3 21/3 10/3 24/3 Kasufa Mara Omrt
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    • 336 22 K LINE mm i* **•*<■ >>»">** r^i um *j FULLY CONTAINE PJ D sERV C E TO EUROPE Vl* SUEZ T pi tlx Act Consorts Spar* PKto| lleHawt R'dam Fsto«t Hburj Antwerp €VAI(R ROrt «?W 1' PTUK ctniAi 28* ?< UTERIMCK b* 3 ttN SC AS B*CGt 49* 10 MAN
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    • 606 22 THONG SOON AGENCIES PTE. LTD. #09-07. ROBIN A HOUSE. SPORE 0106 TEL: *****88 TELEX: RS ***** BOOKING: *****56 (DIRECT LINE) SINGAPORE TO PENANG ETA KM S00« LL M Port 28 Feb ETD DESTINATION 16 Feb Penang 1 Mar Penang SINGAPORE TO KUCHING "EQUATOR 1™ h Pert •EQUATOR Id 25 Feb
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    • 713 22 o EVERGREEN Full Container Service Round-The-World East Bound Service (FE/C ARIB/USEC/EURO/W.MED./FE) ALSO ACaPTHC COCO 10 1) nroviXNa nena** savannah boston pmlacelpma. nobeoik. iacksonmlle m 2) A HANI A CMC AGO. OETAaT. COLUMBUS t OTW» MAIOB IRCBOBBDGE OfSIWATOB ETON ETC. 3) OHSTOBAL. BALBOA. PANA mm obuans Houston i 4) MONTH*.. TOBORTO
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    • 214 22 mSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD m ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES sir aft SMOSE MARITME PIE LTD TEI *****44/7 I *****70 MAIOSf HAKITM SOU BHD I* 3*7232 3 MALAYSIA TRADE I TRANSPORT LTD lei ***** li'S TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA/ SOUTH PACIFIC OCEMM 5/3 Lat, lakad, F. Mamtojr,
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 866 23 V\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building. 140 Cecil Street. 03-00 Singapore 0 106. Tel 2P***** EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES VESSEL kota smoa KOTA hmaka kota wangsa VOYAGE E-SSI E 553 E-555 HONGKONGSINGAPORE LOADING FO» -okali* 22-23/2 27-1/3 HOOEIOAH, JB®AHi AOAMA PT SUDAM IfIUKALLA RFRBERA 1-2/3 S-9/3 ADEN. HOOEIOAH, Mooiflilr'io 7-1/3 12-14/3
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    • 792 23 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE mow tarn hmi Mm Mare SjM «N(l Mjru SjM Nww SjM Tata [«mi SjM C»«|» «>» SiM Oi*a Bay 19/2 Lmrpaal Bay 2(/2 FiaiAhrl (i|cn> 27/2 lakf* BJ* 4/3 A DAM HAMS UK P KfL SJM SJM SjM SaM SjM SJM SJM
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    • 583 23 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINf KBSESS^ Buun Takrtuna Hot* lithwj a»n*or<Sp»rt T|fnok (M) 13/7 IV? II 2 5/3 1/3 9/3 2/2 7/2 21/2 3/3 M4MTMI *17 HB 30,1 COM *17 24/2 27/2 IJ BHi .in > a mv.^ WEST BOUND Spvt T*«T fcrnlwdwi HW| Mwe<p 1 PftOBMC 7-10/3 5/4 1/4
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    • 402 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES *250 Hyamajrwa *15 Pa-an *W BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION Loadstar S'para 19/21 FA 22/2S Fafc 1/3 Mar BANK UNI grliJf.', MEADOWIANK rVYBANK SPOKE R'DAM HULL HMBG 9Mor 5 Apr 10 Apr 13 Apr 12 Apr 8 May 11 Moyl4 May H Y U N D A
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 1186 24 K «t KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. ECUAOOR/PERU/CHILE FEEDER VSI MOIHER VSI SPORE PKLG PNG SPORE KU6E GUAYAWR CAIIAO MIC* HJWQW S ANTONIO V KANSAI PIONEER V 43 A VSI 23 'rt 24 Feb 26 Feb ?t Feb IS Ma# ?l A|j* 2 Ma* S Ma* 9 May 10 M*y L
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    • 718 24 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE I Iw lUS AN>.t IE S SAN FRANCISCO SlAllll IAfOMA VANCOUVER BC 'CI fCI Contj«wrfS P feeling I Anfrtrs BHAVABHUH ?t Feb 27 21 Feb X Mar AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE fCI ICI Cunldutfts P Kelanj S pore Erem KAKIROA". .4 IS let.
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    • 585 24 [NKD ASIA LINEXm JAPANESE POATS ANO MOMQKONGv}^^ I. NEW LEAWNG 2 SEA ROYAL SHMKO MMU 4 SANKO SCORPIO 5. OCEAN RAMBOW 8 FUKUZAKI MAW S*apere 18/11 Feb 15/18 Fefc 19/21 Feb 24/28 Fefc 2/4 Mar 9/11 Mar Platanf IS/18 Feb 17/11 Fek 22/23 Fa* 27/21 Feb 5/6 Mar 12/13 Mar
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    • 451 24 INTRASEA IPTtI 10 Anso" Road =27 16 Inter^aTior-•« p 0207 Tel 224f> t >l I 1(1 L' n >s o BREfIKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK Spart P. Kata|laa*C tarWTO N *****11 17/2 taPt ROTT/ANT/M. (A*OM) SEAWOOD SHIPPING CORPORATION S port PManf Laa4ta| tar .nortmdm valley sjm ji«*ifci«i*i DfMtt Sa***r* MIMJU (PTC)
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    • 691 25 X NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD i TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): CROZE 42W+— *1 CRYSTAL 28W MAETERLMCK SW. S S BMDGE m... i JACUN 2<«l TW BMDGE 24W... F'stowe H'buri 14/3 16/3 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) K JACEJN 27t TV BRDGE 23E 0 CWEF 42E K CHANCE 20E m CONTAMR
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    • 582 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P. KELANG. PENANG, BUSAN, INCHON Spot No 6 Oman MIN 21/2 20/2 No Omm WIN 7/3 No 7 Dm/Mid 4/3 9/3 No I Dma'Un 15/3 20/3 No i Dmm/M2N 21/3 3/4 HCHON BUSM 0/1 11/3 «/3 4/4 15/4 4/3 »IP«I HHAHWS
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    • 614 25 swsov SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Number* *****3 (15 Lints) Cable Address SWSOV SINGAPORE Tetci Numbers RS 213 M RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG M/S SHMHKAT NAM SOON SON. BHD IST AND 2ND FLOOR. NO 1 iALAN CEMPENWG PORT KIANG.
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    • 48 25 SIM SWEE JOO SHIPPING SDN BHD i EXPRESS TO BINTULU P. Mnc hM| Lm*« to SICE LOW MTU toy 71 1C Fto fn«.. I f.' j RBUMt MTU to* 43 lf/2 Ki Agents: JAMB A TAN MERAH SDN. BHD P. KeUag: 9 Pnunc ***** i/7 K.L. *****7/*****1 Ta\
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    • 644 26 Ke<|ional Container Lines 3 Sailings Weekly Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A Mon, Wed Sat REfIULM/FEEDEF SERVICE TO PHUKET/SOMGKIA HOT SM SUA BXK PKT SKLA RAIANA BHUM 264/317 SaAed InPt/14 FebRATANA BHUM 311/31) 16/17 Feb 20/21 Feb HINODE KISEN CO. LTD tmasMEEMmamMSEm I I TK HKW N LIFT < \RKIKK
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    • 54 26 ftiFARGO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTE) I TO r EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE y SINGAPORE BANGKOK 3 SAILINGS WE'M Y Accepfaf Ml FCI and LGL LCI Carfatt packri at private CfS M»fri 9m S.3opn Satofcj lan I2.3tpm tid Sun 1 Pub Mi 7B Keppel Ro»f1 17 07 Taniong Pnqar Compln Singapore 0208 Tel
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 172 26 i Regional Weather A .V I W A ft m y* s, m •it* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNMO. •c cT w Wmd direction with speed in knots Wove height LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature C X\ Sho er Weother Wind direction with speed in knots
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 86 27 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE i nrrir*i KTT7rTwn» sag nnirT ma f irvrm mra □TS3BH ra f7rr=rrMtTJMF7Jiw ri T iTTtTf ALSO ACCEPTMG FOR: Wimp. L HARW, UK, MOO. COPENHAGEN, OSLO MJt ACCEPTMG FROM EUROPE: RIM, HUM, GOT, UK. MfTHEV. OSLO. CPH. AARHUS ALSO ACCEPTMG MTERMEDMTE CARGO TO WG. JPN i KOREA
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    • 251 27 Scan Dutch 9 To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) FEEDER PENANG B Butane 13/2 B Butang 20/2 B Butang 27/2 B Butang 6/3 FEEDER P. KELANG B Butang 16/2 B Butang 24/2 B Butang 3/3 B Butang 9/3 MOTHER VESSEL N Houtman Toyama B Permai Konigan Juttandia N Detttt SINGAPORE ACCEPTING SAILING 1)
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 80 28 WORLD LINE HANGLI SHIPPING TRADING PTE LTD 63. MARKET STREET. TAT LEE BANK BUH.DINC #10 06/07 TEL: *****88 3 LINES) TELEX R*****9 NLAU SUMATRA M.AU SUMATERA loadmft for lakarta/Circbon Jakarta/Cir ebon |<OOMNo AUNI CMAHAYA SHIPPING I TRADING COMPANY i 101 CICR. SI /r 18 11 TONG tNG BURDWG 111 *****74'5
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    • 370 28 Port to port ptopk to w Mitsui OS K. Lines Ltd CONVENTIONAL/SEMI-CONTAINER AFRICA'S x^ ilo ti NEDLLOYD MOJI APOLLO PEAK HEROINAE ALTAI MARU WEST AFRI HIMALAYA MARU 23 Feb Mombasa. Daressalaam 23 Feb Port Louis. Reunion 5 Mar Mombasa. Daressalaam. Betra. Tamatave 20 Mar Mombasa. Daressalaam HIMALAYA MARU In Port
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    • 142 28 NOTICE We, Zeppaciflc Shipping Pte Ltd of 19 Keppel Road #0705/07 Jit Poh Building. Singapore 0208, hereby glv» notice that in consequence of our Intention to change the name of the motor vessel ••Concorde Pacific" we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships under Section 417 of the Merchant
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