The Business Times, 27 April 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 SATURDAY, APRIL Zl, 1185 60 CENTS
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  • 459 1  -  Association suggests diversification to tide over recession By JUNE LIM SINGAPORE'S marine industry suffered its third successive year of poor business last year. The persistent shipping recession caused revenues to tumble by 25 per cent to $1.1 billion last year. This turnover was even more dismal
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  • 164 1 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Chinese Association has filed a fresh application in the High Court registry to set aside an injunction restraining former party vice-president Tan Koon Swan and his supporters from going ahead with the extraordinary general meeting scheduled for May 12. A certificate of urgency
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  • 498 1  -  By ALVIN TAY MARKET rate-setter DBS Bank yesterday signalled another round of quarter-point cut in prime lending rates among the Big Four local banks by announcing its move to the 8.25 per cent level on Monday. The cut,
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  • 16 1 PARLIAMENT will sit on Tuesday, May 14, at 11am, the Clerk of Parliament announced yesterday.
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  • 41 1 AFP AN INTERNATIONAL consortium yesterday announced a bid to build Hongkong's second cross-harbour road tunnel at an estimated construction cost of U*****.41 million. The consortium comprises Hongkong, Chinese, Japanese, French, German and Australian interests. AFP
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  • 236 1 Reuter LEADERS of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact yesterday signed a treaty extending East Europe's 30-year-old military alliance. The official PAP news agency did not state the length of the extension but said it was signed by Soviet Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the
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  • Article, Illustration
    92 1 BUYING activity improved ■lightly yesterday, but ,aat eaengh to satisfy broker* who —iwi It paltry for a day that marks the beginning of a ■ew settlement period. Stacks eased slightly la thin trading. Plantations stood oat as an exception, registering wide galas thanks to firm palm «11 prices.
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  • 360 1  -  By PENG AILIAN THE Ministry of Health has signed its first agreement with an overseas university, formalising its exchange programme under the Health Manpower Development Plan. The agreement with the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, signed yesterday, provides for a limited
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  • 81 1 Reuter THE JAPANESE government has set individual company quotas for 1965-36 car exports to the US, giving sharp increases to three domestic affiliates of US car makers and smaller rises to Toyota and Nissan, according to industry circles. However, the Ministry of International Trade and
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  • 377 1  -  By AMY BALAN ONE OF SINGAPORE'S most vocal supporters of its role as a fund management centre, Mr Gerhard Wehr, has left his post at the Chemical Bank. An official from the bank confirmed that Mr Wehr, the former managing director of the
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  • 110 1 AP INDONESIA suffered a budget shortfall of US$l.2 billion in the 1984 fiscal year ending in March. Finance Minister Radius Prawiro told Parliament on Thursday that the budget shortfall was influenced by the world economic situation, "which has not yet fully recovered from recession". His speech
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    • 241 1 mm SHARE INFORMATION SHIPS IN PORT MONEY EXCHANGES AUSTRALIA tops the list of favourite destinations for Singaporeans outside Asia, but it is unlikely that the exodus of travellers there. Page 2 PRESIDENT REAGAN, beset by o string of policy troubles over aid to Nicaroguan guerillas and his trip to o
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 507 2  -  By JAIME LYE AUSTRALIA tops the list of favourite destinations for Singaporeans outside Asia, but it is unlikely that the weakening of the Australian dollar will start an immediate exodus of travellers to the land Down Under. One of the reasons is
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    • 148 2 AN EEC-SPONSORED trade mission was in Singapore for a two-day visit. The mission, the second from the EEC in four months, flew in on Wednesday and concentrated on follow-up action based on the previous visit. More than 1,000 business contacts were made during the
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    • 241 2 THE HOUSING and Development Board yesterday raised the income ceiling from $3,500 to $4,000 for the purchase of its flats in response to rising wages. The change, accompanied by the removal of the $1,500 ceiling on three-room flats, provides HDB applicants with a wider
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    • 351 2 MORE THAN 80 businessmen at one of the many conferences on China learned about tax and legal aspects of establishing ventures and doing business in China yesterday. During the one-day conference on developing China business at the Shangri-La Hotel, the participants were told
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    • 119 2 AN EXHIBITION on civil defence is being planned for March next year. Civil Defence Asia '86 is intended to increase public awareness of the need to be prepared for emergencies in times of natural disasters or wars and to promote the importance of the civil defence
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    • 67 2 IN YESTERDAY'S BT report on 'DBS acts to wind up Photokis Micro Lab', it was stated that "DBS has declined comment on its legal action against Photokis Micro lab but said that the company owed it nearly $400,000". The paragraph should have read: "DBS has declined comments on
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    • 30 2 THE Public Works Department has installed new traffic signals at the junction of Sembawang Road and Yishun Avenue 3. The signals will be operational on Monday, April 29.
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    • 310 2  -  By BOEY KIT YIN ABOUT 30 top Chinese officials will be in Singapore in July to offer and discuss specific projects to be developed in some cities and provinces of China. The officials, from five "open" cities and four provinces, will also be shopping
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    • 376 2 THE TRAINING CENTRE planned by the Singapore Retail Merchants' Association (SRMA) will open in July, its chairman, Mr Lim Hong Chee, said yesterday. Mr Lim was speaking at the opening of the two-day seminar on "Understanding the Japanese Tourists" at Shangri-La Hotel.
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    • 925 2 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Gdns FCL Arrival LCL movamant Ship Voy data/tima Operator cargo achadula Location Vlra Bhum 2N 28.4.85 0500 S'pore Shpg F2 0800-0900/1600-1700 Nl Re nee Delmas 2 28.4.85 0700 Borneo F2 0800-1000/1730-1900 U2 B Penaga 109/85 28.4.85 0700 Leo Shpg
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    • 165 2 SEMBAWANG Construction Pte Ltd has won an $11.8 million contract for the construction of the two-storey Kim Chuan refuse transfer station. The civil engineering wing of the Sembawang group of companies took possession of the site last month and will complete the project by June
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 481 3 AFP AMERICAN Vice-President George Bush has reaffirmed Washington's "unswerving commitment" to the security of South Korea. At a dinner for visiting South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan in Washington on Thursday, he predicted that by the end of the century, Seoul's "high level of
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    • 267 3 Reuter WHOLESALE petrol prices in the US should be two to three cents higher this year than in 1984, which may again stoke up inflation, said oil company economists and industry analysts in New York yesterday. Their predictions came
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    • 492 3 NYT SOVIET leader Mikhail Gorbachev's unexpectedly sharp sally at the US earlier this week threw a new chill into what had seemed a warming of SovietAmerican relations. In the first six weeks of his rule, the signs had seemed propitious. His early speeches
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 50 3 A HONGKONG official is in Beijing for talks on real estate aspects of the Sino-British pact on the colony's future. A lands department spokesman said yesterday that John Todd, director of lands, would also discuss with Chinese officials other issues relating to land in post-1997 Hongkong.
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      • 38 3 BRITAIN will launch its first astronaut, Royal Air Force test pilot Nigel Wood, on a US space shuttle mission in June next year, which will include placing the British military satellite Skynet 4 in orbit.
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      • 61 3 JAPAN will not make a decision at an industrialised nations' summit in Bonn next week on whether to participate in the proposed US Strategic Defence Initiative. Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said yesterday that "there is no need to make a hasty decision" even though Washington was seeking
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      • 38 3 WEST GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday expressed regret that President Reagan was embroiled in political controversy over a planned visit to a German war cemetery next month, but said the trip would go ahead as planned.
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      • 73 3 THE European Space Agency (ESA) was yesterday authorised to undertake a US$6O million study of space stations in accordance with a memoran- dum signed with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (Nasa) in the US. ESA sources said yesterday that the decision to proceed with the studies, which
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      • 75 3 CHINA may consider joining the Pacific Area Travel Association (Pata) if invited, said an official of a state-run Chinese travel agency in Hongkong yesterday. An official of a state-run Chinese travel agency, who refused to be named, said he saw no reason why China should not
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      • 58 3 JAPAN last year saw a 7 per cent increase in the number of tourists visiting the country. Tokyo said that the number of Japanese going abroad had also risen to 4.66 million in 1984. By country, the US placed first, with 510,000 people visiting Japan, followed by
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      • 55 3 Agencies A FIRST FOLIO of William Shakespeare's plays was auctioned at Sotheby's auction house for U*****,000 on Wednesday, the second highest price ever paid for a collection of Shakespeare's works. The folio, from the library of songwriter Paul Francis Webster, was purchased by John Fleming, a New
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    • 207 3 AP AMERICAN farmers, contrary to dire predictions of two months ago, have largely been able to get the loans they need for spring planting. Frank Naylor, US Agriculture Department undersecretary in charge of lending programmes, said about 5 per cent of
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    • 180 3 Reuter THE BRITISH government plans to provide the coal industry with £2 billion in grants to cover losses from 1984/85 through 1986/87, the Energy Department says. The coal industry Bill makes provision for deficit grants totalling a maximum £1.2 billion for the fiscal
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    • 224 3 AP FORMER United Nations secretary-general Kurt Waldheim and 22 former heads of state or government have begun a meeting in Paris aimed at guiding the course of future events into less dangerous waters. The issues to be addressed by the 18-month-old Interaction Council
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    • 489 3 Plan to cut budget fails to muster enough votes Reuter UPI PRESIDENT REAGAN, beset by a string of policy troubles over aid to Nicaraguan guerillas and his trip to a West German cemetery, suffered another embarrassment on Thursday in Congress over his budget-cutting
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    • 303 3 Reuter A GRADUAL decline in the value of the dollar would be acceptable to the Reagan administration, but a precipitious fall would be troublesome, Treasury Secretary James Baker said. "One thing we would not like to see is a precipitous decline
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    • 96 3 Reuter THE US economy should snap back in the second quarter from temporary problems that restrained the first quarter gain in real gross national product to 1.3 per cent, according to Republic Bank Corp senior vice-president and chief economist William Gibson. The fundamental indicators
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    • 749 3 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time MAS MH671 0935 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN CAL CI806 0945 HLP RBA BI421 1000 BWN SIA SQI03 1005 KUL AC AC858 1015 YYZ/LHR/ BOM CPA CX710 1030 HLP GtA GA960 1100 CGK SIA SQ20I 1145 HLP SIA SO 105
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    • ECONOTES
      • 66 4 US BUSINESS productivity fell 1.2 per cent over the first quarter of 1985 while costs of production per unit rose 7.3 per cent, the US Labour Department said. Allen Sinai, head economist with the financial firm Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc, said the results were not surprising in the
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      • 56 4 SINO-US TRADE for the first two months of 1985 topped US$l.l billion, a 19 per cent increase over the same period last year. A statement released by the US Embassy said China imported $541.9 million worth of US goods in January and February and sold nearly $628 million
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      • 74 4 STEEL PRODUCTION in the US fell by over 8.3 per cent in March compared with same month last year, according to figures released by the International Iron and Steel Institute, reflecting the slowdown in US economic activity. The drop was even sharper in the first quarter of
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      • 48 4 AN INDONESIAN government official has called on the US to increase its investments in Indonesia. Eddy Sanyoto Sastrowardoyo, deputy chairman of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), told a US economic delegation that the US ranks far behind Japan and Hongkong in investment in the country.
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      • 44 4 Agencies JAPAN'S inflation rate remained at a low level of 1.6 per cent in March over a year earlier, closing fiscal 1984 with a 2.2 per cent gain or within the government inflation target of 2.4 per cent, the government announced. Agencies
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    • 518 4 Details to be worked out by Japanese and US experts AP JAPAN and the US have "virtually settled" a trade dispute on pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, with Japan agreeing to accept all US demands to open the medical market, a Japanese Health and Welfare
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    • 113 4 Reuter A FIRST Interstate Bancorp economist has said that the bright financial outlook for the Pacific Basin may last for many years. "I foresee continued good economic prospects in the Pacific Basin that are better than those in virtually any other region
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    • 246 4 AFP THE PHILIPPINE Supreme Court has ordered the office of President Ferdinand Marcos to publish all his decrees and other legal issuances for them to take effect. The court, in a landmark decision passed on Thursday and made available yesterday,
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    • 116 4 AP CHINA'S natural growth rate last year was 10.81 per thousand, close to the target for containing its population to 1.2 billion by the end of the century. The figure was revealed on Thursday by Wang Wei, Minister of the State Family Planning Commission, at the start
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    • 326 4 AFP THE SEVEN industrialised countries meeting in Bonn next week have failed in preparatory talks to agree on a date for the opening of a new round of Gatt multilateral tariff-cutting negotiations. According to a draft final communique
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    • 391 4 Reuter UPI THE REAGAN Administration, which has shied away from comparisons between US involvement in Vietnam and its role in Central America, now says there is a parallel and that the policy was right in both places. While restating the intention to
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    • 172 4 Reuter NICARAGUA has said Cuban military advisers will leave the country on Thursday as a result of the rejection by the US Congress of President Reagan's request for fresh military aid for US-backed guerillas. A communique said on Wednesday that 107 prisoners serving sentences
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 141 4 Chinese Produce Exchange (Sellers' noon dosing prices on Apr 26 SS/100 kg). Coconut oil Bulk FOB 148.00 Old drum FOB 161.00 New drum FOB 165.00 Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW E&W FOB NSW Gombier FOB NSW 477.50 396.00 248.00 330 00 Copra Mixed (loose) Pepper
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    • 278 4 Singapore C-l Ord unq (SS/kilo, e*-godown) Loonzoin Rice Fragrant new crop 100% 1st grade 100% 2nd grade 1st 2nd U.BO 0.64 100% 3rd grade unq 3rd 0.60 Parboiled Rice New Crop no stock 5% 227 25% 10% 222 10% no stock Maize Thai Broken unq A-super Special Thai Rice
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    • 113 4 THE KLTM price weakened three cents te M 528.45 per kg yesterday, a new seven-year lew. The price was still belew the ITA floor-level price ef $29.15. Dealers attrihated the fall te a higher £125 per tonne KLTM premium ever the LME spet price compared with £1M overnight.
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    • 161 4 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 2Cs 2,700 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,300 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,650 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21 's 2,900 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,350 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,500 Open-end yarn
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    • 172 4 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly higher yesterday with May One RSS buyers quoted at 169.75 cents per kg, up 0.25 cent from Thursday. The morning session gained 0.50 cent on some buying support and shortcovering interest in quiet trading. Prices eased marginally in quiet afternoon trading on lack of
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    • 364 4 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOB in b ales NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 169 00 I70.00N 168 50 169 50N Int 1 RSS May 85 170 50 171 00 169 75 170 25 Int 1 RSS June 85 170 75 171.25
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    • 161 4 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed firm despite late weekend selling which trimmed earlier gains in active trading. Early firmness was attributed to India's purchase of about 22,000 to 27,500 tonnes RBD olein for May shipment on Thursday. In April, south gained Msss to $1,775 per tonne, and
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    • 143 4 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade erased earlier gains to finish Vt to 4V4 US cents per bushel lower on Thursday. Prices weakened on commission house selling and profit-taking in sympathy with easing soyoil values. Gains in soybeans and soyoil the past two days may have been
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    • 126 4 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed two to six US cents lower in light trade on Thursday. July lost six cents on active commission house selling that took values through technical support at $3.30. But commercial and exporter buying on the scale down limited the decline.
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    • 103 4 (cants/kg. 1-ton p MAY 85 JUNE 85 (current month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Selltn Buyers Sellers SSR 20 170 00 172 00N 172 00 174 00N SSR 50 168 00 I70 00N ***** I72.00N MRELB Buyers hfcw Buyers Sellers SMR CV ***** 2I8 00N *****
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    • 597 4 COFFEE Robusta futures ended little changed from firmer midday levels on Thursday, £40 to £26 a tonne up from Wednesday, after an extended closing call. Physical markets were quiet. Roasters were mostly withdrawn due to uncertainty over currency fluctuations. Turnover was 2,548 lots including 630 crossed trades and
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    • 105 4 Reuter MARUZEN OIL Co Ltd will raise petrol and mid-distillates prices from May 1 to bring them back into line with last September's 138,000 yen and 70,000 yen a kilolitre levels. A company spokesman said petrol prices were raised by 6,000 yen a kilolitre
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 307 5 AFP BANK OF CHINA (BOC) is to arrange a HK$6OO-million syndicated loan to finance a major office development in Hongkong. Sources close to the bank said the bank hoped the loan the first undertaking of its type by the BOC outside China
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    • 99 5 AP TAIWAN'S delegation to the annual Asian Development Bank meeting has left for Bangkok to defend its membership in the organisation. The ADB's board of governors are scheduled to discuss an application from mainland China to join the 45-member organisation at the annual meeting
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    • 396 5  -  By SOH TIANG KENG Banking Correspondent THE FINDINGS of a high-level committee to reassess the role and function of export credit insurance in Singapore is expected to be announced in the next few months. This committee, headed by Finance and Education Minister Dr Tony
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    • 473 5 NYT ANOTHER California thrift institution has reported large losses that may threaten its survival. Bell National Corp, parent of a rapidly-growing thrift institution that invested heavily in Silicon Valley real estate in the past three years, said on Thursday that it lost
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    • 113 5 Reuter A SECURITIES dealer in the US has pleaded guilty in a tax fraud that enabled his clients, including comedian Woody Allen and novelist Erica Jong, to avoid paying almost US$5OO million in taxes. None of the clients of Washington businessman Edward Markowitz would
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 576 5 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed higher against most major currencies yesterday in moderate trading. The dollar closed stronger at 3.1550/70 marks compared with New York's 3.1450/80 close, at 2.6340/60 Swiss francs against 2.6220/70 and at 252.70/85 yen against 252.60/70. Sterling closed weaker at US$l.l9BO/90 compared with its New
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    • 221 5 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: r.urraAMM Nominal rttN Smittieonien Locol dollars to OlM unit of quoted y* iterdoy ct <ooo parity ch«ng« currency: US dollar 2.2290 2.2310 2.8196 -20 95 Sterling pound 2.6759 2 6805 7 3469 •63.58 Australian dollar 1 4622 1.4679 ***** -57.35 NZ dollar 1
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    • 247 5 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet trading yesterday. News of a US$3OO million fall in latest US M-l money supply figures had little impact on trading. Interbank deposit rate* uss Offer 7 day 8 7/16 1 month 8 7/16 2 months 8 9/16
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    • Article, Illustration
      102 5 RESULTS of tender held yesterday for: 91-day Treasury bills to be issued on April 29, April 30, May 2 and May 3. Offered: $90,000,000. Applied for: $191,500,000. Alletted: $90,000,000. Accepted bids: $99.27 approximately 32 per cent; higher bids in full. Average rate ef dlseeant m allotment: 2.910 per
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    • 335 5 IN SPITE OF the fall in money supply, EuwMltr futures opened lower at 91.02 yesterday on Simex, as sentiment was bearish with the firm interbank rates. Selling pressure continued after support levels at 91.00 was penetrated in the June contract. June Eurodollar traded to a low of 90.92 before
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    • 230 5 HONGKONG: The metal closed lower yesterday, reflecting the stronger US dollar, and trading was quiet throughout due to lack of interest. Bullion finished at U*****.80/323.30 an ounce against an initial $323.20/70 and New York's $323.70/324.20 close. A $300 million fall in the latest US M-l money supply helped sentiment
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    • 129 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market fell by 1/2 point from Thursday to close at 3-3/4 per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate remained unchanged while the two and threemonth term rates fell by 1/16 point each. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Offer M
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  • TIME-OFF
    • 533 6 ELIZABETH Barrett Browning (1806-1861) once said: "The Devil's most devilish when respectable." Perhaps the vice-presidents of Proctor and Gamble pondered her words this week when they decided to remove their man in the moon and thirteen stars logo from their products. For years, the US
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    • 608 6  -  It takes more than a salary to turn actors in Singapore into professionals, and Theatrework's debut illustrates the point. JAIME LYE, who was at the opening night of the play, Be My Sushi Tonight, pinpoints what she thinks is missing. JAIME LYE IF CROSSING the threshold
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    • Article, Illustration
      1288 6 What's on from April 27 May 3 '-WT CONCERT: Singapore Symphony Orchestra with violinat Li Jia. Victoria Concert Hall. 8.15pm. Tickets $15, $10, $7, $4. Amex and Visa bookings available, call box-office *****20 for details. Programme Mozart's Symphony No 35 in D "Haffner" K385, Bruch's Concerto For Violin And
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    • 335 6 A COLLEAGUE took lunch last week with the chief executive of one of Britain's largest public companies, one that also has a large family shareholding and a chairman who is the head of the family and reputedly fairly irascible. The CE has held his post for
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    • 214 6 FRANK JAR VIS, a wiry 46-year-old, is aa avid bird watcher, patting dawn his observations ia almost clinical detail. He laves nothing better than te baah bis way throagh bash aad farest ta spend weary hears waiting far his leathered friends ta appear. He is
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 735 6 m\ CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 9 Stiff, nice, toilfc, wagging m 10 £ith*r sharp or flat? (9) 12 Brdught back cooked, with cheese (4) 13 I had ended badly, certainty (6) 14 Letting the boy fake the animal in is most irregular (7) 15 Do«s teach by force (9) 17 Blue
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  • SPORTS
    • 711 7  -  It was a long haul between drinks but the colt is back in form By BRIAN MILLER IT WAS about four years ago at Bukit Timah on Nov 21, 1981 that Kim Phoenix scored his first career win, whipping a field of Restricted Class horses by
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    • 381 7 UPI THE LAST three-year-old to win the Blue Grass Stakes as impressively as Chief's Crown did was Spectacular Bid. No wonder trainer Roger Laurin summed up his colt's victory on Thursday in Lexington, Kentucky, as "spectacular". A son of Danzig and grandson of Secretariat,
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    • 471 7 UPI DISCUSS the DH controversy and you'll probably discover that few people are ready to change their opinion on the rule. Those who like it, like it. Those who don't, don't. Maybe the solution that baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth should
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    • 385 7  -  By WALTON MORAIS BUOYED BY their victory last week, Changi's medal winners will undoubtedly be hopihg for similar luck today in AGM competition. j The bogey competition, which tees off this afternoon, has attracted 78 entries, and based on current form,
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    • 211 7 AP DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Billy Casper and Gay Brewer birdied five consecutive holes to take a one-shot lead on Thursday in Austin, Texas, with an 8-under par 62 in the opening round of the US$5OO,OOO Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf tournament but Kathy
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    • 212 7 AP KATHRYN CROSBY, four days after announcing she was withdrawing the family name from the Bing Crosby National proam golf tournament, said on Thursday she will work "to save Bing's tournament". The widow of the late show business star said: "I have been
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    • 79 7 UPI FOREIGN PLAYERS made outstanding performances in Japan's pro baseball games played on Thursday. Rookie hurler Kuo Tai-Yuan of Taiwan scattered six hits in going 10 innings to lead his Seibu Lions to a 2-0 shutout victory over the Lotte Orions in a Pacific League game in Tokyo.
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    • 208 7 Reuter BJORN BORG's five-set victory over John McEnroe in the 1900 Wimbledon final has been ranked as the greatest tennis match of the last 20 years by Tennis magazine. The Borg-McEnroe match, which Borg won 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 6-7, 8-6, headed a list of the 20
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 958 7 to sm mm HIGHLIGHTS The World Of Cooking Italy: A Venetian Menu 6.30pm, Channel 5 This 30-minute programme on cooks and cooking around the world gives a superb mix of the culinary history of the country, the eating habits of its people, the country's cooking lore and of course, how
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 348 8 FT ICI, Britain's biggest chemical group, has reported a 9 per cent rise in first-quar-ter profits to £267 million against £245 million in the same period last year. The slowdown from the overall 67 per cent profit rise last year was partly
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    • 170 8 Reuter BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) has expanded its fleet of supersonic Concorde airliners to meet the demand for flights on the plane that once seemed destined to become a huge financial flop. A spokesman said the extra plane, which increased the number in the
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    • 325 8 Reuter WALL STREET share prices closed sharply higher on Thursday with a late buying spree that pushed some market indicators to record levels as investors decided the US economy would improve later in the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 6.29 points
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    • 73 8 Reuter HILTON HOTELS CORP has unanimously rejected an offer from Golden Nugget Corp to buy Hilton's Atlantic City hotel and casino. It said on Thursday that negotiations to sell the property to New York businessman Donald Trump were continuing. The Golden Nugget offer consists of US$26O
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    • 348 9 HONGKONG: Share prices closed plainly lower yesterday on posi-tion-squaring ahead of the weekend by small investors, while trading was sluggish most of the day due to a lack of fresh incentives. The Hang Seng Index finished off 4.28 points at 1,506.49 after rising 8.10 by the morning session close.
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    • 109 9 MANILA: Share prices closed generally unchanged in thin trading yesterday. The Commercial A Industrial Index was up 1.50 at 132.35 but the Mining and Oils indices remained unchanged at 698.05 and 0.622 respectively. API 26 Acoja Mining Paaa* ***** unch Morrtaal Onarrtoi B PMax B 0 0014 -13 9986
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    • 478 9 SYDNEY: Share markets closed firm yesterday in moderate trading with local and overseas support for selected stocks. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index stood at a record 873.8, up 2.4 points from the previous record on April 24. Gains by BHP and the three major trading banks pushed
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    • 159 9 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed higher in quiet trading yesterday. The Book Club Index rose 0.44 point to 129.19 and gains led losses by more than two to one. Turnover stood at 479,088 shares worth 61.2 million baht compared to 628,075 shares worth 69.1 million baht on Thursday. AM 2*
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    • 63 9 AMt 26 Won 597 Hyundai Const Hyundai Motor.. KAL. 901 555 451 unch unch 590 -10 630 625 •10 475 ■4 Korea Sh*> 476 4 493 +7 Lucky Ltd 601 -4 550 710 +3 506 1 Samsung Eke 840 unch GoM Stor 615 -5 1287 +27 631 -4 Stangyong
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    • 60 9 AFP MAZDA MOTOR CORP, Japan's third largest car maker, will form joint ventures with some enterprises in China this year to provide car parts and to train them in related services. Mazda chairman Moriyuki Watanabe said the company was considering a tie-up with a Chinese
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    • 229 9 IHT IBM World Trade Corporation (Hong Kong) has rented about 10 per cent of Exchange Square, the Hong Kong city centre complex developed by Hongkong Land Co. The entry of the unit of International Business Machines Corp of the US
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    • 92 9 Reuter EMHART CORP has received contracts worth about US$lO million from China for glass container production lines to be installed in seven Chinese glass plants. Separately, Emhart chairman T Mitchell Ford said the company has begun a $6.7-million expansion of residential hardware production facilities at its
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    • 135 9 AFP FUJITSU, a major Japanese computer maker, is to set up a joint venture in July to produce computers in Spain with Telefonica, the machinery manufacturing division of Spain's state-run telephone corporation. A Fujitsu official said the joint company would take over
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    • 200 9 Reuter TAIWAN'S state-owned China Airlines (CAL) has signed a new agreement with the Hongkongbased Cathay Pacific Airways (CPA) but officials have hinted that flights to Taiwan might be affected if Beijing acquired a stake in Cathay Pacific. A Cathay Pacific spokesman said the
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    • 96 9 AFP HINO MOTORS Ltd of Japan has licensed India's Ashok Leyland Ltd to manufacture diesel engines for buses and trucks. A Hino spokesman said on Wednesday that under an eightyear contract, Hino will supply 5,000 finished diesel engines next year and thereafter permit Ashok's
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    • 4197 10 THE SINGAPORE stock market closed marginally lower yesterday in another day of dispirited, lifeless trading. The BT Composite Index fell 2.08 points to 711.37 and the Straits Times Industrial Index dropped 2.50 points to 7%.65. Volume was very thin at 6.49 million
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    • 2647 10 BID and offer prices officially i 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 Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word
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    • 260 11 M ■i■ i■ i mm wmm All Ivß in' V 1 N Titrww 1.1 II IBM ill ifl I \m W m fIA }m m mm aji mm HI H >■ Wm& 1 I™ iL 1 By HOCK LOCK SIEW AS WITH Chuan Hup Marine
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    • 932 11 EQUITIES yesterday ended the last day of the account firm but below their best levels with major exporters easing back as sterling rallied. The market shrugged off news of the record £900 million trade deficit in March which was worse than expected. The FTSE 100 Share In-, dex
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    • 624 11  -  Margins squeezed at Pan Malayan Holdings and Tat Lee Finance By NAJEEB JARHOM TWO COMPANIES of the Goh family's Tat Lee stable, Pan Malayan Holdings Ltd and Tat Lee Finance Ltd, have joined the long list of companies with below-par 1984 performance. It is almost
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    • 434 11  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI IN A SOMERSAULT DEAL worth Msl4 million, Samanda Holdings Bhd is selling the loss-making Sama Holdings back to one of the original vendors Sakullah Holdings and will emerge an estimated $21 million better off. The disposal agreements cover the entire issued
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      • 57 11 Operating profit of M$6.72 million ($6.04 million) on turnover of $81.06 million ($66.88 million) for the year ended Jan 31, 1985. After-tax profit came to $3.94 million ($3.62 million). Directors have recommended a final dividend of four cents less tax on the paid-up capital of 45
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      • 25 11 Operating loss of M$449,000 ($1.65 million loss) on turnover of $7.13 million ($979,000) for the year ended Dec 31. 1984.
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      • 45 11 Profit before tax of M$4.69 million ($7.62 million) on turnover of $93.78 million ($94.32 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1984. Directors said they will be recommending a dividend as soon as the audited results are available.
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      • 53 11 Profit before tax of M$12.03 million ($10.74 million) on operating revenue of $17.16 million ($14.03 million) for the year ended Jan 31, 1985. The company is paying a final dividend of 12 per cent less tax on the enlarged capital of $25 million
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    • 328 11 A RADICAL CHANGE in its accounting policies following official directives to finance companies has been blamed by Malaysia Borneo Finance Corporation (M) Bhd for its failure to hit its Ms 33 million pre-tax profit forecast for the financial year ended Sep 30,
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    • 514 11 THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market drifted through another quiet trading session yesterday. A few selected counters, particularly plantations, caught investors' attention and managed to record moderate gains. But overall, most counters had small losses. After opening at around overnight levels, the market moved within
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    • 2371 11 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Ajinomoto xd A Choc (2.066 2 07S) (1M) 2
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  • 576 12  -  Tourist arrival up 6.6 pc in first quarter By LIM SOON NEO THE PICTURE for the tourist industry has brightened considerably during the first quarter of this year, with a total increase of 6.6 per cent in visitors over the same period last year.
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    187 12 THIS IS A CAR PARK. The man standing in front of it it Australian Michaal Lowing. He hat spent four years and A 5400,000 developing it and he rsckons it is the perfect solution to car parking problems in cities like Singapore where space is restricted and land costs high.
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  • 186 12 FIFTY-THREE workers of Du Pont Electronics turned up for work on Thursday only to be sent home in a luxury coach. A company official who confirmed the retrenchment said the workers were laid off as a last resort. "We regret we have to take
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  • 59 12 Reuter TAIWAN's status in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will not change in spite of China's intention to join the group. Central bank governor Chang Chi-Cheng yesterday affirmed that Taiwan would not withdraw. Taipei has resolved to stay on as long as it can
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  • 182 12 AP A NEW BILATERAL fishery cooperation agreement between Japan and the Soviet Union will allow Japanese fishermen to catch salmon and sea trout in the north-western Pacific outside the Soviet's 320-km economic waters. Katsuro Kawabuchi, a Japanese Fishery Agency official, said yesterday that
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  • 326 12 Reuter AP CHINESE Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian lost a great opportunity by not staying an extra day in Jakarta to meet President Suharto. Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusum'aatmadja said yesterday that Mr Wu left earlier for home after being told his only chance
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  • 48 12 AP A MILD earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter Scale shook the West Java capital of Bandung on Thursday night. The quake was recorded by meteorology stations in Jataf-ta and in the West Java town# of Sukabumi and Lembang. There were no reported casualties or damage. AP
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  • 455 12  -  By LISA LEE THE SAGA of the flat-building challenge continues this time with National Development Minister Teh Cheang Wan asking for a written reply from opposition MP Chiam See Tong on whether he would accept his challenge to build the four
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  • 276 12 AP PALESTINIAN guerillas and Muslim militias seized a string of villages abandoned by retreating Christian forces yesterday, tightening their encirclement of the largest Christian zone in South Lebanon after a month of bloody sectarian fighting. Palestinian guerillas drove Christian fighters out of their
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  • 68 12 Reuter WALL STREET stocks edged higher in early trading yesterday, with investor interest rekindled by the strong finish of the previous session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up more than one point to 1286 on volume of 9.45 million shares. Advances led declines by a five-four
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  • 397 12 Bernama PARTI Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan left for Kuala Lumpur yesterday with his party's letter of application to join the Barisan Nasional (BN). Datuk Pairin, who is Sabah's Chief Minister, said he would hand the letter personally to Acting
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  • 215 12 Bemama MALAYSIA'S economic growth rate is expected to fall to 6 per cent this year from 7.3 per cent in 1984 because of the downturn in the economies of the major industrialised nations. Deputy Minister of Finance Datuk Sabbaruddin Chik said the latest
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  • 64 12 Bernama MALAYSIA is considering seeking the support of its Asean partners to draw up a plan of action to combat the drug problem at the international level. Deputy Home Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said yesterday that Asean's support would be sought to ensure acceptance of
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  • 177 12 Reuter THE SRI LANKAN government has urged Parliament to extend a nationwide state of emergency for another month as guerilla violence and clashes between Muslims and Tamils continued. The request yesterday came hours after separatist guerillas on Thursday night attacked a state bank and a
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  • 326 12 FIFTEEN Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) workers were treated for shock after an accident at the Orchard station construction site yesterday morning. The men were working in the compressed air area in the MRT tunnel when three empty work wagons broke loose from the
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  • 124 12 AP JAPAN and the US held their third round of talks yesterday to discuss ways of increasing foreign access to the Japanese electronics market. Officials of both sides said they were divided on the question of whether any progress was made during the talks. A
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  • LATE FILE
    • 35 12 Reuter HUNDREDS of civilians and police may have died yesterday in a shootout in northeastern Nigeria when security forces tried to arrest the leader of an Islamic fundamentalist sect. Reuter
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    • 45 12 Reuter AT LEAST 11 people were killed in a three-hour gunbattle between troops and guerillas in the northern Philippines. A military spokesman said at least seven suspected members of the communist New People's Army and four soldiers were killed. Reuter
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    • 44 12 Reuter A STRIKE by Japan Air Lines flight crews entered its third day yesterday, the eve of the busy 'Golden Week* holiday period. Six of the airline's 43 overseas flights and 77 of its 106 domestic services were cancelled yesterday. Reuter
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    • 44 12 TROOPS enforced an indefinite curfew on the riot-hit west Indian city of Ahmedabad. At least 50 people have been killed in 10 days of violence triggered by a government policy reserving quotas of jobs and college places for minority groups.
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    • 40 12 AFP ONE person was reported missing and 13 others hospitalized after a helicopter chartered by Hudbay Oil crashed into the sea off the coast of East Java Thursday. The 13 survivors are all Indonesian nationals. AFP
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    • 52 12 Reuter Taiwan's parliament will launch an independent inquiry into allegations that senior officials were involved in a bank scandal. A spokesman said the control Yuan, a watchdog body within parliament, had set up a commission to investigate senior officials with close ties with the Cathay
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    • 50 12 Britain's visible trade was in deficit last month by a record US$l.O6 billion. The current account, after taking earnings from financial services and tourism into account, was in deficit by $547 million, the second worst overall performance ever after five consecutive months of surpluses.
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    • 54 12 Reuter TAIWAN is to set up a new advisory committee to reform its economy and provide new ideas to keep up its rate of growth. A Cabinet official said Premier Yu KuoHua ordered the formation of the committee "to cope with the changing economic situations at
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    • 60 12 wmm Outlook for today: Showers over many areas in the pre-down and clearing in the morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 .30pm on April 25 at the airport Maximum temperature 3^2 Associated humidity -69 Minimum temperature *54 Associated humidity 93 Hours of sunshine 7 65 Rainfall in millimetres
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