The Business Times, 9 May 1985

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1 26 The Business Times
  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 THURSDAY, MAY I, 1185 60 CENTS
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  • 150 1 Reuter THE Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker has urged the Senate to strengthen a banking Bill it adopted last September. He said recent events show the time is right (or Congress to set a new framework for banking policy. In testimony before the
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  • 430 1  -  Banks lose $1b to POSB and Asian dollar market By ALVIN TAY DEPOSITORS chasing higher interest rates shifted about $1 billion of funds from the commercial banks to the Post Office Savings Bank and the Asian dollar market during the first two months
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  • 468 1  - Going, going, gone but debts remain for Peter Chew's By AMY BALAN IT WAS A mad scramble at Peter Chew's department store in Penang Road yesterday as 34 lots of goods estimated to be worth more than $200,000 were auctioned (or less than $80,000. An NEC telephone system with 20-25
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  • 95 1 AFP SRI LANKA may pull out of the seven-nation South Asia Regional Cooperation meeting next week after what it termed "grossly incorrect" statements by an Indian minister on Sri Lanka's ethnic problems. Foreign Minister Shahul Hameed, who was to fly to the SARC meeting venue
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  • 228 1 UPI THE HONGKONG stock market soared yesterday to its highest point in nearly (our years as investors rode a wave of renewed faith in the colony's future. Some analysts speculated a "boom" was in the making. Most stockbrokers were guarded about the
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 358 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG MORE grassroots union leaders will be invited to sit on committees which are to be formed by the National Trades Union Congress, Secretary-General Ong Teng Cheong announced last night. The move will help the NTUC carry out
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  • 97 1 DR TONY TAN, Trade and Industry and Education Minister, has stepped down as chairman of the NTUC Investment and Cooperatives Committee. He has been replaced by Mr Hsu Tse-Kwang, Commissioner of Inland Revenue. The Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Con- gress, Mr Ong
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  • 420 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING A $75 MILLION plan to design, assemble and test integrated circuits in Singapore is to be carried through by Silicon Systems, even though its parent company is reducing capital spending in the US. But chairman Carm Santoro said
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  • 181 1 AFP PHILIPPINE Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile yesterday confirmed that dissatisfied Junior officers had launched a major reform movement in the country's military. Mr Enrile told a news conference that the officers were to meet President Ferdinand Marcos soon. He said the movement began sometime In 1984
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    • 262 1 SHARE INFORMATION DOONESRURY money a exchanges LETTER CROSSWORDS RAW MATERIALS THE PROLIFERATION of training courses, some of which promise MBAs which oro in foct not recognised, has prompted tho Notional Productivity Board to compila on occraditod list of coursos available. Pago 3 PRESIDENT REAGAN and Prima Ministar Folipo Gonzalez of
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 462 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH JOB PROSPECTS for computer professionals are not so bright but this is expected to be temporary as a recent survey showed that demand will be strong in the longer term. This assurance came yesterday from the National Computer Board's first
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    • 104 2 A CONVOY of 35 private cars will leave Singapore next month for 10 cities in Malaysia and Thailand on the Seventh Asian Highway Auto Venture. The convoy will travel along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, turn around at Pattaya in Thailand
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    • 175 2 THE LATEST trend in business these days is entrepreneurahip and an interest group from the Singapore Institute of Management is responding to it The group had changed its name from Small Business Group to The Entrepreneurs' Group at the end of March, with the
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    • 388 2  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF A REGIONAL programme to study South-east Asian communities and how they interact with one another will be launched soon with a $304,500 grant from a German foundation, Stiftung V olkswagenwerk. The programme, entitled "South-east Asian Communities and Community Networks", will be undertaken
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    • 270 2 THE THIRD Asia Pacific Furniture Fair, to be held later this year, is expected to bring in $8 million worth of business. This compares with last year's show sales of $7.2 million. The organiser, the Singapore Furniture Manufacturers' and Traders' Association (SFMTA),
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    • 276 2 SINGAPORE PUBLISHERS and printers who want to promote their products in Britain have been advised to appear at the London Book Fair next year. Alternatively, they could stage an exhibition in London the week before the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, at which Singapore
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    • 496 3  -  By LUCY NG JOB prospects (or those who have recently graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic are looking less promising compared with last year. In line with the generally buoyant economy at this time last year, most Ngee Ann diploma holders were offered higher
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    • 59 3 INTERVIEWERS from the Ministry of Labour are to visit 25,000 households this month and the next to collect information for the mid-1965 Labour Force Survey. The interviewers will gather details of sex, age, occupation, industry employment status to be used for policy formulation. All
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    • 433 3 SINGAPOREANS will have a sneak preview of futuristic telecommunications technology during the Asia Telecom 85 conference and exhibition from May 14 to 18. Jointly organised by Telecoms and the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Asia Telecom will focus on two of the foremost
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    • 502 3  -  Move to help consumers choose relevant plan of study By PENG AILIAN THE PROLIFERATION of training courses, some of which promise MB As which are in fact not recognised, has prompted the National Productivity Board to compile an accredited list of courses available.
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    • 189 3 THE National Productivity Board yesterday revealed its "vision" for the next five years. It took the form of a matrix showing the various interplay between workers, management, and government in the drive towards greater productivity. Mr Ng Kiat Chong, executive director of NPB, said this matrix
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    • 79 3 A BOOK entitled They Dared To Be Different will be launched by Singapore News ft Publications Limited and Guinness Singapore at the Mandarin Hotel on Monday. The book, in both English and Chinese versions, is based on stories about the Guinness Stout Effort Award winners between the years
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    • 151 3 THE Public Works Department will Implement the expressway numbering system, which helps motorists to identify their destination or route, from today. The exit numbering system is similar to the East Coast Parkway's. An extra plate is added to the directional sign at the nose
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    • 60 3 A GROUP of safety experts including staff from the Singapore Fire Service and the British High Commission Defence Attache have been invited to attend a seminar which will show them some safety products. The seminar, to be held tomorrow, will highlight innovations in breathing and
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    • 178 3 There is no such thing as a £ree lunch. H.L. MfHcfefwi One of the great truths of our time. And only a businessman can really know how true it is: The business lunch' can be one of the most stress-provoking experiences of the day. The next is trying to get
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 547 4 AFP THAILAND will this week ask Japan for wide-ranging trade asstotance, notably sharp tariff cuts and the use of Japan's worldwide marketing network to promote Thai products. The issues will be raised in from today to Saturday, with a Japanese trade
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    • 219 4 AFP JAPAN is taking major strides in responding to international trade and security pressures, the new ambassador to the United States, Mr Nobuo Matsunaga, has said. In a speech to the JapanAmerican Society of Washington, he defended Tokyo's efforts to open its markets to international competition
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    • 187 4 AFP Reuter THE ONLY future change to China's open-door economic policy would be to open up the economy further to the rest of the world, Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang said. Speaking on Tuesday to participants at an international conference on banking problems, jointly organised
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    • 341 4 UPI PHNOM PENH has accused Thailand of invading its territory and bombing a border area where Thai and Vietnamese farces had clashed (or five days. "The Thai authorities have most recently carried out multiple hostile acts severely violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity
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    • 144 4 Reuter HONGKONG Is to have a second international airline, operating initially on routes to China. A statement from Hongkong Macao International Investment said pilots had already been hired and a i—*«g agreement for the airline's first plane, a Boeing 737, was signed in London
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    • 598 5 AP UNESCO's executive board begins a six-week meeting today at which Western nations and Japan are expected to seek wide-ranging changes and budget cuts to ensure the organisation's survival. The session will also be a critical test for director-general Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, who
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    • 153 5 AFP THE Nicaraguan government has appealed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to summon a special session to consider the trade embargo imposed on the country by die US. Gatt sources said in Geneva yesterday that the meeting would probably take
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    • 184 5 Reuter THE REAGAN administration has proposed a nuclear licence reform legislation that it said would "increase stability and predictability in the process of constructing and operating nuclear power facilities". The Bill, submitted to Congress by the energy department on Tuesday, Is the administration's
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    • 187 5 Reuter US CONGRESSIONAL Budget Office director Rudolph Penner has said that progress had been made in controlling the expansion of federal budget deficits, but the size of the deficits continue to threaten long-term economic progress. Mr Penner, «peaking to the National Association of Purchasing Management on
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    • 509 5 Reuter PRESIDENT REAGAN and Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez of Spain have agreed to a broad review of US troop strength in Spain, but failed to narrow their differences over Nicaragua. US Secretary of State George Shultz said in Madrid yesterday that after extensive
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    • 170 5 Reter THE US House of Representatives has approved overwhelmingly a landmark free-trade-zone pact between the US and Israel that will end all trade restrictions between the countries during the next decade. The House approved the USIsraeli accord on a vote of 422 to 0
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 1094 6 Car makers prepare for second century of motoring Japan planted the industrial seeds of its motorcar industry one hundred years ago. Today, the country has the largest motor industry in the world. The international unhappiness over its domination of the world car market is only
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    • 893 6 NYT AMERICAN pressures on Japan to stimulate its domestic economy have rekindled a debate about Japan's fundamental economic policies. Although most economists attribute Japan's large and growing trade surpluses to the strong dollar and other macroeconomic factors, US officials, most recently Secretary
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 592 7 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed firmer against major European currencies yesterday but below the day's highs, in thin and nervous late trading. The dollar closed higher at *****/70 marks compared with New York's 3.1740/70 close, but was below its high of 3.2070, and at 2.6850/80 Swiss francs compared
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    • 53 7 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks »nH discount houses to tender for $50 million of 91-day Treasury to be issued at the option of the tenderer from May 13 to May 17. Each tender must not be for less than $250,000. Lsst day of tender will
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    • Article, Illustration
      133 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on 1 the Singapore interbank money market fell 1-3/8 point from Tuesday to close at 4 per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate fen 1/16 point, while the two and three-month rates remained unchanged. «OCATBIh mmwf at I» fhm Mh| rittt «I 12 m|« Mis
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    • 249 7 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed easier yesterday compared with Tuesday's levels in light trading. Asian dollar CD rates were unchanged from steady to slightly lower opening levels in quiet trading. One month closed at 8.10/8.00 per cent, three months at 8.30/20 and six months at 8.60/50. uss
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    • 181 7 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to ana wot a* foraign Offwcyt f Na)#r or •aa parity US dolor Staring pound Australian dolor NZ dolor Conodkm dolor 2.2260 2.7034 1.5303 1.0094 1.6110 2.2270 2 7069 1.5344 1.0121 1.6129 2.8196 7.3469 3.4286 3.4286 3.4206 -21.05 -63.20 -55.37 -70.56
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    • 306 7 BA Futures JUNE Earedallar opened higher yesterday on the Simez at 91.39 as fundamentals were still bullish. Market, however, turned cautious ahead of the 10-year US Treasury auction. The June Eurodollar finally closed at 91.40 after trading in a two-tick range. D-aark futures opened higher but retreated rapidly towards
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    • 225 7 HONGKONG: The metal closed lower in fairly quiet trading yesterday, influenced by a firmer US dollar. Dealers said the US$3l5-level appeared to be a major resistance point for the metal but there was likely to be support at $308. However, buying interest remains minimal The metal closed at $313.10/60
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    • 452 7 Reuter BANKS may need to set aside capital in support of specific assets to assure they are properly capitalised in the future, according to Bank of England's associate director. The bank came to the conclusion that for a multifaceted group this "concept of
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    • 133 7 Reuter INDIAN COMPANIES are seeking foreign commercial loans and export credits of about US$2 billion for the year ending next March. US and British bankers say the proposed loans, either syndicated or in bonds, are to finance thermal power plants, oil exploration, fertiliser
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    • 241 7 Reuter THE BUNDESBANK has dropped its opposition to a number of financial instruments but maintains that a line must be drawn when the effectiveness of monetary policy is weakened. This concern for the effectiveness of monetary policy would be heightened if the central
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    • 183 7 THE WORLD'S foreign exchange market will remain extremely volatile in the months ahead owing mainly to uncertainties in the US economy. At a Beijing hanking conference organised by Bank of China and Euromoney, Chemical Bank's president Mr Thomas Johnson told some 500 delegates
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  • FEATURES
    • 546 8 FORTY YEARS ago this week a battered, war weary western world laid down its arms, while a few months later the Americans dealt with the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Europe was in rains, the Soviet Union counted its 20 million dead, and the pathetic
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    • 973 8  -  An over-saturated market of Impressionists and Old Masters is worrying auctioneers. The latest moves by Southeby's to sell works of art effectively put the auction house into banking. ANTHONY THORNCROFT reports. ANTHONY THORNCROFT FT THE HOTTEST ticket in New York recently was not for a
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    • 521 8 AP THEY ARE used in hundreds of Norwegian ski-cabins to power lights, fans, radios and TV sets. On thousands of American pleasure boats they recharge batteries. And they offer according to one expert at least tremendous potential to undeveloped nations and remote
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    • 144 8 Letter to the Editor Dear Sr, I refer to your press report on a speech made by MP for Potong Pasir on March 3,1965. He noted that only 7 per cent of Singapore workers earned $3,000 or more per month. I take it that he wants
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1137 8 W £MD mat!) HIGHLIGHTS Thursday Feature Special Hellen Keller: The Miracle Continues 9.15pm, Channel 5 This story starts with Helen Keller preparing to enter Raddiffe College with Sullivan, her ever-present mentor. The relationship of the two women over the next two decades is the focus of this drama which has
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  • SPORTS
    • 567 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS WITH THE Queen Sirikit Cup golf championship only a week away, the two tournaments on the local links this week become pretty useful to the Republic's representatives. Although Kee Bee Khim is not around to benefit from it she's participating
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    • 135 9 UPI BJORN BORG of Sweden and defending champion Carling Bassett of Canada rolled over their opponents in the first round of a US$2OO,OOO international tennis tournament on Tuesday in Kobe, Japan. Borg, 28, who has retired from major tournaments, eliminated up and coming compatriot
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    • 467 9 UPI TOP SEED John McEnroe began his quest for a third consecutive Tournament of Champions' crown in stylish fashion on Tuesday night, sweeping the final nine games for a 6-4, 6-0 victory over Vince Van Patten. McEnroe, the world's No
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    • 416 9 UPI THE OWNER of Kentucky Derby winner Spend A Buck says he will forgo the Preakness Stakes and a shot at horse racing's Triple Crown for a chance at the biggest payday in racing history in the Jersey Derby. "This was an extremely
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    • 221 9 AP AUSTRALIAN star Jan Stephenson will be the focus of attention at St Cloud, west of Paris, on Wednesday through Saturday during the US$5O,OOO, 72-hole Hennessy Ladies Cup golf event. The US-based Stephenson heads a field of 73 professional and 12 amateur
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    • 437 9  -  By BRIAN MILLER AFTER almost two years away from the competitive pool, Junie Sng will be returning to Singapore next month for a shot at the International Invitation meet. This is the Brisbane-based swimmer's first step in a comeback attempt that
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    • 156 9 Reuter WALES' soccer renaissance following two recent victories has not only revived the team's chances of reaching the World Cup finals it has also rescued football in the principality from bankruptcy. After last September's disastrous 1-0 defeat by Iceland in its opening World Cup
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    • 243 9 developing something people throw away. It's often the products we use everyday for mundane things like throwing out garbage that take years and millions of dollars to develop. Most people only think about garbage bags when they don't have one, we think about them all the time. We think about
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 666 9 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Something overhead or right behind (6) 7 In it, fine arrangement offers endless possibility (8) 8 A lid broken when put down (4) 10 Look behind the wicket? (6) 11 One devoted to some dead dfctator? (6) 14 Crikey, a dog's tail! (3) 16 Miles of
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 333 10 Reuter THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is Investigating possible insider trading linked to the investment activities of Mesa Petroleum Corp. A recent federal court order, issued by a federal judge in AmariHo, Texas, states that the SEC approved a formal investigation in late
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    • 160 10 Reuter THE HERALD and Weekly Times Ltd (HWT) is closely monitoring developments relating to Australian publisher Rupert Murdoch's control of television stations in Australia's two major cities. An HWT spokesman «airi the group was interested in the chance erf having a Sydney-Melbourne television
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    • 308 10 Reuter THE US share market recorded its third consecutive gain on Tuesday, prompting some analysts to say there was hope for further advances. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 4.97 points to 1,252.76. The volume on the New York Stock Exchange rose to 100.15
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    • 201 10 MAY 07 INDUSTRIALS UNMC Wootworth 515 1475 inch -25 A Alpha 775 150 inch -2 2575 AE And a 800 unch -10 -50 An0voal 8500 unch -2400 Amaprop AMtt to 1 8050 C G SmNh 1142 2400 +2 50 Chart* 4108 1260 CNA 260 Cam Murch 1050 -50 ic«
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    • 692 10 Amsterdam MAT 07 AM Aagon AhM lb 426 50 4L5 164.50 -0 3 ma -i s Aka 111.70 -0.6 AMEV 241 00 Mil Awo Bank Mul Boh Bur Tat ZZZZ CMand Cotva M M| F* Fokkar Gamma Ciiilbcoc 1 KMnakan HunSTo* In* MiAar Kbb KLM Mfirfin 75JO +0J
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    • 96 10 Reuter THE BRITISH government is to introduce legislation at the earliest opportunity to transfer to a new private sector company all the assets of British Gas Corp. Energy Secretary Peter Walker said this would be accompanied by appropriate regulation of the monopoly aspects of the
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 337 11 HONGKONG: The Hang Seng Index breached the 1,600 point yesterday for the first time in more than three years as share prices closed sharply higher in active trading. The index rose 28.19 to 1,621.45, the highest since Sep 1, 1981 when it stood at 1,647.61. The market opened steady
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    • 151 11 MAY M Al Sinew* Indus Asia Cement NT 2.54 23 30 23.40 -0 13 ixtch -03 Lion Hwo Indus Nan Yo Ptas Pacific Cons Pacific Elect Wire 12.20 26 80 17.90 13.50 -02 -0.2 +0.2 -0.6 001 Chang Hwo Bank 48.30 -02 16.80 -02 Chan Loom 19 90 -0
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    • 398 11 TOKYO: Trading slowed and share prices eased from an opening high yesterday as a wait-and-see mood spread through the market and investors sold off early purchases. The market average rose 14.90 on balance to 12,521.20 after hitting a day's high of 12,565.50 in early trading. Turnover was a moderate
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    • 95 11 MANILA: Share prices closed generally firmer yesterday in continued dull trading. The Commercial A Industrial Index was up 0.75 to 132.73, the Mining Index firmed 1.88 to 653.86, while the Oils Index was unchanged at 0.653. MAY OS 0.0014 unch 0 0014 unch Onanfoi B 0.01 unch ***** Ktch
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    • 361 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed at record highs yesterday with gains across the board due to currency factors. The All Ordinaries Index climbed 10.9 points to 889.6 points, its second successive record day. The All Industrials Index set its third successive record, 7.1 points higher at 1,233.0. The Gold Index
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    • 159 11 BANGKOK: Share prices closed lower in quiet trading yesterday. The Book Club Index dropped 0.31 to 135.41. Losers led gainers by a small margin. Turnover fell to 303,145 shares worth 36.0 million baht from Tuesday's 370,711 worth 53.5 million baht. MAY Ot Boat* Sam Ctaan 95 -3 A ok
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    • 67 11 MAY 06 Won 612 -3 Hyivtdai Const Hyunboi Motof KAL 901 554 446 unch +6 1 585 Korea Fnt 662 631 uncH +i Korea She 476 -2 481 4 Lucky Ltd 598 +8 559 +9 707 +2 Dong Ah. Goid S»or 498 -*-13 SamMtg EWc 795 5 580 -9
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    • 55 11 AFP JAPAN'S Daihatsu Motor Co's car output last month was the highest monthly production ever recorded by the company. A company spokesman said Daihatsu produced 70,867 units, 15.6 per cent higher than in the same period last year. The carmaker had never previously produced more than 70,000
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    • 564 11 THE CURRENT year and the next are the most likely time for major corporate takeovers in Hongkong because of the possibility that the transition to Chinese sovereignty might turn sour eventually. The Quarterly Country Risk survey on Hongkong compiled by Political
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    • 306 11 Reuter SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD's American subsidiary, Sanyo Electric Inc, has introduced a line of consumer electronic products that it expects will increase sales to US$l billion in the US from about |800 million last year. Jeffre Berkowitz, executive vice-president for marketing, said:
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 679 12 Reuter THE Wool Council of Australia has recommended that the indicative average floor-price for wool at auctions be set at about 500 Australian cents per kg clean for the 1965-86 season beginning July 1. Delegates to the council's conference in Melbourne said the
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    • 170 12 Reuter THAILAND is unaffected this year by the price controls the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) has imposed on exports to non-member countries. Commerce Ministry officials said Thai exporters had contracted about 7,000 tonnes of advance non-quota sales for the July-December period before
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    • 130 12 Reuter AMERICAN Senate Republican leader Bob Dole has urged an export programme be set up for surplus US commodities. In a senate speech, the senate majority leader said it was clear there would not be international trade talks to reduce export subsidies. He said
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    • 301 12 Reuter MALAYSIAN crude palm oil (CPO) prices are likely to be lower in the coming months after rising to a peak of M 51,750 a tonne on April 26. Traders and industry sources forecast prices in the cash market to fluctuate between $1,400 and
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    • 153 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed lower on short selling and profit-tak-ing yesterday after Pakistan rejected offers at its RBD palm oil tender on Tuesday and a weaker Chicago soybean complex close. Trading was thin and interest centred on May. South, central and north regions fell MsBo, $70
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    • 231 12 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed eight to 6V* US cents a bushel lower on Tuesday, with July and August posting new contract lows in the fairly light activity. July ended near the bottom of a 13-cent range. The strength in foreign currencies against the American
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    • 235 12 SINGAPORE The market closed firmer yesterday with May One RSS buyers quoted at 169.00 cents per kg, up 1.75 cents from Tuesday. The morning market gained 1.75 cents on covering interest of nearby positions. Prices were unchanged from lunch-time levels in quiet afternoon trading. MALAYSIA The market closed slightly
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    • 281 12 RAS prices in S cants/kg, FOt m b alas NOON CLOSE Int 1 RSS Prompt mvywn 169 00 170.00N 169 00 170.00N Int 1 RSS May 85 169 00 170 00 169.00 170.00 Int 1 RSS Juna 85 166 75 167.25 166.75 167 00 Int 2 RSS
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    • 93 12 (cwtttAg, l-tw* MAY 85 JUNE 85 (currcfi it month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Stflovs Bwy«rt ScMore SSR 20 167 00 169.OON 169.00 171.00N SSR SO 165.00 I67.00N 167.00 169.00N MRELB uym f -M- Jtwtn luyn SMR CV 210.50 212. SON ***** *****N SMR L 214.00 216.00N
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    • 108 12 THE KLTM price finned another 41 eeita to M 128.41 per kg yesterday, still belew ike ITA fleer level ».15. Tfce firmer leattmeit mi kelped by a —teller etterlag ud eeetiaeed d—id fcy lecel, Japaeeee aad Earepeea beyDealers eald tkey did aet detect activity by tke befler ateek
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    • 153 12 Yarn (In HK$ par Ma of 400 ft) China corded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16'* 2,550 Hua Phoanix 20" 2,700 Blue Phoanix 32's 3,300 Blue Phoanix 40"» 3,650 Carded yarn, hank 2,900 Bkie Phoanix 2l's Combed yam, cones Bkje Phoanix 32's 4,350 Bkie Phoanix 40*s 4,500 Open-end yarn 2,400
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    • 91 12 Reuter AUSTRALIA has been guaranteed growth in imports of grass-fed beef to Japan and will be the first source of supply when South Korea is able to reopen its beef market. But Australia's Trade Minister John Dawkins said its success in the Japanese and
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    • 847 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended a lacklustre session yesterday, unchanged to £12 below Tuesday's close and little changed from midmorning. July finished at £2,188, down £12. The market was expected to open £20 to £25 down based on the sharply lower close in New York. But the influence of
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    • 145 12 Chineee Produce Exchange Robutta 20/25% FOB NSW 477.50 (S»M«n* mom dewe pri May 08. SV100 k 0 V c« om Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW 396.00 Coconut oil E&WFOBNSW 248 00 Bute FOB 140.00 Gam bier Od drum FOB New drum FOB 153.00 157 00 FOB NSW 330.00 Copra
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    • 265 12 Singapore (S$/Mo, §aJmm) Fragrant new crop 1st 0 86 2nd 0.64 3rd 0.60 New Crop 25% no stock 10% no stock Thai Brokan A-super 0.S6 Special 0.54 Thai Rica C-1 Ord Loonzoin Rica 100% 1st grade 100% 2nd grade 100% 3rd grade PorboMad Rica 5% 10% Maiza Hongkong (HK$
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    • 219 12 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed one to two US cents a bushel higher in fairly light trade on Tuesday. July ended near the top of a four-cent range. Wheat values continued to recover from recent contract lows as strength in foreign currencies against the US
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4071 13 THE SINGAPORE market drifted again yesterday amid another session of thin trading and marginal fluctuations in share prices. At the closing bell, the BT Composite Index was unchanged at 706.96 and the Straits Times Industrial Index rose 1.22 points to 790.53. The volume remained
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    • 246 13 SINGAPORE RitM Indicas so« 206 11 Mar 7 May 8 KaataAf Spin 240 4-6 8T C aa*aa ita 705.98 705.98 D I S (aealnQi 590 4-5 TMtaN *****35 *****84 385 5 8T 08/0S -177 -231 M Inm w 540 4-5 STMattm ib 789.31 790.53 TDM 278 5
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    • 2245 13 810 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 lota of 14)00 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SUT.
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    • 229 13 BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Cempaay (Singapore) Limited: Forty-sec-ond AGM at 57 Senoko Drive, Singapore today at 11.30 am. DUNLOP MALAYSIAN INDU8TRIK8 Berted: Twen-ty-fourth AGM at 4 Jalan Tandang, Petaling Jaya. Selangor today at 9.30 am. ESSO MALAYSIA Betted: Twenty-sixth AGM at the Ballroom, Equatorial Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 775 14  -  By CHAN OI CHEE THE SORT OF PROBLEMS faced by the Keppel group would be enough to freeze some managements, but chairman Sim Kee Boon is clearing the decks for action. In his annual report, the former senior civil servant who took over the
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    • 459 14 UPI UNITED PRESS International chairman Luis Nogales appealed to America's newspaper publishers to accept a 9.9 per cent special assessment to help UPI survive its financial troubles. "We can't do it alone. We come to you now to ask you for your support,
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    • 4 14 AN-tima higti
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    • 200 14 Monomers' prices for May 9 Singapore Unit Trust Th* Conrwrct 1 96 2 06 Th* Savings Fund 1.39 1.47 S'por* Prog Fund 0 82 0.87 S'por* Sk Fund 1.21 1.28 S'por* Invest Fund 0.89 094 S'por* Equity Fund 083 088 Asia Unit Trust Mol InvMt Fund 2 06
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    • 748 14  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI IN SPITE OF the slowdown In the local construction industry last year, the (our publicly-listed building contractors, popularly known as "the 4Ls", have held up quite well. Even though 1965 promises more competition for Lee Kim Tah, Lum Chang, LAM Group Investments
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    • 557 14 SHARE PRICES closed mixed to slightly easier on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday in dull and listless trading. Some counters rose on bargain-hunting but overall, price movements were small with losses and gains confined to a few cents. The market
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    • 1718 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. VDUSTRMLS Ajinomoto (3.006 3.205) xd A Choc (1.996 1.205) (38)
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    • 298 14 SHAREHOLDERS of Kesang Holdings Bhd have been advised to sell their shares on the KLSE and gra if the market price of Kesang shares does not fall below M 53.50 per share during the offer period. This was the recommendation of Aseambankers Malaysia
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    • 45 14 Company BONUS ISSUE Grand Central Three-fof-two Ex-dote May 14 Book Oom: May 21 Selangor Dredg Frve-fof-two Sub-drvision of SI par into two shore* of 50 cents eoch Ex-dote May 14 Books dose: May 24 Yoohon 0.3-for-one Ex-date: May 15 Books dose: May 20
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    • 128 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Dah Yung One-for-one e $1.00 per shore Ganda Hidgs One-for-four fc $1.00 per share George Town Two-for-one $1.00 per shore KiBmghall Two-for-five $1.15 per shore Londmorks Hldgs One-tor-four £$100 per share O U B One-for-five $2 50 per share Peak Hua Three-tor-two fe $150 per
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    • 697 15 mms mm!** By HOCK LOCK SIEW THE NEW OWNERS of Parkway Holdings Ltd appear to be charting a course of expansion abroad. Barely three months after the company, formerly Singapore Glass (1974) Ltd, assumed a new identity and was reclassified as a property concern, it
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    • 268 15 Bernama SOCOIL Corporation Bhd has proposed to pay interest at 12 per cent per annum to every unsecured creditor entitled under a cash repayment scheme of 30 cents for every Msl from March 2L Datuk Bek Neilson, chairman of the unsecured creditors' committee, said in
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    • 885 15 SELECTIVE institutional buying interest gave share prices a firm undertone yesterday but turnover remained thin. Initial sentiment was still dampened by the larger than expected rise in UK M 3 money supply and bank lending for April published on Tuesday. The FTSE 100 share index at 3.30 pm
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    • 565 15  -  Private placements in Singapore, China and Hongkong By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN MALAYSIAN businessman Lee Ming Tee is placing nine million shares of his Australian company, Sunshine Australia Limited, in Singapore, China and Hongkong. It is understood that these are new shares being placed
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    • 294 15  -  By AMY CHEOK HAVING successfully built a presence in the brokerage business, Merrill Lynch is now expanding its services in private and investment banking in the Asian-Pacific region. Merrill Lynch International Asia, .which has been mainly involved in commercial banking and private banking operations, will
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    • 95 15 TALAM MINES BM has received a notice of takeover from Asia vest Merchant Bankers (M) Bhd on behalf of Superplex Sdn Bhd to acquire the remaining issued shares in the company at M$16 cash per share. HAJI ABDUL Rahim bin Abu resigned as chairman and director of Berjaya
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    • 431 15 PAPER manufacturer Muda Holdings Bhd is expanding its business by acquiring Kajang Paper Mills Sdn Bhd and Century Packaging Industry Sdn Bhd as well as a 50.03 per cent stake in Central Malaya Paper Sdn Bhd. Muda said yesterday it had entered into three separate
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    • 284 15 VAN DER HORST Ltd has slipped into the red at half time. But the company hopes to be back in the black (or the full year as it expects better results In the current six months due to an increase in the number of
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    • 271 15 TRADING in the shares of Hong Leong Co Ltd resumed in Hongkong yesterday after a one-day suspension following its purchase of a bank for HK$257 million. The company acquired Hongkong Industrial A Commercial Bank through Overseas Trust Bank that agreed to sell its 62
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    • 138 15 %:~*{;\$[>,(|$'}__:\[%)?%?)?,$/ asssEiEam. Jones Lang Woxstfta WwKtng Property Constants Real Estate Agents Valuers Auctioneers Property Managers Applications are invited from suitable candidates for an overseas appointment as MARKETING MANAGER Preference will be given to applicants with the following: Several years' experience in marketing of shopping centres; Working knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia,
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  • 379 16  -  By CHUANG PECK MING ASEAN COUNTRIES would benefit from Singapore's defence spending, particularly in the light of the instability in Southeast Asia, said the Minister of State (Defence) Lee Hsien Loong. Brig-Gen Lee was speaking in response to a question from the audience after an
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  • 167 16 Reuter BEIJING has warned its residents of food price rises later this week and has taken extraordinary steps to prevent panic buying, according to the New China News Agency. At midday yesterday, (ood shops put up notices announcing increases in the prices of meat, poultry,
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  • 329 16 Reuter CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats (CDU) appear braced (or a battering when a third of West Germany's voters go to the polls on Sunday in the country's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. Opinion polls predict the party will get its lowest vote
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  • 239 16 MR HARBANS SINGH, general secretary of the United People's Front, has complained to the Law Society of Singapore that he was punched by two lawyers on two separate occasions. The incidents, the latest of which occured last month, happened in the Subordinate Courts Bar Room.
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  • 308 16 Reuter PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan, in a speech to the European Parliament marking 40 years of peace since World War Two, yesterday accused the Soviet Union of undermining the nuclear balance by building a firststrike strategic missile. He also put forward a blueprint for expanded
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  • 384 16  -  By LISA LEE THE TERMS for building a block of HDB flats laid down by opposition MP Chiam See Tong have been rejected by the Minister for National Development, Mr Teh Cheang Wan, on the grounds that the conditions would give the Social
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  • 115 16 Reuter THE US merchandise trade deficit on a balance of payments basis expanded to U5528.33 billion in the first three months of 1985 from $24.39 billion in the final quarter of last year. The Commerce Department in Washington said yesterday that the report excluded military trade
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  • 79 16 Reuter THE New York stock market slipped lower in early trading yesterday, as a three-day advance ran out of fuel. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off more than (our points to 1248 on turnover o( about 9.96 million shares. The index had bounced back about 10
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  • LATE FILE
    • 52 16 'Fine way of providing jobs AFP THE THAI government is recruiting unemployed college graduates to blow the whistle on companies violating health and environmental laws, in return for 50 per cent of any fines collected as a result of their reports. The move is aimed at helping out overworked government
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    • 57 16 AFP NATURAL GAS reserves in the US continued to increase last year despite a drop in both prices and the number of drilling operations. The American Natural Gas Association said in Washington yesterday that new reserves, excluding Alaska, amounted to 17,500 billion cubic metres, two
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    • 50 16 Reuter CANADA'S seasonally adJusted index of gross domestic product improved by 0.2 per cent in February to 153.4, base 1971, after a 0.2 per cent rise in January. The February year-on-year rise was 4.9 per cent against a 3.7 per cent increase in January. Reuter
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    • 42 16 Reuter NEW ZEALAND'S internal deficit fell to NZ$2.B billion in the fiscal year ended March 31 from $3.1 billion in 1983/84. Revenue rose to $12.5 billion from $11.1 billion while spending rose to $15.3 billion from $14.2 billion.
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    • 63 16 NYT THE US House armed services committee on Tuesday voted to cut US$l.2 billion (rom President Reagan's proposal (or a space-based defence programme against missiles. The vote, in a closed meeting, was the first major issue faced by the committee as it began a
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    • 51 16 TIT FT** 3 mm Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on May 8 at the airport: Maximum temperature 33.6 Assorinfri humidity 59 Minimum temperature 25.2 AMoriiilid humidity 97 Hours of sunshine 7.80 n f| i y til* KQwiihii IVV VVMIVMWvW w Rainfall this month 1.4 Rainy days this month
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 45 17 Reuter THE NUMBER of ships awaiting berth at Chittagong port rose to seven, with maximum delay offive days, port officials said. Five ships are carrying general cargo, one rice and one cement. Last Tuesday, six vessels were awaiting berths at the port. Reuter
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      • 136 17 OVERSEAS SHIPBUILDING orders, excluding oil rigs, placed with South Korean shipyards rose to 303,000 gross tons in the first four months of this year from 262,000 in the same 1984 period, officials of the Korean Shipowners Association said. The value of orders fell to US$lB4.B million from
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    • 327 17  -  Sailings will be provided fortnightly By G DURAIRAJ IN SPITE OF stiff competition in the coastal trade Nortrans which made its debut in the SingaporeSa bah-Sarawak trade last October, has found the going rather smooth. The favourable response it has received has induced the Norwegian
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    • 121 17 AN INCREASE OF 50 per cent in its shipowning membership is essential if the Baltic and International Maritime Conference is to truly represent owners, the newlyelected president, Mr Atle Jebsen said. Bimco can only be as strong as the sum of the strength of its 3,000
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    • 203 17 SOME JAPANESE shipbuilders have taken steps to re-organise their workforce. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries which had 28,000 shipbuilding workers on its payroll 10 years ago, now employs only 9,000 following efforts to reduce the surplus personnel, reported Sea trade Week. As at April 1, 5,632 workers
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    • 252 17 TMR/ITN THE UNITED States Federal Maritime Commission has asked conference members and independents whether they endorse a tariff refund provision proposed by two conferences covering the US-Ja-pan-Korea trade. The Trans-Pacific Freight Conference of Japan/Korea and Japan/Korea Atlantic Gulf Freight Conference recently asked the FMC to
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    • 1149 18 Decline in number of administrative stops at Indonesian gateways Reuter PRESIDENT SUHARTO and his technocrat ministers have gone on an uncharacteristically bold and aggressive campaign to sharpen the competitive edge of Indonesia's non-oil and non-gas exports. In a move that has startled many Indonesians, the
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    • 642 18 Af*o VI 3 Andeko Shpg VI 1 ANL 1 APC Lin* V 4 APL 4 ASCL 1 Astabroker V 5 Austosio Lin* V 1 Balt-Onent VI 4/5 Bangkok Cont VI 2 Bank Un* V 5 Boyswater Shpg V 4 BBS 1 4/5 B«n Lin* V 3 Bki*
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    • 1894 18 The pattern of freight rates showed little change from established patterns on Tuesday on the London freight market, where activity was heavily weighted in the time-charter section. In South America, Docenave booked the 38,250 dwt Northgate at U554,600 per day (plus $140,000 ballast bonus) for a time-char-ter trip
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    • 191 19 •an INDEPENDENT British shipbuilder, Souter Shipyard, has won A a £1.5 million contract to build a research ship. The order was placed by Morning Watch Ltd, a company in Guernsey in which Mr Sumner Gerard, the former US Ambassador to Jamaica is the principal. The
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    • 250 19 AFP CHINA IS facing difficulty in obtaining space-age technology to develop its shipbuilding industry because of a US embargo on the sale of strategic material to communist countries, a Hongkong newspaper said. Recent closed-door talks between China's state shipping corporation and the US Boeing Corporation
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    • 84 19 THE AUSTRALIAN government is to provide A 570.5 million capital to the state-owned Australian National Line (ANL), Transport Minister Peter Morris announced. This follows an official review of ANL's longer term financial viability and demonstrated the government's determination to make ANL more efficient and
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    • 57 19 UPI ABOUT 40 SHIPS from four nations started a Nato naval and marine exercise in the North Sea and the Skagerrak Channel between Denmark and Norway. The war games, codenamed "Bright Horizon," last until May 16, said a German naval spokesman. West German, British, Danish and Norwegian
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    • 755 19 AFP HOLIDAYS in Europe and the Far East contributed to a general lull in activity in the single voyage sector of the freight market over the past week, though time chartering continued fairly buoyant. Vessels available in Europe were again required particularly for round voyages via South America
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    • 184 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, 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. Cbo Yang shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia/Straits Container Line. Nedlloyd
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    • 96 19 Reuter INDIA'S MERCHANT shipping fleet rose to 433 ships totalling 6.38 million gross registered tons (grt) at end-1984 from 405 totalling 6.09 million a year earlier, the Indian shipping ministry said in its annual report. It said 47 ships totalling 1.04 million grt were on
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    • 5642 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The liit below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 715 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO b Godws FCL Arrival J for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Gowa 19HB 09.5.85 2300 Eka Jaya F7 0930-1100 L3 Chitral 48HW 09.5.85 2300 Eastern M F7 0930-1100 L8 Ratu Konsort 168N 09.5.85 2330
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    • 1743 25 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies «S# Afra-F.arasia Liar Trans group (Si Ahreaklel Liner Service Kim Shpg < SI Alfred C Teepfer Oreanus Shipping Agen cies (Si Manntex Enterprise (PKi AI par Intrasea (Si Bintang Shpg
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    • 481 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES B Prase tya K20 Foong Sun alongside 9.5.85/2359 Builder m K23 T Soon alongside 95.85/0700 Kota Sejati K32 PIL alongside 9.5.85/1500 Phethal K34 Trl Ocean alongside 9555/1200 Equator m K23 T Soon 9.5.85/0700 9555/2300 Huayin K30 Y
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    • 444 26 May 6-6 17th annual offshore technology conference, Houston, Texas. May 6-16 Nor-Ship-ping '85, the 10th International Shipping and Maritime Offshore Exhibition and Conference, SJolyst Exhibition Centre, Oak), Norway. May 7-16 International port exhibition, Hamburg. May 18-11 17th biennial conference annd assembly of the International Cargo Handling Coordination AsKxriatkn,
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    • 501 19 (TTQ, The Straits Steamship Group STRAITS SHIPPING Slngapora to SsbMh, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok QCC Overseas Containers Limited u ONTAINERSHIP SfRVICE TO UK CONTINENT Stoa Iftoj Inm 31/5 M/l M/l •7/C M/l U/C 17/* U/C 21/ C M/( 2S/C nt% 82/7 M/ 7 M/ 7 M/ 7 11/7 12/7
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