The Business Times, 14 May 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1185 60 CENTS
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  • 585 1  -  Property circles want extension of ruling to current projects By LISA LEE A REDUCTION in the development charge to 50 per cent, announced yesterday, drew lukewarm response from property circles. It was felt that the reduction in the charge and the granting
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  • 706 1  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM THE AMERICAN owner of the Kentucky Fried Chicken trademark has sent two of Its auditors to look into the affairs of its Singapore franchise holder. The presence, since the beginning of this month, of Heublein International Ltd's auditors
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  • 76 1 AP HALF OF CHINA'S state and collectively-run enterprises and up to 80 per cent of its private businesses cheat on taxes, a Chinese daily said yesterday. The People's Daily did not disclose how much money was lost but said that last year in Hebei province alone
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  • 223 1 PRIVATISATION of the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore has not been considered, said its assistant general manager (corporate planning), Mr Sung Sio Ma. Mr Sung told BT, in an interview held in conjunction with Asia Telecom 85, that as far as he knew, no studies
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  • Article, Illustration
    99 1 twit, apparent —ttlwra t at the Malayslaa GUmm liinrlitln crtris led stoek priees to impreve all nai yesterday, taking the Straits Times ladastrlal Index abeve the 8N level far the first time hi «but a meath. The market was aided by several dsses at gaed *wi yesterday, amsag
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  • 519 1  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI A BREACH of the Singapore Code of Takeovers and Mergers almost caused Grand United Holdings Bfad (GUH) an extra $5.06 million in its proposed takeover bid for Sigma Metal Co Ltd, depriving minority shareholders of the latter company
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  • 473 1  -  By YAP BOH HOON TELECOMS is to spend $40 million in a joint venture project which will advance current videotex technology and lead to the development of a billion dollar network. The videotex system, called Teleview, will provide information services superior to
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    • 247 1 L-dir, Pag* HOUSEWIVES who wished they could "buy the whole market" hod one such opportunity yesterday when the entire contents of o mini-su-permarket, First Farmers Market, were put up for auction in just one lot. Page 2 AMERICAN Commerce Secretory Molcolm Boldrige has promised Beijing that he would help speed
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    • 73 1 Nikon THE WORLD'S FINEST PHOTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM Asia Telecom 85 THIS INTERNATIONAL forum bringing together administrators and business leaders in the telecommunications industry opens today. To complement the event, BT has brought out a special supplement surveying salient aspects of the industry. Be sure to get your copy. "I thoughtKLM i
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 504 2  -  Auctions at First Farmers' outlets raise more than enough money By RICHARD SEAH HOUSEWIVES who wished they could "buy the whole market" had one such opportunity yesterday when the entire contents of a mini-supermarket were put up for auction in just one lot. Recent complaints about auctions
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    • 401 2 THE NGEE ANN business studies course should be modelled along the lines of "prestigious" professional institutions, said some of its diploma holders recently. They also felt that their course should incorporate training in computer science, personnel management and production process. Their
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    • 244 2 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY has led to important productivity gains in Northern Telecom International (NTI), the Canadian producer of telecommunication equipment. It has been the catalyst to NTl's growth from a domestic producer 20 years ago to a multinational corporation today with revenues in excess of US$5 billion. Of this
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    • 361 2  -  By BHAHRIR ARIFF SINGAPORE, which imported about 649 million yen (***** million at today's rates) worth of Japanese packaging machines in 1963, will continue to be a major market for Japan. The Republic's purchases represented nearly 3 per cent of Japan's total
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    • 163 2 CUSTOMERS of United Malayan Ranking Corporation in the region, including Singapore, will now be able to make use of the services of an international export trading company to sell their products worldwide. UMBC yesterday became a participating member of Security Pacific Trading Company
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    • 578 2 SINGAPORE may be producing one of the most advanced fishing aids in the world, if an agreement is reached between Sonartec Ltd, the Australian company which came up with the concept, and a local manufacturer. Sonartec representatives are now in Singapore to discuss the
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    • 240 2 RAFFLES CITY is spending about $1.5 million on landscaping "to blend" with the historical surroundings of the Padang, Memorial Park and Fort Canning. At the same time, its show office on the 38th storey of the Raffles City Tower, has opened for prospective office tenants.
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    • 129 2 ABOUT 50 exporters of Jewellery, electronic toys, giftware and leather goods are to learn about preferential tariffs and how to increase overseas sales. They will be attending the last of a series of three seminars on how to export specific products under the Generalised System of
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    • 1322 3 List of pre-qualified contractors MRT Phase IIA, IIB Boost for local contractors LOCAL CONTRACTORS will be given preference in two projects ynder the second phase of the Mass Rapid Transit system. TTie projects involve earthworks around the Changi Depot (Contract 307) and the construction of the depot building in Changi
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 398 4 AP AMERICAN Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige has promised to help speed up Western screening procedures on US high-technology destined for China. Mr Baldrige made the pledge on Sunday in a toast at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during a welcoming banquet
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    • 247 4 Reuter AFP VIETNAM has said that its troops put 500 Chinese soldiers out of action in four days of fighting along their common border last week. Radio Hanoi said on Sunday that Vietnamese troops in northern Ha Tuyen province decimated two Chinese infantry
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    • 196 4 AP INDIAN POLICE captured three suspected Sikh terrorists during a shoot-out on Sunday and said the arrests were a major breakthrough in the investigation of booby-trap bombings that have killed at least 85 people. Authorities said more than 1,000 Sikh suspects
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    • 253 4 AP AMERICAN Secretary of State George Shultz, on the final leg of his Middle East mission, has acknowledged the difficulty of finding Palestinian negotiators acceptable to both the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel. The US is trying to facilitate the start of peace
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    • 114 4 AFP SEVERAL African countries will resume diplomatic relations with Israel "in the near future", Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Ronie Milo has predicted. Israel was making "great efforts", he said, to persuade' Black Africa to resume ties with it. Most of them broke off relations
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    • 147 4 AFP A JAPANESE researcher has warned that office and factory automation can cause "technostress" a psychosomatic syndrome among workers who have failed to adjust to the introduction of advanced technology in their workplaces. Dr Tomonobu Kono, chief of the psychosomatic therapy division of the metropolitan Komagome Hospital,
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    • 185 4 AFP SECURITY FORCES on the Papua New Guinea (PNG) side of the border with Indonesia have been conducting an operation against the Irian Jayan OPM independence movement. The Australian Associated Press (AAP) yesterday reported that a force of 200 soldiers and mobile squad police were
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    • 771 4 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time sv SV379 0115 SEL PAA PA21 0020 LAX/TYO/HKG MAS MH60I 0720 KUL MAS MH68I 0620 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH67I 0935 KUL MAS MH8II 0940 PEN RBA B4421 1000 BWN SiA SQ103 1005 KUL CPA CX710 1030 CGK
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    • 264 5 Reuter BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has promised a full inquiry to establish the cause of a fire which swept through a stand in the Bradford football stadium, killing at least 52 people. With only a few of the dead identified and Bradford
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    • 103 5 UPI FORTY-FIVE apartheid protesters, most of them mothers with children, were arrested on Sunday during a special Mother's Day demonstration at the South African embassy in Washington. The Black lobby group Transafrica's daily protests are usually held on weekdays, but District of Columbia's Commissioner of Arts and Hu-
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    • 181 5 AFP OFFICIAL results of Sunday's state elections in North RhineWestphalia confirmed that the opposition Social Democrats had won a resounding victory over Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Party. The Social Democrats (SDP) of former Chancellor Willy Brandt carried 52.1 per cent
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    • 328 5 UPI NICARAGUAN President Daniel Ortega has denied that his visit to the East bloc countries signalled a move by his country into the Soviet orbit. "We are in the orbit of non-aligned countries, of developing countries and no other," Mr Ortega said, in an
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    • 87 5 Reuter THE NORTHROP Corporation's controversial F-20 Tigershark jet fighter has made progress towards acceptance by the US Air Force and possible overseas sales. Since the early 1980s, Northrop has spent US$BOO minion developing the jet but It has yet to sell a single plane. The
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    • 196 5 AP ITALIANS continued voting yesterday in nationwide local elections considered a crucial test for Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi's five-party coalition government. The main opposition was coming from the communists, who hoped to gain the most votes of any single party. The interior
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 67 5 BRITISH Defence Minister Michael Heseltine said a new airport on the Falklands which he helped inaugurate last Sunday would not be used as a Nato strategic base, the British Press Association News Agency reported. Mr Heseltine represented the government at the inaugural ceremony conducted by Prince Andrew,
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      • 66 5 ABOUT 20 of a group of left-wing youths occupying Athens University's chemistry building left on Sunday after negotiations with the university's dean but the rest said they were determined to stay. The youths had threatened to blow up the building after they took it on last Thursday
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      • 56 5 THE THAI Democrat Party, a member of Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda's coalition, has beaten another partner in the Thai government to win a parliamentary seat in a Bangkok by-election. Retired Admiral Somboon Chuapibul, a former navy commander-in-chief. debated Pamote Thavornchan of the Prachakorn Thai (Thai Citizens) Party by
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      • 45 5 JAPAN and South Korea are prepared to help Malaysia develop its small and medium-scale industries, Deputy Industry Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said. The two countries, through the relevant agencies, would aid Malaysia in obtaining the proper skills and experience needed for such industries.
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      • 60 5 NIGERIA has arranged for two ships to take home thousands of illegal immigrants stranded after the expiry of a deadline for their departure, Nigerian state television said. Hundreds of aliens were reported to be boarding the vessels on Sunday night as angry scenes continued among immigrants blocked
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      • 51 5 SEVEN Japanese astronauts, including a woman doctor, have been chosen as candidates to go on a weeklong US space shuttle flight in 1968, Japan's National Space Development Agency said. Only one of the seven, aged between 29 and 37, will go on the mission, scheduled for January
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    • 476 5 Competitive position abroad undermined AP AMERICA's poor foreign trade performance has left the leaders of some of its largest corporations with a decidedly sombre view of the future. The glum assessment of the trade problem came during the just-concluded spring meeting of the Business Council, composed of
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    • 78 5 AFP THE US economy will experience moderate growth this year, modest growth in 1966, and will run into serious problems later if budget and trade deficits are not reduced rapidly, 12 leading economists warned in a report published yesterday. The economists gave their views at a
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 599 6 NYT STILL ANOTHER dimension was added to the booming Eurodollar market last Friday when the Philadelphia Board of Trade, a new unit of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, began trading its version of Eurodollar options. Unlike the Eurodollar options traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Philadelphia
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    • 266 6 AFP THE GOVERNOR of Maryland has broken off a tour of the Middle East to take control of a state hanking crisis similar to that which took place in Ohio two months ago and which triggered a slide of the US dollar.
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    • 183 6 Reuter FIVE MAJOR Japanese city Knnirg plan to issue 15 million to 20 million new shares at market prices through public placement on domestic markets and will issue convertible bonds worth about USHOO million in Europe. Banking sources in Tokyo said the five banks
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    • 157 6 Reuter PHILIPPINE Prime Minister Cesar Virata is hoping that there are no more obstacles to the signing of a US$925 million new money facility with the country's creditor banks. The signing, delayed twice previously, is scheduled for May 20 in New York.
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    • 741 6  -  Beginning this week BT introduces Sang Kancil, a Simex account set up by a small businessman to speculate in currency futures. Every week a log of the progress and thinking behind the decisions made will be recorded. Win or lose, Sang
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    • 330 6 Reuter BRAZIL and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to negotiate fresh economic reforms for the country in exchange for a new loan. Brazilian Finance Minister Francisco Dornelles said an IMF team would fly to Brazil on May 27 to continue negotiations,
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    • 112 6 Reuter HENRY KAUFMAN, chief economist at Salomon Brothers Inc. said the Federal Reserve might cut its discount rate in the next two or three weeks. A Salomon spokesman said Kaufman told clients in London a reduction in the US prime lending rates could
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 89 6 0 4 British Airways fly daily one-stop (lights to London. We are the first airline to leave Singapore at 10.10pm everyday. And the first to arrive in London by 6.20 am. So that at Heathrow, passengers on British Airways are the first from Singapore to get through immigration, collect their
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 921 7 SINGAPORE The US dollar recovered against major European currencies in thin late trading yesterday to close higher than New "York's Friday levels. The dollar opened weaker in the morning following its weakness in New York but firmed fairly sharply in the afternoon on European short-covering. Most operators were
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    • 340 7 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures opened unchanged yesterday from CME's closing level. Market sentiment appeared bullish, supported by strong fundamentals. However, technically the downside gap on CME's trading on Friday was still not filled. Trading was quiet with the market awaiting further direction from the economic data to be released
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    • 105 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by 1/4 point from last Friday to close at 4 per cent yesterday. The one and two-month term rates fell by 1/8 point each while the three-month rate fell by 1/16 point. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday:
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    • Article, Illustration
      338 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposits closed yesterday slightly lower than last Friday's finish, in light trading. Rates were depressed by good demand during the final leg of the US Treasury's mid-quarter refunding programme and by a forecast by economist Henry Kaufman that the Fed may cut the discount rate this
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    • 220 7 Interbank rotes at 3pm yesterday: Locol dollars to one unit of foreign currency quoted r*" rtorday et oaa partly US dolor Sterling pound Australian dolor NZ dolor Canadian dolor ***** 2 7583 1.5417 1 0078 1 6139 2 2210 2.7618 1 5447 1 0105 1 6158 ***** 7
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    • 200 7 HONGKONG: The metal closed a shade higher in active trading yesterday, mainly reflecting the weaker tone of the US dollar. The metal ended at U*****.70/317.20 an ounce compared with the previous 1316.30/80 close and Friday's $316.10/60 close in New York. On the local market, gold rose HK53.00 to close
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    • 147 7 AFP THE MONEY market in Kuwait witnessed a "marked briskness" in interbank transactions in March, with interbank deposits rising by 7.4 per cent against a fall of 7 per cent in the previous month. The latest monthly review by the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK)
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    • 213 7 Reuter AMERICAN credit markets may add to gains on a continued relatively low federal funds rate and weakness in monetary growth and the lack of significant new Treasury financing now that the refunding is finished. Analyst Philip Braverman of Briggs, Schaedle ft Co said:
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    • 67 7 Reuter THE US Treasury should be encouraged to finance its external deficit in European currency unit (ECU) loans. i Christopher Johnson, group economic adviser with Lloyds Bank PLC said in the bank's latest international financial outlook that ECU financing would relieve the markets' dollar indigestion
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  • FEATURES
    • 485 8 PRICE CUTS accompanied by easy payment Instalment plans are always welcome. New rulings on development charges announced by the government yesterday are just that. The price cut from 70 per cent to 50 per cent of the appreciation in the value of a plot of
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    • 972 8  -  The rich and fertile Pearl River region acts as a catalyst for progress elsewhere in China Feng Jiasong has become rich in modern China by taking a risk forbidden by the Cultural Revolution. Now, others are being encouraged to emulate his* actions. DAVID DODWELL reports from
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    • 707 8 NYT JUST A DECADE AGO, multinational companies were widely viewed as a scourge of the Third World. Alarmed by the companies' intrusions into local politics and overwhelmed by their economic might, many countries nationalised foreign holdings or placed tight restrictions on new investments.
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    • 500 8 NYT A CANADIAN banker recently told of a visit from a Hongkong businessman who said be had come to Vancouver to buy property but could spare only a week. The banker asked how much the visitor wanted to spend. The reply:
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  • SPORTS
    • 463 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS GOLFERS from Singapore will form the largest foreign contingent in the Malaysian golf circuit's richest tournament the Royal Johor Golf Classic which tees off with the Pro-Am tomorrow. In all, 24 of the Republic's golfers 14 pros and 10
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    • 293 9 AP DAVID PALMER and Jeff Reardon teamed for a six-hitter on Sunday as the Montreal Expos posted their fourth successive shutout and handed Atlanta its fourth blanking in a row, beating the Braves 4-0. In that baseball game, Palmer allowed five hits over eight
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    • 514 9 Reuter IVAN LENDL ended John McEnroe's three-year reign as the kingpin of the U*****,000 Tournament of Champions on Sunday when he posted a surprisingly easy 6-3 6-3 victory in the final. Breaking McEnroe's service four times while losing his own
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    • 346 9 UPI 808 EASTWOOD, given an unexpected chance at victory, bogeyed the first hole of a sudden-death playoff last Sunday but still- won the US$5OO,OO Byron Nelson Golf Classic over a stunned Payne Stewart. Stewart, wearing his collegiate colours and cheered on by a huge
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    • 229 9 Reuter PAM SHRIVER completed a remarkable comeback to top international tennis by winning the singles and doubles titles at the Australian Women's Indoor Championship on Sunday. After a three-month break from the circuit because she felt jaded, Shriver rediscoved her best form and showed no
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 994 9 HIGHLIGHTS Richard Strauss Bpm, Channel 12 A film which looks at the life and masterpieces of Richard Strauss (1864 1949), one of the most provocative composers of his period. There are a series of interviews with Strauss' contemporaries and extracts from his best known works such as Salome, Elektra and
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    • 653 9 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Might many get shot in flight? (5) 8 Is in the lab when he returns (5) 10 Woddly Titan (5) 11 She's short of wind (3) 12 Love to make an entrance, we hear (5) 13 Clubmen (7) 15 Are they paid for taking a rest?
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 523 10 Struggle for power within ailing news agency continues NYT REUTERS has confirmed that it Is consMeitng making a bid for United Press International. "We u« watching the situation closely and have looked at various options available to Reuters," said Glen Renfrew, director of
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    • 460 10 AP GENDUL ELECTRIC, America's fourth largest defence contractor, tea gone on trial accused of overcharging the foverameat by more than USfBHOM on Mhurteman Interconttawntal ballistic missile contracts. GE is charged with four counts of wishing and presenting false rUhna fsr payment and 104
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    • 639 10 FT CATERPILLAR TRACTOR, the world's leading construction equipment maker, is back on the attack after three years of huge losses. Mr Donald Fites, Caterpillar's new executive vice-presi-dent for marketing and sales, said recently in Paris: "We fully intend to remain the
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    • 148 10 Reuter W R GRACE and Co has cut its planned 1985 capital spending from the US$45O million projected earlier, vice-chairman Charles Erhart Jr said after the annual meeting. Earlier he told shareholders 1965 capital spending was expected to be more than $400 million, up
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 313 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed higher in fairly active two-way trading yesterday. The Hang Seng Index rose 14.93 to 1.62&29, a high for the year. Jardine Matheson and Jardine Securities were unchanged at HK$ll.BO and $13.20 respectively, but HK Land rose 10 cents to $6.05. Turnover was $424.65 million compared
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    • 200 11 MAY 13 AI Sancara Wu MT 2.42 23.20 +0.04 unch Lion Hwa Intfcjs Nan Ya Ptas Pocihc Cons Pacific Eloct Wira 12 00 26 90 ...18.20 ...13.50 +0.05 inch -0.1 0.25 Cathay Com Owng Hwa Bank Chan Loooo Chw Hrin Camant 23 90 48.00 20.30 21 30 14.30 +0.2
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    • 371 11 TOKYO: Share prices fell back from a firm opening yesterday as the market turned sluggish and closed slightly higher in light trading. The market average rose 14.22 to 12,541.53 after gaining 52.80 last Friday and hitting a day's high of 12,571.80 in early trading. Turnover was 300 million shares
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    • 111 11 MANILA: Share prices closed steady in continued dull trading yesterday. The Commercial and Industrial Index was unchanged at 129.72, the Mining Index was unchanged at 655.59 and the Oils Index was unchanged at 0.664. MAY IS Acoja Mining Nm 0 0014 uneh MantMi Onantal B Phfc* B ....***** inch
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    • 422 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed at a record high yesterday as buying by investors keen to switch out of US dollar investments met a shortage of scrip. The All Ordinaries Index rose to a record 892.7, up 8.4 from Friday and a 3.1 above the previous record set on May
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    • 164 11 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed higher in light trading yesterday. The Book Club Index rose 0.94 point to 137.80 and gainers led losers by nearly a two-to-one margin. Turnover stood at 293,055 shares compared with 1.2 million shares. MAY IS Mti ♦4 Stam Citizan Stam Q»y 102 704 ♦2 12
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    • 73 11 MAY 13 Won 600 Hyundai Const t I rJn. n/XJlOt... KAL 901 565 433 +8 -1? WO 666 •1 Commercial Bk 635 461 unc*> .7 YiAonn Korea Sh*> 1530 473 1 Daewoo Corp 465 560 •II 45 Lucky Ltd 590 711 -5 +2 uich 1 7V5 -1 Gold Star
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    • 64 11 Reuter KOREAN AIR LINES (KAL) has signed a US$l6O million contract with McDonnell Douglas Corporation of the US to buy six passenger aircraft. The airline plans to fly the MD-82 aircraft on domestic routes to help to cope with a big influx of foreign tourists
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    • 400 11 FT THE TWO Indian businessmen who last December bought a quarter of a 40 per cent stake in Dunlop India owned by Dunlop of the UK hope to acquire the rest of the UK equity within about a year. They have already taken
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    • 123 11 Kyodo KYOCERA CORP has agreed to a request from Japan's Posts and Telecommunications Ministry to stop the manufacture and sale of cordless phones, which only Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) is allowed to sell. Japanese ministry officials said on Friday that the Kyotobased
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    • 194 11 AP KIA INDUSTRIES Co said Ford Motor Co has agreed to market small cars from the South Korean carmaker in the US and Canada from 1987. KIA also annnounced that Ford plans to buy a portion of the company's stock. Mazda Motor Co
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    • 65 11 Reuter HONGKONG'S High Court has ruled that the government must pay the Hongkong Land Co Ltd HK$l46 million and return 84 residential flats now housing government employees. Justice Jackson Lipkin said the money included a $108 million deposit on a Victoria Peak site made in 1981
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 470 12 Bernama MALAYSIAN Primary Industries Minister Datuk Paul Leong expects the favourable prices for palm oil to continue in the current and coming months as production will remain low. He said that with the coming fasting month and Hari Raya Puasa,
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    • 142 12 Reuter PROSPECTS for Australia's meat industry are good over the next few years, but growing European Economic Community exports can be devastating. Australian Meat A Livestock Corp (AMLC) chairman Dick Austen said that prospects for Australian exports were reasonable in the US, Japanese and Pacific
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    • 211 12 AFP MALAYSIA'S export earnings from palm oil and its products increased by an impressive 58 per cent last year, overtaking combined foreign exchange earned from the traditional exports rubber and tin. Primary Industry Minister Paul Leong said exports of palm oil and its by-products totalled
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    • 166 12 UPI PHILIPPINE coconut exports for the first-quarter of 1965 totalled 147,487 tonnes, down 51.8 per cent from last year. The United Coconut Association of the Philippines said on Sunday the downswing "came largely from the drastic decline" in coconut oil shipments which went down 61.5
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    • 253 12 AFP INDONESIA should carefully weigh the consequences before deciding to withdraw from the International Coffee Organisation (ICO), Minister of Trade Rachmat Saleh has said. But withdrawal is always a possibility, Mr Rachmat said on Saturday, commenting on a recent proposal
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    • 77 12 AFP JAPAN and the United States yesterday resumed two days of talks on a US call for Japan to open its market wider to foreign lumber products. Japanese officials said the US would probably urge Japan to set the size and timing of tariff cuts on lumber imports
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    • 427 12  -  By MICHAEL NEILL HOT on the heels of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LOCI) is organising a trade mission to the Far East. A delegation of 15 British businessmen will visit Taiwan and
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    • 212 12 AFP AMERICAN budget director David Stockman has agreed in principle to begin administrative steps towards a US$l billion subsidy programme to boost US agricultural exports during the next three years. Reliable sources said the move, originally proposed by Senate Republican majority leader Robert Dole,
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    • 90 12 AFP INDIA has offered to sell Pakistan at least 500,000 tonnes of wheat to meet Pakistan's requirement of two million tonnes this year. The offer was made by the outgoing Indian Ambassador KD Sharma during a farewell meeting with the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of
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    • 157 12 Reuter THE WOOL TRADE expects prices to firm at this week's Australian auctions after last week's price falls, the Australian Council of Wool Buyers said. About 55,000 bales, this season's smallest offering, will be auctioned in Newcastle and Fremantle
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    • 146 12 Chinese Produce Exchange (SoNon' moon do«M prit Moy 13. SJ/100 kg). •a* on Coconut oil Bufc FOB 135.00 Od drum FOB 148.00 Now drum FOB 152.00 Copra v 70 Mixed (loose) i buyers Pepper Muntok Whito r FOB NLW 875.00 Sarawak Whito FOB faq NLW 865.00 Sarawak special
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    • 158 12 Yarn (1» HK$ per bote of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,550 Bus Phoenix 20's 2,700 But Phoenix 32's 3,150 Blue Pho»nix 4C s 3,550 Carded yarn, honk Blue Phoenix 21 's 2,900 Combed yam, cones BkM Phoenix 32's 4,250 Bfcje Phoenix MYs 4,400 Open-end
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    • 105 12 THE KLTM priee km sevea eeato to M$2B.T7 per kg ywtertoy la Uae wllli higher Lhlu tread last week. It is still beiew the IT A flearJevel ef $21.15. The priee firmed ea pendsteat Japaaeae aad leeal haylag, with renewed activity aeted (rem the haffer stock maaager. Diapeeala
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    • 143 12 THE Malaysian crude palm oil market closed lower in moderate trading yesterday on selling interest following a lack of fresh factors and buyers' reserve. In May, south and north dropped Ms6o and $50, respectively, to $1,390 per tonne and central $30 to $1,406. In June, south fell $10
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    • 201 12 SINGAPORE The market closed quietly firmer yesterday with June One RSS buyers quoted at 170.00 cents per kg, up 1.50 cents from last Friday. The morning market gained 1.25 cents on shortcovering of nearby positions. Prices finally dosed fractionally higher. MALAYSIA The market closed slightly higher yesterday, with June
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    • 315 12 RAS prices «s cwu/t*. fob NOON CLOSi Buyers Setters Buyers Setters lot I RSS Prompt 170 75 171 75N 170 75 *****N Int 1 RSS June 85 169 75 170 25 170 00 170 50 Int 1 RSS July 85 171.25 170.75 171.25 171 75 Int 2
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    • 103 12 (c««t*/kg, 1-to" JUNE 85 JULY 85 (currant month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS lnyw ScMtrs lllftfl Mien SSR 20 168 00 170.00N 170 00 172 00N SSR 50 166 00 I68 00N 168 00 170.00N MRELB Bvysfs c -n a jfwn SMR CV ***** 213 00N 213
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    • 274 12 Singapore C-1 Ord unq (S$/Mo, es-godown) Loonzain Rice Frog rant new crop ftftA 100% 1st grade 100% 2nd grade 2nd 064 100% 3rd grode unq 3rd 0.60 Parboiled Rice New Crop no stock 5% 227 25% 10% 222 10% no stock Thai Broken Maize unq A-super Special 056 0.54
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    • 288 12 COFFEE Robust* futures ended yesterday morning around session lows in all positions apart from July and with losses (ram last Friday of £39 to £8. July was at £2,140, down £25, but above the low at £2,133.' There was no fresh news and physical activity was quiet. No
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    • 161 12 NOTICE OF PREPAYMENT THE LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, LTD. Singapore Branch U.B. $15,000,000 Callabla Nagotiabla Floating Rata Dollar Cartfficataa off Dapoait No. *****1-*****0 iosuod on 15 Juno, 1962 Maturity 17 Juno, 1900. Colloblo in Juno 1905 NMm I* hereby given that In accordance with Clauses 3 5 of the
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    • 64 12 o The Saitama Bank, Limited Singapore Branch Negotiable Floating Rate U.S. Dollar Certificates of Deposit due 14th November, 1986 In accordance with the provisions of the Certificates of Deposit, notice Is hereby riven that for the Interest Period from 14 May 1985 to 14 November 1985 the Certificates will carry
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4118 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market recorded modest gains on a broad front yesterday as investors and punters welcomed the apparent settlement of the crisis in the Malaysian Chinese Association. The BT Composite Index rose 3.05 points to 717.13 and the Straits Times Industrial
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    • 235 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices y jpoff AM Ckoc 50* Sagaw Matal G 1 HMg. 50< 0 s G MMHM Onaatal HMfi f -t Dayap lad M Cm* 296 ••■21 Mar 10 Ma* 13 M 714.08 717.13 *****71 *****64 -89 +19 b 798.12 801.64 2319.65 2325 19 819.30 616.12
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    • 2669 13 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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    • 119 13 KULIM (MALAYSIA) BERHAD: Tenth AGM at Tiram Estate, Ulu Tiram, Johore, Malaysia today at noon. AMCOL ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Limited: AGM at 19. Wan Shih Road, Jurong, Singapore 2262 tomorrow at 10.00 am. ISETAN (SINGAPORE) Limited: Fourteenth AGM at the Conference Room, 18th Floor, Apollo Hotel, 405 Havelock Road,
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 471 14  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI INTERNATIONAL chartist David Fuller has confidently predicted that the Singapore stock market is about to stage a recovery, contrary to what most local analysts seem to be saying about the market. "My charts show that Singapore is due for
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    • 606 14 OVERSEAS TRUST Bank's (OTB) sale of Hongkong Chinese Bank (HCB) to Worthen Holdings (HK) in November last year has ended with OTB being issued with an HK$lB million writ. The South China Morning Post reported that the writ, issued
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    • 97 14 HONGKONG Friday 1991 8 Week ogo 1221 8 Hong Seng Index Monday *1628.29 Friday 1613.36 NEW YORK Week ago 1596.43 Dow Jones Friday 1274.18 TOKYO Thursday 1260.27 Week ago 1247.24 Tokyo Dow Jones Monday *****.53 Friday *****.31 Week ago Closed Standard Poors Friday 184.28 Thursday 181.92 Week ago
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    • 147 14 Bernama THE MULTI-PURPOSE group will not allow or tolerate "outsiders" interfering in the affairs of the company, its executive chairman Datuk Oon Seng Lee said. Supporters of the Neo Yee Pan faction of the MCA had adopted a resolution on Sunday calling for the
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    • 507 14 REVAMPED Malaysian Containers (1974) Bhd has decided to spend some of the cash from the recent sale of its manufacturing subsidiaries on acquiring two property companies. Its new controlling shareholder, Endiri Sdn Bhd, a bumiputra group, has also chosen to diversify MCB
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    • 567 14 PROFIT-TAKING for the fMMr part of yesterday raised share prices to etat sa a mixed to steadier as*» sa the Kuala Lumper stack market yesterTradtag activity resMtaMd at a fairly active pace while gains and losses were mostly marginal to ■Mdoate. Turnover improved slightly
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    • 2120 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. NJUSTRMLS Ajinomoto (3.305) xd A Choc (2 048 2.065) (I)
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    • 227 14 Monogers' prices for Moy 14 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 2.00 2.12 The Sovingt Fund 1.43 1.52 S'poc* Proa Fivtd 0 85 0.90 S pore Sec Fund 125 1.32 S'pore Invest Fund 0.91 0.96 S'pore Equity Fund 0.86 0.91 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest Fund 2.14 *2 27
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    • 532 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM ADVANCED plans by Straits Trading Co Ltd to obtain a listing for its subsidiary Malaysia Smelting Corp Sdn Bhd have been put off due to the recent ministerial directive to freeze new listings on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Singapore-based
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    • 507 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE PEAK HUA Industries Bhd, which failed in an earlier attempt to diversify its has come up with new proposals, this time to expand its property base. The building materials manufacturer, which currently has a limited presence in
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    • 280 15 PAHS MERLIN Malaytfa Bhi has been notified by Mr Chan Teik Hunt that he had acquired 18 million Fabe r shares representing 5.78 per cent of the company's equity. The consideration (or the purchase was not disclosed. THE Stock exchange of Singapore has asked G«M Mn Ltd to
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    • 188 15 PALMCO Holdings Bhd is acquiring a substantial stake in a public bank in Thailand for 90 million bahts. The purchase of a 12 per cent stake comprising 120,000 shares of 100 bahts each in Laem Thong Bank Co Ltd was made through
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    • 621 15 FAST—MOVING property and finance group MBf Holdings Bhd is making an all-share, unconditional bid for Emtex Corporation Bhd, which was recently embroiled in a boardroom tussle. The company, headed by its high-profile managing director, Datuk Loy Hean Heong, is offering six new MBf shares
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    • 72 14 This announcement appears as a matter of record only ALUMINIUM INDUSTRIES SDN. BHD. Deferred Payment Guarantees of U558,549,865 to part finance Msss million Aluminium Rolling Plant at Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia Manager STATE BANK OF INDIA Guaranteed by State Bank of India Singapore Branch Kantallis International Bank (Asia-Pacific) Ltd. Singapore
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    • 299 14 NOTICES ENG SIONG HOLDINGS (PTE) LTD. (ncofporaMd »i R*w«c of SmgapcMt VohMrv LmadMO* NOTK* OF FWiAL MEETMG NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act C?p 185 the Final Meeting of members of the Company wa be held on Tuesday 18th June. 1965 at 10.00
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    • 85 15 it -s ;s•s& ■S&sSS I iHnBVHM S>SB >■■■:■ X' 1 X v SSS* He* George! •<. business, AMf \l j' •<■• "Ss *i >* IS •W' •.>":>■ A IVJ^dS I) v> t A, 5 S&-, if f i :>■" J'SS f m s mm 9 a a k w .V
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  • 690 16  -  Eight sub-committees to make detailed studies By LOH HUI YIN EIGHT sub-committees have been formed under the Economic Committee for in-depth reviews of the key sectors of the economy. AD of them, except for the international trading sub-com-mittee, are chaired by members of the Economic
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  • 164 16 TOTAL bank loans in Singapore expanded by $94 million to $36.73 bfllion in February after a fall of $227 million in January. The increase is significant considering the seasonally low demand for credit in February. The Monetary Authority of Singapore, in its latest monthly
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  • 494 16 ABOUT 280 workers at Apple Computer International and Singapore KCK are to lose their Jobs. Fifty are from Apple, which tests and assembles printed circuit boards in an Ang Mo Kio factory. They will each be given three-months' pay. Apple, which
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  • 434 16 THE SEVEN-MEMBER ad hoc committee formed to clean op the MCA membership list will hold its first meeting in Kuala Lumpur today to lay down the guidelines for its task. National Front secretary-general Ghafar Baba, who heads the committee, will chair
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  • 332 16 AFP US COMMERCE Secretary Malcolm Baldrige yesterday said that several major issues hindered Sino-US trade. In an address to US businessmen in Beijing, Mr Baldrige said that among the hindrances were difficulty in repatriating earnings, uncertain application of Chinese
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  • 619 16  -  By ALVIN TAY MERCHANT BANKS' holdings of securities and equities have more than doubled to $2.1 billion during the two years ending 1964, reflecting the trig shift in emphasis from syndicated loans to trading in debt instruments. Figures by the Monetary Authority of Singapore
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  • 74 16 AFP HONGKONG businessmen yesterday expressed concern over the exclusion of 50 export items from duty-free treatment under the new US Generalised System of Preferences. "We are studying the matter and will probably urge the (Hongkong) government to petition the US government," said J P Lee
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  • 66 16 Reuter THE New York stock market headed higher in early trading yesterday, adding to the 24-point gain of the previous two sessions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up two points to 1277. Advances led declines by a three-two ratio on volume of 10.17 million shares. Progress
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  • LATE FILE
    • 44 16 AFP PHILIPPINES' Joaquin Roces yesterday received the Golden Pen of Freedom from the International Feder ation of Newspaper Publishers fw his services to his country's media. Mr Roces' Manila Times newspaper was banned under martial law in 1972. AFP.
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    • 60 16 AFP NEW ZEALAND'S Prime Minister David Lange yesterday said that the French underground nuclear test site at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific would have a very limited life if France continued conducting huge nuclear explosions there. Mr Lange added that the geology of the
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    • 49 16 AFP MANILA authorities yesterday arrested another militant lawyer, Marcos Risonar, bringing to three the number of opposition members detained so Car on orders of President Ferdinand Marcos. Mr Risonar was the regional chairman for the militant Nationalist Alliance in the southern island of Mindanao. AFP
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    • 55 16 AFP AN EXPLOSION, thought to be a bomb, left an unknown number of people injured at a secondary school in Noumea, on Sunday night Violence has erupted a number of times in recent months in this capital of New Caledonia, as native Kanaks press for independence
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    • 75 16 Reuter ABOUT 30 leftwing youths said yesterday that they would end their occupation of an Athens university building if friends arrested in clashes with riot police last week were released. University deputy dean ABris Argyriades, who negotiated with the youths, said they told him they
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    • 74 16 AFP ILLINOIS Governor James Thompson on Sunday commuted the 25-50 year sentence imposed on Gary Dotson in 1979 far a rape which his alleged victim now says be did not commit, and ordered his immediate release. Governor Thompson said although he was not convinced of Mr
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    • 59 16 IW Outlook for today: Shown in savaral areas from th« lota morning, clearing by lota of tor noon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.90pm on May 13 at th« airport: Maximum tamporatura 30.0 Associated humidity 77 Minimum tamporatura 23.5 humidity 93 Hours of sunshine 3.95 Rainfall in millimatres 11.2
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 72 17 AFP A JAPANESE fishing boat with nine crewmen aboard sank after a collision with a Soviet freighter in stormy weather in the Tsugaru Strait shortly after midnight on Sunday, Japanese Maritime Safety officials said. All nine crewmen of the 99-ton No 37 Yae Maru were picked up by
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      • 82 17 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN and New Zealand/Eastern Shipping Conference said it decided to waive the previously announced adjustment in currency adjustment factor (CAF) on its Hongkong to Australia service. It said a review of exchange rates will be carried out at the end of the month. The announcement on
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    • 543 17  -  Massive reorganisation of services By JUNE LIM BARBER BLUE Sea expects to "just about maintain" its market share in the US east/South-east Asia trade even with the reduction in its service. A spokesman of Barber Wilhelmsen Agencies said with the decline in exports
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    • 287 17 Bernama THE SOUTH-EAST Asian Agencyfor Regional Transport and Communications Development (Seatac) is carrying out a major review of links connecting Asean member countries with one another and with their main trading partners outside the region. The agency's director, Mr Klos Visessurakarn, said the review was
      Bernama  -  287 words
    • 731 18 UPI AMERICA'S ONLY overnight steamboats have abandoned the frozen north for a US$2.5 million terminal on the Mississippi river in the deep south the first of its kind in history. After several months of planning and trepidation, the 95-year-old Delta Queen Steamboat Company
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    • 493 18 Reuter A STRONG smell of fermenting grain rises from the mounds of relief supplies (riled up at Ethiopia's main Red Sea port of Assab, a lifeline for starving millions. Inside and outside the port, burst bags of grain, fertiliser and sugar spill their
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    • 658 18 Ateo VI 3 ANL 1 1 APC Lm V 4 APL 4 ASCL 1 Auobr ok ar V 5 Austoua Una V 1 BoW-Onent VI 4/5 Bangkok Cant VI 2 Bank Una V 5 Boytwater Shpg V 4 B8S 1 4/5 Ban Una V 3 Bhje Star
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    • 1865 18 THE freight market on Friday was featured by lively chartering to cover iron ore cargoes to the Continent and by lower rates for grain chartering from the US Gulf to Japan, shipbrokers. Iron ore was arranged from Sepetiba to Rotterdam and Ymuiden at U555.75 and from Ponta do
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    • 230 18 Lloyd's List ONE OF THE biggest North Atlantic liner operators, Atlantic Container Line, is boosting its competitive position in the trade by investing around US$B.5 million in new boxes. The company estimates that the switch from leased to owned containers will mean that this
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    • 193 19  -  By KINGSLEY WOOD TASMANIA HAS sent a team of government officials and senior police to the Port of Kiel, West Germany, to "protect" the state's As 26 million investment in the Bass Strait ferry Abel Tasman. The officials will try to convince 17 stewards
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    • 438 19 OVER-CAPACITY on the Far East-Europe trade will reach 40 per cent after Evergreen and United States Lines have phased in all the container ships in support of their global services. And this will place an "enormous" pressure on rates. "Rates have already fallen
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    • 243 19 INDONESIAN IMPORTS valued at less than US$5,OOO have the option of being checked at the points of origin by the appointed surveyor, SGS, or by customs officials at Indonesian ports. The cost of the survey will be borne by the Indonesian government, reported
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    • 224 19 May IMI 17th biennial conference annd assembly of the International Cargo Handling Coordination Association, Hilton Hotel, Rotterdam. May 14-14 Developments in subeea engineer tag systems for oil and gas production, Royal Institution of Naval Architects international symposium in ■asoHstion with the Society for Underwater Technology, Heathrow Penta Hotel,
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    • 136 19 Fairplay SEABORNE FREIGHT In UK ranched a record 9 bUAoa tonnemiles in 1903, more than double that in 1971, states n report pubii —i 1 iisoea recently. The report prepared Jointly by the Department of Transport and the University of Liverpool's Marine Transport centre
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    • 164 19 THE MAJOR chipping consortia operating between the Fir East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits porta/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACS (PAR EAST/EUROPE* Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. NepCbne Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. ChS V»1 «Kipping AMRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia/Straits Container Line. NedUejrd
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    • 118 19 THE ALUMINA carrier TNT Alltnas will be docked at Newcastle State Dockyard which removes the threat of industrial action to prevent it being repaired in an overseas yard. Cost of the work has not been given but as the carrier will be in dock for an
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    • 5767 24 aanaaaaß A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 658 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Maersk Mango 8520 14.5.85 2300 Maersk F5 1000-1100 B2 Anson *****N 14.5.85 2359 Heap Seng F3 1100-1200 N4 0 Strenght 40A 15.5.85 0700 Mansfield F2
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    • 1633 25 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A—• A Top Enterprises Pte Ltd Some (S). AB Shipping Boustead Shpg AgenCMS Afea Line African Shpg Agencies (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceania Shipping Agencies (S) Mult*>ort Sdn Bhd (PK) American President Lines APL (S)/Boustead
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    • 286 26 AFP THE tanker market remained depressed during the week, with an awaited improvement after the previous week's holidays in Europe and the Far East, failing to materialise. The Gulf states area was particularly quiet, despite the apparent absence of attacks on neutral shipping ahead of the religious holidays
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    • 586 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Imee Olden'ff K16 Borneo alongside *****/1500 Kota S'pura K31 PIL alongside *****/2359 Pole Star K29 Leo alongside *****/1800 Pyramids K28 LN Shpg alongside *****/0500 Str Pride K25W SSPL alongside *****/0000 Tomoe Satu KU Kle Gwan alongside 143.85/1500
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    • 287 17 fo retgn EXChO^ Dealing TIMES BOOKS INTERNATIONAL Times Centre 1 New Industrial Road Spore 1953 Tel: *****44 A member of the times Of gantiohon 556.50 Each AMERICA'S ONLY overnight steamboats have abandoned the frozen north for a US$2.5 million terminal on the Mississippi river. OVER-CAPACITY on the Far East-Europe trade
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    • 299 20 V, IF Hapag-Lloyd TO CONTINENT UK Or carriatt to ScmAmvu, Mm* Iwdgt to IMand dw Mad, Carribtan t S. toubora toEvope TO USA/CANADA Mjo accepting cargo to ATLAKTK 4 CU.F PORTS 14/5 14/5 17/5 FROM USA CANADA n Sfm NMtNrts 15/5 14/5 W. Km K/5 M/ 5 HK. KWt »/5
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    • 543 21 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES V\C PIL Building. 140 Cm' Street 03 Ou Sinqaporp 0 106 Tel: EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES LOAOtNO FOB: tS-M/S 20-24/5 SVI/1 5-W« ■OTA MTU ROTA AOUNQ f-WI DJWOUTUK>OCIOA»UCOOAIUOABA \-V% TAMATAVE. PtALAAM. MO—AM. j 10-15/t DJMOUTI, HOOCDAM, it DO AM, MKT KARACHI/M.E. GULF SERVICES 4-14/1 30-4/7 22-26/5 17-21/4 17-14/5
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    • 902 22 CfK LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. vox mis ns srw kok omyaqimcauao KMC* W* MA6ASM lmimo«nmm am 23 Htr n i Mr 27 Mir 111* m 2N IN 7Mi SMi 11 Mi 13 Mi TAIWAN-JAPAN-CHIN A V3S mm wr vm SOUTH AFRICA U VML VS3IM STOK OUBM P 08. LUM
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    • 482 23 a NEPTUNE NOL ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROP€ FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE «.«»ct TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): MREIBUKX «W+. BMXESN C MM. 44V1 TVRRBGE2SW C CCNTAfG 30H K CHANCE 221 S'pore Sailed 15/5 (20/5) 22/5 (27/5) 29/5 3/6) 5/6 (10/6) 12/6 (17/6) 19/6 Also accepting cano to/from Scandinavia MAETERUNCK S'pore Closing
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