The Business Times, 29 July 1985

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. <P> No. 99/1/85 MONDAY, JULY ISBS 60 CENTS
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  • 560 1  -  Operators uncertain about future needs By BRIAN GOMEZ, Industrial Correspondent SINGAPORE'S two independent oil terminal operators are trying to ride out the poor market amid uncertainty about their eventual roles. The current capacity provided by the oil refineries and the two terminals will result in "structural
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  • 177 1 VAN OMMEREN TERMINAL (Singapore) will offer a pioneering service for distribution of petrochemicals throughout the region later this year. The managing director of VOTS, Mr HC van Westenbrugge, told BT that about 30,000 cu m of tankage had been built, and piping facilities would be completed
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  • 158 1 UPI BANKAMERICA International plans to sell or close between 10 and 15 of its branches in Latin America in order to redirect its lending efforts. George Cherrie, the head of the bank's Latin American and Caribbean division, which oversees 99 offices in Latin
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  • 445 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN LOCAL COMPANIES which invest in high-risk new technology may get loans at concessionary interest rates from the Economic Development Board. The loans will come from the Economic Development Board's $100-million Venture Capital Fund, one of the several measures announced
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  • 166 1 AFP A WEST GERMAN wine grower warned provincial authorities two years ago that something seemed to be wrong with imported Austrian wines, now caught up in a massive contamination scandal. Arnold Friederichs, from the small town of Cochem on the river Moselle south of Koblenz,
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  • 321 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE JOBS OF ABOUT 200 workers at Hitachi Zosen Robin Dockyard have been saved by some last-minute repair orders. A planned layoff, which was to have lasted for two or three weeks, was called off recently when the
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  • 108 1 Reuter PRINCE SIHANOUK, the head of the UN-recognised Cambodian resistance forces, yesterday accused his partners, the Khmer Rouge, of killing 38 of his fighters between February and June. The prince, in a statement released in Beijing, said that he would resign from the coalition
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  • 156 1 NYT WEST GERMANY achieved a visible trade surplus of DM5.5 billion in June, bringing the first half-year surplus to a record DM32.1 billion compared with DM19.97 billion in the first half of 1984. After excluding traditional deficits on "invisibles", the country's
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    • 298 1 mtz Elisabeth Lachmann ...one of the ••van aoloiata wm SHARE INFORMATION MONEY A EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS LETTERS CROSSWORDS TV A RADIO DOONESBURY BRISTOW TWENTY YEARS after John Huberman's article, discipline without punishment is employed in more than 200 large and lesser American companies. In its approach, discipline without punishment seeks
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    • 70 1 This week, the SSO and a group of aeven vocalists present Franz Lehar's operetta The Lend Of Smiles. Those who know Lehar will probably remember him best for The Merry Widow, his first and most popular work. This operetta it reputed to be the first Viennese operetta to achieve world
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1270 2  -  By TSANG SAU YIN A potato chip factory in the US with a very large workforce suffered from a high turnover rate in spite of giving a reasonable level of wages. But this was not the primary concern of the management. Rather, it was customer satisfaction
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    • FRONTIERS
      • 510 2  -  Compiled by LEE HAN SHIH NYT ABOUT 2,500 Californians can expect to die each year for the next decade as a result of cancers caused by exposure to toxic chemicals. This figure is contained in a report released last week by a US government agency that
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      • 342 2 NYT A NEW TYPE of robot grip per, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, picks up a telephone receiver and presents it to the waiting hand of Peter Scott, the roboticist at Imperial College, London University, who invented the device.
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    • 1377 3  -  A shopping centre fights to win customers By MONICA GWEE "GOD AND SCOTTS help those who help themselves," said Rafiq Jumabhoy, half in jest. Mr Jumabhoy, a director of Scotts Holding Pte Ltd, was sitting among his calm and hardheaded team of strategists.
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    • 721 3  -  By RENEE HAINES-SAINE UPI SERVING UP six-figure salaries is what executives at Luby's Cafeterias Inc in Texas say is the secret of its considerable and stable success in the volatile restaurant market. The loyalty of this relatively small cafeteria chain's customers is more than matched
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    • 380 3 "FRANKLY, I think they just want to tap our ideas because they're running out of their own, but what's wrong with that?" asked a Scotts tenant. "I think it was an excellent seminar," said a representative from Designers Row, a Scotts boutique carrying European
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 614 4 NYT REPORTS FROM ALL OVER Punjab have suggested that the accord between Sikh leaders and the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which Sikh political leaders approved on Friday, is winning wide acceptance. But analysts in India said on Saturday that they were worried
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    • 336 4 UPI FOR THE THIRD consecutive year, serious crimes in the US dropped 2 per cent in 1984, but violent crimes rose by one per cent with rape increasing 7 per cent. The FBI reported in its 1984 annual crime survey, titled "Crime
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    • 150 4 AFP WEST GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl said on Saturday that his government would not follow France in withdrawing its ambassador from South Africa or declaring sanctions against the Pretoria government in protest against its racial policies. In an interview with the West German radio
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    • 313 4 Reuter FORMER UGANDAN President Idi Amin has declared his support for the coup which toppled President Milton Obote and said he is ready to rescue his country. In a telephone interview from Jeddah on Saturday, Mr Amin said: "I support the coup. I call
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 53 4 Reuter CHINA plans to build a 500 million yuan dyke (US$l7B million) across the estuary of the Yangtze River to control silting of its navigable channels. The People's Daily said on Saturday that the 6,000-km river carries about 500 million tonnes of silt down to the delta
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      • 58 4 OFFICERS of the Libyan armed forces have been executed for refusing to obey orders from foreign military advisers, particularly Soviet advisers. The Egyptian newspaper A 1 Ahram said on Saturday that most of the officers involved belonged to the Libyan navy or air force. Other officers had been
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      • 51 4 CUBAN leader Fidel Castro has signed a US$l.3 million deal to write three books on religion, economics and the Third World. The US News A World Report on Saturday quoted publishing sources as saying that Mr Castro had signed the deal with the publishing firm of Simon
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      • 59 4 A NEW LOT of 314 Amerasian children and relatives was in Bangkok on Friday en route to new homes in the US. A US embassy spokesman said the 124 children, whose fathers were mostly US servicemen in the Vietnam War, arrived from Ho Chi Minh City on
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      • 53 4 Agencies BRITISH motorists response wble for fatal accidents could be jailed for life under proposals by a government-ap-pointed inquiry team. The six-man committee also recommended imposing heavier fines on traffic offenders, confiscating their cars and in some cases requiring them to pay direct compensation to victims or work
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    • 362 5 Reuter THE LEADER of the first Indonesian trade mission to China since relations between the two countries were cut 18 years ago has said that he hopes to establish good relations with China. The 123-member Indonesian mission includes the board of the Indonesian
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    • 698 5 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time PAA PA2I 0020 LAX/TYO/ HKG SIA SQ4I 0605 MAA MAS MH60I 0720 KUL SIA SQ43 0750 DHA SIA SQ45 0815 MRU MAS MH68I 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH67I 0935 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN SV SV378 0940
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    • 308 5 AP CHINA HAS NAMED a new air force commander in the People's Liberation Army and said his first task is to reduce the 400,000-member air force by 120,000 men. General Zhang Tingfa, 72, who joined the Red Army when he
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    • 163 5 AFP THE FORMER foreign minister of the Philippines, Arturo Tolentino, has called for an end to the 20-year-old rule of President Ferdinand Marcos amid mounting communist insurgency and economic crisis. The Malaya newspaper yesterday quoted Mr Tolentino as telling a forum in Manila
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    • 127 5 Bernama JOHOR POLICE will be investigating a report that illegal immigrants are buying letters signed by politicians and community leaders in Pontian recommending them for jobs to "legalise their stay in Malaysia". The Johor Chief Police Officer Sac Mansor Mohamed Noor told Bernama yesterday that "we will
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    • 383 5 AFP A NEWSPAPER REPORT last month stating that human skeleton exporters in India have been murdering children for their skulls has led to the police turning up suspicious boxes of bones and the government agreeing to an investigation. The police chief of the
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    • 392 5 AP JAPAN'S "action programme", a package of trade liberalisation measures to be announced tomorrow, will open its market wider than the "international norm" under a three-year time frame. The Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun and the Kyodo News Service have obtained draft copies of
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    • 299 5 AFP THE SIGNING of a nuclear cooperation agreement and the Japanese trade surplus are expected to top the agenda at a Sino-Japanese ministerial meeting in Tokyo tomorrow and Wednesday. Government sources in Tokyo said yesterday that Wednesday's ratification of the accord would enable Japan
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    • 388 5 AP THE AMERICAN ambassador to Japan, Mike Mansfield, told senior Japanese government officials on Saturday that US congressmen would most likely take Capitol Hill's growing frustration over trade with Japan back to their constituencies during the summer recess next month. At a special
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 669 6 FT THE PHILIPPINE government has decided to sell its holdings in six commercial banks and a large agricultural bank in one of its most significant policy actions since it signed a two-year standby arrangement with the IMF late last year. The bank divestment
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    • 345 6  -  By SOH TIANG KENG, Financial Corraspondant AN AMERICAN technical analyst and an expert on financial futures, Mr Kenneth Shaleen, has predicted the US dollar would continue to fall. He told BT last Friday that by the end of the year, the dollar
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    • 70 6 Reuter THE MAJOR BRITISH clearing banks are expected to cut their base rates to 11 Vj per cent from 12 per cent today. Most of the major banks believe the current structure of money market rates would justify a cut. The Bank of England
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    • 124 6 Reuter PRESIDENT REAGAN'S chief economist, Beryl Sprinkel, was quoted on Saturday as saying that a stronger US economy during the rest of this year would probably halt declining interest rates and might even boost them slightly. In an interview with The New York Times,
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    • 183 6 Reuter MEMBERS of the loss-making Richard Beckett Underwriting Syndicates at the Lloyd's insurance market could face larger than previously stated losses. Additional Underwriting chairman lan Morrow said on Friday that his company was appointed by Lloyd's to look after the affairs of members of the
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    • 266 6 Union Bank of Switzerland FOR ONCE, it was not the US dollar but the Italian Lira which made this week's headlines. After forex markets were closed surprisingly in Italy last Friday, the EMS parities were newly stipulated. The result was that ECU central rate of the lira
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    • 264 6 National Discount Co THE INTERBANK money market saw erratic trading last week. Early in the week, shortage of liquidity in the system caused overnight rate to firm to six per cent but suspected official intervention brought the rate to a low of 3 1 2
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    • 233 6 Asian market ASIAN currency average deposit rates for the week ended July 26 BIO PRICES High Low US 7 days 8 1/8 7 13/16 1 month 8 1/16 7 7/8 2 months 8 1/8 7 15/16 3 months 8 3/16 8 1/16 4 months 8 8 1/4 6 months 8
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    • 346 6 Reuter THE SCANDAL surrounding the collapse of a British bank broadened on Friday when an opposition Member of Parliament alleged that witnesses in the ease were being threatened. The British government has ordered police to open a fraud inquiry into circumstances surrounding the
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    • 103 6 Reuter COLOMBO HAS WON International Monetary Fund approval for its economic programme and a US$l billion loan from its foreign creditor banks. The Finance Ministry said in Bogota on Friday that 95 per cent of the creditor banks contacted officially had agreed to join the loan to
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    • 231 6 Green Collier AMONG the Simex/CME contracts, September deutschemark was the most active as bullish sentiment on the currency persisted the whole of last week. This contract started the week at the week's low of 3457 but by Friday had advanced 90 points to
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    • 537 6 PLR of bonks at the close of business on Friday, July 26 as supplied by the Association of Banks in Singapore. BANK PLR Algemene Bank 8'4 Americon Express 9 Am'Dom R'terdom Bonk 8'i Arob Banking Corp 8* Arab Bank Ltd 9 Asia Commercial 8 ANZ Banking Group
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    • 31 6 The range of call rates for the week ended Friday, July 26: Bonk fund 5—53 General fund 1 5—535 $m Movements of funds 1,959m Source: Short Deposits (M) Bhd
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    • 490 6 From Butterworths Asia CURRENT ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL LAW Chief Editor: David G Pierce, AB(Darl). JD(Harv). LLM(Lond); Co-Editors: Helena H M Chan, LLB(Hons)(Sing). LLM(Harv); Frederick E Lacroix, BA(Cantab), MA(Harv), MSc(Lond); and Philip N Pillai, LLB(Hons)(Sing), LLM, SJD(Harv), Associate Professor of Law July 1985 Approx 507 pages Hard cover Ssl3s/Mslso The
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    • 413 6 presents Its Third Annual NATIONAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE The Forging of Our Nation NEW DIRECTIONS AT CROSSROADS Official Opening by YB Datuk Abdullah bin Hj Ahmad Badawi Minister of Education, Malaysia Venue: Regent Ballroom, Kuala Lumpur. LUCHEON ADDRESS INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN SABAH Special Guest Speaker YAB Dotuk Joseph Pairin Kilingan Chief
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  • SPORTS
    • 515 7  -  By BRIAN MILLER WITH ALL EYES focussed on the big guns in the unofficial Pesta Sukan Cup "trial", it took a runner from the Restricted Class to steal the thunder at Bukit Timah yesterday. He was Asian Beau, a three-year-old New Zealand gelding
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    • 271 7 Reuter IVAN LENDL ended Wimbledon champion Boris Becker's winning streak at 16 matches and Andrea Temesvari of Hungary won the women's singles title on Saturday at the US Open clay court championships. Lendl, the top seed, lost the opening set of his
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    • 174 7 AFP RAY FLOYD of the US retained his one-stroke lead in the US$6OO,OOO Greater Hartford Open golf tournament in Connecticut on Saturday after completion of the rain-interrupted second round. The 42-year-old Floyd reached the half-way stage of the event 10-under-par on 132 after a
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    • 549 7  -  By WALTON MORAIS LIM KIAN TIONG, who finished third in the Malaysian PGA championship on Friday, must start as favourite in today's 36hole monthly medal competition at the New Course. The Island Club marshal is hot
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    • 410 7  -  By ANNA TEO A BAD BLISTER cost Albert Teo the first Singapore Circuit tournament title yesterday at the Singapore Tennis Centre. Apparently, three days of hard-hitting play took its toll on the second-year law undergraduate who, bothered by a cutting blister on his right palm,
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    • 436 7 AFP NO FEWER than three world records fell on a magical night of sparkling performances and excitement at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo on Friday. Britain's Steve Cram, who just eleven days earlier set a new world 1500 metres record at Nice, added his
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  • FEATURES
    • 1695 8  -  By JUNE LIM IT'S LIKE Chinese New Year, comments a shipping executive as she surveys the scene around her. The sparks from the welding torches which once lighted up the Tuas landscape flash only occasionally. But this is not the annual 15day holiday which is the shipyard's
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    • 377 8  -  letters to the Editor JACOB TAN Dear Sir, As an employee of Hewlett Packard (HP), I take offence to Lee Han Shih's article, "Pay cut for Hewlett staff" (BT July 23). While fragments of Mr Lee's story were accurate, the article
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    • 262 8  -  NORMAN WRIGHT Managing Partner (Sooth-east Asia) Egon Zehnder International Dear Sir, I read with interest Susan Postlewaite's article on "How to Cut Out the Headhunter", published on July 22 in BT, and the review of Mr Kenneth Cole's book "Headhunter Strategy". "Headhunter" has, of late, become
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 662 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Grub of a popular vonety (5) 6 Her associates are neither hopeless nor uncharitable' (5) 9 It went long distances and needed a large envelope (7) 10 Hos to get into a hole (5) 11 Checks on the horses (5) 12 Measures opposed two ways (5)
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  • THE ARTS
    • 679 9  -  By MARIE DAVID MOST PEOPLE tend to see radio as the poor cousin of television. The telly is more glamorous simply because whoever or whatever can actually be seen by the viewer. On the radio, there are only a series
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    • 687 9  -  This week, the SSO and a group of seven vocalists present Franz Lehar's operetta The Land Of Smiles. Those who know Lehar will probably remember him best for The Merry Widow, his first and most popular work. This operetta is reputed to be the first Viennese
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    • 745 9  -  By JAIME LYE ONE HAS the tendency to look like he is about to hold his breath and turn blue whenever a scene calls for an angry look. The other is an applecheeked, beady-eyed wonder who has somehow managed
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1160 9 to (Mo mm -j CLASSICAL MOMENTS Music Only 9 pm, Channel 12 The Czech Philarmonic performs pieces such as the Overture of Don Giovanni by Mozart (above), Smetana's The Moldau from Ma Vlast and Dvorak's Slav Dance. K 12 NJ mHz In VHF Band II 800 PM Programme Highlights Wor|d
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 247 10 AFP AUSTRALIA'S biggest company, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd, has achieved a record net profit of AJ752.59 million for the year to May 31. The profit easily surpassed the previous year's record of $622.25 million. Group sales for the latest year totalled $7.1 billion
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    • 250 10 July 27 Yen 1140 Mitsub Chem Mitsubishi 456xd 680 358 13 15 -1 Akoi Amodo 370 753 831 -5 -5 -10 Mitsub Estate Mitsub Heavy 940 350 440 +7 +7 16 831 -13 182 5 968 32 503 -15 560 -7 640 unch 900 +20 Mitsumi 680 unch Cosio
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    • 349 10 Reuter PRICES ON WALL STREET ended moderately higher in lacklustre trading last Friday with shares of car companies posting gains in spite of lower corporate earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 3.47 to close at 1357.08 while the volume on the New York
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    • 199 10 JULY 26 land Wootwortti 1650 25 INOUSTVIALS MININGS A Alpha 950 -10 145 -3 2710 -15 AE And a 830 10 -10 Angtvoal 9850 60 Amapcop 2875 ButteH 6000 150 1100 -15 500 30 C G Smith 2500 250 Cons Gold I275S 260 20 1000 unch 415 -10 975
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    • 94 10 JULY 26 c$ 18** Hud Bay Mm tmp Oi 7% 49% 20% 37% 1% 42% 22% kit Uts 18% 21 Kerr Add 16% 30% Lofaiaw B 20% 13% 2% unch 43 21% BP Con Ltd 33% 16 unch Braveon 28% Moor* Cp 27% Can knp Bk 36% Norando 19%
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    • 633 10 JULY 26 US$ Alcan AKjnwi Alcoa Alegheny Lud Afced Chem Cp AJbed Stores Ala-Chalmers Am Brands Inc Am Broadcast Am Can Co Am Cyanamd Am Elec Pwt Am Express Am Horn* Prod Am Motors Cp Am Natural Gos Am T«l Tel Amax Inc Amerodo Hess AMF fcK Amr
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    • 882 10 Amsterdam JULY 26 Fb ABN 504 00 1.5 Aegon 101 30 4-0 2 Ahold 242 00 +17 Akzo 122 50 -0 1 AMEV 273 50 04 Amfos Arrvo Bonk 88 00 -0 7 Berk el 44 50 +1 Bob 99 00 08 Borsumn 365 00 +3 Boikofa But
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    • 57 10 Reuter THE WHOLLY-OWNED subsidiary of British Caledonian Airways, Caledonian Far East Airways, has applied for licences to serve a new regional network linking Hongkong and several Asian cities. Last Friday, British Caledonian vice-chairman said Caledonian Far East will negotiate with eleven countries to set up services late
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 430 11 Reuter WALL STREET ANALYSTS expect British financier Sir James Goldsmith to liquidate Crown Zellerbach, a forest products company he gained control of last week after an eight-month struggle. Sir James has not said what he intends to do with Crown Zellerbach. but analysts speculated
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    • 300 11 Reuter TRANS WORLD AIRLINES Inc and Texas Air Corp have agreed on procedures to be followed by Texas Air Corp in getting rid of its TWA holdings if the merger agreement between the two companies falls through or is superseded by another offer for TWA. Last week,
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    • 170 11 Reuter GUINNESS PLC has extended the period of its offer for Arthur Bell and Sons PLC to 1400 GMT on Aug 6, after receiving acceptances of its offer amounting to 5.22 per cent of Bell's ordinary share capital. Acceptances of the offer for Bell's
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    • 71 11 Reuter CABLE and Wireless PLC made as good a start to the 1985 86 financial year as in either of the two previous years, when it reported record results. Last Friday, chairman Eric Sharp told the annual meeting he was confident C and W would
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    • 58 11 Reuter GLOBAL MARINE Inc said it took a charge of US$3O million to reduce the carrying value of oil and gas properties in its sec-ond-quarter loss of $55.2 million, compared with a loss of $7.4 million last year. The company said the reduction reflects the anticipated decline of
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    • 632 11 UPI CANADIAN OFFICIALS suspect Toyota Motor Corp eventually will try to join North American car makers in the 1965 car trade pact between Canada and the United States. They believe the Japanese manufacturer has structured its plans for assembly plants in Canada and the
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    • 378 11 Reuter BRITOIL HAS CUT its forecast of net profits for next year by £5 million to £185 million, just days before the government is expected to sell its remaining 49 per cent stake in the company. It has reduced the £190 million forecast published three weeks
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    • 99 11 Bernama SUMITOMO Rubber Industries has acquired a 10.9 per cent stake in New York-based tyre maker Dunlop Tire Corp, a subsidiary of Bill PLC of Britain. The purchase price amounted to US$l.25 million but Sumitomo's total capital participation came to $8.75 million, including $2.5 million for
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 490 12 AFP THE INTERNATIONAL Coffee Organisation has decided that "no emergency measures" are necessary at present to boost declining world coffee prices. ICO consumer members said the organisation, which ended a week-long meeting in London on Friday, will wait to see how the
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    • 343 12 Reuter, AFP AFTER TWO SUCCESSIVE bumper harvests, India is facing acute grain-storage problems as a result of the success of its agricultural development programme. Some of them have been left lying in the open, at the mercies of monsoon rains. The London-based International Wheat Council
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    • 179 12 Reuter THE INTERNATIONAL Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) council will hold a special session on Aug 13 and 14 to review buffer stock operations. The meeting follows a rise in the Inro buffer stock to more than 300,000 tonnes. Under Inro rules a special
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    • 174 12 PALM oil prices slipped last week as exports from Indonesia were stepped up in the wake of the removal of export duty. The added competition of Indonesian processed palm oil against Malaysian produce took its toll on prices. Both crude and processed were under pressure and
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    • 205 12 FLAT and particularly quiet conditions ruled throughout last week on the Malaysian and Singapore markets, in contrast to the previous week's erratic movements, as current RSS One held static just above the 171-cent (S) mark. The overall mood was bearish on continuing lack of overseas orders and easier Japanese
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    • 30 12 KL TIN Dote Clostng prices Turnover MS/kilo (tonnes) July 22 31.07 51 July 23 31.05 80 July 24 31 06 56 July 25 3111 50 July 26 31 06 70
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    • 155 12 Chinese Produce Robust o 20/25% Exchange FOB NSW 460 00 (Sellers' noon closing prices on Nutmeg July 27 (SS/100 kg) 110 FOB NSW 454 00 Coconut oil E&W FOB NSW 330 00 i Bulk FOB 100 00 Gombier Old drum FOB New drum FOB VJ u» 88 FOB
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    • 378 12 AFP THE INTERNATIONAL wheat Council has reduced its estimate of 1985 world wheat production by two million tonnes, to 522 million tonnes, which still outstrips last year's record of 520 million tonnes. The council explained that
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    • 721 12 LONDON commodity markets again remained at the mercy of currency fluctuations last week, with other factors having only a fleeting influence. Gold: Irregular. After a quietly steady start, with limited background support provided by tension in South Africa, prices moved higher under
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 5556 13  -  11- By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN IT'LL GO DOWN in the record books as the week Malaysian shares stole the show. The Singapore market moved up last week on three days, propelled by Malaysian counters which enjoyed steady buying support from across the Causeway. In spite of
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    • 275 13 E BCI PROFIT-TAKING was evident in Milan last week, when the market reversed some of its recent gains. But the general tone was also dampened by the Consob decision to raise the compulsory deposit requirement from 50 per cent to 70 per cent. The measure
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    • 552 13  -  Week ended July 26 compiled by JULIANA TAY SCRIP ISSUES Dah Yung. Bonus issue of one-for-five and rights issue of one-for-one at $1. (Bonus entitled to rights) CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Cerebos Pacific Ltd, through its fully-owned Australian subsidiary Cerebos Australia Ltd, has acquired the assets of
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    • 1577 14  -  frrm| London S!£!L-! A By GERALD COLVERD THIS might be an apposite time to take a straw poll of stockmarket observers to seek an answer to the questions of where the share price level will now proceed after having hit the low of the year. It may
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    • 183 14 Reuter LONDON'S recently-robust stock market has caught a bad summer cold and investors are worried it may develop into something more serious and lasting. Only two months ago, the market had touched a record high. It has since suffered a semi-collapse that
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    • 174 14 AFP THE Hongkong stock market bounced through an erratic week that included the setting of two four-year highs to end 4.71 points higher than the previous week. The Hang Seng Index closed at 1,683.58, compared with 1,678.87 the week before. The market
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    • 416 14 Tokyo j AFP SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo stock market were mixed last week with the 225-blue chip Dow Jones Average scoring a 140.45 yen weekly loss and the composite index of all stocks listed on the first section posting a 6.38point gain. The
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    • 620 14 en ■/J J ew AP STOCK MARKET investors have been scrambling lately to try to profit from the recent decline of the US dollar on foreign exchanges. The most logical and common strategy has been to seek out stocks of international companies
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    • 522 14 LAST FULL YEAR Company Period Date Year Net EPS Gross Net announced ending (cents) di» profit last year ($'000) Pahang Inv Final Jan 31 Dec 84 9.352L Murato Final Apr 30 Mar 85 78 21 7 14,334d Killinghall Tin Final May 31 Dec 84 69 260 7.415 Sel
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    • 621 14 MM K.Lumpur J BULLS charged at the Kuala Lumpur stock market last week, setting a record-breaking performance on Tuesday with turnover of 30.15 million shares the highest in the market's history. Waves of buying drowned profit-taking for the greater part of
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    • 300 14 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S sharemarkets have hit record highs in the past six sessions, fuelled by takeover activity and a shortage of scrip, and in defiance of negative indicators, dealers said. Share prices have risen sharply since the beginning of July on such bids as the US$l billion GJ
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    • 500 14 NOTICES PUBLIC AUCTION CHAPTER 222 (PAWNBROKERS) Unredeemed pledges made up to January 1985 with the following pawnshops will be sold by public auction Ban Hin Pawnshop Blk 2 Jin Bukit Merah #01 5162 Ban Joo Pawnshop Blk 1 Tg Pagar Plaza #01 15 Ban Kim Pawnshop 296 Balestier Road Ban
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 346 15 Mm mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW THE PAST FORTNIGHT, certainly an epoch-making period for both the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stock markets, will best be remembered not so much for the sharp rebound in share prices but for the pioneering efforts of the Malaysian Finance Minister
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 86 15 made M 52.45 million pre-tax profits for the year to end April compared with $2.83 million previously. Turnover amounted to $1.97 million ($1.90 million) and attributable profits $1.44 million ($1.64 million). Earnings per" share after tax were 23 cents against 28 cents the year before. The
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    • 200 15 Bernama GENERAL LUMBER (Holdings) Bhd will hold an extraordinary general meeting on Aug 15 to seek shareholders' approval, among other things, on the proposed disposal of its whollyowned subsidiary, Sawit Oil Industries Sdn Bhd, which owns a palm oil refinery in Johor, to Perbadanan Kilang
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    • 243 15 GANDA HOLDINGS Bhd's recent one-for-four rights issue of 19.83 million shares has been slightly over-subscribed. It has announced that as at close of acceptances for the rights issue on July 19, the offer was over subscribed by 194,000 shares. Acceptances for the entitlement
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    • 451 15  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN THE RATE OF PROGRESS at Kuok-controlled Perusahaan Pelangi Bhd slowed in the second half of the year. For the 12 months to end March, the housing and property development group pushed pre-tax profits up by a tenth from M 517.7 million to
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    • 238 15 THE CAPITAL Issues Committee will discuss the corporatisation of Malaysian stockbroking companies on Aug 6. The meeting, originally fixed for July 22, was postponed because Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin had to meet fund managers and institutional investors on the same day. Besides government and Bank Negara officials,
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    • 83 15 MR CHONG CHEE YIN, a director of UMW for the past three and a half years, has retired from the board. Mr Chong has been with UMW since 1961. SAMANDA foldings Bhd has received approval from the Foreign Investment Committee for the sale of its Sama Holdings subsidiary
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    • 1031 15 Consolidated Balance Sheet conden—d at 31«t December 1984—with comparative figures Assets Liabilities December 31,1984 DM in Millions Cash funds Bills of exchange Claims on banks Treasury bills and discountable Treasury notes Bonds and notes Securities not to be shown elsewhere Claims on customers Mortgage bank lendings including accrued interest Subsidiaries,
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  • 555 16  -  By LOH HUI YIN THERE IS POTENTIAL for a modern steel fabrication yard in Tianjin, China, where the present output is inadequate and of inferior quality. Mr Tao Zongyu, the deputy director of Tianjin's foreign economic relations and trade commission, said
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  • 200 16 Reuter, AP CHINA'S Finance Minister Wang Bingqian has said that the country's revenue exceeded expenditure in the first half of this year by the highest margin in recent years. His report, carried by the official New China News Agency yesterday,
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  • 268 16 Reuter FRANCE WILL CUT TAXES on reinvested company profits from 50 per cent to 45 per cent next year. Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy was quoted by daily newspaper Le Matin on Friday as saying he was announcing the cut now because he wanted heads
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  • 57 16 THE FAST-ATTACKING submarine USS Providence joined the US Navy in commissioning ceremonies held at the US Submarine Base New London in Groton during the weekend. The Providence, America's 32nd Los Angeles class submarine, is the first designed to carry the Tomahawk cruise missile in vertical launch
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  • 123 16 THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE is spending $2.8 million to expand its exhibition facilities. It is adding a new exhibition hall by renovating a converted godown at Keppel Wharves. This will add 5,524 sq metres of space, making a total of 48,400 sq metres of exhibition space,
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  • 348 16 UPI THE OIL-PRODUCING nations of the Middle East are likely to rebound from the current glut of petroleum products to dominate production in the next decade. A report by the World Watch Institute, a private research group in Washington, said that increased
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  • 181 16 Reuter THE LEADER of last week's military coup in Uganda, Brigadier Bazilio Olara Okello, said yesterday that the constitution had been suspended and warned nervous Kampala residents to stay at home. Mr Okello, speaking in Swahili on national radio, said Parliament had been dissolved and
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  • 70 16 Reuter SURREALIST artist Salvador Dali, back home in northern Spain after being seriously burned last autumn, said that all great works of art had been achieved under royal patronage. Dali said: "I am an avowed monarchist. Nothing of importance has ever been done under a
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  • LATE FILE
    • 61 16 AFP THE MANILA Hotel has won a contract to manage a plush, 600-room hotel being constructed in Beijing. The Manila Hotel Corp said yesterday that it has become the first Philippine-based hotel company to be contracted to manage an overseas hotel project. It won the
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    • 41 16 AFP A SOVIET patrol boat has detained a 19-tonne Japanese fishing vessel with four men aboard while it was fishing off Kurashiri, one of four So-viet-held islands off eastern Hokkaido, said Japanese maritime safety officials yesterday. AFP
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    • 39 16 Reuter THREE PALESTINIAN youths from the West Bank have admitted murdering two Israeli teachers whose deaths have sparked anti-Ar-ab riots. Police in Tel Aviv said yesterday the youths had re-enacted the murders for them. Reuter
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    • 61 16 AFP JOURNALISM has become a "high-risk profession" in the Philippines following a recent rash of unsolved killings of newsmen. The president of the National Press Club said yesterday that the country's press "today counts 18 dead all but one by the gun and two
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    • 35 16 Reuter HUNDREDS of Finnish police cordoned off the Soviet embassy in Helsinki yesterday to hold back the largest anti-Soviet demonstration in Finland since the Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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    • 48 16 AFP A UNION representing 6,500 employees of the Western Union Corp communications giant yesterday called an immediate strike following the breakdown of talks on a three-year employment contract. A spokesman said the strike would involve 6,500 of 10,000 technicians, operators and employees. AFP
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  • 260 16 Bernama MPs AND STATE assemblymen in the Malaysian Chinese Association faction led by former vice-presi-dent Tan Koon Swan have given full mandate to their representatives in the party's ad hoc committee to end the party crisis quickly. Announcing this yesterday, Mr Tan, who
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  • 127 16 SENDING CHILDREN to music, dance and painting lessons is not enough to equip them with the knowledge to appreciate the arts. Mr Ch'ng Jit Koon, the Minister of State (Community Development), feels that parents and teachers should encourage their children to attend concerts, dance
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  • 480 16 Reuter UNNERVED BY THE UNREST in South Africa, foreign investors have begun pulling their money out to put it in other financial centres, especially those offering alternative gold investments, analysts and stockbrokers say. Australia and Canada particularly have seen strong inflows of funds
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    • 644 16 Amin voices support for coup, Psgs 4 the challenge of professionalism Property Managers in the late 1 980's and Beyond. August 20 21.1985 "The Challenge of Professionalism: Property Managers in the late 1980's and Beyond" provides property managers and related professionals within the real-estate profession an opportunity to reflect on
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    • 53 16 Outlook for today: Showers in some areas in the morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on JuJy 28 at the ocport Maximum temperature 30.4 Associated humidity 72 Minimum temperature 24.1 Associated humidity 90 Hours of sunshine 2.90 Rainfall in millimetres 0.9 Rainfall this month 131.8 Rainy days
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 126 17 Reuter IRAN WILL spend about US$24O million this year on expanding eight ports in the Gulf, Iran's national news agency Irna reported. A shipping organisation official, quoted by the agency, said the programme involved the main ports of Bandar Khomeiny, in the
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    • 352 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ BENDARA Holdings Sdn Bhd, an associate company of Ben Line Containers, is likely to start shipping operations in Malaysia soon. The company owns Bendera Shipping Agency and looks after Ben Line vessels at Malaysian ports. It is at present looking
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    • 244 17 THE HONGKONG Shipowners' Association is urging assistance from the Liberian government to protest at the boycotting of Liberian vessels by Arab states. Three Hongkong-owned vessels flying the Liberian flag have been refused entry at Arab ports in the past three months because
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    • 161 17 UPI AUSTRALIAN stevedores are considering banning all ships carrying South African cargoes to Australian ports. The federal secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWF) Tas Bull, said a "rapid hardening" in the attitude of maritime unions toward the South Africa government was
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 89 17 THREE PEOPLE drowned and 18 others were reported missing when a boat loaded with holi-day-makers hit a reef and sank near an island off Korea's south-western coast. The disaster took place at about 7:30 pm (1030 GMT) Saturday near Hongdo island 376 km south-west of Seoul. All
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      • 76 17 CHINESE engineers will build a 20-kilometre dyke across the mighty Yangtze River to stop silt that threatens to clog ship lanes and fill the deepwater port of Shanghai's big Baoshan steel plant, the government said. As much as 500 million tons of silt a year flows
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    • 744 18 Reuter A SEVERE DECLINE in offshore drilling activity, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico, is taking its toll among rig contractors and other suppliers of services to oil companies' marine exploration programmes. This week, the utilisation rate for mobile rigs in the Gulf of Mexico,
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    • 448 18 Reuter THE ACUTE financial crisis now facing the oil-rig firm Consafe has accentuated the sorry state of Sweden's shipping industry, decimated since the mid--1970s by high costs and overseas competition. Consafe's problems are among the latest in a string that have bedevilled Sweden's
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    • 881 18 A Top Ent X 4 AB Shpg V 5 Afea Line VI 3 Affinity Shpg X 2 Ahrenkiel Liner X 1 AC Toepfer X 5 APC Line V 4 APL in 2/3 Antah Orient X 3 Arrow Lines X 5 Atlas Lines X 2 Anro Service IV
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    • 1248 18 INCREASED chartering is reported in some sec-tors of the freight market on Thursday but this failed to prevent further easiness for grain fixing out of the US Gulf, shipbrokers said. A grain vessel has been secured from the Gulf to the Continent at US$5.B5 with unconfirmed reports yesterday
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    • 183 19 A COMPUTER cargo release system which will enhance the efficient and economical movement of goods throgh the Port of Baltimore is currently being developed by the Maryland Port Administration, the MP A announced recently. The Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System is being designed
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    • 364 19 Lloyd's List THE CHINESE government has announced plans to increase the national merchant fleet by more than two-thirds to 20 million dwt in the next five years. Chinese vice-minister of communications, Mr Lin Zuyi, said the policy of opening up trade with the outside
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    • 780 19 AN ULTRA-LARGE crude carrier, the Esso Tokyo, was sold to a Swiss-based interest on the ship sale and purchase market last week, secondhand tonnage brokers said. The vessel involved is of 406,258 dwt and built in 1976. It was reported to have changed hands for about US$5.4 million
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    • 190 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. Cho Yang shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line.
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    • 76 19 Reuter A TOTAL of 27 sailors have drowned so far this year and 221 vessels have sunk in accidents in Shanghai harbour, the China Daily said. It said most of the 350 accidents were caused bynegligence and involved boats owned by rural traders who
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    • 2998 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 633 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 P Vanburen I42W 29 7 85 2300 APL F8 0900-1030 F2 E Ocean 002W 29.7.85 2300 G Asia F1 0930-1100 S4 Hang Glory 7N/85 29.7.85
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    • 1691 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B A Top Enterprises Pte Ltd Some (S) AB Shipping Boustead Shpg Agencies A tea Line A trie on Shpg Agencies (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceonus Shipping Agencies (S) Multiport
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    • 415 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES 29 7 85/1700 Banff K17 BOR alongside Cottbus K28 Sin Shpg alongside *****/1830 Harapan K28 BOR alongside 29 7 85/2300 Hafi Baik K20 Kie Gwan alongside 29 7 85/0700 Kofa Jade K11 PIL alongside 29 7 85/1830
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    • 560 22 SANKD ASIA FROM JAPANESE ROUTS AMD HONGKONG Ajenl S«f)p«re CI Slurp Ct Pic 114 Id. *****22 Port Keimj UNAS Slurp Sdn IM Id 3M104 3M349 Perur* UNAS Slurp S* M 111 X7KVX79M GENERAL SUNEY FOU (i) SANKO SCC*fIC Ml H HELD ON 2I K HMKASAN MA«J MIL K HELD 0M
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    • 609 22 t INTRASEA (PTE) LTD. UJ|I 10 Anson Road #27 16 International Pta/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 <1 0 Lines) SffOIBIASIA'LMMM o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK Spore P. KclaafLaadtag tar--5/1 14/1 ROTT/ANT/UI. (AVON) PS SEAWOOD AND R.M.Z S pore P Kelang Loadng tor IBM VOYI2 10/1 14/8 Montaicone/Valencia/ kftHi S*|apart
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    • 764 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Also accepting cargo to/trom Scandinavia SS BRIDGE S pore Closing Times TROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) Havre Singapore P.Kelan t C CONTAINER 3QC Sailed 30/7 (1/8) K CHANCE 22E Sailed 6/8 (8/8) HK CONTAINER 45E Sailed 13/8 (15/8) 0 CHEF 44E 31/7 20/8 (22/8) K JACEJM
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    • 532 23 Veiwt No No 9 No I No t No 7 Sport IK Mi* 31/7 4/1 MSN 10/1 14/1 WW 15/1 19/S SO6N 73/1 30/1 SO7N 3/9 7/9 MCHOM SUSAN 15/4 SP'WI AGINIS f#P!lit# AGINCKS PIE 110 let ?/899/7 *****J4 <Bookm{si ???7510 <opefjt.om) ????48 7 ??09?84 (ternwijh ??0?4S0 ??0?S04 (CIS I
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    • 1058 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUH.WNG 55. Market Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KEIANG PINANG M/S SHARKAT NAN SOOK SOW BK> IST AND 2ND FIOOR MESSRS MAI THONG SHPPMG 23 Weld
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    • 869 24 Kc<|i«nal Container Lines 4 Sailings weekly Fast Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. Mon, Tue, Thur, Sat 4 63 HINODE KISEN CO. LTD rirt a J* I:WWJ7TW: SPf ClAilStD HEAVY IKIfRS AVAIIABIf S pore Loadnf for: KATORI 27/29 Jul Muscat/Dubai AGIA SOFIA 15/18 Au{ SaUlah, Agaba FORTNIGHTLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE
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    • 188 24 r A 5* Regional Weather m m n [I E \'As l L 1 >> L K •H 8 HQS c «2 s® ES&W r>« SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. C^' Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height One half Heche represents 5 knots
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    • 219 25 A W EAST ASIA LINE 1 J (Malaysian Flag) Regular Liiwr S«rvfcM B«twnn M'SIA/S'PORE/INDIA P. Kelong Penonq S'pore Ldg for MUM 7/S 5/1 CWMafWf MEM PER TAMA 10/1 13/« MaAn/Bombay REGULAR JAP AN/STRAITS/lAP AN SERVICES I umOK bi Part Naf/K«fc«/ east Asia snrrwe son. bm>. n. T«t &0022/36 MFBC Ki.
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    • 216 25 BAPID SHIPPING PTE LTD L STORE TEL: *****44 TLX: ***** K.L. TEL: *****5 *****0 FCL LCI LOADMG FOR ETA SM FAR EAST Hkf, Clina, Bus. Ke/Kao, BKK 8/8 15/1 MAURITIUS Pod Lous 29/8 29/9 UK/EUROPE Ldn, Rdam. Awerp, Hburf 15/8 29/S AUSTRALIA Syd. Met. Bri, Ade. Fre 9/8 25/8 E6ULAR
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    • 426 25 OCEAN BRIDGE SHIPPING PTY LTD, K)~ FREMANTLE REGULAR SAILING TO FREMANTLE MV HELEN COAST Gtne'H Aftnti Imkov Shipping Co Pt« Ltd. in c»ci *n+M a* <***»< «i* t* awn- «J Cheng Lie Navigation Co., Ltd. com wo soma to mngkok/hongxong/tnwm STOW M MG KB MO NM LK V 410 kftrl
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    • 51 25 LIN LIN SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 1. Road. "OS-Oi Central BuHdtng. Singapore 0105 Ta«: 533M14 ft 533M22 WEEKLY SERVICE SINGAPORE TO KUCHING S«U r ir 4* ——.-ffiOAi agents seauor shppmg (S) pte ltd. [Jk A M<J\L SINGAPORE SALES/BOOKH6S TEL *****11 (I UNES REGULAR SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE -TO BANQtA-OESH/INDIA/SRI LANICA/EAKIBTAM MV CQM VELAY
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    • 92 25 LIZENA PTE LTD Tat *****67, *****68 Tatox: R*****1 ETA ETD Loadnf for MEKONG VENTURE TBN SIB SMMNG 15/1 22/1 1/1 5/1 30/7 5/1 Plwn P*rti HocM* City OMMi/rtkw Ban PROMPT SHIPPING LINE SA. K6ULM ■OHTN.T LKK SBNW TO HOT IHBCM K*TS n* STQK J HMRUM CAHO IMS faf MBMN IBM.
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    • 375 26 STONEAGE FCL& LCL TO nHSWMWK LOAOWG FOB AUSTRALIA 6/S, 9/S. 17/«, 25/1 S>4*y. MHbowne. Brisbane Adelaide l> Fremantie NEW ZEALAND 15/8, 17/t, 10/9. 13/9 Auckland. Weflngton. Lyttteton, m--!— a ri Mi lupMf fwi nyvnouui U.S.A. 5/1, 12/1, 19/1, 2S/S East/Nest Coast ft Guff ports HONG KONG/CHMA 31/7, 15/1, 19/S Hont
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    • 399 26 Nihon-Asia Shipping (S) Pte Ltd 24 Pasir Panjang Rd #05 35 PSA Multi storey Complex (0511) Tel *****88 9, *****23 *****96 Tlx ***** A B NCSIN TTT .ill *«*l» FO./LCL Ir MV K. IO6ANSON Voy 20W ETA Spore 5/8 DEEP-SEA/HAL TO RAN VIA TURKEY I'll'.V- l.< > ACCEPTING ALSO BREAKBULK
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    • 622 26 C.Y. LINE (A Member Of The ACE Consortium) CHO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE 10 EUtOK SUEZ) SEVEN y»S BRDGE VSIN CKVAIKR rut 45W TRANSNORID HDGI 26N CHNA C ONI AMR 31N LeHjrve Rdom fslone H'bi»| Brem Antwerp U/l 20/1 22/S 24/8 25/1 27/0 26/1 27/1 20/8 Jl/«
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    • 693 26 f "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" i A m I M. inn. He mt M |Mh hi— *A kHt|Ml II K f I THOMASEVERETT HUGHE VERETT MANOLOE VERETT Penant* P. Kelant 1/3 Aut 18/20 Aut 29/31 Aut S*i{iporf 4/5 Auj 21/22 Auf 1/2 Sep EVERETT ORIENT LINE' JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE LOADING
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    • 304 26 ZIM NON CONFERENCE INDEPENDENT FULL CONIAMER SOtMCE accepbng FCI/ICI cirjoes to US* East West Coast. C*rnb6ew\i*st Canada and HAITI ZIM EILAT CONTAINER LINE S'pwt Oal Tnett* Kapci taci h—m CAMCN FOiTUW S I 19/1 Mm fcctptet IM Empt Nrtl fINKAOHSUNG l«/l 23/1 2/9 3/9 31/1 6/9 Accept!* Fa To Etropean
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