The Business Times, 13 August 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 TUESDAY, AUGUST IS, IMS 60 CENTS
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  • 635 1  -  By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent THE EXPORT CREDIT Insurance Corporation of Singapore (teCKS) is back on the profit path thanks to lower claims paid and higher claims recovECICS yesterday announced a net operating surplus of $1.2 million for the first half
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  • 451 1  -  By JUNE LIM FOUR MAJOR ship-repairers in Singapore have proposed a way of rationalising their repairing capacity the yards will use the docks 20 days in a month. However, the yards do not have to adhere rigidly to the rule. If work on
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  • 393 1  -  Benefits will spill over to related industries By ALVIN TAY TWO MORE multinational corporations have set up captive insurance companies which will generate spin-off benefits for related industries. The Monetary Authority of Singapore is confident that more captive insurers, writing only in-house insurance business of
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  • 138 1 Reuter HONGKONG DECLARED WAR yesterday on shop owners who cheat tourists and damage the British colony's reputation as a shoppers' paradise. The government said it would give tourists instant access to courts, toughen laws against shops which lie about their goods and give the
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 461 1 SINGAPORE'S $2 billion petrochemical complex is pressing ahead with further investments in spite of doubts about its future prospects. During its first year of operations, from February 1964 to February this year, it incurred a loss of almost $30 million, less than
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  • 317 1 Bernama THE FIVE Malaysian National Joint Councils (staff side) have threatened to make a Joint declaration on Jan 1 that they will reject the Barisan Nasional leadership if the government does not meet their salary claims by then. "We might
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    • 260 1 SHARE MFORMATION MONEY ft EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS LETTER CROSSWORDS TV ft RADIO DOONEMURY BRMTOW OUR VIEW THE SINGAPORE and Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges are in effect one market served by two exchanges. But in recent months the market has started to develop a split personality as Kuala Lumpur strives to
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    • 169 1 Nikon THE WORLD'S Slk'W PHOTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM `%$-.@!<{%*\~&%+_-_'>?,^&$|+((. Easier payment, please BANKS should drow up more liberal terms to give property auctions a boost much needed in the current downturn, soy real estate auctioneers. Especially so as mortgaged properties now number close to 90 per cent of properties at auctions. Turn
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 478 2  -  By JEFFREY TBANG A QUANTITY SURVEYORS Act has been proposed by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers to ensure standards among property managers. The Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV), which made the proposal to the government, said this was necessary
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    • 172 2 ABOUT 30 PEOPLE have signed up for the fourth real estate agency course organised by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers. The nine-session course, which started yesterday, is being held at the Miramar Hotel for a duration of nine weeks. Mr Lee See
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    • 304 2  -  By LISA LEE SINGAPORE has the potential to become a regional centre for building services and maintenance, said the chairman of the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). Mr Yap Neng Chew said yesterday that contractors should also go into the maintenance and renovation market
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    • 304 2 EMPLOYEES WHO KNOW how well their company is doing will be more flexible and prepared to make sacrifices such as forgoing their NWC increases, said Mr Wong Kan Seng, the Minister of State for Community Development and Communications and Information, yesterday. Union leaders and
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    • 239 2 JOB ENLARGEMENT where each worker takes on the tasks of more than one job was advocated yesterday at the Hitachi Zosen Robin Dockyard's National Day rally. Managing director K Mito said the "bad times" now made it vital for the company to adopt the multi-skills concept.
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    • 563 2 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER TELEPHONE Aug 13 Industriol Singapore Singapore Manu*****11 Sep 24 Electronics Polytechnic facturers' Asso- ciation Technical Training Centre Aug 14 Systems Development WTC Convention Singapore *****47 Productivity Centre Exhibition v Services Aug 14-15 Achieving Better SIM Conference Singapore *****66 Performonce Room Institute
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    • 285 2 AN AMERICAN specialtychemicals maker has set up a regional information and sales office in Singapore, its first in the AsiaPacific. Angus Chemical Company, Singapore, will give sales and technical support to distributors of the group's products in Asean countries, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, India
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    • 213 2 THE TRADE Development Board is sponsoring a national pavilion at the Machine Asia Industrial Trade Fair '85 next month to project the capabilities of local sub-contracting, Support and services companies. It will be aimed at the Asean countries, which it sees as a major market for
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    • 261 3 A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE helped the Minister of State (Education) Dr Tay Eng Soon learn that art and classical music appreciation can only be nurtured through formal education, regular exhibitions and concerts. Sharing his experience at the opening ceremony of the Asian Pacific
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    • 124 3 A TWO-WEEK "Speak More English" campaign will begin today at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic to get students to speak more English outside classes. The student population is mainly English-educated but a polytechnic spokesman said there was a strong tendency among students to use dialects outside classes. She
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    • 188 3 SALES WORTH MORE THAN $1 million were reported by exhibitors at the Jewel Fair '85, held from July 27 to Aug 4 in conjunction with the Trade and Industry Fair. A further $1 million worth of sales are expected from leads and enquiries
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    • 365 3 SINGAPORE IS THE only country in the world that requires US meat and poultry exporters to seal their containers with the US Department of Agriculture seal. US officials decided that this rule was "not unreasonable" once they learnt the reason for it.
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    • 119 3 THE director-general of political affairs on Asia and Oceania from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran arrived in Singapore last night for a threeniay visit. Dr Ali Ahani will meet the director of policy planning and analysis division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Barry
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    • 64 3 THE MINISTRY of the Environment advises the public not to drink an Italian white wine called Soave Bellino, following the discovery of a toxic agent, diethylene glycol, or antifreeze, in a bottle of the wine in Japan recently. Tests are now being carried out and the
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    • 152 3 I RESULTS FROM THE Ministry of Education showed that about i 81 per cent of 'A' level students passed the mid-year second lan- guage examinations held in June this year. Of the 6,709 students who sat for the examinations, about 5,430 passed. A breakdown in
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    • 221 3  -  By BRIAN GOMEZ A SINGAPORE DEALER in flexible hose products has built a $250,000 joint venture manufacturing plant in Pasir Gudang, Johore, together with its New Zealand partner, Dunlop Flexible Hoses Ltd. A spokesman for the Singapore firm,
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    • 697 3  -  Tenders for project restricted to CIDB contractors By YAP BOH HOON HIAP SHING CONSTRUCTION, a local company, has been awarded a $2.67 million contract for earthworks at the Ulu Pandan station by the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation. Hiap Shing, which clinched the deal
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    • 394 3 THE PUBLIC WORKS Department recently awarded a $5.1 million contract for a road widening project which attracted 19 companies to submit highly competitive bids. Quotes ranged from $5.1 million, the lowest bid, to a high of |7.6 million with seven companies submitting bids which
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 273 2 Modern Engineering Technology Seminar Design fools Computer Peripherals WTC Convention Centre (19-21 August 1985) Monday. 19th August 1985 Opening address by Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State for Education, Communications and Information. Development of Industrial Technology Dr Ken Tong GTE Taicom VLSI Microprocessor Design Trends Dr Tao-Yuan Wu VLSI
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    • 53 2 In Singapore our faultless service is only matched by our spectacular architecture. THE PAVILION INTER- CONTINENTAL SINGAPORE 'L-i {'j .y V; I iZTT f THE ADVANTAGE IS INTER CONTINENTAL 0 INTER- CONTINENTAL HOTELS Onr Cincjdrn Rivid. Sinn««pore 1024 Phone *****W Tele*: RS ***** SINIHC For reservations call your favourite airline
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 445 4 Results reflect weak economic growth NYT WEAK ECONOMIC GROWTH in the US led to lacklustre corporate earnings in the second quarter, with the bright spots overwhelmed by depressed profits in a wide range of industries. The profits picture was disappointing but not unexpected given the
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    • 274 4 THE UK ECONOMY is expected to grow by 3.5 per cent this year and by 3 per cent in 1966, according to Midland Bank in its latest review published yesterday. This year's growth will include some bounce-back from the ending of the coal dispute,
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    • 207 4 AP PRESIDENT REAGAN flew to his mountain-top California ranch on Sunday for three weeks of recuperation from cancer surgery. Mr Reagan and his wife, Nancy, arrived at the Point Mugu Naval Air Station aboard Air Force One, then boarded a helicopter for a
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    • 201 4 UPI THE REAGAN Administration has abandoned its policy of "bleeding" the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, paving the way for a negotiated settlement to the Afghan problem, The Observer newspaper reported. The White House immediately denied the report, which cited well-placed diplomats
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    • 407 4 Reuter MOSCOW WANTS Western Europe to act as a bridge with Washington in the run-up to November's summit in Geneva between President Reagan and Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev. A top Soviet commentator, Alexander Bovin, said in the government newspaper Lzvestia during the
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    • 198 4 AFP THE US DID NOT consider a nuclear strike during Richard Nixon's presidency, said the former American national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, In an interview with The Washington Post on Sunday. Mr Nixon told Time magazine last month that he had considered "the nuclear option" four
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    • 152 4 UPI AMERICAN newspaper reporters and editors are more liberal than the general public, but readers believe Journalists remain impartial in presenting the news, a national survey revealed. The Los Angeles Times pall also found that most people believe the news media newspapers, television, magazines
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    • 110 4 AP THE AUTHOR of a voluntary code (or American companies doing business in South Africa said that he would suggest that they pull out of the country if apartheid was not abolished within two years. The Reverend Leon Sullivan said yesterday that be would also call for divestment
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    • 249 4 NYT A SMALL CLOUD of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, and at least 120 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. The chemical that escaped on Sunday was identified as aldicarb oxime, which
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    • 352 4 UPI THE SOVIET government spends as many rubles on chauffeurs and cars for officials as it does for all public transport across the Soviet Union, according to an official newspaper. "If only 10 per cent of officials sat down behind the wheel
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    • 861 4 Operator ARRIVALS Service Local Fro»n SV PAA SV379 PA2I time 0115 0020 SEL LAX/TYO/HKG CAL CAL OA MAS MAS MAS OA MAS MAS SIA RBA CPA OA Q34I CI337 GA7215 MH601 MH681 MH603 GA7II5 MH8I i MH671 SQ103 BM2I CX710 GA960 0255 0255 0640 0720 0620 0905
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    • 318 5 AFP FOREIGN AND LOCAL investors in the Philippines remain bearish about the country's economy in spite of firm signs of a' recovery from a crippling crisis that struck in late 1983. Speakers at a press forum in Manila yesterday cited political uncertainty and peace-and-order problems among
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    • 172 5 AFP GOVERNMENT and church leaders in the Philippines have agreed on a plan to lease idle sugar lands to displaced workers in Bacolod, the centre of the troubled Philippine sugar industry. Government officials led by Labour Minister Bias Ople met Bacolod Bishop Antonio
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    • 94 5 AFP THE TAIWANESE Cabinet has agreed in principle to cut corporate and personal income tax in a move to stimulate investment. A Cabinet statement said a proposal recently approved would reduce corporate tax from the current 30 per cent to 15 or 20
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    • 206 5 AFP POLITICAL and economic uncertainty in Taiwan has pushed the island's economy to the verge of crisis, according to a report on an economists' forum in Beijing. The collapse early this year of the Cathay group was an earthquake that
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    • 335 5 Growth of 4.5 to 5 per cent Bernama MALAYSIA's economy grew at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent to 5 per cent during the first quarter of this year, down from 6.7 per cent for the last three months of 1984. Bank Negara
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    • 161 5 Bernama MALAYSIA'S Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam said yesterday that ignorance of the law was no excuse for visitors to Malaysia to escape the country's stringent legislation against possession and trafficking of drugs. Any foreigner coming to Malaysia could not
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    • 45 5 THE MOTOR CYCLE will celebrate its 100 th anniversary on Aug 29. The first motor cycle in the world, Gottlieb Daimler's "riding car", shown above, had its patent issued on Aug 29, 1885. Its 0.264-litre engine delivered 0.5 HP at 600 rpm.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 466 6 Reuter INDONESIA, after dramatically boosting rice output, is now facing major storage and price problems which are threatening to undermine the food policies of the world's fifth biggest nation. Good weather, new "miracle" rice strains and government subsidies have combined with Java's rich
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    • 698 6 COFFEE ROBUSTA futures yesterday were thinly-traded, although firmer sterling against the dollar resulted in midday losses of £27 to £31 a tonne from Friday. November traded last at £1,695, down £31 from Friday, and compared with a high/low of £1,714/1,690. Turnover was 969 lots including 146 crosses. SUGAR
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    • 169 6 WITH MOST operators on the sidelines, ahead of the Inro special session here today and tomorrow, prices on the Malaysian crude palm oil market eased on late selling and buyer reserve, in sympathy with a weaker Chicago soybean complex close. A continuing lack of overseas demand for processed
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    • 224 6 SINGAPORE THE MARKET yesterday closed easier with September One RSS buyers quoted at 164.75 cents per kilo, down 4.75 cents from last Thursday's close. The market opened one cent lower and fell further in subsequent trading on long liquidation and speculative selling in light trading. Trading in forwards and
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    • 215 6 Singapore (St/Mo. «»-fo4«wi0 Frog font new crop l«t 0B0 2nd 05i 3rd 056 Nr» Crap 25* no Mck 10% no Mock TKoi Broken A-Mjpcr 5p*c>ol Thoi Rice 55% 054 052 no Mock Chino Rice 10% 15% 25% 35% 086 no stock no HoCk no stock Thoi Boiled Rice 5%
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    • 104 6 STERLING'S rise Hiiut the rlnggit yesterday helped pushed np the Kula Lumpur Tin Market price by It cents te M$3M2 per kite, well within the ITA iewer range el 21.15 te S2.M, dealers said. The buffer steck manager was the main buyer but seme lecal interest was neted.
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    • 161 6 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn. cones Blue Phoenix 16'* 2,500 Blue Phoenix 20'* 2,550 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,000 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,350 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 2l't 2,800 Combed yarn, cones Bkie Phoenix 32's 4,200 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,400 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 151 6 Chin«M Product Exchange (Sellen' aoon clawno pnc*> on H 12 (SS/100 if) Coconut oil Bui. FOB 100 00 Old drum FOB 117 00 N«w drum FOB 113 00 Copro Matd 0oo%*) S3 buym Pepper Muntok FOB NLW 935 00 Sorowak Wh*# FOB »oq fiW 925 00 Sarawak *p*oai
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    • 356 6 in S cents/kg, FOI boles NOON close Buytn C -it Beyers SeBen Int 1 RSS Prompt 167 50 168 50N 166 00 167 00N lot 1 RSS Sept 85 166 50 167 50 164 75 165.00 Int 1 RSS Oct 85 164.50 165.50 163 00 163.50 Int
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    • 106 6 (ccnti/kg, 1-ton poHctt) CgpT 35 OCT 85 (current month) (forword month) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Setter* ftwyvrs S4m 144 OON SSR 20 141 00 I43.00N 142 00 SSR 50 139 00 141 OON 140 00 142 OON MRELB Buy*n r .u txyars Sdtrt SMR CV 190 00
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 761 6 Plan for better business at t ComputerAsiaBs Show and Ser 14-17 August 1935 World Trade Centre Singapore Wednesday 14 August 0900-1700 Systems Development Productivity ~gSjjjjT~ Frederick P Huff Senior Manager W Management Information Consulting Division Arthur Andersen Associates Pte Ltd Mr Huff will trace the systems development lifecycle (design, programming,system
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 610 7 SINGAPORE THE US dollar yesterday closed weak- er against most major currencies but above the day's lows In moderate late trading. The dollar recovered in late trading to 2.8030/40 marks on some European short-covering after falling to the day's low of 2.7900. It recovered to 237.55/65 yen in
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    • 242 7 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Nd Offer c ion parity change Locol dollars to 006 unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2 1950 2 1960 ***** -22 15 Sterling pound 3 0159 ***** 7 3469 -58 95 Australian dollar 1 5705 1 5734 3 4286 -54 19 NZ
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    • 380 7 BA futures Inc EURODOLLAR futures yesterday gaped higher due mainly to the successful US Treasury refunding programme last week. After the initial opening at 91.94, the September contract traded higher to 91.98 where strong resistance was found. Liffe opening saw the market locked in a narrow trading range with
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    • 242 7 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed steady in moderate trading despite Mid-East and local profit-taking. However, dealers said buying interest had emerged with the metal's recent breaching of the US$325 an ounce level. Bullion ended at U*****.50/90 an ounce compared with Saturday's 326.20/70 close and the 327.80/328.50 finish in New York
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    • 103 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose I'/4 point from last Thursday to close at 3V* per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate was down 5/16 point while two- and threemonths rates fell point each. Discount Prices At Soturdoy's close 2 JXS S B,lh 4
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    • Article, Illustration
      280 7 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at weaker opening levels. Period rates eased between 1/32 and Vfe point at the start. Rates were unchanged thereafter with one, three and six months closing at 7-31/32 7-15/16, B'/s eight and B'/« 8 1 per cent respectively. MUCATES the average
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 426 7 Reuter FLUSH WITH US DOLLARS from booming export sales around the globe, Japan has be- eome a major force in American bond markets. Last week the US Treasury auctioned a record U5521.75 bil- Hon worth of bonds, repayable over three to 30 years, to
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    • 92 7 Reuter PRESIDENT Jaime Lusinchi of Venezuela has rejected Fidel Castro's proposal to repudiate Latin America's debt, though he supports efforts to ease the repayment burden. Speaking to journalists in Valencia yesterday, he said that Mr Castro's proposals apparently contradict the policy adopted by
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    • 27 7 STANDARD CHARTERED Bank has reduced its prime lending rate by half a point to 7.75 per cent. Its savings and deposits rates remain unchanged.
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    • 862 7  -  Sang Kancil is BT's financial futures trader. Each Tuesday, this column traces his tactics and strategies on Simex. His starting capital was 5525,000, a sum within the reach of most professionals in Singapore. By DAVID GABRIEL Special Correspondent SANG KANCIL DID NOT do
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    • 303 7 UPI THE EXECUTIVE BOARD of the International Monetary Fund has approved Argentina's economic plan, allowing the country to obtain additional loans. The IMF approval, following a meeting in Washington, will enable Argentina to borrow immediately roughly US$235 million on its $1.42 billion
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    • 127 7 Reuter THE RATE OF money supply growth in the UK is dangerously fast, carrying the threat of higher price inflation, Charterhouse, an investment and banking group, said in its quarterly economic review. But falling interest rates are helping to reduce these inflationary pressures, Charterhouse, a
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    • 139 7 Reuter BANK OF ENGLAND Governor Robert Leigh-Pemberton said that the bank would not allow Japan's four major securities houses to engage in banking in the UK until Japanese authorities audit their accounts, the Nihon Keizai Shim bun reported. The financial daily also quoted him
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    • 365 7 Republic National Bank ol New York A subsidiary of REPUBLIC NEW YORK CORPORATION Consolidated Statements of Condition (In Thousands) Assets Cash and demand accounts Interest bearing deposits with banks Precious metals Investment secunties Trading account assets Federal funds sold and secunties purchased under agreements to resell Loans, net of unearned
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  • FEATURES
    • 495 8 THERE CAN BE FEW INVESTORS in the region who are unaware of the unique characteristic of the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur securities industry one market but two exchanges. Malaysian stocks listed in Singapore and Singapore stocks listed in Kuala Lumpur the arrangement has worked well,
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    • 985 8  -  Real estate auctioneers say that with mortgagee sales increasing, banks ought to draw up more liberal terms to give auction sales the boost which they leel is needed in the current down market. LISA LEE reports. LISA LEE THE LIST of items at property auctions has doubled
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    • 416 8 THE TOWER CRANE, once dubbed Singapore's national bird, appears to have taken flight off the top of tall buildings to emerge at property auctions. But the crane is not the only kind of heavy machinery for sale at auctions. Welding, construction, oil field, and
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    • 225 8 letter to the Editor Dear Sir We wish to bring to your attention how some of our bankers in Singapore are unhelpful in their attitude towards the borrowers and therefore partly responsible for our present economic predicament. We borrowed some money from
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 248 8 Financial V Acumen Creativity Produaivinj Ctadership WANTED-Your Nominations For Singapore s Best Business Brain THE search is on for Singapore's most outstanding business brain, and you are invited to join in. Business Times the republic's foremost business publication and DHL the world's leading international courier have joined forces to find
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    • 7 8 Keep your investment decisions on target SATURDAY
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    • 286 8 ►T v THE COMPANIES, ACT, CAP 18S PLAN LEASING PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at an Extraordinary General Meeting of PLAN LEASING PTE LTD duly convened and held at 36 Robinson Road, #05-01/02 City House, Singapore 0106 on 12 August 1985, the following resolutions
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 682 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 A spirt in the country (5) 8 Creatures of which many may be shot (5) 10 Big Ben (5) 11 Water Meodow (3) 12 Damoges the teeth (5) 13 One |ommg the ship to get hts meals? (7) 15 Essentially, it smelh (5) 18 Record o
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  • SPORTS
    • 665 9  -  Bowlfcr gets family support in bid to retain Open crown By ANNA TEO IT CANNOT BE very funny when all in the family are struck with an incurable disease, but Will Looverbosch was laughing when he talked of bowleritis afflicting his household. Last year, while on
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    • 582 9 NYT HUBERT GREEN, after squandering a three-shot lead he held after three rounds, recovered on the back nine of the final round on Sunday to win the 67th PGA championship by two shots over Lee Trevino, the defending champion. Green thus became the
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    • 419 9 AT THE HALFWAY mark of the 968-km Fastnet race, the climax of the Admiral's Cup, Singapore's two surviving boats Highland Fling and Pocket Battleship lay in 10th and 31st respectively on corrected times. By yesterday evening, more than 100 yachts, including
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    • 196 9 AFP ENGLAND'S Howard Clark chipped in at the second extra hole to beat British Open champion Sandy Lyle and win the Glasgow Open golf championship on Sunday. That not only earned Clark his second victory of the season, and the £15,000 top prize,
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    • 269 9 UPI NANCY LOPEZ shot a six-un-der-par 66 on Sunday to romp to a 10-stroke victory in a US$2lO,OOO tournament, setting two LPGA records in the process. Lopez's 20-under-par total of 268 bettered Hollis Stacy's 72hole mark of 271 set in 1977, and
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    • 327 9 Reuter CHRIS EVERT LLOYD, employing superior strokes and gritty determination, wore down Claudia Kohde-Kilsch of West Germany 6-2, 6-4 on Sunday to retain her Canadian Open women's tennis title. In winning her fourth Canadian Open championship, Lloyd also established a personal sin-gle-season
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1221 9 to md mm JUDE THE OBSCURE 9.10 pm, Channel 12 Sue and Jude contemplate marriage, but they are unwilling to be joined by a church ceremony because of Sue's dislike for any binding contract. They live together with Jude doing simple stonework. Jude's business, however, begins to decline and he
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    • 18 9 0TART\NG BPCX... REGARDLESS OF HANDICAP A SUCCESSFUL SWING WILL DEPEND ON THE P\F FEW INCHES OP J -^3
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 1098 10 NYT AMID CONCERNS in the US that the Japanese computer inJ dustry is overtaking the Ameri- can industry, one of the toughest r competitors in America, the In- ternational Business Machines Corp, has been encountering rough going in Japan. Its subsidiary,
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    • 137 10 Reuter THE UNITED PRESS International is completing a document offering the news agency for sale and plans to have it ready for potential investors within a week. A UPI spokesman in Washington said chairman Luis Nogales had told UPI editors
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    • 274 10 Reuter ARTHUR BELL and Sons PLC is seeking an alternative offer to Guinness PLC's increased £370 million bid. A spokesman declined to say whether any alternative proposals had been either received or made. A Bell statement said a meeting of the board
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    • 580 10 NYT LIGGETT A MYERS, which pioneered generic, no-name cigarettes in an industry built on advertising and brand names, is finding it tough to defend that niche. Generics, it is discovering, can be a marketing no-man's-land. Liggett, America's sixthlargest tobacco company and a unit of
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 421 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed sharply higher yesterday as the Hang Seng Index again neared the key chart point of 1,700 in active trading. The index rose by 22.92 points to 1699.43 as turnover increased to HK5308.20 million from 289.14 million last Friday. The index crossed 1700 briefly last week.
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    • 231 11 AUG 12 At Sinew Wu> Alio Cement MT 252 2050 22 80 0.04 -0.1 -02 L>«n Hwo hdm Nan Yo Pla* Pacific Con* Pacific Elect Wire 9 45 22 00 13 95 12.20 0 1 -05 •0 45 -0 35 Chang Hwo Bank Owi Loong 45.10 14 50 -0
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    • 327 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed lower yesterday in dull trading, with shipping lines and shipbuilding shares leading the downturn. The market average finished at *****.64, down 27.55 from last Friday when it rose by 15.16. Turnover was a thin 200 million shares against 250 million last Friday as the start
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    • 108 11 MANILA: Shares prices closed generally easier yesterday in quiet trading. The Commercial and Industrial Index was down 3.45 at 133.35 and the Mining Index 0.76 at 677.80 but oils were unchanged at 0.744. Tha Bangkok markat was cloaad yastarday for tha Quean's birthday. AUG 12 Owital B Phdex B
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    • 352 11 AUSTRALIA: Stock prices yesterday continued to trade at record levels as strong demand from local investors pushed prices higher across the board. However, turnover was fairly thin with a lack of willing sellers. At the close of trading, the All Ordinaries Index had overtaken last Friday's record to reach
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    • 73 11 AUG 12 Won ♦VHyundai Coon 900 1 riy\jnoo» nAoroc 815 -12 670 -5 KAL 426 -7 640 -1 735 5 723 -10 1364 -10 445 3 371 Ooewoo Corp 456 unch Lucky Ltd 628 -9 Do«woo Ind 646 -3 Somvjnfl Co 700 -5 474 2 Sorrntog Etoc 790 •14
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    • 282 11 FT THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT is to invite foreign oil companies in October to bid for exploration contracts in the country's continental shelf on the basis of comparable terms given by other oil-producing countries so that prospecting will be attractive. The strategy
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    • 71 11 Reuter ASSOCIATED HOTELS Ltd has asked the Hongkong stock exchanges to suspend trading in its shares until Aug 27. The company says in a letter to the exchanges that it has begun reorganising to solve its financial problems. Exchange spokesmen say the company has appointed Indosuez
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    • 251 11 AP GENERAL ELECTRIC Co has secured a contract to sell five gas turbine engines to the Chinese navy to power new destroyers, US business sources in Beijing say. The sources say the contract has not been formally announced yet at China's
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    • 165 11 Bernama THE SARAWAK GOVERNMENT is to buy a "substantial" stake in the Malaysia LNG Sdn Bhd (MLNG), which owns the liquefied natural gas plant in Bintulu in which the state currently has no equity participation. Announcing this, Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud said
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4060 12 THE ABSENCE of buying interest caused share prices to drop on the Singapore stock market yesterday in light trading. The Straits Times Industrial Index declined 6.13 points to 751.86 and the BT Composite Index lost 5.58 points to 649.68 at the end of
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    • 239 12 SINGAPORE Rises 1470 M T r 330 Si*M Matal 360 M B f HWgt 50« 215 S— Um 215 UOI 370 Falls UOI 196 TMlCiy 78 0 C B C BI5 "i .1 555 DBS 510 G 1 HM* SO* 206 Y H S MM 125 OUI
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    • 3061 12 BID and offer prices officially ltcted 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 unlU unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "Stn
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    • 81 12 bukit sembawang estates Limited: 19th AGM at 19th Floor, OCBC Centre, Chulia Street, Singapore 0104, tomorrow at noon. GENERAL LUMBER (HOLDINGS) Berkad: EGM at Dewan Ben tar a, Hotel Dayang, off Jalan Barat, Petaling Jaya on Thursday, August 15, at 9.30am. DEVELOPMENT COMMERCIAL BANK Berfcad: 20th AGM at
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 680 13 ttiuma mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW THE RED INK splashed all over the half-year reports of Keppel Shipyard and Sembawang Shipyard highlights the need for urgent drastic surgery at Singapore's premier shipbuilding and ship-repairing groups. Even the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew,
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    • 105 13 HONGKONG Friday 1371.2 Weak ogo 1367.7 Hong StM Indax Monday 1699.43 Friday 1676 51 NEW YORK WNko«o *****0 Dow Jonas Friday 1320-79 TOKYO Thursday 1329.86 W#«k ogo 1353 05 Tokyo Dow Jonas Monday ***** 6J Standard Poors Fndoy *****.19 Friday 188 32 W««k ago ***** 62 Thursday Week
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    • 502 13 SHARE PRICES generally closed easier on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday in sluggish trading. The exceptions were special situation counters in the industrial sector which bucked the general trend. Speculators rushed in to dabble in these stocks butignored other issues in the tin,
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    • 2317 13 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. «DUSTRIALS AISB (.868 88SX1) .86 5 Alcorn (.908 9IS) (8)
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    • 253 13 Monog«n price* (S) MARA-Bumiputrs for Aug 13 Fmt B'putro 502 507 S*<ond B'putro 456 461 Singapore Unit Trust Th# Commerce 1 63 >73 Th» SOMV 1 fiml 1 30 I 38 S'pc* Prog Find 0 72 0 76 Third 6 potto Foirtti B'putro hhh B'potto B uutru 8*puna
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    • 265 13 INDIA-MALAYSIA TEXTILES Bhd is sorting out what it calls a technical problem concerning some of its old share certificates before it can proceed with seeking a requotation of its original issued capital of 10.5 million shares of Msl each on the stock exchanges
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    • 520 13  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM TOUGH BUSINESS conditions in the Malaysian property and construction sectors have taken their toll on the first-half performance of IGB Corp Bhd. Still, the flagship company of the Tan family managed to hold on to its profit margins in
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    • 90 13 UNITED OVERSEAS BANK has received approval from the Australian Treasury to establish a new merchant bank in Sydney. The bank is current taking the necessary steps to set up the merchant bank which will be Incorporated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of UOB in
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  • 614 14 Biggest collapse in Japanese corporate history Agencies .SANKO STEAMSHIP Company of Japan will file for bankruptcy today, becoming the biggest cor- porate collapse in Japan's histo~.ry with estimated debts of 520 billion yen (5J5.6 billion). J The Osaka-based company J will petition today at
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  • 135 14 AP A JAPAN Air Lines 747 jumbo jet with 524 people aboard crashed in mountainous country in central Japan yesterday while attempting to make an emergency landing after reporting problems with a cabin door. The Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) said a Japan
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  • 366 14  -  By LOH HUI YIN THE CIVIL AVIATION Authority of Singapore has contacted several Latin American and African countries to negotiate landing rights for Singapore Airlines. The Latin American countries are Brazil and Argentina while the African countries are Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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  • 507 14 SINGAPORE'S role as a major oil trading centre will continue although its importance as a refining centre may diminish. "Singapore's location, storage and distribution infrastructure, and overall commercial facilties will insure it a continuing role in trading activities," said a study
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  • 123 14 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES lost 0.90 to US$l.9O an ounce yesterday in a profit-taking reaction to last Friday's rally of 96.50, which was fuelled by worries about labor unrest at South African gold mines over the weekend. Spot gold was off 0.90 at $327.60 an ounce
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  • 230 14 Reuter OPPOSITION MEMBERS of the Philippine Parliament will file a resolution today calling for the impeachment of President Ferdinand Marcos. A leader of the opposition group, Homobono Adaza, said yesterday that the resolution and its accompanying "complaint" alleged culpable violations of the Constitution,
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  • LATE FILE
    • 60 14 UPI A WEST GERMAN cancer specialist who treated ailing American celebrities with drugs made of shark livers and carnivorous plants is advising President Reagan's physicians. A West German newspaper said yesterday that Dr Hans Nieper recommended for Mr Reagan four exotic drugs and an anticancer
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    • 41 14 UPI A GUNMAN burst into the Great Mosque of Paris yesterday, seised two hostages and demanded that a plane be provided to fly him to Algeria, French authorities said. At least one person was reported injured. UPI
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    • 41 14 ReUter WEST GERMAN authorities said yesterday they had drawn a blank in their search for Sonja Lueneburg, former private secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann, to suspicions that she was a spy and had fled to East Germany.
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    • 44 14 Reuter POPE JOHN PAUL urged Africans yesterday to Ignore Ideas from the developed world on limiting families through contraception and abortion. On a visit to Bamenda In Cameroon, the Pope praised the high value traditionally placed by Africans on having children.
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    • 61 14 AP VIETNAM'S Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Th&ch will visit TmWwils from Aug 21 to 24 lor talks on bQateral and international issues including the Osmbodian conflict. Indonesian Foreign Mhkt«r Kusumaatmadja said yesterday that Mr Thach had originally been scheduled to visit last month but that
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    • 57 14 AP UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has appointed Hisashi Uno as director of the UN Information Centre to be reopened In Jakarta later this month. The world organistkm said yesterday that Mr Uno, 50, a Japanese national, had saved as director of the UN Information
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  • 123 14 Reuter THE PREMIER of Australia's main wine-growing state yesterday appealed to Tokyo for help in overcoming Japanese confusion over Australian and Austrian wines. Premier John Bannon of South Australia telexed Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare after Australian trade officials in Tokyo
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  • 59 14 Reuter THE NEW YORK stock market slipped in early trading yesterday as stocks continued last week's downtrend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was unchanged at 1320.79, after initially holding at the 1320 support line. The average had retreated more than 30 points last week. Declines outnumbered advances
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  • 189 14 UPI NO WONDER, says Republican Thomas Petri, that Congress cannot bring budget deficits under control. For example, the Wisconsin Republican said on Sunday, Congress still hires operators for automatic elevators and garage attendants whose main Job is to wave at congressmen. The lawmaker issued a
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  • 963 14 SHARE PRICES closed mixed yesterday after a quiet session, with many issues moving off the early lows on light but persistent demand. At 3.30pm the FTSE was up 0.8 point at 1,287.1 after opening 5.2 points down at 1,281.1. The bulk of attention was centred on the new
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  • 188 14 UPI US TRADE Representative Clayton Yeutter yesterday urged Japan to encourage private sector imports of US aircraft, vehicle parts and transport ships as part of a bilateral effort to balance trans-Pacific trade. Mr Yeutter, in Japan for the first time since assuming the post
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 426 15  -  By JUNE LIM DISCUSSIONS ARE underway among three carriers on ways to rationalise their Far EastMkldle East service. Though a final decision has not been reached, industry sources say talks have centred on a liner service using six to seven 1,800-TEU ships.
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    • 374 15 UNITED States Lines is to go ahead with plans to expand its round-the-world service despite a court ruling which casts doubt on the legality of the whole operation. The company intends to introduce two more ports of call to the
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 51 15 ORIENT OVERSEAS Container Line has placed a massive order for 10,000 TEUs with the Taiwanese container manufacturer, Associated Inudstries China. In detail, the order comprises of 4,000 20-ft containers, 1,000 40-ft high cubes and 2,000 40-ft boxes. The delivery will be carried out in stages until November
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      • 66 15 THREE CONTAINER ships owned by the Philippines state-owned National Shipping Corporation are to be stretched to increase their capacity by another 200 TEUs. These are the 560-TEU National Pride, National Honour and National Dignity, vessels which are currently plying the trans-Pacific trade. The vessels are fairly modern
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      • 93 15 TWENTY-FIVE ships, totalling 439,183 tons gross, have been settled as marine insurance losses in the first half of 1985 at a cost of £121.2 million (US$l62 million) to Lloyd's marine underwriters and the other company markets. Losses in the first six months of 1984 also totalled 25
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      • 44 15 TASMAN Express Line has scheduled its new trans-Tasman container service between Australia and New Zealand for around Aug 15. Its first ship, the German-built 3,988 gross ton Auckland Express, will start off from Sydney and Melbourne. Sister ship is Canterbury Express.
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    • 723 16 AFP CHINA'S shipbuilding industry, after a boom which has led it to become the world's fourth largest in recent years, appears to be marking time. The shipbuilding authorities have set no precise target for production during the remainder of the century, owing
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    • 318 16 UPI FIRE CREWS on Sunday investigated a fire-damaged Panamanian freighter loaded with Japanese cars to determine whether any of the vehicles could be salvaged. The Coral Ace was anchored in Unalaska hay, where a commercial firefighting outfit made the inspection. A
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    • 62 16 THE JAPANESE navy ship Katori has arrived in Australia for a fiveday training and goodwill visit. The 3,501-tonne vessel, under the command of Rear Admiral Takayuki Itoh and carrying 155 ensign officers, will be opened for public inspection on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday the
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    • 212 16 NIPPON Kokan KK has developed a new system that is proving highly effective in controlling noise on ships. The new Cabinoise system was devised by Japan's second largest steelmaker as part of its wide range of research and development works. NKK is also a major
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    • 690 16 AB Shpg V 5 Afeo Line VI 3 A PC Line V 4 APL M 2/3 Anro Service IV 3/4 ANL 1 1 ASCL m 1 Bolt-Canada Lme VI 4/5 Bolt-Orient Line VI 4/5 Bank Line V 5 B8S 1 4/5 Ben Line Coot V 3 Ben
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    • 1337 16 GRAIN rates generally held fairly steady on the freight market on Friday in quiet chartering while increased iron ore business developed, shipbrokers said. Grain from the US Gulf to Japan received U5510.25 for late August against $10 paid earlier this week while $10.35 was agreed for an early
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    • 217 17 AFP THE CHINESE navy has confiscated more than 40,000 unauthorised imported vehicles from the South China island of Hainan and taken them to a mainland port for legal sale, a newspaper reported in Hongkong ova: the weekend. The pro-Beijing daily Ta-Kung-Pao said the
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    • 365 17 TMR/ITN WHILE WORLD container traffic growth prospects remain buoyant, sweeping changes in the pattern of trade will continue to feature prominently in the period to 1990, according to a recent report on Containerisation in the Developing World, 1970-1990. Published by CSR Consultants Ltd,
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    • 162 17 Fairplay A PILOT project for the use of converted tankers as floating waste reception facilities in the Mediterranean has been recommended by the European Commission. The decision was taken following a Brussels conference, held last month, on waste reception in the Mediterranean. A two-year pilot
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    • 448 17 Sept M Port Day 18, the annual open day of the Port of Halifax, this year's theme is "Port of Halifax Canada's Ocean Gateway". The Halifax Sheraton Hotel will be the venue for all Port Day events. Details: EA Sadler, Port of Halifax, Suite 900, Cogswell Tower, Halifax,
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    • 187 17 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/Europe, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits porta/ Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia/Straits Container Line.
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    • 123 17 THE TURKISH government has issued a decree lifting the five per cent quay dues for goods coming into the country by ro-ro ship. The duty, calculated on five per cent of the goods' CIF value, was first levied after the Rifadin Resmi Kanuni (Quay Does Law)
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    • 6817 22 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tobulates, 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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    • 743 23 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for La movement Ship Voy dote/time Operator cargo schedule Location Or Champion 44W 13.8.85 2100 Jardine F7 0700-0900 U4 Siri Bhum 232N 14.8.85 0300 S'pore Shpg F1 0700-0800/1400-1500 K1 Saudi Tabuk 013 14.8.85 0600 Kim
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    • 1678 23 Who acts for whom The leading shipping line* operating from local porta and their agents. A—• A Top Enterprises Pl« Ltd Sam* (S) AB Shippan Boustead Shpg Agencies Atea Lata African Shpg Agencies CS) Ahrenkiel Umt K*n Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceonus Shipping Agencies (S) MuJtiport Sdn Bhd (PK)
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    • 284 24 AFP n rates were detectable out of the Gulf states areas for VLCCs, one of which was fixed for Japan at worldscale 22.5, the best rate since May, and one to South Korea at 23. The upturn is attributed to an increase in business from Iran and the
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    • 641 24 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel KEPPEL WHARVES Nancy Lykes Rajah Brooke Straits Hop* Vamco 23 B Tribute Builder Global Mors Jenson IV Thai Rainbow Trons Hov PASIR PANJANG Coral V'ture Koenary Orange Breeze S T Ceramic Uranus Star A Tenor Satu Bururtg 3003 kogun Khonh Hoi Mapewa Poc
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    • 72 15 CHINA'S shipbuilding industry, after a boom which hos led it to become the world's fourth largest, appears to be marking time. P«g« II WHILE WORLD container traffic growth prospects remain buoyant, sweeping changes in the pattern of trode will continue to feoture prominently in the period to 1990. Pag« 111
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