The Business Times, 19 September 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, IMS 60 CENTS
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  • 235 1 UPI MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said that the press should be allowed to function freely provided journalists acted responsibly and without prejudice. "So long as the press is conscious of itself being a threat to democracy and conscientiously limits the
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  • 115 1 AFP THE SOVIET UNION yesterday ordered the retaliatory expulsion of six more British residents, bringing the total number of expulsions on both sides to 31. It was the fourth round of tit-for-tat expulsions since last Thursday, triggered by the defection of the KGB's
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  • 607 1  -  Speculators get their fingers burned and their knuckles rapped By THE EDITOR AS SWIFTLY as it acted last Friday the Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday halted its open market operation aimed at strengthening the foreign exchange rate of the local dollar. With the Singapore
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  • 434 1 DR GOH KENG SWEE's statement on the Singapore dollar, issued last Monday morning, coupled with the intervention in the foreign exchange market by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, brought the value of the Singapore dollar back from a high of 2.31 to 2.17 in three days
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  • 219 1 TRADING ON THE Singapore stock exchange yesterday was hectic as prices surged ahead in the highest volume seen for over a year. Winners outstripped losers by 114 to 32 on a ready basis. The Straits Times Industrial Index closed 9.35 higher at 766.95 while the
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  • 480 1  -  By AMY CHEOK TWO ACCOUNTANTS are under investigation by the Singapore Society of Accountants for deriding the standard of the profession here in a recent interview with a UK accounting magazine. The SSA is conducting an informal inquiry into allegations that one of the two accountants
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  • 389 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING THE SETTING UP of a new j body to stimulate the entrepreneurial spirit is one of the suggested actions that could be considered by the Economic Committee formed in May to review Singapore's economic development. The proposal was
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    • 298 1 OUR SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT on The Planned Office comes free with today's BT. Make sure you get your copy. SHARE INFORMATION MONEY A EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS LETTERS CROSSWORDS TV A RADIO OUR VIEW ASSUMING A MAN to be guilty until proven innocent is ogoinst basic justice, but that is what is
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    • 183 1 *!'+-)%\_!':\:$$^@"-,@%\`<&$$<+ New BT column starts today ENTERPRISE is one of the weapons that Singapore must use to carry on growing into the next century. And ENTERPRISE is BT's new column devoted to small businesses which intend to get bigger and better. Every Thursday ENTERPRISE will bring advice, trends and debate
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 430 2  -  Plans to broaden interests By LOH HUI YIN A WARNING that the output of Singapore's oil refineries will be running at well under capacity for years to come was made by senior oilmen here yesterday. But despite the grim message, put across at
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    • 151 2 JtHE SEP 11 edition of BT car»ried a report on a series of postI graduate lectures conducted by business leaders on the practicality of doing business. It was {reported, incorrectly, that three Wctures were being held on the same day. The first lecture was given fay Mr
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    • 395 2 CANBERRA is looking for Singapore businessmen interested in teaming up with Australian companies to tap the China market as well as businessmen who want to develop tourist facilities in Canberra. "We're trying to interest Singapore and Hongkong businessmen who can be partners with Australian
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    • 315 2 "SHOW AND TELL" will be the theme of this year's promotion of the total defence concept by the Ministry of Defence. Acting on feedback from two surveys conducted last year, Mindef's 1985/86 Public Communications Programme will shift away from creating awareness and
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    • 343 2 CHEW GAIK HEAN has been seconded to the UK by ICI (Singapore) Private Limited with effect from Sep 1, 1985. Prior to her secondment, Miss Chew held the position of pharmaceuticals manager. In the UK, she will assume the position of marketing product manager for salt products.
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    • 237 2 HOW EX) YOU go about finding a local partner in a joint venture in India? What about labour relations and are there organisations to help the Singapore entrepreneur set up in India? These were some of the concerns voiced by more than 200 participants at
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    • 717 3 Today Business Times launches a new column, entitled Enterprise, devoted to small business. Every Thursday, Enterprise will bring news aimed at the ambitious entrepreneur. It will act as a forum for those who wish to give their views on how best the
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    • 101 3 (Chinese) SXHiIS ft a _h id m a m■u«^«sot e=gi«*i iss&twt 6VJ< ii b] HM. jfeSK »w& ftjirfe.fflipSH'SriftsS*j° ttff&ifetil-t* £'> %-l'X* Sf ¥XSB w* £4k M o 'btiSlZfttii&ffH&Mm num* o &fr# o aim&mmffiVkw&ivt mo* o m Rnm# o m'J>xLiOO%HtL ia fIU &40 0, 00 0 A Htr 3 wxgp&wSH is
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    • 135 3 THE ABILITY of computers to "talk" to one another is becoming so important that one company is organising a three-day conference on the topic. Computer Communications '85 Asia will feature 50 papers by a panel of international speakers focusing on the advantages and opportunities of networks
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    • 113 3 MORE THAN 300 Singapore businessmen have accepted invitations to attend a seminar on "Investment opportunities in Johore" to be opened today by the Johore Chief Minister, Mr Abdul A jib bin Ahmad. The day-long seminar, sponsored by the Johore State Economic Development Corporation (SEDC), will
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    • 245 3 OPINIONS may differ over Changi Airport being the best, second best or third best in the world. But it certainly ranks high among travellers. Changi Airport received yet another award on Tuesday for being the second best in the world. This latest assessment was
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    • 129 3 AN AMERICAN TOOL and die casting company which set up a $7-million factory here a year ago is to pump $2.5 million more into its venture. Tool Products will also double its workforce and factory ■space, said its president Bruce McFadzean
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 712 4 Hemu denies knowing about Greenpeace bombing in advance UPI Reuter AS FRENCH OPPOSITION leaders talked of the possibility of a French Watergate scandal, Defence Minister Charles Hernu has angrily denied a Le Monde newspaper report that he knew in advance about the sabotage of the
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    • 463 4 AP A RESEARCHER for the American Friends Service Committee told a United Nations bearing on Tuesday that an international arms embargo against South Africa was being evaded through a "brisk invisible military trade" with that country. "Transnational corporations are undoubtedly the most important conduit
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    • 167 4 AFP THE INSPECTION of more than 300 Boeing-747s after the Japan Air Lines (JAL) Jumbo jet crash which killed a record 620 people last month turned up a few loose screws but no signs of danger, a spokesman for the plane manufacturer said.
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    • 233 4 AP THE 40th SESSION of the General Assembly opened on Tuesday with battle lines being drawn on a threat by the US to cut its support for the UN unless weighted voting was introduced on fiscal matters. The session was opened by the outgoing
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    • 208 4 AP US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan invoked the image of poison gas, a gruesome weapon from World War I, on Tuesday night when he explained why he was not willing now to limit his Star Wars programme which is aimed at finding a way
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    • 173 4 Reuter LESS THAN a week after a European-built Ariane rocket carrying two satellites went amiss and was blown up, Hughes Aircraft Co said it would use the US space shuttle rather than the Ariane to launch its next six satellites. Hughes Communications
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    • 116 4 AP THE SENATE Finance Committee voted in Washington on Tuesday to raise the US national debt limit above US$2 trillion. The committee approved a bill raising the debt limit by more than $250 billion to $2,078 trillion; to cover through next year the
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    • 146 4 AP AN AMERICAN scientist Is taking up Britain's first professorial chair in parapsychology, the study of levitation, telepathy, extrasensory perception and assorted things that go bump in the night. Dr Robert Morris said he would expose fraud where he finds it, and would
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    • 818 4 ARRIVALS Operator S*mc« number Local tint From PAA PA2I/5 0020 LAX/TYO/ HKG RBA BI443 0330 BWN LUFT LH688 0105 FRA/DXB GiA GAI218 0740 SUB MAS MH681 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH605 0930 KUL MAS MH81I 0940 PEN AC AC858 0940 YYZ/LHR/ BOM RBA BM21
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    • 234 5 AFP THAI PREMIER Prem Tinsulanonda has promised a court trial for the alleged architects of a failed coup against his government last week. Newspapers in Bangkok yesterday quoted sources as saying that Mr Prem made the pledge during a Cabinet meeting, and
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    • 178 5 Reuter US SECRETARY of State George Shultz has announced a new but limited programme to re-unite Cambodian refugees along the Thai border with their families in the US. He said that Vietnam had doubled to 4,000 the number of Asian-American children allowed to leave the
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    • 187 5 AFP MORE THAN 2,000 people were taken ill after a crowd in north-east China rushed to see a jet of poisonous chlorine gas gushing from a damaged train. Police in Beijing said yesterday that they fired warning shots to disperse a crowd of
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    • 305 5 Military costs going above one per cent limit Reuter JAPAN CLEARED the way yesterday to push its defence spending through the time-hal-lowed barrier which had kept military costs below one per cent of the gross national product. Officials said an all-night bargaining session between defence
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    • 289 5  -  By LEE HAN SHIH MALAYSIAN CONTRACTORS have asked their government to help them win jobs overseas and to compete effectively with foreigners on home ground. They have asked for contracts valued at Msloo million and below to be reserved exclusively for Malaysian builders, so as
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    • 113 5 AFP THE SIMULTANEOUS arrest in three US cities on Monday of Chinese crime chiefs illustrates the growth in the US of Asian mafias, an FBI official said. "Asian organised crime will end up being the No 1 organised problem in North America in the next
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    • 142 5 AFP JAPAN HAS DECIDED to adopt a tariff quota system for leatlfer and leather shoe imports from April next year, abolishing the present import quotas on them. International Trade and Industry Ministry sources said yesterday that under the new system, Japan would
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 1110 6 Voluntary retirement of Chinese leaders signals new political style NYT WHEN DOZENS of high-ranking Chinese officials raised their open palms on Monday and voted for their own retirement, they were acting out a scenario devised years before by an ageing man tramping around his vegetable patch
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    • 640 6 AFP VIETNAM'S CURRENCY reform is the latest stage of a wide-ranging economic shake-up aimed at stimulating the economy, and casting off the bureaucratic chains which have hampered development, Western analysts said in Hanoi. After 40 years of hardline socialism, the Vietnamese authorities are
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    • 484 6 AFP AMERICAN COMPANIES are split over whether to pull out of South Africa in the face of growing pressure to step up sanctions against the Pretoria government because of its racial policies. This week's editions of the country's two most influential economic
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    • 502 6 Reuter IN SPITE OF its great wealth, the US has probably become a net debtor nation, an unusual status for a developed economy and one which could portend future problems, some analysts say. Only three years ago, it was the world's largest creditor nation,
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 828 7 SINGAPORE THE US dollar yesterday firmed against most major currencies in thin late trading on Asian and European short-covering interest. The dollar closed at 241.90/242.05 yen against an early 241.70/80 and New York's 241.65/75 close. It ended stronger at 2.3890/3905 Swiss francs compared with an initial 2.3810/20 and
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    • Article, Illustration
      303 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates yesterday closed slightly lower compared with yesterday. Overnight closed at 7 3 7 J down 3/16 from the previous close, week fixed at eight 7 3 down I* three months at 8 1 8'», down 1/16 and six months at B'/t Bjk,8 j k,
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    • 259 7 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed lower in moderate trading reflecting the strength of the US dollar, dealers said. They said sentiment was bearish in view of the resilience of the dollar. The metal closed at U*****.90/315.30 an ounce compared with New York's 316.40/90 close and the 318.60/319.00 finish here on
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    • 236 7 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: CufTMtCM* MOMNMI rate* Si Otter a mrthtooiiw rou parity Local dollori to one unit of torero currency: US dollar 2 1950 ***** 2 8196 -22 15 Sterling pound 2 9259 2 9348 7 3469 -60 18 Austrakon dollar 1 4943 1.4999 ***** -56
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    • 351 7 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures yesterday opened higher from IMM's close due to the lower than expected increase in US consumer credit and the postponement of next week's US Treasury mini-refunding. December Eurodollar opened four ticks higher than IMM's close at 91.41 and was traded up to a high 91.44.
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    • 67 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market (ell by 80 points from Tuesday to close at 25 per cent yesterday. The three-month term rate (ell by one point, while the one- and two-month rates were unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: OH.. >Kt o»« rwght
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    • 343 7 Reuter THE BRITISH authorities are worried by the escalation of salaries and the lack of stability of staffing in financial institutions in London. Bank of England governor Christopher McMahon said in a speech prepared for delivery to a banking conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, that more
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    • 202 7 Reuter BORROWING by countries and companies on international capital markets rose sharply in August as relatively lower interest rates helped spur demand for funds. On Tuesday, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a monthly report that international borrowing last month
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    • 207 7 "There's no love than the love of food." A view that's similarly shared by Monsieur Jean Vettard. The stage is set. Jean Vettard, the notable Maitre Cuisinier de France, presents yet another encore of his famed Cuisine Extraordinaire. The fact that this is his sixth visit to our island (or
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  • FEATURES
    • 520 8 INTRODUCED WITH THE BEST of intentions, Section 149 of the 1984 Companies (Amendment) Act is now forcing those which it embraces to prove their innocence rather than be tried for their guilt, just as its critics warned it would. Rapid modifications are in order. Mr
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    • 1259 8  -  It may not be long before a comprehensive "manage-your-own-CPF funds" plan is announced, argues CHAN 01 CHEE in an analysis on the effects of such a scheme. CHAN OI CHEE THE LOCAL financial community is excited over the possibility that a substantial portion of Singapore's massive
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    • 646 8 Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, I have refrained from criticising Singapore's tourist promotion efforts before, but there comes a time when one must speak one's mind. My firm belongs to one of the larger international management consultancy firms and we have offices all over
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    • 177 8 Dear Sir, It seems "Not Mutton-headed" (BT September 9) has missed the point of both "Chinaman" and "Linguist's" letters. For "Chinaman" to accuse a flight attendant of ignorance for saying the satay was lamb, not mutton, was out of line. People have different food preferences
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 664 8 mmMm CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Was her aim spoilt getting out of a wrecked car? (6) 7 Vehicle bearing (8) 8 I'm in the money, but not a lot (4) 10 Alf's upset about me having old lovers (6) 11 Semi-metallic ring (6) 14 Valentino's boy (3) 16 Animals of
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  • SPORTS
    • 331 9 AP FIFTH-SEEDED Bonnie Gadusek of the US rallied behind an overpowering serve and used the baseline effectively on Tuesday to score a first-round victory over Australia's Janine Thompson 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the US$l5O,OOO Chicago Virginia Slims tennis tournament. Earlier, the tournament got
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    • 254 9 AP CALVIN SMITH, the world record holder in the 100 m, and Carl Lewis, the American record holder in the 200 m, will head the US track and field team that will compete against the national teams of the Soviet Union and Japan this weekend, the
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    • 476 9 UPI THE CLOSER Larry Holmes comes to Rocky Marciano's 49-0 record, the more fascinating become the comparisons that can be made between the two heavyweight champions. Holmes can match Marciano's record on Saturday against light heavyweight champion Michael Spinks, 30 years to
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    • 467 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS ALTHOUGH ENTRIES are merely trickling in (or next month's third leg of the EUlesse Tennis Circuit, the organisers are surprisingly unruffled. Said circuit chairman George Cheng: "This is not unusual. We expect the players to send in their entries
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    • 249 9 UPI TOP SEEDED Jose Luis Clerc of Argentina struggled through two tiebreakers to defeat 20-year-old Swede Peter Lundgren in the first round of a US$lOO,OOO Nabisco Grand Prix tennis tournament on Tuesday. All eight seeded players advanced through the first round of the 32-man
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    • 168 9 AFP SCOTLAND'S Sandy Lyle will be hard pushed to retain his Lancome trophy title against the star-studded field who will tee off in the 1.4-million franc competition at Saint Nom La Breteche west of Paris on Oct 3. Opponents of the British
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    • 155 9 Reuter FIVE MEMBERS of Europe's Ryder Cup golf winning have been named among the U players for the the world mate!?-, play championship. The five include Sam Torrance, who sank tneT putt which sent the crashing to defeat at the Belfry on Sunday, and
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    • 315 9 AFP DESPERATE English club heads have launched a late bid to stop commercial television from screening highlights of Glasgow Celtic's European Cup Winners' Cup match in Spain scheduled for yesterday. They fear that defeat in the first real skirmish of the television war will open up
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1167 9 w cod mm J w f K 'a* m. s. m\ .5/ wu "■s. T\ Ryan O'Neal (second from toft) and Barbra Streisand (right) star in thia romantic comedy THURSDAY FEATURE SPECIAL The Main Event 9JO pm, Channel 5 Two Hollywood hotheads, Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, team up in
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 353 10 Reuter RICHARDSON-VICKS has 1 rejected a revised merger bid by Unilever and issued a new preferred stock to m: defend against the unwant- ed takeover. The board will distribute one preferred share for every five common shares. The pay-out on the common stock will
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    • 107 10 Reuter BOARD of Apple «Computer Is considering potions it might take in the wiight of plans by its chairman and co-founder, Steven Jobs, to form a new company. Apple declined to com- jnent on what steps it might take. J Last week Mr
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    • 338 10 Reuter SHARE PRICES on Wall Street plunged on Tuesday under the influence of a huge increase in selling by professional investors. Technical selling by them helped drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 10.98 points to 1298.16. The average share lost 29 cents in
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    • 179 10 str 17 Unrs*c Wootwonti 550 1475 10 25 M0USTVUI5 MININGS A A*ho 820 unch 5 unch rw 50 I0I00B unch 1425 50 BuH«h 7250 150 -10 tmh Charter 625 15 Cora Gold I490B CNA Cora Murch 1075 25 1165 OhM 4925 50 -5 E R Cora 135 unch E
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    • 911 10 Amsterdam SEP 17 Fb ABN 500 00 5 Aagon 97 00 unch Ahotd 247 00 3 125 40 0 9 AM£V 304 50 0 3 Amro Bark 85 80 0 8 38 50 -05 Bob ***** 7 Bo*kafc» Bur T«t 107.80 18 Catortd 469 00 44 CM Mi|
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 352 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed slightly lower yesterday after a lacklustre and featureless halfday's trading. The Hang Seng index finished off 5.78 points at 1,563.62. It was down 5.81 at the mid-morning fix. Brokers noted some selling in HK Bank which ended five HK cents lower at $7.20. Elsewhere, Hang
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    • 207 11 SEP IS Al Sncere Indus Aim Cement Carhay Cora Chang Hwa Bank Chan Loon^ NT 3 29 1930 23 00 44 60 16 10 21 40 -002 unch unch unch 0 1 -01 Uen Hwa Indus Non Yo Plas Pocific Cora Pocrfic Elect Wire Poolung Paper Sharp 12.15 23
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    • 315 11 TOKYO: Share prices ended sharply lower in spite of late afternoon buying. The market average finished down 61.85 to 12,529.66 after falling 111.24 in early afternoon. Trading volume was 410 million against 400 million the day before. Internationally popular electronics declined along with precision instruments. Biotechno-logy-related shares and non-life
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    • 95 11 MANILA: Share prices closed little changed in quiet trading. The Commercial and Industrial Index rose by 1.52 to 156.02, while the mining and oils indices were unchanged at 665.16 and 0.823 respectively. Fqmn 0014 ■0002 Ac Of* Mmg FMn B 0 13 0 005 Angto Phd PLOT 35 -0
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    • 330 11 SYDNEY: Australian share prices closed sharply lower ahead of the release of the government's proposed tax reform package today. The All Ordinaries Index fell by 16.3 to 945.5, its sharpest one-day fall since a 20.6-point drop in October 1983. Brokers said the All Industrials Index recorded its biggest singleday
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    • 85 11 SEP IS Won 695 4 Hyvndoi Corwt Hyundai Motor KM. 899 885 445 unc h 3 -5 Chohcung Bk 648 3 Korea Fm 730 5 i«h -9 Commercial Bk 720 4A6 6 -7 ViAona Kor*o 421 Do»woo Corp 480 639 -3 I Luck Y Ltd Somung Co 610 695
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    • 117 11 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mixed in light trading. The Book Club Index improved by 0.03 to 134.00. Turnover dropped to 67,674 shares worth 14.2 million baht from Tuesday's 174,301 shares worth 29.7 million baht. Siam Camant 559 unch Sam Citizen 72 -05 S*m City *504 A«to Ffcrt South Aho
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    • 63 11 Reuter NEC CORP, Japan's largest semiconductor maker, will cut capital outlays for its semiconductor division to 120 billion yen from an initially-planned 140 billion in the year to March 31, 1986. An NEC spokesman said in Tokyo on Tuesday that the decision was prompted by falling
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    • 340 11 Reuter STOCKBROKER Sze Man-Hon cradles a telephone in a modest office in Hongkong and buys 2,000 shares of a leading stock. Two minutes later, he is on the phone again, this time selling. In this freewheeling centre of capitalism he might
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    • 192 11 Reuter INDONESIA will expand its liquefied natural gas plant in East Kalimantan to cope with new contracts with Taiwan and Japan which are expected to be signed soon. Simon Tampubolon, the general manager of Badak, the operator of the plant, said
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    • 53 11 Bernama THE MOVE to privatise Bernama, the national news agency of Malaysia, is still under study, Information Minister Datuk Rais Yatim said. The "in-house" study included a review of the Bernama Act. The Malaysian government is waiting to see how the privatisation of Telecoms and other agencies
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    • 597 11 f) k&at to wlm 9 Mm Excelsior &uLuetie HUNGARIAN BUFFET LUNCH Sept. 15 —30 11.30 am 2.30 pm Adult: $14 Child: $8 Cc%&) u.i (efts) tzxceh/or note/ 5 Coleman Street, Singapore 0617. Tel: *****33 For deHghtful dinners with popular local flavours. Enjoy dinner with popular local flavours. Our "Singapore Delights"
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    • 186 11 KIRIN COURT The better Cantonese Cuisine Businessmen Lunch fIJCA-H (for four persons) 1. Soup of the day 2. Assorted Cold Cuts Combination 3. Sweetened Water Chestnut Cream "And A Choice of Any 2 of the Following: Saute Chicken with Black Bean Sauce Saute Beef with Vegetable Steamed Minced Pork with
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 521 12 AFP &AR(2AINING POSITIONS have fcegun to emerge on the second day of 14-day coffee negotiations within the framework of the International Coffee Agreement. I Most of the world's coffee exporting and importing countries, fnembers of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO), are faking part. A spokesman
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    • 331 12 Reuter SOME PROGRESS was made in discussions on key issues at {tie third regular ministerial meeting of the Association of Tin Producing Countries tATPC), delegates said. But most of the subjects are still in discussion and the delegates declined to give details. The major
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    • 129 12 Reuter INDONESIA is set to boost its rice, corn and soy bean production in the 1965 calendar year from the year before, western agricultural experts forecast. Imports of rice, corn and wheat will drop while soy bean purchases will be static, with the US
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    • 152 12 Chinm Produce Exchange (Sellers' noon doting prices on Sep 1S(SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 80 00 CHd drum FOB 93 00 New drum FOB 97 00 Copra Mixed (loose) 42 buyers Pepper Muntok White FOB NLW 962 50 Sarawak White FOB toq NLW 952 50 Sarawak special
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    • 279 12 Singapore C-l Ord unq (SS/k.lo, e»-9<xJown) Loonzoin Rice Frogront new crop 1«. 0 78 100% 1st grade 100% 2nd grade unq 215 2nd 056 100% 3rd grade unq 3rd 054 Parboiled Rice New Crop 25% 10% no stock no stock 5% 10% 215 210 Thoi Broken 054 0 52
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    • 150 12 SINGAPORE THE RUBBER MARKET yesterday closed slightly lower with October One RSS buyers quoted at 164.00 cents per kilo, down 0.75 cent from Tuesday. MALAYSIA Continued covering saw the market close higher at 183.50 cents per kilo for Oct Int One RSS buyers, up 1.50 cents from Tuesday's close.
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    • 360 12 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOB mi b< ales NOON CLOSE Buyers Setters Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 164 50 165 SON 164 00 165 OON bit 1 RSS Oct 85 164 50 165 00 164 00 164 50 Int 1 RSS Nov 85 164 00
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    • 104 12 THE KUALA LUMPUR tin price yesterday eased three cents to close at M$»J5 per kilo following sterling's easiness against the ringgit. The buffer stock manager gave active support at this level coupled with light renewed Japanese and local Interest. Contributions of tin dropped slightly to 155 tonnes from
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    • 152 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bole ot 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix I6's 2,450 Blue Phoenix 20's 2,500 Blue Phoenix 32's 2,900 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,330 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 2)'s 2,750 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,100 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,300 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 152 12 THE MALAYSIAN crude f)&lm oil market yesterday ruled steady at midday on light covering interest, supported by higher Chicago soyoil futures on Tuesday night. September deliveries in the central region was traded unchanged at *****7.50 per tonne, while October in the north rose $5 $727.50. The refined palm
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    • 119 12 WHEAT FUTURES on Tuesday closed mostly higher on the Chicago Board of Trade, up as much as two US cents a bushel in December, although July finished cent lower. December ended near the middle of a 5 3 cent range. Dean Witter bought December late, while Continental Grain and
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    • 118 12 SOYBEAN FUTURES on Tuesday extended Monday's gains and closed SV« to Vh US cents a bushel higher on the Chicago Board of Trade. November ended near the top of a seven cent range. Analysts said the recent rally has turned charts positive for the near term, particularly after the
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    • 90 12 Reuter OVER 60,000 hectares of rice were seriously damaged by flooding in the Thanh Hoa province after three days of heavy torrential rains in northern Vietnam last week. Radio Hanoi said thousands of people had been mobilised to build dikes and combat waterlogging
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    • 108 12 (cents/kg, 1-ton pallets) g NOV 85 (current month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Buycn Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 136 50 138 SON 137 50 139 SON SSR 50 134 50 136 SON 135 50 137 50N MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 182 00 184
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    • 932 12 COFFEE ROBUSTA COFFEE futures on Tuesday rose strongly to end with gains of £50 to £20 a tonne, buoyed by a firmer New York market, short-covering and chart buying. 80 original tenders and 21 retenders were posted on Tuesday, bringing the total for the month to date to
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    • 506 12 LTCB The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd. Report of Independent Public Accountants To the Board of Directors of The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited We have examined the balance sheets of The Long-Term Credit Bank ot Japan Limited as of March 31 1985 and 1984 and the related
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 621 13 IN SPITE OF a computer hitch just before lunch, the Singapore stock market yesterday saw the most hectic trading in over a year. Prices firmed up across the board with many Singapore counters enjoying a revival on the coat-tails of hyper-active Malaysian counters.
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    • 3651 13 *9* Low Company Last Sato +orat* Dtv Dtv C*vr 0f» rid Nat P/t V«l <w Di Man V Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 185 146 270 134 195 247 152* 188 200 428 332 462 204 530 244 370 336 295 865 232* 110 620 291 270 585 157 340
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    • 264 13 Chief p rice changes SINGAPORE 1 Rises M A A 3700 H Laaag CraAt 560 TDM 442 l*qBM 540 1 M TwHhi 306 CaM SMn 10» 293 Gaa* HMp 129 PraMt 142 D S 520 S. i i\ HMfi 275 UMKc 194 OU( 276 Falls Siiiiiim VH 142 Hmm MM
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 513 14 THE MALAYSIAN Association of Remisiers, (Persatuan Wakil Peniaga Saham, Persama) has called for stiffer penalties on those found guilty of passing on or dealing in forged share certificates. Noting that the incidence of forged certificates had reached alarming proportions, the association urged
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    • 618 14 PEGI MALAYSIA Bhd, which has been given an option to purchase various business operations from Dunlop Malaysia Industries Bhd (DMIB), is carrying out a detailed study of £hem. These businesses are the Dunlopillo mattress, the golf J £all and the chemical product
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    • 372 14 AFP THE BIGGEST Philippine business batJtle in years is now raging with multiJ millionaire Eduardo Cojuangeo moving •in to dislodge a once redoubtable millJers group for monopoly control of «wheat imports. V Mr Cojuangeo, a celebrated "crony" of President Ferdinand Marcos, is heavily favoured
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    • 277 14 Managers' prices for Sep 19 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 181 1 92 The Savings Fund 1 36 1 44 S'pore Prog Fund 0 78 *0 83 S'pore Sec Fund 1 14 121 S'pote Invest Fund 0 80 0 85 S'pore Equity Fund 0 80 0 85 Asia
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    • 103 14 HONGKONG Tuesday 1409 8 Week ago 1400;! Hong Seng Index Wednesday 1563 62 Tuesday 1569 40 NEW YORK Week ago 1571 95 Dow Jones Tuesday 1298.16 TOKYO Monday 1309.14 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1333 45 Wednesday ***** 66 Tuesday *****.51 Standard Poors Tuesday 181.36 Monday 182.88 Week
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    • 355 14 INDUSTRIAL Oxygen Inc Bhd is looking into the modernisation of its existing gas manufacturing operations and is negotiating a technical joint venture with an international group. A company spokesman said the group was discussing the upgrading of its research and development and new
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    • 126 14 Reuter WOOLWORTH Holdings PLC's first-half results in its 1985/86 financial year were in line with the board's expectations. The group's full-year profit will again depend almost entirely on second-half trading, it said. It expects continuing growth at its B&Q Retail Ltd do-it-your-self chain and a
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    • 251 14 INVESTORS stormed the Kuala Lumpur stock marketyesterday and continued to chase share prices higher on a record turnover of 39.24 million shares valued at MJ76.18 million. This surpassed the previous high set last Friday at 31.43 million units worth $62.9 million. The active issues
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    • 3641 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. MDUSTRIALS A Choc (2 80S) il) 273 (2) 2 74
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    • 254 14 Bernama THE KOMPLEK KEWANGAN group is evaluating the investments of its- subsidiaries to ensure that each venture is relevant to the group's operation. At the same time, efforts are being made to capitalise on the strength of the group in the financial and
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    • 419 15 SEVERAL MALAYSIAN stockbroking firms have obtained approval from Bank Negara to operate offshore accounts and were able to make use of cheaper funds for their operations in recent weeks. Confirming that several broking firms have obtained Bank Negara's approval to borrow funds offshore, Kuala Lumpur
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    • 300 15  -  By AMY CHEOK TWO PROPERTY-BASED companies, Petaling Garden Bhd and Paramount Corp, have posted lower interim earnings, reflecting the soft market conditions in Malaysia. petaling Garden, one of the biggest property groups in Kuala Lumpur, turned in group pretax profits of M 510.23
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    • 289 15 ALTHOUGH HOTEL Grand Central was not spared the negative effects of an overall slowdown in the local hotel business this year, it appears to be holding its ground quite well. For the six months ended June 30,1985, the group reported
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    • 396 15  -  By CHAN Ol CHEE MILLIONAIRE HOTELIER Mr Khoo Teck Puat, who has been busy accumulating DBS Bank shares in recent weeks, is quietly buying shares in another banking heavyweight, OverseaChinese Banking Corporation. It is understood that the hotel tycoon, who heads the
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    • 388 15  -  Ownership transferred to new company By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI OVERSEAS UNION BANK has completed the restructuring of its insurance operations in Malaysia in line with the government's New Economic Policy guidelines. This will put renewed pressure on a number of foreignowned insurance companies which have yet
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    • 352 15 AS MORE AND MORE stocks begin to participate in the current market advance, major stock indices are slowly starting to flash important technical signals which point to a major rally ahead. One such market barometer, the SES All-Industrial Index, "is currently the nearest to giving
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    • 449 15 THE ONLY LOCAL speaker in a timely conference on the much-talked about unlisted securities market (USM) is to present a paper on "The proposed USM in Singapore: it's role in economic development". Mr Chua Soo Tian, the divisional director (industry) of the Economic Development
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    • 127 15 JOHAN HOLDINGS is paying MJTOO.OOO cash at par to subscribe (or additional shares (n Esab (M) Sdn Bhd. This will result in Johan having a 40 per cent stake Esab (M), which is a subsidiary Of Esab AB, one of the world's largest manufacturer
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 41 15 Net pre-tax profit MJ21.6 million ($22.8 million) for the six months to June 30, 1985. Directors have declared an interim dividend of 8 per cent less tax payable on Dec 16 to shareholers registered on Oct 28.
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      • 48 15 Pre-tax profit of M 5282,791 ($219,408) on turnover of $717,367 ($889,496) for the six months to June 30, 1985. Directors have decided to declare an interim dividend of 9 per cent less tax payable on Ndv 21 to shareholders registered on Nov 11.
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    • 236 14 of /\jf4a/cup&ui) (Incorporaceo m Malaysia) NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-fourth Annual General Meeting of Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) Berhad will be held at Virginia Park, Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 10th October, 1985 at 11 a.m. BUSINESS 1. To receive and adopt the
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 312 15 THE ASIAN-PACIFIC TAX INVESTMENT RESEARCH CENTRE, SINGAPORE presents its Third Asian-Pacific Tax Conference on "FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN ASIAN COUNTRIES" at the Ming Coort Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday, October 7th, Tuesday, October Bth, 1985 KEY TOPICS: DAY 1: MALAYSIA: "Withholding Taxes, Contractors' Tax Share Land-Based Tax" S. Sivalingam, Deputy Director
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    • 268 15 s u What's News 1/^s**k Curiam* StrrmtfU i> <Mct W» -f Fmriotr* Immd* 4 -mrrvmr* *n &**> ;A» IWfcr? ffifrw Srrr"— |..—«JS-, s SSs We've got to hand it to Singapore's executives. Succcssful cxccutivcs who want to get ahead in business, start by keeping up with The Asian Wall Street
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  • 436 16  -  New inter-island pipeline in the offing By LOH HUI YIN A RELAXATION of regulations is being considered by the Port of Singapore Authority as a way to stimulate oil trading in the Republic. Captain Khong Shen Ping of the Authority said there
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  • 484 16  -  By MANO SABNANI PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan ■Yew and the senior ministers of the Singapore delegation today ■begin a series of talks with their Chinese counterparts in Beijing. The PM will have a two-hour session today with Chinese PreJnier Zhao Ziyang. It is not
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  • 230 16 PM LEE KUAN YEW "travelled' back 6,000 years this morning. Within a period of four hours, he visited both the remains of a 6,000-year-old primitive Chinese village and the Great Mosque in the heart of Xian. His thoughts and impressions were summed up in
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  • 118 16 IN A SWEEPING succession unparalleled in modern Chinese history, China yesterday announced the promotion of 179 young leaders to powerful Communist Party posts. Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang heralded the promotions in an opening speech before 992 senior delegates at the extraordinary, six-day national
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  • 954 16 EQUITIES extended Tuesday's losses in quiet trading yesterday in response to the sharply lower close on Wall Street overnight. At I.oopm, the FTSE 100 was down 3.8 points at 1,292.2. Among leaders, ICI fell 3p to 659, Thorn EMI 5p to 369, Hanson Trust a penny to 203
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  • 250 16 UPI THE AMERICAN Senate finance committee, trying to move quickly on the trade issue, has approved legislation aimed at forcing Japan and other countries to open up their telecommunications markets to US imports. The bill, sponsored by Republican Senator John Danforth, set Japan
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  • 384 16 SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) will not change its strategy if and when greater liberalisation occurs in Europe, according to SlA's managing director, Dr Cheong Choong Kong. "Our strategy will not change in a more liberal environment. It is well-known that we have
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  • 121 16 AP MORE THAN 100 of America's most popular cartoonists will take on a serious issue on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 28, by devoting their day's strips to world hunger. The idea was proposed by Garry Trudeau, whose Doonesbury strips often grapple with controversial political
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  • 86 16 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES slipped to new lows in New York yesterday morning. Gold for delivery in December dipped to USSSO.3O an ounce after penetrating Tuesday's $320.60 level, which was the lowest since the start of the reaction from a high of $350.20 on Aug 19.
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  • 66 16 THE NEW YORK stock market yesterday pulled lower in early trading as a slide stretched into the seventh session. Analysts have said any advance is unlikely until stock index futures and options expire at the end of the week. The Dow Jones industrial average was off four
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  • LATE FILE
    • 59 16 Reuter EUROPE'S Airbus appears to be winning a battle with Boeing for a billion dollar contract to take Indian Airlines into the *****, a senior aviation official said yesterday in New Delhi. He said the domestic airline had completed its evaluation of offers made by Airbus
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    • 70 16 AP A 67-YEAR-OLD Taiwanese began a hunger strike in front of a ward office in Tokyo yesterday, demanding abolition of a law that requires foreign residents of Japan to be fingerprinted, officials said. Lin Tsai-Te had applied on Sep 6 for a re-entry permit so he
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    • 45 16 AP HONDA MOTOR CO, the world's top maker of motorcycles, said in Tokyo on Wednesday it had opened a forum to promote mutual understanding between Japanese and Asians, and had invited 12 Malaysians for the first three-month programme in Suzuka. AP
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    • 41 16 Reuter STRIKING French air traffic controllers yesterday grounded virtually all flights to and from France and left the capital's two main airports deserted. Traffic is expected to be grounded today, too, but should return to normal on Friday.
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    • 54 16 UPI ECONOMIC officials of South and North Korea yesterday ended their fourth round of talks in Panmunjom without a breakthrough in their effort to open direct trade for the first time since the division of their land 40 years ago. Both sides, however, agreed to meet again
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    • 27 16 AP INDONESIA'S foreign exchange reserves have reached US$lO billion, up from |5.7 billion in September 1984, central bank governor Arifin Siregar said yesterday. AP
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    • 37 16 UPI THE SOVIET Ambassador to the Geneva arms talks said his side is ready for "constructive and businesslike negotiations" at the third round of bargaining on space and land-based weapons this week. UPI
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 57 16 Outlook for today: Showers in several oreas around midnight, clearing in the early morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Sep 18 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.3 Associated humidity 66 Minimum temperature 23.5 Associated humidity 94 Hours of sunshine 6.75 Rainfall in millimetres nil Rainfoll this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 102 17 AFP ETHIOPIA'S shipping line has taken delivery of the last of four new cargo ships ordered at a total cost of 132 million birr (about US$65 million), a company spokesman announced in Addis Ababa. Its latest acquisition, an 8,000-tonner worth U5522.2 million and
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    • 390 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ PORTS IN THE Asia-Pacific region face a major problem in forecasting actual needs reliably, a report by the Bang-kok-based Escap revealed. The report said the problem was particularly acute because the export trade of many of the countries revolve around a small
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    • 345 17 THE PRESENT condition of the freight market is most ideal for Malaysian exporters to obtain competitive freight rates in selling on cost and freight terms, said the chairman of the Malaysian Rubber Exchange and Licensing Board (MRELB), Datuk Ahmad Sabki Jahidin.
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 109 17 IRAN RELEASED A Kuwaiti container ship after confiscating some of its US cargo destined for Iraq and detaining the vessel and its crew for nearly two weeks, Iranian officials said. The 20,781-ton A 1 Wattayah headed out of an Iranian port on Tuesday afternoon after "parts
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      • 33 17 Reuter THE AUSTRALIA to West India and Sri Lanka Outward Shipping Conferences said their currency adjustment factor will rise to 17.91 per cent from 13.12 per cent, effective Oct 2. Reuter
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      • 52 17 AFP THE 29,158 TONNE Liberian tanker Sinoda which sank off Japan on Saturday after an explosion was insured on the London market for US$4.5 million, it was reported. The empty vessel exploded off the island of Yachijojima during tank cleaning operations and broke in two before
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      • 97 17 Reuter FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING orders received by Japanese yards in August fell to 395,000 gross tons for 16 ships from 404,810 gross tons for 17 ships in July but were up from 274,770 gross tons for 14 ships a year earlier, the Japan Ship Exporters' Association said. Because
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    • 1012 18 Lloyd's List SHIPPING AGENTS today are involved in almost every aspect of the running of ships and transport of goods. Yet in many countries, agents are not required to have a professional qualifications or training a deficiency that can make them vulnerable to
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    • 252 18 AMERICAN BUREAU of Shipping (ABS) has announced that nominations are open for the 1985 Rear Admiral Halert C Shepheard Award for Achievement in Merchant Marine tyThe prestigious international award is given for a single outstanding contribution to merchant marine safety, or, for dedication
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    • 700 18 AB Shpg V 5 Afeo Line VI 3 A PC Line V 4 APL 2/3 Anro Service IV 3/4 ANL 1 1 ASCL IN 1 Bolt-Conodo Line VI 4/5 Bolt-Orient Line VI 4/5 Bonk Line V 5 BBS 1 4/5 Ben Line Cont V 3 Ben Ocean
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    • 1556 18 CHARTERING activity on Tuesday was mainly confined to the time-charter section of the freight market with fresh coal and iron ore business being very slow to develop, shipbrokers said. Although there was continued talk of underlying Soviet interest, few details emerged of any business thought to have been
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    • 203 19 AFP SEVEN MAJOR trading firms chartering out their bulk carriers to the world's biggest tanker operator Sanko Steamship Co have agreed to cooperate basically in reconstructing the insolvent company, shipping industry sources said. The trading houses, including Sumitomo Corp and Nissho Iwai Corp, notified their
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    • 195 19 Bernama THE FIRST HALF of this year has shown encouraging increase in the amount of cargo and containers handled by the Johor Port Authority (LPJ) compared with the corresponding period last year. According to the Johor Port Authority newsletter "Berita Pelabuhan", the 678 ships anchored
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    • 305 19 TMR ITN AMERICAN PRESIDENT Lines has taken a bold step in improving crew morale by approving a scheme to allow its jumboised J-9 container ships to carry up to five wives of officers and crewmen on each voyage to the Orient from
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    • 5860 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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    • 739 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 Bremen Exp 70/468 19.9 85 1800 Segani F1 0900-1000/0800-0900 Fl/Gl B Kemuning 39N 19 9 85 2300 S'pore Shpg F1 1400-1500 Ml Gold Orli 43W
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    • 1634 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B A Top Enterprises Pte Ltd Some (S) AB Shipping Bousteod Shpg Agencies Afeo Line A trie on Shpg Agencies (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceonus Shipping gencies (S) Muttiport Sdn
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    • 458 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Kee Expander K27 S'pore Shp alongside 209.85/0600 Waheng K19 Sin Chiao alongside 19.9.85/2300 Dorinco K15 Borneo 19.9 85/1100 20.9 85/2300 Jalamokambi K28 Trans Or 19.9.85/1100 21.9 85/0600 Lin Petaling K20 Lin Lin 19.9.85/0600 19 9.85/2000 Lina 101
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    • 56 17 [KMDB UNCTAD's inter-governmental group on maritime froud will discuss in Geneva the suggestions for regulation of shipping agents. Pag« II SEVEN MAJOR trading firms chartering out their bulk carriers to Sanko Steamship Co have agreed to cooperate. Page 111 Index to odvertisers II London freight II Weather map VIII Container
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    • 467 17 This runaway bestseller disects the secrets of America s most successful and has distilled their success into eight basic findings which make exceptional sense TIMES THE BOOKSHOP MAERSK LINE MAERSK LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. /f/ IS NOW BERTHED AT SQUTHPOINT 2 CiwMtM *****05 Pcnang Ve«tel Vo, s per. EXPORT TO
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    • 466 18 YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA seshmrr Pacific North Wm( Feeder at Kobe OMtar VSI SEAT VCR Faadar at Tokyo Haft* VSI LA/LB OA* OMfar ft »T Id U YAMASHM M 12/10 15/10 R* BMW 22/10 23/10 20/10 2EHMUA 10/10 22/10 TOKTO N 29/10 30/10 2/11 S KASHU 20/10 21/10 S.
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    • 419 20 nmm Hapag-Lloyd 1 TO CONTINENT/UK EXPORTS On carriafe to Scandmavia. Med, Carribean IS. America Hand hariaie to inland destinations in Europe I TO EUROPE/MED S pare PKelangPenang Leiioesßdbao Genoa Hbur| Rdam Bhaven A «erp Darakiah 19/9 16/10 23/10 19/19 27/10 i #duwn29/» 2/10 4/19 12/11 9/11 9/11 1/11 Kctmen 11/10
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    • 624 27  -  By RAY HEATH Associate Editor THE 'eighties will be recognised as the decade when the office finally became equal partners with the factory in the microchip revolution. The mindless routine that was the lot of the average worker, and was as soul
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    • 763 28 I. In Singapore, very few organisations have approached office automation in any serious manner. Office automation should cover the physical environment as well as the tools to improve productivity, and there is a tremendous room for improvement in this industry. kBOUT THREE or fours
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    • 382 28  -  By RICHARD TURNER Managing Director, Martala Contract Interior*, Milton Kaynaa "HOME SWEET HOME" is a well known phrase which conjures up cosy pictures of intimate surroundings, a relaxed atmosphere and a warm environment. But statistics show that people on average are spending as many
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    • 1400 29  -  I wvhQh By MICHAEL SEAH Managing Director, Scientia Computer Application THE OFFICE has historically been a back-up environment to the production of goods and services. Its existence was dependent on the fact that paper work had to be done, invoices to be made,
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    • 779 30  -  Business World specialises in making that vital first impression on your clients By PHILLIPS M CONNOR iy PHILLIPS M CONNOR, Design Services Consultant, Business World Services (Pte) Ltd COMPANIES ARE trying very hard to keep up with advancing technology, unsettling shifts in the sociological
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    • 1236 31 Singapore business has undergone a fundamental revolution with the growth of large companies, the emergence of new industries, the sophistication of banking and the extensive use of computers. Davenport, Campbell and Partners have the skills that are fundamental to successful planning and design. A
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    • 1035 32 Challenges abound for managers Automation 1 IN TODAY'S context, when anyone talks of the planned office, some form of computerisation is at the back of the mind. The word planned is used to mean a systernatised approach to office work-flow. A systematised approach today cannot
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    • 2311 32  -  By CHARLES K PAU Systems Engineering Manager, Asia Region, Data General Corporation MANY COMPANIES in the world have installed or are considering installation of office automation systems to automate most of the routine office chores such as electronic mail, electronic filing, calendar management and
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    • 948 33  -  Automation 2 By DR HITOSHI WATANABE Vic* President, NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan OFFICE AUTOMATION is the new era movement to improve the environment for office workers. What do people do in the office? There are all kinds of work in the office, but we
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    • 1672 34  -  Communications f By YAP BOH HOON WHEN HOOKING UP THE OFFICE, the businessman is often deluged with brochures hailing the state-of-art technology for communications equipment with the umpteen number of features. Be it the key telephone system (KTS) or the private automatic branch exchange (PABX), manufacturers
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    • 2212 36  -  By ROBERT FERCHAT President, Northern Telecom Csnede IT SEEMS to me that the popular concern with the productivity improvement is (airly recent. Some years ago, when I first started my career in business, we were concerned with doing things right, with maintaining quality control and
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    • 740 37  -  Computer networks provide many more benefits than the stand-alone computer tntegratedtietworK By DAVID C STUBBS By DAVID C STUBBS, Market Development Manager, Office Automation, Far East Region, Hewlett-Packard Asia BEFORE THE ARRIVAL of the Personal Computer (PC), there was a clear trend towards
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    • 646 37 NYT THE HEADLONG RUSH of technology seems to know no bounds. Perhaps even more startling than its rapid evolution, however, is the impact on society of its new personal trend. Just as the development of the motorcar returned the control of
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    • 1029 38  -  Word Processors Brr* Ssl%s^ By AMY BALAN THE EXECUTIVE will argue that it is the computer that has revolutionised the office. But secretaries know that it is the word processing software that has been developed for the computer that has really left Dickensian
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    • 380 38  -  By MARGARET THOMAS LAP-HELD COMPUTERS are all the rage except among the bank managers of those who buy them. They can be massively powerful and sophisticated word processors, but they are still very expensive. But typewriters have come a long way. There is a
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    • 1291 39  -  The idea of artificially produced speech and the ability of machines to recognise spoken words have fascinated researchers for many years. POOK JYH YEAUN, a field sales engineer from Texas Instruments Asia Ltd, elaborates on the number of voice messaging products his company has
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    • 1158 40 UnderftoorSystems >N ARCHITECT was asked *ow a very old office building could be renovated to accomodate the kilometres of computer -cables, wires and air-condition-ducts that was now needed. 4fis reply to the building's ownwas: "Use dynamite." Many office buildings built 10 15 years ago
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    • 364 41 SINGAPORE'S successful modern office equipment, systems and technology exhibition which featured some 100 companies from 12 countries and attracted more than 10,000 visitors in April this year will be staged once more in 1966. Office '«will be held in Hall 6 of the
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    • 742 41  - AT&T's Unix an operating system comes of age AT&T's Unix an operating system comes of age jj|jj The Unix system was not only the first operating system to be portable, it was also the first to emphasise programmer productivity over machine efficiency. It has been adopted and adapted by many
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    • 1053 42  -  Time Management By JEFFREY TSANG igYOUR DESK looks anything lfte mine, it must be cluttered wZih note-pads, pens, a teleFo>ne and a calculator buried sanewhere under that load of (Xfeerwork. All very functional (Specially when the paraphernSa can be found) but
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    • 708 43  -  Cleaning By LISA LEE THE EARLY BIRD at the office will have a lively companion the office cleaner working vigorously to clear the debris of the day before. While typewriters are replaced by word processor, stencils by photocopying machines and security guards by electronic security
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    • 731 43  -  Tim* management By MONICA GWEE EXECUTIVES ABOUT TOWN seen clutching small leather books with lockable clasps are a marked set. They are a breed who now live "timemanaged" lives. And their leather helper is a handy planner called the Time Manager.
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    • 955 44  -  By LUCY NG THE DAYS WHEN ONE can work from home and not have t|> commute daily to the office Se still quite far away, even ough Telecoms has already pepared the stage in June last year with the introduction of tfelebox, an electronic mailbox
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    • 1062 45  -  By JEFFREY TSANG VISIONS OF AN utterly, paperless, super-efficient office spring to mind when "office automation" is mentioned. The only thing heard is the subsided clacking of keyboards as all the functions of this super office are based on computers and where the only way
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    • 1070 46  -  By DAVID GABRIEL THB HOTEL BUSINESS lends itself to computerisation and automation. Although there are many systems available in the market, nooeare fully integrated. Normally the hardware comes from oae source while the suftwaie is obtained from another. Often, other peripherals can come from
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    • 1825 47 AS THE computer revolution continues to snowball, it is becoming increasingly difficult to surprise people with any new product. But the revolutionary One Per Desk has caught the rest of the industry on the hop by re-defining the desk-top computer's role in office life.
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    • 1407 48  -  By JAIME LYE IT HAS BEEN about 20 years since Xerox invented the photocopy machine to make life easier for the harassed secretary with carbon-stained fingers. At that time, the rickety, no frills piece of hardware which made Xerox synonymous with photocopies did Just
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    • 682 49 fast pace of life means is more pressure being on people to perform better and produce more, while at Jthe same time keep the costs ■down. 2 This pressure is particularly --strong at the executive level jrbere individuals are responsible for making the most
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    • 850 49  -  Saving on time, costs and trouble By LIM SOON NEO THE PAPERLESS OFFICE has become a reality for government departments and large businesses in Singapore. The civil service, which receives and despatches about 40,000 letters daily, uses the Telebox, an electronic mail service which the Telecommunication
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    • 935 50  -  By FOO CHOY PENG RED TAPE that synonym for ineffective government machinery the world over is fast being untangled in the civil service. That long wait for someone to answer a ministry telephone is getting shorter and shorter as more
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    • 294 50 A SUMMARY of application systems under the civil service computerisation programme: Ministry of Communications and Information Computer-assisted weather predictions, on-line plotting of weather charts, computerised processing of meteorological data received through international telecommunications networks. Computer-generated air traffic forecasts and statistics, on-line facilities for registration
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    • 695 50  -  By BARBARA ALLEN Msnaging Director, URS/Dsiton Interiors EFFECTIVE space planning and interior design solutions require a comprehensive approach and expertise in a range of specialist areas. They are best left to the professionals. Four basic requirements must be considered function, environment, aesthetics and
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    • 46 27 The serious approach to office automation Page 2 In the beginning, there was the office Page 3 Planning. Aesthetics in an office Page 4, 5 Automation Page 6, 7 Communications Page 8 Practical productivity Page 10 Networking Page 11. Word processors and their ancestors Page 12
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    • 145 31 Martela 5553 *rW r i V- :.< 1 i ;a- > fl f": 5 111 HUM" 1 I ■I H w i m SsPSK <jO :> V< V, 0 I I I SSK m m E I I I InTeam Office The InTeam Office is a complete, flexible and cost
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    • 521 33 r* »-v V.t U* J The way to make a significant improvement in your office is staring you in the face. The wires you trip over to get out of your workstation, the files that are not in reach when you're on the phone. The document that you know is
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    • 113 34 (Z w 3 < The most modern telephone system of today for the complete Business Communication of tomorrow. O C o mm "8 O Bi c 3 E E o o (ft </> o c '35 3 Flexible software (eg. over 99 features) to meet every individual requirement Customised keyset
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    • 427 35 Canon The new generation Canon ETW gives more and saves more In business, the most effective systems are very often the time-saving systems. The new Canon APS6O and APSIO electronic typewriters have implemented new ways to make your secretary's job so much easier and faster. It's a standard of efficiency
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    • 251 36 THE 2ND MODERN OFFICE EQUIPMENT, SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION April 23 26, 1986 World Trade Centre, Hall 6 Singapore r Ci I wmili it Hit*, r.i MIS H* ft ill OFFICE '86 is the only success-proven show of Its kind in Singapore for the South East Asian market. It has been
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    • 131 36 Efficient Productive Offices start with PANCO Office Furniture Office automation is a fact of life. Typewriters, computers, intercoms, telex machines, etc. They all have cords and wires running all over, creating a hazard and unsightly mess. Panco can help! We import up-to-date office tables from West Germany specially designed to
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    • 185 39 Si iI Tha computer can racord voic« imuagu, •tor* tham on disk j and play tham back. From Decodes of Office Furniture Experience# Systematic Survey Research s Open-Landscape Open-Plan L k D'HfUl H I \1 3 2N""Si m r- f r i iMgi I >;•■ 7TIEWSXJ, King Alpha System OFFICE
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    • 86 40 COMPUTERISE YOUR COMPANY WITH OUR COMPLETE BUREAU SERVICE SYSTEM IMt LLC SYSTEMS (FAR EAST) PTE LTD \d\anced V\\ System with remote processing using your ov\ n terminal(s). Software development and package customisation. I ser not required to emplo\ Senior Sol tware Personnel. I ser not required to itnest hefty sum
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    • 149 42 Dorit travel wlthoatTheFax Just think, with the new Shuttle Boy portable facsimile, all you need is an ordinary telephone line*. Then you can send and receive all over the world letters, drawings, charts and blueprints (up to A 4 in size). Attractive hire purchase and rental schemes available (Telecoms Approval
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    • 427 43 It's o PC, electronic messaging device, advanced telephone, and information terminal. Mr •i: tin* tacno TetewrnrnuncaMn ApprcveO ICLJs compact One Per Desk (OPD) is the perfect executive tool: it makes and takes call, it's an easy to use personal computer and links you to the vast information base of other
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    • 200 44 m urlllßl Introducing the new feature packed Electronic Duplex Intercom System. The SLO 1000 introduces a new concept in microprocessor controlled intercommunication system Specifically designed to improve efficiency and provide greater versatility the SLO 1000 is the intercommunication system of today The SLO 1000 offers useful features like auto-recall. abPreviated
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    • 106 45 What's an efficient office without a perfect cup of coffee? 'f "V i «i 5» 4 < 'V 3^ <1 faflK i Office Automation is very important. Being German we know the value of efficiency. However as well as the demands of your business you must satisfy the needs of
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    • 408 48 If you need to communicate you need to be there As the New Pacific countries race to catch up and compete with the West, effective lines of communicaton are more than just important, they are essential With government incentives becoming increasingly attractive, liberalisation happening or about to happen from Australia
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    • 126 49 Computers and Commuracations Modern business office information processing demands power and speed far beyond that of the ordinary office procedures. NEC heralds the era of Office Automation with different capability computer systems to meet your requirements. Versatile software on intelligent terminals allows faster decision making and helps you improve your
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