The Business Times, 12 October 1985

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1 12 The Business Times
  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 SATURDAY, OCTOBER It, 1985 75 CENTS
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  • 361 1 A JUBILANT AMERICA yesterday hailed the dramatic mid-air capture of four Palestinian guerillas who hijacked an Italian cruise ship and killed a crippled Jewish American passenger. "Thank God, we won one," said Senator Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat from New York, after four American
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  • 592 1  -  Large part of record earnings to come from sale of aircraft By CHAN OI CHEE WITH PLANS for its share flotation now being finalised, Singapore Airlines Ltd has disclosed that it is flying well above the grey economic clouds. The national flag-carrier expects group net profits
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  • 505 1 A HELPING HAND towards finding a mate for life is being extended to non-graduates. Spurred by its success of bringing unmarried graduates together on social occasions, the Social Development Unit (SDU) is now trying to do the same for diploma holders and those with
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  • 164 1 THE SDU is still hesitant to claim success in terms of marriages of graduates who have attended its courses, but there is possibly a firm trend developing in the macro figures that gives grounds for hope. Statistics by the Registrar of Marriages show that in
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  • 176 1 THE MCA, which appeared to be well on the way to resolving its 18-month-old party crisis, has once again been thrown into a state of disarray following the resignations of two officials of the party ad hoc committee yesterday. Datuk Mak Hon
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  • Article, Illustration
    92 1 AFTER ft mMtly listless session, share prices ended on ft easier note ftt the flings porr stock market yesterday. Vstame ftt 15.7 million shares was mnck lighter than thone of previous sessions. The Straits Times Indnstrlftl Index feU 4.1« points to 757.15, while the ftll-secter Business Times Composite
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  • 439 1  -  By SOH TIANG KENG GOVERNORS of the World Bank yesterday gave the green light to set up an international agency to promote the flow of capital, investment and technology to developing nations. Called the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Miga), the agency is designed to stimulate
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  • 234 1 HOMESPRUNG mushroom grower Everbloom Mushrooms has been charged by the Central Provident Fund Board with defaulting on five months of CPF contributions amounting to about $103,000. The charge against Everbloom Mushrooms was yesterday mentioned in court for the second time. The
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  • 42 1 Reuter THE VALUE of Indonesian exports under non-oil countertrade agreements since the trade policy was instituted in January 1982 totalled US$l.44 billion to Aug 31. An Indonesian Trade Ministry spokesman said $844 million of this was realised during the period. Reuter
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  • 107 1 Bernama THE PHILIPPINES will not become a "flashpoint of conflict" in South-east Asia, acting Foreign Minister Pacifico Castro said. Addressing the 40th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York yesterday, Castro said "there is no danger whatsoever that the Philippines will become a flashpoint of conflict
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    • 241 1 ENEX A S 1 asia BggE ELECTRONICS B6 S E Asia's 6th International Exhibition of Electronic Components, Assemblies. System Packaging and Production Technology 21-25 October 1986 World Trade Centre. Singapore INTERFAMA EXHIBITIONS PTE LTD Parkway Builders Centre #10 03 06 1 Marine Parade Central Singapore 1544 Tel *****00 Tele. HS
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    • 275 1 mm SHARE INFORMATION 11 MONEY A EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS SHIPS IN PORT OUR VIEW SINGAPORE is in the dough, not in the American sense of the word, but the genuine stuff thot turns into bread when you put it in the oven. An Australian company is promoting its instant product
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    • 317 1 ENEX• A S 1 A» =m ELECTRICas ASIA 86 S E Asia s 6th International Exhibition of Electrical Engineering.lnstrumentation. Controls.Fittings and Accessories 21 25 October 1986 World Trade Centre. Singapore INTERFAMA EXHIBITIONS PTE LTD Parkway Builders Centre *10 03 06 1 Mar.ne Parade Central Singapore 1544 Tel *****00 Tele» HS249BOINFAMA
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 510 2  -  Secura calls for licensing of security printers By ELAINE KOH CALLS FOR TIGHTER regulation of security printers were welcomed yesterday by customers with specialised printing needs. Mr Bernard Tay, the assistant general manager of Secura Singapore Pte Ltd, one of the handful of companies carrying out
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    • 108 2 MR POUL SCHLUTER, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark, will arrive in Singapore today for a three-day official visit. He will be accompanied by his wife, senior officials and businessmen. Mr Schluter will call on President Wee Kim Wee and the
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    • 379 2  -  By JEFFREY TSANG THREE OF THE WORLD'S largest software companies have joined forces to fight software piracy in Singapore and their combined might should be felt in three to six months' time. The chairman of the Anti Software Piracy Association (Aspa), Mr Jodee Rich,
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    • 173 2 GOOD ECONOMIC reasons, among others, are behind the emphasis on the mother tongue, said Dr Tony Tan yesterday as he reaffirmed the government's stand on bilingualism in the education system. The Minister for Education and for Trade Industry, speaking at the prize presentation ceremony at the
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    • 187 2 THE MOUNT ELIZABETH Hospital will be investing $4 5 million in a major programme to expand and improve its range of services and facilities over the next six months. The expansion and improvements will include four new passenger lifts, a Computerised-Assisted
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    • 64 2 FOUR representatives from the Airport of Paris will be here for a three-day visit on Monday. Led by their commercial manager, Mr G Bernfeld, the visitors will meet officials from the Ministry of Communications, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and Singapore Airlines. The Airport
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    • 349 2 RAMALINGAM MAHENDRAN has been appointed the director of the World Trade Centre with effect from Sep 16. Before his appointment, Mr Mahendran was the assistant director (operations) of the Port of Singapore Authority. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and a Master of Science
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    • 226 2 AN EXHIBITION about public housing in the last 25 years opens today to commemorate the Housing and Development Board's silver anniversary. Occupying the whole of the ground floor and part of the first floor of the Singapore Conference Hall, the $400,000 exhibition is the highlight of
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    • 581 2  -  By MONICA GWEE THE US COMPUTER giant, IBM, yesterday debunked the myth of its cookbook management formula and said the successful company was not immune to recession. But IBM pointed to investment in new technology and a willingness to invest in such
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    • 742 2 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Gold Leaf K18 Star Shpg alongside 12.10.85/1200 Stolt Templar K30 S Nielsen alongside 12.10.85/1200 Trans Hov K9 Barber alongside 12.10 85/0600 Yanshan K35 Y Fung alongside 12.10 85/2300 Equator 3 K22 Thong Soon 12.10.85/0700 13.10.85/0700 Ned Baltimore
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 260 3 AP IN WHAT COULD BE a breakthrough in the search for Americans missing in Vietnam, a top-ranking North Vietnamese official says his government has agreed in principle to allow US excavation teams into the Hanoi area for the first time to search for remains.
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    • 159 3 Reuter JAPANESE Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe met top Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing yesterday and was expected to discuss sensitive trade and economic problems with him and other senior officials. Mr Abe spoke to Mr Deng for about an hour in Beijing's Great
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    • 290 3 Reuter JAPAN'S economic policies threaten the whole international trading system by creating dangerously large imbalances with major trading partners, says a report by the European Economic Community. The report, released yesterday, says that "simply to set the US$l5O billion estimated US trade deficit for
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    • 796 3 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time PAA PA2I/5 0020 LAX/TYO/HKG SV SV379 0115 SEL CAL CI333 0130 TPE SIA SQ4I 0535 MAA MK MK746 0755 MRU cv CV796 0815 LUX/DXB MAS MH681 0820 KUL KAL KE624 0840 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH8I1 0940 PEN
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    • 250 3 UPI THE BUREAU CHIEF of the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review admitted possessing and publishing secret information on Malaysia's proposed trade policy with China when he appeared yesterday in the Kuala Lumpur magistrates court. James Clad, 38, was charged with two counts under the recently
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    • 235 3 AP PORTUGAL has told Indonesia that it has no territorial ambition but still wants to reach an "honourable solution" to the problem of its former colony of East Timor. Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said on Thursday that his Portuguese counterpart had
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    • 156 3 Reuter SOUTH KOREA yesterday called for a mutual non-ag-gression treaty with North Korea to pave the way for a peaceful unification of the divided peninsula. National Unification Minister Park Tong-Jin told a seminar in Seoul the communist north still aimed to conquer the south, more than
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    • 248 3 AP CHINA'S racing economy began slowing down in the third quarter of this year because of clampdowns on capital construction and spending, but industrial production still outpaced energy output. The growth rate in the JuneSeptember period was 14.7 per cent compared with
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    • 651 3  -  By SOH TIANG KENG AFTER THE TALK, the time is now ripe (or action. Governments and private institutions must pull their weight together to check protectionism, tackle the debt crisis and get the world economy moving again. This is the crux of the closing
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    • 378 3 UPI THE HEADS of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund yesterday rebuked Peruvian Prime Minister Luis Alva Castro for his denunciation of the IMF, suggesting that his strong tone did not reflect the views of other nations at the meeting. In an unusually blunt
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    • 626 4 Reuter DEFYING President Reagan's veto threat, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to roll back sharply textile imports from 12 countries, all but one in Asia and including Japan and China. Seen as a signal of rising anger over American jobs
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    • 194 4 Reuter INDUSTRY on both sides of the Atlantic is complaining that US restrictions on technology exports are harming business, a West German Member of Parliament Lothar Ibruegger said in a report for the North Atlantic Assembly. The report, prepared for the assembly's sub-committee on
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    • 327 4 UPI ECONOMIC EXPANSION in Asia and the Pacific region is likely to slow down over the next few years, although the rate of growth will remain well above the international average, economist David Kern predicted. Mr Kern, the manager and chief economist of
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    • 244 4 AP FRENCH PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand on Thursday pledged to defend the freedom of West Berlin and called on communist authorities to tear down the Berlin Wall. Mitterrand said there could be no obstacle to the development of relations between West Germany and West Berlin, which is
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 29 4 VENEZUELA plans to amend its oil laws to permit diversification and greater flexibility in international oil markets, said Energy and Mines Minister Arturo Hernandez Grisanti yesterday.
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      • 47 4 CONTRACTING parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) will hold their annual session in Geneva from Nov 25 to 29. The Gatt meeting will examine the possibility of forming a special committee to prepare for a new round of multilateral trade talks.
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      • 63 4 INTERNATIONAL airline pilots and transport workers have urged airlines to unseal two emergency exit doors that have been closed on some jumbo jets to provide more seating. Passengers face additional risks on Boeing 747 jets that have the number of exit doors reduced from 10 to eight, said
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      • 56 4 THE BRITISH government yesterday announced plans to introduce a new law to combat a wave of street violence after rioting spread to the Midlands city of Leicester. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd said he would ask Parliament to include a new offence of "disorderly conduct" in a public order
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      • 50 4 FILM DIRECTOR Orson Welles died at his Hollywood home yesterday, aged 70, after a life devoted to the film industry and theatre. His body was found by his chauffeur. Los Angeles deputy pathologist Donald Messerle said that "the cause of death appears to be natural in origin".
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      • 37 4 Agencies LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi, making his first trip to Moscow since 1961, had talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday on the Gulf War, the Middle East and Africa, said Tass yesterday. Agencies
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 152 4 ChiiMM Produce Exchange (Setters' noon closing prices on Oct 11 (S5/100 kg). Coconut oil Bulk FOB 75 00 Old drum FOB 88 00 New drum FOB 92 00 Copra Mixed (loose) 40 buyers Pepper Muntok White FOB NLW 930 00 Sarawak White FOB faq NLW 920 00 Sarawak
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    • 296 4 Singapore (S$/kilo, e»-godown) Fragrant new crop 1st 0 76 2nd 0 54 3fd 052 New Crop 25% no stock 10% no stock Thai Broken A-super 0 54 Special 0 52 Thai Rice 55% no stock China Rice 10% no stock 15% 0 72 25% no stock 35% no stock
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    • 96 4 THE KLTM tin price closed unchanged at Ms2> M per kg yesterday far the second consecutive day, with continued Strang buffer stack manager's support la law turnover. Offerings fell ta ltt tanncs from 144 on Thursday and no foreign concentrates was laelnded. There was scattered Malaysian and Japanese
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    • 177 4 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,500 Blue Phoenix 20's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 32's 2,950 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,300 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21'* 2,750 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4.100 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,300 Open-end yarn 2,200
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    • 162 4 SINGAPORE The market closed firmer yesterday with November One RSS buyers quoted at 166.00 cents a kg, up 1.75 cents from Thursday. The morning session gained 0.75 cents on some buying of nearby positions in quiet trading. Prices advanced further in afternoon trading due to weekend covering of some
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    • 345 4 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOB in boles NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 163 00 164 00N 164 00 165 OON Int 1 RSS Nov 85 164 75 165 25 166 00 166 50 Int 1 RSS Dec 85 165 75 166
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    • 157 4 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices reversed an early trend to close slightly higher yesterday on covering interest, reflecting a technical adjustment to the gradual fall in prices. Buyers remained reserved as prices were expected to be pressured by a higher September production estimate and in anticipation of weaker
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    • 136 4 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade eased from early highs on Thursday and ranged from down l'/i to up one US cent a bushel at the close. November ended at the bottom of a s'/4-cent range. Although rains had pushed back the soybean harvest in the western
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    • 138 4 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed slightly lower on Thursday, off '/i to IV* US cents a bushel. December ended near the bottom of a fourcent range. Trade talk that Gulf vessels loading corn to the Soviet Union had run short of supplies, and that the
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    • 108 4 (cents/kg, 1-ton pollen) NQV 85 DEC 85 (current month) (forword month) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 149 50 151 50N 150 50 152 SON SSR 50 147 50 149 SON 148 50 150 SON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV ***** 212
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    • 799 4 COFFEE Robusta futures remained very quiet on Thursday, to end the day down £1 to £5 a tonne from Wednesday night's close, at or near the highs of a maximum £12 range. At the close, second position January was £2 down from the previous close at £1,640, in
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 111 4 Doonesbury YOU SEE, MIKE, THERE ARE 12 PfF~ FERENT PGGREES OF OP&ATIONAL. ease buiuinto 'eve.' but the 1 MORS "FRJENPLY" THE PROGRAM 1 tXJ SELECT, THE LESE MEMORY o IS LEFT OVER FORYOUR USE. 5S m SOME PROGRAMSARESOFRBVU, THE COMPUTER HAS AMNESIA. ITS ALL A QUESTION OF HOtO MUCH OF
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 305 5  -  By AMY BALAN FRENCH BANK Credit Du Nord has stood by its decision to locate its main and only offshore Asian branch in Singapore. The latest offshore bank in town has maintained a presence here for the last five years before it received approval to
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    • 227 5 FT THE FRENCH government, in a move to lower the cost of export credits, has announced a series of measures to boost competition among banks granting loans to back sales abroad. The finance ministry is bringing in a new system under which banks will
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    • 120 5 Reuter ZAMBIA'S CURRENCY, the kwaeha, was expected to be devalued sharply at the government's first weekly foreign exchange auction of at least US$5 million yesterday, economists polled by Reuters said. The Bank of Zambia, the central bank, has said the rate fixed will apply throughout the
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    • 393 5 Reuter ASSISTANT TREASURY Secretary Manuel Johnson and banker Wayne Angell of the United States will be nominated to hold 14-year terms on the Federal Reserve Board. The White House announced on Thursday that Mr Johnson and Mr Angell would be nominated by President Reagan.
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    • 95 5 AFP A REALIGNMENT of currencies in the European Monetary System (EMS) will take place after the French parliamentary election next March. Monetary analysts Maxwell Stamp Associates in London said the changes would involve a devaluation of about 9 per cent for the French and Italian currencies relative
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    • 165 5 AP CHINA HAS ENOUGH foreign exchange reserves to support its trade with other countries, the People's Bank of China president Chen Muhua said on Thursday. She said China's reserves totalled US$ll.2 billion in March, compared with $14.4 billion at the end
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 858 5 SINGAPORE The US dollar weakened against most major currencies in thin late trading yesterday after hovering around the morning's steady levels for most of the day. The dollar fell to a late 2.6465/80 marks from an early 2.6580/90 and compared with New York's 2.6580/95 close, and to 214.70/90
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    • 257 5 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Currencies Nominal rate* Smithsonian Bid Offer cross parity change Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2 1460 2 1470 ***** -23 89 Sterling pound 3 0247 ***** 7 3469 -58 83 Australian dollar 1 5107 1 5136 3 4286
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    • 118 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by point from Thursday to close at 6 per cent yesterday. The term rates rose by point each across the board. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: OHer Bid Over ntght 6 5 3/4 1 -month 5 7/8
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    • Article, Illustration
      401 5 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet trading yesterday. Dealers said news of a larger-than-expected US$5.3 billion increase in US M-l money supply had little impact as the figures had been distorted due to the hurricane last week. News in the morning that the
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    • 51 5 RESULTS OF TENDER held on Oct 11 for 91-day Treasury bills to be issued from Oct 14 to Oct 18. Offered: $90,000,000. AppUed for: $232,380,000. Allotted: $90,000,000. Accepted bids: $99.26 approximately 76 per cent; higher bids in full. Average rate of discount on allotment: 2.960 per cent per
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    • 413 5 BA Futures IN SPITE OF the larger-than-expected increase in money supply, Ear«4*Uar futures opened slightly lower yesterday on the Simex but trade higher on news of the US Senate approval of an increase in the debt ceiling and intention to cut the huge budget deficits. After the opening at
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    • 277 5 HONGKONG: The metal closed virtually unchanged in very quiet and featureless trading yesterday in the absence of fresh factors. Bullion price ended at U*****.60/326.00 an ounce compared with New York's $325.60 326.10 close and the previous $325.50/90 finish here. On the local market, gold closed unchanged at HK53,025 a
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  • TIME – OFF
    • 489 6 SINGAPORE IS INTO instant dough. No quarrel with that, we're all in favour of immediate money. But hold on, this is the sort that bread is made of. Interesting semantic point that dough in American means cash as does bread in English. Readers of BT will
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    • 728 6  -  By JEFFREY TSANG THE SOFT FLUTTER of butterfly wings could be heard distinctly as the flute weaved its little tune in the Badinerie of Bach's Second Orchestral Suite. Merrily, the flute continued to play as we picked up speed. Just a whisper of
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    • 1140 6 What's on from Oct 12-18 wmmmĔĔm W CONCERT: 880 and Valary Kaatalsky. Victoria Concert Hall. 8.15pm. Tickets: $4, $7, $10, $15. Russian pianist, Kastelsky, is a pupil of famous Soviet musician, Professor Guenrikh Neygauz Programme: Siegfried IdyH (Wagner), Concerto for piano and orchestra, No 2 in A (Liszt) and
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    • 170 6 WOLFGANG PETERSEN wanted to became a director when he left the university In Hamburg with his qualifications In his packet. FaUawlng up that intention, Petersen enrolled as an actor in a drama school for three years in IM6. His ambition still an wavering, be went
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    • 250 6 A READER, who said his passion was to look out for bits and pieces of oddities, sent us a list of titles from the SAF Reservist Association's library. He wrote in a covering note: "At the top of page 2, you will note that the librarian
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 775 6 a CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 9 Give a hand and be Introduced to the wife (8) 10 Regard, you say, as a big attraction for holidaymakers (3) 1 Does go for tea? (6) 12 Pays for rises (6) 13 For which one wears white a little lumper (7) 14 Without onother
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  • SPORTS
    • 272 7 Reuter BRITAIN'S Mike McLean, whose only professional victory came in the world under-25s championship in 1983, took the firstround lead in the Cannes Open golf championship on Wednesday with a five-below-par 67. McLean was a stroke ahead of two more Britons, Stephen
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    • 259 7 UPI THE NO 2 SEEDED United States edged Argentina 2-1 and third-seeded Australia rolled over Italy on Thursday to move into the semi-finals of the Federation Cup Women's Team tennis tournament. Britain, seeded No 7, eliminated Japan 2-1 in a darknesspostponed
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    • 150 7 AFP IVAN LENDL showed that his victory over John McEnroe in the US Open was no fluke when he beat the New Yorker again to win the U*****,000 East Rutherford exhibition tournament on Wednesday. Czechoslovakia's world number one wrapped up the match 7-5, 6-4 in 98
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    • 237 7 A SPECIALLY MINTED coin series for the 1988 Winter Olympics which made its debut in Singapore yesterday will benefit the Singapore National Olympic Council's funds. Said Mr Murray Church, the director of communications of the Royal Canadian Mint: "The revenue from the
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    • 608 7  -  By BRIAN MILLER WITH FIVE MOUNTS In today's eight-race card, S Y Leong looks like being the jockey to follow in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon and, barring any spectacular upsets, he should come through with a double. Leong's best chance appears to be in the
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    • 80 7 Reuter TEXAS-BASED Australian David Graham grabbed eight birdies in a six-under-par 66 to share the lead with compatriot Ken Dukes after the first round of the Queensland Open golf championship on Wednesday. Dukes nearly went into the second round with the outright lead
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    • 235 7  -  By WALTON MORAIS LENNY KASSIM will be a happy man indeed if, after today's second round of the Warren club championship, his lead is still secure. For the 10-handicapper, who opened a three-stroke lead on the field after last week's first round, is a surprise leader.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 1149 7 w mm CENTRESTAQE Hollywood Television Theatre The Hemingway Play 11.00pm, Channel 12 In a Madrid restaurant, four men representing different stages in Ernest Hemingway's life and career gather: a young journalist, a writer on the verge of success, a writer in his fifties, and Papa looking back. Robert Carricart, Miriam
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 152 8 Reuter AMERICA'S major retailers wrapped disappointing September sales gains in a cloak of weather-related problems, but analysts say the lacklustre economy is once again to blame and they do not expect much change till the end of the year. The major retailers' 4 per cent
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    • 108 8 Reuter FORD MOTOR CO has completed a long-ru-moured deal to buy the Sperry New Holland agricultural machinery business from Sperry Corp for US$33O million to expand its own farm equipment operation. Ford chairman Donald Petersen said Sperry New Holland would be added to Ford Tractor,
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    • 101 8 HONGKONG Thursday 1496 4 Hong Seng Index Week ago 1468 1 Friday 1583.55 NEW YORK Thursday 1589.13 Week ago 1587 44 Dow Jones Thursday 1328.07 TOKYO Wednesday 1326.72 Tokyo Nikkei Friday *****.92 Week ago 1333.11 Standard Poors Thursday Closed Thursday 182.78 Week ago *****.83 Wednesday 182.52 TSE Index
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    • 314 8 Reuter THE NEW YORK stock market finished slightly higher in quiet trading on Wall Street on Thursday marked by indecision. Analysts said investors were taking a cautious stance in view of corporate earnings reports expected over the next few weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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    • 283 8 Managers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for Oct 12 14 First B'putra 5 15 5 20 Singapore Unit Trust Second B'putra Third B'putra 4 76 4 81 3 84 3 89 4 20 4 25 281 286 2 77 2 82 1 83 1 88 3 85 3 90 3 44
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    • 894 8 Amsterdam OCT 10 Fh ABN 486 00 -OS 9300 -I Ahold 253 60 +1.1 Afcio 118 80 LTX* AMf V 6890 -06 37 SO -0 7 Boh Botkoto Bkm Tat 99 50 *2 Catand 442 00 +4 Oak Ehamar 134 SO >07 53 20 -08 Fakkar 7030 >1
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 389 9 HONGKONG: Share prices closed slightly lower in fairly quiet and featureless trading yesterday due to a lack of fresh factors. The Hang Seng index finished 5.58 points lower at 1,583.55 after it rose 3.29 at the mid-morning fix. China Light eased 10 HK cents to HK515.90, HK Bank five
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    • 239 9 OCT 11 MT Lien Hwa Indus 1225 24 00 -02 -03 Al Sneer* Indus Ana Cement 283 1880 unch -0.1 Pacific Cons Pacific Elect 14 55 12 95 -02 -0 1 Cathoy Com Chang Hwa Bank Chen Looog CNa Hs»> Cement Ovna Chem China Dev CNno Elect Wee China
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    • 375 9 TOKYO: Share prices rose for the sixth consecutive trading day yesterday with blue chips surging ahead in the afternoon to drive the market average above the 12,900 mark for the first time in three months. The average jumped 92.72 to 12,949.92 on a turnover of 370 million shares against
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    • 96 9 MANILA: Share prices closed generally unchanged in quiet trading yesterday. The Commercial and Industrial index rose 2.66 to 172.68 while the mining and oil markers remained unchanged at 678.96 and 0.779, respectively. Apex Mining B rose to 0.0085 from 0.006 and PLDT to 36.50 from 36. Lepanto B fell
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    • 374 9 SYDNEY: Australian sharemarkets yesterday closed slightly easier in trading marked by profit-taking in the resource sector and sharp gains in selected industrials. Near the close, the All Ordinar- ies index eased 1.6 points to 1033.5, although the All Industrials firmed 4.9 to 1501.3. The All Resources lost 6.3 to
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    • 141 9 BANGKOK: Stocks rose for the second consecutive day but trading remained subdued. The Book Club index rose 0.63 points to 131.44 and turnover increased to 65,231 shares worth 13.5 million baht from Thursday's 55,556 shares worth 9.7 million baht. Advances led declines by a three-one margin. OCT 11 •ehts
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    • 96 9 OCT 11 Won 720 -2 Hyundai Const Hyundai Motor ML 910 916 479 unch -2 -1 Choheung Bfc Commercial Bk Doekm Ind Doe woo Corp 707 740 565 480 unch -5 •19 5 Korea Fnl Yuk ona Korea SNp Lucky Ltd 742 1341 431 612 unch +6 -4 unch
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    • 58 9 Bernama THE ASIAN Development Bank (ADB) is to purchase 10 per cent of the shares of a newly-formed steel company in Jakarta. It will be the ADB's first direct equity participation in a productive enterprise in a developing country. The company is P T Kramatama
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    • 294 9 Reuter THE AMERICAN government will help the domestic semiconductor industry fight unfair foreign trade practices by Japan and other countries. "Our semiconductor industry is a highly competitive, internationally efficient, high technology industry which is facing stiff and arguably unfair foreign competition. "The president's trade
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    • 161 9 Reuter PHILIP MORRIS Co Inc will make an unconditional cash bid of Asll a share ex-dividend for the 21 per cent of Philip Morris (Australia) it does not already hold, the target company said. The offer price compares with Thursday's closing market price
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    • 121 9 AFP SHANGHAI is to build laboratories and pilot production lines to develop new technologies, including fibre optics, genetic engineering and bio-technologies. Vice-Mayor Liu Zhenyuan said yesterday that projects of strategic importance included the development of facilities to produce the Hepatitis B vaccine, diagnostic biological agents, organic polymeric
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    • 139 9 UPI TWO OF JAPAN'S leading marine electronic equipment companies Furuno Electric Company of Wishiwommiya and the Sewa Company of Tokyo have signed agreements for the use of the Decca navigator system. A spokesman for Racal said on Thursday that the new agreements provide
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4461 10 IT WAS a rather uneventful day on the Singapore stock market yesterday. A few speculative issues climbed higher, but the rest of the market just languished. Volume was much lighter than before. The Straits Times Industrial Index fell 4.16 points to 757.15, while the
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    • 295 10 SINGAPORE Rises Indices j 60 Oct 10 Oct 11 T Harbour 590 8T Composite 659 76 656 57 LtMSO« 247 21 6T Indicator *****42 *****25 U M Flow 925 15 BT OB OS 255 310 Sim Lot Fm one* 195 15 BT CADI -5250 5317 ICS 374
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    • 4423 10 BID and otter prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 215 11 n? By HOCK LOCK SIEW SURPRISING as it may seem, the charts of cement-related companies are now flashing important signals which could spell a major trend reversal. But the more noteworthy chart patterns in this grouping, quite understandably, belong to Malaysian-based issues such as Malayan Cement
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    • 3405 11 BID and otter 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. Industrials A Choc (3.025) (28) 3 00 (5) 2 98
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    • 260 11  -  By HOMER CHEN A NEED to investigate certain allegations about past transactions by Pahang Investments PLC is being blamed by the company for the delay in the issue of its 1984 annual report. The tin-mining company has not filed an annual report
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    • 469 11  -  By CHAN OI CHEE IN SPITE OF all the controversy surrounding its takeover of marine company Van der Horst, Malaya Tin Printing has finally won the day. It has managed to secure more than 50 per cent or majority control of
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    • 484 11  -  By AMY CHEOK THE POSSIBILITY of an amicable out-of-court settlement to the dispute over last week's sale of shares in Allied Chocolate Industries Ltd has risen, with both sides apparently prepared to begin talks. Malaysian-based Chocolate Products, the vendors of the shares in dispute,
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    • 548 11 SHARE PRICES finished on an easier note on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday as late prof-it-taking trimmed the gains of selected counters at the close of trading. However, hot favourites, which were actively traded, bucked the trend and posted impressive gains. The overall
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    • 247 11 BENTA PLANTATIONS Berhad: 63rd AGM at the Negara Room, the Kuala Lumpur Hilton, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Oct 15, at 10 am. ROTHMANS INDUSTRIES Limited: 6th AGM at Virginia Park, 906 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 2158 on Tuesday, Oct 15, at noon. TRACTORS MALAYSIA Holdings
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    • 238 11 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Soh Cheng Siong of Blk 65 Telok Blangah Drive #09-160 Singapore 0410 have applied for a First Class Beer House licence in respect of premises at M/s Hai San Yuan Eating House, Blk 271 Bt Batok East Ave 4 #01-160 Singapore 2365 and
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    • 282 11 NOTICES Li The Matter Of IV Caiapadkea Act, Cap. 185 Ami la The Matter Of UNTVAN REALTY (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (la Yaltatary UqaMattaa) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 10th Floor, Kam Chung Building, 54 Jaffe Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong, on the 2nd
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    • 263 11 Ia the Matter tt IV Ctmpuk* Act, Cap. 186. Ami la the Matter af VELDAPO IMPEX PTE. LTD. At an extraordinary General Meeting of VELDAPO IMPEX PTE. LTD., duly convened and held at 100, Jalan Sultan, #08-07, Sultan Plaza. Singapore 0719 on Ist October, 1985. the Special Resolution set out
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  • 438 12  -  By FLORENCE CHONG UP TO 15 ASIAN students could be facing deportation from Australia for non-payment of fees. The students, believed to be mostly Malaysians, are resisting deportation orders. They demonstrated and held protest sit-ins to highlight their plight. About 80 students demonstrated in Sydney
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  • 712 12  -  By MANO SABNANI THE QUESTION and answer session that followed Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's talk to the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington on Thursday was brilliantly handled. Mr Lee kept the audience comprising prominent journalists, diplomats and government officials enraptured
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  • 372 12 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew has every confidence that the US will eventually tear down trade walls erected by countries such as Japan. "The US has not failed so far," he told reporters at a question and answer session after his speech
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  • 338 12 ASIAN NATIONS yesterday expressed regrets over the House of Representatives' passage of a bill to limit textile imports, but noted with hopeful anticipation that the measure had failed to pass with the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto. Japanese Cabinet Secretary Takao Fujinami
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  • 213 12 AN ATTRACTIVE financial offer has helped a Singapore-Jap-anese joint venture clinch two contracts worth $227.1 million for civil construction work under phase two of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. By agreeing to provide deferred credit and the right contract price, Nishimatsu/Lum Chang
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  • 645 12  -  By ALVIN TAY DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES of the Singapore Airlines group with unpaid staff shares worth about $110 million will have to use DBS Bank as the official financier as they settle the balance prior to the company's public issue. At one
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  • 105 12 Reuter HONGKONG businessman John Mao has been sentenced to three years jail for Hongkong's biggest financial fraud which led to the collapse of the Malaysiancontrolled Hang Lung Bank two years ago. Mr Mao, 39, is one of several men charged with conspiracy to defraud
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  • 306 12 SINGAPOREANS must decide what price they are prepared to pay for economic progress, said Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong, Minister of State (Defence and Trade and Industry), last night. The price for progress adjustments, dislocation and the risk that people will
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  • 93 12 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES edged up yesterday morning on small short-covering. In thin dealings, gold for December delivery made a high of U*****.60 an ounce before backtracking to 1329.30, with a net gain of $0.20. Analysts said gold was also tracking the dollar, which trad- Ed
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  • 55 12 THE NEW YORK stock market edged higher in early trading yesterday, continuing a slow motion advance for the fourth day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up a fraction to 1328 while broader indicators also pointed higher and advances and declines were about even. Early turnover amounted
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  • 1005 12 Reuter SHARE PRICES closed yesterday firm after a quiet session on new time buying prompted by hopes of lower UK inflation, dealers said. At 1430 GMT, the FTSE 100 was up 6.1 at 1,320.2, while at 1400 GMT, the FT 30 was up 6.9 at 1,024.7, close to
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  • LATE FILE
    • 68 12 AP THE NORWEGIAN Nobel committee announced yesterday it was giving the 1985 Nobel peace prize to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, calling the surprise award a message to the world's super-powers. The five-year-old organisation of 145,000 doctors and health officials in
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    • 37 12 AFP THE NEXT seven-nation Western summit conference, the 12th of its kind since it started in 1975, will take place in Tokyo from May 4 to 6, it was officially announced yesterday. AFP
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    • 54 12 Reuter US PRODUCER prices fell 0.6 per cent last month, the largest decline in more than two and a half years, following a 0.3 per cent drop in August. The US Labour Department said yesterday that wholesale prices so far this year had fallen one-tenth
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    • 59 12 AP PRIME MINISTER Rajiv Gandhi of India said in an interview published yesterday that even if Pakistan developed a nuclear weapon, it might not be necessary for India to follow suit. "We have lived with the Chinese (nuclear) weapon and not developed one, so there is
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    • 38 12 AP JAPAN AIR LINES has suffered a 22 per cent drop in domestic passenger volume, possibly cutting into annual revenues as the company struggles to regain public confidence after a disastrous crash. AP
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    • 50 12 Reuter THREE MEMBERS of Asean plan to propose a joint commission with Vietnam to seek peace in Cambodia. Indonesian Foreign Minister Mokhtar Kusumaatmadja said yesterday a working group to discuss the Cambodian issue could be formed by expanding existing diplomatic ties between Jakarta and Hanoi. Reuter
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    • 35 12 Reuter CHINA said yesterday the first meeting in Beijing in more than 20 years of representatives of the Chinese and Soviet parliaments reflected the improved relations between the two nations.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 56 12 Outlook for today: Cloudy with showers over several areas from mid-morning to afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Oct 11 at th« airport: Maximum temperature 30.9 Associated humidity 71 Minimum temperature 24.0 Associated humidity 94 Hours of sunshine 1.50 Roinfall in millimetres 5.1 Rainfall this month
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