The Business Times, 25 February 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, IMC 75 CENTS
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  • 353 1  - Stockbroker Lyall Evatt goes into receivership By HOMER CHEN THE PAN-ELECTRIC affair has claimed another stock market victim. Stockbroking firm Lyall A Evatt was put into receivership during the week-end, ending speculation that it would be put under the control of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. International accountants Peat, Marwick,
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  • 543 1  -  Consultative Committee urges easier ownership rules for foreigners By LEE HAN SHIH, LISA LEE A REDUCTION in property tax from a base 23 per cent to 12 per cent, relaxed rules on ownership of property by foreigners and the setting up of a property
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  • 300 1  -  By ALVIN TAY THE PROBLEMS now being tackled by Emporium Holdings have been caused by its subsidiaries and not its mainstream businesses. This is clear from the group's results for the 15 months to February 1965, which have just been released. The group
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  • 221 1 EMPORIUM HOLDINGS plans to raise its share capital, phase out unprofitable outlets and subsidiaries and trim its operating costs. But possibly the only negative result of this otherwise positive restructuring exercise is that another retrenchment seems a certainty, say bankers. Yesterday, the group's board of
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  • 96 1 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that the election machinery of the United Malay National Organisation and parties of the Barisan Nasional was prepared for the possibility of a general election. He was speaking after looking into the
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 463 1 AMERICAN OFFICIALS from the US Department of Commerce will be In Singapore this week or early next month to meet local officials for a third attempt to conclude a new bilateral agreement on textiles. But these talks appear likely to continue
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  • 249 1 AFTER the support operation mounted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Friday, the Singapore dollar drifted downwards in nervous trading yesterday to close at 2.1450. Last week's MAS intervention sent local dollars from 2.1605 to 2.1260 to US$l at one stage.
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  • 322 1 Reuter CHINA'S Customs Department yesterday announced a record trade deficit of US$l4 billion for 1965, almost double the figure issued last month by the Foreign Trade Ministry. Both figures represent an enormous increase on the 1964 deficit, put at $1.1 billion by the
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    • 233 1 Venture with QAF to continue, Page 15 SHARE INFORMATION MONEY ft EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS AIRCRAFT SCHEDULE CROSSWORDS TV RADIO OUR VIEW HARD-LINE BANKERS and inflexible government officials often create unnecessary problems for small businessmen. The Small Enterprise Bureau has to change the attitude of these people, or risk acquiring a
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 116 2 COMPANIES in Singapore have been invited to set up joint ventures in Hungary to process and package food products for export to the South-east Asian market. Also, local partners are being sought for storage facilities in Singapore in an attempt to secure a distribution
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    • 353 2  -  By CHUANG PECK MING AT LEAST $15 million will have to be raised by the liquidators of Vosper Pte Ltd from sales of the shipbuilder's assets before it can clear its debts including salaries for about 275 employees. Claims from creditors and employees
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    • 439 2  -  By GOH YEE LING AN EXPECTED JUMP in demand for places in junior colleges will mean around 480 students being taught in temporary classrooms. By June, four junior colleges will be extended using lightweight prefabricated structures to be used as classrooms. They are
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    • 352 2 THE EXPECTED LAUNCH of United Airline's bid for a large share of the Pacific market was confirmed in Singapore yesterday, and its plans could bring a boost to local tourism. The airline, which took over PanAm's routes on Feb 11, is aiming to double the
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    • 80 2 BESIDES flying passengers into the Pacific Basin, United Airlines plans to develop a twoway traffic in culture between Singapore and Denver. The "Royal Pacific Cultural Exchange" is in cooperation with Sister Cities International (SCI) on the occasion of the air- line's expansion of its Royal
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    • 155 2 A REVISION of the Air Services Agreement (ASA) between Singapore and Canada will be the subject of talks between officials of the two countries next month. The talks will take place in Canada from March 17 to 19. Leading the Singapore party will be the director-general
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    • 449 3  -  By ELAINE KOH PRICES OF UNITS in the Katong Park Development have been slashed by as much as 40 per cent from the level at which they were first marketed in 1984. And hard bargaining could reduce them further. The latests cuts
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    • 162 3 NIKON, one of Japan's top camera manufacturers, last week launched a new auto-focus single-lens-reflex (SLR). The new Nikon, the F-501, is fully automatic and comes with a new series of Nikon lenses. Prices are not yet firm but are likely to be $750 for
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    • 235 3 BUSINESS arrangements with local companies are always reliable, said the president of the Swedish Trade Council, Bo Hampus Israelsson, in Stockholm recently. Addressing about 70 Swedish businessmen at a seminar on Singapore: An International Business Centre, Mr Israelsson said: "For many years, Swedish officials
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    • 202 3 A WOOD preservative manufactured in Singapore since last April has received the endorsement of the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir). Laporte Industries (S), a subsidiary of a British company, makes the Copper/Chrome/ Arsenic (CCA) wood preservative, brand named "Permawood," at a
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    • 251 3 TURKEY offers potential for the Singapore construction industry over the next few years. The Turkish government is keen to implement redevelopment projects, as well as to bolster infrastructure, transportation, public housing and general services. The government of Turkey recently signed a Memorandum of
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    • 60 3 LOCAL FRUIT will be featured on new postage stamps which will go on sale at all post offices from tomorrow. Presentation packs for the stamp issue at 12.40 each will also be available. First-day covers, priced at 10 cents each, are available at all post offices. Pre-cancelled first
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    • 483 3  -  By BOEY KIT YIN DOMESTIC EXPORTS, a barometer of the manufacturing sector, slipped 0.5 per cent to $32.9 billion last year after providing much of the growth in total exports in 1964. Latest figures from the Department of Statistics, key indicators for the December
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    • 359 3 THE GOVERNMENT will adopt a new correspondence system for its ministries and departments from April 1, a change which will increase speed and efficiency in the delivery of its mail. The new system would also facilitate the automated handling of government mail by Telecoms,
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    • 132 3 THE CASHLESS CAMPAIGN will move yet another step forward on March 6 this time at the schools. That day, a pilot Giro scheme will be launched for the collection of school and miscellaneous fees at eight primary schools. Not only do pupils of these
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 492 4 AFP INDUSTRY IN THE European Community has since 1983 entered a new dynamic period after a depression lasting more than 10 years, but it is less competitive than industry in the US and Japan, and recovery has not been strong enough to absorb unemployment.
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    • 279 4 Reuter BRITISH industry's output expectations have bounced back from their depressed level in January due to cheaper sterling and lower oil prices. The Confederation of British Industries' (CBI) latest monthly trends enquiry, based on a sample of 1,738 companies, showed that 34 per cent of companies
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    • 122 4 Reuter MOST BRITISH believe that the US is at least as great a threat to world peace as the Soviet Union, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday. The poll in The Sunday Times showed that 20 per cent of those
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    • 310 4 NYT ORDERS for American-made machine tools increased 7.8 per cent in January compared with December's level, according to a report by the US National Machine Tool Builders Association. Year to year, however, January's total is down 10.8 per cent the seventh consecutive month in
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    • 451 4 AP COMPUTERS are getting better at translating documents from one language to another, but the smart machines still turn dumb when it comes to unusual words or double meanings. Business and government representatives at a machine translation seminar say computers can now successfully grind
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    • 156 4 AFP NIGERIA will discharge its external debt obligations, but not at the cost of economic disruption. In an interview with the Financial Times of London published yesterday, President Ibrahim Babangida discussed a broad range of issues facing Africa's most
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    • 821 4 ARRIVALS operator Service Local From number time PAA PA21/5 0155 LAX/TYO/HKG CAL CI34I 0255 TPE CAL CI337 0255 TPE sv SV389 0445 JED/RUH UTA UT5489 0450 NOU MAS MH60I 0720 KUL MAS MH68I 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH67I 0935 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN
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    • 579 5 Washington warns Marcos against using force UPI Reuter LEADERS OF THE uprising in the Philippine armed forces yesterday claimed a "successful people's revolution" and announced the formation of a provisional government headed by Corazon Aquino. Dissident forces moving to consolidate control destroyed five helicopters on
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    • 448 5 Reuter HONGKONG IS EXPECTED to have a balanced budget in the 1966/87 fiscal year beginning April 1 following four consecutive years of deficit, with slight rises in government spending. Economists said that the budget, to be announced by Financial Secretary John Bremridge tomorrow, may
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    • 358 5 AFP INDONESIA can expect to reap the benefits this year of its investments in agriculture, a sector which will power the country's economy for the second straight year, according to a US embassy study released yesterday. With oil revenue slipping and industry suffering from
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    • 159 5 AFP BURMA'S leaders have called for more discipline in the country, attacking a wide range of abuses ranging from black market profiteering to break dancing. Observers said the calls for more discipline carried recently in the official media were aimed at tightening the government's control over
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    • 218 5 NYT PRIME MINISTER Rajiv Gandhi, who has enjoyed nearly universal praise for his political skills, has run into an unusual storm of criticism over several recent steps. Mr Gandhi's aides are now saying that the premier's honeymoon with the press and his political opposition,
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    • 76 5 AFP CHINA is simplifying internal entry procedures to two special economic zones bordering Hongkong and Macau, while planning to firm up control of the international border. The official China News Service said yesterday that more local authority offices would be able to issue permits for Chinese
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    • 104 5 AFP MALAYSIA expects a growth rate of 3 per cent this year, down from an earlier projection of 5.2 per cent. Deputy Finance Minister Sabbaruddin Chik said in Ipoh on Sunday that the continuing economic slowdown and instability of primary commodity prices had forced the Finance
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    • 71 5 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Information Ministry will announce the successful applicants to operate private radio stations in May. Information Minister Datuk Rais Yatim said yesterday that the ministry had received 12 applications from interested parties. The conditions on the running of the radio stations included that
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 661 6  -  A y A return exceeding 60pc so far Sang Kancil is BT's financial futures trader. Each Tuesday, DAVID GABRIEL traces Sang Kancil's tactics and strategies on Simex. The starting capital was 5525,000, a sum within the reach of most professionals in Singapore. DAVID GABRIEL SANG
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    • 305 6 Reuter THE PRESIDENT of the InterAmerican Development Bank, Mr Antonio Ortiz Mena, said cash-starved Mexico is in critical need of an international rescue package because of the precipitous drop in oil prices. He said Mexican officials are in the midst of an economic review of
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    • 310 6 Reuter THE STAGE is set for further strong gains in long-term US government securities prices this week, with spot oil prices already at their lowest levels since 1978 and seemingly headed lower, economists said. "For the bond market, oil prices are more important
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    • 448 6  -  By AMY BALAN INTERNATIONAL insurance broker Minet (Singapore) Pte Ltd plans to go against market trend by inverting $3 million in the Republic during the next three years. While several of its competitors are cutting down the size of their Singapore operations, Minet has
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    • 229 6 Reuter THE DRAMATIC FALL in oil prices over the past few weeks has made a realignment of the European Monetary System this spring far from certain. Speaking to the Royal Belgian Society of Political Economy, Roland Leuschel an economic adviser to
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    • 116 6 OVERSEAS Union Bank will open its wholly-owned merchant banking subsidiary in Sydney, Australia, on March 3. The new merchant bank, OUB Australia, was incorporated on Dec 3 with an authorised capital of Asso million. The issued capital is AHO million with Aft million
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    • Article, Illustration
      880 7 JAKARTA: The US dollar was fixed at $1126.50/1130.00 yesterday. HONGKONG: THE US dollar ended lower against most currencies, except the yen, in moderately active trading in Asia, dealers said. They said position squaring sales added light pressure on the dollar but a statement by Japan's Prime Minister Yasuhiro
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    • 324 7 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady around last Friday's levels in quiet trading, dealers said. They said uncertainty over the direction of interest rates after last week's conflicting statements by US monetary officials kept most operators on the sidelines. A 0.1 per cent decline in US January
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    • 420 7 BA Futures JUNE Earsdellar yesterday opened at 92.16, sharply higher than Friday's close in response to weaker US economic data and post futures cash market gains in US treasury bonds on lower oil prices. However, the market remained within a tight range of 92.17 and 92.15 in the June
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    • 73 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market plunged niiM» points from Friday to close at per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate (ell by four points, the two-month rate (ell by 3Vi points while the threemonth fell by 2Vfc points. S$ Interbank rotes at 7pm yesterday:
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    • 192 7 Reuter WESTERN banks have set a 12-month deadline for South Africa to announce and implement reforms as a condition for renewing existing loans, the country's debt negotiator, Mr Fritz Leutwiler, said in a television interview yesterday. "The banks continue using pressure. If the
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    • 347 7 Reuter ARGENTINIAN Foreign Minister Dante Caputo would like to organise a summit of Latin American heads of state on the debt problem this year. The aim is not to organise a debtors' cartel, but to establish a joint strategy towards what is seen
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    • 200 7 Reuter VENEZUELA will implement its debt rescheduling accord with foreign banks, but its ability to pay is closely linked to oil income and it will not allow its population's basic needs to be compromised. Finance Minister Manuel Azpurua said: "These
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  • FEATURES
    • 482 8 SHORT-SIGHTED BANKERS had asked a spectacles maker to repay a $1 million loan within five weeks. Officers of the government's newlyestablished Small Enterprise Bureau helped the bankers to see things in a different light. Now, the spectacles maker has been given five years to pay up.
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    • 1560 8  -  ECONOMIC COMMITTEE REPORT ■^directions\2> Entrepreneurs complain about public sector's intolerance The package of incentives held out by the Economic Committee is expected to boost business morale and help sustain existing businesses. But is it likely to create the kind of environment that would
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 318 9 Reuter TWO DAZZLING EAGLES in five holes catapulted American Mark O'Meara from near-disas-ter to victory in the Australian Masters Golf Tournament on Sunday. O'Meara finished eight-un-der-par on 284 after a final level par round of 73, which had seen him turn in 40 after a
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    • 80 9 Reuter GORDON BRAND SENIOR completed a West African golf double on Sunday when he shot a final round 69 for a 15-under-par 273 total and victory in the Ivory Coast open championship. The British Ryder Cup player, who collected a U5523,000 first prize for winning
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    • 411 9 AFP DEVASTATING fast bowling swept the West Indies to victory by 10 wickets over England an hour before the end of the third day of the first cricket test of the five-match series in Kingston, Jamaica, on Sunday. England, routed for 159 in
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    • 456 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS CONTRARY TO expectations, Taiwan is fielding an experienced side for its Davis Cup Eastern Zone first round tie against Singapore from March 7-9 at the Singapore Tennis Centre. In the three-man squad, the Taiwanese have named two "seasoned campaigners" who have been ranked
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    • 570 9 NYT AS FAR AS ideas go for enriching the campaign coffers of America's Cup syndicates, a plan proposed recently by Philip Morris Inc appeared to be the most lucrative. At stake was more than US$4 million, to be divided among the six United
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 416 10 AP EASTERN AIRLINES, facing a shutdown threat from creditors demanding labour concessions, reached a tentative settlement with its pilots hours before a reported deadline to respond to a buyout offer, said union officials. The agreement on Sunday night came after more than
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    • 937 10 NYT THE FIRST INKLING Mrs Angelo Gory had that Leslie Roberts, her great-nephew, was a conniver was when she found out that his straight-As college report card was false. She said he had actually dropped out of college a semester earlier. Last week, federal
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    • 453 10 NYT HEWLETT-PACKARD'S new Spectrum computers, scheduled to be introduced today, appear to be somewhat Caster than was expected, and could help the company recover lost momentum in the highly competitive minicomputer market. Analysts and sources familiar with the products said, bowever,
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 488 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed firmer yesterday on bullish sentiment carried over from last week and with positive news from abroad, brokers said. At the close of trading the All Ordinaries Index had risen 4.9 points to 1,061.4, the All Industrials Index gained 8.2 to a record high of
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    • 421 11 TOKYO: The market average yesterday surged 70.28 in moderately active trading to close at a record high of 13,503.49, surpassing the previous high of 13,477.49 set on Feb 17. Turnover was 400 million shares against 270 million in Saturday's half-day trade, when the market rose 38.90. Constructions, properties, railways
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    • 71 11 Reuter BELL CANADA Enterprises Inc has signed an agreement to offer publicly five million of its shares in Japan. Nomura Securities Co in Tokyo yesterday said that the issue price will be C 538,362 each, putting the total price of shares to be sold
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    • 268 11 AFP PHILIPS and Sony, who Jointly developed the compact digital audio disc in 1960, yesterday said they plan new uses for it in recording speech, pictures and computer data. They have patents for the compact disc and now intend to apply for
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    • 243 11 AP THE SWEDISH Space Corp has signed a letter of intent to become the first customer to take advantage of China's offer to provide a satellite-launching service. The official Beijing Review reported yesterday that the US$4million project was agreed to on Jan
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    • 295 11 AP THREE leading Japanese semiconductor makers have announced the development of advanced semiconductors for use in faster and more efficient computers. Hitachi Ltd announced last Thursday that it had succeeded in developing the world's fastest Josephson Junction chip for possible use in
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    • 153 11 UPI THE Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs has approved a proposal by Toyota Motor Corp of Japan for a Joint venture with a local company to produce passenger cars in Taiwan, including some for export. The ministry said the Joint venture proposed between Toyota and Kuojui
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 465 12 Reuter PROSPECTS of a breakthrough in talks between the world's leading cocoa producing and consuming nations on a new accord to stabilise the depressed world cocoa market looks bleak, delegate sources in Geneva said. They said an end to the deadlock was possible but appeared
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    • 394 12 UPI CROP PROBLEMS in South America will mean higher coffee prices but could provide the perfect opportunity for coffee drinkers to cut down on the habit, a university food researcher says. The full effect of the crop problems has not been felt yet
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    • 69 12 ■*3!]fT? FOB NSW 655 00 Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW 744.00 E&W FOB NSW 661.00 Gombier FOB NSW 330 00 London Commodity Exchange Stiitfs' doling pri cet on Feb 21 (US$/lon$ tonne pom, unless otkn CIF European rise stated) Pepper (Sarawak) Foq. spot 6650 White foq, afloat 6650 White
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    • 194 12 AFP TRINIDAD'S sugar Industry is heading for collapse as a result of industrial action taken by sugar workers at the height of harvesting operations. Mr Russell Wotherspoon, the general manager of the state-owned Caroni Limited, the country's largest sugar manufacturer, was commenting on a
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    • 193 12 Reuter EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (EC) 1985/96 sugar production from beet and overseas departments cane is forecast at 12.72 million tonnes whites value by broker C Czarnikow in its February review. This compares with its December estimate at 125 million tonnes and would now take total
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    • 103 12 THE KUALA LUMPUB Tti Market yesterday nee II eeats te eieee at M52t.46 per Idle, la (airly this tradlag. The rise was attrlbated te scattered leeal baylag aad small Japaaeee 2*^wwetog^sftorJTC detaUed'n» eae prepesal fer the tta market. A smaller «1 teaaes sf feriag, malaly eeatrlbated by leeal
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    • 86 12 Reuter A CANADIAN company mining (or nickel in Soroako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, yesterday said it would halt operations for six weeks starting June 2 "to avoid any Increase in inventory levels". PT Inco Indonesia, a subsidiary of Inco Ltd of Toronto, the world's largest nickel
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    • 597 12 AFP A SOLUTION to the four-month-old crisis on the world tin market seemed within the grasp of the debt-ridden International Tin Council (ITC) and its creditors, provided both sides are able to give formal approval to "take it or leave it" proposals now
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    • 133 12 AP SOUTH KOREA has informed Japan of its decision to extend voluntary restraints on Korean cotton yarn exports to Japan for one year until April 1987, the Spinners and Weavers Association of Korea reported yesterday. It said Korea will limit its
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    • 194 12 Reuter INDONESIA'S production at grain and oilseeds will rise in 1986 allowing increased exports of rice, corn, cassava and palm oil and reduced soybean imports, the US embassy in Jakarta said in a report. Rice output is expected to rise to 26.8 million tonnes
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    • 271 12 RAS prices in S cwitiAg, FOI m 1 ■aim NOON CLOSf Irrt 1 RSS Prompt 168 00 170.00N 169 00 170 OON Int 1 RSS Mor 86 168 00 169 00 169 00 ***** Int 1 RSS Apr 86 >77 50 178 50 178 50 179.50 Irrt
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4072 13 JITTERS stemming from talk that banks will soon withdraw credit support to certain broking firms caused share prices to fall across a broad front on the Singapore stock market yesterday. Right from the opening bell, sellers dominated the trading floor and
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    • 257 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indicas S 1 A 655 ANA Hetel* 61 Hwhi 198 MTC7I* 350 Jodi let 125 0 U E 189 SM 306 Falls D 1 S 496 Beete 560 G—tmgj 406 Magaaai Cerpe 246 tataigk 161 OCBC 725 N S T 560 TDM 112 U 0
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    • 98 13 HONGKONG Fndav Week ago 1606 2 Hong Seng Index Monday 1742 37 Friday 1747 06 NEW YORK Week ago 1783 08 Dow Jones TOKYO Friday 1697.71* Thursday 1672.82 Nikkei Average Monday *****.49* Week ogo 1664 45 Standard Poors Saturday *****.21 Week ago ***** 91 Friday 224 62 Thursday
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    • 270 13 Managers' prices MARA-Bumiputrs for Feb 25 First B'putro 4 53 4 58 Singapore Unit Trust Second B'putro Third B'putro Fourth B'putro 427 432 3 47 3 52 The Commerce 0 87 0.92 3 74 3 79 The Savings Fund 0.77 0 82 Fifth B'putro 241 246 S'pore Prog
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 506 14 Negotiations may have stalled over price MBT PALMCO HOLDINGS, the diversified palm-oil refining group, is believed to be seeking buyers for Casuarina Beach Hotel in Penang. Several parties are understood to have been approached to acquire the hotel but it is
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    • 2976 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 Ajinomoto (3 30S) A Choc (2 065) AMD (3
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    • 181 14 Reuter MERCHANT BANKERS Morgan Grenfell ft Co and Exco International PLC, a diversified money-broking group, are holding exploratory merger talks, a Joint statement said. The merger would create a banking and financial services company capitalised at about £1 billion. A further statement will be
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    • 311 14 SHARE PRICES closed easier across the board at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday despite the resumption of ready trading after about two and a half months. The market has been trading on an immediate delivery system following an unprecedented threeday suspension of the Kuala Lumpur
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    • 416 14 MBT MALAYSIAN newspaper and publishing group, The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd, has shelved its plans to set up a regional plant in Sabah and Sarawak. It is, however, going ahead with plans (or a regional plant in Dungun, Trengganu. Chairman
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    • 146 14 MBT DATUK ABDULLAH AHMAD and his associates have strengthened their hold on Gadek (Malaysia) Bhd following recent boardroom changes. Chairman Datuk Abdullah has been appointed executive chairman while Syed Mustapha bin Syed Abdullah Shahabudin has taken over as managing director. Both Datuk Abdullah and Syed Mustapha
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    • 28 14 PEBLI8 PLANTATIONS Dertoi: 17th AGM at the Boardroom, 18th Floor, Wisma Jerneh, 38 Jalan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur on Friday, Feb 28, at 10.15 am.
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    • 270 15  -  By RAMEBH CHANDIRAMANI TWO NEW bank-affiliated stock broking firms opened their doors to the public yesterday and made active markets in several Singapore-based blue chip stocks. Both OUB Securities Pte Ltd and UOB Securities Pte Ltd managed to carve out a "respectable" market share
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    • 159 15 Bernama TWO MAJOR Malaysian companies with large business interests in the Philippines Sime Darby and Guthrie yesterday expressed "natural concern" over the situation in the beleaguered country. A Guthrie (now reconstituted into the Mulpha group of companies) official said the company had estates in the
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    • 552 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM STOCKBROKING FIRMS which are heavily exposed to forward contracts and are hoping to dip into the $180 million "lifeboat" fund have already started meeting the Monetary Authority of Singapore with their respective bankers separately. Yesterday afternoon was the turn of
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    • 116 15 PLANS FOR further rationalisation at Emporium Holdings will not affect its joint venture in supermarkets with QAF Ltd. QAF said it will not pull out from Oriental Market Holdings (OMH), a 60:40 Joint venture between QAF and Emporium, set up last August to own and operate
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    • 356 15  -  By AMY CHEOK SIME DARBY Hongkong, whose public share offer in the British colony last December was only 37 per cent subscribed, has turned in a set of impressive halfyear results. The Hongkong group, a subsidiary of the giant Ma-laysian-based conglomerate Sime Darby
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    • 462 15 NST UNICO HOLDINGS Bhd executives will meet their counterparts in Supreme Corporation Bhd either this week or the next to thrash out the details of the proposed purchase of Supreme shares. Its director, Mr Ngan Chin Wen, said: "We should
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    • 165 15 UNITED INDUSTRIAL Corporation marked its breakthrough into the hotel industry with the opening of its $15-million five-star Phuket Yacht Club Hotel last Saturday. The 120-room resort hotel is owned by Moblex-UIC Ltd, a joint venture company in which UIC has a 49-per cent interest.
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    • 649 14 THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED NOTICE EXTRAORDINARY MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary Meeting of the members of the Bank will be held in the Connaught Rooms, The Mandarin Hotel, 5 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong on Thursday, 20th March, 1986 at 11:35 a.m. or as soon
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    • 454 14 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE OF SHIP'S NAME We, Zeppaclfic Shipping Pte Ltd of 19 Keppel Road, #07-05/07 Jit Poh Building, Singapore 0206, hereby give notice that In consequence of our intention to change the name of the motor vessel "Indus Pioneer" we have applied to the registrar ;of Singapore
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 208 15 Wanted to buy: Metal-working Machine Tools U.S. Buyer seeks entire facilities or major groupings of young machines. Contact Mr. Jay Krom from Feb. 23 to 28 at Hotel Inter-Continental Pavilion, telephone *****88. Or Telex U.S.A. *****8 anytime before his arrival here. PLEASURE BOAT FOR SALE US designed Krugen 38 shoal
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
    • 479 16 A STRONG PLEA for continued open government in Singapore was made by one of 1984's new entrants to Parliament yesterday. The end of the economic crisis should not mean the end of this style of administration, said Dr Aline Wong when
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    • 520 16 THE PROPOSED CUT in employers' Central Provident Fund contributions was a major theme of the opening of the debate on the presidential address in Parliament yesterday. The views were mixed. Some Members of Parliament called for a reduction in the workers' contribution rate,
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  • 45 16 Reuter THE ROYAL Bank of Canada, which opened a representative office in New Delhi last week, expects to play an important role in arranging financing for India's electricity, pipeline, transport and telecommunication projects, said the bank's president-designate, Johan Cleg horn, yesterday. Reuter
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  • 397 16 Agencies PRESIDENT REAGAN, for the first time, yesterday called on President Marcos to step down as Washington made it clear that it was ready to offer him asylum in the US. Both Mr Marcos and Mrs Aquino have said they would go ahead and
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  • 90 16 THE WORSENING CRISIS In the Philippines has caused all Stagtpwe flights bound for Manila to be suspended Indefinitely since yesterday afternoon, an official from Chaagl International Airport said. Incoming flights from Manila airport, where fighting between government and opposition forces erupted nearby, were also similarly put off.
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  • 153 16 AP WITHIN the next two years, China plans to resolve all cases involving persecution of overseas Chinese or their relatives during and before the Cultural Revolution. Offices dealing in overseas Chinese affairs should adopt strong measures to correct unjust or false judgments against overseas Chinese
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  • 174 16 THE LABOUR MOVEMENT will soon submit to the government its position on wage reform in response to the recent recommendations by the Economic Committee. This was disclosed to trade union leaders by Mr Ong Teng Cheong, the secretary-general of the National
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  • 174 16 CITICORP Investment Bank (Singapore) and the Singapore branch of the National Australia Bank are Jointly arranging a US$75-million Euronote issue for the Australian merchant bank, First National Limited (FNL). Nine banks will underwrite the issue up to US$4O million for maturities of one, three or
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  • 186 16 Bernama MALAYSIA has cut down the recruitment of Indonesian and Bangladeshi workers so that local retrenched workers will have better employment opportunities. Labour Minister Datuk Lee Kim Sai said in Port Dickson yesterday that the government was doing everything possible to ensure that retrenched workers got
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  • 162 16 UPI Bernama JURY SELECTION was completed in Hongkong yesterday in the multi-million-dollar fraud trial involving the collapse of the Carrian financial empire. Carrian chairman George Tan, his principal assistant Bentley Ho and four others are charged in the case that is also linked to
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  • 98 16 UPI PRESIDENT Chun Doo Hwan said yesterday that South Korea's Constitution could be amended in 1989 after successfully playing host to the next summer Olympiad in Seoul. Mr Chun reiterated his resolve not to seek re-election but to help establish a tradition
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  • 69 16 ASTRONOMERS will soon begin a systematic search for radio signals from about 1,000 star systems in the Milky Way galaxy believed capable of supporting intelligent life. A space agency spokesman said it had been determined that only 5 per cent of the stars in the Milky
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  • LATE FILE
    • 46 16 AP A US DELEGATE asked South Korea yesterday to freeze its textile exports to the US at the 1985 level (or the next three years. Korean officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the American request was rejected. AP
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    • 33 16 Reuter OPEC may invite non-mem-ber oil exporters to a Joint meeting after its own conference in Geneva next month, the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) said yesterday. Reuter
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    • 29 16 UPI THE SOVIET UNION yesterday dismissed the latest arms proposal by US President Reagan as "a propaganda stratagem" that repeats previous US positions. UPI
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    • 43 16 Reuter IRAN said yesterday that its forces wiped out two Iraqi infantry battalions when they beat back a counter-at-tack north of the occupied Iraqi oil port of Faw as fresh Iranian troops were reported heading for the warfront.
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    • 38 16 Reuter AT LEAST five people were killed and 12 wounded when a car blew up outside a supermarket in East Beirut yesterday. Rescuers worked in driving rain in search of survivors. Reuter
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    • 41 16 AFP SUSPECTED Sikh separatists looted a police armoury near Amritsar in a pre-dawn raid yesterday. The Press Trust of India said they fled in a Jeep with arms which included 16 rifles and 475 rounds of ammunition.
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    • 50 16 UPI AFRICAN foreign ministers gathered yesterday in Addis Ababa for a summit that will focus on the continent's pressing economic problems and a Libyan proposal condemning the US for aggression. The Organisation of African Unity's (OAU) 43rd Council of Ministers meeting begins today. UP I
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 167 16 THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THE EQUATORIAL THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW v ■Vx EXCEPT, PERHAPS OUR LITTLE GESTURES THAT HAVE BECOME ATRADTHON. You probably know about our 3(H) furnished rooms and suites, our famous restaurants, the Kampachi, the Golden Phoenix and the Chalet, our freshlybrewed Espresso toffee
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    • 478 16 Purchasing Supply Management Skills Singapore, May 8 9, 1986 Objective This workshop is to upgrade the purchasing and supply skills of those personnel who have an influence on their company's profitability through their dealing with, or actual execution of, the purchasing and supply functions. Workshop Content Purchasing/Supply Management Organisation for
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    • 55 16 vmimi Outlook for today: Showers in o few areas in the afternoon. Rep< ort for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Feb 24 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.9 Associated humidity 55 Minimum temperature 23.8 Associated humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 9.50 Roinfoll in millimetres nil Rainfoll this month 26.7
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 149 17 HIT BY MORE THAN US$2OO million in shipping loan losses, US giant Bank of America recorded a deficit year for the first time since the US depression of 1932. Shipping accounted for almost two thirds of the bank's US$337 million loss last year.
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    • 443 17  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF WHEN LIAN SOON Shipping and Trading was set up 16 years ago, director Dolly Seah had one ambition: to build a shipping empire before she retired to the leisurely life of cruising around the world. That dream failed to materialise.
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    • 185 17 AFP INDONESIA plans to install a radar system on one of the Riau Islands to spot ships smuggling goods to and from Malaysia and Singapore, Indonesian Finance Minister Radius Prawiro has said. The radar installation is to be monitored around the
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    • 159 17 AFP A LUXURY liner, which some reports have described as a getaway ship for President Ferdinand Marcos, was still at its anchorage in Hongkong, a Hongkong Marine Department spokesman said. "We have not received any port exit application from the ship yet," the spokesman
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 65 17 Reuter THE JAPAN/India-Pakistan-Gulf/Japan Conference will reduce Hongkong westbound bunker surcharges to Pakistan and India to 31 per cent from 34.3 per cent effective March 1, due to the recent reductions in bunker oil prices. Bunker surcharges on Hongkong/Gulf shipments not covered by the existing temporarily reduced commodity box
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      • 64 17 WITH EFFECT from today the Straits/Bombay/Karachi Gulf Conference will impose an extra risk insurance surcharge of 4 to 3.5 per cent for shipments to Gulf ports, not within Iran or Iraq. The conference also announced that it will levy from 4.5 per cent minimum to 4
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      • 84 17 FOLLOWING A reorganisation, Lykes Bros Steamship will reduce its shoreside staff by 113 from its total staff strength of 900. A number of middlemanagement jobs will be affected by these measures. Lykes has gradually transformed itself from a conventional shipping line, which was mainly based
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    • 1093 18 A BLEAK week for dry cargo charters on the London freight market ended on Friday with active time-charter business but just scattered voyage fixing. The overall tone remained bearish, with no immediate sign of improvement. North American grain appeared in just three fixtures. NYK worked 33,000 tons from
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    • 1043 18 Fairplay THERE WILL ALWAYS be the shipowner who only considers the lowest cost, the seafarer who is so desperate for work that he will agree to anything and the ere wing agency that will promise the world to win a contract. In the
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    • 148 18 THE SOVIET liner company, Baltic Shipping, has introduced a new port of call onto its Australasian services as a result of the recent slot charter agreement reached with Scan Carriers. Baltaustralia intends to make at least six northbound calls a year at Dunkirk,
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    • 626 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Afea Line VI 3 Anro Service IV 3/4 ANL 1 1/2 APC Line V 4 APL HI 2/3 ASCL 1 Bait-Canada Line VI 4/5 Bolt-Orient Line VI 4/5 Bank Line V 5 BBS 1 4/5 Ben Line Cont V
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    • 86 18 THE FORMER dock yard at Gibraltar repaired 248 vessels in its first year as a commercial undertaking. The 1985 total comprised 26 commercial vessels docked, four Royal Fleet auxiliary allocated refits, 44 vessels Repaired afloat at a berth, S3 vessels repaired at anchor, 55 Ministry of
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    • 438 18 NYT INDONESIA HAS begun to sink boats whose crews are found to be transporting for profit refugees who are fleeing Vietnam, according to diplomats and refugee officials in the region. The officials say the refugees are brought ashore by the Indonesian
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    • 133 18 Maersk Line will launch two new fortnightly container services to the Middle East and West Africa on Feb 27. Direct ports of call in Europe include Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Le Havre. UK, Ireland and Scandinavia will be served by feeder vessels via the
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    • 227 19 AFP A TRAMP STEAMER held in France, by the French authorities amid reports it was to take mercenaries to West Africa was actually on its way to the Caribbean for a treasure hunt, the vessel's captain said. Captain John Collins, master of the Panamanian-registered
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    • 537 19 Lloyd's List THE DEPARTURE of five large tankers from lay-up in Norwegian waters last month may indicate a welcome upturn in the spot market but for Oslo fjord communities it marks a substantial cut in income. Servicing mothballed tankers has become rewarding for
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    • 337 19 FT THE LATEST initiative in the ports to persuade dockers to take voluntary redundancy has received a patchy response, particularly in London and Liverpool. Under the statutory dock labour scheme, local and national boards control the size of the workforce, making it
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    • 249 19 AFP THE CRUCIAL question of who was commanding a Soviet cruise liner before it sank last week with 737 people aboard has been answered, but officials were not disclosing their findings. The 22,000-tonne Mikhail Lermontov went down in the Marlborough Sounds between New Zealand's north
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    • 304 19 JAPANESE SHIPYARD workers are to seek a 5.7 per cent pay rise. Their trade union, Zosen Juki Roren, is launching the claim as part of Japan's 1986 spring labour offensive despite warnings from the country's Ministry of Transport that Japanese shipyards
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    • 269 19 THE PORT OF Oakland will invest US$5O million in new and expanded cargo handling facilities through the year 1968 to meet expected increases in trans-Pacific traffic. Public Affairs Officer, Mr Robert Middleton, says $38 million will be invested in the construction of
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    • 662 21 Fob 27 Lecture on international maritime fraud by rep of International Maritime Bureau, organised by Nautical Institute (North East branch), 1930 hours, Trinity Maritime Centre, Newcastle. Feb 27 Lecture, "Finance for ships," by Mr M D Robinson organised by Nautical Institute (North West branch), 1715 hrs, Liverpool Polytechnic.
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    • 186 21 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia/Straits Container Line. Nedlloyd
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    • 6589 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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    • 716 25 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location China Cont 33E 25.2.86 1600 Jardine F1 0700-0800 G3 Uni Pioneer 017LA 25.2.86 1600 G Asia F1 0700-0800 N3 N Jasper 11W 25.2.86 1700 NAPL F1 0800-0900
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    • 1643 25 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A—B A Top Enl«rpra« h« Ltd Sflm« (S) AB Skipping Bousteod Shpg Agencies Aleo Lin* Afncon Shpg Agencies (S). Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepter Oceonus SfwppingAgenoes (S) Muttiport Sdn Bhd (PK) Americon
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    • 419 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES No 8 Donom K21 NAPL alongside 25.2.86/0600 S'thern Glory K28 S'pore Shp alongside 25.2.86/0300 Straits Pride K24E SSPL alongside 25.2.86/0600 Wakamizu Marti K16 Borneo alongside 25.2.86/1200 Builder III K23 Thong Soon 25.2.86/0700 26.2.86/0700 Courser K34 Sunship 25.2.86/1100
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    • 871 17 lumbers t >1 It M' 1 )j< l< '1 lilt V Concise Comprehensive Contemporary new sage^ —J OOCL Orient Oveiqeas QotUaUm Line JAAOM SMPPMG MOCKS (Rat Ik. 2421 M/ OCR) 70 Shenton Way *04 03 Marma House Singapore 0207 TH *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** CFS OFFICE TPC #03 029
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    • 85 17 THERE WILL ALWAYS be the shipowner who only considers the lowest cost, the seafarer who is so desperate for work that he will agree to anything and the crewing agency that will promise the world to win a contract. Page II THE DEPARTURE of five large tonkers from lay-up in
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    • 1132 17 FESCO LINES FAR-EASTERN SHIPPING COMPANY Regular Services To SOUTH EAST ASIA, JAPAN, INDIA, USA CANADA. Agent: Singapore Soviet Shipping Co Pte Ltd TEL: *****3 MAERSK LINE FASI ET SINGAPORE/BAHRAIN 10 SINGAPORE/KUWAIT —11 Voy S" pors EXPORT TO USA. EUROPE. MIDDLE EAST. WEST AFRICA ASIA T: 'Sappore CtoSM| Taw CY 25/2
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    • 415 18 m Y.S. LINE YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South Wast Pacific North Wast Foodor at Tokyo Faadar at Kobo S/3 YAAMStfII M Alto accepting LCL Cargo for UBA Port*. Atlantic/Canada Faadar at Kobo TOKYO BRDGE ¥03 OASIS MTMR *13, ys prosperity mi, ICW OASIS *02, t Mm KC«ptnc carp
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    • 256 18 Supercarrier Service n-,-".. icfict KXT ARRIVALS TOURCOnG ?S/? BARKS TO6A 7/3. BARKR TAMPA 27/3 TO: CALIFORNIA PANAMA US ATLANTIC US GULF E. CANADA 7/4 1/4 19/4 17/4 23/4 7/5 1/5 13/5 17/5 11/5 1 too xctptanf cantn tar Mow tor (MLB). S Francnco Oakland Stockt«i and 1m tttp (it L
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    • 1047 19 The Straits Steamship Group OC.W Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd Overseas Containers Limited rCONTAINERSHtP SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT an or edmukh fmmkfwt express TOUO OBIKB XOMOON BAT 21/4 22, V I EOTttSS 27/4 25, an or edmukh m/ 5 FRAMFURT ixns.SS >?/5 14 Also Accepting Cargo For: S'pn PKetan| M/ 3
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    • 726 19 Franco Belgian Services .ir /I*l hr. 11. h >.t% i. .1 ith /<./*/.in /.1 r I ~-t. rn ,11. con nits soma TO EUW* SOW SAS woe Fak (24 FA) fOCATOi 5 Mar 3 Mar] CM T«TO 12 Mar ((II Mar) qmm com*■» it m*. (17 m*> e P* Date
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    • 684 20 R u Hapag-Lloyd TO CONTINENT/UK EXPORTS On carria|e to Scandmavia, Med, Carribean IS. America Hand haulage to inland destinations in Europt ——Agents SEGANI—*****46 K. Lianpw *****25/6/1 *****71 t. KHant *****00 CFS *****40 Ptnanc 2205(33 *****49 *****0 3MZ7O 6107)7, *****2 *****3 *****19, Hill I« w»i ««»n y FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE SHEN
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    • 501 20 ML Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd TEL *****06 (20 Lines) TLX RS ***** RS ***** INTERMARITIME LTD K KmbMu (Sab A(Ml) T* 22ISM Uvti (S* A|Wt) T* (***** REUNION/SOUTH AFRICA SERVICE unypiiNßtaaKCT ML VC7 10/3 13/3 10/3 »/3 *7/3 4/4 13/4 14/4 10/4 ML VH 30/3 15/4 a/4 C«*
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    • 316 20 EVERGREEN Full Container Service Round-The-World East Bound (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/FE) Round-The-World West Bound (FE/EURO/USEC/CARIB/FE) *iso acceptng La/fa t ra/ra to sorxmuK anms. copenmcen. oao. sioauom iclsmu. i LOMON. SOUTHAMPTON. MANOCSTEI MMNGHM LMOPOa BJ MCTOOMI VIA KTTTHMM US WEST COAST FAR EAST/RED SEA/MEDITERRANEAN MED/RED SEA/F.E. INBOUND no MSB UN FOKIO not OMMM) f*J
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    • 156 20 HISI NOSE MARITIME PTE LTD ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES KYOWA LINE TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA/ SOUTH PACIFIC STOK HMmi LnAntar KYOWA BREEZE 5/3 toy*. L*. P-Merely, Honiara Krcta, Rafcaul Oceania Quwn 10/3 JKT. wiwak. Ma4a«. La*. P. Moresby, Hwtor». Kreta, Rabari SUN UNION LINE TWml TAIYO
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    • 302 21 AUSTASIA LINE AND MERLION SHIPPING AGENCY BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO NEW ZEALAND AND T/S FIJI FULLY CONTAINERISED MONTHLY SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT NEW PLYMOUTH PORT CHALMERS ACCEPTING FCL ft LCL FOR AUCKLAND, NAPIER, WELLINGTON, BLUFF, CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN ft LYTTELTON, INVERCARGIL ft FIJI sus spoke m Plymouth rati chauos S'PORE AGENTS
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    • 54 21 \iMi THONG SOON \mSmfk. agencies pte. Ltd. #09-07, Robina House, S pore 0106 Tel: *****88. Telex: RS ***** BOOKING: *****56 (DIRECT LINE) SINGAPORETO PENANG CONTAINER FEEDER SERVICE as 3? a rt MIDDLE EAST SERVICE JMMTA SMGAPOK. FOt: A VESSEL 15/3 fed**. EUROPE SERVICE MKNtTA SMGATOtt FOB: GANA GAM* 26/3 11/4
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    • 300 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES Pifan V96N Htoneywa V2O9W Pa an V92W Patau V97W BURMA FIVE STAR (Burmese National Line) Loadhg for Ranfoon Spore Plctani I In Port/27 Feb 3/5 Mar 9/11 Mar 7/1 Mar 15/17 Mar BANK LINE SPORE R'DAM HULL HMBG •CRESTBANK 3 Mar TAUSALA SAMOA 16 Mor 11 Apr
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    • 491 22 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD lO Anson Road a 2 7 16 Internationa Pla*a Singapore 0207 T e i *****1 1 (10 Linesl VOKASIA'&m o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S'part P. Lm*| tarTREASURE BLAH) BBMN3 9/3 ROT/AMT/IK (AVON)/ KLFAST ANANGEL TRUTH BBKM? 11/3 SETE/VOT/MT/W (AVON) A»aah MTRASA (Pit) LTD BOOKK 22*511 1
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    • 852 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Spore NIPTUNE AGENCIS PTE LTD TH No othce terimal CfS BOOHKGS 21*911 Ft OJ/WSI 'PA/Sl* *****77 *****22 *****53 DMtCT IMS *****53 *****42 I Bihru HARPER WKA SON B»C *****0 P KHar* HARPER KWA SOW BHD *****1 3*241 P layi HARPER MRA SOW BHD 5(4722 Penan,
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    • 515 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON >*t P l«» Pcnm No 7 Datum 601/3 U/J No Datum 60 ?N 17/3 24/3 21/3 No 6 Donan M3N 22/1 Rr t Dwjm/UTN 2/4 t/4 lb 7 Danan 603N 13/4 17/4 Hi t Daum 604N
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    • 341 24 f REGIONAL CONTAINER LINES TO SOUTH THAILAND (FORTNIGHTLY) STORE I|nw"« 11 'mrrw |i >w"'i.! i irw IM/Jl'.l:'! I 'IPTM fhjm m PTJI in i l rmmrTTTimnjii MALACCA STRAITS FEEDER SERVICE (WEEKLY) I |p: i y.w.iy pnpngßMMifflißßi i: i hi;h' n Aho icceptin{ LCI (trandvpmefit and local) for PK/PNG AGENTS PORT
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    • 81 25 Singapore/China Direct Service S"n»» t»*< fm m KOOK 5-11/1 NK. Map*. 9> m NNffN 10-15/3 NR. I w 15-M/3 Cuvtai I M Carp WMct UWM *r"h 8M CHIAO SHIPPING AQENCY PTE LTD Tel: 2246M1/2 Tlk: ***** COLUMBUS LINE RFEDERFI GMBH FXPRfSS SFMI CONTfIINF R SFRVICF TO HUII ROIIFRDAM HAMBURG TAUSALA
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    • 73 25 Scan Dutch V TO EUROPE (MEDITERRANEAN-UK-NORTH CONTINENT-SCANDINAVIA) FEEDER VESSEL] MM I R KELANG 1 VESSEL I SINGAPORE I 1) MARSEILLES I 2) ROTTERDAM I 3) LOHOON Kartpß/Ba IMtM N. Dajtaa/K«-t-B. Svfc/171 TO RED SEA-MEDITERRANEAN CASABLANCA LATTAKIA LIMASSOL TO HONG KONG-TAIWAN-JAPAN FROM JAPAN-TAIWAN-HONG KONG FROM RED SEA-MEDITERRANEAN VESSEL Kintal/tTf H MR/B4C
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