The Business Times, 8 August 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, ISM 75 CENTS
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  • 410 1  -  By HOMER CHEN THE FATE of Pan-Electric Industries may be decided today. The hearing for the petition to wind up the company will be heard at the High Court this morning. The petition was filed by nine banks Standard Chartered
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  • 646 1  -  Singapore will have to act on copyright laws, says Baldrige By BOEY KIT YIN,LUCY NG IT WILL NOT be enough for Singapore to pass its new copyright laws to convince the US government that it deserves preferential treatment for its products. The Republic will have
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  • 359 1 THE DEFEAT of the protectionist Jenkins Bill in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday has brought great, albeit temporary, relief to the Reagan Administration, the Singapore government and the local textile and clothing industry. Known officially as the Textile A Apparel Trade Bill, it sought
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  • 93 1 AP SHARE PRICES on the Hongkong stock exchange yesterday closed sharply higher, with the market indicator setting a new record high following the defeat of a protectionist textile BUI in the US Congress. The Hang Seng Index gained 32.35 points to close at 1920.18, up from
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  • 138 1 THE HIGH COURT yesterday granted former Pan-Electric Industries financial director Tan Kok Liang, who is appealing against a 15-month jail term, a one-week postponement. A district court in February jailed him for 15 months after he pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal breach
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  • 67 1 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew will deliver his eve of National Day message this evening in English over Radio One at 7.10 pm and on Channel Five at 8.40 pm. Traditionally, he gives an overview of the economy and outlines the tasks ahead for Singapore in his
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  • 55 1 A GERMAN ARCHITECT and urban planner who was in Singapore recently finds Asian cities of special interest. He thinks Singapore is beginning to look for something called "urban quality" as it has satisfied its housing needs and has more than its fair share of
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  • Article, Illustration
    88 1 SHAKE PUCES IUM tflfced ea the Sagapere stock exchange yesterday as bayers ieat their en at lewer levels. The Straits Times ladsstrial latex was 4m IJI paints to 161.46 at the etaalag bell while the It stsrk BT napirtf Index eased 1.26 palate to 636.76. At midday, the
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  • 238 1 THE JAPANESE government is developing an unusual plan to ease the financial burden on its elderly citizens by encouraging them to retire overseas in "silver communities". Under the plan, called the "Overseas retirement community project", or the "Silver Columbia project", the elderly would
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  • 116 1 UPI THE US dollar yesterday plunged to a new post-World War II low against the Japanese yen under speculative selling in Tokyo. The Bank of Japan said the dollar closed at 153.75 yen, a new post-World War II low and down 0.90 yen
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  • 275 1 and satisfaction among Asian governments Reuter, AP ASIAN COUNTRIES hailed yesterday the defeat of the Jenkins Bill, calling it a victory for tree trade and a narrow escape from a trade war. But they said that the triumph had been costly because of concessions made to help deflect pressure from
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 441 2  -  Consortium prepared to invest 'whatever amount is needed' By ANNA TEO A GROUP of American and European investors with a working capital of US$5OO million is among several parties keen to Join Newton Pte Ltd in building a fIOO-million high-technology complex in Lorong Chuan. Interest
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    • 421 2  -  By ELAINE KOH EXPO '86 in Vancouver will be sharing Singapore's National Day celebrations with a lion dance troupe, Chinese opera singers and an official visit by the Education Minister, Dr Tony Tan, who left yesterday for Canada. Dr Tan will stay in Vancouver till
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    • 211 2 MUSIC WILL BE In the air in Vancouver, Canada, this weekend as Singapore Airlines strikes up its 45-man band at Expo '86 The band, which SIA says is the only airline band in Asia and one of the few in the world, will
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    • 276 2 ASIA-PACIFIC Furniture Fair *86 ended last Sunday after its nine-day run with a 130,000-strong turnout and $7 million worth of sales short of its target, but the organisers are more than satisfied. The Singapore Furniture Manufacturers' and Traders' Association (SFMTA) had hoped that the fair, the
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    • 265 2 A CONSIGNMENT of sensitive electronic components worth US$2.2 million took off on a full air charter on Wednesday in the first seaair transhipment cargo by a charter flight. The consignment, weighing 22.4 tonnes, was uplifted by Heavy Lift Cargo Airlines, a British-regis-tered charter airline, to
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    • 484 3  - Motor Leasing clinches $161m contracts By LIM SOON NEO SINGAPORE'S Motor A Leasing has finally clinched two multi-million-dollar contracts to lease and maintain 500 buses to be used In Bangkok. The seven-year contract for the lease of single-deck non-air-conditioned buses (each 12 metres long) is worth about $87 million and
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    • 416 3 A US$lO MILLION yacht is in town. And its captain has plenty of praises for local repair yards as well as for the surrounding waters. "The shipyards in Europe can certainly learn something from these guys here they're better, cheaper and
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    • 515 3  -  Company to undertake another 10pc of parent's production By ELAINE KOH AS THE FIRST STAGE in its development as a regional headquarters, Nemic Lambda Singapore, a switching regulator maker, is to take on a further 10 per cent of the total production of its Japanese
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    • 119 3 FIVE SPECIAL bus services will run for people who wish to attend the National Day Carnival at the East Coast Park. There will be three direct services from Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh and Commonwealth Avenue which will converge at Marine Parade Terminal. Transfers
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    • 106 3 GOH CHOK TONG will kick off this year's National Day celebrations when he opens the National Day Carnival at the East Coast Park this evening. The three-day carnival, held (or the first time as part of the National Day celebrations, features more than 30 programmes
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    • 71 3 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kaaa Yew has expressed Ms thaaks to ever is the StapuHnSiiifinl Paid— sa Taesday. b a letter to the PraAdaat ea Wednesday, Mr Lee said: "When SiifutrauM see them at the Mandal Zm, they will be reminded ef the elsee and friendly
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    • 149 3 HOPEFULLY, there will be less cause for disappointment, neck strain and squints at this year's National Day Parade. A big screen measuring 3 metres by 4 metres will stretch across the West entrance of the National Stadium tomorrow. The "Diamond Vision Mark
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    • 214 3 THE SEMBAWANG Group of Companies announced yesterday that its subsidiary, Sembawang Salvage Co (Semco), had purchased the Pan-Electric group's Pan Asia yard in Jurong to house its operations. Semco, which was formed earlier this year as a Joint venture between the Sembawang Group and
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    • 251 3  -  By MONICA GWEE TO HOLD and remember. This year's National Day bash will be bound in colour in the first National Day Commemorative Book sponsored by Philips (S) Pte Ltd. Sixty thousand copies of the book entitled, "In Pursuit of Excellence for Singapore"
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    • 200 3 ENEX ASIA, an exhibition (or the electrical and electronics trades scheduled for October, has attracted 14 national groups so far the biggest number since the show started 10 years ago. The two-in-one shows, Electrical Asia and Electronics Asia *86, will be held at the
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    • 292 3  -  By JEFFREY TSANG DEVELOPING COUNTRIES with limited resources must learn from the experiences of developed countries in their health and medical care programmes and avoid their mistakes and problems, said the Minister of State for Health, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, yesterday. Mr Yeo, who is also
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    • 146 3 THE DENGUE fever/dengue haemorrhagic fever outbreak has subsided. The Ministry of Environment said yesterday however, there still existed a cluster of DF/DHF outbreaks in Ang Mo Kio Ave 1. The total number of cases reported this year up to Wednesday was 214. Cases
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 901 4 ARRIVALS Operator Sarvica number Local time From SIA UA FT RBA sv GIA KAL MAS MAS SQH7 UA805 FT71 BI443 SV398 GA7221 KE697 MH68I MH811 0005 0010 0044 0330 0440 0815 0815 0820 0910 KUL JFK/SFO/HKG JFK/BOS/ORD/ anc/nrt/ MNL/TPE BWN JED/RUH SUB SEL KUL PEN SiA MAS
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    • 493 4 Reuter US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan had to lobby Congressmen personally to defeat a threat to his free-trade policy saying that quotas could trigger retaliation and a full blown trade war to influence the House to sustain his veto of textile and shoe quotas.
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    • 355 4 Reuter JORDAN'S King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, central players in the search for peace in Western Asia, held their first face-to-face talks in three months in Alexandria on Wednesday. The two leaders, who conferred frequently by telephone, were expected to focus on
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    • 80 4 AFP FIVE provincial airlines have broken the monopoly of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on domestic routes. The New China News Agency (NCNA) said on Wednesday the airlines had 20 planes and 100 pilots, while 13 other regional airlines had applied for licences.
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    • 238 4 Reuter INDIA Ms disappointed over a new international textile agreement because it will hit exports of its Jute and coir goods produced mainly by poor in villages. India, the largest jute exporter after Bangladesh, sells Jute goods abroad worth more than three billion rupees a
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    • 599 4 UPI COMMUNIST CHINA'S leaders in the 21st century will come from a generation of arrogant, undisciplined, fat and lazy only children known to their doting parents and anxious Chinese sociologists as "little emperors". "If I spank my son, my neighbours shout at me," complained
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    • 397 4 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION is ready to reconsider China's position on a protracted dispute over the demarcation of their border along two rivers in north-east Asia, a deputy foreign minister has said. Mr Mikhail Kapitsa said Moscow was prepared to recognise that the
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    • 174 4 Reuter SOVIET urban planners have drafted a national programme aimed at slowing the growth of major cities and developing Siberia and the country's East Asian regions. The official news agency Tass reported on Wednesday the plan would have its greatest impact
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    • 136 4 Reuter HUNDREDS of thousands of rare storks, cranes and swans have been slaughtered at an eastern China bird sanctuary after police Issued illegal hunting licences, the China Daily said yesterday. The newspaper said police in Jiangxi province defied a government ban to issue the permits
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    • 362 4 FT THREE public corporations in Sri Lanka will be wound up this week and liquidators appointed in a major move in the government's long-delayed plan for privatisation. In spite of strong opposition protests over lay-offs, Parliament approved on Wednesday the closing
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 339 5 Reuter SOUTH AFRICA has begun slowing the flow of exports from Zambia and Zimbabwe through the key border crossing at Beit Bridge following the two black states' campaign for sanctions against Pretoria. Local freight agents said that since last Monday, lorries and
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    • 225 5 Reuter FRENCH Trade Minister Michel Noir expects the new round of global trade talks to be launched in Uruguay next month to be difficult. Mr Noir, who is to head France's delegation at the meeting of the 91-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and
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    • 409 5 lEA report says Opeo accord will not affect estimates Reuter OIL CONSUMPTION in the Western world is likely to rise by 2.7 per cent during 1966, held in check by slower than expected economic growth, says the International Energy Agency (lEA) in its
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    • 215 5 Reuter CUBA has promised to clear arrears of up to one month on its short-term commercial debt to Western creditors shortly, but has given no deadline for doing so, according to business and diplomatic sources. "There is no official policy of not paying their
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    • 76 5 Reuter ARGENTINA last month «offered the largest Jump in inflation since it launched a tough anti-inflation plan Just over a year ago. The National Statistics Institute in Boenos Aires said the J Jump in pricea also pushed the IMS inflation rate over the 28 per cent
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    • 168 5 AFP SOUTH AFRICA'S Trade k Industry Minister, Dawie de Villiers, said his government might move to curb information on its global trade as sanctions campaign against his country grew. Mr De Villers was speaking on Wednesday at a meeting of sugar cane growers at
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    • 201 5 AP WASHINGTON opposed the sanctions the Commonwealth nations imposed against South Africa as well as South Africa's response, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said on Wednesday. "We don't like sanctions, no matter where they come from," Mr Speakes said. "We regret that punitive economic
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    • 119 5 AFP SWAZILAND would rather leave the Commonwealth than be pressed into "economic suicide" by supporting sanctions against South Africa, the South Africn Press Association (Sapa) reported on Wednesday. Sapa quoted a "reliable senior Swazi government source" who was commenting on the decision on Monday by
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    • 186 5 Reuter THE DUTCH may one day wear clothes made from milk if work at the Dutch Institute for Dairy Research (Nizo) is successful. Mounting pressure to find ways of disposing of huge European milk surpluses has spurred Nizo director Dr Wim Aalbersberg to
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    • 427 5 FT THE FRUITS of the Brazilian government's radical economic adjustment programme were revealed on Wednesday in new figures showing growth in industrial output of 12 per cent in the first six months against the same period last year. Exports from Brazil also boomed leaving shortages of
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 21 5 Doonesbury UM...HOUJAMI6OtN6TOFfTALL THAT IN AROUND A FULL OA/ AT TfeOFHCBT iA&cwsetfTHATBVBVPm. rrsNor&Pt.m 75R6ET5TAKI&). m V >ioi m y- BY GARRY TRUDEAU
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  • TECHNOLOGY
    • BITS & BYTES
      • 178 6 Japan Economic Journal ONCE it was Junk mail. Now it is junk telephone calls by sales organisations. Or is the problem obscene calls? Sony Corporation has the answer. It is marketing a new telephone with a "reverse transmitting (unction". This records the voice
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      • 96 6 AN ESKIMO GIRL living in a village near the Arctic Circle is receiving a college-lev-el education from the University of Alaska 1,000 km away through a home computer and Learn laska, the world's most geographically extensive electronic educational system. The system, supplement- Ed by one-way
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      • 87 6 SCIENTISTS in the US Department of Agriculture are developing fabrics that warm people when they are cold and cool them when they are hot Fabrics treated with a class of chemicals called Peg, or polyethylene glycols, are found to be able to store heat when
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    • 807 6 IMAGINE having two fast-work-ing, tireless employees who could produce massive amounts of information rapidly, but one understood only Mandarin, while the other was fluent only in Malay. The problems resulting from the impossibility of communication between the two are obvious. But this is the sort
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    • 324 6 "CHEAP and practical" is not a description that applies to many new high-technology products. But for Image Data Corporation of Texas, it is the key to a strategy of providing the advantages of videotelephone technology at a price and performance level of broad
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    • 255 6 UPI AN international group of scientists investigating the causes of childhood brain tumours is checking out whether chemicals found in mothers' cosmetics are linked to the disease. The epidemiological study, coordinated by a University of Southern California researcher, is the largest ever on the
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 316 6 RAS prices •■Sceets/I ratal iotes MOO M CLOSE Int 1 RSS Prompt 176.50 S4m 177.50N 176.00 177.00N Int I RSS Sept 86 176.25 176.75 175.50 176 00 Int 1 RSS Oct 86 175 75 176.25 175.00 175.50 Int 2 RSS O P 172 00 I74.00N 171.50 173.50N
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    • 101 6 SSR and SMR MR (c«AttAg, l-»o« poltets) j|pj g£ OCT 86 (currant month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Bortn SS«ller» SSR 20 ***** 163.OON ***** J 63 50N SSR 50 158 00 160 OON 158 50 160 50N MRELB krM SMR CV 237 50 239 50N 238 50 240 50N
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    • 59 6 Reuter THE TIN PBICE the Kaala Lampar Tin MarSlageSTOlC9l"if per Uk m lack at npftrt u4 la eMttiaH dell TM (ell to S4 tNM from St Weteestoy m mliers They said Hgkt activity reflected smmml q«l--(My snail Japanese Mi Ueal iaterests were ket, Miilj a /=L KLTIN 233)^"**"
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    • 64 6 Bangkok Broken Rice (US$/twiM, FOB) A-l Super A-1 Special 130 127 Whit* Rice C-l Special C-1 Ord unq unq 100% 1st doss 100% 2nd class 230 Loonzoin Rice 100% 3rd class 225 100% 1st grade 100% 2nd grade 22! 5% 215 100% 3rd grode unq 10% 210 15% 205
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    • 102 6 OIL PRODUCTS CRUDES edged higher in late US trade. In the Far East products market, all grades were marked higher but levels were still difficult to assess in thin trade. Strongest gains were seen for naphtha on the back of Japanese demand. Closing prices for crude (fob origin) US$/borrel Change
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    • 301 6 §IQAPOWr THE MARKET yesterday closed slightly lower with September One RSS buyer* quoted at 175 JO cents per kilo, down one cent from Wednesday. The morning session lost OJS on lack at interest in quiet trading. Prices eased further in thin afternoon trading on prof-it-taking and absence of buying
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    • 231 6 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday closed mixed on late covering interest after falling initially in sympathy with continued weakness in Chicago soyoil futures, dealers said. India's presence in the market at its weekly palm oil tender aided sentiment, but trading was thin and cautious as operators preferred
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    • 193 6 Reuter WHEAT FUTURES on Wednesday were higher at the close of a featureless session, climbing 3-1/4 to 1/2 cents a bushel amid low volume trade on the Chicago Board of Trade. Prices recovered from early weakness, but traders said there was little news to support prices. Traders said the
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    • 607 6 Reuter COFFEE ROBUSTA COFFEE on Wednesday futures closed firm after a small rally, recovering from morning lows on the initial firmness of the New York market. Contracts closed £8 to £30 higher, but Wednesday's movements were mainly technical In the continued absence of fresh news to provide a
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    • 141 6 Chineee Produce Exchange Sellers' noon dosing pricot on A*< 7 (SS/100 kg). Coconut oil Bufc FOB 43.00 CHd drum FOB 56.00 New drum FOB 60.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 21 buyers Pepper Muntok White FOB NLW 1167.50 Sorawok White FOB foq NLW 1152.50 Sarawak special block FOB NLW 852.50
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    • 187 6 SOYBEAN futures on Wednesday were narrowly mixed at the close of a quiet session on the Chicago Board of Trade, ranging one US cent lower to 2-1/2 cents higher. Prices remained under pressure from excellent crop conditions in the midwest and rain in the Mississippi delta, where the crop
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    • 194 7 c INCOLN NATIONAL THOUGHT SOME OF THEIR PAPERWORK J WAS A WASTE OF TIME. THEY USED PRIME TO CLEAR THEIR DESKS. Lincoln National is one of America's largest financial services corporations. You can imagine the amount of paperwork this entails. Back in 1977, before Prime, their offices were positively Dickensian.
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  • FEATURES
    • 471 8 WITH ITS DECISION to uphold President Reagan's veto of the protectionist Jenkins Bill, the United States' House of Representatives has renewed America's long cherished commitment to free trade. But it was an extremely thin margin of victory for those fighting to keep the world's
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    • 1601 8  -  The idea of a hospitable city depends on a delicate mix of activities and facilities. Together, they help make people feel "at home". Professor Arnold Koerte, German architect and urban planner, talks to MONICA GWEE about the role of the planner and what makes a
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    • 455 8 Letter to the Editor Dear Sr, I refer to the article by Elaine Koh in the 16th June, 1986, issue of Business Times on the dividing line between local and foreign lawyers. I am aware that as early as 1979,
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 433 9 AP TOP-SEEDED Ivan Lendl moved into the third round of the U*****,000 Volvo International tennis tournament in Vermont on Wednesday, crushing South Africa's Barry Moir 6-1, 6-2. But ninth-seeded Johan Kriek, of the United States, a semi-finalist at the French
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    • 230 9 Reuter PAT EDDERY, four times champion Jockey in England, has been released from his retainer with Irish trainer Vincent O'Brien, and is to ride for Saudi Arabian Prince Khalid Abdullah. His new contract with the Prince is for three years and covers riding
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    • 409 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS FOR THE FIRST TIME in three years, Mahader Hassan and Albert Teo are not expected to meet in the finals of the Pesta Sukan national tennis championship. When the seedings committee met late last night to rank the players (or the championship,
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    • 351 9 AP GREG NORMAN, the outstanding player in golf for the past few months, and Tom Watson, hungry for a place of history, were the principal figures who went into yesterday's start of the 68th American PGA national championship in Ohio. "He could
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    • 257 9 AP NANCY LOPEZ ended her ■ev-en-month maternity leave from the LPGA tour yesterday to defend her title in the LPGA Henredon Clinrir goit tournament in North Carolina. Lopez, of the United States, whose husband is New York Mets' third baseman Ray Knight,
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    • 300 9 UPI THREE-TIME record-holder Renaldo Nehemiah came up ■wittiif in his return to track and field after a five-year break as he won his 110-metre hurdle speciality on Wednesday night at the 15th Viareggio International meet in Italy. Nehemiah, who holds the world mark of 12.93 seconds,
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    • 180 9 AFP SUNDAY'S Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix, the first ever in Eastern Europe, will coincide with race number 100 for the reignb* world champion Alain rTOST And the Frenchman, whose last win came in Monaco back in May, goes into the eleventh
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1122 9 PRE-HOUOAY MOVIE star Trek: The Motion Picture 10.10pm, CtIMMMI 5 The aging commanding team members of the USS Enterprise come together again for a roll on the big screen after a long retirement from their TV series. It is the 23rd century, and an awesome intruder has annihilated three powerful
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 288 10 Reuter THE BLOCKING by the UK Monopolies Commission of General Electric Co's £1.2 billion-bid for Plessey Co marks the triumph of a highly competent defence by Plessey but does nothing to help either company decide its future strategy. Share analysts say in GEC's case,
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    • 104 10 Reuter OWENS-CORNING Fiberglas Corp says it has received a merger proposal from Wickes Companies for US$7O per share cash for all outstanding shares. Owens-Corning said chairman and chief executive William Boeschenstein received a telephone call from Wickes chairman Sanford Sigoloff late on Wednesday in
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    • 73 10 Reuter BOOTS, a leading British pharmaceutical and retail chemist company, plans to boost its American presence by buying Flint Laboratories, a drug manufacturing subsidiary of Baxter Travenol Laboratories. Boots said it would fi- nance the US$555-million acquisition by issuing 184.2 million shares at 205p each.
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    • 321 10 Reuter SHARE PRICES on Wall Street drifted through a quiet session to close mixed on Wednesday, as Opec's production curb agreement caused no dramatic spillover. Oil stocks drifted lower. The market's somnolent trading reflected indecision over the US economy and the week's huge Treasury
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    • 207 10 AUG 06 M Tongoot Trust Bk 750 126 +5 -2 50 -1 INDUSTRIALS WooMru 1235 35 A AJpho IIOGB MNGS 260 10 Aaci 1360 10 wn 250 Amoprop AArfIC 390 4900 inch 50 Angvool ***** 2125 inch 90 1840 inch Bufftfc 8600 450 C G Smith 2775 1850 CNA
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 294 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed shandy higher yesterday as heavy demand from overseas institutions and local investors sent the Hang Seng Index to a record high. The index rose 32.35 to 1,920.18, surpassing the peak of 1,906.28 reached on Monday. The Hongkong Index rose 21.30 to 1,196.71. Turnover rose to
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    • 243 11 AUG 07 AM Snari Indus Alto Camont MT 1.95 23.30 30 00 +03 +0.3 Kuochan Oav Lm Chang Yuan Cham Indus Lion Hwo Indus .20.90 26 50 1075 35 30 +0.4 -0.4 +0 15 0 4 Chang hfcro Bank 41.10 23 10 •0.3 +0.7 Nat Investment Trust 347.00 -34.8
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    • 359 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed higher yesterday, propelled by share purchases linked to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp's capital spending plans. The 225-share market average rose 68.88 yen to 17,422.36 after an early afternoon high of 17,473.05. Turnover was a solid 900 million shares against 680 million on Wednesday. The
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    • 75 11 AUG 07 Nw Onantal B Phi Ow«r**o» 0.017 +0004 Phi 0 0012 -0 0002 0 2350 inch 14 13 987 Arloi Con. B 14 unch 168 -3 Gold 0.0012 inch 0 0044 -0 0006 San Mgutl 8 68.50 +1.5 Benguct Con. B 75 +7 Sim* Darby -12 75 0
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    • 431 11 SYDNEY: Australian shares closed higher yesterday in brisk trading with demand (or leading industrials and golds offsetting a generally weaker resources sector. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index was up 10.9 at 1,150.5, the All Industrials Index was up 20.3 at 1,820.2, the All Resources Index was up
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    • 105 11 AUC 07 CM Sugar Doaim knd Daewoo Carp Do* «oo Heovy Dang Ah Phar Dang Siii Stock Dangbu SMal Gold Star WM 1900 575 1499 1445 850 1640 1630 2030 -30 -39 34 3 28 •30 4 31 -9 20 -130 28 Kongo on M Kaa Motor Katon bid
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    • 125 11 Reuter BANGKOK: The Securities Exchange of Thailand Index yesterday improved 0.80 to 141.15. Turnover amounted to 1,134,539 shares valued at 270.6 million baht. AUG 07 1 Ao Khom Thai Mrti Smm Camanr Sam Ota ant Siam CMzara 581 10 Ayudhyo Bangkok Aground Bangkok Bank bonk Of Ayudhya Charoong Thai
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    • 54 11 Reuter REMY MARTIN (Far East), a unit of E Remy-Mar-tin Et Cie SA, has asked the Hongkong Stock Exchange to suspend trading in its shares. It gave no reason for the request but said an announcement would be made. Analysts noted speculation that Remy Martin may be
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    • 224 11 UPI TOSHIBA CORP, a major Japanese electronics company, plans to expand its worldwide network of large-scale integrated circuit design centres to meet rapidly growing demand (or application specific ICs. The company said yesterday it plans to set up new centres in Europe
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    • 139 11 Reuter EXXON CORP UNIT, Esso Exploration and Production Inc and its 50/50 partner, Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd, plan to develop the Bream oil field in Bass Strait at a cost of about US$325 million. Bream, the smallest oilfield yet to be developed
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    • 95 11 AFP THREE MULTINATIONAL electronics giants have struck a trilateral agreement to pool their talents in the development of semi-custom integrated circuits. Toshiba Corp, the US-based General Electric and West Germany's Siemens will develop standard cell libraries for manufacturing semiconductors which meet indus- trial customers' specifications,
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 268 12 MBT THE RECENT RAID by Bank Negara on the 14,000-member Koperasi Bella Bersatu (KBB) triggered off a spate of withdrawals from cooperatives throughout the country over the past two weeks. Cooperative officials said the raid created a panic situation among depositors resulting in withdrawals
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    • 225 12 Reuter FIRST BANGKOK City Bank Ltd is studying offers from one American and two Japanese banks to take up 25 per cent of its new capital. The bank's managing director said in Bangkok on Wednesday that Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co, Tokai Bank
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    • 631 12 Reuter JAPANESE investors bought US$3 billion to US$4 billion of 10-year US Treasury notes at Wednesday's auction and were likely to buy about the same amount of 30-year bonds at yesterday's sale, dealers in New York said. Japanese demand at
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    • 890 12 Reuter SINGAPORE THE US dollar yesterday lost further ground against most major currencies on selling interest in moderate trading, but strengthened against sterling. It ended lower at 153.50/60 yen compared with an early 153.70/80 and New York's 153.95/154.06 close. Some dealers said Bank of Japan was believed to
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    • 486 12 EURODOLLAR futures yesterday opened unchanged from Chicago's closing levels but came under some selling pressure by mid-morning as market participants were sceptical about the success of the 30year US treasury auction last night. The result for the 10-year auction on Wednesday was mixed with lower lower than expected overseas
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    • 215 12 Interbank rotes at 3pm yester day: CMrrmciH MomM rmm Mmmmii Local dollars to Md Odor ci rooo pertly CM ona uiift of *o r e«or currency US dolor 2-1715 2 1725 2 8196 -22.99 Sterkng pound ***** ***** 7 3469 -56 32 Auifrafcon dolor 1 3267 1 3295
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    • 273 12 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed firmer but well below the day's highs because of end-morning profit-taking, dealers said. Sentiment was bullish throughout the day because of the continued weakness of the US dollar and the sharp rise in platinum prices abroad, they added. The bullion price ended at US$36l JO/60
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    • 62 12 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market closed at 4-7/16 per cent yesterday, up 3/16 point from Wednesday's close. The term rates remained unchanged across the board. InTtfDOnik rOTGS ot 7pm ytst«rday: OHw M r*ght 4 7/16 4 5/16 1-month 4 3/8 4 1/4 2-month 4
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    • 395 12 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at opening levels in quiet trading, dealers said. They said most operators were sidelined due to the absence of fresh factors with Wednesday's good interest in the US Treasury auction of US$9.5 billion of 10-year notes having little impact. Short-dates
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    • 1102 12 NOTICES TWC TRADING PfOVKTE LIMITED fin Voiufltiry Wlndlo^Upl NOTICE IS HEREBY OVEN M at an Extraordinary General Meeting of TWC TRADING PRIVATE LIMITED duly comcned and held at 36 Robinson Road. #06-01/02 City House. Singapore 010b. on 4 August. 1966 ite Mowing resolutions were duly SPECIAL RESOLUTION That the Company
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    • 157 12 TAN YEW BENG CO PTE LTD (taNnkmViMuj Wlifcl Up) NOTICE or PINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Chapter 185 the final meeting of the members of the Company will be held at 10 Anson Road #23-088, International Plaza, Singapore 0207 on
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4079 13 SELECTIVE NIBBLING of shares at lower levels yesterday helped prop up the local stock market which otherwise would have lost more ground. Trading was generally quiet and total turnover slowed down sharply to 9.8 million shares worth (24.4 million compared with the previous
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    • 243 13 SINGAPORE C K Tm UUM MHW •■■■i ifo- Iml 1 C B inhi FAN D > S 1 C S T«Mk Cm Sw Dwfcr T«a» Mmg Ft!?""" How Far Qmm M RisM 240 306 392 368 330 770 710 570 tf 160 50« 143 140 428 314
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    • 2811 13 BID and offer price* officially lilted aad liuslnsai in ud reported to the Stock Exchange o( Singapore yesterday with the ■mif at shares traded shown in brackets in lota of 1,000 units iiaVrai otherwiae specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are Ced after the word "SETT'.
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 548 14 Prospects for commodities expected to be poor MBT WITH commodity prices expected to be lacklustre for the rest of this year, Harrisons Malaysian Plantations has embarked on various strategies to improve its earnings, including plans to diversify into the property sector. HMP chairman Tun Ismail Ali
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    • 1876 14 BID and offer price* 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. MDUSnttLS A c»e (160S) xd Ajieewen (3005) xd Aicam (7
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    • 70 14 QAF Limited: AGM in the Conference Room, 230B Pandan Loop, Singapore 0612, on Monday, August 11, at 11am. BUK1T SEMBAWANG ESTATES Limited: 20th AGM at 19th Floor, OCBC Centre, Chulia Street, Singapore 0104, on Friday, August 15, at noon. INTERNATIONAL TRU8T FINANCE UriM: 18th AGM at the Conference
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    • 214 14 MBT EMTEX CORPORATION la putting its inuyc ly development plans on the beck burner. In view of the soft market, the group hat decided to put off plans to develop its land until the market shows signs of recovery.
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    • 148 14 MBT ANTAH Holdings Bhd, the Negri Sembtian royal family-con-trolled public company, l> keen to have at least a 90 per cent stake in a bank, according to its managing director, Tunku Imran ibni Tuaaku Ja'afar. "Anything more would depend on the price
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    • 454 14 LISTLESS TRADING conditions prevailed at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday with share prices closing on an easier note. With investors staying away on the sidelines, trading volume dwindled to only 5.06 million units valued at MfBJ7 million, from Wednesday's 7.57 million shares worth MH0.77 million.
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    • 104 14 HONGKONG AN liidwilri ots 1820.2 1799.9 1788.3 Hongkong Index Thursday 1196.71 Wednesday 1175.41 Thursday Wednesday Week ogo Week ogo 1158.35 NEW YOtK Hong Song Indox Dow JOM n Thursday 1920.18* Wednesday 1887.83 Week ogo 1855.46 Wednesday Tuesday Week ogo 1779.53 1777.00 1779.39 TOKYO Standard 4 Poors 236.84 237.03
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    • 248 14 Monojtrs prices Mono Bn liputf a tor Aug 0 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 0 83 0 89 The Sovmgs Fund 0.74 0 80 S'porc Prog Fund 0 34 0.38 S'pore Sec Fund 0 57 *0.62 S'pore Invest Fund 0 55 0 60 S'pore Equity Fund 0.41 0
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    • 504 15 um mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW LOCAL INDUSTRIALIST Jack Chiarapurk has proven how wily a stock market trader he can be. In early June, he caused a stir in the market when he announced that he had raised his stake
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    • 463 15 Bhd on June 30 but remains as a director. IN REPLY to a KLSE query, A astral Enterprises Bhd said the exact quantum of the reimbursable expenses of its proposed acquisition of 1,821 hectares of agricultural land in Lipis, Pahang, could not be determined at this juncture. It
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    • 356 15  -  By AMY CHEOK LIM KAH NGAM LTD, the construction and hotel group, has boosted its profits in the first six months of this year. But in spite of the improvement, LKN shareholders will again be going home emp-ty-handed. Since its
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    • 220 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE FOOD-BASED Cerebos Pacific group now owns a majority 70 per cent stake (from 50.06 per cent) in Auckland-listed Cerebos Greggs Ltd, following full acceptance to its NZ$6 million cash takeover offer announced two months ago. As a result, Cerebos's earnings per share
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    • 510 15  -  By HOMER CHEN THE CHANCES of the suspension of trading of Supreme Corp and Grand United Holdings being lifted next week are good now that Malaysian businessman/politician Tan Koon Swan has concluded an agreement with three Singapore brokers over a portion of the $100
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    • 391 15  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN CREDITOR BANKS of troubled Van der Horst are unlikely to make any decision regarding the company until the financial report being prepared by international accountants Ernst k Whinney is ready sometime towards the end of this month.
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    • 564 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM WEDNESDAY, AUG 6, is a memorable day for the chairman of Jack Chia-MPH, Mr Jack Chia, and Malayan Credit, the joint tenants of the controversial seventh floor of Malayan Credit House in Somerset Road. After more than six years
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    • 866 15 SHARE PRICES opened quietly easier yesterday with losses initially limited to some extent by encouraging nine-month results from BOC Group, up 2p to 309. At 0605 GMT, the FTSE 100 Index was three points lower at 1,537.4. On the previous day, the FTSE 30 Index closed at 1233.7,
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    • 1712 14 NOTICES gr? mm Tf 1. LA PUXU PTE. LID. (CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of LA PIAZZA PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at 593 Havelock Road, Teck Huat Chambers #02-01, Singapore 0316 on the 31st day of July, 1906 the following Special Resolutions
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    • 229 14 .1. mhmbh w 'A < i s <*r •Y uklator of the Company to conduct the said wlndlnc up and that he be Indemnified by the Company against all costs, charges and expenses incurred or sustained by him In the execution and discharge of his duty In connection with the
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    • 64 15 BT helps you increase productivity BT, Singapore's biggest business daily has a weekly page devoted to training and development to keep Singapore ahead in the economic race. Every Wednesday, BT brings news of the latest techniques and developments in training, productivity and acquisition of skills. Our comprehensive coverage on "Training
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  • 418 16  -  By LOH HUI YIN WHATEVER their portfolio, Singapore ministers now do not go abroad without first being briefed on the bilateral economic issues of the country they are visiting. This follows Foreign Minister S Dhanabalan's statement in Parliament earlier this year that his ministry
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  • 389 16 Proposed ruling on company secretaries may pose burden A WARNING has been sounded that the stipulation under the Companies (Amendment) Bill 1986 that a company must employ a qualified person to be a company secretary could pose a financial burden to small and medium-sized businesses.
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  • 470 16 INSURANCE COMPANIES that deliberately wait until the eleventh hour before agreeing to settle accident claims will be shown no sympathy by the courts, warned Mr Justice A P Rajah yesterday. He said insurance companies have been known to dispute liability deliberately in
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  • 158 16 Reuter KADIN, Indonesia's Chamber of Commerce A Industry, has urged the government to cut interest rates immediately to stimulate the economy, which has been depressed by falling oil prices. Kadin chairman Sukamdani Gitosarjono told the official Antara news agency that a cut in
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  • 84 16 AFP TAIWAN is likely to drop its duty-paying tables, as called for in a 1979 agreement with the US which was aimed at reducing customs duties. The controversial tables are used to calculate import duties on an assigned value instead of the actual
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  • 579 16  -  By SOH TIANG KENG, Financial Correspondent ANOTHER INDICATION that Singapore lias seen the worst of the recession came yesterday in a report from the Overseas Union Bank. It supported the views of the US Embassy, released on Wednesday, that the recession has bottomed out
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  • 362 16 Reuter THE REAGAN administration has unveiled an optimistic (orecast (or the economy, predicting a 3.2 per cent expansion this year that would speed up to a robust 4.2 per cent in 1987. The overall forecast for 1906 was pared back from the 4
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  • 106 16 Reuter COMEX gold futures yesterday gained more than US$2 on sympathetic buying from a strong platinum market before giving back most of their gains on a lack of follow-through support in the first hour. Gold for December advanced 70 US cents at US$B9 JO an ounce
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  • 60 16 Reuter WALL STREET stocks edged lower in quiet, cautious trading early yesterday. Investors were less concerned over the possible impact of this week's Opec production agreement, as trading in oil futures stabilised. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down three points at 1777. Declines led advances by
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  • LATE FILE
    • 64 16 AP SUMITOMO BANK LTD., Japan's third-largest city bank, has agreed in principle to invest about US$5OO million in Goldman Sachs and Co., a leading US investment bank based in New York. A Sumitomo statement yesterday said its participation ratio to expected profits of the
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    • 47 16 UPI THE BANK OF CHINA announced yesterday that it was amending its foreign exchange loan policy to favour Sino-foreign Joint ventures. Bank president Wang Deyan said that technology-inten-sive firms and enterprises manufacturing goods for export would receive priority for loans. UPI
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    • 48 16 Reuter FOREIGN tourists buying tickets abroad can now get discount» of up to 50 per cent on Indonesia's Garuda airline (or certain holiday destinations. Tourists from Singapore and Malaysia can get 50 per cent off (Or viaiting lfedan, Banda Aceh and Padang in Sumatra.
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    • 52 16 Bernama SABAH TIMES may hit the streets again soon i( efforts being made by major dnnholders of its publisher to repay its outstanding debt to the Sabah Development Bank are nccesrfuL Efforts are on to repay the halanre of about *****,000 of a MJI
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    • 32 16 Bernama PHILIPPINES armed forces chief of staff General Fidel Ramos has allayed (ears of a possible military takeover when President Aquino goes abroad on state visits this Bernama
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 99 16 EXPATRIATE COMMENTS ABOUT ARDMORE PARK I NO In our previous apartment we lived three years and didn't meet the neighbours. Here our new found friends, all expat families, made us feel at home as soon as we moved in. Living at Ardmore Park also makes sense. You get a full
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    • 32 16 ORCHARD RT WTI t* m V\ COLLECTION AGENCY 150 Orchard Road, #07-06 Orchard Plaza, Singapore 0923. Tel: *****06. *****74 Name:... Position: Address Please send one of your representatives t to meet me.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 29 16 wnmm. pre-<Jown hours ond ooWy bow* m§. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.jopm on Aug 7 at tho airport: Maximum tamparaturo 31.8 Awiififltid humidity 57 Mmimam tamparaturo 24.7
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 638 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ JOHOR PORT has become the most cost-effective port for handling fertiliser in Southeast Asia. Hie port, located in Pastr Gudang at the southern tip of Peninsula Malaysia now leads all other ports in Malaysia for the import of fertiliser
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    • 216 17 UPI LEADERS OF eight maritime unions in the United States have asked Piesident Reagan to ensure that half the subsidised wheat sales to the Soviet Union and China be transported aboard American Alps. Under a grain subsidy programme,
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    • 175 17 Reuter THE AUSTRALIA to Europe Shipping Conference will raise its currency adjustment factor, CAF, to 26.88 per cent from 21.11 per cent, effective Aug The Australia-Stnga-pore and West Malaysia, the Australia-Thailand yii Australia-Indonesia Outward Shipping Conferences will also lift their CAF to 12.94 per cent
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 87 17 Reuter FOREIGN ORDERS placed with South Korea's shipyards fell to 442,440 gross tons in the first seven months of this year from 014,630 in the same 1965 period, Korea Shipowners' Association figures show. The value of the seven-month orders fell to U*****.96 million from U*****.06
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      • 42 17 JAPAN LINE has contracted with Southern Pacific and Soo Line to operate double stack trains between Los Angeles and Chicago. Overseas reports say the service started in July with cars available on a fixed day every week.
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      • 48 17 Reuter THE AUSTRALIA Northbound Shipping Conference will set a 4.06 per cent bunker surcharge on its Philippines, Hongkong and Taiwan freight rates, effective Sept 4. The surcharge will be merged into new rates effective on the same date, it said in a notice to shippers. Reuter
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    • 1288 18 MORE active chartering was seen, especially in the grain sector, on the London shipping freights market on Wednesday although rates generally held steady. In the grain sector, for example, Dreyfus arranged two cargoes of 52,000 tons from the US Gulf to Japan, one aboard the Orient Enterprise for
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    • 1317 18 Shipping has been a blackspot in the Charguers Group since its formation in 1981. Charguers Reunis has consistently turned in losses while other sectors in the group, except cruising, have surged ahead. Since fleet rationalisation and Job cuts have failed to reverse the fortunes
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    • 162 18 Fairplay THE DECREASE in the stae of the Dutch merrhant fleet was arrested last year. Its toanace. expressed in gross registered tons, decreased slightly by 2 per cent to 3.36 million grt but the actual number of ships Increased by eight to 558 according
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    • 84 18 THE GEORGIA Porta Authority has bought 2,200 acres at land at Savannah to develop iato a second ma)or container terminal complex. Priced at around USHO million, the lot is upriver from its existing container facilities and waa chosen for its acceariblity to rail systems
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    • 900 18 AS Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Afea Line VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner X 1 AC Toepter X 5 Anro Service IV 2/3 Arrow Lines X 4 Atlas Line X 3 ANL 1 1/2 APC Lm« V 4 APL i 2/3 ASCL i 1 Bait-Canada Line
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    • 175 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang shipping ANRO(STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Djakarta
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    • 407 19 UPI THE IRAN-IRAQ Gulf war is taking a sharply increasing toll of sailors and their ship 6 in the region, with more attacks so far this year than in all of 1965, a Lloyds List spokesman said on Wednesday. Nearly 50 ships have
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    • 433 19 AFP THE 500-TON Danish-registered freighter PLi Vesta, suspected of arms running, has been held in Panama for over two months and there are few signs of it leaving in the near future. The Panama customs believe that the freighter was involved
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    • 213 19  -  By Kingsley Wood JAPAN, AUSTRALIA'S traditional market for coal, is going to be less important in the next 10 years. South Korea, Taiwan and other Asian trade areas are likely to become the major markets for both coal and iron ore
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    • 344 19 Aug 26-29 Offshore Northern Seas, offshore technology conference and exhibition, Stavanger, Oslo. Aug 27-29 Towards an efficient port industry, Lloyd's of London Press international maritime seminar, The Berners Hotel, London Wl. Sept 3-4 Prospects of maritime cooperation in Europe. International conference organised by AGPOL and co-sponsored by Lloyd's
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    • 121 19 Reuters TAMIL SEPARATISTS on Wednesday blew up a jetty in the main east coast port of Trincomalee damaging cars and boats, security sources in Colombo said. The sources said about 30 guerrillas tied up five watchmen and set off explosives at Mud Cove Jetty in
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    • 7079 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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    • 837 25 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES MARINA WHARVES VmmI KEPPEL WHARVES B'tong Serio Hoog Eng Jenhol Ned Wissekerk Qtnghecheng SD Estero Stroits Pride Sun Hope Equator 4 La Rioja Lavender Ned Madras Ned San Juan Shoun Nectar Trop'l Marina Berth Arrival K25W alongside K11 alongside K22 alongside K9 alongside K15
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