The Business Times, 20 August 1986

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M-C. (P) No. 192/12/85 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 198« 75 CENTS
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  • 477 1  -  Four appointments as Asian-Pacific profits plunge By RAY HEATH AFTER COMING to the rescue of the London-based Standard Chartered Bank when it was under siege from rivals Lloyds Bank earlier this year, local hotelier and finance man Khoo Teck Puat has joined the board. He
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  • 231 1 OSCAR Joseph Oliveiro, 50, from the Union of the Telecoms Employees of Singapore (UTES) was yesterday elected the new National Trades Union Congress president. He succeeds Mr George Chua Poh Choon who died suddenly on July 27. An active union member since the *****,
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  • 191 1 AP POWERED by strong exports and brisk investment in plant facilities, South Korea's gross national product in the first half of this year grew by 10.9 per cent in real terms, compared with 4.3 per cent in the same period of 1965,
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  • 485 1 TRAVENOL Laboratories Pte Ltd's $25 million new production wing will not only add new items to the product line and increase turnover by 50 per cent when it starts operating next year. The company will also become the American corporation's largest overseas plant.
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  • 200 1 Reuter, AP THE LABOUR government handed down Australia's toughest budget in 20 years yesterday slashing billions of dollars off public spending. Welfare, health, education, defence and foreign aid were all hit with cuts that Treasurer Paul Keating said would trim As 3
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 390 1  -  By MONICA GWEE WHEN ADVERTISING executive Mr Neil French joined Batey Ads in May as its creative director, it seemed be had found a new platform for his talents. But it has turned out to be a trampoline. He was expected to beef
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  • 494 1  -  •y SON HANG KENG, Financial Correspondent THE SINGAPORE DOLLAR yesterday bucked the general trend in the foreign exchange market, strengthening against the US dollar while major currencies lost ground against the greenback. The US currency slipped to 2.1525 against the local currency yesterday
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  • 123 1 AP GOLD PRICES took another sharp tumble in early European trading yesterday in a second straight day of decline after last week's surge. The dollar rose against mo6t major currencies. Gold opened in London at a bid price of U*****.75 a troy ounce, sharply down on
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 227 1 Wm s-s 1 1 I OUR VIEW THE SHRINKING POPULATION is o matter for concern. But the committee that's going to study how best to get educated Singaporeans to make more babies should be wary of overly-deterministic schemes. These can have on impact which the individual and society may later
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    • 234 1 &"<_;-~,_."]`{"]@!?-]_\?=^>&$<% The International Health Plan A complete mescal expenses and worldwide medical assistance package intended primarily for expatriates of all nationalities and their families Unlimited cover for all major medical expenses Worldwide cover including emergency medical transportation and air ambulance 24-hour Emergency Medical Assistance Service Worldwide Fast efficient worldwide claims
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    • 6 1 August 26-29,1986 World Trade Centre, Singapore
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 196 2 IZI It's official Northwest Airlines is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major U.S. carrier, Republic Airlines. As a result, Northwest becomes one of the world's largest airlines. And with greater resources, we are in a position to serve you even better. This US$BOO million investment means more than
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 293 3 THE TRADE Development Board has paid out $2.3 million in grants to subsidise local companies' export-oriented projects under the Market Development Assistance Scheme. To date, TDB has supported 236 projects under the scheme since last September, when it was introduced. The grants were
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    • 428 3  -  By JEFFREY TSANG LOCAL computer expertise has reached such a high level that Hewlett Packard Singapore has begun to "export" its engineering and managerial talent to other subsidiaries in the region. A dozen HP managers have been sent to China to lead the management team
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    • 345 3 MOTORISTS who haggle and give weak excuses to lower parking fines will no longer have a ready ear for their woes. From Sep 1, parking and other fines for traffic offences issued by the Housing and Development Board and
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    • 481 3  -  By MONICA GWEE MORE REASONS to have more babies came from the Minister for Communications k Information Dr Yeo Ning Hong yesterday. Besides the better known arguments for the effects of a declining birth-rate on the workforce and the economy, Dr Yeo also touched
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    • 324 3 THE SINGAPORE Fire Service will start to survey every structural fire it attends to gauge the level of the public's fire safety consciousness. The survey will cover the reaction of occupants on the discovery of a fire and their attempts to extinguish the fire.
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    • 241 3 JULY PRICES of food, clothing, housing and transport were about 2 per cent to 6 per cent cheaper than they were a year ago. Showing the sixth monthly decline this year, the July Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 101.9 was 2.3 per cent lower than
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 348 4 Reuter THE REAGAN Administration has appealed directly to Japan as the world's number two economic power for help in reducing mounting protectionist pressures in the US. In a message to Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari, Treasury Secretary James Baker and Secretary of State George Shultz
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    • 209 4 Reuter THE OPERATING rate of US factories, mines and utilities fell to 78.2 per cent of capacity in July as all three industrial sectors suffered declines, according to the Federal Reserve Board. In June, industries operated at a revised 78.4 per cent
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    • 406 4 Reuter OPEC COUNTRIES say they will strictly adhere to their agreement to cut oil production during the next two months, but many analysts question their ability to bolster the oil market in the long term. All 13 members of the Organisation of
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    • 195 4 UPI MORE THAN 10 million people in China have been lifted above the poverty line since 1961, but another 60 million still earn less than US$4O a year, the official China Daily newspaper has reported. In a bid to raise incomes, barren land
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    • 355 4 AP FUTURE PRICE increases are an inevitable part of China's reforms, but can be prevented from getting too high, according to an official magazine. China's price structure has been seriously distorted and prices for some products such as farm goods, housing and transportation have been
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    • 100 4 AP PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino has donated her monthly pay cheque of 7,910 pesos (US$3B5) to a group raising money for victims of tuberculosis, one of the country's top killer diseases. Mrs Aquino announced the donation on Monday in a speech at a fund-raising campaign of
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    • 186 4 AP PAKISTANI opposition leaders yesterday called (or more demonstrations against President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq ss the death tell from clashes with police rose to 19. Nine people were killed and dozens injured in clashes between riot police and opposition supporters on Monday after
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    • 128 4 UPI MORE THAN 300 fired workers who seized the world's biggest offshore natural gas drilling rig ended their fourday occupation yesterday with an agreement that reinstates most of the employees. The siege ended when officials of the West Australian state government landed on the
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 158 4 THE VIIV I N SINGAPORE The most breathtaking views in Asia, from the Westin Stamford, the tallest hotel in the world Plus the widest selection ol restaurants anywhere in Singapore. Six superb tennis courts and tour air-conditioned squash courts. Iwo swimming pools, plus a comprehensive health and fitness centre. Luxuriouslv
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    • 222 4 Whywe spent millions of dollars developing something people throw away It's often the products we use everyday for mundane things like throwing out garbage that take years and millions of dollars to develop. Most people only think about garbage bags when they don't have one, we think about them all
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 313 5 UPI AN "AVALANCHE of protectionism" in industrialised countries is affecting half of all Latin American exports, the head of a 25-nation economic group has said. "Our region faces the difficult problem of foreign debt, and on top of that there is now an
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    • 283 5 Reuter A UNITED NATIONS panel is recommending an overall 15 per cent cut in the organisation's 11,000-person staff, with an even deeper reduction in top-level posts, the group's chairman has said. Tom Vraalsen, Norway's UN ambassador, said this was one of the main
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    • 542 5 A good plan coming at a bad time, say businessmen AFP THE TAX REFORM package worked out by a House-Senate panel over the weekend could have a devastating impact on the capacity of US industry to confront competition from foreign companies, businessmen and economists have
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    • 203 5 AP THE US nuclear weapons industry produces radioactive waste (aster than it can safely dispose of it, and cleaning up the polluted wells, leaking barrels and dump sites could cost billions of dollars, a newspaper says. The federal Energy Department is spending
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    • 513 5 Agencies SOVIET LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev's announcement on Monday that the Soviet Union was continuing its year-long halt of underground nuclear testing until Jan 1 next year has drawn a negative response. Some diplomats believed that the extension amounts to nothing more than a public
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    • 248 5 UPI THOUGH private American industry has been given the green light to launch commercial satellites, the first lift-off is still about three years away, US Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole says. At a news conference in Washington on Monday, she said the
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    • 252 5 UPI THE DEANS of some of America's most distinguished medical schools, citing the "severe and widespread" dangers of alcohol, are urging that warning labels be placed on all alcoholic drink containers. In a letter to Congress, deans of 33 medical and public health schools,
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 380 5 A TWO-DAY COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW BY EXPERTS ON SINGAPORE, SOUTH EAST ASIA AND PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA LAS CONFERENCE INVESTMENT ANn^— LEASING POTENTIAL DIRECTION SPONSORED BY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD. SINGAPORE CO-SPONSORED BY ASIAN LEASING ASSOCIATION 0830 Registration 0900 Welcome Address Mr Au Eng Fong Chairman Conference Organising Committee 0910 Opening
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

  • TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
    • 789 6  -  A plan mooted two months ago by the Singapore Professional Centre to encourage professionals to continue to improve their education and knowledge through further studies, has already received support from 11 professional associations, reports ELAINE KOH. ELAINE KOH THE CURRENT MOVE to recognise the
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    • 413 6 [Seminars and r Tet *****13 TbcRS ***** courses MB Fax: *****66 DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER TELEPHONE Sep 1 Preparing Yourself for Shangri-La Hotel AGS Management *****90 the China Market Consultants Pte Ltd Sep 1-26 0C Circle Facilitator National National *****34 Course Productivity Board Productivity Board Sep 2 Manufacturing
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    • 635 6  -  By TSANG SAU YIN, ManagMiwt Correspondent THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTE of Management is, for the first time, offering an undergraduate degree course in management studies to students in Singapore. The Bachelor of Science (Economics) in Management Studies awarded by the University of London is
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    • 254 6 THE LATEST EDITION of the National Training Directory lists a total of 156 programmes nearly three times the 55 listed in the first edition published last year. New subjects covered by the courses offered by 21 training institutions are banking and finance, consultancy training, productivity
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 225 6 IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC SERVICES ON ASIA-PACIFIC BANKING 29 30 Sep 1986 SINGAPORE In the Asia-Pacific region, exciting developments are taking place in the move towards greater banking sophistication. Enhanced technology and enormous funds are being committed to upgrading existing systems and to pilot projects. What will the impact of electronic
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    • 298 6 Slpm SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (A not-for-profit organisation) Diploma in Personnel Management 4th Intake OBJECTIVE The objective of the diploma program is to provide a grounding in Personnel Management in a business enterprise. At the end of the program, the participant would have acquired an indepth knowledge of personnel
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 801 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed mixed yesterday compared with New York's levels after recovering marginally against major currencies except sterling in thin late trading. The dollar firmed largely on some European short-covering ahead of the release of revised second quarter real US GNP data. Market speculation that the
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    • 217 7 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Md Odor c rooo parity Chtngi Local dollars to ana ufwt of foreign Qlffffigf US dolor '2.1535 2 1545 2.8196 -2362 Sterling pound ***** 3 2102 7.3469 -56 36 Australian dolor 1.3556 1 3584 ***** -60 46 NZ dotar 1 0864 1 0890
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    • 435 7 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures gapped up strongly at yesterday's opening as the market reacted to a newspaper report that the US was seeking coordinate discount rate cut with Japan to avoid further dollar decline. December Eurodollar opened five ticks higher at 93.87 but encountered heavy resistance at this level.
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    • 275 7 HONGKONG: The metal closed lower yesterday in moderate trading under pressure from stoploss selling after a sharp fall in New York on Monday. Swiss interests and local speculators pushed the metal lower from its easy opening but short-covering emerged in the afternoon to lift it off its lows. Bullion
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    • 349 7 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Dealers said most operators were sidelined in the absence of fresh factors and ahead of the release of revised US second quarter gross national product data. The market generally expected the GNP data
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    • Article, Illustration
      141 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market closed at 3-3/4 per cent yesterday, up 1/8 point from Monday's close. The one-month term rate was unchanged while the two and three-month rates rose by 1/16 point each. Mates tht mraft af Km prim Mtaf rates af 12
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    • 596 7  -  By FLORENCE CHONG THE WEST AUSTRALIAN government is proposing to set up an insurance exchange a "small version" of the London-based Lloyds insurance market in Perth next year. It will be the first insurance exchange outside the United Kingdom and North America. Announcing
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 316 7 Standard Chartered international Wherever in the world you are doing business, no one is better placed to help you than today's Standard Chartered. We have eight branches in Singapore specifically attuned to the needs of the international trader Battery Road, Shenton Way, Jalan Besar, Jurong, MacPherson, Pasir Panjang, Selegie Road
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  • FEATURES
    • 520 8 THE COMMITTEE that's going to look at how best to get educated Singaporeans to have more babies will be treading on delicate ground. It's not just a matter of appearing to be peering through the bedroom window. There is a danger of rushing in with overly deterministic schemes
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    • 1186 8  -  Taiwan ranks as Australia's fifth largest foreign market while Australia is a major source of Taiwan's industrial raw materials and foodstuffs. Trade between the two countries is expected to increase within the very near future, reports FLORENCE CHONG in Sydney. FLORENCE CHONG CASH-RICH TAIWANESE are expected
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    • 1120 8  -  Viewpoint By SWARAN KAPUR NOBODY can remain healthy if the tyranny of work cancerously creeps into his or her life and is not fought. Workaholism gone crazy that's what the tyranny of work is. It's the compulsion to spend practically all of one's waking hours
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    • 574 8  -  letter to the Editor Disappointed Investor Dear Sir, Our parent company in Australia, being attracted by the various incentives and perks offered by the Government, decided to make its first venture in Singapore last year. The sales agreement for a chemical
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 942 9  -  By MAX COMMANDER IT TAKES a lot to stir the passions of the hard-working citizens of multi-racial Birmingham in the UK, but the idea of a round-the-city-streets Formula 3000 motor race on a holiday weekend has done just that. If you find that surprising,
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    • 189 9 UPI CINDY MACKEY shot a 2-un-der-par 70 on Monday to win the rain-delayed US$2OO,OOO Mastercard International Pro-Am in Elmsford, New York, her first victory on the LPGA tour. Colleen Walker was disqualified from second place for turning in a wrong scorecard, the second time in
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    • 245 9 Reuter A LEADING America's Cup syndicate on Monday put its two yachts into Fremantle harbour for the first time with embarrassing results. Dennis Conner's San Diegobased Sail America Syndicate lowered the yachts, both called Stars and Stripes, into the water from the freighter Nedlloyd
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    • 490 9 UPI TWO THINGS have stood out at the World Swimming Championships, the power of the East German women's team and the lacklustre form of some worldrecord holders. The East German women have taken all six of the gold medals available to them so far, and
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    • 389 9 UPI MIDDLEWEIGHT king Marvin Hagler will accept Sugar Ray Leonard's challenge and fight the former champion in a multimillion dollar boxing extrava T ganza next March. Co-manager Pat Petronelli, making the announcement in Bartlett, New Hampshire, in a statement from Hagler's sunv mer home,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 234 10 NYT MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Corp and Airbus Industrie are in serious talks that could lead to a joint Euro-pean-American effort to rival Boeing for dominance of the international airplane market. According to an industry source in Britain where the talks are taking place, the two airplane makers are
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    • 308 10 Reuter WALL STREET stocks ended mixed on Monday but blue chips, led by IBM, staged a late rally. End-of-session organised buying programmes accounted for the rise in blue chips and oil stocks continued to provide significant support, analysts said. The Dow Jones
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    • 836 10 Amsterdam AUG IS Fh AflN 806.00 +3 Aaoon 104.20 -1.3 Ahotd to.io i.i Akto 161 10 A4 Afrtnfo ***** inch AMEV SI. 50 0J Amro Bati 110.00 4-2J Ah S*ad ***** -0 5 Batfcal 38.00 4-0.2 Boratani Buatvman T«m II3J0 -0.2 iroda 213.50 +2.5 Cdbn 707 00 -0.5
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 363 11 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday closed mostly lower on moderate profit-taking after Monday's sharp rally. The Hang Seng Index lost 14.43 points to 1,935.69 against Monday's record high closing of 1,950.12, while the Hongkong Index was 9.93 lower at 1,211.78. Chartists said the Hang Seng Index would experience more downward
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    • 230 11 AUG 1* AJ Sncara kidus Asio Cement HT 1.74 23.00 30.10 0.04 -0.2 0.3 Kuochan Dev Lm Chang Yuan Cham Indus Lian H»o Indus 21.50 27 50 10 20 34.90 0.8 1 0.45 0 3 Chang H»o Bank 41 20 23.40 1.9 +0.9 Not Investment 340 70 -3 5
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    • 391 11 TOKYO: Prices closed sharply higher on late buying yesterday centred on trading houses and tele-communications-related shares, boosting the market average to its ninth day of rises and fourth consecutive record close. The market average rose 195.17 yen to 18,792.61 after touching a trading peak of 18,801.89 shortly before the
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    • 391 11 SYDNEY: Australian shares closed marginally easier in moderate pre-budget trading yesterday. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index had dipped 0.6 at 1,185.3 and the All Resources Index was down 2.7 at 657.7. The All Industrials Index rose 2.3 to 1881.6 but the gold index fell 23.6 to 1125.2.
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    • 105 11 AUG 1* Chai Sugar Doefan Ind P—— Corp Daewoo Htovy Dang Ah Phar Dong Sl#i Stock Donabu Steel Gold Star Wan 1989 565 1714 1485 855 1826 ma 39 15 31 57 2 70 100 Kongo on M Kjo Motor Katon InJ Korea Long Term Lucky Ltd Oriental Brewery
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    • 149 11 Reuter BANGKOK: The Securities Exchange of Thailand Index improved 0.13 to 143.07. Turnover amounted to 498,306 shares valued at 62.4 million baht. Reuter AUG 1* 1 Ao Khom Thai MM Sum Ctnmnt San Cihzans Sam Citi2«ns 585 su*> 4 Ana Ffcrt Ayudhya bwestment... Bangkok Agro-tod PuiiiA riL DOny.i* DanK
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    • 62 11 Reuter THE TOKYO Stock Exchange will temporarily reduce its afternoon trading hours by 30 minutes to help its members' clerical staff cope with increased trading volumes. Starting today, afternoon trading will begin at 1.30 Tokyo time, instead of one o'clock, and end at 3 o'clock. Morning
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    • 206 11 Reuter INDIA FUND, the Guernsey-reg-istered £75 million foreign investment fund launched by state-owned Unit Trust of India (UTI), had been heavily oversubscribed, an official at fund managers Merrill Lynch Capital Group said. The official, who spoke on condition that he not be identified, said that total
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    • 49 11 Reuter JARDINE INSURANCE Brokers Asia, a whollyowned subsidiary of Jardine Matheson Holdings, has set up a subsidiary in Taiwan to provide direct service to Hongkong and multi-national clients there. Jar-dine Insurance Brokers (Taiwan) will add to the group's network of eight other offices from Singapore to Japan.
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    • 96 11 Reuter FAR EAST Holdings (1982) (FEH) has agreed to acquire a 37.5 per cent stake in Asia Television Ltd (ATV) for HK$l5O million in cash as part of a plan to float the station's assets. FEH yesterday said it would subscribe for the nominal amount
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    • 117 11 NYT SUN CHEMICAL CORP has agreed to accept a sweetened US$55O million offer to sell its Graphic Arts Material group to Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Inc of Tokyo. The announcement, made on Monday by Sun, was viewed by analysts as the end of the
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 525 12 FT BANANA REPUBLICS and multinational fruit companies have more in common than they think. According to an exceedingly gloomy new report from the UN Food Agriculture Organisation in Rome, they are all faced with fierce competition over a declining or at best stagnant market and
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    • 278 12 FT CHINA is planning to invest in a Canadian gold mine in an effort to secure access to Western technology and management skills. This would be a rare overseas investment by the Chinese mining industry and the first of its kind in
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    • 211 12 SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed near the highs on Monday with gains of 15'/? to two US cents per bushel. The advance was led by the spot month which settled at U555.29 after posting a 17-cent range on the day. Slow country movement, a steady
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    • 224 12 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed Vi to US cent per bushel higher on Monday, with September settling at US$2.5B Vi after being held to a 3 3 /«-cent range on the day. The growing belief in the trade that the USDA will not raise the
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    • 85 12 AFP SOUTH AFRICA'S Anglo American Corp claimed a world first on Monday converting a uranium plant into gold production at its Western Deep Levels mine near Johannesburg. A company spokesman said engineers had begun extracting gold from 16 million tonnes of waste material at the uranium
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    • 149 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% ***** Exchange FOB NSW Setters' noon closing prices on Nutmeg Aug 19 (SJ/100 kg). 110 FOB NSW 1355 00 Coconut oil BWP FOB NSW 1256 00 Bulk FOB Old drum FOB 43 00 56 00 Gambier 330 00 New drum FOB 60 00 FOB
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    • 181 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed higher yesterday in spite of late prof-it-taking in moderate trading. The market rose gradually initially, extending the overnight recovery on short-covering coupled with firmer Chicago soyoil futures close. In August, south gained Msls to M 5455 a tonne while north rose M
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    • 90 12 OIL PRODUCTS IN THE FAR EAST petroleum products market, prices (or most grades were marked higher in thin trade. Doubts over next month's supply from the Arab Gulf are still supporting fuel oil quotes. Closing prices for crude (fob origin) US$/borret Change Dubai (Sep) 12.95 +0.10 WTI, West Texas Intermediate,
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    • 329 12 RAS prices m S cents/kg, FOt m k iolet NOON CLOSf Int 1 RSS Prompt 177.50 I78.50N 177.50 178 50N Int 1 RSS Sep 86 177 50 178 00 177.50 178 00 Int 1 RSS Oct 86 177 50 178 00 177 50 178 00 Int 2
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    • 101 12 (c«nts/kg, 1-ton p olUn) S£PT 86 OCT 86 (cwrrM it month) (forword month) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sgim SoBsvv SSR 20 159 00 161 00N 159.50 161 SON SSR 50 156 00 158 00N 156 50 158.50N MRELB Btrytn Sgim lut Sdsn SMR CV 238 00 240
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    • 854 12 COFFEE Robusta futures closed sharply higher on Monday, posting gains of £110 per tonne from last Friday's close after an active session. The market was increasingly inclined to believe reports from Brazil of more significant drought damage to the crop than previously thought. Prices continued to be buoyed
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    • 334 12 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly higher yesterday with September One RSS buyers quoted at 177.50 cents per kg, up 0.50 cent from Monday. The morning session gained 0.50 cent on some short-covering for forward position in moderate trading. Prices were little changed in thin afternoon trading due to lack
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    • 96 12 THE PRICE of tia aa the Kub Lampar Ha Market fell three eeats yesterday U eieae at M 514.16 per kg la fairly qaiet Taraever fell ta 84 twee tram 92 teaaes ea Maaday. Tke decliae was sparred ky a eaattaaed lack ef averseas laterest, particularly from Earape,
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    • 68 12 Bangkok (USS/toim*. FOG) White Rice 100% 1st class 265 100% 2nd closs 230 100% 3rd closs 225 5% 215 10% 210 15% 205 20% 195 25% 185 35% 185 Broken Rice A-l Super 130 A-l Special 127 C I Special unq C I Ord unq Loonzoin Rice 100% 1st
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    • 4167 13 LED BY RETAIL STOCK Metro Holdings, share prices came under substantial profit-taking on the Singapore stock market yesterday, resulting in major indices recording losses for the first time in seven trading days. The Straits Times Industrial Index lost 6.49 points to 803.35 while
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 424 14  -  Strong yen takes its toll on margins By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI WHILE several local companies have benefited from a stronger yen, Sony products exporter, Amcol Electrical Industries, has been an unfortunate victim. Half-year results to June 30, 1986, saw the group operating profit slashed by
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    • 300 14 INVESTORS' lack of interest caused share prices to deteriorate on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Trading was listless. Many stocks were moderately lower but a few counters managed to buck the downtrend. Actively-traded plantation stock Gadek gained a hefty 16 cents
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    • 1959 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 uAlts unless otherwise specified. MDUSTMM.S Acmo 184S) xd Aimomoto (308S) Alcom (70S) (1) 71
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    • 669 14 Currant Ex Books Date Total for Total far payment dot* close poyabie the yeor last year A B N I3''»%l Aug 19 NYA NYA 13'*% 27% Alex Hldgs 5% Sep 5 Sep 12 Sep 26 5% 6% B Sembowong 30%(|) Jul 24 Jul 31 Aug 22 30%(|) 20%
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    • 466 14 LAST FULL YEAR Com pony Period Date Year Net EPS GrOSS Net profit o nc ending (cents) div last year ($000) S J Amol Intehm Dec 19 Mar 86 7.3 520 H Leong Credit Interim Mar 14 Jun 86 230 150 16,813 Everpeoce Corp Interim Mar 25 Jun
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    • 74 14 TMgkafe HeMiags Berimd: EGM at Conference Room No 3, Ist Floor, Merlin Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Friday, August 22, at 10am. C K Tug Limited: 26th AGM at 310 A 320 Orchard Road, Singapore 0923, on Saturday, August 23, at 10.30 am. Boxy Electric
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    • 103 14 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Tuesday 1211.78 Monday 1221.71 Week ago 1189.53 Hong Song Index Tuesday 1935.69 Monday 1950 12Week ogo 1905.00 All Industrials Tuesday 1881.6 Monday 1879.3 Week ago 1816.0 NEW YORK Dow Jones Monday 1869.52 Friday 1855.60 Week ago 1811.16 TOKYO Nikkei Average Tuesday *****.61* Monday *****.44 Week
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    • 225 14 Monomrs' prices MARA-Bumiputra for Aug 20 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 0 88 0.95 The Sovngs Fund 0.78 0.84 S'pore Prog Fund 0.35 0 39 S'pore Sec Fund 0.61 0.66* S'pore Invest Fund 0.61 0.66 S'pore Equity Fund 0 42 0.46 Asia Unit Trust Mod Invest Fund 1.18
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    • 400 14  -  By HOMER CHEN BANKERS of failed stockbroking house I .in Securities have formed an inspection committee to supervise the disbursement of LinSec's liquidated assets by the liquidators, Peat Marwick Mitchell ft Co. The committee, set up last Friday as
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    • 391 14 MBT SAMANDA has recommended its shareholders to vote in favour of its acquisition of a 5 per cent stake in Ganda Holdings for M 57.04 million. In a circular to shareholders, Samanda said the acquisition was "in the long-term interest" of Samanda. Directors, however, do
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    • 522 15 mzsm mm»»> By HOCK LOCK SIEW LOOKING at the way palm oil prices have behaved recently, only the brave would dare recommend accumulation of shares of plantation-based companies. After plunging to record lows of about M 5425 per tonne in March, the average price
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    • 261 15 TAT LEE FINANCE Ltd has Joined the list of finance companies with lower interim profits. In the six months to June 90, 1986, the finance arm of the Tat Lee Bank group saw its pre-tax profits fall 29 per cent to $1.6 million
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    • 292 15  -  By HOMER CHEN PAN MALAYAN HOLDINGS Ltd's profits came down sharply for the interim period to endJune this year, continuing the falling trend seen last year. Prospects for PMH, a subsidiary of Tat Lee Bank, for the rest of 1986 are not encouraging.
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    • 195 15 UNITED Iadtttrlal Corporation has been asked by the Stock Exchange of Singapore to furnish additional information, including the effects of its proposed disposal of the remaining office building in Equitable Airport Center in Los Angeles on group earnings and assets. C K TANG announced that it has acquired
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    • 927 15 SHARE PRICES yesterday opened quietly mixed following Monday's modest gains. At 0626 GMT, the FTSE 100 Index was 3.1 down at 1,605.9. On Monday, the FTSE 30 Index ended the day at 1273.6, up 2.6 points from Friday. The FTSE 100 Index also rose, by 7.1 points to
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    • 381 15  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI FOOD PACKAGING and an expanded range of new polystyrene products are among some of the projects which Amalgamated Properties A Industries Bhd hopes will get the company back into the black. Towards the end of 1965, API concluded a
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    • 644 15  -  Chairman to provide additional working capital By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN TROUBLED Van der Horst, a group which services the offshore oil industry, has asked the Stock Exchange of Singapore to relist its shares. The shares were suspended along with those of its biggest known
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    • 117 14 VP OF INDIA LTD. BOMBAY m (SPECIALS) QUOTATIONS ARE INVITED FOR MARINE CONTAINER (SPECIALS) FROM LEASING COMPANIES OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTE FOR THE LEASING OF VARIOUS TYPES OF MARINE CONTAINERS (SPECIALS). TENDER DOCUMENTS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM 21gT AUGUST AT OUR REPRESENTATIVES OFFICE IN SINGAPORE BY PAYING, UB$25.M OR EQUIVALENT AS
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    • 318 14 NOTICES IN TUB MATIBtOTTO COMPANIES ACT, CAP. W CHIP HUP MECHANICAL ENGINEEKING PTE. LTO. (hViliiiliij ll|Ml«mn) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of CHIP HUP MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at 170, Upper Buklt Tlmah Road, #13-01, Buklt Tlmah Shopping Centre, Singapore 2158 on the
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    • 145 15 "Earnings doubled over five years" Sir Colin Corness, chairman, reports: "An average annual growth in earnings per share of 19% over five years has doubled corporate income whilst maintaining a consistently high return on capital employed" "Redland's international spread is rightly perceived by investors to be one of its foremost
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  • 606 16  -  By MANO SABNANI BRUNEI is determined to reduce the heavy dependence of its economy on oil revenues, the Prime Minister was told yesterday, in a detailed briefing on the country's current five-year National Development Plan. Mr Lee Kuan Yew and the other members of
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  • 330 16 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew yesterday renewed his long-standing friendship with the Sultan of Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. And as if to underline the fact that they shared a number of common aspirations, the two leaders extended their meeting, originally planned for 30 minutes, to almost an
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  • 376 16 MBT THE f on the assets of 23 Malaysian cooperatives which were taking deposits cannot be lifted without a scheme which will ensure that they are able to withstand a run on them once they resume operations. Bank Negara governor Datuk
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  • 116 16 QUESTIONS on the problems facing the elderly In Singapore will feature in the next session of Parliament, which will sit on Monday, Aug 25 at 11am. The Member of Parliament for Paya Lebar, Mr Philip Tan Tee Yong, handed in on Aug 12 some
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  • 389 16  -  By MARTIN SOONG HOVERCRAFT, including those being developed by a Joint-ven-ture in Singapore, are being considered by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) as an alternative rescue craft for aircraft crashes at sea. Air-cushion vehicles, as hovercraft are generically known, can operate
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  • 252 16 THF COURT of Civil Appeal yesterday dismissed with costs an appeal by Mr J B Jeyaretnam against the judgement of a slander suit he brought against First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The appeal of the secretary-general of the Workers' Party was dismissed in
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  • 82 16 COMEX gold futures yesterday pared their early losses after an upward revision of the US sec-ond-quarter GNP implicit price deflator sparked light speculative buying, traders said. December gold traded at U*****.90, up from an early low of U*****.50. Comex silver futures recouped early losses after the
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  • 55 16 Reuter WALL STREET stocks yesterday fell sharply as sell programmes reversed an end-of-session buy on Monday. Bonds, which rose with the downward revision of the second quarter real GNP, provided no support. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 12 points to 1857. Declines led advances seven-four on
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    • 41 16 UPI THE US economy grew by a disappointing 0.6 per cent at an annual rate in the second quarter of this year, the weakest quarterly gain since the recession of 1962, the Commerce Department said yesterday. UPI
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    • 52 16 AFP THE MALAYSIAN government yesterday urged unions to restrain wage demands to check growing retrenchments in the private sector. Labour Minister Lee Kim Sai said 43,844 workers were retrenched last year and another 9,429 workers were laid off during the first seven months of this
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    • 38 16 Reuter THE SOVIET Union and the US both expressed willingness to make concessions to secure a final agreement at the European disarmament conference as the final session of the 35-natioo talks began in Stockholm yesterday.
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    • 32 16 Reuter THIRTY million rural households in China nearly one in nine has television, according to a report in the New China News Agency yesterday. Reuter
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    • 45 16 Reuter FIREFIGHTERS extinguished a fierce blase on the Liberian-registered supertanker which was attacked by Iranian Jets in the southern Gulf. Two US-made F-4 Phantom bombers set the partly-loaded tanker on fire on Monday, threatening a Dubai well platform 3km away. Reuter
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    • 37 16 Reuter PRESIDENT Reagan plans to impose additional sanctions against South Africa on his own in an effort to head off Congress approval of punitive sanctions that he opposes, the Washington Post said yesterday. Reuter
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    • 55 16 WMm Outlook: Showers in o few areas in the lot* morning and early Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Aug 19 at the airport Maximum temperature 31.7 Associoted humidity 68 Minimum temperature 26.4 Associated humidity 87 Hours of sunshine 3.75 Roinfoll in millimetres nil Roinfoll this month 45.7
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 258 17 HYUNDAI SHIPYARD has been shortlisted as the lowest bidder for American President Line's seven-ship newbuilding programme costing some US$5OO million. A report in Sea trade Week says that apparently Hyundai Ibid US$2lO million for five <3,800 TEU vessels plus options 3or
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    • 364 17  -  By JUNE LIM NEGOTIATIONS are underway to resolve problems which have arisen following the failure of OMT, charterer of the Nalo Express, to meet its commitment. OMT hired the 32,628-dwt Singapore-registered vessel from Sinbaltic Pte Ltd to transport cargo to
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    • 523 17 FT AFP AS THE NUMBER of vessels laid up worldwide fell in July to the lowest level since October 1961, and brokers expect demand for oil tankers to grow by 28 per cent over the next five years. Drewry Shipping Consultants
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 60 17 Reuter NINE CREWMEN are missing and feared drowned after an oil tanker sank in Panay Gulf in the Central Philippines, the Coast Guard said. A spokesman said the Af/V Nysun, with a cargo of 40,000 barrels of bunker fuel, went down off the southern
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      • 88 17 TOWNSEND THORESEN's lonic Ferry has joined the 4,190 tons gross Europic Ferry on the Lame/Cairn Ryan route, the shortest Irish Sea ferry crossing, boosting freight capacity to more than 550 units per day, an increase of 230 units. Formerly named Dragon, the 6,141 tons ferry was
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    • 1311 18 COAL and fertiliser fixing dominated voyage operations on the London freight market on Monday while a moderate volume of time-charter activity was reported involving vessels ranging from 18,000 to 66,000 dwt. No further significant rate variations could be seen and steadiness was expected to prevail. Four 50.000-60.000-ton US
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    • 742 18 Lloyd's List A FLEET OF 150 Sanko vessels 60 per cent of its size at the time of bankruptcy has been established since rescue plans were approved by the Tokyo District Court in January. However, the current size of the fleet is
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    • 159 18 UNITED STATES Gulf and worldwide utilisation of rigs were up again last week, and contractors were willing to cut charter rates below direct operating costs in order to win Jobs. In the Gulf the utilisation rate increased to 29.1 per cent from 28.3 per
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    • 913 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Afeo Line VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner X 1 AC Toepfer X 5 Anro Service IV 2/3 Arrow Lines X 4 Arias Line X 3 ANIL 1 1/2 A PC Line V 4 APL III 2/3 ASCL III 1 Bait-Canada
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    • 427 18 LONDON BROKER Hogg Robinson has produced a marine package designed to offer insurance cover to shipowners concerned about the threat of terrorism at sea. According to Fairplay magazine, Hogg Robinson was first approached by a cruise operator following last
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    • 177 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 AMRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container
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    • 159 19 Fairplay THE PORT of Portland planning to construct a US$5.9 million bulk mineral export facility on the Willamette river to handle soda ash, talc and bentonite shipments. Over 200,000 tons of mineral bulks have been shipped through the port annually since 1978,
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    • 460 19 AP TUGBOATS extinguished a blaze aboard a Norwegianowned supertanker near Sirri Island yesterday in one of the biggest marine salvage operations since the Gulf war began, shipping executives said. Eight tugboats including the Smit Singapore, the largest salvage tug in the world, battled
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    • 119 19 Lloyd's List A NEW COSMETIC paint launched last year only for passenger ships has found greater acceptance among other types of snips, says International Paint. Of more than 50 vessels so far coated with Interfine, above 60 per cent are ships other than passenger ships and
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    • 778 19 AFP THE FIRMER tone to oil prices following the recent decision by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to limit output in September and October this year kept rates on an even keel in several major sectors of the freight market over the past week On the
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    • 171 19 Cargonews Asia A COALITION of nine major US west coast ports have called upon the services of a research firm, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, to develop a comprehensive study concerning US Customs Service cargo and passenger clearance activities. The study comes on top of
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    • 121 19 INDIA'S east coast ore export port of Paradip is to be deepened and developed to receive and handle bulkers of 170,000 tonnes deadweight under a new integrated scheme costing Rs3 billion (US$234 million). The approach and entrance channels are to be deepened from 12.25 metres to
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    • 6807 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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    • 793 25 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES MARINA WHARVES Horopan Baru MIA 208/0900 21 8/2300 VMM! Barth Arrival Departure Joya Bersama Mekong V'fure MIB M2B 20 8/1300 208/0800 208/2300 208/2300 KEPPEL WHARVES Sabang Jaya M3A 20 8/0700 208/2359 Angelique K16 alongside 208/2300 Shangrila M3B 20 8/0900 20 8/1800 Auby K25W alongside i 20 8/0600
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    • 70 17 mm A FLEET OF 150 Sonko vessels 60 per cent of its size ot the time of bonkruptcy has been established since rescue plans were approved by the Tokyo District Court. Page II UNIDENTIFIED worplanes rocketed and set ablaze the Norwegian-managed supertanker Akarita in the United Arab Emirates. Pag« 111
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    • 818 19 The Straits Steamship Group 1 STRAITS SHIPPING f Singapore to Sabah, jnwnfc, Brunei Ports and Bangkok Mansfield Container Shipping PteLid OCL Overseas Containors Limited "7 BANGKOK BORNEO AGENCIES LTD. BANGKOK TEL: *****80 *17 Site. KBalart VII LA SkM. LD, Taw m Maara, KK 20-22 A«c sium raw m Hurt. H
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    • 167 25 "HOime LEE-HL4 25/1 26/8 CWttafont/Chaku •HVE SUNG-MNI2 20/1 21/1 CNta{onf/Ch4u (Fuly Containerised Scnice) *cc«ptaf CantMin (Fa. 10. I SOC) *50 Tw huwflft mtaMi LCL/FCL TO HONG KONG/CHINA Eld 24/8 Also accepts LCL/FCL to other destns. SMSAfOK TEL *****11 (12 IMS) TOUT KQJWG TEL *****07/ I POKING TEL 3SMO7/XMM MSC AGENCKS
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