The Business Times, 8 December 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 198€ 75 CENTS
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  • 656 1  -  Rules spell out minimum paid-up capital and margin of solvency By ALVIN TAY THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore has issued two sets of regulations governing the insurance industry which, among other things, spell out the contents of the external auditors' reports, as well
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  • 388 1 AFP TAIWAN'S new opposition party, flush with its unexpected success in weekend elections, says it will seek to assist small- and medium-sized enterprises which have fuelled the island's exportdriven success. "We will protect private property and assist small- and medi-um-sized enterprises," said
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  • 508 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG, Chief Reporter CALLS FOR COMPANIES to be required to put in adequate financial controls, and for the responsibility of auditors to report suspected cases of fraud to be expanded, have been made in a paper submitted to the government by the
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  • 403 1 Reuter PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN has publicly struck a contrite note over the Iranian arms sale scandal and his supporters hope this will help spark a renewal of confidence in his shaken administration. Making his first public admission that the sale
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  • 101 1 Reuter A SWISS BANK has blocked an account believed by the US to be involved in diverting to contra rebels in Nicaragua money from US arms sales to Iran. A Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman, Clemens Birrer, said yesterday that the US State Department asked the
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  • 585 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN NEGOTIATIONS are going on by a couple of companies interested in buying rubber magnate Ng Quee Lam's share in the Singa-pore-Soviet Shipping Company. Mr Ng and his son, Michael Ng Eng Choon, hold the 50 per cent stake
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 261 1 Need a car or truck ban? W\YFOO\G 737-7977 I4EJ Wfcy (bong Mortgage And Finance (S) Ltd A wholly-owned subsidiary of Hongkongßank 6 Claymore Hill #03-00. Claymore Plaza. Singapore 0922 ADVERTISING MARKETING x.. 1 COLD STORAGE has moved its 1987 retail account worth $1.5 million to Ogilvy Mather Advertising after a
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    • 316 1 Dignity without arrogance MARINA SQUARE, one of the most delayed projects in Singapore, finally opens its doors this month. In the midst of competition, the owners have packaged the place as being classy enough, but without the snob appeal, to make shopping there an unforgettable experience. See Page 10 MARKET
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 295 2 1 r < -t V i r 3 *-< x TTY ytZ 4 tv*-* PL* <i SHI ■fl > /> I V For this Financial Director 8% was the last straw. Every business big or small knows that for we've operations in 36 countries and an interest rates can make
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 2593 3  -  Obsolete accounting practices are holding back much of Western industry, argues TOM SHERIDAN of PA Management Consultants TOM SHERIDAN Issues, The Journal for Management THERE IS A growing awareness that deployment of physical assets is a strategic issue. The successful company focuses on physical
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 251 3 The IBM System/36 We're only as big as you < V. At IBM, we recognize that your business is different from others. That every business has its own size and its unique requirements. So IBM offers the System/36 family of computers. The business computer that is only as big as
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 613 4  -  By MONICA GWEE LEADING supermarket chain Cold Storage has moved its 1987 retail account worth $1.5 million to Ogilvy Mather Advertising after a review of six agencies over a six-month period. The larger media spending set for next year is part of "a
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    • 597 4 FORTY-FIVE television advertisements produced in just four-and-a-half weeks is something of a world record, especially if they are all meant to go up in smoke. The latest government campaign "Towards a nation of non-smokers" is possibly one of the most
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    • Article, Illustration
      167 4 RUSSELL WALKER has been appointed the managing director of Mojo MDA in Singapore Mr Walker. 42, replaces the current managing director Bruce Davidson, who is returning to Sydney to manage and develop Mojo's newly acquired video production company. Until recently. Mr Walker was with Mojo's subsidiary, Chandler Hambleton Mier
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    • 268 4 "I NEVER touched a cigarette before," declared insurance and realty broker, Tony Ho. 40. "It's just acting. I didn't inhale the smoke and don't ask me why I was cast as the smoker when real smokers were cast as non-smokers,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 156 4 THE vii:\\ I N S I N (i A P 0 R K The most breathtaking views in Asia, from the Westin Stamford, the tallest hotel in the world Plus the widest selection of restaurants anywhere in Singapore. Six superb tennis courts and four air-conditioned squash courts. Two swimming pools
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    • 118 4 APPOINTMENT j A MESSAGE TO SENIOR PUBLIC RELATIONS PEOPLE We are looking for senior professionals to join the leading independent public relations consultancy in Singapore. You will need to be highly motivated and capable of adding to the high standards of service we provide for our list of major local
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 407 5 Reuter ARAB OIL PRODUCERS, facing a predicted income drop of US$6O billion this year, have called on the industrialised world to channel to the Third World some of its huge savings from lower oil and commodity prices. The monthly bulletin of the
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    • 235 5 AFP RESTRUCTURING of China s political system requires boldness and resoluteness first and prudence second, top Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said. Mr Deng, 82. said in Beijing on Saturday that people of his generation, the younger generation and the coming
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    • 181 5 Reuter PRINCE CHARLES, the heir to the British throne, has been tipped as a possible governor of Hongkong to replace Sir Edward Youde who died last week. The Sunday Telegraph said in a front page report that there was growing popular support in
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    • 400 5 NYT THAI military officials and some Cambodian exiles are saying that Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader, is terminally ill in China, but that a power struggle within his organisation may be holding up statements about his condition. According to the
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    • 371 5 OANA-PNA. THE COMMITTEE on Privatisation and the Asset Privatisation Trust (APT) will be formed this week to handle the disposal of the non-performing assets of the Philippine government s financial institutions and other government corporations. Finance Minister Jaime Ongpin told
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    • 196 5 UPI PHILIPPINE Defence Minister Rafael lleto has announced the deployment of thousands of soldiers in a nationwide roadbuilding and schoolhouse repair programme "to prove their worth to the people" during a 60-day ceasefire with communist rebels that begins at midnight on Wednesday.
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    • 278 5 Reuter THE ABOLITION of tax breaks on individual depositors' small accounts, a key element in the Japanese tax reform plan released on Friday, will remove a major barrier to the liberalisation of Japanese interest rates, economists said. But most of them agreed that the
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 238 7 AFP DELEGATES from 40 nations, after a week-long conference in Geneva, failed to approve a draft accord on emissions of chlorinated products held responsible for the deterioration of the earth's ozone layer. The "urgency" of the task had been emphasised at
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    • 406 7 UPI THE PROSPECT of sluggish growth in world trade threatens the stability and security of industrial and indebted nations alike, several government officials and businessmen from around the world were told last Friday. "The countries of the world are drifting into a
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    • 288 7 Reuter BRAZILIAN Finance Minister Dilson Funaro has said he will try to negotiate much lower payments on his country's US$lO3 billion debt, the largest in Latin America. In a speech to a conference on debt and trade in New York during the weekend,
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    • 107 7 AP US \iANAGERS lack a global perspective even though their companies are under growing pressure to compete internationally, according to a recent survey of senior managers. The survey of 101 senior executives at multinational companies was conducted by an independent firm for Egon
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    • 379 7 NYT WESTERN EUROPEAN leaders acknowledged at a meeting in London over the weekend that the European Community is on the brink of bankruptcy and facing conflicts with the US and other trading partners over food trade. But they declined to deal with the
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    • 99 7 Reuter EUROPEAN manufacturers have filed a complaint to the European Community Commission over alleged dumping of microchips by Japanese exporters to the community. The European Electronic Component Manufacturers' Association said last Friday some Japanese suppliers undercut them by up to 36 per
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 785 8 GDP growth may hit Bpc amid higti export levels Although governor Sir Edward Youde's sudden death in Beijing on Friday triggered uncertainty over Hongkong's immediate future and dragged the Hang Seng down by some 60 points in mid-morning trading, the barometer quickly recovered
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    • 685 8  -  By RICHARD SEAH WITH FRIENDS, one can be spontaneous. And spontaneity was one thing which stood out during the five days of First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tongs official visit to Burma. It was a spontaneous change of plans that, on Saturday night,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 141 8 The classic afternoon tea is now playing at Hie Lounge. Every afternoon, you can stroll into and cakes, and imaginative sandwiches. range of cocktails in Singapore. While the in the sight of the unique waterfall and The Lounge, relax and treat yourself to a While a classical quartet rounds off
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 50 8 Doonesbury MR SLACKMBYER, I'LL TRT TO Bd BRIEF. I'M JUST A JUNIOR LAWYER WH 12 3 U m 1 ct m rf. W, m PI r '/Jm w BY GARRY TRUDEAU TELEPHONE RECORDS INDICATE YOU TALKEP r BETTER TDBOeSWMWI&Bt- Q&JOTN ERWTM=> VERY PECULIAR. Jo 11 ym •£A v m m
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  • THE ARTS
    • 581 9  -  Old books, maps, porcelain, silver, prints and even 1911 Chinese government bonds (still valid) LINDA CHEE finds it amazing how Antiques of the Orient could manage to assemble 200 pieces of fine Chinese ceramics for an antique sale in its 55-sq-metre shop. LINDA
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    • 902 9  -  You can't typecast the French artist of today. He defies labelling simply because he is a bold, individualistic creature, says TSANG SAU YIN, who was at an exhibition of contemporary French paintings. TSANG SAU YIN, THE FRENCH ARTIST of the 80s does not
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • FEATURES
    • 1256 10  -  The owners of the $1 billion Marina Square have, in the midst of competition, come up with a product which they hope will be classy, without the snob appeal that tends to turn people off. JAIME LYE reports. JAIME LYE MARINA SQUARE, one
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    • 306 10  -  letter to the Editor CHONG YIN KING DEAR SIR, I have noted with interest reports in the Business Times about shares and stock, with comments from the two opposing camps the bullish group and the sceptics (or pessimists) as well as the often-repeated statement to
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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    • 1710 10 mmmrn CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Accident on court? (5) 6 A blow from the blue? (5) 9 Recount anew at the bar (7) 10 The sound of two letters or one (5) 11 Speak of love surrounded by immorality (5) 12 Novice stlil on the loch (5) 13 It's solid
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  • SPORTS
    • 785 11  -  By BRIAN MILLER AT ABOUT NINE in the morning, the National Stadium at Kallang can look cruel and intimidating what with its empty grey stands, towering floodlights and the sun beating down so fiercely on its unlit cauldron. But for
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    • 552 11  -  By WALTON MORAIS FIVE MINUTES after the starter's gun, they were still arriving at the starting line. Whether by public bus or private car, Singaporeans, it appeared, were determined to live up to their reputations for keeping rubber time. Or perhaps they figured that with
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    • 395 11 Reuter IVAN LENDL of Czechoslovakia was scheduled to play Mats Wilander of Sweden and Boris Becker of West Germany faced Swede Stefan Edberg in the semi-finals of the American US$5OO,OOO Masters Tennis Championships yesterday. The top-seeded Lendl and Becker, seeded second, finished first in their
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    • 271 11 AP PRE-RACE favourite Juma Ikangaa of Tanzania, competing in his first marathon in seven weeks, yesterday won Japan's 21st Fukuoka International Marathon Championship by more than one minute in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 6 seconds. The 29-year-old Ikangaa, a captain in the Tanzanian army,
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    • 99 11 Reuter TOP-SEEDED Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina has swept past third seed Lori McNeil of the United States 6-2 6-3 to reach the final of the Argentine Women's Tennis Open. The final is between Sabatini, 16. and 12th-seeded, 14-year-old Aranxta Sanchez of Spain, a 7-6 (7-5)
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 7 11 TV and Radio programmes on Page 10
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    • 121 11 flfttrlO An early start. A hearty breakfast. LrO 3V/ You arrive in Bangkok ready for business, or, simply enjoy the delights of discovering the city. m A delicious lunch. An hour to relax. J J Arrive in Bangkok fresh and ready to sample some of the best shopping South East
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 231 12 AP BRITISH GAS PLC said its stock flotation, the world's biggest, attracted 4.5 million applications. A company statement said the public subscribed for four times the number of shares on offer, forcing a reduction in allocation. As a result, the company has alloted 64 per
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    • 392 12 Reuter WALL STREET stocks suffered their third consecutive setback last Friday as nervousness about the insider trading scandal was rekindled. A weak bond market, caused by a larger than expected rise in November non-farm payrolls and waning prospects for a cut in the discount
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    • 169 12 DCC 06 C 1Abttitx 28% -V. A lean Alum 40% Algoma Sti 11'/. uncti Bank Nova Scotia 17* Bank Of Montreal 1354 Ball Canada 37"/, Bp Raaourcaa 36 unch Braacan CI A 26% Camptrt Laka 27% Canadian Imp Bank 20% 17'/j Carling O'Kaato 12% uncft Co Btfirt CI A
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    • 219 12 Dec M AAMO moustmals A Alpha 1250 320 Awl 1425 -25 sar» 430 4750 10 25 1900 00 CO Smith 3050 unch CNA 2708 Curria Fin* nea 440 *****S -10 Fad Vol* 183 Fug it 585 HivakJ 600 20 Lib Hold* 2900 50 1400 -40 LTA 200 M And
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    • 619 12 Dec M US A lean Alumm Alcoa Alleg Intl Allied Stg All lad Store* Am Brandt Inc Am Can Co Am Cvanamid Am Etec Pwr Am Expreae Am Noma Prod Am Motor* Cp A ma* Inc Amarada Heea Amoco Corp Amr Corp Armco Inc Aaarco Inc All Richfield
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    • 79 12 WestinghousePlessey deal Reuter BRITISH ELECTRONICS group Plessey and the US Westinghouse Electric Corporation aigned a cooperation agreement laat Friday which could bring Pleasey up to £1.1 billion in buaineaa. Plessey said in a statement the deal would come into effect if Britain opts to purchase the US Boeing company's airborne
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 141 12 London stocks on Page 19 Just when you were thinking of going back to the same old Sharksfin menu. Pause! May we recommend you try one of our eleven extraordinary sharksfin dishes. Like all of our 200 menu items they are superior. Come for lunch or dinner anyday. *0' ORown
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 380 13 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Bill Hayden has entered the controversy over media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over Australia's largest newspaper group by calling for an investigation into the offer. Mr Hayden said last Saturday that he was disturbed by Mr Murdoch's
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    • 261 13 AFP A CANADIAN-MALAYSIAN consortium won a contract last Saturday worth Ms 76 million for a gas pipeline project. Novacorp Malaysia, a Canadian company, and its Malaysian partner Sepakat Setia Perunding will provide consultancy services for basic engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and starting-up
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    • 125 13 NINETY-THREE members of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), comprising 87 Japanese and six foreign securities firms, chalked up an 86 per cent increase in combined after-tax profits in the first half of the current business year, TSE officials said last Friday. After-tax profits
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    • 683 13 Boesky case sparks off rumours within financial community AP, NYT PROPOSALS for new securities laws in the US are likely next year in the wake of the Ivan Boesky insider-trading scandal, says the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. "Since the Democrats will
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    • 452 13 Reuter A MAJOR New York brokerage house has sued Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co and Sir James Goldsmith for US$l7 million, charging that they misled investors during their recent takeover battle. Smith Barney Harris Upham and Co last Saturday alleged that both Goodyear
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    • 92 13 FT THE UK Department of Trade and Industry has launched an inquiry into dealings in shares in Consolidated Gold Fields, the international mining group, at the company's request. Gold Fields said last Friday that it wanted the DTI to investigate the way in which American
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 396 14 AP WORLD CEREAL PRODUCTION is expected to hit a new high this year, causing a record surplus, while cereal trade dips to its lowest level in eight years, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation reported. The FAO said it has
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    • 220 14 AP FRENCH Agriculture Minister Francois Guillaume has said that major food-producing nations should raise the prices they charge the Soviet Union and Japan and use the profits to help poor countries. He said the Soviets and Japan "could afford it". Mr Guillaume said he broached
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    • 191 14 AP FIVE DAYS of talks among officials from cocoa-producing and consuming countries on the rules for buffer stock operations under their new international price-stabilisation agreement ended inconclusively last Friday, delegates said. Further talks were scheduled for mid-January, said delegates of the Cocoa Organisation, under
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    • 309 14 Reuter MERCHANT BANKER Kleinwort, Benson Ltd has joined forces with Amalgamated Metal Trading Company to try to get the affairs of the International Tin Council (ITC) wound up in British courts. Court officials said the merchant bank was given permission to join the
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    • 294 14 FT THE FIVE BULLION BANKS which have run the London gold market since 1919 are considering sharing their control with other gold trading companies. The Bank of England is understood to support changes to make the market more democratic, at a
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    • 280 14 Reuter INDUSTRIES worldwide are using less metal and are unlikely to want much more even if economic activity recovers sharply, an expert report on industrial raw materials says. Exporters of minerals such as aluminium, tin and
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    • 141 14 AFP MAJOR SUGAR PRODUCERS such as Brazil, the European Community (EC) and Cuba hold the key to future changes in the fundamental outlook for world sugar prices, London traders ED and F Man said in their latest market review. The world
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    • 758 14 AFP CURRENCY UNCERTAINTIES curtailed activity on most commodity markets last week, when already nervous conditions were accentuated in the run-up to Opec ministerial conference in Geneva from Dec 11. Precious metals saw a sharp initial rally on the dollar's weakness in
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    • 30 14 RUBBER Closing prices Data Singapore MaloyBO S cann/kg M canft/kg Dk 1 176.00 213.50 Ok 2 176.25 214.50 D*c 3 178.75 216.00 OK 4 175.50 216.00 Dk 5 176.75 215.00
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    • 166 14 WHEAT FUTURES in Chicago rallied late to close 1-1/2 US cents to 1/4 cent per bushel higher on local and commission house short covering last Friday. March settled at US$2.B2 after posting a 2-3/4 cent range on the day, apparently still stuck in a sideways trading range on the
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    • 513 14 COFFEE Robusta futures slipped amid late trade and commission house selling. Prices closed the afternoon call last Friday £5 higher to £20 lower. Second position March ended at £1,900, £18 below Thursday s close. Buying of January against March all session allowed the spot contract to widen to
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    • 28 14 KL TIN Data Oofing prices Tumov»f M$Ao (•enfiat) 0«c 1 16.60 73 DK 2 16.99 128 Dmc 3 17.00 105 D*c 4 17.03 105 OK 5 17.04 85
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    • 138 14 Chinese Produce Exchange SoMors' noon doting pr teti on Dk 6 (SS/100 kg). Coconut oil Mk FOB 66.00 OW drum FOB 75.00 Now drum FOB 86.00 Copra 33 Mixod IIoom) bvyon Pepper Mootok Whit* FOB NIW 1415.00 Sarawak Whho FOB faq NIW 1400.00 Sarawak spodat black FOB NtW
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    • 161 14 SOYBEAN FUTURES in Chicago closed mostly down last Friday, on or near the lows, ranging from up 1/4 US cent in January to off 2-1/2 cents per bushel in light trade. January settled at U554.97-1/2 after posting a 2-1/4 cent range on the day. Slow country movement, a firmer
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    • 144 14 Half-day seminar on December 11,1986 230 pm to S3O pm at the Sheraton Towers, 39 Scotts Road, Singapore 0922 PROGRAMME The Seminar will include: Current Financing Techniques. Recent Business Economic Developments in the People's Republic of China. Workshop sessions on recent tax developments in (A) Australia (C) Indonesia and (B)
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 464 15 Union Bank of Switzerland THE WIDENING repercussions of the handling of US arms shipments to Iran and the financing of the Nicaraguan contras from the proceeds have led to a
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    • 29 15 UBS US dollar: See-sawing into the New Year. Swiss Franc: Surprises on the interest front possible D-mark: Broken euphoria. Gold: Volatile due to attempts to hurdle barriers.
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    • 487 15 Indicates the average of the prime lending rates of 1 2 major banks in Singapore PUt of bonks at the close of business on Friday, Doc 5, as supplied by the Association of tanks in Singapore. BANK PL* Aigemene Rank 6% American Express Rank 7 Am'Dam R'terdom
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    • 203 15 ASIAN CURRENCY avarog* deposit rates for tho woek •ndod Doc 5 US 8 7 6ar% 6 1/4 6 1/16 1 month 6 3/8 6 5/16 2 mmOw 6 3/16 6 1/8 3 mtmtm 6 1/16 6 6 months 6 5 15/16 9 n>omh« 6 5 15/16 12 month t
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    • 31 15 The rang* of call rat** for th* week ended Friday, D*c 5 > Bank fund 2-5 4.8 G*n fund 3 5.125 $m of funds 2305 Source: Short Deposits (M) Bhd
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    • 250 15 Green Collier PRECIOUS GOLD ended on mixed sentiments at the commodity exchange in New York last Friday after a week of dull and featureless trading. The yellow metal closed at U*****.50, about US$l lower than the previous week's close. Interest continued to
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    • 306 15 Commercial Discount Co Ltd RATES FOR overnight funds in the interbank market last week rose to a high of 4-1/16 per cent before retreating to 2-1/2 per cent 2-3/8 per cent and then to a close of 2 per cent 1-7/8 per cent. Term deposits
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    • 441 15 Reuter CHINA'S foreign debt will rise sharply over the next five years to fund major development projects, Western bankers and diplomats said. They estimated China will use US$3O billion to US$4O billion in foreign loans during the 1986-90 seventh five-year plan, of
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    • 235 15  -  By AMY BALAN THE SINGAPORE International Monetary Exchange has received US approval to market its Nikkei Stock Average Futures contract in America. The exchange announced last Saturday that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has given Simex written approval to offer
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    • 314 15 Reuter THE PERPETUAL floating rate note (FRN) sector of the Eurobond market was extremely volatile where traded on Friday, although the bulk of mar-ket-making houses were trading only on a negotiated basis. Dealers in London were agreed that the events in the FRN
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    • 194 15 Bernama BANKS have begun cashing a large amount of the high-yield central bank bills which the Central Bank had issued in past years to siphon off "excess money'' in the economy. The financial market, already bugged by overliquidity, has found itself with still more funds.
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    • 86 15 Reuter THE SWEDISH central bank is easing restrictions on futures trading by banks in foreign currencies with immediate effect. A bank statement described the changes, under which currency sight limits were abolished although cash requirements will apply to net borrowing in foreign currency, as mainly technical. "This
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    • 417 15 NOTICES la tfce Matter tt The Cwpuiei Act, Cap. 185 aad la the Matter M ORATION PRIVATE LIMITED (Menken' Vataatary maMatiM) FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 185 that the FINAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the abovenamed Company will
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    • 310 15 GENERAL PROGRESS CO PTE LTD (laearptratod la Stagaptn) At an Extra-Ordinary General Meeting of the Members of GENERAL PROGRESS CO PTE LTD, duly convened and held at 585 North Bridge Road #02-18 Blanco Court, Singapore 0718 on the Ist day of December 1986, the Resolutions set out below were duly
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    • 321 15 IN THE MATTER OP THE COMPANIES ACT, (CHAPTER 185 > AND ici m i PERPETUAL HARVEST (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (laearparaM la the RepiUic M fltagapm) (IN LIQUIDATION) (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) Notice Is hereby given that the creditors of the abovenamed Company which Is being voluntarily woundup, are required on
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    • 294 15 ¥100,000 Emperor Gold Coin Japan's first gold issue since 1932 inued, to commemorate the 60th anniveraary of the reign of Japan's Emperor Hirohito es 3® IV y In Japan, those wishing to l own it, first have to buy lottery tickets and only those q with the winning numbers can
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
    • 877 16  -  Enough work to keep busy through end of 1988 By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI HAVING JUST WON its third Mass Rapid Transit system contract worth $27.5 million last Friday, Jurong Engineering Ltd is now even better placed to withstand the sluggish conditions in the local construction industry.
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    • 366 16 NYT NOW THAT the Dow Jones Industrial Average has decisively broken out of a seven-month trading range between 1,720 and 1,920, some investment professionals see it sweeping ahead to 2,000 and beyond. "I don't regard 2,000 as a significant barrier," says Peter
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    • 388 16  -  I mm mm RC THIS WEEK, the spotlight falls on two attractively priced banking stocks Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and United Overseas Bank. In spite of OCBC's "solid as a rock" image, it was not spared the severe bearish onslaught that followed the re-opening of the
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 5559 17  -  II*"-- By HOMER CHEN CONFIDENCE crept back to the Singapore stock market last week, although many investors played it safe and stayed on the sidelines awaiting the outcome of the National Bank of Brunei Bhd case on the Khoo-related empire. The BT Composite
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    • 270 17 Reuter AUSTRALIAN share markets finished at record levels last week with the market dominated by the Asl.B billion bid for the Herald and Weekly Times by News Corp and possible counter offers from Robert Holmes a Court's Bell Group or Ron Brierley's lEL. The All-Ordinaries Index
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    • 672 17  -  Week ended Dec 5 compiled by JULIANA TAY SCRIP ISSUES A M D B: Bonus issue of one-for-ten. Bonvests Hldgs: Proposed rights issue of one-for-four at $0.65. Chuan Hup: Rights issue of one-for-two at $1.20 per share with TSR to subscribe 1 further share at
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    • 898 18 m J'/j New York NYT IF THERE was any doubt that Wall Street would enjoy a year-end rally, last week's performance has put it to rest. Concern about the deepening insider trading scandal on Wall Street and the growing scandal
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    • 555 18 L Jl SSĔ AFP SHARE PRICES kept rising on the Tokyo stock market in heavy trading last week with institutional and corporate investors coming back to the market after sitting on the fence. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average of blue-chip stocks, a hefty 583.44-yen
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    • 951 18 T— London E 4 FT SUDDENLY, it seems as if you merely have to breathe in the air of London City to pick up the whiff of a fresh scandal, be it real or imagined. The past week has seen one of the most
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    • 301 18 Tl K| 1 Hongkong y AFP PROFIT-TAKING and the unexpected death ot Hongkong governor Sir Edward Youde sent the Hongkong stock market last week on a late-week tizzy, after the Hang Seng Index set new highs for three consecutive days. The index
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    • 655 18 fcstj K.Lumpur 4 SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange drifted listlessly throughout last week as market sentiment remained weak from a lack of fresh leads. The KLSE Composite Index managed to rise 1.62 points to 249.09 at Friday's close from 247.47
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    • 274 18 BCI FAILING to hold on to the brisk rally at the beginning of last week Milan shares inched lower on volume that tailed off to 101 billion lire a day on average (compared with the previous figure of 133 billion lire). The upshot of the
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    • 244 18 CSZ THE Zurich stock exchange surged to new highs last week with the CS index closing last Friday at 564.1 points compared with the previous Friday of 560.2. This followed favourable reports from the Swiss Federation of Commerce and Industry and the monthly economic
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 473 19 TWO LISTED property companies, controlled by the Malaysian Tan family, have gone on another buying spree for several Singapore properties worth a total of $27 million. Singapore-based Parkway Holdings and Malaysian-based IGB Corporation announced last Friday that their joint-venture property investment company, Weian Investments,
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    • 337 19 MBT MALAYSIAN Deputy Agriculture Minister Oatuk Alex Lee has said that he has not been informed of any legal action against him by a group of Singapore-based banks in connection with about US$32 million in outstanding loans. He added that if
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    • 207 19 MALAYSIAN property developer Metroplex is expanding its property interests in the Klang Valley in spite of the sluggish property market. It is acquiring the entire paid-up capital of Urustanah Sdn Bhd for Msl,ooo cash and will be providing Msl million as working capital
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    • 139 19 A LECTURE on "Strategies for Investing in the Stock Market" will be held on Saturday for members and alumni of the Master of Business Administration Club of the National University of Singapore. The speaker is Mr Robert C S Tay, an investment analyst with
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    • 768 19 EQUITIES ended the second and final week of the account lower last Friday, mainly on continuing worries over the further implications of the recent insider trading allegations, after news of official investigations into the affairs of several leading UK companies. The market was rife with rumours last week
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 87 19 For the year ended Oct 31, 1986, the group incurred pre-tax losses of M 55.74 million against profits of M 5731,000 previously. The losses were blamed on the high tribute charges amounting to $6.79 million (previously $8.17 million), low tin price received and the closure of dredge
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      • 52 19 For the half year to Sep 30, 1985, pre-tax profits rose to M 5144,546 (previously M 541,277) on sales of M 5841,161 (previously M 5737.088). The increase was due to the improved rubber and palm oil prices during the period under review. No dividend has
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    • 247 19 THE RECENT SALE by Mr Taochaifu Choofuang of his 1.25 million shares in Singapore Land has led to a drop in the total direct and indirect interests of Mr S P Tao and Madam Liu Kwan Li in the listed company to 24.53 million shares
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    • 515 19  -  By CHAN OI CHEE RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT Corporation, which is offering its shares to the public, is facing litigation claims from two parties for a total of $23.4 million. No provisions for possible liabilities have been made by the company in its accounts. However,
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    • 188 19 PUBLIC AUCTION DIRECTOR MECHANICAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DIVISION PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SINGAPORE A pubic auction of confiscated. unserviceable and redundant stores comprising of saloon cars, tippers, motorcycles. scooters, vans, heavy machinery, graders, road rollers, motors, pumps, scrap metal, batteries, used oil. electric fans etc will be held on Monday 15th December.
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  • 170 20 AFP INDONESIAN Finance Minister Radius Prawiro has said the rupiah is not yet suitable for use as a common currency by the six members of the Association of South-east Asian Nations. Indonesia's share of international as well as regional trade was still very small, Mr Radius
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  • 504 20  -  Restructuring exercise sees cut in equity of Shell, Mitsubishi By BRIAN GOMEZ THE BRUNEIAN government has become the largest equity holder in its 14-year-old liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, a top contributor to the country's economy. Following two years of negotiations, the
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  • 319 20 NST A MORE EFFECTIVE strategy will have to be formulated if the New Economic Policy (NEP) fails to achieve its aims, said Johor Mentri Besar Haji Muhyiddin Yassin last Saturday. The new strategy must be able to
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  • 77 20 Bernama MEMBERS of Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Bhd, after a stormy four-hour meeting in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, approved funds of M 51.689 billion for the cooperative society to run its activities. The meeting, convened after an 11-year lapse, was nearly called off when several members challenged
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  • 82 20 Bernama THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Malaysia has urged Senators to study the Official Secrets Act (Amendment) Bill carefully when it is tabled in the Senate. NUJ president Yazid Othman, speaking at the Freedom of Information campaign rally at the Chinese Assembly Hall
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  • 274 20 Reuter OIL CONSUMPTION in western industrialised countries is likely to grow in the first half of next year but by less than it originally forecast, says the International Energy Agency's latest monthly oil market report. The agency estimated that 35.2 million barrels per day (bpd)
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  • 119 20 THE GOVERNMENT is likely to accept in full proposals made by the National Wages Council. This was disclosed by the Acting Minister for Trade and Industry, Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong, yesterday at the Teck Ghee community centre. There were no grounds for objections
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  • LATE FILE
    • 40 20 AFP COMMUNIST rebels yesterday threatened to call off a 60-day ceasefire agreement due to start on Wednesday unless the Philippine government resolves conflicting interpretations on military patrols and the carrying of firearms. AFP
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    • 42 20 Reuter FRENCH Prime Minister Jacques Chirac yesterday appealed for calm after the worst night of violence in Paris since the student uprising of 1968 and condemned what he called multiple provocations by demonstrators outside the student movement. Reuter
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    • 26 20 AP GENERAL Le Trong Tan, Vietnam's army chief of staff, died last Friday of a heart attack in Hanoi. He was 72.
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    • 46 20 AP OFFICIAL North Korean media yesterday referred for the first time to reports in South Korea that North Korean President Kim II Sung had been killed, quoting an article by a Spanish communist as calling the reports "groundless false propaganda". AP
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    • 32 20 Reuter TAIWANESE dissident Hsu Hsin-Liang, who was barred from going home to help the opposition Democratic Progress Party in Saturday's election, yesterday left Japan for the US. Reuter
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    • 35 20 Reuter THE Sri Lankan authorities yesterday extended for a further 11 hours a curfew in an eastern district of the country where 24 people had died in two days of communal strife.
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    • 526 20 Get your free clippings of BT exclusive stories Free copies of these exclusive stories in last week's Business Times are now available. 1. Leigh-Mardon teams up with local company to make cigarette cartons 2. The billion-dollar world of Khoo Teck Puat 3. Hongkong authorities look into Asean Resources 4. Liquidators
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    • 51 20 Outlook: Fair axcapt for a low ahowara In tha afternoon. Raport for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Dac 7at tha airport Maximum tamparatura 31.9 Aaaodatad humidity 89 Minimum tamparatura 25.0 Aaaodatad humidity M Hours of sunahlna 8.50 Rainfall In milllmatraa 0.8 Rainfall thla month 55.1 Rainy daya this month
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 185 21 AP FIFTY OFFICERS and sailors from vessels owned by the Pakistani state shipping corporation have been arrested in foreign ports on drug smuggling charges, the Pakistan government said. In reply to a question, Ibrahim Baluch, Pakistani Minister of State for Communications, told the
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    • 114 21 Reuter NEW FOREIGN orders placed with South Korea's shipyards rose to 2.07 million gross tons the first 11 months of this 'year from 623,000 tons in the same period in 1985, provisional trade ministry figures show. The value of the 11-month orders rose to US$954
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    • 415 21  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF THE REGIONAL OPERATIONS of international freight forwarders Hermann Ludwig (SEA) will expand next year following an agreement reached by its parent organisation in Germany to sell a majority stake to a French forwarding company. From Jan 1, the Calberson
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    • 430 21 THE THAI PORT of Laem Chabang is expected to be completed by the end of 1990. A Bangkok Post report quoted Thai Communications Minister Banharn Si-lapa-archa saying that tenders may be issued soon for the construction of the deep-sea port,
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 106 21 Reuter THE WEST GERMAN freighter captain who set down 155 Tamil refugees off Newfoundland will not be prosecuted, lawyers said. Captain Wolfgang Bindel had been under investigation on suspicion of abandoning the Tamils at sea and profiteering since shortly after the July incident, in which
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      • 120 21 Reuter FRENCH TUG companies will hold a 72-hour national strike this week to protest a new government plan to try to revive the country's ailing merchant fleet, a spokesman for the Ste Des Abeilles tug firm at the northern port of Le Havre said.
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    • 113 22 AFP STEADIER RATES were paid to large units to major destinations out of the Gulf states' area during the past week, despite uncertainty about the possible outcome of Opec's ministerial conference in Geneva from Dec 11. But tanker brokers felt that in view of the
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    • 202 22 NEPTUNE Agencies Pte Ltd (NAPL), NOL's agents in Singapore, has announced the appointment of Mr Frankle Yeo as its commercial manager. Mr Yeo is now responsible for NAPL's public relations and related activities including corporate advertising and promotional activities such as annual golf tournament and shippers' functions. He
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    • 271 22 AP THE NUCLEAR-POWERED attack submarine San Juan was launched last Saturday the eve of the anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour in what a navy admiral called a symbol of military preparedness. "When World War II began in the Pacific at Pearl Harbour
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    • 158 22 AFP THE GENERAL Council of British Shipping and British maritime unions have agreed to extend eastward the Gulf "danger zone" to include the Iranian oil terminal on the island of Larak as well as the country's principal port, Bandar Abbas, specialists in London disclosed
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    • 56 22 Reuter THE UNITED STATES navy said it has picked Westinghouse Electric to become the US representative in a Nato industrial consortium that will develop a new common navy frigate for the *****. The navy said it asked for proposals from 33 US companies and received only
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    • 940 22 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner X 1 Alltrons VII 3 AC Toepfer X 5 Anro Service IV 2/3 Arrow Lines X 4 Atlas Line X 3 AN I 1 1/2 APC line V 4 API III 2/3 ASCI III 1 Bait-Canada Line
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    • 1115 22 THE RATE for grain from the US Gulf to Japan eased on Thursday for the second straight day on the London shipping freights market The rate was also lower from the US Gulf to Venezuela and there were unconfirmed reports of lower rates from the US Gulf to
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    • 175 23 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
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    • 185 23 Reuter A FIRE which broke out on an Icelandic refrigerated cargo vessel in mid-Atlantic is being investigated as possible sabotage by anti-whal-ing environmental groups, Icelandic police said. The fire, which started in a car being transported in the 2,939tonne Hofsjokull,
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    • 529 23 Bangkok Post THE PORT Authority of Thailand is expected to break even in the third year of operation of its own crane services at Klong Toey port, Thai Communications Minister Banharn Silpaarcha said. Mr Banharn was commenting on the decision of
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    • 659 23 A HIGHLIGHT of the demolition sector last week was the sale of the Plumleaf. motor tanker of 7,131 light tons and built 1960 to Taiwan breakers at the higher price of US$l4O per light ton. Shipbrokers said two motor tug vessels were sold last month to Thailand at
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    • 108 23 THROUGHPUT of the four North Sea Canal ports looks set to rise to a record 45 million tonnes this year from 43.2 million tonnes last year, Amsterdam Ports Association chairman Yke Vermeiden said. The increase in ships through Amsterdam, Beverwijk, Zaandam and Ymuiden should
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    • 236 23 Seatrade Week THE OCEAN-GOING fleet of landlocked Czechoslovakia, which has made considerable hard currency earnings for decades, is now the victim of neglect and the freight slump and is losing money hand over fist, according to reports. The fleet comprises 14 vessels of 150 000
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    • 157 23 Reuter THE UK government is near agreement to contracting out management of the stateowned Royal Dockyard in Roysth, Scotland to Babcock Thorn Ltd, the UK Ministry of Defence said. The Royal yard is one of two Royal Dockyards up for private sector management
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    • 5994 28 AARHUS Evar Gantla. Evargraan, Dec's Ming Longavtty. Yang Ming. Dac 13 Evar Qaniua, Evargraan. Dac 14 Sha Ha. China Ocaan, Dac 14 Anna Maarak. Maarak Lina. Dac 16 ftBtflJAH An Shan. China Ocaan. Dac 10 CR Douala Chargaura Raunla. Oac 12 Gold
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    • 1123 28 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Gdna FCL Arrival LCL movamant Ship Voy data/tima Operator cargo schedule Location M lotno 72N 0812.86 2100 Jordine F7 1200-1300 B7 AM Oklahoma 8 0812.86 1800 US lines F7 *****000/*****900 P2/S2 Vira Bhum 12 0812.86 1600 S'pore Shpg F5A 0700-0600
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    • 71 21 SAUDI ARABIA plans to upgrade its small navy to help protect oil terminals and export lanes in the Gulf and the Red Sea. Pag« II THE PORT Authority of Thailand is expected to break even in the third year of operation of its own crane services at Klong Toey port.
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