The Business Times, 4 March 1987

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 112/12/86 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1187 75 CENTS
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  • 244 1 STOCK MARKET SHARE PRICES ended slightly lower across the board yesterday as investors appeared reluctant to open new positions. Turnover slowsd to 40.96 million sharss from Monday's 45.4 million and losers took s commanding four-to-one lesd ovsr gaining issues. The Strsits Times Industrisl Index, down 7.92 points
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  • 641 1  -  Problem prevalent among new and young recruits By BOEY KIT YIN JOB-HOPPING haa reared its ugly head again in the electronics industry. In the context of the national policy of wage restraint, this problem has taken on a different perspective. While electronics companies previously resorted
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  • 195 1 Reuter, AP THAILAND'S F-5E supersonic fighter-bombers will attack bases of Burmese opium warlord Khun Sa in a campaign to stamp out his drug-smuggling empire. Air force officials in Bangkok said yesterday that the US-made planes would also provide cover for planned troop
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  • 405 1 THE GOVERNMENT has refected ail the tenders to build the city portion of the Central Cxprsss way (CTE), a project setimated to cost $330 million. In a statement issued yesterday. the Ministry of National Development said that "no tenderer submitted a
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  • 112 1 SHARE PRICES in Hongkong yesterday surged ahead to set new record levels for the second consecutive day with the Hang Seng index rising 44.79 points to 2,939.05. Light profit-taking occurred near the 2,900 level but firm overseas demand pushed the index to new highs
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  • 378 1 Reuter WEST QERMAN BANKS would like Brazil to work more closely with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with a view to seeking a solution to the country's debt problems, senior West German banking sources said. The sources, speaking ahead of a meeting late
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  • 60 1 COMPANIES which have moved to Tuas, a fishing village turned industrial estate, are finding it a quiet and lonely place. Several factories appear to have been locked up for some time while others are still waiting for tenants. The major problems seem to be
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  • 114 1 Reuter FORMER US secretary of state Henry Kissinger will meet senior officials from the Association of South-east Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, the Malaysian nationsl nsws sgency, Bernama. reported yesterday. Malaysisn Prime Ministsr Dstuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad will be the host
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  • 366 1  -  By AMY CHEOK PUBLICLY-LISTED Hotel Properties Ltd, the owner of the Hilton International Singapore, is the latest suitor to knock on the doors of troubled Emporium Holdings (S) Ltd. The company disclosed yesterday that it had signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the
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  • 157 1 FINANCE MINISTER Or Richard Hu it to unveil the Budget for the new fiscal year in Parliament this afternoon amid little expectation of any major concessions for busineesmen. Details of tax breaks to encourage parents to have more babiee under the new population policy
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    • 138 1 Buy Genuine Regal Shoes from authorised dealers for your protection A HELPING FOR HOME BUYERS «Once you've found your dream home, the next thing you have to look for is a good housing loan. Look to International Bank of Singapore. At IBS, our housing loan scheme is designed to make
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    • 257 1 Sh Page 8 mm kS? < OUR VIEW IT WOULD BE MASOCHISTIC to suggest that the securities industry has become all the better for having been lashed by the Pan-Electric crisis. Then again, could we have arrived at where we are had not that crisis stirred the industry out of
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    • 237 1 \a Hot news FOOTE, Con* 4 Balding of Chicago has severed Its link with Singapore partner Quantum, and signed an exclueive affiliation with a new partner. In another development, YP Chan, managing director of Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon Eckhardt, takes steps to "wind down". All In Advertising Marketing on Page 7.
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  • 559 2  -  By GOH YEE UNG ORCHARD ROAD is Orchard Road, that's essentially what hotels jn that area are saying with a tinge of pride and taunt in reporting higher-than-average occupancy ratee. Throw in their established status, customer loyalty and aggressive marketing, the threat
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  • 136 2 A JAPANESE DELEGATION will arrive in Singapore tomorrow for a three-day visit to introduce the latest Instrumentation technology to local Industries. The six-member Yokohama Instrumentation Industry mission will conduct a one-and-a-half-day seminar and workshops on instrumentation technology. They will be organised by the
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  • 81 2 TELECOMS introduced its Telepac service to Portugal with effect from yeeterday, and will do the same for Bermuda with effect from March 16. With this service, subscribers can now receive data baae information or use the proceesing capability of a remote computer. The charges for
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  • 283 2 NATIONAL CARRIER Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be spending $42 million on maintenance and engineering hardware over the next two years. Nearly e third will be spent on s new engine test ceil to be opersted by SIA subsidisry Singapore Engine Overhaul Centre.
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  • 40 2 THE INDUSTRIAL Arbitration Court (lAC) haa moved to its now premises at City Hall. The now addreaa is Fourth Storey, City Hall, St Andrew s Road. The now telephone number of the adminiatration section is *****18.
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  • 379 2  -  By JEFFREY TSANG AFTER the huge success of Informatics 86, the nstionsl exhibition snd conference on information technology, the organisers are expanding the programme this year and renaming it the Singapore Information Technology Week. The exhibition which occupied under 10,000 sq metree of floor
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  • 171 2 THE CHAIRMAN and chief executive officer of Jepen's NEC Corporation, Or Koji Kobeyashi, has been appointed an honorary adviser to the Economic Develop ment Board. He is the fourth adviser appointed under the EDB Advisor Scheme, which elms to get the help
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  • 84 2 THE SINGAPORE Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SFCCI) will send a trade mission to Pakistan this Saturday. With the support of the Trade Development Board, the 10member delegation will leave Singapore on March 7 for a 10- day mieaion that will cover Karachi.
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  • 78 2 THE SINGAPORE Jaycees' Merlion Chapter ia organising a talk on tranaactional analysis next Tueeday, March 11. The talk, to be held at the Mandarin Hotel, will be given by Dr Chua Bee Long from the per- eonnel reeearch department of the
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 456 3 AFP AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Bill Hayden told Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday that Australia was concerned about Soviet penetration of the South Pacific. "You know that we have concerns about your increased level of activity in the South Pacific region," Mr Hayden
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    • 252 3 AP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino said yesterday that she thought last month's approval of the Constitution had put an end to coup threats. She also said her family would not stand in the way of placing their estate under any future land
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    • 168 3 AP HELPED BY brisk shipments of textiles snd electronic items, South Korea posted its 12th consecutive favourable monthly trade surplus, of US$llO million in February, the Trade and Industry Ministry said yesterday. The February figure fell from January's US$525 million surplus, but was far
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    • 230 3 AP HONGKONG looks to Switzerland and other free-mar-ket trading partners to work for increased access to foreign msrkets, Financial Secretary Piers Jacobs said on Monday. "This will be advantageous to everyone because free trade brings about increased trade for all." he told a
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    • 437 3 AP ACROSS A campus square from the last Mao Zedong statue in Dalian, Chinese snd American experts are training China's business elite in managerial skills needed for a modern nation which has rejected Mao's brand of socialism. The National Centre for Industrial
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    • 487 3 Unemployment level in January was the worst in history Reuter UNEMPLOYMENT IN JAPAN climbed to 3 per cent in January, its worst level in recent history, and the outlook for job hunters continues to be gloomy, the Japanese government and economists said yesterday. The jobless
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    • 168 3 AP THE DEVELOPMENT of China's tourist industry is being hindered by basic problems and it urgently needs reform, tourist experts said on Monday. "Tourism reform will be a basic task this year, and an outline for the reforms should be worked out as soon
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    • 390 3 AFP INDIAN Prim* Minister Rajiv Gandhi broke a year's silence on Monday by denying that his government was increasingly sidelining India's first Sikh head of state on national issues. The denisl in Parliament came after a communist Member of
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 373 5 AFP EFFORTS to revitalise the French economy remained incomplete and required sustained wage restraint in order to curb inflation, said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECO. in its annual report on the French economy, said policies pursued by the
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    • 281 5 UPI THERE HAS BEEN a surge of optimism about the state of Britain's economy, according to the latest bimonthly survey of 200 leading executives by the Institute of Directors (IOD). Following last week's message from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the lOD's annual convention
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    • 433 5 AP THE US GOVERNMENT has announced that it will back a proposed international accord to cut down the diversion of aid money, originally provided to help poor countries, to subsidise industry in richer countries. John Bohn. president of the US government s Export-Import
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    • 228 5 AP AMERICA'S corporations excluding banks and other financial institutions failed to improve their productivity in 1986 for the first time in six years. While overall business productivity rose 0.7 per cent for the year and manufacturing productivity increased 2.7 per cent, non-financial corporations were
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    • 348 5 AP PRICES PAID by consumers in the major industrial countries rose an average of only 2.3 per cent last year, the smallest increase of inflation in 25 years, says the International Monetary Fund. In West Germany, prices actually declined by 0.2 per cent
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    • 295 5 Reuter MOSCOW TELEVISION is to introduce breakfast and late night news and entertainment shows as part of a drive for more openness in the Soviet media, a senior state broadcasting official said on Monday. Leonid Kravchenko, deputy chief of the State Committee for Television
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 143 6 OIL PRODUCTS TRADING remained thin in the Far East spot products market. Fuel oil looks likely to turn upwards as sellers appear to hold back and buyers now apparently believing that prices have bottomed. Sentiment for gasoil was bearish but sentiment turned slightly positive in light of the morning price
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    • 101 6 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon dosing prices on Mar 3 (S$/100 kg). Coconut oil Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW BWP FOB NSW Gambier FOB NSW 1438.00 1322.00 280.00 Bu* FOB Otd dram FOB New dram FOB Copra Mixed (loose) 80.00 90.00 94.00 42 tellers London Commodity Exchange Sellers' dosing
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    • 167 6 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices weakened yesterday on short selling to close at the day's lows in sympathy with easier palm oil futures and after Pakistan rejected RBD palm oil offers at its tender for second half March shipment. A higher overnight Chicago soyoil futures close had supported
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    • 66 6 Bangkok Broken Rice A-l Super 138 (US$/tanM. FOB) AO Sp*dol 135 White Rice C-1 Special C-1 Ord unq unq 100% 1st doss 255 100% 2nd doss 223 Loonzain Rice 100% 3rd doss 218 100% 1st grad* unq 5% 10% 15% 208 203 100% 2nd grad* 217 100% 3rd grod*
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    • 403 6 SINGAPORE The market closed quiet yesterday with April 1 RSS buyers quoted at 183.75 cents/kilo, down 0.25 cent from Monday. Long liquidation and the absence of fresh factors caused prices to fall by about one cent in thin morning trading, dealers said. The market recovered slightly in the afternoon
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    • 21 6 1 KL TIN Closing pric** on Mar 3 (ms Aa) Price 16.51 down 0.09 Turnover (tonnes 164 up 55
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    • 83 6 (caMi/kg, 1 -ton polt«n) APR 87 MAY 87 (currant month) (forwar d month) NOON NOON RAS Bvyan Saltan Ivytn SSt 30 166.00 16B.00N 165.00 167.00N SSt 50 164 JO 166.50N 164.00 166.00N MRELB luyan t-M jiiwn ■wyari Satan SMt CV 252 50 354.50N 353-50 355JON SMK I
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    • 299 6 RAS prices In S c*nts/kg, FOB In b«t« B NOON CLOSE Buyors Soll*rs 8uy*rs Sallarj lot 1 RSS Prompt 186.00 187.00N 186 JO 187 JON Int 1 RSS April 87 183.00 183 JO 183.75 184.25 Int 1 RSS May 182.00 182 JO 182 JO 183.00 Int 2
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    • 185 6 WHEAT FUTURES in Chicago closed on or near the highs on Monday, up six to 1/2 US cent a bushel in light trade. March settled at USS2.B7-1/4, up 4-1/2 cents. Old crop advanced steadily on hopes that the Reagan administration personnel changes might make an offer of export bonus
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    • 164 6 SOYBEAN FUTURES in Chicago backed off earlier highs to close with gains of 2-1/4 to five US cents per bushel in moderately light trade on Monday. March settled at US$4.B5-1/2 after posting a 4-1/4 cent range on the day. An announcement last Friday extending the time period on farm-owned
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    • 721 6 COFFEE Robusta coffee futures ended Monday easier but above the day's lows, with the May position last traded at £1,496 a tonne. Short-covering during the afternoon helped the May position to recover from a low of £1,470, but values remained well below Friday's close of £1,558. Other positions
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 513 7 DDB/NEEDHAM has ended weeks of speculation by announcing that it is not pulling out of Singapore and is seriously considering merging with a Singapore agency in a bid to reposition itself in the market. Managing director Niland Mortimer, who replaced Teresa Chan in January
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    • 553 7 Y P CHAN, managing director of Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon Eckhardt (BJKE), will be stepping down from his post at the end of the month following a personal decision to "wind down". But Chan will remain in the industry and will be involved in several
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    • COPY LINES
      • 117 7 PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM Burson-Marsteller's Singapore office has reported a 1986 income of $2.3 million, an 8 per cent increase over the previous year's figure. The company predicts a further 10 per cent growth for this year if current economic trends continue. Last year's growth areas included
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      • 157 7 D'ARCY MASIUS BENTON BOWLES (DMB&B) has acquired a 24 per cent stake in Tokyu Agency International of Japan (TAI). Bill Dowler, DMB&B's managing director in Singapore, said yesterday that this was the largest equity share ever granted to a foreign company by a major Japanese advertising
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    • 100 7 THE McDONALD's account, "up for grabs" since the fast-food leader resigned its agency DDB/Needham in January, has short-listed three agencies for a final pitch later this month. The three agencies are Leo Burnett; Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon Eckhardt; and Dai ley, Naidu and Chan International.
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    • 418 7  -  AA ties up with FCB under affiliation deal By MONICA GWEE CHICAGO-BASED Foote, Cone Belding (FCB) has severed its links with its Singapore partner, Quantum, and signed an exclusive international affiliation deal with Advertising Associates in a surprise agreement finalised last week. The
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  • FEATURES
    • 494 8 IN THE GLOOM and doom that followed the Pan-Electric Industries crisis late in 1985, no one could have foreseen that in little over a year, the securities industry would be back firmly on its feet. The Pan-El crisis, which resulted in a suspension of
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    • 1931 8  -  Tuas, a fishing village turned industrial estate, is the latest and most ambitious project of the Jurong Town Corporation. Hundreds of hectares of land are being readied in anticipation of the next economic upturn. SAID ABDULLAH went to take a look and spoke to several
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 698 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Christine has only ops. we hear (S) 6 To hop around in a picture (5) 9 Vssssl s csr hss reversed into? (7) 10 Where to have a belt instead of going to bed? (5) 11 Name a person uniquely! (5) 12 Source of many a
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  • SPORTS
    • 311 9 Reuter CHRIS DITTMAR of Australia took a big stride down his personal comeback trail when he upset world champion Ross Norman of New Zealand to win the European Open squash championship in Munich on Monday. Unseeded Dittmar, who recently returned to the game after
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    • 163 9 UPI JOCKEY Don Macbeth, who rode Chief's Crown to victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in 1984, died on Sunday after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 37. Macbeth was released on Sunday from Shands Hospital in Gainesville, and died later in the day,
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    • 453 9 AP AS HAS become his habit, second-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden created very little fanfare on his way to the quarter-finals of the International Players championships on Monday with a 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Kevin Curren. Edberg, playing the first match
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    • 250 9 Reuter STEFFI GRAF's rise to the number-two spot in the Women's International Tennis Association world rankings has sparked a row between her and Hana Mandlikova, who remained in fourth position. In the twice-monthly computer rankings by the WITA, Graf, of West Germany, moved ahead of Chris
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    • 421 9  -  First hurdle to Dunhill Cup zone championships By WALTON MORAIS SINGAPORE has been relegated to playing a pre-qualifying competition for two places in the lucrative Dunhill Cup Pacific Zone qualifying golf competition in Kuala Lumpur next month. The Republic will have to play in an
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    • 472 9 UPI THE MILLION dollars pumped into the Doral Open golf tournament this year is good for the game, and even more money would be welcome, says Lanny Wadkins, the tournament's 26th winner. "Maybe golf is catching up with some of the other
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    • 333 9 UPI THE American National Basketball Association playoffs may be more than six weeks away, but a recent surge by the Washington Bullets has at least one team member, all-star centre Moses Malone, thinking post-season. Entering Monday night's game against the Atlanta Hawks at the Omni,
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    • 336 9 AP MICHAEL SPINKS, stripped tf the International Boxing Federation world heavyweight title tart week, will go to court next Moo* day in an effort to clear the legal path for a fight with fellow 'I ican Gerry Cooney. J r
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 314 10 FT EXCO INTERNATIONAL, the UK foreign exchange and securities broker, has agreed to buy RMJ, one of the largest brokers in the US Treasury bond market. The deal will increase British dominance of the US Treasury bond broking business. Exco will
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    • 185 10 Reuter UNION CARBIDE Corp is looking to acquisitions and joint ventures to aid its chemicals and plastics growth, according to HW Lichtenberger, president of chemicals and plastics. Describing this as a major departure in the company's approach to commercial development, he told the annual
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    • 389 10 Reuter WALL STREET stock prices closed slightly lower on Monday as concern about the economy and any further ramifications of the Iranian/Contra scandal prompted some investors to the sidelines. A handful of special situation stocks posted good gains but failed to provide
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 450 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed sharply higher yesterday as a late round of buying pushed the Hang Seng Index above the key 2,900 level to another record high, brokers said. The index finished 44.79 points higher at a record 2,939.05, erasing a record set only on Monday. The Hong Kong
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    • 403 11 TOKYO: «Prices hit new all-time highs on brisk selective buying on the Tokyo Stock Exchange yesterday. It was the third successive rise. The Nikkei average of 225 selected issues, which rose to a new high Monday, gained an additional 37.57 yen to close at a new high of 20,971.39.
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    • 356 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets yesterday retreated from record levels and closed lower as investors took profits in leading industrial and resource stocks and recent buying dried up, brokers said. The strongest sectors of yesterday's market were gold and media, led by News Corp. At the close of trading, the
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    • 141 11 Reuter BANGKOK: The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index added 0.91 point to 210.31 on a turnover of 626,063 shares worth 108.5 million baht. Reuter MAM M IAHT +h Saha Union 177 3 Siam Cement Ao Kham Thai Siam City Ayudhya Investment 256 2 Cement. 740 unch Bangkok Agro-lnd 72
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    • 83 11 Reuter COMALCO LTD's return to profitability reflects reduced costs, improved primary aluminium prices and its withdrawal from a Japanese smelter venture. It said the earlier reported A 557.1 million profit for the year ended Dec 31, against a $69.13 million loss in 1985, was also aided
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    • 607 11 Taking advantage of low interest rates Reuter FALLING INTEREST RATES in the past two years have helped reduce the debt of government-owned Mass Transit Railway Corp (MTRC). says finance director Roger Moss. He said yesterday that interest payments for calendar 1986 were HK$3OO
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    • 99 11 REUTER. the world news and financial information organisation, has launched a new information service covering Japanese securities markets and news. The Japan Investment Service (JIS) is available through the Reuter Monitor and offers a unique news service on Japan, as well as real-time
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    • 202 11 Reuter A MAJOR SHAREHOLDER of Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd has agreed to sell a 25 per cent stake in the company to institutions in Hongkong for more than HK$l.3 billion, according to stock brokers in the British colony. They
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  • BANKIONG AND FINANCE
    • 537 12 NYT THE FALL in the US dollar, a decline that reached breakneck speed during the first six weeks of the year, is unlikely to resume for at least the next few weeks, according to economists and currency traders in New York. But the apparent stability
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    • 178 12 Reuter THE BANK OF JAPAN has decided to promote further interest rate liberalisation by lowering the minimum denomination of regulation-free large deposits and by raising the interest rate ceiling on money market certificates (MMCs), a central bank official said. The new guideline will go take
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    • 228 12 AP BRITAIN'S Treasury chief on Monday advised Brazil to work out its crushing debt problem with creditor banks and suggested that it needed a "convincing economic programme," the Treasury said. Brazil's Finance Minister, Dilson Funaro, and Francisco Gros, head
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    • 218 12 Reuter THE MAJOR US government bond brokers are likely to give in to pressure from regulators and investors within the next 18 months, making their direct-deal-ing screens available to many of those firms* that are not now eligible to receive them, said
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    • 838 12 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed slightly lower against major currencies yesterday after moving within a narrow range in thin trading. Dealers said that sentiment for the dollar remained bearish but most operators were reluctant to push it down sharply on fear of possible central bank intervention. The market
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    • 549 12 JUNE Eurodollar opened unchanged from the previous cloee at 93.71. There was not much trading interest. Trading was confined to a narrow range of 93.70 to 93.72. Near-term resistance could be found at 93.75 with support at 93.67. The June contract finally ended at 93.71 in a dull session.
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    • Article, Illustration
      73 12 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market gained 34 point to close at 3% per cent yesterday. The term rates remained unchanged across the board at 3 7/16 per cent. prim* landing nNsaTeT 12 HW|or banks In Unpapof S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: OHm M Om
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    • 179 12 Reuter THREE STATE-OWNED Turkish banks are to take over the private Turkiye Ogretmenler Bankasi (Tobank), which has been troubled by non-performing loans, the semi-official Anatolian Agency said. It quoted the general director of the state's T C Ziraat Bankasi, Kemal Akkaya, as telling journalists that
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    • 132 12 Reuter THE SPANISH Cabinet has approved a decree cutting to one per cent from 13 per cent the proportion of total assets which banks must lend at favourable rates to industries "of public interest", government spokesman Javier Solana said. He did not say when
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    • 224 12 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: M oa*r Local dollai n to on* unit of forolgn curroncyi US dofar 2.1390 2.1400 2.8196 -24.14 $Hrlw(| pour d 3.3453 3.3491 7X469 -54^47 AuttiuBan d< *or 1.4434 1.4466 X4286 -5749 NZ dollar 1.1989 1.2016 3.4286 -65.03 Canadian do Mar ***** 1.6060 3.4206
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    • 283 12 HONGKONG: Gold closed steady in moderately active trading on renewed buying support mainly by local physical traders. The metal ended at U*****.70/U*****.10 an ounce against New York's U*****.30/80 close and the U*****.80/405.30 finish here on Monday. On the local market gold roee HK$B to close at HK53,757 a
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    • 207 12 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading as the market lacked fresh factors. Dealers said that most operators were sidelined awaiting Friday's February unemployment data. Short-dates were steady to slightly higher at the outset underpinned by firmer US federal funds
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4208 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market underwent another mild correction yesterday. Dealers were split in their views on whether this was the start of a significant correction, or one of those pauses before another assault on the all-time high is attempted. While prices ended marginally lower
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 794 14 Reuter AN UNEXPECTED improvement in Malaysia's economy has lured investors back to the previously depressed Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) and surging share prices are expected to surpass previous highs of 1964 and 1901, investment analysts say. The real gross domestic product
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    • 256 14 Bernama STOCK BROKERS are placing too many conditions on their clients and this could dampen the current bullish sentiment on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. In a statement, the president of the Malaysian Investors Association (MIA), Mr P H S Lim, said the investing
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    • 493 14 MBT SELANQOR DREDGING Bhd (Seldredge) is to start work in April on the second phase of its US-based property development project where it has a 12.5 per cent interest. The project, known as "Washington Centre and McLachlen Office
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    • 654 14 Reuter CHEUNG KONG (Holdings) Lid is expecting strong results this year after reporting better-than-expected profits in 1966, chairman Li Ka-shing said. He did not give a specific earnings projection but said the group will pay total dividends of not less than 19 cents
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    • 104 14 HONGKONG Hongkong Indox Tuesday *****9 Monday 1850.95 WmIc ago 1820.61 Hang Song Indox Tuesday 2939.05* Monday 2894.26 Weak ago 2848.19 All Industrials Tuesday 2582.4 Monday ****** Week ago 2544.1 NEW YORK Dow Jonos Monday *****7 Friday *****9 Week ago *****4 TOKYO Ntkkoi Avorago Tuesday *****.39* Monday *****82 Week
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    • 238 14 Managers' print for Mar 4 Singapore Unit Trust Th* Co«—rc* 1.04 Th* Savings Fund 090 S'por* Prog fund 0.41 S'por* S*c Fund 0.69 S'por* Invwt Fund 0.77 S'por* Equity Fund 0.50 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest Fund 136 Mai Prog Fund 0.34 1 Mai Security Fund 025 Mol
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    • 537 14 SELLERS dominated trading on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday and share prices eased across the board. A broker said the softer trend could be due to profit-taking by investors who bought heavily in the recent rally. Investors were cautious
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    • 2683 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and barium in and reported to the Koala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number at shares traded dwn in brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Aom <***** Afhaowlo AJcem 84S1 12 AS 11« 83
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    • 146 14 KUALA LUMPUR KEPOMG Berfiad: 14th AGM at Witma Taiko. 1, Jalan S P i Seenivasagam, ***** Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, tomorrow at 12.30pm. I CHEMICAL COMPANY of MALAYSIA Berhad: EQM at the Kedah Room, Basement 2, Shangri-La Hotel, 11 Jalan Sultan Ismail. I ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday, Mar
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    • TAKING STOCK...
      • 790 15 HOCL LOCK SIEW THERE IS MUCH to be said about joining hands with successful concerns. The hope is always there that success may rub off on the new partner. Being in well-heeled company could also do wonders for one's public image. That and much
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      • 404 15 WHO HAS MOVED in to rescue financially stricken Perwira Habib Bank, the seventh largest bank in Malaysia? That was the question everybody in Kuala Lumpur was asking for a time. Malayan Banking Bhd was at first rumoured to have performed 'national service'
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    • 564 15  -  Juncrown offering to buy 4.93 m shares in company at $1.70 each By AMY CHEOK SUNSHINE ALLIED Investments Ltd, the chocolate manufacturing and trading company which is now part of Malaysian businessman Lee Ming Tee's business empire, is considering the poesibility of a
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    • 332 15 PERLIS PLANTATIONS has confirmed that it plans to diversify into palm oil refining, plywood processing and glue manufacturing. The company has advised the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that the necessary licences for the projects have been granted and it is in the process of
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    • 164 15 Bernama ES PLANTATION GROUP Batu Kftwan Bhd has contracted to buy threa Duff Bhd's estates together with all their properties for Ms 36 million cash. The properties on the estates include a sheet rubber factory, a SMR rubber factory as well as all plants, squipment,
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    • 793 15 LONDON share prices showed modest declines yesterday morning, mainly on lack of demand after an early markdown following Monday's drift from record highs. At 11.00 am, the FT 30 Index was down 8.5 points to 1,586.0 while the FTSE 100 Index lost 11.2 points to 1,971.2. On Monday,
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    • 632 15  -  ■y NAJEEB JARHOM THE GLUT in office space and aggressive competition for tenants have taken their toll on the rent renewal rates of Singapore Land's three prestigious commercial properties Shell Tower, Clifford Centre and Shing Kwan House. The rates fell by an average
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    • 240 15 GENERAL SECURITIES INVESTMENTS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting To: All Shareholders NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twelfth Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held in the Function Room of The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd, 45th Storey,
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  • 509 16  - Bigger families employers likely to follow civil service By LUCY NG PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYERS are likely to use as a yardstick the measures the civil service is expected to introduce for its women workers to encourage them to have larger families. Mr Stephen Lee, vice-presi-dent of the Singapore National Employers
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  • 464 16  - F N and Coca-Cola to discuss ideas for business cooperation By MARTIN SOONG OLD FRIENDS Fraser Neave and the Coca-Cola Company will be discussing new ideas today, including possible cooperation in marketing and manufacturing fruit juices. But last night was a time for nostalgia, as the two beverage behemoths toasted
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  • 115 16 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES must devalue the peso if it wants its exports to remain competitive, Economic Planning Secretary Solita Monsod said. "The peso/dollar rate has to be undercut to make our exports more competitive," Mr Monsod said. "No question about it. I'm saying you cannot
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  • 196 16 AFP THE KIDNAPPING of a Japanese businessman in Manila last November has seriously hurt Japanese investment and tourism in the Philippines, President Corazon Aquino said yesterday. She tokJ reporters that the abduction of Noboyuki Wakaoji had "seriously affected" pledges of aid
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  • 246 16 Reuter GLOBAL share dealers say new British anti-fraud laws due to come into force about the end of the year will boost trading on the London foreign equity market from present estimated levels of US$l billion a day. The law's demand for
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  • 184 16 DANNY KAYE, whose performing career spanned television, Broadway, movies and the concert stage and who served as UNICEF's longtime "ambassador to the world's children," died early yesterday at the age of 74. Mr Kaye died of heart failure "brought on by complications
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  • 440 16 AP UPI US SECRETARY-OF-STATE George Schultz yesterday told Chinese management trainees "cloeed societies will fall behind and wither," a warning that followed Beijing's two-month-old campaign against Western influences and capitalist trends. "Growth will best flow not from central planning but from the
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  • 73 16 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES drifted •lightly higher on support generated by yesterday morning's firmness in crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange. April delivered gold was up US$O.BO at U*****.40 an ounce, which fell short of Monday's high of U*****.40. Analysts said day traders were light
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  • 55 16 Reuter WALL STREET stocks were lower in moderate trading early yesterday. A larger-than-expected one per cent decline in January leading economic indicators had little effect on the market, traders said. Profit-taking in American Express, after Monday's sharp rise, dragged the blue chip average. The Dow industrials fell
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  • LATE FILE
    • 42 16 AP MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Rais Yatim yesterday urged Vietnam to curb the outflow of boat people refugee* seeking asylum in neighbouring countries. He was speaking after talks with Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila in Bangkok. AP
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    • 58 16 AFP VIETNAM yesterdsy denied Thai reports that about 100 of its soldiers had taken up positions on a hill inside Thai territory. Military sources in Bangkok said three Thai soldiers had been killed and another 30 injured since Thursday in violent clashes with sbout 100 Vietnamese
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    • 44 16 AP A TAIWANESE delegation left for Washington yesterday to try to negotiate an increase in the country's textile exports to the US. A member of the team said he was not optimistic about the outcome of the talks. AP
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    • 61 16 AP PREBIDENT Suharto told Tanzanian President Ali Hassan mwinyi yantroiy met indonesia did not occupy or cofoniee East Timor, formerly controlled by Portugal, but haloed decoionise the lanito>wf|rw wwtviiiw WW IWII ry. 'Tanzania still doea not support the incorporation of East Timor into Indoneeia," preaidenttai spokesman
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    • 48 16 UPI SOUTH KOREAN riot police yesterday fired tear gas in Seoul at Buddhist monks antf broke up small groups of demonstrators armed leaflets and flags in a mas-, si ve show of force that aborted opposition plana for a major anti-government test. UPI
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    • 206 16 TVm silver report wu not THE BUDGET. WE CAN WORK IT OUT. 9th March 1987, 5-Bpm, Mandarin Court, Level 4, Mandarin Hotel, Singapore. We'll be reviewing the 1987 Budget proposals and recent developments in economic incentives, highlighting the impact and relevance to Singapore businesses. The programme will comprise a series
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 432 17  -  By JUNE LIM THE HIGH level of service contracts has tempered the effect of the general rate increase which a number of trans-Pacific operators imposed on March 1. Industry sources say close to 50 per cent of the containers moved by
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    • 223 17 AFP THE SOVIET UNION'S current effort to restructure its economic management will have a dramatic effect upon the nation's transportation industry, a top Soviet shipping industry official has said. Captain Vikor M Miskov, president of the Vladivostok-based shipping line, Far Eastern
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    • 237 17 TONNAGE registered in the Isle of Man has built up enormously and shows no signs of abating. A Lloyd's List report says the number of ships of more than 500 gross tons has doubled in four months, mainly because of more tankers and bulk carriers
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 109 17 AFP A SEARCH has been mounted in the East China Sea for a South Korean fishing boat, with 33 people aboard, which has not been heard from for three days. Japanese Maritime Safety Agency officials said. Radio contact was lost on Saturday with the 109
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      • 18 17 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Henry Noon and Co has shifted to 02-07, Southpoint, Singapore 0208.
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      • 34 17 KANSAI STEAMSHIP will leave the Japan Bangkok Container Club at the end of March. The Japanese carrier will however continue to provide a conventional liner service on the Japan/Bangkok route.
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    • 1006 18 Shipbuilders secure orders for six cruisers Fairplay THE CRUISE industry is in for a good time if projections by industry leaders are anything to go by. Mr Jim Godsman, president of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), projects the North American cruise market
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    • 122 18 AP TWENTY-TWO people drowned and 128 ships sank last year in the Huangpu river, which flows through Shanghai, a Chinese news report said on Monday. There were 574 shipping accidents on the river, including head-on crashes and sinkings, which caused damage worth 7.04
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    • 1004 18 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIII 2 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahrenkiel liner X 1 Africa Ocean IX 4 Alltrons VII 3 AC Toepfer X 5 Anro Service IV 2/3 Arrow lines X 4 Atlas Lin* X 3 AMI 1 1/2 ArC line V 4 API
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    • 1624 18 UNCONFIRMED reports are circulating the freight market of active chartering by companies acting on Soviet account to cover grain shipments to the USSR, mainly on a time-charter basis. ship brokers said. Numerous vessels are believed to have been fixed on time-charter for Argentine or US grain to the
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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 ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line
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    • 185 19 THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation is holding discussions in London on a new international treaty to combat unlawful acts against the safety of maritime navigation. An Ad Hoc Preparatory Committee, appointed by the IMO council, is considering a draft convention
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    • 380 19 Lloyd's List INSURERS have started to settle claims expected to total more than US$26 million relating to the loss of the container ship, Hanjin Incheon, last month. The 1,150 TEU vessel, said to be the first purpose-built container ship to sink in open
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    • 708 19 AFP THE PRESENCE of Soviet charterers seeking tonnage to lift grain and sugar gave a much-needed boost to sentiment on the freight market during the past week. There were rumours that about one dozen grain vessels had been booked from the US Gulf, northern Europe, the St Lawrence
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    • 297 19 AP THE CANADIAN government on Monday selected a Canadian builder for a giant icebreaker to help defend its disputed Arctic sovereignty. "Canada's effective control over waters of the Arctic archipelago will be greatly enhanced," Canadian Transport Minister John Crosbie said of the
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    • 1297 22 USA CANADA Li K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. ATUUHC COAST (Round Tlw World S*rvk») N. JADE W5/0. FAITH VI K. JACEJIN V37E/0. FRIENDSHIP VI 0. FORTUNE V 2 SPORE 4 Mar 28 Mar 4 Apr 20 Mar 11 Apr CHLS 7 Apr 14 Apr 21 Apr NFK 9 Apr
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    • 744 22 VI AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE AocapMnp FCUFCL Cowtolww FMdtr PKttonf ESTECLIPPER *12 14 M»r CALABAR V 33 31 Mar ESTECLIPPER U2l Mai liner Vtsul S port •KABIROAS" *33 20 Mat RAMOAS ViS 10 Apr "CHANOIDAS" *i 5 21 Apr ttett) Frtir Sydn Abo Accepts 4 Apr 13 Apr 11 Apr
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    • 697 22 Ten GOLDEN LINE S£> GUAN GUAM SUPPING (PTE) LTD 21. IcM kyf Street sbcapore oim m smjmi oi lscs> STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Spore PKtl.ni Per»r* OOLOEN WONDER Cotombo/Karaehi/DiAei/Deinman Wllbr GOLDEN BEAR Colombo/Karachi/Dubai/Dota 2S/30 fcf NINC CHENG 4/4 LINGQUANHE 21/4 r Karachi Sharjah Dam* Ktm 9/3 12/3 14/3 IS/3 10/3 21/3
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    • 436 22 4^ INTRASEA (PTE) LTD 15 Hoe Chiang Ro»'.. »07 02/03 Sanford Building Singapore 0208 Tel *****11 110 Line*) Bulk Orient Line BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPEyUK Sport P Kalanf Loadinf for:M V ADELINA 1702 SaiM 4/3 S£TE/ROT/ANT/UKO(ULL) M V AGIOS NIKOLAOS 1703 11/3 lt/3 NTS/ROT/ANT/UK(HULL) INTRASEA (PTE) LTD BOOK INC 224t5U
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 942 23 \\NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE A TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): P Ktiing Spore I Havre R Dim TW BRIDGE 36W In Port 5/3 23/3 24/3 SS BRIDGE OT. 9/3) 11/3 30/3 31/3 A CONCORD M. (16/3) 18/3 6/4 7/4 CR PARIS 9M (23/3) 25/3 13/4 14/4
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    • 416 23 OOMAM HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG, PENANG, BUSAN. INCHON Vessel* Name No I Donam/7U2N No 7 Donam/7U2N No 1 Dofum/702N No i Donjm/TWN No I oonam/703N No 7 Donam 703N No 9 Donam/703N SPIWI »UNIS AGfNCKS Plf I 10 Ifl ,''B99// ?'BS4j4 (Bookings ??09?84
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    • 821 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55. Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANC PCNANG M/S HANDLING SYSTEM CO SON. BHD. KSSftS HAI THONG SHIPPING 127 Pwm Street Pent*.
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 413 24 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPN.tPTE) LTD. TEL: 225-6868 (30 LINES) TELEX: RS ***** A/B SSCMA, RS ***** A/B SSCAD VEB DEUTF RACHT/SEEREEDERE I ROSTOCK FORTNIGHTLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE 'V ""'•i "•VIA LARNACA: Accepting cargo for Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Istanbul, Mersin, Lattakia, Limassol, Beirut, Alexandria, Port Said, Iraqi, Iranian and other Middle-East destinations.
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    • 337 24 SIHIIFII lIMIFIU 111 IRWRMW |V| VwNi 2 Shanton Way #04-23 ICS BMg Singapore 0106 Talax: R*****0 Tal: 222 4201 3 WEFKLY FULI CONTAINER SERVICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE/JAKARTA VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE JAKARTA RATU KONSORTIUM 073 103.87 12.3.87 RATU KONSORTIUM 074 17 3.87 19 387 RATU KONSORTIUM 075 24 387 26.3.87 bookings info
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    • 237 24 ;wux.' VESSEL ETA •WORLD SANPO BLT. C Sailed 20T HL available General Agents; Confer (SEA) thlpph 71, SouOi SrMga Ro TEL. No: *****07 (3 FAX No: *****00 LOADING FOR Vizag BrMgo Road, fOMO, S'poro 0106 fssi MENS HORNS SHIPPING PTE L TEL: *****11 (5 Linos) Tlx: RS ***** HWICO ACCEPTING
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 162 24 73 9 Regional Weather A I •J rz •iM 2A? e i 4 a; v LLi "c -A O W»*J drectKxi wrth tpeed in knot* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 AM. THIS MORNING. LIGCND R Thunderstorm Temp«coture •<. A v Shower Weattwf w*x) deection with tpeed m knot*
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 422 25 anirriwu itraiiS, weanesuuy, mann 1; a *A A 1 International Freight Forwarders 7s r B I ILLI ACCEPTING FCL/LCL HONG KONG BANGKOK TOKYO HAMBURG/ROTTERDAM COPENHAGEN SYDNEY/MELBOURNE FREMANTLE FELIXSTOWE LOS ANGELES Booking: Telephone *****33 Miss Katherine Pang Miss Radiol Chia ETD SINGAPORE TRANSIT TIME jpßtfil Hamburg West Germany Tiger Line Common
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    • 230 25 Fulfil mc> OG£JW UIES (Perfect China Ocean Shipping Lines) CHINA SERVICES Destinations: Etd. STORE Etd. PKLG SHANTOU, GUANGZHOU w HUANGPU, XIAMEN WEEKLY HAIKOU, ZHANJIANG O All I iinO XINGANG, QMGDAO oAlLllibO SHANGHAI OTHER PORTS S32S3M UJt 22MS POftTftANt mrsmas/ WORLDWIDE SERVICES ACCEPTING CONVENTIONAL, CONSOLIDATION (LCL) AND FCL CARGOES WEEKLY FROM
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    • 395 25 SINGAPORE JAKARTA VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE JAKARTA eta etd eta etd PRASETIA 119-120 9/03 10/03 12/03 14/03 121-122 16/03 17/03 19/03 21/03 123-124 23/03 24/03 27/03 29/03 PRABHAKTI 40-41 06/03 07/03 09/03 11/03 42-43 13/03 14/03 16/03 11/03 44-45 20/03 21/03 23/03 25/03 General Agents Asia Permtis Line Pte Ltd 19
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    • 256 25 LI TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* SPORE P.KELANC PENANC BELAWAN KAOHSIUNC C.SELATAN VI V-B SaiM V 3 7/3 CHANC YUNG V 5/3 12/3 6 VESSELS OF LOG CARRIERS 5 VESSELS OF BRAND NEW TWIN DECKERS ON REGULAR LINER SERVICE FROM TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE
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    • 190 25 Page DC Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd L l Tfl ??01<40f> 120 I trips Tl *HS \MS .•(>» I \M I K\ \K I I\l K lID STRAITS/JAPAN/STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-R0 HEAVY LIFTS Loadinf at appropriated Berth P4-PS NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS. HONGKONG. IAMAN A CHINESE
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 402 26 L CROSS WATER ACCEPTING FCL LCL HONGKONG KEELUNG/TOKYO/YOKOHAMA BANGKOK AUSTRALIA FREMANTLE USA/CANADA UNITED KINGDOM/EUROPE NEW ZEALAND PORT KELANG MANILA ETA SINGAPORE Battery Road *09-08 09 10 Straits Trading Building Singapore 0104 Tel *****55 I 10 Lines) Telex RS ?87?6 CROFRT TELEFAX NO *****05 f tJ I J 4 LAR TRANS-SIBERIAN
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    • 594 26 HEAP SENG TRADING ft SNIPPING PTE LTD •001 BEACH ROAD #13-01 GOLDEN MILE TOWER SINGAPORE 0710 TEL NO. *****22 (3 LINES) TLX NO. RS ***** HEAPCO PNC VI MAR PKLANG W7 MAR MAR 11/12 MAR II MAR 11/1* MAR 23 MAR VISSt ANSOI ANSOI ANSOI ANSOI ANSOI ANSOI VOY NO
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    • 485 26 C.Y. LINE (A Member Of Tho ACE Consortium) CHO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) Trnn\UNan* Rdam r stove Hkurf Ira* Antwerp SEVEN SEAS BRIOCE VSM 110 3a/3 31/3 1/4 4/4 5/4 7*4 A CONCORD VW 11/3 M 1* 1/4 11/4 12/4 14/4 CR PARIS
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    • 726 26 Everett Lines! COMPANIA PERUANA DE VAPOREES (C.P V "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" Loading for Cattoo. Mataram. Ik) and all other Peruvian ports with transhipment i Kobe On CPV Through Bills of Lading to final destination Ptnanf* f. Kelang Singapore MURRATEVERETT 21/23 Mar THOMASEVERETT S/S Apr HUGH EVERETT 17/19 Apr EVERETT ORIENT
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    • 184 26 N. ST LUCIA. bbun.Ejst fi SZ3JiIJLai^!MSB 7 rMTJ'7i ii'l. l HI 'Jlll-, if is* ACCEPTING CARGO TO ADELAIDE VIA MELBOURNE ANC ALSO FCL TO GUAM. ZIM BUT CONTAINER LINE m TRIESTE INSA ZM AUSTRALIA irrrrnM GOLD STAR LINE GOLD MOUNTAIN D.E.S./Ourban/Maputo. COLD HILLA AbMi COLD HILLA Ab*dian/Ap«| P. Har/Douala/T«na/Monrovia OSAKA
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