The Business Times, 17 March 1987

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 112/12/86 TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 184 1 Exchange rate* THE SINGAPORE DOLLAR closed higher at $2.1435/45 ($2.1475/85) against the US dollar in the forex market yesterday. It traded within a range of $2.1435 and $2.1455. The local unit also went up to $3.3792/3829 ($3.4048/85) against but fell against M$, yen and DM. US$1 152.30/40
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  • 479 1  -  Payment to be $29m cash and $7m First Capital Corp shares By LEE HAN SHIH, Property Correspondent MR ALLAN NG POH MENG will buy Robinson Centre from the Kuok group for about $36 million, a move that could pave the way
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  • 449 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN A SIMPLE FARE STRUCTURE integrating travel on buses and the Mass Rapid Transit system is being worked out. Communications and Information Minister Dr Yeo Ning Hong told Parliament yesterday. This structure, linked to the distance travelled
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  • 122 1 Reuter ON THE EVE OF a British Budget that is expected to slash in-come-tax, a group of former top government economic advisers called, instead, for more public spending to create jobs. As Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson was putting the final touches to
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  • 301 1 THE SINGAPORE stockmarket eased in the face of more profittaking, prompted by heavy scrip delivery and the absence of institutional buying. In fact, there were reports that some institutions were also among the profit-takers. Many brokers believe that the market has entered into
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  • 524 1  -  By ALVIN TAY, Banking Correspondent BANK OF AMERICA has shortlisted the number of prospective buyers for its profitable Visa card operations in Singapore to only three Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank and DBS Bank. It has also narrowed down the bidders for
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    • 287 1 MM lINIPJft'RLWME'NiH Doing business with THERE ARE MANY opportunities for increasing business cooperation between Singapore and Turkey, a delegation of Singapore businessmen noted recently when it flew into Istanbul one freezing March day. However, while the possibilities appear limitless, there are also a number of problems. See Page 8 SHARE
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 444 2  -  Employers say levy will add to wage costs By CHUANG PECK MING EMPLOYERS IN THE electrical and electronics sector, unhappy about the extension of the foreign workers' levy scheme, have voiced their feelings to the government. A delegation of employers, led by the
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    • 208 2 PRESIDENT WEE Kim Wee and his wife will be the guests-of-honour at the 150 th anniversary dinner ot the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) at the Marina Mandarin on Mar 27. Also on the guest list are Finance Minister Dr Richard
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    • 121 2 THE SINGAPORE Society of Accountants is looking into consultancy opportunities in India and Pakistan. A study team led by SSA president Keith Tay recently returned from a 12-day tour of the two countries. There are opportunities for SSA members to advise on financial management, business
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    • 226 2 THE ONLY Singapore company making supercomputers, Tata Elxsi Re Ltd, has announced the sale of an Elxsi 6400 Parallel Supercomputer to the Korea Advanced Institute of Sciences and Technology (KAIST). The Elxsi computer, worth over US$l million, will replace an IBM 3031 and will be
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    • 390 2  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE JOINT TOURIST PROMOTION with China is progressing well and some of the confirmed projects include a joint promotional filmlet and a major exhibition of Chinese historical treasures to be held here, Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu revealed yesterday.
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    • 341 2 FLIGHTS to Christmas Island have been given the green light, while talks have begun on an air service agreement between Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has recently given the go-ahead for a charter airline from
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    • 440 2 CLAIMS by an American commentator that the Singapore government wanted a respectful and submissive press have been refuted by Mr Tommy Koh, Singapore's ambassador to the US. In a letter to The New York Times refuting the claims in the column "A Respectful
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  • 341 3 MALAYSIAN WORKERS who wished to increase their take-home pay could be allowed to opt out of contributing to the Central Provident Fund and have their present employers pay a levy instead. Then, they would not
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  • 339 3 HELP is on the way for those women who had ligated and wished to untie the knot in the light of the government s new population policy, disclosed Acting Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong. They must be below 35 years old and have
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  • 214 3 SINGAPORE'S tax structure is archaic and fit for the dinosaur, said backbencher Heng Chiang Meng (Jalan Kayu). Calling for a major overhaul of the tax system to produce one "more suited to the modern and future Singapore", Mr Heng said tax was more
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  • 571 3 CENTRAL PROVIDENT Fund savings can be used to buy shares in Singapore MRT Limited, the company which will operate the Mass Rapid Transit system. The Communications and Information Minister, Dr Yeo Ning Hong, said that the release of CPF
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  • 586 3 THE MINISTRY of Finance has decided against according a special tax incentive a concessionary rate of 10 per cent to third-country trading as recommended by the Economic Committee. The Finance Minister, Or Richard Hu. told Parliament yesterday that after
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  • 160 3 THE HOUSING Development Board is moving in where pigs have moved out. Of the 22 hectares of land left behind by former Punggol pig farms, nine hectares were taken over by the HDB. The rest of the land will be used
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 369 4 UPI THE CHINESE government has warned factory-level communist party officials against using the current anti-capitalism campaign to obstruct economic reforms, the weekly Beijing Review magazine said yesterday. The official magazine said Chinese enterprises are currently conducting "political education" as part of a nationwide fight against
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    • 79 4 Aussie exporters what they lack UPI MOST POTENTIAL Australian exporters are convinced their products could be competitive overseas but do not have the marketing expertise to sell abroad, a survey indicated yesterday. An Australian Trade Commission report on 950 potential exporters indicated 90 per cent admitted they had poor to
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    • 264 4 AP THE TAIWANESE government is considering allowing individuals to invest in foreign stock markets to help reduce Taiwan's huge foreign reserve holdings and ease upward pressure on the Taiwanese dollar. Vice-Economic Minister Hsu Kuo-An told reporters on Sunday that the Economic Ministry and
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    • 409 4 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA'S Commerce Minister said on Sunday that he was more optimistic about the outlook for the kingdom's economy following the stabilisation of world oil prices. Speaking on the first day of a Saudi businessmen's conference, Suleiman Abdul Aziz Al-Salim said there were
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    • 471 4  -  By PETER JANSSEN THE THAI Cabinet has approved in principle a draft amendment to the country's outdated Trademark Act that will provide broader protection for trademark proprietors and hopefully encourage more foreign investment in the country. An informed source, who participated in the
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    • 241 4 UPI PATIENTS who keep smoking despite severe smok-ing-related illnesses may be denied access to hospitals. an Australian surgeon warned yesterday. "It's not being inhuman," said Dr Peter Gianoutsos. senior thoracic physician with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney "If patients continue to
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 430 5 UPI THE US Census Bureau's latest examination of population growth in the US confirms that America is finding its newest citizens more and more often at the immigration office instead of the maternity ward. An estimated 625,000 immigrants moved to the US in 1986. accounting
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    • 412 5 Reuter THE EDITOR of the Soviet communist party daily Pravda has said that in spite of increasing openness in the country's media, "restricted zones" remained for journalists. Viktor Afanasyev, speaking at the opening of the Soviet Journalists' Congress in Moscow last Sunday, singled out
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    • 229 5 AP CONSERVATIVE premier Jacques Chirac of France said last Sunday that his year in office has shown that governing with a socialist president is "not ideal" but is "possible". Addressing a meeting of officials from his neo-Gaulist rally for the Republic Party marking one year in
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    • 386 5 NYT WITH A US$lOO contribution, a group of impoverished women opened a bakery on the outskirts of Nairobi. Kenya. Another US$lOO helped five young women in Nepal turn out cloth dolls for sale to tourists. And a similar donation put unemployed workers
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    • 278 5 UPI A SHORTAGE of Soviet software is driving the nation's computer buffs to copy ideologically suspect foreign games and deal in black-market programming. According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda Daily, "Buying a computer is just the half of it," Reviewing the Soviet personal computer scene,
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    • 366 5 IMF urges help for poor countries AP THE INDUSTRIALISED countries must keep their interest rates down and their markets open to imports if poor countries are to reduce their debts, the new head of the International Monetary Fund says. "We cannot have two
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    • 310 5 AFP JAPAN has replaced the US as the world's second largest holder of non-gold reserves behind West Germany, according to statistics released by the International Monetary Fund. The redistribution was primarily the result of Japan's favourable balance of trade in
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    • 233 5 Reuter CUBAN LEADER Fidel Castro was quoted last Sunday as hailing Brazil's suspension of interest payments on its commercial debt. "The suspension of interest payments by Brazil is a historic event," he told the Brazilian magazine Veja. "It was an energetic and courageous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 418 6 MBT THE MALAYSIAN banking sector is heading for a strong recovery as several recent developments are favourable to the industry, according to Tan Sri Basir Ismail, the chairman of the Association of Banks in Malaysia (AMB). He told Malaysian Business Times that he
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    • 152 6 AFP VISA INTERNATIONAL has retaliated against plans by American Express to introduce a new, low-interest charge card, the Washington Post said last Saturday. Visa has sent letters to 5,500 banks that issue its cards, suggesting that they "rethink" whether they should continue carrying American Express
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    • 310 6 UPI THE MONEY SUPPLY MEASURE known as M 2 fell US$l.6 billion in February, the first decline in this gauge of the United States liquid money since 1980. The basic money measure M 1 was down US$6OO million in recent weeks. David
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    • 885 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed lower against most major currencies after a day of thin trading yesterday. Dealers said the dollar opened easier on light selling interest in line with its weakness in New York last Friday but thereafter fluctuated narrowly throughout the day. Dealers said the dollar's
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    • 212 6 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to on* unit of 1 i etienge US dollor 2.1435 2.1445 2.8196 -23.98 Sterling pound 3.3792 3.3829 7.3469 -54.01 Australian dollar 1.4586 1.4614 3.4286 -57.46 NZ dollar 1.2046 1.2073 3.4286 -64.87 Canadian dollar 1.6244 1.6264 3.4206 -52.51 Local dollars to 100
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    • 173 6 Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on March 16 us$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 doyt 1 MNh 3 m* 6 12 m* J/1* 3/1* 9/1* 7/1* 1/J 3/0 1/2 3/i 9/1* 7/1* 10 7/0 5/0 10 3/1* 1/1* 97/1-9 3/4 9 3/4 9 i/t 9 11/1* 9/1* 4 1/0
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    • 328 6 HONGKONG: The metal closed steady in fairly quiet and dull trading in the absence of fresh factors yesterday. The weakness of the US dollar towards the close triggered some buying interest by local physical traders. But sentiment remained neutral as a result of general disappointment over the market's
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    • 328 6 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Dealers said activity was slow in the afternoon as most operators were sidelined in the absence of fresh factors. The market is now awaiting this week s batch of American economic data. including February
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    • Article, Illustration
      124 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank ma*ket closed one point higher at 3 per cent yesterday. The term rates remained unchanged across the board. iDglCiiVv ulf IVtriyC Of W9 prim* lending rates of 12 mafor hmlri in Singapore S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: OH«r IM Ovar-
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    • 632 6 JUNE Eurodollar opened six ticks higher at 93.58 yesterday following weak-er-than-expected economic and inflation outlook in the US. However, prices initially eased off to the low of 93.56 but trading activity remained mainly thin and quiet for the greater part of the day. Continued lack of trading interest during
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
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    • 342 7 The Crown Prince Singapore. Where bigb expectations are quietly rne tThe business traveller to Singapore is out to do a job. As such, his expectations are higher than normal. We know these expectations very well. At the Crown Prince Singapore, it is a custom to meet every one of them.
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  • FEATURES
    • 465 8 WHILE MOST have yet to read the fine print of the report of the Select Committee on the Companies (Amendment) Bill, the initial reaction has been one of approval regarding the troublesome Section 149. The approval stems largely from the fact that the business community's fears
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    • 1273 8  -  On a cold day in March, a delegation of Singapore businessmen arrived in Istanbul to talk business. In spite of the freezing weather, there was warmth and a cordial exchange of views on how Singapore and Turkey could further business cooperation between the two countries. ASAD
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  • SPORTS
    • 138 9 AFP DENMARK'S Morten Frost, the world's leading men's badminton player, scooped his fourth All England singles title in six years in London on Sunday and then set his sights on the world championships. The top seed and defending champion routed World Cup winner Icuk Sugiarto
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    • 208 9 Squash Open Jahangir avenges defeat Reuter JAHANGIR KHAN exacted more revenge on Ross Norman for last November's world title defeat in Toulouse with a straight games success in the French Open final on Sunday. Jahangir won the 74-minute encounter 17-16 15-11 15-6 to take the title for the fifth time
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    • 659 9 AP SERGIO CASAL shocked Boris Becker in the final singles match in New York on Sunday to lift Spain over West Germany and into the second round of the Davis Cup world group tennis competition. Casal, ranked 53rd in the world, upset Wimbledon champion Becker 6-2.
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    • 253 9 AP PAYNE STEWART won the Bay Hill Classic golf tournament in Orlando, Florida, but Don Pooley won the most money. US$l million on the richest single swing in the game's history. "Now. maybe they'll say I'm a winner," Stewart said after he compiled a
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    • 73 9 AP BILLY CASPER, playing a full tournament without a bogey, rolled in four birdie putts on the back nine in Sun City West Arizona, on Sunday to win the US$2OO,OOO Webb Arizona Classic by five strokes. Casper, who pocketed US$3O,OOO, overcame a three-stroke Miller Barber
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 460 10 Discussions in the next couple of months NYT WILLIAM E SIMON, the former l?S Treasury Secretary, has formed a partnership with a prominent Australian businessman and other financiers that aims to establish a financial conglomerate stretching across the Pacific Ocean. In a telephone interview
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    • 310 10 NYT ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES Inc is expected to introduce its first microprocessor, becoming the newest entrant to a fast-growing but fiercely competitive part of the semiconductor business. Industry sources said the computer chip maker, based in Sunnyvale. California, will announce
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    • 307 10 Reuter CITROEN expects rising sales of its new AX compact car to help boost profits significantly this year, continuing a financial recovery after six straight years of losses, president Jacques Calvet said. Speaking during weekend trials for the new AX sports
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    • 473 10 NYT WALL STREET was bristling with announcements of corporate mergers last week as, after a pause, the brisk business expected for 1987 began to materialise. But. as a result of the insid-er-trading scandals, tax law changes and a record-setting stock market, the nature of
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    • 339 10 Reuter THE SUSPECTED foreign exchange fraud reported by West German carmaker Volkswagen is so large that more than one trader was probably involved in wrongdoing, sources in Frankfurt said during the weekend. The company's reported loss of 480 million marks (US$26O million) in
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 387 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed sharply lower yesterday as institutional profit-taking sent the Hang Seng Index below the key 2,700 level. The Hang Seng Index lost 51.60 to end the day at 2,669.57 while the Hong Kong Index fell 36.44 to 1,708.31. Turnover was HK5803.4 million. Brokers said bargain hunting
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    • 221 11 MAR N NTS 0 12 Kuochan D«v Lm Chang Yuan 29 00 30 50 -0.1 Asia Cement 34 80 43 40 -02 Lian Hwa Indus Nan Ya Plas 20 40 36 40 0 5 0 2 3 30 20 -0 1 31 40 -0.1 Pacific Etact 04 Wire 18
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    • 446 11 TOKYO: The stock market average slumped yesterday, ending a sixday record-setting rally as investors took profits and no new buying themes emerged to stem the selling spree. The index dropped 82.58 to 21,415.37 but had fallen as low as 21,342.81 in early trade. Declines led advances by nine to
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    • 392 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed lower yesterday as investors sold off leading industrial stocks ahead of today's release of the February balance of payments figures. Trading was moderate with some selected buying of gold stocks stemming losses in the resources sector. At the close of trading, the All Ordinaries
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    • 110 11 MAR 16 Chail Sugar WON 2830 -40 Kai Kangwon InO 1405 ***** 1880 -45 4-1110 -85 Daalim |r»<J 601 6 3890 -25 Daewoo Corp Daawoo Haavy 979 1351 19 61 Koraa Long Tarm Lucky Ltd 2300 1510 100 •15 Oaiahin Sacuritiaa Dong Ah Phar 3070 ***** •120 4 650
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    • 156 11 Reuter BANGKOK: The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index was up 4.57 to 223.02 on a turnover of 2,734,837 shares worth 332.4 million baht. MAN 19 IAMT Saha Union Siam Camanl 190 649 6 12 Ayudhya Invaatmanl Bangkok Agro-lnd Bangkok Bank Bank Of Ayudhya Charoong Thai Wira Cat»a 274 76
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    • 59 11 AP THE WALT DISNEY Company plans to market mouseketeer ears and other products in China and has moved to prevent the unauthorised use of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters there. The China Patent Agent Inc in Hongkong announced early last week that Disney had
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    • 337 11 Joint-stock companies ruled out, says paper AP TURNING MEDIUM-SIZED and large state-owned enterprises into joint-stock companies is not a goal of China's economic reforms, the communist party newspaper, People's Daily, said yesterday. "It is hard to say if changing existing public
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    • 202 11 Reuter SAUDI SHARES are enjoying the first sustained rally for three years and plans to reform trading seem set to be unveiled soon, bankers said. Reform comes at a time when a cautious mood of optimism has returned to the Saudi economy after
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    • 374 11 AP NIPPON TELEGRAPH and Telephone, once a stodgy state-owned monopoly, has seen its share price more than double to nearly 3 million yen (US$l9,OOO) since it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange a month ago. That worries NTT president Hisashi
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 433 12 UPI DIL INDUSTRY EXPERTS, confirming fears of a growing US dependence on Middle East oil, pfy the US will be importing more than half of its oil by the hnid-*****. Expert witnesses testified last week at Senate hearings that
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    • 297 12 Reuter SRI LANKA has revised its calendar 1967 lea output forecast to around 190 million kg from an earlier target of 210 million due to a severe drought now affecting about one-third of the country. Last year's tea production totalled 211.3 million
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    • 182 12 Reuter INDIAN EXPORTS of iron ore are likely to improve substantially in the year starting this month and China is likely to emerge as a major buyer, a senior Indian government trade official said. The official, who declined to be
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    • 195 12 Reuter MALAYSIAN Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik welcomed the basic accord reached over the weekend in Geneva between producers and consumers on a new International Natural Rubber Agreement (Inra). "This is a good development and if a new pact is adopted this
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    • 272 12 AP THE QUEST FOR GOLD lures them to the Himalayan foothills, ancient mines, meandering rivers and India's barren plains. But these prospectors are not loners chasing dreams of a quick fortune. Instead, gold fever has hit the Indian government. About 50 government
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    • 378 12 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly higher yesterday with April One RSS buyers quoted at 193.50 cents per kg, up one cent from last Friday. Dealers said the morning session gained one cent on some short-cover-ing for nearby position in thin trading. Prices were little changed in thin afternoon trading
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    • 274 12 RAS prices in S FOB In bate NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 195 JO 196 JON 196.00 197.00N Wit 1 RSS April 87 193.00 194.00 193 JO 194.00 Int 1 RSS May 191.00 191.75 191.00 191 JO lot 2 RSS OP 180.50
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    • 81 12 (cenn/kg, 1-ton pollen) APRIL 87 MAY 87 (currant month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS kr»«n Seller* Ivyen SSR 20 167.00 168.00N 166.50 167.50N SSI 50 166.00 167.00N 165.50 166 SON MRELB bytn Sellers ■wyen s. (l r> SMI CV 247.50 249.50N 248.50 250.50N SMI I 247.00 249.00N
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    • 163 12 THE PRICE OF TM on Km Kuala Lumpur Tin Marital fall 12 cants from last Friday's closa to and at M 510.05 a kg yaatarday aftar a fairly qulat trading saaaion. Tha markat started at laat waak's M 516.77 with sallara offarlng 107 tonnas but buyars willing to
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    • 101 12 OIL PRODUCTS MOST PRODUCTS were unchanged in the East Asian petroleum spot market yesterday. Demand from Singapore refiners, regional end-users and bunker operators helped firm gasoil but fuel oil and LSWR were static. Reduced Japanese interest cut naphtha prices by about US$3 a tonne. Closing prices for crude (FOB origin)
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    • 373 12 AFP DEPRESSED jute prices resulting from a surge in the use of synthetic fibres has necessitated rapid adjustments for Bangladesh, which earns half its foreign exchange from jute exports. Once known as the "golden fibre", jute remains Bangladesh's main export, but a sudden drop
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    • 326 12 Bernama ES PRICES OF Sabah's main export, timber, have so far been higher than last year's levels, and a further rise is anticipated, according to a timber industry official. Prices recorded for the past three months were about 35 per cent to
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    • 163 12 Reuter HAITI has discovered a major gold field in the mineral-rich north, but says it needs US$B million for equipment to mine it. A Ministry of Mines spokesman said last week the deposit, discovered in Grand Bois last Wednesday, contained an estimated 44 million tonnes
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    • 65 12 Bangkok Broken Rice (USS/tom, FOA) A-l Super A-l SpMW 143 140 White Rice C-l Spcdal unq 100% 1st don 255 C-1 Ord unq 100% 2nd daw 225 Loonzain Rice 100% 3rd do* 220 5% 210 100% 1# grod* 100% 2nd grad* unq 219 10% 205 100% 3rd grab* '5%
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    • 394 12 8 DBSBANK THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic ot Singapore) NOTICE OF REDEMPTION AND TERMINATION OF CONVERSION RIGHTS *****,518,520 7Vt per cent Convertible Unsecured Loen Stock 1991 ("the Loen Stock") To: All Loan Stock Holders 1 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The Development Bank of Singapore
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    • 288 12 NOTICES THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. 1M PERNG CHKKNG CONSTRUCTION PTB LTD (In voluntary liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 163 Trae Street. 009-03, Singapore 0907 on the 11th day of March. 1987, the special resolution set oat below
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    • 299 12 IN THE MAITO CW THE OOMPANIBB ACT, CAP. IM AND HAN IL ENTERPRISE PTE. LTD. da Mtabm' Voluntary At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the member* of HAW IL ENTERPRISE PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at 1 Colombo Court #04-06, Singapore 0617 on 13th March 19ft the following Special
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4333 13 THE CORRECTION that began on the Singapore stock market last Wednesday continued yesterday with share prices easing across the board on reduced volume. The Straits Times Industrial Index lost 7.7 points to 1.033.45 and the BT Composite Index gave up 3.16 points
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    • 266 13 SINGAPORE Rises mo ices Mort> 13 Men* l« Mycom IM 328 ♦55 8T Compart* 913.28 910.12 A 1 S 50* 95 ♦41 8T OB/OS 21 -67 Ainba»odor 218 ♦28 it cad* -6197 -6280 S 1 A 1070 10 8TQ8V *****8 *****9 Spore Land 575 10 ST bidmtrinii
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    • 4158 13 BID and offer price» officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1291 14 MBT ONLY the more efficient Malaysian oil palm and rubber companies can look forward to good prospects in the future, unlike in the past when commodity prices were higher and costs lower. Besides local competition, Malaysian plantation companies have to contend with overseas competitors
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    • 401 14 THE TECHNICAL correction continued on tha Kuala Lumpur stock market for the fourth trading day running and share prices weakened further across the board in moderate trading. Against the generally softer bias, some tin stocks found renewed interest to post double-digit gains. Gainers were
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    • 120 14 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Monday *****1 Friday 1744 75 Week ago *****4 Hang Seng Index Monday *****7 Friday *****7 Week ago 2820 38 All Industrials Monday Friday Week ago NEW YORK Dow Jones Fridoy Thursday Week ago 2567 0 2581 1 2603 2 2258 66 2267 34 *****3 TOKYO
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    • 254 14 Managers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for March 17 First B'putra 601 606 Second B'putra 513 518' Singapore Unit Trust Third B'putra 4 24 429 The Commerce 1 03 The Savings Fund 0 89 S'pore Prog Fund 0*0 S'pore Sac fund 060 S pore Fund 0 76 Spore Equity Fund 0*9
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    • 698 14 NYT AS THE insider-trading scandal on Wall Street has deepened, companies and executives find themselves at the centre of a complex set of ethical questions, and some of them are looking to religious counselling for answers. "They've learned how to get information and how
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    • 153 14 Bernama ES UNITED ENGINEERING (Malaysia) Bhd, which deals with engineering and heavy equipment, is optimistic that the medium- and long-term prospects of the company will improve with the securing of two large projects recently. Chairman Datuk Or Yahya Ismail said in the 1965 annual report
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    • 2752 14 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with Vie number of •hares traded shown m brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. MOUSTftIALS Aoao (1806 200 SI «N» to 0168) 01 316
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    • 220 14 CHEMICAL COMPANY of Malaysia Berhad: EGM at the Kedah Room. Basement Two, Shangri-La Hotel, 11 Jalan Sultan Ismail. ***** Kuala Lumpur, today at 9.30am to be followed by the 25th AGM THE NEW STRAITS TIMES PRESS (Malaysia) Berhad: EGM in the Theatrette. Balai Berita. 31 Jalan Riong, *****
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    • 625 15  -  By LISA LEE CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURER Sunshine Allied Investments Ltd has forecast an increase in pretax profits as it has benefited from the nuclear fallout caused by last year's Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. Sunshine has forecast a consolidated profit of not less than $2 million
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    • 120 15 AILING tin can manufacturer Malaya Tin Printing Co Ltd revealed that the group had lost $8.42 million from selling shares in three listed companies. MTP was replying to the Stock Exchange of Singapore, which asked for details regarding its preliminary results for the year
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    • 533 15  -  By AMY CHEOK VAN DER HORST LTD. which recently reported its worst loss since going public five years ago, will have to settle $9 million of its restructured loans by Dec 31. The offshore oil industry servicing group says in
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    • 463 15  -  By ELAINE KOH RECOMMENDED CHANGES to the controversial Section 149 of the Companies Act have been generally hailed as a vast improvement over existing provisions which automatically bar directors under a "double liquidation" clause. Some quarters, however, have taken issue with the mechanics involved
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    • 274 15 THE SPECTRE of bankruptcy which was closing in on the directors of City Securities two months ago appeared to have faded somewhat on account of the proposed corporatisation of the stockbroking firm. At least three banks NMB Bank and Banque Indosuez and Hill
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    • 504 15  -  By AMY BALAN MORE THAN $87 million was due to financier Khoo Teck Puat's Goodwood Park Hotel group from the National Bank of Brunei (NBB) when the bank closed its doors last November. Detailed accounts of the group's deposits with the
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    • 179 15 OVERSEAS UNION Bank Ltd, Ovhmm Union Enterprise and Ovaraaaa Union Truat have requested a suspension of trading in their shares today pending the announcement of year-end results. OUB loan stock will also be suspended today. OVERSEAS UNION Securitiea says its group unaudited net tangible asset backing per $1
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    • 66 15 Bernama ES THE KUWAIT Investment Office (KIO) had raised its interest in Sime Darby Bhd to 60.744 million shares from 52.904 million shares previously, it was announced yesterday. The shares will be registered in the name of Mayban (Nominees) Sdn Bhd. The KIO has
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    • 377 15 UNITED PLANTATIONS Bhd (UPB) has announced a one-for-five bonus issue in spite of a 74.9 per cent fall in group pre-tax profits to M 59.84 million in 1986 from $39.18 million the year earlier. However, shareholders are not getting a final dividend. "In view of
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    • 130 15 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Bonvests Hldgs One-for-four J065 P* r share Ex-date: Mar 12 Books close: Mor 19 H Toi-Pan One-for-two JOSO per shore Ei date Mor 10 Books dose: Mor 17 Hwo Hong One-for-five $l 00 per shore Ex date: Mar 12 Books dose: Mor 19 Parkway Hldgs
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    • 267 15 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Bedford One for one $0 50 per shore C 1 Holdings 27 million loon stocks in the ratio of 13 loon stock lor every five ordinary shares held City Dev One for-four $1 40 per share tights issue of bonus with warrants m the ratio
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    • 257 14 BAT British-American Tobacco Company (Singapore) Ltd. NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE is hereby given that the Forty-fourth Annual General Meeting of British-American Tobacco Company (Singapore) Limited will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, 57 Senoko Drive, Singapore on Wednesday, 15 April 1987 at 11.30 am for
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    • 3 15 TECHNOLOGY every Friday
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    • 312 15 Leader, Pag* 8 DBSBANK THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic oi Singapore) To: All Bondholders US$lOO,OOO,OOO 4% Subordinated Convertible Bonds due 2001 SUSPENSION OF BOND CONVERSION Notice is hereby given that the Bonds will not be convertible during the period 7 May 1987 to 13 May
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  • 494 16  -  By HOMER CHEN REACTION to the public sector divestment committee report released last Friday has been generally positive. Businessmen and executives contacted by BT generally agreed with the broad concept adopted by the government to let the private sector shoulder a bigger responsibility for
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  • 339 16  -  By LEE HAN SHIH THE 44th PRESIDENT of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry took office for a two-year term yesterday, promising he will be "a workhorse president" to build up the influence of the chamber both in and out of Singapore. SCCCI
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  • 247 16 THE ENGLISH PRESS does not understand the role of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and that sometimes leads to criticisms that are groundless, said outgoing chamber president Tan Keong Choon yesterday. The misunderstanding arises because most of SCCCI's members operate on local capital, while
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  • 258 16 Bernama ANY EFFORT to bring about a compromise among top leaders of the United Malays National Organisation to avoid a contest for posts should be undertaken by those who are neutral, Deputy Umno president Datuk Musa Hitam said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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  • 481 16  -  By LEONG WEN WAH THE YAOHAN GROUP is embarking on a major expansion programme this year with the targeted opening of five stores in Asia and New York, involving a total investment of $150 million. At the press conference yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel, Mr
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  • 361 16 Bernama ES THE CHAIRMAN of the Group of 14 on Asean economic cooperation and integration, Datuk Paul Leong, has urged the UN to initiate the formation of a consortium to study ways of solving problems arising from the politics of market
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  • 383 16 AP. Bernama MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Datuk Rais Yatim said yesterday that Japan should give special attention to Asean in its programme to harmonise its economy with the rest of the world. Saying that Asean would welcome the changes in Japanese policy, Datuk
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  • 89 16 AFP SENIOR OFFICIALS from 16 nations gathered in Lagos yesterday for two days of talks on whether to set up a so-called concert of medium powers. "Some people see this as the most important attempt to reform the international order since the
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  • 212 16 AFP ASIAN developing countries yesterday adopted a declaration at the end of a three-day meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh calling for special measures to help Third World nations overcome their economic problems. The meeting took a last-minute decision to withhold publication of the Dhaka Declaration
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  • 306 16 Reuter JAPAN SHOULD STEP UP the pace of its financial liberalisation if it wants to become a world financial centre equal to New York or London, a leading US banker has said. "For Tokyo to become the third link in an international capital
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  • 82 16 COM EX GOLD futures rose yesterday on short-covering of positions which were sold during last Friday's options-related fall. In moderately active business, gold for delivery in April was ahead US$l.4O at U*****.40 an ounce, with US commission houses and local traders the prominent buyers. Anslysts said the outsiders
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  • 71 16 Bernama MALAYSIA should not bow to the demands of Britain and the US regarding the recognition of foreign degrees because the country has its own needs, Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday. Malaysia had its own requirements to meet in determining the recognition of foreign degrees
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  • LATE FILE
    • 56 16 Reuter CHINA'S exports and retail sales rose strongly in the first two months of this year and increased consumer spending forced up prices. The State Statistics Bureau reported yesterday that exports had climbed more than 18 per cent in value compared with January and February
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    • 31 16 UPI THE THAI Defence Ministry wants to expand weapon exports and plans to asks the government to amend laws restricting exports of arms and ammunition. UPI
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    • 30 16 AP INDONESIA and East Germany, seeking to boost bilateral trade, yesterday signed agreements on the avoidance of double taxation and on cooperation in merchant shipping. AP
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    • 48 16 Reuter PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino yesterday ordered the immediate disbanding of several powerful armed civilian vigilante groups. Defence officials said that Mrs Aquino had signed an order scrapping existing groups. A second order provided for the formation of a single national police force.
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    • 37 16 Reuter JAPAN yesterday protested to the Soviet Union about a Soviet-Vietnamese statement which said that Tokyo was becoming militaristic and was forming a military alliance with South Korea and the US. Reuter
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 104 17 FINANCIAL-TROUBLED tanker owner Japan Line is selling 20 VLCCs and several bulk carriers for scrap or further trading, industry sources said. The tanker disposals include the 231,722-dwt Japan Orchid, 233,641-dwt Japan Lumm pinus, 233,313-dwt Sovereign, 274,531-dwt Rosebay, 268,038- dwt Saffron and 267,807-dwt Z. Cattleya all
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    • 396 17  -  By JUNE LIM PRELIMINARY figures show that Singapore surpassed Rotterdam in the number of tonnages handled last year to occupy the plume position as the world's busiest port. Statistics show that 30,814 ships weighing 324.6 million grt called at Singapore last year, as compared
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    • 255 17  -  By KINGSLEY WOOD SAFOCEAN, the joint liner shipping venture between Nedlloyd and the South African Marine Corporation. Safmarine. has been disbanded. A Nedlloyd spokesman agreed in Sydney that the decision was linked to the increasing pressure on South Africa over its internal policies. While
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    • 169 17 AFP INDONESIA and East Garmany hava signed agreements on avoiding double taxation and merchant shipping cooperation which are expected to boost bi-lateral trade from its current low level, diplomatic sources said. The two agreements were signed by visiting East German Foreign Minister
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 73 17 WITH EFFECT from March 1, the Immigration Department of Singapore has discontinued its practice of endorsing landing passes on the documents/seaman books of Indonesian crewmembers of vessels arriving in Singapore. All Indonesian crews will be cleared by the Immigration Department on arrival in the same manner
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      • 111 17 THE INDIAN government has taken steps to assist its hard-pressed shipping industry by urging that government-owned and controlled cargo should be carried on Indian vessels whenever possible. Foreign vessels were fixed only when suitable Indian-flag vessels were not available in poeition, the Indian Minister of
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    • 1225 18 Despite declining hull rates, Singapore still ranks as the leading provider of hull insurance capacity in the Far East region but it is with London that most off the established operators in the area have their strongest ties. However, London is coming under pressure
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    • 705 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Africa Ocean IX 4 Alltrans VII 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 ARC Line V 4 API III 2/3 ASCI III 1 Bait-Canada line VII 4/5 Bait-Orient line VII 4/5 Bank Line V 5 BBS II 4/5
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    • 1310 18 THE BULK of freight msrket activity on Friday was confined to the time-charter sector where further period fixing emerged, while grsin business included a cargo from the US Gulf to Japan at the higher level of U5514.50, shipbrokers said. Time-charterers arrsnged a 62,000 tonner from the Mediterranean for
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    • 178 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang Shipping AMRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line
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    • 197 19 AP THE KEY to the Belgian ferry disaster could lie in the ship's engine recorder, which was on the bridge of the Herald of Free Enterprise when it capsized on March 6. the Sunday Times reported. The recorder, similar to an airplane's
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    • 415 19 Lloyd's List PROPOSALS that could lead to more shipping company mergers in Scandinavia have been put before the Nordic Council. Supporters of the move, which is primarily designed to harmonise maritime company and tax laws across the borders of the council's five member states, believe
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    • 132 19 CROSSTRADES, a member of the Antrak group, has appointed agents in South Korea and Taiwan to promote its Far East-West Africa service. In South Korea it is represented by Dong Sung Shipping Co and. in Taiwan, by Felicity Navigation (Agencies) Corp. Crosstrades
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    • 316 19 AFP TANKER owners appeared to be resisting lower rate levels on the charter market during the past week, as the energy sector gathered strength and forced some consumers to cover their requirements. But London brokers E A Gibson warned that "it is difficult to be optimistic" in view
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    • 170 19 AP A SOVIET freighter sank off the coast of New Jersey a day after its crew of 37 were rescued by US Coast Guard helicopters. "When daylight broke, all they found was an oil slick and some flour sacks." said
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    • 225 19 TRANSFIELD Pty Ltd and Carrington Slipways will make a pilch for th« failed Newcastle State Dockyard, reported the Australian Financial Review. The shipyard closed two weeks ago after 300 workers were sacked when they rejected a New South Wales government survival
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    • 7278 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 707 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel KEPPEL WHARVES Loshio Barber Tobo Colossus Gazonia Jinfeng Koto Benor Ned Alkmoor Santa Rosa 1 Star Glory Yuheng AMI S Altinc Builder III Con Furano Fengsheng Ksor Chellal lin Petaling 2 Ned Bangkok Pdg Tim Enom Potsdam Rajah Brooke Sin lian South Glory
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    • 561 26 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Gdna FCL Arrival LCL movamant Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo achadula Locatk Zim Eilot 16E *****7 1700 Star Shpg F7 0800-0900 P6 N Crystal 38E *****7 1600 NAPl FSA 0700-0800 12 Ms Claudine 8712 17.03.87 2130 Moersk F2 1130-1230/1030-1130 A2/82
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    • 677 17 SVW *4t it V. a. Mr JARD4NE SNIPPING AGENCIES (Naf. ll*. 242K4/ 00K %%lltf* 200 C«wl—H tad #12-06 Soutkpomt. Twppari 0201 Mill/ Td 221 Oil TELEX NO US 2*179 OiqentOveiqeas Cottiaitm Line NORTH AMERICA ATI ANTIC EXPRESS iROUNO THf YYORID ROUTING [gg] TEMINALyCFS Td *****11 220 BOOKINGS TN *****34 235
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    • 69 17 IF ANYTHING was going to underline the recent plight of marine hull insurers, the financial difficulties of a number of Far Eastern shipowners could hardly have done better. Page ll PROPOSALS that could leod to more shipping company mergers in Scandinavia have been put before the Nordic Council. P»ge 111
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    • 321 17 SMI BLACK SEA SHIPPING COMPANY Regular Services From SOUTH EAST ASIA TO MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Agent: Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte Ltd. TEL. *****33 MAERSK LINE TO JAPAN next tailing "LEISE MAERSK" eld 24.3.87 TIM week Lain M Ooamg Tun— CY 23* 1900 HNS CFS 23/3 0600 HRS US At!.i'~* t
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    • 323 18 OUTBOUND to north continent COMPAGNIE MARITIME D AFFRETEMENT REGULAR CONTAINER SERVICE FAR EAST TO MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPE ALSO ARABIAN GULF AND INDIAN SUB CONTINENT VHU DC VENUS j. i n (A J-tf f OUTBOUND TO MEDITERRANEAN TTTT n tUI DC VDNJS mux dc jofm* mc dc new OUTBOUND TO ARABIAN
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    • 460 19 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd CONTMOtSW SERVICE TO UK/CONTKNT:. r^T STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sinwik, Brunoi Ports and Bangkok mP&O Containers Limited Jmppuvopi rkn n—urn wW W V hh «n m m hi Fart/11 Bv BANGKOK BORNEO AGENCIES LTD. BANGKOK TEL *****00 vn m w
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    • 491 19 Franco Belgian Services TTP MFMBER OF ACF CONSOR'IOMi ACS CONQ C I MM mMM U MttOfTAL n MJ CHARGEURS REUNIS f,'-.' =<ai u l\: '.v (MFD CI UB MF MBtßi 3 I lii'li ".IP. PK Ppnsng *.S'2. 1 TO USA/CANADA WEEKLY FULL qONTAINER SERVICE a"'- 3 "TT rm rm imm
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    • 322 20 C NTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT AUO ACCEPTING CAROD TO: ALL IK MLANO KSTMATKMS, BELFAST, f CA—III "OV» SfV CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE ONyS-MI CONTAINER SERVICE TO MED EUROPE IQNTAiNERSHIP SERVICE PROM UK CONTINENT VP ap U, TO MM MM M Hi U, TO SU M SW 170 SM V*
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    • 611 21 v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE INDONESIA CONTAINER SERVICE MA HAWK MA HAWK KOTA MM BANGKOK CONTAINER SERVICE PASIR GUDANG CONTAINER SERVICE n "Hr RED SEA/EAST AND WEST AFRICA SERVICE KARACHI/M.E. GULF SERVICE KARACHI, MOOCDAH, ALEXANDRIA, CHINA SERVICE
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    • 289 24 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPN.CPTE) LTD. TEL: 225-6868 (30 LINES) TELEX: RS ***** A/B SSCMA. RS ***** A/B SSCAO B DEUTFRACHT SEE REfDERf I ROSTOCK FORTNIGHTLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE LARNACA: Accepting cargo for Piraeus, Thessaloniki, ■9*ir, Istanbul, Mersw, Lattakia, LimassoL Beirut, Alexandria, Pert Said, Iraqi, Iranian and other Middle-East destinations. rrmr. •T--inr
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    • 124 26 FARGO SHIPPING COMPANY(PTE)LTD. REGULAR EXPRESS FULL CONTAINER AND LCL c r c VICE MBOUNO AGENT FOR ARC CONTAMERUNE Vti L HUM MtUSSEL rrF' V*l L HUOIG In Pt BRUSSEL 26/3 n>' ml .iij" 'ifTTirTn 2W 25/3 ETA SINGAPORE RAT ANA BHUM BUNGA BUT AUG 3 ma? W3.50.20 Jtfi, 27/3, 3/4,
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