The Business Times, 1 September 1987

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 112/12/86 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 175 1 Exchange rates The Singapore dollar yesterday closed stronger against the US$ at 2.1040/50 (2.1045/55) in the forex market. It also finished higher against regional currencies such as the Malaysian and Hongkong and other major currencies like sterling, Swiss franc. D-mark and the yen. US$: 142.20/30 yen, 1.8140/50
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  • 49 1 Router ALL 83 PEOPLE aboard a Thai Airways Boeing 737 which crashed into the sea on a domestic flight on Sunday are feared dead. A senior airline official said that first reports indicated that the pilot had veered off course to avoid another aircraft. Reuter
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  • 568 1  -  By AMY BALAN SINGAPORE'S desire to become a major player in the global money game has led to a link-up with yet another international financial centre this time with the major European bond market in Luxembourg. A proposed link between the Stock
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  • 251 1 SHARE PRICES in Singapore fell across the board in nervous but light trading. Dealers said the aelling pressure could be due to profit-taking and stop-loss selling by jittery investors following reports that five mosques in Pahang were damaged by fire in 24 hours.
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  • 642 1  -  A centre of attraction for shoppers By GENEVIEVE CUA MARINA SQUARE'S bid to rival Orchard Road as the centre of Singapore shopping gets underway today with the opening of local retail giant Metro's latest store, Metro Marina. Early next month, Japanese retail giant Tokyu
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  • 473 1 Reuter. Bernama THE MALAYSIAN KING and thousands of his subjects yesterday celebrated 30 years of independence in front of the Selangor Club in the centre of Kuala Lumpur where the country's flag was first raised. The King, currently the Sultan of Johor, saluted and
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  • 509 1  -  By ANNA TEO FOREIGN WORKERS will number no more than a quarter of Singapore's workforce, Trade and Industry Minister Brigadier-Gen-eral (Res) Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. "We've no absolute limit in mind," he said in Parliament in reply to Opposition MP
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    • 312 1 Specialty chemicals SOUTH-EAST ASIA is expected to become one of the most price-competitive areas in the world for specialty chemicals. And with Singapore lying right smack in the centre of things, the Republic's specialty chemical factories are poised to expand their operations. See page 10 for the full report. MDS
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    • 14 1 Focus on the Malaysian economy, Page 9 Three more Pahang mosques razed, Back Page
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 499 3  -  By LOH HUI YIN REVENUE COLLECTED by the Customs and Excise Department last year dropped below the $1 billion mark to $882.73 million. This is the second year running that revenue has fallen, with the $882.73 million collected representing a 13.66 per cent dip
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    • 154 3 LABOUR-MANAGEMENT issues and employment matters will top the agenda when Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan pays a 10-day visit to South Korea and Japan. Mr Lee is attending the 11th Conference of Asian and Pacific Labour Ministers in Seoul. The four-day conference, which begins
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    • 271 3 BP DETERGENTS, the £200 mil-lion-a-year British soap and detergent maker, is shifting its marketing focus to South-east Asia, and bringing the maker closer to the market. Within the past two months, it has bought over two leading household and personal cleaning product manufacturers in
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    • 232 3 SONNY CHUAH has joined Raychem Singapore as general manager. At Raychem, Mr Chuah will be responsible for the company's Singapore operations and the regional warehousing. UM CHENG KIM is now marketing manager of Allied International Designers Pte Ltd. Miss Lim, a graduate of the University of Kent
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    • 94 3 SOME 6,000 households will be surveyed by the Labour Ministry this month in its bid to update its data on employment in Singapore. Interviewers from the ministry will be visiting these selected households to collect information such as sex, age, education, marital status, occupation, employment
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    • 462 3 ELECTRONIC TOY CARS made by the Nikko group in Singapore beat more than 9,900 worldwide companies to win the coveted Sears' 1986 Partners in Progress Award. Nikko was one of 75 companies which were given the award. These winners had
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    • 160 3 DR RICHARD HU, Minister for Finance and chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, left yesterday for a long trip that will take him ultimately to the joint annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary
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    • 243 3 Labour are we short? THE RECENT DEBATE on whether there is a labour shortage in Singapore has prompted the Government Parliamentary Committee (Labour) to seek views and suggestions to find out if there is a mismatch of demand and supply of labour. In response to some complaints from companies that
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    • 482 3  -  By JEFFREY TSANG WHILE THE ORGANISERS are still adding up the figures, the Singapore Informatics show last week is already emerging as a great success. Some $50 million worth of business was transacted during the four-day exhibition at the World Trade Centre. And although it
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    • 168 3 THE National Kidney Foundation is on a fund-raising drive to set up dialysis centres in Housing and Development Board estates. Billed the "Lifeforce" project, the foundation hopes to rally islandwide support through the organisation of games, sports and other programmes. The publicity for the project is
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    • 178 3 SINGAPORE is the second safest work site in Asia, after Japan, and this is an achievement that we can be proud of. Mr Jimmy Koh, president of the Singapore Contractors Association, quoted this achievement from the International Labour Office statistics. He was speaking at
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 570 4 NYT NEW ORDERS for Americanmade machine tools plummeted 19.7 per cent in July from the previous months' levels, following strong increases in May and June, according to a report which was released yesterday by the National Machine Tool Builders Association. The July figures
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    • 295 4 UPI, Reuter IRAN WILL NOT SEEK assistance from the Soviet Union in case it is attacked by US forces in the Gulf, an Iranian newspaper reported on Sunday. The Teheran newspaper Kayhan quoted parliament speaker Akbar HashemiRafsanjani as saying Teheran would not
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    • 202 4 AFP NICARAGUAN President Daniel Ortega introduced harsh austerity measures over the weekend, including a sixth weekly workday for all civil servants. Gasoline and diesel prices will go up 100 per cent and monthly rations will be lowered 11 per cent to 64 litres for each vehicle
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    • 344 4 Reuter CHINESE state enterprises are forming illegal cartels, abusing price systems and selling bad materials, pushing the country further into debt. The People's Daily said yesterday a 17-month probe ending in May had discovered nearly 34,000 malpractices by state enterprises selling industrial raw materials
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    • 257 4 Reuter NEW ZEALAND can see a strong reason for remaining in Fiji, despite reports that Fijian army leader Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka had called on Australia and New Zealand to withdraw their high commissioners, Prime Minister David Lange has said. "If the military strongman
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    • 304 4 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Bob Hawke, re-elected for a third term last month, has received another rebuff from his Labour Party for the proposed privatisation policy. Both moderate and extreme factions of the party's South Australian branch voted unanimously on Sunday night to
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    • 87 4 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S most populous state. New South Wales, will introduce tough laws to protect ethnic minority groups from racial slurs. Premier Barrie Unsworth has said. Under the legislation, anyone caught vilifying or ridiculing minority groups would risk penalties of up to A 540.000 (U5528,400). he
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    • 112 4 Reuter A WORLD BANK team arrives in Sri Lanka today to help in the island's biggest reconstruction effort, repairing the damage caused by four years of ethnic war. "The mission is more crucial than talks connected with the annual meeting of countries helping
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    • 262 4 AP WITH THE United States Congress due to act soon on proposals to protect US jobs and businesses from foreign competition, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are moving to thwart protectionism. Bills on trade to increase jobs and business in the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 187 4 Singapore OUTLOOK: Showers over Mvtn' areas In ttw lata morning and oocty afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Aug 31 at the airport: Moscow 16/09 Rain Nassou 31/25 Cloudy Now DoM 34/24 Cloudy Now York 28/13 Showers Nicotic 36/23 Clear Oslo 19/08 Cloudy Ports 27/15 Sunny Perth
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 548 5 DECEMBER Eurodollar tapped lower yesterday at 92.08 during Simex opening on bearish sentiments from a weaker US dollar, high ...federal funds rate and speculation of a rise in the v discount rate. > The December contract j continued to drift lower to 92.02 before short-covering lifted it to close
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    • 1094 5 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed higher yesterday against major currencies on short-covering following renewed tension in the Gulf and fears of fresh Bank of Japan intervention. The dollar s rise against the yen was limited by selling interest from Japanese exporters and trading houses at about 142.30 yen.
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    • 134 5 Reuter FINLAND'S central bank has raised the cash reserve requirement for commercial and savings banks to 4.9 per cent from 4.7 per cent effective from Sep 1. Central bank monetary policy director Ralf Pauli said: "We have been using three-month certificates of deposit to influence
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    • 82 5 Treasury bills P*riod Issue Yesterday's dosing Day's cod* Maturity WD OFFM HIGH LOW 3 monlfw RQ*****H 26.11.87 3.13 3.03 3.12 3.11 6 monlht BS*****Z 21.01.88 3.21 3.11 1 year 8Y*****S 30.06.88 3.35 3.25 Government notes end bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday' s dosing Day's cod* rate
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    • 60 5 THE OVERNIGHT RATE on the Singapore interbank market fell 3/16 point to 1/16 per cent yesterday. One and three-month term rates rose 3/16 point while the two-month was up 1/16. S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: ora MO Ow1/1« 0 In* 4 1/4 4 1/e 2-manrti 4 1/4
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    • 313 5 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at firmer opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Most operators were sidelined in the afternoon session due to lack of fresh factors. Period rates firmed between 1/16 and 3/16 point at the outset due to a fall in US bond
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    • 458 6 When you consider the size and variety of the financial risks that almost every large company has had to manage, it's a tribute to their treasurers that any companies survived at all let alone emerged successful. With a blend of science, creativity and (occasionally) crossed fingers, company You're producing great
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 508 7 Reuter THE DOLLAR'S weakness and the buoyancy of the US economy point to a further rise in domestic interest rates in the weeks ahead, economists said. The 30-year Treasury Bond yield rose to an 18-month high of 9.2 per cent last Friday, but
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    • 139 7 AFP THE BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT could buy up its private foreign debt worth US$67l million for 10 per cent of its face value on secondary discount markets, according to a report released in La Paz on Sunday by the board of the Cartagena Accord
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    • 261 7  -  By LEONG WEN WAH WITH THE MERGER of Security Pacific Corp and Rainier Bancorp in the US effective yesterday, the closure of the local offshore branch of Rainier is on the cards. BT understands the closure will take place in one or
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    • 642 7 UPI A SMALL San Francisco bank that was doing deals in China before Richard Nixon broke through the Bamboo Curtain has scored another first. The Bank of the Orient in April became the first US bank to open a full-service
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    • 138 7 Reuter KENYAN President Daniel Arap Moi has ordered the country's two state-owned banks to sell up to 30 per cent of their shares to the public. Speaking at the opening of a new branch of Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) in the coastal town of
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    • 705 7 Reuter DEBATE on the trading rules and the roles of participants in the impending expansion of financial futures trading in Japan is intensifying as bankers and brokers and their Finance Ministry counterparts square off, industry and government sources said. After years of treating financial futures
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    • 143 7 Reuter THE FEDERATION of Bankers' Associations of Japan has started developing a trading system for a comprehensive financial futures market comprising currency, interest rate, bond and stock contracts. A federation official said yesterday that it had obtained advice from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
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    • 250 7 Reuter NET PURCHASES of foreign bonds by Japanese investors fell sharply to US$B.94 billion in July from a record U5512.34 billion in June. A finance ministry official said yesterday that the steep decline in foreign bond purchases reflected the fall in US bond prices
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    • 408 7 Reuter THE REGULATOR of the US farm credit system said while the system as a whole has the funds to carry it through this year, some district land banks still face the threat of severe problems before the end of the year.
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    • 186 7 Indicates the ivcrtgt of tht prim# landing ratii oi 12 ma|or bank* In S'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Aug 31 us$ DM SWFC Y«1 7 doyi 7 67/• 1 m«t 7 1/4 1/1 3 «*> 7 13/16 3/16 6 7 5/1- 1/2 12 8 1/16 7
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    • 271 7 Reuter BUNDESBANK council member Lothar Mueller has said the central bank might have to make some money market funds available to banks at higher rates than recently. In an article in last Friday's edition of the business daily BoersenZeitung, he said banks could not expect
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 604 8 MBT MALAYSIA now accounts for nearly 60 per cent of world production of palm oil compared with just 30 per cent in 1971, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the 1985-1986 season, Malaysia's production was estimated at 4.77 million tonnes but
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    • 328 8 Reuter PRODUCERS are bringing idle smelters back into use to meet a surge in demand for aluminium which has caused a meteoric rise in the price of the metal in recent months. Bringing in the extra capacity, however, may ease the market
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    • 164 8 Reuter COMALCO LTD has said it expected high aluminium prices to continue in the second half of 1987, perhaps with some weakening toward the year-end. In a statement on the outlook for the aluminium industry accompanying its first half 1987 results last week. Comalco said
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    • 341 8 AP THE STOCKPILE of feed grains in the US is so huge that an expected production cutback this year may hardly affect total supply, according to US Department of Agriculture analysts. Feed
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    • 435 8 Reuter CHINA, which feeds a quarter of the world's population on less than a tenth of the planet s arable land, is suffering a shortage of fertiliser that has helped slow grain output, the official press and foreign experts say.
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    • 56 8 MOST products exhibited stable to firmer trend yesterday. U$$/barr«l Owng* Dubai (Oct) 17^42 0.22 Wmi Tamoi WTI (Oct) 19.43 -0.25 Products (FOB S'pore) U$$ /banal Owmg* KtfOMOt 23.40 undi Go toil 20.85 «di LSWt 17-50 -0.25 USS/NMW I Oong* NopNho* 51-50 2.00 H#ovy fwil 13-5% «u»p*~r 101-50
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    • 162 8 Chinese Produce Exchange S«1l*rs' noon dosing prfcvi on August 31 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bu* FOB 95.00 Old drum FOB 105.00 N«w drum FO# 109.00 Copra Mi«*d (loos*) 56 Pepper Muntok «+>r»« FOB NIW 1192-50 Sarawak whit* FOB foq NIW 1177.50 Sarawak spodal black FOB NIW 935.00 Sarawok
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    • 12 8 KL TIN Closing prices on August 31 (M$/kg) Price Closed Turnover (tonnes)
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    • 207 8 SINGAPORE The market closed firmer yesterday with September Ones RSS buyers quoted at 225.00 cents per kg, up three cents from last Friday. Dealers said the morning session firmed three cents mainly on higher Japanese advices, short-cover-ing and buying interest of nearby positions. A technical squeeze on the September
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    • 198 8 RAS prices In S cents/kg, FOB in bales NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers lot 1 RSS Prompt 225.00 226.00N 225.00 226.00N bt f RSS S«p 87 225.00 226.00 225.00 226.00 lot 1 RSS Oct 218.50 219.00 218.50 219.00 bt 2 RSS OP 219.00 221.00N 219.00 221.00N
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    • 303 8 AFP AN OFFICIAL with Taiwan's Board of Foreign trade said on Friday that the country would not import grain, coal, cotton or oth- er bulk commodities from China, 1 even through third parties. "Only farm and industrial raw materials that are not,
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    • 192 8 Reuter WESTERN OIL analysts in Beijing said they were sceptical about the size of a recent onshore oil discovery in northern China as reported in the official press. The New China News Agency said last week that geologists in Daqing, China's
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    • 82 8 Reuter JAPAN'S Ministry of International Trade Industry (Miti) is considering deregulating certain commodity futures markets which it oversees, including precious metals. Keiji Miyamoto, director of Miti's commercial affairs office, said plans included raising the number of con- tracts which members and non-members might hold in individual
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    • 217 8 HONGKONG: The market was closed yesterday. TOKYO: Futures closed mostly steady yesterday, recovering from afternoon lows due to growing concerns over the Middle East. Prices ended two to 18 yen per gram higher, except spot September which ended four yen lower. Prices fell in the afternoon due to
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  • FOCUS
    • 1713 9  -  What is in store for the Malaysian economy after 30 years of independence? BT's Foreign Editor Asad Latif discussed the country's political developments yesterday. In this article, Regional Correspondent BRIAN GOMEZ looks at the uncertainties that cloud the country's future after two years of
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 482 10 FIRST, a call to social responsibility. Now, a warning. If employers continue to discriminate against older workers, new regulations may be introduced to compel them to stop it, Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan said over the weekend. Mr Lee's warning followed remarks by two
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    • 1946 10  -  By SAID ABDULLAH SINGAPORE is riding on the crest of the current worldwide wave in the specialty chemicals industry, encouraging existing manufacturers to expand their operations and drawing newer and more sophisticated players in the business to the Republic. After concentrating for a decade on
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    • 730 10 FOUR YEARS after setting up operations here, Olin Hunt Specialty Products, a subsidiary of Olin Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, has achieved tremendous success, says managing director William R Dewey. He estimates that the Singapore company will chalk up a significant 75 per cent
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    • 974 11 NYT EIGHTEEN MONTHS after ousting a man many called a dictator, many Filipinos are calling for strong leadership, which they complain President Corazon C Aquino is not providing. While Mrs Aquino continues to be a compelling symbol for the Filipino people
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    • 1240 11  -  Immense benefits have been brought about in Asia as a result of the surge in the yen's value, especially in the four Asian NICs. NICHOLAS KRISTOF analyses the repercussions to the region and why the NICs are best placed to reap the benefits.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1155 11 to aiai) aaao® fory. 12.15 Omnlbuv 12.45 The World Today. 1.00 World News. 1.09 A Letter from Scotland. 1.15 Meridian. 1.45 Sporti Roundup. 2.00 Newsdesk. 2.30 Discovery. 3.00 Outlook, opening with Mows Summary. 3.39 Stock Morket Report. 3.45 Report on Religion. 4.00 World Now*. 4.09 Twenty-four Hour* News Summary. 4.30
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    • 672 11 TOIMISKDaBSa m CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Man in a mural photograph (5) 6 To play badly is one way to get a drink (5) 10 Record outsize symbols of trade (5) 11 Cause some friction (3) 12 Is he macho in a gauche manner? (2-3) 13 For whom life is
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 490 12 AP JUST AFTER he made boxing history with his explosive right hand, British World welterweight champion Lloyd Honeyghan set his sights on a unification bout with American champion Marlon Starling. Honeyghan needed only 40 seconds of a scheduled 12-round fight to knock out American Gene
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    • 269 12  -  -by Mike Thumba THERE IS A tremendous growth in interest in bridge among tertiary students. The president of the Singapore Contract Bridge Association, Mrs Nancy Yung, made this observation in her message to the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) during the second inter-college
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    • 688 13 AP THERE IS Joe Dimaggio's 56game hitting streak and Wilt Chamberlain s 100-point game, and now now, there is Ben Johnson's 9.83-second clocking in the 100-metre dash. All history making-perfor-mances, the first two of which have stood the test of time, the latter a mark
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    • 441 13 NYT HE STUDIES the baseball box scores, watches hockey games on cable television in his Greenwich house and enjoys spending his days off on a golf course in pursuit of par. Ivan Lendl has been studying to be an American since he moved
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    • 246 13 NYT THERE WAS a vacant look in his eyes, as if Pat Cash had drawn the shade on his emotions. His voice was soft, his answers brief, hps barely moving, like a ventriloquist. But there was no puppet sitting alongside the winner and new
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    • 607 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS IN THE AFTERMATH of the changing of the guard for Singapore tennis, Tan Ah Peng was at his candid best, putting the state of the game in perspective. "Mahader Hassan is over the hill," he was saying now without a trace of disrespect
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    • 314 13 UPI CURTIS STRANGE, playing steadily while his pursuers faltered, shot a 1-over-par 71 last Sunday and set a PGA tour earnings record in capturing the US$BOO,OOO NEC World Series of Golf by three shots over Fulton Allem of South Africa. Strange posted rounds of 70-66-68-71
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4390 14 AFTER weakening towards the end of last week, share prices were pushed lower over a broad front in extremely quiet trading yesterday. Only 10 counters managed to register gains against 160 which showed losses. Dealers said the market opened easier in line
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    • 184 14 SINGAPORE Rises Indices F ft N 1390 10 Aug 28 Aug 31 t M M»6g, 400 10 8T Cowpodii 1307.46 1285.43 How Pof 665 5 8TO8/OS -210 -209 C Proportfot 555 5 IT CADI -5762 -5869 Falls IT 10-doy Mj K -5660 -5681 IT 08V ♦*****80 +*****64
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 714 15 MRCB rights some unanswered questions ma mm... By HOCK LOCK SIEW MALAYSIAN RESOURCES Corp's (MRCB) recently proposed one-for-one rights issue stands out as unique among the recent spate of cash calls announced by listed companies in Malaysia. MRCB's proposed rights issue, which is part of the prop-erty-based group's restructuring plans,
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    • 156 15 UNITED INDUSTRIAL Corporation has confirmed that its investment in Goldhill Square is part of the group s strategy of expanding its activities in the property sector. This is to enhance UlC's earnings base, the company said in its circular to shareholders on the proposed
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    • 271 15 SINGMARINE INDUSTRIES, whose public offer of 35 million shares at $1.30 each opens today. will have a net tangible asset backing of 67.5 cents for each share of par value 50 cents. This is after adjusting for the estimated net proceeds of
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    • 154 15 Reuter TAIWAN'S stock market posted a record single-day gain to hit a new high yesterday, but a stock exchange official said the market was overheated and urged caution. The weighted index surged 104.3 points to 3,075 as thousands of small investors
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    • 49 15 MALAYSIAN ASSURANCE Alliance Bhd: Operating after-tax profit of M 51.32 million (M 51.06 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1986, giving EPS of 22.1 cents (17.68 cents). Directors are not recommending any dividend for the year just ended. Barring unforeseen circumstances, they expect another satisfactory year.
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    • 257 15 OVERSEAS UNION BANK will spend more than $15 million over the next few years to upgrade the groups computer capability here and in Malaysia, said its managing director Lee Hee Seng yesterday. Mr Lee said yesterday's signing ceremony for the purchase of IBM, Tandem
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    • 500 15  -  By LEONG WEN WAH SMALLISH trading-based company Mulpha (Singapore) Ltd has changed hands and the new owners are two Indonesian merchants, Messrs Putra and Oka Masagung. Through a company called GTS Trading (S) Pte Ltd, incorporated in Singapore, they are paying 38 cents
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    • 505 15  -  By LISA LEE WITHIN a fortnight, Johan Holding's new international corporate vehicle, Abacus Pacific NV, which holds all the group's foreign assets, is expected to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The group also plans to list the Netherlands-incorporated Abacus Pacific
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    • 136 15 HONG FOK Corp, which recently persuaded its bankers to agree to reschedule a $55 million loan for the Concourse project, has requested the Stock Exchange ot Singapore to lift the suspension of trading in its shares. Trading in its shares has been suspended
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    • 117 15 LOST SHARE CERTIFICATES The following share certificates have been reported lost, destroyed or mislaid OAYAPI INDUSTRIES (MALAYSIA) BERHAD Certificate Nos. In the name of No of shares A *****/30 U B Nominees 2x1.000 Sdn Bhd KUALA LUMPUR INDUSTRIES BERHAD A *****4/5 Rothputra Nominees 2*1,000 Sdn Bhd A *****3 Assets Nominees
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    • 417 15 ANNOUNCEMENT The Directors of GTS Trading (S) Pte Ltd ("GTS" or the "Company"), a company incorporated in Singapore, announce that the Company has entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement (the "Agreement") dated 31st August, 1987 with Mulpha International Trading Corporation Berhad ("MITC") to acquire 16,950,000 ordinary shares of Ssl.oo
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 289 16 AFP MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC Industrial Co Ltd (MEI) and Matsushita Electric Trading Co Ltd (MET) will merge in April to strengthen production and sales activities abroad. "There has grown a strong necessity for the two firms to work together more closely than ever before
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    • 551 16 FT THE WIDELY-HELD view among foreign investors that the Japanese stock market is highly overvalued is contested in a new study by S G Warburg Securities (Japan). The idea that the Tokyo market is overvalued is based mainly on the relatively high price-earnings ratios there. The
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    • 228 16 Reuter JAPAN'S major life insurance companies have agreed to buy a portion of the US$lOO million convertible preferred stock which Bank America Corp plans to issue to boost its equity base Twenty life insurers met late last week and confirmed their commitment to the US
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    • 182 16 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES' Committee on Privatisation (COP) has rejected state-owned Philippine National Bank's (PNB) proposed sale of a bankrupt car assembler to Toyota Motor Corp. Finance Secretary Jaime Ongpin, who heads the COP, said the agreement did not conform with public
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    • 111 16 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Monday Closed Friday 2365 59 Week ago 2222 33 Hang Seng Index Monday Closed Friday *****4* Week ago 3391 26 All Industrials Monday 3169.9 Friday 3175.2 Week ogo ***** NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday 2639 35 Thursday 2675.06 Week ogo 2709 50 TOKYO Nikkei Average
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    • 284 16 Monagers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for Sep 1 first B'putro 753 758 Singapore Unit Trust Second B'putro Third B'putro 664 494 669 499 The Commute* 126 133 fourth B'putra 602 607 The Savings fund 1 10 1 17 filth B'putro 389 394 Spore P'Ofl fund 052 056 Sixth B'putro 4
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    • 132 16 AUG 31 Cheil Sugar Daelim Ind Daewoo Corp Daewoo Heavy Daishin Securities Dong Ah Phar Dong Suh Slock WON ***** ***** ***** ***** *****0 ***** ***** 1100 unch -300 -50 8700 -690 -200 Kai Kangwon Ind Kia Motor Kolon Ind Korea Long Term Lucky Ltd Oriental Brewery Oriental Chem
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    • 490 16 Reuter SHARE PRICES in Tokyo closed mixed in active trading yesterday on selective buying of special incentive stocks and selling of those which looked overbought, after rising to record levels in the previous three sessions. The 225-share Nikkei Average fell 18.95 points to 26,029.22, after climbing to a record
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    • 446 16 Reuter AUSTRALIAN share prices closed weaker yesterday as investors dumped stocks across the board, worried by lower international gold prices and the third successive decline on Wall Street. Brokers said gold-re-lated and resource stocks were hardest hit after gold opened in Sydney at U*****.00/75 an ounce from U*****.40/90 last
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    • 169 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 7.06 to 353.15 on a turnover of 4.83 million shares worth 711.30 million baht. Reuter AUG 11 *AHT Ao Kham Thai 196 Ayudhya Invwtmant 366 +6 16 Bangkok Agro-ind Bangkok Bank Bank Of Ayudhya Charoortg Thai Wira Cable 204 363 342
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    • 568 16 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF KHOON ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS PTE. LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at an Extra-ordi-nary General Meeting of Members of KHOON ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at
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    • 554 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PIK SING (PTE.) LTD. (11l Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of PIK SING (PTE.) LTD. duly convened and held at No. 279 (Ist
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    • 519 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 GOLDEN BANNER CO PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an extraordinary general meeting of the company held at 156 Cecil Street, #07-02 Far Eastern Bank Bldg., S'pore 0106 on 27/8/87 the following special resolutions were duly passed: 1) That the company
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 378 17 NYT THE SECURITIES and Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange have begun intensive investigations into the merger discussions late last year between the E F Hutton group and the Shearson Lehman Brothers unit of the American Express Co. according to Wall Street
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    • 526 17 NYT AB VOLVO, the Swedish food and automotive engineering group, continues to attract growing numbers of upwardly mobile buyers. The company sold 3 per cent more cars in the first half of the year than it did the first six months of 1966.
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    • 288 17 NYT LAZARD FRERES Co is trying to raise US$2 billion to make minority investments that would aid companies which are likely targets of hostile takeovers. This is the first such defensive fund on Wall Street and is designed to
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    • 665 17 Hilton International eyed by as many as 35 potential bidders FT WHEN THE HILTON International chain of 90 hotels worldwide was acquired by Allegis of the US late last year, many other would-be suitors were left with the knowledge that they had failed to acquire one of the prime hotel
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    • 375 17 Management incentive scheme put off FT GUINNESS PEAT, the UK finance services group, facing a hostile £338 million offer from New Zealand's Equiticorp, is placing a controversial management incentive scheme on ice for the duration of the bid and has launched an international
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    • 436 17 Reuter TRYART PTY Ltd, owned by Warwick Fairfax, said it would make a takeover bid for John Fairfax Ltd to privatise and restructure the media group. Tryart would offer A 57.50 cash each for the outstanding shares in the group or three
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    • 149 17 Reuter FINNISH ELECTRONICS firm Nokia Oy. rich after a US$lOO-mil-lion Eurobond issue in July, plans to broaden its market outlets through acquisitions later this year. "We are holding discussions with several electronics firms. I think «re will announce something thia year, and
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    • 231 17 FIRST ISSUE 5 SEPTEMBER 1987. SUBSCRIBE NOW! THE SINGAPOREAN NEWS FOR SINGAPOREANS OVERSEAS r I m I! II m M Wit WEEKLY OVERSEAS EDITION M.CIC?) No. 222/3/B7 SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER S. I*7 m JVj V/VX/V/. The Straits Times Overseas Weekly. It's the new weekly newspaper, printed on lightweight paper in convenient
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
    • 338 18  -  Reports by FOO CHOY PENG, ANNA TEO,WILLIAM CHIA STOCK EXCHANGE authorities will be asked to look into a proposal that publicly-listed companies should rotate their auditors once every tive years. The proposal was put up by Mr Chandra Das
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    • 338 18 THE THREE schools going independent next year are setting up endowment funds. In support, the government is making a start-up donation of up to $1 million on a dollar-for-dol-lar basis to each of the funds. In addition, donations to the funds will be tax-exempt. This
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    • 237 18 TO PROPOSE incentives which are overtty in favour of local investors runs against the fundamental spirit of the free enterprise economy in Singapore, Trade and Industry Minister Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. While the government recognises that local companies do face difficulties
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    • 330 18 Glue-sniffing why approach is different A BILL aimed at containing glue-sniffing in Singapore was passed in Parliament yesterday. Under the Intoxicating Substances Bill, a person who is found to have sniffed glue will not be immediately put under compulsory treatment and rehabilitation. He will instead be put under a supervision
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    • 400 18 THE HOUSE LEADER yesterday assured Mr Chiam See Tong that anytime he wanted to raise a matter of public importance through a motion which calls for another MP's support, one would be found for him. "I give my assurance that when he (Mr
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    • 330 18 THE GOVERNMENT will be replying to a letter of protest by 55 US Congressmen against the recent Internal Security Act arrests. Home Affairs Minister S Jayakumar told the House yesterday. The substance of the reply, said the minister, would be similar to the
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  • 419 18 Reuter SOUTH KOREA'S rival parties agreed yesterday on the rough draft of a new constitution, heralding the country's first free presidential elections in 16 years and cutting the chief executive's powers in favour of a stronger Parliament. Spokesmen for the ruling
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  • 279 18 Reuter PRINCE Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday that Cambodia's coalition government would stick together, and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang said that Vietnamese troops must leave Cambodia before there could be a political settlement there. The New China News Agency, reporting on talks between
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  • 99 18 Bernama THREE MOSOUES in Pahang's Triang district were razed by fire early yesterday, bringing to five the number of mosques burned in Pahang in the past 24 hours. Fires broke out at Masjid Kampung Kuala Triang, Masjid Ksmpung Bohor Baru and Masjid Kampung Nyak, Chenur,
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  • 78 18 Reuter WALL STREET stocks moved slightly higher yesterday, carried by a rising dollar, analysts said. The US dollar opened higher on renewed Middle-East tension and caution following central bank support of the dollar. US Treasury coupons opened lower on inflation fears, analysts said. The Dow 30 gained
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  • 120 18 Reuter GOLD rose yesterday morning on renewed tension in the Gulf following the weekend air raids by Iraq on Iranian oil facilities. Following a slow start, gold for delivery in December jumped up US$2 to U*****.30 an ounce. Analysts said tensions in the Gulf prompted traders
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  • LATE FILE
    • 62 18 Reuter NINETY-TWO workers were missing after an explosion yesterday in a South African gold mine and many may be dangling in a lift more than 400 metres from the bottom of a shaft. The blast at the St Helena mine at Welkom, southwest of Johannesburg, came
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    • 51 18 Reuter DEMOCRACY in Indonesia is still in its infancy and the government tends to be authoritarian, leading politicians and analysts said at a seminar organised by Kompas, the country's leading newspaper. They urged the military-backed government to give greater freedom to Indonesia's three political parties.
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    • 37 18 Reuter COMMUNIST rebels yesterday threatened renewed attacks against the divided Philippines military after Friday's bloody coup attempt and there were rumours of a rebel government being established by the routed mutineers. Reuter
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    • 36 18 Reuter LAST-CMTCH talks to avert a strike today by thousands of Seoul taxi-drivers failed yesterday and the city authorities prepared emergency plans to avert monster traffic jams in the capital. Reuter
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    • 44 18 AP A CABINET decision to scrap building the Lavi jet fighter, an Israeli plane of the future, in favour of the US-made F--16 prompted protests by hundreds of aircraft workers in Jerusalem, who burned tyres and blocked major intersections yesterday. AP
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    • 46 18 AFP THE PHILIPPINES is asking the International Monetary Fund to lower some economic performance targets set for the country. An IMF mission and Philippine officials are reviewing earlier economic projections and some, such as QNP growth, are to be revised. AFP
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    • 41 18 Reuter FIJI'S Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, yesterday proposed a caretaker government to run the country till parliamentary democracy was restored. Ratu Sir Ganilau said that he did not want sole authority for too long. Reuter
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 112 19 SEA-AIR CARGOES leaving Japanese ports in 1986 increased 71.4 per cent to 33,599 tonnes over the previous year, according to a Japanese Ministry of Transport report. Cargo bound for Europe via North America accounted for 75 of this, with Seattle and Vancouver as major
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    • 349 19  -  By G DURAIRAJ A MAJOR dredging contract for the deepwater Bintulu port in Sarawak is expected to be awarded sometime this month. Estimated to be worth more than Ms2o million, the contract has attracted more than a dozen companies including Malaysian Dredging
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    • 174 19 Bernama FIFTEEN CONSORTIA have been invited to undertake feasibility studies on the proposed commercialisation of the Ms6oo million Royal Malaysian Navy Dockyard in Lumut, Perak. Royal Malaysian Navy chief Laksamana Muda Datuk Seri Abdul Wahab Nawi said yesterday that the studies would determine
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    • 125 19 OFFENCES committed under Singapore's Merchant Shipping Act not exceeding $200 can now be compounded. These cover 16 offences including the failure to comply with conventions affecting a ship's safety, making a false statement to obtain a certificate of competency, and having
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 135 19 IN ANTICIPATION of increased demand for jack-ups in the North Sea. Neddrill Nederland has added another jack-up to its fleet. The Neddrill 7, which is a typical North Sea design, is similar to Neddrill 3, a unit which has been part of the company's fleet for
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      • 42 19 US CONTAINER leasing company Xtra is switching its marine division from Boston to London. The ro-ro divsion of the rail-intermodal division will be moved to Jacksonville, Florida, while the rail-inter-modal division itself will be based in Kansas City.
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      • 41 19 LOGPORT INTERNATIONAL, the container repair yard franchisor with members in 23 countries, has appointed Jardine Matheson Co as the general agent in the Far East and South-east Asia with Jardine Shipping Agencies (Hongkong) acting as coordinators.
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      • 83 19 THE RAILWAY LINK between Madras port and the New Delhi inland container depot has been inaugurated. The first dedicated Indian Railways train carried 32 containers mainly for Samtel India, Tele Tube Electrodes and the US embassy in New Delhi. Meanwhile, the proposal to set up an
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    • 368 20 Lloyd s List WEST GERMAN shipbuilder Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HOW) has captured orders worth close to US$4OO million. It has signed a preliminary contract for two 50,000-grt cruise ships for delivery in 1990 The two ships, worth at least US$l5O million each, have
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    • 223 20 Reuter AN EMPTY FERRY BOAT capsized in a port on southern Okinawa island and two other ships snapped their anchor cables and ran aground as typhoon Dinah lashed southern Japan with strong winds and rain on Sunday. One guest was injured in a
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    • 396 20 Fairplay A CONTROVERSIAL PLAN, announced early this year, to set up a pool of German container ships and lay up unneeded vessels to stabilise rates, has been delayed. The originator of the plan, Hamburg shipowner Claus-Pe-ter Offen, has in the meantime
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    • 317 20 AP A GRAND SEND-OFF for a replica of the 15th century ship Santa Maria on its voyage to Europe was postponed on Sunday while work proceeded to finish the vessel. Vital Alsar, the project s creator and ship's captain, said most of the work
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    • 375 20 Reuter THE GULF shipping world wondered yesterday when, where and how Iran would hit back after renewed Iraqi air raids on its oil lifeline. Most diplomatic and shipping sources in the region had no doubt that Iran would retaliate but were
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    • 643 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI Africa Oceon 1 Alltrans VII American Tpt 1 Anship Int'l X Anro Service IV ANl i A PC line V An III ASCI M Asian Ocean VI Bolt Conado line VII Bolt-Orient line VII Bank line
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    • 161 20 SMIT INTERNATIONAL has restructured its operation to cope with adverse market conditions. The Dutch salvage and towage company has reorganised its activities into five specific sectors to take advantage of a market upturn. They are: Smit-Lloyd supply shipping; Smit Tak salvage, ocean towage and
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    • 1206 20 LIMITED business was reported on the dry cargo market on Friday, but a rate of US$l7 was reported for a grain cargo from the US Gulf to Japan, brokers said. Recent talk of another fixture at this level remained unconfirmed, but the new booking should lift its Baltic
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    • 240 21 AFP UNCERTAINTY about the near-term direction of oil prices kept charterers on the sidelines during the past week on the tanker market, where reports of a large accumulation of available tonnage in the Gulf States area also contributed to hesitant conditions. London broker E A Gibson reported that
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    • 383 21 SHIPOWNERS are braving the short-term vagaries of the dry cargo market with a huge investment in secondhand handy-sized bulk carriers. At least 10 vessels have been committed for sale in the last week to a wide range of operators, who will pay a total of
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    • 303 21 Fairplay THE GARD P&l CLUB of Norway has warned its members about the continually disturbing nature of fines imposed by Algerian port authorities. In the latest issue of Gard News, the club cites the recent case of a vessel which, while
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    • 251 21 Seatrade Week THE HARD CURRENCY earnings of Soviet merchant shipping have been shrinking in recent years, while the average age of vessels has sunk from seven years old in 1970 to 15 now. according to a recent article in Izvestiya. Izvestiya quoted the Soviet
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    • 8036 26 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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    • 651 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Conopus 7 K20 alongside 01 09 1200 Dang Delima K19 alongside 03 09 2300 Dashtqioo K29 alongside 02 09 0600 Equator III K23 alongside 01 09 1400 Klomabod K35 alongside 01 09 2300 Kota Benor K33 alongside 0509
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