The Business Times, 15 October 1987

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1 28 The Business Times
  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 112/12/86 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 230 1 STOCK MARKET SHARE PRICES finished on a mixad note yesterday after the drift downwards was arrested in the laat half hour of trading. The ST Induatrial Index fail 4.15 points to 1,430.78 while the BT Compoaita Index eaaad 3.21 pointa to cloaa at 1,285.02. Turnover was 15.09m
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  • 508 1  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE A PILOT PROJECT to introduce a pre-emptive "bidding" system for advertising over television during the festive December month is creating some ripplee in the advertising induetry. The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation ia trying this out in the interest of
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  • 263 1  -  The National Bank of Brunei trial By ELAINE KOH A RULING by Justice Barry Mortimer may possibly be given today on the jurisdiction issue after which the prosecution may make its opening statement on the National Bank of Brunei fraud case. The past th
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  • 193 1 Reuter ANOTHER big US monthly trad* deficit sent the US dollar tumbling on world currency market» yesterday. The gold price roee. The dollar dropped one West German pfennig within minutes of news that the US August trade gap totalled U5515.68 billion dollars. That
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  • 121 1 Reuter A POWERFUL BOMB wrecked part of an international hotel in Manila yesterday, injuring seven people, as the Philippines' top defence official said martial law could be enacted at any time. The bomb tore apart a side entrance to the Manila Garden Hotel in the
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  • 567 1  -  Asia Commercial Bank latest to raise interest rates By SOH TIANG KENG DEMAND FOR LOANS from bank» and finance companiaa hat intensified during the past faw months, putting upward prasaura on local intaraat rates. This surge in loan demand, along with rising
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  • 354 1 AP, Reuter PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino aaid yesterday that her government was ready for any new coup attempt and was open to renewed talks with communist rebels after they hinted they were prepared to resume contacts. "We are prepared for any contingency,"
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  • 342 1  -  ®y AMY BALAN SINGATRONICS chairman and chief executive Eddie Foo haa found an inter eating avenue for his new-found wealth. Ha ia putting his money where hie mouth ia in Saadaq. With lees than a week to go before hie own company
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    • 360 1 Trade pact assessed A PIONEERING trade pact signed recently between the US and Canada may have done a bigger favour to the cause of free trade than to the Canadians. It falls short of the goal set by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney which is to give Canadian exporters greater access
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 364 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH ALMOST $60 million worth of building contracts were given out in the two wMki ended Oct 9 by various government departments, with the Housing and Development Board accounting for the lion's share. According to the latest government
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    • 143 2 SINGAPORE-BOUND passengers boarding Air Canada flights in London and Bombay will be the first people in the air to read the overseas edition of Tha Straits Timaa. The Canadian national carrier is the first airline to carry the newspaper.
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    • 258 2 THIS YEAR'S Merlion Week will see 6,000 people rushing for sests in en attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records. In one of the events planned for the week starting Nov 14, members of the People's Association Youth Group will gather at
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    • 269 2 COURIER COMPANY DHL Worldwide Express is slashing its rates to Japan by an average of 50 per cent and guaranteeing delivery within two days under a special promotion. Under DHL's new Samurai Super Savor Plan, shipping a one kilogramme package to Japan coats
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    • 353 2 Seminars and courses j Oct 26-27 Monoglng ttkiMnQ SIM Confer «ncn Singapore *****66 Style* Room Institute of Oct 26-27 Merchandising and SIM Conference Singapore *****66 Display Room Institute of Oct 26-26 Mop. Top and Industrial Hilton Hotel Housley *****66 local Area Networks Communications Oct 26-26 Financial Management SIM Conference
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    • 483 3  -  By MARTIN SOONG THE VAN OMMEREN group, more well-known for its shipping activities, is taking advantage of the booming local air cargo industry to go into the airfreight business here. The Rotterdam-based group last month set up a subsidiary, Van Ommeren Air, with the
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    • 469 3  -  By WILLIAM CHIA TRADITIONAL "prejudices" against factoring in the marine industry have not stopped a new company from building up a clientele, although it recognises such prejudices as the main obatacle to growth. The company, International Factors Marine (Singapore) Re Ltd. has managed to build
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    • 82 3 SHELL ia giving the National Museum $20,000 to enable it to buy an oil painting by pioneer artist Liu Kang to mark the museum's centenary. The painting, called Artist and Model, was completed in 1954. A ceremony is to be hekJ on Oct 19 at
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    • 88 3 PARTICIPANTS from as far as Africa and Western Asia have again registered at the Singapore Civil Aviation Training Centre for the fourth airport management courss which will start on Oct 10. Courses conducted by the centre srs sspecially wellattended by people from Western Asis,
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    • 231 3 ROBERT F PR ETHER has been named president of Cipher Data Products International AG. Mr Prether, who is based in Singapore, will continue his present assignment in the US as corporate vice-president, operations. He will be responsible for worldwide manufacturing operations. In his new role as president
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    • 162 3 MORE AUSTRIAN companiee are heading this way to promote the country's latest in fashion material and accessories. There will be 33 participants in Austria Style 86, an annual promotion of Austria's fashion industry. Last year, 24 companiee took part Mr Fritz Helmreich, the Austrian Trade
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 464 4 US accused of unfair practices Reuter JAPAN and Australia have lodged public complaints against the US for what they considered to be unfair trade practices, a spokesman for the international trade body Gatt said. Japan asserted that the 100 per cent tariffs Waahington slapped
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    • 289 4 Reuter INDIA NEEDS to double its exports by the end of the decade to meet rising import costs and debt repayments, a businessmen's group said yesterday. "Exports will have to be multiplied fast" to hit an annual 250 billion rupees (US$l9.2 billion)
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    • 116 4 UPI VIETNAM ended its four-year-old boycott of UN General Assembly debate on the war in Cambodia on Tueeday. saying that "several prospects" are in sight to end the conflict. "The situation is at preeent rapidly changing," Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Di Nien told the
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    • 329 4 MBT MALAYSIA has notified major regional banks that it will prepay US$76O million of the total US$l billion loan raised in 1964 and 1966. Treasury sources confirmed reports that the government was planning to pay the US dollar-de-nominated loan ahead of schedule.
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    • 206 4 Reuter STAUNCHLY anti-commu-nist Taiwan is boosting ft» trade with Eastern Europe ss pari of efforts to diversify its markets. The Board of Foreign Trade said on Tueeday direct trade with Eastern Europe Jumped 87.5 per cent to about US$l5O million in the first nine months
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    • 300 4 AFP BURMA'S export earnings were running 88.5 per cent short of a targeted U*****.7 million for the current fiscal year, morethan seven months after its start. Prime Minister Maung Maung Kha has said. Speaking at a three-day regular seesion of the Pyitu Hluttaw (parliament) on
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 60 4 Doonesbury OH ONE NRHX ANOTHER, DtSUHAOYAFFBCTEP EVERY MEMBER OFTHE BUSH CLAN. THE BUSH WOMEN IN mRJI CJULARFOUNPSKJPPYS BEHAVIOR UNFORGIVABLE. vv UNCLE FWYP* y ms MY PUTTING SAME, FENNY. 17* OFF. m a 7SZZA BY GARRY TRUDEAU W PONT, IN CONTRAST, MAS SHAMELESS. ANPNOUMY VERY. VERY GOOP FRJENP, GEORGE BUSHS BROTHER!.
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    • 98 4 Singapore OUTLOOK: Mr Raport far 24 Iwn prior to 7JSOpm m Oo 14 #w ifl AAoacow 11/01 fair Namou 33/25 Cloudy Nn MM 37/23 Omt Nt« York 14/06 S»tey Nko* 30/15 Ckor Odo 09/06 Ooudy forte 14/10 ftwwn Forth 16/12 Swmw Me 'JcMiro 35/ It Ooudy Rom* 24/14 Pair San
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 405 5 NYT THE US SENATE confirmed C William Verity Jr as Secretary of Commerce on Tueeday. but only after shutting off a threatened filibuster by a handful of conservative Republicana who oppoee his support for expanding trade with the Soviet Union. The Conaervativee
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    • 118 5 AP A MINNESOTA factory on Tuesday shipped its first orders of chopsticks to Japan, and an official said the company hoped to etart producing as many aa seven million pairs a day. A crowd of about 100 visitors snd 46 workers was on hand
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    • 796 5 ARRIVALS Operator JtfYKt number Local fbn# From AC ACISt 0925 ra/im/tOM SU SQ103 0950 KUL CPA CX710 1015 CGK MAS MH403 1020 KUL GU GA975 1055 CDG/AUH MA ***** 1100 tWN OA GA940 1100 CGK SU SQ105 1105 KUL StA SO 201 1145 CGK CAAC CA395 1150
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    • 165 5 Reuter PRIME MINISTERS of the 10nation Soviet-led bade bloc Comecon said they envisaged introducing a common currency that would be convertible into non-Communist currenciee. Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov aaid Comecon'a ultimate aim waa a collective monetary unit that would replace the transferable
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    • 466 5 AP A TOP SOVIET OFFICIAL said on Tueeday the Soviet Union and the United Stales should be able to reach agreement on reducing strategic nuclear weapons by the middle of next year. Anatoly Dobrynin, head of international relations tor the communist party
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    • 265 5 UPI ABOUT THE ONLY aurpriae in Switzerland'• upcoming national aiacttona would ba if mora than half the paopla turnad out to vote. Only 48.0 par cant of tha 3.5 million of wo wiqim vovort took tha trouble in tha 1963 alactiona and Just 46
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    • 87 5 Reuter A HAITIAN praaidantial aspirant was shot daad outaida poiica haadquartar» on Tundiy sdar ha sought to traa s prisonsr. y, m A Witness6B UlO TVM VOW, m a AaM A uui «-A nwysf •no civil riynn scuvisv wss shot by man in civilian ckxdm as nt
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1034 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed steady to alightly higher againat major currencies after fluctuating narrowly on shortcovering and profit-taking yeeterday. Trading waa very thin aa moat operators were reluctant to create fresh poaitiona ahead of the releaae later yeeterday of US August trade data. The dollar ended slightly
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    • 308 6 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rain ctOMO iiim CfwngiG st yesterday morning's WlyllUj iwWvf IVVVH ITWI quirt trading. Moat operators were reluctant to toico up freeh position* as they awaited yeetorday's re Is ess of US August trada data, expeotod to ahow a amailor deficit of between US$l3 and U8616
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    • 57 6 THE OVERNIGHT RATE on the Singapore interbank market fell 2 points to end at one per cent yeetarday. One-month fell 5/16, two-months and three-months 1/16 point S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterdayi on k> o—i i i/i l4Mh 4 VI* 4 1/1« M 4 1/1 4 3/t i
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    • 167 6 UPI BRITAIN'S Roysl Mint, boeeting e golden opportunity for the public to gain "the ultimate hedge egeinst inflation", unveiled its first gold bullion coin on Tuesday the Britannia "This is ths ultimate long-term investment, the ultimate hedge egainet inflation," Paymastsr General Peter Brooke sskJ.
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 626 7 DECEMBER Eurodollar opened unchanged from Chicago's cloeing level at 90.94 on Simex yesterday. Trading was quiet in early session but shortcovering activity before the release of US trade balance figure saw the December contract traded up to 90.97. Although a slight upturn in prices was seen in Simex, the
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    • 1056 7 INTEREST RATES OPTIONS limrlnn w sons w October 14, 1987 EUROOOUAR (WHO) 0 ac 17 mN* In 0«« IX Wok >e or pan Law •oa 9000 97» •5 3 9050 54# 53 10 9100 22 22 22 29 29 29 9125 13 12 12 43 43 44 9150 6
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    • 127 7 Gold future* on Oct 13 8 I ouncw USt par toy ou km Opon Mg* iM Mto Oct 439.70 4HI0 449.10 -2J0 No. 480.90 -270 Ok MOO 443.00 mm 2-70 Nb M 471XX) 471 JO 470J0 47X90 280 47X70 ***** ***** 47X00 -2.90 tun 4UJ0 403 JO
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    • 109 7 AFP THE BOARD of Italy's state holding company IRI agreed unanimously on Tuesday to relinquish its indirect control of the Mediobanca merchant banking company, shedding 37 per cent of the bank's shares to the public and a group of private shareholders. The move was seen
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    • 451 7 Reuter THE BANK of England would tend to oppoaa cloee association between banks and industrial and commercial companies under re-cently-extended powers, said Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh-Pember-ton. Ha noted that the UK Banking Act, effective since Oct 1, allowed the Bank in the
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    • 293 7 AP PERU temporarily closed its stock market and two newly-nationaliaed banks on Tuasday following an announcsmsnt by ona of the banks that its smptoyaas had purchaaad mora than half its slock. Tha cloeinga, which ara to last until today, wara ordarad to aasa tha
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    • 87 7 Treasury bills Ported IMM Yi utordoy's ck Ming Day's cod# Maturity MD C xm htCH LOW 3 mmnhs BQ*****H 14.1.88 3.50 3.45 3.50 3v45 6 mmnh> BS*****Z 21.01.88 3-50 3^40 1 r*or IY*****H 22J09M 3.95 3.90 Qovsmmsnt n< >t8s and bondi 1 Period ItSUO Maturity Coupon Yostorday's
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    • 174 7 12 nSvM>to fpor* InHrbink mavfcit r iIm (offor/bki) on Oct 14 US$ DM SWfC Y« 7 4mf 1 IS 7 i/4 s/i i/a a/* 7 15/1* 7 IS/I* 7/3 3/4 7/1 1/4 10 V** 1/1* 15/14 13/14 10 J/3 1/4 3/1* 3/1* 10 7/1* 3 13/1* 11/1*
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    • 73 7 FROM TOOAY, SBCText via wars can tuna in to what is happaning at tha Singepora International Monetary; Exchange. Viewer* can have access to tha "real time"quotee tor contracts on U8 intereat ratea, currency futurea, share index futuree and goto futuree. TMe has been made poeeibte by
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    • 200 7 A *A INTRODO t i, 11 •> JU p ITALIAN V 10 Qiovanni's done it again. He's come up with a whole new concept for an Italian style lunch in the afternoon. It consists of a special Antipasto Buffet, unlimited Oyster and Salad Bar, Soup, Cheese and Dessert Buffet. The
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 428 8 Crude pahn oil futures closed steadier in active trading on the KLCE yesterday. The market opened higher in line with Pakistan's purchase of two parcels of ROB olein on Tuesday. Sentiment was further aided by the higher CBT close of between 20 to 30 points. October closed at
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    • 258 8 HONGKONG: Gold closed slightly firmer on light physical buying prompted pertly by the foreign exchange markets ahead of the releaae of US trade data laat night Bullion ended at U*****.25/75 an ounce against an initial USS4SB.BQ/450.30 and New Y or k a final U*****.75/450.25. On the local market,
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    • 82 8 NAPHTHA LEVELS into Japan fell sharply in the morning but recovered slightly in the afternoon. The rest of the markets were dull but middle distillates showed signs of weakness. Crude prices roee in line with the US markets. UH/bnHl Otong* 16.95 003 Wm> Ton wn (no»i \fj7
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    • 254 8 RAS prices In owMo, fob m b*« B NOON aosc 8wyon Sollort ftuyon Sell en bit 1 RSS Prompt 219.00 220.00N 218 JO 219 JON bit 1 RSS Nov 87 217.00 217J0 216J0 217.00 b* 1 RSS Doc 218.50 219.00 218.00 218JO bit 2 RSS Of 215.75
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    • 240 8 ChiiWN Product API FOt NSW 475.00 White Rice London Commodity Exchange Stltn' noon doring pr Oct 14 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil fco» en AF2 FOt NSW EK1 FOt NSW Refautfa 20/25% FOt NSW Nutmeg 410.00 420.00 370.00 100% 1« don 100% 2nd do« 100% 3rd da« 5% 10%
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    • 83 8 leanta/kg, 1-*on NOVEMKR 87 DKEMM (CWTW* month) (forwor d month) RAS NOON NOON ;,n <r i w y #n S*n SSI 30 213.00 315.00 ***** 215.00 SSt 50 ***** 31X50 311 JO 21X50 MRELB luyll S lw)r«n Safari SMI cv 370JO 272.50N 371 JO 273J0N SMI I
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    • 46 8 THE Kwala Lemper Tin Market (KLTM) price re- melnetf unchenged at M117.1S a kg «I yslsrdey'a another brief down ftrem 77 en Teeedey! with miners holding beck while hoping for higher pricee. No foreign molel or on onwrwC wm iSKSfi up g Europoon end
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    • 313 8 London aF UK/toMoi dam (11*7/1190) Commodity Now/Doe 340dr 3-#non#v 1154/1160 (1152/1155) j 1210 (11*7) .4 Exchange Oct/Doc Jan/Mar 345dr (345dr) 355dr (355dr) doiin g prtcot o« Jan/Mar 355* Tonoi Mo Satan (1*) Oct 13 (£/iHN u —1 »fl ill IPOCJIIOO; CM hi M'dan R80 FOt por Nov/Dw 322-So*
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    • 119 8 SINGAPORE The market closed lower with November One RSS buyers quoted at 216.50 centa/kilo yesterday, down one cent from Tuesday'a close. On the TSR-20 market trading waa quiet and pricea were little changed. November and December TSR-20 cloaed at 207.50 centa/kilo, both unchanged from Tueeday's level. MALAYSIA Pricee dropped
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  • FOCUS
    • 1136 9 The rush is now on to save the tropical rainforest. Undeterred by logging companies and encroaching farms, governments, environmental groups and private enterprises are doing their bit to stop the destruction of the world's richest ecosystem NYT THE MOVEMENT to ssve the richest ecosystem in
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    • 677 9 AP JUNGLE NOMADS armed with blowpipes and poison darts are confronting the modern world, vowing to preserve their traditional way of life in one of the world's richest tropical rain lomli For six months, the tribeemen of Sarawak have mounted roadblocks and otherwiae stymied the timber
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 495 10 IT IS REALLY RATHER remarkable that the Britain that once ruled the waves should today behave with such insularity. It is also rather astonishing how patriotism figures as a factor in any hard-headed Investor's calculated move to venture beyond the shores of his homeland in times of
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    • 766 10 After 16 months of talks between officials in Ottawa and Washington and a marathon final horse-trading session, the free-trade agreement between the two countries was signed on Oct 3. The benefits from the accord extend beyond the two countries. The Economist examines its impact
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    • 208 10 The Economist TRADE OFFICIALS in Geneva have mixad feelings about the US-Canada frsetrada agreement Soma think that It will inapira negotiators In the current round of Oatt talks. Others, especially officials from outside Europe, are rather croee about It They fear that
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    • 653 11 AP THESE ARE twilight yssrs for many of Hongkong's sxpatriats civil ssrvsnts, ones the backbone of the British colonial administration snd now targets of a controversial drive to replace them with local Chinese. As the colony preparee to revert to Chinese
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    • 800 11  -  Japan's political system may have suited the nation's largely rural population 40 years ago, but some now question whether it still offers true democracy for a nation of urban, middle-class workers. ELAINE KURTENBACH reports. ELAINE KURTENBACH AP AS POLITICIANS this month pick successor to
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    • 448 11 Reuter COSTA RICAN Preeident Oacar Arias has won the Nobel Peace Prize for a Central American peace plan whose proepects for success are rated slim in ths troubled region. "Arias deserves high merles for trying," said a Western diplomat who monitors ths
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 750 10 1 Dislike being posted again (6) 7 A banger going round? (8) 0 Manage to got a nolo to a policeman (4) 10 Wherein to got a start tn IHo (6) 11 A prooa arrangomont not frequently to bo found (6) 14 Nominal supporter (3) 16 Man of many parts?
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 373 12 AP JOHN TUDOR, Todd Worrell and Kan Day ley shut down the San Francisco Giants on six hits on Tuesday night, and a fluks triple in the second inning set up the only run as the St Louis Cardinals held on for a
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    • 352 12 UPI IN CAPTURING ths American Lssgus championship asriss in fivs gsmM, ths Minnssota Twins sxpossd soms ssriout wssknsMSS of ths Dotroit Tigscs. Detroit's outfisld dsfsncs it poor. Tha group doaa not aftootivaly un what ipNd it has. Only Pat Bhartdan among tha
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    • 636 13 UPI TYRELL BIGGS says people havs been waiting for him to faiMor a long time, and will still be waiting after he challenges heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on Friday night. Biggs, the 1964 Olympic super. heavyweight gold medalist, is 16-0 in a pro career
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    • 128 13 AFP ENGLAND'S Barry Lane had the biggest pay-day of his career in London on Tuesday when he won the 36-hole Equity and Law Challenge. The 27-year-old pocketed £20,000 for edging out American Bill Malley in a unique competition in which one point waa awarded for
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    • 566 13  -  Jrankly speakinq... -by WALTON MORAIS FOR THE Singapore Lawn Tennis Association, a lot was riding on last week's STC Crocodile hard court championships. After its controversial decision early in the season to decentralise the organisation of local tournaments, the hardcourt championship which was organised by
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    • 262 13 Reuter SPAIN'S Severiano Ballesteros hopes head-to-bead combat will help him turn a poor season into a good one by giving him a his-tory-tying fifth victory in this week's World Match Play Golf Championship in Wentworth, England. Virtually without success this year but for
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    • 267 13 UPI WIMBLEDOM CHAMPION Pat Cash charged out of a form slump with a fighting victory over New Zealander Kelly Evernden in the U*****,000 Australian Indoor Tennis Championships on Tuesday. Caah, whose confidence has been snapped by a knee injury, displayed his
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 3732 14 REPORTS that the Matey•ten Cabinet would reeoive tha emotive taaua of nonChineae aducated teachars heading Chineee language schools iMted markat aanHmant in Singapore which had baan languiahing for tha graatar part of tha day. Tha aurga of buying in tha teat hour
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    • 2900 14 BID aad offer price* oOctelly listed ud badness to sad reported to the Stock Exchu|t of ahmpere yesterday with the ia brackets la lote of UM unlta uatase «pacified AH Tin* Settlement Contracts are auoted after the word "SETT". Bif Board dank (in lots of
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    • 378 14 BERJAYA CORPORATION (MALAYSIA) Berhad: 18th AOM at Jalan Utaa, Shah Ai«m, Industrial Estttt, Shah Alam, Selangor, today at 9am. PAPER PRODUCTS (MALAYA) Bartiad: 29th AOM at tha Confaranoa Room, 22nd Floor, Plaza Saa Hoy Chan, Jalan Raja Chuian. ***** Kuala Lumpur, today at 10am. OUNLOP MALAYSIAN INDUSTRICS Berhed:
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 606 15 MBT SIME DARBY haa aborted ita bid for Guthrie Ropel. The planta-tion-baaed conglomerate diaclbsed yeeterday that it waa unable to reach agreement on tha conditions and terma for ita general offer for the sharee of Guthrie Ropel. Bime had made a voluntary offer to
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    • 175 15 Reuter HONGKONG-LISTED Promet Petroleum Ltd has denied persistent market rumours that it had financial problems, saying it is debt free and has sufficient cash on hand. Robert Meyer, a director of Promet and its parent the First Pacific International Ltd group, said Promet has US$4.5
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    • 535 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM CHUAN HUP Holdings, now recognised ss ons of the region's software market leaders, haa identified Canada as ths base for the group's thrust into the world of software technology. The marine-cum-high-tech group has acquired a 79.21 per cent stake in Golden Dawn
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    • 372 15 FT ERNEST SAUNDERS, ths former chairman of Guirv nets PLC, has vowsd to clesr his nam* after being charged with 37 new offences relating to the Guinness takeover of Distillers. Ten of the new offences, with which Saunders was charged on Tuesday morning by
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    • 487 15 Reuter NEW ZEALAND authorities have approved the creation of a new giant food proceeaing company with international intereats, launched from a tiny family bakery. After months of argument that reached the High Court the Commerce Commission said it had approved a
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    • 272 15 Manager*' prtcw >($) DBS Bank for Oct IS Shantan Gr Fund 10* 1.14 Sktgapor* Unit Trust Japan Gr Fund Stanton Thrift Fund 157 101 1*2 101 Tit* Con—rca 121 I 28 Tha Sovwgi Fund S'poro Prog Fund S'por* Sac Fund S'por* Invod Fund 108 a* 041 0*2 I
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    • 121 15 SINGMARINE INDUSTRIES Ltd has secured three contracts worth $3.1 million to build two vessels and to jumboise' another. All three contracts will be carried out by a division of Singapore Slipway A Engineering Pte Ltd. the shipbuilding and shiprepair arm of Singmarlne. Singmarlne said Bian
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    • 555 15 NOTICES (CHAPTER 80) AND IN THE MATTER OP SHAN QUAN TRADING PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic Singapore) (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of SHAN QUAN TRADING PTE LTD. duly convened and held at the registered office at 150 Cecil Street. #10-03 Wine On
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    • 317 15 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE OF SHIP'S NAME We, Liu Tong Trading Pte. Ltd. of 37. Pandan Road, S'pore 2300 hereby rive notice of oar intended purchase and change of ship's Name and Ownership of the motor tanker "KATSU MARU NO. 3". We have applied to the Registrar of Singapore
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    • 309 15 IN THX MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 HHE CONSTRUCTION PTE LTD (In Vohmtary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of HHK CONSTRUCTION PTE LTD duly convened and held at 5001. Beach Road, #03-97J, Singapore 0719 on the 7 day of October 1987, the following Special
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 545 16 FT THE CONTEST among foreign securities companies to join the Tokyo Stock Exchange this year is hotting up. Just aa laat year's competition left a few groups bitterly disappointed, so it seems inevitable that some of the 1967 applicants will aleo fail to get in.
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    • 3363 16 THANKS to the return of some buying interest in the afternoon, share prices on the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed mixed in fairty active trading. An observer noted that if not tor the support, the market would have ended eaaier following a weak start in listless
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    • 1351 16 Hongkong THE Hongkong market opened week with selling pressure on lower liners but Iste demand helped lift shsre prices to a steady clooe yeetordsy. The day wea marked by volatile trading which aaw the Hang Seng index swing ecroes a 70-point span, brokers said. The index cioood 3.20
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    • 167 16 Oana-Bernama THE PHILIPPINES Department of Agriculture has decided to ask the Asset Privatisation Trust (APT) to sell its three billion pesos assets, according to Agriculture Secretary Carlos Dominguez. He said the sale of the assets would be best handled by APT, which
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    • 440 16 Reuter STOCK PRICES In Tokyo ctoaad at a racord high in activa trading, on broad buying aparkad by Wall Straat'a rabound on Tuaaday and apaculatton tial a poaaibta rtaa In 9ta Japanaaa discount rata would ba poatponad. brokara aaid. Tha 225-ahara martial indax doaad 246.80 highar at 26,646.43. Eartiar
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    • 378 16 THE AUSTRALIAN shars markat cloaad sharply highar yaafrday but batow tha day's paak as bargain huntara. ancouragad by poaitiva nawa from ovaraaas, raturnad to tha marfcat aflar thraa days of (alia, brokars said. Strongar closas on Wall Straat and in London booatad santimant and lad to haavy buying ordars
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    • 156 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index roee 0.06 points to 406.27 on a turnover of 0,961,061 sharee valued at 1,215.46 million baht. Reuter \HT +h 223 4 NO Sangtot Agro-tnd.. Benfof Ayvdhys. Chereeng Thai WW* CaW* 4 m -s 306 -2 m 01 uncti DMffld 361 +32 Ghana
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    • 258 16 OCT 14 NT Kotln 4600 -26 Kuochan Daw 06 90 -39 All •Mow* India. 4 30 -0 23 Laa Chang Yuan Cham indua 42 90 -22 AataCamani. 73 90 -39 Uan Hwa Indua 92 90 •29 Gatfwy Cona 106 00 -59 Nan Ya Piaa 77.90 -4 Chang Mara Bank
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    • 141 16 A This announcement appears as a matter of record only Hong Leong Corporation Ltd (Incorporated in Singapore) 5550,000,000/U5525,000,000 DUAL CURRENCY NOTE ISSUANCE FACILITY (previously 5550,000,000 Note Issuance Facility signed 23 May 1985) Arranged By Chemical Sanwa Merchant Bank Ltd Tender Panel Members Bangkok Bank Limited Banque Indosuez Banque Internationale A
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 956 17 New York Reuter A HIGHER bond market and an explosive move upward in utility stocks helped Wall Street recover from a sixday slump on Tueeday. "It was a short covering rally in bonds," said Jon Qroveman, trader at Ladenburg, Thalmann and Co. "The stock market is welcoming
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    • 942 17 London Reuter AN EARLY rally attempt on the back of Tuesday's Wall Street rise quickly fsd- ed and left shares in London mixed in modeet morning business yesterday. By 0620 GMT the FTSE 100 index !waa up 1.1 points to 2,351.3 after the opening high
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    • 1132 17 Amsterdam OCT 19 FL8 ABN 46.20 1 86 50 0 1 A hoW 100 90 19 Ak20 170 90 18 147 50 -02 AMEV 57 90 07 Amro Bank Ah Stad 9010 118 50 09 0 9 13.10 unch BOLS 137 50 0.5 BoraumlJ Buahrman Tatlaroc Calva 119.90 la 8200
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    • 87 17 Reuter APPLE COMPUTER Inc is expected to announce significantly higher annual earnings this year as result of the continuing demand for personal computers and the popularity of its Macintosh line, analysts said. "Apple is finally running on all cylinders," said analyst Don Sinsabaugh of Swergold, Chevitz
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  • 664 18 Commonwealth heads differ over South Africa AP COMMONWEALTH nations plunged into debate on South African sanctions yesterday with Britain standing alone in opposition to trade embargoes and Canadian Foreign Minister Joe Clark acknowledging "sanctions fatigue". The key debate on the second day of the Commonwealth
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  • 276 18 AFP INDONESIAN Minee and Energy Minister Subroto Mid yesterday that in spite of weaknesses in the world oil market, reduced output by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries would prevent any significant price elide. "It ie true that there are
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  • 170 18 Reuter FIVE QULF Cooperation Council (GCC) nations have urged Japan to put more pressure on Iran to accept a United Nations ceasefire resolution on the Irani-Iraqi war. A Foreign Ministry official said minister Tadashi Kuranari received the request yesterday when he met
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  • 208 18 Bernama ES RALEIGH BERHAD has entered into s joint-venture sgreement with Prudential Assursnce Company Limited, UK, to acquire a 45 per cent interest in Prudential Assurancs Sdn Bhd for M 518.9 million. A compsny statement said the squisition will be made
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  • 320 18 UPI CHINA and a leading Weat Oarman aircraft maker will sign an agreement this week to launch a billion-dollar plan to develop and co-produce a new medium-range paaaenger plane. The deal, which could be signed as early aa today, would be the
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  • 95 18 Bernama THE 11 Umno members, who are suing party secretary-general Datuk Seri Sanusi Junid and six others for a declaration that the party's Qeneral Assembly on April 24 was null and void, want the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to settle the issues. Their counsel,
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  • 415 18 Reuter CHINA'S senior lesder Deng Xiaoping has stepped up his attack on "leftist»" within the ruling Communiet Party, implicitly accueing them of failing to end poverty in China. "Poverty is not socislism," the 83-yeer-old Deng told visiting Hungarian leader Janos Kadar on
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  • 146 18 Reuter NEW ZEALANO'S currency market was thrown into turmoil yesterday and the NZ dollar took another plunge aa dealers measured comments by senior ministers on government intervention. The NZ dollar closed at 63.45 US cents, a drop of almost 4 US cents in two days,
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  • 89 18 COMEX gold futures burst up on buying yesterday morning, spurred by the dollar's tumble on news of a larger-than-expec-ted US trade deficit in August. However, the rally stalled over Tueeday's highs with the trsde data rekindling fears of a rise in the US diecount rate. December
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  • 70 18 Reuter THE US stock market fell over a wide range early yeeterday. with blue chipe hard hit following the report of a higher-than-expected US merchandise trade deficit in August. However, the blue chips leveled off just sbove their shsrply lower levels in ths first few minutes of
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  • 305 18 AP JAPAN MUST move to check price increaees to foater aconomic recovery and promote expaneion of domestic demand. Bank of Japan governor Sato*hi Sumita said yeeterday. "A significant change ie taking place in the economy. Domestic demand is growing price stability is crucial for
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  • 242 18 UPI HELICOPTERS brought Indian commandoa behind rebel lines yesterday in a surprise attack backed by armour and troops progressing house-by-house into the beeieged city of Jaffna. A Sri Lankan official said that the new attack was launched on the fifth day of savage artillery
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  • LATE FILE
    • 26 18 AFP A THAI COURT ssntsncsd form#* deputy interior minister Vnre Mueikapong to six yeers In prison yesterday for slsndsring ths royal family.
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    • 29 18 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES Congress yestordsy confirmed ts pokumaot of Raul Mangtapue as Foreign Allaire Secretary. The oonUr motion by tie Senate's Commlaaion on Appointments waa unanlmow
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    • 39 18 AFP MORE THAN 10 people were injured and 10 others arrested when hundreds of stu- «l 1_ Will CIHntQ WTTn pOMC# hi Seoul yestsrdsy sftsr s speech by oppoeition preaidsntisl hopeful Kim DesJung. AFP
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    • 39 18 Reuter THE BURMESE Psrliament yestsrdsy spprovsd ths scrspping of sbout 99 psr cent of the country's money snd gsvs no comfort to thoee hoping to be recompenssd for the loss of thsir savings.
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    • 34 18 Reuter TAIWAN will cut import tariffs on about 3,900 products by an average 90 per cent next January to help reduce Its huge trade surplus, particuwith the UB. Reutor
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    • 35 18 AFP PALESTIMANB in the Israe-li-occupied West Bank staged protests and clashed with Israeli forces yesterday for the third day running while in East Jerusalem, shopkeepers continued to observe a strike. AFP
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    • 30 18 AFP Hirohito's health JAPANESE Emperor Hirohito's health is still caueing concern in informed circles in Tokyo and rekindling tows that the 96-year-old monarch may die. AFP
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    • 38 18 UPI A WEST GERMAN and Swiee shared the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for thsir "important breakthrough in ths discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. UPI
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 108 19 Seatrade Week COMMERCIAL shipping interacts have protested egsinst the Hongkong government's decision of not announcing the successful bidder for the construction and operation of Terminal 7 at Kwai Chung container port until mid-April next year. Details of the tender, recently made available, indicate
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    • 360 19  -  From KINGSLEY WOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S Stateships is in the final stages of negotiating the charter of a suitable ship for its proposed new trade from Fremantle to South-East Asis via WA north coast ports. Talks are also proceeding with maritime
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    • 204 19 Bernama ES THE PENANG Port Commission (PPC) has simplified its import and export documentation procedures which are aligned to the United Nations layout key (UNLK) from this month, a PPC official said today. The adoption of the UNLK for trade documentations is to provide an international
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    • 284 19 Lloyd's List SHIPPING LINES on the Pacific are lacing further pre—ura on ratee. The car industry 1 recent success in reducing rates for knock down kits (CKDS) haa led to demands from other shippers for cutbacks. Manufacturers of electrical gooda and vehicle
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 74 19 Reuter CONSOLIDATED Rail Corp is investing US$l.35 million in a new Rochester Intermodal Terminal, which will enable Conrail to offer to shippers transportation of containers on railroad flat cars. The company said the new terminal is scheduled to be completed by December and will be
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      • 59 19 ROTTERDAM'S Europe Container Terminus has lost another customer, this time United Transport Line which has moved its Rotterdam base to the Deka Terminal in nearby Botlek. "We needed more control over our port facility than ECT could offer.'' aaid its managing director, Stewart Duncan,
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    • 1102 20 Lloyd's Shipping Economist CONTRARY to expectations, the 1906/87 peak season saw a marked improvement in employment opportunities for reefer veeeets with many owners able to recoup a proportion of the heavy trading loeaee suffered during the past 3-4 years. Considerable spot and timecharter
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    • 51 20 NOSAC (Norwegian Specialised Autocarrters) ia resuming its fortnightly service in the Trane-At-lantJc trade batwean North Europe and the United States this month. Us 5,800-car ro-ro ships will call Sheemsss, Antwerp and Brsmerhaven before proceeding to Salt mora, Los Angslss and San Francisco, then to Jepen and South
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    • 732 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Containor VIH 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Africa Ocaan X 2 Alltrans VH 3 American Tpt X 4/5 Anship Int'l V 4 Anro Sorvico IV 2/3 AMI 1 1/2 AfC Una V 4 ATI HI 2/3 Arrow Linos IX 5 ASCI III
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    • 1143 20 GRAIN ctwrtmn on Tuaaday conSnuo to pay fairly atttdy rataa for fixing out of tho US and sctivo tima-chartar bualnaao to raportod. aapoeially out of tha Far East and Continont/Moditorranaan. ahlpbrokars aaM. Soma of tha raportod grain buainoaa was difficult to confirm but a voaool waa obtained from
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    • 412 21 Panama reverses register policy FT PANAMA is to offer cut-price registration to all shipowners seeking to join its open flag shipping register. Dr Hugo Torrijoe. Director-General of Maritime Affairs said in London. The announcement follows the introduction last year of discounts of 30 per cent
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    • 222 21 ALL SURVEYS were conducted on Sep 28 Ar^tnuni Buenos Airee 25 vessels operating. AualreMa Brisbane and Sydney Normal operation; Melbourne and Fremantle Delay due to stopwork meeting. Chittagong 30 vssssls operating. Brazil Santos Waiting time of up to four days. Douala Normal operation. Vancouver (Britiah Columbia) Waiting time
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    • 44 21 NEDLLOYD LINES has appointed Mr Frits van Riet as the new trade director for North America. He replaces Mr Henk Rooe who is named general manager of Netherlines, the European commuter airline and a member of the Nedlloyd Group.
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    • 239 21 Reuter INTERNATIONAL oil trader Transworld Oil Ltd has slopped supplying oil to South Africa. But with a glut on world oil markets forcing traders and companiee to seerch for new markets and clienta, such moves are unlikely to have much Impact on
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    • 118 21 Reuter TENNECO INC's Tenneco Gaa Transportation Co unit has a computer-baaed system that speeds the preparation and proceaaing of requeats from shippers for natural gaa transportation service on Tenneco's pipeline system. Called Tenn-Speed, the system speeds the preparation and proceaaing of
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    • 137 21 Reuter A BRITISH mineeweeper found two mines on Tueeday within 273 metres of each other off the United Arab Emirates port on Fujairah, a Defence Minietry spokeeman aaid in London. The Royal Navy minehunter HMS Brecon located both mines on the seabed
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    • 148 21 Reuter IRAN haa raiaaaad tha Greek cargo ahip Mykonoa aftar holding it for fiva days for inepectkxi at Bandar Abbaa, tha Iranian port at tha mouth of tha Gulf. Tha captain of tha 12,343 dwt vaaaal said that hia ship, which
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    • 8908 26 QQGJBIjXDiLB 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
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    • 1245 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Hyo Mong 1 MS* otonguda M2A aiongada mown Mill a Joyo Dotaa 121 ISKVOSB VmmI ft > ■■IIIMI M41 ISKVISOO IS 10/2300 USIII 1 AITIVSl wportur rolinWun 1 M2t ISKVOTOO ISKV2300 KEPKL WHARVES Soaudro Joy< Saa laidor/F 1 MIC I&KV0700 M3t ISKVISOO ISKV2300 MM/2300
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    • 89 28 Aroa/Port Viscosity CSTalSOC Dually Q/ML at 18C Water Votumo 0/0 Afrlca/Rad 8m Joddah Durban Arabian Gulf 45/193 88/184 0.929/0.974 0.977/0.993 0.1/3.5 0.0/8.6 Ros Tonura Bahrain Europo 105/145 132/199 0.941/0.948 0.965/0.976 0.0/0.3 0.0/0.1 Rotterdam Hamburg lo Havro Gonoa Far East 26/530 33/406 169/349 34/416 0.943/1.010 0.946/0.990 0.969/0.988
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    • 77 19 mn>i CONTRARY to expectations, the 1986/87 peak Mason saw a marked improvement In employment opportunities for reefer vessels with many owners able to recoup a proportion of the heavy trading losses suffered during the post 3-4 years. Page II PANAMA is to offer cut-price registration to all shipowners seeking to
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    • 629 19 coi fcr MAERSK LINE TRANSIT TIME TO CHARLESTON REDUCED BT f DATS 29 DATS FROM SINGAPORE 34 DATS FROM PORT KELANG 33 DATS FROM PENANG The eeefc Ami M Qoemg Time CY 21/10 2300 MRS CFS 21/10 1300 MRS To Furope UK Scand'nav.a Finland LUNA M ARTHUR M Th* week
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 722 21 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping PteLtd mp&o Containers Limited i«i' .:fiKi:>ii; a;i» STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Porta and Bangkok PtCASUS ftOGRISS VW Oct ZS M Od PEGASUS PMCfttSS VSM V M Od Od BANGKOK BORNEO A6ENCIES LTD. BANGKOK TEL *****80 bi L e L'lfJ LllWf.W.x.
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    • 436 21 EUROPE USA PANAMA HI JI iui .11 ail .11 111! II 111 l ait Han n 111 I. It IT 7 Mi TO USA/CANADA WEEKLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE [frwi ,'.rvirTw;.M TifrarwnTTi 11A1 UAI um iam urn urn 9991 H um MAI ■fu p itrii arii lam P. ARTHUR V 7
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    • 329 22 CON T AINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT m* nm am am StM H'W| w *u mi I*ll mm am 2*ll 2*ll im vu VU W2 urn uo2 I*l2 21/12 2*12 am am w 401 *u mi um MAI 1101 2201 2401 *oi am 402 102 I*l2 1202 1202 1102 1702
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    • 375 22 FKBtKT LINKS EXPRESS \m/' PTE LTD WEEKLY CONSOL TO: PORT KELANG PENANG DEP: EVERY SAT ACCEPTING FCL/LCL TO JAKARTA 17/10 1 24/10 HONG KONG 17/10 ft 23/10 BANGKOK 17/10 ft 24/10 KEELUNG/KAOSHIU NG 18/10 ft 25/10 MANILA 25/10 ft 30/10 BUSAN 22/10 ft 29/10 TOKYO/YOKO 25/10 ft 30/10 I'k m:\l\m3,
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    • 940 22 OEVERGREEN Round The-World East Bound (F E/C A RIB USE C EURO FE) EVU GtNTRT f«* axon IVER OOCMN EVU 6ROTTM cvu scmut EVER GREET IVU UNKING ALSO ACCEPTS*! 1) PWWPU. I am am am am am WH M aw am wu *11 vu 11/11 IVU 17/11 Mftl am am
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 737 23 M 1V PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building. 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE MMAPAMTT •OVA ROTA U«U VOY MN JKT MY VOY 11M M M In n IM ism kin i7/i# ant mm mm W1( sint am MM MTC NTT ACM MQO NAOOVA. MO
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    • 561 23 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT MM rmvcn roM Mm iron pklam rpoti fm T<m» tuna Sum MM MM MM MM llfli Ufa HK. RAO KMAbm iIM ItM liM IdW tiiU Q/H Q/K NK, |A 0 Fraaktart [j«r« MM MM MM MM MM
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    • 403 23 12 E DM M (U*V T jg mu in V I jg S mrn f DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL L INF EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES SINGAPORE TO EUROPE VSUVOT SPORE BILOAO ANTWRP N'KL *DAM/ADAH BREMEN RUTAI/19M 25-2WM 2/12 S/12 SRIWIJAYA/22W0 54/12 VI 11/1 *«e n ts Telephone W5372? Singipor* Ha
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    • 342 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES LASH 10 VK -MAGNE M HTONEYWA mm PAGAN VIIMI ln*m far Europe BURMA FIVE STAR SBIPfINB CBBPBBATWB (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon Spore PKtlang Ponanf Bangkok am Od M/W Oct 23/24 Od Via Od *> 22 Od I J® BANK LINE NORTHBOUND TO UKC SPORE ROAM
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 718 24 hi K"LlflE SHIPPinG-DflTfl ATLAfITIC COAST (Round-The-World Service) RAINBOW MIME VI NEPTUNE GARNET VU •VIA FEEDER •pk/png SM 17 Od PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST FEEDER VSL fK/PNG RAINBOW BRIDGE VI SM NEPTUNE GARNET VU 17 Oct •VIA FEEOER SP MOTHER VSL li Oct MANHATTAN BRIOGE VI 23 Oct HENRY H. BRIOGE VI PACIFIC
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    • 691 24 3 a 2 AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE AeeapNnf PCUPCC ConWwaia M-In |L«* *—> S pin IMM Fw S|* AM Aem *****55" *Od i Nov II Not 11 Nm AMI/Rm tHANpIOAS" *J» 12 Nm 27 Nm IDk 40k AM/Om Y WArutu- y.il a No. 14 Dk 23 0k 21 Dk A4o»lni
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    • 740 24 G. GOLDEN LINE GUAM GUAM SHPPMG (PTE) LTD 21 Tri* ftrv »M< WGtfOK lIM m UUW (19 IB) Fas: MM STRAITS/PERSIAN COIF SERVICE: OOLDEN HAVEN CatanbtflUracMtaai OOLDEN NONOER CotombartafactH/Oubai CHINA SERVICE A VESSEL Hankan|/Si«n^i« Sport M 24/2$ Od U/UNmOet A VESSEL PUJIANC CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING CO., PEKING THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
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    • 349 24 PHlii Oni(NT LIN(S PT€ LTD r t) hoS'V.cn t."s" A RUIiniNG S V: 01 'CM I" .•"•.'1 I" »f.t .V EAST/FAR EAST TO. AlO. UMCE tn cx i V""-* waia/a V.V MM aw 22/10 E L*n«U BENGHAZI QZZLZEIjZa SERVICE am. am VALETTA. MEN. OJWOUTI LON. FfTOWI. 8 TON. TUURY. AKNOCEN.
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 462 25 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD NCrrUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTO. tl EU/AUIT TP A/SEA tkim cr* aooKiNtt zmm imw mm: mi«i vmit own mui i7W« NEPLINE SON. BNO. MHV J nepline SON BHD. wgumiu mm NEPLINE SON. BHO. —|WWW Q s MK CONTAMCB U. H» MHNC WL ■Pit A CONCOftO 111.. (20/1
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    • 179 25 Ph VESSEL PIYA I TAYO SHIPPING LINES PTE LTD TEL *****2S |3 line.) TLX RS SSIOI T A YOIN FAX 2253K7 ETA ETD DESTINATION a SINAR MEGA 19/10 A VESSEL 19/10 NARAI 20/10 25/10 COLOMBO 22/10 PEKAN BARU/DUMAI 22/10 BATAM 25/10 HUANGPU/KAOSMIUNG REGULAR SERVICES TO INDONESIAN PORTS SUBJECT TO INDUCEMENT
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    • 497 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels OONAW SEMI CONTAINFRISFD DIRFCT SFRVICF TO P KEIANG PFNANG BUSAN INCHON VMMCi Nana tpn P KeUng Inchon Iwm Mi Ho < ON/7MN 17V Iff i/n i/11 Ho I Denaai/TSTN lmi 2MS «u yii No on/tmn i»ne mu u/u M. EMorprfoo/TMN 101 S-7/11 Wi I*ll no
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    • 522 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Sinppori 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Linea) Terminal Offka: *****41/2 SINSOV SINGAPORE Talax Numbers RS ***** RS 214 a RS 2SIOI ■vs hanolinc system co km. ana ft !tTS J—mjjw r« mJmk PASIR OUOANC f I SHIPPING AfIEMCY SON
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 282 26 ug£l SINGAPORE SHIPPING Tar CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. Til 225 6868 .30 Imesi FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD t.H OHJT f -u\( HT St t RF f DE Rf INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE HA COLOMBO: An** cap to INOtA •onto*. -VIA LAMACA:
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 165 26 n Regional Weather /i m A IS N m I .1 s SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND *C cT w Wmd direction with speed m knots Wove height One hoff Heche represents 5 knots R Thunderstorm Temperature V Shower Weother Wmd direction with speed
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 515 27 ScanDutchV TO EUROPE (UK-NORTH CONTINENT-SCANDINAVIA) WEEKLY 17/ M hi Pt Hi PI 17/11 II Panaai/3M M/M 2*M apt M/M RarriganaTl U/ IB B/io sm im 2*m not 501 101 12/11 14/11 TO RED SEA EAST MEDITERRANEAN WEEKLY 17/ M la Pt 24/ M 22/ M 1/11 2*l# 7/U 501 SO
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    • 147 27 UNIPACIFIC TRANS. TRADING AGECY PTE. LTD. IRAQI LINE ETA STORE LOADING FOR •ASAAM 1708 (P.KELANG) JAPAN iJ I*l' i| < eta store AIfARABI 22/ M alrazi mm THROUGH BJU to ALSO ACCEFTM6 tONTJ UPON REQUEST AOABA a BAG ■■■MMrrfnyrn l #i r Tin 7J SUDAN LINE (Sudan National Line) rj
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 242 28 ft. 1 \S I I k\ \K Il\l K III) WEEKLY CONVENTIONAL 1 HEAVY LIFT SERVICE FROM SINGAPORE/PORT KELANG TO: TOKYO/OSAKA CAR CARRIER SERVICE TO MUARA/KUCHING ft KK uMing si ifjpropnjiM Man M-ro NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG, TAIWAN ft CHINESE PORTS, SUBJECT INOUCQKNT INTERMARITIME SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE
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    • 267 28 Afßlt Off AM LiNIS LtH. ■mr^TT Sf CU ■r^rrrr^^rr-T PtO-ATLANTJCA VIS kq SMN SOCIETE MAURICIENNE DE NAVIGATION LTEE INDIA OCEAN, SOUTH/EAST AFRICA REGULAR SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE Oner, SEALION SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD Singapore SALES BOOKING TEL 2>OrtBl (7 lines) TLX RS }43W SELION FAX *****41 EUROPE'S.EJL BREAKBULK SERVICE VESSEL KAVO SIDCJtO
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    • 196 28 W HITS mnniM WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE TO/FROM KEELUNG ACCEPTING LCI CARGO ONLY I nw f ftiwwf iioo CON-CARRIERS 17*7 WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE TO MELB/SYDNEY ETD rwtt ETA IYO ETA HELI CON-CARRIERS 23*7 Oflt 11/11 U/U CON-CARRIERS MO7 Bflt 0(110/11 Mm iccKtet cfi —My M Frwantla *mt «Mw» m U/O. Abo
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    • 629 28 mil WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE CALL US ATf. KELAMC PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUOANC SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR ******/*****11 *****3 07-***** 07-*****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 02-*****22 242 m TO EUROPE uj I BUTMC W OTNO OCSTWATKMI' AANNUS. AWTEMtAM, ANTNttP, BAILL. MdU MOEMAVa. COfOMAGEN. HELSINKI. ■AUK), OSLO, STOCKHOLM, ML VS. JUTLAJKMA
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