The Business Times, 4 November 1987

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 112/12/86 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 172 1 Overseas markets Tuesday HK Hang Seng Index 2180.74 (-22.49 Tokyo Nikkei Average Closed Sydney All-Ordinaries 1365.1 4.4 Mondoy New York (Dow Jones) 2014.09 20.56 London (FT 30 Index) 1342.7 (-18.2 (Tuesday noon: 1307.3; -35.4 Exchange rates USS: 136.65/75 yen 1.7105/15 DM SS2.0605/15 USS 1.7385/95 M$: SS0.8218/26 Simex
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  • 51 1 AFP LONDON STOCKS quickly slipped back after a steady start yesterday. At 1200 GMT, the FT 30 was down 35.4 points at 1,307.3 after having gained 10.3 points at the outset. The FTSE 100 Index fell 42.2 points to 1,681.5, after a 13.3 point rise at 900 hours.
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  • 91 1 WALL STREET stocks fell sharply in early trading yesterday as profit-takers started moving out their winnings after five days of gains. The falling dollar also prompted selling as it threatened the possibility that the Federal Reserve might tighten credit to prop up the currency, while risking a
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  • 211 1 Reuter ASEAN Economic Ministers have reached an understanding on cross-listing shares on each other's stock exchanges, Philippine Trade and Industry Secretary Jose Concepcion said in Manila yesterday. He said that the move was recommended by Asean's Committee on Finance and Banking. "One of the committee's recommendations was
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  • 139 1 AFP PHILIPPINE Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus left yesterday on a tour of Asean member nations only hours after a bomb was defused at the site of a South-east Asian summit meeting in Manila next month. Mr Manglapus, who took a commercial flight
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  • 582 1  -  Buyers likely to have longer 'grace period', say observers By ROSIE TAN THE TWO-MONTH-OLD share delivery and settlement system is to be modified following increasing dissatisfaction over delays in the delivery of share scrip by sellers. A spokesman for the Stock Exchange of
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  • 506 1  -  By AMY BALAN AN UNEASY CALM is settling over the world s stock markets after a frenetic fortnight of plunging prices and wild rallies. With Tokyo closed for a national holiday yesterday and the somewhat moderate overnight gains on Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial index
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  • 132 1 ©soma "IF YOU aren't already at least semi-computer-literate, then you've missed the boat,'' say the computer buffs. The PC as invented by Steve Jobs in a Californian garage a decade ago has so revolutionised life at home and in the office that conversations that begin with "When
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  • 120 1 Reuter INDONESIA announced yesterday that Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister will visit Jakarta later this month as the two ideologically opposed countries draw closer together. National Development Planning Minister Johanes Sumarlin said after meeting President Suharto that Vietnam's Vo Van Kiet would visit Indonesia on
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  • 435 1  -  By LEONG WEN WAH OWING TO THE continuing bearish sentiment, the greenback yesterday drifted lower against other major currencies on the Singapore foreign exchange market. With the Tokyo market closed for a national holiday, trading volume was low. The major factors driving the dollar
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  • 93 1 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government has given the approval for the construction of a Petronas oil refinery in Tangga Batu, the petroleum corporation's second in the country after the Kertih Refinery in Trengganu, Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik said yesterday. The
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    • 404 1 Simex turnover hit new peaks in October, Back Page Learning from past experience: views from four economic historians, Page 10 Market crash expected to raise number of jobless in NZ, Page 3 Productivity for US-made goods and orders rise, Page 5 Central banks taking a look at safety nets, Page
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 432 2  -  By BOEY KIT YIN SIX building and construction companies, venturing overseas with financial support from the Trade Development Board, have won seven international projects in the past 10 months. They were some of the service companies granted financial backing by the Trade Development
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    • 260 2 THE BUILDING of a multi-racial community is much like swimming upstream: there must be a conscious effort to build up the society or else face social disintegration. says Dr Ahmad Mattar, Mimster-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs Speaking at the inauguration of the Maulid celebrations
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    • 248 2 DATA GENERAL yesterday became the ninth multinational electronics company to join the Economic Development Board s (EDB) scheme to help upgrade local vendors and suppliers. The American computer manufacturer, which signed a letter of understanding with the EDB yesterday morning to participate in the
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    • 347 2 AN INTRIGUING mystery contest launched to celebrate Singapore Airlines's 40th anniversary has set a record of sorts in its response rate and worldwide reach. The Eye of Temasek, a fictional tale of the heist of a world-famous ruby, attracted the attention of
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    • 330 2 JAZZ MUSIC is sometimes described as "cool". By Chinese reckoning, it must be yin then. What about classical music, rock 'n roll, reggae or traditional Indian or Chinese music? Or poetry reading, art exhibitions, drama, fashion shows and
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 476 3 Reuter FIJI'S INDIANS, caught in a rising tide of indigenous nationalism following two military coups, are leaving the country in growing 'numbers, Indian community leaders in Suva said yesterday. Four thousand ethnic Indians have left since Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka staged his first coup five
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    • 281 3 Reuter INDIA'S worst drought this century is expected to flatten Gross National Product growth this year and add US$l billion to the balance of payments deficit. World Bank officials in New Delhi have said. The officials, who asked not to be identified, said
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    • 284 3 Bernama ASIA HAS ENOUGH energy reserves and available technology for establishing an integrated network for trans-national electric power exchanges, says a United Nations report. It is possible for Asian countries to gain electric power, through interconnected systems, from the region's vast hydropower
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    • 294 3 Reuter NEW ZEALAND can expect higher unemployment and slightly higher inflation as a result of the share market s fall, but interest rates could decline and the balance of payments improve. According to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
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    • 541 3 Bigger battlefield toll for Iran, says Israeli study AP IRAN HAS SUFFERED significantly more battlefield casualties than Iraq in the Gulf war but Iraq has paid a higher economic cost, according to Israeli estimates. The adversaries had spent more than US$2OO billion by
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    • 169 3 AP THE IRAQI government has launched a drive to boost the country's population. The campaign began last month after the first census in 10 years showed Iraq s population was 16.2 million, compared with the 46 million population of Iran, Iraq's foe in the seven-year-old
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 361 5 Reuter US TRADE Representative Clayton Yeutter said a new listing of foreign trade barriers against US goods emphasised the need for global trade liberalisation talks. His remarks accompanied the 1987 National Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers which showed the barriers 40
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    • 257 5 AP AFP JAPAN has stopped flooding world markets with low-cost computer chips, the US government says, but now there's a new problem a scarcity of Japanese chips. American companies which had lodged a major trade complaint against imports of Japanese-made semiconductors now claim they
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    • 343 5 UPI AN ASTRONOMER says our Milky Way galaxy appears to be part of an immense complex of millions of galaxies that covers as much as one-tenth of the known universe the largest known structure in space. The US National Science Foundation reported on Monday that
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    • 211 5 Reuter A SUSTAINED FALL in share prices of between 15 per cent and 20 per cent would slow UK gross domestic product (GOP) growth to 2.5 per cent in 1968 from the 2.8 per cent forecast before the October stock price collapse, the
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    • 500 5 AFP THE UNITED STATES announced positive economic indicators on Monday as share prices on Wall Street appeared to be stabilising. The figures showed productivity increasing as spending rose on construction and on orders to factories for manufactured goods. Manufacturing output was up and
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    • 445 5 AP GOVERNMENT social security retirement benefits are immune from possible cuts in current budget deficit reduction talks between Congress and the White House, officials said on Monday. However, restraints on cost-of-living increases for other government pension and benefit programmes were among the many options being
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 219 6 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Currencies Nominal rtlvt MO OFFER croea partly Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2.0605 2.0615 2.8196 -26.92 Sterling pound 3 5832 3.5870 7.3469 -51.23 Australian dollar 1.3805 1.3822 3.4286 -59.74 NZ dollar 1.2383 1.2430 3.4286 -63.88 Canadian dollar 1.5663
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    • 229 6 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady yesterday at opening levels, after a day of quiet trading partly because of the holiday in Japan, dealers said. They said most operators were concerned as they have doubts over the ability of White House and Congressional negotiators to come out
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    • 189 6 inqicwti mv ivtrtyt Of the prime lending rate* of 12 ma|or banks In S'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Nov 3 us$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 doy< 7 15/16 7 13/16 9 7/16 5/16 3 11/16 9/16 1 7/« 3/4 4 1/4 i/a 1 7 J/16 1/16
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    • 777 6 SINGAPORE: The us dollar closed lower against major currencies yesterday after fluctuating within a range of 60 basis points, dealers said. The dollar ended lower against the yen at 136.65/75 yen compared with New York's 136.90/137.00 close. The dollar ended slightly higher at 1.7105/15 marks against New York's
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    • 68 6 THE OVERNIGHT RATE on the Singapore interbank market rose one point to end at 2V& per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate fell by !4-point while the two and three month rates fell by 3/16 point each. S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: Offit MO 0-t-2 1/2 2
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    • 126 6 Gold futures on Nov 2 tOO troy ouncas. USS par troy jnca Opt* Lm Mb No. 469.00 470.00 469.00 470.10 1.30 Ok 472.30 473.50 469.70 472.50 4- I.X ion 475.10 I.X Fab 88 <7i.OO 479 40 476 00 478J0 1.40 ***** 4*5.50 482 60 484.70 4-1.60 hm
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    • 598 6 DECEMBER Eurodollar opened sharply lower yesterday at 92.27 following overnight losses on a weaker US dollar and a stable stock market. However, prices traded within a tight range of 92.29 and 92.25 in quiet trading due to the closure of the Tokyo market for a holiday, with the market
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    • 83 6 Reuter A FURTHER tightening of the New Zealand Reserve Bank s monetary policy can be expected before the end of this year to help achieve lower inflation. NZI Bank Ltd said on Monday. The embedded nature of inflation expectations means that the only way to bring
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    • 741 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IMM Monday, Kini.amh r 2 1987 BRITISH POUND C2S.OO* ca rrta par C MM 1675 Ww c 6.05 Doc-c 6.60 J— c 6.B0 No* p 0.05 000+ 0.70 Ja»-p 1.35 1700 3.65 445 5.10 0.20 1.20 2.15 172 J 1.70 3.15 340 045 2.10 1750 0.55
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    • 87 6 /Treasury bills N Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity ftID OfffR HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****X 24.1.88 3.60 3.55 3.76 3.55 6 months RS*****S 21.4.88 3.65 3.60 3.74 3.71 1 year BY*****S 22.09.88 3.70 3.65 3.82 3.65 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 415 7 CENTRAL BANKS are quietly drawing up plans to strengthen the financial safety nets which cushion the banking system from sudden fluctuations in the stock and other markets of the kind seen in recent weeks. Officials say that before the end of the
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    • 128 7 AFP JAPANESE FIRMS are to be allowed for the first time to issue commercial papers on the Japanese money market, the Ministry of Finance announced on Monday. The ministry said 178 firms, currently allowed to issue unsecured corporate bonds, will be allowed to
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    • 145 7 US FEDERAL RESERVE officials have found no sign of serious damage to the US economy in the wake of the recent stock market dive, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Fed officials, monitoring financial institutions, brokerage firms and economic indicators, said they were amazed that
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    • 313 7 NYT ONE UNEXPECTED result of the tumult in the stock markets is the help it is giving to developing countries to cope with the debt crises. Officials at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund said that they had yet to determine whether adjustments to
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    • 404 7 Reuter JAPAN's cash-rich investors might give jittery financial markets a much-needed boost by buying US bonds this week but the effects of the move could be short-lived. Fund managers said the investors probably would buy modest amounts of bonds
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    • 380 7 NYT THE SHAKE-OUT in the Euromarkets is now definitively under way. Orion Royal Bank, which pulled out of the Eurobond market on Monday is an institution for which the Euromarkets have been central for many years. Its decision that Eurobonds are not likely to be
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 463 8 Crude palm oil future* ended yesterday slightly easier in quiet trading on the Kuala LumpurCommodity Exchange. Dealers said there were little price movements amid a lack of trading interest. They said operators were waiting for the results of Pakistan's weekly vegetable oil tender. November closed $2 lower at
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    • 58 8 AP THE SOVIET UNION harvested more than 190 million tonnes of grain at the end of this year's difficult growing season. Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Monday. Gorbachev s announcement during a speech reviewing the 70 years of Soviet power was the first official statement on
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    • 76 8 A JAPANESE national holiday kept Far Eastern product markets subdued. Crude markets remained weak on a general uneasiness in the international markets. US$/borr^ Chang* Ouboi (Ok) 17.12 -0.0* W#» T«a> wn (Ok) 19.63 ■0.36 Products (FOB S'pore) USS/borral Owige Kerosene 2X60 undi 0 qio41 21.50 -0.15 low
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    • 275 8 HONGKONG: Gold closed marginally lower yesterday in thin and dull trading in the absence of fresh factors, dealers said. They said traders were sidelined as Tokyo was closed for a national holiday, while reports that Opec's Arab members may propose a rise in the group's output ceiling at
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    • 248 8 R AS prices in S c*nte/fcg, FOB »n b*i« NOON CLOSE Bvyort S*ll*r» tayort S*ll*rs lot 1 RSS Prompt 214.25 215.25N 214.25 215.25N lot 1 RSS D*c 87 213.25 213.75 213.50 214.00 Int 1 RSS Jon 86 214.25 214.75 214-50 215.00 Int 2 RSS OP 211.50 213.50N
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    • 150 8 Bernama THE export duty on pepper had been increased while those for crude and processed palm oil had been reduced from Nov 1. the Malaysian Royal Customs and Excise Department said on Monday. It said the export duty on unground white pepper had been
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    • 146 8 SINGAPORE The rubber market closed quietly steady yesterday with December 1 RSS buyers quoted at 213.50 cents a kilo, unchanged from Monday s close. The morning session eased slightly due to lack of buying interest after a firmer opening in quiet trading. Prices recovered slightly in thin afternoon trading.
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    • 78 8 (cantt/kg, 1 -ton pott**) DECEMBER 87 JANUARY 88 (currant month) (forward month) RAS NOON fc»y*r» S*tWr» NOON >wy«o S*t*n SS* 30 212JO 214.50 212JO 214J0 SSI 50 211.00 213.00 211.00 213.00 MRELB lwy«n lvy«n SMI cv 266JO 268 50M 267.50 269.50N SMI I 266.50 264.50N 267JO 269JON
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    • 90 8 THE TIN PRICE on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Mark* ended four conls up yeeterday at M 517.20 a kilo on ehon-coverlng. Tha rabound was attributed to a technlcal adjustment to Monday's fall, daalara aaid. TradJng remained qulat Turnover contrlbutad by minora totalled 70 tonnaa comparad with 72 on
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    • 240 8 Chinese Product Exchange S§Nift noon dotino pi Nov 3 (SI/100 kg) ic*« on Coconut oil M FOB 93.00 OW drum FOB 105.00 N*w drum FOB 109.00 Copra MU*d IIoomI 56 IOMO^S Pepper Muntofc wMt* FOB NIW 1317.50 Sorawak wtili# FOB foq NIW 1302JO Sarawak tp«cio! block FOB NIW
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    • 304 8 London Commodity Exchange Bvyor/SoMor doting pricot on Nov 2 uni* u tpodflod). Pr«»iow» doting prtc* po f i In CoffM Both in-$tof« London, tofton option CIF London No* 1248/1249 (1241/1242) High/Low 1249/1230 Jon 1283/1285 (1278/1279) High/Low 1287/1267 JO'tl (4288) Cocoa Doc 1119/1120 (1133/1134) High/Low 1132/1116 Mar 1152/1153 (1165/1166)
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    • 165 8 CBT wheat futures closed on or near the lows on Monday, down 814 to 214 cents per bushel in moderately active trade. December settled at $2.8814 after posting a 614-cent range on the day. The announcement orr Friday that the CCC will be" a steady seller of wheat' from
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    • 142 8 Reuter CBT SOYBEAN futuraa ended on or near the lows on Monday, down alx to lit cent» a bushel in moderate trade. November settled ail' 5.31 after posting a 5* range. Weaknees in wheat and fears in the trade that the Uada is determined to cut government stockpilee aa
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 363 9  -  By MONICA GWEE MARKET TALK is still rife over which agency has actually won the Royal Brunei Airlines account. Royal Brunei confirmed an earlier shorlist but it has refrained from commenting on street talk of three agencies which have emerged from the
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    • 311 9 BON-FOOD Re Ltd, franchisee for Burger King, has appointed CArcy Masius Benton Bowles (DMB&B) as its advertising agency following the departure of J Walter Thompson (JWT) from the account. Mr Raymond Cheong, managing director of Bon-Food said Burger King, has also appointed Channels
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    • 699 9  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA IN THE NEXT YEAR or two, Singaporeans will be seeing more large scale promotions of cosmetics and fragrances the likes of Poison, launched by Christian Dior at C K Tang last year. With these "blockbuster" promotions, major cosmetics companies appear to
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    • 382 9 THE BODY Shop does not believe in costly promotions. In fact, it doesn't advertise at all, believing that customer education is the key to "the thinking consumer". Last year, the three outlets of The Body Shop here claimed total sales exceeding cosmetic
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 577 10 IT WAS a compliment to be included in a US study on how best to graduate countries from the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme, US trade representative Clayton Yeutter told Singapore last week. It is, however, a very dubious honour. Only eleven months ago, the US
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    • 1953 10 THE CRASH OF 1987 The drawing of historical parallels between the 'Crash of 1929' and the 'Crash of 1987' has become a favourite preoccupation in recent weeks. No doubt some people are more qualified than others to speak on the subject. Below are the views of
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    • 1861 11  -  Soviet foreign policy in the Gorbachev era is undergoing major changes, especially towards Iran, China and Vietnam. But the intended effectiveness of the changing trends is marred by contradictions. Dr Stuart Goldman, a US expert on Soviet foreign policy, gives his views in a
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    • 742 11 WITH COMMENTATORS in the Western countries heralding political changes in the Soviet Union and China, a group of writers and scholars from many of the world's communist-ruled countries gathered in New York recently, and a different and generally less optimistic view prevailed
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 966 12 AP THE ONLY THING the Los Angeles Lakers haven't accomplished in the magic Johnson era is win consecutive championships. No one in the National Basketball Association has done that since the 1969 Boston Celtics, but this could be the year. Boston is a year
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    • 439 13 UPI TOM WATSON, at the last possible moment, provided the 1987 PGA tour with something to remember it by. Until Watson produced his first victory in 39 months, the clear highlight ot the year had been a single shot by Larry Mize to win the
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    • 201 13 Reuter AFTER being beaten by world champion New Zealand 106-4. Japan Rugby Union chairman Shigeru Konno apologised on Monday to the All Blacks for the "disgraceful performance" of the All Japan team on Sunday. Had the game been recognised as a test match, the rout
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    • 172 13 UPI KENSEI, ridden by Larry Olsen, yesterday won the classic Melbourne Cup by half a length from Empire Rose and favourite Rosedale. Kensei, running in the middle of the 22-horse field, made a run about 300 metres on the inside to sweep
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    • 446 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS AFTER 65 YEARS of tradition and history, the Singapore Open grasscourt tennis championships has been cancelled. Although a sponsor had been found, the Singapore Cricket Club, which had been asked to save the revered tournament, decided against going ahead with the championships.
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    • 526 13 AP TOP-RANKED tennis player Ivan Lendl says his long-time rival. John McEnroe, should quit the sport unless he can improve on his recent performances. McEnroe has failed to win a tournament on the Nabisco Grand Prix circuit in more than a
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    • 486 13 Reuter PAKISTAN'S manager, Haseeb Ahsan Saib, on Monday said his team would have to score more quickly and improve its fielding if it were to beat Australia in the World Cup cricket semi-final in Lahore today "We have briefed the boys about their
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    • 137 13 AFP THE MERCURY BAY Boating Club from New Zealand has been told to withdraw its challenge for the next America's Cup. The order came from the International Twelve Metre Association at its meeting in London on Monday, after the MBBC had challenged
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    • 398 13 m in W rw SZ€CI)CJNn COURT Sumptuous Szechuan cuisine with the right touch of spice. A delightful dining experience indeed. Closed on Tuesdays. 3rd Floor, Westin Plaza. For reservations, call 338 8585 ext. ***** or 330 8310. The WtsriN Plaza Raffles Cky 2 Stamford Road, Singapore 0617. Westin Hotels Resorts
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4463 14 TURNOVER on the Singapore Stock Exchange declined for the third consecutive business day as most investors refrained from taking new positions. After a slight rise yesterday morning, the market closed mixed in active trading. Although turnover has been dipping since last Thursday when
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    • 270 14 SINGAPORE Rises Indices Motro Hldgt 660 ♦45 IT Compotiio Mo. 2 764.42 No. 3 765.34 Troctort Morrniom Mm 320 37 •T 08/OS -249 -138 316 ♦34 BTCAO -6594 -6598 Own kid C K Tang 250 30 8T 10-day MA -6631 -6645 36$ 28 8TO8V *****83 ♦*****22 >o#mam
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    • 5573 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number at shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All i Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 501 15 GTS TRADING (S) Pte Ltd. the new controlling shareholder of Mulpha (S) Ltd, has mapped out a plan to rehabilitate the loss-in-curring trading company. GTS, which is part ot a bigger Gunung Agung group based in Indonesia, recently acquired a 51.02 per cent
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    • 391 15 TWO OF HONGKONG'S most flashy nightclubs the controversial Club Volvo and the China City group of establishments have cancelled their plans to seek listings on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. Club Volvo, which is partly owned by Hongkong Stock Exchange chairman Ronald Li was to have
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    • 272 15 Managers' prices for Nov 4 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 092 1 00 The Saving* Fund 080 087 S'pore Prog fund 037 041 S pore Sec Fund 062 067 S'pore Invest Fund 065 0 71 S'pore Eqvxty Fund 046 050 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest Fund 1 25
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    • 242 15 Promet incurs loss of M 5418,000 for eight months PROMET BHD, the debtridden marine engineering and construction group, incurred a group pre-tax loss of M 5418,000 for the eight months ended Aug 31. 1987. Group turnover amounted to M521.86m. Promet. whose shares were relisted on the Kuala Lumpur
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    • 419 15  -  By LISA LEE THE HOUR GLASS, which the Tays recently bought over from Transmarco Ltd, has found a new investor in Hongkongbased Prudential Asia Investments. Market sources say that Prudential Asia is taking a 40 per cent stake in the company. Although the
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    • 639 15 Ranks turns down request for board seat AUSTRALIAN-BASED food group Goodman Fielder Ltd has hinted for the first time the possibility of a bid for UK food manufacturer Ranks Hovis McDougall PLC following the latter s refusal to grant a board seat
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    • 161 15 UNITED INDUSTRIAL Corporation is making bold moves into computer systems. Already a distributor for a number of successful personal computers and software products such as Compaq, NEC, Tandon and Lotus, it now aims to capture large corporate clients by selling them a system to
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    • 775 15 Current El Book* Date Total tor Total for payment (tote Clot# payable the year laat year Austral Amol 15% Oct 26 Nov 7 Nov 25 15% Ayer Hitam Rub I7*%tb) Oct 8 Oct 23 Nov 23 17*% 15% IMT 100% Nov 19 Dec 1 Dec 4 100% 200%
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    • 157 15 OWING TO a possible conflict of interest, Yeo Hiap Seng (M) Bhd has sold its shares in Tuborg (M) Sdn Bhd which has just entered into a joint venture with a Canadian company to market and distribute Tuborg beer, distilled spirit and wine products in
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    • 242 15 FOR SALE BY TENDER N Tembeling Centre 252 TEMBELING ROAD Freehold Investment East Coast, Singapore Ground Floor Shop (2 units) Tender Closing 4pm 16 November, 1987 infer tVvumenis avaitaNe tram Sofc Agent: JWP Knight Frank ■HI Cheong Hock Chye Ruilliw, (Properly Consultanis) Pie Lid 16 Raffles Quay #29-01 Hong Building
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    • 407 15 flmcol AMCOL ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at Pinetree Town Country Club. 30 Stevens Road. Singapore 1025 on 23 November 1987 at 11.00 a.m. for the
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 2843 16 THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market finished slightly easier yesterday despite last minute buying by some small time investors. A broker said these small investors were probably buying ahead of the holiday as the stock exchange will be closed today for Prophet Muhammad's Birthday.
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    • 456 16 Reuter A SERIES of encouraging signals from abroad overnight helped Australian share prices end cautiously firmer in exceptionally thin trading yesterday. Brokers said early demand, buoyed by a modest rise of 20 points on Wall Street and a US$l.25 gain in the bullion price to U*****.00 an ounce, had
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    • 163 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index jumped 10.89 points to 314.40 on a turnover of 4,444,195 shares worth 479.08 million baht. NOV 03 BAHT *1Ao Kham Thai Ayudhya Investment Bangkok Agro-lnd 1005 45 Bangkok Bank 333 14 Bank Of Ayudhya 314 14 Charoong Thai Wire Cable Oatamat Ghana
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    • 295 16 NOV 03 NT S Kolin 35 80 11 All Sincere Indus Asia Oment Cathay Cons 325 72 00 76 00 009 2 *2 Kuochan Oev Lee Chang Yuen Chem Indus Lien Hwa Indus Nan Ya Plas 48 40 34 70 40 80 65 50 1.4 1 1.1 15 Chang
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    • 96 16 NOV 03 PESOS *b Mariteel m Oriental B 0 0875 unch Aco|e Mining Phil Overseas 007 -0 00 Phitex B 0 so *00 Anglo Phil 0 022 0 002 Picop B Apex Mining B 0 0725 unch Atlas Con B 26 PLOT 158 *7 Baguio Gold San Miguel B
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    • 1514 16 Hongkong SHARE PRICES on the Hongkong market closed lower yesterday on late selling focused on Hongkong Land and the Evergo group of companies, brokers said. The Hang Seng index lost 22.49 points to 2,180.74 after gaining 19.92 in the morning, while the Hong Kong index was
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    • 133 16 NOV 03 WON Kal Kangwon Ind Kia Motor ***** ***** -140 -310 Ch#ti Suotr ***** unch -600 -100 -400 *510 10 -600 -100 ***** -300 Daetim ind Daewoo Corp Daewoo Heavy Deishm Securities Dong Ah Phar Dong Suh Stock Dongbu Steel 2*900 109S0 ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Koton
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    • 604 16 NOTICES MIKE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Ng Ah Kau of No. 446 Mandai Road 13 2 m.s. Singapore (2572), have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop Licence in respect of premises at Five Stars Supermarket Emporium Pte Ltd 373 Bt Batok St 31 #01-248 Singapore (2365), and that
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    • 606 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 PURSUANT TO SECTION 290(2)(b) AND IN THE MATTER OF KANLUCK TRADING (PTE) LIMITED At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above named Company duty convened and held at 6001 Beach Road. #12-01 12-11 Golden Mile Tower. Singapore 0719 on Tuesday 3rd
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    • 391 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF FIVE OCEANS SHIPPING CO. PTE LTD I (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) (In Liquidation) (Members' Voluntary Winding-Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 10 Anson Road #21-06
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1095 17 New York Reuter ;WALL STREET on Monday averted a •third straight "Black Monday" and managed to post a moderate gain in another abbreviated, but orderly session. Uninhibited by the dollar's continued declines, investors focused on Iperceived undervalued stocks, especially those associated with takeover stories The Dow
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    • 1020 17 London Reuter EQUITIES on the London market yesterday were firmer in initial dealing after a higher performance on both the New York and Tokyo stock markets but dealers said early interest was light. Prices drifted lower in later trading on profit-taking and at 1020 the FTSE
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    • 1364 17 A LEADING Kuwaiti economist said the emirate might have lost US$5 billion when the world's stock markets plunged last month. Jassem Saadoun, general manager of al-Shall Economic Consultants Group, said the losses would be concentrated in the Reserve Fund for Future Generations, a nest
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    • 73 17 Reuter VOLKSWAGEN AG postea a 6.5 per cent rise in group net profit in the first nine months of 1987, but bankers say the government s plans to sell its 16 per cent stake will almost certainly be delayed because of the stock
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    • 827 17 Analysts cautious after the October carnage r WALL STREET d NTY AS MIGHT be expected after the market's October massacre, estimates in the investment community vary widely as to where the Dow Jones Industrial Average might be headed. On Monday, the blue-chip barometer
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    • 310 17 AP AN INVESTOR from Hongkong who failed to meet margin calls was the reason for a US$22 million loss reported by Charles Schwab Corp brokerage firm, says a Wall Street Journal report. Schwab refused to confirm the report. An official with Schwab, America's largest
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  • 388 18  -  Record trading result of financial market turmoil By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Corraapondant TRADING VOLUME at the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) hit new peaks in October thanks to the turmoil in world financial markets sparked off by the stock market crash. Turnover
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  • 130 18 Reuter A HONGKONG court refused bail yesterday for a Malaysian businessman wanted in Kuala lumpur on charges of criminal breach of trust involving Msl2 million (US$4.B million), v A magistrate rejected character reference letters, including one from a Malaysian former Deputy Finance Minister, on behalf of
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  • 188 18 Reuter HONGKONG stock index futures trader Chine Kit Ltd has filed suits against five customers for failing to meet margin calls. Court officials in Hongkong told reporters that claims ranged from HK$l6l,OOO to HK$l.3 million. Chine Kit, partly owned by Ronald Li, chairman
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  • 354 18 Reuter A SENIOR US official warned Thailand on Monday that it would lose crucial low-tariff rights on its exports next year unless it passed laws to protect foreign copyrights and patents. A senior Thai official said the warning was
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  • 251 18 Reuter THE United States it to present on Tuesday a broad blueprint for liberalising international trade in services such as banking, telecommunications and contracting, delegates to the 105-nation Gatt trade talks in Geneva said. The plan is to be presented by Richard Self
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  • 530 18 DEFENCE MINISTERS of Nato members met in Monterey, California, yesterday to discuss the effects of the tentative US-Soviet pact to eliminate a class of inter-mediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. US Defence Secretary Caspar W Weinberger, starting perhaps his final mission as architect of
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  • 138 18 Reuter COMEX GOLD futures lost ground on selling by managed fund traders yesterday morning after the market failed to open higher, as expected. December gold fell US$3.BO at U*****.70 an ounce, which took out Monday's low of U*****.70. Analysts said the fund managers wound out of
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  • 162 18 Reuter WORK ON CHINA'S first commercial nuclear power plant, halted last month after the discovery of construction flaws, will resume this week, a Chinese official said. Zan Yunlong, managing director of the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co. said yesterday that work would
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  • 281 18 Reuter AFP THE MALAYSIAN Bar Council said yesterday it had no legal standing to sue the government for arresting people whose actions police say have threatened national security. Last week, the council said it was considering legal action to
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  • 186 18 Reuter A SAUOI ARABIAN Minister told the European Community that Gulf Arab states could impose reciprocal taxes on its exports unless the EC cuts its tariffs on Gulf petrochemicals, a Saudi Arabian magazine magazine reported on Tuesday. "But this will not lead anywhere
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  • 393 18 Reuter JAPAN HAS LITTLE room to manoeuvre to meet expected US demands at the next meeting of the Group of Seven for more action to boost its economy, government and central bank officials said yesterday. The Bank of Japan remains
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  • LATE FILE
    • 25 18 AFP THAILAND'S influential army chief, General Chaowalit Yongchaiyuth, called yesterday for sweeping democratic reforms, including amendments to the country's constitution. AFP
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    • 58 18 Bernama ES THE AMERICAN Soybean Association is making a fresh effort to lobby for the labelling of tropical oils under certain provisions of the US agricultural budget reconciliation bill after having failed to get Senate approval for a tropical fats labelling bill, said Deputy
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    • 46 18 Reuter THREE of five leading British businessmen charged in the Guinness financial scandal were remanded on bail by London magistrates yesterday. They were remanded on £500,000 bail each until April 12 when their cases may be sent to a higher court.
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    • 32 18 Reuter BANGLADESH security forces were on high alert yesterday in the run-up to a planned protest against the rule of President Hossain Mohammad Ershad by a newly-united opposition.
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    • 41 18 UPI SWITZERLAND yesterday provided the US with 30kg of bank documents relating to the Irangate scandal. It took one year of fighting in Swiss courts to obtain the information by the lifting of Switzerland's banking secrecy laws.
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    • 39 18 AFP SOVIET LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev has sent a message congratulating Zhao Ziyang on his election as Chinese party chief, Tass news agency said yesterday, but a Chinese delegation due in Moscow reportedly failed to arrive. AFP
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    • 34 18 AFP TAIWANESE shoe-makers are investing in China where production costs are cheaper in an effort to offset losses caused by the appreciation of the Taiwan dollar, sources said yesterday. AFP
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 117 18 MICROGRAPHICS Ttmttr 6 PMCTKS A THREE DAY INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE ON MICROFILM EQUIPMENT, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS 18th, 19th, 20th November 1987 at Hilton Hotel Singapore This three-day intensive course covers all aspects of micrographics as applied to records management. It is intended for present users as well as those contemplating
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    • 529 18 "MILLION DOLLAR" SEMINARS BY SOMERS WHITE'. Executives and sales personnel from 400 of Fortune's list of 500 largest companies have attended seminars by Somers White. Businessmen and women from 25 countries have paid over a million dollars (US) to attend his presentations on Negotiating. Somers White's business career started on
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 392 19  -  By JUNE LIM AFTER EXERCISING wage restrain for the last two years, most seafarers are in for a wage increase ranging from 2 to 3 per cent next year. This is in line with the 2-4 per cent recommended by the National
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    • 162 19 AP A HUGE 150-metre tall •ceberg has been sighted near shipping lanes off southern Argentina. The government news agency, Telam, said satellite photographs from the National Weather Service and the crew of an Australian ship had verified the existence of the
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 104 19 THE BROKEN Hill Pty Co may order a 90,000-dwt crude oil tanker from a Japanese shipyard mainly to carry exports of Bass Strait oil. The vessel, to be operated by its BHP Transport division and chartered by BHP Petroleum, would be its first tanker
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      • 142 19 SWEDEN'S Prince Bertil laid the cornerstone on Monday for a new museum to house one of the world's oldest salvaged ships, the 17th century Wasa. The ship has been in a makeshift seaside metal shed since it was raised from the bottom of Stockholm harbour
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      • 81 19 FOOD GROUP Wattie Industries has agreed to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary Refrigerated Freight Lines Ltd. RFL, for an undisclosed sum. Wattie said RFL, part of Watties consumer foods division, is to be bought by RFL general manager Graham Malaghan. RFL was not a core business
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      • 147 19 ITALY'S largest port, Genoa, is likely to lose its biggest customer, Tirrenia Line. All of the line's cargo and passenger services could be diverted from the strike-plagued port to La Spezia, Savona and Leghorn. Mr Franco Pecorini. president of Tirrenia. has told Genoa Port
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    • 623 20  -  From FLORENCE CHONG in Vanuatu VANUATU is courting the Japanese with the aim of registering two tankers from that country The deal for the two 150,000 tonne tankers is expected to be closed soon. There is also a possibility of a vessel from
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    • 197 20 TYYQ. UNION leaders involved imMets in Tahiti last month that itJßfed a dozen and resulted in itr»»«acking and burning of downtown buildings were oGrged on Sunday, judicial officials said Rara Colombel, president of the (ia{f>n of Polynesian Dock Wwkers, was charged with ""fcjjnplicity in destruction
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    • 277 20 EFFORTS to formulate a Hongkong shipping register has intensified after a six-month slowdown. Hongkong marine director Gerry Higginson said: "If you would have asked me how we were progressing three months ago. I would have been a little embarrassed. But now things are
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    • 810 20 AB Shpg V s ABC Container VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahrenkiel liner XI 1 Africa Oceon XII 2 Allt-om VN 3 AC Toepter XI s Amencon Tpl XH 4/5 Anro Service IV 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 Asian Ocean VI 3 Atlas line X 5
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    • 1585 20 GRAIN activity out of the US Gulf on Monday appears to be quieter despite the reported fixing of tonnage for two or three consecutive voyages from the Mississippi to Lisbon-Hamburg commencing first-half December at US$ll. shipbrokers said A rate of about $18 is said to have been agreed
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    • 241 21 THAILAND will embark on the construction of a container freight station by the end of next year to complement developments of the Laem Chabang Port. The project, which is expected to take two years to complete, will be undertaken by the State Railway of
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    • 327 21 A UNITED STATES Navy frigate opened fire on Sunday night on a suspected Iranian patrol boat that was speeding toward an American tanker, American military officials announced. No casualties or damage were reported, but the incident in southern Persian Gulf waters underscored what
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    • 182 21 Reuter WORLD DRY BULK carrier and tanker tonnage in lay-up, idle or under repair fell sharply in October. London shipbroker Howard Houlder said world oil tankers immobilised dipped to 9.94 million long dwt (67 vessels) in October from 11.07 million (79) at end-September.
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    • 141 21 THE SAUDI ARABIAN government has agreed to extend a soft loan for the construction of a port township on the western Indian coast. The state-run Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) will lend India U5538.46 million (141 million Saudi Riyals) for the
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    • 181 21 UK-BASED ECS Marine has offered to track down ships which have gone astray. Alastair Britton. consultancy manager of ECS Marine. said it has built up considerable expertise in dealing with the cunning tactics of shipowners. It also has a large group of
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    • 260 21 Reuter AP MORE THAN 200 passengers were ordered off a cross-channel British ferry after its captain turned the ship back to the French port of Boulogne fearing the vessel was overloaded. The Horsa was 10 minutes out of Boulogne
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    • 69 21 Reuter A FLOATING tractor tyre sparked a shipping scare in the southern Gulf on Monday after a passing tanker said it might bp a mine. The British frigate Brazen plucked the lyre from the sea some 48km off Dubai. Its removal ended
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    • 10778 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
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    • 1623 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Nogo XXXVI a 04 11 0730 0511 1800 S.gmo Mo 2 a 04 II 0830 1411 1830 Vessel Berth Arrival Departure Sior Treowe Son'oto 17 8 Jll 04 II 1530 04 11/1100 07 11 0700 0411 1400 KEPPEL WHARVES SKoko Mo'u JI2 04 II
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    • 1875 28 Who acts for whom 3£« Boustead Shpg Contamerline NV S pore \yfcc6rti Shpg Accord Shpg (S) OoMn Lines Sealion Shpg Liner Kim Shpg (S) C Toepfer Oceanus A 9encies (S) Multiport Sdn IVjStf Alltrans Express V jßwfcm President Lines APL Shpg (PK/PN). Arjlah &dent Line The Malay r. .StJOec Shpg
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    • 438 30 Lloyd's List AN AMBITIOUS plan to turn Port Said into a major container transhipment terminal is being explored by an Egyptian and East German joint venture. A team headed by Dr Manfred Schelzel, professor of maritime economics at Rostock's Wilhelm Pieck University. has
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    • 714 30 AFP RATES continued to firm in both single voyage and time-charter sectors on the freight market during the past week, pushing the Baltic Freight Index (Biffex) to a record level of 1171.5 points. Panamax tonnage, capable of navigating the Panama Canal with cargoes of 50.000-70,000 tonnes, maintained its
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    • 107 19 KBUDB VANUATU is courting the Japanese with the aim of registering two tankers from that country. The deal for the two 150,(XX) tonne tankers is expected to be closed soon. P«g« II THAILAND will embark on the construction of a container freight station by the end of next year to
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    • 444 20 OUTBOUND TO NORTH CONTINENT COMPAGNIE MARITIME D AFFRETEMENT REGULAR CONTAINER SERVICE FAR EAST TO EUROPE MEDITERRANEAN WEST AFRICA 'lin'.'j FELIXSTOWE ETA ROTTEROAM ETA L£ HAVRE HA CrfhanSurt) an* after Eurapaan lnlan* pwnta I Wast African Parti EXPRESS SERVICE TO WEST MEDITERRANEAN SINGAPORE/ MARSEILLES 16 DAYS SINGAPORE/ BARCELONA (DIRECT) 17 DAYS
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    • 17 20 Lines and services represented by -Members of the Registry of Accredited Snipping Agents, Singapore National Shipping Association.
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    • 600 20 CSAV Ccmpjrvj Sud Amcr.carta c!c I jpcrcs S > O Line i g :/i >■ TO/FROM CHILE FEEDER VESSEL SPORE ■OTMU VESSEL HK MICA KN **TOf VALP SAI CSAV yu CAR CARRIER WU WU CKH a/11) CSAV I 1701 VESSEL W1 W W W Hfl 21/1 CARGO FOR PUNTA ARENAS,
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    • 935 21 P&OCI^A P&O Containers Limited CONTMNERSH* SERVICE TO UK/CONTMENT: TO* 10 tXPKESS UMLOON BAT fiankeukt exphess OSAKA BAT KITANO HAAU LAMS SAT HONG KON6 EXPtESS CARDIGAN (AT KURAHA MARU Also Accepting Cargo For: HMtur| to Capanbuan. AarlM. I KaMaftfam to Antwerp Amatafdaw. to *11 UK tfaatmatnm. I :ONTAINERSHIP SERVICE FROM UK/CONTMENT:
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    • 280 22 Hapag-Lloyd CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO: ALL UK INLAND DESTINATIONS, BELFAST. DUBLIN COPENHAGEN AARHUS. GOTHENBURG. MAUOO HELSINKI. OSLO AMSTERDAM CARIBBEAN I S. AMERICA CONV'SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE CONV SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO MEL/ EUROPE CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE FROM UK CONTINENT BJRKART SOUTHEASTABIA PTE. LTD. INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT .FORWARDE CONSOLIDATION SERVICE
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    • 742 22 NEPTUNE CRYSTAL 42W 8/11 CHINA CONTAINER <2* 15/11 HONGKONG CONTAINER 52W 22/11 II TRANSWORLD BRIDGE 40W 29/11 1 SEVEN SEAS BRIOCE 63W 6.12 I KOREAN CHANCE 34W 13/12 3 ALSO CALLING ANTWERP VIA ROTTERDAM PKELANC CTRS VIA FIEOCR VESSEL CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO PERSIAN GULF VESSEL KUANTAN S'PORE LOADING FOR LEADBON
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    • 710 23 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES AV\ PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE KOTA EAGLE MAJAPAHIT QOWA VOY SIN jkt sby VOY SIN pod hkq kao kee htc vok moo kob bus tIM aid Sid S/11 02NB t/11 t/11 14/11 18/11 17/11 21/11 14/11 24/11
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    • 249 23 T* NORBUL NORBULK CARGO SERVICES LTD REGULAR CONVENTIONAL SPORE MARATHON UNITED AGENCY PTE LTD TEL ???«66 KL PK S P YEO SHPG TRDG KL '83%44 PK *****01 PENANG TANJONG MARINE SDN BHD TEL *****5 SABAH TRANSPAC KK TEL ****** t t BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S pore P.Kelang Loading For
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    • 603 23 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT STON MM ('HAVEN ROAM HAVRE mi w w wi mi am aai wu viu am KB VU VU VU 1112 vu am um um ivu um um viu um am am a/u am am am am am am am am am 1/1 in
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    • 692 23 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: p.t. mum lliyi p.t. besuh llbti P.T. SAMUKU INDONESIA P.T. TMKORA LLOYB EXPRESS SEMI CONTUNERSNIP SERVICES SIN6APORE TO EUROPE VtSStLVOY CAUDA HUKTI/lWn a vessel S PANjANC/17«* miwijataoim OCCAM PRIMA/Ma SPOItE It 11AO UWU 11/12 11 ani 21-2*ll 11-21/12 »»u wi ANTWERP A DAM/W'DAM MIURC/SREKN
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    • 309 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES LASH 10 V* 4/5 Nov •SITTWAY V 33 13/14 Nov PAGAN 11/13 Nov HTONEYWA V22WH 21/23 Nov Discharging only. (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon re P.Kelang Penang Bangkok NORTHBOUND TO UKC FORTHBANK V2ON IVYBANK V2ON PRO-ATLANTICA VIN SPORE RDAM HULL HMBG In Pt 25/11 2/12 29/11
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    • 1104 24 SHIPPtriG DATA ATLAHTIC COAST (Round-The-World Service) "PK/PNG SPORE LB CHLS NFK NYC HFX ORIENTAL FAITH V 5 SM 5 Nov 28 Nov IDk lODk UDk l(D« ORIENTAL FRIENDSHIP V 5 7 No* 12 Nov 5 Dec 15 Dec 17 Dae 19 D»c 23 Dec •VIA FEEDER PACIFIC SDUTH-IiJEST FEEDER VSL
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    • 251 24 iii dir. 11 .i Accepting LCL and containerised cargoes Direct to South Africa Durban P Eli* OSAKA MARU 4136F HAYAKAWA MARU 4235f 9/U 21,11 26/11 J/12 WW/ JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES (REG. *****4/ 00K) IPITJII 200 CANTONMENT ROAD #12-05 SOUTHPOINT, SINGAPORE 0208 M: *****11 TELEX NO RS 2*179 TERMINAL/CFS Tel *****18-220
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    • 667 24 '/tt AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Container* p K(Unf lhw Vnid S port IMb Ff»»i Sjrttr At* Act* "CMAWO< OAS" Vit 15 Nov No* lOk 6Ok AM/Brn IDAS'* i 7 Ok 20 Ok 29 0k 27 0k Add Bra CHANDIOAS V.2921 Ok 5 itn 14 Jan U )*r AM
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    • 779 24 CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING CO., PEKING THE PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF CHINA .iliililLJLLl RONCJIANC YOMCNING A VESSEL P Kl*nf Penanf Kuantan Oastmatwr MP! Rottertfanv'Hamtourt 11A1 RottenUm I*ll 11/11 Roflrram Anrwfp li-IiWUTTT? W»fK M* TO Su Ml SS ■Sc'fSS; agi imi 3SJ «J «5 urn naeniuLur J? 101 i 21/12 B(U sr
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    • 1077 25 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD FE EU/AUST TPA/SEA Terminal CFS BOOKINGS 27K753 2TtUV nisn *****53 *****19 27*111 27*111 27*141 NCPIINE SDN. BHD. J68M87 inward/outward NEPLINE SDN. BHD 2****** ENQUIRIES 2717M4 NEPLINE SDN. BHD. i2oD3tt27Mof«27Kl/t27K2 NEPLINE SDN. BHD. Z*****/*****1 N CRYSTAL 42* C CONTAINER 42W.... HK CONTAINER 52*
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    • 496 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON Vessels Name ETD 8S BKK Enterpr.se/714N 11/10 OS/11 No 7 Donam 709N 29/10 08/H No 6 Donam/711N 04/11 No Donam/70IN OS/11 11/11 No I Doflim WN lt/11 27/11 MEnt er prise 71SN 2«/U MflJ Calling Penang
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    • 779 25 r m sinsov SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office *****41/2 f a ,S!* f ddress SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** r KtLAPHa PFMAMC M/S HANDLING SYSTEM CO SON BHD No 14 lalan
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    • 386 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 (30 Lmes> FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAO □SR-LIIMES VE.B PEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE •VIA COLOMBO: Accepting cargo for INDIA Bombay. Cochin, Madras Calcutta "VIA LARNACA: Accepting cargo for Lattakia, Piraeus. Thessatontki,
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    • 179 26 Regional Weather r s v> A M m o *v> >; i Va > vv 8 3 Wk SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. "C yA cT w Wind direction with speed in knots Wove height LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperature c X\ V Shower Weather —Y
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    • 283 27 Ik IST CI ASS CONTAINFR TRANSPORT Scan Dutch TO EUROPE (NORTH CONTINENT-UK-SCANDINAVIA) WEEKLY II; J' i.Ei i B Butanf/K Bhum B. Butanf/K Bhum I. Butanf/K Bhum B. Butanf/K. Bhum B. Butanf/K Bhum TO RED SEA EAST MEDITERRANEAN WEEKLY JED AQABA L'UOt. 1/11 ISO Hnpanii/Kt In Port 15/11 7/11 SO Helvetia/171
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    • 509 28 FINE-LINER SHIPPING PTE LTD 70 Shenton Way. 04-02 C Marina House S pore 0?07 TEL *****77 (6 Lines) TLX RS ***** FLINER FAX *****56 EUROPE SERVICE middle east gulf service WEEKLY HKG/CHINA SERVICES TATSUMI MARINE CO. LTD. JAPAN DIRECT SAILING TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA (ACCEPTING CONTAINER AND BREAKBULK CARGO) Vessel
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    • 421 28 ZIM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE acceptinf FCL/LCL cargoes to USA East West Coast, Carribbean.East Canada. HAITI, Port Au Spain, Barbados ST LUCIA. AUSTRALIA CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEi 2(M KAOSHIUNG 18 11 2iM SYDNEY 2tu ZIM TRIESTE 11.12 ACCEPTING CARGO TO ADELAIDE VIA MELBOURNE AND ALSO FCL TO GUAM r* ZIM EILAT CONTAINER
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    • 613 28 Everett Lines COMPANIA PERUANA DE VAPORES I "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" I. LOADING FOR CALLAO. MATARANI, ILO* AND ALL OTHEIT PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH TRANSHIPMENT AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION. Penang* P Kelang* Singapore MANOLOEVERETT Gdn K2l/5 Nov I JOHNEVERETT 27/21 Nov MURRAYEVERETT 2S/29 Nov VA
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    • 144 29 Hamburg West Germany Tiger Line VOY SIN CALCUTTA MAMAS CHITTACON6 LOTTE SCHEEL V SLD 4 NOV LOTTE SCHEEL V 27 9-10 NOV 15-M NOV 21 NOV PRELUDE VI 9 NOV 14-] SCHWABENLAND V» 14 NOV 14-2 BEN LINE AGENCIES (S) PTE. LTD. Telephone: 225 3522 Telex: RS ***** ahrenkiel liner
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    • 109 29 PERCH OCEAN LINES (Perfect China Ocean Shipping Lines) CHINA SERVICES Destinations: Etd. S PORE Etd. PKL( SHANTOU, GUANGZHOU HUANGPU, XIAMEN WFFKL Y HAIKOU, ZHANJIANG XINGANG, QINGDAO SAILINGS SHANGHAI A OTHER PORTS SINGAPORE MEtITS: RAM) OMPPMO Pfl tTO tel mam tlx: 22*5 ACEMTS. TEL 71SJMf *****57 CONSOLIDATION SERVICE FROM: SINGAPORE/P.KELANG PORT
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    • 285 30 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd TEL *****06 (20 Lines) TLX RS ***** RS ***** IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE VIA MAURITIUS REUNION DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK SPORE PK PI REU DBN CT GOLDEN COAST V7S* Sailed Sailed Sailed 11/11 12/11 17fll 26/11 IML V 76 15/11 25/11 27/11 9/12 10/12
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    • 438 30 v^ro COLUMBUS LINE REEDEREI GMBH (A SERVICE OF HAMBURG-SUD) EXPRESS SEM-CONTWNEB SERVICE TO NORTHBOUND TO UKC FORTHBANK V2ON IVYBANK V2ON PRO ATLANTICA VIN ROM/A'DAM HBG HULL (U.K.) 2J/11 29/11 3/12 20/12 24/12 21/12 12/1 16/1 •Alto Accqtfinf FCt to Antw^Br«n™:ftli»to<«/Wh*mp»CKvß*»*»*tjU*twntouri MORAYBANK V4S FORTHBANK V2IS To Port Moresby, Lae Rabaul.Madang, Kimbe,
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    • 220 30 WEEKLY CONSOI SERVICE TO/FROM KEELUNG ACCEPTING LCL CARGO ONLY ETD S TORE ETA KEELUNG CON-CARRIERS 11/17 4/11 M/U CON-CARRIERS IW7 1/11 IC/11 CON-CARRIERS 20/17 11/11 24/11 WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE TO MELB/SYDNEY ETD S PORE ETA SYD HA MELB CON-CARRIERS 2S/S7 11/11 1/12 5/12 CON-CARRIERS 26/17 24/11 16/12 20/12 Alto accaptinf
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    • 837 30 Rfflh CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 04-*****2/4, *****3 07-*****8 07-*****3. *****5, *****0, *****1 02-*****22 *****88 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE FEEDER PENANG P KELANG MTHR VSI •JUTANC OS 11 07.11 TN. DELFT 0 BUTANC HI B BUTANC IB I
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