The Business Times, 19 November 1987

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 112/12/86 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 165 1 Overseas markets Wcdnmdoy HK Hang Seng Index 2285.15 {-5.22 Tokyo Nikkei Averag* *****.49 390.21) Sydney All-Ordinaries 1284.2 (-12.9 Tuesday Now York (Dow jonot) 1922.50 (-26.85 London (FT 30 Index) 1310.6 (-15.0) (Wednesdaynoon: 1330.8; +20.2 Exchange rataa US*. 135.80/90 yon 1.6965/75 DM S$2.0430/40 £t US$1.7580/90 M$s S$0.8154/61 Slmax
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  • 83 1 LESS THAN two months ago, Indian and Pakistani troops fought some bloody battles over the disputed Siachen glacier, near the borders of India, Pakistan and China. Harish Mehta of BT's Foreign Desk outlines the background to the dispute over this geo-strate-gic icy wasteland where,
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  • 355 1 THE AMERICAN DOLLAR gave a mixed performance in nervous trading at the Singapore forex market yesterday. It rose against the Singapore dollar, remained unchanged against the yen and eased against the German marks, Swiss francs and sterling. Local forex dealers are keeping their
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  • 463 1  -  By LISA LEE SHARE PRICES "yo-yoed" in the major markets of Tokyo, Hongkong, Australia and Singapore most bouncing up later in the day to finish marginally higher on news of positive headway made on the US budget deficit negotiations. "We don't know for certain yet
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  • 61 1 Reuter WALL STREET stocks were moderately higher in the first few hours of trading yesterday on hopes of an accord between the White House and Congress on a budget deficit-cut plan. Negotiators said a pact was close. Stocks gained on a higher dollar. The Dow 30 index
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  • 69 1 AP UK SHARE PRICES were holding strong gains at midday yesterday, bolstered by a further jump and more active trading in British Petroleum shares. The Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index was up 30.2 points at 1,690.3 at 1300 GMT. The index fell 24.6 points on
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  • 86 1 Reuter THE European Community has renewed preferential trade conditions designed to help developing countries boost their exports, an EC spokeswoman said. Its 1988 Generalised System of Preferences covers about 24 billion European Currency Units worth of goods, reducing customs duties by about 900 million Ecus,
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  • 520 1 Reuter WEST GERMANY has pledged to boost its sluggish economy as part of any new accord to promote world growth, but economists say its promises appear to fall short of steps demanded by Washington and its European trading partners. Outlining a plan
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  • 534 1  -  NG TENG FONG SUFFERS HEAVY PERSONAL LOSSES By LEE HAN SHIH Property Correspondent THE HONGKONG Shanghai Bank has rallied behind property tycoon Ng Teng Fong, who has suffered heavy personal losses in the Hongkong stock market, by extending a credit line of HK$l
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  • 528 1 Reuter ASIA'S four newly industrialising countries dubbed the "four tigers'' South Korea. Taiwan, Hongkong and Singapore have rejected Washington's attacks on their fast-growing trade surpluses with the United States. "They (the US) should not be flailing about looking for a scapegoat. Action taken
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    • 375 1 A partner, not a competitor AMERICANS, cornered by their massive trade and budget deficits, are hitting out blindly at Asia's newly industrialising countries of Taiwan, South Korea, Hongkong and Singapore. But Singapore is not just another Asian tiger, a competitor out to exploit the US market. It is America s
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 318 2  -  By ANNA TEO IN AN ATTEMPT to keep track of new trends in the sporting goods retail business, sports goods dealers from chain operators to the one-store retailers have come together to form an association. The Sports Goods Dealers Association, registered a few months
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    • 195 2 NOT KNOWN to many in Singapore perhaps, polytechnics in Britain offer degree courses too. In a bid to attract more Singapore students, some 20 British universities and polytechnics have invited local career advisers to visit the country. Thirteen career advisers from 10 junior
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    • 58 2 A CANADIAN TRADE delegation representing 10 manufacturing companies arrived yesterday on a three-day visit to look into opportunities for trade, joint ventures, technology transfer and component sourcing. The companies are members of an Industrial Co-operation Mission organised by the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. The team will
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    • 131 2 AUSTRALIAN Defence Minister Kim Beazley arrives in Singapore today on a two-day official visit, the latest in a string of defence ministers from friendly countries to call on the Republic. Mr Beazley. who will be accompanied by his wife Mary, Defence Secretary Allan Woods and
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    • 193 2 SENIOR ASEAN education officials have been invited to an international exhibition on education trends and equipment to be held here next week. Edu-Aid '87, a four-day show featuring exhibits by some 50 companies from 12 countries, opens on Sunday at the Hyatt
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    • 181 2 APART FROM the Party Manifesto. the PAP Convention in January will also be asked to adopt a series of resolutions thrown up by party branches, according to the latest issue of Petir. These resolutions will concentrate on single issues of more
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    • 534 2  -  By CHUANG PECK MING THE GOVERNMENT plans to build two or three hospitals at a cost of $35 million each in the next 10 years for less seriously ill patients and those recuperating from illness. Acting Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong,
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    • 263 2 TRADE AND INVESTMENT opportunities in Mauritius will be promoted by a trade delegation, led by the Mauritian Minister for Industry, which will visit Singapore from Nov 28 to Dec 2. Mauritius is seeking to diversify its industrial base into electronics. footwear/leather products, toys,
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    • 97 2 SEMBAWANG CONSTRUCTION was recently awarded a Public Works Department contract worth $12 million to build 2.5 km of the Tampines Expressway. Stretching from Lorong Ha (us to Elias Road, the project «fill take 18 months. The project involves carrying out "dynamic compaction" on a 450 m stretch. This
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 348 3 Reuter AMERICA'S Commerce Secretary William Verity said on Tuesday before leaving for a visit to Japan that if the Japanese did not raise export prices to reflect a cheaper dollar it could face new US trade retaliation. He said he would exert new
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    • 182 3 Bernama ES THE HIGH RATE of unemployment in Malaysia can pose serious problems in the period ahead, said Bank Negara Malaysia adviser Dr Jaafar Ahmad. Unless growth is maintained at a more rapid pace over the medium term, he said pressure
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    • 346 3 Reuter SOUTH KOREA'S gross national product is set to grow by 12 per cent this year, Deputy Prime Minister Chung ln-yong said yesterday. "We could lower our foreign debt to around U5535.5 billion this year by achieving a 12 per cent
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    • 110 3 AFP JAPANESE machinery makers received orders worth 614.6 billion yen (U554.39 billion) in September from private enterprises, up 2.9 per cent from August, the Economic Planning Agency reported on Tuesday. It was the second straight monthly gain after a 14.1 per cent rise in August,
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    • 532 3 Reuter THE US. frustrated by its intractable trade deficit, has opened a new offensive against the "four tigers" of Asia that are making deeper and deeper inroads into American markets. In what was billed as a major policy speech, a top Treasury official used
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    • 241 3 Reuter SRI LANKA proposed tax cuts on personal income and tea exports but set higher rates for liquor, beer and lipsticks in a package of reforms on Tuesday to rebuild the island's war-shattered economy. Finance Minister Ronnie de Mel, presenting
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 187 4 FT CITY EXPECTATIONS of tax cuts, higher government expenditure and a negligible borrowing requirement next financial year were boosted on Tuesday by provisional Treasury figures showing the British government's public sector borrowing requirement was in surplus by £1 billion (US$l.76 billion) last
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    • 442 4 AP WHITE HOUSE officials and congressional leaders have emphasised that they still want to make an agreement on slashing the US government budget deficit before a legal deadline expires this week, forcing mandatory cuts. "We have no choice but to put it together,"
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    • 241 4 Reuter US MINES, factories and utilities operated at 81.3 per cent of capacity last month, the highest rate in more than three years, the Federal Reserve Board said on Tuesday. The rate was up from 81 per cent in September and was
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    • 158 4 Reuter UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN economist Saul Hymans has predicted continued US economic growth for 1988, real GNP of just under 3 per cent, a further fall in the dollar of at least 10 per cent and an improved real trade balance. He said: "For a few months,
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    • 129 4 Reuter GENERAL MOTORS has donated a Cadillac limousine to the financially strapped United Nations and a UN spokesman said that other gifts would be gratefully accepted. The gift which spokesman Francois Giuliani said was unsought, follows the gift earlier this year of a stretch Volvo
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    • 232 4 AFP AN ACCORD on the scrapping of Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) could be ready by Nov 23, Soviet arms negotiator Yuli Vorontsov said on television in Moscow on Tuesday. "Work on the proposed treaty, a document ot some 120 pages, has already entered its final
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    • 558 4 World interest rates could fall OECD AP SENIOR ECONOMIC and central bank officials from 24 industrialised nations have agreed that interest rates may not rise and could even come down from current levels. Beryl Sprinkel, the chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD),
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1531 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed firmer yesterday against major currencies mainly on short-covering, but was below the day's highs after some late prof-it-taking in a moderate but nervous trading session, dealers said. They said the US unit was well supported by reports that White House and Congressional negotiators
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    • 1292 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IMM Tu*iday, No »ao«6af 17. 1987 NUI KH POUMO C2S.000; cam par t Mo* ta OMK Jan-c Cab-e M Dto>* 8iMi 1725 4.35 5.15 075 2.00 1750 2.60 370 1.40 3.05 3.75 1775 1.40 2.60 3-25 245 4.30 1 BOO 070 170 4.40 1825 0.30 1.15
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    • 135 6 Reuter THE Reserve Bank of India has relaxed laws governing loans by commercial banks to investors for buying shares or debentures. Loans of up to 300,000 rupees for investing in secondary markets will now be allowed The bank said in s statement on
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 607 7 DECEMBER Eurodollar opened sharply higher yesterday at 92.43 and remained firm due to news that the US budget negotiators continued talks into the night to complete s plan to cut the deficit by US$75 billion over two years. After the opening, prices dipped briefly to 92.41 before firming to
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    • 116 7 No* Ok ion M> M A*r to Oct Ok Gold 100 tray Opan 445.00 470-50 476. SO 44X00 4M-50 494-50 502.80 hrturot ounces; US Mid 466.20 47X40 47*40 4M-50 494-50 ***** on Nov par toy on Low <IHKI ***** 476-50 44X10 ■ftt Tft 494-50 ***** 17 not
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    • 57 7 THE overnight rate on the Singapore interbank market rose 1/4 point to 4 per cent yesterday. The one and threemonth rates were unchanged while the twomonth rate rose 1/16 point. S$ Interbank rates 7pm yesterday: OffH MO Ow. 3 3/4 j—■* 3 7fr 3 3/4 3 r/s 3—«h
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    • 540 7 Reuter YUGOSLAVIA devalued its dinar on Tuesday by almost 25 per cent to try to boost exports in the latest of a series of measures to alleviate an economic crisis. The action followed harsh price rises of up to 70 per cent in recent
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    • 310 7 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed at easier opening levels in quiet afternoon trading, dealers said yeeterday. They said market sentiment was depressed by reports that White House and Congressional negotiators made good progress over a plan to cut the budget deficit by US$75 billion over two years, but
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    • 232 7 AFP JAPAN IS LIKELY to sat up an integrated financial future* market dealing in financial instruments ranging from stock indices to currencies and interest rates. Finance ministry sources in Tokyo said yesterday that a draft report containing propoeals for an integrated
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    • 86 7 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's dosing Day's code Maturity ND ora UGH LOW 3 —in 8Q*****H 11.2.88 3J5 370 373 3.50 6 monthi BS*****S 21.4.88 370 3.65 3.66 3.65 1 y*or BY*****S 22.09.88 3.77 372 3.74 372 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing
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    • 170 7 Indicate* the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banks in S'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Nov 18 7 dajt 4 mA 12 m* us* 13/14 13/U 4 13/14— 13/14 7 7/14 3/14 71/J-3/I 7 13/14 13/16 IS/14 13/1* IS/14 13/1* —*7/» 9 »7/»
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    • 441 7  -  By PATRICIA M SCHERSCHEL Financial Editor INDONESIA IS SET to borrow US$3OO million over the next year under a syndicated loan arranged in part by the merchant banking arm of West Germany's Dresdner Bank in Singapore. The eight-year financing is being jointly arranged by Dresdner (Southeast
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    • 488 7 Reuter NYT CITICORP DOES NOT PLAN to cut its investment bank staff level by 10 per cent, investmsnt bank hssd Michsel Callen said through s Citicorp spokesmen. Mr Callen wss responding to s Reuters report which ssid the unit's staff of 11,000 would be reduced by this
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    • 78 7 Reuter SALES OF THE Australian Nugget gold coin, launched on April 23, had reached 301,000 ounces by the beginning of this month compared with a target of 400,000 for the first 12 months. GokJcorp Australia chief executive officer Don Mackay-Coghill said. The Nugget was on line
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    • 176 7 UPI AMERICAN EXPRESS Co announced on Tuesday it would sell its gold card in China, marking the first time it has offered credit cards there. American Express said the cards would be sold primarily to government officials, academics and professionals who often travel.
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 320 8 Reuter THE UNITED STATES said on Tuesday it had offered China one million tonnes of subsidised wnwii. The Agriculture Department also said it had added Bulgaria to the growing list of countries eligible for subsidised US farm products. It was the third
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    • 355 8 Bernama PEPPER producing and exporting countries need to cooperate with importers in identifying their problems and common interests to promote the commodity in the international market, Kuching's Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud said yesterday. He said that although the pepper market was
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    • 425 8 AP A UNITED STATES federal judge has refused to drop Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. Merrill Lynch and Co and three other defendants from a multimillion-dollar lawsuit charging they conspired with the Hunt Brothers to manipulate the world ailver market "I conclude that the record contains
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    • 230 8 Reuter NORWAY, Europe's third largest oil producer, said on Tuesday it would probacy continue trimming production from its North Sea fields in support of Opec efforts to control supply so as to stabilise prices. Oil and Energy Minister Arne Oeien
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    • 98 8 SENTIMENT continued bearish yesterday in line with falling crude and product prices in the West. Some players decided to take advantage of low levels and conclude business mainly on a P&C basis. Only jet/kerosene exhibited signs of possible firmness with availabilities tight and demand for jet barrels
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    • 227 8 Reuter COFFEE PRICES are rising faster than roasters thought they would fast enough that some think the price of a can of coffee on supermarket shelves will be forced up sometime next year. Roasters, the companies which process raw coffee beans, say recently agreed
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    • 234 8 CMtWN Produce Exchange S#Htn' noon doAiQ pr Icm on Nov 1* (SI/100 kg) Coconut oil kt FOt 93.00 CHd drum FOt 103.00 Now drum FOt 107.00 Copra Mia Ml (looto) 33 Pepper FOt NLW 1290.00 wfllls FOt foq NLW 1275.00 JOrQwgi tpeooi biocfc FOt NLW 902JO Asto b4ook
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    • 419 8 Crude palm oN futuree ended lower in active trading on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) yesterday. Dealers attributed the lower prices to profit-taking. December eased Ms 7 to MsB23 per tonne while January dropped Ms 4 to MsB33. February was Msl lower at MSB4O per tonne. Turnover
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    • 291 8 HONGKONGQold doaed little changed In thin and cautious trading yeeterday aa moat investor® stayed on Vie sidelines ■waning in® ouixxtw Of uw US budget-reduction talk», dealer» said. Bullion ended unchanged from the opening of U*****.70/465.20 an ounce and compared with New York'a final 464.75/466.25. On the local market,
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    • 300 8 London Commodity Exchange Tilt. T-r—r IGSEJi pCN MMk CONn lath In-ttor* London, wlkn option OF London Nov 1244/1247 Wgh/low (1243/1249) 1255/1246 Jan 1271/1279 High/Low (1277/1278) 12®9/1277 Sat*t (2773) Cocoa Doc 1074/1073 High/Low (1090/1191) 1063/1074 Mar 1105/1106 High/Low (1120/1121) 1115/1105 (4088 Sotoi Sugar No 6 FO« (US$/to» Doc 164.2/167.0
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    • 177 8 Reuter CUT SOYBEAN futures rallied to ctoae on the highs on Tuaeday, up aix to 9-1/2 canto par buahai in moderate trade. January found support around Friday'a upsids breakout to eettle at $6.64-1/2 after poeting a nine cent range. A aurge in deliveriee, reports showing heavy movement of eoybeans
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    • 238 8 Reuter CBT wheat futures rallied from opening levels to close near the highs on Tuesday, up 6-1/2 to three cents per bushel in moderately light trade. A rebound in the mar-ket-leading soymeal took a lid off wheat values to settle December on a steady note at $2.99-1/4. Trade talk
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    • 334 8 SINGAPORE The market doood eesler ysstordey with December 1 RSS buyers quoted at 209.00 cento a kilo, down 4.29 cento from Tueedey's doee, Poolers said. Speculative selling on market talk that Thailand mey reduce its export duty on rubber csuood prlcee to tall four cento in fairty moderate morning
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    • 67 8 THE KUALA LUMPUR Tin Martwt price recovered lie*» y»alarday todON at MH7.46 perkg on ■cwriiy, win vWiHyW vow revets NrtCOM Mronfl bids of Its tonnee at Mia start spalnrt oflars-af 46. Jspsnssi buyers resppsarad la take moat af Wm llnal tl tonne turnoeor against Tanadar's St, wMi ttn
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  • FOCUS
    • 1009 9 Japan is chalking up a strong economic growth which, despite a stronger domestic performance, is expected to see an undiminished export thrust. FOCUS also surveys the challenges facing the country's new prime minister and rising expectations regarding a greater international role for the
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    • 415 9 Reuter THE JAPANESE often speak of tstemae what is said on the surface and honne the true intentions underneath. On the surface, newly elected Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita has pledged to follow the policies of his predecessor, Yasuhiro Nakasone. The general consensus among
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    • 649 9 Reuter JAPAN, convinced the battered dollar cannot remain the sols pillar of the world monetary system, wants the yen to play a greater supporting role. But achieving that aim will not be easy, financial experts said. "The yen is a
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 490 10 THE TRADE CONFLICT between the United States and Japan shows every sign of deteriorating into meaningless posturing. Neither party appears interested in taking a conciliatory line as nationalism, rather than national interest, continues to stir emotions. This is a pity. The world's entire trading system could
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    • 566 10  -  Singapore's exclusion from the list of countries which have trade barriers against the US should give her trade negotiators an even stronger hand in arguing for the Republic not to be removed from the US generalised system of preferences. LOH HUI YIN files these reports
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    • 517 10 SINGAPORE ie formulating a more aggreeaive atrategy to drive home this meesage to Americana that we are their trading partner, not a competitor out to grab the US market, aaid Ambassador Tommy Koh in an exclueive interview with BT. He identified the
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    • 680 10 Reuter US COMMERCE SECRETARY William Verity is likely to run into tough opposition to American call* for a mora opan Japanaaa construction markat wt>an ha in Japan for a four-day visit, which startad yaatarday. "Americans should not axpact to walk in
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    • 1382 11  -  India and Pakistan have both laid claim to the 6,080-metre high Siachen glacier, strategically cradled in the mountains bordering India, Pakistan, the Soviet Union, China and Afghanistan. HARISH MEHTA of the Foreign Desk discusses the background issues that led the two countries in
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    • 1003 11  -  The placement of teachers in Chinese primary schools in Malaysia was possibly the key issue that led to the raising of racial tensions and last month's government crackdown. MGG PILLAI reporting from Kuala Lumpur explains that rumours rather than
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 661 12 UPI THE REFRIGERATOR, sad to say, just doesn't keep things as cool as he used to. The atmosphere around the Fridge has heated up to the degree that it has touched off yet another brushfire within the Chicago Bears camp. The saga of William "the
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    • 259 12 AFP THE RACE to find a partner for seasoned opening batsman John Wright in the New Zealand lineup to take on Australia in the coming three-Test series started in Perth yesterday. World Cup squad members Phil Horne and Ken Rutherford have been given
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    • 309 13 AP ALYSHEBA, who thundered to the forefront of racing in the Kentucky Derby, can end his 1987 campaign in championship style on Saturday. The three-year-old colt will race in the US$3 million Breeders' Cup Classic in California, and if he wins,
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    • 304 13 AP CHRIS EVERT is ending 1967 in a state of uncertainty. After losing to Sylvia Hanika in the first round of the Virginia Slims Championships on Monday night, Evert didn't mention retirement. But she hinted that her days as a full-time tennis player may be
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    • 581 13 UPI MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, given a far sterner test than expected, was forced to a tie-breaker before emerging with a 6-4. 7-6 victory over Catarina Lindqvist on Tuesday in the opening round of the US$l million Virginia Slims Championships in New York. Navratilova, seeking her fifth
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    • 202 13 AP TAMMIE GREEN has been named the LPGA's rookie of the year, and said she hopes to use the lessons she learned in her first year on the Tour to go on to bigger and better things. "I'm going for player of the year next year,"
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    • 328 13 AP A CONTRACT for Thomas Hearns to defend his World Boxing Council middleweight title against deposed champion Marvellous' Marvin Hagler could be finalised by the end of next week. Hearns's manager, Emanuel Steward, said yesterday that negotiations with the Hagler camp got under
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    • 194 13 AP THE US and Scotland appear to be the leading contenders in the revived World Cup of Golf that returns this week after a one-year absence. Burch Riber, executive director of the sponsoring International Golf Association, said: "We simply needed to do
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    • 496 13  -  Jrankly. speaking.... By WALTON MORAIS YOU WOULDN'T THINK, listening to golfer Douglas Ooi, that this was a guy who'd just been in a team that finished eighth in a competition. To be honest, I've never heard the veteran Nomura Cup campaigner so enthusiastic about a
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4251 14 BARGAIN-HUNTING in the later part of the day helped Singapore share prices to close slightly higher on relatively quiet trading. The Straits Times Industrial Index added 9.66 points to close at 836.66 on a lower turnover of 18.37 million shares valued at $35.92 million
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    • 3265 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and burtw in and reparted to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of Stares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unieat otherwise specified. SECTION ONE MOUroUAL rmiMncm Acno I) XII IS 118 a
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    • 343 14 SOUTH MALAYSIA INOUSTRES Berhad: 16th AGM at Bilik Sri Banang, Mezzanine Floor, Holiday Inn, Jalan Oato Sulaiman, Century Garden, ***** Johore Bahru, Johore, today, Nov 19, at 11am. HUME INDUSTRIES (MALAYSIA) Berhad: 28th AGM at the Conference Room, 14th Floor, Bangunan Hong Leong, 117 Jalan Bandar, ***** Kuala
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 347 15  -  By LISA LEE BONVESTS HOLDINGS Ltd has cancelled or revoked a number of sub-underwriting agreements of its wholly-owned subsidiary BHL Investments Ltd. BHL Investments was set up in August last year and started operations in May this year. According to a shareholders circular dated
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    • 3410 15 SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday finished mixed to steadier on bargain-hunting and short-covering in the afternoon despite weaker trends in the morning. Generally, shares were traded within narrow margin in quiet trading. However, the widely-followed New Straits Times
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    • 493 15  -  By AMY BALAN INTERNATIONAL trading company Inchcape PLC has strategically positioned itself for a larger slice of the lucrative wines and spirits business in the Far East. It is joining hands with two of the industry's biggest names Guinness PLC's subsidiary United Distillers and
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    • 369 15 TWO NEW FACES have joined the committee of the Stock Exchange of Singapore for the financial year 1987/88, bringing the total number to a maximum of nine. The committee is made up of four elected members and five nominated members approved by the
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    • 277 15 Manager*' prices for Nov 19 Singapore Unit Trust Ttl* CO—I'M 086 0W Tfcn Savings Fund 077 OSS S'por* frog Fund 035 040 S'pora Sac fund 0 40 044 S pot ln««K Fund 0*4 0 49 S pora Equity Fund 043 048 Asia Unit Trust Mol lnva«t fund 121
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    • 95 15 Bernama BANDAR RAYA Developments Bhd, a property development company in the Multi-Purpose Holdings stable, has obtained a MS 12 million facility to finance purchasers of 230 units of luxury town houses of the Verona Town Villas in Kuala Lumpur. The facility, co-managed by
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    • 106 15 UIC directors Join FCC board THREE DIRECTORS of United Industrial Corp have joined the board of First Capital Corp. They are Leong Chee Whye, Peter Chong Hon Kiong and Alice Qiam Chai Neo. Michael Taylor has resigned as a director of FCC on Nov 18. The FCC board
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    • 371 15 NOTICE In the matter of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 NOTICE OF RESOLUTION HAI LOKE CONSTRUCTION CO. PTE. LTD. (In Creditors' Voluntary Winding Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above Company duly convened and held at 4 Battery Road 12-00 Bank of China Building, Singapore 0104 on the
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1090 16 New York Reuter WALL STREET closed lower on Tuesday, but managed to recoup half of its deepest losses of the day as investors retreated to the sidelines, still waiting for news on the budget-cutting talks in Washington. A weak dollar and bearish stock forecasts weighed
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    • 891 16 London Reuter AP UK EQUITIES were marked higher in early business yesterday on fresh hopes that plans to cut US budget deficit substantially will be reached this week. Such hopes were renewed by comments from White House and congressional negotiators overnight that they made "excellent
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    • 1187 16 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Wednesday *****5 Tuesday *****6 WNk ago *****1 Hang Seng Index Wednesday *****5 Tuesday 2290.37 Week ago 2046.18 All Industrials Wednesday Tuesday Week ogo NEW YORK Dow Jones Tuesday Monday Week ago ***** ***** ***** *****5 *****0 *****5 TOKYO Nikkei Average Wednesday ***** 49 Tuesday *****28
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    • 67 16 AP THE TOKYO Stock Exchange has received applications from 40 securities companies including 20 foreign firms for 22 new exchange memberships to be created by next May. TSE president Michio Takeuchi said yesterday. The exchange would decide by the end of this year which
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    • 1441 16 Hongkong Reuter SHARE PRICES in Hongkong cloeed marginally lower after a weak opening yesterday, despite late speculative buying aimed at Hongkong Land. The Hang Seng Index fell 5.22 points to 2,285.15 while the Hongkong Index was off 0.03 at 1,483.95. Turnover totalled HKSI.I billion against HK$l.4 billion
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    • 130 16 MOV u Chatl Sugar Daai'Ti Ind WON SM00 ***** 1290 1000 0—woo Corp 9900 -1460 600 Daewoo Haavy ***** Oatahto Sacurinaa ***** 1300 600 ***** Dong Sun stoc* ***** +1300 790 Doogbu S*aal ***** Goto Star ***** 600 Ha mi Bank ***** 400 Hand Camant 1X10 10 Hankuk Olaaa
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    • 518 16 JAPANESE SHARE price* closed higher in modest trsde yesterdsy on intensified hopes thst the US will decide to cut its budget deficit by US$3O billion this fiscel yeer. The 225-shsre market index climbed 390.21 points, or 1.7 per cent, to 22,734.49. Advances led declines nine to seven in turnover
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    • 444 16 THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed easier yesterday, but off the day's lows, on news the US was making progress on plans to cut its budget deficit brokers said. However, they said late buying failed to offset fully early nervousness following a 27-point overnight loss on Wall Street and a
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    • 141 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 2.8 points to 291.43 on a turnover of 5,489,300 shares worth 394.02 million baht. Reuter I'M 1 cnaroong Thai Wt ra IClM 306 -12 Datarrvat 230 -0 Dhana Slam Fin Aaia Flbra 70 ■♦•2.5 Duattani 3B2 -20 Eaat Aaiattc 271 4
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    • 261 16 MOV 1* f*T S All Slnc«rs Indus 2 86 -0 06 Asia Csmsnt 71 SO 2 Cathay Cons 66 00 15 Chang Hwa Bank..... 175.00 12 WiH ntin WrDffn 46 30 0 6 Chin Hsln Flour 19 40 -0 1 China Ch*m 26 40 05 China 0*v 62 00
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  • 490 18 Takeshita to inform US Commerce Secretary of decision AFP Reuter TWO SEPARATE Japanese actions yesterday signalled the likelihood that bilateral relations with the United States may be poised to worsen in the short term. At a meeting in Tokyo today, visiting
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  • 252 18 AN OPTIMISTIC American economist in town as a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor has projected that the American economy will grow by 2.5 per cent next year. This was higher than the 1.75 per cent forecast by a group of "serious economists",
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  • 462 18 FORMER HEALTH Minister Howe Yoon Chong has lost the latest round in his long-drawn tussle with the Chief Assessor over the assessment of his Binjai Walk home. The Court of Appeal yesterday ruled in favour of the Chief Assessor's appeal against the
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  • 384 18 Reuter UPI CONFIDENT that a treaty on intermediate nuclear missiles is now assured, US and Soviet chief arms delegates left Geneva for home yesterday, leaving regular negotiating teams to work out final details. Max Kampelman, leader of the US delegation to the Geneva
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  • 287 18 Bernama ES TOTAL LOANS disbursed by commercial banks in Malaysia fell by M 51,093 million in the first half of this year compared with an increase of M 51.959 million during the same period in 1986. Bank Negara, in its August statistical bulletin
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  • 131 18 AFP PHILIPPINE security officials are keeping an eye out for a rebel army colonel after he threatened to disrupt next month's Association of South-east Asian Nations summit in Manila. Fugitive Colonel Gregorio 'Gringo' Honasan, leader of a bloody coup attempt in August, said
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  • 47 18 Bernama MAS HAS SIGNED a purchase order for eight Dutch-made Fokker 50 aircraft worth more than Ms2oo million to replace its existing fleet of 11 Fokker F27s. Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Ling Liong Sik said yesterday that the agreement was signed on Tuesday. Bernama
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  • 134 18 Reuter A SPOKESMAN for the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) confirmed yesterday that Iran had asked it to send experts to inspect an unfinished atomic plant damaged by Iraqi air raids. But industry sources said the amount of radioactive material at the plant
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  • 382 18 AFP INDIAN PREMIER Rajiv Gandhi is to visit China after three days of border talks between the two countries made useful progress on resolving the sensitive boundary dispute, diplomats said. Mr Gandhi accepted in principle an invitation extended to him by Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister
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  • 400 18  -  By AMY BALAN THE OCTOBER stock market maelstrom has ravaged two more rights issue, saddling underwriters with more losses in one, and all but flattened the cash-call plans of the other. Hotel Properties, which announced its proposed one-for-one rights issue at
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  • 238 18 Reuter THE SLUMP on equity markets has not derailed Britain's privatisation programme. Treasury Financial Secretary Norman Lamont told Conservative Members of Parliament on Tuesday: "Some of our opponents have suggested privatisation and (the government's goal of) wider share ownership have suffered death blows. Let me
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  • 118 18 AFP A FREE TRADE treaty between Australia and New Zealand is likely to be a major topic when Prime Minister Bob Hawke makes his first official visit to New Zealand from today, officials say in Canberra. Mr Hawke has said both countries have gained significantly
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  • 90 18 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES softened on light selling generated by the dollar s subdued firmness yesterday morning on reports of progress at the US budget-cut-ting talks. December gold lost US$l.OO at U*****.80 an ounce, holding in a dull trading range of US$O.9O which was narrower than the US$l.lO
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  • LATE FILE
    • 43 18 UPI A DELEGATION from Laos will visit China this month, marking the first visit by top Vientiane officials since ties between the two communist neighbours were frozen in 1979, said a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing yesterday. UPI
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    • 49 18 Reuter CHINESE businessmen are making a pioneering visit to Saudi Arabia, the only major Arab country not to have diplomatic relations with Beijing. The official New China News Agency said yesterday that the delegation is in Dhahran for a 10-day goodwill visit. Reuter
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    • 60 18 Reuter AN INDIAN judge yesterday adjourned hearings on the Bhopal gas disaster after the government and the Union Carbide Corporation failed to agree on a multi-million dollar settlement. Judge M W Deo adjourned the case until Nov 27, saying he expected lawyers of both sides to agree
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    • 51 18 AFP STUDENTS in Seoul yesterday attacked a police substation in retaliation against the arrest of student leaders. Press reports and eye-wit-nesses said about 20 students from Yonsei University in Seoul tossed three petrol bombs into a nearby police sub-station, inflicting slight injuries on three policemen inside.
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    • 59 18 AFP THE dominant Tamil separatist group has renewed its demands for a ceasefire with the Indian peacekeeping forces deployed in Sri Lanka. Press reports from New Delhi yesterday said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had issued a statement saying it was "most reluctant and unhappy"
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    • 55 18 Reuter KING Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand yesterday pardoned a former policeman whose imprisonment on charges of insulting the monarchy sparked international protests. Police major Anant Senakhan, sentenced by a military court in 1983 to six years in prison for lese majeste (insulting royalty), would be released
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    • 49 18 AFP THE United Nations General Assembly yesterday approved a resolution, opposed by Britain, urging bilateral talks between London and Buenos Aires on the future of the Falkland Islands. The resolution, approved 114 to five, with 36 abstentions, was Britain's sixth consecutive diplomatic defeat on the issue.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 486 19  -  By JUNE LIM THE INSTITUTE of Chartered Shipbrokers is considering making modifications to its courses to meet changing demands. Mr Peter Talbot Willcox, president of the ICS, said five different short courses were being examined chartering, sales and purchase, tanker chartering,
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    • 255 19 Reuter NIGERIA has withdrawn armed troops stationed at seaports for the past week to search for contraband because they have completed their task. "The soldiers were withdrawn on Monday)," Yusuf Mamman, spokesman for Vice-Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, the military government's number two, said. The soldiers were
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    • 145 19 Reuter THE CONTINUING general strike in Bangladesh haa virtually paralysed the country's two sea ports and 27 ships are waiting offshore, port officials said. They said 15 ships were now at the outer anchorage off Chittagong with the longest delay of
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 185 19  -  I\AJ9 Oil IV/ From K Kingsley Wood A TRIAL shipment of 3,000 potted plants has left Melbourne for Japan as part of a research test aimed at gaining a foothold in a new Far East market for indoor and landscaping plants worth an estimated Asl2
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      • 52 19 A JAPANESE-CHARTERED tanker picked up 24 Vietnamese "boat people" in the South China Sea, Japanese maritime officials said. The 105.178-ton World Brigadier, chartered by Seibe Shipping, was sailing to Japan from the Middle East when it picked up the refugees, who left Vietnam on
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    • 1215 20 Lloyd's Shipping Economist THE UNITED STATES Military Sealift Command (MSC) ships almost 3 million tons of dry cargo each year, predominantly, but not exclusively, in privately owned US-flag vessels. Contracts are awarded to private carriers based on rate bids for six-month periods, starting Oct 1
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    • 764 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Africa Ocean X 2 Alltrans VII 3 American Tpt X 4/5 Anship Int'l V 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 ARC line V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI III
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    • 1544 20 MOST sections of the freight market on Tuesday experienced fairly quiet chartering with no fresh grain business reported out of the US Gulf, shipbrokers said. A vessel is reported to have been booked for wheat, however, from Vancouver to Bandar Abbas at U5533.75 for early December loading. Coal
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    • 378 21 MITSUI OSK LINES has begun a new feeder service linking Kaohsiung with Bangkok, and Hongkong with Singapore and Port Klang in a move that will improve by as much as 4 days the transit times of the carrier's trans-Pacific container service to and
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    • 98 21 THE SINGAPORE-OWNED tug, Salvintal, which was hit by an Iraqi Exocet missile last weak, was towed by the supply ship Nice Tuna off the United Arab Emirates port of Dubai. Gulf shipping sources said three of the tug's crew were killed
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    • 56 21 Reuter THE NORWEGIAN Energy Ministry will examine the way state oil firm Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap A/S (Statoil) is run in the wake of cost overruns totalling five billion crowns at its Mongstad oil refinery expansion project. The inquiry would also consider some
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    • 198 21 AFP A BRITISH-BUILT sailing ship from Oman arrived in Singapore on Tuesday on its way to Australia's bicentennisl celebrations in January. The barquentine Shabab Oman, said by its British commander Christopher Biggins to be the largest of its kind in naval service, is
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    • 250 21 ALL SURVEYS ware conducted on Nov 2 Argentine Buenos Aires 25 veesels operating. AuetraHs Brisbane. Sydney and Melbourne and F reman tie Normal operation. a,,.» Brazil Santos Waiting time of up to three days. Cameroon Douala Normal operation. Canada Vancouver (British Columbia) Waiting time of up to five
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    • 264 21  -  From Kingsley Wood THE ASSOCIATION of Australian Port and Marina Authorities has been reorganised to handle the increasing work and renewed interest and the criticiam in port operations that have flowed from the long-running shore-based inquiries. AAPMA is an association of 33 port and marine authorities
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    • 9325 26 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 128 26 Area/Port Vtecoolty Donolty Water C8T at 50C Q/ML at 19C Votuma 0/0 Africa/Rad Saa Joddoh 25/182 0.918/0.956 0.0/3.5 Durbon 88/171 0.977/0.992 0.0/8^ Arabian QuN Roj Tanura 105/161 0.941/0.949 0.0/0.3 Bahrain 167/190 0.974/0.976 0.1/0.1 Europa Rotterdam 34/472 0.937/1.010 0.0/1.8 Hamburg 38/421 0.955/0.991 0.0/13 J L* Havr« 169/352
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