The Business Times, 2 August 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 235 1 AFP Dow Jones higher NEW YORK stocks were little changed yesterday morning as traders approached equities with caution following last week's sharp gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average. which surged 46 points on Friday, was up 4.45 points to 2,133.18 in the first hour of trading. Gainers
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  • 510 1  -  Computer breakdown fails to hold back the bulls By ROSIE TAN A BREAKDOWN in the computerised trading system at the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday failed to hold back the surge in share prices which climbed to their highest levels this year. The SES extended trading
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  • 127 1 THE US DOLLAR was firm during early trading in London yesterday as operators were expecting an imminent tightening of US monetary policy, dealers said. But fears of central bank intervention to defend the weak West German mark limited the dollar's gains. By
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  • 232 1 ALL THE THREE main regional markets closed higher yesterday, led by Tokyo, which touched record highs. Analysts there said sentiment was boosted by fading fears of higher interest rates and inflation, and by the 46-point rise on Wall Street last Friday. The Nikkei
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  • 205 1 MR SON SANN. the Prime Minister of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a three-day unofficial visit. During his stay, he will meet Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Foreign Minister S Dhanabalan. Mr Son Sann flew in
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  • 131 1 Bernama THE PRICE of tin shot up 14 Malaysian cents to a two-and-a-half-year high of M 519.10 per kilogramme on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday as miners held back stocks amid growing demand from European and Japanese consumers. The metal hit M 519.06
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  • 370 1 AFP KING BHUMIBOL Adulyadej opened parliament in a special ceremonial session in Bangkok yesterday following general elections expected to give Thailand its first elected premier in more than a decade. Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda reiterated in Bangkok yesterday that he would not
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  • 629 1  -  By ANNA TEO TAX CONSULTANCY, long the domain of accountants and lawyers, looks set to be thrown open to more people. Tax agent licences could be granted to people with the necessary tax qualifications and experience to help the public
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    • 308 1 Share Information, PAGES 14 15 Regional Markets, PAGE 16 The rise of Seagate A COMPANY saying It would freeze recruitment might not attract much attention. Seagate Technology did. This is the company that rose quickly to become Singapore's biggest employer. How did it reach its present status? Turn to Page
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 406 2  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ GROWING DEMAND for printed circuit boards (PCBs) has prompted Hitachi Chemical Singapore to undertake a $35 million expansion of its local multi-layer PCB operations. Hitachi's expansion plans are to be partially funded by a $30 million
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    • 193 2 THREE SINGAPORE plants of multi-national companies (MNCs) are expanding their operations, according to Singapore Investment News, a publication of the Economic Development Board. Glaxo, the UK pharmaceutical giant, is thinking of expanding and upgrading production facilities at its Singapore subsidiary, Glaxochem Pte Ltd. It has already
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    • 730 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH, Property Correspondent THERE MAY BE a number of reasons that prompted the owners of four new hotels to open their doors this year, but making early profits from hotel rooms is unlikely to be one of them. The local
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    • 418 2  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE RECENT AMENDMENTS to the Architects Rule* to encourage a better flow of public information on the profession are welcome but they ars unlikely to create much impact. Architects say the amended rules, which will come into effect next month, will
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    • 111 2 THE MINISTRY of Health has issued another warning against the illegal sale of medicinal poisons. Proprietors, managers or tenants of shops that sell medicinal poisons antibiotics, hormones or tranquilisers without a licence can be prosecuted under the Poisons Act. Housing and Development Board shop tenants who
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    • 248 2 SINGAPORE will be linked by sir to 100 destinations around the world once Singapore Airlines and Malaysian Airlines begin joint service# to a Malaysian ie> land, Pulau Langkawi, this year. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has nounced that MAS
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    • 51 2 THE PA CONSULTING Group in Singapore has launched a recruitment system called total quality recruitment (TOR). TOR, which will be pro- vided free of charge to e&isting clients, is a system of defining the needs of a job 1 assessing candidates and efficiently matching them against the
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    • 35 2 THE PUBLIC UTILITIES Board has completed work on the Bukit Panjang Service Reservoir end Booster Station. They will supply water to 21,000 flats in the elevated areas of Bukit Panjang New Town.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 358 3 CAMBODIAN Prince Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday that no date had been set for Sino-Sovi-et talks on Cambodia but Chinese leaders were cautiously optimistic they could help speed the end of the war. "They (Chinese officials) are half-optimistic," Prince Sihanouk told reporters after meeting Chinese
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    • 345 3 AFP DEBT REPAYMENT versus economic growth is sparking fierce debate within the Philippine government as Congress considers several'bills to limit foreign debt repayment unilaterally. Central bank governor Jose Fernandez has asked Congress to act conservatively. He urged lawmakers to pass a cosmetic debt repayment measure that
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    • 220 3 AFP VIETNAM has decided to place a temporary ban on videos made in non-communist countries, beginning this month, the official Quan Doi Nhan Dan has said. Screening of films from countries "outside the communist bloc" will be "temporarily suspended for four months beginning
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    • 212 3 AP A POLITICAL SURVEY on Sunday showed President Roh TaeWoo of South Korea is gaining popularity with his continued reforms and willingness to heed public opinion. The survey of 1,500 people said 53.4 per cent of the respondents praised Mr Roh for carrying out
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    • 410 3 AFP INDIAN Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi rushed a senior Cabinet colleague to Nagaland on Sunday where a revolt by his ruling Congress (I) partymen has plunged the state government into a crisis, officials said. Mr Gandhi ordered Federal Transport Minister
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    • 457 3 Reuter HONGKONG has declared war on the booming fake computer software industry, with tough new powers for investigators and a series of raids that netted goods worth HKSB.S million. "We are determined to eradicate computer piracy in Hongkong," a senior government official said
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    • 214 3 AFP CHINA'S textile output grew by 8 per cent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year but stocks in shops fell rapidly due to panic buying triggered by inflation fears, the press
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    • 13 3 Leader, PAGE 10 Finally a start in the ••arch for peace, PAGE 11
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    • 191 3 Is Number One! If YOU'RE GOING to move office this year, you must first see this remarkable building. Excellent business location close to MAS Building and Treasury Building. Direct access to East Coast Parkway. MHT convenience Tanjong Pagar (Maxwell) MRT station a short walk away. Classic identity clad in rich
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 64 3 Doonesbury ON THE BOARPMALK. GANTIC U» TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY, POESNT IT* ILL SAY. YOU DON'T OFTEN SEE VULGARITY ON THAT SCALE 8 f.f V/ 0 *nr# Hjfi BY GARRY TRUDEAU rj P0 YOU REALIZE TRUMP COULP HAVE BUILTBOO UNITS OF LOOUINCOME HOUSING UJ/TH WHAT HE PA IP FOR THAT
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 537 4 Congressman warns of hidden control in key sectors AP FOREIGN investment in the United States is expected to accelerate dramatically this year, but the true scope of overseas ownership remains hidden, a congressional critic complains. "We need to know if foreign ownership
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    • 156 4 Reuter SWEEPING personnel cuts in Moscow will dramatically reduce the size of the Communist Party bureaucracy following a decision to reshape the Party apparatus. According to Soviet sources on Sunday, at least three Moscow shops supplying goods to the "nomenklatura" largely the Party
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    • 330 4 AP NEW GOVERNMENT statistics have revived debate over whether inflation, which hit double digits in the US during the *****, is returning to the country. President Ronald Reagan's administration, mindful of how voters' perceptions will affect the presidential race, insists there are
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    • 134 4 Reuter OUTGOING US presidents should leave copies of important files in the White House when they depart so the new administration can avoid errors of ignorance, according to an independent study on Monday. "We know of no large institution other than the White House in
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    • 192 4 Reuter FOUR central American countries were expected to push US Secretary of State George Shultz for a massive infusion of aid in Guatemala City on Monday as part of diplomatic efforts to isolate Nicaragua. Salvadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Acevedo said. "We believe that it is
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1625 6 Reuter, OCBC SINGAPORE: THE US DOLLAR yesterday closed mixed against major currencies after fluctuating within a narrow range in thin trading. Dealers said the dollar's sentiment remained bullish supported by expectations of higher US interest rates. There was no central bank intervention reported in yesterday's trading, dealers said.
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    • 41 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore money market remained unchanged yesterday. S$ interbank rates at the close yesterday: ore* •ID Ov«rnigte 4 1/2 3/« 1 4 3/8 1/2 2-monlt> 4 3/4 V« 3-manlti 4 7/i 3/4 Overnight mod*: urtav
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    • 98 6 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER high low 3 months BQ*****V 27.10.88 3.97 3.92 6 months BY*****T 24.11.88 4.02 3.97 1 year BY*****S 20.07.89 4.29 4.24 4.20 4.20 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code rate BID
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    • 194 6 Indicates the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banks in S'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Aug 1 us$ DM SWFC Yen 7 do yj 1/16 7 15/16 9 7/8 3/4 5 1/16 4 15/16 3 1/4 3 4 1/7 3/8 1 iwti 8
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    • 273 6 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at opening levels after quiet trading. Term rates were narrowly mixed at the outset and remained unchanged in subsequent trading. One month closed at 8-3/16 8-1/16 per cent, three months at 8-7/16 85/16 per cent, and six months at 8-11/16
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    • 468 6 BA Futures SEPTEMBER Eurodollar futures opened 1 tick higher than Friday's close at 91.52. After dipping initially to the low of 91.51, September Eurodollar edged higher to 91.54 on a firmer US dollar. Trading range remained tight with traders awaiting further economic releases such as leading indicators today and
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    • 263 6 Reuter IMM CURRENCY futures ended yesterday with sharp losses despite several rounds of central bank intervention to halt the dollar's advance. The repeated dollar sales by the Federal Reserve, as well as efforts by the Bundesbank, Swiss and Dutch central banks to depress the US currency did little to
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    • 1381 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Monday, Aug 1, 1988 DEUTSCHE MARK (MflEX) Amb c* H*H U« Ml 53 604 JO 54 55 J 5* 2A 1 57 CA1 CM 5* CA» C Aas M pato mgh law Oca i* ISA 17 734 49 1454 140 3554 340 3554 340 53 54
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 399 7 AFP BRAZIL has concluded the process of normalising its relations with the international financial community, Brazilian Finance Minister Mailson da Nobrega said last Saturday in published news reports. The process, he said, was finalised on Friday with the signing in Paris of
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    • 391 7 FT A GROUP of 50 life assurance companies have had to bail out one of the UK financial services industry's new watchdog bodies with a cash injection likely to total more than £1 million. The money is understood to be needed
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    • 187 7 Reuter JAPAN and the US will continue to discuss US proposals to increase foreigners' access to Japanese government bonds, a Finance Ministry official said. He said the US has asked Japan to expand foreign financial institutions' share of underwriting soon, and to introduce
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    • 288 7 Reuter NCNB CORP said its control of First Republicßank of Dallas should immediately improve its earnings and that the new bank formed in one of the largest bail-outs ever would pump funds into the troubled Texan economy. NCNB chairman Hugh McColl told a
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    • 410 7  - Two banks tapping Asian market By SOH TIANG KENG, Financial Correspondent IBJ MERCHANT Bank (Singapore). a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Industrial Bank of Japan, will be making its debut on the Singapore-based Asian dollar market with a ASIOO million floating rate notes (FRN) issue. According to a bank official, the
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    • 341 7 Reuter NEW ZEALAND'S Labour Party government, faced with a growing crisis over plans to sell the country's leading hank, said yesterday it was calling a special meeting of its MPs to discuss the issue. Prime Minister David Lange said in a
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    • 247 7 Reuter ITALY'S state borrowing requirement rose to a provisional 51,719 billion lire in the first six months of 1968 from 46,820 billion in the first half of 1967. the Treasury has said. Revenues in the first six months totalled a provisional 124.066 billion lire against
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    • 280 7 Reuter WEST GERMAN overnight call money shot back up to the new Lombard emergency funding rate of 5 per cent the effective market ceiling after briefly dipping to 4.00/10 on technical, month-end factors on Friday. "This is hardly surprising after the Bundesbank
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    • 241 7 What a Beautiful Investment In Singapore's most luxurious condominium. WHEN ARCADIA was built, the developer, Singapore Land Limited, retained a number of apartments, maisonettes and penthouses these are now being released for sale, providing investors with a blue chip offer. These are some of the things written about ARCADIA. "One
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 375 8 Bernama CENTRAL SUGARS Refinery Bhd, a subsidiary of Tradewinds (M) Bhd, may ask the Malaysian government to raise the price of locally refined sugar next year if the prices of raw sugar continue to rise, Tradewinds chairman Tunku Datuk Shahriman Tunku
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    • 210 8 UPI EGYPT, reversing a downward trend since the middle of June, has raised the prices of its crude oil exports by US$l4O per barrel for the first half of August An announcement by Mr Hammad Ayyoub, vice-chairman of the Egyptian Petroleum Authority, said
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    • 401 8 AFP TOTAL OIL of France has agreed to a four million Fiji dollar (US$2.B million) venture to distribute liquefied petroleum gas in Fiji in competition with an Australian firm, Fijian businessman Hari Punja said last week. Mr Punja, the
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    • 324 8 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION is counting on higher sugar beet yields this year to remedy a national sugar shortage, but some western analysts are sceptical about the prospects of such a fast turnaround. The shortages have been aggravated by an increase in sugar consumption
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    • 328 8 Reuter THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has forecast better harvests in Ethiopia this year after some of the heaviest rains in years fed the drought-ravaged north of the country. Mr Ingo Loerbroks. the FAO representative in Addis Ababa, told Reuters he expected Ethiopia to
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    • 383 8 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed slightly higher in quiet and lacklustre trading on light buying by British investors in the afternoon, dealers said. They said initial sales were slowly absorbed, while the weaker US dollar prompted increased buying after midday and the price closed near the day's highs. The
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    • 302 8 Reuter Malaysian crude palm oil futures closed firmer on shortcovering and speculative buying interest, prompted by a sharp rise in Friday'a Chicago soyoil futures values. But trading activity remained restricted as operators were cautious and refrained from taking up large positions. Oct and Nov closed Ms 33 higher
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    • 189 8 Reuter FO ":PW-THROUGH ov r ***a demand coupled with !Lisi*L5 U J 0, a P t Mn al c, »Mk f Lumpur tin price rise 14 cents to M 519.10 a kg from Friday's level, dealers said. Trading was brisk with active buying, particulariy from Europe and locally.
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    • 193 8 Chinese Produce Exchange Sollor*' noon doting pricat on Aug 1 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 123.00 Otd drum FOB 133.00 Now drum FOB 137.00 Copra MJxod (Ioom) 70 --II Pepper •eirW*! FOB NIW 902.50 Sorowak FOB foq NIW 887.50 Sorowak tpodol block FOB NIW ***** Sarawak Atto
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    • 89 8 Most traders preferred to review on ths sidelines ahead of the Opec meeting. It was an unusually quiet Monday. Closing prices for crude (FOB origin) U$$/barr«J Oang* Tapis (Aug) 15.30 +0.30 Mlnot (Aug) 14.95 undi Dubai (Aug) 13.15 +0.10 Wad Ttiai bftrnwdlutt, WTI (Aug)* 16.38 +0.32 N*w
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    • 197 8 Reuter SMGAPORE Not svailable MALAYSIA Absence of follow-through buying support in sympathy with lower Japanese snd Singapore prices saw the rubber market cloee mixed in thin trading. Late speculative selling trimmed September International RSS Onee buyer, the new trading month, off its highs and it closed half a cent
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    • 291 8 R AS prices In S c*nto/ko, FOB in bal M NOON CLOSE Buyers S*il*rs 8wy*rs C-M watiwO Int 1 RSS Prompt 269.00 270.00N 266.50 267JON Int 1 RSS S*p 88 268.00 269.00N 265JO 266JON Int RSS Oct 269.50 270J0N 267.00 268.00N Int 2 RSS OP 264.00 266.00N
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    • 76 8 (c«oh/kg) SEPTEMBER 1988 OCTOBER 1988 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON Bvy«n Sellers •wyers Setters SSR 20 230.00 232.00N 230.00 232.00N SSR 50 229.00 231.00N 229.00 231.00N MRELB Ruy»r» Sellers Ivyeri Setters SMR CV 477.00 479.00N 479.00 481.00N SMR I 477.00 479.00N 479.00 481.00N SMR 5
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  • FOCUS
    • 1516 9  -  As the European Community and Japan grow in stature as economic powers, both have begun to realise that they have closer relations with the US than they do with each other, and that this disparity needs to be remedied. REGINALD DALE reports. REGINALD DALE IHT EUROPEAN
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 474 10 THE JAKARTA informal meeting (JIM) last week between the four Cambodian factions with Vietnam and Asean as observers was hailed as a psychological breakthrough. And rightly so, considering JlM's unprecedented success in getting mutually antagonistic groups with irreconcilible interests and ideologies to meet. The hopes
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    • 1797 10  -  Disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technology made news recently when it said it would freeze recruitment. Some other company making that kind of statement would have gone unnoticed. But not Seagate. CHUANG PECK MING relates how the company became Singapore's biggest private sector employer. CHUANG PECK MING
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 272 11 Our weekly summary of what other publications have to say about issues of regional interest. BURMA "The Burma Socialist Programma Party haa rejected a proposal made by its former chairman, Gen Ne Win, to hold a referendum on whether or not the county should continue the
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      • 268 11 CAMBODIA "The working group of senior officials set up by the Jakarta Informal Meeting (JIM) is at least a concrete decision. In the words of Foreign Minister AM Alatas, the meeting's chairman, it was set up 'in the search for a comprehensive, just and durable solution of
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      • 299 11 HONGKONG "The Hongkong public's sympathy for the Vietnamese is fading rapidly. As the boat people continue to arrive at a rate of about 1,000 per week, and as tensions grow in the crowded camps, the antipathy towards the exiles will increase. "According to a public opinion
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      • 158 11 THE PHILIPPINES "President Aquino's State of the Nation address to Congress the other day points the compass to a cautious course of continued political stability and economic growth. It is not likely to create waves. Neither has it launched bold initiatives that could lift the
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      • 222 11 THAILAND "Although yesterday's general election did not produce the kind of voter turnout desirable in a democracy, it should be considered gratifying that more people than ever before voted for parties instead of personalities, especially in Bangkok .The blatant buying of votes by parties and individual
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    • 1202 11  - Finally a start in the search for peace The recently concluded talks between the warring Cambodian factions represent a breakthrough, reports DONALD BAPTIST. DONALD BAPTIST. Bernama THE LIMITED SUCCESS of the Cambodian peace talks in Bogor, Indonesia, recently may have fallen short of the expectations of observers but there is
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 691 10 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 A strapping guard 7 (5) 8 Tryingly bad-tempered (5) 10 Cilia's new shade? (5) 11 A snake around one's neck! (3) 12 Pigment much resembling amber (5) 13 The barbarian had a name for this country (7) 15 Poetry some lover sends (5) 18 I get
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1344 11 to 000 oaso® !!i 12 7.30 PM Opening Announcement and Programme Highlights followed by Carol Burnett And Friends. Shirley MacLairte and Sammy Davis Jr appear as guests in tonight's show. 8.00 In Search Of The Trojan War The Singer Of Tales (See highlights). 9.00 You Don't Have To Be Irish.
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 336 12 Agencies ANDRE AGASSI, the second seed, won his fifth singles title this year when he beat 13th seed Paul Annacone 6-2, 6-4 in the final of the U*****,000 men's Grand Prix tennis tournament in Vermont on Sunday. The 18-year-old American, ranked fifth in the world,
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    • 212 12 UPI STEFFI GRAF took one hour and 25 minutes to defeat Bulgaria's Katerina Maleeva C-4. 6-2 in the final and retain her title at the US$2OO,OOO Hamburg tennis tournament last Sunday. For her 40th Grand Prix tournament success, the world No. 1 collected
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    • 283 12 UPI OREL HERSHISER threw a fivehitter for his 15th victory of the season and John Shelby singled home the first two runs in the fourth inning in Los Angeles last Sunday, powering the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-1 victory over the Houston
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    • 516 13 AP AYAKO OKAMOTO was waiting inside the clubhouse, smoking a cigarette and conserving her energy for a play-off, when she learned she had just won the U*****,000 Greater Washington Open. Okamoto shot a four-under-par 67 last Sunday to beat Beth Daniel and Connie Chillemi by one
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    • 267 13 AFP SCOTT VERPLANK avenged three years of frustration last Sunday by shooting a six-under-par 66 that gave him a two-stroke victory in the US$7OO,OOO Buick Open in Michigan. Verplank, whose only PGA tour win was as an amateur in 1965. finished 20
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    • 609 13 AP AFTER WINNING back-to-back European PGA tour titles in the British and the Scandinavian Opens, Seve Ballesteros feels he still needs to improve his golf game. "Believe it or not, but I've got many things to improve," the stylish Spaniard said
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    • 454 13  -  By CHARLES SAVAGE THE GALS will pound and thrash in Kallang Basin on the 28th to show they can jog and canoe just as well as the boys. Sweat apart, this friendly competition should also raise at least $12,000
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    • 383 13 NYT DONNY LALONDE carries a gym bag, not a brief case, when he goes to work. He eschews three-piece suits and ties in favour of sweatpants and 10-ounce gloves. While others might punch computer keys. Lalonde earns his living punching opponents. These differences
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    • 204 13 ONE GOOD REASON TO LUNCH AT THE PALM GRILL IS OUR APPETISER BUFFE T ANOTHER IS THE CHOICE OF MAIN (XX RNKS PALM For between $26++ and $40+ I U Can rom our appetiser VjKILL* buffet including seafood, smoked salmon and oysters. Choose from many lavish main courses. And finish
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    • 45 13 > f PLAY THE MIL SACK IN YOUR STANCE. MORE TOWARDS THE FOOT/ r THE MAM OS > SHOULD »E AHEAD OF THE BALL AMD THE WEI6UT SHOULD FAVOUR THE J LEFT SIDE i THIS HEIRS TO DCLOfT THE &UBFACE, AMD keeps the bail London Exoreso Service.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 42 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE C K Tang On»-for-N*o Q $2 25 p*r star* Eoch rights comm with two dotochobi* TSb Th» M*rci» pric* lor Hw TSfe. expiring on May 31. 19*0. ii $2 25 Ex-dot* Aug 3 Books ctoni: Aug 16
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    • 250 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE A M D B One-for-four $0.50 per store C 1 Holdings 27 million loon stocks in the ratio of S3 loon stock for every five ordinary ik/irej Duta Cons Snorts r>#lO One-for-one $1.10 per ihare F N Two-for-five Q $3.00 per shore F A C
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    • 160 14 MALAYAN CREDIT Limited: 26th AGM at Room 835, 8th Floor. South Wing, Mandarin Hotel, Orchard Road, Singapore 0923, on Saturday, August 6, at 10am. SINGAPORE AIRLINES Limited: 16th AGM at the Collyer Room, 4th Level, The Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza, 2 Stamford Road, Singapore 0617, on Aug
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    • 270 14 Managers' prices for Aug 2 Singapore Unit Trust Th* CoMWfc* 104 Th* Sov<ng» Fund 0.91 S'por* Prog Fund 0.44 S'por* Sac Fund 049 1 S port Imw Fund 0.73 S'por* Equity Fund 052 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invwt Fund 1.44 Mai Prog Fund 036 Mai Security Fund 038
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    • 715 14 by LONG SPURRED BY corporste developments snd bullish oversees sentiment, institutional funds yesterdsy pushed shsre prices to their highest level this year in sctive trsding. Besides Wsll Street s 46-point gain on Friday and Tokyo's higher cloee, seversl bullish local
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    • 5199 14 1 High Low Tal Coda Company 31 orQr*s Dtv DIv C*w Qr*a rid Nat P/E Vol ("000) Day High Low Laat Q Baiyar 1 noil SECTION ONE MOUSTVUAL ft COM MERC IAL 1006 130 86 1000 990 218 163 121 460 176 350 125 167 156 296
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 345 15 MBT FROPERTY-BASED Metroplex is planning to diversify into financial services to broaden its earnings base. Speaking to reporters after the 25th annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur last Friday. Metroplex managing director Chan Teik Huat said negotiations have reached a fairly
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    • 441 15  -  By LISA LEE HOT ON THE HEELS o( the r»cent successful launch of National Kap Ltd on Sesdaq. another company is planning to seek a listing on the second securities market. Sources say that merchant bank NM Rothschild and Sons (S) Ltd is
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    • 199 15 STRAITS Steamship Co Ltd. the property-shipping subsidiary of the Keppel group, is on course for another year of record profits. For the six months ended June 30, 1988, group pre-tax profits rose by a sharp 65 per cent to $11.15 million ($6.75 million) on
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    • 150 15 Reuter MALAYSIA'S largest investment house Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) is considering setting up a property trust fund over the next two years. "We are seriously considering it and the plan is still on the drawing board. It will be an additional service
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    • 610 15 NST DIVERSIFIED MBf Holdings (MBfH) is moving aggressively into number of areas, namely consumer financing, fast-food, insurance and manufacturing. Managing director and group chief executive Datuk Loy Hean Heong said the group, like most other companies, had not been spared the onslaught of recession.
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    • 102 15 TAN SRI Mohamed Ghazali Che Mat has been appointed chairman of Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd, the largest Malaysian-owned planta-tion-based group. He takes over from Tan Sri Dr Rashdan Baba. Tan Sri Mohamed Ghazali, former Malaysian armed forces chief who retired late last year, currently serves on
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    • 315 15 THE INSTITUTE of Banking and Finance is introducing a new format for its dealer's representative examination. From Sep 9, those seeking a licence to deal in stocks and shares will have to pass two multiple-choice papers instead of a single paper introduced in April
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    • 160 15 Straits Steamship Company Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Directors advise the following unaudited results of the Group and the Company for the six months ended 30th June 1988: Group pre-tax profit from higher sales of $687 million increased by 65.1% to $11.1 million. The significantly improved result
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 597 16 NYT THE PREFERENCE of Japanese industry for home-grown expansion and its disdain for Ameri-can-style mergers and acquisitions is fast changing. Japanese industrial companies are moving to increase their market share through acquisitions in the US and Europe rather than from exports, creating a lucrative
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    • 157 16 FT ALAN BONO, the Perth entrepreneur. has been forced again to cut the price of units in Bond International Gold (BIG) to assure success for the US$3O6 million flotation, the world's largest by a gold mining company. The BIG issue had encountered
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    • 3438 16 CONTINUING LAST WEEK'S uptrend, share prices on the Kuala Lumpur stock market charged ahead yesterday in active trading with business volume exceeding 35 million units. Off-market transactions also shot up sharply to 3.12 million shares with the bulk coming from the 1.6 million Far East
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    • 1417 16 Hongkong HONGKONG SHARE prices closed sharply higher yesterday but prof-it-taking trimmed earlier gains. The Hang Seng Index roee 24.50 to 2.703.42 and the broader based Hong Kong Index 10.48 to 1,781.91. Profit-taking set in after the Hang Seng hit a high of just over 2.714. "The Hang
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    • 129 16 AUG *1 WON Ch«4l Sugar Daatim Ind Daawoo Corp Daawoo Haavy Dawhtn SMurtNa Dong Ah Phar ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** unch •100 ♦500 -300 uncfi uncti Ooog Suh Stock OongtHj Staai unch -700 Gold Star Harxl Bank Hand Camant Mankuk Qlaaa Hanyang Cnamical Hyundai Conai ***** *****
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    • 495 16 Reuter TOKYO SHARE prices closed higher yesterday, but were unable to sustain peak levels from the morning, as profit-taking seeped into afternoon trade, brokers said. The Nikkei Index rose 126.7 points, or 0.46 per cent, to finish at 28,326.31 after reaching a peak of 28,409.17 in the early morning,
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    • 417 16 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed strongly higher yesterday despite the absence of many Sydney institutional traders. The rises were on the back of improved gold prices and higher closes on international markets, brokers said. "Essentially it was quite quiet, partly because of the bank holiday (in New South
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    • 167 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Indax fall 0.07 points to 456.94 yastarday on e turnover of 3,091,678 sheret worth 277.72 million baht. AIM tl BAMT Ao Kham Thai 434 -12 nt 448 2 Bangkok Agro-lnd Bangkok Bank. 125 329 -4 4 Bank 01 Ayudhya.. 370 2 Charoong Thai
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    • 255 16 AIM 91 1 rr t Ail Slncara Indua Aaia Camant Cathay Con* ChtnQ Hwa Ba*>* Chang Loons Chia Hein Gamant Chin Main Flour China Cham China Dav 5 90 •7 00 110.90 704.00 42.00 70 00 28JO 56.90 235 00 -0 06 unch 3 22 •1 -2 1.8 2.5
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    • 100 16 This announcement appears as a matter of record only. U.S. $250,000,000 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION 9V 2 Notes due 1995 Issue Price 101%% BANQUE PARIBAS CAPITAL MARKETS LIMITED NOMURA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED DKB INTERNATIONAL LIMITED GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL CORP MORGAN STANLEY INTERNATIONAL BANK OF TOKYO CAPITAL MARKETS GROUP BANKERS TRUST
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 461 17 FT SIR ROBERT Crichton-Brown stepped down on Thursday as executive chairman of Rothmans International and left the company's annual meeting at London's Dorchester Hotel £750,000 richer. The cash reward for "a job well done" during his 43 months as the tobacco group's
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    • 86 17 Reuter US FOODS group United Brands Co has acquired a 15 per cent stake in Spanish citrus fruit producer and distributor Pascual Hermanos SA for an undisclosed sum, sources said. The deal was arranged by Corporacion Financiers Reunida SA (Cofir), a holding company in which Italian
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    • 453 17 FT COMPANY DIRECTORS should be given sweeping powers immediately to disenfranchise and freeze shareholdings in their companies when they suspect that the true owners of the shares are being concealed, according to a UK government consultative document published last Friday. The report
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    • 328 17 FT BEAZER, the UK housebuilding, materials and contracting group which recently gained control of Koppers of Pittsburgh, the US aggregates and chemicals company, has suffered a setback in its ambitious US expansion plans when a US$66O million deal to sell the Koppers chemicals
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    • 113 17 HONGKONG All Industrials Hongkong Index Monday 1.***** Monday Z5765 Friday 2.5657 Friday 1.771.43 ogo 2.5803 W*etc ogo 1.751.10 NEW YORK Hang Song Index Monday 2.***** Dow Jones frWoy 2.***** Friday 2.I2B.73 ago 2.647 41 T Sunday 2.***** ogo 2.060 99 TOKYO Standard Poors Nikkei Average Monday 26.326 31
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    • 275 17 Reuter ANIMAL FEEDS group J Bibby PLC has agreed to sell its US packaging division to its management for US$lO5 million, including US$42 million in repayment of intra-group debt. The packaging unit comprises Princeton Packaging Inc and its holding company, J Bibby
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    • 602 17 Murdoch and Maxwell on the prowl Reuter STOCK MARKETS are afire with speculation that more takeovers and mergers of the sort that have already revolutionised modern publishing may be in prospect. As the stock of several publishers on both sides of the Atlantic
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    • 263 17 FT ITALY'S two biggest chemicals companies, state-owned Enichem and privately controlled Montedison, have signed a long-awaited plan to join forces in a new concern that will have around US$lO billion of annual turnover and should rank as the world s eighth biggest company in
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 766 17 NOTICES THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 MULTI-TRANS FORWARDING (S) PTE LTD (In Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors of the abovenamed Company which is being voluntarily wound up are required on or before the 6th day of September. 1988 to send in their names and addresses with particulars
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    • 428 17 Republic National Bank of New York A subsidiary of REPUBLIC NEW YORK CORPORATION Consolidated Statements of Condition (In Thousands) June 30, Assets Cash and due from banks Interest bearing deposits with banks Precious metals Investment securities Trading account assets Federal funds sold and securities purchased under resale agreements Loans, net
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  • 204 18 THE SINGAPORE Academy of Law proposed by the government under a bill introduced in Parliament last Friday will be run by a Senate, headed by the Chief Justice. Details of the bill released yesterday indicate that the Senate will
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  • 151 18 SINGAPORE has said it is the responsibility of an importing country to take action to prevent goods from being dumped in its country, reported the June/July issue of Focus Newsletter, a publication of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. At the
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  • 67 18 BRITISH Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has ended her one-day visit to Singapore. Mrs Thatcher, who was here at the invitation of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, left for Australia yesterday to attend its bicentennial celebrations. She was accompanied by her husband, Denis. Mrs Thatcher was
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  • 98 18 SINGAPORE has been invited to sit on an ad-hoc committee to study a proposed polysectoral assistance plan aimed at reviving the Philippine economy. An official from Singapore's Foreign Ministry was quoted by SBC as saying that the invitation was made recently
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  • 406 18  -  Banker urges strengthening interdependence By LOH HUI YIN JAPAN must open its markets to manufactured goods from the six members of Asean if it is to be a truly trusted partner of the regional grouping, a Japanese banker has argued. Writing in the
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  • 347 18 MORE JAPANESE yen will be heading Asean's way, predicts a senior Japanese banker. A record US$l.5 billion worth of Japanese investments flowed into Asean last year, according to Toshihiko Kinoshita, deputy director of Japan's Export-Import Bank's policy coordination and planning department. The
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  • 327 18 Business WHAT'S IN A NAME? A quali-ty-fashion name draws the Indonesians and Malaysians to Orchard Road stores. Value-for-money names are sought after by no-nonsense Singaporeans, and the Japanese just want names. Armani, Bulgari, Christian Dior the more expensive the label, the more they want it. The name
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  • 167 18 Bernama KUCHING was yesterday proclaimed a city, the fourth after Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Ipoh, at a colourful ceremony held at the banquet hall of the State Assembly Building. The historic event was held before Sarawak's Yang di Pertua Negeri, Tun Haji Ahmad Zaidi Adruce
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  • 334 18 Agencies MALAYSIAN police have cordoned off the blood-stained wreckage of the jetty at Butterworth to prepare for an official inquiry into what made it collapse, killing 32 travellers and injuring more than 800 others. A Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement in Singapore yesterday
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  • 93 18 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES hovered at unchanged levels in early dealings yesterday as traders assessed the opening trend of Chicago Board of Trade grains. Preliminary indications ware for sharply higher grain prices. The October delivery held unchanged at U*****.70 an ounce after being boxed inaide of
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  • 337 18 AFP TAIWAN'S labour costs grew 17.3 per cent laat year, reducing the competitiveness of the island's goods abroad and forcing labour-intenaive industries to invest in developing nations, a government agency said yesterday. The Council for Economic Planning and Development said the riae in
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  • 140 18 Bernama FORMER Perwira Habib Bank (PHB) general manager. Ahmad bin Bahaman, yesterday pleaded not guilty in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to criminal breach of trust of Msl.B million. Ahmad, 54, is alleged to have committed the offence jointly with the
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  • 146 18 NST MALAYSIAN POLICE yesterday withdrew charges against the former deputy finance minister, Oatuk Dr Tan Tiong Hong, who was accused of abetment in criminal breach of trust (CBT) amounting to M 51.167 million. Or Tan, a former chairman and adviser of Selangor Hawkers and Petty
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  • 157 18 Reuter CHINA has cleared the way for what could be the first sale of state companies to foreigners, in a bid to revive ailing industry. The north-eastern province of Liaoning wants to sell 33 small- or mediumsized government-owned firms to foreign companies, the
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  • 392 18 UPI THE United States is to blame for many of its trade problems and other countries should not be punished collectively for unfair trade practices. California governor George Deukmejian said yesterday: "America cannot solve its trade deficit problem simply by blaming her
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  • LATE FILE
    • 49 18 AP REPRESENTATIVES o< more than 30 nations and international organisations will attend talks on tha Cambodian conflict this weekend in Phnom Penh, tha official radio of tha Hanoi-backed Cambodian government said yasterday. It did not identify sny of the participants nor provide other details. AP
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    • 39 18 AFP JAPANESE Prima Ministar Noboru Takeshita yasterday rajected in Parliament tha idea of investigating a stock market scandal that has implicated individuals close to him and his predecessor, Yasuhiro Nakaaone, citing legal problems. AFP
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    • 32 18 UP! PIERCE FLOODS ripped through drought-stricken eastern Chins, killing 150 people end wsshing swsy highwsys. houses snd power lines, news reports in Beijing ssid yesterday. UP!
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    • 48 18 AFP SINO-SOVIET TRADE totalled US$l.3 billion in the first six months of 1968, up 32.23 per cent from last year. The Beijing Review reported yesterday that total trade for the year should come to US$2.B billion, up 30 per cent on 1987. AFP
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    • 30 18 ■IIDdernOQDCFQDD _~1 Modular Office Furniture For all offices Prompt delivery MODERNFORM FURNITURE PTE. LTD. 1 Maritime Square #02-52, World Trode Centre, Singapore 0409 Tel: *****28 Fax: *****11 Telex: RS *****FREND
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    • 467 18 MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES AUGUST OCTOBER 1988 No. Course Title Date 1- Business Law for Managers (Mandarin) 2. DPI Creative Rational Decision-Making Workshop 3. Identifying Training Needs 4 Strategic Purchasing, Supply Materials Management Workshop 5. Implementing a Performance Management Appraisal System 6 International Trade Finance (NYU) 7. Purchasing Supply Management Skills Workshop
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 446 19  -  By LINDA CHEE HONGKONG-BASED Fen Lines will launch a conventional express liner service connecting the Straits ports with Sri Lanka and Indian east coast ports. Starting mid-August, the dedicated service will link Singapore, Port Klang and Penang with Colombo,
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    • 274 19 ORIENT Overseas Container Line (OOCL) will be upgrading its Far East container shipping services further with the introduction of weekly fixed-day sailings to Indonesia. Service improvements in OOCL's extensive feeder network are necessary as a result of the region's growing volume of trade.
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    • 331 19 AFP SRI LANKA has opened a US$43 million drydock aimed at making Colombo a major ship repair centre in South Asia with relatively cheap labour and generous tax concessions, officials said. The Sri Lankan facility is about 45 per cent cheaper than
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    • 303 20 THE OAKLAND Board of Port Commissioners has approved a conservative U5576.5 million budget for the fiscal year that began on July 1. The new budget reflects an estimated US$6 million increase in revenues, but it cuts expenditures to just 46 per cent of the
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    • 250 20 AP AN ITALIAN ship hfcs sailed with 167 containers of toxic waste retrieved from the Nigerian port of Koko, where it had been left secretly. The ship's destination was not announced. The cargo on the vessel, the Kari B, was labeled "Warning: Dangerous Bad
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    • 775 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Contoiner IX 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Alltrans VII 3 Americon Tpt II 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 i Asian Ocean VI
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    • 81 20 Reuter KUWAIT told its ports to get ready for a surge in shipping if Iran and Iraq end their war, the Kuwait News Agency reported. Kuna said Minister of State for Services Issa Mohammed al-Mazidi told port officials to take adequate
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    • 347 21 UP TO 30 NEW liquefied natural gas carriers may be needed over the next few years if the dozen major trade projects under consideration are confirmed, according to a leading operator, Gotaas-Larsen According to Lloyd s List, the company's latest "LNG
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    • 324 21  -  By KINGSLEY WOOD, Writing for BT from Sydney THE AUSTRALIAN meat and Livestock Corporation (AMLC) is talking to the non-conference Japanese Kyokuyo Line about bringing its reefer ships into the growing Australia-Japan meat trade. Kyokuyo owns 40 ships and
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    • 246 21 AFP RATES were generally weaker last week amid volatile crude prices stemming from uncertainty over the Gulf war. But trading volume was fair despite the disappointing rates, the London brokers E A Gibson said in their latest report. Fixtures concluded for Middle East Gulf loadings this week were
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    • 61 21 Reuter TUG operations have returned to normal at Australian ports after a 48hour tug crew strike over wage and manning demands, the Australian Chamber of Shipping said. Assistant executive director Mark Bradbury said at least 52 ships had been affected and the cost
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    • 198 21 Reuter IRAN MAY renew tanker charters for its crude oil shuttle in the Gulf for only one month instead of the usual six months because of prospects for an end to its war with Iraq, regional shipping sources said. They said the National Iranian Oil Co
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    • 6081 26 AARHUS Maersk Tokyo. Maersk Line. Aug 4 Liao He. China Ocean. Aug 4. Ming Universe. Yang Ming. Aug 6 Ever Grade. Evergreen. Aug 7 B Suria. ScanOulcht. Aug 8. Villa de Vega. CM D'Alrettement. Aug 9 Ever Greet. Evergreen. Aug 10 Luna
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    • 1226 28 Further US Gulf to Japan grain business was reported with a steady U5519.75 being paid basis combination discharge ports option no combination ports at $19.25. ship brokers said on Friday The Lake Biwa was also fixed for this voyage at $19 65 and $19 15 respectively, but this
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    • 104 19 mm* THE OAKLAND Board of Port Commissioners has approved a conservative U5576.5 million budget for the fiscal year that began on July 1. The new budge* reflects an estimated US$6 million increase in revenues, but it cuts expenditures to just 46 per cent of the port's gross revenues. Page II
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    • 260 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG. PENANG, KEELUNG. BUSAN INCHON S PORE AGENTS NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE IT3 in mu3?noin7roit: T.T'SIO ??'.?0" (Opff»I.o"s) :rs;M (T?.m,n.,i) tto?4tt> ;M7io4 (CfS) MAiAfSiA AGE NIS tunas seha son bmd HI Tei 2740W7 PK Tel 3&B<»iM toWM.X) V*f Vah PEN
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