The Business Times, 31 October 1989

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    11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 45/12/88 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1989 75 CENTS
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    FINANCIAL NEWS SUMMARY
    249 1 Dow up US STOCKS opened higher yesterday, with blue chips a standout, but breadth was only moderate, analysts said. The Dow was ahead 13 at 2,610 and advancing Issues held a slight lead over dediners. Reuter Footsie up LONDON shars prices rose sharply in extremely light morning
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    KLSE amends listing requirements to implement split
    551 1  -  By ELAINE KOH,ANDREA BORCH THE KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange (KLSE) loat no time in amending its listing requirementa yesterday to set in motion the government edict to delist all Malaysian companies from the Singapore exchange. Some of the companiea, however, wera at the
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    Malaysian stocks plunge in local market
    277 1 THE SINGAPORE stock market reacted to the proposed delisting of Malaysian slocks by sailing them. Malaysian stocks, particularly spsculativss and soma plantation stocks, faaturad prominently among the list of pries iosars. Largely bacauss of tha plunge In Malaysian stocks, tha Straits Timss Industrials Index
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    Bank of England buys sterling
    121 1 THE BANK of England yeeterday intervened on the London foreign exchange market to support ths British pound, still weakened by last Thursday's resignation of Nigel Lawson as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dealers said the UK central bank bought sterling sgsinst European Currency Units during esrly
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    SIA aims for European alliance within six months
    588 1  -  AGREEMENT UNLIKELY TO BE AS LARGE AS DELTA DEAL By MAGDALENE NG SINGAPORE AIRLINES sxpects to announce within six months a strategic alliance with a European carrier similar to its deal with the US-baaed Delta Airlinee. SiA last week announced a US$3BO
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    Linn In Hua resigns as SCCCI chief
    235 1  -  By JAYARAM MENON SINGAPORE Chinaaa Chamber of Commerce and Induetry (SCCCI) preeident Linn In Hue haa tendered hia resignation due to ill heefth. Ha has been in hospital for the Isst 10 dsys. A Chiness chsmber source told BT thst ths 65-msmber council
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    A free trip could be yours
    78 1 NOW, about that holiday trip to Finland... we#, font Just sit there/ You've got exactly two weeks from today to qualify for a seven-day free trip to the land of the midnight sun, and subscribe to Business Times Singapore's only business daNy at a
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    Lock icon Indocement share issue causes concern among Jakarta brokers
    454 1 Reuter INDONESIAN STOCKBROKERS art jittery about a huge US$335 million ahara iaaua by a moneyloalng firm, aaying it could maka or break Jakarta's tiny market. PT Indocement Tunggai Prakaraa drew attention when Finance Miniater Johannes Sumarlin waived an exchange rule requiring two
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    Lock icon Chinese army to pull out from Tiananmen Sq
    126 1 Reuter CHINA announced yeeterday that troope will end their five-month-long guard over Beijing's Tiananmen Square and major road junctions by tomorrow, although martial law will continue. The soldiers have guarded Tiananmen since crushing stu-dent-led protects on June 4. A state radio broadcast
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    SIA to entice emigrants with 'return home' package
    297 1  -  Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) plens to oflsr s "return home" packsge next year tor emigrant Slngaporeans to visit the home country during its 29th year of independence. News of such s peckage, said to be much cheeper than a normal
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Unemployment rate fell to 1.9pc at end of last year
      350 2  -  By ANNA TEO THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE fell to 1.9 per cent aa at the and of last yaar, according to the latest annual report of the Ministry of Labour. This compares with 2.8 par cant in December 1967. The unemployment
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      Construction industry board setting up careers centre
      251 2 THE CONSTRUCTION Induatry Development Board la aetting up a careers centre next January which is intended to, among other things, dispel the misconception that the bueineea la a sunset industry, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary for National Development Lee Yiok Seng. Speaking at an
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      American trade specialists coming to town
      147 2 TRADE SPECIALISTS from 12 American states will be in town this week to explore businees opportunities with Singspors companies. They srs members of s trads miaaion called the Multi-Stats Trsde Days, which in Singapore will "take place" on Thursday and Friday at the Sheraton
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      TDB mission to explore trade with South Korea
      365 2 TAKING ADVANTAGE of South Korea's easing of Import curbs, Singapore companies are poised to booet ties with the country's business community in Seoul. As a result a six-day trade mission is headed for the Korean capital next week and is part of
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      Nakano to pay record price for East Coast land
      443 2 By LEE HAN SHIH, Property Cormpondwit JAPANESE contractor Nakano (3) ha* aat a record prtc* for residential land in Singapore's East Coast H has sntered into an agreement to buy a large piot of land along Meyer Road for about $23.7
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      First DPM to launch Productivity Month
      220 2 FIRST DEPUTY Prim# Minister Qoh Chok Tong launches this yssr's Productivity Month tomorrow, 30 days of eventa including a congrsss which will provide formal opportunities for public feedbacfc on the government's recently Introduced Productivity 2000 Initiative. An NPB statement yesterday said that among the
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      Italian region of Marche opens showcase here
      358 2 A PERMANENT showesss of goods from the Italian region of Marche waa opened ysstsrday in what could prove to be the start of a new approach to trade promotion by the Italiana. The Italian ambassador to Singapore, Dr R Bettinl, described the Marche
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      MEMO-PAD
      375 3 Seminars and courses Nov 1 The New Europe and *e Le Martdton Wormatlcn 4 *****00 New Podftc Beyond Resource Centre Ike 1992 Agenda Slngopore Nov 1-3 Humoe Factors In NeHonel University The Institute of *****04 Information System of Singapore Systems Science NUS Nov 2 Corporate Taxation. Gloss Hotel Dotoseerch
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      TDB invites candidates for design award competition
      334 3 LOCAL DESIGNERS have five months to enter next year's Singapore Design Awsrd (SOA) competition organised biennielly by ths Trsds Dsvslopmsnt Board. Ths winners will be announced at the Second International Design Forum In October next year. The top three deelgns will be displayed
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      Soviet corporation in tie-up with two local companies
      392 3  -  40pc STAKE FOR WING THYE LOONG HANG, 10pc FOR HWA HONG By JAYARAM MENON PROOINTORG, one of the lergeet state trading corporations in tha Soviat Union, haa taamad up with tha diversified Hwa Hong group and trading company Wing Thye Loong Hang
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      More joint ventures with Soviet firms coming up
      204 3 MORE bueineee linkagee are on the carde aa the Soviet Union looka to incraaalng trada with Singepore, aaid Ha trade repreeentative to Singapore. Prodintern Singapore, a Soviet tie-up wtth two focal compeniea, waa officially opened yeeterday, while two more are in the
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      Made-in-Singapore advertisements on world stage
      104 3 LOCALLY-PROOUCED advertiaemants which made it to the finals of the 30th Clio Awards the Oscar night of the international advertialng induatry were cited at a prsssntatton ceremony last night were picked from sbout 27,000 entrlee which came from 70 countriee. Finalists were from Batsy Ads
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      Air cargo fastest growing air transport sector
      386 3 BINQAPORE'a air traneport Induetry grew by more than 10 par cent in the first nine monthe of thie yaar, with air cargo emerging aa tlw fastest growing sector. Figuree released by tha Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAB) yeeterday a how that alightly
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      167 2 T~T"T-TTTT "TT T'T TT Tt 1 t a Global temperatures and weather forecast for Oct 31 M CN* ■Jjjjj' Skewers CC) taport tar 24 hours prior Abordoon 11/03 Cloudy J/iljEe 00 Amtardam 14/08 Windy Mas tBBWu-——~ 51.4 Alhora 25/16 Sunny Aaaea ImniidNy S4 Auckland 20/13 Rata MS tamp 2U ftangkok
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
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      Lock icon Purification campaign choking China trade
      532 4 Reuter FOREIGN TRADE and Investment in key sectors of the Chinese economy are slowly being choked by the Communist Party's purification campaign, as frightened Chinese businessmen try to protect themselves. Many Hongkong businessmen had expectsd that the June 4 crushing of the pro-democracy movement and
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      Lock icon US machine tool orders up 33pc in September
      313 4 NYT BOLSTERED BY hlghar capital spandlng in a number of industries, US machine tool orders climbed 33.4 par cant in September from the previous month, reaching the highest monthly total this year. According to a report released yesterday by the Association for
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      Lock icon EC-Third World talks on aid treaty reach stalemate
      430 4 Reuter MINISTERS from the European Community and 66 Third World countries yaatarday failed to agree on a trade and aid treaty to succeed the third Lome convention, diplomats said. Tslks stalled on their third and final day whan the African, Caribbean and
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      Lock icon Toyota plans to more than double imports from US
      338 4 AP TOYOTA Motor Corp will stsrt shipping US-made cars to Japan in 1982 and increase its total imports by nearly 2.5 timee from the current annual volume to about 300 billion yen in the next three years. Toyota said yestsrday that
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      Deng calls for end to Zhao-bashing
      466 4  -  By FOO CHOY PENG, Hongkong Correspondent CHINA'* senior Issdsr, Deng Xiaoping, has intervened to Slop the country's hard-line leaders from going overboard in their campaign to smear the former party chief Zhao Ziyang. The octogenarian leader, according to the lateet issue of the Economic
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      Lock icon Row over social charter raises spectre of a two-tier EC
      521 4 AFP FOR THE first time since launching its 1003 project the European Community facee the risk of schism when ministers yeeterdsy discussed a "social charter" aimed at guaranteeing workers' rights In the barri-er-free European market Diplomats and officials at the
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      Lock icon Deregulation of European skies meets stiff resistance
      395 4 NYT EAGER TO INCREASE competition in the airline industry, European Community officials have decided that change is not coming fast enough and that it is time for tougher deregulation measurss. But they face a big fight from many governments and airlines. Many European
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      Lock icon Saudi-Pakistan accord to boost trade
      190 4 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA and Pakistan agreed on Sunday on a draft agreement to boost trade, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Sheikh Mohammed Ali AbaiKhail, Saudi Arabia's minister of finance, said each country had a lot to offer each other in terms of commodities end services.
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      Lock icon Sumitomo to set up M'sian metal plant
      93 4 Reuter SUMITOMO Electric Industries Ltd will set up a plant in Malaysia to manufacture powder metal products to be used in vehiclee and consumer electronics, a company spokesman said yesterday. The move is to meet growing demand in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapors, the
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      DAILY AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
      1100 4 ARRIVALS Operator g OffVICt numbor Local thn* From GU GA990 0033 CGK SIA soon 0040 LAX/NtT UAL UA805 0055 SFO/HKG ax CV796 0130 LUX/DXB/HKG KAL KE697 0155 sa NCA KZ207 0215 NtT AIX UL455 0300 NTT JAl JL615 0340 NtT SIA SQ409 0610 MAA SEY HM601 0615
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      Lock icon Spanish polls send positive signals
      563 6 SMALLER SOCIALIST MAJORITY UNLIKELY TO UNNERVE MARKETS Reuter SPANISH PRIME MINISTER Felipe Gonzalez's narrow election win last Sunday is likely to reassure financial markets that his government can retain a firm grip on economic policy. "I do not see anyone taking fright at this. It's
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      Lock icon Soviet government paper disputes economic figures
      580 6 Reuter THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT newspaper Izvestia has said the few bright statistics presented in a report on the Soviet economy issued this weekend were misleading. The daily was analysing data released by the State Committee on Statistics (Goskomstat) on the Soviet economy's performance in
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      Lock icon Doomed debut for Taiwanese jet fighter
      61 6 AP A TAIWANESE-DEVELOPED JET FIGHTER reete on the runway of on air forco ban after falling to taka off for Ka first exhibition flight last Sunday. The plane buret a tyre during Me take-off watched by Preekflent Lee Teng-hui and other officials at the
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      Lock icon Taipei opposition gears up for polls
      446 6 Reuter TAIWAN'S opposition party ended its national convention in Taipei over the weekend with the hope that factional differences will fade away before the country's most open elections ever are held in December. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will be allowed to compete for
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      Lock icon West German industry, unions on collision course
      414 6 Reuter WEST GERMAN industry and unions are heading for collision in next year s kay wage negotiationa, threatening to bring Europe'a largeat economy to a standstill The giant IQ Metall union covering nearly three million workers in the important car, steel and engineering
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      Lock icon Keidanren team to visit three Asean countries
      136 6 AFP A DELEGATION of top Japanese businessmen left Tokyo yesterday for Kuala Lumpur on the first leg of a nine-day visit to Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia to discuss private sector cooperation, said Keidanren, Japan's most powerful business group. The delegation led by Keidanren
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      Lock icon New Zealand government retreats from capital gains tax proposal
      283 6 AFP THE NEW ZEALAND government yesterday becked off from the idee of e capital gains tax, laying out a lengthy consultative process and saying that no final decision has been mede to introduce it The proposal was first raised in the
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      Lock icon Walesa urges support for government measures
      298 6 AP SOLIDARITY LEADER Lech Waleaa haa told aupportera that painful price increases are part of Poland's fight for economic reforms, and haa urged them to atart remaking the country through work and enterpriae. "Everything depends on you more than at any time in the
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      Philippines calls for common 10pc Asean trade tariff
      511 6  -  By AL O LABITA Jr, writing for BT from Manila THE PHILIPPINES has suggested common 10 per cent tariff in intrs-Asean trade to cushion the impact of emerging trade blocs on the region's economy. The call was made by Trade and Industry
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      Lock icon S Korean current account balance back in the black
      363 6 AP REBOUNDING FROM a deficit of US$79 million in August South Korea's current account showed s surplus of US$7l4 million last month, the Bank of Korea reported yesterday. The improvement was attributed to reduced imports. There have been efforts to curb
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      Lock icon Blow to Colombo's peace efforts
      177 6 Reuter SRI LANKA's main opposition party and Tamil separatist guerillas have both decided to boycott government peace efforta, politicians and diplomats in Colombo said yesterday. The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) decided at the weekend to withdraw from an all-party peace conference, accusing the government
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
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      Lock icon US report prompts Taiwan to ease exchange controls further
      382 8 ANNUAL LIMIT ON REMITTANCES MAY BE DOUBLED TO US$l m Reuter TAIWAN it encouraged by a positive report on its currency by the US Treasury and will further reiax foreign exchange controls in response. "The US report is fair... and we
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      Forex markets
      1003 8 BINGAPORE: The US dollar closed higher on short-covering yeeterday, while sterling wm weak with players still mulling Its potential downtrend, dMlers Mid. "Japanese securities and Asian institutions dollar buying interest helped puah the currency up in early trading, but underlying sentiment remained bearish due to uncertainty over the
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      Lock icon US$ seen easing over next month
      112 8 Reuter THE US DOLLAR is likely to edge down over the next month due to a slowdown in the US economy, concern that the Federal Reserve will eaae credit and continued concern about US slock prices, currency dealers in Tokyo said. "The market focus
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      Asian dollar market
      232 8 ASIAN dollar depoeit ratee yeaterday closed unchanged from their narrowly mixed open after a quiet day's bade, dealers said. snd week-fixed cloeed at 8-13/16 8-11/16 per cent and 8-3/4 8-6/8 per cent reepectlvety. One month ended at 8-3/4 8-6/8 per cent three months at 8-11/16 6-9/16 per
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      Lock icon Simex
      561 8 REUTER EURODOLLAR futurM cloeed steedy to slightly higher yesterdsy on short-covering and poattlon adjuatmanta ahead of today's 1230 GMT ralaass of US loading indicators, dealers said. December EirodoMar cloeed unchanged from Chicago's 91.08 but March roae slightly to 82.00 from 82.04. Around 7,330 lots were traded. Eurodollar options were
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      Money markets
      50 8 THE overnight rate on the Singapore money market was unchanged at 5-6/16 per cent yeeterday. Term rates were also unchanged. S$ Interbank rcrtti at rtw doM y<fdoyi oma m O— 3/1* 5 S/U Sl/I S 1/4 S J/« a 1/4 > 5 1/1 S 1/4 OwnIgM «Mdti 5
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      326 8 Reuter IMM CURRENCY FUTURES closed higher last Friday, holding gains msds when ths stock market tumbled on continued concerns about corporate earnings and the economy. "When they hit the stock market on down, It kind of fired us up," one currency futures trader said. Speculation ia growing that the
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      Government securities market
      107 8 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's dosing Day's oodo Maturity MD OffBt HKSM LOW 3 mon#M BQ*****V 25X)1.90 4.33 4.28 4.29 4.29 6 months 8S*****V 18.01.90 443 4.28 1 year IY*****Z 18.1090 4.33 4.2® Government notes snd bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing Day's code rate MO
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      World interest rates
      136 8 prfcee lM*|rilN of IS RM|ir banks la B'pore Interbank market rata* (ofllar/bld) on Oct SO US* t DM SWFC Y« •'VH-II/U 14 14 1/1 1-77/1 7 1/4-7 1/1 v« 1/4 !!!'!!-!<'* WV»—!«»/* —77/t M/l-7 1/1 7/14 1/1* UI1/»*-»/1* **/U —t/l* 7II/U-11/U 4 9/1* 7/14 «7/14 —4/H 14
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      Options
      1161 8 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Monday October 30, 1989 Om»*MM Ornmpm n 59 54 WOW YM (MBQ OasMaaM Dm M pan 71 n 73 75 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IMM Friday, Oeioboc 27, 1989 BMTMH POUND HMN; ssoM par t Pfta® 1535 Ot J 22 J-44 0.20 1.2* IN 1550 110 343
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
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      Insurance jargon series resumes with the letter 'O'
      726 9  -  •tMV.ts fttyliiL by PAUL FRANKLAND READERS will notice that my regular series on insurance jargon snded just before my summer holiday with the letter "N". I will now resume this seriee with Insurance words starting with "O": Obssrvencs of condMons: This is
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      Lock icon Thatcher reaffirms stance on EMS, sterling
      383 9 Reuter BRITISH Prims Ministsr Margarst Thstchsr rsaffirmsd on Sundsy Britain's stance that It will enter full membership of the Europssn Monetary System on ths terms agrsed at ths Madrid Europssn Community summit In June. Speaking in a commsrclal television interview, her first since the
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      Lock icon Study backs British idea of competing European currencies
      650 9 Reuter BRITISH PROPOSALS to allow European Community curranclaa to compote against each other are at odds with the goal of monetary union but could be a more efficient way of controlling inflation, a new study concludee. An analysis by David Currie of
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      Lock icon NatWest to close Bahrain office
      138 9 Reuter NATIONAL Westminster Bank pic said it would close its representative office In Bahrain by the end of the year. Senior manager Robin Fisher said this followed a review of the bank's global representation becauee of the changing worldwide business climate "In recent years, we
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      Bank Negara Indonesia to raise US$50m in Singapore
      381 9  -  BANK'S FIRST FRN ISSUE ON INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKET By SOH TIANG KENG, Financial Correspondent BANK NEQARA Indoneeia 1946 (BNI) the biggeet commercial bank in Indoneeia ia raising US$5O million through a floating rate note iaaue on the Singa-pore-based Aalan dollar bond market.
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      Lock icon China says credit rating should not be lowered
      556 9 Reuter CHINESE state bankers said yesterday that there was no reason for China's international credit rating to be lowered and expressed confidence over Beijing's ability to repay its mounting debts. Two repreeentatlves from the US credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service left
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      56 9 ALBERTVILLE 92 999 Mister Cahart, Director of the PARIS MINT, will launch today in Singapore the new OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES COINS. This official and prestigious collection will commemorate the XVI th Olympic Winter Games which will be held in ALBERTVILLE (SAVOIE, FRANCE) 2 ij CL msm CREDIT LYONNAIS DelifiXUlCe PARIBAS
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  • COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon ITC delegates hope for progress with creditors at meeting
      516 10 MEMBERS MOVING CLOSER TO £183 m SETTLEMENT Reuter DE LEGATES to the International Tin Council (ITC), which collapeed in 1985 leaving millions of pounds of debts, are hopeful that progress can be made this week on a planned out-of-court settlement with
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      Lock icon Coffee producers agree on basics of new quota plan
      414 10 Reuter OFFICIALS from Latin American coffeeproducing nations have agreed on the basics of proposals to re-establish International Coffee Agreement quotas, Costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister Luis Escalante said. "Brazil and Colombia have given ground, it only remains that the Presidents agree,"
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      Lock icon China rubber market hard hit by excess imports
      125 10 Retuer CHINESE rubber plantations will lose more than 100 million yuan this year because excess latex Imports have swamped the market, the Farmers Daily said. It said strong demand for surgical gloves caused imports of latex in 1968 and 1989 to already
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      KL Tin
      156 10 THE Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) price extended Ms fall, cloeing five een lower at M 520.17 a kg, brokers said. They attributed tie decline to higher oWortng due to accumulation over the weekend and a further tall on the London Metal Exchange (LME). But atrong Europeen short-covering
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      Precious Metals
      358 10 HONGKONG: Gold cloeed Armor yeeterday In moderate but choppy two-way trade on short-covering by US, Swiss and Japaneee dealers and firmer crude oil prices, dealers said. Profit-taking by Swiss, Japaneee and local traders offset US buying. Trade ranging between U*****.50 and U*****.50 an ounce was expected later in
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      145 10 Telerate FUEL o<l prices were notionaiiy unchanged in the bearish Singapore market Few aerioua buyers and sellers were found aa moat players were on holiday in Singapore Late Friday buyers of CSTIBO were at $93-4 mt fob Sing, with aaliars at $95-6 mt fob/elf Sing. Taiwan
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      Palm Oil
      368 10 MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES closed easier on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) yesterday on long liquidation and profit-taking activity. Dealers said that most operators took quick profits in anticipation that the market was due for a technical correction after its recent bullish performance. Trading was thin
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      Lock icon US sanctions urged on South African gold jewellery
      228 10 Reuter US SENATOR Edward Kennedy said laat Saturday that a US ban on South African gold bullion imports should be extended to jewellery containing refined South African gold. Jewellery was exempted from US economic sanctions against South Africa because of the difficulty
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      Rubber
      349 10 SMQAPORE: Rubber pricea closed slightly higher yeeterday. but off early gains, with November 1 RSS buyer quoted at 162.75 centa a kg, up half a cent from laat Friday'a dose. Dealers said profit-tak-ing in the afternoon pared morning gaina. Trading was quiet, with most tradera aidelined in the abeonce
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      RAS and MRELB
      357 10 RAS prices m fm NOON CLOSE iwyi" Siiifi lvy#n Siltfi h 1 »SS Prompt 161 -50 162J0N 161.25 162J5N In# 1 RSS Nov 1634X) 164.00 163.75 far 1 RSS Doc 166.25 166.00 166J0 fat 2 RSS OP 160-50 162J0N 160.25 162J5N In* 3 RSS Of 156-50 158J0N
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      Produce Prices
      190 10 Chlneee Produce Exchange SeWen' noon cMng prttm on October 30 (M/100 kg) Coconut oil It* FOB 90.00 OM dram FOB 104.00 N«w dram FOB 100.00 Copra Mkad (too**) 33-00 Pepper FOB NLW 4904)0 Sarawak wMN» FOB faq NIW 400.00 Sarawak «p«ck>l Mack FOB NIW 400.00 Sarawak Ada btack
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      109 10 FOR IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS. SHIPPING TIMES covers all aspects of (A local and international shipping (except, of course, the really technical aspects). Y The emphasis is on news that is likely to affect the Business Times reader. Covering the latest trends in the shipping markets, we also carry up-to-date news
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  • TECHNOLOGY
    • TECHTAKES
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        Conference to kick-off IT week
        111 11 THE SOUTHEAST Aaia Regional Computer Confederation will hold its eighth convention in Singapore from Dec 4 to Dec 8. The convention, SEARC '89, will kick-off the Singapore National Information Technology (IT) week with the theme "IT into the 21st Century". Regional and international speakers will
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        The 'greatest' Informatics show
        187 11 SINGAPORE INFORMATICS '89 opens on Dec 7, all set to break records set in previous years. Record No 1: It will be the biggest event in the series which began in 1986 25 per cent bigger than 1988 s. Record No 2: There will be about
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        Nixdorf's latest customer
        89 11 SPEEDMARK AIR Transportation's regional office in Singapore has become the latest customer of Nixdorf's computerised air freight solution. The company has signed a $250,000 contract to computerise its accounting and airfreight operations. The project will be implemented in two phases. Under the first phase, a Nixdorf Quattro
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      Lock icon Motorola joins IBM in research
      503 11 NYT INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp said recently that Motorola Corp had become the first company to take part in its effort to develop a new X-ray technology for the manufacture of semiconductors as part of its drive to maintain America's leadership in making the most
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      Europeans racing with Japanese in high-definition TV development
      584 11  -  By LILIAN ANG BROADCASTING STATIONS and television makers in Europe are rushing to beat the Japanese in the development of what has been dubbed the TV of the future the high-definition television (HDTV). After lagging behind in the 1970s and early-*****, the
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      Lock icon Panel urges US to revive consumer electronics trade
      542 11 NYT IN A REPORT that will be delivered to the president this week, a national advisory committee on semiconductors will recommend that the US government establish a multi-billion dollar venture capital operation intended to resurrect the American consumer electronics industry. The report
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      Information technology — who will be future leaders?
      492 11  - Information technology who will be future leaders? By WALTON MORAIS THE FUTURE LEADERS in information technology (IT) will be those who are at the head of consumer electronics, the president of AT T Bell Laboratories, Dr lan Ross, told a Singapore audience last week. In a lively question-and-an-swer session after
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      Split will sharpen competitive edge
      518 12 A DIVORCE is always traumatic, no matter how much the parting of ways has been expected. And last Friday's news that the Malaysian stock exchange was severing its link with the Singapore bourse is no exception. Finance Minister Datuk Daim Zainuddin's announcement sent both markets
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      Lock icon Japan capitalises on its stable markets
      1624 12  -  Much that is critical has been said about the Tokyo stock market that fixed commissions on trades are high, that dividends are paltry and that there are excessive cross-holdings. But the fact remains that the Japanese market is performing the classic economic function of
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      Lock icon Taiwan's industrial policy exacts an environmental price
      968 12 FT MORE THAN 30 YEARS of undiluted industrial growth have landed Taiwan with a severe pollution problem which has triggered grave concern. The Taiwaneee are enjoying the fruits of an export-driven success story which has seen gross national product grow at a real
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      47 12 WWT f 1 We re scaling new heights Net daily circulation I 1 July August September BUSINESS TIMES' circulation has crossed the 20,000 mark. Audited figures show that, in September, the net daily circulation of Singapore's only business paper was 20,277. BUSINESS TIMES Singapore's only business daily
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      Australia gets the US and Canada in on the APEC action
      675 13  -  The Australian-initiated plan for a ministerial-level forum for Asia-Pacific countries to discuss and work out economic policies will take off next week with the first meeting in Canberra From Sydney, FLORENCE CHONG traces the evolution of the forum idea
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
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        Consumers must speak up
        341 13 JAPAN "CORPORATE Japan has too often been self-serving. Undeniably, the idea that corporations should revert some portion of their profits to society is held more widely in Western nations than in Japan. "Reflecting the brisk tone of business, corporate profits are growing at an unprecedentedly high
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        Stockbrokers need to upgrade
        348 13 MALAYSIA "FURTHER INFLOW of foreign funds into the local stock market will exert a bullish influence even if this is likely to be tempered by some jitters in overseas markets. "What such inflows of funds signify, however, is that despite short-term uncertsinties over the direction of
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        An opportunity for democracies
        194 13 EASTERN EUROPE THE PRESENT opportunity is to make sure Mr Gorbachev does not fail, to help Mr Gorbachev translate his concepts of pereatroika and glasnoat into effective programmes because his foreign triumphs will amount to little if domestic failures contribute to pressures against his leadership "The
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        Support Thai PM's approach
        300 13 CAMBODIA "ONE IMPORTANT agenda item which Thai Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan will tackle during hia current visit to Beijing obviously concerns the question of finding a way out of the apparent stagnation now hampering the efforts to arrive at a settlement of the conflict in Cambodia.
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      Towards a more dynamic region
      1452 13 THE SEEDS OF the regional grouping which later became the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum were sown during a viait by Australian Prime Mlnister Bob Hawke to Seoul in January. Mr Hawke had said that he believed the Aaia-Pacific region could profit from closer cooperation through
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      83 13 SINGAPORE BUSINESS nis® 1 COSY I g I flf «vv :rW»!!S I $4 A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF BUSINESS TRENDS Special report How much It an MBA degree worth In Singapore? e The soaring cost of recruitment e Coping with Jetlag, the globe-trotter's malady e Heshe's corporate strategy: A choice of
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      15 13 Our weekly summary of what othar publications have to say about issues of International interest
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      Lock icon The price of fame weighs on Nobel laureate Mahfouz
      791 14 PERSONALITIES Reuter IT'S BEEN a tiring year for Naguib Mahfouz sinca the 1968 Nobel Prize in literature catapulted him from obscurity to international fame. His advice to Camilo Jose Cela, this year's Nobel laureate who likewise was largely unknown before the
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      Lock icon Landscaper makes the urban desert bloom
      736 15 ENVIRONMENT Reuter LENI CRUICKSHANK rune a farm in a depresaed area in the middle of Liverpool and breeds fish on a sewage site in the suburbs. Now he is busy converting two derelict houses next to his city farm to make an environmental education
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      Lock icon Game menu draws cries of shame
      441 15 FOOD AP THE NEW DEAL Restaurant was the place to be in New York. Where else could you find sweet and sour ostrich, kangaroo yakitori and beaver empanada on the menu, with protesters outside chanting: "Lion's tongue is no fun"? The reetaurant's Eighth Annual
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      229 14 ENTER AND FEAST AT OUR GERMAN BANQUET TABLE I J f I Savour the works of our masterchefs as they lay the tables for a lavish feast fit for kings. Witii over 60 German favourites, our German buffet lunch at The Belvedere is almost as good as a culinary tour
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      231 15 1 1 entertain.... I I Businessman's H I, Lunch Is I II In The Park., I ■H The kiuintjjrnan 'j lunch at Hubertu* Grill II H offer j you the opportunity to dine in the relaxing ■I ambience of a bunter j lodge and to enjoy a dumptuoud spread of
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      572 15 CRYPTIC PUZZLE Italian (5) 16 Animal difficult to die- H —■TTHP^pn —FHsTB?" Aron oc 32 Treats a chap to beer? mount from (5) aumuoo 17 p|ac# jn |h# upp#r B 9 WMK 3 Container of the ri- 34 Has it handlebar three (5) UP—!■! chest treasure (5) horns? (5) 19
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      1243 15 TV and RADIO SilentPa^^^^^ v.f^B^H k \>. [/1 *^S| Lh Remlcfc and MirtH Matlln In Bridge fo 3/Moci 0W? C//0/CE members Martin Lee and Rita Fan, I BRIDGE TO SILENCE, 10.35 pm, Dickson Poon and' WOO. Marlee Matlin play* a severely trau- LENNY HENRY SHOW, 7.25 pm, I matized deaf
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Kite flying high
      670 16 GOLF AP TOM KITE became golf's all-time leading money winner and 1909 Player of the Year on Sunday when Payne Stewart mieaed a four-foot putt in a playoff in the game's richest tournament. Stewart who opened the wsy to Kite's late move with s threeputt bogey on
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      Lock icon Rafferty grabs Europe's top position
      402 16 AFP RON AN RAFFERTY finally turned the tables on Nick Faldo when he took away his Volvo Masters title on Sunday to become European number one for 1989. The Irishman, who has rivalled the US Masters champion for consistency all season, beat him by one
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      Lock icon Powerful field playing for US$1m prize money in Paris Indoor Open
      452 16 TENNIS AP WITH MORE THAN USI million In prize money, this week's Parle Indoor Tennie Open has attracted the strongeet field of the year outside of a Grand Slam tournament. Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and John McEnroe are the
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      Lock icon FISA still considering Senna's appeal
      239 16 MOTOR-RACING AP THE OUTCOME of an appeal expected to determine this year's world Formula One motor racing champion may not be known until after the final race in the series, next week's Australian Grand Prix, orgainaers in Adelaide said on Sunday. Reigning champion Ayrton Senna's
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      Lock icon Schlesser wins world sports driver's title
      94 16 AFP FRENCH RACING DRIVER Jean-Louis Schlesser(abow) became world sports car driver's champion after Ireland's Kenny Acheson crashed out of the final race of the season In Mexico on Sunday. Acheson's spectacular crash in his Sauber Mercedes less than half-way through the race meant that
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      Lock icon Lendl wins ECC crown again
      609 16 AP IVAN LENDL beet fellow Czech Miloelav Mecir 6-2, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 on Sunday to win the U551,060,000 European Community Championship for the fifth time in the eight-year history of the exhibition event in Antwerp. The world's No 1 player earned the U*****,000 first prize,
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      Lock icon Longo breaks own indoor world record
      75 16 CYCLING AP FRENCH CYCLIST Jeannie Longo (mbov) broke her own onehour indoor cycling work! record on Sunday by coveting 45.016 kilometrea at Moacow'a Kryiatakoye track, the Soviet newa agency Taaa reported. She covered 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) in 26 minutes and 51.222 aeconda, Taaa
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      Lock icon Graf survives tough battle
      256 16 AFP WIMBLEDON CHAMPION Steffi Graf survived a hectic power bettle with 15-year-old Monica Selea to win the women's tournament in Brighton tor the third time in tour years on Sunday. The West German beet the Yugoelav left-hander 7-6, 6-4 in 73 minutes in a match in
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      Lock icon Stewart voted Most Valuable Player
      593 16 BASEBALL AP DAVE STEWART ts already the people's choice. Now he's MVP of the World Series, too. Stewert took control ot the Series for the Oakland Athletics when he shut out the San Francisco Giants, SO, on five hits in Game 1. He won the
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  • COMPANIES & STOCK MARKETS
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      BONDS, LOANS & WARRANTS
      511 17 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS company f www fm* <%) Onion Hup WrU 1991 Oman Hup Wrt« 94 1994 CX Tang Wrto *****990 Ory Dov londt 1994 5H Ory Daw Wrn 1992 OtS Land Writ 1994 PIN Wrn 1994 Godirto Loan GMhrto Wrn 1994 1994 4 H Prop land* H Prop Wrt«
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      Sesdaq stocks acquire new gloss
      521 17  -  KL SPLIT MAY SPEED COUNTERS' MOVE TO MAIN BOARD By KEVIN GWEE THE MOVE to daliat Malayaian stocks hava addad furthar ahina to Singapora'a homegrown Saadaq companlaa. Saadaq counters are beginning to look Increasingly more attractive with the added poeaibillty of the authoritiea speeding up
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      NOL launches new identity as a total transportation company
      329 17  -  ■y LINDA CHEE, tapping Corn^ondK NEPTUNE Orient Unee yesterday launched a new corporate Identity to aignify Hi coming of age as a total tranaportatlon company. The change, aaid NOL chairman HR Hochetadt, could not have come at a better time. "We
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      Isetan most favoured among Big Four
      750 17  -  (□(Mm? mm By ELAINE KOH OF THE Big Four retailer* in Singapore, Isetan appeara the moat atrongly placed to ride Vie expected alowdown in the induetry earty next year. Thie waa the view of a study on the retail Induetry done recently by Fraaer
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      Lock icon Dunlop (M) to plough M$20m into upgrading of tyre-making facilities
      502 17 Bernama DUNLOP Malaysian Induatrlee Bhd (DMIB) will invaat another Ms2o million to upgrade ita earthmover and aircraft tyremaking fadlMee In the new financial year, managing director Abdul Shukor bin Nagor said yesterday. The amount la on top of the Ms
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      Subeidiary now called FELS Cranes Pte Ltd
      155 17 TO REFLECT mora accurately the nature of Its bustnaaa. Kone-FELS Cranes Pta Ltd, a subsidiary of Far Eaat Laving®ton Shipbuilding (FELS). haa changed Its name to FELS Cranee Pte Ltd. Started originally aa a Joint-venture between Kone Oy of Finland and FELS for
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      Lock icon UEM posts slight increase in profit to M$33.8m
      310 17 Bernama UNITED Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd has announced 3.0 par cant Incrasas In group pre-tax profit to MSS3J2 million for tha nina month* andad Bap SO, 1969, agaJnat M 132.82 million in tha pravkMM oorraapondlng UEM aald in a atatamant laat weekend that
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        Plunge in Malaysian stocks brings about 16-point fall
        1085 18  -  by ABDUL HADHI MALAYSIAN STOCKS plunged yesterday as a result of the move to de-list them from the Singapore stock market. The fall helped drive the Straits Times Industrials Index down 18.49 points to 1,302.78. The Business Times Composite Index fell by
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        Unit trusts
        320 18 Monogen' prices for Oct 31 Royal Trust Asset Myt IT S'por* Gr Fund 0J0 086 IT Ajio-Poc Gr Fund 1075 1.135 Singapore Unit Trust TW Conunarc* 1-15 122 Tha Savings Fund 0.9# 1.04 S'poft Prog Fund 0.43* 0.47* S'pora S*c Fund 0.73 0.78 S'pora Invast Fund 0.75 0
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        COMPANY MEETINGS
        65 18 KHONQ QUAN FLOUR MULING LIMITED: AQM at the company's registered office, 120 Tanjong Rhu Road, Singapore 1543, today at 12noon. IMATEX BERHAD: Adjourned 21st AGM at Room 3, 3rd floor, Wisma MCA. 163 Jalan Ampang, ***** Kuala Lumpur, today at 11am. TAIPING CONSOLIDATED BERHAD: 49th AGM at sth
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      SES SHARE INFORMATION
      6027 18 Qr's Gr'a 1989 Tel Last Vol Day Laat Quota Dlv Dlv Y'W Net M Cap High Low Coda Company Sala or- ('000) High Low Buyar Sallar C'vr P/E Imll OCT 30 SESDAQ 280 120 t 4000 Amtek Eng 20# 270 unch 36 272 270 2M 270 12.0N
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        Lock icon Prices fall on a broad front
        3492 19 MBT SELLERS dominated trading at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday and acroea the board. Doubledigit losses littered the board. The selling spree slashed 45.70 points off the 30-counter New Straits Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index which cloeed at 2,432 66 Notable loeers among
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        Lock icon Record sales by machinery makers
        123 20 AFP JAPAN'* five major electrical-machinery makers have reported double-digit gains in their unconsolidated net profits for April-September, the first half of fiscal 1969. They also posted record sales in the half-year period due to briak domestic demand and increases in exports reflecting the dollar's comeback
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        Lock icon Keating gives nod to Nathan-Bond deal
        179 20 Reuter AUSTRALIAN TREASURER Paul Keating has approved the proposal by New Zealand brewer-retailer Lion Nathan Ltd to acquire a 50 per cent interest in the Australian brewing interests of Bond Corp Holdings Ltd. "The government has decided that the proposal is not contrary to
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        Tokyo sets up investment desk in Manila
        467 20  -  By AL O LABITA, Jr Writing for BT from Manila JAPAN is setting up its own special desk at Manila's Board of Investments (BOI) in what Filipino officiala viewed as a "tactical move" to smoother inflow of an expected deluge of Japaneae capital
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        Lock icon Sally Aw's company buys 33pc of HK's Sino Bank
        234 20 AFP AW NZ INVESTMENTS chairwoman Sally Aw appears set to take the company off on a fresh round of investments, this time in Hongkong, according to the New Zealand Press Association. In the company's annual report, belatedly released after a hurry-up
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        Lock icon Prices broadly down
        645 20 Tokyo Reuter PROFIT-TAKING on issues which rose last week end foreign srbitrsgeurs selling stocks underlying the Index forced down prices early and kept them there until the cloee yeeterday. Turnover dropped from recent levels ss institutions, still jittsry over intereet rates, bowed out "The Tokyo market is
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        Lock icon Gold up, stocks rise
        485 20 Australia Reuter AUSTRALIA'S share market yesterday recovered nearly half of Friday's losses in a rally inspired by a surge in the price of gold. The All Ordinaries index finished 17 points higher at 1,637.1. Qold was trading around U*****.25 an ounce late yesterday afternoon, up over
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        Firmer close in quiet trade
        1241 20 Hongkong SHARE PRICES dosed firmer, off early gains, in quiet trading yeeterday. Brokers said investors bought mainly on the strength of possible disclosure of inner reeervee by the Hongkong end Shanghai Banking Corp. "Thsrs's markst talk that ths Hongkong Bank may rslease Its inner reserve
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        Lock icon Taipei: Near-record turnover
        399 20 Reuter TAIWAN share prices closed sharpty higher yesterday In near-record one day trading following newspaper reports that the Central Bank would soon further relax limits on inward remittances, brokers said. The weighted index rose 164.29 points or 1.57 per cent to close at 10,602.07 against Satur- day's
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        Lock icon Bangkok: Quiet trade
        244 20 Reuter THAI stocks shrugged off declines on major overseas bourses to close largely unchanged in light trade yesterday. The SET Index gained 0.56 point to close at 685.54. Gains outnumbered losses 57 to 44. Most active were Padaeng Industry. Slsm Cement snd CIMIC "There is a chance
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        Lock icon Jakarta: Little changed
        94 20 Reuter THE Jakarta stock index ended little changed in fairly active trading yesterday. Brokers said prices edged higher, bringing the index up 0.1 point to 430.30 on turnover of 406.671 shares. A travel agency. Bayu Buana, listed its two million shares but only 1,500 were traded. It
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        Lock icon Manila: Prices close higher
        104 20 Reuter MANILA'S stock msrkst closed with slight gains as speculation buoyed selected shsres yesterday, but brokers saw a listless msrkst ahead of President Corszon Aquino's trip to Canada and the US next The Manila Stock Exchange compoeite index roes 13.22 points or one per cent to
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        Lock icon Seoul: Prices up in light trading
        303 20 Reuter SEOUL stocks rose yesterday on investors' cautious speculstion ths government would soon take steps to alleviate oversuppiy problems in the market The compoeite index closed st 808.11. up 1.71 points from Saturday's hslf-day of trade. Turnover was a light 125.1 billion won against
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        Lock icon New Zealand: Slightly higher
        96 20 Reuter NEW ZEALAND shares were slightly higher in quiet trade yesterday, the Barclays Index rising 5.78 points to 2.069.79. One broker described the day as a "non event". The tone was mixed. "Firmness in Australia helped but at the moment the market is struggling to find
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        EUROPEAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        403 21 ZURICH: Swiss shares recovered from sn easier opening but volume was very low yesterday. Dealers said sentiment improved aa UK stocks were marked higher in the course of the session. The all-ehare Swiss Performance Index stood at 1,103.4 against an initial 1,102.4 and 1,106 on Friday. MUSSELS:
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        498 21 IHT AMERICA'S top computer software maksrs have announced court action against a leading French bank and a government communications agency, aa the companies stepped up s campaign against piracy that they say has cost them billions of dollars in lost salss. The suits filed
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        200 21 Reuter WEST GERMANY'a biggeet union, IG Metal I, aays it la ready to back demanda for more pay and shorter hours with strikee to peralyae the nation's key automotive, steel and engineering induetriee. IG Metail chairman Franz Steinkuehler told the union's
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        1194 21 NYT THE BURGER King Corp is at a point of reckoning. For nearly a year, a new management team has toiled to revitalise the troubled fast-food chain, chipping away at overhead, rallying the troops, carving out a new strategy baaed on
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        163 21 Reuter DISAPPOINTING third-quarter results from Imperial Chemical Industries pic will lead to profit downgrsdings for the year, share analysts say. ICI waa axpected to produce £340 million to £350 million pre-tax profit, but came in with £306 million from £347 million in 1966's third quarter,
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        76 21 Reuter A WAVE of megadeala boosted the value of mergers and acquisitions announced in the US in the third quarter by 36 per cent to US$7l.9 billion from U5562.9 billion in 1966. A study by W T Grimm and Co said 16 deala
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      345 17 CENTREPOINT PROPERTIES LTD (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GBIHML MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Centrepoint Properties Ltd will be held at Le Meridien Singapour, Latour (Level 3), 100 Orchard Road. Singapore 0923 on Thursday, 7th December 1989 at 12 noon for the following
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      783 20 notice: IN THX MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND TELESONIC ELECTRONICS PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OP PINAL MEETING NOTICE Is hereby given pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that a Final Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed Company will be held
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      650 20 5 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF PINKY TRADING PTE LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the i Members of PINKY TRADf ING PTE LTD, duly con- vened and held at No. 8 i Jalan Kllang Timor, Ke-
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      615 21 The Paris report was not available at praaa-tlme. Hongkongßank The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability (Now known as The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited with effect from 6 October 1989). 1987 Note 1988 1988 1988 1987 Note 1988 1988 1988 HKsm HKSm
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      46 22 AFP JAPAN, the world'* largest ivory consumer, is to respect sn international ban on ivory trade aimed at saving the endangered African elephant, Chief Cabinet Secretary Mayuml Moriyama said. The ban affects some 30,000 people working in Japan's ivoryprocessing industry.— AFP
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      34 22 AP ENVIRONMENTAL groups urged Japan yesterday to stop importing timber from Malaysia's Sarawak state, where they say loggers are deetroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of natives. AP
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      32 22 AFP PHNOM Penh was placed under an indefinite curfew beginning yeeterday to prevent all poeeible terrorist action in the capital, a ranking official at the foreign ministry said.
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      56 22 Bernama THE general election should not be held before the present session of parliament ends In December, opposition leader Lim Kit Siang said. He said if the prime minister wanted to hold the election in November or December, then he should not have called parliament
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      45 22 AFP THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan will visit the United States from November 12 to 25, a government spokesman said. Mr Chatichai will meet US President George Bush and senior US officials for talks on bilateral ties and Cambodia.—
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      39 22 Reuter FORMER US President Richard Nixon told Chineee leaders yesterday that the United States and China had to work together despite "huge and unbridgeable" differences over Beijing's bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. Reuter
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      35 22 AFP MARGARET Thatcher now has the lowest popularity rating of sny British prime minister for 50 years, according to a snap opinion poll published yesterday in London newspaper The Independent— AFP
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    322 22 AFP VIETNAMESE Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has blamed China and Singapore for blocking peace in Cambodia by adopting a stance which he sharply criticised as "a gross example of 'diktat'. T But Mr Thach, In an interview carried yeeterday
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    92 22 Reuter COM EX gold futures yesterday were slightly higher in brisk early trading that market sources said waa based on carry-over sentiment from Friday's sfternoon rally and overnight Japanese buying. The bullishness was also fuelled by commission house and fund buying in the morning market and floor sources
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    394 22 AFP, AP THE NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organisation (Nato) spokesman yesterday warmly welcomed remarks by a senior Soviet official who said Hungary ia free to quit the Warsaw Pact. The Kremlin would not object if Hungary chooees to leave the
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    364 22 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has given the strongest indication yet that he haa accepted Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's assurances about America's propoeed use of military facilities in Singapore. in an interview with the international Herald Tribune published
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    146 22 Bernama MALAYSIA does not intend to ask fellow Asean member countries to pressurise Singapore to change its dscision about letting the US use its military facilities. Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Dr Abdullah Fadzil Che Wan told the Dewan Rakyat yesterday that Malaysis would only do
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    320 22 Reuter JAPAN'S economy will show real growth of 4.6 per cent in groea national product in fiacal 1000 starting on April 1, due to expanded domestic demand supported by steady private consumption and capital investment. According to s report by
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    290 22  -  By FLORENCE CHONG, writing for BT from Sydney SENIOR MINISTERS from 12 countries will attend the inaugural meeting of the Aaia Pacific Economic Cooperation group in Canberra next month. It will be the first time that senior representatives from 12 important trading nations
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    354 22 USE OF MILITARY LIMITED TO RESCUE MISSIONS AFP FOR THE FIRST TIME since World War 11, Japan is preparing to authorise deployment of Its troops overseas, sccording to Japansse officials Ths use of troops sbroad would be limited to rescue missions for Japanese nationals and
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      305 22 REDISCOVER THE ART OF OPEN-FIRE CUISINE. THE ORIENTAL SINGAPORE Open-fire cooking is a skill that has been all but lost to modern man. But at Fourchettes Grillroom, in The Oriental, Singapore, our chefs still practice this an carefully grilling the choicest meats over a bed of sea stones brought to
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        108 23 AFP ABU DHABI has exported its largest ever single shipment of crude oil of 1.5 million barrels valued at US$25 million at prevailing prices to Japan, an oil company spokesman said on Saturday. The shipment from the off-shore fields of Umm Shaif and Zakum left
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        113 23 AP A PANAMANIAN ship with eight aboard sank in North Korean waters and two sailors are missing, Japanese officials said on Saturday. The Maritime Safety Agency in Kobe, western Japan, received an emergency call late Friday night from Shin Daido Kaiun, the ship's Japanese
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        148 23 AFP TENS OF THOUSANDS of litres of petroleum spilled into Montevideo Bay after a navy fuel tanker collided with a group of Polish fishing vessels, the Uruguayan armed forces said on Friday. Some 400,000 litres of petroleum spilled into the waters of the Rio de
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        86 23 Reuter A PANAMANIAN bulk carrier caught fire two miles off the Greek island of Prasouda and its crew has been evacuated, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence said in London. A salvage tug has gone to the area but because of worsening weather the 25,589 dwt Ankasim
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      207 23 Reuter SOME 4,458 ships with a total capacity of 27.1 million net registered tonnes (NRT) arrived in Hongkong in the second quarter of this year, up by 437 ships, or 11 per cent, and 3.4 million NRT, or 14 per cent, from second
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      NYK to terminate US agency agreements
      244 23 JAPANESE major Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line ia terminating agency agreements in the United States, having done so in the past year in Thailand and Malaysia. The carrier, which is now finalising a joint-venture agency arrangement with Inchcape in Singapore, will by July 1990
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      Japan to import Australian iron
      44 23 SEVEN leading Japanese steel companies have signed a sev-en-year contract with Australian mining company Hamersley Iron to import iron ore. The seven companies are NKK, Nippon Steel Kawasaki Steel, Kobe Steel, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Nakayama Steel and Nisshin Steel.
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      FMFF clarifies acceptance of trade, transport documents
      442 23  -  By G DURAIRAJ IN THE WAKE of greater interest in the development of inland clearance depots in Malaysia, the Federation of Malaysian Freight Forwarders has clarified the acceptance of trade and transport documents for intermodal transportation. With the proposal to set up ICOs
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      Searo Feri renamed Straits Link
      420 23  -  NEW NAME TO REFLECT CHANGING ROLE By JEAN FOONG SINGAPORE-BASED Sesro Fsri Agencies has been given a new lease of life with a change in name to Straits Link Ship Agencies. The new name is to reflect "its changing role and not to be associated
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      Thailand rejects IMM's bid to take over TMNC
      303 23 THE THAI GOVERNMENT has rejected s plan by Swiss-based Inter Maritime Mansgement (IMM) to take over loss-making Thai Maritime Navigation Co (TMNC). However, the poesibility of IMM taking over the state-owned shipping agency has not been ruled out According to the Bsngkok
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      Mrs Yeo Ning Hong christens largest Singapore-flagged ship
      265 24 THE LARGEST vessel under the Singapore flag, Maarak Nautilus, was christened by Mrs Yeo Ning Hong, wife of the Minister for Communications Information on Friday. The 254,000 deadweight tonne (dwt) ship is the first very large crude carrier to join AP Moiler
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      390 24 Reuter LEADING JAPANESE shipbuilders, hard hit by a decade of industry depression, are likely to recover sufficiently to resume, or even raise, dividend payments in the current business year, industry sources snd analysts in Tokyo said. "Strong demand for machinery from the printing,
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      201 24 AFP DEMAND for tankers showed a sharp downturn over the past week in the Middle-East Gulf, London brokers E A Gibson said on Friday. Although rates in some size categories maintained recently-established high levels, others were eroded. ULCC and VLCC (ultra large and very large crude carriers, over
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      Lock icon Large exports to test grain shipping network in the United States
      224 24 Reuter THE CAPACITY and efficiency of the US grain shipping network will be severely tested in November and December when huge amounts of grain are to be exported, led by the eight million tonnes of corn sold to the
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      Lock icon Korean carriers find going independent a hard road ahead
      653 24 Lloyd's Maritime Asia TO BE FAIR, it was not a deal that the conference could easily change. The FEFC In 1968 was struggling with the fundamental problem of how to absorb ths bigger ships snd services demanded by its members to
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      2099 24 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Ship Voy Arrival Tronstalnor Schoduloo Blk Op Gdn Dato/Tlmo Tim# From Tlmo To Booking Goto am (isn Mil* ww 31/in m/isd na t aa in 3A* Dotto 2 Mi 1*07 V 10* I WO ll/MO 31/1W tak 2
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      215 25 Reuter IRAQ ACCUSED IRAN on Saturday of attacking one of its tugs in the northern Qulf, killing a crewman, and vowed to retaliate against any future raids. The Iraqi news agency INA said two Iranian gunboats fired on the tug on Wednesday
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      899 25 CHARTERING conditions were quieter on Friday but the Baltic Freight Index continued to rise, gaining nine points to 1,636 Brokers said a firmer U5516.50 was rumoured to have been fixed for a heavy grain cargo (usually 52,000 long tons) from the US North Pacific to Japan, which would
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      139 23 INSIDE Tough going but worthwhile EIGHT MONTHS after quitting the Far Eastern Freight Conference, Korean carriers may find the market tougher than they could have foreseen, but it is all rather better than the no-growth future virtually assured them by the deal with the FEFC they Jeft behind In January.
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      38 24 Please not* that delivery of containers from blocks H5 and J5 Is restricted between 1500 and 2100 hours on 31.10.89 The Shipping List Is held beck due to lack of apace. The complete list will be published tomorrow.
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      131 24 SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. OCT 31, 1989 LEGCNO- > T1 Weother direction with tpeed »> knot* V c£U Sky Wove height SuHoce wind* ore indicated by arrow* wtxti My with the wwid One Mi circle represent* cotm or kght ond variable wm<H One halt Heche represent*
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