The Business Times, 21 April 1978

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 218/1/78 FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1978 SO CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 50 1 Reuter JAKARTA, Thurs. Indonesia has pledged continuing support for Malaysia In Its negotiations with Britain to settle the question of overflight rights for the Concorde airliner, Communications Minister Air Marshal Rusmin Nuryadin said today. The minister said this following talks with his Malaysian counterpart Tan Sri Manickavasagam. Reuter.
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    • 62 1 Reuter TOKYO, Thurs. Australia and Japan will hold special talks tomorrow on a demand put forward by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser that agricultural products should be included In the Oeneva multinational trade liberalisation talks. Australian officials said Mr. Fraser would meet Nobuhiko Ushlba, Japanese Minister for External
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    • 54 1 AFP LONDON, Thurs. Trade unions at Ford have protested against excessive Imports by the company, which they say are harming the British economy. In the first quarter of this year, Imports from West Germany, Belgium, Spain and Ireland totalling 41,267 cars accounted for about onethird of Ford cars
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    • 91 1 AP NEW YORK, Thurs. General Motors Corp., which makes nearly half the new cars sold in the United States, has edged out Exxon Corp. to recapture the top spot on the Fortune magazine list of America's 500 largest corporations. For the previous three years, the giant
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    • 40 1 Reuter PARIS, Thurs.— France's trade'surplus rose to 1.19 billion francs (***** million) last month from 64 million francs in February, the Forelsm Trade Ministry said today. Exports totalled 31.13 billion francs while imports cost 29.94 billion. Reuter
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    • 61 1 Reuter LONDON, Thurs. The London Stock Exbi S£est, tomorrow starts a new type of highly speculative dealing in what is the latest American fashion to have hit Europe. Its critics have condemned it as a dangerous form of gambling and London's Influential business dally, the Financial Times, recently
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    • 69 1 Reuter ZURICH, Thurs. The Swiss National Bank said It will hold to the planned expiry on April 30 of the agreement whereby It contracts forward foreign exchange deals at preferential rates with the textile and clothing Industry. However, it has declared Its readiness to provide exchange guarantees
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    • 64 1 UPI NEW YORK. Thurs. Stocks soared in nearrecord trading early today in response to the Treasury's decision late last night to sell gold monthly to prop up the ailing dollar abroad. The Dow Jones industrial average was 12.55 points ahead to 820.60 shortly before 11 am, with advances
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 126 1 Rises Most octive Com Plant 610 +35 API 287,000 API 176 17 Faber Merlin 216,000 CSu|iri 304 14 Sime Darby 174.000 Sth Miii Ind 145 11 Sin Chew 170 oon Perlis Plant Batu Kawan Lien Hoe 255 155 187 10 10 +9 Total Turnover: 5.25 m Total
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    • 158 1 Rites Most active Jeram 250.0 Consplant Wrts 270.0 Consplant 189.0 A.P.I. 177.0 C. Sugars 310.0 S. Darby 235.0 Kramat 650.0 Carlsberg 456.0 Lien Hoe 193.0 HlfcLo 284.0 +0.58 +0.26 +0.18 +0.16 +0.16 +0.15 +0.15 +0.12 +0.11 +0.10 A P I 629,000 Consplant 515,000 Slme Darby 393.000 KL
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  • 1163 1 TREASURY TO HOLD SIX AUCTIONS Reuter AP THE US DOLLAR soared and gold plunged on European markets yesterday following the announcement that the United States planned to tap its huge gold reserves to support Its weakened currency. Gold plummeted more than US$5 (S$ll) on
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  • 72 1 THE International Monetary Fund has released invitations to bid for the next monthly gold auction to be held on May 3. The amount on sale will be 525,000 ounces, with the minimum bid fixed at 1,200 ounces. The bid price method will be used during
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  • 142 1 TRADE talks started on Wednesday between Asean and US trade officials ended yesterday with a constructive exchange of views. t A Joint statement said that important areas in the multilateral' trade negotiations were constructively discussed. The statement also said the US delegation will be having further bilateral consultations
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  • 519 1  -  By COLIN CHEE THE UNITED Overseas Bank's five-year US$25 million (SssB million) floating rate note (FRN), announced barely two weeks ago, has been twice oversubscribed. The FRN Issued at par in both the Euro and Asian dollar bond markets is pegged at per cent above the
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  • 160 1 OFFICIALS attending the special executive committee meeting of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) now In progress In Kuala Lumpur see no major hurdles in agreeing on a producers' draft of the proposed International Natural Rubber Price Stabilisation Agreement. The producers' draft together
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  • 270 1 SINGAPORE'S external trade made a strong recovery last month to more than offset the decline in February. Total trade in March came to $4.33 billion compared with $3.41 billion in February and January's $4.21 billion. The March recovery brought total trade for the
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  • 412 1  -  •y TOH THIAN SER INVESTOR confidence In Overseas Union Enterprise. owner of Mandarin Hotel, has been well-jus-tified with the group reporting a quadrupling of 1977 pre-tax profits to $5.26 minion from $1.2 million previously. OUE, which also owns a mufti-storey carpark and shopping centre at
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    • 143 1 LATEST ISSUE The iatest Issue-of the ASEAN Business Quarterly follows two major themes: The modernisation of rural areas and world markets for toys and games. The former attempts to get at the roots of economic motivation among 80% of the ASEAN population. The latter explores the British, American, West German
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    • 75 1 Leader Page 6 gaga SHIPPING TIMES LUXOR to make TVs here 2 IBM computer for central clearing house 2 IMPACT of Sea-Land rebate disclosures 5 LETTER from America 8 LEGISLATION unsettles German labour 8 FORUM with John Dryedais 9 HUSSEIN replies to *NBP criticism f SPECIAL travel supplsmsnt .lf>lt CHEMICAL
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  • TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    • 587 2  -  NO THREAT IN TALKS ■y KADIR JASIN SHELL emerges from the 12-month protracted negotiations with Malaysia's Petronas and Mitsubishi for the setting up of the USSI billion (552.3 billion) liquefied natural gas project in Bintulu with a stronger belief that the country offers attractive
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    • 154 2 SECURITIES Clearing and Computer Service#, an ancillary organisation ofthe Stock Exchange of Singapore, has selected IBM Singapore to Instal an IBM Computer System 370 Model 138 for Its central clearing house when it begins operations next year. The proposed system will provide hardware and software safeguards to
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    • 583 2  -  »r RONNIE LIM LUXOR Singapore, which has been supplying colour television components to Luxor Industri AB, Sweden's leading consumer electronics manufacturer will embark on local production of a 14-lnch colour set from June. With this upgrading to the manufacture of comSlete sets here, Luxor
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    • 470 2 Reuter AFP JAPAN was the biggest fcuyer of Malaysian raw materials last year, accounting for MS 1.7 billion or 18 per cent of the total export of the commodity. The Minister of Primary Industries, Datuk Amar Haji Talb Mahmud, told the Senate on Wednesday that the raw
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    • 524 2 VICE PRESIDENT Walter Mondale will set out on his trip to South-east Asia well briefed not only on the region's political and economic problems but on Its culture and cuisine as well. The Vice President and Mrs. Mondale were guests of honour at. a weekend (April 14) reception
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    • 261 2 MELBOURNE will play host to the Third Asian Trade and Pacific Trade Fair to be held from June 2 to 11 next year. When the Second Asian Trade Fal§ was held in Melbourne last year, it attracted official government displays from 12 Asian countries, as
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    • 136 2 Reuter THE THAI Industry Ministry said it has set a production ceiling of 21 million tonnes of sugarcane during the 1978/79 season to prevent oversupply and sugarcane planters have been asked not to enlarge the area under cultivation. As a member of the International Sugar Agreement (ISA), Thailand
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    • 474 2 AFP UPI THE AUSTRALIAN Meat and Livestock Corporation has applied precautionary restraint on' the rates of shipment of beef to the United States, chairman Roy Jones said yesterday. Mr. Jones said In a statement, "After consultation with the exporter and abattoir consultative
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    • 205 2 MR. ELLIOT Helt, vicepresident of Greyhound International, will be here to promote its services. Mr. Helt will explain the way in which tourists In the US can see the country in a leisurely manner by deluxe coach. This mode of travel caters specially to travellers
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    • 94 2 THE CHAIRMAN of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, Mr. Tan I Tong, will open Food Asia, an International food, drink, catering and hotel equipment exhibition at the Hyatt Hotel on April 26. More than 200 manufacturers and suppliers from 13 countries Including Australia, Canada,
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    • 187 2 DATE TITLE LOCATION ORGANISER COURSES AND TALKS tr New concepts In desk-top calculator^ Hyatt iKRK ApU May 13 Middle management course SITC SITC April 24 Effective Report Writing Hilton Consulasla April 24- Employee Training May 6,13, The effective 20 secretary Hilton SIM conference room POD SIM May 8-9
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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    • 1549 3 o* D The Swiss Bank Corporation in 1977 At the end of 1977, total assets amounted to Sfr. ***** million, higher by Sfr. 2900 million or 5.6% over the year before. The increase was wholly accounted for by our branches in Switzerland; our foreign branches also registered notable gains in
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 512 4 PRICES here yesterday were marked down slightly at the outset but the market later rose steadily on speculative and upcountry buying and forward demand, particularly July/September and October /December, to close at the morning's highs. Profit-taking at the highs was well absorbed. Turnover was moderate. The
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    • 293 4 Prices In emu per kilo yesterday 1 Noon [per kilo) Close [per kilo) Int. 1 R.8.8 prompt f.o.b. Int. 1 R.8.8. May Int. 1 R.8.8. June Int. 2 R.8.8. UK/Cont Int. 3 R.8.8. UK/Com Int. 4 R.8.8. UK/Cont Int. 3 R.8.8. UK/Cont. Buyers 202.73 203.23 204.23 198.23 197.23
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    • 97 4 NOON S8R and SMR prices yesterday: May June HAS (Cur natMtfc) (Fsr ward Mlh) Bvyw I Sellers Buyer Sellers <"■ taper kg) (CM its per kg) SSR20 (1-ton pallet) 105.00 197.00N 106.00 196.00N S8R50 mn n (1-ton pallet) 183 00 195.00N 194.00 196.00N SMR5CV (1-ton pallet) 216.00
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    • 88 4 C.I.F. North European porta, In US dollar* per ton unleas otherwise stated. LONDON: Malaysia 5* ffa bulk per tonne June Sumatra 5% (fa bulk ft? June July August September Nigeria 5* fta bulk stg W»d—day 000air 860 sir 837.50 alr/835 pd 815 Sir/804.50/810 pd 800 alr/500/592.50 pd 585
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    • 30 4 Rubber: April 20 Singapore: May 204.50 cents (up 1.50 centa). Malaysia: May 210.00 cents (up 2.25 centa). Tin: >1,530 (up $10) Official offering: 187 tonne* (down 51 tonne*)
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    • 212 4 BANGKOK rice prices were quoted with rises of US$3 to $7 yesterday. (Prices In US dollars per tonne f.0.b.. basts Bangkok): White Rice: 100 pet Ist class 442. 100 r:t 2nd class 427, 100 pet 3rd class 422. pet 413. 10 pet 400, 15 pet 392. 20 pet 387,
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    • 69 4 THE MALAYSIAN Minister of Finance has fixed these rates from yesterday until further notice: Rubber: 206 cents per kilo. Com: M 5897.01 a ton Palm Kernel: M 5239 03 a ton The rates of duties payable are: Rubber: 35 1/8 cents per kilo (research cess 1 cent a
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    • 412 4 THE RETURN of overseas buying interests made for steady to firm conditions on the Singapore produce market yesterday. White pepper prices rose by $10 per plcul and the blacks by $5. West European countries were in the market for white pepper and dealers reported some deals concluded. Some
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    • 409 4 ROBUSTA futures ended the opening call In London yesterday irregular and mostly €5 to £24 per tonne down from Wednesday night. An exception was spot May which gained £5. Turnover was 334 lots. Spot May traded at £1,557 stg after an Initial rise of I*l2 at €1,564. September lost
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    • 218 4 THE LONDON dally raw and white sugar price remained unchanged yesterday at £99 and £104.50. respectively. On Wednesday, sugar futures closed £1.25 to £0.70 per tonne down and the turnover totalled 2,980 lots including 31 options. Market sources said that after initially holding around the morning's lower levels, prices
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    • 144 4 TERMINAL cocoa In London yesterday finished a lengthy but not particularly active first call with on-balance gains of £0.50 to £17.50 having initially traded down from New York by £17.50 in near May at £2,020 per tonne. Dealers attributed the recovery to lower sterling and continuing underlying resale physical
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    • 267 4 CHICAGO soybean futures ended a light, nervous trade with prices mostly lower on Wednesday. May closed up two US cents a bushel while other Months lost two to 7V» cents. Prices moved to either side of Tuesday's close, covering about a 15-cent range In nearbys and a sixcent range
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    • 152 4 Reuter A HOUSE Agriculture Subcommittee In Washington has voted to ban most commodity options trading until the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) can prove to Congress that It can successfully regulate the field. The panel acted as It began Its final work on a
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    • 186 4 THE STRAITS tin price In Penang yesterday rose Mslo to $1,530 per plcul, on an official offering down 51 tonnes to 187 tonnes. Despite continued weakness In London on Wednesday, the market rose following decreased supplies of tin concentrates from miners. Generally, buying demand was particularly encourated from
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    • 89 4 LEAD finished the morning with all round gains of £1 per tonne in London yesterday. The early pre-market declined in sympathy with the trend In copper although the lower levels attracted short-covering, some of which dealers thought was prompted by physical sales to the USSR, although the actual tonnage
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    • 99 4 ZINC finished the morning C 6 higher all round in London yesterday. Dealers noted that the recent selling in this metal appeared to be somewhat overdone and. as a result, short-covering and some fresh buying interest lifted Three Months from £291 on the pre-market ud to £297 during late
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    • 205 4 THE SUGAR market closed about 0.15 US cents higher in continued dull and featureless trading yesterday, ahead of the long weekend holiday. Turnover was steady at four lots, all In September delivery. The Hongkong dally spot sugar price eased 0.10 cents to T4O US cents. Sugar futures closing
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    • 189 4 YARN and cotton In Hongkong dollars, spot ex-godown: Cotton Yarn: China blue phoenix 201s 1.770. 32s 2.080. 40s 2,200 (per bale of 400 lbs). Piece Goods: China Butterfly and Globe Brand unq. Dragon Head una. Five Lambs una. Flower and Butterfly unq. Flying Oeese unq. (per piece to
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    • 81 4 WHEAT futures finished 2* to IK US cents a bushel lower but about four cents about the day's lows in Chicago on Wednesday. Trading was light through most of the session as prices swung to either side of the previous close In an eight-cent range. Local and commissionhouse buying
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    • 344 4 COPPER wire bars finished the mornlna In London yesterday showing allround losses of £3 per tonne. Values came under pressure on the pre-market from commission-house liquidation following the sharp decline In gold which tended to offset the easier trend In sterling against the US dollar. But moderate shortcovering and
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    • 167 4 SILVER on the London Metal Exchange was up 1.3 pence all round on Wednesday. The market was relatively steady during the afternoon although values drifted back following a downturn at New York. The morning market reflected overnight gains In US futures and the moderate rise In gold with the
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    • 546 4 THE KILOBAR tn SlngaSre yesterday opened at 13,089 and crashed to as low as $12,841 before recovering to close slightly higher at $12,916 In active trading. The price fell right from the start after the announcement by the US Treasury that it planned to sell 300,000 ounces of gold
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
      • 453 4 THE US dollar firmed in foreign exchange markets yesterday following the US gold auction announcement but eased later in the afternoon when profittakers moved In. Opening at 222.60/70 against the yen, the dollar quickly shot up to a high of 224.80/50 in heavy trading. Profit-taking, however, brought the
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      • 67 4 THE PRIME rate of moat commercial bank* in Singapore now stands at 7 per cent. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation is still offering 6*4 per cent to its best customers while United Commercial Bank is maintaining its prime rate at 7 < per cent. The stated prime rate of
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      • 228 4 Asian CD rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on April 20: I S Dollar (Spoil Offer Bid 7 days 7 1/16 8 15/18 1 mth 1/4 7 1/8 2 mths ....7 3/8 7 1/4 3 mths 7 1/2 7 3/8 0 mths 7 13/18 7 11/18 9
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      • 45 4 RANGE of prices offered by discount houses on April 20: Overnight 3*% Call deposit 3* to 3ta% CMaf Bayta* SslllM 3-Month Treasury bills 31/4 31/8 3-Month Bank bills 413/16 411/16 3-Month CD 4 15/16 413/16 6-Month CD S1/4 51/8 Source: National Discount Co Ltd.
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      • 159 4 Euro rates LONDON Eurodollar deposit rates yesterday opened higher in active trading following the New York Federal Reserve Bank's moves to drain excess reserves from the banking system. Period rates were adJusted higher for the loss of the Friday dealing date and, in addition gains of between 1/8 to 3/16
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      • 58 4 FRANKFURT exchanges opening quotes on April 20: U8 2 0630/ 45 (2.0433/ 43) Can 1 7906/ 25 Stg 3 772/ 702 D Ft 93.70/ 91 8 Fr 106 55/ 00 Lit 2.30/ 30 F Fr 44.77/ 92 N Kr 30 00/ 10 B Fr (con) 0.421/ 431 B Fr
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      • 285 4 THE DOLLAR yesterday opened sharply higher here after news that the US Treasury plans monthly 300,000 ounce gold sales beginning May 23 and was underpinned by signs that the US Federal Reserve is moving to tighten US credit to help curb Inflation. Dealers said trade is lively and two
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      • 256 4 BOLSTERED by indications that the Federal Reserve may be moving to tighten monetary policy, the dollar closed at its best levels of the day after a moderately active session on Wednesday. The Fed's action in draining bank reserves when Federal funds were trading at per cent particularly since
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      • 147 4 THE US dollar yesterday closed firmer in active trading here after demand for the currency was triggered by news that the US plans to hold at least six monthly auctions of 300,000 ounces of gold each, dealers said. Most interest centred around the mark and yen where the dollar
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      • 166 4 AFTER opening unchanged from Wednesday's close at 222.00, the US dollar for overnight delivery yesterday closed sharply higher at 224.40 yen. Trading was active with volume US$5l5 million. The US currency rose sharply on increased dollar buying by both foreign and Japanese banks following the gold auction news from
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      • 56 4 ZURICH exchanges closing quotes on April 19: US 1.9155-0175 STO 3 5337-5374 Can 1 0092-4715 D Mk 93.59*4-7119 D F1 07 0093-9015 F Fr 41 0150-9063 B Fr 6 0253-0352 O Kr 34 0960-1433 N Kr 35.6107-6630 S Kr 41.7156-7663 Lit 0 2228-2231 Au» Kh 12.0163-01*7 Port 4 .0060-6230
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      • 57 4 AUSTRALIA and New Zealand exchanges on April 20: AUBTRALIA: US dollar 1.1412/ 1.13*4 Sterling 0.0230/ 0.019* Ninety-day air mall buying rate* Sterling 0.6403 US doUar 1.1712 Ninety-day forward buying rata* Sterling 0.6230 U8 dollar 1.1364 NEW ZEALAND: Sterling 0.563*/ 0 5609 US dollar 1.0220/ 1 0120 Ninety-day airmail buying
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  • TRANSPORT
    • 504 5 UPI Reuter JAPANESE Transport Minister Kenjl Fukunaga said the government would discuss a proposed plan this week to allow the Japanese shipbuilding industry buy and scrap worn-out foreign vessels. He told the House of Representatives that the plan is aimed- at helping
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    • 180 5 AP FRANCE has proposed sweeping changes in international maritime law including a drive to "rip out the roots" of the flag of convenience system, following the Amoco Cadiz pollution disaster. A paper presented to a current meeting of the UN Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation in
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    • Article, Illustration
      415 5 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Bunga Serola (1200 after Hoegh Opal) 33/34 Cherry Vllja (B. Barge) (after Mobil Service) 48 Dolly Turman (1100 after Ocean Esperance) 1/2 Hongkong Mall (after Agjathls Juneau Maru) Kal Yun (0600) 10/11 Kyoten Maru (0930) 18 Mobil Service (B. Barge) >0700 after
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    • 168 5 AFP THAILAND will operate its first commercial flight to Hanoi on May 17. Thai Airways Company said Vietnam is expected to operate its first commercial flight to Bangkok at about the same time. Vietnam and Thailand signed an air services agreement during Vietnamese
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    • 82 5 Reuter US GENERAL Electric Co said its General Electric Credit Corp. subsidiary acquired the 190,000 deadweight ton B. T. Alaska from National Steel and Shipbuilding Co (a venture of kaiser Industries Corp. and Morrlson-Knudsen Co. Inc), for US$B4.4 mlllion(Ssl9s million). The company said it made
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    • 97 5 UPI THE US Department of Commerce announced its intention to sell the liner S.S. United States, which it bought in 1973 for US$4.6 million (5510.7 million). The marine administration section of the Commerce Department said it would accept bids from a minimum of $5 million,
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    • 856 5  -  By TERESA LIM SEA-LAND Service's disclosures of past rebate practices has paved the way for similar voluntary disclosures by other US lines. All these will help the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) In its efforts to forge stable freight rates for US shipping in
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    • 165 5 THE 500,000-dwt 'Esao Atlantic" ia the largeat tanker to be built in Japan and ia alao one of the largest tankers in the world. It ia accond only to the two 550,000-dwt tanker a owned by Societe Maritime Shell of France. The hull geometry of
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    • 568 5 NYT THE UNITED States won another significant aeronautical victory over Britain on Wednesday when an International meeting In Montreal endorsed the American-fostered concept tor systems to guide planes when landing in bad weather. The vote, taken by the member states of the International Civil
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    • 219 5 UPI BULK carriers stole the limelight on the London freight market which displayed a particularly healthy tone In the Western Hemisphere on Wednesday. Rapnaely paid U555,700 Bit day to the 30,846 dwt irlls (built 1977) for an April-May trip from Brownsville to the Persian Gulf while Orionbel
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    • 683 5 1 ARRIVALS e Service Local t Operator Number Time From KAL KE807 0050 SEL 1 PAA PA005 0215 SFO/HKG 1 MAS MH682 0725 KCH 3 MAS MH671 0945 PEN/KUL CPA CX710 1005 HLP GIA GA980 1030 HLP SIA SQ209 1045 HLP 5 GIA GA944 1055 PKU f
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    • 179 5 SINTAT Rent-a-Car SINGAPORE AIRPORT TEL *****5 CITY TEL *****55 -f Call us for your local or onward reservations COLLECTINQ Oriental Anticwej by Judith Moorhouse and Dries Blitz [3 Hamlyn Group, London. Oriental antiques have always fascinated collectors throughout the world, evoking as they do the exotic and inscrutable East. It
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • 546 6 TOKYO INVESTORS adopted a wait and see attitude displaying caution am high share prices. Blue chips stopped rising on a broad front, although they opened at moderately high prices following Wednesday's gains. On the other hand, selective buying of Individual issues was strong. Incentive backed blue chips
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    • 371 6 EARLY trading wax rather listless yesterday but the market firmed up as the morning wore on with selective Interest In shares such as HK Land, Hutchison Whampoa and HK Wharf. When HK Wharf shot through the 18.00 level (at which price the eight per cent convertible loan stock could
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    • 321 6 THE market closed generally lower yesterday with BHP falling four cents to A 56.44 on large turnover after the recent increased dividend. Dealers said the Wales fell four to 5.36, CBA five to 2.35, Ez Industries five to 2.15, Peko two to 5.02, Pancontlnental 20 to 10.30, Queensland Mines
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    • 122 6 THE market closed lower yesterday \~lth all averages declining but turnover rose to 3.37 million pesos from Wednesday's 2.63 million. All leading issues In minings, commercials and oils decline moderately as metal prices .abroad were low. apr a* Pesos AcojeMining 0078 -0 0004 Atlas Con. A Atlas Con. B.
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    • 155 6 FA ROI'EAX MA liKF'/S L -1 FRANKFURT share prices were mostly mixed to weaker, though the majority were quoted at the close above the day's low, bourse sources said on Wednesday. AMSTER&AM share prices weakened over a broad front led by Akzo and Royal Dutch among Dutch Internationals,
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    • 210 6 APR It Dm Aef-Telefunken 86.10 -1 Akzo 23 SOB Allz Leben AllzVers 472 -3 BASF 136 80 Bay H T Wbank 282 -1 Bay Vbank 309 SOB Bayer 138 20 -0.8 BBC 289.50 +0.5 BMW 214 unch Cassella 365 unch Chem Verw 243B Commerzbank 231 -1 Contl Gumml 74.60
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    • 207 6 APR I* FU ABN 356 00 •1 Ahold 108 50 +0.3 Akzo 25 50 -0.7 AMEV 82.90 unch Amfas 10# 50 -0 8 Amrot Bank 77.20 +0.3 Bergoss Berk 55.80 -0.2 89 00 unch Bo Is 69 50 -3 BorsumlJ 150 10 1.1 Burhmann 68.00 unch Byenkorf 84 50
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    • 266 6 apr ir Frs CORBEILLE Air-Llquide B S N Gervals Danone CSF(ThomsonCsf) Cle Francaise des Petroles Compagnle Flnanclere Compagnle Generate Credit Foncler De France Hachette (Libralrie) Machines Bull Michelin (B) Parlbas Pechiney CIglne Kuhlmann Peugeot -CI troe n Philips (NvOem Bezlt) Prlnteim>sSA Rhone-Poulenc SA Royal Dutch Suezt Cle Flnan De)
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    • 182 6 APR I* Franc* Actions Sutssps 287 1 Alusuivse Br 1190 -20 Alusulsse Reg. MS -5 Brown Boverl Br. 1595 •10 Clba Oelgy Br 1185 •15 Clba Oelgy PC 855 -5 Clba Oelgy Reg. MS -3 Credit 8ulsw Br 2185 -S Credit Suisse Reg 418 -8 ElektrowattBr. H10B 10 Oeorge
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    • 94 6 APR I* Fri FORWARD MARKET Acec 200 unch Arbed 2140 -10 stur 814 Brascan 4M *4 Btu-Lamb 1560 -15 Canpac 484 -5 Cock 380 -3 De Beers 154 ♦2 Ebes 2450 unch Electro bel 6300 ♦20 Qb-Inno-Bm 2100 -50 Oe* 1360 -20 Hobofc 2455 -90 Petro 4170 -56 Ryl
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    • 95 6 APR I* Lire Ante 98 90 •2 AsaocOen ***** ♦300 Bailor 398 +8 Centra* 3345 -8 Flat 1925 +21 Flnslder 79.50 ♦4.5 0«n Immot 76 -1 75 IFIPrl 206® ♦7 Italcementl KH85 ♦85 IUl«aj 821 -14 Italslder 142.75 ♦8.75 MmgneU M PI 458 ♦22 Marelli Ere 271 13 Mxltob
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    • 347 6 THE market closed on a firm note In active trade on Wednesday. with the composite Index up nearly 1/2 point. Nine sub-groups were higher and five fell but declines outnumbered advances 230 to 227. Alcan Aluminium at 31-1/4, B.C Forest at 27 and Sterling Trust at 11-1/2 climbed one
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    • 1013 6 NEW YORK Tk£ stock market. buoyed by continued strength and stability In the dollar, moved cautiously ahead after pulling back on Tuesday under a spate of proflttaklng. The market managed to overcome some midday retreat that followed news the Federal Reserve may have moved to tighten
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    • 65 6 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 114* to 115* H.K. HANG SENG Wednesday Ml .6 448.91 Tuesday 453.5 Wednesday 442 86 Week Ago 460.2 442 IS DOW JONE8 AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Wednesday SOS.04 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Thursday 410.95 WH npvla v 410 25 Tuesday 803.21 403.80 Week Ago 766.29 ALL OR1 DIN
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    • 850 6 NYT LONDON: The stampede into the New York stock market has excited European Investors but the majority have not joined In the rush to buy American stocks. When everybody has been talking about fundamental problems, what do a few days of price surges
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    • 830 6 ACTIVIST shareholders are developing an increased sophistication In filing resolutions on social, political and environmental issues, analysts of such proposals and officials of the US Securities and Exchange Commission report, while the commission Itself is showing greater leniency in the resolutions It win accept for shareholder
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    • 1445 6 April 19 TRADING on the Chicago Board Options Exchange was 222,458 contracts on Wednesday compared with 248,412 on Tuesday. OPTION APL JLY OCT STOCK Alcoa Alcoa 40 4 41/4 41/4 437/8 46 3/16 11/4 11/1 437/8 Alcoa 90 UNTRD NOL NOL 437/8 Alcoa 90 UNTRD NOL NOL
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 187 7 NORTH AMERICAN COMPANIES Reuter MERRILL Lynch and Company reported its worst quarterly profits since it went public in 1971. The nation's largest US stock brokerage firm attributed the poor showing to a weak stock market in the first two months of the year.
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    • 81 7 KAISER Cement and Gypsum Corp said it agreed in principle to a tax-merger with Medusa Corp of Cleveland for about $150 million. Terms of the agreement call for Medusa shareholders to receive either $47 a share cash, or 2.5 shares of Kaiser Cement common. The combined company
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    • 488 7 Reuter CHASE Manhattan Corp shareholders at the annual meeting approved an increase In the number of authorised preferred shares to seven million from two million. Chairman David Rockefeller said in response to a shareholder question the bank has no immediate plans to sell the additional
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    • 242 7 Reuter UNIROYAL Inc, which reported a $2.7 million first quarter loss, expects more normal results for the second quarter. as overall company business strengthened in March, president J.F. Flannery said in remarks prepared for delivery at the annual meeting. The current quarter's loss, he noted.
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    • 425 7 EUROPEAN COMPANIES Reuter LONDON: Currency movements may have cost Royal Dutch Shell between £200 million and £300 million In the first quarter under FAS 8 accounting policy, the company said in a statement here. Royal Dutch Issued the statement ahead of reported results
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    • 154 7 UPI ROME: Italy's Agip Company signed contracts on Tuesday to prospect for oil In two offshore areas in Vietnamese waters, the Italian news agency Ansa reported from Hanoi. It said Agip, a subsidiary of Italy's National Hydrocarbon Agency, signed the two service contracts
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    • 276 7 LONDON: Lloyds of London, British stronghold of the world insurance market, fended off American takeover bids for two of its companies. Its ruling committee said that no outside Insurance interest may. normally hold more than 20 per cent of a Lloyds broking company. The decision will
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    • 247 7 AP THE price of Japanesebuilt cars is going up again in the United States. Nissan USA on Tuesday announced a 5.4 per cent boost on Datsun cars and pickup trucks sold in this country. The latest Datsun increase averaged US$265 per car
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    • 259 7 LOANS LONDON: The Swedish state oil company, Svenska Petroleum, Is raising a $100 million Euroloan from a limited number of International banks which will help finance development of the Valhall oil field in the North Sea, Euromarket bankers said here.
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    • 49 7 Reuter TOKYO: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) said it will issue 60 billion yen bonds on the Japanese domestic market later this month. The bonds will be priced at 99.50 per cent with a coupon or 6.2 per cent to yield 6.281 per cent, it said.
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    • 389 7 ASIAN COMPANIES HONGKONG: Hutchison Whampoa Ltd chief executive Bill WyNle said the group will achieve "a very acceptable level of profits" for 1978. He declined to make a specific forecast or to comment on analysts' estimated of HK$23O million to 235 million before deduction
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    • 35 7 Reuter HONGKONG, China Light and Power Co Ltd declared second interim dividend of 23 cents (20) making total so far of 46 (40) for year ending Sept. 30. Books close on May 13.
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    • 257 7 SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANIES Reuter I ANOLO Transvaal Conso- lldated Investment Co Ltd said results for group gold i mines for the quarter ended March 31 are as follows, in order; taxed profit (million rand), gold produced (kilos), yield In grams/ j tonne and cost (rand per
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    • 129 7 JOHANNESBURG consolidated investment Co Ltd said results of group gold mines for the quarter ended March 31 are as follows In order: taxed profit In million rand, gold produced in kilos, yield in grams/ tonne and cost in rand per tonne milled (with previous quarter in brackets).
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 782 7 Reuter FRENCH Premier Raymond Barre announced on Wednesday a 12-month freeze on company, income and value added taxes when he presented his new government's programme to the National Assembly. Seeking a vote of confidence, Mr. Barre said his aim is to achieve lasting stability
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    • 405 7 Reuter UK EMPLOYMENT Minister Albert Booth said he believes the government and trades unions may reach next agreement on pay by August. He told the Scottish Trades Union Congress In Aberdeen that the government will discuss arrangements appropriate for pay and prices to reduce
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    • 177 7 Reuter TAX benefits to encourage investment In shares, proposed in principle by French Premier Raymond Barre, are thought most likely to be made through income tax deductions, Bourse sources said. Mr. Barre gave no specific proposals but the sources noted a government commissioned report published in February recommended
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 453 7 Agencies BRITAIN will provide £22 million (Ss9s million) to Bangladesh over the next five years to help reverse the decline in tea production and improve the conditions of tea estate communities. Output has dropped and the living conditions of tea estate workers worsened since the loss of
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  • 483 8 THE SIZE of the planned sales of gold announced by the United States is plainly aimed at giving the dollar a more stable look In International foreign exchange markets rather than to put the wind up gold speculators. However, the move appears
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  • 282 8 THE Carter Administration is seizing the 0.6 per cent fall In growth rates with alacrity, using it as an opportunity to push Its tax cuts proposal through. At a time when the US economy Is finally making a painstaking climb back to recovery,
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  • 1225 8  -  GERMANY is Buffering from an unhappy paradox legislation designed to increase worker participation (and presumably therefore, also industrial harmony) on company boards of management has created more labour unrest than Germany has seen for a generation. It this a warning against similar plans
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  • 965 8  -  LETTER FROM AMERICA by John Tan PICK UP any copy of the Economist, that renowned British financial publication, and you cannot fall to notice the full-page advertisement which very un-Brltlshly proclaims, "Most states in America offer your business some of these advantages. Only New
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  • 601 8  -  iy WORN EDLUND UPI THE 15 families that largely control socialist Sweden's Industry are losing managerial power even while their share of the economy is growing. In the country often named as a model of socialism, private owners control more than 90 per cent of
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    • 61 8 WEATHER outlook for Singapore from 6 a.m. to noon today: Isolated shouoers. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30 p.m. on April 20 at the airport. Maximum Temperature 32.2° C Associated Humidity 50 Minimum Temperature 23.5° C Associated Humidity 90 Hours of Sunshine 7.7 Rainfall in Millimetres 0.3 Total Rainfall
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    • 257 8 SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM Opening announcements followed by Housewives' Matinee To Attack The Beauty Fort (A Mandarin film) 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Opening announcements followed by Exercise With Gloria 0 6.30 News in Brief 0 6.35 The Tony Randall Show Case: Whatever Happened to Mary Jones? 7.05 In Search Of The
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  • 975 9  -  •y JURY FLINT A NEW WORD Is coming Into the labour negotiators' vocabulary. It is "Glveback". For 30 years the emphasis in bargaining has been on union demands: seniority rights pay, pensions, layoff protection, time off and medical care. Unions are not ignoring their goals,
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  • 1422 9  -  By A. KADIR JASIN DATUK Hussein Onn could not have picked a more fitting occasion to reiterate the Malaysian government's total commitment to the New Economic Policy as a vehicle for the creation of a united, secure, socially Just and resilient nation than the launching
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  • 606 9 THERE is a very good reason why James Corazzini a 50-year-old baker, doesn't have to pay alimony to his wife. He is a woman. A Californian court has ruled that Corrazzini is physically a woman and the couple was therefore never legally married (despite their two
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  • 705 9  -  Br MITSUAKI IWASE UPI AMERICANS abroad might be having a hard time as the dollar spirals ever downward, but for hundreds of Japanese businessmen In the United States It has meant an Increase in salaries and shopping sprees for their wives. Others are not so lucky.
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  • 1038 9  -  r ...0D economics By JOHN DRYSDALE SINCE he never reads this column I feel quit comfortable about disc usslng an interview I had with him and, do so because he doesn't read this, column. I don't bla me 1 Um one bit, but
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    • 56 9 BribtoTAT:FVacjc Dickens TTORHUIG. GGHTItnCK. i Dart'T e»4CoOCFsGt. VAtnn To WlVf-WE. see 6*4ouc?h of WtS T\|flE. KT ujtCH Titles... UKfc ft OF WILp BNTORLS POSHING PVND SHOVIMG TRkfeS us IHC BfeST fIRPT OF OUR vjunch hook to Gerr KN>MH€J2e HEFMi TH£ Cou*rre*. L£.T fcione GeT seßveo J Odd m -ntXriG PIOOOT
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  • BUSINESS TIMES
    • 1857 10  -  By SIVA ARASU THE MORNING is like sandalwood, with a sweetness to the air under skies grained with the yellow dregs of last night's storm. And we are in the Jungle. It Is not a Jungle of sinister mystery or of trees
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    • 664 10 THERE was a time when travel was considered a luxury. Not anymore. Rifting tfflwu* has changed afl that. Today, a holiday is budgeted for like aay other essential expenditure. But unlike other pursuits, travel it still a new recreation with moot people. So it is not
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    • 1165 11  -  ■r SIVA ARASU IF SKIING makes you think the Alpine or Aspen slopes and a prohibitively expensive holiday, cast your *£s'.nearer home. More specifically, this is South Korea's Dragon Valley International Ski Resort at the lofty mountain pass called Taekwallyang, 860 metres
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    • 1213 11 WHEN THE topic Is on gambling, conversation generally focuses on Genting Highlands In West Malaysia, Macao, the Porj tuguese enclave off Hongi kong and occasionally the Ancol Casino in Jakarta, Indonesia. These are excellent gambling spots and very close to home and is
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    • 1300 12 ALL COUNTRIES, creeds and cultures have their own distinctive festivals and holidays. Some like Christmas or New Year. are. widespread while some are celebrated only in tight localities or among closely defined groups of people. Few of the celebrants either know or
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    • 1584 13  -  ■y KSR FOR CULTURAL buffs, Europe Is a paradise. Its long and distinguished cultural tradition has resulted In a core of festivals that normally coincides with the peak tourist season of August/ September. Each city boasts Its own legacy. All major European cities has
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    • 1373 14  -  •y TERESA LIM IF FISHING is your one ?;reat love, the Maldlve slands are paradise on earth. This would be especially true for the avid fisherman with less than noble skills in the old and fine art of garoupa hunting, or whatever your seafood preference
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    • 1021 14  -  By KSR SCOTSMAN. Govofin' a' day, Dae'in nae work at a' Rtnnin' a boot tvi'a bag o' sticks Efter a wee bit ba'. DEVOUT Catholics look forward to the day they will visit the Vatican in Rome. Muslims yearn for the day
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    • 1034 15  -  Ilsa Sharp .THERE IS nothing like bttter experience for teaching you what you really need '•■when travelling, especially in the rough. Take for example how I learned that salt, not matches, were the best way to deal with tropical forest leeches, when
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    • 2571 15  - Nepal —a Shangri-la of infinite charm Br ILSA SHARP IMAGES of Nepal depend rather on your personal standpoint, even if you've already been there. If you go there expecting hippies, drugs, dirt and poverty, you'll have no trouble finding them. If you go there longing for saffron robes, twirling prayer
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    • 248 10 ASEAN Trade Fair '78 May 7 to 21 MANILA The special significance of the first ASEAN Trade Fair. r "W v V v H I X f Jfe J, Enjoy it first on Philippine Airlines' special "Friend of ASEAN" fares. For a limited period only, visitors to Manila will enjoy
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    • 337 11 v f,^sJke w •>» -c; »i flcnr> jp*#i.s£ "~*m *vo >♦ x ~l' ,i~X, On your way to Europe, why not see Pakistan, the country that has such a variety of landscapes and climates we call it our country of countries. Pakistan International will fly you to Europe via their
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 261 12 Global Your assurance of the best value in European Holidays Here are 8 good reasons why you should see Europe with Global. Thirty Years a Best-Seller— Global with over 30 years experience, is a wellknown name in Europe and S.E. Asia. Your Global CoachGlobal operates only the most modern and
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    • 317 13 Fly Korean. It& about experience. It's about the kind of experience that matters. Fly Korean and youH fly with real experience. Like the captains of our widebodied jets. They're all million-mile pilots. Without exception. Few airlines can match the toughness of our training programmes, both in the air and on
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    • 261 13 Well show you more of the world. Alitalia has as many as 9 services out of South-east Asia alone. Alitalia makes 9 departures a week from South-east Asia's three major gateways Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong. And you have a choice of flying 747s or DC-10s. With such a comprehensive
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    • 233 14 Pan Am's World presents America 78 h- L Lot Angele* Ditneykutd IV. I 1 ;■> W\ i < ML I Nfclfc fey t: La* Vegai z&m Sam Fnutcuco 18 dajs in USA and Canada $3756 Fly Pan Am's R-747-SP via Hong Kong to beautiful, bountiful, beckoning America for a holiday-of-a-lifetime.
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    • 243 15 s m •g. f. m. m •a m w V w' m a I Va m j h a I' J««S !!9 .51;=*3S \> 52? 111 l \'V/ i Ci 1 M© as t ©P^ s x <0 >£-* V-* IT*"' V i 1 A well-read person is a well
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  • 2466 16 1*7> *Hl«k Low Cwiptay Lut Sal* ♦«rGfc's Dhr Dhr C*TT <**• YH IS Val C66»> Day Hick Lmm 4 SECnONONE INDUSTRIALS *181 •213 •136 *225* *72 Mi >47 ,183 ■334 *420 •140 132 123* 112 195* 60* 191 144 256 394 123 Acma Alcom Allied Choc Bata
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  • 1710 16 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIAL* Aitnamata (2.H8) XALU Alcam (1.918 1 Ml) XALL Ala« Maid
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  • 1638 16 810 and offer prices officially luted and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the world "sett". Big Board
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  • 131 16 1/2% 15/8/78 (100.000) (1) 100.60 5 1/4% 15/18/79 (250.000) (101 308 101.60S) 5 3/4% 1/8/78-80 250,000) (2) 102.45 4 3/4% 15/9/80 (250.000) (100 208 100.40S) 5% 15/4/81 (250.000X2) 100.70 5% T F 15/10/81 (250.000) (102.70B) 5% T F 1/5/83 (250,000) (100.458 100.555) 5 3/4% T F 15/8/81-84 250,000)
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  • 73 16 STRIKING prices of the stock options officially listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore, the periods, bid and offer prices and business done yesterday, with the number of options traded shown in brackets. C and C (June 82.20) (1.108 1.225). Inchcape (June 81.98) (0.108 0.1 IS) (14) 0.18.
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  • 150 16 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST INCOME BOND UNIT i Manager*' price for April 21) (Curreat pr £M) The Commerce 196 2.08 INCOME BOND 1.04 1.10 The Saving Fund 1.14 1.21 S pore Prog Fund 0 94 0 99 MARA BUMIPUTRA FUND S' pore Security Fund S'pore Invest Fund 1.80 1.91
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  • 745 17 SINGAPORE SPECULATIVE activity in second liner Associated Plastics Industries took it to a high of 11.76 in mixed to steady conditions on the Stock Exchange of Sings* pore yesterday. This counter began one cent lower at 11.58 but shot steeply up to close at $1.76, 10.7
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  • 475 17 VERY active trading conditions were seen In the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday as strong bullish support continued to buoy prices of selected shares considerably higher. Market sentiment was very strong and some counters recorded gains of as much as 16 cents. The buoyant trading conditions yesterday
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 550 17  -  By DAVID CHOW KEEN competition in the flour-making business is apparently taking its toll on Malayan Flour Mills' performance, as its latest results for the financial year to end-December 1977 Indicate. Against the six-fold leap In profits attained in 1976, last year's performance
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    • 154 17 FOLLOWING the suspension of trading in Jardine Matheson (SEA)'s ordinary shares on Monday, April 17, the SES has requested the company to announce full details as soon as possible, after which the suspension would be lifted. The Exchange asked if clearance had been obtained from the
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    • 645 17  -  By GOH HIANG FONG ALMOST four months after the event. Chemical Industries (FE) has informed the Stock Exchange of Singapore that It has invested $3.4 million In a Joint venture property project. The project is being undertaken by the group's 83.3 per cent
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    • 647 17 Currant Bt Books Data Total far Tatalfar previous] M. Bnwwiw payment Dale close payable theyaar 8%I Apr 11 Apr 18 Apr 22 8% 29% K.L. Krpo«( Deb G.E. Life 6 25%(g) Apr 7 Apr 19 Apr 25 10*% 22%(*) Apr 17 Apr 24 Apr 27 33% 29% A.
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    • 181 17 Company Consolidated Particulars Books Close Ex Date Plantation* Kempaa (Malaysia) Sime Darby KramatTin United Overaeaa Bonus Issue of 3 for 1 Bonus Issue of 1 for 4 Bonus Issue of 1 for 1 Bonus Issue of 1 for 5 tiff o Apr 21 Apr 21 Apr 26 Apr
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    • 316 17 HOTEL ASIA 37 Scotts Road, Singapore 9 Tel: *****8 KING'S HOTEL Havelock Road, Singapore 3 Tel: *****1 HOTEL MIRAMAR 401 Havelock Road, Singapore 3 Tel. *****2. CHEQUERS HOTEL 418 Thomson Road, Singapore 11 Tel: *****/7 LADYHILL HOTEL 1 Ladyhill Road, Singapore 10 Tel: *****1 HOTEL NEGARA IS Claymore Drive, Singapore
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  • 504 18 Reuter BAUDI Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd Ibnl Abdul Aziz said his country will continue to work for world monetary stability in spite of heavy losses sustained as a result of exchange fluctuations. Such instability had increased recently and is causing great anxiety to the oil
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  • 245 18 VIVACIOUS blue-eyed blonde, Kathleen Muetlng, Miss World Trade '78, breezed into Singapore last night to promote International trade and convey greetings from the mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Unlike leaders of economic missions who go for cold statistics and highpowered sales talk, Kathleen
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  • 730 18 THE BAD WEATHER IS OVER NYT ECONOMIC growth was temporarily halted In the first quarter, mainly because of bad weather and the coal strike, but activity is perking up again as the second quarter began, the US government reported on Wednesday. Commerce Department
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  • 87 18 Reuter THE US Commerce Department hat revised its estimates of fourth quarter 1977 after-tax corporate profits upward by US$lOO million (Ss23o million) to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $105 billion. After-tax profits for 1977 were unchanged at $102.5 billion compared with $92.1 billion in 1976. Fourth quarter
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  • 621 18 AFP Reuter EXTERNAL Economic Affairs Minister Nobuhiko Ushlba stressed the need for Japan to increase its "emergency Imports" to more than UBs4 billion (559.3 billion) in fiscal 1978, ending next March, to reduce its snowballing current account surplus. Speaking at the Japan National Press Club In
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  • 800 18 LONDON, Thurs. The market closed lower after a moderately active session. At 3 pm the Financial Times index was off 5.8 points at 455.8. Gold shares retreated as the bullion price declined on US plans to hold monthly gold auctions. Heavyweight Issues fell up to US$l (552.33) prior
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  • 135 18 MR. WEE Cho Yaw, president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was yesterday elected the first president of the Singapore Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Vice-presidents are Messrs M. Ohazall Caffoor, Malay Chamber of Commerce, Llm Kee Ming, Chinese
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  • 651 18  -  •r CHARLES CHAN WHILE multinationals operating in Malaysia have contributed to output growth and generated employment, their Impact on the economy has failed to meet the aspirations of the people, a seminar on employment policies was told. In a paper on the impact of multinationals on
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  • 220 18 A CORPS of experts comprising government officers has been suggested to reduce Malaysia's dependence on foreigners. Such a corps could be formed through training and providing as much experience as possible to qualified and capable officers, the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Serl Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said.
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  • 3861 19 SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for Ports around the World The following list tabulates, by port of destination the name of the ship, the shipping Line involved, and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from Singapore port t Conaortluw SeaoDntcb ku Joint service urufontni
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