The Business Times, 21 August 1984

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1984 60 CENTS
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  • 499 1  -  Minimum prices range from $6,725 to $7,370 per square metre By LEE HAN SHIH DEVELOPERS OF Goldhill Square are selling half of the office space in the building for about $100 million on the open market. About 14 floors
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  • 172 1 MALAYSIAN Works Minister Datuk Samy Vellu is expected to announce details of the toll to be introduced in Johore Baru after a Cabinet meeting tomorrow. The Ministry's senior press liaison officer, Mr GS Param, said yesterday that Datuk Samy Vellu was expected to
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  • 540 1  -  By WANG LOOK KEAH, Transport Correspondent QANTAS AIRWAYS has resigned from three airline groupings which fix the minimum price of tickets for travel out of Singapore to Europe, Australia and India. Chairman of the three groupings, Mr Eddie Ong, confirmed the resignation which took
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    60 1 MOST share prices drifted lower in light trading on the Singapore stock market yesterday. Losers led gainers two to one. Blae chip issues failed to perform while seldom-traded issues hogged the limelight. At the final bell, the BT Composite Index had surrendered I.IS points to 827.21 while the
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  • 423 1  -  By SOH TIANG KENG, Banking Correspondent SINGAPORE'S attraction as an offshore fund management centre was championed yesterday by Mr Gerhard Wehr, vicepresident and manager of international investment at the Singapore branch of Chemical Bank. Mr Wehr joined in what looks like becoming a lively
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  • 544 1  -  (ffi) By CHAN OI CHEE CONSTRUCTION-BASED Lim Kah Ngam Ltd (LKN) will be announcing a large issue of 25 million $1 shares to the public soon, probably in early September. BT understands that LKN has received approval for a listing on
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    • 243 1 MORE readers air their OUR VIEW COMPANY NEWS views on the controversy A ~-w created by the stock ex- THE IMPENDING departure of Dr Goh Keng Swee from the ~a f unfoldchange s classification of political centre stage again underlines the important question D f General LumU HniH.nll Pon-Eh shores
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 413 2  -  Good chance for locally made furniture and garment By BOEY KIT YIN LOCALLY-made consumer goods have a potential market in West Germany, although industrial products currently make up the bulk of exports. West Germany, Singapore's largest market in the EEC, is a consumer-oriented economy,
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    • 164 2 MANUFACTURERS and traders who want to get a slice of the West German market can turn to the Trade Development Board's regional office in Frankfurt for help. A total of 64 local companies, doing business ranging from printing and publishing to electronic components, wood and garments,
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    • 578 2 SINGAPORE artists lack a sense of conviction in what they are doing. Their inclination is towards western art favouring abstract paintings, perhaps as a result of his formal overseas training. This rough profile of Singapore artists was drawn from observations made by the judges of
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    • 240 2 LAWRENCE YEO has been appointed assistant vice-president and manager in charge of trading and sales at Dean Witter Capital Markets, International, a member of the Sears financial network. Mr Yeo will be based in Singapore. He was previously manager, capital markets, at Samuel Montagu's Singapore office, and
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    • 250 2  -  By LISA LEE JURONG Town Corporation (JTC) recently awarded two building contracts worth more than $15 million for the building of resettlement workshops in Kampong Übi Industrial Estate. In Phase I of the industrial project at Kampong Übi, Poh Lian Construction beat 27
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    • 95 2 LION-HEADS, silhouettes and Chinese calligraphy from Singapore will take their places with other cultural exhibits from the Asean region at the Asean Centre Exhibition Hall in Tokyo on Thursday. Three artists specialising in these aspects of Singapore culture will demonstrate their skills at the
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    • TRADE TALK
      • 86 3 has patented a new semi-trailer tipper. Twenty of these vehicles are already being used for hauling coal in the Philippines. The Australian company is seeking similar major orders for these vehicles from large bulk haulage businesses in South-east Asia, the Pacific region and the
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      • 70 3 Pte Ltd is to market Medusa, a CAD/ CAM software for two-dimen-sional design drafting and three-dimensional modelling, in Singapore and the region. Medusa is part of a fullyconfigured hardware and software package known as the Medusa System. The software, developed by Cambridge Interactive Systems Ltd, has been used
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      • 76 3 an exhibition of modern office equipment, systems and technology, will be held next year to promote the effective planning and furnishing of workplaces for higher productivity. To be held at the World Trade Centre from April 24 to 27, Office '85 is the first exhibi- tion in Singapore
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      • 60 3 Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based company, has established a new company in Malaysia. Known as Business Press (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, the company will spearhead the publisher's expansion plans in the country. Among the directors of Business Press (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd are Mr Peter Isaacson, chairman of Asian Business
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    • 170 3 TWO primary schools will be officially opened by the Ministry of Education this week. Jay a Primary School, at Chai Chee Lane, will be officially opened by Mr Mansor Hj Sukaimi, Member of Parliament for Kampung Kembangan, on Thursday. The school, which was
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    • 74 3 THE MINISTRY of the Environment wants to alert the public that two men claiming to be «Ulcere from the Ministry's Licensing Section, have approached licensees of food establishments to nsh for cash donations for the Ministry's Sports BnlkUng Fund. As the Ministry neither has sncb a
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    • 449 3  -  By CHUANG PECK MING DE ZAAN Far East, which took over the running of Allied Cocoa's $31.3 million plant in Jurong recently, is to switch to a new marketing policy. The company, a subsidiary of WR Grace of America, has dropped
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    • 359 3  -  By WALTON MORAIS UNDERGRADUATES in a financial dilemma over the National University of Singapore's increase in fees can breathe a sigh of relief. The NUS Senate committee has approved an increase in the value of scholarship and bursary awards in line with the increase in
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 287 5 Reuter US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan said on Sunday that he will not impose a grain embargo against the Soviet Union in spite of the continuing Soviet military presence in Afghanistan. Mr Reagan, speaking at the Missouri State Fair, said the embargo imposed by President
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    • 161 5 Reuter MR SUCKLING was there. So was Mrs Bacon. And Miss Hogg enjoyed herself. Everyone at the bacon and champagne breakfast in Auckland yesterday made a pig of themselves. Not all the 100 Aucklanders at the party had met before but
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    • 768 5 DEPARTURES Operator Sorvica number Local tifM For MAS SIA KLM CAL SIA SIA SIA JAL PAL MAS SIA SIA MAS JAL MAS SIA MAS SIA CPA SIA RBA SIA MAS SIA MAS GIA GIA GIA THAI GIA SIA THAI SIA LUFT SIA SIA KLM CPA SIA MAS
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    • 342 5 Reuter VICE-PRESIDENTIAL candidate Geraldine Ferraro yesterday released family financial records that could make or break the Democratic presidential campaign. The records are expected to disclose that Miss Ferraro and her husband owe US$6O,OOO in back taxes. Today, she will face press questioning on
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    • 81 5 Million prize swims away UPI IN A CONTEST to raise funds, a hospital in Berkeley, California, released a tagged leopard shark into San Francisco Bay and promised US$l million to anyone who caught the fish, providing that the successful angler had paid an entry fee. Alta Bates hospital got off
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    • 262 5 Reuter INDONESIA'S main opposition party, the United Development Party (PPP), opened its first national congress yesterday with the replacement of Islam as its guiding philosophy high on the agenda. The adoption of the state ideology Pancasila (Five Principles) as the sole ideological base for
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    • 547 5 Officials distributing leaflets to voice discontent AFP ECONOMIC reform policies in the cities and the "rectification" campaign launched by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are meeting serious local resistance, according to recent articles in the Chinese press. An editorial in the official People's Daily recently
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    • 131 5 Reuter WEST GERMANY'S economic recovery is likely to continue in the rest of the year after being interrupted in the spring by metal and print industry labour disputes over working hours, Bonn's Economic Ministry said. In advance extracts from its August monthly report, the ministry said
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    • 347 5 Reuter CHINA and the US, both attempting to counter what they see as a Soviet naval challenge, yesterday appeared set for much closer liaison between their navies following talks in Beijing involving US Navy Secretary John Lehman. A US embassy spokesman said
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    • 446 6 Reuter IRAN HAS halted its oil exports for about two weeks and crude sales may fall by nearly half this month to around one mil- lion barrels daily. Oil company sources in !Teheran said yesterday that while the amount of oil exportled was
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 93 6 'THE PRESIDENTIAL candidate of Brazil's opposition alliance has said that the counhtry may alter or cancel its US$25 billion nuclear energy t pact with West Germany if he wins next year's indirect elections. "Brazil is suffering a virtual economic depression," said k opposition presidential candi- date Tancredo Neves,
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      • 74 6 r A GROUP of Filipino Muslim !m leaders has called for a military withdrawal from Muslim areas on southern Mindanao island and urged the Islamic world to stop aiding Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos's regime. In a statement, the group condemned the intensified military operations against Muslim separatist
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      • 50 6 LEBANON'S presidential pal- ace came under artillery fire on Sunday from the hills overlooking Beirut. Police said the government palace of President Amin Gemayel, who was away, sustained "considerable" damage as army troops and Druse militiamen fought artillery and rocket duels in the central mountains overlooking Beirut.
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      • 73 6 NORTH KOREA'S official newspaper has demanded that South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan cancel his state visit to Japan next month. The newspaper was quoted last Saturday as saying "the Chon Du (Chun Doo) Hwan group must cancel the criminal Japan trip and step down from power". Mr
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      • 61 6 Agencies A TAIWANESE woman has sued for divorce because her husband named a dog after her, court officials said yesterday. Peng Ah-Chao, 34, was quoted by the officials as telling a Taipei court: "I couldn't stand my three children calling the dog Ah Chao." She said she
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    • 58 6 UPI Photo. American Chinese architect Mr I M Pei announcing his design for the new Bank of China Building in Hongkong on Saturday. The 70-storey tower, home of China's national bank office in the British colony, will be Hongkong's tallest building, and the construction of the
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    • 369 6 UPI THE ruling Likud bloc in Israel has won an important concession on the future of the occupied territories from the opposition Labour Party in a major step towards forming a national unity government. In a surprised move on Sunday, Labour leader
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    • 183 6 Reuter A CROWD of about 500 people stoned New Delhi Airport's domestic terminal yesterday after learning of a delay in the arrival of the sacked chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N T Rama Rao. Eyewitnesses said several large windows in the terminal were smashed before
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    • 472 6 NYT CRITICS are seeking to delay a regulation that the Reagan Administration says would improve its ability to monitor textile and apparel imports. The critics contend the regulation which the government issued on Aug 3 and is to take effect on Sep
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    • 180 6 UPI SCIENTISTS from the US, Europe, the Soviet Union and China opened a conference on Sunday to discuss the global impact of a major nuclear war and ways to avoid an environmental holocaust. "The consequences of a war of this dimension would
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    • 201 6 AP FINANCIAL losses at the World's Fair threaten to swamp some small companies, and are also causing problems for some that did no work for the fair or its concessionaires. "It's too soon for companies actually to go out of business," said Don Wilson, president
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    • 139 6 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S 160,000 aborigines could unwittingly decide the fate of Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labour government at elections tipped for the end of this year. Labour's promotion of land rights for aborigines has run into strong opposition from mining, farming and racist groups. The issue
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    • 246 6 Reuter A MAJOR United Nations Conference on Industrial Development (Unido) staggered to an end in Vienna yesterday after failing to adopt key resolutions because of deep political divisions between rich and poor nations. The 18-day conference, involving 139 countries, agreed on nine
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 579 7 SINGAPORE: The dollar firmed against most major units yesterday in fairly active late trading after a slightly lower opening. It surged to a late 2.8715/25 marks from an early 2.8570/80 and compared with New York's Friday 2.8590/8600 close. It rose to a late 2.3995/4005 Swiss francs from an
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    • Article, Illustration
      210 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady yesterday at opening levels in quiet trading. Interbank deposit rates us$ Offer Bid 7 days 1113/16 11 11/16 1 month 1113/16 11 11/16 2 months 117/8 11 3/4 3 months 1115/16 11 13/16 6 months 12 3/16 12 1/16 9 months 12
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    • 244 7 Interbank rates at 3pm CurrtnelM Nominal ra tee Smitheonien quoted yeeterday croaa parity change Local dollars to on« unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2.1395 2.1405 2 8196 -24.12 Sterling pound 2 830) ***** 7 3469 -61 48 Australian doHor 1 8282 1 8305 3 4286 -46 68
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    • 117 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate closed at 81/4 per cent on the Singapore interbank market yesterday, unchanged from last Friday's closing. Term rates for the one, two and three-month maturities rose by V* -point across-the-board. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Offer Bid Overnight 8 1/4 8 3/16 1-month 8
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    • 329 7 SINGAPORE Futures closed easier yesterday in moderate trading following weaker overseas gold prices. December, which recorded a turnover of 429 lots closed softer at U*****.90 an ounce traded compared with New York's Friday $362 00/362.50 close. HONGKONG The metal closed lower yesterday after the US dollar rallied in the
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    • 266 7 Reuter BRITAIN'S bank base rates should continue falling to reach 9 per cent or 10 per cent by the end of this year, Midland Bank PLC says in its autumn economic review. Midland and the three other major clearing banks
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    • 149 7 FT ISRAEL'S central bank concealed the truth of a sharp drop in foreign reserves last month by adopting a new accounting method. Bank officials have conceded that the reserves figure had been artificially boosted by some US$325 million. The bank's July figures prompted deep concern because
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    • 584 7  -  By SOH TIANG KENG, Banking Correspondent GOLD mining production from non-communist countries hit a 10-year high of 1,088 metric tons last year, according to figures released by International Gold Corporation (IGC) in New York. In its latest Gold Investment Summary, IGC said
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    • 188 7 NYT FEDERAL Reserve officials are not expected to make any changes in monetary policy or short-term interest rates at this week's meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. "With a strong economy, there is little reason for the Fed to ease monetary policy" and
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  • FEATURES
    • 496 8 TWENTY-FIVE years is but a moment in the grand sweep of history but a week is a long time in politics. A successful politican must be able to keep in perspective both the long view of history and the daily shifts and changes in the political
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    • 979 8  -  By TERESA LIM, Hongkong Correspondent IN A MONTH'S TIME, the Hongkong government will be ready to publish its blueprint on how to make Hongkong more democratic. Local pressure groups, however, are sceptical that the government's White Paper on increased democracy, Hongkong-style, will be very much
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    • 347 8 THESE to a firm rale la Ike forecasttag iadastry: wkea yoo are rigkt, make sare >tten naeator, wkea yea are wreag, kepe tkey forget. Aad, as maay crystal kallgaaers la eeeaemies, foreign exckaages aad stack markets kave found te their relief, people da forget. Tkey most kepe
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    • 446 8 Letters to Hie Editor DEAR SIR, Much has been written about the Stock Exchange of Singapore designating Pan Electric on Aug 7, 1984. Both "Substantial Investor" and "Overkill" linked the sharp fall in Pan Electric's share price
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    • 94 8 DEAR SIR, With the SES investigation and the declaration of Pan-El as "designated securities" on Aug 7 following unusual market activity in the counter, the shorts will become more brave. Investors tend to be nervous thus enabling the shorts to cover at lower levels and
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    • 60 8  -  Cheong Kwok Wing DEAR SIR, I am a minor shareholder of Pan El and I intend to keep my shares in view of the good results. I support the views expressed by "A Substantial Investor in Singapore" and feel that if the SES were to investigate
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    • 773 9  -  Sri Lanka suffers drop in tourism and investments after ethnic riots By TOM HENEGHAN Reuter SRI LANKA'S recent bloody ethnic conflicts have slowed down the economy's drive to diversify, depressing tourism revenues and foreign investment and making Colombo more dependent on its main export item, tea. Island-wide
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    • 890 9  -  By LEONARD SILK NYT THE NEW budget projections of the Reagan administration assert that deficits will be shrinking for the rest of this decade. The numbers released by the Office of Management and Budget (6MB), headed by David Stockman, show deficits of U*****.3
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 712 8 mmnim CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Wok like a hare? (5) 8 Templar, perhaps (5) 10 Bad Amencon booze (5) 11 Used in cooking, lighting os wei (3) 12 They can be sung m a son (5) J 3 One man's winners (7) 15 On whtch to srt and dme m
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  • SPORTS
    • 460 9  -  By ROY JOHNSON NYT THE LAST TIME Pam Shriver defeated Martina Navratilova, her doubles partner and close friend, the scene was the United States Open in Flusing Meadows, Queens. It was 1962, and the drama of the effervescent Shriver ruining her opponent's chance to
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    • 306 9 NYT I.FF TREVTNO, the 44-year-old Texan with an ailing back, defied all the rules about age and the need for constant practice when he rallied on the back nine of Shoal Creek Golf Club Sunday to win the 66th annual PGA championship by four shots
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    • 383 9 UPI THAD BOSLEY and Ron Cey hit three-run homers Sunday to rally the Chicago Cubs to a 9-6 victory over Cincinnati despite three more hits by Reds' player-manager Pete Rose. Bosley's blast, coming in a pinch hitting role, broke a 6-6 tie and capped a
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1197 9 I TO AGE) mm HIGHLIGHTS Chronicle 8.03 pm Channel 12 Cleopatra's Needles One of a pair of obelisks carved out of granite at Heliopolis. It is nearly 18 metres high and weighs 186,000 kg. There is a similar one in Paris and others in New York and Istanbul. Rome has
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 843 10 NYT WALT Disney Productions has sought to quell dissension on its board and to erase the prospect of a shareholder fight by aborting its US$33O million plan to buy Gibson Greetings Inc. But some analysts say the move seems likely to invite other
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    • 215 10 FT INTERNATIONAL Harvester, a debt-laden US farm machinery and truck group, is on the verge of signing a bail-out deal with the French government under which the government would help provide new loans designed to shore up Harvester's loss-making French subsidiary. Donald Lennox, Harvester's chairman
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    • 560 10 Reuter FRANCE'S car industry may have to shed a quarter of its workforce as part of a major overhaul planned by the government and the country's two big carmakers. Both state-owned Renault and privately-owned Peugeot recorded big losses last year and
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 367 11 HONGKONG: Share prices finished lower yesterday in response to a decision by banks not to cut local interest rates, while some investors were sidelined ahead of the new round of sino-British talks on Hongkong. Rumours about a cut in local Interest rates had pushed share prices higher last week.
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    • 271 11 AUG 20 NT Chem Indus 21 00 0 1 Lien Hwa Indus 1395 -0 1 Al Sneer* Indus 7 35 -0 05 Nan Yo Ptos 31 10 -02 Ana Cement 25 10 -03 Pocific Cora 27 90 -03 Cathay Cora 30 30 -02 Pocific Elect 1950 -02 Chang Hwa
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    • 434 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed higher yesterday in extremely thin trading as most investors held off awaiting post week-end Wall Street market guidance. > The market average rose 47.94 to close at 10,533.26 after gaining 35.84 iast Saturday. Turnover was 170 million shares against 130 million in Saturday's half-day of
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    • 87 11 Aug 20 Won 670 -I Hyundai Corp Hyundai Motor KAL 1020 640 498 735 21 unch -6 5 Choheung Bk Commerciol Bk Doefcm Ind Daewoo Corp Daewoo Ind 660 682 695 517 625 630 -5 -19 75 -6 10 -16 Korea CX Korea Ship Lucky Ltd Samsung Co Samsung
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    • 384 11 SYDNEY: Australian sharemarkets closed steady yesterday in slightly nervous trading ahead of today's Federal budget although investors are not expecting any major surprises. Near the close, the All Ordinaries index was up 1.6 at 735.5, the All Industrials index was up 0.6 at 1025.5 and the All Resources index
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    • 150 11 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed lower in sluggish trading, the Securities Exchange of Thailand said. The Book Club index lost 0.09 points to finish at 120.06 and losers outnumbered gainers by two-to-one. Turnover fell to 576,839 shares worth 43.5 million baht from 1.1 million shares worth 103.2 million baht on
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    • 122 11 MANILA: Share prices closed generally firmer in quiet trading yesterday. The Commercial and Industrial Index rose 0.28 to 111.46 and the Mining Index 3.26 to 930.73. The Oil index was unchanged at 0.0657. Philex B firmed to 0.13 pesos from 0.12 while PLDT eased to 33.50 from 34. AUG
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    • 60 11 Reuter NET foreign buying of stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange through 16 major securities houses stood at 13.6 billion yen in the week ended Aug 10, Tokyo exchange officials said. This was down from 14.3 billion yen in the previous week but was the second
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    • 291 11 UPI JAPAN'S second-largest steel company and Martin-Marietta Corp have announced an agreement to form a new company for the production and worldwide marketing of aluminium and titanium products. Nippon-Kokan (NKK) and Maryland-based Martin Marietta will negotiate an agreement to form a new corporation with
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    • 140 11 Reuter BP AUSTRALIA will pay the Queensland State Government Insurance Office (SGIO) As 42 million, subject to adjustments, for the outstanding 20 per cent stake in the former Amoco Australia. British Petroleum Co of Australia, the parent of BP Australia, disclosed this yesterday in
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 323 12 No intention of 'shipping out' after major defaults in March AFP THE KUALA LUMPUR Commodity Exchange (KLCE) last week announced several stiff measures aimed at restoring confidence in the exchange following massive contractual defaults in March this year. The chairman of the KLCE, Mr
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    • 464 12 AFP SIGNS THAT the sugar market was being underpinned appeared at one point last week, but this tendency did not last, and there has been a renewed loss of confidence, UK-based sugar company, Czarnikow, said in its latest review. Czarnikow said
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    • 70 12 Reuter THE MALAYSIAN government has raised the export duty on unground and ground white pepper to M 5507.34 and $979.93 per tonne from $469.95 and $926.53 respectively. The rise is effective immediately. The duty on black pepper was increased to $61.72 per tonne from $51.11.
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    • 298 12 Reuter SHEARSON Lehman-American Express Ltd said it expects the London Metal Exchange (LME) tin price, in the next 12 months, to align itself with the sterling equivalent of the Malaysian price as the International Tin Council (ITC) buffer stock manager gains total control
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    • 377 12 AFP THE WORLD coffee market is currently shying away from the prospect of a further one-million bag reduction by the International Coffee Organisation's (ICO) global export quota. Despite the one million bag cut on July 31, which brought the
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    • 423 12 UPI US INTERIOR Secretary William Clark urged President Reagan on Friday to seek voluntary restraints on foreign copper producers whose exports to the United States are hurting the already-crippled domestic industry. A 15 per cent reduction by foreign producers
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    • 263 12 SINGAPORE The market closed higher yesterday with September One RSS buyers quoted at 188.75 cents per kilo, up 1.50 cents from last Friday. The morning session gained 1.25 cents, after fluctuating on some buying of September and October One RSS and profit-taking. Prices eased in early afternoon trading on
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    • 308 12 prices (in S cents/Kilo, FOB in i bales) NOON CLOSE Int 1 RSS prompt Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers 185 00 186 00N 184 50 185.SON Int 1 RSS Sep 189 00 189 50 188.75 189.25 Int 1 RSS Oct 194.00 194 50 193.75 194.25 Int 2 RSS
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    • 108 12 (in cants/1 ton pollets) September October (current mth) (forward mth) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR20 191 00 193 OON ***** 195 OON SSR 50 189 00 191 OON 191 00 193 OON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 232 50 234 50N 234
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    • 155 12 Chinese Produce Exchange (Sellers' noon closing prices on Aug 20 S$/100 kg) Coconut oil Bute FOB 210 00 OW drum FOB 223 00 New drum FOB 227 00 Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW B 4 W FOB NSW Gambier FOB NSW 487 50 363 00
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    • 297 12 Singapore (S$/kito, •»-$odown) Thoi white 100% 1st class (kangaroo) 1 05 new crop 100% 2nd doss 077 100% 3rd class 075 25% new crop No stock B-10% No stock Thai broken A-*uper 065 Special 060 Thai rice 55% No stock China rice 10% 092 15% No stock 25% No
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    • 99 12 THE Straits On price in Penang yesterday stayed at the ITA floor level ef Ms2f .15 per kile. Dealers said demaad remained scarce as the premium ever the London spot price stands at £25# per tonne. The boiler stock manager again absorbed the balk of the disposals while
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    • 172 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed lower yesterday on speculative selling and reserve of buyers prompted by a weaker Chicago soybean complex close last week. In the August position, north and central regions eased M$20 and $17.50 respectively to $947.50 per tonne and south $17.50 to $945. In
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    • 113 12 Yarn Cloth (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) (Quoted in HK$, wholesole price*. China carded yarn, cones spot ei godown) Blue Phoenix 16'$ 3,450 Cotton cloth Blue Phoenix 20's 3,550 India Dragon Head Unq Blue Phoenix 32's 3,900 Japan No 2023 117 00 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,350 Shirtmq
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    • 1269 12 COFFEE Robusta futures yesterday trimmed early average £10 losses to stand between £7 a tonne below to £11 above Friday's close at the end of a quiet session. November traded last at £2,336, down £4, against a low of £2,330. The market appeared hesitant ahead of
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4184 13 SHARE prices finished broadly lower yesterday as the Singapore stock market continued to correct itself. Speculative issues stole the limelight as most blue chips faded into the background. The BT Composite Index gave up 0.93 point to 827.29 while the Straits Times
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    • 262 13 SINGAPORE Rites TOM 280 Kooia Wm SIO AacaJ 25< 310 Oafc Vm| 350 U C»c—n 338 H UMI M S0« 322 Saw SOt 223 Fnaa 595 Falls La* Ho* 620 GEUh 1780 Apa8o 240 Aaatroi Aaol 520 CiirM Km bCH 192 S f WtM 157 M Caaaat
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    • 529 13 SHARE prices closed easier on a broad front at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday for the third consecutive session. Trading was at a slower pace than last week, with total turnover dropping to the lowest level for this month. Situational issues continued to occupy
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    • 3518 13 BID and offer prices officially listed 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 SetUement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT"
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1044 14 THE TREND towards liberalisation of stock exchange membership rules to include parties other than individuals (such as financial institutions) to own stockbroking firms is taking place in some overseas markets. In Malaysia, discussions have been going on among frontline industry and investment leaders, and this
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    • 94 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hong Seng Index Monday 1025.5 Friday 1024.9 Monday 896.90 Week ago 1021.1 Friday 908.34 NEW YORK Dow Jones Week ago 926.39 TOKYO Friday 1211.90 Tokyo Dow Jones Thursday 1209.14 Week ago 1218.01 Monday *****.26 Saturday *****.32 Standard and Poors Week ago *****.53 Friday ***** Thursday
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    • 219 14 Managers' prices for Aug 21 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 3.05 3.24 The Savmgs Fund 1 92 2.04 S'pore Prog Fund 1 37 1,45 S'pore Sec. Fund 1 99 2.11 S'pore Invest Fund 1.17 1.24 S'pore Equity Fund 136 1.44 Asia Unit Trust Second B'putro Third B'putro Fourth
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    • 302 14 LEASING -cum-manufacturing-based Malaysia Aica Bhd (Maica), which made its debut on the KLSE earlier this year, is negotiating to acquire a stake in an engineering company. Chairman Tan Sri Nasruddin bin Mohamed, in his latest annual review to shareholders, said this
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    • 549 14 THE PRESSURE on foreignowned insurance companies in Malaysia to restructure their operations in line with the New Economic Policy (NEP) is mounting. So far, the foreign companies concerned iiave kept silent but the urgency must gather as several government leaders and
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    • 182 14 PILECON Engineering Sdn Bhd is confident it will attain better results this year in spite of difficult conditions in the construction sector, its chief executive, Mr Hong Lee Pee, said. The Pilecon group recorded group pre-tax profits of M 58.36 million for the year ended
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    • 2169 14 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. INDUSTRIALS Ajinomoto (3.905) Alcom (2.138) (8) 2.10 (II) 2 09
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    • 47 14 THE limited NaImm Robber Estates Berhad: 70th AGM on Aug 25 at noon in Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho, N0.8H, Malacca. VENEER Predicts Limited: 25th AGM and EGM on Aug 27 at 3pm in in Prosperity Room, 3rd Storey, The Plaza, 7500A, Beach Road, Singapore 0719.
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    • 351 15  -  By CHAN MAY PENG KAMUNTING Tin Dredging (M) Bhd is considering a number of diversification proposals. According to Kamunting Tin, one of the proposals under consideration is the acquisition of Golden Wealth Timber Sdn Bhd. However, an agreement has yet to be signed.
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    • 597 15  -  By HOCK LOCK SIEW A NEW CHAPTER has unfolded in the corporate history of General Lumber Holdings Bhd, which successfully fended off a takeover bid barely four months ago. Raleigh Cycles (M) Bhd, the spurned suitor which withdrew its takeover proposal for the
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    • 413 15  -  By CHEN QINGSHUN MAGNUM Corp Bhd's UK subsidiary, Phicom PLC, which just turned in strong first-half profits, is gearing up for expansion to take advantage of a recovering business climate. Phicom chairman AKS Franks said the company's products had sold well, it had
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    • 124 15 LEE KIM Tah Holdings Ltd makes its debut on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this week. The 80 shares in the company will start trading tomorrow under the first trading section of the Industrial Commercial section. PALMCO Holdings Bhd has received applications for a total of 54.66 million
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    • 352 15 KILLING HALL Tin (Malaysia) Bhd has reported interim group pre-tax profits of M 59.68 million for the first half of this year. After an estimated tax charge of $6.21 million, Killinghall's group net profits came to $3.47 million. Minority interests amounted to $1.92
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    • 438 15 LAST FULL YEAR Company Period Dote announced lost year Net EPS (cents) Grot! div Net prof* (S'000) A M D B Lorut Tin G Lumber Bukit Katil Acmo Ful year Full year Interim Full yeor Interim May 19 June 13 June 30 July 27 July 28 13.1 177
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    • 154 15 THE Stock Exchange of Singapore has told Pan Electric Industries Ltd that it will continue Its Investigation to determine If there has been insider trading, "notwithstanding the views expressed by your board". It acknowledged "with thanks" receipt of Pan-El's open letter to SES
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    • 282 15 MULPHA (SINGAPORE) Ltd has turned in its first set of interim results since the completion of a major restructuring exercise last year, whereby the Malaysian units and associate companies ceased to be part of the new group. Its interim results for the half
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    • 943 15 SHARE prices closed easier yesterday after a quiet day, dealers said. They added that operators are still nervous over the possibility of further industrial action by British dockworkers, but no significant selling pressure was noted. At 3pm, the FT 30 index was down 6.1 points at 832.2. North
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    • 366 14 NOTICE YA HWA HONG MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Unaudited Results of The Company And 1- (a) Turnover (b) Investment and Other Income excluding Extraordinary Items 2. (a) Profit before taxation extraordinary items after deducting: (i) Interest on borrowings (ii) Depreciation of fixed assets (b)
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    • 196 15 NOTICE OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE OF SHIP'S NAME We Unison Shipping (Pte) Ltd, 10 Anson Road, 14-19/20 International Plaza, Singapore 0207, hereby give notice that in consequence of the intended change of name of ship. We have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships, under Section 417 of the
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    • 123 15 Letters to the Editor, PsgeB $SasS\ <o PQ>\& use ||IIETO-PcD 1 Sure, Simple Secure way to keep secrets! 3s£ t h V Data Protection ft Waste Disposal the twin functions of the INTERSHRED SB 300 ensure security plus convenience. Unreadable stripes of waste paper are compacted along with other waste
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  • 547 16  -  By YAP BOH HOON MONSANTO, one the biggest chemical companies in the world, has decided on Singapore as its Asia Pacific headquarters to expand regional activities. Vice-president for its Asia Pacific operations, Mr Stewart Daniels, said that Monsanto would expand "by means of investments in
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  • 118 16 FAIRCHILD Singapore yesterday announced the setting up of an integrated circuit design centre in Singapore. The centre, the third in Singapore so far, will design integrated circuits commonly known as chips used in the telecommunications, satellite relays, computers and other industrial equipment. A
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  • 108 16 Reuters US PRESIDENT Reagan said on Sunday that no one would have known about his joke on outlawing the Soviet Union if reporters had "kppt their mouths shut". He was criticised by the Kremlin and the West European press for joking during a microphone test that he
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  • 400 16 UPI PHILIPPINE military authorities have put the entire armed forces on "red alert", bracing for protests and possible terrorist strikes today on the first anniversary of opposition leader Benigno Aquino's assassination. Armed forces Chief of Staff Gen Fabian Ver ordered security intensifed at all
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  • 259 16 AP THE US economy, headed for what could be its best performance in more than three decades, grew at a rapid 7.6 per cent annual rate in the last quarter while inflation remained in check, the government reported yesterday. The
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  • 231 16 UPI THE BRITISH militant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), now in the sixth month of a bitter coal strike, will ask unions to support a virtual general strike if the government penalises workers under recent labour laws, union documents published
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  • 161 16 Reuter BRITAIN yesterday named a Hongkong judge and the Master of an Oxford college to monitor the acceptability in the colony of any agreement on its future under Chinese rule. The Foreign Office said Mr Justice Simon Li, a Supreme Court appeal
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  • 319 16  -  By JAIME LYE THE OPENING of the Harapan Group's Hotel Nikko has been delayed for the fourth time in nine months. Marketing of rooms in the tinted glass building in Havelock Road has been suspended. The 509-room Hotel Nikko was originally scheduled
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  • 138 16 THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore (Amendment) Bill will probably be the final legislation which Dr Goh Keng Swee will move in Parliament before he steps down from politics. Dr Goh, who has given firm notice that he will not seek reelection in
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  • 73 16 STOCK prices on Wall Street were slightly lower in light early trading yesterday as the market's consolidation phase continued. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off nearly one point to around 1211. Overall, losers held less than a four to three lead over gainers. Volume was about
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  • LATE FILE
    • 44 16 AFP JAN RULEWSKI, a Solidarity trade union leader freed under the recent amnesty, was yesterday told by the the public prosecutor in Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, to keep his political views to himself and not to go to church. AFP
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    • 58 16 UPI A CAR driven by Senator Edward Kennedy was "speeding" when it collided with a pick-up truck on Friday near the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod, the truck driver's lawyer claimed. Jack Bell, a Hyannis plumber, was cited by police for driving to endanger and
      UPI  -  58 words
    • 55 16 Reuter AN OPEC ministerial committee has postponed a visit to Indonesia due to start yesterday, a mines and energy ministry spokesman said. The committee has already toured Gulf states as part of a campaign for lower oil output by producers and adherence to the Opec price
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    • 63 16 Reuter THE INDIAN government's total external debt was U5520.17 billion on March 31, up from $12.18 billion on March 31, 1980. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said outstanding foreign commercial loans rose to $2.28 billion from $996 million over the same period. India will repay $591.45
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    • 61 16 Reuter BRITAIN'S GDP fell a seasonally adjusted 0.4 per cent on an output basis in the second quarter, based on preliminary figures. In the first quarter, GDP on the output basis rose 0.2 per cent. The index for GDP was put at 103.7, base 1980, in
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    • 52 16 AFP SWISS Federal authorities yesterday confirmed reports that Swiss military pilots flew Pilatus PC-7 training planes, which can be coverted into light bombers, to Iran earlier this month. Unconfirmed reports said Iran had bought more than 80 of the single-engine turboprop planes up to the
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    • 38 16 THE LIGHTS went out, traffic came to a standstill and searchlights swept the sky last night as Seoul went through a 30-minute blackout to test preparedness for a possible night-time air raid by North Korea.
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    • 55 16 Outlook for today: Cloudy; showers in several areas in the morning and afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Aug 20 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.0 Associated humidity 67 Minimum temperature 24.9 Associated humidity 93 Hours of sunshine 6.45 Roinfoll in millimetres Nil Rainfall this month 47.3
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 63 17 Reuter OIL industry sources said they had been told officially that tankers flying the Liberian flag will be allowed to continue to use Kuwaiti ports in spite of Kuwait's severance of ties with Liberia. Kuwait announced last week that it had cut both economic and political
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      • 139 17 Reuter ROUGH weather slowed operations by Egyptian, British and US minehunters in the Gulf of Suez as two Soviet minesweepers sailed into the Red Sea. Military sources said British navy ships were searching the northern end of the Gulf, US Sea Stallion helicopters the middle sector, the
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    • 533 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ THE PENANG Port Commission has succeeded in its efforts to reduce the volume of unstuffing and stuffing of containers through an administrative action implemented earlier this year. The less than container load (LCL) traffic at the port, which was unusually high
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    • 345 17 TAIWAN-based Ocean Marine Transport has abandoned ambitious plans for an extensive container service running from Europe, the Middle East, India and South-east Asia across to the Far East. Following previous reports that the shipping company would be sponsored by Japanese trading house Tokyo Boeki in its
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    • 682 17 Shipping Lin* P*«« Cot Afea VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner VI 5 Alphotrons VI 4 Alpac VI 5 Antoro Shpg IV 1 A PC Line V 4 APL M 4/5 ASCL 1 Asiobroker V 5 Austovo Line V 1 Bait-Orient VI 4/5 Bangkok Cont VI 2 Bonk Lme
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    • 792 18 NYT THE SUEZ Canal, a vital East-West thoroughfare for more than a century, has survived many crises, and now appears to have weathered another the mining of the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea. Egyptian and Western officials in Egypt are persuaded that
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    • 191 18 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/Europe, Far East, Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia Straits Container
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    • 1776 18 INCREASED chartering developed ia the sugar section of the freight market on Friday while there was also some evidence of longer term time-charter fixing, ship brokers said. Sugar from Mauritius to London received £14.15 compared with £14 previously while US$25 was agreed for sugar from North Brazil to
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    • 218 18 A SHIPPING conference on "Megatrends in International Commerce" will be held in Oakland. California, from Oct 23 and 24. The two-day conference, sponsored by the Port of Oakland, is the seventh such programme devoted to the topic of international trade since 1976. The meeting will
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    • 185 18 MARKET conditions for rigs worldwide will improve next year, even if there is a fall in the price of crude oil. Mr Loran Sheffer, president of Offshore Data Services, pointed out that a big problem with rig oversupply is that outside the Gulf of
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    • 1094 18 Aug 39-Sept International exhibition on the industrial methods of equipment installation in shipbuilding, Leningrad, USSR. Aug 39-31 International seminar on reception facilities for wastes. International Maritime Organisation Headquarters. 4, Albert Embankment, London SEI. Sept 3-7 2nd international hydrographic technical conference, Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Sept 4-7 International
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    • 203 19 YANG MING Marine Transportation of Taiwan has finally been given membership of the Australia Northbound Conference (Anscon). It becomes the seventh line in the East Asia section of the conference and will operate two ships from eastern Australian ports to Hongkong, Taiwan and the Philippines.
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    • 267 19 THE PORT of Felixstowe has embarked on an expansion plan to provide additional storage space for containers by early autumn. The £375,000 scheme being undertaken by Roadworks Limited will provide extra space for 1,500 containers. Approximately five acres of land will be brought
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    • 155 19 AFP CRUISE passengers set sail from Newfoundland yesterday to reach Japan via Canada's Northwest Passage, the route to the Orient whose discovery cost more than one explorer's life. With passengers paying fares of about US$l3,OOO for the 41-day cruise, the Swedish liner Lindblad Explorer will follow
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    • 447 19 FOUR JAPANESE shipyards Namura Shipbuilding, IHI Heavy Industries, Marubeni Sasebo Heavy Industries and Kurushima Dockyard have been given contracts to build one tanker each for the Indonesian oil group Pertamina. An order for a fifth tanker is also in the offing, and this will
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    • 386 19 TAIWAN-based CC Line, known as Char Ching Marine in full, is understood to be in financial difficulties, with its trans-Pacific service forcibly closed in order to obtain financial assistance from the Taiwan government. The line was reported to have refused further bookings for Hongkong
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    • 5724 24 a®aßG)oiiß A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 684 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Siri Bhum 182N 21.8 84 2300 S'pore Shpg TA 3 1000-1100 ji Jenwel 26/84 22.8.84 0200 Thong Soon FSB 0700-0800/1300-1400 B7 B Penaga HO/84 *****
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    • 1726 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S) Ura-KtruU Liar Transgroup < s» AhreaUel Liaer Srrvlrr Kim Shpg <S> ABred C Ttfplw Oceanus Shipping Agen cy (S) Manntex Enterprise (PK). Alp* Intrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KLi Island
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    • 466 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES 1 Vessel KEPPEL WHARVES Delicia Donam No 7 Frances Bay Jenhol Keiyo Maru Rajah Brooke Ascona Crest 2 Manoloeverett Napili Nata Ned Banhraln Ravidas PASIR PANJANG Berth 5/6 37/8 29/30 22 35/6 20 38/9 24/5 38/9 19 18 44 3/4 1 Agent BOR NAPL
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    • 347 26 AFP RATES remained around previous levels on the tanker market last week, under persistent pressure from the build-up of tonnage in major loading areas, and in the absence of attacks on merchant shipping. Traders felt that the absence of profitable employment for these tankers, particularly out of the
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    • 398 17 FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE FAR EAST/EUROPE i:lsf P* 10 HK CONTMCR (IN 3/> IH/»/FI/H«/«l/»I SP FROM CHIVAIC* «Ofl 3* nil mi IH/m/FX'M/BM *1 A(«fits atom MAMC CO (PTE) LTD Til ***** M Rl (PCT) Trt *****6 For mora details rotor pago IV II LONDON Freights 11/11 l CONSORTIA II SHIPPING Events
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    • 383 17 UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) I M SEAL ORO SHIPPING AGENCIES B 70 Shenfon Way 04 02C Marine Mou.e Singapore 0207 Tel *****94 Telei No RS ***** J CFS office TPC 03-30 Tel *****31 and *****32 Terminal office TPC iO3-29 Tel No *****90/*****93 i:.iLm.r:^ir-rrei NATIONAL LM OF BAHRAM. RAQ, KUWAIT.
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    • 244 18 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE To Europe From Europe Mu Acccptng For: 1) Barcelona, Genoa. 2) Amsterdam. Antwerp. L Havre. Basle. UK. 3) Bremen. Bremerhaven. Aarhus Copenhagen, Helsinki 4) Malmo. Stockholm Oslo •Accepting Europe cargo tor feeder via S'pore 'Also direct cargo tor Spore t Bangkok Pis contact PERMISC P Kelang
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    • 365 18 Y.S. LINE YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South W»st Pacific North Wott Fndtr at Tokyo Faadar at Koba Atlantic/Canada Faadar at Koba n ran say so* 11/10 9/10 13/11 20/11 29/11 24/11 27/U 4/11 1/11 27/11 4/11 1/11 Also accepting LCL Cargo tor USA Ports only. TOOMY *17/315 SHOKAWA
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    • 929 19 The Straits Steamship Group oci Overseas Containers Limited STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok CONTAINERS**? SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT KMKM HONGKONG EXPWSS cakuganbat HMion iimroa bat KOPAOON BAY HAkBURt EIPKSS KONIOON Mr HMMRGEPKSS S pare ><Un( 21/1 at 04/1 00/9 12/9 14/9 M/ 9 22/9 27/9 29/9
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    • 758 21 N PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: KOTA WISATA E-515 22-24/8 ADEN, HOOEIDAH. JEDOAH. AOABA KOTA MEGAH E-Sl7 22-2S/S HOOEIDAH, JEDOAH, PTSUDAN, MOGADISCIO. MOMBASA, D SALAAM KOTA WIRAWAN E-519 5-10/9 DJIBOUTI, ADEN. HOOEIDAH. JEDOAH. AOABA KOTA WARUNA E-521 2-5/9 HOOEIDAH. ADEN. AOABA. PTSUDAN KOTARAKYAT E-523 16-20/9
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    • 818 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE Tomwrt Kami Maru B«na»«n STORE PKEIANG UK HAM 71/1 71/0 16 9 10/1 B«na.on 4/1 1/1 2J/J »/j Honftoni Eiprtii 12/J 14/» 2/|| 4/10 Cardgan Bit 70/1 77/1 1/10 11/10 BtnaMtr 77/1 71/1 17/10 10/10 littrpoM Ba» 4/10 (10 70/10 2C/10 Koartoon Bit
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    • 662 23 TO AND FROM AUSTRALIA: An As SURABAYA JAKARTA Sai SINGAPORE [Sa PENANG 22 P. KELANG 21 BRISBANE SYDNEY 7 BURNE 11 MELBOURNE 13, ADELADE 17, FREMANTLE 22/ Abo accepting carp to/from Bangkok and E kkfM TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA PACIFIC COAST Also accepting cargo to Los Angeles t San Francisco TO/FROM
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    • 681 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55. Market Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Laws) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telei Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG M S SHARMAT NAM SOON SON BHD IST AND 2ND FLOOR NO 1 JALAN CEMPENING POfiT KLANG
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    • 634 24 Regional GO I Reliable Berthing P S HINODE KISEN CO. LTD l LTRA HKAVY LIFT AKRIKK S pore Loadnf for: •ASIAN FALCON 6/8 Sept Bahrain. Doha, Abu Dhabi. Dubai ••ALPHA PACIFIC 28/30 Sept Salalah, Muscat. Abu Dhabi. Bahrain Heavyfift 80 Tons Heavyfft 120 Tons VEB DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK FULL CONTAINER SERVICE
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    • 52 25 LICOKNI: A AGENTS SINGAPORE DIRECT FULL CONTAINER SERVICES TO US PACIFIC COAST FEEDER VESSEL PT KELANG PENANG HARVESTER HARVESTER HARVESTER 10/9 amu, tarns ORIENTAL SEAWINOS UNfR AGFNCY PTF I ID SINGAPORE TEL *****A1 SALES/BOOKINGS MALAYSIA GENERAL FREIGHT (M) SDN BHD PK M 044« KL 934 144 PEN 363J13 (Accepting FCL
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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