The Business Times, 4 September 1984

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1984 60 CENTS
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  • 444 1  -  Types and densities of projects in Central Area will be disclosed By LEE HAN SHIH THE guidelines on the development of land around some Mass Rapid Transit stations in the Central Ai;ea will soon be released.' I These guidelines, drawn up by
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  • 455 1 THE REDEVELOPMENT of the Singapore River could be part of a $520 million budget set aside for new projects by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The URA has also put aside $224 million to pay for projects in progress. The authority's 1983/84 annual report
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  • 112 1 Reuter UP TO 1,000 people are feared to have died when Typhoon Ike whipped through the Southern Philippines with destructive fury during the weekend, officials said yesterday. The confirmed death toll was put at 300 yesterday as a group of reporters flew
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  • 219 1  -  By ALVIN TAY HONGKONG BANK s acquisition of 29.9 per cent of James Capel Company is likely to benefit its Singapore clients who wish to invest in the London market. Mr P E Selway-Swift, deputy manager of the bank's Singapore
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  • Article, Illustration
    67 1 INVESTORS turned cautious yesterday in the absence of a strong lead from Wall Street, which was closed for the Labour Day holiday. Share prices closed broadly lower in light trading, with declining Issues leading advancing ones Ave to one. At the final bell, the BT Composite Index had
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  • 435 1  -  By BOEY KIT YIN EACH OF the five Asean countries affected by the US countervailing petitions on textiles have appointed Washington lawyers to protect their interests. Washington-based Weil, Gotshal and Manges and Associates has been appointed by the Singapore government to handle
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  • 314 1 Bernama MALAYSIA has increased its import duties exemption rates from 10 to 20 per cent on a new list of goods originating from Asean nations. The new rates were provided under the Customs Duties (Exemption) (Goods of Asean Countries Origin) Order. The
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    • 249 1 wm INDIVIDUALS whose organisations are not on the Community Chest's SHARE scheme con still do their bid for charity by making monthly contributions through their banks. Page 3 FOR THE first time, Swedish defence officials are openly discussing a potential threat from Soviet vessels, called "professor ships", thot have made
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    • 11 1 Full report, Pag* 14 International stocks, 10 Asian stocks, Paga 11
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    • 163 1 Nikon THE WORLD'S FINEST PHOTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM Lessons learnt from UIC-Tai Sang affair THE United Industrial Corporation-Tai Sang takeover saga is over. But there are several lessons which Singaporean entrepreuners could learn from the acrimonious affair. For one, the Hongkong Takeover Code has no force of law and is subject to
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 349 2  -  By JAIME LYE MORE HOTELS are sponsoring students in this year's Diploma in Hotel Management course at the Singapore Hotel Association Training and Educational Centre (Shatec). Sixteen hotels are paying the fees of 40 out of the 60 students Shatec is admitting into
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    • 184 2 THE PUBLIC Works Department is studying the feasibility of building a bridge across the mouth of the Singapore River to connect Shenton Way and Nicoll Highway in a bid to ease peak hour traffic congestion. The bridge will run parallel to the part of the
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    • 214 2 THERE IS room for more Work Improvement Teams (WITs) in schools. At the moment, there are only three and another 38 unregistered teams, against a total of 256 primary and 146 secondary schools and junior colleges in Singapore. Dr Tay Eng Soon,
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    • 56 2 THE RAINFALL for August was below average over threequarters of Singapore. The highest rainfall recorded was 180-200 mm while the lowest was 100-120 mm. During the next fortnight, scattered showers can be expected. Widespread thundery showers with occasional strong gusty winds are likely around dawn and
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    • 92 2 ALTHOUGH ONLY the tail end of the SIA stylised bird lego can be seen on these Boeing 7575, it won't be long before their fall splendour is revealed. The first of four snch Boeing aircraft ordered by the national carrier has already been completed, and
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    • 195 2 QL'EK CHENG KWEE has been appointed general manager at Hong Leong Industries Manufacturing. Mr Quek succeeds Mr Tay Kwang Seng, who has retired from the company after 21 years of service. Mr Tay will, however, continue to serve on Hong Leong's board as a nonexecutive director. DAVID
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    • 302 3  -  By GRACE YU NATIONAL Oxygen is to invest $2 million into the production of hydrogen for the local semiconductor industry. This was disclosed yesterday by Mr Ang Kong Hua, chairman of National Oxygen at the opening ceremony of the company's factory at
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    • 116 3 THE PRESIDENTIAL Council for Minority Rights held five meetings last year and went through 27 bills which were referred to it. No adverse report was made by the council on any of the bills in the year under review ending July 31, 1984. Council chairman Mr Justice Wee
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    • 503 3  -  Community Chest exploring other ways of raising funds By ANNA TEO INDIVIDUALS whose organisations are not on the Community Chest's SHARE scheme can still do their bid for charity through their banks. At the moment, about 32,000 workers, far short of the 100,000 target, donate regularly
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    • 245 3 THE MOST common eye diseases found in Singapore are glaucoma and cataracts the latter mainly afflicting the elderly. Infectious eye diseases such as trachoma are less of a problem. At the Singapore General Hospital, 70 per cent of all eye operations are for cataracts,
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    • 108 3 AN AUSTRALIAN architectural company has shifted its regional headquarters from Hongkong to Singapore because of more business opportunities in this region. Davenport Campbell and Partners, an international firm of architects, designers and space planners, has won more business contracts in Indonesia, Malaysia and
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    • 338 3 THE AIR was more polluted in April, May and June this year compared with the first three months of the year. The Environment Ministry said the second quarter of the year marked the inter monsoon period when the still air tended to trap
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    • 116 3 3 WEEKS' SWEAT. THE ALTERNATIVE COULD BE BLOOD AND TEARS. For three weeks every year, the reservists return to the SAF for refresher training. These are probably the toughest weeks of their lives. And the most vital for our future. Because in the event of war, the reservists are our
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 314 4 Motor vehicle industry sets the pace LED, BY the motor vehicle industry, the United States' 1,000 largest manufacturers set a new record for capital appropriations in the second quarter of this year. The Conference Board said these giant companies appropriated US$37.l billion (seasonally adjusted)
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    • 256 4 AP A BUILD-UP of ice, blocking lines that dump excess water overboard from the space shuttle Discovery, prompted mission control on Sunday to order the five-man, one-woman crew not to use the ship's toilet. Flight director John Cox said an attempt might be made to knock
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    • 141 4 Bernama MALAYSIAN processed products, especially food items, often lack attractive and good quality packaging. Hongkong businessman Y B Lee, managing director of Rio-Pack (HK) Ltd, a packaging machinery distributor, said a random check at supermarkets and department stores revealed that a
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    • 191 4 AP, UPI RAIN CLOUDS that dumped up to 650 milimetres (25.7 inches) of rain on central Korea during the past three days, slowly moved southward yesterday, after leaving 83 people dead, 36 missing and millions of dollars worth of property damaged. The National Disaster
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    • 192 4 Reuter WESTERN Europe will see the biggest influx of troops since the 1944 Allied landings in France when British forces launch EJxercise Lionheart next week as part of Nato's annual autumn manoeuvres in West Germany. Lionheart will involve the mobilisation of 57,000 troops in Britain for
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    • 763 4 ARRIVALS Operator Scrvicc number Locol time From PAA CAL MAS MAS MAS MAS RBA SIA CPA GIA SIA SIA SIA MAS MAS GIA SIA SIA SIA SIA GIA SIA THAI QA GIA SIA LUFT THAI SIA KLM CAL CPA MAS MAS MAS JAL SIA SV SIA SIA
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    • 370 5 UPI BRITAIN'S powerful Trades Union Congress opened its weeklong meeting yesterday divided over whether to fully support striking coal miners with measures that could paralyse British industry. Police said about 3,000 officers were standing by in the southern seaside resort town of Brighton,
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    • 200 5 NYT WHILE THE summer doldrums have left American steel shipments sluggish, imports have surged, capturing 33 per cent of the US market in July. This rise in shipments from abroad, reported by the American Iron and Steel Institute, comes as President Reagan is nearing a
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    • 402 5 UPI THE SOVIET Union attended the Farnborough Air Show, the world's largest, for the first time in the show's 52-year history, displaying a Soviet jumbo jet and the world's largest helicopter. The Soviet aircraft were among more than 150 civilian and military planes and sophisticated
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    • 113 5 AFP EAST GERMAN leader Erich Honecker, who is supposed to visit West Germany at the end of September, refused to say on Sunday whether he would in fact go. The Chief of State and Communist Party, in Leipzig for the international fair, had been expected to make
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    • 336 5 UPI ISRAEL'S economic crisis worsened on Sunday with the announcement of a US$l92 million drop in foreign currency reserves and record money-printing by the government. The Bank of Israel statistics for August followed a newspaper report last week that Israel was seeking an
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    • 315 5 Reuter CHANCES OF Israel's two major parties getting together to grapple with the nation's critical economic and political problems dimmed yesterday after serious disagreements developed between the two sides on Sunday night. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the ruling Likud bloc and Prime Ministerdesignate Shimon
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 60 5 Agencies MILLIONS of Argentines, their earnings drained by inflation running at more than 600 per cent, were poised to walk off their jobs yesterday in the first general strike called against the 9-month-old government of President Raul Alfonsin. The walk-out was called by the nation's major unions to
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      • 43 5 MALAYSIAN Airline System (MAS) said it has ordered a new 737 aircraft from Boeing Co for Ms 37 million for delivery next June. MAS managing director Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman said the airline is also considering buying two Boeing 7475.
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      • 48 5 KAREN insurgents yesterday claimed that they drove Burmese government troops from a strategic position near a Karen stronghold on the Thai-Burmese border, trilling 32 soldiers and wounding over 30 others. The sources added that two Karen troops were killed and five others wounded in the battle.
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      • 62 5 CHINA HAS purchased coal from Australia for the first time in 45 years and is negotiating with several Australian companies for more, the Canberra government said. A spokesman said BP Australia has concluded a contract to ship coal to China and the Australian government has also given
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      • 37 5 A GROUP of South Korean dissidents started a hunger strike yesterday to protest the upcoming trip to Japan of President Chun Doo Hwan which they opposed as "anti-na-tional" They demanded that the visit be cancelled.
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      • 37 5 AN AUSTRALIAN Qantas Boeing 747 landed in Beijing on Sunday night from Sydney, to inaugurate the first direct air service between Australia and China. The Qantas Jet covered the 9,719 km trip in 11 hours.
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      • 60 5 INDONESIA'S gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 4.5 per cent in 1984 and by the same amount in 1965, the special economic adviser to President Suharto, Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, told a seminar in Jakarta. He added the country could achieve growth rates higher than 5 per
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    • 67 5 AP AN IRAQI oil official has been quoted as saying that the Arab Gulf countries are consulting over "new export terminals" that would give them alternatives to ship their oil to world markets. Abdul-Moneim Hassan Ulwan, Under-secretary at the Iraqi Oil Ministry, said that
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    • 472 5 AP FOR THE first time, Swedish defence officials are openly discussing a potential threat from Soviet vessels, called "professor ships", that have made frequent, legal calls at the country's ports for more than 20 years. Officially "training and trade" ships, they carry
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    • 208 5 Reuter PRIME MINISTER John Turner, shrugging off gloomy opinion [Mils, has urged the Liberals to "work right until the end" to stem a Tory tide in today's Canadian election. All the polls paint a depressing picture for Mr Turner, even forecasting that he may lose
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    • 100 5 Reuter WEST GERMANY'S Bundesbank sees signs that long-term capital outflows from West Germany are slowing as confidence grows among international investors that the mark has scope for recovery against the dollar, banking sources said. Its calculations show the July long-term capital account deficit, as yet
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    • 692 6 Moves to counter danger of stagnation Reuter TAIWAN is planning a triple reorientation to keep its economy humming a shift from labour-intensive to high-technol-ogy industries, eased curbs on imports and investment in resources abroad. Vice-Economic Minister Wu Mei-Tsun said in an interview that after two decades
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    • 157 6 Reuter INDIAN Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's son Rajiv said he would defend his parliamentary seat in forthcoming elections against rebel sister-in-law Maneka. The Press Trust of India quoted Rajiv as telling supporters of the ruling Congress (I) Party in the northern constituency of
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    • 313 6 UPI "CHRISTIANITY fever" is sweeping parts of northern China because misguided peasants believe turning to God in times of illness will save on medical bills, a Beijing newspaper said yesterday. The China Daily said the growing ranks of Chinese Christians who depend on
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    • 70 6 AFP A CHINESE official in Beijing has said China hopes to establish "inter-governmental" relations eventually with Singapore, the New China News Agency (NCNA) reported yesterday. Chinese Vice-President Ulanhu met a visiting Buddhist delegation from the Republic on Sunday and told them that China "hopes that
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    • 119 6 Reuter CHINA HAS declared operational its first experimental nuclear reactor using enriched uranium fuel, according to the official New China News Agency (NCNA). It said the reactor, for research, began test runs in March and was declared operational on Saturday. NCNA said the reactor on
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    • 79 6 Salesgirls of a Tokyo department stora protect their heads with frying pans, helmets and padded headgear as they take part in an anti-disaster drill on Saturday, which waa designated Anti-Disaster Day. The government sponsored exercise took place on the 61st anniversary of the worst earthquake to hit Japan
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    • 127 6 Reuter THE JAPANESE Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) has proposed to the Ministry of Finance that semi-official financial institutions offer low interest loans to companies investing in new communications systems. The proposal calls for state-regulated financial institutions to offer the loans at 7.1
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    • 146 6 Reuter A CRACKDOWN on foreign work permit holders in Indonesia does not mean the government opposes foreigners but only law breakers. Manpower Minister 1 Admiral Sudomo said the clampdown, which would continue, was directed', against those who abused their stay or work permits, the
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 402 7  -  By PENG AILIAN THE setting up of international banking facilities (IBFs) in New York has not threatened the Asian dollar market in Singapore. This is the view of bankers contacted by BT yesterday. A report prepared for the International Monetary Fund had
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    • 49 7 Reuter JAPANESE banks' net shortterm external liabilities rose to U5545.43 billion at the end of July from $44.14 billion at the end of June, the Finance Ministry said. Japan's external reserves of $25.12 billion at end-July included $20.88 billion of foreign currencies, mostly US dollars.
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    • 106 7 Reuter FOREIGN banks in Japan have increased lending to "sarakin" finance companies, which mainly extend loans to salaried workers, according to a Finance Ministry survey. Total outstanding direct loans by foreign banks to the firms, which lend without collateral but at very high interest rates, rose
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    • 162 7 AFP THE next two weeks are likely to be critical for the troubled Financial Corporation of America (FCA) as a quarter of the short-term deposits in its affiliate, American Savings and Loan Association, reach maturity in the middle of September. Analysts
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    • 31 7 CHARTERED Bank increased its six-month fixed deposit interest rate by 0.25 percentage point to 7.5 per cent yesterday. The bank's prime rate and other deposit rates are unchanged.
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    • 563 7 NYT PRESIDENT Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado has firmly rejected any suggestion of Mexico defaulting on its international debts, saying this would cause "grave damage to the country". The statement, delivered in the president's annual report to Congress and the country, was his strongest
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    • 428 7 Reuter BANKS are unlikely to prolong a US$75O million loan to Argentina when it falls due on Sep 15 in protest at its failure to agree with the International Monetary Fund on an economic programme. Although Argentina repaid a
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 649 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed slightly higher against most major currencies yesterday after fluctuating narrowly in quiet trading. Operators were largely sidelined in the absence of fresh factors and in view of the closure of the US markets. The dollar closed marginally higher at 2.8950/60 marks compared with
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    • Article, Illustration
      230 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at opening levels yesterday in quiet trading. Interbank deposit rat** US$ Otter Bid 7 days 1113/16 11 11/16 1 month 117/8 11 3/4 2 months 1115/16 11 13/16 3 months 12 117/8 6 months 12 5/16 12 3/16 9 months 12 9/16
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    • 123 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate eased by %-point to close at 8"2 per cent on the Singapore interbank market yesterday. Term rates for the two and threemonth maturities rose by 1/16-point each but the one-month rate remained at last Friday's closing. US$/S$ 1 Interbank forward rates at 3pm yesterday: s$
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    • 277 7 Interbank rotes at 3pm ClflfFWtCMt Nominal rat** s< qwrted yiitifdiy c ■roe* pertty Local dollars to on* unit of foreign currency. US doHor 2 1575 2 1585 ***** -23 48 Sterling pound ***** 2 8233 7 3469 -61 62 AustroUon dollar 1 8209 1 8239 3 4286 •46
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    • 335 7 SINGAPORE Futures closed lower yesterday in light trading due to the late rise in the US currency. December position which recorded a turnover of 431 lots closed at U*****.40 an ounce traded compared with New York's Friday $357.80/358.20 close. February contract closed at $363.90 an ounce traded against New
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  • FEATURES
    • 447 8 BYE BYE BARGAINS. Tourists who breeze through Singapore on a shopping spree will be disillusioned when they cast their eyes over price tags. Such forbidding prices. Whatever has happened to the bargains friends and relatives raved about, the fantastically-priced cheap cameras, radio cassette recorders and clothing?
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    • 2028 8 World Bank president A W Clausen looks likely to bow out after one term on a sour note NYT AFTER more than three years, Alden Winship Clausen's term as president of the World Bank is winding down and it is playing itself out on something of
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    • 565 8  -  By LEONARD SILK NYT THE RIGHT economic strategy for the next four years, according to US presidential candidate Walter Mondale, is to shrink the budget deficits by raising taxes and cutting the growth of both military and civilian spending, while easing monetary policy to bring
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    • 1135 9  -  Tai Sang Land challenges Hongkong's takeover code By TERESA LIM, Hongkong Correspondent LAST WEEK, Hongkong's Securities Commission sent out a five-page public statement reprimanding a local property company, Tai Sang Land Development, for failing repeatedly to keep to the spirit of the colony's code
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 726 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Figure a lorae quantity is easy to get (5) 8 Ploce dates m order (5) 10 Gong struck like a coot? (5) 11 A record height? (3) 12 Professional. a bit of a dud but not ashomed (5) 13 Waste food? (7) 15 Where, in the
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  • SPORTS
    • 458 9  -  By LARRY FINE Reuter BRITAIN'S John Lloyd, who has struggled to live up to the tennis greatness forecast for him seven years ago, reached the last 16 of the United States Open tennis championships Saturday. "My desire now is very strong," Lloyd said
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    • 332 9 UPI GEORGE FOSTER'S two-out single off Rich Gossage in the 12th inning Sunday at New York gave the Mets a 3-2 victory over San Diego, their fourth straight win over the Padres. Foster's single, the fifth hit allowed by Gossage, drove in Mookie Wilson, who had
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    • 335 9 Agencies. JERRY ANDERSON of Canada, who has been living from hand to mouth this year, shot his third successive six under par 66 at Crans-Montana, Switzerland Saturday to win the Ebel European Masters golf tournament. The 28-year-old from Toronto, in his second season on the
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 172 10 Reuter UNILEVER PLI is making a 114p per ordinary share cash bid for Brooke Bond Group PLC, which values Brooke Bond at £355 million. The Unilever bid is a rival offer to one by Tate and Lyle PLC. Tate is offering one Tate
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    • 823 10 AP THE trial of the protagonists of the Carrian saga will unravel the myth of a Hongkong conglomerate that rose like a shooting star but died out just as fast, leaving debts of about HKJIO billion. Enmeshed in the
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    • 102 10 Reuter THE Sikorsky aircraft division of United Technologies Corp has agreed to cooperate with Short Brothers PLC if it wins a US$25O million British defence contract, says Sikorsky president William Paul. He says Sikorsky wants to supply about 100 medium-sized Blackhawk support helicopters to the Royal Air Force
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    • 456 10 NYT ONCE you have changed the face of British industry, it's hard to find an appropriate encore. Nonetheless, there are plenty of people in the City of London, and the financial community worldwide, waiting for Arnold Weinstock's next move. Lord Weinstock a tailor's son whose
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 439 11 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday closed higher on selective buying with a favourable chart position for the Hang Seng Index as factor behind the rise. The index ended 12.64 points up at 939.42 after being up 6.90 at the midmorning fix. After the close, Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd reported a
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    • 225 11 sirr 03 HT 7 25 -02 Cham Indus Lien Hwa Indus 20 60 1380 31 30 -04 -0.5 -05 26 20 -0 5 27 70 •05 Cathoy Cons 61 50 -2 5 Pocific Elect WM I960 -05 23.90 -0 5 Pooiung Paper 220 -0 03 Oao Hs«i Cement 23
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    • 410 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed slightly higher yesterday, but trading was thin with investors generally sidelined in the absence of fresh market factors. The Tokyo Stock Exchange Index closed at 816.99, up 0.30. The second market was marginally higher on volume of 20 million shares against 15 million in half-day
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    • 91 11 S*P 3 Won Hyundai Motor KAL 649 513 -6 -5 Bonk Seoul 661 +6 Korea First 722 i*»ch Choheung Bk 631 +1) Korea Oil 1180 -2 Commerciol Bk 664 -I Korea Shwp 425 10 Doekm Ind 588 -6 802 +2 Doewoo Corp 510 -3 Lucky Ltd Docwoo Ind 643
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    • 377 11 SYDNEY: Australian sharemarkets closed easier in thin trading yester- day as investors waited for Wall Street to resume business after the US Labor Day holidays. In the metals and golds group, Western Mining dropped 11 to 3.25, EZ Industries and Poseidon both 10 to 6.10 and 3.05, Whim Creek
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    • 169 11 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mixed yesterday with loses outnumbering gains in quiet trading. The Book Club Index dropped 0.02 to 119.19 on turnover of 578,330 shares worth 60.3 million baht compared with 552,598 worth 58 million baht on Friday. Bank of Ayudhaya, Saha Union and Jalaprathan Cement lost one
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    • 116 11 MANILA: Share prices closed generally easier yesterday in continued dull trading because of two storms that swept across several parts of the Philippines. The Commercial and Industrial Index was unchanged at 112.35, the Mining marker fell 1.87 to 951.24 and the Oils Index eased 0.018 to 0.662. S€PT 03
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    • 60 11 Reuter SUN King Fung Development has asked the stock exchanges to suspend trading in its shares. The company said that it appointed Standard Chartered Asia to consider proposals put forward by its controlling shareholders for the restructuring of share capital and liabilities. Sun King Fung
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    • 181 11 Reuter THE Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and the Philippine National Bank (PNB) bought the Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation's (MMIC) nickel refinery for about 14.8 billion pesos at an auction in Surigao, Philippines, last Friday. PNB and DBP, which had lent MMIC about
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    • 174 11 SEVERAL Johore industrial companies have shown a keen interest in the proposed piped-in-gas supply service. Petronas sources said that they had approached several industries to promote this concept of piped-in-gas. Further discussions with the interested parties have been affected due to fluctuations in the
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    • 125 11 AFP CONAIR, the world's biggest hairdryer manufacturer, has opened a US$6.4 million plant in Hongkong, says the president of the publicly-quoted US firm, Leandro Rizzuto. In a joint venture with Hongkong businessman Ko Shih Chao, Conair would employ more than 1,000 workers in the new
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 624 12 Sustained demand will lift the commodity from its doldrums Bernama THERE ARE strong indications that the rubber market, which has been in the doldrums for the past few months, has started to rebound and is now poised for an upsurge, said Malaysian Primary Industries
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    • 152 12 Reuter FRENCH Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard said last week that hamper grain harvests in Europe this year should he absorbed without tee much difficulty because many grain Imparting countries would have bad crops. But It was tea soon to say tor
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    • 388 12 Reuter THE THREAT OF United States restrictions on copper imports was expected to dominate the annual meeting of the inter-governmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries (Cipec) which started yesterday. President Ronald Reagan must decide by Sep 14 whether to impose import restrictions
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    • 137 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed firmer yesterday despite a weaker Chicago soybean complex close last week as the lower palm oil export duty announced by the government yesterday sparked speculative buying and covering interest. September deliveries in the central region firmed MJ2S to $970 per tonne, north
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    • 161 12 Yarn (b> HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix I6's 3,400 Blue Phoenix 20'* 3,500 Blue Phoenix 32'* 3,820 Blue Phoenix 40'* 4,300 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21'» 3,600 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32'* 5,100 Blue Phoenix 40'* 5,400 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 228 12 SINGAPORE The market closed higher yesterday with September One RSS buyers quoted at 192.75 cents per kg, up 2.25 cents from last Friday. The morning session opened 1.50 cents higher following steadier London advices and thereafter fluctuated narrowly on buying interest and some profit-taking. MALAYSIA The market closed slightly
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    • 56 12 THE Straits tin price in Penang yesterday remained at the ITA floor level of M 529.15 per kg, reflecting continuing shortage of demand. Sentiment was further dampened by an offering of M tonnes, op sharply from 158 on Thursday. r < TIN W mm. Straits Tin 29 15
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    • 341 12 RAS prices (m S cents/kilo, FOB in boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS prompt 187 50 188 50 190 00 191 OON Inf 1 RSS Sep 191 00 191 50 192 75 193 25 Int 1 RSS Oct 195 50 196 5C 196
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    • 109 12 (in cent*/1 ton pollets) September October (current mth) (forward mth) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR20 193 00 195 00N 195 00 197 00N SSR 50 191 00 193 00N 193 00 195 00N MRELB Buyers S*ll«n Buyers Sellers SMR CV 228 50 230 SON
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    • 1149 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended a quiet morning session yesterday with pared losses from the previous close of £28 to £13 apart from distant September which was £10 up. November finished at £2,427, down £22 but £11 above the morning's low. Traders said there was no immediate reaction to
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    • 156 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% Exchange FOB NSW 502 50 Nutmeg (Sellers noon closing prices on Sep 3 SS/100 kg) 110 FOB NSW 363 00 B W FOB NSW 256 00 Coconut oil Gombier Bulk FOB Otd drum FOB 192 00 205 00 FOB NSW 305 00 New drum
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    • 295 12 Singapore C-l special unq (S$/kilo, ei-godown) C-l Ordinary Loonzom 100% unq Thai white first grade unq 100% 1st class 100% second grade 265 (kangaroo) 1.05 077 100% third grade unq new crop 100% 2nd class Parboiled 270 100% 3rd class 075 5% 25% new crop No stock 10% 265
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    • 71 12 Sime Darby Sime Darby Group HIGHLIGHTS OF PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 1984 SUMMARY OF CONSOLIDATED RESULTS 1984 1983 MS Million M$ Million PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION 214.3 110.9 PROFIT AFTER TAXATION 121.9 69.0 EARNINGS 84.8 55.2 EXTRAORDINARY PROFITS 22.2 75.2 GROUP PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO
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    • 4193 13 SHARE prices on the Singapore stock market finished broadly lower in light trading yesterday. Price changes at the end of the day were marginal. At the final bell, the BT Composite Index fell 5.06 points to 824.74 while the Straits Times Industrial Index
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    • 283 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices Kyoto Sidim 520 10 A»g 31 Sop 3 P Potongi 50« 174 9 ■T Composite 829 79 824 74 C 4 C 350 8 BT Indicator *****03 250)119 T«»tiU Corp 164 7 BTOt/OS 125 -172 Tmm Enorg OCK 318 +6 ST Indultnofe 929 26
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    • 506 13 SHARE prices drifted to an easier close on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday in dull trading. In the absence of any encouraging developments both locally and overseas, investors continued to stay on the sidelines. As investors continued to adopt a cautious stance, turnover
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    • 3718 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 Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT"
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 915 14 FT BANKS are probably the most highly rated corporations in Malaysia, and not surprisingly so. In the first instance, it is very difficult to get a banking licence these days. With an annual growth rate exceeding 25 per cent in terms of profits during
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    • 296 14 CONTRIBUTIONS from two recently-acquired construction companies boosted IGB Corp Bhd's gross revenues for the half year to June 30, 1984. But this has not helped the group to turn in higher profits compared with the previous interim. Turnover for the enlarged IGB
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    • 485 14 PROFITS at Consolidated Plantations Bhd and Benta Plantations Bhd were given a tremendous boost by significantly higher commodity prices as well as stronger demand for cocoa last year. Consolidated pre-tax profits for the year ended June 30 rose by 166 per cent to MJI33
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    • 92 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hong Seng Index Monday 1027.0 Friday ***** Monday 939.42 Week ago 1031.0 Friday 926.78 NEW YORK Dow Jones Week ogo Closed TOKYO Friday 1224.38 Thursday 1223 28 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1236.53 Monday *****.08 Saturday ***** 60 Standard and Poors Week ago *****.72 Friday
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    • 233 14 Managers' prices for Sep 4 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 3.04 3 23 The Savings Fund 1.91 2.03 S'pore Prog Fund 1 36 1 44 S'pore Sec Fund 1.98 2.10* S'pore Invest Fund 1 20 1 27 S'pore Equity Fund 135 143 Asia Unit Trust Second B'putra Th*d
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    • 2499 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 Alan Hldg (I 806) xd Alcom (2 006 2
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    • 340 15 CONSTRUCTION of Malayan Banking Bhd's new head office building is believed to have fallen behind schedule as a result of difficulties faced by South Korean contractor Keang Nam Enterprise. An industry source said Keang Nam might have to pull out
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    • LATEST
      • 48 15 Operating pre-tax profits of M 52.97 million ($1.89 million) for the year ended April 30, 1984. The company said its plantations were valued in Sept last year at $7.2 million. The surplus of $6.6 million has been credited to asset revaluation reserve.
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    • 479 15  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI NEWCOMER Lee Kim Tah Holdings Ltd looks set to clinch another major Housing Development Board contract to design and build a whole new housing estate using modern pre-fabrication methods. BT has learnt that Lee Kim Tah submitted the
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    • 502 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE UNITED Engineers Ltd, under its new management, is slowly regaining its standing in the market as a long-established engineering group. But, it is still a long way to go before UEL makes it back to the top. Since it
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    • 270 15 THE TAKEOVER of Far Eastern Bank by United Overseas Bank Ltd will place the former on a stronger financial footing to operate more profitably in a competitive banking environment. UOB has outlined its plan to streamline the systems and operations of FEB, and strengthen its
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    • 961 15 THE market closed mixed yesterday after a very quiet session and at 3pm, the FT 30 Share Index was up 0.2 point to 853.9 while at 3.30pm, the FTSE 100 Share Index had gained 1.4 points to 1105.3. Dealers said bid situations provided some interest but overall operators
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    • 189 15 MPH INVESTMENTS (Singapore) Pte Ltd has acquired 24,000 shares in Hotel Tal-Pan Ltd on Aug 31 for $22,495. Commowealth Development Finance Co Ltd has sold 45,000 shares in Van der Horst Ltd on Aug 28. CDF's shareholding in Van der Horst has now been reduced to one million
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    • 675 15 miaa mm... By HOCK LOCK SIEW ANNOUNCEMENTS made by Singapore Land always attract a great deal of interest from investors, for the simple reason that there is usually more behind the company's terse releases. Last week's disclosure of top-level changes, which came in the wake of talk
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    • 188 14 Singapore is Host Country International Information Management Congress Hyatt Regency Hotel —Singapore 2-4, October, 1984 3 Full Days of Professional Seminars Conducted by a team of 32 Information Management Specialists from all over the world. Conference Theme: How to Define, Organize and Categorize the Various Elements of Information Management. Typical
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    • 355 14 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 Pursuant to Section 254<2Mb) AND IN THE MATTER OF FRONTIER ENTERPRISES (PTE) LTD. At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above named Company duly convened and held at 6001 Beach Road, 12-01 12-11 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore 0719, on Saturday
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  • 529 16  -  By LEE HAN SHIH CITY PLANNERS at the URA will now have a more tangible guide to help them as they work to shape Singapore into a city of the future. Whereas previously, URA's planners and architects had to turn to a two-dimensional
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  • 332 16 UPI THE THAI Parliament headed off a major political crisis yesterday by postponing consideration of a proposal to allow active military officers to hold top positions in government. The Thai government also announced the results of the annual military reshuffle, which provided no surprises, while
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  • 468 16  -  By CHUANG PECK MING A CHANCE to help promote goodwill and harmony among Singaporeans is the motivation behind Zulkifli Mohammed's decision to be a PAP candidate in the coming elections. He was first asked to stand in the 1976 elections as a PAP candidate, but
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  • 65 16 Reuter EIGHT people were killed yesterday as thousands of rioters swept through Sharpeville and other black South African townships in northern Transvaal province. Police said the dead included the deputy mayor of Sharpeville, who was hacked to death by a mob outside his home. The
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  • 445 16 THE Malaysian government's decision to consider buying Soviet helicopters for the Royal Malaysian Air Force is closely related to the continuing trade deficit between the communist superpower and Malaysia, highly placed government sources said yesterday. The sources said that Prime Minsiter Datuk Seri
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  • 145 16 CHILDREN of higher educated parents do better in examinations than those of lower educated parents, says Mr Goh Kim Leong. The Permanent Secretary (Education) was responding yesterday to the World Bank's doubts over Singapore's policy of encouraging graduate mothers to have more children. Statistics
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  • 90 16 AFP CHINA AND thje Royal Bank of Canada signed an agreement in the colony yesterday to establish a joint venture merchant bank, Royal Bank announced. Under the agreement, China International Trust and Investment Corp, an enterprise directly under China's state council, is to
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  • 340 16 KRAFTWERK Union AG, a West German company, has won a contract worth $79.6 million for the Jurong power station, beating six big Japanese companies. The six Japanese sogososhas are Mitsubishi Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, Mitsui and Company, Toyo Menka
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  • LATE FILE
    • 55 16 Reuter CHINA has applied to join Interpol but has insisted the international criminal police organisation recognises Beijing ing as the country's sole legal government. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the application. submitted in May,was aimed at helping the fight against international crime. Taiwan is
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    • 50 16 Reuter POLAND'S national bank said it had devalued the zloty by 10.6 per cent against the dollar in an effort to stimulate exports. It said the devaluation, effective since last Saturday, gave an exchange rate of 123 to the dollar, compared with a previous rate of 110.
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    • 54 16 Reuter THE NATIONALIST Chinese President Chiang Ching-Kuo yesterday called on Taiwan's armed forces to improve their combat readiness because of the continued confrontation with communist China. Mr Chiang said the 500,000strong armed forces should not relax their vigilance against communist military adventures nor forget the mission of
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    • 59 16 UPI THE UNITED Arab Emirates returned seven young Sikh hijackers to India yesterday and New Delhi thanked the US for refusing to grant the sky pirates visas. The militants, who hijacked a plane with 93 people aboard to Dubai 10 days ago, were flown to New
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    • 64 16 UPI THE INDIAN government plans to ignore an ultimatum by a "World Sikh Convention" to pull security forces out of the Golden Temple by the end of the month, an official said yesterday. The convention of about 250,000 Sikhs from around the world issued the ultimatum
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    • 57 16 Outlook for todoy: Foir overnight, with showers in the morning, becoming foir ogoin thereafter. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Sep 3 of the airport: Maximum temperature 29.0 Associated humidity 70 Minimum temperature 23.0 Associated humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 3.10 Rainfall in millimetres 28.3 Rainfall this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      • 69 17 Reuter AUSTRALIAN authorities released the 40,000ton oil tanker Golden Gate Sun last Friday pending arbitration over a A 5400,000 salvage claim, lawyers said. The empty Singapore-registered ship was held last Thursday after Pacific Salvage Partnership filed a writ claiming the fee for moving it off a mudbank,
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      • 60 17 AFP EXXON has ordered two 209,000-ton oil tankers from National Steel and Shipbuilding of San Diego for US$25O million. They will be used between Valdez in Alaska and Panama, Each vessel can take 1.5 million barrels of crude. From Panama, the oil will sail for US
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      • 55 17 Reuter PAKISTAN'S largest port has eliminated waiting time for ships. MI Arshad, chairman of Karachi Port Trust said the association would shortly review port handling charges, last reviewed in 1979. The port handled 14.75 million tonnes of import and export cargo in fiscal 1983/84 ended June compared
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    • 423 17  -  By LINDA CHEE AMERICAN President Lines (APL) has renamed the first of two ships purchased from Neptune Orient Lines President Eisenhower, and will bring the vessel into the trans-Pacif-ic service under the US flag early this month. The Japanese-built containership, formerly Neptune Jade, was
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    • 666 17 Shipping Urn NH Col Ateo Ahrenkiel Liner Alphatrons Alpoc Antoro Shpg APC Line APL ASCL Asiabroker Arias Lines Austosio Line Balt-Ortent Bangkok Cont Bank Line BBS Ben Lme Blue Stor Burma Five Star Cameroon Shpg CC Line CCM Ceyton Shpg Chorgeurs Reurvs Chorgeurs Havraise Ch«na Nov Chma
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    • 328 17 Fairplay INDIAN shipping companies have defaulted to the tune of US$22l million in repayment of loans to the Shipping Development Fund Committee of the Transport and Shipping Ministry. The Minister of State for Shipping, ZR Ansari, said this in parliament recently. The Shipping Development Fund
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    • 501 18 Reuter THE NUMBER of very large combined carriers (VLCCs) and ultra large carriers (ULCCs) on the world market far exceeds requirements and their rate of scrapping is too slow. Shipbroker John I Jacobs said in a review the prospects for achieving a balance
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    • 192 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
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    • 209 18 A LEADING propeller manufacturer, Stone Manganese Marine Ltd, has established a new model propeller company in Britain. The company. Stone Propellers Ltd, has been formed to manufacture extremely accurate model propellers required by ship designers. When estimating the power required for a ship of a
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    • 1307 18 RENEWED interest has been shown in longer term time-charter business on the freight market on Friday, shipbrokers said. A vessel of 55,000 long dwt is reported to have been fixed with delivery South Korea for 12 to 15 months trading at US$5,570 daily and the same level has
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    • 500 18 THE eleventh-hour rescue of Eddie Steamship by the Itoiwan government is the largest loan ever made by the state to bail out a private company. It marks a new departure for the Taipei administration, which is committed to virtualy unfettered capitalism, and
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    • 131 18 Reuter THE JOINT Hull Committee, representing Lloyd's and company marine insurers, has recommended bigger increases in premiums of shipowners with poor results renewing the cover on their vessels. The committee said the recommendation was made because of the continuing poor results in the hull underwriting market. A
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    • 164 18 WHILE SHIPOWNERS were busily lobbying for passage of the Shipping Act of 1984 on the one hand, and fearing the rise of shippers associations on the other, it appears that few shippers have rushed to start such groups. The records at the US Justice Department show
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    • 1074 19 Aag 38-Sept I International exhibition on the industrial methods of equipment installation in shipbuilding, Leningrad, USSR. Sept 3-7 2nd international hydrographic technical conference. Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Sept 4-7 International Maritime Exhibition, Gdansk, Poland. Sept 8 "Lloyd's List, the first 250 years" by R Farndon, editor, Lloyd's List, Royal
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    • 251 19 THE WORLD'S largest container operator, SeaLand Service, has split its Atlantic trades into two in the latest stage of its reorganisation programme. The shake-up sees two divisions bom of the old Atlantic division Transatlantic and Middle East with their own managements. The announcement
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    • 477 19 SENIOR management at Yarrow Shipbuilders has announced plans to mount a management employee buy-out of the company. The move by the management comes weeks after the government announced the sale of the yard. The chairman of British Shipbuilders, Mr Graham Day, said that the corporation
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    • 507 19 PM O expands to serve US east coast THE Philippines, Micronesia Orient Navigation Company (PM&O), which offers a liner service to the US west coast, has expanded its Philippine-US service to the US east coast. PM O, with its Filipino registered vessels, is expected to fill the void left by
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    • 5785 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 653 25 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Sin Bhum 184N 4.9 84 2300 S'pore Shpg TA 3 1000-1100 Jl Jutlandia 321 5984 0200 Ned-EAC TA 3 1200-1400/1200-1300 1300-1400 Nl SI Kansai P 37A 59
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    • 1788 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S) Afr*-Kara«U Liar Transgroup (S) Akrraklrl liaer Service Kim Shpg <S> Alfred C T*epler Oceanus Shipping Agencies (S) Marintex Enterprise (PK). Alpac Intrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KL) Island Cargo Handling
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    • 392 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Chidambaram 31/2 R Jumabhoy alongside 4.9.84/1500 Chry Grace 35/6 BOR alongside 4.9.84/1200 Equator III 22 Thong Soon alongside 4.9.84/0700 Kota Makmur 10/11 PIL alongside 4.9.84/0600 Makmur 20W SSPL alongside 4.9.84/1100 Sangerhausen 18 S'pore Shpg alongside 4.9.84/1500 See
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    • 347 26 AFP WITH DEMAND remaining generally very weak, the volume of fixtures again declined last week, both for crude and refined products, with the inevitable weakening of most rates under the pressure of the huge volume of tonnage available and competition between owners seeking employment. One notable exception was
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    • 694 21 PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: KOTA WIRAWAN E-519 11-14/9 DJIBOUTI, HOOEIDAH, ADEN. JEDDAH. AOABA. MUKALLA KOTA WARUNA E-521 9-13/9 HOOEIDAH, ADEN. AOABA, PTSUOAN KOTA RAKYAT E-523 IS-20/9 TAMATAVE, O'SALAAM, MOMBASA KOTA WWJAYA E-525 12-16/10 HOOEIDAH, JEDDAH, AOABA. PTSUOAN KOTA TIMUR E-527 S-11/10 ADEN. JEDDAH, AOABA
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    • 741 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE TOEUMK STOW hum 7/9 C*y ol E4Hw|ti Honftonf Eiprns 12/9 Cardfan Bit 20 J Liverpool Bay 4/11 KooMn Bay 12/10 Hamburt Eiprm 21/10 Mm Mara 20/10 B«na>on 4/11 UK HAM 23/9 25/9 20/9 21/9 2/10 4/10 9/10 11/10 17/10 19/10 24/10 2C/10 1/11
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    • 497 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF Far East S'pore Service Fii Containef Vessel Busan Yoko Kobe Kaoh Spore T( Pnok GOWA V 11 w MAJAPAHT V 12 W Kobe Kaoh S'pore T( Pno stung 23/8 27/8 7/9 9/9 1/9 4/9 12/9 14/9 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE SfOK PKUAN6 IDMI/ TUUBY/
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    • 515 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rancoon Spore P.Kelong Pinyo *V 75 8/10 Sept Po-on *V 76 12/13 Sept 10/11 Sept Pogon V 77 20/23 Sept Htoneywo V 195 27/29 Sept Discharging only Penong V* BANK LINE EXPRESS INDEPENDENT SERVICE TO UK/CONT SPORE
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    • 845 22 ,lu Kline KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. 1 ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE FEEDER MOTHER VSI PKIG PNG SPORE NAGOYA GUA»»QU* C AIL AO MICA KANSAI PIOKU V 37 EASTERN SPLEIBOUR V 5002 6 Sept 7 Sept t Sept 21 Sepl 24 Oct 1 No. KANSAI PIONEER V 37 SEA EXPRESS VMM 6 Sept 7
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    • 431 22 Accepting Brwafcbulk and containwriMd cargo** Diract to South Africa Accepting Container 1 Breafcbulli U VfRGfIEGfN V.073 Acceptint Containers Qnl» OSAKA MAW V 6517F HATAKAWA MAJtU V MISF A VAAL W C7ISF Dwban Bay CTm I lai Maputo fib 27/11 7/U 19/11 11/11 m/» tt/i vn «/U 12/11 11/11 23/10 21/11
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    • 497 22 I/ie CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS COOTAINER/REEFER/SIILK SERVICE to*** lot lOS ANGEtES SAN FRANCISCO SEATIII IACOMA VANCOUVER BC Accfptni Fa/Fa ConlMiets P M*i( I Ar**trs IMWTI II W 19/21 Sopt It Oct AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accoplnf Fa/Fa Contiowt f >W"C S porf fnm ttmm a/it sept ?i sept fARMDAS
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    • 546 22 SANKD ASIA FROM JAPANESE POUTS AMO HONGKONG > m GOLDEN LINE COM CM* SRtPPWC (PTE)LTt ><«| t«| hwmott bt M*| M Cad S*eet smuroK rim let mtm <11 iani in tub la** M2ll. t titjnt nmi XMI fw Ma* «f«* WT UOTD CM) SON M TE U37« STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE:
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    • 480 22 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD 10 Anson Road «27 16 Internationa P'aza Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 <1 0 Linesl Fd SEAWOOO SHIPPING CORPORATION S pore P Kelang Loadnt tor FORT YALE »ort MM/MM A|««ts MTMSIt (Wl) 110 BOOK ME 2?4«511 Iwnpw BMTMC SWPW CO SON M) 4337 M MR Owuh kUttm
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    • 602 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE A •< me ACE C*»l TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): STRAITS/AUSTRALIA RO-RO CONTAINER SERVICE »cm, TPA CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA PACIFIC COAST EXPORT IMPORT OExnansc N AMHt 59€ 21/10 24/10 26/10 28/10 31/10 2/11 27/10 3/11 S'p*« 9/® 16/9 23/9
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    • 564 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels 1 I SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO BANGKOK. KEELUNG BUSAN. INCHON »m* S«e» n PfN BKK KQ MCHON BUSAN No »Ovum ***** U/0 »/j No tDonan 4MN 17/S a/0 J/10 No 7 Datum 407N 21/0 M/J 10/10 13/10 No I Oanjm 407N 7/10 12/10 23/10 No
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    • 534 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55. Market Street S«i(apore 0104 Telephone Nwnberc *****3 (15 Lnes) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telei Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS 251 M P KELANG M/S SHARMAT NAM SOON SON BHD IST AND ?ND FLOOR NO 1 IALAN CEMPfNWG PORT KLANG
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    • 497 24 Kcyional Container Lilies 3 Sailings Weekly Ij Reliable Regular Punctual RCL Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hrt. Tues, Thurt Sat REGULAR FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET SONGKLA RAT AW BHUM 253 254 SM S/7 Sept KATANA BHUM 1)1/04 9/12 Sept 14/16 Sept 11/19 Sep 22/23 Sept It A! ANA BHUM 112/1)3 26
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    • 60 25 SINGAPORE TEL 220*6*1 SALES/BOOKINGS MALAYSIA GENERAL FREIGHT (M) SDN BHD PK 3*0448 KL 9341*4 PEN *****3 (Accepting FCL ond LCL) OAKLAND L BEACH 23/8 10/9 18/# I 20/9 FEEDER VESSEL HARVESTER HARVESTER HARVESTER PT KELANG I PENANG FROM AMD TO HONGKONG TAIWAN KOREA VESSfI I ICFFI i iKtr, I HOisir^nKir,
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    • 178 25 Scan Dutch 9 -—1 To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) 1) MARSEILLES 2) ROTTERDAM 3) HAMBURG 4) GOTHENBURG To Red Sea/Mediterranean From Europe From Red Sea/Med. JutUndu 6 Permai Nihon Scandutch Edo Korrtgan HONG KONG Also Accepting To: (I) Barcelona, Genoa, Bdboo, Leghorn Valencia (2) Amsterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Basle, Southampton, Liverpool, London (Tilbury),
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