The Business Times, 18 October 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18,1184 60 CENTS
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  • 541 1  -  Phillips Petroleum to fund drilling of three exploratory wells By RAY HEATH A NEW QUEST for oil off the coast of Brunei is to be launched next year by a partnership which includes the Singaporebased South-east Asian division of the US oil giant, Phillips
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  • 566 1  -  By PENG AILIAN ANOTHER attempt to halt the rise of the US dollar was mounted by the West German central bank yesterday. In a repeat of its big sale of three weeks ago, the Bundesbank went into foreign exchange markets and
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  • 288 1  -  By FOOCHOY PENG AT THE PUSH of a button, the government can obtain easily standard information about an individual. This will become a reality in the not-too-distant future once the Civil Service is extensively computerised, said Dr Andrew Chew, Head of
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  • 252 1 THE PRESS have won the battle for the right to attend the George Tan committal hearing. The Hongkong High Court yesterday quashed an earlier order by Magistrate Brian Suttill that excluded the media from the hearing while allowing the public admission.
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  • Article, Illustration
    71 1 HOPES FOR a technical rally this week at the Siagapere steek market declined wltk share prices yesterday. Tnuili| was qaiet threnghsst the day aad the easy eeadtttoas tod maay dealers te fcdhw thai the market weald esattaae te drift ffsr the rest sf the year. At the etoee,
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  • 347 1 SOME WATER in the western part of Singapore has higher than "acceptable" levels of trihalomethane a cancer causing compound, according to a study released yesterday. However, official sources question the validity and accuracy of the findings reported by Dr Ng
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  • 123 1 AIR AND SEA freight agents in Singapore have been depriving their counterparts in Johore and the Johore Port Authority of millions of ringgit a month by illegally soliciting for business'in Johore under the guise of social visit passes. Sources in Johore alleged that manufacturers in the
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  • 299 1  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN FAR EAST-LEVINGSTON Shipbuilding hopes that either an American or European drilling contractor will take an equity stake in a Friede Goldman Mod 5 jack-up which it wants to build. FELS, the member of the Keppel group in charge of offshore
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    • 266 1 Food for noipiiiif, Bock Pago anscicDa SEVERAL LOCAL monufocturers of electrical and electronic goods are banding together to form o national stand at the coming Enex Asia '84 exhibition. They will disploy new products and hope to find new morkets. Page 2 INDUSTRIAL production in the US fell last month
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    • 145 1 +*]{!*]`!=;]_&'.|'{;'_`;,,>_"') SINGAPORE IS ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACES 1*1:\ OR IS IT? Not If you rent one from BTW. That way, you can avoid the initial outlay, road tax and maintenance costs that pose a real burden to the car owner. What you will enjoy, instead, are our little
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 388 2  -  By JOHN LIM SEVERAL LOCAL manufacturers of electrical and electronic goods are banding together to form a national stand at the coming Enex Asia *84 exhibition. They will display new products and they hope to find new markets, especially in
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    • TRADE TALK
      • Article, Illustration
        101 2 a leader in Optical Character Readers, has introduced the new International Series 80 Scanner to the Singapore and regional markets. The series 80 Scanner offers up to four accented alphabets, six non-accented alphabets or a mix of both resident in the machine. It can read up to 250
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      • 128 2 the new per- sonal computer recently introduced in the US, will be launched in South-east Asia at PerCompAsia 84. The IBM PC-AT comes in two easily expanded models. The $9,732 model includes 256,000 characters of user memory and a new 1.2 million character high-capacity diskette drive. The
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      • 101 2 Electrical of Australia will exhibit its new series of 'Wilco' steel clad industrial electrical switchgear at Enex-Asia '84. The new series is designed to withstand accidental damage, rough usage, adverse weather or corrosion by elements such as hydrocarbons. The "Wilco" metal clad switchgear is one of the few
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    • 101 2 THE ASSOCIATION of Accredited Advertising Agents Singapore has decided to recommend an increase of about 10 per cent to existing creative charges. The executive committee of the 4As met recently to review creative charges which was last recommended to their members in 1981.
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    • 123 2 RAINFALL for the first half of October was below average over more than half of Singapore. The highest rainfall of 180 mm was recorded in the northern districts and the lowest rainfall of 50 to 60mm was recorded in the eastern and
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    • 372 2  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF NEW TECHNOLOGY in vibration control is needed for the nine Mass Rapid Transit underground stations which will be used as civil defence stations. This is because conventional vibration control for subway systems was designed to withstand earthquakes rather than bomb blasts.
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    • 341 2 INDUSTRIALISTS should consider pooling resources to find a more effective and economical means of treating waste water. This was the suggestion of Mr Foong Chee Leong, the chief engineer of the sewerage department of the Ministry of Environment yesterday. Mr Foong was
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    • 377 3  -  By LUCY NG SHOPPERS with a yen for Japanese goods will have a fourth Japanese department store next month. Meitetsu, a Japanese industrial and retailing giant, will open a department store at the Delfi along Orchard Road next month. It will be its first overseas
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    • 285 3  -  By LOH HUI YIN ABOUT 100 representatives from lubricant manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific region will attend a forum in Singapore to discuss developments in automotive design and lubricant technology. The three-day session, starting next Wednesday, is the second such technical forum organised by
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    • 324 3 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE Oct 18 Office AutomotionAn Executive Perspective Oct 18-19 The Time Manager Seminar Oct 19-20 Office AutomationA Practical Course In Planning Implementation Oct 20 Latest Amendments To The Employment Act Oct 21-Nov 2 Company Directors' Programme Oct 22 Value Analysis Oct 24 Office Automation Seminar
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    • 95 3 EIGHT SINGAPORE chefs will return to a hero's welcome next Monday after cooking at a German culinary competition. It marks the first time that Singapore has taken part in the international culinary art exhibition Ika Hoga, labelled the Olympics of cooks. To mark
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    • 78 3 IN TUESDAY'S article (Oct 16), "Helping to train handicapped for jobs", it was reported that the Vocational Assessment Placement Centre (VAPC) was liasing with the Ministry of H<jme Affairs for bigger premises. The VAPC is, in fact, liasing with the Ministry of Social Affairs. Also, the cost
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    • 453 3  -  By ANNA TEO SINGAPORE'S new breed of managers are young, well-quali-fied and ambitious, but also relatively inexperienced at managing "complex human beings". It has been said that their youth and inexperience may lead to over-zealousness in getting a task done without due consideration for people.
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 593 4 First drop since November 1982 NYT INDUSTRIAL production in the US fell last month for the first time since the recession in the country ended in November 1982, the Federal Reserve Board reported on Tuesday. Its announcement of a moderate decline of 0.6 per cent
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    • 113 4 UPT KENYAN police arrested two officials of the Mwangeka soccer team last Sunday for using bird feathers and other "witchcraft paraphernalia" to put a curse on the opposition goalkeeper. The Kenyan news agency said that the incident took place during a district league game
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    • 66 4 UPI photo THIS SLEEK machine is Porsche's latest super sports car, ths Porscha 959. Tha 450 horsopowsrsd ear has a 2J5 Htra six-cylinder boxer motor and can hit a top spaad of mora than 300 km/h. It sleo has a four-wheel drive end is priced at
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    • 291 4 Reuter AIRBORNE pollution, caused by car exhausts and factory waste, is rapidly killing many of Europe's forests and newlypublished statistics show that the damage is greatest in West Germany. The West German government statistics, released on Tuesday, showed that half the country's trees have
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    • 301 4 UPI THE OPENING of a new institute at Harvard University to study why people smoke cigarettes will go a long way toward achieving a smoke-free society by the year 2000, US surgeon-general Edward Koop said. "When I called for a smoke-free society by
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    • 302 4 !l§§ Whl#* Hams# Reuter PRESIDENT Reagan is trying to turn Democrat against Democrat in a major effort to embarrass presidential contender Walter Mondale before their televised campaign debate on Sunday. Mr Reagan is attacking Mr Mondale by quoting charges Senators John Glenn, Gary Hart and
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    • 292 4 Reuter BRITAIN faces a total shutdown of its coalfields from next week unless a small but crucial union can be persuaded to reverse its decision to join striking coal miners in their eight-month-old strike. The union, Nacods, has called out its 17,000
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    • 137 4 AP FORMER NOBEL Peace Prize laureates, government officials, church and labour leaders have praised the choice of black antiapartheid leader Desmond Tutu as recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement of the award to Tutu, an Anglican bishop and general secretary of the
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    • 509 6 Reuter ECONOMIC and diplomatic moves in Pyongyang this week have strengthened official impressions in Tokyo of a new eagerness by North Korea to deal with the outside world. "There has certainly been a change in the situation," said Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) official, Hiroko
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    • 232 6 AP CHINA sold the United States US$327 million more than it bought in the first half of this year, the biggest US trade deficit with China since the two countries resumed trade in 1971, the US International Trade Commission has
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    • 328 6 Reuter A COMMISSION of inquiry into the murder last year of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino will hold a special meeting today to discuss a vital new development, one of its lawyers said. The commission's deputy counsel, Francisco Villa, said: "It is an
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    • 398 6 FT THE ORGANISATION of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) may cut its official production ceiling to maintain world prices in the wake of Norway's decision to make an effective cut of US$l.5O a barrel in its official price for North Sea
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    • 267 6 Bernama MALAYSIA may use new technology borrowed from Italy for the Malaysian car, Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad said in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The Malaysian Prime Minister said he was impressed with this technology a method of using
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    • 313 6 Reuter EAST GERMAN leader Erich Honecker appears determined to project an image of unswerving loyalty to Moscow on his current visit to Finland. This is his first trip to the West since he cancelled a visit to West Germany
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    • 187 6 AFP MONGOLIA, in an effort to increase its support for the Asian seat on the UN Security Council, has taken the unprecedented step of publishing an 11-page document urging member nations to vote in its favour next Monday. Both Mongolia and Thailand are
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    • 77 6 Reuter A TOP LEVEL official committee will recommend wide-ranging liberalisation of India's foreign trade policy in a report likely to be submitted to the government by end-1964, the committee's chairman. Commerce Secretary Abid Hussain, said. He said: "We must have an open economy, which will be open
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    • 119 6 AFP THE NEW ZEALAND Dairy Board yesterday warned that a move by the European Economic Community to sell 100,000 tonnes of cut-price butter could precipitate a butter-price collapse. Board chairman Jim Graham was attacking plans by the EEC to sell 100,000 tonnes of surplus butter to
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    • 744 6 ARRIVALS Operator S*r*ict number Local tint From KAL KE687 0020 SEL/KUL PAA PA5 0020 JFK/SFO/HKG CAL CI009 0040 TPE SIA SQ43 0750 DHA MAS MH68I 0820 KUL TMA TL35I 0830 BEY/DXB MAS MH60I 0905 KUL sv SV378 0910 JED/RUH MAS MH67I 0935 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 862 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar lost its earlier gains yesterday in moderately active late trading to close lower against major European currencies. Its late fall was attributed to reports of the Bundesbank intervention in early Frankfurt trading after having firmed this morning on buying interest. The greenback fell to
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    • 225 7 Interbank rates at 3pm quoted ywtorday t chmng* Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2.1715 2 1725 ***** -22 99 Sterling pound 2 5895 ***** 7 3469 -64 75 Australian dollar 1 8012 1 8031 3 4286 -47 47 NZ dollar 1 0434 1
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    • 37 7 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks and discount houses to tender for $130 million of 91-day Treasury bills. The tender closes on Oct 19. Each tender must not be for less than $250,000.
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    • 304 7 BA Futures Inc. EURODOLLAR futures opened higher yesterday in line with the small gains posted at Chicago. Eurodollar prices were supported by low federal funds rate and failure of the Fed to drain reserves. December Euros contract opened at 88.79, nine ticks higher than previous close. Further decline in
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    • Article, Illustration
      123 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate rose by 3/8-point from Tuesday to close at 73/4 per cent on the Singapore interbank money market yesterday. One month fell by 1/16-point but two and three-month maturities remained at Tuesday's levels. TOCAIB In mnp af «w prh» M* rata afl2 Mb «panth«ki Anpara. S$
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    • 237 7 PERIOD ASIAN dollar deposit rates extended earlier losses yesterday in thin afternoon trading on increased lending interest. Period rates weakened between 1/16 and 1/8 point at the outset following news of a 0.6 per cent drop in US September industrial production and fell a further 1/16 point
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    • 220 7 HONGKONG The market finished lower yesterday in light of the strong US dollar, with trading fairly quiet except for sporadic selling by Singapore interests both early and near the close. The bullion price ended at U*****.00/50 an ounce against an opening of $338.80/339.30 and New York's $338.75/339.25 close. On
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    • 455 7 Reuter UK INDEX linked bonds, designed to protect investors from inflation, have recently become popular in spite of a falling inflation rate, bond market analysts say. The goverment bonds, which link yields to the retail price index, have averaged a
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    • 95 7 Reuter THE GOLD and foreign exchange reserves of Bank Negara Malaysia rose to M 59.6 billion last month from 19.32 billion in August. Total assets of the Malaysian central bank increased to $16.02 billion at the end of last month from $15.87 billion at the end of
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  • FEATURES
    • 547 8 LIKE it or not, the Pacific era is upon Singapore, or at least on its tourist trade. Of the $2.48 billion the trade earned last year, almost 47 per cent ($1.16 billion) came from only four sources Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. And eight
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    • 1014 8 Help for Manila but at a price The Philippines is to receive economic assistance from the International Monetary Fund but at a price. BT's Manila correspondent examines the implications of the austerity package that comes with the deal. THE ECONOMIC outlook for the Philippines over the next three years is
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    • 569 8  -  By NICHOLAS KRISTOF NYT VOLUNTARISM, Japan has learned, is contagious in international trade. Within two months of Japan's reluctant decision on May 1, 1981, to limit car exports to the United States, arm-twisters from Canada, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands all
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    • 402 8  - California the espionage capital of America By RONALD CLARKE Reuter SURVEILLANCEcameras whirr from the rooftops of the long lines of factories while security cars patrol below. Giant notices tell technicians not to leave discarded papers in baskets and to wipe out formulas on blackboards before going home. Another warning says:
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    • 200 8  -  Letter to the Editor Loke Pak Chee Chairman Construction Management Training Committee Singapore Contractors Association Ltd DEAR SIR, I refer to your report heading "SCAL Trainees Face Uncertain Future" (BT, Oct 12, 1984). I regret that your report has misrepresented the aims and aspirations of
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    • 832 9  -  By KENNETH WHITING AP THE TWO runways stand on "chicken feet" at a new airport in Jakarta designed to cope with civil air traffic well into the next century. The novel foundation will get its first major test from the weight of Jumbo jets when Cengkareng
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    • 610 9  -  By JEFFREY ULBRICH AP FRANCE has discovered its new poor. These are not the ragged bums that long have haunted the Paris subway. They are not the social misfits that lurk in the rundown quarters of France's major cities. Nor are they the
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 677 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS I A letter to Haiti, possibly from on island (6) 7 Sent away wine, indeed' (8) 8 Storoge ploce for oils? (4) 10 Animal for E. Wales (6) 11 Radio rogue? (6) 14 Point to a film of moisture (3) 16 Geoff's garments' (5) 17 Brass instrumentalists'
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  • SPORTS
    • 480 9 Reuter. THE INTERNATIONAL Tennis Federation announced on Tuesday that this year's Davis Cup final between Sweden and the United States will be held from Dec 16 to 18. A short ITF statement issued by its director of men's tennis,
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    • 477 9  -  By DEREK PARR Reuter ALAIN PROST, the pocket-sized "professor" of the Formula One circuit, hopes it will be third time lucky when the motor racing season closes at Estoril this Sunday. The pugnacious little Frenchman is bidding to overcome the frustration of twice being
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    • 274 9  -  By BRIAN MILLER SINGAPORE musician and horse owner, Ambrose Francis, has had his appeal against a two-year disqualification imposed on him by the Western Australian Turf Club, dismissed by three stewards of the WATC yesterday. Francis, 33, was charged with "improper conduct" following an incident
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    • 184 9 AP PUERTO RICO, following a 5-4 defeat of tournament favourite Cuba, and the United States led their divisions heading into third-round play in the amateur baseball World Series. No games were scheduled for Tuesday. Some of Monday night's games lasted past midnight. In yesterday's games, Puerto
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 987 9 n HIGHLIGHTS Droma:Strike 9.05 pm, Channel 12 The story of 17 dramatic days in August, 1980, when a strike in the Polish shipyards at Gdansk led to the formation of the new trade union, Solidarity, and Lech Walesa became the nation's hero. A documentary drama with lan Holm playing Walesa.
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 523 10 FT CITICORP, the world's largest banking group, has reported lower earnings for all three of its major banking businesses, institutional. individual and investment banking. Third-quar-ter net earnings fell by 10 per cent. In contrast, the thirdquarter earnings of three other major US
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    • 307 10 UPI WALL STREET suffered its first loss in five sessions on Tuesday when some investors cashed in on profits. There was some selling on reports that Salomon Brothers economist Henry Kaufman said interest rates might not peak next year as he had
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    • 733 10 OCT M WS ACF Induataet AJcan Mow 27Vk unch Alcoa 34* .kk fhrfll Lud 23% -to AM Own Cp AAed Store* 36 JIK AS»-Chafenen 8* Am Brandi he 62* Am Broodcatt 65* •1H Am Can Co 48* Am Cyananed 50* Am Bsc Pwr 19* ■ft Am Expreie Am
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    • 53 10 Reuter PHELPS Dodge Exploration Corp has reached agreement In principle to sell its one-third stake in Woodlawn Mines to CRA unit New Broken Hill Consolidated. Woodlawn Mines is owned one-third each by New Broken Hill, Phelps Dodge and St Joseph International Explorations.
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 319 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed steady to marginally lower yesterday in active trading. The Hang Seng Index slipped 2.58 to close at 1,017.43. Total turnover was HK5142.39 million for the half-day session compared with Tuesday's $240.89 million for the whole day. Cheung Kong lost 10 cents to close at $8.35,
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    • 261 11 OCT 17 A< Sincere Indus Asia Cement Cathay Cons Chang Hwo Bonk NT 750 2550 25 60 55 50 20 20 0 25 0 8 04 unch 03 0 1 0 2 0.4 0 15 0 3 0 2 0 35 0 6 0.2 58 1 0 5 Chem
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    • 337 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed weak yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index was 6.4 lower at 747.8, the All Industrials 0.7 down at 1,086.5 and the All Resources 10.4 lower at 486.0. Falls outnumbered rises by around three to four. BHP dropped 10 cents to $10.20, CSR two to $3.06. and
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    • 78 11 Oct 17 Won Hyundai Corp WB -2 Hyundai Motor 612 4 KAl 512 6 Bonk Seoul 656 unch 710 unch Choheung Bk 620 unch Korea Oil 1283 2 Commerciol Bk 674 +2 425 -5 566 -2 790 Dotwoo Corp 484 -1 unch 731 1 Doawoo Ind 635 Samsung Elec
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    • 369 11 TOKYO: Prices closed weaker on late selling yesterday prompted by the yens fall to below 250 to the dollar. The market average fell 15.02 points from Tuesday's close to 10,742.87, after hitting a high of 10,774.54 in early trading. It fell 22.29 points on Tuesday. The Stock Exchange Index
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    • 152 11 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mixed yesterday in sluggish trading. The Book Club Index lost 0.26 point to finish at 119.76 and turnover fell sharply to 147,505 shares from Tuesday's 1.06 million. Bangkok Bank closed two baht lower at 214. Industrial Finance Corp gained one to 136, Maboonkhrong lost one
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    • 130 11 MANILA: Share prices closed generally lower yesterday in continued dull trading, unaffected by the IMF's acceptance of the Philippine letter of intent for an economic recovery programme. The Commercial and Industrial Index was up 0.27 to 102.43 but the Mining marker fell 4.66 to 849.16 and the Oils Index
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    • 56 11 Reuter PHILIPS Video Products Taiwan plans to invest Ts6B6 million in new facilities and has applied for approval to produce colour monitor and colour line output transformers. Currently, the Philips plant, located about 60 km south of Taipei, produces nearly one milion sets of monochrome television
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    • 261 11 FT MCDONALD'S is now trying to tempt institutional investors in Japan to back its bid for a listing on the Tokyo stock market, having successfully won over a significant chunk of the fastidious Japanese to both the wonders of fast
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    • Corporate round-up
      • 109 11 DAEWOO Corp, one of South Korea's leading business conglomerates, has formed a US$25 million joint venture in Indonesia to manufacture a petrochemical product. A company spokesman yesterday said that Daewoo would hold 40 per cent of the joint venture firm to be called PT
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      • 60 11 UPI, Reuter FAR East Hotels and Entertainment has announced net profits after taxation of HK$B.4 million ($7.8 million) for the six months ending June 30. Earnings per share was 2.7 cents (2.55 cents). The company declared an interim dividend of 1.5 cents (same) payable
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    • 303 11 FT AKAI, a Japanese electronics group, is investing 35 million French francs to build a new factory to produce video tape recorders (VTRs) at Honfleur in western France. The group said on Tuesday that Honfleur had
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 448 12 AFP J 4VORLD RICE production this year will be an estimated 456 J Million tonnes, six million tonnes Jjiore than last year, the United Nations Food Agriculture Or- ganisation's (FAO) latest monthly bulletin said. i The report, distributed in J Bangkok by the FAO's
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    • 151 12 AFP "DESPITE A forecast down- turn in yield after last sea- son's record harvest, Australian wheat markets are i still in fairly healthy j .sfiape, according to the Buc reau of Agricultural Economics (BAE). Final forecast figures for this financial year showed J that China
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    • 348 12 Reuter, AFP INDIA HAS signed a contract to import 300,000 jute Bangladeshi bales (180-kg each) for delivery next month to overcome a domestic shortage, India's Commerce Secretary Abid Hussain said. He said the jute was sold through a Londonbased international trading
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    • 289 12 SINGAPORE The market finished higher yesterday with November One RSS buyer quoted at 177.75 cents per kg, up two cents from Tuesday. Prices in the morning session gained some 1.25 cents in light trading. MALAYSIA The market closed higher yesterday with November One RSS buyers quoted at 206.00 cents
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    • 168 12 Bernama A SURVEY on rubber estates by the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM) showed that productivity in terms of yield in 1981 was higher for estates of above 404 hectares, especially those managed by agencies. This, the institute said in its latest planters' bulletin,
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    • 348 12 RAS prices (m s cmm/m*, fob m boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers lot 1 RSS prompt 175 00 176 00 176 00 I77 00N Int 1 RSS Nov 176 50 177 00 177 75 178 25 Int 1 RSS Dec 179 00 179 50 180
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    • 109 12 (cents/kg, l-to« pallets) November December (current mth) (forward mth) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 172 50 I74 50N 173 50 175 SON SSR 50 170 50 172 50N 171 50 173 50N MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SAAR CV 205 00 207 00N
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    • 960 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended a quiet morning session yesterday with losses from the previous close of £28 to £2. November finished at £2,482, down £28 and January at £2,338, down £11. Turnover totalled 1,028 lots including 232 crossed trades. November's premium to January declined to £144 compared with
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    • 92 12 The Koala Lumper Tin Market price yesterday remained at the International Tie Agreement fleer-level price of Ms2t.ls per kg, reflecting continuing lack ef demand. Dealers attributed the peer Interest te a wider premlnm of £5M per tonne Koala Lemper holds ever the spot tin price In London mainly
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    • 164 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16'$ 3,350 Blue Phoenix 20's 3,500 Blue Phoenix 32's 3.800 Blue Phoenix 40'» 4,150 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21 3,550 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,850 Blue Phoenix 40's 5,000 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 151 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% Exchenge FOB NSW 582 50 (Sellers' noon closing pr ices on Oct Nutmeg 17. S$/100kg) 110 FOB NSW ***** Coconut oil Bulk FOB B W FOB NSW 256 00 195 00 Gombier Old drum FOB 208 00 FOB NSW 305 00 New drum FOB
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    • 280 12 Singapore A-l special 227 (S$/kiio, tt-godown) Thai white C-l special C-l Orcbnory Loonzan 100% unq unq 100% 1st closs first grade unq (kangaroo) 100% second grode 260 new crop 1 03 100% thrd grade unq 100% 2nd class 100% 3rd closs 073 0 71 Parboiled 25% new crop No
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    • 137 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil market ended slightly easier yesterday despite some late buying following reports that Pakistan was to make a further tender on RBD palm oil for second-half November shipment. In the October and November positions, south and central slipped M 52.50 to 51,135 per tonne. The
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    • 165 12 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade rallied from mid-session lows on Tuesday to close 2 cents to 3 4 US-cent per bushel higher, with November posting a 7' jcent range on the day. Locals and professionals turned buyers late on persistent concerns that wet weather will delay
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    • 173 12 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade recovered to close 3' 1 < to 2 US-cents per bushel higher on a firm note on Tuesday, with December posting a 4*« cent range on the day. Heavy buying in December by C D Commodities. totalling about seven million bushels
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    • 361 12 8 DBSBANK THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) To: All Loan Stock Holders *****,518,520 7%% CONVERTIBLE UNSECURED LOAN STOCK 1991 ANNOUNCEMENT OF ADJUSTED CONVERSION PRICE Pursuant to Clause 6(10) of the Trust Deed dated 5 June 1981, notice is hereby given that the conversion
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4126 13 SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market resumed their downward trend yesterday, dimming hopes of a technical rally this week. The BT Composite Index closed at 764.35, down 2.50 points while the Straits Times Industrial Index fell 3.44 points to 855.17. Total volume was
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    • 239 13 SINGAPORE RISM Indices GEUt 1820 A Entarprnat 406 Satanja* Dradg 545 Kaatudiy Spar* 446 o S 665 Spar« lus 220 COM 494 U 0 460 OUI 400 Falls ftoiy Etoct 316 &po4lo 230 SPK Wom 110 Spara Fa4dar 190 FAN 540 Fad CaWa* 250 WomIw Hldgi 111
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    • 466 13 THE Kuala Lumpur stock market drifted through another boring session yesterday, with share prices closing on an easier note. With the 1985 Budget due to be announced tomorrow, investors generally preferred to watch from the sidelines. Turnover dropped slightly to 4.83 million units valued
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    • 2745 13 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and repotted to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets In IoU of I,ooo.units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT". Big
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1050 14  -  By AMY CHEOK UNITED Industrial Corporation, whose traditional activities are manufacturing and selling of detergent products and property investment, is poised for a period of steady growth with the coming on stream of its various expansion and diversification projects. These include its alkylbenzene
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    • 587 14 ARAB-Malaysian Development Bhd (AMDB) is optimistic that it will improve its performance further in the coming financial year. In his latest annual statement, AMDB executive chairman Datuk Azman Hashim said that in banking, domestic private sector activities are getting a boost from the
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    • 2334 14 HID and offer prices officially luted 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 (3.805) Alex Hldg xd Alcom (1 456 I
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    • 99 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hang Seng Index Wednesday 1086.5 Tuesdoy 1087.3 Wednesday 1017.43 Tuesday 1020.01 Week ago 1068.8 NEW YORK Week ago 983.13 Dow Jones Tuesday 1197 77 TOKYO Monday 1202.96 Week ago 1175.13 Tokyo Dow Jones Wednesday *****.87 Tuesday *****.89 Week ago Closed Standard and Poors Tuesdoy 164.78
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    • 233 14 Monogers' prices Second B'putro 491 496 for Oct 18 Third B'putro 4 08 4 13 Singapore Unit Trust Fourth B'putro Fifth B'putro 4 48 4 53 3 02 3 07 The Commerce 2.63 2 79 Sixth B'putro 2 93 2 98 The Savings Fund 1.74 185 Seventh B'putro
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    • 394 14 Bernama JARDINE Matheson Holdings Ltd, the Hongkong-based conglomerate, is expecting reduced profits for this year due to high interest rates, unfavourable exchange rates and disappointing results from some of its international operations. Chairman Simon Keswick says in his latest annual report that
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    • 409 14 Bernama KIAN JOO Can Factory Bbd's recent restructuring and expansion exercise to rationalise and consolidate its can-manufactur-ing operations will complement its efforts to find more foreign markets for its products. Chairman Tunku Naquiyuddin Ibni Tunku Ja'afar said after the balloting
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    • 106 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Fed Cables One-for-two fe $1.00 per share Ex-date Oct 26 Books close: Nov 7 Int Wood One-for-one $1.20 per share Ex-date: Oct 11 Books close: Oct 18 Mt Pleasure One Unsecured note for every three ordinary shares held Ex-date: Oct 29 Books close: Nov 8
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    • 122 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Boustead One-for-five (a 1 50 per shore HK Tin Five-for-one $0 50 per shore Kesong Hldgs One-for-one $1 per shore Sub-division of $1 par into 2 shores of 50 cents eoch Peak Hua Three-for-two S150 per shore. Sub-drvisK>o of SI por into 2 shores of
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    • 92 14 TRACTORS Malaysia Holdings Berhad: 19th AGM on Oct 24, at 9.30am in Melati Room, 3rd Floor, Subang View Hotel, Subang Jaya, Selangor BENTA Plantations Berhad: 62th AGM on Oct 25, at 10am in Melati I, 3rd, Subang View Hotel, Subang Jaya, Selangor Malaysia. TAIPING Cwuwlidatod Berfcad: 44th AGM
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    • 764 15 m2m By HOCK LOCK SIEW MOST COMPANIES going public in Malaysia have and will always set their eyes on a secondary listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore but not vice versa. This is understandable as Singapore is way ahead of the Kuala Lumpur Stock
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    • 133 15 A SUBSTANTIAL shareholder of Sea View Hotel Ltd, Kong Hoa Pte Ltd, has purchased an additional 130,000 shares in the company for a total consideration of $377,000 or $2.90 per share, thereby increasing its stake to 5.11 million shares or 25.72 per cent of the company's issued equity.
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    • 659 15 GUTHRIE Ropel Bhd has succeeded in getting a secondary listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore for its 82.35 million shares of Msl each. Trading of its shares, on the first trading section of the Plantations Section, starts tomorrow. Guthrie Ropel which
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    • 810 15 THE MARKET closed sharply lower, continuing Tuesday's (ails on the pit dispute. The FTSE 100 index at 1530 was down 21.7 at 1,102.6. Hawker Siddeley dropped 56p to 391 after lower than expected results, while ICI shed 22p at 650. Other double figure dec liners included Plessey down
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    • 271 15 KESANG Holdings Bhd, as expected, has appointed Haji Mat Shah Safuan of Safuan Holdings to its board of directors. Kesang said the appointment took effect on Oct 11. Haji Mat Shah is the current executive chairman and managing director of the Safuan group of
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    • 864 15 Equity financing, venture capital under study MALAYAN Banking Bhd is studying the feasibility of going into equity financing and venture capital to achieve its objective of being a one-stop financial centre. Chairman and chief executive Datuk Jaffar Hussein said in his annual review that the
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    • 312 15 Reuter KUWAIT'S unofficial Souk AlManakh share market, which collapsed two years ago under a US$9O billion debt mountain, will be shut next month. The official stock exchange, which has been given the job of regulating all share trading in Kuwait, said the unofficial market will
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    • 339 15 A National Conference On I Professional Management In The Property Building Industry Towards Greater Opportunities Professional Management is the key to success in the increasingly competitive Property and Building Industry. This is an important conference. We have gathered together high calibre professionals who have tested new approaches, methods and processes
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  • 384 16  -  By SOH TIANG KENG THE REAL challenge facing accountants today is to cope with "the explosion of information", Mr John Tomlinson, national president of the Australian Society of Accountants, said yesterday. It is vital for accountants to keep abreast of changing developments and new knowledge
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  • 107 16 COMPUTER studies will be taught in at least one primary school by next year. A Ministry of Education spokesman said a team set up last year to study the feasibility of the plan is expected to submit a report soon. The
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  • 91 16 THE PUBLIC Works Department has started on an electronic mailing system which will save $100,000 in manpower costs. This has made the PWD the first in the civil service to have this facility. Plans are also being made to set up similar systems in
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  • 414 16  -  By LIM SOON NEO AIR LANKA is prepared to offer a compromise solution to Singapore Airlines even though the Singapore government has served notice to terminate the air services agreement between the two countries. An Air Lanka spokesman confirmed yesterday that the Sri Lankan
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  • 176 16 UPI MALAYSIA's national oil company Petronas recorded a business turnover of M 54.21 billion for the financial year ended March 31. James Ongkili, Justice Minister and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, told Parliament yesterday the figure was 70 per cent higher than the previous year's
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  • 335 16 THE FOOD eaten by patients in government hospitals in the near future may taste very much like that offered to airline passengers. The civil service is studying the possibility of having airline caterers provide food for patients in government hospitals, said Dr
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  • 472 16  -  By TERESA LIM, Hongkong Correspondent A LARGELY Singapore-led development project on the fringe of Hongkong's central business district will soon take off after months of negotiations among the parties involved. It marks the first major entry into the Hongkong property market by Singapore
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  • 145 16 AFP SIXTEEN officials of three Egyptian private banks and two black market currency dealers have appeared before the State Ethics Court in one of the country's worst financial scandals since President Hosni Mubarak came to power three years ago. The officials, from the A
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  • 64 16 THE STOCK market gave ground yesterday morning, continuing Tuesday's retreat. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.44 to 1,197.33 in the first half hour. Losers outnumbered gainers by nearly 2 to 1 in the early tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. Analysts said the market was
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  • LATE FILE
    • 41 16 Reuter A £1,000 FINE imposed on British miners' leader Arthur Scargill last week for contempt of court has been paid, the British High Court accounts department said yesterday. No information on who paid the money was available. Reuter
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    • 45 16 Reuter TROPICAL storm Susan inflicted severe crop losses in central Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said yesterday. It said that flooding submerged tens of thousands of hectares of rice land in Binh Tri Thien province between Oct 11 and 14.
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    • 55 16 Reuter TWO DUTCHMEN who last year helped kidnap brewery magnate Freddie Heineken were yesterday sentenced to nine years and 12 years in jail. The head of Heineken Breweries and his chauffeur were seized on an Amsterdam street last November but were rescued after an anonymous tip
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    • 53 16 Reuter A SIX MONTH ban on public meetings was lifted yesterday in the Punjab state capital of Chandigarh, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported. The ban was imposed during attempts by Indian security forces to quell a guerrilla war for a separate
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    • 56 16 AFP BURMESE President San Yu is to make an official visit to China_this month, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced in Beijing yesterday. A spokesman for the ministry's information department said Mr San Yu would visit in "late October," without specifying the date, at the invitation
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    • 63 16 UPI AMERICAN Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger met Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres yesterday and later said the US would provide Israel with technology needed to build a new jet fighter. He also said he had agreed to the formation of a US-Israeli team to
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  • 423 16 Bernama MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin is strongly expected to opt for tougher measures to consolidate and strengthen the country's economy in his maiden budget tomorrow. Observers said yesterday the 1965 budget is expected to address more profoundly fiscal policies that could ensure the right base
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  • 109 16 Reuter A BOMB exploded in a noodle factory on the outskirts of Jakarta early yesterday, blowing a hole in an outer wall but causing no casualties. An Information Ministry official said the bomb went off at about 2.30 in the morning at the factory in an
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  • 54 16 Reuter A THAI businessman accused of embezzling U*****,000 from his now defunct credit company was extradited from the US and returned to Bangkok on Tuesday. Vibul Khieu-Im, former managing director of Thanakij Credit Foncier Co Ltd, fled to the US after his company collapsed last year with over $10
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    • 270 16 Oil Britannia for free invitation nvestment seminar i The Chartered Bank Building, 6 Battery Road, #14-08, Singapore 0104. Telephone: *****86. OFFICE AUTOMATION SEMINAR A one-day seminar on Trends and Issues in Office Automation" [Sponsored by WANG computers (Pie) Ltd] 24th October 1984 In recent years, "Office Automation" has been a
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    • 56 16 wmm Outlook for today: Showers over several oreos during the predawn and early morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Oct 17 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.5 Associated humidity 64 Minimum temperature 23.5 Associated humidity 91 Hours of sunshine 10.20 Rainfall in millimetres Trace Rainfall this month
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 133 17 AFP KAOHSIUNG may become the world's fourth largest container facility with volume handled there expected to reach 1.8 million TEU's this year, an official said. The official said that container volume in the southern port amounted to 1,254,115 TEU's in the first three quarters this year,
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    • 105 17 Reuter PAKISTAN is negotiating for a £300 million loan to enable it to buy three frigates from state-owned British Shipbuilders unit Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd, sources close tp the loan negotiations said. Pakistan has already signed a letter of intent for the frigates, two of which
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    • 426 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ OFFSHORE supply vessel operators in Malaysia should think carefully before buying second-hand tonnage, considered obsolete or inadequate by international standards, for use in support activities elsewhere in the world. This piece of advice comes from Det Norske Veritas, the
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    • 679 17 Fags Cot ■hipping U— c* Afeo Ahrenkiel Liner Alphatrans Alpac APC Line APL ASCL Asiabroker Austasia Line Bait-Orient Bangkok Cont Bank Line BBS Ben Line Blue Star Burma Five Star Cameroon Shpg CC Line CCNI Ceylon Shpg Chargeurs Reuros Chorgeurs Havraise China Nav China Ocean Cnon Combo
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 43 17 MR GAVIN Trevitt has been appointed as press and public relations officer of the International Maritime Satellite Organisation (Inmarsat). He takes over the position from Mr David Wright who has been appointed as the special assistant of Inmarsat's general director.
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      • 55 17 THE chairman of the Baltic and International Maritime Conference, Sr Eduardo Bages, chairman of the executive committee, Mr Christian Lund and the secretary general, Mr Toben Skaanild, will be visiting Singapore from Oct 24 to 26. During their stay they will meet government officials and shipowners and brokers
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      • 68 17 Reuter IRAQ said one of its cargo ships was intercepted and fired on by an Israeli naval patrol on Sunday in Jordanian territorial waters. A foreign ministry spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency the cargo ship Babylon, 9,859 tonnes, was beading for the Jordanian Red Sea
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      • 45 17 Reuter WORK WAS suspended at Chittagong Port yesterday after some 30,000 dockworkers struck to protest at delay in implementing an agreement for a 60 per cent wage rise. Dockers want the rise immediately and have said they may make the strike indefinite. Reuter
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    • 559 18 NYT THOUSANDS of bidders went away weighed down with wares last Sunday from the superliner United States, the fastest passenger ship ever built and one of the most handsome. By late Sunday, as the weeklong auction of one million items of her fittings drew
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    • 189 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
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    • 731 18  -  By JOE FERNANDEZ BINTULU will ship 3.7 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Japan in the current fiscal year ending March 31 1985, said high-ranking Petronas sources. Shipment targets will gradually reach six million tonnes in fiscal 1966, up from 1.8 million tonnes in
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    • 1622 18 THE grain and time-charter sectors dominated business on Tuesday on the London shipping freights market. Monday's better level of U5514.25 (fio) was repeated on the US Gulf-Japan grain voyage when two 52,000 tonners were taken in prompt and October-November positions. A 25,000 tonner meanwhile received a steady $19
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    • 1394 18 ALGERIA Algiers Sept 15. About 12 days delays with about 45 vessels waiting. Bejaia Aug 22. Two vessels waiting. Skikda Aug 22. Three vessels waiting. ARGENTINA Buenos Aires Oct 9th. No delays. Stevedores returned to work Oct 3rd and no further labour problems envisaged but customs workers may
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    • 194 19 THE WORLD'S ocean is turning into a sea of garbage. Ecologists estimate that 20 metal cans are thrown into the sea every minute, along with 1.3 bottles and one plastic article. This totals up to some 10.6 million metal cans, 670,000 glass bottles and 560,000 plastic
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    • 497 19 Lloyd 's List NORWEGIAN supply boat owners are planning to reintroduce their voluntary lay up scheme in an attempt to stem falling freight rates and poor utilisation levels. Last year most leading companies co-operated in the scheme which led to nearly 40 vessels
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    • 157 19 AP THE European Community's industry ministers may decide next month to aid european shipbuilders to counter a disastrous situation caused by lowerpriced Asian competition. The ministers met in Luxembourg to hear a report from the European Commission, which blamed Japanese and South Korean
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    • 5946 24 3®aBGXDIIB 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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    • 658 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 Ming Fortune low 18.10.84 2300 M States FSB 0900-1100 U1 E Promoter 092WB 18.10.84 2300 G Asia FSB 1000-1100 S4 Hang Glory 9N/84 18.10.84
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    • 1808 25 The leading, shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B *FEA African Shipping Afieni in (Si Afr«-Earasia Liar Transgroup (Si Ahreaklel Uaer Nervier Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C T«epfrr Oceanus Shipping Agencies (Si Mannlex Enterprise iPKI. A'P**" Inlrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KL) Island Cargo
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    • 475 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Anwo Venture 35/6 Borneo alongside 18.10.84/0530 Barber Hector 46/7 Barber alongside 18.10.84/0400 Blntang 15/6 Samta alongside 18.10.84/1400 Julia 44 Straits Tptn alongside 18.10.84/1500 Kota Berjaya 29/30 PIL alongside 18.10.84/2359 Kota Pelangl 10/11 PIL alongside 18.10.84/0600 Ocean Glory
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    • 1054 19 The Straits Steamship Group i OCL MANSFIELD CONTAINER SHIPPING PTE LTD Overseas Containers Limited STRAITS SHPPING "iinquires to Sabah, Sawwak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok if. 1 TO/FROM BANGKOK mora, ht KOOUON9AV rs>sr 21/11 a/it 21/19 a/1* OS/11 K/ll 12/11 14/11 1»/U 21/11 2t/U 29/11 4/12 C/ 12 12/12 14/12 21/12
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    • 771 21 PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES SINGAPORE 29-30/10 4-7/11 7-9/11 9-11/11 LOADING FOR: COLOMBO, MOGADISCIO. REUNION TAMATAVE. MOMBASA, D'SALAAM. MORONI HODEIDAH, JEDDAH. PT SUDAN. MUKALLA HODEIDAH, JEDDAH, AQABA, PT SUOAN VOYAGE CP/48/94 E-529 E-531 E-533 VESSEL KOTA MUTIARA KOTA PETAM KOTA AGUNG KOTA SEJATI K ARACHI/P.GULF SERVICES SA 9-18/11 COLOMBO/CHITTAGONG/RANGOON SERVICES
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    • 535 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia +TW BRIDGE S pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 1700 21/10 LCL Cargo 0500 21/10 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA PACIFIC COAST Abo accepting cargo to Los Angeles I San Francisco TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA ATLANTIC
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