The Business Times, 20 December 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21,1984 60 CENTS
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  • 652 1 PM says voters must give signal of support for new leaders ELCTONj 1984 P IF SINGAPORE is to maintain its share of foreign investment, it must convince investors of its long-term stahflity. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew told the Fullerton Square rally yesterday that what foreign
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  • 218 1 A TARGET of 180,000 new homes will be built in the next five years by the HDB and larger units will figure progressively more in the type of units to be built. This reflects the increasing demand for bigger and better accommodation. Mr Lee
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  • 193 1 IT IS IMPORTANT that the team of younger leaders is representative of the main segments of society. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said: "The opposition do not understand that if they do not have this amalgam of the English-educated and Chineseeducated, the Malay-educated
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  • Article, Illustration
    76 1 MANY pundits were disappointed yesterday that a massive 35point jump in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday failed to cheer the Singapore stock market. Market observers said that this was because many fnnd managers had already closed their books and would not be entering the market for
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  • 57 1 ALTHOUGH the Singapore stock market yesterday chose to pay scant attention to Tuesday's sharp rally on Wall Street, one leading Londonbased analyst confidently predicts that the Singapore market will shoot up soon enough. Presented on Page 14 of today's issue is an easy-to-read question and answer
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  • 320 1 THE Central Provident Fund issue was tackled head-on by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday. Following repeated claims by opposition leaders that contributors' funds were in danger, Mr Lee announced that he would present a comprehensive plan for the fund within two years.
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  • 143 1 GOOD government was the theme Professor S Jayakumar and Mr Mah Bow Tan touched on at yesterday's PAP Fullerton Square mass rally. Professor Jayakumar said Singapore, being small and devoid of natural resources, needed a good government one with good leaders capable of producing sound and
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  • 79 1 IF HE WERE a betting man. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew would now be placing a small wager on the three men he thinks have the best chance of occupying the three non-constit-uency Parliamentary opposition seats. His money would be on J B Jeyaretnam, Chiam See Tong
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    • 291 1 Full report, Pag* 13 Asian stocks, Page 11 International stocks, Page 10 THE Home Nursing Foundation is planning a more comprehensive health care programme for the elderly and will expand its present services by running rehabilitation centres in the various housing estates. Page 2 SINGAPORE has been described in a
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 429 2  -  BY LUCY NG THE GOVERNMENT, through the Home Nursing Foundation (HNF), is planning a more comprehensive health care programme for the elderly. It intends to expand the present services by running rehabilitation centres in the various housing estates. The centres will provide health
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    • 104 2 THE CONSUMER price index (CPI) fell by 0.4 per cent in November from the previous month's level of 103.1. It was the third consecutive monthly fall. The drop was again attributable mainly to food prices which declined by 0.6 per cent.Clothing prices fell by
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    • 299 2  -  By JAIME LYE HOTEL ROOM occupancy is expected to fall in the new year in view of the increasing number of hotels. The drop may reach dramatic proportions by the third quarter. But the bleak outlook painted by the Singapore Hotel Association (SHA) in
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    • 263 2 THE LOCAL chemical industry will have sold more than $1 billion worth of chemicals and chemical products by the end of this year. By August, local chemical exporters had already sold more than 1882 million worth of products, surpassing last year's domestic exports of $870 million.
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    • 566 2 CRITCHLEY LIMITED has opened an office in Singapore to consolidate the marketing activities of its cable management systems in the Far East and the Middle East. The new office will strengthen Critchley's existing activities with its distributors and develop its product distribution network. It will be run by
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    • Article, Illustration
      220 2 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER Jon 7-9 Designing With Novotel Orchid Applied Research Plastics Inn Corporation Jan 7-11 CNC Programming GSI Economic For EngineersTurning 1 Development Board Jan 7-12 Basic Mechanical CECTU Economic Applications Development Boord Jan 10-11 Injection Molding Novotel Orchid Inn Applied Research Corporation Jan
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    • 170 3 OVERCONFIDENCE could lose seats for the PAP, warned Second Deputy Prime Minister S Rajaratnam last night. Speaking informally to reporters last night in Bedok North, where he turned up to watch a party rally, Mr Rajaratnam said that he always believed young PAP leaders could
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    • 242 3 A PLAN to provide sponsored medical treatment for the poor and aged was unveiled last night by Dr Ho Tat Kin, the PAP candidate for Boon Teck. Dr Ho told a rally in Toa Payoh that it was intended to convert a room in the
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    • 222 3 ALL 26 of the PAP's new candidates have got what it takes, but six of them appear to have just a little bit more. And, yesterday, Mr Lee singled them out as men with the potential to be more than MP's. And of the six, Dr
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    • 180 3 Party Venue Time 1 MMUM i f MRiWm■ 11 Too Poyoh Lorong 5 (Car Park No 10 next to Blk 44) 7--10 PM Kreta Ayer Road (Car Park behind Blk 333) 7 10pm Ang Mo Kio Street 43 (Blk 443) i Bedok Reservoir Road Blk 631 (Vacant Space)
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    • 230 3 A SURPRISE speaker stole the show at a Singapore United Front rally at Aljunied Crescent last night. Geylang Serai residents, apparently impressed by the eloquence and hard-hitting speech of Mr John Ngoei, neither a contestant nor a member of any political party, flocked
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    • 85 3 THE PAP government's agenda for action and its vision for 1999 could turn out to be a mirage or, worse still, a hallucination. Mr Soon Kia Seng, Singapore Democratic Party's candidate for Changkat, last night questioned again the viability of the PAP's 15-year plans.
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    • 154 3 >\ ELECTION 1984 THE Singapore Malay National Organisation (SMNO) has claimed that the nine days of campaigning is not a time to sell ideas, but a time to bring forth the people's grievances. In answer to PAP charges that the opposition lacked ideas, the
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 417 4 Economic report describes Republic as 'hungry' tiger Reuter SINGAPORE has been described in a Bank of America economic forecast for 1985 as one of the region's hungry little tigers. The Republic's gross domestic product (GDP) growth next year is forecast to be
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    • 199 4 AFP BUOYANT TRADE should push Hongkong's 1964 exports about 40 per cent above 1983 levels, despite specific restrictions imposed by the US and France, trade officials have said. Hongkong faces "relatively few problems", said Director of Trade Hamish MacLeod. But changes in the US
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    • 200 4 AFP THE PHILIPPINES heads for 1985 in crutches as events since the murder of Benigno Aquino continue to drag it across a political no man's land made murkier by the mystery surrounding the President's health. President Ferdinand Marcos, who has again receded from public view,
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    • 384 4 NYT A WORKING PAPER prepared for an American Cabinet-level meeting has predicted further deterioration in the US trade position with Japan next year and said that Japan must "rectify the situation before we make it equal by taking negative action". The warning
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    • 154 4 UPI CHINESE Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang will pay an official visit to Britain next June, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The agency said the visit was agreed during talks between Zhao and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday morning. Mrs Thatcher met senior
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 46 4 AN AMERICAN engineer was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday on charges of trying to sell classified military information on the Stealth bomber to the Soviet Union. Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was charged with removing the material from,the advanced systems division of Northrop Corp in California.
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      • 48 4 A LARGE bomb was found on Tuesday in a car parked near the main door of a US Army installation in Oberammergau, West Germany. Explosive experts found a plastic pipe filled with 25 kg of "high explosives" linked to an electric fuse hidden in the trunk.
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      • 51 4 A US congressman has said that the 1966 defence budget is unacceptable. If the Reagan administration "are unwilling to make cuts in the defence budget? we will have to take it upon ourselves to go ahead and make those cuts," said Joseph Addabbo, chairman of the House Defence Appropriations
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      • 37 4 THE PHILIPPINES is to acquire two Corvette-type missile gunboats from the US, Navy chief Rear Admiral Simeon Alejandro said on Tuesday. The gunboats are expected to be delivered late next year or early 1966, be added.
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      • 31 4 BRITAIN has announced that it is closing embassies in Santo Domingo and Vientiane and eight consulates to save the Foreign Office an estimated £1 million (US$l.l9 million) a year.
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      • 38 4 Agencies WILLEM RIPHAGEN, one of three neutral judges at the US-Iran claims tribunal, resigned on Tuesday. The nine-member tribunal was set up to arbitrate about 3,500 claims, worth approximately US$3.5 billion, arising from the Iranian revolution. Agencies
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    • 667 4 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time KAL KE687 0030 SEL/KUL PAA PA5 0155 JFK/SFO/HKG MAS MH681 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH671 0935 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN RBA BI421 1000 BWN SIA SQI03 1005 KUL CPA CX7I0 1030 HLP OA GA887 1055 LGW/FCO/BKK
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    • 367 5 Reuter WEST GERMAN Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has urged the Soviet Union and the US to create a stable framework for East-West dialogue in which European states could also play a role. Speaking at a lunch in his honour on Tuesday, the first day of
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    • 77 5 Reuter CABIN CREWS on Air New Zealand international flights went on strike yesterday, and were joined by colleagues on domestic services later in the day, in a dispute over a new work roster. Up to 18,000 domestic and international passengers are expected to be
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    • 145 5 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S current account deficit may rise to As 9 billion in the current financial year ending June 30 from $6.7 billion in 1983-84, Westpac Banking Corp economists said in a weekly report. They said against a background of slow employment growth, there seems
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    • 218 5 Reuter PAKISTANI military ruler General Zia Ul-Haq made a last-minute appeal on Tuesday for a huge turnout in yesterday's referendum that will give him a further five-year term as president if voters support his Islamic and electoral policies. Banned opposition parties have called for
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    • 357 5 AP MAJOR AMERICAN oil companies say there's no proof for allegations made in court documents that they acted "as a single fraternity" to prop up prices, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. The estimated one million documents are part of a 10-year-old federal lawsuit
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    • 184 5 AP AMERICANS saw their personal income rise 0.7 per cent in November, while they increased consumer spending by an even stronger 0.9 per cent. The US Commerce Department said that personal consumption spending, which includes virtually everything except interest payments on debt, rebounded following a
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    • 122 5 AFP POLICE are questioning a man in Saga, Japan, after freeing a bank chief who was held for 35 hours by kidnappers. The kidnappers allegedly tried to obtain a 300 million yen (US$l.2 million) ransom for 65-year-old Seishi Takeda, president of the Saga Sogo (Mutual)
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    • ECO NOTES
      • 57 5 THE FRENCH ECONOMY has grown much faster this year than originally predicted. The National Statistics Institute said the gross domestic product grew 1.9 per cent this year, based on 1970 prices, after rising 0.6 per cent last year. But it said government hopes that the trade deficit will
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      • 56 5 TAX-PAID profits of US manufacturing companies dropped an overall 13.5 per cent in third quarter 1984 from the previous quarter. The Commerce Depart- ment said yesterday that yield on capital was 11.9 per cent against 14.5 per cent previously. Third-quarter profits after tax averaged 4.5 per cent of
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      • 81 5 OPEC MINISTERS have vowed to hold firm on prices and production at their annual end-of-year conference and to win any price war with other oil-producing countries. Opec's market monitoring committee yesterday urged the 13-member cartel to keep daily output at 16 million barrels and respect individual output quotas
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      • 61 5 Agencies THE THAI government has adopted tax relief measures to help low-income earners cope with fallouts from a devaluation last month. A government spokesman in Bangkok said yesterday that the measures included increased tax-deductible expense and personal allowances. The new structure will become effective on Jan 1.
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    • 196 5 en n m iL Restaurant 1819 is proud to offer a six<ourse Christmas menu and a positively sumptuous New Year's Eve banquet to celebrate the festive season. The Christmas menu, at $110 offers such gourmet delicacies as Medallions of Lobster with Raspberry Dressing followed by Fillet of Veal in Calvados
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

  • SPORTS
    • 469 6  -  By WALTON MORAIS THE UNCERTAINTY surrounding the Asian Nations Cup tennis championship has been finally put to rest, although the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association is not counting on it. Former Malaysian Lawn Tennis Association secretary, Mr GN Rajan, in discussions with his
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    • 300 6 AP IT MAY BE a coincidence, but the final Volvo Masters tennis championships will have a decidedly Swedish tinge. Four of the 12 players to qualify for the season-ending US$4OO,OOO tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York next month are from Sweden, including three
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    • 337 6 AP A NEW Christmas gift went on the market on Tuesday as branches of the National Bank of Mexico began ticket sales for the 1986 soccer World Cup to be played in 12 stadiums in nine Mexican cities. "I don't know if
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    • 414 6 AP JOHN MCENROE and Martina Navratilova for the second straight year are the world's top male and female tennis players of 1984, according to the annual year-end rankings of Tennis magazine. An international panel of seven tennis journalists from
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    • 347 6 AP FOLLOWING many days of speculation and just plain confusion, National Football League teams and fans finally know all the particulars of the playoffs... almost. The puzzling picture was finally decided on Monday night when the Miami Dolphins pulled out a dramatic 28-21
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    • 176 6 AP BRITAIN'S Tyrrell Grand Prix racing team won a court injunction on Tuesday suspending its exclusion from the 1984 world championship for alleged cheating. The Paris court issued the injunction pending the hearing of a case brought by teamowner Ken Tyrrell against the International Automobile
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 667 6 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Plant for pussy to pinch? (6) 7 Former pitman running a test (8) 8 To Victor, this game has a rum ending (4) 10 PuH ahead of a firebreather (6) 11 Where the batsman has to stop outnght' (6) 14 Hang out of one's corsage? (3)
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 734 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar extended its small early gains yesterday against most major currencies on some covering interest despite lower US interest rates. The dollar finished firmer at 3.0655/65 marks against New York's 3.0810/25 close, at 2.5450/65 Swiss francs against 2.5410/30 and at 246.75/90 yen against 246.70/80. Sterling
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    • 190 7 Interbonk rotes of 3pm Local dollors to quoted yMl m4aj e rooa parity ChWfO om unit of foreign currency: -22 97 US dodor 2.1720 2.1730 2.8196 Sterling pound 2.5738 2.5771 7.3469 -64.97 Australian dollar 1.8142 1.8161 ***** -47.09 NZ dollar 1.0488 1.0506 3 4286 -69.41 Canadian dollar 1.6514
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    • 121 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate fell by 13/8-point from Tuesday to close at 53/4 per cent on the Singapore interbank money market yesterday. The one and two-month rates rose 3/16-point each and the three-month rate rose by 1/16-point. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Offef Bid Overnight 5 3/4 5
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    • 367 7 EURODOLLAR futures continued to trade higher yesterday as bullish sentiment was brought about by sharp decline in Eurodeposit rates and expectation of a discount rate cut. March Eurodollar opened 18 ticks higher at 90.71 and traded in a narrow range before closing lower at 90.69. Profit-taking before the release
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    • Article, Illustration
      298 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at weaker opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Short-dates fell between 5/16 and 7/8 point at the start due to softer US federal funds rates and stayed at these levels. Overnight finished at 7-7/16 7-5/16 and weekfixed at eight 7-7/8 per
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    • 56 7 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks and discount houses to tender for $150 million of 91-day Treasury bills to be issued at the option of the tenderer on Dec 24 and from Dec 26 to Dec 28. The tender closes on Dec 21. Each tender must
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    • 227 7 HONGKONG Gold price closed higher in quiet trading yesterday, helped by some bargain hunting near the close, but sentiment was bearish ahead of the Opec meeting in Geneva. Gold closed at U*****.50/311.00 an ounce against New York's $308.75/309.25 and $306.75/ 307.75 here on Tuesday. Local gold rose HK$33 to
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    • 99 7 Reuter THE WORLD BANK expects to swap US$l.6 billion equivalent into other currencies from borrowings in the current financial year ending June 1965. Vice-president Hans Hittmair said in the first six months of 1964/85, some $800 million were swapped. In the 2 Vi years that
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    • 69 7 THE SINGAPORE International Monetary Exchange will take a four-day break in trading, starting this Saturday. There will be no floor trading on Simex futures contracts on Saturday, Sunday, Monday (the eve of Christmas Day) and Tuesday (Christmas Day). Trading will resume on Wednesday. The exchange will again
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    • 339 7 FT THE DANISH central bank and the country's three biggest commercial banks (Copenhagen Handelsbank, Danske Bank and Privatbanken) have mounted a rescue operation for Denmark's seventh-biggest commercial bank, Kronebanken. Trading in the bank's shares on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange had been suspended. The rescue
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    • 196 7 Reuter STERLING, which has plunged to record lows this year, will remain vulnerable next year to shaky world oil prices, industrial unrest and the strong US dollar, currency analysts said. One London merchant bank analyst sees a drop to US$l.lO
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    • 60 7 Reuter BRITAIN will no longer ask foreign official monetary institutions to restrict their holdings of sterling, Treasury Economic Secretary lan Stewart said in a written parliamentary reply. Government sources said it was purely coincidental that the announcement on Tuesday came on a day when
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  • FEATURES
    • 429 8 PROMISES from a ruling government just before the election may not be taken seriously in son\e countries. Mr Lee Kuan Yew's hint yesterday that Singaporeans could be allowed to manage their own Central Provident Fund savings, however, is not one to be dismissed as a
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    • 1351 8  -  A living space must be turned into a 'home' stamped with the personality of its inhabitants. Is this easy to achieve in an HBD flat, with the sameness of each landing and pillar, and thĕ rules which govern internal and external decoration? By DAVID GABRIEL SINCE
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 178 10 Reuter THE BRITISH government has unveiled plans to float one of the country's biggest banking groups on the stock market and sort out once and for all who actually owns it. The sale of the trustee savings banks (TSBs) next year
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    • 176 10 Reuter BEECHAM Group PLC will raise £104 million through a share placing to finance the £125 million cost of buying the cosmetics interests of BAT Industries PLC, chairman Ronald Halstead said. The remaining £21 million for the purchase, covering the US Germaine Monteil
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    • 62 10 Reuter MERGER TALKS between accountants Price Waterhouse and.Deloitte Haskins and Sells have been terminated, a joint statement said. The plan foundered mainly because mutually acceptable arrangements could not be established in several important countries. Under the scheme, the partners in at least the US, Britain, Canada and
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    • 297 10 Reuter INTEREST rate cuts by two major US banks sent the stock market romping on Tuesday to its biggest one-day gain since early August. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 34.78 points to 1211.57. The volume traded on the New York
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 295 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed moderately higher yesterday on strong buying interest. The Hang Seng Index closed 7.18 higher at 1,173.31. Turnover for the half day session was HK5208.29 million compared with $338.92 million for Tuesday's full day. Hutchison Whampoa rose 20 cents to $17.20, Cheung Kong 10 to $9.75,
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    • 391 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed sharply higher yesterday in active trading on selective buying of populars and incentive-supported issues, helped by Wall Street firmness and lower US interest rates. The market average rose 98.22 to 11,558.43, approaching the record 11,577.44 of Dec 4, with the turnover 630 million shares against
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    • 124 11 MANILA: Share prices closed mixed in dull trading yesterday. The Oil Index was up 0.007 at 0.586 and the Commercial and Industrial Index was down 3.67 at 105.38 while the Mining Index remained unchanged at 747.08. 1 DCC 1* Acom Mining Nm 0 0016 unch Onantai B Phi Oy«MOt
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    • 341 11 SYDNEY: Share prices closed firmer yesterday, aided by a rally on Wall Street and some bargainhunting after falls on Tuesday. Near the close, the All Ordinaries Index was up 10.0 at 718.1, the All Industrials Index was up 7.3 at 1069.6 and the All Resources Index was up 11.6
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    • 142 11 BANGKOK: Share prices closed lower in inactive trading yesterday. The Book Club Index fell 0.43 to 127.60 and declines led advances by a margin of more than five to one. Turnover fell to 168,040 shares worth 23.9 million baht from Tuesday's 386,200 worth 16.2 million. DCC 1* l«ht» Son
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    • 93 11 Dec 19 Won Hyundai Motor 661 unch Book Scoot 655 5 3 KAL Korea First 596 740 12 10 Choheung Bk 643 Korea Oil 1539 39 Commerool Bk 717 unch Korea Ship Lucky Ltd 413 -2 Doekm Ind 536 472 647 unch 774 -6 Daewoo Corp Daewoo tnd -1
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    • 67 11 Reuter NEW WORLD Development Co has agreed to build a HK$l.5 billion exhibition and conference centre in Hongkong, the Hongkong Trade, Development Council said. Construction of the complex is expected to begin in mid-1985. The council would receive a payment of $75 million from
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    • 277 11 FT THE AUSTRALIAN government has lifted the foreign shareholdings limit for the stockbroking industry from 15 per cent to 50 per cent, a step that was foreshadowed some two months ago. The decision will allow those foreign groups which have established toe-holds at the
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    • 122 11 Reuter MOBIL OIL Indonesia, an affiliate of Mobil Oil Corp, has paid a U5522.7 million production bonus to Pertamina under provisions in its production sharing contract. The bonus is the second one paid in recognition of sustained high production levels from the Arun field.
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    • 137 11 Reuter AJINOMOTO Co Inc said it expects the value of its aspartame sales, including exports, to double to 20 billion yen in the year to March 31 compared with last year. Ajinomoto, Japan's only maker of aspartame, an amino-acid sweetener, began domestic sales of sweeteners using it
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    • 1063 12 Reuter THE 1980s are turning out to be a discouraging decade for countries whose livelihood depends on the raw materials that feed the world's factories or end up on grocery shelves as anything from chocolate cake to cooking oil. Commodity prices have slipped
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    • 202 12 AFP SOUTH KOREA'S commodity exports during the first 11 months of 1984 totalled U5526.25 billion, 20.8 per cent up over the corresponding period last year. Trade and Industry Ministry officials said commodity exports were expected to reach $29 billion at the end of the
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    • 167 12 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 4 1 4 to Vt US cent a bushel higher in thin, choppy trade on Tuesday. Professional and local short-covering continued to push up prices in nearby months, despite heavy commercial selling in the March contract. Kastile, C D Commodities
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    • 187 12 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed four to 4"2 US cents a bushel higher in moderately active but thin trade on Tuesday. Soybean prices rose on general short-covering, but most participants traded only small amounts. Prices were due for a technical bounce after recent declines. A
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    • 240 12 SINGAPORE The market closed steady yesterday with January One RSS buyers quoted at 172.50 cents per kg, unchanged from Tuesday. After opening around overnight levels, prices remained unaltered throughout the day on a general lack of trading interest with operators staying on the sidelines in the absence of fresh
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    • 353 12 RAS prices <« s c«.wk.io, fob i« boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 169 25 170 25 169 25 I7025N Int 1 RSS Jon 85 172 50 172 75 172 50 172 75 Int 1 RSS Feb 85 175 00 ***** 175
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    • 113 12 (cents/kg, 1-ton pollers) January 85 February 85 (current mth) (forward mth) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 SSR 50 168 00 170 00N 170 00 172.00N 166 00 168 00N 168 00 170 00N MRELB Buy en. Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV SMR L
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    • 1131 12 COFFEE Robusta futures retreated on Tuesday afternoon, pressured by a downturn in New York and sterling's partial rally against the dollar. Contracts finished with losses from Monday night of £11 to £16 per tonne. March traded last at £2,211, down £15 from and compared with its morning peak
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    • 94 12 THE Koala Lam par Tin Market price remained at the International Tin Agreement floor-level price of M 529.15 per kg yesterday with the buffer stock manager the sole buyer. Torfiover fell to 153 tonnes from ICB tonnes on Tuesday and included 31 per cent foreign concentrates. No rationing
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    • 160 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 3,050 Blue Phoenix 20's 3,200 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,750 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,950 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21's 3,400 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,600 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,850 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 78 12 Reuter INDONESIA expects its rice output to increase by 4 per cent in 1985, from this year's 25.5 million tonnes, the Agriculture Minister was quoted as saying by the official Antara news agency. Achmad Affandi said that up to the middle of this month, the government
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    • 156 12 Chinese Produce FOB NSW 492 50 Exchange Nutmeg (Sellers' noon closing prices on Dec 110 FOB NSW 438 00 19. S*/100 kg) B W FOB NSW 281 00 Coconut oil Gombier Bulk FOB 180 00 FOB NSW 305 00 Old drum FOB ***** New drum FOB 197 00
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    • 279 12 Singapore A-l special C-l speciol C-l Ordinary 182 unq unq (SS/VUo, ex-godown) Thoi white Loonzam 100% unq 100% 1st class first grade (kangoroo) new crop 100% second grade 225 0.96 100% tfwd grade unq 100% 2nd class 100% 3rd doss 0 70 Parboiled No stock No stock '0% 227
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    • 156 12 THE Malaysian crude palm oil market closed firm yesterday on covering after reports of India seeking RBD olein, palm oil, neutralised palm oil and palm fatty acid distillates. It was also aided by higher Chicago soybean futures. Trading was fairly active. In December, central firmed Ms3s to $1,220
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    • 4055 13 A STRONG rally on the overnight New York exchange failed to cheer the Singapore market, which closed only slightly higher yesterday. The BT Composite Index gained 4.31 points to 702.71 while the Straits Times Industrial Index closed 4.35 points higher at 796.36.
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    • 255 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices Dm 18 Ok 19 I C |34 +18 BT Compoutt 698 40 *£71 ?74 6 BTIndKotor *****71 *****06 Voo Dor Hant 230 +14 it OB/OS -247 -267 u T'm ST Ixtotnota 792 01 796 36 M 680 0 ST Fmonce 2394 12 2401 76
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    • 493 13 THE KUALA Lumpur stock market closed steadier yesterday. Values opened a shade higher in the morning and then rose on good buying support in line with the substantially higher overnight close in New York. After the lunch break, the mood continued to be bullish and
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    • 2738 13 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time SetUement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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    • 3297 14  -  One-time fundamentalist forsakes his first love to give time to his own brand of technical analysis David Fuller of Chart Analysis Ltd is easily one of the most lucid market commentators around. The London-based American has become a prominent force in technical analysis
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    • 2475 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 A Choc (2 908 2.945) (1) 3 00 (3)
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    • 244 14 Managers' prices Second B'putro Third B'putro Fourth B'putro 4 80 4 85 3 99 4 04 for Dec 20 4 21 4 26 Singapore Unit Trust Fifth B'putro Sixth B'putro 2 98 3 03 2 88 2 93 The Commerce 2.51 2 67 Seventh B'putro (A) 201 206
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    • 193 14 SEAL Incorporated Berhad: 22nd AGM at Site No 30, tasek Drive, Tasek Industrial Estate, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia on Dec 20 at 10.30am. AMALGAMATED Steel Mills Berhad: 9th AGM at Room 506, 5th Floor, Wisma SPA, 32 Jalan Imbl, Kuala Lumpur on Dec 21 at 10am. LION Corporation Berhad:
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    • 105 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hong Seng Index Wednesday 1069 6 Tuesday 1062.2 Wednesday Tuesday JJ£6- 13 Week ago 1067.4 NEW YORK Week ago 17.23 Dow Jones Tuesday TOKYO Monday I7 SI Week ago 116/.? 1 Tokyo Dow Jones Wednesday *****.43 Standard and Poors Tuesday llooo'll Tuesday Week ago *****
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    • 458 15 HONG LEONG Credit Bhd has assured shareholders that it has the capability and resources to return another set of 'creditable' results for the financial year ending June 30,1985. It bases its confidence on the hope that the Malaysian economy will pick up
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    • 76 15 RECENTLY-LISTED Malaysia Aica Bhd has announced higher group pre-tax profits of M 52.65 million (from $2.1 million) for the half-year ended Sep 30, 1984. Turnover grew by 15 per cent to $11.35 million from $9.84 million previously. Earnings per share, however, was lower at 4.3
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    • 337 15  -  By AMY CHEOK MALAYSIAN Tobacco Company Bhd appears set on the path to increasing profitability, provided it is able to maintain the strong earnings level achieved in the second half of the financial year. For the'full year to endSeptember 1984, MTC turned
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    • 178 15 SHAREHOLDERS of Tashlha (Malaysia) Bbd have been reminded to send their completed forms of acceptance and transfer with the relevant share certificates to Arab-Malaysia Merchant Bank Ltd not later than Jan 7 if they wish to accept the M$10 cash offer a share extended by Mr Mohammed Adnan
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    • 723 15 Current Ex Books Date Totol for Totol for payment date dose payable the yeor pcfviovs yi AISB 1596(b) NYA NYA NYA 15% 15% A M D B 2%l Nov 12 Nov 22 Dec 22 2% 63% A mat Steel 8%TE(b) Dec 4 Dec 14 NYA 8%T€ 4.1 %TE
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    • 549 15 LAST FULL YEAR Company Period Date Year Net EPS Gross Net announced ending (cents) div profit lost year <%) ($*000) G Lumber Interim June 30 Sep 84 3,618L K G Hldgs Interim Sep 12 Dec 84 8.3 10.0 1,964 Peak Hua Interim Oct 5 Dec 84 03 160
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    • 465 15  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN THE FLOOD of Singaporean companies hoping to forge business links with China continues unabated. The latest company looking at the market is Cold Storage Holdings, the food manufacturing, storage and distribution group. Managing director Robert Barton says the
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    • 985 15 EQUITIES opened firm, reflecting the sharply higher close on Wall Street on Tuesday, dealers said. The FTSE 100 Index was up 6.9 to a new high of 1222.3. British Telecom rose lp to 102' 2, Blue Circle firmed 4p to 485 and ICI returned to 740 after 742.
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    • 390 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM PEGI Malaysia Bhd, which is opposing Dunlop Holdings PLC's financial reconstruction proposals, because it means a substantial dilution of its 26 per cent stake, is expected to make counter-proposals soon to protect its interests. What these counter-propos-als
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    • 53 15 SOUTH JOHORE Amalgamated Holdings Bhd's group pre-tax profits for the half year ended Sep 30, 1984, was slightly higher at M 5663,000 ($421,000 before) on turnover of $7.06 million ($5.72 million). Earnings per share improved marginally to 4.1 cents from 3.1 cents previously. No interim dividend
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    • 298 15 NOTICES IN THE MATTES OP THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. IN AND IN THE MATTER OP ICOB >+.% i P >c] CORPORATION LIMITED NOTICE OP SPECIAL RESOLUTION (Pinuit to Seettoa 2M(2<b)) At an extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 9 Penang Road, #08-14, Supreme House, Singapore 0923 on the
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  • 452 16  -  By ALVIN TAY CITIBANK will shorten the processing time for its unsecured personal loans for amounts up to $50,000 to only 24 hours from today, a move widely considered as a reply to DBS Bank's newly-launched "Action Loans" scheme. Mr Tan Say Heng, director for
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  • 567 16 ELECTION ~~1984 CLAIMS by opposition candidates that streaming is bad for school-children have been refuted by the Prime Minister, who has cited statistics to show that streaming actually improves the general educational level of the young. Mr Lee Kuan Yew told a lunchtime rally at Fullerton
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  • 363 16 SINGAPORE has been cleared of charges by the US government that it unfairly subsidised textile and apparel manufacturers. The charges of unfair subsidies were brought against Singapore manufacturers as well as those of 12 other developing countries by the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, the
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  • 221 16 THE NINE-month-old crisis in the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) is likely to be settled in the next two days, former vice-president, Mr Tan Koon Swan, said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. A confident Mr Tan, who had earlier spent two hours with Barisan Nasional secretary-general
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  • 876 16  -  City Development considering raising prices By LEE HAN SHIH ANOTHER major developer has expressed the belief that the property market has bottomed and is due for an upswing. And living up to the belief, City Developments Ltd (CDL), the property arm of the Hong
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  • 203 16 AFP A SOUTH-EAST Asian businessman has abandoned an attempt to buy the Hongkong operations of Deak Perera, the ailing USbased gold and currency trading giant, according to a statement in Hongkong yesterday. The statement to local radio stations said Mr Cho Jock Kim
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  • 64 16 STOCK PRICES were mixed in early trading on Wall Street yesterday as investors took profits in blue chip issues while secondary stocks resumed their climb. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about one point to under 1211, with investors cashing in gains made during Tuesday's nearly
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    • 38 16 THE COMMUNIST Party of Malaya (CPM) still receives orders from communist party leaders of China, though not necessarily from CPM chairman Chin Peng, the Malaysian Deputy Home Affairs Minister told parliament yesterday.
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    • 38 16 AFP VIETNAM will try some 2,000 people on various charges following a treason trial which ended on Tuesday. Sources said the next big trial should be of about 80 Buddhists suspected of being counter-revolution-aries". AFP
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    • 39 16 UPI communist victory PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday told US Pacific Command officers in Manila that he did not foresee a communist takeover in the country because the rebel leaders were behind bars. UPI
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    • 44 16 AP CHINA-US trade reached U554.94 billion in the first 10 months of 1984, a 43 per cent rise over the 1983 period, and could surpass US$6 billion by the end of December, the US Embassy in Beijing said yesterday.
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    • 36 16 Bernama THE JAPAN External Trade Organisation (Jetro) is sending out 500 forms to the Malaysian public with questionnaires on issues affecting both countries to gauge public response to problems between both countries. Bernama
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    • 43 16 AP THE SOUTH Korean Labour Ministry has set a minimum monthly wage of 100,000 won (US$l22) in 1985. Officials said yesterday that industrial and other work places with 10 workers or more would be subject to the limit. AP
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    • 36 16 Reuter CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has resumed flights after settling a one-day strike by its flight attendants. A spokesman said yesterday that an agreement had been reached with the flight attendants union. Reuter
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    • 45 16 Reuter NEARLY ALL the deadly gas stored at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal had been neutralised yesterday. The Press Trust of India said all 16 tonnes of methyl isocynate stored at the plant would be processed by sunset. Reuter
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    • 52 16 'VBIMim Outlook for today: Cloudy; showers in several areas. Report for 24 hours pr»or to 7 30pm on Dec >9 at the airport: Maximum temperature 30.4 Associated humidity 74 Minimum temperature 22.0 Associated humidity 98 Hours of sunshine 5.50 Rainfall in millimetres 54.6 Rainfall this month 105.3 Rainy days this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 352 17 THAI Maritime Navigation Company is seeking government support to raise its registered capital by 30 million baht to 144 million baht. The Thai carrier has submitted its request to the Communications Ministry for consideration, managing director Anusak Indraphuvasakdi told the Bangkok Post.
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    • 345 17  -  By LINDA CHEE SINGAPORE'S relatively small shipbroking community will soon have another member. The new company, Jobarco Shipbrokers, intends to provide a top-level service to charterers, shipowners and builders throughout the Pacific. In particular, its foothold in Singapore will enable Jobarco to cover activities in Australia
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    • 153 17 TMR/TTN THE first serious challenge to an interpretation of the US Shipping Act of 1984 was launched recently by seven conferences which filed a protest to the service contracts section. According to the conferences, while the US Federal Maritime Commission earlier said that loyalty contracts are
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    • 659 17 1 i Col Afeo Ahrenkiel Liner Alphatrons Andeko Shpg ANL APC Lra APL ASCL Asia broker Austasia Une Bait Orient Bongkok Coot Bonk Line B6S Ben Line Blue Star BohlerShpg Burma Five Star Cameroon Shpg CC Line CCM Ceylon Shpg Chargeurs Reums Chargeurs Ho*rane China Nov Chma
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 137 17 A LEADING West German trade union official has accused the government of neglecting the interests of the national fleqfc. Eike Eulen, of the OTV public and transport union, said in Hamburg the government must take immediate steps to put the situation right. These include introducing legislations in
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      • 46 17 THE few remaining privately-owned Swedish yards are again feeling the pinch due to a complete dearth of newbuilding orders. The yards are blaming the increased competition from yards outside Sweden which are able to offer very attractive financial packages to potential customers.
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      • 71 17 Reuters THE Australian and New Zealand Eastern Shipping Conference said it will reduce its currency adjustment factors (CAF) because of foreign exchange rate changes. The CAF on shipments to Australia and Papua New Guinea, effective Jan 1, will be plus 0.5 per cent instead of plus 2.0 pet
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    • 808 18 Fairplay THE protracted Iran-Iraq war which has seen scores of missile attacks on vessels in the region has not resulted in a spin-off for* the Gulf shiprepair industry. According to major Gulf repairers, Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (ASRY), there has been a
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    • 186 18 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/Europe, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia /Straits Container Line.
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    • 114 18 AP THE owner of the Greek flag freighter Aegis Cosmic hit in the Gulf on Monday was reported to have said his vessel was damaged by a torpedo probably fired from an Iranian submarine. Nicholas Papalios, owner of the 20,950-ton cargo ship, said the captain and
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    • 227 18 FT THE managements of two Scottish shipyards, Yarrow and Hall Russell, are attempting a combined employee buy-out. The proposal emerged as British Shipbuilders (BS) put the two yards on sale last week as part of the plan to privatise its warship yards. BS also revealed
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    • 1568 18 it at .tan steel account Italsider proved active on a generally sluggish charter shipping market on Tuesday. The company fixed the Alkinor with 106,000 tons of coal from Rotterdam to Taranto at lumpsum US$320,000 (fio) basis spot loading and the Skye Trader with 72,000 tons of coal from
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    • 999 18 ALGERIA Algiers Nov 15th. About 1-2 days delays. Bejaia Oct 14. Three vessels waiting. Skikda Oct 14. Five vessels waiting. ANGOLA Luanda Dec 4. 8 days. 5 vessels anchored. Lobito No delays. ARGENTINA Buenos Aires Dec 4. Open quay: 2-3 days. Grain loading: 2-3 days delays. Necochea 1
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    • 230 19 UPI THE father of one of 81 men believed drowned when an oil drilling ship sunk in the South China Sea last year has asked the American government to file criminal charges against companies that controlled the vessel. Austin attorney Douglas Pierce said on Monday
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    • 528 19 THE shipping community has weathered the worst of the storm. Mr M H Liang, chairman of the Hongkong Shipowners Association (HKSOA), told the annual general meeting that a number of underlying factors have offered a glimmer of hope for the future. The dry
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    • 286 19 PANAMA plans to have a new tonnage measurement system for its canal, but it will first seek the views of shipowners before making any changes. The Panama Canal Commission assured shipowners that every effort will be made to avoid any adverse effect on canal
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    • 370 19 Lloyds List A DANISH tax clampdown has prompted a spending spree on new rigs and ships. Orders worth nearly Kr2.5 billion for three products carriers and two drilling rigs have been rushed through to beat a new law to plug a tax loophole. Two
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    • 103 19 Fairplay THE Council of European Japanese National Shipowners Association (Censa) is seeking the right to participate in a US Federal Maritime Commission investigation into the US trades with Brazil and Argentina. The investigation is under Section 19 of the US Shipping Act which gives the
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    • 514 20 Jan 7 The application of emulsified fuels to different engine designs theoretical predictions and experimental results, 1530 hours, Institute of Marine Engineers, 76 Mark Lane, London EC3. Jan 14 Soft starting of induction motors for marine and offshore application, 1730 hours, 76 Mark Lane, London EC3. Jan 17
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    • 5432 24 aSSMDgEB 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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    • 661 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 Tanah Air 06NB 20 12 84 2300 NAPL TA 3 0900-1100 G4 E Handsome 037WB 21.1284 1900 G Asia FSB 0900-1000/1800-1930 S4 Hermes Ace 20A
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    • 1824 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies IS > Afro-Earasla Line Transgroup IS> Akreaklcl Liner Service Kim Shpg iSi Alfred C Toepfer Oceanus Shipping Agencies (S) Marintex Enterprise (PK) Alpac Intrasea (S > Bintang Shpg iKLi Island
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    • 451 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Asian Falcon 18 S'pore Shpg alongside 20.12.84/1500 Builder III 22 Thong Soon alongside 20.12.84/0700 Murrayeverett 25/6 Everett alongside 20.12.84/2300 Balantang 37/8 Lian Soon alongside 20.12.84/1200 Ned Bahrain 44 Ned-EAC alongside 20.12.84/1700 Coral Princess 47 Harper 20.12.84/0900 20.12.84/1700
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    • 844 21 v\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel: *****33 VESSEL KOTA WIRAMA KOTA ABADI KOTA WARUNA KOTA WISATA KOTA MEGAH VOYAGE HONGKONG SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: W-431 SLD lnPt-25/12 HOOEIDAH, AO ABA, PTSUDAN. ADEN, TAMATAVE E-539 23-25/12 2S-1/1 HOOEIDAH, DJIBOUTI, MOGADISCIO. MOMBASA ,D BALAAM E-541 5-S/1
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    • 813 21 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE nam straits FROM EUROPE HAM B"HA*N It DAM HAWK UK rttIAMG STORE FOR Smw SaM SM M SjM 23/12 HK6 TIM Hwfkwi Eiprtu Saht SaM Saiat SaM SaM 21/12 JO/12 TUN. W. a. TK. IK CarMjw Bay M SaM M SaM 19/12
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    • 642 21 llbal DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF e Ful Container Vessel. oo*» IS HAJAPAHT fit M It/12 20/12 30/12 3/1 Hn|km|S'p«( Tj.Pnol (*t) 21/12 20/12 21/12 5/1 5/1 11/1 I »:< i aiKi. n r.l: a;y a ;Vi Xli/iadl ii.:a < a Spart P. KtfMt R'Aan/lUaaTWr/L* R'nw/Kbwi Iwp IAAB til AH"
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    • 457 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loadng for Rangoon S'pore P.Keiant Pa-an V 77 25/26 Dec Pa<an VBl 29/31 Dec Phashwegyawywa V 248 1/2 Jan Htoneywa Vl9B 8/10 Jan loading for Rdam Hburg Antwerp Merpa V6B 22/25 Dec \A BANK line -CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONT
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    • 1236 22 VI ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE FEEDER VSI MOTKR VSI KANSAI PIONEER V4l A VESSEL STORE PKLG PNG 21 Dec 29 Dec 31 Dec K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. STOKE KOBE GUAYAGUK. CULAO AKICA IQWQUE AFA6ASTA S WTOHO VALPARAISO 2Un 25 lan 25 Feb 2 Mar I Mai 9 Mai 10 Mar 12
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    • 668 22 ij a CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAiNER/REEFER/BIKK SERVICE loMhnc tor LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE TACOMA VANCOUVER BC Accepting FCI FCI Conlainfi, P ReUng Singapore I Angelas BHARATEWU" 29 Oat 30 31 Dec 28 lan AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCI FCI Containers P Kebng Spare Frem RAfIDAS 76
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    • 533 22 SANKO ASIA FROM JAPANESE PORTS ANO HONGKONG GOLDEN LINE CUAN SMN SHIPPWC(tTI)ITt m K«m| I«| frmcial 0«« Mkx *0 Ctd Strrct SKtfOH 0104 TH 22 U7* (It IMS) T« laata lKi<u ***** t RMjnf 307*41 MMU ftm U*» »t«"t ORCNI UOYD W) SM M ID (4370 STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: S
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    • 525 22 f INTRASEA (PTE) LTD. 10 Anson Road »27 16 Internationa 1 Pa/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 <10 Lmesi <► BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK Spore P. KHanfLoadnt forTNROR ISLAND 23/12 SETE LA PAUICE/CAEN/ROTT STAR VICTORIA *****16 24/12 24/12 SETE/ROTT/ANT/UJC (MfOT PS SEAWOOD SHIPPING CORPORATION S pore P Kelang Loadmf far:
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    • 675 23 TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): S.S. BRDGE 48W K JACEJM 27W TW BRDGC 23 ft 0 CHEF 42W K CHANCE 20W HK CONTAIO 43* Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia +SS BRIDGE S'pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo— 0100 23/12 LCL Cargo 1300 22/12 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) O CHEF 41E Sailed HK
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    • 542 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON PR RN HM Mr 7 Dmm/4MH k Part 25/12 lb I owa/4MN 29/12 J/1 lb. J Dwan/407N 10/1 15/1 Hi. < Omm/WM 12/1 11/1 lb. 7 (Wr WIN 2«/ l 29/1 KQ MCHOM BUSJM VI IJ/I
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    • 417 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVCT SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SMSOV BULDMG 55, Martet Street Sonfapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SMSOV SMGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P. ROMS M/S SHMKAT MM SOON SON. M. IST ANO 2ND FLOOR. NO 1. JAIAM CEMPEMNG. PORT KLANG. MALAYSIA
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    • 117 23 DURBAN JOHANNESBURG MAPUTO MAURITIUS A RFUNION WESTBOUND SIN LOCHS DURBAN BE IRA LADY DONA 24W 10 185 22 185 27.1.85 TBN 1W 31/1/85 18/2 25/2 EASTERN HARMONY 20/2/85 2/3 5/3 (Contrs 2W/8S Only) ■vvßefsnnm ETO ETO ETA rbay ourban sin EASTERN HARMONY 15.12.84 21.12.84 7.1 85 Agents: Kim Shipping Trading
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    • 857 24 I?c<|i»iial Container Lines J'lllllU _g] 3 Sailings Weekly 1 Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hrs Mon, Tues Sat j BKK 25/26 Dec 27/2S Dec 21/29 Dec SPORE 22/23 Dec 24/25 Dec 25/26 Dec 29 Dec 31/01 lan 02/03 lan 06/07 lan 07 OS lan 0«/09 lan 12/13 lan
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    • 82 24 6 FARCO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTII LTD EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE SINGAPORE BANGKOK 3 SAILINGS WEEKLY Voy Spore Bkk S*l BHUM 199 M Wt/21 Dec 21/22 Dec THANA BHUM 150N 22/23 Dec 25/26 Dec BUNGA KEMUMNG 2* 24/25 Dec 27/2$ Dec BHUM 200W 25/26 Dec 28/29 Dec Acceptinf both FCI and ICL:
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 174 24 I Regional Weather n m > 07 y K > m V/> I m t s £V 3 c a z*L m SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. a 3. Wind direction with speed in knots Wove height LEGEND R Thunderstorm C Section with speed .n
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    • 270 25 SEA EXPRESS LINE REGULAR SAILING TO INDIAN PORTS Eta sea express i to pt SEA EXPRESS I 30/12 SEA EXPRESS 10/1 SEA EVIESS IV 12/1 SEA EXPRESS 3/1 SEA EXPRESS X 23/1 SEA EXPRESS XI 1/2 SEA EXPRESS IX 5/2 EM Uadtaf fm 22/12 MMMT/MAORAS 4/1 MADRAS/BOMBAY 13/1 CALCUnA/COLORBO 13/1
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    • 180 25 Scan Dutch 9 ...Jr iif&f. M— To Europe (Med/UK^^^canfl 1) MARSEILLES 2) ROTTERDAM 3) HAMBURG 4) GOTHENBURG To Red Sea/Mediterranean From Europe From Red Sea/Med. Also Accepting (l) Barcelona, Genoa, Bilbao, Leghorn Volencia (2) Amsterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Basle. Southampton, Liverpool, London (Tilbury), Canary Islands (3) Bremen, Bremerhaven, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Helsinki
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    • 282 26 Mitsui OS K Lines JLtd. CONVENTIONAL/SEMI-CONTAINER ASTRA PEAK GRETKE OLDENDOLF OCEAN ELITE WEST AFRICA 25 Dec Port Louts, Reunion 6 Jan Mombasa. Daressaiaam, Matsamudu, Zanzibar 11 Jan Mombasa. Daressaiaam. NEDLLOYD MADRAS 7 Jan Monrovia. Abidjan. Apapa, Douala. Tema Also Accepting Contrs to NOUAKCHOTT CAPE VERT, BANJUR N CONAKRY WITH TRANSHIPMENT
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