The Business Times, 24 December 1984

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1984 60 CENTS
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  • 344 1 AP FOR THE first time in more than 30 years, the government of China is allowing foreign banks to take deposits and make loans in foreign currency. But the relaxation, reported in Beijing on Saturday by the official English-language China Daily, applies only to
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  • 621 1  -  Unauthorised dealers capturing an increasing share of rtiarkw- By LUCY NG THE MONTHS ahead could see more appointed distributors of consumer products mounting attacks against their competitors traders who bring in the same goods but who do not hold the rights to the distributorship.
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  • 310 1  -  By JAIME LYE THE RATE of closures in the travel agent business this year may equal 1983'5, judging from latest statistics provided by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB). Twenty agencies have closed down. Last year, the total was 24, compared with 13 in 1982.
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  • 313 1 Reuter THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) intends to make its members maintain a "serious and credible" production ceiling. Iraqi Oil Minister Qasim Ahmed Taqi, in an interview with the Nicosia-based Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), said the current Opec ministerial
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  • 418 1 UPI CHINESE Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang has urged his country's 1.1 billion people to abandon chopsticks for the more hygienic fork, knife and individual plate. "We should prepare more knives and forks, buy more plates and sit around the
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  • 461 1 PRIVATE DOCTORS have failed in their attempt to persuade pharmaceutical manufacturers to supply them with standardised labels for medicine. These doctors will have to specify the names of the medicines they dispense on their own, the Singapore Association of Pharmaceutical Industries
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  • 102 1 UPI A FEDERAL judge says a Penthouse poster of a nearly nude Walter Mondale caricature is political commentary and the New York City Transit Authority was wrong to order the poster taken down. US District Judge Charles Haight-said in his 29-page decision on-Friday that the
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    • 352 1 BRIAN MILLER and JAIME LYE take a peek at what the hotels are planning for your festive evenings. They have drawn up a list of places to help you decide where to go to, what to do, whom to see and how much to pay. The Thunderbirds (below) at the
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  • MANGEMENT
    • 1336 2  -  Authorised agents had it very good until the imports came streaming in By LUCY NG THE MANAGING DIRECTOR of a Singapore-based manufacturing company was looking out of his office window one day when he saw workmen unloading a container of clothes softener into a warehouse across
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    • 467 2  -  mrnsj CHUANG PECK MING Not for Bread Alone, A Business Ethos, A Management Ethic. By Konosnke Matsushita. PHP Institute Inc, Japan 1984, 1(3 pages. Education and Japan's Modernisation. By Makato Aso and Ikuo Amano. The Japan Times, 1983, 111 pages. KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA, founder of
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    • 928 2  -  By TONY THOMPSON FT PROCTER GAMBLE, the giant US household products multinational, has been developing a management tool in cooperation with the retail trade which could have a substantial effect on the profitability of both sides of the industry. Called direct product profitability, or DPP,
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    • FRONTIERS
      • Article, Illustration
        96 3  -  Compiled by LEE HAN SHIH THE PICTURE on the right shows Australian scientist Simon Oldfield experimenting with a blindfolded volunteer in an effort to find out how human beings perceive sound. His research is beginning to yield a basic understanding of how humans determine the locations of sound.
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      • 415 3 NEXT TIME a computer man says he has got a viral problem, do not assume he is talking about himself. He could well be referring to his computer. Scientists have discovered that computers are susceptible to virus too. The possibility of a computer virus was recently raised
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    • 1052 3  -  By KENNETH GOODING FT THE CHANGES made by Ford, second-largest of the world's automotive groups, to its operations outside North America earlier this year focus attention again on its global strategy. Donald Petersen, Ford's president, points to his company's Brazilian "world truck"
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    • 1093 3  -  Full potential of cinema advertising yet to be exploited By ANNA TEO ENTREPRENEURS are usually optimistic people. And the optimism of those at Mediatech Services Pte Ltd, the media marketing company that wants to take on Pearl A Dean in bigscreen advertising,
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 759 4 British leader hits out at talk of disagreement UPI BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has assured President Reagan of her "firm conviction" that research on his "Star Wars" missile defence plan should proceed and said he acknowledged that any deployment of
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    • 752 4 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time SIA SQII 0110 LAX/TYO PAA PA5 0155 JFK/SFO/HKG SIA SQ43 0730 DHA MAS MH68I 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL SV SV386 0920 JED/RUH MAS MH67I 0935 KUL MAS MH81I 0940 PEN CAL CI806 0945 HLP RBA BI421 1000 BWN
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    • 287 4 AFP THE TWO LEADERS of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), who have been rivals for the party's presidency, have reached a basic agreement to settle their differences. A joint statement issued by MCA Secretary-General Chong Hon Nyan and expelled Vice-President Tan
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    • 92 4 UPI FUGITIVE Singapore financer Amos Dawe has been ordered to be held in a British jail until Dec 31 in court hearings to determine whether he can be extradited to Hongkong. Dawe, 50, who dropped out of sight 25 months ago
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    • 271 4 Reuter A PHILIPPINE opposition leader has backed out of a planned coalition aimed at contesting a future presidential election, setting back efforts to create a unified political opposition. Member of Parliament Eva Estrada Kalaw said a selection process proposed by a group led by former
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    • 140 4 Reuter CHINA'S armed forces must cut down on expenditure to ease the state's financial burden and do more t# help the civilian economic effort. Writing in the Liberation Army Daily, army political chief Yu Qiuli suggested that the army open some of its
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    • 378 4 Reuter JAPAN is charting an economic course for next year in which growth will be slower and mostly powered by domestic spending rather than exports. A special Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Saturday approved policy outlines projecting real growth of 4.6 per cent
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    • 457 4 AP MARSHAL Sergei Sokolov, a 52year career soldier in the traditional Soviet mould, has been appointed to succeed the late Dmitri Ustinov as Soviet Defence Minister. Diplomats said that the speedy appointment of Marshal Sokolov, First Deputy Defence Minister since 1967,
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    • 400 4 UPI MERRILL LYNCH Inc has sent two of its top security experts from New York to Montreal to investigate what Canadian police call the biggest robbery in the country's history. Thomas Boyd and Kevin Farrell of Merrill Lynch's corporate security department in
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    • ECO NOTES
      • 52 4 MALAYSIA is considering handing over the running of several activities in the agriculture sector to farmers' organisations. Deputy Agriculture Minister Dr Goh Cheng Teik said on Saturday that these included the Veterinary Department's milk collection centres, the Fisheries Department's fish breeding centres and the Farmers Organisation Authority's farm
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      • 43 4 THE US and Britain have reached an agreement in principle to reduce winter air fares between the two countries. The US State Department said on Saturday that consumers were expected "to benefit from very low fares coming into the market".
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      • 60 4 SOUTH KOREA has decided not to buy from Australia 150,000 tonnes of iron ore worth US$2.B million and 100,000 tonnes of coal worth US$4.9 million, in a retaliatory measure against Canberra's recent repeal of preferential tariffs on South Korean steel plates. Korean officials said on Saturday that the
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      • 44 4 WASHINGTON has approved the release of a U5547.5 million grant for the Philippines's rural economic development programme, the Philippine News Agency reported on Saturday. The money is part of a $900 million five-year aid and military sales credits agreement signed last year.
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      • 35 4 A GROUP of rich peasants in central China have decided to become media entrepreneurs by investing 350,000 yuan (US$130,000) in a state-pro-duced 30-part television drama series, the New China News Agency said on Saturday.
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      • 47 4 YUGOSLAVIA and the International Monetapr Fund have agreed in principle on a standby credit arrangement for 1985. The Yugoslav news agency, Tanjug, reported on Friday that the agreement was reached at the end of a round of talks which began in Belgrade on Dec 10.
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      • 62 4 Agencies CHINA'S total industrial and agricultural output this year will exceed a record 1,000 billion yuan (US$36O billion), up more than 8 per cent from last year, the China Daily said on Friday. It said that after record harvests and a 13 per cent increase in industrial output
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    • 195 4 AFP JAPAN is to seek assurances during its forthcoming summit with Washington that Asia will not be sacrificed in the planned US-Soviet arms control talks, Foreign Minister Abe Shintaro said in an interview with Kyodo News Service. Mr Abe
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    • 658 6 Subversion the greatest threat, says Gen Murdani Reuter INDONESIAN Armed forces commander Benny Murdani said a superpower build-up on Indonesia's doorstep could hinder economic development and indirectly undermine the strategically-important archipelago. Asked in an interview about Jakarta's defence priorities, the general said his military planners
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    • 392 6 UPI SRI LANKA'S major Tamil opposition group has rejected proposals announced by President J R Jayewardene to resolve problems involving the rebellious minority. Mr Appapillai Amirthalingam, secretary-general of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), said in a statement that President Jayewardene's proposals do not embody any scheme of autonomy that
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    • 206 6 AP A SEARCH team has discovered the bodies of seven more miners, bringing to 20 the number of workers killed following a smoky mine fire in Orangeville, Utah, that erupted five days ago, officials said. Seven miners were still unaccounted for. "We believe there
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    • 312 6 AP THE ORGANISATION of Islamic Conference (OIC) has scored a "breakthrough" in its efforts to bring the 51-month-old IraqIran war to an end through negotiations, a conference spokesman has declared. Habib Chatti of Tunisia told reporters at a briefing on Friday that the
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 58 6 CHRISTMAS came four days early to the small towns of northern Castile when farmers suffering from years of drought won millions of dollars in a 221-year-old annual state lottery. The Spanish state Christmas lottery doled out a total of US$339 million to hundreds of thousands of Spaniards in
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      • 89 6 TWO MEMBERS of the South Korean National Assembly reported missing for two days after announcing they were joining a new opposition group have returned home. The two men, Kim Hyunkyoo, a 47-year-old, two-term assemblyman, and Hong Saduk, 39, a former journalist serving his first term in the assembly,
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      • 53 6 SHANGHAI, China's most populous city, has started work on its first high-speed expressway, a 16-km artery linking the city centre with Jiading, a nearby satellite town. The official Xinhua news agency yesterday did not say when the 120-km per hour expressway would be completed. Jiading is a community
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      • 59 6 THE foreign ministers of the Contadora Group will meet in Panama City next month to discuss revisions to their Central American peace plan. Panamanian Foreign Minister Fernando Cardoze said yesterday that the meeting, tentatively scheduled for Jan 8 and 9, will also commemorate the second anniversary of
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      • 41 6 CHINA has detonated a relatively weak underground nuclear device at its Lop Nor testing ground in Sinkiang province. The Swedish Defence Ministry's Hagfors Observatory said yesterday that China carried out a similar test last October, its first since 1980.
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      • 71 6 URUGUAYAN authorities have released 17 people, including three military men, from prison three days after more than 200,000 people demonstrated in Montevideo to back demands that the outgoing military government give amnesty to all political prisoners. The 17 were freed after the military courts reviewed their cases on
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      • 32 6 PROVINCIAL assembly elections will be held across Vietnam next April 21. The Hanoi Moi newspaper reported yesterday that members of provincial people's assemblies will be elected for the 1985-89 period.
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      • 60 6 CARLOS MERIDA, one of Latin America's most wellknown mural artists and a friend of Albert Einstein, Arthur Miller and Duke Ellington, died* in Mexico on Friday night. He was 93. Born in Guatemala in 1891, Mr Merida discovered Cubism in Paris in 1909 and developed his art with
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      • 57 6 Agen cies PRESIDENT Marcos has approved the reshuffling of 14 provincial and regional military commanders in what the government's Philippine News Agency has described as a "prelude" to a revamp of the armed forces next year. Manila newspapers on Saturday said the reshuffle would involve mostly colonels in
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    • 468 6 UPI TECHNICIANS have detoxified the last of a poison chemical left at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal after a tragic gas leak, and government investigators have taken over key areas of the plant. "We are greatly relieved and happy," said Arjun
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    • 214 6 AP A NEPALESE army helicopter found the wreckage of a Royal Nepal Airline Corporation airliner that had crashed in northeast Nepal with 23 people aboard, and brought eight of the nine survivors to Katmandu yesterday. Two of the injured were reported in critical condition
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    • 332 6 AP THE US NAVY, in the latest of a series of problems with its planes, has announced that onefifth of its force of A-6E attack jets will have to be grounded because their wings might only last half as long as
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    • 202 6 AP FOREIGN government creditors and multilateral institutions have agreed to reschedule US$l.l billion of the Philippines's foreign debt over a period of more than 10 years. Prime Minister Virata made the announcement on Saturday in a television interview on his return from
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    • 215 6 Reuter NEW ORDERS for durable goods in the US rose by an unexpected 8.3 per cent last month, the sharpest monthly gain in four years, signalling further strong American economic activity, the US Commerce Department reported on Friday. White House spokesman
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    • 194 6 AP VIETNAM'S economy is handicapped by "many imbalances" and the tempo of development in 1984 has been slower than in the previous three years. The Vietnam news agency said on Saturday that production of food and a general boosting of the agricultural sector was the top
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    • 91 6 Reuter WEST GERMANY is heading for a record trade surplus in 1984 after posting its highestever November trade result. Exports last month were 16 per cent higher than a year earlier, boosting the trade surplus to seven billion marks (U552.24 billion), more than double
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 383 7 Reuter THE BUNDESBANK said first estimates show 1984 central bank money stock grew at a rate of around 4 3/ < per cent, measured as the difference between the average of the fourth quarter 1984 and the same quarter last year.
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    • 200 7 FT THE BAHRAIN Monetary Agency (BMA) is extending its surveillance of the financial markets to the 50 or so money changers trading in Bahrain. It already controls major gold dealers and commodities brokers as well as domestic and offshore banks. Under new regulations which
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    • 228 7 Reuter THE BRITISH broad-based money supply indicator, sterling M-3, rose by 2.7 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in the five weeks to Nov 21. Final figures on November money supply from the Bank of England were in line with the central bank's preliminary
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    • 73 7 Reuter WHARTON ECONOMETRICS has said the value of the US dollar will drop by about 6.6 per cent in the second half of 1985 because of slower growth in the US economy and a widening current account trade deficit. The decline will follow a
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    • 791 7 NYT AP THE FEDERAL Reserve Board, in another move to ease credit, has cut the discount rate it charges on loans to financial institutions by half a point to eight per cent. The cut came on Friday in the wake
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    • 265 7 FT RIKSBANK, the Swedish central bank, has argued that monetary policy must continue to be restrictive next year. "The level of liquidity in the Swedish economy is high and price and cost increases are exceeding those abroad. "Moreover, the current account
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    • 281 7 AFP OPPOSITION to the use of the European Currency Unit (ECU) as an European currency was expressed in Bonn last week by the West German Secretary of State at the Finance Ministry. Mr Hansjoerg Haefele told the West German DPA-VWD news
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    • 101 7 Reuter THE JAPANESE government will have to issue short-term bonds in future if it wants to avoid concentrating its deficit refunding operations into only a few months. The Financial System Council, a Finance Ministry advisory body, also said in a report the government should change the
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    • 111 7 Reuter THE AMERICAN Export-Im-port Bank and the Agency for International Development have established a US$3OO million credit insurance programme to help finance development in Central America. The agency says all Central American countries are eligible for the programme, but Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras
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    • 636 7 Reuter A NEW 20 billion peso issue of Mexican petrobonds has been delayed to help stem the flow of funds abroad after the minidevaluation of the peso on Dec 5, bankers and securities analysts say. A total of 20 million
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    • 327 7 Reuter THE WEST GERMAN government's decision to abolish coupon tax levied on non-resident holders of domestic bonds has led to an estimated quarter percentage point fall in German capital market yields. The State Secretary in the Finance Ministry, Hans Tietmeyer, said
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    • 110 7 Reuter THE UK TREASURY has outlined its plans to give trustee savings banks (TSB) fullyfledged private sector status in a white paper published recently. A Bill, designed to pave the way for a public flotation of shares, will be put through Parliament in
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 244 7 International Discount Co Ltd THE overnight rates opened firm and moved erractically throughout last week with rates touching a high of 7'/s 7 per cent and a low of 5 Vi 5 per cent. The sporadic movement in rates was attributed to the intermittent bout of
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    • 163 7 Green Collier GOLD'S Relative Strength Index at 11.% was indicating a grossly oversold condition last week. February gold had plunged almost US$2O within a week. Prices are expected to consolidate from current level of around $306, with a tendency to recover and close the gap
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    • 225 7 Asian market ASIAN currency average deposit rates for the week ended Dec 21: BID PRICES High Low us$ 7 days 8 3/4 7 13/16 1 month 8 3/4 8 1/4 2 months 8 13/16 8 5/16 3 months 8 IS/16 87/16 6 months 97/16 8 15/16 9 months 9 3/4
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    • 471 7 'INDICATES the average of the prime lemfinf rates of 12 major banks operatic in Sinfapore PLR of banks at the close of business last Friday, Dec 21, as supplied by the Association of Banks in Singapore. BANK PLR Algemene Bonk 9'i American Express 10'. Am'Dom R'terdam Bank
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  • FEATURES
    • 879 8 Winning the Indian election may be the easiest part of the job The Indian election begins today in most states. Rajiv Gandhi and his Congress Party look set for an easy victory in a country that has not come up with a persuasive opposition. NYT
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    • 428 8  -  By SELWYN PARKER IF A WEEK is a long time in politics, six months is an eternity. Back in May Sir Robert Muldoon was New Zealand's prime minister, a high-flier in the popularity polls. By early December Muldoon had been routed in the July election, barely survived
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    • 574 8 NYT INDONESIA, a petroleum exporter hurt by falling oil prices and a developing nation worried about protectionism in both Japan and the West is embarking on new industrial and trade policies aimed at tackling both problems. At home, economists are experimenting with ways
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  • TINE-OFF
    • 1304 9  -  An entertainment guide to help you decide where to spend your festive evenings By BRIAN MILLER, JAMIE LYE A MERRY CHRISTMAS it will be but Silent Night it most certainly won't. At least not at our hotels, niteclubs, lounges and discos. Word is out
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    • 230 9 A PACT that Seletar's "sacked six" made bore fruit last weekend when M Balraj clinched the club's premier prize Medal of Medals. The three handicapper played to par in carding a 70 scorecard to win the best gross title by a stroke from Lim
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 281 10 Reuter THE YEAR after a US presidential election is not kind to Wall Street traditionally but stock market analysts believe the sombre pattern could be broken next year with share prices rising after a one-year pause. Market experts are basing their assessments
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    • 293 10 Reuter WALL STREET suffered its third straight loss last Friday as investors continued to take profits gained earlier this week and arbitrageurs put pressure on stocks by winding down positions in index futures. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gave back eight of Tuesday's
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    • 782 10 Amsterdam DEC 21 Fh ABN 363 00 -4 5 146 50 0 5 Ahold 185 00 -0 8 Akzo 9900 +03 AMtV 201 50 0 5 Amfos Amrobnk 64 30 0 2 Bert 40 30 1 Boh 99 70 -1 3 Bof*umn 277 50 0 5 Bos* a
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    • 89 10 Reuter THE PLANNED privatisation erf state-owned British Airways (BA) has been delayed and is now unlikely to take place until May, government sources say. BA had publicly said it expected the privatisation to take place in February. However, the sale has been delayed because of potential
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 784 11 COFFEE Robusta futures rose on short-covering in quiet trading last Thursday afternoon, aided by strength in New York. Contracts from March onwards finished £19 to £11 a tonne higher. The exception was nearby January, which traded last at £2,248, a loss of £12 from Wednesday. January fell to
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    • 151 11 THE Singapore market last week continued in its flat and featureless conditons on the run up to the year-end holidays, with operators not opening fresh positions. The sagging tendency persisted, with light liquidation of January One RSS paring prices slightly in Singapore, and more so in Malaysia. Tokyo likewise
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    • 34 11 Dote Closing Prices Turnover (M$/kilo) (tonnes) Dec 17 29 15 169 Dec 18 29 15 168 Dec 19 29 15 153 Dec 20 29 15 214 Dec 21 29 15 120
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    • 220 11 PRODUCE PRICES in Singapore closed mixed in mostly quiet trading last week. In the pepper market, prices were unchanged. A trader reported that volume was low mainly because of the holiday season. He said that Indonesia, which is a major pepper producer, was inactive last week.
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    • 872 11 AFP GOLD SLUMPED to its lowest for two and a half years in London last week, and tended to unsettle the other commodity markets in the run-up to the end-of-year holidays. The weakness of sterling, which almost daily touched new record
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    • 123 11 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 2Vi US cents a bushel higher to cent lower in thin holiday trade last Friday. The closelywatched July contract ended I'/« cent higher at $3.33'« a bushel. USDA's estimate of a decrease in winter wheat planted acreage, particularly its forecast
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    • 120 11 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed VA US cent a bushel lower to 3V4 cent higher in thin trade ahead of the Christmas holiday last Friday. Activity was choppy as traders attempted to square their books at year's end. A Brazilian government increase in its soybean
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    • 251 11 r FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL *****11 NOW Come share irithe merriest of celebrations at the rA pollo'Smgapore^ v; s I** ■V y_ i yi > y V i* A* A !3* A lw > I* A* A* 13* A A* 5f This season the Apollo Singapore and Apollo Sentosa have
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    • 154 11 How the expert rotes us. Probably because we have special activities planned, special testive menus in all our restaurants, a Santa's Gingerbread House, take away X'mas delicacies and all in an environment that will really make you think its Christmas Ring *****22 tor reservation. Ample tree parking A© Century Park
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    • 139 11 Paramount HotelWhere the happy people go Ml <» •T» COCKTAIL LOUNGE Experience a new and refreshing concept in cocktail lounge entertainment. Experience The Gazebo. The frontispiece of Paramount Hotel, away from all the hustle and bustle. A free flowing garden terrace in subtle shades of grey and beige. And a
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    • 103 11 d o :Sen,Gingerbrea, .y Gla Fruit Cake ced Chr s "n, Gingcrb" 'y "t ;,.ktoo"dM 3C .«UiSPSP*HIfe r* There's nothing like traditional goodies to get into the spirit of Christmas. So order yours today at the Hilton But hurry, there're going pretty fast HK4ON MfcHNATIONAI) SINGAPORE 11k StnMcs. (hie pliiec
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    • 199 11 I'J >4 Season of Great Cheer At CairnhiU! Christinas and New Year Eves At the Coffee Garden Gala Dinner and Dance at only $45.00 per person plus novelties and door gifts 7 pra 3 am Dance only $30.00 per person (or a first drink with novelties and door gifts. 10.30
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 5425 12  -  t 3 A By CHEN QINGSHUN THE Singapore stock market went through an uneventful week as punters stayed on the sidelines while waiting for the outcome of the general elections. The week ended with the BT Composite Index making a 0.41-point gain to
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    • 209 12 n r \lAustralia M Reuter RESOURCE STOCKS came under pressure on Australian share markets last week while industrial issues finished slightly firmer. The All Ordinaries Index finished the week 0.9 firmer at 719.7, the All Industrials marker was 4.6 up at 1073.0 and the All Resources
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    • 416 12  -  Week ended Dec 21 compiled by JULIANA TAY CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Acmo Electrical Industries has signed a $15 million contract with Guongzhou Refrigerator Foctory to help expand the letter's capacity. Bedford Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary, Hompsteod Corporation Sdn Bhd, has proposed to acquire a parcel of land
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    • 293 12 THE FAVOURABLE sentiment of the Swiss stock market was boosted by the Thursday rally on Wall Street sparked by the interest rate downward trend in the US. However, owing mainly to the absence of many institutional investors, trading volume remained modest and the stock market
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 491 13 n I HOCK LOCK SIEW THE STOPPAGE of construction work on Singapore Land's Gateway project is hardly surprising, being but one of many snags the project has encountered from the very beginning. In fact, the stock market got so edgy about Gateway's problems that the shares of Singland
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    • 495 13 J ew A AP A NOTE of holiday cheer from Wall Street: gold is in the doldrums. As everyone knows, gold is the grumpy curmudgeon of the financial world an investment that thrives on inflation, depressed markets for paper assets, and
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    • 447 13 1 K.Lumpur THANKS to some late buying interest, share prices at the Kuala Lumpur stock market managed to recoup some of their earlier losses to finish on a mixed note last week. Trading remained selective £"*with a number of situational 'issues dominating
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    • 475 13  -  Interim post-tax profits down 97.7 pc By NAJEEB JARHOM THE FUTURE looks bleak for Bukit Sembawang Estates Ltd, developer of Seletar Hills, one of the biggest private housing estates in Singapore. With group post-tax profits slumping to only $98,000 for the six months ended Sep
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    • 119 13 THE CHAIRMAN of the Fleet Group of Companies, Datuk Haji Mohamed Desa bin Pachi, has joined the board of directors of The New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd. Datuk Haji Desa, 50, a leading Bumiputra entrepreneur, is also chief executive of Malaysia
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    • 359 13 KUMPULAN GUTHRIE Sdn Bhd's acquisition of the entire paid-up share capital of Uniroyal Malaysian Plantations Sdn Bhd (UMP) for Msl99 million cash has been completed. The transaction, under an agreement dated Aug 8, 1984, was finalised last Friday with the handing over of the UMP share
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    • 179 13 AFP SHARE PRICES, which have climbed fairly steadily far the past five months, surged last week, boosting the Hang Seng Index by sfi points to llSB.fi, its highest level since July 28, 1982, when it reached 1233.13. Turnover on the fear exchanges
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 121 13 formerly Olympia Plywood and Timber Products, has failed to obtain the Malaysian Capital Issues Committee's approvals for its three proposed acquisitions. In a brief statement, Duta said the CIC has decided not to approve its proposed acquisitions of Marigold Sdn Bhd, Centenary Realty Sdn Bhd and Salhafa
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      • 22 13 announced that its unaudited consolidated net tangible asset backing per share was $1.83 as at Nov 30.
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      • 86 13 said a substantial shareholder, Soon Peng Yam (Pte) Ltd, has purchased 130,000 stock units in the company for a total consideration of $307,100, raising its interest to 14.071 million shares, or 47.11 per cent (from 46.67 per cent) of the company's paid-up equity. Mr Soon Peng
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      • 30 13 of both Lion Corp Bhd and Amalgamated Steel Mills Bhd have approved the respective companies' acquisition of a 20 per cent stake each in Asia Commercial Finance (M) Bhd.
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    • 1080 13  -  r— London A By GERALD COLVERD THE TROUBLE with being aged in excess of fifty years at Christmastide is that one has seen most of the films being shown on television. This nostalgic trip into the days of youthful endeavour and entertainment not only serves
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    • 254 13 AFP ALTHOUGH prices lost ground on Thursday and Friday, the Dow Jones Average on the Tokyo stock market scored a solid 61.31-yen gain last week, thanks to last Wednesday's 98.22 yen rise. The closely-watched 225stock index, a 66.33-yen loser the previous week,
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  • 680 14 PAP will suspend services in Anson, Potong Pasir ELECTION I 1984 I PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew yesterday gave strong hints that the one-man, one-vote system may be modified to prevent voters from using the ballot box to pressurise the government. In
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  • 307 14 SALARIES of senior ministers will be raised at the next budget, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew indicated yesterday morning. The increase is to ensure that ministers and their families will not suffer a big drop in their standard of living when they leave
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  • 711 14 THE 62.9 per cent of popular votes cast for the People's Action Party on Saturday was the lowest since 1963. A swing of 12.6 per cent away from the PAP this time must have surprised observers, many of whom expected another clean sweep for the
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  • 221 14 MPD Nair, the opposition candidate who was defeated with the highest percentage of votes, has not decided whether he will accept the non-constitu-ency MP seat. Mr Nair told BT yesterday that the decision lies with the Workers' Party central executive committee. WP's
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  • 130 14 MR CHUA SIAN CHIN, MP for MacPherson, yesterday announced that he would not accept any ministerial post in the new Cabinet. In a letter to the Prime Minister earlier this month, Mr Chua indicated that he wonld step down as Home Affairs Minister to make way
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  • 478 14 Comment SATURDAY'S election was declared early on to be a watershed. It should, therefore, be easy to draw valid conclusions with absolute certainty from the outcome, but really it is hard to see the declaration as anything other than an exceedingly accurate forecast
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  • 422 14 AP CHINA and the Soviet Union have agreed to sign four accords on economic cooperation, including a 1986-1990 trade pact and establishment of a joint commission on science and technology exchanges. The Chinese government said the agreements were reached after negotiations between Soviet Deputy Premier
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  • 133 14 Reuter LIBYA has offered to contribute US$l million to Unesco to replace part of the contribution the US was making until it decided to withdraw from the organisation, Islamic Conference sources said. The US has been paying 25 per cent of Unesco's
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  • LATE FILE
    • 52 14 AFP THE Union Carbide plant in Bhopal has not been permitted to renew its licence, the Press Trust of India reported yesterday. The state government had said earlier it would not allow the plant to resume operations, but this is the first formal confirmation of the
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    • 42 14 AFP BRITISH Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine has postponed a visit to India due in February. Earlier reports suggested he had done so because of India's adverse reaction to activities by Indian Sikh nationalists in Britain. AFP
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    • 34 14 Bernama SOME 280 bird enthusiasts from Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia will take part in an international "Merbuk" singing contest in Segamat tomorrow. It is held in conjunction with Christmas. Bernama
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    • 49 14 UPI ITALIAN Prime Minister Bettino Craxi has announced a plan to increase the face value of the lira by a thousand-fold, Italian newspapers reported yesterday. He said the government had already drawn up a draft bill to put the plan into law. UPI
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    • 50 14 AFP JAPAN AIRLINES and All Nippon Airlines plan to fly 100 charter flights next year to carry tourists direct from Japan to Bali, an Indonesian official was quoted as saying yesterday. The plan will be discussed by the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Tourism soon.
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    • 37 14 AIR NEW ZEALAND resumed domestic flights yesterday after the airline said it had made a major concession to striking cabin crews. The strike, which began last Wednesday, stranded thousands of passengers. Reuter
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    • 36 14 AP THE PHILIPPINE economy is expected to suffer a 5.49 per cent decline in gross national product in 1984, the Philippine News Agency reported yesterday, quoting government figures. AP
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    • 36 14 AFP RESERVES of oil and gas have been discovered off the north coast of Malta by the Italian lEOC company, Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff told parliament on Saturday. AFP
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    • 53 14 Reuter BEIJING is optimistic over moves this year aimed at reunifying North and South Korea. The latest issue of the official Outlook magazine said that there were good prospects for a peaceful reunification so long as the two sides strived to ease the tensions in their relations and
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    • 59 14 Outlook tor today: Cloudy; showers in most oreas in the afternoon and early evening. Report tor 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Dec 22 at the airport Maximum temperature 29.9 Associated humidity 76 Minimum temperature 22.7 Associated humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 2.95 Rainfall in millimetres 36.5 Rainfall this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 180 15 AFP PRESIDENT Suharto has called on port administrators in Indonesia to step up work efficiency and operational standards. The president made the appeal when he commissioned a new ocean port, Pulau Baai Port, in Bengkulu, capital of Bengkulu Province in
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    • 486 15  -  By LINDA CHEE SINGAPORE'S merchant shipping fleet shrank by half a million gross tons and fell two steps back in the world shipping league, according to the Lloyd's Register of Shipping Statistical Tables 1984. In the year to June 30, 1984, the
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    • 898 15 Shipping Lin* P«g« Cot Shipping Lin* 1 Pm9* Col Afeo VI 3 Elmo M 4/5 Ahrenkiel Liner VI 5 Everett Lmes X 4 AC Toepter X 5 Evergreen IV 5 Alpha trons VI 4 Fargo Shpg V* 2 4/5 Andeka Shpg VI 5 Fesco VI Antoh Orient
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 127 15 THE FAR Eastern Freight Conference said the following currency adjustments factors will take effect from Jan 1, after its fourth quarterly review, based on average exchange rates between Dec 5 to 18 inclusive. From UK/Ireland, the CAF is adjusted to minus 2.79 per cent from a current
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      • 55 15 WEST German Economics Minister Martin Bangemann called on the European commmunity to cut subsidies for the shipbuilding industry. He said West German shipyards could be internationally competitive if inequalities caused by subsidies were avoided. Bangemann said individual community members should harmonise their subsidy levels to create
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      • 60 15 Reuter THE India Pakistan Bangladesh UK/Continent Conference (IPBC) is proposing a freight increase of up to 20 per cent on westbound exports from April to offset growing operational costs, conference sources said. They said a team led by IPBC chairman AJ Butterwick will arrive in India
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    • 691 16 THE SECOND-HAND market for conventional general cargo carriers showed an increase in activity in October after having been quiet since June. However, this was not accompanied by an increase in values, which continued their decline on the already depressed September levels, particularly in the more
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    • 189 16 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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    • 156 16 WAR risk insurers in London have roughly doubled their premiums for ships using Iran's Kharg oil terminal, following the latest attacks in the Gulf, Lloyd's executives said. They now average 4 per cent against previous two to 2.5 per cent. One insurer is asking as
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    • 1606 16 CHINESE breakers have gone on a buying spree over the past three months to beat the Jan 1, 1985 deadline when the government imposes a state tax for all ships imported for demolition. Prices have been driven upwards as a result, and an analysis made by Seatrade Week
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    • 1541 16 RATHER quiet chartering on Thursday was generally confined to the grain and time-charter sectors of the London freight market with rates mostly showing small irregular movements where changed, shipbrokers said. Grain from the US Gulf to Japan received U5514.50 compared with $14.75 previously, while the $10 paid from
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    • 235 17  -  By Kingsley Wood THE SOUTH Australian government has interested the European shipowning consortium, Gearbulk Ltd, in mounting an independent liner service between Port Adelaide and Japan/ Korea. Talks have been going on for some time and Gearbulk has commissioned the Melbourne-based Australian Shipping Consultants Pty
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    • 414 17 ATTITUDES of national and provincial governments will play a dominant role in port development as the industry gets to grips with the latest structures in container shipping, according to the influential Bremen Institute of Shipping. Economics. The importance of portrelated economic activity
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    • 428 17 THE PORT of Hamburg has reported two records for 1984 it handled more than one millin TEUs and containerised cargo climbed above the 10 million tonnes mark. Mr Helmuth Kern, chairman of the Association of Port Operators and chairman of Hamburger Hafen and Lagerhaus
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    • 257 17 Seatrade Week THE rapid emergence of ad hoc services in the trade between Japan and China has eroded the importance of Nitchu Teiko Bukai (NTB), the group within the Japan-China Marine Transportation Council (JCMTC) studying proposed official liner services between the
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    • 190 17 AMERICAN President Lines and Mitsui OSK Lines have agreed to let each other use their container terminals in Yokohama and Los Angeles. APL has a large container terminal in Los Angeles and a 155,000 sq metre terminal in Yokohama, while Mitsui recently finalised a contract
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    • 2680 22 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 805 23 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule L ocatio Laura Maersk 8502 24 12 84 2330 Maersk 51 1000-1130/1000-1130 Al/Bl E Pioneer 106 W A 25.12.84 0700 G Asia FSB 0700-0800/1800-1900 S4 K
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    • 1839 23 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFK.% African Shipping Agen< ies <Si \fr.>Furasla Unr Transgroup ,S| Ahrrnkiel liner Service Kim Shpg <Si Alfred C Twpirr Ck-eanus Shipping Ac«-n < h*s (S> Manntex Enterprise <PKi Alpac Inirasea <Si Bintang Shpg iKI.t
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    • 292 24 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Anjou Donam No 7 Friedrich Engels Lampung Liquid Bulk Encounter Nazli Qing Shan Simarito Toproto Edo Maru Grace Adelaide Ocean Pioneer Vesta Vishva Nandini 46 25/6 33/4 45A 15/6 31/2 18 27/8 8/9 19 8/9 15/6 35/6
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    • 303 15 UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) SEALORD SHIPPING AGENCIES ro Shtnlon Way 04 02C Marina Mou»e Singapore 0207 Tel *****94 Telri No RS 254 >9 CFSoHiceTPC 03 30 Tel *****31 and *****32 Terminal office TPC 03 29 Tel No *****90/*****93 NATIONAL LINE .».T'TTr-niH EXPRESS FULL CONTAINER SERVICE FROM JAPAN TAIWAN IK)N(.
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    • 1183 15 DependonAPL Regularly Scheduled Service Computerized Cargo Tracking Fast. Efficient. Modern m customized Service Term,nals Call your local API State of the Art Equipment representative today AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES n*r MAERSK LINE EXPORT TO USA. EUROPE. MIDDLE EAST. WEST AFRICA ASIA TO L .> I'AtTHC.C.UII ATI ANTICFAST( ANAIIA. INI ANIU'OINT! LAUST
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    • 379 16 r—#= FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE 1) Gburgl 2) H'burgl3) B »en 14) Rdamls) le HIP Kelang 2) Rdam I 3) H bura 4) Gburg I VESSEL •P Kelang Vessel B PQMM 25/12 9/1 1/1 U/l WTIMOA I 1/1 23/1 H DfLFT 15/1 30/1 22/1 6/2 N. KJMA I 29/1 13/2
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    • 431 16 m Y.S. LINE YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South WMt Feeder at Tokyo Pacific North West Feeder at Kobe Atlantic/Canada Feeder at Kobe Feeder ¥sl FMMLT ACE glory ace Modter VSI USD M yasmma a TOMB a II leney a Also accepting LCL Cargo for USA Ports only. Vessel
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    • 582 17 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping PteLtd Overseas Containers Limited MANSFIELD CONTAINER SHIPPING WISHES TO RECORD OUR THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO ALL OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR Ben Ocean A joint service of Ben Line, Blue Funnel and Glen Line
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    • 664 17 Franco Belgian Services f+r Xo*. ±4rrvi wv»A flr r -vi« >*ur Ltnjj) (MEMBER OF ACE CONSORTIUM' full coutmh> somcE to noon STORE P XELANGLeHarve I dam F"Sto«e Him FULL COOTMEBHP SETWCE FROM EWOPt (dam Wbarj BHaten In* leHam Plila* Spwe SE*N SEAS HOG) KOREAN lACEW TRM6NOKLO BMW ORENTAI CHEF koream
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    • 573 18 EES! FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO EUROtt VIA SUEZ "1 A Member ot the Act Conwtum Spare PKeUnj l«Ma»r* *dam Fjtowe H'buif Antwerp KOREAN IACEJM 27* 30/12 1/1 21/1 22/1 24/1 26/1 29/1 TRANSNORLD BRBGE 23* 6/1 8/1 28/1 29/1 31/1 2/2 5/2 ORE NT U CHEF 42* 13/1 15/1 4/2
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    • 907 19 V\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 VESSEL KOTA ABADI KOTA WARUNA KOTA WISATA KOTA MEGAH KOTA TIMUR KOTA WIRAWAN VOYAGE E-539 E-541 E 543 E-545 E-547 E-549 HONGKONG SINGAPORE LOADING FOR 29-1/1 26-27/12 10-12/1 IS-17/1 25-27/1 1-2/2 LUAUima run: u HOOEIOAH, DJIBOUTI,
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    • 433 19 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon Spore P.Keiant Pa-an V 77 25/26 Dec Pajan ¥81 29/31 Dec Phashwetyawywa V 246 1/2 lan 29/31 Dec Htoneywa Vl9B S/10 lan Loading for Rdam Hburg Antwerp Merpi V6S Wort \> BANK line 27/28 Dec EXPRESS
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    • 1517 20 SHI LA NX A/PAKISTAN/INDIA TERESA ¥1 USA CANADA ATLANTIC COAST FEEDER. MOTHER VESSEL ASIA STAR V3l HEW YORK MARU V 79 KANSAI PIONEER V4l YASHMA MARU MONTE RUBY V 25 KISO MARU ¥74 SPORE 6 Jan COLOMBO 12 Jan KARACHI 19 Jan BOMBAY 23 Jan PKLG PENANG S PORE T/S
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    • 437 20 /tc WISHING ALL OUR SHIPPERS FRIENDS MERRY X'MAS AND A HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR R JUMABMOV SONS (PTE L TO Singapore T»l 91 ?511 (5 AGE N T S ÜBAIDULI A u CO R JUMABMOV A SONS SDN BHD (M) SDN BHD Kulll tumpui P»n»ng T»l 970T55 »***** T»l *****6/B
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    • 649 21 SLNOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD I TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): S.S BRIDGE 48W... K I ACE UN 27W TDK BRIDGE 23W. K CHANCE 20W HK CONTAINER 43W. Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia K JACEJIN S pore Closing Times: FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) ECL Cargo 0600 30/12 LCL Cargo 1800 29/12
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    • 612 22 |[ci|iwial Container Lines 3 Sailings Weekly Reliable Regular Punctual RCL Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hrs. Mon, Tues Sat HINOOE KISEN CO. LTD MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINE I LTRA HKAVY LIFT C ARKIKR D VEB DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE CRMMTSCHAU 1/85 PASEWALK 2/SS •Abo acceptr{ for Rotterdam vu
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    • 26 22 FARGO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTE) L TD EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE SINGAPORE/BANGKOK 3 SAILINGS WEEKLY 7B Keppel Road 17-07 Tanjong Pagar Comple* Singapore 0208 Tel *****77, *****88 *****52
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 196 23 COMPANIA NAVIERA MARASIA, S.A. FULL CONTAWERSMT SEHWCE TO AMI FMM BARCELONA fOS GENOA AND IKSII Aho icccptinf c*|o for Ccuta. IMb. Will and Cananet wa Barcelona OBCHMGMG LOADING BARCELONA GENOA StOtt SfOKE f KELANG BARCELONA SEITUM No. 30 Dot S Dot 27 HAKATA MARU Dot Oft 31 lan It STRAITS
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    • 383 24 LUCKY SEAWAY SERVICES 89 Short Street, 10 07/08 Golden Woll Auto Centre, S pore, 0718 Tel *****55 Tlx ***** S PORE TO EAST ft WEST MALAYSIA Vessel ETA PK PNG SABAH FONG SIANG NO 1 In Port 3/1 FONG SIANG NO 2 Sailed In Port S'PORE TO COLOMBO TRUST UNO*
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