The Business Times, 30 January 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1185 60 CENTS
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  • 706 1  -  Proposal spearheaded by Ng Teng Fong By LEE HAN SHIH, AMY BALAN A NUMBER of major developers, led by Mr Ng Teng Fong's Far East Organisation, intend to form a consortium to acquire choice residential properties in Singapore which they consider to be
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  • 442 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG CHINA will only normalise relations with Vietnam if it withdraws all its troops from Cambodia. Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian laid down this condition yesterday: "So long as Vietnam agrees to change its policy on Cambodia, and so long as
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  • 148 1 Reuter THE REDEVELOPMENT of an old oil depot into an international oil storage terminal in eastern Sri Lanka has run into difficulties. Ceylon Petroleum Corp, which is responsible for the project, signed an agreement last April with a consortium comprising Oroleum (Far East) Pte
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  • 330 1 AS IF to make up for lost time, the Singapore stock market staged another powerful rally across the board yesterday. The BT Composite .Index gained a hefty 20 points to 722.31 while the Straits Times Industrial Index finished at 816.38, up 21.74 points.
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  • 384 1  -  By MONICA GWEE COLD STORAGE Property Investments Pte Ltd yesterday obtained a court order to auction off a tenant's stock to help cover the cost of several months rent. But the morning's auction of restaurant equipment and fittings raised less than
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  • 82 1 Reuter RICH and poor nations around the Pacific Rim yesterday set guidelines for a training programme as a first step towards regional cooperation. The guidelines call for training of young people from Asean and poorer Pacific countries such as Fiji and Samoa at exist- ing institutions,
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  • 375 1 Agencies OPEC MINISTERS have de- < cided to narrow the existing i price differential between heavy i and light crudes, effectively resulting in a lower average oil price. Indonesian oil minister and i conference president Subroto l said after a 2 -hour morning
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  • 151 1 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday began a two-day discussion with managers of overseas branches and offices of the Big Four local banks. The Big Four DBS Bank, United Overseas Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and Overseas Union Bank had recalled their overseas managers
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    • 254 1 Dr Goh and Minister Wu tour Jurong, Back Paga mm YEAR-END BONUSES paid OUR VIEW COMPANY NEWS to rank-ond-file workers in w cADkiiwrc at ru i most leading hotels have T that the pr jvate investor, cautioned by months of at uty Develbeen maintained in spite of share prices on
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 368 2  -  By LUCY NG YEAR-END BONUSES paid to rank-and-file workers in most leading hotels have been maintained in spite of continued deteriorating business for some hoteliers. The amount distributed, said industry sources, ranged from 1.25 months to 2.38 months, including the one-month annual wage supplement (AWS).
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    • 190 2 A SOUTH CHINA delegation has expressed interest in sending the country's students to the National University of Singapore for courses. The 11-member economic study delegation from the Fujian province in South China, led by Governor Hu Ping, was in Singapore last month at the
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    • 218 2 ENERGY CONSERVATION through better instrumentation and control in Senoko Power Station will be the subject of one of 16 papers to be presented at a conference on "Industrial and Building Energy Management" tomorrow. The importance of energy conservation to Senoko, which provides
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    • 92 2 IN AN EFFORT to entice staff to stay on, Boulevard Hotel Singapore has introduced a new work scheme. Under the six-month trial scheme, which started on Dec 3, last year, employees work for five days in a stretch and get a day off. Previously, they worked
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    • 355 3  -  By JAIME LYE THE NUMBER of tourists from Japan has continued to drop. Latest figures from the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) show a drop of 1.2 per cent in Japanese tourists for the first 11 months of 1984 compared with
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    • 99 3 THE PETROLEUM Act (Chapter 256) will come under the responsibility of the Minister for Home Affairs from Friday. According to an announcement yesterday, the director of the Singapore Fire Service has been appointed the licensing officer in the administration of the
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    • 352 3 THE VOCATIONAL Industrial Training Board's January 1985 intake exercise showed a strong demand for vocational training 14,304 or 98 per cent of school-leavers were channelled to, or applied for, VTTB courses. Of these, 57 per cent, or 8,287, were admitted into the VTTB this year,
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    • 383 3 WORK on the OUB Centre is progressing to schedule and the 63-storey tower block will be Asia's tallest building when it is finished at the end of next year. A consortium of Japanese contractors Kajima, HazamaGumi and Japan
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    • 202 3 GOVERNMENT hospitals will accept Carte Blanche cards (or payment of deposits and bills, starting next month, making it the second credit card to be accepted, after the Visa card. The five hospitals involved are Alexandra, Kandang Kerbau, Singapore General, Toa Payoh and Tan Tok
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    • 153 3 THE Singapore Armed Forces Microcomputer Club intends to organise an annual software writing competition to attract and cultivate potential talent among its members. It also wants to expand and upgrade its present facilities in response to the expanding number of users. Each
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    • 400 3  -  Skills fund ranks low among reasons given By TSANG SAU YIN ORGANISATIONS in Singapore do recognise the value of training and it would be a fallacy to think that companies train mainly because of the Skills Development Fund. Companies genuinely want to upgrade staff.
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    • 454 3 ONE OF THE noticeable trends in the training world today was the emphasis on practicality rather than theory, said Dr John Zenger, president of Zenger-Miller Inc, a company specialising in organisation and management education. In a talk on training for organisational
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    • 252 4  -  By GRACE YU A US manufacturer of pro- gramable controllers for factory automation is setting up a sys- <: terns and software engineering base in Singapore for its Southeast Asia market. Gould Inc has started to develop and modify software
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    • 71 4 COOKMATE (S) Pte Ltd, the franchise holder for Big Rooster, has pointed out that it owns the premises at #01-03 Orchard Shopping Centre where its fast food outlet is operating. Contrary to a report on Jan 26, it does not rent the premises from Mohan's
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    • 273 4  -  By YAP BOH HOON A NISSAN car dealer has filed a petition to wind up Top Car Rentals Pte Ltd for the default on payments for the purchase of two cars. Fulsan Motors Pte Ltd has taken the "credit winding up
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    • 161 4 THE SINGAPORE Armed Forces Reservists' Association (Safra) would like reservists to come forward and offer their services to the association, at whatever level they are prepared to volunteer. A survey is being conducted to gauge reservists' interest in volunteering their services. Forms aimed at determining
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    • 279 4  -  By LISA LEE CRAMPED site conditions have led to a space tussle between the contractors of Raffles City and the City Hall Mass Rapid Transit station. While wale on top of Raffles City's Westin Stamford, earlier held up by late steel shipments,
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    • 586 4 PETER G*s, an Australian company, is seeking agents and distributors for 1 its new range of shampoo and liquid soap. Called Night N Day, the shampoo and soap are supposed to be suitable for households, camping, commercial fishing, pleasure boating and situations where there is need to conserve
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 379 5 UPI UN SECRETARY -General Javi- 1 er Perez de Cuellar and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach held a second round of talks yesterday on occupied Cambodia with Mr j Thach cautioning that a hasty solution might prove "deformed". It was the United
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    • 323 5 AP THAILAND yesterday launched air strikes in support of marines battling Vietnamese troops who intruded into Thai territory along the Thai-Cambo-dian border. An official Thai military spokesman in Aranyaprathet said Thai marines intercepted an unspecified number of wellarmed Vietnamese troops about one km inside
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    • ECO-NOTES
      • 46 5 THAILAND plans an austerity national budget for the fiscal year 1985/86 ending September, frozen to around the current year's level of 213 billion baht. Finance Minister Sommai Hoontrakul said yesterday that the zero-growth budget reflects a government effort to cope with growing budget deficits.
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      • 60 5 TAIWAN'S state-owned Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) will soon sign a joint agreement with five companies on joint oil exploration in the Nauka oil field of Indonesia. CPC will invest US$4.B million in a joint venture with Conoco Inc, Texaco Inc and Chevron Corp of the US, Compagnie Francaise
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      • 41 5 SOUTH KOREA'S footwear exports in 1984 rose 10 per cent over the previous year to US$l.4 billion. The Korea Footwear Exporters Association said this accounted for 4.8 per cent of the nation's overall exports last year of $29.1 billion.
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      • 53 5 Agencies THE confidence of Canadian executives in the country's investment climate rose substantially to a four-year high in fourth quarter 1984. The Conference Board of Canada, in its latest quarterly survey, said executives are more hopeful that employment levels would rise and labour costs fall over the next
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    • 465 5 UPI JAPAN will remain the world's largest vehicle-producing nation for the sixth straight year in 1985 with output projections by its 11 major car-makers topping 12 million units. Industry sources in Tokyo said yesterday that spurred by brisk demand for fuel-efficient compact cars
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    • 296 5 NYT PETER BRANT, the former Kidder, Peabody A Co stockbroker who has pleaded guilty to fraud for arranging to trade on advance information about the Wall Street Journal's 'Heard on the Street' column, testified on Monday that he made plans last March to
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    • 544 6 Restructuring of maturities and new money needed Bernama COMMERCIAL BANKS have a cnicial role to play in any constructive and meaningful solution to the international debt crisis, the deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund has said. The banks would have
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    • 66 6 Riggs director resigns AFP A piRECTOR of one of Washington's biggest banks, Riggs National, resigned on Monday over his connections with South Africa. James Symington, 57, a former Democratic Missouri Congressman, quit after a storm of protests from anti-apartheid campaigners over his appointment. He said he quit because it would
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    • 271 6 Reuter PRESIDENT Reagan will report to Congress this week on alleged Soviet arms-control violations. Kenneth Adelman, director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), said yesterday that the report would go to Capitol Hill from the White House late this week. Mr
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    • 183 6 UPI THE PHILIPPINE military appealed to a special court yesterday to prevent a general and 22 other officers and soldiers from being Jailed pending trial on charges of murdering opposition leader Benigno Aquino. The hearing was the first since armed forces chief General
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    • 228 6 AP AMERICAN Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger has warned against any move to "shortchange" the US military buildup as a way to reduce the US government deficit, saying that "the Soviets will be watching". In a nationally televised speech that is unusual for an
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    • 175 6 Reuter AFTER an acrimonious first day of their emergency meeting in Geneva, Opec oil ministers yesterday resumed their task of seeking a pricing formula acceptable to all 13 member states. Officially, the first day's discussions succeeded in narrowing the options
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    • 100 6 UPI SRI LANKA's ruling United National Party has accused India i of carrying out a secret jde facto invasion" by armiMflAd training Tamil The statement on came six hours after India repatriated seven Sri Lankan sailors whose boat was detained by the Indian
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 64 6 NEGOTIATIONS between Britain's striking miners and the state-run Coal Board beginning yesterday could produce a settlement to end the country's 10-month coal strike by next week. Miners leader Arthur Scargill and Coal Board chairman lan Macgregor would not be attending the talks, which were to draw up an
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      • 68 6 THE SYRIAN Parliament has nominated President Hafez Assad for a third term and set Feb 10 as the date of a national referendum to confirm him as president. He will be the only candidate. The action, taken unanimously as the Parliament wound up a two-day meeting on Monday,
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      • 60 6 THE United States will supply India with high technology to manufacture computers because it is the right place for American investment, US ambassador Harry Barnes said. He told American business- men and Indian government officials at an electronics exhibition that a memorandum of understanding involving transfer of
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      • 69 6 HAVING rehabilitated Confucius' reputation, China is now planning to rebuild his hometown. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that the old section of Qufu, the Shangdong provincial town where China's greatest sage was born in 5518 C, will be refashioned to boost local tourism. Factories and government offices
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      • 68 6 US OIL MAGNATE Armand Hammer is acting as a gobetween with Moscow in Israeli efforts to renew ties the Soviet Union severed 18 years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said on Monday., "We approached the Kremlin on the 40th anniversary of their victory over the Nazis through the
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      • 52 6 Reuter IRAN said it crushed a new Iraqi offensive on the southern Gulf War front, inflicting heavy losses in men and equipment. Iran's national news agency Irna said Iranian forces repelled an overnight Iraqi attack on the southern tip of Majnoon Island and were in full control of
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      • 56 6 FORMER New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon was left in the cold yesterday when new opposition National Party leader Jim McLay named his shadow Cabinet. Mr Muldoon, who was the Western world's longest-serv-ing leader until David Lange's Labour government defeated him in a snap election last
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      • 74 6 Agencies SRI LANKA's Minister of National Security had talks yesterday with US Secretary of State George Shultz but said he did not ask for military aid to help his country combat Tamil separatist guerillas. "The problem in Sri Lanka is an internal matter for Sri Lanka,"
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    • 498 6 NYT THE REAGAN administration now predicts significantly lower inflation this year than it had been expecting as recently as a month ago, according to economists who have helped prepare the forecast that will be part of the President's new budget proposal. The administration has made
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 210 7 STANDARD CHARTERED BANK has raised the limit on daily cash withdrawals through its automated teller machines (ATMs) to $2,000, bringing it to the marimnm offered by only one other bank in Singapore Citibank. Standard Chartered's ceiling withdrawal used to be $1,000, which
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    • 1470 7  -  Experience a useful teacher in assessing market conditions Ignorance, greed, fear and hope are the four enemies a trader has to contend with on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. In the third of a four-part report for BT, DAVID GABRIEL explains the technicalities involved in dealing
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 726 7 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed steady yesterday to slightly higher against major currencies after fluctuating within a narrow range in quiet trading. The dollar closed unchanged at New York's 254.05/15 yen and at 2.6580/95 Swiss, francs and slightly firmer at 3.1625/35 marks against 3.1615/25. Sterling, which firmed slightly
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    • Article, Illustration
      304 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposits closed steady yesterday at firmer opening levels in quiet afternoon trading. j Short-dates firmed be- j tween 3/16 and 3/8 point at the start due to a higher US federal funds rate and remained at these levels with overnight closing at 8-11/16 8-9/16 and week
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    • 121 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by 1-7/8 point from Monday to close at 5 per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate fell by 1/16-point while the two and three-month term rates fell by 1/8-point each. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Offer Bid
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    • 195 7 Interbank rates at 3pm Local Man to ono unit of foreign irdey roee parity currency. -21.85 US dolor 2.2035 2.2045 2.8196 Sterling pound 2.4480 2.4514 7 3469 -66 68 Australian dolor 1.7987 1.8010 3.4286 -47.54 NZ dolor 1.0332 I 0352 3 4286 -69.87 Conadkm dolor 1.6635 1.6649 3.4206
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    • 294 7 BA Futures Inc EURODOLLAR futures opened lower yesterday than the CME close. The March contract opened three ticks lower at 91.21 and traded down to close at the day's low of 91.16. Sentiment was still slightly bearish and the support level at 91.15 could be tested again. Currency futures
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    • 175 7 HONGKONG The metal closed near the day's low in very quiet trading yesterday with most market participants sidelined ahead of the second day of Opec's ministerial meeting. Gold closed at U*****.70/302.20 an ounce compared with New York's $302.80/303.30 finish and the 1299.60/300.10 close here on Monday. Local gold added
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  • FEATURES
    • 506 8 THE ÜBIQUITOUS bull which has been pushing stockmarkets to record highs round the globe has finally come to Singapore. The stockmarket has gone up on four consecutive sessions, with the Straits Times Index putting on 51 points or six per cent in moderately heavier
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    • 1310 8  -  By MICHAEL ROSS UPI SHORTLY after Prime Minister 1 Yasuhiro Nakasone's re-election last November, the Foreign Ministry received a secret request from the Japanese leader's closest aides. The aides felt something dramatic was needed to polish Nakasone's image, tarnished by an unexpected electoral challenge
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    • 888 8  -  By JOHN ELLIOTT FT "I ESTIMATE that between half and 2 per cent of a project's cost can be paid out in smallish sums to junior civil servants, to get files moving and gain information. Then, maybe 5 per cent or more
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 490 9  -  By JEFFREY TSANG THE FIRST of a series of competitions to promote water sports in Singapore will be held on Saturday. This tournament, for novices to water-skiing, is organised by the Matilda Beach Resort, a boatel in Punggol, in response to the tourism task force's
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    • 261 9 AFP RAY REARDON miscounted in a snooker match for the first time in his life, but still cruised to a quarter-final place in the £150,000 Benson and Hedges Masters tournament at Wembley in London, on Monday. Reardon, now 52 and the Masters winner
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    • 307 9 UPI RUSSIA, Bulgaria and Japan won the first three gold medals on Monday night as the gymnastics competition got under way at the Australia Games, held in Melbourne. In what was some of the best gymnastics seen in Australia since the 1956 Olympic
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    • 328 9 AP RACING SUPERSTAR Mario Andretti and former world driving champion Alan Jones of Australia will compete in 1985 with backing from Chicago-based consumerproducts conglomerate Beatrice Companies Inc, it was announced on Monday. Andretti, who was last year's PPG Indy car world
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    • 272 9 AFP WALTER ROHRL and Christian Geistdorfer of West Germany, bidding for a record fifth victory, led this year's Monte Carlo rally in their Audi Sports Quattro as surviving cars tackled the opening overnight stages of the marathon 1,700-km "common run". But they were
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    • 242 9 AFP KODAK, the international photographic company, announced on Monday a £2-million package to sponsor athletics events in Britain over the next five years. The deal makes Kodak Britain's biggest athletics sponsor and brings total athletics backing announced in the past three months to almost £5 million.
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 351 10 UNION CARBIDE, the US chemicals group at the centre of the controversy over the Bhopal, India, toxic gas tragedy, has taken a US$lB million (139.6 million) or 25 cents a share charge in the fourth quarter related to the disaster which killed
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    • 134 10 FT BANKAMERICA CORP, which has been struggling to reverse a four-year-old decline in earnings, has suspended several employees and launched a major investigation into US$37 million losses incurred in certain bank operations. The San Francisco-baaed group, which earned $73 million in its final quarter,
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    • 274 10 Reuter SECONDARY stocks on Monday tied the record for the longest winning streak in Wall Street history, enabling the stock market to extend last week's explosive rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fluctuated wildly throughout the session but closed up 1.77 points
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 333 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed around the day's lowest levels in hectic trading yesterday as the market seemed to be entering a long-due consolidation phase. The Hang Seng Index lost 36.02 to close at 1,338.87. Turnover shrank to HK1338.03 million compared with Monday's $403.06 million. Ov>»ng Kong lost 50 cents
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    • 362 11 TOKYO: Share prices closed higher in hectic trading yesterday as investors actively selected domestic industry issues at the start of February transactions. The market average, which rose 62.33 on Monday, added another 44.21 to close at 11,843.07, on volume of 570 million shares against 350 million on Monday. The
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    • 119 11 MANILA: Share prices closed generally firmer in quiet trading yesterday. The Commercial and Industrial Index was up 0.06 to 103.85, the Mining Index rose 5.60 to 733.57, and the Oils Index was unchanged at 0.597. JAM 29 Ac Of* Mining Pasas 0.0016 unch Morataai Oriantal B Phi Ovarsaos PMax
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    • 340 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed firmer across the boards yesterday on heavy volume with industrial issues leading the way. Near the close, the All Ordinaries Index was 3.1 points firmer at 758.0 points and the All Industrials Index was up 4.0 at 1142.9. National turnover totalled 40.99 million shares worth
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    • 140 11 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed lower in quiet trading yesterday. The Book Club Index fell 0.58 point to 125.85 and declines led advances by nearly two to one. turnover dropped to 275,773 shares worth 65.2 million baht from Monday's 693,427 shares worth 154.3 million baht. JAM 29 Mm Sram City
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    • 81 11 Jon 29 Bar* Seoul Won 630 -6 Hyundai Const Hyundai Motor kal 920 627 535 unch +7 +5 ChohoungBk 605 682 +5 •4 Korea fir»t 700 1799 -20 +19 Poihn Ind 510 -5 Korea Shp 361 -II 520 17 Lucky Ltd 716 -7 618 +2 785 -5 Dong Ah
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    • 57 11 Reuter PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL has reached an agreement with four Japanese companies to establish a pay television service in Japan, in which Premiere would have a 52 per cent interest. Premiere is owned by Columbia Pictures, Time Inc's Home Box Office, Warner Communications Inc, Twentieth Century-Fox Film
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    • 360 11 NYT THE KOREAN government is expected to authorise three new open-ended trust funds this year, scaled at US$3O million each, that will allow foreigners to invest indirectly in Korean securities. The new funds continue a gradual process of liberalising the market and broadening
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    • 138 11 Reuter ISUZU MOTORS, Japan's second largest truck maker, has signed a 75-billion yen contract to sell trucks and truck manufacturing technology to China Automotive Industry Corp. A company spokesman said it would ship 40,000 trucks of two to nine tonnes capacity to
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    • 168 11 Bernama THE SAMSUNG group, one of I South Korea's leading conglomer- i ates, received an offer from Petronas earlier this month to j develop jointly an oilfield in Sarawak, sources in the industry and the South Korean Energy and Re- sources Ministry said. While negotiating
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    • 92 11 -AFP TOYOTA MOTOR CORP, Japan's No 1 carmaker, plans to invest a record 260 billion yen in calendar 1985 for up-dating its production facilities. Tokyo financial daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said the planned investments are aimed at strengthening the Toyota car's international competitiveness against the
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 736 12 FT SPECULATION that the current crop of US soybean will yield sharply lower oil content has been fending off a full-scale sell-off in world vegetable oil markets, according to European trade sources. US soybeans normally yield 18 to 18 x /i per cent oil
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    • 99 12 (centsAg, 1-ton pollen) February 85 March 85 (current mth) (forward mth) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Seller* Buyers Seders SSR20 ***** 165.SON 165.50 167.50N SSR 50 161.50 163 SON 163 50 165 SON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 191 50 193 SON ***** 195 50N SMR
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    • 133 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed slightly higher yesterday but was off the day's highs on late profit-taking after earlier steadiness after the rise in Chicago soyfutures. In February, south and central regions rose MJ2.50 to $1,187.50 per tonne. The refined palm oil market was dull as most
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    • 137 12 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed higher on Monday but was off the day's highs as traders took profits late, eroding some of the afternoon's gains. Prices ended 12 Vi to 7V4 US cents a bushel higher. Values surged on bullish enthusiasm following USDA's lower-than-expect-ed estimate
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    • 124 12 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed quietly lower on Monday under pressure from commercial selling. Prices closed IVi to Vi US cents a bushel lower, with March finishing VA cent lower at $3.45 Vi. Consistent selling by Cargill of about 1.3 million bushels of March weighed
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    • 196 12 SINGAPORE The market closed marginally lower yesterday with February One RSS buyers quoted at 168.00 cents per kg, down 0.25 from Monday. The morning session lost 0.25 cent after fluctuating narrowly in quiet trading. Prices were little changed in thin afternoon trading due to lack of interest. MALAYSIA The
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    • 302 12 RAS prices («s fob «bote*) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers 5ellen Int 1 RSS Prompt 167.75 168 25 166.50 167 50N Int 1 RSS Feb 85 168 50 169 00 168 00 168.50 Int 1 RSS Mar 85 171.50 172.00 171.75 172.00 Int 2 RSS 158 00
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    • 1117 12 COFFEE Robusta futures traded quietly on Monday, but moved above early afternoon lows, as sterling weakened against the dollar. Contracts finished £2 a tonne below to £11 above last Friday's close. March traded last at £2,408, down £2 from Friday, but above its low of £2,396. During the
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    • 188 12 AP PRESIDENT SUHARTO warned Japan that Indonesia's plywood industry would face a difficult situation if Tokyo continues to impose high import tariffts on his nation's plywood. The President issued this warning in a meeting last Saturday with a delegation of the
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    • 88 12 THE Kaala Lam par Tin Market price stayed at the lateraatieaal TI» Agreement fleer level of M 529.15 per kg yesterday ea eeatianing sappert by tke bafler steek manager. Sterling's reeevery against tke Malaysian dellar saw tke Kaala Lam par premiam ever Ugk grade ea tke Leaden narrow
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    • 156 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,900 Blue Phoenix 2Cs 3,000 Blue Phoenix 32'» 3,600 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,850 Girded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21'* 3,300 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32'$ 4,600 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,800 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 149 12 Chinese Produce Exchange Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 477.30 (Setters' noon cIomtk 1 prices on Jon Nutmeg ***** 29. SV100 kg) 110 FOB NSW Coconut oil B W FOB NSW 281 00 Bulk FOB 160.00 Gambier Old drum FOB 173.00 FOB NSW 330.00 New drum FOB 177 00 Copra
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    • 279 12 Singapore A-1 speciol C-1 special C-l Ordinary 177 unq unq (S$/kilo, ea-godown) Thoi white Loonzain 100% 100% 1st class (kangaroo) new crop 0.96 first grade 100% second grade 100% third grade zS unq 100% 2nd class 0.70 Parboiled 1 100% 3rd doss 0.65 5% 10% 227 222 25% new
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  • SHARE INFORATION
    • 4224 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market surged ahead yesterday, making it the fourth consecutive day of gains. The BT Composite Index soared 20 points to 722.31 while the Straits Times Industrial Index jumped 21.74 points to 816.38. Volume was heavy at 21.46 million units, making
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    • 241 13 A SINGAPORE Rises L M 50< 262 S P H 685 Alkod Choc 250 Toaa COM SO* 655 MBoniung 605 Spec* Loud 316 Soo V*» 255 Doff Do* 434 Poo-El 50< 295 Kotoigh 400 Sri Hortomos 244 Gontingi 535 M CoWot 470 Moonum Cory* 330 36 30
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    • 447 13 BUYERS continued to dominate trading on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday and share prices closed higher across the board in heavy trading. The buying was encouraged by Monday's strong upsurge and expectations of the traditional Chinese New Year rally. Right from the start,
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    • 4082 13 SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL Ac mo (1.618 I.62SHD I 60(4) I 61 (3) 1 62 (2) I 63 Alcom (1.368 1-395) (1) 1.33 (5) 1 34 (6) 1 35 (5) I 38 (2) 138 Allied Choc (2 466X1)2.42(4) W Steel 50« (1275) (U) 1 18(6)
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 279 14 HOCK LOCK SIEW A REASSESSMENT of financial views and investment positions is now probably going on in the research departments of many local, Malaysian and London stockbroking firms and fund managers. The recent cautiousness bred by falling market trends is now slowly but surely giving way to an
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    • 204 14 Managers' prices Second B'putro 4.93 4.98 Third B'putro 4.00 4.05 Fourth B'putro 4.38 4 43 Fifth B'putro 3.01 3.06 Sixth B'putro 2.91 2.96 for Jan 30 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 2.29 2.43 The Savings Fund 1.63 1.73 Seventh B'putro (A) 2.04 2.09 S'pore Prog Fund 0.97 1.03
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    • 491 14 THE INDUSTRIAL boom in Pasir Gudang, Johore, is expected to stimulate the growth of Taman Pasir Putih, the second township project of United Estate Projects (UEP). Taman Pasir Putih, which UEP plans to build over 12 years to accommodate a population of 40,000, reflects the
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    • 269 14 Bernama TEXTILE CORP of Malaya Bhd (TCM), has received shareholders' approval on its proposal to change its corporate name to Grand United Holdings Bhd. Its executive chairman, Mr Tan Koon Swan, said the approval was given at the company's extraordinary general meeting
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    • 97 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Tuesday 1143.4 Hong Seng Index Friday 1138.6 Week ogo 1133.5 Tuesday 1338.87 Monday 1374.89 NEW YORK Week ago 1372 62 Dow Jones TOKYO Monday 1277.83 Friday 1276.06 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1261.37 T uesday *****.07 Standord and Poors Monday *****.86 Week ago ***** 12
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    • 1026 14 NYT THE NEW YORK stock market has always known sudden moves. Lately, however, buying waves have hit the market with such force that share prices have soared toward the stratosphere, only to stop their rise a day or two later. While any kind
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    • 2888 14 INDUSTRIALS 0 A Choc (2.806 2.905) (4) 278 0 00)2 70 0)2 85 C AMO (3.426) 00) 330 (6) 3.32 C (6) 3 34 3 Alcom 0 .555) (6) 152 (38) 153 C 08) 1 54(4) 1 56(9) 1.55 AISB (4 006 4 045)0)4 00
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    • 921 15 HOCK LOCK SIEW FOR FOUR successive days, c share prices have run up I smartly on the local stock i market, bringing back the i smiles to many long-drawn 1 faces. Yet, even with the 51point rise on the blue chip- t
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    • 987 15 SHARE prices were marked lower at the outset yesterday with the market remaining highly nervous. Early trading volume was small with Monday's two-point base rate rise to 14 per cent helping sterling to open firmer. The FTSE 100 share index opened 8.8 down at 1257.0. Industrial leaders showed
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    • 792 15  -  Earnings up 1.6 and 9.9 pc respectively By NAJEEB JARHOM EARNINGS AT City ments Ltd and King's Hotel Ltd have held up well against the weakness in the property and hotel industries. City Dev, the property arm of the Hong Leong group, managed
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    • 549 15 FT HONGKONG LAND, the territory's largest property company which is deeply indebted, is to go ahead with the HK$75O million third tower of its prestigious Exchange Square development in Hongkong's central business district. The decision comes on the .heels of a keenly-needed cash
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    • 206 15 Reuter GUINNESS PEAT Group PLC has conditionally agreed to buy i 34.33 million ordinary shares, or i about 23 per cent, in Britannia < Arrow Holdings PLC from < United Kingdom Temperance j and General Provident Institution for Guinness Peat shares worth about £36
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    • 278 15 A STRATEGIC block of shares in Gadek (Malaysia) Bhd is believed to have changed ownership recently. Sources say the stake that was sold is held by Syarikat Permodalan dan Perusahaan Perak Bhd (SPPPB), a bumiputra group which has been taken over by Idris
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 55 15 ft IU f iMS t 5 1 LONDON A PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY BERHAD wish to announce that as from 30 January 1985 we will be operating from our own premises at: 1 Goldhill Plaza Podium Block #02-39 Newton Road Singapore 1130 Telephone: *****88 Telex. ***** LONPAC Postal Address: Maxwell Road
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    • 179 15 Malaysian Tobacco Company Berhad NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of Malaysian Tobacco Company Berhad will be held at the Negara Room, Kuala Lumpur Hilton, Jaian Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 6th March 1985 at 11.30 A.M. for the transaction of the
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  • 493 16  -  By BOEY KIT YIN NIXDORF COMPUTER is illvesting an additional $35 million in Singapore to expand its production capacity and product lines. The West German electronics company, which makes computer peripherals such as keyboards, visual display terminals, printers and needleheads, is also working
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  • 414 16  -  By WALTON MORAIS AS WE HAD predicted, M Marimuthu finally broke a oneyear tournament drought by winning the inaugural Singapore Professional Golf Association monthly medal competition at Changi yesterday. The evergreen pro overcame a three-stroke opening round deficit to tournament
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  • 282 16 IN A RARE exhibition of parental pride, Dr Goh Keng Swee, recognised as the father of Jurong, yesterday showed his creation to visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian. "This is the first time that Dr Goh has personally accompanied a foreign dignitary to
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  • 488 16  -  By BRIAN GOMEZ STRICTER banking regulations in Singapore, the region's key financial centre, is expected to provide a major talking point at today's meeting of central bank heads in Kota Kinabalu. Somewhat ironically, this could be the most positive regional feature to come under
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  • 260 16 THE ASSOCIATION of Banks in Singapore has hailed the government's intention to allow freer play to the private sector as "realistic and far-sight-ed". The chairman of the ABS, Mr Allan Ng Poh Meng, last night extended the association's "unreserved welcome" to the
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  • 338 16 ALTHOUGH a late starter in the quality control circle (QCC) movement, the banking sector has shown considerable progress in the field last year. But any further progress could be threatened by lack of encouragement from management. The Malayan Banking experience defined
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  • 456 16  -  By ALVIN TAY THE RAPID annual increase in loans granted by banks and finance companies since 1978 was finally checked last year, according to latest figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Bank loans (including bills financing) have been rising at an annual rate
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  • 56 16 WALL STREET stock prices were lower in early trading yesterday as the market showed signs of consolidating some recent gains. The Dow Jones industrial average was down about IV4 points to around 1276. Overall, losers led gainers about four to three. Volume was about seven million shares
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  • 44 16 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his wife left for Hongkong yesterday. They will be away until Feb 5. During Mr Lee's absence, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Goh Chok Tong will be the Acting Prime Minister.
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  • LATE FILE
    • 46 16 Reuter ABOUT 7,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the sea after an Indonesian oil barge sank off north-east Kalimantan, Borneo, a spokesman for the Pertamina said yesterday. Company workers were trying to contain the spill which occurred on Saturday. Reuter
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    • 61 16 Reuter AN EIGHT-WEEK strike at Ireland's central bank has been called off, and normal working is due to resume today, union sources said. The 650 workers called off their action after the bank agreed to pay a 4.5 per cent increase from last Oct 1
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    • 43 16 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION presented a draft treaty on the non-use of force at the opening of the fifth session of the 35-nation European Disarmament Conference, which is discussing ways of reducing the risk of war in Europe. Reuter
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    • 43 16 UPI AFGHAN FIGHTERS attacked the major Soviet garrison north, of Kabul, killing an estimated 150 Russian soliders. "Guerillas attacked a large garrison at Bagram and approximately 150 Soviet soliders were killed,", a Western diplomat said, quoting Afghan sources. UPI
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    • 35 16 NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister David Lange said yesterday the row between New Zealand and the United States over his country's ban on nuclear warships in its ports was nearer to resolution.
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    • 33 16 AP ELEVEN DAYS after a domestic crash in which 38 people died, China's state airline, CAAC, announced that it is scrapping 15 out-of-date aircraft and acquiring 19 new passenger planes.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 57 16 Outlook for today: Cloudy, with occasional light rain and drizzle, clearing in this late morning. Report for 25 hours prior to 7.30pm on Jon 29 at the airport: Maximum temperature 27.9 Associated humidity 82 Minimum temperature 23.0 Associated humidity 93 Hours of sunshine 0.95 Rainfoll in millimetres 24.0 Rainfall this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 195 17 A 25-MAN delegation from the French port of Le Havre will be visiting Singapore to promote its facilities. The two-day visit, from Feb 4, is organised by the Port of Le Havre Authority and the port users association, Union Maritime Et
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    • 510 17  -  By JUNE LIM "WE NEED several legs to stand on," said Mr Ralf Sundman, managing director of Bore Line. The company which has been standing on one leg the North European trade has decided to "develop" a few more to ensure a more steady
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    • 831 17 Shipping Uw 1 >eg« Col Afea VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner VI 5 AC Toepfer X 5 Alphotrans VI 4 Andeko Shpg VI 1 Antoh Orient Line X 1 ANL 1 1 APC Line V 4 APL M 4/5/6 Arrow Lines X 4 ASCL 1 Astobroker V 5
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    • POR SIDES
      • 49 17 WEST German-Danish engine manufacturing group MAN-B&W has been shortlisted to reengine the Cunard passenger vessel Queen Elizabeth 2. Group president Mr Gerrit Koerte said recenly MAN-B&W regarded it as a "success" to be on the shortlist for the contract, which could be worth up to US$67 million.
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      • 47 17 DOZENS of Soviet cargo ships were trapped in the Gulf of Tartary between the Soviet Far East coast and Sakhalin Island, Tass News Agency said. Two icebreakers have been sent to carve escape paths through thick ice floes for the trapped freighters, it said.
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      • 110 17 THE INSTITUTE of London Underwriters says that the 1984 underwriting year was characterised by the high number of tanker casualties resulting from the continuing hostilities between Iran and Iraq. The year saw an unusually high number of casualties involving passenger vessels, including the 10,736 grt Scandinavian Sea
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    • 848 18 Seatrade THE MAJOR problem currently facing container repairers is not so much the unprofessional operator as the financial restrictions on the owners. Container lessors and shipping companies are looking critically at every item of their budget, and container repair bills have come under scrutiny. The repair
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    • 1867 18 ACTIVE chartering of vessels to carry iron cargoes to the continent featured the freight market on Monday with grain fixing on a very small scale, shipbrokers said. Ore from Seven Islands to Rotterdam made US$4.lO against $4.25 previously, while $4.30 was agreed from Monrovia to the Netherlands and
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    • 872 18 AFP MODERATE fixing from I Chinese and Indian < charterers featured in an otherwise quiet freight market last week, where rumours of Soviet business still circulated. US grain movements to Japan were directed via the Pacific coast, where charterers found tonnage more freely available. One 50,000-tonner accepted US$7.9O/ton
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    • 207 19 MARICHEM '85, the sixth in a series of conferences on the marine transportation, handling and storage of bulk chemicals, will be held in the Kensington Exhibition Centre, I*ondon, from June 25-27, 1985. The programme for the meeting has, inevitably, a strong opening emphasis on Annex II
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    • 377 19 Lloyd's List SHIPOWNERS in key sectors of the trans-Pacific trades have shown their determination to exploit the current liner market buoyancy by declaring a 15 per cent rate increase. Four conferences including the 15 biggest shipping lines in the market will put
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    • 266 19 THE government-backed Sang Thai Navigation plans to invest about 10 million baht in a new ship with a deadweight of between 3,000 to 5,000 tonnes. The decision to replace older tonnage was made after the company sold two old 1,200 dwt
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    • 172 19 Reuter IRAQI warplanes hit a large naval target in the Gulf on Monday, a military spokesman said in Baghdad. All aircraft returned safely to base, he said. The spokesman did not say where the strike took place and there was no immediate independent confirmation
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    • 193 19 Reuter DELEGATES from 100 countries resumed talks in Geneva, aimed at tightening up the rules governing flags of convenience for merchant vessels. But there was little hope they would reach agreement. Lamine Fadika, the Ivory Coast Merchant Navy Minister and conference chairman, said in
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    • 191 19 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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    • 3609 24 3®aß[D(jEß 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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    • 646 25 terminal" RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrivnl for LCL movement Ship Sea Hawk Bristol Maru Frankfurt Exp B Penaga E Humanity Nik Golovan Niaga 21 Anna Maersk Takari1 Falstria Pasewalk Hoegh Duke B Butang Tanah Air E Pioneer Kowloon Bay Voy 8505 52
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    • 1797 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B IKK* African Shipping Agency (St Afro-Enrasla Line Transgroup «Si. Ahrenkiel liner Service Kim Shpg (St Alfred C Toe pier Oceanus Shipping Agen nes (Si Marintex Enterprise (PK) All**- Intrasea (Si Bintang Shpg (KLt Island
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    • 433 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Iran Elham J Chelmonskl Kaenary Kapitan Smirnov Makmur Ned Manila Regent Ranger Banglar Swapna Frances Bay Kim Soon Li Postojna Shoun Dynasty Straits Venture Suah 10/11 33/4 27/8 46/7 21W 44 19 18 23/4 22 46 15/6
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    • 445 17 **5 S# *>/ m 5/^ Pubkshad by TIMES BOOKS INTERNATIONAL Times Centre 1 New Industrial Road Spore 1953 T«l: *****44 A member of »r>e limes o»gariiK*ion Ss6 50 mm COHTAINER lessors are looking critically at ovary item of their budget, and container repair bills have come under scrutiny II SHIPOWNERS
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    • 414 18 <«fe< <M Wll, To Eafoot FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE From Europe 1) lfectes| 2) Rdam |3) H"bwg|4) Gburg VESSEL j1) Gburg 2) Hbwg 3) B»en 0 <*»" W S* S* M S* S* 3|/l SaM Sailed S»W S*W Si*< 9/2 6/2 Sailed Sailed Sarfed SaM SaM 13/2 M M W
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    • 1124 19 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd occ Overseas Containers Limited STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok CONTAINERSHff sraviCf TO/FROM BANGKOK CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT FRANKFURT EXPRESS KOWIOON BAT HAMBURG EXPRESS KASUGA MARU lOH 10 EXPRESS CARDIGAN BAT OSAKA BAT LIVERPOOL BAT lOKTO BAT
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    • 535 20 rage iv JK.&.line FULLY CONTAINERISED SER VICE tan* w*t Spare Maun( lltHam R'dam Fitawt H'bwi Antvwp 28/2 4/3 14/3 16/3 QCVNJER PAU. 43W CWVALKR RO2E 42* KTTIN CRYSTAL 2m MKTDIinCX 5N SKN SEAS BUDGE 49W 19/3 21/3 23/3 26/3 21/3 30/3 21/4 22/4 25/4 ALSO LOADING FOR BREMERHAVEN fROM EUROPf
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    • 1045 20 o EVERGREEN Full Container Service Round-The-World East Bound Service (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/W MED./FE MIC KSC KLC PUS OS* TTO KSN CHS NYC BAL INC FU RDM AN» UM *C fVU ***** 3/2 7/2 9/2 10/2 13/2 15/2 U/2 0/3 12/3 14/3 10/3 27/3 21/3 31/3 31/3 2/4 C/ 4 2S/4 EYE* SUK
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    • 255 20 mSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD Wil f\l ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES Singapore Lm*n| tar Safed B. Urn B Khomtn PORT KELANG PENANG SINOSE MARITIMC PTE LTO TEL ******4/7 *****70 MALOSE MARITME SON BHD Id *****2 3 MALAYSIA TRADE t TRANSPORT LTD Tel ***** t ***** TO PAPUA
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    • 938 21 onirrmu iiiwuM) j V\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street. 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel *****33 VESSEL KOTA MEGAH KOTA TIMUR KOTA WIRAWAN KOTA SINGA KOTA PUSAKA KOTA WANGSA VOYAGE E-545 E-547 E-549 E -551 E 553 E-SSS EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES HONGKONG SINGAPORE LOADING FOR TAMATAVE, MAPUTO. BEIRA. MOMBASA.
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    • 693 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE WITH LIBERTY TO CALL AT RED SEA PORTS PENANG FED VIA SINGAPORE KkJJEBSEN LINE NEW ZEALAND SINGAPORE PORT KEIANG K lUMPUR PENANG BEN LINE BENDER A BENDER* BENDER* TEI *****44 TEI *****1 TEL *****5 TEI ***** d S.M.S. PRIVATE LIMITED TELEX: ***** SMSPI
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    • 589 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINT Far East S'pOre Service FuM Busan Yokohama Kobe Kaofouif HonfkonjS pore TjPrioA (M> COM) V li HB 17/1 MAIAPAMT *17 HB 30 1 19/1 22/1 24/1 7/2 9/2 2/2 7/2 13/2 U/2 NtfX PRE-CHINESE NEW YEAR LOADER WEST BOUND Sport Bremen Adam Hambur{ Antaet MFRAPI
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    • 371 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION Loading for Rangoon pore P.KeUnf Penanf Spore Sated Saied 1/5 Feb 9/10 Feb 7/1 Feb BANK LINE !H .if.': SPORE R'DAM HULL HMBG MEADOWBANK 9 Mor 5 Apr 10 Apr 13 Apr IVYBANK 12 Apr 8 Moy 11 Moy 14 Moy BULK
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 1328 22 L\ K line KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD.— USA CANADA PACIFIC COAST (ißclndlnx DESTINATIONS INLAND vU IPI MICROBRIDGE MINILANDJBRIDOE) T T imt i i/I R SEATTLE OAK I FEEDER/ MOTHER VESSEL STORE NIG PENANG STORE T/S WRT U/IB NEPTUNE CRYSTAL V27E TOWER BRDGE V 33 30 Jan 1 Feb (BU) 11
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    • 597 22 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH NEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE loading lo< tOS ANGEUS SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE TACOMA VANCOUVER BC Accepting FCI fCI Containers P Kelang Singapore L Angetes BHAVABHUir Feb 27/21 Feb 26 Mar AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCI FCI Containers KABIRDAS 8 9 Feb A At® AS 2 3 Mar
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    • 557 22 SANKD ASIA FROM JAPANESE PORTS ANO HONGKONG Smapore C f ShK P ft Co Pte Lid Tel *****22 Port Ketone I ANAS Sharp Sdn Bhd !H *****4 *****9 Penjnf lANAS Slurp Sdn Bhd Tel »7»SS *****9 GENERAL SURVtT FOR (i) FUKU2AKI MARU NR.L BE «ID ON 31 I K (i)
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    • 554 22 INTRASEA IPTEI I.TD 10 Anson Road 7 16 Intefnational Smqjporp 0?07 Tel *****1 1 <1 O L-nesl rr r> t j r v BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S port P. KeUnfLoadnf torKARM VATIS *****17 Saied SETE/tOTT/ANT/UK. (AVON) SKfPER N *****1S 4/2 10/2 ROTT/ANT/UI. (AVON) Fd SEAWOOD SHIPPING CORPORATION Spore NORDOtN
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    • 749 23 HlrrllNU 11MK9, neancsu»y, «"uaij m, woo NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD I TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): C PAUL 43W+— C RO2E 42* N CRYSTAL 28* MAETERWCK 5*.. S S BRDGE 49*.... Also accepting cargo to/trom Scandinavia FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) C PAUL S pore Closing Times FCL Cargo 0300 7/2
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    • 633 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P KELANG. PENANG, BUSAN, INCHON Pl* Vessel No 7 No I No 6 No 9 No 7 No I WIN WIN JOIN ?0/2 WIN 24/2 2/3 W2N 4/3 W2N I It/3 \Pi*t »UNIS NfPIUNI AGINCIfS Pit I TD Irl ?/*<*<» K
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    • 571 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SMSOV BUR.DMG 55, Market Street Sinfapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telei Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG PENANG M/S SHARMAT WAN SOON SON. BHD. IST ANO 2ND FLOOR ICSSRS MAI THONG SMPPMG 23 Wetd
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    • 113 23 DURBAN JOHANNESBURG MAPUTO MAURITIUS A RFUNION I™ LOUIS DURBAN BEIRA SARNIA IW/85 3/2/85 2 85 rm»«il EASTERN HARMONY 18/2/85 28/2/85 5/3 iContrs Only) 2W/85 also accepting cargo tor Malawi Zimbabwe 09VV9f!fSflNKM ETD ETO ETA UUaIfiISUIUSS R BAY DURBAN SIN BARON STAR 19 185 29.1 85 14 285 Agents: Kim Shipping
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    • 826 24 ICej|i«Mial Container Lines j-iirrym I 1 3 Sa,lm 9«» Weekly liH fll Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing PS.A Mon, Wed Sat SKI BHUM THAN* BHUM BUNGA REMUNNG S«t BHUM THANA BHUM BUNGA KEMUNNG SMI BHUM IHAJU BHUM BUNGA KEMUNMG sai BHUM THANA BHUM BUNGA REMUNNG sat BHUM THANA BHUM BUNGA KEMUNMG
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    • 47 24 fdFARCO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTE) L TD f EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE V=£/ SINGAPORE BANGKOK 3 SAILINGS WEFKI Y J iAILIMU} "I'M I Man-fri San 5.30pm Saturday Sam 12 30pm aid. Sun Pub tab. 7B Keppel Road 17 07 Taniong Pagar Compiei Singapore 0208 Tel *****77 *****88 K *****52
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 162 24 1 Regional Weather aH <s\ «<r °3 m X N 3 cS\<* o 17 A 7oi 1 i ft x 35 11 IB fli °C C? Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature °C Sy
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 173 25 PALMYRA TSIRIS LINES S.A. VULUMJS NEURUS SIN PK Loading for: In Pt DUB, DAM, BAH, KUWAIT 4/2 DAM, KUWAIT, BAH. DUB E: OSAL A6ENCIES (S) PTE LTD #02-63 ANSON CENTO. SMGAPOtt 0207 TLX: R*****5 OSAI Tit *****77 (5 Lines) MULTPORT SON BHD TEL: *****3 INDON SHIPPING PTE LTD. TEL:*****20, *****39
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    • 195 25 COLUMBUS LINE REEDEREI GMBH EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINER SERVICE TO HUU ROTTERDAM HAMBURG Sttftpott Pt K elm/ SEAL lON SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD SHIES BOOKINGS TEL ??OS6BI (8 hn*s) GfNfRAI FREIGHT (M) SON BHO Ifl 383?3a SANKI SHIPPING CO LTD Load* for chit7AGONG CHAIN* RANGOON GRAND NEJU. V 4 Sated 12/1
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    • 398 25 pB LIN LIN SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 1. Magazine Road. aoS-00. CantrM BuMbtf. Singapore 0105 Tafc *****14 *****22 WEEKLY SERVICE SINGAPORE TO KUCHING SIBU siiuaiffii VESSEL LIN PETALING II LIN PETALING ETA 31.1.85 8.2.85 1.2.85 10.285 ETD 1 2 85 KUCHING 9 2 85 KUCHING 2.2.85 SIBU 11.2.85 SIBU fICXM CAREER
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    • 266 26 41 r§E EAST ASIA LINE (Malaysian Fkig) Regular Unw Ofvtc— Pthr»»n M'SIAyS'POAE/INOIA P. Kdong P. Gudang S pore MMH 10/2 12/2 15/2 nan PEJtTAMA Salad In Pirt 31/1 REGULAR JAPAN/STRAITS/lAPAN SERVICES I Meat 16/2 15/2 Ldg for Madras/ Bombay EAST ASIA SHPPMG SON. BHD TEL: *****2/36 TLX: MA: ***** lALAL
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    • 203 26 NVOCC DIRECT SERVICE EUROPE/FAR EAST LINER SERVICE ETA FID DtSCH FROM 4/2 7/2 HAABUR6/AHTWERP h Part 1/2 rtaift tat Z243MS/1 *****11 i M #22-lM Menu haul ftua. S'pw* 12*7 T«tei RS ***** (TUMI) ss 1 SERENE SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD 10 tarn Road #35-04 Mcmabonal Plan, Seaport 0207 k Tot
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    • 643 26 1* C.Y. LINE (A Member Of The ACE Consortium) CHO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD FIU> COMMOnSED SERVICE TO EUROPE <«U SUB) Ct<VM.KR PAUL 43W CtCVALER (ton 42*1 NtPTUWt CRYSTAL 20W MAETERLMCK 5W Spore PKeUi 7/2 0/2 17/2 11/2 23/2 25/2 3/3 5/3 LeHarve RdamFstoore H'bw| Brem Antorerp 27/2 2/3 28/2
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    • 826 26 Everett Lines/ 1 COMPMM PERUANA K VAPOREES (CP.V.) "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" lojdmt tor Crtio Matdram (to and aN other Peruvian port!, »ith transhipment at Hot* On CPV Through Ms ot ladrn* to final destination P«unf* P Sinfapcrtt THOMASEVEXETT 30/1 Feb 2 J Feb RAMONEVERETT 19/21 Feb 22/24 Mar HUGHEVERETT 7/9
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    • 248 26 ZIM N-CONFERENCE NKKMOn FULL CONTABO SERWCE accap pes to USA East ft Mest Cms!. Carrtibean and East Canada S part Elat Trwtle Hope. Vokc fr"« I SMGAPORE 13 Feb 27 Feb Mar 7 Mar (Mar 17 Mar :cq>tin( Fa To European and Mnftt errant an Ports Mm La/Fa to 4
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