The Business Times, 27 March 1985

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    12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1985 60 CENTS
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  • Article
    Remisiers unhappy about sharp increase in licence fees
    396 1  -  By CHEN QINGSHUN REMISIERS are extremely unhappy about the sharp increase in their licence fees announced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore last Friday. Together with "other dealers' representatives", which include brokers and dealers, their licence fees will be increased to $600
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    Fewer top graduates are leaving the civil service
    570 1  -  Resignation rate lowest since 1975 By FOO CHOY PENG THE NUMBER of top graduates who resigned from the Civil Service last year to join the private sector was the smallest since 1975 thanks to the major salary adjustment three years ago. Official
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    Singapore's free trade may affect US security interest
    450 1  -  By BOEY KIT YIN SINGAPORE'S "marvellous reputation as a free trading" country could jeopardise the security interest of the US because there are no restraints on the flow of high technology goods to undesirable third countries. This was said by the US
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    Lock icon Improving trade ties with China
    67 1 Bernama MALAYSIA has set up an interministry committee to facilitate the conduct of trade with China. Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said yesterday that the committee, chaired by the Foreign Ministry, would explore ways to improve trade ties without jeopardising Malaysia's security. He
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    STOCK MARKET
    96 1 AFTER a premising «tart, the Singapore stock market *114 hack In qalet trading yesterday. Industrial and fliaaee connters were easier hat plantation aad property counters managed to hold steady. Maay observers were generally optimistic about plantations because they helped farther recovery la commodity prices. Property counters were steady,
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    Manufacturers to join hands in penetrating markets
    416 1 MANUFACTURERS in Singa-, pore and Malaysia will combine forces to penetrate third markets, especially China, more effectively. At a meeting held recently, the Singapore Manufacturers' Association (SMA) and the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) identified three areas of cooperation tenders, trading and manufacturing.
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  • Article
    Opec may vent frustration by abandoning control
    485 1  -  By BRIAN GOMEZ in Kuala Lumpur OPEC MAY VENT its frustration at current international oil market trends by withdrawing its production ceilings and pricing mechanisms, forcing world oil prices to plummet. This was the message delivered yesterday at the 13th Journalists Workshop organised
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      270 1 SHARE INFORMATION DOONESBURY MONEY EXCHANGES TRAINING CROSSWORDS RAW MATERIALS CHINA'S radical economic reforms ran into serious trouble towards the end of last year and the beginning of 1985, forcing a major government rethink about the pace of change. Page 3 THE Singapore Insuronce Training Centre has designed relevant programmes for
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      196 1 BALLY cf $\wrzcrlcinJ rnrrt\ thr >1 rr>Jj\ J World of Business Travel BT today examines the latest developments in the world of Business Travel. This special supplement is must reading not only for those executives who have to live with schedules, airports and hotels, but for those in the hotel
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  • HOME NEWS
    • Article
      'Pasar malam will be successful'
      513 2  -  By JOANNE YAP THE REVIVAL OF the "pasar malam", this time at the Singapore Handicraft Centre, should be successful. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board's divisional director (tourism services), Miss Sharon Wong, is confident that the pasar malam is not just for buying. Singaporeans and tourists
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      Grants to cultural organisations
      135 2 THE CULTURAL Affairs Division of the Ministry of Community Development is inviting applications for financial assistance from registered cultural organisations or non-profit art schools. The annual grant is to encourage such organisations to plan their promotions in a more sustained manner as it has been noted
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      Garuda Jaya to join the fast-food race
      348 2 GARUDA JAYA, a restaurant which has been in business for 15 years, will soon change its conventional ways and join the fast-food race. Mr Samat Yusof, proprietor of Garuda Jaya, said he decided to convert his conventional restaurant to a fast-food restaurant because
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      IDD service to the Bahamas
      100 2 TELECOMS WILL introduce the IDD atyd number-to-number tele phone service to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas with effect from April 1. The charge for IDD calls to the Bahamas is 53 cents per block of six seconds, and SslB for the first block of three
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      Suzuken wooing visitors to Tsukuba Expo
      387 2 JAPAN'S biggest medical marketing organisation, Suzuken, which wants to make Singapore its regional centre for servicing medical equipment, specialises in cardiovascular and intestinal diseases. But the message brought to Singapore by Milton Munidasa, a Sri Lankan who is international affairs manager for Suzuken, had
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      Finnair to begin flights to Singapore from Dec 3
      424 2 FINNAIR, the national carrier of Finland, will start its inaugural flight to Singapore on Dec 3 using the Helsinki-Bangkok-Sin-gapore route. "The new weekly DC-10 flight has become necessary as a result of the powerful growth in trade between Finland and South-east
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      Public housing sector copes with slowdown
      476 2  -  By JEFFREY TSANG CONTRACTORS specialising in public housing are not as badly hit by the slowdown in the construction industry as others. Mr Chong Wai Siak, general manager of the governmentowned Construction Technology Pte Ltd (Con Tech), which recently clinched its fourth major building
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      Raffles City investing $34 million in its plumbing system
      184 2 FOR $34 million, the Raffles City project will have the latest in pipes, pumps, and other plumbing features. Nam Wah Engineering Pte Ltd, a local plumbing, sanitary and sewerage specialist, was awarded three major plumbing and pipe installation contracts which are
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      Visit by West German team
      111 2 A WEST GERMAN delegation from the Ludwig—Frank-Stif-tung (LFS) will arrive tomorrow. On Friday morning, the team will visit the National University of Singapore and call on Associate Professor Dr Lau Teik Soon, MP for Serangoon Gardens. They will also visit the German-Singapore Institute in the
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      Hongkong company given MRT sub-contract
      160 2 GAMMON of Hongkong has been awarded a $16.4 million sub-contract to construct a drainage diversion and the deck structure of Bishan Depot of the Mass Rapid Transit system. The sub-contract was given by Nishimatsu Construction of Japan who, with local joint venture partner Lum Chang,
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      Reducing your car's petrol consumption
      206 2 A DEVICE to improve car fuel consumption by about 8 to 12 per cent is being marketed here. The "Polarion booster" is jointly promoted by Ener-Care, a local company that specialise in energy-saving products and General Automotive Services (GAS), one of the largest vehicle workshop
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      Parliamentary questions on HDB carparks
      193 2 THE MEMBER of Parliament for Eunos, Mr Zulkifli Mohammed, wants to find out from National Development Minister Teh Cheang Wan whether the Housing Board has plans to build multi-storey carparks in housing estates to alleviate the shortage of parking lots. This is one of three
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      TRADE TALK
      357 2 SHARP CORPORATION has introduced two new copiers, the SF-7200 and SF-7100. The SF-7200 can make 12 copies per minute on A 4 size and can copy paper sizes ranging from B4 to postcard-size. This copier has an automatic exposure function for easy operation and 2-stage reduc-tion/2-stage enlargement functions,
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  • OVERSEAS
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      Lock icon Chinese boat issue: fast settlement expected
      562 3 AP SPEEDY SETTLEMENT was expected in efforts to deal with the issue of the Chinese torpedo boat that drifted into Korean territorial waters, carrying six dead crewmen, after the South Korean government said it found no politics involved. After more than two days of
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      Lock icon Reagan 'shocked' by shooting of officer
      395 3 AP PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan has said that he is "shocked and saddened" by the fatal shooting of a US army officer in East Germany and denied that the officer was a spy, as the Soviets have charged. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, meanwhile,
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      Lock icon America wants IMF to charge more interest
      335 3 AP THE US administration wants the International Monetary Fund to charge higher interest rates on loans it makes to financially troubled governments, according to a US Treasury Department report. The IMF should also tell the world more about what it does to harmonise
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      Lock icon Deficit up by US$20.8bn
      107 3 AP AMERICA'S soaring budget deficit jumped by US$2O.B billion in February, more than three times the increase recorded the previous month. For the first five months of the fiscal year, which began on Oct 1, the government deficit totalled $99.6 billion, compared with $89.2 billion for
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      Lock icon 'Soviets spied on embassy'
      228 3 UPI THE SOVIET UNION installed secret transmitters inside typewriters at the US embassy in Moscow, eliciting sensitive information for at least one year, the CBS television network news reported. Quoting informed sources, CBS reported that for "at least one year and probably longer", the US embassy
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      Lock icon European crisis summit
      507 3 Report calls for major changes in Common Market structure AP WHEN LEADERS of the 10 European Common Market nations gather in Brussels on Friday for their first summit of 1985, they will hear a familiar message: their club is in trouble. The ills are not just economic,
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      Lock icon China rethinking pace of economic change
      641 4 Tighter control of wages and prices Reuter CHINA'S radical economic reforms ran into serious trouble towards the end of last year and the beginning of 1985, forcing a major government rethink about the pace of change, a senior Chinese official has said. At a
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      Lock icon Moscow out to torpedo Star Wars proposal
      155 4 UPI AMERICAN aid Soviet negotiators yesterday held their first working session on space-based weapons systems, with the Soviets determined to torpedo President Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative. Moscow says for the superpowers to make progress toward reducing intercontinental- and medi-nm-range nuclear weapons, there mnst
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      Lock icon India, Sri Lanka meet to defuse Tamil tension
      349 4 AFP HIGH-LEVEL discussions between India and Sri Lanka entered their second day yesterday in a bid to defuse tension created mainly by the Tamil separatist issue. Militants among Sri Lanka's 2.5 million Tamil minority are waging an often bloody campaign for a
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      Lock icon M$850m in bad 'statutory' loans
      389 4 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government has been unable to collect payments of at least MsBso million in outstanding loans to statutory bodies and their companies, many of which are in financial distress, Au-ditor-General Tan Sri Ahmad Noordin Zakaria said yesterday. He repeated his call for the
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      Lock icon KL signs more double taxation avoidance deals
      164 4 Bernama MALAYSIA has signed double taxation avoidance agreements with six developing and 18 developed countries so far, the Dewan Rakyat was told yesterday. Deputy Finance Minister Dr Tan Tiong Hong said in reply to a question by Mr Ng Cheng Kuai that the
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      Lock icon Vietnamese shell Khmer bases
      157 4 UPI VIETNAMESE troops yesterday shelled non-commu-nist Khmer resistance bases in two areas near the Thai-Cambodian border and clashed with Khmer Rouge guerillas. Thai military sources said the Vietnamese shelled a small Khmer Peoples National Liberation Front (KPNLF) base opposite Thailand's Buri Ram province, 412 km north-east
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      Lock icon Indian tax cuts unlikely to reduce revenue
      112 4 Reuter TAX CUTS proposed in the recent budget will not reduce revenue due to anticipated increased compliance by taxpayers, Indian Finance Minister VP Singh told Parliament. Speaking at the end of a budget debate, he said the proposals are intended to stimulate the
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      Lock icon Survey of industry
      105 4 AP THE POISON GAS disaster that killed more than 2,000 people in Bhopal, India, has prompted a US House subcommittee to undertake what the panel's chairman calls the first broad federal safety survey of the American chemical industry. The survey has already produced preliminary data pointing to
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      DAILY AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
      730 4 ARRIVALS operator Servica Local From number time CPA CX710 1030 HLP OA GA960 1100 HLP SIA SQ201 1115 HLP SIA SQI05 1120 KUL UB UB231 1145 RGN THAI TG403 1155 BKK SAS SK971 1215 CPH/BKK OA GA895 1220 AMS/FRA/ AUH MAS MH682 1230 KCH OA GA940 1235
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      6 3 Making peace with IMF, Page 9
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      163 3 with Dario Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur.Open 20 April 1985. S Dario Regazzoni, one of Southeast Asia's experienced hoteliers will be waiting to ;reet old and new friends at the new Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur when it opens on 20th April. Set in the heart of Malaysia's capital city, this superb hotel will
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      61 3 Doonesbury ATFIf&TJMSMOFfWnW ISAM IT UAS A VERY FLATTERING ASSMmr. CA&eOMOUSLY THE WHOLB INNER-PRECTE& S&M&fT OF THE mzaa&s mm r< 57 v~ //X BMCALU.IWBeMASKEPTO CREATE IMAGES THAT REFLECT AN ENTIRE PEER GROUPS MOST DEEPLY-FELT BELIEFS AMP NEEDS ANT? ASPIRATIONS! BY GARRY TRUDEAU IT CHANGES EVERi--IHING.JJ.! I*l NO ft? LONGER JUST A
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
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      Lock icon Unmistakable signs of change under Gorbachev
      524 5 NYT ON MONDAY, it was the coal ministry that came under attack in Pravda, and the head of the Bratsk city party committee who was dismissed. On Sunday, the Soviet Union's most outspoken economist, Abel Aganbegyan, said that it was time to train young
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      Lock icon For better or for worse
      1075 5 World watches as leaders seek to put their stamp on their countries' political and economic development Despite enormous differences between the two Koreas, their successions are inseparably related because each side views the other as a security threat and uses that threat to justify its
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      Lock icon Marcos wages battle for survival
      406 5 AP IN A COOL mountain retreat, far from Manila's muggy air, President Ferdinand Marcos appeared on a balcony and waved to followers gathered below him in a garden. The small crowd of generals, Cabinet ministers, assemblymen and provincial politicians rose and broke into loud applause.
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      128 5 The New Image of Success. Hongkongßank Visa Cards now reflect a new and prestigious image an image that reflects success. Our cards now come in two new distinctive designs, jto replace the traditional Visa Card. Kkibl 'Premier 9 a new version of the Premier Visa Card. These new, specially designed
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  • TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
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      Upgrading insurance skills
      891 6  -  Foreign expertise sought to ensure quality The Singapore Insurance Training Centre has designed relevant programmes for the insurance industry. Successfully implemented, they should ensure that Singapore is on par with leading international insurance centres in the field of training. This is the second of a series on
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      Lock icon Government doubles grant in support of EDB schemes
      572 6  -  By JEFFREY TSANG TRAINING and manpower development needs of industry spurred the government to approve $33.91 million to support the industrial training schemes of the Economic Development Board in the 1983/84 fiscal year a figure nearly twice as large as the total
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    • Article
      Refunds offered if you get no results
      219 6 A REFUND has been offered to any participant of a direct-mail seminar, organised by an Australian company, if he can show that he is unable to use even one idea from it within a year. Those asking for a refund would have to
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    • Article
      Overwhelming response to Shatec course
      222 6 SLIGHTLY LESS than half of the 300 school leavers who applied for a course with the Singapore Hotel Association Training and Educational Centre (Shatec) have been accepted. The overwhelming response to the new National Trade Certificate (3) course (Certificate in Hotel Skills) has led Shatec
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      Employers focus on safety and health
      355 6 THE SINGAPORE National Employers Federation (SNEF) is organising two courses and a seminar over the next two months. The first is a Safety Committee Chairman Training Course to be held at the SNEF office at Tanglin Shopping Centre. The six-week course is designed to
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      Seminar on legal aspects of purchase contract
      210 6 MISUNDERSTANDING contractual clauses can result in big problems (or purchasers of materials and services. They may even run foul of the law. "Unintentional crimes" can be avoided if purchasers acquaint themselves with certain legal principles of the trade. A local company, Purchasing and
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      MEMO-PAD
      420 6 Seminars and courses DURATION Mor 27 Mor 28 Mor 28-29 Mar 28-29 Mar 28-29 Mar 28-Apr 15 Mar 29 Apr 1-2 Apr 1-4 Apr 2-4 Apr 2-10 Apr 2-11 TITLE Effective Prioritising Skills Mechanical Electrical Building Services Customer Satisfaction Skills DSS: Computer Aided Decision Making Avoiding Problem Loans Industnal
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      Courses aimed at executive development
      81 6 THE SCHOOL of Accountancy, National University of Singapore, is conducting two training courses aimed at executive development. The first course, called Governmental Accounting, consists of three modules. It is aimed at officials who are responsible for budgeting and accounting functions in government departments and statutory
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      171 6 DAI-ICHI HOTEL The Excellence of International Standards, The Charms of Traditional Service. If traditional service and complete facilities make a difference to you, then stay at the Dai-ichi Hotel (Singapore). Travellers and guests wilt discover restful comfort in our 420 luxuriously furnished guestrooms which command a panoramic view of Singapore's
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
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      Forex markets
      825 7 SINGAPORE The American dollar closed marginally higher yesterday against major European currencies but slightly lower against the yen, after fluctuating within a narrow range in quiet and featureless trading. The dollar closed marginally firmer at 3.2350/60 marks compared with New York's 3.2340/55 close and at 2.7455/70 Swiss francs
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      Foreign Exchange
      240 7 Interbank rotes ot 3pm yesterday: Local dollars K on* imit of i quotad y eterdey ci *oao parity changa currency: US dolor Sterling pound Australian dolor NZ dolor Canadian dolor ***** ***** 1 5698 1 0341 1 6326 2 2575 2 6401 1 5734 1 0395 1 6364
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      Lock icon Simex
      301 7 BA Futures JUNE Ear«d«llar opened two ticks higher yesterday than CME's Monday close at 89.80 and traded up to 89.65 before a bout of selling brought it down. The contract finally closed at 89.81 after trading in a narrow range. Technically, if the resistance at 89.87 could be broken,
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      Asian $ market
      245 7 Asian market •UNCATB a» mrac* prtM Mta| rata *f 12 rajar bats apvatncnS^Koe ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at mixed opening levels in quiet trading yesterday. Interbank dapoait ratM us* OHf M 7 day 8 IS/16 8 13/16 1 month 8 15/16 8 13/16 2 months 9 1/8 9
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      Gold
      230 7 HONGKONG: The metal closed easier in fairly quiet trading yesterday, reflecting a firmer US dollar. Trading was subdued although the pace picked up slightly towards the close on light local selling. It closed at U*****.10/60 an ounce compared with New York's $316.10/60 and the $314.20/70 finish here on Monday.
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      Money markets
      119 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by 1/4point from Monday to close at 31/2 per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate fell by 1/8-point, the two-month rate fell by 1/16-point while the threemonth rate remained unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Off* M
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      Lock icon Tapping potential of traded options to the fullest
      247 7 Reuter TRADED OPTIONS could play a much larger role in coping with the increased volatility of financial markets, but only if they are closely regulated. Bank of England executive director David Walker said: "The comparative novelty and unfamiliarity of options contracts outside
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      Lock icon Changes expected in German capital markets
      180 7 Reuter BUNDESBANK president Karl Otto Poehl is expected to give some indication of changes in regulations governing German capital markets this week. Bankers said that after a meeting last Friday, Mr Poehl told them pressure was building up from abroad for some change of
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      Lock icon Two more thrifts get nod
      79 7 Reuter THE AMERICAN Federal Home Loan Bank Board has said it conditionally approved two more Ohio thrifts for federal insurance. The thrifts, which had been members of the Ohio Deposit Guarantee Fund, bring to 17 the number of Ohio institutions with assets totalling U*****.3 million
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  • FEATURES
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      The lot of a civil servant
      501 8 IDEALISTS would say that it is a pathetic reflection on society that monetary rewards should figure highly in what should be considered an honourable calling to serve the public. Cynics would say that civil servants or not, money talks. But why should one expect
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      Lock icon Japan's samurai strategy
      1106 8 A flexible approach towards marketing has given the Japanese the upper hand Rather than stick blindly with an approach that succeeds, the Japanese are adept at using a multiplicity of competitive weapons with carefully varied degrees of emphasis: price, promotion, product quality, product features, product range, service
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      Lock icon China's youth now prefers money to revolution
      681 8  -  By PIERRE-ANTOINE DONNET AFP SIX YEARS after the arrest of Wei Jingsheng, a key figure behind the "Beijing Spring", the pro-democracy and human rights movement has been silenced in China's rush towards economic reform. Most of the activists in the movement which splashed
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      Lock icon Making peace with the IMF
      752 9  -  When Reagan first won office, the administration saw development banks as using American money to assist Washington's enemies. This view has now undergone a change. ALVER CARLSON reports. ALVER CARLSON Reuter THE REAGAN administration, initially deeply suspicious of international financial institutions like the World Bank,
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      72 8 V s a M "A Free Whiskey We've 110 brands of whiskey Singapore's largest selection. Ask for a brand we don't stock and have a first Chivas Regal on the house. Sit back, relax and enjoy our nightly entertainment. The Peacock way. At the Peacock Bar. Opening hours: 6.00 pm
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      361 8 [*]']!<`*)_:<<?]@)@)_$|:[;'!:.? CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Green skirt-material? (5) 6 Stop by the fire for a bit of peace (5) 9 Remove, yet leave! (4, 3) 10 Canoe water? (5) 1 Trouble is cooking! (5) 12 Trainee promoted in a plant (5) 13 She shows you what to do to make
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      273 8 (7) 30 Wheel bonds (5) 31 Voluoble possession (5) DOWN 2 Parcel (6) 3 Window shade (6) 4 Equipment (3) 5 Retail outlets (5) 6 Amounts owing (7) 7 Second-hand (4) 8 Concealed (6) 12 Cut off (5) 13 Devotional hymn (5) 14 Female goat (5) 15 String (5) 16
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  • SPORTS
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      Another drops out of the Golf Open
      464 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS THE SINGAPORE OPEN goll championship, which begins tomorrow, suffered its latest big-name casualty when Australian Bob Shearer's non-partici-pation was confirmed. Tournament director Joe Goh announced Shearer's no-show after receiving word from other Australian golfers who just arrived in the Republic.
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      Lock icon 'Flutie factor' generates a 28-24 win for Generals
      512 9 UPI WITH PERFORMANCES like the one he turned in on Sunday, American footballer Doug Flutie will have people referring to Herschel Walker as the "other" Heisman Trophy winner in the New Jersey Generals backfield. However, Walker is not about to be completely
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      Playing with a pro — all it takes is the highest SICC bid
      328 9 Playing with a pro all it takes is the highest SICC bid WHEN the traditional curtain raiser to the Singapore Open the Pro-Am competition tees off at Bukit today, 29 members of the Singapore Island Country Club will be smiling with satisfaction. They would have been richer by anything from
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      Lock icon Comeback for ace racing driver Moss
      227 9 AP STIRLING MOSS, one of the most famous names in Formula One, is making a comeback at the age of 55 in sports car endurance racing. Moss is to race regularly in the United States this season commencing at Riverside, California, on Saturday in
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      Lock icon Baseball 'gaijin' fights bad image
      521 9 AP FOREIGN PLAYERS on Japanese professional baseball teams will be out to prove wrong this year the critics who say they are overpaid, under-achieving troublemakers who should be banned from Japan's most popular sport. After last season, when foreigners mostly Americans again provided stellar performances
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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      1202 9 TO flOG) SMDIIG) HIGHLIGHTS Am«rican Caesar 8 pm, Channel 12 Under Mac Arthur, America's once-bit-ter enemy, Japan, emerges as a great power. Almost overnight, Mac Arthur converts Japan from a semi-feudal society into a democracy, by personally devising a model constitution and sweeping social reforms. Applause Famous People Players: Special
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
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      Lock icon Insider trading in ABC shares suspected
      189 10 Reuter INVESTIGATIONS have been launched into last week's US$3.5 billion takeover of the American Broadcasting Companies to determine if illegal share trading took place, officials and news reports say. The New York and Pacific stock exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have
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      Lock icon United Newspapers eyes Fleet Holdings
      165 10 Reuter THE BRITISH press publishing group United Newspapers is planning a takeover bid for Fleet Holdings, owners of the former Beaverbrook newspaper empire. The company said it was seeking government consent in principle to a merger before announcing the terms of its offer to Fleet
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      Lock icon IBM earnings forecast depresses NYSE
      307 10 Reuter A REDUCED earnings forecast by computer giant International Business Machines (IBM) dragged down the technology segment and contributed to an overall decline of Wall Street stock prices on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 7.51 points to 1259.94. Losers outnumbered gainers by
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      Toronto
      171 10 uu 25 C$ Hud Boy 7* 25 Irrc Oi 50* loco unch Abrtfc. 55* Irrt Pro* Bp» I 37* unch 37* |nt U» i 23* Algomo 2IK Kwr Add 16 Argo«n Hdtfs Lobtow B «7* -V* Bonk Mont 25JJ "JJ Mossty F«rg 3H unch Bonk Novo Scot» 12* Mc
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      Johannesburg
      191 10 UniMc 480 10 1300 INDUSTRIALS MINING A Alpha 700 10 10 2400 25 Ab«fCom 130 730 Amaprop 340 •10 Byyooo 1680 5 +175 AMtC Barlows 2275 1017 unch 12 30 Chart* Cora Gold 430 1200 LVKh C G Smith CNA 230 Con* Murch 1075 -5 unch 970 15 8000
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      New York
      665 10 MAI 2S US$ Ale an AJurrwi Alcoa AJ*gh«rry Lud Atod Cham Cp AM Storas Aks-Chalmare Am Brandt fete Am Broodcost Am Can Co Am Cyonarmd Am EWc Pwr Am Exprass Am Horn* Prod Am Motor* Cp Am Natural Gin Am T«i Tal Amax Itk Amarado Hass AMf Inc
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      European markets
      960 10 Amsterdam MA* 25 Fb ABN 405 00 -1 5 184 20 -3 8 Ahold 218 50 -45 106 60 2 AMCV 216 00 -0 5 Airrfrn 75 40 -0 5 FWk 51 00 -2 4 Boh Ill 00 OTch Soman* 347 50 -0 5 Burt at 87 00
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      88 10 London stocks, psgo 15 I rhig L6u Teockcw Restaurant for the best Teochew delicacies In town. Discover our famous dian-xin, k delicious steam-boat Teochew porridge and other mouth-watering delights prepared by Hong Kong chefs. And feel like royalty while C you dine in Oriental splendour. Open daily from: 11.00 am
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
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      Hongkong
      388 11 HONGKONG: Shares closed lower in moderate trading yesterday as investors took profits. The Hang Seng Index lost 18.10 points to close at 1344.13. Turnover declined to HK5168.54 million from Monday's $175.14 million. Jardine Matheson fell 40 cents to $8.95. Cheung Kong fell 20 cents to $13.40. HK Electric and
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      Taipei
      238 11 MA* 26 Al Smear* Indus MT 4 36 2490 -001 •0.3 Uen Hwo bAjs Nan Y a Plos Pacific Cons Pocific Elect 1230 28 00 21 10 1690 -0 15 -0 1 0 1 -02 2420 unch 1 40 •0 02 Chang Hwo Bark Ch«n Loona Chia Cement 51
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      Tokyo
      390 11 TOKYO: Share prices rebounded in active afternoon trading yesterday after opening easier, but the market average closed slightly lower on balance for the third consecutive day. The market average slipped 7.11 to 12,486.15 at the close after falling 44.96 on Monday and ending in the morning down 26.28. Turnover
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      Manila
      111 11 MANILA: Share prices closed mixed to easier in dull trading yesterday. The Mining Index rose 0.47 to 694.27 but the Commercial Industrial Index fell 0.26 to 130.67 and the Oils Index eased 0.003 to 0.599. Philex B fell to 0.0950 from 0.0975 peso. MAt 26 Pmos AAarstMl ***** unch
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      Sydney
      371 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed easier yesterday in active trading with gold and metal stocks under selling pressure after Monday's sharp gains. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index was 3.4 points lower at 817.8, the All Industrials Index added 0.7 to 1,180.4 and the All Resources Index lost 6.2
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      Bangkok
      158 11 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed mixed in quiet trading yesterday. The Book Club Index rose 0.08 point to 129.96 as declines led advances by a four-to-three margin. Turnover climbed to 632,095 shares worth 89.6 million baht from Monday's 358,817 shares worth 60.3 million baht. MA« 26 Iifcti S»am Cement Siam
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      Seoul
      67 11 MAR 26 Won Hywidai Conit Hyundai Motor 901 567 unch 3 585 •5 kal. 642 ■6 Chototxtg Bk 575 -1 639 14 621 10 1750 455 -3 Korea SKp 350 431 -5 Lucky Ltd 635 546 1 Somtung Co 726 1 472 -3 851 GoldStar 640 -2 -10 Hood
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      Lock icon Citicorp trust in Japan
      63 11 Reuter CITICORP will set up a trust bank subsidiary in Japan following Tokyo's decision to let eight foreign banks enter this sector. A spokesman for the Tokyo branch of Citibank NS said the bank, which has been negotiating a cooperation agreement with Yasuda Trust and Banking
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      Lock icon India gets tough with managers of 'sick' companies
      414 11 FT THE INDIAN government is to take a tough line against managers and financial institutions involved in companies which become major loss makers, or "sick units" as they are known in India. The managers are likely to be refused financial assistance from
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      Lock icon NTT to be capitalised at 780 billion yen
      245 11 Reuter NIPPON Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) will be capitalised at 780 billion yen when it is inaugurated as a private company on April 1 and ends its monopoly of Japan's public telecommunications as a state-run corporation. An NTT spokesman says NTT
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      Lock icon Kawasaki in joint venture
      63 11 UPI KAWASAKI STEEL CORP has launched a joint venture in Brazil to manufacture high-purity ferrosilicon The company says the new company, Eletrovale SA, will build a plant equipped with two electricarc furnaces at the exhausted Picarrao iron ore mine, about 159 km east of Belo Horizonte
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      97 11 o Jack's Place the unchallengtd steakhouse in town Come try our Fillet Steaks -all air-flown from New Zealand Also avaitabte: Set Lunches Dinners HOTEL MIRAMAR Tel: *****01 am Tel: *****8 > Killiney Road Tel: *****28 '•rata* SilFlNr. An g Mo Kia Town Centre. Ave 6. Tel: *****77 restaurant TP ,7-'
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  • RAW MATERIALS
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      Lock icon US copper industry awaiting upturn
      452 12 Reuter THE US copper industry, plagued by mounting losses and the poorest inflation-adjusted prices since the Great Depression, is tightening its belt as it watches for signs of an improvement in business. Dwindling stocks around the world and firm demand from sectors such as the
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    • Article
      KL Tin
      95 12 THE KuU Lam par Tin Market price was unehuged at the Internatiooal Tli Agreement flMH«vel if Ms2t.ls per kg yesterday. The luffer stack manager teak meat of the affering ef 179 tames which lnclided 25 per cent farelgs metals. The slferlng was 115 tames oo Mooday. The streigtheilig
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      TEXTILES
      162 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bok of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 20's 2,750 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,300 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,650 Carded yarn, hank Bkie Phoenix 2l's 3,000 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,350 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,500 Open-end yarn 2,450
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      WHEAT
      87 12 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed three US cents to one cent a bushel higher in lively activity on Monday, boosted by technical buying in July. Shearson Lehman Brothers bought some five to six million bushels of July on the day through its computer accounts, and
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      RUBBER
      173 12 SINGAPORE The market closed steady yesterday with April One RSS buyers quoted at 172.50 cents per kg, unchanged from Monday. The morning session saw prices rising initially on some buying interest and later falling back on profit-taking to around overnight levels. Prices were little changed in quiet afternoon trading
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      RAS and MRELB
      336 12 RAS prices in S centsAg, FOV in b< Hies NOON CLOSE Sellers Buyers Sellers lot 1 RSS Prompt 172 50 173 50N 172 00 173 00N Int 1 RSS Apr 85 173.00 174 00 172 50 ***** Int 1 RSS May 85 177 00 177 50 176
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      SSR and SMR
      96 12 (c«nts/kg, 1-ton polWti) APRIL 85 MAY 85 (currant month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Puyin lyytfi S«N«rt SSR 20 175.50 177 50N 177.50 179.50N SSR 50 172.50 174 50N 174 50 176 50N MRELB Silliri Buyer* SaMwi SMR CV 221 50 223 50 223 50 225 50N
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      SOYBEAN
      76 12 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed up IV4 US cents a bushel in May to down 3Vi cents in distant March in moderately active late trade on Monday. Staley bought May late while Illinois Coop sold July. Soyoil futures continued to climb after midsession and ran
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      LONDON MARKETS
      937 12 COFFEE Robusta futures held steady during the afternoon on Monday, closing little changed from midday levels and with gains of £35 to £18 from last Friday's finish. May ended £25 higher at £2,312, unchanged from its midday level. The midmorning retreat which took May to a low of
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      Produce exchange
      70 12 Robusto 20/25% FOB NSW 477 50 Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW 396 00 E&W FOB NSW 248 00 Gombier FOB NSW 330 00 London Commodity Exchange Setters' ctoung prices on Mor 25. (US$/lonf tonne CIF European ports, unles othorwi im stated) Pepper (Sarawak) Foq, spa* 3,700 White foq, afloat
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      RICE
      281 12 Singapore (S$A*>, ti-yxiown) Frogront new crop 1st 0 86 2nd 065 3rd 060 New Crop 25% no stock 10% no stock Thai Broken A-super 0 58 SpecKjl 055 Thai Rice 55% no stock China Rice 10% 0 87 15% no stock 25% no stock 35% no stock Thai Boiled
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      PALM OIL
      171 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed higher in thin trading on light covering and speculative buying yesterday, supported by Pakistan's presence in the market for more RBD palm oil after last week's purchase. In the March position, north and south regions firmed Ms2o and $10 respectively to $1,410
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      601 12 Z1 Haw Par Brothers International Limited RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1984 The Directors wish to announce the following audited results of the Group and the Company for the year ended 31st December. 1984: GrouD Company Turnover Dividend and interest income Operating profit Share of results of associated
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
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      Market's rally gives way to selling pressure
      4237 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market closed lower yesterday after an early rally gave way to some selling pressure in the late afternoon. The day's attraction was again Cycle Carriage which saw active trading and wide fluctuations in its share price. The counter, a component
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      Chief price changes
      255 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices T HorW 610 Spore Land 300 S P Tastite 310 Smo ln» Fin 240 UO L 210 Paah Huo 446 DuH De> 535 Prwno 510 Dunlop Est 156 liwii»» 494 Took CtMirt 436 Partis Plant 356 Falls »kkyu>ui»»os»--OO IT Composrte IT Indicator ITOt/OS ST
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      Business done on the SES
      3131 13 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT"
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      DMIB profits fall more than half to M$18.5m
      542 14  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM DUNLOP Malaysian Industries Bhd, the newest member of the Sime Darby stable, has, as expected, extended its profit decline for the fourth year in a row. Earnings per 50-cent share at the giant tyre maker was more than halved
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      Lock icon Rely less on government deals, bumiputras told
      320 14 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday advised entrepreneurs to refrain from establishing too many companies in existing fields of business or services to avoid losses resulting from a division of the particular market. He suggested that existing companies offer
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      Unit trusts
      211 14 Manager?' prices for March *7 MARA-Bumiputra First B'putra 5.67 5.72 Second B'putra 4 89 4 94 Singapore Unit Trust Third B'putra Fourth B'putra 4 19 4.24 465 4.70 The Commerce 2.19 232 Fifth B'putra Sixth B putro 316 3.21 The Savings Fund 1 52 1.61 3 02 3
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      240 14 GENERAL SECURITIES INVESTMENTS Limited: Tenth AGM at the Board Room of The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd, 46th Storey, DBS Building, 6 Shenton Way, Singapore 0106 on Mar 29 at 11 am. GENERAL LUMBER (HOLDING8) Berhad: Twenty-second AGM at The Dewan Bentara, Hotel Dayang, off Jalan Barat, Petaling
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      Grand Central makes 3-for-2 bonus and raises payout
      280 14 ALTHOUGH Hotel Grand Central Ltd was not spared the depressed conditions in the local hotel industry last year, it is again rewarding shareholders with a generous three-for-two bonus issue and a higher dividend of 10 cents per share. The bonus issue will
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      Lum Chang expected to outperform rivals
      788 14 LUM CHANG Holdings Ltd is likely to perform better than its listed competitors, Lee Kim Tah and Lim Kah Ngam, says stockbroking firm Ong Co which is recommending a buy for the counter at $1.29. OngCo, in its March/April issue of its monthly publication,
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      KL shares ease in quiet trading
      461 14 LACK OF follow-through support after Monday's firm closing brought share prices down on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Interest continued to be selective but overall most counters closed easier in quiet trading. The market opened at around overnight levels with selected stocks rising
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      Business done on the KLSE
      2502 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless other»'!* specified. INDUSTRIALS Ajmomoto (3.705) A ttoc (2 406 2 48$) (1)
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      Selected indices
      102 14 HONGKONG Hang Seng Index Tuesday 1344 13 Monday 1362.23 Week ago 1303 47 TOKYO Tokyo Dow Jones Australian Industrials Tuesday 1180.5 Monday 1179.7 Week ago 1167.0 NEW YORK Dow Jones Monday 1259.94 Friday 1267.45 Week ago 1249.67 Tuesday ***** 15 Monday *****.26 Week ago ***** 99 Standard Poors
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      Associates pull down Haw Par earnings
      564 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM ASSOCIATED COMPANIES have made a big dent on Haw Par Brothers International Ltd's 1984 group profits, its worst in five years. Consolidated pre-tax profits fell nearly 30 per cent to $12.8 million from $18.27 million in 1983, prompting directors to take
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      Shangri-La profits down, reduces dividend
      488 15  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN SINGAPORE'S premier hotel, Shangri-La, has turned in a poor set of results for 1964 mainly due to a severe profit downturn in the second half. At the pre-tax level, profits emerged at just $15.3 million, about 47 per cent less than the
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      LONDON STOCKS
      1005 15 EQUITIES opened easier yesterday gathering little support from the lower trend on Wall Street overnight. Dealers said they anticipated another quiet session with company results providing most attention. At noon, the FT-30 index was down 5.9 points at 964.0 while the FTSE 100 fell 6.8 to 1291.0. Enterprise
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      UIC posts impressive results for 1984
      455 15  -  By AMY CHEOK AMID the crop of disappointing results from most local companies, United Industrial Corporation Ltd has provided market watchers with a refreshing change by posting impressive full-year earnings. Shareholders, however, will still be rewarded with an unchanged 5 per cent gross dividend
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      COMPANY BRIEFS
      46 15 UNITED Iiterutiml Securities Ltd has announced that its unaudited consolidated net tangible asset backing per share was 41.59 as at Feb 28, 1965. THE Malaysian Foreign Investment Committee has approved the acquisition of Sexy Malaysia Sdn Bhd bySharp Roxy Appliance Corp M Sdn Bhd.
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      United Engineers hit by loan default of $18.2 m
      583 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE BELEAGUERED United Engineers Ltd has been hit by an unexpected loan default, resulting in the company having to make a huge provision for the amount involved. This in turn has dragged the company deep into the red
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      Sigma names vendors of Pan-El shares
      504 15 PUBLICLY-LISTED Everpeace Corp Bhd and Malaysian businessman Mr Michael Huang have been identified as two of the nine owners of the block of 35.5 million shares in Pan-Elec-tric Industries that is being sold to Sigma Metal Co Ltd. The full list of vendors with
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    • LATEST RESULTS
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        KHONG Guan Holdings Malaysia Bhd:
        43 15 Group pre- tax profits of M 53.31 million in 1984 ($4.38 million previously). Net earnings per share fell to 4.8 cents from 8.3 cents in 1983. A lower first and final dividend of 7.5 cents a share recommended.
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        EU YAN SANG Holdings Ltd:
        53 15 Group operating prof- its before tax fell to $955,000 in 1984 ($1.72 million). Stated net earnings per share plunged to a mere 0.7 cent (9.5 cents). Unchanged first and final dividend of 8.5 cents a share to be paid on June 14 to shareholders registered
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        KUCHAI Development Bhd:
        24 15 Group operating prof- it before tax of MJ370.020 for 1984 ($566,062). Net EPS of 10.7 cents (12.7 cents). No dividend announced.
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      136 14 NOTICE To the holders of the floating rate U.S. Dollar Certificates of Deposit due 31st March, 1988 of: W THE TOKAI BANK, LIMITED 24 Raffles Place. #22-01 to 22-06. Clifford Centre. Singapore 0104. We hereby certify that the rate of interest payable on the above mentioned Certificates of Deposit for
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      371 15 THE 1985 BUDGET A i THE SINGAPORE ECONOMi IM PI l( I lONS OPPORTI Mllhs PROSPK Is POSSIBII IT IF S Tuesday 16th April 1985 The Shangri-La Hotel Singapore THE GRAND ANNUAL ECONOMIC AFFAIR YOU SHOULD NOT MISS A ONE-DAY IN-DEPTH, STIMULATING AND INTERACTIVE SYMPOSIUM WHICH FOCUSES ON: THE 1985
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
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      Poor will not be medically deprived
      583 16 CONCERN over the government's plan to run its hospitals along private lines were put to rest when the Minister of State for Health, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, yesterday assured that the poor would never be deprived of medical care. Most MPs echoed public worries
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      'Foreigners do not displace local students at university'
      534 16 FOREIGN STUDENTS at the university do not displace local students who qualify. Instead, they are a worthwhile investment for Singapore, said Dr Tony Tan, Minister for Education. They give local students a fuller education by sharing their experiences and contribute to Singapore's
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      Dr Mattar clears the air
      314 16 POLLUTION from the petrochemical complex, cars, water tanks and toilets were the main issues raised when Parliament debated the budget allocation for the Ministry of the Environment. Dr Ahmad Mattar, the Environment Minister, assured the House that adequate measures were taken to control pollution at
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      Jeyaretnam refers to medical plight of Alex Josey
      298 16 A SMALL RIPPLE in an otherwise smooth day at Parliament broke when Mr Jeyaretnam (Anson) noted that a former "apologist for the government" could not afford to pay his monthly $400 medical bills and would soon be returning to Britain. He was
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    Flights from Singapore to Copenhagen diverted
    247 16 FLIGHTS from Singapore to Copenhagen are being diverted to airports in neigbouring countries or cancelled because of a nationwide labour conflict which has crippled Denmark's service, industrial and transportation sectors. Scandinavian Airlines System, which flies three times weekly to the Danish capital, has cancelled
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    Lock icon Fed unlikely to change monetary policy
    384 16 NYT THE FED's monetary policy is not likely to be changed at the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, analysts said. Ambiguous economic data, a recent slowing in money supply growth and problems with thrift institutions in Ohio are all cited as reasons
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    Asean predicted to produce more oil in next five years
    389 16  -  By RAY HEATH AN UPSURGE in oil-related activities among the Association of South-east Asian Nations over the next five years has been forecast by a group of Genevabased energy analysts. The five producing countries in Asean Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
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    Role of computers in exports
    86 16 ASEAN INDUSTRIES could export more by employing computers to increase their efficiency. This advice was given by a new Japanese official at the Japan External Trade Office (Jetro) in Singapore yesterday. Jetro's new director of the industrial electronics depart- ment, Mr Kazuomi Kiriyama, will lend
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    Lock icon Approval for Thai Airways
    64 16 Reuter THE Thai Cabinet yesterday gave its final approval for state-owned Thai Airways Co Ltd to buy two new Airbus A3lO-200s. A government spokesman said the Cabinet endorsed the purchase after the Thai Communications Ministry stood by its previous decision to buy the aircraft. The ministry
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      Lock icon Seoul to return Chinese boat
      33 16 Reuter SOUTH KOREA will return a Chinese torpedo boat and its crew today, following China's apology for intruding into its territorial waters, said Information Minister Lee Won-Hong yesterday.
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      Lock icon China invited to beauty contest
      49 16 AFP CHINA has been invited to senda contestant to the Miss Asia-Pacific beauty contest scheduled to be held in Hongkong in August. Hongkong newspaper Sing Pao said the pageant's sponsor, Asia Television, had sent invitations to television stations in Chinese cities and provinces. AFP
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      Lock icon Police find arms cache
      50 16 Reuter AN ARMS CACHE, including armour-piercing shells, a landmine, hand grenades and machine-gun parts were found in an Adelaide restaurant yesterday. Police said the discovery follows -press reports that South Australia is the centre of a gun-run-ning operation supplying foreign guerilla groups and organised crime. Reuter
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      Lock icon Wanted — Angel of Death
      45 16 Wanted Angel of Death UPI THE WASHINGTON TIMES yesterday offered a US$l million reward for evidence leading to the apprehension, trial and conviction of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, called the "Angel of Death" because of experiments he performed on World War II prisoners. UPI
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      Lock icon Concern over transmigration
      30 16 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Ambassador to Indonesia Rawdon Dalrymple has expressed concern over Jakarta's plans to move nearly 700,000 people from Java to the province of Irian Jaya. Reuter
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      Lock icon Zoo animals sexually mutilated
      29 16 Reuter SOME OF the 64 animals slaughtered by vandals in Adelaide Zoo appear to have been sexually mutilated, said the zoo's veterinary surgeon yesterday. Reuter
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      57 16 msuraa Outlook for today: Showers in several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on March 26 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.7 Associated humidity 59 Minimum temperature 24.3 Associated humidity 94 Hours of sunshine 8.80 Rainfall in millimetres Troce Rainfall this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      Panama may seek major users to fund scheme
      276 17 MAJOR uses of the Panama Canal may be approached to fund a widening scheme in a unique solution to the problem of financing the modernisation project. The US$4OO million to $600 million scheme to take the two-way vessel traffic has been in
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      Maersk to speed up US transit times
      444 17  -  By LINDA CHEE MAERSK Line has come up with a new trans-Pacific service that promises the fastest weekly transit times to the United States Pacific north-west. Starting from mid-May, a Singapore connection to Hongkong will touchdown at Tacoma/Seattle within 19 days, and bring
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      INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
      844 17 BMppingUM Cot Afeo VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner V 4 AC Toepfer X 5 Andeko Shpg VI 1 ANL 1 1 Antoh Orient Line X 1 APC Lme V 4 APL HI 4 Arrow Lines X 4 ASCL IN 1 AiiO broker V 5 A Has Lmes X
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    • PORT SIDES
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        Lock icon Tuticorin port strike
        69 17 Reuter A WEEK-LONG strike by dock workers has severely disrupted cargo handling at Tuticorin port in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Press Trust of India (PTI) reports. It said about 2,000 tonnes of foodstuffs and machinery has piled up at the port. The workers, 26 of
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        Lock icon Bunker surcharge
        27 17 Reuter THE Far East/East Africa Freight Conference said it will reduce its bunker surcharge to 30.5 per cent from 31.8 per cent, effective April 1.
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        Lock icon Raising freight rates
        53 17 Reuter The Hongkong /Sri Lanka Freight Agreement said it will raise general rates by 10 per cent, effective May 1, because of high operating costs. It said in a statement that the tariffs will be converted into US dollars at a fixed rate of exchange at US$l
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        60 17 Bernama THE ROYAL Malaysian Navy (RMN) patrol craft, KD Jarom, caught fire at the wharf near the dockyard of the RMN complex in Lumut. Four fire engines, including two from Sitiawan, were sent to the scene. Thirty firemen and the crew of the craft are fighting
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      656 18 Reuter REGULAR scenes of violence between workers and police in Spain's industrial north over proposed job lay-offs are seriously embarrassing the Socialist government whose main power base lies with the working class. Hardline communist-led and regional unions, making political capital out of Spain's nearly
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      107 18 THE depressed market for rigs may have bottomed out. According to Offshore Data Services, the rate of utilisation which fell from early January has improved with several offshore mobile rigs hired in the last two weeks. Talks with drilling contractors reveal a slight increase
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      354 18 AFP ARSON and theft remain the problems at the Port of Haiphong, several years after a major fire which was allegedly set to cover the traces of massive pilfering, published reports say. The Vietnamese army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan
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      693 18 AFP RATES showed little sign of extending their recent advance on the freight market last week, although period booking early in the week continued to suggest a firmer outlook for bulk carriers. Quiet conditions on the surface tended to belie the volume of business apparently concluded, which contributed
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      1878 18 FAIRLY active iron ore tixing mainly for Continental discharge featured the freight market on Monday while therewas also an unconfirmed report of timecharter fixing on Soviet account, shipbrokers said. Iron ore was covered from Nouadhibou to Dunkirk at U553.25 and a vessel carrying 106,500 tonnes from the same
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      224 19 A CONTRACT for a 4,000ton lift crane/accommodation ship has been won by Sunderland Shipbuilders, a member of British Shipbuilders. The order, worth £45 million, was placed by ITM (Offshore) Ltd. It is the largest single merchant ship contract to be secured by British Shipbuilders. Called
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      496 19 Reuter WORLD new merchant ship tonnage completed in 1984 rose to 18.33 million gross tons comprisng 2,210 vessels from 15.91 million consisting of 2,276 vessels in 1983, Lloyds Register of Shipping said. Lloyds noted that information is incomplete for the Peoples Republic of
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      204 19 Marek SS-2f Sea tec V, Asian dredging exhibition conference, Jakarta Convention Hall, Djakarta, Indonesia. Mareh WtB Portec n, port management exhibition and conference, Jakarta Convention Hall, Djakarta, Indonesia. Marek CT-M Offshore logistics conference, Holiday Inn, Dyce, Nr Aberdeen. April 1 Sea experience with the Alcap system, 1730 hours,
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      301 19 FRENCH shipowners have warned that merchant shipping in France must internationalise or risk disappearing from certain sectors of maritime activity. Although the Central Committee of French shipowners does not come out clearly in favour of flagging out in its newly-pub-lished 1984 report, it is included as one
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      105 19 Reuter IRAQ said its warplanes yesterday raided two "large naval targets" in the Gulf near Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal. Marine salvage executives in Bahrain said they picked up a distress signal from an unidentified Pana-manian-registered tanker, reportedly attacked in the central sector of the
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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.
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      3317 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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      682 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location B Suria 039 27 3.85 2100 N-EAC F7 0700-0800/0800-0900 Pl/Sl Family Ace 55B 27.3.85 2300 Shofuku F2 0900-1100 U2 Sea Hawk 8513 27 3.85 2300
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      1858 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S> Afro-Eurasia Liae Transgroup 'Si Ahreaklel Llaer Servlre Kim Shpg Si Alfred T Toepter Oceanus Shipping Agen ries (Si Marintex Enterprise (PKi AI par Intrasea (Si Biniang Shpg (KL> Island
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      441 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Llna 101 Magdeburg P'cess Amalyn Toe ho Maxu Be nj am as Builder III Fengtao GN 1300 Kris Merubi Raj Brooke Sri Wljaya Stolt Venture Sun Timor Yanmen K29 K28 K27 K16 K18 K23 K35 K22 K24W
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      381 17 For®*9 n Dealing OVtT B"^* Pubkshmd by TIMES BOOKS INTERNATIONAL Times Centre 1 New Industrial Road Spore 1953 Tel: *****44 A memDOf Ot the times ofganisotion 556.50 Each rasa REGULAR ten— of violence between workers and police in Spain's industrial north over propoeed job lay-offs II WORLD new merchant ship
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      333 17 UASC NATIONAL LINE OF BAHRAIN, IRAQ, EXPRESS FULL CONTAINER SERVICE UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) SEALORO SHIPPING AGENCIES 70 Shtnlon War 0* 02C Marina Houm Singapora 0207 Tal *****94 Tale .Ho «S?S4i9 CFS ottica TPC 03 30 Tal *****31 and *****32 Tarminal offica TPC 03-29 Tal No *****90 *****93 smwamk
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      904 17 ]]$@!/"><'|[_[+}_!.$=-"(=[~-@._ MAERSK LINE XPORT TO USA. EUROPE. MIDDLE EAST. WEST AFRICA ASIA TO I t'ACIF I( (ill F ATI ANTIC KASTI.W ADA IN" I A NI» i■( ijNTS Feeder Vessels E***** Penang 21-21/3 29-30/3 4-4/4 54/4 LOUS 11-11/4 12-13/4 LOSE 11-11/4 19-20/4 LARS 25-25/4 26-27/4 2-2/5 3-4/5 rm y-* :>AI
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      329 18 YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South Wm( Pacific North Waat Faador at Tokyo Faador at Koba Mrittr VSI LA/LB OAK Motor VSI SAT YC* I. APOLLO 22/4 25/4 TOKYO M. 25/4 2C/4 2EQANM C/ 5 9/5 S. KBHU J/5 11/5 3ELAWU C/ 5 9/5 HTUCA 15/5 lt/5 P UUtO*
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      246 18 Supercarrier Service NEXT MOnVAlb BAKBtH rtKbtlfc 11/ I. WW" ww*" r*viv« TO: CALIFORNIA PANAMA US ATLANTIC US GULF E. CANADA 4/5 7/5 »/5 11/5 15/5 14/5 U/5 22/5 25/5 27/5 »/5 2/4 4/4 5/4 7/4 12/4 TMu Kctptnc catfn to IM> (*J). J. ftmau* MM, StecfcM «i te kp fa
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      696 19 The Straits Steamship Group 7- Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd Overseas Containers Limited ♦j STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT S'par* PJMh( 21/3 31/3 M/ 4 W/4 12/4 14/4 H/4 21/4 2>/4 31/4 •4/5 M/ 5 12/5 14/5 2V/5 22/5 21/5
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      698 19 Franco Belgian Services F+r £ui. w-vi* 23* /wn fur «i*« (MEMBER OF ACE CONSORTIUM! fuu. conwp MW TO EUWW mi cowiAttsw sowa rtow eutow STOW P.KBJUKI* Mjrrt I tan fStew Hm rttown Apt CHM CONTAM 3 Apr <11 Ap) 22 Apr 23 Apr 25 Apt 27 Apr 21 Art 30
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      433 20 TTv^ Hapag-Lloyd EXPORTS TO CONTINENT/UK On carriace to Scandmavia, Med, Carribean IS. America Wand haulage to inland destinations in Europe S>rt PKHnx Pe»ai*l.ei»esßkao Genaa Hbwf Adam Bhaeen Airtwerp U.MUBMMMHU/4 IC/4 11/4 11/5 31 4 W 5 Connecting in Kobe Connecting in Kaoslming "Also Keeping cargo tof ATLANTIC GU.F POSTS ma
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      284 20 K LINE MO*f* *<- j ULLY CONTAINERISED JJ< VICE TO EUROPE VIA SUE/ 1 N*™ 6 ,h cf Comortwi CHMA CONTABtR m KOREAN CHANCE ?1R I 1 HONGKONG CORTAWER 44R 1 OMENTAL CHEF 43* CKVW.su RO2E 43* ALSO LOADING (OR BRfMLRHAVIN 23 4 7S 4 27 4 30 4 ?/S
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      599 20 THONG SOON AGENCIES PTE. LTD. #09-07. ROBINA HOUSE. S PORE 0106 TEL: *****88 TELEX RS ***** BOOKING: *****56 (OIRECT LINE} SINGAPORE JO PENANG KIM SOON LI DESTWATION Penang Penang SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK •EQUATOR I SK 7/15 In Port 28 Mar I •EQUATOR IV SK 7/S5 1 Apr 4 Apr B6ON
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      682 20 EVERGREEN Full Container Service Round-The-World East Bound Service^FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/WMED./FE) SGP HUC KSC KIC PUS OS* !T0 KSN OB NYC BAL HBC FU RDM ANN LHV M.C EVER GRADE 4/4 9/4 11/4 12/4 15/4 17/4 11/4 7/5 11/5 13/5 15/5 2</5 27/5 29/5 11/5 2/1 0/0 25/1 f*t GOMG 11/4 22/4 2J/4
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      240 20 HSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD IH ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF JrjJ IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES Sacaprc Lm*| to 5/4 B. ANwv B S«OSt MARITBE PTE LTD TEL *****44/7 4 *****70 MMOSi MARITME SON BHD Td *****2/3 MALAYSIA TRADE TRANSPORT LTD T* G7893 t *3725 PORT KELANG NALOSE MARITME SON BHD T«l
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      784 21 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building. 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 v\v EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES SERVICES KARACHI/M.E. GULF DUBAI VOYAGE 14-17/4 I 26-2/5 I 5-1/5 9-10/4 E-320 SERVICES COLOMBO/CHITT AGONG/RANGOON SINGAPORE RANGOON VOYAGE 19-21/4 6-8/4 BANGKOK DIRECT SERVICES 8-9/ INDONESIA SERVICES In Pt-28/3 14-15/4 19-21/4 KOTA BANTENG KOTA
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      788 21 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAfCR SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE WITH LBERTY TO CALL AT RED SEA PORTS PENANG FED VIA SINGAPORE IKJJEBSEN LINE Kk. NEW ZEALAND SOUTH EMI Ml* TOKYO BAT ELK 15S Tt€A S 13S EBSEN SOUTHLAM) 6S ST>aya lit Pi* 1m Hk| 1/4 13/4 23/4 2t/4 M/ 4 J/5
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      508 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF FAR EAST S PORE SERVICE FULL CONTAINER VESSEL. BUSAN YOKOHAMA KOK KAOHSUNG Ml STOK TGPWOK MAIAPAMT WIS W S 3 1/3 10/3 It 3 17/3 22/3 24/3 A{«lH EKA JAYA AGENCIES /V trrmipal SISAL PTE LTD 'fl PIN»N<, .WI M *****? P» SB6SI RORO CONTAINER
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      513 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR (Burmese National Line) Loadnf for Ranfoon S'pvc P.K atonf h Pi{«i Vts Phashwefyawywa *252 1/10 Apr Myomayea VB9 20/24 Apr \>A BANK LINE jr. T iKLdlll'lL/ftQJ SPORE R'DAM HULL HMIG IVYBANK 19 Apr 15 May 18 Moy 21 May CLYDEBANK 5 Moy 31 Moy
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      1123 22 K KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA V LTD. USA CANADA PACIFIC COAST (iM-iidim destinations inland vu ipi microbridge a miniland bridge) FED®/ KANSAJ PIONEER V 44 MONTE MAY V2S MOTtO VESSEL ASM MARU ¥51 TOKYO MARU V2O BAY BRDGE V 34 NEPTUNE EMERALD VS HAKONE MARU V 26 STORE 24 Mar PKLG
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      508 22 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH NEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTARER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE loadM* for LOS AMG(I(S SAN (RANCISCO SIATTU. I*l OHM VANCOUVER BC Aueptinj FCI 'FCI Contarners AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting Fa FCI Contamers 78 ft Ma' 30/31 Mar 19/70 A(K Frtai Mtfc Sy4n Ahs Accept! 7? Apr 12 Apr 19 Ap< RM/Om 78
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      644 22 SANKD ASIA FROM JAPANESE POUTS AND HONGKONG Sjnjjporf PKeiar* bPt/27 Mir 2/3 Apr «/7 Apr 11/12 Apr 16/17 Apr 16/17 Apr 11/19 Apr Fount 1. SUN CANNA 2. GOTONG ROYONG 3 HAND KNOW 4. SANKO SCORPIO 5 UK AO 6. SARUNTA I 7. TWSHO MAM 31/1 Apr 3/5 Apr 1/10
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      421 22 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD. to Anson Road »27 16 International Pia/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 (It) Lines) VOtASIAUMS o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK I OCEAN MM) *****03 FORT NELSON *****05 S parc P Keianf Loatfnf tar:- Apr SETE/ANT ROTT/UJ(. (AVON) 20 Apr 23 Apr ROTT/ANT/UJ. (AVON) py SEAWOOD AND R.M.Z.t^n
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      793 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD I TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): C com WO 29W+. K CHANCE 21W HK CONTAMER 44N... 0 CHEF 43N C RO2E 43W N CRYSTAL 29W Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia C CONTAINER S pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 0500 3/4 LCL Cargo 1700 2/4 FROM EUROPE
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      607 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON MCHON BUS** 14/4 27/4 3/5 12/5 IJ/S 2t/5 SPi*l »UNI\ Nf PKJNf AGFNCIFS PIF 110 Ifl ?***** 7 ?/4b434 Bookingt ???/■> 10. i Operations) ????48 7 ??09?54 (lermnal) ??0?4S0 ??0?S04 (CIS) Mi! itsit »I,INIS TUWAS SHI*
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      859 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUIDMG 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Tetei Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS 2510S f kelamg M/S SHMHMT NAM SOON SOU BW) IST ANO 2ND FLOOR NO 1 JALAN CEMPENWG POST KLANG. MALAYSIA
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      463 24 r ltc<|i<Mial l'.ont;iiiH>r Lines 3 Sailings Weekly *n^iwiiJrßeliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A Mon, Wed Sat HINOD£ KISEN CO. LTD MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER I I.TK lIK MET \KKIKIi FORTIIGHTLY FULL CONTAMER SERVICE 7ia an TO EUROPE ICRMMTSCHAU 3/15 SOBERSHAUSEU 2/15 P»SEWALK J/15 store mttwrp MM* 20 Apr 17 Apr
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      175 24 Regional Weather "4 s A N K 'A J 0 rt m i rt 35 i IB* 5 =Tt Sfe. SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. </* Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height One half fteche represents 5 knots LEGEND R Thunderstorm <*rect,on with
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      38 25 Ml 7© use AGENOES K. LUMPUR P. KELANG PENANG P. GUDANG J. BAHARU LEOSHP SPORE 4280M/*****6/*****4/*****3 *****1/4 TERMMAL 3H3SI/2 *****/*****/*****/***** *****3/*****5/*****1/*****0 22SS6S/22UM/*****5 *****22 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE STRAITS/TAIWAN/JAPAN CONTAINER SERVICE HUH vilm tUB S E A./AUSTRALIA CONTAINER SERVICE
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      108 25 Cheng Lie Navigation Co., Ltd. CONTMO samct to STOW HI HKC KEE KM If V W4 M/I 2/4 1/4 11/4 12/4 S IS 7/4 11/4 14/4 11/4 2*/4 w GENERAL AGENTS CONTINENTAL FEEDERS PTE. LTD., T«i. *****51 Tatoi RS 2110* FEEDERS GOOD HARVEST LINES couo mum TIM 1 TBN 2
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      456 25 31/3 *k» fan OBM FLM) PftOMPIiIHPfWG LINE SL SHUN MOMTM.T LIB SOm TO «T tHKM HUMKHM CMEER 15* ftprl NUM. POWTCW LT*U. KM»U COTBM inc. lmos <#i) mbim wnow OMOHU CMO lMkHn mnm cmm r SKMIMEIfn WWCHWM«M»^«»n2J2^»iiL to ANSON DO AO #17-I*. •TTCTHATIOMAL PUZ*. SINGAPORE 9MT TIL; 22HSS1. XtlMB TELEX;
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      389 26 east ASIA LINE —J (Malaysian Flog) IWgulw Lintr Otrricw Bttwnn ITBIA/B PO«E/INOIA P. Kclang P. Gudong S'pore Ldg for MAN 12/4 9/4 10/4 CNcafO MDQUPOtTMM 2/4 4/4 6/4 Bombay KGULM MPM/SntMTS/MPM SEKWCO 3 EAST ASIA SNTP* SON. BHD TEL: *****2/36 TU: MA: ***** JALAI MFBC Kl. Tat S3UII/*****0 UMwn 7
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      323 26 sapping (smgapofe) private limited REGULAR LINER SERVICE VSI TIAStt CONTTTRA TRASTATE IST 4 SEAL I ETA/SBI 3S/3. 1/4 4/4. 12/4 2S/3. 2/4 10/4 2/4 OESTN TOKO/HONGKONG ANT/ROTT/UK/ffiG LA/NT/HOU DAANVf SYD MELB BUSAN UNGANG HKG/KEEIUNG ACCEPTMG LCL/FQ. EUROPE/FAR EAST LINER SERVICE VSL ETA FTD DBCH FROM TRDENT MARSO 2.4.15 5.4.15 NMMK/MfTVOf
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      607 26 C.Y. LINE (A Mtmbcr Of The ACE Consortium) CHO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) S port P Keijnf LiNam RtaiFstMK KW[ Brwi AMwrp cieu com wo mi 3/4 i/«) 22/4 23/4 n/t 27/4 21/4 KOREAN CHANCE 218 10/4 1/4) 25/4 10/4 2/5 4/5 5/5
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      709 26 Everett Lines COMPANM PERUANA DE VAPOREES (C.P.V.) "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" LMdm£ tor Cj«* *Jt»j«. Ho and all ottwr Put/run ports antti trinstapmcnt <1 Koto On CPV ThKMfti B*s ot lid** >° ,KU| destination P. Kaianf Saifapartt hi PI/27 Mar G*lK2l/29 Mar 1/3 Apr 4/5 Apr 11/12 Apr 13/14 Apr EVERETT
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      238 26 ZIM EILAT CONTAINER LINE S>n EM Irmto Up*> tan ZM ELAT 10 Apt 22 tar Apr 1 »b» 15 h> Accept* T* Empew Mi Mtmrnnrnm Parts. Mm ICI/FCI I* al Ma* .1 LI K1 1— M 1 M^i B u I# NRIO Accept* Klje lU«*lhrti^t** a* Sat* tarn Sm zim
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      Spenders in a class all of their own
      793 27  -  By BRIAN GOMEZ THE BUSINESS TRAVELLER is wooed by national tourist organisations and airlines for somewhat similar reasons. Professional needs and access to expense accounts make the businessman a comparatively big spender. Success is predictably intertwined with the same mystique that sends
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      A class by any other name
      1441 28  -  The names of Business Class cabins often sound like flights of fancy but airlines know full well that it takes much more than the euphony to sell the seats. YAP BOH HOON reports. YAP BOH HOON THE NAME means a great deal when airlines
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      SAS to have new lounge
      135 28 FROM April 1 1985, business and first class passengers of Scandinavian Airlines System will use the Singapore Airport Terminal Services departure lounge. The SATS lounge, now with a capacity for 60 persons, is to be expanded to accommodate 80 passengers. The lounge is currently used
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      Phoning down
      64 28 INTERNATIONAL airline passengers may be able to make telephone calls from their seats, through satellite, from 1987, under a series of trials in which the International Maritime Satellite Organisation has agreed to participate. At the request of British Telecom International, Inmarsat agreed to provide capacity on one of
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      Moneybelt, travellers cheques or bank draft?
      1109 28  -  By DAVID GABRIEL ONE OF THE problems of trav- j elling is paying for it. Filling a t wallet with bank-notes is hardly i appropriate, but there is no sim- c pie advice to be given on what 1 form of a currency, and
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      The favourite convention cities... .. picking the good, better and best
      2110 30  - The favourite convention cities... picking the good, better and best CONVENTIONS usually mean throngs of executives engulfing a particular city, wearing "hello" tags and spending days and nights on end with unknown colleagues from around the world. Social consequences apart, the main objective of conventions is to keep those involved
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      Comfort in the air attracts compliments on the ground
      1378 32 Down-to-earth good service makes all the difference AIRLINES do not exist to compete for such titles as the 'best airline in the world' or 'the safest airline'. The titles are given by travellers through surveys conducted by research companies. It is,
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      ON-TIME DEPARTURE
      119 32 rum I voi NMCIMI AftUNS w Singapore Airlines 989 99.2 Finnair 966 900 SAS 943 77.2' 87.2 2 Japan Air Lines 92 4 93.0 Iberia 91.6 92.5 British Airways 860 83.0 TAP Air Portugal 855 84.5 Pan American 84.5 82.0 Sabena 83.9 88.0 Cathay Pacific 822 85.3 British
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      On time most of the time
      151 32 IN ANOTHER SURVEY, this time by Executive Travel, an international journal for business executives, Singapore Airlines has been rated the most punctual of 16 carriers surveyed. The report, published in a recent issue of the journal, shows that SlA's punctuality factor out of Heathrow
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      Changi — the gateway to Asean
      961 33  - Changi the gateway to Asean By YEOW MEI SIN PERHAPS the greatest boost to Singapore's travel trade is the general recognition of its role as Asean's major visitor gateway. What this means to Singapore is that long-haul and regional visitors will be encouraged to land first in Singapore before hopping
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      Lock icon Travel becomes a rewarding experience
      868 34  -  By LIM SOON NEO THE USE of travel as an incentive is being increasingly used as a management tool, attracting a growing number tour organisers who see good profits in the business. As a tool used by organisations to motivate sales personnel, dealers, distributors, customers
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      Outward bound bonus
      683 34 INCENTIVE TRAVEL is not a one-way business for Singapore. Groups fly out as well as jet in and at least two travel agents have recognised the potential of the market. Mansfield Travel, a whollyowned subsidiary of Straits Steamship Co Ltd, set up an incentive travel department at
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      Back to the starting point
      229 34 TO TRACE the origin of incentive travel, one has to go back to motivation, says Mr A 1 Geismar, vice-president (product marketing) of Maritz Travel Company, one of the largest incentive travel organisers in the US. In 1851, Benjamin Talbot Rabbott came up with the
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      How SAS got its timing back in trim
      751 35  -  By JOANNE YAP NOT TOO LONG AGO, business travellers would travel with Scandinavian Airlines System with reluctance. It was in the red and the chance of winning back profits or customers looked remote. Now it is making profits, and has re-emerged as
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      Long hauls and short stops
      832 35  -  Thoughtful carriers take the hassle from flying Globe-trotting businessmen are by most accounts individualistic but to airlines they seem to share rather uniform travelling habits. LIM SOON NEO looks at how airlines are serving the growing number of business travellers. LIM SOON NEO IN BUSINESS,
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