The Business Times, 30 July 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 WEDNESDAY, JULY 36, 1186 75 CENTS
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  • 512 1  -  By MARGARET THOMAS, Special Correspondent A NEW Commiaßion of Inquiry could be set up to look into Mr J B Jeyaretnam's allegations of executive interference in the Judiciary. This was one of three options proposed by the Prime Minister yesterday in
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  • 324 1 THE GOVERNMENT has ruled out the setting up of a casino to attract more tourists to Singapore because of the danger of organised crime and "long-term adverse social consequences". "Experience in other countries has also shown that casinos encourage grey activities that live
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  • 490 1  -  *y HOMER CHEN MALAYA TIN PRINTING'S largest shareholder, Gineer Investments Pte Ltd, is having problems with its creditors. The Gulf is pressing for US$3.7l million (SsB.2 million) in outstanding credit extended to Gineer in a suit filed on July 9. MTP,
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  • 604 1  -  Minimum-sum scheme to be announced in a month's time sjr ANNA TEO INSTEAD OF RAISING the Central Provident Fund withdrawal age, the government is finalising an alternative proposal that will require old people to set aside only a small sum. This was revealed yesterday by
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  • 248 1 POSITIVE NEWS surrounding a hnivtfiil of local inH Mnl»y«i»n companies, and a BT report that the Tan Koon Swan forward share contract problems were nearing a solution pushed share prices up again on the local stock exchange yesterday. The Business Times Composite Index
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  • 338 1 AFP OPEC OIL ministers yesterday sought to steer clear of a showdown over national crude production quotas as they resumed their talks on ways to bolster the flagging world oil market. Opec president Rilwanu Lukman of Nigeria confirmed after a two-hour working session that
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  • 110 1 AFP THE PLUNGE in oil rates is seriously affecting the Arab countries' defence capability, according to an Israeli oil expert. Shumuel Meir told Tel Aviv University's Institute of Strategic Studies: "Opec is dead and buried, and will never again be able to fix and
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    • 135 1 TP Barisan National's chances Malaysian Elections'B6 THE CAMPAIGNING for the seventh general election in Malaysia is drawing to a close and already the political pundits are making their assessments. What are the chances of the ruling Barisan National romping home with a convincing victory on August 3? What could possibly
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    • 237 1 mmmi More reports, Pago 3 MONEY EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS TV A DOOMESSURY OUR VIEW IT IS ESSENTIAL for the securities industry to hove o strong, active group of remisiers, the traditional conduits for noninstitutional funds. Given their important role, the need for clear rules which will ensure the uniform treatment
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 391 2  -  Committees may be set up in professional associations By ANNA TEO THEY ARE FOUND mainly at the workplace now, but if studies by the Singapore Professional Centre (SPC) prove viable, productivity committees would be set up in every professional association too. The idea is being explored
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    • 274 2  -  By JAIME LYE THE quest for the best in-bouse newsletter is on again for the fourth consecutive year. Through this competition, the National Productivity Board (NPB) hopes to boost the quality of in-house publications, encourage more companies to start producing them
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    • 229 2 UNION LEADERS have a tough time motivating workers and telling them to accept wage restraint at the same time, a leading trade unionist pointed out yesterday. Mr Othman Haron Eusofe, the assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress, also reminded employers not to
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    • 286 2 THE PROFESSOR quoted from American prose and poetry written over the centuries moving, scathing and hilarious reflecting the development of thought among the American intelligentsia in post-revolutionary times. And while Professor Alan E Heimert had his 300-odd audience at times laughing or quietly
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    • 140 2 ABOUT 14,000 more passengers were handled by Changi Airport in the first five months of this year compared with the previous corresponding period. In total, the international airport served 3,929,423 passengers from January to May this year on 30,348 scheduled flights. This compares
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    • 167 2 THE PSYCHIATRIC unit at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, set up to decentralise mental treatment in Singapore, will start operating from Aug L The Department of Psychological Medicine, the first self-contained psychiatric unit outside Woodbridge Hospital, will treat patients with illnesses such as depression, hysteria,
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    • 160 2 EXXON CHEMICAL has consolidated Its energy chemicals activities for the Asia-Pacific region in a new division at Exxon Chemical SIMOO Pte Ltd in Singapore Energy chemicals include the company's range of products for increased efficiency in petroleum production, transportation and refining. Under the new arrangement,
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    • 381 2 One side of the brain makes all the rational decisions while the other makes all the emotional decisions. Judged by any standard, the 1986 Volvo 740 must be seriously regarded as one of the finest 2-litre cars on the road today. It is a Volvo designed to give you smooth
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
    • 258 3 NO STATISTICS are needed to prove it, Just ask the tailor. Children in Singapore are growing taller and fatter. The point was made by the Acting Minister for Community Development, Mr Wong Kan Seng, to support a statement the Prime Minister made to
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    • 72 3 ENROLMENT for pre-primary classes fen* 1967 is estimated to remain about the same as this year at 4,900, according to the Parliamentary Secretary (Education), Mr Tang Guan Seng. He said 176 pre-primary classes would be available in 44 schools next year. A study is being carried out
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    • 279 3 A COMPLAINT agaiivt Mr J B Jeyaretnam for "seriously" Parliament when he claimed that the police had made wrongful arrest and detention has been filed with the Committee of Privileges. Mr Jeyaretnam yesterday withdrew his allegations but refused to apologise, saying he was Justified in making
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    • 221 3 SOLDIERS hurt In training while serving national service last year were not forced to go beyond their sbfltttm, said the Minister of State lor Defence, Brigadier-General Lee Hsien Looog. Also tt was not national service that caused a few soldiers to commit suicide, he
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    • 497 3  -  Bell cuts short minister's reply By CHUANG PECK MING ONLY ONE out of three questions on the resale of HUDC flats was answered in Parliament yesterday by Mr Teh Cheung Wan, the Minister for National Development. He was stopped by the sound of
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    • 174 3 THE DEFENCE BUDGET is $172 million smaller this year because of a fall in gross domestic product The shortfall would not "seriously compromised" the effort to build up a credible defence force against all possible threats, said the Minister of State for Defence,
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    • 69 3 THE GOVERNMENT has given assurance that steps have been taken to check against radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident. Food Imported from Europe and Russia has been inspected for contamination. Measurements for radioactivity on aircraft flying over Europe were also carried out. The assurance was
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    • 47 3 ABOUT 778 HDB flat owners have asked to extend their loan payment period, according to the Minister far National Development, Mr Teh Cheang Wan. Of these, 552 and 161 flat owners requested to extend their repayment period to 25 and 20 years respectively.
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    • 92 3 SEASON PARKING fees at Car Park B in Changi Airport will be lowered from $05 to $50 a month. The Minister for National Development, Mr Teh Cheang Wan, said the URA and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore have agreed to the reduction. He
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    • 264 3  -  •y BOEY KIT YIN RESETTLEMENT benefits, fruit trees compensation and farmers brought light relief after some three hours of heated argument between the Prime Minister and the Member of Parliament for Anson in Parliament yesterday afternoon. Minister for National Development Teh Cheang
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    • 76 3 FORMER trade union leader Phey Tew Kok is still wanted by the police for corruption, said the Minister of State (Home Affairs), Dr Lee Boon Tang. Replying to a question brought up again by Mr J B Jeyaretnam (Anson), Dr Lee, who is also
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    • 115 3 THE GOVERNMENT has rejected a suggestion for a one-time radio and television licence fee "in the interest of the public". Taking up the suggestion by Dr Wong Kwei Cheong (Cairnhill) would mean the public have to pay a bigger
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    • 194 3 'Ml "The woridfe best seafood is found in the French countryside." I i k>3 True. The best seafood in France is found in those little restaurants on the coast, away from the city. True. Seafood lovers of Paris drive there to indulge themselves at every opportunity. True. The country drive,
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 398 4 UPI US COMMERCE SECRETARY Malcolm Baldrige predicted yesterday that the US trade deficit with Japan will widen this year to at least US$55 billion and warned that the coming months would be "critical" to averting a trade war. Mr Baldrige, on the
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    • 185 4 AP IMPORT CONTRACTS signed by major Japanese trading companies dropped a record 47.3 per cent last month to LO5 trillion yen (US$6.Bl billion), while export contracts dropped by 25.8 per cent to 972.1 billion yen (U556.27 billion). An official of the Japan Foreign Trade
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    • 319 4 AP CHINA PLANS to shift 100 million people from turn work to Jobs Id rural enterprises by 1)95, an official of the Agriculture Ministry has said. Zhang Yi, deputy director of the Township Enterprise Management Bureau, said the effort to
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    • 117 4 AFP ECONOMIC RECESSION caused by plunging oil price» Is likely to lead to 15,000 foreign waters being laid off In oilrich United Arab Emirates this year. The Dubai-based English language daily Gulf News said its estimate was based on statistics from the interior and
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    • 282 4 AFP SOUTH KOREA would resist any US demand to reevaluate the Korean tun-sacy woa again* the dollar as part of a move to narrow the US trade deficit, South Korean said on Tuesday. The offfcialß were commenting on press reports from
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 448 5 Move stops short of total South African divestment Reuter The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee will start voting tomorrow on a bill aimed at imposing sweeping economic sanctions against South Africa. The bill, unveiled on Monday by committee chairman Richard Lugar, would ban
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    • 193 5 AP LIBERAL US Congressmen have reacted angrily to a littlenoticed agreement to boost South African textile imports despite growing pressure to impose US sanctions. The office of special trade representative Clayton Yeutter reached the agreement on June 27 to raise US imports of South
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    • 323 5 Reuter PERUVIAN PRESIDENT Alan Garcia, entering his second year in office, has declared that foreign companies operating in Peru wffl be forbidden for two years from sending some of their profits abroad. In a second move to prevent flight of capital from
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    • 200 5 Reuter SOVIET leader Mikhail Gorbachev has called for the rapid industrial development of the Soviet Far East, suggesting guidelines to tap what he called its vast but neglected potential. Speaking on Monday in Vladivostok, which faces Japan across a mere 300-km stretch
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    • 167 5 Reuter FRENCH state spending on industry will be cut sharply next year as part of the right-wing government's drive to reduce subsidies and encourage greater competition. An Industry Ministry spokesman said in Paris on Monday that the ministry's budget would be cut
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    • 204 5 AP WAGE INCREASES in new US contracts for unionised workers in private industry this year are roughly half the size of previous raises. First-year increases in 261 major contracts covering at least 1,000 workers each and nearly one million altogether
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    • 338 5 UPI AUSTRIAN authorities have seized US-made computers bought in West Germany in what may be a vast European network to funnel high technology equipment to the Soviet bloc. "We think this is the tip of the iceberg of a very large diversion" of
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 475 6 NYT PLUNGING oil prices have already dealt one punishing blow to the economies of the Gulf oil states. Now, an upsurge of Islamic fervour among local judges and indebted businessmen is posing a threat to the region's hanking system as well. In Abu
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    • 123 6 BANK OF CHINA has cut its prime rate by a quarter point to 6.75 per cent in line with easier interest rates in money markets in Singapore. Meanwhile, DBS Finance has cut its savings and fixed deposit rates by a quarter point. The interest rate
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    • 219 6 Reuter CUBA has suspended payments on its short-term commercial debt to Western nations due to a shortage of foreign capital. The move, which is likely to result in the freezing of most Western trade credit, follows Cuba's suspension of all payments on its medium and
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    • 315 6 NYT AMERICAN TREASURY bond prices tumbled on Monday in extremely light trading that reflected the continued absence of retail investors, many of whom expect next week's US$3O billion quarterly Treasury refunding to augment the supply of government debt sharply and thus produce much
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    • 131 6 UPI IN LINE with its policy of liberalising Japan's financial market, the government is scheduled to allow trust banks to operate foreign currencies in trust next week, the Japanese Finance Ministry has said. Ministry officials said the decision would apply to all 17 trust
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    • 254 6 Bernama THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund will allow the Philippine government to pursue an expansionary monetary policy to enable the economy to grow positively this year, a high ranking government official hag mid. The official said the IMF has relaxed various monetary targets so that
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    • 1269 6 Reuter SINGAPORE The US dollar yesterday closed higher against major currencies except sterling, after fluctuating in moderately active two-way trading. It was generally firmer due mainly to persistent shortcovering, closing at 156.20/30 yen against New York's 155.40/50 and at 2.1205/15 marks against 2.1110/20. Dealers said there was intermittent
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    • 240 6 Interbank rotes at 3pm yesterday: Local dollors to out unit of +ort»gn Md OHw C *oao parity currency: US dolor 2.1750 2 1760 ***** -22 86 Storing pound 3 2211 3 2248 7 3469 -56 16 Austrcion dollar 1 3234 1 3262 3 4286 -61 40 NZ doltor
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    • 58 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market closed at 4-1/8 per cent yesterday, unchanged from Monday's close. The term rates rose 1/16 across the board. S$ Interbank rotes ot 7pm yesterday: Offer M Ov«r«gh» 41/8 4 1-month 4 5/16 4 3/16 2-month 4 3/8 4 1/4
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    • Article, Illustration
      341 6 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed little changed from the morning's steady levels in quiet afternoon trading, dealers said. They said the market lacked fresh factors with most operators sidelined ahead of US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's testimony to the House Banking Committee yesterday, the treasury's refunding
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    • 309 6 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed a shade lower in active late profit-taking by local traders. Dealers said the market opened firmer on light shortcovering, following market talk of Japan's gold coin issue commemorating die 60th anniversary of the Emperor's reign is being well received and similar issues might follow. It
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    • 505 6 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures yesterday gapped down sharply from previous close as fears of flight of foreign capital from the US due to the weak dollar and anticipation of heavy treasury bond supply resulted in the selling pressure. After the bearish opening, the market however, recovered from the lows
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    • 280 6 ACT (CAP. US) EVERPRIME CONTRACTOR PTC LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of EVERPRIME CONTRACTOR PTE LTD duly convened and held at 585 North Bridge Road #11-07 Blanco Court Singapore 0718 on the 24th day of July 1980, the following special resolution was
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  • TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
    • 1729 7  -  The Skills Development Fund comes under the wing of the National Productivity Board from August and there could be new directions ahead for the fund. Economics Correspondent ZHOU MEI reviews the SDF's work during its first six years of operation. ZHOU MEI THE sarnj-S Development
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    • 381 7 Standard Chartered The way the money market is these days, with volatile exchange rates fluctuating wildly, there's a vital need for corporate treasurers and investors to hedge foreign exchange risk. For this reason, Standard Chartered has introduced FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADED OPTIONS. An Insurance Policy A traded option is Kke an
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  • FEATURES
    • 512 8 THE GREAT CLOUD of depression that was overhanging the stock market has finally cleared, bringing some long lost cheer to the equities industry. But for Singapore's 500 or so remisiers, the middle men in the market who bridge the gap between the man in the street and
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    • 1731 8  -  Campaigning for the seventh national election in Malaysia is drawing to a close and political pundits believe that the ruling Barisan National will romp home with a convincing win although it will suffer some electoral setbacks, reports Regional Correspondent BRIAN GOMEZ, who was in Kuala Lumpur
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 223 8 mmmi© CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Wiiowy cot? (5) 6 I get a coin changed, Greek-style (5) 9 Maintain that ten is not enough (7) 10 A water-fowl by the dam (5) 11 Too out of sorts to be smart (5) 12 When pitched, they should keep the rain out (5)
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  • SPORTS
    • 415 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS TAN AH PENG capped a fine week by being selected to represent the Republic in the LTAM Cup inter-state tennis championship on Aug 15-17 in Pulau Pinang. The 24-year-old, who led his Volvo team to a tactical victory in the Citizen
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    • 192 9 AFP DANCING BRAVE, last weekend's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner at Ascot, and his Epsom Derby conqueror Shahrastani, are set for another classic showdown in Paris on Oct 5. Their trainers, Guy Harwood and Michael Stoute, have both said
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    • 328 9 Reuter SWEDISH tennis star Mats Wilander, ranked number two in the world, said on Monday he needed a rest from the game but "felt trapped in the Grand Prix net". Wilander was speaking after losing in the final of the Swedish Open on
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    • 198 9 AP FIFTH-SEEDED Paolo Cane of Italy defeated Jeremy Bates of Britain 6-0, 7-6 on Monday in the first round of the US$lOO,OOO Melkhuisje Grand Prix tennis tournament in Hilversum, Netherlands. The young Italian, who is 38th in the world rankings after he won the Bordeaux Grand
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    • 408 9 Reuter FUEL, or the lack of it, proved the decisive factor in the West German Grand Prix motor race at Hockenheim and helped Briton Nigel Mansell extend his lead in the world championship. Nelson Piquet, Mansell's team mate, had a deserved victory
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    • 205 9 AP THE American Super Bowl champion, Chicago Bears, arrived in London on Monday to prepare for its National Football League pre-season game with the Dallas Cowboys at Wembley Stadium. The match, billed as the "American Bowl *86," sold out within
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    • 642 9 UPI ONE WORLD CHAMPION was beaten, another in disgrace, on the first day that the athletes have been able to push politics out of the centrestage of the 13th Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Adrian Moor ho use, swimming his heart out for
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 384 10 Reuter SWITZERLAND'S three major chemical companies are still in good shape in spits of sharp falls in turnover in the first six months of this year under the influence of the lower dollar, say analysts in Zurich. However, they said only Sandos
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    • 150 10 Reuter REUTERS Hokfings PLCs board to reviewing a sale of Renter wbarta by Mirror Group mmmm* Ltd made torn than two months before the release of Realm's Interim results. This was disclosed by managing director Glen Renfrew on Monday. He declined to
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    • 314 10 Reuter STOCKS tumbled to their biggest loss on Monday since the record July 7 sell-off, as bearishness in credit markets ahead of the big US Treasury refunding and pessimism over the economy touched off frenzied selling in stock index futures and the underlying stocks.
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 324 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed firmer in heavy trading yesterday as strong buying interest sent the Hang Seng Index within striking distance of a new record high, brokers said. The index rose 12.72 to 1,860.01, less than six below the record 1,865.65 reached in May. The Hongkong Index rose 6.50
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    • 216 11 JUtY 29 MT» 9M 0 03 Kuochan 0*v La* Chang Yuan 22.60 34.10 -0.3 +0.6 24.40 •0.1 12.65 -0.2 31.50 -0.3 38.20 -0.4 Chang Hwa Bank 44.40 26 10 -0.6 -0.3 Not Investment 385.20 1 Om Hw Cement Chin Hwi Hour 24 70 1060 23.80 -0.4 -0.15 •0.5 Pocifcc
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    • 447 11 TOKYO: Prices closed sharply lower yesterday on widespread profit-taking and liquidation as the market entered an adjustment phrase after recent steep rises, brokers said. The market average finished at 17,728.94, down 310.00 yen from Monday and its fourth largest sin-gle-day decline ever, after touching 17,689.06 in the afternoon. The
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    • 70 11 JULY 29 Pan* Moretaal Onantol B Phi OvanMi 0.011 0015 -0.001 0.001 Angfo PM 0.0012 ««Kh 0013 ind) PMax B 0.23 -0005 Alto Con. B Picop B PtDT Son M*ual B 146 65 unch -3 Banc Patrolaum Banguat Con. B 0.0038 -***** 69 -11 Saofront 0009 12,50 unch ■0
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    • 381 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed higher yesterday with continued support coming from the government's decision on Monday to reverse partly its earlier decision to impose withholding tax on widely held securities, brokers said. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index was 10.4 stronger at 1,105.1 and the All Industrials
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    • 107 11 JULY 29 Wm Kangwon M Kio Motor 1190 2220 -10 30 CM Sugar Doobn krtd Ooowoo Corp Daewoo Dong Ah Phar Dong Sl*i Srocfc 1935 690 1*11 1561 906 1)90 •3 •30 16 -7 IS 30 Katon Ind Karoo Lang Tann Lucky Ltd OrttHid Irtwoy Pacific Owned 2231 1990
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    • 150 11 Reuter BANGKOK: The Securities Exchange of Thailand Index improved 0.29 to 142.31 yesterday. Turnover amounted to 448,711 shares valued at 105.9 million baht. JULY Ao Khom Thai Z 145 Stam Camanr Siam Cinzant Siam CMnnt Looting 585 Mp 4 AyuAiro twwMwn Bangkok Agro-kid Bangkok Bark Bank Of Ayudhya Choroong
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    • 53 11 Reuter HONGKONG shipping magnate Y K Pao is arranging for British and West German companies to invest US$2.7 billion to equip a new steel plant at Ningpo in East China. The People's Daily overseas edition said the plant would have an annual production capacity of three
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    • 351 11 Reuter THE TUNG shipping group, whose public company was the target of a petition last week, is likely to face further moves to wind up its operations, creditors said yesterday. They said creditors with small but unsecured exposures to the Tung operations were expected
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    • 143 11 Reuter JAPAN'S Department Store and Large Supermarket Sales Index (base 1980) rose a preliminary 0.8 per cent to a seasonally adjusted 130.7 in June from 129.7 in May, when it fell 0.3 per cent from the previous month. The Ministry of International
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    • 216 11 Reuter JAPANESE investors who convert yen into dollars to buy US securities are wary of making fresh purchases at the Treasury auction to be held from Aug 5 to 7. Traders said yen converters were unlikely to show strong interest at the
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    • 92 11 Reuter NIPPON CREDIT BANK Finance NV will make a public issue of USHOO million in 8 per cent bonds which will be used in an interest rate swap. Lead manager Nippon Credit International said on Monday the seven-year bonds, priced at 101 per cent
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 225 12 Reuter WHEAT FUTURES on Monday were higher at the close of a quiet session on the Chicago Board of Trade, climbing 3-3/4 US cents to 3/4 cent a bushel. December rose 2-1/2 cents, closing at U552.63-1/4. The market was buoyed by anticipation the US federal government would expand the
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    • 208 12 Reuter SOYBEAN FUTURES on Monday were mostly higher at the close of a quiet session on the Chicago Board (o Trade, ranging one US cent a bushel lower to 1/1-2 cents higher. Concern that a continuation of hot, dry conditions in the midwest is damaging the soybean crop in•the
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    • 197 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday slipped from Initial highs but still closed steady after early sentiment was aided by firmer overnight Chicago soyoil futures, dealers said. They said talk of low RBD palm oil offers following Pakistan's enquiries prompted renewed selling interest. Aug deliveries in the south
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    • 81 12 Reuter THE PBICE da m the Kaala Lampar Ha Market yesterday recovered five eeats to elsse at MH4.19 per Hl* la tall trading, imlm said. The saudl taraever sI toaaes, against 91 ea Meaday, reflected bayer —wllMsgaess to twJeJiecevered their peslttoas. Dealers said sellers were alse sidellaed, awaiting
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    • 149 12 Chincit Produce Robusto 20/25% FOB NSW 475.00 Sellers' noon doting pi My 29 (S$/100 kg). Coconut oil Bufc FOB Old drum FOB New drum FOB rices on 43.00 56.00 60 00 Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW BWP FOB NSW Gombier FOB NSW 1355 00 1256 00 330.00 Copra Mixed
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    • 66 12 Bangkok Broken Rice (US$/tMM. FOB) A-1 Super 120 Whit* Rice 255 A-1 Special C-1 Sp«aai 117 unq 100% 1st clou C-1 Ord unq 100% 2nd class 100% 3rd doss 220 215 Loonzain Rice 100% Is* grade unq 5% 205 100% 2nd grade 215 10% 200 100% 3rd grode unq
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    • 301 12 RAS prices m S ceett/kg, FOt m b ales NOON CLOSE Irrt 1 RSS Prompt 176 50 177.50N 174.50 I75.50N Int 1 RSS Aug 86 176 00 176.50 174.00 174.30 Int 1 RSS S«pt 86 176 50 177.00 174 50 175.00 Int 2 RSS O P 172.00
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    • 88 12 (ccnts/kft, 1-ton p o4Un) AUG 86 SEPT 86 (currant month) /i a irofworo month) NOON NOON c RAS Imnn BMVS Scllcn SSR 20 160.00 I62.00N 160.50 I62.50N SSR SO 157.00 I59.00N 157 50 159.50N MRELB Bwyara Bwyen Stttin SMR CV 240.00 *****N 241 00 243 00N SMR
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    • 1037 12 Reuter COFFEE ROBUSTA COFFEE futures on Monday ended easier, having traded in a narrow range with the lack of fresh fundamentals restricting activity, dealers said. Contracts closed £14 to £1 a tonne easier and little changed from midday levels, with the New York market opening as expected. Futures
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    • 262 12 Reuter SINGAPORE THE MARKET yesterday closed lower with August One RSS buyers quoted at 174.00 cents per kik>, down three cents from Monday. In the TSR 20 market, trading was very quiet throughout the day and prices were marked down due to lack of interest, dealers said. TSR 20
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    • 3963 13 A RESURGENCE of interest in speculative Malay-sian-baaed issues, coupled with continued institutional backing among local heavyweight blue chips, helped keep the Singapore stock market buoyant throughout the day. After gaining 7.38 points at noon, the Straits Times Industrial Index ended 10.53 points higher
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    • 222 13 SINGAPORE ta 9 < Kites ICS 535 FELS 316 S f N 805 Cnhi 50* 334 F ft M 735 OC C 710 0 B S 690 M Mum 372 >!■> i tm* 236 Nf MM 56 bataa 90t 22B Mm 212 UOT 390 Mat Imi 388
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    • 2728 13 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of SI ngapore yesterday with the number of riiani traded Aon in brackets la tots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are Sad after the ward
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    • 108 14 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Tuesday 1161.18 Monday 1154.68 Week ago 1118 39 Hong Song Index Tuesday 1860.01 Monday 1847 29 Week ago 1791.53 All Industrials Tuesday 1757.2 Mondoy 1742.0 Week ogo 1807.6 NEW YOftK Dow Jones Monday 1773.90 Friday 1810.04 Week ogo 1779.11 TOKYO Nikkei Averege Tuesday *****.94 Monday
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    • 254 14 MonoMrs' prices for Jury 30 Singapore Unit Trust The Commute* 0 82 0 88 The Savngi Fund 074 0 80 S'pore Prog Fund 0 34 0.37 S'pore Sec Fund 0 50 0 64 S'pore Invest Fund 0 54 0 59 S'pore Equrty Fund 0 41 0.45 Asia Unit
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    • 863 14 SHARE PRICES were marked down at the outset yesterday, chiefly under the influence of Wall Street's sharp fall on Monday. At 0821 GMT, the FTSE 100 Index was 12.5 down at 1,536.7. On Monday, the FT 30 Index edged up 0.1 point to close at 1,263.8 while the
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    • 1398 14 A Bangkok Bank Limited (INCORPORATED IN THAILAND) BALANCE SHEET AS AT DECEMBER 31, 1985 LIABILITES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY DEPOSITS Demand deposits Savings and time deposits Deposits in foreign currencies Total deposits DUE TO BANKS interest bearing DEMAND LIABILITIES BORROWINGS Domestic borrowings Foreign borrowings Total borrowings PROVIDENT AND PENSION FUNDS (Note
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 248 15  -  w By RAMESH CHAHDIRAMANI AVID READERS of this column know that I have been holding out the ST7IO as a major support area strong enough to hold the market on the downside. That has come true. Ever since it topped out at the previously
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    • 527 15 IN ITS LATEST MOVE to integrate the activities of subsidiary and affiliated companies, Over-sea-Chinese Banking Corp has proposed a scheme of arrangement which will turn propertyowning and investment holding company Singapore Building Corp Ltd into a fully-owned unit. OCBC, which together with
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    • 439 15 FRESH BUYING support caused share prices to advance across the board at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday in (airly active trading. Buyers came out in full force, causing most counters to close a few cents higher. Situational issues in particular were doubledigit
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    • 594 15  -  Riding on the crest of improved shiprepair business By NAJEEB JARHOM THE BETTER-THAN-expected recovery in the local shiprepair business is strongly evident in the half-year results posted by Sembawang Shipyard Ltd. From a net loss after tax of •16.06 million in the first-half
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    • 440 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE MALAYA TIN PRINTING is still trying to put together a detailed financial plan, which would inevitably involve the divestment of certain assets, to be presented to its creditor banks. "Malaya Tin Printing (has) put forward some definite proposals to substantially
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    • 258 15 LOCAL CONSTRUCTION group Lum Chang Holdings has taken a US$3O million syndicated loan to finance the construction of Its Guangzhou hotel, Its first venture in China. The lead manager of the loan is Toyo Trust and Banking Co Ltd. The seven other participating
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    • 2210 15 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. MDUSTRMLS Aom (1606 1645H1) 160 xd Aiwomoto (2905) AMD (2966
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    • 115 15 GENERAL CORPORATON Berhad: 17th AGM at Bunga Kenanga Level 3, Pan Pacific Hotel, Jalan Putra, Kuala Lumpur, today at 10.30am. HARRBON8 MALAYSIAN PLANTATIONS Berhad: 10th AGM at The Theatrette, Ground Floor, Bangunan MIDF, Jalan Tun Razak, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday, August 6, at 11.30am. PR ASS NEAVE
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 99 15 Fat: the half year to end-June IMS, pre-tax profit was M9SJS million (M 54.78 million previously) on tuiuuvei of MHU9 million (MHB.BO million). After tax, attributable profit was M 52.69 million (Ms 2.« million). Earnings per share work out to 9J cents (nine cents) and an unrhsnged
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  • 667 16  -  By MONICA GWEE REPRESENTATIVES from private sound and video production houses arranged a special meeting on Monday night at Times House to "discuss" SBC Enterprises Pte Ltd. They said they wanted the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation to "come out of the closet"
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  • 425 16  -  By GOH YEE LING SBC ENTERPRISES Pte Ltd, the private company formed by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation to run its commercial operatiofas, will have to account for its costs and expenditure like any other private entity. It will not be entitled to "freebies" from its
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  • 217 16 AFP THE THIRD WORLD lost out in last year's increased international trade, and continuing weak commodity rates mean that thane is little chance of an improvement in its position this year, the International Monetary Fund said in two studies published in Washington. Exports
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  • 237 16 UPI IN THE wake of recent explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, the US Air Force has recommended the mothballing of its US$3.3 billion west coast shuttle launch complex until at least 1991, Aviation Week k Space Technology magazine has reported.
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  • 353 16 Reuter, AFP AUSTRALIAN Treasurer Paul Keating, battling with an ailing economy, promised yesterday to use next month's annual budget to help set the country on the road to recovery. He gave his assurance a day after he stunned financial markets with a package
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  • 120 16 Reuter IF HE IS GIVEN another fouryear term as prime minister, Prem Tlnsulanonda is expected to name a new finance minister to succeed Sommai Hoontrakul. Mr Sommai said recently that he wished to rest after the general election. He was picked by Mr
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  • 325 16 Reuter THE BANK OF AMERICA, responding to press reports alleging Wnaiwiai malpractice at its Jakarta branch, has said that the Indonesian police are investigating an alleged fraud scheme but has denied any wrongdoing. In a letter to the Jakarta Post, bank vice-president William
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  • 371 16 MBT MALAYSIA'S United Asian Bank (UAB) has proposed a huge capital injection of M 5152.49 million through a two-for-one rights issue at Msl a share. This exercise will raise its paid-up capital from M 576.245 million to M 5228.735 million. Its director and management committee
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  • 544 16  -  *1 SOH TIANG KEHG, Financial Correspondent THE 1.8 per cent decline of the Singapore economy last year does not reflect any future weakness of the ecooomy. Instead, It Is due to "structural forces" which the country should easily overcome. This was how Coopers and
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  • 160 16 UPI CHINA was yesterday "studying" a call by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for improved relations between the two communist rivals, including cooperation in space exploration. "We are studying the speech made by Mr Gorbachev on July 28," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
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  • 92 16 Reuter GOLD FUTURES dropped on profit-taking and producer selling yesterday morning following Monday's robust gains of US$7. Gold for delivery in August fell US$2.9O at USS3S2JO an ounce. Analysts said the selling by producers surfaced in Hongkong and carried over to the London market. Silver futures
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  • 66 16 Reuter US STOCKS drifted lower from Monday's big decline after a stronger opening yesterday, as traders focused on the set of bearish fundamentals that led to sharp setbacks this month. A mild downturn in interest rates failed to divert attention from Monday's big rise in rates. The
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  • LATE FILE
    • 47 16 AFP CAMBODIA yesterday called Cor "urgent aid" from foreign countries and international organisations to overcome an expected food shortage. Agriculture Minister Kong Sam CM said he was expecting a four- to six-week food shortage between now and the end of the year.
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    • 56 16 Reuter FRANCE decided yesterday to push ahead with a controversial Franco-German trievision satellite programme but also put the oons on private industry to supply capital. The TDF-1 direct broadcast television satellite will be launched next year in spite at fears in the Telecommunications Ministry that the
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    • 40 16 AFP CHINA'S inflation rate averaged 5.5 per cent in the first six months of the year. Inflation declined from a high of S3 per cent In January to a low of 3 per cent In June.
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    • 43 16 Reuter US VICE-PRESIDENT George Bush yesterday called for a summit meeting oetween Israeli rnnie Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's Hussein. "The visit of the Prime Minister to Morocco might facilitate that/' Mr Bush said in southern Israel. Renter
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    • 31 16 Bernama THE INDONESIAN authorities have stepped up petrols in the Straits of Malacca sad along the KsHmstan-Sara-wak banter to prevent illegal departures of Indonesianworkers lo Malaysia. Ber-
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    • 39 16 UPI SWISS holds leglslered a 29 per cent drop in American visitors in the first six months this year. Officials attributed the decline to security fsars, combined with the weakness of the US dollar. UPI
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    • 51 16 Reuter A REPUBLICAN Congreaswb will introduce a constitutional «ih—Hih—it to allow Piesident Reagan to run far a third term in 1988. Rep. Guy Vaster Jagt of Michigan said Mr Reagan's "unprecedented approval rating indicates that there is support far the Piesidfiit to run again."
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    • 52 16 AP A FRENCH economic delegation is in Teheran seeking to resolve a dispute over a USgL2 billion Iranian loan to France made in 1974 (or the construction of a nuclear fuel isnifssing plant Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's government has demanded that France repay the money, frozen in
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    • 28 16 UPI PRESIDENT Coraxon Aquino's trip to the US has been advanced from September 17 to September 15 and will last eight days. UPI
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 273 17 AP THE GREEK supertanker Polykon has been crippled by an Iraqi exocet missile near the Iranian Kharg Island oil terminal in the Gulf, marine salvage executives in Bahrain said yesterday. They said it was the third time in 18 months that
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    • 474 17  -  By JUNE LIM OFFICIALS OF THE Federation oT Asean Shippers' Council are dissatisfied with the outcome of a meeting which they had with the representatives of the Asia North America Rate Agreement, Anera. The two sides met for nearly three hours last Friday
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    • 143 17 Reuter PAKISTAN'S cotton exports are likely to face tougher competition following a decision by four foreign-owned shipping firms to raise freight rates 20 per cent in September, cotton dealers said. The companies decided to rise their rates by US$B to US$5O per
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    • 180 17 Reuter DEALING ON the London Stock Exchange in the shares of VSEL Consortium PLC, a warshipbuilding company, will begin tomorrow, the company said in a statement. The company was formed after a manage-ment-led consortium bought out Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd from the
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 49 17 Reuter FIVE SHIPS carrying general cargo are awaiting berth at Chittagong and there is a maximum delay of six days, port officials said. Twenty vessels are unloading food grains, bulk oil, cement, salt and general cargo and three others are loading Jute goods. Reuter
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      • 75 17 International Transport Journal THE INDIAN government has rejected the plan for the construction of a large container terminal in Cochin. The terminal, in which reportedly Dutch interests would have participated, was projected as a transhipment centre and would have required investments of Rsl billion (US$800,000). It
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      • 101 17 AFP MYSTERY SURROUNDS a US registered yacht, the Elusive Butterfly, found on Sunday empty and adrift off the coast of Trengganu state, northeastern Malaysia, a police chief said. Regional marine police Chief Captain Abdul Halim Othman said police had impounded the yacht and were looking for
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    • 1263 18 CHARTERING remained very quiet in all sectors of the London freight market on Monday with little obvious change in prevailing rates. A further slight easing could be seen in the US Gulf-Japan grain rate when the Korea Shipping Corp worked 52,000 tons aboard the August loader Jiao Zhou
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    • 823 18 The fortunes of shipbrokers are intrinsically linked to those of owners. As Hongkong owners like their counterparts elsewhere are going through a bad patch, the broking sector has suffered likewise. A few broking companies have been forced out of business. But
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    • 196 18  -  Will By Kingsley Wood WESTERN AUSTRALIAN Stateships is to extend its coastal service between Fremantle and Darwin to Lae and Port Moresby, with possible calls to Indonesia in future. Premier Brian Burke says there will be no capital outlay but intense studies revealed that the
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    • 67 18 Reuter AMOCO MARINE Transportation Co is negotiating with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd on a plan to build two to four 80,000deadweight tonne oil tankers, a spokesman for Hyundai said. "We have begun talks with Amoco about pricing but Amoco is still weighing
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    • 453 18 Fairplay NEWCOMER Ocean Star Container Services of London (operating as OSCL) has )ust completed its first round-the-world container voyage. Running US east coast New Zealand and Australia, Mauritius, Mediterranean east coast US, the monthly service is filling a gap in the container liner
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    • 916 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Afeo Line VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner X 1 AC Toepfer X 5 Anro Service IV 2/3 Arrow Lines X 4 Atlos Line X 3 ANL 1 1/2 APC Line V 4 APL M 2/3 ASCL HI 1 Bolt-Canada Line
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    • 259 18 AFP A DANISH underwater treasure hunter claimed in Aalborg, Denmark,that he had found the wreck of German submarine U-534, which historians say was loaded with gold and diamonds when It was sunk a few days before the end of World War n en
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    • 175 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services "K" Tin» Korean Shipping Corporation Nentune Orient Lines OrWtOverseas Container Line Cho Yang shipping ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Djakarta
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    • 352 19  -  -Mr Kingsley Wood AUSTRALIA'S trade interests would be best served if national and foreign-owned shipping have equal opportunity in law to compete for cargo, according to tne Australian Shippers' Council. ASC, which represents shippers in rate negotiations with conferences and, where possible, with
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    • 387 19 UPI A MAJOR CRUISE ship operator, citing its fear of terrorism, says its ships will avoid Europe, Africa and the Middle East next year and eliminate stops at all ports outside the Caribbean in 1908. "No one at the expert level is
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    • 803 19 AFP DISMAL conditions persisted over the past week on the freight market, where early activity in the coal and ore sectors soon died down to match the virtually stagnant grain trades. The Baltic Exchange Freight Index fell to an all-time low of 566.5 points, reflecting the market's dilemma.
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    • 128 19 THE SEARCH FOR nine people reported missing at sea since Saturday has been intensified with the deployment of more helicopters and a navy ship. The search teams are also worried about the shortage of food and water on board the 18seater fibreglasc boat A military
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    • 5907 24 aaanma A guide to ships loflding Rt 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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    • 891 25 RECEIVINQ OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Odns FCL Arrival LCL movomont Ship Voy data/timo Operator cargo ■chodulo Location Ming Comfort Sco Howk 24W 30.7.86 2359 Malay St F1 1400-1600 W4 8631 31.7.86 0030 Eastern M F7 1430-1630 L6 L7 iris Ac* 21B 31.7.86 0100 Sunshtp F1
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