The Business Times, 18 November 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, I*M 75 CENTS
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  • 224 1 STOCK MARKET HELPED BY some buying support in the afternoon, share prices closed above their day's lows on the Singapore stock market yesterday. The keenly-watched Straits Times Industrial Index, a 7.62-point loser at noon, recouped to close 3.67 points lower at 881.96. Meanwhile, the all sector BT
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  • 503 1  -  Colony has become notorious for high level of bad shipping debts By LINDA CHEE HONGKONG SHIPOWNERS were scolded yesterday for thinking that their financial problems were over, and told that the colony had become notorious because of the enormous level of bad shipping debts incurred
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  • 557 1  -  By ALVIN TAY HONG LEONG FINANCE and its subsidiary Singapore Finance have launched the Credit Plus scheme, a revolving line of credit which allows borrowers to tap funds as and when they require up to an approved limit. The scheme,
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  • 409 1 TAN KOK LIANQ, who spent six months in jail between Feb 4 and Aug 14, is now a free man. Saying that Tan had "fully and sufficiently paid his debt to society", Mr Justice Lai Kew Chai yesterday reduced Tan's
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  • 139 1 Reuter THE GOLD PRICE in London yesterday plunged to its lowest since early September, partly because of a bursting of a speculative bubble in platinum. Gold went to its lowest since early September at around US$392 an ounce in the morning, down from
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  • 477 1 Reuter THE FATE OF North Korean President Kim 11-Sung remained a mystery last night after a day of intense speculation and rumours in Seoul and Tokyo that he had been overthrown, or assassinated, or both. South Korean Defence Minister Lee
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  • 205 1 THE EMPORIUM GROUP S application for a court-ordered meeting of creditors has been adjourned to today for further hearing before Mr Justice L P Thean. The application was heard in chambers yesterday by the retail group s lawyer, Mr Francis Lee, under
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  • 209 1 AFP MALAYSIAN Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razateigh Hamzah yesterday criticised industrialised countries for treating raw materials producers aa "second claas citizens". Tengku Razaleigh said in an interview in Perth that industrialism was a private dub to which industrialising countriee were not
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  • 92 1 ISRAELI PreekSent Chaim Herzog ia due in Singapore today tor jk short visit at the invitation ei Hr—iHent Iflmm \A4m a rfWlOwll'ffW VUm IfM. President Herzog, accompanied by Mrs Aura Herzog and officials, is on his way home from atate visits to Australia, New Zealand. Fiji
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 155 2 SMOKERS who made, and broke, previous New Year resolutions to quit the stick can soon get another go, this time with nationwide support. A 10-day countdown to Smoke-free Week begins on Jan 1, 1967 with media reminders and lead-up activities by organisations
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    • 441 2 A "FLYING HOSPITAL" has chosen Singapore for its first ground mission and the success of its three week stay here will determine if such projects are to continue. Project Orbis, as the hospital is called, is a specially-fitted jetliner with a team
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    • 100 2 TELECOMS will introduce a new pen-size display pager from Nov 21. The new pager, which works like a standard display pager, can receive up to 10 digits per call, and store up to five messages at one time. Its "Memory Protect" feature will prevent
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    • 580 2  -  By SAID ABDULLAH M-WATCH of Switzerland made its debut in Singapore yesterday with the manufacturers, Mondaine Watch, holding out the possibility of making and assembling components here. Mondaine, one of the top five watchmakers in Switzerland, has chosen Singapore to be the
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    • 253 2 CALTEX has won a massive contract worth mors than $600 million to supply fuel oil to the nsw Pulau Seraya power station. The contract calls for the supply of 16 million barrels of fuel oil over a three-year period. The contract
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    • 551 2 TO MEET its annual expenditure, Singapore places greater reliance on non-tax revenue than many other economies. This gives Singapore considerable flexibility in raising revenue to meet government expenditure. The impetus to tax reform in Singapore is thus not to be found in the traditional
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    • 397 2 NEW ZEALAND'S decision to introduce a consumption tax, named the goods and services tax, is identified as probably the most significant single measure in the country's partial switch to an indirect tax. This 10 per cent value-added tax
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    • 197 2 SINGAPORE may face difficult choices in the design of a consumption tax, observed Dr Mukul Asher. "Since it (Singapore) is an export-dominated economy, introduction of a value-added tax is likely to require substantial refunds at every stage, as exports are usually zerorated," said Dr
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    • 332 3 LABOUR LEADER Lim Boon Heng has urged the private sector to take the lead in wage reform, and not wait for the public sector. "The private sector does not have the complexities of the public sector's wage payment system,"
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    • 125 3 WORKERS can look forward to wag* increases of 3 to 5 per cent in the future, but only if the economy improves by 4 to 6 per cent, says Assistant NTUC secretarygeneral Lim Boon Heng. In an article published in the latest
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    • 470 3 "GOOO-HEARTED but very sever*" management along an unchanging course has buoyed Rolex watches in the choppy currents of the Swiss watch industry fall-out and the Japanese watch challenge. The bulky, pricey and unchanging familiarity of Rolex watches in gold or stainless steel and gold are
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    • 418 3  -  By JEFFREY TSANG SINGAPORE will serve as the regional headquarters for the Asian-Pacific operations of Cullinet, one of the world s largest software houses, which also has plans to set up a software development centre in the Republic next year. The 16-year-old company already has
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    • 270 3 LIFE could soon b« easier for life insurance salesmen at Citicorp Insurance Brokers. Instead of paying for expensive lunches over which they explain the benefits of various schemes to reluctant clients, they can now sell by post. The insurance arm of Citicorp/Citibank Group
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    • 271 3 SINGAPORE MUST DEVELOP programmes to help cop* with the doubling and tripling of the numbers of the elderly, said Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, Minister of Stats (Health and Foreign Affairs) yesterday "Some programmes need to bs implsmented immediately. Others need
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 406 4 FT CHINA HAS SIGNED a 980 million Swiss franc countertrade contract with the Soviet Union for JO power generating units as part of a larger deal under which Moscow will supply generating equipment with a capacity of 6,800 mw over the
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    • 330 4 AFP A CHINESE OFFICIAL has accused foreign carmakers with joint ventures in China of deliberately postponing localisation of parts production in pursuit of high profits. The New China News Agency (NCNA) yesterday quoted Chen Zutao, the general manager of the China Automotive Industry Corporation, as saying:
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    • 320 4 AFP ANY ATTEMPT to overthrow the Aquino government in the Philippines would be a major setback to stability in the AsianPacific region, says Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawfce. President Corazon Aquino "offered the promise of restoring the Philippines to the mainstream of
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    • 199 4 AFP INDIA'S new liberal economic policies may have to be curtailed if its massive trade deficit continues to grow, the independent National Council of Applied Economic Research warned in New Delhi on Friday. -The trade deficit in 1965-1986 was nearly 80 billion rupees (US$6.4 billion),
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 385 5 Reuter A MAJOR international confern ence on air pollution has ap,l proved the drafting of a new e accord to reduce poisonous nintrogen oxide emissions being spewed into the atmosphere by ,»cars and industrial plants, -t Twenty-five European na- tions, plus the US
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    • 307 5 Reuter SWITZERLAND'S top environmental official has expressed fears that European Community laws are not adequate to prevent a repetition of a disastrous chemical spillage which followed a fire at a Rhine-side warehouse in Basle this month. Speaking on Swiss television last Sunday,
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    • 441 5 UPI DEMOCRATS, who now control both houses of Congress, say they are still committed to erasing the federal deficit by 1991 but hint they may not stick to the year-by-year Gramm-Rudman targets along the way. Gramm-Rudman a law named for the senators
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    • 210 5 AP THE US GOVERNMENT was yesterday expected to announce its decision on which US allies will face sharp cuts in military aid because of budget reductions mandated by Congress. Some officials say the cuts could seriously damage American security interests. The
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    • 168 5 UPI LAST YEAR, Americans spent a record US$l.O5 trillion on transportation, including travelling to work, making personal trips or going on holiday. Hertz Corp released its third annual travel "Mobile America" study on Sunday, showing that more time and money were spent on holidays and
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    • 159 5 UPI US HOUSE of Representatives Democratic leader Jim Wright, recalling how the Watergate scandal forced Richard Nixon from office, has warned the White House against using executive privilege to shroud details of its arms deal with Iran. Mr Wright, who is expected to
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    • 303 5 AP THE CENTRIST civilian government yesterday claimed overwhelming victory in Brazil's most wide-ranging and important elections since South America's largest nation returned to democratic rule 20 months ago. "Brazilians have shown dramatic support for the government of President Jose Sarney," said Senator Severo
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 45 5 Doonesbury HOW 3EST TO HONOR OUR FALLEN OLLEAGUE* AFTER PUTVN6 ON OUR THINKING CAPS.WEINTHBSOCJEJV CAMEUPWTTH A meurE we think /SFrmN6. V FOR 7H5 NEXTMJNUTE, IN AN ORNrrHOLO&Sr? SALUTE, WE WILL ALL PERFORM OUR FAVORITE BIRP CALLS. EVERMNB READY* ...ALTO6ETHER! K*} BY GARRY TRUDEAU hokof Z
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 485 6  -  By ALVIN TAY FUJIAN INVESTMENT and Enterprise Corporation (FIEC) yesterday became the first Chinese government agency to raise funds in the Singapore capital market when it signed the documents for a US$5O million bond issue. This is the first time that a
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    • 366 6 MBT WHILE BANKERS in Malaysia may be more amenable to a cut in base lending rates (BLR) following the sharp fall in interbank money market rates last week, some of them are asking how long the rates can be
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    • 173 6 ASIAN OCEANIC Limited yesterday signed a US$2O million revolving underwriting facility with a group of eight major international banks. The facility comprises three-month negotiable bearer certificates of deposits at a coupon of 1/8 per cent per annum over the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate, which will be
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    • 72 6 A US$45 MILLION medium- term loan syndication for Daewoo Corporation, flagship for one of the largest business group in South Korea, was signed yesterday. Lead managers for the syndication are Alahli Bank of Kuwait, Arab Bank Limited, Instituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino,
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    • 467 6  -  By SOH TIANG KENG, Financial Correspondent RECESSION HAS NOT HIT Singapore banks as badly as many had initially expected, according to an Asian banking survey conducted by international management consulting firm Egon Zehnder International. The survey, conducted in September, covered
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 581 7 THE December Treasury-bonds opened 30 ticks higher than the previous close at 98.03, after the strong closing on the Chicago Board of Trade. The sharp drop in gold and expiry of T-Bond call options provided the bullish backdrop. But the contract remained narrowly traded between 98.06 and 98.02 before
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    • 238 7 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet trading yesterday. Short-dates were mostly steady at the outset and remained unchanged subsequently. Overnight, Tuesday/Wednesday and week fixed closed at a common 6-1/8 6 per cent. Period rates were little changed from earlier levels of 6-1/8
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    • Article, Illustration
      125 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market closed at 2-1/2 per cent yesterday, down 3/4 from last Friday. hdfcitei Km avtragt af the prim Mhf rates of 12 major banks opouUnf in Shf^ara N S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: Offer Md Overnight 3 1/2 2 3/t
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    • 360 7 HONGKONG: Gold closed lower in moderate trading yesterday in spite of early demand from the US. Dealers said selling by local investors, partly due to a rebound in the US dollar, pushed the metal lower with bullion closing at U*****.90/U*****.40 per ounce against an initial U*****.50/U*****.50. Gold ended
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    • 690 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed firmer against major currencies yesterday but below the day's highs, after thin and nervous trading. Dealers said that the dollar firmed at the opening on remarks over the weekend by Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker on
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    • 177 7 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Cwi'MHiUi NmiW ratm tmrnmomtam BM CMw crow mtIN ifniTi Local doMfi to on* unit o1 forslQn curvwtcy: US dofar 2.1930 2.1940 ***** •2122 toitf pound 3.1294 3.1330 7.3469 -57.41 Australian doNor 1.4090 Ml 18 3.4286 -58.90 NZ dollar 1.1304 1.1332 3^4286 -67.03 Canadian
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 685 8 Reuter LATIN AMERICA, which has struggled alone to win concessions from private creditor banks since the onset ot its debt crisis in 1982. is now setting precedents sought by Third World debtors on other continents in a new global trend. The Philippines's bid
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    • 1013 8 AP THE WOUNDS are still fresh, the memories painful, but the US and Iran have begun edging warily towards each other once again. And again it is the Soviet Union, in its power and proximity, that is the driving force. Noisy debate
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    • 692 8 UPI FROM A FINANCIAL point of view the offer was not appealing: a top return of 10 per cent a year over 42 months on a minimum investment of a quarter million Canadian dollars provided everything goes all right. Nor was the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • FEATURES
    • 549 10 •HOWEVER UNEXPECTED the final twist to J B Jey- aretnam's long trail of trials and appeals over the r four charges of misuse and misreporting of his party's funds, one thing is clear. This is that the law must be respected: No one,
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    • 1064 10  -  By LEE HAN SHIH THE SIX RICHEST people in America are all self-made men. The two least wealthy of them are worth US$l.4 billion each. The richest. Samuel Moore Walton, is worth US$4.5 billion, or roughly the combined 1984 gross national product of Botswana, Madagascar and
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 321 10 FAIRTECH CENTER OPENS IN TAIWAN K a w /5 o 3 ft ■K m a -a V A ij> x 4> J a. as BT a» r if ft 0 m 7* r fli'J N a it IP J a CJ m a i 0 rm^ N a *< 31
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  • SPORTS
    • 645 11 NYT A NEW MAP has begun to surface in obscure places around Freemantle. It shows the waterfront of Auckland, New Zealand, its offshore islands, and the open sea. Sketched in the middle of the area's Hauraki Gulf is an America's Cup course. And the
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    • 229 11 AP DIEGO MARADONA, who guided Argentina to victory in last summer's World Cup soccer tournament in Mexico, has admitted using his hands to score a vital goal against England, according to a British press report on Sunday. In what London's Sunday
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    • 182 11 Reuter A MISSING petrol cap almost deprived world championship leader Juha Kankkunen of the overnight lead in the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) round-Britain rally on Sunday. Driving a Peugeot 205, Kankkunen arrived at the opening day rest halt in Harrogate having established a four second
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    • 385 11 AP lAIN MURRAY and Kookaburra 111 remained in the read in the America's Cup defender trials yesterday by routing Australia 111, the syndicate mate of favoured Australia IV. The victory, by 2 minutes, 7 seconds, kept Kookaburra 111 three
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    • 289 11 AP YANNICK NOAH has ended hit British title jinx and is gearing himself up for next year's Wimbledon tournament. Noah won a memorable final in the U*****,000 Benson and Hedges tennis championships on Sunday his first success in England. He said afterwards that
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 1191 12 Subpoenas served on at least 10 professionals NYT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT last Friday reportedly served subpoenas on at least 10 Wall Street professionals in a widening investigation of the insider trading scandal that forced Ivan F Boesky to pay US$lOO million for illegal stock speculation.
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    • 154 12 Reuter THE BRITISH government has appointed two investigators to look into charges that an executive with a merchant bank was involved in insider trading. A Department of Trade and Industry spokeswoman said they would examine the case of Geoffrey Collier, 35, who resigned from bankers Morgan
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    • 609 12 NYT THE MANAGEMENT of First Interstate Bancorp is expected to recommend to its board of directors that the company proceed with its bid to acquire Bank America Corp, US industry sources said during the weekend. The board of directors of First
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 360 13 HONGKONG: Share prices closed slightly lower yesterday in quiet trading amid light profit-taking by local investors, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index finished 1.14 lower at 2,242.89 while the Hong Kong Index shed 0.42 to 1,424.36. Brokers said most investors stayed on the sidelines awaiting further developments after last
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    • 246 13 NOV 17 All Sincere Indus NT 1.71 0.02 -04 Kotin Kuochan Dev Lee Chang Yuen Chem Indue 25.40 22 40 28 60 -05 -0.5 -05 Cathay Con* Chang Hwa Bank. 34 50 40 50 -06 -06 -0 5 Lien Hwa Indue Nan Ya Plas Pacific Cone 22 50 34.60
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    • 414 13 TOKYO: Shares closed sharply and broadly lower in thin trading yesterday following unconfirmed reports that North Korean leader Kim 11-Sung had been assassinated, brokers said. The market average lost 182.35 to close at 17,208.15, but had risen as high as 17,475.40 in early morning bargain hunting. Volume was 270
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    • 77 13 NOV 17 Acoje Mining pesos Oriental B Phil Overseas 0 022 0 026 0 34 -0 002 unch -0 02 Picop B Apex Mining B. 0.024 25 unch 1 pldt 265 -5 75 S Seatront 0.015 unch Basic Petroleum Benguet Con. B... 0 006 103 unch Sime Darby Surigao
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    • 402 13 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed sharply weaker yesterday as nervous investors pulled out of leading industrial and mining stocks and dumped gold issues. The Gold Index recorded its biggest ever one-day fall following a sudden drop in the price of gold, which was trading almost US$l3 lower at around
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    • 113 13 NOV 17 WON 1670 -250 6 40 35 55 +10 Kangwon Ind Kia Motor 955 1640 15 40 Kolon Ind 1800 -160 Dmwoo Corp 1230 Korea Long Term Lucky Lid 1450 1571 unch 26 Dftishin Securities 2865 820 Oriental Brewery Oriental Chem 1300 1732 20 32 Dong Suh Stock
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    • 156 13 Reuter BANGKOK: The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index edged up 0.90 to 183.35. Turnover totalled 857,425 shares worth 109 million baht. NOV 17 «A HT Siam Cement fV3 -6 Siam Citizens susp Siam Citizens Lea»ng susp Asia Fibre 209 9 Siam City Ayudhya Investment 206 6 Cement 562 2
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    • 54 13 Reuter MITSUBISHI CORP of Japan and Pepsico Inc of the US are negotiating to set up a joint venture to introduce Mexican restaurants into Japan, a Mitsubishi spokesman said. Mitsubishi is a 50 per cent partner in Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd with Pepsico subsidiary Kentucky
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    • 466 13 Reuter AUSTRALIA and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd is expecting group net profit to at least stay level in 1986/87 financial year ending September. The group earlier reported a rise in net earnings to U*****.42 million in 1985/86 ended Sep 30, from
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    • 258 13 Reuter SOUTH KOREA has chosen a US firm as the first foreign insurer to be licensed to underwrite life insurance in the country. A Finance Ministry official said the Life Insurance Company of North America (Lina) could begin underwriting life
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    • 166 13 Reuter PLASTICS and rubber goods manu- v facturer BTR Nylex Ltd said itsrt would acquire a 51 per cent inters «a est in three related, listed Taiwan- 3 ese companies for US$B7.5 million u] and four million BTR Nylex shares, < effective last July
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 329 14 AFP WORLD SUGAR STOCKS are expected to fall by a total of 6.6 million tonnes during 1986 and 1967, London traders, C Czarnikow said in their latest market review. This total is 0.1 million tonnes higher than their previous estimate in August
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    • 92 14 OIL PRODUCTS THE FAR EAST products market was quiet and largely unchanged as traders digested Opec's tentative moves towards price fixing. Low sulphur waxy residue prices firmed slightly on Japanese demand while naphtha eased slightly. Closing prices for crude (fob origin) US$/barrel Change Dubai (Dk) 14.15 0.20 WT1, West Texas
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    • 210 14 MALAYSIAN CRUDE palm oil prices closed lower yesterday on short selling and buyer reserve, in sympathy with easiness in palm oil futures and a weaker Chicago soyoil futures close last week, dealers said. Trading was thin with most operators sidelined in the absence of fresh factors. Nov deliveries
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    • 283 14 SINGAPORE The market closed lower with December One RSS buyers quoted at 180.00 cents/kilo, down two cents from last Friday. The morning session lost two cents on long liquidation and stop-loss selling in moderate trading. Prices were little changed in quiet afternoon trading due to lack of interest. Trading
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    • 122 14 THE PRICE OF TIN on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday rose seven cents to a new eightmonth high of M 515.94 per kilo. Dealers said the rise was aided by strong buying mainly from Europe reflecting a firmer European free market while local interest
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    • 66 14 Bangkok (USS/tom. FOB) White Rice 100% 1* dots 255 100% 2nd dot* 220 100% 3rd don 215 5% 205 10% 200 15% 195 20% 185 2.5% 175 35% 175 Broken Rice A-1 Super 128 A-1 Special 125 C-l Special wiq C-1 Ord unq loonzain Rice 100% 1 at grade
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    • 464 14 COFFEE Robusta futures recovered from yesterday morning's initial fresh three-month lows on mostly jobber and commission house buying, ending unchanged to £10 higher. However, conditions were nervous, with many participants reluctant to get involved in the market due to recent erratic price moves and the general confusion over
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    • 132 14 Chinese Produce Exchange •obMta 20/25% FOt NSW 535.00 Seien' noon cMng pri Nov 17 (SS/100 kg). Coconut oil om an Nutmog no FOt nsw IWF FOt NSW 1405j00 1289.00 It* FOt OM drum FOt New drum FOt 66.00 76.00 86.00 Gombior FOt NSW Copra Mixed (Ioom) 33 bvym
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    • 296 14 RAS prices msc •nta/k* FO a m tMiM 1 NOON aosE Bwyon 5tliin fcuyore Solon Inr 1 RSS Prompt 180.50 181 JON 180.00 181.00N Int 1 RSS Doc 66 180.50 181.00 1804)0 180 JO bit 1 RSS ion 87 179 JO 180.00 1794)0 179 JO Int 2
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    • 86 14 (c*nts/kg, l-»on poltetil JAN 87 (currant month) (forwor d month) NOON NOON RAS *iiHiri bytn Saltan SSI 20 169-50 171 JON 170 JO 172JON SSI 50 MRELE 166 JO K 168JON SdWri 167 JO 169 JON Sflm SMI CV w ftrytn 282.50 284J0N 283J0 285 JON SMI
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    • 2904 14 NOTICES COMPANIES ACT, CAP ltt AND :M 11 lil vki PTE LTD At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 1 Colombo Court #04-00 Singapore 0617 on the 12th November IMS, the following Special Resolution was duly passed. RESOLVED that the Company be wound up
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4070 15 FOR THE third consecutive session, share prices eased on the Singapore stock market yesterday as nervous investors continued to liquidate their holdings. But support at lower levels managed to stem the losses chalked up in morning trading. Major indices, as a result, finished marginally
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    • 258 15 SINGAPORE Rises IimMCM Nw 17 77*93 *****131 -444 -6669 10*1*7 MI.96 2060.46 SUM 44*J6 2*5.92 2001.23 314.99 Goodwood fori Sri HortoMot Mm to* Ml MX A f 1 luwdwnriii H 30* MTC 7* Em SO« S t M Sporo Land KIM SOt ICI 1130 69 460 250
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    • 3343 15 810 and otter price» officially listed end business in end reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets In tots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word ••SETT".
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    • 274 15 UAC Bertwd: 23rd AGM at No 9 Jalan SS13/4, Subang Jaya, ***** Petaling Jaya today at noon. HUME INDUSTRIES (MALAYSIA) Berhad: 27th AGM at the Conference Room, 14th Floor, Bangunan Hong Leong, 117 Jalan Bandar, ***** Kuala Lumpur, tomorrow at 11.20am. BOUSTEAD HOLDINGS Berhad: 25th AGM at Wisma
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 501 16 NST MALAYAN BANKING Bhd's outgoing chief executive. Wan Azmi, has warned that the bank will come down hard on the rumourmongers responsible for the "adverse and malicious" rumours that have plagued the bank in the past few months. Speaking to reporters after the bank s annual and
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    • 2194 16 BID and off«r prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of sharss traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS tana I —l 002 SI AJax t«g I—l 1458
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    • 314 16 MBT TRACTORS MALAYSIA, the heavy equipment subsidiary of the Sime Darby group which deals in Caterpillar tractors, expects more business opportunities for the company now and in 1987. It is als<f considering exporting reconditioned tractors. Finance director Zahar Mohd Sheriff
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    • 472 16 NERVOUS investors swamped the trading floor and unloaded their holdings on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday, sharply depressing the prices ot selected stocks. The market closed lower in listless trading although most shares were off their lowest levels due to some late bargain
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    • 106 16 HONGKONG All Industrials 2104.1 2152.2 2212.3 *****9 1867 20 1886 53 Hongkong Index Monday 1424.36 Friday *****4 Week ogo 1396 48 Hang Seng Index Monday 2242.89 Friday *****3 Week ago 2206.76 Monday Friday Week ogo NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday Thursday Week ogo TOKYO Nikkei Average Monday *****.15
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    • 224 16 Managers' prices for Nov 18 MARA-Bumiputra First 6'putro 5.19 524 Sacond B'putro 475 4 JO Singapore Unit Trust Third B'putro Fourlti B'putro 171 4 18 374 423 TK« CotMMTC* 090 097 Fifth B'putro 2.71 274 Th* Savings Fund 0J2 S'por* frog Fund 0.34 OA 0.36 Sixth B'putro Sananth
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    • 605 17 Mm mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW EXCO INTERNATIONAL, the UK-based financial services group which has been seeking a major acquisition for over a year, is itself being hunted by potential predators. According to latest reports from London, several banks from continental Europe are said to have
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    • 299 17 Reuter THE BANK of England has decided to abolish with immediate effect a rule restricting the ownership of foreign exchange and currency deposit brokers by banks or other principals in these markets. In a letter sent last Friday to members of the
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    • 460 17  -  Either Hart Engineering or new subsidiary tipped for listing By AMY CHEOK INNOVEST BHD, the Malaysian group with interests in food and engineering, is planning to list its fast-moving engineering arm in Singapore. According to sources, Innovest is aiming to list a company,
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    • 345 17 BONVESTS HOLDINGS Ltd has acquired a further 40 per cent stake in Bon-food Pte Ltd, bringing its stake in the franchise for Burger King to 90 per cent. The latest purchase by prop-erty-based Bonvests, agreed on on Nov 14, dilutes further the stake held
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    • 102 17 MINQ COURT Hotel Ltd. controlled by Malayan United Industries Bhd, has appointed Wong Aun Phui as chairman. Ming Court, which has been without a chairman since Ong Leng Chuan passed away in 1865, said Mr Wong assumed his post on Nov 15. Mr Wong is a
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    • 102 17 RIVERVIEW Rubber Estatee Bhd's directors have declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent, less tax, for the year ending Dec 31, 1986. This will be paid on Dec 23 to shareholders registered with the company at the close of business on Dec 8. The register will be
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    • 826 17 Cud Ex Books om ToM tor Totol tor piyK Mo ctoee poyobio •lO foor to* yoor AIN 13%%l Aug 19 NYA NYA 13*% 27% A 1 S 5%W Dk 5 Ok 17 DK 23 5% 10% A Enterprises 3%l Nov II Nov 21 Ok 10 3% 22% Amol
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    • 334 17 NZBANK ASPIRANTS HIT FLOODED MARKET The doors are being thrown open to new banks in NZ in the latest wave of deregulation. However, Triple A reports how pre-licence jockeying has left margins wafer-thin. There will be casualties, and Triple A tells where those taking the plunge will find it tough.
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  • 253 18  -  By AMY BALAN NG ENG LEONG, 35, Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia's first non-European managing director, has resigned to join Hongkong financial conglomerate group Sun Hung Kai. His resignation will take effect at the end of the month. Mr Ng, who took over
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  • 357 18  -  By MARTIN SOONG THE SINGLE largest customer for Swedish defence equipment last year was Singapore in spite of the temporary embargo on exports imposed in August. According to Swedish trade statistics, exports of Swedish weapons and ammunition to Singapore last year reached 334.7
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  • 523 18 Reuter JAPAN yesterday asked its carmakers to go easy on sales to European markets in 1987 in a bid to head off friction over a ballooning trade surplus. A Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) official said in Tokyo that no
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  • 135 18 Reuter PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino's fragile government yesterday weathered a general strike that failed to paralyse Manila as promised, but headed for a crisis with Japan over the kidnap of a Japanese businessman. A Japanese diplomat told reporters that Tokyo wanted the abduction of Nobuyuki Wakaoji,
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  • 175 18 AFP MALAYSIAN LEADERS yesterday urged Singapore to cancel a visit by Israeli President Chaim Herzog as Muslim youths burnt an effigy of Mr Herzog outside the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur. Wan Mokhtar Ahmad, the chief minister of Trengganu, and former premier
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  • 288 18 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION expects its highest economic growth rates of the 1980s this year, the country's chief planner said yesterday. Addressing a meeting of the Supreme Soviet (the nominal Parliament) in Moecow, Nikolai Talyzin said that industrial
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  • 114 18 Reuter A TWO-DAY South Asian summit ended in Bsngslors, India, yesterday amidst rising hopes for an end to three years of bloodshed in Sri Lanka and an unexpected hardening of attitudes between India and Pakistan. Four rounds of talks between Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene and
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  • 92 18 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES added to last Friday's losses on fresh selling yesterday morning in a technically weak market Gold for delivery in December lost US$3.BO at U*****.00 an ounce, standing at the lowest since late August. Analysts said chart trackers were getting out of long posi- tions
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  • 74 18 Reuter WALL STREET recovered some of its composure yesterday after a sharp decline at the opening bell in response to last Friday's news that arbitrager Ivan Boesky had agreed to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of insider trading.^ The Dow Jones Industrials, which had fallen as
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  • LATE FILE
    • 75 18 AFP EC FINANCE MINISTERS have agreed to abolish internal reetrictione in three areas of financial trading. A communique released in Brussels yesterday said barriers on long-term credit and the buying of foreign shares by an EC resident would be dropped, including non-quot-ed shares. Restrictions
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    • 29 18 AP HONGKONG officials yesterday voiced their opposition to protectioniem during trade talks with a visiting 13-mem-ber US congressional team in the British colony. AP
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    • 61 18 Bernama MALAYSIA has relaxed travel conditions for local businessmen wanting to visit China for trade and economic purposes. Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Kok Wee Kiat yesterday said this was among several fol-iow-up moves taken to step up bilateral trade with China
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    • 42 18 Reuter LOOTING STAFF stripped a Chinese factory bare when they thought it was about to go out of business. An official local newspaper yesterday said the factory in Zhejiang province lost US$4O,OOO worth of stopk and equipment Reuter
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    • 48 18 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Bill Hayden yesterday said the country's media should manage their relationship with Indonesia without sxpecting government involvement. He was commenting in Sydney on Indonesia's refusal to renew the visa of the only Australian journalist still in Jakarta. Reuter
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 291 19  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF FOURTEEN National Cadet Corps (Sea) members will receive scholarship awards from the Singapore Maritime Employers Federation to sail with Esso Singapore, Maersk Company, and Neptune Shipmanagement Services during the school holidays. At a ceremony held in the NCC headquarters yesterday,
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    • 374 19  -  By LINDA CHEE In Hongkong SHIPMANAGEMENT companies in Hongkong have broadened the scope of their services by offering full shipowning services to banks which seize vessels to protect their loan portfolios. Talking about one of the fastest growing sectors in Hongkong's shipping industry, Mr
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    • 182 19 Reuter MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries Ltd has been studying measures to cope with slowing plant and ship orders, but denied the company plans to drastically reduce its workforce, a company official said. "We have been considering measures to deal with the strong yen, but no
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    • 162 19 Reuter SEA CONTAINERS Ltd says it will have a considerable fourth quarter loss due to severance payments which will be reported during the period. In a statement released in New York, the Bermuda-based company said about 500 jobs had been eliminated by its Channel
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 74 19 AP TWO SAILORS died but 21 others were rescued yesterday when the 9,078-ton Lebanese freighter Hymetus began sinking about 240 km south-east of Hongkong. A Hongkong Marine Department spokesman said the Hymetus had a crew of 23, all Greek and Filipino. He said in a
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      • 53 19 Reuter STATE-OWNED Ceylon Petroleum Corp has invited offers to provide a tanker for charter for one year from next February to carry crude oil and petroleum products in parcels of 30,000 long tons. CPC said in a statement that offers should reach it on or before
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      • 131 19 AN OWNERS' MEETING convened to discuss the resignation of Hanjin Container Lines from the Asia North America Rate Agreement (Anera) has been deferred to tomorrow. The South Korean line resigned on Nov 5 and this would take effect on Jan 4. In another development Anera said
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    • 1286 20 GRAIN, coal and iron ore chartering expanded on the London shipping freights market Friday at the end of a generally subdued week in which the rate tone for Panamax bulkers firmed slightly in the North Atlantic while the rest of the market registered little change. Unconfirmed reports that
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    • 1550 20 Alsthom's strategy of specialising in the construction of large luxury cruise liners has paid off. Alain Grill, head of the shipbuilding division, discusses the move into the cruise ship business and the group's diversification plans. FT ALAIN GRILL cuts a curious figure as
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    • 704 20 AB Shpg V 5 Key Trans-China VI 2 Accord Shpg VI 3 Kie Gwan VI 4 Alltrans VH 3 Kyowa line IV 1 Anro Service IV 2/3 I C Shpg V 1 ANl 1 '/2 lautan A man X 2 APC line V 4 lion Huat IV
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    • 177 21 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" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang shipping ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line
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    • 576 21 Lloyd's List A NEW "ships and crew" register could be established by Yugoslavia for foreign shipowners employing Yugoslav crew. The government is expected to sanction the scheme by the end of the month which allows overseas ships to be registered under the
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    • 574 21 NYT HALF A YEAR after dropping regular sanitary inspections of cruise ships, a US federal health agency has announced that the inspections will resume on Jan 1. The restored programme, however, will include self-inspection, a Changs sought by the cruise
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    • 251 21 AFP REPORTS that Japanese charterers had concluded several fixtures out of the Gulf states area, and were seeking some 15 very large crude carriers (VLCC) in all contributed to a steadier trend on the tanker market last week. The fixtures, at between worldscale 24.5 and 27.5, were thought
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    • 7233 26 QQfIBGXDIIB A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 706 27 t RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Gdns FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Arthur Ms Indi Courier Ned Houtmon B Kemuning Prabhokti Anson jenlink Hoog Pioneer Piya Bhum Krissa Tambang VIII Maersk Rondo Geroi Monkod Cecilie Ms 8613 10
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    • 1732 27 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents A—6 A Top Enterprise* Pte Ltd Seme (S). AB Shipping Boustead Shpg Agencies Afee Line Africen Shpg Agencies (S). AhrenKiei Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceenus Shipping Agencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK).
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    • 502 28 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrtvel Departure KEPPEL WHARVES 18.11/0600 Frotosingopore <35 Merlion alongside Hoti Senong <19 <ie Gwon alongside 18 11/0700 Krosico 1 <33 MTYSS alongside 18.11/23X Biotang Belait <25W SSPl 18.11/0600 19.11/0600 Eastern Glory <28 S'pore Shpg 18.11/0600 1811/2359 Kim Soon li <23 Thong
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    • 700 21 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd STRAITS SHPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunai Porta and Bangkok Ovaraaaa Containars Limited SERVICE TQUK/COWTiPff: »aa Ua| Ita HW| H— Maa UHi 11 a/11 It/12 12/12 14/12 IS/12 17/12 2VU 27/11 U/12 11/12 21/12 2VU 21/12 M/ 12 K/12 M/ 12
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    • 422 22 100 Years Liner Shipping Far East 1886-1986 TO CONTINENT/UK 19/11 21/11 M/ii a/ii EXPORTS TO EUROPE MED rtn 10/12 12/U 17/12 19/12 11/12 11/12 23/12 2V12 VI VI VI IVI 15/1 17/1 23/1 2VI 1/2 V 2 7/2 J/2 UK t N. b Mm utipfci cap Mr FROM N CONTINENT
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