The Business Times, 7 January 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 156 1 Overseas markets WadnMdoy HK Hang Seng Index 2463.02 59.80 Tokyo Nikkei Average *****.50 (+1215.22 Sydney All-Ordinaries 1321.9 (+12.7) Tuesday Now York (Dow Jones) 2031.50 (+16.25 London (FT 30 Index) 1437.1 K 35.1 Wednesday noon> (1447.9 10.8) Exchange rates USS: 127.00/10 yon 1.6305/15 DM SS2.0225/35 £< US$1.8250/60 M$»
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  • 103 1 Reuter THE CHAIRMAN of the US Senate's Finance Committee yesterday called on Hongkong to revalue its currency against the US dollar and suggested sanctions might be imposed if it did not. Senator Lloyd Bentsen told a news conference the current pegged rate of HK$7.B to
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  • 335 1 STOCK PRICES continued to rally at major Asian markets yesterday, buoyed by the steady recovery of the US dollar plus overnight gains on Wall Street. But analysts noted that what had appeared to be a New Year's rally for the dollar
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  • 41 1 Reuter WALL STREET stocks were higher yesterday for the third day in early trading although the dollar was mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose seven to 2,038. Gainers led declines by lees than a two-to-one margin. Reuter
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  • 38 1 AFP UK STOCK prices picked up after an undecisive start yesterday. At 1200 GMT, the Financial Timee 30-industrial-share index was up 10.8 points at 1447.9 and the Footsie 100 gained 10.7 points at 1800.3.— AFP
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  • 321 1 THE US dollar strengthened further yesterday against the Singapore currency in active trading on the foreign exchange market. It traded well above the Ss2 level as dealers felt confident that central banks would continue to throw their weight to prop up the
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  • 368 1 FT THE SOVIET UNION ended a 70year absence from international public bond markets when a state bank made a 100 million Swiss franc (US$75 million) issue on Tuesday in Switzerland, its first public borrowing on Western capital markets since the 1917 Russian
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  • 352 1 THERE WERE SEVEN listed companies with shareholders' funds of more than $1 billion as at Dec 31 laat year, the same number as a year ago. The companies in the 1987 Billion Dollar Club were SIA, DBS, Sime Darby, Harrisons Malaysia, OCBC, UOB,
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  • 804 1  -  Shareholders to vote at EOGM on Feb 6 By AMY BALAN A TUSSLE for boardroom control a rare occurrence among Singapore companies will come to a head at Malaya Tin Printing (MTP) next month. A group of shareholders led by MTP's former
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  • 155 1 Reuter THE UNITED STATES. Japan and the European Community will come under strong pressure at an Asia-Pacific trade conference in Indonesia this week to liberalise trade, diplomats said. Asia-Pacific countries are expected to push for more liberalisation to prevent a slowdown in world
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  • 119 1 AP PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan began work on Tuesday on a new government budget of more than US$l trillion that is expected to reflect a slowdown in the Pentagon's once-massive spending build-up. Accompanied by Vice-Presi-dent George Bush, Mr Reagan got his first briefing on the
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  • 362 1 PRIME LENDING RATES appear to be on the downtrend again, after remaining unchanged for more than a year. DBS Bank announced yesterday that it will reduce its prime rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.25 per cent per annum
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    • 285 1 FuN Report, Pag* 12 World Mavfcote, Pag* 14 f-w SINGAPORE WILL SEE at least 37 Mghtechoology conferences with an expected attendance of more than 10,000 this year. HOME NEWS, Page 2 MORE SINGAPOREANS are going overseas than ever before. The trend of increased travel was likely to have continued in
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 512 2  -  By LIM SOON NEO SINGAPORE, which is becoming an increasingly popular venue for meetings on high-technology and medical topics, will see at least 37 such conferences with an expected attendance of more than 10,000 this year. These meetings, which cover medicine, science and manufacturing technology,
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    • 554 2  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE MORE SINGAPOREANS are going overseas than ever before. Government statisticians keep tabs on the travel patterns of Singapore residents with the help of disembarkation forms which air and sea passengers are asked to complete just before arrival at Singapore. Between
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    • 83 2 CHANGI AIRPORT, rated one of the world's best, is to have a sophisticated solar heating system for the second passenger terminal now being built. Costing $1.7 million, the system is to be supplied by Thermomax Ltd, a Northern Ireland firm,
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    • 200 2 THE CHALLENGE for the Ministry of Defence this year is to maintain the high level of operational readiness that now exists, according to Dr Yeo Ning Hong, the Second Defence Minister (Policy). This was spelt out by Dr Yeo, who is also the Communications
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    • 113 2 THE DRAGON, when it takes over from the Rabbit this February, is expected to usher in a very good year for all. But for those who are uncertain if this Chinese mythological creature can really defeat the stock market bears in the new
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    • 199 2 ACCESSIBILITY to place of work, design and layout, ownership title, tranquility and privacy, and maingate security. These are the factors buyers look at when they choose which condominium to buy, according to a survey by property consultants Knight Frank Cheong Hock Chye Baillieu. The findings
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    • 330 2 SINGAPORE'S only opposition Member of Parliament yesterday repeated his call for a referendum on the government's proposed team MPs concept. Mr Chiam See Tong, Member of Parliament for Potong Paair, said the government should let Singaporeans decide if they want minority representation
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    • 461 2  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA EXPANSION has been on the horizon for private hospital Thomson Medical Centre since it was built in 1979. Now the goal of expansion becomes a reality as the centre reaches upwards with a spank-ing-new sixth storey, a $3 million investment
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    • 117 2 A DELEGATION of 21 Italian leather-goods manufacturer* will display their 1968 collection at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore next week. The group, called Ci Pi Elle, forms part of a biennial delegation of leather goods manufacturers from Italy and will go
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    • 68 2 HARD WORK and loyalty ware rewarded yesterday whan Telecoms awarded long service certificates and gift vouchers to 1,406 employees. Thoee with 10 years of setvice received gift vouchers worth $170, those with 15 years re- ceived $250 and thoee with 20 years received $340. Thoee with 25
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    • 194 2 SEAH BENG TEE has been appointed a director of Kleinwort Benson (Singapore) Limited and heads the company's private banking activities for South-east Asia. Before her recent appointment. Ms Seah was executive director of Russell Reynolds Associates, Singapore. She haa also worked aa group treasurer of Inchcape Berhad,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 69 2 Singapore OUTLOOK: VMy wflh Report for 24 houn prior to 7.30pm on ion 6 at th* Rainy day* Ms i Now DaN Naw Yorit Minn ri mcowo Odo Port» Parlh Rio 'Janoiro Roma Son Frh'co San Juan jonDo^o Sao Paulo Saoul flnrlitii Im, jroWnOwTi Sydnay Toipai Tal A*t* Tokyo Toronto
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 389 3 Reuter WEST GERMANY will have to struggle just to avoid a recession in 1968 because of the way an appreciating deutschemark has damaged its export-led economy, economists say. The third biggest capitalist economy has been weakened, they add, to the extent
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    • 167 3 AFP WEST GERMANY'S net direct investment abroad more than doubled in the first six months of 1987, the West German Economics Ministry announced on Tuesday. West German companies invested US$5.2 billion in foreign countries and repatriated only US$7OO million in foreign
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    • 203 3 NYT SAUDI ARABIA rescinded a sweeping package of income taxes on foreigners on Tuesday after a wave of protests from foreign workers and Saudi businessmen. The taxes had been instituted by royal decree only a few days ago. The turnabout was announced by
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    • 147 3 NYT TEXTILE and apparel exports from Mexico to the US pould grow by 6 per cent annually in the next four years, compared with a 50. per cent increase in 1987* imports, under a pact between the two countries announced on
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    • 332 3 Reuter INDONESIA says it will not seek to reschedule its official debts, estimated by Finance Minister Radius Prawiro at U5535.19 billion. "Once you decide to reschedule the debt there will be no capital inflow (into Indonesia) anymore, as in the case of Latin
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    • 812 3 ARRIVALS Dperofor Sorvte* Local From number Hmo MAS MH671 0920 KUL su SQ103 0950 KUL AC AC858 0950 YYZ/LHt/lOM CPA CX710 1015 CGK mXs MH603 1020 KUL GU GA975 1035 CDG/AUH MA (4421 1100 IWN GU GA960 1100 CGK SU SQ105 1105 KUL SU SO 201 1145
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 76 3 Doonesbury SENATOR, TM PRETTY NEW TO POUTICS, BUT ynYS I HAVE TOTELLYOU, I Wr J HAVE A 6OOP FEELING jm7 1 ABOUT THIS CAMFM6N! HAR m wu UJELL IJUST THINK THERE'S A LOT OF LATENT SYMfttTHY OUT THEREFOR THE SITUATION YOU RNP YOURSELF 1N... BY GARRY TRUDEAU I MEAN, THERE
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 241 4 AFP THE INDONESIAN government is holding out incentives to attract foreign oil companies at a time when low crude prices have dulled investor interest, a senior minister said. "The government recognises the need to encourage the oil companies." Development Planning Minister Johannes Sumarfin told a
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    • 359 4 Reuter THE DUBLIN-BASED European Mercantile Exchange (EME) plans to start electronic futures trading as early as May. Joseph Sims, managing director of the 11-month-old exchange, said, "The problem we're now trying to solve is starting a computerised exchange early in 1988 which would lead up
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    • 314 4 HONGKONG: The metal closed with pared gains on continued buying interest yesterday. Bullion ended at U*****.20/481.70 an ounce against an initial U*****.40/90, but higher than New York's US$4BO.BO/481.30 close. Trading was active with late Japanese house selling pushing gold down from its early highs. The metal's movement was
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    • 137 4 UPI WORLD PRODUCTION of crude oil and natural gas liquids was virtually unchanged last year at an estimated 2.907 billion tonnes from 2.917 billion tonnes in 1986, the Petroleum Economist magazine's annual survey showed on Tuesday. A drop of 3 per cent in Opec's output
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    • 159 4 AFP THE 16-member International Coffee Organisation (ICO) announced in London on Tuesday that it waa reducing its export quotas by one million 60-kilo begs in a bid to reduce surplus supply. But the organisation also called a special meeting on Friday at
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    • 89 4 Reuter THE UNITED STATES said on Tuesday it was toughening its import inspections of Colombian goods to reflect its concern over the releaae from a Bogota prison of Jorge Luis Ochoa, a suspected Colombian drug dealer sought by US authorities. The US Customs Ser- vice will
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    • 468 4 Crude palm oil futures closed higher yesterday in active trading on the KLCE. Market sentiment was firm throughout the day ahead of a report which said that CPO production for December 1967 will ba 20 per cent lower than the previous month. The market was also well supported
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    • 229 4 A LATE RALLY attempt failed when Refco sold additional amounts of March and new crop November late on Tueeday. with futures cloeing down two to 4H US cents per bushel in moderately light dealings. January aettled at U556.14)4 after holding firm relative to deferreds most of the day due
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    • 298 4 London Commodity Exchango Iwyif/Silif doting prlcM on Jon 5 Ut/torm unto ipacMad). rt%vfout doting pric#t In po r CoffM Both i"-ftor» London, «o*oo option OF London Jon 1193/1196 High/Low (1173/1176) 1201/1184 Mar 1224/1223 High/low (1204/1203 1233/1210 Soli (4130) COCOM Mar 1113/1116 (1066/1067) High/Law 1124/***** May 1133/1134 High/Low (1066/1069)
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    • 105 4 THE PRICE o< Hn on Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) closed unchanged y eater day from Tuaaday'a M 517.19 par kg In spllo of Mm weakjj M ntM 01 fitninfl. Dealers aald tha •harp gain of C 75 on lha Europaan fraa markat halpad to offaal tha PoulmTi
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    • 80 4 ASIAN PRODUCTS markets continued their firm run yesterday. All products roee but remained lower than the high levels established in Europe and the US following the onset of cold winter weather. Utt/Wn»l O— 1 Owfeol (Nbl Wm Tama I5JJ 0J2 WTHNST*' \7M ♦0.1 J Products (FOB S'pore)
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    • 134 4 WHEAT FUTURES on tha Chicago Board of Trada rallied from early lowa to cloee on or near the highs on Tueeday, up 5X to US centa per buahel in moderately light trade. March settled at US$3.2O after penetrating technical reeJstance around the US$3.l6 level to turn the chart picture
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    • 216 4 Chinese Produce Exchange S»Iot' noon doatog p rtcM an Jon 6 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil M KM 104.00 Old drum KM 1144)0 Naw drum FOt lit.00 Copra 0MM) 5t Pepper Ytuntufc wf*he KM NIW 1H7J0 TO* faq NIW I172J0 Sofwak Wodi FOi NIW Sorowvli Axto 137 JO btadi
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    • 204 4 SINGAPORE The market closed higher yeaterday with February One RSS buyers quoted at 222.50 cents a kg, up 2.50 cents from Tuesday's dose. Prices roee 1.50 cents at the opening following Tuesday's after-hour firmer trend here and roee further at midday on some speculative and local trade buying in
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    • 233 4 RAS prices kite «)M|R MlnM M NOON CLOSE b* 1 KSS Prompt 224J0 225JON ©cyoci 225.00 2264XN tat 1 KSS Fob 88 222.00 222JON 222J0 223.00N tat 1 KSS Mot 88 220JO 221.00 2214)0 221 JO tat 2 KSS Of 220.00 2224)0 220JO 222J0 tar 3 m
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    • 80 4 UwihAe. 1 -ton poftots) FEBRUARY 88 MARCH 88 (currant month) (forwoi rd month) RAS NOON h»r*n Mwi NOON fcwi S«lir« SSI 30 335 JO 327.00N 225.00 227JON SSI 50 223-50 225JON 223.50 333 JON 1' $aflan SMI CV 278.00 2SO.OON 37? JO 281 JON SM> I 278J0
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1506 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed narrowly mixed yesterday against major currencies as most operators were uncertain over its immediate direction. Dealers said trading against the yen and Dmark was volatile and nervous during the morning, but calmer in the afternoon. The dollar met selling pressure, especially in the
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    • 84 6 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's dosing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER HIGH LOW 3 iinwitta BQ*****H 07.4.88 2.85 2.80 2.93 2.60 6 months BY*****S 30.6.88 2.97 2.92 3.04 2.85 1 year BY*****T 24.11.88 2.42 2.37 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing Day's code
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    • 179 6 Indicates th# ivtctfi of Hie prime lending rtlM of 12 ma|or banks In t'pore Interbank market r atet (offer/bid) on Jan 6 us$ t DM SWfC Y«n 7 dayi 7 1/1* 6 1J/1* 3/4 S/» 3 J/1* 3/1* is/l-l/l 4 J/1* 3/1* 1 M* 7 1/1-7 3/4
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    • 566 6 MARCH Eurodollar opened six ticks lower at 92.48 yesterdsy following White House statements that the US dollar had temporarily stabilised. The March contract faced further selling preesure from the opening high of 92.48 to 92.41 as the dollar slipped from its high on profit-taking in East Asian trsding centres.
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    • 153 6 Gold futures on Jan 5 100 troy ouncK USS par troy jnce 0>»n Mgft Lot •o«U Jon 4*0.90 2.80 M> 479 00 445.40 476-60 483.20 2.70 Mor 4*3*0 2.70 Apr ***** ***** 482 00 4*9.10 4-2*0 Jun 490.00 496.S0 4*9.00 494*0 2.90 Aug 494 80 300.00 494.80
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    • 57 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market rose 1% point to close at 3 per cent yesterday. The term rates remained unchanged acroes the board. S$ Interbank rates at 12 noon yestarday: orm ND 3 2 3/4 1 3 2 7/« 2-mm* 3 |/t 3 3 mm*k
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    • 258 6 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Most operators were sidelined in the afternoon due to a general lack of interest in the absence of fresh news. Term rates were narrowly mixed at the outset and remained unchanged in subsequent
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    • 1611 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS w tdnMdoy, U wofy 6 1900 MUTKMCMANK (MMEX) 4aa 88 Mil Jm 88 pm LM Sal Lav Sal 56 CAB 57 475 CAB 58 37 JA 370 CAB 5* 275A 270 CAB 60 179A 170 3 *1 89A 85 14 11 14 63 27A 35 488
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 333 7 AP BANK FAILURES in the oil-pro-ducing states of Texas. Oklahoma and Louisiana last year pushed US closings to their highest level since the Depression of the *****. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) reported on Tuesday 184 bank closings among the 14,000 commercial banks
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    • 283 7 AP ECONOMIST Mailson Ferreira da Nobrega, who was named Brazil's new Finance Minister on Tuesday, has promised quick foreign debt negotiations and an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Mr Nobrega, 45, replaced Luis Carlos Bresser Pereira who resigned in December over differences with
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    • 105 7 Reuter AMERICAN Vice-President George Bush said US banks should consider writing off some of their loans to Third World debtor countries. "It's proper that these banks take a look at writing down to some degree their loans," Mr Bush told the National Press
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    • 388 7 Reuter JAPAN'S Finance Ministry is likely to ease accounting rules for special money trusts (tokkin) and trust funds in a move brokers said was aimed at bolstering shaky stock market confidence. The ministry earlier this year instructed financial institutions
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    • 247 7 Reuter JAMES CAPEL Bankers Ltd, the wholly-owned merchant banking arm of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp, will lay off 120 workers in a reorganisation of its London operations. A Hongkongßank spokesman yesterday said that the lending and treasury activities of James
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    • 446 7 NYT A US TRUST company has agreed to team up with a leading Japanese bank to enter the lucrative land-trust business. Many landowners are placing their property in such trusts as a way of reducing inheritance taxes that shoot up along with Tokyo's
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    • 106 7 Reuter WESTDEUTSCHE Landesbank Girozentrale and The Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp are planning to set up a joint-venture bank in West Germany. A Westdeutsche Landesbank spokesman said in Duesseldorf on Tuesday that the venture would concentrate on international securities trading and was likely to be
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    • 98 7 Reuter THE NIKKO Bank (UK) PLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nikko Securities Co Ltd of Tokyo, began operations in London on Tuesday. Nikko Bank said it provides a full range of banking services. "Nikko has grown up mainly as a securities house but
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    • 783 7 IHT FOREIGN EXCHANGE dealers have a phrase to describe the coordinated central bank intervention in world currency markets on Monday and Tuesday; a classic "bear squeeze". As the dollar's value is forced up, speculators are supposed to be forced out. The choice that
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    • 303 7 FT THE BANK OF FRANCE on Tuesday lowered its key interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, taking advantage of the buoyancy of the French franc in the European Monetary System (EMS). The reduction brings the French central bank's interest
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  • 502 8 MOVES TO CONTROL the spread of Aids represent yet another example of the sort of swift action that has become a hallmark of the government. Decisive measures had, in the past, helped pull Singapore out of the recession and busted a Marxist plot. Although fighting the
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  • 2110 8 The stock market in Singapore, like the I other major markets, has suffered its share of frauds. And since the market can never be fraud-free, Attorney-General Tan Boon Teik suggested that tighter controls and closer policing could be the answer to detect and fight
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  • 1383 9  -  By ASAD LATIF "HEREIN lies one of the great strengths of Thatcherism, a sign of its political endurance and durability, its capacity not only to think strategically but to renew itself long after the point where previous governments had lost any sense of political
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  • 731 9  -  By MICHAEL WISE Reuter TWENTY YEARS ago this month Alexander Dubcek took over as Czechoslovakia's Communist leader to spearhead the "Prague Spring" reformist movement whose lingering memory poses difficulties for his latest successor. The entire nation was caught up in the excitement of
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 349 10 Champ to get USs26.sm for six title defences Reuter UNDISPUTED heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will be paid U5526.5 million for defending his title six times in the next 12 months. One of Tyson's co-managers, Bill Cayton, said in New Jersey on Tuesday that American
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    • 416 10 AP PLANS for American Frank Tate to defend his International Boxing Federation middleweight title next month against Britain's Tony Sibson were plunged into doubt on Tuesday when British boxing authorities refused to sanction the fight because of its scheduled length. "We
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    • 180 11 AFP ALEX HIGGINS was once again outgunned and outclassed by his arch-rival, Steve Davis, at Blackpool on Tuesday night. The world champion and snooker's undisputed No 1 ruthlessly battered "The Hurricane" 5-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the Mercantile Credit Classic. It was his 20th
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    • 353 11 Anti-apartheid activists planning demonstrations at Australian Open AP WIMBLEDON CHAMPION Pat Cash has said that fluffy tennis balls are worrying him more than the threat of anti-apartheid protests at the US$l.9 million Australian Open. "The only protesters I'm going to worry about are my opponents
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    • 230 11 AP UNSEEDED AMERICAN Marc Flur pulled off the first upeet of the New South Wales Open tennis championships on Tuesday when he eliminated No 2 seed Wally Masur 6-4, 6-4. Flur, ranked 134 th in the world, always held the edge over the 36th-ranked Australian
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    • 416 11 AP AFTER the anowteea conditions that haw piaguad Europa in racant weeks. Switzarland'a Vrani Schnaidar found it exciting to see snow falling. Har first World Cup skiing victory thia yaar mada it avan mora so. Schnaidar adgad Catharina Quittat of Franca in anothar giant
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    • 360 11 AP SWISS RUNNER Sandra Gasser s appeal of a two-year international ban for drug abuse will be heard on Jan 18 in London. Until then, said International Amateur Athletic Federation (lAAF) general secretary John Holt in London on Tuesday, any
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    • 329 11 AP A TARGET of 175 is rarely testing for a solid batting side against a limited attack on an easy-paced wicket. That was the scenario at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday night when New Zealand had few difficulties in going to
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    • 138 11 Reuter THE ASHES, the historic cricket trophy, are leaving Lord's for the first time in 60 years to be displayed at the bicentennial test between Australia and England starting in Sydney on Jan 29. A statement issued in London on Tuesday by the Marylebone Cricket Club
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  • 4315 12 THE SINGAPORE stock market yesterday ended sharply higher in active trading with the leading market index closing above the ST9OO mark for the first time in two months. Brokers attributed the market's continued rally to the
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      • 556 13 By HOCK LOCK SIEW THE INFAMOUS Amos Dawe. whose name still conjures up images of wheeling-dealing in the just as infamous Mosbert group, is now a free man. The 53-year-old postal clerk turned fugitive financier, however, appears as elusive as ever since he stepped out
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      • 398 13 THE MARKET is buzzing with the rumour that Hongkong shipping magnate Sir Yue-Kong Pao's Wharf (Holdings) Ltd is planning another takeover bid for Hotel Marco Polo. Speculation sprang from the unusually high turnover in the counter yesterday. Generally a slumbering counter, Hotel Marco Polo chalked
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    • 244 13 Reuter THE NEW Zealand Stock Exchange (NZSE) is planning new rules including significant changes to the capital requirements laid down for brokers. All sharebroking firms would be required to maintain liquidity and equity levels at a fixed percentage of external liabilities, NZSE president
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    • 74 13 Faber CEO denies he is quitting "KIP" KAMARULZAMAN Bahadun, managing director and chief executive of Faber Merlin Malayeia Bhd, has denied rumours that he is leaving the property and hotels group, company sources said yesterday. According to them, Mr Kamarulzaman would continue with his efforts to turn Faber
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    • 463 13 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed near the day's highs yesterday on strong demand for quality industrial stocks which offset weakness in the gold sector, brokers said. Blue-chips such as media, transport, building and diversified industrial stocks made substantial gains, as did several base metal miners. The market was
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    • 274 13 Monogers' prices fftr Inn 7 Jopon Gr Fund Shanton TVUt Fund 145 Oil 150 0.81 UOB Management Singapore Unit Trust Unifund 082 0.82* Tha Con—rc* 093 099 Umbond 0985 1 006* Th* Savings Fund S port frog Fund Oil 0.37 087 041 MARA-Bumlputra S'por* Sac Fund 0.62 0.47
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    • 251 13 JAN M All Sincere Indus. NT I 283 86 00 f--0 02 1 9 Kuochan Dav Laa Chang Yuan Cham Indue Lien Hwa Indua Nan Ya Plaa 37 30 32 80 30.10 49 80 1 0.9 0.8 14 1 87 00 48 90 14 Chang Hwa Bank.... Cheng Loong
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    • 271 13 A MEETING of creditors which would have decided the fate of troubled coffee trading giant Teck Hock Co was yesterday adjourned while details of a rescue scheme are ironed out. The meetings of bank and trade creditors will now be held
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    • 475 13 AFP THE HONGKONG government has been criticised for intervening in the stock exchange scandal. The chairman of the Hongkong Stockbrokers Association, Henry Wu, said government's plans to take over the Hongkong Stock Exchange after the weekend arrests of three senior exchange officials "would represent
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    • 355 13 AFP HONGKONG'S anti-graft agency. the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), has hit international headlines after its arrest on Saturday of three senior stock axchange officials. The ICAC has gained much respect among Hongkong's 5.5 million people for its graft-bust-ing work in the past 13 years.
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    • 3887 13 INSTITUTIONS and small investors continued their buying spree on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday, sending share prices higher across the board in fairly active trading. The buoyant mood was reflected in the New Straits Times Industrial Index which shot up 45.27 points to
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1025 14 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks closed higher for the second consecutive session on Tuesday after profit-takers picked away at some of the biggest gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 16.25 to 2,031.50 after a 50-point mid-day gain melted away in the last two hours of
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    • 941 14 London Reuter UK SHARES opened mixed to easier yesterday with operators choosing to mark down prices after Wall Street gave up the greater part of Tuesday's early gains, dealers said. Wall Street closed with a 16-point rise, having been up 60 points. A massive 5.6 per cent
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    • 1242 14 Amsterdam MM M u ABN 40 30 +1 03 10 4-4 6 AhSd 06 50 7 1 Akzo 80 50 4 4.4 Alrama AMEV 144(0 40 70 •♦■0.5 4 3 7 •0 40 Am Stad M SO 10 1.2 BOLS 83 SO *♦•3 5 BeraunWI Buahrman Ta«* Catva 86 20
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    • 475 14 Reuter JAPANESE stocks were propelled skyward yesterday as news that the Ministry of Finance is likely to ease accounting rules for special money and fund trusts bolstered market confidence. A revived dollar also set fertile ground for a rally. The Nikkei Average soared 1.215.22 points or 5 63 per
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    • 158 14 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 13.23 points to 315.14 on a turnover of 9,905.126 shares worth 880.01 million baht. Reuter JAM M Ao Kham Thai AyuJ' iyi lr>vaatm» Bangkok Aground Bangkok Bank Bank CX Ayudftya Charoong Thai W1 BCaMa Data mat Ohana Slam Fin Aala Flbra
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    • 1380 14 Hongkong SHARE PRICES closed firmer in hectic trading on continued buying interest from local investors yesterday, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index closed 50.80 points up at the day's high of 2,463.02. The Hongkong Index rose 30.28 to 1,611.12. Turnover was HK$l.37 billion against HK$l.OO billion on
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    • 111 14 JAM Ot won Kai ***** 200 Kangwon Ind Kia Motor ***** ***** -300 -160 Cn«> Sugar ***** 1000 Daalim ind Daawoo Corp ***** ***** 1000 000 Koraa Long Tarm.... 1000 Dhwoo Haavy Daiahtn S*cur>ti*i Dong Ah Pfiar ***** ***** ***** -600 1300 600 Onantal Brawary Ooanta' Churn ***** *****
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    • 325 14 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF MITSUMI COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED (Members' Voluntary Liquidation) FINAL MEETING NOTICE is hereby given, In pursuance of Section 306 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50, that the FINAL GENERAL MEETING of the members of the abovenamed
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    • 311 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF IHC SINGAPORE PTE. LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of IHC SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at 10 Collyer Quay. #21-01 Ocean Building. Singapore
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    • 262 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 GRATEFUL TRADING CO PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) At an extraordinary general meeting of the company beld at 156 Cecil Street, #07-02 Far Eastern Bank Building, Singapore 0106 on 4th January 1988 the following special Resolutions were duly passed:1. That the
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    • 256 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP SO AND IN THE MATTER OF ESSENTIAL REDECORATION SERVICES PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 1302 Toa Payoh Lor 1 #06-01 Slong Hoe Building. Singapore 1231 on 4
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  • 1714 15  - BT TOP 100 RANKING BY SHAREHOLDERS' FUND as at December 31 1987 Compiled by JULIANA TAY Notes (S) Incorporated in Singapore. (M) Incorporated in Malaysia. (UK) Incorporated in the UK. AA Not ranked in December 1986. F First year of listing. L Loss. NB: All banks' consolidated assets exclude customers'
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  • 557 15  -  Higher profits and cash calls boost shareholders' funds By ROSIE TAN THE LATEST ranking of BT's Top 100 listed companies by shareholders' funds reflects the economic recovery that began in mid-1986 and continued into 1987. Many of the companies posted increased profits which boosted
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  • 1273 15  -  Cash calls By LISA LEE PRIOR TO the fateful day on Oct 19, 1967 could be seen aa an excellent year for companies trying to raise funds on the stockmarket. A total of 12 Singapore-based companies successfully tapped over $1 billion
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  • 259 16 AP THE UNITED STATES during recent trade talks in Washington gave South Korea three weeks to open its market to more than 100 US agricultural products, a report said yesterday. Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, quoted unidentified sources as saying the
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  • 98 16 AFP A SOUTH KOREAN government trade organisation said in a report in Seoul yesterday that Japan was building non-tariff barriers to limit the sale of South Korea s goods in Japanese markets. Japan was strengthening non-tariff barriers against major South Korean exports including marine products, footwear,
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  • 280 16 Reuter THE US has rejected Tokyo's longstanding request to lift remaining sanctions on selected Japanese exports because of Japan's alleged failure to improve foreign chipmakers' access to its market. "It is impossible to lift the sanctions in the current situation,"
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  • 253 16 MR GIAM CHIN TOON, the man who took over the helm of the Law Society in November 1986 from Mr Francis Seow, has been re-elected for another one-year term of office. A former magistrate who is now in private practice, Mr Giam became president of
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  • 299 16 Reuter CAMBODIA'S pro-Vietnamese government marks its ninth anniversary in power today somewhat less of an international outcast. Analysts forecast no quick end to hard times for the country's five to seven million people. Rice shortages annual events are again expected, which would
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  • 240 16 AP ITALIAN Prime Minister Giovanni Goria told Indonesian President Suharto yesterday that Italy sought mutually beneficial cooperation with Asian nations. Mr Goria arrived in Jakarta earlier in the day with a delegation of 40 government officials snd businessmen for the
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  • 126 16 AFP HEIRS of the sultan of Sulu, who have claimed proprietary rights over the Malaysian state of Sabah, are also claiming the Indonesian region of Kalimantan, news reports said in Manila on Tuesday. The heirs, who are currently negotiating a settlement to their
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  • 233 16 AFP THE PHILIPPINES is eyeing a debt rescheduling plan similar to that recently proposed for Mexico, Finance Secretary Vicente Jayme said in Manila yesterday. He said the Mexican plan, whereby Mexico buys back its debt on the secondary market using government bonds
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  • 339 16 AP KIM Young-Sam was overwhelmingly reconfirmed as leader of South Korea's main opposition party yesterday after he offered to resign for losing in laat month's presidential election. A special convention of the Reunification Democratic Party voted by 819 votes to 76 to reject Mr
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  • 402 16  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE A SLIGHTLY LOWER forecast of Singapore's 1988 economic growth than the one given by the Prime Minister came yesterday from Mr John Evans, chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Singapore can expect a growth of 4-5 per cent this
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  • 93 16 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S budget deficit for the first half of fiscal 1987/88 ending June 30 fell to about A 54.5 billion from A 57.6 billion in the first half of 1988/87. The Australian Reserve Bank said yesterday the recent revision of the 1987/88 budget outcome suggested s
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  • LATE FILE
    • 54 16 AFP WEST GERMANY. Japan and the US reached a secret agreement last month to stabilise the dollar at between 125 yen and 140 yen, NHK television reported in Tokyo yesterday. The three countries have set up a US$l5 billion fund, each providing US$5 billion, to
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    • 51 16 AFP PHNOM PENH has suggested Jan 20 for the second meeting between its premier, Mr Hun Sen, and Cambodian opposition leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian ambaaaador in Moscow said yesterday. Mr Hun Sen would stop off in Moscow before and after the talks.
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    • 53 16 UPI ABOUT 1.200 dissidents and students Jailed or banned for political crimes will be freed or have their civil rights restored before the inauguration of president-elect Roh Tae-Woo next month, officials in Seoul said yesterday. The Justice Ministry Is screening those convicted of political crimes
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    • 41 16 Reuter JAPAN and the United States have struck a deal over Tokyo's import quotas on 10 minor farm products, but remain deadlocked in their dispute over trade in computer chips, government officials said in Tokyo yesterday.
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    • 42 16 Reuter GOVERNMENT ministries arc doing their utmost to impede Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's programme for economic renewal, a prominent economist aaid in a youth daily in Moecow. The article said reform was threatened by old methods of direction.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 567 17  -  By LINDA CHEE THE International Transportworkers' Federation (ITF) has agreed to review its stand on Singapore as a flag-of-conve-nience (FoC). This was the outcome of private discussions held during the ITF's Maritime Policy Committee meeting in Baltimore on Dec 17-19, where Singapore's two seafarer
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    • 202 17 Lloyd's List RIVAL OPERATORS Maersk Line and American President Lines have launched an independent action battle in the strategic Pacific trades. Maersk Line has informed the Japan-Atlantic and Gulf Freight Conference that it will extend the validity period for independent action
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    • 137 17 AP SOUTH KOREA'S shipbuilding industry registered a small drop in orders in tonnage terms during 1987, the Korea Shipbuilding Industrial Cooperative said. The cooperative said .orders for 1987 totalled 3.43 million tons, a drop in tonnage of 2.3 per cent compared with the
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 109 17 Reuter OIL TANKER/combination carrier tonnage sold for scrap in December fell to 323,780 long dwt (five vessels) from 562,770 long dwt (nine) the previous month. London shipbroker Howard Houlder said. The latest sales brought the total for the year to 8.34 million long dwt
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      • 95 17 Reuter A TAIWAN cargo vessel sent out a distress call on Tuesday after losing control of its rudder in heavy seas off northwest Spain and two tugs were sent out to help it, a port authority official said. The Ocean Peace was drifting 19km
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      • 89 17 CHRISTOPHER WADE has been appointed controller of classification of Lloyd's Register. Says Mr Wade: "As I see it, my two main functions will be overseeing LR's duty of reporting with accuracy the ship survey positions of the Classing Committee, together with ensuring that the appropriate
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    • 497 18 Reuter DRY CARGO futures started the New Year buoyant, breaking new ground in anticipation of a further improvement in freight rate levels in first quarter 1988, traders on the Baltic International Freight Futures market said. Near April futures closed at a
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    • 633 18 Bernama-UNS DOCKSIDE ceremonies to mark the start of a new, fast-transit Pacific express service that links Hawaii with the US west coast and the Asian rim have been held in Honolulu. The launch saw the arrival of
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    • 763 18 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Africa Ocean X 2 Alltrans VII 3 American Tpt X 4/5 Anship Int'l V 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 APC line V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI III
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    • 1453 18 RENEWED Soviet activity in the time-charter sector to cover grsin cargoes out of the US festured on the freight market on Tuesday, shipbrokers said. Severs! Pansmsx vessels sre believed to have been srrsnged by Soviet charterers but no confirmation hss been obtainable. However, brokers said the Mistrsl of
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    • 275 19 FT THE WORLD shipbuilding industry is likely to suffer from substantial excess capacity well into the *****, according to a United Nations report published on Tuesday. The report, compiled by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) says excees
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    • 230 19 Reuter THE PORT of Montreal aaid ahipowners srs diverting cargo from Montreal to other porta due to a contract diapute which haa led to five recent 24-hour walkouta. Dominic Taddeo, general manager at the Port of Montreal, aaid 20,000 tonnee
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    • 168 19 AP A SINGAPORE-REGISTERED library ship chartered by the Evangelist Church ran aground on Turnday in stormy wsathsr at ths southern tip of South America, and all 138 people aboard wars rescued unharmed. Ths Chilean Navy reported that the Logos run aground in
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    • 219 19 Seatrade Week THE 12 LINER companiea that paid US$2 million in finee to the US Federal Maritime Commission after the commission's rebating inveettgation have now submitted guidelinee for the eetabiishment of an enforcement authority, or eeif-po-licing committee. This enforcement authority will comprise
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    • 153 19 Reuter ONLY TWO TUGS out of Nvtn at Dar-es-Salaam port ara in full working or Oar and harbour pilots said they ara working flat out to copa with shipping movamants. However, the Tanzania Harbour Authority (THA) said the two operational tuge ara sufficient to
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    • 55 19 AP THE ARGENTINE Navy on Tuesday seized a South Korean fishing trawler skm inside its 320 km territorial zone, officials said. The Seyany A-51 carrying 62 tons of fresh squid and its crew of 28 were arrasted without incident in Argentine waters. 1,400 km south
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    • 207 19 ALL SURVEYS were conducted on Doc 21 30 veesels oporating; Bahis Blanca Normal operation. Brisbane, Sydney. Melbourne, Fremantle and Adelaide Normal operation. Chittagong Waiting time of up to one month. Santoe SO veeeeta operating. Douala Waiting time of up to one day. CMe Arica and Valparaiso Normal operation.
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    • 256 19  -  From Kingsley Wood BOTH the insurance industry and exporters are locked in an intense lobbying campaign in a lead-up to government changes in the Sea Carriage of Goods Act The Insurance Council of Australia has warned that maritime insursnce changes supported by
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    • 8644 24 AARHUB Arthur Maarak. Maarak Una. Jan 1 Ming Prominanca. Yang Mtng, Jan 10. Franldurt Expraaa. Trtot. Jan 11<PK). Nad Dam ScanOutcht. Jan 12. Evar Qroup. Evargraan. Jan 12. Tang Ha. China Ocaan. Jan 11 Villa da Ptuton. CM D APratamant. Jan 11
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    • 89 24 Area/Port Vlicotlty Danaity Walar CST at 50C G/ML at 15C VotunwO/0 Afrtca/Rad 8m Joddah 168/180 0.954/0.957 0.0/0.8 Durban 70/170 0.976/0.992 0.0/0.2 Arabian QuN Ros Tanura 141/171 0.948/0.949 0.1/0.3 Bahrain 186/190 0.975/0.976 0.0/0.1 Europe Rotterdam 139/555 0.973/1.007 0.0/1.2 Hamburg 144/378 0.973/0.992 0.0/0 J U Hovro 24/353 0.922/0.986
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    • 74 17 DRY CARGO futures started the New Year buoyant, breaking new ground in anticipation of a further improvement in freight rate levels in first quarter 1988. Page II THE WORLD shipbuilding industry is likely to suffer from substantial excess capodty well into the *****, according to a United Nations report published
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    • 668 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD 7 t T7T77T NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Ff EU/AUBT TPA/SEA Terminal Cfl BOOKINGS *****98 *****«2 mm mini imu* nui vmu imm NEPIINE SON. BHD. MM HMM|OUT«UW NEPLINE SON. BNO. 2U«n INWMtU 2JWON NEPIINE SON. BHO. umvtZMHWmKm NEPIINE SON. BHO. T TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): I
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    • 371 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KEI ANG. PENANG BUSAN INCHON SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P.KELANG, PENANG, BUSAN, INCHON VMad'i Nam ETDK MX IPORE PKELANC BUSAN Na I Dontm/710* 27/U 07/01 1114/11 14-17/01 77-SVai No 7 DMMM/711N mm um 14-17/01 11-M/H M-02/02 am 2Mi a-am
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    • 346 24 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TIL 225 6868 (30 Lines > FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD DEUTF R ACHT/SE EREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE •VIA COLOMBO: Accepting cargo tor INDIA Bombay, Cochin. Madras 1 Calcutta "VIA LARNACA: Accepting cargo for
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    • 1003 25 IZUMI LINE REGULAR EXPRESS CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO CALCUTTA VSL BIT Soots Loading For WAKAYU 63A 1962 15th JAN 88 CAL. MADRAS* •SUBJECT TO INDUCEMENT G. AGENT: TAIKA SHIPPING i ENTERPRISES PTE LTD TLX ***** TAIKA TEL *****78 BOOKING AGENT: RICK MARINE ASSOCIATES PTE LTD TLX ***** RMA TEL *****86 Vfh7S////v
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    • 369 26 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd TEL *****06 (20 Lines) TLX RS ***** RS ***** CAR CARRIER SERVICE TO MUARA/KUCHING KK Loading at appropriated Berth P4-P5 NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG, TAIWAN t CHINESE PORTS, SUBJECT INDUCEMENT IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE VIA MAURITIUS REUNION DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK
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