The Business Times, 11 April 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 610 1  -  Levelling off expected in second half of year By LEONG WEN WAH MALAYSIAN rubber prices hit a seven-year high last week and they are poised to spring even higher in the near term. Still, analysts say prices should begin to level off
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  • 495 1 Reuter BASE METAL PRICES are soaring on world markets, buoyed by record demand as manufacturers find that last year's financial crash has not hit economic activity. Demand for raw materials for consumer goods and for building, particularly in Japan, has been as important as
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  • 104 1 Reuter SOLDIERS were put on full alert in Manila yesterday amid reports that escaped coup-attempt leader Colonel Gregorio Honasan might try to free other dissident soldiers from prison. Army commander BrigadierGeneral Mariano Adalem did not say how many soldiers were ordered out, but the
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  • 102 1 UPI AN ARMY ammunition dump near Islamabad caught fire and exploded yesterday, launching dozens of artillery shells into the city and touching off widespread panic. Hospital sources said there were many casualties. The cause of the blast was not immediately known but damage was reported to be
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  • 272 1 Reuter FOREIGN INVESTMENT commitments in Indonesia, buoyed by a freer business climate, reached US$l.B billion during the first quarter of 1988, exceeding the figure for all of 1987. Achmad Az, the deputy chairman of the Investment Coordinating Board, told a group of Californian businessmen
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  • 575 1 Reuter THE HEYDAY of highly paid foreigners managing overseas companies in Tokyo may be drawing to a close. Encouraged by the yen's steep rise and the need for managers familiar with the local territory, a growing number of US and European companies are replacing expatriates
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  • 447 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING SOUTH EAST ASIA Venture Investment has attracted $18.25 million for its new venture capital fund set up last month. It is investing $4 million of the new fund in Dynamar, reputed to be the biggest
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  • 177 1 AFTER a one-day stopover in London, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew leaves for Washington today for a five-day visit. He is due to arrive in Washington at about 3pm Monday Washington time, or 3am Tuesday morning Singapore time. On arrival at
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    • 291 1 MARKET REVIEWS MONEY S EXCHANGES COMMODITIES AIRCRAFT SCHEDULE CROSSWORDS TV S RADIO SRttTOW DOONESBURY JAPAN is seeking closer ties with Block Africa while trying to curb the growth of its new role as Pretoria's top trade partner. The strategy marks a shift away from a policy that had long been
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1799 2  -  I Singapore architects and engineers have been offered the opportunity to form limited liability companies. This holds a' number of advantages, for example, in competing for large overseas construction projects and in offering a bigger package of services to clients. To date, such professionals have only been
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    • 1414 3 For decades, Bata has been better known for its canvas school shoes than the smart city shoes they are selling today. The change made a few years ago has been for the better and is reflected in the company's profit figures. ANNA TEO takes
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    • 787 3 J GERARD JANSSEN, chairman of Bata Shoe (Singapore) and six other Bata companies in AsiaPacific, retires this month. But it's not farewell altogether for the Dutchman who has spent 45 years with the world's largest shoe-maker. He remains on the board of Bata Ltd and will
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    • 177 3 ►Wth 700 luxurious rooms and suites each overlooking the Chao Phraya River, the Shangri-La is truly a city resort in the heart of Bangkok. Set amidst beautiful landscaped gardens, it offers an extensive range of leisure activities as well, of course, as the warm welcome and superb standards of personal
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 416 4 Reuter JAPAN is seeking closer ties with Black Africa while trying to curb the growth of its new role as Pretoria's top trade partner. The strategy, a leading Tokyo economist said during a visit to Nairobi last week, marked a shift
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    • 255 4 AFP CHINA'S ties with non-communist South-east Asia, based on a shared opposition to Vietnam's military presence in Cambodia, are being cemented by a rapid increase in trade. Asean sees China as the means to expand trade in the face of protectionism in the US and
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    • 78 4 AFP INDONESIA boosted exports to China and slashed imports in the first 10 months of last year, turning a long-running deficit in bilateral trade into a surplus. The official Antara news agency said last Saturday that figures from the Trade Department showed Indonesia exported
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    • 268 4 AFP SOUTH KOREAN opposition eader Kim Dae-Jung has called on the Roh Tae-Woo government to investigate allegations that former president Chun Doo-Hwan has invested millions of dollars in Australia. Mr Kim said in Seoul last Saturday that Mr Chun, who was replaced as president
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    • 140 4 AFP MANY US INVESTORS in Taiwan feel the investment climate has deteriorated due to increasing labour unrest, street protests and vague environmental legislation. Mr Steve Wu of Taiwan's Industrial Development and Investment Centre said in Taipei last Friday that US investors cit- ed a protest
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    • 835 4 ARRIVALS Operator S«rvic* Loca From number time SU SQ27 0825 CPH/FtA SU SQ43 0835 DMA MAS MH651 0910 PEN MAS MH607 0920 KUL SU SQ103 0950 KUl CPA CX710 1015 CGK MAS MH609 1020 KUL KIM KL841 1050 AMS/KM GU GA960 1100 CGK SU SQ105 1105 KUL
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    • 85 4 LONDON Th e pe r son's choice every T uesdav. Thursdoy. Saturday and Sunday Leaving Changi Airport o f 22:05 hours and arriving Heathrow early •ie following Call your Travel Agent or A.r Canada at *****55 AIR CANADA J r v Y?. is? 1 How economical is your phone system?
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 224 5 AP THE UK government today puts into effect extensive changes in the welfare system that may be the most controversial step in Prime Minister Thatcher's campaign to bury British socialism. The move, which will affect 8.6 million welfare recipients, is the third stage of a
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    • 159 5 AFP FORMER US President Richard Nixon has said that his biggest mistake while in office was not bombing and mining North Vietnam sooner and that he was deterred by "phony" peace talks. "I would say the major mistake I made as president was
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    • 125 5 Reuter THE WHITE HOUSE released President Reagan's 1987 federal tax returns last Friday and said the President and his wife earned US$9,OOO more and paid US$6,OOO less in income taxes last year. The joint tax return filed for Mr Reagan and his
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    • 124 5 AFP THE SOVIET UNION and the US continue to dominate world arms sales, but world weapons exports have dropped in recent years, the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency reported last Friday. According to its World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers, an annual study
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    • 424 5 Reuter OPEC has unveiled a new strategy for dealing with a world oil glut by announcing an unprecedented meeting with non-Opec producers later this month. Rilwanu Lukman. Nigerian president of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, announced the plan late on Saturday
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    • 315 5 Reuter THE US TRADE DEFICIT is expected to show signs of continued improvement as lawmakers strive to complete comprehensive legislation that would change US trade policy dramatically. The government on Thursday will report the US trade deficit for February and many analysts expect it
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    • 96 5 AFP US CONSUMER DEBT grew at an annual rate of 10.3 per cent in February, the third consecutive month it increased. The Federal Reserve last Friday said consumer debt grew 12.2 per cent in January, when instalment debt rose U556.24 billion after a December
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • MONEY AND EXHANGE
    • 246 6 Reuter JAPAN and the US may be heading for a tiff this week over currency rates not their own, but those of Asia's four so-called little dragons, Hongkong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. At meetings later this week in Washington, the US is likely to renew its
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    • 205 6 OCBC THE PRICES of five-year Government bonds closed easier on light volume last week. On the domestic scene, interbank term rates remained largely unchanged at around the 3.25 per cent level. However, interbank overnight rates firmed up to its more usual trading range of 3.00 to 3.50
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    • 497 6 4 Indicate* tha avaraga of 4 tha prima landing rata* of 12 major banks In S'pora PLR of bonks at the close o business on Friday, April 8, a supplied by the Association o Banks in Singapore. BANK PU Algemene Bank 63 Allied Irish Bank PLC <
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    • 138 6 AP THE CHILEAN government says the country has gained new concessions, including an interest rate reduction worth US$22 million a year, in a renegotiation of terms for foreign debt payments to commercial banks. Chief negotiator Hernan Somerville of the central bank in Santiago said last Friday that
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    • 246 6 ASIAN CURRENCY average deposit rotes for 1 ihe week ended April 8 BIO PRICES High Low us t 7 doyi 6 15/16 6 13/16 1 month 6 15/16 6 13/16 2 months 6 15/16 6 7/8 3 months 7 6 15/16 6 morttn 7 3/16 7 1/8
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    • 179 6 THE COST of money continues to fall. Over the weekend, Overseas Union Bank announced a reduction in the interest rate charged on new, unsecured financings obtained under the bank's "Executive Loan Programme". The new annual rate is 514 per cent for loans repaid over
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    • 410 6 BRITAIN'S mortgage rates and bank borrowing costs are being brought down to their lowest levels in more than a decade to try and stem the pound's rise. Following the green light from the Bank of England in money markets, Britain's major clearing banks Barclays,
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    • 852 6  -  by PAUL FRANKLAND YOUR BUSINESS is under constant threat from fire. Even a small fire can destroy more than just plant and materials. Worse, it can do away with valuable stock records, contracts. work sheets and staff records. Without really wishing to terrify you out
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    • 234 6 Reuter AMERICAN BANKS probably will not be raising their 8.5 per cent prime lending rate immediately, given the modest scope of the Federal Reserve's apparent tightening of the federal funds rate, according to analysts. "Banks are not at a point where the
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    • 107 6 AP HONGKONG'S leading banks announced last Saturday a rise in the prime lending rate from 6 per cent to 6.5 per cent. Banks also announced that interest paid on savings accounts and all deposits would rise half a percentage point. The changes will take effect today.
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    • 108 6 Reuter ALGEMENE BANK Nederland NV has agreed to take over Chicago-based Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co's Taipei office for an undisclosed amount. The move, adding 88 workers to ABN's own 60strong force in Taiwan, would make the Dutch bank one of
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 1062 7 AFP OCCASIONALLY thin markets, squaring operations prior to the Easter weekend and speculation about the G-7 meeting in Washington characterised the last two weeks of trading, which saw hefty exchange rate fluctuations. Although the expectation of sizeable dollar sales by Japanese institutional investors in the new fiscal year
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    • 524 7 AT New York's Commodity Exchange, spot gold prices slipped lower in fairly active trading last week to settle on Friday at U*****.60 an ounce, another marginal dip of about $3 over the previous week's close. After an initial upturn, spurred by a report of a nine-year low in US
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    • 101 7 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES needs new loans to reduce the drain on foreign exchange reserves caused by debt servicing and to prime the economy. "We must try to overcome a too negative attitude against further borrowings.'' the president of state-owned Philippine National Bank, Edgardo Espiritu, told a
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 1130 8 AFP TRADING was subdued on the commodity markets as they reopened after the Easter break for a shortened four-day week. Most commodities weakened due to lack of interest, in spite of sterling's losses against the dollar. Rubber advanced in line with Kuala Lumpur,
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    • 119 8 Reuter THE US could open its doors to more sugar from cash-starved developing nations next year, ending a long decline in imports, according to sugar industry analysts in Waahington who forecast reduced US sugar production this year. "If anything, hopefully we can finally match the
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    • 71 8 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Rubber Industry Development Authority (Risda) plans to open up more mini estates, replant rubber and encourage the planting of cash crops. Risda deputy directorgeneral (operations) Shahabudin Shafie said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday that out of about Msl27 million set aside
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    • 273 8 Reuter BRITISH and US traders welcome a decision to enlarge the size of the tin futures contract on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE), according to the exchange's deputy chairman. Mohammed Ajib Anuar, who al* so chairs the KLCE tin market committee, told reporters in Kuala
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    • 216 8 Bernama ES THE Malaysian rubber market closed firmer last week with May International RSS One up by 8 50 cents to 206.50 cents a kg. Dealers said the price was a sev-en-year high for the rubber. The market opened unchanged on Tuesday but remained quiet awaiting a fresh lead
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    • 179 8 Bernama ES THE crude palm oil futures market ended lower last week on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange with April closing at Ms 27 down to Ms9l3 per tonne. The undertone however, remained firm. Lack of interest and reports of higher production in the coming months affected trading
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    • 322 8 London Commodity Exchange Buyoc/S#A#f do^nQ pricm on ApHI 8 (X/tonn* unh PrtvkM doling pHci ns H >#< 1) it In T iH Coff## ln*itor9 vondon, wH#fi opMod Of London Moy 1109/1110 (1107/1106) High/Low 1108/1100 M 1128/1130 (1127/1128) MJgh/Low 1130/1123 Sol*t (2550) Cocoa Moy 875/876 (876/877) High/Low 880/865 Jut
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    • 169 8 ChlntN Produce Exchange 5tHjn' noon dorinQ pr Icm on April 9 (SI/100 kg) Coconut oil h* FOt 103.00 Otd drum FOt 117.00 N»w drum FOt 113.00 Copra Mh«d (Ioom) 59 Pepper AAuwJok FOt NLW 1120.00 Sarawak «Wti FOt foq NLW 1150.00 Sarawak tpadal Mock FOt NIW Sarawak Aita
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    • 218 8 Bernama ES THE KLTM closed 10 cents higher last week at M 517.45 a kg compared to M 517.35 a kg previously. Total turnover for the week amounted to 270 tonnes as against 214 tonnes the previous week. The market opened easy on Monday reflecting lack of support
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    • 117 8 Reuter SOYBEAN FUTURES rallied sharply late in trading on Friday on tha Chicago Board of Trade to pull pricea out of a dull mklseeaion range. Prices cloeed 5.0 to 8.0 cents higher with May at US$6.7B a bushel and November above the significant US$7.OO level at US$7.O3. All months
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    • 156 8 Reuter WHEAT FUTURES rallied late to extend midseaaion gains aa prices closed 41/2 to two cents higher on Friday on the Chicago Board of Exchange. May cloeed 3-3/4 cents higher at USS3.I6-3/4 a bushel as most months finished on session highs. Late computer fund buying booated the market. The
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  • THE ARTS
    • 598 11  -  By SHAUN KOH IF THE AMERICAN media bill spectaculars such as political parties nomination run-offs Super Tuesday, and the final of American football Superbowl Sunday, then Singapore's big event was undeniably last Thursday Super Thursday, that is. The occasion was perhaps the
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    • 765 11  -  German artist Akelei Sell speaks of her personal Silk Road By VANESSA LEE GERMAN-BORN artist Akelei Sell invitee you to take the Silk Road. Not to China, but to enjoy and discover her silk paintings now on show at the Goethe-lnstitut. And I really mean discover for
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1218 11 |BriStc*^rfcn]clfcdtta3 VOIL-f\ V It's iHeNose is UJffoNG to OK© aaoQiD IB 12 PM Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Call Me Mister The Creative Accountant. A man calling himself Blair breaks into the City Investigation Bureau to steal some information about himself. Asian Inter-Varsity Debates '88 National Taiwan LMversity vs
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    • 754 11 mmmm CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Go quietly, as a criminal? (5) 6 Soft currency? (5) 9 Where the entertainment is essentially light (7) 10 In a Cockney's eyes, ingredient of pies (5) 11 Hugh upsets Dolly (5) 12 Greeting that's nothing more then an expletive? (5) 13 Papers relating to
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 538 12 AP THE MILES and the years flew by, taking a toll on Bill Rodgers's frail-looking form. His times got slower, and his breaths came faster. Age, and other marathoners, had caught up. From 1975 through 1980, Rodgers won four Boston Marathons. He was at the
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    • 300 12 UPI BRENDAN POWELL picked Rhyme n' Reason up off the turf at Becher's Brook on Saturday and went on to win Britain's Grand National in a driving finish that was fitting for the 150 th edition of the steeplechase. Rhyme n' Reason, which fell
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    • 317 13 Reuter UNDEFEATED Evander Holyfield of the US battered Puerto Rican Carlos Deleon to become the undisputed world cruiserweight champion last Saturday when the referee stopped their bout in the eighth round in Las Vegas. Holyfield had Deleon pinned on the ropes and was scoring at will
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    • 202 13 AFP MEXICO s Carlos Espinosa shot a four-under-par 68 yesterday to win the U*****,000 Taiwan Open golf championships. the eighth leg of the Asian men's golf circuit. Espinosa, 26, finished on 293, five over the card after four rounds on the 6.825-yard
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    • 829 13 AP THE ROUT is now a race. "I left the door open," Scotland's Sandy Lyle said after he squandered half of his fourshot lead on Saturday in the third round of the 52nd US Masters. "But that's the way it goes." shrugged Lyle. who
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    • 470 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS ALBERT TEO and Hassan Bohari secured a historic Davis Cup triumph for Singapore in Damascus on Saturday and the win was received with glee by national association president Dr Ong Leong Boon yesterday. Speaking in Singapore after the duo had
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    • 507 13 AP TOP-SEEDED Martina Navratilova and No. 2 seed Gabriela Sabatini are right where they want to be in the finals of the 16th annual Family Circle Magazine Cup women's tennis tournament in South Carolina. But they took different routes to get there. Navratilova. struggling
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    • 115 13 AP NO. 2 SEED Tim Mayotte of ttar US defeated compatriot ScCfC Davis 6-1, 7-5 on Saturday earn a berth in the finals of U*****,000 Volvo Chicago tervnis championships agairffrC eight-seeded Paul Annacone Annacone, also an Ameri-* can, won an earlier semi-final over third-seeded countryman!
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    • 559 13 AP ISIAH THOMAS scored 13 of his 20 points in the fourth period on Saturday as the Detroit Pistons outscored Atlanta 30-17 in the quarter and beat the Hawks 115-102 in Atlanta The victory gave the firstplaced Pistons a two-game lead over Atlanta
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    • 533 13 and entertain 4 3&dP C i Cherry Blossom Festival April 7 21 The sweet promise of spring comes to the Unkai when the Sakura blooms Celebrate the charm of the Cherry Blossom Festival with us in the authentic Japanese way In honour of this occasion, we will be offering the
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 4205 14  -  r Singapore 1 By MAGDALENE NG THE SINGAPORE stock market continued to take its cue from Wall Street throughout the week. The Straits Times Industrial Index rose from the outset, in tandem with Wall Streets recovery. But trading was generally lacklustre as
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    • 411 15 Singapore Stock Indices BT Comp 1 BT OB OS 10 BT CADI 11 BT 10-day av 11 BT OBV 1 1 ST Inds 1 ST Finance 8 ST Hotels 4 ST Prop 5 ST Minings 3 ST Plant 3 DBS CPF 6 OCBC 2 OUB Comp 7 UOB Comp 6
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    • 619 15  -  Week ended Apr 8 compiled by JULIANA TAY CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Fufi Offset Plat* Monyfocturlng Pte Ltd is offering five million shores of 20-cents par value at 75 cents a share. The closing date for application of shares is April 19 Highlands and Lowlands has entered
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    • 870 15 New York FT FOR A FLEETING half-ses-sion on Wednesday, Wall Street was just like its old self. Emboldened by rumours of a Group of Seven floor for the US dollar, stocks surged for their sec-ond-best day of the year. Oh, to be a young trader
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    • 609 15 K.Lumpur MBT THANKS mainly to the 64.17-point gain on Wall Street last Wednesday, the Kuala Lumpur stock market recovered its previous week's losses to finish higher for the week. Trading was lacklustre. Though interest continued to be focused on low-er-priced stocks, selective blue chips also managed
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    • 247 15 AFP AUSTRALIAN stocks finished slightly higher last week with little activity despite heavy trading abroad. County Securities analyst Warwick Evans said major institutional buyers showed little interest. "It was a very difficult week." he said. "The market really didn't get going until Friday. Despite good
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    • 1069 15 I Hongkong DBS Securities HK THE HONGKONG market made spectacular gains last week, with the Hang Seng Index soaring 76 points in a three-day session shortened by the Easter break. The market indicator closed on Friday at 2,619.87 after registering a respectable 42-point rise
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    • 423 15 Tokyo AFP SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo Stock Exchange soared to an all-time high last week, making the TSE the first major stock market to surpass peak levels reached before the global market crash in October. The Nikkei Stock Average. the key market indicator,
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 518 16  -  By LEE HAN SHIH A CHAPTER of the feedmilling industry drew to a close last Friday with the resignation of Datuk Sri Ang Keong Lan from the board of the troubled Malaysian Feedmills Ltd (MFL), a listed company he founded 22
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    • 202 16 Bernama ES PALMCO HOLDINGS Bhd group incurred a pre-tax operating loss of M 52.3 million for the six months ended Dec 31, 1987. This represented a 67 per cent improvement over the loss incurred during the corresponding period of the
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    • 129 16 Bernama KOPERASI Serbaguna Fortiss Sdn Bhd chairman Png Chew Chua was acquitted and discharged by the sessions court in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday on four counts of criminal breach of trust involving M 55.7 million. Judge Puan Zura Yahya acquitted and discharged him after DPP Gooi Soon
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 45 16 MALAYAN CREDIT LTD has raised the paid-up capital of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Malayan Credit Land Pte Ltd, from two ordinary shares to 61 million shares of $1 each fully paid, on April 8. No other details were available in the oneparagraph announcement.
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      • 102 16 THE SES has made additional queries into Dah Yung Investments Ltd's acquisition of 6.8 million shares in Consolidated Electric Co Ltd (CECL) through Causeway Industries Co Ltd, Thailand, a wholly-owned subsidiary of its associate company, Causeway Holdings Co Ld. The exchange wants to know the
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      • 68 16 BON VESTS HOLDINGS has also been queried again by the SES regarding the variances between the unaudited results and the forecast by the company. The SES asked when the professional valuation of Queen Astrid Park Project was done and why the company, when preparing the forecast for 1967,
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    • 623 16 imm By HOCK LOCK SIEW RUMOURS of Permodalan Nasional Bhd having made a decision to sell its controlling stake in UK-listed Guthrie Corporation as part of its rationalisation exercise had been circulating in the Far East for weeks. There was no
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 775 16  -  London From RAY HEATH In London A £924 MILLION rights issue from Barclays Bank last week strangely failed to disturb a useful rally in UK share prices. Strange, because one week earlier, a cash call of £163 million from Lucas Industries had sent
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    • 146 16 UBS FOREIGN MARKETS' performance helped the Swiss stock market into a post-Easter rise, though no real reason for euphoria exists in Zurich's ring. The General Index added 1.27 per cent to 827.7 over the week. Despite a flood of surprisingly good year-end results, tentatively positive
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    • 417 16  -  From SHIRISH NADKARNI, AJIT AGHARKAR in Bombay INSTITUTIONAL support that so transparently propped up the stock market in Bombay during the previous week, was once again prominent last week, leading to a recovery on the exchange for the better part of the week.
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    • 1346 16 Current El Make (Mi TeM tor TeM M peymem Me ctaee peyeMe ■w year Ml year AIN 13*% NYA NYA NYA 27% 27% Amcoi 10% NYA NYA NYA 10% 10% Asiatic Dev 3% May 19 Jun 3 Jul 1 5% 5% Austral Amol 10%) Mor 18 Apr 1
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    • 170 16 WELCOME TO ENGINEERING EXPORT PROMOTION SEMINAR-CUM-CATALOGUE SHOW ON INDIAN ENGINEERING PRODUCTS SERVICES Friday 22nd April, 1988 at 9.00 am Royal Pavilion Ballroom The Pavilion Inter-Continental, 1 Cuscaden Road, Singapore 1024 Organised by Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) INDIA Co-Sponsored by The Indian High Commission Singapore Trade Development Board (TDB) Singapore
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 962 17 New York Reuter THE NEW YORK stock market rallied to a post-crash high on Friday after arbitrage related buy programs ignited a buying spree late in the afternoon, traders said. The advance left Wall Street with its biggest one-week gain since mid-December. The Dow Jones Industrial
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    • 927 17 London Reuter LONDON SHARE PRICES on Friday ended the last leg of the three-week account higher, in the wake of a surprise half-point cut in UK base rates, with losses seen a fortnight ago mostly recouped. But stocks showed a net loss of 75.8 points on the
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    • 1048 17 Amsterdam Apn oa FU ABN 41 00 Aegon 75 90 52 Ahold 71 50 0 8 107 70 -06 Alranta 151 00 0 2 AMEV 53 60 -0 5 Amro Bank 67 90 -08 Am Stad 123 50 25 Barkal BOLS 122 50 0 5 98 00 1 7 I
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    • 183 17 Reuter 1 0 BRITISH sugar group Tate and Lyle may be forced to pay more than the US$l.33 2 billion it has offered to win 1 control of US food group Staley Continental Inc. said snalysts in London. Last Friday's
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    • 150 17 AFP JAPANESE electronics group Hitachi Ltd will invest nine million deutschemark to increase local value added in its Landsberg, West Germany, video cassette recorder factory. The investment will make it possible to install a unit for producing reading heads at the factory,
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    • 240 17 AFP SOME of Australia's leading companies have joined the race to develop a space-launch centre in Cape York in north Queensland. A spokesman for industrial giant Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd (BHP) said in Sydney last Friday that members of the consortium are diversified
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    • 147 17 AFP SHARES OF British computer software supplier Cup Group PLC jumped 89 pence to 294 on the London Stock Exchange last Friday after an unknown investor sought to buy 15 per cent of the stock in a dawn raid, market sources said. The London brokerage Warburg,
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    • 226 17 AFP JAPANESE tyre maker Bridgeetone Corp says its net consolidated profit rose 71 per cent from a year earlier to 36 billion yen in the year to Dec 31, 1967. It said last Friday that increased productivity and cost reductions had offset the
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    • 652 17 AP LESS THAN six months after the global market collapse, Japanese stock prices have surged above pre-crash levels, due to market resilience and renewed confidence in the country's healthy economy, according to investment analysts. "People have realised the Tokyo market has certain strengths." said Simon
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    • 122 17 AFP FOREIGN INVESTORS were net buyers on Japan s three stock exchanges in March for the third straight month, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) said last Friday. Their purchases exceeded sales by 90.38 billion yen (about US$723 million) as they were increasingly uneasy about the
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    • 400 17 Z I > IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER SO AND IN THE MATTER OF YEHOO NOODLE RESTAURANT PRIVATE LIMITED (IN VOLUNTARY LI MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 5001. Beach Road #03-38, Singapore
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    • 293 17 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 HORIZON DEVELOPMENT PTE LTD. MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company convened and held at 3 Shenton Way #07-09 Shenton House, Singapore 0106 on 4th April 1988, the following special resolution was duly passed:"That the Company be
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    • 342 17 In the Matter of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 And B A LEASING (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD At an Extraordinary General Meeting of B A LEASING (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD held at Meeting Room, 14th Floor Clifford Centre, Singapore 0104 on Thursday, 31 March 1988, the following resolution was passed: SPECIAL RESOLUTION
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    • 325 17 IN THE MATTER OF -t THE COMPANIES ACT, (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF RESOURCES SUPPLY CO. PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (In Liquidation) Members' Voluntary Winding-up At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of RESOURCES SUPPLY CO. PTE LTD duly convened and held at IS
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  • 366 18 Agencies HIJACKERS holding a Kuwaiti airliner at Larnaca airport said yesterday that they had "hurt" one of their estimated 50 hostages to press their demand for fuel. "We have already started to hurt one of the passengers," one of
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  • 614 18  -  By LOH HUI YIN PLANS ARE being drawn up by the Singapore Totaliaator Board to run its newly-established Bukit Turf Club. An immediate issue facing the Bukit Turf Club is how to go about admitting members. And in the long term,
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  • 263 18 MARKET SHARE ASIDE, companies are waging a different battle to stay on top these days the fight for talent. The need to get the right people will intensify with changing trade trends, according to the head of an executive search firm. The United
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  • 495 18  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA A DRAFT BILL on town councils is almost ready and will be presented in Parliament "sometime in the next couple of months" if all goes according to plan, says Minister for Trade and Industry Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong.
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  • 124 18 THE MINISTER for Home Affairs and Second Minister for Law, Professor S Jayakumar. will be leaving for Brunei on a three-day official visit today. He was invited by the Bruneian Minister for Home Affairs and Special Adviser to the Sul- tan of Brunei,
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  • 89 18 Reuter INDIAN SECURITY forces fear that Sikh extremists in Punjab have acquired US Stinger missiles. giving them the capability to shoot down helicopters and aircraft. An intelligence source in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar said yesterday that he believed four to six of the
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  • LATE FILE
    • 58 18 UPI THE US will remove its bases from the Philippines if the government in Manila does not want the facilities to remain. However, US Assistant Secretary of State Gaston Sigur said yesterday that he was confident the talks on the bases now
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    • 45 18 AFP BRITISH Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said yesterday that he had discussed the possibility of Brunei joining a regional defence pact with Britain and four other countries. He was speaking at the end of a two-day visit to Brunei. AFP
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    • 47 18 Reuter MOSCOW supports an Indonesian plan to hold an informal gathering of the opposing Cambodian groups, said Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Rogachev yesterday. Ministers from 47 Asian-Pacific countries are meeting in Jakarta for the meeting of the UN regional body, Escap. Reuter
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    • 65 18 Reuter ARAB foreign ministers met in Tunis yesterday to review support for Palestinians rioting in the Israeli-occupied Arab territories and consider convening a full Arab summit on the uprising. Against the background of a faltering US peace bid, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara said no Middle
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    • 34 18 AP CHINA'S outgoing president, Li Xiannian, was elected chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference yesterday. Mr Li, 78, succeeds Deng Yingchao, the 84-year-old widow of premier Chou Enlai. AP
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    • 66 18 UPI JAPAN'S four main islands became linked by rail for the first time yesterday with the opening of the world's longest suspension bridge for both train and highway traffic. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita hailed the 9.4 km bridge spanning the main island of Honshu with Shikoku
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    • 31 18 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S opposition Liberal Party yesterday celebrated a federal by-election victory as a further warning to a Labour government which has seen its popularity drop recently. Reuter
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    • 45 18 Reuter JEWISH settlers said yesterday that a military account of the killing of an Israeli girl hiker in a clash with Palestinian villagers was a lie and a right-wing politician demanded that the army chief of staff resign. Reuter
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  • SATURDAY ROUNDUP
    • 190 18 A quick look at Saturday's main news DEVELOPMENT guides containing up-to-date information on land use and other requirements will soon be produced in the government s aim to have a more open planning system. With the guides, developers will be better informed when submitting project plans.
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    • 154 18 THE GOVERNMENT has approved the Far Eastern Economic Review's application to reproduce advertisement-free copies of the news weekly, but only up to 2,000 copies per issue. Review Publishing Co Ltd, publisher of FEER, had asked for approval to reproduce 10,000 copies per issue
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  • 138 18 AP ISRAEL HAS SOLD China a radar system originally designed for the now-defunct Lavi fighterbomber in a secret deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The Sunday Times in London yesterday quoted unidentified Israeli defence experts as saying that China wanted to develop
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  • 225 18 AFP THE TRILATERAL Commission yesterday called on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to accept Singapore and South Korea as members. The conservative thinktank said in a report released in Tokyo that Singapore and South Korea should be invited to join the
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    • 401 18 Free clippings of BT exclusive stories Free copies of these exclusive stories in last week's Business Times are now available 1 Profile of the typical purchasing manager. 2 Stock exchange discovers breach of rules and bylaws by some broking firms. 3 A listing of the top 10 employers in the
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 105 19 Reuter CANADIAN Pacific is having talks with various purchasers on the sale of about 19 bulk carriers and product carriers owned by its subsidiary Canadian Pacific (Bermuda) Limited. No decision has been made regarding the sale of the vessels which are
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    • 398 19 Changes will take effect on May 15 THE RAPID appreciation of certain Asian currencies against the US dollar has prompted the Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) to modify its currency adjustment factor (CAF) and practices to reflect increased handling costs.
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    • 234 19 THE PHILIPPINE Ports Authority will award contracts for cargo handling at both government and private ports through public bidding and not through negotiation. Three major exemptions will be made under the change of policy: Contractors who have existing and/or expired cargo handling
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 91 19 Reuter WORLDWIDE Shipping Agency, manager of shipping magnate Sir Y K Pao's fleet, declined comment on a press report that the group is raising a 3.5 billion Euroyen loan to finance one of its vessels. The HK Economic Times said Chase Manhattan Aaia Ltd is
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      • 87 19 Reuter HIGH-LEVEL US and Japanese government officials will exchange views on bilateral shipping issues on April 22 in Tokyo, Japanese Transport Ministry officials said. Topping the agenda are the US trade bill, resumption of Sunday working at Japanese ports, and the trans-Pacific liner trade situation, but no
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      • 49 19 Reuter THE GROUNDED Liberian oil carrier Alegro II was recently refloated in the Gulf, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence service reported. The Alegro 11, 158,644 tonnes deadweight, which operates on the shuttle service between Kharg Island and Larak Island, ran aground on March 25 off the Iranian coast.
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      • 87 19 Reuter COMPAGNIE Maritime d'Affretement will appoint Interocean Shipping Corporation as its new general agent in Japan. Interocean will assume responsibility on May 1 and the services of the existing agent, Tohkai Kaiun, will be terminated on the same day. CMA operates seven container ships
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    • 163 20 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): "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 Djakarta Lloyd Nedlloyd
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    • 122 20 P O puts two Dover ferries up for sale Reuter BRITISH ferry firm Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co has put two of its Dover ferries up for sale as a strike by 2,300 seamen at the Channel port enters its tenth week. Potential buyers from Greece and Scandinavia were
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    • 460 20 Shell will use the Questionnaire 88 Intortanko TANKER chartering involves asking many questions about the ship, its particulars, cargo arrangements, surveys and certificates and more. The charterers need to know has led them to develop their own question forms giving emphasis to
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    • 174 20 NEDLLOYD GROUP has contacted major shareholders to try to ban proxy abuse aimed at getting around statutory voting limits at shareholder meetings. It published a legally binding recount by a notary of the votes cast at its Feb 12 shareholders meeting and said 57.6
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    • 668 20 Reuter DUTCH transport group Nedlloyd's decision to sell a majority interest in the Dutch charter airline Transavia is a clear sign it intends to move out of aviation, analysts said. "Moves like this are likely to continue despite chairman Henk
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    • 269 20 AP A GALA reception was held at a port east of Tokyo to mark the arrival of the first US-made Honda cars for sale in Japan, company officials said. Makoto Tanaka, spokesman of Honda Motor Co, said about 350
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    • 347 21 MORE THAN a hundred ships of 1.13 million grt have joined the Piraeus registry after the Greek minister Evangelos Giannopoulos made his call last autumn for Greek-owned ships to be "returned to their natural flag, that of their country." Because
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    • 301 21 HONGKONG International Terminal's success in winning the right to develop and operate Terminal Seven of Kwai Chung container port will enable it to open a new berth every six months from now until 1991. Mr John Meredith, managing director of HIT, told the South China
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    • 581 21 OIL tanker/combination carrier tonnage sold for scrap in March fell to 396,351 long dwt (five vessels) from 466,518 dwt (six) in February, London shipbroker Howard Houlder said. This brought the January/March 1988 total to 1.2 million dwt (18 vessels) against 2.06 million (20) in the same period of 1987.
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    • 10714 26 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the (estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 1302 27 Easier rates were reported paid for grain cargoes out of the US on Thursday, although confirmation was not available for some of the business, ship brokers said. A lump sum equivalent to US$l3 99 was paid for a vessel with cargo capacity for 89.000 long tons carrying light
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    • 1327 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Emerold Star JI2 olongside 1104/0600 Flog leader HI olongside 1104/1600 VMMI B.rt h Arrival Departure Glory Serayo ji alongside 11 04/2000 KEPPEL WHARVES Alfesoni Builder III Equotor III Honseotic Huong long Koto Pelongi KI9 Moiu Yong Hua Sibolangit JI2 J3 alongside alongside 1104/2300 II
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    • 2069 28 A—B AB Shipping Boustead Shpg Agencies ABC Containerline NV S pore Shpg (S) Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S) Alrica Ocean Lines Seaiion Shpg (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S). Alfred C Toepter Oceanus Shipping Sencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK). trans Alltrans Express American President Lines
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    • 503 30 Lloyd 's List A COAL PRICE row has broken out in Australia which threatens to shut down much of Japan's steel production and disrupt the buik carrier market. The Australian government is making a stand against coking prices paid by
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    • 253 30 Reuter STATE-OWNED Shipping Credit and Investment Corporation of India (SCICI) has signed a US$60 million two-tranche loan with Swiss Bank Corp Investment Banking Ltd ot London. The loan carries interest of 0.25 points above six month London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor), a SCICI statement said.
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    • 121 19 mm DUTCH transport group Nedlloyd's decision to sell o majority interest in the Dutch charter airline Transavia is a clear sign it intends to move out of aviation, analysts said. P«g« II MORE THAN a hundred ships of 1.13 million grt have ioined the Piraeus registry after the Greek minister
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    • 822 25 S'pore NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Ft EU/AUST TPA/SEA Garvaral Enquiries T«l: *****77 T* No Tjwpj*! SEL* BOOKINGS *****53 *****2 *****22 *****53 27*111 J*****6 P Kelanf NEPIINE SON BHD 36nu; *****19 *****49 K Lumpur NEPLINE SON BHD. *****33 iNWARDOUTWARD NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES ITD p, un NEPL,NE sdn BHD tno3s/*****W*****i*?tt62 enqo?*ik U
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    • 529 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPIN Korean Flag Vessels DIRECT SERVICE TO: P. KELANG. PENANG, BUSAN. INCHON STRAITS/KOREA SEHVITP Vassal Nam* rro BS BKK Entarprite/attN 27/03 No 1 Donam/KBN TUO3 OHH No 7 Donam/KMN CC W No I Dorum/XUN 04/04 16/04 •ciorij mm vw Enterprise*** 24/04 OSAJS No Donam«BN IMM S PORE PKELANG BUSAN
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    • 784 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD Sm e a P° re 01M Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 £n5Lc A(toress SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** rtrvAitb > Mr w MAI THONG SNIPPING 127 Pefiing Street Penenfl, Malaysia M S HANDUNC cycrry rn cnm
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    • 340 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 .30 Lines. FAX *****39 *****76 TtIEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI RQSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE -VIA LARNACA Accapt Mersm, Limassoi. Bwrut. cargo lor Lattaka, Piraeus, Thessataniki, Izmir. Istanbul, siandria, Port Said. Iraqi, Iranian. 'Accepting carta
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    • 172 26 Regional Weather <: 12 i Va Is 1 S5 w 5s SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. c O Wind direction with speed in knots Wove height LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperature c A\ n Shower- Weother Wind direction with speed in knots Rom W Cloudy Sky
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    • 1233 27 |CSP\ CSP SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Tel *****66 (16 Lines) Fax *****15 FIXED CONSOLIDATION SERVICE FCL/LCL TO: CHINA, HONG KONG, BANGKOK, P.KELANG, KEELUNG, KAOSHIUNG, MANILA, BUSAN, TOKYO/YOKOHAMA KOBE. OSAKA, FELIXSTOWE, HAMBURG ALL EUROPE BASE PORTS ALL USA PORTS Also accepts to other destinations, ACCEPTING FCL/LCL AND CONVENTIONAL: MV Totonj Last
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    • 247 27 n UNIPACIFIC TRANS. TRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. HTi IRAQI LINE lß| oi SUTf fNT(RPRISf fO* MIRITIMf TRANSPORT MV BABYLON MV ALFARABI MV ALFARABI EAST BOUND SERVICE ETA S PORE LOADING FOR 121* Yhami. Kobe CtWb* Kinut Yjwati WEST BOUND SERVICE ETA S PORE LOADING FOR 1V« J«M*h Aqjb* B««ti ETA
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    • 550 28 m FINE-LINER shippinc PTE LTD ?r. Sh^ n V M 0?C M r,ni Hnu, > e S pore 0? TFL .'?WO// (8 (,nes) TtX RS ??M1 FIINER FAX ??528b6 EUROPE SERVICE i™ ias is far east service MIDDLE EAST GULF SERVICE WEEKLY HKG/CHINA SERVICE! Hamburg West German Tiger Line BEN
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    • 487 28 ZIM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE accepting FCI/LCL cargoes to USA East i West Carnbbean East Canada. HAITI Co»ta Rtc« El Salvador Guatemala Hon Venezuela Peru Ecuador Colombia via Miami Trimd* Barbados Antw Lucia Montierrat Cuayana via Kingston Ju-J 1 'I 1 1 ■i iM j i AUSTRALIA CONTAINER SERVIC 2IM TRIESTE
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    • 437 28 Everett Lines CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION. P*n»flf* P. K»t»nf* S*ng>por« MANOLOEVERETT CAm ifji/ii JOHNEVERETT w MURRAYEVERETT P'rrr-,|« THOMASEVERETT 14/15 Apr f HUCHEVERETT 25/27 Apr MANOLOEVERETT 7/9 May PREFERENTIAL KRTH IN CALCUTTA AT KPD CALL SUBJECT TO INDUCEMENT P.S. SINGAPORE FAX N0 *****K I TELEX NO. RSZI3K
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    • 257 29 m ITEX SHIPPING PTE LTD r REGULAR LINER SERVICE VESSEL S'PORE LOADING FOR JUBILEE SLD 2/3 BOMBAY HAKKIN MARU ETA 30/4 BOMBAY, KARACHI, JEDDAH, MED PORTS CARGO T0 RED SEA AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS UN INDUCEMENT AGENTS: SEALIHI SHIPPING AGENCIES SPORE P. KELANB PENANfi TEL *****94 *****18 *****4 TUL R52«119 MAJ9477
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    • 125 29 j*jcr TRAVERWAY MARITIME LTD MONTHLY CONVENTIONAL SERVICE S'PORE Loading for KINALI V 3/88 13/4/88 FAMAGUSTA/BEIRUT/ TRIPOLI (LEBANON)/ LATTAKI A/ISTANBUL/ MERSIN/ALEXANDRIA Agents: SEALORD SHIPPING AGENCIES Spore: Tel: *****94 P.Kelang: Tel: *****18 Penang: Tel: *****6 Ngship Agencies T»t«phon« 221(443 *****90 *****74 >r T«l«l RS ***** FAX *****69 AB NGSMIP BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE
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    • 506 29 SING KWJUffi HANG LCL/FCL SERVICE Alio accepting cargo to KEELUNO, KAOHSIUNG, HOMO KONG, P. KELANG. BUSAN A JAPAN E MALAYSIA A BRUNEI PORTS ".1 TJIKmUH TEL *****11 FAX: *****47 TELEX: RS ***** SKHST Uii'KU LUCKY SEAWAY SERVICES PTE LTD Tlx: ***** Fax: *****77 S.E.ASIA/CHINA SERVICES SGP PKLANG PNC FOR 11/4
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    • 601 29 GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* GLORY SELATAN IX V ft GLORY SELATAN V V K BLW KAOM W 6 VESSELS OF LOG CARRIERS 5 VESSELS OF BRAND NEW TWIN DECKERS ON REGULAR LINER SERVICE FROM TAIWAN TO
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    • 363 29 PTC CONTAINER LINES FCL/ICI SERVICE PIC GPOUP SIN FAI EAST 17/4 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 16/4 BANGKOK 13/4 MANILA 16/4 JAKARTA 16/4 PORT KELANG/PENANG 17/4 BUSAN 15/4 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE 23/4 HONG KONG also accepting cargo to Huangpu/Shenzhen/FuThou Xiamen/ Xingang/Shanghai SHI EBBOPE 18/4 RDM/HAM/ANT/LE HAVRE/GENOA Sl® USA/CAMAfIA 17/4 L.A./NYC/SFO 17/4 VANCOUVER/TORONTO/MONTREAL 13/4 SYD/MELB/ADEL/FREM 24/4 AUCKLAND/WELLINGTON
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    • 310 30 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd o TEL *****06 (20 Lmes> TLX RS ***** &RS ***** IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE VIA MAURITIUS REUNION DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK SPORE PK PL REU DBN CT IHL V7T li/4 22/4 2M 7/5 1/5 13/5 23/5 'Also calls E L P.E. GENERAL AGENTS: HAI
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    • 453 30 FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA>EAST COAST/GULF/CANADA/MEXICO ANO FRENCH WEST INDIES SELAMMA MK 11/4 TOY AHA VIIB 11/4 I PfMAI VIU 2it* Sffof* Cwwdwn VSI U/4 2M ATI CAJITIU STUTT6AHT EXP. NUUNKC ATI. For: Halifax, Montrul, Toronto, Now Yor Baltimore. Portsmouth, Norfolk, Savannah fer. Cnn ln
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    • 196 30 WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK *>, MMM-MU SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD Tel: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: RS ***** SHIPPING *OAD DTK I TT\ J® 2 HOUSE PTE LTD SINGAPORE 0201 TIMBER/BREAKBULK SERVICE JW CM U ***»<* S POUE BKK SftWK/INDIA LATANCAN VT7 SmM 11-1 V« V* CJL3VU
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    • 786 30 Wi CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR ******/*****11 '04-*****2/4, *****3 *07-*****8 '07-*****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 *02-*****22 *****68 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE FEEOCJt EZ22 ii7T BUTANC U7 >. BUTANC Ol >. BUTANC *C JUTLANOIA u l r AmTt, 0A bash, mm*
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