The Business Times, 21 April 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI <P) 95/12/87 THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1188 75 CENTS
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  • 272 1 AFP Dow Jones lower THE DOW 30 index was off eight points in early trading yesterday, after a sluggish opening on concern that the rise in March consumer prices could encourage higher interest rates. Declining issues trailed gainers by two to one. The fall on Wall Street
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  • 212 1 POSITIVE thinking returned to the Singapore stockmarket yesterday, pushing the ST industrial index to its highest close for the week. There were reports of some institutional buying, but these were described as selective. Share prices rose across the board, leading to a 7.58-point
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  • 138 1 THE US dollar weakened against major currencies on Asia's foreign exchanges yesterday, as traders were concerned about a worsening of the US inflation. The US March consumer price index, due for release in Washington late last night, was generally expected to show a rise of
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  • 417 1  -  By RICHARD SEAH in Florence TALKS with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti are scheduled for later today when Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew arrives in Rome. Mr Andreotti was in Singapore in January when he accompanied the former prime minister, Mr
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  • 734 1  -  Builders fear lion's share will go to Japanese By LEE HAN SHIH Property Correspondent SUDDENLY, it's boom time for contractors in Raffles Place. For the last year or so. nothing much has been happening in Singapore's business hub. But these days, contractors are gearing
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  • 370 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING SMALL FIRMS have weathered Singapore's economic crises better than big corporations, says a recently published study entitled Small Firms In Singapore. With lower overheads, and being more nimble in adjusting to economic conditions as well as less
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  • 109 1 Reuter PHILIPPINE Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus said in Tokyo yesterday that he saw no need for the US military bases in his country. Mr Manglapus, who heads the Philippine team negotiating with the US over the future of the two bases, said they were not
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  • 111 1 Reuter IN ANOTHER troublesome report of accelerating inflation, the US government said yesterday that consumer prices rose 0.5 per cent in March after increasing 0.2 per cent in February. The rise, which exceeded expectations of a 0.4 per cent gain, followed last Friday's news that prices
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  • 136 1 AFP THE CROSS-HARBOUR TUNNEL Co, which operates Hongkong's vital transport link under the Victoria Harbour, said in Hongkong yesterday that it was applying to the government for a toll rise. Drivers currently pay a HK$lO one-way fare to cross the tunnel which connects Hongkong
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  • 211 1 AFP THE HIJACKERS of a Kuwait Airways 747 ended the 16-day ordeal yesterday and freed the hostages and crew on board but then vanished, correspondents at the scene said in Algiers. Journalists saw the 31 hostages. led by the two women
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    • 265 1 Small companies prove their mettle, Page 10 m FINALLY, THE DEMOCRATS have a genuine front runner in this year's US presidential race. But still the political scene remains bereft of candidates whom the voters are eager to follow, let alone vote for. LEADER, Page 10 THE AGGRESSIVE campaign by the
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 482 2  -  By CLAIRE LEOW THE AGGRESSIVE campaign by the labour movement to recruit more members in the last couple of years has paid off. Union affiliates report that membership has gone up to nearly the 1983 level although the numbers are still below the peak
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    • 151 2 CHINA will have a stand at the Computer Systems and Technology Exhibition (Comtec) '88 to be held in August. Twenty Chinese companies will participate in the four-day exhibition, meant for microcomputers and related peripherals and software. A spokesman for the organisers, ITP Services (Pte)
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    • 320 2 HIGHER SKILLS for a better life will be the theme of the National Trades Union Conference triennial delegates conference next week. One of the papers to be presented at the pre-conference seminar will focus on the insufficient use of training programmes by
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    • 288 2 EIGHT Singapore manufacturers will be showing off a variety of consumer goods at the 18th Osaka International Trade Fair to be held from April 23 to 29. A variety of consumer goods, such as furniture, mattresses, giftware. plastic casing, jewellery, garments and
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    • 230 2 THE MAN responsible for helping Apple Computer Inc to recapture its "byte" (position) in the market will present his ideas in a talk next week. Mr John Sculley, Apple Computer s president and chief executive officer, will speak on information technology in the
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    • 183 2 THE OFFICIAL helping hand available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which want to develop new products and processes will be discussed at length at a workshop next week Organised by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir), the "meet-the-clients" workshop will elaborate
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    • 118 2 COURIER SERVICE company,. DHL has slashed its rates for non-document consignments to the US by up to 50 per cent from April 4 to May 31 Under its Uncle Sam" package, a shipper pays only $60 instead of $153 t<i send a one-kg consignment. The promotion,
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    • 156 2 The famous Hong Kong Lei Garden makes its impact in Singapore At Lei Gar den. every dish tastes as delicious as it looks. Its always innovative and elegantly exciting, because we have so many fresh ideas in our recipes nspiring dishes such as Dian Xin, Fresh King Prawns, Freshly Steamed
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 261 3 AFP INDIA will sign a contract for two Soviet nuclear power plants with a joint value of some US$3.6 billion when Soviet deputy premier Vladimir Kamentsev visits next week, diplomatic sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday. The sources confirmed a news
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    • 79 3 AFP THE PRIME MINISTERS of Australia and Iceland will make official working visits to the United States within the next two months, the White House announced in Washington on Tuesday. Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke will be received by President Ronald Reagan on
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    • 221 3 NYT TRAVELLERS coming from Phnom Penh say Angkor, the thousand-year-old temple complex near the Cambodian town of Siem Reap, has been closed to foreign tourists for more than a month because of guerilla attacks. The temples, considered to be among the
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    • 168 3 Reuter A VISITING British minister on Tuesday criticised the BBC for a report on India which New Delhi has called deeply offensive Junior Foreign Office Minister Lord Glenarthur called the British Broadcasting Corporation's Panorama current affairs programme bad and unfair. The programme, shown
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    • 95 3 IRAN s Deputy Petroleum Minister Hussein Kazempour Ardabili has held talks with senior officials in Beijing on China s cooperation with Opec in its efforts to stabilise oil prices and restore market equilibrium. The minister, who arrived in Beijing on Monday, discussed
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    • 233 3 AFP CHINESE Premier Li Peng has accepted an invitation to visit Japan, the New China News Agency (NCNA) reported, in spite of a number of sore points that have arisen in Sino-Japanese relations in recent months. The invitation was extended on Tuesday by
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    • 280 3 AFP SOUTH KOREA'S labour disputes have begun to spread from shipyards and carworks to other enterprises including banks, mines and transport, industrial sources in Seoul said yesterday. Labour Ministry officials said there had been more than 370 labour strikes this year, compared with about 79 cases
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    • 141 3 AFP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY has given France and Italy permission to suspend imports from Taiwan and Japan passing through other EC countries. The European Commission, the EC's executive arm, said in Brussels on Tuesday that the French import quota for Taiwanese televisions had
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    • 640 3 AP JAPAN s economy has taken off on one of the biggest booms in the past five years, surprising many economists who only last year were predicting a recession. Economists say the boom will continue for at least two more years, adding that the government's
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 404 4 Congress group gives reasons for a drop in US position AP THE UNITED STATES s economic position in the world has declined because of policies adopted during Republican President Ronald Reagan s administration, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress reported on Wednesday. The committee, chaired
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    • 159 4 Reuter US HOUSING starts rose a modest 1.9 per cent in March to an annual rate of 1.543.000 units. The expected increase provided fresh evidence that the winter slump in homebuilding was temporary and that the economy overall was still
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    • 154 4 NYT DEMOCRATIC LEADERS in the US Congress have warned that Congress might reject legislation putting the US-Canada free trade agreement into effect if President Reagan vetoed the trade bill. The warning on Tuesday came as Democrats increased efforts to pass a trade bill
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    • 436 4 Reuter MASSACHUSETTS governor Michael Dukakis easily beat Jesse Jackson in the New York primary on Tuesday to become the undisputed front-runner in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. With 91 per cent of New York electoral precincts reporting. the Greek immigrant's son,
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    • 293 4 UPI MEMBERS of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade face "the risk of a slowdown" in efforts to strengthen and extend agreements, Gatt director general Arthur Dunkel said. Mr Dunkel told about 80 Canadian business representatives on Tuesday that a December meeting
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    • 116 4 AFP BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Tuesday warned that Denmark s decision to ban nu-clear-armed ships from its ports had "very grave implications" for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) Nato policy "is neither to confirm nor deny
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    • 228 4 AP SWEDEN and the US can strengthen ties by sharing their expertise in information technology. Sweden s King Carl XVI Gustaf said on Tuesday at a seminar in Chicago for 250 academic and business leaders "I am proud to be able to say Sweden is
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    • 233 4 AP US HOUSE leaders dropped efforts on Tuesday to require public disclosures of foreign investment as part of Capitol Hill's sweeping trade bill, confessing failure in efforts to budge senate critics. "The senate is just obstinate, or obdurate, let's say," said House Speaker ■Jim
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    • 868 4 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time SI A SQ11 0040 i IAX/NRT LUFT LH4514 0140 fra/dxb THAI TG801C i 0300 BKK/KPS SIA SQ691 0620 KHH (C IC555 0655 MAA SIA SQ411 0800 BOM MAS MH640 0820 KUL HM HM601 0900 sa MAS MH651 0910 PEN MAS
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 470 5 JUNE EURODOLLAR futures opened one tick lower at 92.42 and slipped off to the low of 92.41 on carryover selling interest from the Chicago session following a rumour that the CPI to be released is higher at 0 9 per cent. However, short-covering led the June Eurodollar to recover
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    • 289 5 Reuter IMM currency futures closed slightly lower and near the bottom of the day's ranges in lacklustre trading on Tuesday. The growing market perception that the Federal Reserve is willing to adjust monetary policy to support the dollar, which was bolstered by comments from Fed vice-chairman Johnson, weighed on
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    • 82 5 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BIO OFFER HtGH LOW 3 months BQ*****Z 21.7.88 3.04 2.99 3.03 2.96 6 months BY*****H 22.9.88 3.10 3.05 1 year BY*****Z 23.3.89 3.18 3.13 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code rate BID
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    • 198 5 Indicates the average of tha prima landing rata* of 12 major banks In S pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on April 20 us$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 doys 7 1/8 7 8 l/J 1/4 3 J/16 3/16 2 3/8 1/4 4 1/8 4 1 mfh 7 3/16
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    • 591 5 NYT THE MUCH-DELAYED bailout of First City Bancorp of Texas was all but completed late on Tuesday after an investor group headed by A Robert Abboud agreed to buy securities tendered by a majority of First City s stockholders and bondholders. The Abboud group
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    • 57 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market fell Vi point to 3%pc yesterday. Term rates were up 1/16. S$ Interbank rates at 1 2 noon yester day: Offfl wo Ov«fnight 3 1/4 3 1/« 1 -month 3 5/16 3 3/16 2-month 3 5/16 3 3/16 3-month 3
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    • 283 5 Reuter CITICORP reported a 34 per cent jump in first quarter earnings on an 8 per cent increase in revenues, stating each of its three core businesses registered year-to-year gains. In the latest quarter, the company earned US$35B million, or $1.01 a share,
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    • 117 5 Reuter THE TIME may have arrived for sterling to become a full member of the European Monetary System when the single European market comes into being (at end-1992). said British Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Lord Young "I suspect that
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1047 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed slightly lower against major currencies yesterday due to some selling pressure in thin trading. The dollar ended at 123.85/95 yen against New York s 124.20/30 close and at 1 6605/15 marks against 1 6630/40. The dollar ended at 1.3730/40 Swiss francs against New
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    • 538 6 dealers said. The dollar closed at 1.3727/32 Swiss francs against 1.3755/65 in New York. The mark/yen cross rate fell to 74.63 yen from 74.82 at the Tuesday's local finish. Spot dollar/yen trading volume through brokers was $4.76 billion, with a most actively traded rate of 124.00 yen
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    • 352 6 Reuter ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed little changed from opening levels after thin trading, dealers said. They said most operators were sidelined in the afternoon awaiting the release of US March consumer price index. Short-dates were steady to slightly firmer at the outset supported by a
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    • 1500 6 Wednesday, April 20, 1988 DEUTSCHE MARK (SIMEX) May M calls May M p. Htgh Low San High Law 56 57 355 5« 255 59 —159 60 75 22A 61 26 26 26 72A 62 8A 6 I56A 63 1 64 CAI 65 CAi 66 CAB uta Sea CAB CAS
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 337 8 Bernama MALAYSIA'S rubber output in February shrank by 24.6 per cent or 40,322 tonnes to 123,146 tonnes compared with January s production of 163,468 tonnes, the Statistics Department said. Compared with the year ago output of 143,841 tonnes, production in the month under review
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    • 191 8 Bernama COMMODITY DEALERS in Malaysia have described the current price fall in the various grades of rubber as healthy and normal. "There is a period for prices to go up and there is time for them to come down," said one of them. Another said
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    • 244 8 Reuter SINGAPORE The market closed easier yesterday with May 1 RSS buyers quoted at 235.50 cents/kilo, down 1.50 cents from Tuesday's close, dealers said. They said prices opened steady at around overnight levels but thereafter eased slightly on lack of buying support and long liquidation of nearby forward positions
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    • 236 8 R AS prices in S cents/kg, FOB in bal«a NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 237.00 238.00N 237.00 238.00N Int 1 RSS May 86 236.00 236.50N 235.50 236.50 Int 1 RSS June 237.00 237.50 235.50 236.50 (nt 2 RSS OP 235.00 237.00N 235.00
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    • 79 8 (cann/kg) MAY •O OD CD JUNE 1988 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON ftuycn S«ll«ri Bvy*n S*lt»rj SSR 30 232.50 234.50N 232.50 234.50N SSR 50 231.00 233.50N 231.00 233 OON MRELB Buycrj S*H«rj S*ll*ri SMR CV 398.00 400 OON 399.00 401. OON SMR L 404.00 406.00N
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    • 323 8 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller dosing prices on April 1 9 !£/tonne unless specified). Previous closing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Basis in-store London, sellers option OF London May 1100/1101 (1085/1086) High/Low 1102/1090 Jul 1119/1120 (1108/1109) High/Low 1120/1108 Sales (2394) Cocoa May 883/885 (877/878) High/Low 893/875 Jul 902/904 (891/892) High/low
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    • 141 8 Reuter BUYING AT THE LOWER levels and a £5 dadina on Iha Europaan spot market sent the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market price two cents down to M 517.30 a kg, dealers said yesterday. Small bids of 15 tonnes were noted at Tueeday's level, while offers of 54 tonnes
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    • 239 8 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon doting prices on April 20 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 106.00 Old drum FOB 116.00 Now drum FOB 120.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 59 sellers Pepper Mwfok whit# FOB NIW 1117.50 Sarawak white FOB foq NIW 1102.50 Sarawok special black FOB NIW 725.00
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    • 157 8 Reuter CBT WHEAT futures closed on or near session highs on Tuesday with prices up three to two cents a bushel. May settled three cents higher at $3 14-1/4 Traders said wheat extended gains at the close on light commercial and commission house buying. The main sellers for the
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    • 163 8 Reuter CBT SOYBEAN futures rallied at the close on Tuesday and posted gains of six to 7-3/4 cents a bushel May settled up six cents at $6 72. Prices finished on or near session highs on steady commission house and professional demand, traders said. Lack of selling also helped,
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    • 189 8 AP MALYSIAN Primary Industries Minister Dr Lim Keng Yaik has lashed out at British environmentalists for criticising Malaysian forest management policy and said they were unwilling to listen to reasoning. "They think they know everything about our policies and that we cannot manage our own
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    • 405 8 Bernama ES Reuter Total e/p OS at 1 IOOKrv 4454 contract. Tumovor: 753 k#v Oo«ing too*: Slightly »oii*c f/ p ud r? ,m f H tUr *Vf'? sed Bl 'fl ht, y eaBier in moderate trading on 1® 'i Dealers said the market opened higher in line C
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    • 327 8 HONGKONG: Gold closed slightly higher yesterday on continued moderate buying by local investors following New York gains, dealers said. But they said the rally was stalled by late profittaking on news that US naval officers said clashes with Iran were over. Bullion ended at U*****.50/90 an ounce against
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    • 89 8 THE MARKET drifted lower and looks set to decline a little. Closing prices for crude (FOB origin) USS/barrel I Dtonp* Topi. (Apr) 17.40 <adi Mine. (Apr) 16.40 -0J0 Dubai (May) IS JO -0.2S W«« T««o» WTI (May** 18.00 -0JS Yort alow protoei doy. Products (FOB S'pore) USS/bomt
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    • 129 8 AFP THE DEMAND for coal in Japan and South Korea is likely to increase beyond official estimates, with Australia remaining a major supplier, Japanese and South Korean experts have I said. Toyoaki Ikuta. president of Japan s Institute of Energy Economics, told the
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    • 420 8 UPI OIL PRICES SKIDDED by as much as 70 US cents a barrel on Tuesday as the US suspended escorts of Kuwaiti tankers through the Persian Gulf and traders cashed in on profits made in the recent rally that swept world markets Analysts said the
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  • FOCUS
    • 1055 9 R&D helps companies develop profitable new products. The first article looks at research efforts undertaken by US. telecommunications companies and the second examines the adequacy of Britain's expenditure on R&D. NYT RESEARCHERS at the Nynex Corp, the parent company of New York Telephone and New
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    • 535 9 The Economist IN BRITAIN, the wailing of doctors, scientists and academics tor more government money to support pet research projects grows more piercing every day. Recently, a weighty House of Lords committee called for more public finance for medical research; and
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 494 10 THE ACRIMONIOUS New York primary campaign is over. And, finally, the Democrats have a reasonably clear frontrunner for the presidential nominee, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Still, from a long-distance perspective, American politics appear to be suffering from a despairing lack of leadership. At the beginning of the
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    • 1034 10 Small firms have a place in the sun despite the fact that they have been relegated to the background because of government emphasis on foreign investments. According to a recently published study, small firms fared better than large corporations during the recessions in 1975 and
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    • 373 10 SINGAPORE ENTREPRENEURS are likely to be people in their prime and well-educated, especially if they are in capital-intensive businesses, a survey of 146 firms shows. More than half of them fall in the 30-49 age group and over a third have tertiary education. There are
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    • 766 11  -  Insider trading: Will Tokyo's new laws mark an important step in the market's coming of age? By PATRICK SMITH IHT SOMETIME in the next few weeks, Japan s legislature is expected to pass new laws on insider trading in the stock market for the first time
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    • 603 11  -  By MICHAEL POSNER Reuter MICHAEL DUKAKIS, a cool technocrat unknown nationally a year ago, now seems clearly on the road to clinching the Democratic presidential nomination with his victory in the New York state primary. The Massachusetts governor, the son of Greek immigrants, parlayed a well-financed
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 868 12 AP KEVIN McHALE matched his season high of 33 points and Robert Parish scored 25 as the Boston Celtics defeated Detroit 121-110 in Boston on Tuesday and won the battle over the Pistons for home court advantage throughout the NBA s Eastern Conference play-offs. Boston
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    • 163 13 AP BARRY McGUIGAN, the former world featherweight boxing champion, says he can no longer wait to discover if he still has the ability and mental strength to get back to the top. One weight division higher, McGuigan was scheduled to step into the
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    • 565 13  -  Former champ knocked out By WALTON MORAIS DECLARING "I would like to win a tournament before I retire", 31-year-old Dianne Balestrat survived a marathon three-set struggle against Britain's Clare Wood to book a quarter-final berth in the DHL Singapore Women's Open tennis championships last night.
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    • 430 13 DHL's sponsorship of the Singapore Women's Open should come as no surprise as the company is already supporting other high-profile events here, such as the Businessman of the Year award. It was also the official courier to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Speaking
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    • 299 13 AP BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in her first public comment on the affair, has denounced as "repugnant" efforts by the leaders of world track and field to put an end to the running career of South Afri-can-born Zola Budd. As she spoke in Parliament
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    • 154 13 AP INTERNATIONAL SPORTS must keep "moral pressure" on South Africa in the fight against apartheid, the top official of world tennis says. Philippe Chatrier, president of the International Tennis Federation. said in Paris on Tuesday that athletes alone could not dismantle the system of racial separation
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    • 110 13 Reuter SAIL AMERICA Foundation, manager of the San Oiego Yacht Club's defence of the America's Cup, has denied reports it has agreed to allow Briton Peter de Savary to challenge for the cup in September. "Britain's inclusion is still under discussion
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    • 50 13 AFP INDIA. Holland and New Zealand will take part in a four-nation men's hockey tournament in Australia in July An Australian official in Hobart said yesterday that India would send an under-21 team while the other three countries would field their full national sides AFP
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    • 578 13 AP FOR BORIS BECKER, it was a case of deja vu But Ivan Lendl and Mats Wilander are not hoping to follow him. It was just like last year for Becker as he was ousted from the U*****,500 Monte Carlo Open
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4714 14 DESPITE the lack of positive leads from Wall Street, the Singapore stock market yesterday rebounded to the highest close so far this week. From the outset, bargain hunting drove share prices higher on a broad front. Brokers said the rally in the Tokyo stock market
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 124 15 VIDEO-TAPE manufacturer Elec-tro-Magnetic (S) Pte Ltd has scheduled a promotion today to launch the public offer of its shares. This confirms an earlier BT report about its impending public listing. DBS Bank, Electro-Magnetic s manager and underwriter, is keeping a tight lid on details so tight that
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    • 345 15  -  By ROSIE TAN UNITED Sembawang Enterprises Ltd (USE) a trading and investment company whose shareholders are Sembawang Shipyard Ltd. the UOB group and East Pte Ltd hopes to capitalise on the combined strengths of its partners to tender for huge turnkey projects, chairman
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    • 3663 15 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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    • 142 15 JA7 PffB Jopon Gf Fund 1 60 1 65* Shenton Thrift Fund 080 080 UOB Management 0825 0825 Unibond 1005 103 MARA-Bumiputra First B'putro 60S 6 10 Second B'putro 523 528 Third B'putro 4 IB 423 fourth B'putro 454 459 Fifth B'putro 2 50 2 55* S«*th B'putro
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    • 120 15 OVERSEAS UNION SECURITIES Limited: 11th AGM at the Mandarin Court A', Mandarin Hotel, Orchard Road. Singapore 0923 tomorrow at 11am. UNITED INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES Limited: 18th AGM in the Board Room of United Overseas Bank Limited. 30th Storey. UOB Building. No.1 Bonham Street. Raffles Place. Singapore 0104 on Saturday.
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    • 489 15  -  By LONG SHIH ROME WHEN Keppel Corp chairman Sim Kee Boon first joined the group in April 1984. one of his first priorities was to reduce the group s massive debt burden a legacy of its 1981 expensive takeover of the Straits Steamship. Today, the widely-diversi-fied
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    • 377 15 PROPERTY and related activities contributed to 80 per cent of the Straits Steamship group's pretax profits of $17 million last year. Not surprisingly, the group is focusing its development plans on the property sector, particularly in Singapore and Australia. In its annual report released yesterday.
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    • 338 15 ALTHOUGH Lion Corps Singapore shareholders strongly opposed the company's proposed purchase of Fay Richwhite's Nathan shares, they did not seek a preliminary injunction to stop the meeting approving the merger, the New Zealand High Court heard yesterday. Malayan Breweries Ltd and Fraser Neave Ltd.
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    • 215 15 SINGATRONICS LTD. which recently reported a doubling in after-tax profit to $9.60 million last year, said its improved performance was due to its decision to invest in Surface Mount Technology and the introduction of its latest Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor as well as cost-cutting measures.
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 371 16 AFP Reuter KEVIN PARRY, the man who headed Australia's unsuccessful bid to keep the America's Cup last year, has suffered the biggest blow of his corporate career. The multi-million dollar backer of the taskforce syndicate was ousted on Tuesday as chairman and chief
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    • 187 16 Reuter CANON INC has agreed to set up joint companies in China with two state-owned Chinese firms that make copying machines The company hopes to start operating a joint venture with Zhanjiang Copying Equipment Corp by the end of
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    • 140 16 AFP LEPANTO Consolidated Mining Co is forming a US$l9B million joint venture with Galactic Resources Ltd of Canada to develop a gold and copper deposit in the northern Philippines. The venture, to be called Gallepanto Mining Corp, is expected to yield US$l,6ll billion in
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    • 193 16 Reuter ELDERS RESOURCES Ltd managing director Geoff Lord plans to restructure radically NZ Forest Products Ltd, once a complex reverse takeover of Elders by the Forest Products is complete. "It s going to be a .airly turbulent year," Mr Lord said of his 12- to
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    • 3268 16 THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market advanced for the second session running yesterday in active trading. Blue chips and plantation counters led the pack of winners with selected counters achieving doubledigit gains. Touched off by the recent depressed prices, widespread bargain hunting was the order of
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    • 1504 16 Hongkong Reuter HONGKONG share prices closed lower yesterday, depressed by profit-taking and the lack of new incentives. brokers said. The Hang Seng Index ended the day 15.49 points lower at 2.578 44 after a 13-point gain in the morning The broader based Hong Kong Index lost 9
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    • 132 16 APR 20 WON Cheil Sugar ***** 100 Daelim Ind ***** 100 Daewoo Corp ***** 300 Daewoo Heavy ***** 600 Daishin Securities ***** 300 Dong Ah Phar ***** -400 Dong Suh Slock ***** -400 Dongbu Steel ***** 100 Gold Star ***** 700 Hanil Bank ***** •150 Hanil Cement ***** unch
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    • 432 16 Reuter TOKYO share prices closed higher yesterday due to active bargainhunting following three downward sessions, with bullishness prevailing despite a floundering Wall Street and dollar, brokers said. "The Tokyo market has come off quite a bit." said Mr Stephen Codrington, head of equities at Jardine Fleming. "Investors with a
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    • 422 16 THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed sharply lower yesterday in response to yesterday's larger than expected current account deficit for March. Brokers said news the deficit had blown out to Asl.lB billion from AsBo2 million in February saw stocks pushed down across the boards. Further falls on Wall Street overnight
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    • 160 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 8 53 points to 392 55 yesterday on a turnover of 5.420,750 shares valued at 602.39 million baht. AMI 20 BAHT Ao Kham Thai 185 4 Ayudhya invastmant 400 -8 Bangkok Agro-lnd 138 *3 Bangkok Bank 329 4 Bank Of Ayudhyi
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    • 245 16 AMI 20 WT t All Si icere Indus 347 0 19 Asia Cement 77 00 -1 Cathay Cons 84 50 -05 Chang Hwa Bank 367 00 *9 Cheng Loong 68 00 -05 Chia Main Cement 62 00 -05 Chin Hsin Flour 21 90 -01 China Cham 38 50 -02
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    • 86 16 APR 20 pesos Acoie Mining Anglo Ptiil 0 01 -0 002 Ap«» Mining B 0 027 -0 002 Atta* Con B 24 -05 Btguio Gold B«*ic Petroleum 0 016 -0 001 Benguet Con B 85 12 First Phil Hk)g» (.•panto B 048 -0 02 Marcopper Marst«*l Mm b 0
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    • 318 16 PILECON PILECON ENGINEERING BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Eleventh Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held at the bround Floor Theatrette, Bangunan MIDF, 195 A Jalan Tun Razak Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 13th May 1988
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 960 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks closed lower on Tuesday after late selling wiped out gams, especially in the blue chips. Floor sources said the late selling was touched off by light program action as well as a drop in the bond market. Blue chips
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    • 1006 17 London Reuter LONDON EQUITIES continued dull at the official 0800 GMT opening yesterday, after a lower close on Wall Street on Tuesday where the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended just shy of 2,000, dealers said. They also noted fading hopes that the UK authorities would sanction an
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    • 1293 17 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Wednesday 1,696 25 Tuesday 1.***** Week 090 1.756 13 Hang Seng Index Wednesday 2.578 44 Tuesday 2.***** Week ago 2.671 24 All Industrials Wednesday 2.283 6 Tuesday 2.3185 Week ago 2.352 1 NEW YORK Dow Jones Tuesday 1.999 50 Monday 2.008 12 Week ago 2.*****
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    • 74 17 Reuter ALARMED by a recent spate of Swiss corporate takeover battles, the country s two biggest chemical companies are planning to tighten restrictions on who can hold and vote their shares Analysts said CibaGeigy AG would ask shareholders to approve a cut to 2 per cent from
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    • 305 17 Reuter BRITAIN gave permission on Tuesday for the first foreign stock market to operate in London s financial district alongside established British institutions. Stock market analysts said the move, resisted by some members of the London Stock Exchange, was likely to be seen
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    • 238 17 FT SOLVAY, Belgium's largest chemicals company, on Tuesday unveiled a 22 5 per cent increase in 1987 net profits and announced that investors are to get a one-for-20 share bonus to celebrate the company's 125 th anniversary. Baron Daniel Janssen, group chairman, attributed the
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    • 226 17 Reuter ART AUCTIONEER Sotheby's said it had filed documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to proceed with a share sale to the public, a plan derailed after October's stockmarket crash The offering will probably take place next month, a company spokeswoman
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    • 524 17 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF LIAN HUR ELECTRICAL HARDWARE ENTERPRISE PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at No. 63 Jalan Pemlmpln #02-03 Pemlmpln Industrial Building on 15th April
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    • 382 17 t THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF THE SWISS INN RESTAURANT PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary Genera] Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at No. 63 Jalan Pemimpln #02-03 Pemimpin Industrial Building on 15th April 1988. the
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    • 334 17 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PENTA INTERNATIONAL HOTEL MANAGEMENT PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at No. 63 Jalan Pemlmpln #02-03 Pemlmpln Industrial Building on 15th April 1988. the
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    • 387 17 IN THE NEW MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF WAH KWONG SENG KEE CONSTRUCTION PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at No. 63 Jalan Pemimpin #02-03 Pemimpin Industrial Building on 15th April
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    • 210 17 MARCH AND ENTERPRISES PTE LTD (incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (in Voluntary Liquidation) i NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act Cap 50 the Fin* Meeting of Members of the Company will be held on Tuesday 24th May. 1968
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  • 303 18  -  By SHOEB KAGDA LEADING Japanese chemical maker Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals Inc has picked Singapore for its first regional headquarters outside Japan. The Singapore office, Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals (Asia) Pte Ltd. or MTC (Asia), will consolidate the activities of the company's six
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  • 186 18 MBT PERMODALAN Nasional Bhd, the investment agency of the Malaysian government, has transferred its interests in a number of companies to the Amanah Saham Nasional (ASN) scheme in a reorganisation of its investments. These comprise 24.5 million shares (loan stock) in UMW Holdings,
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  • 134 18 Bernama ES PENINSULAR MALAYSIA'S trade surplus rose further to MJ593.4 million in January, up M 5197.1 million or 49.7 per cent from M 5396.3 million a year ago, the Statistics Department has said. January export rose 39.6 per cent to M 53,415.3 million
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  • 232 18 THE AREA around the US Embassy at Hill Street was cordoned off for four hours yesterday morning after a mysterious parcel was found in a ladies' toilet. Police said the parcel was later found to contain items which made it look
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  • 303 18 AP OFFICIALS of President Ronald Reagan's administration on Tuesday blamed restrictions by other governments for much of the US$l2 billion deficit in sales of electronic products. Of this deficit, US$2.6 billion was in telecommunications equipment. "Foreign-based companies legally have free
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  • 127 18 AP SOUTH KOREAN Prime Minister Lee Hyun-Jae yesterday ordered a crackdown on violence during campaigning for legislative elections as 23 people were injured in new clashes. He issued the order after an emergency meeting with top law enforcement and government officials, including the ministers of
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  • 402 18 MBT CORPORATE EARNINGS in 1987 showed a distinct improvement, reflecting better economic conditions and higher commodity prices. Based on the end-De-cember 1987 full-year results (both audited and preliminary) of 69 listed companies received up to April 15 this year, gross earnings have shown an average
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  • 198 18 AFP JAPAN yesterday said it regretted the European Community's decision to impose anti-dumping duties on Japanese electronic typewriters and weighing-scale parts assembled in Europe, official sources said. The sources said the decision raised serious questions of violating the rules of the General
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  • 566 18  -  By MARTIN SOONG THE HOME AFFAIRS MINISTRY yesterday said the ex-detainees who on Monday publicly dented being Marxist revolutionaries were re-arrested because it is extremely likely they will return to conspiring to overthrow the government. A statement last night said eight
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  • 225 18 TUESDAY'S Internal Security rearrests of eight ex-detainees and their lawyer drew comment from the Law Society yesterday. A statement from the Law Society's executive council said the re-arrests of the eight ex-detain-ees appeared to be "directly related" to Monday's open letter, in which they publicly
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  • 83 18 COMEX silver futures traded quietly higher early yesterday following fluctuations in the gold market, traders said. May delivery traded up 0.5 cent to U556,470 after trading between US$6 535 and U556,470. Silver sagged to traded lows tracking a similar movement in gold following the release of a 0.5
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  • LATE FILE
    • 42 18 Reuter THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT will present to Parliament by the end of May a detailed programme to improve the state of the country's public finances, Treasury Minister Giuliano Amato said at a conference in Rome yesterday. Reuter
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    • 48 18 Reuter FIGHTING inflation remains the basis of West German monetary policy. Bundesbank president Karl Otto Poehl said in Frankfurt yesterday. He added that there was an increased need for international cooperation in economic and currency policy, but good economic policy began at home. Reuter
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    • 35 18 AFP BRITAIN posted a budget surplus of £3.575 billion for the 1987-68 fiscal year which ended on March 31, the country's first surplus since 1969-70. The surplus far exceeded official forecasts.
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    • 37 18 AFP CHINA posted an impressive economic growth rate of 9.3 per cent in 1987 due to economic reforms but suffered higher inflation as well, the Asian Development Bank announced in Manila yesterday.
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    • 34 18 Reuter THE BANGLADESHI budget for 1988/89 starting July 1 will aim at arresting inflation, promoting investment and minimising deficit financing, Finance Minister Mohammad Abdul Munim said in Dhaka yesterday. Reuter
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    • 45 18 AFP THE LAOTIAN Parliament yesterday passed a law on general elections at a oneday extraordinary session, the state-run KPL news agency reported. Laos has not adopted a Constitution under the Pathet Lao communists, who have not held general elections. AFP
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 518 19  -  By LINDA CHEE FASTER turnaround times are in store for feeder operators. The Port of Singapore Authority will bring in two high-speed container quay cranes early next year specially for handling feeder containers. Once delivered in March, they will speed
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    • 311 19 Lloyd s List A MAJOR fleet expansion programme which is likely to involve 22 newbuildings over the next few years is planned by Petroleos de Venezuela. The state-owned oil company hopes to order 18 crude oil tankers, each of 100,000 tonnes deadweight, and four liquefied petroleum
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    • 235 19  -  From Vonnie Bishop HONGKONG'S Orient Overseas Container Line is making a bid to attract more business from smaller shippers by reducing rates on 17 export items to the United States With effect from April 19. OOCL has modified its rates for
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    • 166 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): Franco Belgian Services "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Ori«nt Overseas Container Line Cho Yang shipping ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia Straits Container Line
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    • 121 20 THE PORT of Rouen is to invest Frs9os million during the next five years in a bid to upgrade productivity, improve access routes and reduced future costs of maintaining the Seine channel. Rouen's Port Authority would provide Frs36o million towards the project with the French
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    • 496 20 "A, Transport Fairplay BY MERGING its liner and non-liner divisions, the East Asiatic Company (EAC) took steps in August last year to rationalise the shipping activities. With this restructuring, a new name the EAC Transport Division has been created The centres now oversee the
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    • 150 20 A P MOLLER subsidiary Maersk Line has started its nine-vessel weekly North Atlantic venture with the naming of the first of the new container ships. The 3.900 TEU Marchen Maersk, built at the Odense yard in Denmark, is set to become one of the largest
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    • 792 20 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 Inf'l V 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 APC line V 4 API •II 2/3 Arrow Lines IX 5 ASCI III
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    • 204 20  -  From VONNIE BISHOP in Hongkong FOLLOWING protest from both the International Shipping Federation and the Hongkong Shipowners' Association, the Philippine government has dropped its stipulation that alien seamen visiting any port in the country must present an Aids clearance certificate. The director of the
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    • 309 20  -  From Kingsley Wood DESPITE efforts to hose down the industrially volatile Australian maritime industry, disruptions continue to affect shipping and vital exports. At the Robe River port of Cape Lambert police were called after two tug crews barricaded themselves aboard their ships
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    • 97 20 AP ORDERS received by Japanese shipbuilders in fiscal 1987 for exports increased for the first time in four years, the Japan Ship Exporters Association said. An association official said the builders received export orders during the fiscal year, which ended March 31, for 104 ships
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    • 566 21 AMERICAN President Lines's (APL) first post-Panamax generation container ship, President Truman, is to enter service in Hongkong next month. A sistership. the President Kennedy, will follow in July and by the end of the year, all five new ClO-class vessels in APL's
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    • 226 21 ALL SURVEYS were conducted on April 4 Argentina Buenos Aires Normal operation. Bahia Blanca Waiting time of up to two weeks. Australia All ports Normal operation. Bangladesh Mongla 10 vessels operating. Chittagong 25 vessels operating. Brazil Salvador and Santos Normal operation. Cameroon Douala Normal operation. Canada Vancouver (British
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    • 207 21 Lloyd's Maritime Asia THE INDONESIAN government is planning to build two new dry ports in east Java and Central Java. The two new projects will be similar to the dry port in Gedebage in East Java, used for export goods in transit
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    • 8825 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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    • 126 26 Area/Port Viscosity Density Wster CST st 50C G/ML st 15C Volume 0/0 Africa/Red Sea Jeddah 154/186 0.949/0.956 0.0/1.4 Durban 119/179 0.989/0.993 0.0/0.3 Arabian Gulf Ras Tonura 164/164 0.950/0.950 0.9/0.9 Bahrain 182/182 0.977/0.977 0.1/0.1 Europe Rotterdam 27/478 0.944/1.011 0.0/1.0 Hamburg 36/363 0.952/0.990 0.0/0.5 Le Havre 59/359 0.946/0.987
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    • 1251 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES j 12 21 04 1700 2304 0700 23 04 0700 22 04 1500 21 04 1930 22 04 2300 Vessel Berth Arrival Departure P»chit So«u» Sonto ®oso 1 SoHiwol Eiprfts a 3 J12 a 21 04 0730 21 04 1530 21 04 0700 KEPPEL
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    • 1258 28 INCREASED grain chartering is reported out of the US on Tuesday but the rate structure continues to show an easier tendency, shipbrokers said The lower level of US$l2 50 was reported paid from the US North Pacific to Taiwan basis 55.000 long tons and tonnage was said to
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    • 63 19 BY MERGING its liner and non-liner divisions, the East Asiatic Company (EAC) took steps in August last year to rationalise the shipping activities. Page II AMERICAN President Lines's (API) first post-Pana-max generation container ship, President Truman, is to enter service in Hongkong next month. Page 111 Index to advertisers II
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    • 937 23 i r PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE VOY SIN jkt sbv VOY SIN pgo hko kao kee htc vok ngo kob bus MSB SLD SLO SLD 10NB 2S/4 30/4 1/3 7/5 S/5 10/3 IMB 23/4 M/ 4 26/4
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    • 530 23 BENLIKE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SLRVICE TO UK/CONTINENT HAVEN ROAM HAVRE M M 11* UH 24rt 2M art 2M EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE FRO** UK/CONTINENT HAM Km.toon 111 Sa M Thjnwt Mam Sail* Sail* Dull lay Sa iM Kitana Haru SaM City of tdintouffti Sana* Lac|» Ba» 21/4 liprau il< Kamakura Ma'u
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    • 576 23 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. DJAKARTA LLOYI P.T. KSWH LLOYD P.T. SAMUBtM MDODBtA P.T. TtIKOM LLOYI SEMI CONTAINERSNIP SERVICES SINGAPORE TO EOROPE VSL/VOY S PORE BILBAO ANTWERP H BURG/ ROAM/ADAM BREMEN LJ. BONTANG/14WB 1-3/5 9/6 12/6 SRIWIJAYA/23W8 10-U/S 20 6 24/6 OCEAN PRIRA/IOWB 20-22/5 30/6 3/7 PALEMBANG-9WB 3-5/6
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    • 380 23 Page V BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES I** BURMA FIVE STAR BHIPPINB aMMMg I (Burmese National Line) S pore HTONEYWA V2MW BASSEIN V« LOtRAW 27/H Apr PAGAN VI27W 30 AarTMj. AVA V/M '.X* Loading for Rangoon P.Kelanj Penang Bangkok 22/24 Apr I Z £3 BANK LINE v\ SSMI-CONTAINPR SERVICE NORTHBOUND TO UKC
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    • 715 24 Klin* KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. RAINBOW BRIDGE NEPTUNE GARNET ORIENTAL FREEDOM ORIENTAL FAITH RAINBOW BRIDGE NEPTUNE GARNET ORIENTAL FREEDOM ORIENTAL FAITH VIA FEEDER FEEDER VESSEL VO RAINBOW BRIDGE 12 NEPTUNE GARNET 14 ORIENTAL FREEDOM 19 ORIENTAL FAITH 8 N. AMERICA-ATLANTIC COAST VOV *INDO 12 18/4 VOY LB 11 16/3 •PK/PNG
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    • 432 24 Accepting LCL and contalnorlood urgoM Direct to South Africa NEOUOYD COLOMBO 5234F OSAKA MARU 5339F VIRGO 0301F HAYAKAWA MARU 5037G VENTO 0106 VAAL 51 JSC NEDLLOYD COLOMBO 5234 C S'pora Durban P.Eliz C.Town 21/4 11/5 13/S 17/5 10/5 0/5 25/3 21/5 17/5 11% 6/6 5/6 m J»rri JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES
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    • 825 24 INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Container* Singapore p Keiang Penang loading for Mothe* Vtl By c eede< By feeder ORIENT SUCCESS V 1« TIGER BAT V 35 A VESSEL ORIENT SUCCESS V 107 SO MANIPUR V 37H TIGER BAY VX INDIAN COURIER V JON ORIENT SUCCESS V 101 S
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    • 770 24 GOLDEN LINE WKtV GUAN GUAN SHIPPING (PTE) LID J3, Ttio» Ait Strwt K -—--4 SINGAPORE 0104 TEL U4JM (10 LINES) fil SM3SO4 STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Sport PKeton, Pew* GOLDEN BEAR CoWnDo Karachi Dubai 17/11 May GOLDEN HARVEST Colombo Karachi Dubai 1/9 June CHINA SERVICE DAI TUN SHAN Dahao 27 30
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    • 499 24 SHIPPING TIMES, Thursday, April 21, 1988 PHILI Oni€NT LIN€S PT€ LTD HEAD OFF ICE 63 ROIiNSON ROAD -0? 1? AFflO ASIA BUHDING S'NGAPORE 01C5 TELf* RS ***** PHILI FA* ??***** w. us tft. tft m W WW H KONG ROM KFEIUNG yTrv EAST AFRICA/MEDITERRANEAN SERVICE TBN 2»/4 UK EUROPE SERVICE
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    • 810 25 4\ 4 7 I B NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD fl lU/AUST TP A/SEA General Enquiries: Tal: *****77 T Jj£*« g* bookings max j?mm I H nian musj 27*0119 77*1 P Kelant NEPLINE SON BHD 3CMI7 *****11 ***** a K Lumpur NEPLINE SON. BHD. *****33 INWAPD/OUTYIARD U NEPTUNE OR ENT ITD
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    • 421 25 HEUNC-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG, PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON STRAITS/KOREA SERVICE W«Ml'« Name ETO BS BKK No I Donam/K3N 05/04 17/04 •Clofii/WN 14/04 21/04 ITO BS BKK S PORE PKELANC BUSAN 05/04 17/04 24-21/04 27-21/04 o>/05 1404 21/04 01-0305 04-05/05 19/05 •Clor.a/MHN 14/04 2SAM 01-03/05
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    • 895 25 Page VII SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lin#o Terminal •twwMm wna'nc Address SINS0V SINGAPORE Tele* Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** ffSSfe srsu. CO so. .«o PASIR GUOANG F B SHIPPING ACENCY SON BHD Malarw 95-A, iln Meranti
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    • 384 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 (30 L.nes> FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE 1 ■a| ID rry ,A l rn *CA Accepting cargo (or Lattakia, Piraeus, Thessalon.k,, Um.r, Istanbul Mersin, Limassol, Beirut.
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 163 26 Va Regional Weather h K K I m fL s 6 *V V > sV KK m X. Ik. "rf^ Wmd d*ecton with speed m knots SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND R Thurttfefiform Tempwature X\ V Shower Weother W*yJ direction with speed m knots
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    • 724 27 \\CSP\ CSP SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Tel: *****66 (16 Lines) Fa* *****15 FIXED CONSOLIDATION SERVICE FCL/LCL TO: CHINA, HON6 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: VESSEL MV Ist)bora
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    • 733 27 UNIPACIFIC TRANS TRADING AGECY PTE. LTD. rg i IRAQI LINE ,B *o' STITf (lITfRMiSI (0* MAHITIMf T«MJPO«T WEST BOUND SERVICE eta s pore IS/S LOADING FOR Jeddjh Aqaba Baghdad THROUGH B/L$ to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST ALSO ACCEPTING CONTAINERS UPTO AQABA 4 BAGHDAD REEFER SPACE AVAILABLE UPTO AOABA LOADINC CONTAINERS/CONVENTIONAL CGO
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    • 299 28 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd n_n f EL *****06 (20 Lines) TLX RS ***** &RS ***** IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE VIA MAURITIUS REUNION DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK SPORE PK Pt REU OBN TW»« ISLAND V7T 26/4 J/5 6/5 W •Alio calls E.L t P.E. GENERAL AGENTS: HAI SUN HUP
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    • 563 28 FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA-EAST COAST/GULF/CANADA/HEXICO AND FRENCH WEST INDIES STUTTGART EXP NUERNBEC ATL DUSSELDORF EXP L ir B PERMAI Vll2 25/4 12/5 STUTTGART EXP Toronto New York KORRICAN V 122 2/5 U/5 NUERNBEC ATL Y rk I jutlandia viJ2 9/5 2S/5 dusseldorf exp Baltimore,
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    • 211 28 WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK LONDON, MARSEILLES A».m NiHON-ttM SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD Tel: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: RS ***** Tatsumi Marine DffECT SAILING TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA iv 1 rail (also accepting transhipment cargo: OROBA Y, MADANG. KIETA. WEWAK KIMBE. RABUAL via LAE) SPOfIE NEPTUNE AGENCES
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    • 678 28 m SERVICE CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 '04-*****2/4, *****3 •07-*****8 S SP 73 *****5 *****0, *****1 '02-*****22 *****88 TO EUROPE FEEDER BUTANC 437 B. auTANc m a BUTANC 441 a BUTANC 443 lEEE3I JUTIANWA N DELFT 21?£5J2?.1!5 AT,ONS AMSTERDAM ANTWERP. BASLE.
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