The Business Times, 16 May 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 MONDAY, MAY 16, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 529 1  -  Total adds up to almost twice the base salary, says survey By WILLIAM CHIA LOCAL CHIEF executive officers (CEOs) cost their companies almost twice their base salaries, according to a recent survey carried out by KPMG Peat Marwick Management Consultants. The
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  • 370 1  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA THE UNITED States has told Singapore that if it wants to retain its friendship, it should not publish lawyer Francis Seow's statement on how he came into contact with the Americans. Making this disclosure yesterday, Minister for Trade and
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  • 171 1 POLITICIANS who received foreign support were "forever indebted" to their overseas supporters, said Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) Dr Lee Boon Yang last night. "Singaporeans who voted for such politicians can never be sure if their MP will support their causes or those of
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  • 187 1 Bernama ES HONG LEONG FINANCE Ltd has chalked up a 27.3 per cent increase in group pre-tax profit to M 527.21 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1987 against M 521.37 million previously. Chairman Kwek Leng Beng said in Kuala Lumpur last
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  • 498 1 Reuter AT A CLINIC deep in a forest and far from big-city temptations, Swedish psychologists are treating people for a problem they accuse the authorities of ignoring gambling addiction. Bjorn, 25, a reformed gambler. says the decision to
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  • 456 1  -  By ANNA TEO GOING BY the response to a recent overseas recruitment drive by the Singapore Technology Corporation, a good number of non-Singaporean Asians studying in the United States are interested in working here. Two STC directors visited the University of California
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  • 112 1 AFP FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS, orchestras have been playing a wrong version of Dvorak s New World Symphony, the London Sunday Times newspaper reported quoting an Australian conductor who has spent years researching old scores. According to Denis Vaughan, who went to Prague to
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    • 349 1 Need a car or truck loan? WwTOONG 737-7977 MJJ Why (bong Mortgage And.Finance (S) Ltd L A wholly-owned subsidiary of Hongkongßank 6 CUymore H J #03-01 Claymore Plaza Singapore 0922 H DISK DRIVES are the components of the next 'sunrise' industry in Singapore, at least as far as the managing
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    • 351 1 Spotting bad debt signals A BAD DEBT rarely occurs suddenly. There are usually early warning signals which should alert the lender or supplier to keep a close watch on the customer. What are some of the signals? What action should you take to minimise the risk of bad debts? Spotlight
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1263 2  -  Disk drives are the components of the next 'sunrise' industry in Singapore, at least as far as the managing director of Miniscribe Peripherals is concerned. Johnny Lim talks to LILY FERNANDEZ about his management philosophy and where he wants the company to be in a
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    • 391 2  -  by Lily Fernandez THIS WEEK, we look at two more schemes introduced by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) set up to help small firms sharpen their technological edge. The first is production and quality control systems upgrading, introduced when Sisir's quality systems
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    • 1445 2  - Bad debts the early warning signals Spotlight on Management By ANTHONY CHEONG GIVING CREDIT is so much a part of normal business practice that dealing on a cash basis is now the exception rather than the norm. Selling goods or providing services on credit, however, brings many problems. For a
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    • 280 2 Welcome to Spotlight on Management, BT's weekly column which will attempt to answer your questions on management issues of concern to you. Your queries will be handled by experts from Ernst Whinney Consultants. To get the series going, we have taken the liberty of posing questions frequently asked by managers.
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 247 3 AFP I THE CHINESE Finance Ministry is to assume responsibility for managing China's estimated US$3O billion foreign debt, the Chins Daily newspaper reported yesterday, signalling a victory by ithe ministry over the central ;bank. The ministry, through a new National Debt Management De- partment, would
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    • 173 3 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION plans to provide a loan worth US$BO million to help China complete a rail line across their central Asian border linking Europe with the Far East, officials in Urumqi, China, said last Saturday. The rail link, expected to
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    • 268 3 Reuter A CHINESE VICE-PREMIER has charged on Saturday that US protectionism could slow the normalisation of trade relations between the two countries. Tian Jiyun, China's Vice-Premier for Finance and Trade, encouraged the Reagan administration to retain the current system of subsidising US farm exports.
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    • 165 3 AFP ABOUT 200 PEOPLE, including foreign bidders, last Saturday attended Beijing's first auction in more than 10 years, according to the official New China News Agency (NCNA). Sales from the two-hour auction at Beijing's Cultural Palace of Nationalitiee totalled 101.400
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    • 196 3 AFP THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN Liberal opposition on Saturday called on Prime Minister Bob Hawke to give an assurance that the Australian government was not planning to introduce a gold tax. The call came amid growing speculation that there could be a gold
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    • 426 3 Reuter INDONESIA said yesterday it has resisted pressure to offer price discounts on its oil until now, but warned other Opec members it may be forced to cut prices to stay competitive. Energy Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita was quoted by the official Antara news
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    • 204 3 Reuter INDONESIA'S judges have called for a cleaner legal system, saying those involved in administering the law must not be intimidated or bribed with money or sexual favours. Speaking after a meeting with Indonesian Vice-President Sudharmono on Saturday, Mr Soedjadi, chairman of the Indonesian Judges
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    • 196 4 m A Club where you Don't have to be a member? A Happy Hour that'j notjiut a Happy Hour? Soundd logical to me. GROUCHO: Say, wanna discuss that deal over a drink after work at the Club? STRAIGHT MAN: The Club? What Club? GROUCHO: The Club at the Marco Polo.
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 373 5 Reuter FRENCH PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand, riding a wave of popularity, has called general elections in three weeks' time to seek a socialist majority in Parliament. Mr Mitterrand, who easily retained the presidency just one week ago, said last Saturday that the two-stage elections
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    • 173 5 AP THE 12 European Community (EC) nations are close to an agreement on eliminating their controls on capital movement within the community. "There is a very good chance we can come to an agreement on June 6 when the finance ministers are scheduled to
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    • 785 5 ARRIVALS Operator Sorvico number Local Mm* From SU SQ201 1145 CGK GU GA940 1150 MES SU SQ238 1155 MES THAI TG403 1155 IKK SU SQ19I 1145 PSM THAI TG-407 1205 •KK/HDY GU GA900 1210 PKU MAS MH641 1230 KCH GU GA884 1235 CGK SU SQI 1250 SFO/HNL/HKG
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    • 203 5 Reuter PRESIDENTIAL ECONOMIC adviser Beryl Sprinkel said on Saturday that inflation ia under control deepite falling unemployment and high production rates which have strained some industries to nearly full capacity. Mr Sprinkel diaputad tha widely-held view that a low unemployment rata and high
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    • 429 5 A lot of effort went into document, says Yeutter AP BUSINESS LEADERS and government officials are betting that Congressional Democrats will not scuttle trade legislation after President Ronald Reagan's expected veto. "Members of Congress have put a great deal of work in this
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    • 215 5 AP TRADE LEGISLATION passed by Congress could cost the United States thousands of jobs in the nation's nearly 10.000 importedcar dealerships, their trade association says. "The massive American imported automobile market ia going to be held hostage," said Robert McElwaine. president of
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    • 51 5 I M \j\ I I I business oerson's choice every I I II II II Tuesday. Thursdoy. Soturdoy and Sundoy I M II I II leovtng Chong. Airport o' 22 05 -J-L hours and arriving Heathrow eorly •he following morntrg Call you' Travel Agent or Air Conoda Ot *****55 AIR
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 365 6 Reuter Representative Clayton Ydkrtter said last Friday that the dollar's current exchange rate had made American exports competitive abroad but added that US firms had to do more to sell their products successfully. "We are price-competitive today," Mr Yeutter said at a news conference
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    • 118 6 AFP THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT Bank (ADB) has approved a total of U*****,000 in technical assistance gfants to three regional projects, the largest going to Vanuatu, an Apß statement said last Saturday. The Manila-based ADB granted U*****,000 to help the government of Vanuatu prepare a national transport
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    • 242 6 Bernama BANK NEGARA's gold and foreign exchange reserves decreased by M 51,999.29 million to M 515,868.65 million as at April 30 from M 517,861.94 million at the end of March, the central bank said on Saturday. the central bank's total assets
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    • 212 6 ASIAN CURRENCY average deposit rotes for I rhe week ended May 13 BR) P High RICES Lew US t 7 days 7 3/16 7 t inmHti 7 1/4 7 1/16 2 muHtw 7 7/16 7 1/4 3 mumhi 7 1/2 7 5/16 6 momfa 7 3/4 7
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    • 557 6 AFP THE AUSTRALIAN and New Zealand dollars hit threeyear highs and the South Korean won surged upwards in a generally bullish performance by Asian currencies last week. The Singapore and Hongkong dollars however, eased against the US unit; and the Taiwan dollar and the Indonesian rupiah remained unchanged.
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    • 341 6 Gold Financial futures Green Collier Bullion Pte Ltd AT NEW YORK'S Commodity Exchange, spot gold ended last Friday on a firmer note at U*****.20 an ounce, up about $8 over the previous week's finish. Gold's uprise was caused by concerns that South Africa might limit its supplies to the United
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    • 215 6 Banque Indosuez WITH RENEWED pressure from rising overseas interest rates, the Singapore government securities market lost further ground last week. Higher local overnight and term deposit rates saw bond and Treasury bill yields rising across the board. Amid bearish sentiments. the March 1993 note saw prices eroded
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    • 163 6 Gold futures on May 13 100 troy ounces, USS par troy ounce Opwi Loot s«ai« May 450.70 450.70 450.70 452.20 *0.30 hm 453.00 454.20 ***** 453-70 0.40 M 455.90 030 Aug 458.00 458.50 454 50 457JO +0.10 Oct 442.40 463.00 459.40 462JO -0.10 DK ***** 469.00 464J0
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    • 172 6 MANDARIN ORIENTAL JAKARTA Mandarin Oriental Jakarta is well plaeed to be the ideal hotel for busy executives. It is the only grand luxe hotel situated right in the middle of the business and diplomatic district. And our 24-hour business centre ensures that you're given the utmost professional support, allowing you
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    • 137 6 Announcing the arrival F a Hop aboard the I Orient Express, our >W wT exciting new short-term car rental scheme, and you can drive yn tfy off in style—with one of our brand new Nissan Pulsar or 1 Nissan Sunny models. Our Orient Express scheme is the perfect complement to
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 794 7  -  by PAUL FRANKLAND NOW TELL the truth where do you keep your money besides under the mattress or in the bank? Let me guess it is being distributed as wages, in transit to or from a bank, in your pocket on the way
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    • 215 7 Reuter FIRST REPUBLICBANK Corp has suspended interest payments on the long-term debt owed or guaranteed by itself or IFRB Corp while it is proceeding with efforts to restructure and recapitalise with assistance from the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The failure to make
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    • 123 7 Reuter CHASE MANHATTAN CORP president Thomas Labrecque sees no immediate need to cut the company's dividend to boost its capital reserves. "We believe by selling some buildings and fixed assets we have, we can get well within the guidelines we
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    • 487 7 Indicate* the average of the prime lending rate* of 12 major banks In S'pore PLR of bonks at the close of business on Friday, May 1 3,as supplied by the Association of Banks in Singapore. BANK PLR (%> Algemene Bank 6% Allied Irish Bank PLC 6 American
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    • 276 7 AFP BANK OF CHINA (BOC) officials are hoping to stage a top-ping-out ceremony for the new BOC skyscraper headquarters in Hongkong on Aug 8. according to a BOC spokesman. "There are no official reasons as to why the particular date is
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    • 543 7 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S three major listed banks are expected to post sharply higher interim net profits when they report for the first half to March 31 this week. Improved margins and the absence of major bad debts should boost profits by 30 to 60
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    • 2 7 IB BANQUEINDOSUEZ
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    • 82 7 fofranct-j i u Wr :-fr tjE 'V J P n mm '.j. c 3 The finest French restaurant in town celebrates! Louis Outhier Festival May 16—22, 1988 The celebrated 'chef extraordinaire' is here to present the finest of culinary creations in the elegant ambience of le Restaurant de France. Lunch
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 1122 8 America's AT&T has lost US$35O million trying to compete with IBM, but its battered computer business may yet succeed. Economist WHEN America's trustbusters forced Ma Bell to sell its profitable local telephone companies in 1982, it decided to challenge IBM as
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    • 187 8 0^ V &r x THAT DIETHELM CATERS TO AN EXCLUSIVE CROWD IS TRUE. UP TO A POINT may be accused of stretching the point too far. of course But the fact is. Diethelm office furniture isn't just for everybody. Consider the POINT System, a glimpse of which you catch here
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1287 8 to aoD aaoaa f Rr v *1, :a 4H f <>. *.of ♦>«*& k 4L_: ■E v w ZtSi '»tr Peter O'Toote stars as Ell Cross In Tha Stunt Man on Ch 5 at 11.55pm PRE-HOUDAY MOVIE The Stunt Man 11.55pm, Channel 5 Peter O'Toole stars in this outrageous black
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  • THE ARTS
    • 573 9  -  By SHAUN KOH CHINESE emigre pianist Fou Tsong is one of the few performers whose audience includes many of today's legendary pianists. Most noted for his stirring interpretations of Chopin, he is also a respected interpreter of Mozart. True to form, Fou Tsong
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    • 114 9 RUSSIAN violinist llya Kaler will be featured with the SSO this Friday and Saturday. He will perform Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1, in what should be another exciting concert. The orchestra has attracted other winners of the prestigious and highly competitive Tchaikovsky Competition pianist
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    • 885 9  -  By VANESSA LEE A LARGE collection of contemporary local artwork will be shown in Hongkong in about one and a half weeks' time. It will be an experimental exhibition in the sense that the Hongkong art market is still new and unexplored where
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 53 9 The Music Notes column has been held over due to pressure on space. maximum score ol 8 May 88). MS Marg o tfS venue to- elegant <***• r^fss-52**: fe^Sssssw""- S°T U GRILL 71\ (Closed on Sundays Put*c Hohdays) DAI-ICHI HOTEL SINGAPORE 81 Anson Road Singapore 0207 Tel: *****33 Tlx: RS
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    • 213 9 JONES LANG f Getting your property off to a great start. Jones Lang Wootton Intemetionel Property Conaultanti Real Estate Agent* Valuer* Auctioneer* Protect t FVoowty I C I I 4 Address: #45-00 #46-00 Shell Tower, 50 Raffles Place, Singapore 0104. Tel: 220 3888. Telex: RS ***** JLW. Fax: (65) 221
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 262 10 LIGHT COVERING and speculative buying interest saw prices on the crude palm oil futures market end steadier on the KLCE last week. Spot month June closed Ms 24 better at Ms94l a tonne from Ms9l7 a tonne previously. > The steadier trend on the CBT as a result
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    • 170 10 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon closing prices on May 14 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bolk FOB 107.00 OM drum FOB 117.00 Now drum FOB 121.00 Copra Mixed (looso) 61 Pepper Muntok white FOB NLW 1130.00 Sarawak wMte FOB foq NtW 1115.00 Sarawak special black FOB NLW 670.00 Sarawak
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    • 321 10 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller dosing prices on May 13 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous closing prices in parenthesis. CoffM Bash in-jtor« London, i«ll«rs option CIF London May 1100/1105 *****/1093) High/Low 1104/1080 M 1117/1118 (1094/1095) High/Low 1120/1090 Saits (5096) Cocoa May 883/885 (882/885) High/Low 886/877 Jul 901/902 (900/901) High/Low 904/890
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    • 184 10 SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade rallied sharply last Friday after a one-day correction, surging 11% to 14 US cents a bushel to new contract highs. July finished 11% cents higher at U557.27y4. .The early release of the National Weather Service's 30-day outlook showing drier-than-normal conditions in
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    • 210 10 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 4% to 3!4 US cents a bushel higher last Friday, as trading activity picked up late. July gained 4% cents at US$3.l5. Resurgent soycomplex values complemented a modest rally in wheat prices to send wheat futures up further towards the
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    • 297 10 Rubber KL Tin LAST WEEK saw rubber prices reach their highest levels since 1960 with June Int One RSS closing eight cents higher at 321.00 cents a kg. Sustained pre-holiday covering pushed prices to the level with the biggest jump of 1.50 cent recorded last Friday. Dealers said this was
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    • 845 10 AFP THE BRITISH POUND was particularly strong last week, boosting certain commodities priced in US dollars. Among precious metals, gold breached the US$453 an ounce level for the first time since the end of April, while platinum reached its highest level for more than three
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    • 410 11 Opecna KUWAITI OIL MINISTER Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah says that despite "adverse circumstances", his country has found new markets for its oil and secured long-term sales contracts. In a foreword to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation's (KPC) 1986-87 report, he declared that the
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    • 160 11 Reuter THREE JAPANESE oil development companies are planning a US$lOO-million onshore oil project in Burma with support from the Japan National Oil Corporation, a company spokesman said in Tokyo last Friday. The three companies Idemitsu Oil Development, Indonesia Petroleum and Japan Petroleum Exploration will submit
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    • 588 11 Bernama JOHOR is making an ambitious comeback to potentially lucrative tea-growing after a lapse of many decades, with its pilot M 57.2 million lowland tea farm near Keluang beginning to yield results. Formerly a cattle farm, the vast undulating terrain in
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    • 594 11 UPI THE UNITED STATES has a 35-year supply of natural gas reserves that, if fully tapped, could reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil by one million barrels a day, says an Energy Department study released last Thursday. The report, which drew
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    • 189 11 AP SOUTH KOREA will liberalise gold imports in July as part of efforts to reduce its growing current account surplus, government officials said in Seoul last Saturday. Officials of the Economic Planning Board said consultations were under way among concerned government ministries to
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    • 135 11 AFP SOUTH KOREA'S biggest private coal mine has locked out striking miners following the failure of union and management to settle a strike which has blocked operations since late April, reports said yesterday. Management at the Sabuk Mine in eastern Kangwon Province said that they had
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    • 31 10 "With support we've received on our IBM system, we're improving analysis and control.'' Koo Tse Chia Financial Manager, Singapore National Printers Ltd., Singapore V." mm mm V fV„ V K < a*
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    • 262 11 The estimators at Singapore National Printers don't like to see red ink. They're responsible for ensuring that SNP turns a profit on each job it undertakes. And since SNP charges customers on the basis of cost bids, profitability depends upon how accurately estimators can judge the amount of paper, ink
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 409 12 UPI VINNIE JOHNSON scored 23 points, tsiah Thomas had 19 and Adrian Dantley added 16 to lead Detrbit to a 101-79 victory over the-Chicago Bulls on Saturday, giving the Pistons a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semi-fi-nal playoffs Game 4 of the
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    • 263 12 Reuter MIKE TYSON, who has received no small acclaim as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, said an award on Saturday from a black group was his greatest honour. Tyson took Saturday off from training for his fight against Michael Spinks on June
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    • 322 13 UPI JEFF SLUMAN shot a 3-under-par 67 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Texans Ben Crenshaw and Bruce Lietzke entering the final round of the U*****,000 Byron Nelson Golf Classic. Sluman began the day at 7under, two strokes behind sec-ond-round leader Crenshaw,
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    • 246 13 MIKAJASRIC was the surprise winner of the $30,000 Tiger Beer Handicap on Saturday. Jockey Y K Foo shot him out of barrier position No 1 and kept him in front all the way to win by 2% lengths. The 6-year-old by Speak Low out of
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    • 272 13 AP TOP-SEEDED Ivan Lendl, looking sharp after a rain delay that lasted more than five hours, powered into the final of the Italian Open tennis championships on Saturday by beating fifthseeded Kent Carlsson of Sweden 6-3, 6-3. No 14 Guillermo PerezRoldan
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    • 769 13 UPI MANAGER Bobby Gould singled out goalkeeper Dave Beasant and coach Don Howe for bringing Wimbledon its sensational 1-0 victory over Liverpool in the English FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. "Don's professionalism was a major factor in our victory,"
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    • 546 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS SO, I WON $5. So. it wasn't the Slaughter of the Innocents after all. So Wimbledon won. So what. Not since I put $10 on Muhammad Ali to beat Joe Frazier in the Thrilla in Manila have I been this
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    • 1067 12 cou Ryoisi ER XO-Where to eat, drink... •r r>*. WE'RE COOKING WITH WINE, how fine, let's dine, set lunch or dinner, Ist 31st May. Chicken with Wine, Veal with Wine, Sole with Wine, Beef with Wine, Pork with Wine, Duckling with Wine, Get the picture? A different set, Everyday of
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    • 148 12 French amnectkm The culinary favourites of France are yours to enjoy from May 1 31. With Fines de Claires, Canard a I'Orange, Quiche Lorraine, Escargot au champignons, Coq au vin rouge, Crepes Suzette and more! Make the French connection for just or^ tsand $15* for children. w.*„„ Pnctx subject tu
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 521 13 and entertain 4 ONE GOOD REASON TO LUNCH AT THE PALM GRILL IS OUR APPETISER BUFFET ANOTHER IS THE CHOICE OF MAIN COURSES. PALM For between $26 and $40 you can select from our appetiser UKILL buffet including seafood, smoked salmon and oysters. Choose from many lavish main courses. And
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 5158 14  -  v 1 Singapore P L d By MAGDALENE NG THE SINGAPORE stock market was traded lower during most of last week as investors cashed in on the previous week's gains. By Friday, however, both institutional and retail investors began bargain-hunting. The 30-stock
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    • 405 15 Singapore Stock Indices May 9 May 10 May 11 May 1 2 May 13 BT Comp 1 856 53 849 37 ***** 844 29 ***** BT OB/OS 10 -61 •123 -92 -131 -96 BT CADI 11 -6909 -6969 -6981 -7030 -6974 BT 10-day av 11 6869 6881 -6890 -6904 -6913
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    • 1104 15 KI I Hongkong m DBS Securities RISING interest rates and fears of inflation dominated the market last week. The index rose on the first day of the week by 13 points but subsequently lost ground for the rest of the week as
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    • 271 15 MM K.Lumpur g A AFTER several weeks of uptrend, the Kuala Lumpur stock market took a breather last week to close easier on reduced business volume. Trading conditions were quiet with lower-priced counters mostly dominating activity. Reflecting the reversal, the New Straits Times Industrial Ordinary
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    • 256 15 5= i Tok Y° lr*l elji J AFP THE TOKYO Stock Exchange (TSE) had an erratic roller coaster ot a week but all the ups and downs left stocks virtually unchanged at the close on Friday and some dealers optimistic of the future.
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    • 497 15 PI I ew AP IF YOU APPLY an old Wall Street principle known as contrary opinion, the outlook for the stock market would seem to be pretty healthy. Hardly anybody these days is able to work up much enthusiasm either for stocks or for
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    • 13 15 More reports on page 16. The Zurich and Bombay reports were not available.
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    • 1545 15 INTERNATIONAL TRUST FINANCE LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) A SUBSIDIARY OF OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1987 SHARE CAPITAL AND RESERVES Star* Capital Authorised: 20,000.000 ordinary shares of $1 each 20 000 000 20.000.000 Issued and fully paid: 18.000,000 ordinary shares of $1
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 470 16 Directors confident earnings growth will be maintained MBT PUBLIC BANK has doubled its after-tax profit to M 526.77 million for the year ended December 1967, despite a slight drop in turnover. v Unaudited results released last Friday show that there was an 6.6-per-cent drop in turnover
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    • 138 16 Bernama ES TIMURAN Holdings Bhd is sailing off its quarry operations in Lumut. Perak as part of a strategy to consolidate its core businesses. its managing director Geoffrey Taylor said over the weekend. Mr Taylor also announced that the group has recently acquired the Malaysian
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    • 372 16  -  By MAGDALENE NG STARTING TODAY, a total of nine banks and stockbroking houses in Singapore will be pitting their investment skills against each other in a friendly financial competition to raise funds for charity. The Great Investment Race, first started in the UK two
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    • 697 16  -  From ALAN LEE DESPITE a brave public face, there are signs that Standard Chartered PLC is growing increasingly wary of its three major shareholders who together control more than a third of the bank's equity. The bank management is having to constantly answer for
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    • 525 16  -  Week ended May 13 compiled by JULIANA TAY SCRIP ISSUES Roto: Proposed bonus issue of one-for-five. Raleigh: Proposed rights issue of seven-for-two at $1 per share UOL Rights issue of one-for-two at $1.10 per share. CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Peter Thorn Wing Fol. former director of Pan-Electric
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 714 16  -  1 enrpl London 1 j From RAY HEATH THE FAR from neighbourly squabble taking place in Downing Street is beginning to take on TV soap opera proportions. It is also grating on the nerves of the still delicately balanced stock market. At No. 10,
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    • 154 16 ABN Bank LAST WEEK saw a weak stock market in Amsterdam, with again very low trading volume. The General Stock Index fell 3 per cent to 237.5, more or less in line with other stock exchanges. A rise in US and German interest
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    • 198 16 AFP THE AUSTRALIAN share market finished the week on a strong note after midweek jitters sent stocks into a tailspin as British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson confirmed what was on the mind of the market. One analyst said in Sydney that the market staged
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    • 514 16 JN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF POTENTIAL AGENCIES PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at Jalan Johar fyo 17 Jakarta Pusat on 10 May 1968 the following resolution* were duly
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    • 555 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ART KEY PRODUCTS (S) PTE LTD (Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act, Chapter 50 that a Final Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company will be
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    • 566 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 90 AND IN THE MATTER OF WHATT POH SOON FARMING CO. PTE LTD (Incorporated in Singapore) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of WHATT POH SOON FARMING CO. PTE LTD duly convened and held at 101 Upper Cross Street, #06-10
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    • 40 16 CORRIGENDUM Re: Seo Puay Beng (Wholesale Beer Shop Licence) The Premises of M/S Slo Soon Huat should be W1 Module 34 Paslr P&njang Complex, S pore 0511 and not as advertised in Business Times on 13/5/88. The error is regretted
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 993 17 New York WALL STREET ended a nervous week last Friday with a strong gain amid growing belief that the latest climb in interest rates has ended for now. traders said. But the gain was not enough to bring stocks into positive territory for the week
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    • 983 17 London Reuter X GAIN of just over 20 points on the Pow Jones Industrial Average lifted the London market to new highs on the day in late trading last Friday. However. turnover was light in the absence of new bid developments and there was continued
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    • 198 17 FT SOTHEBY'S Holdings, the international auction house, was valued at USss4so million last Friday as its shares began trading simultaneously in London and New York. The issue had been firmly priced at USsslB a share barely an hour before trading started at 2.30pm London times to
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    • 123 17 AFP BRIDGESTONE Corporation tyre company should become the world s leading tyre concern, thanks to its merger with the US Firestone Tire and Rubber Co, according to Bridgestone President Akira Yeiri. The Japanese firm is now number three in the world, but Mr Yeiri told
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    • 859 17 Amsterdam MAY IS na AON Aagon Aftotd Akzo 37.20 74.70 ea.To 106 SO 0.2 1.7 0.7 2.7 AJranta AMEV Amco Bank. Am ted BOLS ***** sa.ao 63 90 ***** 12.90 120 90 unch 1.1 1.6 uncfc 0.2 2 6 Borsumi) Boahrman Tattai Caiva 60.70 roda 43.60 ***** 2.7 0.7 -14
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    • 373 17 Airbus gets remaining 20pc of USs4b plane deal NYT THE BOEING CO has been able to gain most of a plane order worth more than US$4 billion that is expected to be announced by the International Lease Finance Corp (ILFC) today. Industry officials in New
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    • 500 17 FT AMERICAN AIRLINES, the second largest US airline, is taking British Airways to the High Court in London on Wednesday in a dispute over alleged unfair practices by BA in the operation of computer reservation systems with UK travel agents. The airline claims BA
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    • 467 17 NYT THE US SECURITIES and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Edward J Debartolo, Sr America's largest developer of shopping centres secretly aided takeover bids by Florida investor Paul A Bilzerian by buying shares on his behalf and providing other support. A hearing has
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    • 134 17 AFP A SOUTH KOREAN textile company president has been charged with making some U*****,000 through illegal insider trading, the first known case of insider trading in that country, officials said. Prosecution authorities took up the case involving Mr Kim Sung-Ki, president of the Kwang-Duk Company, theSecurities
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    • 210 17 NYT SALOMON BROTHERS Inc and Morgan Stanley Co, two of the Wall Street companies that suspended their program trading last Tuesday. had been warned just days before that they would not get the investment banking business of a large corporate client unless they halted the practice.
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    • 71 17 NYT TOP OFFICIALS of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (MERC) are seeking to play down the effect on the exchange of a decision by major brokerage firms to halt index arbitrage for their own accounts. In a letter to members this week. MERC officials also suggested that
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    • 321 17 NOTICE To the holders of the U.S. $200,000,000 Floating Rate Notes Due 1997 of: BANK OF CHINA (Zhongguo Yinhang) 410 Fucheng mennel Dajie Beijing People's Republic of China We hereby certify that the rate of interest payable on the above mentioned Floating Rate Notes for the interest Period beginning on
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  • 163 18 Cops and boxer the episode of the US$150,000 Rolls-Royce AP TWO POLICE OFFICERS in New York were the proud owners of a slightly damaged US$l5O,OOO Rolls-Royce until their boss found out. The windfall began when world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson and his new wife, actress Robin Given, were involved
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  • 245 18 AFP FOOD PRICES jumped by up to 60 per cent in Beijing's state-run markets yesterday, provoking mumblings of discontent among fixed-income shoppers in spite of government subsidies to cushion the blow. The price of pork, the most popular meat in China, increased 50
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  • SATURDAY ROUNDUP
    • 211 18 A quick look at Saturday's main news INVESTING overseas has become not only inevitable, but absolutely necessary for local companies. Trade Development Board chairman Alan Yeo, speaking on Saturday at a business options seminar, said Singapore's predatory image in the eyes of other countries as one
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    • 143 18 WHAT WORKS in America will not necessarily work in other countries. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew told USA Today in a recent interview. And the more the US media tries to judge other countries by American standards, the more it shows its total disregard
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    • 74 18 MR LAM PEK HENG. the 11-year veteran chairman of the Marine Parade Citizens Consultative Committee, has been appointed Singapore s Charge d'Affaires in Burma. Mr Lam, 50. former registrar and executive director of the Singapore Society of Accountants, leaves for Burma next month. Mr Lam
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  • 374 18 Site to be chosen for Ms2.sb complex Bernama MALAYSIA has approved in principle the setting up of a proposed M 52.5 billion American -German joint venture petrochemical complex, an official of the German partner said. The project, to be set up by M
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  • 63 18 WITH A WINGSPAN that never seems to end, this plane has elbowed its way into the record books as the largest flying aircraft in the world. Visitors to the Air/Space America air show in San Diego were treated to a glimpse of this behemoth, a
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  • 489 18  -  By LOH HUI YIN ALTHOUGH other Asean countries have their own economic problems, they are still better off than the Philippines and can do something to help that country, said Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last Saturday. Briefing reporters covering
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  • 181 18 AP PRESIDENT Ronald Reagar. insisted on Saturday that he must veto a hotly disputed trade bill because it would cost more American jobs than it would save. "It is unfortunate, but I have no choice but to send this
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  • LATE FILE
    • 40 18 Reuter CHINA hu invited Taiwan to take part in the China Open table-tennis tournament next month, but a Taiwan official said yesterday that although they would like to attend he did not believe it would be possible. Reuter
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    • 52 18 Reuter IRAN yesterday accused the US fleet in the Gulf of jamming Iranian radar during Saturday s Iraqi air raid on Iran's Larak terminal. Teheran Radio, monitored in Nicosia, said US warships in the Gulf used "electronic war against Iranian fighter planes flying over
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    • 34 18 Reuter THE first convoy of Soviet troops pulling out of Afghanistan rode into Kabul yesterday after a harrowing eight-hour ride from the eastern base of Jalalabad through rebel-infested mountains. Reuter
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    • 51 18 AP THE US Air Force's planned new Stealth bomber has risen in cost to an estimated US$45O million per plane, a 20 per cent increase over past estimates. The Washington Post said yesterday that the increase would make the plane the most expensive ever built.
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    • 55 18 Reuter SAUOI Arabia will spend US$l4 billion to develop the holy city of Mecca over the next 20 years. The Jeddahbased Oksz newspaper yesterday quoted Mayor Fouad Omar Tawfiq as saying a number of projects would turn Mecca into two cities, one for pilgrims and
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    • 56 18 Reuter NEARLY 150 people, including some Sikh militants barricaded inside the Golden Temple for seven days, surrendered to Indian security forces yesterday, but other gunmen fought on. Punjab police chief KPS Gill said prominent militant Surjit Singh Painta was among those who surrendered, but he swallowed a
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    • 511 18 Free clippings of BT exclusive stories "Free copies of these exclusive stories in last week's Business Times are now available 1. The heat's going out of the pepper market. 2. Exclusive interview with Inchcape PLC chairman George Turnbull. 3. SIA seeks a stake in the old world charm of Raffles
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 508 19  -  By JUNE LIM TWO CONTAINER ships, the Swan Reefer and the Klang Reefer, were hit by armed robbers in the Bangka strait recently. These incidents were among the few to be reported in the strait, which lies within Indonesian waters between
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    • 155 19 Reuter SHIPPING company Stena Line AB could seek a listing on the Stockholm bourse, a spokesman for the parent company Stena Rederi AB said. He was commenting cn a report in the business newspaper Dagens Industri, which said an 800 million crown
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 79 19 Reuter TURKEY has approved preferential rates at its Black Sea ports for Iranian-bound goods, the Turkish official gazette said. The rates will be reduced by 25 per cent for loads of up to 250,000 tonnes. 35 per cent for loads up to 500,000
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      • 45 19 Reuter THE TRANS-PACIFIC Freight Conference (TPFC) and the Japan-Atlantic and Gulf Freight Conference (JAGFC) have decided to raise their destination delivery surcharge on the trans-Pacific route and New York by US$l5O from June 1, a Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd spokesman said. Reuter
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      • 108 19 SWEET LINES Inc of the Philippines is acquiring another three ships as part of its 300 million pesos investment programme. The Hiyama Maru renamed the Sweet Pride will be deployed in the Manila-Suri-gao service in response to requests for more seaborne transport. The second vessel, the Sweet Pearl,
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      • 172 19 AP SPAIN protested on Saturday the sinking of a Spanish tanker in the Persian Gulf after it was attacked by Iraqi warplanes. A Foreign Ministry statement said Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez summoned Iraq's ambassador to Spain, Arshad Tawfiq Ismail, to protest the attack against the 235,000-ton Barcelona,
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    • 161 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 Shipping ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Djakarta Lloyd Nedlloyd Lines Neptune
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    • 117 20 Reuter NEDLLOYD Group has agreed to sell 65 per cent of its wholly-owned transport subsidiary VGL Security to US firm Brink s Inc in its third disinvestment in as many months. Terms were not disclosed. The sale would follow the disposal of
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    • 762 20 IHT AT LEAST US$3O million worth of cargoes have been diverted to a Christian-controlled port in northern Lebanon aboard "phantom ships" that change name and flag too fast for investigators to catch up with them, according to the International Maritime
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    • 153 20 JAPAN SEAMEN'S Union called a strike by J L Shipping Ltd workers after 1,450 employees received dismissal notices from the firm's financial-ly-troubled parent company Japan Line Ltd. The dismissal notices, issued as part of the company's reorganisation programme to regain profitability, were sent
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    • 1069 20 AB Shpg VN 5 ABC Container XI 1 Accord Shpg VW 1 Ahrenkw' liner XVI 4 Afr<o Oceon XVI 2 Alltrons Wl 3 AC Toepler XM 5 Amer<on Tpt 1 4/5 Anro Service VI 2/3 Arrow lines XI 5 Asion Oceon XNI 4 Auoc Corrog• XW s
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    • 322 20 INDONESIA imported 44 used vessels with a combined tonnage of about 100,000 tons last year. The Jakarta Post, quoting Antara News Agency, said the imports were meant to compensate the slow progress in building vessels locally under the government s Caraka Jaya
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    • 1267 22  -  Now in his early 60s, Mr Arne Skoien is not about to close the books behind him. The man who builds up Sembawang-Johnson Shipmanagement from scratch hopes to double the company's current management of 50 ships within the next five years. Before going
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    • 237 22 JARDINE MACLEOD Shipping Agencies in Manila has been appointed agents to the US-based Direct Container Line. It will represent DCL both as sales agent and breakbulk agent. Said Michael J Sinclair, DCL's president: "The agency's presence in Manila' shipping
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    • 357 22 Reuter DESPITE improving profits and tonnage balance, tanker owners remain cautious about replacing their ageing fleet, industry executives said. At the annual meeting of Intertanko (the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners), tanker owners said current freight rates were too low to justify new building. "Freight
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    • 64 22 Reuter Sea Containers Ltd said the recent strike against its Sealink British Ferries unit cost it about US$6 million. The company said, however, that ferry operations at the time of the strike were running about US$lO million ahead of expectations, so Sealink still has
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    • 410 23 TWO OF CNC Lines' seven vessels operating on the Bangkok-Hong-Kong-Taiwan-Korea-Japan route have been held up in Hongkong due to an "unsettled lease-pur-chase contract" on them. The Bangkok Post said the Chung Lie and Wan Lie. each with a 7,000 dwt capacity, had been detained
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    • 179 23 Lloyd's List A DRIVE to attract shipping banks, president George Vassilou recentmarine insurers, lawyers and bro- ly, wants to see Cyprus gain more kers to Cyprus has been launched benefit from its register which now by the island s newly-appointed ran ks as the world's seventh
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    • 609 23 APPRECIATION in the value of second-hand vessels has enabled some Norwegian interests to reap thousands in a matter of months. Second-hand tonnage brokers say the Norwegians sold the Black Merlin, a 40,302-dwt products tanker built 1984, to a Greek concern for about US$l6.5 million, after having bought the vessel
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    • 737 23 INCREASED activity was noted in several sectors of the London shipping freights market on Thursday and rates on the major trading routes appeared to be either holding steady or in some cases displaying a little firmness. In the grain sector Cargill paid US$l4 (fio) for 50.000 tons from
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    • 8480 28 3®aBG)(!EB A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 1287 29 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Dewi Seroyo J2 alongside *****500 EvpO Agspyr J6 olongside 16 05/0500 Vmtl Arrival Departure Edith M J8 olongside 16 05/0400 keppel wharves Bol tummsfci Coty Doiyvnshon Hofckin Moru Hoimen Koto Wifoyo Qinghecheng toioh Brooke Sriwiioyo Str Hope St Of Monipu Trons Fjord Webbers Post
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    • 2080 30 A—B AB Shipping Boueleed Shpg Agenciea ABC Containerline NV S pore Shpg (S) Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S) Atrica Octin Linee Sealion Shpg (S) Ahrenxiei Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceanua Shipping Aganciaa (S) Muttiport SOn Bhd (PK) AM ana Alltrana Expreea Amarican President
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    • 423 32 Lloyd's List THE NUMBER of self-discharg-ing bulk carriers in service has roughly doubled over the last five years, a new survey has revealed International shipping consultant Jones Bardelmeier notes in its latest update of the fleet that the total has climbed to 62
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    • 134 32 UNITED STATES Marshals have taken steps to ensure that a Cypriot freighter that collided with a railroad bridge remains near the scene of the accident. Marshals served emergency orders last week from US District Judge Nicholas Bua who has impounded the Pontokratis pending
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    • 258 32  -  From KINGSLEY WOOD NEW ZEALAND Line incurred losses of NZ$6.5 million in the first half of its current financial year ending February following the rationalisation of the North America trade. NZ Shipping Corporation chairman Michael Hirschfeld said the period had been characterised by difficult
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    • 759 19 \f I>dthsh,il hti TIMES STP Distributors r«im hitMimt Group Exclusive: 'Supersalesman' of Sembawang-Johnson Shipmanagement offers a few words on his success formula before leaving for Oslo. See Page IV WW/ Ovf IQEAS CotUoitm LINE MMnts JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES (Rej No *****4/ 00*.) 200 Cantonment Road #12 05 South point. Singapore
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    • 115 19 AT LEAST US$3O million worth of cargo«s have been diverted to a Christian-controlled port in northern Lebanon aboard "phantom ships' 1 that change name and flag too fast for investigators to catch up with them, according to the International Maritime Bureau. Page II TWO OF CMC Lines' seven vessels operating
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    • 493 20 Hapag-Lloyd CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT LARGS BAY KAMAKURA MARU HONG KONG EXPRESS CARDIGAN BAY RHINE MARU TOKIO EXPRESS CALLING 27/5 TYO 30/5 CONV/SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO MED EUROPE MALTA CASABLANCA LEIXOES BILBAO I AMSTE 6/6 10/6 I I 13/6 I 16/6 HAMBURG 19/6 BREMERHAVEN Singapore*****oo•Bookings *****01 «CF*****448 K. Lumpur *****25* P.
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    • 1053 23 The Straits Steamship Group me 1 Mansfield Container Shipping Re Ltd P&O Containers CONTAMERSHP SERVICE TO UK/CONTWENT: STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabeh, Sarawak, Bcunei Ports and Bangkok CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES TO/FROM BANGKOK Ovwwoi bay OUKS MT 4ms none BWtB dUNMCAN MT fl»N( MM wo txmst Accepting Cargo For: n N Air*
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    • 330 24 HXSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD V7TC7V ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF ly*j| IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICE IRAN TAKHTI IRAN VAH DAT PS &nfapore 1/S yt Loading for:BANDAR ABBAS BANDAR ABBAS KYOWA LINE fNC/8. PACIFIC SERVICE Singapore Loading for: A VESSEL 30/5 LAE, PMB. RBL. HRA MICRONESIA SERVICE OCEANIA EXPRESS V-14 22/5 YOKO
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    • 821 27 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FM EMT/EUROK FBLLY CBRTMHMEB SERVICE NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTC LTD. ItMral fcpWw: T«4: 17M77 tnuntl CTS BOOKII P Katan« NEPLINE SON BHD 368M87 K Lumpur NEPLINE SON BHD. SIMS 3 Panang NEPLINE SON. BHD 6a8»*27N8 I.Mn NEPLINE SON BHO. 2MBM/2MMI I nwwbf of Nw ACE Consortium FE
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    • 297 27 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN, INCHON S POPE AGENTS NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE ITD t»: 'i 222 7 510 221X1? (Ope'ifcs) 7222W 22<*>2M <T.»~; *****50 2202W (CfSl V4I4YS A 'GENTS TUNAS SE TI a SON BHD i T r rms% rni9' P» Tr>
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    • 750 27 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** PENANG P. KELANC MESSRS HAI THONG SHIPPING 127 FWw Strtti Penang. HMyu Mft HANDLING SYSTEM CO SON
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    • 309 28 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TIL 225 6868 (30 Lmesi FAX *****39 *****76 TILEX RS ***** A B SSCVA RS ***** A B SSCAO V E.B DE UTF R ACHT 'SE EREEDEREI h INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE E. THAELMANN 4/00 4 AUffUWD 4m iajaa •VIA COLOMBO' Accepting cargo for INDIA
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    • 674 29 (i pFARGO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTE)LTD No 15 Hoe Chiang Road cl 3 02 Sanford Building. Singapore 0208 Tel *****22 Tlx ***** FASCO *aC v ib ABC CONTAINERLINE N.V. TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND VSL Elton Hud*| 2*l •rune! 203 7 DATS TO FREMANTLE! Also accepting cargo to:AUSTRALIA —Adelaide. Brisbane NEW ZEALAND —Wellington,
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    • 749 29 TRANS. 4 trading agency PTE. LTD. I r 0 IRAQI LINE IRAQI STATE ENTfUPRISE FOR WARUINE TRANSPORT WEST BOUND SERVICE ETA S PORE LOADING FOR ■V RORO AL-ZAHRAA In Port HodMUh M* MV RORO BALQEES In Port Hotted*)! to* MV BABYLON 1M IMmMi. tod* THROUGH B/l» to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST
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    • 542 30 \sa fine-liner shipping fa* PTE LTD 70 Shenton Wiy 01 0;c Mirini House Spore 070/ 1 IfL *****77 (H Lines) U TLX PS 22W1 FLINFR fAX VVB* EUROPE SERVICE l3E'Wm;■■■• r-,.;.»(ii"v,:■ PAR EAST SERVICE 1 RUDDLE EAST GULF SERVICE 1 *fO«t IHQ M Ml m M KIT IM m ,it
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    • 506 30 ZIM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE accoptinf FCL/LCL urfon to USA East C Weft Coa»t Carribbean.East Canada HAITI Costa Rica, El Salvador. Guatemala. Honduras Venezuela Peru Ecuador. Colombia vta Miami Trinidad. Barbadot Antigua. St Lucia. MontMrrat. Guayana via Kingston AUSTRALIA CONTAINER SERVICE ACCEPTINS CARGO TO ADELAIDE »IA MELBOURNE AND ALSO fU TO
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    • 570 30 Everett Lines COMFANIA PERUANA DE VAPORES "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" LOADING FOR CALLAO, MAT ARAN I, ILO* AND ALL OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH TRANSHIPMENT AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION; THOMASEVERETT HUGHEVERETT MANOLOEVERETT P Kelanf* Singapore 22/23 May 13/14 Jim ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE
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    • 178 30 M X V Regional Weather m >jr v. */A m ,<S 1 >, sS m Z-V) 50V S? Ar £5 ss IS v^fik -Ilk! SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. c y Win* Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature °C
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    • 329 31 Seabndge INTCRCONTTHEMTAL LINE General/Marketing Agents: SEABRIDGE TRANSPORT SINGAPORE MALAYSIA (A member of the JEURO GWUP of COMPANIES, iapan) Singapore: *****11 Tlx: R*****1 SEA AIR Fax: *****90 Warehouse at PSA Multistorey Complex *****00 Malaysia. *****33 Tlx. MA***** Fax: *****00 DMQMAMC HQTO M fat Ji'lll Y FROM Singapore Port Keiang Penang UK/EUROPE:
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    • 206 31 fSAMTA] UMtfTAQMX# SAMTA SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE. LTD. NO. 3 SHENTON WAY #03-01, SHENTON HOUSE, SMGAPORE 0106 TEL: *****55 FAX: *****73 TELEX: RS ***** SAMTA CABLE: "SAMTAAQENT" STRAITS/INDIA SERVICE PHOR ANN 16/17 MAY SINGAPORE ACCEPTING CARGOES FOR W.C. INDIA AND SRI LANKA P.T. TYTYAN SAMODRA SHIPPING COY Envi Services Pte Ltd
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    • 441 31 V "J V k 111. .1 LCL/FCL SERVICE i VESSEL S PORE BANGKOK 23/5 I 26/5 S PORE I JAKARTA 18/5 I 21/5 1 lIWJI llt/.l IVJ M i nn m m m crn o Asr accept ng < argo To KfftuN(j aom<; C M \A »:a K?\r, P Xf
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    • 584 31 GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES' SP PKL PN BLW KAOI GLORY St LA TAN IX Sid BANJARMASIN 10/5 GLORY SELATAN VILI V7I HVS 2*5 GLORY SELATAN VUI V 77 SM 14/5 6 VESSELS OF LOG CARRIERS 5 VESSELS OF BRAND
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    • 308 31 PTC CONTAINER LINES FCI ICI StRVICE KC G.>JUP SIN PU EAST 22/5 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 21/5 BANGKOK 20/5 MANILA 20/5 JAKARTA 21/5 PORT KELANG/PENANG 19/5 BUSAN 23/5 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE 18/5 HONG KONG also accepting cargo to Huangpu/Shenzhen/Fuzhou/ Xiamen/ Xingang/Shanghai SIM EBtIPE 18/5 RDM/HAM/ANT/LE HAVRE/GENOA SIN tSA/6AHAIA 22/5 LA./NYC/SFO 22/5 VANCOUVER/TORONTO/MONTREAL C/CJ CARGO IN
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    • 328 32 I// Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd L TEL *****06 (20 Lines) TLX RS ***** &RS ***** IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE VIA MAURITIUS REUNION DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK SPORE PK Pt REU DBN Tl«0« ISLAND ¥71* SM SM SM jffi 'Mm calls E.L A P.E. GENERAL AGENTS: HAJ SUN HUP
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    • 373 32 FOR reliable and fast transit WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA-EAST COAST/GUIFJCANADA/MEXICO AND FRENCH WEST INDIES VSI Sport LtMarrt Connactinf VSt U 'L^ DCLFT VIC IM 2S NUERNBCC ATI nihon vi« an m dusseloohf exp y rl ns N. OCJIMA VIC 30/5 lift STUTTCAPT EXP Houston/Mexico Vera Cruz, Mexico City. Also
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    • 110 32 WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK LONDON, MARSEILLES Agent MHON-ASU SHIPPING (SI PTE LID Tel: *****86 (8 Lines) Tlx: RS ***** SEAFIX INDONESIA/JAPAN SERVICE STORE PBAPU PTK BJM LOADING FOR: 25/5 23/5 29/5 OSAKA, NAGOYA. TOKYO STRAITS/S. KOREA SERVICE S'PORE K.K. TAW LOADING FOR:SLD 18/5 23/5 INCHON. BUSA"
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    • 860 32 BNBh CALL US ATr P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE I K. LUMPUR WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE P KELANG I MTHR VSL N. CXJIMA B SLIRIA SfLANDIA TO EUROPE FEEDER B. BUTANG 445 B. BUTANG 447 B. BUTANC 445 B BUTANC 4SI OTHER DESTINATIONS: AARHUS AMSTERDAM. ANTWERP.
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