The Business Times, 29 October 1988

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 Weekend Edition, October 29-30 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 257 1 AP Dow Jones up THE STOCK market turned upward yesterday morning, rebounding from Thursday s broad decline. The Dow Jones average rose 15.11 to 2,155.94 in the first hour of trading. Gainers outnumbered losers by about 2 to 1 in trading of all New York Stock Ex-change-listed
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  • 386 1  -  By WILLIAM CHIA A BUOYANT ECONOMY has enabled Singapore managers and supervisors to take home fatter pay cheques, and the trend is expected to continue into the first half of next year. A salary survey conducted by Hay Management Consultants found that
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  • 121 1 THE BRITISH POUND yesterday rose against major currencies in Asia, following news that the September UK current account and trade deficits were smaller than expected. The current account deficit was only £560 million, about half of the anticipated £1.3 billion. The trade shortfall was £1.06
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  • 192 1 UNCERTAINTY in overseas markets arising from an overnight 24-point fall on Wall Street kept most institutional investors away from the Singapore stock market yesterday. Brokers said share prices also eased on light profit-taking in lacklustre trading. The Straits Times Industrial Index lost 5.09 points to 1,035.20
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  • 579 1  -  Prospects in current six months equally promising By CORRINA LIM NATIONAL FLAG carrier Singapore Airlines is headed for another year of bumper earnings. Its much-anticipated interim results released last night show a near 50 per cent jump in profit after tax and minorities
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  • 485 1  -  By ALVIN TAY, Financial Editor FOUR Singapore banks may be eligible to upgrade their representative offices in Jakarta into full commercial banking operations under the sweeping measures announced by Indonesia on Thursday to reform its banking system. Their eligibility, according
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  • 137 1 Reuter JAPANESE Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said yesterday that present exchange rates did not require coordinated action among major nations. He told a press conference in Tokyo that the overall currency market situation was stabilising but that Japan would act whenever necessary to deal with currency
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 232 1 Nikon Ths World's Ftnsst Photographic System. BT on Saturday: 6 The Devil goes academic Manufacturing 2 Berger plans $30m-ssom investment in region Labour 2 'Some stat boards slow in raising retirement age' Investments China repeats assurance Trade 3 Union move may help KL retain GSP privileges Banking 5 Shared ATM
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    • 12 1 Full report, PAGE 16 Regional Mkts, PAGE 18 World Mkts, PAGE 19
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    • 133 1 Niko Th« World's Finest Photographic System. ma v -*>- *r $*k< i I 1 j>a Solace for the world weary Page 7 ftrsaaal TrM The overwhelming question(s) Page 7 The folk singers are back Page Of fitting concern Page Prophet or fool? Page 9 Wolf in pig's skin Page 10
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 458 2  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA PAINT manufacturer Berger, whose Singapore office was made regional headquarters early this year, is gearing up to invest $30 million to $50 million in manufacturing plants in Indonesia, Brunei and Thailand. Berger regional director (Far East) Edward Cowie told BT the
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    • 188 2 RETAIL GIANT Metro is launching a $1.5-million advertising and promotional blitz to persuade people to shop at its stores this Christmas. Among the plum prizes at stake in lucky draws are three return tickets to London on Singapore Airlines'
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    • 299 2 LABOUR MOVEMENT chief Ong Teng Cheong is unhappy that some statutory boards are slow in raising the retirement age from 55 to 60 years. "Regrettably, a number of statutory boards are still dragging their feet*' on the issue of raising the retirement age
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    • 320 2  -  By WILLIAM CHIA MITSUBOSHI Belting Singapore (MBS), a maker of industrial and automotive belts, is setting up a research and development unit. Mr Yoshiharu Sasa, chairman of MBS, said this was part of the efforts by the company's Japanese parent to rely more on Singapore
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    • 392 2 NESTE OY, the state-owned Finnish oil and chemicals group, has set up a sales and technical office in Singapore to cultivate closer links with its Asian customers. The company is also looking into the possibility of setting up an oil trading company
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    • 60 2 MR S RAJARATNAM, the former Senior Minister (Prime Minister's Office), will be joining the Institute of South-east Asian Studies as a distinguished senior fellow. The fellowship will allow Mr Rajaratnam to carry out research on his book on Singapore, tentatively titled "From Wanderers
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    • 50 2 IN THE People in Business column yesterday, it was stated that Mr Samuel Poon Hon Thang and Mr Neo Khay Pin had been appointed as first vice-presidents of the OUB Group. It should have been the UOB (United Overseas Bank) Group. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 237 2 AS PART of its continuing effort to spread the message of working smarter and better to the workforce, the National Productivity Board has planned a media blitz for the productivity month. The $500,000 advertising blitz will begin in November to coincide with the
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    • 270 2 THE NATIONAL Trades Union Congress Secretary-General yesterday said that it does not make sense for any union official to contest against the People's Action Party. After all, said Mr Ong Teng Cheong, the PAP and the NTUC have a symbiotic relationship.
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    • 1244 2 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VMM! Bwth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Asia Venture K20 alongside 31 10/0600 Dunhuong K35 alongside 29 10/1100 Eastern Glory KI8 alongside 29 10/2300 Ibn A No lees K30 alongside 30 10/0700 Istona V K— alongsid« 29 10/1700 Kota Java K33 alongside 02.11/0600 Kola Wongi
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 92 2 AFTER 1992 THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY WILL BE ONE SINGLE MARKET. THE POTENTIAL CUSTOMER BASE WILL HAVE RISEN TO 320 MILLION PEOPLE. WE NOT ONLY HAVE TO BE READY TO MEET THE INCREASED DEMAND BUT ALSO TO PREPARE FOR THE RADICAL CHANGES AND FULL IMPLICATION OF EEC MEASURES BEING TAKEN IF
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 358 3 Bernama MEASURES to allow the formation of in-house unions among electronics workers may help Malaysia's defence to retain its trade privileges under the US Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). A senior official of the US Trade Representative (USTR) office said yesterday that
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    • 180 3 AFP STANDARD AND POOR'S said it was giving some of its top ratings to Hongkong, despite "potential political and economic repercussions'' of the 1997 transfer of the British colony to China. A spokesman for Standard and Poor's said on Thursday that the
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    • 390 3 AFP. THE PHNOM PENH regime is prepared to allow the Khmer Rouge a political role in a solution to the Cambodian conflict but will not make any military concessions to them, said its Prime Minister, Hun Sen. Mr Hun Sen
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    • 212 3 UPI, Reuter THE IDEA of a confederation between Jordan and the projected Palestinian state has been called premature by Jordan's King Hussein. "The new situation resulting from Jordan's disengagement from the West Bank makes it premature to talk about a confederation," the monarch said, in an interview
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    • 144 3 AFP THE British current-account deficit fell sharply in September to a seasonally adjusted £560 million, the Department of Trade and Industry reported on Thursday. The shortfall represents a marked improvement over the shortfall of £1.313 billion in August and the record current-account deficit of
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    • 158 3 AP SOUTH KOREA'S gross national product is expected to grow 11 per cent in 1988, up from the initial projections of 10 per cent, the Bank of Korea says. Kim Kon, governor of the central bank, said in Seoul yesterday that
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    • 268 3 Agencies THE SOVIET Union, blaming dramatic drops in oil and tax revenues, falsification of economic figures and the continuing cleanup of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, formally announced its first ever budget deficit with expenditures outstripping revenues in 1989 by 36 billion rubles (US$57
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    • 500 3 Economic slowdown will not affect foreign firms' ongoing operations AP CHINA'S top government spokesman said yesterday that foreign investors would be protected from a nationwide campaign to slash spending and cool off a badly overheated economy. Mr Yuan Mu, spokesman for the State Council, or Cabinet, also
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 62 4 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore money market closed unchanged at 5% per cent yesterday. One and two months ended 1/16 point higher while three months was unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at the close yesterday. OFFW BID Ownight 5 1/8 5 1-mon* S 3/16 S 1/16 2-month 5
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    • 104 4 Treasi ury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Moturity BID OfF€R HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****V 26.01.89 4.30 4.25 4.30 4.22 6 months BY*****Z 23.03.89 4.50 4.45 1 year BY*****S 20.07.89 4.56 4.51 4.55 4.50 Gover nment notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing
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    • 190 4 Indicates the average of the prime lending rate* of 12 ma|or banks In S'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Oct 28 uss DM SWFC Y«n 7 6a yt a i/4 1/s 12—11 7/8 4 7/8 3/4 3 3/4 5/8 4 1/2— 3/8 1 m&> 8 5/16 3/»6
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    • 179 4 Gold futures on Oct 27, 1988 100 troy ounces USS per troy ounce Optn HlgK Low SoWo Oct 407 90 407.90 407.40 ***** -070 No* 406.00 -1.00 OK 410.30 410.80 409.40 410 10 •too Fob 415.10 415.60 414.50 415.10 .1.10 Apr 421.00 ***** 419.50 420.30 .1.10 Jwi
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    • 1561 4 Reuter SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed mixed against most major currencies yesterday. Against the Singapore dollar, the US dollar closed unchanged at 1.9990/00 in erratic trading. It traded within a range of 1.9992 and 2.0005 after opening at 1.9993/03. OCBC Dealers said major players refrained from taking large
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    • 244 4 ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at openinQ levels in quiet trade yesterday. Among short-dates, the weekend rate closed unchanged at 8 5/16 8 3/16 per cent. Monday/Tuesday and week-fixed ended at 8 7/16 8 5/16 per cent, both up 1/16 point from Thursday's level. OffC» no
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    • 498 4 BA Futures Inc DECEMBER Eurodollar futures opened sharply higher at 91.41 in Simex yesterday on weaker stock prices at Wall Street. A weaker-than-expected 0.5 per cent rise in personal consumption and small gains in personal income for September also helped. The contract traded within a narrow range of 91.40
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    • 205 4 IMM currency futures ended mixed in light trading on Thursday after trending lower for most of the day. The market rose early but then eroded on profittaking spurred in part by unconfirmed talk of central bank intervention to buy dollars. The Bank of Japan reportedly bought a small amount
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    • 1476 4 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Friday, Oct 28, 1988 DEUTSCHE MARK (SHU EX) Nov M cat* NWi LM 8aM High Ma* 88 puli Law Sali S3 53 54 55 56 57 353 CAB CAB CAB 568 53 D«c 88 c*8i Lm 56 13 8*a Oac 88 pun Law 2 13 Oaa
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 203 5 AFP INVESTIGATORS in the US have subpoenaed the Bank of America, the third-largest American bank, for records of electronic transfers. This is part of an investigation into an international drug money-laundering operation. The US Customs Service, which spearheaded the operation, said Bank of America
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    • 422 5  -  By LEONG WEN WAH THE SHARED ATM network will finally be launched on Nov 24. after more than a year's delay and minus the Post Office Savings Bank. About 700,000 holders of ATM cards belonging to the Big Four local banks DBS Bank,
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    • 289 5 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN banking system was flush with funds in July as total deposits rose further by M 5939 million or 1.2 per cent up on the previous month. A monthly bulletin issued by Bank Negara said on Thursday that the growth
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    • 444 5 AFP INDONESIA'S latest banking reform is aimed at promoting competition between banks, greater efficiency, interest rate cuts and more confidence in the rupiah, according to officials in Jakarta. Reforms announced on Thursday removed restrictions on national private and foreign banks, liberalised large sums held by
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    • 163 5 Reuter NZI BANK chief executive Roger Clarke has resigned. Don Clark, a member of the NZI Corp board, has been named his successor. Parent company NZI Corp Ltd said in a statement yesterday that NZI Bank's loan portfolios were being examined ahead of the results
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 276 5 SINGAPORE: Rubber prices recovered some of their early losses on some speculative buying in quiet trading yesterday. November RSS One buyer was quoted at 203.50 cents a kg, down 2.50 cents from Thursday's close. TSR 20 prices closed lower, but above their early lows on light speculative buying interest
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    • 282 5 RAS prices In S cents/kg, FOB In bate NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers kit 1 RSS Prompt 201.00 203.00N 202.00 204.00N Int 1 RSS Nov CO CO 202.00 203.00N 203.00 203.00N Int 1 RSS Dec 206.50 207-50N 207.50 207.50N Int 2 RSS OP 200.00 202.00N 201.00
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    • 75 5 (cants/kg) NOVEMBER 1988 DECEMBER 1988 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON Bvy«n S»ll*n Buyers S«ll«r< ssr 30 196.00 198.00N 196.00 I98.00N SSR 50 194.00 196.00N 194.00 196.00N MRELB Soy»n S*H*« Bvy«n S*ll«ri SMR cv 308.00 310.00H 310.00 313.00N SMR L 300.00 303.00N 303.00 304.00N SMR 5
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    • 321 5 HONGKONG: Gold closed slightly higher in fairly quiet trading due to a lack of fresh incentives yesterday. Light buying by local investors pushed prices up marginally in otherwise slow and featureless trading. Bullion ended at U*****.50/408.00 an ounce against an initial U*****.10/60 and New York's close of U*****.25/75.
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    • 176 5 KUALA LUMPUR TIN galnad 14 cants on incraasad trading activity yaatarday to cloaa at M 519.33 a kg, ravaralng tha falls of tha past thraa days. Daalars said tha rlaa was a technical ad|uatmant to tha racant dacllnaa and was alao halpad by tha racovary In London which
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    • 437 5 MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES closed higher on late covering and speculative buying after Pakistan yesterday bought 12,000 tonnes of RBD palm oil for first half Nov shipment. Steadier overnight Chicago soyoil futures supported initial values. Trading activity, however, was reduced ahead of the weekend. Jan and Feb
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    • 108 5 COMMISSION house, commercials and professionals in Chicago actively traded November/January or January/November spreads in a Thursday session that saw soybeans close lower across the board. Spot November closed down nine cents at U557.59. Soybean meal closed lower in mostly light activity. while soyoil posted slight gains on exporter buying.
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    • 159 5 Source: Telerate FUEL OIL prices climbed higher overnight on the Singapore market in light trade. One of the primary reasons for the price rise was the uncertainity of regional avails due to refinery turnarounds and a refinery fire in Singa- pore. Sellers were heard asking prices
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    • 119 5 COMMERCIAL selling kept Chicago wheat futures on the defensive at midsession on Thursday, but overall trading was light. Influence from lower CBT corn and soybeans also kept wheat prices under pressure after the opening. Wheat opened higher on expectations China will ten- der soon for the balance of its
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    • 297 5 AFP, Reuter THE International Wheat Council (IWC) revised its estimate of the world wheat crop this season (July 1968-June 1969) to 501 million tonnes, one million tonnes below its previous estimate released last month and 12 mt below the estimated figure for 1967-88 (513 mt). The
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    • 242 5 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon doling prko» on Oct 28 (S$/100 kg) Coconut oil Mk FOB 116.00 Otd drum FOB 126.00 N«w drum FOB 130.00 Copra Mlx*d (too**) 68 M Pepper ti. —A-L I itilla fWWW WfWTW FOB NIW 585.00 oorawoK wnrre FOB foq NLW 575.00 Sarawak sp«dol
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    • 293 5 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller doting prk»» on Oct 27, (£/tonne unless specified). Previous dosing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Bo sis in-stor« London, sellers option OF London Nov 1105/1110 (1120/1121) Kgh/Low 1120/1095 Jan 1114/1116 (1130/1131) High/Low 1135/1110 Soles (4761) Cocoa Dec 776/782 (792/794 High/Low 792/774 Mar 770/771 (788/790) t-ftgh/Low
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 488 6 A RECENT convention on the Devil in the Italian city of Turin unleashed terrible forces. Sociologists reading Tarot cards and authors of obscure texts on the underworld competed for attention with white magicians who met nearby to exorcise those taking part in the discussions and citizens
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    • 624 6  -  letters to the Editor A REMISIER Dear Sir May I reply to Mr Peter Chia's (public affairs manager of the Stock Exchange of Singapore) letter in BT on Oct 22. The stock exchange has made it compulsory for all remisiers and dealers
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    • 300 6  -  TAN KIN LIAN GENERAL MANAGER NTUC INCOME Dear Editor, I refer to the letter from "Unfairly Compensated" which appeared in BT on Oct 22. From the information contained in that letter, the claimant was involved in an accident on Dec 25, 1987, took three
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    • 1261 6  -  Ask an 11-year-old boy and girl whether a man who has no money should steal the drugs that could save his ill wife, the boy would probably say yes and the girl would say no. The difference has important legal implications. TAMAR LEWIN explains why. TAMAR
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    • 584 6 Reuter RANCHER David Hopcraft reckons the best way to save Africa's wildlife is to eat more of it. Hopcraft says wildlife is dying out in most African countries because it is not put to economic use except as a tourist attraction
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    • 836 6 ARRIVALS Operator Sorvtc* Local From numbtr Hnw THA TG403 1155 HOC SIA SOI 91 1155 PEN SIA SO 2 38 1155 MES THA TG407 1205 •KK/MOY GIA GA900 1210 PKU MAS MH641 1230 KCH SIA SOI 1250 SFO/HNL/HKG SIA SO 203 1300 CGK SIA SQ107 1305 KUL
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 294 7 A NON-DINNER did not take place on Wednesday night but some people not involved in organising it decided to inform the press anyway. What happened was that the Singapore Manufacturers' Association had originally planned to hold its 56th annual dinner on Wednesday night. It was postponed
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    • 975 7  -  By PETER OOI FOR MORE THAN seven years now, the Yugoslav village of Medugorje has become an inspiring destination to many. The village, 28 kilometres from the Adriatic Sea, has been a pilgrims' haven for millions since June 1981 after the Blessed Virgin Mary's
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    • 592 7  -  w VA/'v^ With JAIME LYE SCENE: A sperm bank. We all know what goes on inside that little cubicle. We all know that somewhere between the solitary chair and the sink, something happens which will bring joy to many a childless couple and the manufacturers of Pampers.
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & the Arts
      • 949 8  -  CDs By ROGER LOH 808 DYLAN single-handedly carried the Woody Guthrie burden in the 1960s In the *****, a slew of new generation folkies kept that tradition alive. Now, in its third decade, folk revivalism returns to grassroots level with hell-bent vengeance. In the past
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 327 9 DRAMA A GROUP of people used to being subjected to sweaty rehearsals, tedious costume fittings, tiring sponsor-seek-ing and heatstroke under unbelievably hot lights, are capable of feeling a lot of things when out of action. Like impatience between seasons. So, for Asia In Theatre Research Circus,
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      • 357 9  -  By SANGEETA MULCHAND ENFANT TERRIBLE of the fashion scene. Jean-Paul Gaultier, should be glad that he's not designing in Singapore. According to Alan Koh, president of the Society Of Designing Arts (SODA), his outrageous creative talent would never lift off the ground here. Indeed, the secret of
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      • 773 9  -  BOOKS By CHUANG PECK MING Title: Surviving The Great Depression Of 1990. Author: Ravi Batra Publisher: Simon And Schuster, 368 pages. $29.95. PLEASE YOUR BOSS as much as you can if you want to keep your job in the depression that is bound to come in two
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      • 120 9 design Seminar Total Fashion BuatDate: Nov 1, 2 Venue: Dynasty Hotel Time: 9.30 am to 5.00pm $180 including lunch and braaks Tha SODA Show Date: Nov 1 Venue: Shangri-La Hotel Time: 7.30pm $60 and $80 par head A AAAiiMkAM n dirvlv Date: Nov 3, 4 Venue: Shangri-La
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      • 892 10  -  VIDEOS By JAIME LYE HOLLYWOOD VIDEO Pte Ltd may sound as tacky as, say, Hollywood Photo Studio down in Ang Mo Kio, but the concept behind it is anything but. In fact, it's video ga-ga at this movie rental outlet, located in the basement of OUB Centre and
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      • 348 10  -  Bridge By Mike Thumba THREE WEEKS AGO at the inter-College Bridge Tournament organised by the NUSS, the NUS Students A' and B' teams not only defeated the graduates from the NUSS but also mauled the Singapore Polytechnic lecturers. The lecturers found it rather hard
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      • Article, Illustration
        761 10  -  THEATRE By SANGEETA MULCHAND ONCE UPON A TIME, the wolf was always the bad guy and the three little pigs could do no wrong. Today, the Big Bad Wolf is bad because he was neglected as a child and the three little do-gooder pigs belong to a rock
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      • 897 10  -  k,ofT}pnoc Dy Sakina Dhilawala CINEMA: Dto Hard starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov and Bonnie Bedelia. Showing at Cathay: 10.30; 1.15; 4; 6.45; 9.30, Golden Sultan: 1.15; 4; 6.45; 9.30. Bedok: 1.15; 4; 7; 9.30, Broadway: 1; 3.30; 6.45; 9.30, Majestic: 1; 3.30; 6.45; 9.30, OdeonKatong: 3.30; 6.30;
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      • 499 11  -  CINEMA By LAWRENCE TAN WHAT EDDIE MURPHY wants these days, Eddie Murphy probably will get. Even if the ideas run out, the man has already had a pretty good run, and audiences pretty good fun with movies such as Trading Places and
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      • 920 11  -  COLLECTING By LINDA CHEE OF ALL THE dynasties of imperial China, the Qing era clearly stood out for technical mastery in porcelain-making that was second to none. Where the preceding Ming era was famous for its blue-and-white wares with boldly executed strokes, the Qing dynasty was noted for
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      • 227 11  -  by Lawrence Tan THROW MOMMA from tha Train. What kind of a title is that for a movie? Actor Danny de Vito must have thought it a great one and in his directorial debut, got actress Anne Ramsey to create a mother that is the quintessence
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      • 740 12  -  SWITCHING With LAWRENCE TAN THE OLD MAN lectures the boy on the profundities of biochemistry. He takes a bit of purplish powder and puts it in a flask on the burner. The television screen, previously in black-and-white, flickers crimsonly for a moment where
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
      • 805 13  -  BANK STOCKS By ROSIE TAN GENERALLY SPEAKING, banks are rip-off artists and incompetent to boot, said a Genevabased fund manager with a bulge in his cheek. Mr Michael Marsh, writing for an investment newsletter, Troy Report, regards a bank licence as a
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      • 559 13  -  MALAYSIAN MARKET By KEVIN GWEE THE RECENT speculative interest in Malaysian properties seems to have spilled over to listed property companies. Over the past few months, property counters have returned to the limelight, with many of them making regular appearances on the most active list on
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      • 412 13  -  BEHinnER'5/ UNIT TRUSTS By LEONG WEN WAH INVESTORS who think that the prices of commodities such as oil, gold and other metals are at their lows, can consider buying unit trusts that hold shares in the companies producing these natural resources.
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      • 704 13  -  mm by Kevin Gwee IN VIEW of the current interest in Malaysian properties and the relatively inexpensive market rating of property counters, Tsang Ong has highlighted five Malaysian-based property companies IGB Corporation, Petaling Garden, United Estates Projects, Selangor Properties and Bandar Raya Developments
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      • 327 13  -  Robert CS Tay, Robert CS Tay, Invaatmanl Manager, Phillip SecurMea THE PRICE PATTERN formed by the Straits Times Industrial Index has not changed since my last reading one month ago. It is still the lower-top low-er-bottom foundation (chart: A, B, C, D) which determines the primary
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      • 240 13  -  by Herman Phua AS THE Great Investment Race draws nearer to the close, the contenders for the top three positions remain unchanged with Algemene Bank Nederland leading the pack, followed by Daiwa Singapore and Kim Eng Securities. The latest scores show
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Sports
      • 564 14  -  TENNIS By WALTON MORAIS WHEN it got down to the trenches, Steve Guy and Paul Chamberlin knew how to slug it out. At the Carlsberg Singapore Men's Open tennis championship semi-finals yesterday, that was the difference. Guy the first seed, and Paul
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      • 265 14 IN ANNOUNCING why the ITF is investing U5545,000 in the future of Asian tennis, Eiichi Kawatei spoke also of the need for national associations to make profits. "I'm happy to see any national association organising a tournament and making a profit," the management committee member
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      • 360 14 BOXING UPI FRANCESCO Damiani and Tyrell Biggs both predicted knockout victories in a face-to-face meeting prior to their 10-round non-title heavyweight bout tonight. American 1984 Olympic gold medalist Biggs and Italy's European champion Damiani will be fighting for the chance to line up a big-money payday
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      • 676 14  -  on TMCk RACING With JEROME FANDOR RACES 3 and 4 today feature eight horses hoping to line up for next week's Queen Elizabeth II Cup. Race 3 is a Class 1, Div 3, 1600 m event, while Race 4 is a 1200 m sprint
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      • 316 14 AT 7.30 am this morning, the first of 14 riders who train in Singapore will enter the arena called "Paradise" at the Bukit Timah Saddle Club on Bukit Turf Club grounds. The 14 competitors will ride into the biggest international dressage competition of the
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      • 472 14 GOLF AP SCORING seven birdies each, US Masters champion Sandy Lyle of Scotland and British Open winner Severiano Ballesteroe of Spain shot four-under-par 68s on Thursday to dominate the opening round of the fourday U*****,00 Volvo Masters golf tournament. Englishman Roger Chapman and Ove Sellberg
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      • 254 14 AP FORMER heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman sent Tony Fulilangi reeling to the canvas for a knockout at 2:26 of the second round in Foreman's hometown of Marshall, Texas, on Thursday night. The fight was the 40-year-old Foreman's 13th straight
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    • 761 10 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS S Shuts up the page (7) 9 Don't understand, when you miss when checking? (4. 2. 3) 13 A foreigner? That's aright! (5) 14 Said it's over-cast (5) 15 They're counters, they inform you (7) 16 First make out it wasn't deliberate (7) 17 Seeing that there's
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    • 1519 12 SLOTS TO WATCH Death row, murders and rampage Movies Joe Spano, Dianne Venora and David McCallum head the cast in Terminal Choice, a movie about deadly doings and unexplained deaths in a modern, sophisticated hospital. A good cast is, unfortunately, not sufficient to salvage this unsavory thriller. (Today, 10.30pm, Channel
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  • COMPANIES & STOCK MARKETS
    • 565 15  -  By CORRINA LIM FOR ITS next major project, the Stock Exchange of Singapore is working towards introducing a scripless settlement system for the main board. Chairman Tan Chok Kian, in a statement in the exchange s latest annual report,
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    • 583 15  -  By JOCELYN TOH SINGAPORE BUS SERVICE (1978) Ltd which has so far fended off competition from the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system is bracing itself for the worst when the system is extended to Lakeside at the end of this year. The
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    • 161 15 AFP STANDARD CHARTERED Bank, the British banking group, has refused to allow Australian businessman Alan Bond to go ahead with plans to sell Bond Corporation's 14.9 per cent stake in the bank for the time being. Standard Chartered said it wanted Mr Bond to
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    • 348 15 Insider Tirading Irid PROSECUTION WITNESS Thong Kok Khee yesterday said he had never sought or been offered immunity from prosecution during investigations at the trial of businessman Allan Ng. Mr Thong, a former assistant director of Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia Ltd (SCMBA), Sealion Hotels
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    • 239 15 CASH-RICH Tractors Malaysia Holdings Bhd is seeking new business opportunities to synergise with its existing activities. Chairman Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Ja'afar said yesterday Tractors was particularly interested in opportunities relating to services and motor spare parts. "In our efforts towards this, we do not
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    • 710 15 AFP THE COLONIAL administration in Hongkong is proposing to give a new securities watchdog body sweeping powers, including the right to search business premises without a warrant, according to a copy of a draft official document. The proposal also enables the new
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 146 15 PROMET BHD said it has obtained the approval of the Malaysian Capital Issues Committee to convert a tranche of its loan amounting to M5126.14m into 126 14m new shares under its financial restructuring exercise. The marine engineering group said the CIC had also approved
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      • 71 15 TO COMPLY with the new requirement of the Tourist Development Corporation of Malaysia which requires all travel agents to have at least 70pc local participation in its capital, United Engineers Ltd has sold a 35pc stake in Asia Travel Service (M) Sdn
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    • 880 15 Current Ex Books Date Total tor ToW (or poymont Ma dooo peyebte aw yoor laat yoor A Enterprises 5% Nov 2 Nov 17 Doc 5 7% 10% Asiatic 0»v 2%» Oct 12 Oct 26 Nov 21 2% 5% Austral Amal 15% Oct 7 Oct 21 Nov B 25%
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    • SES
      • 795 16  -  by Kevin Gwee LACK OF DIRECTION on major overseas markets coupled with cautious investor sentiment resulted in another day of lacklustre trading on the local bourse yesterday. The market opened on a weak note following an overnight 24-point fall in the
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      • 41 16 Company RIGHTS ISSUE lum Chong One 6>i% loon stoct with detachable TS* tor every three ordinary shorn hold. Ex dote: Oct 31 Boola dot*-. Nov II Company BONUS ISSUE lum Chang One-for-three Ex-dote Oct 31 Boots close Nov II
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      • 297 16 Company RIGHTS ISSUE C 1 Holdings 27 million loan itocb in the ratio of $3 loan stock for every five ordinary shores held D C Bank One-for-two $0 75 per shore Duta Cons One-tor-one $1 10 per share FACB One-tor-one $040 per shore General Corp Issue of (49.204.936
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      • 117 16 KHONQ QUAN FLOUR Milling Limited: AGM at 120 Tanjong Rhu Road, Singapore 1543, today, Oct 29, at noon. fcIME DARBY Berhad: 10th AGM at the Ballroom AnteSom, Kuala Lumpur Hilton, lan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur, today, Oct £9, at 11.30 am. Berjaya Corporation Barhad: 19th AGM at
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      • 322 16 Managers' prices for Oct 29, 31 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 0.97 1.03 The Savngs Fund 0 85 0.91 S'pore Prog Fund 0 38 0 42* S'pore Sec Fund 0.64 0 69 S'pore Invest Fund 0 68 0.73 S'pore Equity Fund 049 0.53 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest
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      • 5528 16 Gr's Gr's 1 MS Tel Last Dlv Dlv Y'ld Not Vol Day Last Quote M Cap Ulwk nign Low Cod* Company Sale or- C'vr P/E (•000) High Low Buyer Seller Smll SESDAQ Oct 2S 187 114 t 4000 Amtek Eng 20* 126 unch 10.0N 7.1 1.5 89
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    • KLSE
      • 2752 17 AFTER EXPERIENCING two days of mixed sentiment, the Kuala Lumpur stock market finally yielded to profit-taking yesterday and prices eased across the board in quiet trading. Dealers said the market was featureless with a handful of blue chips trying valiantly to hold on to their
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    • REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 474 18 Reuter GOVERNMENT treasury bills and the currency market are proving stiff competition for Philippine shares, and analysts say the stock market needs better fundamentals to woo investors back. Despite an annualised gross national product growth rate of 6.8 per cent in the first
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      • 224 18 Reuter EDIBLE OIL manufacturer Hop Hing Oil (Holdings) Ltd said it planned to list the company on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong to raise HK$44.B million. It said in a statement it expected a price-earnings ratio of 6:1, based on a
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      • 219 18 AFP THE Hongkong police's commercial crime bureau has launched a probe into the collapse of a local Chi-na-funded company following the arrest of two directors for suspected fraud, a police spokesman said. The investigation comes in the wake of a recent announcement by Beijing that it
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      • 290 18 AFP THREE of Japan's electronics giants Thursday announced big gains in their first-half non-consolidated income results, thanks to good performances in communication systems and semi-conductors. Toshiba Corp said it recorded a current profit of 59.63 billion yen (US$445 million) on a
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      • 597 18 Tokyo SHARE prices on the Tokyo exchange closed mixed yesterday after a seesaw session, and volume soared to massive levels on the first day of trade for November delivery, brokers said. The Nikkei Index firmed 18.42 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 27,741.34. It closed up 102.32
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      • 528 18 Australia Reuter A LACK of direction from overseas markets, rising interest rates and anticipation of Bell's BHP share placement saw the Australian national sharemarket close easier in heavy op-tions-related trading yesterday. One broker said turnover was higher than usual but foreign bourses had offered little guidance for
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      • 1319 18 Hongkong HONGKONG stocks closed slightly lower yesterday with the takeover battle for Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels concluded. Brokers said the Kadoorie family, HK Hotels's major shareholder, had raised its holdings to nearly 40 per cent from around 33 per cent through open-market purchases
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      • 165 18 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 5.11 points to 425.00 yesterday on a turnover of 5.705,782 shares worth 569.69 million baht. oct a BAMT Ao Kham Thai 360 1 Ayudhya Invaatman t 432 2 Bangkok Agro-ind 10# Bangkok Bank 291 -2 Bank Of Ayudhya
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      • 83 18 Reuter SHARE prices on the Manila exchange closed mixed yesterday as investors stayed on the sidelines. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index rose to 728.68 from 726.81 yesterday "The movement is sideways because the market is a little cautious and is just watching the more solid
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      • 113 18 Reuter SEOUL share prices rebounded slightly in mixed trading yesterday although many cautious investors chose to remain on the sidelines, brokers said. The composite index near the close was 742.05, up 1.1 points on turnover of 233.2 billion won against Thursday's close of 239 3 billion. "Investors,
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      • 151 18 Reuter BOMBAY share prices dropped yesterday for the second day running on heavy profit-taking amid continued rumours that corporate results may be below expectation. Associated Cement Companies Ltd. one of the targets of the rumours, saw its shares fall 9.5 rupees to 277. Market leader Tata Iron
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      • 407 18 Reuter THE Taiwan stock index yesterday rebounded from a round of mid-morning profit-taking to close sharply higher, although still off earlier peaks, dealers said. The weighted index rose 135.42 to close at 6,153.49 from Thursday s 6,018.07 close. It reached a high of 6,166.86 in early trading.
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      • 128 18 Reuter SHARE prices on the New Zealand exchange ended lower yesterday after a quiet session with the Barclays Index easing 13.53 to 2,024.40. "It was mainly off on the back of a Wall Street fall." Phillip Solarz of Hendry Hay Mcintosh said. "It (the market) was
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    • WORLD MARKETS
      • 882 19 New York Reuter GROWING nervousness and scepticism about the level of recent acquisition proposals led investors to dump their holdings of deal stocks on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The action was triggered, in part, by a warning from Fed chairman Alan Greenspan
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      • 1010 19 London Reuter EQUITIES on the London exchange opened with an easier bias in quiet trading yesterday after a 24-point fall on Wall Street on Thursday. Investors decided that interest rates would not fall despite Thursday's much better than expected UK balance of payments figures.
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      • 1756 19 Reuter AMSTERDAM Dutch share prices were lifted to a new year's high at yesterday s midsession amid growing confidence that the dollar's latest dive has bottomed out for the time being and that recent selling was overdone, dealers said. "There was fear that the dollar would go
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    • 611 18 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF AMALGAMATED MOTOR TYRE MERCHANTS (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Creditors of the abovenamed Company, which is being wound up voluntarily, are required on or before the 30th
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    • 452 18 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE OF SHIP'S NAME We Hal Yin Diesel Trading Pte Ltd of 6001 Beach Road #15-01/02 Golden Mile Tower Singapore 0719, hereby give notice that in consequence of the intended purchase and change of Ship's name from Japan to Singapore. We have applied to the Registrar
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    • 37 18 Do you know of a company that has dared to innovate? Call Adeline Yong on 344-8955 before October 31,1988, to nominate a company worthy of the Enterprise Award. BI'SINESSM AN OF THE YEAR AWARD AND ENTERPRISE AWARD
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    • 447 19 SinGAPORE AIRLinES (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors of Singapore Airlines Limited wishes to make the following announcement:1 UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 1988 Revenue PROFIT FOR THE PERIOD After accounting for:Investment income Finance charges Depreciation of fixed assets Profit/(loss) on
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  • 580 20  -  By DAVID CHEW NEW UMNO president and Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that Umno's de-regis-tration last year was not because of unregistered branches. Rather, it was due to the action of disgruntled people taking the matter to court
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  • 207 20 THE ASPIRATIONS of Malays have not been fully achieved under the New Economic Policy, which is due for review in 1990, New Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. In his opening address to the New Umno general assembly, Datuk Seri Dr
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  • 144 20 AN AMENDMENT to the Umno constitution, providing for 10 votes to each nomination a presidential or deputy-presidential candidate receives, was unanimously endorsed by the New Umno general assembly yesterday. It was moved by Umno deputy president Ghafar Baba on behalf of the New Umno Supreme Council.
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  • 203 20 AFP TWO BANGKOK-BASED shipping lines are to return to Singapore toxic waste allegedly dumped in the country over the past seven years. A Port Authority of Thailand official said on Thursday that no date had been set for the return of 631 tonnes
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  • 503 20  -  Society must not drift aimlessly into the 21 st century By MARTIN SOONG THE CORE VALUES Singapore shares with other Asian success stories such as Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea need to be formalised in a national ideology if the Republic is to survive
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  • 261 20 UPI FIREFIGHTERS spraying foam and water extinguished the flames consuming two oil tanks on Pulau Merlimau yesterday but a third sent a towering pillar of pollutants into the air. Two more firemen were hurt, raising the toll of injured from the four-day inferno
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  • 157 20 FORMER Member of Parliament J B Jeyaretnam yesterday said he was waiting for the right thing to be done' after winning an appeal to the Privy Council in London against a local court ruling. Mr Jeyaretnam, the leader of the Workers' Party,
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  • 314 20 FT THE SOVIET government plans to sell shares in its state enterprises, and will eventually have a stock market, Finance Minister Boris Gostev said in an interview on Thursday. The ideological volte face will mean that workers, other enterprises and ordinary individuals
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  • 249 20 Reuter JAPAN yesterday reported gloomy prospects for reducing its trade surplus, heightening fears that the surplus might be here to stay for some time. The government said that the nation's current account surplus fell nearly US$l billion from a year earlier to US$7.6l
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  • 122 20 AFP PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew will lead an 11-member delegation on a four-day visit to Fiji next month, the Fijian government announced yesterday. The announcement said Mr Lee would hold talks in Suva with Fijian Prime Minister Ratu Sir
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  • 89 20 Reuter THE SURPRISE resignation of Portugal's moderate opposition leader, Vitor Constancio, could endanger the government's plan to modernise the economy by sweeping privatisation. The Socialist Party chief announced on Thursday he was quitting his post, less than two weeks after signing a pact with the
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  • LATE FILE
    • 54 20 Reuter SYRIA was yesterday reported to have reinforced its positions in northern Lebanon in a move that was seen aa a possible prelude to military action. In London, bullion dealers said that gold prices had leapt US$7 an ounce in hectic trading on news of
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    • 51 20 Reuter THAILAND is considering a North Korean request to open an embassy in Bangkok amid growing trade exchanges. A Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that vieiting North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam had made the proposal during talks with his Thai counterpart Siddhi Savetsila.
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    • 60 20 Reuter BRITAIN'* Conservative government announced yesterday that It would float the state steel industry on the\ stock market on November 23 in the lateet in a series of sales to private investors of public assets. Industry analysts think that British Steel, one of Europe's largest and
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    • 49 20 Reuter HUNGARIAN Communist Party leader Karoty Groez said yesterday that he would resign as prime minister next month. Mr Qrosz, who will keep the more important party post, named no successor, but sources tipped Politburo economist Miklos Nemeth, 40, to succeed him. Reuter
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    • 50 20 Reuter TAIWAN textile-makere yesterday urged the government to resist renewed US pressure for further currency rises, which they said coula< cripple the industry and hurt the island's second largest sxport. Ths request waa made by repreeentatives of 22 textile industry essoeiations after a meeting yesterday. Reuter
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