The Business Times, 8 August 1989

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    11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P> 45/IXBB TUEBDAY. AUGUST 8, 1989 75 CENTS
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    FINANCIAL NEWS SUMMARY
    252 1 Dow down us atue chips mi m ««iy tradlna vniardiv on Mil oroII lNNVV|p IHly w»» wW* pM grama trtggarad by a dip In bond prtoai. tradara aaid. Tha Dow fall two to 2,662. Qainara, howavar, lad loud by about thraa to two. Rautar Footsie up LONOON
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    Unit trust profits now taxable
    696 1  -  EFFECTIVE RATE OF 3ipc ON INDIVIDUAL. FOREIGN INVESTORS: 32pc ON OTHERS »y ROSIE TAN UNIT TRUST HOLDERS will b* I labia tor tax undar a aohamo announood by tha Mlnlatry of Flnanoo yaatorday to tax unit truata on proflta from ahara tranaaottona. Tha changaa, which
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    Local stockmarket bucks regional trend
    264 1 WHILE ragional bouraaa andad lowar, Singapore buckad tha trand to oloaa marginally higher on aalactlva bargain hunting. Sentiment waa buoyad by good corporata raaulta, a broker •aid. Tha Btraita Tlmee Induatriala Index Inched up 2.06 points to finlah at 1,361.74 while the Bualnees Tlmee Compoelte
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    Lock icon Discussion on US bases
    126 1 AFP PHILIPPINE Preeldent Cor moo Aquino met security advisers yesterday to dlecues the future of U8 military bun in the Philippine and Singapore's oftsr of U8 military sccees to its facilities, officials said. Earlier, the Foreign Office announced that Mrs Aquino would visit Waahington on Nov
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    Jurong Shipyard nets $16.4m profit, up 74pc
    472 1  -  ■y ANDREA BORCH BUOYANT BHIPREPAIR and shlo-converslon businesses lifted WfVtl InfVIIWWW lIIVW Jurong Shipyard Ltd attributable net profit 74.6 per oent to 616.37 million for the six months ended June SO. The group's turnover hit $163.28 million, 66.1 per cent hlghsr than the
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    Lock icon Japan denies Soviet offer
    114 1 AP JAPAN'S foreign mlnletry yesterday denied that Tokyo had reoelved a secret Soviet offer to return tour disputod Mends in the Kuril srohipeiago In exchange tor oapitai inveetment In the Soviet Union. "We have not reoelved any mssssgs," an offtoial at the ministry said, denying a
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    Mahathir assures continued role for private initiative in economy
    524 1 MALAYSIA'S post-1000 economic policy will continue to eneure that private initiative can firmly aeeume the role of the principal engine of growth while the rote of the government will be downCded, Prime Minleter Datuk I Or Mahathir Mohamad aaid yesterday. Opening
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    Lock icon Lange quits and leaves succession question wide open
    516 1 Reuter PRIME MINISTER Davkl Lang*, who trenotormod New 7—land In five years of social and ooonomIc reaignad yntirdiy, iiivlno (hi nnaatlnn of hit molll|p HIV cosdon wldt opon. &A* I A akA4*jA aaalA*Mr Ltngf iokj i nfwi cowarI. UlalllM n IKm* iiini
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      194 1 Pull report, PAQC 1« (UgkMial mfcto, PAOI 1« Leeder, PAOC 10 Editorial Comment 10 Aston Tigers Underpinning regional stability Mahathir lashes out at rich nations Oil trade 10 Malaysia 7 Japan's bid to rsduce imports Csll to set up venture cspltal firms Cambodia 11 crime 13 Tommy Koh speaks The
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      14 1 Mahathir hlli out at uaa of NIC labal lo otNIo East Aala, PAQC 8
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  • HOME NEWS
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      ADB sees S'pore growth above NIEs' 6.9pc average
      798 2  -  By ZHOU MEi WHILE SINGAPORE'S growth ratoa In tha short torm ara axpaotod to slow down aftor Its doublo digit surgo In 1888, Ito anAMUiiiAk MAAA TtoiptTto unQirQigiT growm riw Ihtfl mat it torocaat to bt tbovt SSIIW WW WW www tha
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      Gathering for 1,000 Muslim converts
      258 2 ABOUT 1,000 Muallm convarta will gathar at tha Mandarin Hotel nam month In a maailva gat-tlng-toknow-you eeeelon. Organlaad by Tha Muallm Convarta' Aaaoolatlon of Singapore (MCAS), tho oooaalon awo marka tha eighth annlvaraary of tho founding of tha aaaoolatlon, whioh haa 3,000 mambara. "With their
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      S'pore to host part of Modinfo 89
      129 2 SINGAPORE will hoot part of tho til a .|J f>l ||ariliial InA^# wof.o v/ongrou ot mooicoi intofnrvAtics unoxooctodly it tho iiiww w www ond of thlo yoor, raoult of tho oriel* In China. Modlnfo M woo orlglnolly aohodulod lo bo hold In Soljlng
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      Club to hold EGM on membership transfer
      520 2  -  ■y MAGDALENE NG SOME MEMBERS of the Changl Beech Club art unhappy that the olub has decided to keap Its mambarahlp non-traneferable without explaining why. A member of tha olub. Patar Low, hat successfully secured tha slgnaturee of 80 membere to oonvene an
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      SDP against setting up of US military facilities in Singapore
      331 2 THK SINGAPORE Domocrotlc Party told yoatorday that It oppoooo tho aottlng-up of Amorloon mllltory fooilltioo In Slngoporo. o movo which It ooyo "will grootly Inoroooo tho throat of wor" to tho ropubllo. In o ototomont, tho oppoaition party oold It
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      Slight rush to register as final amnesty runs out
      338 2  -  SHOEB KAGDA THERE WAS a slight rush to get regletored yesterday aa time started running out for Illegal MflAjd jUiAMiAiiAM AMII IA WOrKfrl IDC OWflliytfV mil Ifl Singapore Today la the laet day tor all illegal workers snd overstayers toalvi thAfniilvii
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Utilities — crucial for housekeeping activities
      534 3  - Utilities crucial for housekeeping activities I?®— By JEFFREY TSANG TALK ABOUT UTILITIES and crucial public aervtoea such aa water, electricity or gaa come to mind. In the fleid of personal computing. a utility may not refer to the stuff that goee Into a home, but the word la aptly uaed
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      Columbia group all set for expansion
      609 3  -  sy JEFFREY TSANG LOO LEONG THYE looks like the Ideal Singaporean; a little happy, a little pale and eltghSy plump, a aure sign of prosperity. There la good reaeon tor thla. The oompeny tor which he la managing director Juet completed alx years of
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      Lock icon Telerobotics a better alternative
      505 3 NYT ENGINEERS ARE developing machine# that they say will fulfill a dream of robotlca: a device that can handle aituationa with the deftneaa and dexterity of a human in a place that la too dangerous for humane to go. The robot-like machines are being developed for
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      TECH-TAKES
      421 3 IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY? Computarlsal Lower costs? Computertee! Need to keep accounts, do forecasting, or type s letter? Computerlael That la the uaual refrain to all buaineea woes. Computerisation seema to ba the managerial panacea of the *****. Or Is It? While these high-speed work-slaves can do wonders for any company,
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
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      Lock icon 'Continue economic, sports sanctions against S Africa'
      425 4 TOP-LEVEL COMMONWEALTH MEETING OPENS IN CANBERRA AFP AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Bob Hawke opened a top-level Commonwealth meeting In Canberra yeeterday with a call for continued economic and sporting sanctiona against South Africa to end Pretoria's apartheid policiee. Mr Hawke aaid at the etart
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      Lock icon Inflation in Indonesia rose in July while trade surplus for May fell
      127 4 Reuter INDONESIAN consumer prices rote 0.46 par cant in July attar Tailing 0.21 par cant in Juna but tha yaar-on-yaar rise fall to 5.65 par cant from June's 6.51 par cant and 8.66 par cant yaar earlier, Information
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      Lock icon Let's wait and see, Jakarta says of facilities offer
      201 4 AFP INOONKBIAN Foreign Ministsr All Alatas Mid hit oountry wm taking a wslt-snd-see stance on Singapore's offer to host US militaryfacilities. "Lot's too what happona tint," Mr Alataa said on Sunday. "Cloarly everything lo •till preliminary. That s all I can
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      Lock icon Brazil congress presents emergency plan
      179 4 Reuter BRAZIL'a main political partiee have preeented Preeldent Joaa Sarney with an emergency plan to pravant economic chaoe ahead of tha November prealdenttai electione, the first by direct vote In 28 years. Tha congreealonal plan proposes suspending all tax breaks and government subsidies for eight
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      Lock icon Pro-Iranian group offers to swap US hostage
      252 4 Reuter A PRO-IRANIAN group haa offered to frea a US hoo» tag* In return lor a Shl'lto clark: and 400 Araba hatd In laraai, but mada no nan Uon of threa laraall aokJiara hatd In Labanon aaan aa crucial to any awap. Tha
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      Lock icon Fatah set to endorse uprising
      90 4 Reuter YASSER ARAFAT'a mainatream Fatah movamant waa aat on Sunday to andoraa tha atratogy of ualng tha Palaatinian uprlaing aa a lavar lor an Indapandant atato alongaida laraai. Tha Fatah ganarel congraaa In Tunla will alao a (act naw. yourtgar laadara to dlluto tha Influanca
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      Lock icon US urged to make Israel accept proposal
      185 4 AP EGYPT haa urgad tha US to maka laraai aocapt a landfor paaoa formula, and Ito occupation of tha Waat Bank and Qaxa Strip and giva tha Palaatinian paopla thalr lagitimato righto. Foreign Mlnlatar Eamat Abdal-Maguld told reportara on Sunday that whila it
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      Lock icon India pulls out 875 more soldiers
      155 4 AFP INDIA hu put lad out 176 mora of Ms aoldiara from Sri Lanka on tha ova of an omorgonoy cabinat moating In Colombo, diplomatic aourcaa said aarly yaatarday. Tha 176 aoldlora from tha Maratha raglmant, ona of tha Indian army'a moat raputad battallona,
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      Lock icon Mahathir hits out at use of NIC label to stifle East Asia
      485 5 Agencies MALAYSIAN Prim* Minister Mahathir Mohamad lashed out at developed nations yesterday for using the label of newly-induatrialising countries (NICs) to try to stifle East Asia's booming economies. Speaking st a meeting of the Malaysian Economic Association, a
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      Lock icon European textile makers form group against Asian imports
      298 5 AFP EUROPE'S leading textile producers have decided to form a pressure group to lobby Brussels to protect the European textile market from South-east Asian imports, according to a major West German textile manufacturer. "We want European women to be able to dress
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      Lock icon Aquino under fire by Muslim body for signing Mindanao law
      358 5 AP PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino was criticised on Sunday by the 46-nation Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) for denying autonomy to the Muslim minority in her nation's southern Mindanao region. In a statement issued from Jiddah, the OIC said that
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      Lock icon Another dally enters Manila press fray
      214 5 AFP ANOTHER DAILY entered the Philippines' intensifying press war yesterday, bringing to one dozen the number of morning English-lan-guage newspapers on sale in the capital. Newsday, which described itself as an independent political and business newspaper, said in an inaugural editorial that it would
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      Lock icon 'Moscow must cut military budget or face failure'
      289 5 Reuter NATO Sscrstsry-Qsnsrsl Manfred Woerner has called on the Soviet Union to cut military spending or face failure in its social and economic reform programme. At around 13 to 14 per cent of the country's gross national product, Soviet defence spending was
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      Lock icon Phnom Penh agrees to UN role in Cambodia accord
      144 5 AFP THE Phnom Penh government has agreed that the United Nations will play an important role within the framework of a settlement to the de-cade-long Cambodian conflict. The official Radio Phnom Penh, monitored in Bangkok, said yesterday Cambodia's communist party Politburo
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      5 5 eeWement Tommy Koh, PAGE 11
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
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      Forex markets
      1421 6 SINGAPORE: FADING hopM of an easing in U8 credit policy after a lowor US July unemploymoot rait of 6.2 par cant (Juna 6.3 par oent) and an upward ravlalon of US June's non-farm payroll to 260,000 from pravioualy reportad 160,000 halpad Arm the US ourrancy yaatarday. Tha market
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      Lock icon Simex
      493 6 BA Futures SEPTEMBER EURODOLLAR FUTURES yMMrdly opanad 37 tioka lowar than Fridays Slmax cloaa of 91.41 following battar than axpactad US July amploymant figuraa whloh avaporatad axpactatlona of a naar-tarm aaalng OQ monatary policy by tha Fad Raaarva. Trading waa cautious ahaad of this waak'a US traaaury rafundlng auctions.
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      Lock icon Asian $ market
      234 6 Asian market Reuter ASIAN DOLLAR dapoalt rataa andsd firmer ysstsrday than Friday closa, after modarats trading. Daalars said tha flrmar trand was oauaad by vartou» factors Including a shsrp drop In US bond prlcas and tha Fadaral Rasarva's ovsr-ths-waakand matchad sala rapurehaaa sgrssmsnts. Ons, thraa and six months cloaad at
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      Money markets
      46 6 THC overnight rate on tha 6lngapora monay markat otoaad 1/16 paint to war at 6 9/16 par oant yaatarday. Tarm rataa roaa 1/9 point acroaa tha board. SHQjrj a/it 1/1* a/i* 1/1* IHMIA a/** «1/1* 3 mm* a/i* i/i* Oww*l| im Mi* i a/i*
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      Government Securities Market
      104 6 Treasury bills Ported luuo Yeiterday'i clotlng Day'i code Maturity 110 OWI mow low 3 moMtw IQI9130H 2.11 J9 4.05 4.00 4.03 440 6 monit* IM9101V 1i.01.90 4.07 4.02 1 tmt IYI9100F 24.05.90 4.15 4.10 4.13 4.12 Government notss and bonds Period Inue Maturity Coupon Yetterday'i doting Day'i
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      World interest rates
      164 6 ft it ma|«r taSTto rpara Interbank markat ral •a (offar/bld) on Auguat 7 USI ft DM SWPC Y«i r il/l*- IS/I* u 11 7/1 7 —*7/a r t/a —r i/a i/i* >/•• 1 7f%- I 1/4 II ll/l* 11/1* 7 t 7/1 7 1/1 7 1/4 i/i*
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      Options
      1327 6 CURRENCY FUTURES 0PTI0N8 Men •ay, Awfl IMt 7, 1989 DRUT* CHI MARK (M •to kM> •■p M pMM MMM LM 0M S3 •1 S3 104 14 liMAM Ml mm MM IM •ArWI Mi TIN (VNi •M BX) M MM tM MM SSpMH L#v OsR 7% Ml CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
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      Lock icon Rafidah calls on banks to set up venture capital firms
      552 7 Infrastructure available to support such financing Bernama MALAYSIAN Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz yesterday called on financial institutions in Malaysia to get together and form venture capital firms by establishing subsidiariee to finance new and emerging growth
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      Lock icon British clearing banks post sharp rise in forex income
      534 7 Reuter THE FOUR MAJOR British clearing banks recorded sharp increases in foreign exchange income in the first half of this year due to increased market volatility and a sharper focus on currency dealing, according to bank officials. The star performer was
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      Lock icon Slow start for Taiwan's US$ interbank market
      214 7 Reuter TAIWAN'S NEW US dollar interbank market got all to a sluggish start jsatorday as tne central Dank, aiassitsfted with initial Marost offers, stayad on the sidalinaa tor «w Drat half of tha day. dsalsrs said. By tha and of Vw day tha
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      Lock icon Japanese regional banks to link with Visa, Mastercard
      95 7 Reuter JAPANESE regional banks plan to have a tie-up by February next year with Visa International, Mastercard International and JCB, the largest Japaneses domestic card company, a spokesman of the Regional Banks Association of Japan said. The regional banks' card, called BC,
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      Lock icon ANZ Bank economist sees Australian rates falling
      151 7 Reuter AUSTRALIAN interest rates will fall in coming months as the economy slows, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd chief economist Andrew Mohl said. "I really believe the economic evidence does support the consideration of an easing of interest rates in the
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      Lock icon Mexico's banks on threshold of leaner period as they face competition
      428 7 Reuter MEXICO'S banks, rocked by their nationalisation seven years ago, are entering a leaner and more efficient period in which they hope to compete with foreign banks, bankers in Mexico say. The main theme of the Fifth Mexican Banking
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      Lock icon HK government withdraws HK$195m from system
      106 7 Reuter THE HONGKONG government withdrew HKSI96 million from the banking system, but this was not a signal that it intended to squeeze interest rates. Principal Aaaiatant Monetary Affairs Secretary KC Kwong said. The banking system's balance in the government Exchange Fund is now HKS72B
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      288 7 Reuter IMM CURRENCY FUTURES slid into the cloee to finish substantially lower and near the eeesion's weakest lows laat Friday. Traders said the outlook turned nearly full-circle after the bulls of the previous week turned into bears. US employment data showing more strength than forecast slammed values lower aa
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      Simex forms executive committee in move to raise efficiency
      367 7  -  By SOH TIANG KENG THE SINGAPORE International Monetary Exchange (Simex) has appointed a five-member executive committee in a move aimed at increaaing efficiency in the running of the exchange. It has also announced the reelection of Mrs Elizabeth Sam as Simex
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      Lock icon China's central bank governor warns of harder times ahead
      490 7 AFP MORE hard times are in store for China as Beijing presses forth with a tight monetary policy to combat the country's 25.5 per cent inflation, the nation's top banker said. "We will have to live a harder life in the
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      Lock icon South Africa's central bank governor dies
      197 7 Reuter THE GOVERNOR of the South African central bank, Mr Gerhard de Kock, hat died, state-run radio said yesterday. He was 63. Mr de Kock, known as apartheid's banker, had announced his resignation in June on health grounds. He suffered from cancer. Mr Chris
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      Lock icon Jordan orders merger of two banks to save them from collapse
      209 7 Reuter JORDANIAN officials said a government decision to take over two commercial banks and order them to merge was intended to save them from collapse. A Cabinet minister said on Sunday the Central Bank was committed to supporting Petra
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  • COMMODITIES
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      Rubber Association appoints new executive secretary
      321 8  -  LEONG TIM FOOK GIVEN WIDER POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES By DEXTER LEE THE RUBBER Association of Singapore (RAS) has appointed Mr Leong Tim Fook, formerly the general manager of rubber and financial futures broker Green and Collier, as its new executive secretary. Effective from Aug
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      Lock icon Man predicts less EC white sugar available for export this year
      331 8 Reuter WHITE SUGAR export availability from this year's European Community (EC) crop will be a little more than 4.1 million tonnes against 4.08 million from last year's harvest, international trader E D and F Man says. Every available tonne
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      Lock icon Nigeria working on 12 joint ventures with foreign firms
      346 8 Reuter THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is srrsnging joint venture deals with sbout 12 foreign oil flrme thst have facilities to store, refine end market Nigerian crude abroad. "We have signed letters of intent with four end the rest sre
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      Kuwaiti oil minister says output near pledged level
      214 8 KUWAIT haa sharply reduced oil output and la now producing near the level of 1.36 million berreis per day (bpd) It had promised other Opec members, oil mlnleter Sheikh All al-Khalifa sl-Ss-bah said. "We have reduced production by around four or five
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      KL Tin
      71 8 HIQHIIt offering doe le weekead ecoumwletlon TkMMartat prise dewMC aea le MHt.lt a kg. breThe KLTM'a dMareo«al narrowed le IHW a lonm DCWfVllMfn oV#r Turnover oelMed at 118 lowan, ap frowi T» Mot Friday, end ae reBoaM| wee Tin SmmTm el demand, OewSSr^MwledOeiTS ley aUMMN a taaaa. irttt.ttT
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      Lock icon Ivorian cocoa sale may help it meet part of stock debt
      309 8 Reuter IVORY COAST'e aale of 900,000 tonnea of cocoa from Ita upoomlng 1006/90 (October/September) crop may reeutt In the full or partial aettlement of the giant producer's debt to the International cocoa pact, London tradera aald. "The market aaama
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      Lock icon Crude Oil and Products
      136 8 Telerate HIQH sulphur fuel oil pricee were stable In quiet Monday trad*. Traders remained In the boor comp, anticipotlng furthor decllnee In pricee in tho wake of wookonlng crudo Sollora of CBT-180 tor lata Aug-aarty Saptambar arrivals wara notlonally at SM-9 mt fob 81 ng. Howavar,
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      Palm Oil
      364 8 MALAYSIAN erode palm oH futuree cloaad marginally highar yaatarday in thin and featurslsss trading. Tha market opanad highar from last week and pullad upwarda before encountering raaiatanca after a MS6O rtaa. Prtoaa moved within a narrow ranga to doaa off-baat at tha and of tha day. Oparatora wara
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      Precious Metals
      330 8 HONGKONG: Gold cloeed little changed in quiet trading daapite a firmer US dollar, dealera aaid. They aaid tha markat lacked freah Incentive to buy but phyalcal demand and light short-covering by local Inveatora prevented the metal from sliding Bullion ended at U*****.60/366.00 againet an Initial 366.20/70 and New
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      Rubber
      352 8 IWOAPOHI yesterday, wttt> September 1 RSS buyer quoted at 170.80 cents a kg. down 3.60 cents from Friday's doae. But dealers said light shorVooverlng end s lack of sellers In toe afternoon helped prices reoover per* l.nm 11, uAivy from Mrry (Bit*. Irio# min Ajkji AIAU. wu min moo
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      RAS and MRELB
      281 8 RA8 price mtc -y MM«N a In balm NOON CLOSE bit 1 RSS Prompt ■wytn 172.00 17X00N •uywri 171 JO 172J0N htl ISSStp 171.00 171 JO ***** 171 JO Int 1 RSS Oct 17X50 173.00 17X00 17X00 Int 2 RSS Of 170 AO 172.00N 169 JO 171
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      SSR and SMR
      80 8 faWM SEPTEMBER 1999 oaoaer i9«9 (currant month) (forwor <d month) RAS NOON NOON Ivyffl Silin iuysn Sihn m 30 ***** 150.00N 149.00 ISIJOQN m ao ***** 14«j00N 147.00 *****N MRELB |u r iu WBM lwy«n S*n SMI CV 314X0 33AjOON 326-00 33*MH SMI I 33AM 321.00N 338.00
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      Produce Prices
      178 8 Chlnooo Product Exchange jilm' noon cMrq pHoti on Augu* 7 (SI/100 kg) Coconut oil Mk KM 96.00 Old dram KM 106.00 N»w drum FOi ***** Copra Mlaad Doom) 34.00 Owing prtem m /bp* 7 Coconut oil (MS/iook«) New drum* ***** 2nd hand drmm ***** Mi 121.00 Ucdkibdk *****
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      Underpinning regional stability
      477 10 BUSINESS TIMES TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1989 ANY ASSESSMENT of Singapore's willingness to host some US military facilitiee must be based on the point that discussions between the two countries are at an exploratory stage; the shape of the final deal is far from clear. There is snother
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      Cautious response to Japan's bid to reduce oil imports Cautious response to Japan's bid to reduce oil imports
      1347 10  -  Japan plans to reduce its import of refined petroleum products by 55,000 barrels per day in fiscal 1989. NG WENG HOONG, Commodities Editor, Tolerate Data Services, examines what this means to Singapore
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      Lock icon Latest investment fad: thoroughbred classic cars
      723 10 Reuter "THE BADGE with tha prancing horaa on tha bonnat. you can't go wrong," Mid ona city whlz-kld on tha lataat Invaatmant fad to hook tha world'* rich. Farrarla hava lad tha flald, commanding aatonlahlng prlcaa at claaalc car auction® aa tha yallow amblam
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      Lock icon We want a comprehensive political settlement: Tommy Koh
      999 11  -  The international conference on Cambodia last week adopted a blueprint for peace in the country. The major powers set the tone with moderate speeches that avoided the harsh rhetoric of the past. One exception to that pattern was Singapore, a key regional
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      Lock icon Lange: Pioneer of painful overhaul of NZ economy
      677 11 Reuter PRIME MINISTER David Lsnge of New Zealand, who reelgned yesterday, introduced free-market economic® that unahackled New Zealand'e economy but hie entlnucleer policiee Infuriated hie country's alliee. Swept to power in election! In 1964, he claehed with both the United Statee end
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        Restoring Integrity
        152 11 Our wNkly summary of what othar publications hsva to say about kaauaa of Intsrnatlonal Intaraot CAMBODIA Malaysia appointment by the International Conference on Cambodia In Parta aa 00-chelr-man of a oommittaa to dlaouaa guarantoaa on Cambodla'a Indepandanca and aovereignty haa coma aa anothar feather In tha cap In
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        Banks proliferate
        288 11 INDONESIA "THE October, 1960 pwkigt of deregulation mtuurN hu been •••ding Indonesia's banking Industry Into sn sxoltlng psrlod of dsvslopmsnt. Ovsr 26 prlvats national and eight Joint vanturs banks hava thus far baan licenced undar tha naw rulaa of the banking gama which aaaantlally saak to snaura ralatlvaly
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        The joblees grads
        310 11 MALAYSIA IT 18 certainly encouraging to know that the effecta of the aharp recovery In the eoonomy are filtering down into the fob market... But the outlook for graduatea la still not particularly encouraging for only 766 of the 20,111 vacanclea the Manpower Deportment recorded la for
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        Thstcher's HK visit
        236 11 HONGKONG FOLLOWING the comprehenaive Cabinet changea In Britain and continuing ooncern In Hongkong over Whitehall's attitude to the territory, the Prime Mlniater Mrs Margaret Thatcher, ahould soon pay an official vlait to Hongkong. Within the next three montha aha will be praaent with two Ideal opportunlbea, which
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        More action
        157 11 RECENT crlticlem of the Brltieh Foreign Secretary, Mr John Major, for initiating diecuselone with his Chlneee oounterpert, Mr Qlan Qichen, on the future of the territory are sanctimonious end unhelpful to Hongkong. Mr Me|or should be eppleuded for taking the opportunity of the Perie conference on Cambodia to
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      92 11 i&tHS It could be a controversial deal between two stock market stars, a thought-provoking report by university researchers on the latest trans-European merger. FOCUS zooms in on the news and issues of the day and looks at them in more depth and breadth. FOCUS is the news feature section of
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon What ails Rome's symbol of eternity
      716 12  -  PLACES By FRANCES D'EMILIO AP PILGRIMS during the Dark Ages believed that if the Colosseum fell, Rome, and then the world, would k collapse. Now seers of the scientific age are trying to figure out how to keep the symbol of eternity standing. By
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      Lock icon The Manson case: 20 years later
      975 13  -  CRIMES By MATTHEW HELLER Reuter TWENTY YEARS alter the TateLaßianca murders shocked tha world, davll worahlppara hava not to-gotten Charles Manaon. The flood of tan mall that ha raoalvna In hla Jail call avary waak Includaa lattara from Satan lata who idol Im ona
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      Lock icon MOMA acquires van Gogh's last Roulin portrait
      668 13  -  ART By RITA REIF NYT THE Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) In Now York hot acquired Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Joaaph Roulin from Swiss collection. The 1800 painting is believed to be van Gogh's last and moat modern of at leaat tour
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      822 12 Where tv entertain... Where tv entertain... Where tv entertain... Where tv m THE MOST WONDROUS BUFFET LUNCH IN TOWN Enjoy a gourmet buffet luncheon at an ungourmet price! For starters, take your pick of our cold dishes prawns on ice. fresh oysters, smoked salmon, melon and dried ham, vegetable terrine,
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      188 12 6 PROVINCES ALL IN ONE SITTING i m !SSU ISIg hO rrjpr, 1 %j f 1.11 Get a uste of Sichuan, Beijing, WU Guangdong. Yunnan, (iangsu fl||| and Shanghai all in a lunch IMfcJ buffet that's as long as the Great iEHL*HEJ Wall. Tuck into Jungsu Spicy 35th floor cud
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      170 13 entertain.. m ThE Businessman's Lunch Is In Due Park. The businessman* lunch at Hubertu* Grill offer* you the opportunity to dine in the relaxing ambience of a hunter lodge and to enjoy a sumptuous spread of appetizer*, soup*, salad*, fruit and dessert*. Pius, there i* a selection of delightful main
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      655 13 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Nam* a film "The Servant" (5) 8 Lee's singular rank (not 'general') (5) 10 Sailor's letter with funny chatt (5) 11 Los Angeles West, as a rule? (3) 12 One who takes exception to spending? (5) 13 Mutters something Welsh? (7) 16 Point out fast food
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      1160 13 OUR CHOICE BLACKOUT, 12.45pm, SBC 5 A preoccupation with a eeven-year-old murder caae leeda a cop to a final, anonymoua tip-off. The object of hla Inexorable aaarch la a man aocuaad of murdaflng hla wlfa and Idda. And now, all ha haa to go on la a raal-aatata agent with
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  • SPORTS
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      Well done, thank you
      413 14  -  GOLF By A SURENDREN CHIEF JUSTICE Wee Chong Jin said it the organisation of the Singapore Open Amateur Golf Championship was very well done. The president of the Singapore Golf Association said he had seen many championships before and, to him, this was the best Scoree
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      Lock icon Rafferty clinches Scandinavian title
      412 14 AFP RONAN RAFFERTY became Europe's fifth multiple winner of the season when he took the Scandinavian Enterprise Open title by two strokes at the Drottningholm course, Sweden, on Sunday. The 25-year-old Irishmen, winner of the Italian Open in May, joined Severiano Ballesteros, Jose-Maria Olazabal, Mark James
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      Lock icon Edberg, McEnroe lead field for US Hardcourts
      277 14 AP WIMBLEDON FINALIST Stefan Edberg and John McEnroe led the field for the U*****,500 US Hardcourts Tennis Tournament, which began yesterday. Edberg, ranked third in the world, is making his first appearance in Indianapolis. He loet at Wimbledon this year 6-0, 7-6 (7-1),
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      Cash's coach to lead UK team for Men's Open
      424 14  -  TENNIS *r A SURENDREN NAMES SUCH AS Nick Brown, Andrew Castle and James Turn-er-way not be very familiar. Neither would lan Barclay's, but tell someone that he is former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash's coach and everyone knows. Barclay will be in
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      Lock icon Graf rallies to beat Garrison
      259 14 Agencies WORLD NUMBER ONE Steffi Graf rallied twice in the final set on Sunday to beat stubborn sec-ond-seeded American Zina Garrison 6-4, 7-5 in the final of the US$2OO,OOO women's tennis tournament in San Diego. Graf, who had lost only five games going into the
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      Lock icon Schwantz wins convincingly
      125 14 MOTOR-CYCLING AFP KEVIN SCHWANTZ won the SOOcc British Motor-cycling Grand Prix in devastating style in Donnington on Sunday. The flamboyant 25-year-old Texan completely dominated the 30-lap race on his Suzuki, only briefly losing the lead to fellow American Wayne Rainey and Britain's Niall MacKenzie. At one time
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      Lock icon Gilbert beats Pugh in Vermont
      129 14 AP BRAD GILBERT struggled early, but won the last 11 games and cruised to a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Jim Pugh and a US$ll4,OOO prize at the Volvo International tennis tournament in Vermont on Sunday. Gilbert, the No 3 seed, doo-ble-faulted twice to go down
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      Lock icon Spirited challenge from Danes
      321 14 YACHTING AFP THE THREE BOATS in the Danish team got the best start off the line in The Solent for the Fastnet leg of the Admiral's Cup on Sunday the final race in the series. Positioned off the mainland shore, the Danes' one-tonner 4K, skippered by
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      Lock icon Allen triumphs in triathlon
      326 14 ATHLETICS AP MARK ALLEN of the US came from behind in the final leg on Sunday to capture the first World Triathlon Championahip in Avignon, France. Erin Baker of New Zealand took the women's section of the race in 2:10:02. Jan Ripple of the US was
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      Lock icon British men take Europa Cup
      196 14 AP BRITISH MEN won the Europa Track end Field Cup for the first time in the competition's 24-year history in Qateshesd on Sunday, taking nine out of the 20 events snd placing second in two. East Germany's powerful women's team won its ninth Europa Cup
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      Lock icon Two champions trade compliments
      366 14 BOXING NYT EVER WONDER who would have won if Mike Tyeon, the current heavyweight champion, could have aquared off againat Muhammad Ali in the former champion s prime? That, aa it happens, was what Arsenk) Hall was wondering one night last week during a discussion of
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      Lock icon Paez keeps IBF title
      130 14 AFP FLAMBOYANT MEXICAN Jorge Paez got up off the canvas after a second round knockdown to retain his International Boxing Federation (IBF) featherweight title by an unanimous 12-round decision over American Steve Cruz in El Paso on Sunday. Paez, defending his crown for the third time,
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      Lock icon Ministers trying to avert possibility of boycott
      266 14 COMMONWEALTH GAMES Reuter EIGHT foreign ministers were to meet in Canberra ysatarday to discuss a plan to save next year's Commonwealth Games from boycotts, particularly by African states protesting against a planned tour of South Africa by rebel English cricketers. The plan to
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      Centrepoint gains $15m from sale of Bukit Timah property
      359 15  -  •y WILLIAM CHIA CENTREPOINT PROPERTIES Ltd (CPL) la sailing Its Bukit Tlmah proparty to Allgraan PropartlM Pta Ltd, a Kuok-ralatad company, tor 932 million. Tha Mia of tha 24,791 sq m fraahold proparty along Uppar Bukit Timah Road will rMIIM an
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      GSI proposes 1-for-10 bonus issue
      319 15 QfNERAL Sacurltlaa Invaatmanta Lid (QBI), after adding almoat a Mlh to Ita nat tangibla aaaat during tha first aix months to Juna, 1966, haa propoaad a ona-for-tan bonua laaua. During thia pariod, tha cioaad and unit trust arm of DBS Bank banafitad from running down
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      Lock icon Genting expects M$195m group profit
      174 15 Bernama QENTINQ BHD haa projactad a group pra-tax profit laaa minority Intaraat of M 8196.22 million for 1966 following tha completion of parta of Ita propoaad raoonatructlon schama. Thaaa projactlona wara mada aaaumlng tha achama wara affactad on Jan 1, 1969, Qanting aald In a
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      Public Bank's interim after-tax profits rise by 23pc
      368 15 PUBLIC BANK Bhd, the fourth largeet bank In Malaysia, haa reported a 23.3 par oant jump in profits aftar tax and minorltiea to M 327.13 million for the elx montha to Juna 30, 1030. Group profits bafora tax Improvad by 14.3 par
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      Berjaya restructures operations
      528 15  -  STEEL WIRE ACTIVITIES TO COME UNDER ONE COMPANY By MAGDALENE NG BERJAYA CORPORATION fe rationalising Its entire steel wlrs operations under single oompeny which will include National Iron A Stool Mills (N1BM) as Inlnt iro jo*•• i™VwfiTuiw pcrTn^i i Tho announoomont yootarday oonflrmod a ST report laat
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      Inter-Pacific to buy stake in broking firm
      442 15 RAPIDLY expanding conglomerate Inter-Pacific Induetrial Group Bhd It acquiring a controlling stake in a Malayaian stockbrokIng firm. Tha oompany announcad yeeterday that It had antarad Into an agreement to purohaee 147 million aharea of Mtl eaoh repreaentlng 61 per oent of the paid-up
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      COMPANY BRIEFS
      176 15 THE STOCK EXCHANGE of Singapore hM aeked C«M Borate MolOwf Ltd (CtH) to explain how Tt arrived at the M 175.54 million Mlo prloe for Its stake In Cold Storage (Malaysia) (C3M) to Cycle A Carriage Ltd. CBH announced on July 27 that It would sell Its 42.15-per
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      UEL acquires 51 pc stake in G & LC for $1.1m
      213 15 UEL acquires 51 pc stake in G LC for $1.1m UNITED ENQINEEAB Ltd (UEL) haa eoqulred a controlling Intereet In Garden 6 Landecape Centre Pte Ltd (Q6LC) for 61.12 million. The deal wee made by UEL'a wholly-owned eubsldlsry McAllster 6 Co Ltd, which bought over 146,000 she res or 61
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      Lock icon Proposed rights issues on KLSE add up to M$1.67b in first seven months
      1072 15 MBT COMPANIES llatad on tha Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchanga (KLSE) hava propoaad to tap tha atock markat for a total of M 31.37 billion via rlghta iaauaa In tha first aavan montha of thla year. Thla flgura
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        Selective buying boosts prices in quiet trading
        1084 16  -  -*r JOSEPHINE CHAN AS EXPECTED, the local stock market started off the holidayshortened week on a quiet nota. Brokers said although Investors continued to remain cautious ahead of National Day, selective buying throughout the day and last-minute bargainhunting helped boost share prices Just
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        Unit trusts
        317 16 Manog«rV print Royal Trust S«c Asia for Aug 8 IT S>o<» Gf Fund 084 0B IT Ado foc Or Fund l.ll 1.18 Singapore Unit Trust OCBC-SIMBL k Tka Cca—rt« 1.17 1.34 ivostmont 108 III Tk» l»p Fund UM 1 10 S'pwt Pro* Fund 0.47 041 Sgwt Trutl Fund
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        COMPANY MEETINGS
        50 16 HARRISONS MALAYSIAN PLANTATIONS BERHAD: 13th AQM at the Kelantan Room, Basement 2, Shan-gri-La Hotel, 11 Jalan Sultan Ismail. ***** Kuala Lumpur, tomorrow at 1130 am KAMUNTINQ CORPORATION BERHAD: EQM at Penang Room, Shangri-La Hotel, No.ll, Jalan Sultan lamail. ***** Kuala Lumpur jon Aug 18, Friday, at 10.30 am.
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        6003 16 11 High M9 Low Tol Cod# Company Last Solo AUG 07 OCVol rooo) Day High Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Qr's Dlv Dlv C'vr Qr's rw Not PIE M Cop Smll 8E3DAQ 188 03 21S 70* 94 111 101 82% 190 91* 104 170 100 88* 120
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        Lock icon Erratic trading in KL
        3534 17 MBT SHARE PRICES on tha Kuala Lumpur stock marfcet finished mixed to elightly easier yeeterdey aa bar-gain-hunting alternated with profit-taking in moderately erratic trading. This waa In line with a lower cioeo on the Tokyo stock market. Tha 226share Nikkei Average loot 111.61 points or 0.32
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        Lock icon Kumagai returns to Japanese market
        769 18 OVERSEAS SUCCESS BOOSTS BUILDER'S RANKING Reuter FOREIQN companlaa ara not tha only onaa that gat fruatratad by tha rigidltlaa of Japan'a conatructlon markat. Japan'a own Kumagai Quml Co Ltd. blockad from taking a blggar •ilea of Ita homa markat by 4ha practlca of dividing up
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        Lock icon FKI wins deal from HK gas company
        95 18 Reuter BRITISH engineering and power group FKI Bsbcock pic has woo a major contract from the Hongkong and China Qaa Company Ltd to provide a gaa plant The value of the contract was not given but FKI said the project repreeented a total
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        Lock icon Apathy prevails
        428 18 Tokyo Reuter SHARE PRICES yeotorday closed broadly lower on tho yen'o depreciation, with docilneo exaggerated by thin trading due to the aboonoo of many big player* on summer holidays. There wa* some Interoet In Incentive-backed and high-priced stocks, but moot participants were aoathetic. "It's not a ecintiilatlng day."
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        Lock icon Manila: Fall in prices continues
        172 18 Reuter PHILIPPINE ahare price# yesterday slipped further from lest week on profittaking scroee the board. The Manila Stock Exchange compoeite Index slid 16.28 points to 1,174.98, down 1.4 per cent from Friday's 1,191.28. "It was really selling for profit but this time ell the reet
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        Lock icon Bombay: Equities fall back on rumours
        103 18 Reuter SHARE prices yesterday retreated from a firm start to closs mixed after rumours of s payment default on the Calcutta Stock Exchange. Brokera said a large buyer on the Calcutta exchange, India'a second largest after Bombay, waa rumoured to have defaulted on a
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        Lock icon New Zealand: 16.7-point rise
        121 18 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND share market yesterday took the news of Prims Minister Devid Lange's resignation in ita stride, with the Barclays Index rising 16.71 points to 2,184.29. But brokers were concerned the news could kill a bull run that has boosted the msrket 11 per
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        Lock icon Deng rumours still overhang market
        1235 18 Hongkong Reuter HONOKONQ't Hang Seng Index dropped 16.3 to 2,863.77 In tho sbssnos of positive now* and on oollingjod by Individual Invooton. Rumour* of on oiling Dong Xiaoping, denied by Boijing on Fndoy, oonttnuod to overhang Mm market ond oontrtbutod to Iho look of forolgn
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        Lock icon Seoul: Slightly higher
        190 18 Reuter SEOUL STOCKB closed moderately higher yesterday after wavering on liquidity uncertainly ahead of state-run Korea Electric Power Corps (Kepco) listing on Thursday, analysts said. The compoeite Index ctoeed at 900.88, up 3.06 points from the previoua aeaaion, but down from 900.74 at midday. Volume waa a
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        Lock icon Bangkok: Stocks finish mixed
        188 18 Reuter THAI stocks yesterday cloeed mixed in dull trade, dominated by speculation on cement aharee. The SET Index cloeed at 625.39, up 1.02 points to with loeers leading gainers 54 to 52. Moat actively traded were Pedaeng Industry, Sism Cement snd Nsvs Finance. "Most activity Is
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        Lock icon Taipei: Stocks surge
        360 18 Reuter THE Taiwaneee stock index yesterday finished just short of the 10,000point mark after aluggiah banking iaauea slowed a rally that awept through every other aector. The weighted Index gained 219.99 to end at 9,968.06 againat Saturday's 9,746.07 finish. Turnover surged to NT5120.39 billion from NT597.99 billion
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        Lock icon Post-Crash record
        427 18 Australia Reuter AUSTRALIAN shsrss ysstsrdsy clossd highsr for ths sixth oonsscutivs dsy as positive esntimsnt continued to buoy the merket The All Ordinaries indsx clossd 7.2 points highsr at 1676.1, a postCrash high. Dsslsrs said a slight dsciins in offshore invsstmsnt wss offsst by domsstlc Institutional support "It's
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        Lock icon UK govt faces tight schedule for sale of water, power utilities
        521 19 Reuter THE BRITISH governments plana to privatise water and power utilities must overcome potentislly serioue hurdlee if the huge ealee are to go through on schedule. England and Walee' water In-, duetry le to be aold in November for
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        298 19 Reuter WEST BERLIN-BASED pharmaceuticals group Sobering AO could do gonotle research •broad If obstaclee made such raaaaroh In Waat Qermany Impoaalbla. Tha flrm'a ohlaf executive, Qluaappa Vita, aald In an Intervlaw In Sunday's Wit Mm Soontag newspaper: "If wa had an Interacting projact
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        220 19 Reuter SHARES In Jefferson Smurfit Qroup pic ysstsrdsy were up 113p to 863p st 0860 QMT after a high of 878p on news Ist* on Friday that it may aell s large part of its U8 Interest* to s new firm Newco.
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        101 19 HONGKONG Hongkong Indox Monday 1491.36 Friday 1.700.96 WMk OQO 14*691 Hang Song Indox Monday 2,***** Friday *****7 WMk ago 2471.08 AH Industrials Monday ***** Friday 2460.7 WMk ago ***** NEW YORK Dow Jonos Friday *****5 Thunday 2461.61 WMk ago 2.***** TOKYO Standard Poors Friday ***** Thursday ***** WMk
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        1014 19 Paper may close if no buyer is found soon NYT AFTER LOSING MONEY on the newspaper for more than 20 yeera and falling to capitalise on the city's fast growth, the Hsarst Corp haa finally givsn up on Th* Los Angelas Herald Examiner. Lata
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        Lock icon Dutch investors sue board of UPI parent over takeover fight
        289 19 Reuter DUTCH Invaatora Mid on Friday thay wara suing tha parent company of Unltad Praaa Intanational (UP!) nawa agancy, claiming tha comptny damaoad aharaholdart' Intaraata whan It triad to pravant a takaovar. Tha Invaatora, A vacua Partnara L P, aald
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        802 19 NYT WITH LESB than a month before the deadline for completing their propoeed merger, Arthur Andersen snd Price Wsterhouee srs still trying to Iron out wrlnklss in ths plsn to form ths world's largest socounting firm, ons with mors thsn UBI6 billion in annual
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        715 19 Reuter AMSTIRDAM: Dutch eharee yeeterday firmed in a quiet mldsssslon with s climbing dollsr giving eome support to pricee in s market where moet part lee sit on their poeltione ahead of a seriee of corporate resuits. The ell-share index advanced 0.8 points to a new record
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      68 15 SINGAPORE'S*. PREMIER WATCH BOUTIQUE Thit announcement appears at a matter of record only SINO-THAI ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD. Guaranteed by (0) the thai military bank, ltd. Lead Managed by DRESDNER (SOUTH EAST ASIA) LIMITED Provided by DRESDNER (SOUTH EAST ASIA) LIMITED CREDIT LYONNAIS, SINGAPORE BRANCH THE NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT
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      425 18 NOTICES Eiport Credit I——ct Corporation of Ltd UJ5.550,000,000 Floating Rate Notes doe 1992 In accordance with the provisions of the Notes, notice is hereby given that the rate of interest for the six months 8 August 1989 to 8 February 1990 has been fixed at 8.5625%. The interest payable on
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      399 18 rrrr-rTTvrr or TH> COMPANDES ACT, CAP. 00 And a J i A PTE LTD At an Extraordinary General Meeting of th* abovenamed oompany duly convened and held at 80 Jin. Saltan #31-04 Jalan Saltan Centre, Singapore 0710 on 2nd day of Aagust 1100 the following Special Resolution* were passed: (1)
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      433 18 OF THK COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 80 AND Wlndlng-Up) SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON 4TH AUGUST At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company held at 13 Sixth Lokyang Road Singapore 2961 on the 4th day of August 1989 at 10.00 a.m. the following Special Resolutions (a) Resolved that Polyfllm Industrial (Singapore)
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      237 18 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE OF SHIP'S NAME We, BINOANO Bhlpplng Pte Ltd. 10 Anson Road. #14-19/30. International Plaza, Singapore 0907, hereby give notice that In oonsequenoe of the Intended change of name of ship. We have applied to the Registrar of Slnfapore Shlpe, under Section 417 of the Merchant
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      562 19 GENERAL SECURITIES INVESTMENTS LIMITED (Incorporated In the WapubMo of Singapore) The Board of Directors of General Securities Investments Limited wishes to make the following announcement: I UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 19M 90.6J9 30.641 Or(-) Earnings per ordinary share for the six months based on Item
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    603 20  -  HARNESSING THE COMBINED STRENGTHS OF ITS FOUR PARENTS By RAHITA ELIAS TRADINQ ANO invaatmant oompany Unitad Sambawang Entarprlaaa (USE), formad by four oompanlaa last yaar to capltallaa on thair dlffarant atrangtha, haa llnad up a string of multi-million dollar projaots. USE will latar this
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    277 20 Reuter TAIWAN'S trade surplus Is surging this yeer, snd benkers snd sconomlsts predict that Taipei will be forced to booet Its currency higher to prevent retaliation from the US. "The rleing trade surplus is bed for us becauee It will renew U8 pressure
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    521 20  -  ■y TAN KEE WEE WHILE a global etockmarket crash cannot be entirely ruled out, It Is very unlikely that a recession will hit the United States sconomy within ths next six months, says top American economlet Lester Thurow. This Is bscsuss ths U8
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    EPC to admit other trade bodies
    278 20 OTHER Industry or trsde-relst-ed associations will bs admittsd as shsrsholdsrs of ths Entsrprlss Promotion Csntrs (EPC) which was sat up recentiy to halp small- and medlumaizad antarprlsaa. Thia waa announcad on Sunday by Mr Chang Wai Kaung, chairman of EPC'a Pro-tarn Committaa, In a
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    Lock icon Japan should play greater role in the world, says Toshiki Kaifu
    627 20 AP THE FRONT-RUNNER In Japan's race for prime minister said yeeterday that the nation should plsy s greater role in the world, perhaps with measurss such ss helping Boviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in his rsform efforts. A second candidate
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    349 20 Reuter JAPAN'S Traneport Miniatry gave the green light yeetefday to a plan that could put a floating, superfaat train powered by superconductors Into service by the late-IMOe. The miniatry will seek funds from next year'a national budget for a new 42-km teet line in
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    548 20 AFP THE THAI Prim# Minister's top advissr, Sukhumbhsnd Psrlbstrs, has hit out at an aocuaatlon by military commsndsr General Chaowallt Yongchiyut that corruption waa rlfa In government olrolaa, Bangkok nswapapara aald yaatarday. Mr Sukhumbhand, without giving namaa but In a
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    Lock icon Comex gold and silver
    101 20 Reuter COM EX QOLD futuraa hovarad at unchangad lavala In unavantful morning daallnga yaatarday, aa tradara waltad for davalopmants In tha contlnuad Mlddla Eaat hoataga crtala. Spot Auguat gold hald laat Friday's cloaa of U*****.80 an ounca aftar awlnglng In a UBII 00-ranga from U*****.80 to
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      64 20 AFP ISRAEL and thepro-irenien Hezbollah ere preparing for ntjoiiiiipni in inf noviifv oriole. lorootl Deputy Foreign kilnlAlttf BAHlAMkiai k[^A||yA|||i Miniiitr Dfnjimm i iviinytnu Mid yeetarday that larael and the Hezbollah "wart now At preliminary itiQM In tjlAfcA* AI HAMAii All Ana UikiAk vi#w ot nvgoiiiiioni WVNOVV
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      49 20 AFP A_UN TEAM arrived In rhiww Null yeeterdey on I |KJ4laa MMAIAA AA AAAA_ TtCHlnGinfl mlMlOfi TO wirTr bod it a dav after tha aaumw mont agreed to i rolo tor tho UN In rootorlng poooo to tho oountry. AFP too PAOSt S, 11
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      Joint military exercise
      65 20 MALAYSIAN Deputy Defonoa Miniator Datuk A bang Abu Bakar Muetapha oompl I montad cooperation between the Indoneelan and Malayeian a#NliM las AAkAla tjkighA ■>. irmiii in wifir /vvni murxmry asamiaa lea MJaal IfallmanSae vavtwisv in fffw Miiminiin. Ha ssid cooperation between HIA iiAMk apaklAa miaa A AAAA«
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      35 20 SARAWAK recorded a trade aurptua of MSI.7 billion tor the first five months of this year, up MS43I million, or SS per cent, from the oorre- 4AAA •poncing perioc of ivea.
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      35 20 Reuter SOLIDARITY Itidtr Laoh ytiitroiy ciiim for l cotiltloo jovtfnmint In Po* Isnd •xcludlng tM Communist Party ind Qrouplna VN ooHoanry rwvffnfni wiui two tmill Doltticsl pirttti iHlid to th# communMa. Rtulif
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      47 20 AP U8 ANO SOVIET arma negotiators In Qanava yesterday andod tholr first tarns on out* ting long-range nuelaar foroaa alnoa Praaldant Oaorpa Buah took offloa, wNh It. n > al *Lla Sfr I in# oovtwi ski# laying u\m\ major chaputaa ramalnad unaolvad. AP
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        94 21 NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA'a biggest container terminal will be built in Lot Angeles end completed In April 1901. The facility will cover 40 hectaree Initially, and have two quays 330 m and 318 m serviced by four super gantry cranes. Four transtainers will be
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        98 21 Reuter IRAN'S MARINE INDUSTRIAL CO will set up a yard to build ships and drilling rigs at the southern port city of Bushehr within the next 20 monthe. The Iranian news sgency IRNA said the yard would be set up In cooperation with an unnamed Finnieh company
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        90 21 SEA-LAND has deployed the third and last of its vseeele In the joint service with Norasla between the Far East and Europe. The 2,068-TEU SaaLand Arabian Sea started its voyage In Busan, calling at Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Keelung, Hongkong and Singapore before going to the
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        46 21 Reuter THE NUMBER of ships sntsrlng Hongkong waters rose 10 per cent Isst yesr but import csrgoee carried increased 14 per cent and outbound cargoes 17 per cent. The figures were calculated from sampls manifssts deposited with port authoritles. Reuter
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        90 21 AP A SOVIET SHIP was rsported listing badly in ths South China Sea west of Luzon, rsscus officials said yestsrdsy. Ths Wsstsrn Pacific Rsscus Coordination Centre In Kadena, Japan, Identified the ship aa ths Vlahro, officials in Manila said. They said the centre reported the vesssl
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      127 21 Falrplay FAR EAST specialist cruise company Paarl Crulaas haa dacidad to revise tha routing and pricing of Ita ramalnlng 1989 seaaon crulaas In Bouth-aaat Aala In re•ponaa to tha changing situation in China. Tha company's 12,450-grt Oc—n Posrl will ramaln In tha raglon but
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      429 21  -  LINE BUYS BIGGER TANKER FOR USS2I.SM By LINDA CHEE TAKING ADVANTAGE of firm prices In ths tsnksr msrket, Neptune Orient Lines has sold sn 86,000-dwt tanker for US$24 million, giving It a clean profit of US$4 million to US$6 million. Msrket
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      Singapore consortium involved in Chinese port development
      380 21  -  ■y RAHITA ELIAS A SINGAPORE CONSORTIUM hss clinched the first phsse of s turnkey project in the expsnslon of s port In southern Chins. Pooling thslr rssourcss, ths three partners in the consortium will be converting some of the port fscllitlss for contslnsrissd
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      366 21 Reuter A RECOMMENDED 9.8 per cant rlee in Panama Canal tolls put forward by the canal commlaalon last waak Is unllkaly to datar ship pars from using tha strataglc watarway, still tha moat economIcal way of shipping cargoaa betwaan tha Atlantic
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      High imports of vessels by Philippines
      144 21  -  of the country's economy. 4/0 Lsbha Jf ki Mmli PHILIPPINE IMPORTS of veeeela for the peat couple of yeara, moetty from Japan, have been etaggering, official flguree show. From the 12-month period ending June this year, the Phlllppinee Imported 46 veeeele, many of them
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      Lloyd Triestino keen on starting new service
      320 21 ITALIAN LINE Lloyd Trloetino Is kMfl on starting a now Auetraiaaia/Far East contalnor aorvico. This would bo In lino with a strategy almod at completing a triangular notwork of aorvlcoo Europo/Far Eaat, Europo/Auatralla and Auatralaala/Far Eaat, aald company president Tommsso Rlocl. Ho aald
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      China seizes opportunities in box building
      1324 22 MANUFACTURERS PRESS ON IN SPITE OF PRODUCTION PROBLEMS CHINA'* container trad* has built up. demand for container* T and r*l*t*d equipment has also incr*a**d. In addition to th* reI quirements of domestic opers- tors, the demand for Chines eI built containers haa bscome fHdssprsad
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      249 22 Lloyd's List THE EIGHT MEMBERS of the Asia North America Eastbound Rate Agreement (Anera) carried a total of 13.8 million revenue tonnes from Asia to North America between January and June, a gain of 6.4 per cent against the correeponding pe- riod last year. But
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      Consortia
      163 22 —4HE MAJOR shipping consortia operating bstwssn the Far Esst/European, Far East/Psrsian Quit, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines ACS (Far Eaet/Europe): TP Una Koraan Shipping Corporation _N#ptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line "tOBo Yang Shipping mmo (Straits/Australia): —Australian National Line 3&Pstrslis/Strslts Containsr Line '-Jakarta Lloyd Jimdiioyd Lines
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      302 22 AFP ACTIVITY Increased laat week on the tanker mar- ket, but the abundance of available tonnage pre- vented ratee from advancing, London broker E A I; Gibeon said laat Friday. The majority of activity waa In the Middle East Gulf, aa a reeult of eaaier crude pricee and
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      108 22 Reuter THE US ARMY CORPS of Engineers has completed dredge work In the Peed River end barge-loads of coal and other commodltlee have started to move on the river In Loulelana. The river syetem divides Mleeiealppi and Loulelana and wae used extenelvely by commercial veeeele before It
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      Indian industry unhappy with government plans
      552 22  -  By SHIRIBH NADKARNI, writing tor BT from Bombay THE SECOND-HAND shipping industry. particularly in South-asst Asia, could bs sdvsrssly sffsctsd If ths Indian government goss shssd with plsns to bar Indian shipping companies or sgancias from buying second-hand vessels. The Indian Finance Ministry has
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      1791 22 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAMERS AND LCL CARGO SMp Voy Air tval T rBnsttln •r So hodulos B ft Op Qdn DatoTTh no Tlmo Frot m Tlmo To Booking Q m* 1 Al Mag^ok •A M0BJS woo (WW (Win Tb</*» a OS 00 80S 08/0100 0*0130
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      170 23 Fairplay TWO JAPANESE LINER COMPANIES. NYK and Mitsui OSK, are to inaugurate a weekly container service using two feeder vessels around a range of ports in the eastern Mediterranean. At the end of this month, the first feeder ship will connect in Piraeus
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      909 23 TURKISH OPERATORS are reported on Friday to have fixed two wheat cargoes from the US for August loading, paying US$l4 for 65,000 tonnes from the Qutf and $19.50 25,000 tonnes from the US Northern range, brokers said. Current estimatee for Turkey's grain purchaaee since July are around 2.35
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      248 21 a JxHoU.llA "i A lively way with words V China seizing opportunities FOLLOWING a slow start, China has hoisted ItseH up to becoming ona of the loading producers of standard stool dry freight boxes In the world. PAQE II Indian poser for market THE SECOND-HAND shipping industry could be adversely
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      465 27 SEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT root MUM ITM turn rtuvu nh navm s?xx a a s i ::!i: 25 s 9* 9 S 5E Ml* m ai .-VI X! a* ZmBS g m RVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT nam rtuMJi ro*anawnfro riuMrwM nt kMkM MM MM M IM NM.
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      302 27 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES IH MYANMA A FIVE STAR UNg (Burmota National Lint) Loading for Rangoon S'pora P.KcUnf Numi l*n mm m Km am km ST IS z THE MHK LINE COCUMUS NIUGINI Ml Spar* 171 NORAYIANKVUI Ipi (CAUIM KMK DIRECT) (PNG parte: PORT MMESRY/LAE/RABAUL) J**"* < O#AY MVIENG. KIETA, KMK.
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      237 28 GOLDEN LINE ITCSt < V\ GUAN GUAN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD iL' s -j 21. T«M kym Str««t SIHCAfOM DM TU VMIM (M UNU) r*. sunt* STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Tmn P. Mm Pm« aXKM MVOI OriM*VKjr>oWDMla MMAaptf GO«.D€N UA» MOI Aagart CNMA KfVKf DM TW SHAN Tatetan 001 Aaprt CHINA OCEAN
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      748 29 A«tnU S por« BOOktAO BOOtIMW Cmwcws Ft EuTuST TPA/sC 178M77 *****53 ******2 NEPTUNE MOICCS PTC. LTD. 27*119 mot ii *****16 *****41 2717*4 *****22 CFS *****51 (CR NO. 1S*****0000B) NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD MFIM SON M P tatoM K Lumpur PsnaAg jmmr nwST nan? *****0 127M1 C7M2 j.Mra ***** 2M041 K
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      763 29 SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Markat Strsst Singapore 0104 T«l: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** t> NAI TNONC SNIPPING 127 PmiSM. Pnk MMTM JAYAPOH RE NANA TX Tata HA CD* ri ifukr r
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      369 30 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. Til 225 6868 (34 Unas) FAX *****39/*****76 TELEX RS ***** A/B SSCMA RS ***** A/B SSCAO DSR-LINES ,EB [)FUTFF<ACHT SFF l INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE MEMER OF EACON SMVICf TO EAST MEDITERRANEAN 4 NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE i it. iEIBJBaK'JI'JEI H cznnzuzi m KL] Km] no mi
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      307 30 PERITA MAS ETA 15/1/89 ETO 2S/B/89 aA iPXXAi 1 jk r\ <41 'C a uwfy rtctfyiAf cargo it rTW/JUfong rort/iMnni Perita Shpg ft Trdg P Tel No S33SS2S Tli: 42*2 Fa* *****K 13 Tel No S33SS2S ERITA CONTAINER LINE MV. ANGKASA JAYA ETA 8.8.88 ETO 10.8.88 FORTNIGHTLY SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO:
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      376 30 ltd REGIONALCONTAINE p L!NFS ASEAN PORTS BANGKOK SAILINGS A WEEK II <W< m un 1* lw OirFStl 33 I.' \;i.n ULLMmi^" PJCELANG 3 SAILINGS A WEEK DASWANI Sdn BM Phi (Tel: *****59) PENANG 2 SAILINGS A WEEK M.i l< hm i<r ■T-* rrrf-i I».T 1 JAKARTA 2 SAILINGS A WEEK
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      153 30 i£ Regional Weather WL yw v. ft VI- 'I r A W N f fx SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND BEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. AugMtt, fMC -c o Wnd drection with spttd m knoh R Thunderstorm T*mp*rotur* c A y Shower Weather Wr»d drecfiori w«vh speed in knots ee Rom Cloudy
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      269 31 n UNIPACIFIC TRANS. TRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. SINGAPORE TEL: *****22 FAX: *****76 G IRAQI LINE iRAQt STAH f NTfRPHISI FOB M A HIIIM E TRANSPORT EAST BOUND SERVICE ETA STORE LOADING FOR 100 Japan UROUGM KU la lAOHOAO UPON KQUCST ALSO ACCfrTIM toNTAMCM UPTO AQABA I SACHDAO KEFtt If ACS
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      294 31 jggl 1 RICHFIELD MARINE. AGENCIES |S) PTE LTD ffl It t SO' i i <10 I in. Hl »A« .V> 1 1 l(t(l H ISSS* Hr.MIP I I ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL mm «ta iomm ran .tr* <*' M wtft 1 Other port* along the rout* workable on Inducement KIEN
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      467 31 CT>> SIGMA EXPRESS (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****44 FAX: *****75 m rr tr n (CHILIAN NATIONAL UNB) GREAT ANDES SERVICE FEEDER VSL SP KEE MOTMCR VI N. IVORY 1«N UP UR CAT 21 N. EMERALD UN 13/H LUCIE Ml MOTNOI VESSEL MX ■i« UR CAT mi 170 UfM JW LUCIE
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      72 31 BALTIC ORIENT SHIPPING PTE LTD. E WBAY OF BENGAL SERVICE w 8 1 w. ALL LCURCL CONTACT HMO TELEPHONE NO. TILEX/PAX NOB. LCL RATI CONTACT ANWAR :MR BO—NT ON/ ANWAR BTBLLA •V Ok I Hamburg Wast Germany Tiger Line »B NB m MDEPENOAMT COMMON CARVMER SERVICE SINGAPORE MADRAS SHUTTLE SINGAPORE
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      118 31 u -^iL r f I REGULAR EXPRFSS F CI LCL SERVICE ETA SINGAPORE Prf—■ ARNSTADT PORT WLANR (TO. ONLT) '.'l7. JAKARTA (FCL ONLT) MO, OA 12/» UAIWW U» mm TOKYO, KOI (TO. ONLT) W.W.** COLOMBO (FCL ONLT) FARGO SHIPPING CO (P) LTD Jit Ni MMm S port 081 T«t *****22,
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      654 32 Zii k TO NW MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD EASTBOUNO TO USA M IM UN (MX MA FULLY CONTAINERISED TRANS-PACIFIC WEEKLY SERVICE WESTBOUND FROM 'JSA UN OAK MA MM W FI' M 7 m Tr 31 rw FROM PNW TAC PIANO TO PNW KVIMCAS Ml 001 i:!' 1 1 ',r TOWOI
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      446 32 JE CONTAINER LINE TEL: *****59 FAX *****63 GUARANTEE LCL CONSOL SERVICES (ALSO ACCEPTING FCL BOOKINGS) FAR EAST FVVT' MI'MTV wm SRI LANKA/ INDIA EUROPE/ UK FUIXJTOWI MAMUM louTMAnrro* TUMMY np EGULAR CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO MANILA SWISS SHIPPING PTE LTD m Tatok Blunk IMJHr, Trto* H»Mk Houm FAR EAST EUROPE MONTHLY
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