The Business Times, 18 September 1978

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    11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 218/1/78 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1978 50 CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
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      Telex to the Comoros
      76 1 THE TELECOMMUNICATION Authority of Singapore announced that international telex service with the Comoro Islands was Introduced on Saturday. Service is available from 0600 to 1700 GMT dally» and call bookings can be made through the board's international assistance operator by keying "012". Singapore now has telex
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      Lock icon Women demo
      81 1 Reuter KUCHING, Sun. About 100 members of the women's wing of Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahman Ya'akub's party today demonstrated here in protest against Tan Sri Rahman's announced resignation. The demonstration ended peacefully after the State Minister for Culture, Youth and Sports, Enclk Abang Ahmad Ural,
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      Lock icon No accord on Iran's oil
      64 1 Reuter TEHERAN, Sun. Talks between Iran and the western oil companies for a new long-term agreement have broken down, a spokesman for the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company, said. Negotiations began on Sept 9 and ended on Friday without complete agreement on a new accord
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      Lock icon Most expensive place
      74 1 Reuter UNITED NATIONS, Sun. Kuwait Is the world's most expensive country at US$l2O a day (Ss27o), followed by Saudi Arabia at $118 and the United Arab Emirates at $96, according to a new table of per diem allowances for UN officials travelling on duty. At the low
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      The depleted forest
      63 1 PENANG, Sun. Malaysia's forest will be depleted of timber within 12 years if current logging rates are allowed to continue. This warning came from the director of the Forest Research Institute In Kepong, Selangor, Enclk Salleh Mohamed Nor, In a paper on "Forestry in Peninsular Malaysia and
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      Lock icon Dutch farm mission
      94 1 AFP THE HAGUE, Sun. A Dutch agricultural mission will visit China this fortnight to strengthen relations between the two countries, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing announced at the weekend. A spokesman said this would be an initial step in an effort to Improve agricultural trade
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      Lock icon Common fund
      79 1 AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Malaysia will continue to press for the establishment of the common fund at the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting in Montreal this Wednesday and Thursday. Finance Minister Tengku Razalelgh Hamzah, who leads the Malaysian delegation, said he would make a strong case for the setlng
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      Lock icon Knotty problems
      63 1 Reuter BRUSSELS; Sun. Common Market Finance Ministers will try tomorrow to unravel knotty technical problems at the centre of a proposed new European Monetary System. Their task has been eased by a Franco-German summit last week at which German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said he and French President Valery
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      Lock icon Vorster to retire?
      63 1 UPI JOHANNESBURG, Sun. Prime Minister John Vorster, 63 and ailing, may step down from office on Tuesday and open a fierce contest for the top post in the white-ruled republic. The race already is narrowing down to four men. Two of them, Mr. Pieter Botha, Defence Minister,
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    TOP TEN STOCKS
    120 1 THE following list of stocks gives the 10 most traded on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last week. It gives the turnover in thousands of units, closing prices on Friday and the high and low for 1978. Company Turnover Price* High Low '000 Sept 15 1978 Haw
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    LOCAL STOCK INDICES
    157 1 SINGAPORE Sept 11 Sept 12 Sept 13 Sept 14 Sept 15 B.T. Index: 2246 86 2182.93 2065.97 1997.42 2128.59 Industrials: 413.38 408.51 395.93 391.27 399 66 Finance: 724.88 709.84 693.09 679.57 697.75 Hotels: 280.98 277.80 271.92 269.88 272.09 Properties: 258.38 255.39 250.31 247.09 252.70 Tins: 174.02 173.56
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    World recovery remains sluggish
    1089 1  -  ASIA COPES WELL By SOH TIANG KENG THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund has expressed dissatisfaction over the sluggish pace of world economic recovery. 'Its annual report notes that 1978 is the third year of economic recovery for the world from the "most severe recession in four decades."
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    LDCs strengthen payments position
    204 1 NON-01l developing nations have shown marked improvement in their balance of payments position during the past two years. Disclosing this In its 1978 annual report, the International Monetary Fund said that there is a "striking reduction" in. the current account deficit of these countries. From a
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    Grindlay seeks more markets in Far East
    360 1  -  By COLIN CHEE THE MERCHANT banking arm of Britain's Orlndlay Bank is seeking more markets in the Far East. Mr. Denis Armstrong, director of Orlndlay Brandts' export finance division, said last week that the group feels the Far East is a fast-growing area,
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    Budget surplus likely this year
    196 1 THE GOVERNMENT has incurred an actual operating deficit of $4 million for the first half of this year compared with 170 million during the same period last year. During this peiio4, total expenditure amounted to $1,937 million against revenue of $1,933 million. Current expenditure accounted
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    Ventures in B'desh
    106 1 MEASURES TO set up Joint ventures between Singapore and Bangladesh will be finalised next week, the Bangladesh Minister of Industry. Mr. J. Ahmed said yesterday. Mr. Ahmed told RTS at Singapore Airport that the projects, worth $5.2 million, are in electronics, refrigeration and bottling of soya bean
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    Plans for extensive import duty increases by KL
    258 1 MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah proposes to levy import duties from 10 to 35 per cent on a variety of goods ranging from hand tools to fountain pens, according to the latest government gazette. Topping the schedule are hand tools (including
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    Malaysian bank floats US$20m Eurobond
    329 1 A US$2O-million (about SS4S million) floating rate issue, believed to be the first International Eurobond issue arranged for a nongovernment financlallnstitution in Malaysia is being put together for the ArabMalaysian Development Bank. The five-year floating rate note due October. 1983 will carry an Interest rate
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    Lock icon Record oil output by Opec nations
    160 1 AFP MEMBERS of Opec produced a record 31.4 million barrels (448,570 tonnes) of oil a day In 1977, 2.1 per cent higher than 1976 and 1.3 per cent higher than the 1973 record. Statistics released by the organisation In Vienna showed that total output
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      49 1 SHIPPING TIMES JAPANESE pharmaceutical DAVY Fewwgae rllnrhris £38 firms cash in on cancer 2 million Peking ordars ALBERT Moore Britain's AUSTRALIAN advertising profound and forplf pafoter 7 agency sots op in Singapore 12 CROSSWORD 2, MEMO PAD 2, AIRCRAFT SCHEDULE LEISURE TIME t, TV AND RADIO SHARE PRICES 1«
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    Lock icon Drugs that work miracles for firms
    933 2  -  Cashing in on cancer that is what Japanese pharmaceutical companies are doing as their profits grow frorr strength to strength with their "anti-cancer" drugs. But patients, YOKO SHIBATA points out, are still dying MEDICINE 1 YOKO SHIBATA FT AS CANCER sufferers grasp at any
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    They sure love this instant way to wealth
    429 2  -  Meanwhile, in the Philippines, a different kind of medicine man is doing good business. HONOR BLANCO CABIE tells us how. MEDICINE 2 HONOR BLANCO LOVE doctors are making a handsome living among superstitious Filipinos, dispensing supposedly powerful medicine or advice to help
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    Lock icon Like your dream partner to fall immediately for you?
    352 2 Reuter The girl has only to secure a similar egg and Immerse It In a bowl of water In similar circumstances. walk round the kitchen three times, and she Is completely cured. A common practice In northern and central Philippines and
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    A glittering night to remember
    179 2 •r FOO CHOY PENG THE lantern competition held over the weekend at the Orchard pedestrian mall provided a glittering attraction for the hundreds of people who attended. Variety, originality and creativity were well manifested la some entries in the three sections the open, student and
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    MEMO PAD
    325 2 COURSES AND TALKS Sept l-Oct 6: A practical approach to computerised mgt Information system (MIS), SIM. SIM Sept 5-21: Compensation and fringe benefits, Holiday Inn, P.O.D. Sept 11-22: Personnal Development Programme, Hilton, SIDO/ Consulasia Sept 18-19: Introduction to Marketing, Hilton, Marketing Improvement i? Sept 18 22: Introduction jb
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      94 2 kirin beer J I liK j A brewing tradition that goes back a century i We've been brewing Kirin since 1869. And over the years, some things have never changed. The meticulous care in selecting only the finest ingredients. And the traditional art of brewing in extra taste. Today, this
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      615 2 CfcYPTIC PUZZLE 4 Just as the son may be (6) 7 Unbiased approximation? (4.4) 8 Caught making a denial (6) 10 Dark horses (5) 13 In which to parrot popular opinion? (4) 14 Capital Italian unit (4) 15 Lover boy (4) IS Puss due to a swindle (3) 17 Bridged
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      603 3 [E Behind every Betamax is something nobody else has. 20 years'experience. Chances are you already know about televisions pacesetting colour system, Sony Trinitron. What may surprise you is that Sony established industry standards very early on in videorecording technology. In fact, Sony is the only manufacturer involved in the entire
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  • RAW MATERIALS
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      FOREIGN RUBBER
      267 4 RUBBER futures In London on Friday closed officially uncertain but prices were mostly 0.30 to 0.85 pence per kilo up from Thursday. Turnover was 41 lots of five tonnes and 422 lots of 15 tonnes Including 42 kerb trades and one option. In the morning, the market rose
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      Produce exchange
      343 4 CHINESE Produce Exchange, Singapore noon closing prices per plcul on Saturday: Cmul oil: Bulk $92 sellers, old drum S9l sellers, new drum $102 sellers. Cepra: Mixed (loose) UK/Cont. tM buyers Pepper: Muntok AST A white f.O.b. 100% NLW $347 50 sellers. Sarawak white f o b. 96% NLW
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      Silver
      266 4 THE Hongkong silver futures market closed at HK5261.00 on Saturday, unchanged from Friday. The price remained steady at' that level throughout the day. The day's fixing price was also at HK5261.00. On the LONDON Metal Exchange, silver was up 1.6 pence all round. The strength in gold and US
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      Lead
      73 4 LEAD, on the day. was up C 5.75 for cash and £5.5 for Three Months In London on Friday. The afternoon market was steady on moderate covering activity up to 1'363.5 for Three Months. The morning market followed the previous day's late kerb advance on covering against physical demand
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      Palm oil
      69 4 C.I.F. North European ports. In US dollar per ton unless otherwise stated. LONDON: Friday Previous Malaysian 5% t fa bulk per tonne November Sumatra 5* (fa bulk September October November December January Nigeria 5% Ma bulk stg unch 657 Wpd 622W/«2Spd 810/807Vbpd 590pd unch unq 803slr MSslr 825/
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      Straits tin
      219 4 THE STRAITS tin price In Penang on Saturday fell a further Msls to $1,870 per plcul, on an official offering up 10 tonnes to 215 tonnes. A peak was reached on Thursday at $1,915 last week and the price fell $30 on Friday. In LONDON on Friday, tin
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      Rice
      186 4 BANGKOK rice prices quoted on Saturday: (In US dollars per tonne FO B.) basis Bangkok: White Rice: 100 pet Ist class 402.100 pet 2nd class 387.100 pet 3rd class 382. 5 pet 377. 10 pet 352. 15 pet 347. 20 pet 342. 25 pet 352. 35 pet unq. Broken:
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      Sugar
      221 4 SUGAR futures closed C 1.55 to CI per tonne higher and turnover totalled 3,649 lots in London on Friday. The market was steady throughout the day in good two-way activity. Dealers said business featured follow-through buying from the steadier overnight kerb coupled with chartist interest when the 1978 position
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      Coffee
      260 4 ROBUSTA futures In London on Friday ended the final session of the day officially steady with prices L' 7 down to C 9 per tonne up against Thursday night's close. Turnover was 4.989 lots, including 34 options. Dealers said prices held close to overnight levels for most of the
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      Cocoa
      242 4 COCOA futures closed 1'44 to 132 down and turnover totalled 11,015 lots, over half of which were self trades and switches in London on Friday. The market moved sharply lower during the late arternoon with the fall incorporating a 140 limitdown in distant September at C 1.940 per tonne.
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      Copper
      423 4 COPPER wirebars, on the day. rose by C 4.5 for cash and l' 3 for Three Months in London on Friday. The afternoon market was steadier on end-week covering prompted by the advance in US futures with Three Months trading up to 1760 on the kerb. Values softened on
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      Zinc
      80 4 ZINC, on the day, was up mostly C 5 per tonne in London on Friday. Continued fresh buying support took Three Months up to C 339.5 during the afternoon although profittaking shaded the position to C 337 on the kerb. The morning market attracted short-covering and some chart buying
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      Lock icon China may buy soybean oil regularly
      401 4 Reuter SOYBEAN traders on the Chicago Board of Trade (C--BOT) have said that rumours of a purchase of any origin soybean oil by China, If confirmed, may affirm its Intention to become a regular monthly buyer. Rumours of a Chinese purchase circulated on the
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      Soybean
      214 4 HEAVY local short-covert-ing near the close on Friday lifted Chicago soybean futures several cents from their lows after being driven downwards by commissionhouse selling. Losses ranged from 7-1/2 to five US cents a bushels and put most contracts back to where they were before sharp advances earlier in the
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      Wheat
      173 4 A SPATE of commissionhouse stop-loss selling in the final half hour of trade pushed wheat futures sharply lower after a mostly lacklustre s4%slon in Chicago on Friday. Prices finished off six to 7% US cents a bushel. Only late commercial buying and short-covering by locals kept futures a shade
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      Lock icon No autumn oilseed shortage likely
      186 4 Reuter NET oilseed imports to West Europe during the July/ September quaher are expected to reach record levels and there should therefore be no shortage In the re §ll World, the Hamburg based publication has estimated imports at an autumn record of 3.54 million tonnes
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      Gold
      649 4 THE KILOBAE in Singapore on Saturday opened at 5515,377 and closed at $15,319. The highest and lowest prices for the day were $15,377 ahd $15,310, respectively. The tone of the market remained quiet. Spot gold for London delivery opened at US$2ll.OO/50 and closed lower at U*****.30/.70. The highest and
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      Coffee and copra hold steady
      331 4 QUOTED prices for coffee and copra held steady throughout the week ended Sept 15. Pepper prices, however. firmed substantially In the face of strong overseas demand. Pepper packers had anticipated that with the month of Ramadan over. Inquiries might come from the West Asian countries
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
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        Singapore market
        170 4 THE US dollar gained strength Initially and opened higher In the Singapore forex market last week as dealers were cautious that the US had been considering additional measures to bolster I the currency. It reached a high of 2.2600 before easing to 2.2440 on reports that oil analysts
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        MLR
        21 4 THE average rate at which Singapore banks are currently prepared to lead to their beet customers is 7.25 per cent.
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        Asian $ rates
        290 4 Asian rates RATES moved higher during the week ended Sept 15, adding 3/16 per cent to the periods in active trading centring on Three and Six Months. Pressure on rates was partly attributed to higher interest rates, with an expected further rise in prime rates and increase in money supply
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        Lock icon Discount market
        308 4 Source: The Discount Company of Singapore Ltd INTERBANK overnight funds were traded around the 6-1/4 to 6 per cent leyel at the beginning of last week. The rates fluctuated from a high of 7 per cent to 5 per cent with most of the funds transacted around the
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        Euro $ rates
        223 4 Euro rates LONDON Eurodollar deposit rates closed slightly firmer on Friday following news of the Increases In prime rates by several US hanks, and opening gains were extended during fairly quiet afternoon gains were extended during fairly quiet afternoon trading, dealers said. Fixed date deposits edged 1/16 higher In Six.
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        Money market
        85 4 THE interbank overnight market was easier towards the end of the week ended Sept 13. Closing for the week on Friday, being the liability base day. was 2 to 1% per cent. Terms rates were steady with thin transactions In the Twos and Threes. Moderate business was seen
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        Zurich
        477 4 ON BALANCE, the US dollar lost ground last week. The Canadian unit was at times under heavy pressure, while sterling went up further. Early in the week, the US currency was boosted by the decline in the wholesale price index of 0.1 per cent (which brought the year-to-year increase
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        London
        317 4 IN FRONT of any weekend developments in the Camp David Middle East peace talks, the dollar fluctuated nervously to close with net losses In quiet trading on Friday with operators squaring their books. There were no new factors in the market and the dollar closed at 1.5880/ 5910 Swiss
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        New York
        218 4 THE dollar closed marginally firmer from opening levels in typically quiet preweekend dealings on Friday. The unit showed only nominal fluctuations all day as operators sought to square positions ahead of any possible developments at the Camp David Middle East summit over the weekend, dealers said. The Swiss
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        Frankfurt
        42 4 FRANKFURT exchanges closing quotes on Sept 15. Ufi 1 9760/75 Can *****/35 sui.ssam D Ft 92 00/06 8 rr IN 30/10 Ut 136/39 F.F» 45 43/53 Yen 1 0430/40 B FT (con) 6 343/353 B ri(finis. 166/175 M Kf 37 70/06
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        Short term money
        47 4 FOR THE week ended Friday Sept 15, the range of call rates received from Short Deposits (M) Berhad was as fotlows:Baak (had: 2% per cent to 4 per cent. Genaral fund: 2 per cent to 4* per cent. Meveaeats of fund totalled 6474 million.
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      133 4 PAPERWEIGHTS for a different way to TYPE A: 2 x 3 Commemorate a first Keep your name/logo inview Be remembered Show your appreciation Or for whatever you are celebrating. Your logo and message etched in polished brass or chrome and finished up to S enamel colours and mounted on Italian
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  • TRANSPORT
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      British Aerospace at centre of tug-o-war
      1538 5 THE BRITISH aerospace Industry is standing at a crossroads, hesitating whether to turn towards America or Europe. The British Government would like to do both, i At stake Is the development of the world's next generation of short to medium-range airliners the planes in
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      Iata supports move for fare flexibility
      146 5 THE executive committee of the International Air Transport Association had, at the end of a two-day meeting in Montreal on Saturday, approved recommendations that would give airlines greater flexibility in setting international fares. A key proposal would allow lata member airlines to introduce innovative
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      DAILY AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
      714 5 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time From MAS MH62I 0840 PEN MAS MH607 0845 KUL MAS MH671 0945 PEN/KUL CPA CX710 1005 HLP OIA GA980 1030 HLP THAI TG423 1035 BKK SIA SQ103 1045 KUL SIA SQ209 1045 HLP MAS MH605 1045 KUL OIA GA944 1055 PKU
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      Crisis-ridden London port finds a ray of Hope
      431 5 THE Port of London Authority (PLA) expects the new North fleet Hope deepwater container Terminal at Tilbury (above) to handle Its first ship in the last week of this month. The berth has been designed to serve the planned growth of the
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      LONDON FREIGHT
      200 5 MAINTAINED rate strength was evident on a market-wide scale in quite active business on Friday. Time chartering still dominated reported fixing and served to provide some examples of a buoyant tone. Romanian charterers took the 36,828 dwt World Ajax at U585,100 per day for a September trip from
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      SHIPS IN PORT
      250 5 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY CONTAINER PORT Anders Maersk 50 Eleanora 53 Holstensteln 518 Ocean Power 48 SBS m 48 Takarl II PABIR PANJANG WHARVES Kagowa (0600 after Minador) Gdns. 303 CBS 1059-1147 Kai II (0700) Odns. 301 TB 609-660 Labuan Hadji (OST) (0600 after Marine Trader) 891-946 Regent
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      Lock icon Ban on National stock purchase?
      213 5 Reuter THE Justice Department urged the Civil Aeronautics Board to prohibit Texas International Airlines and PanAmerlcan World Airways from further purchases of National Airlines Inc stock until the board has ruled on their pending merger applications. John Shenefield, head of the Justice Department's anti-trust division,
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  • REVIEWS
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      Before the great show...
      605 6  -  »y PATRICIA GOH "I'M GOING CRAZY" was the title of one of Stephen Joseph's entries for this Ist Popular Song Festival; and a few hours before the finals at National Theatre, I thought it would nave been a rather apt theme song for this year. Joseph
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      Three into one sometimes goes
      601 6  -  ■y FRANK THOMAS THERE has never been any doubt about the versatility of the members of the Stage Club. This has been amply demonstrated over the past year with a broad selection of productions. However, it requires a great conceit of one's capabilities to attempt
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      GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL
      430 6 SINGAPOREANS are well feted this month with fine films from France, Germany and, later, Russia. The Goethe-Instltut Is a little different, however Its film festival is based on German dramas or novels. While It Is debatable whether a literary work can be successfully made Into a film,
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      Lock icon Moore's paintings aren't languid by any chance
      1002 7  -  By DAVID PIPER FT DREAMERS two girls folding sideways In sleep, In a slow fall of pale yellow draperies. Their collapse Is Hayed by the upright of a third girl alongside them on the right; her eyes are halfopen, but she Is still
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      Unpredictable as weather
      1207 7  -  »r LIM SENG HOO "UNPREDICTABLE is the -appropriate description when one has to appraise JJhess matches. In fact, the «2rend among chess players to upset and then be upset In turn is so pronounced £"that chess prophets are 'becoming notorious, .perhaps unjustifiably, for ■their wrong forecasts. JJTOnly
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      Argentine fair
      218 7  -  •y TSANG SAU YIN ALMOST a month of Argentine music, dance* and food will pervade the Singapore Hilton from today. An exhibition of leatherware, wine*, handicraft and fur from that country will be on display in the hotel to promote Argentine culture. Fur seems an unusual choice, but
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      76 6 Hotel Royal-RAMADA Newton Road. Singapore 11, Republic of Singapore. Telephone: *****1, Telex: RS-***** Cables: HOTELROYAI /fIr i mm Vi J). mm v. r v Sumptuous Cantonese cuisine prepared by our chefs with just the right touch and our speciality-FISHHEADS Each dish is carefully selected by our chefs to give you
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      18 6 EXECUTIVE CHEF: LEO WALDMEIER. MAITRE D'HOTEL: WILLIAM TAN. SINGAPORE HILTON 2ND FLOOR For reservations ring *****3 extn 2536
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      643 6 r L FILMS: f THE French Embassy, In conjunction with the Alliance Francalse, will present the film No Burials On Sunday with English subtitles, tomorrow at RELC at 9 p.m. (admission free). Directed by Michel Drach and starring Philippe Mary, Christina Bendz, this film was awarded the Louis Delluc prise
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      277 6 RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM Opening announcements followed by Impact Preserving The Traditional Arts 3.35 Diary of Events (Tamil) 0 3.40 Afternoon Matinee The Mark (pt. 1) starring: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger 4.35 Intermission 6.05 Opening announcements followed by Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy 6.30 News in Brief
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      1017 8  -  SINGAPORE ;fy PETER CHIA Last WEEK, bears had a stranglehold on the Stock of Singapore for the first time In nine months. But they could not maintain their supremacy and the bulls had the trutmphant final word. After the weekend SES announcement on the ifrtfoductlon
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      317 8  -  ENDED SEPT 15 COMPILED BY VIOLET CHOW OTHERS INCHCAPE BERHAD announced the sale of Its 50 per cent interest in Borneo Timber Company and the voluntary liquidation of Montor Pte Ltd. The total cash consideration of the sale Is M 53.4 million. However, approval Is
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      447 8 r TOKYO L A AFP OVERCOMING profittaking pressure, there prices closed the holidayshortened four-day week on Thursday with moderate gains on the Tokyo stock market after carrying the Dow Jones average to a new record height at one point. The Dow indicator of 225 selected
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      Lock icon Casino-like atmosphere prevails in gaming issues
      975 8 1 NEW YORK b NYT A CASINO atmosphere prevailed In Wall Street's gambling stocks last week, while the market In general staged a Jittery retreat In the (ace of disheartening developments For the Dow Jones Industrial average, It was a week that most Investors
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      Lock icon Industrials record strong advances
      334 8 r SYDNEY Reuter THE MARKET reached yet another fire-year high at the close of trading on Friday with strong gains among the leading Industrial stocks and renewed demand for the uranium Issues. The Sydney AllOrdlnarles Index gained 2.51 points to 558.82 points its highest level since
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      SWINGING 60s ARE HERE AGAIN
      884 8  -  Bull arguments are relevant today LONDON h GERALD COLVERD THERE SHOULD be no lack of consent to a slight Indulgence in nostalgia when assessing the current environment of the city of London. .This Is not, one hastens to aad, stirred by Travolta mania reviving memories
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      Nervous sellers dominate trading floor
      1043 8 K.LUMPUR THE KUALA Lumpur stock market suffered its biggest and sharpest general decline since the 1773 crash when nervous sellers flooded the trading floor for the greater part of last week. However, by Friday, the tide of selling appeared to have been stemmed and the
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      137 8 NOW in FONTAN Paperback n f 33 u Jf? vv > i "Power and poignancy descriptive brillance." THE SEKLOONGS are Hong Kong's merchant princes flamboyant, sensual, wily, unimaginably rich. Jonathan Sekloong has built a vast trading empire, renowned throughout the east. But there are no heirs fit to suceed the
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      Gold shares lower on balance
      409 9 Johannesburg THE STOCK exchange was narrowly mixed on Friday, ahead of the weekend.ln moderate turnover. Gold shares were tower on balance with losses stretching to 25 cents In heavy-weights. Mining flnanclals followed the trend in producers with issues unchanged to tower. Elsewhere. De Beers declined
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      316 9 PRICES closed lower on Friday 1n moderate trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange as the composite index surrendered more than (our points. Declined topped advances 252 to 193 Imperial Oil A was 3/8 lower at <23-1/8. Abltlbl paper Co 1/2 and Y and R Properties 1/8 to 25-3/8. British
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      Frankfurt demand strong
      511 9 EUROPEAN MARKETS MOST bourses closed mixed on Friday with the exception of Amsterdam and Zurich which ended tower. Frankfurt share prices closed mixed though demand was stronger than In recent days, suggesting that the recent consolidation phase Is tailing off. Motors were up to three marks firmer
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      220 9 SEPT IS Dm Aef-Telefunken 83 90 -0.1 Akzo 30 30 -0 5 Allz Leben 710 urtch Allz Vers 525 -a BASF 140 -0 4 BayHTWbank 292 -l.t Bay Vbank 340 I Bayer 142 -0.5 BBC 305 BMW 226.50 1 Cassella 410 -15 Chem Verw 280.50 unch Commerzbank 230 10
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      184 9 SEPT IS Francs Actions Suisses 267 unch Alusuisse Br 1110 -30 Alusuisse Reg 495 -6 Brown Boven Br 1610 -25 Ciba Gelgy Br 960 -15 Ciba Gelgy PC 720 -5 Ciba Gelgy Reg 566 -3 Credit Suisse Br 2275 -5 Credit Suisse Reg 437 -3 ElektrowattBr 1930 unch George
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      284 9 SEPT IS FT* CORBEILLE Air-Llqulde B S N Gervais Da none CS F (ThomsonCsft Cie Franca tse des Petroles C'ompagnie Ftnanclere 349 90 540 333 127 80 ♦1.4 +0.5 -0.7 I'ompagnle Gene rale Credit Fonder De France Hachette (L(brairle) Machines Bull Michelin IB) Parlbas 389 381.SO 254 S3.SO 1350
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      230 9 SEPT IS FU ABN 390 00 1 Ahold 114 50 -0 3 Akzo 33 50 -0 4 AMEV 93 50 ♦0 2 Amfas 118 00 -02 Amrot Bank 84 90 ♦0 1 Berposs 67 50 +0 5 Berk 98 50 -3 Bo Is 76 70 -1.5 Borsumlj 171.00 -15
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      37 9 MTT r>i MM *n am •< •U £2? «ar j Bfj Ejrr-. •o» 8' nt •9 -9 ♦4 -fl iv* £rB B JH |M it jB -9 •u mil f, l«ll I :H 1 HtMtoa •uur ><• L
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      89 9 M <ii. tUfc Baslogi 748 -s Centrale S18» 134 Fiat 2541 108 Finsider 190 1 On Immob 92 -4.75 IFI Prt 2868 -f|4 IUIcementl ***** -200 I taigas 810 -25 Italsider 424 12.5 Magnetl M Pf 527 50 8 5 Ma rHU Err 335 -12 Mfdiob ***** -350 Miralanza
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      35 9 financial times INDUSTRIALS Friday 530.4 Thursday 545.5 Week Ago 497.2 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Friday 878 55 Thursday 887.04 Week Ago 888.43 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Friday 95', to 95N Thursday 95H to 96
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      New GEC options
      43 9 THE LONDON Stock Exchange said a new General Electric Co (OEC) options series with a striking price of 360 pence was Introduced last Friday, with October. January and April expiry dates. Current General Electric share price Is 335 pence. Reuter
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      442 9 ASIAN Reuter SONY Corp expects a decline of about 23 per cent In net consolidated income in the current year ending Oct 31 from 34.64 billion yen last year on an increase of abput 6 per cent in its net sales from
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      Metals Exploration accord on venture
      184 9 METALS Exploration Ltd said It reached agreement with Comstaff Pty Ltd and Preussag Australia Pty Ltd on a joint venture exploration programme at the site of the abandoned Mt. Blschoff tin mine in Northwest Tasmania. Metals Exploration may earn an 85 per cent stake in
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      Stocks dip as hopes on rates fade
      1115 9 NEW YORK STOCKS fell on Friday, for the second consecutive day as hopes faded that Interest rates have peaked for the year. Analysts said apparent lack of progress at Camp David and the delay of the vote on the natural gas bill added
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      84 9 BONDS&LOANS Reuter EMPRESA Naclonal Del Petroleo SA (Enpetrol) signed an agreement to Issue US$25 million in eight-year floating rate notes. Lead managers European Banking Co Ltd and Bankers Trust International Ltd said interest rate is Vt per cent over the London interbank offered rate for
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      45 9 Reuter BARCLAYS Bank International Ltd said it signed an agreement to provide Petroleos Mexlcanos SA (Pemex) with a 25 mttttam Eurodollar five-year loan. The funds will be ased towards financing the company's 1978 capital Investment programme. Terms of the loan were not Immediately available.
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      Davy Powergas clinches £38m Peking orders
      526 9  -  EUROPEAN By GERALD COLVERD DAVY Powergas, a Davy International Ltd Company, has won 138 million of contracts from the China National Technical Import Corporation. It is believed to be the largest order for chemical plant ever placed with a British company by China. Davy
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      Lock icon Renault will post substantial losses again
      99 9 Reuter RENAULT Vehicles Industrials (RVI) will post further substantial losses this year following losses totalling 250 million francs last year. RVI chairman. Mr. Francois Zannotti, said next year will not be a year of recovery, but he expressed "reasoned confidence" In the future based
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      Lock icon RSV keeps mum on higher loss report
      370 9 Reuter A SPOKESMAN for the Rijn-Schelde-Verolme Machlnefabrieken En Scheepswerven NV (RSV) group In Rotterdam said he was unable to comment on a Dutch newspaper report that the group's loss in the first half of this year could be more than 90 million guilders.
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      Lock icon Olivetti plans another capital increase
      280 9 Reuter OLIVETTI EC Spa has plans for another capital Increase following successful conclusion of Its recent 40 billion lire rights issue. Its managing director and chief executive officer, Mr. Carlo de Benedetti said the company Is also negotiating further medium term loans, in substitution of
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      55 9 Reuter DALGETY Ltd said It plans a two-for-11 underwritten rights Issue of 8.94 million shares at 265p each to raise about £17.7 million. The company announced pre-tax profit of £24.4 million £17.1 million In the year ended June 30. Turnover at £787.1 million (€725.1 million) and earnings
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      279 9 0 Metal Box Singapore Limited (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at Hyatt Singapore Hotel, Sir Stamford Room 11, Ist Floor, 10/12 Scotts Road, Singapore 9 on Wednesday, 4th October 1978 at 10.30 a.m. for
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      Haw Par now heading for calmer waters
      1008 10  -  »r MANO SABNANI DESPITE the reappearance of red-inked figures which stained Its Interim results, there are cleat* indications that the dt&fter years are finally ov«>'for Haw Par Brothers International. Tfte group recently unveiled its half-time results which showed continuing heavy losses Incurred by
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      153 10 Selangor Dredging Berhad: AGM to be held at Wlsma Teh Wan Sang. 2nd Floor, 12-B, Jalan Bandar, Kuala Lumpur, at 11.00 a.m. on Sept. 20. Malaya wata Steel Berhad: AGM to be held at the Negara Room. 2nd Floor, Kuala Lumpur Hilton, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur at
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      UIC UNIT TO SELL LAND FOR $2.3 m
      99 10 IN A IJEPLY to the Stock Kxchange of Singupore. United Industrials Corporation said that its subsidiary. UIC Chemicals Pte Ltd is to soil a piece of land for 52.3 million, to be settled in cash. No official sales agreement has yet been
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      NSOP ups stake in Timor Plantation
      78 10 NEGRI SembUan OU Palms (NSOP) informed the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that It has increased its, stake In Timor Oil Palm Plantation Berhad from 53.72 per cent to 57.50 per cent. This was accomplished by the purchase of 225,000 shares of MSI each for
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      338 10 Cnrroot payment Ex Date Booka cloM Date payable Total far the year Total for previous year AlexHMgs Bata Paper Prod Sel Prop Highlanda ami Lowlands Perlia Plant M'wata SelDrodge JC-MPH Inch Kenneth Harper GUT Metro Int Wood Cariabarg KLKepong OCBC Apollo Hume M Guthrie Prima WUfcinaoa UAC S.
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      145 10 C"MO)t Particulars Ex Date Books Ctaas Saauaa CMhumU NTltHN ■ulan. CirMaq tUurwb rihrlbrk Bonus Issue of 1 for 4 > Bonus issue of 1 for 2 Bonus issue of 1 for 1 Bonus issue of 1 for 4 Bonus Issue of 1 for 2 Bonus Issue of 1
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      CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS
      1212 10 September 16 CHICAGO Board Options Exchange volume eased to 131,025 contracts on Friday from Thursday's 140,374. utimjum OCT ItM IK stock AMXM AIM Akxm A* T* *m T»l A»T»I Mil AUM A«M a««a »wi-f AniD AMn-r Win fun Umtk Am fciik A in BMha IMS BrttoA Nnc*if
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      712 11 AUSTRALIA has. for many years, been an attractive destination for overseas footballers seeking to extend their playing careers and to swell their bank balances. Now there are increasing signs of a movement in the other direction as more and more young Australian soccer stars seek their
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      1046 11 NYT AT THE airports. Aeroflot's sleek lets are being fitted with the bold motto "Official Olympic Carrier". On the southwest edge of Moscow, brigades of construction workers from places as far away as Azerbaijan and Georgia are raising the 16storey buildings that will soon become
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      SIA-PGA crown to Chang
      1009 11  -  »y TEO TICK WENG CHANG Chung-Fa. the 48-year-old Taiwanese professional with the Singapore Island Country Club, fired a final round 76 to clinch the $5,000 first prize In the $25,000 Singapore Airlines/ Professional Golfers' Association championship. Playing at the 6,077metre Buklt course yesterday, the former Taiwanese
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      Lock icon More medicine show than miracle
      496 11 NYT AMERICAN soccer came to Europe last week, sold out Munich's Olympic stadium with a record exhibition match fee for the New York Cosmos, and then showed a European television audience a style of play that looked more like gradeschool klckball than the bold swiftness
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      ANCHOR BUSINESS HOUSES SQUASH
      401 11 WITH THE Anchor Business Houses Squash League nearing its final stages, four teams have so far emerged to contest the quarter-finals which will be played next month. Beecham are convincing winners of the Yeast group, conceding only two matches In the 25 played. In runner-up spot
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      Of sports and society
      531 11  -  ■y RONALD KOW "YOU PLAY what number?" or "You Play where?" question* such as these, in I he Hokkien dialecl, ought to be familiar to those of us who are old enough to remember that up to the late 1950s mafia-like secret societies were as active
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      Spanish man o' war on the green
      981 11  -  •y PETER DOBEREINER THERE was a time not so long ago when I had serious qualms about Severiano Ballesteros's ability to survive in the world of golf. The sequence of reasoning which led to this disquiet went like this: professional golf is one
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    208 12 AFP MSMBER-NATIONB of the Sduth-east Asian Lumber R&lucers' Association fMflpa) have tentatively Bot*d to adopt a uniform system for grading their tOfS, It was reported on Friday* The English-Language Dally Express In Manila nidi the move was designed ta .put the four-member Sealpa
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    Lock icon Yen pressure forces major restructuring
    776 12 NYT AS THE value of the yen climbs on International foreign exchange markets and Japan's heavy Industry falls under increasingly telling competitive pressure, there are signs of a fundamental shift In the country's Industrial structure. Instead of making steel and building ships, the Japan of
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    TIN TOLLING MAY HIT PENANG MARKET
    840 12 RECENT changes in the marketing of Malaysian tin c«u4d undermine the am&orlty of the Penang market, trade sources in London said. .More than one-quarter of Malaysian output Is smelted in Penang on a tolling basis and being marketed elsewhere. If the new developments were
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    Lock icon Coffee quotas rejected
    438 12 AP CONSUMER nations in the International Coffee Qtafcuiisation on Friday rejected a proposal from the producer-nations to bring iri_ejrport quotas and make the' world coffee pact's etftttomic clauses fully operative by Oct 1. ;The rejection came in a meeting of the executive board called to agree on
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    255 12 Reuter A EUROPEAN Investment Bank 200-million French franc Eurobond (about SflOO million), at 10 years maturity and with expected coupon of 9 3/4 per cent, was announced by Credit Commercial de France In London on Friday. This marks the reopening of the French franc
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    123 12 Reuter AP INDONESIA will float Its first Eurobond with a 100mllllon Deutschemark (SSI 12 million) offering carrying an expected sixyear maturity and 7-per cent coupon, bond market sources said In Frankfurt. Dresdner Bank Is managing the Issue, which should come to the market today. President Suharto,
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    Monahan Dayman sets up in S'pore
    855 12  -  •r TSANG SAU YIN AUSTRALIAN owned advertising agency, Monahan Dayman Adams (A), opens officially in Singapore today. They are here primarily to handle the advertising for Qantas Airways, a three-year contract which the parent company secured last December. The company is handling the airline's
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    393 12  -  h PETER CHIA LOCAL exporters must explore new markets to avoid protectionism and market saturation in the traditional markets in developed countries. Speaking at the official opening of Molex Singapore yesterday, the MP for Leng K>e and Parliamentary Secretary (Culture), Dr. Ow Chin Hock,
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    KL's commitment to better rubber
    148 12 MALAYSIA is commlted to producing more technically specified rubber for which demand Is Increasing. Disclosing this, controller of rubber research and chairman of the Malaysian Rubber Research and Development Board Tan Sri B.C. Sekhar said that although the rubber producers' council had targeted 1965 for
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    267 12 Reuter GERMANY and Prance reached agreement on a Joint strategy towards setting up a European monetary system, firmly based on the aim of cutting Inflation and encouraging stability policies in member countries. The strategy Is based on the retention of the parity grid Intervention
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    2388 13 SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for Ports around the World j The following list tabulates, by port of deetlnatfton the name of the ship, the shipping Unt involved, and the estimated dates of arrival and departure, from Singapore port. t Consortiums SeanDuteh has a Joint
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      401 13 REGULAR SEMI-CONTAINER/ LINER SERVICE S pan P.Keiaat Nm*| Lii*H tar UN KM AUSTRALIA SaiM JaMaA LORD STEAMSHIP CO. SJI. TAINAN/STRAITS/TAINAN EXPRESS LINER SERVICE STORE P.KELANG PENANC TAINAN LOON CHONG SaM In Pert IS/21 Sapt 27 Sad LOON HSIN6 S«M la Part 20/22 21 Sept LOONFAT 29/22 Sad 23/25 Sad 2i/2tSap<
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