The Business Times, 20 February 1980

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C4P) No. 111/1/89 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2», MM SO CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 69 1 UPI CANBERRA, Tues. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announced a massive military buildup today and Australia's intentions of helping the United States protect the Pacific and Indian oceans. In a speech to Parliament on the opening day of the summer session, Mr Fraser also reiterated the government's support for
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    • 84 1 UPI LONDON, Tues. Saudi Arabia plans to build up its gold reserves to US$B.B billion by the end of 1980 and then by a further $3.05 billion a year, bankers Hill Samuel's gold and currency expert Julian Philips said today. According to him, the first purchases, totalling
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    • 57 1 Reuter TEHERAN, Tues. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny, delegating his constitutional power, appointed President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr Commander-in-Chief of Iran's armed forces. In a message to the president carried by the official Pars news agency, the Ayatollah, in hospital recovering from a heart complaint, said he made the appointment because
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    • 71 1 Reuter JAKARTA, Tues. Falling world coffee prices have forced Indonesia to reduce its check price export surcharge and additional export levies for the second consecutive month, a government spokesman said today. He said the export surcharge for Robusta had been reduced to US$3.l2 per kilogram from $3.46
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    • 62 1 AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Any military pact involving the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) would be a set back to the proposed zone of peace, freedom and neutrality (Zopfan) in this region, Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Mohtar Hashim said. Malaysia was against such a pact
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    • 32 1 FRANKFURT, Tues. West Germany last year recorded its first current account balance of payments deficit for 14 years, a shortfall of U555,200 million, the central bank said today.
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    • 48 1 AP LONDON, Tues. The afternoon fixing here today of U*****.25 an ounce was down from $661.75 at the morning fixing, and down from $661.50 at yesterday afternoon's fixing. The HONGKONG market remained closed today, while NEW YORK was also closed yesterday for Washington's Birthday. AP.
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    • 63 1 AP NEW YORK, Tues. Stock prices moved sharply lower in early trading, as major US banks raised their prime lending rate to 15 3 A per cent. ,TheJ>ow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 6.99 to 977.99 in the first half hour as losers outnumbered gainers by
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  • 139 1 Rises Indices Canting* 555 55 Feb 14 Feb 19 D Keramat 1300 30 B.T.Index: 4116.06 4106.03 Straits Trading Emo Magnum Corpn MBS 965 30 Industrials: 476.28 483.26 620 585 297 30 30 30 28 Finance: Hotels: 866.29 882.77 418.77 419.29 Hong Leong 348 Properties: 351.45 351.06 O
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    171 1 Rises Indices S Mai Tin (M) 2000 75 Feb 15 Feb 19 Petaling Tin 1340 +60 B.T.Index: 6581.99 6488 12 Malayan Tin Jeram 3100 +50 Industrials: 526.58 532.20 370 +40 Finance: 783.33 789.08 Genting 560 +40 Hotels: 327.32 326.47 Magnum A Amal Hong Leong Malex GOO +30 Properties:
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  • 624 1  -  SALES OF $200 m BY 1990 By FOO CHOY PENG THE Government has drawn up a plan to develop a sophisticated export-ori-ented computer industry generating an annual revenue of $200 million within a decade. It expects that the industry will employ some 20,000 computer personnel by
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  • 300 1 BACKED by the strong improvements of its subsidiaries, Prima Flour Mills recorded a 74.5 per cent jump in group operating profits to $18.46 million lor the year ended Dec 31, 1979. The company's directors have recommended a final dividend of 4 per cent taxexempt and 10 per
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  • 306 1 CHEAPER vegetables, eggs and fish brought down the general price level for food last month but failed to offset a moderate increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The CPI for January from the 1979 month showed a sizeable gain of 7.4 per cent. It
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  • 276 1 FINANCE Minister Hon Sui Sen will deliver the opening address at an international forex conference in June. The conference, the 22nd Association Cambiste Internationale (ACI) Congress, comprising foreign exchange clubs of the world, is organised by the Singapore Forex Club and will be held in Singapore
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  • 130 1 BURSTING with renewed vigour and enthusiasm, the Year of the Monkey swung into the Singapore stock market distributing gains on various counters. A four-day break from trading was apparently much too long for many investors, and msintalning that spirit of festive generosity, buyers pushed the Straits Times
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  • 270 1 A COMMITTEE ef Sue Derby's beard ef director» will bml this afterta euslier the gnap*! laterim remits. Hefleettag the market's wait far the remits, the share price ef 81 me flaetaated mdleraMy yesterday meralag ea the Stack Exehaage ef Sagapare. Opealag streagly at
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  • 442 1  -  By TEO TECK WENG LATEST estimates for the three massive hotels and a shopping complex at Marina Centre show the total cost of the project, taking into account cost escalations, will be between $600 and $700 million. Piling is expected to start in the latter
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    • 141 1 FOR PEOPLF WHO MATTER This unique publication offers businessmen each month a comprehensive guide to the latest developments taking place in alf important sectors of the economies of countries in East and Southeast Asia. The Bulletin is divided into six separate reports of about 8,000 words each. There is a
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  • TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    • 254 2 TEXTILES, dried goods, kwayteow, towgay, fruits, vegetables, meat and fish must be sold only in metric units from this year as laws will soon be introduced to make this mandatory for all retailers. This was announced by Mr Chia Boon Pin,
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    • 114 2 HEWLETT PACKARD Singapore will celebrate a decade of operations in Singapore next week. The company, which began operating in 1970 with only 13 workers, now has a workforce of 2,000. To commemorate the event, Hewlett Packard Singapore (HPS) has invited the MP for Telok Blangah,
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    • 221 2 CAR maintenance tools developed locally by Toff-Koto Singapore are now being used worldwide in Tuff-Koto rustprooflng centres. One snch tool is a Alitor that is claimed to ent down maintenance time, allowing for cleaning of an airless pump once in six months instead of monthly. The second innovation
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    • 252 2 THE Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) has outlined specialised training programmes to meet manpower requirements arising from the possible implementation of a mass rapid transit (MRT) system in Singapore. Study findings by the VITB show that the following types of manpower
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    • 174 2 THIS IS the master control room where an Australian-designed computer system is coordinating the movement of traffic through the city of Sydney with 33 cameras covering 153 intersections. The master control room will incorporate regional computers to manipulate traffic flow at major intersections within a 32
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    • 223 2 A HIGH powered team of economic and scientific experts from China will speak on the Chinese economy in the 1980s at a seminar to be held in Hongkong. The seminar, from March 7 to 8, is designed to give a first-hand view of
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    • 148 2 AUSTRALIAN National Industries Ltd (ANI) has bought over a local company, Container Care Ltd, for less than $240,000. This is the first step in the Australian company's multi-million-dollar programme to expand its internation] container repair and storage operations. The company expects fb spend up
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    • 278 2 LPS MEN IN low-grade jobs, such as messengers, are more likely to die of heart disease than top administrators, according to a new research in Britain. A survey of nearly 20,000 civil servants has shown what are described as "astonishing differences" in the risk of fatal
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    • 142 2 CENTURY Park Sheraton Singapore has announced the appointment of Blefeari H* as assistant director of sales and marketing. Mr Ho, a business administration graduate from the University of Sydney, has spent 11 years -ia the hotel industry. Meanwhile. Mandarin »n Singapore has announced >d the appointment of
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    • 96 2 THIS IS an integral cabinet/chassis assembly for an electronic visual display unit (VDU) manufactured in structural cellular thermoplastic. The manufacturer, Hettinga Equipment Inc of lowa in the US, says the advantages of this system include high strength to weight ratio, excellent dimensional stability and very good
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    • 687 2 COURSES AND TALKS Feb 4-29: Course for School Inspectors, RELC, Ministry of Education Feb 22: Technical Talk, RELC, Singapore Manufacturing Engineers Feb 26: Technical Talk, RELC, Singapore Manufacturing Engineers Feb 28: Quality Control Circle Meeting, RELC, SQRA > Feb 28-29: Computer Appreciation, Shangri-La, Price Waterhouse March 3-4: How
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    • 276 2 MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS IMPROVING ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS Seminar I Seminar II HOW TO ANALYSE STRUCTURE MANAGER AND TEAM YOUR ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT Singapore: 3—4 March 1980. Singapore: 6 7 March 1980 Kuala Lumpur: 10-11 March 1980 Kuala Lumpur: 13 14 March 1980 Content: Organisation structure—roles, Content: Characteristics of a well desystems, procedures,
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  • REGIONAL
    • 413 3 AFP THE Indonesian 10,500 billion rupiahs (US$l6.B billion) draft budget will come up for a final vote on Feb 28, with the Muslim PPP (United Development Party) faction giving advance notice that it may reject the bill unless the government gives in
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    • 267 3 AFP THAILAND'S third Kriangsak Chomanan cabinet members officially took up their posts yesterday when they took the oath of office' before King Bhumibol Adulyadet in the northern capital of Chiang Mai. The Prime Minister and his new cabinet, announced on Feb 11, would be
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    • 107 3 Reuter PENINSULAR Malaysia's trade surplus narrowed to MJ217.7 million in October from $253.2 million in September, compared with $209.3 million a year earlier, the Statistics Department said. October exports rose to $1.78 billion from $1.70 billion in September and $1.35 billion in October a year
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    • 362 3 Reuter JAPAN'S overall balance of payments deficit widened to U552.22 billion in January from a downward revised $512 million deficit in December and a $974 million deficit a year ago, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report. The January current account deficit widened
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    • 158 3 AP. THE Bangkok-based Dusit Thani Corporation recently signed an agreement with Chinese officials to build a 50ft-room first-class hotel in China, a spokesman for the company said yesterday. The hotel will be constructed at Zhem Zhen city in the southern Chinese province of
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    • 92 3 JAPAN yesterday decided to exchange instruments of ratification of a new JapanUS extradition treaty to replace the old one concluded in 1886. In the new treaty, which will go into force a month after the exchange of ratification instruments between the two governments, 47 offenses are
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    • 48 3 PAKISTAN has asked Japan to sharply increase its aid following the Soviet invasion of neighboring Afghanistan, a Japanese official said on Monday. Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Yasue Katori made the report to Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira after returning from a visit to Pakistan on monday.
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    • THE REGION IN BRIEF
      • 481 3 Agencies AUSTRALIAN Premier of Queensland Joh BjelkePetersen, on a visit to Tokyo said talks are proceeding with different countries on possible investment in Australia's proposed first uranium enrichment plant. He said: "I wish to put up the proposition to Japan," but did not name other countries being approached
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    • 143 3 Reuter NORTH and South Korean representatives yesterday failed to reach agreement on the venue for proposed talks between their prime ministers, but decided to continue discussions on March 4, a Southern spokesman said. The talks, the second contact aimed at arranging the premiers meeting
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 768 4 ALONG with most other commodities, the market for lumber in Japan has been on a bullish course of late. According to a recent issue of the authoritative Japan Economic Journal, trading companies have "successively boosted log prices on the ground of depleting inventories." This naturally
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    • 40 4 Rubber: Feb 19 Singapore: March: 381.00 cents (down 8.00 cents) Malaysia: March: 386.00 cents (down 7.00 cents) Tin: M 52,227 (up $16) (equivalent to $36.82 per kilo) (up 26 cents) Official offering: 113 Vi tonnes (up 4Vi tonnes)
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    • 341 4 THE SINGAPORE market closed lower yesterday with March One RSS buyers quoted at 381.00 cents per kilo, down eight cents from last Thursday's close, dealers said. Morning prices were marked down three cents on stale bull releases and forward offerings, they said. Afternoon prices fell further on lack of
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    • 406 4 R A S prices In cents per kilo yesterday: Noon Close (per kilo) (per kilo) Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int. 1 R.S.S prompt f o b 378.00 380 00N ***** 373 00N Int. I R.S.S. March 388 00 390 00 381 00 383 00 Int. 1 R.S.S. April
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    • 125 4 NOON SSR tnd SMR i pnco ye*terday RAS March April (Curreat Mtfc) (Forward Mth) Buyera Seller* Buyer* Sailers SSR 20 11 -tot t pallet) .***** *****N 334 00 336 OON SSR 50 (1-tOI i pallet) 327 00 329 OON 331.00 333 OON MRELB March April SMR CV
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    • 97 4 THE Straits Ha price ii Peaaag yesterday rase M|lC per Meal to $2,227, to stud $227 abeve toe latoraattsaal Tla Agreemeat celling, dealers said. lie firmer seatfmeat was bssstod by steadier Leadsa advices ud a eeatiaaed lew tia ere delivery with mast miaers still away far toe CUaeac
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    • 63 4 THE MARKET in Kuala Lumpur traded under steady conditions yesterday. Prices were unchanged from last Thursday's level in very quiet trading as most operators were still away for the Chinese lunar year holidays, dealers said. Pakistan was reported tendering for neutralised palm oil March position. In the central
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    • 159 4 CHINESE Prtdict Ex* chaage, Stogapere, aaaa cMig prices per pica! yesterday: Caeeaat all: Bulk $107 sellers, old drum $113 sellers, new drum $117 sellers. Gapra: Mixed (loose) UK/ Cont 165.00 buyers. Pepper: Muntok ASTA white fob 100% NLW $335.00 sellers, Sarawak while fob 96% NLW $320.00 seUers, Sarawak
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    • 176 4 CHICAGO Board of Trade wheat futures closed steady on Monday, unchanged to up US 2'/« cents a bushel. After trading on a weaker tone in early trade, domestic commercial buying supported the market most of the day. The lower Argentine 1979/ 80 wheat crop estimate put out by the
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    • 124 4 CHICAGO Board of Trade soybean futures closed on the lows, US 5V4 to 2'A cents a bushel lower, in revived trading volume on Monday. Traders said that computer-directed commission house selling was the main feature in late trade. Slow cash movement limited any hedge pressure but equally lacklustre domestic
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    • 248 4 SINGAPORE: Yesterday's closing prices in SI per kilo, ex-godown: THAI WHITE: 100 per cent first class (Kangaroo) new crop 0.98, 100 per cent second class 0.83, 100 per cent third class 0.81, 25 per cent new crop no stock, B-10 per cent 0.70. THAI BROKEN: A-super 0.63, Special 0.57.
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    • 811 4 SUGAR: Number two raw sugar futures sold off further yesterday morning but finally staged a partial rally on mixed short covering, to close with pared on balance losses of £9.75 to £7.25 per tonne. The number four raws market followed a similar pattern, closing the morning £11 to
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    • 61 4 THE EEC Commission is taxing community exports of raw sugar because of the rise in world prices, a Commission spokesman said. A levy of 6.05 ECUs, US$B.7O, per 100 kilos took effect on Saturday, the spokesman said. Its effect is to stop depletion of EEC stocks by suppliers
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 637 4 TOKYO Source: DBS-Daiwa THE MARKET was very calm yesterday after Monday's sharp decline. Large capitalisation issues, heavily traded over the last two days, lost ground on profittaking. Coal, non-ferrous metal and machine-tool issues were bought in place of these heavily traded issues. Investors seemed to be still on
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    • 432 4 A LATE rally yesterday (ailed to reverse a day of (ailing stock prices with investors apparently diverted to more attractive prospects in the US and Japan following higher interest rates there, dealers said. The AU-artttnaries index finished the dsy at 905.17, down 555 from Monday. Minings suffered particularly with
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    • 262 4 PRICES closed mixed yesterday in weak trading, dealers said. Industrial Finartce Corp rose one baht to 134, Capital Trust down 2.50 to 59.50, First Trust lost one to 70, and Jalaprathan Cement and Rama Tower were unchanged at 122 and 87.50 baht. FEB It Bants Asia Credit 196 2
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    • 57 4 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Monday 4*310 Friday 482.0 Week ago 406.9 DOW JONE8 AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Monday cloaed Friday MLM Week ago WfcM HXHANG SENG Tuesday Cloaed Monday Cloaed Week ago ***** SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 001.48 Monday 683 J3» Week ago «71.91 ALL ORDINARIES Tuesday 806.18 Thursday #47.47 Week ago
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 685 5 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Tint From GIA GA980 1030 HLP SIA MAS SQ103 mm ioe 1045 KUL KUL GIA GAS44 1065 PKU GIA GA908 1100 MES UB UB231 1115 RGN SIA SQ240 1125 MES THAI TG423 1125 BKK PAL PR501 1135 MNL SIA SQC 1135 MNL
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    • 220 5 Reuter PIERRE Trudeau swept back into power in Canada's general e lotions yesterday, barely two months after the former prime minister had announced his intention of quitting as leader of the Liberal Party. As Prime Minister Joe Clark conceded defeat after only nine months in
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    • 209 5 Reuter WHILE hundreds of thousands of car workers are out of work in the United States, employees of the Ford Motor Co's Brook Park facilities are seeking stricter limits on the number of foreign cars brought into the country. But an industry executive says
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    • 223 5 AFP EGYPTIAN Economics and Foreign Trade Minister Ha rued el Sayeh yesterday ruled out any special trade relationship with Israel as a result of normalisation between the two countries. He told the newspaper A 1 Ahram the normalisation would mean an end to the boycott
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    • 156 5 AP THE British government announced, after agreeing with the European Common Market Commission, it is curbing imports of artificial fibres used in carpet making to protect ailing British industries. British Trade Secretary John Nott was criticised for not making the curbs strong enough when he told the
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    • 174 5 Reuter FRANCE has no intention of refunding Iran its billion dollar share in the Eurodif Uranium enrichment plant, French Industry Minister Andre Giraud said. It is a matter for the French law courts to settle, he told reporters. Mr Giraud, commenting on a statement by
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    • 115 5 THE Sultanate of Oman has clarified, through a release in Singapore, its recent talks on defence matters with the United States. A government spokesman in Muscat says Oman is considering what facilities it might grant to the US in view of the dangerous situation in the Middle
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    • 439 5 NYT UPI THE American hostages in Iran must be released within a specific period of time or the UN inquiry commission will abandon its task, officials at the UN disclosed on Monday night. This was the outcome of 6 Vk hours of
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 336 5 Agencies THIS week's long term planning meeting in London of Opec will examine an Iraqi proposal to set up a fund to help developing nations, the Iraqi news agency said. Under the plan,, oil producing and industrialised states would help reduce the impact of inflation and rising
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  • 384 6 COMPUTERS have always fired the imagination of man because of their seemingly limitless capacity for work. There are of course the myths about what these machines can do. Science fiction writers have often conjured up visions of computers running cities and machines that can create even
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  • 275 6 INNOVATION is a word which has gained currency in Singapore only recently, but the process which it describes must have been at work since the founding of Singapore for it is only through innovation that a tiny trading village could have grown to the metropolis
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  • 919 6  -  By REGINALD STUART NYT THE FORD PINTO trial may go down as a spirited but defective prototype for trying a new hybrid in American courtrooms a case in which a manufacturer is tried on criminal charges for an allegedly defective product. The existence
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  • 768 6  -  What happens to Yugoslavia if Jcsip Broz Tito leaves the stage? ANTHONY ROBINSON reports. ANTHONY ROBINSON FT THE SERIOUS Hin»« of Yugoslavia's 87-year-old President Josip Broz Tito is sending waves of nervousness around a world already deeply unsettled by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Strategists, who interpreted
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  • 287 7 AIRLETTERS from India have become the Coffee Board of India's medium for letting the world know „What good coffee from that country is all about. Drawn on one page is the head of a handsome-look-ing Sikh complete with turban and luxuriant flowing beard with the declaration
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  • 740 7  -  FOBUHi with JAMES RESTON NYT PRESIDENT Carter has a good idea about registering both men and women in the United States for national service, but he hasn't gone far enough. He has been too military, apparently even in the judgment of his own wife. He
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • EUROPEAN MARKETS
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      • 78 8 KEB 18 Fn FORWARD MARKET Acec Arbed Astur 322 2145 CM 4 -85 -28 Braacan Bru-Lamb 062 16S0 -m unch Canpac Cock I> Bern 1112 343 368 -90 I -3 Ebei EJwtrobel 2190 sno -20 80 Gb-Inno-Bm Gfi 2545 906 -55 18 Hobok Petro Ryl Dutch 3156 5040 2440
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      • 314 8 Reuter PLANS for the fins wis) rescue of Industrie Pirelli SPA., the Mh Italian nfwiHwg subsidiary of the PlreDi SPA group, have made further progress with the formation of a banking consortium to back part of a capital increase, banking sources said. A consortium led by Mediobanca
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      • 153 8 Reuter BP AUSTRALIA has confirmed its plans to buy a 50 per cent stake in the Milmerran, Queensland, low grade coal deposit through its purchase of Milmerran Coal Pty Ltd. Milmerran Coal is a privately owned company which has SO per cent of the Milmerran
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      • 99 8 BRITISH Ley land is studying a long-term partnership accord with Japan's Honda, it was reported in die Sunday Telegraph in London. It would entail major investments over the next 10 to 15 years to enable British Leyland, in difficult social and financial straits, to diversify its range of
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    • 69 8 8m Paga 4 tor Asian stocks NYSE was clo—d on Monday for Washington's birthday Tj Q? r'j'tJ&Lnjj ns\ t RWfllf fi Robins Tavern. The place to go to, after work. To relax, and to enfoy your favourite drink. In a co«y, soothing atoaoapkere wttli cool, a lire group. Viait na
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 375 9 THE Chartered Buk has promoted three of its officers to the rank of SubAccountant. They are: Messrs Chia Song Ngee, John Leow Lip Chuan and Benny Sit Kim Guan. Mr Chia Song Ngee joined the bank in 1947 and has seved in a variety of posts,
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    • 284 9 IN A BUSY finale to a nervous week, events last Friday morning compounded confusion and left participants wondering which way to look next. First, the Labour Department announced a 1.6 per cent jump in January producer prices for finished goods, twice the 0.6-0.8
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    • 100 9 A LOAN for the Bank of China being lead managed by Union de Banques Arabes et Francaises-Übaf has been reduced to US$3OO million over five years from an originally planned 1500 million. The interest rate on the credit, which will be signed in London on Feb
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    • 351 9 BANK of Japan will raise the reserve requirement ratios for commercial banks from next month to reduce monetary liquidity in Japan as part of its price-curbing policy. Bank officials said details of the bank's plan for increasing the ratios are still under discussion
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    • 176 9 BANK of America has just signed a credit agreement committing up to US$3OO million, for the financing of nuclear fuel for Commonwealth Edison Company. Committed for a period of five years, it will support the issuance of commercial paper by Commonwealth Fuel Company and provide credit to
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGE$
      • 562 9 THE U.S. dollar closed generally firmer against the major currencies in active trading yesterday after the Bank of Japan announced a one per cent increase in its discount rate to 7.25 per cent. From a high of 244.95/06 yen, the dollar fluctuated for the most part of the
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      • 22 9 THE average rate at which major Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers is 10.5 per cent.
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      • 182 9 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on Feb 19: US Dollar*(Spot) Offer Bid 7 days IS 5/16 153/16 1 month 16'< 16'« 2 months 1511/1615 9/16 3 months 15 13/16 15 11/16 6 months 1513/16 1511/16 9 months 15 15'j 12 months 15 7/16 15 5/16
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      • 211 9 GOLD futures in Singapore yesterday closed generally easier compared with last Friday's close here, dealers said Trading was very quiet throughout the day owing to lack of interest and also to the holiday in Hongkong, they said. Turnover for the day was 102 lots while kerts was seven lots
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      • 315 9 THE U.S. dollar opened firmer yesterday against most major currencies compared with its closing levels here on Monday night, largely on the back of the stronger Eurodollar deposit rates, dealers said. They noted the deposit rates have risen about v« across the board in the wake of the 3/16
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      • 167 9 THE DOLLAR for overnight delivery closed sharply firmer yesterday at 245.10 yen, compared with a 245.00 opening and 243.80 at Monday's close, after active central bank yen-support intervention, dealers said. Trading Was heavy, with volume of US$9l9 million. The Bank of Japan sold an estimated $150 to 1200 million
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    • 280 9 THE Maaiiabaned Asian Devetopmeat Baak'i total leadlag to 191» totalled U551,251.58 bOBm tor 57 to 18 devetoptag member eeaatrles (DMCa). It «aid to tto quarterly review that ton totalling $835.25 mllltoa «we (ran the balk's wflwry capital fMWCM Mi $418J8 mllHta trMD
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    • 655 9 A PROPOSAL to limit bank exposure to foreign exchange risk could, if enforced, lead to a shift of business from London to other less restrictive financial centres. A draft version of the plan, in which the Bank of England suggests limits based on
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    • 85 9 LLOYDS Bank International Ltd said it decided to close operations of its Amsterdam subsidiary Gilissen Jonker NV and curtail local activities of another unit, Bax' Bank NV of the Hague, following a review of its activities in the Netherlands. Lloyds branches in Amsterdam and Rotterdam will cease
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    • 250 9 STANDARD Chartered Finance BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank Limited proposes to issue US$75 million guaranteed floating rate notes (FRN) 1990 through an international syndicate led by J Henry Schroder Wagg and Co Limited and European Banking Company Limited together with Morgan Stanley International
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    • 145 9 The international bank with your interests at heart. Dai-lchi Kangyo Bank is Japan's largest bank. With total assets of over 73 billion dollars. But our size doesn't make us impersonal. A worldwide staff of financial experts ready to give your project their individual attention. And we have your interests at
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  • 1849 10 BID and otter prices officially Uvted and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of ftagapore yesterday with the number of shares traded ■hown in brackets in lots of 1.0« units unless otherwise specified SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL r A e COMMERCIAL
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  • 164 10 SINGAPORE I NIT TBl'ST INCOME BOND UNIT (MiMfffi' prket i far Pel ni) (Carres t ft teea) The Commerce 2.44 2.S9 Income Bond 1 19 1.X The Saving Fund 159 1 69 S'pore Pnoff Fund Sporr See Fund 109 1 15 1.94 2 06 MAKA BI'MIPITBA S pore
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  • 2738 10 Gr's Gr's i Net 1979/1980 Last Div Div Y'ld P/E Vol Dav High Low Company Sale or- C'vr COOO) High Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 308 207 Acma 295 unch 15.0 2.2 5.0 15.1 13 295 293 233 123 Alcom 223 unch 10.0 1.3 4.4 29.7 1
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  • 2230 10 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange last Friday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units, unless otherwise stated. INDCSTWAU; Arm* <3 MS) 3 00 Aka« (2.298 2.305) (3) 2
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  • 730 10 BUYERS retaraed with renewed «est to puk prices broadly higher at the Slagapere Stock Exehaage yesterday, the first tradiag mdn ia the Laaar Year ef the Meahey. CfMaiMe atteatlaa was feeased aa flasace stocks which eaee again shewed streag galas aerass the heard. Brekers aeted
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  • 577 10 THE first trading day of the new Year of the Monkey ended on a rather mixed note on the Kuala Lumpur Stock market yesterday. Trading was fairly active. A burst of buying support, as though investors were ushering in the new year, gave the market
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 469 11  -  By P GUNASEGARAM ALTHOUGH Far East-Lev-ingston Shipbuilding (FELS) has slumped further into the red for the past year, it is optimistic of an upturn in the next two years. The company has recorded a pre-audit loss of about $5.5 million for the year ended Dec
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    • 637 11 THREE plantation companies within the Sime Darby stable Kempas (Malaya), Benta Plantations and Taiping Consolidated recently released an encouraging set of interim profits which could, in some ways, herald the trend of results expected soon from leading Malaysian plantation companies for financial 1979. All three
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    • 87 11 TAIPING Textile has announced that its proposed bonus issue of 5.625 million shares in the ratio of onefoi -four has been approved by the Malaysian Capital Issues Committee. The issue will raise its capital from MJ22.5 million to $28,125 million. The new shares will rank pari passu
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    • 166 11 MALAYAN lilted Industries will hold an EOGM on March 8 to approve the issue and allotment of a further 11,536,200 ordinary shares of $1 each Holders of existing shares to March 10 are entitled to a rights issue of one new ordinary share of $1 each for every
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    • 406 11 Date L Mt Pall Ye ar Company PerM Amueed Net EPS Grws Pre-tax last year (eeato) Div. Preflt M'wata Steel <%> (WW) I 22/12 12.4 10.0TE 14,803 Folex Ind d F 18/1 2.7 0.0 858 Nat Iron F 7/2 57.8 *17.9 37,679 F E Le'ston F 8/2 0.0
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    • 166 11 MORE THAN 900 employees of the Kuala Lumpur and Penang Merlin hotels will receive salary increases of between 12 per cent and 17 per cent. The wage increases were endorsed when the managements of both establishments signed collective agreements with representatives of the
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    • 345 11 "WHATEVER was Sime Darby's rationale behind its bid for Guthrie Corporation last year, it could not have been economies of scale it was an opportunistic bid that failed." This is the reaction of Sfcr Bernard Lewis, Guthrie director and managing
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    • 177 11 MALAYSIA Building Ssdety (MBS) hat iMraaei Its earnings rsnsldrrably f«l--towing a sharp rise la toaas given Mt. The campnny's pre-tax pnflt far the year eaded Dee SI, lWt, rate a sslid 41 per ceat to Mf21.1l milltoa. Mortgage toaas receivable at the end sf
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    • 484 11 UOCM3 Stf(D®CL^ by HOCK LOCK SIEW THE current demand for property shares may not be as feverish as it was a few weeks ago. But this is not to say that interest in the sector has diminished. After all, the property sector will always remain a major
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    • 259 11 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for Payment Date Close Payable the year Previous year A Molek 25%<f) Feb 4 Feb 14 Feb 25 25% 20% B Kawan 10% Jan 29 Feb 8 Feb 27 15% 12£% Duff Dev 2-5% Feb 5 Feb 15 Feb 27 5%
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    • 73 11 NOTICE To the holders of the floating rate U.S. Dollar Certificates of Deposit due 23rd August, 1982 of: The Mitsui Bank, Limited Hong Leong Building. 16 Raffles Quay Singapore 0104. We hereby certify that the rate of interest payable on the above-mentioned certificates of deposit for the interest period beginning
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    • 101 11 o* o\uv^ n c J i *va ri*Tf'il*T*l RWfmSSfl t\» UPS* V st TVA 9 0 0 w »7/ discrimi schizophrenia? Is the Abominable Snowman having a secret affair with Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster? cheered as the answers to these and many other equaHy momentous questions have been launched
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  • 653 12  -  By LEE YOKE MENG THE insurance commissioner of Singapore yesterday warned local life insurance companies against being lulled into complacency by what they have achieved or by their own misconception that Singapore is a closed market for the industry. Speaking at the opening of a
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  • 220 12 A .NEW management structure is now in force at the United Overseas Bank (UOB) Group. The change includes several new appointments of deputy chairman, vice-chairman and six general managers to head the principal operating divisions. With immediate effect, the position of managing director is
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  • 782 12 LONDON, Tues. The market closed mixed with a higher bias in quiet trading, dealers said, and at 3 pm, the FT index was unchanged at 463.0. Government bonds closed with gains of around point, reacting technically to recent weakness and aided by UK Chancellor of Exchequer Geoffrey Howe's
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  • 256 12 THE sale of Cockpit Hotel in Oxley Rise, which has been under receivership for over a year, has been confirmed. The buyer, Mr Kevin Hsu, owner of Kevin Jewellery Singapore (Pte) Ltd, is believed to have paid $45.5 million for the 10,343 square metres
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  • 355 12  -  By WANG LOOK KEAH SINGAPORE Airlines has awarded a $19.2 million subcontract to design and build the roof of its clear-span hangar a the Changi Airport to McDermott South-East Asia. McDermott, an American oil rig fabrication company which won the contract against strong competition from
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  • 198 12 AIR LANKA will soon decide between the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-3po series and the Lockheed Tristar 500 aircraft for its fleet expansion. The newly-formed national carrier of Sri Lanka has decided to buy two wide-bodied aircraft and evaluation studies on the DC-10 and the Tristar 500 have been
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  • 351 12 SPORTS Reuter THE surprising United States, a young and inexperienced team, continued to march towards an anticipated showdown with the awesome Soviet Union for the ice hockey gold medal in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The Americans, for the most part a
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  • 117 12 AFP. THE FOREIGN Ministers of Europe's nine Common Market countries were expected to discuss European Economic Community (EEC) policy on the question of an Olympic Games boycott, at their scheduled meeting in Rome yesterday. Although the subject at the top of the agenda would
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  • 62 12 IN LAST Thursday's Business Times report headlined "Chong Gay faces injunction", it was said that Chong Gay was seeking a $2.5 million bank loan on a third mortgage of its property. This is inaccurate. The sum represents moneys already advanced to Chong Gay before the intended execution
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  • 188 12 Reuter JAPAN'S new foreign exchange law will retain some controls over capital transactions, although current transactions will be largely liberalised, a senior official of the Japanese Finance Ministry said. The law will be enforced before the end of September this year and detailed regulations are being
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  • 161 12 Reuter BRITAIN'S Conservative government, divided over how to handle trade unions, yesterday unveiled complex proposals to mildly strengthen legislation aimed at curbing union power. The announcement by Employment Minister James Prior came amj<i mounting concern over violence on picket lines and with
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 66 12 Outlook for Singapore from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. today: Windy with showers in a few places after midday. Report tor 24 btore prior to 7.3t p.m. on Feb II at the airport. Maximum temperature 31.5 Associated humidity 65 Minimum temperature 24.0 Associated humidity 97 Hours of sunshine 5.20 Rainfall
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 61 13 Reuter NICHIMEN Co Ltd said it has won an 8.6 billion yen order from the Malaysia International Shipping Corp (MISC) to build two 31,300 pwt combined timber/bulk carriers. Kanda Shipbuilding Co Ltd will build the carriers for delivery of one in December 1981, and the other in March
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      • 77 13 AP THE first ship from mainland China to come to the state of Oregon in 30 years arrived on Monday afternoon with a cargo of arts and crafts, food and other bulk merchandise. The freighter Rong Cheng will return to Shanghai with a cargo of Pacific
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      • 49 13 AN ISRAELI oil tanker, the 70,000-ton Irene, will become the first Israeli vessel to take on oil in the Alma region of western Sinai next week, the Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The Irene will ply regularly between Alma and Israel's Eilat port in the Red Sea.
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      • 73 13 A FILIPINO crewman on the 4,804-ton Liberianregistered freighter Alan died in hospital on Monday after falling from the ship at a pier in Oita, Japan, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency said. It also said the bodies of two crewmen from a Japanese freighter which sank in the sea
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    • 512 13  -  By G DURAIRAJ MAJOR ports in Peninsular Malaysia are likely to lower their tariffs for coastal vessels engaged in domestic trade. The lower tariffs is one of the measures proposed by the ports to promote the government's cabotage policy which came into force last
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    • 577 13 SMpptag Uae PH« (M f f PH® Gal Adriatic IV 5 Dong Sue VI 5 Afea VI 3 DSR VI 3 Alfred vm 2 EAC Lines n 4/5 All trans VI 2 East Malaysia VI 4 Alpac VI 5 Egyptian Int vm 1 Angkutan VI 4 EUat
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    • 617 14 MORE than 1,000 ships with a crew total of 10,000 are expected to take part in an international sailing event at Amsterdam from Aug 612. Indications are that Sail Amsterdam 1960 will be a much bigger event than Sail Amsterdam 1975 organised to celebrate the
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    • 956 14 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO AT CONTAINER TERMINAL NB. (1) Each vessel's estimated time of arrival Is advised by the Shipping Line/Agent and is subject to change (2) All export FCL containers and LCL cargo must be delivered to the Authority's premises during the following
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    • 1434 14 THE market opened on a quiet note and brokers anticipate similar conditions yesterday due to Monday's Washington's birthday holiday in the US. Grain chartering was again very slow but cargos were booked from the US Gulf to Japan at $23 JO fio for Feb and from US North
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    • 1216 15 WHETHER they like it or not, Korean shipowners have been designated a position in the vanguard of the country's fight for self-suffi-ciency. Although in the words of one owner, "the terms are not good", the government has made available 30 billion won to domestic
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    • 279 15 A CORONER'S jury investigating the capsizing of a Taiwanese freighter that killed 30 crew members on Christmas Day has placed much of the blame on the slow response of Canadian authorities. The jury determined that the ore carrier Lee Wang Zin struck Celestial Reef
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    • 178 15 EIGHT young Cubans who used five rusty handguns and a bomb threat to hijack a Liberian freighter manned by Hongkong crewmen and force it to Key West told the first mate they would rather be eaten by a shark than return to Cuba. After the
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    • Article, Illustration
      427 15 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Bunga Raya (shifts after Fushimi Maru sails) 1/2 Chidambaram (Passenger) (0700 after Wakatake Maru) 42/43 Dong D (after Korean Crown Subj. freeboard) 23/ 24 Elizabeth Roth (after Dresden) 31/32 Everfaith (Clinker) (after Gudrun Bakke hauls) 5 Gudrun Bakke (hauls 115 m east
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    • 3516 19 SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for Ports around the World The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 825 20 AFP RATES continued to improve in the west while the tone remained firm in the east last week on the freight market. Active Chinese and Japanese interest, particularly in grains, gave encouragement to owners, as did the general demand in other
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    • 208 20 A GALA splash was planned by Lockheed Shipbuilding Construction Co to launch the 23,000-ton submarine tender McKee but the splash became a crash as the McKee slipped its bonds. During the lauching ceremonies on Saturday, the ship broke free and sped across the
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    • 135 20 The major shipping consortia operating between the Far East/Europe and Straits ports/Australia and the member lines. ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. 'K' Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia/Straits Container Line. Nedlloyd Lines. Neptune
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    • 189 20 OFFSHORE SwttMit Arift Ceafereaee aid EiMMU—- Feb 26-29, 1980, Singapore. Contact: Offshore SEA, 6-E Mt Sophia, Singapore 0923. Ocmumlhv latermatiml '8# CMfereaee ami ExMMtl«B March 2-7, VXD, Brighton, UK. Petroleum Geology of the Continental Shelf ,of Northwest Europe March 4-6, 1980, London. An international conference organised by the
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    • 186 20 THE London-based container consortium OCL is considering tenders to convert two 30,000 tonnes dwt containershipS from steam turbine to slow speed diese] engines. The vessels, Discovery Bay and the Moreton Bay are a little over ten years old and the company is still weighing
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    • 201 20 SEATRAIN Lines Inc said its revenue increased 46 Ccent to U*****.9 milfar the six-month period ended Dec 31,1979. Revenues for the same fiscal period last year were $331.3 million. Net income was $6.5 million compared to $7.0 million for the previous period. The company noted
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    • 1405 20 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and the agents who handle cargo bookings for them. A B Adriatic CwtalMr Container Feeders (S)/Cargo Freight (PK). AFEA Singapore Shipping Agencies (S)/Euro-Asia Line (PK/FN). Alfred C, Teepfer Sea Consortium (S)/Marintex Enterprise (PK). Alpae Intrasea (S)/Yeo Shpg and
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    • 372 13 aax§ SEALORD ANTAf I UASC UNITED ARAB SHIPPING COfSAG; WEEKLY MULTI-PURPOSE SERVICES loading for FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE Loading for Dubai (14/3), Damnum (16/3). Kuwait (18/3). I Abu Dhabi (20/3). Bahrain (22/3). 1 Mma Qaboos (24/3). Doha (26/3) Dubai (17/4), Dammam (19/4), Kuwait (21/4), I Abu Dhabi (23/4). Bahrain (25/4). Mma
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    • 590 14 LEO SHIPPING PTE LTD. SINGAPORE PERNAS-MISC SHIPPING AGENCIES SDN BHD PORT KELANG PENANG RfflJ, MALA YSIAN MTERNA TIQNAL SHPPHG CORPORA TtON BPRHAD HEAD OFFICE: WISMA MISC TEL: NO: KL *****8 Contjmr Service T> Ehw S pore 1) Mseiltn 2) Rdam 3) H burg 4) Gburg Feeder *PKe»ang Vessel S'pore 1)
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    • 468 15 Overseas Containers Limited Weekly service to/from UK/Europe STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok contaoirshp service to uk/cowtipit: CONTAOPBHP SOWCt FROM j/MTOW: (MP Mara Eft* Mm hM Eapnat f«kf> tor liiiipeel trf SINGAPORE MM6FIID aNffAMER SOMCES, PTE LTD *****1 K.LUMPUR: CONTAfIfR AGENCSS *****4, PJCELANG *****6/S PENANG BOUSTEAO
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    • 618 17 PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/R£DS£A HASTOKf ASEAN GREATNESS IE/IO 24 Feb *s£ an nations x/te is tu ASEAN LHRTT 31/ SO 7 Apr •SUN MISSION 4C/SO t May DCCHAAGJNG FROM EUROTE EUMK FUROR EIMPE Cl* STOW ASIAN GREATNESS 3*l/W 13 Ma, ASEAN NATIONS AN/10 9 Mir ASEAN LKRTY SN/I0 IS May
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    • 807 17 BEN LINE CONTAINERS k EM M MM QMBS CONTARER SONKt TO/FROM EUROTC KBUK BHA*M ROM HAVRE SOTQI S port P KeMaf WCarawny/ AirsJra Ai*»erp frmt» M til M M Pvt 11/) 12/3 IV) IV) V a/2 14/3 17/1 u/] a/I a/; -2/1 a/i «/i a/3 n/3 a/ 3/3 a/3 a/i
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    • 559 17 Scan Dutch V WEEKLY EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE 'UN Featei i ram an mm 1/1 IMI IVI itmm a/i imu a/i J MU IV4 i ramet a/4 I) lintoaa. C«m. la* In "Hi. UJL. Canary I 1) ImtaHiMii Mr h ftaPko* EAC Saert I urate? It 4an> 3>H barg 4)CbV| a/t
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    • 533 17 Page V BOUSTEAD SHIPPirgG AGENCIES BAN INE LTD E S OR NT L I U.S. GULF CMS! SERVICE (New (Means, MoMe. Houston, Gahreston) Seaport P KeUnt Kuantan US Gtdl I oust I ruts (dndi ft Mads).. 24/27 Feb 7 Apr GENEVWE LYMES (fed) ft loads) 4/7 Mar 12 tor DOLLY
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    • 824 18 8 K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. TO NORTH AMERICA feeder hessels* n EarOer letder f«Mh atu DiUk n n—it ah* acceptable tar Oakland Vmcwmt. Pwttand Hnh b. Mmtai Beitoe. WW. PMa*ptaa ftartaft. Utan, SatrMNb. tac*Mff*«. TO EUROPE I accepting cargoes la Scandbiavia ni Hunbwi) FROM EUROPE TO FAR EAST
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    • 434 18 calrorma/pacric north nest service Im*| Mr LOS MEEUS. SM FRRNCBCO. JEiTTIf. fACOM. MCOm RC EXPRESS CORTARU/CONVERTIONAL/ REEFER SERVICE Mlw| Smpport i AapN »f* i m- ni AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE NEW ZEALAND SERVICE IK HOHVA PRAtUT imiiTOH KUMCTOK MOUjM) hlKUaUkn Penanj P W»* Smpewf H Mar JAPAN SERVICE Ot/TWMfr reoiUMAv
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    • 482 18 l*« »l 11 SINGAPORE SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD .C" KOI" rx I AN Bun 0 SG S SGAPOBE VA»»{Ti*,G9'' 3 i S GfN{ u A 9>T'' '1 i iNE Si '(U< OS 2459S MS ft 8 CAOSmp tn/t ;aSjOSm'P Cinull (lontniiicr Lines WEEKLY CONTAINER SERVICE to/frcwn BANGKOK nor STOKOM) KIN
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    • 647 18 QRANARD LINE INDEPENDENT- A TTRACTIVE RA TES MEDITERRANEAN SEA SERVICE ACCEPTING CONTAiNEk CARGO FCL ONLY FOR; PORT SAID. ALEXANDRIA. BEIRUT. LATTAKIA. U MAS SOL. ISTANBUL PIRAEUS Specially engaged agents A stewdores providing immediate discharge mv. cm no vjml ljJi MV. MM CHEONC VJ7W SM* MV. MM FMK V 3M 4
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    • 572 18 '1 II INTRASEA (PTE) LTD. House 234E Orcha'd Road Singapore 9 Telephone *****M'*****5? MOM£k9MA'M»SMM REGULAR INDEPENDENT SEMI/FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE S'part P. Rating Parang Laadfav tar rtSTB N879 hPart SaM NANTES/UK (AVON) NANTES/IK (AVON) ROTTERDAM MmKK/ROTTEROAM BOULOGMi/UK (AVON) PBTBNB7O LkPvt SaM MANTES/UK (AVON) OLYMPtA ROTTERDAM HARMONY NB7I 27 Fak
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    • 165 19 TRUCONTAINER EXPRESS INTERNATIONAI (S) PTE LTO Suites 1311/1312. Shaw Towers. Bead) Rd, Singapore 0718 Regiiar Container Service accepting FCL/LCL Cargo for New Zealand Auckland, i. I Wellington,: <+> Littleton, Dunedin Australia Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sri Lanka Colombo, i. Europe and U.K. Call *****81 j Container leasing services IfSS ICCU
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    • 193 19 GARWARE SHIPPING CORPN. LTD. FOB BOIB4Y SMGAPOKE 23/25 FEB P KELANG RISHIVALMKI 23/25 FEB (MDMN FLAG-BUR.T ISM) RtSHI VtSHWAMTTRA 12/14 MAR (MDMN FIA64ULT 1970) Fa CONT AVERS ACCEPT AMI nam SWGAPORE. STRAITS SHP SERVICES (PTE) LTD., TEL: *****61/2, *****98 P. KELANG: PSO SMFPMG SON. BHD.. TEL: *****1-5 HEAP SENG TRADING
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    • 164 19 > \W: PERKAPALAN LAUTAN BIRU Regular Service to East Malaysia V Sia Sn<pp>ngiVliS(ln Bhd PorK ang Tel 38 77b* 38 747<) 38 Tei«» VA ***** S pore Gayd Ocean Shipping P?p Ltd Te< ***** 295C"4f, Te'P* OS ***** ANHSING OVERSEAS LINE «GULM SEN CONTAMER/LKR SOWW UNION CARIBBEAN UMON HSBON S
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    • 242 19 M.V. 'DOMINUS' ARRD > 8.2.80 PABIR PANJANG WHARVES CDN 303 Consignee of damaged cargo ex the above mentioned vessel are hereby notified that the General Survey will be held on the 20th February, 1900 from 0900 hours to 1000 hours. No further survey will be held after this date. LIAN
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 181 20 EGYPTIAN INTERNATIONAL LINE (EIL) EGYPTIAN FLAG FAST AND DIRECT LINER SERVICE TO EGYPT (PORT SAID ALEXANDRIA) STORE FT KEL PENAN6 PT SAD ALEXANDRIA NLEU Feb 28- Apr 20 MARTRANS CARGO PLEASE CONTACT SCHEMKER SINGAPORE TEL *****11 -r EGYPT ALEXANDRIA SINGAPORE Feb 10 Feb 2S PYRAMDS U Mar 3 Mar 19
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    • 90 20 ZIK INTERNATIONAL FREIGHTWAYS PTE LTD /iVPERKAPALAN LAUTAN BIRU W: Regular Service to East Malaysia Gaya Ocean Shippa* ft» IM. 5110, NOH HUP COWIEX (7ft I BEACH MMO. STORE *711 T«fc *****10 ft *****46 Loadnt toe KJC./Kudat H.V. HELLESPONT I SEA CONSORTIUM (PTE) L TO. SINCAP'W ill 9160?? ll* US rIIOS
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 138 20 SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND: Cente* of Tropical Depression, msTlmum wind speeds 22 —33 knots. I Direction of movement Centre of Tropical Storm, maximum wind speeds 34-64 knots. >0~ 8 indicated by arrow and Centre of Typhoon, maximum wind speeds 65 knots and above./
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