The Business Times, 11 September 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1984 60 CENTS
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  • 221 1 ASEAN countries should stop being heavily dependent on technology and expertise from developed nations in their industrialisation programmes, Malaysian Foreign Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen said yesterday. He said their over-depend-ence on imported technology, especially goods and services, had created a huge
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  • 92 1 Bernama MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin has urged Asean nations to consider changing their traditional practice of exporting on a free on board (FOB) and importing on a cost, insurance and freight (CIF) basis given the massive outflow in services account through freight and
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  • 575 1  -  Three million visitors this year if recovery continues By JAIME LYE TOURISM is poised to regain its status as one of Singapore's growth industries. Far from being the second year of falling figures, 1984 will see a record three million visitors to the island if
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  • 349 1 THE SKILLS Development Fund yesterday took the first major step to strengthen the weakest link in its overall training programme for Singapore's labour force. It has added a "training the trainer" scheme to its family of incentive schemes designed to encourage companies in training,
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  • 438 1  -  By i ALVIN TAY DBS BANK will become the first of the Big Four local banks to quote a double-digit prime lending rate in two years. The bank said yesterday that it would raise its prime rate by a quarter-point to 10 per cent
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  • 301 1  -  By FLORENCE CHONG FOREIGN banks and domestic companies wishing to take advantage of the opening up of Australia's banking sector have about 10 weeks to apply for a licence. They will then have to wait until early
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  • Article, Illustration
    66 1 ACROSS the board selling sent share prims an the Singapore stock market Iswer yesterday. Declines outnumbered advances by a massive 123 to 14. DsaUe-digit Issses were evident In blue chip lasses, which comprised beth the major local Indices. At the final bell, the BT Csmpestte Index bad fallen
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  • 251 1 THE SINGAPORE dollar is standing at the crossroads and its next move is crucial to its future value, according to Mr Mickey Bain of stockbrokers Lyall Evatt. Mr Bain's charts show that that the Singapore dollar is now up against not one,
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    • 259 1 TIMBER exports continued to be sluggish in July and did not help improve the cumulative performance of the first seven months. Totol export value fell by 10 per cent to $72.3 million. Paga 2 AMERICA'S booming high technology industries wont the government to lower their taxes, pump more money into
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 494 2  -  Total value drops by 10pc in July By JOHN LIM TIMBER EXPORTS continued to be sluggish in July and did nothing to help improve the cumulative performance of the first seven months this year. Total export value fell by 10 per cent from $80.4 million last
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    • 365 2 CONTRACTORS in these two charts (left) have a chance to build the work trains needed during the construction period of the Mass Rapid Transit system. Eleven contractors have been shortlisted by the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation for Contract 175, which involves
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    • 249 2  -  By BOEY KIT YIN A TRADE mission of Scottish businessmen will visit Singapore to strengthen Scotland's economic and trade ties with the Republic. The 26-member mission seeks to promote products ranging from anti-terrorist training targets and bus body kits to Scottish whisky and bottled
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    • 76 2 A CONFERENCE on the Economic Progress A Prospects of Sarawak, scheduled for yesterday, has been posponed to this Friday. This is because two keynote speakers Datuk Patinggi Taib Mahmud, the Chief Minister of Sarawak, and Dato Leo Moggie, Federal Energy, Post A Telecommunications Minister had to attend some
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    • Article, Illustration
      565 2 WIRE/ASIA W, the second such exhibition, will be held at the World Trade Centre from Jan 29 to Feb 1 next year. It has attracted about 100 suppliers and manufacturers from 18 countries. Wire/Asia is an international exhibition on wire and cable machinery. It will be supported by
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    • 303 3 FINANCE companies have been urged to adapt and innovate to changing conditions to remain competitive. Mr Ng Kim Leong, chairman of the Finance Houses Association of Singapore, made this call to members at a recent dinner to celebrate the association's 17th anniversary. Mr Ng
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    • 178 3 LABRI MARINE Pte Ltd was fined $20,000 yesterday for failing to take safety precautions for a barge repair job it undertook in 1962. Investigations by the Labour Ministry's Factory Inspectorate showed that an explosion on May 5, 1982, was caused by sparks, from a
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    • 164 3 JAPAN'S labour minister will lead a seven-man team to Singapore next week to review Tokyo's labour ties with Singapore. Mr Misoji Sakamoto will arrive on Sep 19 for a twoday visit, when he will meet his Singapore counterpart, Prof S Jayakumar. Their talks will
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    • 209 3 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER Sep 10-15 CAD/CAM: Printed CECTU Economic Circuit Board Development Design Board Sep 11-13 Decision-Making Hotel Equitorial Decision Processes Processes International Sep 12-14 Lead The Field Hotel Equatorial Transforma Pte Ltd Sep 12-14 Professional Selling World Trade Xerox Learning Sep 13-14 Skills ill
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    • 223 3 DBS Finance would be fully computerised by early 1985. The finance company's deposits and factoring services went on-line in May. Expected to follow suit are the loans, hire purchase and leasing services which are still on the batch processing system. An
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    • 130 3 INTERNATIONAL experts from the iron and steel sectors are in Singapore to discuss energy utilisation in the industry. The South-east Asia Iron and Steel Institute Conference, which began yesterday, attracted about 200 delegates from the institute and steel and steelrelated industries. They
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    • 365 3  -  By LIM SOON NEO THERE IS a need to establish industrial dialogue committees (IDC) between management and key union officials to promote labour-management cooperation within each industrial sector. This is one of seven recommendations made by a study mission to Japan on labourmanagement
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    • 428 3  -  By LEE HAN SHIH MORE carparks are being built for drivers shoppers cruising down Orchard Road, those ferrying goods from the harbour and from Johore and businessmen dropping in the Rex Live Theatre for some after-work relaxation. At the moment,
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 483 4 UPI Reuter SHIMON PERES and Yitzhak Shamir plan to visit the US this month to ask President Reagan for more US aid for this year and 1986 after they form a national unity government, Israeli television said on Sunday. Under a
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    • 146 4 AFP THAILAND'S trade deficit this year is expected to fall about 16 per cent from last year to 75 billion baht, in line with a Bank of Thailand target, a senior bank official said yesterday. Prapapim Sakuntabhaya, deputy director of the bank's Economic
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    • 369 4 Reuter ABOUT 300,000 people poured onto a university campus to hear Pope John Paul say mass on top of a giant pyramid at the start of his 12-day tour of Canada. The Polish-born Pontiff, making his 23rd foreign trip, quickly set the tone for
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    • 320 4 to tfc* Reuter DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Walter Mondale is set to unveil the economic centrepiece of his thrust for the presidency a plan to trim budget deficits. Mr Mondale's plan calls for a battery of new taxes and spending cuts to reduce
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    • 141 4 Reuter PRESIDENT Reagan, in a strongly worded attack on the Polish government, said that Warsaw's "oppressor's boot" would never succeed in subduing the Polish people. "Those who believe they have crushed the Polish spirit with guns and brute force are wrong. Poland may
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    • 419 4 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION is building a radar system which violates the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty with the US, Secretary of State George Shultz said. "They are in the process of constructing a radar that we believe is a violation, if it
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    • 97 4 UPI NORTH KOREA has enacted a new law aimed at attracting foreign investment to push ahead its modernisation programme, Radio Pyongyang reported yesterday. Analysts said the action is also designed to narrow the economic gap between North and South Korea. The Korean-language broadcast, monitored
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    • 169 4 NYT AMERICAN Secretary of State George Shultz will confer with Oskar Fischer, his East German counterpart, in about three weeks, State Department officials said on Saturday night. The officials said it would be the first meeting between an American Secretary of State
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    • 180 4 Reuter WEST GERMANY'S bid to sustain an East-West dialogue through contacts with Eastern Europe faltered yesterday after the second rebuff in less than a week from an ally of the Soviet Union. Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov on Sunday cancelled a scheduled visit
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    • 230 4 AP PRESIDENT Reagan never loses sleep over the burdens he shoulders as US president because he is a "born optimist" who is firm in his beliefs, said First Lady Nancy Reagan. Her comments were published in Sunday editions of the Los Angeles
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    • 231 5 Bernama MALAYSIA has strongly criticised the US for its new import ruling on textiles as the action might lead to a new trend of protectionism. Malaysian Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah charged yesterday that the US, by its
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    • 167 5 AP THE SWEDISH National Health Welfare Board wants Parliament to ban a ttitude-changing a d v e rtising of junk food. Board manager Ingrid Lindvall lists chocolates, sweets, peanuts and potato chips among "unhealthy" foodstuffs unworthy of being sold through the mass media.
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 47 5 A GROUP of Soviet Jews has sent an open letter to President Konstantin Chernenko calling for easier emigration and an end to harassment of Jews wishing to emigrate. "Free all the prisoners of Zion, stop persecutions, free political prisoners in psychiatric homes," said the letter.
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      • 51 5 SAUDI ARABIA'S Petroleum Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani will visit Egypt late this month to coordinate oil policies. Egypt's Oil Minister Abdel-Hadi Kandil was quoted as saying the visit would be the first by a high-ranking Saudi offi- cial since Egypt signed a 7 peace treaty with Israel in
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      • 55 5 THE current port call in Shanghai by three Australian warships is a "vivid expression" of the growing ties between the two nations, China's naval commander said in a toast to the visitors. Commander Liu Huaqing made the remark at a banquet on Sunday night in Shanghai, the official
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      • 55 5 CUBA has welcomed 278 West Europeans who will spend a month performing volunteer agricultural and construction work as a show of support for the government, the official Cuban news agency said. It said the group of 278 Europeans from 12 countries in Western Europe would be joined later this
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      • 52 5 Agencies BOMBAY POLICE reported that a multi-million dollar international racket involving the illicit manufacture and smuggling of a psychotropic drug was busted with the arrest of four Indians and two Nigerians. The chemical drug, Mandrax, was being smuggled in large quantities to the US, the Middle East, Africa and
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    • 495 5 Bernama ASEAN should press ahead with making its concept of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality (Zopfan) in South-east Asia a reality without waiting for the final resolution of the Cambodian problem, Malaysian Foreign Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen said
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    • 534 6 Industry wants tax concessions Reuter AMERICA'S booming high technology industries want the government to lower their taxes, pump more money into research and leave them to get on with the job. The Joint Economic Committee of Congress last month held a series of
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    • 200 6 AP THE US share of the Middle East market for advanced technology equipment and services is more likely to shrink in the future than expand, a study prepared for the US Congress said. The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment said the likely decline would be
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    • 433 6 UPI SECURITY forces the northern city of Chandigarh were braced for a confrontation with angry farmers yesterday. Police in northern Punjab state arrested 120 fanners on Sunday to prevent them from holding a rally yesterday, pushing to more than
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    • 229 6 UPI DECENTRALISATION, worker incentives and other experimental economic reforms have resulted in "remarkable progress" and will be implemented throughout China's industry, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Sunday. Xinhua, describing the Soviet-style planned economy of the past three decades as no longer suited to
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    • 361 6 NYT THE PHILIPPINES government has agreed to accept offers of emergency typhoon relief from the United States, Japan and members of the European Economic Community. The country's official press agency said the relief, in the form of food shipments, would be sent to
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    • 215 6 AP A HIGH-powered Indian military delegation returned from Moscow on Sunday after discussions on new arms purchases and manufacture of Sovietmodel weapon systems in India, a government spokesman reported. The United News of India said the Soviet Union agreed to expedite the supply of
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    • 213 6 Reuter JAPAN'S customs cleared trade surplus narrowed to US$l.l2 billion in August from a downwards revised $3.2 billion surplus in July, and compared with a $1.67 billion surplus a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. FOB exports in August rose
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    • 61 6 AP THE CURRENT port call in Shanghai by three Australian warships is a "vivid expression" of the growing ties between the two nations, China's naval commander said in a toast to the visitors on Sunday. Commander Liu Huaqing made the remark at a banquet on Sunday
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 395 7 NYT FRANCE'S central bank is continuing its downward pressure on interest rates in spite of the expectation of a rise in rates in the US and the steady climb of the dollar. The Bank of France last Friday lowered the intervention rate at
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    • 82 7 Reuter THE International Finance Corp (IFC) plans to borrow on international capital markets in its own name, with the possibility of a first issue before the end of the year. In presenting the IFC's annual report, Mr Georg Gabri- el, vice-president for finance and planning,
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    • 184 7 AFP THE US Treasury Department has decided to ban the sale to foreigners of Federal bearer bonds which offer subscriber anonymity and have tax evasion attractions, according to authoritative sources. An experimental sale of such bonds was held last month by a
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    • 600 7 Reuter US banks outside Mexico's steering committee should respond positively to its landmark debt rescheduling accord announced last Saturday, in spite of misgivings about some key elements of the package. Bankers say they welcome the plan to stretch out U5547.7 billion of debt over 14
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    • 309 7 Reuter THE Philippines, which has 36 commercial banks and scores of savings and rural banks, must reduce the number to leave fewer but stronger banks. Bankers say the banking industry's problems are rooted in the fact that there are too many banks and
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    • 93 7 Reuter THE BANK of China (BOC) and the China Industrial and Commercial Bank (CICB) have started new soft loan facilities for Chinese borrowers, a move aimed at speeding up technology imports. China Economic News says BOC has allocated US$4OO million this year for an import
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 485 7 SINGAPORE: The dollar fell back in fairly active late trading yesterday to close slightly lower against major currencies except the mark. The dollar ended at 2.9935/45 marks after briefly touching a new 11'/2 year of 3.0006 and compared with New York's Friday 2.9925/35 close. The US dollar closed
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    • Article, Illustration
      272 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady yesterday at lower opening levels in quiet afternoon trading. Period rates weakened between 1/16 and 1/8 point at the outset influenced by news that US August unemployment was unchanged at 7.5 per cent and by the Fed's arrangement of US$l billion of
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    • 390 7 BAFI EurwMlar market yesterday opened slightly higher than the CME's close and traded within a narrow range as US dollar interest rates were steady throughout the session. December Eurodollar, the most actively traded contract, opened at 87.80, four points higher than CME's close as the interbank overnight rate opened
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    • 253 7 HONGKONG The metal closed about steady at U*****.30 80 an ounce against Saturday's $336.50/337.00 close here, in fairly quiet trading ahead of a local holiday. The bullion price was overshadowed by a sharp rise of the US dollar to a new 11 Vi years high of 3.0000/07 marks yesterday
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    • 251 7 Interbank rates at 3pm Currtodtt Nominal ral lee Si quoted jfttttrdiy c roe* parity change Local dollars to on« unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2 1615 2 1625 2 8196 -23 34 Sterling pound 2 7487 ***** 7 3469 -62 59 Australian dollar 1 7886 1 7916
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    • 126 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate rose by V» -point to close at B'/ 4 per cent on the Singapore interbank market yesterday. Term rate for the three-month maturity rose by 1/16-point yesterday, while the one and twomonth rates remained at last Friday's closing levels. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 300 8 FT ELDERS IXL is to realise more than Asloo million by shifting to joint venture ownership about 150 of the pubs it inherited with its $920 million takeover of Carlton and United Breweries. The proposals from Elders neatly allow the ground
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    • 457 8 NYT CARNATION Co, which Nestle is acquiring, is a strong, though largely mature, company. Best known for its condensed milk from "contented cows", Carnation makes more than 200 products, including Coffee-mate, instant breakfast and Contadina tomato products. The company is first
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    • 200 8 FT HACHETTE, a large French publishing group, has taken a further step to strengthen its international activities by buying Seymour Press, one of Britain's largest magazine distributors. The price has not been disclosed. The acquisition of Seymour, previously owned by the UK holding
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    • 61 8 Reuter STANDARD Telephones and Cables PLC (STC) says bid acceptances have increased its stake in ICL PLC to 367.9 million ordinary shares or 81.4 per cent, and the STC offer is now wholly unconditional. Acceptances of the cash alternative offer, which has now closed,
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    • 326 8 FT ALFRED Taubman, a wealthy US property developer who owns Sotheby's, the UK auction house, appears close to winning control of Woodward Lothrop, a Washington department store group after recommendation by the board of his US$22O million offer. The recommendation, which follows a protracted
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    • 156 8 Reuter HEINEKEN NV expects the increase in profits shown in the first half of this year to continue through the rest of the year. It earlier announced a rise in consolidated net profits of 15.3 per cent to 101.0 million guilders for the first
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    • 56 8 Reuter NATIONAL Westminster Bank PLC's merchant banking subsidiary, County Bank, is holding talks which may lead to the acquisition of Hongkong stockbrokers John Watson and Co, says County Bank chairman Charles Villiers. He said the acquisition of Watson would represent further progress in developing
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    • 53 8 Reuter THE rise in the Bell group's 1983/84 profit came from across the full range of the group's activities, chairman Robert Holmes A Court said. The group earlier reported a rise in net earnings to A 540.54 million for the year ended June 30 from $17.86
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 338 9 HONGKONG: Share prices closed yesterday with pared gains, mainly the result of late book-squaring ahead of a local holiday. The Hongkong Association of Banks' decision last Saturday not to raise local interest rates despite a strong US dollar helped sentiment. Among leaders Cheung Kong gained 20 cents to HK$7.BO,
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    • 168 9 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed higher yesterday in active trading. The Book Club Index rose 0.24 point to 117.96 as advances led declines by a slim margin. Maboonkhrong, which recently bought 25 per cent of privately held Thai Offshore Petroleum Co Ltd for an undisclosed amount, was the most active
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    • 384 9 TOKYO: Share prices closed easier yesterday in quiet lacklustre trading reflecting a Friday fall on Wall Street and yen weakness against the dollar here. The market average fell 29.17 to close at 10,471.53 after Friday's 42.21 gain. Turnover was a light 220 million shares against 230 million on Friday
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    • 145 9 MANILA: Share prices closed easier yesterday in trading which remained dull because of the Philippines economic situation. The Commercial and Industrial Index was down 1.36 at 109.70 and the Mining marker fell 6.53 to 941.92. Oils eased 0.022 to 0.644 from a revised 0.666. A Manila Stock Exchange spokesman
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    • 388 9 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed weak yesterday with strong selling following falls on Wall Street and lower gold and base metal prices. At 1515 local time, the All Ordinaries Index was 12.5 down at 712.4, the Ail Industrials 8.7 at 1,019.6 and the All Resources 14.9 at 474.1. Falls
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    • 360 9 ANALYSTS are not optimistic of Sun Hung Kai and Co's prospects for this year, saying that the company could end up with depressed results for 1984. Taxed profits at the half-way mark are already 41.5 per cent lower at HK$l4.7 millon and
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    • 435 9 THE latest annual report of Atlas Industries has revealed that almost a third of its net earnings of HKS6S million for the year to March 31, 1984 are attributable to what are intrinsically one-off up-front royalties. The royalties are in respect of the Hilfiker
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  • FEATURES
    • 484 10 ANY EXCUSE is a good one to get out of a high-rise building onto lower open ground. Often, all it takes is a road accident to pull a crowd out. Last Saturday, 26,000 people from all parts of Singapore trekked, jogged, drove and bussed to see the New
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    • 1080 10  -  Little-noticed, but growing in importance and frequency, trade policy has been subordinated to the needs o! foreign policy by a variety of bilateral arrangements that are contrary to the spirit of free trade among all nations. This trend is undermining the American commitment ot multilateralism
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    • 336 10  -  By BARNABY FEDER NYT "DASSAULT!" said John Conry knowingly, before resuming a demonstration of the signal-tracking wares of Britain's Marconi Co. The demonstration had just been interrupted by the ear-splitting roar of a jet fighter screaming past the exhibition halls of the Farnborough international
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    • 440 10  -  By JANE PERLEZ NYT WHEREVER she has appeared in the last several weeks, in cities as diverse as Pristine Eugene, Oregon, and bustling St Louis, Geraldine Ferraro has attracted large and effusive crowds that cheer with appreciation and want to reach out and touch
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    • 1034 11  -  Colony's economy shows its resilience with a recovery predicted to sustain through 1985 By LOUISE DO ROSARIO WHEN HONGKONG'S Financial Secretary Sir John Bremridge delivers his mid-year economic review on Friday, he is expected to come up with a brighter set of figures than those
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 669 10 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Like rvce vegetables a guy shouldn't get (5) 8 The chonce of a safer port? (5) 10 Officer HMl's cor' (5) 11 Enthusiast al m o flutter? (3) 12 The place for a cravat (5) 13 Her mam art moy be tepnrs (7) 15 Is consistently
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  • SPORTS
    • 564 11  -  By STEVEN CRIST NYT A GIDDY announcement Wednesday by Belmont Park officials that All Along was returning to the United States to run against John Henry in the Turf Classic on Sep 22 was as puzzling as it was exciting, and it
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    • 331 11 UPI FRANK Hawkins, Marcus Allen and Derrick Jensen rushed for second-half touchdowns Sunday, helping the Los Angeles Raiders down the Green Bay Packers 28-7. In improving to 2-0, the Raiders shut down Green Bay's explosive receivers by limiting John Jefferson to three
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    • 484 11  -  By HAL BOCK AP JOHN MCENROE, winner of his fourth United States Open tennis championship, believes he can raise the level of his game even higher. After wiping out Ivan Lendl in straight sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 Sunday, McEnroe said, "I've gotten
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    • 1032 11 I w m Q^cdcicd i HIGHLIGHTS The Search For Alexonder The Great The Young Lion (#ort 1) 8.03 pm, Channel 12 To people who love history, this series would stir their imagination for it dramatises the life of one of the Greatest military strategists of the prehrist era. Alexander, born
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    • 1233 12 NYT LAST YEAR, a drought in lowa, US seared Herb Espensen's corn and soybean crop to stubble, but thanks to the surplus federal grain he received from the government, he ended up putting a profit in the bank. This year, with the late summer
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    • 59 12 THE Straits tin price in Penang yesterday remained at the ITA floor level of MS2S.IS per kg, where it has been since July 31. Turnover rose to 335 tonnes from Friday's 153 on weekend accumulation plus about 25 per cent foreign concentrates. No rationing was detected. TIN Straits
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    • 94 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices firmed on covering and speculative buying. Interest centred on the September position, with south, central and north regions rising MJ42.50 to $1,047.50 per tonne. Refined palm oil prices also firmed on covering activity. RBD olein in October rose U5527.50 to $607.50 per tonne
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    • 167 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix I6's 3.400 Blue Phoenix 20's 3,500 Blue Phoenix 32's 3.820 Blue Phoenix 40's 4.300 Carded yarn, honk Blue Phoenix 21 's 3.600 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 5.100 Blue Phoenix 40's 5,400 Open-end yarn
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    • 297 12 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly easier yesterday with October One RSS buyers quoted at 195.75 cents per kg, down a quarter cent from last Friday. The morning session hovered narrowly around previous levels initially but softened later on some speculative selling. The market was quiet and featureless in the
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    • 338 12 RAS prices (m S cents/kilo, FOB m boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers lot 1 RSS prompt 192 00 193 00 192 75 193 75N lot 1 RSS Oct 195 00 195 50 195 75 196 75 Int 1 RSS Nov 197 50 198 00 198
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    • 107 12 (in cants/1 ton pollers) September October (current mth) (forward mth) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 ***** 196 00N 196 00 198 OON SSR50 192 00 *****N 194 00 196 OON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 227 00 229 OON 229 00
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    • 1341 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended a quiet featureless morning session yesterday with gains from the previous close of £13 to £2. November finished at £2,494, up £4 but below the high at £2,509. The market opened around £5 firmer before reaching the highs basis November on commission house buying
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    • 153 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 502 50 Exchange Nutmeg (Sellers' noon closing prices on Sep U0 FOB NSW ***** IU iw kg; B w FOB NSW 256 00 Coconut oil Gombier Bulk FOB Old drum FOB 192 00 205 00 FOB NSW 305 00 New drum FOB
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    • 291 12 Singapore C-1 special C-l Ordinary Loonzam 100% unq unq (S$/kilo, e» qodown) Thoi white first grade unq 260 100% 1st class 100% second grade (kangaroo) 1 05 100% thwd grade unq new crop Parboiled 100% 2nd class 077. 5% 10% 265 260 100% 3rd class 25% new crop 075
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    • 4109 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market succumbed to extensive selling pressure yesterday. Share prices finished broadly lower and double-digit losses were widespread. At the final bell, the BT Composite Index gave up 7.94 points to 806.30. The Straits Times Industrial Index closed 9.62 points
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    • 259 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices to-CI S0« 300 Sri Hart— 249 to-CI CULS 420 Stfc Mm Ud 585 M Glon 276 Eac 50< 288 UOL CULS 90 Falls Kootvcfc* Sport 440 Strorti Tnii| 520 Metro HUm 376 MIF HUgt S0( 219 0 C C 955 Lioa Mm S0«i 13
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    • 500 13 WITH investors preferring to watch from the sidelines, share prices at the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed broadly easier yesterday. Trading was subdued, with interest again confined to a handful of situational issues. Turnover dropped slightly to 4.84 million units valued at M 511.52 million
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    • 3420 13 BID and otter prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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    • 1517 14 ADVERTISER'S ANNOUNCEMENT SPORT OF ANTWERP tran TRADE relations between Asean and the European Community, especially Belgium are excellent and booming. What about the role the port and city of Antwerp play in this field? What services does this trade and tran sport centre offer to Asean? Geographical location: When looking
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    • 330 14 Maritime transit centre: Formerly, when the transit function of Antwerp covered only the continental hinterland, it could have been called a 180 degree port. The ever increasing maritime transhipment function now makes it a 360 degree port: More and more overseas countries now use Antwerp as a maritime transit centre
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    • 537 16 Customs regulations flexible and liberal FROM PAGE 14 centre for the storage and distribution of goods. Goods are indeed not always destined for immediate onforwarding. For various reasons, a short or long term storage might be necessary or the seller might be interested in splitting merchandise into smaller units, to
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    • 200 16 The second formula is the leasing of warehouses, also with the help of local firms, whose experience can be most useful to facilitate contacts and formalities; Thirdly, a company can build a warehouse to its own design eventually in cooperation with an Antwerp firm. This last formula, the joint venture,
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    • 598 16 Within this zone goods can be kept under bond for up to even over two years without any fiscal charges whatsoever. They can undergo all caretaking, reconditioning, repacking and mixing operations without any Customs interference. The cost of these handlings does not alter the original Customs value in as much
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    • 268 16 a M V I 1 v-k£ dling operations have unanimously named Antwerp as the most efficient port. A study of British associations pointed out that in Antwerp 28 tons of general cargo is loaded and 31 tons of general cargo unloaded per gang/hour. This leaves Antwerp for both operations way
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    • 200 16 The total port area covers some 13,800 ha (some 35,000 acres). The total water surface of the docks complex amounts to almost 1,800 ha (4,500 acres). For seagoing ships 100 km of berthing facilities are available, half of which is suited for deep-draught ships. Almost all quays have very wide
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    • 149 17 {->+!*>+[~!%,;-}?,%>]%-^$]*`_;$ No one asks you to go this far k ft* 3f v 9 «C 0 1 ■V. A < V X; Your ANTWERP connection for any traffic you may have to and from EUROPE International Freight Forwarding Customs' Brokerage Project Forwarding Containers Facilities Tramp Agencies Warehousing Physical Distribution Contact
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    • 463 17 FROM PAGE 16 hoist completely fits in with the equipment and infrastructure of which Antwerp has the disposal for handling heavy unit loads which are increasingly being shipped via the port. Another highlight of this equipment is a double reinforced Ro/Ro ramp, allowing direct transhipment of heavy units up to
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    • 195 17 PORT OF ANTWERP minal operators varies between 500 and 800 m, which means that a berth with a quaylength of 250 m has some 20 ha available for storing and handling cargo. Five cargo-handling firms have obtained long-term leases at the dock and have installed the most mdern technological cargohandling
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    • 237 17 Investments of multinational companies from motor vehicles, petroleum and petrochemical sectors, came to complete the traditional industries such as refineries and ship repair yards. At present more than 3,400 ha have already been allocated to industry which employs over 36,600 people. Foreign investments include plants of Exxon, British Petroleum, BASF,
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 929 18 mm FRASER NEAVE LTD (FAN), a member of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation's stable of companies, is being recommended as a good stock for medium-term investment. In making the buy recommendation, stockbroking firm Ong and A Co says the company has
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    • 322 18 CEMENT INDUSTRIES of Malaysia (Cima) is sueing a firm of consultant civil engineers for M 56.52 million in damages and cost, directors disclosed in their report. The suit has been filed in the Penang High Court against the consultant civil engineers for
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    • 94 18 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hang Seng Index Monday 1019.6 Friday 1028 3 Monday Week ago 1027.0 Friday '40 55 Week ago 939.42 NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday 1207.48 TOKYO Thursday 1218 86 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1224.38 Monday *****.53 Stondard and Poors Friday *****.70 Friday 164.37 Week ago
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    • 229 18 Managers' prices for Sep 11 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 3.01 3 20 The Savings Fund 1 90 2 02 S'pore Prog Fund 1 34 142 S'pore Sec Fund 1 95 2 07* S'pore Invest Fund 1.19. 1 26 S'pore Equity Fund 134 142 Asia Unit Trust Second
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    • 157 18 AFP RON BRIERLEY, a New Zealander with a reputation for audacious share market raids, has launched a NZ$33 million bid for the New Zealand-owned shares in Reuters. Mr Brierley staggered the conservative board members of the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) late on Friday when he
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    • 2171 18 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Ajinomoto (4 02S) (1) 3.90 Alcorn (I 968 1
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    • 857 18 Current payment E> date Books close Date payable Totol for the year Totol for previous rear Alex HIdgs Apollo Asiatic Dev B Rayo Bata Batu Lintang Benta Berjoya Kawat C Properties Cold Storage Cons Plant DBS Dunlop Ind Dunlop Est Fujitec G E Life Gleneoly H Toi-Pan High
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    • 80 18 PEBU8AHAAN Pelaagl BcrM: 11th AGM on Sep 17 at noon in Bllik Sri Ledang. M&zzanine Floor, Holiday Inn, Jalan Dato' Sulaiman, Johore Baharu. SIM LIb UveitBeati Limited: 20th AGM on Sep 21 at 11am in Conference Room, 10 Jalan Besar #1701, Sim Lim Tower (0820). ALEXANDRA Haidiags Limited:
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    • 434 19  -  BY NAJEEB JARHOM HIGHER turnover and lower interest on borrowings in the first half have given Jnrong Engineering Ltd (JEL) the prospect of ending the year with better-than-forecast profits. Against directors' estimate of "not less than $4 million" taxable profits in 1984, the company,
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    • LATEST RESULTS
    • 603 19 nwL. HOCK LOCK SIEW EVER SINCE the disclosure in January that H«ag Leong Industries had agreed to acquire a majority stake in Malayan Cables Bid at way below market prices, the shrewd observer has suspected that the acquisition would not be a
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    • 410 19  -  By CHAN OI CHEE SHORTLY after the termination of its joint venture with Fireman's Fund Insurance, Sime Darby Bhd is proposing to merge its insurance interests with another company to form one of the largest insurance companies in Malaysia. The diversified
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    • 341 19 LIKE OTHER plantation companies, Palme* Holdings Bhd, one of Malaysia's leading palm oil products group, has benefited substantially from the higher commodity prices during the year to June 30, this year. With the improved contributions from its palmbased business, the group, which
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    • 975 19 GOVERNMENT bonds firmed but equities closed easier yesterday after a quiet session. At 3pm, the FT 30 Share Index was off 1.9 points to 849.8. The steadier trend of sterling and absence of any selling interest pushed up government bonds by as much as half a point on
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    • 482 19 A MALAYSIAN property consultant has filed two suits in courts on both sides of the Causeway against publicly-list-ed Paper Predicts (M) Bhd and its Singapore subsidiary, Uatted Palp Md Paper Ce Ltd. Koo Siew Koon, also known as Khoo
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    • 131 18 Scandinavian Lighting Flair at UGHTCRAFT Now at Lightcra uf Scandinavian Ontn-a totally newse al <)nd cleancut (hK in Uqhtmqs F (J rfid S tove enamel minimum maintenance ilesiyns-m white finishing requireAvailahieinenrfyv pnces until Pl and SL Now sttK ks last •rsions using the mt* St.pt 20 rii^ ii sK /a
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    • 354 18 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 PURSUANT TO SECTION 254<2><1» AND IN THE MATTER OF SINMATAXI SERVICE (PTE) LIMITED At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above named Company duly convened and held at 6001 Beach Road. #12-01 12-11 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore 0719, on Monday
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    • 564 19 Allied Irish Banks Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Ireland with Limited Liability) Consolidated 31st March, 1984 ASSETS Cash and Short Term Funds Investments Advances and Other Accounts, less Provisions Plant and Equipment Leased to Customers Fixed Assets Associated Companies and Non-Consolidated Subsidiary Balance Sheet 1984 IR£OOO 1983 IREOOO 1,749,006
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  • 475 20  -  By SOH TIANG KENG VOLUME was smaller and trading less hectic yesterday at the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) during its second trading day on financial futures. Total business done on financial futures and gold futures was 1,656 contracts much lower than Friday when
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  • 566 20  -  By WALTON MORAIS TEN YEARS after the project was first inaugurated, Batam Island's development looks ready to take concrete shape with the completion of its second five-year plan in 1989. Details of the masterplan, which were released to Singapore journalists
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  • 369 20 HONGKONG police are investigating an arson attempt outside the luxury Spanish-style villa of former Carrian boss, George Tan. A report from the colony yesterday said a neighbour saw two men acting suspiciously in a car near Tan's house in the early hours of the
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  • 306 20 UPI AUSTRALIAN military aid to the Philippines has doubled in five years and the number of Filipino military trainees in Australia has quadrupled in the same period. The Sydney Morning Herald said the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, the coordinating group for
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  • 383 20 WILL FUTURE families stop at two, three, four or more children? Even the Family Planning Board is not too sure. In its latest annual report, the Board said that with the likelihood of policy changes, "it is premature to predict the effects on fertility
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  • 109 20 RELIANCE Contractors Pte Ltd was yesterday fined $25,000 for failing to provide suitable protection at a work site. On July 10 last year, Bhaskar Monappa Salian was struck by a falling brick while working at the entrance to a staircase on the fifth storey of a
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  • 60 20 WALL Street stock prices were lower in early trading yesterday as the market continued a downturn that gained steam last Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off nearly six points to about 1201 after only 10 minutes of trading. Overall, losers held about a three to
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  • 373 20 AP AN OFFICIAL who "plotted and directed mass slaughter" during China's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution has been arrested in Chongqing, the People's Daily reported yesterday. The Communist Party paper said Xu Mingde, vice-principal of Chongqing's number two commercial school, was a "typical case" of a
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  • 224 20 UPI THE US state of Michigan is going to court to avoid paying US$2l million in interest on a 145-year-old note. The state is asking the Michigan Court of Claims to rule that the Statute of Limitations has run out on the $1,000 tax
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  • LATE FILE
    • 49 20 Reuter LEADERS of the two sides in Britain's six-month-old coal strike began a second round of peace talks as further violence erupted on picket lines. Representatives of the National Coal Board and the Mineworkers' Union returned to the negotiating table at an Edinburgh Hotel. Reuter
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    • 42 20 Reuter IRAQ said its war planes had attacked a "large naval target" south of the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg island. Baghdad Radio said it was hit directly at 0645 GMT but did not identify the target.
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    • 65 20 UPI MOLTEN lava flowed down the slopes of Karangetang volcano in northern Indonesia, scorching rice fields and nutmeg orchards and forcing more than 13,000 villagers to flee for their lives. An official of the Indonesian Vulcanology Institute said the 1,784 m volcano erupted twice during the past
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    • 41 20 Reuter SALVAGERS have retrieved two crates of sophisticated electronic equipment which had been washed out of the sunken French freighter Mont Louis. Both crates carried Russian inscriptions and identified the manufacturer as the French electronics company Thomson.
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    • 53 20 UPI BANGKOK police have arrested an alleged vampire who is charged with killing a 2-year-old girl and drinking her blood. The suspect, 54-year-old Thoop In throng, was arrested at his home in a small village in Pitsanulok province, 496 km northeast of Bangkok, two months after the girl
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    • 301 20 Company finad for lack of pracautions, Paga 3 The latest range from FORDK ZAUFDO In business, paper indiscretions can destroy you. New product details, expansion plans: what ere they worth to your rivels? Wage structures and personnel assessments: how would they affect staff relations if seen by the wrong eyes?
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 59 20 wmm Outlook for today Showers in a few oreos in the lote afternoon and early evening. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Sep 10 at the airport: Maximum temperature 28.0 Associated humidity 84 Minimum temperature 21.0 Associated humidity 98 Hours of sunshine 0.00 Rainfall in millimetres 20.4
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORT SIDES
      • 135 21 Reuter CHINA HAS restored part of an ancient port to its appearance 1,000 years ago, and built two full-size replicas of medieval warships. Penglai, in eastern Shandong province, was fortified as a naval base in 1042 during the Song dynasty (960-1279 AD). The restored port includes city
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      • 72 21 Reuter BOMBAY PORT'S first quayside container gantry crane went into operation last Thursday as part of its plan to mechanise container cargo handling. Port officials said the second was expected to be installed in January, when the port would be able to handle 400 containers a day
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    • 533 21  -  By LINDA CHEE THE PORT Of Singapore Authority (PSA) is examining the feasibility of automating berth allocation at the Container Terminal and the three conventional gateways. It has also formed a committee to look into an extensive computerisation of office administration, said Mr
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    • 670 21 Shipping Lin* CoJ Afeo VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner VII 5 Alpha trons VI 4 Alpoc VI 5 Antaro Shpg IV 1 A PC Lme V 4 APL M 4/5 ASCL HI 1 Asia broker V 5 Ausrosia Lme V 1 Bart-Orient VI 4/5 Bangkok Conf VI 2
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    • 347 21 Reuter SALVAGE experts have recovered an empty container that was swept off the wreck of the FYench freighter Mont Louis on Sunday by high winds. A spokesman for the salvage firm. Union De Remorquage Et De Sauvetage, said only one empty barrel had been washed
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    • 778 22 THE PORT of Singapore Authority has always set exacting standards for itself when servicing port users. In helping Singapore rise to the rank of the world's second busiest port, it has developed to a
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    • 191 22 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/Europe, Far East/ Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan 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
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    • 1750 22 INCREASED grain fixing on Friday out of the US is reported at steady rates and more time-charter interest is evident out of North South America, shipbrokers said. A steady US$8.50 was paid for grain from the US Gulf to the Netherlands while a vessel carrying com and wheat
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    • 358 22 THAILAND has appealed to Asean to assist in the promotion of Sattahip deep-sea port when it is completed. The Thai Communications Minister, Samak Sundaravej, said that while Thailand would press ahead with the development of the Sattahip deepsea port programme, it
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    • 310 22 AFP RATES fell to 14-month lows on the tanker market last week in the Gulf states area where the vast surplus of tonnage continued to depress conditions. There was virtually little or nothing quoted for any size of vessel in front of the week-end. Japanese charterers booked a
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    • 192 23 A LINER shipping service between two or more Asean countries does not require substantial capital investment. Neither does it require the formation of joint ventures between Asean shipping companies, a Philippine delegate to the recently concluded Asean ad-hoc working group on shipping said. Inter-island or
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    • 254 23 Fairplay DET NORSKE Veritas has withdrawn 180 ships amounting to 1.5 million dwt from its classification over the past two years in a move to combat any compromising of marine safety standards. Although responsibility for the technical standards of ships rests with the owners,
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    • 427 23 Lloyd's List IRAN'S plans to add 1.5 million barrels of storage capacity to its Lavan Island oil terminal could mean a big boost for tanker chartering in the Persian Gulf. Unlike the main oil terminal at Kharg Island, Lavan is not
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    • 460 23 RECENT NEWS that a new inland container depot (ICD) on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, has finally opened for business highlights the continuing but still faltering progress of containerisation in East Africa. Constructed at Embakasi primarily to serve the Kenyan capital, the depot was orginally
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    • 5725 28 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 Singapore.
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    • 666 29 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Siri Bhum 185N 11.9 84 2300 S'p° re Shpg TA 3 1000-1100 Jl Or Champion 38W 12.9 84 0200 Jardine TA 3 1300-1400 L6 NZ
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    • 1814 29 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S). Afro-Karasla line Transgroup (S). Ahrenklel User ServW Kim Shpg (Si If red f Tocpfer Oceanus Shipping Agen ries (S) Marinte* Enterprise (PK) \lptr Intrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KI.) Island
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    • 484 30 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Aegeon Ned Barcelona Ned Linge Rajah Brooke Raja Timor Barber Tonsberg Kirk Monteste Nakorn Kasem Paradise Moon Straits Pride Toana Papua 46 47 44 20W 18 46/7 47 45 13/4 25/6 21W 8/9 J Manners Ned-EAC Ned-EAC
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    • 1077 30 Sept 14 Limitation of liability: the 1976 convention, Institute of Maritime Law seminar, University of Southampton. Sept 14-22 International Boat Show, Mayflower Park, Southampton. Sept 18-18 Society of Petroleum Engineers' annual technical conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas. Sept 18-28 Marine insurance and maritime law training course, Richards Hogg
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    • 254 21 EXPRESS FULL; CONTAINER SERVICE i FROM JAPAN TAIWAN HOVi K()\(, to \k \HiA\ <,t lk~rki>si;a f NB 1) Acceptmf LCL for al Arabian Gtif porta 2) Throufn Bi of Ladtag carjo to al major inland points ndudhf Iraq via Kuwait and Riyadh via Dammam acceptable 3) Taiwan CY car(o acceptable
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    • 1118 21 BALT-ORIENT LINE Baltic Shipping Co Refutar Services from South East Asia to United Kingdom and ji P n ~,1 I pnrif riortn tormnemai rorts Agent: Singapore Soviet Shipping Co Pte Ltd Tel: *****3 MAERSK LINE EXPORT TO USA, EUROPE. MIDDLE EAST, WEST AFRICA ASIA T» > r S PACIFIC (il'l.h
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    • 317 22 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE From Europe N MIMA N HOUTMAN SEIANOIA B PERMAI TOYAMA S EDO KORRIGAN 4) U dam Jb)le Hp p Keian«| S iw« Sailed 20/9 19/9 Sailed ?V9 26 9 12/9 4/10 3/10 19/9 9/10 10/10 27/9 18/10 17/10 Mm Acc«ptmg For 1) Barcelona Genoa. 2) Amsterdam.
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    • 407 22 YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South West Feeder at Tokyo Pacific North West Feeder at Kobe Atlantic/Canada Feeder at Kobe Mattw VSi N TQM M OS! M 27/11 ffHtUMO 8 1/11 KUMK M 20/11 A KSSEt 27/11 Also accepting LCL Cargo for USA Porta only. Ul SJOHN 4/11 1/11
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    • 865 23 The Straits Steamship Group OCL Overseas Containers Limited CONMINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINf NT ALSO ACC£PTK£ CAfiSO FOR: Hambwt I* Cepertiafen. iartae. Gothenbwt A utter Aim :to Antwerp Amsterdam. Oslo Seaßtaaipten UK repore Matt I Oubto INHTOa BAY TOKYO RAY AOMOONRAY HMMK QMS VMM W SjM SM Sjtrt 11/* 11/1
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    • 401 24 Hapag-Lloyd EXPORTS TO CONTINENT/UK On carriage to Scandmavia, Med. Carribean S. America Hand hautauge to inland destinations in Europe TO EUROPE/MED S pore P KeUnc Pent leiioes BAao Genoa H'burf Rdam B'haven Antwerp Connect»r>g m Kobe "Ako occeptmg corgo tor ATLANTIC GULF PORTS v.o mmolondbndge, ond US MID-WEST by rn.crobr.dge"
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    • 444 24 FULLY CONTAINERISED SER VICE tOMfM i* %t OtfiMS J*. PK(4»<C LtHjm R djtn Filo«« Hl(ur| Mwffp Sport 16/9 23/9 28 9 3/10 10/10 16/10 10/10 1?/I0 IS/10 1710 19 10 73 10 22,10 24 10 27/10 25/10 27/10 30/10 l/U 311 6/11 7/11 9/11 12/11 17/9 24/9 29/9 4/10 11/10
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    • 455 24 EVERGREEN LINE FAR EAST/EUROPt CONTAINER SERVICE ACCIPTNIG FQ l LCI C Alt GO rot SGP PKL WC WC fl* MM ANN tiff Ever Gerrtr, 1909 OS 10 11/10 17/10 14/10 15/10 17/10 E>er Gbr, 70/00 15 10 71/10 77/10 24, 10 75/10 77/10 Eeer Gentle 04 10 75/10 01/11 07/11
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    • 1175 24 KIE GWAN SHIPPING (M) SDN. BHD. No 2* A JALAN B( RANG AN PORT KELANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA TEL: Nov *****2 *****5 *****2 *****4 *****2 *****7 W. MALAYSIA/S PORE TO E. MALAYSIA SERVICES: P KIANG SPORE t» lOMOH SATU Kkblu Skan. Tawau L Oatu 13/18 Sept 19/21 Sept t RITA Kkblu
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    • 199 24 JJMUI MSI NOSE MARITIME PTE LTD ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES Snfapore Loadnf for PORT HUANG PINANG SWOSE MARITMf PTE LTD TEL *****44 7 ft *****70 MAIOSI MARITMK SOU BHC let 38/232 3 lAAIA*SIA IRAW ft TRANSPORT LTD Ttl ***** ft ***** KYOWA LINE TO PAPUA NEW
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    • 822 25 PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES KOTA CAHAYA KOTA PUSAKA KOTA JADE KOTA BERJAYA COLOMBO/CHITTAGONG/RANGOON SERVICES SINGAPORE 20-24/9 22-26/9 4-6/10 rr. KOTA BANTENQ VOY: 11/64 26-27/6 KOTA BERKAT VOY: 10/64 15-16/9 INDONESIA SERVICES ANGKASA I 13/64 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PTE LTD PIL BLDG., 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 S'pore 0106 Tel: *****33
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    • 693 25 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS COffTMO SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE STRUTS TO EMMPE STOW t KEIANC U K HAM HatAaf Ei.»'n 12/9 14/9 2/11 4,19 Crt|»Bit 29/9 22/9 J/10 U/M Bwatbr 27/J 29/9 17/11 19/19 liwrpod &»T «/10 (/10 24/11 29/19 Kowtoor Bay 12/11 13/19 |/U 1/11 Nanbw| Eiprm 21/U 22/11 1/11 u/ii
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    • 601 25 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF IMBUUMT VOWB CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE STOH r KELMC I DAM, TUMtY/ HMC WTNUf •DAM IONXM BREMEN 11/0 24/9 14/11 l«/lt 11/11 20/11 Spare PK t'4a*/ l*i TlwyH-bwi B m A »erp 5-10/10 11/11 21/10 30/10 1/11 3/11 5/11 I US kCOPTM BOTH CONTAKRS. CONKNTUNAL
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    • 473 25 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATIOW (Burmese National Line) Loadin| for Ranfoon Spore P.Kelong Penong Htoneywo V 195 17/19 Sept Phoshwegyowywa V 245 19/21 Sept Po-on *V 75 19/21 Sept 17/18 Sept Pagon V 77 20/23 Sept Discharging only BANK LINE EXPRESS MDEPENDENt SERVICE TO UK/COHT SPORE R'DAM
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    • 805 26 Cs K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE FROCK, MOT** VSI PKIG PNG SPORE NAGOYA GUAYAQUA CALLAO ARICA IQUQUE A FAGASTA J ANT VALPARAISO CHANARAI KANSAI PIOKER *37 EASTERN SPIEIOOUR *5002 t Sept 10 Sept 12 Sept 2! Sept 24 Oct 1 Not 2 Not 4 No. 5 Not KANSAI
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    • 237 26 Lot Durban S port SA VERGELEGEN V 066 19/ S A VAAI V 6314G NEOUOTD COLOMBO V 6412G WW/ L^J EZSE33 JARDME SHPPING AGENCES (Rej. *****4/ OOK) 70 SHENTON WAV *04 03 MARINA HOUSE SWCAPOtt 0207 TEL *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** CfS OFFICE TPC #03 029 let *****31 ind
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    • 595 26 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS COMTAWER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE loa<kn< lor lOS ANGELES SAW ?RANC(SCO SEATTEE. TACOMA VANCOUVER BC Acceptnf Fa /fO Contamers AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE A<cepta( fa/fa Contamen 14 IS Sep) It 1/ Sept ?4 Scpl 22 23 Sept 24/25 Scpl 2 Oct > 9 Oct It Oct 24/2S Oct
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    • 340 26 SANKD ASIA FROM JAPANESE FONTS ANO HONGKONG im GOLDEN LINE GUM WAN SHIPPMC(PTE)LTt tome* to* M*i| M Oct Slrtet sawran oit4 id »htm no t«re> 1# lujU limpm Hilt, r (Hjnf JI7*I 'fnjof 34 Mil &«*«t OttNT UOTO (Ml SUM M> Til ***** STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Spoff P GOtOIN HIVED
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    • 598 26 INTPASEA (PTE) LTD. 10 Anson Road »27 16 Internationa' Plaza Singapore 0207 Tel *****11 (10 Lines) BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK FORT NANA MO *****11 BANARIE S poo P KrUnt loataf tar:21/9 6/10 ROTT ANT UJ (AVON) IS/9 20/9 ROTT HAMBURG U K (TIBURY) SEAWOOD SHIPPING CORPORATION S pore P Relang
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    • 610 27 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): C CONTAHER 27W C ROZE 40*+ MAETERLMCK 3W. K CHANCE 19W SS BRDGE 47W FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) K CHANCE 18E K JACEJM 25E. TW BRDGE 21E 0 CHEF 44E HK CONTAINER 41E C PAUL 41E Sailed TO AND FROM AUSTRALIA:
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    • 588 27 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels OOl»M SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: BANGKOK, KEELUNG. BUSAN. INCHON Vf.V* «1 MCHOH BUS»N rt»> No Oonjm 404N 16/9 N> i omi/«OCM 70/9 74/9 No 7Dmi<4o7N 21/9 9 No I Doivam 407N 7/11 1? 10 21/1* 21/9 S/ll 10/10 13/10 21/10 1/11 NfPTUNf ICf Nfli S
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    • 605 27 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SHSO\l[BUM** >ss. Market Street Sinfapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SHSOV SINGAPORE Tetei Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS 2510S P KELANG M/S SHARKAT NAM SOON SON BM> IST ANO ?NO FLOOR NO 1 lALAN CEMPENMG PORT KLANG MALAYSIA Tel
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    • 66 27 X\ \_l i! ahrenkiel liner service gmbh DURBAN JOHANNESBURG.MAPUTO. MAURITIUS A REUNION WESTBOUND SHEN6 TAI LINE BEBIILAR LIMEB SERVICE TAIWAN-STRAITS-TAIWAN Vessel KAO REE SPORE P KELANC LA WIN 20/8 23/8 15/9 17/9 BRIGHT FORMOSA 30/8 2/9 12/9 14/9 DORIS I 7/9 10/9 15/9 17/9 General Agents EAGLE CORPORATION (PTE) LTD
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    • 740 28 Kej|i«Hal Container Lines 3 Sa, m 9 B Weekly Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hr». Tue», Thur» Sat REGULAR FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SON6KLA I) A TANA BHUM 191/04 taTt/12 Sept 14/16 Sept 11/H Sep 22/23 Sept RATANA BHUM 192/193 20/27 S«pt 29/30 Sept RATMM BHUM 194/255 3/4 Oct
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    • 69 29 "•ST, French Line LICORNE >*=«==*- CONTAINER SERVICE TO BANGLA-DESH/INWA/SRI LANKA/PAKISTAN AGENTS SEAL lON SMPfMG (S) PTE LTD. t SALES/BOOK MGS TEL 2205M1 (S LUES REGULAR Sailed 14/9 12/10 16/10 8/11 u/ii 19/9 24/10 20/11 1 23/11 Sea winds am*»t turns ORIENTAL SMWINOS UNfR AGfNCY PTf HD SINGAPORE MALAYSIA TEL *****31
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    • 245 29 Scan Dutch 9 To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) Anson Sid Anson 13/9 Anson 20/9 Anson 27/9 Anson 3/10 Anson 10/10 P. KELANG B Butang SM B Kemunmg 14/9 B Butang 21/9 B Kemuning 28/9 B Butang 5/10 8 Kemuning 12/10 MOTHER VESSEL N Df|ima N Houtman Selandia B Permai Toirama Scandutch SINGAPORE
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    • 178 30 pn Regional Weather m J! a ft M A z«> >> c v> I m <3 SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperoture °q Shower Weather Wind direction with speed m knots R°' n w, O Cloud, Sky Wove height Surface winds are
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