The Business Times, 7 May 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 TUESDAY, MAY 7, I*Bs 60 CENTS
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  • 517 1  -  Property price fall means less security for financiers By ALVIN TAY CONCERN is growing among finance companies and banks that they might have to give special treatment to doubtful housing loans granted under the Central Provident Fund's property scheme. The decline in property prices seen
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  • 402 1 DR RICHARD HU will take over the Finance and Health portfolios from Dr Tony Tan today. Further changes in portfolios within the Cabinet will take place at the end of the year when several ministers have "completed certain tasks," according to a statement from
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  • 284 1  -  By ASADUL IQBAL LATIF SINCE THE founding of the United Nations in 1945, more than 100 countries have gained independence, and the process of decolonisation is almost complete. The only major decolonisation issue that remains incomplete today is that of Namibia, which remains under
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  • 246 1 AP AFP A BROAD ALLIANCE of Philippines' most nationalistic groups has elected as leaders two hardline opponents of US military bases in the country. Lorenzo Tanada, 86, was voted chairman and Jose Diokno, 63, president of Bayan (Country) at the close of
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 494 1 AFP CHINA said yesterday that the outcome of the industrial summit in Bonn was not as impressive as had been expected, and that the meeting was marred by a number of political events. Elsewhere in the Asian region, there were mixed reactions
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  • 372 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING THE ROLE of Singapore's reservists as the country's front-line troops was not recognised by 46 per cent of those canvassed in an opinion poll recently. The fact that so many were unaware of the importance of the reservists
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  • 181 1 Reuter SHARE PRICES in Hongkong soared in very active trading yesterday on buying from institutions and small investors. The Hang Seng Index surged 45.63 points to 1,596.43, the highest since Sep 3, 1981, when it closed at 1,517.54. Turnover was HKSS3LO2 million compared
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 263 1 South Africa MCllit—arms not, Bach riQ< FIFTY Singaporeans kovi OUR VIEW COMPANY NEWS bought at least a week each VVn FLUSHED with cash follower the next 30 years in a President Reagan's yawn just about summed up the Bonn sum- j n g the sale of the company's time-sharing venture
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    • 12 1 FuN report, Paot 19 Asian stocks. Rags 11 hill slocks, tisgs 10 '&<+%_}[`{*?~)-}</~,}-{/'-_>}."
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 345 2  -  Importing tested legislation not the solution By SHAHRIR ARIFF IT IS NOT SAFE to leave a bottle of soda water in a room where the company's computer System is stored. One company in Europe did, aad lost all its data when a burglar,
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    • 184 2 A SINGAPOREAN is among some journalists from 10 countries who have been named recipients of the second annual Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships in America. Miss Choo Ai Leng, a former BT reporter and now bureau chief of Asia banking magazine, will join journalists
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    • 166 2 AMERICAN citizens and residents working overseas who file their 1962 and 1963 income tax returns after July 23 will face a substantial loss of tax benefits. According to the US Foreign Operations District (FOD) of the Internal Revenue Serivce, revised regulations stipulate
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    • 413 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH MOUNT Elizabeth Hospital (MEH) is getting ready for Medisave in more ways than one it has bought a computer to cope with new business and headaches that come with the extension of the scheme to private hospitals. The
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    • 173 2 ORDERS worth US$25 million were taken by US companies from the American state of New Jersey who attended Medic Asia *85 in April. The companies also brought back 221 sales leads, according to Interfama, the organiser of the four-day exhibition held at the Hyatt and
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    • 301 2 THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore will pay two contractors 17.7 million to keep Changi Airport terminal h.iii«ting clean over the next two years. The contracts represent renewals for both contractors Ender Cleaning Services and Dynasty Cleaning Services. Ender will clean five
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    • 259 2 ALMOST A QUARTER of the academic staff at the National University of Singapore are engaged in inter-faculty research, while a further 20 per cent are interested in pursuing such multi-disci-plinary studies, but have yet to find suitable collaborators. Based on these findings, the NUS has
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    • 283 3  -  By CHUANG PECK MING FINLAND'S largest publicly listed industrial enterprise, Nokia, is fast expanding into Asia with its telecommunication equipment. Nokia's latest success in Singapore is an order from the Singapore Telecoms for 1,000 data modems worth "just under $1 million", said the director
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    • 114 3 JAPANESE technology on inspection is being promoted by the Singapore government to improve local testing standards. Four Japanese experts will dwell at length on the current status and developments of inspection technology and selected non-destructive testing technology in their country. They will do this at a one-day
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    • 349 3 THOMAS CHUA BOON LEE, group deputy managing director of Cycle A Carriage Limited, has been elected president of the Asean Mercedes-Benz Distributors' Club at its seventh convention held in Singapore. DANIEL EE has joined Baring Brothers Asia Ltd's Singapore branch as a manager in the new corporate
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    • 165 3 MORE Information on the pig farming issue may be disclosed when Parliament sits on May 14. The Member for Punggol, Ng Kah Ting, has lined up a long list of questions for the Environment Minister on the issue. Many of the questions have been
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    • 492 3  -  By LISA LEE FIFTY Singaporeans have bought up at least a week each for the next 30 years in a time-sharing venture in Trengganu's Msloo million Paka Jaya holiday resort. For about $500,000, or about $10,000 each, they can spend a week every year relaxing
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    • 372 3 SINGAPORE BUS SERVICE will pamper executives with soft music on its first air-conditioned minibus scheme between the East Coast and the Central Business District. The $200,000 SBS scheme will start in June. SBS aims to tap the growing number of commuters seeking a transport alternative
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 399 3 WHO SAID COMPANY CARS HAD TO LOOKBORING? This is the familiar sound which usually greets the executive as soon as he begins to talk about his new company car. i Unfortunately when it comes to most company cars, this reaction is as justified as it is predictable. And it's why
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 495 4 NYT AFTER SLOWING in February and March, the US economy began the second quarter on a mixed note, according to a survey. The National Association of Purchasing Management said on Sunday in its latest survey of 250 purchasing managers at major industrial companies that
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    • 155 4 but American businessmen more confident Reuter IN SPITE OF signs of a slowing economy, US business leaders expressed growing confidence in the economy during the first quarter of 1985, according to a study by the Conference Board, a business oriented research group. The board said its measure of business confidence
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    • 113 4 Bernama MALAYSIAN Foreign Affairs Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen said yesterday >that he hoped Asean efforts in the economic field would be successful in contributing towards world economic recovery. He told the opening of the fifth Asean standing committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur that the steady
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 58 4 THE US CUSTOMS seryice has released US$l5 million worth of Indonesian textiles exports held up due to a misunderstanding over the use of a new Indonesian export stamp logo, the Indonesian newspaper Kompas said. Trade Ministry director for external trade Atje Wirjaman told the daily that the US
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      • 62 4 THAI MARINES yesterday used artillery barrages to dislodge an estimated 1,000 intruding Vietnamese troops from a mountain-top stronghold in eastern Thailand near the Cambodian border. Governor Thongdum Bara- chuen of Trat province said the marines were continuing an operation begun on the weekend to flush out Vietnamese who
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      • 62 4 JAPAN was seeking the support of Indonesia and other developing countries for its election as a new sixth permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a special envoy from Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said in Jakarta. Masayuki Fujio, policy board chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic
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      • 47 4 PHILIPPINE Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile has vowed to recapture Saturnino Ocampo, the country's lon-gest-held political prisoner until his escape on Sunday, as the military mounted a hunt for him. "He is only on temporarily leave. We will meet him again," Mr Enrile said.
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      • 39 4 Agencies NIGERIA had asked its trading partners for an 18-month moratorium on its trade arrears, military leader MajorGeneral Mohammed Buhari said in an Jajterviewt with the Voice oT America, whidfrwas reported by Lagos Radio at the weekend. Agencies
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    • 279 4 AFP THE PHILIPPINES' communist New People's Army (NPA) guerillas might attempt to assassinate government and military officials in Manila by next year, a senior minister said yesterday. Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile also implied during a press forum in Manila that US
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    • 444 4 Reuter THE CURRENT restructuring of New Zealand's economy has been long overdue, but the pace of change may be too fast. Economic analysts in Wellington said yesterday that since elections last July, the Labour government had devalued the country's dollar by 20
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    • 239 4 AFP PRESIDENT Reagan was due in Madrid yesterday for an unpopular visit, expected to be dominated by discussions on Spain's membership in Nato and the future of US military bases in the country. Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez has said he will call for renegotiations
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    • 216 4 AFP THE MESSAGE that bigger families are not necessarily happier families is gradually sinking in among China's 800 million farmers. The French-language edition of the official magazine, Peking Review, in its latest edition published the findings of a poll among 370 one-child
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    • 95 4 Reuter THE FAILURE of the Bonn economic summit to set a date for global trade talks is likely to fuel support for measures pending in Congress to protect the US market against foreign imports, Labour Secretary William Brock said in an interview. Mr Brock, until' last week
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 376 6  -  By AMY BALAN THE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation will make available its gold MasterCard to high income earners from today. The gold version, coming four years after the introduction of the regular OCBC MasterCard, is part erf the the bank's aim to make its card
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    • 464 6 Reuter MONETARY AUTHORITIES In China's pioneering special economic zone at Shenzhen bordering Hoqgkong are pressing for the speedy introduction of a local currency. A senior financial official, however, indicated that reservations by authorities in Bejing may be holding up the plan. "Here,
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    • 356 6 NYT THE BOARD of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has voted" to release (or public comment two new means it is considering for controlling risk-taking by banks. Ode would increase the bank capital requirement to 9 per cent, from the current 6 per
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    • 165 6 FT THE STRENGTH of the US dollar boosted France's outstanding foreign debt by 16 per cent last year to 525 billion French francs. The Ministry of Finance disclosed that in dollar terms, however, the volume of gross debt remained stable at US$54 billion
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    • 398 6  -  By ALVIN TAY THE FINANCIAL results of the Singapore branch of Standard Chartered Bank were disappointing last year. Chairman Lord Barber, in his statement published in the group's latest annual report, attributed the poor results to a combination of factors, including the intensely competitive conditions, bad
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 385 6 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed mixed yesterday against most major currencies compared with last Friday's New York levels in very quiet early trading. The US dollar eased marginally to 254.55/65 yen from New York's 254.60/70 Friday close, rose to 3.2380/10 marks from 3.2350/70 marks and was little changed
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    • Article, Illustration
      289 6 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed easier yesterday compared with last Friday's levels, in quiet trading. Rates were depressed by a lower US federal funds rate and the Fed's arrangement of US$2 billion for customer repurchase agreements when federal funds traded at 8V« per cent. Overnight closed at 8H
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    • 228 6 Interbank rotes at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to OM iMMt of foreign ■My *ee parity rr US dolor Starling pound Australian dolor NZ dolor Canadian dolor 2 2455 2.6698 2.2465 2.6733 2.8196 7 3469 -20.36 -63 46 1 4921 1.0149 1.6183 1.4950 1.0176 1.6214 3.4286 3 4286 *****
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    • 118 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by point from last Friday to close at 5H per cent yesterday. The one, two and threemonth rates remained unchanged. r ■< S$ Interbank rotes at 3pm yesterday: Offw Mid Ovlf r»ght 5 3/8 5 1/4 Hrwoth 5
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    • 281 6 BA Futures JUNE Barsdsllar opened sharply higher yesterday at 91.36 due to bullish fundamentals. Profit-taking could, however, be expected ahead of the huge US Treasury auction this week. The June contract settled at 91.36 after a quiet session because of London holiday. Currency futures lost further grounds after weak
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    • 105 6 HONGKONG: The metal closed lower yesterday In moderate trading, reflecting the strength of the US dollar. Dealers noted light selling pressure and forecast strong support at $307. Gold ended at $310.20/70 an ounce compared with the previous $312.00/50 close and New York's $313.10/60 finish last Friday. On the local
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 86 6 In an area where exclusivity is the rule rather than the exception, you'll find The Vantage. A luxurious and lavishly appointed 17-storey condominium tower with 8 apartments. Recently completed, the Showcase residence is now ready for viewing by appointment. Call *****0 between 9am and 6pm from today. T i. Frnh.4J
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 169 7 SINGAPORE The market closed easier yesterday with May One RSS buyers quoted at 166.00 cents a kg, down 1.75 cents from last Friday's close. The morning market lost one cent on some selling in quiet trading. Prices weakened further in early afternoon trading on continued selling pressure before recovering
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    • 268 7 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOB in b oles NOON CLOSE Buyers SeHers Beyers Sellers krrt 1 RSS Prompt 167.25 168.25N 166.00 167.00N knt 1 RSS May 85 167.75 168.25 166.00 166.50 Int 1 RSS June 85 167.75 168.25 166.00 166.50 Int 2 RSS 166.50 167.50N 165.50
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    • 86 7 (cwrtiAg, 1-ton pc *•*> MAY* 85 JUNE 85 (currant month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS f—M jfiitn B«y«n f-M MMfl SSR 20 168.00 170.00N 170.00 172. OON SSR 50 166 00 168.00N 168.00 170.00N MRELB C -M JWfTl Buyers S>tl>n SMR CV ***** 213.00N 213.00 215. OON
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    • 93 7 Chineee Produce Sarawak special black FOB NLW 690.00 Exchange Sarawak Asta block FOB NLW 790.00 (Setters' noon downa pri May 06. S$/100kfl) cas on Lampong black FOB Asta NLW 790.00 Coconut oil Bute FOB 140.00 Coffee Otd drum FOB 153.00 API FOB NSW 570.00 New drum FOB 157.00
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    • 213 7 Singapore Hongkong (S$/Mo, w IB dawn) (HK$ Mr piail. ex-godown unless Frog rant now crop rt0, Ut 0.86 Thoi Frogront 2nd 0.64 100% new crop 3rd New Crop 0.60 1st class 2nd class 19^00 25% no stock 3rd class 192.00 10% no stock 100% old crop, Thoi Br ok
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    • 91 7 THE KLTM price me It cents to MsZ7.Bf per kg yesterday, still befew the ITA fleer-level sf $29.11. The rise was mainly attributed to eentinned bnying by Malaysian and Japanese interests, taking abeat 86 per cent sf the total effertng sf 164 tonnes versns 111 sn Friday. The
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    • 85 7 CRUDE prices for May deliveries in the south and north regions rose Msls to $1,530 and $1,520 a tonne respectively, while June in the south firmed $37.50 to $1,427.50 and north up $35 to $1,420. The refined palm oil market recovered slightly and RBD olein in May was
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    • 155 7 Yarn (hi HK$ per bale of 400 lb) China corded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 2C$ 2,700 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,300 Blue Phoenix 4C» 3,650 Girded yarn, honk Blue Phoenix 21 's 2,900 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32'* 4,350 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,500 Open-end yam
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    • 640 7 Minister defends ITC export controls AFP Bernama MALAYSIA has called for measures to stop surplus tin entering the market to ensure an early balance between demand and supply. Primary Industries Minister Paul Leong told miners in the northern Perak state on Sunday
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    • 425 7 Reuter AFP INDONESIA is unlikely to leave the International Coffee Agreement since it would stand to lose more than it could gain, in spite of last month's International Coffee Organisation (ICO) council resolution aimed at eliminating lower prices on non-ICO markets, traders said. They
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    • 378 7 Reuter .rn> NIGERIA hat concluded s US$l billion agreement 1 1 Unking sales of it» crude oil to purchase* of good*-' from France. The deal follow* a simi» lar agreement with Bnaflm last year, also Involving ,oj goods and oil worth a
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 375 7 t CAUTION i If you've an air-conditioning that's ten years old or older you've our sympathy Because loathe it or not you're going to have to live with one of two possibilities. (Or rather impossibilities, as you will soon discover) 1. You can continue to put up with your antiquated
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  • FEATURES
    • 472 8 PRESIDENT REAGAN's post-summit yawn was nicely captured by the lenses of the media. Great hopes had been placed on the Bonn summit, but it seems even the most important participant found it hard to stay awake. It was clear that the Presidents and Prime Ministers
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    • 931 8  -  Tan Tjin Koan spearheads fight for US$l5 million from Indonesian government When three private companies took on the Indonesian government in a legal tussle centred on Kartika Plaza Hotel in Jakarta, the World Bank arbitration took four long years. TERESA LIM reports on the case, which is
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    • 517 8 Reuter IN LESS THAN two months since coming to office, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has taken rapid hold of the levers of power and laid the groundwork for a programme to shape the country in the closing years of the century. After a
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    • 307 8 AFP THEY ARE a strange sort of shop, resembling large barns or warehouses, sited beside major American highways. They close early, have no display windows, and are never open on Sundays. But their success is starting to really worry conventional shopkeepers. They are known as "factory
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 98 8 Training improves your chances BT every Wednesday VFirst First l Served BRITISH British Airways fly daily one-stop flights to London. We are the first airline to leave Singapore at 10.10pm everyday. And the first to arrive in London by 6.20 am. So that at Heathrow, passengers on British Airways are
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  • SPORTS
    • 624 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS ACADEMIC PRESSURE, which has considerably dampened the $150,000 national juniors' tennis programme, has put up another obstacle exams. With that, the arch foe of sport in Singapore has fouled up what promised to be a welcome boost to the programme a
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    • 435 9 UPI MARTINA NAVRATILOVA played her longest match of the week on Sunday, turning back a stubborn Elise Burgin fr-4, 6-1 to win the US$l5O,OOO Virginia Slims of Houston tennis tournament in Sugarland, Texas. Navratilova, ranked Nol in the world, earned 127,500 with the victory
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    • 201 9 Reuter YANNICK NOAH of France recorded two victories in a little more than two hours on Sunday, but still needs one more to gain the draw of the US$615,000 Tournament of Champions which began yesterday at Forest Hills. Noah's two triumphs
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    • 849 9 Agenda THE PROBLEM with real-life fairytales such as Spend a Buck's run from horse-racing obscurity to the fame of a Kentucky Derby victory is that they rarely have an actual close-the-book ending, happy or otherwise. After a few short
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    • 412 9 UPI TOM KITE, who entered the tournament mired in the worst slump of his 14-year pro career but finished off a sterling wire-to-wire performance. He shot a 3-under-par 69 on Sunday to win the US$4OO,OOO Mony Tournament of Champions by
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1019 9 HIGHLIGHTS Boulez Now Bpm, CHoimml 12 Pierre Boulez is a major force in contemporary music. He has a music laboratory for new music in Paris which is committed to the expansion and recreation of musical language. This programme looks at Reports, his recent work, which is nothing less than a
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    • 729 9 Play golf the Sevvy way >' SOME. PLPNERS HAVE TWE LEFT LEG STRAIGHT. > OR VERV NEARLN SO. AT IfAPPCT. BUT "THAT IS NOT WW WPN. AT I HAVE. TWE LEFT KNEE STILL FLEXEP WHILE NN HIPS WEEP TURNING > AWAV FROIA i# THE LINE TO THE/ji TARGET. ALL THIS
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY STOCKS
    • 796 10 Bid for Dornier a natural broadening of its interests FT DAIMLER-BENZ is one of those elite West German companies that combine a genuine sense of history with sharp business acumen. In its flurry of takeover activity lately, "tradition" is a word that has frequently cropped up.
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    • 632 10 NYT THE PRINCIPAL stockholders of United Press International have planned to ask a bankruptcy court in Washington this week to remove top executives of the financially troubled news service. Douglas Ruhe, one of the co-owners, said: "We are going to ask the court to
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    • 475 10 NYT RUPERT MURDOCH, the Australian publisher who bought a half interest in the 20th Centu-ry-Fox Film Corp in March, is expected to announce that he will buy at least six television stations from Metromedia Inc for about US$1.55 billion. The deal, which
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 492 11 HONGKONG: Share prices soared in very active trading yesterday as institutions and small investors alike showed strong buying interest. The Hang Seng Index surged 45.63 points to 1,596.43, the highest since Sep 3,1981, when it closed at 1,597.54. Turnover was HK5531.02 million compared with last Friday's $409.7 million. Brokers
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    • 193 11 MAY M Al Srtcare Mm Aaio Camant HT 2 72 23 30 0.01 -0.1 +0.3 ■0.1 +0.2 Lian Hot Indus Nan Ya Plat Pacific Cons Pacific Elect 12.40 27 00 1760 14.15 unch unch -01 -0.2 Cathay Cor* Chang Hwo Bark 23.30 48 50 1990 Poolung Papar Sharp 1
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    • 419 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed yesterday at near record levels as News Corp, BHP and banking issues attracted support. News Corp rose Asl.lo to $8.70 on modest turnover on news that Rupert Murdoch planed to purchase the US television interests of Metromedia Inc. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index
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    • 61 11 MAY 06 Won 615 +9 Hyundai Corat Hyundai Motor KAL. 901 541 446 unch -4 1 585 4 670 unch 630 •15 470 +2 482 -8 400 -6 Lucky Ltd 590 4 548 705 -2 487 -1 795 -5 GoldStar 590 +4 1280 +7 HanilBk 640 551 1 ?A*>
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    • 187 11 Reuter KADER Industrial Co Ltd will make an initial public offering of 93.75 million shares of HK$O.5O each at $1.85 per share. The company said of the shares offered, 75 million of them would be new issues and 18.75 million would be sold
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    • 365 11 Reuter AN INCREASING number of Hongkong and foreign companies are planning interest rate and currency swaps in Hongkong because of favourable interest rates. Banking sources say Hongkong companies are believed to have swapped between HKJSOO million and $800 million last year although it
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    • 223 11 Reuter TRADING in Allied Investors Corp Ltd has been suspended at the company's request ahead of a board meeting to consider a special interim dividend of HK$5.OO per share for the 1965 year, the Hongkong exchanges say. The special interim dividend would replace the
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    • 421 11 THE ASIAN-PACIFIC region is the fastest growing area in the corporate world of Dow Chemical, contributing 10 per cent of last year's worldwide revenue of US$l2 billion. This region's share of revenue could be even higher if Japan opened its doors wider. That was
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    • 4123 12 IT WAS ANOTHER uneventful day on the Singapore stock market yesterday, which continues to lurk in the shadow of a booming Hongkong stock market as a result of investor apathy. A prominent feature of yesterday's trading session was the sudden interest in
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    • 183 12 SINGAPORE RteM Indie*# Mar S Ma* 4 DKmmI 830 4-30 rr ***** 704.1* £2 t' 4 SIST 3M5M*tsnna bY«SMg 270 +4 roM s -2M U 0 L 200 4 STMactnab 795 J7 790.09 Cmp 96* +3H 2312J0 2S0771 our 27» +3 stmS3T >14.74 >14.74 HmM 116 +3
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    • 2204 12 BID and offer price* officially listed and business in and reported to tbe Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday vltb tbe number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 unite unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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    • 222 12 TIB DEVELOPMENT BANK OP SINGAPORE LID: Seventeenth AGM at the Board Room, 46th Storey, DBS Building, 6 Shenton Way, Singapore 0106 today at 1L00 am. MALAYAN CEMENT BEBBAD: Thirty-fifth AGM at 1st Floor, Wisma Damansara, Jalan Semantan, Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur today at noon. BBITOB* AMEBIC AN TOBACCO
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 441 13 MALAYAN UNITED INDUSTRIES Bhd is implementing a series of renovation programmes for its Ming Court chain of hotels around the world. Like many other hotels in Singapore, Ming Court Hotel Ltd is taking advantage of the slack period in the local hotel
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    • 315 13 INDUSTRIAL OXYGEN Incorporated is cashing in on the popularity of flatted factories by building a complex costing Ms3o million in Petaling Jaya. The project, to be called 101 Industrial Complex, is a six-storey flatted factory complex on a 0.8-hectare site in Jalaft Kemajuan in Section
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    • 330 13 SHK Research THE HONGKONG stock market advanced further last week with the Hang Seng Index posting a net gain of 44 points to close at a four-and-a-half-year high of 1,560.8. After a weak opening, the market staged a strong rally on Tuesday in response to
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    • 495 13 LAST FULL YEAR Company Period Date announced last year Year ending Net EPS (cents) Grots dW Net profit ($*000) Pohong Inv SPK-Sentoso K L Industries Final Final Final Jan 31 Mor 1 Mor 16 Dec 84 Dec 84 Oct 84 3.2 1.5 9.352L 2,768L 2,878 Peek Huo QAF
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    • 119 13 Second B'putro 4.77 4 82 TNrd B'putro 4.13 4.18 Fourth B'putro 4.58 4.63 Fifth B'putro 2 97 3 02 Sixth Bputro 3.01 306 Seventh B'putro (A) 1 84 1.89 Seventh B'putro (B) 3 86 3.91 Eighth B'putro 3 63 3 68 Nnth B'putro 3 00 3 05 Tenth
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    • 221 13 THE SAFUAN GROUP intends to enhance the prominence of publicly-listed Kesang Holdings Bhd besides diversifying and expanding the latter's activities to ensure long-term stability and growth. This intention was indicated in Safuan's cash offer document on its general offer for the rest of the
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    • 103 13 ALLIED INVESTORS Corp Ltd has recommended a special interim cash dividend of HK$5 per share for the year ending Dec 31, 1985. The special dividend will replace the originally-proposed 55-cent final dividend for 1984 if it is approved by shareholders at a general meeting on
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    • 724 13 FT AYALA INTERNATIONAL, headed by Mr Enrique Zobel, and Merrill Lynch, the largest broking house in the US, have set up a joint venture company, based in Singapore, to offer a wide range of financial services to clients in the Asia-Pacific. The coming together
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    • 429 13 THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market put on another lethargic performance yesterday with share prices finishing on an easier note. Interest centred on special situation stocks and many actively-traded issues recorded marginal losses. The market opened little changed from its previous close and thereafter drifted
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    • 1951 13 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 lota of IX*» units unless otherwise specified. NXJSTRMLS A Choc (2.006 2.015) (5) 202 (10)2.00 (5)2.01 AMO
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    • 346 15 KIO raises stake in Cycle Carriage THE KUWAIT Investment Office has raised its stake again in Cycle Carriage Ltd, this time by one million shares following recent strategic acquisitions of shares in the motor company by a new and prominent party. With the latest purchase of 1.02 million shares in
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    • 63 15 PILECON ENGINEERING Bhd: Group pre-tax profits of Mslo.BB million ($8.37 million) on turnover of $133.27 million ($45.42 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1984. After tax and minorities, earnings came to $5.16 million ($4.45 million). The company is recommending a first and final dividend of 15 per
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    • 1483 15 Currant povmewt Ex date Books close Dote payable Total for the year Total for lost year AIM A 1 S A Enterprises Acmo Ajinomoto Ambassador Amol Steel Amcoi Asiatic Dev BAT B Roya Bote Bousteod C C C 1 Holdings C K Ton? C Properties City Dev CKuon
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    • 299 15 INNOVEST Bhd has taken an equity interest in Wembley Activated Clay Sdn Bhd, a manufacturer of activated bleaching earth. Innovest is paying Ms 3 million for six million Wembley shares of 50 cents each at par. Wembley's product is used as an absorbent
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    • 139 15 THE Capital Issues Committee has approved ladastrial Oxygea lac's acquisition of the entire issued and paid-up capital of Syarikat Pukin T-ariang Kelapa Sawit Sdn Bhd for M$43.2 million to be satisfied by the issue of 43.2 million new shares at H par. BENA (Holdings) Sda Bhd says that
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    • 507 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE THE NEW OWNERS of Parkway Holdings Ltd are wasting little time in getting the company moving. Flush with cash following the sale of the company's glass-making operations, Parkway formerly Singapore Glass (1974) Ltd is making its first major acquisition
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    • 726 15  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN FOLLOWING last year's record loss of $14.4 million before tax, Straits Steamship is determined to make a convincing comeback this year. Chairman Sim Kee Boon states in the latest annual report and accounts that "shareholders can be confident of a return to profitability
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    • 45 15 Company BONUS ISSUE Grond Central Thre*-fof-two Ex-date: May 14 Book Close May 21 Selangor Oredg Five-fof-two Sub-division of 1 par into two shares of 50 cents each Ex-date: May 14 Books dose: May 24 Yaohan 0.3-for-one Ex-date: May 15 Books dose: May 20
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    • 122 15 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Ganda Hldgs One-for-four fe at 1.00 per share George Town Two-for-one <& $1.00 per shore KiHinghoH Two-for-five $1.15 per share Landmarks Hldgs One-for-four fe $1 00 per shore O U B One-for-five fe $2.50 per share Peak Hua Three-for-two fe $1.50 per shore Sub-diviston of
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    • 460 15 THE Melewar group is taking over a controlling stake in Malaysian American Assurance from American International Assurance. MAA said yesterday that an agreement in principle had been reached for the Melewar group of companies to buy AlA's 3.6 million shares or 60 per cent
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    • 9 13 The Heagkeag weekly market report wm delayed la traae-
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    • 263 13 I. I 1. COMPANIES, ACT, CAP. 181 AND (PMHt to Mm MOM) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company held at 140 Robinson Road #03-08, Chow Houae, Singapore 0106 on SO April 1888, the following Special Resolution was passed: It was RESOLVED: "That Dantas Private Limited be wound up
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    • 1387 14 r MALAYSIA BORNEO FINANCE CORPORATION (N) BERHAD MBf BALANCE SHEET As at 30th September. 1984 1983 NOTE ASSETS Cash, bank balances and money at call Deposits with financial institutions Negotiable certificates of deposit Bankers' acceptances Malaysian Government Securities, at cost 70,153,821 50,221,255 174,921,971 5,000*00 51,791,082 38£12£81 23,360,400 31,602,750 *****8,153 iWW
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    • 6 15 Managers must manage... BT every Monday
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    • 127 15 COMPUTERS CANT SOLVE ALL YOUR WRITING PROBLEMS Computers can't kelp you write If you don't know WHAT to say and HOW to •ay it. Poor writing skills hurt companies and employees. Customers aren't sold wken tkey could be. Employees are denied promotions because they can't write well enougk to meet
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  • 526 16  -  Rush to build up stocks in earlier part of year By BOEY KIT YIN DOMESTIC EXPORTS of electronic products surged 25 per cent to reach a high of $8.4 billion last year because of a worldwide rush to build up large inventories in the
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  • 257 16 THE DATUK Dr Neo Yee Pan faction in the MCA has made another attempt to stop the extraordinary general meeting which the Tan Koon Swan group wants to hold on May 12. A notice of motion was filed yesterday in
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  • 371 16  -  By PENG AILIAN SEVEN in ten international meetings in Singapore last year were held in the top five convention hotels. This represents a significant increase in their share from four in ten in 1963. In all, more than 87 per cent of the
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  • 246 16 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has assured Sabah that the federal government will continue to extend assistance to the state as it did when Berjaya was the ruling party. Sabah Chief Minister and Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president Datuk Joseph Pairin
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  • 142 16 Bernama MALAYSIA'S Industrial Master Plan (IMP), now being drawn up with the help of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will be submitted to the government by the end of next month. The UNDP regional representative for Malaysia, Yoon-Yul Kim, said the UNDP
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  • 355 16 THE SOUTH African regime has escalated the arms race, both by strengthening its own production capabilities and, through cooperation with and purchases from other manufacturing centres in the industrialised world, encouraging the expansion of the weapons industry worldwide. This is in defiance of the consensus
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  • 127 16 AP CHINA'S Communist Party is building a large memorial hall to honour the late (resident Liu Shao-Chi, the most prominent victim of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, who was jailed by Mao Zedong on charges that he wanted to restore capitalism. The state-run China
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  • 330 16 AP INDIAN Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's ruling Congress Party has pledged its commitment to socialism, rejecting speculation that the new Indian leader was taking a capitalist approach in the country's economic policy. A resolution adopted at the close of the party's two-day council
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  • 104 16 AFP THE INDIAN government is not currently considering freezing the assets of Union Carbide India. The Minister of State for Industry and Company Affairs, Arif Mohammad Khan, said this in reply to a parliamentary question concerning the multinational company's wish to close its Bhopal plant.
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  • 471 16  -  By LOH HUI YIN IN SPITE OF the recent discount on rentals given by the Jurong Town Corporation on industrial land and factories, the corporation is expected to face difficulty finding tenants for a number of its new industrial estates, which
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  • 287 16 AFP AP A HIGH-LEVEL Japanese delegation told President Suharto yesterday that Japan would try to mn<n»»in Indonesia's share of the Japanese oil market. Delegation leader Masayuki Fujio said after an hour-long meeting in Jakarta with President Suharto: "I will convene a
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  • 64 16 Reuter THE STOCK market edged higher in early trading yesterday, with investors watching for signs of a follow-through to Friday's modest gain. The Dow Jones average was up a fraction to 1247 on turnover of 9.96 million shares. Advances led declines by a narrow margin. Atlantic Richfield
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  • LATE FILE
    • 57 16 AP THE PRESIDENTS of Pakistan and Burma yesterday called for the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia as an essential step towards a permanent political solution in that country. This was stated in a Joint communique issued at the end of a three-day visit to Rangoon
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    • 52 16 AP MR CHRIS Hurford, Australian Immigration Ethnic Affairs Minister, held talks in Kuala Lumpur yesterday with Foreign Minister Tengku *hm«H Rithauddeen on the Vietnamese refugee situation. Mr Rithauddeen said after the talks that Vietnam should improve its economy to help prevent the outflow of boat
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    • 43 16 UPI KUWAIT'S Justice Minister, Mr Salman Dual] al-Sabah, resigned on Sunday, two days before he was to face a confidence vote in Parliament over charges that his 14-year-old son had benefited from a stock market crash in 1962. UPI
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    • 42 16 Reuter SEPARATIST Tamil guerillas destroyed a government office in Ski Lanka's eastern province with explosives on Sunday. Police said no casualties were reported but the building at Kalmunai, about 40km from the provincial capital, Batticaloa, was completely wrecked.
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    • 63 16 Reuter A DEFAMATION action by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke against the publishers of Time magazine was settled in the Supreme Court at Sydney yesterday on terms which were not disclosed. Mr Hawke alleged that he had been defamed in an article published in August 1983,
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    • 36 16 Reuter SOUTH African police and troops sealed off a riot-torn-Black township in the troubled eastern Cape. Deputy Defence Minister Adriaan Vlok said Kwanobuhle had been cordoned off and police were manning roadblocks.
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    • 34 16 Bernama A TRADE mission from the US state of lowa will arrive in Kuala Lumpur on Friday for a six-day visit to explore business opportunities with Malaysian entrepreneurs.
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    • 35 16 Reuter JAPAN is to give Indonesia 725 million yen (US$2.B million) to computerise the official news agency Antara. The money will be used for a computerised news switching and editing system.
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    • 37 16 wMKm UiiiaiiiiiU Report for 24 hours prior to Maximum temperature 32.4 Associated humidity 65 Minimum temperature 24.5 Associated humidity 94 Hours of sunshine 7.00 Rainfall in millimetres 0.3 Rainfoll this month 1.4 Rainy days this month 3
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORT SIDES
      • 54 17 AP CHINA AND France signed two agreement on transportation cooperation on Saturday, Qiina s official news agency Xinhua reported Paul Guiles, French Minister of-Urbanipn, Housing and Transport,and Chinese Communications Minister Qian Yong Chang ments. CMm and France also agreed to cooperate in the management of waterways and shiplocks.
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      • 56 17 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN and New Zwiand/Eastern Shipping Conference East Asia section said it is raising the currency adjustment factor for Hongkong to Australia to 39.14 percent from 33J9. Ttie new rate will take effect on May 18 for shipments to West Australia and on May 28 for shipments
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      • 68 17 Reuter SHIPPING IS returning to normal in Papua New Guinea ports as a cargo backlog created by a strike last week is cleared, shipping industry sources said. A MWay strike by more than 1,000 members of the waterside workers and seamen s union ended last week after
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    • 417 17  -  NOL may change agency in Malaysia By G DURAIRAJ NEPTUNE ORIENT Lines's review at representation at major trading areas has included Malaysia. It is understood that the Singapore niiHwuii line will change its agency in Malaysia soon. The move is aimed primarily at strengthening NOL's
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    • 176 17 Reuter ABOUT 20 ships have been held up in Sydney and the number could double in three days unless industrial disputes with Australian waterside unions are resolved, port officials said. The Seamen's Union of Australia (SUA) imposed an indefinite national ban on Friday on the
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    • 62 17 INDONESIA may Join the Londonbased International Maritime Satellite Organisation (Inmarsat), the Jakarta Post quoted Inmarsat executives as saying. M The daily said Inmarsat officials visiting In*—*la to attend a communications exhibition noted that Indonesia is a pioneer in domestic satellite systems. They said Indonesia would have
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    • 63 17 Fairplay THE phoenix in the Salen story, Cool Carriers, has launched a monthly service (or refrigerated cargoes between North Europe and the Red Sea and the Gulf. The 232,000 cubic feet Swmn has commenced loading, calling at the t ports of Esbjerg, Eemshaven, Brest, Lorlent and
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    • 554 18 AFP ARCTIC explorer Janusz Kurbiel left France for Canada to complete preparations for a new assault on the north-west passage that could lead to its high-summer use by oil and gas tankers. The Polish-born explorer's own ship, setting out from Vancouver on Canada's
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    • 285 18 Fairplay GLOBTIK Tankers Limited has accepted a US$l million out-of-court settlement offered through the London insurance market for an outstanding claim on its 54,000-ton tanker Narnian Sea which sustained damage resulting from main engine vibrations between 1979 and 1963. The vessel was launched about
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    • 263 18 SOME OF the world's most prominent freight industry leaders will meet at the International World Freight conference in England to persuade the industry that freight should be raised immediately to the boardroom level. Freight can now absorb as much as 20 per cent
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    • 111 18 THREE PEOPLE were suffocated and three injured when fire broke out on a British ship unloading coal in the southern Taiwan Port of Kaohsiung, police said. A senior police officer said that one of those killed in the fire aboard the bulk carrier Sir Alexander
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    • 632 18 Af«o Andaka Shpg AM APC Una APL ASCL Awobrokar Auttowo Lrve Boh-Orient Bangkok Com Bonk Una Baytwatar Shpg BBS Ban Una Bloa Star Burma Frva Star Cameroon Shpg CCM Caytan Shpg Chargaurt Rauna Chorg Hovrooa Chno Nov China Ocaan Convoy* t Cormorant Diakarta Lloyd Dongnama Shpg Dowo
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    • 1868 18 BUSINESS was slow on the London Shipping freights market on Friday ahead of the long British Bank Holiday weekend. Most of the short list of reported fixtures involved time-charter employment. But slight weakening was evident in the US Gulf-Rot-terdam grain rate when Krohn secured the Bright at USUI
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    • 243 19 THE THAI government should consider the views r of the private sector before constructing deep-sea ports l lest they might not be fully utilised. The suggestion came :.from Mr Olarn Asavaritthikul, president of the Lighter-owners Associated. He cited the case of 34million
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    • 370 19 Lloyd's List A LEADING US expert on bankruptcy and maritime law has warned that financially shaky international shipping operations will not be allowed to reorganise themselves rather than be liquidated. There is no international structure offering shipowners protection from creditors as found in
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    • 121 19 THE FOUR companies which own parts of the Norwegian Hoegh fleet have entered into a refinancing agreement with the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Guaranty to maintain sufficient liquidity in th coming years. The newbuilding programme over recent years has proved an increased burden for
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    • 184 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, 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 Line. Nedlloyd
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    • 126 19 THAILAND'S first maritime transportation bill has been approved by the Judicial Council. It will now go before the Cabinet for consideration, said Mr Kamol Sonthikaettrin, secretary-general of the Office of Commercial Navigation Promotion Committee. Among other things, the bill proposed that: The time limit
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    • 251 19 IN A BID to stem losses, Safmarine and Bank Line have joined forces to operate in the US-South Africa trade. If their space chartering pact is approved by the US Federal Maritime Commission, the companies hope to achieve a "better than
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    • 187 19 Sea trade Week THE DECISION by the US Maritime Administration earlier last month to permit American President Lines to acquire three subsidiaries of the Falcon Carriers Group along with their authority has drawn fire from Sea-Land Services. Sea-Land filed a petition with the Secretary of Transportation
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    • 5465 24 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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    • 658 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy dote/time Operator cargo schedule Location Sextum 04/471 07.5.85 2300 Horper F2 0930-1100 B6 E Trust 019E 07.5.85 2300 G Asia F2 0900-1100 P4 Anson *****N 07.5.85 2359 Heap Seng F7
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    • 1777 25 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B APE A African Shipping Agencies <Si Alra-EamU Uw Transgroup (Si AkreakiH timer Service Kim Shpg ISI Alfred C Teepfer Oceania Shipping Agen cies (Si Marintex Enterprise (PKi Alpar Intrasea (S) Bintang Shpg IKLI Island
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    • 482 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Alpha Jupiter K36 Str Tptn alongside 7.5.85/0800 Belalt K25W SSPL alongside 7.5.85/0600 Bontegracht K17 Or Lloyd alongside 7.5.85/1200 Katoria K10 S'pore Shp alongside 7.5.85/1830 Liheng K19 J Manners alongside 7.5.85/2300 R'bow Volans K27 Sharp alongside 7.5.85/1500 Tomoe
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    • 264 26 AFP ENQUIRY was spasmodic on the tanker market last week, due to holidays in Europe and the Far East, with the only significant loading activity being noted out of West Africa and the North Sea. Despite further attacks on neutral shipping in the Gulf states area, several fixtures
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    • 656 26 TWO 57,372 long dwt tankers, the 1977-built Alvega and the 1978-built Saliaa, were purchased by Norwegian buyers (or about US$7.5 million each. The sellers are understood to be talcing back the vessels on timecharter (or 3 years at $8,000 daily (or first year, $8,500 (or second year and
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    • 363 17 Fore»9 n t*chon9 e TIMES BOOKS international Time# Centre 1 New Industry Road Spore 1053 T«fc *****44 AmwrM cW* tew a»gon«<*wn 556.50 Each ■iNffJPIE ARCTIC explorer, Jonusz Kurbiel left France to complete preparations for o now assoult on the famous nortn-west passage. A LEADING US expert has warned tH daily
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    • 992 22 CUADOR/PERU/CHILE oa m nono vo* rw BMK MT 12) MABITSA SAIWTIS WIK 3Mm 5 May 7 lb} K LINE —KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD.— smbe mem guayaqulcauao mica W» tttmih mmomo Valparaiso S May 24 Miy 23 M 2t tai IM J* 7 CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SEA mm a Mono v& «w
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    • 502 23 snirrtniu iimm, iucwwj, i—»j FAR EAST/EUROP€ FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE i*»«c, TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): S'pere P-Ketone N CRYSTAL 29W+ j.l C PAUL 44W C CONTAIO 30W Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia N CRYSTAL S'pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 0230 8/5 LCI Cargo 1430 7/5 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) K MCEM
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    • 340 24 !)'<*<|ional Container Lines 4 Sailings weekly con Fast Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing PSA Tue, Thur Sat A Sun HINOOE KISEN CO. LTD II 1 K Ml W 1 I.ll*l < \KKII K Ui. I—Tin— 4/m kM W* »Itoj 10 fcy 4tm $tm NXMI i/m 3tm 4tm 4tm Itm 2 M
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    • 48 25 FAR EAST 'EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE IiTT rcr-mnmcM !< ■nrrrp EJI rri [2Ji rj| CUB rnnTTMnrwy ieskzi: i, ■□MCZJ; KDimci CD mmnmzn EUSEEBED nmtimwn giDMiaiEMigßuaaßED EIIMMMMgjFTirTTI ZZE E3* E3H C2EI EMI ZZZZ* EH C* EH I *4a STRAITS/TAIWAN/JAPAN CONTAINER SERVICE PENINSULAR SABAH/SARAWAK/BRUNEI SERVICES ummrm rr n nrmmm r irr-> ur
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    • 180 25 LICORNE M=-- W.HW Scan Dutch To Europe (Med/UK/NC Scan) ft M II I j' I ACCEPTMa/SMUNG To Red Sea Mediterranean Beta* SM B fatw 6/6 From Europe FEEOER P. KELANQ HOMO KONG From Red Sea/Med. Also Accepting To: From: (I) Barcelona, Genoa, Bdboo, Leghorn Valencia (2) Amsterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Basle,
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    • 259 26 MitsciOSK Lines Ltd CONVENTIONAL/SEMI-CONTAINER AFRICA'S NO C d NEDLLOYO MOJI 16 May Mombasa. AFRICA MARU 24 May Port Louis, Rsunion EVERDAWN 4 Jun Mombasa. Dareesaiaam. Tanga NEDLLOYD MADRAS 7 May Apapa. Monrovia. Attdjan, Lorn*. Oouata. Tama CONTINENTAL PARTNERS 14 May Abid|an. Monrovia. Lome. Apapa. Douata. Tama OSAKA MARU* 13 May
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