The Business Times, 1 June 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 SATURDAY, JUNE I, 1985 60 CENTS
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  • 460 1  -  Franchise holder hopes to capture spc of market By SWARAN KAPUR BRITAIN'S leading High Street retailer of clothes, toys ami other essentials for children, subteens and mothers-to-be is moving into the Singapore child-care products market, which is estimated to be worth $300 million. Kim
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  • 502 1  -  By RICHARD BEAH COMPLAINTS against "unethical" advertisements many of which were found to be valid have increased sharply. And bad times are partly being blamed'. Poor business and increased competition are said to have resulted in more advertisements making exaggerated or misleading claims, as
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  • 190 1 THE MAURITIAN Prime Minister, Mr Anerood Jugnauth, will arrive in Singapore this morning. He is here on a two-day visit to discuss industrial cooperation. Mr Jugnauth is accompanied by his wife. Among the members of Mr Jugnauth's delegation are the Mauritian Minister for External Affairs,
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  • 118 1 Bernama PREMIUM PETROL will cost seven cents more per litre in Peninsular Malaysia and nine cents more in Sabah and Sarawak from today. The prices of other petroleum products such as regular petrol, diesel, kerosene, cooking gas and car gas would also be raised by
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  • 238 1 THE New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd has bought 70 per cent in Shin Min Daily News* (M) Sdn Bhd in a move to broaden its existing range of publications. The acquisition of Shin Min, which is the third
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  • Article, Illustration
    82 1 BUYING INTEBEBT MM to return to the Singapore stock feitrktt jeiteNty, altheagh It w»i the lint toy ef (fee aew Mttlcnwit period. Hwrerw, plaatottoa ewnrten •gala backed the tread and efesed a Utile higher after havlag beea qilet fer the past meath. The BT Cempeslte ladex was <towa
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  • 277 1 Reuter THE Indonesian Parliament has endorsed a controversial law giving President Suharto sweeping powers over hundreds of organisations ranging from trade unions and religious groups to youth clubs. The 'Law on Mass Organisation' gives the government the right to remove the leadership of any
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  • 162 1 Bernama TAN SRI Basir Ismail, the executive chairman of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd (BBMB), said that to the bank's knowledge, only four former Bank Bumiputra officials were involved in the Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) loans affair. Answering questions at a press conference yesterday to
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  • 473 1  -  By JUNE LIM THE Singapore National Shipping Association (SNSA) is not completely satisfied with a new tariff which the Port of Singapore Authority is putting into effect today. The association said yesterday it was "still concerned with a number of* outstanding items which have
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  • 120 1 THE MCA's ad hoc committee has instructed its secretariat, set up to assist the cleaning up of the party membership register, to send out verification letters to the estimated 400,000 members as quickly as possible. In response to the request, the secretariat, which is manned
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    • 265 1 SHARE INFORMATION SHIPS IN PORT MONEY EXCHANGES AT LEAST 15 companies in the building industry were wound up and 25 are facing winding-up petitions so far this year, and the shakeout is expected to hit more of the smaller companies. Pagt 2 US Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige has predicted continued
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 499 2  -  Economic downturn forcing smaller ones to close By LISA LEE AT LEAST 15 companies in the building industry were wound up and another 25 are facing wind-ing-up petitions so far this year. As the economic downturn takes its toll on the industry, the shakeout is
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    • 219 2 FOUR YOUNG Singapore professionals will take part in the 68th Lions International Convention in Dallas from June 17 to 22. Mr Mohamed Rafik, president of Leo Club Central, said this was the first time the club would have a delegation at
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    • 148 2 A TRADE MISSION from the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Industry, representing a wide range of products and services, will be in Singapore next week. Among the products and services represented in the mission are mud and brine storage and mixing tanks for the
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    • 407 2 THE DEVELOPMENT of Batam Island as an industrial state would benefit Singapore, said chief executive of Batam Island Development Authority General Soedarsono Darmosoewito yesterday. In his keynote address at a conference on Batam Island, he said: "The development of the industrial estate is
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    • 249 2 THE MONTHLY average of glue-sniffing cases reported in the first four months of this year rose to 102 from the monthly average of 68 for 1983 and 1984. Mr Wong Kan Seng, Minister of State for Community Development, revealed these figures yesterday at the
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    • 61 2 THE SINGAPORE Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) is reviewing eight sets of Singapore standards. The review, to ensure that the standards are relevant to Singapore's needs, will determine whether they should be confirmed, revised or withdrawn. The institute is also inviting comments from the public
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    • 335 2 MANY new flats in Yishuh New Town are not sold although the Housing and Development Board's waiting list still has 58,000 names. Because of this, the board is introducing a daily selection scheme whereby any HDB applicant can opt for one
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    • 164 2 HERE'S a budding shutterbug for you. Little Eugenia Low is only eleven years old, but yesterday she was mom's pride and joy when she emerged the top award winner in the National Students' Salon of Photography 1985. Works of student shutterbugs are on show at the
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    • 86 2 THE Bedok Central Post Office will be closed temporarily for renovation from June 8. A temporary post office will be stationed behind the present post office at block 218 Bedok North Street 1. Mail for PO box renters will still be delivered through their respective boxes
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    • 166 2 SINGAPORE manufacturers and exporters who want to expand their business with Australia are being offered advice at a seminar on the Australian System of Tariff Preferences (ASTP) to be held on June 11 and 12. The annual seminar is sponsored by the Australian government
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    • 375 2  -  By ANNA TEO SINGAPORE has been chaw as the Jumping off point for the sales drive into China and other Asian countries by Avery International, a US manufacturer of self-adhesives, consumer and office products. The newly-opened Singapore office, Fasson Self-Adhesives Materials SEA Pte
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    • 112 2 FOUR MORE categories of products have been added to the list of Asean tariff preferential items with effect from today. These goods of Asean origin and sold within the regional grouping will now be taxed at a lower rate of one to three percent, compared with the
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    • 906 2 RECEIVINQ OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS A Qdns MDLCLCARQO FCL Ship Vira Bhum Glory Ace Atrevida, Bokin Sea Glory B Mdoti Jenwel Falstria Harvester B Butang Or Merchant Five Oaks Sextum Sea Fortune Atrevida Axel Moersk B Kemomng Supanya Anson Ramdas Uni Promoter Moersk Mango L Mahapola P
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 511 3 AP AS THE Geneva arms talks enter their second round, the US is increasing the secrecy surrounding them by reducing the already meagre scraps of information it offers the public. US spokesman Terry Shroeder said yesterday that the delegation would no longer
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    • 286 3 Reuter AMERICAN Secretary of State George Shultz has assured King Hussein of Jordan that Washington will work with him to resolve differences over direct Is-rael-Arab peace talks. But the assurance was coupled with a Reagan administration caution that the Soviet Union,
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    • 299 3 NYT US DEFENCE Secretary Caspar Weinberger said three navy officers, including an admiral with 33 years of service, were being relieved of their duties because a supply depot under their command paid the Grumman Aerospace Corp $699 for each of seven airplane ashtrays. The Secretary's
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    • 326 3 Signs point towards better performance FT MALCOLM BALDRIGE, the US Commerce Department Secretary, has predicted continued growth in the economy this year in spite of a new report showing that the government's index of of leading economic indicators fell 0.2 per cent last month.
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    • 279 3 FT THE EEC has launched a campaign to win over countries which are opposing a new round of Gatt negotiations on international trade. Senior officials of the European commission met top Indian civil servants in New Delhi on Thursday. India is
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    • 270 3 Reuter FT WEST GERMAN economic growth should pick up slightly in 1986 on continuing strong foreign demand after slowing slightly this year. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Said yesterday that growth should also benefit in 1966 from income tax
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    • 264 3 Reuter WORLD BANK president A W Clausen has denied charges that the bank's policies are controlled by the US. "The US does not control the World Bank, but like anything else we listen to the largest shareholder," Mr Clausen told the Foreign Policy Association
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 46 3 INDONESIA'S state oil company Pertamina has paid off all its US$lO.6 billion debt to the central bank which took over the company's debts in 1975, Mines Energy Minister Subroto said. He said Pertamina's remaining debt, including interest, had all been paid on April 30.
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      • 62 3 IF UK INFLATION and interest rates remain at their present high levels, Britain's economy will at best stagnate in the medium term, and pose severe problems for employment, stockbroker Phillips and Drew said in an economic report. It noted, however, that the more inflation can be cut,
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      • 69 3 THE US Commerce Department said in a preliminary ruling that steel imports were being sold illegally in the US from Austria, East Germany, Norway, Poland, Rumania and Venezuela. If the department reaches the same conclusion that the steel is being sold at prices below fair value in
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      • 60 3 JAPAN'S unadjusted consumer price index (base 1960) rose 0.5 per cent in April to 114.0 from March, when it was up 0.4 per cent from February, the government's Management and Coordination Agency said. The agency said the April index was up 1.9 per cent from a year
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      • 71 3 PROSECUTORS in the Indira Gandhi assassination case said the trial was being closed to the public and being held in a jail house courtroom to protect the only alleged killer to survive the attack. Prosecutor K L Arora was reacting to demands for an open
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      • 62 3 CHINA said President Reagan's "Star Wars" space defence plan was aimed at securing American control of outer space and warned it increased the risk of a pre-emp-tive strike by one of the superpowers. It said the Soviet Union would inevitably be forced to develop its own
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      • 59 3 NEW ZEALAND will relax its air landing rights as part of general economic deregulation but will stop short of an "open skies" policy, according to government sources. The sources told reporters the new policy, details of which are still being worked out, is aimed at boosting
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      • 74 3 DATUK Harris Mohamed Salleh had conspired with several others to appoint Tun Datu Haji Mustapha Datu Harun as Sabah Chief Minis- ter on April 22, Chief Mihister Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan contended in his statement of defence filed at the High Court. He filed the statement in response
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      • 67 3 BRITISH Aerospace PLC said it won a US$2O million order from Pelita Air Service of Indonesia for one 8AE146-200 jet airliner to be used by the President of Indonesia and senior government officials. The order, announced on the opening day of the Paris Air Show, took the
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      • 39 3 Agencies A NEW STUDY shows that 14-month-old babies can remember and imitate activities 24 hours after they have seen them, providing further evidence that babies have a much greater thinking ability than scientists once believed. Agen-
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    • 267 3 UPI GROWING foreign trade deficits are driving Americans out of high-paying manufacturing jobs into low-wage service jobs, putting the brakes on US productivity, according to a report The joint economic committee report was released on Thursday by Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a committee member and chairman
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    • 736 3 ARRIVALS Operator Strvm Local tinw From MAS KAL MAS MAS MAS AC CAL RBA SIA CPA GtA SIA THAI SIA MAS GIA SIA MAS MH681 KE624 MH603 MH67I MH811 AC8S8 0806 BM2I SQ103 CX710 GA960 SO 105 TG403 SQ191 MH682 GA940 SQ1 MH605 0620 0840 0905 0935
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    • 255 3 UPI ASIAN-AMERICANS make up less than 2 per cent of the population, but are gaining a disproportionate influence because they earn more money and are better educated than whites. Parade magazine said yesterday that more than four million Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos and Asian
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    • 472 4 AFP PRESIDENT Marcos has indicated he may ask the US to send in combat troops if the mounting communist insurgency in the Philippines should "get out of control." In an interview on Tuesday with Gamma Television, Mr Marcos said that could happen if "infiltration
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    • 200 4 AFP MRS IMELDA Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, has begun lobbying for the selection of a third cardinal from her largely Roman Catholic country. The official Philippine News Agency said Mrs Marcos raised the idea while holding a dinner in Rome on
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    • 113 4 AFP THE Indonesian State Finance and Development Control Board has uncovered 99 cases of corruption involving a loss of more than US$24 million to the state. The agency, through timely action in a large number of financial transactions involving state agencies, also succeeded in
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    • 316 4 UPI LEBANESE President Amin Gemayel yesterday met Syrian leader Hafez Assad for talks on ending the bloodshed in Beirut, where fighting between Palestinian guerillas and Shiite Muslim forces has been raging for more than a week, while the United Nations
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    • 1110 4 BALANCE SHEET 31 December 1984 SHADE CAPITAL Authorised Shares of Ssl each Issued and Fully Paid Shares of SSI each RESERVES Statutory General Ibtai Capital and Reserves DEFERRED TAXATION CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS Bank overdraft Time deposits Accrued interest on time deposits Other creditors and accrued liabilities Taxation Proposed dividend
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 790 5 SMQAPORE The US dollar ended higher against major currencies following a larger than anticipated US$4.5 billion increase in latest US M-l money supply, dealers said. They said trading was quiet with participants squaring off positions because of a holiday on Monday. The US unit firmed to 251.80/90 yen
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    • 332 5 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in very quiet trading with the 0.2 per cent fall in US leading economic indicators for April having little effect, dealers said. They said a US$45 million rise in US M-l money supply also had little effect. Traders were
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    • 307 5 BA Futures KUBODOLLAB futures opened lower. However, strong overseas buying Interests, during Liffe opening, nw prices reversed direction and edged up to close at the day's high of 91.51 in the September contract. June PsMifc opened lower on a stronger dollar but traded quietly within a nar- row S-bck
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    • Article, Illustration
      132 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market fell by 2 point from Thursday to close at 3V« per cent yesterday. The one and threemonth term rates, however, roae by 1/16-point each, while the two-month rate remained unchanged. muiD Im mm* af ft* prtH lindwg rata af
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    • 217 5 Interbank rotes at 3pm yesterday: COTHMAM NMUMI nlN SMMMMIHI Local dollars to ooo OOlt oi cwrsncy*. ooetod f US dotar Sterfna pound Au*trofcan dolor NZ doAar Conodkm dolor 2 2270 ***** 1.4653 0.9976 1.6166 2 2280 2.8384 1.4682 1 0003 3.6185 2.6196 7.3469 3.4286 3.4286 3.4206 -21 02
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    • 148 5 HOMQKONQ: The metal ended at U*****.70/313.20 an ounce yetferday with a 50 US cent movement throughout the day. It finished at $313.00/50 in New York and $314.60/315.10 here on Thursday. On the local market, gold tell HKO6 to $2,904 a tahiL The krngerrand fell HK$3O to HKs2£lo, equal to
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    • 311 5 Bernama BANK BUMIPUTRA Malaysia Bhd (BBMB), Malaysia's largest commercial bank, has been reorganised into three major divisions, tnrluding the creation of a subsidiaries division, In a vigorous move to rebuild its image which suffered as a result of the BMF loans affair. BBMB executive
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    • 140 5 Australian set for short-term recovery AP THE AUSTRALIAN dollar, after a sharp decline earlier this week, is set for a short-term recovery, according to traders and analysis. The Australian cuiiency tumbled earlier this week to lows of around U550.6550 from above $0.6800 late the week before. It was trading late
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    • 51 5 Reuter THE US money supply M-1 rose by US$43 billion to a seasonally-adjusted $562.3 bOUon in the week —isd May 20, the Federal Reserve said. The previous week's M-1 level was untevised at $577.8 billion, while the four-week moving average of M-1 rase to $578.4 bOUon from $576.8
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 135 5 ChitMM Produc* Exchange (S#M#vs room dosing pticn on Moy 31. S$/100 kg). Coconut oil BufcFOB 117.00 Otd drum FOB 130 00 New drum FOB 134.00 Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW E&WFOBNSW Gambier FOB NSW 477.50 405.00 256.00 330.00 Copro Mixed (loose) Pepper 60 buyers London
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    • 276 5 Singapore C-l Ord unq (S$/kito, «-)odo» Loonzain Rice Fragrant new crop 100% 1st grade !£?9 1st 0.84 >00% 2nd grade 227 2nd 0.62 100% 3rd grade unq 3rd New Crop 25% 0.60 no stock Parboiled Rice 5% 227 10% no stock 10% 222 Thai Broken Maize urvq A-super Special
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    • 106 5 IHK Kull Isilipsi til price reee iMther twe eento to M$»J» per kg, still within the PTA tower range ef $29.15 ui w M Denton said the rise reflected centlnnlng bnfler stock manager's nippert, wke fttoertoi abent N per eent ef the 18 tonnes «f tin sffered. Tnrnsver
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    • 158 5 Yarn (In HK$ per koto of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Btu« Phoenix I6's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 2Cs 2,700 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,150 Blue Phoenix 40' s 3,500 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21's 2,950 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,250 Blue Phoenix 4Cs 4,400 Open-end yam
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    • 172 5 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly higher with June One RSS buyers quoted at 171.50 cents per kg, up one cent from Thursday. Prices gained about one cent in quiet morning on sporadic buying and some short covering of June One RSS following continued enquiries from Inro's buffer stock manager.
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    • 315 5 RAS prices in S cants/kg. FOB in b otas NOON r CLOSE Int 1 RSS Prompt 172 00 173.00N 172.00 173.00N Int 1 RSS Juna 85 171.50 172.50 171.50 I72.50N Int 1 RSS Juty 85 168 75 169 00 168 75 169 00N Int 2 RSS 168.00
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    • 250 5 WHEAT futures closed 3Vi cents a bushel higher to V* cent lower In thin, light trade. Spot July advanced 3V4 cents to end at USS3.IS-U513.75 a bushel on large professional buying, traders said. Floor sources said C and D Commodities bought as much as five million bushels of July
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    • 40 5 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil and futures reports were unavailable yesterday. US$/tOMM (ulifl' domg pncw) on May 90 Sumatra 5% June 585 OOsir July 575 OOsk Aug 505 OOsJr ROTTERDAM US$/tOMM Sumatra/M'sia dosing pricos) Max 5 July 570 OOstr
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    • 112 5 SOYBEAN futures rallied in spot July after midsession on heavy professional buying, and closed four cents a bushel higher to 3Vi lower in deferreds. July settled at U5|5.63-US$5.5O. C and D commodities bought as much as 8.5 million bushels of July soybeans on the day. This triggered general shortcovering
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    • 98 5 (c«nt*/kg, 1-ton p JUNE 85 JULY 85 (currant month) (forword month) NOON NOON RAS Sii^ Sdlofs SSR 20 162 00 164 00N 164 00 166 OON SSR 50 160 00 I62.00N 162 00 164 OON MRELB S||m 9mm SMR CV 211.50 213 50N 213.50 2I5.50N SMR L
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    • 907 5 COFFEE ROBUSTA future* ended with pared lame* of £90 to £10 on Thursday, with July down £10 at £2,0«. Dealers said prices moved off the lows seen before midday as light mixed short covering entered the market (ram the early afternoon following sterling's retreat from its highs against
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  • TIME-OFF
    • 515 6 WHEN in Rome, do as the Romans do, and more. That, a recent news report advises, is: if you are a lady walking down a pavement, strap your handbag over your neck and shoulder with more than tourist firmness, away from the side on which the street
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    • 858 6  -  When JOHN LIM visited China on the inaugural flight by Singapore Airlines, he found a country swarming with tourists mainly Chinese. His tour of the country covered sights such as the Qreat Wall and the discotheque in Beijing. JOHN LIM THE POSH Great Wall Hotel ran
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    • 285 6 A REGULAR READER appears to have discovered how Zephyr sometimes gets material for this column by scouring the advertiiwi»nt« hi the newspapers. He has came up with a gem which he has kindly passed on to me. "Three shreds fried with chilli" was being sold by
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    • 1105 6 What's on from June 1 7 BALLET: Myth Of Tlm Sun. By The Performing Art» School. Victoria Theatre, tpm. Tickets: $3,55,58 A combination of balet, contemporary and ethnic dances presented by local dancers, choreographers and two young Singapore composers, Poon Yew Tien ond Chew Seok Kwee. Most of the
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    • 131 6 ITS curtaina up for ttia Peranakan Place today In mm a ways than one. Tha first set it tha vuivtii nooon-cuning cififnony to aignify Mm complatad renovation work on aeveral shophouaae at ttia junction of Emerald HH Rood and Orchard Rood. An innovative group of
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 781 6 8 a CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 8 Th« present cost of hiring a dog? (7) 9 Grve to one to get work started on (3, 2, 4) 13 The man lay back, excited (3, 2) 14 Two chaps not locking in SA! (5) .15 Dots for the young creature back-stoge (7)
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  • SPORTS
    • 683 7  -  By BRIAN MILLER HERE'S a bit of advice. Hold your horses until the last race. Then, make Garda's Glory your banker. He will probably start at short odds but if winning's the nam» of your game and it must surely be then a
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    • 444 7 UPI NEW YORK racing official Gerard McKeon thinks the Triple Crown series probably gained as much as it lost by Spend A Buck's controversial defection, from the final two legs of the traditional test of three-year-old thoroughbreds. The benefits are twofold, says McKeon,
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    • 509 7 FORMER Putra Cupper Wong Weng Hong should be hoping to make his Premier League debut at Sembawang tomorrow with a win under his belt from today's Singapore Island Country Club monthly competition at the Sime course. For there's
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    • 522 7  -  ■y WALTON MORAtS UM SWEE WAH, the Republic's World Cup representative to Rome last year, holds a slight edge in the battle for the prestigious invited place in the Benson and Hedges Spanish Open. With calculations based on seven completed local tournaments,
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    • 453 7 Reuter THE Soviet Union made a resounding comeback to top-class tennis after 10 years absence yesterday when IS-year-old Andrei Chesnokov beat eighthseeded American Eliot Teltscher in the second round of the French Open in Paris. But this was the only major
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    • 190 7 Reuter THE ROYAL Thames Yacht Club has signed a contract worth more than US$lBO,OOO with the Fremantle Sailing Club to house its two yachts in preparation for the America's Cup challenge series off Fremantle starting in October next year. The finals will be staged in February
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    • 235 7 UPI HALE Irwin, winner of last week's Memorial Tournament, fired a six-under-par 66 including a Mistering 31 on the front nine on Thursday to take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Kemper Open in Bethesda, Maryland. Irwin won the Memorial
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 403 8 NYT ll J REYNOLDS Industries, the second largest cigarette maker in the US and operator of the vast Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, has offered to pay about US9S billion in cash for Nabisco Brands Inc. Wall Street sources reported there was no certainty
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    • 101 8 Reuter BRITISH Telecommunication* PLCs BT (Canada) Holdings Inc has begun its tender alter tor any and all outstanding common shares and warrants of CTG Inc for C 55.25 a share and SO cents per warrant The offer will expire midnight, Toronto time, on
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    • 313 8 Reuter THE STOCK market managed another winning session on Thursday, helped for the second day by a buying surge in the final hour. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.8 points to close at 1305.78. The volume on the New York Stock Exchange rose
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    • 124 8 Spring Palace Chinese Restaurant Superb Cantonese cuisine from our Hong Kong chefs to please the most discriminating gourmet. J Special business lunch at $16 each and $204+ each (min. 2 persons). Over 50 a la carte specialities are also available. A¥ SM6APORE HOTEL 10 Eu Tong Sen Street. Singapore 0105
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    • 93 8 \=>=/_]=]+{&./_?}^|~}?!,'_$=$^~ Lounge Enjoy the world's finest wine, while you relax In the cosy ambience of The Lounge. Make your nights memorable with the versatile quartet Body M Soul from the Philippines. They'll captivate you! nmppy Hmik Spm 7pm. 25% off all < cr£swii •fIUMCZHOm 270 Orchard Road. Singapore 0023 Telex:
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 331 9 HONGKONG: SHARE prices closed off their lows as a spate of buying emerged in late trading. The Hang Seng Index closed 7.79 down at 1,613.87 after being down about 11 at the morning close. Turnover was HK5269.39 million compared with HK5388.37 million on Thursday. Among the few advancing stocks,
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    • 206 9 MAY SI MT yT AI Sincora Mm 2.04 -0.04 i Aata Cmmki 23.70 -0.1 OMhoy Com 24.20 -0.1 Owng fh»a Bark 50.00 ♦1.5 g,— a Mui 11.50 -0.2 Pta 27.10 +0.1 U*» 17.50 -0.2 14.00 -0.2 Papar 1.13 -0.05 16.70 -0.5 Chan Loans 19.80 -0.2 stMn P CNa KMn
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    • 253 9 MAY SI Yaa MNaub Haovy MMbkN 289 638 3 ■9 400 •1 Co 169 -6 Amodo 932 -28 Mftui SmalMnj 539 9 1100 X 604 6 AkN Qom 879 -8 849 -21 Bank Tk 805 •5 2170 •20 Bridoaafona 535 *1 745 5 1190 -10 Mp Bac ***** Como
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    • 110 9 MAMLA: Share prices closed generally easier in dull trading, dealers said. Oils firmed 0.0091* 0.757 but the Commercial and Industrial index eased 0.38 to 130.06 and the mining marker fell 4.78 to 672.44. MAY St Aco* Mtatag Ml Z. hM *<an»»«l 0.0014 unch wmm Ortmld B 0.014 unch 0.0014
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    • 571 9 SYDNEY: Concern over weak commodity prices and general lack of overseas support pushed Australian share markets down at the close, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed 1.3 points lower at 873.3, the All Resources shed 2.8 points to 585.5 but All Industrials added 0.9 points to 1243.0. The
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    • 132 9 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mostly higher yesterday. The Book Club Index rose 1.46 to 140.14 as turnover rose to 772,788 shares worth 65 J million baht in quiet trading. mm is; 3T" 105 Aofchan. Thai Camar* 716 +24 '31 -ft Sou* Ah Fkn 133.25 +1 And Trust 168 +9
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    • 44 9 may si w«. apSSafcz: U5 r—Rfi 620 20 573 1510 -10 S "3 «SPU «> 7 +l g££S5* go ll 706 +1 Sas£!_: >& "1 Hani* 612 -13" Stangrong Cam. ,MJ Hon Yono 240 -2 Su*rona. lOQi, +1 Hyundai Lorp 99fi +3 Tohrwn 335 -4
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    • 89 9 UPI THE SIGNING of China Light and Power Co Ltd's HK$5OO million three-year revolving bill of exchange facility, expected on Thursday, has been postponed to early next week. Banking sources said they did not know the reason for the delay. Spokesmen for the principals declined to
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    • 232 9 UPI THE AMERICAN company General Electric Co (GE) has signed a US$4O million to $80 million agreement with a Chinese company to Jointly design and manufacture steam turbine engines in China. GE chairman John Welch announced on Thursday that under an agreement
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    • 129 9 Reuter HUTCHISON WHAMPOA Ltd will repay before the end of next year all bank borrowings used to finance its recent purchase of a 34-per-cent stake in HK Electric Holdings Ltd. Chairman Li Ka-shing said at Hutchison's annual meeting that the group owes its
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    • 113 9 UPI MITSUBISHI CORP, a major Japanese trading company, and its affiliate Mitsubishi Motors Corp will increase their equity in Hyundai Motor Co of South Korea to strengthen their relationship. The Japanese companies said they had decided to acquire an additional 2.5-per-cent equity in the
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    • 251 9  -  BRIAN GOMEZ ROYAL BRUNEI Airlines will double in size by July next year with the delivery of three Boeing 757-200 twin Jet aircraft following a deal worth more than US$l75 million. The agreement was signed by the airline chairman, His Royal Highness Prince Jefri
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4225 10 MARKET observers who had predicted a sharp rally on the first day of the new settlement period were chagrined to find the market sliding yesterday. The BT Composite Index was down by 3.10 points to 722.70 and the Straits Times Industrial Index
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    • 208 10 SINGAPORE RiSM lata Uataag 600 .in M 332 H 0 f 336 630 DBS 620 KnJiy S»«n 290 tweniew 444 «LS 330 Falls CCM 444 0 C 1 C 935 M 620 FAN .523 LAM 50c 266 M M C lOt 119 Tow* A Gty 92 20
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    • 2638 10 BID and offer 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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    • 111 10 SINGAPORE BUS SERVICE (1VJ8) LTD: Seventh AGM at the Conference Room, SBS HQ, 206 Braddell Road, Singapore 2067 today at 11.90 am. MALAYSIAN REBOURCES CORPORATION Berkad: Fourteenth AGM at the Penthouse, Resource House, No 10, Jalan Raja Laut, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, June 4 at 11 am. COLD
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 265 11  -  CHART PHi INT' By HOCK LOCK SIEW IT USUALLY takes a considerable amount of time and volume to swing an established trend in prices from down to up as, understandably, there are very few interested buyers left after a persistent decline. This should have been the case with
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    • 208 11 Manager*' prices for June 1 3 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.96 *2.06 The Savings Find 1.45 1.54 S'pore Prog Fund 0.86 0.91 S'pore See Fund 1.26 1.34 S'pore Invest Fund 0.91 0.96 S'pore Equity Fund 0.87 0.92 Asia Unit Trust Moi Invest Fund 2.15 *2.28 Mot Prog
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    • 320 11  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM YEO HIAP SENG Ltd has moved back into the black at the pre-tax level in the first-half of the year ended March, but directors have painted a bleak picture for the rest of the year and have halved the interim
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    • 940 11 SHARE PRICES opened mixed in quiet trading yesterday, the last day of the three-week account. Little new-time buying was seen initially. The FTSE 100 share index at 8.45 am was up 0.2 point at 1,314.9. Chemicals were steady after Thursday's gains on the back of US demand with
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    • 99 11 HONGKONG Thursday 1242.1 Week ago 1244.6 Hong Seng Index Friday 1613.87 NEW YORK Thursday 1621.66 We«k ago 1596.84 Dow Jones Thursday J 305 78 TOKYO Wednesday 1302 98 Week ago 1296.71 Tokyo Dow Jones Friday *****.46 Thursday ******.27 Stondard Poors Thursday 187.75 Wednesday 187.68 Week ago 187.60 Week
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    • 548 11  -  By ALAN LEE RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI IN AN ATTEMPT to circumvent Australia's tough rules on takeovers by foreign companies, Jack Chia (Australia) Ltd has teamed up with an Australian group to bid for Allen's Confectionery Ltd, the largest candy and Weet maker in
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    • 323 11 A SURPRISE dement has been Included in the all-chare bid by MBf Holdings Bhd far the entire paid-up capital of Emtex Corp Bhd. In its notice of takeover, despatched by advisers Arab-Ma-laysian Merchant Bank, MBf has set out as one of the terms
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 69 11 Group pre-tax prof- its fell to M$2.96 million in the half-year to Feb 28, 1985, from $3.61 million in the previous half. Group turnover edged upwards to $8.15 million ($8.08 million). Net earnings per share were stated at 2.3 cents
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      • 57 11 Group taxable profits fell to Mf2i>s mfflinn in the six months ended Feb 28, 1985, from $111 million previously. Stated earnings per share dropped to IL2 cents from 143 cents. An interim dividend of five per cent less tax (2.5 per cent) will be paid on Aug
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      • 85 11 Group unaudited pre-tax profits rose to M 529.59 million in the half-year ended Feb 28, 1985, from $2102 million previously. Profits after tax and minority interests went up to $15.08 million (H1.72 million). Fjirnfagu per share increased from nine cents to 11.6 cents. An interim dividend of
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      • 56 11 Group pre-tax loss of MHO .21 million in 1984 compared with a taxable profit of $2.22 million the year before. Group turnover fell from $60.59 million to $33.06 million. Loss attributable to shareholders came to |9.76 million against the previous
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      • 71 11 Qroup pre-tax profits rose to M$4.27 million in 1984 from $2.2 million in the previous year. Stated earnings per share stood at 5.7 cents compared with 152 cents before adjusting for the shares issued during the year. A dividend of
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    • 157 11 PAPER PRODUCTS (Malaya) Bhd will hold as extraordinary general meeting on June 14 to consider the company's sale of shares in United Pulp A Paper Co Ltd. PPM's directors, with the exception of Datuk Kok Wee Kiat, consider that the proposed
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    • 543 11 A GENERAL lack of interest characterised the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. As investors continued to stay away, share prices drifted downwards to close on a slightly easier note. Share prices generally opened at overnight levels or easier and thereafter drifted downwards in dull
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    • 1857 11 BID and offer price* 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. NNJSTRMLS Ajmomoto (3 08S) A Choc (2 008 2.1 OS)
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  • 359 12  -  Solutions to be suggested to Economic Committee By SHAHRIR ARIFF FOUR SUB-COMMITTEES have been set up by the Singapore Manufacturers' Association (SMA) to look into its members' problems and to suggest solutions to the Economic Committee. Mr Tan Wah Thong, the new chairman of
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  • 384 12  -  By SOH TIANG KENG Banking Corr—pondant THE Post Office Savings Bank has yielded to the downward pressure of local interest rates by cutting its savings rate by hall a percentage point to 5.75 per cent. This revised rate, effective from
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  • 253 12 FEWER tourists and more hotel rooms in April led to a sharp fall in the average hotel occupancy rate. The average occupancy rate in April 64.7 per cent was 14.3 percentage points lower than the 79 per cent recorded
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  • 120 12 MISS JUDITH Trotter, New Zealand's High Commissioner in Singapore, has left for home to take up a senior post at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The vacant seat will be filled in July when Mr Tim Hannah arrives. Mr Hannah has just completed his stint
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  • 106 12 MALAYSIA'S manufacturing sector will need 25,500 workers annually from this year until 1990, and more than 40 per cent of the new jobs to be created will be for electrical fitters and mechanics. The 1983/84 Labour and Manpower Report 1983/84 said that the
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  • 251 12 Bernama MALAYSIA enjoyed a relatively peaceful state of industrial relations during the eight years from 1976 with the number of strikes declining from 70 in 1976 to 24 in 1983. The 1983/84 Labour and Manpower Report, released in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, said that
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  • 381 12 THE two opposition Members at Parliament Mr JB Jeyaretnam and Mr Chiam See Tong have been given places on two of the House .committees. The appointments of Mr Chiam (Potong Pasir) to the Standing Orders Committee and Mr Jeyaretnam (Anson) to
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  • 334 12 AFP JAPAN'S Liberal Democratic Party has run into a storm of criticism over plans for a tough new anti-espionage law, which would include the death penalty, though most critics agree reform is needed. The party is being accused of threatening freedom of information, and having
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  • 90 12 Reuter THE RULING Liberal Democratic Party in Japan yesterday put forward a Bill to redistribute parliamentary seats and to make the government less dependent on the powerful farm lobby. Political analysts said prospects for passage of the BUI in the current session were slim in
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  • 528 12  -  By LOH HUI YIN WORKING GROUPS have been formed to provide more input on how Singapore can export and further develop its major business services. The 18 groups fall under the subcommittee on services which is in turn part of the
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  • 211 12 WHEN the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) begins services from Beijing and Guangzhou to Singapore this month, it will be refuelling with Shell fuel at Changi International Airport. Shell clinched the contract to supply aviation fuel to the fTiinpi» national airline
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  • 71 12 AP THE New York stock market headed lower yesterday morning in the face of new evidence of a slowing economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 1.68 points to 1,304.10 in the first half hour. Losers outnumbered gainers by nearly three to two in the early tally
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  • 109 12 URGENT remedial work by Mass Rapid Transit engineers at the City Hall station has averted any risk of "major failures" affecting St Andrew's Cathedral. The MRT Corporation said yesterday that five days of urgent remedial work had been undertaken and normal church activities can resume from
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  • 304 12 AP AFP INDIA has sealed its borders with Pakistan and imposed a frontier curfew to check infiltration by Sikh terrorists allegedly planning violence on the anniversary of the Golden Temple attack. The border with rival Pakistan, already closed in Punjab, was sealed
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  • LATE FILE
    • 42 12 AP BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summoned England's soccer chiefs yesterday, and one of them said there was a good chance the country would withdraw from European soccer competition because of the stadium riot in Brussels. AP
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    • 51 12 AP THE legislative yuan, Taiwan's chief lawmaking assembly, yesterday passed a record government budget of US$lO.3 billion for fiscal year 1986, which begins on July L An assembly spokesman said the budget represented an increase of $1.33 billion or 14.8 per cent from the current fiscal year.
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    • 57 12 AFP OIL MINISTERS from five members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries meet this weekend in Taif, Saudi Arabia, amid a lower seasonal price trend. It is widely thought that the British National Oil Corporation will set a June rate for its crude of 26 to
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    • 62 12 AP SHETE Muslim forces called a unilateral ceasefire in their 12-day-old war against Palestinian guerillas yesterday as President Amis Gemayel returned from summit talks in Syria aimed at ending Lebanon's civil war. Mr Gemayel flew back to his presidential palace in suburban Baabda after a
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    • 36 12 Reuter BANGLADESH struggled yesterday to bury its dead from a killer tidal wave and the government said it would buy a disaster warning system to help avert a similar catastrophe in the future.
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    • 47 12 AP SOVIET Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade Ivan Grtetarin, who arrived in Beijing on Thursday, is expected to initial a five-year trade agreement with China. The long-term pact will then be signed in Moscow by Chinese Vice-Premier Yao Yilin in June, diplomats said. AP
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    • 42 12 Reuter POLAND'S leaders, grappling with a huge foreign debt, low exports to the West and living standards below the levels of the *****, began a national debate aimed at charting a course for the next five years. Reuter
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    • 47 12 mMm Outlook for today: Shown over Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on May 31 at th« airport: Maximum temperature 31.7 Associated humidity 68 Associated humidity Hours of sunshine f J| PvOlnTOil mi iimllWiCTrCS > nlgifnll iLj. miiii |L KONVTOII Tills mOnin Rainy days this month
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