The Business Times, 28 January 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 198€ 75 CENTS
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  • 444 1  -  By LUCY NG FIRST DEPUTY Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday gave firm indications that employers' Central Provident Fund contributions would be cut by at least 10 percentage-points. Mr Goh said employers' CPF contributions, which at the moment is 25 per
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  • 584 1  - Why the sums went wrong BG Lee Committee pinpoints overbuilding as a major cause of recession By FOO CHOY PENG Chief Reporter A MIS-ALLOCATION of resources leading to excessive investment in the construction and property sector was a major cause of the recession, according to the Economic Committee. Admitting that
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  • 278 1 THE GOVERNMENT will leave business to the private sector in the future. It will only move in when there are "very special reasons", said Brigadier General (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong, Minister of State (Trade and Industry), yesterday when he presented the first part
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  • 384 1 A SHAKEOUT appears inevitable in the commerce sector, says the Economic Committee in the first instalment of its final report released yesterday. "There is over-capacity in this sector and profits have been severely squeezed. Unless companies make determined efforts to restructure and upgrade, many may
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  • Article, Illustration
    109 1 SHARE PRICES closed on a mixed note 1b lethargic trading oa the Singapore stock market yesterday. Volume leader Singapore Airlines stole the limelight, finishing at its public offer price of %i for the first time since its market debut on Dee 18. The day's gain was six cents.
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  • 415 1  -  By SOH TIANG KENG AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT to nurse ailing corporate clients back to health and a China division will be set up by the United Overseas Bank as part of its restructuring exercise. The restructuring, to consolidate
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  • 265 1 A FALL OF 63 per cent to $96 million has been forecast for the Post Office Savings Bank's surplus in the 1966 financial year. This estimate, Published in the government gazette last Friday, compares with the forecast of $96.5 million for
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 221 1 ■BHBE SHARE INFORMATION MONEY EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS AIRCRAFT SCHEDULE CROSSWORDS TV ft RADIO DOONESBURY BRISTOW OUR VIEW THE IMPENDING SHAKEOUT of the commerce sector is just what the economy needs. It will help bring about a new breed of Singapore entrepreneur who, armed with both modern management and marketing skills
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    • 8 1 Full report, Pays 13 Asian stocks, Page 11
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 440 2  -  By LUCY NG UK TRADING concern Cocoa Merchants is considering withdrawing its petition to wind up Allied Cocoa Industries now that another creditor has taken similar action to liquidate Allied. The second creditor, Lee Sian Teck Chartered Architects, initiated winding up
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    • 365 2  -  By LISA LEE ALL PROPERTY AGENTS may soon have to be licensed under a new valuers act once a proposal for new legislation is approved. A new valuers act was submitted in January by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers
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    • 379 2 THIS NEW BOTTLE on the shelves is going to spawn a new line of beverages in the Singapore drink market, says its distributor. Bartles Jaymes wine cooler, a mixture of white wine and fruit juices now available at supermarkets and selected retail outlets,
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    • 310 2 ABOUT 10,000 trade visitors from the Asian-Pacific region are expected to view the latest oil industry technology and equipment at the four-day 6th Offshore Southeast Asia conference and exhibition, which opens today. Show organisers said 657 companies from 23 countries are taking part
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    • 303 2 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER Feb 2 How to Start a Small Business RELC Auditorium Business and Industrial Management Pte Ltd Feb 4 QCC Top Management National National Course Productivity Board Productivity Board Feb 6-7 Data Communications Century Park Sheraton Center for Advanced Professional Education Feb 12-21
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    • 106 3 THE NATIONAL Archives and Oral History Department is jointly organising an exhibition on the history of Singapore before its founding by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819. The pictorial exhibition, called "Singapore Before Raffles", will display textual records from Chinese, Malay and European sources, maps
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    • 550 3  -  By BOEY KIT YIN STRONGER THAN EXPECTED demand for its products has encouraged Fairchild Singapore to raise its investment budget, set at $118 million two years ago. A further $3.2 million was spent recently on the purchase of a factory in Bedok, said its managing director,
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    • 523 3  -  By GOH YEE LING SINGAPORE has been put forward as a classic case of overbuilding by an American consultant to the hotel industry. "Singapore is the most overbuilt city in the world," said Mr Charles Bell, a former executive vice-president of Hilton International, who now
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    • 118 3 SINGAPORE AIRLINES has enlisted the help of a hospital to help airline employees quit smoking. Medical staff of Youngberg Memorial Hospital yesterday started a "Quit Smoking Course" for SIA employees. The first of the series of five-day courses, from 4.45pm to 6.45pm, has more than
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    • 163 3 THE LEVEL of government participation in business is another area the newly formed Business Enterprise Committee could look into, the president of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce suggested yesterday. In a press statement, Mr G Ramachandhran said the committee's motto of "less
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    • 242 3 A SINGAPOREAN has been appointed for the first time to head Fairchild's local operations. Fairchild Singapore, a subsidiary of one of the world's largest semiconductor companies, appointed Mr Tan Bock Seng as the managing director three weeks ago. Mr Tan, a former operations manager
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 515 4  -  Sang Kancil is BT's financial futures trader. Each Tuesday, DAVID GABRIEL traces Sang Kancil's tactics and strategies on Simex. The starting capital was 5525,000, a sum within the reach of most professionals in Singapore. DAVID GABRIEL SANG KANCIL made his largest single profit last
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    • 556 4 Reuter BANKERS and officials from major Latin American countries are meeting in London against a backdrop of mounting concern that a fall in oil prices last week will severely limit the ability of many of these countries to service their
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    • 239 4 Reuter PLUNGING oil prices spell good news on America's inflation front, but worries about quickening economic growth and the falling dollar are likely to produce a mood of caution on credit markets. American economists wrote in their weekend newsletters that any hopes that the
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    • 446 4 Reuter A RAPID transformation from sleepy farming backwater to thriving banking centre has brought prosperity to the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, but with it an unwelcome role in the world of financial crime. In just thirty years, jobs in the financial
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    • 82 4 Reuter TAIWAN'S foreign currency reserves rose to a record US$23 billion as of Jan 27 compared with 116.5 billion at the end of December. A central bank spokesman attributed the increase to the bank's growing purchases of US dollars on the local interbank market in support of
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    • 48 4 Reuter ALL FOREIGN exchange dealing in Uganda has been suspended following the takeover of the capital, Kampala, by National Resistance Army guerillas after two days of street fighting. NRA leader Yoweri Museveni, who announced the suspension on Radio Uganda, did not say when dealing would resume.
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    • 225 4 SENIOR MANAGEMENT staff of the United Overseas Bank group will forgo salary increases this year as part of the bank's temporary wage restraint. Also, the group's middlemanagement staff and unionised workers have agreed to accept lower increments. An UOB spokesman said
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    • 110 4 AFP THE PHILIPPINES and Japan yesterday finalised negotiations for the restructuring of some US$5OO million worth of Manila's debts with Japan. Philippine Finance Minister Cesar Virata and Japanese ambassador Tiyoshi Sumida signed an exchange of notes in Manila yesterday in line with a rescheduling of loans agreed
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 744 4 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed lower yesterday against major currencies, except sterling, in moderately active trading. The dollar closed lower at 196.96/196.10 yen compared with New York's last Friday 196.90/197.06 close, but above a low 194.30. It closed weaker at 2.4020/30 marks compared with New York's Friday 2.4106/20
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    • Article, Illustration
      321 4 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed slightly lower yesterday compared with last Friday's levels, after a day of quiet trading. Overnight tU«ed at 7-15/16 7-13/1« per cent, down 1/16 point from Friday's level, week fixed at 8-1/16 7-15/16, down Vk. One to five months closed at a common BMi
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    • 112 4 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by point from last Friday to end at per cent yesterday. The one, two and threemonth "erm rates fell by Vi point each. S$ Interbank rate* at 7pm yesterday: OH*f B«d Owefntght 4 1/2 4 3/8 1 -month
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    • 224 4 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: CWTMCtM raioe nawnoiwn Odor «4m parity 1 Local dollar* to OM unit of foreign currency Md chjftgt US dolor Storing pound Austraban dolor NZ dolor ConadKm dolor 2 1245 ***** 1.5137 1.1312 I 5142 2 1255 2.9321 1 5165 1.1350 1.5160 3 4286
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    • 316 4 BA Futures MARCH El tills r opened two ticks higher yesterday than CMC's dose at 92.09 and traded between 92.02 and 92.04 in the morning session. A softer interbank rates in the afternoon saw the March contract edging higher to 92.06 before closing at 92.04. Currency** futures upeuEd sharply
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    • 243 4 HONGKONG: The metal closed firmer in fairly active trading yesterday, partly reflecting the weakness of the US dollar. It ended at U*****.00/364.00 an ounce compared with last Saturday's $357.00/75 close and the $357.40/90 finish in New York last Friday. On the local market, gold rose HK$4B to close at
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 235 5 Wake up in Bombay, Delhi or Abu Dhabi. fW f i m Mil fo. VI V Or sleep all night on SAS. Nearly all flights to Europe depart from Singapore about the same time in the evening. And nearly all of them arrive at the same time in the morning.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 302 6 Tomorrow An event takes that will cha e face nature of the business world in ore. Tomorrow, the top decision makers from the public and private sectors, architects and design consultants, will be taking a couple of hours off. To see how systems planning can make a significant difference in
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 353 7 NYT THE MACHINE TOOL industry in the US, still waiting for a recovery, ended 1985 with a drop in new orders. Analysts say the outlook for this year is only modestly optimistic. Orders in December fell 9.3 per cent from November and 30.6
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    • 150 7 AFP LEADING INDUSTRIALISED countries are heading for a good rate of economic growth, with the exception of Japan and Britain. According to the January report of the US Conference Board published in New York yesterday, Australia led with a projected future growth
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    • 264 7 AP PRESIDENT MARCOS has ordered all schools closed nationwide from today, 10 days before the Feb 7 presidential election, in an unusual move opponents said may be for some "sinister" purpose. A presidential palace announcement on Sunday said the suspension of classes "at
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    • 125 7 AP AN UNDERSTANDING has been reached among Opec ministers to hold an emergency meeting next month to set a new production ceiling for the cartel at 18 million barrels a day. The Kuwait News Agency (Kuna) reported on Sunday that current
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    • 831 7 ARRIVALS Operator Servicc number Local time From PAA PA2I/5 0155 LAX/TYO/HKG CAL CI34I 0255 TPE CAL CI337 0255 TPE sv SV389 0445 JED/RUH MAS MH601 0720 KUL MAS MH681 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH671 0935 KUL MAS MH8II 0940 PEN SIA SQI03 1005 KUL
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    • 296 7 NYT PLUMMETING oil prices suggest that the world may be crossing a threshold, marking the emergence from a dozen painful years in which expensive petroleum skewed economies, geopolitics and national and individual priorities. If sustained, the drop in prices would affect everything from
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    • 148 7 Reuter WHITE HOUSE chief of staff Donald Regan yesterday said the United States would do business with the winner of the Philippine elections even if the president was elected by fraud. The US has expressed concern about fraud in the election between President
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    • 327 7 Time to strengthen Asian links, says minister UPI JAPANESE Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, emphasising the importance of Japan's ties with South-east Asia, has appealed to Japanese business leaders to increase imports and investment in the region. Mr Abe made the appeal yesterday to
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    • 207 7 AFP JAPANESE Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has said his country is becoming increasingly aware of the need to balance its trade with the US, but that America is "too impatient". In an interview made public last Sunday by the American magazine Newsweek, he
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    • 69 7 Reuter JAPAN'S unadjusted industrial production index (base 1960) rose an average 4.6 per cent last year to a preliminary 121.9 after an 11.1 per cent gain to 116.5 in 1964, the International Trade and Industry Ministry said. Production of electric machinery rose 11.3 per cent in
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • FEATURES
    • 492 8 A SHAKEOUT APPEARS INEVITABLE: ominous words indeed from the Economic Committee for the commerce sector. But it's not as if this warning will come as a shock to any one. The warning lights have been blinking with increasing intensity for a good few years now.
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    • 1367 8  -  Price fall calls into question its traditional link with gold The price of silver has been declining over the past two years, leading some traders to wonder whether it is losing its status as a precious metal. STEFAN WAGSTYL reports on the silver market. STEFAN WAGSTYL
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    • 79 8 MY APOLOGIES (writes Max Commander). In yesterday's BT review of the SSO Saturday concert, I inadvertently said that Singapore-born pianist Seow Yit Kin would be the soloist this coming weekend. I misread the programme. Yit Kin is booked for February 21/22. This
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 383 8 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SEMINAR 3-14 MARCH 1986, SINGAPORE Presented By ISII INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE Geneva, Switzerland ic TIMES CONFERENCES First offered at IMI in 1970, this programme has been held 18 times in Geneva. A South East Asian edition was launched in 1979 and this is the eighth in Asia
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 668 9  -  More than 500 paid $180 each to watch game at hotel While Americans states-side held Super Bowl parties for the Chicago Bears-New England Patriots shootout, BT's MARTIN SOONG wiped the sleep from his eyes to catch the early morning action live at the Pavilion Inter-Continental. MARTIN
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    • 547 9 THE CHICAGO BEARS trampled the underdog New England Patriots 46 to 10 in New Orleans to win the US Professional football championship on Sunday. The one-sided victory in the 20th annual Super Bowl game was due as much to the Bears' stalwart defence as their vaunted
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    • 342 9 AP VAL SKINNER, who won the last LPGA Tournament of 1985, made up two strokes on Sandra Palmer on the final hole on Sunday to capture the first event on the 1986 tour, the US$2OO,OOO Mazda Classic. Palmer, playing one pairing ahead of
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    • 168 9 UPI THE NEW YORK Yacht Club's America II on Sunday captured top honours in a run-up race to the world 12-metre championships to be held off Freemantle next month. Thirteen of the 16 yachts assembled for the championships took part in Sunday's preliminary race over
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    • 405 9 AP HAL SUTTON, under pressure from Tony Sills, played a courageous shot over the corner of a lake on the 18th green that nailed down the title in the Phoenix Open Golf Tournament on Sunday. Sutton, the leader all the way this hot, sunny day, needed
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    • Super snippets
      • 117 9 AP SHELDON and Barbara Sherman said they didn't mind the rabbi carrying a miniature television or guests who kept disappearing during their wedding on Super Bowl Sunday. "I can just say that the people who are here have placed a lot of importance on our wedding,"
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      • 177 9 UPI IT WAS tough picking the most exciting moment of Super Bowl Sunday President Reagan reminiscing about his college ball days, the freaky minute of silence or when the Patriots scored first on a field goal. Some of the most visually exciting moments came in the
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      • 135 9 AP CHICAGO BEARS quarterback Jim McMahon sported a series of custom headbands during the Super Bowl, including a bat-tery-powered one with flashing lights. Before the Super Bowl began, McMahon wore a headband with the words "JDF cure" in black letters. JDF stands for Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1111 9 to mm TUESDAY PREMIERE The Last Tycoon 10.30 pm, Channel 5 Robert De Niro is a 1930's Hollywood producer and dreammaker who makes other people's dreams come true except his own This adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's final novel spins a tale of nostalgia about movie-making in the 1930s Robert
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    • 40 9 TROUBLE. ON THE. LEFT,.. TEE. THE BALL LOW-TUlS IS VJERN \NiPORTAKT. >T IS ALNVOST IMPOSSIBLE TO HOOK WITH A PRIVER FROM A LOW TEE., BECAUSE. OF THE StAALL PEGREE OF LOFT ON THE CLUBFACE »»)>» JV C > A 8« a 1
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 975 10 Backing for Guinness' bid underlines confidence in stout maker FT GUINNESS PLC is rated highly in the City of London these days. The ease with which it secured the necessary backing for its record £2.2 billion agreed bid for Distillers attests to its status as a blue-chip
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    • 270 10 Reuter NORTH BROKEN HILL Ltd's 10 largest institutional shareholders oppose Industrial Equity Ltd's (lEL) partial bid for the company. NBH managing director Mark Bethwaite said the institutions opposed the bid because they considered the A 52.50 a share offer inadequate, and
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    • 834 10 NYT HAMPERED by sluggish growth in the US economy, corporate profits for the last quarter of 1985 are expected to be flat or down slightly, based on earnings already reported and various economic factors. Economists and industry analysts in New York said
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 377 11 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday closed narrowly mixed in dull and thin trading as investors remained on the sidelines. Brokers said many continued to adopt a wait-and-see attitude in the absence of fresh factors, and that this atmosphere would linger for two more weeks until after the Chinese New
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    • 215 11 4 i. JAN 27 NT 33 00 +1 2 19 00 At Svvcere Indus 2 16 26 40 0 07 Pacific Elect +1 Wre 1425 0 25 30 90 06 Pootung Paper 074 004 Chang Hwo Bank Chan Loong Ch<a Hwi Cement Chmo Chem 44 00 -0 1 Sharp
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    • 603 11 TOKYO: Prices closed firmer yesterday but off their highs as prof-it-taking cut into early gains prompted by growing expectations of a cut in the official discount rate, brokers said. The market average rose 74.32 in the morning session but fell back to close up 29.77 at 12,983.14. Turnover was
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    • 74 11 JAN 27 Pno* Oriental B 0013 unch Phrfex B 0 15 unch Acoje Mirwig Ptcop B Anglo Phrf 0001 unch Ape* Mnmg B 001 unch Atlas Con B 12 unch Boguo Gold 0001 unch Bovc Petrolet*n ***** unch San Miguel B 1950 05 Bcnauet Con B 106 irtch Seatrortl
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    • 164 11 BANGKOK: The Securities Exchange of Thailand Index yesterday gained 1.01 to 140.06. Turnover amounted to 375,106 shares valued at 44.7 million baht. The Sydney market was closed yesterday for Australia Day. i JAN 27 Baku Sram C it ii en 73 25 Aokham Thoi Stam City Asm Fibre Cement
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    • 95 11 JAN 27 Won -II Hyvmdoi Const 1023 •16 Bonk S«oul 684 Hyundoi Motor KAL 1820 672 100 52 Choheung Bk 620 -12 Korea First 695 -5 Commerciol Bk DoeUm Ind 670 469 29 unch Yukong Korea Shap 1582 350 33 -5 Docwoo Corp 475 unch Lucky Ltd 748 37
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    • 256 11 Reuter THE NATIONAL Iranian Oil Corp's (NIOC) tender to build three pipelines for exporting crude oil is expected to be finalised with Japanese steel and South Korean construction companies next month. Industry sources said the pipeline would be an alternative to Iran's
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    • 46 11 Reuter HSIN CHONG CONSTRUCTION, a Hsin Chong holdings subsidiary, has been awarded a HK$lB4-million contract to build a 35-storey housing estate for the government in southern Hongkong. Work will begin next month and is scheduled for completion in April 1988. Reuter
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    • 491 11 UPI FOLLOWING the tracks made by the Japanese car invasion of the *****, South Korea is preparing to bring its low-cost, high-mileage entry to the American car market. Hyundai Motor America, a subsidiary of the Korean-based Hyundai Motor Co, is building a national
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    • 125 11 Reuter CHINA has reached agreement in principle with three foreign companies on contracts for a nuclear power plant near Hongkong. The New China News Agency said one British and two French companies had agreed to supply the nuclear reactor, generating equipment and project services
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    • 235 11 Reuter THE WEST GERMAN arms company Rheinmetall is hoping to sell weapons to India as part of a three-nation European consortium in a deal worth at least four billion marks (US$l.6 billion). A company spokesman in Duesseldorf said Rheinmetall was seeking West German
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 629 12 AFP UPI THE INTERNATIONAL Coffee Organisation (ICO) has approved the minimum requirement for monitoring coffee exports by its members when its quota system is suspended. The decision ended a weeklong meeting of the ICO executive board in London last week. The ICO
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    • 207 12 AP CONTINUING civil unrest and rebel control of the cof-fee-rich south-west may keep Uganda, Africa's second largest coffee producer, from cashing in on the current high prices caused by failure of the Brazilian crop. Coffee has fetched record prices in recent weeks
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    • 319 12 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly higher yesterday with February One RSS buyers quoted at 158.00 cents per kg, up 0.25 cent from last Friday. Dealers said the morning session ended steady, after hovering narrowly on lack of interest in dull trading. Prices were little changed in thin afternoon trading
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    • 334 12 RAS prices in S cents/kg. FOB in fa ales NOON CLOSE Buyers Setters Buyers Setters Int 1 RSS Prompt 157 00 158 00N 157 50 158 SON Int 1 RSS Feb 86 157 50 158 00 158 00 158 50 Int 1 RSS Mor 86 160 50
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    • 110 12 (cents/kg, 1-ton pellets) ffg g£ MAR 86 (current month) (forword month) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 160 00 162 00N 162 00 164 OON SSR 50 158 00 160 00N 160 00 162 OON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 223 00
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    • 67 12 Bangkok (USS/toMW, FOB) White Rice 100% 1st class 280 100% 2nd class 255 100% 3rd class 250 5% 240 10% 235 15% 230 20% 225 25% 215 35% 210 Broken Rice A-l Super 155 A-1 Special 152 C-l Special unq C I Od unq Loonzain Rice 100% 1st grade
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    • 219 12 AFP THE IVORY COAST, the world's leading producer of liquid natural rubber, is planning to displace Liberia as Africa's biggest rubber producer in the next few years, it has emerged following a four-day international rubber conference which ended in Abidjan last Friday. The conference
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    • 72 12 Reuter CHINA plans to build a pipeline to tap natural gas from an oilfield in the South China Sea. A Hongkong newspaper, Wen Wei Po, has quoted Beijing sources as saying the pipeline would transmit gas from Yinggehai oilfield to Guangdong. It said the oilfield was
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    • 259 12 APF CHINA IS TO BUY 450,000 tonnes of cement valued at US$l3.5 million from Indonesia. The chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce A Industry (Kadin) has said the contract for the purchase, signed last Monday in Beijing by trade representatives from the two countries,
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    • 14 12 KL TIN Ooting pnccs on J (MS/kg) km 27 Price Suspended Turnover (tonnes) Suspended
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    • 150 12 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon closing price» on Jon 27 (S$/100 kg). Coconut oil Bufc FOB 64 00 OW drum FOB 77 00 New drum FOB 8100 Copro Mixed (loose) 33 buyers Pepper V.urttok White FOB NLW 1367 50 Sarawak White FOB foq NLW 1357 50 Sorawok special
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    • 156 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed lower yesterday on further liquidation and buyer reserve in very quiet trading due to the holiday in certain states of the Peninsular. The fall was in sympathy with a lower Chicago soyoil futures close last week. January deliveries in the central region
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    • 461 12 COFFEE A marginal strengthening of sterling against the dollar and lack of fol-low-through yesterday morning prompted sellers to emerge to push robusta futures values back from initial gains to midday at up £90 to £40 a tonne from last Friday's close. The market was due around £80 higher
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    • 460 12 AFP THE LONDON METAL Exchange has announced an extension of the three-month suspension in all London tin trading up to and including Jan 31. The LME agreed to maintain the suspension for another week "in order that discussions can commence with the International Tin
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    • 126 12 Bernama MALAYSIA has maintained its position as the world's leading producer of palm oil with production of 4.13 million tonnes in 1985, accounting for 603 per cent of the world's supply. According to "Palmoil Update" published by the Palm CXI Registration and Licensing
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    • 33 12 NOTICES la the matter «f tfce Cempaaiee Act, Cap. 185 VlaceMi Pte Ltd Nm Ageadea Pte Ltd Nm Mutae Services Pte Ltd Nm Eaglaeertag Pte Ltd (la Members Vetaatery UqalI I I hi
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    • 158 12 @|\,]~[?;::?/\~\&>;^<`+,]\_'?!^ Training improves your chances BT shows you how every Wednesday PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME Notice is hereby given that in consequence of the intended change of name of a ship by our clients, Messrs Uni-Con-tainer Lines Pte Ltd of 20 McCallum Street, Singapore, we have applied to
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    • 257 12 La tlx- Matter af The Campaaiea Act, Cap. 185 SAMTRADCO ENTERPRISES PTE LTD (la Members' Vaiaatary UqnidaUM) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 1 Colombo Court, #04-15, Singapore 0617 on Monday, the 27th day of January 1986, the following Special Resolutions were
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4303 13 APART FROM some buying interest in SLA, there was hardly any significant activity on the stock market yesterday. Prices finished mixed as bargain hunters nibbled at selected blue chips and grossly oversold counters. Turnover languished at a mere 6.82 million shares worth $17.19
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    • 271 13 SINGAPORE Rises Kentucky Sport 215 S P M 585 FAN 570 Peak H«o 210 MBF Corp 50« 150 Cold Store lOp 232 SIA 500 D S 472 FACISOt 96 OCBC 700 Corobos bO< 205 C A C 195 C K Too, 150 Falls MSMMI FrnNt 110 H
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    • 2783 13 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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    • 118 13 HONGKONG Friday 1561 0 Week ago 1562 6* Hang Seng Index Mondoy 1744 11 Friday 1745 80 Week ogo 1775 82 TOKYO NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday 1529 93 Thursday 1511.24 Week ago 1536 70 Nikkei Average Monday 12*83 14 Saturday ***** 37 Week ogo ***** 05 Standard
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    • 285 13 Managers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for Jon 28 First B putro 4 44 4 49 Singapore Unit Trust Second 8'putro Third B'putro 4 17 4 22 3 43 3 48 The Commerce 0 90 0 95 Fourth B'putro 3 69 3 74 The Savings Fund 0 79 0 84 Fifth
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 621 14  -  By ALAN LEE DEBT-LADEN Promet Bhd is aiming to raise some Ms2so million from the sale of some of its assets to reduce borrowings to more manageable levels by the end of this year. Promet has been borrowing heavily during the
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    • 578 14 THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market put on a lethargic performance yesterday with most stocks closing lower as investors kept to the sidelines. Turnover was sharply lower at 4.68 million shares valued at M 56.47 million compared with 6.57 million units worth $9.29 million last
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    • 2624 14 ■BID and "offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of I.UOO units unless otherwise specified. Industrials A Choc (198S) (1) 2 00 (6) 1 98
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    • 789 14 BELEAGUERED shareholders of long-suspended Gula Perak Bhd may finally be able to see some value to their otherwise written-off investments in the loss-making company, if the latest restructuring plans go through. The new management at Imatex Bhd, itself the subject of
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    • 198 14 Reuter WESTLAND PLC has reached agreement on an amended capital reconstruction proposal with United Technologies Corp's Sikorsky subsidiary and Fiat SPA. The new scheme could be approved by a simple majority of shareholder votes rather than the 75 per cent needed for the earlier
      Reuter  -  198 words
    • 752 14 LAST FULL YEAR Company Period Dote Yeor Net EPS Gross Net announced ending (cents) div profit lost yeor (S'ooo) Pohong In* Final Jon 31 Dec 84 9.352L Minebeo Interim Jul 11 Sep 85 12 5 190 3.070(d) Mulpha Intl Interim Aug 24 Dec 85 30 738L Worldwide Hldgs
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    • 459 15 CONTRARY TO expectations, Promet Bhd did not hold a board meeting yesterday to decide on a date for another extraordinary general meeting to vote on the removal of Tan Sri Ibrahim Mohamed as a director. The EGM was originally to be held
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    • 165 15 A REMISIER from Grand Orient Securities Pte, Mr Lee Wee Seng, has been appointed the chairman of the 11-member protem committee of the proposed Remisiers' Association. The association, according to Mr Lee, is in the process of being registered. The newly formed pro-tem committee, however, is
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    • 321 15 Bernama THE KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange is negotiating a standby credit facility of MsBo million with a consortium of banks to protect the stockbroking industry in the event of any default on forward share contracts. KLSE chairman Nik Mohamed din Datuk Nik Yusof,
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    • 455 15  -  By HOMER CHEN TL LAU MANAGEMENT, one of the two remaining bidders for the development of Haw Par Villa, has roped in Japanese group Kumagai-Zenecon Construction Pte Ltd as a partner in the multi-million dollar project. Prior to the entry of Kuma-gai-Zenecon, TL Lau
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    • 427 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE AT A TIME when the fate of Pan-Electric Industries is hanging in the balance, the company's chairman, Mr William H Crafter, has resigned from office. Mr Crafter tendered his resignation as director on Jan 25, 1966. Mr Crafter, in his 50s,
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    • 179 15 MALAYSIAN RESOURCES Corporation Bhd is hiving off one of its major assets, the Resource Plaza building, for Ms2o million cash, making a notional loss of $2 million in the process. According to MRCB, the proposed sale is in line with the group's rationalisation and consolidation exercise,
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    • 373 15 FAST-RISING entrepreneur Datuk Abdullah Ahmad has taken over control of another listed company, Gadek (Malaysia) Bhd. A few months ago, Datuk Abdullah took over at the helm of SPK-Sentosa Corp Bhd, the listed vehicle of Syarikat Permodalan Kebangsaan, the diversified bumiputra group which he
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    • 446 15 MALAYAN CABLES Bhd has proposed a bonus issue of one-for-one. The issue of 34.9 million new shares of $1 each will be capitalised from the share premium account of the company. The bonus issue is subject to approvals of the relevant government authorities, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
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    • LATEST
      • 50 15 Group pre-tax profits for the half year ended Sep 30, 1985, declined to M 5514,000 (from $666,000). Interim net earnings per share fell to seven cents from nine cents previously. Directors have recommended an interim dividend of 12 cents less tax payable on March 12.
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    • 263 15 THE FIRST Annual General Meeting of the merged newspaper conglomerate, Singapore Press Holdings, will be held on Feb 15. At the meeting to be held at the News Centre in Genting Lane, shareholders will be asked to pass a resolution
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    • 369 14 Directors fail to meet, Page 15 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Mdm Cheong Meow Liang of Blk 4, Ghim Moh Rd #08-266 Singapore 1027, have applied for a First Class Beer House licence in respect of premises at M/s Hock Seng Leong Eating House Blk 293 Yishun St.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 174 15 A long-established European company, engaged in indenting and wholesaling, is interested in amalgamating with a similar company. The owner will also consider outright sale as he is due to retire. Currently, the company handles textiles and sundries as well as building materials. The company is well established in Singapore, Malaysia
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    • 379 15 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS LIMITED Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the First Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held in the Auditorium, 2nd floor at News Centre, 82 Genting Lane. Singapore 1334 on Saturday, 15th February 1986 at 12 noon for the following business:Ordinary
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  • 549 16  -  Rates have fallen below those in Hongkong, Tokyo and London By LISA LEE OFFICE SPACE in Singapore is now cheaper to rent than it is in Hongkong, Tokyo or London, thanks to a drop in net office rents of between
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  • 168 16 MR ONG TENG CHEONG yesterday proposed the setting up of a Chinese cultural museum or memorial for Chinese pioneers in Singapore. The Second Deputy Prime Minister made this suggestion at the inaugural dinner of the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations at the
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  • 81 16 PACKAGER Tetra Pak Pacific's expansion plans will increase its annual production to 2.6 billion packs and not 2.6 million packs as reported in an article published in BT dated Jan 27. Its current production is two billion packs, which accounts for about 6
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  • 410 16 JOB-STARVED CONTRACTORS have clinched more than $100 million worth of government jobs in the past two weeks in opening tenders that have often involved cutting their margins to the bone. Split among 30 tenders, these projects have ranged from sewerage and reclamation works to
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  • 488 16 THE US dollar yesterday plunged to a seven-year low against the Japanese yen in hectic trading in Tokyo. A drop of 3.80 yen to 195.70 took the rate down to its lowest since Jan 9, 1979, when the dollar stood at 195.60 yen. The
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  • 479 16 AP Bernama TWO FACTIONS in the Khmer People's National Liberation Front have met for the first time in an attempt to reconcile differences that have split the Cambodian resistance group since mid-December. The two groups had previously held talks only through intermediaries, but these had
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  • 397 16 POLITICS rather than police work yesterday occupied Tan Koon Swan, whose pleas on six charges of criminal breach of trust are to be heard in court on Thursday. And it now appears that Mr Tan could find the list of charges against him
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  • 35 16 THE SINGAPORE PARLIAMENT has been prorogued. President Wee Kim Wee made the proclamation yesterday to suspend meetings for a time without dissolving the House. The proclamation was published in the government gazette.
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  • 64 16 THE US stock market was moving up in active trading yesterday, continuing the advance of the previous two sessions. The Dow Jones industrial average was up seven points to 1537. Advances led declines by a three-two margin on 14.40 million shares. The Dow transports were up six
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  • LATE FILE
    • 35 16 AP CHINESE leader Deng Xiaoping, not seen in public since Dec 14, is in fine health, says his son. Deng Pufang said yesterday that the 81-year-old leader is "very well". AP
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    • 38 16 Reuter accord with Japan THE European Community has reached agreements which could double EC exports of shoes to Japan and cut Japanese tariffs on a number of other EXT products, said the commission yesterday. Reuter
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    • 45 16 AP INDONESIAN Labour Minister Sudomo yesterday predicted that the number of workers laid off this year will increase from last year's 35,125. The Sinar Harapan newspaper quoted him as saying that reduced spending will result in fewer job opportunities. AP
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    • 27 16 AFP MALAYSIAN authorities have detained 27 people under the Internal Security Act for alleged involvement in religiously-inspired clashes with police. AFP
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    • 44 16 AFP INVESTMENT by foreigners and overseas Chinese in Taiwan last year totalled more than US$7OO million, up 25 per cent over 1984. An economic ministry official said yesterday that the government approved 174 applications totalling $702 million last year. AFP
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    • 50 16 UPI THE Thai government, citing "security reasons," has refused to renew the work permit of a Soviet reporter. A foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday that the action was directed at Sirguei So la vie v, the Bangkok correspondent for the Soviet Union's Tass agency. UPI
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 47 16 Outlook for today: Fair. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Jan 27 at the airport: Maximum temperature 29.0 Associated humidity 61 Minimum temperature 23.9 Associated humidity 86 Hours of sunshine 1.00 Rainfall in millimetres nil Roinfall this month 301.6 Rainy days this month 11
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 129 17 Seatrade Week THE SOUTH KOREAN government will begin construction of a large new container terminal at Kwangyang Bay on the southern tip of Korea in 1987. The project is expected to be completed in 1991 and will costs Won 47 billion (US$52.B million), said a
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    • 421 17 THE VOLUME OF cargo handled at Singapore's ports last year seems certain to be below 1984 levels. But the quantum of decline would not be as drastic as was feared earlier because of a recovery towards the later part of the year. Figures
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    • 116 17 TWO MAJOR CONSORTIA in the Japan-South America west coast trade have merged because of deteriorating market conditions. The Andes Express and the Compania Sud Americana de Vaproes Transpotes Navieros Ecuatorianos joint service have reached an agreement to merge from March. The six companies
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    • 123 17 Fairplay SAFE OFFSHORE has signed a contract, worth in the region of US$33 million, with the Marathon oil company for the hire of a floatel from mid-1967 through to the end of 1968. Before the floatel starts its new assignment, it will undergo refurbishment
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 104 17 Fairplay A JOINT CHARTERING organisation, United Chemical Transport, has been set up by two West German owners, Knihr A Burchard Nfl and Tankreederei Ahrenkiel Gmbh. Their combined chemical tanker fleet of 17 will be operated in the future under a long term pool agreement, with the
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      • 135 17 AP SIX WORKERS were killed in a fire while removing grease from a former Dutch tanker that was scheduled to be scrapped, Taiwanese police reported. Fifteen other workers were injured, four seriously, in the fire aboard the 42,000-ton Ala in Kaohsiung, 350 kilometres south of Taiwan. Police
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      • 112 17 AP JAPANESE Maritime Safety Agency patrol boat seized a 19-ton South Korean fishing boat after a two-hour chase on Sunday and arrested its captain on suspicion of fishing in Japanese waters off Tsushima, an agency official said. The official identified the Korean boat as the
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    • 1190 18 TIME-CHARTER business and Brazilian iron ore fixing comprised most of Friday's reported chartering on the London shipping freights market. Grain and coal markets became less active and no further sugar or fertiliser fixing emerged. In the Far East, NYK booked the 141,000 dwt bulker Mineral Diamond at U557,900
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    • 1064 18 UPI INTERNATIONAL shipping is in its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression years of the *****, industry officials say. Hundreds of steamship lines, freight forwarders and custom house brokers from Hongkong, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, England, Canada and the
      UPI  -  1,064 words
    • 185 18 RAUMA-REPOLA has won an order to build an ice-breaker expedition ship for Sudoimport. The ice-breaker, which can transport containers, vehicles, aircraft and helicopters, will serve the research stations on the Antarctic regions. As the icy coasts lack harbour facilities, the vessel will carry tractors to transport
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    • 637 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Afea Line VI 3 Anro Service IV 3/4 ANL 1 1/2 APC Line V 4 APL III 2/3 ASCL III 1 Bolt-Canada Line VII 4/5 Bolt-Orient Line VII 4/5 Bank Line V 5 BBS II 4/5 Ben Line Cont
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    • 188 18 AFP NORTH KOREA'S only supertanker has been sunk in an air raid in the Gulf war, badly hampering the country's oil supplies. The 230,000-ton Son Bon went down after being hit in an Iraqi air raid on Kharg Island on Sept 19,
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    • 326 18 AFP WITH crude prices having fallen by as much as US$5 to around $17 per barrel during the past week, buyers generally remained on the sidelines, with greatly reduced employment opportunities for tankers the result. The Gulf states loading zone took the brunt. The little trade in evidence
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    • 254 19 Seatrade THE FAILURE of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to foreclose on two general cargo vessels whose owners are heavily indebted to the government bank is threatening to become a major scandal. Sources at the bank have identified the ships as
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    • 385 19 Lloyd's List CRACKS HAVE been discovered in the hull of the Atlantic Conveyor which was delivered just 12 months ago. And the four other Atlantic Container Line vessels built to the same design are undergoing checks for similar problems. The 2,157-TEU Atlantic Conveyor,
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    • 80 19 THE NEW owners of Ellerman Lines have had an encouraging start to 1966 with the forecast that throughput at the group's Liverpool container terminal should rise by 50 per cent this year. The arrival of substantial volumes of new business at the Speke Freight Terminal will mean
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    • 844 19 Jan 26-28 Arab Shipping Industries and Banking: conference at Sheraton Hotel, Kuwait, organised by Arab Bankers' Association in cooperation with International Centre for Shipping and Shipping Finance, City University, London, and sponsored by Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Jan 27-29 1906 Asian Inspection Repair it Maintenance Conference
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    • 228 19 IRON DUKE, the 14,888 dwt bulkship BHP Transport sold to Hongkong interests for scrap is still in Sydney even though it was scheduled to leave on Jan 10. The delay has resulted because inspection by surveyors showed that
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    • 124 19 Fairpiay A SAVAGE ATTACK on the role of the Japanese government in the rescue of Sanko was launched by Mr Bruce Farthing, consultant director of the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (Intercargo) in London. "Members of Intercargo who live by the principles
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    • 773 21 The above information is compiled from data provided by the Singapore National Shipper's Council AUSTRALIA Jan 2 Queensland Cairns, Mourilyan, Cape Flattery, Townsville, Mackay, Hay Point, Dalrymple Bay, Abbot Point, Gladstone Working normally. Brisbane Berthing congestion at grain terminal. Labour available. New South Wales-Newcastle Coal: 2 vessels loading,
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    • 187 21 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
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    • 6162 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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    • 700 25 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Nuptse 722 28.1 86 1700 Sea Consort F8 0800-0900 W2 Selandia 504 28 1 86 1700 Nedlloyd F7 0800-0900/0700-0800 L2/N2 Pegasus P 414N 28 1.86 1800 Straits
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    • 1645 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B A Top Enterprises Pte Ltd Some (S) AB Shipping Bousteod Shpg Agencies Afeo Line African Shpg Agencies (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceonus ShippmgAgencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK) American
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    • 456 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Cable Express K35 Boustead alongside 28.1.86/2000 Kee Expander K27 S'pore Shp alongside 28.1.86/0600 Arrow Prince K12 Ned-EAC 28.1.86/1500 29 1.86/1700 Anchan K18 Leo Shpg 28 l.86/2300 30 1.86/2300 Equator 4 K22 Thong Soon 28.1.86/0700 29.1.86/0700 Equator 5
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    • 850 17 Concise Comprehensive Contemporary Available at all good 1 bookshops and newsagents Distributed by ttfl a□» 3:7T PUBLICATIONS OOCL Okient OVEIQEAS Go*Uu*e\ LINE IAMK SHPfWG AOWCtt (leg Nt 242K4/ 00K) 70 Shenton Way #04 03 Manna House Singapore 0207 Tel *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** CFS OFFICE IPC #03 029 Tel
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    • 59 17 mas INTERNATIONAL shipping is in its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression years of the *****. Page II CRACKS HAVE been discovered in the hull of the Atlantic Conveyor which was delivered just 12 months ago. Page 111 Index to odvertisers II Shipping Schedules VIII London freights II Container
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    • 1058 17 >4 BALT-ORIENT LINE Baltic Shipping Co Refiiar Services from South East Asia to United Kingdom and -1 ft irajrtn IMMRI rOftS Agent: Singapore Soviet Shipping Co Pte Ltd Tel: *****3 Feeder Kelang >,nan 9 *S«ga»ort CtaMg Tones CT 3/2 0400 MRS CfS 2/2 1200 MRS MAERSK SERVES THREE SWEDISH PORTS
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    • 483 18 Y.S. LINE YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South West Pacific North Wast Feeder at Tokyo Feeder at Kobe Mother ttl LA/LB OAK Mother VSL SCAT VCR S MSHU M 1/3 4/3 TOKYO M. 5/3 (/3 P ARROW t/3 11/3 HAKONE M 16/3 17/3 BEISHU M 15/3 11/3 HAKONE M
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    • 286 18 Supercarrier Service Vessel N ROUEN B I M»» N ROSAIMO BARBER TEXAS N ROCHSTFR Nf IT ARRIVALS N ROSAMO 27/1. BARBER PERSEUS 27/1 B HtCIOR 17/2 TO: CALIFORNIA PANAMA US ATLANTIC US GULF E. CANADA V«M< BARBER PERSEUS BARBER WCTO* IOURCOMC BARBER IOBA Uv> Kcrptnt contrs lor Houston (MLB) S
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    • 927 19 The Straits Steamship Group QCL. Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd Overseas Containers Limited STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok [CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT. S'part PHtim* 29/1 29/1 05/2 17/2 11/2 12/2 22/2 24/2 04/3 K/3 11/3 13/3 19/3 21/3 27/3 29/3 04/4 M/ 4 Abo
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    • 691 19 Franco Belgian Services g&j I i r I i w r. n. h r. >. ilh ll.'/ti.in I ~r I r«/.r»> ir»> (MEMBER OF ACE CONSORTIUM) soma Tonaort stow maw it Hm QRENTM. I3CF 20 Mi (27 MO 17 FA II Fd KOKM MCUM 5 FA < 3 FA) 24
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    • 900 20 Wh m u Hapag-Lloyd TO CONTINENT/UK EXPORTS On carTUfe to Scandnavia, Med, Carribcan IS. America Inland haulage to inland destinations in Europe S port PKetonf Ptrunf leuoesMuo Genu Htx*| RdJm Btuven A'mrp Ai Mub»*uli 1/2 10/2 12/2 1/3 19/3 15/3 12/3 «N Toinn 10/2 14/3 10/3 7/3 Saft* Rickmers J/3
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    • 961 20 EVERGREEN Full Container Service Round-The-World East Bound (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/FE) Round-The-World West Bound (FE/EURO/USEC/CARIB/FE) US WEST COAST FAR EAST/RED SEA/MEDITERRANEAN EVER ONWARD to Nrl 12/2 13/2 [MR ORENT 4/1 21/2 21/2 HER own 12/2 2>/2 1/3 IM4ORTWE 21/2 1/3 5/3 EMR OCUH 27/2 IS/) 14/3 no OBIMM 7/3 23/3 M/ 3 IH-fHW
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    • 221 20 as I NOSE MARITIME PTE LTD m ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES Sngipvt Loadng fa 10/2 B ABBAS KYOWA LINE TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA/ SOUTH PACIFIC STORE PKeUnf Loa*if tar: KYOWA COSMOS Saied Lac, Jaya. P. Moresby. Honiara. Kieta. Rabaul. Papette 0. COURMER 9/2 Lac. P. Moresby.
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    • 273 21 AUSTASIA LINE AND MERLION SHIPPING AGENCY BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO NEW ZEALAND AND T/S FIJI FULLY CONTAINERISED MONTHLY SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT NEW PLYMOUTH PORT CHALMERS ACCEPTING FCL LCL FOR AUCKLAND, NAPIER, WELLINGTON, BLUFF, CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN LYTTELTON, INVERCARGIL A FIJI S POKE AGENTS MERLION SHIPPING AGENCY PTE LTD. #12 02A
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    • 163 21 \<t»l THONG SOON AGENCIES PTE. LTD. #09-07, Robina House, S'poreolo6 Tel: *****88. Telex: RS ***** BOOKING: *****56 (DIRECT LINE) Bangkok '(LINK 4/86 29 Jan 1 Feb *REE 4/86 2 Feb 5 Feb YLINK 5/86 5 Feb 8 Feb VREE 5/86 9 Feb 12 Feb *.INK 6/86 12 Feb 15 Feb
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    • 725 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS 1 EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT EXPRESS corn AWE* SERVICE FROM UK/CONTI HAM BtttMNRIMM HAMS STOM PKLLANGSTOH FOR Bona.on Sated SM Saitd Sated Sated 79/1 11/1 MG Hon|konf EiprmSjM Sated Sated Sated Sated 1/2 BU Kowtoonßi, Siin) Sated Sated Sated Stint 11,7 11/2 HKG BenaMer Sated Sated Sated
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    • 721 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINE LOADER FULL CONTAINER SERVICE STORE TO JAKARTA "MA MP MAT V 28 W THAN* BHUM 019 NXJNA V.SB? JAKARTA SURABAYA 1/2/86 3/2/16 6/2/16 8/2/16 LOADER EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE STOW TKfSTE BUAO ATMN/RDAM HTMt6 BREMEN UNM BHMTI Vl4 NB 4/24/2 8/3/86 16/3/86 17/3/86 19/3/86
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    • 433 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES Pi an V9ON Mamlamyaaii V3OW Htoneywa V2OBW Phashwegyawywa BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loadmg for Rangoon S'pore P.Kelant Pen* hPoft 29 Jan 30/31 Jan 9/11 Feb 11/12 Feb >4 BANK LINE IVYBANK CLYDEBANK CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONT SPORE ROAM HULL HMBG 30 Jan 25
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    • 1154 22 K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE FEEDER VSI utopia MOIFCR VSI AAUIIA V 7403 STOW PUIS PNG SI«0K NAGOYA GUAYAQUL CALIAO MICA IQWQUE AfAGASTA S ANTOWO VALPARAISO TAIWAN-JAPAN-CHINA-MANILA UTOPIA 5 Ftb 7 Fib CHOW BRSGE r>2 3 Fib I Fib 9 Fib 1 fISMANTIE BRBGE <19 It Fib 1}
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    • 737 22 OH 2 AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Contains* feeder P Heiang liner Vessel S pore Me«b f m SrOr too Accepts CAIMM 21 lan RAMDAS I fak 23 frt 4 Mar 2 Mar Mal/fc« *AWAS 13 Feb 21 Fak i Mar 7 Mar AM Bra A««M 7 Feb CHANXMS
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