The Business Times, 23 March 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 288 1 Reuter Dow Jones higher WALL STREET stocks gained ground in early trading yesterday. The Dow Jones 30 index gained six points to 2,073 and gainers took a small lead over decliners. Trading was moderate. Brokers said Monday's light selling appeared to have .dried up. Some said the
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  • 402 1  -  By WILLIAM CHIA PLEASED with the success of the restructuring of the National University Hospital, the government announced yesterday that it will do the same to the Singapore General Hospital. The decision to give more autonomy to the SGH was disclosed by Acting Health Minister Yeo
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  • 168 1 MAJOR REGIONAL MARKETS closed lower yesterday, following the sharp overnight fall of 20 points in Wall Street. The Singapore stock market closed easier, with the gains on Monday completely erased. Investors were taking profits after the past few weeks' rises. The ST Industrial
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  • 103 1 PLATINUM yesterday burst through the US$5OO-an-ounce level in Zurich, but the rise gave only minor support to gold and silver, dealers said. Platinum got a boost during Monday's trading in New York on political unrest in South Africa and continued strength in Asian trading yesterday. The
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  • 170 1 SINGAPORE AIRLINES will introduce no-smoking flights from April 4. on four of the 14 services it operates daily between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. No-smoking flights leaving Singapore will be SO 106 (departure 1145 GMT/arrival 1235) and SO 112 (departure 1745/ arrival
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  • 515 1  -  By AMY BALAN UNITED OVERSEAS LAND, which went into the red last year, has earned the distinction of becoming the first company to make a cash call this year. The property-hotel associate of the United Overseas Bank group reported a bottom-line loss of $6.57 million
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  • 653 1  -  Written consent of customers likely to be sought By ALVIN TAY Banking Correspondent PARTICIPATING BANKS of the proposed nationwide shared automated teller machine network are confident that they have found a solution, albeit a tedious one, to a thorny problem posed by
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  • 272 1 TWO MORE BANKS may soon become new shareholders in the Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore Re Ltd (Nets). Tat Lee Bank and Asia Commercial Bank the only two local banks that are not subsidiaries of the Big Pour banking groups are exploring the possibility
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    • 325 1 More Parliament raporta, Paga 2 Ft!* report Pag* 14 Regional mart*te, Pag* 16 World mart ate, Pag* 17 The Passport Handbook IN ITALY, the fakes outnumber the real ones. The underground trade in false passports is booming. At any one time, just 5 per cent of the thousands in use
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  • FOCUS
    • 371 2  -  aJMM. MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT Reports by JOHN LIM, LIM SOON NEO and ANNA TEO IT'S BUILD and bill for the Public Works Department, which has been locked in a three-year dispute with Tang Choon Keng Realty over a pedestrian underpass expected to cost millions
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    • 353 2 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION COMPULSORY EDUCATION does not mean higher standards will be achieved, said Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State (Education). He was replying to a call by Mr Chiam See Tong (Potong Pasir) that the Government should consider making
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    • PARLIAMENT BRIEFS
      • 63 2 A COMMITTEE to look into how minor sources of pollution could be prevented had been formed, said Environment Minister Dr Ahmad Mattar. The committee, which includes members from several statutory boards, will examine whether engineering means can be used to prevent minor sources of
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      • 110 2 THE ROAD BUILDING programme will come to an end by around 1990 and any marked increase in vehi- cles would obviously increase the number of traffic jams, Communications and Information Minister Dr Yeo Ning Hong said. The present road network, he said, could just about cope
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      • 60 2 COMPULSORY counselling is being introduced for students who want to leave courses conducted by the Vocational and Industrial Training Board The counselling will also include the student s parents Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State (Education), also said the government would consider legislation, if necessary, to
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      • 77 2 ALL STUDENTS doing the threeyear pre-university course will eventually attend classes at centralised institutes as the Education Ministry intends to phase out the course in secondary schools This was disclosed by Or Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State (Education). He added that another one or
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      • 104 2 ABOUT 98 pig farms in Malaysia. Thailand and Indonesia were allowed by the Primary Production Department to export live pigs to Singapore, said Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister of State (National Development). These farms are able to supply up to 1.2 million live pigs a year.
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    • 374 2 THE WESTERN PART of Pulau Semakau, an offshore island south-west of Sentosa, has been set aside for rubbish dumping. Environment Minister Or Ahmad Mattar said yesterday. Refuse is now burnt at the two incinerators at Tuas and Ulu Pandan, and dumped at
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    • 112 2 A CALL for the setting up>of an early childhood education institute was made 'in Parliament yesterday but the Government replied that there was no need for such an institute. Mrs Yu-foo Yee Shopn (Yuhua) said the institute would provide more extensive training, curriculum
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 372 3  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ 'THE DO s and dont's of exporting were outlined yesterday by the man whose job it is to help exporters carve a bigger market -share. The list was given by Trade TDevelopment Board chairman Alan Yeo when he spoke at the opening
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    • 512 3 IN LINE with its plans to upgrade some of its hotels, City Developments is spending $3 million to enhance one of its hotel's tropical resort image. The 460-room Novotel Orchid ]nn in Dunearn Road is undergoing renovations which include extending the Moby Dick coffee
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    • 212 3 LIFE INSURANCE cooperative. NTUC Income, took a big step towards having its own building when it held a ground-breaking ceremony at its site yesterday. NTUC Income's deputy chairman G Kandasamy, who was the guest of honour, said the cooperative was still guided
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    • 69 3 POINTERS on what and where to invest in Malaysia will be given at a one-day seminar on Friday. The seminar will see senior officials of the Malaysian government identifying investment opportunities in agro-based industries, manufacturing, tourism and the securities industries for would-be investors.
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    • 35 3 IN THE TABLE accompanying Monday's backpage story, "Strong growth in February trade", exports for February were put at $3.9 billion. The figure should be $5.9 billion. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 414 3  -  By LIM SOON NEO THE OWNER of the Big Splash aquatic complex at East Coast Parkway is trying to create an amusement park on its premises by October Mr Ng Hock, manager of Potential Investments Pte Ltd, owner of the Big Splash complex, said
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 836 4 ARRIVALS Operator S*rvk* Local From numbtr tim* OA OA471 0015 ATH SU SQ11 0115 LAX/NUT UA UA805 0120 SFO/HKG SIA SQ41 0610 MAA SiA SQ47 0655 DEL MAS MH681 0820 KUL KAL KE624 0850 KUL SU SQ31 0850 PAR/ROM MAS MM811 0910 PEN MAS MH671 0920 KUL
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    • 386 4 Reuter THE INABILITY of French industry to compete in tough export markets is likely to remain a major weakness in the country's trade performance for the rest of this decade, according to economists in Paris. Despite some improvement in industrial exports late last year, French
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    • 172 4 Reuter THE US government had a budget deficit of U5523.90 billion in February, the fifth month of the fiscal year, compared with a U5528.07 billion gap in February 1987, the Treasury Department said in Washington on Monday. Last month's shortfall followed an unusual monthly budget surplus
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    • 341 4 AFP NORWAY and the Netherlands provide four to five times more official development aid (ODA) to poorer countries than the US and Japan as a proportion of their gross national product (GNP), Western aid officials said in Paris on Monday. They were
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    • 130 4 AP INVESTMENT in plant and equipment by US business is likely to increase about 8.8 per cent this year but only 0.5 per cent in 1989, according to a survey released in New York on Monday. Manufacturers are likely to lead the way this year
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    • 132 4 Reuter AUSTRALIAN manufacturers' optimism has rebounded since last October's stock market crash, according to the latest quarterly survey of industrial trends by Westpac Banking Corp and the Confederation of Australian Industry. The first full quarterly survey since the crash found a marked improvement in business sentiment.
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    • 60 4 Reuter TRADE UNIONS have predicted industrial strife under the newly-elected conservative government in New South Wales, Australia's most populous state The Australian Council of Trade Unions warned Nick Greiner who led the Liberal-National coalition to victory against going ahead with his election pledge to reshape industrial
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    • 174 4 AFP MEMBERS of the Greenpeace ecology group on Monday demonstrated outside the headquarters of the European Community in Brussels as EC ministers gathered to mark the end of the European Year of the Environment. The ministers were discussing several major proposals to protect
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    • 161 4 AP FINLAND, Canada and Italy were among the world's most strike-prone nations in 1986, an International Labour Office survey released in Geneva showed on Monday. Wealthy Switzerland remained the world's number one island of industrial peace Finland, with a population of five million,
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    • 169 4 Reuter SWISS INDUSTRIAL production rose 18 per cent seasonally adjusted in fourth quarter 1987 compared with the third quarter, and was 5 per cent higher than in the final 1986 quarter, the Federal Statistics Office said in Berne on Monday. The quarter
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    • 103 4 Reuter NEW ZEALAND'S budget deficit narrowed to NZ$3.3l billion in the 10 months ended January 1967 against NZ$4.3l billion in the same period last year, government figures released in Wellington yesterday show. Expenditure totalled U5520.25 billion against U5517.22 billion last year. Revenue totalled U5516.94 billion against
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    • 612 4 UPI THE UNITED STATES has long been Hongkong's leading market, but the falling dollar and the threat of protectionism are forcing exporters to look further afield for sales. With nearly 40 per cent of its products going across the Pacific, the
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 456 6 JUNE Eurodollar yesterday opened sharply lower than the previous day's close at 92.67 following overnight carryover selling interest from bearish sentiment over a stronger than expected US economy. However, lower oil prices and a steady dollar sparked short-covering which led prices to firm up. resulting in a pullback from
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    • 1220 6 Reuter SINGAPORE: THE US DOLLAR ended mixed yesterday, easing against most European currencies but holding steady against the yen in dull trading. Dealers said an early attempt by Japanese trading banks to push the dollar down failed as the Bank of Japan intervened to support the currency at
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    • 280 6 IMM Reuter IMM CURRENCY futures closed higher but near mid-range after profit-tak-ing trimmed sizable early gains on Monday. Concern that Japanese dealers would sell dollars after the end of the Japanese fiscal year on March 31 contributed to buying in futures, although volume remained fairly light
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    • 172 6 Gold futures on March 21 100 troy ounces. USS per troy ounce Opon Nigh Low SoOta Mor 445.30 445.50 445 50 449.20 4.90 Apr 446 50 452.90 444.40 450.20 5.00 May 452.20 5.10 km 450.00 457 80 450.00 454.70 5.30 Aug 45S.10 442.00 455.10 459.20 ♦5.60 Oct
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    • 75 6 Reuter THE TAIWANESE Finance Ministry issued NTS2O billion worth of government bonds to finance the construction of major projects, a ministry official said in Taipei yesterday. The five-year bonds carry an interest rate of 5.75 per cent and are being sold to the public.
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    • 148 6 UPI SOUTH KOREA, one of the world's top debtor nations, repaid US$B.9 billion of its foreign debt in 1987 mostly because of a large surplus in its balance of international payments, the government reported in Seoul on Monday The nation repaid US$B.9
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    • 370 6 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed little changed at opening levels in quiet trading yesterday Period rates were about unchanged to slightly higher, underpinned by softer US bond prices, concern over inflation and a belief that the Fed is likeiy to tighten policy. Three and four months rates closed
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    • 1133 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Timdoy, March 22. 1988 OCUTSCHEMARK <MU€X) Ap. 88 caPa Low Halt Apr 88 puis 54 High 9WU San CAS 55 CAS 56 CA8 57 1 1 1 58 1788 178 4 59 938 93 20 IS 18 AO 368 34 34 62A 60 61 10 9
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 656 7 Reuter MEXICO may launch further schemes this year to reduce its US$lO5 billion foreign debt, following the debt-for-bonds auction last month, public credit director Angel Gurria said on Monday. Mr Gurria said the outcome of the bond scheme was disappointing in
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    • 165 7 Reuter MIDLAND BANK PLC has signed a £50-million loan backed by the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD). Britain's official insurer, with the Soviet Union to finance UK exports. The loan is the first general purpose line of credit, to finance small exports, under a
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    • 276 7 Reuter PANAMA has denied reports it was planning to issue its own currency to solve a US-engi-neered cash shortage aimed at ousting military strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega. A statement published in the pro-government newspaper La Estrella de Panama on Sunday said
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    • Article, Illustration
      75 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market fell by 1% point to end at 1% per cent yesterday. Term rates remained unchanged across the board. Indicate* the average of the prime lending rate* of 12 ma|or banks In S pore S$ Interbank rates at 12 noon yester
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    • 399 7 Reuter THE WORLD BANK, renowned for its conservative financial policies, may soon be investing part of its US$2l-billion cash hoard in the potentially risky area of mortgage securities, treasurer Don Roth said on Monday. Some Wall Street firms lost a fortune
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    • 149 7 UPI BANK OF AMERICA said on Monday that it had signed a "business cooperation agreement" with a Key Chinese government agency. The agreement was said by the San Franciscobased bank to be the "first" of its kind between a US bank and the China Trust
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    • 169 7 Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on March 22 us$ DM SWFC Y»n 7 doyi 3/4 5/8 5/« i/a 3 7/16 5/16 1 1/4—1 4 7/8 3/4 6 13/16 11/16 i i/t i/a 3 7/16 5/16 1 11/16 9/16 4 13/16 11/16 3 m*s 6 7/8 3/4 8 11/16
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    • 416 7 Coordination with IMF and World Bank envisaged Reuter ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, presidentelect of the embattled InterAmerican Development Bank, envisions a revitalised lending agency that is on the front-line of Latin America s US$4lO-billion debt crisis. In an address before the agency's annual meeting in
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    • 286 7 Reuter BRAZIL and its creditor banks have failed to reach final agreement on a new financing package and will continue talks next week in New York, Brazilian Finance Minister Mailson Ferreira da Nobrega said on Monday. He said a key point still
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    • 326 7 IHT IN A BID to promote the strength of its economy and update its monetary image, France is to mint two new coins and create a "universal symbol" for the French franc comparable with the signs for the US dollar and the
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    • 188 7 Reuter BANK OF NEW YORK Co Inc. which has for months proposed a hostile takeover of Irving Bank Corp, said it has now started a tender offer for all Irving shares and associated defensive common stock purchase rights Bank of New York, in
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    • 85 7 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ8811ON 16.6.88 2.97 2.92 2.93 2.93 6 month* BY*****S 30.6.88 2.97 2.92 1 year BY*****T 24.11.88 3.10 3.05 3.06 3.05 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 464 8 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA is offering discounts on Opec-mandated crude oil prices to some of its European customers after earlier such offers to US and Japanese buyers. Industry sources said in London on Monday that Saudi Arab Light was being offered to buyers of
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    • 62 8 AFP INDONESIA's crude oil export earnings rose in calendar 1987 to US$6.l4 billion from US$5.l7 billion a year earlier, according to figures released yesterday. The Bank Indonesia figures showed that the rise was mainly caused by strengthening prices on the world market with the bulk of
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    • 190 8 AFP SAUDI ARABIA is to boost the capacity of its east-west oil pipeline by 55 per cent, enabling it to avoid the Gulf completely as an export route, the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) reported in Nicosia on Monday. The weekly review, citing "authoritative
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    • 290 8 Reuter NIGERIA'S state oil company will become an autonomous, fully commercial enterprise with immediate effect. "From now onwards, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will be financially autonomous in its operations," military president General Ibrahim Babangida said on Monday at the official opening of
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    • 340 8 HONGKONG: Gold yesterday closed firmer in brisk trading on improved sentiment, although late profit-taking trimmed some of its early gains. Dealers said early physical selling in the wake of New York's gains failed to push gold down. This in turn prompted some short-covering, but the US$45l per ounce
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    • 55 8 THE MARKET was jittery waiting for new action from Opec. N#w York dot* prvviout day Products (FOB S'pore) USS/borr*) Chang* Ktroim 19.60 und) Goioil 19.80 JOCtl Low Sulphur Won/ t*»du*, LSWI 14.40 uncti Naphtha 15.40 0.35 USS/torm* Chong* W oil 71.50 1-50 M pficn 1900 S'por* rim*
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    • 155 8 UPI THE US and the Soviet Union completed the opening round of talks on a new long-term grain agreement on Saturday in an effort to strike a new deal before the current pact expires in September. According to a statement issued by the US
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    • 258 8 Reuter WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade ended on a weak note on Monday, at or near session lows, with prices off 2-3/4 to 3/4 cent a bushel May closed 2-3/4 cents lower at US$3.O4. Traders said professional and commission house selling weighed on prices. The wheat
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    • 209 8 AFP NATURAL rubber has broken through a 242-Malaysian/Singa-pore-cent "must sell" price level set by the International Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) for the second time in 10 weeks. Inro's five-day moving average hit 242.50 cents last Friday, the organisation's buffer stock manager Aldo
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    • 167 8 AFP WESTERN WORLD output of primary aluminium reached a record of 35,500 tonnes last month on an average daily basis, compared to 35,400 tonnes in January (revised) and 34,100 tonnes in February 1987, statistics from the International Primary Aluminium Institute in London revealed on
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    • 140 8 AFP A TEAM of Malaysian officials is to leave for Europe on April 8 to fight anti-tropi-cal timber campaigners. Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik will lead the team to West Germany, Holland, Belgium and Britain for two weeks. Environmentalists in those countries have been campaigning
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    • 147 8 FAMA Clotlng pricot on Morch 22 Coconut oil (M$/100kg) Now drum* 145.00 2nd hond drum 139.00 M 130.00 Locol in bv* 127.00 Copra (M$/iookg) No 1 (#ttaf«) 79.00 No 2 («mollho)d«rj) 74.00 Bangkok Closing pricot on March 22 (US$/tonn*, FOB) White Rice 100% 1» clou 345 '00% 2nd
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    • 229 8 Reuter SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed on Monday with gains of 10 to six cents a bushel. May settled 7-1/4 cents higher at U556.37-3/4. Traders said prices held sharply higher on sustained purchases of some 20 million bushels of May. July, August. September. November and
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    • 351 8 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly easier yesterday with April 1 RSS buyers quoted at 221.25 cents/kilo, down 0.75 cent from Monday s close. After an easier opening on nearby liquidation, prices rebounded partially towards midday on some buying at the low levels in thin trading, dealers said. The market
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    • 83 8 (canta/kg) APRIL 1988 MAY 1988 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON br«n Stllifi Iwyan Saltan SSR 20 220.50 222.SON 220.50 2 2 2.5ON SSI 50 219.00 2 21.OON 219.00 221.OON MRELB tvyafi Saltan •vyan S^ SMR CV 304.50 306.50N 305.50 307JON SMR I 305.50 307.50N 306.50
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    • 205 8 THE PRICE OF TIN ymterday eased six cents from Monday's close to M 517.42 a kg altar a fairly brlsf trading session. Buyars turnad cautious and moved to the sidelines In view of a lower European spot tin market, which triggered some sailing interest, dealers said. Sterling's easiness
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    • 222 8 RAS prices in s cot*/** fo« 8 NOON CLOSt Bvyoo Saltan Bwyoo e M tr* 1 RSS Prompt 222.25 223.25N 222.25 223.25N ln» J RSS Apr M 221.25 *****N 221.25 221.75 ln» 1 RSS Moy U 222.75 223.25 222.75 223.25 lr* 2 RSS Of 219.00 221.00N 219.00
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    • 380 8 Crude palm oil futures closed higher in active trading on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange yesterday. Dealers said the better prices wers due to the higher overseas vegetable oil prices Reports over India's purchass of 6,000 tonnes of CPO also boosted market sentiment. April added Msls to MsB7s
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    • 315 8 London Commodity Exchange •uyof/Solior doting pricot on Morcti 21 (£/tonn« i uniost tp«dfM). Praviowt doting prices In poromtmH. C Off 06 loth in-itor« London, option CIF London Mo f 1117/1118 (1107/1109} High/Low 1130/1115 May 1145/1147 (1138/1139) High/Low 1155/1145 C—« JOIfJ (1141) Cocoa Mar 905/910 (895/900) High/Low 907/902 May
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 586 9  -  Setback is temporary, says Pearl Dean By GENEVIEVE CUA A LOT more education and a lot less emotion appear to be needed if the poster panels in Mass Rapid Transit are to fake off as a viable advertising medium in Singapore. Just about four
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    • 200 9 ONE MORE for the industry's history Oook. The call for entries for the 1987 Creative Circle Awards, better known is the advertising industry's oscar flight, is on. The closing date for all 44 categories is 6pm, Monday, April 4. J There will be
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    • 351 9 AT LEAST TWO public relations companies have been approached by the government regarding the possibility of launching a publicity campaign in Hongkong to attract professionals to live and work in Singapore. The two agencies Batey Hickson Public Relations and Ogilvy Mather Public Relations
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    • 277 9 A US$5,OOO ($$10,000) cash prize awaits the top design entry for the Du Pont Antron Design Awards competition. The annual interior design contest is geared towards originality and imagination in commercial interiors. Besides the grand prize and a commemorative trophy, five
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    • 237 9 NYT ANGERED by their loss of autonomy, six top executives walked out of the Lord. Geller. Federico. Einstein advertising agency in New York last week to set up their own shop. The agency is a subsidiary of the WPP Group. The
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 335 10 ALTHOUGH only 18 ministers have been retained in the new 41-member Indonesian Cabinet, continuity in tried and tested policies will remain a feature of the Suharto government. President Suharto made this point and for good reason past policies have brought stability and progress on the home
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    • 153 10 IT IS, as Communications and Information Minister Yeo Ning Hong said in Parliament on Monday, hard to see how a commercial television station can be viable in Singapore. Not at this point, at least. But the Singaporean appetite for a wide variety of entertainment and information,
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    • 1176 10  -  There are thousands in use around the world at any one time, but only 5 per cent are detected. False passports, that is. They might be economy models that cost a few hundred dollars, or works of art that cost thousands. The underground trade in false passports
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    • 420 10 FAKE PASSPORTS aren't much of a problem in the Asian-Pacific region, but they still mean sleepless nights for Interpol officers. According to Interpol secretarygeneral R E Kendall, there has been a "spectacular increase" in passport fraud and abuse over the past several
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    • 492 11 AP THE MURDEROUS RAMPAGES that left five people dead at two Belfast funerals last week have aroused fears that Northern Ireland is sliding into a new cycle of violence after years of relative calm. Fifteen people have died in the past
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    • 800 11  -  If some of Japan's opinion leaders have their way, Asian Pacific nations may soon have their own club, modelled on the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The move is part of the country's efforts to exercise greater leadership in the
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    • 929 11  -  By BERNARD TRAINOR NYT TrfE SANDINISTA OFFENSIVE last week along the NicaraguanHonduran border succeeded in badly damaging the Americanbacked rebels because the Contras violated a fundamental axiom of guerilla war by allowing themselves to become a fixed target. The offensive stopped short of total
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    • 643 11 Reuter LEADERSHIP CHANGES to be announced in China s Parliament this week will consolidate further the power of top leader Deng Xiaoping, but who will succeed the 83-year-old reformer remains uncertain. The National People's Congress (NPC), which begins its annual session on
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    • 1350 11 to as© oast© 12 PM Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Fashion TV. On this week's Fashion Television, Olivia Newton-John shows off her 'down-under' style. Meanwhile, Jeanne Beker chats with actress Carole Roquet about the latest face behind the famous fragrance, Chanel No. 5. Oscar Wilde Spendthrift Of Genius (See
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 432 12 AP OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATING champion Katarina Witt will become a travelling ambassador for East Germany and will make guest appearances with Western ice shows, communist party sources in Berlin said. Witt, who won her second Olympic gold medal in Calgary last
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    • 298 12 Reuter THE REFEREE of the ice dance competition which opens the world figure skating championships in Budapest today will try to end the controversy which plagued the event at the winter Olympics in Calgary last month. Roland Wehinger of Switzerland said on
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    • 295 13 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Wayne Gardner is raring to begin the defence of his first world motorcycling 500 cc title on Sunday on one of his favourite circuits, the Suzuka track in Japan. "I like the Suzuka circuit and I've had plenty of success at
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    • 211 13 AP FORMER World Boxing Association heavyweight champion "Big John" Tate says a March bout signals a comeback after his biggest fight ever with cocaine. The 33-year-old Tate, who held the WBA's heavyweight title for five months in 1979. faces Noel Guarless on March
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    • 527 13 UPI SECOND SEEDS Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert advanced to the quarter-finals of the US$2.l million Lipton International Players Championships on Monday, with the tennis overshadowed by Evert s official announcement that she is engaged to Andy Mill. Evert, of Florida, said she and former
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    • 635 13  -  By SHIRISH NADKARNI in Bombay "THE LONE and level sands stretch far away Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "Ozymandias" The Immortal words of the poet Shelley float across the mind's eye as one stares out into the distance. At points, nothing disturbs the monotony of the brownish-yellow
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    • 638 13 NYT OF ALL THE SAD moments in Tony Tubbs's woeful day, perhaps the saddest came when people started saying nice things about him in defeat. They noted the fine first round he fought before Mike Tyson knocked him senseless 2 minutes 54 seconds
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    • 260 12 Mandarin Singapore presents Y Neil Simon's BAREFTVT IN THE R\RK The smash comedy that took Broadway and West End by storm! Neil Simon at his best-" Washington Post. makes you want to take off your shoes and dance barefoot down the street-" New York Daily News. Venue: Mandarin Ballroom 23
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4646 14 THE STOCK MARKET dipped yesterday as investors took profits following the past few weeks' gains. Share prices fell marginally across the board in moderate trading, with Sin-gapore-based blue chips and quality stocks bearing the brunt of the selling. Brokers described them as
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    • 3786 14 BID and offer price* officially listed and bwli— 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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    • 107 14 GENERAL ScCURITIES INVESTMENTS Limited: 13th AGM in the Function Room of The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd. 45th Storey, DBS Building. 6 Shenton Way. Singapore 0106 on Monday. March 28, at 11am. GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL Limited: 40th AGM at the Tudor Ballroom, Goodwood Park Hotel. 22 Scotts Road,
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    • 306 14 Managers' prices for March 23 Jopon Gr Fund Shenton Thrift Fund 1 55 081 160 081 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 0 95 101 The Sovings Fund 081 087* S pore Prog Fund 0 36 042 S pore Sec Fund 0(4 069 S pore ln»est Fund 0 68
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 705 15 in mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW PAHANG INVESTMENTS' shareholders, while not losing all hope of getting some of their money back, should brace themselves for the worst. The counter, suspended from trading since Oct 14, 1985, was delisted by the Singapore and Malaysian exchanges early
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    • 175 15 Bernama ES C I HOLDINGS BHD (CIH) has reported a sharp 82 per cent fall in group operating pre-tax profit to M 5503,000 for the six months ended Dec 31, 1987, from $2.8 million in the previous corresponding period. Group turnover, however,
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    • 175 15 Bernama ESSO Production Malaysia Inc (EPMI) has about 50 per cent of Malysia's oil reserves. According to EPMI exploration manager Dennis Francis, Malaysian national oil corporation Petronas has also indicated that Esso has 45 per cent of the gas that represents Malaysia s
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    • 184 15 MBT SUPREME Corporation. announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its building, Wisma Supreme, for Msls million. In a statement yesterday, it said that the agreement was concluded by subsidiary Supreme Properties. The statement did not disclose the identity of the
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    • 697 15  -  By ROSIE TAN INTEREST in Nasdaq stocks seems well spread judging from the diverse nationalities of the market-makers who will be dealing in selected American over-the-counter stocks when the SES-Nasdaq link-up is finalised soon. The list of 26 market-makers for Nasdaq stocks
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    • 171 15 MARKET-MAKERS SECURITIES Addph Coors Apollo Computer Apple Computer Beecham* Comprehensive Care Daisy Systems Intel Corp Jaguar* Jemco Liz Claiborne Lotus Dev Corp MCI Comm Corp Mack Trucks Itir n_ Microsoft Corp Og*vy Group Rank Organisation* Reuters Holdings* Seagate Tech Tandon Corp Xidex Corp Yellow Freight
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    • 510 15  -  Final dividend of 2.5 cents recommended By CORRINA LIM RIDING ON THE CREST of the wave in the electronics sector, the Sesdaq-listed Singatronics outperformed its own forecast by posting an 81 per cent boost in pre-tax profit. For the year ended Dec 31,
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    • 338 15 DIRECTORS of Mulpha (Singapore) Ltd want to cut the issued share capital of the company, the first step in what is likely to be a major restructuring exercise to turn around the lossincurring trading concern. In a short announcement last night, Mulpha said
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    • 114 15 MBT NEW SERENDAH Rubber Co has posted a pre-tax profit of M 55.07 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1987, compared with $1.69 million last time. The good performance came on the back of a 37 per cent rise in turnover to $10.7 million.
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    • 259 15 MBT BENTA PLANTATIONS is acquiring two property development companies, Fop Corp (FOPC) and Komplek Mutiara (KMSB). for M 5575.000 and M 5522.000 respectively. Benta announced yesterday that it had entered into sales and purchase agreements to buy two million shares of Msl each in FOPC
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    • 373 15 MBT THE PUBLIC share offer by Sistem Televisyen Malaysia (STMB) has attracted a massive Mss6B 13 million worth of applications. giving an oversubscription rate of 63.3 times. This makes the STMB offer the fifth biggest ever in terms of funds attracted in
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 428 16 Bell Resources shareholders' meeting cancelled FT PERTH-BASED financier Robert Holmes a Court has abandoned a plan to restructure his stable Of companies, withdrawing a ■takeover bid by Bell Resources Ibr its parent Bell Group. <• The retreat on Monday £ame under pressure
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    • 3129 16 THE UPSWING in the Kuala Lumpur stock market was reversed yesterday and prices fell marginally across the board in quiet trading in line with the (rends on major overseas markets. Dealers said that apart from a handful of counters, most stocks were traded
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    • 1428 16 Hongkong SHARE PRICES on the Hongkong market ended marginally lower yesterday. spurred by light prof-it-taking on good corporate results, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index slid eight points to 2.594. while the broader-based Hong Kong Index shed 6.16 to 1.700.06 The morning market opened weak with share
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    • 133 16 MAN 22 WON Chad Sugar Daetim Ind Daewoo Corp Daewoo Heavy Daiahin Securities Dorxj Ah Phar ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** unch •1000 •1000 -500 1600 •100 Dong Sub Stock Dongtxj Steel Gold Star Hand Bank Hand Cement Hankuk Giaaa Hanyang Chemical Hyundai Conat ***** ***** ***** *****
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    • 512 16 Reuter SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo market closed lower yesterday in robust trade due to profit-taking caused by Wall Street's tumble overnight, a wavering dollar and a lack of fresh incentives, brokers said. "Stocks which have moved recently are weak, although some large capital issues such as shipbuilding and
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    • 452 16 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed weaker yesterday after investors took profits in all sectors following three days of strong gains. Brokers said the prof-it-taking was confined to industrial stocks earlier in the session but spread to the gold and resource sectors towards the close of trading. "The market
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    • 154 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index dropped 2.20 points to 398.11 yesterday on a turnover of 9,661,166 shares worth 897 million baht. Reuter MAN 23 BAHT Ao Kham Thai 190 Ayudhya invaatmant Bangkok Agro-lnd 157 Bangkok Bank Bank 0» Ayudhya Charoong Thai Wira 335 364 I CaWa Data
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    • 293 16 MAN 22 All Sincara Indus Asia Camant Cathay Cona Chang Hwa Bank Chang Loong Chia Mam Camant Chin Hain Flour China Cham China Oav China Etact Wira Chtna Gull Piaa China Rabar China Staai NT 3 30 75 00 87 SO 335 00 59 00 59 50 20 70
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    • 79 16 Reuter HOUSEHOLD durables manufacturer Email Ltd has announced in Sydney that it intends to offer A 52.35 a share for all the issued capital of hot water systems manufacturer, Rheem Australia Ltd The latter is a 61 per cent-owned listed unit -Of The Broken Hill Pty
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    • 326 16 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME We, Perfect Shipbuilder Pte Ltd of Blk 86. #04-301 Marine Parade Central, Singapore 1544 hereby give notice that in consequence or purchase of "BRUNEI 526" we have applied to the registrar of S'pore Ship under Section 386 of the merchant shipping act
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    • 147 16 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME We, Perfect Shipbuilder Pte Ltd of Blk 86, #04-301 Marine Parade Central, Singapore 1544 hereby give notice that in consequence or purchase of "BRUNEI 529" we have applied to the registrar of S'pore Ship under Section 386 of the merchant shipping act
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1062 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET on Monday lost almost halt of its gains from last week as investors began to worry that the low interest rates of the past five months may be in jeopardy, traders said. Erratic behaviour in the oil and bond markets
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    • 966 17 London Reuter SHARE PRICES on the London market opened narrowly mixed yesterday with an easier bias after *he 20-point fall on Wall Street on Monday and declines in fokyo. Dealers said the market was particularly quiet with trading activity at the Opening, posting a low 27.9
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    • 1153 17 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Tuesdoy 1.***** Monday 1.706 24 Week ago 1.689 23 All Industrials Tuesday 2.2817 Monday 2.3117 Week ogo 2.2001 NEW YORK Hang Seng Index T uesday 2.594 80 Monday 2.***** Week ogo 2.578 92 Dow Jones Monday 2.067 14 Friday 2 087 37 Week ogo 2.050
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    • 115 17 AFP A COURT in Edinburgh. Scotland, has fined British Petroleum £750,000 for two explosions at a BP refinery last year that left three people dead. The court ruled that two explosions in March 1987 at a refinery in Grangemouth. Scotland, were due to "major failures in
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    • 437 17 Sale of federal stake expected to net USs69om AFP THE TWICE-DELAYED privatisation ot Volkswagen Europe's biggest carmaker will begin tomorrow. West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg said in Bonn on Monday. The federal government will put up for sale its remaining 16-per-cent stake, which constitutes
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    • 255 17 FT DEALINGS in the shares of Telemecanique the French industrial automation company at the centre of a bitter stock market and legal battle between Schneider and Framatome will reopen today. The reopening is expected to give Schneider, the electrical and construction group headed by Didier
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    • 59 17 AFP THE HACHETTE GROUP. France's biggest publisher, has taken control of publishing firm Rombaldi, formerly owned by French mail-order company La Redoute. Hachette, which made a bid for US publisher Grolier last week, said that the takeover agreement was finalised last Friday. The takeover will strengthen Hachette's
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    • 223 17 AFP GENERAL ELECTRIC said in New York on Monday it would be making a significant increase in its bid for the home appliance firm. Roper Corp, in a countermanoeuvre to the Whirlpool Corp bid which has already been accepted by Roper. The new GE
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    • 142 17 Reuter GRIFFIN COMPANY has filed a lawsuit accusing New York developer Donald Trump of seeking to buy Resorts International for the undisclosed purpose of securing a US$55O-mil-lion mortgage bank loan guaranteed by the gaming company. Griffin also said in Los Angeles on Monday that Mr
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    • 149 17 Reuter ARTHUR YOUNG and Co. America's Big Eight public accounting firm which has released for the first time its annual revenue figures, said public disclosure of financial results by the private firms will continue. "It's here to stay.'' said William Gladstone. Arthur Young chairman. Recent
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    • 120 17 Scalpel... scissors...sutures.. Business Times Whether you're a surgeon, lawyer, contractor or engineer, you need to be kept well informed to maximise returns on your money. In the same way a surgeon needs his tools to operate, he needs Business Times to help him make sound investments. Fluctuations in shares, in
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  • 636 18  -  Solicitors appointed in attempt to win higher retrenchment benefits By WILLIAM CHIA BETHLEHEM SINGAPORE Shipyard currently being sued by 38 former non-bargainable employees over retrenchment benefits could face legal action by the union that represented its former unionised workers. The Shipbuilding and Marine
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  • 190 18 A SECONO injunction was taken out against Bethlehem Singapore Shipyard last Thursday by the law firm representing the group of 38 former employees. These workers were the first to initiate legal action against the shipyard over inadequate retrenchment benefits. Their action represents a test case on
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  • 167 18 AFP SOVIET Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Rogachev arrived in Manila yesterday for a five-day visit during which he is expected to discuss the issue of US military bases in the Philippines with President Corazon Aquino. "We hope that political dialogue between
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  • 280 18 AP COMMUNIST China s chief representative in Hongkong was quoted yesterday as praising modern capitalism as a "great creation of human civilisation". Xu Jiatun's comments appeared in the pro-Beijing newspaper Wen Wei Po, which ran the text of an interview he gave with a Chinese
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  • 44 18 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Lee returned yesterday after a week-long visit to India and Pakistan. Mr Lee held talks with his Indian counterpart. Mr Rajiv Gandhi, when he was in New Delhi. In Pakistan, he met President Zia-ul-Haq.
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  • 259 18 AFP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino yesterday called for abolition of regional military commands to shift more soldiers from desk jobs into the fight against communist rebels. During ceremonies marking the 91st anniversary of the armed forces of the Philippines, Mrs Aquino blamed the
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  • 308 18 Reuter CHINA is seeking foreign loans to help finance the production of more colour television sets to meet growing domestic demand, bankers said in Hongkong yesterday. They said the state-owned Bank of China was sounding out foreign banks for loans totalling
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  • 436 18 Reuter UPI CHINA has sold rights to develop land in the southern city ot Guangzhou in a further step to create a real estate market. The official New China News Agency said yesterday that the Guangdong Provincial Trust and House Property Development
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  • 263 18 Reuter PRESIDENT Suharto of Indonesia has strengthened his military and economic teams, promoting key generals into the Cabinet and giving a clear signal that economic reform will be speeded up. Indonesian political analysts and foreign businessmen in Jakarta said the new Cabinet announced by
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  • 256 18 Bernama MALAYSIA'S Deputy Home Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayob yesterday confirmed that the four newspapers whose publication permits were revoked last October have been issued new permits to resume operations. He said that applications for new permits were made by the newspapers
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  • 202 18 Reuter A SUB-COMMITTEE of the Japanese government s Tax System Council has drawn up a plan to reform the country's indirect tax system with new taxes levied at every new stage of business transactions, sub-committee chairman Kan Kato said in Tokyo yesterday. The sub-committee presented three
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  • 88 18 Reuter THE BANK of Japan will maintain its current monetary stance, because it expects inflation to remain in check despite signs of continuing strong economic expansion, central bank officials in Tokyo said yesterday They said the economy is putting on its best performance in years,
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  • LATE FILE
    • 41 18 AFP JAPANESE Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno and OECD sec-retary-general Jean-Claude Peye agreed in Tokyo yesterday to promote dialogue with Asia's newly-industrialised countries. Mr Paye said the NICs should further promote coordination of policies with developed countries. AFP
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    • 36 18 AFP A TOKYO court yesterday fined Toshiba Machine Co two million yen and gave two of its former executives suspended jail sentences for having illegally sold high technology to the Soviet Union. AFP
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    • 28 18 AFP KAWAI Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co has bought all assets and management rights of Lowry Industries Inc. said sources in Tokyo yesterday. AFP
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    • 34 18 Reuter PUBLIC fears over nuclear safety have forced Taiwan Power Company to postpone plans for the island's fourth nuclear power plant and it will start building coal-fired stations instead. Reuter
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    • 52 18 Reuter CHINESE labour experts yesterday called for a five-day working week. The Economic Daily in Beijing said experts from the State Science and Technology Commission called for a shift to a five-day week because only 40 to 60 per cent of office time is effectively used
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    • 36 18 Bernama FORMER Malaysian deputy youth and sports minister Wang Choon Wing yesterday pleaded guilty in the Kuala Lumpur sessions court to two charges of criminal breach of trust involving M 5211,000.
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    • 36 18 Reuter A NEWS conference by Opec president Rilwanu Lukman which was to have been held in Lagos yesterday has been postponed indefinitely, an official of Nigeria's state oil company said. Reuter
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    • 43 18 AFP CHINA Hua Yang Technology and Trade Corp yesterday signed an agreement with the Chungco Group that will see the Brunei-based firm help train Chinese technicians in engineering, animal husbandry and management, the New China News Agency said. AFP
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    • 44 18 AFP BONN yesterday agreed to introduce massive tax cuts from 1990 aimed at stimulating West Germany's economic growth and boosting imports. Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg said the measures will reduce direct taxation by a net amount of US$l2.2 billion. AFP
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 590 19  -  Two ships will provide fixed day Bangkok-Kaohsiung service By LINDA CHEE LEADING feeder operator Regional Container Lines is realigning its fivemonth old Bangkok/Kaohsiung weekly containerised service to include a call at Hongkong. The third port will fill up extra capacity and allow RCL to make full
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 129 19 Seatrade Week HOPEWELL Holdings, which came up with a revolutionary plan to develop Hongkong's airport and seaport last year, is involved with the possible development of a deepwater port in China s Shantou Special Economic Zone. As requested by the zone special authorities, Hopewell has
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      • 151 19 Reuter WATER levels along the river Rhine in part of West Germany have now gone down enough for the waterway to be reopened to shipping, officials said The North Rhine Westphalia Shipping Office in Muenster said that along most of the Rhine's length in the state,
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      • 132 19 PERU'S national shipping company is among the 40 of 234 state-owned companies being put up for sale by the government. The shipping firm, Compania Peruana de Vapores, is among the 10 largest companies which will leave state ownership in an attempt to reduce
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    • 89 20 THE UNITED STATES Maritime Administration has agreed to sell nine obsolete vessels for scrapping in Taiwan. Hsiung Iron Steel Co has agreed to pay U554,526,000 for six vessels Alfred Victory, Great Falls Victory, Hunter Victory, Mercer Victory, Nashua Victory and Swathmore Victory. CJW
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    • 515 20 Reuter IRANIAN RAIDERS killed two seamen and wounded up to 10 in a double attack on a Norwe-gian-owned gas carrier in the southern Gulf around dawn on Tuesday, regional shipping sources said. The sources said the attackers in gunboats raked the 38.534-tonne Singapore-flag Havglimt with
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    • 803 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI Ahrenkiel liner XI Africa Oceon XII Alltrons VM AC Toepfer XI American Tpt XII Anro Service IV Arrow lines IX Asian Oceon XI Alios line X ANl 1 A PC line V API HI ASCI III
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    • 259 20 FOUR TUGS with a combined output of 18,000 horsepower were involved in the rescue of the World Rainbow. The 50,000-dwt vessel ran aground near Pulau Tekong Kechil in Indonesian waters on March 2 night while negotiating the Philips Channel. The vessel which
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    • 758 21 FT BRITAIN'S shipowners have reacted sharply to calls by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects for urgent design changes to improve the safety of roll-on/roll-off vehicle ferries. The General Council of British Shipping, which represents most UK ferry
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    • 251 21 Reuter BRITAIN'S National Union of Seamen (NUS) has said it would ballot its 21,000 members on national strike action over pay and conditions. The latest move by the union s executive follows The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co s sacking of 2,300 NUS
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    • 138 21 CHARTER Pacific Publications will release the second edition of the Singapore Port Shipping Handbook in July. Apart from providing up-to-date information, Charter is also looking at ways to expand the coverage. Information provided in the first edition include berth facilities and navigation, the Singapore fleet, liner
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    • 194 21 AFP A PHILIPPINES shipping company has paid indemnity to the relatives of more than 400 people who died in the Dona Paz ferry disaster in December, the official Philippines News Agency said. Sulpicio Lines Inc, owner of Dona Paz ferry which sank
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    • 8418 26 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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    • 1178 27 RaTls for grain shipments from the US Gulf to Japan held firm on Monday„with market reports Japanese operators had covered two 52,000 long ton cargoes at US$2B, and up from a Baltic sub-in-dex at $27.50, brokers said.. Talk also suggested that-i higher $28 50 was alscx r under
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    • 1138 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmnI keppel wharves Apmon 1 As Corridor Huoqiong Qinghecheng Shuicheng Straits Hope Tg Perok The to Trident Arro Unison Trader Aconcagua Johneverett Koto Joyo S Ponjong Zhen|iong PASIR PANJANG Arc Odysseus Bmrang Betait B«o Ace Forthbonk Htoneywa Iromuar (Crso M lody Geroldine Megoh Brooke
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    • 2021 28 Ar —B AB Shipping Boustead Shpg Agencies. ABC Containerline NV S pore Shpg (S). Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S). Africa Ocean Lines Sealion Shpg (8). Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S). Alfred C Toepfer Oceanus Shipping Agencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK). AlJtrans Alltrans Express. American President
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    • 409 30 Lloyd's List SIORWEGIAN shipowner Jan-Erik #yvi is pulling out of the heavy-lift *n«rket because of losses incurred Jy four specialised vessels. The Panamanian-registered 'Vessels have been sold in an "en ;>loc" deal worth US$46 million to ;jhe Sea Tankers group in Cyprus controlled
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    • 317 30 CONGESTION at Bangkok Port is caused by increased ship calls rather than the inability of the mobile shore cranes to cope with container traffic, said the Port Authority of Thailand. In defence of Bangkok Cranage. PAT director general Pongsak Vongsamut
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    • 825 19 TIMES STP Distributors rmi PutMwif Croup WW Orient OviiQiAS Cmtcumi Line NORTH AMERICA ATLANTIC EXPRFSS (ROUND THE WORtD ROUTING' I *1 AttAOOR BRIOGE ORIENTAL FORTUNE NEPTUNE JAOC ORIENTAL FAIR RAINBOW MIOCC NEPTUNE GARNET ORIENTAL FREEDOM mh m 31/3 Z3M 7/4 30M 14/4 W 21/4 nn 2*4 14/5 AMBASSADOR tRIDCE ORIENTAL
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    • 114 19 Rite In ship calls blamed for congestion at Thai port, Page XII mm IRANIAN RAIDERS killed two seamen and wounded op to 10 in a double attack on a Norwegianowned gas carrier in the southern Gulf around dawn on Tuesday, regional shipping sources said. Page II BRITAIN'S shipowners have reacted
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    • 699 19 o.o° (k| TIMES STP Distributors si ngap o^' *< MAERSK LINE NEW DIRECT SERVICE TO OAKLAND TRANSIT TIME REDUCED RY 5 DAYS SIN/OAK 17 DAYS LPK/OAK 23 DAYS PEN/OAK 22 DAYS (Wef: Louis Maersk 8804 etd sin 30/3/88) Th« tree* Lausf M Closing Tmg CY 23/3 2300 MRS CFS 23/3
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    • 604 20 NOTICE ili I a4ii 4k in AR EAST/6ULF OF ADEN AND BED SEA PORTS CONFERENCE Notice to Shi 'J 'H CURRENCY ADJUSTMENT FACTOR As advised in the Conference's press announcement of 18th March, 1988 li. concurrent with the General Rate Increase, Line lof the Currency Factor formula (the currency weightings)
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    • 89 20 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry of Accredited If Shinninn Annntc e Shipping Agents. Singapore National Shipping Association. C SAV Corvponij Sud Americano dc I'jpcrcs S A Line k %r 'sr? SERVICE to/from CHILE S POREImOTHER VESSEL HK ARKA IQQ ANTOf VALP SAI W A VESSEL 14/4
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    • 439 20 CHA RGEURS RE UN IS DIRECT SEMI CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO WEST AFRICA SPORE LA-REUNION P NOIRE P GENTIL/LIBREVILLE DOUAL* COTONOU LOME ABIDJAN DAKAR EARNEST VENTURE V 25 1/4 27(4 CR ABIDJAN 1W »4 W SS M JS manadi g2£yg°; J OW CXWECT mLLM Of LAD—Q ACCtFTAIg UPON Hf OUCST SINGAPOOf
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    • 987 21 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping Re Ltd P&O Containers V N\ CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT: Also Accepting Cargo For: E trfm to Aatner*. (Me. Baa* Zandi IhMwton la ill UK dntinatnra. Belfast an* o«Min ONTAINERSHIP SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT: Call in* Mta. Nafova. Te*r« Callin Kate. Nafoya. Tokyo. gulf
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    • 664 21 SGS I INSPECTION Zt MARINE SURVEYS (IN 140 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE) SGS SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD 71, AYER RAJAH CRESCENT #07-18 AYER RAJAH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE SINGAPORE 0513 1_ TEL *****50 (MARINE DEPT7INDUSTRIAL DIVISION) TLX: SGS RS ***** FAX: (65) *****27 fid M 1-2 T* 1,,1> EUROPE b« ma I7ji as 63 am
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    • 434 22 US I NOSE MARITIME PTE LTD Sffifjl ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF Iflrj IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICE Singapore 30/3 Loading for:BANDAR ABBAS KYOWA LINE PNC/S. PACIFIC SERVICI Singapore Loading for: EAGLE V-2 26/3 JAYA, LAE, HRA, LTK, MALAU MICRONESIA SERVICE OCEANIA EXPRESS V-12 10/4 OCEANIA EXPRESS V-13 30/4 YOKO ASIAN LILY
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    • 784 22 JCSline in» smerrnt FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE ITMfmbfroMhf*CfConsoitiiini^ I v CONISINIRWD 10 (ROM NORTH AMIRICA MS! CItSSI "FOR/MOTHER VESSEL KCH 35E/KOREAN WONIS SEVEN KCH 35E HANJIN SEOUL BE ACD 13E,PACIFIC PROSPERITY 17E ACD 13E/HANJIN KUNSAN 30€ OCH Stt KOREAN WONIS JIN 74E OCH SIE/HANJIN KWANCYANC 44E NO 74E/KOREAN WONIS SUN S9E
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    • 322 22 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS zL/ PTE LTD NEW WEEKLY DIRECT SERVICE TO CHITTASOHS: SAILING 27/3 8/4 PAPUA NEW GUINEA PORT MORESBY, RABUAL, LAE KIETA, MADANG A KIMBE NOUMEA 30/4 SUVA/LAUTOKA 30/4 SIN ADELAIDE 26/3 SYDNEY FREMANTLE MELBOURNE AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, DUNEDIN A NAPIER $RI UNKA COLOMBO 2/4 FAR EAST PORT KELANG
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    • 1064 22 r EVERGREEN Contjiriff Si' Round-The-World East Bound (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/FE) MM ru I*s 1 *5 2*5 2*5 ~*s m m w up an 11* a/s n* wi 11/7 m ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO: 1) PROVIDENCE WHAM. SAVANNAH BOSTON PHILADELPHIA. NORFOLK JACKSONVILLE WILMINGTON BERMUOA. fTC 2) ATLANTA. CMCAfiO. OCT KMT COLUMBUS I OTHER
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    • 799 23 XxA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES A\*\ PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL KOTA EAGLE HOT A SINGA GOWA MAJAPAHIT JKT SBY VOT 17/4 19/4 10MB Std Std 26N8 29/3 31/3 22N8 26/4 28/4 ISNBA SIN PGD HKG 26/4 26/3 31/3 4/4 6/4
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    • 287 23 r a NORBUL NORBULK CARGO SERVICES LTD REGULAR CONVENTIONAL SPORE MARATHON UNITED AGENCY PTE LTD TEL *****66 Kt PK S P YEO SHPC TROC KL '83* M PK *****01 PENANG TANJONG MARINE SDN BHD TEL 6:8575 SABAH TRANSPAC KK TEL »488 ?21?« foL' i t BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S
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    • 685 23 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT Oiaka fii* K,tano Ma, u a 3 Lifs Bi| Hw»|*oti| Eiprm 4 4 To*ir« Bi, U,4 Rhine M»r u 17/4 To*io Ciprtsi 214 Mjmtajrj Eiprets 2*4 Kowioon B«v 41 Beruvon U/S Osaka Bi, 17,5 EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT tUwioon Bi. 26.3
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    • 654 23 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. DJAKARTA LLOYD P.T. 6ESUII LLOYB PXJAMU DEM INDONESIA P.T. TRIKORA ILOYI EXPRESS SEMI CUNTAINERSHIP SERVICES SINGAPORE TO EUROPE S PANJANGIBWB KUTAI/14WB L.J BONTANG/14WB BILBAO ANTWERP H'BURG/ ROAM/ADAM BREMEN Sut>t«ct to lnduc«m«nt Also accepting cargo to Casablanca. Po< Said, Port Alexandria, Genoa. Trtasta. ALSO
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    • 379 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES 1* BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORfITinw (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon MTHMrvMi unim P Kelang Pena "K Bangkok HTONEYWA V233W 22/24 Mar 1&.20 Mar MERCUI VB3W 30 Mar/5 Apr PAGAN VI26W 2/4 Apr BANK LINE CCDuirr SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICES NORTHBOUND TO UKC FORTHBANK V2IN IVYBANK V2IN TAUSALA
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 1295 24 SHIPPinG-DfiTfi flTLfinTkC COAST (Round-The-World Service) 'PK/PNG AMBASSADOR BRIDGE Vl6 Sailed 24 Mar 16 Apr H ORIENTAL FORTUNE V 8 26 Mar 31 Mar 23 Apr NEPTUNE JADE Vl2 3 Apr 7 Apr 30 Apr It •VIA FEEDER PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST FEEDER VSL 'PK/PNG SP MOTHER VSL AMBASSADOR BRIDGE Vl6 Sailed 24
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    • 718 24 INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Container* Singapore P Kelang Penang Loading lor: Mother Vsl By Feeder Bj Feeder SO TRIPURA V 34H 1 Apr Mar 25 Mar Kandla Bombay RAVIDAS V 39H 6 Apr 29 Mar Mar Kandla Bombay INDIAN COURIER V 29N 12 Apr 5 Apr 5 Apr
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    • 693 24 golden line l|Q.Q)> GUAN GUAN SWUNG (PTE) LTD T 4 SINGAPORE 0104 TEL U4JMI <M LINES) FM BUS* STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Soor* PKttonc Pewg GOLDEN WONDER Cotombo K»r*di< Oubli VI Apr GOLDEN LAND Colombo,' Karachi Dubai Battnin 16/18 Apr CHINA SERVICE A VESSEL Shanghai Hsinkang 26/27 Mar MINFU Huangpu Shanghai
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    • 529 24 EAST/FAR EAST P S rrr PHILI Oni€NT UN€S PT€ LTD HEAD Off Cf 63 R0»l«.$0* ROAO «07 1? AfRO AS:# BUItDING SINGAPORE 01C6 HIE* RS ***** PHIII FAX 725M>76 333 -itiir I afl nrr M HONG KOK. KEEIUNG. MMAA. BANGKOK. TOKYO. COLOMBO. KARACHI. BOMBAY MZZZZ. SERVICE UK EUROPE SERVICE n*.
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    • 724 25 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINESLTD BSEES JBaHru NEPIINE SON. BHD. a FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE a ACf m riiDnoriiii/ /mi rnr-»v., m iiiwmovr 01 mo Atfc Consortium NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. ft EU/AUST TPA/SE/ T(annul CFS BOOKINGS 27IS7SJ ******2 *****22 *****53 77*111 27*114 77*111 77*141 NEPIINE SON. BHD. mm INWARDAKITOARD NEPIINE
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    • 528 25 HEUNG-fl SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P. KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON STRAITS/KOREA SERVICE Vmml i Nam No i Donam/H?N ~Gloria/KBN M Enter prise/JOSN No 1 Donam/M3N No 7 Donam/MMN ITD BS BKK um vm um 7iioi HIM nm 03/04 02/04 14/04 S PORE PKELANC BUSAN MO JI
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    • 852 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** PtNANG P. KELANG MESSRS HAI THONG SHIPPING 127 Penanf Street, Penary Malaysia M S HANDLING SYSTEM CO
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    • 404 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TIL 225 6868 <30 Lines* FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD Vtß DEUTF R ACHT/SE EREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE •VIA COLOMBO Accepting cargo for INDIA Bombay, Cochin, Madras Calcutta •*VIA LARNACA Accepting cargo tor Lattakia.
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 170 26 ft Regional Weather 1 2* A <4 cS k v~ ]L M V Id ii I s. SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. C yA cT w Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperature o c Tt Shower Weather —Y Wind
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 1186 27 5|" WAREHOUSING TRANSPORTATION Weekly consol at our CFS to J* East Bangkok, Hongkong, Keeking, Kaoshiung, Manila 'Auitrafe Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle ..USA: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Oakland WAREHOUSING A TRANSPORTATION PTE LTD 44 Benoi Road Singapore 2262 Tel: *****60, *****24 Tlx: RS ***** Fax: *****97 <CF5 > CRYSTAL
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    • 259 27 UNIPACIFIC TRANSTRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. c n a n -=3 mjjjj j. —Jf m —tyjj J l Algerian National Line FAR EAST I MEDITERRANEAN SERVICE S PORE LOADING FOR MV AIN OUSSERA 27/3 alger, oran, ANNABA. TUNIS ALL VESSELS ACCEPTING FCL CONTAINERS FOR JAPANESE PORTS Heavy Lift 100 tons available
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    • 666 28 FINE-LINER SHIPPING PTE LTD I I 70 Shenton Wiy 04 O.'C Mirini Mouse Spore 0707 UL *****77 (8 l.nes) TLX RS ??W1 FLINIR FAX ??5?856 EUROPE SERVICE nn-MnJim/.-'IH-UR:."' fUi ,j Ullff TB* I W 127/4 |rt« I 1/5 I H I u Im I liw |ivs |i« iw G3ZE FAR
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    • 454 28 ZIM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE acccpdnf FCI/ICI urfoet to USA East West CojK Cjrribbean East Canada HAITI Coiti Rica. El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Veneiuela Peru. Ecuador. Colombia via Miami Trinidad. Barbados Antigua St Lucia. Montsorrat Cuayana via Kingston |jUiuZSEIinUMIIMZSM T VM IM CAIIFORNI IM PUSAN IM PUSAN W PUSAN IM LIVORNO
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    • 599 28 Everett Lines i COMPANIA PERUANA OE VAPORES "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" I K 15£ D,NC FOR CALLA "ATARANI, ILO* AND ALL OTHER PORTS* WITH TRAN.cmipmfmt at vnsr ni CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION. Penanj* P Kel any* Sirtppore MANOLOEVERETT Apr MANOLOEVERETT JOHNEVERETT MURRAYEVERETT 20/21 Apr 112 May EVERETT
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 76 29 JEBSIN SHIPPING PTE LTD^ TEL: *****33 TLX: RS ***** FAX: *****76 J WEEKLY CONSOL TO: U. S. A. (WEST COAST, EAST COAST, IPI POINTS) OWN DECONSOLIDATION CENTRES IN LOS ANGELES SEATTLE FCL ALSO ACCEPTED REGULAR CHINA SERVICE ETA ETD M.V. "ALBA" 24 Mar 28 Mar LOADING FOR ZHENGJIANG (DWT 8400-BLT
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    • 38 29 im CALCUTTA COLOMBO MADRAS BOMBAY accepting FCL/LCL 25/3/88 NOSTRA SHIPPING PTE LTD TLX: ***** FAX: *****12 TEL: *****12 (5 Lines) 'hlillim'l'i-i BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE TO CHITTAGONG. INDIA TAIWAN MINXING A VESSEL CHINA SERVICE IP 78/03 HUANGPU 10-15/04 HUANGPU
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    • 573 29 LCL/FCL SERVICE NOUMEA 4/ SINGAPORE 8/4/88 A VESSEL INGAPORE 25/3/88 Also accepting cargo to KEELUNG, I HONG KONG, P. KELANG, BUSAN A JAPAN E. MALAYSIA ft BRUNEI PORTS *****5ZH DC* ■rH WLM I r.wiiiyj TEL: *****11 FAX: *****47 TELEX: RS ***** SKHST UU'KJi LUCKY SEAWAY SERVICES PTE LTD Tlx: *****
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    • 549 29 GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP RECULAB LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* SP GLORY SCIATAN VIM Sid GLORY SELATAN IX V ft SM PKL PN BLW KAOH 6 VESSELS OF LOG CARRIERS 5 VESSELS OF BRAND NEW TWIN DECKERS ON REGULAR LINER SERVICE FROM
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    • 428 29 PTC CONTAINER LINES FCI/LCI SERVICE PIC QKXIP C/CJ CARGO IN CONTAINER CO LTD FULLY CONTAINERISED/RO-RO VESSEL SIM ugyggM 29/3 HAIRATAN/KABUL/TOURGHUNDI a k WORLD FREIGHT SERVICES LTD I International NVOCC Container Liner Weekly Service To and From U.K. (Accepting cargoes for all inland destinations in U.K. General Agents POH TIONG CHOON
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    • 276 30 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd If I .vnvnx, |.>n lines. Tt X RS ?20b1 ,S, RS IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE VIA MAURITIUS REUNION C* DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK SPORE PK PI REU DBN CT < MM. V7T 15/4 22/4 S/4 7/5 1/5 13/5 23'5 •M» calls t.L P.E. GENERAL
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    • 423 30 CGI FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA-EAST COAST/GULF/CANADA/WEX AND FRENCH WEST INOIES ICO For Gulf: Miami. Mobile. New Orleans, Houston/Mexico Vera Cruz, Mexico City Sftrzs H,h !.^.S2? u r, i I ls ronto Ntw Vort Portsmouth. Fr,nct Po rtr A. Pitr*. Dofrad v^rD COLUMBUS LINE REEDEREI
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    • 281 30 WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK MMNHUU MPMK (SI PIE LIS Tel: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: RS ***** SHIPPING PTE LTD 2^s^^£Si TEU *****35 1 TLX: RS ***** FAX *****14 TIMBER/BREAKBULK SERVICE RANGOON S PORE BKK HKG KEE LATANGAN In Port 1/4 4/4 KEN WOOD Sailed »n Port
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    • 759 30 DSHk CALL US ATfr" P. KELANG r PENANG 1 J. BAHRU p GUDANG mmm Singapore K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 •04-*****2/4, *****3 '07-*****8 •07-*****3. *****5, *****0, *****1 •02-*****22 *****88 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE OTHER DESTINATIONS AARMUS AMSTERDAM. ANTWERP. BASLE BREMEN BREMERHAVEN COPENHAGEN HELSINKI. MALMO OSLO. STOCKHOLM, UK FROM EUROPE
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