The Business Times, 14 June 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 259 1 AFP Dow Jones lower THE US stock market opened lower yesterday as traders moved to cash in on the previous week's gains. The Dow Jones Average was off 10.67 points at 2,091.04 at 1430 GMT in the first hour of trading. Analysts attributed the decline to profit-taking
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  • 185 1 REGIONAL MARKETS yesterday were generally quiet due to the holiday closure of the Hongkong and Australian stock markets and anticipation of the release of the US April trade deficit figures today. In Singapore, share prices finished lower on thinner volume after two weeks of
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  • 152 1 THE New Zealand dollar hit a post-float high of US$O.7OBO in Wellington yesterday before easing slightly to close at U550.7070. Dealers expect the Kiwi currency to remain firm in the short term. When it was floated in 1985, one New Zealand dollar was worth U550.4444.
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  • 419 1  -  By AMY BALAN TWENTY MONTHS have passed since the Bruneian government closed down the ill-fated National Bank of Brunei but some of the companies of fugitive tycoon Khoo Teck Puat are still "receiving" interest from the defunct bank. That's what the annual reports
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  • 455 1  -  ICS unit expected to offer 20m shares on main board By CORRINA LIM THE INSURANCE Corporation of Singapore intends to float its reinsurance subsidiary on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore very soon. A source close to the company said: "The flotation
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  • 567 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN TEMASEK HOLDINGS, the investment arm of the government, appears to have taken the first steps towards making another public offer of a small portion of its remaining 55.89 per cent stake in Singapore Airlines. B T understands
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  • 100 1 AFP FOREIGN MINISTERS of the European Community yesterday approved the EC's statement of mutual recognition with Comecon, the Warsaw Pact's "common market", it was announced in Luxembourg. The approval helped the statement, initialled in Moscow last Thursday after 15 years' negotiation. It must now be submitted to
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  • 393 1 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government yesterday announced the appointment of a six-member tribunal to determine the position of Lord President Tun Mohamed Salleh Abas who has been suspended. The tribunal will be chaired by the Chief Justice of Malaya Tan Sri
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  • 100 1 Bernama THREE Malaysian states PerIts, Malacca and Panang will continue to have water problems until the year 2000 owing to uneven distribution of rain, a Malaysian government official said yesterday. Agriculture Ministry secre-tary-general Ahmad Badri Mohamad Basir said according to the national water source
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    • 361 1 Surprising Singapore SINGAPOREANS who think they know Singapore better than anyone else should still take a look at a recently published architectural guidebook the fruit of painstaking labour of two men who used to work here. Their mission, prompted by a common interest in the architectural heritage of Singapore, took
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 624 2  -  Strong export growth helped Singapore chalk up an impressive 10.9 pc economic growth rate in the first quarter of the year. One particularly encouraging sign was the rise in domestic exports to Japan. BOEY KIT YIN takes a closer look at Singapore's first
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    • 506 2 PRICES OF locally-made shirts, dresses and trousers rose in the first quarter of the year compared with laat year. This helped push up the value of domeatic exports of wearing apparel by 33 per cent. Induatry circles
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    • 476 2 ALMOST three-quarters of Singapore's total exports are shipped to only eight countries. The US alone accounts for nearly a quarter of total exports. Demand for Singapore products from these countries the US. Japan, Malaysia, the European Community (EC), Thailand, Hongkong, Taiwan and China
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    • 407 3  -  By CLAIRE LEOW THE SUN is steadily making its way into Singaporean homes and buildings. Increasingly, owners of private and public buildings are harneesing solar energy in the search for savings on their utilities bill. The second passenger terminal at Changi Airport,
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    • 117 3 THE NANYANG Technological Institute's School of Accountancy will hold a public lecture next week on Changes in Auditing Education Past. Present and the Future. The lecture will be delivered by Professor AlvinAArens. the 1988 American Accounting Association Distinguished International Visiting Lecturer. Prof Arens obtained his
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    • 81 3 SEVEN ITALIAN companies out to promote Italian products as well as source products from Singapore will be here for a two-day visit from June 27. The seven firms are members of Consorzio Invexport, a consortium of companies in Venice. Among the seven companies' products
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    • 470 3  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ IN A MOVE to diversify their export markets for telecommunications products, two South Korean conglomerates are keen to build up their presence in Singapore and the region. The two Samsung Semiconductor A Telecommunications (SAT) and Goldstar Computer Communications Sector (CCS) will
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    • 169 3 BT's June 11/12 edition reported that Parkway Holdings Ltd directors Tan Chin Nam, Tan Kim Yeow and Tony Tan Choon Keat have deemed interests in the sale of 1.5 million shares in Carlisle Investments. They actually have deemed interests in the sale of 1.5 million shares in
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    • 157 3 STEPHEN WARD has been elected president of Cargiil South-east Asia. Mr Ward was previously vice-president and before that, he was with the company'a headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, aa head of the international trading department of the Oilseed Processing Group. The company has also named Richard Stauffer and
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 436 4 Reuter CHINA, nervous of a run on banks by panicky consumers, said yesterday that inflation and price rises were here to stay but promised to protect living standards. Lo Jingfen, a member of the State Planning Commission, China's top planning body, wrote
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    • 222 4 A CHINESE delegation led by Vice-Foreign Minister Tian Zengpei left yesterday to attend the 12th round of Sino-Soviet talks on normalising their longstrained political relations. "We hope that progress can be made on the Kampuchean (Cambodian) issue, the biggest obstacle" to normalisation, Mr Tian
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    • 163 4 AFP AN INDONESIAN parliamentary leader has rejected charges by the Australian Labour Party that there is political repression in his country, the Indonesian news agency Antara said yesterday. "What happened in Indonesia a few years ago was a streamlining of political parties based on deliberation
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    • 339 4 AP BECAUSE of the won's appreciation, South Korea's trade surplus with the US is expected to drop to US$B.6 billion this year from US$9.6 billion in 1987, the Korea Foreign Trade Association said yesterday. The Korean currency, under American pressure, has so
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    • 1004 4 ARRIVALS Operator Sorvfc. Local From number tin* JAl JL617 0340 TYO CAl 0333 0405 TPE su SQ491 0525 •WN MAS MH603 0620 Km AC AC584 0725 YYZ/YH2/ MAS •RU/DXB MH640 0820 Km SV SV398 0835 JED/RUH StA SQ4I7 0845 DXB/KHI MAS MH651 0910 PEN MAS MH630 0920
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    • 422 6 AFP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino left Manila yesterday for her first official European visit despite fresh outbreaks of political violence in the capital and at a nearby US military base. "I leave for abroad without wild speculations about the stability of the
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    • 354 6 AP PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT Cory Aquino addresses the prestigious International Labour Organisation today, but labour and management are mixed in their assessment of her government's record on worker rights. The speech in Geneva will be a highlight of Mrs Aquino's first visit to
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    • 121 6 Reuter TWO of the three major parties in Philippine President Corazon Aquino's coalition said yesterday they had merged to throw greater weight behind her legislative programme. The Lakas Ng Bansa and PDP-Laban groups formed the New Laban Ng Demokatikong Pilipino (Fight
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    • 199 6 AFP BANGKOK Governor Chamlong Srimuang's party won a city assembly by-election in Bangkok last week. The by-election was seen as a test of strength for the two leading parties ahead of a July general election. Radio Thailand announced. The state-owned radio said Mr Chamlong's
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    • 231 6 AFP Jl PENGFEI, China's director of the Hongkong and Macau Affairs Office, said during a visit to Macau that a consultative council responsible for the drafting of Macau's Basic Law will be set up. Mr Ji, the highest ranking
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    • 334 6 Reutef THE NUMBER of corporate bankruptcies in Japan fell by 20 1 per cent in May from a year earlier the 41st straight month of declines The Tokyo Commerce and Industry Research Co said yesterday that bankruptcies dropped 7.4 per cent from April. Business failures
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  • FOCUS
    • 1314 7  -  China's economy will face a dose of realism in the coming years. Its gross domestic product growth is expected to slow down in 1988-89 from a high of 9 per cent to 7 per cent. HARISH MEHTA of the Foreign Desk analyses
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    • 553 7 A REMARKABLE aspect of the Chinese economy is that despite heavy deflationary pressure, industry will grow by a solid 8 to 9 per cent in 1988-89. This, however, is lower than last year's double-digit growth because of tight fiscal and monetary policies and the
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    • 739 7 CHINESE FARMS may look the perfect picture of serenity, but an intense struggle for survival and profitability is going on in this vital sector of the economy. China s farms, accounting for over 40 per cent of its national output and feeding
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 495 8 A minority government is another possibility for Mitterrand AP PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand's Socialists have emerged from legislative elections with the biggest bloc of votes, but are looking to the Communists or the centrists for a coalition partner to form a National Assembly majority.
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    • 535 8 Reuter FRENCH money markets, which only last week looked set for further gains, now face a double threat from Sunday's inconclusive general election and a stock market scandal that threatens to embroil bourse authorities. Results late on Sunday showed that President Francois Mitterrand's
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    • 225 8 AP FOREIGN MINISTER HansDietrich Genscher welcomes new Soviet moves towards forging a conventional arms treaty with the West, but only as a starting point for future negotiations, his spokesman said in Bonn on Sunday. "This will have to be looked at very closely, but it
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    • 414 9 AP A SUBSTANTIAL majority of Americans say they would not vote for Ronald Reagan, winner of two landslide presidential elections, if he could seek a third term, a Media General-Associat-ed Press poll has found. Most Republicans in the national poll supported Mr
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    • 389 9 Reuter US DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Michael Dukakis has settled his policy difference with black leader Jesse Jackson on South Africa, but the two remain at odds over taxes, defence and other thorny issues. Platform-writing aides of the Massachusetts governor yielded to Mr Jackson's
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    • 164 9 Reuter YUGOSLAVIA has reached agreement with its Western creditors to reschedule US$946 million of debt, according to the Belgrade newspaper Politika on Sunday. The agreement, expected to be signed shortly, provided for a 10-year rescheduling of a part of principal and interest, with a six-year grace
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    • 265 9 UPI ALEXANDER DUBCEK, the ousted Czechoslovakian leader whose reformist "Prague Spring" Movement of 1968 was crushed by Soviet tanks, urged Western nations in an interview to support the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. "I support Gorbachev's policies unconditionally," Mr Dubcek told Life magazine in an interview in
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    • 181 9 AFP NOBORU TAKESHITA attends his first Western summit as Japan's premier in Toronto next week with the task of living up to the image of his predecessor Yasuhiro Nakasone. but Japan s brilliant economic performance should make things easier for him, analysts in Tokyo
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    • 397 9 Reuter TWO YEARS after they first called for an overhaul of their farm economies, the world's seven largest industrial powers appear ready to sidestep the thorniest issues facing global agriculture. The heads of state of the Group of Seven nations, meeting in Toronto
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    • 184 9 Reuter THE "Group of Seven" nations should align growth rates, reduce exchange volatility and open trade to avoid global recession, a US news magazine on Sunday quoted international economists as saying. The leaders of the US, Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Canada and Weat Germany,
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 213 10 Reuter KUWAITI Oil Minister Sheikh All al-Khalifa al-Sa-bah is to hold talks in London with officials of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) about Kuwait's stake in British Petroleum Co PLC, delegate sources at the OPEC talks in Vienna said. The
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    • 151 10 AFP CALTEX Pacific Indonesia has made its second onshore oil strike this year with a discovery at the Mangga No 1 exploratory well in the Sumatran province of Riau, the state oil company Pertamina said yesterday. The well is located some 45 kilometres (28 miles)
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    • 180 10 Chin*M Produc* Exchange Sollor*' noon doting pr lc*s on Am 13 (S$/100 kg) Coconut oil tuft F06 115.00 Old drum FOt 125.00 Now drum FOt 129.00 Copra Mtaod (Ioom) 66 Pepper FOt NLW 1117 JO JOlUWOK W HI# FOe faq NLW 1102 JO Sarawak facial Mack FOB NLW
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    • 78 10 AFP INDIA'S exports of chemicals and related products reached a record US$79O million in the first 11 months of fiscal 1987-88, official figures released yesterday in New Delhi showed. Exports of chemicals from April through Febru- ary were up US$23B million over the same period last year and
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    • 305 10 HONGKONG: Gold market was closed yesterday for Queen's Birthday TOKYO: Yen-denominated gold futures closed lower yesterday on stop-loss long liquidation by private investors, dealers said. Prices ended 16 to 22 yen per gram weaker. Sharp drops in the Chicago soybean market, which has been a main indicator of
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    • 100 10 THE BEST Opec seems (FOB origin) US$/berrel Chang* able to achieve is a US»/borr»l Oang, r«niM 20 30 -0.3J roll-over of the old agreeTop*. Uwtl 17.00 me* GOMI 19S9 -0.20 ment. In reaction, the marfMnm (June) 17.00 imdi DnWMrl 13 95 -0J3 law Suipfc Wo« y hi
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    • 267 10 Malaysian cruda palm oN futures closed slightly easier in moderstely sctive trading on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange yesterday. The market opened tower in line with the easier soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade. Values turned eaaier in the afternoon as sellers dominated the floor on
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    • 423 10 Reuter SMGAPORE The rubber market closed slightly easier yesterday with July 1 RSS buyers price quoted at 287.00 cents/kilo, down one cent from last Friday's close, dealers said. They said after a steady opening at around Friday's levels, prices fell slightly in quiet morning trading following lower Japanese advices.
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    • 217 10 Reuter The Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) priee eased yesterday four cents from laat Friday's cloae to M 518.12 a kg In tekty active trading, dealera said. The tad waa aOTbutod lo a continuing high supply of metal annaiudatail over tie weekend. Turnover was 142 tonnes at the
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    • 79 10 t 1 JUIY 1988 AUGUST 1988 (currant month) (iffwc trd iwOJ RAS NO ON N OON Sdm Srfan SSI 30 253.00 260.00N 255.00 260JOON SS> 50 253.00 254.00N 25X00 2M.00N MRELB feyc Sriten Mm SMC CV 595.00 597.00N 597.00 599 OON SMt I 604.00 606.00N 606.00 60*-00N
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    • 246 10 RAS prices m c**** NOON Ml* Mm CLOSE y* i kss ta» 1 RSS My 88 Int 1 RSS August tat 2 RSS Of tat 3 RSS Of tat 4 RSS Of tat 5 RSS Of Oedng ton* QM RAS forward 284-50 1 284.50 299 JO *****
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    • 284 11 Reuter IVORY COAST'S cocoa sales embargo could hurt the country, the world's biggest cocoa producer, for years to come by eroding its share of the world market, chocolate industry sources say. "The cocoa will have to be spld at some stage, and the
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    • 196 11 Bernama MALAYSIA is expected to become the world's second largest producer of cocoa within the next five or six years. Mardi directorgeneral Datuk Dr Mohamad Yusof Hashim said last Saturday. > He said that if all current programmes to develop the industry were carried out
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    • 132 11 Bernama THE FURNITURE, moulding and joinery industries will be the main thrust of the M4laysian government's efforts to develop woodbaaed industries in Malaysia, a Malaysian Timber Industry Board official said yesterday. The board's director of planning and development Miaa Roszehan Mohamed idrua said
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    • 642 11 NYT PRICES at the producer level rose in May for the third straight month, offering another sign that inflation this year is expected to reach its highest level since 1961. The producer price index for finished goods climbed five-tenths of one per cent
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    • 114 11 Reuter VENEZUELAN Oil Minister Arturo Hernandez Grisanti said Opec talks may end today with an agreement on an oil production ceiling. Iraq's Issam Abdul Rahim alChalabi also said he hoped the talks would end today. "Some ministers have commitments to leave Vienna Wednesday or 50...
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    • 452 11 Ministers may agree to disagree Reuter OPEC MINISTERS look set to extend to the end of this year their pact limiting oil output, despite seemingly irreconcilable differences on how to boost prices, delegates say. The 13-nation Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries headed into
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 448 12 THE LEFT-WING STUDENT demonstrations in South Korea last Friday were deliberately calculated to test the resilience of President Roh Tae Woo's government. Those behind the demonstrations felt that pushing the complex and emotive issue of reunification, exactly one year after demonstrations forced former president Chun
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    • 1019 12  -  Two men, drawn by a common interest in the architectural styles of Singapore, have published an informative guidebook on the numerous known and less familiar buildings and park spaces here. TONG SUIT CHEE talked to the two authors. TONG SUIT CHEE A FIVE-YEAR SEARCH into Singapore's
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 384 13 Our weekly summary of what other publications have to say about issues of regional interest CHINA "THE POLITICAL WILL of China held firm yesterday as the Politburo ended its special aession to discuss inflation with a pledge to proceed with reforms. Any decision to return to firmer
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      • 358 13 HONGKONG "THE LABOUR SHORTAGE in Hongkong has now affected the retail industry. The territory's largeet grocery chains say they, like many other industries, are seriously understaffed. But there is no immediate answer in any society to labour shortages of the type that Hongkong is now experiencing. Grand schemes
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      • 350 13 THE PHILIPPINES "THE NATIONAL BUDGET debate has opened with the disclosure that the defence department has requested a 51.12 per cent increase of its budget to 27.84 billion pesos tor FY1989, up from this year's 18.09 billion pesos. The hefty increase exceeds the limit set by the
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      • 300 13 INDONESIA "FINANCE MINISTER JB Sumarlin, while appreciating Japan's new aid commitments of US$2.3 billion to Indonesia for 1968/89, nonetheless asked Japan to help reduce the country's debt service burdens using one of three financing alternatives. "Sumarlin suggested at an Indonesia-Ja-pan conference early this week that: Japan
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    • 821 13  -  Regional bilateralism has surfaced to challenge the global move towards freer trade. CLYDE FARNSWORTH reports. CLYDE FARNSWORTH NYT A NORTH AMERICAN trading bloc of 250 million people may soon face off against a Western European trading bloc of 320 million people. In Tokyo, Sydney and other
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 451 14  -  MIME SINGAPORE FESTIVAL OF ARTS /C 1088 Jfc By CLAIRE LEOW MARCEL MARCEAU is known for his eloquent silence, the ability to communicate without words. But when he met the press yesterday, he just talked and talked and talked. "I love words. The French love to
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    • 427 14 UPI THE LOS ANGELES Lakers finally took their rousing show time act to the road on Sunday. Led by James Worthy, who scored scored 12 of his 24 points in the first six minutes of the decisive third period,
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    • 272 15 AP BRAZIL'S Ayrton Senna overcame a bad start on Sunday and blazed his turbo-powered McLaren Honda to a victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. Senna's McLaren teammate, Alain Prost of France, finished second, but crossed the finish line 5.934 seconds behind Senna. Thierry Boutsen,
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    • 447 15 UPI WEST GERMAN Boris Becker sounded a Wimbledon warning on Sunday, outgunning top seed Swede Stefan Edberg 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 to win the U*****,000 Stella Artois grasscourt tennis tournament for the third time in four years. The strawberry-blond 20-year-old destroyed the world No 3 with
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    • 371 15 UPI SEVE BALLESTEROS of Spain sank a 5-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole and won a four-way suddendeath playoff on Sunday in the Westchester Classic golf tournament in New York. Ballesteros, who lost this title in a playoff on the same hole a year
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    • 197 15 UPI THE US OPEN is returning to one of the most hallowed locales in American sport to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the event that helped make golf a world game. With the sport now in the midst of another wave of internationalism, the world's
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    • 160 15 AP ZAIRE-BORN Sambu Kalambay retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title on Sunday with an unanimous decision over challenger Robbie Sims of the US. Shortly after the 12round title fight ended, the former middleweight champion and older brother of Sims, Marvelous Marvin Hagler. announced his
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1058 16 SINGAPORE: THE US dollar closed slightly higher against major currencies while sterling rose on position adjustment after an uneventful day as operators were awaiting release of today's US April trade data at 1230 GMT, dealers said. The dollar rose to 125.10/20 yen from 125.05/15 in New York on
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    • 184 16 Indicates Km average of ttw prim* landing rata* o4 12 ma|or banks In S'pora Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on June 13 us$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 days 7 7/16 3/14 7 7/• 3/8 3 9/16 7/16 2 7/8 3/8 4 1/16 3 13/16 1 m* 7 5/8
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    • 56 16 OVERNIGHT money dropped >4 point to close at 3)4 per cent yesterday. One-.two- and three-month rate rose by 1/16. S$ interbank rates at 12 noon y ester day: OW» MO Ownight 3 1/4 3 1 iii<i 4 3 7/9 7-month 4 1/16 3 15/14 3 munUi 4 1/1*
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    • 81 16 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFF€R HKJH low 3 month* BQ*****Z 08.09.88 3.92 3.87 3.80 3.80 6 month* BY*****T 24.11.88 3.89 3.84 1 year BY*****Z 23.3.89 3.86 3.81 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code rate BID
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    • 295 16 Asian dollar deposit rates closed unchanged from opening yesterday with many players remaining on the sidelines. Trading was thin and inactive as operators anxiously awaited the US April trade figures due tomorrow. Overnight and weekfixed rates were unchanged from the morning s levels at 7-7/16 7-5/16 pet
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    • 73 16 Post Office Savings Bank will be holding its 1988 June lucky account draw at the POSB Centre, Bras Basah Road, this Saturday at 3pm. Every savings and current account holder who has a minimum of $1,000 in his account for the period from March 5 to
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    • 489 16 EURODOLLAR futures opened slightly higher yesterday than Friday's dosing level following the drop in CRB index and commodities' prices. The September contract opened at 92.02 and traded to the high of 82.06 in quiet trading with traders awaiting the release of US merchandise trade figure for further direction. The
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    • 303 16 Reuter IMM currency futures were mostly lower last Friday but off the lows of the session in quiet early trade. The 0.5 per cent rise in the May US producer price index had little impact on currencies as it was in line with expectations, traders said. Declines in most
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    • 1481 16 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS DEVI Monday, Junt 13, nrmuM 1988 M 88 uh M* lO» M ArtOOpali M*» Lm •ao 54 59 60 34A I3A 34 178 508 1338 21 63 137 M*» Lot* 0a0 AN«P* W* Lmi M 57 59 59A 54 17 NOMb Ln M 8ap 00 p«ti
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 494 17 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA has carefully tailored a pioneering government borrowing programme to uphold Islamic principles and avoid a confrontation with conservative religious groups over the thorny question of interest payments. Gulf bankers said it was vital economically and politically that the kingdom's
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    • 374 17 IHT WEST GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl said the creation of a European currency union will be discussed at the European Community's summit meeting starting on June 27, but as a long-term goal rather than an immediate priority. Mr Kohl, who also said
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    • 885 17 Release of April trade figures likely to have little effect NYT THE CONDITIONS that have enabled long-term interest rates to stabilise at around 9 per cent should remain in place for the next few weeks, credit market analysts in
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    • 539 17 UPI, AFP GOVERNMENTS must remain ready to prevent any new slide in the US dollar if they want to avoid a repeat of last year's stock market crash, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said yesterday. Work must also continue on
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4845 18 THE STOCK MARKET yesterday showed signs of a correction with share prices losing some ground on across-the-board profit-taking. In a day of controlled profittaking, the Straits Times Industrial Index closed 3.69 points lower to 1,042.74 after a firm opening. However the ST Index managed
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 402 19 Reuter THE Malaysian stock market ia likely to outperform other regional marketa in 1988, according to a Far Eaat stockmarket review by stockbroker James Capel in Hongkong. "Given the improved political environment, low interest rates and lack of inflationary pressure.
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    • 495 19  -  After-tax figure falls short of forecast By LISA LEE A TAX PROVISION of $979,000 for previous year's profits was the reason why Malayan Credit Ltd failed to meet its earlier after-tax profit forecast for the year ended March 1968. Although the property-based group
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    • 277 19 A POORER second-half performance has led Sing Investments and Finance Ltd to turn in worse-than-expected final results for the year ended Dec 31, 1987. The medium-eized nonbank affiliated finance company made an operating after-tax loss of $873,000 (previous loss of $160,000) in the final
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    • 193 19 KENTUCKY Fried Chicken (S) Ltd, which is on the look-out for new investments in Singapore and the region, is considering taking a strategic stake in a company in Thailand. In the group s latest annual report, chairman Oatuk Or Mokhzani Bin Abdul
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    • 149 19 Bernama NEGRI SEMBILAN Oil Palms Bhd (NSOP) plans to make some acquisitions to increase its land area for oil palm. Speaking to reporters after N SOP's annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, a spokesman said: "A few deals are in the pipeline which
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    • 323 19 DAH YUNG Investment Ltd will sell off its medical services subsidiary for $600,000 $4.6 million less than what it cost the group in 1964. The Medical Laboratory, a wholly-owned subsidiary, engages in medical and pharmaceutical analyses. Dah Yung had issued 1.67 million
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    • 370 19 Bernama GENTING BHD is well poised to face competition in the market as well as take advantage of the upturn in the Malaysian economy, said company chairman Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong. In his 1987 report, he said that Genting
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    • 307 19 MBT ASIATIC DEVELOPMENT, the 70.9 per cent-owned plantation subsidiary of Genting Bhd, has substantial liquid resources to expand and seek out investment opportunities. The outlook for 1988 is good. Commodity prices are currently at attractive levels, especially the price of rubber which recently
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    • 264 19 PROMET Petroleum, the Hong-kong-listed company now controlled by the Chuan Hup group, is negotiating to gain the remaining 25 per cent stake in an oil recovery project in Indonesia. The Bunyu oil recovery contract is held by Mainline Resources, in
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 4286 20 810 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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    • 3486 20 AFTER several days of upswing, bulls decided to take a breather yesterday causing prices on the Kuala Lumpur stock market to fall marginally across the board in lacklustre trading. Reflecting the easier trend, the 30-counter New Straits Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index decreased
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    • 285 20 Monageri' prices for June 14 >opor Of Fund Shortto* Thrift Fund UOB Man Un.tund Umbond* MARA-Bu Fiat Bputro Second B putra Third Bputro Fourth Bputro Fifth Bputro Sixth I'putro Sov#«th ft'putro (A) Sovonth Bputro <BJ Eighth B putro Ninth Bputro Tonth B putro 6l«vO*th B putro Worrior Invest
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    • 503 20 Reuter TOKYO stock prices rose in moderate trade yesterday after Wall Street gained last Friday, in a market that lacked direction as investors awaited today's US April trade figures. brokers said. The Nikkei Index rose 116.18 points, or 0.42 per cent to 28,036.54, against Friday's close of 27,920.36. .Saturday
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    • 167 20 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index fell 0.53 to 444.52 on a turnover of 5,401,019 shares worth 846.97 million baht. Reuter JUNE IS BAHT Ao Kham Thai 366 -12 Ayudhya Invaatmai 422 20 Bangkok Aground 130 -3 Bangkok Bank 325 -2 Bank Of Ayudhya 348 -2 Charoong Thai
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    • 253 20 JUNE IS NT S 6 25 -03 Kuochan Oav Laa Chang Yuan 03 00 06 00 -25 •0 5 06 50 •4 71 00 -2 5 Cathay Con* 113 00 -65 Nan Ya Ptaa 01 50 Chang Hwa Bank Chong Loong Chta Main Camant Chin Main Floor 54(00 56
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    • 292 20 The Stock Exchange of Singapore and Business Times will present a seminar entitled Investment Opportunities in Asian Securities at the Westin Stamford and Plaza Hotel, Raffles City, Singapore, on Friday, July 15th, 1988. PARTICIPANTS in this seminar will hear expert views on the opportunities that currently exist in Asian stock
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    • 12 20 Th« Sydney and Hongkong markets wer* doted yesterday for the Queen's Birthday
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 475 21 FT HOARE GOVETT's decision to sell off its private client business appears to confirm what commentators have suggested for some months: that private client stockbroking in its old-fashioned form is dead. The stock market Crash may have hastened the end.
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    • 146 21 FT BRITISH and Commonwealth Holdings has announced the sale of Bricom, its transport and commercial services division, to management and employees for a total of £359 million (US$649 million). The long-awaited disposal, announced last Friday, leaves B and C
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    • 1076 21 NYT JUDGING BY the Chrysler Corps low stock price, the financial community is taking a dark view of the company's prospects. But judging by the strong sales of jeeps, mini-vans and cars that have enabled Chrysler to increase its market share, consumers
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    • 196 21 Reuter THE LARGEST insurer in the Netherlands, Nation-ale-Nederlanden NV (NatNed), said yesterday its US affiliate. Life Insurance Company of Georgia, had been granted a preliminary licence to start a life insurance branch in South Korea. Life Insurance is the first foreign company to be granted a
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    • 234 21 Pledge to improve telephone service Reuter BRITISH Telecommunications PLC will act to improve its oftencriticised telephone service. It also said that its pre-tax profits last year were up by 10.6 per cent last year to £2.20 billion (US$4.l4 billion). The national telecommunications company, sold
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    • 246 21 Reuter JACOBS SUCHARD AQ has posted its offer document lor Rowntrss PLC as part of its £2.31-billion bid battis, saying its offsrs are generous. In a latter to Rowntree shsreholders yesterday, Suchsrd chairman Klaus Jacobs said: "The offers sre generous they provide the basis
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    • 1237 21 SOON TECK FINANCE (Incorporated in me BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 ST DECEMBER 1987 Not— IW7 IPB6 SHARE CAPITAL AND RESERVES Share capital Statutory raearve Revenue Retained profit Deferred taxation Represented by RXED ASSETS NON-CURRENT ASSETS Loana. advance#, hire purchase and block discounts due after 12 months CURRENT ASSETS Quoted
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  • 658 22  -  Footwear industry stands at the foot of the league By CHUANG PECK MING ALTHOUGH the output of the petroleum industry has fallen sharply, it remains the most generous paymaster in the manufacturing sector, according to figures compiled by the Economic Development Board. Last year,
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  • 325 22  -  By LILIAN ANG THE FORMER chairman of Swire Pacific, Mr Michael Miles, has been questioned by Hongkong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in relation to its investigation into the affairs of ex-stock exchange chairman Ronald Li. Cathay Pacific, the airline subsidiary of the Swire
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  • 289 22 AFP JAPAN'S ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) drive for tax reform has been shaken by another show of popular resistance as a provincial governor was reelected with an appeal against a proposed indirect tax. Yawara Hata, 77, whose old age and prolonged
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  • 414 22 AP MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad said yesterday he supports Indonesia's bid to host the 1989 summit of nonaligned nations and a meeting of the four warring Cambodian factions. according to Indonesia's foreign minister. "Malaysia promised to inform other members of the
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  • 93 22 Reuter COM EX GOLD FUTURES yesterday were narrowly changed in nervous two-way dealings ss traders assessed the opening indications of NYMEX crude oil and CBT soybeans. August gold held unchanged at U*****.30 an ounce after modest fluctuations of U*****.10 to U*****.90. Analysts said the opening expectations
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  • 200 22 Reuter SOUTH KOREA'S ruling and opposition parties have agreed to form a special "re-unification" committee in parliament to help end violent student protests in the country. "Wttti our country having taken a great democratic stride in the past year, the re-unification
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  • 87 22 THE SINGAPORE Tourist Promotion Board expects a 10 per cent increase in the number of incentive travellers to the Republic this year, and projects additional earnings of some $8 million. According to the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation yesterday, the number of incentive travel- lers here will hit 60,000
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  • 208 22 Reuter IN unprecedented attacks on the concept of full employment. the official Chinese press has said nearly a quarter of China's urban workforce is superfluous and that unemployment is inevitable and good for the economy. The People s Daily yesterday said that up to
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  • LATE FILE
    • 50 22 Reuter OIL PRICES fell sharply yesterday as traders bet that Opec would be unable to agree on production cuts to mop up a worldwide petroleum glut. In London, the price of Brent crude oil plunged 50 cents to U5515.50 a barrel for delivery in July.
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    • 45 22 AFP TURKISH Prime Minister Turgut Ozal arrived in Athens yesterday amid tight security for the first official visit to Greece by a Turkish leader in 35 years. He was welcomed by Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and Greek cabinet ministers. AFP
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    • 57 22 Reuter THE THAI government has given its final approval for national carrier Thai Airways International Ltd to buy four MD-11s from McDonnell Douglas Corp, a Cabinet spokesman said in Bangkok yesterday. He said the planes, costing a total of U*****.6 million, are due for
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    • 53 22 Bernama AN INITIAL air services agreement between Malaysia and China is expected to be signed at the end of this week. Transport Minister Datuk Dr Ling Liong Sik said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday that discussions were also underway on signing a pact on Kuala Lumpur-Beijing
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 115 23 Seatrade Week FILIPINO authorities are considering the inclusion of all state-sequestered firms in the scope of Presidential Decree 1466, Known as the flag reservation law. Since coming to power in February 1986, the Aquino government has sequestered a total of 297 companies in
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    • 355 23  -  By G DURAIRAJ JARDINE MATHESON has identified Malaysia as one of the growth areas in the Asia-Pacif-ic region to expand its shipping activities. The company, whose shipping activities in Malaysia is carried out by Pesaka Jardine Shipping Agencies, feels there is great scope
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    • 298 23 AMERICAN President Lines is planning to acquire up to 10 foreign flag feeder ships. Lloyd's List reported that APL has successfully applied for US Maritime Administration approval to own or charter the feeder vessels in trade routes west of Kaohsiung. The
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    • 178 23 AFP AN INDONESIAN SHIP arrested in China for debts owed to a South Korean company has been sold for US$3OO,OOO at a marine court auction in Oingdao. eastern China. Observers believed it was the first time a Chinese court had ever handled
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 57 23 Reuter NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING, a unit of Tenneco Inc, was awarded a US$6l2 million navy contract to build two SSN-688 class submarines The Pentagon said work will be performed at Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to be completed in August 1993. Two bids were
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      • 113 23 CONTAINERISATION INTERNATIONAL has released the second edition of the World Directory of Liner Shipping Agents. The directory provides details of more than 2.300 general agents, an increase of 25 per cent over the first edition and contains more comprehensive coverage of shipping lines overseas representative offices.
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    • 278 24 AFP ONCE AGAIN the tanker market saw an uneventful week with only sporadic activity, according to London broker E A Gibson. The market was waiting for the outcome of the Opec meeting in Vienna to see if any decision would be taken to stem the slowly declining oil
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    • 106 24 Reuter SMIT INTERNATIONALE NV. a salvage firm 40 per cent-owned by shipping group Koninklijke Nedlloyd Groep, reported a first-half 1987/88 net loss of 28.2 million guilders against 44.8 million a year ago. Operating losses in the first half to end-March fell to 19.9 million guilders
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    • 687 24 AP CYPRUS, which has the world's seventh largest shipping fleet, is seeking to become an international maritime centre as well. "Our objective is to attract shipping banks, marine insurers. lawyers and brokers through tax incentives and other facilities," said Zenon Katsourides, appointed special
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    • 323 24 AFP THE SUEZ CANAL confronts an uncertain future in the face of slumping tanker traffic. Egyptian authorities in 1987 offered discounts to shipping companies in a bid to persuade them to use the canal to reach the Gulf instead of the
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    • 780 24 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container IX 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Alltrans VII 3 American Tpt II 4/5 Anship Int'l V 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 A PC Line V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI III 1 Asian Ocean
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    • 310 25 Reuter AUSTRALIA to Europe wool freight rates will rise from Sep 1 under a new two-year agreement between Australian exporters. European importers and the Australia to Europe Shipping Conference The rate for the first year will be A 52.400 a container,
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    • 206 25 THE Port Authority of Thailand plans to limit berthing time to ease congestion at Bangkok port Bangkok Post reported that the maximum time allowed for each ship to berth at the port will be 60 hours, plus extra time
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    • 8029 30 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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    • 1666 31 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Apr.l G'O'y (.26 alongside 1506 0600 Cor—r *32 aiongsde 14 06 2300 FengyOr *29 olongside 17 06 2300 Gold S"«o» *27 alongside 1506 1700 ♦fO" Vo>vOo' *35 alongside 14 06 0700 Ko*o B«'fco* *30 olongside 14 06 0600
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    • 750 32 THE WEEK ended on a steadier note in the US Gulf grain market ot the London shipping freights market, but no new fixing materialised on Friday Most voyage fixing comprised iron ore and coal business, while the time-charter sector became slightly busier than of late Argentine grain featured
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    • 68 23 CYPRUS, which has the world's seventh largest shipping fleet, is seeking to become an international maritime centre as well. Page II AUSTRALIA to Europe wool freight rates will rise from Sep 1 under a new two-year accord between the Australia to Europe Shipping Conference, Australian exporters and European importers. Page
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    • 892 26 m OBIS EVERGREEN Full Container Service EVER CROUP EVER GIVEN EVER GROWTH EVER GRAND EVER CLEJUBT EVER CENERAL Round-The-World East Bound (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/FE) ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO: 1) PROVIMNCE. NCWARK. SAVANNAH BOSTON PHILADELPHIA NORFOLK. JACKSONVILLE WILMINGTON. KMfcJDA CTC 2) ATLANTA CMtCACO OCTWXT COLUMBUS 4 OTHER MAJOR MICRORRIOGE DESTINATIONS I) CRISTOBAL. lALIOA.
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    • 54 26 LIN LIN SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 1 Mjfitinc RmD MR 01 Central BuiMin* Singapore 0105 T«l t U3M22 #EE*LV SERVICE S PO«E 'O«XH«*G S«U SAR*E PASifi GUOAMG VESSH UN PCTALING VESSEI LIN PfTALING II vessti LIN PETALINC 111 Aftits PASIR GUDANG JOHOft BAHRU UJUNGTANAH SHIPPING SDN BHD JOHOfi BAHRU TEL 23M01.
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    • 921 27 YC PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE JAKARTA CONTAINER SERVICE SURABAYA/SEMARANG CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL SEA DRAGON SOW A SEA HAWK SEA DRAGON BANGKOK CONTAINER SERVICE BEL A WAN/STRAITS CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL JAftU SHUW MYA OHUM REPULSE SAY VESSEL VOY
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    • 460 27 ia BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT Eiprau Hit.ri (iprtu U Inn EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT NAM I'HAVtN OAM HAVRf ST OH f RLAK SKM FM Mm MA UA It* M W ap ma KM Lsrpß* M a W W M W UP MKC, KM Urmia* VH
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    • 523 27 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. DJAKARTA LLOYD P.T. 6ESURI LLOYD P.T. SAMUDERA INDONESIA P.T. TRIKORA LLOYO EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES SINGAPORE TO EUROPE VSL/VOY MATARAM/21WB S PANJANG/19WB KUTAI/15WB BILBAO ANTWERP HBURG/ 26-30/6 ltlJg ROAM/ADAM BREMEN Sutyact to inducement Also accapttng cargo to Caaablanca, Port Said, Port Alexandria. Genoa,
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    • 405 27 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CDBPBMTipiI (Burmese National Line) PA-AN VI2W PAGAN VI29H Loading for Rangoon P.Kolanj Penang Bangkok NORTHBOUND TO UKC CLYDEBANK V23N TAMAITAI SAMOA VI3N FORTHBANK V22N SPORE RDAM HULL HMBG 29/6 24/7 1/1 21/7 16/7 13/8 22/1 IS/I 3/8 29/8 6/9 3/9 CORALBANK V3S Spore
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    • 630 28 K'linb KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. ORIENTAL FAIR RAINBOW BRIDGE NEPTUNE GARNET ORIENTAL FREEDOM ORIENTAL FAIR RAINBOW BRIDGE NEPTUNE GARNET ORIENTAL FREEDOM N. AMERICA-ATLANTIC COAST •PK/PNG 14/6 20/6 27/6 4/7 •PK/PNG *INDO N. AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST SGP MOTHER VESSEL 16/6 BROOKLYN BRIDGE 23/6 GEORGE W. BRIDGE 30/6 MANHATTAN BRIDGE 7/7 HENRY
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    • 296 28 lit .ill U I J.rd JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES (REG. 242K4/ OOK) 200 CANTONMENT ROAD #12 05 SOUTHPOINT. SINGAPORE 0208 Td: *****11 TEIiX NO RS ***** TERMINAL/CFS Tel *****18 220 BOOKINGS Tel. *****34 235 DOMGNAMA UIUE TV SPORE PRELANC PENANC INCHON BUSAN SINGAPORE GLORY VMS 17 Jun II Jun 28 Jun
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    • 519 28 'M. INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Containers INDIAN COURIER V JIN ORIENT SUCCESS V 10) V NANWNI V S2H TIGER BAT VJB ORIENT SUCCESS V 110 INDIAN COURIER V J2N TIGER BAT V m ORIENT SUCCESS V 111 TICER BAY m INDIAN COURIER V UN TICER BAT V 41N
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    • 663 28 fcTci GOLDEN LINE MSGIV GUAN GUAN SHIPPING (PTC) LTD n, Tim *r* si'*' SINGAPORE tW TEL UOW (M LINES) Fu 9435 M STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Spore P KHa«t QOIOCN HARVCST Cotofnte/KaractN/Outai 16/17 Jtma GOLDEN WONDER Karachi/Dubai/Dammam 1/9 Jul CHINA SERVICE lAJ TUN SHAN Xinpnj BOJM- A VESSEL Hjjngpu 28/29 June
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    • 560 28 u I PHIU onl€NT LIN€S PT€ LTD A H f*o OFFICE 63 ROBINSON ROAD -07-12 t« AFRO ASIA BUILDING SINGAPORE ClO6 TELEX RS ***** PMIII FA* *****76 .IMiUMiWiMVWmi-'JrTTr. VESSEL I ETA SINGAPORE I DESTINATION TBN JEDDAM (LCL) rrnr Fm Iv.l- '•m.n.tu'.M I ft* 2i*. yi NEW GENTRAOE 21* ;n; >
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    • 910 29 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAMERJSB) SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): h™ SS MIDGE MT. Sailed In Pt 1/7 K CHANCE 37W (20/6) 22* 10*7 A CONCORD 19V. (26*) 28* li/7 ocMitr m (1/7) 3/7 n/7 TW MIOCE Oi. 1/7) IQ/7 21/7 NEPTUNE OIAMONO )W. (11/7) 13/7 31/7
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    • 376 29 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: KELANG. PENANG. KEELUNG. BUSAN, INCHON WEF JUNE 1) BUSAN SINGAPORE 2) SINGAPORE/ KEELUNG 10 DAYS SERVICE II SERVICE!! VmmTi Nam ETD IS SPO*E PKELANG KEE BUSAN MO JI No» Donjm/KBN OSm 21 23/06 24 01/07 OS-***** No I Donam/OOSN 17* 30-02/07
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    • 735 29 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 ***** PCNANC P KELANG MESSRS MAI THONG SHIPPING 127 Penjnj Street. Penjng. Malaysia M S HANDLING SYSTEM CO
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    • 352 30 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 .30 lines 'AX *****39 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCWA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTF RACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPt WILHELM PIECK 4 88U8/6 22/6 4/7 |13/7 |13/7 jIS/7 RUEBELANO 5/88 29,6 U 16,7 ARKONA 588 16.7
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 188 30 Regional Weather 29 oX I N s V 7A k Va 8 fi I •>> V > SJsV f? fi? mSmk m IK SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. June 14, 1988 LEGEND c O w Wind direction with speed in knots Wove height One holt Heche represents
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 370 31 FARGO SHIPPING COMPANY(PTE)LTD. No 15 Hoe Chiang Road #13-02 Sanford Building. Singapore 0208 Tel *****22 Tlx ***** FASCO b. ABC CQNTAINERLINE N.V. WE HAVE GOT THE FASTEST TRANSIT TIME TO AUSTRALIA! ETA 25/8/88 Only 7 days to Fremantle Only 12 days to Melbourne Only 15 days to Sydney FROM USA/CANADA/EUROPE/MEOITERRANEAN
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    • 262 31 CSP SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Tel: *****66 (16 Lines) Fai: *****15 LCL FIXED TWICE WEEKLY CONSOL LCL FIXED CONSOLIDATION T CHINA, HONG KONG, BANGKOK, KEELUNG, KAOSHIUNG, KOBE, MANILA, BUSAN, INCHON, TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, OSAKA, COLOMBO, CALCUTTA, FELIXSTOWE, HAMBURG, BOMBAY, SYDNEY, MELB., KARACHI, CHITTAGONG, LEGHORN, JAKARTA, NAGOYA, GOTHENBURG. ALL EUROPE BASE PORTS
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    • 213 31 UNIPACIFIC TRANS TRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. SINGAPORE TEL: *****44 (9 LINES) FAX: *****90 IRAQI LINE I**o' fo* MARtTiMf TM«S»O«T WEST BOUND SERVICE IBN 6ASSAM WV BABYLON ETA S PORE In Port an LOADING FOR Suez. USA (EC/WC) Hod*idih J«ddah A*ata THROUGH B/Ls to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST ALSO ACCEPTING CONTAINERS UPTO
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 406 32 Integrated Tank Container Service for EDIBLE OILS CHEMICALS i r w I Tankcontainer for Intercontinental Intra Asia and Domestic transports of liquids (Bitumen included) and gases on a door to door basis Offshore Leasing and sales All types and capacities available LIQUID AND GAS TRANSPORT (ASIA) PTE LTD SINGAPORE member
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    • 442 32 CGMi FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA-EAST COAST/GULF/CANADA/fdEXICO AND FRENCH WEST INDIES For: Halifax, Montreal Toronto, Now York, Baltimore. Portsmouth Norfolk. Savannah Also serving GULF Miami. Noble New Orleans, Nouston/Meuco Vera Cna. Mexico Citv/FRENCH W Indies Fort De Franco, Pointre A. Pitro, Degrad COLUMBUS LINE REEDEREI
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    • 130 32 ULTIMATE FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Tel: *****11 Tlx: ***** Fax: *****92 GOODWAY LCL ACCEPTANCE TO NOUMEA, FIJI NEW ZEALAND SIN 22 6 14 7 19(7 HKG NOUMEA 5.7 2« 20 7 58 21 188 AKL NAP TIM Ml 10* 12 "8 238 25,1 271 7/9 10/9 12/9 EXPRESS SAILINGS TO
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    • 592 32 CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE I 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 FEEDER SINGAPORE I LEHARVE LiilllLlil?. lfa:r.' m; nB-'.W!! j'l ?H.M I KORWGAN OTHER DESTINATIONS: AARHUS. AMSTERDAM. ANTWERP. lASIE. BREMEN
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