The Business Times, 12 July 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 262 1 AFP Dow Jones up WALL STREET strengthened in early trading yesterday. The Dow Jones Index rose 9.07 points at 2,115.22 after 90 minutes. Analysts attributed what they said was renewed market confidence to the expectation that US businesses would report high secondquarter profits on the heels of
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  • 518 1  -  Company facing excess capacity worldwide By WILLIAM CHIA AMERICAN computer giant Data General is selling its minicomputer assembly plant and a plant making multi-layered printed circuit boards, ending five years of manufacturing operations in Singapore. Although a Data General spokesman declined comment, sources
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  • 263 1 REGIONAL stock markets closed firmer in moderate trading yesterday despite nagging concerns about higher US interest rates among some investors. Singapore share prices closed marginally higher in sluggish trading as institutions were generally waiting for the market to adapt to the new trading system introduced
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  • 89 1 THE RISING US dollar levelled off in moderate but nervous trading in Europe yesterday in response to a round of concerted central bank intervention. The central banks of West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria sold dollars to brake its rally. Dealers
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  • 482 1 AFP SINGAPORE and the Soviet Union held high-level talks yesterday after almost a decade of cool relations, with prospects of an early boost to bilateral economic cooperation. After an hour of talks with Foreign Minister S Dhanabalan, Soviet Deputy Premier Vladimir Kamentsev
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  • 157 1 AFP CHINA has decided to open a free-trade zone in Shandong province for South Korean investors. The pro-government Korean Herald yesterday quoted Han Gui-Huan, a visiting ethnic Korean professor from China, as saying that the move had already been approved by China's State
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  • 545 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN STRATEGIES that will make Singapore a "technopolis" in the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st Century were spelt out by the Prime Minister yesterday. Speaking at the forum held to commemorate his visit to Hokkaido, Mr Lee Kuan
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 473 2  -  By MARTIN SOONG COMPUTER COMPANY NCR Singapore is embarking on an aggressive $10 million push to raise its corporate profile as well as its market share in the office automation and manufacturing sectors. The investment programme, to be funded internally
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    • 304 2 SCOTTS HOLDINGS (Re) Ltd is conducting special courses for tenants of Scotts Shopping Centre to ensure quality service to customers when the renovated centre is fully opened in early August. Twenty-two sales staff from the various stores were advised on the finer points in
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    • 394 2 THE CONSTRUCTION Industry Development Board (CIDB) will lead a team of contractors and developers to Thailand and India later this year following successes notched up during a recent trip to Taiwan. The CIDB chairman, Dr Cham Tao Soon, said the mission to Thailand would leave in
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    • 412 2  -  By ANNA TEO SEVERAL JAPANESE companies, including some which do not have a presence here, are keen to expand their business in Singapore, three trade missions to Japan learnt recently. Major trading companies Itoman, Matsushita and Kubota plan to use Singapore as
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    • 414 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH Property Correspondent ENCOURAGED by strong demand, factory and warehouse building is back in fashion among private developers. The latest data from the Ministry of National Development shows that developers secured planning approval for some 48,900 sq m of
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 346 3 Reuter INDONESIA is backing off its push for a nuclear-free zone in South-east Asia, worried that the policy might force the US out of the region, a senior US official said on Sunday. Indonesia's policy of supporting a ban on nuclear weapons in
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    • 119 3 AFP INDONESIA and the United States signed a tax treaty yesterday that is expected to enhance American private investment in Indonesia, foreign ministry officials said in Jakarta. Visiting US Secretary of State George Shultz and Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas signed the agreement to end the
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    • 178 3 Reuter INDIA would reconsider its nonnuclear military policy if it discovered that Pakistan had atomic weapons. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi says. Mr Gandhi told the Madrid newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Sunday that India did not at present want to become
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    • 251 3 AP GTECH CORP, the world's leading maker of computerised lottery systems, has its eyes set on the world s biggest market: China. The company is negotiating a contract to set up ticket-printing plants in China, a deal that executives hope will eventually lead to
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    • 569 3 Prince cancels scheduled visits, going into exile Reuter AFP PRINCE NORODOM Sihanouk has resigned as president of the UN-recognised Cambodian guerilla coalition and will take up exile in France. In a statement dated Sunday and released in Bangkok yesterday. the prince said he would
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    • 432 3 UPI THE HEAD of an Afghan guerilla "government-in-exile" has rejected a peace proposal for Afghanistan by UN envoy Diego Cordovez, which he said could lead to a "further deterioration" of the country. "The efforts by Diego Cordovez could not ensure peace and tranquility in
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 410 4 British deal said to threaten security AP ISRAELI LEADERS denounced on Sunday a multi-billion-dollar British weapons deal with Saudi Arabia as a dangerous escalation of the arms race in the Middle East and a threat to Israel's security. Army generals said the deal, which
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    • 199 4 Reuter BRITISH OPPOSITION Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock looked across no-man's land into South African-ruled Namibia on Sunday and called on Western governments to support the black-ruled states confronting Pretoria. Mr Kinnock and his wife Glenys peered through binoculars in Zambia at the South African
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    • 122 4 AFP TOP BUSINESSMEN from Britain and Japan met over the weekend in Scotland to examine ways of assisting British firms in breaking into the Japanese market. After the meetings in the seaside golf and university centre of St Andrews, British Industry and
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    • 298 4 Reuter NEW SOVIET initiatives on disarmament in Europe are expected to emerge this week during a six-day visit to Poland by Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev, according to diplomats from East and West They say Mr Gorbachev could signal partial Soviet troop withdrawals from Eastern
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    • 280 4 AP THE criminal investigation of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and the US Defence Department bribery investigation head the US Justice Department's agenda as Attor-ney-General Edwin Meese 111 prepares to leave office. Federal prosecutors are asking for approval from Justice Department superiors
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    • 416 4 UPI RETIRED MARINE lieutenant colonel Oliver North, who is scheduled to face a jury on Sep 20 on criminal charges from the Iran-Con-tra scandal, has charged that the timing of the trial is politically motivated. North addressed a USSIOO-a-plate fund-raiser in Dallas. Texas, on
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 278 4 City Max/ Note MJn ro Adelaide 16/10 Rm Amsterdam 24/14 Clear Athens unav Bahroin 40/31 Clear Bangkok 33/26 Sunny Borbodos unav Beijing 34/23 Cloudy Beirut 30/25 Sunny Belgrade 27/17 Clear Berlin 23/12 Ciowdy Bermuda 29/20 door Bonn 28/24 Cloudy Brisbane 19/14 Cloudy Brunei* 22/10 Clear Budapest 25/15 Clear Bwonos Aires
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    • 660 4 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 People causing a bit of a palaver in a ship (5) 8 She won round an educated man (5) 10 What a knocker may be hoping to do (5) 11 A little pub music? (3) 12 Thus states the bandmaster (5) 13 Gives straight orders (7)
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 385 6 Reuter AFTER INFLUENCING world grain prices for more than 15 years with huge purchases of wheat and corn, the Soviet Union is now also emerging as a powerful force in international soybean markets. It has begun an aggressive campaign to give its
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    • 196 6 Chines* Produce Exchange StUfn' noon dosing pd k*s on July 11 (S$/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 128.00 OW drum FOB 142.00 N*w drum FOB 138.00 Copra Mlx*d (loos*) 72 soMors Pepper Muntok whit* FOB NtW 952J0 Sarawak whit* FOB faq NLW 937.50 Sarawak special black FOB NLW
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    • 365 6 Reuter Malaysian crude palm oH futures closed weaker yesterday, extending Friday's limit losses on further liquidation in increased trading activity. They said the fall reflected a weaker Chicago soybean futures close last week and followed reports of rain in parts of the US Mid-west on Sunday. Oct delivery
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    • 293 6 Reuter HONGKONG: Gold closed slightly higher yesterday in active trading, pushed up by buying by local and Taiwan investors. The metal opened weaker in slow morning trading. Buying orders from Taiwan poured in during the afternoon, and the price closed near the day's highs. Bullion ended at U*****.50/440.00
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    • 388 6 SINGAPORE The rubber market yesterday cloeed lower with August One RSS bid at 252.00 cents/kg, down six cents from Friday s close. Prices were slightly lower at the outset and continued to move lower due to lack of buying support in very quiet morning trading. Prices retreated further in
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    • 196 6 Reuter MCREASED oeiwn demand pushed the Kuala Lumpur tin price to a jfMr niyii Of M 519.06 a kg at the does, up SO oenls from Friday, deelsrs said. R wae last quoted at Me level In March IM6. The bullish sewtoneH was attributed to active European and
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    • 286 6 RAS prices mt« MMftFO total* NOON aosc fcrynrt SeHers Bvysrs Silin In* 1 RSS Prompt 257.00 *****N 252.00 253.00N bw 1 RSS Aug 88 257.00 258.00N ***** ***** In* 1 RSS Sap 257JO 258.00 252.00 ***** Int 2 RSS Of 255.00 257.00N 252.00 *****N In* 3 RSS
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    • 72 6 AUGUST 1988 (currant month) SCPTEMBa 1988 (forward month) RAS NOON t«W* iihri NOON SSt 20 SSI 50 MRELB 277XX) 225.00 >»|wn 229j00N 277AON Satan 277X)0 225jOO Ivytrv 229jOON 227.00N SsAsrs SMt cv SMC I SMt 5 SMt GT SMt 10 SMt 20 SMt 50 530J0 530.00 316-50
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 500 8 SINGAPORE swears by the philosophy of free movement of goods and people. If something is not available locally, buy it from abroad. If there are not enough local bankers and engineers, attract them from elsewhere to work and, better still, to strike roots here. So it
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    • 966 8  -  New York's position as the world's leading business centre is being challenged. Cities in Europe and East Asia, including Singapore, are set to play bigger roles in the future, reports THOMAS J LUECK. THOMAS J LUECK NYT AT A TIME when the
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 227 9 Our weekly summary of what other publications have to say about issues of regional interest ASEAN "THE ASEAN foreign ministers in their annual meeting in Bangkok apparently have completed a rough scenario as to how the endgame should be played out as far as the nine-year-old Kampuchean
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      • 188 9 THE GULF "THE INCIDENT shows that, prompt apologies notwithstanding, Americans can be just as murderous as the Soviets, who were fiercely excoriated when they destroyed KAL--007 More than this though, the aerial massacre draws attention to a nebulous war that has been going on for some
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      • 194 9 INDONESIA "WITH THE depressing backdrop of the mind-boggling Pentagon corruption scandal and reports of a rising anti-American sentiment in East Asia, the United States is celebrating its 212 t- birthday today. It has been so tempting lately to join the chorus of doomsday writers predicting the imminent
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      • 510 9 MALA YSIA "THE EVENTS leading to the suspension of the five Supreme Court judges by the King clearly show inconsistency on the part of some or all of them. Most visible was the action of Tan Sri Wan Suleiman Pawan Teh and Justice Datuk George Seah. The
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 311 12 AP BELA KAROLYI. whose gym placed five women in the top 10 at the US Gymnastics Championships, "has resigned as head of the US team to the Olympics. Karolyi, who defected to the West from Rumania, said yesterday that he resigned on Sunday
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    • 288 12 UPI AYRTON SENNA closed In on world championship leader Alain Prost on Sunday with a decisive victory in a wet British Formula One Grand Prix. The Brazilian captured the lead from Austrian Gerhard Berger on the 14th lap, after harrying the pole position man from
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    • 295 13 AP STEVE BAUER of Canada regained the overall lead as he predicted in the Tour de France cycling classic, while Rolf Golz of West Germany won Sunday's 219-km eighth stage in Nancy. Bauer, who had the yellow jersey as the overall leader after the first
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    • 154 13 UPI SERGEI BUBKA of the Soviet Union broke his own world record in the pole vault for the second time in 31 days on Sunday, clearing the bar cleanly at 6.06 metres (19 feet. 10 1/25 inches) on his first attempt in Nice,
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    • 363 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS NATIONAL CHAMPION Liu Wai Yaw was in an uncompromising mood over the weekend as the Adidas Team Tennis championship made a welcome return to Singapore tennis. Wai Yaw. representing Ounlop, showed no mercy on his three opponents. But it
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    • 229 13 UPI TOM SIECKMANN sank a two-foot putt for par on the second hole of a suddendeath playoff against Mark Wiebe on Sunday, winning the U*****,000 AnheuserBusch Golf Classic in Virginia. his first PGA Tour victory. Sieckmann forced a playoff with a 10-foot birdie putt on
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    • 223 13 UPI FOURTH-SEEDED Wally Masur breezed to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over practice partner and fellow Australian Brad Drewett in only 55 minutes on Sunday, winning the US$l5O,OOO International Tennis Hall of Fame championships in Newport. Masur, the only seeded player to make it as
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    • 181 13 VERITY How to take your game to greater lengths. Play with Maruman's Verity irons and woods. All Verity irons have Same Position Sweet Spot which is always located at an ideal 00% from the U** and 40% from the heel of the club face. They also have Strong Power design
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 37 13 Play golf the Sevvy way Trouble on the left IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO > 400K WITH A DRIVER FROM HOOK WITH A DRIVER FR A LOW TSE BECAUSE OF THE SMALL DEGREE v OF LOFTON THEVCLUDFACE > fill
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1605 14 OCBC Reuter Reuter SINGAPORE: Against the Singapore dollar, the US dollar closed firmer at 2.0525/35 in volatile trading yesterday. It traded within a range of 2.0495 and 2.0535. It opened initially at 2.0490/00. Underlying dollar sentiment remains bullish supported by news of improved US June employment figures. Some
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    • 66 14 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore money market fell 2 points to close at 2-1/2 per cent yesterday. One month rose 1/8, two months rose 3/16 and three months rose 1/16. S$ Interbank rates at the dose y ester day: on mo v/wttv2L* 2 1/2 2 1/4 4
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    • 115 14 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's dosing Day's code Maturity MD OFFER HKJH LOW 3 momtw BQ*****X 06.10.88 4.03 3.98 3.98 3.98 6 month* BY*****T 24.11.88 4.08 4.03 4.09 4.00 1 year BY*****Z 23.3.89 4.10 4.05 4.10 4.10 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing
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    • 183 14 Indicates Km average of Ihe prima tending rates of 12 major banks in S'pors Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on July 11 uss DM SWFC 7 doys 7 13/16 11/16 9 1/4 1/8 4 J/» 1/2 3 3/8 3/8 4 1/16 15/16 1 M* 7 13/16— 11/16 9
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    • 463 14 After the steep plunge in Chicago's trading session last Friday due to the strong employment figure. Eurodollar futures recovered on Simex yesterday from Chicago's low. The stronger US dollar prompted short covering which saw the Sept contract rebounding to 91.76 before sliding off again to 91.73 following the direction
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    • 186 14 Reuter IMM currency futures finished on Friday with sharp daily losses but above session lows set late. Stronger-than-expec-ted June US job data punched prices lower amid growing sentiment that a robust US economy could spur tighter US monetary policy and lift the dollar further. Despite several rounds of reported
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    • 356 14 Reuter CENTRAL BANKERS of leading nations met yesterday hopeful that they can clinch an historic accord fixing the minimum amount of capital that a major bank must hold. A key goal is to protect the global banking system, and everyone's savings, against a domino-style
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    • 301 14  -  By LEONG WEN WAH DBS TRADING Pte Ltd, the futures arm of DBS Bank, has introduced a cash margin trading facility for its customers. The facility has been transferred from DBS Bank to DBS Trading, a clearing member of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange.
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    • 91 14 APF A FORMER economic adviser to US President Ronald Reagan said yesterday the dollar needs to fall at least 25 per cent against the Japanese yen, press reports in Tokyo said. Martin Feldstein, Mr Reagan's chief economic adviser from *****5. told a
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    • 157 14 THE United Overseas Bank has started selling Platinum Noble coins the only pure platinum coins with legal tender that can be traded. These coins, of 99.95 fineness, are available in four sizes 1/10 troy ounce. 1/4 troy ounce, 1/2 troy ounce and one troy ounce.
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    • 190 14 Reuter KUWAIT has ordered commercial banks in the country to sue debtors who have defaulted on their loans and refuse to cooperate with a government rescheduling scheme, the Central Bank governor said. Sheikh Salem Abdelaziz a I-Sa-ba h said preparation of settlement proposals
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    • 245 14 Reuter ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates ended little changed yesterday from opening levels, and trading turned quiet in the afternoon session. dealers said. They said most operators refrained from taking positions in the afternoon because of lack of interest The market is waiting for Friday s release of
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    • 98 14 AFP JAPAN'S leading long-term credit banks are to double their ceiling on loans to business firms during the July-September quarter. The Japanese newspaper, Nihon Keizai Shimbun. said yesterday the three banks were forced to revise loan programmes to double the ceiling to a
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 148 15 Reuter THE SOVIET press on Sunday lifted a veil of secrecy over the collapse of a Soviet-owned bank in Zurich which lost 500 million Swiss francs (US$33O million) before it was declared bankrupt in 1985. The newspaper Sotsialisticheskaya Industria disclosed that the Soviet
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    • 1479 15 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Monday, July 11, 1988 ocv 94 99 M 57 98 59 60 rSCHEMARK M«h (SIMEX) lM| M aaa» Lm 22A 10* 5A 3A saa 18 7 3 2 Aafl 80 p* Wga Law 33 33 2348 0a8 33 239 55 36 57 98 99 63 Oap
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    • 94 15 Bernama THE NATIONAL Union of Bank Employees (Nube) in Kuala Lumpur has called off its week-long nationwide picketing in support of its salary claims. Nube secretary-general K Sanmugam said on Saturday the decision was made after the issue was referred to the industrial
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    • 376 15 NYT THE WORLD BANK, facing small but rising delinquencies on its loans for the first time in its history, has quietly raised provisions for loan losses to US$5OO million, from US$lOO million, according to bank officials. The action is a sign of
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 292 16 Company RIGHTS ISSUE A M 0 B One-for-four $050 per shore C 1 Holdings 27 million loan stocks in ttie ratio of S3 loon stock for every five ordinary shores held. C K Tang One-for-two $2.25 per share. Eoch rights com with two detochoble TSRs. The exercise price
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    • 277 16 Manooers' prices Jopon Gr Fund 1 52 157 for JUy 12 Sltanton Thrill Fund 085 085 Singapore Unit Trust UOB Management Unilund 0945 0945 Tho Co—«rc« ICO 107 Unibond 1005 103 Th* Saving* Fund 087 093 S'por* Frog Fund S'por* Sk Fund 042 070 046 075 MARA-Bumiputra S'por*
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    • 827 16 TURNOVER remained low on the second trading day of the new com-puter-based trading system on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. A total of 20.18 million shares worth $36.06 million changed hands, down from Friday's 23.17 million shares worth $40.35 million. Prices, however, held
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 389 17  -  mm By DAVID GABRIEL Author Philip N Filial Title: Company Law and SocurWoe Regulation in Singapore Publisher: Butterwortha, Singapore 1987. 242 pages SHOULD a book like Company Law and Securities Regulation in Singapore by Dr Philip N Pillai be reviewed in this column, or
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    • 223 17 MBT BEDFORD Bhd has told the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that the widening ot its pre-tax loss for the year ended Dec 31, 1987 to M 516.71 million (from the forecast of M 53.6 million) was due mainly to write-down in the
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    • 428 17  -  By LISA LEE A CONSORTIUM comprising publicly-listed Resources Development Corp (RDC), Dutch contractor Van Oord International BV and local contractor Antara Koh Re Ltd has won a $14.4 million contract for a beach development project on Sentosa. The Dutch-Singapore jointventure is worked out on
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    • 411 17 MBT BENTA PLANTATIONS expects the proposed acquisition of 32.76 million Federal Oil Palm (FOP) shares to contribute positively to its earnings for the year ending June 30, 1989. The planned purchase, which will result in FOP becoming a 65-per-cent owned subsidiary of Benta.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 38 17 GEORGE TOWN Holdings Bhd's shareholders have approved the acquisition of land and buildings for Ms4.4m cash, at an EGM on July 8. The vendor of the properties is Super Holdings (M) Sdn Bhd.
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      • 31 17 PERMODALAN Nasional Bhd has acquired 109.19 m Sime Darby Bhd shares which the plantation group issued in exchange for PNB's block of 9.93 m Harrisons Crosfield shares.
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      • 28 17 FIRST ALLIED Corporation Bhd (FACB) has a new substantial shareholder in Malaysia National Insurance Sdn Bhd, which bought 20m shares from BBMS Securities.
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      • 43 17 HOTEL Royal has one substantial shareholder less, with the sale of 70,000 shares by Chip Keng Holdings Bhd for $111,150. Chip Keng Holding's stake has been reduced from 5.02 pc to 4.67 pc, representing 934,000 shares.
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      • 24 17 SING Investments Finance Ltd's foreign beneficial ownership stood at 7.24 pc of total issued capital at end-June.
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    • 58 17 Johan Holdings Berhad: 63rd AGM at Bouganvilla 2. 1st Floor, Petaling Jaya Hilton. Jalan Barat, Petaling Jaya. Selangor Oarul Ehsan on Thursday, July 14. at 11am. South East Asia Devetopmant Corporation Bartiad: 25th AGM at the Registered Office, 9th Floor. Bangunan Hong Leong. 117 Jalan Bandar. ***** Kuala
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 327 18 Reuter KUWAIT'S central bank governor has said his country might reduce its controversial 22 per cent stake in British Petroleum (BP) if market conditions were right. "The possibility is there. It all depends on market conditions,'' Sheikh Salem Abdelaziz al-Sa-bah told
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    • 3907 18 POSTING double-digit advances, tin counters led the pack of winners on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday, which saw prices closing generally higher. However, trading conditions remained relatively subdued. Brokers said tin counters attracted interest, especially towards the end of the morning session on
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    • 60 18 Reuter SANYO ELECTRIC Co Ltd plans to triple transistor production at its Chinese subsidiary to 30 million a month Sanyo Semiconductor Shekou Ltd now makes 10 million transistors a month for export to Asia. Located in Guangdong province, the company is 100 per
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    • 43 18 Reuter CASIO COMPUTER Co Ltd expects group net profit of six billion yen in the period March 21. 1968. to March 31, 1989, after 4.83 billion in the year ended March 20. 1988, the company said yesterday Reuter.
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    • 1427 18 Hongkong HONQKONQ SHARE prices finished marginally higher yesterday in quiet trading featuring technically baaed demand from local investors, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index rose 8.89 points to 2,759.59 and the broaderbased Hong Kong Index was up 3.81 to 1.823.83. Turnover eased to HK5968.79 million from HKSI.2O
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    • 124 18 JULY 11 WON ChWI Sugar Daattm Ind 0—woo Corp Daewoo Haavy Oaiahin Sacuritiaa Dong Ah Phmi Dong Son Slock Dongtou Staal ***** ***** 1(600 ***** ***** 1*100 ***** ***** -500 500 -4400 •200 -500 uncfi -400 GokJ Star Hanil Bank Ham I Camant Hanfcuk Qiaaa Hanyang Chamtcal Hyundai Conal
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    • 472 18 Reuter TOKYO SHARE prices closed higher yesterday, mainly on buying of domestic demand-related shares, but concern about the direction of yen/dollar rales dissuaded investors from taking major positions. brokers said. "The msrket is generslly mixed end investors sre sidelined," ssid Akio ishida. deputy general manager at Yasuda Trust Fund.
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    • 410 18 Reuter STRONG DEMAND for quality stocks, particularly from ovsrssas buyers, sent the Australian share market surging to s poetcrash high at the cloee yesterday Market leader BMP lad the rise, with entrepreneurial etocks, reeources and retailers also finding good support, brokers said. "The market was very strong although vol
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    • 148 18 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 0.06 points to 457.04 yesterday on a turnover of 6,884.152 shares worth 751.79 million baht. JULY 11 ■ANT A Ao Kham TM 404 Ayudhya trmaarnw 460 Bangkok Agro-lnd 132 330 1 4 Bar* CH Ayudhya Charoong That WW 380 w +4
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 178 19 AP BALLY Manufacturing Corp is getting out of the arcade machines business it created 57 years ago, selling its pinball and video games business to concentrate on more lucrative ventures, according to a company official. Bally, which produced such popular games as "Pac-Man", "Ms
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    • 109 19 Reuter THE COLOMBIAN government has approved a contract allowing US firm Orummond Corp to exploit coal mines in northern Cesar province over the next 30 years, Mines and Energy Minister Oscar Mejia has said. He told reporters after the state coal company Carbocol approved
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    • 97 19 AFP BANKER Andrew Hugh Smith was chosen last Friday to be the new president of the London Stock Exchange, replacing Sir Nicholas Goodison, market sources said. Sir Nicholas will leave at the end of the year. The new president is the vice-president of the
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    • 92 19 Reuter A FULL takeover bid may come this week for Peachey Property Corporation PLC, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said. It said a substantial European company has recently acquired a stake of nearly 10 per cent in Peachey and it may disclose its identity and make
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    • 857 19 NYT THE OIL industry, according to several US analysts, seems poised for a new wave of takeovers. One of the companies they are wondering about is the Unocal Corp, which is about the right size to be acquired and has just
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    • 113 19 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Monday 1.***** Friday 1.819 60 Ws*k ogo 1.776.80 Hang Seng Index Monday 2.759.59 Friday 2.752 90 Wwk ago 2.687 62 All Industrials Monday 2,5790 Friday 2.563.0 Week ago 2.4884 NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday 2.106.15 Thursday 2.122.69 Week ago 2.131 58 TOKYO Nikkei Average Monday
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    • 213 19 Controlling holder of parent to take up major share Reuter MGM/UA Communications Co, the big movia and TV company, is selling its Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar Pictures unit to an investor group, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday. The newspaper quoted industry sources as saying investor
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    • 694 19 NYT THE SERIES of trading halts proposed by officials of the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange recently are being opposed by some of the market's biggest and most influential investors. While the proposals were designed in part to
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    • 508 19 NYT EXPERTS who have looked at the case of alleged manipulation by GAF Corp of the price of Union Carbide Corps stock say the US government's strongest proof of wrongdoing will come from the testimony of the former head of a major brokerage firm
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    • 378 19 Reuter INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp, the world's largest computer maker, has launched a major offensive in Europe to win back market share from smaller encroaching European manufacturers. Michael Armstrong, IBM Europe president, said at a seminar that IBM
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  • 574 20  -  Chok Tong wants end to agony and embarrassment By ANNA TEO MR GOH CHOK TONG said yesterday that the exchanges between former president Devan Nair and the government should not be dragged on. "We should not prolong the agony for Mr Nair and his
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  • 500 20 Reuter THE US will continue its military presence in Asia and the Pacific even if it is forced to withdraw from two military bases in the Philippines, said US Secretary of State George Shultz yesterday. Mr Shultz, scheduled to hold talks with top
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  • 182 20 Reuter IN A SPEECH to the Indonesian Association of Economists in Jakarta, US Secretary of State George Shultz yesterday proposed the creation of a Pacific Basin forum to promote closer trade and communications links in the region. He said the forum could compare
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  • 150 20 NYT AFTER ignoring or rebuffing calls for talks on Vietnamese refugees, Vietnam has issued a surprise invitation for Hongkong and Britain to discuss the thousands of boat people going to Hongkong. The Hongkong government has accepted the invitation from Hanoi and
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  • 201 20 AFP A CONFIDENTIAL government report has forecast that the number of people emigrating from Hongkong will jump from an estimated 27,000 last year to 48,000 in 1968, a newspaper reported yesterday. Hongkong's South China Morning Post said the government is concerned because many
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  • 113 20 AFP CHINA is preparing to relax foreign exchange controls and allow foreign banks to open in certain coastal cities, the China Daily said on Sunday. Quoting a foreign exchange official, the newspaper said relaxing control would benefit state entre- prises, which would be allowed
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  • 231 20  -  By LOH HUI YIN Ptdurm by Yow Yun Woh SURPRISED AND HAPPY that sums up Singapore artist Ong Kim Seng's feelings at the response to his works which are on display at the Sogo Department Store. One of them depicting Temple Street in Chinatown
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  • 165 20 AFP INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Ali Alatas has said that informal talks between rival Kampuchean factions will go ahead this month despite the resignation of Kampuchean resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Mr Alatas yesterday emphasised that the informal "cocktail party" talks planned for July
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  • 364 20 Bernama ATTORNEY-GENERAL Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman yesterday filed an application in Kuala Lumpur to set aside the Supreme Court's order restraining the tribunal investigating allegations against suspended Lord President Tun Mohamed Salleh Abas, from submitting any recommendations, report or
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  • 180 20 Bernama PARTAI SOSIALIS Rakyat Malaysia (PSRM) yesterday reiterated its stand to contest in next month's Johor Baru parliamentary by-election despite pleas by Tunku Abdul Rahman. PSRM deputy chairman Abdul Razak Ahmad said that the decision, endorsed by the party's central working committee meeting
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  • 413 20 AP THE RAINS finally came to parts of the drought-strick-en central United States, bringing jubilation and relief to farmers. In north-central Wisconsin, crop rejuvenation came almost overnight. "It (the corn) looks nice and green right now. it's unfolded. It's probably grown two
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  • 261 20 Reuter THE North American drought puts world cereal stocks at risk and could cause Third World food shortages, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday. A July food outlook report by the Rome-based UN agency said that, even if weather is normal for the
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  • LATE FILE
    • 71 20 Bernama MALAYSIAN Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday asked members of the Malaysian Bar Council to be more careful in their speech and actions pertaining to the judicial system in the country. He said in P*nang that although they had the right to express their views
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    • 58 20 Reuter CHINA and Australia yesterday signed an agreement for mutual encouragement and protection of investments, the New China News Agency said. Bill Hayden, Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told Sino-Austra-lian senior executives that Australia has reduced tariffs on manufactured goods and begun to phase
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    • 45 20 AFP NORTH KOREA yesterday rejected a six-point proposal by South Korean President Roh Tae-Woo to improve cooperation on the divided peninsula. Pyongyang Radio said the proposals would consolidate the division of the peninsula and would not contribute to relaxing tension there.
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    • 52 20 Reuter NEW ZEALAND'S Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer yesterday said he expects inflation to fall well below 6.0 per cent compared with 9.0 per cent for the year to March, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. June quarter CPI data are due for release
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    • 50 20 Reuter SEVEN businessmen facing a total of 103 charges relating to Guinness PLC's takeover of Scottish drinks group Distillers Co PLC in 1966 were further remanded on bail until Sep 26 by Bow Street Magistrates Court, the UK national news agency Press Association reported yesterday. Reuter
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  • 77 20 Reuter COM EX gold futures yesterday eased early in anticipation of lower CBT grains prices and on selling of gold/silver spreads. August gold fell US$3.3O to U*****.70 an ounce after trading between U*****.40 and U*****.50. Silver futures were mixed after early gains were pared by managed
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 164 21 Seatrade Week IN A BID to ease mounting pressure on Tokyo municipality, the Japanese Ministry of Transport is proposing increased use of other local ports in Tokyo Bay together with the early development of other ports in northern Kanto area. Tokyo
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    • 213 21  -  By G DURAIRAJ JURUKAPAL, a Malay-sian-owned shipping company, has deployed the first integrated tug barge in Malaysian waters. The versatile integrated tug barge, classed to American Bureau of Shipping standards as an oil barge, is capable of carrying a variety of liquid bulk in
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    • 177 21  -  By KINGSLEY WOOD Writing for BT from Sydney BARBICAN LINE is to begin a new non-conference service out of Australia east coast ports to Papua New Guinea, the Solomons and Fiji. The service is the brainchild of Barbican Marine, an Australian company
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 75 21 AMERICAN Bureau of Shipping has appointed Richard Lemoine as regional manager for South-east Asia and Australasia. Mr Lemoine is based in Singapore and will be in charge of the ABS group of companies operations in Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalem, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Islands of
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      • 100 21 A TEAM from the Port of Tilbury led by its chief executive John McNab will be making a one-week Far East tour to promote its services. The tour, to begin on Aug 7, will cover Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Hongkong. Mr McNab is
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      • 133 21 THE MEDITERRANEAN area is now the main lay-up anchorage for tankers. It has surpassed South-east Asia and Scandinavia, favoured in the early 80s as mooring sites for mothballed tankers. The number of idle ships in the Mediterranean berths stands at 13, amounting to
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    • 439 22 UPI STRONG NORTH SEA winds delayed Texan Paul "Red" Adairs attempts to extinguish powerful flames still ravaging the Piper Alpha oil platform, where 166 people died in the world's worst oil rig disaster. A two-man team directed by Adair, at 73 acknowledged
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    • 784 22 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container IX 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Alltrans VII 3 Americon Tpt II 4/5 Anship Int'l V 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 APC tine V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI III 1 Asian Ocean VI
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    • 398 22 Lloyd's List TIPHOOK PLC announced a 155 per cent rise in pre-tax profit, to just over £10 million and said its container fleet was set for further expansion. The UK-based group rivals San Francisco s Triton Container International Ltd
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    • 470 23 UK CONSOLIDATOR Anglo European Agencies is offering a one-stop warehousing and transportation service to British retailers and importers. Mr Robert Brown, managing director of Anglo European Agencies, said the company would tie up with a publicly listed company in the UK to offer
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    • 81 23 IN AN IN-HOUSE merger, the West German shipping bank Deutsche Schiffahrtsbank and the smaller Deutsche Schiffspfandkreditbank in West Berlin were formally joined together. The operation of the two banks has been carried out by the same management since 1948. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner each control
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    • 165 23 AFP UNIONS and management in France's biggest shipyards in Saint-Nazaire, have reached agreement to end a four-week long strike over planned redundancies, union sources said. The dispute opposing management and the 4,800 workers of the Saint Nazaire shipyards in the west of France broke
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    • 253 23 Seatrade Week FIVE South Korean owners have been given permission to place newbuilding orders with domestic yards using overseas finance on a leasing basis. Particular emphasis is on container vessels and ore/coal carriers in the deals which are done through
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    • 270 23 AFP ATTENTION focussed on rising oil prices over the past week on the tanker market, following the shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane in the Gulf by the US Navy, which broughte fears of retaliation, and the explosion at a North Sea oil platform, London brokers Gibson
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    • 312 23  -  By KINGSLEY WOOD Writing for BT from Sydney AN ELECTRONIC communications network could lead to savings of up to Aslos million for the handling of sea freight, according to an Australian Working Party on Cargo Movements. Part of the government's Waterfront Strategy,
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    • 8379 28 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
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    • 1217 30 (tORTH American grain voyage fixing 'proved slightly busier but little change .occurred in established rate patterns -O* the London shipping freights market on Friday 2* Richardson fixed an unspecified prompt loader from the St Lawrence -fo Seaforth with 25.445 tons of grain at US$l4 (fio). Also from the
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    • 664 26 KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. K'lini ORIENTAL FAITN ORIENTAL FRIENDSHIP AMBASSADOR BRIDGE ORIENTAL FORTUNE ORIENTAL FAITH ORIENTAL FRIENDSHIP AMBASSADOR BRIDGE ORIENTAL FORTUNE N. AMERICA-ATLANTIC COAST N. AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST MOTHER VESSEL MACKINAC BRIDGE BROOKLYN BRIDGE GEORGE W. BRIDGE MANHATTAN BRIDGE N. AMERICA PACIFIC NORTH-WEST EUROPE (Member of ACE) NEPTUNE DIAMOND NEPTUNE
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    • 815 27 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD F General Enquiries: T»l: 279M77 Terminal CFS BOOKINGS *****22 *****53 P Keijng NEPLINE SON BHD *****17 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Penang NEPLINE SON. BHD. 620tt3S/6276»/627K1/67ra2 J Bahru NEPLINE SON BHD. *****0/*****1 FE EU/AUST TPA/SEA S: *****53 *****42 *****11 *****11 *****11 *****41 INWARD/OUTWARD ENQUIRIES *****44 TO EUROPE/UK
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    • 353 27 HEUNG-fl 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!! Vessel's Name ETD BS S PORE PKELANC KEE BUSAN HO JI ♦Mo t Donam/IO7NIW 23-23/07 <M-W» 10/W No Donam/MN 10/07 23 2S/07 27-2S/07 OS-OS/OI
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    • 880 29 c# FARGO SHIPPING COMPANY(PTE)LTD No 15 Hoe Chiang Road *13-02 Sanford Building, Singapore 0208 Tel: *****22 Tlx ***** FASCO ABC CONTAINERLINE N.V. WE NAVE GOT THE FASTEST TRANSIT TIME TO AUSTRALIA! TiMTT ETA 24/7/88 Only 7 days to Fremantle Only 12 days to Melbourne Only 15 days to Sydney FROM
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    • 369 30 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd Lni TEL *****06 (20 Lines) TLX RS ***** &RS ***** t I \S| R\ \K I IM K. III) STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-R0 HEAVY LIFT! Yokohama > Nacoya 3/8 Osaka 1/S 1 Senboku Moji •Subject to cargo inducement NOTE: ALSO CALLING
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    • 448 30 CGMi FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA-EAST COAST/GULF£ANADA/*£XtCO AND FRENCH WEST INDIES Far Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Saltwort. Portmouth, Norfolk, Savannah torvinf GULF Miami. Mobile. Now Orleans, Houston/Max ia> Vora Cmt, co City/FREMCH V. Mies Fort Do Franco, Porntr* A. Pttre, Docrad V^rro COLUMBUS LINE
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    • 148 30 WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK LONDON, MARSEILLES Aflent: MHON-ASM SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD Tel: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: RS ***** Ba Sb Oi BANGLADESH NATIONAL LINE (Bangladesh Government Enterpnset MV Bartglar Mitt MV Bartglar Swapna S PORE Ldg lor 20*7 Ctg/Chalna Tin Japan Accepting container* and break
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