The Business Times, 13 August 1987

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 112/12/86 THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 187 1 Exchange rates THE S$ closed slightly weaker at S$2.1085/95 (2.1075/85) against the US$ in quiet trading yesterdsy. It traded within a range of 2.1060 and 2.1105. The local unit also fell against and HK$, but went up against M$, yen and DM. US$1 151.40/50 yen, 1.8965/75 DM,
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  • 477 1  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM KEPPEL CORPORATION Ltd is firmly back on the profit path after nearly three years of trimming and cost-cutting, helped by a sharp recovery in the marine industry. Following on its modest turnaround last year, the Keppel group yesterday reported
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  • 220 1 SINGAPORE share prices yesterday recovered from their day's lows to close mixed on a moderate turnover of 45.46 million shares valued at $168.97 million. The Straits Times Industrial Index edged up 1.19 points to close at 1,491.28. The broader market however remained
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  • 725 1  -  Price of $1.50 each By LEONG WEN WAH JURONG SHIPYARD LTD is making the largest share offer this year 50 million shares of 50 cents each at $1.50 each. The offer opens today and closes on Aug 25. The company, a leading ship-repairer in the
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  • 455 1 Bernama ASEAN envoys in Washington have taken steps to soften the impact of the LKS omnibus trade Bill on the region's economy. The Asean Washington Committee (AWC), which comprises the six Asean ambassadors, recently sent a memorandum to Congressmen expressing their
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  • 475 1  -  By ALVIN TAY Banking Correspondent RAFFLES City (Pte) Ltd will soon raise a whopping $500 million note issuance facility (Nif), the biggest amount ever raised on the local capital markets. The issue will easily surpass the existing record for a note
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  • 92 1 Bernama MALAYSIAN EMPLOYERS, concerned by rising wages, yesterday urged the government to reform the present system to ensure greater wage flexibility. The reforms should allow for a quick and effective response to changing economic circumstances while at the same time ensuring job security, said
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    • 335 1 Aussie coal crisis THE AUSTRALIAN coal industry is facing a crisis brought on by bad miscalculation on the part of management regarding the export market. The situation is compounded by workers stubbornly maintaining demands for high wages and increasingly inefficient work practices. See Page 10 for the full report. HITACHI
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    • 7 1 Jakarta taxWa group makas appaai, Back Fags
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    • 146 1 BALLY a of Switzerland ...meets the challenge of today. Sote Agent SG Parran Son (toai lid Singapore Big Four back OUE's S22Sm refinancing, Paga 9 JTC ralaaa tloom on bond markat, Paga 9 Shipping Times comes as a separate section today. Make sure you get your copy. J* e igf'
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 594 2  -  By ANNA TEO HITACHI CONSUMER Products (HOP) is investing $5 million over the next 12 months to mske more audio products and vacuum cleaners, as well as improve its television production system. The company says that after a lapse of some five years, China has re-emerged
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  • 290 2 AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY offering specialist structural assessment services is to be set up in Singapore soon. Halpern Glick Pty Ltd, a Perth-based consulting engineering firm, is in the process of finalising a joint venture with a Singapore company. Mr Graham Glick, a director of
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  • 306 2 WORKERS attending National Day observance ceremonies yeeterday were reminded of the need for Singaporeans to work together to overcome problems and challenges. At Hitachi Consumer Products in Bedok South, Home Affairs Minister Professor S Jsyakumar said the ability of the people and the
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  • 235 2 JEAN NOEL QUILHERi has been appointed general manager of Club Med iter ranee Mr Guilhem, who has been with Club Med for seven years, will be responsible for the development and implementation of marketing programmes to promote Club Med's AsianPacific resorts to the Singapors market. He was
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  • 139 2 MANUFACTURERS can learn about the product liability laws of the US snd Europe st a course being organised by the Trade Development Board and the Singapore Institute of Standards snd Industrial Research. The subject of product liability haa gained importance in the past
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  • 78 2 A FOUR-DAY COURSE to familiarise traders and cargo agents with the current trade classification and documentation procedures will be held next month at the World Trade Centre. Organised by the Trade Development Board, the course will also cover topics on principles of trade classifications and classification
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 528 3 UPI CHINA'S ambassador to the Unitad States called "the Taiwan question'' the major obstacle to better economic and political relations between China and the United States. If the United States makes clear that the communist government in Beijing is the
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    • 430 3 Production grinds to a halt at two more plants AP SOUTH KOREA'S entire motor vehicle industry was crippled yesterday with two more plants halting production as scores of new labour disputes flared up across the nation, affecting tens of thousands of workers.
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    • 139 3 AP CHINA'S Ministry of Light Industry plans to stage an exhibition later this year to display low-quality, unsafe, shoddily made consumer goods, an official daily said yesterday. The China Daily, quoting an official of the ministry's quality supervision and management committee, said the national exhi-
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    • 439 3 MBT PRIME MINISTER Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir's Mohamad's visit to the Soviet Union and Hungary has opened up greater avenues for closer cooperation, increased trade and collaboration between these countries and Malaysia. Businessmen who followed Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir to
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    • 223 3 UPI A GROUP of landowners, including relatives of President Corazon Aquino, have protested against her agrarian reform programme and her handling of the nation's communist insurgency. "We spent money, worked against Marcos, we expected change, but this government is going to the communists," charged
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    • 371 3 Reuter JAPAN'S top researcher into superconductivity said on Tuesday the first commercial applications of the new scientific process would probably be developed by the toy industry. Shoji Tanaka, a physics professor at Tokyo University, told a press briefing that toymakers were conducting intensive
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 412 4 Reuter CONSERVATIVE ECONOMIST Alan Greenspan has assumed the leadership of the US central bank, taking with him President Reagan's confidence that he will maintain its traditional independence. Greenspan heard warm praise from Reagan as he was sworn in on Tuesday in succession to
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    • 394 4 FT EXPORTS of personal computers from the West to Eastern bloc countries are to be formally liberalised by the 15-nation Parisbased Coordinating Committee for Multinational Export Controls (Cocom) next month. The move is part of the constant updating of the Cocom list of
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    • 249 4 FT SPAIN'S socialist government has received a warning from its central bank not to boost the economy further, in spite of signs that a recent growth spurt putting the country well ahead of its initial 3 per cent target for the year is
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    • 350 4 Reuter PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua took the first step toward compliance with a regional peace treaty yesterday, holding an unprecedented meeting with the heads of the country's political opposition parties. Ortega also met for nearly an hour with Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo,
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    • 301 4 AP A RECORD 125.8 million Americans. or roughly 69 per cent of the United States working-age population, held jobs during all or part of 1986 an increase of 2.3 million above 1985, the government said. And roughly 85 per cent of the
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    • 330 4 AFP MEMBERS of a United Nagroup looking into finance for African economic development, and particularly the problem of foreign debts, have had two days of talks with government and central bank officials in Nairobi at the start of their mission. The group's chairman
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    • 421 4 NYT THE SOUTH AFRICAN government plans to introduce tougher labour laws giving more protection to employers. As the country's biggest wage strike entered its third day, the Manpower Minister, Pieter T Du Plessis, called on hundreds of thousands of striking mineworkers to return
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    • 179 4 AP CANADA is prepared to cut diplomatic and economic ties with South Africa if sanctions do not work, Canadian Foreign Minister Joe Clark said on Tuesday. Speaking to journalists on the first stop of a four-nation African tour, Mr Clark said Canada had instituted
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 324 6 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller doting prices on Aug 11 (£/tonne union spodfiod). Previous closing prices in parenthesis Coffee Basis in-store London, tellers option CIF London Sop 1265/1267 High/Low (1275/1277) 1280/1266 Nov 1290/1291 (1297/1298) High/Low 1300/1287 Soles (2992) Cocoa Sep 1279/1280 (1270/1272) High/Low 1280/1264 Dec 1320/1321 (1310/1311) High/Low 1322/1304
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    • 210 6 Chinese Produce Exchange Sailors' noon doting prk an August 12 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bu* FOB 95.00 Old drum FOB 105.00 Now drum FOB 109.00 Copra Mlxod (loot*) 56 Pepper Muntak whit* FOB NIW 1185.00 Sarawak wMto FOB faq NIW 1170.00 Sarawak spodal Mack FOB NLW 942.50 Sarawak
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    • 227 6 Reuter SINGAPORE THE MARKET yesterday closed lower with September One RSS buyers quoted at 210.25 cents/kilo, down one cent from yesterday. The morning session ended little changed from overnight levels after fluctuating narrowly on shortcovering alternated with profit-taking, in thin trading. Trading was quiet in the afternoon session but
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    • 291 6 R AS prices In S c*nt»/kg, FOB In b*l* B NOON CLOSE 6vy*rs S*ll*rs ftvy*rs Sollors Int 1 RSS Prompt 212.75 213.75N 211.75 212.75N tnt 1 RSS S«p 87 211.50 212.00 210.25 211.00 Int 1 RSS Oct 211.50 212.00 210.25 211.00 Int 2 RSS OP 209.75 211.75N
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    • 102 6 (eanti/kg, l-tor pollen) SEPTEMBER 87 OCTOBER 87 (currant month) (forward month) NOOM NOON HAw Ivytn Stbn Sil»n SS« 20 187JO 189JON 187.50 189JON SSt 50 186.00 187 00N 186.00 187.00N MRELB 8ur«n S«U*n IvyM S*it*a SMI CV 263JO 265JON 264J0 266JON SMt I 263.50 265JON 264JO 266J0N
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    • 70 6 EAST ASIAN spot product prices weakened slightly on the petroleum spot market but most crudes rallied on renewed enduser demand. USJ/borr* Otanga Owboi (Sap*) WW T»»oi 17.70 +ais WT1 (SapO 21.10 -0.40 Products (FOB S'pore) USS/barrel Oong. i— GaaoH koo Sulphur Wai; I«Mm, L5Wt 24.10 21.05 19.15
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    • 102 6 Reuter THE KUALA LUMPUR Hn mark*! yesterday closed •toady at Tuesday's M 516.33 par kg aflar a fairly quial and brlaf trading seeaion, dealers •aid. Buyars and aallara were evenly male had at tha opening laval of M$ 16.33. Volume was 43 tonnes agalnat 92 on Tuesday, and
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    • 427 6 Crude palm oil futures yesterday closed weaker on profit-taking and renewed selling, as operators turned cautious after Tuesday s firmness and liquidated positions while awaiting further developments. Higher overnight Chicago soyoil futures and Pakistan's RBO palm oil purchase for first half September shipment failed to help sentiment. September
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    • 318 6 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed lower in fairly active trading mainly on late selling pressure reflecting the firmer tone of the US dollar. Sentiment toward gold remained positive amid continued tension in the Gulf and the gold miners' strike in South Africa. Gold ended at U*****.20/70 an ounce against
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 65 8 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market fell by 2 points to 214 per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate rose by 1/16 point while the twoand three-month rates remained unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: arm mo Ownight 2 1/4 2 1-monft 4 3/1« 4
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    • 154 8 Gold futures on Aug 12 100 toy ounow USS par troy ounco OpM Mgk Lav tofe Aug 07 442-30 444^0 440.00 444.20 3.00 W -tftl *K1 444.50 442-30 446 0Q 3^0 Oct 447 JO 449.40 443.60 ■Iff frft X70 0« 472. JO 475.00 449JO 474.20 340 M>
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    • 1371 8 SINGAPORE: THE US dollar yesterday closed slightly firmer against most major currencies helped by light European buying in late afternoon trading. Dealers said trading was generally quiet throughout the day with the dollar moving within a narrow range amid fears of central bank intervention and remaining US Treasury
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    • 675 8 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IMM T« mdoy, A •l«M« 11 1987 MfTNH POU M0 £2M CaNi NiOMk ipart P MM 1325 l»p c 2.40 M« 1 >PP-C 1 hH 0.25 1.10 DPfr* 2jOO ISM 2JJ 143 3.45 070 1.95 2.95 1S7S a»j 1.35 240 17S 340 440 1600 040 070
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    • 379 8 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at slightly lower opening levels in thin trading. Dealers said ehortdatee and term rates eased 1/16 point at the outset following good demand for US Treasury auction of U559.75 billion of three- year notes, lower Federal funds rate and the Federal
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 395 9  -  By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent THE CURRENT accounts of Singapore banks leapt by $2.8 billion to $8.4 billion in May, the highest monthly jump in history. For the past year, the average monthly increase had been lees than $500 million. Bankers attribute this
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    • 366 9 Reuter THE STRENGTH of Japanese financial services companies will force US investment banks to consolidate, but the move should leave retail securities houses unscathed, Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc chairman Peter Cohen said. "I think that Japanese firms are the biggest single
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    • 186 9 Indicates Mm average of «w prim* landing rates oI 12 major banks In S'poro f Average of prime or equivalent lending rate on Aug 12 London 10.00% Hongkong 6.5 N«w York 8.25% Bongkok 1U Tokyo 3.375 Jokorto 20 Zurich* 3-5 Kuolo Lumpur 775 Frankfurt* 3% MonMo 15
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    • 585 9 Slmex/IMM SEPTEMBER Eurodollar yesterday opened 4 ticks higher at 92.87 on better-than-expected demand for the three-year auctions. However, uncertainty over foreign demand for the 10-year and 30-year auctions led prices to trade sideways within a tight range. The September contract finally closed
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    • 186 9 Reuter GOLD BULLION, currently trading around US$46O an ounce, below recent 2-1/2 month highs, has the potential to move higher, and could test US$5OO soon, broker Kleinwort Grieveson said in its latest Precious Metals Monitor. A number of positive factors are supporting gold,
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    • 64 9 Reuter TURNOVER in gold futures at the Tokyo Commmodity Exchange for Industry (Tocom) has jumped sharply this year, reflecting growing participation by private investors and increased activity by trading houses. Volume in 1987 up until Tuesday totalled 1.07 million one kilo lots, against a record 1.03 million
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    • 476 9  -  By ALVIN TAY Banking Correspondent THE BIG FOUR local banks have come out in full support of a $225 million refinancing package by publicly-listed Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd (OUE), the operator of Mandarin Hotel. Mr Chong Kim Chow, OUE's general manager, told BT
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    • 228 9 Reuter THE CONTINUED SLUMP in yen bond prices is fanning speculation that Japan s long-term prime rate, now at 5.2 per cent, may be raised again, bankers in Tokyo said. The bearish note prevailing in the yen bond market
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    • 265 9 JURONG TOWN Corporation yesterday launched a novel $100 million multiple fixed rate bond issue, bringing the total amount raised by the statutory board on the capital markets so far this year to $220 million. Unlike conventional bond issues which carry single interest coupons,
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    • 402 9 FT THE BANK OF ENGLAND has issued guidelines to British banks on the provisions they might be expected to make for loans to troubled developing country debtors. The move follows the decision of many US and UK banks to make large increases in
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    • 86 9 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's dosing Day's cod* Maturity BID OffW HKJH LOW 3 months BQ*****F 12.11.87 3.13 3.03 3.10 3.05 6 months BS*****Z 21.01.88 3.19 3.09 3.15 3.12 1 year BY*****S 30.06.88 3.35 3.25 3.28 3.28 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing
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    • 210 9 Audit Committees' 9 The Companies (Amendment) Act 1957 placet increased of the director! for the conduct of the company end die shem a true and hiriiiv. Audit committees, which ere mandatofy in parts of the U.SA. and Canada, have been receiving much attention recently here in Singapore as a possible
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 580 10 NO EMPLOYER needs to be reminded of the cuts and bruises suffered during the free-for-all in the labour market in the early eighties. Scrambling for scarce workers, many employers simply boosted wages and then watched in dismay as their profitability plunged and their international competitiveness declined. What
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    • 1552 10  -  Australia's largest export industry coal, which earns around Ass billion a year, twice as much as the next biggest industries wool and iron ore is in turmoil. It is losing its market shares in an increasingly competitive world market to countries including China and South
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    • 862 11  -  More than wages are at stake as South Africa's militant National Union of Mineworkers goes on strike. A defeat for the union would be a severe blow to its allies and to the fight for the political rights of the nation's 25 million blacks. DAVID
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    • 857 11  -  By LEONARD SILK NYT HOW SERIOUS are the risks of a war in the Middle East that would close the Persian Gulf and send oil prices spiralling upwards? The Iranian leaders have been making threats that have caused the oil market to
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1226 11 w vm mm i THURSDAY FEATURE SPECIAL The Second Victory 10.30pm, Channel 5 Set in 1945, in an Austrian town during the end of the war, occupation officer Major Mark Hanlon (Anthony Andrews, left) finds himself caught in the middle of two murders. First, his sergeant is killed. The murderer
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 460 12 AFP SNOOKER is to go global next season for the first time with a World Series spanning the five continents. The sport's top players will compete in eight tournaments as far apart as Tokyo, Hongkong, Rio de Janeiro and Las Vegas for a top
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    • 371 12 Reuter EDWIN ROSARIO withstood the brawling tactics of an old rival on Tuesday night when he successfully defended his World Boxing Association lightweight title by knocking out fellow Puerto Rican Juan Nazario. Rosario knocked the challenger down and out with a
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    • 312 13 Reuter WORLD 200-metre record holder Pietro Mennea of Italy, who returned to the track at the age of 35 on Monday night, said his win had been important but he had to accept he was not up to world championship level. "Without being presumptuous, I think
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    • 755 13 Reuter THE US PGA championship which Larry Nelson won in a playoff on Sunday also determined the membership of this year's American Ryder Cup team, adding two very formidable competitors. As champion. Nelson, who beat Lanny Wadkins on the first hole of
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    • 258 13 Reuter INJURY and illness have taken their toll on Olympic 800 metres champion Joaquim Cruz to the point where "sometimes I don't know how to run". "My injury last year is causing me some troubles," said the Brazilian, who galloped to gold so
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    • 335 13 Reuter NEW ZEALAND'S three-yacht team held off a late challenge from Britain to clinch their first victory in the Admiral's Cup on Tuesday night. The provisional points table at the end of the 973-Km classic Fastnet Race the last in
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    • 451 13  -  Iranklif, speaking.... WALTON MORAIS THE ANNOUNCEMENT said that North Korea was "drastically slashing" its demand to stage eight events of the 1988 Olympics and would instead settle for five full events and part of another. For those who've been following the protracted Olympic negotiations
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    • 1120 13 Game invented out of impatience with British cricket UPI WE ENGLISHMEN know all about baseball. It's the strange game that Americans invented because they were too impatient to play cricket. it's what Charlie Brown plays. He stands on a little hill and throws a ball.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4304 14 HELPED BY GAINS from some index stocks, the Straits Times Industrial Index nudged up 1.19 points to close at a new high of 1,491.28. But the broaderbased BT Composite Index, which includes 40 stocks from all sectors, fell 3.07 points to 1,324.62 while
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      • 260 15 HOCK LOCK SIEW TAN KOON Swan, former president of the Malaysian Chinese Association now serving time in Changi Prison for his part in the Pan-Electric fiasco, has turned to religion, his prison chaplain confirmed. At one time Malaysia's most influential Chinese politician and businessman,
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      • 497 15 OWNING a Grand Banks luxury cruise yacht may be the typical dream of an American yuppie who has a condominium apartment in the city with a BMW parked downstairs, and a summer house in the country with the latest station wagon
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    • 234 15 CONTINUING the hot streak established last year, Harimau Investments Ltd. the closed-end investment trust backed by Over-sea-Chinese Banking Corp, has reported a hefty gain of 42.3 per cent in its operating profit after tax during the first six months of 1987. The group posted after-tax
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    • 206 15 Full subscription for Bedford rights BEDFORD BHD's rights of 49.56m new ordinary shares of 50 Malaysian cents each at an issue price of 50 cents each has been fully subscribed. Total acceptances by shareholders amounted to 46.59m shares or 94.97pc. There were excess applications amounting to 7.04m shares.
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    • 501 15  -  Bottom-line losses amount to Mss7m By LISA LEE DESPITE dismal bottom-line losses of M 556.8 million for fiscal 1986, MBf Holdings Bhd is asking shareholders for M 5139.5 million in new funds through a proposed rights issue. In its belated financial results
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    • 556 15 ROXY ELECTRIC Industries Ltd, which swung back into the black in the first six months of the current financial year, is proposing a rights issue to raise M 5117.56 million. The two-for-three rights issue comprising 90.43 million new shares is to be priced at
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      • 64 15 Loss after tax of $389,132 (loss of $157,485) on turnover of $4386,921 ($1.2 million) for the six months ended June 30, 1987. Loss per share is 5.2 cents (2.1 cents). There was an extraordinary gain of $1.97 million arising from the sale of long term investment less
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      • 84 15 Group loss after tax of M 53.34 million (loss of $1.23 million) on turnover of $18.8 million ($19.45 million) for the six months ended June 30, 1987. Loss per share is 1.4 cents (0.5 cents. Group operating losses amounted to M 52.27 million from an operating profit
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    • 488 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM MARGINS have improved considerably at Straits Steamship while Far East Levingston Shipbuilding is having a busy sec-ond-half with another eight vessels scheduled for completion. Steamers, the diversified property and shipping-based subsidiary of Keppel Corp, saw a 30
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 3484 16 THE SHARE price slide in the Kuala Lumpur stock market was checked in the final session but overall share prices were still easier in moderate trading yesterday. Activity picked up after the lunch break particularly in lower liners and situational counters to trim
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    • 256 16 Monog«fY prices MARA-Bumiputra for Aug 13 First I'putro 7 84 7 m Sacond fi'putro 695 700 Singapore Unit Trust Third I'putro 518 523 Tli* ComMfc* Four* I'putro 640 645 129 1 36 Fitlti B'putra 416 421 Tha Savings Fund 111 1 18 Salt) B'putra 439 444 S'pore frog
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    • 258 16 Reuter JAPAN'S giant Toshiba Corp, embroiled in a major controversy over the transfer of secret submarine technology to the Soviet Union, has lost its bid to sell 90,000 portable computers to the Pentagon. Lap-top minicomputers, software and services for US defence agencies worldwide will
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    • 676 16 Hongkong DBS Securities Reuter ALTHOUGH the Hang Seng Index has recorded another gain of 11 points yesterday to finish the day at another unprecedented record of 3,557.43. the fourth straight high, volume has slackened noticeably to HK$l.9 billion as many investors remained cautious in
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    • 159 16 AFP JAPAN'S Mitsubishi Mining and Cement Company is planning to purchase 42.48 per cent of Indonesia's PT Semen Cibinong cement company. The acquisition of the shares, worth US$2B million, has yet to be approved by the Indonesian government, the Antara news agency quoted
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    • 107 16 UPI FUJITSU Microelectronics Inc has filed site review plans with Gresham city in Oregon for the first phase of a proposed US$l3O million manufacturing plant that ultimately would employ 2,800 people. City officials expressed restraint in their comments, noting the lack of a financial commitment on
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    • 496 16 Reuter int anAnc price index on Tokyo market closed sharply higher yesterday, its sixth straight advance, in active trading on record Wall Street gains overnight and a prevailing mood of optimism. The 225-share Nikkei Index gained 276.31 points to 25,559.28, just off the day s peaks. On Tuesday the
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    • 497 16 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed firmer yesterday but off the day's earlier record highs as strong demand for goldrelated and resource stocks evaporated. But they said heavy interest in blue chip industrial stocks, especially banks and media scrip, propped up the market, which retreated as bullion fell below
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    • 789 16 NOTICES m LTCB The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan. Ltd. Singapore Branch US. $15,000,000 NEGOTIABLE FLOATING RATE US. DOLLAR CEHTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT DUE FEBRUARY 11, 1988 In accordance with the provisions of the Certificates, notice is hereby given that for the Interest Period from August 13,1987 to February 11,1988 the
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    • 324 16 In the matter of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 and In the matter of ORIENT CONVENTION BUSINESS TOURS PTE. LIMITED NOTICE OF SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the Company duly convened and held at 1 Jalan Seaview, Singapore 1543, on 12th August 1967, the
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1016 17 New York WALL STREET stocks surged again to new highs on Tuesday as even the most cautious investors joined in the buying frenzy. The Dow Jones industrial Average rose 44.64 points to close at an all-time high of 2,680.48. The 30-share index's advance, the eighth-largest
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    • 930 17 London Reuter THE OVERNIGHT record gains and heavy voluma on Wall Street apilled over into London yesterday morning and sent shares ahead in early trading. But the market's remaining caution about fresh UK economic indicators due in the coming week brought prices back from their
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    • 827 17 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Wodnaxtoy 2.331 57 TuMdoy Z3I9A3 WnI ago 2.296 14 Hong Seng Index WodMidoy 3 557 43* TuMdoy 3,***** WMI 090 3,517 13 Al Industrials WidMidnr ZW07 TuMdoy 2.WU WMk ago i*3i5 NEW YOfK Dow Jones TuMdoy Zifl04r Moodoy Wook 090 Z544 7I TOKYO Nikkei Average
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    • 253 17 AFP AIRBUS INDUSTRIE enjoyed a marked rise in first-half sales compared with the same period last year, while Boeing's sales dropped, figures released by the builders show. Airbus received firm orders for 83 aircraft during the first half, against 83 tor the first six months
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    • 282 17 FT LLOYDS BANK Is to increase its preeence on Wall Street by buying a 25 rm n I—A A I \4f 1,. P®' C®tft llr^Vl Peck and Qreer, a New York investment management Arm, tor U8887.5 million, with the option of inrreeling
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    • 227 17 Reuter AMSTERDAM-ROTTERDAM Bank NV, the third-largest Dutch bank, raported 20.4 par cant higher first half 1987 net profits of 210 million guilders and said it expected higher full year net profits and increased earnings per share. The bank propoeed an interim dividend of two guilders per
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    • 557 17 Keppel Corporation limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Directors advise the fallowing unaudited results of the Company and the Group tor the six months ended X June 1967: COMPANY GROUP Group revenue at $30&5 mifcon tor the first six months increased by 185%, and operating profit and investment
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  • 406 18  -  Value exceeds amount awarded last year By JEFFREY TSANG PRIVATE SECTOR developers awarded more building contracts in the first half of this year than during the whole of last year. The latest Monthly Bulletin of Construction Statistics shows that
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  • 356 18  -  By CORRINA LIM IN AN aggressive bid for Central Provident Fund members' savings, DBS Bank yesterday launched a unit trust fund minus the usual sales fee and with a lower management fee. Set up specifically for CPF members, the Shenton
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  • 205 18 THE MASS Rapid Transit (MRT) system will have a station at Boon Lay now that Telecoms has agreed to vacate the site needed for the station. The MRT Corporation said yesterday that the Housing and Development Board and Telecoma had reached an agreement on
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  • 186 18 Reuter BANGLADESH said yesterday that it would never accept a Sri Lanka-style solution to a 14-year-old tribal rebellion in the south of the country. Foreign Secretary Nazrul Islam said the Sri Lankan peace accord signed by Colombo and New Delhi last month aimed at solving a
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  • 241 18 THE SINGAPORE government's order to curtail the Asian Wall Street Journafs circulation was beyond the review of the courts because the government was using its political discretion when it said that the A WSJ was engaging in the Republic's domestic politics. This
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  • 122 18 Bernama THE BANK of America National Trust and Saving Association is optimistic about its opsrstions in Kuala Lumpur and has no intention of pulling out of this region. Vice-chsirmsn Robert Frick gave this assurance in Kuala Lumpur yesterday following strong rumours, fuelled by the
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  • 123 18 SINGAPORE'S most senior soldier, Major-General Winston Choo, has been conferred Malaysia's highest military award, the Darjah Psnglima Gagah Angkatan Tenters (PGAT). The citation said that General Choo, who is Chief of General Staff of the SAF, was conferred the award for playing "a significant role
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  • 175 18 Bernama THE INDONESIAN Textile Association has called on the US government to prevent Congress from passing a Bill to restrict textile imports. A five-member delegation headed by former communications minister Frans Seds yesterday presented US Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz a petition protesting against textile
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  • 179 18 UPI CHARLES PRAG Jr, an edger. cutter and die lock at International Drop Forge Co, Milwaukee, is apparently too efficient for his follow union members. Mr Prag was fined US$2OO by his union and put on two years probation on May 12 by Local
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  • 324 18 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES, shaken by a series of assassinations, yeeterday announced special courts, military checkpoints and a crackdown on unlicensed guns, but President Corazon Aquino ruled out an emergency curbing of civil rights. Mrs Aquino, leaving a weekly Cabinet meeting, shook her
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  • 83 18 Reuter WALL STREET stocks fell yesterday as profit-taking hit the market after a record two-day blue chip and general market rally. However, brokers said selling was restrained and trading pros were waiting for the early foreign trading to end before making their moves. The Dow 30 Index
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  • 86 18 Reuter THE SOVIET machine-building industry, a priority growth area in the Kremlin's economic reetructuring drive, continues to lag behind target production levels. An official newspaper said yesterday that statistics for the first seven months of this year showed overall industrial output had reached planned levels
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  • LATE FILE
    • 60 18 Reuter HONGKONG'* budget surplus tor fiscal 1067/88 is liksly to bs twice ss high es the HKS2.4 billion originally torecast by the government. Acting Deputy Financial Secretary Brian Jenney said that latest estimates showed that revenue was running 4 per cent to 5 per cent above
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    • 31 18 AFP THE PHILIPPINE Cabinet yesterday approved a US$B.3 billion proposed budget for 1988, of which 40 per cent is set aside for repaying the foreign debt AFP
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    • 32 18 Bernama THE DEMOCRATIC Action Party began holding public meetings yesterday to protest against the Malaysian government tor awarding the North-South Highway project contract to United Engineers Malaysia. Bernama
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    • 42 18 Reuter FRENCH Defence Minister Andre Giraud warned Libya yeeterday that Paris was still ready to intervene in Chad in spite of its refusal to beck Chadian government troops in their drive to retake a disputed border zone. Reuter
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    • 50 18 Reuter ALITALIA has joined Swissair, British Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlinee and America's United Airlines in a move to set up a Europewide airline computer booking system. This takee to eeven the number of carriers in the system, which includes Austrian Airlines and British Caledonian. Reuter
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    • 48 18 Reuter JAPAN will help Sri Lanka with reconstruction after four years of ethnic violence. Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ronnie de Mel said yesterday after talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari that Tokyo would help with rehabilitation in the North and East. Reuter
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 125 19 THE PHILIPPINE National Lines has bared plans to start before the end of the year a liner service between the Southern Philippine port of Davao and Menado in Indonesia in a joint venture with Indonesian interests, says a Sea trade Week report. A 3,700-dwt ship
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    • 411 19  -  Box-handling shows even better growth By LILIAN ANG GROWTH in general cargo throughput at the Port of Singapore Authority gathered momentum with a 13 per cent rise to 24 million tonnes in the first half of this year compared with the same period in 1966. The
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    • 264 19 JAPANESE CARRIER K' Line has claimed to be the first Japanese carrier to establish direct computer links with the US Customs Service. Its "live" interface with the Customs's central processing unit started in Seattle port on July 27, and it is currently
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    • 148 19 Reuter THE INDIA-Pakistan-Ban-gladesh-UK-Continent conference has suspended a proposed surcharge on cargoes loaded in Bombay because congestion caused by a strike has eased. Docks manager M A Rub said yesterday that the surcharge was to have come into effect last Friday but the conference suspended it without
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 90 19 A PIRAEUS COURT has ruled that a ban on overtime, evening shifts and Sunday working by the Federstion of Greek Port Employees is illegal. The ban, which had been in operation since early May, had caused considerable problems in major ports and Piraeus Port Authority
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      • 82 19 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES has agreed to sell three of its C5-class breakbulk freighters to the US government for US$l5 million. The three ships, the Presidents Jackson, Taylor and Adams, have been maintaining a semi-tramp service between the US and Asia for the past decade.
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    • 646 20 ike «DUG BGJKSQB AP SHIPPING in the Persian Gulf is booming despite rising tensions in the srss and the resulting jump in insurance rates, shipbrokers said on Tueeday. The main reason is a significant increase in oil production by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting
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    • 83 20 Reuter MINES bobbing through a crowded shipping haven on Tueeday brought a new menace to vessels plying the Qulf and threatened to disrupt the US navy eecort of Kuwaiti tankera. Three mines were spotted among tankers anchored off the United Arab Emirates port of Fyjairah, a
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    • 258 20 Lloyd 's List A CONVENTIONAL SERVICE linking Antwerp with Mediterranean ports is to be extended to offer container capacity. Beirut-baaed Cedar Star Lin# haa joined forces with Montreal firm Canbel Lines, a division of Sterling Maritime Ltd, ,to provide a box service
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    • 105 20 Reuter LONDON ship insurers on Tuesday confirmed they had introduced war risk premiums for ship hulls in the Gulf of Oman south-east of the Strait of Hormuz. Vessels sailing to the United Arab Emiratee ports of Fujairah and Khor Fakkan must now pay a
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    • 342 20 Reuter THREE refiagged Kuwaiti tankers arrived aafaiy in Kuwait after a tense trip up the Gulf, where the growing threat of mines has prompted Britain and France to send minesweepers to the aree. Britain and France said they would send minesweepers to the region after
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    • 703 20 A» Shpg V s lie lie Shpg IV 3 ABC Contotnoi VM 1 logistics Tpt IV 2 Accord Shpg VI 3 I Brosjle.ro IV 2 Africa Oceon X 2 lloyd Triestmo IV 4/5 AII trans va 3 lykes linos M 7 Aaoricon Tpt X 2/3 Mod* Sdn
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    • 1421 20 A FURTHER gain is reported on Tuesday in the rate for grain chartering from the US Gulf to Japan, with U5517.25 paid for an August loader, compared with the Beltic sub-index for this voysge of $16.967, ship brokers said. Business from the Gulf was otherwise slow to develop
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    • 174 21 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang Shipping ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line
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    • 201 21 Seatrade Week THE SHIPBUILDERS' Council of America, which warns that the "light will go out" in US shipyards after the November delivery of the last of three Sea-Land vessels, has disputed Mar Ad's claim that the US government has poured US$5B billion into yards
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    • 519 21 Reuter THE BALTIC Freight Index (BFI) approached its all-time high of 1,102 points set eariier this year following a 14-point gain to 1,074 on Tuesday. Dry cargo futures on the Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange (Biffex), which trades against the BFI, have already anticipated
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    • 194 21 WITH A CONFERENCE attracting top speakers from all over the world and two halls now almost filled with famous name exhibitors, World Freight is set to become the "world showcasr" of the international freighting industry. The show this year will have much stronger participation
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    • 197 21 ALL SURVEYS are conducted on July 27. Argentina Buenos Aires Waiting time of up to three days. Auatralla Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney Normal operation. Bangladeeh Chittagong Waiting time of one to three weeks. Brazil Santos Waiting time of up to two days. Cameroon Douala Normal operation. Canada Vancouver,
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    • 343 21 INMARSAT it •••king propoeals for research and development programme in various techniques involving the use of satellites for navigation and position determination. Inmarsat ia the 48 member-country cooperative that operates satellites to provide maritime and aeronautical mobile communications services worldwide. "We are now
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    • 292 21  -  By KINGSLEY WOOD THERE WERE complex difficulties in bringing about changes to the performance of Australian container terminals and depots and to stevedoring generally, Mr Ivan Deveson, chairman of the government's Importer/Exporter Panel, said in Sydney. Among them was the frequently limited delivery
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    • 161 21 INCREASED DEMAND for fresh fruit in Asia haa prompted the Port of Seattle, which borders one of the world s great apple-growing areas, into expanding its on-dock chili facilities. The port has inaugurated a new US$3.5 million fruit-handling faefyity at its terminal 91 complex
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    • 7889 26 AARHUS Tang Ha. China Ocaan Shpg, Aug 13. Lauat Maerak, Maerak Una. Aug 13. Evar Group. Evargraan, Aug 13. Ming Univaraa. Yang Ming Una. Aug 13. Banavon, Triot. Aug 17(PK). Sd Gallia. ScanDutcht. Aug 17. Pacifiic Sunahina, ScanOutcht. Aug 18. Evar Garden, Evargraan. Aug 19. Andera Maarak, Maarak
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    • 1032 26 THIS FORTNIGHTLY report. compiled by Cockett Marin* Oil LM. shows pries ranges |ir US dollars, instaad of single prices for more comprehensive description of the marketPrices shown are based on averege sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and ttt# individual changes
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    • 136 26 Area/Port Ml... 1, ,l|„ v isc ot fry Denatty Water C3T at 50C G/ML at 15C Volume 0/0 Africa/Red Sea *4 Jeddah 35/196 0.923/0.955 0.1/2.2 Durban 24/186 0.950/0.992 0.0/0.3 Arabian Gulf w«»r lit Ros Tonura 154/190 0.949/0.950 0.0/1.0 Bahrain 168/183 0.976/0.977 0.1/0.1 Europa Rotterdam 29/504 0.935/1.010
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    • 530 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmmI B»rth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES B*rkn Hdd K2B o'ongvd* 1308/1300 Brinlon lyk* K36 olongud* olongud* 1308/2300 Co»omorco M KI6 13 08X1700 Ca'OKO'ca N (X olongud* 13 *****0 Oiongdu *33 olongud* 15 08/2359 fori N*Hon K29 olongud* 1508/2300 KI5 o'ongi'do 1308/1500 Guongh* K3S olongud*
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    • 82 19 [KMDB SHIPPING In the Persian Gulf is booming despite rising tensions In the area and the resulting jump in insurance rates. The main reason is a significant rise in oil production by Opec, shipbrokers said. P«g« II THE BALTIC Freight Index (BFI) approached Its all-time high of 1,102 points set
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    • 1165 24 K"LinE SHIPPIFIG-OATfi gZHBHwe fiSB&Sg EH S3& ATLAnTIC CDAST (Round-The-World Service) RAINBOW BRIDGE VB N GARNET VlO •VIA FEEDER NYC HFX 19 Sep 23 Sep 26 Sep 30 Sep PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST FEEDER VSL -PK/PNG SP MOTHER VSL LA/LB OAK CHICAGO NEW YORK RAINBOW BRIDGE V 8 Sid 14 Aug HENRY HUDSON
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    • 828 25 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD SK NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD Ft EU/AUST TPA/StA Terminal CFS BOOKINGS *****53 *****42 *****22 *****53 £0} J 52 *****18 27*141 NEPLINE SDN BHD. 36M87 A UT A NEPLINE SON. BHD *****33 imwimis imm NEPLINE SDN BHD *****5/627«0/627it1/«27*i2 NEPLINE SDN BHD *****0/*****1 An EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE
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    • 299 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 (30 Linesl FAX *****39/*****76 TELEX RS ***** A/B SSCMA RS ***** A/B SSCAO VEB DF UTF R ACHT 'SEEREEDERE I p, nr.. in ■rrrrwTirrt TO EUROff 1.J.. v, I'. I'. '.V.' 1' 'I ■EMCMf "VIA COLOMBO: Accepting carpi for INDIA Bombay, Cochin
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    • 265 27 Will CALL US P. T KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 04-*****2/4, *****3 07-*****8 07-*****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 02-*****22 *****68 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE FEEDER I. BUTANG 365 I BUTANG K MTHR VSL PACIFIC SUNSHINE SO GALLIA KORRKAN iUTLANMA OTHER DESTINATIONS: AARHUS. AMSTERDAM.
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    • 433 28 FARGO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTC) LTD REGULAR EXPRfSS FUI I CONTAINFR AND LCI SERVICE INBOUND AGENT FOR ABC CONTAINERLINE From UBA/Canada/Europ*/M«dH«rran«an 200 Cantonment Road #02-03 Southpoint Singapore 0208 Tel: *****22 (4 Lines) CFS (Import) K37 Tel: *****78 CFS (Export) EAL Tel: *****49 P.T. UNITED SHIPPING ORGANISATION LTD I Jf" DIRECT REGULAR
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