The Business Times, 2 November 1976

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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 72 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Hussein Onn said here today that the ruling United Malay National Organisation (Umno) is free from communist infiltration or any other undesirable influence. The Prime Minister in a statement issued in his capacity as the acting Umno President added
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    • 75 1 JAKARTA, Mon Lt. Gen. All Murtopo, deputy chief of the state intelligence body, said today normalisation of relations with China will be decided after next year's general election. Mr. Murtopo told reporters following talks with President Suharto, "The people's consulative assembly will decide whether the time
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    • 66 1 AP SYDNEY, Mon. Natural gas from the massive north-west shelf fields off the west coast of Australia is expected to start flowing in the first half of 1983, Mr. L.T. Forggatt, chairman and chief executive officer of Shell oil, said today. This, however, hinged on receiving necessary approvals
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    • 62 1 S. Korean Iran venture UPI TEHRAN, Mon. Iran will export 60,000 barrels of crude oil a day to South Korea for processing in a jointly-owned Korean refinery, the National Iranian Oil Company announced today. A National Iranian Oil Company spokesman said the 15-year agreement included provisions for a joint venture
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    • 70 1 Reuter SINGAPORE, Mon. Hanoi Radio today reported the resumption of railway traffic between the two former states of North and South Vietnam. The radio said that last Saturday the first train to cross the old 17th parallel dividing line between the two parts of Vietnam left the
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    • 40 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) will soon carry out a survey for proposed microwave links between Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, a Communications Ministry spokesman said here today. Reuter.
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    • 32 1 PEKING. Mon. An official spokesman Indirectly denied today a toall poster report that VicePremier Li Hsien-Nien has been appointed Prime Minister. "Comrade Hua Kuo-feng is Prime Minister," he said.
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    • 28 1 LONDON, Mon. At 3 p.m. today, the Financial Times index was up 9.1 at 285.8, helped by relatively steady sterling and a stock shortage.
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  • Chie Price Changes
    • 182 1 SENTIMENT at the Stock Exchange of Singapore turned better yesterday as speculative support emerged with the opening of the new month. Gains ranging up to four per cent were noted. The Business Times index rose 3.76 points to 251.42. However, the Straits Times Industrial index ended the
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    • 108 1 Rises Most octive OCBC. $820 K G. Hold $108 C. Sugars $1.02 Gentings $2.73 Inchcape $2.33 DBS $3 90 Haw Par $1.03 Boustead $3.26 CandC $1.92 U M Works $138 Foils Sea View $0 46 A Amal $2.78 T. Cement $1.65 .15 .08 06'/, 06 06 06
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  • 819 1  -  CASH IS PILING UP AT BANKS By COLIN CHEE ABOUT $67 million more In loans and advances were extended by Singapore banks in September from August, according to the latest monthly statistical report released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Loans and advances
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  • 175 1 BAHRAIN, Won. The Bahrain offshore banking market grew to more than US$5 billion (5512.25 billion) by the end of September, Bahrain Monetary Agency director general Alan Moore said. Mr. Moore said he is confident the market will continue to grow steadily and will
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  • 777 1 THE development of offshore deposit centres around the world will lead to a more extensive and deeper international market for offshore funds. Manila's emergence as an Asian dollar centre and the establishment in Bahrain of a number of offshore banking units will have a
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  • 225 1 THE deputy managing director of Singapore Airlines is being posted to Washington DC In what may be viewed as an intensive effort by the national carrier to resolve its applications for flights to America. According to SlA's newsletter Outlook, Mr Lve Khay Fong, who is
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  • 357 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. By almost every measurement available, the 1976 Presidential campaign In the United Slates seems to be heading for a photo-finish. Pollster Louis Harris said yesterday, "This election is up for grabs." He said he had no reason to change his latest
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  • 186 1 SINGAPORE travellers who suffer from the hands of travel agencies facing financial collapse or from the malpractices of tour agents may have some redress in store for them if the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has its way. The STPB had proposed a compensation fund
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  • 151 1 Another US$240m boost for Asian THE Asian dollar market expanded further in September with total assets and liabilities of Asian Currency Units increasing by US$24O million (SssBB million) from August to US$l5.9 billion in September, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore in its October statistical report. The increased funds
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  • 63 1 BRUSSELS, Mon The British pound gained threequarters of a US cent in London today. The pound opened in London at $1.5940, up from $1.5860 though still more than 2.5 cents below its best level In last Friday's spectacular recovery. The signs were that the pound was stabilising after
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  • 47 1 Reuter JERUSALEM. Mon. Mr Arnon Gafny, formerly director general of the Finance Ministry, was sworn in yesterday as governor of the Bank of Israel. His post in the ministry is being taken by Mr Amram Sivan, former director of the National Insurance Institute. Reuter.
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  • 383 1 THE prime rate cut by Development Bank of Singapore last weekend is expected to trigger off another round of cuts among the banks in Singapore, as they try to remain competitive in times of sluggish loan demand. Several leading local banks revealed
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  • 231 1 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. The Japan Foreign Trade Council, organised by 14 major Japanese trading houses, said it revised its estimate of the nation's Customs clearance trade balance in fiscal 1976 to a surplus of US$lOO million from a deficit of $2 billion predicted last December. The
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 116 2 Reuter GLADSTONE (Queensland), Mon. The Queensland Alumina Ltd refinery here may have to suspend production on Thursday if about 850 strikers do not resume work, a company spokesman said. The plant might have to shut as its alumina storage capacity is nearly full, he said, noting
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    • 66 2 Reuter TOKYO. Mon. Ricoh Ltd. said it would float US$l5 million (5536.7 million) convertible debenture on the Eurobond market on Nov. 25 to finance the business operation of its two subsidiaries in the US. A syndicate of underwriters for the bond issue is managed by Monura Europe
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    • 287 2 RECESSION, PRICE FALLS TO BLAME Reuter BANGKOK, Mon. Developing Asian countries suffered a marked trade deficit last year due to the recession, in the industrialised world and drops in the prices of major primary export commodities, the United Nations regional body announced here today. After
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    • 198 2 MONTREUX. Switzerland, Mon. African opposition movements in South Africa plan to follow up a five-day general strike which started today with the occupation of foreign-owned firms, a member of the banned African National Congress from South Africa said here yesterday. Dr. Zola Sonkosi, a member of the
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    • 126 2 C-Mart urged to help save Reuter THE HAGUE, Mod. Belgian Premier Leo Tindemans urged the Common Market to participate in an international rescue operation for sterling, EEC officials said. The officials said Mr. Tindemans told a weekend meeting of community foreign ministers here the Common Market has a duty to
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    • 95 2 Reuter WELLINGTON. Mon. The New Zealand Government is arranging a US$lOO million (***** million) Eurobond. Deputy Minister of Finance George Galr announced. Arrangements for the bond, expected to carry a coupon of about 8 1/4 per cent, are being made through an international consortium led
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    • 448 2 AP GENEVA. Mon Britain has postponed the Rhodesian talks until after Tuesday's elections In the United States In order to avoid a possible collapse that would embarrass US President Gerald Ford, Western diplomats said yesterday. In his election campaign. Mr Ford has emphasised his
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    • 171 2 Reuter NEW YORK. Mon. The Municipal Assistance Corp for the City of New York said the State of New York and Mac have arranged to refinance US$25O million (*****.5 million) of Mac bonds currently held by the state. The refinancing will be accomplished by issuing its series
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    • 163 2 AP BANGKOK. Mon. Thailand asked Iran and other oil-producing nations in the Middle East to think of the struggling economies in developing Third World countries before deciding to raise the price of crude oil. Prime Minister Thanin Kravichien made the appeal through an Iranian correspondent
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    • 60 2 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. The Bank of Japan said the average outstanding balance of banknote issues at the end of October rose 12.1 per cent over the year ago level to H1,467 billion yen (5587.4 billion), t-onipared with an 11 per cent rise in September. The seasonally-adjasted growth was 1.50
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    • 1822 2  -  By CHARLES SMITH TOKYO: Japanese officials are wary of saying so openly. but their estimates for the country's trade and payments performance are proving to be wildly off the mark-on the credit side, of course. Japan originally thought that it «ould emerge from this fiscal
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    • 232 2 Reuter HONGKONO, Mon. Hongkong's narrowly defined money supply Ml rose 15.6 per cent In the year to end September, compared with a 15.2 per cent increase in the year to end August, banking commission figures show. However, the monthly increase slowed to 2.7 per
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    • 522 3 NEW YORK, Monday Reuter FAVOURABLE money market conditions prompted some United States commercial banks last week to lower their prime rates another quarter of a percentage point to 6Vj per cent. The reduction was initiated by Continental Bank of Illinois on Thursday. While Citibank. Bankers Trust
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    • 255 3 Reuter WASHINGTON, Mon. American Treasury Secretary William Simon said there have been no formal discussions between the United States and Germany on the possibility of providing additional financial aid for Britain. "I have not been a party to anv such discussions."
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    • 73 3 Reuter TOKYO, Mon Hitachi Ltd. Mitsubishi Electric Corp and Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company (Toshiba) reached basic agreement to set up a lolnt firm In Japan to develop, design and manufacture centrifugal separators for uranium enrichment plants, Toshiba said. The companies hope to establish the new firm towards the
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    • 315 3 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Japanese companies are expected to float a record 74 external bonds worth U552,035 million this year compared with 62 bonds worth U551,587 million in 1975, Daiwa Securities Company said. In the first nine months, 56 external bonds worth U551,671 million
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    • 349 3 LONDON, Mon. International Monetary Fund conditions for a further United Kingdom loan will probably lead to a £1 billion (Ss4 billion) rise in indirect taxation in the spring 1977 budget, or earlier, stockbrokers Phillips and Drew say in their November economic forecast. The IMF
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    • 201 3 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Japan's external reserves rose US$BB million in October compared with September to U5516.58 billion, and were U553.39 billion higher than in October 1975, the Finance Ministry said. This was the highest level since April, 1973, and the tenth consecutive monthly increase in
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    • 64 3 Reuter WIESBADEN, Mon. Provisional figures from several major German states indicate the overall West German cost of living index rose 0.1 per cent in October after being unchanged at 141.4 (base 1970) in September, the Federal Statistics Office said. The year-on-year change for the index will
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    • 1165 3  -  Peking controls 13 commercial banks in Hongkong. By ensuring that interest rates on deposits are kept just above those of other commercial banks, Peking has attracted about 26 per cent of private deposits in the colony. By DAVID HOUSEGO Financial Times WHEN
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    • 470 3  -  UNITED STATES CORPORATE PROFITS By By JAY PALMER THE FORD administration, on the eve of the still close presidential election, is confidently describing it as "the pause that refreshes." It must remain doubtful if U.S. industry feels aulte the same way especially since there are growing
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    • 415 3 Financial Times and model chaneeovers, this year is not following that pattern. Only last week, General Motors reported a massive 63 per cent leap in third quarter profits to a new record level while Chrysler, earlier, unveiled a massive turnround from loss to profits.
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 628 5 FOLLOWING a poor second half-year, pre-tax profits at United Industrial Corporation slid 9.3 per cent to $7.36 million for the year ended July 31. 1976. With the first six months having seen a 28.3 per cent Increase in pre-tax profit to $3.38 million. It
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    • 1013 5 ALTHOUGH the present position of Negri Sembilan's $80 million sugar project may appear cloudy, a breeze of confidence is blowing within the company Syarikat N.S. Gula. The conviction is that there is really nothing to worry about. The project will eventually be a
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    • 1021 5  -  By GUY HAWTIN BY right. West Germany's stock exchanges should be echoing to a steady champing of jaws as analysts eat the words they so lightly uttered at the beginning of the year. To say that the market has failed to live
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    • 176 5 TOKYO, Mon. Reporting more than doubled net interim profit to 6.77 billion yen (3.07 billion yen), Tokyo Shlbaura Electric (Toshiba) has forecast a 59 per cent Jump In profit to 13.8 billion yen for the full year ended March 31. 1977. This Indicates that the company
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    • 464 5 BEN'S shipping problem# are apparently not over. For the Stock Exchange of Singapore has decided that it wants to know why the shipping venture failed. This Is among a number of questions that the SES has posed to Ben regarding its 1975/76 annual
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    • 315 5 Current Ex Date Total for Total for payment Date payable the year previous year Grating 5%TE Oct. 12 Nov. 5 5%TE+ 12.5%TE Malayan Flour 10%TE+ Oct. 5 Nov. 5 10%TE+ Nil M. Breweriea 2V% Oct 20 Nov. 6 30% 30% Batu Lintaac 5% Oct. 20 Nov. 8 7.5%
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    • 89 5 INCHCAPE Berhad has announced that Tan Sri Abdul Kadir bin Shamaudin (chairman of Petronas and until recently chief secretary to the Malaysian Government) has been appointed chairman of its whollyowned subsidiary. Inchcape Malaysia (Holdings), with effect from Nov 1. Inchcape Malaysia (Holdings) is the holding company for
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    • 90 5 THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange has asked Kemayan Oil Palm for the basis for the purchase price of MSBS per acre ($209.95 per hectare) its wholly-owned subsidiary, Malaysia Agricultural Products, paid for 3,371.4 acres (1,374.9 hectares) of land it recently acquired in East Malaysia. MAP acquired
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    • 504 5 Financial Times STOCKHOLM, Mon. In its eight-month report Statsforetag, the Swedish state holding company, forecasts a loss of Kr.200 million on Its consolidated account for 1976 compared with earnings of Kr.321 million last year and of Kr.987 million In 1974. With its holdings spread across
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    • 73 5 Reuter LONDON, Mon. Oesterrelchtsche Kontrollbank said It plans a US$4O million six-year Issue of guaranteed floating rate notes at par on the International capital market. Interest will be calculated half yearly at per cent over London Interbank offered rate, subject to a minimum rate of 6Vi per
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    • 41 5 THE last date for splitting and acceptance of the United Overseas Bank's rights issue of one-for-three at $3 each are Nov 22 and Dec 13 respectively, according to the bank in a letter to the Stock Exchange of Singapore.
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    • 802 5 THE NEW TIN COMPANIES THE three tin companies in the Charter Consolidated group soon to be partowned by Tradewinds moved to Malaysia yesterday during what must be judged as a disappointing year for them from the profits point of view. The profits forecasts which
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    • 216 5 THE following company meetings are due: Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malavsia) Bhd.: Nov. 4, 1 a.m., Virginia Park, Jalan University, Petaling Jaya. Malayan Breweries Ltd.: Nov. 5, 12 noon, Rgency Room, Raffles Hotel, Singapore. Pacific Development Credit Bhd.: Nov. 9, 10 a.m.. Registered Office, Penthouse. 10th Floor, Wisma
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    • 80 5 MALAYSIAN Containers (1974) is to expand its board from the current nine members to 12. In a letter to shareholders, the company says the proposed increase is to allow it to draw upon further expertise from the commercial and professional circles. As such, it is asking shareholders to
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  • 1959 6 SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS Gr'» Gr't 1171 Uw Last div Div y'ld P/E Vol Dav Hifh Coapiay Sal* ♦cr- c'vr COW) High Uw 250 170 Acma 176 unch 12.ON 1.1 6.8 8.8 1 176 176 206 172 Alcorn 206 20.0 1.3 9.7 13.2 100 60 Allied Choc 66
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  • 1370 6 BID and otter prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1000 units unless otherwise specified All Time Settlement Contracts are Suoted after the word •Sett." >lg Board
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  • 168 6 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST INCOME BOND UNIT (Mauser'* price* for Nov. 2) (Current price*) The Commerce 1 69 1.79 INCOME BONO 1.07 1.13 The Saving Fund 0 96 1.01 S pore Prog Fund 0 80 0 85 S pore Security MARA BUMIPUTRA FUND Fund 1 26 133 (Manager*' price*
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  • 417 6 S'pore Govt S Taxable Loan No 2 With A I 1975/lst Dec 1977 (1.000.000) (101 688 101 78S) S'pore Govt 5 l/2*X Taxable Loan No I With A I I97fi/Isth Apr 197K (1.000.000) (101.638 101.735K 1)101 65 S'pore Govt 6 3/4% Taxable Loan No I With
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  • 1075 6 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INOUtTRIALt A. Tap* (0 438). AJlnamata (1.818). A. COM (0.698 0 708).
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  • 492 7 FAIRLY good gains were recorded among the volatile issues on opening-month speculative support at the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. In some cases gains ranged up to four per cent. Trading volume was moderate and mainly concentrated in about 10 counters. Market sentiment was partly aided
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  • 561 7 MARKET sentiment turned better under light, sustained buying interest on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday. Following Friday's Budget announcement of measures aimed at stimulating more investments, shares opened on a steadier footing. First business was done at a few cents higher, and thereafter, prices
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 136 7 Reuter JOHANNESBURG, Mon. Some improvement In profll can be expected in the current year, Consolidated Goldfields chairman, Lord Erroll of Hale said In the annual report. (Attributable profit was £22.5 million in year ended June 3C equivalent to 18.76p pei share.) He said given the
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    • 52 7 TOKYO, Mon. After-tax profit at Ajinomoto rose by 6.6 per cent to 2.59 billion yen (2.43 billion yen) on an 8.7 per cent increase In gross sales to 143.7 billion yen (132.3 billion yen) In the first half-year ended Sept 30, 1976. It is maintaining the Interim dividend at
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    • 597 7 NEW YORK, Mon. An announcement by American Motors last week Indicating that It lost I money heavily in the 1976 fiscal year has aroused fresh concern In Wall Street that the No. 4 auto maker may i not survive. Based on the company's statement, analysts estimate
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    • 176 7 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Profit margins of Mitsubishi Electric Corp have widened considerably in the current year to produce a 128.4 per cent Jump in after-tax profit to 4.02 billion yen (1 76 billion yen) on a sales rl>e of only 13 per cent to 333.9
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  • OVERSEAS MARKETS
    • 741 7 London, Mon. The recent technical rally was extended, helped by relatively steady sterling. dealers said. Stock shortage accentuated the advance and at 3 p.m. the Financial Times Index 'vas up 9.1 at 285.8. Government bonds rose up by to one half point while equity leaders were led higher by
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    • 399 7 SYDNEY: The market closed lower on Monday, led by uraniums which fell In reaction to the sharp gains recorded on Friday following the publication of the "Fox" report, dealers said. Pancontinental fell 90 cents to A 59.70. Queensland Mine* 27 to $1.98 and Kathleen 14 to $1.36 Western Mining,
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    • 15 7 HONGKONG: All four stock exchanges were closed on Monday for the Chung Yeung Festival.
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    • 443 7 TOKYO: The market closed lower on Monday in fairly active trading on a late wave of profittaking which more than offset early gains, dealers said. The Dow Jones average lost 13.07 to 4.645.54 with volume of 230 million shares. The New index closed at 351.25. down 0.43. Blue chips
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    • 85 7 NOV «l Bahts 47Asia Fibre 120S I Bangkok Bank 235 -8 Bangkok Invest 143 Bangkok-Metro-politan Bank Bala 329S -4 BerllJucker 155 4-2 Charoong Thai Wire 144S unch Dumex DusitThani Faber Merlin First Trust Indo-Thai 180S unch J And J Ho 130 unch Jalaprathan Cement 7IS unch Karnasuta 30 Lee
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    • 13 7 MANILA: The stock market was closed on Monday for All Saints Day.
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    • 120 7 NEW YORK, Mon. Lower sales volume In both natural gas and petroleum in the third quarter led to a four per cent decline to U*****.33 million ($250.46 million) In net profit at Texaco. This was despite higher prices for petroleum products and natural gas. For the nine
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    • 81 7 LONDON, Mon. On a 46 per cent Increase In turnover to £759 million (£520 million), pre-tax profit at Amalgamated Metal Corp rose by only 16.8 per cent to £4.7 million (£4.02 million) for the first nine months ended Sept. 30, 1976. Tax was £2.51 million (12 .29 million)
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    • 92 7 TOKYO, Mo n. A group of 13 Japanese banks signed an agreement with Commission Technlca Mixta de Salto Grande (CTM) to grant CTM a 16 billion yen eight per cent 10 year credit, the semi-official Export -Import Bank of Japan said. The credit will be used to purchase transformers
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    • 73 7 MELBOURNE, Mon._ Metals Exploration Asia suspended exploration In the Paracale gold field, Philippines, and plans to develop the Longos orebody, Metals Exploration said. The suspension was due to the fall in the gold price, its quarterly report said. Metals Exploration Asia, owned 40 per cent by Metals Exploration
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    • 80 7 MILAN, Mon. Ste International Pirelli has reported practically unchanged net profit at 30.7 million Swiss francs (30 million francs) for the year ended June 30, 1976. It has maintained the dividend at 14 francs. Carried over profit, however, increased from 3.5 million francs to 4.7 million francs. Eight
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    • 84 7 ADELAIDE, Mon. Chrysler Australia will spend As 44 million on an expansion programme in the next three years, managing director, Mr. Lan Webber told a press conference here. Chyrsler will spend $17.5 million of this amount on expansion and modernisation of its engines complex at Lonsdale, South Adelaide,
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    • 59 7 NEW YORK, faon.— Blyth Eastern Dillion and Kuhn, Loeb have held very preliminary discussions on the possibility of combining the two firms, Wall Street sources said. Officers at both firms declined to comment, however. Blyth is 60 per cent owned in Ina Corp and 20 per cent owned by
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    • 25 7 TOKYO, Mon. Mitsubishi Metal Corp said It raised its domestic selling price of silver to 42,000 yen per kilogramme from 41,600 yen, effective immediately.
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    • 91 7 MELBOURNE, Mon. General Motors-Holden's plans to invest more than Aslso million in its vehicle making operations in the period to end-1979, managing director, Mr. C.S. Chapman, said in a weekend speech to mark General Motors' 50th Anniversary In Australia. The company, a wholly owned General Motors Corp unit,
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    • 71 7 ST. LOUIS, Sun. McDonnell Douglas Corp said its firm backlog on September 30 was U552.99 billion down from $3.03 billion a year earlier. Total backlog rose to $5.87 billion from $4.26 billion the figures include government orders not yet funded or being negotiated, and commercial orders subject to contingencies.
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    • 27 7 TOKYO, Mon. Nippon Mining said it lowered its domestic selling price of electrolytic copper by 10,000 yen per tonne to 390,000 yen with immediate effect.
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    • 60 7 TOKYO, Mon. Pioneer Electronic has raised its dividend from 15 yen to 24 yen for the year ended Sept 30, 1976. A company spokesman said the company expects to achieve its net income goal of 11 billion yen (5.86 billion) on an estimated revenue of 160 billion (108.41 billion)
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    • 58 7 NEW YORK, Mon. Third quarter net profit at Kerr McGee was U5532.77 million ($32.63 million) on sales of $445.9 million ($428.7 million). For the nine months, profit came to $98.95 million ($99.11 million) on sales of $1.44 billion ($1.32 billion). Earnings per share were $1.27 ($1.26) in the 'hird
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    • 66 7 SYDNEY, Mon. Though sales jumped 71.7 per cent to A 5190.11 million ($110.69 million), Esso Exploration and Production Australia was only able to raise net profit by 12.7 per cent to $41.63 million ($36.93 million) for the first halfyear ended Jun 30, 1976. Meanwhile, Esso Australia has reported a
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  • 450 7 Reuter TOKYO. Mon. Kubota is listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange with the object of raising more equity funds in the United .States, company president, Mr. Keitaro Hiro said. In an interview with Reuters, Mr Hiro said Kubota's net nonconsolidated income
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    • 509 8 THE Singapore rubber market opened steadier reflecting higher London advices but fell back slightly on some profit-taking, dealers said. Trading was quiet throughout the morning with small turnover. The market ended the morning very quiet with November RSS one buyers quoted at 209.00 cents per kilo, up 0.50
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    • 122 8 DAILY SSR and SMR prices at noon yesterday HAS. Nov. (Current Mth) Buyer* Sellers (cent* per k<> Dec. (Forward Mth) Buyers Sellers (cents per kg) SSR 20 SSR 50 (1-ton Pallets) (1-ton Pallets) 191 00 188 50 193 OON 190.50N 192 00 189 50 194 OON 191
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    • 124 8 CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE. SINGAPORE NOON CLOSING PRICES PER PICL'L YESTERDAY. Coconut Oil: Bulk >72 sellers, old drum $77 sellers, new drum $82 sellers Copra: Mixed (loose) UK/Cont. $45 buyers Pepper: Muntok AST A white f.o.b 100% NLW $322' i sellers. Sarawak white fob 96% NLW $305 sellers. Sarawak
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    • 93 8 THE Straits tin price In Penang yesterday fell $2.37Vj to close at $1,190.00 per picul on an official offering up 16 tonnes to 296 tonnes. In LONDON on Monday, tin was mostly £5 per tonne lower in both contracts. Prices were shaded In the pre-market but a steadier
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    • 30 8 Rubber: Oct 29 Singapore: Nov. 208.75 cU (up 0.25 cts.) Malaysia: Nov. 217.25 cU. (up 1.00 cts) Tin: $1,190.00 (down $2.37'/») Official offering: 296 tonnes (up 16 tonnes)
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    • 108 8 LONDON, Mon. Copper wire bars declined by £12 for Cash and £8 for Three Months. Trading was fairly routine throughout the morning with small covering against currency considerations and pockets of physical business running into profit-taking, dealers said. Also overshadowing the market was the continued rise in ware- house
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    • 112 8 WITH Hongkong closed, the Singapore gold market was relatively quiet in the dav. The kito bar was dealt between 559,765 and 559.790 while the London delivery passed within a few cents either side of U*****.00 before shipping towards the close to U*****.25. The London morning fixing was U*****.00 down
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    • 63 8 LONDON, Mon. Silver lost 1.9 to l.Op a troy ounce. Initial pre-market steadiness on currency factors was offset by small profittaking in the ring where fresh trading incentives were lacking dealers said. Three Months traded down to 281.5p before partly recovering losses to trade up to 282.2 in the
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    • 55 8 LONDON, Mon. Lead eased by £4.50 pei tonne for Cash and C 3 for Three Months. This metal sagged under lighi hedge selling which found modest covering sup- port at the lower levels. Three Months traded from 1298 down to 1295 before final trade at L' 296. Sales of
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    • 61 8 LONDON, Mon. Zinc was mostly t0.75 per tonne lower. Prices were steady on the early pre-market where currency covering produced three-months business up to 1400 per tonne although profit-taking and some hedge selling pared gains in the ring. Three Months drifted back to 1397 per tonne prior to last
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    • 50 8 LONDON, Mon. Stocks in London Metal Exchange official warehouses at the end of last week: (all in tonnes except silver) Copper rose 4,575 to 577 375 Tin fell 160 to 6,690 Lead rose 1,525 to 65,825 Zinc fell 650 to 112,300 Silver fell 20,000 to 29,420,000 troy ounces.
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    • 176 8 LONDON, Mon. Robusta futures opened £6 higher to £18 per tonne lower. Volume totalled 276 lots at the opening call of which 250 lots were self trades. Jan traded within the range of £2,197 and £2,196 at the opening while March fluctuated between the high of £2.212 and a
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    • 130 8 LONDON, Mon. The terminal opened quiet £1.15 to C 0.25 down from Friday's 1,700 levels. Sales totalled 270 lots. Dealers said activity was rather slow due to the All Saints Day holiday on the Continent and the prospect of a quiet New York market In front of the US
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    • 110 8 BANGKOK. Mon. Indicative prices for rice quoted yesterday were: US dollars per tonne FOB basis Bangkok. White rice: 100 per cent Ist class 295, 100 per cent 2nd 280, 100 per cent 3rd 277, 5 per cent 3rd 264, 10 per cent 243, 15 per cent 240, 20 per
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    • 198 8 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Peninsular Malaysian crude palm oil production fell to 102,984 tonnes in August from 103,404 tonnes (revised) in July, the Statistics Department said. Crude palm oil exports rose to 70,380 tonnes from 53,191 tonnes for July, while stocks at end-August dropped to
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    • 113 8 Reuter LONDON, Mon. The recent improvement in world sugar prices has not been entirely due to currency considerations and may well have reflected a reduction in the weight of secondhand sugar overhanging the market, says C. Czamikow in its latest weekly report. The broker cites reports that
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    • 631 8 Reuter LONDON, Mon. The Cash copper price may well dip below £700 a tonne (52.4 cents a lb) before the end of this year on the basis of a sterling exchange rate of US$l.65, Amalgamated Metal Trading (AMT) said in Its October Issue of
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    • 121 8 Reuter NEW YORK, Mon. Producer stocks of refined copper In the US In September rose to 356,100 short tons from 355,800 In August, the American Bureau of Metal Statistics reported. Producer stocks in September 1975 totalled 312,300 tons. The Increase of 300 tons last month followed
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    • 235 8 Reuter CANBERRA, Mon. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics raised its second 1976/77 Australian sunflowerseed forecast to 85,000 tonnes from 74,000, compared with 74,800 for 1975/76. In its September Trends In Agricultural Commodities publication, the Bureau put the sunflower area at 165.000 hectares against 135,000
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    • 71 8 Reuter WASHINGTON, Mon. Philippines wheat and flour Imports for 1976-77 are forecast at 660,000 tonnes, a US Agriculture Department field dispatch from Manila said. The 1975-76 Imports totalled 550,000 tonnes. The report said that this year. Canada Is expected to make significant Inroads into total wheat
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    • 95 8 Reuter LONDON. Mon. World output of major oilseeds for the 1976/77 marketing year is expected to fall three to four million tonnes to about 128 million tonnes, Alfred C. Toepfer said. In its latest market review. It said higher cotton and sunflowerseed crops do
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 620 8 SINGAPORE'S domestic money market saw overnight Interest rates rallying strongly yesterday from the opening level of 2 l per cent to 2 per cent to as high as per cent just before the clearing hours. Although some dealers attributed the rise to the adjustments of technical factors following last
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    • 166 8 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on Nov 1: US Dollar* (Spot) Offer Bid 7 days 55/8 51/2 1 mth 55/16 5 3/16 2 mths 53/16 51/4 3 mths 57/16 5 5/16 6 mths 513/16 511/16 9 mths 61/16 515/16 12 mths 61/4 61/8 Sw. Fr».
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    • 48 8 RANOE of prices offered by discount houses on Nov 1: Overnight 2 to 3 VH> Call deposit 2'i to 3V*t CImiH Buy Selling 3-Month Treasurer bills 31/8 3 3-Month Bank bills 37/8 33/4 3-Month CD 4 1/8 4 6-Month 49/16 4 7/16 Source: National Discount Co.
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    • 145 8 Euro rates LONDON, Mon. Eurodollar deposits made a slow start to trading with rates opening virtually unchanged. The slow start was ascribed to usual early Monday conditions and the closure of some leading European centres for All Saints holiday. Same day dealings, due to Tuesday's New York closure for Election
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    • 237 8 LONDON, Mon Sterling opened nearly one cent firmer than its New York close on Friday and held steady in a very thin market, dealers said. Trading was reduced to a minimum by the All Saints Day holiday in Catholic centres in Europe and the feeling that US activity was
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    • 109 8 TOKYO, Mon The Bank of Japan sold an estimated US$3O million to check a rise in the US dollar, banking sources said. The dollar for overnight delivery closed at 294.50 yen, compared with 294.20 at Friday's close, after opening at 295.00. The Central Bank intervened in the market at
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    • 50 8 AUSTRALIA/NZ exchanges quoted on Nov 1: Australia: Sterling'o.7766/0.7688 US dollar 1.2277/1.2227 Ninety day air mail buying rates: Sterling 0.8167, US dollars 1.2556 Ninety day forward buying rates: Sterling 0.7969. US dollars 1.2116 New Zealand: Sterling 0.5988/0.5952 US dollar 0 9558/0.9458 Ninety day forward rate: Sterling 0.6548. US dollar 0.9743
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    • 33 8 FRANKFURT exchanges quoted on Nov. 1: US 2.4045/60 2.3980/ 90) Can 2.4700/17 UK 3.825/840 Neth 95.45/60 Switz 98.65/80 Italy 2.78/80 France 48.10/25 Norw 45.53/5 Belg Com 6.51/52 Belg Fin 6.41/45 Japan 0.8155/62
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    • 286 8 LONDON, Mon. Straight bonds were quietly steady, dealers said. The holiday in Europe subdued trading but dealers noted some interest in seven year triple 'A' paper which tended about higher. Most other prices were Eurobond prices quoted on Nov 1 largely unchanged. Guilder issues also traded quietly but
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    • 53 8 Minimum lending rates (in aCBC 7 Alg«m«n« Bonk 7 Bangkok Bonk 7'/i ■n Bonk o> Aimrca 7 mlotuti Motoiron Bonking Bonk o» Chino 7* Bonk of Tokyo 7 Mitiwi Bonk Bonk Nagoro OCBC 1 ri donatio 7Vi oue 7-/i Cho'tfd Bonk 7 UCB CbOM Monhofton 7 UMBC 7 '4 DBS
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    • 831 9  -  FREE FIRST-RUN FILMS ON DOMESTIC FLIGHTS By RALPH BLUMENTHAL NYT THEY dueled in the skies in the great booze war. the piano-lounge war and the no-frills war. They fought with bagels, overhead-rack-space and legroom. Now the airlines are engaged in a whole new struggle:
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    • 200 9 Reuter TOKYO. Mon. Japan's motor vehicle exports in first half fiscal 1976 rose 42.2 per cent from a year ago to 1.868.569 units, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said. The total comprises 1.268,859 passenger cars, up 39.5 per cent. 591,113 trucks, up 49 per cent and
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    • 79 9 Reuter WASHINGTON. Mon. The Council on Wage and Price Stability found the price rises for 1977 model cars justified, though acting council director William Lilley refused to term the increases, which averaged 5.9 per cent, warranted. The council in a report on the 1977 model price increases.
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    • 479 9 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time From CAL CI331 0040 TPE/HKG/KUL TMA TL303B 0215 BEY/DXB/ BOM/KUL JAL JL712 1000 HLP SIA SQ209 1010 HLP GIA GA980 1030 HLP GIA GA908 1100 MES CALTEXPKCFD 1130 PKU SAS SK971 1130 CPH/BKK SIA SQ201 1200 HLP SIA SQ240 1205 MES
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    • 235 9 Reuter GOTHENBURG, Mon. Total world laid up tanker capacity has fallen to 32 million tonnes deadweight from about 51 million at end April when lay ups were at a peak, due to a more rapid rise than expected in the need for oil transport,
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    • 65 9 AP TOKYO, Mon. Delegations from 10 socialist nations have concluded a meeting in Pyongyang on airline passenger fares and air cargo charges. North Korea's official news agency said yesterday. The agency said the meeting was the 11th regular session of civil aviation organs taking part in the agreement
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    • 742 9 WASHINGTON, Monday NYT MEMBERS of the Federal Maritime Commission have quietly moved toward adoption of a regulation that would require corporate officials to report every year that their firms had paid no illegal rebates or bribes. If the proposal is adopted, the FMC
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    • 368 9 LONDON, Mon Financial Times THE BRITISH consortium in which the National Enterprise Board has a 35 per cent stake confirmed last week that it had decided not to tender for the multimillion Venezuelan railway project. The indications are that instead of the i3somillion which the
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  • 1289 10  -  By JOHN ROGERS Reuter NEARLY a year after abolition of the monarchy and creation of a "People's Democratic Republic" in Laos, an official campaign to win over the people to the new regime and implant socialist ideas is still under
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  • 496 10  -  By B. RUSSELL Reuter IN THE final run up to the American presidential election, candidates Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter have launched multi-million dollar television advertising campaigns to swing voters their way. The techniques used singing commercials, background music, happy scenes and faces,
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  • 733 10  -  By FREDERICK ANDREWS NYT BUSINESSMEN are discovering Henry Mintzberg. a bookish Canadian management theorist who depicts the managers routine any manager's routine as controlled disorder. For a decade Mr Mintzberg. a 37-year-old professor of management at McGill University in Montreal. has sought to
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  • 1035 10  -  By J. DARNTON NYT IN AN effort to wrest control of the economy from foreign hands. Nigeria has ■embarked upon a steppedup policy of forcing foreignowned companies to sell into Nigerian ownership. The policy, called indigenisation or Nigennisation. has sent up a
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  • 265 11 UPI. TOKYO, Mon. Japan, Canada and the United States today began discussions on the problem of setting 320 km coastal economic zones on the opening day of a week-long trilateral fishery conference. The three nations are participating in the 23rd annual meeting of the Government
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  • 227 11 Reuter PARIS. Mon. Two Vietnamese envoys arrive here today for a four-day official visit to France the first such contact since the end of the Vietnam war last year and the subsequent reunification of the country. Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Nguyen Co Thach
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  • 101 11 AP TEHRAN, Mon. Iranian Minister of Industry and Mines Farroukh Najamabadi and visiting Swedish Minister of Commerce Burenstam Linger yesterday began talks on Irano-Swedish cooperation for exploitation of Kale-Gohar iron ore. The Irano-Swedish talks are aimed at utilisation of 300 million tonnes of iron ore deposits
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  • 86 11 AP RANGOON, Mon Burmese President Ne Win has warned the country's ruling Socialist Party it must mend its ways if it is to tackle a deteriorating political and economic situation in the country. Mr Ne Win. speaking to the opening session of an extraordinary congress of
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  • 859 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Very important changes to tax laws which took place two weeks ago in the United States may affect American investments in Malaysia and other developing countries. This is because US business operating overseas will now have to
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  • 335 11 Reuter UMTALI (Rhodesia), Mon. Rhodesian forces have launched reprisal attacks into Mozambique following the killing of four white civilians in Rhodesia by black nationalist guerillas, the government announced. An official communique yesterday gave no details of the size of the operation or its location. "We have
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  • 582 11 FITCH Lovell, one of the largest food manufacturing and distribution groups in the UK, expects to increase significantly its present imports of raw materials from South-east Asia. It also hopes to promote the sale of its manufactured food products to
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  • 396 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Jobs were found for only 2.94 per cent of the 117,758 people who were registered throughout the country with the Employment Service network during the month of August. According to statistics by the Manpower Department, a total of 3.483 Job-seekers were
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  • 198 11 Reuter VIENNA, Mon. Albania's isolationist leader Enver Hoxha (above) speaks today at a communist congress which may show whether Albanian-Chinese relations have been strained since the death of Mao Tsetung. The tiny Balkan state has been China's only European ally since Mr. Hoxha broke
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  • 78 11 AP HONGKONG, Mon Japanese tourists account for about a quarter of the HKSI.B2I million (*****.3 million) spent by visitors to Hongkong in the first six months of this year, according to statistics released by the Hongkong Tourist Association. Tourists to Hongkong spent $1,390 million (US$27B million) in
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  • 293 11 AP JERUSALEM. Mon The government held economic talks yesterday as the country faced two crippling strikes, police Investigations of public corruption and possible price hikes in basic commodities. The Cabinet established a special committee to keep hospitals open In case doctors on partial
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  • 202 11 VIENNA. Mon. The Soviet and Egyptian foreign ministers will visit Bulgaria in the next few days, apparently for secret talks, official sources indicated tonight. There has been no official confirmation that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Egyptian Minister Ismail Fahmy
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  • 104 11 CONSULTON Research Bureau, research and management consultants, will be running two seminars towards the end of this month. The first, scheduled for Nov 24 26. is on Financial Concepts for Materials Executives. The course is aimed at providing materials executives with an understanding of the
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  • 49 11 AP TOKYO, Mon. Mr. Hsu Tsal-Lien, chairman of the China coal mining committee and Vice Minister of the Coal Industry, had a friendly" talk yesterday with a delegation from the British National Coal Board led by deputy chairman N. Slddall. a Peking broadcast reported. AP.
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  • 271 12 Doubts about Aussie despite denials Reuter. CANBERRA, Mon. Doubts about the Australian Government's repeated denials that It does not Intend to devalue the dollar coupled with the high cost of production here were near pricing Australia out of international competition, according to former United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman.
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  • 266 12 BANGKOK, Mon. Thousands of Thai students went back to classes today as schools and universities reopened after a lay-off of more than three weeks following the coup d'etat on Oct 6. Police chief Gen. Sirsuk Mahinthorthep said that special police security patrols were being mobilised
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  • 252 12 THE Diamond Importers Association of Singapore plans to set up a diamond exchange here. However, this is a long range plan, Mr. I. Pinsler, secretary of the association, stressed. One of the more immediate benefits is that diamond prices here would soon be more competitive. The
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  • 211 12 SINGAPORE will act as the transit centre for the AngloFrench Concorde supersonic airliner on its forthcoming demonstration tour of the Far East. This was revealed in a joint press statement released by the French embassy and the British High Commission on the eve of the Concorde's
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  • 116 12 HAW Par Brothers International Is in the process of re-organising its textiles division in order to eliminate loss-making factories and save those which are viable. Among the textile companies believed to be affected in this re-organisation is Mandarin Textiles, manufacturer and retailer of high
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  • 131 12 Reuter ROME, Mon. Italy had a foreign trade deficit of 512 billion lire in September after a revised deficit of 345 billion in August, according to provisional figures published by the central statistics institute (Istat). This gives a deficit for the first nine months of the year
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  • 270 12 CAR sale* should increase by at least 1,000 a year as sales move progressively towards the government replacement rate of 15,000 to 20,000 cars a year, against a current replacement rate of about 14,000 annually. This is the projection of Mr.
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  • 84 12 TWENTY-THREE manufacturers of Venetian blinds, awnings, insect screens and safety doors from the region will converge in the Republic for the Starlite seminar on Nov 11. The two-day seminar at the Equatorial Hotel, organised by the lAC Group which is the distributor of Starlite products, will consist
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  • 67 12 A SECURITIES investment seminar will be held at the Goodwood Park Hotel on the evenings of Nov 23 and 24. The two speakers vill be Mr James Wright Cowan and Mr Lee Gord n William Clemson, both with claims to extensive experience in the securities industry. The organisers
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  • 53 12 ANOTHER link has been added to the Grindlays Bank Group's international network of branches with the setting up of its new representative office in Duesseidorf last month. Its establishment reflects the importance to the group of trade between Germany and countries around the world where the Grindlays
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  • 73 12 A PETITION to wind up five companies by the Official Receiver and Liquidator of Mosbert Acceptance Pte Ltd will be heard on Nov 19 at the High Court. The five are Mosbert Management Services Pte Ltd, Times Litho Publicity Pte Ltd, Amos Da we Pte Ltd,
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  • 47 12 THE Government-owned Jurong Bird Park Pte Ltd has taken out a suit In the High Court against the Jurong Hilltop Bar and Restaurant. Its suit, filed by lawvers Drew and Napier, Is for electricity charges of $11,896.97 due to it by the restaurant.
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  • 581 12 BILL BEFORE MALAYSIAN PARLIAMENT KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian pineapple Industry will soon enter a new era when Parliament approves a Bill that will sever its 20-year-con-nectlon with Singapore and give the Malayan Pineapple Industry Board greater control over the industry. Under a
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  • 291 12 JUST when every cent counts. Ben has lost Its Tulip agency to Guthrie Trading, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guthrie Berhad. The changeover took effect yesterday and the action apparently came as a surprise to Ben which until last week did not know of its impending
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  • 412 12 Agencies PEKING, Mon. Wall posters were pasted up in Shanghai today naming Mr. Li Hsien-nien a political moderate as China's new premier, informed sources reported here today. They said the posters also stated that Defence Minister Yeh Chien-ying had been nominated chairman of the
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  • 483 12 Reuter LONDON, Mon. Britain, after recent sharp falls in the pound, is entering a crucial week which may produce some nasty blows for its Labour government. The government faces the possibility of a demonstration of falling confidence from the public in three paliamentary by-elec-tions.
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  • 304 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.-A giant new plantation company is to be formed In Malaysia the result of a merger between the three separate plantation concerns managed by Harrisons and Crosfield. The three, Golden Hope, London Asiatic and Patalingi are each among the biggest growers of rubber and oIT
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  • 156 12 Reuter KUCHING, Mon. The Sarawak State Government was enlarged today with the addition of two new ministers and five assistant ministers many of them from parties previously in opposition. The expansion of the Government follows the acceptance early this year of the Sarawak National
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  • 153 12 AP THE HAGUE, Mon The Soviet Government has agreed to a Dutch demand for talks aimed at giving the Royal Dutch airline KLM a bigger share of passenger traffic on the Moscow-Ams-terdam route. The Dutch Transport Ministry said the Russians agreed to negotiate
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  • 134 12 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. VlceMinister of International Trade and Industry Toshinobu Wada said he would write to Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren) president Tolshlo Doko later this week to be briefed on the background for his proposal that some Japanese industries should voluntarily curb exports to
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  • 335 12 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian Government raised base levels for export duty surcharges on rubber, tin and palm oil, effective immediately. Finance Minister Tenku Razaleigh Ham/ah said in his 1977 budget speech the minimum price on which export duties would be
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  • 38 12 AP BANGKOK. Mon. Finnair, the national air flaei carrier of Finland, will begin weekly flights from Helsinki to Bangkok tomorrow. Finnair will be using DC-8 jets for the 11 '/2-hour flight from Helsinki to Thailand.
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  • 231 12 UPI WASHINGTON, Mon Former Defence Secretary Melvln Laird says he does not believe recent newspaper reports which say Secretary of State Henry Kissinger would be willing to stay on the Job for a few years if President Ford is elected.
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  • 254 12 AP JAKARTA. Mon. A US$lOO million (***** million) Canadian sponsored cement plant with an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes has been Inaugurated In the town of Pangkajene, South Sulawesi The plant, called P. T. Semen Tonasa. is addition to an existing bringing total capacity o 629.999
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  • 222 12 Reuter BEIRUT, Mon. Arab League officials and representatives of President Elias Sarkis are drafting a plan to deploy a strengthened peace-keeping force in Lebanon within 48 hours. Arab League mediator Dr. Hassan Sarri Al-Kholi said today. "Everyone wants peace," Dr. Kholi said, "the important thing
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