The Business Times, 19 July 1977

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  • 9 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.<P) 300/1/77 TUESDAY, JULY IS, 1977 SOCENTS
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF
    • 88 1 Reuter FRANKFURT, Mon. The US dollar dropped to Its lowest-ever rate against the West German mark today. Dealers said it touched 2.2600 marks fit its lowest point during hectic, late trading. The US currency had opened the day at 2.777 marks in quiet trading but when
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    • 78 1 Reuter TEL AVIV, Mon. Israeli food and public service prices leaped 25 per cent today following drastic new government measures aimed at preventing the collapse of the country's budgetary system. The cuts, announced by the Finance Ministry late last night, swept away a wide range of
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    • 82 1 NICOSIA, Mon. Most officials of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), including those of Saudi Arabia, its most powerful member, are convinced there will be an oil price Increase next year, the usually reliable Middle-East Economic Survey reported today. Meanwhile in Washington President Carlos Andres
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    • 39 1 AFP TOKYO, Mon. Japan's petrochemical Industry is sending a 12-man fact-finding mission to South Korea tomorrow and another to Taiwan In September in an effort to ward off possible export rivalry with Korean and Taiwanese counterparts. AFP.
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    • 33 1 AP BRUSSELS Mon. Spain will file for membership In the near future In the European Common Market, according to a spokesman for the European CommlgKi"" the Commonmarket Executive. AP
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    • 80 1 AFP JAKARTA, Mon. The newly created Importers Association for Indonesian New Guinea (Irian Jaya) has warned the central government that It was cheaper to buy In Singapore than in Jakarta because of the higher Indonesian freight rates. In a statement made at Jayapura, the capital city, the association
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    • 98 1 UPI NEW YORK, Mon. Stocks were broadly and Irregularly higher early today In moderately active trading in response to an lncrease In the nation's industrial production. The Dow Jones Industrial average of 30 stocks, however, was out of step with the rest of the market. Shortly before the
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 167 1 MOST SHARES ruled steady in moderate trading mi the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. A late afternoon bullish rush raised the prices of the more active stocks by as much as IS per cent. The Business Times index finished 14.35 points, MgW at 385.04 and the Straits
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    • 98 1 Rims Most activt Inchcape 1,388,000 Inchcape 2.74 .28 U'di Weaving eooyooo M.B.B.'A' 3.90 .26 Ranriar Ram 541.000 M Mosaics Otympia 1.63 1.1S 2.30 4.06 1.17 +.20. +.10 Utd. (kl) 319,000 Sovran tsar JC-MPH +.1*+.10 +.08 .07 Total Turnover: 6.48M Total Value; M812JMM Indices f Paper Prod C
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  • 999 1  -  HELPING GROWTH OF STORE ■y QUEK PECK LIM THE Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) is poised to play a more significant role in the financial development of Singapore. Already a participant In the Interbank money market, the POSB is expected to broaden the range
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  • 423 1 THE Post Office Savings Bank's recent entry Into the safe deposit box market received a mixed reaction from bankers here. Most feel no Immediate threat by the saving Institution's jnove, although they are conscious of the competition that can be generated If the
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  • 511 1 THE Port of Singapore Authority (PBA) warned yesterday that It may cut back the amount of space that It had originally allocated to the bonded warehouses scheme. This Is because response to the scheme so far has been poor. To date, only
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  • 428 1 Reuter MANILA, Mon. The Federation of Aaean Shippars' Councils (FASC) Mid today It had sought a new formula for a fair and reliable basis for a general freight rate Increase by the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) and Its associated conferences. In
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  • 340 1 JUST over a year after it moved into its new promisee at the Hong Leon* Building. the Stock Eicuiit of Singapore is believed to be eonaidering the poeaibility of moving oat. Thia ia bocaueo a diapute ha a ariaen
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  • 305 1 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Japan has promised to consider proposals from Asean for closer economic ties, the government and Asean said today. A cabinet-level Asean mission, led by Indonesian Trade Minister Radius Prawlro, has been here since Thursday for talks before Japanese Prime
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  • 213 1 UPI Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Japan's trade surplus with the United States for the January-June period of this year hit an all-time high of U552.33 billion (8*5.73 billion), the Finance Ministry reported today. No previous record was available. The ministry said that In June atone, Japan's exports
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 253 2 THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (Opec) oil surplus Is expected to decline over the next few years, according to the Chase Manhattan Bank. This year, reported its biweekly issue, International Finance, Opec's surplus will probably dip from last year's US$3B,OOO million (5593.5
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    • 52 2 AFP BANGKOK. Mon. Thai Commerce Minister Suthee Natvaratat expects Thailand to earn a record 70,000 million baht (558.610 million) from exports this year. The minister said the record high Income would be due to the Increased export of traditional items. Among Thailand's major export items are rice and
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    • 623 2 NYT WABHINOTON, Mon. Intelligence estimates of sharply accelerating Soviet naval strength and ship production were disputed yesterday In a detailed report issued by Rep. Les Aspln. Mr. Aspln, a former Pentagon official and a congressional critic of excess military spending, said "Pentagon projections of Soviet
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    • 142 2 Reuter HONGKONG, Mon. Taiwan's Industrial production rose 0.6 per cent in June compared with May to 214.8 and was 12.3 per cent above June last year, the directorate general of budget, accounting and statistics said, according to the Central News Agency. The agency, monitored here,
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    • 73 2 Reuter HONGKONG, Mon. Taiwan had a budget surplus of US$35B million (SsBBl million) for the year ended June 30, compared with Its forecast of a balanced budget for the year and the previous year's $197 million surplus, the Central News Agency reported. The agency, quoted
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    • 157 2 Reuter NEW DELHI, Man. Indian Prime Minister Msrarji Deaai's cabinet, worried by spiralling prices in recent months, met informally today and decided that concerted action was nnneeearj to hold the price-line. Samnchar News Agency •aid that the cabinet decided to summon a conference
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    • 105 2 Reuter I QUI QUE (CHILE), Mon. If all goes according to plan, this small Chilean port will soon become a major South American Industrial and trading centre. Having recently become a commercial free zone the only one In the area besides Panama, which
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    • 19 2 AFP AMMAN, Mon. An Australian parliamentary delegation left here yesterday after a five-day visit to Jordan- afp
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    • 355 2 UPI TOKYO, Mon. Japanese steel makers today rebutted American criticisms of the Japanese steel Industry's strong competitive position by declaring that they are either "groundless" or based on "misunderstandings". The Japanese rebuttal came at a news conference held by the Japan Iron and
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    • 376 2 TOKYO. Mon. Japan had a preliminary customs clearance trade surplus of U*****.5 million (812,052 million) in June compared with a revised deficit of <75 million in May and a surplus of <283 million in June last year, the Finance Ministry said. This brought the first half-year's
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    • 382 2 NYT WASHINGTON, Mon. The next-to-last round in the adoption of a new Farm Bill will begin this week In the House of Representatives, with a compromise on the levels of wheat subsidies expected. The Senate has already passed Its version of the new
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    • 118 2 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. The Bank of Japan rules out a cut In bank rate at this stage, bank officials said. The officials were amplifying a statement by Bank of Japan Governor, Tellchlro Morlnaga, who said consideration of hasty measures to stimulate the economy was unnecessary.
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    • 291 2 Reuter SW YORK, Mon. Soviet der Leonid Brezhnev believes that President Carter has broken an International code of conduct and compromised moves towards Bast-West detente, according to a report In the latest issue of Newsweek. Its high-level source for the story was President' Valery
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    • 211 2 UPI TOKYO, Mon. The Japanese government today proposed that the Rice Price Council raise the producer price of rice by 2.5 per cent to 16,986 yen per 60 kilograms for the 1977 crop year which starts in November, Officials said. The
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    • 405 2 AP MONTPELEER. (Vermont), Mon. Nobel Prize-win-ning economist, Milton Friedman, has recommended to the Likud Party that Israel halt currency controls and let a free market determine monetary exchange rates. Professor Friedman was selected by Israeli Finance Minister Slmcha Ehrllch to advise the ruling coalition
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    • 416 3 NYT NEW YORK, Mon. A recently completed and detailed analysis of American foreign aid to eight developing countries indicates that the United States Is still providing significant support to regimes allegedly violating human rights. The study, produced by the Washington-based Centre for International
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    • 138 3 AP ABU DHABI. Mon. Abu Dhabi's Executive Council has earmarked U5537.5 million (Ss92 million) for building a national library and a hotel In this 011-rlch Persian Gulf emirate, the official United Arab Emirates news agency reported today. The agency said the Government will approach several International
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    • 283 3 Reuter LONDON, Mon. The British Government ia likely this week to accept a move towards indexing the tax system. Government sources said that acceptance of the principle will probably come on Thursday during the report stage of this year's finance hill.
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    • 43 3 Reuter SAPPORO (Japan), Mon. A three-week Chinese exhibition on farm, light industrial and handicrafts has opened In this northern Japanese city. 1 The exhibition, which began at the weekend, Is the fourth of Its kind to be held in J:tpan. Reuter
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    • 194 3 Hope for settlement of Saudi Kuwait oil price dispute Reuter TEHERAN. Mm. baa's chief oil aegetiator Mr. Jaamhid Amouaegar said he hoped Kuwait and Saudi Arabia would he ahlo to ssttle their dispute over heavy oil prieos before the next Opoc ministerial meeting in Caracas, Venesuela, ia December. He said
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    • 1539 3 FT LONDON: If those who cannot learn from history are really destined to repeat It, the situation to-day could hardly be more depressing. The echoes of the past are almost deafening so much so that It takes a real effort to concentrate one's
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    • 501 3 NYT NEW YORK, Mon. Foreign Industrial Investment In the United States is continuing at the high levels of a year ago, but with a trend now to more joint ventures, or partnerships, by the foreign Investors with domestic companies, according to a Conference
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    • 607 3 NYT ROME, Mon. Italy's chief tax collector Is enthusiastic these days because the changes he helped Institute In the nation's tax laws have begun to yield results. Revenues from taxes have increased over 100 per cent in the last three years, Flllppo Maria Pandolfl,
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    • 549 3 NYT NEW YORK. Mon. The United Btates steel Industry Is still waiting for a pickup in capital goods and construction markets. The July Issue of the Morgan Guaranty survey, which led with an article entitled "Government Spending the Sleeper of the
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    • 218 3 AFP LONDON, Mon. The recent declining trend of world aluminium stocks was resumed In May when they fell by 35,000 tonne (1.5 per cent) compared with April, to 2,212,000 tonnes, the lowest since December 1974, the latest figures from the International Primary Aluminium Institute revealed. Compared with a
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    • 77 3 Reuter NEW DELHI, Mon. India proposes to return to the Soviet Union two million tonnes of wheat borrowed In 1973, Agriculture Minister, S.S. Barnala, told the Lok Sabha. He said repayment in wheat was being considered because of mounting stocks In the country. India has stockpiled
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 308 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER report for 24 hours prior to 7.30 p.m. on July 18 at Singapore airport. Maximum Temperature 30.3° C Associated Humidity 75 Minimum Temperature 2S.O°C Associated Humidity 92 Hours of Sunshine 9.90 Rainfall in Millimetres Nil Total Rainfall for the Month 89.2 Total Rainy Days for the Month
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 580 4 THE CHAIRMAN of San Imperial Corporation of Hongkong has denied that 15 million of Its shares registered In the name of Fermay Company are held as nominee for Mr Choo Kim San. The chairman Is also a director o f Fermay. In an unsolicited letter
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    • 263 4 Current Ex Date Total for Total for payment Date payable the year prrrloos year Metal Box S'pore 1*1 July 1 July 19 1%I Metal Box Bhd 10% June20 July 19 15% Acma 12%TE July 4 July 20 12%TE 12%TE Central Properties 7.5% June 23 July 21 7.5% 7.5%
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    • 317 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Inchcape Oroup is planning to set up a separate Joint venture company In Shah Alam to manufacture spare parts for motor vehicles assembled In Malaysia. It will be called Automotive Industries Sdn. Bhd. and will Involve an Investment of Mss million,
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    • 284 4 AS PROMISED, Oriental Holdings released its audited results for the year ended Dec 31, 1976 which were delayed by the sudden resignation of the auditor for its main subsidiary, Kah Motors. The latest results showed group pre-tax profit rising by 37.1 per cent to a
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    • COMPANY MEETINGS
    • 76 4 VENEER Products Ltd has appointed Mr. Cfcwee Meag Choag aa a director of the company with effect from July 12. Mr. Georg* Chi—i. director of the U8 Regional Trade Centre In Singapore, will leave on July 22 for a week-long directors conference In London. Mr. Peter J.
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    • 443 4 FUJITEC of Japan is expecting bumper profits for the current year ending Sept 30,1977. The company has estimated that pre-tax profit will rise 11 per cent to 3.16 billion yen ($29.4 million). The profit will be an alltime high for Fujitec, which expects sales to rise
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    • 367 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Esso Malaysia Bhd. and Exxon Production Malaysia Inc. have appointed Dr Richard J. Krulrenga as their new chairman and chief executive. Dr. Kruizenga, who Just arrived In Kuala Lumpur, was formerly chairman and managing director of Esso Australia Ltd.
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    • 615 4 FT LONDON, Mon. Hawker Slddeley, which made an offer last week for the Oardner dlesel engine company, Is not the first big company to cast an eye on this Manchester group. The diesel engine sector is attractive to any diversifying business at the moment.
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    • 1133 4  -  WHITTAKER'S MANAGEMENT By ART GARCIA FT IN THE early 1970s the gogo age of conglomerates faded and fell, Uttering Wall Street with the carcasses of companies that only a few years earlier had been the darlings of Investors. Earnings were bought and reputations hastily built,
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 259 5 UK COMPANIES FT ROLLS-ROYCE MOTORS Holdings has dropped Its £11 million bid for Fodens, the special commercial vehicle manufacturer. The offer, stiffly contested by the Fodens board, although it had been increased from an earlier £8.4 million, attracted acceptances only from holders of Just under
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    • 318 5 FT IN A series of complicated transactions, three trusts In the stable of the Edinburgh based management company Ivory and Slme are to unravel a part of their Canadian Interests with a view to eliminating the double discount penalty on the stakes as at present
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    • 46 5 Reuter DRESDNER BANK said it co-ordinated a mediumterm US$BO million credit for Demlnex UK Exploration and Production and Demlnex Oil and Gas (UK). The credit, guaranteed by Deutsche Eroelversorgungsgesellychaft, will be used to finance development of the Thistle oil field In the North Sea. —Reuter.
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    • 599 5 FT DETAILS of the scheme to merge Globe Investment Trust and Cable Trust Into the largest UK Investment trust, with combined net assets of £250 million have been finalised. Terms of the merger, which was first mooted In January this year, are based on
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    • 249 5 FT THE financial position of the company sector deteriorated in the first quarter of this year, contrary to general expectations of an improvement. The Central Statistical Office annouced that industrial and commercial companies had a financial deficit of £528 million in the first guarter of
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    • 568 5 NYT LONDON, Mon. In 1733, a young bookseller named Samuel Baker, with offices near Covent Garden, issued his first catalogue, offering a choice library of books consisting of history, antiquity, divinity, physics, mathematics, law, novels and romances, etc. This May, 244 years later,
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    • 501 5 FT ZURICH, Mon. Shares worth a total of some 50 million Swiss franc have been pledged to the Swissbased shoe concern of C.F. Bally AO by its majority shareholder, the Zurich company Syndikats AO. This stock, Bally general manager Dr. H.R. Bachmann said, will more than
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    • 184 5 N. AMERICAN COMPANIES Reuter. BANKERS TRUST New York Corp. reported lower profit for the second quarter this year, which It attributed to a narrower marfin between the cost of funds and Interest earned on loans. The bank, America's eighth largest, also said It
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    • 160 5 Reuter CROWN ZELLERBACH CORP said earnings for 1977 should be well ahead of the US$3.BB a share in 1978. The company said It expects second half earnings to compare favourably with first half results. The company said business Is generally more solid now than at the
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    • 120 5 ASIAN COMPANIES Reuter MANILA, Mon Private Development Corp of the Philippines (PDCP) plans to float a 10 million pesos bond before the end of this year. Officials said the bonds, part of 50 million pesos of debentures It plans to float, will be a trial Issue In efforts
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    • 95 5 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Sharp Corp said demand for home-use colour video tape recorder (VTR) Is Increasing at a faster pace than expected because of the development of long play video recording tapes and low cost recorders. Sharp recently revised upwards Its estimate of demand for VTRs this
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    • 753 5 NYT NEW YORK,Mon. Many Wall Streeters look with disdain upon lower-quality corporate bonds known popularly as Junk bonds but their performance In recent years has put to shame the returns achieved within most other securities. "Please don't call them junk bonds," said David Solomon. "I
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    • 255 5 Reuter MANILA, Mon. The Philippine National Bank (PNB) Is borrowing 300 million pesos from the government and the central bank to repay buyers of Its 100 million pesos preferred shares floated In mid-1978, central bank governor Oregorld Llcaros said. Mr. Llcaros told business reporters the money
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    • 282 5 Reuter MANILA, Mon. The PNOC-Exploration Corp, oil exploration subsidiary of the state-owned Philippine National Oil Company, is scheduled to start drilling another exploratory onshore well today in the north of the Philippines, a PNOC spokesman said. The well, at Relna Mercedes, 282 km north-east of
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    • 182 5 HONGKONG, Mon. Hongkong Reinsurance and General Insurance, like other underwriters, is operating this year In "increasingly well-fished waters" in the Far East and South-east Asian markets, according to the new chairman, P.O. Williams. But the company Increased gross premium income last year to over HK$2O million for
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    • 104 5 Reuter MANILA, Mon. British Leyland International is negotiating with a Philippine company, Marsteel, for a possible multi-million sterling Joint venture dlesel engine factory here, informed sources said. A Leyland representative returned to London at the weekend after the latest of a series of discussions with
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    • 89 5 Reuter HONGKONG, Mon. Lane Crawford, a Wheelock Marden group unit, said it plans to make a one-for-10 scrip issue and to pay higher dividends for the year ended March 31, 1077. For its "A" shares, the company declared a final dividend of 22 cents (20) making a
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  • 2298 6 1577 High Lew CMfuqr Last Sale Week +erGr» Dtv Dhr C*VT Gr'i Y'M Nat P/E Week Val Weak High Law SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS 154 204 90 215 101 198* 168 219 392 171 130 172 58 212 57 155 152 182 350 145 Aetna Alcom Allied Choc
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  • 1578 6 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchanfe 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 quoted after the word "Bett Big Board
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  • 1712 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 industrial* A|lnamata (2 OOB). Alum <1 S3B). A. Crtaa (0 80S) (2)
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  • 61 6 <TKIKING prices of the stock >plion> ofTu'tally listed on the "Mock Kxchange of Singapore I he period*, bid and ofTer prices and business done yesterday, with the number of options traded shown in brackets. INCHCAPE (Sept W. 40) (0.268 0.355) (4) 0.25, (1) 0.30 (Dec $2.40) (0.28B) PAN
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  • 155 6 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST INCOME BOND UNIT (Manager*' prion for July It) ((.uiraat pr ice* l INCOME BOND 1 06 1.12 The Commerce 1.71 1.81 MARA BUMIPUTRA FUND The Saving Fund S pore Prog Fund S pore Security Fund S pore Invest Fund 099 1.04 0 86 0.81 159
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  • 115 6 B O T 8 1/2% 1984 (100.000) (102 l «B 103*S) B O T 7 5/8% 1984 (100,000) 99*S) Credit Lyonnais Floating 1983 (100.000) (98SB 995) DBS Converts 1/2% 1991 (100.000) (98*B 98%5) D B S 8 1/2% 1982 (100.000) (101 *B 102S) E I B 9% 1982
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  • 628 7 MOST SHARES ruled steady in moderate trading on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. Small gains were registered across a broad front during the first hour of trading. It was only in the late afternoon that a bullish rush raised the prices of the more active stocks
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  • 388 7 FRESH buying support for a new group of second-line stocks pushed the Kuala Lumpur stock market significantly higher yesterday. Trading was brisk as the day's total turnover swelled to 6.48 million units valued at $12.2 million from 5.56 million units worth $9.53 million last Friday. Unlike
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  • 599 7 NYT NEW YORK, Mon. Money-supply watchers, an edgy group of late, ordinarily might have been expected to push all sorts of panic buttons last Thursday when the Federal Reserve reported a $3.2 billion Increase in the nation's basic money supply for the latest week and
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • 410 7 HONGKONG: The market closed lower on Monday In thin trading with Jardine Matheson meeting particular selling pressure. dealers said. The Hang Seng index dropped 3.33 points to close at 427.98. Jardine fell 30 cents to $14.50, Swire Pacific 15 cents to $6.60, Hongkong Land 10 cents to $6.90 and
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      538 7 TOKYO: Share prices weakened in quiet trading on Monday on reduced trading selling In export orientated shares due to the sustained strength of the yen. The Dow Jones Average fell 24.13 to close at 5001.02 with volume 150 million shares. The New Index was 376.11 down 1.48. An Initial
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    • 395 7 SYDNEY: The market closed weaker on Monday with minings and Industrials losing ground, dealers said. Some stocks closed off the day's lows, with BHP regaining a four cent loss to close unchanged at 6.04. Among banks the Walaa. the National Bank and the CBC eased but ANZ was one
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    • 186 7 MANILA. The market closed steady on Monday with oil and commercials advancing while mining Issues eased fracUonally. dealers said Turnover rose to 6.07 million pesos from Friday's 5.50 million. Atlas declined two points and Lepanto and Marindwiue one point each, while Philex rose one point against the trend. News
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    • 101 7 JULY 18 Bahts Asia Fibre 186 ♦2 Bangkok Bank 331 unch Bangkok Invest 203 ♦4 Bangkok-Metro-politan Bank Bata SKI? Berll Jucker 328 M2 Charoong Thai Wire 1738 ur»?h Dumex DusltThanl Faber Merlin First Trust mm Indo-Thai Industrial Finance Corp 1215 unch J And J Ho 2408 Jala pra than
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  • 134 7 Reuter WASHINGTON, Moil— Institutional investors, such as pension funds, investment companies and life insurance companies, bought U859.4 billion of common stock and sold $8.8 billion of stock for a net purchase of 1800 million during the first quarter of 1977, the Securities and Exchange Commission reported.
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  • 55 7 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Japan Synthetic Rubber will make a private placement of 30 million Swiss francs of 5% per cent, six-year convertible bonds with the Swiss Bank Corp on July 28. securities market sources said. They said the bond would be convertible into common stocks at 249
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  • 754 7  -  By MARIO A. MILETTI NYT FOR many savers, a good thing Is coming to an end as billions of dollars in highyielding wild card savings certificates begin to mature this month. The so-called wild cards are savings certificates for four years
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  • 482 7 FT LONDON, Mon. Mr. John L. Harvey, chairman of Exchange Telegraph Company (Holdings), says In his annual statement that he believes progress of the group will be maintained In the current year and reports that the group was ahead of Its targets for the first two
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  • 823 7 NYT NEW YORK, Mon. Labour negotiations In the volatile copper Industry usually turn Into bitter, dragged-out encounters. So hardly anyone was surprised when 45,000 copper workers went on strike at their mines and smelters after contracts expired on June 30. A long strike seemed
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  • COMMODITY REPORTS AND PRICES
    • 368 8 OPENING quotations in the Singapore rubber market yesterday were marked down 0.50 cent but later recovered on lack of sellers and some short-covering Interest, dealers said. However, towards the morning close prices fell back fractionally on cheaper offerings, they added. The morning session closed quiet
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    • 29 8 Rubber: July 18 Singapore: August 192.75 eta (down 0.50 ct) Malaysia: August 193.75 cts (down 0.50 ct) Tin: 11,560 (unchanged) Official offering: 196 tonnes (up 1 tonne)
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    • 327 8 Noon (per kilo) Close (per kilo) Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int. 1 R.S.S. prompt f.o.b. Int. 1 R.S.S. August Int. 1 R.S.S. September Int. 2 R.S.S. UK/Cont Int 3 R.S.S. UK/Cont Int 4 R.S.S. UK/Cont. Int 5R.S S UK/Cont. 191.75 193.50 195.00 191.25 190.25 187 50 180.50 183.50
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    • 95 8 R.A.S. Auauat Sep) f DUbfT (Cum mt Mth) (Forward Mth) Buyer* Seller* Bayer* Seller* (ceati i per kg) (cent! 3 I SSR20 (1-ton Pallet) 102.00 103.OON 103.00 104.OON SSR50 (1-ton Pallet) 180.00 10O.OON 100.00 101 OON M.R.E.L.B. SMR5CV (1-ton Pallet) 214.00 218.00N 214 00 218.OON SMR5L (1-ton
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    • 207 8 LONDON, Mon. Terminal cocoa rose to new all time highs In early trading with spot July changing hands In light volume at £3,410 per tonne. Gains from Friday at the first call ranged mostly from £37 (si)ot July at £3,412.50) to £2.50 but dealers said the advance took place
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    • 311 8 SLIGHTLY steadier conditions ruled at the Singapore produce market yesterday. However, deals contracted were still minimal and restricted to local consumer's account. Coffee bean prices ruled from steady to firm In line with the strength In the overnight London terminal market. Reports reaching here that some of the
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    • 158 8 LONDON, Mon. Futures ended the opening call easier on news Colombia had lowered the amount coffee exporters must deposit with the central bank to 8361 from 376.50 from July 16. Opening losses compared to Friday's close were mostly £60 to £90 with spot July and exception gaining around £40.
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    • 284 8 HONGKONG, Mon. The cotton futures market closed mixed In fairly quiet trading, In anticipation of little movement In the New York market In the next few days, dealers said. Nearby October and December gained 0.04 US cents each, while other months fell 0.50 to 0.58 cents. May was
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    • 193 8 BANGKOK, Mon. Indicative prices quoted here were: White Rice: 100 per cent Ist class 302 100 per cent 2nd 287 100 per cent 9rd 283 5 per cent 274 10 per cent 290 19 per cent 247 20 per cent 244 29 per cent 239 39 per cent unq
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    • 121 8 LONDON, Mon. Futures opened £0.75 higher to £0.25 lower compared with Friday afternoon levels In sales of 670 lots. Dealers said the market initially displayed a steady trend on trade buying and some shortcoverlng. This was possibly prompted by this week's ISO London meeting to discuss the world sugar
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    • 60 8 LONDON, Mon. Zinc In the morning softened mostly bv £1.75. The metal followed the general trend with early short covering quickly offset by hedge selling following the drifting tendency in other base metals, dealers said. Three Months traded from £332 In the premarket down to £327.50 in early ring
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    • 51 8 LONDON, Mon. Lead In the morning eased mostly by £2.50. Prices were steady at the outset of pre-market trading where Three Months changed hands at £340 per tonne. However, Sroflt-taklng clipped values i the ring with down to £336.50 paid before short covering cushioned the fall. Bales were 1,575
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    • 213 8 GOLD opened In the Singapore gold market at the Saturday level, with the kilobar opening at 8*11,400 In quiet trading. However, prices turned firmer In the afternoon and the kilobar closed at Its high of the day at 5511,498. In the loco London market, the metal opened at U8*143.80/85
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    • 169 8 THE Straits tin price in Penang yesterday was unchanged at $1,500 on an official offering up 1 tonne to 196 tonnes. The market was awaiting the reaction of the London market to the revised floor and celling prices, dealers said. Some buying support was noted from US,
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    • 80 8 LONDON, Mon. Silver finished the morning with losses of 0.8 to 1.3 pence per troy ounce. Dealers said prices were well-maintained at the outset of the pre-market aided by gains In New York on Friday. However, following the lower gold fix values drifted under profit-taking, with the trend in
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    • 88 8 LONDON, Mon. Copper wlrebars finished the morning with losses of £5.50 for cash and £5.00 for Three Months. Dealers said prices were steady on the early premarket reflecting the closing tone at New York and a modest decline In warehouse stocks last week. Three Months traded on the pre-market
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    • 398 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. Soybean prices this summer are expected to remain below the high spring level of around USSIO.OO (8124.6) per bushel, the US Agriculture Department In a summary of Its fats and oils situation report, scheduled for publication July 25, It said current prices reflect
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    • 740 8 NYT CHICAGO, Mon. Less than a week after the Agriculture Department Issued Its prediction of the biggest corn harvest In history 8.3 billion bushels, 2 per cent bigger than last year's record harvest expert observers are casting sceptical eyes on the dimension of that forecast. Some
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    • 95 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Palm oil production in Malaysia dropped to 140,376 tonnes in April from 147,220 tonnes in March. However, the figure was above the 107,609 tonnes in April 1976, according to official statistics published here today. Production fbr the first four months of
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    • 175 8 Reuter WASHINGTON, Mon. The US Agriculture Department said despite prospects of good demand for rice in the 1977/78 season ending stocks are expected to continue at a high level. In Its latest supply and demand report, It estimated rice stocks on Aug 1,1971
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    • 84 8 Reuter BANGKOK, Mon. Thailand Is expected to produce 270,000 tonnes of kenaf this year, 20,000 tonnes more than estimated In an earlier survey, and compared with 250,000 tonnes last year, according to the latest Agricultural Promotion Department survey. Department sources said 21,000 ha of land were planted
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 490 8 THE US dollar weakened yesterday In the Singapore foreign exchange market again. Opening at the yen 265.50 level, the dollar dropped by early afternoon to 264.10 following news that Japan enjoyed another healthy trade surplus In June. Although activity In the local market did not take on the proportions
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    • 57 8 AfRr «v. First Chicago «H ilnxm R*nk Citibank «v, Bangkok Bask 7 HSBC Bank of Ajaarica Indoaues IH Bank af Ckiaa T Malaya a l> l l i.. IH Bask of Takya iH Mitaua Bank *v. Bask Nafara liwtaania OCBC T OUB «V. Chartered Bank UCB 7
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    • 156 8 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates u at cloae on July It US Dalian (Spat) 7d*yi 1 mth 2 othi S mtlu mtlu mttu 12 mtha S 1/16 9 VI 9 1/4 3 7/1 9 1/4 SKI! Sw. fn. (MMitel 9 7/19 9 1/1 9 S/9 9 3/4 9
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    • 42 8 RANGE of prices offered by discount house* on July IS Overnight 2 to 3* Call deposit J* gk, 3-llonUi Treasury 3 I* 3-lion tli Banks Mils 4* 4 3-Month CD 4* 4% A-Month CD 4% 4* Source: National Discount Co. Ltd.
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    • 118 8 Euro rates LONDON, Mon. Trading In Eurodollar deposits was very quiet at the outset, dealers said. Time deposit rates opened little changed around Friday's closings. Light rollover and Far Eastern business was reported. One Month was around 5/16 point lower at 5 5/8 5 1/2 reflecting loss of the Friday
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    • 257 8 LONDON, Mon. The dollar eased against major European currencies and the yen in moderately busy opening trading, dealers said. The dollar initially fell to 2.2765/75 marks but later rallied to 2.2780/90 comSa red with Friday's .2830/40 close. The Swiss franc, partially helped by Swiss National Bank estimates of an
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    • 151 8 TOKYO, Mon. The yen strengthened following news Japan had a customs clearance trade surplus of $837.5 million In June compared with a May deficit of 75 million, dealers said. No central bank Intervention was detected. The dollar for overnight delivery closed at 264.45 yen compared with a 265.60 opening
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    • 122 8 HONGKONG, Mon. The US dollar weakened In moderate trading to close at the day's low of 264.20/30 yen compared with Its Friday New York midpoint close of 265.39, after opening at 265.40/50, due to the rise In Japan's June trade surplus, dealers said. The US unit also fell against
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    • 52 8 AUSTRALIA/NZ exchanges on July 18 Australia' Sterttnc 0.0887/ 0.04*1 OBdoHar 1 1242/ 1.11*4 Ninety-da; air mail buying rata*: Sterling 0 8743 U» down 1.1407 Ninety-day forward buying rates: Sterling 0 0870 08 dolkrs I.IISI New Zealand: Sterling 0.0000/ 0.9024 OS doiWr 0.9772/0.0072 Ninety-day forward rate Sterling 0 907S 08
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    • 33 8 FRANKFURT exchanges opening quotes on July 18 Can 2.1000/19 OK 3.014/ 024 Neth 03 20/30 Swtts M.92/02 Italy 2.900/ 900 Prance 40.00/00 Norw 43.38/42 Belg com 0.000/410 Belt fin 0.30/30 0.0012/ 022
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    • 345 8 LONDON, Mon. Straight Eurobonds traded little changed In continuing quiet conditions, dealers said. Some operators said US issues were quiet and up to 1/8 easier where changed following the weakness of the dollar this morning, while others reported moderately active two way trading. Convertibles were steady to a
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  • TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
    • 451 9 FT LONDON, Mon. The Conoco oil exploration group has ordered a £40 million (SSI7O million) production platform for its Murchison Field the first big contract for a new U.K. oil field for more than two years. The order for the 21,000tonne steel structure has
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    • 259 9 AIR New Zealand will flv five "day trips" from Auckland to the Antarctic on a weekly basis from Oct 18. The flights will operate on Tuesdays until Nov 15 at a fare from Auckland of about *****. Announcing this in New Zealand, the airline's director
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    • 819 9 NYT NEW YORK, Mon. New laboratory findings Indicate that no existing aircraft presents an imminent threat to the atmosphere's protective ozone layer, according to the head of the Federal Aviation Administration's high ali tltude pollution staff. However, the findings, if substantiated, indicate that flourocarbons
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    • 153 9 AP PHILADELPHIA, Mon. A retired Penn State professor and two colleagues have patented an electronic fuelsaving device they say Increases mileage per gallon by about 12 per cent and Is adaptable to all car engines. The optlmlser, as the book-size computer is called, can
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    • 284 9 THE rig-building slump has bottomed out, Mr. G.M. Morris, managing director o f Marathon LeTourneau, said, and the market In South-east Asia should start showing fairly substantial signs of improvement by the middle of next year. "If you liken the market CO a bear, you can say that
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    • 164 9 LORD Steamship Co. S.A. inaugurated regular liner services between Taiwan and Straits ports In 1972. It provides four sailings a month, eastbound. and westbound, In what It calls a "Taiwan/ Straits/ Taiwan Express Service". Singapore agents: Ocean Maritime. Trade served: Taiwan/ Straits/ Taiwan.Ports of call: Eastbound Singapore. Port
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    • 57 9 BRISBANE, Mon. An Australian Inventor has developed a simple chemical process of preparing used motor car tyres for recycling. Tyres soaked In a bath of liquid for about five hours become so soft that the outer rubber casing can eislly be torn into snreds by a child and
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    • 34 9 MANILA, lion. The World Bank has granted a US$6.l million (8915 million) loan to the Philippine Government for Its Integrated port programme this year, a spokesman for the Philippine Port Authority said.
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    • 333 9 FT TEL AVIV Mon. El Al Israel airlines turned Its 1975-78 loss of US$l.2 million (Ss3 million) Into a net profit of $280,000 in 1978-77 during what the chairman called, one of the best years In the company's history. Following
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    • 569 9 ARRIVALS o®mcc Operator Number Loci Tla J .W o From CAL CI331 0040 TPE/HKO/KUL TMA TL303B 0600 BEY/DXB/ BOM/KUL MAS MH682 0810 KCH CAL CI806 1000 HLP QIA OA WO 1030 HLP SIA SQ211 1045 HLP OIA OA944 1055 PKU QIA OA908 1100 MES RBA BI32S 1155
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    • 172 9 AFP HONGKONG, Mon. The Civil Aviation Department is angry with the poor rating Time magazine has given to Hongkong's Kai Tak Airport in its latest issue. A spokesman for the department said today that the airport, one of the busiest in the Far East, had been
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    • 483 9 MAUfrSIAN BUSINESS. the monthly economic k business Journal, offers you in its JULY 1977 issue: 21 YEARS AFTER FELDA comes of age this month. Nearly a quarter million people have been settled on its 186 land schemes, having developed some 870,000 acres during the last 20 years. This year, another
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  • 1402 10  -  By V.K. CHIN THE QUEST for a better price for tin Is only mm of the many aspects of the Industry's struggle to make both ends meet. And the struggle will continue until both consumers and producers arrive at satisfactory solutions.
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  • 1162 10  -  By PAUL LEWIS NYT STOCKHOLM: The message from a meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries last week was that the world may get off without an oil Srlce Increase next year, ut the news barely merits a cheer. The oil producers are not
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  • 1005 10  -  THE ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF EUROPE God has been generous to the Islamic world, as several delegates to the Islamic Council of Europe conference remarked. He was particularly bountifal in granting it more than 60 per cent of the world's known reserves of crude oil, they said.
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  • 928 10  -  COMECON'S WARSAW SUMMIT The East European countries are sufficiently concerned about supplies of energy, raw materials and (bod to be making concerted plans to share them up to the end of this century. But in a bad year, the West will still have to supply them
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  • 513 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Communications Minister, Tan Sri V. Manlckavasagam, told the Dewan Rakyat today that the government was looking into the posslbllty of allowing private sector participation in operating domestic air services. The move would bring about a better service, he said in reply to
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  • 393 11 THE head of Philips In Singapore yesterday said the training plant which It operates with the government, the Philips-Govern-ment Training Centre, is probably the best In his worldwide organisation. Mr. B.M. Lap, who Is chairman and managing director of Philips Singapore, said In an interview with Business
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  • 66 11 PROFESSOR Lawrence Krause will be giving a public lecture on "How to adjust to continuing oil producers' surpluses and the need for transfers to non-oil producing LDCs (less developed countries)" on Thursday at spm at the University of Singapore. The lecture is sponsored by
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  • 362 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysia today called for the formulation of new approaches to help stabilise commodity prices. Deputy Primary Industries Minister, Mr. Lew Sip Hon, said the existing Institutions and systems were designed mainly to serve the needs of the rich nations.
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  • 101 11 THE SINGAPORE Training and Development Association (Stada) will be conducting an Instructional technology workshop from Aug 1 to 5 at the Equatorial The objective of the workshop Is to provide participants with a systematic approach to training in determining training needs, setting training strategies ana validating
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  • 27 11 AFP RIYADH, Mon. Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman will visit Saudi Arabia for three days from Aug 10, the Saudi News Agency, SPA, reported yesterday. AFP
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  • 243 11 Reuter MANILA, Mon. Officials from Asean will hold twoday meetings here next week to review the progress of its Industrial clubs and preferential trading arrangements, It was announced today. Asean officials said that an Industrial complementation group will meet here next Monday to
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  • 228 12 SingaporeThai officials talk on bilateral pact SINGAPORE trade officials an expected to meet their counterparts from Thailand and the Philippines later this week in coat in i ling talks to implement the two bilateral trade agreements which Singapore has signed with theoe two countries. The meetings, which will he held
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  • 178 12 A SEMINAR to help Chinese-educated industrialists better to understand the various aids available to small industries will be held on July 29 at the Shangri-la Hotel. This will be the first Chinese seminar Jointly organised by the Singapore Manufacturers' Association, the Trade Department and
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  • 73 12 THE -ballast, commonly known as "choke," for tubular fluorescent lamps has been gazetted as a prescribed article under the Electrlcty Regulations, and as such, all ballasts offered for sale or hire are now required to be certified and approved by the Public Utilities Board. An approved ballast should
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  • 592 12 NEW ZEALAND will not Introduce any new barriers to Asean exports but Intends to continue with promoting two-way trade between Asean and Itself. This was stated here yesterday by the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr. Q.C. Hensley. He was speaking at a
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  • 360 12 Reuter UPI MANILA, Mon. United States Assistant Secretary of State for Far East Affairs, Mr. Richard Holbrooke, is expected here In September for talks with Philippine officials on economic relations with Asean, diplomatic sources said here today. The meeting Is part of a
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  • 183 12 AFP MANILA, Mon. An oilsearch consortium of American and Filipino companies yesterday encountered an "oil flow" In an offshore area north-west of Palawan Island in Central Philippines, the Energy Development Board confirmed today. The board said further drill stem terfts were being conducted to determine the quantity
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  • 93 12 PROMET Shipyard in Sungei Pandan has won 518.5 million worth of contracts for several vessels and for engineering activities overseas. A $7 million contract is fpr the installation of a syphon pipe in Indonesia, and another $5 million contract is for the construction of two 40-metre
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  • 659 12 LONDON. Mon. —.The stock market closed lover with government bonds leading the way showing net falls ranging to 1* points. Fears about inflation and uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the economic debate In Parliament on Wednesday were the main factors affecting sentiment, dealers said. At 3.00 pm the
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  • 155 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Insurance Department Is intensifying its action against Insurance agents misappropriating premiums and companies responsible for unethical practices. The director-general of insurance, Mr. Bhupinder Singh, said he would ask insurance companies to take legal action against such agents during his Inspection of 64 companies
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  • 161 12 AFP DACCA, Mon. Japanese Foreign Minister Ilchlro Hatoyama today called for a close relationship among Asian countries for peace and stability in the region. The Japanese Foreign Minister who arrived here this evening for a two day visit on the first leg of his
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  • 154 12 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Japanese sugar refiners and Queensland growers have resumed talks here on their controversial long-term contract despite rejection by the refiners of a so-called final offer, Industry sources said here today. Resumption of the talks coincides with reports from Canberra that Australian Prime
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  • 124 12 Reuter HONGKONG, Mon. Wardley Ltd, the merchant banking arm of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank group, said It began offering today Hongkong dollar certificates of deposit (CD). It plans to Issue CD In denominations of 9100,000, $250,000, $500,000, and $1 million, with maturities of three
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  • 279 12 A MALAYSIAN motor Ann, Tan Chonx and Sons Motor Sdn Bhd, is seeking is the High Court to rescind a contract made in 1962 to purchase a shophouse in Rochore Bond for $246,400. The firm while in active business here contracted with
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  • 45 12 TOKYO, Mon. Sir Charles Court, Premier of Western Australia, who is visiting Japan to urge more Japanese Investment in his state, met with the Minister of International Trade and Industry, Mr. Tatsuo Tanaka today. Details of the talk were not disclosed Immediately.
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  • 618 12 Reuter MANILA, Mon. Japan Is anxlovis that any cooperation or assistance It gives to Asean should not upaet Its relations with Indochina, especially Vietnam, the Japanese ambassador to the Philippines, Mr. Klyohlsha Mikanagl, said here today. Addressing the Foreign Correspondents' Association of the
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  • 267 12 Reuter SYDNEY, Mon. Japanese ambassador Yoshlo Okawara warned here today that if protectionism Increased in the US and the European Common Market, there could be a backlash against Australian raw material supplies like coal and iron ore to Japan. Mr. Okawara said Japanese exports were already
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  • 132 12 GREATER diversification of trade relations between Rumania and Singapore are expected in future following current talks between Singapore trade authorities and businessmen and a trade mls«,r>n from Rumania. This point was emphasised by Mr. Marin Traistaru, Rumania's JMputy Minister of Foreign Trade, when he met the
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  • 384 12 LTCB EuroAsian bond attracts US$120m THE US$4O million (3*98.4 million) Euro-Asian bond floated by the Long Term Credit Bank has been oversubscribed three times. Revealing this yesterday, a spokesman of LTCB said the issue price of the bond Is pegged at par. The five-year bond, In the form of a
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