The Business Times, 24 May 1978

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1 16 The Business Times
  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 218/1/78 WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1978 50 CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 61 1 AFP. JAKARTA, Tues. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and President Suharto are scheduled to meet Informally in mid-June to discuss bilateral, regional and international Issues, Indonesia's ambassador to Singapore, Her Tasnlng, said today. The ambassador, who Is now In Jakarta for consultations, said the meeting would be held
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    • 100 1 UPI. GENEVA, Tues. Economist John Kenneth Galbralth said today that Income restraint for all classes would be the best way to fight both inflation and unemployment In the West. The International Labour Organisation asked Mr. Galbralth what he would do about the 15 to 16 million unemployed people
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    • 59 1 MALAYAN Plant (Pte) Ltd. of Singapore, now under a winding-up order of the High Court, was granted leave yesterday to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The company, owing Moscow N&rodny Bank $8,092,088 plus Interest, was ordered to be wound up for insolvency by
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    • 68 1 UPI. KUWAIT, Tues. A fire has destroyed three oil storage tanks and pipelines near Kuwait City but caused no casualties, a spokesman for the Kuwaiti Oil Company said today. The fire, at A 1 Manaqlsh, north of Kuwait City, started last night but was brought under control
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    • 56 1 AFP. JAKARTA, Tues. The Indonesian branch of Helnekens Bier, based in the Netherlands, has agreed to "Indonesianise" its top management under the pressure of its 1,200 workers threatening to strike, it was reported here today. The management of Heineken's Indonesian company agreed to the workers' demands after
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    • 64 1 AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Thirty-five representatives of the Malaysian Rubber Research and Development Board technical advisory services began a 20-day briefing here today to update their knowledge on the whole spectrum of the rubber Industry in Malaysia. A MRRDB spokesman said that a major topic of this morning's
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    • 64 1 UPI WASHINGTON, Tues. European banks bid about US$lBO (SS4I4) an ounce today for US gold as the United States conducted the first auction of gold stockpiles In three years to prop up the dollar abroad. Final results of the first auction since June 1975 will not be known
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    • 62 1 UPI NEW YORK, Tues. Stocks headed lower early today amid investor concern over Inflation, higher Interest rates and the Increased prospects of New York City going bankrupt. Trading was active. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 4.76 points to 850.66 arqund 11 a.m. Of the 1,609 Issues
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 132 1 Rises Most active Sel Properties 2U0 +30 Haw Par 263,000 Berjtyi Ktwtt 191 11 Tronoh Mine* 620 +10 UMW 260,000 Sungei Besi 585 +10 PahaacCoaa 199,000 Fa her Merlin 139,000 Matsushita 360 10 Sel Coconuts 255 10 Allied Choc 152 +9 Total Turnover: 5.56 m Alcorn 205
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    • 156 1 Rises Most active A Choc 1.59 Rahman Hy 4 .30 Sel Prop 2.05 Tronoh 8.35 S Trading 7.10 MAA 1.80 BRaya 2.15 Rlvervlew 1.77 Mtam 2.60 Foils +.17 .16 .13 .10 .10 .09 .08 .07 .07 B. Raya 489,000 UMW' 410.000 F. Merlin 375,000 Pahang Cons 330.000
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  • 698 1  -  ALL EYES ON OVERSEAS TREND By SOH TIANG KENG CURRENT developments In the UK, US and Australia may influence Singapore accountants to sweep aside their self-imposed ban on advertising their services. In the US, the Institute of Certffled Accountants has lifted its half-century ban on
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  • 291 1 AFP, UPI THE chairman of the Association of Indonesian Importers (Ginsi) Mr Zahri Achmad, said only two state trading companies should be allowed to conduct direct trade between Indonesia and China, should the Jakarta government decide to allow the resumption of trade ties. Mr Achmad
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  • 594 1  -  By TERESA LIM GOVERNMENT and shippers of the Asia-Pacific region, in the past few years, have known only frustration in their endeavour to obtain fair terms of carriage from liner conferences. "It has always been the conviction of the United Nations Economic and Social
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  • 193 1 Reuter MALAYSIA will continue to enjoy a strong balance of payments position this year as at end-1977 when the surplus stood at Mil.2 billion. Encik Abdul Aziz Taha, deputy governor of Bank Negara, the Malaysian central bank, told a press conference In Frankfurt to mark
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  • 90 1 UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain fell by almost 65,000 this month and is now at its lowest point for a year. The Department of Employment said the number of Jobless dropped by 64,948 to 1.38 million 5.8 per cent of the working population. It was the
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  • 316 1  -  By JOHN LIM MALAYSIA Rice Industries Berhad (MRI) yesterday announced that a proposal to acquire the entire issued capital of Perumahan Berjaya Sdn Berhad (PB) hat been approved in principle by the Foreign Investment Committee. This announcement followed a request by directors of
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  • 541 1  -  By RONNIE LIM THE OVERALL cost of living of expatriates in Singapore increased only marginally over the past three years. This Is due to a drop in housing rentals. Preliminary calculations for an expatriate price Index (EPI), compiled by the Singapore International
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  • TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    • 308 2 COURSES AND TALKS May 8-Aug 17: Aust Insurance Institute Assoclateshlp Course, SITC, SITC May 15-June 5: Compensation Employee Benefits, Hilton, POD May 24: Life Insurance agency mngt, Mandarin, SITC-Llfe Ins. Assn. May 25-26: Critical Path Analysis Project Mngt, Hilton, Price Waterhouse May 29-31: Modern Techniques Strategies for Mngt.
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    • 240 2 THE MALAYSIAN investment mission to West Germany started off on Monday in Frankfurt with over 100 German industrialists attending its seminar. A total of 31 companies, most of them with Interests in the rubber and timber Industries, will meet the mission for
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    • 77 2 Reuter JAPAN'S Nippon Steel Corporation signed a contract In Peking yesterday to help build a big Iron and steel plant In suburban Shanghai, the corporation said. It calls for the building of a plant with two blast furnaces, each with an annual crude steel production capacity of
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    • 665 2 THE MALAYSIAN tin Industry has once more spoken bitterly of the government's taxes on tin saying that the tendency to impose additional taxes or Increase existing ones In times of "high" metal prices can only lead to the ultimate ruin of the mining
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    • 394 2 THE NATURAL rubber exporting countries, in their draft for an international agreement, have proposed a host of other supporting measures in addition to a buffer stock and supply rationalisation as the main instrument of price stabilisation. The draft, which was presented last week to officials
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    • 626 2 Reuter. AFP. ON A worldwide basis, there Is little likelihood that uranium supplies will run out In the foreseeable future provided exploration is not inhibited. Duncan Derry, a partner in Toronto- geological consultant, Derry, Michener and Booth, who was addressing a seminar on Australia's energy
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    • 117 2 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) has Invited seven Filipino journalists to Singapore from June 6 to 10. This will be the first group of Asean Journalists to visit Singapore as part of the madia education programme jointly organised by STPB and Singapore Airlines (SIA). The
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    • 43 2 AUSTRALIA yesterday launched an Industrial trade display in Hongkong the biggest that the country has put on In the colony in recent years. Australian Trade Commissioner Stan Malllphant said the four-day exhibition concentrates on medium to heavy machinery. Reuter.
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    • 145 2 A NEW Singapore company, International Collections, will start marketing gold and silver World Cup medals and coins this week. The company is a subsidiary of International Coins Limited of Hongkong, the largest coin importer in the colony, which In turn holds the
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    • 52 2 Reuter KOREA Re-insurance Co will upgrade Its representative office in Singapore to a branch office from July 1, a South Korean Finance Ministry spokesman said. He said It would be the first Korean branch overseas to specialise In re-insu-rance and its operations would mainly involve the Asean
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    • 144 2 UPI. JAPANESE fishing boats now excluded from New Zealand's 370-km economic zone probably will be readmitted following what Prime Minister Robert Muldoon called a "malor breakthrough" In talks with Tokyo. The Wellington morning newspaper, The Dominion, said the exclusion order was certain
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    • 97 2 Reuter. THE Philippine government, which this year became a rice exporter, assured private rice dealers that It had no intention of taking over the country's rice business. Mr. Jesus Tanchanco, administrator of the National Grains Authority (NGA) said the private sector would share the gains from the
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    • 276 2 HONG LEONO Finance will have a fully on-line realtime computerised network In two years. The Investment,the first to be made by a local finance company, will cost over $1 million. The computer, PDP 1134A from Digital Electronic Corporation of the US, will arrive In September.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 853 3 Reuter, AP DRESDNER Bank executive board member Wolf--Bang Roeller said the ferman economy could show real growth of more than 3 per cent this year after 2.4 per cent last year. He said expansion should quicken In the second half of the
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    • 454 3 Reuter. A RECENT change in the rules of the Paris commodity exchange should boost the volume of futures trading by allowing banks to participate more directly in the market. French and foreign banks may now become associate members of the exchange and can buy
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 667 3 Agencies. THE PART of North-east Alaska projected to become a wildlife refuge and wilderness area could contain medium to large oil and natural gas reserves. But Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus said it is unlikely that the area would contain amounts of oil and gas such as
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    • 309 3 THE US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether the Federal Reserve system can continue to keep secret for a month decisions on monetary policy that influence both interest rates and the amount of money available for borrowing. Two lower courts have
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    • 141 3 FORMER US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the Western industrialised nations should adopt a coherent credit and trade policy towards the Eastern Bloc countries. Speaking in Mexico City on Monday, Dr. Kissinger denied reports that he had advocated credit restraint by Western banks towards
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    • 1177 3 NYT, Reuter. I PRESIDENT Carter's special inflation counsellor, Robert Strauss, has hinted that the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (ATT) will announce it is adopting voluntary restraints on price and pay increases. The company said It would make an announcement soon. Such a
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    • 679 3 Reuter. DEMAND for clearing bank loans by British industry has failed to increase as expected and shows little sign of a significant upturn in the near future. Bankers and economists believe that although the clearing banks' experience may understate the overall picture of growth in UK lending,
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    • 130 3 Reuter THE Federal Reserve Board should loosen its targets for the US money supply, House Banking Committee chairman Henry Reuss said in a letter to Fed chairman William Miller. Mr Reuss, who called the Fed goals unrealistic, said the current 6.5 per cent celling in
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    • 590 3 A bi-partisan group of 13 US Senators and 14 Representatives from eight states urged the International Trade Commission to recommend temporary limitations on imports of refined copper to the US. But the Justice Departments' anti-trust division is contending that imports are not a substantial
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    • 224 3 AP THE chief US delegate to the Law of the Sea Conference, Ambassador Elliot Richardson, said on Monday that the latest round of talks achieved significant progress on most of the remaining hard-core issues. Mr. Richardson said the latest negotiations, which ended last
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    • 278 3 AP WEST GERMAN carmaker, Volkswagen, Is so pleased with Its assembly plant In Pennsylvania that It is thinking about opening a second plant in the United States. Industry sources say the idea of a second American plant is still In the planning stage and a
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 501 4 OPENING quotations were marked up marginally In the Singapore rubber market yesterday following higher London advices and thereafter, rose gradually on speculative, trade and forward demand. Some proflttaklng appeared at the high, but prices advanced again later to close at the session's highs. Volume was moderate.
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    • 297 4 HAS prices in cents per kilo yesterday: Int. 1 R.S.S. prompt f.o.b. Int. 1 R.S.S. June Int I R.S.S. July Int. 2 R.S.S. UK/Cont Int. 3 R.S.S. UK/Cont Int. 4 R.S.S. UK/Cont Int. 5 R.S.S. UK/Cont. Noon (per kilo) Buyers Sellers 214.50 215.50N 215.50 216.00 216.25 216.50 208.50
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    • 105 4 NOON SSR and SMR prices yesterday: Ju DC July HAS (Current Mth) (Forward Mth) Buyer* Seller* Buyer* Seller* (cent* per k«) (cent* per kf) SSR 20 (1-ton Pallet) 203 00 205.00N 204 00 208 00N SSR SO (1-ton Pallet) 201.00 203 00N 202.00 204 .OON M.R.E.L.B. SMR5CV
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    • 31 4 Rubber: May 23 Singapore: June 217.00 centa (up 3.75 centa) Malaysia: June 222.75 centa (up four centa) Tin: M 51.651 (up S5) Official offering: 285 tonnes (up 83 tornes)
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    • 353 4 THE SINGAPORE produce market was quiet yesterday. Prices held steady to firm but very little business was transacted. Although prices quoted by the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange showed no change from last week's closing levels, some copra dealers reported that their own quotes have firmed in the face
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    • 261 4 ROBUSTA futures in London yesterday morning opened 130 to C 7 per tonne lower than Monday in deferred months while near months were mostly £18 to 122 lower. 388 lots were' traded with the tone "about steady." Dealers said commission house selling and dealer liquidation initially took prices lower.
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    • 82 4 C.I.F. North European ports. In US dollar per ton unless otherwise stated LONDON: Malaysia 5% ffa bulk per tonne Monday Previous July 608qtd 610 sir Sumatra 5% ffa bulk May 870 sir 650 sir June 645 sir 655 sir July 617-50 sir 595 sir August 592.50 sir 59S.slr
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    • 199 4 THE SUGAR futures market closed little changed yesterday from the previous close In continued dull trading, with turnover steady at four lots. Trading was restricted to October delivery, rising 0.06 US cents. The Hongkong daily spot sugar price rose 0.05 to 7.25 cents, while net open positions totalled
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    • 202 4 YARN and cotton in Hongkong dollars, spot ex-godown: Cot ion Yarn: China Blue Phoenix 20s 1.765", 32s 2 180 4052.290. (per bale of 400 lbs). Piece Goads: China Butterfly and Olofce Brand unq. Dragon Head unq. rive Lambs unq. Flower Butterfly unq. Flying Oeese unq. (per piece 36
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    • 228 4 THE STRAITS tin price In Penang yesterday rose MSS to $1,651 per plcul on an official offering up 83 tonnes to 285 tonnes. The price firmed on London's steadier market on Monday and some active US and local buying. In LONDON yesterday, tin finished the ring £5 higher
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    • 190 4 TERMINAL cocoa opened t2 higher to £4 lower In a turnover of 62 lots In London. Dealers said the market was quiet on lack of fresh news. Activity mainly involved light local speculative operations following Monday night's quiet New York market. On Monday afternoon, terminal cocoa eased against steadier
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    • 163 4 SUGAR futures yesterday opened 10.65 to £0.20 per tonne higher on Monday afternoon's closing levels. Turnover totalled 422 lots. The London daily raws and whites prices were both CI higher at €101 and £107 per tonne respectively. On Monday afternoon, futures closed CI.IO to £0.70 per tonne higher and
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    • 202 4 BANGKOK rice prices quoted as follows yesterday: (US dollars per tonne FOB basts Bangkok): White Ric*: 100 pet Ist class 442, 100 pet 2nd class 427,100 pet 3rd class 422, 5 pet 413. 10 pet 400. 15 pet 392. 20 pet 387. 25 pet 377. 35 pet unq. Broken:
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    • 121 4 SOYBEAN futures in Chicago posted losses of US 3-1/2 cents to one cent a bushel at the close on Monday after trading in a narrow range below the previous close. Local and professional selling sent prices downward in early dealings and the market quickly reached the extent of its
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    • 93 4 WHEAT futures on Monday closed US 1-1/4 to 2-1/4 cents a bushel higher and at the days best price levels in Chicago. Trading was light through the session as prices ranged to either side of the previous close. After losing about three cents, prices firmed on commercial buying and
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    • 453 4 THE kllobar in Singapore yesterday opened at 5513,636, against Saturday's close of 113,583. The market hovered around this level and closed slightly higher at $13,669. In the loco London market, the metal opened at US$l7O.BO/180.10 and closed 50 cents higher at $180.30/60. The London morning fix was U*****.25, up
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGE$
      • 493 4 THE FOREIGN exchange market was generally quiet yesterday morning. Activity Increased when London opened, with the US dollar losing ground against major currencies. Opening at 228.95/ 05 against the yen, the US dollar remained at that level in the morning. With the opening of London, the dollar lost
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      • 219 4 Asian and CD rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rate* as at close on May 23 US Dollar* (Spot) Offer Bid 7 days 1 mth 2 mths 3 mths 6 mths 8 mths 12 mths .7 5/8 .7 3/4 .7 7/8 8 3/16 8 3/16 .8 1/2 .8 0/16 7 1/2
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      • 7 4 ■Jrv^TVJTjjt* Source: National Discount Co Ltd.
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      • 21 4 THE average rate at which Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers is 7 per cent.
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      • 121 4 Euro rates EURODOLLAR deposit rates yesterday were mostly unchanged from Monday's closing in light opening trading. Among periods, a Friday end pushed three months 1/8 higher to 8-3/16 8-1/16 per cent while six months softened 1/16 to 8-3/8 8-1/4 per cent on the loss of a Friday end. Routine Far
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      • 240 4 THE US dollar lost ground against leading currencies in opening trading yesterday, influenced by selling from continental European markets, although dealers were .unaware of any fresh news depressing the unit. It moved lower to 2.1230/45 marks from an early indication of 2.1240/50 and 2.1265/80 overnight here and weakened progressively
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      • 180 4 THE US dollar weakened steadily on Monday to close Just off its lowest levels of the day in generally quiet trading. Dealers said the dollar opened stronger in a continuing reaction to Friday's news of a compromise on the natural gas bill, as well as Indications of higher
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      • 159 4 THE US dollar for overnight delivery closed at 229.15 yen yesterday, down from a 229.40 opening but iip from 228.95 at Monday's close. Trading was active with volume US$42O million. The dollar edged higher in active late trading on buying bf Japanese banks to cover import settlement needs and
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      • 128 4 THE US dollar closed steady in active trading yesterday with much European interest In the market. It was quoted at 2.1245/55 marks compared with its New York close of about 2.1235 and at 228.85/ 95 yen against Its close of around 229.05 In New York. Sterling fell marginally to
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      • 50 4 ZURICH exchanges closing quotes on May 22. U8 1.0778-9788 Stg 3 5818-5846 Can 1 7788-7803 Dmk 92 9723-93.0543 Dfl 86 7*37-8847 Ffr 42 2517-2956 Btr 5 9519-9564 Dkr 34 4955-5250 Nkr 36.0715-1029 Skr 42 2923-3227 Lit 0.2265-2267 Aus sch 12.0331-0430 Port 4.3042-3206 Spain 2.4267-4205 Art 0.26-36 Yen 0 0642-0652
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      • 55 4 AUSTRALIA/NZ exchanges quoted on May 23. AUSTRALIA: US dollar 1 1271/1.1223 Sterling 0 6237/0.6105 Ninety-day air mail buytng rate* Sterling 0 6431 US dollars 1 1582 Ninety-day forward buytng rate* Sterling 0 6282 US dollars 1.1227 NEW ZEALAND Sterling 0 5506/0.5535 U8 dollar 1.0115/1.0015 Ninety-day airmail buying rates: Sterling
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    • 329 4 COPPER wire bars yesterday finished the morning with alt round gains of per tonne in London. News of the disruption to copper production in the Kofwezl mining area In Zaire resulting from flooding, transport and staffing problems prompted further protective short-covering and speculative Interest on the LME In the
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    • 141 4 SILVER on the LME rose by 0.2 pence all round on Monday afternoon. The afternoon market was relatively steady although prices were shaded following a turnround In US futures. Three months traded down to 293.4 pence. Values on the morning pre-market were marked up initially reflecting the trend in
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    • 87 4 LEAD rose £5 for cash and £4.75 for three months In London yesterday morning. Early short-covering, stoploss and some chart buying lifted the premarket to £317 per tonne for three months. Subsequent profit-taking pared gains and by the end of the kerb, three months was changing hands at £314.
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    • 93 4 ZINC on the morning gained mostly £5.5 per tonne in London yesterday. The continued strength in copper was the main supporting influence with general short-covertng taking three months up to an 11-month high of £335 per tonne during pre-market dealings. Values were well maintained in the ring in modest
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  • TRANSPORT
    • 712 5  -  By TERESA LIM LOCAL shipyards built and completed a total of 47 merchant ships last year. This represents only 0.36 per cent of the world tonnage, and places Singapore 24th among the world's shipbuilding countries. Lloyd's Register of Shipping has a list of
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    • 824 5 FIXTURES are Increasing but not dramatically. Rates for freight and time charter have increased slightly especially in Pacific and Atlantic trades. Scrap prices in Far East have increased but due to the monsoon, Karachi prices have fallen. Recently a vessel loaded 10,500 tonnes sugar at Bangkok for
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    • Article, Illustration
      314 5 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Alexandr Seraflmovltch (0600 after Nikolay Nekrasov) 1/2 Centau (0830 45 Golden Season (0800 44 Ocean Supply (B. Barge) (after Cherry Vllja) 48 Pluma Rico (0830 45 Prlmera Peak (after Charlotte Maersk) 6/7 PASIR PANJANG WHARVES Kota Slnga (0700 after May Breeze) Gdns.
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    • 329 5 SEAFREIGHT services between Australia and South-east Asia have been heavily criticised In the past for inefficiency but the inauguration of the new Anro Service should change this, said Peter Home, the Australian Senior Trade Commissioner in Singapore. He was speaking during the briefing of
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    • 600 5 FT. PENALTIES for breaches of maritime safety laws by British ships would be Increased to a maximum of £1,000 (554.200) from £100 at present under proposals contained In a White Paper and draft Bill published recently. It is clear there will not be parliamentary time
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    • 199 5 AFP THE wrecking of the Liberlan supertanker Amoco Cadiz off the coast of Brittany In March will be scrutinised by the full council of the Inter-govern-mental Maritime Consuitatlve Organisation (Imco) at a week-long meeting which started In London on Monday. Imco's various safety
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    • 161 5 UPI. ACTIVE time charter business offset rather quiet single voyage fixing to maintain the optimistic tone currently pervading the freight markets. Soviet grain Imports generated some employment as Sovfracht booked a 43,000 tonner at U555,650 Kr day plus $150,000 ballast nus for first-half June trip from Brazil via
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    • 752 5 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time From TMA TL374 0530 TPE MAS MH601 0700 KUL MAS MH682 0725 KCH SIA SQ101 0815 KUL MAS MH621 0615 PEN MAS MH607 0845 KUL MAS MH671 0945 PEN/KUL CPA CX710 1005 HLP OIA GA980 1030 HLP THAI TG423 1035 BKK
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  • 471 6 SHIPPERS, trade department executives and ESCAP officials all seemed agreed at yesterday's country-level workshop that knowledge Is an Important thing. Knowledge, that Is, centred on maritime procedure and activities. This Is absolutely correct. On a very basic level, knowledge of fundamental procedures will erase some of
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  • 230 6 ACHIEVEMENT is always more pleasing and effective than mere planning. Nevertheless all South-east Asian countries should keep a close eye on Philippine export promotion over the next few years. The master plan for exports compiled by the country's Export Council alms at doubling exports within
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  • 1313 6 When Junius Richard Jayewardene, as leader of the Opposition United < National Party in Sri Lanka, made his pledges on the eve of elections in July last year, one of the promises he made was that he would plant "a little Singapore" in
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  • 695 6 FT MARRIAGEABLE females in Sri Lanka, of whom there are over two million between the ages 15 and 35 years, have a big yen for trouser-clad men. Ninety per cent of the women prefer men in trousers, whatever their job status, and spurn men in national
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 58 6 OUTLOOK for Singapore from 6a.m. to noon today: Isolated showers. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30 p.m. on May 23 at the airport. Maximum Temperature 3i.l°C Associated Humidity J3 Minimum Temperature 23.7 t Associated Humidity 98 Hours of Sunshine 2.80 Rainfall in Millimetres 17.9 Total Rainfall for the Month
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  • 808 7  -  By MARIE FRANCE ROUZE AFP PUBLIC works projects undertaken by the Japanese government to relaunch the domestic economy will include one of the the most ambitious schemes ever attempted. Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda's government recently decided to back the construction of a series
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  • 890 7  -  By ANNA QUINDLEN NYT EVERYONE knows her. Her clothes are clean, her shoes sensible, her floors shiny, her formica spotless. She ,-&as two children, one help-->ul friend, one nosy Neighbour and a dog who occasionally tracks dirt into her kitchen. Unfortunately, her husband's shirts are not
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  • 495 7 COULD the infamous "Golden Triangle" become the "Triangle of Purity?" It could become a garden of unsullied white lilies If New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon has his way, It seems. Mr. Muldoon said this week the lilies could be a good alternative cash crop to
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  • 632 7  -  FORUMS r i ...on management k d ■y ELIZABETH FOWLER Elizabeth Fowler is a financial writer for the New York Times NYT HOW WILL the chief executive officer of the 1980s differ from today's corporate chief? It is a question that tantalises most management recruiters. Just
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS MARKETS
    • 562 8 TOKYO Source: DBS-Daiwa PRICES went up slightly yesterday, psychologically favoured by the advance on Wall Street. Erratic movement continued among speculative Issues, whereas some hlgh-prlced electrical/electronic issues were bought due to a report of an expected Increase in demand for FM Multiplex Broadcasting. The market opened firm. Cyclical
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    • 369 8 Source: Sun Hung Kai AFTER some early gains yesterday. when speculative buying saw the market up nearly 3 points in the first hour, profittakers entered the market and in reasonably active turnover, prices came back to Just above 'the previous night's levels. The recent star performer HK Wharf remained
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    • 307 8 THE market yesterday closed off the top with the leading industrial and mining stocks attracting profit-takers and only a handful of stocks continuing to find support. BHP dropped 12 cents to $6.64 while the Bank of New South Wales firmed six cents to $5.86 and other bank counters tended
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    • 85 8 MAY 23 Pesos Acoje Mining .011 unch Atlas Con A Atlas Con. B 15 80 0 6 Bagnio Gold 0082 +0.0002 BenguetCon B BF Goodrich CDCP 17 80 -01 IncoB Lepanto B .1575 +0 0025 Marlnduque B 3.78 -0.04 Meralco 13 50 1.1 Oriental A Oriental B 039 +0.003
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    • 140 8 MAY 23 Bahts 47Asia Fibre 250 -2 Bangkok Bank 375 -2 Bangkok Invest. 368 >2 Bangkok-Metro-politan Bank Bata BerllJucker Carpet Intnl 344 ♦2 Charoong Thai Wire 293 -1 Dumex DusltThanl 320 -24 Faber Merlin First Trust 435 -4 Genera Finance Indo-Thal Industrial Finance Corp 2485 -10 J And J
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    • 503 8 EUROPEAN MA RKETS ImmJ SHARE prices closed firmer on the Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Milan bourses on Monday. In AMSTERDAM, prices closed generally firmer in line with the stronger dollar, though trading was quiet In most stocks, except for KLM, which closed 4.50 guilders higher at 177.00. Dealers said
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    • 233 8 MAY Fl» ABN 353 00 1.5 Ahold 106 00 -0 5 Akzo 28 60 1 AMEV 85 80 +0 8 Amfas 112.50B I Amrot Bank 76 00 -0 1 Bergoss 52 00 unch Berk 98 50 19 Bols 70.70 2 5 BorsumlJ 156 50xd-6 5 Burhmann 70 00 -0.5
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    • 233 8 MAY a Dm Aef-Telefunken 81 20 -0.3 Akzo 28 80 ♦0.4 Allz Leben 801 AllzVers 488 ♦4 BASF 138 80 ♦0 1 Bay H T Wbank 279 ♦2 Bay Vbank 289 -0.5 Bayer 139 20 ♦0 2 BBC 283 50 1 BMW 227 ♦0.5 Cassella 344 -1 Chem Verw
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    • 99 8 MAY 22 Lire Anlc 109 75 ♦4.75 Assoc On ***** *490 Bastogl 498 ♦37 Centrale 3980 40 Flat 1890 15 Finslder 100 13.7' On Immob 75 1.75 IFI Prl 2259 ♦21 Italcementl ***** 950 I taigas 715 37 Italslder 175 25 ♦0.5 Magnetl M Pf 458 ♦3.5 Marelll Ere
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    • 181 8 MAY S Francs Actions Sulsses 299 unch Alusulsse Br 1280 ♦20 Alusulsse Reg 520 5 Brown Boverl Br 1690 -10 ClbaGelgyBr 1170 -10 ClbaGelgy PC 910 10 Clba Gelgy Reg 631 +6 Credit Suisse Br 2175 ♦5 Credit Suisse Reg 410 -1 ElektrowattBr 1680 ♦5 George Fischer Br 650xd
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    • 287 8 MAY a Frs CORBEILLE Alr-Llquide 292 -2 B S N Oerv ais Danone 496 ♦6 C S F (ThomsonC»f) 238 SO ♦0.5 C»e Franchise des Petroles 124.40 -0.3 Compagnle Flnanclere Compagnle Oenerale 346 -1 Credit Fonder De France 330 50 ♦2.5 Hachette (Llbralrte) 176 ♦2 Machines Bull 37 40
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    • 92 8 MAY T2 FYs FORWARD MARKET Acec 210 -6 Arbed 2410 unch Astur 618 -34 Brascan 491 ♦2 Bra-Lamb 1590 -10 Canpac 570 *e Cock 444 24 I> Beers 187 1 Ebes 2190 -25 Electrobel 6410 -160 Ob-Inno-Bm 2005 -15 Gev 1304 -6 Hobok 2230 -10 Petro 4210 -5 Ryl
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    • 566 8 THE Trlumph/Adler Office Machines and Computer Group composed of Triumph Werke Nurnberg AG, Adler Werke previously Hainrlch Kleyer AG, Frankfurt, and the Trlumph-Adler Vertrlebs GmbH, Nurnberg, has maintained its market position. Not considering the still Incomplete restructuring and the accompanying conversion to futureoriented products, It
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    • 324 8 OLD shares were firmer in ght trading following higher ulllon Indications on Monday. MAY a Rand INDUSTRIALS A Alpha Abercom AE And CI AMIC Barlows C« Sugar CNA Currle Finance Dr Been Ind Ed con Edgars Eveready FedVolk Fuglt Gardtan Gienanl Gratemn Hippo HI veld Huletts Liberty Lonrho LTA
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    • 63 8 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Monday 468.8 Friday 470.8 Week Ago «5.0 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Monday 855.34 Friday 848.85 Week Ago 848.76 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Monday lliv. to 112 Friday Ill* to 112K H.K. HANG SENG Tuesday 406.37 Monday 465.65 Week Ago 457.96 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 425.49 Monday 426.66
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    • 1158 8 NEW YORK STOCK prices rose In moderate trading on Monday ending what analysts called a minor correction to recent market gains. Analysts continued to wonder at the market's ability to advance In the face of rising Interest rates and high Inflation. Michael Metz of
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    • 56 8 Reuter. THE New York Stock Exchange said directors reelected William M. Batten chairman and chief executive officer for a third oneyear term. The exchange also said John J. Phelan, Jr., a senior Partner of Phelan Silver esce Barry and Company, to a fourth one->year term as vice
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    • 1486 8 May 22 VOLUME on the Chicago Board Options Exchange eased to 132,850 contracts from 142,552 contracts on Friday. OPTION JLY OCT JAN 8TOCK Alcoa Alcoa Alcoa Am Tel Am Tel Am Tel AtlR AtlR AtlR Avon Avon-P Avon Avon-P Avon Avon-P Avon Avon-P Bank Am Bank Am
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 479 9 f EUROPEAN h 4 Reuter KARSTADT AO 1978 profits will hold within limits due to further expansion and partial reorganisation of the group but should nonetheless be satisfactory in the circumstances, managing board spokesman Walter Deuss said. Mr. Deuss told the annual press conference
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    • 368 9 Reuter. ROME: A group of 21 creditor banks have given their final approval to plans for the financial salvage of Generale Immobiliare Sogene SPA. five months after the plans were first put forward, a company spokesman said. Under the salvage project put forward by the
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    • 51 9 INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp said that as of May 17 it had bought about 2.3 million of its shares under its block purchase programme. IBM made the statement in a presentation to security analysts. Under the share repurchase programme, IBM will purchase 2.5 million of its
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    • 47 9 OCCIDENTAL Petroleum Corp 1978 net income should exceed considerably the fully diluted US$2.6O a share earned in 1977. chairman Armand Hammer told the annual meeting. In the first quarter. Occidental had fully diluted earnings per share of 40 cents compared with 41 cents a year ago.
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    • 30 9 ALLIS-CHALMERS Corp said directors raised the quarterly dividend to US 37v, cents a share from 32 Vi cents, payable on July 31. to shareholders on record June 30.
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    • 28 9 PFIZER Inc said its board raised the second quarter dividend to US3O cents from 27 cents, payable on June 23. to shareholders on record by June 5.
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    • 161 9 Reuter. LONDON: National Westminister Bank Ltd announced it plans to raise US$2OO million on the international capital market. The funding will comprise $75 million of bonds, due 1986, and $125 million of floating rate capital notes, due 1990. The bank said the coupon on the
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    • 62 9 FRANKFURT: Dresdner Bank Ag said managing board spokesman Helmut Haeusgen was elected supervisory board chairman at the annual meeting in Munich. Mr. Haeusgen took over as managing board spokesman after the death of Juergen Ponto last year and is succeeded by former German economics minister Hans Frlderlchs
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    • 67 9 Reuter. HONGKONG: Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas said It has applied to the Hongkong authorities for permission to open a full branch in the colony, vice president Aimery LanglolsMeurlnne said. The bank has recently agreed to take up to a 25 per cent stake In the
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    • 248 9 f N.AMERICAN Reuter. CONTINENTAL Oil Co expects annual earnings growth through the mid1980s to average between 10 per cent and 17 per cent, chairman Howard W. Blauvelt told analysts. Mr. Blauvelt said the projection assumed an inflation rate averaging nearly six per cent between
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    • 208 9 Reuter. XEROX Corp will not consider a dividend increase for a while, chairman C. Peter McColough told the annual meeting. In February, the company increased its quarterly dividend to USSO cents a share from 40 cents. Directors will meet later to consider a quarterly dividend payment.
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    • 338 9 Reuter STOCKHOLM;. AB Volvo will become a Joint Swedish Norwegian company called Volvo (SvensktNorskt AB) which will be 60 per cent held by a new Swedish holding company and 40 per cent by a Norwegian counterpart, Volvo's managing director Pehr Oyllenhammar told a Dress
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    • 198 9 Reuter FRANKFURT: Volkswagenwerk AO expects a good earnings position this year and is optimistic about Its 1978 world sales, management board finance director Frledrich Thomee said. He told an analysts' briefing to mark the company's first publication of quarterly results. Volkswagen eroup's sales pattern can only develop positively
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    • 86 9 Reuter FORD Motor Co said it Is recalling 110,000 1978-model cars for inspection of front seat belt assemblies. The recall is for model Ford LTD, LTD 11, Thunderblrd and Mercury Cougar passenger cars. The company said on some of the vehicles, shoulder-harness retractors may not lock
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    • 68 9 A SEARS Roebuck and Co spokesman confirmed a published report that the company is conducting a study to determine whether some or all of its activities In New York should be moved to Chicago. The study could determine that no change Is necessary, the spokesman said. No decisions will
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    • 804 9 Norwegian Klondike home of the Invisible American NYT. STAVANGER: The main office of Mobil Exploration Norway sits right beside the quaintest part of Stavanger's harbour in a maroon and white building that once housed a fish cannery. But no casual visitor would know whose office It Is. The home here
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    • 66 9 BONDS&LOANS Reuter HONGKONG: Two affiliates of Indonesia's PT Asta International Inc will sign syndicated loans totalling US$2O million on May 26, Citicorp International Group told Reuter. The loans comprise $14 million with a 4V4 year term for PT Oaya Motor and $6 million for 2V» years
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    • 54 9 NEW YORK: Moody's Investors Service Inc said It rated Trlple-A bonds to be offered for sale here by the Commonwealth of Australia. The issues are US$l5O million of five-year bonds due 1983, and $100 million of 15-year bonds, due 1903, it said. The bonds will be sold on
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    • 57 9 LONDON: Banque Worms will issue US$25 million of seven year floating rate notes, lead manager Credit Suisse White Weld Ltd said. The issue will carry an Interest rate of per cent over the six month London interbank offered rate, with a minimum of 5* per cent and is
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    • 44 9 LONDON: The Philippines is receiving an US$BO million World Bank loan, the bank said in a statement Issued here. The funds will provide investment credit to the Development Bank of the Philippines for relendlng to small and medium scale Industrial enterprises.
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    • 33 9 LONDON: Canadair Ltd US$7O million Eurobonds have been priced at 99 per cent, lead manager Merrill Lynch International Co Ltd said. (The notes due 1983 carry a coupon of Btt per cent.)
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    • 31 9 LONDON: AGA AB US$25 million 10 year Eurobond issue has been priced at par lead manager Hambros Bank Ltd said. The bonds carry a coupon of 9tt per cent.
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    • 492 9 r i ASIAN TAKEOVER activity in Australia has been maintained with the diversified Industrial group, W.R. Carpenter Holdings, making a bid for the paper and printing gfoup, Dalton Brothers Holdings. At the same time the electrical appliance group, Vulcan announced that it had held talks
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    • 237 9 Reuter. SYDNEY: Exchange rate movements contributed to the fall in the profit of Thomas Nationwide TransKrt Ltd (TNT) In Austran dollar terms In Its first three trading quarters ended March 31, TNT said. The East Coast US longshoremen's strike was another factor, costing TNT
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    • 244 9 Reuter. MELBOURNE: Kalgoorlie Southern Gold Mines NL will ask its shareholders to approve the purchase of a 50 per cent stake In a Western Australian talc mine as part of a rearrangement of interests to avoid a windingup of the company. Under the agreement,
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    • 181 9 Reuter. MANILA: Foreign ownership in the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp will be confined to 30 per cent of the US$l5O million plant with the rest divided almost evenly between the government and a consortium of Philippine copper mining companies, a spokesman said. Foreign owners
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    • 162 9 Reuter SYDNEY: The Standard Chartered Bank Ltd has lifted the issued capital of Its wholly-owned merchant bank unit, Standard Chartered Australia Ltd, to Ass million from $1.5 million and changed Its name from Wallace Sassoon Ltd, the Australian unit announced. It said the increased capital
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    • 58 9 THE Hongkong government said It proposes to grant 58.9 hectares "offshore and of the sea bed" to the Hongkong Electric Co Ltd on Lamma Island. The area is for reclamation and the building of jetties for a proposed power station. Hongkong electric shares firmed HK 22.5
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    • 83 9 The Love of e ooking 4 > t-.r* V" •v*; i/' ft "*4. •v m i mr* l I mtmm i* •oupato deeeerta, giving th» eoek a wldar rang* el recipee to try, one* the baetee have baan Kenneth Lo reglen. of China Peking, Shanghai. < ftiaehuan and givaa a
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  • DEALS DONE ON THE SES AND KLSE
    • 1729 10 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchanged Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 unIts unless otherwise specified. AU Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "sett Big Board deal (in
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    • 127 10 4 3/4% 15/9/80 (250,000) (100 468 100.558) 5* 15/4/81 (250.000) (100.688 100.755) 5% T F 1/5/83 (250.000) (100.458 100.558) 53/4% T F I&V81-84 250,000) (102.905) 7% 15/4/85 250.000) (100.908 101.058) 7 1/4% 15/10/86 (250.000) (100.70B) 7 1/4% 1/5/87 (250.000) (100 70B) 5 3/4% T F 15/7/87 (250.000) (101.958)
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    • 118 10 STRIKING prices of the stock S nS ClaJly llsted on Stock Exchange of Singapore offer prices b t l if' ness done yesterday. ElilL. number of options traded shown in brackets. Cold Storage (June 11.70) (0.&5B S.MS). (Sept 11.70) (.0578 0.728). C and C (June $2.20) (1.648 1.745).
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  • 1434 10 1978 Hick Low Company Last v. Sale Week +OTGr'« Div Div C'VT Gr'i Y'ld Net P/E Week Vol Week COQO) High Low 8ECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS 181 132 Aetna 175 213 123* Alcom 205 152 112 Allied Choc 152 225* 195* Bata 225 83 60* Ben 77 191
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  • 2173 10 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 inomtdiau AJlnamata (2.500) Aiaam (2.148 3.168) (1) 2 10 (0) 2 14
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  • 760 10 THE stock market run into profit-taking yesterday and prices were taken marginally lower in mixed trading. Trading volume on the Stock Exchange of Singapore was much reduced with about 5.56 million shares worth $10.81 million changing hands. This fell short of Friday's 7.8$ million ihtrea. A broker
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  • 566 10 PRICES fell sharply across a broad front in moderately dull conditions at the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday. The distinctly easier close was a sharp contrast to the fairly steady opening when prices attempted a rally after the extended weekend. The attempt, however, was shortlived and
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  • 154 10 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST (Maaafcn' prion for Ma* Zt\ INCOME BOND UNIT The Commerce The 8avlng Fund 1 85 2 07xd 120 1.27 IUUM p INCOME BOND rtaas) 1 06 1.11 S pore Prof Fund S poreSecurlfy 0 96 ,103 IN 2.00 121 I 28 MARA BUMIPUTRA rUJTD (Masafari'
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 739 11  -  By ARTHUR NG VERY different recovery rates are noted for the two successors of the former Malayan Containers group Singapore Glass (1974) and Malaysian Containers (1974) for their common financial year ended March 31. 1978. A strong secondhalf spurt Kushed group pre-tax earnigs at Singapore
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    • 483 11 INTENSE competition in the industrial gas market apparently took Its toll on Dah Yung Steel's performance for the 12 months ended Dec 31, 1977. Group pre-tax profit plunged to $1.09 million, nearly half the previous period's $2.14 million, while group turnover was down by 6.6 per
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    • 598 11 Far-East Levingston Shipr building Ltd: AGM to be held at No. 31, Shipyard Road, Jurong Town, Singapore 22. at 10.30 a.m. on May 25. Selangor Properties Bhd: AGM to be held at Wisma Socfln, Jalan Semantan, Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur, at 10.00 a.m. on May 26. Apollo Enterprises
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    • 93 11 BOUSTEAD Holdings anticipates that its proposed one-for-ten scrip issue will not have any adverse effect on its profitability. The company was replying to a query posed by the KLSE. Boustead expressed confidence that the current level of profit distribution could be maintained upon the increased capital.
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    • LATEST RESULTS
    • 208 11 THE giant London Rubber Company International group, whose $15 million factory in Kulim, Kedah, is nearing completion, plans to invest $7 million more soon. Its director, Mr D.A. Blairman, met the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Industry, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad,
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    • 43 11 TAIKO Plantations has sold 860,559 shares of $1 each In Gadek (Malaysa) at par to Syarlkat Permodalan Kebangsaan Berhad, a bumiputra company nominated by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The shares represent 50 per cent of the issued capital of Gadek.
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    • 820 11 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir, I am becoming concerned that local shareholders in Harrisons Malaysian Estates (HME) are not receiving adequate advice upon the action they should take regarding the proposed merger of Harrisons ft Crosfield (H C) and HME. in respect
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    • 544 11 BOUSTEAD Limited's agreement early last week to sell off subsidiary Windsor Estates to Malakoff Is part of the UK company's overall restructuring exercise to transfer its Malaysian assets to the locally incorporated Boustead Holdings Berhad. Malakoff is a 54.8-per cent owned subsidiary of Boustead Estates
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    • 782 11 c. ■Ml Ex Books Date Teftfcr >r u irmmt Data does payable the ymf L Dualop Estate Tractors g*.PrmrtiM M.C*UM Intraeo Dunlop Industries HlfkAUw Kulim Sime Darby MBS Ku«'* U.O.LLou George Kent 8 bell UE(Prsf.) UE (Ord.) KinU Kellai C and C 20% 10%I 8% 10% 12 21
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    • 180 11 Company Particulars Ex Date Books Close United Plantation* Males I'm CI100S Bonus Issue of 1 for 10 Bonus Issue of 1 for 3 May 26 May 30 Jun7 June Bonus Issue of 1 for 3 May 31 Jun 10 Groat Eaatern Life Malayan Floor Strait* Trading Bonus Issue
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    • 418 11 A NOTE of caution was sounded to the Multipurpose Cooperative Society (KSM) by Datuk Lee San Choon, Its founder and chairman, who urged It to adopt a new management approach and attitude to meet the challenges brought about by the changing economic environment. He
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  • 114 12 POLAND and the Philippines have agreed to hold talks In August or September to draw up a specific schedule of future trade, the Department of Trade announced In Manila yesterday. It said the agreement was reached in a meeting between Philippines Trade Secretary Troadlo Quaizon
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  • 265 12 SINGAPORE'S balance of trade with Belgium last year was tilted In the latter's favour but the gap can be narrowed or even bridged If advantage is taken of the current rattan rage In the European country. For, according to the commercial attache at the
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  • 513 12 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES Export Council has submitted to President Marcos a plan to boost the country's export Income and shift the emphasis to other markets from its main partners, Japan and the US. The plan suggests that export earnings could be more than doubled in the
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  • 193 12 Reuter THE Philippines and a group of foreign banks have agreed on easier terms for a U*****.6 million (*****.2 million) loan the country took out in 1976 to help build a nuclear power plant, the government National Power Corp said. Special Project Nuclear finance manager,
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  • 528 12 AFP MANY foreign banks wishing to start full operations In Hongkong have shied off pending the outcome of a controversial government taxation proposal. The government's Intention is to Impose a 17 per cent tax on net profits from certain offshore interest earnings, a tax which
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  • 753 12 THE market closed quietly firm At 3 p m the Financial Times index was up 2.4 at 471.2. Government bonds were active gaining up to 1/2 point initially after the government broker activated the long •tap" stock and reduced his price for the issues by t'l'j to 163'2.
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  • 136 12 Reuter THE US House Armed Services Committee today will consider a bill authorising a US contribution of up to 5,000 long tons (I.e. 5,080 metric tons) of tin to the International tin buffer stock, a spokesman said. As previously amended by the House Stockpiles
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  • 460 12 JAPAN will pledge to lower its Import tariffs on some 2,600 manufacturing and mining items from the present 10.8 per cent on the average to around 3.7 per cent at the multilateral trade negotiations (Tokyo Round). The import tariff on the main
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  • 54 12 Reuter MAYORS of big Asian cities may meet in Teheran or New Delhi late this year to discuss problems of rapid urban development. Teheran sources said Mayor Ralendra Kumar of New Defhl, on a two-day visit of Teheran, agreed in principle with the city's mayor. Javad Shahrestanl to
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  • 763 12 Agencies. THE UNITED Arab Emirates Oil Minister says Abu Dhabi may be forced to reduce oil production between 3.5 and 7 per cent this year as a result of the surplus of oil worldwide. "The reduction of 50,000 to 100.000 barrels per day
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  • 271 12 Reuter. DEVELOPMENT of a Euroriyal market may be a step closer to reality with the growing accumulation of Saudi rlyals In the Bahrain offshore banking sector. While the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) Is not happy about the prospect of rlyal-deno-mlnated notes being "hawked on the markets" pressure
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