The Business Times, 3 July 1978

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    11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 218/1/78 MONDAY, JULY 3, 1978 50 CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
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      New road system
      103 1 A NEW road system to divert part of the traffic In Singapore's Central Business District Is to be built. This will Include a $30 million underKjund passage cutting across Orchard Road and nans Road. The tunnel will stretch from an area near the entrance to the Is
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      Lock icon All gloomy for UK
      70 1 Reuter LONDON, Sun. Generally gloomy forecasts for the British economy (predicting higher inflation and unemployment and Uttle growth) were Issued today by business and academic economists. The influential London Business School sees price inflation, now running at about 8 per cent, rising to 12 per cent
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      Lock icon Bangladesh's deficit
      77 1 Reuter DACCA, Sun. Bangladesh will make up an expected US$34B million (SSBOO million) trade deficit next year with aid and grants from the West, according to a new export policy announced last night. Exports are expected to total $600 million and imports $948 mlUlon. A large part of
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      Lock icon No resources tax
      62 1 Reuter CANBERRA, Sun. The government has dropped plans to Impose a resources tax on profits from oil and uranium mining. Trade and Resources Minister Doug Anthony and Treasurer John Howard said in a joint statement today the government had taken into account "the possible adverse effect of
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      Lock icon French not hopeful
      71 1 AFP PARIS, Sun. French company chiefs are not optimistic about the future, according to a pubUc opinion poU recently carried out here. The poll Indicated that 82 per cent of those Interviewed had faith In Prime Minister Raymond Barre's economic poUcy. But 73 per cent thought there
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      Lock icon Burmese visit
      54 1 Reuter BANGKOK, Sun. An official Burmese trade delegation arrived here for a 10-day visit to boost bilateral trade between Burma and Thailand. The 10-member team, headed by Deputy Minister for Planning and Finance Myto Mylnt, wUI discuss with Thai officials ways of Increasing essential Imports like garments and
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      Shipyard opening
      58 1 THE SENIOR Minister of State (Finance) Mr. Goh Chok Tong, will represent Singapore at the official opening of a $10-mlllion shipyard In the Philippines today. The shipyard, Singapore's first In an Asean country, will be opened by the Philippines Industry Secretary. The venture Is a subsidiary of Keppel
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      Lock icon Narita arrests
      52 1 AFP TOKYO, Sun. More than 50 radical protesters against Narita Airport were arrested today after they failed In an attempt to enter the airport, police said. About 10,000 riot police guarded the airport which was opened on May 20, as 5,200 demonstrators held a rally In a nearby
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      Lock icon Life Down Under
      55 1 Reuter CANBERRA, Sun. Australia will Increase the penalty for drug trafficking to life Imprisonment because It believes the present maximum of 25 years jail Is not enough. Business and Consumers Affairs Minister Wal Fife said the Increased penalty would apply to people convicted on second offences Involving
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    TOP TEN STOCKS
    110 1 THE followingliit of stocks sltm the 10 most traded on the Stock Exchange of Singapore lest week. It fives the turnover hi thoueende of unite. prioee on Fridey end the high end low for 1978. CoBMn J™* Hlfk Low Slme Darby Holdings Haw Fur Brother* 3,807 2.86
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  • LOCAL STOCK INDICES
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      SINGAPORE
      63 1 JumX Jva» 27 •Him28 June29 JumJO BT Index: 1258.29 1257.27 1314.93 1356.25 1363.77 Industrials: 332.39 331.78 338.99 340.37 348.15 Finance: 583.52 559.70 572.43 578.21 580.17 Hotels: 228.17 225.54 227.15 229.35 229.82 Properties: 206.00 206.45 207.97 210.58 210.86 Tins: 157.30 158.82 157.81 158.25 159.02 S rubbers: 52S.84 529.73 538.16 543.48
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      MALAYSIA
      72 1 J«MM JUM27 Jwm28 JoaaM BT Index: 1768.47 1779.90 1867.47 1914.85 1913.30 Industrials: 371.93 369.75 374.47 377.50 383.83 Finance: 473.88 470.42 493.88 499.94 488.811 Hotels: 208.87 206.42 206.71 207.12 207.61 Properties: 204.83 204.21 206.38 208.45 209.48 Tins: 176.22 176.66 178.21 179.25 180.08 rubbers: 566.91 567.72 577.41 581.67 587.51 Jan l.
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    Rockwool looking for agents here
    350 1 ROCK WOOL International, the world's biggest manufacturer of mineral wool is considering Singapore as its sales base to expand in South-east Asia. (Mineral wool is a construction material made from molten stone which Is drawn out in fibre form and processed into insulating products such
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    Gardner sets up plant in Singapore
    653 1  -  REGIONAL SALES PUSH By RAHIM KASSIM A MEDICAL equipment manufacturer will be based In Singapore to serve the Australasian market. This will be the first venture of its kind In Asia, outside of Japan. Oardner Medical Engineering Asia (OMEA), with an Initial investment of
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    The Granada Ghia is raring to go
    296 1  -  ■y JOHN LIM THE NEW 2.8-lltre Granada Ohla, Ford's midAugust entry to the luxury car market here, has proved Itself a winner In European markets when It was Introduced In the beginning of the year. For example, It has been out-selling the Mercedes
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    FUKUDA'S FEAR
    44 1 JAPANESE -Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda expressed concern yesterday that the yen's sharp appreciation might hamper the domestic economic recovery. The government will take adequate steps to stimulate the economy if necessary after watching business trends over the next two months, he said.
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    Lock icon Cocos Islands are Australia's for $16 m
    282 1 Reuter THE Australian government announced yesterday that it waa buying the Cpooa lalanda in the Indian Ooean from their Britiah owner for Aft.2s million <Ssl6 million). Home Affaira Minister Bob Ellieot aaid the aale would be completed in September. The 27 atolla up
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    Underwriting profits at Reinsurance Corp dive
    508 1  -  ■y QUEK PECK LIM UNDERWRITING profits of the Singapore Reinsurance Corporation (Slngaporeße) fell drastically last year despite a 42 per cent Increase In business done. However, total profits rose as a result of strong growth In Investment Income. The annual report of Slngaporeße Just
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    God's Word and five Ks pave the Sikh way
    1802 2  -  Some of the minority cultures woven into the fabric of Singapore are relatively unfamiliar even to Singaporeans. MR. JASWANT SINGH GILL, president of the Singapore Khalsa Association and lecturer at the United World College, here outlines the foundations of his community's
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    Lock icon Ritz Hotel goes a-gaming for more clients
    947 2  -  »y SUSAN HENDERSON NYT IN THE MIDST of a week crowded with Ascot, Wimbledon and the Henley Regatta, the insatiable London social set a quirky and colourful hodgepodge of aristocrats, starlets, big business wheels, sports stars and high rollers flocked to the Rltz
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    Pop-a-mia what a wine
    513 2  -  ■r FRANK PRIAL FOR several yean now, Italy has been pouring money into an effort to capture a larger share of the American wine market. The effort has paid off handsomely so Accordingly, the Italian government figures Italian wines now account for 44 per cent of
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      197 2 IBJ The Bank for All Reasons Corporate Financing. IBJ is Japan's oldest and largest long-term credit bank. With extensive experience in meeting corporate financial requirements through arranging bond issues and offering precisely tailored loan packages. Main Bank to Japan's Key Industries. IBJ is main bank to more of Japan's industrial
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      505 2 m •w TWO-IN-ONE CBOSSWORD A CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSB I Self-made woman! (4) 4 Mother Is over-employed, not bored (6) 8 It's eaten In bunches (3) I 10 Fall to sand, much less run (4) 13 American based sport (4, 4) 14 Fellow who's ahead? (7) 15 Cross with one's partner
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  • OVERSEAS
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      Lock icon Germany in two minds on reviving the economy
      482 3 Reuter GROWING* differences on how to revive the West Germany economy were underlined by a Friday state-, ment from Finance Minister Hans Matthoefer that contradicts Economics Minister Otto Lambsdorff's reported remarks on tax cut. Diverging lines on economic policy between Social Democrat
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      Lock icon Cutlery industry to steel itself
      258 3 Reuter PREBIDENT Carter announced on Friday he had overruled a recommendation of the US International Trade Commission to eve relief to the US stalnss steel cutlery industry against competition from Imports. He said in a report to Congress that relief was not in the national
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      Lock icon Luxembourg to discuss tax relief
      168 3 Reuter THE LUXEMBOURG government's five-point programme of tax relief for International banks will be discussed by Parliament In autumn and should be voted on In November. Luxembourg Finance Minis ter Jacques Poos said the measures will be retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year. One
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      GEC GENERATES OVERSEAS ORDERS
      131 3 A £50 million order (about Ss2ls million) from South Korea for two 1000megawatt turbine generator! (similar to the one seen here under construction) has been won by a British company, GEC Power Engineering Ltd of Manchester, in the face of intense competition. The contract is for
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      Lock icon Draw up your own scheme to fight inflation
      635 3 Washington Post THE White House has asked the largest public employee union in the country to draw up its own antiinflation programme in the wake of the refusal of the American trade union movement to accept President Carter's voluntary wage control measure.
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      Lock icon CARTER MAKES MOVE TO END FISHING WAR
      659 3 AP Reuter PRESIDENT Carter has signed legislation to end the three-week-old commercial fishing war between the United States and Canada, the White House announced on the weekend. Mr. Carter expressed hope that the two countries can now proceed Immediately to restore traditional practice
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      $150m loan to Jakarta
      62 3 THE World Bank has announced US$65 million (SSISO million) to Indonesia for a project aimed at Increasing rubber and food production. The bank said the project will help meet the Indonesian government's aim of developing rubber production through settling poor and landless families on Unproductive land.
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      Lock icon Turkey seeks fresh credit
      141 3 Reuter TURKEY wants debts of about US$2.5 billion (8*5.8 billion) to 221 foreign banks rescheduled and is seeking $500 million in fresh credit, Central Bank sources said in Ankara. They said representatives of eight major US and European Banks will meet in Zurich today to finalise
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      Lock icon Miller denies political motive
      669 3 Agencies FEDERAL Reserve chairman William Miller has denied that his unsuccessful opposition to the hike In discount rate was based on political considerations. His denial came following a Washington Post report quoting a red source as saying that Mr. Miller's vote was "political", an attempt to
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      Lock icon South Africa bullish on gold's strength
      350 3 Reuter SOUTH AFRICAN Finance Minister Owen Horwood said he believes gold will continue to show a longterm upward trend despite fluctuations in the short run. US Treasury sales will be absorbed by the market Just as the International Monetary Fund sales have been, he
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      Lock icon New Euro floaters
      432 3 Reuter WITH short-term US Interest rates universally forecast to rise further, floating rate notes were the only Eurobonds to show any vitality during the past week. Thus borrowers are hurrying to take advantage of the present buoyant conditions In this sector, London primary market sources said. A
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon 6PC PAY RISE WILL DO
        616 3 Agencies WAGE Increases In Britain should be down to 0 per cent, said financial analysts, If the government Is to succeed In bringing inflation down to single-digits. The analysts were responding to Prime Minister James Callaghan's call at a union conference In Eastbourne last Friday
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  • RAW MATERIALS
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      FOREIGN RUBBER
      194 4 RUBBER future* in London on Friday closed uncertain after easy, up from the day's lows but still mostly 1.40 to 0.10 pence per kilo down from Thursday night. Volume traded Included four lots of five tonnes and 537 lots of 15 tonnes Including 18 kerb trades and nine
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      Straits tin
      173 4 THE BTRAITB tin price in Penang on Saturday was unchanged from Friday at Mi 1,710 per plcul. Turnover, however, fell 140' tonnes to 138 tonnes. In LONDON on Friday, tin on the day was down £75 for cash and £47 for Three Months standard while High Grade lost
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      Produce exchange
      207 4 CHINESE Produce Exchange, Singapore noon closing prices per plcul on 3aturaay. Coconut oil: Bulk M 8 Ml lon, old drum 193 Mllori, now drum 198 Mllori Copra: Mlmd (loooe) UK/Cont 158 buyer* Popper: Muntok ABTA white f.o.b. 100* NLW 1395 Mllera. Sarawak white f.o.b. 96* NLW 9375 Mllera,
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      Silver
      281 4 SILVER on the London Metal Exchange on Friday was mostly down by 3.2 pence. Morning losses were partly recouped in the afternoon on modest shortcovering up to 291.7 pence In the ring. The morning market was sharply lower, reflecting the overnight losses at New York, lower gold and steady
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      Soybean
      171 4 SOYBEAN futures In Chicago on Friday closed to 14 cent a bushel higher, with support in old crop Months coming from bull spreading. Despite a flurry of local profit-taking in the last 15 minutes, the market was able to hold above the previous close, generating commlssslon-house support, traders said.
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      Sugar
      231 4 TERMINAL »ugar In London on Friday fell to new contract I° w> *'1? basis December at £08 but finished marginally above these levels in some positions. On balance, losses ranged from £1.65 to £2.20 per tonne. Turnover totalled 1,837 lots including 17 options and 00 kerbs. Dealers said the
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      Wheat
      159 4 CHICAOO wheat futures maintained most of their earlier gains to close 4-1/2 to 3-3/4 U8 cents a bushel higher on Friday. Commission-house and local short-covering kept the market higher through the session in quiet tnide, traders said. Commercials were mostly withdrawn. Smaller-than-expected delivery notices issued on Thursday night contributed
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      Lead
      75 4 LEAD in London on Friday closed £0.50 per tonne down for cash and £1 down for Three Months. The market, remained quiet throughout the afternoon and pricw held in a narrow range. In the morning, values steadied on the pre-market in rather thin dealings with the undertone aided by
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      Lead
      57 4 ZINC In London on Friday ended the day unchanged. Prices moved lower during the afternoon under scattered selling and long liquidation orders which met some scale-down covering resistance. In the morning, values had fluctuated In line with copper In the absence of any fresh incentive. Dealers expected only a
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      Coffee
      470 4 ROBUBTA futures In London on Friday cloeed barely steady up from the day's lows but still £22 to £40 per tonne down from Thursday night. Volume totalled 2,658 lots Including 28 options. Sept closed £22 lower at £1,475 having traded between £1,510 and £1,488. Biggest losses of between £45
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      Copper
      571 4 COPPER wirebars In London on Friday gained C 0.5 all round. The afternoon market was steadier Initially In line with the trend at New York but Three Months slipped back from £711 down to £706 following news of an Anaconda price cut on full sheet copper cathodes to 62.5
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      Tin,rubber closing prices
      59 4 WA '*TW i Tin Tonnea ■•■Rubber (S) Rubber (M) June 38 11.735 390 330.90 344.90 *M1 per plcui June 37 >1.729 >41 337.79 343.90 June 3) >1.743 at 334 00 330 00 June 39 >1,71> 1*9 333 00 337 90 ■foenu per kilo June 30 >1.710 m
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      Gold
      388 4 THE KILOBAR in Singapore opened at 8813/741 and closed higher at 813,751 on Saturday. Spot gold for London delivery opened at U*****.70/183.20 and cloeed at 8183.00/50. Retail prices per tael auoted by the Singapore Chinese Gold and Silver Merchants Association remain at 8540 for 90 per cent gold, 8570
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      Cocoa
      262 4 TERMINAL cocoa In London on Friday cloaed at around session highs with on-balance gains of mostly £25.50 to £7.50 per tonne. Near July finished only C 1.50 up due to a differentials adjustment ahead of the month's First Notice Day today. The turnover totalled 2,195 lots, Including six put
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      Rice
      97 4 BANOKOK rice prices quoted as follows on Saturday: (U8 dollar* per tonne P. 0.8. baila Bangkok): wSiu Met: 100 pet let clta 437, 100 pet 2nd clan 432.100 pet 3rd claai 417. spet 40«. 10 pet 390. IS pet 352. 20 pet 3T7. 25 pet 307. 39 pet unq
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      A quiet but steady week for produce
      411 4 IT WAS a quiet but steady week on the Singapore produce market last week. Pepper started the week on a steady note with prices unchanged for all grades. Even tne arrival of 85 tonnes of Sarawak pepper (Mack and white) had uttle effect
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      Palm oil
      73 4 C.I.T. North Europaan pom, A US dollara par too untaaa otbarwiaa i LONDON TiHn Malayata ft* bulk par tonna wnmmj Aucuat UJIC atr Mir Sumatra 5* ffa bulk 7M* Mdr Juna July Aucuat MS air Ml a*/Ml/ Ml* Baptoinbar •Malr/ •Malr/Ml/ 600 pd IP Octobar •Malr •Malr Novwnbar
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGE$
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        Singapore market
        176 4 THE domestic market was relatively quiet last week as most banks kept squarish positions before the halfyearly closing. The U8 dollar opened at the 2.3180/90 level against the Singapore dollar and was traded downwards to 2.3140/50 on some Kculatlve selling before U8 may trade figures. News that the
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        MLR
        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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        Asian $ rates
        240 4 Asian rates RATES remained generally steady last week ahead of the half-year close. Day-to-day Euros were better offered closing easier at day-end. However, overnight Federal funds were dealt up to 8 1/16 per cent on Thursday a possible Indication of higher target levels. US basic money supply dropped U811.9 billion
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        Lock icon Discount market
        307 4 Source: Commercial Discount Co Ltd THE local money market last week opened firm and, with dealers expecting a rise In the prime rates, overnight funds continued to maintain its level at around 5Vi per cent and eased to 4 V* per cent at the close of business on
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        New York
        264 4 WHILE filling marginally against other major currencies on Friday the dollar gained against sterling and the French franc. The franc fell to a closing 22.00/03 cents from an opening of 22.22 cents after news that France does not plan to rejoin the joint European float. Sterling lost nearly
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        Frankfurt
        35 4 PRANKPURT exchanges 1 closing quotes on June 30: us itrmm Si.tmm S.Sftt/MB •.WW 00 srr ui.M/M Ut 1.42V4M p Pr u.n/n Tan I.MM/rc B Pr (eon) ft.ftU/SH Pr (fin) JVW N Kr JS 10/40
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        Lock icon Zurich
        570 4 Source: Swiss Bank Corp THE U8 dollar continued Its downward trend on foreign exchange market* last week. It dropped from 206.30 to 204.85 yen, 1.8600 to 1.8582 Bwiss francs and 4.5715 to 4.4965 French franc. The yen was again strong, reaching an all-time hlch against the dollar at 204^40
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        London
        259 4 THE dollar showed weakness in late, thin trading here on Friday against several currencies, particularly the yen. The Japanese currency rose to 203.40/70 to the dollar from 204.00/80 at the opening, as New York aell- lng of the dollar against the yen reinforced a tendency to go short of
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        Euro $ rates
        121 4 Euro rates LONDON Eurodollar deposit rates on Prlday firmed following the announcement of prime rats increases from several US banks though activity was moderate, dealers sakl. In periods, One. Three, Nine Months and One Year each rose 1/18 point. One and Three Months finished at 8-5/18 8-3/16 and 8-3/8 8-8/8,
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        Short term money
        48 4 FOR the week ended Friday June 30, the range of call rates received from Short Deposits (M) Berhad was as follows:Beak toad: 3* per cent to 8* per cnet. Cl—el turn 4: 3% per cent to 8 per cent. Movemsnts of fund totalled 8481 million.
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        Lock icon Money market
        69 4 Source: Astley Pearce TIGHTNESS of funds was seen throughout last week, with most overnight business transacted above the 8 per cent level. Term rates firmed about tt per cent In the Ones and 3/18 in the Twos and Thress on Monday, and remained steady throughout the rest of
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  • TRANSPORT
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      Bulk carrier delivered
      66 5 THIS 35,264 balk carrier, Oinoussian Leadership, built by Naikai Zosen, an affile te of Hitachi Zoaen, was delivered to Igesia Shipping Corporation of Greece on June 1. It is a single-deck, single screw bulk carrier. The 179.9-metre vessel can carry ore, coal, lumber and general cargo. There
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      Lock icon Meeting on voluntary lay-up scheme stalls
      171 5 Reuter A WORKING group of Greek, Hongkong, Swedish, Norwegian, and UK shipowners failed to make progress towards a voluntary lay-up scheme or any other plan to aid the depressed dry cargo freight market. A communique issued after the meeting did not say whether a
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      Lock icon Major 'shokkus' hit Tokyo yards
      797 5 Reuter JAPANESE shipbuilding is suffering its worst slump since the industry became a cornerstone of the country's economic boom two decades ago. The slump, triggered by the 1973 oil crisis, has forced 29 small firms into bankruptcy in the past two years and driven several
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      Lock icon LONDON FREIGHT MARKET
      214 5 AFP TANKER rates were at their highest so far this year on the market last week as demand developed from major British oil companies, American and to a lesser extent European charters. But interest appeared to be tailing off before the week-end and next week's Independence Day
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      Freight hike
      32 5 THE AUSTRALIAN and New Zealand/ Eastern Shipping Conference (ANZESC) has decided to impose a 10 per cent Increase in freight rates on export cargoes from the Philippines to New Zealand.
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      SHIPS IN PORT
      246 5 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Amanda (0600 after King Star) 23 Bendearg after Orchard Gold shifts (UTM/L) 31/32 Blue River after Arcturus 29/30 Bunga Setawar (1500 after Bunga Mas) 18 Chung Ming 0800 5 Fourcroy (landing craft) (1500 Req. Ramp) 22 Golden Horse (0530 shifts after Martha
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      Lock icon Amoco Cadiz capt. may be censured
      521 5 Reuter THE CAPTAIN of the tanker Amoco Cadiz might be disciplined for falling to make an early call for assistance when the ship's steering failed. This was disclosed by the chairman of a Llberian Board of Inquiry said in London on the final day
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      South Africa, cargo route claims victim
      380 5 A COMBINATION of intense competition, depressed trading conditions and soaring costs in seaborne cargo trades between Europe and South Africa has claimed its first victim. Enterprise Container Lines (ECL), the Nor-wegian-controlled general purpose cargo liner operator, will discontinue its South Africa-Europe container service and
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      Lock icon Iata allows innovation in airfares fixing
      434 5 UPI THE INTERNATIONAL Air Transport Association approved despite strong opposition measures allowing major world airlines to bring In lower and possibly higher airfares. A proposal allowing airlines to adopt innovative airfares In response to fluctuating market conditions was the thorniest of a nlneKint programme
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      Marisat telex rate reduced
      124 5 WITH effect from 1 July 1978, charges for Marlsat telex service will be reduced, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore announced. The current rate of $84 for the first three minutes and $28 for each additional minute or part thereof will be reduced to $67.50 for the
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      DAILY AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
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  • REVIEWS
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      Lock icon Kenya draws the film makers
      768 6  -  By DAVID STOREY Reuter A NATIVE funeral procession passed across the metal girder bridge spanning the Sabakl River In western Kenya, the body wrapped In straw matting, the women waiting and the men chanting. The passing cortege was watched with fascination and mild Irritation by
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      Stars the saving grace
      680 6  -  By RAHIM KASSIM "JULIA" a Fred Zinneman film showing now at the Orchard cinema, makes the would-be critic wary. It did after all manage to win two Academy Awards for best supporting actress and actor, and Jane Fonda's performance In It won her the nomination as
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      Good news
      49 6 VERY good news for those students and hardworkers who have been unable to enjoy the National Museum and Art Gallery shows owing to their early closing time of spm. The Museum and Gallery have now changed their hours to 10.30 am 7 pm, seven days a week.
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      99 6 Novosti Press THE ballet Coppelia by nineteenthcentury French composer Leo Delibes is the perfect "textbook ballet" for teaching student dancers, incorporating as it does both classical movements and pantomime and character dancing. Here, in a scene from the second act, is Alexander Radunsky, teacher and ballet-master of
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      The great chess battle
      1644 7  -  ■y LIM SENG HOO OVERSHADOWED by the clamour over World Cup soccer, the final prepa•rations for the World Chess -Championship match in Bagulo City, Philippines have moved silently to completion. On July 17. world chamf.plon Anatoly Yeygenlevltch Karpov will sit down to begin what may be
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      MONDAY HAPPENING
      93 7 AFTER enthusiastic response to his jam session for amateur jazz musicians at the Dutch Club on Monday June 19, Mr. Hein Princen, First Secretary at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Singapore, has arranged with the Dutch Club to make such jam sessions a regular Monday happening. Any experienced
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      Lock icon CRIBBED AND CONFINED
      770 7 IMS THE open-air art exhibition along the Orchard Pedestrian Mall, which ended yesterday, was quite a landmark In the development of local artistic awareness, and in sensitive land-use, on which the Ministry of Culture, Parks and Recreation Department and the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board should be congratulated
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      THE FIRE THAT'S NIMISHA
      918 7  -  By ILSA SHARP NIMISHA Shanna burns with all the cerebral, and emotional, passion for her art that one would expect of a newly graduated art student. On the one hand, It Is entrancing to meet someone who so obviously still cherishes as realistic the old Ideal
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      734 6 LEISURE CONCERTS: A CHRISTIAN evangelist group, The Eagles, Is staging an Eaglet Musical Festival from Sunday July 2 to Friday July 7, 7.30pm each day, in the Shangri-La Hotel's Island Ballroom, admission free of charge. This group makes music part of Its Christian ministry. A particularly interesting item on the
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      277 6 mmtrnm SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM' Opening announcements followed by Star Performance The Room 3.30 Diary of Events (Tamil) 0 3.35 Afternoon Matinee Daisy Kenyon (Pt. 1), starring Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda 4.25 Intermission 6.05 Opening announcements followed by Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy 6.30 News in Brief 0
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      84 7 RnStoW: frank DxckenS HOLV mpicvcefteu. R>JR COUPUE.S in THG. SUFFeT. I hSBM GOOD onoRMNG* Hi rnfcs woCupp>7 I R OuP OF VCJuR P»PIN& WOT, f\£P»S£ Tloo uurps, swß<eN l NOT STigQeD 7 iMouj pi«e F\ LOT [GeTTiMG ON l\oF IN Tv 4£ /ja fentNisceNT OF xne cp|Fe tictypn. \n »rs
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
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      A bull rush after early caution
      771 8  -  SINGAPORE fUlfl. TSANG SAU YIN market entered a bull ran after stepping out on a hesitant note on the first two days of the week. The Straits Times Industrial index reflected this ,?.ajiy cautious stance. Monday and Tuesday registered a loss of 0.97 point.
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      COMPANY NEWS for the week
      371 8 ENDED JUNE 3 COMPILED BY VIOLET CHOW SCRIP ISSUE Wilkinson Process Rubber Co. Bhd: Proposed bonus issue of one-for-four, capitalising $1.98 million. United Malayan Flour Mills Bhd: Proposed bonus issue of one-for-three capitalising $2.00 tnilllon. OTHERS South Johore Amalgamated Holdings (SJAH) announced that It has
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      Key decisions to be made in the second half
      1058 8  -  1 LONDON 4 •y GERALD COLVERD EVERY play stands to be judged on its two parts and each producer knows that It is wise to place the greater Impact In the latter half If the critics are to be encouraged Into
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      Lock icon Sagging on a load of uncertainties
      686 8 r i NEW YORK L 4 NYT THE nation's major commercial banks raised their prime lending rate on Friday by a quarter-point to 9 per cent and, while the Increase was not unexpected, It-caused an erratic stock market to sag a bit further. For
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      Warren moving into new areas
      420 8 WARREN Plantation Holdings' decision to sell its 18.08 per cent shareholding in Anglo Indonesian Corporation is part of an active search to introduce new profit sources into the group. The Anglo Indonesian shareholding, acquired last October when bankers, Arbuthnot Latham, sold their 20 per cent
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      Steady to firm close for KLSE prices
      1111 8 f K.LUMPUR FAIRLY bullish conditions Erevalled at the Kuala umpur Stock Exchange last week and prices were generally steady to firm. Selected blue chips and Investment stocks, particularly rubbers, featured In active trading. These recorded substantial price gains by the close or the
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      Lock icon Jittery end of year for stocks
      401 8 SYDNEY Reuter END of financial year trading on the Sydney Stock Exchange was described as dull, Jittery, nervous and quiet. The industrial leader BHP ended the week as It began at A 56.90, while CBR only managed to put on a cent to $2.98
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS
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      Shares mostly firmer
      301 9 EUROPEAN MARKETS EUROPEAN bourses closed •enerally firmer an Friday. In PARIS, the month cloaed 2? S®™ Do< Um strength of Um franc attracting buytat ortanto Um market. Dealara •aid private clients were active. The senate's voting of an amendment to the government's share Investment bill which will
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      168 9 win oo ru C.S* ll *1 ABM Ahold AJtae AMSV M4.00 104.(0 M.N 10.40 uneh -0.4 ♦0.0 4.1 1^1 Amfu AmrotBank 100.10 75 40 -1.8 -0.0 SSf?..:::::::: w-W 92.40 -0.0 KUr::::::: (0.00 100.(0 -0.( -0.1 -0.1 ♦1 -0.0 -0 4 •4 uneh uneh *0.1 i a H SawMn Pokkar
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      244 9 JUNK COM1 Tn in t m Alr-UaukU HIM m BBNdanftla Dnw 525 ♦23 C 8 T (TbooaooCM) 253 -f CM rrmnc&lM da*PvirotM OanpMnl* Flnuettra 144.80 +1J CoaiMcni* Omanta 947.80 ♦6.5 Credit Fonetar DtPrmne* SS9.I0 ♦9.3 Hmcbnu (Ubrmlrta) 229 +2.5 MachllWBull 40.70 +0.7 Mteh«lln(B) 1367 +13 PiribM 161 +2 "F^chlntyClflnt
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      85 9 JUN1 M Ur« Anic 96.78 unch Aaaoc 0«n ***** +100 Bastofl 454 +3 Central* 3720 +30 n*t 1792 +8 rtndder 112.28 +3.78 Ocnlmmob 71.78 unch Iudcementi ***** ISO 1UU«*4 Italaidtr S 10 ♦1 Ml(n«U M PT 600.80 ♦0.6 M&rtUl Ere no +7.8 Madlob •810 Minium Mondadon 1M00 rre uneh
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      155 9 A*f-T«l«funk*n Akao AllaUban AJli Vtr» BAar 77.00 17.101 680 «r 118.80 w -0.0 1 +0.8 4-18 -a -l.i BajrHTWbank Bwvtuk Bajwr 307B tu 1S1 +i -0.8 BK BMW M -3.8 St8 4-1 181 Cotmntrsbtnk ConuOumml Iklmtar-laii 00 74.80 300.80 1.1 -0.1 -0.8 181 •0.8 157 80 ♦0.8 D«utach«Bank OrMdnarBaak
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      81 9 JUNB SO m roBWASD au juurr Aoae Arbod Aftur Bnmn Bru-Lfcmb rinntr Cock DtBaan EbM sis #<H #n 1S0C Ml m i*r .411 ♦s -1 1 IS ♦IS •1 1 ♦lO Ob-Inno-Bm On aa— ssftssr 1 1 MrnA fini SIM 1300 S700 ISM Ml 1#30 sioe ST! 1 ♦M
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      Lock icon Westinghouse in bid to outshine General Electric
      1495 9 NYT LAST spring, 700 New Jersey housewives boarded buses for a ride to a local theatre where they were shown "I Love Lucy" and "Maude" television reruns, complete with commercials. They probably recognised all the plugs that Interspersed the free show except for
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      TOKYO
      311 9 SHAM prices ctoeed lower on Friday led by export orientated shares following the sharp yen appreciation abroad. Tm mm—M ui -4 Afel m AmtuOMo mi +a AmhiOlMi Ut +1 BankTk 1M jwy m -1 fitWMtona mo unci) Canon m -14 Chlyod* CpiNf 1M emtm at *i D Nip MM
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      195 9 Ami M Rand 110 Trust Bk N •1 INDUSTRIALS Un StMl N 1 Unlase 117 A Alpha in •1 NO ITS •1 AX And CI Ml KIY nm» AM1C 1000 10 Itrkm NO 4 Anclot MO raffiinr (00 -o CNA 110 Btff «U 107M .)g Currle Finance 70 ♦1
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      955 9 NEW YORK RISING interact rates and concern they could go higher depreeeed stocks on Friday in trading which slowed as investors began their Independence Day weekend earty. The market will be closed tomorrow for the fourth of July holiday and many traders are expected to take today off
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      210 9 THI market dosed on a firm nou on Friday in moderate trading as gains in IS subgroups offset a tfiarp drop In the Oil and Oas Index. Ths Oompostte index vaa up nearly one Bit and advances led declines to 176. The oil group Ml more then m Husky
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      36 9 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Friday 440.8 Thursday 447.S Week Ago 45JJ DOW JONES 1 AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Friday 818.16 Thursday 821.04 Week ago 833.02 LONDON! DOLLAR <-i IUM Friday 112 to 112* Thursday ..112* to US
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      339 9 International PRIVATE BANKERS What can a team of experienced professionals in key financial centres do for you? Ask Nugan Hand International. Nugan Hand International provides personalised Banking and professional service to assist commercial enterprises and individuals in Australia, Asia and Europe. Through its OVERSEAS ASSOCIATES Nugan Hand BRITISH WEST INDIES
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Tan Chong gets set for greater Datsun demand
      754 10  -  STEVEN TAN SETRONO demand for Tan Cbong Motors' Datsun vehicles which helped balloon the group's pre-tax profit T7O per cent to M 520.24 million last year, has exerted greater pressure on its new assembly plant in Segambut in Kuala Lumpur. .Tan Chong
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      Fusan pulls in higher profits
      502 10 CONTINUING Its rally started in 1976, Fusan Fishing Net Manufacturing staged a strong advance In earnings last year as a result of higher sales and wider profit margins. Audited group pre-tax profit for the year ended Dec. 31, 1977 surged ahead by 346 per cent
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      164 10 Associated Plastics Industries Bhd: AOM to be held at Blllk Kula Rajah, 10th Floor, Jaya Purl, Jalan Barat, Petallng Jaya at 12 noon on July 3. Wilkinson Process Rubber Co. Bhd: AOM to be held at 70, Jalan Ampang. Kuala Lumpur, at 2.30 p.m. on July 18. Metal
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      BUSINESS TIMES INDUSTRIAL GROUP INDICES (BASE YEAR: JANUARY 4. 1971 — 100)
      147 10 BUSINESS TIMES INDUSTRIAL GROUP INDICES (BASE YEAR: JANUARY 4. 1971 100) 1977/78 W ■tk'i Action Hi«ti JLow Industrial Group Week Ended Point June 23 June 30 Ckange 332 50 145.90 Automotive 326.69 328.22 1.53 496.57 328 67 Banks. Insurance. Finance and Trustees 445 43 451.86 +8.43 210.45 135 80 Chemicals.
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      516 10 Current Ex Book* Date Total for Total for payment Date close payable the year previous year Dah Yung lO%(b) Jun 12 Jun 17 Jul 3 10% 10% laiping Text. 5%TE(b) Mav 31 J in 12 Jul 4 5%TE 5*TE PMC 7V%%(n) Jun 13 Jun2T Jul 4 15% 17W%
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      SCRIP ISSUES
      194 10 Company Particulars Ex Date Books Close Oriental Holding* Wilkinaon Bonus Issue of 1 for 2 Bonus Issue of 1 for 4 Jul 7 Jul 7 Jul 10 Jul 19 U.M. Flour Bonus Issue of 1 for 3 Jul 11 Jul 21 Great Eastern Life Malayan Flour Straits Trading
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    SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    2661 10 Or*. Gr'i Net Weak 1*78 Last Weak D»v Dtv YH Pft. Vol WMI tug* L«W Ceepeey Sate +or- Crr cut) Hick Lew SECTIO.N ONE INDUSTRIALS 217 132 Ac ma 213xd -4 12 ON 1.3 5.6 23.1 78 216 207 214 123* Alcom 210 10.0 2.2 4.7 15.5
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    CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS
    1433 10 June 30 CHICAGO Board Options Exchange volume dropped to 52,179 contracts from 80,254 contracts on Thursday. OPTION JLY OCT JAN STOCK Alcoa 40 23/4 4i/4 411/4 Alcoa 45 5/10 17/8 3 421/4 Alcoa SO 3/4 UNTRD UNTRD 421/4 Am Tel u UNTRD 5 1/1 NOL 001/8 Am
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      Lock icon THE STRONG ARM GIRLS MUSCLE INTO WIMBLEDON
      340 11 THE OBSERVER COULD international woman's tennis boar oat that old sporting adage that a good big 'on will always boat a good little 'un? .While the top stars were on view for their PreWlmbledon warm-up at Eastbourne and the leeeer lights were struggling
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      Deciding when it is the end of the road
      1362 11  -  Among the many records held by the well-known Soviet track and field athlete Vladimir Golubnichy, the moat outstanding is his record of longevity in sport. From 1955, when Golubnichy set his first world record in the 20-km walk, to the present
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      Student leads Eu Tong Sen quarter finalists
      422 11 JACOB Ong, a technical student from St. Andrew's School, fired a five-under-par 67 to lead a pack of eight which qualified for the quarter-finals of the Eu Tong Sen Cup Open Invitational tournament held at the Island Course yesterday. Playing In his first
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      521 11 FROM9~h& •M#iu Mhattiflc* 49«ll0tsfSam Po,itics arx Government in Meleysia <f Politics and Government in Malaysia is concerned with the substantial political IJ changes that took place in Malaysia after Independence in 1957 and especially j during the last ten years. Among these are the May 1969 racial riots and the
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    Lock icon Saudis won't up production to avert shortage
    871 12 UPI NYT SAUDI Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Yamanl says his country will not increase oil production enough to prevent world shortages that are expected to drive up prices In the late 1980s. Bhelkh Yamanl, a dominant figure In the Organisation of Petroleum
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    APPLY NOW FOR 1978 PROOF COINS
    143 12 APPLICATION forms for buying the 1978 Singapore Proof Set will be available at the office of the Board of Comaiaaionera of Currency, ground floor, 79 Robinson Hoed, from today between 9 am to 4 pm. Completed forms must reach the board by July 14.
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    Tight supply of palm oil
    345 12 THE RECENT sharp price increase of Malaysian and Sumatran palm oil (following April's uptrend) is mainly due to near-term shortages after last year's drought in Malaysia and fairly large exports. Current offering price for Juhe shipment on a CIF UK/North European basis is about US$73O
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    Bank officers' role
    82 12 THE SINGAPORE Bank Officers Association will hold a seminar this Saturday at the Civil Service Staff Development Institute. .The theme is "Modernisation of the banking sector the role of bank officers". Mr. Llm Chee Onn, a deputy director of the NTUC will deliver a keynote address. More
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    GUTHRIE CALMS DOMICILE SWITCH RUMOURS
    163 12  -  GERALD COLVERD in London FOLLOWING two days ot active share trading which lifted Guthrie Corporation's share price by 50p to a new peak of 327p, the company has calmed a flood of speculative rumours. Company secretary Mr C.F. Opsnahaw commented that rumours of a change
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    DIAL 904 TO UAE
    44 12 THE Telecommunication Authority of Singapore has announced that from Saturday number-to-num-ber telephone service Is available to United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujalrah, Sharjah and Umm-Al-Qu-waln). Call bookings can be made through the International assistance operator by dialling 904.
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    Lock icon Japan values a self-reliant Asean
    422 12 Reuter AFP A JAPANESE Foreign Ministry official said In Manila yesterday that Japan was anxious" to help Asean achieve self-reliance even to the point of "creating a threat to Japan's own industries." Mr. Hlromoto Segl, director of the regional policy division of the Ministry's Asian
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    Esso's third platform
    99 12 PETRONAS and Esso Production Malaysia announced over the weekend that a third drilling and production platform has been Installed In the Esso contract area the Bekok field approximately 256 km east of Kuala Trengganu. The Ms6B million Bekok platform Is similar to the platforms In the Pulal
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    39 12 AFP A SENIOR European Economic Community official, Claude Cheysson, announced In Rabat yesterday the opening of special information offices in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia this autumn, to follow up economic development projects and facilitate technical cooperation. AFP.
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    Stripboard from old rubber trees
    305 12 THE TIMBER and timber processing Industries in South-east Asia will receive a new impetus with the availability of a new and cheap source of timber stripboard. This Is also good news for the rubber Industry, as rubber trees that no longer bear latex, are the
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      256 12 Now UTA introduces the super-convenient TO U.K. GATEWAY TO EUROPE fti* TO AFRICA flight toraris. The new UT567 leaves every Saturday at 18.35 from Singapore for Paris. One of the fastest and most convenient Ways to the Gateway of Europe, UT567 stops only at Colombo and Muscat. Originating from Singapore,
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    3200 13 SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for Ports around the World TIM following list tabulates, by port of destination the name of the ship, the shipping Line involved. and the estimated dates or arrival and departure, from Singapore port. t TIIII ■111 l ScMDntch tea a
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      390 13 LAN SOON SHIPPING TRADING CO <PT£> lID 4 S«l N *i H, ii! s f N' S .•0(11 i; i sf s i .(.-Skx 11 -owanr mti mi. -CMCMnr lASUS "SELAMAT MTMT UN HONC" •M "LUM MIUNM" V "SETHI KMAIALU" 11-771 U-7-71 lilliW 4-7-7t 1-7-71 WMfl V 771 7-7-71 JMMTA
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      130 13 Nedlloyd Lines —n—i To/From All Parts of tho World. Singapore: TaL *****, Port Ketang: T«L *****1, Kuala Lumpur Tai. *****, Panang: Tat. ***** NO TO S DOWX LINK CO. LTD JAPAN 1 M.V. LAK&ANA HI Vov. 10A Arrived 28.6.78 <£> p.p. Wharf Godown 90S General survey on damaged cargo dlscharged
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      736 14 SHIPPING FVLIT CONTAINERISED TO EUtOfE S'para P.MH| HMHI 6/7 14/7 16/7 21/7 23/7 21/7 30/7 4/8 1/8 11/1 12/1 15/8 EXPRESS CONVENTIONAL TO EUROPE S pwt P Mmc Fa Hk* frtw—M» ailed 2/7 SteSSJ 2/V 3/8 EXPORTS UNm WWII tiprrts TMWBIT UrriEMar* 30// 1/8 2/8 5/8 5/8 7/8 8/8 10/8
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      539 14 SEA, »LAND U.S.A./ ASIA SERVICE WTT RtFRIGERATED CONTAINER KIKt SAILING WOT WEDNESDAY FOR M*TS M USA. CANADA. CMtNtM. WM. ROREA. IMM. MOM ROM THAILAND MO PHMPWIB IfcWi L/VOYAGE Vessel Arrives/Deoarts GATEWAY CITY V7OO w,tn PONCE V 328 .lull U/l? WORLD LION V 4, Wjf 11/19 Mil*' *01H fIOOB HONG IfONG
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      1071 15 Ben Ocean Ajart servjoeafßian Line Blue FlmeJ Gen Line and NSUO BERBEAK V• Mf 1/IM| PRBTEIILAUS It/1l J*ly l/l ill BERMHM n/n Sept BEHCMACNAH 28/ a Oct ram w/cmdmrt ma I i s».i» 1 A* MM, List**, Leues. Amsterdam, Tiibory. Hull. 1 Sept LoioM, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Hal. It let Leuoes,
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