The Business Times, 16 March 1979

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1 18 The Business Times
  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 14C/1/7S FRIDAY, MARCH If, 1979 50 CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 59 1 AFP TEL AVIV, Thurs. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin will go to Washington next Thursday to sign the English version of the Middle East peace treaty with Egypt, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported today. In CAIRO, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat confirmed that he will travel to Washington
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    • 65 1 AFP PARIS, Thurs. Consumer prices in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) rose 0.8 per cent in January against 0.5 per cent in December, 0.4 per cent in November and 0.7 per cent in October. The year-on-year increase in January was 8.4
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    • 35 1 LONDON, Thurs. Vietnam today proposed Hanoi as the venue for talks with China, but again insisted that they could take place only after a complete Chinese withdrawal from its northern border areas.
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    • 74 1 AP LONDON, Thurs. The US dollar was mixed on European currency markets yesterday morning, but fell back two yen in Tokyo, where business ends before trading resumes in Europe. Gold bullion went up again amid predictions that it will rally in the short term to no more than
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    • 107 1 Reuter LONDON, Thurs Former Haw Par International chairman Richard Tarling fears he may be detained while awaiting legal proceedings he faces five charges of violating Singapore company law over the formation of unit trusts when he arrives in the Republic tomorrow, according to interviews in the British press
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    • 47 1 AFP COLOMBO, Thurs Sri Lanka has decided to establish a resident diplomatic mission in Singapore, it was announced here today. Mr. Canagaratnam Gunasingham, a senior career diplomat, will be appointed as the first resident Sri Lanka High Commissioner to Singapore, the Foreign Ministry said. AFP
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    • 40 1 AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Hussein Onn will visit China in May, Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad announced tonight at a dinner given by the visiting Chinese Foreign Trade Minister Li Chiang. AFP
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    • 50 1 UPI NEW YORK, Thurs The stock market was mixed early today in moderately active trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, which lost 1.56 points yesterday, was ahead 1.21 points to 846.58 around 1600 GMT. Declines led advances, 473 to 455, among the 1,393 issues crossing the tape. UPI
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 132 1 Rises Most Active Sungei Besi 860 Setron 213 Tronoh Mines 800 Setron A 201 O U B 370 O C B C 825 Stbn Kinta 615 Consplant Wrt* 450 Gentings 344 O U E 272 Nat Iron 650 T Harbour 350 N B T 211 Kemayan 200 U I
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      156 1 Rises Most Active Sg Besi 905 70 Consplant 244.000 Tronoh 820 40 S Darby 135,000 Sthn Kinta 630 20 Treng Dev 129.000 OCBC 835 20 High A Low 123,000 A Hitam Tin 1240 20 Total Turnover: 2.61m Sthn Mai Tin 1280 20 Total Value. MS6.73m Inch K K
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  • 318 1 THE OVERSEAS Union Bank yesterday revealed a pleasing set of results with additional sweeteners thrown in to cheer shareholders. Group after-tax earnings rose by 30 per cent to 118.73 million. The group profits, however, included non-recur-ring earnings of $2.2 million ($l.l million previously)
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  • 647 1  -  TRADE ACCESS PROMISE By RONNIE LIM NEW ZEALAND should be making a "fairly forthcoming" offer to Asean on trade access into the country in the multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) context, Prime Minister R.D. Muldoon said yesterday. Mr Muldoon, in an exclusive
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  • 343 1  -  By WANG LOOK KEAH FOREIGN Affairs Minister S. Rajaratnam will lead the Singapore delegation to the Asean-Australia air talks in Jakarta next week. The two-day ministerial meeting will begin on March 20. Asean aviation officials will have two days of preparatory talks before the ministers meet. The
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  • 234 1 THE BOUSTEAD group of companies announced yesterday that it has acquired for $3.2 million the 50 per cent stake belonging to Guthrie and Co Ltd in Guthrie Boustead Shipping Agencies in Singapore and Malaysia. The purchase followed a review of the joint-venture company by its
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  • 120 1 AFP MALAYSIA has banned the export of several species of sawn timber to help overcome a local shortage of the commodity. Ungraded sawn timber such as cengal and balau merah and sawn timber such as sepetir are included in the ban, said Malaysian Primary
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  • 155 1 MR GOH Chok Tong (*bove), senior Minister of State for Finance, has been appointed Minister far Trade and Industry from yesterday. The newly-created ministry will take over the following functions of the Ministry of Finance: Department sf Trade, Department of Statistics, the Economic Development Board,
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  • 476 1  -  By TERESA LIM SINGAPORE shipowners have asked that a Ministry of Sea Communications be formed to look after their needs more closely. In a special paper to Minister for Finance Hon Sui Sen, the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) proposed that a Shipping Advisory Committee
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  • TRADE AND INUDSTRY
    • 585 2 COURSES AND TALKS Feb 5-Apr 14: Diploma in Life Insurance, SITC, SITC Mar 1-31: International Labour Organisation residential course, RELC, ILO of Singapore. March-July: Personnel Management Concept Scope and Functions, Holiday Inn, Personnel and Organisation Development Mar 5-23: Port Administration and Operation Course, PSA Conference Hall, PSA Mar
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    • 774 2  -  By TEO TECK WENG THE EXISTING system of tender submission is likely to favour the contractor with relatively less knowledge of cost estimates. Under the present system, the more expertise a contractor has, the less his chances of obtaining the contract, property development consultant Lai Pang
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    • 173 2 SEVEN Canadian experts on pig fanning and breeding are now visiting Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines to increase interest in those countries in Canadian breeding stock and swine semen. The mission is sponsored by the Canadian department of industry, trade and commerce. Canadian
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    • 189 2 THERE is a* Med to toy iwtkir toyer sf uplult everytime a rmi aeeds re-sarfactog. A aew machtoe, the fUU-MUI, out pave uevea rsad surfaces by "ptoatog" prstrastoas this leaving u immediately serviceable sarface. The machine to devetoped by CMI Carperattoa, eae sf the majer read
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    • 332 2 HONG Leong's newly-ac-quired Yamaha motorcycle agency took off yesterday with the opening of its showroom at Tyrwhitt Road. Hong Leong is complementing its entry into the motorcycle market, which is estimated at some 92,000 motorcycles, with initiatives to set up a motorcycle riding school to
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    • 56 2 ALITALIA has promoted Bajah V Kuwu to sales promotion manage.- for Singapore from March 1, 1979. He will be responsible for coordinating all passenger and cargo sales as well as promotional and related sales activities. Sri Mrhsmri din has been appointed chairman of United Engineers (Malaysia) Berfcad
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    • 352 2 TWELVE Australian organisations, including the Australian Trade Commission and the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, will participate in the MedicAsia 79 exhibition and conference in Singapore from next Tuesday to Saturday. The group will show a variety of products ranging from serum, membrane filtration equipment, patient services systems and earth
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    • 445 2  -  By FONG MEW LENG A LOCAL management consultant will join hands with a West German technical research company to promote small but high technolgy support industries in Singapore. The merger between Consulasia Management Consultants and the West German Walther Consult will take effect next
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    • 406 2  -  By FOO CHOY PENG ABOUT 300 Singapore businessmen have received invitations to attend the monthlong 45th Canton Trade Fair beginning on April 15. These are generally representatives from medium to large-sized companies which import Chinese merchandise and foodstuffs either for local consumption, further processing
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    • 130 2 THE Department of Extramural Studies of the University of Singapore will be holding three courses all beginning on March 21. The first, consisting of 15 lectures on Introduction to Business Statistics, will be held on Wednesdays and Fridays. Mr. Chan Choon Hian, a part-time lecturer at
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    • 65 2 COMPA International is organising a five-day seminar on Data Processing in the 1980s, to be led by Mr James Martin, a graduate of Oxford University and an author. The seminar will be held at the Shangri-La hotel from June 11-15, and is aimed at providing systems analysts
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    • 62 2 THE INDUSTRIAL Training Board (ITB) has completed the transfer of its headquarters from the Ministry of Education annexe at Kay Siang Road to the former Polytechnic campus at Ayer Rajah Road. Its new tele-. phone is *****00. Today the board will an-* J nounce the results of
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  • REGIONAL
    • 585 3 EUROPE will continue to depend heavily on Southeast Asia for the supply of tropical hardwood. Neither there be serious competition between soft and haidvfrood in that market. Studies by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the European Economic Commision over the last
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    • 366 3 Reuter THE International Confederation of Free Trade Unions today asked the Australian Council of Trade Unions to help secure the release of a Malaysian Airline DC-10 stranded in Sydney airport. The confederation's president, Mr P. Narayanan, a Malaysian himself, said he sent a
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    • 183 3 Reuter THE NIDO oil fields off the Philippine island of Palawan is expected to produce 10.4 million barrels of crude oil this year, Manila's Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco said yesterday. This figure is more than the original estimates of 9.12 million barrels, he said in a
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    • 170 3 UPI AN industrial dispute involving workers at Sydney's Glebe Island grain terminal has again disrupted exports of wheat and other grain from the terminal. The strike is yet another in a series of disputes plaguing the state Grain Elevators Board's operation of silos at
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    • 275 3 Reuter UPI THAI hif MtaMtr Kriaagaak CkuM■•ad leave* May far Pf—g aa toa way to meet M—l— Mwto Mr Kriaagaak will meet Mr Baharto to Mete, Nerth Samatra, aad thea ge to Btogapere (er talks with PrtaM Mtototor Lee Kaaa Yew. He nU he wmM
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    • 201 3 Reuter MALAYSIA is prepared to help China build palm oil refineries on a joint venture basis as its import of Malaysian crude palm oil increases, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad said. At a meeting with visiting Chinese Foreign Trade
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    • 178 3 Reuter CHINA Light and Power Co confirmed it is holding discussions with the Chinese authorities on supply of electric power from Hongkong to China. But a company spokesman declined to confirm or deny press reports supplies to Shumchun in Canton province would start
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    • 80 3 JAPANESE producers of watches, clocks, optical goods and home electrical appliances will begin advertising in Shanghai newspapers next week, a Japanese advertising agency said yesterday. Mr Sho Ryuko, spokesman for Koyosha KK, the Japanese agent for the Shanghai media, said "fewer than 10 Japanese companies" have signed
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    • 192 3 AFP ASEAN hopes to "straighten out" its differences with Australia over her new aviation policy at the forthcoming Asean-Australia air talks in Jakarta. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad who will be leading the Malaysian delegation to the talks, said yesterday
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    • 403 3 AFP Reuter JAPAN'S Ministry of International Trade and Industry has welcomed the conclusion of Iranian oil import contracts by Japanese trading companies Its officials said yesterday if the import prices for the Iranian oil are not extremely higher than prevailing market prices of "directdeal" oil,
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    • 260 3 Reuter JAPAN'S trade surplus with the rest of the world widened in February compared with the previous month, but Japanese imports increased by nearly 30 per cent from a year ago. The Japanese Finance Ministry announced that February surplus on a customs-cleared basis
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    • 162 3 Reuter TEN Japanese business leaders will visit the United States in June for talks on bilateral trade problems, it was announced in Tokyo yesterday. The businessmen, to be led by Toshiwo Doko, president of the Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren), will also attend a three-day conference
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 534 3 -11-OIE CBOSSWOBD CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Garment mostly used for flood survival (5) 8 Bloomers in the wars (5) 10 Perfect straight line to town (5) 11 Not much to split by way of food (3) 12 It looks like Teddy (5) 13 Transport to the heights? (2-5) 15 The
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 251 4 OPENING prices in Singapore yesterday were marked up one cent following higher afterhours here on Wednesday and firmer London advices, but the market fell back gradually during the quiet morning's trading on a lack of buying support. Forward offerings up to Oct/Eec 1979 also dampened sentiment. The .morning session
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    • 30 4 Rubber: March 15 Singapore: April: 249.75 cents (down 1.75 cents) Malaysia: April 253.25 cents (down 2.25 cents) Tin: $1,956 (up $11) Official offering: 240 tonnes (up 66 tonnes)
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    • 327 4 Prices In cents per kilo yesterday: Noon Close (per kilo) (per kilo) Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int. 1 R.S.S. prompt f.o.b. 250.75 251.75N 249.25 250.25N Int. 1 R.S.S. April 251.25 251.75 249.75 250.25 Int. I R.S.S. May 251.00 251.50 249.50 250.00 Int. 2 R.S.S. 246.50 247.50N 246.00 247.00N
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    • 103 4 NOON SSK ami SMR prices yesterday: May HAS April (Current Mth) (Forward Mth) Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSK ill ll-ltm pallet I 244.30 246.50N 245.50 247.S0N SSK -Ml 11 ItMi pallet i 241.50 243-50N 242.50 244.SON MRELB SMR rv O-tim pallet I 256.50 258.50N 257.00 258.00N SMR
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    • 69 4 C.I.F. North European ports. In US dollars per ton unless otherwise stated. LONDON: Wed Previous Malaysian 5% ffa bulk per tonne May 660slr 655s lr Sumatra 5% ffa bulk March unch 702 sir April 680/685pd 670/675pd May 667.pd eeopd June 652 ./660pd652' pd July 652'./660pd885/692' pd Nigeria 5%
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    • 370 4 COMMODITIES tended lower in generally quiet trading at the Singapore produce market yesterday. Lack of overseas buying support was cited as the main factor behind the easing prices. A few commodities were in fair demand and their prices were at best steady. Nutmegs began moving for the first
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    • 291 4 SINGAPORE: Yesterdays closing prices in SS per kilo, ex-godown: THAI WHITE: 100 pet first dm (Kangaroo) new crop 0.96, 100 pet second class O.K. 100 pet third class 0.83, 25 pet new crop no stock. B-10 pet 0.75. THAI BROKEN: A-super 0 62 Special 0.56. THAI RICE: 55 pet
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    • 178 4 WHEAT futures in Chicago on Wednesday closed in the loss column after coming under local and commissionhouse pressure in afternoon trade. Prices shed 3'/i US cents to 1/4 cent a bushel. The market firmed initially on buying linked to increased export activity and a lack of deliveries, but was
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    • 197 4 CHICAGO soybean futures closed out a choppy session with small gains ranging from 6"4 to 4'/i US cents a bushel on Wednesday. After opening firm, prices slipped at mid-morning on professional and commission house selling, then recovered around midday on buying by a professional and an export firm. They
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    • 814 4 COFFEE: Robusta futures yesterday closed the morning steady with reduced losses of £14 to £10 per tonne after opening £13 to £18 down. Turnover was 1,908 lots including 14 options. Dealers said the market earlier traded narrowly around session lows but then recovered slightly during the closing session
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    • 56 4 THE STRAITS tin price in Penang strengthened a further Mill yesterday to $1,966. Despite a higher tin contribution sentiment remained firm, encouraged by an overnight london rally, together with continued sustained strong demand from Japan, Europe, the US and locally, dealers said. Total turnover increased sharply to 240
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    • 159 4 TRADING on the sugar futures market yesterday remained quiet with no trades done, the same as Wednesday, dealers said. Nearby May closed at 8.53/75 against Wednesday's 8.60/80 close, July at 8.99/ 9.10 against 8.96/9.15 and distant March at 9.95/10.07 against 9.90/10.10 cents. The day's spot sugar price was
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    • 191 4 YARN and cotton prices were quoted as follows in Hongkong yesterday: (In HK dollars, spot ex-godown) C*»m yarn: China Blue Phoenix 20. 2,360, 32i 2,M0; 40* 3.100 (per bate of 400 Iba). I"*' Qiina Butterfly and Globe brand unq. Dragon Head unq: Five Lambs unq. Flower and Ifcitterfly unq;
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    • 155 4 Reuter BRAZIL shipped 29,100 tonnes of soyabean meal in the week to March 11 against 71,460 tonnes the previous week and 128,100 tonnes in the week to March 12 last year. Figures from SGS Do Brazil show that this brings meal shipments in Brazil's 1979/80 March/February
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    • 702 4 Reuter MALAYSIA'S wheat imports this year are projected to increase about 4 per cent to 520,000 tonnes, as domestic demand for wheat flour from Sabah and Sarawak continues strong. The United States Agricultural Department (USDA) also raised Malaysia's corn imports this year
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    • 204 4 AP APART from dealing with routine administrative matters, the International Cocoa Organisation's week-long meeting in London, ending today, will also survey world markets and make the usual twice-yearly assessment of world cocoa production and consumption. Among topics to be discussed before the
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    • 345 4 AFP AS ALUMINIUM producers struggle to fulfil orders and prices stay close to their highest ever, the "infant" market under the aegis of the London Metal Exchange and "free market" physical trading comes under close scrutiny in the trade. The theoretical relationship between
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    • 332 4 Reuter BRITISH consumption of copper in all forms at 47,392 tonnes in January, was almost unchanged against December's 47,312 tonnes, but was below the January 1978 total of 54,571 tonnes. World Bureau of Metals figures show that the country's consumption of refined copper totalled 38,460 tonnes in
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    • 749 4 NYT LUMBER futures contracts for May delivery closed down |5 at $218 for each thousand board feet on Friday, a price that will be charted by quite a few economic trend watchers. A week ago, the closing price was *223.80. Friday's surprise drop came
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 293 5 UPI IRAN'S embattled provisional government heads idto a new political row affer Premier Mehdi Bazargan made an emotional attack on the revolutionaries for blackening the country's image abroad and undermining his authority at home. Addressing a nation-wide 'television audience on 'Wednesday night, the 71-year-old
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    • 715 5 NYT Reuter INTERNATIONAL petroleum companies have begun to change the way they distribute their available oil and as a result, the United States is facing almost twice the reduction in oil imports that it suffered at the outset of the Iranian crisis. According to US
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    • 274 5 AP ALASKA «ffielab are poshing harder fer permiariea te sell the state's Nerth Slepe sii to Japaa fsilewing Staadard Oil Cempaay sf Ohie's eaaeellattoa sf a US$l MMan (552.2 billlen) Callfernla-to-Texas pipeline. "New that Sehie is eat, it weaM seem to he farther evidence sf the aeed
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    • 320 5 AP AN AUSTERE budget in the United States should not force it to reduce its share of international credit to underdeveloped countries, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal told Congress on Wednesday. "Our economic interests in the developing world are large and growing," Mr Blumenthal testified before
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    • 333 5 Reuter AT LEAST US$4 billion (SSB.7 billion) in additional US aid will be needed to help implement a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said after a White House briefing. The senator from Tennessee said President Carter
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 413 5 Agencies THE UNITED States sold nearly US$4.5 billion (5J9.76 billion) worth of goods to communist nations in 1978 an increase of G6 per cent from the previous year the Commerce Department reported. During the same 12-month period, Americans purchased $1.55 billion worth of products from
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    • 395 5 NYT ARABS, from hard-line opponents of peace with Israel to financial backers of Egypt, joined on Wednesday in denouncing Egyptian and Israeli moves toward a peace treaty. Mr Yasir Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, called for an Arab oil embargo against
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    • 242 5 UPI BUSINESSMEN hoping to profit from China's attempts at modernisation should be optimistic about the virgin territory but careful because of the lack of business laws, says the director of the China division of the Asia Society. Robert Ox nam told businessmen at the
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  • 448 6 NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Robert Muldoon's words that Asean is in for a preferential deal in the Multilateral Trade Negotiation in Geneva comes as much-needed encouragement at a time when protectionism around the world seems to be gaining momentum. Asean and New Zealand
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  • 303 6 THE SUGGESTION to form a ministry to look after the needs of just one sector of the economy may sound radical. But the proposal of the SSA (Singapore Shipping Association) merits greater consideration. The government, after all, has long recognised the importance of the
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  • 1623 6  -  By TSANG SAU YIN EXTRAORDINARY flexibility is essential when seeking to attract and retain management talent in Brazil, a country that is beading for a period of industrial and commercial expansion, and will provide one of the great business opportunities of the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 1073 7  -  MARYANNE VANDERVELDE, herself a corporate wife, has been talking to the wives of top American businessmen. This is her report. MARYANNE VANDERVELDE DIANE is the 40-year-old, college-edu-cated wife of a successful executive at a large midwest corporation. Her own
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  • 1149 7  -  Multinational companies have for years been seen as tools of the advanced countries. Now the tables have been.turned and the emerging multinationals are aimed at the West. CLYDE FARNSWORTH reports. CLYDE FARNSWORTH NYT DEVELOPING countries, practising their own form of global reach, are becoming adept
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  • 380 7 IF YOU were among the many unfortunates who were plagued last Tuesday with shops that had suddenly closed by 9.30pm when normally they stay open much later, or by taxidrivers that were even more than usually adept at failing to see your frantic signallings, do not
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  • 1033 7  -  FORUM ...with John Drysdale SOME commentators believe, paradoxically, that a formal peace agreement between Egypt and Israel is going to make matters worse rather than better as far as oil prices are concerned. It will drive Saudi Arabia even further into the ambit
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 562 8 r SUITS NO BARRIER Reuter WESTINGHOUSE EHectric C<i'Stock has been recovering recently on Wall Street, apparently because of market analysts' expectations of further settlements soon of the company's uranium problems. "T.he stock has gained about three points from a tew of US$l6 in December,
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    • 232 8 Reuter life STATE-OWNED British Leyland IjHbr grenp has aaaeoaced a 2S per Jfm lacreaae la trading profit last year •VMte a spate sf strikes aad stap- ii fcit eampaay chairman Michael Ed-:-Md«a, who has broaght taagh effi,4Mey reforms ta the aillag giant,
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    • 110 8 Reuter BRITISH Bank of Middle East said its 1978 profit fell to £4.82 million from £6.8 million in 1977. The profit fall reflects a reduction in the level of business activity in the areas in which it operates and the transfer of the Saudi
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    • 1268 8 NEW YORK ON WEDNESDAY, stocks finished lower in light trading at the end of a dull session in which prices swung in a narrow arc from higher to lower most of the day. analysts said with an egyplain-israeli peace accord seemingly assured, investors looked around and rediscovered
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    • 213 8 MAR 14 Ct AMtIM It Ale &n 444k AlfomA n BAnk Mont a* •f B*nk Nova ScoUa a* Bell Tel «4* Ik Beth Corp BP Can Ltd IZ MX Br**-an 21* -tk CAmp Red LAke CAn Imp Bk 31 unch -Ik CAnpAC *<» CAnpac In* Pf CArllng OKeefe |«v,B
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    • 314 8 MAR 14 Rand INDUSTRIALS A Alpha 143 unch Abercotn 240 S AS And CI 446 10 A Mir 1275B Bartow* 527 2 Cf Sugar 565 unch ™A 190 unch Currte Finance 95 unch rw IWrf Iruf 1525 25 K/iron 300 unch Ednn 4000 300 Eveready 200 unch Ted Volk
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    • 653 8 TOKYO NEGLECTED stocks such as fashion-related issues, mining and medium-sized trading firm issues were slectively bought by short-term traders and individual investors yesterday. However, medium-sized blue chip 6 such as light-electrical, pharmaceutical and precision machinery issues fell on relatively light volume in the afternoon.
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    • 386 8 THE MARKET relentlessly moved into higher ground yesterday although there were no fresh buying interest. A growing school of thought that the only rates to move up this weekend would be deposit rates certainly induced further local speculative buying and turnover increased lyMost gains were made in the morning
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    • 361 8 THE market finned slightly yesterday, with the All Ordinaries index up 2.02 points to 593.56, the highest level in recent years, dealers said. BHP rose 20 cents to a year's high of A 511.50, on active overseas buying, while oil stocks and coal issues were also in demand. AOG
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    • 97 8 MAR IS Peso# Aco)» Mining ooee -0.0002 AtiJU Con. A AUu Con B. ZZZ 2310 -01 Baguio Oold .01 unch Benguet Con. B BT Ooodrtch 28 50 2300 unch unch CDCP 2280 -0.1 Ineo B LandoU Lepanto B. X unch Martnduque B 7.40 0.06 Meralco 2270 unch Oriental A
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    • 237 8 MAR IS BahU Asia Credit 310 -10 Asia Fibre 223 Ayuthaya Inv And Truit in -4 Bangkok Investment 314 Bangkok Bank 3M unch Bangkok Drying And Silo Bangkok Insurance Bangkok Metropolitan Ban 758 •>•96 Bangkok Nylon Bank Of Asia 230 unch Bank Of Ayudhaya Ltd 246 Bata Berll Jucker
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    • 65 8 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Wednesday 500.9 Tuesday 508.8 Week Ago 496 8 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Wednesday 845.37 Tuesday 848.83 Week ago 834.20 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Wednesday 77 to 77 1 Tuesday 80 to 80 v* H.K.HANG SENG Thursday 548.08 Wednesday 540 27 Week ago 528.28 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Thursday
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      • 162 8 MAR 14 Frmncs Action* Suisaes MumlUf Rr as 1425 unch 15 AJusulaat RegBrown Borefl Br Cite Geify Br m 1830 1335 S 10 3D dot Oeify P C «0 25 Cite Odfj Rcc. 1 Credit Suiis* Br 2350 30 Credit Suisse Reg Elektrowati Br. Oeorge Fischer Br Olotwi Pc
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      • 70 8 MAR 14 FYl FORWARD MARKET Accc 154 Artwl 2380 unci) Astur 072 2 Brmaean 564 12 Bru-L%mb 1736 Cock*! 512 14 4 EDes 2430 -10 neruvoei Ob- In no- Bid 2906 uncf Oe» 1)00 uncf Hntmk Petro 3020 -IS 300S -5 Stdro Z 1110 uncf 733 2250 -36 3400
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 146 8 This announcement is made by Baring Brothers 9 Co., Limited on behalf of The Guthrie Corporation Limited. The Guthrie Corporation Limited To the ordinary shareholders Retain your Guthrie Shares Guthrie forecasts for 1979 Profit before taxation up by nearly 50 per cent. A record for the fourth year running. Operating
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGE$
    • 467 9 THE LIMELIGHT yesterday was still on the US dollar against the yen. While the US currency maintained its firmness, dealers reported a drop in activities compared with previous days on the foreign exchange market. Opening at 207.40/50, the US dollar first firmed slightly against the yen. However, support
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    • 61 9 QUOTES on the Australia and New Zealand exchanges on March 15: AUSTRALIA: US dollar 1.1236/1.1188 Sterling 0.5531/0.5467 Ninety-day airmail buying rates: Sterling 0.5744 US dollar 1.1627 Ninety-day forward buying rates: Sterling 0.5589 US dollar 1.1316 NEW ZEALAND: Reserve Bank mid-rate U551.0643 Trading Bank indications: Sterling 0.5186 0.5156 US dollar
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    • 345 9 Reuter THE START of the European Monetary System (EMS) has underpinned French franc Eurobonds which now look very steady. But the French Treasury is unlikely to step up the frequency of new issues to be discussed at yesterday's bankers' meeting on Eurofranc market, said primary market
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    • 206 9 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on March 15: 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months US DeU*n(Spet> Offer Bid 10 7/16 105/16 109/16 107/16 1011/16 109/16 10 13/16 1011/16 111/16 1015/16 10 15/16 10 13/16 10 15/16 10
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    • 129 9 Euro rates LONDON Eurodollar deposit rates yesterday opened little changed in quiet early trading, dealers said. Period rates were adjusted higher after Wednesday's technical mark-down for the Friday dealing date, but dealers reported an underlying softer tendency, possibly in reaction to small gains made late in the day on Wednesday.
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    • 117 9 BANK NEGARA Malaysia said Its geld and foreign exchange reserves rase Is M 57.38 billies at Feb 28 (rem $7.84 Mllisa at Feb IS sad tfJC MlHss at Jaa The teak's fsrtsigbUy halsaee sheet was saebaaged at $&56 billiea frem February IS bat Iswer when csmpared
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    • 64 9 A FULL banking branch has been opened by Bank of America (BOA) in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. The branch will meet the demand for banking facilities created by the recent industrialisation of the Islamabad area. BOA is one of the first foreign banks in the region, with the
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    • 435 9 NYT KEY LEGISLATORS, administration officials and bank regulators have agreed that the Federal Reserve should act promptly on foreign proposals to buy United States banks, before Congress finishes its policy review of growing foreign bank ownership. The agreement was reached after a private meeting on Capitol
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    • 262 9 STERLING yesterday opened lower on its effective index at 65.0 from 65.1 overnight, losing ground against European currencies and the yen, but holding steady against the dollar, which opened mixed in light to moderate trading, dealers said. The British currency's downward movement was due partly to technical profit-taking rather
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    • 135 9 THE DOLLAR for overnight delivery yesterday closed easier at 207.20 yen, compared with a 207.40 opening and 209.15 at Wednesday's close. The Bank of Japan sold an estimateed US$BO million to stem a dollar rise and intervention accelerated towards the close, with selling at 207.40 to 207.20, dealers said.
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    • 170 9 THE US dollar yesterday lost a little ground gainst the yen but firmed aginst the deutschemark in late trading, dealers said. They said the dollar eased to 207.00/10 yen on some commercial selling and profit-taking from New York's 207.15/25 clow and its 207.20/30 opening here, but firmed to 1.8565/75
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    • 21 9 THE average rate at which Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers is 8 per cent.
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    • 298 9 SINGAPORE gold futures yesterday closed generally firmer against the previous close in thin trading, dealers said. Opening prices were marked up around US$l.5O in most positions and thereafter held steady during the morning's trading before rising marginally during the afternoon in line with the higher trend in Hongkong, they
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    • 52 9 FRANKFURT exchanges opening quotes on March 15: US 1.8562 72 <1.8577/*7) CM 1 5796 5815 Stg 3.778 788 D Fl SB.80 70 S Fr 110 70 ut 21* at* F Fr 43.38/48 NKr- 36 43 53 B FY (con) 6 313 '323 B Fr (fin) 6.231 236 Y«n 0
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    • 52 9 Rti|« of price* offered by discount bouse* on March 15: Overnight JQf to 4' tH Call deposits to 4' Closisf Buying Selling 3 month Treasury bills 4'j 4'. 3 month Bank bills 711/10 7 9/18 3 month CD 7 1 7 month CD 7 5/16 73/18 Source: National Discount
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    • 353 9 FOREIGN exchange and deposit dealers in Singapore, as elsewhere, have about them that air of glamour and impenetrable mystery. One factor accounting for.this, no doubt, is the fast, short-cut language that they speak across to each other in and even out of dealing rooms. What ever may be said of
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 263 9 A Collector's Treasure Second Series Of Thel9Bo Olympic Coins Is Now Available P m 3 Representing the mastery of mintage art, the second series of the 1980 Olympic Coins consists of five new silver coins with face value of 5 and 10 roubles, a new gold coin of 100 roubles
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  • 1423 10 Singapore BID* and ofler prices officially Bated business in and reported to the S\&M. Exchange at Singapore yesterdav with the number ct shares traded shown in brackets in lots ot Ljo99 units unless otherwise speciTime Settlement Contracts art quoted after the word "sett
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  • 158 10 SINGAPORE UNIT TO <8T |rtM ihrMa r W) The Commerce 2 16 2 29 The Saving Fund IS 1.32ul S pore Prof Fund 0.M 0» 1.* S pore Sec. Fund 1.75 S pore Invert Fund 1.34 1.31 S pore Equity Fund 100 106 ASIA UNIT' RUT (Mi—gnu' petal
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  • 2588 10 Gr'» Gr'» Net _i97&a» Company Last Div Div YTd P/E Vol D<v High Low Sale or- CVr COOO) High Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS W2 132 Acma 214 12.0N 15 5.6 235 .190* 123* Alcom 180 100 25 55 135 178 107 Allied Choc 120 unch 105 2
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  • 139 10 K 3/4* 16/78-80 (250.000) (100.858 100.958) 4 1/2% 1/8/80 (250,000) (90J0B 99 38S) 4 3/4% 16/9/80 (250,000) (90.578 99.656) 5 1/4% 1/3/81 (250,000) (100.188 100.258) 5% 15/4/81 (290.000) (99.618 99.716) 5% T F 1/5/83 (250,000) (100.108 100 JOB) 5 3/4% T F 15/8/81-84 (250,000) (102.006) 5% 13/11/84 (250.000)
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  • 1637 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 AJhiarti (1) 2.78 Ataa (1.325) Alas BaM (1.206) AOM(l.lffl) Bate (2 498
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  • 717 10 THE Singapore stock market yesterday featured a few Bra spots la generally qitet bat steady Breken aay majority el tke eeaaten kave keads* towards tke kargata level iartag tke reeeat kearisk spell. Sappsrt la tkese stocks was fairly streag eves tkeagk tke
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  • 437 10 A STEADIER trend prevailed on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday as prices moved higher on continued light buying interest. Gains, although widespread, were generally narrow. Opening prices were around overnight levels and trading was hesitant, reflecting a cautious market. Trading, however, picked up
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1041 11  -  By CHAN BONG SOO HAVING just turned in satisfactory results, Hytex now faces a future fraught with uncertainties. For one thing, the group may find itself strapped for cash which will be much needed to tide it over the crucial period ahead.
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    • 524 11 Wm by HOCK LOCK SIEW AT A TIME whea there has bees w much hot air biewiag betweea the pretagoaists ta the Sime bM far Gathrie, it cemes as a shack ta as that there are still a few Gathrie Carparatfaa ifciwihiHtri wha have yet ta
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    • 475 11 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for Payment Date Close Payable the year Previoua year Wilkinson 14% Mar 17 Mar 19 Mar 27 21% 16% B Kawat 6% ITE Feb 28 Mar 10 Mar 28 6%TE 10(a)TE Sel Nut 10% I Feb 28 Mar 10 Mar 31
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    • 127 11 Company Particulara Ex Date Books Cloae Nat Iron Bonus Issue of 1 for 2 Mar 22 Mar 29 DBS Rights Issue of 1 for 4 v 83.50 per share Mar 27 Apr 3 Dunlop Eat Bonus Issue of 1 for 5 Apr 8 Apr 30 P. Product* Bonus
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    • 1074 11  -  By STEVEN TAN MALAYSIA Building Society Berhad (MBS) has obtained a fresh $150 million credit line from one of the nation's largest funds, the Employees Provident Fund. The new credit facility for MBS's various housing finance activities has been approved in principle following the
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    • 391 11 DUNLOP Estates BM, in replying to a query from the KLSE regarding its proposed bonus issue of one-for-five, says that it is too early to determine a definite trend, but provided commodity prices are maintained at or about their present level, it expect profitability for the current year
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    • 131 11 HIGHER dividend income has helped boost pre-tax profit at Mineral Securities Malaysia 5.9 per cent higher to $975,900 for the first half year ended Dec. 31, 1978. Dividend income rose 25 per cent to $715,800 which together with income from sales of houses of $317,600 ($389,500
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 794 11 OVERSEAS UNION BANK LTD. "INCORPORATED IN THE REPURLIC OF SINGAPORE ANNOUNCEMENT NET PROFITS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMRER 1978 The Directors of the Bank are pleased to announce tlSe following audited net profits for the year ended 31 December 1978 after providing for taxation and diminution in value of
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  • 799 12 NYT THE United States has asked Japan to open tenders by over 130 government-related "entities" for orders worth about US$7.5 billion (5516.5 bfilion) a year, to foreign companies, a high Japanese official said on Ambassador Nobuhiko Vshiba, who represents Japan at international trade negotiations,
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  • 379 12 Reuter THE WITHDRAWAL of Chinese troops from Vietnam seems to be nearly completed, diplomats said in Peking yesterday. They had received hints from Chinese officials that the pull-back could be completed by the weekend, ending a four-week operation aimed at teaching Vietnam a lesson for
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  • 135 12 Reuter THE CARTES Admlalstrattoa to omaUertag pwpinh to tharlHuSr^ttipM sf IMM leag teas tt til tad If mtlHf trey saaees af stiver (rata fee US stockpile to tke IM9 fiscal year starttag feis Oct 1, White Hease sflletoJs Slid. The stockpile 41spesal prspssals mist
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  • 499 12 AFP MALAYSIA'S fourth oil refinery, to begin operation by 1964 or 1965, is expected to produce 110,000 barrels a day, chairman of the state oil company Petronas Tan Sri Abdullah Salleh said yesterday. He said Petronas is studying whether it should refine Malaysian oil
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  • 131 12 AFP AMERICAN, European and Japanese politicians and businessmen will meet in Tokyo next month in what appears to be a "private summit" ahead of an economic summit meeting of seven non-communist industrialised nations scheduled for late June in Tokyo, the organiser said yesterday. The three-day meeting of
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  • 842 12 LONDON, Thurs. The market moved lower today in moderate trading with inflation worries prompting some selling, dealers said and at 3 pm the Financial Times index was down 7.2 at 502.7. Factors having an adverse effect on market sentiment were the Price Commission report warning of a rise
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  • 853 12  -  IN PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY By GOH ENG KEE THE EDUCATION Report of the special task force headed by the Minister of Education, Dr Goh Keng Swee, took the "sting" out of the parliamentary debate yesterday on the budget allocations for the ministry. Mr Sia Khoon Seong (Moulmein)
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  • 329 12 THE SINGAPORE Govem- ment will implement the Residents' Committees (RC) scheme on a wider scale as a means to meet the social and human problems arising from our in- creasing "high-rise way of living." i Disclosing this in Parliament yesterday, the Senior Minister of State (Prime Minister's
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 129 12 IT PAYS TO CONSULT INDCBUEZ BEFORE MAKING A DECISION ON YOUR CASH BALANCES Today wa arc quoting the following for Singapore Dollar term deposits up to St2sojoo 1 month S%%|ML 3 months 6%% PA 6 months 6V»% p.*. 9 months 6*6% p.a. 12 months Savings S'4% p.a. We also issue
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 56 12 Outlook for Singapore from 6 a.m. to noon today: Mainly fair Report for 24 prior to p.m. m March IS at the airport. Maximum temperature 32.6 Associated humidity 58 Minimum temperature 24.2 'Associated humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 6.95 Rainfall in millimetres 0.8 Total rainfall for the month 47.0 Total
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 79 13 AFP JAPAN and South Korea are about to receive orders from Greece for large oil tankers, Lloyd's Last reported on Wednesday. fl Ljvanos group will order two 80,000-ton ships from Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea fgc. about US$23 million(Ss4B million). They will be delivered early in 1981.
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      • 111 13 AP THE British Shippers' Council announced plans on Wednesday for a London conference next summer for 800 leaders of the world's shipping industry. The speakers will include Sheikh ATiftied Zaki Yamani, the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister. 3The conference, called "Shipping 2000", will be held on June 19
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      • 69 13 UPI FOURTEEN ships were lying idle on Wednesday off the Sydney coast as a result of an industrial dispute affecting maintenance workers at Port Kembla, Newcastle and Sydney's coal loading facilities. The.dispute over wages started in Sydney on March 2 and spread to the other ports late
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    • 455 13  -  No. 2 MARKET By RONNIE LIM HAMILTON JETS, the export arm of the Hamilton Group involved in engineering and metal fabrication, will soon introduce a new water jet-propulsion system for larger, high-powered craft that will give it better market penetration in South-east Asia. Company director, Mr Derek
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    • 171 13 UPI SLOWER t—fltlm permitted Ike whale market la terms et ceafirmed basiaeas details, bat ealy la the Nerth Atlaattc grata trades was this dae to a dwladliag eaqairy sitaattoa. Maat ether grata emaaated frem the Narth Pacific ertglas where a March-April leader received U5529.75 far a IMM-tea barley
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    • 479 13  -  By GOH ENG KEE The volume of cargo handled at the Port of Singapore Authority's six gateways last December rose by nearly 23 per cent largely as a result of a substantial increase in general cargo. Total volume for the month was 2.3 million
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    • 175 13 AFP UNITED STATES bulk-ship-ping companies are expected to voice strong opposition to third-world developing countries expanding their fleets at a three-day international shipping conference which opened in Bath, Avon, on Wednesday. Philip Loree, chairman of the Federation of American Controlled Shipping (FACS), who will address the
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    • 2563 17 SHIPPING LIST where your ships are due and when SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for Ports around the World The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port
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    • 523 17 Shlppiag Liitr Page CM ACS n 5 Afea IV 3 Aguila V 2 Alfred V 4 Alltrans V 4 Alpac IV 5 Angkutan IV 4 ANL I 1 APL m 2 Arya Nat n 5 ASCL in 5 Asia Merchant IV 3 Atlas V 4 Aust.Cont IV 5 Bank
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    • 944 18 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO AT CONTAINER TERMINAL PIP NB. (1) Each vessel's estimated time of arrival is advised by the Shipping Line/ :Z Agent and is subject to change (2) All export FCL containers and LCL cargo must be delivered to the Authority's premises
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    • 886 18 The leading shipping lines operating from Singapore and the local agents who handle cargo bookings for them. Aconas Line— Aconas Sdn. Bhd. Adriatic Container— Container Feeders. AFEA Line— Singapore Shipping. Aguila Oriental—Same. Ahli Shipping— Sharjah. Alfred C. Toepfer Line— Intermodal. Algerian National Line (CNAN)—Uni pacific. Alpac
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    • 1082 18 Seatreight The majority of Singapore's shipowners realise that the bulk of their fleet is due for the scrapyards within the next three to five years and that replacements must be found if they are not to lose their competitiveness in the already depressed shipping
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      416 18 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Ever Bountiful (0000) 25 Feng Yang (after Bremen Maru) 31/32 Heroinae (after Fu Ning) 47 Hudson Maru (after Golden Season) 44 Jeh Hun (after Thai Rainbow) 19 Kaigo (after Ibn Alatheer) 38 39 Kastraki (after Kota Bali) 42/43 King Tower (0600 after
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    • 440 13 st class transport Agents: Nedlloyd EAC For further details, please refer to page 3 Scan Dutch J \RI)I\I \\l A H Orient Overseas e FULLY CONTAVOISED SERVICE TO EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) ORKNTAL CHKF UN S SIAS BROGE ?0* OWNTAL RESEARCrtR ICPIUK CO«U 1?* CWWttR PAUL 15* NEPTUK PEARL 14N CHEWIfR
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    • 432 13 sai§ SEALORD ANTAH UASC UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) All vessels ***** DWT, 105 TON H.L. Derrick 288 TEU Capacity. Long Length Capability. ■ARABIAN GULF WEEKLY SERVICE! Vessel S pore Loading for ibm Bittiy r n-> Duhai (26/3) Dammam (30/3). Kuwait (3/ BN BASSAM G. 31/32 4) Muscat (5/4) Bahrain
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    • 349 13 ■NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT UNES LTD FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICES: FAR-EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE 0 CHEF* I* Port S S BROGE 23 Mar 0 RESEARCHER 78 Mar N CORA! 5 V C PAU 13 Apr N Pf ARI 19 Apr C ROrt 26 Apr A lACEWON 2 May P f stow» Hawe
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    • 799 13 L Nedfoyd Lines Call us We call the world Agents: Nedlloyd EAC Please refer to page 3 MAERSK LINE For U S Ptote UH t MUwtn and East Canada (Also accept** tor EQ3 II E3 IC3E in aganaagam FOR fast Asia (Hongkong Manila Keetung Kaotisiungi lapari <Tokyo Kobe Yokohama Nagoya.
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    • 794 14 Hapag-Lloyd L FULLY CONTWOISEO TO EUROPE »o*rtoon Bit Kanukwa Mara i? i Hon kon( Eipress S f i*y.«A, 11 fcnjttfer 114 1 b CarAean Bay 184 > Aaw?aMaru »< 18 5 rC»Uu 4 18 5 [«w Maru I- I ?3 5 EXPRESS CONVENTIONAL TO EUROPE S'pere P *ei*x Pen Hbao
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    • 401 14 r <m. 16-17/3). -mmjta -m« 24-26 <tm. 22 23/3 2«/ Apr 2 25/May2 <EAC) .(BBS) (EMC) 25-27/3 M/« I M/« SI/4 5-7/5 9-11/4 3-4/5 VjncouYft BC Seattle if if 5 ft*)' Stmfcawa SAonfa SMU 1 S»|o*i 22-23/3 5-5/4 Los An fetes 26-27/3 $-10/4 San Frjnctwo 19-11/ C 4-7/7 MMViHM (KPRfSS
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    • 586 15 OCL Overseas Containers Limited cammxsHr rawer to m/comntT. Mont*ong tipress Bay Unplhn Ebt Mvu Liverpool Bat COKTAMERSHP SERVICE FROM UK/CONTMENT SINGAPORE MAMSFELD CONTAMER SERVICES, PTE LTD *****1 K LUMPUR CONTWO AGENOES 4MM4. P.KEUW6 31*006/1 PENANG GUTHRIE BOUSTEAO SHTPfK AGENCIES *2301/3 Australia Straits Container Line (A MEMBER OF THE AMtO CONSORTRM)
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    • 747 15 I BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS COfTTMO SQtMCE TO/FROM EUROPE H BURG BNAftK fi DAM H iiyw CarMgan li) (<n(i Mara EM* MM liesrps*l Bay FROM EUROPE H BURG B HAVEN R DAM HAVRE SOTON W Germany Austru Benetoi franee All* P Manf Spore Far Sakd SjM SjM Sated li/3 City M
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    • 735 15 GUTHRIE BOUSTEAD !Kf E G s THE BANK LINE LTD. LOWS FOR I I S AFRICA Durban li t I Capetown I Spwf 21 31 Mat P M»| 1 7 At* FROM EAST t SOUTH AFMCA fOR 6ANGAO* MMMU Penang P Mang3l Mat 4 Apt Spo<r S//? Apt EXPRESS SERVICE
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