The Business Times, 7 August 1979

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    11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 14J/1/7J TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, lf» 50 CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
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      Lock icon Fewer arrive
      53 1 UPI GENEVA, Mon. There were 27,325 new refugee arrivals in South-east Asia in July, half the total of the previous two months, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said today. Of the July total, 17,785 were "boat people" from Vietnam and 9,540 were Cambodians and Laotians arriving mainly
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      Lock icon Next Parliament session
      86 1 AFP NEW DELHI, Mon. The'crucial next session of the Indian Parliament, during which the new Prime Minister Mr Charan Singh is to seek a vote of confidence, will begin on Aug 20. Press Trust of India (PTI) said President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy had summoned the new session
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      KL customs on alert
      70 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Customs officers at the Malaysian-Thai border have been alerted against the smuggling of diesel and other fuels out of the country, the director-general of customs and excise, Datuk Abdul Rahim bin Datuk Tak, said today. Datuk Rahim said border officers had been alerted
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      Lock icon Accord at Escap
      79 1 Reuter TOKYO, Mon. Member and associate member countries of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) today agreed to set up a network of trade promotion centres next year, the Foreign Ministry said. More than 60 representatives from 16 nations agreed at
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      Lock icon Support for stoppages
      75 1 Reuter LONDON, Mon. The first of three one-day stoppages over a pay claim by about three million engineering workers is receiving almost full support and disrupting a wide area of British industry, union and company spokesmen said. Mr Terry Duffy, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering
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      Trade mission
      61 1 A SEVENTEEN-member Singapore trade mission will visit five Latin American countries from Friday to Sept 4. The leader of the delegation, Mr Tikam Melani, said yesterday that the mission is aimed at promoting two-way trade between Singapore and Latin American countries. He added that they will also explore
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      58 1 UPI NEW YORK, Mon. The stock market headed lower early today in fairly active trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, a 1.79-point loser on Friday, was off 3.07 points to 843.08 around 11 am. The average gained 6.40 points overall last week. Dec lines led advances, 535 to
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    Chief Price Changes
    141 1 Rises Indices Tan Chong Sungei Besi F N Nat Iron U M W S T P 1875 C C M DBS Cold Storage W Jack* U E H Royal 372 1120 565 535 188 610 530 520 231 167 165 130 12 10 10 10 7 5
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    KUALA LUMPUR
    160 1 Rises Indices Kramat 428 S'pore Glass 229 A. Hitam (T) 1290 Sovran 170 DBS 520 S. Kinta 825 K. Kampar 330 Tan Chong 370 Cold Storage 232 Falls Minsec 480 Pengkaien 540 Consplt W'rt 530 S. Dredge 440 Tractors 630 Petaling 965 18 15 15 12 10 10
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    Businesses see healthy growth
    521 1  -  MORE WORKERS EMPLOYED By CHOO AI LENG INDUSTRIALISTS survey- i ed a week after this year's 1 National Wages Council 1 (NWC) recommendations generally expect an im- provement in business in the second half of this year. More manufacturers algo expect higher investments in buildings, plant
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    GENERAL ELECT PLANS TO CUT WORKFORCE
    215 1 GENERAL Electric (USA) Controls (Getrol) plans to reduce its production workers from 495 to 365. It said in a statement yesterday that "while normal attrition and release of unconfirmed employees will account for much of the cut, approximately 75 confirmed employees will be retrenched."
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    Batam attracts local sawmillers
    486 1  -  By RAHIM KASSIM SINGAPORE sawmillers are being encouraged to set up joint operations on the Indonesian island of Batam with offers of tax incentives and low land rentals. The offers were made last Friday when the Singapore Sawmillers Association sent a 14-men team to Batam at
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    PUB OFFERS POWER
    273 1 THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) has suggested that the 66-kilowatt substation in Marine Parade serve as the takeoff point for the proposed submarine cable to Batam Island. If negotiations are finalised, the 20-kilometre cable to supply electricity to the island will terminate at a substation in Batu
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    Dow Chemical does riot see any conflict of interest
    265 1 DOW CHEMICAL is still aegetlatlag to participate la a In—trmm project to prodaee viayl ehlerlde nMaamer (VCMfc, la the Slagapare petrochemical camptox on Palaa Ayer Mmmm. This was nsaflrawd yesterday by a cempaay •(Octal whs indicated that Dew's plaas to isashsct
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    Decision on CPF life insurance plan soon
    471 1  -  By COLIN CHEE THE Central Provident Fund (CPF) has completed its study of a scheme to provide its members with life insurance coverage. The Fund's proposals are now before the Government. Sources say an insurance expert, hired by the Government, is studying the
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  • TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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      MEMO PAD
      474 2 COURSES AND TALKS Aug 1-8: PUB Electricity Training Course, RELC, PUB April 30-Aug 24: Tuition Courses for the Australian Insurance Institute Associateship, SITC, SITC June 22-Aug 18: Systematic training for effective parenting, Waterloo Street Centre, Dept of Extramural Studies Aug 13-27: Managing People At Work, NPB Town Training
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      John Little's sets up new outlet in Plaza S'pura
      675 2  -  By TEO TECK WENG JOHN Little's, the oldest department store in Singapore, will open a new outlet at Plaza Singapura next month, its second in Orchard Road and its largest so far. Occupying nearly the entire fourth floor of the Plaza,
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      More pollution
      86 2 AIR pollution in industrial areas in Singapore was higher in the second quarter of this year compared with the corresponding period of last year. Smoke and dust levels were higher while the amount of suspended particles in the air also increased substantially. Total acidity, however, fell significantly from
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      First aluminium alloy wheel factory
      426 2 A LARGE Australian firm and a Malaysian company are to set up Malaysia's first factory to manufacture aluminium alloy wheels for passengers cars. Registered as Cheviot (M) Sdn with a paid-up capital of $1 million, the joint venture is 70 per cent owned by Cheviot
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      PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
      254 2 AIR LANKA, the designated carrier of Sri Lanka, has appointed Mr Michael K 8 Tham as sales manager for Singapore. Mr Tham, who has fourteen years airline experience, previously served as passenger sales manager with Thai/SAS. Air Lanka will take off on Sept 1, with 707 aircraft
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  • INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
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      Towards easier trade relations with France
      632 2  -  By RUTH CHENG SINGAPORE businessmen seeking trade links and exchanges with France will soon find it easier to do so. They can go to marketing consultants conversant with both Singapore and French markets. Actively promoting this line of action is Hanseurop Conseils of Paris,
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      Good sales prospects for chain saws from Stihl
      315 2 STTHL'S chain saw sales in the region have been steadily improving since it appointed Stihl Southeast Asia, Singapore as its factory agent and sole representative in South-east Asia in 1969. Mr Joe Diaz, managing director of the company, said Stihl has a
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      Lexicon's new information processing system
      526 2 COMPUTER users will be interested to know that an information processing tool called the 'Lexicon Automation Concept for Business Information Systems' is now available. Developed by Arthur Andersen and Company, the software system is an extremely useful time-saver for those involved in data processing and
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  • REGIONAL
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      Lock icon Canberra may hit back if US cuts beef imports
      226 3 UPI AUSTRALIA will modify the recent trade agreement with the United States if the US Congress passes legislation to reduce beef imports, acting Australian Prime Minister Douglas Anthony said. The legislation, expected to be passed soon by the US Congress will
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      Indonesian inflation
      61 3 THE rate of inflation in Indonesia for July has been officially established at 2.50 per cent, compared with 2.32 per cent in June and 3.05 per cent in May, Kompas daily reported yesterday. The inflation rate has been calculated on the basis of price trends of 62 essentials
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      Tourist arrivals in KL dip 3pc
      491 3 FEWER visitors came to Malaysia during the first quarter offthis year compared with* the same period last year. Statistics from the Tourist Develop rqenfr Corporation reveak an"6Verail drop of 3 per cent in the total number of visitors to the country. The TDC defines
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      MALAYSIAN PLASTICS MUST STRESS QUALITY
      525 3 THE Malaysian plastics manufacturing industry should produce goods which utilise raw materials that are easily available. This was disclosed by Datuk Lew Sip Hon, Malaysia's Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry at the 12th annual dinner of the Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers' Association (MPMA) in Kuala
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      DAILY AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
      711 3 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time Prom GIA GA944 1055 PKU G1A GA908 1100 MES PAL PR501 1135 MNL RBA BI423 1200 BWN GIA GA982 1200 HLP SIA SQ240 1210 MES SU SQ201 1245 HLP MAS MH684 1245 KCH THAI TG413 1310 BKK SIA SQ1 1325 SFO/HNL/GUM/
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      Mitsubishi to take fresh look at ties with Chrysler
      462 3 CHUJIRO Fujino, the 78-year-old doyen of the Mitsubishi Group, has taken charge of urgent consultations on the future of his company's relations with the faltering Chrysler Corp, its partner in the United States. Mr Fujino gives no hints on Mitsubishi's plans.
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      Lock icon For the first Time
      162 3 AFP THE foreign press made an appearance in Beijing yesterday for the first time at "foreign exchange counters" recently set up in China for foreigners. The American weekly, Time, was the first foreign magazine put on sale for strong foreign currencies at the foreign language bookshop
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      Lock icon Vietnamese defector
      59 3 HOAN Via Hmui, the deputy chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly, who has defected te China. Mr Hmd, 74, wis a founding member of the Indochina Communist Party in 1139 and has worked closely with late President Ho Chi Minh. Mr Hoan escaped to Beijbig by feigning illness
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      Lock icon Charan calls for confidence test
      281 3 UPI INDIAN Prime Minister Charan Singh has called for a short session of Parliament starting Aug 20 to test the majority of his coalition government India's first. An official of the Parliament secretariat said on Sunday Mr Singh sent his request through President Neelam Sanjiva
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      Lock icon Refugee conditions shock US visitors
      376 3 UPI AMERICAN congressmen toured refugee camps in Thailand over the weekend and were shocked by the "grotesque" conditions. If President Carter had visited the Loei refugee camps on the northern Laotian border, his reaction "would be the same as mine shock," said delegation leader Representative
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        Lock icon TRADE PACT SOON
        465 3 Agencies CHINESE Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Chen Jie arrived in Moscow on Sunday at the head of a delegation to sign a trade agreement with the Soviet Union for 1979, the official Tass news agency reported. Annual trade talks between the two countries began early in
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  • RAW MATERIALS
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      Lock icon KL to be venue of next Riasean conference
      676 4 Agencies THE NEXT general conference, of the Rubber Industries of Asean (Riasean), tentatively scheduled for November, will be held in Kuala Lumpur. Disclosing this during an interview in the Malaysian capital last week, Riasean vice-chairman Lim Beng Huat said that at the
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      Lock icon Dry spell Down Under
      462 4 Reuter AFP LARGE areas of Australia have experienced serious rainfall deficiencies in the last three months. Australian meteorology director John Zillman reported that rainfall in May, June and July had been so low in many places that soil moisture had diminished to the extent that there
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      RUBBER
      297 4 SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday were initially marked down some 3.2 cents in line with last Friday's afterhours softness -and following easier London advices. The market later recovered slightly on some buying interest, but this evaporated later and prices fell back again, dealers said. Trading was very limited throughout the
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      RAS PRICES
      389 4 R.A.S. prices in cents per kilo yesterday: Noon (per kilo) Buyers Sellers Int. 1 RSS. prompt f.o.b. 290 50 291. SON Int. 1 R.S.S August 288 75 289 25 Int. 1 R.S.S. September 287.50 288.00 Int. 2 R.S.S 280 00 281 OON UK/Cont 279 00 280 OON Int.
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      SSR and SMR
      99 4 NOON SSR and SMR p not yeamday SSR 20 SSR SO pallet) pallet) (Carraat Mtk) Barer* Sellers Z76.00N 278.00N 27X00 27S.00N (Forward Mtk) Bayer* Sailer* 276.00 278 00N 273 00 275.00N MRELB SMR CV SMRL SMR CP SMR 5 SMR 10 SMR 20 SMR SO (1 -ton
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      Lock icon Call to form Opec-style tin cartel
      294 4 Reuter INDONESIA will call for fellow tin-producing countries to withdraw from the International Tin Agreement and establish their own Opecstyle production-price control organisation if the US refuses to drop its demands for elimination of export controls and export restrictions. The marketing director of the
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      Straits tin
      69 4 THE STRAITS tin price la Peaang yesterday wu unchanged at MflfNt a pical, still $5# below the new lateraatlaaal Tin Agreement ceiling. Coaditions remained steady an general faUaw-thraagh baying (ram all aearces, partienlarly Europe and the US, with law valnmes of tin are affered by miners aver the
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      Closing prices
      30 4 Rubber: Aug 6 Singapore: August: 287.25 cents (down 4.75 cents) Malaysia: August: 286.25 cents (down 5.25 cents) Tin: Mf 1,900 (unchanged) Official offering: 175 tonnes (up 25 tonnes)
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      Rice
      318 4 SINGAPORE: Yesterday's closing'prices in S$ per kilo, ex-godown: THAI WHITE: 100 per cent first class (Kangaroo) new crop 0.95, 100 per cent second class O.K. 100 per cent third class 0.80, 25 per cent new crop no stock, B-10 per cent 0.70, THAI BROKEN: A-super 0 62. Special 0
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      LONDON MARKETS
      777 4 COFFEE: Coffee futures yesterday closed the morning slightly easier with losses of about £29 to £15 per tonne. Turnover was a very low -987 lots including one option. The market extended opening call losses of about £19 to £10 on continued lack of buying interest trade sources said.
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      Lock icon LME stocks
      63 4 Reuter STOCKS in London Metal Exchange official warehouses at the end of last week, (all in tonnes except silver, which is in troy ounces): C*pper feU 3600 to 171,960; Tin rose 275 to 4,810; Lead rose 525 to 23,300; Zlm fell 625 to 57,450; Alunialun rose 1,875 to
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      Produce exchange
      317 4 DEALING was generallylight on the Singapore produce market yesterday and the overall undertone remained mixed. Copra and coconut oil, which came off sharply last week, continued to move on an easier bias in anticipation of higher copra supplies from origins like Sabah and Papua New Guinea. The Philippines,
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      Lock icon China buying lots of sugar report
      125 4 AFP CHINA is reported to have bought more than a quarter of a million tons of sugar from various sources last week, London commodity circles said. The Australian Sugar Board is known to have sold 100,000 tons of raw sugar to China for delivery
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
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      Lock icon Nikkei DJ average rises again
      540 4 TOKYO Source: DBS-Daiwa THE NIKKEI Dow-Jones average rose for the ninth straight session, although turnover became thin owing to investor caution regarding the current sharp rise in stock prices. In the morning session, pulp and paper, oil, non ferrous metal and some shipbuilding stocks such
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      Bangkok
      319 4 THE MARKET yesterday closed mixed with gains in the majority in slow trading, dealers said. Patratanakit, Berli Jucker and Thai Glass Industry rose six baht each to 218, 365 and 366 while Bangkok Bank, Bank of Asia, Bangkok Investment and Siam City Cement rose four each to 360, 191,148
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      Manila
      86 4 AUG OS Pesos Acoje Mining Atlas Con. A Atlas Con B. Bafuto Oold Benruel Con B 8F Goodrich CDCP Inco B. Landotl Lepanto B. Marlnduque B Meralco Oriental A Oriental B Phil Overseas Phllex A Phile* B Plcop A Plcop B Pioneer PLOT Podco B Pocel San Miguel A
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      Selected indices
      32 4 H K HANO SENO Monday closed Friday 808.59 Week Ago 628 40 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Monday closed Friday 488.01 Week Ago 485.71 ALL ORDINARIES Monday- closed Friday 595.07 Week Ago 591.22
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  • OVERSEAS
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      Lock icon Pressure on Maggie over Salisbury plan
      433 5 AP BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has put herself on a political tightrope at home by achieving a new blueprint for peace in Rhodesia at the Commonwealth conference in Zambia. The rightwing of her Conservative Party has strong sympathies with the dwindling numbers of
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon THE DAY OF THE PEN
        406 5 Agencies THE UNITED Auto Workers I nion ((JAW) of the US said 1.5 million of its members will stop work briefly on August 22, to write letters demanding government action "to assure adequate energy supplies at affordable costs." The unusual job action is the first
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      Lock icon Haig is worried about Soviets in LDCs
      180 5 UPI THE US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Andrew Young, underestimates the consequences of Soviet involvement in under-de-veloped countries, said Gen Alexander Haig, who recently retired as commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Gen Haig said Soviet activities in Third World
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      Accident at N- plant
      100 5 TWO BELGIAN nuclear power stations were closed down on Sunday, after water leaked from a cooling system, but officials said there was no danger of radiation escaping from the plants. The twin reactors at Doel, near Antwerp, were shut off after a cooling water pipe burst,
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      Lock icon Oil price may soar to US$46 a barrel
      390 5 AFP THE world oil price may rise to US$46 (5598.90) a barrel in 1990 from the $20 a barrel in 1960, Chase Manhattan Bank s energy economics division forecast yesterday. In its reports, the division says the price increase represents an average
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      Lock icon Chrysler wage bill must await Ford, GM deals
      416 5 NYT ANY decision on softening the United Automobile Workers' demands against the financially ailing Chrysler Corp would have to await the outcome of negotiations with General Motors and Ford. Disclosing this, the union's president, Mr Douglas Fraser, said this would keep the
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      Israel will never negotiate with the PLO
      260 5 THE Israeli government proclaimed that it would never negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) which a Cabinet spokesman labelled "this syndicate o( murders." The statement released in Jerusalem reflected a wave of Israeli anger and alarm at reports from Washington that the
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      Lock icon The threat facing American banks
      267 5 UPI THE independence of the US financial community is being threatened by foreign purchases of large US banks, the chairman of the Senate banking committee warned on Sunday. "Foreign takeovers of large United States banks threatens the independence of our financial system," said Senator William
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      Petrol queues: US oil firms cleared
      162 5 AMERICAN oil companies have been cleared of the blame of causing nationwide petrol queues in the spring. Instead, a US Federal investigation into what triggered the queues blames the government itself for much of the problem, attributing it to its desire to keep prices
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      173 5 Who keeps A&W sundaes cool all day, everyday? W s# SS? Ml H C"* ■X**. 1 -r m Km* >»v <r*\ yX i v V ■>&* •5* > The Carrier Man will be glad to give you the answer. It's the Weathermaker, the Carrier central aircon system that keeps customers
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    Govt support is essential
    339 6 THE Survey of Business Expectations has always been a valuable indicator of Singapore's economic prospects. The views of businessmen in the thick of action are excellent barometers of business conditions. But the last survey assumed even greater significance because it was conducted immediately after the National
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    Practical example of Asean cooperation
    186 6 THE proposal to supply electricity to Batam makes sound economic sense and so does the plan of Singapore sawmillers to set up operations there. It is sound for Batam because it needs electricity for its industries. It is sound for Singapore because it would be
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    Lock icon Shortest route to success is a spiral staircase
    1647 6  -  In Japan, where lifelong allegiance to a single company is the norm, the route to the top is very circuitous. In this report, SANDRA SALMANS examines how Japanese executives succeed in making it to the top in a complicated system of job
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    Lock icon POOR COUSIN OF THE GERMAN ECONOMY
    1028 6  -  By JONN GEDDES NYT FRANKFURT: This city's stock market, amid rising profits and over-all economic growth in West Germany, has had the dubious honour of turning in the worst performance of any of the world's leading stock markets in the last six months. Instead
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      1314 6 Absorbed in Immersion THE RTS documentary at 8.35 on Channel 5 should be worth a watch. Called "Immersion: A Mid Term Report", it looks at the progress of the immersion programme which was started six months ago to help raise the standard of English of students in Chinese schools. The
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    Lock icon Chinese economic giant in Hongkong
    605 7  -  The British Colony's economy is almost coloured pink as Chinese investments become more and more pervasive. V. K. KULKARNI reports from the Hongkong scene on major projects that now commonly feature China as the main stake-holder. By V. G. KULKARNI Depthnews CHINA is increasing its
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    Lock icon Woeful tale of the big inflationary squeeze
    780 7  -  By NESTOR CERVANTES Depthnews EVERYONE in Hongkong knows and complains that consumer prices, be they for necessities or luxuries, are shooting up. The fact that inflation in recent years has been a major scourge is unassailable as the dollar in any pocket does
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    Lock icon Future signs: repressing the urge to have children
    629 7  -  FORUM. With VIRGINIA ADAMS NYT ERIK Erikson, one of the patriarchs of psychoanalysis, suggested last week that modern man may be in the process of exchanging one form of repression for another. Just as sexual repression characterised the Victorian era, he said,
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      313 7 X X I Now we can give you nearly2so,ooo readers like the (Hie on the right. The circulation of the Far Eastern Economic Review is up again. As of June 30,1979 the attained circulation (as submitted for ABC audit) was up to 43,392. An increase of 18.92% on the equivalent
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
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      Tiger to take over Seaboard Airlines
      128 8 TIGER INTERNATIONAL, the world's largest airfreight carrier, will be baying ever Seaboard World Airlines far IST* million. With the merger, Tiger International will become a worldwide air freight carrier as it is only cnrrently serving 18 points in the US and nine in Asia.
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      Lock icon Alcan's new project
      95 8 UPI ALCAN Aluminium is considering construction of an aluminium smelter in Australia that would have a full capacity of 250,000 tons a year. Alcan said if a feasibility study is favourable operations could begin in 1983 with an initial capacity of 100,000 tons annually. The project would
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      Lock icon Government aid for Chrysler?
      1378 8 NYT THE "GREEN FIELD" concept of foreign entry into the United States car manufacturing business calls for the purchase of a large farm, the erection thereon of a stamping works and assembly plant and the training of the necessary employees to run it. The elapsed time
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      Lock icon Holiday Inns and Harrah's merger talks
      272 8 Reuter HOLIDAY INNS Incorporated, the giant hotel chain, has announced that it had had merger discussions with Harrah's, operator of luxury hotel-casinos in Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada. Harrah's, which has been discussing a joint venture with Holiday Inns, refused to say if the
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      Lock icon Matsushita is all set for another record year
      320 8 Reuter MATSUSHITA Electric Industrial said it expects another record year on a consolidated basis in the 12 months ending Nov 20. Consolidated net income is expected to reach 95 billion yen, up 7 per cent from the present record of 89.23 billion
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      Lock icon Mitsubishi sales drop
      116 8 Reuter MITSUBISHI Corp said it expects a moderate increase in consolidated net income (or the year ending next March 31 from 23.70 trillion yen last year following the US dollar's recent recovery against the yen and active domestic sales. Sales are expected to exceed 10 trillion yen,
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      513 9 TRADING on the foreign exchange market was quiet yesterday, with the US dol- lar closing slightly easier against major currencies. Against the yen, the US dollar started off at 217.10/" 20 in the morning and went on a gradual slide to reach Its lowest of 216.45/55 for the
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      Asian $ rates
      186 9 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on Aug 6: 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months US DelUrt(Spot) Offer Bid 10 IS/10 10 13/16 11 10 7 t 111/16 1015/16 111/16 1015/16 113/16 111/16 10W 10 V, 10 13/16
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      Discount
      54 9 RANGE ot prices ottered by discount houses on Aug 6: Overnight W Call deposits M Ckofiu Buyinf Selling 3 month Treasury bills 5 1/16 4 15/16 3 month Bank bills V» 7*4 3 month CD 7 J i 7 s i 6 month CD 7 15/16 7 13/16 Source:
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      Frankfurt
      48 9 FRANKFURT exchanges opening quotes on Aug 6: US-1.8J82 92(1.8338 48) Stg 4.155 1«5 4.163 168) Can 1.5557 73 DF1-91.08 18 S Fr 110.41/57 Lit -2.231 233 F Fr 42.99 43.04 NKr —36.33 36 B Fr (con) 6.252 259 B Fr (fin) 6 014 024 Yen 0.8444 57
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      Tokyo
      152 9 THE US dollar for overnight delivery yesterday closed slightly lower at 216.40 yen, compared with a 217.00 opening and 216.87 at Friday's close, dealers said. Trading was light with volume US$437 million. The dollar fell slightly in light late trading on selling by Japanese banks to cover export contracts
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      Gold
      206 9 SINGAPORE gold futures yesterday closed easier compared with last Friday's closing in moderate trading, dealers said. The market opened slightly lower and thereafter held steady during the morning's trading. It eased further in the afternoon in line with lower London gold prices, they said. Turnover fell to 256 lots
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      London
      176 9 STERLING yesterday opened firmer than levels in the Far East, eased, and then held around U552.2700/ 10 after a Friday close here of 2.2685/2700 in active early interbank business, dealers said. The dollar .was weaker at an opening 1.8283/93 marks compared with Far East levels and also compared with
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      PLR
      21 9 THE average rate at which Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers is 8.25 per cent.
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      Lock icon IMF may extend loan period
      148 9 Reuter THE International Monetary Fund may seek to lengthen jjje period of its conditional Joans to encourage debtor countries to restructure their economies in the face of higher energy costs, sources said. They said that despite the markedly higher current account payments deficits of the
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      Slump forecast boosts fixed-income securities
      586 9  -  Alan C Lerner The writer, Alan CLerner, is a senior vicepresident and money market economist with Bankers Trust. ANTICIPATION of economic weakness helped the US government securities market sail through a very large refunding operation this week and prices advanced further. The administration's revised, if
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      Lock icon Money with nowhere to go
      946 9 NYT IRAN is caught in the peculiar position of having a great deal of money but no way to spend it. Despite months of continuing unrest and fundamental disruptions in the economy, Iran is overflowing with cash. For this year alone, nearly US$l2 billion (5526.4
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      Lock icon FOREIGN PURCHASES OF CD RUN HIGH
      125 9 Reuter FOREIGN investors, including those from Arab oil producing countries, have actively participated in the rapidly expanding Japanese market (or negotiable certificates of deposits (CD), banking sources said. They did not elaborate but the financial daily Nippon Kogyo Shim bun reported that monetary authorities
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      Lock icon German loan for Burma
      104 9 Reuter WEST Germany has signed a 58 million mark, 15-year loan at 2 per cent to enable the Burmese state-owned Five Star Shipping Corp to buy two cargo ships. The loan part of a financial cooperation agreement between the West German and Burmese governments. Meanwhile, Sumitomo
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      Two more seek funds in Asian $ market
      403 9  - Two more seek funds in Asian market By COLIN CHEE TWO more banks have come to the Asian dollar floating rate negotiable certificates of deposit (FRCD) market for funds, both within a few days of each other. Over the weekend, the Bank of Tokyo (BOT) came oat for US$2O million
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      First Rakyat's pretax profits doubles
      306 9 RAKYAT First Merchant Bankers in Malaysia has announced a pre-tax profit of $243,458 for the half-year to June 30, 1979. This is more than double the $110,109 reported for the previous corresponding period. In a recent statement, Chairman Tuan Haji Samad bin Haji Said also
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      Insurance institute courses
      75 9 THE SINGAPORE Insurance Training Centre will conduct the associateship course of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CH) to prepare students for the 1980 CH examination. The classes are held for the general branch of the CII examination, scheduled from Sept 10 to March 7, 1980. Students passing all
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      208 9 HB MCfPi 93/V79 VOL3 NO 7Sh JUY «79 PRCE $300 Mwm y 2 4, "*9% odt- 4 1 "V s r u -f *rJm£jF 1 3 W"; rr"'" 1 hute r {Kin? ■cull S" J M Co^P The tremendous rate of growth in the Asean region has generated a strong
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      In Singapore
      1305 10 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Slock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "sett". Big Board deal
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      Unit trusts
      154 10 S'pore Growth Fund 1.00 114 SINGAPORE UNIT T*Un INCOME BOND UNIT IMiHW price tar Am 7) (Can eat pr toea) LU The Commerce in 2.15 1.1C The Saving Fund 1.33 l.«l S'por* Prog Fund 0.S6 LOO S pare Sec. Fund ICS 1 73xd MAftA HMO runu S pare
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      Government bonds
      174 10 BONDS 4 1/2% 1/8/80 (290.000) (M.IOB *****) 4 3/4* 15/9/80 (*****0) (***** *****) 5 3/4% 1/8/78*80 (290.000) (*****8 *****8) 5 1/2% 1/5/79-81 (290.000) (90.908 100.008) 5 3/4% 1/9/79-81 (290.000) (*****8) 5 1/4% 1/3/81 (290,000) (90.808 *****) 5% 15/4/81 (290.000) (99.198 *****) 5% T F 1/5/83 (*****0) (100.058 188.198)
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      Stock options
      84 10 Striking prices of the options officially listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday, the period, bids and offered prices and business done, if any, with the number of options traded shown in brackets. C C (Sept $2.35) (0.448) Haw Par (Sept $1.20) (0.2K8 0.325). Huw P E
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      In Kuala Lumpur
      1473 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. DKDUmUALS AJMISM4I (2.K8) Una (1.808 1.825) AJex HsM (I) 1 30 cd
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    SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    2588 10 Gr'a Gr'a Net 1879 Laat Div Div Y*ld P/E Vol Dav High Low Company Sale or- C'vr (*000) High Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL A COMMERCIAL 281 207 Acma 228 15.0 2.2 6.5 11.6 190* 123* Alcorn 173 10.0 1.3 5.7 23.0 142 110 Allied Choc 137 1
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    Interest in low-priced shares
    693 10 SPECULATORS appeared to be spreadlag ant their iaterest among the relatively lew-priced shares at the Stock Exchaage d Siagapere yesterday. Althoagh these issues eajeyed iateradtteat beets of baying at higher levels, mest ef them teaded to level eff ia the later session tor waat ef streag
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    Generally dull conditions
    563 10 PRICES closed on a mixed to slightly steadier note amidst generally dull conditions on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Traders were in no great hurry to deal as there was neither selling pressure nor buying interest. Prices of most counters just drifted within narrow margins. There
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      Malayan Flour Mills expects flat earnings
      553 11 MALAYAN Flour Mills (MFM) appears to be still finding difficulty adjusting to a set of "exogenous factors" which had slashed earnings in the last financial year ended Dec 31,1978. These factors include the sharp price increase in wheat (its main raw material), rising transportation
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      Singapore Fodder debut
      145 11 SINGAPORE Fodder will make its debut on the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. It will be listed in the first industrial section. This being the third public issue this year, the company recently offered to the public 2.5 million shares of $1.00 par at $1.55 per share,
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      273 11 Current Ex Book* Date Total for Total for Payment Date Cloae Payable the year Previous year B Semb 40% (t) Jul 20 Jul 27 Aug 8 40% 20% Riverview 4%(n) Jul 26 Aug 7 Aug 15 7% 12% Sentosa ply 5%TE Jul 19 Jul 30 Aug 15 5%TE
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      SCRIP ISSUE
      77 11 Company Particulars Ex Date Books Close B Semb NSOP Hong Leong Bonus Issue of 3 for 1 Bonus Issue of 3 for 2 Rights Issue of 3 for 4 (g. $1.80 per share NYA NYA Sept 7 NYA NYA (a) Adjusted for scrip issue (b) First and Final
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      Boustead acquires King Truck's British unit
      209 11 BOUBTEAD Lid, tfce pareat of Singapore, Ins tally acq aired Klag Track Eqalpmeat Ltd (KTE) af the UK, a wholly-owned saMdlary af Klag Track EagtaeerIng of Caaada. Tke csaaHnratlaa for the acqaisltlea la aa Immediate paymeat af £2.1 mllUaa plaa a eammitmeat tar farther
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      Higher costs may hinder Sin Chew
      648 11 HIGHER newsprint cost and other operating expenses may hinder Sin Chew Jit Poh's profit growth in the current year. However, chairman Mr Wee Cho Yaw has said that with better management control and advertisement and circulation sales, "the company will have another good year."
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      COMPANY BRIEFS
      138 11 SUPREME Carparattoa said that the issued and paid-up capital of its subsidiary company, Orient Leasing Sdn Bhd, has been increased to $300,000 on Aug 1. Supreme is maintaining its holding of 75 per cent majority interest. SIGMA Metal Cm said that it has appointed Management and Productivity Services
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      Sime likely to snap up Amoy in the right circumstances
      471 11 LONDON-BASED stockbrokers Laurence, Prust and Company say it would be surprising if Sime Darby Holdings would not like to acquire the minority interests in Amoy Canning "if the circumstances were right." However, it notes that Amoy's shares have risen sharply
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      538 11 \fMU3 HOCK LOCK SIEW WHEN this column extolled the virtues of Sembawang Shipyard about a month ago, several learned analysts reacted sceptically to the buy recommendation. They considered Sembawang Shipyard to be a "dead" share which depended on a depressed industry. But events have proved otherwise.
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    Japan-S'pore plants for downstream projects
    411 12  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THREE of the five downstream projects of Singapore's $2 billion petrochemical complex at Pulau Ayer Merbau will be undertaken jointly by Singapore and Japan. Three factories, to be built next to the ethylene plant, will go into operation together with the
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    Lock icon Talks to end Aussie port shutdown fail
    239 12 UPI TALKS aimed at settling a crippling shutdown of Australia's waterfront have failed and a strike by stevedores now seems set to continue indefinitely. A joint meeting of the Commonwealth Arbitration Commission and Western Australia's Industrial Commission produced a plan to end the
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    Tarling goes on trial on five charges
    432 12 THE TRIAL «f Kiehard Charles Tarttag, farmer ehalrmaa of Haw Par Brothers jj—l Ltd (HPBIL), n flre charges aader the Campaalea Aet started yesterday at the High Ceart with the opealag idirw by Depaty Public Preaeeater, Mr Tu Teew Yeaw. Tarttag, 44, wha
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    838 12 Reuter LONDON, Mon. Share prices closed slightly firmer in slack trading, dealers said. At 3pm the Financial Times index was up 0.8 at 458.3. Activity was minimal with operators awaiting the UK banking figures due tomorrow. The rise in the UK July wholesale prices had no market impact,
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    Lock icon Hanoi pledges to halt refugee tide eventually
    649 12 AFP Reuter VIETNAM is gradually reducing the refugee outflow and will eventually halt it after "a reasonable period of time," Vietnamese Vice-Foreign Minister Phan Him said yesterday. In an interview released by the Vietnam News Agency, Mr Hien commented on a moratorium agreed
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    Lock icon Zapu rejects UK's election plan
    315 12 Reuter JOSHUA Nkomo's wing of the patriotic front guerillas in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia yesterday branded as unacceptable and unrealistic Britain's new plan to supervise fresh elections in the war-battered country. "The assumption that the present British government is impartial and is therefore the fitting authority to conduct
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    Lock icon Equal rights for Taiwan goods into China
    158 12 UPI PUBLICATIONS or Taiwan-manufactured goods would be treated as mainland-made merchandise and be given importation permits, Chinese customs officials said. The officials clarified, however, that these items may not bear the 'Made in the Republic of China' notations. Academic, engineering or technological publications,
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    Lock icon Thailand, Laos for talks on border security
    132 12 AFP A THAI delegation led by Interior Minister Lek Naewmalee will visit Laos from August 13-17, at the invitation of Laotian' Premier Kaysone Phomvihane, an official source disclosed. The delegation would include Deputy Foreign Minister Arun Panupongse, Deputy Secretary-General of the National Security
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    Lock icon Carter rated as below average performer
    288 12 UPI NEARLY .two-thirds of the members of the US Congress who responded to a survey, rated President Carter's performance as below average, with lack of leadership as his greatest weakness. The survey by US News and World Report drew replies from 131 Democrats and
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      86 12 NOTICE To the holders of the floating rate U.S. Dollar Certificates of Deposit due 11th August 1982 of: A The Mitsubishi Bank, Limited D.B.S. Building, 6 Shenton Way Singapore 0106 We hereby certify that the rate of interest payable on the above-mentioned certificates of deposit for the interest period beginning
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      152 12 This announcement appears as a matter of record only. U5530,000,000 A The Mitsubishi Bank, Limited U.S. Dollar Floating Rate Negotiable Certificates of Deposit due August 11,1982 r Manager Morgan Guaranty Pacific Limited Co-Manager Mitsubishi international Finance Limited Agent Bank Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York August 1979 Your stock
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      62 12 |WE-AT;HERi Outlook for Singapore from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. today: Isolated showers in late morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.31 p.m. on Aognst at the airport. Maximum temperature 27.9 Associated humidity 80 Minimum temperature 21.7 Associated humidity 95 Hours of sunshine Nil Rainfall in millimetres 6.2 Total
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
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        Lock icon Bigger Opec fleet
        102 13 Reuter THE 13 member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) expanded their tanker fleets between mid-1977 and Jan 1 this year 20 times more strongly than the world average, the Bremen Institute for Shipping Economics said. With a total 10.75 million deadweight tons, the
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        Lock icon Floating dry dock
        61 13 AFP t A NEWLY-BUILT 35,000-ton floating dry dock, one of the largest in the world, will be taken from Goteborg, Swweden to Murmansk within the next few weeks, it was announced. The dock, 330 metres by 90 metres is worth an estimated 250 million crowns (Ssllo million).
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        Lock icon Congestion worsens
        101 13 Reuter CONGESTION of cargo on Port of Spain wharves is beginning to build up as 3,500 dockers continued their work-to-rule. In the 10 days to Saturday since the strike began, only five of 17 vessels with cargo consigned to Trinidad left the port after completing offloading operations, a
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      Keppel gets its mini-bank
      609 13  -  COOPERATIVE VENTURE By HSUNG BEE HWA MORE than 1,000 employees of Keppel Shipyard are participating in a unique minibank started by its eooperative credit union four months ago. This number is expected to increase as the Keppel Group Credit Union intensifies its drive to attract more
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      PSA's new transtainers
      266 13 TWO of six aew yard gantry cranes or transtalaers ordered by the Part of Siagapar? Authority (PSA) at a cast of million last year are new being assembled at the Container Terminal. The remaining fear will arrive aver the next faar neaths aad are expected to be
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      SHIPPING LIST where your ships are due...and when
      2836 17 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 Fort of
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      INDEX
      476 17 Shipping Use ACS Afea Alpac Angkutan ANL APL Arya Nat ASCL Aust.Cont PH« n IV IV V I m n m IV CM 5 3 5 2 1 2 5 5 5 Skipping Llae Lu Lykes Maersk Medafrica Medtainer Meishin MISC MOL P»ge n ra i n IV IV
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      Container Schedules
      994 18 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO AT CONTAINER TERMINAL NB. (1) Each vessel's estimated time of arrival is advised by the Shipping Line/Agent and is subject to change (2) All export FCL containers and LCL cargo must be delivered to the Authority's premises during the following
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      Lock icon New York sets out to take on Lloyd's
      1269 18 Seatrade IN THE AMOUNT of business done directly in New York, marine insurance is more akin to shipbroking than to ship financing where most transactions originate in oversea branches. But unlike ship-broking, it is in marine insurance that New York can take
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      Lock icon LAID-UP TANKERS
      140 18 Reuter THE NUMBER of world tankers laid up for lack of employment fell sharply last month and at July 31, totalled 96 vessels of 13,024,233 dwt, compared with 123 of 17,574,755 dwt at end-June, according to figures from London brokers Howard Houlder. The overall total of tankers, combination
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      Monitoring where all the money goes
      683 18 ASK a ship-operator to list any three major problems currently besetting the smooth running of his vessels and, after naming the perennial ailment of crew employment and the latest difficulty of obtaining and then paying for fuel, he will consider the ostensibly straightforward transfer
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      SHIPS IN PORT
      452 18 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Aishan (0530 Subject Free Board) 29/30 Bihor (1500 after Savannah Mam 44 Dove (Tanker) (1800 after Stolt Pride PO Subject Gas Free) 15/16 Fuiiaki Maru (Tanker) (0800 after Sun Flower P/O Subject Gas Free) 13/14 King Tower (0800 Subject Free Board) 22
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      487 13 Regional Container Lines WEEKLY CONTAWER SERVICE to/from BANGKOK See Page IV Column 3 for Sailings flu) Agents SINGAPORE SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD MARKETING *****2 GENERAL *****1 W Wsia EURO ASIA LINE SDN BHD KL *****7-P KLANG *****1/3 PENENG *****/2 A RDIM W I AH -NEPTUNE CORAL 14N ICHEVALER PAUL 17*
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      247 13 WEEKLY MULTI-PURPOSE SERVICES C Spore Loading for BNBASSAM 14/8 Kuwait (26/8). Dammam (29/8). Doha (31/8). 1 Bahrain (3/9), Dubai (5/9) BN AL ATHEER ?«/a Mtna Qaboos (5/9). Dubai (8/9). Doha (10/9). Dammam (13/9), Kuwait (16/9) BNBAJJAH 31/8 Dubai (12/9). Abu Dhabi (15/9), Bahrain (18/9). Dammam (21/9), Kuwait (24/9). ALMUHARRAQ '/9
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      371 13 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT UNES LTD FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICES: FAR-EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE C CONIAMR Sated N CORAL -t- 14 AMI c paw is Am K IACEAN 77 Am N PEARI 78 Am C RO7E 2 Sept A iACfWON 9 Sept HK CONTAMR lb Sept PMan|He»re k Port 73 Am is
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      899 13 Hapag-Lloyd Fully containerised to Europe United States. Regular, reliable and on time. For U S Paohc Paohc I I- if '"BUS feeder Hut *ast. Gult t Atlantic. East Canada and Meiico (Abo accepting tor Hongkong Taiwan lapar and Korea) mmr Mother Vessel B-7/8 1213/1 13-14/1 18-19/8 24-21/8 *27/1 27-21/8 1-2/9
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      575 14 rri Hapag-L •A 1 FULLY CONTAINERISED TO EUROPE EXPRESS CONVENTIONAL TO EUROPE Spore P KriMf Pen Bfeao Genoa lfb«t Bremer Rdam Antweri Etha RS 20/8 24/8 19/9 28/9 26/9 24/9 22/9 Maißs 28/8 30/8 5/10 3/10 30/9 27/9 ■mssMtsbeen 11/9 13/9 16/9 15/10 7/10 25/10 23/10 20/10 18/10 FULLY CONTAMERISED
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      253 14 as I Bttme Sep New Orient I Oct Oct Na*t Loader: "BARBER NARA" Aug 1»/18 at BARBER UNES TERMINAL GOOOWN 47 Fi in* rt From: CANADA/USA Pacific Coast i* Safe I I j 105 fcifeie} i San Franctico SHGAPOK Jakarta Port Ketanf Port Ketant B-18/B M NEXT ARRIVAL: "SAMOA" Aug
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      727 14 (7) EVERGREEN LINE FAR EAST EUROPE EXPRESS FULL CONTAINER SERVICE ACCEPTMG CARGO FOR: HAMBURG. FtLKSTOWE. ROTTERDAM. ANTWERP. LE HAVRE ALSO ACCEPTMG CARGO FOR UMTED KMGOOM SOUTHAMPTON. LONDON. MANCHESTER. BIRMMGHAM. BRISTOL. LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW. LEEDS WEST GERMANY BREMERHAVEN HOLLANO AMSTERDAM S'prn Haafewt F ifastivt Rattartoa Mtwarp Li Nwt E»ar (torac* )k« 25
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      826 14 I Everett Lines/ m Burma Five Star Shipping Corpn. "BURMESE NATIONAL LINE' LOADMG FOR RANGOON KTAIt TAWYWA. PHASHHEGYAWY PAGAN ,11/12 tat .17/19 Am .22/24 B.F S S.C. Agent* n Maioyvo TEPS MALAYSIA Port Ketaog T«l (381-7355 Penong Tel *****/***** m Compania Argentina Oa Navagaoon Intarcorvtinantal S. A. G.I. F. "ARGENTINE
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      695 14 r OCEAN SHIPPING ENTERPRISES PTE LTD RM 2102 2103 21ST FLOOR MARINA HOUSE SHENTON WAY MISTRI ROAD SINGAPORE 2 TEL *****44 7& *****70 SANKYO LINE AUSTRALIA SERVICE P. Kelang Singapore Loading for: MAY PMNCE 15/17 Aug 18/19 Aug SYO. MEL. ADEI MAY CA*P..._r 27/28 Au( 25/26 Au( SYO, MEL. AOEL
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      1018 15 GRANARD LINE NON-CONFERENCE EXPRESS SERVICE NEST BOUND-FAR EAST/MEDITERRANEAN S'port P Kelang Penang Loadtog for M.V. MAN UCONG VJ9W 17 Am P Satd Ale» M.V. KWONG FUNS V.3OW 25 Aug M.V MAN TAT ¥.31*.... 10 Sep MV. MAN KM V.32W... 17 Sap kU ttSSUS ACCEPTMG CONTAMS CARGO P Said/Alexandria/Beirut/ Lattakia (eddah
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      716 15 Scan Dutch 9 "i i *1 4 .Vi Wa L7i vi i>i n: i»* i tiTi »7i i) :fi: :mi iMfMT 3) ttmrg Gtwg 21/1 2*l 21/1 31/1 21/1 2/1 4/) I/) 5 1/1 11/* DM 11/1 It/) IV) It/1 U/f 23/) 24/) 27/) 24/) »/J 2/11 VM 2/11 7/11
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      93 18 NOTICE r PACIFIC STRAITS CONFERENCE Announce that w.e.f. 15th August 1979 Container Demurrage Rules will be applied for cargo discharged at Port Kelang. The Conference have appointed LEMBAGA PELABOHAN KELANG to act as their Agent for the collection of these charges which must be settled before delivery of containers is
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