The Business Times, 13 December 1979

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 141/1/7) THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1179 50 CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 91 1 AFP ROME, Wed. The oil exporting countries could decide a price rise of up to 30 per cent when they meet next week in Caracas, Rene Ortiz, Secretary General of the Opec told an Italian magazine today. "I think a rise of up to 30 per
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    • 93 1 AFP HONGKONG, Wed. Singapore investors are believed to be forking out HK$26O million for only 1,500 square metres of land bought here today. This is over HK$l7O,OOO a square metre. The purchaser was Sealord Trading Company which local property dealers believe is backed by a group of
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    • 96 1 AP MELBOURNE, Wed. Australian press magnate Rupert Murdoch today effectively won his battle to gain control of Australia's giant airline, transport and television company, Ansett. Ansett's chief, Sir Reginald Ansett, announced that Murdoch's News Limited group had bought 20 per cent of its shares formerly held by the
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    • 82 1 AFP BANGKOK, Wed. A senior official of the proVietnamese regime in Phnom Penh has fled to Thailand with his family, an informed source said today. Kang Sanerat, 30, was Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation (KNUFNS) for the city of
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    • 101 1 UPI TOKYO, Wed. Mitsubishi Oil of Tokyo has reached an agreement with Getty Oil of the United States to jointly work on the development of oil, coal and alternative energy resources, industry officials said today. Details of the joint project have yet to be negotiated, said the officials,
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    • 77 1 AP NEW YORK, Wed. Stock prices were little changed in early trading today despite signs of growing support for higher prices among oilproducing countries and a declining US dollar in currency markets. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was up 0.34 points to 834.04 in the
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  • 140 1 Rises Sungei Besi 1160 150 K Kampar 482 32 Ajinomoto 300 20 H Negara 168 13 C Sugars 344 10 Ming Court 270 10 G Ceramics 180 10 Dunlop lad 436 8 Kramat 500 6 Y H S Msia 388 6 K L Kepong 374 6 Boustead
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  • Article, Illustration
    152 1 Rises Inch KK 790 +80 SEA Corp 700 20 CCM 620 15 DunJop Ind. 436 12 Boustead 336 10 C. Sugars 346 10 YHS(M) 388 10 Mentakab 400 10 Falls S. Kinta 930 -20 Sg Besi 1150 -20 S. Lumber 260 -10 Utd. Mai. 570 -10 Rah. Hy.
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  • 639 1  -  SPECIAL EXEMPTION By LEE YOKE MENG A HONGKONG bank has become the first foreign corporation to be permitted a more than 20 per cent stake in a local finance company. The Ka Wah Bank announced yesterday that it had secured a 30 per cent share in
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  • 284 1 INVESTORS accorded the share prices of Prima Ltd a rapid re-rating yesterday following the announcement that the sale of subsidiary, PTPrima Indonesia, will raise net asset backing per share by 36 cents. Prima shares firmed another three cents yesterday to 92.80 for a total gain
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  • 388 1  -  By CHOO AI LENG SINGAPORE'S trade deficit this year te -Hfceiy to exceed $7 billion, which will make it the worst deficit in the last five years. Already, the latest figures of the Department of Statistics show that the trade deficit for the first 10
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  • 357 1 ASEAN businessmen have proposed setting up a Joint furniture factory on the Indonesian island of Batam. The proposal was made yesterday after discussions by the Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry's (Asean-CCTs) working group on industrial complementation (WGIC). It was made at the first day of
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  • 290 1 GOLD leapt yesterday to aew reeard klgks la tradlag la fflagipin and •tker Par Eastern marketo ea tke seesad d*> af 1W metal spaaed at a high UBS4S2 aa eaaee after New Yarfc'i eleslag of UB$4M aa eaaee tke prevtoas day. Baylag preasare
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  • 455 1  -  By LINDA TAN A LOCAL computer software company is planning to export its expertise to Australia, the United States and Europe within the next five years. Computer Systems Advisers (CSA), is also looking into opportunities for joint ventures with American or British firms to
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  • TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    • 125 2 CHANGI International Airport will have an advanced security system when it becomes operational in 1981. It will use Chubb's computerised Rusco card access system 500. Basically, the system controls all entry points which are to be protected through a coded card. Authorised personnel will use a
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    • 86 2 \KAI of Japan has introduced in Singapore ts latest VHS video recorder which incorporates a slow, fast and freeze capability allowing slow-motion and fast playback of the video recording at different speeds. It also allows for a fast search of programmes and picture frames (forward
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    • 403 2  -  By RONNIE LIM WITH "spectacular" increases in lubricating oil base stocks (lube) production up to October this year, Esso Singapore is poised to break its all-time annual production record by 1,000 barrels per day (BPD). Esso's production record of 4,500 BPD was set only last
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    • 218 2 ALL 96 of the new-genera-tion factory buildings planned under the Jurong Town Corporation programme are expected to be completed by the end of next year. These buildings incorporating more forward designs are concentrated mainly in the newly developed areas of Joo Koon, Gul Circle/
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    • 252 2 MANAGEMENT executives can now do a on the basic concepts of electronic data processing (EDP) to enable them to interact effectively with EDP specialists to get the most out of the computer system. The course, "Practical Aspects of Using Minicomputers", offered by
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    • 253 2 THE HOUSING and Development Board (HDB), in the second phase of its modular brick study, carried out two series of tests to establish the advantages of using the 290 X 90 X 90 mm modular brick, the Singapore Metrication Board said. The results of
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    • 358 2 COURSES AND TALKS Dec 13-14: Computer Appreciation, Hyatt Hotel, Price Waterhouse Jan 2-Apr 9: Business Finance, Joint Campus, University of Singapore Jan 2-Mar 12: Law Relating to Real Property, Nisen Hut 6A, University of Singapore Jan 3-Feb 25: Digital Electronics for Microcomputers, Nissen Hut 10A, University of Singapore
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    • 93 2 INDUSTRIAL and Trade Fairs is offering package travel to encourage more overseas visitors to attend Ipex '80, an international exhibition on printing and the graphic arts. Ipex '80 is Britain's largest industrial trade exhibition. A total of 524 exhibitors are expected. Exhibition manager, Mr Andrew
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    • 280 2 THE ASEAN Federation of Accountants (AFA) will help to buffer individual Asean countries against the wholesale adoption of international accounting standards suitable for local situations. University of Hawaii accounting professor, Dr Frederick Choi, said. In his article Asean Federation of Accountants: A new International
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    • 204 2 MR Lien Ying Chow was elected President of the Club of Two Hundred at the sixth annual general meeting on Dec 4, at the Mandarin. The Club, whose members are restricted to 200, has the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr S Rajaratnam, as the honorary Patron. It
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    • 73 2 MANDARIN International Hotels Limited (MIHL) has appointed Mra Veronica L WMg (left) as its area sales director for Singapore and Malaysia to represent Mandarin Hong Kong, Excelsior Hong Kong, Oriental Bangkok, Manila Mandarin and the Jakarta Mandarin. Mrs Wong, better known as Lulu Wong, was Senior Passenger
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    • 203 2 AN AUSTRALIAN company has devised what it says is an effective method of pollution control by using specially developed mist elimination pads to remove droplets from industrial vapours. The pads, known as "Springmesh", are manufactured by Met-L-Knit Co Pty Ltd, whose clients include oil refineries,
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  • REGIONAL
    • 512 3 AFP THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations may seek a token withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea on the basis of the United Nations resolution. The UN resolution, sponsored by Asean and 25 other countries, also calls for a ceasefire and a political solution
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    • 309 3 AFP ABOUT 500 Khmer Rouge soldiers Tuesday night attacked a Vietnamese-held village about 500 metres inside Kampuchea and took control after an hour's fierce fighting. The Pol Pot supporters laid down a heavy mortar barrage on Baan Kralor before storming the village, which is
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    • 46 3 The billboard advertises Great Earth raincoats while Shanghai residents eat breakfast on the city's Madison Avenue which is filled with advertisements on movies and Chinese and Western consumer goods. It reflects the new mood that is sweeping China. AP photo Source: AP photo
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    • 305 3 AFP A FLOURISHING black market has developed in two of China's major cities, Shanghai and Guangzhou, where the official press has criticised "illicit transactions" in luxury articles and foreign currency. Guangzhou Radio reported that the Public Security Bureau at the end of last month had
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    • 105 3 THE Malaysian Record and Magnetic Tape Dealers Association will take action against any of its members who infringe the copyright of Malaysian recording, its legal adviser Miss Cynthia Lim said yesterday. She reiterated the association's support for the copyright act which provides for protection of Malaysian recordings.
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    • THE REGION IN BRIEF
      • 447 3 TOURISTS will soon be able to fly directly from Hongkong to Beijing, the Beijing Daily reported yesterday. Aircraft of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) will carry 100 to 150 passengers on a chartered flight once every eight days between Dec 22 and April
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    • 213 3 JAPAN told the Philippines on Tuesday that South-east Asian countries should not fear the growing Japanese friendship with China, saying their ties would not extend to military cooperation. A government announcement said this assurance was made by Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira in a letter to
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    • 250 3 THE South Korean national assembly has approved President Choi Kyu-hah's nomination of Deputy Premier Shin Hyun-hwack as new Prime Minister, while opposition deputies boycotted the assembly session to oppose it. The approval came from supporters of the late President Park Chung-hee who still occupy 159
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    • 762 3 AFP JAPAN is worried that its buying of boycotted Iranian oil has sowed distrust in its relations with the US, government sources said yesterday. US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance criticised what he called an "insensitive act" of Japanese companies in his meeting
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    • 313 3 AFP AUSTRALIA'S mining industry has recovered so much that it has contributed more than AS2.B billion to Australia's balance of payments in 1978 79. This is an increase of 5500 million on the previous year. It shows that twothirds of the sale of revenue from
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    • 235 3 Reuter NEGOTIATIONS for sale of Philippines coconut oil to both China and the Soviet Union in the second quarter of next year are underway, industry sources in Manila said. There was no official confirmation of Washington reports that the Soviet Union had purchased 40,000 tonnes
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 380 4 AP COFFEE traders in Brazil, the world's largest coffeeexporting country, were reminded yesterday by the government that they now must pay an additional export tax, as a result of a complex series of economic measures authorities handed down over the weekend. Coffee-industry
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    • 134 4 PENINSULAR Malaysian rubber output in August rose to 141,427 tonnes from 132,531 tonnes in July, but was below the 144,868 tonnes in August 1978, preliminary statistics department figures show. Total production for the first eight months fell to 957,916 tonnes from 958,060 tonnes in the same year
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    • 74 4 C.I.F. North European ports, In US dollars per ton unless otherwise stated. LONDON: Tues Previous Malaysian 5%ffa bulk per tonne Jan unch 647.50 Feb unch 652'-sir Sumatra 5% ffa bulk Dec unch 632'.sir Jan 637' 2 pd 640slr Feb 642 ./645pd647'.slr 642' i /645pd 647' jslr Mch May
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    • 174 4 THE Singapore rubber market yesterday closed slightly higher with January One RSS buyers quoted at 294.50 cents per kilo, up half a cent from Tuesday's close, dealers said. Prices rose 0.50 cent during the morning session on higher London and Japanese advices, they said. The afternoon market was dull
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    • 325 4 R.A.S. 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. 292.50 293.50N 292.50 293.50N Int. 1 R.S.S. January 294 50 295.00 294.50 295.00 Int. 1 R.S.S. February 297.50 298 00 297.50 298 00 Int.
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    • 109 4 NOON SSR and SMR price* yesterday: RAS SSR 20 SSR 50 (l-ton pallet) <1 ton pallet) Jaaaary (Current Mth) Bayers Seller* 266.00 268.00N 263 00 266.00N February (Forward Mth) Bayer* Seller* 267 50 269.50N 264.50 266.50N MRELB SMRCV SMRL SMR CP SMR 5 SMR 10 SMR 20
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    • 31 4 Rubber: Dec 12 Singapore: January: 294.50 cents (up 0.50 cent) Malaysia: January: 294.50 cents (up 0.25 cent) Tin: M 92.110 (down $13) Official offering: ***** tonnes (up 4W tonnes)
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    • 71 4 THE Straits tin price la Penan* eased Msl3 per picnl te $2,11# yesterday, fl<« abeve the International Tin Agreement ceiling, dealers said. IV weaker Lend— rinsing en Tuesday night depressed sentiment bat continued active bnying frnm Earspe, the (J8 aad Japan restricted the decline. The higher tarasver a(
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    • 192 4 YARN and cotton prices were quoted as follows in Hongkong yesterday: (In HK dollars, spot ex-go-down) Cattea yara: China Blue Phoenix 20b 2,325 32s 2,700, 40s 3,040 (per bale of 400 lbs). Piece gMds: China Butterfly and Globe brand unq; Dragon Head unq; Five Lambs unq; Flower and Butterfly
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    • 330 4 PEPPER prices ruled easier all round on a generally quiet and featureless Singapore produce market yesterday. Heavy arrivals from nearby origins, coupled with the expectation of bigger crops at other origins, continued to be the dampening factor. It is estimated that Brazil's current crop is as big as
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    • 240 4 THE sugar market closed slightly firmer in continued dull and featureless trading yesterday, dealers said. January closed at 15.20/50 US cents against the previous day's 15.10/30 close, March at 15.70/80 against 15.40/50 with distant October at 15.90/16.00 against 15.60/ 70 cents. Sugar futures closing prices: Pfcvlms Cl—lag ClMtßg
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    • 89 4 CHICAGO Board of Trade wheat futures closed US four to six cents a bushel higher on Tuesday. Steady export interest and Monday's high export figure for wheat led to gains, traders said. Reports of inadeqaute moisture in the US wheat belt and sharply higher precious metal values also con-
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    • 327 4 SINGAPORE: Yesterday's closing prices in SJ per kilo, ex-godown: THAI WHITE: 100 per cent first class (Kangaroo) new crop 0.98, 100 per cent second class 0.83, 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 63, Special
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    • 47 4 CHICAGO Board of Trade soybean futures closed US 10-1/2 to 7-1/2 cents a bushel higher on Tuesday. Record high gold values, active European soybean trade and slow country movement overnight led to higher prices for soybean futures, traders said, adding that commission houses were noted buyers.
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    • 684 4 COFFEE: Robusta futures closed steady at the lower levels yesterday morning, with losses from Tuesday of £12 to £7 per tonne. Turnover was 1,140 lots including three options and around 500 lots of cross trades. Dealers said mixed selling activity influenced by steadier sterling contributed to losses. Some
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 652 4 TOKYO Source: DBS-Daiwa SHARE prices rose sharply in moderate trading on increased buying interest over a wide front yesterday, dealers said. Star performers were resources-related issues, non-ferrous metal issues, and some of the active and speculative issues. In resources-related issues, Nippon Oil went up
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    • 129 4 The market closed mixed yesterday, with oils posting slight gains while minings commercials and industrials declined, dealers said. Turnover rose sharply to 5.85 million pesos from Tuesday's 2.76 million. DEC 12 Pe»o« Acoje Mining am unch AUu Con. A AUu Con B 21 00 04 Bafulo Ootd .0074 unch
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    • 238 4 DEC 12 Bahu Asia Credit Asia Fibre Ayuthaya In*. And Trust 1(0 I SB ♦1 II Bangkok Investment Bangkok Bank Bangkok Insurance Bangkok Metropolitan Ban Bangkok Nylon Bank Of Asia Bank Of Ayudhaya Ltd 330 m IH .1 t.i i Bau Berli Jucker Carpet Interm I Charoong Thai Wlr*
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    • 317 4 Source: SHK Sec WITH no major news to affect sentiment yesterday, investors' attention turned to shares which had recently under-performed. Hutchison Whampoa raced up to HKf9JO before closing 20 cents higher at 99.00 and Jardine Mstheson added another 30 cents to $16.00. The market appears to be struggling at
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    • 393 4 THE All Ordinaries index passed the 700-point barrier yesterday, gaining 8.48 points to set a record high of 705.08 as speculators bought resource stocks in hectic trading, dealers said. Buying centred around the Ashton Diamond consortium partners with CRA gaining 14 cents to A 53.90 and Ashton 27 to
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    • 51 4 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 422.9 Monday 4102 Week Ago 423 3 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 833.70 Monday 833JB1 Week ago 824.91 H.K.HANG SENG Wednesday 797.90 Tuesday 800.04 Week ago 772.12 8YDNEY INDUSTRIALS Wednesday 555.03 Tuesday 550JTJ Week wko 547JU ALL ORDINARIES Wednesday 705.08 Tuesday 006.00 Week aco
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 29 5 SUPPORTERS of Ayatoilah Sharlatmadari stand guard over his headquarters in Tabriz as trouble continues in the northwestern province of Azerbaijan. UPI photo Source: UPI photo
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    • 250 5 AFP US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance obtained no firm commitments from four key West European leaders on economic sanctions against Iran, sources in Washington said. A high source accompanying Mr Vance during his two days in London, Paris, Rome and Bonn said, "They
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    • 442 5 AP PRESIDENT Carter Tuesday proclaimed a reduction averaging 30 per cent for duties on a wide range of goods imported into the US from foreign countries. Mr Reubin Askew, the President's trade representative, issued a statement saying that the concessions were made in return
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    • 100 5 Reuter THE SOUTH Pacific nation of Fiji is willing to provide sanctuary for the deposed Shah of Iran, Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said yesterday. The Prime Minister of the 320-island group was asked at a press conference what his government would say to a
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    • 299 5 THE US Department of Energy announced Tuesday the filing of 13 charges against the Gulf Oil Co and Chevron USA. It accused them of having overcharged their customers a total of US$55O million (about *****3 million) between 1973 and 1976. The complaints, known technically as
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    • 231 5 Reuter THE state-owned British Steel Corp (BSC) yesterday announced plans to cut its 152,000-strong workforce by a third to stop losses now running around £300 million (about *****2 million) a year. BSC chairman, Sir Charles Villiers said 32,000 more men would lose their jobs
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    • 428 5 UPI CANADIAN smokers, drinkers and motorists will have to pay more next year and by 1984, petrol prices will double to nearly US$2 (554.34) a gallon, Canadian Finance Minister John Crosbie announced on Tuesday night in an austere government budget. Mr Crosbie said the
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 429 5 Agencies SWEDISH Parliament passed government proposals for higher energy taxes, meaning a 2.9 billion crown boost to the public purse on an annual basis, Parliamentary Tax Committee sources said. The proposals include rises in petrol prices, currently at 2.28 to 2.24 crowns per litre and a 40
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    • 180 5 Reuter THE BRAZILIAN economic package may bring inflationary pressures, but is welcomed in that it returns Brazil to more of a market economy, bankers and private economists said. Foreign exchange dealers view the package as beneficial because it opens up the economy
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    • 76 5 Reuter MR CHARLES Haughey, the new Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, has dropped four ministers from the Cabinet of his predecessor Mr Jack Lynch, but kept his main rival for the premiership. Within hours of being confirmed as Premier by the Dail (Parliament) at the end
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  • 327 6 The promise of greater interaction between private enterprise and public administrators that came with the establishment of the Committee on Industry, Minerals and Energy (Coime) and the private sector Working Group on Industrial Complementatidn (WGIC) has seemingly come to naught. The reasons for this sad state of
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  • 247 6 JOE CANUCK will be grumbling and digging deeper into his pocket in the wake of Finance Minister Crosbie's budget, but he will have to live with that in view of Canada's economic situation. The US economic downturn has had its effect on Canada and the
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  • 942 6  -  By CYRIL WANIGASOORIYA Depthnews Asia SRI Lanka's third annual budget is out and, except for a proposal to increase the price of cigarettes by two Sri Lankan cents (SI.003), it brought sighs of relief from all segments of the population. Earlier, before Minister of Finance
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  • 239 6 IT MAY BE the maker of Eveready batteries, but Union Carbide is apparently far from eveready with the name of its general manager. A colleague, needing to check something with the general manager, rang the company and asked to speak to him, also asking for the
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  • 657 6  -  By IAN STEELE Depthnews THE United Nations faces the possibility of a severe cutback in financial support for 1980 following major slippage in donor support. All but one of its 13 funds and programmes to be "refuelled" by the annual pledging conference of member states
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 1410 6 GENERATION GAP THINK generattea gap ud yM wnM Inevitably ten In M MMN «f miff (Ml teenagm —Mi to get what they want Iran Mr equl|y miffed parents. In Thnrnda> Featnre Special, Chaa■el 8, at 18.11pm, the generation gap Is nnnnaal to say the least; It's between n middle-aged widewer
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  • 1240 7  -  POWER STRUGGLE IN NEW YORK Imagine the humble bus shelter, a harmless piece of street furniture, creating furore for New York city hall to the lowliest queuer of buses. The bus shelter scandal is the centre of four inquiries, including one from the FBI and a federal grand
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  • 1230 7  -  By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD NYT AS SURELY as the wind blows, the sun warms ocean waters and the tide ebbs and flows, there is a diversity of renewable energy sources, now largely unexploited, that the world will come to depend on in the
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  • 887 7  -  FORUM with JOHN TAN MR LIM Chee Onn's statement that the National Trades Union Congress will draw up performance standards for workers in various industries merely confirms what many managers have been feeling for some time that the roles of management and labour have become totally
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • EUROPEAN MARKETS
      • 279 8 DEC 11 Frs CORBEILLE Air-Liquids B S N Oervais Danone C 8 V (TlMMh Csf) Cle Francais** des Petroled Compagnte Financiers Compagnie General#* Credit Fonrier De France Hachette (Llbrairie) Machines Bull Michelln <B) 485 906 440 258 340 469 192 68 920 224 50 -7.5 21 -05 unch -3.5
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      • 97 8 DEC 11 Frs FORWARD MARKET Acec 331 1 Arbed 2155 20 Astur 470 •10 Bra.sc in 568 Br u-Lamb 1610 5 Canpac 882 -14 Cock t 337 -1 D* Beers 275 5 Ebes 2140 25 Eleetrobcl 6760 -40 Gb-lnno-Bm 2596 unrti Gev 952 -8 Hobok 2700 10 Petro 5540
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      • 226 8 DEC 11 Dm Aeg-Telefunken 3830 01 Akzo 22.70 -03 Allz Lrben 860 00 unrh All* Vers BASK Bay H T Wbank Bay Vbank Bayer 478 00 140 80 235 00 280 00 126 70B 1 0.8 unch 0.5 BBC 291 (JOB BMW 199 SOB 25 Cassella Chem Verw 325
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      • 215 8 DEC 11 Fls ABN 307 00 -2 Ahold 76 50 -0.7 Akzo 24 90 -02 AMKV 98 80 13 Amfas 116.40 -04 Amro Bank 66 20 -01 Be r govs 50 SO unrh Berk 92 30 03 B«»K 64 50 -1 B'»r%umij 167 00 -1 Burhmann 5600 -13 Byenkorf
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      • 190 8 DEC II Francs Actions Sulsnfs 288 unch Alusuuaf Br. 1140 -20 Allisulsse Rfg 461 -4 Brown Boteri Br 1730 -5 Clba Geijcy Br 1240 10 Clba Getgy PC. 970 20 Ctba Genjr Ref 880 uWt Credit Sulw Br 2270 -10 Credit Sulssr Rn 426 -4 Elektrowatt Br 2125 5
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      • 95 8 DEC" II I.if* Anie 10 unrh Assoc On «0H0* 685 Bast'«l (46 -17 Central* 6UUU rut Imsider SI -25 < .<*! lnimot> M25 -1-35 IF! Pn 2166 -35 Italrementi ***** 200 IttlfU 690 -25 IlalMder m -5 Magnet. Ml! Ml unrh M irelli Err 320 -9 Medk*> ***** 320
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      • 1413 8 NEW YORK THE STOCK market on Tuesday retreated in active trading on concern about further dollar weakness and record gold prices, though news of new well find boosts a clutch of oil issues. The market was also hurt by a comment from Opec secretary general Rene Ortiz that
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      • 221 8 DEC 11 c% AKItiKl 18 -4 A lean 48 -4 Algoma 294 Bank Mont 234 4 Bank Nova Scotia 244 -4 Bell Tel 20% -4 Belli Corp BP Can Ltd 374 -4 Rruran 22 Camp Red Lake 294 1 Can Imp Bit 25 -4 Canpar 35 s -4 Canpac
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    • 726 8 See Page 4 for Asian stocks See Page 9 for Jo'burg prices H v ;V 5 i sr -ti mm lubertug Srill For lunch. For dinner. For a richly rewarding experience. Also Businessmen s Lunch Monday to Friday SIS 3% CESS Javanese Riistafe! Saturdav Sunday $16 3% CESS For reservations
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    • 86 8 j* r m I ji ,15 1 Merlin's New Coffee House Delicious drinks and beverages, scrumptious savouries and snacks, and authentic oriental delights are yours to enjoy at Merlin's new Coffee House. The decor is stylishly cool and the atmosphere cheerfully casual, which, together with the fine food, make Merlin's
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 794 9 NYT PRESIDENT Carter's economic war against Iran is encouraging an overdue reform of the international economic system, bringing some benefits but also immense dangers to the western industrial democracies, according to a panel of American and European economic experts who met in Paris last
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    • 119 9 Reuter THE CONSEQUENCES of the Iran-US banking dispute for Euromarkets are basically positive, Rainer Gut, spokesman of the management board of Credit Suisse, said. It gives an opportunity to take stock and correct certain weaknesses in the Euromarkets, and it also reinforces their supranational role. The affair
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    • 182 9 Reuter THE CANADIAN government will sell up to one million ounces of gold from its official reserves of 22 million ounces. Finance Minister John Crosbie, in his Budget sppech, said the sales will be made in the relatively near future if the market for gold continues
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    • 69 9 Reuter STANDARD and Poor's Corp said it will begin rating certificates of deposit issued by savings and loan associations in the Eurodollar market. It will assign ratings to long-term CDs which are issued by associations that are members of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the
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    • 618 9  -  By LEE YOKE MENG SINGAPORE exporters are still finding it difficult breaking into overseas consortium deals despite the preferential rates given under a new export credit guarantee scheme officially launched two months ago. The unconditional bankers' guarantee scheme provided by Export Credit Insurance Corporation of
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    • 735 9 NYT SAUDI Arabia, the world's richest oil-producing country, is puzzling western bankers and monetary officials because it seems to be growing poorer despite recent oil price rises. Possible explanations for Saudi Arabia's falling stock of gold and foreign currency, these sources say, range from rumours
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 472 9 THE US dollar opened slightly lower yesterday in line with the weaker New York tone, but recovered later against the German mark and the yen. Trading was much steadier than in the previous days. Against the mark, the dollar started off at 1.7270/80, firming to 1.7340/50 but slipping
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    • 43 9 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks and discount houses to tender for a total of $40 million 91-day Treasury bills to be issued from Dec 17 to Dec 21. Each tender must not be for less than $250,000.
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    • 181 9 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on Dec 12: 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months US Dollar* (Spot) Offer Bid 14 5/16 14 3/16 141/16 1315/16 14 7/16 14 5/16 1411/16 14 9/16 14 14 13'/. 13>4 13'*
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    • 49 9 RANGE of prices offered by discount houses on Dec 12 Overnight 3 to Call deposits 6 Closing Baying Selling 3-month Treasury bills 6'» 6 3 month Bank bills 8 J 8H 3 months CD 8 9/16 8 7/16 6 months CD 811/16 8 9/16 Source: National Discount Co
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    • 70 9 THE dollar for overnight delivery closed sharply firmer at 237.30 yen yesterday, compared with 236.00 yen at both the opening and Tuesday's close and despite modest central bank yensupport intervention, dealers said. Trading was active but nervous with volume US$B27 million. The Bank of Japan sold an estimated $50
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    • 307 9 DEC 11 Rand A INDUSTRIALS A Alpha 235 unch Abercom 285 -5 AE And CI 625 unch AMIC 1000 Barlows C« Sugar !el hi -2 cRa 350 unch Currte Finance 133 3 De Beers Ind Edcon JIM unrh Edgars Eve ready Fed Vol* 400 IS Fuflt Gardian
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    • 386 9 SINGAPORE gold futures yesterday closed sharply higher compared with overnight levels in fairly active trading, dealers said. Opening quotations were marked up around US$B following firmer overseas gold markets, they said. The market then eased some US$2 during the morning's trading on profit-tak-ing before rising marginally in late afternoon
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    • 185 9 THE dollar recovered some lost ground after an easier opening yesterday, but dealers said the currency remained basically weak. The dollar opened at 1.7265/75 marks but later firmed to 1.7305/15 compared with a late Hongkong 1.7306/16 and a New York close of 1.7218/28. There were no new major factors,
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    • 166 9 THE US Federal Reserve supported the dollar as it fluctuated nervously against the mark in active afternoon trading yesterday. The US currency eased to a late 1.7308/16 marks from a 1.7330/38 high reached following Fed support between the 1.7310/30 levels, as operators sold the dollar on fears Opec might
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    • 22 9 THE average rate at which major Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their beat customers is 9.2 per cent.
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    • 279 9 ACTION! Action speaks louder than words The November issue of Singapore Business looks at some areas where there has been a lot of talk. Will the action be forthcoming 9 Testing Japan's Sincerity: The Japanese have expressed time and again their desire to help the Asear, countries develop Will they
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  • 1498 10 BUSINESS DONE ON THE SES THE KLSE BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL Acma (2.348 2.406) Allied
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  • 161 10 SINGAPORE WOT TRU8T INCOME BOND UNIT (Mi—|wi' prim tar Dm I U) (Carr tow) The Commerce 114 2.27 eat w 1.24 The Saving Fund 1.40 148 Income Bond 1.17 S pore Prog Fund OS IB S pore Sec. Fund 1.71 181 m»i ■M| wwt S pore Invest Fund
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  • 2725 10 Gr'» Gr'» Net 1979 Last Div Div Y'ld P/E Vol Day High Low Company Sale or- C'vr COOO) High Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 261 207 Acma 240 15.0 2.2 6 2 123 196 123* Alcom 196 10.0 13 5.1 26.1 148 110 Allied Choc 129 83
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  • 1512 10 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday with the number at shares traded shown in brackets In lots ot 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. MDWnHALS Aeaa (2.486) If (2) 104 Atom (LB2S) (1) 158 kkm mm
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  • 212 10 Tesfciba (M) BM: AGM to be held at the Conference Room of Goon ting A Chew, G A C House, No 5C, Jalan Gurney, Kuala Lumpur, on Dec 13 at 12 noon. Faher Merita (M) BM: AGM to be held at Hotel Merlin, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur,
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  • 593 10 SENTIMENT at Ike Stack Frrkeage ef Btogapare s# tke lUM wltk null Imm Mwlf fatflc ittMpt At a rally total tke first lw sf tradtag. Jaet wkea tke keat vm kegtaatag to ke teM, Ike keady tread vm badly laterrapted ky tke aewe af Heagkeag's
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  • 576 10 LIGHT profit-taking set in and forced the Kuala Lumpur stock market to tend slightly lower yesterday. Losses were marginal in most cases. The selling was quite pronounced among the lowerliners which ended the day with declines of one to three cents. However, selected counters, especially the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1015 11  -  BY ANTHONY TAN THE detergent-based chemicals group, United Industrial Corporation, faces three main hurdles in the foreseeable future higher freight charges, unstable raw material supplies and rising prices. Freight rates have increased substantially and exports of powder detergent by wholly-owned subsidiary UIC Chemicals to
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    • 618 11 PER LIS Plantations' acquisition of all the issued capital of Mineral Securities Malaysia (MSM) comprising 5,108,000 ordinary shares of M$1 each was approved by Perlis shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held in Kuala Lumpur on December 10. In exchange, Perlis is to issue two new Perlis shares
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    • 191 11 Date Last Full Year Company Period Announced Net EPS Gross Pre-tax last year (cents) Dtv. Profit <%) ($Ht) Kramat I 7/12 16.8 27.5 1,274 Sg Besi I 7/12 318.0 520.0 23,536 Metro I 13/12 27.3 12.0 7,773 Utd Mai I 15/12 30.9 30.0 5,492 M Cement F 20/12
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    • 533 11 CURRENT stock market highflyer, Malayan United Industries (MUI), has announced the acquisition of a 12.18 per cent interest in Central Sugars through two subsidiaries Tong Bee Realty and United Continental Insurance. The company says the two subsidiaries have together purchased 2.928 million
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    • 533 11 MALAYSIA Textile Industries (MTT) has disclosed that foreign shareholdings representing about 34 per cent of its equity of $10 million were recently acquired by Malaysian interests. As a consequence of this move, a corresponding change in the composition of the board and top management in favour
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    • 671 11 •/AIIJ 3 ssaecL.. HOCK LOCK SIEW The HK$6OO million package of deals last week that set the Hongkong market afire around those companies traditionally associated with the Jardine Mathieson group is unlikely to signify any quietening of activity for the broadly based "Hong". Indeed it may be only
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    • 441 11 Current Ex Book* Date Total for Total for Payment Date Cloae Payable the year Previous year PM EI 10*1 Dec 6 Dec 18 Dec 28 10* 20* Premium Hldga OH I Dec 12 Dec 24 Dec 29 0* 12* Ixkcipe Metal Box Bhd 4*1 Dec 10 Dec 17
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    • 111 11 Com paay Particular* Ex Date Books Close Pub Text MUM SEA Corp Temerlob Shangri-La Sen tot a Bonus Issue of 1 (or 4 Bonus Issue of 4 for 5 Bonus Issue of lfor 1 Bonus Issue of 1 for 1 Bonus Issue of 1 for 5 Bonus Issue
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    • 202 11 Illl* wrasm 2ML UNITED OVERSEAS LAND LIMITED INCORPORATED ft THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) TO: ALL LOAN STOCKHOLDERS Dear Sir/Madam LOAN STOCK CONVERSION As a holder of our Loan Stock, your attention is once again drawn that you have the right to convert the whole or any part of your holding
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  • 648 12 THE ASEAN Committee on Industry, Minerals and Energy (Coime) came under fire from a Malaysian businessman yesterday for its inflexibility and bureaucratic attitude. In a hard-hitting speech, Tunku Abdul Aziz, chairman of Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry's working group on industrial complementation
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  • 583 12 three days of tough bargaining recenUy for a new Separate Merchants' Agreement (SMA), the Freight Committee of the Rubber Industry of Malaysia (FCRIM) has won the right to seek alternative services to the UK and European ports where FEFC lines are found to be wanting. It
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  • 751 12 LONDON, Wed. Share prices closed slightly higher in quiet trading with most prices down from the day's highs on lack of follow-through after a firmer opening, dealers said. At 3 pm, the FT index was up 2.2 at 425.1. Leading equities were mainly a penny or two higher
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  • 213 12 THE BANK sf Commerce yesterday towered Its prime Ifdlng rate te 7.2$ per eeat (ran 1M per eeat, hmmln the first Malayriaa teak teds ss since October last year. The Mi per eeat level has V*— maiataiaed dace Baak Negara freed eeatrel ea interest
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  • 395 12  -  By TEO TECK WENG NICHIEI Kaihatsu, one of Japan's leading developer of private residences, will soon develop two fairly large condominiums here. Both projects will be undertaken jointly with local and other foreign developers. Niehiei holds shares in these joint ventures through Singapore Niehiei. The
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  • 378 12 AFP SUBVERSION in the provinces of northern Laos is effective but it is not such a grave problem as official statements apparently try to make out, information gathered from reliable sources in Vientiane said. According to Laotian Information Minister Sisana Sisane, in the "Golden Triangle"
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  • 124 12 INDONESIAN shipping circles have regretted the attitude of the directorategeneral of Sea Communication in Jakarta in letting a sizeable soft loan offer from Sweden for the building of 20 new ships pass unused, the semi-official Suara Karya daily reported. The loan amounting to US$39O
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  • 374 12 THE Keppel group of companies has opened its apprenticeship schemes to female appplicants. The applicants will be trained as skilled workers for the group's shipyards, rig building and repairing companies. This is the first time the group is recruiting female workers because of a general
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  • 199 12 PRESIDENT Marcos said yesterday that he does not expect any serious opposition in local elections tentatively set for late next year or early 1981. Mr Marcos made the statement in an interview with reporters after a caucus of the government New Society Movement Party to set
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 69 12 Outlook for Singapore from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. today: Generally fair and windy with showers in a few places around midday. Report for 24 bears prior to 7.31 p.m. m Dee 12 at the airport. Maximum temperature 30.0 Associated humidity 71 Minimum temperature 24.0 Associated humidity 100 Hours of
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 103 13 Reuter GLOBAL Marine has ordered two more jackup drilling rings from Davie Shipbuilding of Quebec, Canada, at a total cost of about US$5B million. The rigs, scheduled to be delivered in May and June 1981, are in addition to three jackup rigs on order from Marathon Letourneau Offshore
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      • 104 13 AFP EIGHT crew members of the Singaporean fishing boat SMF-585 were last week tried in a court in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on charges of poaching and trespassing into Indonesian waters, Antara newsagency said. The boat and crew, under Captain Neng Mah Sat, were apprehended in the waters
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      • 65 13 AFP ONLY 20 per cent of US$lO million worth of US consumer goods were sold in the 51-day first US floating trade fair in Japan, sponsors said. The fair, called Boatique America on the 13,000-ton Japanese ship Shin Sakura Maru, ended over the weekend at Yokohama Port, the
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    • 506 13  -  By G. DURAIRAJ A MALAYSIAN-owned coastal shipping company, Perkapalan Kris Sdn Bhd, has added another vessel to its fleet of seven making it the largest shipping company of its kind by fleet size in Malaysia. The vessel, a Panamanian coastal trader of
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    • 570 13 SMpptag Um P«l» Cai Adriatic IV 5 Afea VI 3 Alfred CTS IV 5 All trans VI 5 Alpac VI 5 Angkutan VI 4 ANL I 1 APL ra 4/5 Argentice IV 4 Arya Nat VI 2 ASCL ra 1 Asia America IV 5 Asia Merchant IV
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    • 575 14 SIGTTO Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators hopes to win consultative status with Imco. The formation of the society was announced recently at Houston, with the aim of exchanging technical safety information among members. General manager of the new society, Mr
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    • 255 14 UPI RIVER pilots refused to uvipte a skip loaded with wybeu ell tor Iru dtwi the traehenu Mkdnlppi River on Tuesday oaiess President Carter personally approved the shipment. "We are net going te seed a pilot to the ship unless mesne Ugh ia the government
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    • 971 14 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
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    • 1271 14 GRAIN shippers covered cargoes on Tuesday from the US Gulf to the nether lands at U5516.75 (fio) for December and from the US Gulf to Antwerp/Hamburg range at $17 (fio) for December also from US Atlantic to Cadiz/ Pasajes range at $19.50 (fio) for December. Cargoes of grain
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    • 777 15 FINNISH shipyards appear to have stabilised their production level, at least for the time being. They currently give direct employment to 16,000 people, and a recent manpower survey indicated that they will be able to maintain this manning level for at least another year. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      479 15 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Chie Mam (Tanker) (1500 after Daiyu Maru P/O Subject Gas Free) 13/14 Golden City (after Frotasantos) 29/30 Hugeverett (2200 Must sail not later than 0600 15th) 47 Hamanasu Mam (1100 after Maria Makiling hauls) 27 Kaenary (1300) 18 Kosho Mam (1300) 28
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    • 3899 19 SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for Ports around the World The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 488 20 KEPPEL and Sembawang wharves are declining in Importance as gateways for containerised cargo. This is not unexpected as the facilities at the Container Terminal are becoming increasingly sophisticated. The latest statistics from Maritime Trade, a monthly PSA publication, revealed that while containerised
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    • 205 20 Reuter WORLD merckant skipping laid up for lack ef employment skewed a further decline to 438 vessels totalling 11,712, Ml leaf dwt on Oct SI, the General Council ef British Skipping said. Ills compared witk 455 vessels agregating 13,CK,M« dwt en Sep 3$ and
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    • 268 20 UPI GREEK Premier Constantine Caramanlis met his country's leading shipowners on Tuesday to discuss ways of increasing foreign exchange revenue from shipping. The Union of Greek Shipowners Committee pledges "in full awareness of the country's financial needs to make every effort to
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    • 140 20 Reuter THE GENERAL Council of British Shipping's tramp trip charter index continues to rise and reached 235 last month compared with 214 in October and 134 in November 1978. Figures (or the individual tonnage groups were: 12,000 to 19,999 dwt 204 in November
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    • 111 20 Reuter PAKHOED Holding NS said its Pak trans BV transport and distribution division has set up a Joint shipping agent venture, "Cross-Ocean", with China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco) of Beijing. From Jan 1, the venture will act as agent in Dutch ports for ships of Cosco
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    • 1388 20 WHO ACTS FOR WHOM The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and the agents who handle cargo bookings for them. A-B Adriatic CMtkiaer Container Feeders (S)/Cargo Freight (PK). AFEA Singapore Shipping Agencies (S)/Euro-Asia Line (PK/PN). Alfred C. Teepfer Intermodal (S) Marintex Enterprise (PK). Alfred C. Taepfer Sehiflahrt New Orient
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    • 274 13 EURO ASIA CHARTERING CORPN Pit' LTD Sui!f 80/ Bth fioor Ocean Bunding Singapore 0104 Cable tuiotrjiht Telei HS ***** A Bturuf'a Telephones 9*2660 .1 RI) 1M \\l A M m Orient Overseas Co*d(u*teA Line FULLY CONT AMERISED SERVICE TO EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) CaJmg Bremerhaven after Hamburg Closing Times (S pore)
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    • 136 13 sail fii SEALORD ANTAh 1 m UASC UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) GULF WEEKLY MULTI-PURPOSE SERVICES S'poce J loading tor FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE S pore Loading for 28/12 Dubai (7/1), Dammam (9/1), Kuwait (11/1), Abu Dhabi (13/1), Bahrain (15/1), Mina Qaboos (17/1) 9/1 Dubai (19/1), Dammam (21/1) lUiiiaiMi S pore
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    • 330 13 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE C. CONTMCR SS BWOGE N CORAL K lACEW... N PEASI. C RQZE C PAUL S pore P Xetong Havre 18 Ok 20 Dk 6 la 25 Ok 76 Dk 13 toi 3 ton (tw 20 is 71m 8 lan
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    • 524 13 JAPAN/SINGAPORE SERVICE See PegeVl Column 3 for Soilings Agents KYOSEI AGENCIES (S) PTE. LTD MAKMTING *****? Gf\E HAI 9,1111 A V m fURO ASIA UNf SDN BHD *****/. p K LANG *****1 3 PI NE NG 64 781/2 J lEMD3 LONDON Freights n/m CONTAINER Schedules H SHIPS Is Pert m
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    • 538 14 LEO SHIPPING PTE LTD SINGAPORE PERNAS-MISC SHIPPING AGENCIES SDN. BERHAD. P KEIANG PENANG L MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL SHPHNG CORPORATION BERHAD EXPRESS FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE HEAD OFFICE: WISMA MISC TEL: NO: KL *****8 TO/FROM MED/UK/CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA Mm Accapttag Far: 1) Barcelona. Genoa. 2) Amsterdam Antwerp. L Havre. Bilbao. Basle. UK. 3) Bremen. Bremenhaven.
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    • 160 14 BBS SUPERCARRIER SERVICE WEEKLY SERVICE FROM US ATLANTIC/GULF AND E. CANADA 20/1 *25/1 27/1 «/2 5/2 30/1 4/2 4/2 •10/2 *15/2 14/2 *21/2 23/2 fIU WSSELJ OOIM 41MS TBMMI GOOOM 47 WEEKLY SERVICE TO PANAMA, US ATLANTIC GULF AND E. CANADA St MM B. ON. 1/2 14/2 13/3 21/3 3/3
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    • 686 15 Overseas B Bl Containers Limited Weekly service to/from UK/Europe CMTMBBW ffltWCt TO W/COWiPff: TMjaßar TMoEipran Car*anßa* CONTAHBHP SaWCE FMM UK/CONTHHT. ITMt Brw BM It Hnrt Sloe P KaM| S"porf Not PMc M SM* Mri hW MM ISIk 17to HK. IS EM Mm SMM MM MM MM Mto 21 to IK.
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    • 508 15 ffi Franco Belgian Services •F. r Fay' French Vrt to ui!h Belgian Far F.tistirn I-xne^ C CONTMB II Dk n mm a Ok R.COML 3 I* I HM» 7 la rttUdG LeHwre Rtfan H b»f| Brew Amrp R dani Kbari Bm Awrp It Hm PU«< 110k (Im 71a lit* Ilia
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    • 696 16 Hapag-Uoyd FULLY CONTMOISD TO EUROPE EXPORTS ML«ttu Bai City EM>| iMfiHn Intai lif Eft* Mm FULLY CONTAMRBED TO GEMM/TMESTE m in S'pvc HakataMara 5/12 7/12 In Port *P«*ca 7/12 21/12 26/12 FULL* CONTAMMSQ) TO USA/CAMNM Ft*4m P Kttenf Spore HK IWh P (time Genu U/12 1/1 27/12 16/1 Trieste 8/1
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    • 546 16 <!> c nan €L. J. J*±) O- M JO. .~J> q a Algerian National I me STORE BBMU (1979) SaM BEL AttES (1979) 20 Dae BfCHM (1971) 3 km NOME LOMXNC FOR B«nbir/S(tt/V*Kia/Tim, Mr* Set*/ Valenca/Amoka/Taby f Jan Lettera/Sete/Vafencfc/Tak/ BOURA (1971) IS Jw 13/14 Ja Kot»/Yrtehaau/Totr« MSKAA (1979) 15 Fit
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    • 292 16 EVERGREEN LINE MR FAST EUROPE FXPRFSS FULL CONTAINER SERVICE ACCEPTHG CARGO FOR HAMBURG. FELIXSTOWE. ROTTERDAM ANTWERP LE HAVRE AISO ACCEPT KG CARGO FOR: united kingdom SOUTHAMPTON LONOON MANCHESTER. BMMMGHAM BRISTOL. LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW. LEEDS 1 EUROPE FAR EAST EXPRESS fUll CONTAINER SERVICE Vporo Nm| Kent OuU fM (Ml 21 DK 24
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    • 823 16 Everett Lines Burma Five Star Shipping Corpn. "BURMESE NATIONAL LINE" LOAMNG FOR RANGOON S>« Smk| ~a/no« <— MacberM M) *~21/31 Ok 1/4 Ma B F S.SC A gents m Mo»oytao TEPS MALAYSIA Port Kctong TaM3B>-7355 Pespong TH *****/***** Compania Ariantina Da Mava«ac«on Intarcontinantal S. A. C.I. F. "ARGENTINE NATIONAL LINE"
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    • 622 16 A A A A A A 12L0. S.E. OCEAN SHIPPING ENTERPRISES PTE LTD RM 2102 2103 21ST FLOOR MARINA HOUSf SHFNTON WAY MISTRI ROAD SINGAPORF 2 TFL *****44 7& *****70 m SANKYO LINE AUSTRALIA SERVICE f. HatMi Singapore Lm*« tar 11/23 OK 24/25 DK AOEL. STD 23/25 OK 21/22 OK
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    • 655 17 L. PIL GROUP EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICE J COLOMBO/KARACHI/P. GULF SERVICE Pan Islamic Steamship Co. Ltd. Karachi SAFMA E KAMI. ETA S pore 15/16 lan loading tor Colombo Chittagong Pacific International Lines pte ltd (joint service) Malaysia Shipping Corpn. sdn bhd PHILIPPINE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION I§l (incorpofated m the Republic of
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    • 772 17 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTMO SERVICE TO/FKM QJROPE TAy*4ay 14/12 4/1 1/1 7/1 1/1 31/12 Tdfaltpreu 21/12 9/1 11/1 12/1 14/1 ft/1 22/12 7/1 J/1 lft/1 IJ/I 14/1 Oh !M>|k 27/12 IS/1 17/1 11/1 24/1 21/1 KmfaMara 29/12 31/12 2R/I 22/1 23/1 2VI 11/1 XoatMnßay 4/1 22/1 24/1 24/1 27/1
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    • 380 17 Scan Dutch 9 I'.'ivn 'in la ws irmr WEEKLY rt rr* "-T J|M| T«rf r-5 """T 1 Tl'.J f-^4r ■t-OTvyjnr CONVENTIONAL SERVICE FROM EUROPE MULTI-PURPOSE/CONTAINER VESSELS TO ftfS SEa/TaST med /west mtp: fMder how PUm| Vfsstl Sniwn FOR BUNG* DAHLIA SM TYSIA h Pkrt MM. Vjiba lAttakii BUNGA Pf NAGA
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    • 638 17 BOUSTEAD AGENCIES THE BANK LINE LTD LOADS FOR E. ft S. AFRICA PI Elu. E loodonl Sport M Port/14 Otc P LYKES ORIENT LINE U.S. GULF COAST SERVICE (New Orleans, Mobfle, Houston, Galveston) Steppere P. Krtmt K«m*m US Gtf MALLORY LTKES (fedi I Ml) 23/25 Ok 7 Fat MASON LYKES
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