The Business Times, 26 June 1982

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 93/1/82 SATURDAY, JUNE 2«, IK2 60 CENTS
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  • 391 1  -  By JUNE LIM THE call by the National Trades Union Congress to boycott Australian products is a demonstration of the dangers posed by trade unions which attempt to by-pass established procedures of international relations. Doug Anthony, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
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  • 188 1 SINGAPORE'S external trade is increasing gradually amid sluggish conditions in the world economy. Its foreign trade for the first five months of this year was $44.39 billion, 5 per cent higher than that for the same period last year. With imports growing at
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  • 543 1  -  By LEE YOKE MENG LESSORS should seriously look into using insurance as a hedge against any fall in the pre-deter-mined residual values of leased equipment. Mr Michael Ivkovic, managing director of Armco Pacific (Singapore), suggested this yesterday at the question-and-answer session at
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  • 455 1  -  By ANGELINE TAN COMPANIES can count on the Government to help them in training workers and upgrading operations to overcome manpower shortages. Minister for Trade and Industry Dr Tony Tan gave this reassurance yesterday after he explained why the Government has no choice but
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  • 302 1 NATIONAL Iron, through one of its subsidiaries, is teaming up with a Finnish company to produce prestressed concrete slabs for the local Construction industry. An agreement has been reached between Eastern Industries Pte Ltd and Oy Part ek AB to form Eastern
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 69 1 Reuter AP BEIRUT, Fri. Lebanese Prime Minister Shafiq al-Wazzan, saying Israel's siege of Beirut is putting his government under intolerable pressure, announced today he has submitted his resignation to President Fliag Sarkis. Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, Israeli Defence Minister, Ariel Sharon said the Palestine Liberation Organisation is
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    • 114 1 Reuter LONDON, Fri. The US dollar scaled new heights against other major currencies today on nervous foreign exchange markets still uncertain about how high it can go before central banks make a concerted move to knock it down. In Frankfurt, the dollar rose to 2.4907 West German
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    • 122 1 AP LONDON, Fri. London's subway system was brought to a complete standstill today, stranding L 75 million commuters, after 14,000 train drivers, signalmen and other personnel members were called out on an indefinite strike by the National Union of Railwaymen hours after a stoppage by another rail
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    • 67 1 AP FRANKFURT, Fri. The Soviet Union has forced about 100,000 persons, at least 10,000 of them prison inmates, to help build the controversial Siberian natural gas pipeline to Western Europe. The Frankfurt-based International Society for Human Rights, in saying this, also added mat the Russians plan to complete
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    • 82 1 Reuter VIENNA, Fri. Opec announced today* that its four-man market monitoring committee will meet in Vienna on July 7 but said nothing about reports that a full session of all 13 Opec oil ministers would follow later the same week. The committee of the ministers of Algeria,
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    • 76 1 AFP BELJING, Fri. China has apparently just built a naval base on the Vietnamese-claimed Paracel Islands, which it has occupied since, 1974. New China News Agency said today that "vast harbour" had been built on an island at the group known as the Xisha in Chinese and
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  • 313 1 LEASING in the construction industry in Singapore is unlikely to thrive in the near future, in spite of the huge financing needs of this sector. There are many major obstacles which have yet to be solved, said Mr Tan Lye Huat, the group
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  • 468 1  -  By RICHARD SEAH EMPLOYERS in Singapore may not be as unified as the National Trades Union Congress, but the unity of the NTUC is restricted to its top leadership. Mr Jack Chia, president of the Singapore National Employers' Federation, made this point
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    • 233 1 Bookshops /_/\":]~<\`<\*{)??`\`.|=^)-$$$* UNLESS the Government makes the transfer of tax benefits easier, big ticket leasing will not have much scope in Singapore Page 2 EMPLOYERS and employees must make conscious and genuine efforts to enforce safety measures Page 3 JAPANESE electronics giants Hitachi and Mitsubishi have vowed to fight charges
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 484 2  -  By BERNADETTE CHOOI UNLESS the government makes the transfer of tax benefits easier, big ticket leasing will not have much scope in Singapore. Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, director of Morgan Grenfell (Asia) said this yesterday at a conference on "Prospects and problems of lease
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    • 108 2 THE Development Bank of Singapore will raise its interest rates for fixed deposits from Monday. The revision applies to all its fixed deposit rates except for for one month which remains unchanged at 9 per cent. The new rates are 9 per cent for 3 months (up
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    • 207 2 Reater AN OFFSHORE baaklag ceatre may be opeaed la Tekye tram the start of aext fiscal year If a greap of baakers, hreken aad geverameat officials stadyiag the matter eaa reach a consensu* that this Is desirable, a spokesman far the greap
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    • 334 2 Reuter AUSTRALIA has moved closer to the deregulated financial system recommended by the Campbell Committee with a series of decisions which Treasurer John Howard described as historic. The major decision taken at a meeting between senior federal government ministers., and state premiers was to
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    • 474 2 Reuter THE Swedish crown is over-valued against the West German mark and its strength is weakening Sweden's export competitiveness. Industry Association chief economist Ola Virin said Sweden should consider depreciating the crown by about 10 per cent in relation to the West German mark as a means
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    • 1087 2 THE AMERICAN Treasury, has postponed a US$4 billion four-year note offering until June 29 because of congressional delay in raising the debt ceiling. It will offer |4 billion ef seven-year notes on July 1 to raise new cash, and $9 billion of three- and sht> month bills
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    • 382 2 Reuter MANY bankers in Rome are sceptical about any quick reform of Italy's banking system, in spite of the impetus given to measures proposed by the government after the crisis at Banco Ambrosia no caused by the unexplained death of the bank's head,
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    • 175 2 THE Singapore branch of Mitsubishi Bank has issued a US$3O million floating rate certificate of deposit (FRCD) in the Asian dollar market. The five-year issue came hot on the heels of another FRCD, totalling $20 million, announced by the Singapore branch of another Japanese bank,
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGE$
      • 494 2 THE local foreign exchange market remained quiet yesterday though there were some commercial selling of the US dollar against the Singapore currency in the late afternoon. Generally, the dollar closed firm against other major currencies due to firmer US interest rates. Against the local currency, the dollar opened
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      • 159 2 THE dollar for overnight delivery yesterday closed firmer at 257.15 yen after opening at 256.50, with the Bank of Japan intervening on a small scale. This was well above the 256.00/15 finish in New York and sharply higher than the 253.75 close in Tokyo on Thursday. Trading volume was
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      • 22 2 THE average rate at which major Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers is 11.06 per cent.
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      • 193 2 ASIAN RATES ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at close on June 25: US Dollar*(Spot) Offer Hid 7 days 15 7/16 15 5/16 1 month IS 15/16 15 13/16 2 months 16 5/16 16 3/16 3 months 1611/16 16 9/16 6 months 16* 16* 9 months 16* 16Vi 12 months
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      • 46 2 RANGE of price* often id by di»count houses on June 25: Overnight: 4* Call deposits 4W Closing B«yiM Selliaf 3-month Treasury bills 4 3 7 t 3-month Bank bills 99/16 97/16 3 months CD 9* 9M 6 months CD 9H M Source: National Discount Co
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      • 50 2 RESULTS of tender held yesterday for 91-day Treasury bills to be issued from June 28 to July 2: Offered: $130,000,000 Applied for: $228,000,000. Alfctted: $130,000,000. Accepted Ms: $99.02 approximately 46 per cent higher bids in full. Average rate af dfoeeaat m allotment: 3.915 per cent per annum.
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      • 302 2 GOLD futures in Singapore yesterday closed easier compared with overnight levels after fluctuatiang marginally throughout the session in generally light trading, dealers said. Total sales for the day, including kerbs, was 297 lots. Prompt closed easier at US$3O4 306 an ounce against $313.10/314.10 on Thursday, August at $309.20/309.40 against
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      • 36 2 New York 5.15B S.21B 5.22S 5 28S Zurich 5 238 5.13B 5.33S 5 23S Fri Than Singapore 5 106 5.18B 5.20S 5.28S Closing prices in US dollars a troy ounce. Source: Credit Suisse, S'pore
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      • 227 2 GAINS of up to 5/16 percentage points in Eurodollar deposit rates yesterday drove the dollar sharply above its closing levels overnight in New York. Dealers said the attraction of holding dollars was reinforced when Six Months deposit rates were indicated at around 17 per cent in early trading. They
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    • 579 2 APPOINTMENT A growing full service branch of a foreign bank seeks the services of a person who has strong credit and marketing experience to be appointed as: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER The position offers definite prospects for advancement and challenge for a careerminded individual with an international bank sensitive to individual
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  • TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    • 373 3  -  By WONG MAI YUN LEGISLATION alone cannot reduce or prevent accidents. Employers and employees must make conscious and genuine efforts to enforce safety measures. The Minister of State for Labour and chairman of the National Productivity Board, Dr Wong Kwei Cheong, said that
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    • 399 3 THE newly-opened St Mark's International Hospital is expanding and upgrading its services. In July, the 150-bed hospital which opened in March this year, will offer openheart surgery as an additional service. It will be the second private hospital after Mount Elizabeth Hospital to
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    • 325 3 THE GROWING Asean economies can support three world-size ethylene plants, including Singapore's 300,000 tonne plant by 1990. This is the view of Marvin Mulligan, vice-president of Exxon Chemical Asia Pacific. According to Mr Mulligan, who spoke at a seminar in Hongkong recently, a world-size
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    • 207 3 ABOUT nine out of every 10 permanent disablement accidents in factories last year were caused by machinery. Out of the total 200 permanent disablement accidents, 13 were caused by falling objects. Another seven persons were disabled in falling accidents. These statistics were disclosed by Mr
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    • 196 3 THE Bukit Batok New Town will have 26,000 flats to house a projected population of 130,000. The Housing and Development Board said yesterday it expects to complete these units by 1965. The town will occupy an area of 750 hectares but only
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    • 89 3 MR GakrM Cfcaa has been appointed general manager of Robin Information Systems (RlS)in Singapore, managing director Holon Wong announced. Mr Chan has been the systems manager in the company since April last year. In his new position, Mr Chan will be responsible for the company's daily operations,
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    • 1271 3 SING INVESTMENTS FINANCE LIMITED (bcvpvaM to Mm ttf hppn) AND ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANY BALANCE FIXED ASSETS LEASED EQUIPMENT MVESTMENTS CURRENT ASSETS Statutory depovts with the Monetary Authority of Singapore Loans and advances Debtors, deposits and prepayments Deposits with financial institutions Cash and deposits at banks and in hand Less: CURRENT
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 423 4 AP AFTER wrapping up a war against Argentina across 12,800 km of ocean in 12 weeks. Britain was buffeted on Thursday by doorstep militancy from hospital workers, railwaymen and miners. Voicing grievances over pay and economy cutbacks, union chiefs commanding nearly 1.5 million
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    • 801 4 UPI AP JAPANESE electronics giants Hitachi and Mitsubishi have vowed to fight charges that they knowingly purchased computer secrets stolen from IBM and one of the companies accused the FBI of cheating its employees. Both companies, while admitting their employees bought the material stolen
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    • 325 4 Reuter THE toaihMt mutetory pniietiw eats ever lmpaaed ea the em■■■ market steel ladastry were aanaaaced yesterday by the EEC cMnmlMtea far the third qaarter af this year. The rimml—tea la Brassels said aader Its pawers ta regulate the ladastry at a time
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    • 547 4 Reuter UPI WEST German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in emphasising European concern over the latest US economic sanctions against Moscow, has warned that an EastWest trade confrontation could start a new Cold War. Schmidt on Thursday said Bonn and its European allies hope
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    • 395 4 THE International Monetary Fund has approved credit worth U5563.83 million to refinance Malaysia's contributions to the existing tin buffer stock operated under the fifth agreement. Under the provisions of the IMF buffer stock financing facility, member countries facing balance of payments difficulties may request
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    • 431 4 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Kim Soon LI 22 Thong Soon alongside 26.6.82/0700 Lady Bird 6/7 Spore Shpg alongside 26.6.82/1800 Mando V 15/6 Aru Shpg alongside 26.6.82/0400 Auby 20 SSPL 26.6.82/1500 27.6.82/0700 Equator 22 Thong Soon 26.6.82/0700 27.6.82/0700 Falrstar 47 Boustead 26.6.82/0900
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    • 425 5 NYT ARGENTINIAN Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez said it would be up to the next government to decide whether Argentina should declare a formal end to the hostilities with Britain in the South Atlantic. He did not say why the decision should await the
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 431 5 A CONFIDENCE trickster has swindled the Perth Mint in Western Australia out of gold bullion worth A 5650,000 in an elaborate scheme, police said yesterday. The thief, who had several accomplices, used four security firms and an employment agency. He was also believed to have spent several
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    • 764 5 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time From MAS MH15A 0020 KUL PAA PA005 0025 JFK/SFO/HKG FT FT71 0040 JFK/ORD/ANC NRT/TPE/KUL CAL CI331 0350 TPE SIA SQ101 0605 KUL MAS MH671 0920 KUL MAS MH680 0955 KCH RBA BI421 1000 BWN MAS MH651 1030 KUL SU SQ201 1030
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    • 824 5 Reuter UPI AMERICAN executives are largely to blame for losing domestic markets to Japanese goods. Aldo Morita, chairman and co-founder of Sony Corporation, said in New York yesterday that Japanese businesses did not "invade" American markets but rather filled a void American goods
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    • 167 5 JAPAN will try to develop a fifth generation of computers by itself, rather than with other major industrial countries as originally planned. The Japanese Ministry for International Trade and Industry announced yesterday that the change of policy is intended to avoid the
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    • 246 5 Reuter A UNTIED Nations Conference in Acapulco on the eradication of world hunger ended yesterday by recommending further study of a plan to create a grain reserve for poor countries. Thirty-six national delegations endorsed the conference's final conclusions asking UN World Food
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    • 248 5 AFP THE Phnom Penh government of Heng Samrin yesterday hinted broadly in a Foreign Ministry statement that it may use military force to smash the newlyformed tripartite anti-Viet-namese coalition Cambodian government. The statement, carried by the Cambodian news agency SPK, said the
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    • 216 5 AP THE Reagan Administration is expected to propose to Congress within the coming three months, more sales of possibly 50 to 80 FSE jet fighters to Taiwan after the current contract expires in June 1963. As a result, the relationship between the
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    • 877 5 RAINIER NATIONAL BANK AND SUBSIDIARIES (Incorporated with Limited Liability in the United States of America) CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET, 31st DECEMBER, 1981 December 31 Assets Cash and Due from Banks Due from Banks, Time Federal Funds Sold and Securities Purchased Under Agreements to Resell Investment Securities: U.S. Treasury U.S. Government Agencies
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  • 398 6 THE STATEMENT by Doug Anthony, Australia's deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, on the Pacific Viking dispute is to be applauded. He says the call by the NTUC for a boycott of Australian goods raises issues that are a matter for concern. Absolutely correct. He
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  • 270 6 HAVING MONEY is not important. What really matters is knowing how to get it. Large public and private development projects, particularly the MRT, offers opportunities for small companies to become big and large corporations to become giant conglomerates. Exceptionally large and long-term projects like the
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  • 1064 6  -  Club run by a charmed circle of powerful men ROBERT COTTRELL seeks the truth behind the old saying that Hongkong is run by 'the Jockey Club, Jardine, Matheson, the Bank and the Governor in that order.' ROBERT COTTRELL FT IT IS one of the
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  • 618 6  -  By PATRICK MENEY AFP FUNERALS have a doien (aces In the Soviet Union. They are plain in Moocow, sumptuous in Georgia, Catholic in Lithuania, Muslim in central Asia and Icy in Siberia. Take a funeral in the Soviet capital as an example.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 679 6 TVO-11-OIE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 4 This business is a bit crafty, but honest (6) 7 Land in prison (8) 8 Confections we get in sets (6) 10 Not quite a stone villa (5) 13 Possibly tin sword? (4) 14 Deceiver coming to a familiar end (4) 15 Call for
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    • 882 6 TiVICTRWErra SINGAPORE 5 soccer fans SOCCER faaa should stay by their television sets In the altera—. They will he treated to an bright into the 1182 Wurld Cap in Spain In lie Game of the Ceatary (Ch 5, 4.M pm). They eaa alne catch the lecal team in action. The
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  • American fast food invasion
    • 663 7  -  IN KUALA LUMPUR: By SUSAN ROBINSON UPI IT'S Friday lunch time on Kuala Lumpur's bustling Batu Road. Malay women in tightfitting floral kebaya blouses and hip-hugging split skirts elbow their way into the candy-striped interior of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. They stand by a
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    • 664 7  -  IN PARIS: By ALINE MOSBY UPI SO THIS is Paris? Hamburger joints blaring rock music and mustard smells, frozen french fries and factory chickens in restaurants, wine in paper cartons. "It's Waterloo all over again!" The disgusted food critic of the prestigious newspaper Le
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  • 877 7  -  By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AP CUBAN radio stations give prominent exposure to Soviet and East German singers. But when a masscirculation magazine did a survey of the most popular foreign singer in Havana, the winner was an American, Barbra Streisand. Officials in Cuba readily admit
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • EUROPEAN MARKETS
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 214 9 RUBBER prices in Singapore yesterday closed slightly higher with July One RSS buyers quoted at 183.25 cents a kilo, up 0.75 cents from Thursday's close. Morning prices were marked up slightly on higher London advices but turned idle in subsequent trading on lack of buying support. Afternoon prices were
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    • 315 9 RAS prices In cents per kilo yesterday: Close Noon (per kilo) (per kilo) Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers lilt. 1 R.S.S. prompt f.o.b. 181.50 182.50N 181.50 182.50N Int. 1 R.S.S. July 183.25 183.75 183.25 183.75 Int. 1 R.S.S. August 184.25 184.75 184.25 184.75 Int. 2 R.S.S. 172.50 174.50N 172.50
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    • 103 9 NOON SSR and SMR price* yesterday: RAS July Auau*t (Current Mth) (Forward Mth) Buyer* Seller* Buyer* Seller* SSR 20 (1-ton pallet 1 161.50 162.50N 162.50 163.50N SSR SO (1-ton pallet) 159.00 160.00N 160.00 161.00N MRELB July Aufail SMR CV (1-ton |all*t) 2C5.50 207.50N 207.50 209.50N SMR t.
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    • 62 9 THE STRAITS TIN price in Pen&ng yesterday remained at the ITA floor price of M 529.15 a kilo (or the ninth day running. The buffer stock manager maintained strong support accounting (or most oi the turnover. Turnover remained high on (urther presence o( foreign ore, although it eased
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    • 32 9 Rubber: June 25 Singapore: July: 183.25 cents (up 0.75 cent) Malaysia: July: 203.75 cents (up 0.25 cent) Tin: M 529.15 per kilo (unchanged) Official offering: 326 tonnes (down 39 tonnes)
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    • 88 9 THE Malaysian Minister of Finance has fixed these rates for the period from June 24 until further notice: Robber: 205 Vi cents a kilo for RSS One; Capra: M 5549.17 a tonne; Palm kernel: $955.75 a tonne; White pepper: $3,058.00 a tonne; Black pepper: $2,163.33 a tonne;
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    • 1295 9 NEW YORK STOCKS WEAKNESS in the bond market caused stocks in New York on Thursday to close mixed despite posting gains most of the day. The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than six points during the day but then weakened in the afternoon and closed off
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    • 853 9 COFFEE: Robusta futures were slightly easier at midday, between £10 and Lone a tonne below Thursday's close in traded positions. Dealers said at the end of the session prices steadied slightly from mid-morning lows reached on some scattered trade house selling. Prices are expected to continue to attract
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    • 126 9 The Kuala Lumpur crude palm oil market yesterday closed easier on further selling in moderate trading, dealers said. June in the central fell Ms2o to $800 a tonne while in July central dropped $10 to $800 and south $5 to $806. In August central lost $20 to $790
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    • 175 9 CHINESE Pradsee Exchange, Singapore, aooa Hoeing prices per IN kg yesterday. Coconut oil: Bulk fob JIOQ.OO sellers, old drum (in second hand drum) fob 1112.00 sellers, new drum fob $116.00 sellers. Copra: Mixed (loose) $55.00 buyers. Pepper: Muntok white pepper fob Asta NLW $345.00 sellers, Sarawak white pepper
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    • 198 9 YARN and cotton prices were quoted as follows in Hongkong on June 24. (In HK dollars, spot ex-go-down) Cottoa yam: China Blue Phoenix 20s 2,335; 32s 2,910, 40s 3,110 (per bale of 400 lbs). Piece goods: China Butterfly and Globe brand unq; Dragon Head unq Five Lambs unq; Flower
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    • 309 9 SINGAPORE: Yesterday's closing prices in S$ per kilo, ex-godown: THAI WHITE: 100 per cent first class (Kangaroo) new crop 1.10, 100 per cent second class 0.90, 100 per cent third class 0.82, 25 per cent new crop no stock, B-10 per cent 0.81. THAI BROKEN: A-super 0.65, Special 0.58.
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    • 171 9 WHEAT futures in Chicago on Thursday closed firm, up two UScents a bushel in nearbys to off one in thinly traded distant July. A strong Kansas City market due to harvest delays and possible damage from heavy rains in the southwest kept nearbys firm relative to deferreds, traders said.
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    • 190 9 SOYBEAN futures in Chicago on Thursday closed on a weak note in sympathy with easiness in com, down three to 5 1 2 US-cents a bushel with July posting a six-cent range. Commission house and professional buying pushed prices to early highs, traders said. However, futures eased steadily from
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    • 367 9 MALAYSIA is pressing ahead with its "dynamic production policy" for natural rubber with positive signs that the market for rubber will recover in the next few years. Primary Industries Minister Datuk Leong Khee Seong, gave this assurance in Kuala Lumpur yesterday following the briefing he
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    • 126 9 Reuter THE rubber association of Indonesia, Gakpindo, will shortly become an associate member of the Malaysia Rubber Exchange (MRE), after formal approval by the board next month. Malaysian Primary Industries Minister, Leong Khee Seong, yesterday told a news conference this move would allow Indonesia to
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    • 260 9 THE week saw a gradual decline of some 3Vj cents following stale bull liquidation in dreary and featureless conditions. Despite some movement in London, the market appeared grounded and inelastic Hellday, Cutler, Bath and Company said in its review for the week ended June
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  • 1420 10 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 (3.068 3.108)
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  • 200 10 SINGAPORE I'NTT TKl'ST DIAMOND MOT 8TOKE (MftiAftn* pfteH i tar Jue 28) (Ma—aw' prices tar Js»e 11A The Commerce 2.73 2.87zd The Savings Fund 1.55 1.63 Diamond S pore Prog Fund 123 1.29 Spore Fd (USJ) 0.S6 060 S pore Sec. Fund 1.88 1.97 m 1.30 S pore
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  • 2856 10 Gr*» Gr's Net 1982 Last Div Div Y'ld P/E Vol Day High Low Company Sale or- CVr COOO) High Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL ft COMMERCIAL 350 247 Aetna 310cd unch 21.7 0.8 7.0 30.0 5 310 308 Alcorn 115 3.7 05 3.2 95.8 233 172 Allied Choc
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  • 1459 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. INDUSTRIALS Arm* (3.385) (1) 3.38 xd I|i (2.888 3.005) Aleaai (I.ICS) (7)
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  • 219 10 C.K. Tang Limited: Twentysecond AGM to be held at the Camellia Room, Dynasty Hotel, 320, Orchard Road, Singapore 0923 on June 26 at noon. GENTING Berhad: AGM and EGM to be held at the Theatrette, Ground Floor of Bangunan MIDF, 195A, Jalan Pekeliling, Kuala Lumpur on June 26.
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  • 920 10 A LATE re tar* of baying Interest cm pled with uot short-covering activities yesterday enabled the Singapore stock market to close the week aa a positive nate. Taking centre stage was baak heavyweight aad market leader, OCBC which was the mast actively traded counter.
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  • 479 10 SHARES had a very quiet session at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday and except for a handful of selected counters, there was little noticeable interest. Aside from situational stocks such as Lien Hoe Industries, SMI and Gadek, there was little play in the rest
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1595 11  -  Market Talk... By NAJEEB JARHOM THE Singapore and Malaysian economies are well poised to steam ahead when the world recovers from its current recession. But for the current year, slower growth is expected for both economies as the severity of the effects of the
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    • ASIAN STOCKS
      • 432 11 SHARE prices yesterday moved higher on balance, led by resources stocks, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index rose 1.6 points to 466.5, with gold and oil stocks showing the best advances. BHP gained two cents at A 57.06, CRA added 10 at $2.75, WMC was eight
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      • 466 11 SHARE prices yesterday rose sharply on light bargain hunting over a broad front, with sentiment encouraged by a partial recovery of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Elec stocks after losses shown over the past two days due to a computer spy case involving their employees. The market average
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      • 118 11 THE market yesterday closed mixed as oils, commercial and industrial issues firmed but minings eased, brokers said. Turnover fell to 1.6 million from 1.9 million pesos on Thursday. JUNK S Peaoe It Phil Hldfi ACOt* Wining jane tu qiwh Anfk) Phil Apex Mining B ALiu Con JOB litlt unch
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      • 151 11 SHARE prices yesterday closed slightly higher in thin trading, dealers said. The Book Club index rose 0.26 point to 92.89 on turnover of 7.2 million baht. Bangkok Bank rose two to 210, Jalaprathan Cement two to 121.50 and Siam Credit and Siam Cement one each to 59.50 and 183
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    • 394 11 NEGRI SemMlaa 0(1 Palms BM (NSOP) to expected to maintain gmp profit at the previous year's level, aeMriiag to ehalrmaa Geh Tjoel Kok to his latest aui al review. NBOP had earlier reported a pup pre-tax pnflt tor the year eaded Dee SI, 1181 sf
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    • 755 11 GOLD Coin Ltd is strengthening its position as the largest feedmill group in this region with two new mills under construction and another two on the drawing board. Together with the six mills already in operation, Gold Coin will, by 1963, have a combined
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    • 129 11 HONG Leeng Finance Ltd has announced that at its annual general meeting on June 15, shareholders passed a resolution giving directors the power to issue shares not exceeding 10 per cent of the issued share capital of the company. HARIMAU Investments Ltd has announced that its net tangible
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    • 904 11 Carnal Ez Beeka Date Ta4al far Tatal far Pay meat Date Qaae Payable tke year Prevleaa year Aeaaa 5% Jun 30 Jul 7 Jul 21 21.7% 14.5%(a) BSemhtwuf 35%(f) Jul 23 Jul 30 Aug 16 35% 20% Ball Ki«u 5%I Jun 8 Jun 18 Jul 12 5% 20%
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    • 308 11 JOHAN Holdings Bhd, taking in the results of newlyacquired George Kent (M> for the first time, has turned in an audited group pre-tax profit for the period ended Jan 31, 1982 of M 52.97 million on a turnover of $47.11 million. As this is the
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 156 12 Rises Indices C Sugars O C B C 1090 835 70 25 June24 JuneS H Le-)if Fin 715 15 BT Indicator: *****5 *****0 C C 297 11 ST Industrials: 897.64 699.89 Metro Hldgs Nat Iron 710 5S6 444 10 10 10 8 ST Finance: 1702.75 1697.06 Isetan 'ST Hotels:
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      162 12 Rises Indices A Hi tarn 700 100 Esso Ord 665 +25 June24 June25 SMInd 326 20 BT Index: *****9 *****0 M Box 400 20 Industrials: 848.73 851.49 Gadek 255 15 Finance: 1488.47 1493.49 N Iron 640 15 Hotels: 607.67 607.67 Berjuntai 665 15 Properties: 796.84 792.34 OCBC 900
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    • 49 12 FINANCIAL TIMES Friday closed INDUSTRIALS Thursday 1279.62 Thursday 554.2 Wednesday 555.9 Week Ago 1305.38 AUSTRALIAN Week Ago 559.4 INDUSTRIALS DOW JONES AVERAGE Friday 828.0 INDUSTRIALS Thursday 829.0 Week Ago 837.0 Thursday 810.41 Wednesday 813.17 ALL ORDINARIES Week Ago 791.48 H.K.HANG SENG Thursday 484 9 Week Ago 469.6
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  • 568 12  -  ■Hill Companies Editor: Mano Sabnani By ALAN LEE MALAYSIAN Tobacco Co Bhd (MTC), the largest cigarette manufacturer in Malaysia, is experiencing, for the first time in many years, a slower rate of growth in earnings and sales. For the six months ended March 31, 1962,
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  • 1020 12 EBEHIS JMOTM NYT IN HONGKONG, where making money is a national pastime, nothing is more applauded than a consummate deal, and no individual is more revered than the businessman who can make one. Most revered of all is Fug King Hey, an immigrant from China. Widely
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  • 259 12  -  By SIOW LI SEN MALAYSIAN Resources Corp Bhd has agreed in principle to acquire the entire issued and paid-up capital of Sunrise Properties Sdn Bhd for Ms 2 million cash. The cash payment for this acquisition is a departure from Malaysian Resources' past policy of issuing new
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  • 145 12 C C Bintang buys M$5.8 property CYCLE k Carriage Bintang Bhd is buying a piece of land and building near the Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur for MJS.B million cash. In a brief announcement yesterday, the company said it has entered into an agreement with Syarikat Asphalt k Kim La
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  • LATEST
    • 138 12 FRASER Neave has aaaaced a rwiMiliii pretax praflt at tsriM milltoe far Ike year mM Marefe SI, IK, i per eeat Hghfr thaa the year Mere. Taraever reee 11.2 per eeat te ttti.il mllliea (Will mllliea prevtw). Tie eempaay kaa reeemmmM a Deal «IvVeai af 17 eeate per ateek aatt
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  • 201 12 ASSOCIATED Plastics Industries Bhd (API) has called off its proposed property development in Johore Bahru because profits from the project could not be accrued to the company in the year of acquisition. In a letter to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, API explained
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  • 40 12 HARIMAU Investments Ltd has announced that its net tangible assets per share was $1.26 per share as at May 31. Assuming full conversion of the loan stock, Harimau's NTA per ordinary share would be $1.20 as at May 31.
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  • 829 12 LONDON, ri. Share prices ended lower today, reflecting the prospect of a rail strike due to start on Monday and other labour unrest, dealers said. At 3pm, the Financial Tiroes index was 5.6 points off at 548.6. Government bonds fell as much as half a point, with the
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  • 96 12 AP NEW YORK, Fri. Stocks opened slightly lower today, extending the late drop in yesterday's session. Losers Jumped to a 3-to-2 edge over gainers on the New York Stock Exchange, whose 15 most-active issues included 10 declines. The Dow Jones average oI 30 industrials, which had a
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    • 55 12 OUTLOOK for Singapore today: Fair and warm. Report for 24 hears prior to 7 .St pm on Jute 25 At the airport: Maximum temperature 32.5 Associated humidity 63 Minimum *emperature 26.2 Associated humidity 90 Hours of sunshine 10.90 Rainfall in millimetres Nil Total rainfall for the month 62.7 Total rainy
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