The Business Times, 11 April 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11,1984 60 CENTS
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  • 206 1 THE Association of Accredited Advertising Agents of Singapore, prompted by numerous comments on the negative impact of advertising on consumers, is working on a public campaign that intends to give the industry's viewpoint of the issue. This was one proposal put up at the
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  • 86 1 THE NTUC Delegates Conference will later this month discuss how companies could employ workers after the retirement age of 55. This is one of the recommendations from the Howe Yoon Chong Report on the Problems of the Aged that the delegates will discuss,
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  • 371 1  -  By WANG LOOK KEAH Transport Correspondent THE Japanese consortium led by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, one of the three groups vying for the rolling stock contract, was called for an interview by the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRTC) yesterday. Industry sources said it was the only group
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  • 397 1  -  By ALVIN TAY THE building and construction sector has become the second largest borrower of the commercial banks, pushing manufacturing sector into third spot for the first time ever. The latest monthly statistical bulletin of the Monetary Authority of Singapore shows total bank
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  • 446 1  -  By ZHOU MEI Economics Correspondent ASSETS of the world's debtor countries should be mobilised to help solve the international debt crisis, said Lord Bauer, external examiner in economics of the National University of Singapore, yesterday. He told a public lecture on foreign aid and international
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 58 1 AP HONGKONG'S Mass Transit Railway Corp yesterday dismissed about 200 striking train operators and platform workers protesting a new system that requires them to work 10-hour daily shifts sometimes, a spokeswoman said. The move followed a management warning on Monday that those who failed to show up for
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    • 48 1 Reuter THE Sri Lanka government declared an 18-hour curfew in the northern town of Jaffna following separatist guerilla violence there, officials said yesterday. The curfew was imposed from noon yesterday until 6am today. The 18-hour curfew was scheduled to operate in the Jaffna municipal area. Reuter
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    • 79 1 AP HONGKONG governor Sir Edward Youde arrived in Beijing yesterday for what could possibly be a decisive round of Chinese-British talks on the future of the capitalist colony, which China's ruling Communists will take over in 1997. Governor Youde struggled through a mob of Hongkong-based reporters and
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    • 46 1 Reuter CHINA has successfully launched its first communications satellite, sources said. They said the satellite was launched two days ago and is functioning satisfactorily. China put its first experimental satellite in space in 1970 and launched a series of others in following years. Reuter
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    • 53 1 Reuter THE space shuttle Challenger made an unprecedented capture of an orbiting satellite yesterday on its second and last chance. "Okay, we got it," the crew reported after the catch. The shuttle's remote controlled arm, operated by astronaut Terry Hart, latched onto the slowly spinning satellite on his
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    • 63 1 Reuter QUIET has returned to Phra Palai Pass on the frontier with Kampuchea after heavy fighting late last month between Thai forces and Vietnamese troops who crossed into Thailand. The Thais, backed by tanks, heavy artillery and aircraft, appear to have recaptured all the territory within their borders.
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    • 61 1 Reuter THE US has suggested putting a Chinese scientist in space as part of a proposed cooperation pact on space technology with Beijing, a US Embassy spokesman said in Beijing yesterday. Talks on the proposed cooperation agreement began earlier this year, and there have been a series of
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    • 61 1 Reuter SOVIET Communist Party leader Konstantin Chernenko pledged to continue economic and administrative reforms which are strongly backed by his rivals in the ruling Politburo. He gave the commitment in a speech to a meeting of the party's central committee amid signs that his own supporters were building
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  • 164 1 THIRTY Malaysian Chinese Association state assemblymen aad foor members of Parliament yesterday warned acting party President Datak Dr Nen Yee Pan to resolve tbe party conflict by complying with three rondltinns set by them, failing which they (the complainants) wHld find It difficult to
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  • 462 1  -  By LIM SOON NEO INDIVIDUAL tenants of Scotts, a shopping centre in the prime Scotts/Orchard roads shopping area, are getting "substantial" rent reductions for a second time since the centre opened in December 1982. Miss Dianne Brynes, manageress of Scotts, said
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 427 2  -  By JAIME LYE AIR CANADA has reached an advanced stage in preparations for its inaugural flight to Singapore. According to an official in Air Canada's local office, it hopes to file for permission to fly to Singapore with the Department of Civil
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    • 116 2 LOCAL traders and businessmen have been urged to seek joint ventures in manufacturing or service activities with well-known foreign companies which have the required technical knowhow. Parliamentary Secretary (Education) Ho Kah Leong gave the advice particularly to businessmen with an intimate knowledge of the
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    • 240 2 SOME developed countries are still adopting protectionist measures within the textile industry in spite of a general improvement in their economies. Such moves are contrary to the spirit of the international Multi-Fibre Agreement, says Mr Cheng Wai Keung, president of the
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    • 427 2  -  By JOANNE YAP THE COMPUTER application software industry grew by 42 per cent from $36.3 million in 1982 to $51.7 million last year. This figure, said Mr Philip Yeo, chairman of the National Computer Board, referred to the value of software sold locally
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    • 299 2  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF ABOUT 30 per cent of all patients admitted to government hospitals have paid their bills under the Medisave scheme since it was launched on April 1. Another 30 per cent are covered by their companies' hospitalisation schemes, while the rest are paying from
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    • 427 2  -  By CHEN QINGSHUN AN INTERNATIONAL panel of speakers will be giving presentations of tax topics during a three day conference starting today. The conference chairman, Mr Lee Fook Hong, principal consultant of Lee Fook Hong Co, will open the conference by giving an
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    • 319 2  -  By LUCY NG THE National Productivity Board (NPB) and McGraw Hill Training Systems are collaborating to produce a video-based training programme. Based on a behaviour modelling approach, the programme is the first of its kind in Singapore. It uses a video-tape series featuring local actors who simulate
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    • 184 2 RANK XEROX is attempting to penetrate the printing industry with its newly launched printing system. The Xerox 9500 is, however. not expected to compete head-on with the conventional offset printing machine. Rather, said marketing support manager Patrick Wong, the 9500 is an additional printing facility
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    • 473 3  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF ECONOMIC Development Board (EDB) grants are available for certain consultancy services provided by the Applied Research Corporation (ARC). The April issue of ARC News, the research group's newsletter, said that companies which engaged the ARC for consultancy services could
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    • 487 3 SEMINARS AND COURSES April 9-11: The Marketing Of Consumer Products, Holiday Inn, Frank Newman Associates April 9-13: Introduction To Pneumatics, 28, Third Lok Yang Road, Festo Kg April 11-13: Paperwork Simplification, Thong Teck Building, Singapore Institute Of Management April 11-13: Account Development Strategies, World Trade Centre, EDI Associ-
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    • 261 3  -  By PENG AILIAN THE drafting of cooperative laws should be simple and flexible. Professor S Jayakumar, Minister of State (Law and Home Affairs) told a seminar on "Cooperative Law in Asean" yesterday that simplicity in cooperative legislation would help the public understand the
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    • 496 3  -  By LEE HAN SHIH THE World Trade Centre is spending $28 million to shift the bulk of its exhibition activities from the main building. By October, its many tenants will heave a huge sigh of relief when the rebuilding of Exhibition
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 416 4 FT PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand of France is expected to meet Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, soon for emergency talks following a deterioration on Monday in negotiations on reductions in Britain's EEC budget payments. Senior EEC officials in Brussels said that the
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    • 374 4 AP JEANE Kirkpatrick, US Ambassador to the United Nations, has deplored what she says is a growing tendency in Western Europe to equate morally the US and the Soviet Union. Mrs Kirkpatrick said this tendency was "now common enough among our closest allies that its expression
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    • 57 4 IF SHE has her way, this lovely lady will soon be sitting though perhaps not qnlte so sexily In the Philippines National Assembly. Former Miss International Aurora 'An An' PI Juan Manotoe, 34, ex-wife of golf star Tommy Manotoe, will be contesting the Makati seat In the
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    • 241 4 r==ili, Primaries "84 Reuter WALTER MendsJe looked to Pennsylvania voters for big boost yesterday before the race for the Democratic presidential nomination moved to westers states aad lusher pastures for his chief rival Gary Hart. Opinio* polls yesterday gave the former vice-presl-dent a
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    • 412 4 FT THE British Inland Revenue's special investigations unit is to carry out an inquiry into the affairs of Lloyd's Insurance Underwriters in an effort to trace alleged undisclosed funds which should have been declared for tax purposes. A letter has been sent by the Inland Revenue
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 424 4 Agencies POLAROID Corp has said that it has entered into a joint US marketing agreement with Digital Equipment Corp. Polaroid and Digital will jointly promote Digital's Rainbow-100 personal computer, Polaroid's palette computer image recorder and compatible software as "The Personal Presentation System", a graphics workstation.
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    • 166 4 Reuter THE European Economic Community's executive commission has been given added powers to combat unfair trading practices by third countries. EEC foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Monday empowered the commission to start action against third countries with Gatt (General Agreement on Tariffs and
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    • 125 4 AFP ROBERT Duvall was declared best actor at the 56th annual presentation of the Academy Awards in Hollywood on Monday night. Duvall won the Oscar his first for his performance in "Tender Mercies." Shirley MacLaine, who has been a stage and screen performer for 34
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    • 178 4 Reuter THE US Navy's tactical air forces, made up of aircraft carriers and their planes, are not in such good fighting trim as claimed. A congressional report, compiled by the House of Representatives subcommittee on legislation and national security, said inaccurate navy data and
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    • 119 4 AFP A SINGLE Chinese company has killed 43 Vietnamese troops since China launched a new series of attacks at the border with Vietnam eight days ago, sources said yesterday. They said that the company, stationed in Yunnan province along the Tengtiao River which marks
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    • 766 4 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time From PAA PA5 0225 JFK SFO HKG MAS MH681 0820 KUL KAL KE624 0840 KUL CAL CI010 0625 JED DHA MAS MH601 0905 KUL MAS MH671 0935 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN RBA BI421 1000 BWN SLA SQ103 1005 KUL CPA
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    • 397 5 FT INDIA'S trade deficit has narrowed substantially, having come down to 35.58 billion rupees in the AprilDecember 1983 period from 40.60 billion rupees in the same period of 1982. The annual report for 1983-84 of the Indian Commerce Ministry, published on Monday, shows that the
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    • 287 5 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S oil exploration industry expects to drill 255 exploration wells this year 44 more than last year, according to the second survey of 1984 exploration activity conducted by the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association (Apea). But drilling expenditure is now likely to
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    • 79 5 ROUGHING tt eat... driven ef the HMgkMg Mass Railway Traasit seen here when they went en strike ever a controversial flexible raster system which was iatrsdaced as Monday. The drivers' onion Is demanding that the system be scrapped beeasse aader the system, est every 13C weeks, there weald be six
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    • 462 5 UPI IT MAY seem absurd for Switzerland, which has not experienced a war for centuries, to fear the possibility of a nuclear conflict. But the Swiss are a prudent people despite their fierce dedication to neutrality. Thus, this little land of mountains, lakes and
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    • 159 5 Reuter THE US economic recovery has yet to reach "smokestack" industries such as steel and machine tool manufacturing. Speaking at a University of Chicago symposium, Inland Steel Co chief economist Bernard Lashinsky said a strong dollar, loss of foreign markets and naive US trade
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    • 484 5 FT THE government of Bob Hawke yesterday sent John Kerin, the Australian Industry Minister, to Tokyo to sort out trade problems that have been complicated by last Sunday's agreement in Washington to boost US beef and citrus shipments to Japan. Canberra,
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    • 248 5 UPI US SENATOR John Danforth, a Republican from Missouri, announced legislation on Monday to combat the booming business of counterfeiting commercial goods, ranging from video cassettes and car parts to Lee Jeans and Walt Disney books. Senator Danforth, chairman of a Senate subcommittee
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 515 6 Reuter PREMIUMS over London market settlement prices for imported high grade copper cathodes to Japan have risen sharply in the past few months because of tightening physical availability. Traders and consumers using the spot market are currently paying a 30,000 to 40,000
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    • 248 6 CHINA'S tea production fell by 15 million kilos to about 382.5 million kilos in 1963, the first drop in 20 years, while its share of the world market fell to 10 per cent from about 13 per cent. The China Doily quoted Rural Development Study Centre
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    • 193 6 YARN and cotton prices were quoted as follows in Hongkong yesterday. (In HK dollars, spot ex-go-down) Cottoa Ym: China Blue Phoenix 20's 3,500 32's 4,010, 40's 4,100 (per bale of 400 lbs). Piece Goods: China Butterfly and Globe Brand unq, Dragon Head unq. Five Lambs unq, Flower and Butterfly
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    • 159 6 CHINESE Prodaee Exchange, Singapore, noon closing prices per 111 kg yesterday. Coconut oil: Bulk fob $194.00 sellers, old drum (in second hand drum) fob $207.00 sellers, new drum fob $211.00 sellers. Copra: Mixed (loose) $110 buyers. Pepper: Muntok white pepper fob Asta NLW $617.50 sellers, Sarawak white pepper
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    • 316 6 SINGAPORE: Yesterday's closing prices in S$ per kilo, ex-godown: THAI WHITE: 100 per cent first class (Kangaroo) new crop 1.06, 100 per cent second class 0.82, 100 per cent third class 0.78, 25 per cent new crop no stock, B-10 per cent no stock. THAI BROKEN: A-super 0.63. Special
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    • 232 6 THE RUBBER market in Singapore closed higher yesterday with May One RSS buyers quoted at 233.75 cents a kilo, up 1.75 cents from Monday's close. The morning session initially put on two cents following firmer London advices but lost some ground in subsequent trading on lack of follow through
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    • 30 6 Rubber: April 10 Singapore: May 233.75 cents (up 1.75 cents) Malaysia: May 255.50 cents (up one cent) Tin: M 529.15 per kilo (unchanged) 168 tonnes (down 77 tonnes)
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    • 71 6 THE Straits tin price in Penaag yesterday remained at tte ITA fleer level ef Mia.ls a kilo. Dealers neted eentinned shortage of demand ns sentiment wns farther depressed by sterling's (all against the Malaysian dollar. The batter stock manager again absorbed tbe bnlk sI disposals wblle local interests
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    • 399 6 R AS 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. 227 75 228 75N 227 75 228 75N lot 1 R.S.S May 223.75 234.00 233 75 234.25 Int. 1 R.S.S June 234.25 234 75 234
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    • 169 6 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday recovered on late buying and covering interest to close slightly firmer, after opening lower in sympathy with easier Chicago soybean complex. In the April position, central region rose Mslo but south fell M 52.50, both at M 51.410 a tonne while in
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    • 212 6 SOYBEAN futures in Chicago on Monday sold off sharply late in the session to close mixed, ranging from down 4V« US-cents per bushel in May to up 3*4 in January. May posted a 11 V 4 -cent range on the day. An unexpected break in market-leading soybean oil prompted
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    • 201 6 WHEAT futures In Chicago on Monday closed on or near the highs, up 3'/i to five US-cents per bushel. May posted a 3^-cent range. An unexpected purchase of at least 200,000 tonnes of US soft red winter wheat by China plus other export business, both consummated and pending, supported
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    • 1019 6 COFFEE: Robusta futures at midday yesterday were £11 to £5 a tonne below Monday's close in thin conditions lacking fresh news or trading incentive. Most active May traded at £2,072, against a high of £2,088 and a previous closing range of £2,082/2,083. July was at £2,017, against a
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 278 7 GOLD futures in Singapore yesterday closed slightly firmer after fluctuating within a narrow range throughout the session. Trading was quiet due to lack of interest in the absence of fresh factors. Total sales for the day were recorded at nine lots. June closed slightly higher at U*****.50/389.00 an ounce
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    • 33 7 New York 9.24B 9I5B 9.29S 9.20S Zurich 9.19B 9.17B 9.24S -w\ 9.22S U„ Singapore FM 9.21B 9.18B 9.3SS 9.23S Closing prices in US dollar* a troy ounce. Source: Credit Suisse, S'pore
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    • 51 7 THE dollar opened steady yesterday in lacklustre trading. Opening quotes yesterday: us 1.4257/67 Can 1.8240/60 1.2792/96 D Mk 3.7450/80 D F1 i 779^/«n S FY 3.1040/70 B Fr con 76.53/64 F Ft 11.5210/5320 Lit 2315.80/2319.50 321.18/65 D Kr 13.7735/40 NKr 10.8010/8115 S Kr 11.1410/1545 26.32/35 Portugese peso 189.65/190.45 Spain
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    • 513 7 THE US dollar continued to ease against all major currencies in quiet trading on the local foreign exchange yesterday. Against the local dollar, the greenback weakened on commercial selling from London. The US dollar opened at the day's high of 552.0880/90 and closed at 552.0679/80 after hitting a
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    • 175 7 THE DOLLAR closed slightly lower yesterday in quiet trading with many operators sidelined ahead of the announcement of US economic data later this week. "No one seemed willing to create positions because of the uncertain outlook of interest rate trends at present," one Japanese bank dealer said. The dollar
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    • 23 7 THE average rate at which major Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers is 9.33 per cent.
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    • 183 7 ASIAN ASIAN currency deposit interbank rates as at 5 pm on April 10: US Dollar* Offer Bid 7 days 10 9/16 107/16 1 month 1011/1610 9/16 2 months 10 13/16 10 11/16 3 months 10'/* 10* 6 months 11* 11 9 months 11H 11M 12 months 11H lite Dm. SvJtt
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    • 5 7 Source: National Discount Co
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    • 102 7 THE US dollar finished almost unchanged yesterday from New York's close after a day of quiet and featureless trading. It ended at 2.6263/68 marks against a US close of 2.6260/75 and edged lower to 225.30/35 yen from 225.35/45. The US unit firmed in the morning on concern over a
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 146 7 AP LLOYD'S Bank International, the third-largest British commercial bank, does not plan to reduce its presence in Hongkong in spite of the shortening time to 1997, when the lease on the British colony reverts to China, says the bank's head. On Monday Lloyds chairman Sir
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    • 417 7 Reuter BOND market investors in the US would be closely scanning economic data this week for further signs of moderating US growth, analysts said. The Federal Reserve's announcement of a halfpoint discount rate increase to 9 per cent last Friday has removed some uncertainty
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    • 183 7 EASTERN bloc countries are once again being eyed favourably as a lending risk by western banks because in the last three years they have taken positive steps to reduce their debts. A special report prepared by Manufacturers Hanover Trust (MHT), America's fourth-largest bank, says
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    • 198 7 TOKAI Bank and 26 other Japanese and foreign banks have extended US$l5O million in syndicated loans to Malaysia to help build highways. The 10-year loans to the Highway Authority of Malaysia would carry an annual interest equivalent to the London Interbank Offered Rate plus 0.375 per cent for
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    • 265 7  -  By ALVIN TAY THE INSTITUTE st Banking and Finance (IBF) has made the Bret ma jar change to tto diploma wine to inelide a supplementary examinattoa and a definite completion time. Under the revised rales which will take effect tram the semester commencing
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    • 635 7 Reuter AFP JAPANESE Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has agreed with an outline of the finance ministry's measures on the liberalisation of Japan's financial markets to be proposed to the United States at the bilateral yen/ dollar committee in Washington on April 16 and 17, ministry officials
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    • 383 7 Reuter SALOMON Brothers chief economist Henry Kaufman said he expected a weaker dollar later this year but said such a development would add to the difficulties of the US economy. He told the Detroit Economic Club on Monday: "While many would welcome a reduction
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  • 577 8 A DOWNTOWN nightspot holds a weekly poetry reading session because the owner believes there must be a place for such self-expression. The crowd, for the most part, bears with the night's entertainment over dinner and drinks. Every 20 minutes or so, some musical fare triumphs
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  • 1546 8  -  Europe's big names in video-recorder manufacture are buckling under pressure By JASON CRISP FT THE high stakes and high risks involved in developing new consumer electronics products have just been dramatically underlined by sudden announcements from two of the world's leading manufacturers. In New York on
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  • 312 8 RCA's fall are with vldee discs Illustrates the «Hfßcalties sf picking the right aew prodacts la the fast expanding home eatertalament market. Vldee disc recorders have failed te find a maas eaasamer market largely beeaaae they were laaached after the mere
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  • 569 8  -  By STEVE LOHR NYT FOE yean, lobbyists for Japaa have reacted almMy to legislative pripissls la Washtogtea that might hart Japaa's c—sldstahle eeeasaric laterests ta the Ualted States. Nsw, the Americaa geverameat aad ladastry officials have started to de the same la
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 803 8 SINGAPORE 5 MALAYSIA 3 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages 3.00 PM Opening and Propamine Rghights folowed by Hotel: (Mandarin with English subtitles/r) 4.35 Exercise with Gloria 4.55 Animals, Animals, Animals 5.15 Romper Room (English) (Children's programme) 5.45 Home 6.10 Programme Mghfights 6.15 News (English) 6.25 Kknba the Mite Lion The
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  • 985 9  -  The recent spurt in US interest rates has taken its toll of the closely linked Canadian currency, and the Canadian authorities face difficult policy choices as they await economic recovery. BERNARD SIMON reports. BERNARD SIMON FT CANADA'S economic policymakers are over a barrel. At a time
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  • 534 9  -  By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG AP OFFSHORE oil platforms, manmade colossi built to resist waves and storms while sucking hydrocarbons from beneath the world's oceans, may succumb to the forces of business rather than those of nature. The mounting cost of the platforms a new project
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  • 648 9  -  By BOB KING FT TAIWAN appears to be changing its no-talk, no-compromise stance towards China in an attempt to avoid its own isolation in the international sphere. It is prepared to participate jointly with China in the Asian Development Bank (ADB),
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  • 707 9  -  By ANTHONY WILLIAMS Reuter SWISS watchmakers now attending the annual European watch and jewellery fair in Basle, Switzerland, are cautiously optimistic that a slump which almost obliterated one the country's most important industries may be ending. Traditionally makers of highcost quality watches, the Swiss have suffered
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 172 11 SHARE prices yesterday closed generally firmer in trading which continued to be dull, despite improved metal prices overseas, because of the Philippine economic situation. The Commercial and Industrial Index rose 0.11 to 129.88 and Oils moved up 0.019 to 0.787. The Mining Marker remained unchanged at 1,034.65. Lepanto B
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    • 234 11 APR 10 NT 1 All Sincere Indus Asia Cement Cathay Coos Chang Hwa Bank Chan Loong 10.45 30 JO 32.00 56 JO mjo -0.1 +0J +0J unch +0.7 Chla HUn Cement China Chem China De* China Elect Wire B.40 17 JO 18.10 18J0 -0.1 Oil +M +0J China Oull
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    • 450 11 HONGKONG SHARE prices yesterday closed higher but below the day's best levels following some technical selling in the afternoon. Brokers cited resistance around the 1,100 mark of the Hang Seng index, which closed up 25.85 points at 1,096.12 but below the morning finish of 1,100.31. Among leaders
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    • 557 11 SHARE prices yesterday closed higher, encouraged by the firmness on Wall Street, though the initial uptrend was curbed by late profit-taking. The market average rose 24.42 to close at 10,915.12 after gaining 56.96 on Monday, with volume at 460 million shares against 270 million on Monday.
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    • 1255 11 NEW YORK WALL STREET stock prices closed mixed on Monday, with blue chip issues getting most of the attention, despite Friday's increase in the Federal Reserve's discount rate and a prediction of still higher rates by a prominent Wall Street economist. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which
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    • 428 11 PRICES yesterday closed easier with options-linked trading in BHP shares boosting turnover in otherwise dull trading on Australian stock exchanges. Towards the close the All-Ordinaries Index was down 1.9 at 756.5 with the All-Industrials off 0.8 at 977.7 and the All-Resources falling 2.7 to 580.6.
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    • 107 11 APR 10 Aokham Thai Asla ribre In* And Trust BahU 146 11* SB •4 -a unch Bangkok Bank Bank Of Ajrudhsja Ltd 1M unch B(U Shoe Berll Jucker SB Charoong Thai Flrestone Pirtt Trust 1 1 auodjear Industrial FtnanOe Corp 1* Jalaprattaan Cement.-. 1» Maboonkhronc It Metal Bos U.»
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    • 828 11 Wall Street Journal stock scandal NYT CITING THE "time-consuming distraction" of an investigation being conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Peter N Brant submitted his resignation on Monday to Kidder, Peabody ft Co. Brant, a 31-year-old vice-presi-dent said to be the brokerage
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    • 182 11 APR 09 F*» CORBEILLE ♦A U GROUP B Cur* four 1744 Financier* de LUnion 83 Latere* XI «0 -M >3 >44 Aquiume Nat Pn Pttfole JC ♦a Moet-Hennawy ODfl-Partbai 1516 150 >14 >14 BID OerraU Danone C 8 r (Thoouonnmtx vn 316 33 +0 Penarroya 57JO Radtotechnique 3H GROUP
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    • 892 11 RENEWED institutional buying boosted the market yesterday after a mixed start. Trading was moderate and some issues closed below their best levels on light profit-taking, dealers said. At 3pm, the FT 30 Index was up 12 points to 879.2. RTZ was up 20p at 714 ahead of results
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    • 276 11 APR 06 RUM) INDUSTRIALS A Alpha HO unch A hereon MS 15 AC And CI at unch Amaprop A MIC 430 3100 35 Bariovs 1400 -M C O Sm\XX\ KM unch Che ken CM A Currte Pln&net ZZZI no 535 unch unch Edon red vou (MO <10 unch Puflt
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    • 44 11 APR 0* Kn nor Air a Lar&l B Pi Am* B Prw w uncB •M AUai Copeo IM -a tab Ptm B onch 1 1 SUM* Bkf Volvo ta'riM rr*t 1 Fm Mil! isiei -J M -I J ■4 Source: S E Bank
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    • 118 11 You can bank on authentic Hong Kong Teochew cuisine at the Cockpit Hotel Bring your business associates to Rose Garden Hong Kong Teochew Restaurant at the Cockpit Hotel and savour exquisite "leochew cuisine at its finest. Most ingredients are air-flown from Hong Kong, including the superb variety of live seafood.
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    • 129 11 A comprehensive listing of 40,000 commercial industrial firms in 350 buildings. Listings include name of company, address, phone, telex, type of business contoct person USED BY businessmen, marketing sales people, real estate professionals, researchers, property owners, developers, secretaries ADVERTISERS, DON'T BE LEFT OUT! Reach them for as little as 47
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  • 3031 12 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. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after
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  • 3652 12 IM Ri«k M Uw CMHlJr Last Sale •rGr>s Die Die Cw Gr*s Y*M Net P/I Vet <■000) Day Higk Lew 8ECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 172 310 306 2S0 27S 300 111 470 322 718 544* 482 500 710 300 418 418 536 1000 428 906 1410 SOS
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  • 191 12 Managers' prieea f»r April 11 8INGAP0BE UNIT TBU8T The Commerce 3.44 3 65 The Saving* Fund 2.00 2.12xd S pore Prog Fund 1.47 1.56 S pore Sec Fund 2.26 2 40 S pore invest Fund 1.30 1.27 S pore Equity Fund 1.4S 1.55 ASIA I "NTT TRl 'ST
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  • 2621 12 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 unle'ss otherwise specified INDUSntIAUS AfMOMto < 4 00S) (2) 4 00 Al«*m (2 555) (1)
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  • 781 12 BUOYED by macb-lm-praved laveatar aeatlmeat, stacks finished aa a steadier hat qaiet aate aa the Blagapare staeh market yeaterday. This stoadiaeas was maeh welcamed hy laveatars wha felt that the market waa gaiag thraagh a mild eeasaUdatlaa period aad that stacks shaald firm ap agala later.
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  • 553 12 THE KUALA Lumpur stock market managed to close slightly higher yesterday, registering its fifth advance in as many sessions. Overall, interest tended to remain selective with several industrial lower-liners as well as finance and tin issues attracting renewed support. The market opened with a steady
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 582 13 UPI CORPORATIONS large and small often choose a day in April or May for their annual meeting of shareholders. For investors who have an opportunity to attend these gatherings, it can be a rare chance to question the top executives face-to-face about past
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    • 709 13 Marsh McLennan incurs loss on bonds NYT THE MARSH A McLennan Cos, a diversified insurance brokerage holding company, said on Monday in a terse statement that it would take an extraordinary after-tax charge of approximately $60 million for the first quarter of 1984 to reflect expected losses in government bond
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    • 207 13 SUMITOMO Rubber Industries Ltd, whose offer to buy Dunlop SA, the French subsidiary of Dunlop Holdings PLC, was approved by the French government on Monday, plans to invest 300 million francs in the financially-troubled company over three years. Most of the investment will
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    • 125 13 Reuter MORGAN Grenfell A Co's agreement to take a 29.9 per cent stake in London Stock Exchange jobber Pinchin Denny Co will double the jobber's capital resources, Morgan chairman William Mackworth-Young told a press briefing. But he said financial details are not available. Morgan
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    • 763 13  -  Market Talk... By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI IN VIEW of the heavy capital expenditure that Malayan Banking Bhd will be requiring to finance its expansion plans over the next two years, some sort of fundraising exercise appears to be inevitable in the near future. This observation was
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    • 535 13 Reuter THE growing foreign presence in US securities markets is creating new challenges for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As of October 1963, about 445 foreign companies and governments were selling their securities in US markets, according to the latest SEC figures available. During
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    • 198 13 Reuter HANSON Trust PLC will tender for all shares of US Industries Inc at US$23 per share, or a total of about $500 million, and the bid will not be conditional on the receipt of any minimum number of shares. Hanson said it has received
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 219 13 KECK SENG (MALAYSIA) BERHAD (INCORPORATED IN MALAYSIA) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS The directors of the company are pleased to announce the audited results of the operation of the company and the group for the year ended 31 December 1983 as follows: COMPANY (M$'000) GROUP (MS'OOO) 1983 1982 1983 1982 Turnover 116,211
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    • 335 13 WHEN IT COMES TO SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS, ONE COMPANY IS A MILLENNIUM AHEAD. n *1 Several years ago, a team of McCormack Dodge researchers uncovered a remarkable paradox in business software: Business problems don't fit into compartments. Yet even the most sophisticated software packages operate on the principle of compartmentalization.
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 173 14 Rises Indices Troaoh Mine* M A A 8u(ti Beai Ayer Hitam Tin Austral Anal K L Induatriea D Keramat Temerloh H Leong Credit Rahman Hyd 8 T P 1975 Petaling Jack* Iat Nat Iron U O I 1060 1420 1080 900 500 815 990 910 800 412 1100 1000
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      163 14 Rises Indices Tanjong Tin Tronoh 1500 1200 300 +150 Apr 9 Apr 10 A Hitam Tin 1000 110 MBT Indicator: *****09 *****64 SgBesi M A A 1160 110 NST Industrials: 1482.83 1490 14 1580 80 NST Finance: 2810.99 2830.90 KT Pau 1450 60 NST Hotels: 659.52 659.40 Temerloh
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    • 50 14 H.K.HANG SENG Tuesday 1096.12 Monday 1070.27 Week Ago.. 1033.19 AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 977.7 Monday 979.0 Week ago 966.6 ALL ORDINARIES Tuesday 756.5 Monday 758.1 Week Ago 744.8 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Monday 867.2 Friday 865.4 Week Ago 870.8 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Monday 1133.90 Friday 1132.22 Week Ago 1153.16
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  • 379 14 BOLTON Properties Bhd, which is forging a link with Daim Zainuddin, has recorded a hefty 274 per cent increase in group pretax profits to $8.95 million for 1983 ($2.39 million previously). The impressive profit rise was achieved on a three-fold jump in group turnover to $27.44 million
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  • 486 14  -  By AMY CHEOK IGB CORPORATION Bhd, formerly Ipoh Garden Bhd, has surpassed its profit projection for 1983. It scored an impressive 119 per cent rise in group pre-tax profit to M 540.86 million, exceeding its forecast by $4.66 million. The improved performance could have been
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  • 332 14 THE Capital Issues Committee (CIC) has approved Arab-Malaysian Development Bhd's (formerly Taiping Textiles) acquisition of property companies Selaju Sdn Bhd and Walleng Enterprises Sdn Bhd, subject to two conditions. One condition is that the vendors of Selaju should pay interest to the company
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  • 674 14  -  in Companies Editor: ALAN LEE By NAJEEB JARHOM MALAYSIAN Containers (1974) Bhd, like its sister company Singapore Glass (1974) Ltd, is being taken over by a group linked to the Tan family of IGB Corporation fame. A structurally-similar arrangement has been
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  • 450 14  -  By CHAN MAY PENG ISLAND PENINSULAR Development Bhd's (I&P) pre-tax earnings for the year ended Jan 31 have surpassed its own expectations. Group pre-tax profit increased by 55.85 per cent to $21.78 million ($13.97 million previously). This is about 18 per cent higher than
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 408 14 SEE PAGE 11 FOR LONDON STOCKS ABN Bank ALGEMENE BANK NEDERLAND N.V. (Incorporated in the Netherlands with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that shareholders are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Company which will be held on Wednesday, 2nd May 1984
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    • 435 14 r --j time manager international PRESENT Advanced Training I Techniques (a member of The Times Organisation) THE TIME MANAGER SEMINAR SINGAPORE MALAYSIA 21st 22nd May 1984 Singapore > v' TIME MANAGER is a Danish invention and the first of its kind in the world. More than 300,000 people from over
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 57 14 OUTLOOK (or today: Partly cloudy; showers in the early morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.3t pm on April II at the airport: Maximum temperature 30 5 Associated humidity 73 Minimum temperature 24^2 Associated humidity -J® Hours of sunshine Rainfall in millimetres Total rainfall for the month 12 -2
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 219 15 Reuter THE Japanese Transport Ministry said it has asked an advisory group to the ministry to review Japan's overseas shipping policy to help Japanese ocean liners remain competitive in the international market. It said the competitive position of Japanese oceangoing shipping companies has
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    • 585 15  -  By G DURAIRAJ AN established Norwegian ship management and technical consultancy company has offered to supply European standard accommodation modules and deck quarters to be installed on any class of vessels built in Far East shipyards. The Oslo-based Marine Design and Consultancy (MDC)
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 58 15 MR Lim Kim San has been appointed chairman of the Port of Singapore Authority for another year, with effect from April 1 1984. Three other persons will be members of PSA for another two years, with effect from the same date. They are Messrs Lam Chuan Leong,
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      • 163 15 Reuter DOCK workers at Japan's six major ports returned to work yesterday after a one-day strike to demand job security in the face of containerisation. Spokesmen for management and trade unions said the strikes at Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya and Kammon, and shorter stoppages at smaller
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      • 51 15 THE worldwide utilisation rate rose slightly to 82.2 per cent, according to offshore data services Offshore Intelex weekly rig count. The current marketable fleet numbers 717 with 127 rigs idle. Last year at this time, there were 143 rigs idle for a utilisation rate of 79.6 per
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    • 795 15 Shipping Lin? Pag? C«l At*i Transport IV 4 AC Toepter VI I A/ea VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner vn 5 Alpac VI 5 Antara Shpg IV 1 A PC Line V 4 APL m 45 Aqua Une X 3 Arrow Lines IV 2 A9CL ra l Asia broker
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    • 1006 16 Fairplay NEGOTIATIONS are nearing completion for the purchase of two big container ships for American President Lines' trans-Pacific service. Both ships are of similar size to APL's three C-9 ships (2,500 TEU according to company president, Bill Seaton, but he refuses to identify
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    • 403 16 Maritime Asia SHIPOWNERS wanting to run fuel efficient vessels should consider 10 options, listed in order of importance, that have been developed by the Centre for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. Use coal or coal slurries instead of petroleum (large cost saving
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    • 1690 16 GRAIN chartering on Monday was fairly active with more interest seen for shipments out of the Great Lakes, but other sections of the freight market were rather quiet, shipbrokers said. A vessel was booked for 18,000 tons of grain from the Lakes to Antwerp-Hamburg at a lump sum
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    • 815 16 AFP ALTHOUGH there were further hints of Soviet chartering on the freight market last week, trading was generally sluggish and rates showed a softer trend after recent firmness. But ore trading provided a highlight of the week, with Japanese charterers well to the fore, fixing cargoes from Brazil,
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    • 97 16 Reuter CHINA'S import-export trade is mainly carried on the Chinese national line but it will still need to charter foreign vessels, Liu Fulin, deputy general manager of the China Foreign Trade Transport Corporation, said. He gave no breakdown but said "there is still a considerable part which has
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    • 195 17 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East, Europe, Far East Persian Gulf, Straits ports Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia
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    • 476 17 Lloyd's List SOUTH KOREA is planning a vast expansion of its merchant shipping fleet following the consolidation of most of its shipping companies into just 16 groups. Under the governmentpromoted scheme, the nation's 68 shipping companies have been urged to merge in
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    • 137 17 Reuter JAPANESE shipbuilders scrapped 37 ships totalling 762,000 gross tonnes under a government scheme in the year ended March 31, 1964, up from 20 ships totalling 182,000 tonnes in 1962/83, Japanese Transport Ministry officials said. The ship scrapping promotion scheme, inaugu- rated in 1978/79, aims at helping
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    • 267 17 INDONESIAN shipping company PT Djakarta Lloyd has introduced the first Indonesian flag container ship to operate in the regular service between Australia and Southeast Asia. The 1,152-TEU Jayakarta brings the number of ships in the Anro/MISC joint-service to six. The eight-day service links Australia with
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    • 123 17 UPI THE US Coast Guard has seized a Taiwanese fishing boat suspected of fishing in US Pacific waters without a permit. Spokesman Bob Jones said the 45-metre vessel Jin Ruey Yng was boarded and seized after being spotted 45 miles inside US waters north-west of Midway Island.
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    • 5207 22 SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of tfie ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port
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    • 702 23 CONTAINER TERMINAL Ship RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godowns FCL Arrival for LCL Movement Voy Date/Time Operator Cargo Schedule Location Ned Houtman SA Vaal SD Corona B Seroja Sea Prelude Sea Hawk Arthur Maersk A1 Mlrqab As Pallas B Kemunlng E Promoter Harvester Takari I
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    • 1799 23 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S) Afra-Earaata Line Traasgroup (S). AhreaUel Liaer Service Kim Shpg (S > Alfred C Taepfer Sea Consortium (S) Manntex Enterprise < PK) Alpac Intrasea «S> Bintang Shpg (KL) Island Cargo
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    • 418 24 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES 11.4.84/2300 Baab Ullah 31/2 Eka Jaya alongside Celebes 1/2 LN Shpg alongside 11.4.84/0530 Cresta VII 5 Sunship alongside 11.4.84/2300 Eastern Harmony 13/4 Kim Shpg alongside 11.4.84/1500 Ned Kyoto 46 Ned-EAC alongside 11.4.84/0600 Ravidas 47 R Jumabhoy alongside
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    • 369 15 tgfc Publi*h*d and Distributed bv FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS pfH2 Jurong Port Road. Singapore 2161 |rt'J A member of The Times Organisation rasa LONDON Freights U/Ul WEEKLY Freights H CONSORTIA HI SHIPPING Schedule vm/IX CONTAINER Schedules IX WHO Acts for Whom IX SHIPS In Port X REGIONAL Weather X OZL I\RL)IM AM
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    • 359 15 OSEALORDH UASC UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO'SAG) NATIONAL LINE OF BAHRAIN. IRAQ. KUWAIT. QATAR. SAUDI ARABIA AND UNITED ARAB EMIRATES J EXPRESS MULTI PURPOSE SERVICES FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE I KOM lAI'\N TAIWAN lIOM.hOM. AL MRQAfi M. MAMYAH V 6 Al NAM V I* AL MANAKH V.7* ALSO CAILMG •HAGOYA HAMTA 27/4
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    • 903 15 I*l MAERSK LINE EXPORT FULL CONTAINER SERVICES f 'if srT,i. 11 I —g-"1— fc> 1 fVT-Tjn r.-n^rF LUNA M regmal H MAERSK r»'nn,'.|g'iH,,nyffcvn7i 1 \llu p SWGAPORE CIOSWC TNES *CV 16th April 1100HRS CFS 15th April 2300 HRS tCorneha connecting Laura at TO. BELGIUM, HOLLAND, U.K., GERMANY, FRANCE, SCANDINAVIA, AUSTRIA
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 229 16 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE To Europe. From Europe 15/4 22/4 29/4 6/5 13/5 20/5 27/5 3/6 N OELFT Mm Accept Far 1) Barcelona. Genoa. 2) Amsterdam Antwerp. I Ha»re. Basle. UK. 3) Bremer. Bremertanen. Aarhus. Copenhagen Helsinki 4) Matmo. Stockholm. Oslo •Accepting Europe cargo tor feeder via S pore 'Abo
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    • 431 16 m Y.S. LINE YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON LINE CONTAINER SERVICES USA/CANADA Pacific South Wast Pacific North Wast Faadar at Tokyo Faadar at Koba Mrttor HI LA/IJ OAK Mather IS »T W Atlantic/Canada Faadar at Koba YMHSHM a 31/5 J/0 HYU6A 0/0 Al*o accepting LCL Cargo for USA Port* only. R TOM SA» SXM
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    • 762 17 KSWK Th® Straits Steamship Group QCL Overseas Containers Limited STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok MMWC ones OSMUMV KM MM UT MO MM awnuM MT FRAWFIRT EVRESS LNERrOOLRAT ■an ones jMKDMSS Stan IfWf M/ 5 10/5 17/5 10/5 23/5 25/5 13/t 05/6 M/f 10/6 10/6 lt/l
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    • 478 17 Franco Belgian Services fZB Mfrr-be r o♦ AcO Const)' CHARGEURS HAVRAISE MEDEX LINE nn contaiersmp soma to mhtemaiem FIST rta XANANA Sailed In Port 28 Apt 30 Apr KHTORMEA 70 Apr 22 Apr 9 May 10 Mai OEVAUER VMJQIf 29 Apr 01 May 19 May 21 May Sailed m Port
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    • 740 18 I TO CONTINENT UK Hapag-Lloyd Hwtal E ipress Osj*i B»« Beiu»or> Kitano Maru Cardigan Bit Fianfctwt Eipress Liverpool Bay Bremen Eipress 17 I 19 4 25 4 27 4 45 6 5 13 5 15 5 ?0 5 22/5 275 295 3/6 5/6 10/6 12/6 EXPORTS B ha»en Rdam Antwerp
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    • 442 18 MS LINE KOMH thiP*<*L ',o* FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICI TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ jAM^mbf^nh^k^ofnorUjfTr™ I^^^™ S pore p*rt»nf LtHavrt R dam FstMrc HW| kt M/t 19/4 //5 8/5 10/S 12/5 1! 20 4 21/4 9/5 10/5 12/5 14/5 I, 25,4 26/4 15/5 16 5 18 5 20 5 SUEZ A FULLY
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    • 528 18 EVERGREEN LINE FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE ACCEPTWG FCI t ICI CARGO TOR sa> PKL HBG fll rom tNN IHV 17, M 11/ M M W 11/|S 13 #s \ztZ iz w 7, w 22 E.e,Gto, 07 05 01 04 n/K JO/05 01 M 0? OS M M ALSO ACCEPTMG LCL/FCI
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    • 1047 18 Everett Lines I n Jl>l'l'J. COMPANIA PERUANA DE VAPOREES (C P V "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" loading tor Cafl*j Mata-ani to 4<v> HI other Perunan pofts Kith transhipment at Hongkong and or Hot* On CPV Through Bills o« lading to tinal destination I I Pmanf P Kcbm WHKWRE IT i, /21
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    • 307 18 onirruw nmra, Wednesday, Aprtl 11,1W4 Vi US I NOSE MARITIME PTE LTD Si ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES VESSEL 20/4 B Abbas. B Khamtn PORT K£iAMC PfNANG SBWSE MAJMTNE PTC ITO TEI *****44,' l t *****70 UMOSE MAftITNE SON EMC let 3«7232 3 UAtArSU TRADE TRANSPORT ITO
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 804 19 PIL group 1 VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE LOADING FOR. KOTA WANGSA E-501 20-24/4 HOOEIOAM, JEODAH. PTSUOAN, AOABA KOTA WISATA E-459 29-31/4 HOOEIOAH. JEOOAH. PTSUDAN, AOABA KOTARAKYAT E-503 2-5/5 HOOEIOAH, JEDOAH. PTSUDAN. AOABA ACCEPTING CONTAINERS TO HOOEIOAH/AOABA/PT.SUOAN/MOGAOISCIO COLOMBO/CHITTAGONG/RANGOON SERVICES KOTA BERJAYA Rangoon 28-3/5 KOTA BERKAT VOY: 5/84 KOTA RIA VOY: 5/84 KOTA
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    • 839 19 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE wmpe strmts FROM EIMOPE HAM 8 HAVEN ROAM HAVRE UK PKEIAN6 SPORE FOR Mis Fiprns Safcd Sukd Stin) Saitd Sato 11/4 BU. KB SM TK Osaka Bay SaM M Sato Sato Sato 11/4 14/4 WG TWN Btnaw. Saint Sato Sato Sato Sato 21/4
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    • 679 19 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINE m EAST FULLCONTAiP SERVICE STOW K«0 TOKOHMM KOH MAIAPAMT *108 11/4 23/4 77/4 7? 4 GOWA 06 2/5 7/5 11/5 13/5 MAMPAMT V 10 08 14 5 21/5 25 5 27/5 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE STOW SRIWUATA V 10WB 13/4 S PANIANG tm 22/4
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    • 582 19 PAGAN V 73 PA AN V 69 HTONEYWA Vl9l PA-AN V7O BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National line) loading for Rangoon S'pore P Ktlonq Penong U/»5 Apr 11/12 Apr Spore 14/ IS Apr 17/20 Apr 28/30 Apr 5/8 Mor \A BANK LINE EXPRESS INDEPENDENT SERVICE TO
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    • 1071 20 K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD.USA CANADA PACIFIC COAST (Including DKSTINATIONS INLAND \U IPI MICBOMUDGE MINILANO HKIIH.K) FEEDER KANSAI PIONEER ¥31 ASIA STAR V 22 MONTE RUBY Vl6 J. BRIDGE V3O MOTHER VESSEL TOWER BRIDGE *25 R BRDGE V 0614 TOKYO MARU VO9 HARBOUR BRDGE V 25 PI ANT IN
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    • 699 20 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER REEFER BBUIK SERVICE loadffflor IOSANGEKS SAN FRANCISCO SEATUE IACOMA VANCOUVER BC Acceptmt fCI 'fCI Contaaiers P HMjnj $.n(apore I !«El" Sib, 4 7 Mai ?*a» AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Acceptmt FCI/FCI Contamers "Aho acceptnf trom P Keianj lor Auck *te» lytt •AMKMS Clow* at
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    • 546 20 SANKDASIA from Japanese pouts and homokomg! GOLDEN LINE GUAM MAN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD r"— ■•«<( I«| Dm BiAtaf Cad Shear SMGAPORI 0104 Tel *****90 (10 IMS) T* Kuala Lixnpw M?ll P Kataflf 3(79(1 Penanf «S*M P as* Gwtanf Afent OMNT UOTD (Ml SON WC Til 6(370 STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Spofp
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    • 625 20 4, INTRASEA (PTE) LTD. 10. Anson Road *27 T6 International Pla/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 1 0 Lines) o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/OK S pore F Mini Loadr* to VARI *****03 Saied In Port SETE RDAM UK (AVON) SUPPER N *****04 30 Apr 3 Mar R OAM ANTWERP SOU
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    • 533 21 SLNOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (Vl* SUEZ): Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia C Container S'pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 1600 16/4 LCL Cargo 0400 16/4 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) Havre P. Kelanj Singapore HKong K'siunj Busan K CHANCE 16E Sailed 13/4 14/4 18/4 19/4 22/4 T* BRIDGE 19E
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    • 617 21 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: BANGKOK. KEELUNG, BUSAN. INCHON I Ve«*t Spore No Donjm 403N 13/4 No I Owuan 403N 21/4 No 9 Owum 401N S/5 Gteru 403N l i BM Ktl INCHON BUSAN 11/4 71/4 JO/4 12/5 is/s a/5 71/5 HI 5 SEMI-CONTAINERISEDIMRECT SERVICE TO
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    • 749 21 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Sin{apore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG PENANG M/S SHARKAT NAH SOON SON BM> IST AND 2ND FLOOR MESSRS HAI THONG SHPPMC 23 Weld
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    • 70 21 ahrenkiel liner service gmbh DURBAN. JOHANNESBURG. MAPUTO. MAURITIUS REUNION WESTBOUND ZAMBESI SW/84 GDN 31/32 Sailed 16/4 21/4 ALS CONFIDENCE 6W/84 17/4 27/4 1/5 JAMAICA FAREWELL 7W/84 1/5 17/5 ETD ETD ETA ■aiBIKiSiSiUIM R BAY DURBAN SIN EASTERN HARMONY GDN 13/ 14 19 384 24 384 In Pckl Agents: Kim Shipping
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    • 573 22 Itc<|i«nal Container Lines l j-fiif[iin|L l 'i] 2 Sailings Weekly Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing PSA 1500 Hrs Tuesday Saturday *r„ SINGAPORE ISLANDS LINE MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER Sport PK OYER WAVE 15/16 Apr •ASIAN FALCON 28/30 Apr KUSU ISLAND 12/16 May •Heavy SH 10 tore Pnt loadht '<* Kaoshutf, Hont
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 67 23 GENERAL AGENTS SEALtON SHAPING (S) PTE LTD. SINGAPORE SALES/BOOKINGS TEL *****51 (S LBCS) French Line REGULAR SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO BANGLA-DESH/INDIA/SRI LANKA/PAKISTAN HALDIACAICUTTA m M/V ARTOtS V4LS4 M/V ANJOU VSLS4 M/V ARMAGNAC V6LS4 Sea winds amui tarns ORIENTAI SEAWINDS LINER AGENCY PTE I ID SINGAPORE TEL *****81 SALES/BOOKINGS MALAYSIA GENERAL FREIGHT
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    • 276 23 r jr Nedlloyd Lines Lonimg ior CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA I CARRIBEAN/CENTRAL/EAST COAST SOUTH AMERICA occepting containers to Cornbeon ports via B'town EAST COAST SOUTH AMERICA VESSEL IS'POREI P. LOUISS'TOS P'GUA R. GRA M'DEO B. AIRES 'Aconcagua 1/5 Opt 24/5 N Lauva 29/4 9/5 26/5 2/6 4/6 7/6 9/6 N
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 548 24 C.Y. LINE (A Member Of The ACE Consortium) CHO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD FULLY CONTAWOISED SERVICE TO EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) LeHar»e Man Fjtowe HW| Btem Antwerp 5/5 7/5 4/5 11/5 12/5 14/5 5/5 11/5 12/5 14/5 15/5 17/5 15/5 lt/5 lt/5 20/5 21/5 23/5 21/5 22/5 24/5 21/5 27/5 2»/5
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    • 575 24 HEAP SENG TRADING SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 13-01, 13th floor. Golden Mile Tower, Beoch Rood, Singapore 0719 Tel *****44 Tlx R*****2 HEAPCO SINGAPORE TO PHUKET/WEST MALAYSIA SERVICE STORE P. KELANG PENANG PHUKET LANGSA V 50/84 13 Apt IS Apr 17 Apr lANGSA V5l/M 20 Apr 23 Apr FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO
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    • 673 24 I Z I M ™J NON-CONFERENCE FULL CONTAIO SERVICE acceptng ECL/ICE car jots to USA East Writ Coast. Panama Carribbean and East Canada Feeder Miner S*i In Ktl S»a» Hh/I*l nal) Nic W OSAKA BAY nM TOKYO 14 Ap« 7 May 11 Ma* 20 Mai 22 Ma, 24 May It
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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