The Business Times, 9 July 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 MONDAY, JULY 9,1184 60 CENTS
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  • 575 1  -  Ong likens nation-building to constructing a high-rise block By JOANNE YAP PHASING FOREIGN workers out of Singapore by 1992 is not a sudden policy change. In fact, it is a necessary move if success in restructuring the economy is to be achieved, says the
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  • 182 1 AP THE FOREIGN ministers sf Hatlaid aid Kbhyria arrived hi Jakarta yesterday to discus the Cimtedia problem and closer economic eaa perattoa at toe 17th aaaaal meeting *t Aaeaa ferrfga Thai Fareiga Mtolster Siddbi Savetolla saii to a brief alrpart ■totwwt that
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  • 473 1  -  By ALVIN TAY ONE OF THE world's largest life insurance company USbased Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Met Life) is considering setting up a regional office in Asia to specialise either in life insurance, reinsurance or management of pension funds. Its president
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  • 374 1  -  By AMY BALAN SINGAPORE REINSURANCE Corporation has reported a 240 per cent jump In its 1963 pre-tax profits from $500,000 to $1.7 million in spite of the adverse market for the general insurance business. The leading reinsurance company is planning
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  • 283 1 SINGAPOREANS mist have very deep packets for according to Dr Akmtd Matter, tee Minister tor Social Affairs, teey are generally stow to reacking far teetr packets and sparing a dellar tor ekarlty. At tee Tanjsng Pagar Paad and Pan Pair I*4 keld at
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  • 141 1 Reuter US FEDERAL Reserve Board vice-chairman Preston Martin said yesterday a further rise in the prime rate this year was not inevitable and a slight increase in inflation may come next year. In an interview published in US News and World Report, Mr
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  • 529 1  -  By LIM SOON NEO SINGAPOREANS are abandoning the use of telegrams to make quick contacts with loved ones or business associates abroad. In recent years, there has been a marked shift towards a greater use of telex and telephone calls and
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  • 58 1 THE GOVERNMENT is acquiring about 7,000 square metres of land in the District of Kallang. According to the latest Government Gazette, the pieces of land in the area of 7,053 sq metres or thereabouts are needed for general development. Among the owners of the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 382 1 /aa Mara A lot of people love takes, soys JOHN RUSSELL. Given the choice, they prefer them to the reol thing. Fakes are funny, ond unlike the genuine article, they are the easiest thing in the world to talk about. Page 9 If pressed to name the movie which most
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 910 2  -  Do Asian consumers react more favourably to local or foreign models in advertisements? To what extent are they influenced by local and foreign-made products? TSANG SAU YIN reports. MARKETING^ TSANG SAU YIN FOREIGN faces on an advertisement tend to give a more favourable
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    • 682 2  -  By PAUL TAYLOR FT JUST WHEN it seemed that the American Express dream of building a highly profitable worldwide financial services empire from the bottom up was within reach, the greencard giant appears to have stumbled. Last year, Amexco's earnings fell for the first
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    • 430 2 TAN SOO JIN has set up his own management consultancy after working about seven years with leading European companies, Kom Perry and Egon Zehnder International. Called Tan Soo Jin Consultants, Mr Tan is, in (act, representing the only Asian competitor to the European
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    • 683 3  -  Compiled by LEE HAN SHIH IN ONE OF his most famous works, Californian science fiction author Larry Niven suggested that the business of organ replacement could be such a lucrative business in the near future that a new trade,
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    • 1367 3 The decline of Switzerland's Hoffmann-La Roche, once the most successful drug company in the world, is a dramatic example of the perils of success and its effects on management. CARL A RAPOPORT has the details. FT ON MAY 14, 1975, Mr Richard
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    • 210 3 FT EDUCATION and training requirements in engineering are going through a period of radical change as new technologies advance through the industry. The loss of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs has been heavy during the recession, creating a pattern which is set to continue. In
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 550 4 AFP CHINA'S elder statesman Deng Xiaoping is embroiled in an intense power struggle which surfaced in his public rebuke of two top officials in late May, a top China-watcher said in Hongkong yesterday. Speaking to Hongkong reporters on May 25, Mr Deng, 80, blasted
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    • 218 4 UPI THE STANDING Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress has announced the appointments of three new government ministers. All three men are in their 50s, quite young by Chinese government standards, and were described by the official Xinhua news agency as "having higher education".
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    • 159 4 AP THE REAGAN Administration will ask Japan for a fifth year of car import quotas if the United Auto Workers Union holds down wage-increase requests and car companies restrain executive salaries, the Detroit News reported. In a copyright story from its
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    • 72 4 Reuter AMERICAN steelmakers have appealed to Congress to limit steel imports. During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last Friday, industry representatives voiced support for Mils before Congress that would limit steel imports to no more than 15 per cent of the US market. However, Assistant
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    • 334 4 AP AN AMERICAN disarmament delegation concluded two days of talks with Chinese officials on Friday on chances for a new superpower dialogue and other security issues, which a US government source called "friendly, frank and wide-ranging". The source, who asked
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    • 510 4 Reuter THE SURPRISING drop in the US jobless rate last month sent some analysts back to rethink estimates for economic growth and expectations of tighter Federal Reserve monetary policy. The Labour Department said the civilian unemployment rate declined to 7.1 per cent last
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    • 487 4 Reuter AMERICAN labour leaders are confident of getting trade union voters to back Democratic presidential hopeful Walter Mondale against President Reagan in the November election. "I think Ronald Reagan has already done that to persuade union members who voted for him in
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    • 62 4 THE SMASHED cart of a 13-car Montreal-bound Amtrak train ara aaan hara strewn about a culvert after a darailmant which occurred at a washed-out croaaing near Williaton, Vermont, on Saturday. Scores of 278 people aboard ware injured and at least three ara known to
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 54 4 US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan signed legislation that adds US$53 billion to the government's line of credit and boosts the US national debt to $1.57 trillion. The Reagan administration requested the increase, which was approved by Congress two weeks ago, although the House of Representatives initially voted twice
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      • 47 4 THE 500,000-member strong Malaysian Trade Union Congress had repeated its call to the government to stop importing Indonesian labourers. The MTUC had earlier made a similar call against the government's move to recruit Indonesians to overcome a labour shortage in the construction and plantation industries.
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      • 47 4 TAIWAN plans to double its purchases of crude petroleum from Malaysia, currently around 5,000 barrels a day. Charles Shyu, adviser of the Far East Trading Tourism Centre the Taiwan trade office in Malaysia said Taiwan imported US$7O million worth of petroleum in 1983 from Malaysia.
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      • 51 4 IRAQ'S air force commander was quoted on Saturday as saying Iraq might destroy Iranian oil terminals, including Kharg Island, in the northern Gulf. The official Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted the commander, whom it did not name, as making the remark in answer to a question from an
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      • 71 4 OVERSEAS orders, received by Japanese construction companies and their subsidiaries abroad, renewed an annual record for the third straight year to total 1,064 billion yen in the fiscal year 1983. Japan's Construction Ministry said the total for fiscal 1963, ended March 31 this year, showed an increase of
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      • 59 4 Agencies AUSTRALIA'S oil and condensate output rose to 2,276 megalitres in April, from 2,208 in March and 1,975 a year earlier, the Department of Resources and Energy said. Naturally occurring liquefied petroleum gas production fell to 234 megalitres from 244 in march and 262 the previous April, the
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    • 312 5 AFP US TIN SALES are expected to be among the economic and political issues discussed by US Secretary of State George Shultz with Malaysian leaders when he arrives in Kuala Lumpur today, a Malaysian Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Mr Shultz, heading a
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    • 218 5 Reuter BANGLADESH has proposed the holding of a summit meeting of South Asian countries in the first half of next year. The proposal came at the opening session of a meeting of foreign secretaries of a sevennation South Asian grouping comprising Bangladesh,
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    • 209 5 Bernama FORMER Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Hussein Onn has said that leadership must be born of the collective genius of the people and be inspired by a multitude of beliefs and backgrounds if the country is to become a "breakthrough society"
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    • 714 5 Bernama MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has called for a national campaign to get every Malaysian to play a part in helping to reduce the country's balance of payments deficit, estimated this year to total Mss.B billion. The campaign, he said,
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    • 334 5 UPI THE PHILIPPINE government, which had pointed to self-suffi-ciency in rice as one of its main achievements, has begun to import the country's staple diet. The National Food Authority has confirmed published reports that it had imported 190,000 tonnes of rice from
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    • 217 5 UPI NEW ZEALAND'S opposition Labour Party has leapt to a 12 per cent lead in popularity according to the last public opinion poll published on Saturday, before national elections this week. Political scientists calculated that the result of the
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    • 544 6 Pacific economic cooperation plan to be examined at talks Reuter SOUTH-EAST ASIA'S leading non-communist nations will reaffirm their policy on Cambodia and examine a new Indonesian plan to advance Pacific economic cooperation in talks starting today. Later in the week, when they meet their
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    • 385 6 AFP TAIWAN'S international balance of payments has witnessed a-deficit in the flow of longterm capital of both state-run and private enterprises since the first quarter of this year, a top official of the Taipei central bank said. He said that this
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    • 172 6 Reuter THE UK TREASURY has decided not to support a proposal that would give it power to retaliate against unitary taxation, Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson said. Some members of parliament had proposed that an antiunitary tax clause be inserted in this
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    • 196 6 AP VIETNAMESE gunners inside Cambodia wounded the pilot and a crew member of a Thai L-19 reconnaissance aircraft on Saturday, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing along the Thai-Cambodian border, a Thai provincial governor said yesterday. Saner Mulasart, governor of Suring Province,
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    • 263 6 AFP JAPAN realises It has aa lateral la the exhtnee ef a wwhly aad ladastrtally streag Earepe, Preach ladastry aad Research Mlalster Laareat PaMas saM la Japaa, He sali he had emphasised this petet n»pfttagjrtth JapaAhe. Mr PaMas saM: <01 Earepe Is as*
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    • 377 6 Reuter OECD OIL consumption will rise by around 3V4 per cent this year over 1983, but will probably increase by less than 1 per cent in 1985 as real GNP growth slows, UK stockbrokers Simon 6 Coates said in a study. The study
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    • 342 6 Reuter CONCERN has been voiced by some British officials over what they view as ministerial pressure to play down the economic effects of the coal miners' strike. While there has been no suggestion that economic statistics released by the government have
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    • 245 6 AP EAST German leader Erich Honecker has been quoted as saying that he will seek the removal of Soviet medium-range missiles from his country in conjunction with a halt in the installation of Nato medium-range missiles. "Together with our allies, we will do everything,
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 285 7 THE American dollar was strong last week, touching record highs against the pound and Canadian dollar. Intervention on foreign exchange markets by central banks slowed the dollar's rise only temporarily, said Union Bank of Switzerland in its review of foreign exchange markets last week. Due to the
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    • 35 7 UBS US dollar Expected to touch new highs. Swiss franc: Under heavy pressure from capital exports and interest rate disadvantage. Dsutschomarfc: Freed from .industrial unrest, again the main alternative to the dollar. ÜBS
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    • 234 7 FOLLOWING a month of relatively quiet and narrow-range trading, spot gold prices, London-deliv-ery basis, tumbled more than US$35 a troy ounce in volatile trading last week. Speculative selling on top of stop-loss liquidations were especially heavy on the New York Commoditiy Exchange, says bullion firm Green and Collier
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    • 140 7 THE dollar rose one pfennig in thin late trading on Friday to close well above 2.83 marks, and sterling ended the week at a record low despite a rise in the base lending rate of British banks. The dollar closed at 2.8370/85 marks, almost one pfennig higher than
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    • 35 7 THE RANGE of cod rates for the week ended Friday, July 6: Bonk fund 5 to 5.4 General fund 5 to 5.3 $m t s of funds 1,317 Source: Short Deposits (M) Bhd
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    • 435 7 PLR of bonks at the close of business on Fridoy, July 6 os supplied by the Association of Banks in Singapore. THE PU is H*e lowest tending rat* at whidi o bonk is preporod to Itnd in Singoporo doliors to its dionts on on overdraft or domond
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    • 121 7 THE US/Singapore dollar opened last week at a low of 2.1320-30 and demand for the US dollar pushed the rate up to close one cent higher at 2.1435-45. The Singapore dollar strengthened against sterling, the mark, yen, Australian dollar and New Zealand dollar. It weakened
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    • 200 7 Asian rates ASIAN currency average deposit rates for the week ended July 6: WD PRICES High Le» us$ 7 day* 115/8 II 1/2 1 month 117/8 II 3/4 2 —<l> 121/16 12 3 month* 12 1/4 113/16 6 month* 12 13/16 12 3/4 9 month* 13 3/16 13 1/16 12
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    • 52 7 At yesterdoy close 3-month Treasury biHs 3-month bank bills 3-month CD 6-month CD 3 1/88—3S 9 3/166—9 1/I6S 8 1/28—8 3/8S 8 5/88—8 1/2S Prices offered by discount houses on July 7 v #r ght 1 1/2—3 1/4 Cal deposits 3 1/4 iOKTC#.' NoflOdo/ Dncount Compom) Source: National
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    • 220 7 Reuter INTERNATIONAL Finance Corp (IFC) is offering loans on a floating rate basis to companies in developing countries. The World Bank affiliate, which offers private sector finance in developing countries, granted fixed rate loans for 28 years but has changed its policy due
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    • 276 7 AP THE U8 Expert-Impart Buk has >nmd aa Increase of 1.2 percentage points la the nhMM Interest rate It charge* M loans to eneearage ether eaaatrtos to bay goods made la the US. The haak has made U*****.5 mllllea worth of loaas since Oct
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    • 559 7 Reuter UK interest rates might have to rise again as sterling remains vulnerable to further declines, many dealers and private economists said. Last Friday's news of a V« percentage point increase in bank base rates had only a limited and short-lived impact on
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    • 256 7 AP FRIDAY'S increase in UK interest rate shows that the authorities lire not prepared to take risks with monetary conditions and inflation, government sources say. They said the increase of V« percentage point in bank base rates resulted mainly from external factors, primarily the strong
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    • 98 7 Reuter FRIDAY'S rise in UK interest rates will not have a serious effect on the British economy, says Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Interviewed by BBC Radio last week, he said he expected the economic recovery to continue and inflation to edge downwards. Earlier last Friday,
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  • FEATURES
    • 1669 8  -  J D H Neill has, over the past 13 years, become almost as much a part oI the National Wages Council as its chairman, Professor Lim Chong Yah. Born in Fiji 61 years ago, he has been in Singapore for nearly 40 years. Since 1957,
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    • 1234 8  -  ThU I» By TERESA LIM A VERY IMPORTANT milestone in the history of Hongkong has been passed. Three illustrious Hongkong Chinese went to Beijing to see the chief. One was a knighted Hongkong industrialist, Sir S Y Chung, the delegation's leader. One was chairman of
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    • 1348 9  -  By JOHN RUSSELL NYT I HATE TO say it, but a lot of people love fakes. Given the choice, they prefer them to the real thing. Fakes are funny, they think, and unlike the genuine article they are the easiest thing in the world
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    • 508 9  -  By JAIME LYE IF PRESSED to name the movie which most undermines the human intelligence and over-estimates viewers' naivete, Against All Odds would come close. Indeed, if Hollywood were to create a court strictly for film offences, director Taylor Hackford would probably
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 238 10 UPI SAN MIGUEL CORP, one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the Philippines, has acquired two mills of a state-created coconut oil monopoly in a new business venture, the company said. San Miguel bought Lucena Oil Factory and Iligan Coconut Industries for
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    • 313 10 JuJy 7 Y««i Ainomoto AJtai 1190 418 10 15 Amodo 1060 unch Asahi Own 620 •12 Asahi Gots 772 -8 Bonk of Tokyo 455 unch Bhdgnton* 585 1 Carton 1190 unch Cauo 1150 -40 Crttzen 471 unch Oomi 666 1 Dat-tchi Kangyo Bank 945 inch D Nppon Print 904
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    • 289 10 A LATE rally attempt fell short and the stock market lost ground in very slow trading last Friday on fears the government's report of a drop in the nation's unemployment rate would lead to higher interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, down
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    • 192 10 JULY 06 C$ Abrttx 26 Ale on 34* unch Aigomo 21 Bonk Mont 23 -H Bonk Novo Scotia M T4 31* BP Can Ltd 24 Brascan 30 Can Imp Bk 23* Can Prm Mg Canpoc 40* Carina 0'K««tc CmW Rd Lk 15* 28* Cn Bthrt Q A 27** Coavnco
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    • 250 10 JULY 06 INDUSTRIALS A Afeho 8758 Abarcom I95S unch AE And Q 930S 4S0S .5 AMK^ ***** Barlows 1290 -45 C G Savth 2080 -70 CNA 280 urvch Cum* Frxmce 48SS Edcon 9000 F«d Vofc 435 -5 420 unch Hv^d 480 Knh 370 -5 Ub Hotdi MOO 20 265
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    • 694 10 JUtY 06 US$ ACF Industrie* AJcan Alumn 26*4 unch Alcoo 33* Alegheny Lod 21* AM Own Cp 3IVt AM Stores 43* AJ»-Chakners 10% -It Am Brandt Inc 55* Am Broadcast 64 unch Am Can Co 45* Am Cyanomid 47 Am Elec Pwr 16* unch Am Express 28* Am
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    • 132 10 Reuter ALAMITO Co, a whollyowned subsidiary of Tbc-< son Electric Power Co of. the US, is seeking to rate' US$36O million through a. syndicate of international banks, says lead manager Blyth Eastman Paine Webber International. The credit will have a final maturity of 10 yean,
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    • 53 10 Reuter TAIWAN Power Co (Tat power) plans to issue about five billion yen of corporate bonds through two or three Japanese a& curities firms, including Daiwa Securities Co. A company official says Taipower is working out details with Daiwa and other Japanese firms on the date
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 793 11 UPI BATA Shoe Inc will turn off the computerised sewing machines at its Beverly plant this month and close the facility. The jogging shoes it makes cannot complete with imports. Jim and Leavaughn Kyle are among the
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    • 217 11 UPI BECHTEL CX)RP has agreed to refund US$4.B million of $16 million allegedly overpaid by Korea Electric Power Corp in connection with nuclear power plants in Korea, a top official of the Korean utility said. Park Jung-Ki, president of the state-owned power company, says
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    • 142 11 Reuter ELECTRONICS giant ThornEMI has formally abandoned plans to take over planemaker and defence contractor British Aerospace, Thorn said. Thorn, whose empire stretches from computerised communications to entertainment, surprised investors in May by announcing it had begun talks on a merger. The British government, which owns 48
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    • 102 11 Reuter T GALGEY And Co, a small UK securities firm, is considering what type of action to take in order to recover losses it has sustained as a result of certain transactions it had with Bear, Stearns International, says Galgey president Terry Galgey.
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    • 211 11 Reuter THE ASSOCIATED Press erroneously reported on June 11 that the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority had acquired enough shares in Reuters to become the second-largest voting bloc in the international news and financial information service. Reuters spokesman Micheal Neale said the Abu Dhabi agency's
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    • 379 11 FT ATARI'S new owner. Jack Tramiel, has begun a major reduction of the workforce at the Sunnyvale California-based video game and home computer company. The new "leaner and meaner" company is expected to concentrate its efforts on home computers and
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    • 72 11 THE THRESHOLD for mergers qualifying for government investigation has been raised to a combined asset value of £30 million from £15 million, Trade and Industry Secretary Norman Tebbit said. In a written parliamentary reply, he said the increase should reduce the number of mergers qualifying for investigation
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    • 144 11 V zi -'V- •vW j ar..*- an i Hf-M :a~ m <* n 9. Vi A special garden atmosphere where time never runs out. Here, master chefs prepare delicious and lingering tastes from gourmet style to simple meals. SPECIAL FEATURES: DaHy Buffet Breakfast $11.50 DaNy Sat Lunch $12 Chaf nacommandi
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    • 189 11 The Harbour Grill presents "FESTIVAL LYONNAIS" Nou> till the 15th of July, French Master Chef Jean Fluery, from Lyon, presents a gastronomic adventure in the art of creative cuisine. rnk <&* Y7FOT the occasion, an exdang menu J been prepared. The lelection includes Escalope of marinated salmon fitted'. undi prawn
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    • 117 11 r Iff 51 'goffee garden, we serve son poaitd the clock Wj%, WsT' A Jsfg <K Our newly extended Coffee Garden is now better than ever. Whether you have an appetite for local or continental food, youll find our staff friendly and efficient our food appealing and delicious. Try our
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 325 12 Reuter THE European Community Commission has approved a plan by the bloc's 10 biggest producers of synthetic fibres to cut 18 per cent of their capacity in line with lower demand. The plan provides for the closure by the end of next year of
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    • 695 12 COFFEE Robusta futures closed Friday £22 a tonne below to unchanged from Thursday's close, apart from distant July which traded £20 up at £2,040. Most active September finally traded at £2,262, £22 below Thursday's close. No orginal gradings were posted in the afternoon with the total uncharged at
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    • 170 12 THE SINGAPORE produce market was quiet again last week. Price movements were negligible with the exception of pepper. Overall, the pepper market was inactive and the undertone was easier. Buying interest dwindled as prices moved higher. Black pepper prices closed at the same levels as
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    • 89 12 Reuter PROSPECTS ARE good for 1984/85 cotton and jute crops in the Indian subcontinent, following favourable rains since the monsoon broke last month. Pakistan's Textile Mills Association chairman Javed Saifullah Khan said a major recovery is expected for the country's cotton crop in 1984/85 after
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    • 31 12 STRAITS TIN Dot* Closing Pricos Turnover (MS/kilo) (tonnes) July 2 dosed closed July 3 closed closed July 4 29 15 80 July 5 29 15 137 July 6 29 15 475
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    • 175 12 LONDON Futures closed Friday with gains from Thursday of £2 to £10 per tonne. Oct/Dec 1964 was finally quoted at £675/678 from L669/670 on Thursday night, with dealers attributing much of the day's support to light short covering against higher Singapore levels. But there was no followthrough in physical
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    • 147 12 Chinese Produce Exchange (StMtrt' noon ciotmo prtc#s Ofi July 7 SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bute FOG 240 00 OM drum FOB 253 00 New drum FOB 257 00 Copra Mixed (kx>t«) 125.00 buyer» Pepper Muntok white FOB NLW 627.50 Sarawak white FOB foq NLW 620 00 Sarawak special
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    • 1067 12 AFP THE 23-MONTH low for gold depressed London commodity markets last week, with the further weakening of sterling at a record low against the dollar largely disregarded. But fresh buying developed on a thin, seasonally quiet market, ahead of the week-end. Firm features
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    • 262 12 AFP PAPUA New Guinea's troubled Ok Tedi gold and copper mine has shut down its gold processing plant after a cyanide spillage. The spillage came on Thursday five days after a barge overturned and tipped 2,700 100-kg drums of cyanide into
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    • 54 12 Renter THE Japanese Food Agency is likely to buy up to 476,000 tonnes of wheat (or September shipment. The purchases are likely to comprise 272,000 tonnes from the US, 102,000 from Canada, 85,000 from Australia as well as 17,000 from one of the three nations for
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    • 223 12 SOYBEAN futures ranged from off five cents a bushel in August to up seven cents in distant new crop months on the Chicago Board of Trade on Friday. November ended near the middle of a 19-cent range. Prices fluctuated wildly on both sides of unchanged in the thin dealings
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    • 173 12 WHEAT futures closed 3V« to IV4 cents a bushel higher on the Chicago Board of Trade on Friday. September ended in the middle of a 5 Vt -cent range. Wheat finned in sympathy with strength in other pits, particularly as the markets advanced around midday. Futures retraced part of
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    • 101 12 Reuter ENTERPRISE Oil PLC said its board is advising shareholders not to accept the tender offer from Rio Tinto Zinc Corp PLC for a further 15 per cent of its shares. Rio Tinto's offer for up to 32 million Enterprise shares at a maximum of
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    • 192 12 r This announcement appears for the purposes of record only. July 1984 JEL^ JURONG ENGINEERING LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) Issue of 7,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 550.50 each at 551.75 per share Managed and Underwritten by ©DBS BANK THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD SINGAPORE NOMURA MERCHANT BANKING
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 5251 13  -  |L E—s a By AMY CHEOK THE MONTH of July kicked off on a promising note. Having both the major Indices recording substantial gains on four out of the five trading days is not bad at all. But the good performance was marred by an
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    • 226 13 m r vlAustralia M Reuter AUSTRALIAN share markets closed firmer last week compared with the previous week on strong institutional buying and takeover activity, The All Ordinaries Index finished the week 9.3 points higher at 668.0 points, the All Industrials marker rose 18.4 to 938.8
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    • 541 13  -  Week ended July 6 compiled by JULIANA TAY CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Cerebos Pacific Ltd will soon hove a listed vehicle for its New Zealand interests following a merger agreement with a food company, Gregg's Ltd of South Island. Choan Hup Marine Ltd has contracted to buy
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    • 336 13 ÜBS IN THE opening week of July, the Zurich stock market witnessed no clear trend. In view of the increase in time deposit rates by domestic banks and the virtual lack of improvement on Wall Street, investors continued to display a wait-and-see attitude. The very firm US
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    • 1612 14  -  London a By GERALD COLVERD SURELY the best conversation of each day is held early in the morning when one is speaking boldly into the bathroom mirror. It offers the major advantage of knowing exactly what the reflection thinks and how it will respond
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    • 720 14 n i' ew I A FT WALL STREET is the preserve of work alcoholics who enjoy nothing better than phasing members of the fifth estate with impossibly early breakfast interviews. But even this passion for hard labour takes second place to the flag
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    • 452 14  -  II b j I Hongkong m By TERESA LIM, Hongkong Corrospondont THE Hongkong stock market last week tested some new lows for the year. Share prices were consistently below the 900 mark and by Friday had touched 822.86 on the Hang Seng Index, the lowest
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    • 678 14 1 MM K.Lumpur 4 IN SPITE OF some late selling, the Kuala Lumpur stock market staged a mild recovery last week with share prices finishing higher on a broad front. However, investors were still in a cautious mood as they waited to see if
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    • 288 14 55 W| Milan "i:ir ii ii A BCI CONCERNS over the stability of the ruling Italian coalition continued to restrain Milan share prices, and even when the atmosphere on the political scene became less tense, conditions on the market remained quiet. The BCI all-share index closed
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    • 123 14 FUSAN Fishing Manufacturing Bhd is renegotiating the terms and conditions of the proposed acquisition of the entire issued and paid-up share capital of three companies. In a reply to Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) queries regarding the proposed acquisition of Traders 4 Merchants Insurance Bhd,
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    • 397 14 |p]J Tokyo gl J AFP A WEEKEND setback offset midweek gains on the Tokyo stock market last week amid a number of adverse factors overseas. The key market barometer Dow-Jones average of 225 blue chips, a whopping 267.27 yen winner the previous week, gave
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    • 266 14 MM It THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME (November 5 9, 1984) Venue: Kuala Lumpur Hilton This programme is organised by the Malaysian Institute ot Management, in collaboration with the University of California (Extension), Berkeley. For Whom: The 5-day (non-residential) seminar is organised exclusively for Top Management of companies, both in the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 547 15 MULTI-Purpose Holdings Bhd has finally realised its ambitions to gain control of a commercial bank. But the price it has to pay is to give up its 40 per cent stake in Malaysia's third largest domestic bank, United Malayan Banking
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    • 220 15 DATUK Kang Kock Seng (abeve), who was at the helm of General Lumber Holdings Bhd from 1972 until recently, passed away last Friday. The late Datuk Kang had been in the corporate limelight in the past few months following the takeover tussle for General
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    • 277 15 GEORGE Kent (Malaysia) Bhd has maintained its profitability in relation to the company's increase in share capital after its three-for-two bonus issue, said chairman Tan Kay Hock. He gave this assurance in answer to a question from the floor at the company's
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    • 797 15 Current payment Ex date Books close Date payobie Total for tfee year Totol for previous y« Acma Apollo Asiatic Dav B Sambawong Botu Kowon Botu Lintong Bolton CCM D Koramat Duff Dav Dutch Baby F N Fad Cables Fimo M Box Gontings Goodwood Park Guinnass H L Finance
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    • 157 15 SUPREME Plantation Industries Bhd is selling its two wholly owned subsidiaries, La dang Sumundu (Sabah) Sdn Bhd and Kalumpang Estates Sdn Bhd to Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd tor a total cash consideration of MJ10.43 million. Both subsidiaries own estates located near Tawau, Sabah.
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    • 562 15 CHAMPION ORCHARD Motors, Inchcape's Malaysian subsidiary, is adopting new strategies to ensure its growth, if not survival, in a car market which is being rapidly squeezed on many fronts, and fraught with changes. In a two-prong strategy, Champion Orchard Motors has
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    • 758 15  -  Complex scheme in move to diversify unveiled By NAJEEB JARHOM IN ANOTHER MOVE to diversify from its industrial gases operations, Dah Yung Steel Co (S) Ltd has unveiled a complicated scheme which will eventually result in the acquisition of a group
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    • 596 15  -  By CHAN MAY PENG MORGAN Grenfell (Asia) Ltd has recommended minority shareholders of Allied Chocolate Industries Ltd to accept the unconditional offer from Phina Investments Pte Ltd to acquire the remaining shares in Allied Chocolate at $2.10 each. Phina, a
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    • 202 15 Bernama CHOCOLATE Products (Malaysia) Berhad is poised for further growth in the international market with its recent acquisition of 50.7 per cent of Allied Chocolate Industries Ltd, said company chairman Datuk Lim Kheng Kim in his latest annual review. He said the move was
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  • 550 16  -  By LEE HAN SHIH A SURVEY reported recently again placed Singapore as one of the mo6t expensive cities in the world for holidays and business, where an unfurnished twobedroom apartment costs US$l,4OB, a business lunch for two US$6B and a woman's ready-to-wear dress US$25O.
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  • 702 16  -  By BRIAN MILLER VISITING Queensland jockey Graham Cook certainly lived up to his name at Bukit Timah yesterday when he served up a spread that was fit for a queen. For starters, he presented punters with an entree when
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  • 103 16 AP JUDGES stood close to cages bung in three tents yesterday to listen to 870 birds sing in a contest on loudness, variety of tunes, stamina, display and physique. Micro-computers kept track of the verdicts of the 25 judges, but heavy rain washed out the prize giving ceremony
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  • 245 16 SINGAPOREANS have begun to see an improvement in the level of courtesy. The findings of a "Courtesy and Social Responsibility Survey" conducted by The Times Organisation at the request of the Ministry of Culture shows that 78 per cent of the respondents (1,886,000
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  • 191 16 BUS DRIVERS and conductors at the Singapore Bus Service can help transform Singapore into a more courteous society. The Minister for Communications, Dr Yeo Ning Hong, yesterday praised them for being more courteous, and said that at least one million Singaporeans boarded
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  • 199 16 HELL-RIDERS will face stiffer penalties, including forfeiture of their vehicles and mandatory imprisonment, with the proposed amendment to the Road Traffic Act. The amendment also seeks to empower the police to arrest, without warrant, any participants in illegal road races. Persons guilty of such an offence may be
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  • 132 16 AN INTERIM report on the Bumiputra Malaysia Finance's (BMF) loans scandal will be ready in a "month or two", the chairman of the committee looking into the BMF affair, Tan Sri Ahmad Noordin Haji Zakaria, said on Friday. The report will be submitted to Bank
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  • 402 16 UPI TROPICAL storm Betty, packing 23 knot, gale force winds, forced US Secretary of State George Shultz to flee Hongkong yesterday, cutting short a two-day rest stop. Aides said the secretary would leave the British colony immediately after a formal dinner in the
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  • 150 16 THE MALAYSIAN government has been urged to delay the implementation of increased import duties on cement to cushion heavy losses expected by housing developers. Johore Master Builders Association chairman Mr Chen Cheng Kiong said housing developers must be given an adjustment period of
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  • 323 16 THE COST of storing goods designated for exports to the region will be reduced to as low as 1.25 times the rate for industrial use if the operations are supported by the Trade Development Board and the Jurong Town Corporation. This move
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  • LATE FILE
    • 53 16 Reuter PROTESTORS, demanding that militia groups release all hostages, blocked three passages between East and West Beirut only hours after the army had reopened them. Two of the roads stayed open only a short time before the demonstrators, led by women wielding iron bars, moved in to
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    • 52 16 AFP A GANG of seven foreign men and a Taiwanese woman were arrested early yesterday on drug trafficking charges in six places scattered across Taipei, police said. The seven aliens included two Australians and two US citizens. The others were from Sierra Leone, New Zealand and
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    • 60 16 Reuter VIENNA'S police believed a terrorist group caught in the last few days with guns and explosives was planning to attack a Pakistani target in the Austrian capital, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. The identity of the nine men picked up by security police was still
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    • 62 16 Bernama THE Prime Minister of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday for a three-day visit. He will attend the meeting of the Hawaii-based East-West Centre Board of Governors today. Tomorrow, he will attend briefings at Pernas and Amanah Saham Nasional and call
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    • 63 16 UPI A BRITISH airliner arrived from Nigeria early yesterday with its crew and 30 passengers, who were detained in Lagos after an exiled Nigerian cabinet minister was found drugged in a shipping crate in London. Two Nigerians and two Israeli "mercenaries" will face kidnapping charges as a
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    • 32 16 Reuter SEPARATIST guerillas yesterday gunned down three Tamil youths in Sri Lanka in a fresh outbreak of violence, police said. The three were Harijans, or low caste Hindus. Reuter
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    • 190 16 Call Britannia for professional investment advice 16 Raffles Quay, #13-07 Hong Leong Building, Singapore 0104. Telephone: *****86. THE CERTIFIED DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE the management qualification in accounting forthe 1980s The-Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance (CDAF).awarded by the Association of Certified Accountants, UK, has grown to be the
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    • 52 16 tMH Outlook for today. Fair and windy at Times. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on July 8 at the airport: Maximum temperature 33.0 Associated humidity 63 Minimum temperature 26.2 Associated humidity 91 Hours of sunshine 7.35 Rainfall in millimetres 0.2 Roinfall this month 0.5 Rainy days this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 263 17 THE FEDERATION of Asean Shipowners' Associations (FASA) has published an Asean Shipping Directory as a practical guide to regional shipping activities. The 240-page directory is the first of its kind, and is a useful reference to those who need detailed information on the Asean
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    • 539 17  -  By LINDA CHEE THE FAR Eastern Freight Conference's decision to terminate its tolerated outsider agreement with Evergreen has been met with protest by the Taiwanese line. Evergreen said it disagreed with the reasons given by the FEFC and added that all along, cooperation for
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 78 17 Reuter PAKISTAN SHIPPERS Council protested against the introduction of a container service charge from July 1 and demanded its withdrawal. Chairman of the council, Abdul Karim Rajkotwala said in a statement that the charge by the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh-UK-Continent Conference would make Pakistan's export cargo less competitive and imports
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    • 785 17 tliiaiilii 11 1 '"W"® www p*0* Col Atoo VI 1 Ahrirhtmi Lrar VI 5 AC Toaptw X s A*xk vi s Antoro Shpg IV 1 APCLra V 4 API 4/5 Arrow Ln« X 4 ASCL 1 Auobrofcar V 5 Altat Lra* X 1 Auttouo Lra v 1
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    • 525 18 FRESH sales of vessels for continuing trading were slow to emerge on the secondhand tonnage market last week, shipbrokers said. But continuing the trend of revived interest in VLCCs, the Mnndaca, a very large crude carrier of 330,000 long dwt and built 1977, was sold to undisclosed buyers
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    • 188 18 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/Straits Container Line. Nedlloyd
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    • 841 18 Seatrade SHIPS WITH twisted sterns can save fuel costs, say German marine engineers at the Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA). The asymmetric stern developed by Dr Ernst A Nonnecke of Hamburg in cooperation with the basin involves a twist below the water line. The object
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    • 1597 18 FURTHER declines in rates for grain movements from the US to Japan featured a quiet freight market on Thursday, shipbrokers said. Grain from the US Gulf to Japan received U5513.25 and $13.30 compared with previous business at $13.75. but the unchanged level of $7.75 was agreed for grain
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    • 307 18 UNCONFIRMED reports from Japan indicate that the Japanese government is having second thoughts about ending the storage contracts on a number of the VLCCs that have been providing a buffer of crude oil storage for the country for some years. While the contracts between
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    • 243 19 AMERICAN shipping line Seawinds has added two more container freight stations on the US east coast for its customers. The two new stations, in Chicago and New York City, will increase to nine the number of freight stations available, said Mr Paul Mead, executive
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    • 453 19 PROFESSIONAL scuttle crews are known to be operating and are causing concern as an increasing number of ships are lost by Are and explosion. The International Maritime Bureau (1MB) said the existence of crew members willing to assist an owner in
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    • 338 19 THE PHILIPPINE Ports Authority has agreed in principle to allow cargo handlers at the port to charge higher rates. This will help to partly offset the effects of two recent wage rises and fuel price increases. The amount is still being studied,
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    • 379 19 REPORTS from Hongkong say that the 1964 US Shipping Act should lead to an improvement in the shipping rates situation between the two countries. The executive director of the Hongkong Shippers' Council (HKSC), Mr Don Hufford, said that the act will
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    • 62 19 Reuter THREE PEOPLE died and eight were iwi«<ng last week after a Spanish cargo vessel was in collision with a Polish refrigerator ship in thick fog off Spain's northwest coast. Three bodies from the 1,197-ton Bilbao-registered Dauka had been recovered by rescue parties. A survivor had also been
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    • 4554 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 687 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Luna Maersk 8408 9.7.84 2330 Maersk 51 0900-1100/0900-1100 Nl/Pl Namg Glory 6N/84 10.7.84 0130 Worldwide TA 3 1100-1300 S3 E Forever *****W 10.7.84 0700 G
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    • 1583 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S). Afra-Earnala Um Transgroup (S) Akreaklei Uaer Service Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Tnplii Oceanus Shipping Agency (S) Marin tea Enterprise (PK). Aipae Intrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KL)/ Island Cargo
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    • 340 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Chidambaram Fair Rainbow Huang Pu Jiang Jenson IV Kubbar Princess Mahsuri Ravldas Tomoe 5 Hock Hal Lee Kim Soon Li Monteste Ned Loire New Dragon Str Pride Str Venture Sunny Crane PASIR PAN JANG 33/4 25/6 29/30
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    • 1073 22 1 KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. USA CANADA PACIFIC COAST (laelWiag DESTINATIONS INLAND via IPI MICROBRIDGE MINILAND BRIDGE) FEEDER/ KOREAN JACEJM V 24 ASIA SIM ¥25 MONTE RUBY ¥19 JOHORE HME V 33 HK CONTAfO V4OE KANSAJ PIONEER *35 MOTHER VESSEL PI ANT* V 3 PIANTM V 3 AMERICA MARU ¥2528
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    • 499 23 ■NOt NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): N CRYSTAL IW+... MAETERLMCK 2W K CHANCE IIW K JACEJM 25N TW BRBGE 21W. 0 CHEF 40W Aiso accepting cargo to/trom Scandinavia N CRYSTAL S'pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 0100 12/7 LCL Cargo 1300 11/7 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) TO AND
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    • 421 24 f JtfflMMial Container Lim-.O rl r i|, I 3 Sailings Weekly II \»1 "III! Rpni Piinrtnal Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing PSA 1500 Hrs_Tues, Thurs Sat REGULAR FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGKLA 183/184 11/12 M IS/KM 11/19 JM 115/ IK 25-28 M 31/1 A« HINODE KISEN CO. LTD MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER
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    • 134 25 BRAVAS LINE SIN(,*POW TAISIN SHIPPING Plf I ID rt"rirt If,id** Centrf 1 M.intimp Sqiurp I,' 18 Smg.ipnrp 0409 111 RS f '481 (pi 8 till M<.' MMIVmI HSH Mi Sit'i Bhrt KI (pi 48t>08i 4860?/ PI Mi (pi JBh4% Hi 19;lb LUCKY SEAWAY SERVICES PTE. LTD. 89 Short St.ft t
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    • 96 26 KOREA TONGHAE SHIPPING COMPANY !>t. i r[j; r,,t. ,r U V«$«l ETA SINGAPORE Loodmg for WANG JAE SAN 21/7 MADRAS, CHALNA YON PUNG HO 25/7 DPR. OF KOREA BE GAE BONG 30/7 MEDITERRANEAN KANGDONG 3/8 FREE FOR CHARTER Gonoral Agent > cMifo mm co. ptllto. 20 Patoraon Road, #08-20, S'pora
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