The Business Times, 17 July 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 TUESDAY, JULY 17,1984 60 CENTS
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  • 563 1  -  RLC to offer low-cost financing and technical consultancy services By RICHARD SEAH AN ATTRACTIVE package of low-cost financing and technical consultancy is being offered by the government to help manufacturing companies speed up automation through robots
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  • 111 1 LEUKAEMIA boy, Jonathan Tan, 7, died yesterday. He returned to Singapore only 12 days ago from Israel. He had been in Israel for a bone marrow transplant by Professor Shimon Slavin of the Hadassah University Hospital. Jonathan's plight was made known to the public at
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  • 265 1 INDUSTRIES with long-term potential for development will be almost spoonfed about automation and the use of industrial robots with the setting up of an Automation Development Centre at the Science Park. Robot Leasing and Consultancy, which will be the park's newest tenant when
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  • 270 1  -  By TERESA LIM HONGKONG'S unpredictable stock market swung 45 points higher yesterday to close at 791.16 points on the Hang Seng Index, cheered by a reaffirmation over the weekend that Britain will rule- Hongkong right up to 1997. Sunday's newspapers publicised widely a statement
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    59 1 THE Sippin stock market pit ip M Improved performaiee yesterday, wttk share prices eadiag sa a mixed aete sa higher vsiame. The day clcsed with the BT Site Index gaialag I.K te 781.21 while the Times ladastrial ladez added LSI psiats te 871.4*. Analysts said that the enesaraglag
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  • 477 1  -  By LIM SOON NEO SINGAPORE'S trade deficit for the first five months of this year narrowed by $2 billion compared with the similar period last year, mainly due to significant improvement in trade with America and the Soviet Union.
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  • 599 1  -  By JOHN LIM READERS could have the choice of a second English morning general newspaper or a second Chinese morning newspaper in the near future. A decision on these two additions to the breakfast table is expected by October or soon after. According
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    • 281 1 Top 100 companies BT will publish on Thursday the ranking of the Top 100 companies listed on the stock exchange based on gross assets. \mm Australian PM, and Philip OUR VIEW COMPANY NEWS Hdwb, who President MEMBERS o« the Labour Party of New Zealand's new prim LEE Kin. Toh HoUIWy.
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    • 314 2 f m ml m The new headquarters for the Monetary Authority of Singapore. A building with a unique design on the outside and all the latest facilities inside. The new MAS Building will make an impression from the moment you walk into its vast and beautiful entrance hall. It is
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 334 3 THREE INTERIOR fitting-out contracts worth $15.1 million were recently awarded to three separate companies by Marina Square. The contracts were for providing all "fixed decorations" in the podiums of the three delux hotels being built a stone's throw from Marina Bay. Singapore company
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    • 156 3 THE JAYCEES are going on a membership drive. People between the ages of 21 and 40 are invited to attend the pre-membership orientation of the Singapore Jaycees on Friday, July 27 at 7.00 pm at the Mandarin Hotel, Autumn Room 834. Three leading members of
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    • 299 3 MALCOLM FRASER, former Australian prime minister and Mr Philip Habib, who was President Ronald Reagan's personal representative to the Middle East, will address a conference for business leaders this September. Second Deputy Prime Minister, Mr S Rajaratnam, will open the conference which
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    • 363 3  -  By JEFRREY TSANG BUSINESSES now have yet another mini-computer line to choose from. Prime Equipment (S) Pte Ltd has announced a new, extended line of Prime computers. Priced between $370,000 for its Prime 9650 and $630,000 for the Prime 9750, the company, a
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    • TRADE TALK
      • 106 3 Pte Ltd has introduced three new colour television sets with remote control. The models the 14 CT 2415, 14 CT 2420 and 16 CT 2425 feature the latest developments in television technology. One of its features is the new voltage synthesis tuning system, which enables accurate screen tuning.
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      • 69 3 Strate- gies: Yarn to Consumer, a Textile Institute Conference, will be held in London from Sep 10-11. The conference will highlight the need for close collaboration between merchandisers, buyers, production people and designers in meeting the requirements of consumers. The IVi-day conference will be held at the Royal
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      • 98 3 Systems, an Australian software manufacturer, is introducing a new software package which can program numerical control machines to cut metal into complex shapes at a fraction of the cost of existing systems. The software CANCAP can run on various microcomputers, and should be useful to the smaller and
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      • 43 3 manufacturer, Epson, has introduced an improved version of the HX-20, a batterypowered portable. The new model will be on display at Micros '84, a business and personal computer show and conference to be held at the Mandarin Hotel from Sep 19-23.
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    • 397 4  -  By R RAMA THE RETAIL industry will employ better trained security officers in the future. The Singapore Retail Merchants Association (SRMA) is to introduce a training course on retail security for officers. The first of the courses is expected to start early next year. The
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    • 102 4 THE SUBSCRIBER trunk dialling (STD) codes for the eastern region of Peninsular Malaysia have been changed. The three-digit STD code currently used will be changed to a common two-digit STD code (09) 'by omitting the third digit. The change implemented from July
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    • 328 4  -  By LISA LEE WHERE CAN yon boy ma Opel Rekord, Chrysler and a Ford Escort all for $119? For that matter, where can yon boy six Japanese motorcycles for the same price and all within a matter of minutes? Such quick
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    • 315 4  -  By JEFFREY TSANG A SWEDISH conglomerate dealing in air and gas compressors, mining and construction equipment is extending its operations in Asean and East Asia. Mr Tom Wachtmeister, president and chief executive officer of Atlas Copco, told BT that with its trading
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    • 138 4 FAR EAST-LEVINGSTON Shipyard has placed an order for a German winch system to be installed on the $25 million crane barge it is building. AEG-Telefunken secured the 3.5 million Deutschemark ($2.73 million) contract two weeks ago. The system, consisting of 18 winches, will
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    • 127 4 THE RAINFALL for the first half of this month was below average over four-fifths of Singapore. The highest rainfall of 120 mm to 140 mm was received in the Macßitchie Reservoir area while the lowest rainfall of 10mm to 30mm was recorded in the
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    • 87 4 THE FULL dress rehearsal for the National Day Parade will be held at the Padang this Sunday from 5.30pm to 6.45pm. Passes for the public and car parking labels will be available at the National Stadium, Jurong Stadium, Queenstown Athletic Centre, Toa Payoh Athletic
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    • 402 4 Seminars and courses W i DURATION July 17 July 17-Nov July 18 19 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 21 28 July 23 TITLE M&E Building Services Certified Purchasing Manager CPM Starting Monooing A Smalt Business M&E Building Services Advonces In Manufacturing Technology Scarfoldtng Material Handling In Shipbuilding
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    • 256 4 JOHN TAN has been appointed as international marketing' manager for Travel Trade Gazette Asia, and Asia-Pacific Travel Index (APTI). PHILIP WEE has been promoted to marketing manager for Travel Trade Gazette Asia, with responsibility for advertisement sales in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, as well as special
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 303 6 UPI THE UNITED Nations convened a major conference yesterday to work out new rules foe world shipping aimed at the eventual elimination of flags of convenience. Full agreement at the threeweek conference was all but ruled out, however, because of North-South differences. "It would
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    • 189 6 UPI TAIWAN'S economy grew at such a dramatic pace that one gar was owned by every 13.6 households in the nation last year, compared with one by every 102 families in 1974, an official report said. During the same period, ownership of air conditioners grew
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    • 54 6 AFP PHAN WANNAMETHEE of Thailand yesterday took over from Singapore's Chan Kai Yau as Asean's secretary general. The change was witnessed by current Asean standing committee chairman, Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja. A career diplomat, Mr Wannamethee, 50, becomes the sixth secretary general of the
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    • 171 6 Reuter WEST GERMANY'S Free Democratic Party (FDP), battling to keep its share of power in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, said yesterday that it would not concede the deputy chancellorship to rightwing leader Franz Strauss. Leading members of Mr Strauss's Christian Social Union (CSU),
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    • 284 6 AFP THE SIGHT of African women carrying their babies on their backs fascinates tourists and new arrivals to the continent. Visitors are usually full of questions about how this custom affects the baby. Could it lead to deformed spines, bandy legs or
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    • 212 6 UPI MORE AMERICANS than ever are carrying out maintenance, repair and new construction projects in and about their own homes. Of a projected US$6B.B billion to be spent during 1964 in the total home improvement market, $38.6 billion about 56 per cent will come from do-it-yourselfers
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    • 296 7 Reuter THE LABOUR PARTY'S victory in New Zealand's snap election has been generally welcomed by private economists in Wellington as a return to orthodox economic policies. But they note that the incoming government must tackle a number of short and medium-term problems,
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    • 69 7 AFP INDIA has joined the ranks of countries which have completed the nuclear fuel cycle from mining of natural uranium to the final processing of the spent fuel. PK Iyenger, chief of India's premier Atomic Research Centre, said that Indian scientists had successfully completed the
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    • 239 7 MERRELL Dow Pharmaceuticals has agreed to set up a US$l2O million fund to settle claims that its morning sickness drug Benedectin caused birth defects, company officials said on Sunday. The agreement was described as one of the largest out-of-court settlements of a class-action suit in
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    • 66 7 AFP INTERNATIONAL Business Machines yesterday launched its first Chinese language small computer system which will provide a strong challenge to other similar computers. A significant part of the sys- tem is the keyboard which uses the efficient "cheong-ldt" input method adapted to a small keyboard of
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    • 309 7 Reuter THE US and its two main South Pacific allies opened crucial defence talks yesterday with New Zealand's fledgling Labour government trying to defuse a row over its anti-nuclear policies. The Labour Party of Prime Minister-elect David Lange, which romped home with
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    • 204 7 CHINA, OFTEN CRITICAL of rampant inflation in the capitalist West, now says a mild dose of it is just what its economy needs. Frozen prices result in decreased production and insufficient goods at the consumer level, says Xue Muqiao, a ranking economist
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    • 330 7 AFP CHINA plans to give Hongkong independent status in negotiating international trade accords, a Hongkong textile representative said on Sunday. Herbert Leung, spokesman for a 26-member textile industry delegation that returned yesterday from a visit to Beijing, said Chinese leaders assured the group
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    • 128 7 AFP JAPAN will increase its statecontrolled oil reserves from the current 15 million kilolitres (93.7 million barrels) to 30 million kl (188.7 million barrels) in 1988. The Japanese Natural Resources and Energy Agency has decided on the accelerated stockpiling to ensure a stable supply
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    • 275 7 Reuter THE LEADER of a rebel group within the ruling Liberal Democratic party is seeking to wrest the prime ministership from Yasuhiro Nakasone with a call for an end to the party's commitment to zero growth in public spending. Political sources said the chances
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    • 415 8 Envoy visits Saudi Arabia and Qatar UPI IRAN IS reportedly stepping up contacts with Gulf states in an effort to stem an escalation of its war with Iraq amid concern within the Reagan administration over British plans to sell ships to Teheran. A
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    • 111 8 AP CAR, truck and bus output by the world's 10 largest producing nations was up 12.2 per cent in the first six months of 1984 over the same period a year ago, according to industry figures. A total of 16.74 million cars, trucks and
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    • 352 8 UPI ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud coalition, facing elections next week, has acted to increase settlements in occupied Arab territory in spite of opposition charges that the move is helping to push inflation to 400 per cent annually. The government
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    • 265 8 Reuter THE PENT AGON's proposed 1985 budget of around US$3OO billion is the largest ever in peacetime and is greater than at the height of the Korean and Vietnam wars, a private US defence study group reported on Sunday. The Centre for Defence Information, a
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    • 458 8 UPI THE CHAIRMAN of the Democratic National Committee, removed from his post by Walter Mondale, was reinstated on Sunday to quell an outburst of opposition on the eve of the opening of the party's national convention, Mr Mondale's campaign chairman said. James Johnson, campaign chairman for
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    • 167 8 NYT WESTERN countries that supply nuclear technology met in Luxembourg last week and decided to strengthen controls on nuclear exports. According to US officials, the suppliers agreed that they had to do more expanding safeguards on existing plants, pressing new suppliers to tighten sales
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    • 169 8 Reuter GERALDINE Ferraro, Walter Mondale's vicepresidential running mate, said she is at least as qualified as Ronald Reagan when he ran for president four years ago. "Above all else, I want to be judged in the same way that male candidates are judged," she said,
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    • 360 8 AP EXPERTS FROM more than 40 countries, armed with ideas to combat the worst food crisis in Africa's memory, have gathered in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare for a 10-day conference aimed at preventing starvation for possibly millions of people. The conference began
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 54 8 INDIAN troops had arrested at least 2,000 Sikhs in the past two days to stop a planned march of "suicide squads" to the Golden Temple yesterday, a Sikh temple official said. Übboke Singh, general secretary of the Sikh Temple Management Committee, said the army had sealed all
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      • 67 8 VIETNAM and the United States take a cautious step towards reconciliation this week when Hanoi is scheduled to hand over the remains of eight missing American soldiers. An American C-130 transport plane with a dozen US servicemen and MIA specialists aboard is due to land in Hanoi today
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      • 53 8 A GROUP of Nasa scientists is promoting a return to the moon and establishment of a permanent moon base after an 11 Vi-year layoff in exploration of the moon. "My personal opinion is that there will be a lunar base," said Wendell Mendell, a scientist at Johnson Space
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      • 53 8 THE British ambassador to Nigeria was returning home yesterday in an attempt by Britain to ease tense relations with Lagos in the wake of the foiled kidnapping of former Nigerian cabinet minister Umaru Dikko. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said High Commissioner Hamilton Whyte was leaving Lagos
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      • 77 8 WEST GERMANY is ready to sign an agreement to extend a US$34O million line of credit to East Germany, indicating a further easing of tensions between the two nations, the Welt AM Son tag newspaper said on Sunday. The paper said the credit conditions would not be
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      • 81 8 A TOTAL of 3,629 people were arrested trying to cross illegally into Hongkong from China during the first six months of this year a 20 per cent increase over the same period last year, a police report said on Sunday. The report said that "snakeheads" people who make
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      • 66 8 Agencies SALVADORAN President Jose Napoleon Duarte left on Sunday for West Germany, the first leg of a 10-day tour of Western Europe aimed at securing more aid for his government. Mr Duarte's trip, his first to Europe since taking office on June 1, will take him to West
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 623 9 SINGAPORE: The local dollar closed firmer yesterday at 552.1400 10 against the US currency compared with last Friday's close of 2.1435 45 and at 5J91.45/55 against the Malaysian dollar compared with 91.55/65. The US dollar weakened against most major currencies. It fell to a late 2.8220/30 marks from
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    • 230 9 Interbank rates at 3pm CurrwctM Nominal ra toe Smithsonian qyotid ytttifdiy croee parity change Local dollars to om unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2 1410 2.1420 2 8196 -2407 Sterling pound 2 8214 ***** 7 3469 -61 60 Australian dollar 1.7991 1.8021 ***** NZ dollar 3.4286 Canadian
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    • 121 9 THE OVERNIGHT rate eased by a quarter-point to close at 8 per cent on the Singapore interbank money market yesterday. Term rates for the one, two and three-month maturities eased by 3/16-point across-the-board yesterday compared with last Friday's closing. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Offer Bid Overnight
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    • 354 9 SINGAPORE Futures closed higher yesterday in moderate trading reflecting firmer overseas advices. December, the only traded position with a turnover of 556 lots, closed stronger at U*****.00 an ounce compared with New York's Friday $359.00/ 359.80 close. LONDON The morning gold fix yesterday was U*****.25 an ounce, up $7.25
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    • Article, Illustration
      287 9 Asian market DEPOSIT rates closed steady around opening levels yesterday. Period rates weakened between 1/16 and 3/16 point at the outset and were then unchanged with one, three and six months closing at 11-9/16 11-7/16, 12 11-7/8 and 12-9/16 12-7/16 per cent respectively. Short-dates were unchanged after a steady to
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    • 535 9 NYT INVESTMENT bankers are scrambling to line up outside investors who will participate in the rescue of ailing Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co, say Wall Street and commercial banking sources. The head of banking finance at one investment banking company said: "Virtually
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    • 143 9 Reuter AN ACCORD at last month's London summit to stretch out repayments for some debtor nations would be tested when officials from western creditor countries meet in Paris this week to work out the details, diplomatic sources said. This move, aimed at countries
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    • 86 9 NYT THE HEAD of T Galgey Co, a London securities firm, has denied that his firm had been involved in fraudulent Eurobond trading. Bear, Stearns A Co, whose former head trader in London was charged with fraud in connection with a bond trading scheme, has
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  • FEATURES
    • 424 10 IF THERE is one certain thing in politics it is that eventually the colossus must fall. Sir Robert Muldoon, ex-Prime Minister of New Zealand, was a giant figure. He straddled the country as head of the National Party for nine years, a tough, bluff figure, but
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    • 901 10  -  The United States must take a leadership role in the current manufacturing revolution or forfeit its position as the world's foremost industrial power, says RICHARD M CYERT, author of The Behavioral Theory of the Firm' and other works in the fields of economics.
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    • 525 10  -  By LOUISE BRANSON UPI HE HAS been called Mr Nyet, Old Stoneface and The Thunderer. As Andrei Gromyko turns 75 this week he adds a new sobriquet: the power behind the Kremlin throne. The world's most senior foreign
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    • 627 11  -  By THOMAS L FRIEDMAN NYT "LADIES and gentlemen," says the master of ceremonies, introducing his guest of honour, "the hero of Israel." "Arik! Arik! Arik!" the audience chants in unison without needing any further introduction. "Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer continues, "the
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    • 1027 11  -  By WALTER GOODMAN NYT THE issue of homosexuality is troubling religious groups throughout America. They are under pressure from the outside to ease their traditional hostility and from within to revise their theology. It is a complex as well as a controversial issue, involving the nature
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1016 10 to om mm HIGHLIGHTS Chronic l« Rescued from the Nile 8.03 pm, Channel 12 An international campaign has been mounted to rescue the ancient Egyptian buildings, on the island of Philae, from the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This programme looks at the way the monuments were raised including
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 794 12 COMPETITIVE PRESSURES ONE OF THE REASONS NYT THE NEW YORK Stock Exchange, facing the loss of several listed companies, even General Motors, has announced a "major review" of requirements it imposes on companies that trade on the big board. The review comes at a
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    • 287 12 Reuter FINANCIAL analysts and share dealers in Frankfurt are cautiously optimistic about the chances of West German share prices recovering over the second half of the year. The first six months saw a sharp decline from record highs due to the IG
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    • 394 12 Reuter IMPERIAL Chemical Industries PLC (ICI) is expected to show strong second-quarter results helped by wider margins on bulk chemicals and good growth from most other parts of the business. Pre-tax profit estimates from analysts range from £260 million to £320 million against
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    • 94 12 Reuter INTERNATIONAL Business Machines, in reporting that second-quarter earnings improved from a year earlier, says its orders are growing at a strong pace over levels last year. The company says it is continuing to realise significant improvement in expense to gross income relationships, which re-
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 364 13 HONGKONG: Prices closed sharply higher yesterday in response to the decision by local banks on Saturday not to raise interest rates and the statement by British Minister Richard Luce that Britain will maintain full responsibility for administering Hongkong until 1997. The Hang Seng Index recorded its sharpest one day
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    • 237 13 JULY 16 Afl Sincere Indus NT 7 85 30 80 •0.1 -O 1 Lee Chang Yuen Chem Indus Lien Hwa Indus Nan Ya Plos Pacific Cons 22 20 12 85 31 40 27 80 0 1 -0.35 -0 1 -4 8 Cathay Com Chang Hwa Bank Chen Loona Chta
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    • 325 13 TOKYO: Share prices yesterday closed higher for the first time in four trading days, but trading was light in the absence of fresh incentives. The market average rose 23.48 to close at 10,177.58, reversing a 116.06 Friday decline, with 250 million shares traded, the same as Friday. Some investors
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    • 79 13 July 16 Bonk Seoul Choheung Bk Won 681 660 unch Hyundai Motor KAL Korea Frst 597 431 716 1100 -II -18 1 20 Commtncal Bk 690 554 unch -(-14 Korea Sh*p Lucky Ltd Samvjng Co 417 790 653 -3 33 -17 Daewoo Corp 468 -17 +20 -3 Dong Ah
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    • 445 13 SYDNEY: Australian sharemarkets closed firm yesterday on strong buying support following a firmer international bullion price and a steadier performance on Wall Street. Near the close, the All Ordinaries Index was up 7.9 at 676.9, the All Industrials Index was up 9.3 at 958.5 and the All Resources Index
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    • 149 13 Reuter BANGKOK: Share prices closed yesterday slightly higher in slow trading after the long religious holiday weekend. The Book Club Index dropped 0.13 point to 117.69 on turnover of 7.5 million baht with 42,760 shares transferred. Reuter JULY 16 Aokham Thai S«am Oy Camant S»om Cradrt 59 50 05
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    • 118 13 MANILA: Share prices closed generally firmer yesterday in continued dull trading. The Mining Index rose 6.78 to 1,006.31 and the Oil Index 0.039 to 0.747 but the Commercial and Industrial Index eased 0.27 to 126.73. Phil Overseas rose to 0.0075 pesos from 0.006 and Seafront to 0.004 from 0.0034.
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    • 83 13 Reuter BORAL says it will offer 90 cents each for shares it does not already hold in oil and gas explorer Oil Co of Australia NL (OCA). Boral holds 38.7 per cent of OCA's issued capital of 79.64 million 50-cent nominal shares paid
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    • 309 13 Reuter THE TOKYO Stock Exchange (TSE) is unlikely to stage its usual summer rally in view of the weak yen, huge margin balances and weak personal consumption, market analysts say. Grieveson and Grant Co analyst Peter Tasker says currency factors may affect
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    • 160 13 Reuter FUJITSU has raised its parent's current profit forecast for the year ending next March 31 because of a continuing increase in demand for large and personal computers as well as semiconductors at home and abroad. It estimates current profit at a record
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 584 14 UPI THE MAIZE plant that provides sustenance primarily for livestock in developed nations and for people in Third World nations is a symbol of the strength of American agriculture. Other nations provide keen competition for the United States in production of wheat
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    • 116 14 Reuter SUGAR BEET growth in Hokkaido, Japan's only sugar beet growing area, was reported normal to good as of July 1, agriculture officials at the Hokkaido government office said. They estimated sugar beet planting acreage at 74,200 hectares in Hokkaido this year against
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    • 281 14 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S cattle herd is forecast to rise over the next four years, ending eight years of herd depletion since cattle numbers peaked at 33.4 million head in 1976, the Australian Meat and Livestock Corp (AMLC) said. In its latest livestock industry projections, the
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    • 81 14 THE Straits tin price In Peaug remained at the ITC floor level ef M 121.15 a Idle yesterday on a con tin ling lack of overseas demand. The baffer stock maaager was the main boyer. Turnover was 111 tonnes, down from 182 on Friday. Dealers said sterling's rise
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    • 157 14 Yarn (k HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 3,450 BK>e Phoenix 20's 3,500 Bkje Phoer»x 32'» 3,900 Bfcje Phoenix 40'» 4,400 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21's 3,600 Combed yarn, cones Bkje Phoenix 32'* 5,500 Btue Phoenix 40's 5,700 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 152 14 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% Exchange FOB NSW 487 50 (Sellers' noon closing meet on July Nutmeg 16. SS/100 kg) 110 FOB NSW 355 00 Coconut oil B W FOB NSW 256 00 Bulk FOB ***** Gambier Od drum FOB 223 00 FOB NSW 305 00 New drum FOB
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    • 173 14 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices rose slightly yesterday on late covering and light speculative buying after an uncertain opening following a mixed Chicago soybean complex close last week. July deliveries in the south and central regions firmed MJIO each to $1,015 and $1,010 per tonne respectively while August
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    • 891 14 OILSEEDS Trading was generally quiet up to midday yesterday, with traders cautious ahead of the opening in the Chicago soy futures complex. Some traders are expecting firmer indications due to downward adjustments in the US National Soybean Processors Assocation stocks figures published after Friday's close. COCOA Futures at
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    • 383 14 SINGAPORE The market closed lower yesterday with August one RSS buyers quoted at $193.25 cents per kilo, down 7.25 cents from Friday. The morning session opened marginally lower following easier London advices and lost further ground in subsequent trading on selling of August one RSS and some profittaking in
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    • 312 14 RAS prices (■> s cents/Mo, fm in botes) NOON CLOSE Buytrs Sellers Suyen SllHsri Irrt 1 RSS prompt 190 50 191 50N 188.25 189 25N Int 1 RSS Aug 195 50 196 00 193.25 193 75 Irrt 1 RSS Sep 201.00 201.50 198.50 199 50 Int 2
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    • 99 14 (in cants/1 tor i poliets) August September (current mth) (forward mth) NOON NOON RAS Buy«rj Sclitn Beyers 5tllen SSR20 187.00 189.00N 188 00 190.00N SSR50 185.00 187.OON 186.00 188 OON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellcri SMR CV 236.00 238 00N 238 00 240 OON SMRL 236 00
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    • 145 14 Singapore (S$/kilo, ex-godown) Thai white 100% 1st class (kongaroo) new crop 100% 2nd class 100% 3rd doss 25% new crop B-10% I 05 0.77 0.75 No stock N6 stock Thai broken ASp n 55 Cl super •cial loi rice i% hino rice 0.62 0.55 No stock 10 15 25
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4074 15 SHARE prices closed mixed on improved volume at the Singapore stock market yesterday. At the final bell, the BT Composite Index gained 1.02 points to 780.21 or 2.25 points higher than its new 16-month low of 777.96 recorded last Thursday. The Straits Times Industrial
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    • 265 15 SINGAPORE Rises Indices Komufttmg S0< 800 f«»-CI COLS 320 M Cobles 500 to *>9* 494 Po»-tl 50< 232 Gentings 472 CASH 50, 366 M Gloss 258 Mong Eng SOi 199 SMI 850 Falls 20 18 16 16 10 8 8 8 7 5 IT Coaipovtt IT ln4acoto>
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    • 430 15 SHARE prices closed generally steadier at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday with gains being generally moderate. Trading was again lacklustre as investors remained on the sidelines in spite of the Malaysian Cabinet reshuffle. Turnover dropped to 5.07 million units valued at MJ13.3 million from
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    • 3029 15 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 SetUement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT"
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 818 16 GENIING Bhd is adding a further attractive facet to its continuing programme to develop the Gen ting Highlands into a comprehensive resort complex with the imminent launching of the Awana Golf and Country Gub as well as the luxury Awana condominiums. The
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    • 1843 16 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown in brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Alcom (2 106 2.125) (2) 2.08 Ant oh (1
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    • 451 16 NYT MIDLAND BANK PLC of London, which owns 57 per cent of the Crocker National Corp, has offered to purchase the remaining outstanding shares of the San Francisco-based bank for US$2O7 million in preferred stock, or $25 a share. Analysts said Midland,
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    • 99 16 E880 Malayria BM: EGM on July 20 at 11am in Raya Room, Equatorial Hotel, ■T»i»n Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. METAL Bex Sagapere Limited: 9th AGM on July 20 at 10am in Yellow Orchid Room, Shangri-la Hotel, Mezzanine Floor, 22 Orange Road (1025). FBA8EB I Neave Limited: 85th AGM
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    • 107 16 HONGKONG Australion Industrials Hang Seng Index Monday 958 5 Fnday 949.2 Monday 791.16 Week ago 933.2 Fndoy 746 02 NEW YORK Dow Jones Week ago 773 60 TOKYO Friday 1109 87 Thursday 1104.57 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1122 57 Monday Friday Week ago ***** 58 *****.10 *****
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    • 205 16 Monogers' prices for July 17 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 3 05 3.24 The Sovngs Fund .86 1 97 S'por* Prog Fund 1.35 1.43 S'por* Sec Find 2 07 2 20 S'pore Invest Find 1.10* 1.17* S'pore Equity Find 134 142 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest Fund 2.47
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    • 300 17  -  By CHAN MAY PENG THREE CORPORATE giants Arab-Malaysian Development Bhd (AMDB), Promet Bhd and Metro Holdings Ltd (through its construction arm, Metrobilt Pte Ltd) have joined forces to set up the largest concrete manufacturing facility in West Malaysia. The joint
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    • 231 17 THE STOCK Exchange of Singapore has become the third sponsor of the Annual Report Award (ARA), which was launched in 1974. For the past 10 years, the ARA had been jointly sponsored by the Singapore Society of Accountants and the Singapore Institute
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    • 214 17 EADY INVESTMENTS Pte Ltd, which is owned by the Tan family of IGB Corp Bhd, now holds a controlling 53.4 per cent in Singapore Glass Ltd. This follows the acceptance of about 8.22 million shares or 38.4 per cent of Singapore
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    • 47 17 APOLLO Enterprises Ltd has appointed Mr Mayumi Takayama as a director. DBS NOMINEES Pte Ltd, in which DBS Bank has an interest, has bought 13,000 shares more in Jimg Engineering Ltd for $22,750, bringing its total interest to 6.013 million shares (or 24.05 per cent).
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    • 811 17 THE market closed firm yesterday, lifted by hopes that the involvement of the Advisory Industrial Conciliation service in arbitration talks with Britain's striking dockers could help bring about a settlement of the dispute, dealers said. ICI ended 8p higher at 538 after 530, Hawker rose 8p to 409,
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    • 812 17 AMBASSADOR HOTEL Ltd has drawn up a cohesive plan that will set a new course of direction for the group. The group's orientation had not been particularly clear since it sold its namesake hotel Hotel Ambassador in Katong, about two years ago and acquired
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    • 279 17 LAST FULL YEAR Com pony Period Date Net EPS Gross Net onnounced (cents) profit last yeor (%> r 000) A M D B Full year May 19 1 8(e) 2,124 Lorut Tin Ful yeor June 13 13.1 1,696 Pegi Msio Full year June 20 25(e) 1,020L G Lumber
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    • 508 17  -  Company has contracts worth $363 m up to 1986 By CHAN OI CHEE LEE KIM TAH Holdings, the home-grown local building contractor which is making its entry into the stock market, has $363 million worth of contracts to be completed between
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    • 471 17 LOCAL contractor and civil engineering group Lee Kim Tah Holdings, the second company to seek a public listing this year, will mop up $30 million from the stock market through its share offer. Members of the public have been invited to subscribe
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    • 442 16 1 International Conference on SECURITIES REGULATION, INSIDER TRADING. TAKEOVERS AND MERGERS lOth-llth August 1984 SINGAPORE PROF LOUIS LOSS ■r HARVARD PROFESSOR M W AUTHOR ATTORNEY GOVERNMENTAL Cromwell Professor at Harvard Law School and formerly visiting Professor at Yale. London and others; Sometime Consultant to International Bank and various foreign governments;
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    • 37 17 SPECIALIST IN EXPORTING LOGS TO FAR EAST RED OAK-WHITE OAK WALNUT VENEER AND LUMBER LOGS 7E TRANS-AMERICAN EXPORT COMPANY 9494 ALLEN ROAD, P O BOX 305, WEST CHESTER. OHIO *****-0305 PHONE 513-874-2244 TELEX 21-4334 TNSAM LOG WTCH
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    • 432 17 ▲iNordic Bank PLC i Sheet aa at 3lst I Shares Capital and Reeerves Shares capital Reserves Minority Interest Loan Capital Total Capital Funds Deferred Taxation Deposits repayable after I year 44,500 27.741 —TtjST 67.627 —TJ*W 1,235 36,504 31,349 105.139 satm 3,155 77,405 Currant Liabilities Current and deposit accounts Accrued interest
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  • 331 18  -  By WANG LOOK KEAH, Transport Correspondent THE JOINT venture set up by Intraco and Tata Consultancy Services, to provide consultancy services in computer systems and software at the beginning of last year, has clinched deals worth about $2 million. Tata Intraco Systems,
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  • 182 18 FOOD exporters eyeing the big American food market will be attending the Asean-US Food Drug Administration (FDA) Food Quality Seminar on July 19 and 20. Organised by the Trade Development Board, the seminar will be conducted by two FDA specialists
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  • 376 18  -  By JEFFREY TSANG SINGAPORE has been listed as the top convention country in Asia and the sixth in the world for association meetings, said Mr Tan I-Tong, chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. Mr Tan, speaking at the opening of the Flag Inns Annual
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  • 65 18 UPI photo A HAPPY Marcia Sanford, 45, of Waatfiald, Massachusetts, holds up tha Megabucks tickat that won bar U5515,619,880 in tha Maaaachuaatta Stata Lottery's Megabucks drawing laat Saturday. She will receive $780,994 a year, before taxes, for 20 years. A aecretary, aha ia
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  • 509 18  -  By ALVIN TAY THE NEW management team of Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) has reviewed and identified sizeable loans extended in the past for which bad and doubtful debt provisions and suspension of interest accrual were either required or desirable. Chairman Mr Lee H£e Seng,
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  • 239 18 Pram front page board is concerned, there will be representatives from each of the merging groups and it will set wide corporate policies and monitor overall performance. The operational responsibility will be delegated to the boards of the existing companies so that the chain
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  • 93 18 Reuter A GROUP OF peasants in Inner Mongolia have found a 3,000-year-old Chinese computing system, probably the oldest calculating instrument in the world, yesterday's Beijing Review said. The peasants thought the 20 thin sticks of ivor> were just a bunch of old chopsticks. But scientists said
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  • 48 18 MALAYSIA'S Deputy Defence Minister A bang Abu Bakar has asked Indonesia to consider a joint committee to broaden cooperation between the armed forces of the two countries. The minister, who visited Jakarta recently, spoke of exploring cooperation in areas such as logistics, spare parts and equipment.
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  • 155 18 THE HEALTH Ministry has identified three broad areas of concern and is seeking assistance from its staff for suggested solutions. In his opening address at the Ministry's Work Improvement Teams (WITs) presentation yesterday morning, the Permanent Secretary for Health, Dr Kwa Soon Bee,
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  • 60 18 WALL Street stock prices were moderately higher in early trading yesterday as the market continued to rebound from last week's sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose five points last Friday but lost nearly 13 points for the week, was up three more points to just
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  • 293 18 ITALY'S biggest bank, Banca Nazionale De Lavoro (BNL) has a green light to open an offshore branch in Singapore only seven months after it applied for a government licence. Its chief representative for the Far East and Australasia, Mr Luigi Sardelli,
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  • LATE FILE
    • 44 18 Reuter, BARCLAYS National Bank Ltd of Johannesburg yesterday announced that it was raising its prime lending rate to 22 per cent from 21 per cent, effective today. South African banks last raised their prime rates in March. Reuter t
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    • 49 18 Reuter A BRITISH judge yesterday struck down the government's ban on trade unions at the country's main electronics spying centre. Judge Sir lan Glidewell, in a London High Court ruling, declared the ban unlawful and said it was "invalid and of no effect" Reuter
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    • 52 18 Reuter DOCKERS yesterday imposed a cargo ban at Dover, Britain's biggest ferry port, as the government met to consider using the army to beat a spreading dock strike. Although the port's 500 dockers voted to blockade only freight, it is expected that passenger ships would also
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    • 45 18 Reuter AN INQUEST opened in Hongkong yesterday into the death of John Wimbush, joint head of a major Hongkong law firm, who was found drowned in his swimming pool in April with a block of concrete tied to his neck. Reuter
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    • 50 18 AP INDONESIAN security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle 12 kg of gold bullion worth US$l4O,000 into the country. Customs officials said yesterday that an unidentified passenger was arrested after he stepped down from a Garuda Indonesia Airways airplane from Singapore on Saturday night. AP
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    • 510 18 Asean Management Abstracts Your regular update of new ideas and techniques. Men, money, materials as a manager, these are your main resources, and you have the complex task of making the best use of them. To help you do so, you need to keep up-to-date with new ideas and techniques
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 58 18 SMSflaaa Outlook for today: Showers m several oreos in the late morning and early afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on July 16 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.1 Associated humidity 66 Minimum temperature 22.6 Associated humidity 98 Hours of sunshine 6.25 Roinfall in millimetres 10.4 Rainfall
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 265 19 THE 1985 tolls for ships using the Suez Canal will be announced in early September. But Suez Canal Authority chairman, Mr Mohammed Ezzet Adel, has said that any rise next year would be "very reasonable and less than the rate of
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    • 442 19  -  By DANIEL SIM A NEW operator in the Far East-Middle East trade, Taiwan International, is offering Singapore shippers an alternative breakbulk service to the Red Sea region. The semi-express service, starting this month, runs from Taiwan to the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah.
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 143 19 A 3,669 grt general cargo ship, the Rimba Satu, I collided into an anchored tanker, CYS Integrity, at the Eastern Petroleum 'A* Anchorage in Singapore at 3.90 am yesterday while leaving ■port. The vessel sustained a deep gash below water .level and took in water after the collision.
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      • 79 19 Reuter A JAPANESE company said it had received permission to ship containers to and from northleast China through the Soviet Port of Nakhod- ka. Jeuro Container Transport Incorporated said I the service had the approval of both the Soviet I Union and China would be begin
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    • 653 19 Shipping Um »*o« Col i hipping Uw P •9* Col Aleo VI 3 Freight Links VI 4 Ahrenkiel Lm« VI 5 Frota V 1 Alpoc VI 5 Fupwaro Line IV 5 Antoro Shpg IV 1 Globe Lme VI 4 APC Line V 4 Golden Lme VI 4
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    • 147 20 THE CONTAINER ship Arthur Maersk recently delivered the largest single package ever transported by a Maersk Line container vessel. It was a ship's main engine of 534 tons, measuring 10 metres long, 5 metres wide and 10 metres tall. The engine displaced the" equivalent
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    • 191 20 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
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    • 118 20 UPI THE PORT ot Houston's ship channel has been closed so crews can mop up a major spill of fuel oil from a Venezuelan tanker, the US Coast Guard said. A spokesman for the Coast Guard said the ship, the TurpUU, ran aground and ruptured on Saturday.
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    • 1056 20 Lloyd's Shipping Economist AN INCREASING number of people within the shipping finance community are coming to the conclusion that the shipping industry is facing a serious credit contraction. If this conclusion is correct, it implies that, for the first time since the beginning of
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    • 1744 20 FURTHER Chinese grain fixing out of the US and fairly active time-charter business featured the freight market on Friday, shipbrokers said. A rate of US$24 was paid for grain from the US Gulf to China compared with $25.50 agreed last week, while 114.75 was paid from the Gulf
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    • 214 21 Kyodo WEST EUROPEAN countries pressed Japan to reduce its share of the world shipbuilding market during a meeting in Paris last week. Japan failed to appease European delegations to the meeting within the Paris-based 24-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Japanese sources said.
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    • 717 21 Lloyd's List THE FAR Eastern Freight Conference is considering whether to sue Evergreen Line for US$l million in fines which the Taiwanbased company has refused to pay. The conference confirmed that it feels entitled to "receive sums for overcarriage" and that it
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    • 133 21 UPI A GROUP of* Norwegian shipping companies has ordered the world's first deep sea oil production and testing system from a major Japanese steel firm, the company said. Nippon Kokan Co, Japan's no 2 steel maker, said the facility, designed for testing and operation in rough
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    • 180 21 OVERSEAS Containers Limited (OCL) has released through its agents in Singapore, Mansfield Container Shipping, an updated version of the "Merchant Guide to Liabilities and Documentary problems," with a complete translation of the guide into Mandarin. Originally published as a simple handbook of advice to shippers and consignees
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    • 5557 26 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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    • 654 27 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Access *****E 17.7.84 2300 Green Asia FSB 0900-1100 N2 Jenwel 22/84 17.7.84 2300 Thong Soon FSB 1000-1100 B7 P Fillmore 136/1 17.7.84 2359 APL TA
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    • 1732 27 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (St Ur*-F.iruU Liar Transgroup (S) AhrealdeJ User Service Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Taepler Oceanus Shipping Agency (S) Manntex Enterprise (PK). Alpac Intrasea (S) Bin tang Shpg (KL) Island Cargo
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    • 470 28 July lf-17 International conference on welding of tubular structures, Boston, Massachusetts. July 21-Aug U Galbraith's 1984 shipping course (details: Galbraith's, 88 Fenchurch St, London EC3). Aug 7-11 Insurance course for managers of Arab companies organised by LLoyd's of London Press in association with the General Arab Insurance Federation,
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    • 593 28 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Barber Hector 46/7 Barber alongside 17.7.84/2100 Frances Bay 25/6 M States alongside 17.7.84/1100 Ionian Princess 33/4 J Manners alongside 17.7.84/2300 Kabirdas 31/2 R Jumabhoy alongside 17.7.84/2359 Kim Soon Li 21E TSoon alongside 17.7.84/0700 Kota Timor 10/11 PIL
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    • 479 28 AFP CONDITIONS were dull and rates a little easier on the tanker market last week, despite reports of more attacks on neutral shipping in the Gulf states area. The increase in war risk insurance for the area outside Iranian and Iraqi ports did little to deter owners from
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    • 469 19 SEALORDH UASC L UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO SAG NATIONAL LINE OF BAHRAIN. IRAQ. KUWAIT. QATAR. SAUDI ARABIA AND UNITED ARAB EMIRATES EXPRESS MULTI-PURPOSE SERVICES FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE FROM JAPAN TAIWAN HOM.kOVi *1 MRQAB V.S *1 MAMVAH Vl* Al NAJBA V 10* Al MANAKH V.S Vl* ALSO CALLMC HAGOYA HAKATA 0/7
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    • 273 20 warn i r—# FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE To Europe. From Europe Spore J1 >MsetllesJ 2) Mam 3) Hbwg 4) Gfiurg VESSEL I 1) Gtwrg hflfbwg 3) I'm IT torn I5)l« H Mm Acceptang Far 1) Barcelona. Genoa. 2) Amsterdam Antwerp L Havre Basle. UK. 3) Bremer) Bremerhaven Aarhus Copenhagen, Hetenki
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    • 720 21 The Straits Steamship Group QCI Overseas Containers Limited CONTAiNERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT ALSO ACCEFTH6 CARGO FOR: MlwiHi >to Uvifp. CM* MowoMuiw to fcww SiwMmiw»lih UK rapo". Mnt I Dabfa I LCI Kid fCI car jo to Hong Kon| P Kal Pi* S'aorfl DiOai Dmn KDUOVD VAN NICK 05/7 00/7
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    • 374 22 FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE JtC.S.LINE Mltft i» *<■ LO»M»»r,ai> 10 fiWOPt VIA SUC/ ol ,h ce Comortum 1 S'pn PXriMt ItHavrt ttm filowt KW| Mwi 22/7 23/7 10/1 11/S 13/8 15/1 18/8 1/S 2/1 20/8 21/1 23/1 25/1 28 8 10/8 11/8 29/8 30/8 1/8 3/9 6/9 22/8 23/8 10/9 11/9
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    • 477 22 EVERGREEN LINE FAR FAST EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE ACCEPTMG FCI I LCL CARGO Toi m fU ROM MM IMY (Nfte, 11/17 11/17 MM U/N 13/01 U/M liM Eiwlinc 11/07 01 M 21/ M 21/ M n M 27/ M M M EnrGmut M M 01 'M U/M M/M 05/ M 07
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    • 695 22 KIE GWAN SHIPPING (M) SDN. BHD. Ik. 2iA MIAN BOtANGAM POUT KELANG. SaANGOR MALAYSIA TEL: Mm *****2, 38(435, 3891(2 3807(4.*****2.*****7 W. MALAYSIA/STORE TO E. MALAYSIA SERVICES: P KLANG S PORE tMATI BAIK KKbiu. SUn Tawau L Oatu In Pt/18 My 19/21 July TGAMBELA KKbiu S kan. Tawau 21/26 July 27/29
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    • 172 22 OlUl M. 111U 11.T1UO, XUC9UOJi 9IUJ ll| rtISINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD 130 ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES vessel...... 6000 FMEND POST MLANG Pf HANG B. Kbtn B. KhanaW B. Artii. B. Kh«MM SMOS( MARITBK PTE (.TD Ul *****44/7 t *****70 MAIOSE MMHTBC SON BHD M: 3*7232/3. MALAYSIA
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    • 834 23 PIL GROUP EAST AFRIC A/REDSEA SERVICES VEUCL KOTABALAM KOTA SEOAR KOTA WISATA KOTA MCOAH VOYAGE BINQAF E-811 22-25/7 E-513 23-24/7 E-515 »4/| E-Sl7 10-15/8 SINGAPORE LOAMNQ FOR: 23-24/7 jeOOAM AOABA. PTBUOAN MO,-BAIA O'SALAAM, MAPUTO lolisy® SSSJ'Jf 00 JtDOAH, AOABA 5/1 HOOCIOAM, JCDOAH, AO ASA. PTSUO AN. MOMBASA, O'SALAAM iiAil KOTA
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    • 764 23 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE fl*o* FROM EUROPE HAM BMA KIN DDAM HA KM UK fmiTld lay SMM SjM SjM SaArt SaA KMrMan Bi| SMM SiM SaAM Um SM BrMWi Eipmi SaArt SMM SjAk! SaArd SMI Hjmbwf Eiprm SaAtA SaAM lam Mm lt/7 11/7 C*» M EAMurfk
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    • 438 23 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF Far East Spore Service Ful Container Vessel GOWA VlO-06 Buun Yokohama 11/7 14/7 Ko6« Kao- !«/7 »/7 Spore T|.Pnok 24/7 27/7 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE STORE P KEIANGRDAM/ TUURY/HHURG/ ANTWERP ADAM LONDON BREMEN L JALABERT BONTANG VIWB 11/7 J/« 11/| 14/« 1«/| SOWAI VSNB
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    • 578 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loadnf for Ranfoon Poon V 73 Pinyo V 74 S'pore Sailed 19/22 July P.Kelong Penong Hako VI66W 20/21 July Sit-twoy* Pogon V 75 24/26 July 2/5 Aug 'LOADING FOR HONGKONG JAPAN BANK LINE EXPRESS DEPENDENT SERVICE TO UK SPORE
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    • 791 24 UADOR/PERU/CHILE FEEDER KANSAI nOKDt <36 MOFHER VSI SEA ENCOURAGEMENT SPORE KOM E DAS 2 Auf 26 Aut 24 Sec SPORE MOTHER VSI VSL YOKOHAMA CALL AO 2 Auf 26 Auf 2* Sep t •j IV Hr KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. GUAYAQUI IQUQU 26 Sep 7 Oct AHTOfTA I Oct S
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    • 398 24 1 Accepting BrMfcbulk and contaimriMd South Africa Accepting Container t BjhHkil* U VAN DO STU V.IIM MATAKAWA MMtU V S2ISF U VAAL V 6314F Sport Durban Bay CTwn 2t/7 4/1 5/« 27/7 9/1 IS/I 23/1 12/1 »/l S A VAAL V5913G ICD COLOMBO V MIIC Clown PEb U« Dwfcan 1/7
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    • 554 24 i# till CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE laM* tar lOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE TACOMA VANCOUVER BC Acctpfanf FCL fCL Cantaawn •—r w sk, i .*sr AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Acciptni fa/fa Contjewn 'Aha KC(p(n( from PKtUnf la. Auct RM lytt PA*-* Span frtm IM St* Ah. *cc*h
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    • 643 24 SANKD ASIA UNEj FROM JAPANESE PORTS ANO HONGKONG I. ROTA TR4OR *2 FUKUZMI MARU 3 SUN TMOR 4 RAM TOROR 5 TCKAO 6 REGENT RUTH 7 GREAT MOUNT Sn(apart GDNI9/17 M 17/19 M 11/20 U 20/22 M 25/27 U 29/30 M 29/31 JM P Kcianf 11/19 JM 19/20 JM 20/21
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    • 363 24 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD to Ansun lh I nternntion.t Plh/.i Si" f»- 02') 7 T»| H'l.rifS o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK FOtT NELSON SaM to Pari SETE/tOTT/ANT/U 15 A* ISA* •OTT/ANT/U* (MDN) SEAWOOD SHIPPING CORPORATION S pore P MUnc Ln*| tar UN mtusj (To) in nous 224»u RWTME 9VPWE CO. ML
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    • 534 25 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): MAETERLMCK 2W.. K CHANCE ISW+ K JACEJN 25N TW BMDGE 21*.... 0 CHEF 40W C PAUL 41* Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia K CHANCE S pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 1800 21/7 LCI Cargo 0600 21/7 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) 0
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    • 396 25 EUNG-A SHIPPIN Korean Flag Vessels OQTIAV SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO BANGKOK, KEELUNG. BUSAN, INCHON No Oofuai 403N 3* 7 Hi tDm 40** 7/1 7 Don»n 406* U/» Hi IDm «IM 19/| Ml )Dmn/404N I/i 3/1 11/» 15/1 21/1 DGCHttGMC OMT 14/1 111 22/1 27/1 3/» t/i 11/t hloM*/40M Cm.4 Snq
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    • 683 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SMSOV BUMNG 55, Market Street Sinfapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Laws) Cable Address SMSOV SMGATORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS 2510* P. KELANC PENANG M/S SNMtKAT WAN SOON SON. M IST AND 2NO FLOOR. MESSRS MAI THONG SMTffK 23 WHO
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    • 61 25 MAURITIUS REUNION SHENG TAI LINE m pirrrn REGULAR LI TAIWAN-STRAITS-TAIWAN Vess* MO «E S PCTtt P KELANG DOMSI V.12 In Port 11/7 LAMM V.12 MP 22/7 BMGHT FORMOSA *26 31/7 (/I 9/1 OOMSI V.14 3/1 5/1 13/1 15/1 General Vents EAGLE CORPORATION (PTE) LTD I* 2277 JU (4 km) T*i
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    • 684 26 l'c<|ional Container l-incs irrniri 3 Sa,lm9s Week,y Liillll Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hrs Tues. Thurs Sat REGULAR FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGXLA VOY SM SKLA MR PUT SKI* RATANABHM 113/1 M Saded Saded 18/19 M 22/2: MTMM BHUM 185/186 2S-2C M 31/1 Aug HINOPE KISEN CO. LTD 11.1
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    • 92 27 Caapifm end* toil* French Line VtSMi M/V ARTOS V7LS4 M/V HAUSSMANN VBLS4 M/V AN(00 V9LS4 LIOORNE REGULAR SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO BANGIA-DESH/MDIA/SRI LANKA/PAKISTAN AGENTS SEAIIOH SHPPWG (S) PTE LTD. SALES/BOOK MGS TIL *****11 (I LUES) T7-r-,i R DIRECT FULL CONTAINER SERVICES TO US PACIFIC COAST PT KELANG PENANG n n /8
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    • 153 27 Scan Dutch To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) To Red Sea/Mediterranean From Europe From Red Sea/Med. Also Accepting To: (1) Borcelona, Genoa, Btlboo, Leghorn Valencia (2) Amsterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Baste, Southampton, Liverpool, London (Tilbtjry), Canory Islands (3) Bremen, Bremerhaven, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Helsinki (4) Malmo, Stockholm, Oslo T+) Loading for Jeddah Cargo accepted to
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 188 28 Sf ft Regional Weather m 01 /W /-yci. 2 X 1 tU< h> tf C N> SR m V 27 iV 52 S <m sts* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. °c cf w Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperature
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