The Business Times, 16 August 1984

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1«, 1984 60 CENTS
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  • 505 1  -  Concern about 'leak' of price-sensitive information By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI THE STOCK Exchange of Singapore has opened an investigation to determine if there has been insider trading in the shares of Pan-Electric Industries Ltd. This is the first time in more than two-and-a-half
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  • 229 1 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government is going ahead with its proposal to levy toll on all cars and lorries coming in from Singapore beginning from Sep 1. Sources yesterday said at least 90 officers of the Malaysian Highway Authority would be
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  • 384 1  -  By AMY BALAN THE TOP 10 per cent of lawyers with 10 years experience can earn more than $150,000 a year. The Second Minister for Law and Home Affairs, Professor S Jayakumar, pointed out that the income of lawyers in 1982 was higher than that
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  • 162 1 ACCORDING to the SES Listing Nmul, insider trading refers not only to the purchase or sale of a company's securities bat also to the purchase or sale of pots, calls or other options with respect to such securities. Such trading is deemed to be done by
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  • Article, Illustration
    72 1 SELECTIVE baying interest wan evident yesterday as the Singapore stock market finished mixed to easier in the face of intermittent boats of profittaking. At the final bell, the BT Composite Index had lost 1.81 points to 843.82 while the Straits Times Industrial Index ended 1.83 points lower to
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  • 468 1  -  By BOEY KIT YIN A CAMPAIGN designed to encourage Singaporeans to warm to frozen pork is being prepared by the Singapore government and the Australian High Commission. It is scheduled to begin in January next year and will aim
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  • 350 1  -  By LUCY NG A SINGAPORE company has beaten off fierce competition from rival Japanese, American, Hongkong and South Korean manufacturers to supply China with blank audio cassette tapes. Over the next four months, Tony Wong Company (Pte) Ltd will supply five
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  • 181 1 THE US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will meet in Washington on Aug 28 to decide whether to approve the Singapore-Chicago link in financial futures trading. Its decision is expected to be announced within three days after the meeting. And officials of
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    • 270 1 \mm SHARE INFORMATION 15 RAW MATERIALS 6 MONEY EXCHANGES 7 THE Lam Soon group expects $40 million worth of computer sales by 1986 from an agreement which it signed last month with American-based Convergent Technologies Inc. Pag* 2 AN anti-protectionist retailers' organisation has been set up in the US to
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    • 11 1 Full report, Rags 15 International stocks, 12 Asian stocks, Pago 13
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    • 82 1 the one and only Dr. Sony any day of the year *****1 The Sony Service Centre Shipping Timaa comes as a aaparata taction today. Maka aura you gat your copy. a/ tie/ n v> *2 it Nr O V •V fc. w The Cartier Jewellery are available exclusively at all
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 444 2  -  By JEFFREY TSANG THE LAM SOON group expects $40 million worth of computer sales by 1986 from an agreement which it signed last month with US-based Convergent Technologies Inc. But this is not the main reason for its computer subsidiary
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    • 263 2 MOBIL OIL Singapore is to sponsor this year's National Reading Month as part of the company's community service programme. Mr Arun Mahizhnan, Mobil's public relations manager, told BT that the company was approached by the organiser, the National Book Development Council. Mobil
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    • 67 2 THE SHELL oil company is to present an electronic organ recital by two scholarship students of the Yamaha Music School. The two students, Mr Peter Goh and Mr Mohammed Rasul bin Anwar, will be performing on Aug 24 (12.45pm) at the Shell Theatrette in Shell
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    • 453 2  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF INDIVIDUAL counselling of prisoners by the Prison Welfare Service is to be extended to habitual offenders from Sep 1. Those who have been convicted for the third or fourth time will undergo the two-tier rehabilitation programme carried out by full-time officers and
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    • 177 2 JAPAN's new ambassador to Singapore, Mr Hiroshi Hashimoto, has arrived to assume his assignment. He replaces Mr Hiromu Fukada who takes up the post of ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Mr Hashimoto was, until recently, director-general of the Asian Affairs Bureau in
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    • 369 2 IN A DEAL which it hopes will double sales of its personal computer, Wang Computer has signed a direct distribution agreement with the local distributor of Peachtree Software, one of the major US software houses. Wang Computers (Pte) Ltd will be putting heavy
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    • 540 2  -  By PENG AILIAN DOES art exist in Singapore at all? In spite of the prevalent cynicism, the answer is yes, says a visiting art historian from the United States. And it has an abundance of styles a predominant calligraphic line, a
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    • 86 2 You can fly to Australia with British Airways any day of the week. And we offer you a choice of five destinations. Our 747's fly direct to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. So when you want to fly to Australia, the chances are that the world's favourite airline will
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 420 3 NYT WEST GERMAN Finance Minister Dr Gerhard Stoltenberg, has served notice that he will resist all pressures including those from within the Bonn coalition for steps which could hinder further cuts in government borrowing. Dr Stoltenberg emphasised that Bonn had
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    • 163 3 UPI A MAN was fined US$l2 in Sweden for spanking his 11-year-old son in the first case of a law banning spanking as cruelty to children. The father was fined a nominal sum by the court in the Arctic mining town of Gallivare,
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    • 289 3 NYT MAJOR news organisations in the United States said they would no longer accept a Mondale-Ferraro campaign policy that prohibits journalists from reporting what the candidates say on their campaign airplanes or photographing them on those flights without prior agreement. Press aides
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 62 3 CHINA'S recent plentiful grain harvests have helped to create a plague of rats and mice that could threaten its long-term grain production targets, the China Daily newspaper said on Tuesday. China has three billion rats and mice, the newspaper said. Last year they damaged 20 million hectares of farmland
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      • 71 3 THE US and Japan have signed a new four-year agreement under which Japan will increase imports of US beef to a record 58,400 tonnes by the 1987 financial year, US officials said yesterday. US trade representative Bill Brock said he expected all Japanese restrictions on such imports to
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      • 86 3 FOREIGN manufacturers took 41 per cent of the French car market in July from 34.9 per cent in June, in spite of the output lost in the West German engineering workers' strike, preliminary figures from the French Car Manufacturers' Association showed. Total new car registrations fell 13.8 per
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      • 108 3 THAI Commerce Minister Kosol Krairuek has called on Japan to help prevent the two countries' chronic imbalance in trade from becoming a political issue, Japanese Foreign Ministry sources said on Tuesday. Mr Kosol, who arrived in Tokyo on Sunday for a four-day visit, called on Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone
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      • 92 3 Agencies WEST German police say they have spent some US$7 million since last September to protect the US Army's Pershing missile depot at Mutlangen. and the military convoys moving in and out of it. Hans-Peter Sturm, president of the state police in Baden-Wuerttem-berg where the base is located, said
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    • 222 3 AFP MOROCCO yesterday announced that it had signed a treaty of union with Libya in a move which was seen in Rabat as a diplomatic coup for King Hassan in "turning round" one of the main supporters of his opponents, the Western Sahara
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    • 70 3 UPI HOMOSEXUALS should be offered political asylum in Sweden if they are persecuted in their native countries for their homosexuality. A government-sponsored report "On the status of homosexuals in society", released yesterday, argues for an amendment to the Swedish Constitution banning discrimination of homosexuals. The report
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    • 213 3 Reuter THE Group of 77 developing nations has rejected an agreement by eight Western countries on deep sea mining. The group said the agreement was "wholly illegal" and contrary to the United Nations convention on the law of the sea. The agreement signed on
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    • 377 3 Attempt to act against proposed rulings NYT AN ANTI-protectionist retailers' organisation has been set up in the US to try to thwart or delay proposed country of origin regulations for textiles and clothes. The new rules, described by the US Treasury as a
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    • 436 3 AFP THE REPUBLICAN Party platform committee yesterday defied White House requests for a flexible stand on taxes by inserting a crucial comma into the chapter of the party programme dealing with the matter after it was approved by President Ronald Reagan's representative
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    • 165 3 Reuter AMERICA'S retail sales declined 0.9 per cent in July, the US Commerce Department reported on Tuesday. This is further evidence that economic recovery is slowing. The decline was the first and largest since a 1.5 per cent drop in March, the department said. Economists
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    • 190 3 Reuter MOSCOW has said that President Reagan's joke about bombing the Soviet Union was really his secret dream, proof that he talks peace and thinks war. Soviet commentator Genrikh Bovorik said on the main television news on Monday night that Mr Reagan's joke,
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    • 555 4 Higher investments by Japan and US UPI FOREIGN investors led by Japanese and American firms are expanding their operations in Hongkong even as local businessmen consider emigrating before China takes control of the colony in 1997. In spite of assurances from China that Hongkong will be
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    • 201 4 AP TEN CHINESE art schools will start using nude models, a newspaper said, rejecting puritan critics by saying even the late chairman Mao Zedong approved of posing in the raw. An article in the state-run Beijing Evening News written by Mr Qian Shaowu, an
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    • 353 4 UPI A LIFE-SIZE bronze statue of assassinated Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino was unveiled on Tuesday and will be flown to Manila for first anniversary observances of his slaying on Aug 21. The statue, done by internationally known Filipino
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    • 84 4 Reuter THE TOP civil servant in the Australian Treasury is to resign soon. Treasurer Paul Keating said yesterday, a week before the Labour government presents its latest budget. John Stone, 55, has said he will resign both as Secretary of the Treasury and from
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    • 406 4 Reuter ANGER OVER an army campaign against Tamil separatists in neighbouring Sri Lanka, growing political unrest and continuing violence in Punjab state clouded India's celebration of its 37th independence anniversary yesterday. Schools and colleges in south India's Tamil Nadu state were closed for
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    • 216 4 UPI A SRI LANKAN government official said a high-level investigation is underway into reports that Sri Lanka's army set fire to a seaport and nearby hamlet in a drive against Tamil rebels fighting for a separate state. But, Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lanka's Minister of
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    • 192 4 NYT INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp (IBM), apparently seeking to tighten its hold on the market for sophisticated desktop computers, has introduced an advanced version of its personal computer that experts say is so powerful it can best be compared with far more expensive office systems.
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    • 132 4 AP USING technology borrowed from advanced nuclear beam weapons, American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California plan to irradiate a "whole smorgasbord of California produce" to study food preservation. "If the technique works, we can dispense with eating high-risk foods laced with
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    • 337 4 Reuter THE UNITED Nations Conference on Population ended in Mexico City with agreement on new guidelines for governments to help curb birth rates. Despite divisions which continued to the very end, delegates hailed the conference a success. A dispute emerged when the United States tried
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    • 253 4 Reuter MALAYSIA regards the Anzus defence pact among Australia, New Zealand and the United States as important and wants it to continue, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. It is "an arrangement that hurts nobody but gives a lot of
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 445 6  -  By MICHAEL NEILL SUPPLY SURPLUSES are set to dominate the major soft commodity markets for the rest of the year and beyond, continuing the established downward price trend and leaving analysts generally pessimistic about the future. With stocks high and demand low, sentiment in the
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    • 895 6 COFFEE Robusta futures yesterday ended a very quiet morning £4 higher to £9 lower, with holiday closures in some continental centres contributing to the subdued tone. November stood £3 lower at £2,326. There was no fresh fundamental news and physical markets were subdued. Prices declined slightly from the
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    • 154 6 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 487 50 Exchange (Sellers' noon closing prices on Aug Nutmeg 338 00 15 S$/100kg) 110 FOB NSW B W FOB NSW 239 00 Coconut oil Gambier Bulk FOB ***** FOB NSW 305 00 Old drum FOB 228 00 New drum FOB 232
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    • 289 6 Singapore (S$/kilo, e*-godown) Thai white 100% 1st class (kangaroo) 1 05 new crop 100% 2nd class 0 77 100% 3rd class 075 25% new crop No stock B-10% No stock Thai broken A-super 065 Special 060 Thai rice 55% No stock China rice 10% 092 15% No stock 25%
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    • 287 6 SINGAPORE The market closed lower yesterday with September One RSS buyers quoted at 188.25 cents per kg, down 2.25 cents from Tuesday. The morning session lost two cents following easier London advices and lack of buying interest. Prices fell a further quarter cent in the afternoon on some selling
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    • 89 6 THE Straits tin price in Penang yesterday remained at the International Tin Agreement floor level of M&9.15 per kg on continued lack of demand. London's easier trend dampened sentiment while sterling's rise against the Malaysian dollar widened the premium in Penang over the spot price in London. The
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    • 106 6 CHICAGO soybean futures closed 17 Vi to 20 cents per bushel higher on Tuesday in active trade, ending near the highs of the day. Wire houses and professionals bought on worries that dry weather forecast for mid-west growing areas during the next week will damage crops during the pod-setting
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    • 334 6 RAS prices (in S ce«ts/lulo, FOB hi boles) NOON CLOSE Int 1 RSS prompt Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers 185 00 186 00N 184 00 185 OON Int 1 RSS Sep 189 25 189 75 188 25 188 75 Int 1 RSS Oct 194 00 194 40 193
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    • 109 6 (in cents/1 ton pollets) September October (current mth) (forward mth) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 191 00 193 OON ***** 195 OON SSR 50 169 00 191 OON 191 00 193 OON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR cv 234 50 236 SON
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    • 115 6 CHICAGO WHEAT futures closed 3 cent higher on Tuesday to unchanged in extremely light, almost featureless trade. Prices lost early gains on unwinding of wheat soybean spreads, but losses were limited by price strength in soybean and corn pits. Conti-Commodity bought December late, while a prominent local sold December.
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    • 158 6 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed firm yesterday on late covering, aided by a higher Chicago soybean complex on Tuesday night. August deliveries in the central region rose Ms2s to $990 per tonne and south $10 to $980. In September, central and south were traded at $990 and
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 209 7 Interbank rates at 3pm Local dollars to quoted yoa itordoy i srooo polity change on* unit of foreign US dollar 2.1400 2.1414 2.8)96 -24.10 Storting pound Australian dolor ***** 2 8346 ***** -61 46 1 8050 1 8080 3.4286 -47 35 NZ dolor 1.0700 1.0726 3 4286 -68
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    • 234 7 SINGAPORE Futures recovered slightly yesterday from early losses in fairly active afternoon trading due to the softer US dollar, but still closed lower than New York's levels. December, which recorded a turnover of 1,566 lots, closed at U*****.40 an ounce traded against New York's 1366.60/367.00 close and compared with
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    • 118 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate slipped 14 per cent to close at V/t per cent on the Singapore interbank market yesterday. The one-month rate also eased by Vi per cent but funds for two and three months remained unchanged. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Offer Bid Overnight 8 7
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    • 579 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar fell back yesterday against most major currencies in thin late trading to close narrowly mixed compared with New York's levels. The dollar weakened in the afternoon on technical selling. It closed slightly lower at 2.8680/90 marks against New York's 2.8690/8705 close, and at 2.4040/50
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    • 36 7 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks and discount houses to tender for $70 million 91day Treasury bills. The tender closes on Aug 17. Each tender must not be for less than $250,000.
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    • Article, Illustration
      321 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates yesterday closed little changed from opening levels in thin afternoon trading. Period rates eased 1/16 point at the outset following news of an unexpected 0.9 per cent decline in US retail sales for July. Thereafter, three months rose 1/16 point to close at 12
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 276 7 Reuter MARKET pressure for a further cut in British clearing bank base rates increased on Tuesday. But the Bank of England has not yet shown it is willing to face another reduction, money market sources say. The central bank apparently wants to
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    • 115 7 Reuter US interest rates are likely to rise unless federal budget deficits are reduced, according to a report by the American Bankers Association (ABA) on consumer credit. Richard Jett, president of Empire Bank NA and a mem- ber of the panel which made
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    • 138 7 Reuter THE FEDERAL Reserve Bank of New York's surprise move to drain reserves was intended to force banks to step up borrowings from its discount window closer to the presumed target level of US$l billion a day. The Fed drained reserves via two-day
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    • 558 7 Reuter THE JAPANESE Finance Ministry is unlikely to respond positively to suggestions by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that a full secondary market be created in Treasury bills, money market sources say. The OECD said in last week's annual report on Japan's
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    • 376 7 UPI BANKERS will not extend a US$l25 million loan to Argentina that expired yesterday and will wait for an Argentine agreement with the International Monetary Fund before setting further talks, sources say. A bank committee was meeting late on Tuesday with Argentine
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    • 77 7 Reuter ASSETS and liabilities of commercial banks in Malaysia rose to M 560.53 billion in April from $60.21 billion in March and $50.55 billion last April. Deposits held by banks fell to $37.6 billion in April from $38.01 billion in March, against $34.5 billion last
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    • 59 7 AFP FORTY-NINE US banks have failed so far this year and 721 are in trouble, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The numbers are higher than those for the whole of last year. The government keeps a close watch on the management
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  • FEATURES
    • 500 8 IF THE United States presidency were an Olympic event, open only to amateurs, Ronald Reagan would certainly be one of the main contenders. That this 73-year old ex-Hollywood actor is an amateur playing the role of president is perhaps the kindest excuse one can offer for
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    • 1913 8  -  Proposals for restructuring the Third World debt that could avert the dreaded default By ANATOLE KALETSKY FT THIS TIME next year will be the crunch point for the Third World debt crisis. Despite the encouraging signs from Latin America at present, a downturn in the world
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    • 553 8  -  By KEITH STAFFORD Reuter JAPANESE BANKERS enjoying a hearty lunch at the Bankers' Club in Tokyo like to watch the white swans gliding on the moat of Emperor Hirohito's Palace across the road. Savouring smoked salmon, steak and wine, they look a happy, wealthy lot
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    • 164 8 Letters THE PROCEDURE laid down for approval of amendments to condominium development plans appears to have originated in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. The latest ruling is that any amendment to the internal layout of a strata title unit must be approved by the owners of
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    • 113 8  -  J W Winchanton I WAS INTERESTED to read Mr Sutton's letter (BT, Aug 10) referring to the British miners' strike. May I take him up on one point? British miners do not "invariably" take their holidays in Spain. When I was last in
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    • 517 9  -  By JIM WOLF AFP THAILAND HAS quietly taken a step towards rocketing a national communications satellite into space. On July 30, the Communications Ministry awarded a contract for a US$l.5-million feasibility study to Hughes Aircraft of the United States. The three-month study, due
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    • 1313 9  -  The shortest route between product and consumer may be direct marketing but it's on to a slow start By ANNA TEO WHAT WAS your reaction the last time you received "junk mail" in the letter-box? Chances are you either ignored the contents or did not even
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 377 12 Reuter NV Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken's second-quarter net profit is expected to show a doubling from the same quarter last year when the company releases its figures today, stock market analysts say. Profit per share in the quarter, taking this year's one-for-10 bonus payment into
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    • 101 12 Reuter CABLE and Wireless PLC has agreed to take over Mercury Communications by buying British Petroleum Co PLC's 50 per cent stake in the firm, according to the companies. Payment to BP will be based on costs incurred and will be conditional on the acceptance by Cable
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    • 298 12 THE MARKET lost ground in sluggish trading on Tuesday when an early spurt evaporated under the weight of profit-tak-ing following an unprecedented rally during the past three weeks. High-technology issues came under fire late in the day after IBM introduced a new personal computer.
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    • 121 12 Reuter FINANCIAL Corp of America (FCA) denied published reports that its savings and loan subsidiary, American Savings and Loan Association, has borrowed any monies from the Federal Reserve system. In a statement, the company said American had loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank of
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    • 120 12 I *oqfk&*V r nd Enjoy Our Prompt Efficient Service In Cool, Quiet Cosy Atmosphere WESTERN/ CHINESE/ LOCAL CUISINE Banquets Cater For Lunch Dinner Meetings Wedding Occasions, Birthday Parties At 16/- Onwards Per Person or Other Occasion With Function Rooms (Free of Charge) For 60 And Above. Taped Disco Music for
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    • 68 12 London stocks, Psgsl7 j* Feng Cheng Lou for the best Teochew food in town. Discover lV mouth-watering delights prepared by hong Kong chefs. And feel like Jgb royalty while you dine in Oriental splendour. Open daily from: 12.00 noon 3.00 pm for lunch and 7.00 pm 11.00 pm for dinner
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 394 13 HONGKONG: Share prices closed mostly firm yesterday after an easier opening which reflected continuing market consolidation after the Hang Seng Index rose to above 900 from 800 recently. Among the leaders, Cheung Kong rose five cents to HKJ7.BS, HK Electric five to $5.75, HK Land five to $2.70, Hutchison
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    • 275 13 AUG 15 NT Cham Indus 22 10 -0 1 Lien Hwa Indus 1420 0 2 AM Sneer* tndu% 755 -0.1 Non Ya Plos 31 60 0 2 25 50 28 50 Cathoy Can* 30 70 02 Pacific Elect Chang Hwa Bank 59 50 0 5 Wire 1980 unch Chen
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    • 348 13 TOKYO: The market closed sharply higher yesterday on late bargain hunting and other buying centred on populars and incentive-backed issues. The market average rose 80.58 points from Tuesday's close to 10,441.50. Turnover was a light 210 million shares against 170 million on Tuesday. Leading gainers included Hitachi up 11
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    • 125 13 MANILA: Share prices closed generally easier yesterday in trading which remained dull because of the Philippine economic situation. The Mining Index was down 4.67 at 915.44 and oils eased 0.013 to 0.657. The Commercial and Industrial marker was unchanged at 113.92. Philexß fell to 0.11 from 0.1150, Oriental B
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    • 379 13 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed firmer yesterday with heavy buying in resource stocks. Near the close, the All Ordinaries Index was up 7.4 at 735.1, the All Industrials Index was up 4.6 at 1021.7 and the All Resources Index was up 9.1 at 510.7. National turnover was 33.87 mil-
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    • 166 13 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed higher yesterday in active trading spurred by positive market reports on two listed companies. The Book Club Index rose 0.88 point to 120.27 and volume was an unusually high 1.46 million shares compared with 428,568 on Tuesday. Siam Commercial Bank gained eight to finish at
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    • 131 13 Reuter ARCO China Inc, a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Co, has successfully completed delineation testing of a major natural gas discovery made Last summer in the South China Sea. The Yacheng 13-1-2 well confirms a potential production capability for the discovery of several hundred million
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    • 267 13 FT RECOVERY by Australian Motor Industries, which is half-owned by Toyota of Japaji, has gathered pace with second-half net profits totalling A 57.5 million against a $3.4 million loss previously. The gain on the back of an increased share for its Toyota vehicle in an
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    • 110 13 Reuter STATE-OWNED BL PLC hopes to sign a final agreement in the next few weeks leading to shipment of its Morris Ital car production line to Pakistan, says a spokesman for the company's Austin Rover division. BL will initially send kits for assembly in Pakistan with
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    • 51 13 Reuter copper companies THE PHILIPPINE government has allowed three copper companies which incurred losses in the first half of the year to suspend tax payments until copper prices improve. The companies are Atlas Mining and Development Corp, Marcopper Corp and North Davao Mining Corp.
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    • 297 13 Bernama MANY potential Malaysian car buyers are now rushing to place orders to avoid a possible car price increase in the coming budget. Several big car companies have reported heavy bookings lately following fears of another round of
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4282 15 SHARE prices closed mixed to easier on slightly improved volume at the Singapore stock market yesterday. Intermittent bouts of profit-taking, evident throughout the day, were well absorbed. At the day's close, the BT Composite Index had lost 1.81 points to 843.82
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    • 256 15 SINGAPORE Rise* Indices Tronoh Aug 14 Aug IS M«#i 910 60 (T Com»o»n ***** ***** G Luml >•» 237 23 IT lndKttn *****96 250*654 Komunting 50« 1460 20 «T OS/OS 126 +14 Stfc Mm Ind 600 20 ST Udwtnob 954 18 952 35 Vonco r Prod 164
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    • 454 15 AFTER having drifted downwards during the past few sessions, share prices on the Kuala Lumpur stock market recovered yesterday to close on a slightly steadier note. Trading was active, with speculative issues continuing to hog the limelight. Several counters posted double-digit gains. At the
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    • 4383 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
    • 766 16 MULTI-PURPOSE Holdings Bhd (MPHB) is now better placed to play a more effective role in the banking sector in Malaysia with the acquisition of a controlling stake in Malaysian French Bank Bhd (MFB). In a circular to shareholders, MPHB
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    • 104 16 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hang Seng Index Wednesday 1021.7 Tuesday 1017.1 Wednesday 918.83 Week ago 979 7 Tuesday 912.60 NEW YORK Dow Jones Week ago 885 49 TOKYO Tuesday 1214.11 Tokyo Dow Jones Monday 1220.08 Week ago 1202.96 Wednesday *****.50 Tuesday *****.92 Standard and Poors Week ago *****.63 Tuesday
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    • 239 16 Managers' prices Second B'putro 5 30 5 35 for Aug 15 Third B'putro Fourth B'putro 4 33 4 38 4 92 4 97 Singapore Unit Trust Fifth B'putro Sixth B"putro 3 35 3 40 3 18 3 23 The Commerce 3.12 3 31 Seventh B'putro (A) 2 22
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    • 160 16 Reuter CHAR .-K Consolidated's stake in the merged Mercury Securities PLC banking/stock broking group is expected to fall to five per cent compared with its 29.9 per cent existing limited partnership interest in brokers Rowe and Pitman. Industry sources said the small size of
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    • 2840 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 Aiinometo (J. 90S) Alcom (2.185) (2) 2 20 (I)
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    • 147 16 THE United Malacca Rubber Estates Berhad: 70th AGM on Aug 25 at noon in Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho, N0.8H, Malacca. VENEER Products Limited: 25th AGM and EGM on Aug 27 at 3pm in in Prosperity Room. 3rd Storey. The Plaza, 7500A, Beach Road, Singapore 0719. KINTA Kellas Tin
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    • 734 16 MLB IN THE longer term, City Developments and Malayan United Industries represent good value, while in the short to medium term, Malayan Cement's operating margins are likely to widen. London-based stockbrokers Laurence, Prust Co said in spite of problems in both
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    • 337 17  -  By CHAN MAY PENG THE 117,710-tonne Saudi Arabian oil tanker, A 1 Ahood, which was salved by Selco Salvage Ltd in May, has been sold as scrap to breakers in Taiwan for just over US$2.4 million. Meanwhile, negotiations are going on
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    • 202 17  -  By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI INTERNATIONAL WOOD Products Ltd has, through a whollyowned Hongkong subsidiary Multiwood Company Ltd, acquired a 54 per cent stake in a Hongkong computer-paper manufacturing company for U*****,000. Interwood bought 1.35 million shares in Schinner Hong Kong Business Forms Ltd at
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    • 256 17 DIRECTORS of Sealion Hotels Ltd yesterday requested that trading in the company's shares be suspended pending a further announcement. The market has been talking of a generous bonus and rights issues to accompany a good set of interim results. The suspension lends some weight to this speculation. UNITED
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    • 828 17  -  By CHAN OI CHEE THE LONG drawn-out saga between Metro Holdings Ltd and Ngee Ann Kongsi over Orchard Square is approaching an amicable close sooner than expected. It is understood that three property-based parties have expressed interest to bid for the leased piece
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    • 628 17  - Bank Negara intervened in affairs of D C Bank By NAJEEB JARHOM SENATOR Alexander Lee's resignation as general manager of Development Commercial Bank, Malaysia's fifth largest bank, was the culmination of a heated controversy over the management of the bank. The issue, kept under wraps since March, was serious enough
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    • 780 17 SHARE prices opened slightly firmer where changed in quiet trading yesterday However, the FT-30 index at noon was down 0.4 points at 849.2 and the FT-SE 100 fell 0.4 points to 1091.4 after a slight gain earlier. Yesterday's closing prices were not available at press time. The following
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    • 398 17  -  By CHEN QINGSHUN FIRST Allied Corporation Berhad (FACB), formerly known as Electrical and Allied Industries Bhd is still in the red. In the financial year ended March 31, 1964, operating losses before tax and after interest on borrowings, depreciation and amortisation amounted to
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    • 265 17 FEDERAL Cables, Wire and Metal Manufacturing Bhd is making a M 517.05 million cash call through a rights issue. This is accompanied by an attractive bonus issue. Federal Cables has proposed to issue 17.05 million new shares of $1 each at par on
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    • 229 16 THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED INTERIM REPORT 1984 The Directors of The Bank of East Asia, Limited announce that the unaudited consolidated profit after providing for taxation and after making transfers to inner reserves for the six months period ended 30th June, 1984 amounted to HK549,397,000, profit for the
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  • 460 18  -  By YAP BOH HOON TELECOMS IS introducing an alpha-numeric paging system (ANPS), which will improve its message paging services for subscribers. A tender to supply, install and commission the ANPS was called on July 13. It will close on Oct 12. The system which
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  • 151 18 Reuter SINGAPORE plans to raise penalties against breaches of copyright on music, books and computer software by the end of the year. Government officials said yesterday that the move follows an .appeal by US Secretary of State George Shultz for a quick end to the
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  • 80 18 UPI TUESDAY was a proud day for the Reagans. The US President's daughter, Patti Davis, and yoga instructor Paul Grilley tied the nuptial knot on that day. They were married at a private ceremony at the Bel Air Hotel by Rev Donn Moomaw. The ceremony lasted
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  • 110 18 THE AUSTRALIAN Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bill Hayden, arrives in Singapore today for an official visit. He will be accompanied by his wife and four officials. Mr Hayden's visit follows an invitation from Mr S Dhanabalan, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for
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  • 176 18 MANAGERS and directors should develop good working attitudes for their workers to follow. Dr Wong Kwei Cheong, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, speaking at the National Productivity Association's (NPA) annual general meeting yesterday, said that complaints about managers' attitudes were often brought
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  • 319 18  -  By JOHN LIM, Industrial Correspondent A DOWNSTREAM company at the Singapore petrochemical complex that uses the latest technology to produce plastic resins is run mainly by Singaporeans, with the help of only two expatriate engineers. Phillips Petroleum Singapore Chemicals, which was officially inaugurated yesterday,
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  • 258 18 UPI TRIGGER-HAPPY pirates slaughtered 33 people, including all 23 men, during an attack on a flimsy boat crossing the Sulu Sea between southern Philippines and Sabah, Malaysian police said yesterday. Sabah Police Commissioner Yahaya Yeop Ishak said the three heavily armed
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  • 537 18  -  By SOH TIANG KENG LOWER corporate profits have led to less income tax collected by the Singapore government for the first quarter of this year. Latest statistics from the Inland Revenue Department show that its income tax collection from January to
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  • 116 18 THE HEAD Office of Bank of Seoul and Trust Company, the biggest commercial bank in South Korea, signed an agreement yesterday to issue US$2O million floating rate certificates of deposit. Indosuez Asia (Singapore) will act as lead manager and agent for the four-year
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  • 71 18 WALL Street stock prices were lower in early trading yesterday as investors continued taking profits in the light of a strong gain in US industrial production. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell nearly six points on Tuesday, was down another five to around 1210. Overall, losers
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  • LATE FILE
    • 34 18 Reuter AUSTRALIA yesterday said that it would build a US$l4O million air defence base in the Northern Territory for a squadron of its new American-made F/A-18 Hornet fighters. Reuter
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    • 70 18 Reuter A THAI lawyer who had offered free legal service to the poor and championed human rights causes has been awarded the 1984 Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service. Thongbai Thongpao, 58, is being recognised for his "effective and fair use of his legal skills
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    • 51 18 AP INDIAN Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said yesterday that although India had acquired the capability to manufacture nuclear weapons, it did not have a single atomic bomb. Mrs Gandhi said the country's nuclear capability was being used for "peaceful purposes" like electricity generation and farming.
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    • 49 18 Reuter REAL capital investment in Hongkong will grow about 4 per cent this year from 1983. The Chartered Bank's monthly economic report said that the growth would be made possible by expansion in the public sector and strong spending on industrial and office machinery.
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    • 46 18 Reuter THE Soviet Union had another trade surplus with the West in the first half of this year and its industrial output rose by a healthy 4.6 per cent in the January-July period, said the Official Economic Gazette in Moscow yesterday. Reuter
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    • 52 18 AFP SRI LANKAN soldiers were responsible for the burning of 123 shops in the northwestern town of Mannar last Sunday and Monday, Transport Minister M H Mohamed told Cabinet in Colombo yesterday. Mannar residents who lost their property during the rampage would receive up to USC,OOO in
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    • 47 18 UPI FOUR British minehunters and a support ship entered the Gulf of Suez yesterday to search and destroy underwater explosives while a second French minesweeper docked at Port Said, waiting for an American vessel and four helicopters to join the operation. UPI
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    • 46 18 wmm Outlook for today: Foir. f hours prior to 7 30pm on Aug 15 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.5 Associated humidity 66 Minimum temperature 25.4 Associated humidity 90 Hours of sunshine 9.65 Rainfall in millimetres Nil Rainfall this month 34.6 Rainy days this month 5
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 120 19 Reuter INDONESIA'S state oil company, Pertamina, has signed contracts with four Indonesian companies for the procurement of four tankers of 85,000 deadweight tonnes each. A Pertamina spokesman said all four tankers would be built by Japanese shipyards and are expected to be delivered within 18 months. Two of
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      • 68 19 A SOVIET intelligence collection ship is operating off the north-west coast and is under surveillance by US and Canadian forces. The 294-foot vessel Semen Chelyushkin, with a crew of about 50, was about 96 km off the Columbia river mouth, heading east, early Tuesday, said navy spokesman James
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    • 545 19  -  By LINDA CHEE THE UNITED States has decided not to impose an interim regulation where textile imports have to be checked by customs at the port of arrival before they can be transported to the point of destination. The concession was announced
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    • 128 19 Reuter LLOYD'S of London will consider charging a premium on hull and cargo war risk rates if explosions in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea continue. "We are watching the situation all the time," a spokesman for the insurance exchange said in response
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    • 371 19 UNITED STATES Lines is expected to seek membership in the giant Far Eastern Freight Conference for the Far East-Europe leg which will form a crucial part of the company's round-the-world service. According to Lloyd's List, no official discussions have taken
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    • 676 19 Shipping Lin* N|« Co4 Ateo VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner VI 5 Alphotrons VI 4 Alpoc VI 5 Antoro Shpg IV 1 APC Lme V 4 APL M 4/5 ASCL M 1 Aiiobroker V 5 Austomo Lme V 1 Bait-Orient VI 4/5 Bangkok Cont VI 2 Bank Line
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    • 457 20 AP A.CANADIAN commission of, inquiry has released its preliminary report into the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, almost two-and-a-half y£ars after the worst peacetimemaritime disaster in Canadian history. The $120 million semisubmersible oil rig capsized in a violent storm on Feb
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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 Line.
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    • 1419 20 Maritime Asia THE somewhat maligned freight traffic infrastructure of Malaysia has been showing consistant improvement over the past two years or so. Although it is hard to estimate the additional costs that may have been added to shipping operations in Malaysia because of the high price and
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    • 1784 20 FAIRLY quiet chartering is reported in all sectors of the freight market on Tuesday, with less interest seen in timecharter business out of the Far East, shipbrokers said. A vessel of 22,000 long dwt was booked from South Africa to the Continent at US$2,BOO daily, while a 15,000
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    • 999 21 ANGOLA Luanda July 30th. 2 3 days delays. ARGENTINA Buenos Aires July 24th 30th. 4 generals: 3 5 days 6 grain loaders: 12-16 days 3 grain carriers: 8-10 days. 35 vessels berthed. Necoehea 1 grain loader: 2 3 days. 4 vessels berthed. Bahia Blanca 0 3 days. 1
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    • 428 21 RECRUITING agents in the Philippines are divided on whether the government should make the local purchase of airline tickets mandatory for transporting Filipino seamen and other workers to and from the country. Currently, most agents and foreign shipowners use the prepaid ticket advice
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    • 363 21 Lloyd's List RADICAL changes in Nigeria's shipping policy, which could mean the introduction of cargo sharing, will be disclosed by the military government in the next few weeks. A detailed assessment of the country's maritime trade is nearing completion and the government has indicated
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    • 224 21 THE PORT of Los Angeles has been accused by Hongkong Islands Line (HKIL) of being less than honest in dealing with the line, by granting a five-year lease to Korean Shipping Corportation for a 25-acre container terminal formerly used by American President
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    • 264 21 SEMINAR on port reception facilities for shipbome wastes, including oil residues, is to be held at the London headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on Aug 30-31. The seminar is designed to assist compliance with the International Convention for the Prevention of
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    • 6139 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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    • 666 27 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Ship Arrival for LCL movement Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location £har Kwei 8W 17.8.84 0800 Frata FSB 1200-1300/1900-2000 U2 Prasetia 16SB84 17.8 84 1300 Seven Seas FSB 1100-1200/2100-2200 F3 Annapurna 412 17.8 84 1500 Sea Consort TA
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    • 1648 27 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B APE A African Shipping Agencies (Si Urt-Ktnrit Uae Transgroup (S) Ahreattel User Servto Kjm Shpg (S) Alfred C Twfhf Oceanus Shipping Agency (S) Manntrx Enterprise (PK) Alpar Intrasea (S) Binung Shpg (KL) Island Cargo
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    • 471 28 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Cottbus 6/7 S'pore Shpg alongside 16.8.84/0530 Eastern Pride 15/6 Orient Lloyd alongside 16.8.84/1100 Sanko Scorpio 19 Sharp alongside 16.8.84/2300 Yang Cheng 46 Y Fung alongside 16.8.84/1500 Alek Korneychuk 15/6 S'pore Sov 16.8.84/1100 17.8.84/1100 Barber Tampa 46/7 Barber
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    • 1013 22 KIE GWAN SHIPPING (M) SDN. BHD. No 26 A IAIAN STRANG AN fORT HUANG SEIANGOR MALAYSIA Til Not 38*78? *****5 *****? *****4.*****2.*****7 W. MALAYSIA/S PORE TO E MALAYSIA SERVICES: t KIIA tHAII SI NAN'. TGAMBtLA THATI BAIK KK $kan Tawau KK Skan I Datu Tawau KK S kan. lawau KK
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    • 188 22 US I NOSE MARITIME PTE LTD KYOWA LINE TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA/ SOUTH PACIFIC Smgapore PKelang load** tar: CRYSTAL ROSE 19/8 Noumea, Lautoka. Suva. Papeette Pafo, Apia. Jeyapwa KYOWA COSMOS In Port P-Moresby, Lae. flewak, Madang, Rabaul. Kieta. Horaara Accepting Contameri far Mcronesia, South Pacific subject to rducamont AUNTS SINGAPORf
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    • 531 23 PIL GROUP 1 EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES KARACHI/P.GULF SERVICES VOYAGE SPORE KARACHI KOTA MAKMUR KOTA CAHAYA E-304 E-306 22-25/1 20-24/9 24 27/9 19-22/10 16-19/9 15-19/10 2-13/9 4-12/10 COLOMBO/CHITTAGONG/RANGOON SERVICES BANGKOK DIRECT SERVICES INDONESIA SERVICES •1/TJ4W 9/84 9/84 1-2/9 24-25/8 5-8/9 28-30/8 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PTE LTD PIL BLDG., 140 Cecil Street,
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    • 258 23 MALAYSIA SHIPPING CORPN. SDN. BHD. VESSEL VOY PENANG P. KELANG LOAMS FOR KOTA MDAH 6/M 19-21/8 22-2S/I KUC/KK/SKN/ LJMIH ROTABERUAN 6/M 19-25/1 TA/KK/LBN KOTABAHAGIA 7/M 1-15/9 KK/SKN/TA Agents SINGAPORE PIE Tfl *****33 P KFLANG SEIATAN AGENCY lEI 3880b6 *****32 HI SELATAN AGENCY TEI *****9 *****2 PENANG LEAN BEE 4 CO
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    • 744 23 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE 10 EUROPE Han*w( fiprru Kurjmj Mjru Bermroo Honftonf (ipresi Carif jo Bit Benalder l»«H Bji Howtoon Bji Hjmbuii Eipress FROM EUROPE HAM Kwjnu Mjru Sjded Cil» ol sM Thames Maru SiM Benj.on Sjded Hoof* onf (ipress Saded C*4f jo Bm Saded Beojlde-
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    • 567 23 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF Far East S'pore Service Fii Container Vessel Bus*i Toko Kobe Km Spore Tffnofc Imam shunt MAIAPAMT VI2WB 20/7 23/7 21/7 1/t 10/t 12/1 EXPRESS SEW CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE STOW P KELANGR'DAM TIBURY/HWRG/ ANTWERP BAAB ULLAH OMII Lo,<X l BWMEN VSNB 4 9/9 13/9 2/10
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    • 576 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon S pore P.Kelong Penong Htone Ywa V 194 19/20 Aug 16/17 Aug Pagan V7B 3/5 Sept Avo* 28/30 Aug 25/26 Aug LOADING FOR HONGKONG, JAPAN \> BANK LINE EXPRESS DEPENDENT SERVICE TO UK/CONT SPORE R'DAM HULL
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    • 815 24 ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE FEEDER/ MOOCH KL STORE KOBE MONTE RUBY V2O NAKAARZU MMU V492S 17 Auf 3 See KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. GUAYAQUI CALLAO KMC* 3 Oct IQUQUE 10 Oct ANTOFAGASTA VALPARAISO S MfTOMO li Oct 13 Oct 12 Oct TAIWAN-JAPAN-CHINA AISO AC CEP TRIG SHANGHAI. HSMGXANG TSUGIAO MOD NAHA SHM2U VIA
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    • 411 24 11, HI,-. .1 Accepting Brsakbulk and contairwriMd cargoaa Diract to South Africa Spore Dirta» Bay Cl*»n El# Maputo t Efc Accepting Container t Bfeafcbult s* yn«GfKiF«*M3 >«/» 2* !S'? S A MOftGENSTEIt V 093 U coNSiwnu v 043 Accepting Containers Onl KD COLOMBO VMI2T OSAKA MAMJ W 6517F 23/5 14/9
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    • 663 24 '/iC CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE loMknftoi IOSANGEIES SAN f AANCIStO SEATTLE TACOMA VANCOUVER BC Accepta* FCt FCI Contanm P I A«|et« RKSSa j Sept 10 11 Sept 7 Oct AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Acceptaif FCI FCI Cantaam P Attanf Spwe htm VRMANAMM k.Pt/16 A« 17/19 A* ?b
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    • 457 24 GOLDEN LINE CHIN GUAM SHI WW (PTE) LTD ■mi T«f Promt* M M*« M Crcl Stroot owrai 0104 i# »itm ut lmji Tot Htijb law Wll r RMwf ami Pmmi JfMM Pm faManf »f«* OtfUT UOTD (Ml SDK K) TIL M 370 STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: S po«. p Man* GOLDEN
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    • 454 24 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD 10 Anson Road "27 16 Intefnational Pia/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****11 (10 Lines) o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK P.T. KALIMANTAN SHIPPING CO. LTD. IAI AN IANAH AfiAffc. I 173/lft lAKARTA TIL *****9 *****1 1437% DIRECT WEEKLY SERVICE TO JAKARTA, INDONESIA Daily receiving cargo at Marina Wharf T.A.
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 598 25 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTC TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia 0 CHIEF S pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 1300 21/8 LCI Cargo 0100 21/8 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) TO AND FROM AUSTRALIA: SURABAYA JAKARTA SINGAPORE PENANG BRISBANE SYDNEY BURNE ADELADE 17, FREMANTLE 22, Also accepting cargo
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    • 590 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels DO*** SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO BANGKOK. KEELUNG. BUSAN, INCHON (10 6 DOM* «0W GfKIAI SUMtT 20/t/U FROM MOO 1?00 MIS M MITEI NHARWS GON 37 S SPi*t AUNIS NIPTUNf AGENCIES PJF 110 Tel *****7/ ?*****4 iBookm(s) ???7SIO ??1?0?? lOperjlmm) ??7?W ??09?84 (I*(mnjl i ??0?4S0 ??0?S04
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    • 761 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Sinfapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SWSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG M/S SHARK AT NAM SOON SON BM> IST ANO 2ND FLOOR NO 1, IALAN CEMPtNWG PORT KLANG
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    • 68 25 DURBAN. JOHANNESBURG. MAPUTO. MAURITIUS REUNION D Vessel BRIGHT FORMOSA V 26 DORIS I V 14 LAMN V 14 SHEN6 TAI LINE REGULAR LINEB SERVICE TAIWAN-STRAITS-TAIWAN RAO KEE SPORE P KELANC MOSA ¥.26 31/7 Saied In Nrt 4 7/1 10/1 lt/S 20/1 20/S 23/1 31/1 2/9 General Agents EAGLE CORPORATION (PTE)
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 606 26 Kef|i<NMl Container Lines <Vp°Vly ll,il!»jJ Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hrs. Tue®. Thurs Sat REGULAR FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGKLA VOY Sm Ml* BKK PKT SKLI RATAN* BHUM 03/1(8 Saied In Pt 16 Au(IS 19 Aug RATANA BHUM 189 190 X/ 27 Aug 21/31 «u( RATANA BHUM 253/254 2/3
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 115 27 French Line LICOUNE m=*& StAIION SWUNG (S) PTE LTD. SAktS/BOOKINGS TEL *****51 (S LMES) VMMI M/V HAUSSMANN VBLS4 M/V ANJOU V9LS4 M/V ARMAGNAC VIOIS4 CONTAINER SERVICE TO BANGLA DESH/INDIA/SRI LANKA/PAKISTAN MAMAS 1»! n/.!-V. 1 HALOU (CALCUTTA 14/8 8/9 17/10 COLOMBO 18/8 Sea winds DIRECT FULL CONTAINER SERVICES TO US PACIFIC
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    • 169 27 Scan Dutch To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) To Red Sea/Mediterranean Anson 6/9 Anson 3/10 FE P. KELANG 6 Butane 7/9 6 Kemumng 5/10 N Van Noort N Van Diemen From Europe Also Accepting To: (1) Barcelona, Genoa, Bilbao, Leghorn Valencia (2) Amsterdam, Antwerp, LeHovre, Basle, Southampton, Liverpool, London (Tilbury), Canory Islands (3)
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 102 28 WORLD LINE EXPRESS REGULAR SERVICE JAPAN/HONGKONG/STRAITS AISO ACCfPHNC C«KO TO POUT KEIANG VI SSI t S SPO« PMIAIIG BLUE SHARK Ml 163 Au( 17/11 A* 19 70 UXDCNIAKE Wl 177 Au| 21 22 Au| 73 74 ORfNTAI ACE Wl 17 Auj 2t 29 Auf 30/31 Al WSC «e*ieh bertti Snfapore
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 170 28 Weather h Vi N 9 T H 0 2 1 L 1 i LS [A_ 1 US 5& s^> s&b 1 If SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND R Thunderstorm Shower Temperature Weather Wind direction with speed in knots Rain v-X 0 Cloudy Sky Wove
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