The Business Times, 1 September 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) N®. 66/1/84 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1584 60 CENTS
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  • 214 1 SENIOR management changes have taken place in Singapore Land Ltd after the recent restructuring of the Ocean Leila group, a majority shareholder of the listed property company. Two directors, Mr RD Kissin and Mr Robert lau resigned from Singland's board on Aug 24 and
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  • 77 1 SINGAPORE Airlines will fly twice-weekly to Kaohsiung in Taiwan from tomorrow. With this new service, SIA passengers now have a choice of two gateways to Taiwan, the other being Taipei. The Airbus A3OO flights leaves Singapore every Sunday and Tuesday at 10am and arrive in Kaohsiung at
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  • 408 1  -  By JOANNE YAP SOME PEOPLE are not taking chances after last week's cholera outbreak at an old folks' home. At least one construction company is to send its 1,000 workers for vaccination, while several other companies are making enquiries about vaccinations for their staff.
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  • 619 1  -  By ALVIN TAY,PENG AILIAN PROPOSED AMENDMENTS to the Finance Companies Act will give the Monetary Authority of Singapore immediate control of any finance company found to be mismanaging public funds, or insolvent. Depositors and creditors are clearly the main beneficiaries of the bill,
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  • 255 1 SINGAPORE'S sunrise industries will receive yet more official incentives to expand under the terms of a Bill introduced in Parliament a week ago and given to the press yesterday. If it is approved by the House, companies engaged in engineering or technical services, including laboratory,
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  • Article, Illustration
    72 1 THE Singapore stock market closed on an even keel yesterday and turnover was higher in view of the new settlement period. Hiere was also Increased participation from investors across the Causeway since the Knala Lumpur Stock Exchange was closed for the Malaysian National Day celebrations. At the final
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  • 446 1  -  By BOEY KIT YIN INVESTIGATION by the US government into alleged subsidisation of Singapore's exports of textiles and garments are turning into a comprehensive survey of the industry. This has annoyed manufacturers and exporters in Singapore who question the need to
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  • 346 1 SENIOR reservist officers of the rank of lieutenant colonel and above will now be considered for high-level appointments in the Ministry of Defence and headquarters of service units. And selected scholar reservists in the public sector are now allowed to be
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  • 68 1 Reuter IRANIAN President Ali Khamenei yesterday gave Kuwait an implicit warning over what his country sees as its collusion in the hijack earlier this week of an Iranian airliner to Iraq with more than 200 people on board. "We are considering seriously the actions which we suspect
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    • 273 1 CONTRACTORS working on OUR VIEW COMPANY NEWS ♦he more than 400 worksites V/ w n wlfc w w hove been given o chance to THE MAJORITY of visitors hungry tor "the reol Singopore" ore /J"™J>, take port .no productivity nO like t0 ou ne Singapore experience because of OUD V
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    • 217 1 ENEXASIAB4 An Interfama organised show Tel *****12 Speak your mind KSR, BT's occasional columnist, surfaces to give his view on dissent. He feels that those who really care about the society we live in must clarify their ideas and promulgate them in the way most suited to them. If there
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 502 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH CONTRACTORS working on the more than 400 worksites in Singapore were given a chance yesterday to take part in a three-month productivity competition that could prove financially beneficial to the winners. The competition is organised jointly by the Housing
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    • 299 2 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER Sep 3-4 Sep 3-4 Sep 3-5 Sep 4 Sep 4-5 Sep 8-13 Sep 10-11 Sep 10-12 Sep 10-14 Sep 10-15 Robotics-Project Engineering M6805 SingleChip MicroController The Marketing Of Financial Banking Services Theory Practice Of Estate Agency Going Public In Singapore-The Financial, Banking
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    • 208 2 A 22-MEMBER trade mission organised by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Industry (SCCCI) will be visiting four East European countries next week. They will be visiting East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria to explore trade opportunities for consumer
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    • 84 2 A DRAMATIC touch will be added to lunch at Raffles Place next month when members of the Experimental Theatre Club serve up a series of one act plays at the Shell theatrette at Shell Tower. It is all part of Shell's lunchtime cultural programme
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    • 450 2 PRINTING companies may be in for a boom time as the government is now considering ways to encourage more books to be printed locally to make them cheaper for the reading public. At present, books imported from the US cost 553.20 for every
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    • 135 2 NINETY-EIGHT people will take part in the National Skills Competition 1984, to be held on Sep 3, 4, 5 and 7. Those taking part 77 apprentices and workers from 41 companies and 21 full-time trainees from seven training institutes were selected from a total of
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    • 224 2 TELEFAX service is now available to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Telecoms Customer Services Centre (Comcentre Branch), Exeter Road and Telecom Building, 35 Robinson Road. The Telefax service to UAE is also available to subscribers who use their own facsimile transceivers in their
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    • 137 2 SPENSER CHAN has been appointed account group director at Needham Standard International. Mr Chan began his advertising career as an account executive at Comi> ton Singapore. He joined Needham in April this year. In his new capacity, he will assume management functions for major Needham accounts as
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    • 143 2 A FILIPINO construction worker was killed early yesterday morning while working on the site of a large condominium project developed by Kuok (S), Keck Seng, Pontiac Land and other companies. Mr Lemar Deo Carurucan, 30, was working near an excavation site in the Regency
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  • 1136 2 Vtml Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Bintang 15/6 alongside 1.9/0900 Builder 23/4 alongside 1.9/0700 Eternal Moon 25/6 alongside 1.9/1500 Ned Barcelona 44 alongside 1.9/2300 Chi Yun 45 1.9/0600 10.9/1200 Chidambaram 31/2 1.9/1200 4 9/1500 Equator IV 22 1.9/0700 2.9/0700 Kim Soon Li 23 1.9/0700 2.9/0700 Makmur 20W
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 474 3 AP BREAKING WITH most of the American labour establishment, the United States' biggest individual labour union Thursday endorsed President Ronald Reagan's bid for re-election to a second four-year term. The decision by leaders of the 1.9-million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters was disclosed
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    • 223 3 NYT A JUDGE removed John Zaccaro, husband of Democratic vicepresidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, as trustee of an old woman's financial affairs. But the judge said he found no suggestion of dishonesty or malicious intent when Zaccaro borrowed U*****,000 from the woman's assets for
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    • 256 3 UPI PRESIDENT Konstantin Chernenko's absence from the closing ceremony of Moscow's Alternative Olympics on Thursday has refuelled rumours that the 72-year-old Soviet leader is ill. Although there was no evidence that Mr Chernenko had planned to attend the small closing ceremony in
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    • 323 3 Reuter THE LEADERS of Israel's two main political groups, Shimon Peres of the Labour Party and Yitzhak Shamir of the Likud bloc, have agreed to rotate the premiership. Israel state radio in Tel Aviv said yesterday that the two men, in talks aimed at
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    • 100 3 MONEY CHANGERS counting their cash oatslde the main post office along Tel Aviv's Allenby Street. These changers do a brisk business every day, dealing in bundles of (JS dollars and Israeli shekels, as well as other currencies. Israelis are forbidden to hold foreign curren-
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    • 184 3 Reuter THE 1984 SESSION of the 40nation Geneva Disarmament Conference came to an end yesterday, with a stalemate on every item on its agenda after six months of talk. Even moves to continue private exchanges during the recess on the only
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    • 209 3 Reuter THE MENACE of mystery mines in the Red Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, may be over. The mines, laid by still unknown people, damaged at least 17 ships in one month, setting off accusations and denials of
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    • 245 3 Reuter LEBANESE Muslim and Christian forces around Beirut fought artillery and rocket duelled only hours after thousands of mourners attended the funeral of the nation's most prominent Christian leader, Falangist Party leader Pierre Gemayel. Falangist Radio reported sporadic shelling of residential areas in Christian
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    • 449 3 NYT THE ANNUAL report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is sceptical of the way in which the economic recovery in the industrialised countries, led by the US, can be expected to filter through to the developing world. It
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    • 175 3 Reuter THE US believes no comprehensive solution to the international debt problem is possible, William Middendorf, US Ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS) told a meeting of regional finance ministers. "While the desire for a comprehensive, simple solution is understandable and human, this desire
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    • 268 3 UPI LIBYAN LEADER Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has inaugurated a multi-billion-dollar project which he calls "the eighth wonder of the world" to draw water from under the desert and pipe it 2,000 km north to the Mediterranean coast. The Libyan leader,
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    • 259 3 Reuter BRITAIN earned a record surplus of £2.67 billion from investment in bonds and shares abroad in 1963, an increase of more than 60 per cent on the previous year, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) said. The figure reflected the rise
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    • 89 3 AP SCIENTISTS might be on the verge of confirming the first clinically proven aphrodisiac a chemical from the bark of a tropical tree, which made laboratory rats go wild, researchers at Stanford University said. Yohimbine, a folk medicine used by African tribesmen for
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    • 746 3 ARRIVALS Operator S«fvic« number Local tim« From PAA PA5 0020 JFK/SFO/HKG CAL CI331 0150 TPE MAS MH68I 0820 KUL KAL KE624 0840 KUL CV CV796 0845 LUX/AUH MAS MH60I 0905 KUL sv SV386 0910 JED/RUH MAS MH671 0935 KUL MAS MH81I 0940 PEN CAL CI806 0945 HLP
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    • 463 4 Showdown expected at OECD meeting NYT THE US administration is coming under strong domestic pressure to pull out of the gentleman's agreement between rich nations not to undercut each other in helping their exporters to win business with subsidised credit in the developing world. According to
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    • 131 4 Reuter THAILAND's House of Representatives yesterday approved after a day-long debate a record US|9.2 billion national budget for fiscal 1985. The four-party ruling government coalition pushed through the budget Bill at midnight with an overwhelming ***** vote, after defeating an opposition move to cut
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    • 241 4 AFP THE Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC) has authorised Britain temporarily to suspend imports of some textile products from China and Rumania, including goods passing through other EEC countries. With regard to China, products affected are cotton fabrics, while with
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    • 111 4 Reuter TAIWAN expects to lower tariffs across the board in November in the latest of a series of measures to encourage imports, a Finance Ministry official said. The ministry has sent a draft revision of the Customs Import Tariff to the cabinet, seeking approval by the
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    • 318 4 SOUTH Korea's economy continues to grow at a fast pace, with exports rising, inflation easing and growth in gross national product (GNP) expected to top 8 per cent again this year. Economic Planning Minister Shin Byong-hyun said the government expects GNP, which grew
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    • 308 4 Reuter PHILIPPINES BUDGET Minister Manuel Alba has confirmed economists' fears that the country's gross national product would decline. He said in his budget speech that the GNP growth rate would be negative because of significant cutbacks in infrastructure projects and the slowdown in private sector
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    • 68 4 NURSES AT a hospital in Hsidanhsim, Wast Garmany, hava no tirsd lags to nurss no mora. Thay hava bought six scootsrs for thair own uaa in sttsnding to patiants. Thasa scootsrs srs usad only during tha night shift bscauss tha balancing act naadad to stsar them
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    • 161 4 AFP NO AMERICAN films will be exhibited in India after Sep 1, following the breakdown in talks between the Indian government and the Motion Picture Export Association of America, an MPEAA spokesman said. The Indian government's contract with MPEAA expired in September
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 145 4 Chinese Produce Exchange (Sellers' noon closing prices on Aug 31. S$/100 kg) Coconut oi! Bulk FOB 192 00 Old drum FOB 205.00 New drum FOB 209.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 103.00 buyers Pepper Muntok white FOB NLW 677 50 Sarawak white FOB faq NLW 670.00 Sarawak special block FOB
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    • 285 4 Singapore (S$/kilo, ex-god own) Thai white 100% 1 st doss (kangaroo) 1.05 new crop 100% 2nd class 077 100% 3rd class 0.75 25% new crop No stock B-10% No stock Thai broken A-super 065 Special 0 60 Thai rice 55% No stock China rice 10% 092 15% No stock
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    • 4 4 Straits Tin closed
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    • 223 4 SINGAPORE The market closed lower yesterday with September One RSS buyers quoted at 190.50 cents per kg, down one cent from Thursday. The morning session fluctuated within a onecent range on some buying and profit-taking in quiet trading. Prices lost ground in the afternoon on lack of buying interest
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    • 239 4 RAS prices (in S cents/kilo, FOB in boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS prompt 188 50 189.50 187 50 188 SON Int 1 RSS S«p 191 50 192 00 ***** 191 50 Int 1 RSS Oct 196 25 196 50 195 50 196
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    • 168 4 Yarn Hongkong Golden Peak, 60 x 60 115 50 (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones White cloth Japon No 10,000 Blue Phoenix 16 s 3,400 Three Peaches 221 50 Blue Phoenix 20's 3,500 Japan No 2003 Unq Blue Phoenix 32's 3,820 Flying Dragon, per
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    • 55 4 THE Malaysian market Oct 580 00 up 5 570 00 was closed yesterday. Nov LONDON USS/tonn* s«U«fs' doling pricM Dec up 5 560 00 up 5 on Aug 30 ROTTERDAM US$/tonnc Sumatra 5% (aaNart' Aug 600 00 dosmg prices) unch Sumotra/M'wo 585 00 Sep 590 00 Max 5
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    • 138 4 SOYBEAN futures on Thursday rallied to close on or near the highs, up 13 to 9Vi US-cents per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, with November posting a 21 cent range on the day. CAD Commodities sold early, then bought back later. Soyproduct futures rallied to close US$O.9O
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    • 133 4 WHEAT futures closed 6'/i to l'/i US-cents per bushel higher in moderate trade on the Chicago Board of Trade on Thursday. Cargill bought December and March late, adding to purchases made earlier. Collins Commodities sold the most December late, with Continental Grain selling earlier. Corn futures rallied to close
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    • 995 4 COFFEE Robusta futures ended a subdued morning session with gains from the previous close of £12 to £5 a tonne yesterday. November finished at £2,445, £12 higher and little changed from midmorning. The market opened firmer influenced by the New York close but dealings slackened after the opening
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 569 5 Reuter THE LATEST money supply data have quashed any speculation that the Federal Reserve might have slightly relaxed its grip on credit. Money market economists say the Fed's failure to drain reserves either on Tuesday or Wednesday when Fed funds ♦were dropping to
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    • 178 5 Reuter THE recent collapse of the Canadian dollar has made some of Canada's most respected forecasters believe the currency may never trade again above 80 US cents. According to a new survey, the consensus was that the "80 cent
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    • 137 5 Reuter DRESDNER Bank AG stands by its earlier statement that management board spokesman Hans Friderichs will seek temporary leave of absence only if and when proceedings begin against him in the Flick tax affair. A spokesman for the bank was replying to an
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    • 117 5 Reuter THE New Zealand government starting yesterday will allow its trading banks to offer higher interest rates on ordinary savings and cheque accounts. Deputy Finance Minister David Caygill adds that removal of the restrictions is not expected to lead to rapid or
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    • 328 5 Reuter THE Netherlands Antilles will be hard-hit by the Reagan administration's recent repeal of US withholding taxes but hopes to compensate by attracting alternative business, according to offshore bankers and investment advisors. Income from offshore business, comprising banks, investment trusts and
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    • 562 5 Number Indicative Gross Coupon Amount Interest of days of Middle Price Redemption Maturity Yeor Raised Rate Million) Payment Accrued (excluding Yield pa) Dates Interest occrued interest) pa) 13.11 84 1978 "5 40 00 13/5, 13/11 110 ••100.00 **500 15 11.82/84
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 651 5 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed slightly higher against most major currencies yesterday except sterling, after fluctuating narrowly on position squaring and European selling. The dollar closed marginally higher at 2.8870/80 marks compared with New York's 2.8850/60 close, at 241.60/70 yen against 241.20/30 and at 2.4040/50 Swiss francs against
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    • 208 5 Interbank rates at 3pm quoted yeatarday ct roee parity change Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2.1565 2.1575 2.8196 -2352 Sterling pound 2.8217 ***** 7 3469 -61 59 Australian dollar 1.8269 1 8299 3 4286 -46.72 NZ dollar 1.0782 1 0809 ***** -68.55 Canadian
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    • Article, Illustration
      234 5 Asian market SHORT-DATED Asian dollar deposit rates yesterday eased slightly in quiet late trading on some lending interest and fixed dates held steady at opening levels. Interbank deposit ratM US$ Offer Bid 7 days 113/4 11 5/8 1 month 117/8 11 3/4 2 months 1115/16 11 13/16 3 months 12
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    • 257 5 SINGAPORE Futures fluctuated within a narrow range throughout yesterday in light trading before closing little changed from New York's levels. December contract which recorded a turnover of 442 lots closed at U*****.10 an ounce traded against New York's $357.90/358.30 close. HONGKONG The metal yesterday closed about steady at U*****.80/
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    • 52 5 RESULTS OF TENDER held yesterday for 91-day Treasury bills to be issued from Sep 3 to Sep 5; and Sep 7: Offered: $130,000,000. Applied for: $136,000,000. Alfetted: $130,000,000. Accepted bids: $99.25 approximately 95 per cent; higher bids in full. Average rate «f dbeeuit m allotment: 3.010 per cent
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    • 75 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate rose by 3 /4 -point to close at 9'A per cent on the Singapore interbank market yesterday. Term rates for the two and three-month maturities rose by 1/16-point each, while the one-month rate strengthened by point compared with Thursday's closing. S$ interbank rates at 3pm
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  • FEATURES
    • 476 6 A CURIOUS Californian once asked a Singapore journalist about the monkey population here. He said he understood the Republic is a very small but very rich island and some of its wealth began in coconut exports. As "everyone knows", all coconuts "in Asia" are picked by agile
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    • 949 6  -  Behind the proposal to increase powers of the MAS By ALVIN TAY THE HANDLING of the public's money is a serious business, so there should be no surprise that the powers of the Monetary Authority of Singapore to regulate finance companies are being widened. The closure of
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    • 613 6 Keeping finance companies eat of undesirable hands Section 9A to 9C: prevents anyone from acquiring a controlling stake in a finance company without the approval of the Authority. This applies to anyone, either alone or acting together with associates, gaining not less than 20 per
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    • 873 6  - Speak out loud and clear or shut up By KSR SLAVISH acceptance at all times of the views of one man is generally the prescription for political success within a dictatorship. Rigid adherence in public to the party line is the mark of the oneparty state. Much of the foreign
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    • 118 6 Facts are different from the report Dear Sir, I refer to the report "US Consultant Suggests Computer Package for NUS" (BT, Aug 1) by your reporter. There are a number of statements in the report which are at variance with the facts. The personal computer showroom
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    • 334 6 The strangest fish in the zoo A READER sent us this photograph she took in the Zoological Gardens which features what she called "the strangest fish anybody has even seen, either in or out of Singapore". She added that one of the most obvious advantages of
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 796 6 TOjWKKDiB ®aa§aa!)(MD CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 8 Claim he is the wrong man (7) 9 How the gunman said "The gun is levelled at you"? (9) 13 Wrong girl, for a start (5) 14 Doubling over, I put in the vegetable (5) 15 Shut up about, when a countryman appears (7)
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  • TIME-OFF
    • 682 7  -  By WALTON MORAIS NOSTALGIA is in. There is our 25th year celebrations and now, SBC joins in with their festival of black and white movies (B&Ws). This begins tomorrow and is sure to bring back memories for the older folk. B&Ws, after all, are where
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    • 360 7  -  By JAIME LYE THE NATURAL is so American, one cannot decide whether it is a movie about life or a salute to an institution -as in baseball, apple pie and the w mencan ay. Set in the Thirties, it tells the story
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    • Article, Illustration
      482 7 CONCERTS Tonight, the SSO synchronises with the Sentosa Musical Fountain playing a light musical programme that includes film themes, ie, from Superman, West Side Story, Annie; and Handels' Water Music, an appropriate choice. Guest conductor Lim Yau will lead the 65-member orchestra in the hour-long concert. The concert
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  • SPORTS
    • 556 7  -  By ROY JOHNSON LAST YEAR, Vitas Gerulaitis was out of shape. He was also out of money, which, he said, became the primary reason that he continued to play competitive tennis, despite any real success in major tournaments. Several embarrassing losses forced him out of
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    • 356 7  -  Brian Miller THE COLOURS of Sarawak millionaire Datuk Wee Hood Teck will be carried by two runners in tomorrow's Sprint Trophy race at Penang. At the end of the 1,400 mtrip, I expect to see familiar yellow and black silks flash
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    • 621 7  -  By BRIAN MILLER JACKIE'S BOWL Magicscore, scene of the 1970 inaugural Asian FIQ championships, the 1973 Bowling World Cup and las} year's South East Asia Games, will once again open its doors to the top bowlers in the region when it plays host to 15
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 922 7 to zm CHANNEL 5 12.30 PM SBC Text "Live" Sample Paces 1.00 Operant and Programme rtghights folowed by Sesame Street 2.05 Hash Gordon 2.30 Saturday Matinee The African Elephant 4.05 Pesta Sukan Under 23 Rufby Tournament 4.55 Muzftarama (Malay/r) 5.40 Popeye The Saior 6.10 Proframme rtghights 6.15 News (English) 6.25
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 185 8 Reuter BRITISH shares are not expensive on current market ratings but a cheaper buying opportunity is likely towards the end of the year, says brokers Phillips and Drew in a study. The market now finds increasing difficulty in enthusing over profit results
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    • 183 8 Reuter TIFFANY and Co, a subsidiary of Avon Products Inc, says that a group of investors led by Tiffany Management has agreed to acquire Tiffany from Avon for U*****.5 million. The group also includes private and institutional investors. Tiffany had sales of
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    • 82 8 Reuter ITT CORP said that it signed a preliminary agreement for the sale of ITT Continental Baking Co to Ralston Purina Co for US$475 million in cash. ITT says that the transaction is subject to a formal agreement, the approval of the boards of
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    • 294 8 THE stock market drifted slightly lower on Thursday in slow pre-Labour Day holiday trading as many investors pondered the course of interest rates and the economy. A few oils attracted attention but the rest of the list generally was flat in the lacklustre
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    • 131 8 AUG 90 C$ 31 Hud Boy M»i Imp CM 9* 42* 15* 36 Mi 31* 2m 24* Book Mont 22* Book Novo Scotia Bed Tel 11* 33* unch unch Kerr Add 17* 15* BP Con Ltd 27 Massey Ferg 4 33* 25* 24* MoKon A 17* unch Con Prm
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    • 194 8 AUG 30 lend Torn 0k 220 •10 Un SteH 107 unch INDUSTf IALS Umsec 500 unch 755 Wootworth 1450 50 150 unch MININGS 5 -10 2325 370 5700 AMIC 2750 Blyyoors 1730 unch 1180 -20 Butt eh 7950 125 1880 10 480 unch 200 1035 -5 350 unch Com
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    • 705 8 AUG US$ ACf Industries Akon Akjrrwi 27* Alcoo 35* Alegheny Lud 33k. Afced Chem Cp Afced Stores 47 Afcs-Choimers 11%. unch Am Brands Inc 60 unch Am Broadcast Am Can Co 47* Am Cyanomid 51 Am Elec Pwr Am Express 33* Am Home Prod 52'* i#*h Am Motors
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    • 947 8 Amsterdam AUG 90 fh ABN 295 00 1 Aagon 115 50 2 5 Ahold 192 20 -I 8 Akzo 93 70 -06 AMEV 162 00 +2 Amtoi Amrobnk 56 00 -03 Befk 36 00 0 1 Boh 91 80 +08 Borsumn 235 00 3 Botko 23 80 -12
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 447 9 HONGKONG: Share prices closed yesterday with pared gains on late profit-taking ahead of the weekend. Hutchison Whampoa reported a better than expected half-yearly net profit in 1984 of HK$6O6 million against $434 million in the same period last year. Shares of Hutchison closed 10 cents higher at $11.10, and
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    • 251 9 AUG 31 Al Sincere Indus Avo Cement Cathay Cons Chang Hwo Bonk Chen Loong Chw Hsm Cement Chma Chem Chmo Dev Chmo Elect Wire Chmo Gutf Ptos Chma Rebar China Steel MT 7 45 26 70 2920 6400 24 40 28 80 15 50 25 80 13 95 21
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    • 396 9 TOKYO: Share prices closed marginally lower yesterday in thin and lifeless trading, the first fall in nine sessions. The market average fell 2.07 to close at 10,584.20 after rising 6.38 yesterday, on volume of 330 million shares against 300 million on Thursday. Sony, which led Thursday's rally, fell 30
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    • 83 9 Aug 31 Bonk Seoul Won 655 -6 Hyundai Motor KAL 633 518 722 5 Choheung Bk Commerciol Bk Doetim Ind 620 665 594 5 unch -6 Korea Oil Korea Ship 1182 415 800 2 3 -10 Daewoo Corp Daewoo Ind Dong Ah 513 640 770 780 -2 -5 50
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    • 438 9 SYDNEY: Australian sharemarkets closed barely steady in thin trading yesterday following mixed indications from abroad. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index was 1.5 points down at 733.2 points. National turnover was 33.18 million shares. Among diversified resource issues, BHP contributing shares added 10 to 6.80 and CSR eased
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    • 214 9 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mixed yesterday in moderate trading with the Book Club Index falling 0.72 to 119.21. The index decline was attributed to a 10-baht loss by Bangkok Bank to 220 which traded ex-dividend. But the tone of the broader market was generally firmer with rises outnumbering falls
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    • 144 9 MANILA: Share prices closed firmer yesterday in trading which remained dull because of a tropical storm that swept across the islands. The Commercial and Industrial Index was up 0.41 at 112.35, the Mining marker was 21.44 firmer at 953.11 and Oils rose 0.004 to 0.680. PLOT rose to 36.50
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    • 56 9 AFP THE FRENCH industrial group Saint Gobain is in talks with China on some 40 projects, the New China News Agency said in Beijing, citing the group's visiting president Roger Fauroux. Mr Fauroux heads a delegation that arrived on Wednesday for the opening of
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    • 502 9 FT CONIC Investments, the troubled Hongkong electronics group now effectively controlled by mainland Chinese interests, is planning to raise at least HK$2OO million to reduce debts, and as the first stage of a major financial restructuring plan. The company came close to collapse
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    • 117 9 Reuter TOYOTA Motor Corp president Shoichiro Toyoda says his company is proposing that the Taiwanese government extend after Sep 4 the deadline set to form a joint car company in Taiwan. Toyota has found it physically difficult to meet the deadline. He
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    • 191 9 UPI SHELL Sekiyu (Oil) Co, a whollyowned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, and Showa Oil has said they would merge, in a move expected to accelerate the projected reorganisation of Japan's oil industry. Showa, capitalised at 6.75 billion yen, is ranked 10th among the
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4275 10 SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market finished mixed on heavier volume yesterday. Traders continued to focus on selected issues and by the end of the day, double-digit price changes were evident. At the final bell, the allsector BT Composite Index tacked
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    • 169 10 SINGAPORE Rises Indices Hum* M Mlf HWm 50« MtF Corp S0< 1 Swbowort^ Metro HldfS NOL SMI Prano Stroitl Trodioq 5* Mao M 0«ntM9S Ssei«9ro«e 50« Falls M Flour WAiraoo E»«f9 Seofcon P Peiongi bOf f E Levmqston 520 235 245 440 414 220 396 585 565
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 247 11 [piio? By HOCK LOCK SIEW WHEN investors and stockbrokers began re-examining the future prospects of local cement producers against a projected slowdown in building activity and the severe competition from importers of bulk cement, the stock market witnessed a panic selling of these shares. Like all the
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    • 243 11 STRAITS Steamship Ltd and its 67 per cent-owned subsidiary Ben ft Co Ltd have signed separate agreements with shareholders of Brunei-incorporated QAF Holdings Bhd on Aug 29 for the reverse takeover of Ben by QAF. In the first agreement. Steamers is to sell
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    • 84 11 Reuter TWO-WAY trade between the UK-based Inchcape group and China will rise some 60 per cent in 1984 from 1983 to about US$BO million. Chairman David Orr of Inchcape PLC said 14 of the group's 600 companies trade with China and have consistently higher
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    • 511 11  -  Vii^— TANGS By NAJEEB JARHOM THE HALF-YEAR results of two of the five listed retailbased groups, Isetan (Singapore) Ltd and C K Tang Ltd released yesterday, clearly show that the retail trade in Singapore is in quite bad shape. Isetan, in particular, saw group
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    • 398 11 SELANGOR Dredging Bhd has confirmed that it is in the midst of preparing restructuring proposals. This was disclosed by chairman Datuk Chan Keong Hon in response to a shareholder's question at the company's annual general meeting held in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. Datuk
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    • 115 11 JAPANESE companies reported an average 4.9 per cent increase in current profit in the year ended March 31 after two years of declining profit, including a 6.1 per cent fall in 1962/83. The Finance Ministry said this in an annual survey report which took a random sample
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    • 178 11 CONSTRUCTION and Supplies House Bhd (CASH), through its new 50 per cent-owned associate company, Habina Sdn Bhd, is acquiring a piece of land in Taiping, Perak. The half share of Habina, which has a paid-up capital of Ms 3, was bought over by
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 53 11 Group pre-tax profits of M 53.78 million ($2.88 million) on turnover of $19.95 million ($19.46 million) for the year ended April 30, 1961 The company is proposing a final dividend of 8.25 per cent per share less tax payable on Oct 25 to shareholders registered
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      • 53 11 Group pre-tax profits of M 55.11 million ($4.37 million) for the year ended May 31, 1964. The company is paying a first and final dividend of three per cent less tax based on the enlarged capital of $65.05 million on Jan 10, 1965 to shareholders registered
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      • 47 11 Net profits of M 55.32 million ($16.04 million) on turnover of $9.06 million ($8.58 million) for the year ended June 30,1964. The company is recommending a final dividend of five cents per share payable on Dec 17 to shareholders registered on Nov 29.
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    • 205 11 Managers' prices for Sep 1 Sep 3 Second B'putro Third B'putra Fourth B'putro 520 428 483 525 4.33 488 Singapore Unit Trust Fifth B'putro Sixth B putra 326 3.11 3 32 3.16 The Commerce 3.07 3.26 Seventh B'putro (A) 2.20 225 The Savings Fund 1.93 2.05 Seventh B'putro
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    • 952 11 THE market closed mixed yesterday after a quiet session. At 3pm, the FT 30 Share Index was up 0.4 point to 852.9. Trading volume was small on the last day of a three-week account. Most investors were on the defensive, due to strikes at some docks and disappointment
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    • 99 11 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Friday 1028 7 Hong Seng Index Thursday 1029 6 Week ago 1034 8 Friday 926.78 Thursday 922.77 Week ago 893.69 NEW YORK Dow Jones TOKYO Thursday 1223.28 Wednesday 1226.92 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1232.44 Friday *****.20 Standard and Poors Thursday *****.27 Thursday 166.60 Week
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    • 835 11 SAMPOORNA Holdings, the company launched by Malaysian Indian professionals as a catalyst for the community's participation in the corporate world, has set itself a major growth programme, with a view to a listing status in five years. Sampoorna, headed by Globe Silk
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    • 102 11 TRADING on a settlement basis in the shares of Daniop Malaysian Industries Bhd, Highlands A Lowlands Bhd and lie Temerloh Rubber Estates Bhd has been suspended until further notice. THE Stock Exchange of Singapore has asked Pan-Electric Industries Ltd for more details as required under Clause 510 or
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    • 73 11 HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd's 1984 net profit may reach last year's level of HKJI.I2 billion in spite of difficult trading conditions for its property division. Hutchison reported a 40 per cent rise in half-yearly profit to |606 million from $434 million in the same period last year. Mr Li
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    • 736 11 Current payment Ei date Books close Date poyobie Totol tor the yeor Total for previous yec Ale* Hldgs 6%(b) Sep 7 Sep 14 Sep 25 6% 6% Asiatic Dev 2%l Aug 20 Aug 30 Nov 20 2% 3Vi% B Raya 2 l i 1 Sep 11 Sep 21
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  • 368 12  -  By AMY BALAN EMPLOYERS WHO persist in hiring unskilled foreign workers will soon find themselves paying higher levies to the government. At the same time, employers of foreign maids will come under greater scrutiny because the Ministry of Labour is reviewing the criteria under
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  • 86 12 THIS IS a close-up picture of what remains of the US$2OO million B-1 bomber aircraft which crashed in the desert northeast of Edwards Air Force Base in southern California on Wednesday whilst on a test flight. Three crew members ejected themselves but one of them
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  • 400 12 AP DOCKWORKERS at Britain's two most important ports, Dover and Felixstowe, voted overwhelmingly yesterday not to join the week-old national dock strike. But an anticipated return to work at London's Tilbury docks failed to materialise. The developments left Britain's longshoremen as
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  • 139 12 Reuter AT LEAST 32 people were killed, thousands made homeless and communications disrupted by a tropical storm that lashed the Philippines, the government television said yesterday. President Ferdinand Marcos declared a state of calamity in most provinces in Luzon Island and several towns in the
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  • 209 12 VICE-PRESIDENT elect of Panama, Mr Eric Delvalle, will visit Singapore from Tuesday to Friday on an unofficial factfinding mission. During his four-day visit, Mr Delvalle will meet government officials from the Port of Singapore Authority, Jurong Town Corporation and the Trade Development Board.
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  • 86 12 UPI PRIESTS in Amritsar yesterday started continuous reading of Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy scripture, to prepare for the outlawed "World Sikh Convention" slated for the weekend. Recitations from the holy book began early in the morning at the Deep Singh Shrine, the site of
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  • 156 12 Bernama A BUSINESSMAN, Syed Jaafar bin Syed Abdul Hamid Alsagof, has been detained under the Malaysian Internal Security Act (ISA) for suspected involvement in activities detrimental to the unity and harmony of the Malay and Muslim communities. A statement from the police headquarters
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  • 119 12 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government has agreed in principle to privatise the Desaru tourist complex in Kota Tinggi, Johore. The Land and Regional Development Minister, Datuk Seri Adib Adam, is expected to make a further announcement on the matter when he visits the Johore
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  • 282 12 ONE OF the People's Action Party's new candidates feels that Or Toh Chin Chye was unfair in describing Members of Parliament as "dumb cows". Mr Tang Guan Seng said many MPs have spoken out in Parliament on important issues "affecting the lives of
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  • 93 12 AP TWO AUSTRALIAN state legislators who just completed a world brothel tour to study prostitution said taxpayers can be sure they'll get their money's worth. Pat Rogan and Peter Collins of the New South Wales state legislature went on an international tour to study how
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  • 67 12 WALL Street stock prices were lower in early trading yesterday as investors reacted to news that US M-l had risen by a larger than expected US$l.7 billion in the latest reporting week, analysts said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off more than three points to near
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  • LATE FILE
    • 33 12 Reuter THE Philippines ruling New Society Movement (K BL) will scrap tax exemptions for state-owned or state-run corporations in a move to boost revenue, the Presidential palace said. Reuter
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    • 42 12 AP DENG Pufang, the wheelchair-bound son of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, said in Hongkong that he does not believe there will be any political turmoil in China in the future, although fears of political instability were "understandable". AP
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    • 28 12 Reuter SEABED markings believed to have been made by Soviet mini-submarines have been found in Japanese waters, the Mainichi Shimbun Daily reported. Reuter
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    • 36 12 Reuter TWENTY-four people on an aircraft which caught fire at Cameroun's Douala Airport on Thursday are still unaccounted for. There have been conflicting reports on the number of dead and injured. Reuter
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    • 34 12 AFP LIBYA has cut the price of its crude oil to foreign oil companies by US$2.B a barrel and increased production to more than one million barrels a day. AFP
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    • 60 12 Reuter CHINA'S Communist Party has sacked several Coal Ministry officials for corruption, including one who used his position in the complaints office for seduction, rape and bribery. Thic marked a new phase in the Party's purge of what it has called cynical, inefficient or radical leftist
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    • 57 12 Outlook for today: Portly cloudy; showers in several areas in the morning and early afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Aug 31 at the airport: Maximum temperature 29.7 Associated humidity 74 Minimum temperature 25.2 Associated humidity 92 Hours of sunshine 3.35 Rainfall in millimetres Trace Rainfall this
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