The Business Times, 27 October 1984

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 SATURDAY, OCTOBER Z7,1984 60 CENTS
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  • 222 1 THE MOVE TO encourage local investors to venture into new frontiers of technological advancement has taken another step forward. Companies investing in approved capital projects in new technology industries will soon be able to write off losses up to 50 per cent of
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  • 87 1 AN ENHANCED death gratuity to be paid on the death of a pensionable officer has been proposed. A Pensions (Amendment) Bill, tabled before Parliament last week, proposes the payment of an enhanced gratuity based on 1/120 of the officer's annual pensionable emoluments for each complete month of
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  • 635 1  -  Reduction to 9.75 per cent reverses seven-month upward trend By ALVIN TAY THREE OF THE Big Four local banks will reduce their prime lending rates by one-quarter point to 9.75 per cent from Monday, reversing a seven-month upward trend. The sooner-than-expected move by DBS Bank,
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  • 584 1  -  By PENG Al LIAN ONE OF West Germany's largest private commercial banks, Berliner Handels-und Frankfurter Bank, better known as BHF-Bank, has been granted an off-shore banking licence in Singapore. BHF-Bank has been represented in Singapore since the early seventies through the consortium of Inter-Alpha Asia (S).
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  • 196 1 A SELLING spree hit the stock market yesterday, pushing the Straits Times Industrial Index down to a 19-month low. The ST Index shed a hefty 11.77 points to close at 853.48, while the BT Composite Index fell 9.33 points to 758.11. Total
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  • 411 1  -  By SOH TIANG KENG Banking Correspondent THE BIGGEST fund-raising exercise by a government in the Asia-Pacific region has proved to be a success. A US|l.5 billion syndicated loan to New Zealand has been oversubscribed by about US$6OO million because prospective lenders offered
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  • 285 1 THE WORLD'S biggest computer company has flexed its muscles over local computer pirates and the effects will probably ripple around Sungei Road. IBM Singapore announced on Thursday that it had started legal action against four companies for copyright infringement. Although the company
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    • 275 1 mm SHARE INFORMATION 10 RAW MATERIALS 4 MONEY EXCHANGES 5 SHIPS IN PORT STRAWS IN THE WIND CHARTPOINT FOUR MILLION Singapore dollars is probably a small sum of money to Playboy's Hugh Hefner, whose corporate empire across America and Europe generates more than $500 million in sales every yeor. Page
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    • 140 1 fama organised show Tel *****12 r J Wishful thinking? No! Wayfoong thinking For most of us, the buying of a new car is one of the largest purchases we'll make in our lifetimes. Almost everybody needs help in a loan to make their new car dream a reality. And Wayfoong
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 526 2  -  By CHUANG PECK MING FOUR MILLION Singapore dollars is probably a small sum of money to Playboy's Hugh Hefner, whose corporate empire across America and Europe generates more than five hundred million dollars in sales every year. But for local businessman Tan
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    • 192 2 THE German-Singapore Institute (GSI) could expand its activities to include part-time courses and consultancy services as well as the dissemination of technical information to industry. The suggestions were made by the Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Dr Wong Kwei Chong,
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    • 271 2 AN OVERWHELMING number of overseas trade enquiries has prompted the Trade Development Board to publish a regular list of foreign companies interested in buying from and selling to Singapore. Such information was previously incorporated in the board's publication Tradespur and occupied a small
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    • 92 2 THE Central Provident Fund has published its latest edition of its information booklet for employers. Entitled "Information for Employers," the 22-page booklet explains the procedures and employers' obligations in CPF contributions, payroll tax, Mosque Building Fund, Mendaki Fund contributions, grills Development Fund and the Foreign
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    • 278 2 METRO department store has embarked on a programme to make its salesgirls the most talked about in the retailing scene. What the Singapore Girl does in the air, v a Metro Girl can do in the store, seems to be the philosophy behind
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    • 152 2 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will launch its direct flights to Tokyo with Japanese food served on aboard. The month-long promotion, beginning on the first of next month, highlights the "Total Japanese Service" which SIA is introducing on a permanent basis. The total package
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    • 114 2 SINGAPORE-registered companies promoting British commercial interests in the region have been invited to join the British Business Association. The move to admit non-Brit-ish companies as associate members of BBA was made because a substantial amount of regional business in British goods is done by
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    • 82 2 THE NEW US Ambassador, Mr J Stapleton Roy, presented his credentials to President Devan Nair at the Istana yesterday. Mr Roy, 49, succeeds Mr Harry ET Thayer who was recently named the director of the American Institute in Taiwan. Mr Roy is a graduate of Princeton
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    • 262 2 ACUTA Engineering and Company has been fined by the Housing and Development Board for faulty sewer works at the longdelayed Gillman Heights project. The board has ended the contract with the company and appointed Seworld Corporation Pte Ltd as replacement. It found the
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    • 87 2 THE AUSTRALIAN Minister of Housing and Construction, Mr Chris Hurford, will be in Singapore from today to Monday. He leads a 15-man mission which includes representatives from government and private sectors. Mr Hurford will meet Minister for National Development, Mr TeH Cheang Wan, and officials from the
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    • 187 2 SOME PEOPLE go to great lengths to prove a point. Miss Julia Crosby, 27, is travelling 11 days in a single-engined light aircraft from England to Australia to prove that women are every bit as good as pilots as men. Miss Crosby and
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    • 226 2 FROM Thursday, Nov 1, 1984, Telecoms will introduce the Speed post Service to Finland. This is an international allexpress mail service providing door-to-door collection and delivery of postal packages catering specially to the needs of business organisations. The charges are $40.00 for the first half kg
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    • 407 2 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER Oct 25-27 Oct 27 Oct 27 Oct 27 Oct 27-31 Oct 29-30 Oct 29-30 Oct 29-31 Oct 29-31 Oct 29-31 Oct 29-Nov 2 Oct 29-Nov 3 Supervisory Power Industrial Relations In The 80s' The Practice Of Minutes Taking The Productivity Movement-A Perspective
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 378 3 Reuter A LEADING economic adviser to President Reagan has predicted that the US economy will really take off in 1986 producing growth rates that will make former boom years pale by comparison. In an interview published in a West German financial magazine, Mr
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    • 112 3 AFP VIETNAM has accused China of using Vietnamese "traitors" to fight Hanoi's forces along parts of the 1,150 km Sino-Vietnamese border. They were encouraged to carry out "acts of sabotage, in a policy aimed at having Vietnamese fight with Vietnamese," the official Vietnamese Information Agency said.
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    • 740 3 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time PAA PAS 0020 JFK/SFO/HKG CAL CI331 0150 TPE MAS MH681 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 MH811 0940 PEN CAL CI806 0945 HLP
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    • 264 3 Reuter JAPAN's poison candy crooks are pioneering a dangerous new type of extortion which police find hard to combat and which could be all too easy to copy. Most of the dangers of conventional extortion for criminals are removed from the case
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    • 187 3 UPI OPPOSITION parties are taking aim at Chancellor Helmut Kohl in hopes of drawing him into the growing corruption scandal that has led to the resignation of the West German Parliament Speaker. Speaker Rainer Barzel, a member of Mr Kohl's Christian Democratic Party,
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    • 478 3 UPI THE Ethiopian government plans to move more than 250,000 famine victims from their homelands. Diplomats said it will be the largest forced migration of its kind in East African history. "The theory is that the land can no longer sustain the
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    • 465 3 NYT THE NATIONAL Energy Board of Canada plans to cut the official price of the light crude oil it exports to the US by about US$l.35 a barrel, to about $27.50, senior Canadian officials said on Thursday. The price cut,
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    • 149 3 FT IN SPITE OF a new surge in its foreign trade balance, West Germay seems likely this year to fall short of the 10 billion Deutschemark surplus on its 1984 current account which had previously been forecast. Figures for the
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    • 343 3 Reuter THE US appears ready to apply pressure on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to put some of his senior military officers on trial for the assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino. US officials who asked not to be identified declined
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    • 225 3 AFP TO AVOID "another tragedy" like the assassination of Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino, 64 US Congressmen have written to South Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan, asking that opposition leader Kim Dae-Jung be given proper protection when he returns home to Seoul. In their letter,
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    • 132 3 AFP THE AUSTRALIAN government will use its influence with Manila to ensure that justice is done in the Philippines following the release of a report on opposition leader Benigno Aquino's death, Prime Minister Bob Hawke said. At a news conference in Gladstone
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    • 91 3 UPI THE AUSTRALIAN government's election hopes were given a boost on Thursday with the release of a round of solid economic results showing lower inflation, falling unemployment and higher production. The Bureau of Statistics in Canberra released figures showing the inflation rate for the September
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    • 558 4 NYT SECRETARY of State George P Shultz said the United States should stop equivocating and adopt a policy of using military force against terrorist groups even if this led to the death of American servicemen and some innocent people. "We may never
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 73 4 INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said yesterday that a recent proposal for a meeting on Cambodia between Indonesia and Vietnam was killed when it was leaked to the press before he had the opportunity to come to an agreement with his Asean partners. He was commenting on recent
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      • 59 4 SRI LANKAN President Junius Jayewardene's ruling United National Party yesterday scored convincing victories over a divided opposition in two parliamentary by-elec- tions which the opposition parties had hoped would show that the government was becoming unpopular. Most observers had expected the ruling party to win the by-elections, but
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      • 33 4 PRIME Minister Margaret Thatcher on Thursday tried to minimise embarrassment over the French plot to plant explosives as a test for British security, saying the episode was a "most regrettable" misunderstanding.
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      • 46 4 A HOODED witness before the President's Commission on Organised Crime named former South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky yes- terday as the leader of four gangs that prey on Vietnamese refugees in the United States. Mr Ky bitterly denounced the charge as a lie.
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      • 59 4 ROBERT Trim bole, wanted for questioning over a triple murder and a crime and drug network in Australia, has been arrested in Ireland, police said yesterday. Mr Trim bole, one of Australia's most wanted men, has been linked with large mafiastyle underworld operations which included the Mr
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      • 52 4 A GUNMAN shot and gravely wounded the United Arab Emirates' temporary viceconsul in Rome late Thursday night and killed a 23-year-old Iranian woman who was riding in his car, police said. Police said the diplomat, whose name was not announced, was in a coma at Rome's Villa Saint
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      • 75 4 INDIAN Defence Minister Shankarrao Chavan is leaving for Moscow on Tuesday on a four-day official visit. A brief release from the Press Information Bureau said Mr Chavan's tour was at the invitation of the Soviet government. However, observers believed that his talks in Moscow would centre on Indian
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    • 204 4 Bernama A TAX consultant in Malaysia has proposed that the present policy of allowing the free repatriation of income like profits, dividends and interests by foreign investors be changed. Mr Yong Poh Chye, managing director of Tax Advisory Management Services Sdn Bhd (TAMS), said
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    • 310 4 Reuter AP PRESIDENT Reagan, buoyed by more good news from opinion polls, re-entered the US election fray yesterday after taking a day off while rival Walter Mondale whipped up voter fervour. His trip to New Jersey, New York and Connecticut yesterday was
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    • 254 4 Reuter A DRAFT accord with China on the future of Hongkong was welcomed in the British Parliament on Thursday in the first debate on the Colony since the deal was initialled in September. The British Parliament, which has the final say over the package, will
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 146 4 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% Exchange i FOB NSW 502 501 (Setters' noon ctouni j prices on Oct Nutmeg 363.00 26. S$/100 kg) 110 FOB NSW B W FOB NSW 256.00 Coconut oil Gambier Bulk FOB 195.00 FOB NSW 305.00 Old drum FOB 208 00 New drum FOB 212.00
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    • 283 4 Singapore A-l special C-l special C-l Ordinary 207 unq unq (S$/kik>, ex-godown) Thai white Loonzain 100% 100% 1st class first grade unq (kangaroo) 100% second grode 250 new crop 1 03 100% third grade unq 100% 2nd doss 100% 3rd doss 073 0.71 Parboiled 5% 10% 242 237 25%
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    • 167 4 Yarn (In HKS per bole of 400 lb) Hongkong Golden Peak. 60 x 60 ,115 50 China carded yarn, cones White cloth Blue Phoenix 16's Blue Phoenix 20's Blue Phoenix 32'$ 3,350 3,500 3,800 Japon No. 10,000 Three Peoches Japan No. 2003 221 50 Unq Blue Phoenix 40's 4,150
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    • 309 4 SINGAPORE The market closed slightly higher with November One RSS buyers quoted at 177.00 cents per kg, up 0.25 cent from Thursday. The morning session finished steady at Thursday night's close after a gain of 0.75 cent in the early dealings. In the early afternoon, prices held steady until
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    • 81 4 THE Kuala Lam par Tin Market (KLTM) price held at the International Tin Agreement fleerlevel of M 521.15 per kg en ceatlnolng shortage of demand. The buffer stock manager was again the sole buyer, as Knala Lumpur's premium over the spot price in London remained at £2sl per
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    • 164 4 PRICES on the Malaysian crude palm oil market closed firmer on covering and renewed buying interest yesterday in line with the rise in palm oil futures. Sentiment was aided by a higher Chicago soybean complex close and Pakistan's purchase of RBD palm oil on Thursday. October and November
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    • 355 4 RAS prices (in S cents/kilo, FOB in boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS prompt 175 00 ***** 175 00 176 00N Int 1 RSS Nov 176 75 177 25 177 00 177 50 Int 1 RSS Dec 179 75 180 25 180 00
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    • 110 4 (cents/kg, 1-ton pallets) November December (current mth) (forword mth) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 172 50 I74 50N 173 50 175 50N SSR 50 170 50 172 SON 171 50 173 SON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 202 50 204 SON
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    • 66 4 SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed on a firm note, up 10'4 to five US-cents per bushel on Thursday, with November posting a nine-cent range on the day. Soyproduct futures closed mostly higher in moderately light trade. Soyoil ended mixed, ranging from up 0.57 cent per
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    • 79 4 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade remained under pressure on Thursday, closing 1 1 j cents to one US-cent per bushel lower. December was held to a narrow three-cent range on the day. Fraizier Parrott was the best seller of December on the day, with buyers scattered
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    • 851 4 COFFEE Robusta futures traded quietly in a narrow range in featureless conditions up to midday yesterday with gains of £9 to £5 a tonne from Thursday's close. Most traded January ended the morning session at £2,334, up £6 from Thursday's close, and November was £7 higher at £2,517.
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 332 5 Bernama VENTURE capital companies cannot claim themselves to be truly and sincerely Islamic simply because they practise profitsharing in their investment activities. The managing director of Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd, Dr Abdul Halim Ismail said: "You have to be totally clean from interest
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    • 117 5 Reuter THE INDEPENDENT Bankers Association of America (IBAA) has called on Comptroller of Currency Todd Conover to resign. In a statement issued on Friday, the IBAA said: "The Comptroller has shown his contempt for Congress by actively advocating and promoting the spread of
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    • 368 5 Reuter AN AGREEMENT has been reached on a revised refinancing scheme involving Charter Consolidated PLC and other shareholders of Johnson Matthey PLC (JM). JM says an agreement has been reached with Charter and a group of previously dissenting institutions which will give all
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    • 369 5 Reuter JAPAN'S long-term credit banks has decided to cut their long-term prime rate to 7.6 per cent from 7.9 per cent, effective from Monday. Banking sources say the 0.3 percentage point cut will be announced officially this morning. Spokesmen for long-term
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    • 217 5 UPI THE US government borrowed U*****.3 billion more than it collected in taxes and other revenues in fiscal year 1964, a slightly higher deficit than the White House predicted, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The government spent $841.8 billion, 5.8 per cent more than last
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    • 237 5 Reuter PHILIPPINES Prime Minister Cesar Virata says the government will start talks next week with its 483 creditor banks and official development institutions under the Paris Club for restructuring its debt and for fresh loans. Mr Virata, who arrived from Washington on Wednesday
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    • 190 5 UPI THE PHILIPPINES' international reserves, which plunged in the aftermath of the assassination erf opposition leader Benigno Aquino, have reached their lowest level in 12 years, a business daily reported. Quoting a central bank statement, Business Day said international reserves at the end of September
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    • 193 5 Reuter THE US will issue more securities targeted at foreign investors following Wednesday's successful sale of US$l billion special four-year notes. Treasury Under-Secretary Beryl Sprinkel said: "We plan to do that (again) in moderate amounts in the future." Mr Sprinkel said demand
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • Article, Illustration
      800 5 SINGAPORE: The US dollar lost some of its early gains yesterday against most major currencies in moderate late trading, but still closed higher on balance compared with New York's levels. It fell to 3.0280/90 marks from the day's high of 3.0375, but was still higher than New York's
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    • 199 5 Interbank rates at 3pm quoted yeet lerday c dmnge Local dollars to on* umt of tor—90 currency: US dollar Starling pound Australian doftor NZ dolor Canodkm dolor 2.1620 2.6354 1.8322 1 0572 1.6434 2.1630 2 6388 1 8342 1.0598 1.6448 2.8196 7 3469 3.4286 3 4286 ***** -23
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    • 53 5 RESULTS erf tender held yesterday for 91-day Treasury bills to be issued on Oct 26 and from Oct 29 to Nov 2. Offered: 1110,000,000. Applied far: $146,500,000. Allotted: $110,000,000. Accepted kids: $99.25 approximately 75 per cent; higher bids in full. Average rale d diaceant on aUetmeat: 3.010 per
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    • 68 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate remained unchanged from Thursday's close of 6 per cent on the Singapore interbank money market yesterday. One month maturities rose by 1/4-point, two month fell by 5/16-point and three-month fell by 3/ 16-point. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Offer Bid Overnight 6 5 7/8
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    • 223 5 ASIAN DOLLAR deposits eased slightly in thin late trading yesterday on some lending interest, but the market still closed higher on balance compared with Thursday's levels. us$ Offer Bid 7 days 911/16 9 9/16 1 month 913/16 9 11/16 2 months 915/16 913/16 3 months 10 5/16
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    • 316 5 BA Futures Inc EURODOLLAR futures took a severe beating at the opening yesterday with strong selling pressure from profit-taking and long liquidation which was a continuing trend from CME's close. December Eurodollar opended at 89.43, 10 ticks lower than CME's close. The downward gap prompted more sellers and the
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    • 210 5 HONGKONG The metal closed higher yesterday as the US dollar weakened on speculation of Bundesbank intervention at the opening of European foreign exchanges. It ended at the day's high of U*****.40/80 an ounce against an initial $337.60/338.10 and New York's $337.25/75 close. On the local market, gold finished HK$l3
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  • FEATURES
    • 421 6 IT HAPPENED when local newspapers featured leukemia-struck Jonathan Tan. People responded with prayers for his recovery and money for medical treatment. It happened again this week when the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, in its Wednesday edition of Newswatch, televised a short British Broadcasting Corporation-pro-duced feature
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    • 803 6  -  By SUSAN CHIRA NYT AT THE RATE of 200,000 a day, Tokyo shoppers are streaming into the Ginza to stare at two competing visions of the ultimate Japanese department store. And what they see are two competing versions of contemporary Japan. A glass walkway is
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    • 287 6 IN A WELCOME development, the Economic Development Board's newsletter now now includes a range of local news snippets not directly related to the manufacturing sector. Foreign industrialists, however, will be in for a shock when they scan the latest selection and they are
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  • 950 6 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVE8 Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Bum IK 15/6 Sharp alongside 27.10.84/0700 Cape Antlbes 33/4 St>ore Shpg alongside 27.1034/0600 Donam No 9 25/a NAPL alongside 27.1034/1900 Equator V 22 Thong Soon alongside 27.1034/0700 Johneverett 18 Everett alongside 27.1034/1800 Lampung 45 Heap Seng alongside
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 1116 6 w sm oiaiiuD HIGHLIGHTS Saturday Night Movie Hollow Image 11.05, Channel 5 Harriet Gittens fought her way out of the ghetto and into the big time. But when she returns to the home she left behind, she is trapped between two worlds. and two men. Home for Harriet used to
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  • TIME-OFF
    • 457 7  -  By ANNA TEO ROMPING through Central Park, or pounding the greens of the Botanic Gardens, map and compass in hand, may not be quite your cup of tea on a Saturday afternoon. For a group of people here however, a little known sport called orienteering presents
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    • 408 7 EVEN AT 58, Poul Jacobsen cannot lay claim to the title of being Denmark's oldest competitive orienteer, though he is positively one of the most active. "At our Danish Orienteering Championships a few weeks ago, the winner in the oldest age-group
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  • SPORTS
    • 859 7  - Papa's Love bringing it home for Allan? By BRIAN MILLER IT WAS a beautiful day for racing. The track at Ipoh had taken some rain the night before but Sunday morning saw the course bathed in sunshine. Terry Lucas, that poker-faced bean-pole of a jockey, had one ride that afternoon
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    • 365 7  -  By WALTON MORAIS UNEASY LIES the head that wears the crown, so the Bard said. Changi Golf Club's Ong Ah Loh couldn't agree more. The eight-handicapper enters this weekend's final two rounds of the club's championship in the unfamiliar role of leader. Which isn't
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    • 248 7 AP TOP SEEDED Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd outlasted the brother-sister team of Pablo and Laura Array a in an 11-minute, 10deuce final game in Houston, en route to a 7-5, 6-4 victory in the US$4OO,OOO world mixed doubles championships on
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 1083 7 aiaara !>J CONCERTS Tonight, the SSO features Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov, who was a pupil at the Central Music School in Russia. Later he studied at the famed Moscow State Conservatoire. Victoria Concert Hall, 8.15 pm. Tickets. $4, $7, $10 and 15. Ensemble De Guitares De Paris conducted by Mark
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 189 8 Reuter CATERPILLAR Tractor Co plans to introduce about 50 new or improved products on an average of one each month over the next five years, says chairman L L Morgan. He told analysts new products have provided historically about one-third of the company's sales
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    • 147 8 Reuter BAT Industries PLC has applied for a listing of its shares in Switzerland effective some time in November, in an attempt to broaden shareholder participation beyond the UK. Chairman Patrick Sheehy told bankers and analysts after the share began listing in Frankfurt
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    • 99 8 Reuter MOBIL Corp has blamed its lower third-quarter earnings mainly on a US$l63 million decline in its worldwide refining and marketing operations. Earlier, the company reported third-quarter earnings of $238 million, compared with $404 million last year. Worldwide marketing and refining results were severly affected by an
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    • 299 8 Reuter WEAKNESS in the price of technology issues undermined an already fragile stock market and caused Wall Street on Thursday to suffer its third loss of the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined by 5.41 to 1211.02. Losing issues led gainers 943 to
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    • 148 8 London stocks, Pago 11 v xi A Lounge Sip a glass of the world's finest wine, while you relax in the cosy ambience of The Lounge. Make your nights memorable with Keyboard wizard, Danny Koh and our resident band, The Pintos Trio. Happy Hours: spm—7pm, 29% off on ai drink*.
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 428 9 HONGKONG: Share prices closed steady yesterday on a bout of late buying based on speculation that interest rates will be reduced by the Hongkong Association of Banks tbday. Brokers noted prices wavering on overseas fund buying and local institutional selling in the morning session. Small investors mostly stayed on
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    • 226 9 OCT 26 NT Chem Indus 1850 -0 2 L ten Hwa Irxfcjs 13 30 -0 05 7 70 -0 1 Nan Yo Plos 30 30 0 1 Asio Cement 25 60 0 1 Pacific Cons 25 70 unch Coltwjy Coos 2620 unch Pacific Elect 1830 -0 1 54 00
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    • 244 9 TOKYO: The report was unavailable yesterday. OCT 26 Aprtomoto Ml Ym 1080 518 1190 unch -6 -20 Mitsubishi Mitsui Co Mitsui Shipbldg Mitsui Smelting 511 322 144 524 350 -4 1 unch 39 5 As ah* Chem Asahi Glass Bank Tk 576 838 475 600 -3 2 -1 19
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    • 58 9 Oct 26 Won 457 Hyundai Corp Hyundai Motor KAL 925 620 510 710 -10 unch +2 627 unch 1190 662 +2 410 -2 565 +2 785 -7 477 +2 722 636 -13 860 670 11 1190 -60 Gold Stor 725 5 599 -1 HomJ Bk 740 -4 951 -24
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    • 412 9 SYDNEY: Share markets closed firmer yesterday with industrial issues attracting support on speculation about improved performance on Wall Street. The All Ordinaries Index was up 1.8 at 750.6, the All Industrials 2.9 at 1,097.2 and the All Resources one at 483.1. Resource issues came under pressure early in the
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    • 166 9 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed lower in weak trading yesterday with investors on the sidelines. The Book Club Index fell 0.02 point to 119.91. Turnover dropped to 93,008 shares from Thursday's 200,666. Maboonkhrong, Bangkok Bank and Siam Cement finished steady at 102.50, 212 and 427 baht respectively. Siam Citizens lost
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    • 134 9 MANILA: Shares prices closed firm in dull trading yesterday. The Commercial and Industrial Index firmed 3.17 to 119.72 and the Mining marker 1.86 to 828.65 while Oils remained unchanged at 0.583. PLDT rose to 40.50 from 39.50, First Phil Holdings from 1.20 to 1.16 and Philexß to 0.11 from
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    • 51 9 Reuter INDUSTRIAL Equity (Pacific), a Hongkong-based investment concern, told the Securities and Exchange Commission it acquired a 7.3 per cent stake in Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. Industrial Equity acquired the stake when Equity Research sold its majority interest in Pacific Cement Investors to Industrial Equity.
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    • 268 9 Reuter HITACHI has forecast parent company profit after tax of a record 101 billion yen in the year ending next March 31 on sales of a record 3,040 billion yen. The general manager of Hitachi's accounting controls department, Hiroshi Morita, says the forecasts
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    • 144 9 AFP A LEADING Japanese electromechanical component maker, Alps Electric, is to set up a plant for videotape recorder parts in Britain. The factory, which is to be built on a 43,000-square-metre site in Milton Keynes, about 80 kilometres
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    • 231 9 Reuter NICHOLAS Kiwi says Consolidated Foods Corp (CFC) will advise it by next Monday if CFC proposes any revision of the terms of its offer for Nicholas Kiwi's foreign assets. CFC has told the Nicholas Kiwi board it intends to review the terms
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    • 96 9 FT TOYOTA has scrapped plans to set up a US$265 million joint venture car plant in Taiwan, says Hideo Kamio, executive vicepresident of Toyota. After four years of discussions about a 300,000-cars-a-year plant, it had not been possible to reach agreement. Toyota also clarified Mr Kamio's
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4159 10 SHARE prices on the Singapore stock market fell sharply yesterday, bringing the Straits Times Industrial Index to a 19month low. The ST Index fell by a hefty 11.77 points to close at 853.48 while the BT Composite Index closed at 758.11, down 9.33
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    • 254 10 SINGAPORE Rises Indices M CoMot 450 20 Oct 25 Oct 26 M F HUf* 50* 230 12 ST 767.44 756.11 m t p 440 +6 ST IwdBcato* *****SS 2346*74 M6F Corp S0« M CoMo* 235 +6 ■T Oft/OS -66 -146 ISO +5 ST liidxtmli 865.2S 153 48
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    • 447 10 THE Kuala Lumpur stock market drifted through another boring session yesterday with share prices closing lower across the board. In the absence of any positive leads, investors continued to adopt a wait-and-see attitude and remain on the sidelines. Turnover improved slightly to 4.56 million units
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    • 3357 10 BID and offer prices officially luted 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 unit* unless otherwise specified. All Time SetUement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 612 11 CHART P 111 IN T HOCK LOCK SIEW INSTEAD of reviewing a stock situation this week, this columnist has decided to speak to visiting technical analyst Robert Fischer and invite him to make a reading of the local stock market's future trend using his most
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    • 97 11 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Fridayi 1097.2 Hong Seng Index Thursday 1094.3 Week ago lOy) .3 Friday 1056.84 Thursday 1054.71 NEW YORK Week ago 1031.80 Dow Jones TOKYO Thursday 1211.02 Wednesday 1216.43 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1225 38 Friday *****.02 Standard and Poors Thursday *****.52 Thursday 166.31 Week ago
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    • 231 11 Managers' prices Second B'putro Third B'putro Fourth B'putro 499 4 16 451 504 421 456 for Oct 27 29 Singapore Unit Trust Fifth B'putro Sixth B'putro 308 297 3 13 302 The Commerce 2.63 2 79 Seventh B'putro (A) 2 10 2 15 The Savings Fund 1.76 1.87
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    • 971 11 THE MARKET yesterday ended the account mixed in featureless trading, dealers said. The FTSE 100 Index at 2.30pm was down 2.7 at 1,127.4 while the 2pm FT 30 Index rose 0.2 to 870.2. Glaxo added 10 points at 995. It plans to launch its "zantac" ulcer drug in
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    • 307 11 TRADING in the shares of Times Publishing Bhd, the Straits Times Press (1975) Ltd and Singapore News Publications Ltd, which was suspended since July 12, should resume on Monday. Shareholders of the respective companies are meeting this morning to approve the proposed merger scheme.
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    • 512 11  -  By AMY CHEOK LATEST market entrant Lim Kah Ngam Ltd will have to more than double its first-half profits for the rest of the year, if the 1984 earnings forecast made during the company's public share offer is to be met. LKN, the fourth
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    • 471 11 TAIPING Consolidated Bhd, under new management, has disclosed plans to develop its estate land in the Pajam district in Negri Sembilan into a mini-township. Chairman Datuk Mohamed Isa bin Datuk Haji Abdul Samad said the board of Taiping Con had already
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    • 2329 11 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 Acmo (2 925) Alcorn (I 448 I 455) (I)
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    • 160 11 GENERAL Seenritiet Investments Ltd announced that the unaudited group net tangible asset backing per share as at Sep 30 stood at $1.92. LION Cnrp BM has announced that the closing date and time for the unconditional offer by Trillionvest Sdn Bhd to acquire the remaining 4,625 shares in
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    • 23 11 SELANGOB CMwnte Berhid: 69th AGM on Nov 27 at 10.45am in Wisma Boustead, 4th Floor, 71 Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 406 12  -  By JOANNE YAP YET ANOTHER computer company is considering Singapore as a base for the design of integrated circuits and research and development activities. Apollo Computer Incorporated, a company new to the local computer scene, is also in the process of deciding whether
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  • 73 12 ASIAN beauties posing for photographers in front of a huge Buddha image as they tour the city of Kamakura, Japan yesterday. The contestants will vie in Miss International pageant in Tokyo on Tuesday. From left are: Jennifer Yong, Malaysia; Pranee Meawnuam, Thailand; Mary Kendiola, N Marianas;
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  • 164 12 UPI THE "ASSESSMENT Office, which is monitoring public reaction in Hongkong to the plan to restore Chinese rule to the crown colony, will publish its findings by November, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told Parliament on Thursday. The deal was signed in
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  • 141 12 Bernama MALAYSIA recorded a trade surplus of M 52.785 billion for the first seven months of this year, according to the Malaysian Statistics Department. This is a vast improvement over the $285.9 million surplus recorded in the previous corresponding period. For the month of
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  • 323 12 THE STICK will soon come down very hard on Singaporeans harbouring illegal immigrants as well as on foreigners entering Singapore illegally and for overstaying. In the Immigration (Amendment) Bill tabled before Parliament last week, those found guilty of harbouring illegal immigrants
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  • 397 12  -  By LIM SOON NEO SINGAPORE Airlines is still trying to resolve its dispute with Air Lanka, but has started making alternative arrangements in case it is no longer allowed to fly to Colombo. "We're making alternative arrangements in case everything comes to a standstill.
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  • 416 12 LEE KIM TAH (Pte) Ltd, the construction arm of listed Lee Kim Tah Holdings, beat 16 local and foreign companies to clinch a $75.6 million Housing Board contract using industralised methods. The company's bid for the design and building of 24 apartment blocks
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  • 585 12  -  By RICHARD SEAH THE COMPANY which sells some of the most expensive watches in town has moved into the cheaper market among "friends". But Transmarco had to stop its new marketing strategy after two weeks when at least two of its watches
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  • 73 12 Reuter THE Hongkong government is offering for sale two prime sites in South Kowloon, the first since the initialling of the SinoBritish agreement on Hongkong's future. The first site, on the waterfront, is 2.44 hectares, including 9,000 square metres of seabed, and is
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  • 68 12 WALL STREET stock prices were lower yesterday in early trading as the market continued a week-long correction. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, off s'/2 points on Thursday, was off another 6'/2 to near 1204 early yesterday. Overall, losers held a three to one lead over gainers. Volume
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  • LATE FILE
    • 33 12 Reuter BOLIVIAN President Hernan Siles Zuazo has begun a hunger strike for national unity after coming under fire in parliament for an alleged link with drug traffickers. Reuter
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    • 53 12 Reuter SECURITY has been tightened in New Delhi after at least 26 people were injured in a new outbreak of Sikh extremist bomb attacks on Thursday night. Police said 23 people were injured when a hand grenade exploded in the crowded foyer of a west New
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    • 49 12 AFP PHILIP Jenninger, Secretary of State at Bonn's Chancellery, has been chosen by the ruling coalition to succeed Rainer Barzel as the Speaker of Parliament. Mr Barzel, implicated in the flick politico-corrup-tion scandal, resigned on Thursday. The new Speaker will be elected on Nov 5.
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    • 55 12 AP OPPOSITION mounted yesterday to using any existing tribunal to try Armed Forces chief Fabian Ver, a close ally of President Marcos. General Ver has been accused of having a hand in the assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino, and critics are questioning the impartiality
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    • 58 12 Reuter JAPAN has turned down a Soviet suggestion for a goodneighbour treaty yesterday and said Moscow should first talk about handing back islands taken from Japan after World War n. The suggestion was made during a meeting between Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe and Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich
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    • 540 12 •sm •> < r Touche Ross Darmawan £r Co and TIMES CONFERENCES presents A TOP-LEVEL CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE TAX PLANNING UNDER THE NEW INDONESIAN TAX LAWS 6 7 NOVEMBER, 1984, HOTEL BOROBUDUR INTERNATIONAL, JAKARTA, INDONESIA Supported by The Straits Times, Singapore's largest circulation English daily PROGRAMME CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN. Drs Budi
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 54 12 wMim Outlook for todoy: Cloudy with passing showers in the eorly morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Oct 26 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.9 Associated humidity 60 Minimum temperature 25.5 Associated humidity 87 Hours of sunshine 5.70 Roinfoll in millimetres Nil Rainfall this month 92.0 Roiny
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