The Business Times, 13 November 1984

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 66/1/84 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER IJ, I*B4 60 CENTS
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  • 512 1  -  JAL Development: Little chance of contract being revived By RAY HEATH,AMY CHEOK TALKS aimed at salvaging the management contract of Hotel Nikko are still being held at the highest level, according to owner Harapan Group yesterday. But in Tokyo, a senior executive of
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  • 343 1  -  By AMY BALAN FROM JANUARY, 210,000 civil servants and employees of government-related companies will get their pay about 18 days earlier. Payday in the civil service has been set for the 12th of every month. If the 12th is a public
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  • 117 1 Reuter THE TAIPEI government has approved a loan scheme for Hongkong Chinese to buy houses in Taiwan. A Finance Ministry official said yesterday that under the scheme, all Taiwanese banks, most of them owned by the government, would soon start considering lending up
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  • 323 1 SMALLER and older hotels should consider converting themselves into service flats or offices as they lose their guests to newer hotels. According to Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State for Education, following the examples of London and New York might be a
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  • 113 1 UPI SPURRED BY a surge in electronic equipment and car exports to the US, Japan chalked up its third highest monthly trade surplus of U553,586 billion in October. The Japanese Finance Ministry on Monday revealed preliminary data on a customs clearance basis, showing exports amounting to
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  • 427 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN WORK ON THE Mass Rapid Transit system's second phase is on the fast track. It is ahead of schedule by as much as two years. Apart from serving residents earlier, it will capitalise on the spare
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  • 490 1  -  By CHEN QINGSHUN THE STOCK MARKET, in the doldrums since mid-August, took a turn for the worse yesterday with the Straits Times Industrial Index moving to a 21month low. Although turnover at 8.23 million units was on the light side, forced selling
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 348 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH IT IS NOT often that a company, even if it is the second largest steel manufacturer in Japan, gets a chance to be involved in the construction of the tenth tallest building in the world. For Nippon Kokan (NKK), its
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    • 70 2 OPPOSITION Member of Parliament J B Jeyaretnam will ask Foreign and Culture Minister SDhanabalan at the next parliamentary sitting whether the government supplied any information about the movements of the late Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino to the Philippine government or army before
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    • 305 2 CALTEX HAS opened the first petrol station which will also serve as a storage centre for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders. The station-cum-LPG cylinder storage centre is located in Ang Mo Kio (along Avenue 3) and was leased for $1.68 million to Mr Chua Ah Tee
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    • 172 2 THE NUMBER of graduates from the National University of Singapore (NUS) is on the increase. A total of 3,726 graduates, up 21 per cent from last year, will receive their scrolls in ten graduation ceremonies spread over five days from tomorrow. The
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    • 204 2 THE SINGAPORE Armed Forces will be participating in a Five-Nation Army Command Post exercise codenamed "Exercise Southern Safari '84" between Nov 21 and 28 at Burnham Camp, South Island, New Zealand. This exercise will involve 260 soldiers from Australia, the British Army in Hongkong, Malaysia,
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    • 126 2 THE MINISTER for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Culture, Mr S Dhanabalan, met the Amir of Bahrain and his foreign minister over the weekend. The Amir expressed the desire for closer bilateral relations between the two countries. Mr Dhanabalan and his Bahraini counterpart, Shaikh Mohamad
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    • 421 2  -  By AMY BALAN A HANDSHAKE yesterday on the 33rd floor of the OCBC Centre could lead to a force strong enough to challenge IBM's dominance of the regional computer markets. Computer Systems Advisers, one of the largest systems houses in Singapore, yesterday acquired
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    • 576 2 F N's revolutionary production line A TOUCH of Hollywood came to Fraser Neave at River Valley Road yesterday as the soft drink and food company launched a major new assault on Singapore's fruit juice market. Amid flashing green neon lights, fast tempo music and in front of more than 100
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    • 340 2 AN ACCOUNTS clerk yesterday testified how Loh Shak Mow was to receive $133,330, Alan Wong Hoi Ping $53,340 and Mr Lee Kwong Fai $330 as their share of secret profits from two cheques totalling $187,000. Miss Sylvia Leung Yuk Yu, 29, told how Loh, then
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    • 272 2 GONE ARE the days of a human parking attendent at the Hyatt. The hotel has set up a new fully-automatic parking system. In a move that will save an estimated $144,000 a year in labour costs, the management has installed a fully-automated Zeag
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    • 220 2 COME JANUARY, kites of dif- i. ferent designs, colours and sizes will take to the skies during the 4th Singapore International Kite Festival. The festival, to be held on J Jan 26 and 27, is organised by the Singapore Tourist Promo- tion
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    • 367 3  -  By LISA LEE THE HOUSING and Development Board has awarded 10 contracts worth 55.4 million. All contract sums for jobs ranging from construction of carparks, sewers and repairs to re-decoration of HDB flats were below a million dollars. Among the construction contracts, Soon Hoe
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    • TRADE TALK
      • 184 3 the Australian Wool Corporation and the New Zealand Wool Board are organising a seminar on the virtues of wool carpets and upholstery. The lectures-cum-demonstrations will cover the trend towards using natural fibres, paying attention to the tropical climate where high temperature and humidity prevail. Speakers for
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      • 111 3 is organising a seminar that will give Singaporeans an insight into the latest in research and development in high technology, biotechnology and new materials. Two Japanese experts will speak on how Japanese industries have achieved significant results through the implementation of research and development in these areas.
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      • 90 3 of Sydney is seeking agents for its recently developed surveying instrument. The company is looking for agents to distribute its hydrostatic level. The new level is based on the old water level idea but modernised to incorporate the latest technological advances and materials. The hydrostatic level reduces
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    • 187 3 AT LEAST 10 people in Singapore will soon become owners of a bottle of rare cognac. They are the early buyers to place an order for the Renault Age Unknown cognac. Mr Gerald Foo, product manager (wines and spirits division) of Borneo Company,
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    • 294 3 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER Nov 13 Nov 13-15 Nov 13-15 Nov 15 Nov 15 Nov 15-16 Nov 16 Nov 16 Nov 17 Nov 19 Nov 19 Nov 19 Public Relations For Hotels Initiating Quality Data Processing Professional Selling Skills HI Wage And Salary Administration Principles Practice
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    • 479 3  -  By LOH HUI YIN IN SPITE OF the bureaucratic bottlenecks a banker is optimistic about the potential of financing energy projects in China. The conference on Energy Law and Policy in the AsiaPacific Region also heard that the problems faced by banks were partly their own
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    • 471 3 A CHANGE of name will be in store for Cortina Departmental Store as it moves into new premises in Funan Centre. Plans are also on the drawing board to establish a chain of fashion stores scattered in various areas, instead of a large
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 721 4 Reagan's re-election a boost for Philippine leader NYT PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand Marcos ended speculation about his plans last week by announcing that he would seek re-election in 1987 even as his supporters hailed the re-election of President Reagan as a boost for the
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    • 497 4 AP THE WATER quality of Lake Biwa, known as Japan's "water jar" and serving 13 million people, has deteriorated to such an extent over the past two decades that its "biwamasu," a native salmon, has been wiped out. In spite of the adoption of a
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    • 246 4 Before the flood Reuter THE water level of a man-made lake that will feed Brazil's new Tucurui dam is rising. Islands on the lake are disappearing at a rate of one metre a day under the flow of the Tocantins River, a tributary of the Amazon. About 150,000 animals have
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    • 248 4 Reuter THAILAND'S powerful military has ruled out a coup attempt against Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda over the recent devaluation of the baht. Sources yesterday said this consensus was reached at a meeting on Sunday of about 50 senior military officers, including army chief
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    • 507 4 AFP CAR THIEVES are working a multi-million dollar industry in Hongkong preying on the colony's reputation for having more Rolls Royce cars per square mile than anywhere else in the world. The authorities have recently declared war on these
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    • 239 4 AP CHILE'S abrupt return to a state of siege is driving hundreds of dissidents into hiding and raising fears that the military regime will again resort to what one priest calls the "terrible practices" of the mid--*****. Leftist organisers have abandoned their party
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    • 776 4 ARRIVALS Operator Service number Local time From PAA CV SIA MAS MAS MAS MAS MAS RBA SIA CPA GIA SIA SIA THAI SIA MAS GIA MAS SIA GIA GIA SIA SIA SIA THAI GIA THAI SIA SIA KLM LUFT CPA MAS MAS MAS ANZ BA SIA MAS
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    • 133 5 Before you to London read this. And think. Below: The window seat view from a Jumbo ♦■VV Above: the view from an Air Canada window seat. Any Jumbo takes up t0420 engerSjand no airline provides tnan 17 cabin crew to look after them. fli ugh ioa On wide-bodied Air Canada
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 345 6 Balance sheet discrepancy uncovered AFP A CONFIDENTIAL report of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has indicated that US$3.l billion in loans to the Philippines were "salted" or hoarded abroad. The leading Philippine business journal, Business Day, said yesterday that the IBRD or
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    • 218 6 UPI A VETERAN US-educated economic expert, Dr Kim Kihwan, 52, will head a sevenmember South Korean delegation to the first economic talks with North Korea scheduled for this week. Dr Kim now serves as secretary-general of the Economic Planning Board's International Economic Policy Council
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    • 321 6 UPI ISRAELI Prime Minister Shimon Peres has announced that he has invited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to meet him on their common border to "improve the formal peace treaty" between the two countries. But Israel radio and television reported on Sunday that Mr Mubarak planned to
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    • 187 6 ALL ADVERTISEMENTS in Malaysia will soon have to be approved by an Information Ministry censorship committee wielding full veto powers. The committee will monitor all forms of advertising in the electronic and print media, on billboards, shops, buildings and at other public
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    • 304 6 Reuter BRITAIN'S Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Nigel Lawson, yesterday presented parliament with what amounted to a minibudget in which he acknowledged that the government was over-running its tight spending targets. This follows a hard-fought battle in the Cabinet between Treasury ministers and the
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    • 83 6 Reuter INDIAN Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was yesterday unanimously elected head of the ruling Congress (I) Party ending speculation about a split in its ranks ahead of national elections. The party's backing for Mr Gandhi to take over as Congress (I) president consolidated his political
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    • 378 6 UPI THE US STRATEGIC Air Command (SAC) should not launch missiles at the Soviet Union until at least some Soviet warheads have hit America as proof a nuclear war was underway, the SAC's top officer said. In a story in the Omaha
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    • 215 6 UPI THE UNITED STATES is weighing a number of options to reduce what it says is a steady flow of Soviet weapons into Nicaragua. US Secretary of Defence, Mr Caspar Weinberger, said: "The United States is prepared for a number
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    • 100 6 AP FORTY jetfighters of the Japanese Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) scrambled yesterday morning against a Soviet bomber which violated Japanese airspace despite repeated warnings. The Soviet bomber was one of nine which earlier flew south past the Tsushima Straits between South Korea and
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 101 6 THE AUTHOR of a controversial book about the life of Pope John Paul n is under investigation by a US federal grand jury for possible mail fraud, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union said. Antoni Gronowicz, author of "God's Broker" a book discredited by the Vatican and
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      • 92 6 JAPAN WILL limit car exports to the US for a fifth consecutive year, even if President Reagan does not request an extension of the voluntary quotas, US representatives of Japan's car industry said on Sunday. The sources also predict that the maximum number of Japanese car exports will
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      • 104 6 SWEDEN'S most notorious criminal has been arrested in Belgium on suspicion of leading a gang that smuggles narcotics to Sweden, police in Stockholm said on Sunday. Clark Olofsson was arrested on Friday at a Belgian harbour at the request of Swedish police, they said. He has spent the
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      • 81 6 PAKISTANI lawyers have demanded fresh trials for four men facing execution for their role in the hijacking of a Pakistani airliner. The four were sentenced to death by a military court for their involvement in the 1981 hijacking of an airliner to Kabul and Damascus. A fifth
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      • 74 6 Agencies TAIWAN'S trade surplus narrowed to US$764 million in October from US$Bl6 million in September but remained above the surplus of US$236 million in October 1983, the Directorate General of .Budget, Accounting and Statistics said yesterday. The October figures bring the surplus for the first 10 months of
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    • 188 6 Reuter INDUSTRY reports that Nigerian crude oil production was as high as 1.6 million barrels a day in late October and early November offer an additional challenge to last week's Opec accord, analysts and crude oil traders said. William Randol, oil analyst
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    • 154 6 Reuter WEST GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl, seeking to sharpen up the image of his administration, yesterday named a new Cabinet minister to improve policy management. Mr Kohl said Mr Wolfgang Schaeuble, his parliamentary Chief Whip and close confidant, would assume the new post of Minister
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
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      700 7 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed higher against most major currencies on local and European short-covering despite uncertainty over the direction of US interest rates. Trading was quiet due partly to the market holiday in New York yesterday and in the absence of fresh factors. The dollar rose to
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    • 252 7 Interbank rates at 3pm CUfTMCtM Nominal ra taa Smith aoman quoted ytiltrdiy croaa parity change Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency US dollar 2 1460 2 1470 ***** 23 89 Sterling pound 2 6996 2 7030 7 3469 -63 26 Australian dollar 1 8477 1 8496
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    • 148 7 LONDON The morning gold fix yesterday was U*****.80 an ounce, down $1.00 from the previous fix. HONGKONG The metal closed lower yesterday in the face of a stronger US dollar. The bullion price ended at U*****.30/70 an ounce against an initial $345.80/ 346.20On the local market, gold finished HK$4.OO
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    • 239 7 DEPOSIT rates closed steady around easier opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Period rates weakened between 1/8 and 3/16 point initially on news of a 0.2 per cent fall in US October producer prices and the federal open market committee meeting minutes of Oct 2. Asian
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    • 362 7 BA Futures Inc THE REBOUND of E*r*d«U*r futures in the IMM market was carried into Simex yesterday as the December contract opened at 90.16, 15 ticks higher than the previous close and 5 higher than IMM's close. A lower interbank rates provided the impetus for the Eurodollar rebound. The
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    • 118 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate rose by 1/4-point from Thursday to close at 71/8 per cent on the Singapore interbank money market yesterday. One and two-month maturities fell by 1/16-point each while three-month remained unchanged. S$ interbank rates at 3pm yesterday Otter Bid Over6 3/4 6 5/8 1-month 6 5/8
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    • 255 7 Reuter UK INTEREST rates are expected to fall, two private economic forecasting teams say in separate reports. The London Business School forecast that clearing bank base rates would average 8 1 2 per cent in the 1985/86 year beginning next April, compared
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    • 161 7 Reuter LATIN AMERICA'S 11 most indebted nations met in Brasilia over the weekend to prepare for their next formal meeting on the region's US$35O billion debt, to be held in the Dominican Republic. A Brazilian spokesman said that foreign ministers of the so-called
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    • 40 7 Reuter ARGENTINA has agreed to make a further US$75 million interest payment on Its $43 billion foreign debt. Banking officials say that the payment, to be made today, would bring Argentina up-to-date on payments to May 15.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 290 7 So different, in fact, that we can't think of a word to describe Marina Square. Except, a unified-integrated-multi-use development. More than a word perhaps, but here's what it means to Singapore. We're a swinging shopping and entertainment centre. Two intimate cinemas, a wide open park, a two-level shopping mall with
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  • FEATURES
    • 487 8 IT MIGHT BE hard to imagine, standing today on the banks of the Singapore River and looking up at towering developments such as the OCBC Building or looking seawards towards the massive Marina reclamation, Benjamin Sheares Bridge and the numerous ships lying further out in
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    • 419 8 THE Singapore Constitution states clearly that a person born outside Singapore will be considered a citizen of Singapore by descent "if at the time of the birth his father is a citizen of Singapore either by birth or by registration". There
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    • 1650 8  -  By TERESA LIM, Hongkong Correspondent IMAGINE you are male, and the favoured employee of a major Singapore corporation. Your company has set up an important branch in New York and has invited you to head it for a few years. You leave with your wife to take
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    • 1084 9  -  Sally Aw Sian hopes to attract investment from Down Under into Southeast Asia By FLORENCE CHONG HONGKONG-based multi-mil-lionaire and newspaper tycoon Sally Aw Sian does not like press interviews. So it came as a surprise when she invited journalists to meet her in a series of interviews
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    • 795 9  -  By LEONARD SILK NYT With THE landslide re-election of President Reagan and the continued Democratic control of the House of Representatives what is the outlook for American economic policy next year? The cardinal economic issue of the campaign, posed by Walter Mondale,
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1261 8 w sm mrnu HIGHLIGHTS The Arabs: Living History The Shadows Of The West 8.00 pm, Channel 12 This episode assesses the changes which came about as the Arab countries were drawn into the new political and economic order of modern j times. 1 These changes not only affected the Arab
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    • 665 8 ACROSS 3 See a girl with quality (5) 8 He's both saintly ond sinful (5) 10 Keep course for port (5) I I Where to prohibit drinking' (3) 12 She ad|usts some gramophones (5) 13 Has its north end in more ways than one (7) 15 Spare fruit? (5) 18
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  • SPORTS
    • 518 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS PROFESSIONAL GOLF in Singapore could enter the corporate era, if an idea mooted by PGA president Ong Ah Keng is bought by the golfers. Mr Ong's idea calls for the pros to channel their tournament prize money into
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    • 275 9 AP THREE-RUN homers by Eddie Murray and Larry Sheets helped US baseball team Baltimore jump off to a 9-0 lead in the fourth inning, but the Orioles needed just a bit more punch before beating the Yomiuri Giants 13-9 in the rain on Sunday
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    • 206 9 Australian Tourism Commission ADELAIDE is gearing up to host Australia's first international Formula One Grand Prix. The race will be staged through the streets of the South Australian capital on Oct 13 next year. Fisa, the controlling body of motor sports throughout
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    • 779 9  -  Breeders' Cup extravaganza wound up with exciting controversy By GEORGE VECSEY NYT THE STARTING gates had not yet been opened but already it was "Racing's Greatest Day". That's what it said, painted in big blue letters, on a brick wall facing the stands at Hollywood
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 88 10 Reuter LONRHO PLC has bought seven million shares in Honse of Fraser PLC through the stock market. Last week, Lonrho sold its 28.S per ceiit stake in Fraser, represented by 46.1 million ordinary shares, to the Al-Fayed family of Egypt. A statement by Lonrho did
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    • 784 10 Sale of 29.9 per cent stake to Egyptians FT HAS LONRHO really abandoned its interest in House of Fraser? Has Mr Roland "Tiny" Rowland, Lonrho's chief executive, who has stalked House of Fraser and Harrods of Knightsbridge for more than seven years, finally given
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    • 84 10 Reuter THE US Justice Department has cleared the pending merger of Price Waterhouse and Co and Deloitte Haskins and Sells, two of the big eight US accounting companies. The department's antitrust division concluded the merger would not raise significant concern about competition in any of
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    • 129 10 Reuter MARTIN MARIETTA Corps earnings should increase at least 15 per cent this year and 16-20 per cent next year. M A McCubbin, chief financial officer, said the company had net earnings of U*****.3 million last year or $4.32 a primary share. Thomas Pownall, chairman
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    • 231 10 FT MARKS AND SPENCER, Britain's biggest retailer, is entering the fast-growing personal computer market and will start selling a range of computer software. The move is part of the company's policy of moving into new market areas and away from its traditional reliance on clothing sales.
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 408 11 HONGKONG: Prices closed narrowly mixed yesterday in fairly quiet trading as investors await indications from Wall Street. Cheung Kong eased 10 cents to HK$B.l5, Jardine Matheson 15 to $7.45, Regal Hotels three to $1.25, Sun Hung Kai Properties 10 to $6.95 and Swire Pacific 'A' 20 to $19. HK
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    • 117 11 BANGKOK: Prices Closed higher in active trading yesterday. The Book Club index rose 0.79 to 122.17 with winners outnumbering losers four to one. I NOV 12 Bohn 470 18 I A ok ham The Credrt South Ava fix* And Trust 123 +1 T£* Commerce! Bangkok Bank 216 unch T
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    • 479 11 TOKYO: Prices closed easier after late profit-taking wiped out initial gains, with many investors moving to the sidelines towards the close awaiting signals from overseas centres. The market average fell 4.16 to close at 11,235.12 after rising 72.35 last Friday, on volume of 440 million shares versus 520 mlillion
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    • 119 11 MANILA: Prices closed generally steady in dull trading yesterday. The commercial and industrial index fell 0.56 to 113.02 but the mining marker was steady at 836.58 and the oils index was unchanged at 0.581. NOV 12 AcOfe M**ng Anglo Phil fnot 0001 unch Oriental B Phi Oveneos Ptvlex B
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    • 417 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed easy on moderate turnover yesterday as investors reacted to bearish signals from overseas. The All Ordinaries index was 3.1 points down at 776.0, the All Industrials 2.2 lower at 1125.4 and the All Resources 3.6 off at 505.9. Accurate national turnover figures were unavailable
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    • 94 11 Nov 12 Won Hyundai Motor 632 -5 Bonk Seoul 624 •31 KAL 543 -4 Choheung Bk Commefciol Bk 620 686 unch t-6 Korea F*st Korea Ol 721 1285 +1 53 Doekm Ind 570 10 Korea Sh*> 413 -7 Doewoo Corp Docwoo Ind 490 643 -5 -2 Lucky Ltd Somsung
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    • 145 11 AFP AMERICAN computer giant International Business Machines (IBM) has set up a Chinese subsidiary and launched a huge collaboration programme with the Chinese authorities with a gift of 100 computers. IBM president Ralph Pfeiffer said the company would equip Chinese universities with 100 highfunction academic
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    • 351 11 Reuter THE BOMBAY High Court has ended a major business row by declaring invalid shares worth several million dollars bought in an Indian company by an Indianborn businessman in London. In a keenly-awaited judgment, the court said that the purchase of shares in
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    • 168 11 AFP TOYOTA MOTOR Corp, Japan's largest car maker, plans to set up a joint venture in Spain to start assembly production of Toyota cars. The Tokyo daily, Sankei Shim bun. said yesterday Toyota vice-president Hideo Kamio visited Spain last month to discuss with government
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    • 84 11 Reuter MITSUI and Co will start retail trading in gold, silver and platinum by telephone early next year to attract more small investors. The company will invite people to join the Mitsui and Co Gold Club from the end of this month. Mitsui will also launch
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    • 184 11 6 HAPPY RESTAURANT =p can now offer Modestly-priced superb Cantonese dishes. Impeccable service. Nightly entertainment with no cover or corkage charges. Ample parking facilities. pinner. For reservations, call 744-2717 or 744-2SBC HAPPY RESTAURANT Lion City Hotel, 2nd Storey, p- 15 Tanjong Katong Road, 111 Singapore 1543 M N. Savoury Delights
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 354 12 UPI EFFORTS ARE under way to launch a new round of international trade negotiations one in which developing countries would play a major role for the first time. The seven rounds of trade liberalisation held since World War 11, the last completed in 1979, have been
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    • 374 12 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has criticised oils and fats consuming countries for their discriminatory practices against palm oil in the world market. Expressing concern over the growing protectionism by major consumers on palm oil, especially that of
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    • 92 12 Reuter TOTAL WORLD rubber consumption for Jan June 1984 is estimated at 6.53 million tonnes, compared with 6.06 million a year earlier, the International Rubber Study Group said in its latest statistical bulletin. Natural rubber consumption is put at 2.11 million tonnes (1.98
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    • 155 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 502 50 Exchange (Sellers' noon closing prices on Nov 1? «/100 kal Nutmeg HO FOB NSW 380 00 B W FOB NSW 281 00 Coconut oil Gambier Bulk FOB 195 00 FOB NSW 305 00 Old drum FOB 208 00 New drum
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    • 168 12 Yarn Hongkong Golden Peak, 60 x 60 ***** (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones White cloth Jopan No 10,000 Blue Phoerux 16 s 3,150 Three Peoches 221 50 Blue Phoenix 20's 3,200 Japan No 2003 Unq Blue Phoenix 32's 3,800 Flying Dragon, per Blue
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    • 309 12 SINGAPORE The market closed higher yesterday with December One RSS buyers quoted at 175.50 cents per kg. up 0.75 cent from Friday. The morning session gained some 0.75 cent after moving narrowly on lack of interest in quiet trading. Values in the afternoon trading remained unchanged from lunchtime levels
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    • 346 12 RAS prices (in S cents/kiio, FOB in boles) NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS prompt 172 50 173 50 172 50 173 SON Int 1 RSS Dec 85 175 50 176 00 175 50 176 00 Int 1 RSS Jon 86 177 50 178
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    • 111 12 THE Koala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) price fell a cent to Ms2t.2t per kg, remaining within the ITA lower range of $29.15 to $32.M. Dealers said sentiment was dampened by an offering of 2t2 tonnes, np from 183 on Friday, with the buffer stock manager again the main
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    • 144 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices firmed on strong covering and speculative buying in moderately active trading yesterday, in anticipation of higher Chicago soybean futures following a reduced USDA soybean production estimate on Friday. November and December deliveries in the south and central regions firmed Ms9o to 11,350 per
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    • 1086 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended a quiet morning session yesterday with gains of £16 to £1 a tonne. November finished at £2,590, up £14 but below the high at £2,598. Traders said the market was expected to open around £5 to £10 higher influenced by Friday's New York close
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    • 113 12 (cents/kg, l-to« pollets) December 84 Jonuory 85 (current mth) (forward mth) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 169 00 171 00N 170 50 172 SON SSR 50 167 00 169 00N 168 50 170 50N MREL6 Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 200 00
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    • 288 12 Singapore A-l special 187 (S$/VKo, ex-godown) C-l special C-l Ordnory unq unq Thai white Loonzam 100% first grade unq 100% 1st doss 100% second grode 230 (kongaroo) 0 96 0 70 100% third grode unq new crop 100% 2nd doss Parboiled 227 100% 3rd doss 070 5% 25% new
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    • 82 12 This announcement appears as a matter of record only. NEW ISSUE 13th November 1984 KDB INTERNATIONAL (SINGAPORE) LTD (Incorporated with limited liability in Singapore) 5 Shenton Way #33-01, 02 05 UIC Building Singapore 0106 US$lO,OOO,OOO Negotiable U.S. Dollar Floating Rate Certificates of Deposit due 13th November 1987 Guaranteed by The
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    • 94 12 KDB INTERNATIONAL (SINGAPORE) LTD (Incorporated with limited liability in Singapore' 5 Shenton Way #33-01. 02 05 IMC Building Singapore 0106 US$lO,OOO,OOO Negotiable U.S. Dollar Floating Rate Certificates of Deposit due 13th November 1987 Guaranteed by The Korea Development Bank In accordance with the provisions of the Certificates, notice is hereby
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4256 13 SHARE PRICES fell sharply in the Singapore stock market yesterday. The Straits Times Industrial Index fell by a drastic 16.77 points to 800.97 while the BT Composite Index lost a hefty 16.90 points to close at 700.20. Volume was low at 8.23
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    • 256 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices S P Te.tiW 320 TOM 264 Londmeriu H 50* 306 Outo Com 130 O. -> 1 c 7 5 2 2 1 ITCMS* IT lnAcoti rrot/os STMottn Nor v no* irt* 717 10 ***** v *****15 *****84 396 -404 oh 817 74 ***** *****1
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    • 492 13 SHARE PRICES continued to fall broadly across the board at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. In the absence of any positive leads, investors continued to adopt a wait-and-see attitude and remained on the sidelines. Turnover improved slightly to 5.07 million units valued at
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    • 3742 13 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 unit* unless otherwise specified All Time SetUement Contracts are quoted after the word "BETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • Market outlook: What the analysts think
      • 575 14  -  The Singapore stock market has been slowly but steadily losing ground since the ST Index reached its all-time high of 1071 in February. The market suffered from poor earnings forecast, a dearth of institutional investment and is now languishing at a
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      • 729 14 w.*w V*?* RICHARD CRAGG, an analyst with Lyall Ev&tt. is bearish. He sees a 10 to 15 per cent slowdown in Singapore's construction sector in 1985 and 1986 because of falls in HDB construction activity and the
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      • 447 14 PEGI Malaysia Bhd has welcomed the positive solutions reached last week in London for a massive revamp of Dunlop Holdings PLC's top management, which will pave the way for bankers to proceed with the crucial financial reconstruction plan. More than two-thirds of Dunlop's
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      • 115 14 GUINNESS Malaysia Bhd is proposing to split its existing M$1 stock unit into stock units of 50 cents each, followed by a one-for-two bonus issue. It is also proposing to increase its authorised capital from $100 million to $150 million. SIN HENG CHAN (Butterworth) Sdn Bhd, a wholly
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      • 370 14 SIME DARBY Footwear Sdn Bhd (SDF), the latest footwear venture of the Sime Darby Group, has plans to go international with the imminent launch of its products in Singapore, Hongkong, Taiwan, Australia and Thailand. According to Mr Nazri Yaakub, general
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    • 2686 14 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 Apnomoto (3 128 3.645) A Choc (2 498 2.525)
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    • 102 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hang Seng Index Monday unav Fndoy 1127.6 Monday 1044 45 Week ago 1123.2 Fndoy 1047 32 NEW YORK Dow Jones Week ago 1027 48 TOKYO Fndoy 1218 97 Tokyo Dow Jones Thursday 1228.69 Week ago 1216.65 Monday *****.12 Fnday ***** 28 Standard and Pqers Friday
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    • 233 14 Managers' prices MARA Bumiputra for Nov 13 First B'putro 5 22 5.27 Singapore Unit Trust Second B'putro Third B'putro 4 39 4 44 4 03 4 08 The Commerce 2 49 2 64 Fourth B'putro 430 435 The Savings Fund 1 66 1 76 Fifth B'putro 2.91 2
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    • 608 15 mmim mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW AS DAILY TURNOVER in the Singapore stock exchange bumps around the $20 million mark, life is getting tougher for the city's stockbrokers. Apart from a freak volume rise at the end of July through to the
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    • 1005 15 SHARES opened higher in quiet trading yesterday. The FTSE 100 index at 9.45 am was up 1.3 at 1,165.5. Prices were helped by hopes of a further reduction in UK interest rates in the near future following last week's cut of a halfpoint to 10 per cent. Blue
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    • 702 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM CHUAN HUP Marine Ltd, confident of its prospects in the marine line, has acquired a 25 per cent interest in California-based Jackson Offshore Ltd for $1.18 million. At the same time, having identified the Middle East as a growth area, Chuan
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    • 722 15 REMISIERS in Kuala Lumpur have called (or greater uniformity in practices in the stockbroking business to minimise the current discrepancies in the industry. The Persatuan Remisier Malaysia (PRM) said this would also help to create a more efficient securities industry in the country. Noting
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    • 108 15 THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS Authority of Singapore acquired a further 397,000 shares in Times Publishing Bhd between Oct 30 and Nov 2. This takes its stake in Times Publishing from 8.88 per cent to 9.27 per cent. Trading in the shares of Times Publishing, Straits Times Press
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    • 250 15 THE MALAYSIAN Trade and Industry Ministry has set up an investment advisory panel to evaluate the financial position of companies that have yet to restructure their equity in compliance with the New Economic Policy. The committee, whose members include six merchant bankers, will assess
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    • 148 15 DIRECTORS of Supreme Corporation Bhd have declared a first and final dividend of three per cent less tax for the financial year ended June 30, 1984 payable on Dec 28. FEDERAL FLOUR MILLS BHD has declared a first interim dividend of six per cent less tax payable on
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    • 202 15 Island Pen in joint venture to develop apartments ISLAND PENINSULAR Development Bhd has teamed up with two other property groups in a joint venture to develop a massive housing project in Kuala Lumpur. The property-cum-planta-tion group is taking a 33 per cent stake in the joint venture company, Pandan Maju
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    • 113 14 THE NIPPON CREDIT BANK (CURASAO) FINANCE N.V. U5530,000,000 Guaranteed Floating Rate Notes due 1987 Payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Notes is unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by THE NIPPON CREDIT BANK LTD. (Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Saiken Shinyo Ginko) In accordance with the provisions of the Agent Bank
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    • 33 15 UNDERSTANDING YOUR RLOOD PRESSURE By E.S. MONTEIRO Published by: Times Books International A guide to the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure and its complications. Available at all good Bookshops $4.50 only
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    • 107 15 STYLE 85 Fabrics Garments Shoes Accessories (TRADE ONLY) November 14th, 15th and 16th, 1984, 2 to 7 pm Century Park Sheraton Singapore flown in bySINGAPORE AiRUNES The Austrian Trade Commissioner Tanglin P.O. Box 238 Singapore 9124 HOME FURNISHING MATERIALS CIBACKHAUSEN C BAUMANN EYBL FUSSENEGGER GETZNER HALLER [J HITIAG SCHOENENBERGER STIPKOVICH
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  • 312 16  -  Republic of Singapore Air Force QCC wins meritorious award By ANNA TEO,MONICA GWEE MEET THE Superhunters from Mindef, seen here with Teamy after receiving their award from Dr Wong Kwei Cheong. The five-man team from the Republic of Singapore Air Force's 140 Squad, one of 20 QCCs
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  • 263 16 THERE ARE no snobs in quality control circles. Even the most uneducated and unskilled workers can contribute ideas and play an active role in helping their companies succeed through QCCs. "QC Circles help workers to enhance their dignity and selfrespect," said
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  • 484 16 THE STAR of the show was undoubtedly larger-than-life Teamy, as he ambled among delighted QCC members at the World Trade Centre yesterday morning. Few could resist having their picture taken next to the coy bee and the ladies found him simply irrestible and "so cute!" The
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  • 346 16  -  By LOH HUI YIN A MENTOR scheme will soon be introduced by the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation to give its young engineers better work guidance. Under the scheme, groups of young engineers will be attached to more experienced, senior expatriate members of the
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  • 68 16 THE MINISTRY of Culture has received several enquiries about the fund-raising efforts of the Singapore Cultural Society. Representatives of the society have attempted to solicit funds from the public, claiming that it has the support of the ministry. The Ministry of Culture yesterday clarified that it did
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  • 57 16 AP ZIMBABWE Prime Minister Robert Mugabe yesterday fired all three Cabinet ministers from the leading opposition party of Joshua Nkomo, Zapu, following accusations that the minority party was responsible for the assassination of a state senator. They are Ministers of State Cephas Msipa and John Nkomo
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  • LATE FILE
    • 40 16 AP MALAYSIAN Deputy Prime Minister Musa Hi tarn yesterday said the prospects for economic growth in Asean were extremely bright in the post-recession era, and urged foreign investors to start investing in the region. AP
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    • 42 16 Reuter ISRAELI police yesterday ordered illegal Arab money changers in East Jerusalem to close within six days as part of an attempt by the government to stop a drain of hard currency, police sources said. Reuter
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    • 34 16 Reuter INDONESIAN advertising companies have urged the government to ban foreignproduced advertisements, claiming that they did not suit Indonesian culture and tradition, the Antara news agency said yesterday.
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    • 49 16 PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan has authorised disciplinary action against several CIA employees involved in the production of a manual seen as advocating the assassination of members of the Nicaraguan government. White House officials said that could amount to reprimand or suspensions, but probably not dismissals.
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    • 30 16 UPI THE SOVIET UNION and Japan yesterday agreed to combine two fishing agreements into a multi-year accord and form a committee to handle bilateral fishing matters. UPI
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    • 38 16 UPI CHINA yesterday announced plans to set up a new post office in Antarctica that will offer collectors one of the world's more exotic postmarks "Chinese Great Wall Station on the South Pole". UPI
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  • 63 16 AP MINISTER for Tourism, Post and Telecommunications Achmad Tahir said Indonesia has received US$75 million in insurance for the Palapa B-2 satellite that failed to reach orbit after launching from a US space shuttle in February. The money received from the insurance will be used to
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  • 100 16 AP THIRTY-SEVEN Indonesian army generals have been retired as part of the government's programme to create a smaller but more efficient military by the end of 1985, the Defence Department announced yesterday. They include four lieutenant generals and eight major generals. A retirement ceremony was held
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  • 225 16 FRANCIS TEO, the company executive director who misappropriated cargo worth $5.66 million on board his ship, MV Ocomas Prosper, was yesterday sentenced to jail for five years. On Nov 8, Teo admitted criminal breach of trust of the cargo, originally bound
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    • 434 16 Cell I Britannia for free invitation investment seminar "i The Chartered Bank Building, 6 Battery Road, #14-08, Singapore 0104. Telephone: *****86. Asian-Pacific Tax and Investment Research Centre Singapore presents 2nd Asian Pacific Tax Conference 4-6 December 1984 Hyatt Regency Singapore TAXATION AND THE TWO-WAY FLOW OF INVESTMENT BETWEEN ASIAN PACIFIC
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    • 84 16 11 A FOR SALE CH (5) Equipment for re-conditioning of 44-gallon oil drums comprising Chime Machine, Dedenter, Leak Testing Equipment, Internal and External Washing Equipment, Spray Painting and Baking Oven, etc. (6) Toolroom equipment comprising lathes, surface grinding machine, drilling machine, conveyor system, plastic injection moulding machines, autolathes, etc. all
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    • 56 16 Outlook fof today: Portly cloudy with showers in several areas in the late afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Nov 12 at th« airport: Maximum temperature 31.7 Associated humidity 66 Minimum temperature 24.3 Associated humidity 92 Hours of sunshine 4.45 Rainfall in millimetres 3.4 Rainfall this month
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 404 17 PROBLEMS surrounding the first year of operation of the United Nations liner code will be discussed at a top level meeting of shipping policy makers later this month. Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development committee on shipping will meet
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    • 403 17  -  By JUNE LIM TOWARDS the end of the year, a new liner service will be launched linking Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong and Japan. The service will be operated by a newly-incorpo-rated Malaysian company, Jabsac Shipping Corporation Sdn Bhd. The company is established by five bumiputra
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    • 136 17 CHINESE seamen are to replace non-Japanese crewmen on Japanese freighters serving JapanChina and other routes operating from Japan in Asia, a shipowners group said. The Japanese Middle Trade Shipowners' Association of Kobe and the state-run China Ocean Shipping Agency signed a one-year agreement on the matter in
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    • 653 17 IMpping Urn 1 c* A tea VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner VI 5 Alphatrons VI 4 Alpoc VI 5 APC Lme V 4 APL 4/5 ASCL 1 Asiobroker V 5 A lis to mo Line V 1 Bolt Orient VI 4/5 Bangkok Coot VI 2 Bank Line V
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 129 17 A NATIONAL Maritime Art Award sponsored by ACTA Shipping is the first to be set up in Australia for a painting dealing specifically with the maritime scene. Worth Aslo,ooo, it will rank with Australia's top art prizes. ACTA managing director Christ Cullen said it was hoped that
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      • 70 17 THE Trans-Pacific Freight Conference and the New York Freight Bureau cancelled plans for container yard receiving charges scheduled for introduction in Hongkong on Jan 1 after discussions with the shippers council in Hongkong, the chairman of both conferences, David Dick, said in a statement. Dick said the
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      • 39 17 DOVER is considering "further capital developments in the years ahead," according to Dover Harbour Board chairman, Sir Fedric Bolton. Possible new projects include reclamation of land in the Eastern docks and the development of berthing facilities.
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    • 161 18 A NORWEGIAN engineering group, Kvaerner Ships Equipment, has won a contract to provide all access equipment for the new Stoomvart Maatschappij Zee land ferry. The Gothenburg-based company will be responsible for the design, construction and installation of all internal and external ramps and doors,
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    • 1460 18 Seatrade THE ANNOUNCEMENT on Sept 26 of the Sino-Brit-ish agreement on the future of Hongkong has been received with a sign of relief. Hongkong will become a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People s Republic of China on July 1, 1997 autonomous in everything
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    • 186 18 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/Europe, Far East Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia/Straits Container Line.
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    • 1907 18 THE freight market was featured by increased iron ore chartering to continental destinations on Friday, ship brokers said. An ore cargo was covered from Nouadhibou to Fos at U552.65 while $4.75 was paid for ore from Monrovia to Rotterdam. In addition, shippers arranged iron ore from Port Cartier
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    • 227 19 THE Baikul-Amur-Main-line (BAM) railway, completed and scheduled for operation next year, will reduce the length of the Trans-Siberian (TSL) by 800 kilometres, rendering it more competitive with Europe-Far East liner trades. The line stretches over 3,000 kilometres from Siberia to the Pacific coast,
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    • 380 19 Lloyd's List CONTROVERSIAL pr o posals for a £70 million container terminal at the UK port of Falmouth have suffered a setback with the decision by Felixstowe Dock and Railway Co to pull out of a port management deal. A senior executive at Felixstowe
      Lloyd's List  -  380 words
    • 281 19 FT BRITAIN'S 21,000 merchant seamen seem likely to accept a pay offer put by the employers at 8.2 per cent one of the highest deals so far in this private sector pay round. Mr John Newton, chairman of the employers' side,
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    • 746 20 Nov €-12 Arctic offshore technology conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Nov 12 Economic design of cooling water, fuel and electrical power generation systems for motorships. 1730 hours. Institute of Marine Engineers, 76 Mark Lane, London EC3. Nov 12-18 Expoship Far East 1984 international maritime exhibition, Hongkong Exhibition Centre. Nov
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    • 5595 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore
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    • 679 25 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Siri Bhum 194N 13.11.84 2300 S'pore Shpg TA 3 1000-1100 Jl Pegasus P 352N 14 11.84 0700 Straits FSB 0700-0800/1530-1700 G1 Niaga 42 26/84 13.11.84 2300 Kalimantan
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    • 1806 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies (S) Afra-Earaaia Liar Transgroup (Si. Ahreaklel Uaer Service Kim Shpg iS) Alfred C Taepfer Oceanus Shipping Agencies (Si Mahmex Enterprise (PK). Alpae Intrasea (S) Bintang Shpg (KL) Island Cargo Handling
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    • 526 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES DonamNo 7 25/6 NAPL alongside 13.11.84/1500 Foochow 23/4 Sin Chlao alongside 13.11.84/2300 Kim Soon Li 22 Thong Soon alongside 13.11.84/0700 Kota Mutiara 10/11 PIL alongside 13.11.84/1830 KwangChow 27/8 G Guan alongside 13.11.84/0600 Larch 35/6 ABOR alongside 13.11.84/2300
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    • 314 26 AFP AGAINST a background of reports that Saudi Arabia had resumed chartering supertankers for storage purposes, Gulf states area rates tended to improve on the tanker market last week. Some shipbrokers expressed surprise that demand has been maintained in this region as North Sea and African crude prices
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    • 265 17 mm CONSORTIA II LONDON Freights 11/11 l SHIPPING Event# IV SHIPPING Schedule VIII/IX CONTAINER Schedules IX WHO Acts for Whom IX SHIPS In Port X TANKER Rstes X REGIONAL Westher X UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) SEALORD SHIPPING AGENCIES 70 Shenton Way M-02C Manna Houtr Singapore 0207 Tel No BS2S4i<>
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    • 345 18 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE From Europe VESSEL I 1) GDurgj 2) H borg Mm Acccpfof For: I) Barcelona Genoa. 2) Amsterdam Antwerp. L Havre. Basle. UH. 3) Bremen. Bremerhaven. Aarhus Copenhagen Helsinki 4) Malmo Stockholm. Oslo 'Accepting Europe carp) for teeder via S pore 'Also direct cargo tor Spore I
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    • 722 19 The Straits Steamship Group MANSFIELD CONTAINER SHIPPING PTE LTD Overseas Containers Limited STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok CONTAINERS!# SERVICE TO/FROM BANGKOK Also accepting cargo lor: Hanbt*{ to Copenhajen Aarhus Gottwnburj tUmo Stockholm Hehnki. Sondertowj Rotterdam :to Antwerp Amsterdam. Oslo Bremenha.ni to Bremen Southampton UK repm.
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    • 517 19 FULLY CONTAINERISED WEEKLY SERVICE PLYING S'PORE-JAKARTA ARRIVING S'PORE EVERY THURSDAY. DWT 3200T CAPACITY 100 TEU FLAG INDONESIAN BUILT 1984 (JAPAN) DERRICK 2 x 20T, 1 x 40T For more information please contact: P.T. MASKAPAI PELAYARAN PULAU LAUT S'PORE REP OFFICE: 9, BATTERY ROAD ?04-05 STRAITS TRADING BUILDING STORE 0104 TEL:
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    • 528 20 m M S LINE KOH %<. O»*MIA r,O* m FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ J Member ot the Ace Comortwm CHEVALO PAUL 42W 19/11 CHM CONTAMER 28W 24/11 CICVM.DI KOZE 41N 28/11 NEPTUC CRYSTAI 27W 9/12 MAETERIHC* 4W 16 12 ALSO 10ABING FOR BRf Mf RHAVtN 11/12 13/12
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    • 726 21 1 'W PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES KARACHI/P. GULF SERVICES COLOMBO/CHITTAGONG/RANGOON SERVICES BANGKOK DIRECT SERVICES INDONESIA SERVICES FAR EAST SERVICE TAIWAN/JAPAN (FULL CONTAINER SERVICE) BANGKOK PK/PNG JAKARTA VSL S. HAWK S. HAWK SINGAPORE PORT KELANG PENANG rjQI SURABAYA VSL
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    • 821 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE STRUTS 10 europe store pkelang Honfioni Eiptesv Sided 14 11 Cj>(k|<n Bit 19/U ?111 BenHde. 21/11 29/11 frankturt Ctp>ns 4/12 6/1? no-tow BIT 12/12 14/12 H«ntw| E.preis 20/12 21/12 RlweMjni 21/12 29/12 Bewron 4/1 9/1 Tokn Eiptrst 12/1 14/1 Cirdgin Bj 21/1 22/1
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    • 514 21 ID DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINE Far East S'pore Service Full Container Vessel. Buijn Tototunu Kobe Kjohuunf HonftonfS po>r Ij Priot (M) MAIAPAMT Vl4 HB ?S 10 ?8 10 >0 10 3/11 5/11 10 11 12/11 CON* <14 HB IVII 17/11 22/11 23/11 Till 29/11 MAIAPAUT 115 MB 2S/11 21/11
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    • 504 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES m BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon Pogon V 79 Htoneywo* Myomoywo*VB4W Htoneywo Discharge Only S'pore P Kelang 14/18 Nov 22/23 Nov 1/4 Dec 9/10 Dec Penong BANK LINE EXPRESS INDEPENDENT SERVICE TO UK/CONT SPORE R'DAM HULL HMBG /\h y un d
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    • 1288 22 V~ K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. r»\ ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE Ft EH* ASIA SIM V3O MOTttll VSI A VSI pklg png spore kobe guayaqui 24 Nov 26 Nov 28 Nov 26 Dec 25 lan CAUAO 31 lan •RICA t Feb IQWQUE AFAGASTA 7 feb I Feb S ANTOHO VALPARAISO 11 Feb
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    • 611 22 '/If CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE loidnt for lOS ANGFIFS SAN FRANCISCO SIATTU. TACOMA VANCOUVER BC Accepto* FCI FCI Contaewo P Aelang Siflfap <*e I Anptrs AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Acceptmt FCI FCI Cantanas S pore frm 23 ?4 No. 1 Ok 910 OK 17 Ok 70 71
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    • 707 22 SANKD ASIA FROM JARANCSC FOATS AND MOMOKOMC L STARLET 2. REGENT RANGER 3. AKIMARU 4 SHINKOMARU 5. MERDEKA 6. SANKO SCORPIO 7. TOMOCO A {nit Smjjpwe Port Kelanj Penary Singapore 14/16 Nov 14/16 Nov 17/19 Nov 21/23 Nov 21/23 Nov 27/29 Nov 30/2 Dec P. Kelani Penanj 17/18 Nov 17/18
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    • 562 22 INTRASEA PTC ITD. 10 Anson Road e27 16 International Plaza Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 (10 Lines) sroißiAßtA-Lm o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK J S pore P. KfUnj Loadmf tor BUNGA KENANGA *****13 In Port 15/11 ROTT ANT UK (AVON) ALEXANDRIA 88M914 15/11 SE IE R 0 T T ANT/U
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    • 711 23 NOL. NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia C PAUL S pore Closing Times FCL Cargo 1800 18/11 LCI Cargo 0600 18/11 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) TO AND FROM AUSTRALIA: Anro Temasi SURABAYA JAKARTA Sailed SINGAPORE in Port PENANG P. KELANG 14/11 BRISBANE 26/11
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    • 625 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels 1 SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: BANGKOK. KEELUNG. BUSAN. INCHON MCHON BUS** inset W 7 Datum Na I Dorvam (to 9 Doram (to i Dim spi*i »QNis WPTUNI HGJNCUS Plf I ID Tel ?*****7 ?/BS4 J4 *Boo*mtsi ???7510 < Oper jtlOf'S I ????487 ??09?84 (Ternwiall ??0?4S0
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    • 605 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55. Market Street Sin(apore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG M/S SHARK*! NAH SOON SON BHD IST AND 2NO FLOOR NO 1 IALAN CEMPENING PORT KIANG MALAYSIA
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    • 58 23 DURBAN. JOHANNESBURG. MAPUTO. MAURITIUS REUNION SHENG TAI LINE REfiULAR LINER SEBVICE TAIWAN-STRAITS-TAIWAN Vessel KAO REE S POKE P KELANG IAWM 16/10 19/10 15/11 17/11 BRIGHT FORMOSA 12/11 14/11 2/12 4/12 DORIS II 14/11 16/11 5/12 7/12 General MB EAGLE CORPORATION (PTE) LTD Tct *****H <4 bin) Tctei to *****. PORT
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    • 553 24 Rc«|i«Hiai Contnisicr Lines S iiimim g| 3 Sa,l,n 9 Weekly Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. 1500 Hrs. Tues, Thurs Sat REGULAR/FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGKLA VOY SM SKI* BKK PUT SKU RAT ANA BHUM 254/199 Saied 14/ IS Not 11/19 Not 22/; RATANA BHUM 300 301 26/27 Nov 29/30 Not
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    • 72 24 FARGO SH/PPmC COMPANY (PTE.) LTD. EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICF SINGAPORE/BANGKOK EVERY 2 DAYS SMI BHUM I HAM BHUM SMI BHUM THAN* BHUM SMI BHUM InPt/HNov 16/17 Nov 17/11 Nov 21/22 Nov 20/21 Nov 24/25 Nov 27/21 Nov 23/24 Nov 21/29 Nov 30/1 D*c Acceptor botti FCI and LCI: LCI Carpes packed
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    • 3 25 T, LICOIiNR A
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    • 187 25 Scan Dutch V To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) To Red Sea/Mediterranean Anson 6/12 Anson 2/1 SINGAPORE I JEDDAH BEIRUT LIMASSOL 28/12 31/12 1/2 29/1 From Europe Also Accepting To: From Red Sea/Med. (I) Barcelona. Genoa, Bdbao, Leghorn Valencia (2) Amsterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Basle, Southampton, Liverpool, London (Tilbury), Conory Islands (3) Bremen, Bremerhaven,
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    • 333 26 r •W Mitsui OS K. Lines Ltd CON VENTI ON AL/SEMI-CONTAINER AFRICA'S EAST AFRICA NEDLLOYD MOJI GLORIA PEAK ALTAI MARU WEST AFRICA NEDLLOYD MANILA 16 Nov Mombasa, Daressalaam 26 Nov Port Louis, Reunion 5 Dec Mombasa, Daressalaam. Tanga Zanzibar, Nacala. Beira, Tamatave NEDLLOYD MANILA 15 Nov Monrovia. Abidjan. Apapa. Tema,
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 162 26 Regional Weather m fa ■4 r A !> y C ■w^ m SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. K Thunderstorm Temperature c Shower Weather _,X Wind direction with speed in knots Rain Wave height O Cloudy Sky v Surfoce winds are indicated by orrows which fly
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