The Business Times, 11 March 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1985 60 CENTS
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  • 271 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN A SITE has been earmarked for Changi Airport's third passenger terminal even as the first piles are driven into the ground for Terminal Two. The site is the present 27,000 sq m public Carpark B. But when construction starts
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  • 86 1 A SIX-MAN team from the Malaysian civil service will pay a visit to Singapore today. The team comprises officials from the Malaysian Administrative, Modernisation and Manpower Planning Unit (Mampu) and the National Institute of Public Administration (Intan). The leader of the team is
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  • 546 1  -  Project still running well below original budget By LIM SOON NEO SUBTERRANEAN SNAGS are threatening to push up the contractual cost of the Mass Rapid Transit System, although the project is still running well below the original budget. Claims for millions of dollars
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  • 583 1  -  By ALAN LEE Companies Editor SIME DARBY Bhd, the Malaysian-based plantation and property giant, has achieved at half time more than 60 per cent of what it expects to make this year, indicating that its profit forecast in December was rather conservative. But
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  • 124 1 AS PART of its efforts to encourage local businessmen to develop local products for export markets, the Economic Development Board has lifted its $200,000 ceiling on grants under its product development assistance scheme. A spokesman for the board, while not specifying what
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  • 512 1  -  By BOEY KIT YIN INTENSIVE EFFORTS to restructure the ailing Lee Brothers Group could give a new lease of life to its poultry and fast-food businesses. The rescue operation is on two fronts looking for a capital boost for Safeway FastFood, its
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  • 237 1 AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Bill Hayden yesterday said top Vietnamese officials lied to him when they denied Hanoi's forces intruded into Thailand. Mr Hayden said he was assured by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach when
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    • 399 1 2S r f* 1* t 4r" The social, emotional and psychological make-up of the younger generation in West Germany is the focus of a series of films that will be shown by the Goethe-lnstitut from this week. The films, such as Treffer (left), deal with the youngsters' dreams, fears and
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    • 216 1 Where efficient and personalised service is a tradition 4L fa FOUR SEAS COMMUSiCATIOHS 6£S» LTD V It. Head Otlict 19 ?5 Ce. il Street S< CIO' What you missed... IF YOU did not read BT on Saturday, you would have missed a listing of the companies which the Government may
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1541 2  -  Innovative Direction Generale des Telecommunications faces many challenges By GUY de JONQUIERES FT "THE RENOVATORS of technology in France" is how Jacques Dondoux, the ebullient head of Direction Generale des Telecommunications, the national telecommunications authority, likes to describe his organisation's role in the country's industrial
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    • 525 2 FT BY THE END of this year, DGT expects to have launched about 1.6 million French households and businesses into the electronic information era by providing them with inexpensive electronic terminals connected to a national computerised videotex service. The project will give France the world's largest population
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    • FRONTIERS
      • 97 2  -  Compiled by LEE HAN SHIH WHAT MAY LOOK like shiny equipment in an operating theatre (above) is in reality the basis of modern technology for Siemens. In Villach, Austria, Siemens has introduced what it says is the first and only production facility for the
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      • 171 2 RESEARCH at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, into the nature of ciguatera poison- ing may lead to a better understanding of the human nervous system. Ciguatera is a toxin more potent than cyanide and is found in some fish. Scientists at the university have
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    • 496 2 FT THE IMPLICATIONS of President Ronald Reagan's proposal in his recent budget message to phase out the Small Business Administration are just beginning to be digested in Europe. Reagan's recommendation is just the first phase of what may well turn out to
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    • 1031 3  -  Singapore Airlines among its customers in the East By JAIMIE LYE AIRBUS INDUSTRIE, the European consortium which in its 15 years of existence has grown to rival such aircraft-manufacturing giants as Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas, looks intent to make itself felt outside its
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    • 751 3  -  By DAVID MARSH FT AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is flying into a turbulence over its future management structure just at the time when competition with Boeing, the world's number one aircraft manufacturer, is widening into a full-scale battle of the skies. A split between its French, West
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    • 92 2 isMl mm TWrl' -ill Mllllilvi»fl wii r/#A%^ The EURO-ASIA CENTRE of INSEAD presents a two-week programme ASIAN SENIOR EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME ir^P n \t M from April 29 to May 10, 1985 in Fontainebleau, France This programme focuses exclusively on the major tasks of senior top managers of Asian companies: Understanding
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 509 4 Progress hindered by protectionism, says UN study AFP DEVELOPING countries of Asia and the Pacific are generally growing faster than those elsewhere in the world, but many remain chronically plagued by protectionism in developed countries plus fickle regional weather, a United Nations survey shows.
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    • 562 4 FT AFP DUMPING DUTIES of up to 33 per cent have been imposed on Japanese makers of hydraulic excavators by the European Commission. The decision, announced on Saturday, follows a complaint last July by 18 European excavator makers. Japanese excavator sales in EEC
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    • 237 4 Bernama MALAYSIA may reduce foreign borrowing so as to remedy its adverse balance of payment position. Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said on Saturday that the problem was rather serious as the country had a Mss.B billion balance of payment deficit. He said
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    • 327 4 a&'the Trial Reuter PROSECUTORS in the trial of 26 people charged in connection with the murder of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino will call 15 witnesses this week. Court sources said on Saturday that two of the 15 lined up to testify
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    • 553 4 FT THE RAPID deterioration in the US trade balance is beginning to have a more and more damaging impact on employment in manufacturing industry in America, judging from the latest unemployment figures released last week. Although the report indicated that civilian unemployment in February
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    • 57 4 AP photo THIS four-year-old Chinese girl, taking part in a piano contest for musically-inclined children in Beijing on Saturday, hopes to be a famous pianist one day and needs all the support she can get. For the moment, the stack of bricks is helping to bring
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    • 188 4 UPI AMERICAN Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige believes imposing an import surcharge on foreign goods entering the US would hurt American industries more than it would help them. Mr Baldrige also backed President Reagan's decision not to oppose Japan's lifting of voluntary quotas on cars imported
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    • 570 4 Reuter PRESDIENT Reagan's controversial 1986 budget has been torn to pieces by members of Congress and political analysts wonder if they have not already deflated his cherished hopes of mastering what he sees as a bloated federal government spending machine. During three days last week,
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    • 214 4 FT SAUDI ARABIAN Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, together with four other leading oil ministers from Opec, are to meet in Geneva on March 19 to assess the results of the first investigation carried out by international accountants of the
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    • 280 5 AP A NEW STUDY has accused former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and other architects of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon of deceived the Cabinet about the operation's goals and scope, leading to a lack of consenus that doomed the invasion. Sharon and his
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    • 278 5 AP EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Washington last Saturday for five days of meetings on topics ranging from the latest Middle East peace initiative to an expected request for US$B7O million in extra aid. When official talks begin
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    • 484 5 UPI CHINA'S economy, spurred by top leader Deng Xiaoping's market-oriented reforms, grew by 13 per cent in 1984 in spite of new signs of inflation and problems in the power and transport sectors. Xu Gang, deputy director of the State Statistical Bureau,
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    • 185 5 Reuter THE WEST GERMAN economy grew by 2.6 per cent last year, twice the rate of the previous year. Final Statistics Office data confirmed preliminary estimates that growth in West Europe's largest economy was the strongest since 1973. The main impetus
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    • WORLD IN BRIEFS
      • 67 5 UN SECRETARY General Javier Perez de Cuellar has called on the leaders of Iran and Iraq to order a halt to all attacks on each other's civilian areas by 2359 GMT today. A UN spokesman said on Saturday that the appeal was delivered to the UN envoys of
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      • 51 5 BRITISH doctors are seeking legislation which could outlaw tobacco advertising and tobaccosponsored sport there. Lord Pitt of Hampstead, president-elect of the British Medical Association, said he expected strong support in the House of Lords this week when he plans to introduce a bill which would make tobacco promotion
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      • 39 5 A UNITED NATIONSaided production line to make oral contraceptives was opened in a pharmaceuticals factory in Beijing on Friday. The contraceptives will be purchased by the China State Planning Commission and distributed free through its local branches.
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      • 55 5 INDIAN Defence Minister PV Narasimha Rao will begin a six-day visit to the Soviet Union on March 12. The Press Trust of India quoted an official statement as saying Mr Rao would pay an official and friendly visit to Moscow, one year after the late Soviet Defence
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      • 69 5 THE TRIAL of five Sikh separatists charged with hijacking an Indian aircraft in September 1981 began in Lahore on Saturday but was quickly adjourned until March 18. Pakistan has yet to set a date for the trial of another nine Sikhs charged with hijacking an Indian Airlines jet
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      • 58 5 Agencies AUSTRALIAN newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch has announced that he will launch a new evening daily in London this year, hoping eventually to turn it into a round-the-clock newspaper. The newspaper, to be called The Post, will be printed at a new plant in London owned by Mr
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    • 265 5 AP THE CANADIAN government is considering negotiating a trade pact with the US, doing away with almost all barriers to trade across the world's longest undefended border. But free trade with the Americans can be a highly charged issue
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    • 343 5 Hayden sounds an optimistic note Reuter AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Bill Hayden has said that he has received "concrete" clarifications from Hanoi and its Phnom Penh ally which could lead to a settlement of the sixyear Cambodian conflict. On Saturday night, at a press briefing
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    • 250 5 AP VIETNAMESE forces trying to surround a major Cambodian resistance camp have assaulted a strategic hill in Thai territory, injuring 20 Thai soldiers. A Thai army spokesman, Colonel Anusora Krissanasareni, said yesterday that Thailand was rushing reinforcements to the area of
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 57 5 Doonesbury /JCV SOWfMLATd., OUNCf. IHAPA urns trouble umsecufm 38 K 1 liu 52 I R f# BY GARRY TRUDEAU 7W475 THE MUSiC BUSINESS, MAN. &/ERfTHIN6 CHANGES FAST. THE ROCK'N'ROLL SCENE 15 COMPI£TSIV PIFFB&JT HQM LUHEN YOU WERE mmrA FOR INSTANCE, MtHUTB I YOU NEB? A CAIIEPAHEAP HAIRCUT NOUJ. ABOUT THAT.
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 703 6 Opposition wants President Chun to step down before term expires AP WHEN a new outspoken opposition emerged triumphantly in last month's national elections in South Korea, a collision between the government and opposition parties looked bleBut it appeared coming rather too soon, and political
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    • 768 6 NYT THE MINERS tramped back to work in the Midlands, in Yorkshire, in Wales and in Scotland last week, marching behind their banners and their colliery bands, trying to hold their heads high. They had not lost, they said. In
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    • 516 6 AFP PARIS POLICE are finding it virtually impossible to penetrate the city's Chinatown in their investigation of the cold-blooded murder of (our Cambodians last week. Chinatown is a world closed to outsiders, French police say, explaining that they cannot substantiate their theory
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    • 397 6 Reuter SOME OF America's wealthiest families have entrusted more than US$5OO million to investment counsellor John Train, who is probably known as much for his wit as for his financial wisdom. He has a habit of collecting odd names and odder events,
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 349 7 Reuter CENTRAL BANKERS will review tactics in their fight against the strong US dollar at a meeting in Basle this week, conscious that heavy intervention has so far had little lasting effect. The bankers from major industrialised countries held their regular monthly meeting on
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    • 131 7 AFP THE US Federal Reserve system intervened on money markets seven times between last August and January 31 this year, buying US$373 million worth of Deutschemarks in an effort to check the surge of the US currency. Sam Cross, the executive vice-president of
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    • 430 7 AFP Reuter FINANCIAL Corporation of America (FCA), parent of the leading savings and credit institution in the US, has announced estimated net losses last year of between US$5OO million and $700 million. This makes it the second-biggest loss ever recorded by an
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    • 170 7 THE NEW chairman of DBS Bank, Mr Howe Yoon Chong, has outlined in his maiden speech to staff the main qualities of a good bank officer, given the increasingly competitive banking environment here. An abstract of his speech, which was delivered last month,
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    • 40 7 Bernama THE WORLD BANK will station a resident mission in Beijing in July. The role of the mission is to hold dialogue with China on economic issues, facilitate development and implementation of the bank's loan programmes. Bernama
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    • 474 7 Reuter AS FEARS of another Latin American debt flare-up grow, Eastern Europe is rapidly regaining favour in the eyes of US bankers and possibly in the eyes of US bank regulators. Bankers said that three of Eastern Europe's largest debtors, East Germany, Poland
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    • 236 7 FT THE US has asked the Washington-based Inter-Ameri-can Development Bank (IDB) to defer action on a US$5B million loan to Nicaragua, warning that further US funding of the bank will be "even more difficult" if the loan is approved. The warning
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    • 143 7 FT THE Bank of Italy is clamping down on the widespread practice by Italian banks of "window-dressing" their yearend accounts to give an inflated impression of their strength. It told banks in the middle of December that a range of devices which they
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 278 7 Union Bank of Switzerland THE US DOLLAR'S upsurge last week was corrected not by central bank intervention but by market forces. After its strong recovery from the intervention shock of the preceding week, profit-taking of the US unit set in; and increasingly nervous trading
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    • 34 7 UBS US dollar: Exchange rate yo-yo, so far below the D-mark 3.50 level. Swiss franc: Supported by rising domestic interest rates. Yen: Continued "tailor-made" stability. ÜBS The OCBC financial report was unavailable.
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    • 369 7 National Discount Co Ltd THE interbank money market was erratic last week. Overnight funds which opened 5 7 /fe 5% per cent traded firmly above s'/i per cent in early week but .plunged to 3 2 per cent last Thursday afternoon with several parties caught long.
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    • 470 7 PLR of bonks at the close of business on Friday, Mar 8, as supplied by the Association of Banks in Singapore. NNCATES the iverafe of the prime lendni rates of 12 major banks operat■l n Sinfapore. BANK PLR Algemene Bank 9v« American Express Am'Dam R'terdom Bank 9*4
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    • 39 7 THE RANGE of cad rotes for the week ended Fridoy, Mor 8 ftn l L..J none "U«MJ 5 to 5 25 Gettool >und 5 to 5 3 $m Movement! of hind* 1.574 Source: Short Deposits (M) Bhd
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    • 223 7 ASIAN currency average deposit rates for the week ended Mar 8: BID PRICES High Low us$ 7 doys 8 3/4 89/16 1 month 9 1/8 9 2 months 9 7/16 9 5/16 3 months 9 3/4 9 5/8 6 months 107/16 9 5/16 9 months 10 7/8
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    • 245 7 Green Collier THE DOLLAR was left very much on its own, without central bank intervention, to find is level last week. Currency futures and gold prices see-sawed inversely with the movement of the dollar but ended only slighUy lower compared with the previous week.
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  • FEATURES
    • 1766 8  -  This is I AUSTRALIA Dawning realisation that cost of carving a slice of banking action in Australia will not come cheap The losers in the great race lor a banking licence in Australu are today heaving a big sigh of relief, and their response is
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    • 1290 8  -  By JOHN WYLES IN LATE SUMMER, sport and outdoor pursuits generate all of the excitements that most New Zealanders look for. But to the consternation of some, politics has now come to rival the
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1145 8 w em mum r CMWNIIS I 2.30 m SBC Ttrt "Uw" Sample Pagts 3.00 Opening and Programme rtfhSgtrts Mowed by Princess Chang Pint (Mandarin, with English subtitles) 3.50 Cousn PMBs (Part Three): 4.20 Toybox I: The stories of Felicity the cat a dog and its dinner, and a story about
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  • SPORTS
    • 455 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS EISENHOWER CUP representative Daniel Lim, taking advantage of a weak field, clinched the Keppel Open golf title by a stroke at Bukit Chermin yesterday. Lim, who failed to qualify for the Malaysian Open golf championship at Kuala Lumpur last week, managed yesterday to
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    • 137 9 AP FUZZY ZOELLER, whose career was in jeopardy only six months ago, birdied five of his last six holes for a 66 that lifted him into a tie for the lead on Saturday in the third round of the US$5OO,OOO Hertz
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    • 168 9 SINGAPORE'S sailors yesterday showed they were in fine form for the Admiral's Cup later this year by clinching the Sebago Challenge Trophy, maintaining their unbeaten Interport yachting record against Hongkong. After unsuitable conditions caused Saturday's races to be cancelled, The Republic dominated both the match and
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    • 478 9  -  By TOM CANAVAN AP FOURTH-SEEDED Hatta Mandlikova, fresh from her victory over Martina Navratilova, defeated Catarina Lindqvist 6-3, 7-5 on Saturday to capture the US$l5O,OOO US Women's Indoor Tennis Championship. The victory was Mandlikova's second of the year and came Just about 16 hours after she
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    • 327 9 INTERNATIONAL A K Yong yesterday made up for last week's disappointment by heading the final three semi-finalists of the Pepsi Challenge of the Champions at the K»n*ng Bowler-Drome yesterday. Yong, who last week arrived 10 minutes late for the first quar-ter-final
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  • THE ARTS
    • 534 9 THE social, emotional and psychological make-up of the younger generation in West Germany is the focus of a series of films that will be shown by the Goe-the-Institut from this week. To a large extent, West German cinema-goers are young people, and films dealing with
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    • 456 9  -  By MARIE DAVID THERE WAS A striking difference between the first programme of Today in Parliament and the subsequent programmes broadcast last week. The editorial team, led by the director of the current affairs unit, Chandra Mohan, has pulled off a bit
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 665 9 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 One bends the elbow raising it (5) 6 Is conscious of pounds in payments (5) 9 How the well-behaved criminal comes (7) 0 Just a dope (5) 1 Long time on course (5) 2 Gerald does Flo a bit of good, it seems (5) 13 Little
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 509 10 Reuter RECOMMENDATIONS by the West German Finance Ministry's Stock Exchange Commission to change share trading regulations are seen as small but important steps to opening up the underdeveloped exchange in Frankfurt. Banks and exchange authorities have welcomed the moves. But commercial
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    • 276 10 Reuter WALL STREET stock prices closed slightly lower last Friday amid renewed investor worries about the prospects of higher interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 1.87 points to close at 1269.66. Losing issues led gainers by a margin of 857
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    • 128 10 MAR 08 Atxfibi C$ 50 V. Imp Oi 48% unch unch tnco krrt Pro* trt Un 18% 35% 256 37* unch Kerr Add 17% 22W Lotokjw B 17% 19 unch 3% 26* unch Mc BkxM 26 13 unch 16* 39*4 71* BP Con Ltd 27* 34* Noranda unch Con
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    • 171 10 MA* 0® tand INDUSTVIALS Unoac Woolworth 470 1300 MININGS 10 A Alpha Abercom 122 -3 AE And a Amaprop 6506 310 Bhryoors 1600 6875 unch 75 AMt Bortows 2150 965 unch 5 Charter 4206 ***** +10 C G Smith CNA 230 +5 907 -5 Cume Franc* 350 unch 4875
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    • 696 10 MAI 08 US$ Aicon Alumn AJcoo Aiegheny Lud Afced Chem Cp AM Stores AJks-Chalmers Am Brands kK Am Broadcast Am Can Co Am Cyonotmd Am Elec Pwr Am Express Am Horn* Prod Am Motors Cp Am Natural Gas Am Tel Tel Amax tnc Amerada Hess AMF Inc Amr
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    • 869 10 Amsterdam MAI 08 Ft. ABN Aagon Ahold Akzo AM£V 394 50 *05 185 50 ♦5 5 224 80 2 3 113 00 2 5 ***** +15 Amrofenk Bark 74 80 +12 55 80 0 8 Boh Boreum* 108 00 unch ***** -I Bt*tat Catond Catv EKcvier Fokkar Gamma
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    • 54 10 Reuter FINANCIAL CORP of America expects to report a loss of U*****4700 million for last year. It said the loss was mostly due to a "very large" increase in its provision for loss on loans and real estate investments made in prior years and to accounting adjustments.
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 916 11 EQUITIES last Friday ended the last day of the account mixed in quiet trading with the FT-30 index up 0.5 points at 988.1 and the FTSE-100 up 2.8 at 1288.6. Lloyds Bank gained lOp to 537 after annual results in line with markets forecasts which accompanied a one
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    • 286 11 Reuter UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (UPI) has sought to arrange meetings with creditors for approval of a plan designed to save the news agency by wiping out its multimillion dollar debts. A UPI spokesman said meetings with creditors would start
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    • 716 11 Reuter AFTER seven years of boardroom warfare, the stage is set for a climactic battle to decide the future of that jewel among London department stores, Harrods. A mighty takeover bid worth £615 million has been tabled by the Al-Fayeds, a
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 241 12 Bernama MALAYSIA will have to step up its exports of palm oil and rubber in the coming years to meet the increasing world demand for the commodities, Deputy Primary Industries Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayob said. He said Malaysia was already the
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    • 261 12 Reuter LONDON commodity houses, in conjunction with banks and stockbrokers, will be active in re-shap-ing the European commodity futures business, London Commodity Exchange (LCE) public relations committee chairman Robin Woodhead said. In remarks prepared for delivery at the 1985 futures industry association
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    • 409 12 AFP LONDON commodity trading firm ED&F Man has raised its estimate of the world sugar surplus for the season ending September 1985 to more than three million tonnes, from their previous forecast of about two million tonnes. "The most significant area of improved production is the Soviet
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    • 228 12 NYT THE Trinidad and Tobago government is to sack half the 10,000 workers in its largest sugar company this year and another 3,000 later, as part of a shake-up of the financially troubled industry. The dismissals, announced by Mr Ronald Williams, Minister for State Enterprises,
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    • 200 12 Reuter THE Brazilian Coffee Institute (IBC) wants to maintain its share of the green coffee market in Japan at around 30 per cent, Jose De Paula Motta, IBC's export director said. Brazil exported 1.11 million bags of green coffee to
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    • 1166 12 COFFEE Robusta futures retreated from their earlier highs last Friday afternoon as commission house selling in a thin market and sterling's gains against the dollar left prices little changed by the close. Contracts ended the day £3 a tonne below to £1 above Thursday night. May finished £1
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    • 276 12 Reuter THE POOR QUALITY of the 1984-85 US corn and soybean crops and competitive pricing have driven Japanese importers to seek South American supplies. Japanese feed makers recently bought about 100,000 tonnes of Argentine maize, April/June shipment, because Argentine prices are competitive with US
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    • 236 12 RENEWED buying interest propelled Singapore produce prices higher last week. The palm oil market soared in heavy volume because of short-covering activities. A trader said this was due to people who sold short before the Lunar New Year in expectation of prices softening in March. However,
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    • 187 12 THE MARKET continued to be dull and inactive throughout last week, although the expiring March position recovered slightly at the end overall, levels picked up by one cent, Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co said in its weekly rubber report. The March discount widened out to seven cents in Singapore in
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    • 35 12 r KUALA LUMPUR TIN 1 Dote Closing Prices Turnover (M$/kilo) (tonnes) 4 29.15 256 Mar 5 29 15 280 Mar 6 29 15 174 Mar 7 29.15 141 I Mo 8 29 15 135 J
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    • 148 12 ChintN Product Exchange 'Seller*' mod cloung pnc«i on Mar 9 SS/100k t Coconut oil &lA FOB ***** OW drum FOB 168 00 New drum FOB 172 00 Copro M»«*d flootel 65 buyer» Pepper Mom ok white FOBKCW 720 00 Sorawok wtvtf FOB foq liW 710 00 Sarawak tpeool
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    • 218 12 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 2Vi to four US cents per bushel higher on Friday, underpinned by sharp gains in the neighbouring soyoil pit and light March deliveries, but below the highs following an easing in foreign currencies and precious metals. Near March settled at
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    • 228 12 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 2Vi to V 4 US cent per bushel lower in lacklustre trade last Friday, under pressure from slow export sales and a recovery in the US dollar against other major currencies, traders said. Light March deliveries and the continued tightness
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    • 219 12 (Incorporated in Malaysia) INTERIM RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 1984 Six months to Year to The Directors have today declared an interim dividend of 10 sen gross per stock unit (1983 10 sen gross) less Malaysian income tax of 40% payable on 17th May, 1985 to stockholders
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    • 86 12 TRANSPORTING CASH/ GOLD/JEWELLERY? The Swiss-made briefcase that also acts as a safe for the transportation and storage of cash and valuables. Ideal for goldsmiths, jewellers, banks, finance companies, stockbrokers, department stores, fast food chains, factories, restaurants, hotels, etc. Feature*: Protection against robbery, snatch theft and forced entry TWo independent safety
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 5418 13  -  I) Singapore |(l By CHEN QINGSHUN WITH THE NOTABLE exception erf Monday's upsurge, the Singapore stock market practically stagnated last week. The major market indices would have closed little changed but for the sharp rise on Monday. For the week, the Straits Times Industrial
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    • 252 13 m r \lAustralia m j\ AUSTRALIAN share markets marked time for most of the week before a round of prime rate increases on Friday prompted a thorough shakeout across the boards. At the close of business, the All Ordinaries Index was 2.5 points
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    • 469 13  -  Week ended March 8 compiled by JULIANA TAY SCRIP ISSUES Muroto: Bonus issue of one-for-five. CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Berjoya Kawot Bhd is now known os Berjoya Corporation (Moloysio) Bhd. Cerebos Pocifk Ltd plans to open another restaurant in Singapore. Construction Supplies House Bhd has acquired two
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    • 330 13 UBS THE WEEK under review was characterised by short-term weakness of the dollar owing to interventions by the national banks and slightly higher short-term Eurorates for US dollar and Swiss francs. Amid substantially growing turnover, the Swiss stock market was able to register capital gains
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    • 1075 14 ■V. New York fil FT WAT,I. STREET marched ahead in January, marked time in February and began the current month in fine form with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting a new peak of 1,299.36 the previous Friday. The Dow ended the
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    • 388 14 AFP AFTER THE Dow-Jones average of 225-selected issues hit the all-time high for the fifth consecutive session on Monday, the Tokyo stock market entered a phase of "downward correction" last week. The Dow average, a 267.74yen gainer the previous week, suffered a 92.13-yen setback to finish
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    • 244 14 frv BCI TRADING on the Milan stock market was irregular last week, with share prices ending mixed following the declines of the previous week. The undertone, however, was positive, with the BCI AllShare Index adding 0.75 per cent to 279.19, thanks
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    • 744 14 < Mĕ I K.Lumpur INVESTORS extended their Chinese New Year celebrations last week with another buying spree at the Kuala Lumpur stock market. Under heavy trading conditions, most counters recorded gains. However, sporadic profit-taking was seen throughout the week as investors were
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    • 259 14 w fnjpl London AFP THE LONDON stock market was preoccupied last week with a flood of company results, mostly encouraging, leaving gilts quieter and a little firmer in spite of continued pressure on sterling. The Financial Times 30Share Index closed 13.1 points up
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    • 420 14  -  L x j I Hongkong M By TERESA LIM Hongkong Correspondent THE HONGKONG stock market last week was not without its interesting points, but little of the news really affected the market, which continued to dredge up old rumours in its search
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    • 137 14 Bernama BENTA PLANTATIONS Bhd, a member of the Sime Darby group, has reported a 48.3 per cent jump its first half year's pre-tax profit ended Dec 31, 1984. The company raked in M 54.55 million compared with $3.07 million in the previous corresponding period. Benta, which
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    • 83 14 Reuter ANGLO-INDONESIAN Corp PLC has reached agreement with Plantation k General Investments PLC and Rea Holdings PLC on combining their Sumatran plantation interests in a new company, Anglo-East-ern Plantations PLC. The new company plans to raise the sterling equivalent of US$7.5 million mainly through shareholders
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 200 14 This announcement appears as a matter of record only. &NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LIMITED US $50,000,000 Revolving Underwriting Facility ARRANGED AND MAN Singapore International Merchant Bankers Limited (SIMBL) UNDERWRITING GROUP Amro Bank (Asia) Limited Kyowa Finance (Hong Kong) Limited Mitsubishi Finance (Hong Kong) Limited Sanwa International Finance Limited Tokai Asia
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 444 15  -  By NAJEEBJARHOM BRITISH-American Tobacco Co (f5) Ltd has suffered a 37 per cent fall In group taxable profits to $11.64 million last year from $18.43 million in 1963. But its directors are quite confident that there should be some improvement this year. The fact
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    • 496 15 Bernama TRACTORS Malaysia Holdings Bhd (TMHB) has reported a depressing set of results for the six months ended Dec 31, 1964, reflecting the continuing drastic shrinking of the Malaysian heavy equipment market. Pre-tax profit for the 72 per cent-owned subsidiary
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    • 408 15 THE MALAYSIAN Capital Issues Committee (CIC) is considering the possibility sf floating two or three public issues stmaltaneensly In the fa tare to offer a choice to Investors. The enrreat practice Is to time public lasses for release one
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    • 243 15 THE FOREIGN Investment Committee has approved Dultp Estates Bhd's acquisition of Malaysia Vegetable OU Refinery SdnBbd. KENTUCKY PRIED CHICKEN (8) Ltd has announced the resignation of Grace Marie Gan Ah Sim as director and company secretary with effect from March 1. INNOVE8T BHD has entered into an agreement
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    • 621 15  -  By ALAN LEE Companies Editor BTR PLC, the broad-based British conglomerate led by Sir Owen Green has, as widely expected, made a higher offer for ailing tyre and rubber products make, Dunlop Holdings PLC. The new terms value Dunlop at about £101 million instead
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    • 489 15 FRESH from the successful completion of the first stage of its restructuring exercise, Roxy Electric Industries (M) Bhd has moved on to implement the next stage the reorganisation of Sharp Roxy Appliances Corp (M) Sdn Bhd (SRAC). The fully-owned subsidiary, which manufactures
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    • 115 15 Sime Darby Group INTERIM RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 1984 The Directors of Sime Darby Berhad have declared an interim dividend of 4.0 sen gross per share (1983 4.0 sen gross) which will be paid, less Malaysian income tax, on 24th May, 1985 to shareholders registered at
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    • 6 15 See page 11 for London stocks
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    • 144 15 Let Shing Loong help yotur business grow o a. H > 1 /J .*ll* t'li i 'ißf?; v JMTCU. J |s> -Ms VKs' t% it :4 J.Cii *aJkjJL >• M :T j n v^F Shing Loong Finance has been selected by the Economic Development Board to operate the Small Industries
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  • 607 16  -  Days of interest-free current accounts may be numbered. By ALVIN TAY FOR THE first time ever, total savings deposits with banks exceeded the aggregate balance in current accounts at the end of last year. This has added a new angle to the debate on
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  • 431 16 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION yesterday pledged a businesslike and constructive approach in a new round of arms talks and said it would press for far-reaching measures to limit space and nuclear weapons. Soviet delegates arrived in Geneva as US negotiators met privately to prepare
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  • 402 16 TWO MEMBERS of Parliament have given notice of a list of questions pertaining to government buildings and the glut in office space to be answered by the Minister for National Development during parliamentary sitting. Dr Toh Chin
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  • 306 16 AFP THE STROKE which has partially paralysed "shadow shogun" Kakuei Tanaka signals the end of an era in Japan and undermines the power base of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Western diplomats say. "Even if Tanaka the individual survives, (Tanaka) the kingmaker is politically
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  • 160 16 Bernama NEW OIL deposit areas have been detected off the Malaysian town of Trengganu but they will remain unexplored until oil prices pick up again. The minister in the Prime Minister s Department Datuk Dr James Ongkili said the areas, if drilled,
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  • 432 16  -  By LOH HUI YIN TALKS are likely to be held between the Singapore and Japanese governments on allowing more locally-produced petrochemicals into Japan. The matter will be taken up on the Japanese side when its adviser to the Minister for
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  • 116 16 SEVERAL key. staff of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will be sent abroad as part of the board's move to beef up its overseas operations. Spearheading this effort will be Mr KC Yuen, the board's director for the past years. He will take up
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  • 73 16 THE HOUSING and Development Board is working on the design of the proposed Malay cultural village to be built in Geylang Serai, Dr Ahmad Mattar said at a mini food and fun fair at Brickworks yesterday. Dr Mattar suggested that the HDB send a team to
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  • LATE FILE
    • 53 16 Reuter IRAQI aircraft yesterday attacked the Iranian city of Isfahan, in their deepest air raid since the two countries began attacking each other's towns and cities seven days ago. Teheran Radio said Isfahan was one of seven Iranian towns bombed by Iraqi aircraft or hit by long-range
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    • 40 16 Reuter MAJOR Philippine opposition groups yesterday agreed to unite behind a single candidate against President Ferdinand Marcos in the 1987 presidential elections. Delegates from 73 provinces endorsed a proposal to form a national alliance. Reuter
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    • 25 16 UPI JAPAN yesterday completed the world's longest transportation tunnel, a passageway that will link the main island of Honshu to Hokkaido. UPI
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    • 33 16 AFP KUWAIT'S oil receipts increased "markedly" by 25.2 per cent in the fiscal year 1963-84 on increased production averaging 950,000 barrels per day, the Central Bank of Kuwait said.
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    • 60 16 UPI THE REAGAN administration has proposed regulations to discourage imports of food treated with pesticides that are banned in the US. The proposals are intended to address a problem in which pesticides, whose use is banned in the US, are sold overseas and foods treated with the
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    • 33 16 AFP A BANGKOK investment manager is suing Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and four other officials for US$74 million, claiming they damaged his reputation by declaring his business illegal. AFP
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    • 37 16 AFP BRITAIN'S ruling Conservative Party is merely two points ahead of the opposition Labour Party 40 per cent to 38 per cent according to a public opinion poll in The Observer yesterday. AFP
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 185 16 Britannia offers you a world of investment opportunities The Chartered Bank Building, 6 Battery Road, #14-08, Singapore 0104. Telephone: *****86. TAXATION LAWS IN MALAYSIA AND THEIR W IMPLICATIONS TO BUSINESS A one-day seminar on taxation aspects of doing business with/in Malaysia 22 March, 1985, Pavilion Inter-continental Singapore TOPICS/SPEAKERS Keynote Address:
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    • 426 16 Speed Learning Singapore, April 15 26,1985 Introduction Regardless of our educational background and profession, most of the knowledge ve acquire as an adult is obtained through reading. It is this fact that has made increased effectiveness and speed in handling reading tasks such an important skill for many people. Speed
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 48 16 WMm Outlook for todoy: Foir. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on March 10 at the airport: Maximum tomporaturo 32.7 i Associotod humidity 63 Minimum temperature 24.7 Associotod humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 9.45 Rainfall in millimatras Nil Roinfoll this month 30.0 Rainy days this month 6
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 288 17 Seatrade Week THE US Federal Ship Financing Fund may have to be bailed out in April. A number of government and industry officials agree that with semi-annu-al payments due on a number of problem Title XI loans totalling more than US$2OO million, the
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    • 531 17  -  By LINDA CHEE FREIGHT forwarders in Singapore are in for a major sprucing. The Singapore Freight Forwarders Association is taking steps to improve the image of the profession. It also hopes to forge closer links with government bodies like the Port of Singapore Authority,
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    • 858 17 INpping Una P« «e C«i 1 Afeo VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner V 4 AC Toepfer X 1 Alphatrons VI 4 Andeka Shpg VI 1 ANL 1 1 Ant oh Oneot Line X 1 APC Ur>« V 4 APL 4 Arrow Lines X 4 ASCL 1 Ajiobroker V
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 110 17 THREE Polish men were freed after eight days in a shipping container and have asked for political asylum in West Germany, Hamburg police said. The trio told police they had crawled into the container on Feb 27, before Polish customs officials sealed it at the Gdynia
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      • 71 17 Reuter JAPANESE and South Korean shipbuilders will hold working level talks on March 14 and 15 to exchange views on new shipbuilding orders and current market conditions, a spokesman at the Shipbuilders Association of Japan said. Japan and South Korean shipbuilding industries, which account for 70 to
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      • 38 17 MARINE and oilfield engineering group Van der Horst recently finalised a co-operation agreement with Diesel Marine International. The agreement will provide its customers access to exchange stocks of diesel engine spare parts in various locations worldwide.
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    • 943 18 SHIPOWNERS continued to (send more tonnage to the scrapyards last month. Sajes for demolition jumped by 64 per cent compared with February, 1984, Osljo shipbroker Fearnleys said. The figures come amid growing efforts to boost the scrapping rate. The Lon-don-based International Maritime Industries Forum (IMIF), grouping leading companies
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    • 118 18 AP Australian unions will consider bans on trade, shipping and airline connections with the troubled French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, Cliff Dolan, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said. Dolan said he had held talks with Louis Uregei, a trade union leader and
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    • 149 18 AFP A CARGO of North Sea oil worth US$2O million was supplied to South Africa four years ago despite the embargo imposed by the United Nations, the Observer newspaper reported. It said 74,000 tons belonging initially to the American company Conoco were loaded aboard
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    • 98 18 AFP NAVAL divers have found 52 bodies and were searching for more from a steam boat that capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Friday a domestic Indian news agency said. The boat, carrying some 100 Hindu pilgrims on a sightseeing tour, capsized about three kilometres from
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    • 431 18 AP THE world's largest car ferry is headed for Scandinavia's "vodka run," the Swedish-Finnish route on which ferries have turned into plush floating conference centres. The 36,000 ton ferry Mariella, capable of lodging 2,400 passengers in its cabins and 600 automobiles or 62 trucks on its vehicle
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    • 1925 18 COAL and iron ore charterers showed more interest on the freight market on Thursday with fixing otherwise mainly confined to the time-charter sector, shipbrokers said. Coal from Roberts Bank to Lazaro Cardenas received U556.25 while $5.25 was paid from Hampton Roads to Belgium/Netherlands. There were also unconfirmed reports
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    • 227 19  -  By Kingsley Wood UNIONS have warned Brambles Industries and the Tasmanian government that they have not yet agreed to the introduction of the imported freighter, Challenger B, to the Bass Strait trade between Tasmania and Melbourne. The 8,500 dwt Challenger B, formerly the Kirk Challenger,
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    • 431 19 Lloyd's List HONGKONG shipowner Mr Frank Tsao aims to cut the contribution of shipping in his International Maritime Carriers group to less than 40 per cent of revenues in the future. This is the first time Mr Tsao has given a specific target for the
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    • 203 19 Reuter THE Australian Meat and Live-stock Corp (AMLC) said it will not permit ABC Containerline NV to undercut agreed meat freight rates from Australia to east coast North America. ABC asked the AMLC to approve a deal with eight major meat
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    • 187 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/Europe, Far East Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia Straits Container
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    • 2585 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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    • 762 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule I Locatic P Taylor 64W 11.3.85 2300 APL F7 0900-1100 N4 B Melati 090 11.3.85 2300 Leo F2 0900-1100 U4 Lexa Ms 8504 11.3.85 2330 Maersk
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    • 1855 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A—B AFEA Afti' an Shipping Aeen. ies <S. Afr«-Furasla line Trans croup 'S Ahrenklel liner Service Kim Shpe <S> Alfred Toepfcr Drvanus Shipping Ac n !•••> i S Marintex Enter pi ise PK \lpac Intrasea
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    • 314 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Frances Bay Infra Ned Nagasaki Pskov Billiton Coryton Inabukwa Jenson Ninhco Odessa (P) QE 2 (P) Sonderhausen Song Thao Str Star Str Venture T Shevchenko Vishva Yash Yamasugi Maru PASIR PANJANG Baram Maria Beti Morning Grace Cosmobile
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    • 340 17 Pubhshad by TIMES BOOKS INTERNATIONAL Times Centre 1 New Industrial Road Spore 1953 Tel: *****44 A memr>e* of the t«mes cxgcx>isat»<x> SS6 50 II i THE world's largest car farry is haading for tha Scandinavia's "vodka run".. II HK shipowner Mr Frank Teao aims to cut the contribution of shipping
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    • 594 19 Mansfield Container Shipping Re Ltd QCC Overseas Containers Limited The Straits Steamship Group tainer I m M STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok CONTINENT CONTAINERSHtP SERVICE TO UK m CONTAINERS*? SERVICE FROM UK CONTINENT P Kelanj S pore 11/3 12/3 16/3 lt/3 22/3 24/3 26/3 30/3
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    • 547 20 Hapag-Lloyd EXPORTS TO CONTINENT/UK Igtjo Eipress Carjfcfan Bit Osaka Bar luflrpool Bit Tokyo Bay Kitano Mjr j Thames Maru Citr at On carriage to Scandinavia. Med. Carribean &S. America Hand haulage to inland destinations in Europe TO EUROPE/MED Spore P KelanjPenan|teiioes Bdbau Genoa Hbur| Rdam Bhaven Antwerp 19/3 23/3 25/3
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    • 331 20 M S LINE ioat* J<r,l< FULLY CONTAIN ERISED SERVICE TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ "I CanwtMT KORIAN lACCNN ?SN IRANSHORID BRDGi 74W 7* CWNA COMIAM(R 79W DORIAN CHANCE 71* HONGKONG COWI AW 44W w At t. 11lAtHN>. Mih MiIMHiHA.II* 1 4 114 13 4 16 4 18 4 ?0 4 ?3
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    • 770 21 SHIPPINU times, Monday, Marcn 11, iraa V\vN PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03 00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 HONGKONG SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: KOTA PUSAKA KOTA WANGSA KOTA WUAYA KOTA SALAM KOTA JAVA ADEN, HOOEIDAH, JEODAH. AOABA, PT SUDAN. MUKALLA HODEIDAH, BERBERA, MOMBASA, D'SALAAM ADEN. HODEIDAH. JEDDAH. AQABA
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    • 532 24 T> l!e<|i«nal (loiitniiirr Lilies 3 Sailings Weekly Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P.S.A. Mon. Wed Sat HINODE KISEN CO. LTD U.TRA HEAVY I II"! < ARKIKK S pore Loadnt for: SMM-EI-MMIU 22/24 Mar Doha. Bahrain. Dubai. Muscat TAWAN THAI 19/20 Mar Bombay TBM 22/25 Mar Pt Louis, Reunion SINGAPORE ISLANDS LINE
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    • 174 25 COMPANY NAVIERA MARASIA, S.A. BOHLER SHIPPING PTE. LTD 137, Mar Vet St., #11-02 Bank of East Asia Bldg Spore 0104 Tel 22****** (3 lines) Tela* RS ***** BOSHIP INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE S'pore Loadng for: NEPTUN I IS Mar Alexandria/Port Suez CONTI-HELVETI 25 Mar Red Sea/Med/North Continent v Subject to indue
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    • 448 26 C.Y. LINE (A Member Of The ACE Consortium) CHO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD FUUK CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO EUR WE (VIA SUEZ) AGENTS STRAITS CONTAIftR AGENCIES PTE ITO IS HOt CWANC ROM' SIWCIRD BUKDMG OT 01 SINGAPORI 070* ifi SCLATAN AGENCY CO SON BHD 4?t I*l4N CHUNCG4H Oft i*i w a«cx*H
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