The Business Times, 14 March 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1185 60 CENTS
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  • 247 1 MALAYSIA'S general elections for the Federal Parliament and 13 state assemblies may be held two years ahead of schedule. A report by Bernama, Malaysian national news agency, yesterday quoted political sources as saying Prime Minister Datuk Sri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has
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  • 93 1 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew sent his condolences to the government and the people of the Soviet Union yesterday on the death of President Konstantin Chernenko. He also sent his sympathies to the family of the late Soviet President, who has been succeeded by President Mikhail
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  • 657 1  -  Far East Organisation 'still interested in the land' By LISA LEE THE LAST PIECE of prime undeveloped property in Orchard Road failed to find a buyer yesterday. Against a background of surplus commercial property and slack retail sales, only one tender
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  • 320 1 METRO Holdings Ltd's shares took a nasty beating on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday as disappointed investors rerated the counter on news that there was only one, and invalid, bid for the Orchard Square site. The counter, the day's top loser, fell by
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  • Article, Illustration
    98 1 THE failare of the Orchard Sqaare tcier molted ii p**r seattmeat the Stagapare stock market yesterday, eaastag a bread fall la share prices. Same analysts said that with yesterday's (alls, the market Is aaw at a eradal stage (ram the tochalcal paiat ef view, with the ST ladex
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  • 434 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN A NEW SPIRIT of cooperation for overseas ventures is emerging in the shipbuilding industry judging by the latest moves of two major shipyards in Singapore. Keppel and Sembawang, formerly arch-business rivals, are joining forces to consider "substantial"
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  • 469 1  -  By TERESA LIM Hongkong Correspondent HONGKONG'S property market may have gone through the worst days of its recession, but it will remain largely convalescent this year. According to the March 1965 property review by stock analysts Hoare Govett (Far East), only the colony's hotel
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  • 123 1 AP SOUTH KOREA'S exports, a key factor in the country's economy, have been on the decline since the start of this year, showing the worst performance in two years. Exports were US$l.64 billion in January, down 19.5 per cent from a year ago; $1.79 billion
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    • 261 1 Leader, Page S SHARE INFORMATION AIRCRAFT MONEY EXCHANGES DOONESBURY CROSSWORDS RAW MATERIALS AMERCIAN market research firm, Dataauest, is making a push into the region through a Hongkong-based affiliate. Dataquest is backed by more than 400 researchers and staff in the US, Europe and Japan. Page 3 THE HIGH VALUE of
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 517 2  -  By TSANG SAU YIN SINGAPOREAN executives should raise their sights and be more willing to gain experience overseas if the opportunities arise because in future, emphasis will be placed on their ability to understand the international market. Mr Norman Wright, managing partner of
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    • 411 2 TIANJIN, the third largest city in China, is increasing efforts to attract investment by Singapore companies. The city, which has a growing petrochemical industry and is an important "window" to Beijing and the 11 northern provinces in China, already has 510 joint-venture projects with foreign
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    • 199 2 INTERFAMA Pte Ltd has been awarded a $500,000 contract by the Commonwealth Secretariat to act as project consultant for an exhibition to be held in Kuala Lumpur in June. As project consultant, Interfama will carry out market investigation as well as product selection and adaptation for
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    • 122 2 CORONA DATA Systems, a US computer manufacturer which makes IBM-compatible computers, has launched its latest desktop computer and laser printer here. The Corona MEGA PC is compatible with the IBM PC XT which was launched last year. The computer comes with a memory of 256,000
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    • 451 2  -  BY JAIME LYE SALES OF home-grown television series such as "The Awakening" and "Live From Studio One" to other countries are gaining more importance as a revenue earner for the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. Since its Programme Sales Unit became fully operational
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    • 46 2 THE REPUBLIC of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) will conduct live firing exercises at Pulau Pawai today and tomorrow between Bam and 6pm. The public is advised to keep clear of this island, Pulau Sodong and Pulau Senang which lie within the live firing area.
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    • 295 2 BATTENFELD, the West German company which bought the Papenmeier plastic pipes manufacturing company for $800,000 last October, is to inject another $1.5 million to expand its Singapore operations. Battenfeld Singapore plans to increase production as well as expand its product line. It
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    • 147 2 MORE THAN 40 flour millers from the region will gather in Singapore today and tomorrow to learn how to make noodles more effectively. The expertise will be provided at a two-day seminar by the Australian Wheat Board, which is sending a delegation
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    • 30 2 FROM tomorrow, the fee for a duplicate hawker licence will be increased from $2.00 to $5.00 a copy. The increase is to recover manpower and administrative costs.
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    • 140 2 THE SCIENCE Centre will hold an Energy Week beginning next Tuesday to highlight the importance of energy in man's daily life. The week aims to provide an opportunity for students to take part in energy-related activities so that they can understand better the concept
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    • 140 2 ASEAN's relationship with the European Economic Community represents "a partnership for progress", says Dr Chiang Hai Ding, Singapore's Ambassador to Brussels. In an interview with the Asean Newsletter, Dr Chiang, in his capacity as chairman of the Asean Brussels Committe, said
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    • 66 2 A MAJOR energy exhilition and conference will be held in Jakarta from July 2 to 5, at a time when Indonesia will commemorate its oil centenary. Organised by the Singaporebased publication, Petromin, the event has the official support of the Indonesian Ministry of Mines and Energy and
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    • 288 3  -  By LIM SOON NEO POLICE are investigating a case of "telex piracy" and have raided a few companies' premises, following a complaint lodged by Telecoms. A report against a "pseudo carrier" of telecommunication services was lodged with the police on Dec 4 last
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    • TRADE TALK
      • 416 3 SHARP CORPORATION has introduced two new stereo headphone cassette players, the JCN7 and JC-N5, equipped with graphic equalisers. The JC-N7 provides a built-in tuner for receiving FM/AM radio and TV sound, which will enable listeners to enjoy TV programmes outdoors. In addition to this, the
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    • 284 3 HOUSING contractors are coming to the rescue of retrenched shipyard workers. Some contractors have approached the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) to discuss the possibility of re-training former shipyard employees as home builders instead of shipbuilders. Deputy general manager of the CIDB,
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    • 445 3  -  By LEE HAN SHIH AMERCIAN market research firm, Dataquest, is making a push into the region through a Hongkong-based affiliate. Dataquest, often quoted by Fortune magazine in articles on computers and related fields, is backed by more than 400 researchers and staff in the
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    • 207 3 A LAUNDRY capable of handling 25,000 double bedsheets a day and featuring water and energy recycling systems is being installed at Marina Square to serve the three luxury hotels scheduled to open later this year. Sommerville (S) Pte Ltd
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    • 309 2 Change of telephone numbers THE TELEPHONE number el the Land Office, the Registry of Land Titles and Deeds and the Survey Department under the Ministry of Law, housed at the National Development Building, Maxwell Road, Singapore IIN, will be changed from 2239*22 to *****11 with effect from Saturday, March 23.
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 609 4 AFP AP UNLESS THERE IS a reversal of present trends, communistled insurgents could take over the Philippines within five years, said US Assistant Secretary of Defence Richard Armitage yesterday. His warning coincides with a request from President Ronald Reagan's Administration to Congress to
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    • 88 4 AFP A POP RECORD made by a galaxy of leading US singing stars to aid famine victims in Africa has become a hit less than a week after its release. The song, co-written by top singers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, is called We are
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    • 326 4 Bernama A REXTENT World Bank survey has shown that six out of 10 bank borrowers have serious problems with underfunded ongoing projects and inadequate maintenance of completed projects. Thus, in many countries, a key issue for the 1960s is how to streamline completed
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    • 80 4 FT CONTRACTS for the sale by US companies to India of 19 computers worth about US$ll million are likely to be finalised soon. This follows agreement between between the two countries at the weekend on an memorandum of understanding for high technology deals after
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    • 407 4 AFP GOVERNOR James Thompson and a 160-mem-ber delegation from Illinois received a tumultuous welcome in the north-east industrial city of Shenyang on Tuesday night on the first day of a six-day trade mission to China. About a thousand Chinese, led by Liaoning
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    • 297 4 AP AFP MASSACHUSETTS governor Michael Dukakis was briefed on Tuesday on USJapan trade relations by a "very pessimistic" US Ambassador to Japan, Mike Mansfield, and relayed those sentiments to Japanese trade officials, a member of the governor's delegation reported. Governor Dukakis left the
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    • 158 4 AP SAUDI ARABIA'S Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Yamani will head an Opec ministerial committee next Tuesday in Geneva to "check" price and production levels by the cartel's member countries, the Kuwait News Agency said. The agency said the committee includes the oil ministers of
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    • 194 4 AFP FRENCH businessman and Communist Party member Jean-Baptiste Doumeng has signed contracts worth US$2OO million with the government of Vietnam. Mr Doumeng, known as the "Red Millionaire" in France, said one of the accords covered the supply of material for offshore oil exploitation in the
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    • 225 4 UPI THE NEPALESE government has reached an agreement with China that opens remote area» of Tibet to Western tourists who travel to the Chinese province from Nepal. Janak Thapa, directorgeneral of the country's department of tourism, said yesterday that he expected, a bus route
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    • 249 4 Reuter THE US is stepping up its shipment of military equipment to Thailand at the request of the Thai government, which is facing increased fighting along its border with Cambodia. US Defence Department spokesman Michael Burch said yesterday that that US and Thai
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    • 434 5 Reuter EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak has called on President Reagan to fulfill his "sacred mission" in the search for Middle East peace, but Washington still has doubts about his proposal for a new American role. Mr Mubarak, in two hours of talks with
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    • 119 5 AP THE US Senate Budget Committee, continuing an open rebellion against President Ronald Reagan, ratified a call on Tuesday for a one-year pay freeze for civilian and military US government workers. The vote in the Republicancontrolled committee was overwhelming to support the pay freeze for
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    • 141 5 UPI m THE US has agreed to pay US$42 million to clean up radiation on Bikini Atoll, settling a lawsuit with the inland people who were moved in 1946 to make way 'for 23 US nuclear tests. "We're absolutely delighted," said Jonathan Weisgall, an attorney
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    • 155 5 AFP THE FIRST SESSION of USSoviet arms control negotiations ended in Geneva yesterday after about two hours and 45 minutes of "serious and business-like discussion", US delegation chief Max Kampelman announced. He said the next session in this first round of superpower
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    • 690 5 Two million jobs lost since 1980 Reuter AP THE HIGH VALUE of the US dollar has been hurting the American economy, but its record breaking advance has begun to falter, according to reports from leading US commentators. Blaming the rise of the dollar
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGE
    • 396 6 Fed said to be draining reserves Reuter US CREDIT MARKET participants who have been hoping for signs of a slowdown in real economic growth are unlikely to receive encouragement from the February retail sales data. US retail sales are likely to show
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    • 178 6 Reuter AMERICAN Comptroller of the Currency C Todd Conover told a Senate sub-committee that bank examiners failed to properly enforce foreign currency reporting laws. Mr Conover told the Senate governmental affairs permanent sub-committee on investigations a review of examiners' actions relating to First National Bank
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    • 630 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar recovered yesterday from its early afternoon fall against major European currencies to close higher than New York levels. The dollar rose to a late 3.3620/40 marks from its afternoon low of 3.3320 and compared with New York's 3.3530/45 close, and to 2.8560/8610 Swiss francs
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    • Article, Illustration
      245 6 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates opened firmer yesterday in thin trading reflecting rises in US federal funds and Eurodollar deposit rates. •aOCATES «k of 1» print tendnc rates ft 12 raj* banks n( in Sincapw* us$ OMef Bid 7 day* 8 5/8 8 1/2 1 month 8 13/16 8
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    • 58 6 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has invited banks and discount houses to tender for 1100 million of 91-day Treasury bills to be issued at the option of the tenderer from March 18 to March 30; and on Mar 22. Each tender must not be for less than 5250,000.
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    • 250 6 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to «M0tad y woo parity one unit of foreign currency: US dolor 2 2670 ***** a.8196 -1960 Sterling pound ***** ***** 7 3469 -66 37 Austrafcon dolor 1 5778 1 5830 3 4286 -53 98 NZ dolor 1 0156 1 0274
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    • 355 6 BA Futures Inc EURODOLLAR futures opened yesterday at the high of CME's range with the June trading at 89.52. Trading started quietly after two day's of active trading as dealers stayed away from the market before the release of US economic data in the next few days. On the
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    • 187 6 HONGKONG: The metal closed lower yesterday, under pressure from a rising US dollar. The metal closed at U*****.90/290.30 an ounce compared with New York's $291.20/50 and the $290.50/90 finish here on Tuesday. Trading was quiet until substantial selling orders from Switzerland emerged as European markets opened. On the local
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    • 109 6 THE overnight rate on the Singapore interbank money market remained unchanged from Tuesday to close at 4V4 per cent yesterday. The one, two and threemonth term rates fell by V» -point each. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Off* M Over rvght 4 1/4 4 1-month 5 7/8
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 413 7 FT CENTRAL BANK governors of EEC countries have given their blessing to a package of measures designed to encourage the use of the European Currency Unit (ECU), the community's currency basket, as an official reserve asset. Approval of the package at the
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    • 289 7 Reuter THE PHILIPPINE government will probably remove all restrictions on dollar deposits in banks to help bring down the value of the peso, a source close to the International Monetary Fund said. Under current rules banks must sell foreign exchange holdings
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    • 105 7 Reuter HONGKONG'S Commissioner of Banking, Robert Fell, is discussing a number of banking reforms with local and foreign bankers. Commission officials in the British colony said yesterday that the reforms related to bank liquidity ratios, capital adequacy, auditing as well as reporting to the commission. But
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    • 329 7 FT THE NEW ZEALAND govern-ment-owned Reserve Bank has acted to avoid a rapidly developing crisis caused by tight liquidity and soaring interest rates. In the first of three major moves, the bank injected NZ$2OO million into the monetary system by buying up transferable certificates
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    • 443 7  -  By AMY BALAN SINGAPORE will be the base from which Belgian's Banque Bruxelles Lambert (BBL) will make its thrust into Asia Pacific countries. Spearheading the move is the offshore bank's former general manager, Mr Arie Heerding, who has been specially appointed for the
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    • 505 7 Reuter HOPES of an imminent cut in UK interest rates were dashed on Tuesday by news of a higher-than-expected rise in the key broadly-based money supply, sterling M 3, in the five weeks to Feb 20. The half per cent advance in M
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  • FEATURES
    • 491 8 "THERE IS MAGIC in Orchard Road," one of Singapore's best-known property developers had said when he indicated that he would bid for the last piece of prime land in the area. Mr Ng Teng Fong of Far East Organisation was then optimistic about Orchard Square
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    • 1815 8  -  The trade picture is considerably brighter after years of caution Beijing, flush with funds after a successful export drive, is now looking for ways to buy, borrow or otherwise acquire the modern technology the country so badly needs. COLINA MACDOUGALL reports. COLINA MACDOUGALL FT GONE
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    • 975 8  -  By VICTORIA GRAHAM AP VIOLENCE is a way of life in Bihar, India's poorest and most lawless state. Criminals and politicians are common bedfellows and authorities say the recent election points to the danger of power growing out of the barrel
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  • SPORTS
    • 765 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS INDIAN CRICKET CAPTAIN Sunil Gavaskar yesterday acknowledged that his team's world championship success in Australia was due largely to the fact that it was played away from home. "It was an important factor. I wouldn't say it was a crucial
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    • 140 9 AFP FORMER Australian Test captain Bobby Simpson will be among a host of players going to England next year for the "Golden-Oldies Cricket Festival". Between 60 and 80 teams are expected to compete in the festival, which will be played on Sussex
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    • 111 9 AFP ROBBIE FOLDVARI, a 22-year-old Australian who turned professional last year, beat former world champion Fred Davis in three straight games to reach the semi-finals of the World Professional Billiards Championships in London on Tuesday night. Foldvari will meet Norman Dagley, twice world champion and 15-times English
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    • 547 9 AFP THERE was no sign of a challenge to Jahangir Khan's unrivalled domination of world squash at the French Open championships in Paris on Tuesday. The 21-year-old world champion held the stage for a brief 35 minutes, but showed enough to stifle any hope
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    • 461 9  -  By ANNA TEO COME SUNDAY, a motley group of Singapore runners will pound through China's Jiading County in Shanghai, in the sixth Shanghai Cup Marathon. At Changi Airport yesterday, one might not have guessed their mission the Hongkongbound group of about 35, including
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    • 153 9 Reuter TOP SEED Mats Wilander of Sweden and two players fresh from Davis Cup success reached the second round of the Belgian Indoor Tennis Championships in contrasting style on Tuesday in Brussels. Wilander beat Australian John Fitzgerald 6-3, 6-4 without undue difficulty, but West German
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 390 10 FT SIR JAMES Goldsmith, the Anglo-French financier who has become one of the more active predators on Wall Street, has taken an 8.6 per cent stake in Crown Zellerbach, in a move which could lead to a battle for control
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    • 115 10 Reuter INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Machines Corp is talking to a number of potential suitors for the military computer section of its Rolm Corp subsidiary, including Data General Corp and the Rolm Employee group. When IBM bought Rolm it agreed with the anti-trust division of the Justice
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    • 306 10 Reuter WALL STREET share prices closed higher on Tuesday, spurred by strength in blue chips late in the trading session. However, analysts said the market's moderate volume indicated a lack of investor confidence. This was precipitated by continuing fears of an economic slowdown and
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 404 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed near their lows yesterday as selling pressure mounted after the release of disappointing annual results by HK Bank and HK Electric. The Hang Seng Index fell 35.69 to 1,335.82. Volume was HK5218.57 million for the half-day session compared with $222.81 million for the full-day on
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    • 353 11 TOKYO: Share prices soared yesterday, encouraged by Wall Street's upturn on Tuesday, and pushed the market average past the 12,400 mark for its largest sin-gle-day gain this year. The average jumped 122.39 to 12,419.26 after gaining 33.02 on Tuesday, the first advance after a three-day fall, turnover was a
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    • 97 11 MANILA: Shares closed generally higher in quiet trading yesterday. The Commercial Industrial Index rose 1.51 to 124.33 and the Mining Index was up 4.25 at 700.41. The Oils Index remained unchanged at 0.593. MAR 13 Pmo> 0 0014 trtch 0 0014 unch Oriental B Phfex B 0 0975 t*>ch
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    • 346 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed firmer across a broad front on higher volume yesterdday. Near the close, the All Ordinaries Index was up 3.4 points to 787.4. The All Industrials Index gained 3.8 to 1,164.2 and the All Resources Index added 3.0 to 497.2 points. National turnover was 38.91 million
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    • 148 11 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mixed in quiet trading yesterday. The Book Club Index fell 0.18 to 127.71 as advances led declines by a margin of more than a four-to-three. Turnover stood at 214,554 shares worth 34.1 million baht compared with Tuesday's 370,284 shares worth 67.1 million. MAI 13 lakti
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    • 74 11 MAR 13 Won 595 -3 Hyundai Const Hyundoi Motor KAL 903 542 573 +2 +9 591 634 -1 Commercial Bk 641 442 5 -10 Korea Oi 1754 360 35 1 439 •1 629 •1 Ootwoo Ind Dong Ah Gold Star 523 496 630 2 -3 Samsung Co Samsung Elec
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    • 45 11 Reuter HONGKONG Electric Holdings said it will propose an increase of authorised share capital to 1.65 billion shares of HK$2 each from 1.5 billion in the forthcoming annual general meeting on May 23. The company did not give further details. Reuter
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    • 301 11 AT T negotiating deal with Toshiba AP AMERICAN Telephone and Telegraph Co and Toshiba Corporation are negotiating a joint telecommunications venture in Japan. Yuji Wakayama, manager of Toshiba's international public communications section, said: "Negotiations are going on but we can't comment on them yet." He indicated that AT&T would be
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    • 143 11 AFP AN INTERNATIONAL investment company backed by Chinese interests is considering setting up a regional airline company in Hongkong to serve Chinese cities. A spokesman of Hongkong-Ma-cau International Investment Company said the company had "great interest in the project to open a regional
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    • 154 11 Reuter JAPAN AIRLINES Co (JAL) said it will pay an unspecified dividend for the year ending next March 31 after paying no dividend for the previous two years. JAL paid a dividend of 40 yen per 500 yen share in 1981/82 but reported parent
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    • 171 11 Reuter JAPAN AIR Lines Development Co (JDC) will take part in a HK$52O million hotel project in the Kowloon district of Hongkong. Managing director Shigetoshi Shimada said the proposed hotel, Nikko Hongkong, will be 70 per cent owned by JDC, a whollyowned unit of
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 368 12 New supplies not yet available AFP RECENT INCREASES in the price of pepper are likely to continue until new crop supplies become available later in the year, trade sources said. Smaller yields caused by ov-er-cropping of vines in previous periods of short supply have
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    • 150 12 CHINA, the world's largest producer and exporter of silk, collected a record number of silkworm cocoons 287,500 tonnes worth in 1984, Xinhua News Agency reported. Silk-related exports reached US$9OO million last year, a 8.9 per cent jump from 1983, although still short of world demand,
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    • 206 12 AFP THE HEAD OF the international cocoa conference has proposed a series of measures in a new international accord to stabilise the world market, including a price range embracing the recommendations of both consumers and producers. The measures were revealed on Monday by Rene
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    • 94 12 Reuter THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT will provide 50,000 tonnes of relief grain to Africa in the firsthalf of this year, the New China News Agency said, quoting a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman. The spokesman said at a weekly news briefing in Beijing that last year, China
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    • 328 12 Bernama THAILAND expects to become the world's top producer of natural rubber by 1991, according to an article in the Bangkok Bank monthly bulletin. At present, the world's third largest producer after Malaysia and Indonesia, Thailand is aiming to pro- > duce 900,000
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    • 799 12 COFFEE Robusta futures on Tuesday ended with gains from Monday's close of £12 to £4 apart from distant January which was down £4. May ended at £2,430, up £10 and £4 above midday levels even though sterling held above midday levels against the dollar. Afternoon steadiness reflected trade
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    • 305 12 NYT IN THE BIGGEST civil petalty of Its kind, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on Monday that It had fined Donaldson, Lufltln A Jenrette USSIM,MI for violating reporting requirements on commodities trading between February 1162 and January 1184. The commission said
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    • 70 12 Rotousto 20/25% 477 50 F06 NSW Nutmeg 396 00 110 FOB NSW E&W FOB NSW 248 00 Gambier FOB NSW 330 00 London Commodity Exchange on Mor 12. Saltan' prtt (US$/loi»9 tonne CIF European pom. unles otHeor tse stated) Pepper (Sorowak) 3.375 Foq, spot Whit* foq, aHoat 3,375
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    • 273 12 Singapore (S$/Mo. ei-fodewii) Frog rant new crop Ut 096 2nd 070 3rd 065 New Crop 25% no stock 10% no stock Thai Broken A-super 0.60 Special 057 Thai Rice 55% no stock China Rice 10% 0.87 15% no stock 25% no stock 35% no stock Thai Boiled Rice 5%
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    • 105 12 THE Kuto Lam par Tim Market price key at its litemflMMl Tin Agreement floor-level of M 929.15 per kg yesterday as the baffer stock manager ceatlnaed to bay actively at this level. He atiirtei the total 122 tonnes turnover, down from 191 tonnes on Taeaday. Dealers were ■■able
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    • 157 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 fc) China corded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16'* 2,550 Blue Phoenix 20's 2,750 Blue Phoenix 32'» 3,300 Blue Phoenix 40* s 3,650 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21'» 3,000 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,350 Blue Phoenix 40** 4,500 Open-end yarn
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    • 269 12 SINGAPORE The market closed lower yesterday with April One RSS buyers quoted at 167.75 cents per kg, down one cent from Tuesday. The morning session lost 0.25 cent on lack of interest in quiet trading. Prices lost further ground in quiet afternoon trading on continued lack of buying interest.
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    • 165 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices weakened in a further technical adjustment to the recent surge yesterday, with lower Chicago soybean futures also dampening sentiment in fairly active trading. In March, north and south dropped Ms4s to 11.296 and $1,285 per tonne respectively and central $40 to $1,290. In
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    • 227 12 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 6V4 to three US cents per bushel lower on Tuesday due to weakness in the soyoil market. May settled at US$5.B2 3 after posting a 4'/j-cent range on the day. Monday's bearishly interpreted USDA supply/demand report and an announcement that
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    • 241 12 WHEAT futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed near the lows on Tuesday, down 1V« to 3 V* US cents per bushel in light turnover. May settled at $3.36 Vj after posting a 3'/4-cent range. A bearishly-interpreted USDA supply/demand report showing a decrease in projected 1984-85 US wheat
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    • 100 12 (ctnti/kg, 1-ton pallets) APRIL 85 MAY 85 (curront month) (forword month) NOON NOON RAS StMvrt l*ytr$ SSR 20 170 50 172 SON 171 50 I7350N SSR 50 167 50 169 SON 169 50 171 50N MRELB L Sl«M SMR CV ***** 216 00N ***** 218 OON SMR
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    • 322 12 RAS prices in S ceott/kg, FOB in bt lies NOON CLOSE Ivytn Sellers Beyers Setters Int 1 RSS Prompt 165 75 166 75N 165 00 166 00N Int 1 RSS Apf 85 168 75 169 00 167 75 168 25 Int 1 RSS May 85 172 00
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    • 224 12 MING COURT HOTEL LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Ming Crystal Room, Ming Court Hotel, 1, Tanglin Road, Singapore 1024 on Saturday, 30th March 1985 at 12.15 p.m. for
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    • 360 12 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 PURSUANT TO SECTION 290 (2Kb) AND IN THE MATTER OF LAM HOE HENG (PTE) LTD. At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above named Company duty convened and held at 6001 Beach Road. #12-01 12-11 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore 0719
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4136 13 NEWS THAT the Orchard Square tender had attracted only one bid, which turned out to be invalid, caused the Singapore stock market to tall yesterday. The BT Composite Index (ell 4.13 points to 741.97 while the Straits Times Industrial Index dropped 6.71 points to
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    • 249 13 SINGAPORE Rites Indices H S T 730 0 U I 350 H LMMM 590 M TC7I« 370 qfinn*! 230 1 A ">00 uti nomonom jox H.mdiw S0< 302 Kim 125 JC MfH 116 JC-MPH Wrtt A 20 Oriaartol HUg» 310 Falls 20 18 10 10 10 6
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    • 3714 13 BID and offer prices officially (< listed and business in and re- ported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the j number of shares traded shown In brackets In IoU of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contract* are quoted after
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 484 14 DUNLOP Malaysian Industries Bhd (DMIB), now under the Sime Darby group and headed by a new chairman, plans to increase its tyre exports to help make Malaysia one of the world's largest tyre exporters. Newly-appointed chairman Datuk Seri Syed Nahar bin Tun Syed Sheh
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    • 442 14 Reuter HONGKONG LAND Co Ltd is expected to report a sharp improvement in its 1984 profits when it releases its results today. Share analysts said the company, helped by lower than expected interest costs and the sale of assets, could report
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    • 390 14 MALAYSIA MINING Corp, the world's largest tin mining company, has shut down a total of 19 of its 41 dredges due to the depressed tin market. They will remain closed until the situation improves. In April 1983, the company announced that 12 dredges had been closed.
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    • 291 14 Reuter HONGKONG Shanghai Banking Corp expects profits to continue at a satisfactory level in 1985. It expects to recommend a full year dividend of at least 46 cents per share, representing a 10 per cent increase after the issue of about
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    • 447 14 HEAVY SELLING pressure pushed share prices lower on all fronts at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Trading pace was less active, with interest centred on several situational stocks. Overall, most counters recorded small to moderate losses. Share prices opened mixed but
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    • 2544 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 l .000 units unless otherwise specified VOUSTRIALS Acmo (1 82B) Aimomoto (3.705) A Otoe (2.606)
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    • 98 14 HONGKONG Hong Seng Index Wednesday 1335.82 Tuesday 1371.51 Week ogo 1383.28 TOKYO Tokyo Dow Jones Wednesday *****.26 Tuesday *****.87 Week ago *****.67 Australian Industrials Wednesday 1164.3 Tuesday 1160.4 Week ago 1176.7 NEW YORK Dow Jones Tuesday 1271.75 Monday 1268.55 Week ago 1291.85 Stondard and Poors Tuesday 179.66 Monday
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    • 236 14 Monomers' prices MARA-Bumiputrs for March 14 Frst B'putro 5 73 5 78 Second B'putro 5 22 15.27 Thrd B'putro Fourth B'putra Fifth B'putra Sixth B'putra Seventh B'putra (A) Seventh B'putra Eighth B'putro (B) h4nth B'putra Tenth B'putra 4 17 4 22 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 2.25 2.39
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    • 221 14 SAMANDA HOLDINGS Berkad: Thirteenth AGM at 4th Floor Wisma Stephens, Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Mar 22 at 11.30 am. GENERAL SECURITIES INVESTMENTS Limited: 10th AGM at the Board Room of The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd, 46th Storey, DBS Building, 6 Shenton Way, Singpore 0106
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    • 533 15 mmn mmu, HOCK LOCK SIEW WITH THE benefit of hindsight, one wonders if Malayan United Manufacturing, would have agreed to take up the 24 per cent stake in United Overseas Land, had it realised that the property group would show one of its worst performances last year.
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    • 294 15 PEGI MALAYSIA Bhd has every intention of exercising the option it has to buy the non-tyre business of Dunlop Malaysian Industries Bhd from Consolidated Plantations, says a company spokesman. Following the three-fold increase in the value of BTR PLC's offer for Dunlop Holdings PLC, Pegi
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    • 897 15 THE MARKET opened mixed but with a slightly easier bias. At noon, the FT 30 index was down 2.3 points at 968.1, while the FTSE 100 rose 0.1 to 1300.1. Dealers said trading interest was curtailed with sentiment still affected by Tuesday's February UK money supply figures at
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    • 374 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE AM COL Electrical Industries Ltd, reporting Its first full-year results as aa enlarged group since the takeover of two electronics companies In late ltB3, has more than kept np its promise to aharehold en. The gronp not only managed
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    • 658 15  -  Group pays A 5567,000 for controlling stake By NAJEEB JARHOM CHUAN HUP Marine Ltd has clinched another attractive deal in Australia, buying cheaply into a Brisbane-listed company which is to become the group's vehicle serving its interests there as well as in China.
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    • 368 15 LEE KIM TAH Holdings Ltd (LKTH) has set up two jointventure companies to expand into overseas markets. The first, Kim Realty Investment Pte Ltd, is with Woh Hup (Pte) Ltd while the other, Madak-LKT Sdn Bhd, is with Promet
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    • 78 14 The EURO-ASIA CENTRE of INSEAD presents a two-week programme ASIAN SENIOR EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME 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 major trends in the business world, shaping strategic capabilities, identifying opportunities
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    • 19 14 (MEW TELEPHONE NUMBER Effective from Mar. 14,1985 473 0111 OIETHELM irJDUSTPJIES PTE I 303 Alexandra Roar). Singapore 031 b
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    • 17 15 cm mm mz •ijrliiijj/i Jii]U3/3 llufjyit'z Lljijujiu L'jXi 'JiliU! The Wbrlds No.l Newsmagazine Read TIME and understand.
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    • 141 15 Let Shing Loong help your business grow 5 v-^Si •t T= lil: ;r 'v B&. ■v®V; XA I /"i; st. 5>V "V. %c r >*• t' < 4 v 8 SjSl FJw' f A, £L r Shing Loong Finance has been selected by the Economic Development Board to operate the
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  • 379 16  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF THE GROWTH in electricity demand will drop to about 7 or 8 per cent a year in the next five years, reflecting the slowdown in the economy. This compares with an average growth of 11 to 12 per cent when the
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  • 200 16 UPI MOST SURGEONS recommend total removal of a cancerous breast because they fear malpractice suits, a noted surgeon said. Most surgeons still urge breast removal for small, cancerous tumours "in spite of strong evidence that extensive surgery does no more for the
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  • 362 16 Trial UPI IN TESTIMONY that silenced a crowded courtroom and made a judge teary-eyed, the 11-year-old son of Benigno Aquino's alleged assassin yesterday said a colonel had picked up his father three days before the murder. "We were very happy when
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  • 125 16 UPI INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja yesterday said he will begin his long-delayed visit to Hanoi today but will avoid the sensitive issue of Cambodia. Mr Mochtar, who has postponed the visit several times while Vietnam mounted its fiercest attacks ever against Cambodian resistance
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  • 266 16 SEVERAL questions relating to defence and other matters will be raised at the next Parliamentary meeting next week. The Member of Parliament for Delta, Mr Yeo Choo Kok, will ask the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence, Mr
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  • 200 16 Bernama MALAYSIA is expected to be in a position to produce sufficient good quality beef for domestic consumption and also possible export by 1996. The director-general of veterinary services, Dr Ahmad Mustaffa Babjee, said yesterday that the veterinary services department is still carrying out
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  • 122 16 Reuter TAIWAN'S ruling Nationalist Party yesterday appointed a new Economics Minister after a bank scandal involving one of the island's largest industrial groups forced the resignation of his predecessor. A party spokesman said Li Ta-hai, chairman of the China Petroleum Corporation, had been named to the
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  • 317 16  -  By MONICA GWEE NO GROUP will be "disadvantaged" in the education tax break proposed in the latest Budget. As long as individuals can prove that the money spent on further academic, professional or vocational qualifications is clearly relevant to their work, their applications
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  • 62 16 Reuter WALL STREET stock prices were lower in the first 15 minutes of trading yesterday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off over one-half point to 1271. The transportation index was off slightly at 615 and the utilities index was off marginally at 147. Overall, losers
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  • LATE FILE
    • 36 16 Reuter FREED Sikh political leader Harchand Singh Longowal said in an interview with Tribune that Punjab peace talks with the Indian government would not be resumed unless it accepted his party's five demands.
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    • 51 16 UPI SOVIET President Konstantin Chernenko, with a final kiss from his weeping wife, was buried yesterday in an elaborate Red Square funeral presided over by new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Chernenko's body was interred behind Lenin's tomb alongside heroes of the Soviet Union and other leaders.
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    • 45 16 AFP FORMER Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was making a smooth recovery from a mild stroke, Susumu Nikaido a senior member of the Tanaka faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party quoted the head of Tokyo's Teishin Hospital as saying. AFP
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    • 32 16 AFP THE GROUP of 77 and the industrialised nations have adopted conflicting positions at the start of a United Nations conference in Jamaica on the exploitation of international seabed. AFP
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    • 28 16 Reuter THE US will supply new air-to-air missiles to Pakistan to improve its air defences against incursions from neighbouring Afghanistan, a senior US official said.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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    • 54 16 wmma Outlook for today: Showers in the late morning and afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on March 13 at the otrport Maximum temperature 32.1 Associated humidity 60 Minimum temperature 24.5 Associated humidity 94 Hours of sunshine 8.30 Rainfall in millimetres 0.6 Rainfall this month 37.6 Rainy
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 251 17 P 4 O Cruises's 1,750-pas-senger cruise liner Canberra is returning to world cruising next year, calling at Singapore during the voyage. The 45,000-ton ship has already received many bookings for the first cruise, which will begin at Southampton on Jan 7 next year. The luxury
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    • 261 17  -  By JUNE LIM THE CENTAUR, a passen-ger-cargo ship owned jointly by Straits Steamship and Pacific International Lines, has been sold. The 2,625 dwt vessel, which has been in the market for the last year, has been acquired by a Chinese company called
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    • 689 17 •Mpptng Line P«i Cei Afea VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner V 4 Alphatrans VI 4 Andeka Shpg VI 1 ANL 1 1 A PC Line V 4 APL M 4 ASCL IN 1 Asiobroker V 5 Austasia Line V 1 Bait-Orient VI 4/5 Bangkok Cont VI 2 Bank
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 58 17 FORMER navy flagship, the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, has been sold to China United Shipbuilding Co Ltd of Beijing, for a firm Asl.4 million. The carrrier was sold last year to an Australian company for scrapping in Korea but this fell through when the company could not
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      • 60 17 SHIP equipment makers in Japan and Europe will be hit by a further tightening of controls on imports into South Korea this year. The world's second largest shipbuilding nation aims to bring about an almost complete ban on foreign equipment for domestic flag ships and an only
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      • 53 17 THE THAI cabinet has awarded a 636.5 million baht contract to a Thai-Taiwanese joint venture to construct a deep sea port in southern Songkhla province, a governmentspokesman said. He said Ret-Ser Engineering Agency of Taiwan and AS Associated Engineering of Thailand jointly submitted a bid lowerthan those from
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      • 50 17 DAEWOO Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd said it has received an order to build a US$l6.5 million well-stimulation vessel for India's Oiland Natural Gas Commission. The Korean shipbuilder said the 80 metre long ship, to be delivered in 1986, will be used in offshore oil recovery operations.
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    • 1355 18 Singapore National Shipper's Council ALGERIA Algiers Feb 14th. 2-3 days. 12 to 24 vessels to roads. ANGOLA Luanda Feb 22nd. 6 days. 11 vessels berthed, 5 anchored. Lobito 4 days.B vessels berth, 1 anchored. ARGENTINA Buenos Aires Feb 26th. All open quay berths and 1 elevator berth occupied.
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    • 329 18 NORWEGIAN group Wilh Wilhelmsen, the parent company of Barber Blue Sea, almost doubled its income last year. The group, presently restructuring its liner network, said that income before year-end allocations totalled NorKr32o million (US$34.B million) for 1984 comapred with Kr 180 million the
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    • 158 18 NIPPON Yusen Kaisha Line has restructured its bulk shipping divisions. The Japanese line has put general manager Hiroshi Takahashi in charge of Business Division I, which is now called the liner division. The other two business divisions, II and HI, have been recreated into three
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    • 163 18 CHUAN Hup Offshore Services recently secured a two-year charter from Wijsmuller Marine Services (Far East) for the utility vessel Osam Leopard, effective Feb 4. Esso Production Malaysia will use the two-year old Osam Leopard to support their operations at the Trengganu Crude Oil Terminal near
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    • 1894 18 VERY quiet chartering is reported in all sectors of the freight market on Tuesday, shipbrokers said. Grain operators paid US$l6 for the voyage from the US Gulf to Egypt compared with $16.50 towards the end of February while they covered 24,000 long tons from the US North Pacific
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    • 242 19 Reuter WARRING Iran and Iraq have hit 127 ships in attacks in the Gulf since May 1981, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence said on Tuesday. It said the two countries had struck 15 vessels this year. Most of the attacks have been from the air
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    • 569 19 Lloyd's List BOTH banks and potential cruise ship operators need to rethink how they finance newbuildings, says a leading shipping banker. Mr Mark Rowan, of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co, suggested that one method might be to raise equity by public offerings
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    • 142 19 OIL pollution penalties along the New South Wales coast have doubled to a maximum of AJIOO.OOO and in future, polluters will have to pay full clean-up costs, which totalled more than $1 million in one recent incident. Botany Bay, Sydney's oil port, has had four major spills
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    • 233 19 THE dispute between Japan and the Philippines over the transportation of logs between the two countries is developing into a major trade dispute. For the first time since its enactment in 1977, Japan is set to put into force its flag discrimination law to
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    • 118 19 AFP INDONESIAN police have seized 340 crocodiles and detained the owner of the company which bought them in the provincial capital of East Indonesia's Irian Jaya. The live fresh-water crocodiles were found on a motor vessel which had arrived at Jayapura from the Memberamo river
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    • 191 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.
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    • 5221 24 aecaaaasa 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
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    • 675 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Tonah Air 18NB K Chance 20E Tor Bay 21/512 Harvester 1 OS/85 N Zircon 45S/N B Penaga 106/85 E Promoter 097L K Kozlovskiy 6BW/85 E
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    • 1817 25 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B AFF.A African Shipping Agencies <Si Afro-Earaaia line Transgroup < S► Ahrenklel Liner Service Kim Shpg ISI Alfred C Toepler Oceanus Shipping Agencies ISI Marintex Enterprise <PKi Alpar Intrasea ISI Biniang Shpg IKLI Island Cargo
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    • 492 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Builder III K23 T Soon alongside 14.3.85/0700 C'tlna Isabel K33 P Simons alongside 14.3.85/0700 Illlrla/P Kll SSPL alongside 14.3.85/1700 Jenhol K22 T Soon alongside 14.3.85/1200 RA Emerson K29 Leo Shpg alongside 14.3.85/0500 Str Pride K24W SSPL alongside
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    • 783 19 The Straits Steamship Group STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok OCX Overseas Containers Limited COWTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT TOKIO express CARDIGAN BAT OSAKA UT LNDfOOI UT TOKTO UT KITANO MARU THAtCS MARU OTT OF EDMURGH TOKO EXPRESS cardigan ut Abo Accepting Cargo For: It Capenluten.
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    • 438 20 Hapag-Lloyd EXPORTS TO CONTINENT/UK On carriage to Scandinavia. Med. Carribean &S. America Inland haulage to inland destinations in Europe TO EUROPE/MED S pore P KelangPenangleiioes Bifcao Genoa Hbwg Antwerp m YOUNUS 19/3 23/3 25/3 14/4 21/« 24/4 HK Loot Oakland Seattle Beach Taconu 27/3 15/4 13/4 23/3 7/4 27/3 15/4
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    • 638 20 EVERGREEN Full Container Service Round-The-World East Bound Service (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/W.MED./FE) USO ACCEPTMG CARGO 10 1) PROWDENCf NEWARK SAKANNAH BOSTON PHKAOEIPHW NORFOLK lACKSONWILE MIMNGION ETC 2) ATI ANT A CWCAGO HTItOII COIUMUS I OTMtB MAJOR MOOBRCGE DESTMATIONS 3i CRISTOBU BAIBOA PANAMA CITY COION SAN UM SAMTO I WW ORLEANS HOUSTON WA KMCSION
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    • 322 20 US I NOSE u MARITIME PTE LTD Plnfil islamic republic of IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES Srifipore Loadnf lor VESSEL 30/3 B Abbas B Khomcn AGENTS .INGAPORf SWOSE MARITIME PTE ITO Ttl 7701U4 1 I *****/0 PORT HUANG MAiOSt MARIIMt SDN BHD tH *****7 3 PtIWNG MAIArSIA TRADE 4 TRANSPORT
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    • 787 21 v\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street. 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 KOTA PUSAKA KOTA WANGSA KOTA WIJAVA KOTA SALAM KOTA JAYA KOTA MUTIARA VOYAGE HONGKONG SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: E-553 *****/3 20-23/3 ADEN, HOOEIDAH, JEDDAH, AOABA. PT SUDAN. E 555 17-18/3 22-24/3 BERBERA, MOGADISCIO. TAMATAVE. MOMBASA. D SALAAM
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    • 925 21 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTJUfCR SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE HOM EUROPE HAM tona Bit MM) Liverpool Bav Sited Fiinkturt Eipresi Sided Takft Bit Sited Mjno Mm, 14/1 Hwnbwi Eipnu It 3 Thwnei Kbru 11/3 C*T ol Eiknbw|ti 27/3 I Betuton 1/4 El* OP? B HAVEN Sided Sided Sated Sided 16 3
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    • 634 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF Far East S'pore Service Ful Container Vessel WEST BOUND sp»« Üburi Amsterdam H'bur| ntufip bub ijuam ii/] (Disc o*r> vi owe Sport Bdbao London Bremen A dam It dam H burj SJtMIIAVA VI3NB 24/3 23 I* 21 4 30/4 2/5 4/5 HUTAi *s*B 22 24
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    • 539 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES m BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING CORPORATION (Burmese National Line) Loadvtt for Rangoon Htoneywa V2OO Phashwegyawywa V 251 14/15 Mar P.KeUnt In Port Pen** 25/26 Har Pa-an VSI Pagan VSSW 20/23 Mar 29/31 Mar Y> BANK LINE -CONTAHER SERVICE TO UK/CONT I SPORE R'DAM HULL HMBG IVYBANK 12
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    • 1268 22 K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. n« von a»Y*MC«u» ma WW s«««« ASiA STAR *34 IBN *Sl V Mai It Mar 20 Mar 27 Hl* 6 *<* ft May 2 N»i 7 to. Ito 11 to 1J 6Km 7to Ito Hto 13 to CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SEA Kiut* m ASU SIM
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    • 566 22 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE (MiMKluf lOS ANMItS SAN IRANI (SCO SiAITII lAHJMA vANnxiVtR §C A. i tpting tCI fCI CuMjmims AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Aurpli'it ICI ICI CtMauwr* VtSHVA MUMUW ?1 7? M,r KAMI* ft 71 M.r 7» Mr MBIRUA 1/ 18 V RAVKJAS ?t 71 Hp
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    • 475 22 SANKD ASIA FROM JAPAN* S£ PORTS ANO HONGKONG tTc GOLDEN LINE Wre SSk GUAN GUAN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD Rajn t ,un f P'onncul B*t Buhfcnt 60 Cecd Street 4 SfIGAPORI 0104 TEL *****90 (10 IMS) 1 Kujij limp* ***** W P KeUnt 3*7* l Perunf *****1 Piw Gudyit OMNI KOTO
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    • 608 22 t INTRASEA (PTE) LTD, 10 Anson Road »27 16 International Plaza —Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 (10 Lmesl M<QjBI£L&EA-JLEBnt BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S pore P Ketanfloidnt SAM EDUARDO *****0? Saied In Port ROT T ANT/U K (AWN) JSEAWOOD AND R.M.Z.^ S pore PKelang Loadmf for: AIEV 1/4 leddah Montak
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 668 23 tNOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): K JACEJtN 28* TN BRDGE 24N C CONTAINER 29W. K CHANCE 21* HK CONTAINER 44W Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia K JACEJIN S pore Closing Times ECL Cargo 0800 17/3 LCL Cargo 2000 16/3 FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) 19/3 20/3 26/3
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    • 596 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P. KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN INCHON No I No No 7 No No I M2N 502N WIN 507N I IS 4 SO* 77/4 SPIWI lUNIS Nt PTUNI AGENCIES PTE I ID lel 7899 7 7 *****34 <Boo**ts> ???7blo ??1?02? (Operaham) ?2??48/ ??09?84
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    • 881 23 SMSOV 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 2510S PENMG MESSRS MAI THONG SHTfWG 23 KeW Quay Penang CaWes lAYAPOH PtNANG Tel ***** ***** Trtei MA 4004 i
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    • 44 23 SIM SWEE JOO SHIPPING SDN BHD i EXPRESS TO BINTULU P. Keianf Penary Lojdnt for SWEE LONG SATU Voy 72 19/3 Bmtuki. ttri RBUAN J*Y* Voy 45 21/3 Kuchnf. Siw. Agents: JAMBATAN MERAH SDN. BHD. P. Kelang: *****6 7 K.L. *****7 *****1 Penang *****
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    • 661 24 B Regional Container Lincv gSSSSSij 3 Sailings Weekly fJ Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P.S.A. Mon, Wed Sat HINODE KISEN CO. LTD MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER I I.TRA HKAVY LIFT CAKKIFK SINGAPORE ISLANDS LINE S pore Lojdint for TAWAN THAI 19/20 Mar Bombay TBN 27/28 Mar Pt. Louis, Reunion. Tamatave, Mombassa.
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 180 24 Regional Weather fife 'A s 4 ft I t4 >\ > MS 2& I Ws IS ?y <( m s &m s» KS A. SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. c^' Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height One half tleche represents 5 knots R
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    • 85 25 HSC AGENCES K. LUMPUR P. KELANG PEHANG P. GUDANG J. BAHARU LEOSMP SPORE *****1/*****6/*****1/*****3 *****1/4 TERMMAL 3SS3SI/2 *****/*****/*****/***** *****3/*****5/*****1/*****0 22SSH/22UH/*****5 *****22 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE mr«TTfi i;«:'i:ni imm HTM rW!7TiTTTB FTI m| ETC— FH— F7CIM f ALSO ACOTTWG FOR: ANTWERP, L. HARBE. UK. BREMEN, COPENHAGEN. OSLO ALSO ACCEPTORS FROM EUROPE:
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    • 142 25 APONEX Mm LINE CONVENTIONAL LINER SERVICE JAPAN/STRAITS/JAPAN Vessel Singapore P. K •tang Penang KEPONG I S Sailed Sailed In Port KEMPAS I S Apr 3/4 Apr 5/5 Apr 6/6 For further porticulors, pieoie contoct: POMEX MAYA SDN BHD 12th Floor, Bongunan Kuwasa Jalan Raja Lout, Kuala Lumpur Telex MA *****
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    • 212 25 m n is rfjrn TT rq vm i/.J M.'l •CAiam* Scan Dutch To Europe (Med/UK/NC/Scan) ACCEPTMG/SMJNG 3) HAMBURG 4) GOTHENBURG To Red Sea/Mediterranean FE P. KELAHG B Butane 26/3 B Butane 29/3 N. Van Piemen WoenyJrecht JEODAH BEIRUT I LIMASSOL I PIRAEUS From Europe MOTHER VESSEL HOHG KONG SINGAPORE P.
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    • 217 26 PERKINS S PORE/ MRWM/HK BROOME SUBJECT MDUCEIOT VESSEL OCEAN TRADER ETA S'pn 24 Mar Acctptaig carp tar Dararwv Port Mw«U>y. LM VMM MAX UFT 70 TONES AVALABU WORLD 'pf* LINE EXPRESS REGULAR SERVICE IAPAN/HONGKONG/STRAITS ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO PORT KfIANG VESSELS SPORE P KEIANG TWPKAL KNUS n. 13 N» 22/74
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    • 363 26 W MitsuiOSK.Lines Ltd CONVENTIONAL/SEMI-CONTAINER AFRICA'S EAST AFRICA HEROINAE 1 ALTAI MARU 2 GLORIA PEAK 2 M GRACE WEST AFRICA EARNEST VENTURE 15 Mar Mombasa, Daressalaam Beira, Tamatave 22 Mar Mombasa. Daressalaam 25 Mar Port Louis. Reunion 5 Apr Mombasa. Daressalaam. Tamatave EARNEST VENTURE 8 Apr Monrovia. Abidjan. Lome. Apapa. Douala.
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