The Business Times, 26 March 1985

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 TUESDAY, MARCH 1(8$ 60 CENTS
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  • 460 1  - M L in the running for Bangkok bus project Competitive bid helps company to clinch shortlisting By LIM SOON NEO THE Motor Leasing group has been shortlisted as a turnkey contractor for the revamp of the entire Bangkok bus network, thanks to its competitive bid of 6,000 million baht (about
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  • 610 1 A SUGAR BUFFER FUND set up in 1973 and expected to exceed $234 million by the end of this year was disclosed yesterday by Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong. The fund was set up to subsidise the Sugar Industries of
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  • 101 1 Reuter A SOVIET guard shot and killed an officer of the American military liaison mission in East Germany. A statement from US army headquarters in Heidelberg, West Germany, said the army learned of the shooting on Sunday. The statement said the name of the officer
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  • 256 1 AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN in the Asia Pacific has called for the withdrawal of trade benefits for countries which do not have adequate copyright protection. Singapore was cited as one of such countries by the Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce which met
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  • Article, Illustration
    91 1 AFTER an indecisive morning yesterday, bilb gained Ike *pper hud in the afternoon, resalting In shares closing (Inner en the Sin gape re stsck market. Yesterday's gains breaght the ST Indastrial Index abeve the 891 sapport level. Sentiment remained caatisas and there was little conviction as to the
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  • 424 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING EMI SINGAPORE, which has gradually cut back on its operations in Singapore, will move its tape production to Malaysia by the end of the month. What will be left of its operations here will
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  • 92 1 WESTERN countries recorded a US$5.3 billion trade deficit with the East bloc last year, up $3 billion on 1963. A report published in Geneva by the UN Regional Economic Commission for Europe said trade with East European countries accounted for $3.7 billion of the
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  • 494 1  -  By ALVIN TAY and LISA LEE IN WHAT appears to be a quick answer to Credit POSB's latest two-prong approach, finance house kingpin Hong Leong Finance yesterday lowered its housing loan rates by half a percentage point. HLF chairman Mr Kwek Leng Beng told
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    • 278 1 Mora Parliament reports Back Paga TWO MAJOR CONTRACTS worth more than $30 million hove been awarded by the Ministry of Environment for the construction of Singapore's first half-way house for refuse. Page 3 WHEN THE US and the Soviet Union start arms talks, the action unfolds in two arenas the
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 735 2  -  By BRIAN GOMEZ SINGAPORE's traditional oil-re-lated business can still have a bright future if government, industry and banks work in harmony to overcome constraints currently facing oil refining, offshore service and construction businesses. In discussing "Survival Strategies for Singapore"
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    • 135 2 THE EFFECTIVENESS of the newly-imposed 10 percentage point increase in the ad valorem duty of petrol for motorists will be raised in Thursday's sitting of Parliament. Dr Koh Lam Son, Member of Parliament (Telok Blangah), wants to know from the Communications Minister, Dr Yeo Ning Hong,
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    • 359 2 Free-falling oil prices are not a likely outcome of current world surplus capacity and dissension within OPEC, according to David Hanna of Arthur D. Little's energy economics section at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Speaking at a company-or-ganised oil forum, Mr Hanna said that although
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    • 113 2 AN INDUSTRIAL engineering conference covering a broad spectrum of industrial engineering issues will be held in May. The two-day conference on "The role of the Industrial Engineer" will be held at Dynasty Hotel on May 29 and 30. It will focus on techniques to improve productivity
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    • 319 2 A JOINT VENTURE was formed yesterday between a local company and a Japanese software house which aims to be "the software company of the region". ULC Systems (Far East) Pte Ltd, a venture between Universal Computer Co of Japan and the
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    • 154 2 NTUC COMFORT, which has been using mini-buses as school buses, recently bought 100 new mini-buses to upgrade its fleet. The 100 units of Freight Rover Sherpa mini-buses are estimated to cost about $1.5 million. Malayan Motors, which clinched the contract, said the Sherpa's new streamlined
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    • 198 2 The president of the British Institute of Chartered Accountants, Mr Alan Hardcastle, yesterday denounced "commercialism" in the form of fee-cutting and unrestrained advertising in the accounting profession. Such practices, he warned, would lower professional standards and undermine public respect for accountants. He was speaking on "The
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    • 476 3  -  By LISA LEE CONTINUING EDUCATION may be made compulsory for local architects, engineers, managers and other construction professionals to ensure their competitiveness internationally. There are plans to set up a "proper machinery" to allow continuing education and postqualification training outside formal postgraduate degree programmes.
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    • 137 3 COPIES OF the Asian Computer Directory 1985, formerly known as the Asian Computer Yearbook, will be available from next month. The directory publishes profiles of companies which have computer installations and companies which provide computer products and services located in 14 Asian countries. According to the
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    • 368 3 A DIXON has been promoted to deputy manager, Singapore, responsible for the operations of Hongkongßank's 11 branches in Singapore. Prior to his new appointment, he was manager of credit at the bank's Singapore area management office. TW O'BRIEN is now Hongkongßank's manager of credit. He will be
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    • 224 3 ATS COMPUTERCENTRE has developed a software package capable of analysing factors in a 120-storey building in less than half an hour. Contbeam, the last of six modules in a software package developed locally, can analyse stress and loads and will be
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    • 439 3  -  Construction of refuse half-way house By BOEY KIT YIN TWO MAJOR CONTRACTS worth more than (30 million have been awarded by the Ministry of Environment for the construction of Singapore's first half-way house for refuse. Earlier this month, the ministry awarded a $11.9 million contract
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    • 190 3 THE SINGAPORE subsidiary of Sanden Corporation will take over the production of SD-505 car airconditioning compressors from its parent company in Japan from May 1 this year. The move will open new markets for Sanden International (Singapore) to the US, Latin America and Europe, which
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    • 173 3 PRODUCTS ranging from marmalade jam to ballistic protection fabrics is being promoted in Singapore by a trade mission from Manchester. The mission, organised by the Greater Manchester Economic Development Corporation (GMEDC), will be here until March 30. Other products which the mission will promote include
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    • 65 3 A NEW British and Northern Ireland High Commissioner has been appointed in Singapore. He is Mr William EH Whyte, who presented his credentials to the Acting President, Mr Wee Chong Jin, yesterday. Mr Whyte, 57, began his diplomatic career in 1965. He was the British High Commissioner
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    • 96 3 THE SINGAPORE Armed Forces will be conducting military exercises in Lim Chu Kang, Marsiling, Mandai, Tuas, Wing Loong and Loyang areas until Sunday. Blanks and thunderflashes will be used. The public is advised not to be alarmed. Meanwhile, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is conducting
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    • 71 3 THE PORT of Singapore Authority will hold three safety courses on the handling of petroleum and related products in the next two months. The first course, on ship inspection, covers the basic chemistry of oil, hazards of petroleum and petroleum products. The second course is
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 501 4 AP THE SOUTH KOREAN government yesterday said no political motive was found in an official investigation of a Chinese torpedo boat that drifted into Korean waters carrying six dead crewmen and two wounded. A government statement, distributed in Korean and subject to
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    • 507 4 AP HUNGARIAN Communist Party leaders, in speeches written for a congress yesterday, have endorsed cautious economic liberalism but condemned domestic critics in the country, the most reform-minded of Soviet-bloc countries. The meeting in Budapest was the most important policy session for Hungarian leaders in
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    • 203 4 Reuter SECURITY HAS been stepped up in Chandigarh, capital of Punjab state after Sunday's killing of two politicians there. All India Radio in New Delhi said yesterday that city authorities have banned demonstrations and closed colleges in a precautionary measure ahead of a protest called
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    • 198 4 S^The Trial UPI AN AUDIO expert yesterday identified voices on a soundtrack of Benigno Aquino's murder as saying: "Here he comes", "Shoot him", and "I'll do it" moments before the opposition leader was assassinated. Jose Man Gonzales, 47, testifying for a second day at the
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    • 215 4 AFP A FORMER police sergeant and a consumer loan company employee were arrested in Yokohama early yesterday morning after holding four people hostage for about 12 hours in a bank robbery attempt, police said. The former police officer, identified as Hiroshi Ozawa, 40, was taken to a
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    • 267 4 AFP THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) might refuse to allow the Philippines a second drawing from its US$6l5 million standby facility until the impasse between a Saudi Arabian bank and the country's other lenders is solved. The top trade daily, Business Day, said
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    • 153 4 AFP IRANIAN anti-aircraft artillery roared in Teheran for 15 minutes yesterday, apparently marking the end of a tacit truce against hitting civilian targets. But it was not yet ascertained whether there had been an air raid. Teheran has not been attacked by Iraqi warplanes since
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    • 513 4 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN National Union of Journalists (NUJ), expressing anxiety over Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad's statement that he is "rethinking about being liberal to the press", yesterday called for the setting up of a select parliamentary committee to review laws
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    • 153 4 Reuter AN AUSTRALIAN court yesterday awarded damages of Asl4s million (US$lOO million) against the auditors of a finance firm whose collapse was described as one of the country's major company disasters. More than 20 defendants were named in the Supreme Court action taken by trustees for the
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    • 66 4 THE HOME COURT advantage does not always give players the edge that legend has created, and the home team is more likely to lose a crucial game than win, Psychology Today magazine reports in its April issue. "A home crowd that expects or demands too
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    • 774 4 ARRIVALS Operator Sarvic* number Local time From PAA CV MAS MAS MAS MAS MAS RBA SIA CPA GIA PAS CV796 MH601 MH681 MH603 MH671 MH8I1 BI42I SQ103 CX7I0 GA960 0155 0315 0720 0820 0905 0935 0940 1000 1005 1030 1100 JFK/SFO/HKG LUX/DXB KUL KUL KUL KUL PEN
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    • 421 5 NYT A GROUP of powerful Liberal and Centrist Democrats in the US House of Representatives have sent a private letter to Mikhail Gorbachev warning that the Soviet Union must comply with existing arms control treaties or risk the most serious consequences for the
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    • 148 5 NYT ORDERS for American-made machine tools rose 12.4 per cent in February from the month before and 17.1 per cent from February 1984, the industry's trade association has said in a report. The National Machine Tool Builders' Association described the mood of the
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    • 601 5 Bill Brock taking a hard line NYT THE REAGAN Administration has rejected as inadequate, moves taken so far by Japan to reduce barriers to telecommunications imports. Bill Brock, US Trade Representative, took the hard line in trade discussions in Washington on Friday, against a package
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    • 241 5 AP TAIWAN'S former military latelllgeace chief mad twi ef Us aides will be ladlcted aext week la coaacctioa with the marder of a Chlaese-Americaa Jearaallst whose writings were critical ef Talwaa's Nationalist Chinese government, the Defeaee Ministry said. Defeaee Mlalstry spekemnaa Major Geaeral Chaag
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    • 216 5 AP THE ADMINISTRATION of US President Ronald Reagan may accept cuts in its defence spending proposals, provided they do not harm national security. The remarks by White House Chief of Staff, Donald Regan, to the American television network NBC, were the strongest indication yet of
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 572 6 When public statements out-talk private negotiations Even Pentagon supporters such as Senator Barry Goldwater have said that they voted not so much for the MX as to support the commander in chief. Moderates went along, not wanting to be blamed for sabotaging the US negotiators. NYT WHEN THE
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    • 885 6 NYT WHILE THE Soviet Union was marking the transition to a new generation of leadership last week, China used the occasion to show that it, too, was grooming younger, better-educated leaders able to guide the country into the 21st century. Always conscious of the value
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    • 686 6 FT IN THEIR frequent self-congrat-ulations on the US recovery, Reagan Administration officials rarely fail to mention the creation of millions of new jobs. Indeed, the power of the American economy to put its own people back to work while absorbing
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    • 481 6 Reuter BREAK the speed limit more than twice in Japan and you could wind up with a cropped head, wearing white overalls and bowing before a monument representing atonement in a special jail for errant drivers. Most of the 224 inmates of
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    • 362 6 Reuter A MAJOR BRITISH wartime spy who passed on secrets from within Germany has spoken out for the first time to clear the name of the intelligence chief who recruited him. The Age newspaper in Melbourne said yesterday that the spy, identified as
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 100 6 J D KINGSFIELD COMMERCIAL AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES Today's market requires Contractors/ Employers to be fully aware of their contractual rights and entitlement from day one of the project. J D Kingsfield have resources available (worldwide) to investigate report and prepare or defend construction claims. Additionally J D Kingsfield can
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 560 7 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed firmer against most major currencies in moderate trading on commercial demand and short-covering yesterday. The dollar closed higher at 3.2415/30 marks compared with an early 3.2240/50 and New York's Friday 3.2190/2210 close, but below its high of 3.2470. It closed stronger at 256.45/55
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    • 238 7 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Currencies Nom i nst rate* Smithsonian quoted yesterday cross parity change Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2.2450 2 2460 2.8196 -20 38 Sterling pound 2 6154 ***** 7.3469 -64.40 Australian dollar 1 5625 1 5654 3.4286 -54.43 NZ
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    • 352 7 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures opened yesterday at the same level as Friday's CME close. The June contract opened at 89.68 and was traded to 89.65 before a bout of short-covering brought it up to 89.69 by mid-session. Liffe opening saw the June contract being pushed down to close at
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    • 71 7 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market fell by 11/8-point from last Friday to close at 31/4 per cent yesterday. The one and two-month term rates fell by 1/16point each while the threemonth rate remained unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: OHt Bid Ov«r nght
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    • Article, Illustration
      369 7 Asian market ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed firmer in light trading yesterday compared with last Friday. News that January US durable goods orders were revised to show a 3.2 per cent rise instead of the estimated 1.8 per cent underpinned rates. Overnight closed at 8-11/16 8-9/16, up Vi -point from
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    • 195 7 HONGKONG: The metal closed lower yesterday, but dealers noted strong support for the metal near US$3l4. It finished at $314.20/70 an ounce against an initial $315.30/316.00. This compared with Saturday's $316/317 close here, which was same as New York's Friday closing. On the local market, gold ended HK$l6 below
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    • 199 7 UPI ARGENTINA hopes to reach agreement with the IMF within 15 days on a revised economic programme to reduce its roaring inflation and open the way for new bank loans. Mario Brodherson, Argentina's chief debt negotiator, said an IMF team would be arriving in
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    • 299 7 AP A GROUP of major insurance companies reportedly will hear an emergency proposal this week to provide US$l billion worth of temporary insurance for depositors in Ohio's closed savings and loan institutions. The Cincinnati Enquirer says state officials have been working with the insurance industry
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    • 182 7 MERRILL LYNCH A Co and Ayala International Corporation have set up a joint venture to provide advisory, real estate and asset management services to institutional and individual clients in the Asean nations. The Singapore-based joint venture, Merrill Lynch Ayala International (MLAI), will operate alongside the existing network
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  • FEATURES
    • 495 8 CREDIT POSB's latest two-prong approach to win a bigger share of the residential home loans market came barely one month after President Devan Nair disclosed in Parliament about the government's target of a 100 per cent home-owning society 10 years from now. It is
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    • 1589 8  -  Sheraton group steps in to save China's troubled luxury hotel By JOHN BURN NYT JOHN KAPIOLTAS smiled when someone suggested that the Sheraton Corporation's entry into the hotel business in China was like the cavalry riding in. "I wouldn't say we see it quite like
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    • 371 8  -  Cheek Yen Aik General Manager Urban Redevelopment Anthertty Dear Sir, We refer to your editorial "Time To Pause and Rethink" (BT, March 14, 1965) and would like to respond to the statement: "While Orchard Square remains unsold, the URA is busy knocking down the entire stretch of old
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    • 141 8  -  C M R Nunns Dear Sir, As a recent discoverer of the wit and wisdom of Doonesbury, I had intended to write expressing my relief to find that Americans seem to be taking themselves less seriously than they used to. After all, the outstanding feature of Doonesbury
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    • 141 8 Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, A belated note in defence of Garry Trudeau and Doonesbury. I agree whole-heartedly with your comments regarding his subtle observations on current political, economic or social situations. My criteria of his excellence is gauged mainly from my indecent haste in opening the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 495 8 IC TIMES CONFERENCES Presents THE SECOND TIMES ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE TAX PLANNING FOR SINGAPORE: MALAYSIA 23, 24 &25 APRIL, 1985 SHAN(iRI-LA lIOTKL, SINGAPORK 23 APRIL 1985 24 APRIL 1985 25 APRIL 1985 CHAIRMAN Sidney C Relt Slngapere TAX PLANNING REVIEW IW4/85 Sidney C Kelt Singapore CURRENT CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 565 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS WAYNE SMITH of Australia yesterday gave an indication of what the scores might be like in the Singapore Open, which begins on Thursday, when he fired a three-under-par 68 to lead the qualifiers for the tournament proper. Smith, who finished joint
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    • 365 9 THE REGION'S first international golf show opened yesterday at the World Trade Centre with a call for the setting up of a public golf course in Singapore. Mr Richard S K Leong, managing director of On trade Exhibition Services, organisers of the Asia-Pacific Golf
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    • 643 9 AP CURTIS STRANGE rolled in a two-metre birdie putt on the 90th hole for the richest prize in American golf, US$l7l,OOO, and the title on Sunday in the Panasonic Las Vegas invitational tournament. Strange's last-hole birdie finished off a round of 5-under-par
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    • 195 9 AP JAN STEPHENSON snapped a long winless string and became the Ladies Professional Golf Association's latest millionaire in the process on Sunday when she shot a 75 that was good enough for a one-stroke victory in the U*****,000 GNA tournament in Glendale, California. Stephenson finished the
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    • 355 9 Reuter TOP-SEEDED Martina Navratilova, dispelling any idea that she might be slipping, swept past Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 on Sunday to win the 1984-85 Women's Circuit tennis championships. In a virtuoso performance during which she held service 16 straight times, the
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    • 102 9 CHILE beat Uruguay 2-0 (halftime 1-0) on Sunday in a tense World Cup qualifying match which the referee considered suspending after he was struck by a missile from the stands. Uruguay, now second in South American Group Two, started hard and fast but were kept out by
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1108 9 to cm ijmdnd C CHANNELS 2.30 PM SBC Teit "Live" Sample Pafes 3.00 Openini and Proframme llghSghts followed by The Struggle (Mandarin) 4.30 Story Tine (Selected stories in Tamil) 4.55 Jenny Koo Koo 520 My Favourite Martian Hate Me A Little 5.45 The Duck Factory The EAication of Sheree Winkler
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 743 10 Assets of family once estimated to be worth US$5.5 billion FT DO Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother William Herbert now know their net worth? Once asked for a figure before a Congressional Committee investigating their alleged attempt in 1979-80 to corner the
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    • 221 10 Reuter EXCO INTERNATIONAL PLC's management accounts for the first two months of this year show satisfactory activity for Telerate and for the group's moneybroking, fund management and forfaiting, or export financing, operations. The company's other divisions also started the year well.
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    • 58 10 AFP SUZUKI MOTOR Co said it would hold talks with Britain's Bedford Commercial Vehicles on joint production of small commercial vehicles in Britain. Details of the projected joint production were not disclosed. Bedford Commercial, which is 10 per cent owned by GM of the US, last September signed
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    • 554 10 FT FIERCE infighting between supporters of Mr Kakuei Tanaka, the former Prime Minister, and the Japanese business establishment is continuing to bedevil the affairs of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on the eve of its transformation from a state monopoly into a nominally private company.
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 315 11 HONGKONG: Share prices finished slightly higher yesterday in moderate trading as buying interest revived from late morning. The Hang Seng Index rose 1.54 to 1,362.23. Volume was 175.14 million compared with last Friday's 258.66 million. Jardine Matheson rose 10 cents to HK19.35, HK Gas five to $8.85, and Hang
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    • 213 11 MA* 25 MT 4.37 +007 Nan Yo Plos Pacific Cons Pacific Elect W»e 28 10 21 00 17.10 unch 0 9 -0.1 Asia Cement 2520 unch +02 Poolung Paper 142 -0 01 Hwo Bonk 51 00 unch -03 -0 05 Sharp SNhfcn Paper 1670 unch Chia HuT?<nMnt 22 20
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    • 388 11 TOKYO: Share prices fell steadily yesterday and the market average dropped below 12,500 as investors took a wait-and-see attitude at the start of a new week with the approach of the end of March trading and the end of many companies' business year. The market average fell 44.69 to
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    • 128 11 MANILA: Share prices closed generally easier in quiet trading yesterday. The Mining Index dropped 3.78 to 693.80 and the Oils Index was 0.009 lower at 0.602 while the Commercial Industrial Index was unchanged at 130.93. Atlas Con B and Lepanto B dropped to 18 pesos from 20.50 and 0.042
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    • 370 11 3YDNEY: Share markets closed stronger in active trading yesterday, and resource stocks found strong buying support. The All Ordinaries Index closed ahead 10.5 points at a record 821.1 points compared with a previous top of 810.8 last Friday. The All Industrials Index was up 5.4 to 1,179.6 and the
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    • 157 11 BANGKOK: Stocks closed higher in moderate trading yesterday. The Book Club Index rose 0.62 point to 129.88 and gains led losses by more than five to two. Turnover rose to 358.817 shares worth 60.3 million baht from last Friday's 350,062 shares worth 38.3 million baht. MAI 25 Aokham That
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    • 75 11 MAR 25 Won +9 1 ■1 Hytndoa Const Hyund® Motoc KAL 901 570 648 unch -5 -7 Chohoirig 0k Cotnmorciai Bk 576 611 Karoo F«V Koroo 01 625 1751 +5 -25 Koroo Sh? 350 unch -5 10 635 unch Doewoo Ind 545 Samsung Co. 725 855 -5 Dong Ah
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    • 54 11 Reuter KYOCERA CORP and NV Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken will set up a joint sales company in Japan next month. Kyocera and Philips Telecommunication Network Corp, equally owned by both companies and capitalised at 100 million yen, will sell in Japan from next autumn "Sopho-Net", a data telecommunication system
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    • 641 11 AFP SHOCK WAVES from Taiwan's worst business scandal which has crippled the Cathay Industrial group are still reverberating in Taipeh as the government moves to minimise the damage. It has been more than a month since a government bank took over the Tenth Credit Cooperative
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    • 179 11 AFP ITALIAN carmaker Fiat will sign a US$26O million contract tomorrow allowing a Chinese factory to make Fiat minibuses and light trucks under licence. The agreement comes during a visit by Italian Foreign Trade Minister Nicola Capria, who arrived in Beijing last Wednesday. Sources
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 711 12 Low prices aggravate situation Bernama MALAYSIA's chance to increase rubber production after the wintering session in midApril may be hampered by a shortage of tappers, the Malaysian Rubber Exchange and Licensing Board (MRELB) said in its latest monthly market review. It said that exporters,
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    • 268 12 THE Malaysian Rubber Exchange and Licensing Board (MRELB) is in an advanced stage of forming a joint-venture company with the private sector to operate a warehouse specifically designed to handle rubber exports via the Johore port, MRELB has disclosed. The move is in line with
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    • 210 12 SINGAPORE The market closed firm yesterday with April One RSS buyers quoted at 172.50 cents per kg, up 4.50 cents from last Friday. The morning session gained five cents on shortcovering and speculative buying interest in moderate trading. Prices eased slightly in quiet afternoon trading on lack of fol-low-through
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    • 349 12 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOB in bales NOON CLOSE Buyer* Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 170 50 171 50N 172 00 *****N Int 1 RSS Apr 85 171 50 172 00 172 50 ***** Int 1 RSS May 85 173 50 174 00 175
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    • 99 12 APRIL 85 MAY 85 (current month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 174 00 176.00N 176 00 178 00N SSR 50 171 00 *****N 173.00 175.00N MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV ***** 221 00 221 50 223 SON SMR L
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    • 100 12 THE Kuala Lampar Tin Market (KLTM) price was unchanged at the International Tin Agreement floor-level of M$2S.l5 per kg yesterday. In the absence sf any new demand, the buffer stock manager was the main buyer, taking the 115 tonne turnover, up from IK tonnes last Friday. Dealers said
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    • 161 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bote of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix I6's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 20's 2,750 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,300 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,650 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21's 3,000 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4.350 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,500 Open-end yarn 2,450
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    • 158 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday closed off the day's highs on reserve of buyers after Pakistan's RBD palm oil purchase last week gave rise to early covering and speculative buying. March in the south and central regions firmed Ms3o to $1,400 per tonne with north up $20
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    • 1026 12 COFFEE Robusta futures ended a subdued morning yesterday with gains of £25 to £10. May finished at the morning's high at £2,312, up £25. Prices fell to the morning's lows around midmorning on light commission house liquidation when sterling firmed against the dollar, but then recovered when sterling
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    • 153 12 Chinese Produce Robust o 20/25% 477 50 Exchange FOB NSW (Sellers' noon dosing Mor 25 SS/100 kg) prices on Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW 396 00 Coconut oil E&W FOB NSW 248 00 Bulk FOB Old drum FOB New drum FOB 155 00 168 00 172 00 Gambier FOB
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    • 287 12 Singapore C-l Od unq (S$/kilo, ei-godown) Loonzain Rice Fragrant new crop 100% 1st grade unq 1st 086 100% 2nd grade 222 2nd 065 100% 3rd grade unq 3rd New Crop 060 Parboiled Rice 222 25% no stock 5% 10% no stock 10% 217 Thai Broken Maize unq A-super Special
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    • 574 12 KIM IAH HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The directors of Lee Kim Tah Holdings Limited wish to make the following announcement. AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1984 TURNOVER 99.614 113.104 -11.92 Investment and other income 2,608 1,889 +38.06 9,131 1.000 +913. Profit before taxation
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    • 4177 13 AFTER three consecutive sessions of falls, the Singapore stock market closed higher yesterday, bringing the Straits Times Industrial Index above the 830 level. Many analysts regard the 830 level as important as it is along the neckline of the reverse head-and-shoulders formation. Though
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    • 2990 13 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lota of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT"
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 891 14 MOST LISTED plantation companies are generally optimistic about their prospects in the current year. A look at the latest results and annual reports shows that many expect their performance to improve in 1985, or at least to be maintained. Though forecasting is always difficult especially for plantation
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    • 762 14 FT HONGKONG LAND is back on the expansion trail following its latest return to profits and the restoration of debts to what its managing director, Mr David Da vies describes as a "perfectly comfortable" level. "The period of fire-fighting is over," he
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    • 235 14 Bernama ARAB-MALAYSIAN Merchant Bank has made it to the first position in terms of net profit among the top 20 merchant banks in Asia. In terms of size of operations, too, Arab-Malaysian ranks sixth by assets, eighth by loans and by deposits. The ranking was given
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    • 539 14 Company Period Dote Yeor LAS" Net EPS r FULL Yl Gross EAR Net onnounced ending (cents) div profit lost year r 000) Spore Gloss Interim Nov 17 Mor 85 11.299L Pohong Inv Final Jan 31 Dec 84 9.352L Ton Chong Final Feb 9 Dec 84 5.5(a) 8.6(a) 74,000
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    • 99 14 HONGKONG Australian Industrials Hong Seng Index Monday 1179.7 Friday 1174.2 Monday 1362.23 Week ago 1165.3 Friday Week ago 1360.69 1310.47 NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday 1267 45 TOKYO Thursday 1268.22 Tokyo Do* Jones Week ago 1247.35 Monday *****.26 Standard Poors Saturday ***** 95 Friday 179.04 Thursday 179.35 Week
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    • 205 14 Managers' prices for March 26 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 2.22 2.36 The Sovings Fund 1.54 1.63 S'pore Prog Fund 0.94 1.00 S'pore Sec Fund 139 147 S'pore Invest Fund 0.95 1 01 S'pore Equity Fund 0.96 1.02 Asia Unit Trust MARA-Bumiputra First B'putro 5.66 5.71 Second B'putro
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    • 278 14 VAN DER HORST Limited: Eleventh AGM at 11, Pandan Crescent, Singapore 0512 on Mar 27 at 10 am to be followed by the EGM at 11.15 am. GENERAL SECIRITIES INVESTMENTS Limited: Tenth AGM at the Board Room of The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd, 46th Storey, DBS Building,
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    • 545 14 mm SUN HUNG KAI has singled out City Developments in the lacklustre property sector as a suitable counter for purchase at the price of $1.34. In its latest issue (Feb 28) of Focus, the Hongkong stockbroking firm said it would delay any aggressive
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    • 414 14 A FRESH BOUT of buying support in the afternoon session helped check the downward drift of prices on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Trading was selective with many issues closing with gains. Generally, the market was fairly active with most issues finishing slightly
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    • 2248 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 lota of 14)00 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS A CM A (2 00S) A|Mto«no«o <3.705) A Otoe
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    • 720 15 us mm m By HOCK LOCK SIEW MALAYSIAN businessman Tan Koon Swan has engineered another neat corporate exercise involving three listed companies. TTiis time, he has arranged for a strategic block of Pan Electric shares hitherto loosely held by several parties to be placed under
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    • 854 15 DIRECTORS of Emtex Corporation Bhd, who are aligned to the Mepro group, have come out in defence of their position in a Ms29l million joint venture property deal. Matters were given a new twist with the director's disclosure yesterday that the
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    • 281 15 HOTEL Grand Central Lid yesterday asked for a suspension in the trading of its shares, pending an announcement. SIGMA METAL Cs Ltd has been asked by the Stock Exchange of Singapore to furnish information on the value placed on each share of Pan-Electric Industries Ltd and the basis
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    • 192 15 Reuter SWIRE PACIFIC Ltd, which earlier reported a sharply higher 1964 net profit, is likely to post higher earnings this year. Chairman Michael Miles gave no specific forecast when he said this in Hongkong yesterday but said that results would
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    • 343 15  -  By AMY CHEOK LEE KIM TAB Holdings Ltd has exceeded its earnings forecast and, as promised, is paying a dividend of 15 per cent gross to shareholders. The local construction group, in its first year as a public corporation, managed to tnrn in consolidated
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    • 549 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM THE SUPREME GROUP is continuing to harvest the fruits of its extensive restructuring and divestment programme as reflected in the first-half results. In spite of the good showing, the two companies within the group are not ready to continue paying dividends.
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    • 239 15 BRUNEI-BACKED QAF Ltd is set on becoming an all-round supplier of food and food products in Singapore and the region. In its fourth business tie-up in a matter of weeks, whollyowned Ben Foods (S) Pte Ltd has acquired a company involved in the
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    • 916 15 Current Ei Books Dot* Total tor Total for poyment dot* dose payable Hi* yoar lost yeor A IS B 15%(b) Dec 4 Dec 14 NYA 15% 15% Ambossodor 7*%(b) Apr 24 May 1 Moy 9 7*% 7*% Amol Steel 8%TE(b) Dec 4 Dec 14 NYA 8%TE 4.1 %TE
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    • 433 15  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN IN LINE WITH results from others in the plantations sector, United Plantations Bhd had a bumper year in 1964 and has produced record profits. As a result, the group has pushed up the dividend payment for the first time in
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    • 54 15 FORTY-TWO applications have been received for 903,950 excess shares of Hongkong Tin Corp (Malaysia) Bhd's recent rights issue of six million ordinary shares. Total acceptance for the six million ordinary shares of 50 cents each issued at par on the basis of five-for-one received on March 20
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      • 35 15 Group pre-tax profits of M 510,026 for the six months to Dec 31, 1984, against a pre-tax loss of $8,953 previously. No tax is payable and no interim dividend has been recommended.
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
    • 610 16 THE PRIORITY SCHEME for graduate mothers to register their children in "choice" schools will be abolished; streaming for children at Primary 3 will be made more flexible and other controversial policies on streaming will be reviewed. These announcements from Education Minister Dr Tony Tan drew
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    • 515 16 UNIVERSITY and Polytechnic students may have to pay higher tuition fees from next year. A proposal to peg fees at a fixed percentage of the average recurrent costs per student to better reflect the subsidies they receive was suggested by Education Minister Dr Tony Tan
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  • 165 16 UPI KING ISKANDAR praised Malaysia's sustained economic growth but warned that drugs, communism and extremism could threaten national development. The Malaysian king, in his opening address of the new parliamentary session yesterday, said the economy would grow by 6 per cent this year down from
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  • 91 16 AFP NEW INVESTMENT in Indonesia should give priority to using domestically produced goods and materials, President Suharto said. Domestic production will be protected without, however, sacrificing efficiency, the President said when he opened a national conference of the Capital Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) in
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  • 349 16 THE DISPUTE between Smith Corona and the United Workers of Electronic and Electrical Industries over retrenchment benefits has taken a turn for the worse with one side threatening to resort to "more effective actions" and the other preparing to take the
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  • 418 16  -  By FLORENCE CHONG in Sydney ASIAN university students protesting against the rise in university fees are being joined by Australian students who fear that free tertiary education could be coming to an end. About 100 students have occupied the Commonwealth parliamentary offices in Adelaide in
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  • 67 16 Reuter A HONGKONG labour leaderwho admitted stealing more than HK$4OO,OOO from union funds was jailed for three years yesterday. A Hongkong court spokesman said Raymond Chow Yung, 37, was found guilty on 24 counts of theft while he was chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways Staff Union
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  • 60 16 Reuter WALL STREET stocks were lower in early trading. The Dow Jones industrial average was off over iVi points at 1262. Overall, losers led gainers by more than two-to-one on volume of six million shares. Analysts expected prices to trade lower during the day, with neither news
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  • LATE FILE
    • 31 16 AFP JAPAN might bow to an international moratorium on commercial whaling due to start in November, withdrawing its earlier objections, said Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe. AFP
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    • 40 16 UPI CHINESE leader Deng Xiaoping has predicted that the country's transition to a market economy, despite some "small mistakes," would be completed within three years. Mr Deng also maintained that Beijing was not going capitalist. UPI
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    • 52 16 UPI THREE Soviets yesterday began a hunger strike to try to put pressure on authorities to allow them to join their spouses in the West. Yuri Balovlenkov, Tamara Tretyakova and Alexander Pereldik are all married to Westerners but have been repeatedly denied permission to join
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    • 51 16 Reuter AN IRANIAN soldier flown to Vienna for medical treatment of injuries suffered in the Gulf War has died from chemical gas poisoning. Professor Gerhard Freilinger of the city's general hospital said the man died as a result of bone marrow damage caused by mustard
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    • 38 16 Reuter JAPAN'S private sector investment in industrial facilities in 1965/86 will rise 6.1 per cent year-on-year after an estimated 1984/85 rise of 7.7 per cent, said the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan yesterday. Reuter
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    • 39 16 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S 1984/85 budget deficit totalled US$lO.lB billion in the eight months ended February. The Finance Department said yesterday that this compared with the projected deficit of $6.74 billion in the year to June 30. Reuter
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    • 53 16 IHH Outlook for todoy: Showers in several areas in the afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on March 25 at the airport: Maximum temperature 31.6 Associated humidity 70 Minimum temperature 24.8 Associated humidity 97 Hours of sunshine 5.05 Roinfoll in millimetres 0.4 Roinfall this month 60.4 Romy days
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 215 17 LIBERIA is considering a reduction in fees to promote the registration of foreign vessels under its flag, Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, Philip Bowen said. Bowen told the Hongkong Shipowners' Association that Liberia may cut its two major categories of ship registry charges an
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    • 405 17 AMERICAN President Lines may be building more ships abroad and jumboising up to six other ships as part of its fleet expansion plan for the trans-Pacific. The word is out in Japan that APL is discussing the construction of four new ships of between 3,000
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    • 670 17 Shipping Um Pa^ C«4 Afea VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner V 4 Andeka Shpg VII 1 ANL 1 1 A PC Line V 4 APL III 4 ASCL HI 1 Asiobroker V 5 Austasia Line V 1 Bait-Orient VH 4/5 Bangkok Cont VI 2 Bank Line V 5
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 110 17 ANOTHER ferry boat has sunk near Dhaka, bringing the total number of people missing in two sinkings to about 300, Bangladesh police said on Monday. Rescuers were still searching for 250 people from a ferry which capsized on Saturday when a second vessel sank in a monsoon
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      • 59 17 CargoNews Asia THE state-owned international shipping company, Djakarta Lloyd, is in financial trouble, according to the sea transport directorate general. The company is said to have debts of US$55 million plus repayment commitments on loans for the purchase of container ships. Sea Communications director general J E Habibie
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      • 33 17 Reuter THE Australian and New Zealand Eastern Shipping Conference said it will increase the container freight station charge for Australia to HK$5O per revenue tonne from $46, effective May 1.
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    • 1036 18 FT ROTTERDAM has had the biggest and busiest port in the world for so long that It would be easy to become complacent. Since 1962 this Dutch harbour has ranked number one and it still handles one and a half times as much cargo
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    • 175 18 THE mine-damaged tanker, Oceanic Energy, was safely delivered to shipbreakers in Kaohsiung on March 21, after a long and arduous voyage from Jeddah in the Red Sea. The 88,599 ton dwt tanker was towed by her stern ovgr a distance of some 600 nautical miles
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    • 1906 18 THE chartering of three large vessels to carry iron ore cargoes featured an otherwise rather dull freight market on Friday, shipbrokers said. Shippers paid a steady US$B.45 for 140,000 long tons of iron ore from Tubarao to Japan and $8.70 for 110,000 tonnes from Sepetiba to Kaohsiung. They
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    • 241 19 TWO major Japanese shipbuilders are providing China with technological assistance in the production of diesel engines. The move by Mitsui Engineering St Shipbuilding and Sumitomo Heavy Industries come hot on the heels of that taken by Ishi-kawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI). IHI is assisting China
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    • 263 19 EXPOSED? London 85 3Eje NO NEW shipping line will be allowed to start operations in South Korea for the next five years in a bid to stabilise the country's industry, a leading government official said. Mr Choi Hoon, director general of the bureau of
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    • 339 19 BY THE end of the decade Hongkong will develop a "modern and attractive" register but not a flag of convenience, a leading shipowner said. Mr M H Liang, chairman of the Hongkong government, said: "There is no reason at all why the
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    • 230 19 A GROWING demand for the upper medium size of container ship seems to be manifesting itself while self-sustaining vessels of up to 900 TEUs have been commanding good rates. According to specialist brokers Seabulk Chartering Ltd of London, tonnage in the 1,00-2,000 TEU
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    • 314 19 HARD-PRESSED European shipowners will have to transfer to flags of convenience to remain competitive with low cost fleets, industry executives said. The inability of high cost European fleets to cope with competitive pressure from low-cost operators, especially in the Far East, was highlighted at
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    • 481 19 March 28-27 International symposium on offshore transportation and installation, Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Heathrow Penta GHotel, London. March 2«-2S Seatec V, Asian dredging exhibition conference, Jakarta Convention Hall, Djakarta, Indonesia. March 2t-28 Portec n, port management exhibition and conference, Jakarta Convention Hall, Djakarta, Indonesia. March 27-28 Offshore
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    • 5768 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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    • 671 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy dote/time Operator cargo schedule Location Pegasus P 3 7 ON 26.3.85 2100 Straits F2 0700-0900 G1 Siri Bhum 212N 26.3.85 2300 S'pore Shpg F2 0900-1100 Jl A New Jersey 3
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    • 1811 25 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from loeal ports and their agents. A-B AFEA African Shipping Agencies i S i Afra-Earaaia liiM> Transgroup ISI Ahreakiel liner Service Kim Shpg <S> *11 ml 0 Taepift Oceanus Shipping Agen cies < Si Marintex Enterprise PK» AI par Intrasea (Si
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    • 289 26 AFP HEIGHTENED tension in the Gulf states area, with news of further attacks on neutral shipping, left owners and charterers increasingly reluctant to enter into business there on the tanker market last week. Reports that Iran's main oil terminal, Kharg Island, had been hit, and increased cargo and
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    • 536 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES B Jlangchow K15 Y Fung alongside 26.3.85/2300 Bowoon No 9 K29 Sharp alongside 26.3.85/1200 C Prlncess/P K36 Harper alongside *****/1800 Fengyan K35 Y Fung alongside 263.85/2300 Jenhol K23 T Soon alongside *****/0700 Koheng K22 Guan Guan alongside
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    • 397 20 Hapag-Lloyd EXPORTS TO CONTINENT/UK On carriage to Scandinavia, Med, Carribean &S. America Inland haulage to inland destinations in Europe S pore PKelang PenangLeioesßdbao Genoa Hbi*g Rdam Bhaven Antwerp AIMUBARAKIAHI4/4 16/4 11/4 11/5 31/4 1,5 Connecting in Kobe Connecting in Kaoshiung Also accepting cargo tor ATLANTIC GULF PORTS «ia m.nilandbridge and
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    • 667 20 THONG SOON pC-i AGENCIES PTE. LTD. *09-07. ROBINA HOUSE. S PORE 0106 TEL: *****88 TELEX RS ***** BOOKING: *****56 (DIRECT LINE) SINGAPORE TO PENANG KIM SOON LI DESTINATION Penang Penang •EQUATOR 111 •EQUATOR IV JENSON 'BUILDER IN SKK 4/85 In Port 27 Mar K. Kinabalu 5/85 1 Apr 3 Apr
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    • 665 20 EVERGREEN Full Container Service I Round-The-World East Bound Service (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/W.MED./FE) EVE* GUARD EVER GRADE EVER GOMG (VEX GUM AISO ACCEPTINC CARGO TO 1) PROVDENCE NWARK SAVANNAH BOSTON PHILADELPHIA NORFOLK IACKSONVHLE WILMINGTON ETC 3) CRISTOBAL BALBOA PANAMA CITY COLON SAN UAN SANTO DOMMGO 2) ATLANTA CNCAGO OCTROI! COLUMBUS t OTNR MAIOR
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    • 358 20 Yl HSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD Eil PORT KELANG PENANG ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES loadnc tar B. Abbas. B. Khomeini SWOSE MARiTME PTE LTD TEL *****44 7 *****70 MAIOSt MARITIME SDN BHD Tel *****2 3 MALAYSIA TRADE I TRANSPORT LTD Tel ***** t ***** KYOWA LINE TO
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    • 843 21 v\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 KOTA SALAM KOTA JAYA KOTA MUTIARA EAST AFRICA/REDSEA SERVICES VOYAGE HONGKONG SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: E-559 2-3/4 7-10/4 ADEN, NODEIOAH, JEDDAH, AOABA PT BUOAN **OMBABA. D SALAAM E-561 10-12/4 16-20/4 DJIBOUTI. HOOEIDAH, JEDDAH. AOABA, PT SUDAN CP/8/85
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    • 700 21 BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAMER SERVICE TO/FROM EUROPE Europe (straits FROM EUROPE HAM B "HAVEN I DAM HAMS UK IP KELANG STORE FOR WITH LBEKTY TO CALL AT RED SEA PORTS PENANG FED VIA SINGAPORE KkJJEBSEN LINE K. NEW ZEALAND l SINGAPORE PORT KELANG K LUMPUR PENANG BEN LINE BENDERA
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    • 606 21 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF lili.;<*>>*']'■ hki Ji.i. a;e^ttflaii7Ja;ii.:.i*'.:\i.ii» EAST BOUND SOWAJ V7EB WEST BOUND v STORf 1/4-13/4 (DSC OUT) 7 PK rBAO LDN (DAM ADAM C STOt HHURG/BIEN <T*»y) SRMUATA VI3NB2C-2S/3 24/4 a/4 2/5 4/5 SAAB ULL AH VION6 J-13/4 14/4 4/5 5/5 7/5 tuiAi r>m a a/4 2/4
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    • 476 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES Pi(M VB5 BURMA FIVE STAR (Burmese National Line) Loadmf for Ranfoon Spore P.Kabni Pi 29/31 Mar Ptushwefyawywa V2S2 1/10 Apr Myomarwa VBS 20/24 Apr BANK LINE I SPORE R'DAM HULL HM4G IVYBANK 19 Apr 15 May 18 May 21 *Aoy CLYDEBANK 5 May 31 May 4 Jun
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    • 1177 22 V*. IV LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. PNG STORE NAGOYA GUAYAGUR CALLAO ARICA KJUKJt* AfA6ASTA J JMHWO VKfiMBO 7 Apt 9 Apr 23 Apr 25 May 2)un 6 )un 7to Bto 11 to 13 to CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SEA mffMlTn FEEDER VSI MOTHER VSI PKIG PNG STORE NAGOYA M7ANLLO ACAWICO fT
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    • 544 22 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE loading tor lOS ANGEIES SAN ERANCISCO SEATTLE TACOMA VANCOUVER BC Accepting fCI FCI Containers "»™r ssrt '„x AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCI FCI Containers 28 27 Mai ?8 29 Mar 1718 Apr 26 27 Apr 28 29 Apr 20 Apr 10 Apr
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    • 600 22 SANKO ASIA FHOM JAPAN€S£ PORTS ANO HOHOKOHC Soijapere PKeianf Mft/26 Mar IPt/27 Mai 1/2 Apr «/7 Apr 11/12 Apr 16/17 Apr 16/17 Apr 1. SUN CANNA 2. EDO MAM) 3. GOTO* ROWING 4. HAM) KIKMG 5. sawo scam nxAO 7 SMUNTA 29/31 Ma 3/5 A* 1/10 Apr 13/15 Apr 13/15
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    • 619 22 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD 10 Anson Road »27 16 International Plaza Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 1 1 0 L.nesl BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK OCEAN WMD *****03 FORT NELSON *****05 Spore P KeianfLoadnf lor 8 Apr SETE/ANT/ROTT/UJC. (AVON) 20 Apr 23 Apr ROTT/ANT/U.K. (AVON) AND R.M.Z.t^ S pore P Kelang Loada*
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    • 854 23 E.NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ) F'stowe H'buri 18/4 20/4 Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia C CONTAINER S pore Closing Times: FCL Cargo 0500 3/4 LCL Cargo 1/UU c/* FROM EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) Havre P.Ketanf Singapore HKong K'siung Busar CPMJL43E Sailed 30/3 31/3 4/4 5/4 8/4 CRO2E42E
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    • 568 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P. KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON SPIWI «GIN!S HPT UNI AGENCIES PTE UO Tel ?*****7 ?78*>434 (Bookmjsl *****10 *****22 i Operates) 222?4«7 ??09?84 (Jfrmmalt *****50 ??0?504 (CfS) M«i«YSI» tGINIS lUNAS SfTIA SOW BHC Kl let *****0 *****4 PK lel J***** PfN Tel
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    • 856 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG M/S SHARK*! WAH SOON SON BHD IST AND 2ND FLOOR NO 1 lALAN CEMPENING PORT KLANG MALAYSIA
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    • 565 24 ICe«|i<Ntal Container Lines 3 Sailings Weekly lITJf'IH I Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P.S.A Mon, Wed Sat REGULAR/FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGKLA yOY SM PUT SKI* BKK I 261/323 h Pwl 22 Mar 21 Mar 21IS/212N 24 Mar 31 Mar 29 Mar 2125/213N 2 Apr 5 Apr I 324/325 3 Apr 6
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    • 77 25 HSC AGENCES K. LUMPUR P. KELANG PENANG P. GUDANG 1. BAHARU LEOSHP SPOOE 42S0M/*****6/*****1/*****3 WmH TEXMHAL 3M3SI/2 *****/*****/*****/***** *****3/*****5/*****1/*****0 22SS6S/*****5/*****5 *****22 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE K*Ji I EBB EH i.i HTTTf ALSO ACCEPTMG FOR: Mmap. L HARK. UK. BREMEN, COPENHAGEN, OSLO ALSO ACCEPTMG FROM EUROPE: RIM, HAM. GOT, UK. ANTWERP,
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    • 113 26 vJ POMEX MAYA LINE CONVENTIONAL LINER SERVICE JAPAN/STRAITS/JAPAN Vmml Singapore P.Kelang Pen»ng KEMPAS 1-S Apr 6/7 Apr 8/9 Apr 10/10 KEPONG 2-S Apr 17/18 Apr 19/20 Apr 21/22 For further porticulors. please contact POMEX MAYA SDN BHD 12th Floor, Bangunan Kuwasa Jolon Raja Loot, Kuala Lumpur Tele* MA***** POMEX SHIP
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    • 337 26 1 F\jrt to part ptopk to Mr Mitsui OS K Lines Ltd H CONVENTIONAL/SEMI-CONTAINER AFRICA'S —^NO GLORIA PEAK M GRACE OCEAN ELITE ASTRA PEAK EARNEST VENTURE In Port Port Louis. Reunion 5 Apr Mombasa. Daressalaam, Tamatave 15 Apr Mombasa. Daressalaam 24 Apr Port Louis, Reunion 8 Apr Monrovia. Abidjan, Lome,
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