The Business Times, 27 July 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1185 60 CENTS
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  • 787 1  -  Government unveils interim measures in response to feedback Stories by ZHOU MEI, TERESA LIM, THE GOVERNMENT has unveiled a $450 million package of public sector measures to boost Singapore's sagging economy. The urgent need for the measures has been underscored by the dismal performance of
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  • 610 1 SINGAPORE'S current recession cannot be written off simply as a cyclical downturn, but must also be ascribed to internal structural problems. Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong confirmed publicly yesterday what members of both private and government circles have suspected for some time. He pointed out
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  • Article, Illustration
    91 1 SHARE PRICES en the Singapore stock market recovered In the afternoon after a weak start to the day. Trading too was more active after lunch. At the close, the Straits Times Industrial Index was €.18 points higher at 778.44 while the BT Composite Index was up C.98 points
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  • 416 1  -  By AMY BALAN NINETEEN YEARS of goodwill built up with clients all over the world came to an end yesterday with the winding up of Peter Chew's Pte Ltd. But the worst may not yet be over for the department store
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  • 457 1  -  By LEE HAN SHIH THE HOUSING and Development Board has invited tenders for the building of high-rise car parks in its estates. Contractors were yesterday invited to a preliminary round of bidding to build 12 multi-storey car parks. But the board did
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  • 116 1 Reuter THE BANK OF JAPAN said yesterday that it expected the country's economy to expand moderately in the fiscal year 1985/86 ending March 31, compared with the 5.7 per cent growth recorded in 1984 85. However, it did not forecast a specific growth rate. The bank,
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    • 125 1 International Conference on OIL TRADING ACTIVITIES and OPPORTUNITIES in Asia Pacific Basin 16-18 Sept Hyatt Regency S pore Supported by S pore Economic Development Board S pore Trade Development Board Organised by Intertama Pte Ltd Parkway Builders Centre "10 03 06 1. Marine Parade Central Singapore 1544 Tel *****00 Tele*
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    • 302 1 More reports on Back Page: How the statutory boards will help business, Reactions from businessmen SHARE INFORMATION MONEY A EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS CROSSWORDS TV A RADIO DOONESBURY OUR VIEW THE SIGNING of the Punjab peace accord is proof of the pragmatism of both Indian Premier Rajiv Gandhi and the moderate
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    • 37 1 Full report, Pag* 10 Asian stocks, Pag* 9 Intl stocks, Pag* 8 19 0 5—1985 80 YEARS OF BANKING EXPERIENCE IN SINGAPORE TO SERVE YOU BETTER B BANQUEINDOSUEZ 3 Shenton Way. Shenton House Singapore 0106. Tel: 2207.111
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 457 2  -  Group using Singapore as springboard By JAIME LYE THE MALAYSIAN-BASED Federal Hotels Group, which owns the Federal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, is poised to go international with Singapore as its starting point. According to an ambitious Dato Low Yow Chuan, the chairman of
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    • 460 2  -  By ZHOU MEI PROJECT ORBIS, the international flying eye hospital, bearer of the latest eye surgery technology and expertise, arrives in Singapore today for a threeweek visit. Orbis a 25-year-old DCB equipped with more than US$3O million worth of the latest
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    • 190 2 RELATIONS between Asean and Japan are cordial, but they must not be taken for granted since "potential explosives" remain between the two. Constant review by both parties is necessary to offset friction posed by snags such as the lopsided balance of payments in trade
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    • 142 2 ABOUT $50 million worth of jewellery will be put on snow at Jewel Fair '85, the international jewellery and watches exhibition which is being held in conjunction with the Trade and Industry Fair '85. The nine-day fair at the World Trade Centre, which begins today, will
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    • 769 2 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES MARINA WHARVES Ares N M1B alongside 27.7/0600 Vesael Berth Arrival Departure B Pratama M4A alongside 27.7/0600 KEPPEL WHARVES Union M2A alongside 27.7/0600 K9 K19 alongside 27.7/1200 alongside 27.7/1500 G Jaya Baru M2A 277/0800 27.7/2300 B Hector Cap Anamur Hong Soon Halim Mulia M1B M2B
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    • 276 2 THERE ARE about $1.3 billion worth of carparks, sports and recreational facilities in schools but much of this is under-util-ised. With about 75 per cent of these facilities located within Housing and Development Board estates, these facilities should be shared with civic
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    • 684 2 American Express Bank Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary ol American E*press Company CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,1984 Consolidated Balance Sheet pillions of U S dollars) REPORT OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS The Board ol Directors American Express Bank Ltd. We have examined the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of American
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 443 3 NYT US DEFENCE Secretary Caspar Weinberger asserted on Thursday that President Reagan was justified in calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" because that spotlighted "the coercive and tyrannical system of our communist adversaries". In an address to leaders from mostly conservative parties
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    • 212 3 Reuter AMERICAN Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze will have three hours of talks when they meet for the first time in Helsinki on July 31. The US State Department said yesterday that Mr Shultz's aim would be to
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    • 820 3 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time PAA PA2I 0020 LAX/TYO/ HKG sv SV379 0115 SEL CAL CI333 0130 TPE SIA SQ4I 0535 MAA MK MK746 0755 MRU CV CV796 0815 LUX/DXB MAS MH681 0820 KUL KAL KE624 0840 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH671* 0935
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    • 234 3 UPI A JOINT US congressional committee has determined that President Ronald Reagan's tax reform plan would lose US$25.l billion over five years and the administration said it would work on changes to eliminate the shortfall. The estimate from the joint
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    • 129 3 Reuter SENATE budget negotiators have proposed a "grand plan" to cut massive budget deficits, including a US$5 a barrel fee on imported oil. President Ronald Reagan has opposed taxes as a way of solving the budget problem, but the White House was "genuinely interested" in
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    • 272 3 UPI THE SIZZLE of hamburgers will be heard throughout Hamburg this weekend, as the western New York community celebrates the 100 th birthday of its native son on a bun. The birth of the burger festival began on Thursday, and features a meatball street dance,
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 37 3 BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has dismissed reports she had threatened to resign prior to her near defeat in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday and she told the House of Commons she would remain.
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      • 55 3 THREE American television companies ABC, NBC and Cable News Network have agreed to turn over to the Justice Department film and audio coverage of the recent hijacking of TWA Flight 847. A spokesman for the other major US television network, CBS, said on Wednesday that its attorneys
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      • 72 3 JAPANESE Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita and Defence Agency chief Koichi Kato agreed to increase Japan's defence budget for fiscal 1986, starting next April, by seven per cent compared with the current fiscal year, officials said. Japan's national defence budget for fiscal 1985 year rose 6.9 per cent
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      • 52 3 Agencies SOME 50 young people left Paris on Thursday on a trip through Northern Europe to fight racism. The members of the French organisation "SOS Racism" call themselves "Travellers for Equality" and will be visiting Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and West Germany from until Aug
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    • 468 3 Reuter THE US and Britain have opposed a bid by France for economic sanctions against South Africa, where a state of emergency has brought about many casualties and the detention of hundreds of dissidents. Speaking during a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday, where France
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    • 291 3 Reuter THE EUROPEAN Economic Community has made a new concession to the US in a trans-Atlantic steel trade dispute, but is preparing for conflict if negotiations fail. French Industry Minister Edith Cresson said yesterday that EEC External Affairs Commissioner Willy de Clercq
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    • 79 3 Reuter CUTS IN STATE spending overseas are damaging Britain's interests abroad, says an all-party parliamentary committee. "The protection and furtherance of British interests overseas cannot be maintained at the same level on continually reducing effective resources," said the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, in
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    • 114 3 UPI ALBANIA will remain loyal to the hard Stalinist line of former leader Enver Hoxha, although the country has made unprecedented overtures to the outside world under its new leader Ramiz Alia. Albania has also accused Yugoslavia of using "psychological terror" in its oppression
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    • 500 4 Bernama THE PEOPLE'S Republic of China is negotiating to buy idle plants, machinery and equipment of many moribund Filipino companies. The Chinese envoy to the Philippines, Chen Songlu, in &n address to the Financial Executive Institute of the Philippines on Thursday, said that China
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    • 271 4 AFP TWO RELATIVES of a nightclub hostess who testified that Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino was shot by an alleged communist hitman, might have died because they knew too much about the murder, said a Manila magazine yesterday. Defence witness Pelagia Hilario appeared to have
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    • 204 4 AP AMERICAN AMBASSADOR Mike Mansfield met Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on Thursday and urged the country to demonstrate concrete steps in its forthcoming "action programme" of market-opening measures to quell growing protectionist sentiment in the US Congress. A foreign ministry official
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    • 75 4 Reuter HONGKONG may be forced to empty its sperm bank unless its semen deposits can be screened for the deadly Aids virus, the Hongkong Family Planning Association said. The association's director Peggy Lam said unless new equipment could also screen existing sperms, the bank would
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    • 312 4 AFP THAILAND has called for the elimination of bureaucratic restrictions hindering the progress of economic cooperation among the member countries of Asean. Thai Foreign Minister Sithi Sawetsila said in Bangkok on Thursday, after a conference with 24 Thai ambassadors stationed in Asia and the
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    • 132 4 AFP THAILAND has dismissed the rejection by a visiting Soviet diplomat of a negotiation offer on Cambodia, saying that it would like to hear Vietnam's view on the issue. Thai Foreign Minister Sithi Sawetasila said yesterday that Bangkok did not agree with Anatoly Zaitsev, the head
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    • 112 4 Bernama THE AUSTRALIAN government has given an assurance that its new policy of allowing educational institutions to accept un» limited numbers of foreign students paying full fees will not affect the number of subsidised students in the country. Australia's Department of Trade Deputy Secretary
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    • 232 4 Reuter INDIAN Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said the world's trading system was being threatened by mounting protectionism in the industrialised nations. He told about 30 Third World trade ministers on Thursday that the attitudes of developed countries towards trade liberalisation were becoming more rigid and
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 151 4 Chinese Produce Robusto 20/25% FOB NSW 460 00 Exchange (Sellers' noon closing prices on Nutmeg 454 00 July 26 (SS/100 kg). 1 10 FOB NSW E&W FOB NSW 330 00 Coconut oil Bulk FOB 100 00 Gambier Old drum FOB 113 00 FOB NSW 330 00 New drum
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    • 290 4 Singapore C-l Ord unq (S$/kilo, ex-godown) Loonzain Rice Fragrant nev* crop let 0 82 100% 1st grade 100% 2nd grade unq 215 2nd 062 100% 3rd grade unq 3rd 0 60 Parboiled Rice New Crop stock 5% 215 25% no 10% 210 10% no stock Tlioi Broken Maize unq
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    • 107 4 THE Kuala Lumpur tin yesterday fell five cents to M 531.16 per kilo mainly on increased disposals, still within the ITA lower range of 29.15 and 32.*. Wednesday's rise attracted increased turnover of 71 tonnes against 51 on Wednesday. Continued Japanese and local buying was evident but the
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    • 165 4 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China corded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 20's 2.600 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,000 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,400 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 2l's 2,800 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,200 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,400 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 172 4 SINGAPORE THE MARKET yesterday closed slightly higher with August one RSS buyers quoted at 171.50 cents per kilo, up 0.25 cent from Wednesday. MALAYSIA Little price movement was noted on the market, following a lack of trading incentive ahead of the weekend, dealers said. Current August Int One RSS
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    • 373 4 in S cents/kg, FOB i n bales NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 171 25 172 25N 171 50 172 50N Int 1 RSS Aug 85 171 25 171 50 171 50 171 75 Int 1 RSS Sept 85 169 25 169 75
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    • 166 4 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday extended losses on continued liquidation to end at the day's lows after India passed its weekly palm oil tender. A slight rebound in Chicago soyoil futures failed to boost prices. July south and central lost M 522.50 and $15 to $920 per
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    • 135 4 WHEAT futures climbed after midday on Thursday, closing 5'- to 3V 2 higher in thin trade on the Chicago Board of Trade. Spot September gained 4'« and settled at US$2.97 1 4 a bushel. Prices regained much of the eight cents they lost on Wednesday on scattered commercial and
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    • 131 4 SOYOIL futures on Thursday settled with gains ranging from 0.20 to 0.41 US cent a lb higher, while meal eased a bit after midday to close USJI.2O to $0.30 a tonne lower. Renewed commercial selling after midsession pressed meal values in all months, but losses were limited by the
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    • 108 4 (cents/kg, 1-ton gij SEPT 85 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 143 50 145 50N 144 50 146 SON SSR 50 141 50 143 50N 140 50 144 50N MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV 200 00 202 00N
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    • 910 4 COFFEE ROBUSTA coffee futures pared morning gains as sterling recovered against the dollar, to end Thursday up £28 to £1 a tonne from Wednesday night's close, dealers said. The market initially largely ignored the effects of strong sterling, remaining buoyant on the continuing technical rally. But at the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 170 5 AFP A BRANCH of the People's Bank of China has run into liquidity problems and failed to honour some cheques after lending too much to enterprises and government departments. The South China Morning Post said some cheques written by customers of the People's Bank of
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    • 472 5 THE SLUGGISH stock market last year sent underwriting activities of the merchant banking industry tumbling by 60 per cent to a five-year low of $320 million. The Monetary Authority of Singapore said only four public share issues were floated during the year. As a result, the value
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 654 5 SINGAPORE THE US dollar ended a little higher against most major currencies in very quiet trading. It closed higher at 239.40/50 yen compared with an early 238.90/239.00 and New York's 238.95/239.10 close, dealers said. Sterling closed weaker at 1.4065/75 US dollars compared with an opening of 1.4085/95 and
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    • 299 5 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Currencies Nominal ratM Smithsonian Bid Offer cross parity Changs Local dollors to one unit of forei9n currency: US dollar 2 2040 2 2050 2 8196 -21 83 Sterling pound 3 0988 3 1024 7 3469 -57 82 Australian dollar 1 5571 1 5600
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    • 350 5 BA Futures Inc. EURODOLLAR futures yesterday gapped up from IMM's close due to the bullish news of a large drop in money supply. However, after the initial opening at the day's high of 91.84, heavy overseas selling pressure saw the closing of the interexehange gap between IMM's high of
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    • 262 5 HONGKONG: Gold yesterday closed easier in fairly quiet trading reflecting the late strength of the US dollar. The metal ended at U*****.30/70 an ounce compared with the 319.10/60 close in New York and the previous 319.50/90 finish here. On the local market gold lost HK$9 to close at HK|2,947
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    • 70 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market fell by 1 point from Thursday to close at five per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate rose 1 point while two- and three-month rates were unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Offer Bid Over night 5 4
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    • 49 5 RESULTS of tender held yesterday for: 91-day Treasury bills to be issued from July 29 to Aug 2. Offered: $80,000,000. Applied for: $182,000,000. Allotted: $80,000,000. Aeeepted bids: $99.28 approximately 15 per cent; higher bids in full. Average rate of discount on allotment: 2.845 per cent per annum.
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    • Article, Illustration
      337 5 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposits yesterday closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading, dealers said. Periods were steady to slightly lower due partly to news of a larger-than-expected US$4.B billion i fall in latest US M-l mon- i ey supply. Rates later were little changed with three and
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    • 732 5 Republicßank Corporation FINANCIAL STATEMENTS REPORT OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS The Board of Directors and Stockholders Republic Bank Corporation We have examined the accompanying consolidated balance sheets ot Republic Bank Corporation and subsidiaries and the balance sheets ot Republicßank Corpof.ition (ftjrent Only) at December 31. 1983 and 1484. and the related
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  • TIME-OFF
    • 503 6 FOR A CHANGE, the Indian opposition has had a chance to thump desks in Parliament, not to jeer at the government, but to cheer it. In what could turn out to be one of the prime political victories in independent India, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
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    • 1307 6  -  By JEFFREY TSANG "SINGAPORE DRIVERS have an amazingly low level of skill," declared European rally champion of 1956, Rauno Aaltonen, after observing about 30 drivers manoeuvering in various safety driving exercises. That remark was made all the more biting as it was directed at drivers who
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    • 1224 6 What's on from July 27 Aug 2 CONCERT: Ron Goodwin and the SSO. Victoria Concert Hall. 8.15 pm. Tickets: $4, $7, $10, $15. Ron Goodwin is one of the entertainment industry's most versatile and complete musical talents. His music ranges from jazz to classics. In addition to composing film
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    • 172 6 ONE IS really not quite sure whether it is the famed aphrodisiac quality of shiitake mushrooms (Chinese black mushrooms) that are making them a favourite ingredient In Chinese cooking. In Singapore, dried shiitake, imported mostly from Japan and Taiwan is eaten in large quantities. But there
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    • 156 6 THE NEED for a delicate balance in news reporting is seldom more crucial than when Hong Leong Finance this week found itself the victim of rumours which led to heavy withdrawals at some of its branches. When several organisations issued statements in support of the finance
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 789 6 m sm sa^assmD I CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 9 Very anxious to get the tea stain out (2, 1, 5) 10 Coin a name, we're told (3) 11 The bad girl returned, in the book (6) 12 Take a risk, shutting one animal in with another (6) 13 The bunkers will
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  • SPORTS
    • 715 7  -  By BRIAN MILLER HE CAME to hand quickly, winning a I,loom race by six lengths in his third start. Four runs later, at Penang, he again routed the opposition scoring a whopping nine-and-a-half length win over 1,200 m. And in his last start on
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    • 350 7 Reuter DEFENDING CHAMPION Bernhard Langer of West Germany bounced back from his British Open disappointment to share the first round lead in the Dutch Open Golf Championship with a 68 on Thursday. Langer, the reigning US Masters champion, snapped up
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    • 246 7 Reuter US OLYMPIC gold medallist Carl Lewis is almost fully recovered from a leg injury that has kept him off the track for two months and will make a comeback in Europe next month, trainer Joe Douglas has said. Douglas, chief trainer at Lewis'
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    • 197 7 Reuter FOUR GOLFERS, including LPGA leading money winner Alice Miller and South African Sally Little, shot four-under-par 68s on Thursday to share the lead after one round of the US$3OO,OOO Du Maurier Classic Women's Golf Tournament. Americans Chris Johnson and Laurie Rinker
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    • 213 7 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Brent Thomson is to be retained next season as number one jockey for English Trainer Barry Hills, a position formerly held by reigning British champion jockey American Steve Cauthen. Thomson, like Cau then, was originally brought to England by leading owner
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    • 493 7  -  By ANNA TEO THIS AFTERNOON, national tennis trainee Frederick Lim, with a smaller racket in hand, will again be chasing the lil' black ball around four walls at the East Coast Park Recreation Centre. Frederick, who only last night faced Mahader Hassan in the
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    • 413 7 UPI JACK MORRIS hurled a fourhitter and Barbaro Garbey smacked a solo homer and RBI single on Thursday night to lead the Detriot Tigers to a 7-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Morris, 11-6, who is among the American League leaders in shutouts,
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 1165 7 to urn mm CENTRESTAGE: Faerie Tale Theatre Rip Van Winkle 8.30 pm, Channel 12 It is no easy task getting famed director Francis Ford Coppola to turn his lofty fingers to television, but producer Shelley Duvall has managed to pull it off. Thus, the man behind "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 249 8 Reuter BRITISH TELECOM PLC and American Telephone and Telegraph (ATT) have signed an agreement for an international telecommunications link. Texas Instruments, as their first customer, will use the system to link its headquarters in Dallas with its primary European communications hub in .Bedford, England.
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    • 161 8 CROWN ZELLERBACH .Gcrp will be working with James Goldsmith to determine the future of the forest products company. Zellerbach and Goldsmith's General Oriental {securities Ltd partnership reached an agreement on Thursday afternoon under which Goldsmith will become chairman and gain control of the company's board.
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    • 349 8 Reuter HIGHER PRICES for oil shares helped Wall Street finish moderately higher on Thursday, ending a three-day general price decline. Agreement among Opec oil producers for a small price reduction apparently reassured investors that a failure to reach an agreement in Geneva would add
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    • 268 8 JULY 25 Ro»d INDUSTRIALS Unisec Woolworth 500 1675 MININGS 20 -100 A Alpho Abercom AE And CI 960 148 820 -15 12 20 Anglos Artglvool Byyoors 2725 9750B 1125 -75 unch -75 Amoprop 510 -5 Buffets 5850 -150 AMZTT. Borlows C G Smith CNA 2875 1115 2750 280 75
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    • 200 8 JULY 25 Hud Boy Mm a Imp 04 49 -4 Inco 20 Abitibi 17*. -4 Int Pro* Pipe 424 4 Alcon 364 4 Int Ufs 18 unch 22"«. -4 Kerr Add 16* 4 Argoen Hldgs 21 unch Lobiaw B 204 -4 Bonk Mont 304 Mossey Ferg 2\ unch Bonk
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    • 665 8 JULY 25 US$ Alcon Alumei Alcoa Alegheny Lud Afced Chem Cp Afced Stores Afcs-Chalmers Am Brands Irac Am Broadcast Am Can Co Am Cyonamid Am Elec Pwr Am Express Am Home Prod Am Motors Cp Am Natural Gas Am Tel Tel Amax Inc Amerada Hess AMF Inc Amr
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    • 967 8 Amsterdam JULY 25 FIs ABN 505 50 4 5 Aegon Ahold 101 10 +0 2 240 30 0 5 Akro AMEV Arrrfoi Amro Bonk Berkel Bote Borsumn Boskafe Bur Tet Cotond Colve 122 60 -02 273 10 19 88 70 0 4 43 50 1 6 98 20
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 422 9 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday closed lower after a brief rally around midday, with fairly heavy late profit-taking and position squaring ahead of the long weekend. The Hang Seng index ended 8.48 points off at 1,683.58 after it passed through the 1,700 mark to close the morning at 1,700.77. The
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    • 213 9 NT Kuochon Dev 1260 -0 1 Lien Hwo Indus 960 -0 3 Non Yo Plos 24 60 unch Al Sincere Indus 1 92 -0 04 Pocitic Cons 1480 -0 05 Ava Cement 20 20 -07 Pocitic Elect W»e II 90 0.1 22 40 0 1 Pootung Paper 081 -001
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    • 393 9 TOKYO: Share prices yesterday ended mixed after a soft start and trading was moderately active. But dealers said a waiting attitude prevailed in the market after Thursday's sharp fall. The market average ended at 12,648.09, up 1.06, after falling 130.00 on Thursday. The turnover was 500 million shares against
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    • 80 9 MANILA: Share prices yesteday closed mixed in quiet trading. The Mining Marker rose 0.76 to 796.75 and Oils fell 0.018 to 0.726. The Commercial and Industrial Index remained steady at 131.46. JULY 26 Onentoi B Phrfex B 0011 0 1350 -0 001 0005 Picop B PLOT 38 i*>ch 3.5
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    • 345 9 SYDNEY: Australian stocks closed easier yesterday, pushed lower by profit-taking in gold and general resource stocks. The mar- ket had opened steadily but drifted away towards midesession. At the close, the All Ordinaries eased 6.5 points 934.6 after peaking at 941.9 during morning trading. The Gold Index shed 21.9
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    • 152 9 BANGKOK: Stock prices yesterday closed lower in slow trading, the Securities Exchange of Thailand said. The Book Club index fell 0.80 point to 142.08 and declines led advances by nearly a two-to-one margin. Turnover fell to 292,115 shares from Thursday's 442,930 shares. JULY 26 ■ohti 627 -12 82 Siam
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    • 70 9 JULY 26 Won 67B 2 Hyundai C.on*t Hyundai Motor KAL 910 775 448 15 -3 Chohaung Bk Commercial Bk 652 740 444 -1 unch Korea First Yukong Korea Sh* 730 1381 391 unch -14 -4 456 Lucky Ltd 640 15 618 676 6 480 3 785 +6 Gold Star
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    • 56 9 Reuter HONGKONG and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co Ltd has increased the size of its planned three-year commercial paper issue to HK$9OO million from $800 million. Chemical Asia Ltd and the Hongkong Bank group will jointly arrange the issae, which comprises one-, two- and three-month paper
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    • 339 9 AFP THE TOKYO Stock Exchange, an exclusive club which currently admits only Japanese brokers, will open its doors to foreign members from November. The number of seats offered to broking firms in Tokyo will rise from the current 83 to 90. A spokesman for an
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    • 299 9 Reuter THE THREE foreign partners in the OK Tedi gold and copper project in Papua New Guinea (PNG) will sign a full agreement on the mine's future development by the end of this month. The first stage gold mine was shut down
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    • 146 9 AFP FUJITSU LTD, Japan's top computer maker, reported a 33.5 per cent increase in its consolidated afier-tax profit, on a 29.1 per cent sales rise, in the financial year ended in March this year. The company said its after-tax profit came to US$373
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4415 10 AFTER a weak start, share prices on the Singapore stock market recovered across the board in the afternoon in moderately active trading. Thanks to an afternoon spurt, the Straits Times Industrial Index put on 6.68 points to 778.44, while the BT Composite Index finished
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    • 250 10 SINGAPORE Rises Indices M A A 2400 Ber)untoi 320 How Par 233 C 1 Holdings 155 Apollo 104 OCBC 865 Gentmgs 600 MototioH 310 N O I 160 Sigma Metol 306 Falls 50 22 17 15 11 10 10 10 10 9 BT Composite BT Indicotor BT
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    • 4838 10 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted afVer the word "SETT"
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 227 11 &mi mm By HOCK LOCK SIEW YESTERDAY'S sudden spurt in the share price of Haw Par Brothers once again surprised many analysts that the stock could post a 17-cent gain against a background of no discernible change. While that may be so as far as fundamentals are
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    • 201 11 BUYERS once again made their presence felt in a significant way on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday, pushing share prices higher in active trading. Selected counters which eased in the past two days on profit-taking, recorded marginal to moderate gains and a few
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    • 3943 11 BID and olfer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS A Choc <2 OOS) <3) 1 98 0)2 00
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    • 529 11 Lifting of freeze welcomed TWO TO THREE new listings are expected to hit the Kuala Lumpur stock market soon, providing the public with an opportunity once again to subscribe for new shares. This follows indications that the authorities will be lifting the freeze
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    • 483 11 AMALGAMATED Properties and Industries Bhd (API) has won the contract to market and carry out the project management for 404 hectares of land belonging to Heavy Industries Valley Sdn Bhd. The land, next to the Hicom national car project complex in Batu Tiga,
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    • 114 11 HONGKONG Thursday 1366 6 Hong Seng Index Week ago 1346 9 Friday 1683 58 Thursday 1692 06 NEW YORK Week ago 1678 87 Dow Jones Thursday 1353.61 TOKYO Wednesday 1348 90 Tokyo Dow Jones Week ago 1350 92 Friday ***** 09 Thursday ***** 03 Standard Poors Week ago
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    • 261 11 Managers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for July 27 29 First B'putro Second B'putro 5 14 5 19 4 70 4 75 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1 74 1 85 Third B'putro Fourth B'putro Fifth B'putro Sixth B'putro 3 89 3 94 4 30 4 35 2 88 2 93
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    • 104 11 MAYBAN Nominees (S) Pte Ltd clarified that in its letter dated July 20 that the number of shares the Kuwait Investment Office bought in Cycle Carriage was 963,296 and not 963,263, raising its interest to 21.37 million shares. Out of the 963,236 shares, 175,720 were purchased from Mr
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    • 256 11 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF F C LIANG INV ESTMENT PTE LTD IN VOLUNTARY MQI IDATION, MEMBERS' WINDING lIP AND IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 185. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of Section 308 of the above Act the final general meeting of the abovenamed
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    • 10 11 M onagers ust anage BT shows you how every Monday.
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    • 139 11 The advertisement which appeared in the Business Times on 22/7/85 m the matter of KWEE SAM SONS PTE LTD (In Liquidation) under Members Voluntary Winding-up Notice of Resolution, the contents "CHAN HOCK SENG. Liquidator" should read as "TAN KWEE SAM, Chairman". *1 Schroders J. HENRY SCHRODER WAGG CO. LIMITED LONDON
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  • 353 12 SINGAPORE business leaders reacted favourably to government measures to coax the economy into a recovery phase, but some expressed reservations. The announcement, said Mr Tan Wah Thong, chairman of the Singapore Manufacturers Association (SMA), will help "inject confidence in our economy, a factor
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  • 772 12 Reductions in Telecoms charges 1) In the four quarter of 1985, Telecoms will further reduce tariffs for four services. These are international telephone and telex services, telephone extensions and radio pagers. This will result in an estimated revenue reduction of $50 million. 2)
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  • 324 12 MORE VISITORS will be attracted to Asean with the combined efforts of member countries to improve facilities and services as well as to increase awareness of the region. Dr Wong Kwei Cheong, the Minister of State (Trade and Industry), expressed this
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  • 527 12  -  Those away for 10 years with no valid claims will be affected By FOO CHOY PENG PEOPLE born in Singapore but who have lived outside the country for a stretch of 10 years could have their citizenship revoked. However, the proposals to amend the
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  • 382 12  -  By LEE HAN SHIH THE GOLDHILL GROUP is to sell a residential site next to its flagship building, Goldhill Square, for $12 million. At 6,320 sq metres, the property group is asking $1,900 per sq metre for the freehold site at Khang Guan Avenue, off
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  • 91 12 WEST GERMANY'S Federal Minister of Economics, Dr Martin Bangemann, will be in Singapore from July 30 to Aug 1 on an official visit following an invitation from the Minister for Trade and Industry, Dr Tony Tan. A 12-member delegation and Mrs Bangemann will accompany him on
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  • 34 12 Reuter OPPOSITION MEMBERS of the Philippine Parliament will file impeachment proceedings against President Marcosi charging him with high crime. The resolution will be filed after all 58 opposition members have signed it. Reuter
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  • 370 12 A QUALITATIVE CHANGE in the country's political-social conditions is needed to shape Singapore's destiny which will be towards a "successful" system of parliamentary democracy. The Member of Parliament for Potong Pasir, Mr Chiam See Tong, said yesterday: "There can never be a destiny for Singapore
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  • 208 12 AP THE CHINESE government yesterday simplified entry procedures for the estimated 20 million people of Chinese origin living in other countries. Overseas Chinese wishing to visit relatives or friends, or coming as tourists and for business, will not require visas or exit permits with
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  • 65 12 Reuter THE NEW YORK stock market eased in early trading yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off one point to 1353 while declines led advances by a three-two margin on turnover of 11.96 million shares. Comex gold futures lost US$3.OO an ounce on selling related to
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  • 1139 12 Reuter THE HALF POINT cut in the Bank of England's money market dealing rates fuelled hopes of an early cut in UK base rates and helped share prices close higher yesterday. The FTSE 100 Share Index was up 12.3 at 1,234.0, having dipped to 1,215.4 initially. Dealers said
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  • LATE FILE
    • 40 12 AP THE JAPANESE National Railways (JNR) Reform Commission yesterday submitted a final plan to Prime Minister Yasohiro Nakasone to turn the nation's govern-ment-owned, deficit-ridden railway system into eight se-mi-governmental corporations by April 1, 1987. AP
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    • 41 12 Reuter TWO AUSTRALIANS, Perth welder Kevin Barlow, 27, and Brian Chambers, 28, a builder from Sydney, face the gallows after a Malaysian court convicted them yesterday of heroin smuggling, but the judge has deferred formal sentencing.
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    • 42 12 Reuter OUTGOING Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry has said he plans to hand over office to Social Democrat Alan Garcia on Sunday as scheduled, despite a powerful bomb attack on the Interior Ministry on Thursday. Reuter
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    • 40 12 AP INCREASING numbers of Chinese state-owned enterprises have been smuggling goods from Hongkong to the nearby Chinese province of Guangdong, the Chinese-lan-guage newspaper Ta Kung Pao, quoting a China News Service report as saying yesterday. AP
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    • 50 12 Reuter AN INDONESIAN trade delegation arrived in Singapore yesterday on its way to China with strict orders to avoid political discussion during its 10-day visit there. The visit is expected to set the stage for the reopening of direct trade between the two countries. Reuter
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    • 34 12 Reuter US CONGRESSIONAL negotiators have compromised on military aid to the Philippines, giving the Marcos government less than what the White House wanted but more than liberal Democrats advocated. Reuter
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    • 43 12 Reuter FRANCE will continue its nuclear tests in the South Pacific indefinitely. Mr Jean-Michel Baylet, secretary of state at the French foreign ministry, said independent scientists had proved nuclear testing in the Pacific posed no danger.
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    • 58 12 UPI ROCK HUDSON is being treated with an experimental drug, HPA-23, a French drug that stops reproduction of the virus cells, developed by scientists at the Institut Pasteur to combat Aids. It was the first indication of the treatment being given to Mr Hudson, who
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 54 12 Outlook for today: Showers over several areos in the early hours. Report tor 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on July 26 at the airport: Maximum temperature 29.1 Associated humidity 81 Minimum temperature 25.0 Associated humidity 97 Hours of sunshine 0.00 Rainfall in millimetres trace Rainfall this month 130.6 Rainy
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