The Business Times, 28 August 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, I*Bs 60 CENTS
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  • 287 1 THE DEVELOPMENT of Sarawak's first beach resort, at Telek Bandung, is being financed by a Ms3o-million syndicated loan which is being lead-man-aged by two Singapore banks. Another five Singapore banking offices have joined Kleinwort Benson (Singapore), the Singapore subsidiary of the London merchant bank,
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  • 426 1  -  Contracts are for production of streaming tape drives By ELAINE KOH CONTRACTS WORTH US$l2O million (Ss26B million) have been won by Cipher Data Products Singapore, a manufacturer of computer peripherals. They were awarded by two US leaders in computers and telecommunications and are for the manufacture
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  • 419 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG PARLIAMENT IS EXPECTED to endorse on Friday the nomination of Mr Wee Kim Wee, the chairman of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, as the Republic's fourth President. Once elected, he will become the first Chinese Singaporean to be the Head of
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  • 186 1 Reuter TAIWANESE BANKS have refused to honour US$3O million worth of cheques guaranteed by the Cathay industrial group, the centre of Taiwan's greatest banking scandal, a senior government banker said yesterday. Chang Tien-Lin, now supervising the defunct Cathay Investment and Trust Company, said the bounced
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  • 154 1 DBS BANK and United Overseas Bank cut their prime lending rates by another one-half point to 6.75 per cent today only one day after they reduced the rate by one-quarter point. The moves were seen as a quick reaction to the half-point cut to
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  • Article, Illustration
    77 1 THE SINGAPORE stockmarket was off to a lethargic start yesterday. At the close, the Straits Times Industrial Index was 2.77 points lower at 748.44 while the BT Composite Index shed 2.82 points to C4t.15. Turnover was moderate at 19.2 million shares worth $21.3 million. Blue chips and Singapore
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  • 309 1 Reuter PRODUCTIVITY in the nonfarm business sector increased at a revised annual rate of 1.0 per cent in the second quarter, the US Labour Department said. Previously, the department said productivity increased by 0.5 per cent in the second quarter. In the first
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  • 108 1 Reuter JAPANESE BANKS and post offices will close on the third Saturday of each month from August 1986 in line with the government's aim of shortening working hours to increase consumer spending and domestic demand. Banks and post offices already close on the second
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  • 484 1  -  By CHAN OI CHEE THE LOCAL SECURITIES industry has been hit by another controversy this time involving a stockbroker who has apparently disappeared, leaving behind a trail of dud cheques totalling more than $1 million. These cheques five known as of
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  • 101 1 Reuter HONGKONG BUSINESSMEN are threatening to sue Japan unless it agrees to redeem five billion yen in banknotes issued by occupation forces during the World War Two. The notes became worthless after Japan surrendered in 1945. Five billion are held by
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    • 328 1 Seaborne trade down by 15 per cent A HEALTHY RISE in containerised traffic has failed to check the decline in bulk and non-con-tainerised general cargo traffic. Consequently, for the first six months of this year, cargo throughput through Singapore gateways fell by 15 per cent to 21 million tonnes. Turn
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 326 2  -  Changes in specifications needed as technology advances By LISA LEE NEW SPECIFICATIONS on the use of concrete are being sought to help the building industry keep abreast of technological advances. Construction Industry Development Board chairman, Mr Yap Neng Chew, said the industry
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    • 157 2 SHANGRI-LA HOTEL has moved into the public transport service. However, it does not plan to compete with the SBS or the City Shuttle Service for business. Its free bus service, which covers the Orchard Road and Shenton Way areas, was originally a complimentary
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    • 163 2 CHANGI AIRPORT has won top awards for the creative use of concrete in building design. Among the other projects that have won the American Concrete Institute (Singapore chapter's Award of Excellence are the Ayer Rajah Expressway (Stage 1) and the Benjamin Sheares Bridge. The airport's control
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    • 284 2 THE SHELL REFINERY on Pulau Bukom was hit by a third fire in 11 days after gasoil leaked on Monday night from a flange in a thermal gasoil unit. A press statement said Monday's fire, and the earlier blaze on Aug 23, which temporarily knocked out the
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    • 292 2 ARCHITECTS, consultant engineers, construction companies and jewellery exporters have a potential market in oil-rich Brunei, according to the Trade Development Board. In the latest edition of its publication, Tradespur, the TDB said the industrial development of Brunei had been
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    • 472 2 "WEE KIM WEE? Who's he?" this would not be an uncommon reaction among people on hearing his nomination as the fourth President of Singapore. It is not surprising. For until May of last year, Mr Wee, 70, spent almost 11 years abroad serving Singapore first as the
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 330 3 UPI A US DELEGATION discussed the fate of missing American servicemen with Lao officials on Tuesday and prepared to go to Vietnam, where nearly 1,400 MIAs are listed. The mission, reduced in scope because of a disagreement with arrangements in Vietnam, was led
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    • 210 3 AFP THE BRITISH Broadcasting Corp has denied a report that British counter-intelligence regu larly gives it "background briefs" on industrial disputes and alleged involvement by "subversives" in unions. The denial, issued by BBC's director-general Alasdair Milne on Monday, came in response to
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    • 60 3 Among those selected as Harper's Bazaar "10 most beautiful women" are Linda Evans (top) of the television serial "Dynasty", and Jaclyn Smith, a former Charlie's Angel. How do they keep themselves beautiful? Linda says: "My skin reacts to my emotions." She also
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    • 149 3 AP THE ARGENTINIAN government said it was worried that a war in Central America would become a prolonged struggle like that in Vietnam and would badly damage Latin American interests. "If an international war broke out in the region, it would not be brief or
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    • 486 3 Lange hints at expulsion of ambassador Reuter, AP NEW ZEALAND'S Prime Minister David Lange said yesterday a French report contending the Paris government was not involved in bombing the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, was "incredible and transparent." He hinted that the French
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    • 261 3 AP THE US GOVERNMENT'S programme to help revive the domestic steel industry by curtailing imports will not succeed unless the US gets tougher with Europe, says the American Iron and Steel Institute. Institute president Donald Trautlein said the administration wrongly "rewarded"
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    • 131 3 AFP A 'GREAT RECESSION' will be possible in the US in 1967 if the Japanese fail to take serious steps to reduce the US trade deficit, a senior manager of Chrysler Corporation has warned. "If we do nothing substantial to attack those deficits" the budget
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    • 54 3 AFP SOVIET DRINKERS will pay 30 per cent more for vodka, their national hard drink, starting from yesterday, the Soviet television announced. In the latest move against widespread alcoholism, brandies and other strong spirits cost 15 per cent more, while the hikes on beer and aperitif wines are minimal,
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    • 241 3 Reuter PUBLIC OPINION polls in Argentina indicate a general strike by the largely-Peronist labour movement, called for tomorrow, may backfire and cost the Peronists dearly in legislative elections in November. The CGT labour group has called the strike to protest against falling wages,
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    • 316 3 UPI BRITAIN HAS THE highest rate of deaths from heart disease in the world and women are increasingly prone to heart problems. In a paper prepared for the annual meeting of the British Association for the advancement of science, heart specialist John
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    • 278 3 AP THE AMERICAN State Department has informed Congress it intends to replace more than half the Soviet citizens employed by the US Embassy in Moscow with Americans by 1988. A congressional source, who demanded anonymity, said on Monday the State Department hoped
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    • 102 3 AP NEW ALBANIAN LEADER Ramiz Alia has asked observers to expect no radical change under his rule and rejected all ties "whatever they may be" with Washington and Moscow. Mr Alia also said Aloania would remain financially independent, seeking no foreign loans, and
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    • 276 3 NYT THE AMERICAN shoe industry is withholding comment on President Reagan's expected rejection of import quotas or tariffs while its trade association and Washington lobbyists work out a response and strategy. Officially, at least, the industry remains hopeful. "It is our
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    • 122 3 AFP AMERICANS prefer foreign cars, except French and Italian vehicles, a poll indicated in Detroit on Monday. The cars whose owners are most satisfied are German and Japanese Subarus, the magazine Automotive News reported. Twenty thousand people were questioned about cars which they had owned from
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    • 396 4 AP CHINA HAS ANNOUNCED plans to relax restrictions on foreign travel for its citizens, while making it easier for foreigners to live and travel in China. The standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislative body, convened a meeting in Beijing to
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    • 124 4 AP 3THE LEADER of a Japanese Socialist party delegation said in Beijing that his party faced an 'arduous task in countering peace-threatening political ■trends in Japan. 1 Makoto Tanabe, the Secretary-general of the party, expressed concern about recent events that he said could
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    • 105 4 AP AFTER HITTING a record US$l.4B billion in 1980, Shanghai's exports slumped to $1.24 billion last year. The sluggishness has been blamed on competition from China's other coastal cities that are open to world trade and to increased domestic demand. "Many goods are outdated and lack
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    • 466 4 AP JAPAN'S gross national product will rise by an average of 4.5 per cent a year for the next 11 years, and the country will have overseas assets worth US$55B billion by 1995, a leading private research institute in Tokyo predicted. According
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    • 461 4 AFP THE RULING New Society Movement (KBL) party of the Philippines has indirectly accused Washington of involvement in a failed opposition attempt to impeach President Ferdinand Marcos this month. In a primer given to party members at a caucus in the Presidential Palace on Sunday,
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    • 211 4 UPI A MALAYSIAN consumer group yesterday called for a ban on the sale of toy guns. The Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association said replica pistols had been used in robberies and were dangerous toys for children. Spokesman Mohamad Hamdan said that
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    • 137 4 AFP VETERAN and serving soldiers gathered in Hongkong on Monday to mark Liberation Day, the annual commemoration of the end of the World War II Japanese occupation of the colony. About 40 veterans paraded under grey skies for a simple ceremony in the Garden
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    • 50 4 AFP FLAMBOYANT tycoon Tsai Chen-Chou began a 15-year jail term in Kuei Shan Prison on Monday for issuing bad cheques in Taiwan's worst business scandal. The sentence is only one of several that will imprison him for 20 years for his part in the Cathay scandal. AFP
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    • 251 4 Reuter SWEDEN'S opposition Conservative Party has demanded an investigation into a Swedish-aided papermill project in Vietnam which it said was using some 17,000 women as forced labourers. The party's foreign affairs spokesman, Carl Bildt, told a news conference that Sweden's Social Democratic government knew
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    • 295 4 AFP SOME 44 MILLION children are being employed in India in gross disregard of a government policy to curb child labour, according to the results of an officially sponsored survey released in New Delhi. The survey said that every third household in India had a
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    • 63 4 Reuter AIR INDIA has been paid US$96 million insurance for a Boeing 747 jumbo jet which crashed off Ireland on June 23. The crash killed all 329 people on board. Ashok Goenka, the chairman of the General Insurance Corporation of India, which paid the claim, said
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    • 736 4 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time PAA PA2I 0020 LAX/TYO/HKG SIA SQ4I 0605 MAA CAL CIOIO 0815 JED/DHA MAS MH68I 0820 KUL KAL KE624 0840 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN MAS MH67I 0950 KUL SIA SQI03 1005 KUL RBA BI421 1030 BWN
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    • 273 4 AP OUTGOING Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, charging that Africa has been "raped for centuries" by developed countries, has accused the US and its European allies of seeking to "re-colonise" the continent by exploiting its need for food. "America and its European allies still
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 729 5 SINGAPORE The US dollar extended its small early gains against most major currencies yesterday in thin late trading on local and European short-covering. It rose to a late 2.7825/35 marks from an early 2.7690/7700 and New York's 2.7675/90 close, and to 2.2745/60 Swiss francs from 2.2655/65 and 2.2640/60
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    • 237 5 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Currenciee Nomina J rate* SmHhaonian Md Offer eroea parity change Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency. US dollor ***** ***** 2 8196 -20 43 Sterling pound 3 1207 3 1243 7 3469 -57 52 Australian dollar I 5726 1 5756 3
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    • 282 5 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures open six ticks lower yesterday than last Friday's close in Simex. After opening at the day's high of 91.63, the December contract eased to 91.61 in quiet trading. The December contract closed off the day's low at 91.62. Currency futures opened lower than last Friday's
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    • 191 5 HONGKONG: The metal closed easier in quiet trading yesterday, reflecting the strength of the US dollar. It ended at U*****.00/40 an ounce compared with New York's $335.40/90 close and the previous $333.15/55 finish here. Local gold rose HK$l3 to close at $3,112 a tael. Kragerrand added $15 to HK52,635.
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    • 129 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose l /t point from last Friday's close to finish at 4Vj per cent yesterday. The one and threemonth term rates fell by V» point each while the twomonth rate fell by 3/16 point. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm
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    • Article, Illustration
      337 5 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposits closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Short-dates firmed 3/16 point at the start, underpinned by a higher US federal funds rate and remained unchanged in subsequent trading. Overnight and week fixed closed at a common 8 7H per cent. Period rates
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    • 135 5 NYT CHASE MANHATTAN BANK is close to reaching an agreement to buy a Maryland thrift institution that has been unable to qualify for federal deposit insurance. The institution is Friendship Savings and Loan Association of Chevy Chase, which has about US$3OO million in assets. The
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    • 48 5 AFP FRANCE'S current account balance of payments registered a deficit of more than five billion francs last year, rather than a surplus of 938 million francs as initially predicted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The final deficit figure caught ministry officials by surprise. AFP
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    • 297 5 Reuter LEADING DEVELOPING countries have called for new initiatives to stabilise volatile world currency markets. They also urged the rich industrial West to ease the repayment terms of their foreign debt. In a report issued on Monday, they flatly said the current system of freely
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    • 177 5 NYT TWO OF BRAZIL'S senior finance officials resigned on Monday in the first government shake-up since civilian rule returned to the country last March. The Finance Minister and the central bank president stepped down after their repeated calls for tighter economic austerity had gone unheeded
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  • TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
    • 203 6 A TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM on microchip design and manufacture will be held next month. The symposium is timely as some companies already in the assembly, packaging and testing of chips business are in the process of setting up integrated circuit (IC) design
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    • 784 6  -  Winners in a recession are those who invest in training By ANNA TEO NOT MANY COMPANIES can quite manage a broad smile these days when they talk about business but trainer Sten Jessen should, if his business premise is one that is followed. "The
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    • 454 6  -  By LISA LEE THE SOFT CHINK of teacups, polite tones of the waiter and the smooth and efficient room-service in a hotel belie the often intense effort to give service its effortless appeal. Before Park View Holiday Inn took in its
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    • 153 6 A STUDENT who was studying in Britain under a scholarship awarded by the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association (SICCRA) has graduated with first class honoui-s. Miss Dora Neo Swee Suan. who was awarded the scholarship in 1982 to study law in Britain, graduated
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    • 596 6 Seminars and courses DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER TELEPHONE Sep 2-3 How to Sell to SuperRoyal Holiday Frank Newman *****54 markets, Departmental Inn Associates Stores and Other Groups of Retail Outlets Sep 2-3 The Art of Pavilion InterTimes Conferences *****11 Negotiating continental Sep 2-6 The Allen SIM Conference Singapore
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    • 109 6 A TALK ON Services and Financial Assistance to Businessmen from the Trade Development Board and Assistance in Finding Markets for Local Products will be held this Friday, Aug 30. Organised by The Temasek Chapter of the Singapore Jaycees, the talks will be held in the Hotel
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 150 7 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 440 00 Exchange (Sellers' noon closing Aug 27 (SJ/100 kg). prices on Nutmeg 10 FOB NSW E&W FOB NSW 479 00 338 00 Coconut oil Bufc Foe OW drum FOB 80 00 9300 Gombier FOB NSW 330 00 New drum FOB 97
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    • 278 7 Singapore C-l Ord unq (S$/kiio, e*-godown) Loonzain Rice Fragrant new crop A OA 100% 1st grade 100% 2nd grade 2?§ 1ST 2nd 0*58 100% 3rd grade unq 3rd 0.56 Parboiled Rice New Crop no stock 5% 215 25% 10% 210 10% no stock Thai Broken Maize unq A-supef Special
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    • 227 7 SINGAPORE The market closed steady yesterday with September One RSS buyers quoted at 164.25 cents per kg, unchanged from last Friday. The morning session lost 0.25 cent on lack of buying interest in quiet trading. Prices were little changed in early afternoon but recovered slightly towards the close on
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    • 112 7 THE Koala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) price closed two cents lower at MSSI.BB per kg yesterday, on increased tin supplies of 118 tonnes against 84 tonnes last Friday dne to accumulation over the long weekend, dealers said. The International Tin Council (ITC) buffer stock manager was the major
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    • 175 7 Yarn (In HK$ per bole of 400 lb) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix t6's 2,500 Blue Phoenix 20's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 32's 3,000 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,350 Carded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 2l's 2,800 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32'» 4,200 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,400 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 317 7 RAS prices in M cents/kg, FOB in t rales NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 164.50 165.50N 164 50 165 50N Int 1 RSS Sept 85 164.00 164.50 164 25 164 75 Int 1 RSS Oct 85 163.00 163.50 ***** 164 00 Int
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    • 110 7 (cents/kg, 1-ton pallets) SEPT 85 (current month) NOON OCT 85 (forward month) NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 SSR 50 136 00 134 00 138 OON 136 OON 137 00 135 00 139 OON 137 OON MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV SMR L
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    • 223 7 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed six to 3 1 US cents a bushel lower on Monday, with September and December posting new Jason's lows. December ended near the bottom of its five cent-range, off 5 1 cents per bushel at $2.90' a. Professional selling pushed
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    • 140 7 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed mixed yesterday in spite of late covering for forward positions in quiet trading. Opening levels were weaker following Monday night's fall in Chicago soyoil futures. In August, south closed Mss lower at $790 per tonne, while in September, south and central gained
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    • 103 7 SOYBEAN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 4'« to l ;l 4 US cents a bushel lower on Monday, with January, May and July posting new season's lows. November matched its previous low and ended near the bottom of a fourcent range. November's previous low was the
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    • 185 7 Reuter MITSUI ALUMINIUM KOGYO, one of Japan's five aluminium smelters, wants to suspend alumina production because Japanese demand is falling and output costs are above those of imported alumina. A spokesman said the company had informed its labour union that it planned to close
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    • 579 7 AFP THE THAI GOVERNMENT has in effect placed Thailand's largest refinery group in receivership in a move to prevent the collapse of the country's foundering sugar cane industry. Cabinet economic ministers, acting on orders from Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, have asked 13 commercial banks
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  • FEATURES
    • 470 8 CRIES FOR PROTECTION against imports are familiar. Only, they are no longer coming just from the other side. They are being sounded with increasing intensity at home, by manufacturers who feel the threat of foreign competition. Not surprisingly, one desperate plea is coming from a
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    • 1064 8  -  It is an irony that while the Australian government believes there is money to be rrfade providing education to Asian students, more will be dropping out next year when higher university fees make it impossible for them to stay on. At least two university surveys indicate this,
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    • 625 8  -  By LINDA SIEG Reuter CONSERVATIVE Japanese companies are opening their doors, if only a crack, to career-minded women with the right education. But it remains a man's world in the Japanese job market and most firms still see women as
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 661 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Took the rest of the pelts, possibly (5) 6 Slips o kid into a vessel (5) 9 From which to moke the draw (7) 10 A refusal, in any case, will not please (5) I 1 Metallic but not silvery in tone (5) 12 Get out
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  • SPORTS
    • 497 9  -  Teams' present form points to exciting finish in fight for Ashes By DAVID GABRIEL AUSTRALIAN and English Test players demonstrated remarkable form in county matches over the last three days. With the sixth Test starting tomorrow at the Oval in south London, this may signal an exciting finish
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    • 314 9 UPI THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS has traded two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Charlie Brown to Atlanta for veteran offensive lineman RC Thielemann, then replaced Brown with deep threat Malcolm Barnwell in a deal with the Los Angeles Raiders. Brown, one of the pillars
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    • 591 9 NYT THE RECENT CAPSIZING of Drum England, the 77-foot sailboat owned by British pop star Simon Le Bon, is one of several recent disasters in offshore competition that raises serious questions about the safety of modern racing yachts. Are they, in fact, as safe as
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    • 494 9 AP MARTINA NAVRATILOVA is excited and Boris Becker is confident as they try to duplicate their Wimbledon form in the IJS Open tennis championships which began its 13-day run yesterday. "I'm ready. I'm really excited about the prospect of defending my
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    • 178 9 AFP DOUBLE world record-holder Steve Cram may well have run his last race this season. The 24-year-old Englishman, who withdrew from his planned two-mile world record attempt in London on Monday, has also pulled out of meetings in Koblenz, West Germany scheduled today and
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    • 220 9 Reuter TOP CYCLISTS Philippe Vernet and Tony Doyle saddled up last night in a last bid for gold. Vernet, the Frenchman who went agonisingly close to ending Koichi Nakano's eight-year reign as the professional sprint king, joins Britain's pursuit silver medallist Doyle
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 441 10 Reuter REVLON INC's board has approved an exchange offer to buy up to 10 million shares of Revlon common stock for securities valued at U5557.50 per share and also rejected Pantry Pride Inc's takeover offer. Revlon's board of directors rejected the $47.50
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    • 78 10 Reuter BAYERISCHE Motoren Werke (BMW) expects its worldwide motorcycle registrations to rise to about 34,500 this year from 32,000 last year. Karl Gerlinger, the chief executive of the company's motorcycle unit BMW Motorrad, said the group aimed for a further 10 per cent rise in
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    • 330 10 Reuter SHARE PRICES closed moderately lower on Wall Street on Monday as investors apparently withdrew because of concerns about a sluggish US economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped by 0.67 to 1317.65 with advances narrowly leading declines by 762 to 727. The volume
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    • 135 10 AUG 26 AbMX a 20* Imp Oi Inco 52* 19* Alcan AJgomo 37* 21* unch unch unch bit Uts Karr Add 17* 15* Argo«n HkJg» Bank Mont Bank Nova Scotio &rf Canada 29* 13* 41* LoMow B MotMT Fwfl Mc BkxM 21* 3* 20* inch BP Can Ltd 32*
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    • 194 10 AUG 26 Road UhiMC 505 1560 5 -10 MDUSTKIALS MIMNGS A Alpha 790 170 +10 3050 10 AE And a 800 Angtvaal ***** unch 70 125 Amoprop 437 2750 2 Buttafc 7475 1110 unch Charter 620 1500 unch C G Smith ***** 15 1175 25 CNA 2206 inch 1195
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    • 667 10 AUG 26 us$ Aicon Alumrt Alcoa Alegheny Lud AM Own Cp Afced Stores Afts-Chalmers Am Brandt tnc Am Broodcost Am Can Co Am CyonomwJ Am EWc Pwr Am Express Am Horn* Prod Am Mo)on Cp Am Natural Gos Am Tel Tel. Ama> Inc Amerodo Hess AAAF Inc Amr
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    • 713 10 Amsterdam UJG U Fk MJN 505 50 4-2.5 Kagon 99 90 -0.1 Mmtd 239 00 -05 Kkio ***** -0 1 *A*V L 279 70 +07 *jt*o Bank (7.00 4 0 4 Bwfcal 46.40 4 0 9 Bab 101 SO +1 Boraumq 406.00 -1 B)a Tat ***** 4 3
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    • 115 10 Reuter SINCLAIR RESEARCH, Britain's leading computer maker, has said its creditors have agreed to provide continued funds to see it through a financial crisis. The announcement came on Monday, five days after Sinclair's creditors and suppliers began talks on rescheduling the home computer company's debts.
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 383 11 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday closed lower in fairly quiet trading as investors remained sidelined. Brokers said the market opened stronger but profit-taking sent the Hang Seng Index 2.68 points lower to finish at 1667.30. HK Bank gained five cents to HK57.75 while its 61-per cent held Hang Seng subsidiary
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    • 211 11 AUG 27 NT J Lien Hwo ln<fcjs Nan Yo Ptos 950 21 80 -02 unch Al Srtctf InAis Asia Cement 330 17 70 -0 17 -0 1 unch +07 -0 15 -0 1 -0 15 -03 Pocitic Cons Pocrfic Elect Wire 1300 12.10 -0 15 -0 2 Chang Hwa
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    • 382 11 TOKYO: Prices staged a late rally i and closed higher, with market participants shaking off end-month reluctance to trade and buying big-capital and domestic demandorientated shares. The market average showed little change until near the close but ended 39.64 higher to *****.41, after falling 38.32 on Monday, on a
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    • 85 11 MANILA: Share prices closed generally unchanged in quiet trading. The Commercial and Industrial Index was up 0.19 to 136.62, but the Mining Marker and Oils remained unchanged at 641.04 and 0.737. AUG 27 fnoi Marsteel Oriental B 0013 0 1250 unch 0 112 0001 unch 0005 ***** PLDT 36
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    • 351 11 SYDNEY: Share markets closed generally steady in sluggish trading, though brokers noted a resurgence of interest in situation stocks. Holidays in London and Hongkong on Monday, they said, slowed trading in Australia, with overseas buying accounting for less than Asl million of total volume. Near the close, the All
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    • 68 11 AUG 27 Wot -10 Hyundai Con»« Hyundai Motor KAL. 899 904 431 1 -5 •4 Chotmng Bk 655 inch Korea Fnl 698 1360 430 +2 29 10 Commercial Bk 728 485 2 7 Yukong 473 11 620 5 +5 2 Samurtg Co 710 10 590 815 6 585 -5
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    • 156 11 BANGKOK: Share prices yesterday closed lower in quiet trading as investors found no incentives. The Book Club Index shed 0.36 point to 135.30 as losers led gainers by more than a two-to-one margin. Turnover dropped to 462,876 shares worth 48.8 million baht from 795,243 shares worth 91.2 million baht
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    • 58 11 Reuter TAIWAN'S new Finance Minister, Robert Chien, has pledged to help financially-troubled companies ride over their difficulties. Mr Chien, who was sworn in on Monday to replace Loh Jen-Kong who resigned on Aug 15 over Taiwan's biggest bank scandal said the government would provide emergency loans
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    • 354 11 AFP JAPANESE computer chip manufacturers have accused American companies of using biased and misleading figures in seeking President Ronald Reagan's help to boost their sales in Japan. The accusation was contained in a brief handed to US Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter in Washington on
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    • 137 11 Reuter OFFICIALS at the Tokyo Stock Exchange said they were unable to confirm a local newspaper report saying the exchange has tentatively decided to enlarge its membership to 93 from 83 to enable two or three foreign securities houses to become members. The officials, who
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    • 85 11 Reuter AUSTRALIA needs more consistent accounting measures to determine accurately company profits. In a speech at an accounting conference in Sydney, Robert Bosch, the chairman of the National Companies and Securities Commission (NCSC), criticised the current wide variation of methods used to calculate Australian profits. They resulted in
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    • 222 11 AP TOYOTA MOTOR CORP will move increasingly into the US market for larger, more expensive cars as its current customers get older and new companies move into the subcompact segment. Bob McCurry, a senior vice-president of the subsidiary Toyota Motor
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4286 12 FOLLOWING the long week-end holiday, the Singapore stock market took longer than usual to find its footing yesterday. Share price movements were sluggish, with many counters closing the day exactly where they had started. Only a handful of stocks could boast of brisk trade.
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    • 248 12 SINGAPORE Rises TOM 265 Sapiaaie Corpn 173 Tom* Cmm 350 M<0i> 600 AIM QMC 176 NOl 145 MTC7t< 388 SMI 322 Haw Seraadah 254 ApaBa 94 Falls Kaatacfcr Saon 270 Kioa Joe 50c 270 HK Ta Corp 50« 224 Darar M 158 G Lumbar 134 Hat Iron
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    • 3513 12 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 after the word "SETT".
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    • 102 12 DEVELOPMENT COMMERCIAL BANK Berhad: 20th AGM at the Ballroom, Hotel Equatorial, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, tomorrow at 10.30 am. PAN MALAYSIA CEMENT WORKS Berhad: 22nd AGM at the MUI Plaza Conference Centre, 1st Floor, MUI Plaza, Jalan P. Ramlee, Kuala Lumpur on Friday, August 30, at 11.30
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 440 13  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN FOREIGN STOCKBROKING houses are apparently queuing up to open offices in Singapore. The latest to join the line is Crosby Securities Company, a young, but fast growing firm based in Hongkong. From the head office there, executive director Jim
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 49 13 Group pre-tax profits of M 521.87 million ($22.82 million) on turnover of $116.05 million ($139.8 million) for the six months ended June 30, 1985. Directors have declared an interim dividend of 4 per cent less tax payable on Oct 14 to shareholders registered on Sep 26.
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    • 545 13 SHARE PRICES finished easier on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday as investors hesitated in making fresh commitments after the three-day Hari Raya Haji break. Trading pace slowed down somewhat and most counters closed lower. A few issues caught investors' attention and managed
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    • 3049 13 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS A Choc (I 95SXI) 1 90 (3) 1 95
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    • 251 13 ROTHMANS OF PALL MALL (M) Bhd has increased its market share and profits for its latest financial year, which saw the cigarettes industry growing by another 5 per cent. For the 12 months to June 30, 1985, Rothmans achieved a near 50 per
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    • 897 13  -  Proceeds of Aussie unit's share sale to be used for expansion By FLORENCE CHONG CHUAN HUP MARINE is expanding its presence in China through its recently-acquired Australian vehicle, Chuan Hup Australia, which has just completed a special placement of 10.803 million
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    • 189 13 Reuter HONGKONG and Shanghai Banking Corp, which reported a 9 per cent rise in first-half profits, is likely to maintain that growth rate throughout the year, chairman Michael Sandberg said. "I'm confident we can sustain such a growth rate in the second half," he
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    • 103 13 HONGKONG Monday 1377.6 Week ago 1388 2 Hang Seng Index Tuesday 1667 30 NEW YORK Friday 1669 98 Week ago 1692 74 Dow Jones Monday 1317.69 TOKYO Fnday 1318.32 Week ago 1312.50 Tokyo Dow Jones Tuesday ***** 41 Stondard Poors Monday *****.77 Monday 187 31 Week ago *****
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    • 271 13 Monogers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for Aug 28 First B'putro 499 504 Singapore Unit Trust Second B'putra Third B'putro 4 56 379 4.61 384 The Commerce 1 62 1 72 Fourth B'putra 4 14 4 19 2 79 2 77 The Savings Fund 1 34 1 42 Fifth B'putra 2
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    • 363 13 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 18S KIM OASIS CONSTRUCTION PTE. LTD. (la Vtlutwy UqaWUtiM) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of KIM OASIS CONSTRUCTION PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at 6001, Beach Road, #14-01, Golden Mile Tower, Singapore 0719 on the 22nd day
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    • 184 13 A Two-Day REGIONAL SEMINAR For Senior Executives and Analysts POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS METHODOLOGIES (Effective Techniques for Minimizing Economic, Financial and Political Risks That Confront Companies Today) Led by Dr Jerry Rogers, President Founder of Global Risk Assessments, Inc., and Dr Llewellyn D Howell, of Third Point Systems, Inc. Session I
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  • 287 14 THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT will raise key trade and investment issues during forthcoming talks with the special envoy of Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone, but there is pessimism about the outcome. Official sources say while bilateral relations are relatively problem free, the $6.4 billion
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  • 118 14 DATO SHARIR Abdul Samad, the Minister of the Federal Territory, Malaysia, will be in Singapore tomorrow for a two-day visit. Dato Shahrir, who is also a South-east Asia regional representative of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), will be received by Mr Lee Yiok Seng, the
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  • 862 14  -  Insufficient profitable outlets for funds By ALVIN TAY,AMY BALAN AN EARLY FALL in the relatively generous savings rates of the Post Office Savings Bank is being widely predicted in banking circles because of a lack of profitable outlets for the funds. But while the
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  • 486 14  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF ACCUSATIONS that foreign participation in the Fourth Singapore International Furniture Show (SIFS) constituted a threat to the Republic's own furniture industry have been levelled by a local manufacturer. The show brings foreign companies to Singapore "to display, sell, appoint agents
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  • 210 14 THE SINGAPORE Manufacturers' Association yesterday urged the government to set up the Small Enterprise Development Bureau as soon as possible because some small companies which are having serious difficulties might not "hold out much longer". The association also said the bureau should take
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  • 189 14 UPI THERE IS NO standard solution to the problem of international terrorism, but governments can take some action to reduce the threat, experts told a US Congressional panel. Such steps include increased intelligence gathering, more people on location in terrorist hotspots, more strike
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  • 418 14 MANY retrenched workers are not prepared to take a pay cut when they are offered new jobs because they find it difficult to adjust to a lower income. Some of them resorted to taking on two jobs to supplement their earnings,
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  • 181 14 AFP JAPANESE vehicle exports to Europe were down 5.7 per cent to 654,900 units in the first half of this year as against a year earlier. The business paper Nihon Keizai, quoting industry executives, said yesterday that shipments to West Germany were down 20
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  • 107 14 COMEX GOLD FUTURES edged up US$l.OO to $0.60 an ounce yesterday morning in a market lacking notable selling pressure ahead of a planned protest march in South Africa today. In subdued dealings, spot gold was up $0.60 at $336.50 an ounce. The key December delivery rose
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  • 72 14 Reuter THE US stock market pushed higher in early trading yesterday although volume remained light. The Dow Jones industrial average was up five points to 1322. Advances led declines by a five-four margin on a turnover of 8.33 million shares. National Semiconductor led the actives, off to
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  • LATE FILE
    • 56 14 Bernama THAI ARMY Deputy Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Chaovalit Yongchaiyuth, is to be promoted to Chief of Staff in a routine reshuffle of senior military officers in October. Other key promotions, said the Independent Nation English-language daily yesterday, included that of Lieutenant-General Chuthai Saengthaveep, who is now
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    • 61 14 Reuter THREE TAIWANESE businessmen have been arrested for selling red beans from China to South Korea. A prosecutor said the three had imported 750 tonnes of Chinese red beans through a Hongkong company in June and sold them to South Korea a month later. Taiwan, still technically
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    • 57 14 Reuter A GROUP of old Taiwanese soldiers who fought in the former Japanese Imperial army said yesterday they would press for compensation from the Tokyo government. A spokesman for the Retired Soldiers' Association said about 200,000 Taiwanese served in the Japanese army during the World War II
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    • 33 14 UPI THE US space shuttle Discovery finally blasted off yesterday four days later than planned, leaving a trail of smoke and steam in its wake as it streaked upwards. UPI
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    • 42 14 Reuter BRITAIN recorded a seasonally adjusted visible trade deficit of £56 million in July, following June's revised £216 million deficit, the Trade and Industry Department said. The June trade deficit was originally put at £243 million. Reuter
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    • 57 14 wmsm Outlook for today: Cloudy with showers in several areas in the late afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Aug 27 at the airport Maximum temperature 32.1 Associated humidity 55 Minimum temperature 25.2 Associated humidity 88 Hours of sunshine 9.70 Rainfoll in millimetres NIL Rainfoll this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 98 15 Reuter MILITARY engineers from the United States may work to ease congestion in Chinese ports for the first time since X 949 under an agreement signed yesterday, US transportation secretary Elizabeth Dole said. A team from the United States Army Corps of
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    • 392 15 FDR THE FIRST six months of this year cargo throughput through Singapore gateways slipped by 15 per cent to 21 million tonnes. Though containerised movement continued to pose healthy increases, the growth was insufficient to shore up declines in bulk and non-containerised
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    • 313 15 P I Clubs plan to trim costs in dealing with stowaways INTERNATIONAL P I Clubs may soon take a joint stand to try to reduce the time-consuming and expensive problems of dealing with hundreds of stowaways every year. Members of the international group 15 P St I Clubs which together
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    • 164 15 Reuter A CHINESE company has bought an impounded Argentine ship because its owners failed to pay outstanding debts in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in China. The official New China News Agency said the Zhongyuan Engineering Corporation paid U*****,000
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 37 15 Reuter THREE SHIPS carrying general cargo were awaiting berth at Chittagong Port, with a maximum delay of three days, port officials said. Four ships were queueing up at the port last week. Reuter
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      • 94 15 AP THE SMALL Pacific island state of Kiribati has signed an agreement allowing Soviet fishing vessels to operate in its waters. The agreement, to be reviewed after 12 months, permits up to 16 Soviet vessels to fish for tuna for an annual fee equivalent to US$l.7 million.
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      • 53 15 MR RONALD Gottshall has been appointed managing director of the Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA), responsible for guiding the group's external and internal affairs on a full-time basis. He will assume his new position on Sept 1, based in San Francisco. Mr Gottshall previously served TWRA in
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    • 785 16 UPI A TEAM OF deep sea divers will begin exploring a sunken luxury liner this week, hoping to find a fortune in gold coins and a link to pre-World War I international intrigue. Martin Bayerle, the head of the company that
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    • 280 16 A MAJOR NEW passenger/vehicle and freight link across the Bass Strait, which separates Australia from its island state of Tasmania, was made with the introduction of the international class vessel, Abel Tasman, last month. Operating between Melbourne and Devonport, the 19,200 tonne
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    • 970 16 ARGENTINA Aug 13 Buenos Aires 1-2 days. 36 vessels berthed. 2 waiting. Rosario 7-10 days. 9 vessels berthed, 7 waiting. San Lorenzo 3-5 days. 3 vessels berthed, 4 vessel waiting. San Nicolas 10-15 days. 3 vessels berthed, 1 waiting. Bahia Blanca 10-18 days. 4 vessels berthed, 8 waiting.
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    • 887 16 A Top Ent X 4 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg X 1 Atea Line VI 3 Affinity Shpg IX 3 Ahrenkiel Liner X AC Toepfer X 5 APC Line V 4 APL III 2/3 Antah Orient X 3 Arrow Lines X 5 Atlas Lines X 2
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    • 173 16 AP THE 43,000-ton Panamaregistered Ever Greet plucked three Dutch adventurers from the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after they ditched the balloon in which they were trying to fly from North America to France in record time. Brink, 43, his wife Evelien, 30, and Evert Louwman,
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    • 207 17 Reuter CANADA'S Arctic yielded its first commercial oil shipment on Sunday with the loading of 100,000 barrels of crude on a tanker bound for a Montreal refinery, government officials said. The tanker was scheduled to leave on Monday on a three-week voyage to the refinery
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    • 601 17 Lloyd's List REPERCUSSIONS of the decision by oil companies to set up a new voluntary oil pollution compensation scheme continue to be felt around the industry. Independent tanker owners have expressed deep suspicion about the Pollution Liability Agreement Among Tanker Owners (Plato) proposals. Many
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    • 284 17 UPI A 200-FOOT barge was carrying about 285,000 gallons of the chemical when it collided in Long Beach harbour with an Israeli freight ship on Sunday, chief petty officer Pat Milton said. Nearly 150,000 gallons of a caustic soda was dumped from the barge, owned
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    • 188 17 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East Europe, Far East Persian Gulf, Straits ports/ Australia, Straits; Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang Shipping. ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line.
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    • 90 17 AFP THE MECHANICAL engineering division of the Alsthom Atlantique shipyards has won a US$4 7 million contract to build the four engines for a huge cruise ship ordered from the shipyard last July, division sources said. Each of the engines, weighing 75 tonnes, will be
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    • 3061 22 3®aBG)DBJ3 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 590 23 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Ship Voy Arrival date/time Operator Godws for LCL cargo FCL movement schedule Location Chev Roze 1 Moskalenko Sea Hawk Glory Ace K Romas 44W 10B/85 8535 61B 33AE/85 28.8.85 29.885 29 8.85 29.8.85 29.885 1600 0700 0700 0700
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    • 1638 23 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B A Top Enterprises Pte Ltd Some (S) AB Shipping Bousteod Shpg Agencies Afeo Line Africon Shpg Agencies (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceonus ShippmgAgencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK) American
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    • 390 24 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vaaaal Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES 'Fukuzaki Maru K27 alongside 28.8/0600 Makmur K24E alongside 28.8/2300 E'tern Glory K28 28 8/0600 28 8/2330 Equator IV K22 28.8/0700 29 8/0700 Equator V K23 28.8/0600 29.8/0700 Dragonja K16 28 8/1800 30.8/1500 PASIR PANJANG Hoe Sheng P2D alongside
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    • 70 15 A TEAM OF deep sea divers will begin exploring a sunken luxury liner this week, hoping to find a fortune in gold coins. Page II REPERCUSSIONS of the decision by componies to set up on oil pollution compensation scheme continue to be felt around the industry. Page 111 Index to
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    • 1324 15 A hard look at what it will take to succeed in business for the next 20 years With turbulent times ahead. forewarned will be t forearmed $22.00. TIMES THE BOOKSHOP MAERSKLINE SINGAPORE/GRANGEMOUTH 22 DAYS Voy IS* por« EXPORT TO USA. EUROPE. MIDDLE EAST. WEST AFRICA ASIA *Sagapore Qos«g Twin CT
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    • 816 21 TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): C ROZE 44WL. Sailed HR CONTAMER 46W+ (2/9) 0 CHEF 45N (9/9) K JMXJM 30* (16/9) N CRYSTAL 31W. (23/9) R CHANCE 23N (30/9) P.Keianc S'pore Sailed InPort (2/9) 4/9 (9/9) 11/9 (16/9) 18/9 (23/9)- 26/9 (30/9) 2/10 Also accepting cargo to/from Scandinavia HK CONTAINER S'pore
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    • 592 21 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON S Piwt «MNIS NIPTIJNf *GINCIf S Pit 110 tfl *****77 ?/«*><J4 ißootinfs) ?705.'84 ??0?4S0 ??0?S04 (CfSl Ml IfSK TllftHS SHI* SDN RHP *1 If) 414(90 414?44 P* lei J***** PIN I»l lb/m 56/4/S i V 7
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    • 859 22 Regional Container Lilies 4 Sailings weekly Fast Reliable Regular y Punctual Berthing P S A. Mon, Tue, Thur. Sat REGULAR/FEEDER SERVICE TO PHUKET/SONGKLA «ot sm mi skla THAN* BHUM 19N/3SS 29 Aug 3 Sep THANA BHUM 20N/3SI 5 Sep 10 Sep THANA BHUM 21N/370 12 Sep 17 Sep THANA BHUM
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    • 205 23 it W EAST ASIA LINE -I (Malaysian Flag) Regular Liner Snric— Detw—n ITSIA/S'PORE/WIDIA P. Kelong Penong S pore Ldg for MUH 25/1 CWttw KOA PERTMM 30/« 6/9 3/' REGULAR JAPAN/STtWTS/JAPAN SERVICES LAMBOR 30/1 Ibf/M*/ Yokohama EAST ASM SHPPWG SON. BHD. PI. Til: *****2/36 MFBC K.L Trf *****1/*****0 COWER SMPPMG, STOKE
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    • 357 24 STONEAGE FCL LCL ETA SWGVOtt LQACWG FOX 31/8, S/9, 15/9, 2/10 Sydney. MHtaunw, Brisbane Adelaide ft Fremantte Hi, 11/5. 25/9, 15/10 Auckland, Wefcgton, Lytttetm TO AUSTRALIA *4—:— |M,|,| I. ill rupier ntw nynxKiin U.S.A. 2/9, 9/9, 16/9, 23/9 East/West Coast t Gu> parts HONG KONG/CHNA 31/1, 7/9, 14/9, 23/9 Hong
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    • 411 24 m EXPKtSS CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO MO FROM UK/CONTMENT TO: EUROPE TG. MAN STOW PKELANG PENANG FOB: RjMPt 5/7 Sep 1/9 Sep 10/11 Sep 12/16 Sep IDONI HARVE A DAM BUN HGB ANERP FROM EUROPE: PENANG f KELAN6 STORE BKK FROM Wl W M 29/30 Am 2/4 S«P IDAM Mil WG
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