The Business Times, 10 October 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1985 75 CENTS
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  • 412 1 AN IMAGE OF little Singapore and massive America standing shoulder to shoulder to defend common values was projected by President Ronald Reagan on Tuesday night. He told guests at a White House dinner that the people of Singapore and the US might, at
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  • 369 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN THE POSSIBILITY of establishing a free trade agreement between Asean and the US is believed to be on the agenda of a meeting to be held next month in Manila between the two regions. Asean and American trade
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  • 393 1  -  Brilliant address to Congress draws rounds of applause and a standing ovation By MANO SABNANI THE YEARS OF President Reagan's presidency will be a noticeable landmark in American history, Mr Lee Kuan Yew told a distinguished audience at the White House in Washington on
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  • 90 1 Iacocca's views a BT exclusive CORPORATE HEROES do not come much bigger than Lee A lacocca, the man who dragged the US Chrysler Corporation automobile giant back from the brink of bankruptcy and into profitability. How does he view the world today? Find out next Monday when Business Times begins
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  • 687 1 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew received a standing ovation last night for his speech on "Peace and Progress in East Asia". His address to the US Congress was interrupted three times by loud applause from his audience each time he touched on the issues
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  • Article, Illustration
    85 1 A RE-APPEARANCE of strong baying demand among Malay-ilu-bued conn ten helped the Singapore stock market to close higher yesterday. The Straits Times Indus trial Index rose 4.15 points to 714.87, while the hreader-besed Business Times Composite Index gathered 2.52 points to M 1.27. Gainers topped losers 18 to
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  • 415 1  -  By ELAINE KOH AN AUSTRALIAN-BACKED company has invested half-a-million dollars to bring the first closed-circuit television programmes to tourists in Singapore's hotels. The service, as well as the installation of equipment, will be free to hotels but Chondale Pte Ltd, the company under
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 140 1 WATERMAN PARIS Writing instruments of distinction since 1884 Trade enquiries: Ttel: *****33 BANKING WITH FRIENDS Everybody needs a bank providing full personal banking services like savings, fixed deposits and personal loans. At UMBC we provide all these but we serve you with that little bit of "personalised attention" that you
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    • 257 1 America supports Asean stand, Back Paga SHARE INFORMATION MONEY EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS LETTER CROSSWORDS TV RADIO DOONESBURY BRISTOW OUR VIEW THE HIJACKING OF THE Achille Lauro shows terrorism keeping poce with the tourism business: from land to air and now the sea. Any solution to this recurrent problem will have
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    • 12 1 Full report, Pago 13 Asian stocks, Pago 11 Intl stocks, Pago 10
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    • 84 1 BEHIND EVERY SONY PRODUCT IS SONY Service V *****11 SONY THE ONE A'.: Lee raises question with Reagan, Back Page 2220 SUNDAYS The most flights to Brunei Darussalam. More convenience, more choice. Royal Brunei Airlines. With more flights to Negam Brunei Darussalam than anyone else: departing Singapore ticiee daily at
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 501 2  -  Orstead to make plastic bags solely for export By ELAINE KOH A PLASTICS TRADER has set up a $5.5 million factory to produce plastic bags in Singapore after failing to get enough local supplies to meet demand from Europe and the US. Orstead Plastic
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    • 97 2 FIVE FOREIGN trainees are studying the Central Provident Fund Board's computerisation and enforcement operations. The five two Indonesians, two Thais and a Nepali are attached to the board for a month. The Thais and Indonesians came here under the Asean Training Awards while the Nepali is here under
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    • 345 2 COMPANIES which have yet to join the productivity movement were yesterday urged to "delay no further" by Dr Wong Kwei Cheong, the Minister of State for Trade and Industry and the chairman of the National Productivity Board. "Such companies should examine their management structure, their
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    • 304 2 "THE Beggar's Opera", or a classical version of the Beatles's "Money" would be ideal material for the repertoire of the Ladies League of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra if it went into the performing arts. For the league is on
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    • 499 2  -  By MONICA GWEE A BELGIAN ENTREPRENEUR has turned an idea into a $500,000 effort to "wake up" a section of Orchard Road for evening revellers. Mr Fabrice de Barsy is investing the money in Saxophone, a jazz bar and restaurant along the
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    • 709 3 THE GREATER role seen for smaller businesses in Singapore is going to open up a need for more company directors good company directors. TTie list of minimum qualifications is short. The first requirement is being a 'natural' person companies cannot be directors of other companies.
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    • 369 3 THE MINISTRY of the Environment recently awarded two contracts worth a total of $4.7 million for sewage works at Kranji and Ulu Pandan, one of which was awarded to Keppel Shipyard. Keppel was awarded the contract for the supply of inlet works equipment as well
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    • 182 3 THE FIRST INDIAN Investment Centre in the Asean region was opened in Singapore yesterday, with a plan to hold major seminars and workshops for the year. The idea of opening a branch in Singapore was mooted a year ago by the High Commissioner, Mr AN Gopalakrishna Pallai,
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    • 244 3 AUSTRALIA'S seriousness in seeking tie-ups with local companies to capture projects in China was reflected once again in a government official's visit to Singapore. The director of Australia's Trade Department's China section, Mr WG Newton, was in Singapore yesterday for a
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    • 65 3 SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) and the Singapore Convention Bureau (SCB) will organise a four-city convention and incentive travel promotion in Europe from Oct 15 to 25. The promotion will cover four cities London, Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. Seven hotel representatives and four travel agents from Singapore will
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    • 491 3  -  By LUCY NG ONCE, SIONG BEE Industries served the spirit world, now it is helping mortals to rest in peace. And it is being assisted by its fourth government grant since 1962. The company started with a small factory in 1964 to
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    • 357 3 THE MALAY KAMPUNG planned for Geylang Serai will be as authentic as possible, with shop tenders open only to Malays. The Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Ahmad Mattar, said yesterday that the Minister for National Development had agreed to this
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 338 4 Reuter THE TWO MAIN US intelligence agencies have predicted catastrophe (or the Philippines if President Ferdinand Marcos remains in office and reforms are not carried out. Congressman Dave McCurdy, a member of the House of Representatives' intelligence committee, said in Washington yesterday that
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    • 151 4 AFP THE PHILIPPINE government may defer the lifting of import restrictions on certain items in the wake of Filipino manufacturers' mounting protest. The Business Day newspaper yesterday cited Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Edgardo Tordesillas as saying the government would consider deferring lifting
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    • 229 4 Agencies THE US ADMINISTRATION has said that it is willing to talk with the hijackers who seized an Italian luxury ship, the Achille Lauro, but it will not negotiate. "We will certainly discuss with those who may be holding our
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    • 141 4 Reuter CHINA HAS taken measures to control illegal exports of foodstuffs, textiles and other goods to Hongkong that bypass Beijing's official outlets. Vice-Foreign Trade Minister Chen Jie said that steps to tighten up marketing and licensing of experts to Hongkong and Macao had begun to pay
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    • 112 4 AFP HONGKONG police officials remained tightlipped yesterday about a statement by a computer distributor that police were using pirated Apple computers. Jodee Rich, the managing director of Imagineering Micro Distributors Ltd (IMD), the distributor of Lotus software products in Hongkong, was quoted by the
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    • 66 4 AFP MALAYSIAN senators and members of parliament are soon to have a chance to exhibit more than their oratorical skills at Parliament House. Some M 525,000 worth of keep-fit equipment is being installed in an unused basement to help whip legislators into shape. Keep-fit instructors would
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    • 801 4 ARRIVALS Operator S«fVIC« Local From number time PAA PA2I/5 0020 LAX/TYO/HKG RBA BM43 0330 BWN LUFT LH688 0105 FRA/DXB MAS MH68I 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH605 0930 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN AC AC858 0940 YYZ/LHR/BOM MAS MH67I 0950 KUL RBA BI42I 1030 BWN
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    • 359 5 AP REPUBLICANS in the US House of Representatives have unveiled a 23-point trade plan that includes the possible sale of Alaskan oil to Japan, but excludes many of the protectionist proposals in Congress. "Protecting existing jobs and creating new jobs is at the heart
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    • 250 5 UPI A NUCLEAR POWER plant could be put in orbit by 1993 in a test crucial to the development of space weapons. The head of President Reagan's "Star Wars" programme, Lieu tenant-General James Abrahamson, told a House panel on energy research and production
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    • 177 5 AP BOLIVIA PROPOSED on Tuesday the creation of an international fund to buy coca harvests from the growers so as to prevent the narcotic leaves from reaching organised crime. Bolivian Vice-President Julio Garrett-Aillon, in an address to the 40th session of the UN
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    • 310 5 AFP PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan views the Soviet proposal of halving strategic nuclear arsenals as an enticing start towards serious negotiations, but also as a bait for traps, a US official disclosed on Tuesday. "The president feels that the very
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    • 704 5  -  By SOH TIANG KENG PROTECTIONISM and the debt problem and more ideas on how to tackle these thorny problems dominated discussion yesterday at the joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Seoul. Industrial countries such as West Germany, Japan
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 541 6 Action prompted by failures and loan losses NYT THE FEDERAL RESERVE is stepping up the frequency of its bank examinations and strengthening the requirements for reporting deficiencies to bank managers and board members. The action is inspired by what has happened in the banking
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    • 140 6 HONGKONG BANK of Canada has agreed in principle to acquire the Winnipeg and Halifax branches of the former Canadian Commercial Bank (CCB), subject to appropriate approvals. The acquisition will bring to 12 the number of branches of Hongkong Bank, making it one of the few
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    • 162 6 Reuter THE CANADIAN government plans to increase substantially the power of regulatory authorities overseeing the country's banking system through legislation to be introduced shortly. "These changes will ensure that we have the best regulatory system in the world," Minister of State for Finance Barbara McDougall told
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    • 118 6 Reuter THE CHICAGO Mercantile Exchange has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for approval to trade options on Japanese yen futures and Canadian dollar futures. The CME, which already lists options on Swiss franc, West German mark, pound, Eurodollar and S A P
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGE
    • 670 6 SINGAPORE THE US dollar yesterday closed firmer against most major currencies in active and nervous trading, but below the day's highs due to intervention by the Bank of Japan in late Tokyo trading. It closed firmer at 216.75/95 yen compared with New York's 216.06/15 close, but below its
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    • Article, Illustration
      339 6 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading. Short-dates eased 1/16 point at the outset due to a slightly lower US Fed funds rate and thereafter remained unchanged. Overnight, Thursday/Friday and week fixed closed at a common 8-1/16 7-15/16 per cent. Period
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    • 316 6 Interbank rotes at 3pm yesterday: Currancia* Nominal rates Smithsonian Bid Otter cross parity change Locol dollars to one unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2 1450 2 1460 2 8196 -23 93 Sterling pound 3 0298 ***** 7 3469 •58 76 Australian dollar 1 4982 1 5011 3
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    • 360 6 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures yesterday opened slightly higher than Tuesday's close on short-covering activities and uncertainty over the outcome of the debt ceiling issue. After opening at 91.68, the December contract edged higher to 91.70 in an attempt to close the gap between 91.68 and 91.71. Liffe opening saw
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    • 220 6 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed higher in moderate trading mainly reflecting the weakness of the US dollar. The metal ended at U*****.00/50 an ounce compared with New York's 324.70/325.20 close and the 326.90/327.30 finish here on Tuesday. On the local market gold fell HK$6 to close at $3,028 a tael.
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    • 65 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by point from Tuesday to close at s'/« per cent yesterday. The term rates fell by point across the board. S$ Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: OH«f hd Ovef ruaht 5 1/4 I month 5 5/8 5 I
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  • FEATURES
    • 523 8 THE TERRORISM BUSINESS is increasingly getting to be like the tourism business. If the skies are too hectic for you, why not go on a leisurely sea cruise? Don't you like the terror of the unknown, excitement in the midst of serenity? Indeed. Variety being
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    • 1232 8 Electronic communication is revolutionising the financial markets NYT A WATT. STREET LUNCH, five years from now, may consist of soup, steak, a 5,000-share trade and dessert, in that order. "If the name of a security comes up, it'll be commonplace for someone to reach into his
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    • 362 8  -  Letter to the Editor Clifford Company Private Dear Sir, For a considerable time it has been apparent that the system of post boxes on the ground floors of multistoreyed buildings is not working. Letters are continually placed in the wrong boxes and not every
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 517 8 GUARD AGAINST COMPUTER ARUSES JP Dr Wong is one of the world's leading figures in the field of computer security. His involvement with computers goes as far back as 1962 when he first came into contact with computers in numerical analysis work while doing his doctorate in Physics in Manchester.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 668 8 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Piece of rude pottery? (6) 7 Veteran with an hourglass? (3, 5) 8 Story of a gas explosion? (4) 10 Inventive criminal (6) 11 Possibly stable pieces of furniture (6) 14 One sees him in silence (3) 16 Not compass points, but messages (5) 17 What
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  • SPORTS
    • 179 9 Reuter MARTINA NAVRATILOVA said on Tuesday that press reports quoting her as saying she would take a seven-week layoff from tournament tennis were the result of a misunderstanding at a recent press conference. A Women's Tennis Association (WTA) spokeswoman said: "Martina told me
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    • 224 9 AFP THE SECRET of Boris Becker's tennis success was revealed by the Bild newspaper on Tuesday. It's his big heart. The German press is hynotised by Becker who led his country to the Davis Cup final for the first time in 15 years over
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    • 469 9 UPI TIGERS FEVER is sweeping Japan as the Hanshin Tigers pro baseball club moves closer towards its first championship in 21 years and a department store owned by the club has said sales of souvenirs are booming. Thousands of fans, wearing the
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    • 204 9 AFP JAPAN has thrown six newcomers in at the deep end for the opening match of its six-match Rugby Union tour of France yesterday. Both centres, outside-half Eiji Kutsuki, one of its locks and two of the back
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    • 562 9  -  Singapore Tobacco's surprise decision By WALTON MORAIS THE Singapore Tobacco Company pulled a pleasant surprise for Poh Eing Chong and Lim Swee Wah yesterday by selecting both golfers for the Benson and Hedges Spanish Open golf championship from Oct 24 to 27. Although the sponsors initially
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    • 299 9 Reuter THE SRI LANKAN cricket team, which arrived in Karachi on Monday night, will play the third and last test of its Pakistan tour at Karachi instead of Hyderabad. Nusrat Azim, the coordinator of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan, said
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    • 192 9 AP THE NEW executive board of the Indonesian Badminton Association is seeking a hefty US$2 million annual budget to back up its pledge to recover the country's lost supremacy in that sport, the association said yesterday. The proposed budget is about four times larger than
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1184 9 THURSDAY FEATURE SPECIAL Roman Holiday 10.10 pm, Channel 5 Audrey Hepburn stars in this delightful fairytale story about a lonely princess who finds love. The Belgian-bom beauty picked up an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in this classic comedy-romance. Gregory Peck provides some fine complement as a
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 235 10 Reuter MERRILL LYNCH Capital Markets will attempt to block the latest bid by British conglomerate Hanson Trust to take over a giant US paint and typewriter corporation. Wall Street sources on Tuesday said Merrill Lynch was planning to buy two SCM businesses
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    • 147 10 FT REUTERS has launched a new bond dealing service similar to its money dealing service. The system has been test marketed for 10 months and now has 105 subscribers. It allows dealers to communicate with each other through Reuters screens, by typing in messages
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    • 80 10 Reuter ELDERS IXL Ltd still hopes to form a consortium by Oct 17 to bid for Allied-Lyons PLC, in spite of Imperial Group PLC's decision not to join a consortium bid. Elders's group director for strategy, Andrew Cummins, said on Tuesday that Imperial's decision "obviously makes
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    • 325 10 Reuter SHARE PRICES closed mixed on Tuesday in a dull trading session as analysts predicted Wall Street may be in for a lengthy downward slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.12 points to 1325.49. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index dipped
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 329 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed easier yesterday but off their lows in fairly quiet trading as selling continued. Brokers said profit-taking continued amid eroding enthusiasm for the Hutchison-HK Electric bid for International City. The Hang Seng Index fell by 18.54 to 1587.99. Turnover for the half-day trading was HK5181.72 million
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    • 307 11 TOKYO: Shares rose in moderate trading led by internationally popular electronics and precision instruments. The market average ended higher, up 21.99 to *****.20, after gaining 43.21 on Tuesday. Turnover increased to 430 million shares. The broader-based Stock Exchange Index gained 4.27 to 1033.33. The second section firmed on a
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    • 96 11 MANILA: Prices yesterday closed generally firmer in quiet trading. The Commercial and Industrial Index rose by 1.90 to 169.49, the mining marker firmed 1.16 to 678.96 and the oils was steady at 0.779. OCT 09 Oriental B 0014 -0 001 Phrfex B 0 1350 -0 005 Acoic Mining Ptcop
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    • 378 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets surged to their fourth consecutive record on the back of continuing solid support for the industrial sector and resource stocks, particularly oil and gas. Investors responded to the lack of news by buying rather than selling. A number of special sales also helped create interest
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    • 167 11 BANGKOK: Stocks lost more ground in quiet trading as investors continued to stay away following last month's abortive military coup. The market also responded to this week's increases in local interbank lending rates. The Book Club Index lost 0.6 to 130.61. Losers led gainers by 14 to three, with
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    • 98 11 Reuter BROKEN HILL Pty Co Ltd (BHP) will sponsor its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) from now on as part of a commitment to widen and deepen its shareholder base. The general manager for corporate affairs, David Adam, yesterday said Morgan Guaranty Trust Co had
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    • 29 11 Reuter CONSOLIDATED Rutile Ltd has signed a minimum five-year contract to supply 35,000 to 45,000 tonnes of rutile a year to SCM Corp from January next year.
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    • 214 11 Payment for crashed Boeing AFP A SYNDICATE of 22 Japanese insurance companies has paid about US$4O million to Japan Air Lines (JAL) to cover the loss of a jumbo jet which crashed on Aug 12 in the world's worst singleplane disaster. All but four
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    • 72 11 AFP JAPAN'S Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd has exported to the Soviet Union 12 vibrating machines for the production of industrial ceramics. The machines, priced at 200 million yen (about U*****,000) free on board (FOB), turn alumina ceramics into powder as material for ceramic capacitators,
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    • 60 11 Reuter THE OUTSTANDING balance of margin buying positions on the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya stock exchanges rose for the first time in 13 weeks, by 4.4 billion yen to 2,527 billion at the end of last week. The Tokyo Stock Exchange said the outstanding balance
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    • 331 11 FT INDIA is on the brink of placing orders worth between £220 million and £250 million with the UK for Westlands helicopters and Sea Harriers jump jets after negotiations lasting nearly two years. Mr Rajiv Gandhi, the Indian Prime Minister,
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 438 12 AP THE US government's US$2 billion programme to rescue sagging US farm exports may instead have damaged overseas sales because it has angered America's best customers, grain industry spokesmen told Congress on Tuesday. "Why do we persist in being our own worst enemy?"
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    • 110 12 Reuter A HEAVY CANADIAN snowstorm trapping about half of the spring wheat crop in the fields triggered rumours on US grain trading floors that Canada would cut off exports of higher grades of wheat, sending prices sharply higher. A Canadian
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    • 153 12 Chinese Produce Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW 440 00 Exchange (Sellers' noon clou no prices on Nutmeg 471 00 Oct 9 (SS/100 kg). H0 FOB NSW E&W FOB NSW 338 00 Coconut oil Bulk FOB 7500 Gombier OkJ drum FOB 88 00 FOB NSW 330 00 New drum FOB
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    • 157 12 WHEAT FUTURES on Tuesday rallied sharply late on rumours of a cutoff in Canadian wheat exports, traders said. At the close, prices were up 9Vi to 2Vt US cents a bushel. Some analysts noted there were still many wheat exporting nations that were undercutting US wheat prices, and world
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    • 347 12 AP THE UNITED STATES began new steel trade talks with the European Economic Community on Tuesday, hoping for a Inroad agreement that would give US producers relief from imports. It was the third round of negotiations with the 10-nation EEC in the
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    • 165 12 SINGAPORE THE MARKET yesterday closed quietly firmer with November One RSS buyers quoted at 163.75 cents per kilo, up 1.25 cents from Tuesday. MALAYSIA Late-covering saw the market close unchanged at Tuesday's level of 184.50 cents per kilo for Nov Int One RSS buyers. Trading was quiet. Physical noted
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    • 294 12 Singapore C-1 Ord unq (S$/k4o, ei-godown) Loonzain Rice Frogront new crop 100% 1st grade unq 1st 0 76 100% 2nd grade 215 2nd 054 100% 3rd grade unq 3rd New Crop 25% 10% 0 52 no stock no stock Parboiled Rice 5% 10% 215 210 Thai Broken Maize unq
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    • 659 12 COFFEE ROBUSTA FUTURES yesterday reversed direction around mid morning, with initial average £10 gains turning into £9 to £7 losses by the midday recess. Early steadiness was influenced by a higher New York close, before sterling's slight advances against the dollar prompted a retreat, with routine profit-taking extending
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    • 143 12 SOYBEAN FUTURES on Tuesday ended mostly higher on the Chicago Board of Trade, up as much as 3'/« US cents a bushel in March. Distant November eased Vi cent. The recovery from Tuesday's new contract low in November followed the sudden arrival of harvest-delaying rains in midwestern soy growing
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    • 95 12 CONTINUED itmg sappari from the kifler stock amger (B8M) ifkrtiT mw ike loala LunpvTli Market eteee eight eeata higher it W»M per klle. Taraever fell te 111 tMM trem IN ea Taee4ay wttk tke BBM tattag the halk ef the efferlag. There wu seme scattered Jipaaeae Mi heal
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    • 153 12 Yarn (In HK$ per bolt of 400 H>) China carded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix I6's 2,500 Blue Phoenix 20's 2,550 Blue Phoenix 32's 2,950 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,300 Carded yarn, hank Bh>e Phoenix 21's 2,750 Combed yorn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,100 Blue Phoenix 40's 4,300 Open-end yarn Blue
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    • 326 12 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOS in k< sles NOON CLOSE Buyers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt ***** I62 00N 161 25 162 25N Int 1 RSS Nov 85 163 50 164 00 163 75 164 00 Int 1 RSS Dec 85 164 00 164 50
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    • 108 12 (c«4its/kg, l-to« polWtt) gj DEC 85 (current month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sclltri luytrt 5iH>n SSR 20 147 00 149 OON 148 00 150 00N SSR 50 145 00 147 OON 146 00 148 OON MRELB Bvf*rs Sttttn lnyirs S«#»fi SMR CV 204 00 206
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    • 106 12 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday closed slightly lower on late selling following lower levels offered to Pakistan at its RBD palm oil tender for last half Nov shipment. Prices earlier firmed slightly on covering interest. The refined palm oil market was quiet, with Dec RBD olein down
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    • 254 12 NOTICES COMPANIES ACT, CAP ltt AND AJET ENTERPRISES PTE LID At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 1 Colombo Court #04-06 Singapore 0617 on the 7th October 1965, the following Special Resolution was duly passed. RESOLVED that the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant
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    • 252 12 i ¥i' THE COMPANIES ACT, (CHAPTER IK) AND r v i «ij LEONO TECS CONSTRICTION PTE LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY UQI IDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 50 Jalan Sultan #21-04 Jalan Sultan Centre, Singapore 0719 on Monday 7th
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    • 300 12 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 1U PTE. LTD. (la LifitoH—) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors ol the abovenamed Companj which Is being voluntarllj wound up are required or or before the 15th day ol November, 1965 to send lr their names and addresses with particulars of theii debts and
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    • 275 12 IKllThi f\v ¥1. THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 11l AND f Vhi>'l L PRIME SHIPPING CO. PTE. LID. (IN VOLUNTARY LMHJIDATiaM) i(EMBERS' VOLUNTABY At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 1 Danmarksgade, 7430 Ikast, Denmark, on the 30th day of September 1985, the special resolution
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4293 13 A SURGE of strong buying interest during the afternoon session pushed share prices higher on the Singapore stock market yesterday. As usual, it was the speculative Malaysian industrial issues which provided the lead; banks held quietly steady while most other blue-chip and Singa-pore-based stocks
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    • 281 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices Oct 8 Oct 9 lata Lmtong 690 65 BT Comport* 658 75 ***** 1 M Textile* 356 24 BT Indicator *****18 *****10 DwH Dev 635 20 BT OB/OS 192 163 TDM 456 16 CADI 5250 5211 labial 376 16 OBV ***** -***** 193 16
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    • 4794 13 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 881 14  -  Turbulent seas expected ahead By CHAN OI CHEE THE MID-YEAR results reporting season is over. But for the majority of companies, their problems have not ended. The avalanche of poor results may just be the harbinger of worse to come. "For sure, things are going
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    • 277 14 Reuter THE ADELAIDE Steamship Co Ltd (Adsteam) and the Bell Group Ltd hold 139.39 million shares in the Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd (BHP), equal to 13.5 per cent of BHP's issued capital. But Adsteam's notice to the Melbourne Stock Exchange shows that
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    • 107 14 HONGKONG Tuesday 1477.5 Hang Seng Index Week ago 1477.8 Wednesday 1587.99 Tuesday 1606.53 Week ago 1553.13 NEW YORK Dow Jones T uesday 1325.49 TOKYO Monday 1324.37 Tokyo Nikkei Week ago 1340.95 Wednesday ***** 20 Tuesday ***** 21 Standard Poors Week a go ***** 50 Tuesday 181.87 Monday 181.87
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    • 285 14 Managers' prices for Oct 10 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce I 82 1 93 The Savings Fund 1.33 I 41 S'pore Fund 0 78 *0 83 S'pore Sec Fund 1 14 1 21 S'pore Invest Fund 0 78 0 83 S'pore Equity Fund 0 81 0 86 Asia
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    • 563 14 THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market closed on a slightly steadier note yesterday in selectively active trading. Special situation issues in the industrial and finance sectors continued to hog the limelight, with a number of them posting double-digit gains. Turnover improved slightly to 24.54 million
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    • 3579 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. NXJS TRIALS A Choc (3 18S) (7) 3 04 (10)
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    • 228 14 TUNKU AHMAD YAHAYA, the group chief executive of Sime Darby Bhd, commenting on the lack of market interest in Sime's shares, said: "A lot of people get fed-up with Sime's performance on the stock market. "But Sime's market performance is no indication of the group's
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 281 14 HE ASIA* WALL STREET JOtHNAi. Whats News J fee* PMKppiae Peso Shows Curious Strrnelli M a. «> i» Vw f urrrar* M Xiv> !<#>•<•<>< ;A» t>■,(*> 4kMn***««4f <•**** W<WK*f.# t L ,m >i;i T Succcssful executives who want to get ahead in business, start by keeping up with I he
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 387 15  -  By HOMER CHEN MR PETER THAM, the former stockbroker with Associated Asian Securities (AAS) who has been retreating from the local corporate scene, is being sued for $4-26 million by a small, little known company. Mr Tham resigned as a director of AAS and
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    • 216 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE MR THAM YENG FAI, the executive director of Pan-Elec-tric's Selco operations, tendered his resignation from the board last week. He is currently on leave. The 42-year-old Mr Tham ceased to be the managing director of Pan-El following
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    • 262 15 THE STOCK EXCHANGE of Singapore is looking into Pahang Investments's failure to file annual figures for 1984. Under SES rules, a company must file a preliminary financial statement on a consolidated basis not later than three months after the end of the financial year
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    • 132 15 MALAYSIAN American Assurance Company Bhd (MAA), which recently came under the control of the Melewar group, has reported a 13 per cent increase in gross premium to Ms6.l million for the six months ended June 30,1965. Gross premium from life insurance operations rose
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    • 575 15 LAST FULL YEAR Company Period Date Year Net EPS Gross Net onnounced ending (cents) div profit last year ($■000) Pohang Inv Final Jan 31 Dec 84 9.352L Minebeo Interim Jul II Sep 85 12 5 190 3.070(d) Mulpha Intl Interim Aug 24 Dec 85 30 738L S J
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    • 456 15  -  Stake reduced from 47.3 pc to 18.3 pc By NAJEEB JARHOM MALAYSIAN businessman and politician Tan Koon Swan has come out with another of his puzzling share shuffles. This time, Supreme Corp has decided to downgrade the status of former subsidiary Everpeace
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    • 185 15 SPK-SENTOSA Corporation Bbd yesterday announced the resignation of Raja Tan Sri Dato Hj Khalid with effect from Oct 8. Replacing him will be Dato Abdullah Ahmad who was appointed as the director and chairman on the same date. THE Stock Exchange of Singapore has queried CerebM Pacific Ltd
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    • 919 15 IT IS NOW nearly two months since a new settlement trading was introduced on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Contrary to market expectations, it has not been a runaway success. Commonly referred to as the delayed-one-month trading system, the idea has
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    • 989 15 EQUITIES closed mixed after a quiet session yesterday with attention centred mainly on special situations. At 3.30pm, the FTSE 100 Index was up 4.2 points at 1,307.5. Hanson Trust was 4p lower at 206 after the UK government cleared its proposed acquisition of SC M Corp of the
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 113 15 Practice ftr Health and Relaxation Qi-Gont For Health and Movinf Mediation tv> Monday 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm Saturday 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm SeM-Heip Acupressure Course .4 Ful Course commencing in October 1985 Tuesday Thursday 6 pm For more details, please contact: Chinese Nature Tratfitional Chinese Cure Institute Acupuncture
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  • 280 16 UPI THE PALESTINIANS who hijacked an Italian luxury liner agreed yesterday to free the 420 hostages and surrender to Egyptian authorities. A spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tunisia said the successful conclusion to negotiations resulted from "close cooperation
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  • 92 16 AP THE US DOLLAR, rebounding after a more than 30-yen drop, rose against the Japanese yen yesterday for a third consecutive day on the Tokyo foreign exchange market, closing at 217.00 yen, up 1.25 yen from Tuesday's close of 215.75 yen. Traders said
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  • 533 16  -  Jobs took longer to find, starting pay lower says survey By MONICA GWEE LAST YEAR'S GRADUATES had to be less fussy about jobs and settled for less than the ideal compared with the class of '83. Job seeking was toughest and longest for general
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  • 513 16  -  By MANO SABNANI in Washington DC A SCHEME which would mean a free flow of trade between Asean and the US was discussed yesterday by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and President Reagan. The subject came up during the wide-ranging talks held in the White House
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  • 167 16 ASEAN's handling of the Cambodian problem, and the non-communist resistance to the Vietnamese occupation, have been given strong support by President Reagan. In his meeting with PM Lee, he made it clear that while the US was going to pursue every reasonable effort to get an
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  • 377 16 AN AUSTRALIAN government proposal to subject all overseas Australian operations to full corporate tax rates is threatening to wipe out the tax benefits enjoyed by such companies in Singapore, possibly souring relations between the two countries. These concerns were expressed by the
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  • 117 16 AFP FORMER British Conservative Party chairman Cecil Parkinson nearly lost two briefcases containing official documents as he was visiting his mistress. Sara Keays, the Daily Mirror said yesterday. The paper, which is publishing extracts from Miss Keays's book "A Question of Judgment", said Mr
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  • 141 16 AFP A MALAYSIAN Member of Parliament has accused Saudi Arabian officials of treating Asian pilgrims to the Islamic holy land like "animals" and urged the government in Kuala Lumpur to take it up with Riyadh. Mamat Ghazalee Abdul Rahman, an MP from Trengganu who
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  • 70 16 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES jumped to their highs for the week yesterday, propelled by active short covering on reports of Swiss buying on overseas markets and a weak dollar. Spot gold rose US$2.9O at $327.70 an ounce. The leading December delivery added $3.10 at $331.70. Silver
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  • 77 16 THE NEW YORK stock market yesterday turned mixed in early trading with more stocks advancing than declining. The Dow Jones industrial average was off a fraction to 1325. But broader indicators pointed higher and gainers led losers by a three-two margin on turnover of 7.27 million shares.
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  • LATE FILE
    • 38 16 Reuter JAPAN yesterday said it would ban the export of computers to South Africa's armed forces and police and urge importers to stop buying krugerrands as part of economic sanctions in protest against apartheid.
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    • 43 16 UPI JAPANESE Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said yesterday that Tokyo was opposed to Moscow's call for an Asian security conference. He said that Japan's defence policy in Asia was based on a strong military alliance with the US. UPI
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    • 32 16 UPI THIRTEEN Filipino soldiers and militiamen have been suspended and disarmed pending results of an inquiry into the slayings of 21 antigovernment demonstrators, said the Philippine News Agency yesterday. UPI
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    • 42 16 Bernama DATUK Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who made a oneday visit to Indonesia on Tuesday to view the production of aircraft in Bandung, said yesterday that small aircraft and helicopters produced there were of high quality. Be mama
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    • 39 16 UPI CHINA yesterday dismissed as "groundless" an Amnesty International report decrying widespread executions and blatant human rights violations. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Yuzhen said Amnesty was wrongly applying western legal norms to China. UPI
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    • 31 16 AP TAIWAN'» trade surplus for September widened to US$l,O6B billion, up from $818 million in September 1984, said the General-Directorate of Budget, Accounting and Statistics yesterday. AP
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 43 16 Leader, Page 8 7out ofio chief executives from the world's largest corporations are also the world's shrewdest decision makers. IHertzi The business decision with a lot more mileage. 280 Kampong Arang Rd: 447 3388; Tanglin Shaping Centre #01-20: *****46; Chan# Airport: 545 8181
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    • 461 16 International Marketing Planning Singapore, December 9 11,1985 Objectives Participants will learn to Key Topics Equate risks abroad The International Develop practical approaches to governmental Component., and regulations and barriers r pi Meet competition abroad more effechvely Markt Plan the entire marketing mix for target segments in oj. n uman AsDe<
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 53 16 Outlook for today: Showers in scverol areas in the morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7 30pm on Oct 9 at the oirport: Maximum temperature 27.0 Associated humidity 84 Minimum temperature 23.0 Associated humidity 93 Hours of sunshine 0.00 Rainfall in millimetres 8.6 Roinfall this month 60.6 Rainy days
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 380 17  -  By JUNE LIM THE JASARINA has hit the rocks, less than a year after it launched the first passenger ferry service between Singapore and Malacca. The 250-seater catamaran has been put up for sale after it was seized by the vessel's mortgagee, PK Christiania
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    • 258 17 NYT CHINA PLANS to build more than 200 berths in the next five years in an attempt to overcome a chronic shortage of port facilities, seriously hindering the country's export drive and delaying essential imports. The Chinese Vice-Minis-ter of Communications,
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    • 176 17  -  By Kingsley Wood THE AUSTRALIAN Shippers' Council is to become involved in the policy aspects of international airfreight but rates will remain a commercial matter for airlines. ASC has decided to monitor the airfreight industry in view of the increasing share of overseas cargo now
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 88 17 THE FAR EASTERN Freight Conference said the currency adjustment factor (CAF) for Japan will be changed to 24.50 per cent from 19.5 per cent with effect from Oct 12. On Oct 10, the Far East/Somalia Freight Agreement will raise its CAF to 11.5 per cent from 5.5
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      • 66 17 Reuter THE 16,000-TON West German container vessel, Jolly Indaco, has been hit by a missile in the Mid-East Gulf 160 kms off the Iranian coast, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence has reported. The ship, on a voyage between Yemen and Kuwait, said in its initial "Mayday" message
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      • 69 17 Reuter CARGO HANDLING at India's eastern Port of Paradip has been paralysed since Oct 3 because of a dock workers' strike, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said. At least six ships were waiting outside the harbour for berths, PTI said, adding that the
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    • 357 18 REGIONAL Container Lines's newest and largest feeder vessel, Piya Bhum arrived in Singapore from Busan on its maiden voyage on Sept 11. Constructed at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering, it boasts a capacity of 1,008 TEUS and has a service of 16 knots. RCL's bold
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    • 979 18 ANGOLA Sapt 24 Luanda 5-6 days. 11 vessels berthed, 3 anchored. Lobito No delays. 7 vessels berthed. ARGENTINA Sapt 24 Buenos Aires No delays. 31 vessels berthed. Rosario 3-4 days. 6 vessels berthed. San Lorenzo 3-4 days. 2 vessels berthed, 3 vessels anchored. San Nicolas 2-3 days. 6
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    • 701 18 AB Shpg V 5 Atea Line VI 3 Alphatrans X 3 APC Line V 4 APL III 2/3 Anro Service IV 3/4 ANL 1 1 ASCL III 1 Bait-Canada Line VII 4/5 Bait-Orient Line vn 4/5 Bank Line V 5 BBS i 4/5 Bayswoter Shpg X 3
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    • 1326 18 ALL sectors of the freight market on Tuesday were very quiet with erstwhile active US Gulf export trades now subdued and little discernible change seen in the established overall rate pattern, brokers said. But a cargo of wheat was booked from Great Lakes completing St Lawrence to Algeria
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    • 182 19 LYKES BROS Steamship has announced the following appointments in Lykes Lines Agency, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. Mr Michaol McCarty has been appointed general manager Hongkong and Taiwan. Formerly the manager conferences and pricing in Tokyo, he will be based in Taipei. Mr
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    • 582 19 Lloyd's List CONFLICT IS looming in the Europe Far East liner market with the trade facing its worst rates war early next year unless an accomodation is struck between the conference and major outsiders. Executives involved in this, the world's third biggest liner
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    • 246 19 Seatrade Week REPORTS FROM Japan suggest that the private side of the Tung Group has temporarily stopped paying principal and interest on loans concluded with the group, pending a major financial restructuring on the private side being mapped out by adviser Shearson, Lehman Brothers. However, payments for
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    • 109 19 Reuter INDIA IS considering an offer from Hyundai Corporation of South Korea to develop the eastern Port of Paradip, Indian Shipping Ministry sources said. They said Hyundai's offer stipulates the development costs of US$ll5 million are to be repaid through the export to South
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    • 190 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East European, 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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    • 95 19 Bernama PULAU LANGKAWI has been chosen as the stopover in Malaysia for the American ship, Royal Viking Star which is carrying some 2,000 passengers on a world cruise. The Kedah Permanent Tourism Committee chairman Haji Ha naff i Ramli said the American tourists,
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    • 6375 24 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 668 25 CONTAINER TERMINAL RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Fenhe 26E 10 1085 2300 Yick Fung F1 1400-1500 U1 B Kemuning 42N 10.10.85 2300 S'pore Shpg F1 1400-1500 N1 Or Diplomat 23 11.10 85
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    • 1630 25 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) Mult<>ort Sdr- Bhd (PK) American
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    • 650 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Daxmg K35 Y Fung alongside 10 10.85/0600 Hugheverett K29 Everett alongside 10.10 85/2300 Itaimbe K33 P Simons alongside 10.10.85/1800 Kodama K30 Samta alongside 10 10 85/0500 Ned Manila K12 Ned-EAC alongside 10.10 85/0600 Pogo K10 Boustead alongside
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    • 69 17 mm REGIONAL Container Lines's newest and largest feeder vessel, Piya Bhum arrived in Singapore from Busan on its maiden voyage. Page II CONFLICT IS looming in the Europe/For East liner market with the trade facing its worst rates war early next year. Page 111 Index to advertisers II Weather Map
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    • 761 19 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd Overseas Containers Limited STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok CONTMNERSHIP SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT Bceni t'dan 07/11 OS/11 11/11 12/11 21/11 22/11 26/11 27/11 04/12 05/12 14/12 15/12 21/12 22/12 27/12 21/12 05/1 06/1 14/1 15/1 COHTAHERSHP SERVICES
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    • 916 19 Franco Belgian Services F+r Ifli. P*r*-c 4v* rrv< u%4h ywm far £<isLrm «njj I (MEMBER OF ACE CONSORTIUM! FUH COWTAWP SERVtCE TO EUROPE mi cqntaihrshp service prom curort STORE P KELANGLe Harte R'dim FStow Ham 16 Oct (14 Oct) 4 Not 5 No. 7 Not 5 CKVAItR PAUL It Oct
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    • 522 20 IF Hapag-Lloyd TO CONTINENT/UK EXPORTS On carriage to Scandinavia, Med, Carribean &S. America Inland haulage to inland destinations in Europe Spore PKelangPenangleiioesßdbao Genoa Hburj Rdam Bhaven A werp Renee Rickmers 23/10 24/10 28/10 22/11 25/11 24/11Mai Rickmers »/ll 10/11 12/11 5/12- 17/12 1 J/12- 11/12 Bertram Rickmers 14/11 17/11 19/11
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    • 813 21 BLC BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT EXPRESS CONTAWER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT BeniMer Sited Kitano Miru Sated Kiwfi Miru Sited City ol ((Hurt Sited Frankfurt Eiprets Sided Hunburj Eipresi 11/10 Owki by II 10 Bremen fiprns 26/10 Kivmu Miru 27/11 S HAVEN (DAM Sited Sited Sited Sited Sited Sited
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    • 655 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES m BURMA FIVE STMt (Burmese National Line) Loadnf for Rangoon Spore P.KeUnc P In Port/10 Oct In Port/13 Oct 14/15 Oct 14/15 Oct *Pa|o W/10 h Port/10 Oct Myomaywa V9OK In Port/13 Oct Mawtamyainj V2BK 14/15 Oct Htoneywa V/205H 14/15 Oct Phashwegyawywa V259W 20/22 Oct BANK LINE
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    • 1163 22 a. LINE ISSS* KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE FEEDER VSI MOT*It VSI SPORE WIG PNG SPORE KOBE ASM SIM Ml TBN VSI 19 Oct 70 Oct 22 Oct 24 Oct I Not GUAVAQUR CAIIAO ARICA 25 Dec 2 I*l 6 l*i KWUE 7 Un AfAGASTA S ANTONO VALPARAISO I I*l
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    • 545 22 CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH WEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE lojdtni tor 10S ANGIUS >AN (RANCISCO SIAIUI IACOMA VANCOUVIRBC Acieptirty fCI fCI Containers BHAVABHUTI BHARAIFNOU I Angek" 30 31 Oct Hon 30 31 No. H Dec AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE JAPAN SERVICE loa<tai( tor Kobe. Yokohama. Nafoya Osaka Mop Aho cats lam an
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    • 521 22 i£ INTRASEA (PTE) LTD. 10 Anson Road »27 16 Internationa' Pia*a Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 (TO l<nesl <► BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S pore P. KefancLMdnc tarANANGEL LBERTY BMS9IS to Port 11/10 ROTT/ANT/U* (AVON) VAN CONQUEROR 88C5916 9/11 12/11 ESBJ/ROT/ANT/UJ (AVON) »|cnt> Snfaport MTRASCA <PTE) LTD BOOKMG *****11 lumpu
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    • 576 23 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE a member of the ACE Consortium STRAITS/AUSTRALIA RO-RO CONTAINER SERVICE A member of the Anro Consortium i TPA CONTAINER SERVICE TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA PACIFIC COAST ALSO ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO LONG BEACH, OAKLAND, VANCOUVER SEATTLE I TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA ATLANTIC COAST
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    • 599 23 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels 1 SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON NfPIUNt AGtNCKS PU I ID lfl 7/8997; 275V34 i Bookings i ???;SlO iOperations) ????4«; ??09?M I If.mmjlr ??0?4S0 ??0?S04 4CIS) M«. I»M» «i,INIS TI IN*S SHI A SDN BHP Kt tel *****0 *****4 PK IH
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    • 731 23 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SMSOV BULDMG 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Number? *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SMSOV SMGAPORE Tefci Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS 2510S f KBJM6 POIANG M/S SHMKAT MM SOON BM. M. IST AND 2ND FLOOR. MESSRS NN THONG SWPMG 127 Penanc
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    • 20 23 SIM SWEE JOO SHIPPING SDN. BHD. EXPRESS TO BINTULU JAMBATAN MERAH SDN. BHD. P. Kelang: *****6/7 K.L. *****7/*****1 Penang *****1/*****5
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    • 696 24 I?c<|i«nal Container Lint's 4 Sailings weekly Fast Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. Mon, Tue, Thur. Sat mnl HINODE KISEN CO. LTD MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER, SP* CIAI ISt 0 HEAVY IKIfRS AVAII ABII KASM MARU S'pore 14/16 Oct Loadnc for: Bahrain VEB DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTQCf FORTNIGHTLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO
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    • 172 24 Weather U 2* V> 0 M m N L -<k IS ft M VA fv •l*fi SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. c/ 1. Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height One half Heche represents 5 knots LEGEND: p Temperature c Thunderstorm Weather Wind direction
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    • 149 25 w MSC AGENCIES K. LUMPUR P. KELANG PENANG P. GUDANG J. BAHARU LEOSrtP SPORE *****8/*****6/*****8/*****3 *****1/4 TERMMAL 3883«l/2 *****/*****/*****/***** *****3/*****5/*****1/*****0 *****8/*****8/*****5 *****22 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE kiiTirTTT—tTrnnrTyn ii'iir."-M mn r*n nm cw bum gif htm ttiti my >>■*[ i;i n ii w tnn mn— rm m my rniM m mn
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    • 303 26 WEC WEST EUROPEAN CONTAINER LINES WEEKLY FULL CONTAfO SERVICE VIA ROT TIM) AM TO: CANARY ISLANDS TENERIFE LAS PALMAS. FUNCHAL PORTUGAL LISBON. LEIXOES (LCL ACCEPTABLE) TEL: *****26/ *****58 WORLD LINE EXPRESS REGULAR SERVICE JAPAN/HONGKONG/STRAITS VESSELS SPORI P KCLAMG BU* SHARK Wl-119 Otl 13/15 Oct H/17 GOLDEN LAKE Wl 13» Oct
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    • 344 26 TTTT H 11-!; i CO. PTE. LTD 24-12 Tonq Eng Bldq 101 Cecil Street, S'pore 0106. Tel: *****11/ *****30/ *****25 Tlx: RS ***** Lionwm WEEKLY/REGULAR SERVICE TO EAST MALAYSIA SENG HMG InPt/lO Oct KucMne/Slw/Sarkei. Binatant SENG LEOHG 15/16 Oct Kuchmj/Sixj/Sariei (CONVENTIONAL/SEMI-CONTAINER rAFRICAS NO u asmmi ay r w itrti,\ EAST
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    • 40 26 SHIPPING TEL *****33 (MAIN) PTE LTD TLX RS ***** RANGOON STOK BKK HKG KEEL MACMENA 24/10 9/11 14/11 20/11 (JUNO I) 31/10 lfi/U 21/11 CALL OTHER PORTS SUBJECT TO INDUCEMENT Omct MMMTTM HOUR 151. MR WK V 13-15/1< STOK 1311
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