The Business Times, 22 October 1985

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 99/1/85 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1985 75 CENTS
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  • 525 1  -  Sale of microchips down By BOEY KIT YIN SUDDEN SWINGS in certain sectors of the electronics industry were reflected in the domestic exports for the first half of this year which rose 6 per cent in spite of a long-drawn slack in the worldwide
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  • 116 1 Reuter ACTIVE TRADING at the debut of yen bond futures in Tokyo on Saturday and again yesterday could accelerate plans to introduce a similar contract on theh London International Financial Futures Exchange, Liffe chief executive Michael Jenkins has said. "We will look at
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  • 270 1 Reuter JAPANESE AND EUROPEAN monetary policies are diverging following a fall in the value erf the dollar but the Group of Five nations still aims to stop the dollar regaining ground. Japan's Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs, Tomomitsu Oba, told a
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  • 106 1 Reuter THE STATE-OWNED Moscow Narodny Bank is to suspend its activities in Lebanon. Said managing director Vladimir Tutinkov yesterday: "We are freezing operations some time in November. I don't know for how long." He gave no reason. The suspension follows the abduction of four Soviet embassy officials
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  • 331 1 IN A MOVE to provide better and brighter viewing, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation is introducing new programmes and revising its schedules from next Monday. The main reasons given for the change are to provide a wider choice and to improve viewers' convenience. The rescheduling
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  • 219 1 Reuter INDIA IS EXPECTED to decide soon on a major development of its isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands as a home for Hongkong residents wishing to leave before the 1997 Chinese takeover of the British colony. Official sources in New Delhi said the decision had
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  • 329 1 IN SPITE OF low growth in exports in the first eight months, Singapore's trade balance improved significantly. Its trade deficit narrowed to $4.9 billion for the period from January to August this year from $6.6 billion over the same period last year. This was because
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  • 84 1 Bernama THE TRENGGANU government has directed the Fisheries Department to sink all foreign fishing boats seized for intruding into Malaysian waters and convert them into artificial reefs. The action will reflect the government's firm stand against trespassing by foreign fishermen, State Deputy Fisheries
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  • Article, Illustration
    119 1 SHARE PRICES elnned substantially kigker again yesterday, nided by firm inventor demnad far Mne-ekip tones. Malaysian centers were mnstly neglected, altbnagk a knadfnl sf them managed to capture the top spats yesterday. Hk Straits Times Industrial Index rsne 1.51 prints to 171.16, wklle the Business Times Campsite Index
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  • 131 1 UPI BRITISH BREEDERS of quality dogs will be encouraged to raise bloodhounds with less droopy jaws and bulldogs with smaller heads for the sake of the animals' health. The Kennel Club, which sets standards for breeders in Britain, will publish a revision of the
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  • 381 1 NST MR TAN KOON SWAN, a former Malaysian Chinese Association vice president, said yesterday that nearly 80 per cent of the 3,300 delegates elected during the Malaysian Chinese Association divisional elections over the weekend are his supporters. Sources in his
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 386 3  -  A victim of circumstances, say trade observers By RICHARD SEAH NANYANG PHOTO Suppliers, a pioneer in the photographic trade, was order ordered to be wound up by the High Court. The company has been in the photographic business for about 30 years and its
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    • 238 3 MOTORISTS contributed $23 million to the Housing and Development Board's income in the last financial year. This represents 2 per cent of the board's income of $1.1 billion and was the fifth largest contributor to its income after rents, interest, service and conservancy charges
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    • 463 3 COMMUNITY CENTRES, cultural pursuits and continuing education seem to have fallen victim to bad times as well. Lending support to a view that the recession treats everybody equally, the People's Association's latest annual report showed a deficit for the last financial year.
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    • 324 3  -  By CHUANG PECK MING TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK for extensive direct wage bargaining, three employer groups are punning a major conference to persuade their members to be more open with workers. An American expert on infor-mation-sharing, Mr Harrison Johnson, has been invited to share
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    • 273 3 THE GOVERNMENT is pushing retailers to list their prices in a standard unit in weight or volume but it will not do so through legislation. "We don't intend to introduce legislation in this area," said Mr Tan Kian Chew, a deputy director from
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    • 118 3 OIL INDUSTRY experts from 17 countries will present papers at the Offshore South-east Asia Conference and Exhibition to be held at the World Trade Centre from Jan 28 to 31. Mr J M Ausman of Chevron Corporation will deliver an overview paper on "Oil
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    • 143 3 GRAPHIC PANELS to project the value-added concept are among the new exhibits that will be put up at the Singapore Science Centre from next month. The temporary exhibition titled "Value emphasises the need (or Singapore to produce high value-added products and the importance of investing in
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    • 232 3 BJORN DIES EN hash been appointed by the ESAB Group of Sweden as its regional director in charge of operations in the Far East. Mr Diesen, who will be based in Singapore, was the managing director of ESAB Pte Ltd and other ESAB companies in the area
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    • 137 3 DR CHARLES L SCHULTZE, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics of the University of Maryland, has been appointed a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor. Dr Schultze, an economic adviser to former President Jimmy Carter, was the president of the
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    • 284 3 BRUNEI'S first international conference next month will promote Joint venture development in the oil-rich nation. But the welcome message may not be heard by any Singapore entrepreneur. A spokesman for the organisers told BT that the conference, "Doing business in Brunei through
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    • 353 4  -  Pharmaceuticals industry poised for further growth By BOEY KIT YIN WHILE MANY SECTORS have been severely hit by the economic downturn, the healthcare and pharmaceuticals sector looks set to surge ahead this year. The industry produced $590 million worth of medicines last year 30
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    • 379 4  -  By LUCY NG FALLING BUSINESS at home has forced Chemitreat Pte Ltd to plan a more aggressive penetration of the international market next year. The water-and-waste treatment company is now setting up a branch in East Malaysia and is looking into the possibility
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    • 105 4 GROSS EARNINGS of Singapore Engineering and Consultancy Services (Specs) hit the $5.5 million mark last year. A significant portion of the earnings of the consultancy arm of the Port of Singapore Authority came from several large projects it had undertaken overseas. Among the prestigious overseas
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    • 496 4 VICTIMS of nuisance telephone calls can now have their incoming calls screened by a device invented by Telecoms. The prototypes of the telephone interceptor require a four-digit secret code to be entered before the call is connected. Over the past year,
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    • 399 4 WHAT ARE THE concerns of top executives? A management consultancy company, PA Consulting Services, intends to carry out a survey next year to find the answer to that question from top executives in private companies as well as statutory boards.
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    • 167 4 FIJI IS KEEN to tap Singapore's expertise in the hotel and building industries and will like more joint ventures with the Republic. This message was conveyed by the director of the Economic Development Board of Fiji, Mr Narendra Singh, during talks with the Singapore Contractor's Association
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    • 279 4 last thing Hngapare needs is a new note! addition. Unless it's the new Vallev Wine at the Shangri-La. Shangri-La Singapore now has an impressive new extension. The Vallev Wing. Each floor in this superb addition is limited to 12 guest rooms. And each elegantly-appointed room is an impressive 52 sq
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 798 5 AFP THE BRITISH, who like to compare their industry, trade and national wealth with the economies of Japan and West Germany, have been surprised to hear that they are more in line with the Italians, and that their country could
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    • 681 5 NYT FRICTION BETWEEN the US and South Korea over trade issues is not new, but the protectionist mood sweeping Washington has officials in both countries worrying about broader diplomatic and political consequences. Other American trading partners have similar concerns, but the relationship with
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    • 563 5 AP AFTER FAMINE STRUCK a decade ago, 340 international missions visited Upper Volta in a single year to look at food problems. People starve there today in the same remote corners where others did then. A disorganised international donor community is part of the problem.
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 689 6 Thatcher agrees to voluntary sanctions against South Africa Reuter COMMONWEALTH LEADERS, Including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, have given South Africa six months to start dismantling apartheid or else face a programme of voluntary sanctions. An accord released in the Bahamas on Sunday night represented
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    • 364 6 AP FREE WORLD governments must convince their populations that science and technology do not pose a threat to employment. Science ministers from seven industrialised countries, attending a conference on technology, agreed on Sunday on the need to "raise public awareness about the positive impact
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    • 173 6 NYT PARTIES TO THE Antarctic Treaty have agreed to restrict human access to 16 areas of special scientific or environmental value in Antarctica. The 32-nation group, responsible for regulating human activity on the frozen continent, also moved closer to adopting a standard
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    • 298 6 Reuter THREE PEOPLE who have observed the United Nations from different high-level perspectives, including Singapore's Ambassador to the US, Tommy Koh, Judge it to be ineffective, incompetent and powerless, according to a published report. "The General Assembly is seen less and less as a forum
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    • 354 6 Reuter THE ONLY TIME relations between the US and the Soviet Union could have been worse was in the years before 1933, Soviet spokesman Leonid Zamyatin said. He told the Newsweek magazine that the only reason things might have been
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    • 232 6 AFP TENS OF THOUSANDS of pacifists demonstrated in Brussels on Sunday against nuclear weapons, including the presence of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation missiles in Belgium. Police estimated the turnout at 45,000, Belgian radio at 100,000 and organisers at 200,000. The pacifists protested against the
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    • 136 6 AP IRISH POP SINGER Bob Geldof, the organiser of the Live Aid concert, has wound up a visit to Africa to see how famine relief funds are being spent and denied a report he is quitting the aid effort. Speaking from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by telephone
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    • 336 6 Reuter AMERICAN socialites are offering up to US$lOO,OOO to get an invitation to a dinner for the Prince and Princess of Wales during their three-day visit to Washington next month. Newsweek reported that for the Nov 9 White House
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    • 108 6 Reuter DENMARK'S attention has been focused on growing signs of racism after the murder of a taxi driver, apparently by a right-wing gunman, following a sharp increase in immigration. Taxi driver Kurt Gaarn-Larsen, 49, was found dead in his cab last Saturday after a
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    • 240 7 UPI ISRAELI Prime Minister Shimon Peres has secretly met Jordan's King Hussein to discuss the Jordanian proposal that the Soviet Union be included in peace negotiations and that they be held under international auspices. Newsweek magazine, quoting highly-reliable sources, said in this week's edition
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    • 230 7 AFP THE PHILIPPINE postal service has found a novel way of checking mail theft by its employees by hiring deaf-mute sorters who work methodically and report on wrong-doings they see. Postmaster General Roilo Golez said yesterday that the number of thefts had dropped and efficiency had
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    • 866 7 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time sv SV379 0115 SEL PAA PA21 0020 LAX/TYO/HKG CAL CI341 0255 TPE/KUL CAL CI337 0255 TPE/KUL MAS MH60I 0720 KUL MAS MH68I 0820 KUL MAS MH603 0905 KUL MAS MH811 0940 PEN MAS MH671 0950 KUL SIA SQ103 1005 KUL
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    • 185 7 AFP TAIWAN IS PLANNING to attract more foreign investment in high technology by tax incentives, the erasing of red-tape and other liberalisation measures in the proposed fourth export processing zone. An official from the Export Processing Zone Administration said yesterday that the
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    • 501 7 International links helped to stop hijackers AFP NYT THE UNITED STATES has a worldwide anti-terrorist network that made posible the capture of the hijackers of the luxury liner, Achille Lauro. It has also foiled about 80 other planned terrorist attacks this year, CIA director
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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    • 294 7 FOR OVER A CENTURY IT W\S THE CENTRE FOR SHOPPING By 1858, Raffles Place had already established itself as the thriving commercial heart of Singapore. In that year, two significant events heralded a whole new era for the area. ,«mm* of tjie time, start, Robinson's was a roaring success as
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 644 8  -  Sang Kancil is BT's financial futures trader. DAVID GABRIEL each Tuesday traces his tactics and strategies on Simex. His starting capital was 5525,000, a sum within the reach of most professionals in Singapore. DAVID GABRIEL THE FLU got the better
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    • 604 8 SINGAPORE THE US dollar yesterday closed lower against most major currencies after fluctuating uncertainly on European selling and short-covering, in quiet late trading, dealers said. It finished weaker at 2.6230/40 marks compared with New York's Friday 2.6270/85 close, at 2.1535/50 Swiss francs against 2.1565/95 and at 214.55/65 yen
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    • 347 8 BA Futures EURODOLLAR futures yesterday opened lower than Friday's close on technical correction. However, the market outlook remains bullish. The December contract was locked in a narrow range of 91.78 and 91.80 after opening at 91.79 in quiet trading. Liffe opening saw little further interest with the December contract
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    • Article, Illustration
      314 8 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at opening levels in quiet trading. Periods were steady to slightly lower at the outset and remained unchanged in subsequent trading. One, three and six months closed at 8-1/16 715/16, 8-3/16 8-1/16 and 85/16 8-3/16 per cent, respectively. Short-dates were little
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    • 277 8 HONGKONG: GOLD PRICES yesterday closed lower on a round of late selling despite a weakening US dollar. Dealers said Middle East and European selling set off the retreat with local traders Joining their ranks. It finished the day at its lows at U*****.70/327.10 per ounce against a close of
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    • 232 8 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: > Locol dollars to OOC Uftlt of t Qf ,g p Md on* < currency US donor 2 1320 2 1330 2.8196 -24 39 Sterling pound ***** 3.0715 7 3469 -58 24 Austrohon dolor 1 5009 1 5037 ***** -56 22 NZ dolor
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    • 70 8 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market rose by point from Friday to close at 4H per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate rose by 5/16 while the two- and three-month rates remained unchanged. S$ Interbonk rotes at 3pm yesterday: OHw Bid Over night 4 7/8
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    • 435 9 Reuter THE DOLLAR could fall below 200 yen because of weakening confidence in the US economy and foreign exchange intervention, US government and private economists said. They challenged Tokyo foreign exchange dealers' view that the dollar will not fall that much because
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    • 104 9 AP THE MALAYSIAN government will expand the powers of Bank Negara, the central bank, and enable it to bail out any Malaysian bank that runs into financial trouble. Under a Bill scheduled to appear during the current session of Parliament, the bank could
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    • 149 9 AFP HONGKONG needs to develop a strong domestic market to underwrite its own securities market. Hongkong, the world's third financial centre, lacks its own "strongly developed indigenous securities market," said Stephen Hunt, Bank of America's vice-president and local area general manager. The territory "must become
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    • 398 9 Reuter RECENT WEAK US economic data and growing confidence the Federal Reserve is not firming policy could help drive interest rates lower in spite of more government borrowing. Treasury bill rates edged lower last week as coupon issue prices rose V* to
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    • 217 9 NYT NEW YORK CITY'S major banks announced generally robust results last week for their third quarter, and a number of Wall Street analysts are recommending the purchase of selected stocks in this group. More surprisingly, a faint hint of support is beginning to
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    • 262 9 AP CHINA HAS LAUNCHED a crackdown on the abuse of bank loans and administrative powers for personal gain and on other economic crimes. The official English language newspaper, the China Daily, said yesterday that the State Council, China's equivalent of a Cabinet, recently issued
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    • 873 9 NYT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS are now starting to enjoy what the US Treasury has had pretty much to itself (or a number of years: Japanese investments in foreign securities. Since last December, when Japan's Ministry of Finance put into effect a new effort to liberalise
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  • FEATURES
    • 490 10 CONSPIRACY THEORIES rarely have a basis in fact, but there is no doubt about the existence of the carton cartel revealed in BT's report yesterday. It kept a tight control on prices by restricting competition. Those who deviated were said to have been investigated by private detectives and
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    • 1045 10  -  Plans for a new US television survey gadget stir fears of invasion of privacy By PETER KAPLAN NYT THE A C NIELSEN CO, whose ratings are the single most powerful factor in US television advertising and programming, has announced that it will begin experimenting with a new
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    • 640 10  -  letter to the Editor TAMMIE LORE (MRS) Mmoager, Public Relations. Mm RapM Transit Corporation Dear Sir The BT report on Oct 17 quoted engineers employed by some MRTC contractors as saying that expatriates were taking away jobs from Singaporeans. We would like to respond to
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    • 95 10 First Come. First Served BRITISH r rr,tishMß^ s r British Airways fly daily one-stop flights to London. We are the first airline to leave Singapore at 10.10pm everyday. And the first to arrive in London by 6.20 am. So that at Heathrow, passengers on British Airways are the first from
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  • SPORTS
    • 666 11  -  By BRIAN MILLER FOR MORE THAN three minutes at Sydney's Tattersalls Club last week, the judges and timekeepers kept the two tired swimmers waiting in the pool. It had been a basher of a race a contest between two superbly fit athletes battling it out over the
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    • 537 11 AFP A RECORD-EQUALLING round by Greg Norman spearheaded an Australian 3-0 triumph over the top-seeded US in the final of the million-dollar Dunhill Golf Cup at St Andrew's on Sunday. The "Great White Shark" shot a seven-under-par 65 to thrash Mark O'Meara, the American star
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    • 317 11 Reuter STEVE JONES of Britain won the ninth annual America's Marathon of Chicago on Sunday in two hours, seven minutes, 13 seconds, just two seconds off the world record. Joan Benoit-Samuelson of the US, competing in her first marathon since winning the
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    • 88 11 MALAYSIA'S High Commissioner to Singapore, Mr KT Dhamaratnam, and Telecoms chairman Frank Yung missed winning the Singapore Manufacturers' Association golf tournament by a stroke last weekend and had to settle for the run-ner-up spot. The pair carded a nett 63 to finish behind Mobil's resale manager,
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    • 453 11 By WALTON MORAIB IN SPITE OF the seeding, tennis observers are predicting that the men's winner of this year's Toyota Singapore Open will not be the top seed. The talk is that number three seed Enrico Piperno of India is
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1120 11 to sm mm Morrick (Tim Pigott-Smith, right) confronts Hari Kumar (Art Malik) THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN Tha Bibighar Garden* 9.00 pm, Channal 12 Tonight, Hari is arrested on flimsy evidence following the rape of a young English girl, Daphne Manners, in the Babighar Gardens. Later Daphne discovers that she
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    • 795 11 Play golf the Sevvy way A COMMON FAULT WfTU AMATEURS IS THATTHEV DO NOT SH»FT THE. WEVGHT GORAECTLV ON THE &ACKSVJING,... ...EITHER THEy SHAY BEYOND THE RIGHT FOOT.... OR THEY KEEP THE WEIGHT OH THE LEFT FOOT... m m ...THE >NEIGHT SHOULD GO ONTO THE. INSIDE OF THE RIGHT FOOT
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 835 12 Leveraged buyout bid of USs4.9b rejected NYT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the Beatrice Companies unanimously rejected on Sunday a US$4.9 billion acquisition bid from Kohl berg, Kravis, Roberts Co, the leveraged buyout specialists. After a five-and-a-half hour meeting, the Beatrice board concluded that the $45-a-share
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    • 177 12 BRITISH TELECOM (BT) has formed a UK-based joint venture with McDonnell Douglas Information Systems, part of the large US aerospace and engineering group, to launch electronic transaction services for business customers. The services, developed by McDonnell Douglas, enable business documents such as purchase orders,
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    • 433 12 Reuter ELDERS OF AUSTRALIA is offering 255p cash per share for Allied-Lyons PLC, valuing the company at £1.8 billion, a statement from Elders said. Elders is makii.g the bid without the aid of consortium partners. "We have decided to proceed alone
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    • 414 12 UPI NEGOTIATORS for 70,000 striking US Chrysler Corp workers returned to the bargaining table yesterday, following a weekend settlement by their Canadian counterparts. A tentative agreement between Chrysler Canada and the Canadian United Auto Workers was reached on Sunday, probably ending a
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    • 114 12 Reuter INIZIATTVA ME TA, a subsidiary of the Montedison chemicals group, is to merge with Bi-lnvest Spa, a finance company it acquired in July. A Montedison spokesman said on Sunday that the boards of both companies had agreed to the merger and the proposal would
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 387 13 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday closed firmer in fairly active trading as sentiment improved. Institutional investors realigning their portfolios showed fresh buying interest in utilities and banks, two sectors which had been lagging behind the market recently The Hang Seng index rose 26.17 to 1,666.06. Turnover was HK5421.23 million compared
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    • 315 13 TOKYO: Share prices yesterday barely firmed and trading was extremely thin as a waiting mood took over the market and the average edged up 4.70 to 13,020.39. The turnover was 200 million shares, about half a normal full day's trading but typical of Mondays when overseas markets are still
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    • 76 13 MANILA: Share prices closed mixed in quiet trading. The Commercial and Industrial index rose 1.18 to 181.45 while the mining marker fell 0.20 to 698.10. Oils remained unchanged at 0.779. OCT 21 tmm Mofstctl Onantal B Ptvkx B 0016 0.014 0001 -0 126 0001 0 011 PLOT 37 unch
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    • 369 13 SYDNEY: Australian shares yesterday closed at a record high in thin trading with a lack of sellers fueling rises across the boards. Industrial issues led the market after an uncertain start, and the gains flowed on to other sectors in spite of a lack of fresh news. The All
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    • 94 13 OCT 21 Won Hyundoi Comt Hyundai Motor 915 914 5 -13 Bark S«<Mi 720 8 KAL 498 10 Chohiuig Ik 694 +3 Korea FrM 736 +2 Commercial 8k 740 1 1334 430 Dotkm M 0o#woo Corp 590 11 Yukooa Karoo Sh*> -5 495 +4 Lucky Ltd 661 +31 0o«woo
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    • 148 13 BANGKOK: Share prices yesterday closed slightly higher in inactive trading. The Book Club index rose 0.19 point to 132.15 and advances led declines by a small margin. Turnover was 150,129 shares worth 19.0 million baht. Siam Cement gained four baht to close at 543 and Siam City Cement rose
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    • 43 13 Reuter SQUIBB CORP's joint venture with Shanghai Pharmaceutical Industrial Corp, Sino-American Shanghai Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd, has dedicated an US$B million pharmaceutical finishing plant in China. Located in Shanghai's Min Hang district, the 6,300-sq-m plant will employ 150 Chinese technicians. Reuter
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    • 197 13 NYT WITH THE WAY finally clear for foreign securities firms to become members of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, more than a dozen firms were yesterday expected to apply for seats. The firms are expected to include such American giants as Merrill
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    • 240 13 AP A ROBOT capable of carrying out precision tasks will be mass produced in China under a joint venture agreement between a Florida developer and a Chinese aerotechnology corporation. Aerobe Automation Technology Inc, and China National Aerotechnology Import and Export
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    • 93 13 AFP ISUZU MOTORS, a leading Japanese carmaker, has successfully developed a ceramic car engine and is planning to market a passenger car mounted with the engine in 1990, an Istmi spokesman has said. The new engine has combustion chamber parts such as piston rings and valves
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 457 14 AFP THE 1986-87 (September-Au-gust) sugar season "could be critical" for the world market, London trading company Czarnikow has predicted in its market review. A further increase in consumption can be "confidently expected" if only because the world population will increase, the review said. But
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    • 134 14 Reuter THE EXECUTIVE committee of the World Association of Beet and Cane Growers (WABCG) has appointed a two-man subcommittee to examine a new International Sugar Agreement (ISA), according to the Australian Cane Growers Council. The committee, meeting in Paris, appointed Council Chairman
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    • 136 14 SINGAPORE'S rubber exports dropped by 114,887 tonnes or 16.9 per cent to 565,707 tonnes in the first eight months of this year, according to figures by the Department of Statistics. Exports of all categories of rubber fell from 87,847 tonnes in August
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    • 311 14 Agencies THE THAI Cabinet has approved a proposal to guarantee a floor price for part of the country's new rice crop. Deputy Finance Minister Suthee Singhsaneh said the decision guarantees farmers 3,000 baht few each tonne of 5 per cent paddy they sell
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    • 75 14 Bernama THE KUALA LUMPUR Commodity Exchange (KLCE) will start trading in palm kernel futures early next year. KLCE board member Toh Pang Huat said the exchange is putting the finishing touches on the contract in consultation with the local palm oil industry. Futures trading on the
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    • 132 14 Reuter TAIWAN WILL CONVERT 400,000 tonnes of unpolished rice into feedstuff to cut warehouse stockpiles in 1985/86 ending June, the Food Bureau has said. About 300,000 tonnes were turned into feedstuff during the previous fiscal year, a bureau official said. The government will increase
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    • 259 14 NYT BULGARIA is importing large quantities of grain from the West to compensate for the sharp fall in domestic production caused by a severe drought and to prevent serious shortages during the coming winter. According to Mr Yovtcho Roussev, the deputy president of the National
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    • 154 14 Chinese Produce Exchange (Setters' noon closing prices on Oct 21 (SS/100 kg). Coconut oil Bulk FOB 75 00 Old drum FOB 88 00 New drum FOB 92.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 40 buyers Pepper Murrtok White FOB NLW 940 00 Sarawak White FOB faq NLW 930 00 Sarawak special
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    • 281 14 Singapore (S$/krfo, ei-fodown) Frog rant new crop 1st 076 2nd 0 54. 3rd 0.57 New Crop 25% no stock 10% no stock Thai Brokan A-super 054 Special 052 Thai Rica 55% no stock China Rica 10% no stock 15% 072 25% no stock 35% no stock Thai Boiled Rica
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    • 178 14 Yarn (In HK$ per bote of 400 lb) China corded yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 16's 2,500 Blue Phoerax 20*s 2,550 Blue Phoenix 32'i 2,950 Blue Phoenix 40's 3,300 Girded yarn, hank Blue Phoenix 21 's 2,750 Combed yarn, cones Blue Phoenix 32's 4,100 Blue Phoenix 40"* 4,300 Open-end yarn
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    • 839 14 COFFEE RESILIENT SENTIMENT and constructive charts yesterday helped lift robusta coffee futures off morning lows to end the morning session at up £3 to down £5 a tonne from Friday's close in fairly quiet business. The market drifted easier for most of the morning in light volume, depressed
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    • 104 14 THE Eaalt Lupr tin prlee yesterday eased (•w cents to elaae at M$29Jl per Uto, die to an absence si overseas The baiter stoek manager was the mala buyer, taking the balk of yesterday's efferlag el 118 tones which did set iaclade nay foreign metal. Friday's turnover was
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    • 248 14 MiOAPORE THE MARKET yesterday closed slightly lower with November One RSS buyers quoted at 161.25 cents per kOo, down 0.25 cent from last Friday. The morning session ended steady at last Friday's level after fhirtusting within a narrow range in quiet trading. Trading continued quiet in the afternoon with
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    • 146 14 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday closed slightly higher on light covering interest amid dull conditions as sellers were reserved in view of the current km prices. October deliveries in the central and south regions rose five and M32JO respectively to $665 per tonne, while November in the
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    • 263 14 RAS prices in S conn/kg, FOB b> olat NOON CLOSE Int 1 RSS Prompt wiyen 160.00 161 00N 160.00 161.00N Int 1 RSS Nov 85 161.50 162.00 161.25 161 75 Int 1 RSS Dm 85 162 75 163.25 162.75 163.25 Int 2 RSS O P 153.00 154.00N
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    • 95 14 (c«n ft/kg, 1-ton PoU*ti)NOV 85 DEC 85 (currant month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Sdltrs Buyers C-M SSR 20 152 50 154.50N 153.50 155.50N SSR 50 150 50 152.50N 151 50 153.50N MRELB Buy«rt S*Htn Buftn Stilt n SMR CV ***** 2I4 50N 213.50 215 50N SMR
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    • 459 14 NOTICES! THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP IB TOW INVESTMENT PRIVATE LOOTED (IN MEMBEW VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at an Extraordinary General Meeting of TOW INVESTMENT PRIVATE LIMITED dVily convened and held at 4 Jalan Merah Saga, Singapore 1027 on 14 October 1965, the following resolutions were duly passed
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4397 15 EXTENDING the gains made last Friday, the Singapore stockmarket moved higher yesterday backed by active interest in blue-chip and quality issues. Although investors tended to favour local counters over Malaysian-based counters, a handful of new focus stocks like Time Engineering and Bedford managed to
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    • 269 15 SINGAPORE Piftp« Indices Rises Oct IS Oct 21 ii y p. 1 OftO +40 ®T Composite 660 21 666 34 T P*" 'sg *****77 *****07 rT u 25 til Ot/OS -103 +13 LLd SO. 170 25 »TCAW 5254 -5210 372 +W «TO#V -***** -***** rTT-/TL. wo 118
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    • 4548 15 BID and offer prices officially listed and >■!— in and reparted to the Stock Exchange < at Singapore yesterday with the < number at shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All I Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 628 16 mum mm IN A REPORT on the Malaysian Airline System, London-based stockbrokers de Zoete and Bevan expect the airline's shares to fetch a (nice "in excess of Ms 4 w perhaps even higher" in the short term. The brokers
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    • 3100 16 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. MDUSTRMLS Acuta (1 70S) AjMomoto (3.265) A Owe (3.206) (8)
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    • 101 16 HONGKONG Friday 1506.7 Week ago 1505.5 Hong Seng Index Monday 1666 06 NEW YORK Friday 1639 89 Week ago 1594 35 Dow Jones Friday 1368 84 TOKYO Thursday *1369.29 Week ago 1339 94 Tokyo Nikkei Monday ***** 39 Saturday *****.69 Stondard Poors Friday 187.04 Thursday 187.66 Week ago
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    • 275 16 Monogen'prk« for Oct 22 8ingapors Unit Trust The Commerce 180 1.91 The Savings Fund 132 140 S pore Prog Fund 0 77 *0 82 S'pore Sec Fund 112 119 S'pore Invest Fund 0 79 0 84 S'pore Equity Fund 0 81 0 86 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest
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    • 103 16 THE MALAYSIAN Airline System (MAS) has no immediate plans to diversify into other fields. Managing director Datuk Ha ji Abdul Aziz said the present scope of interests, which included some subsidiaries involved in related industries, would remain unchanged. "We will probably remain like this for a
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    • 302 16 Bernama GENTING BHD has signed an agreement with the Hotel Corporation of the Bahamas to take up a 50 per cent stake in the corporation's Lucayan Properties and operate the Lucayan beach casino and hotel resort in Freeport on the Grand
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    • 619 16 INVESTORS came in on fresh buying interest at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday and share prices were higher on a wide front. Selective counters, which caught investors' attention, put on impressive gains but many of these were off-best due to some last-minute
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    • 935 16 EQUITIES ended slightly easier after a lacklustre session with the market (ailing to continue last week's rise to record levels. The broadly based FTSE 100 share index at 1430 GMT was down 1.5 at 1339.7, while the FT-30 index at 1400 GMT was off 3.8 from Friday's record
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    • 92 16 THE TEMEBLOH Ratter Estates Berkad: 71st AGM at Standard Chartered Bank Chambers, Penang today at 12.15 pm. CI HOLDINGS Berkad: 8th AGM at the Abbey Room, Ground Floor, Hotel Merlin, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Oct 26, at 9.30 am. THE AYE* HIT AM PUatlag fTjadhsIti
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    • 356 17 u mm... By HOCK LOCK SIEW ONCE AGAIN, Batu Kawan Bhd and Duff Development Bhd have asked for their shares to be suspended at the same time. Batu Kawan, a member of the Kuala Lumpur Kepong group headed by Tan Sri Datuk Lee Loy Seng,
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    • 263 17 THE APPLICATION BY two parties to have their names removed as defendants in the interim injunction served to freeze the sale of shares in Allied Chocolate Industries to Mr Lee Ming Tee has been dismissed. The senior assistant registrar of the Singapore Supreme Court decided in chambers yesterday
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    • 118 17 IN A MOVE that could lead to more significant developments, directors of Sigma Metal Co Ltd have proposed to change the company's name and to restructure its aluminium manufacturing operations. Sigma, which was taken over by the Tan Koon Swan-led Grand United Holdings, announced yesterday that
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    • 303 17  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM AFTER ITS ALL-TIME high profits in the last fiscal year, property-cum-plantation group Island A Peninsular Bhd saw its earnings stabilise in the six months to July 1965. Nonetheless, the directors expect the whole year's profits before tax at least
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    • 450 17  -  Haw Par Brothers discusses possibility with T L Lau By HOMER CHEN IN AN UNEXPECTED turn of events, Haw Par Brothers has held discussions with T L Lau Management Consultants, one of its competitors for the contract to revamp Haw Par Villa, on
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    • 154 17 AUSTRAL ENTERPRISES Bhd: Group pre-tax profits down 30 per cent to MJ4.7 million for the six months ended July 31 on turnover $11.5 million down 16 per cent. A first interiip dividend of 10 per cent gross (adJusted 8.6 per cent). 80UTH JOHORE Amalgamated H«Mlags Bhd: Group taxable
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    • 188 17 This announcement appears as a matter of record only October, 1985 VspcJ Singapore Petroleum Company Private Limited U5570,000,000 Note Issuance Facility (comprising US$6O million underwritten and US$2O million non-underwritten) Facility Agent Morgan Grenfell (Asia) Limited Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank N.V. National Australia Bank Limited, Singapore Branch Security Pacific Bank Asia Limited Underwriting
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  • LATE FILE
    • 42 18 Reuter ALLIED-LYONS PLC's directors and financial advisers have unanimously agreed that the £1.8 billion cash bid from Elders IXL Ltd of Australia should be rejected. Elders earlier yesterday said it was offering 255p per Allied-Lyons ordinary share. Reuter
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    • 39 18 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN national debt as at September stood at M 560.6 billion. Deputy Finance Minister Sabbaruddin Chik said yesterday $21.1 billion comprised foreign debts and $39.5 billion was money owed within the country.
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    • 49 18 Bernama TEN PROTON SAGAS of the 1.3 and 1.5 models left yesterday for China where they will initially be used for limousine services in Beijing. Hongkong-based China BeiZhung Co Ltd has been appointed to handle the importation of the Malaysian cars into China. Bernama
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    • 50 18 AFP A NORTH KOREAN spyboat sunk in a gun battle by South Korean forces was believed to be carrying a sixmember crew planning to destroy South Korean strategic military facilities. Officials in Seoul said yesterday all those aboard the boat were believed to be dead.
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    • 39 18 Reuter ITALIAN President Francesco Cossiga yesterday asked outgoing Prime Minister Bettino Craxi to try to form a government to replace the one which collapsed over the Achille Lauro hijack, the Presidential Palace announced. Reuter
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    • 67 18 UPI AMERICAN envoy John Whitehead said his meeting with President Hosni Mubarak yesterday left the US and Egypt with a "better understanding" of each other after the diplomatic turmoil sparked by the interception of an Egyptian plane by American jets. Mr Whitehead, a deputy Secretary of State,
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    • 58 18 UPI POLICE in Manila fired into the ranks of about 3,000 demonstrators yesterday as they marched towards President Ferdinand Marcos's palace, leaving one protester dead and 25 other people wounded. Mr Marcos has ordered an investigation into the shooting, which erupted shortly after the demonstrators
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  • 487 18 THE SECTION of Scotts Road from the junction af Draycott Road to Orchard Road will be closed to traffic until further notice. "We're not closing the road because of immediate danger," said a spokeswoman for the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation
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  • 222 18 YESTERDAY'S closure of a section of Scotts Road due to a cave-in created problems for hotels and shopping centres and a "massive" traffic jam outside the Royal Holiday Inn Hotel. A Goodwood Park Hotel spokeswoman told BT that business at its popular food outlets had been affected
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  • 94 18 Reuter COMEX gold futures drifted US$O.4O to 0.80 lower yesterday morning in the absence of clear dollar movement. Gold for December delivery was off $0.40 at $329.30 an ounce, with initial selling pressure leveling off at $328.80 versus Friday's low of $328.60. The market was featureless
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  • 66 18 Reuter THE US stock market slipped lower at mid-morning yesterday although departmental store stocks rose in reaction to the latest buyout news. The Dow Jones industrial average was off two points to 1367. Declines led advances by a four-three margin on 23.94 million shares. Avon products led
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  • 129 18 WORK "will go on as usual" for the MRT tunnel being bored through Scotts Road, where a "hole" caused a section of the road to be closed yesterday. "This sort of problem is not unusual/' said Mr Michael Fam, the
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  • 520 18 NEW LEGISLATION on copyright protection is likely to be introduced in Parliament next year, according to Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore's Ambassador to the US. Prof Koh said this in Washington when he argued the case for the retention of preferential treatment for 19 local
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  • 384 18  -  By ALVIN TAY SINGAPORE may be facing zero or negative economic growth this year, but some 90 of the world's leading economists feel the Republic will still end the year with the 12th best performance among 119 sovereign countries. The Republic's economic
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  • 499 18  -  By FOO CHOY PENG IN A RECENT STUDY into the external financing of 24 developing countries, Singapore was shown to have the greatest dependence on foreign direct investment. This form of investment accounted for 92 per cent of Singapore's gross external liabilities in 1983,
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  • 192 18 COMPETITION IN THE HOTEL industry is so tough that all the six hotels in the Havelock Road belt are pooling their resources to promote their properties jointly for the first time. The six Apollo Singapore Hotel, Furama Singapore Hotel, The Glass Hotel, King's
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    • 56 18 \sMoOaa Outlook for today: Showers in several areas are expected from pre-dawn hours onwards. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Oct 21 at the airport: Maximum temperature 30.5 Associated humidity 71 Minimum temperature 22.7 Associated humidity 96 Hours of sunshine 2.10 Rainfall in millimetres 12.9 Rainfolt this month
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 119 19 UPI A GROUP OF three companies has won a $29 million contract from the Sabah Port Authority for expansion of facilities at the Kota Kinabalu port. Kawasaki Steel Corp said the project calls for extending the ports north and south jetties from
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    • 360 19  -  By G DURAIRAJ KONTENA NASIONAL hopes to secure the recognition of the Far Eastern Freight Conference for its integrated inland container clearance depot at Prai, in Penang. The recognition is expected to pave the way for a higher utilisation of the
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    • 228 19 Seatrade Week THE KOREA Maritime A Ports Administration (KMPA) is now studying a plan to bring together Korea Shipping Corporation, Hanjin Container Line and Hyundai Merchant Marine Co (HMMC) to operate a joint service between the Far East and the
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    • 186 19 Reuter THE GREEK government will not renew after its expiry last weekend a 1963 law which conceded to some shipowners' demands but also angered owners by forbidding them to employ any seaman for more than nine months at a time. A merchant marine ministry
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 100 19 Reuter SOUTH KOREAN shipyards failed to win new foreign orders for the second consecutive month in September, the Korea Shipbuilders Association said. Orders totalled 7,600 gross tons for 10 ships in September 1964. Association officials said the 1964 tonnage was low because the ships were
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      • 110 19 Reuter FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING orders received by Japanese yards in September fell to 50,460 gross tonnes for seven ships from 395,000 for 16 ships in August and from 203,050 for six ships a year earlier, the Japan Ship Exporters Association said. The decline in orders since
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    • 1182 20 INTEREST was maintained on the London freights market on Friday in the US Gulf grain loading origin in tonnage for shipments to Europe. Krohn took the Tenoch at US$B.25 (fio) for two 55,000-ton consecutive shipments to Holland or Belgium commencing Nov 18-25, while Tradax fixed the Endeavor for
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    • 880 20 UPI AS SHE STOOD on the podium beside President Dwight Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth n was effusive in her praise of the brand new St Lawrence Seaway. "One of the most outstanding engineering accomplishments of all time," she said on that overcast June morning in 1959. Eisenhower
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    • 635 20 THE SCANDINAVIAN yards, with their eyes toward the future, are busy shaping the cruise ships of tomorrow, according to Cruise Industry News, the newsletter of the trade. According to a survey the publication recently completed of shipyards worldwide, the Scandinavian yards are pouring an
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    • 690 20 AB Shpg V 5 Afea Line VI 3 Alphatrans X 3 A PC Line V 4 APL M 2/3 Anro Service IV 3/4 ANL I 1/2 ASCL 1 1 Bolt-Canada Line VI 4/5 Bait-Orient Line VI 4/5 Bank Line V 5 BBS 1 4/5 Bayswater Shpg X
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    • 243 21 Reuter JAPANESE CREDITOR banks of Sanko Steamship Co Ltd have agreed to supply 20 billion yen in new loans to the company, which sought court protection in August with debts of 520 billion yen, banking sources said. The Daiwa Bank Ltd, the
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    • 585 21 Reuter A FLOTILLA OF tankers carrying blended alcohol is racing for US ports to beat a customs deadline that could save Brazilian distillers millions of dollars. The tankers hope to land about 96.5 million litres of Brazilian alcohol with additives before midnight Oct 31,
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    • 169 21  -  -By Kingsley Wood HONGKONG ISLANDS Line is adding two ships to its Boomerang service linking the US west coast with the Far East and Australia. At the same time the round trip is being doubled in frequency from monthly to every two
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    • 486 21 Oct 19-26 sth international port equipment and port economy exhibition, Leningrad, USSR. Oct 20-23 Annual conference, Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Oct 21-23 Deep Offshore Technology, third international conference and exhibition. Conference Centre, Sorrento, Italy. Oct 22-24 Developments in hull
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    • 5554 26 aSMBMLB 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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    • 662 27 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location HK Container 46E 22.10.85 1730 Jardine Fl 0900-0930 G3 Ned Delft 364 22.10.85 1700 Ned-EAC F7 0800-0900/0700-0800 P2/S2 Shang Cheng 17S18N 22.10 85 1900 Y Fung Fl
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    • 1626 27 The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents. A-B A Top Enterprises Pte Ltd Same (S) AB Shipping Bousteod Shpg Agencies Afeo Line African Shpg Agencies (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S) Alfred C Toepfer Oceanus ShippmgAgencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK) American
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    • 521 28 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES B Swapna K27 Unipacific alongside 22.10.85/0700 Koheng K19 Sin Chiao alongside 22.10.85/0600 Oc Star No 1 K28 S'pore Shp alongside 22.10.85/1830 Viet Xo 79 K21 NAPL alongside 22.10.85/1200 Alwasitti K20 Unipacific 22.10.85/1500 24.10.85/2300 Equator 3 K22 Thong
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    • 331 28 AFP CONTINUED good demand was evident few large size tonnage in the Gulf states area last week thanks in part to increased production of crude by Saudi Arabia and better availability from Iran. Rates for most of these fixtures were unavailable, but a ultra large crude carrier (ULOC)
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    • 72 19 The OPENING OF the St Lowrence Seaway made headlines in 1959, but now 26 years later the seawoy is in the news again. Page II A FLOTILLA OF tankers is racing for US ports to beat a customs deadline that could save Brazilian distillers millions of dollars. Page 111 Index
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    • 316 22 HSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD m ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICES Sncaparc Loadnf h RAN GHEYAMAT 2S/10 B Abbas A VESSEL 15/11 B. Abbas B. Abbas. B. Khomcn B. Abbas, B. Khomeini KYOWA LINE TO PAPUANEW GUINEA/ SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANIA COURIER KYOWA BREEZE SPORE PKeUnf Loadnf for: 3/11
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    • 939 23 V\v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building. 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel: *****33 VESSEL KOTA MAJU KOTA SEJATI KOTA AGUNG KOTA TIMUR VOYAGE HONGKONG SINGAPORE LOADING FOR: W-444 23-26/10 MUKALLA. ADEN, MOGADISCIO. E-591 22-23/10 27-31/10 MUKALLA. ADEN. HOOEIDAH. JEDOAH. PT SUDAN. AOABA E-593 26-27/11 1- 5/11 HOOEIDAH. JCDOAH, PT
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    • 755 23 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS COftTAtffcK /CONTINENT Oufca Bit Bremen Eipress Betu.on EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT Kawfj Mara Saied Citi IMup SjirO Fr«*h»t EipretiSjied Hjfflfcwt f'prMJ Sjied OsMI Bi. SaM Bremen Eiprnt 24/10 Kurama Mara 27/10 Benawn 4/11 m Eiprnt 11/11 BtttVENRVMI Sated Sated Saded Sjied SiM Sjied Saied SiM SjM
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    • 493 23 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF FAR EAST TO/FROM STORE CONTAINER SERVICE" WEST BOUND MMMtAM VIJM PAIEMBAJIG VJWB SRIMIAYA VIM* PI Keian( 21/29 Oct auo ACCEPT* BOTH com MOTS COMEMTKMN. CARfiO MA T/S 10 UK KBITS. HULL LEHAVRE OSLO. COKNMSEN. AARHUS GODOBUK AN) KLSMKI Smfapwr EKA J AY A AGENCIES !e»#phoof
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    • 611 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES S'pore Phashwefyawywa V2S9W 23/25 Oct Atra V76N Last* VSOW BURMA FIVE STAR (Burmese National Line) Loadng for Rangoon arc PJtebnc Pajan V9IN Loftaw VIO4W 29/31 Oct 29/30 Oct In Port/25 Oct 25/26 Oct (Malacca) 26/28 Oct BANK LINE FORTHBANK SPORE R'DAM HULL 9 Nov 4 Dec 12
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    • 1121 24 A •A IV LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. ECUADOR/PERU/CHILE U(f ououi kuisii s MnoM wpmiuso r.r« rr ~r- ~tl rrr ts uASU STAR W1 IBM W 20 Ocl 22 Oct 24 Oct t Nov 19 Ok 21 Dec 2« Dec 3 lan 21 Dec 29 Dec 1 It* FEtOH ¥Sl
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    • 497 24 '/tf CALIFORNIA/PACIFIC NORTH NEST SERVICE EXPRESS CONTAINER/REEFER/BULK SERVICE loading to< tOS ANGUFS SAN ERANCISCO SEATTLE IACOMA VANCOUVER BC Accepting Fa FU ContMws BHAVABHUTI BHARATENDU AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting Fa Fa Containers 'Accepting containers at Contain*! terminal JAPAN SERVICE loatlng tar: Kobe "SO TRFURA' VtSHVA TASH" Tokohama Nagoya Osaka Mofi
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    • 524 24 GOLDEN LINE GUAN GUAN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD tun, Promo* Bv* iO Cetf Sheet SMGAPOtE 0104 TEL *****90 (10 IMS) Id Ku*U Imp* MP 11 P Kfbii( *****1 Penjnj 3654U Pl» Guitnt Ajent OHENT LLOYD (M) SON BIC TU ***** STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: GOIOIN KM CoMoibo Dub* Damnum GOtOIN CITt Cotomtto
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    • 472 24 INTRASEA (PTE) LTD 10 Anson Road »27 16 Internationa 1 Pia/a Singapore 0207 Tel *****1 1 11 0 Lines) VOAASMIin o BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK Sparc P. KetMfloxtnc Nr VAN CONQUEROR *****16 »/ll 11/11 tOT/ANT/UJ( (ARM) Ktmt% SxfKMrc MTMSU (FTC) 118 BOOKMC 224C511 I Law BMTAHG StVPMG CO SON M)
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    • 579 25 NOL i NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE A member ot the ACE Consortiur I STRAITS/AUSTRALIA RO-RO CONTAINER SERVICE A member of the Anro Consorti l TPA CONTAINER SERVICE I TO/FROM NORTH AMERICA PACIFIC COAST ALSO ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO LONG BEACH, OAKLAND, VANCOUVER SEATTLE TO/FROM NORTH
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    • 607 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels OOMAM SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P KELANG. PENANG, BUSAN, INCHON Genet* Sw.ty jt Moot K2l on 22/10/15 Iron (MOO hn 1200 hri 1b 7 Ovum7sol S/M spimi «i.iNTS NfPTUNf AGENCIfS PI» i ID Tel ?7899,'7 7/BS4 14 'Rooking i ???;«> 10 iOpffjiK>ns) ??09?84 l leimmal
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    • 720 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SHSOV BULMNG 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Telephone Numbers *****3 (15 Lines) Cable Address SMSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS 213*0 RS ***** RS ***** P. KEUM6 PENANG M/S SHMKAT MM SOON SON. M. IST AND 2ND FLOOR. MESSRS HAI THONG SWPMG 127 Penant
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    • 33 25 SIM SWEE JOO SHIPPING SDN. BHD. EXPRESS TO BINTULU SWEE LONG SATU MBUAN JAY A Voy 84 22/10 Bir CONTAINERISED SERVICE Agents: JAMBATAN MERAH SDN. BHD. P. Kelang: *****6/7 K.L. *****7/*****1 Penang *****1/*****5
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    • 256 26 Ke<|i<Nial Container fines 4 Sailings weekly Fast Reliable Regular Punctual Berthing P S.A. Mon, Tue, Thur. Sat GO I HINODE KISEN CO. LTD MIDDLE EAST REGULAR LINER SPf Clftl rSID HEAVY llf If RS AVAIIABIf KASHI MARU KASU6A MARU Spore In Pt/24 Oct 10/12 Nov Loadmg for: Bahrain Dubai, Damman,
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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    • 132 27 use AGENCIS K. LUMPUR m m P. KELAAG mam® ffl s i LEOSHP SPORE *****81/*****56/*****48/*****93 *****1/4 TERMNAL *****1/2 *****2/*****3/*****4/*****3 *****3/*****5/*****1/*****0 *****8/*****8/*****5 *****22 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE EH j i i/.y i 'K.y i 'i/.'. tTTnTTITHCTTTITT^TIinPTIfOFi i 'ir. 11 ii-'. '«EII[IEIE3gBIIIHIITTITIIMf7TM[7!TTnwniTITI 11 'ii.'«mEgEßironinnMiiMiuMiTf iminiiimTTTi i n thirittiw i 'If. 1 I'M
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    • 255 28 WEC. WEST EUROPEAN CONTAJNER LINES ikdut nai contuo somct ma rottdhmuh ra CXNARY ISLANDS TENERIFE. LAS PALMAS. FUNCHAL PORTUGAL LISBON. LEIXOES (LCL ACCEPTABLE! I THROUGH RATES AVAILABLE FOR INLAND HAULAGE TO: ZAMBIA. MALAWI. ZAIRE. UGANDA. RWANDA. BURUDI. SUDAN 6 TANGA SINGAPORE AGENT: ALPHA TRANS SERVICES (SEA) PTE LTD TEL: *****26/
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