The Business Times, 3 March 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 MONDAY, MARCH J, 1*8« 75 CENTS
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  • 867 1  -  US, Japan and Europe are still the main markets By RICHARD SEAH A GET-RICH-QUICK attitude towards doing business with China could ruin relations between the two countries and put an end to the opportunities presented, Mr Lee Kuan Yew has warned.
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  • 275 1 AN INDICATION that the impending consumption tax will be well below 10 per cent was given by Flat Deputy Prime Minister Gob Chok Tong yesterday. He urged Singaporeans not be alarmed and said the government was not in a hurry to implement the
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  • 102 1 FOREIGN INVESTMENTS for this year are expected to be maintained at $1.1 billion. But Acting Minister for Trade and Industry Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong hopes that the figure will increase next year as a result of the Cabinet's sell-Singapore campaign. Brig-Gen Lee will lead
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  • 134 1 Reuter A FACTORY in the city of Shenyang will become the first company to go bankrupt in China since IMS. The Peking Review magazine yesterday said the factory, one of three in Shenyang warned last August to put their houses in order, had failed to
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  • 291 1 Reuter PRESIDENT 00RA20N Aquino called on Filipinos yesterday to work to heal wounds caused by 20 years of devastation but warned there were still pockets of resistance by those loyal to Ferdinand Marcos. At her first mass rally since becoming president, she
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  • 33 1 US, PHILIPPINE and international law will determine who gets a plane-load of possessions brought by. former-president Ferdinand Marcos. Administration officials confirmed that one of two planes contained boxes of documents.
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  • 106 1 Reuter AN INDEFINITE strike by nearly 600 merchant navy officers of the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation has affected work at Chittagong, the country's biggest port. Officers aboard 21 ships in domestic and foreign ports stopped work from yesterday to press demands for better pay and fringe
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  • 492 1  -  By LUCY NG AN AGREEMENT which provides for a cut in the minimum pay increase of workers was concluded last Friday between Japanese trading concern Nissho Iwai Corporation and one of Singapore's biggest unions. The clause accepted by the 13,000-strong Singapore Manual
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 379 1 The Muska Antiaua Cologne concert, jointly presented by the doethe-lnstitute of Singapore ond the Notional Theatre Trust at the Victoria Theatre last week, mode a lasting impression with their instrumental baroque music (*****750) on a very large and appreciative audience. The group breathed and ployed as one, with an assured
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    • 143 1 fl A-ONE BOUTIQUE PTE LTD LIANG COURT COMPU* trr W*XTr KOAD UMT 0»I* smgapooc o»" tele* asjmcb *ccg> rij. rmrr Can you afford to say no? The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation has come up with three "special offers" to which advertisers find hard to say no. Find out why and what
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1886 2  -  Small business I cost book. Most Western countries are looking to small firms as a major part of their plans to reduce unemployment. But finding and encouraging real entrepreneurs is an uphill task report DAVID CLUTTERBUCK and MARION DEVINE. DAVID CLUTTERBUCK MARION DEVINE
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    • 414 2  -  IM'l'nrl Nil; Compiled by LEE HAN SHIH Northern Ireland Investment Bureau A NORTHERN Irish researcher has found, by accident, a new method of trapping individual cells. This discovery can be expected to greatly benefit the chemical and drugs industries. According to Dr Eric
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    • 499 2 LPS BRITISH scientists are to carry out a new investigation into what has become known as the "Sick Building" Syndrome. This is a condition affecting people working in offices who suffer mysteriously from such things as nose and eye irritations, nausea and skin rashes.
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    • 154 2 NYT A METHOD of transmitting information from a space satellite to the Earth, using sunlight as the carrier, has been patented for the US Navy. Through this method, even a submarine can receive such information as the transmission can also go through water. Patent 4,573,214
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 1118 3  -  Corporation pleased with reception to its offers Special offers have always drawn consumers like bees to a honey pot and SBC's latest "buy-one-get-one-free" advertising strategy is no exception, reports SAID ABDULLAH. SAID ABDULLAH TREMENDOUS, very successful, overwhelming. That's how the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation described
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    • 582 3  -  By GOH YEE LING "A STORM IN A TEACUP," snorted one advertising executive. "What you pay is what you get," warned another. Advertising agencies have mixed feelings about SBC's latest venture into producing television commercials, thus posing additional competition to the private production houses and,
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    • 732 3 BURGERS AND PIZZAS may have outgrown fried rice in Singapore by now. With the average Singaporean almost doubling his expenditure on food and drinks over the last ten years, competitive fast food operators are fighting harder for his patronage. One of the most successful
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    • 483 3  -  By ANNA TEO GOING AGAINST the recent merger trend in the industry, Batey Ads has dissolved its partnership with BBDO, the giant New York-based advertising agency. Batey Ads, the creator of the Singapore Girl image, wants to set itself up as the largest independent agency in
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 355 4 Reuter US COMMERCE Secretary Malcolm Baldrige believes the administration's tough new trade policy and the continuing drop in the dollar will persuade Congress to delay action on protectionist trade legislation. Mr Baldrige said in an interview late last week: "The protectionist sentiment is
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    • 202 4 Reuter THE GUILLOTINE fell on US federal spending on Saturday as the Gramm-Rudman law, aimed at an eventually balanced budget, went into effect. The law, signed reluctantly by President Reagan, requires progressive cuts in the huge current federal deficits, ending with a 1991
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    • 436 4 UPI SOME 1,200 marchers for nuclear disarmament have begun a coast-to-coast trek across America, hauling along a "portable city" on what has been hailed as the great peace march of 1966. In a scene reminiscent of the Vietnam and civil rights protests of the 1960b,
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    • 197 4 AFP A SENIOR US official in Washington has expressed hope that the "tactics" which brought democracy to Haiti and the Philippines would help move Chile in the same direction. Washington had the same aim for Chile as it had had for Argentina, Brazil,
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    • 202 4 Reuter THE LEADERS of Sweden's ruling Social Democratic Party on Saturday chose Acting Premier Ingvar Carlsson to succeed murdered Prime Minister Olof Palme as the party chairman and head of the next Swedish government. Foreign Minister Sten Andersgon told a news conference that the decision had
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    • 254 4 UPI WEST GERMAN Defence Minister Manfred Woerner said Europe urgently needed a defence against conventionally armed Soviet tactical and mediumranged missiles. Mr Woerner said at an annual conference of Western military planners that the Soviet Union was currently equipping its short and medium-range
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    • 124 4 Reuter THE PENTAGON said it would continue development of the sophisticated US$7 billion Amraam air-to-air missile following a study prompted by congressional questions over cost and technical problems. US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger sent a letter to the House and Senate armed services committees certifying
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    • 151 4 AFP THE US television network ABC has acknowledged that it was wrong in letting a Soviet commentator make an uncontested analysis of a speech by President Ronald Reagan on military spending. In a statement, Richard Wald, the senior vice-president of ABC, said he agreed that journalist
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    • 269 4 Reuter BRAZIL'S sweeping economic package, including a price freeze and the abolition of the generalised system of inflation-indexing, won approval from foreign bankers and industrialists. "For the first time the government demonstrated it really intends to defeat inflation, which is something the hanks have been pressing
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    • 346 5 UPI THE US is apprehensive that Japan's emergency relief to small and medium-sized companies, adamantly upheld by the Japanese government, might be a means of boosting exports. Following two days of subCabinet level trade talks, Un-der-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Allen Wallis said
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    • 167 5 Reuter KUWAITI Oil Minister Ali AlKhalifa Al-Sabah has said that the price of oil would settle at around US$lB a barrel (or the rest of the decade once producers cooperated to stabilise the market. He told the Arabic daily AlAnba over the weekend
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    • 205 5 Reuter EGYPTIANS were preparing to resume normal working hours yesterday as the army continued to hunt for security police conscripts whose mutiny last week took at least 96 lives. Troops backed by tanks and armoured cars continued a siege of desert camps where the
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    • 319 5 Reuter INDIAN BUSINESSMEN and politicians last Saturday hailed Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's budget as a new deal for poor people and farmers but said they feared its large deficit would push food prices and industrial costs higher. Mr Gandhi's government, besieged by country-wide political
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    • 137 5 Reuter BANKS IN SWITZERLAND have been told to take a close look at money deposited by the country's large Tamil population after reports of links between Tamils and the drug trade. A Banking Federation official said last Friday that the federation had written to
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    • 142 5 AFP SYLVESTER STALLONE, the creator of Hollywood's violent Vietnam war veteran Johnny Rambo, has become the cover feature in the latest edition of a leading Chinese pictorial magazine. A photograph of Stallone wearing a heavy gold chain and a open-necked white shirt appeared
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    • 384 5 Reuter A US LAW firm retained by the new Philippine government of Corazon Aquino is moving quickly to recover billions of dollars said to be misappropriated by former president Ferdinand Marcos, according to an attorney. "We are trying to act as promptly as
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    • 170 5 UPI HONOLULU Mayor Frank Fasi says ousted Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos should buy or lease a tiny Hawaiian island familiar to viewers of the American television series "Gilligan's Island". "I'm serious," Mr Fasi said of his suggestion that Mr Marcos consider buying or leasing
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 165 5 ©TAIWAN AUTOMOTIVE PARTS, ACCESSORIES CYCLE SHOW MAY 21—25, 1986 Exhibition Hall, Taipei World Trade Center The annual event that no importer can afford to miss! View the full range of high-quality and attractively priced Taiwan products. This year s show, which will be held in the spacious new exhibition hall
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 523 6  -  By ELAINE KOH THE FORMER deputy governor of the Bank of England has expressed concern about the almost complete lack of international supervision in the securities markets. Mr Christopher W McMahon said: "If international supervision of banking is still in its infancy, international supervision
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    • 130 6 Reuter THE BANK of England said it was issuing a guideline to banks against over-participating in large takeover bids. It was referring to banking groups acquiring significant strategic shareholdings in companies involved in takeovers and buying individual subsidiaries from a group involved.
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    • 421 6 Reuter THE JAPANESE tax system delays the growth of new markets that could help the yen become an international currency, according to economists and market analysts. A fully liberalised open money market is needed to expand foreign and domestic yen
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    • 204 6 Union Bank of Switzerland MOUNTING uncertainty in the search for new trend-setting factors and the corresponding nervousness in evaluating information, coupled with occasional panic-like short-covering, determined developments on the foreign exchange markets last week. Added thrust to the volatility was provided by the unalleviated rhetorics
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    • Article, Illustration
      230 6 Asian market ASIAN currency overage deposit rates for the week ended Feb 28 Mutts Mm avarap of tha prime Mh| rates af 12 «ajar bats apara(fei| In S^apara WO PRICES high Low us$ 7 doys 8 1/16 7 7/8 1 month 8 7 7/8 2 months 7 15/16 7 13/16
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    • 114 6 UBS US dollar Volatile lull before "final shoot out". BviM franc: Benefiting from international inter-est-rate speculation. Btarling: Caught in the G-5/EMS clinch. Yan: Interest-rate round beginning at historical high?. ÜBS WEEK'S TRADING AT A GLANCE (hit erbank nwidk rates) Monday opening Low High Fndoy oftomoon USJ/S Fr 1
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    • 298 6 The Discount Co of Singapore LAST WEEK interbank overnight funds rate nose-dived from 40 per cent on Monday to a low of 5 per cent 4V« per cent and finally settled at 5Vi per cent 5 per cent. The downturn in overnight rates had its effect
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    • 398 6 Green Collier THE SEEMINGLY unstoppable fall of the US dollar during the week was translated to hectic and widely fluctuating trading in currency futures. The active March Dmark contract was the main beneficiary. It hit a high of U550.4546 on Thursday after opening on
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    • 496 6 PLR of bonks ot the doso of business on Fridoy, Fob 28, os supplied by the Associotion of Bonks in Singopore. BANK PLR Algemene Bank. 7v, American Express Bonk 8'* Am'Dom R'terdom Bank 7*i Arab Banking Corp 8 Arab Bank Ltd 8 Asia Commercial 7 ANZ Banking
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    • 179 6 OCBC THE US dollar last week closed lower compared to the beginning of the week in hectic, volatile trading. Sentiment has been bearish against the greenback spurred by Fed vice chairman Martin's comment that there is no cause for alarm if the dollar fell another 10 per
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 559 7  -  By BRIAN MILLER THEY CAME in their thousands and by 1.45pm a clear half hour before the first race was scheduled to be run off in Penang the main grandstand at the Bukit Timah racecourse was jammed pack. Signs obviously prepared in
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    • 324 7 UPI SNOW CHIEF, a 3-2 favourite and horse racing's youngest millionaire, shook off a late challenge by Badger Land on Saturday to post a virtual wire-to-wire victory in the US$5OO,OOO Florida Derby over Gulfstream Park's windswept track. In winning his fourth straight race and sixth
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    • 161 7 Reuter A HONGKONG turf syndicate has been interfering regularly in Australian horse races. The Melbourne Sun newspaper has reported that officers from Hongkong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) have been secretly following the syndicate's operations in Australia. The report alleged that the syndicate
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    • 659 7  -  By WALTON MORAIS WHILE Sentosa Golf Gub made history, the news after three rounds is that this season's Premier League golf championship is proving to be one of the most competitive in recent years. Three different leaders have emerged after each of the
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    • 155 7 UPI CLARENCE ROSE "hit and hoped" his way to a par-72 on Saturday to tie Andy Bean (or the third-round lead in the US$5OO,OOO Honda Classic in Florida. "I hit some ugly shots out there, and got away with it," said Rose, who
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 285 7 Geoffmy E Mcintyre, Managing Director, OUBA Now, Overseas Union Bank can do more for you in Australia Overseas Union Bank, Singapore has expanded its worldwide operations with the establishment in Sydney of a wholly owned merchant bank subsidiary, OUB Australia Ltd (OUBA) We can now provide loans, arrange trade finance,
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  • FEATURES
    • 1686 8  -  Many companies in the US are relying on pre-employment polygraph tests to determine honesty, and on urine and blood samples to detect drugs or disease. DONALD GALLAGHER examines the controversy that such tests have created. DONALD GALLAGHER UPI CORPORATE AMERICA'S search for the perfect employee honest,
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    • 249 8 Letter to the Editor Dear Sr, I read with Interest the re-' port in the Business Tiroes of Feb 26 that the Skills Develop- roent Fund had a surplus of H02million for the last financial year and an accumulated sur plus of
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    • 1258 8  -  By DAVID LASCELLES FT THE RECENT disclosure that Japanese banks have overtaken the Americans to become the world's largest holders of foreign hanking assets dramatically underlines the remorseless growth of Japanese financial institutions. But the news can hardly have come as a surprise to international
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • THE ARTS
    • 591 9  -  Performance by Musica Antiqua Cologne XU YING CHERN THE PERFORMANCE of instrumental baroque music (1600-1750) at the Victoria Concert Hall last Tuesday night by Musica Antiqua Cologne made a lasting impression on a very large and appreciative audience. Using authentic baroque instruments, the five-member ensemble (Reinhard Goebel,
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    • 539 9  -  By MAX COMMANDER ROUND ABOUT 1935 my parents had a marvellous piece of furniture in dark-stained oak with gleaming brass accessories. Most times it was adorned with a hand-embroidered lace cloth and a vase of flowers, but if you whisked these away and lifted
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    • 901 9  -  French ballet master/choreographer Attilio Labis, who was recently in Singapore to conduct a week of work sessions, tells LISA LEE in an interview that local dancers have talent but what the Republic needs is a professional dance company. LISA LEE AT ONE STAGE during a
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    • 862 9  -  By R W APPLE, Jr NYT ROBERT PENN WARREN, the 80-year-old poet, novelist and essayist, has been designated as the first official poet laureate of the US. Warren, whose most famous novel, All the Kings Men, appeared 40 years ago, is
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1046 9 to am mm GEORGE WASHINGTON 9.30 pm, Channel 5 Violence erupts throughout the colonies. In Annapolis, Maryland, an angry mob sets fire to the house of a local stamp agent. Washington's activist neighbour, George Mason (Richard Kiley), attempts to enlist Washington in the growing resistance movement. At a meeting of
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 279 10 NYT THE International Business Machines Corporation has said that recent price cuts would hurt its financial performance in the first quarter of 1966 and that sluggish capital spending could depress results for the entire year. The statement came as analysts cut their earnings estimates for the
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    • 319 10 Reuter WALL STREET stock prices were mixed last Friday in the fourth most active session in history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.93 to 1709.06 after the record 1713.99 on Thursday. For the week stocks gained 11.35. The New York Stock Exchange
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    • 57 10 Reuter BILL SPENGLER, deputy chairman of Distillers Co PLC, said Argyll Group PLC's announcement on acceptances of their offer (or Distillers showed that shareholders iretoted the opposing Guinness bid (or the company. He said: "The low level of acceptances indicates quite clearly the attitude of Distillers' shareholders
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 419 11 Reuter TAKEOVER MANIA is raging on the London Stock Exchange, offering quick profits to investors and fat contracts to the merchant banks and advertising agencies called in as advisers to the aggressive new wave of bidders. In the past six months,
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    • 80 11 AP THE INDUSTRIAL and Development Bank of China will lend 800 million yuan (US$25O million) this year to develop China's industries. The official Xinhua news agency said on Friday that top loan priority would be given to the retooling of large and medi- um-sized energy
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    • 268 11 FT HANSON TRUST, the UK conglomerate which is bidding for Imperial Group, has arranged a £1 billion seven-year credit from a group of international banks led by Chemical Bank of the US. The money, believed to be the largest single sterling credit
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    • 727 11 &iJrd GM Reuter THE WORLD'S two biggest carmakers are hopeful of improving business outside the US in 1966 after several difficult years overseas. In separate interviews, top officers of General Motors and Ford both said they expected improved profits from overseas
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    • 373 11 Reuter FOREIGN car companies are expected to take at least 40 per cent of the American car market with imports by 1990. Another 12 per cent of sales are likely to be taken by foreign cars built in US factories.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 507 12 Ivory Coast pull-out to blame, says EC AP COCOA-IMPORTING countries have abandoned nearly two years of talks with producers on a new price stabilisation accord and urged a scaled-down accord as replacement. The European Community, the biggest consumer under the accord, blamed the refusal of the
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    • 806 12 AFP US DOLLAR weakness contributed to losses among vulnerable sterling-based commodities in London last week, but was one of several bullish factors for precious metals. It was also a week of lows. Sterling took advantage of the weak dollar to the detriment of
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    • 200 12 THE BRAZILIAN government will limit coffee export this year to 14 million bags, down from an earlier estimate of 17 million bags. Gaxeta Mercantil, the country's most respected financial daily, said the limit was imposed because of drought damage
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    • 337 12 Reuter MALAYSIA, the world's leading palm oil producer, is worried about falling prices and has set up a special committee to find ways to arrest the downtrend. The committee, comprising Ministry of Primary Industries and Industry representatives, met
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    • 125 12 Reuter SOME PALM oil Importers are defaulting on February and March shipments of palm oil, traders said, quoting Malaysian sources. They said some Malaysian refiners have not received letters of credit on contracts from Korea and Pakistan and other countries are also said to
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    • 425 12 AFP THE INTERNATIONAL Tin Council's six producing and 16 consuming member-countries were silent on Friday following a full session in London to discuss when they would give a final response to a proposed plan to rescue the crisis-torn tin
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    • 30 12 A Dot* KL TIN Qomm prices Turnover pm Feb 24 M>/kg 20.45 (tOMMS) 67 Feb 25 21.10 215 rcu *0 ZI.44 127 Feb 27 21.35 157 Feb 28 21.00 146
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    • 543 12 COFFEE EASING sterling against the dollar and evidence of good support under the market were the main factors underpinning robusta coffee futures on Friday afternoon as New York prices fell and pre-weekend booksquaring weighed heavily on the market. The market ended another very volatile day with light gains
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    • 189 12 MAY SOFT red wheat futures on Friday (ell back from Arm mldsession levels on speculative selling to end an erratic session Vi to one US cent a bushel lower on the Chicago Board of Trade. Spot March closed at U553.37 a bushel, down Vi cent. Late liquidation by C
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    • 187 12 SOYBEAN FUTURES on Friday rebounded late on local short-covering to close 1V« US cents a bushel higher to Vi cent lower on the Chicago Board of Trade, after trading lower most of the session. Spot March finished at $5.27 a bushel, up 1V« cents. The bearish tone in soyoil,
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    • 144 12 ChlntM Produce Exchange SfUffi' noon dosinf pnctf on Mof 1 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bu* FOB 58.00 OW drum FOB 7100 New drum FOB 75.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 30 buyer* Pepper Muni ok White FOB NLW 1390 00 Sarawak White FOB foq NLW 1380 00 Sarawak special black
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    • 96 12 TOKYO RUBBER futures on Saturday closed 0.5 to 12 yen per kilo higher except new distant November which feU 0.1 to 162.9 yen/kilo. Prices recovered from Friday's fall on small-lot profit-taking purchase and fresh buying in line with the higher Singapore market and the dollar's steadiness against the yen
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    • 327 12 NOTICES la the matter M THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 185) AND M rrili P >7%?/ '.'fa JEWELLERS PTE LTD (la Menken Velaatary Liqaidstiee) kLii *T>T*#t> J j ICM F1 T I j* n iCTfa NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act, Chapter 185, the
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    • 313 12 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER ISS) AND IN THE MATTER OF ASIA TIMBER TRADING COMPANY (PTE) LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION) (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(2) of the Companies Act (Chapter 185) that the Final General Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed
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    • 162 12 la Ik Matter ti THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER IK) AND la the Matter ti BONA RESTAURANT A COCKTAIL LOUNGE (PTE) LID (la Menken* Vetaatary LHaMatfn) NOTICE OP PINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act, Chapter 185, the final meeting of the members
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 5420 13  -  Singapore By CHAN OI CHEE IT HAD STARTED on an ominous note. Last week, the Singapore stock market looked as if it was beading for a steep fall. But as it turned out, share prices drifted in listless trading after the initial, sell-off. It was
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    • 315 13 London THE LONDON stock market continued to soar last week, propelled by the realisation that lower oil prices will be a powerful force for disinflation and thus a strong boost to the cost base of British industry. Heavy buying orders from institutional
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    • 818 13  -  WMk ended Feb 28 compiled by JULIANA TAY CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Five bonks have obtained court orders authorising them to withdraw about $25 mißton worth of share scrip from Lin Securities that were mortgaged to them. The five banks are Bank of Singopore, the Overseo-Chinese Banking
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    • 959 14 New York FT THERE WAS A TIME not so very long ago when a few bearish words from IBM, which is valued by the stock market at just under US$lOO billion, would send shivers through Wall Street. Not so last week.
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    • 781 14 K.Lumpur SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market took another beating last week, with most counters losing ground in spite of the resumption of ready trading last Monday. Selling pressure was seen right from the start of the week and the
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    • 161 14 BCI AFTER a sparkling start, the Milan share market was hit by profit-taking last week. But the market promptly recovered and a new high of 562.93 (up 5 per cent) was recorded on the BCI Index at the end of the week. Demand was heavy, especially
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    • 245 14 Credit Suisse THE MOOD on the Zurich exchange during the first two trading days (the previous Friday and Monday) of the period under review was encouraging, with the Credit Suisse Index gaining 3.8 points. But pessimism prevailed in the next three days,
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    • 434 14 Tokyo AFP SHARE PRICES soared on the Tokyo stock market last week in heavy trading, with some institutional investors which had been sitting on the fence for the past few weeks coming back to the market. The 225-stock Nikkei Average, a 51.53 yen
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    • 477 14  -  Hongkong By TONY MEABOR IN HIS BUDGET SPEECH last Wednesday, Hongkong Financial Secretary Sir John Bremridge sought to allay qualms about the territory's intended taxation policies and at the same time expressed his confidence in its financial future. In spite of a GDP growth
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    • 283 14 Australia Reuter AUSTRALIAN share markets eased last week, with court intervention in Bell Resources's bid for BHP and the federal government's cut in fuel prices the highlights of the week. At the close, the All Ordinaries Index lost 6.3 points to 1,060.1 but the All Industrials
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    • 213 14 (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT 1 Unaudited results of the Group's operations for the six months ended 31st December 1985 are as follows:- GROUP HALF YEAR TO 31ST DECEMBER 1985 1984 OR 4 Profit and turnover declined by 1.5% and 8% respectively due to contraction of the total
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 520 15 AFP MALAYSIAN stockbrokers deferred a crucial decision on a MsBo million "lifeboat" fund at a Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) emergency general meeting last Saturday. KLSE chairman Nik Din Nik Yusoff said a decision on the fund had been deferred until March 16
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    • 815 15 THE MARKET in London was lower on balance with the recent advance attracting profit-taking but several issues were above lows at last Friday's close. At 1530 GMT, the FTSE 100 Share Index was down 6.2 at 1t543.l t 543. QCI touched a low of 914 after press comment
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    • 484 15 Current Ei Books Date Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last yeor A B N 13%l Aug 19 NYA NYA 13% 26% Aokom 5%l Mar 12 Mar 22 Apr 10 5% 15% Ayer Hitom Tin 50%l Mar 12 Mar 22 Apr 10 50% 155%
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    • 206 15 MBT CORPORATIONS can hold up to a 61 per cent stake in Malaysian stockbroking firms under the much-awaited move to corporatise the country's stockbroking industry. But foreign corporations or stockbrokers can only have a 30 per cent equity interest in Malaysian broking houses.
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    • 577 15  -  com By NAJEEB JARHOM CHEMICAL CO of Malaysia Bhd has announced a massive restructuring scheme involving purchases and sales of assets and a two-for-three bonus issue. This forms part of the grand Malaysianisation programme which first started in 1981 with the Imperial Chemical Industries
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    • 305 15 AS PART OF A package of general reforms aimed at strengthening insolvency laws and proceedings in Singapore, the government should consider setting up a separate insolvency court. This call was raised by local advocate and solicitor Raj Singam who felt the time had come to
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    • 107 15 KUALA LUMPUR Kepong Bhd has agreed to buy Duff Development's estates in Kelantan totalling about 3,840 hectares together with all assets including plant and machinery for Ms4s million cash. Duff's directors have decided to recommend to the company's shareholders to approve the sale of the
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    • 533 15 LAST FULL YEAR Cowipeny Period Date Yeor Net EPS Gross Net announced last yeor ending (cents) dn proM ($*000) Pohong Inv hi inaKan wintow Fnal Jan 31 Dec 84 9.352L Interim Jul II Sep 85 12.5 19 0 3.070(d) Mulpho Intl Worldwide Hldgs Interim Aug 24 Dec 85
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 40 15 BRITISH Malayan Trust- ees Ltd Pre-tax profit of $180,000 ($330,000) on turnover of $316,000 ($447,000) for the half-year to end-De-cember 1965. After-tax earnings of $108,000 ($198,000) giving an EPS of 35 cents (65 cents). No interim dividend was paid (same).
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      • 69 15 Pre-tax profit of MJ16.1 million ($16 million) on turnover of $167.5 million ($156.6 million) for the year to end-Dec 1965. After-tax profit of $10 million ($10.4 million) giving EPS of 33 cents (34 cents). A final dividend of 15 cents per share leas tax will
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      • 83 15 Group operating pre-tax loss (ell to M$3J5 million in the year ended Sep 30, 1965 from $4.01 million in the previous year. The improvement is partly due to the rationalisation and reorganisation exercises undertaken by the group in 1905. As expected, turnover Ml to |74J6
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      • 113 15 Ooup pre-tax profits edged tip to MJ4.77 million in IMS from $4.68 million the year before on a 47.4 per cent fall in turnover to $153 million ($2.91 million previously). Operating profit stood at only $152,078 (SLS million) while other income of $4.82 million ($3.18
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      • 48 15 Net profit rose 191 per cent to DFM7B million in 1985 from Dfls4ol million in 1984. Profit per share rose 17.9 per cent to DF1556.05 from DF1»47.56. A final dividend of DFlsl4 will be paid, making a total of DFLs27 for the year (DFIS26 in 1984).
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    • 239 15 THE Stock Exchange of Singapore has asked Imtacky Pried Chlekea (8) what the effects of its acquisition of 1.5 million shares in Pm Gmaa BsM lags Ma BM will have on the NTA and EPS of the KFC group. The SES also wants to know the specific terms
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    • 57 15 Singapore C.P.F. Savings «ST. ManuLife* OUB assets. Approximately Ss27 billion ManuLife. The joint venture insurance company that offers d financial security for life u ManuLiftf Overseas (Singapore) Union Bank Ltd Pte. Limited Manufacturers Life Insurance Company of Canada Singapore ManuLife (Singapore) Pte Ltd. 7500 A Beach Road, #05-316, The Plaza,
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  • 141 16 Reuter KREMLIN LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated his 55th birthday yesterday, but the occasion passed with barely a mention in the Soviet state press. The Communist Party daily Pravda, in its daily report on the 27th Party Congress, said Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov congratulated Mr Gorbachev
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  • 351 16  -  By LEE HAN SHIH THE HOUSING and Development Board is spending $284 million in salary and related costs in the coming financial year, an expenditure equal to almost 10 per cent of the entire civil service wage bill. According to the Housing Board's
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  • 108 16 Bernama THE DELEGATION entrusted with the task of meeting Datuk Musa Hitam who is overseas to discuss his resignation as Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, Home Minister and Umno deputy president, is to meet to set the date of its departure. Trengganu's Menteri Besar,
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  • 50 16 AP MORE THAN 1,000 people queueing up at Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium in Now York on Saturday to pick up an application form for ono of 270 now job openings at tho now Gonoral Electric plant to bo opened thie year in a Buffalo suburb. AP
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  • 250 16 AFP THAILAND'S top security official says he wants all 20,000 Indochinese refugees eligible for resettlement in third countries out of the huge refugee camp at Khao I Dang by the end of the year. Mr Prasong Soonsiri, the secretary-general of the National Security Council, said
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  • 498 16  -  By CHUANG PECK MING THE FATE of the company welfarism scheme started by the National Productivity Board hangs in the balance with the impending cut in the Central Provident Fund rate. Although returns from investment under the pilot scheme were still healthy,
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  • 181 16 FROM APRIL 1, about 8,000 government pensioners drawing pensions of iess than $850 a month can benefit from a higher allowance. The Public Service Division of the Ministry of Finance yesterday announced that the amount of the Singapore Allowance
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  • 65 16 Reuter THE FOREIGN currency reserves of Taiwan hit a record US$24 billion at the end of February compared with $23 billion in January and $17.3 billion in February 1965. Central bank governor Chang Chi-Cheng said that the increase was caused by Taiwan's growing trade surplus. The
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  • 398 16 Reuter PHILIPPINE MILITARY Commander Fidel Ramos moved yesterday to weed out Marcos supporters from the Philippine Armed Forces but Army spokesmen said there were no signs of a serious military threat to Corasm Aquino's new government. General Ramos, who led the military rebellion eight days
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  • 135 16 Reuter QUEEN ELIZABETH yesterday signed away the last vestiges of Australia's constitutional links with its former colonial master Britain. Two hours after her arrival from New Zealand, the Queen signed the proclamation of the Australia Act 1986, giving Australia final legal independence. The Act,
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  • 64 16 Reuter THE radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has claimed responsibility for the assassination of Zafer Al-Masri, the Palestinian mayor of Nablus in the Israeli-occu-pied West Bank. A PFLP statement issued in Damascus yesterday said the group carried out the "death sentence"
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  • LATE FILE
    • 43 16 Reuter DUBAI POLICE have acted 2.5 tonnes of hirtMi and arrested five smugglers in what they said was the biggest single drugs haul in tike Gulf. The drugs' street value is estimated at USH4 million. Reuter
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    • 34 16 Reuter BRITAIN intends to use a rare visit to London today by Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq Al-Shara to complain about Damascus's support for radical Palestinian guerilla chief Abu Nidal.
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    • 45 16 AP THE CHINESE port city of Tianjin will issue US$l5O million worth of securities abroad this year in an effort to raise foreign funds. It Is also expected to put another $150 million in direct foreign investment this year. AP
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    • 48 16 Reuter THE TURKISH tanker Atlas 1 was hit and badly damaged in a missile attack east of Qatar in the Gulf yesterday. Sources said the attack appeared to be an Iranian response to strikes by Iraq drips "■'"g Iranian ports. Reuter
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    • 44 16 Reuter THREE Sri lankan soldiers and two civilians were killed by a guerilla landmine yesterday. A Winery spokesman said the five died and seven soldiers were wounded when aa army vehicle hit the mine in a northern district. Reuter
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    • 44 16 AFP LEADERS of Northern Ireland's one million Protestants were preparing yesterday for a trial of strength with London, in a 24-hour strike today, similar to their successful challenge in 1974 to a power-sharing experiment with the region's Catholics. AFP
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 57 16 Outlook for today: Showers over several areas in the lot* afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Mor 2 ot the oirport: Maximum temperature 30.0 ASSOC KIT *0 VHNVMOfTy vt AA. O Q O TcmptroTurv Associated humidity 95 Hours of sunshine 0.55 Roinfall in miHimetres 8.2 RoinfoM this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 124 17 A MANAGEMENT committee member of the Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Mr C Archer, will present a paper to the Institute of Marine Engineers (Singapore branch) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers this afternoon. The paper, Some topics of continuing
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    • 386 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ THE MALAYSIAN International Shipping Corporation has disposed of four vessels over the last few weeks as part of a fleet rationalisation programme. Of the four, two were bulkers which the corporation decided to get rid in its attempt to
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    • 366 17 TY CHAO and his family will continue their personal commitment to the Wah Kwong shipping group which owes debts of about HK$6.4 billion to 46 creditor banks, Amex Asia Ltd, financial adviser to Wah Kwong said. The group, comprising publicly
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 106 17 THE NEPTUNE JADE will be handed over to Neptune Orient Lines by its builder, Hyundai Heavy Industries on March 17. The 3,147-TEU vessel will begin loading in Hongkong on March 20-21 (or NOL's east bound round-the-world service. Just about a month ago, its sister-ship, the Neptune
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      • 69 17 Reuter STATE-OWNED China Shipbuilding Corp launched its first large full container ship over the weekend. The 40,000 dwt vessel, capable of carrying 3,104 TEU, is the largest container ship built by the company, he said. It was ordered by Yangming Marine Transport Corp, another state firm.
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      • 41 17 THE TRANS-PACIFIC Freight Conference of Japan, the Japan-Atlantic and Gulf Freight Conference, the Japan-West Canada Freight Conference and the Japan-East Canada Freight Conference said they will readjust bunker surcharges to become effective March 1 to $5.00 from $12.
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    • 1113 18 NORTH AMERICAN grain faded from the scene on the London freight market with no fixtures reported on Thursday. Grain was represented by just a 15,000-ton GhentChina wheat movement aboard the Duke Star at US$2l (fio) for account of the World Food Organisation. Iron ore traffic provided employment for
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    • 659 18 Reuter ON PAPER, the West African nation of Liberia is a great maritime state, its blue, white and red flag flying over a vast fleet of supertankers and other ships which sail the oceans of the world. But the ships never visit the run-down
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    • 617 18 THE LIBERIAN shipbreaking yard is In business. Harley Mullion A Co, exclusive shipbroker for the Third World Shipbreaking Inc. has fixed a 6,000-dwt singledecker (or the yard. The fire-damaeed vessel fetched about US$5O to $51 per light ton. It will be delivered under tow for demolition to Liberia
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    • 839 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Afeo Line VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner X 1 AC Toepfef X 5 Anro Service IV 3/4 Arrow Lines X 5 ANL 1 1/2 APC Line V 4 APL M 2/3 ASCL HI 1 Boh-Canada Line VI 4/5 Bolt-Orient Line
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    • 193 19 DECLINE IN oil prices and a cutback in spending on oil exploration by offshore operators have forced some rig owners to cancel their orders or defer the date of delivery. News have emerged that Odeco has cancelled its second rig contract with Hyundai. The cancellation meant
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    • 438 19 Lloyd's List TANKER OWNERS ARE requested to safeguard themselves against oil voyage charters which are costing the industry million of dollars a year in lost freight payments and court actions. The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) is calling on owners to demand
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    • 712 19 Reuter IRANIAN THREAT to blockade oil shipped by Gulf states for Iraq raises the spectre of tanker hijackings against which there are few defences, Gulf-based oil industry sources sav. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait produce and sell some 310,000 barrels per day (bpd)
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    • 209 19 THE THAI government has given the approval to Unithai to increase its registered capital by 75 million baht. The government which has 33.3 per cent stake in the national carrier will be required to fork out 25 million baht. The
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    • 4354 21 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. Advanced dates are published at a
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    • 724 25 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location A Utah 3 03.3.86 2130 USL F7 1030-1130/1130-1230 N1/P1 1230-1330 SI O Janrtu 815 03.3.86 2000 S Consort F8 1100-1200 W2 N Lars Maersk 8604 03.3.86 2330
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    • 389 25 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure Ssr 1 K25E SSPL alongside 03.3/1800 Bongo Gelong K20 Leo alongside 03.3/0530 Hat. Baik K20 Kie Gwan alongside 03.3/1500 Johneverett K2I Everett alongside 03.3/1500 Oceon Rainbow K28 Sin Shpg alongside 03.3/0600 Vega K19 Crown Mor alongside 03 3/2300 Fronces
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    • 59 17 LIBERIA will promote maritime training schemes in the light of the Geneva pact. Page II TANKER OWNERS ARE requested to safeguard themselves ogainst oil voyoge charters which ore costing the industry million of dollars o year in lost freight payments. Pig* 111 Index to odvertisers II Shipping Schedules V London
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    • 773 17 ■ZW* IN SINGAPORE: 778-6522 PROFESSIONAL INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT FORWARDIN6 MALAYSIA. 755-8955 -LA MAERSK LINE FAS m rra O s-p°» EXPORT TO USA, EUROPE. 4 Soppart Qw| tn C* 3/3 1500 MRS OS- 2/3 23M MS ISappare Ohm lam a 14/3 7300 MRS OS -14/3 I TOO MB a 12/3 2400 MB
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    • 265 18 NOTICE FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE SABAH, BRUNEI AND SARAWAK FREKNT CONFERENCE FAR EAST/GULF OF ADEN AND RED SEA PORTS CONFERENCE CURRENCY ADJUSTMENT FACTOR A review of currency values on 25th/26th/27th February, 1986 inclusive Has resulted in a radical upward adjustment of the Currency Adjustment Factor from Malaysia and Singapore. The
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    • 624 19 Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd oci Overseas Containers Limited SHIP SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT m The Straits Steamship Group STRAITS SHAPING rJJ Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok PEGASUS TO MIM 04-05 17-01 ttm PESASUS «W V42ON 1112 Mar 14-15 Mr BANGKOK BORNEO AGENCIES LTD. BANGKOK TEL: *****80 CONTAINCRSHIP
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    • 917 19 NOTICE BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORPORATION Tender No. 2 (Acquisition/Disposal Of Vessels) International Tender Notice For Acquisition Of Second-Hand Convertible Bulk Carrier. Offers under sealed cover are hereby invited by BSC from shipyards, shipbuilders, agents, owners, brokers for supply of second-hand (not more than 6 years old on the date of opening
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    • 269 21 AUSTASIA LINE MERLION SHIPPING AGENCY BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO NEW ZEALAND AND T/S FIJI FULLY CONTAINERISED MONTHLY SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT NEW PLYMOUTH ft PORT CHALMERS ACCEPTING FCL ft LCL FOR AUCKLAND, NAPIER, WELLINGTON, BLUFF, CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN ft LYTTELTON, INVERCARGIL ft FIJI MUVOK m PIVMOUTM MKT CHALMERS MBTMLMST* SaM 13
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    • 942 23 NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Ajenls Sp*e NEPTUNE AGENCIS PTE. LTD. TH No elfcce Termnal C« BOOKBttS *****77 FE EU/AUSI TPA/SEA *****77 *****22 *****43 OROMECI IBIS *****53 *****42 I Bitwu HARPER mA SON. BHD 23(100 P Keuni HARPER NRA SDN BHD *****1 J86?«l P lay* HARPER MM SDN BHD 5*4722
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    • 383 24 frnral 1 REGIONAL CONTAINER LINES 1 TO BANGKOK (4 WEEKLY SAILINGS) SEA DRAGON SEA FORTUNE TO SOUTH THAILAND (FORTNIGHTLY) irai. —mm E:'...-.".J1 I UAi'i'i u HI ni mi m m n m |rw i imr^TTnTTiPTniCLiFini I k»* i r7B *****7 i n nwi b "jiv 1 arrii 'iiyLWPqggil Alm km**
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    • 48 25 .Mi7@ MBC MEMOES K. LUMPUR P. KELANG POMNG P fllfflllfi J. BAHMHJ LEOSHPSPOK *****15/*****54/*****41/*****93 *****1/4 TDMHM. 3H311/2 *****2/*****3/*****4/*****3 *****3/*****5/*****1/*****0 22SSCS/*****5/*****5 *****22 FAR FAST/FUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE KHEH 11 ,r imfiii itmrarTMiaiiM[UEslßMlgl irTTT^fTTMtIIItIZMIZJItUEUiEgi STRAITS/TAIWAN/JAPAN CONTAINER SERVICE S E A /AUSTRALIA CONTAINER SERVICE PENINSULAR SAB AH/SARAWAK/BRUNEI SERVICES SSH9 ■EEamnii f rrfmimmi
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    • 396 26 CHINESE-TANZANIAN JOINT SHIPPING COMPANY Regular Conventional Service from S.E. Asia to Red Sea/Mediterranean. VESSEL BIT SCP KOKSU SABAH LOAON6 FOR: Ruvu 197S 4/3 SjM SaM HodMdah. Shmyi 1979 1/3 lliiMi* Phut. 1977 15/4 »/4 2S/4 MM NtianMa •Port Said, Aden and other Mediterranean ports subject on inducement. General Booking Agents:
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