The Business Times, 28 May 1986

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  • 13 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 198 C 75 CENTS
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  • 452 1  -  Investment body aims for return that surpasses deposit rate By ALVIN TAY THE GOVERNMENT of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has set the Central Provident Fund deposit rate as a benchmark to gauge its performance. One of the two main GIC objectives is
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  • 382 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG Chief Reporter THE WEAKENING Singapore dollar has dovetailed with overseas promotion to give a boost to furniture exports. Furniture associations forecast that exports this year measured in dollars will grow between 8 per cent to 10 per cent. Sales
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  • 122 1 Reuter GENERAL Arthit Kamlang-Ek, 60, has accepted his dismissal as army commander by Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, defusing tension over rumours of a military coup. No official reason was given for General Arthit's dismissal, which diplomats described as one of the most daring acts ever
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  • 284 1 AP UPI JAPAN has become the world's largest net creditor nation, surpassing Britain, with its net external assets reaching U*****.8 billion at the end of 1965. An annual Japanese Finance Ministry report released yesterday said the country's governmental and private assets
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  • 285 1 FOR THE FOURTH straight day, share prices rose across the board on the Singapore stock market yesterday in relatively active trading. Advances overwhelmed declines by a more than 11-to-one margin. The Straits Times Industrial Index picked up a further 11.57 points to 628.43, making
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  • 425 1  -  By LUCY NG SOME SHIPPING COMPANIES have asked for a cut in the wages and fringe benefits of local seamen to close the pay gap between local and foreign seafarers. Wage cuts of 5 per cent to 30 per cent are
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  • 215 1 Reuter KUWAIT, one of the richest Arab oil states, will lose 30,000 expatriates in the next few months because of shrinking revenues, the Arab Ti/nes said yesterday. Jordanians, Egyptians and Asians will be among those hit hardest, the daily said. They include teachers,
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    • 225 1 Earlier Report, Page 5 SHARE INFORMATION MONEY A EXCHANGES RAW MATERIALS LETTER CROSSWORDS TV A RADIO BRISTOW OUR VIEW CLEAR AND ACCURATE INFORMATION kills rumours. It is time for the securities industry in Singapore to move from the age of rumours to the age of information. LEADER, Pag* 8 TWO
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    • 298 1 mTERnEPCon yt r stmiconDucTOß cmfz; inTEßnßTionflL Bf PUBUC 0* S'HGAPCXtf August 26-29,1986 Id Trade Centre, Singapore «>M By CBS The EdttMon PtocM Banking Finance '86 What are the big challenges facing Singapore's banking sector? What do mounting debts of some Asean countries mean? What business can bankers do in China?
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 353 2  -  Track record in a relevant area required, says Korn/Ferry By ALVIN TAY IT IS NO LONGER enough just to be able to speak Mandarin or to have Chinese "connections" for Singaporeans to be selected (or management jobs in China, according to executive search firm
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    • 251 2 IN A FRENZIED 45-minute dance, the lions pranced, scoffed oranges and peeled pomeloes, all for the purpose of bringing luck to the Amara Hotel. Other than that, yesterday's soft opening of the 337-room hotel in Tanjong Pa gar reflected the current subdued mood of the
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    • 349 2  -  By MARTIN SOONG MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter, a whollyowned subsidiary of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, last week set up a sales and marketing office in Singapore in a bid to crack the lucrative Far East commercial and military markets for helicopters. This follows the opening of
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    • 219 2 BEATRICE FOODS (S) Pte Ltd has launched a "skinnier" milk to fill the market between full-cream milk and skimmed (no-fat) milk. Diet Daisy low-fat milk is now sold in one-litre tetrabrick packs at $1.40 each. The milk contains half the fat content of fullcream milk
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    • 73 2 TURKISH AIRLINE, THY (Turk Hava Yollari A.O), will make its inaugural (light to Singapore on June 2. The airline is to operate a weekly service, coming in on Monday and leaving on Tuesday. Under the air services agreement signed in 1980, the airlines of Singapore and
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    • 99 2 THE PEOPLE'S Action Party is to move its headquarters in Napier Road to the SLF Complex in Thomson Road on June 2. A statement yesterday said the new address would be 510 Thomson Road, 07-02 SLF Complex, Singapore 1129. The party has bought one floor
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    • 385 3  -  Two supply contracts go to UK and Japanese companies By LISA LEE TWO ELECTRICAL contracts worth more than $62 million have been awarded to BICC Supertension Cables, a British company and Marubeni Corporation of Japan. BICC Supertension Cables (1980) Ltd won the larger share of the
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    • 209 3 The PB SAN JACINTO, a floating production storage and off-loading (FPSO) barge, was christened at a ceremony at Bethlehem Singapore yesterday. Bethlehem took about a year to build the barge for Sarida Offshore, a joint venture between Offshore Production Systems of Houston, and PT
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    • 212 3 ELECTRONIC Data Systems (EDS) has been appointed a complementary marketing assistant (CMA) by IBM. It will jointly market with the computer giant, selling software developed both locally and abroad. The two companies have been cooperating on a similar footing in both Indonesia and Malaysia
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    • 168 3 EIGHT WHOLESALERS and retailers left for China yesterday to seek business opportunities with their Chinese counterparts. The eight, representing five companies, will meet authorities in Shanghai to follow up discussions which took place when a Shanghai delegation visited Singapore last December. The team will also
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    • 170 3 THE SINGAPORE Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) will hold a festival in Taiwan from May 30 to June 5. The week-long festival, to be held in Kaohsiung from May 30 to June 1 and in Taipei from June 3-5, is organised in conjunction with Singapore Airlines
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    • 146 3 MOTORISTS driving along Sembawang and Yishun should be able to go through more green lights once the Public Works Department's scheme to synchronise traffic signals is completed. The PWD has already called for tenders for a cable-less link for nine sets of traffic signals in
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    • 291 3  -  By LIM SOON NEO TELECOMS is investing in a multi-million-dollar telephone management system which will help improve efficiency at the telecommunications authority. It will implement the system in several stages. The first a sales module will become operational in early 1988. For
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    • 66 3 THE YEARLY labour survey is being carried out by the Labour Ministry. The survey, which has just begun, will take a month. Interviewers from the ministry are visiting 33,000 households to gather information such as sex, age, occupation, industry and employment status. All information
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    • 220 3 A LOCAL video house will spend at least $100,000 to set up a production studio after winning the licence to distribute video programmes for RCA/Columbia Pictures International (Video). Videovan Enterprises (S), will start production next month and original video recordings of programmes of two of
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 162 3 k The Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur is one year old this month, and to celebrate we're giving 40% discount on our published room rates. It means that each night of Shangri-La luxury you enjoy will now only cost you just MsloB (Ss9o)f Isn't that something to sleep on? M Shangri-La hotel
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    • 474 3 I n Knight Frank ('h'ontf Ifcx-k Ch\v Raillnu RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES DiST 10 CLUNV HILL Modern D/S Bungalow Built-in approx. 6,400 sq ft Land area approx. 19,800 tq ft Price: $1.95 million neg. DBT 10 CORNWALL GARDENS 3/s Bungalow with pool Built-in approx. 4 £00 sq ft Land area approx. 33,100
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 649 4 Trading based on inside information being swapped could be included Reuter THE FEDERAL government may use its case against Wall Street merger specialist Dennis Levine to broaden the definition of what is illegal on Wall Street, according to legal experts. The prospect
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    • 44 4 Reuter FTJI customs officers were told yesterday to take a closer look at women's bosoms. Some female travellers wore large brassieres to smuggle goods and customs men "should not be distracted by beautiful women", Senator Raojibhai Patel told Parliament. Reuter
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    • 242 4 Reuter BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said yesterday an alternative had to be found to Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) representation of Palestinians in the Middle East peace process unless it renounced terrorism and recognised Israel's right to exist. "I
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    • 385 4 UPI LATIN AMERICAN nations gathered on Monday to formulate a common stand against an American attempt to put the service sector under the umbrella of Gatt. Representatives of 25 member countries of the Latin American Economic System (ECLA) met in Brasilia to adopt
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    • 277 4 NYT THE RECENT SPURT in crude oil prices, primed by strong demand for petrol in the United States, signals only a temporary gain for the battered oil industry and prices will decline again before autumn, many industry experts and analysts say. "Frankly, it's
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    • 200 4 UPI BECAUSE of objections by the US, a 35-nation conference on greater freedom of movement between East and West drew to a close on Monday without agreement on any concrete measures. A compromise final statement presented by neutral and non-aligned countries was opposed by
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    • 180 5 AFP HONGKONG GOVERNOR Sir Edward Youde has called on Japan to step up its capital investment in Hongkong and rectify a trade imbalance which was U555.74 billion in Japan's favour last year. In a speech before Japanese businessmen at the Keidanren Hall in Tokyo on
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    • 792 5 ARRIVALS Operator Sarvic* number Local tifM From SIA UA SIA SIA MAS SIA KAL MAS MAS SIA CPA RBA GIA SIA SAS UB SIA SIA THAI MAS GIA CAL SIA SIA AY GIA GIA SIA SIA SIA SIA SIA THAI MAS THAI CPA KLM GIA Al MAS
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    • 229 5 AFP A TOP-LEVEL advisory panel has called on the Japanese government to increase direct overseas investment and imports to reduce Japan's huge trade surplus. The Industrial Structure Council, an advisory body to International Trade and Industry Minister Michio Wa tana be, on Monday laid down
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    • 154 5 Reuter RECENT TRENDS point to a significant fall in Australia's inflation but its 1986 rate is likely to be 3.5 times that of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average. The Australian Chamber of manufacturers and the Melbourne Institute of Economic and Industry Research
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    • 485 5 AP THAI PRIME MINISTER Prem Tinsulanonda yesterday relieved his top army officer of his post in a move that could lead to a direct confrontation between the two long-time rivals. The official Radio Thailand said Mr Prem, in his capacity as Defence Minister,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 34 4 BOMBAY on AIR-INDIA'S EXECUTIVE CLASS Oi Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU 1 m m m n vs 5S '4 i IN SUMMARY,! ISBB Beueverrs still anvMOPHN6 IN AMBRJCA f THING iF&L6oopfleouT FE6UN66OOP ftdOUTMiSOF! i i
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    • 515 5 K I A 9Hk I I I Never before has there been such an investment opportunity in real estate. There are only eleven residences each with a distinct architectural variation. The land tide is freehold. These are properties you will keep in your family for generations. The properties are of
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  • TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
    • 675 6  -  Dismissing employees is a skill that needs to be acquired for the way this is done has an impact on industrial relations and the public image of the company, reports ZHOU MEI. ZHOU MEI THERE IS MORE to dismissing people than a
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    • 419 6  -  By ANNA TEO TREND ANALYSIS of changing product cost components is vital to a manufacturing operation, but most companies in Singapore do not maintain any data collection system that gives a detailed breakdown of the individual product cost, says a Japanese consultant. One emphasis of
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    • 402 6 IN A BID to foster better em-ployer-employee relationships and upgrade workers' skills, the Crown Prince Hotel has spent $30,000 on an overseas attachment scheme for staff. Since it launched this scheme in March last year, eight of the hotel's employees have been posted
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    • 224 6 THE Management Development Institute of Singapore intends to start an undergraduate management studies programme for diploma holders. Link-ups with universities in the UK and US are being explored by MDIS. The Lancashire polytechnic is one possible partner in this venture, since the MDIS already has
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    • 145 6 THE Vocational and Industrial Training Board will be taking in students for its part-time academic and business studies courses under its Continuing Education Programme in July. The courses comprise the Best programme, business and language courses. The two subjects offered under the Best programme are English and
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    • 103 6 THE Department of Extramural Studies of the NUS will be holding two courses on sales supervisory management and people centred management concept and practice. Sales supervisory management is a two-day course for sales executives and supervisors who need to plan sales management programmes. The pro- gramme
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 301 7 SINGAPORE The market closed higher yesterday with June One RSS buyers quoted at 172.00 cents a kg, up two cents from Monday. The morning session gained 0.50 cent on some buying interest in quiet trading. Prices rose further in moderate afternoon trading on trade and speculative buying following reports
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    • 311 7 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOB in boles NOON CLOSE Buyer! Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 172 00 I73 00N 173 00 174 00N Int 1 RSS June 86 170 50 171 50 172 00 172 50 Int 1 RSS July 86 170 50 171
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    • 88 7 (cents/kg, 1-ton pollen) JUNE JULY 86 (current month) (forward month) NOON NOON RAS Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 160.50 162.SON 161 00 163.00N SSR 50 157 50 159.SON 158 00 I60 00N MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR CV ***** 217.00N ***** *****N SMR L *****
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    • 145 7 Chinese Produce Exchange Seller*' noon dosing prices on Moy 27 (SS/100 kg). Coconut oil Bulk FOB 48 00 Old drum FOB 61.00 New drum FOB 65.00 Robusta 20/25% FOB NSW Nutmeg 110 FOB NSW BWP FOB NSW Gombier FOB NSW 565 00 1422 00 1322 00 330 00
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    • 66 7 Bangkok Broken Rice (US$/toone, FOB) A-l Super 115 A-l Special 112 White Rice 100% 1st class 240 C I Special C-l Ord unq unq 100% 2nd class 215 Loonzain Rice 100% 3rd class 210 100% 1st grade S73 5% 200 195 100% 2nd grode 10% 100% 3rd grode unq
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    • 81 7 TIN m the Koala Lampar Tla Market rase IS cents ts M 114.29 per kg •a farther covering yesterday. After spealag anchaaged, strssg boylag frsm Japaa aad by Malaysia* laterests pathnd the priee gradaally higher. It rsse 15 eeats sa Msaday. Tetal dlspssals is--41 tinifjg sa Miimlit mm
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    • 200 7 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed higher yesterday on light covering and speculative buying interest, with the rise in palm oil futures supporting levels. But trading was curbed by a lack of a clear overseas lead due to the closure of the Chicago soybean complex on Monday night.
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    • 205 7 Reuter PREUSSAG AG said it will sue member governments of the International Tin Council (ITC) if it fails in court to get the council to pay compensation for losses caused by a special cash settlement of outstanding tin contracts following the international tin crisis.
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    • 521 7 NYT UNTIL RECENTLY, uranium mining seemed about as promising a business on the Colorado River Plateau as grazing steers in New York's Central Park, but the discovery of some rich uranium ore deposits along the border of the Grand Canyon National Park is changing that. Several
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    • 117 7 Reuter PHILIPINE FARMERS asked the government on Monday to check carefully for radioactivity in imports of urea fertiliser from the Soviet Union. "It is necessary that the government take the appropriate measures to safeguard the country's food production and the health of the consuming public," the
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    • 139 7 Reuter TAIWAN, which imports most of its oil from the Middle East and Asia, said yesterday it would buy crude from Mexico for the first time. An Economics Ministry official told reporters about 700,000 barrels would be imported from Mexico later this year
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    • 86 7 AFP CHINA became the world's second largest honey exporter last year with about 54,000 tonnes sold to more than 40 countries. The country's six million bees in 1985 produced about 155,000 tonnes of honey, making China the world's second largest honey producer after the Soviet
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  • FEATURES
    • 543 8 WILL SOMEBODY stand up and tell the shareholders exactly what is going on! It seems amazing that the directors of some public companies regularly keep their shareholders in the dark about exactly what is happening to their businesses. In such cases, it is almost as if
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    • 843 8  -  To get round the latest laws brought in to protect US textile manufacturers from imports, Hongkong garment makers are buying computerised knitting machines from Japan. DAVID DODWELL describes how it works. DAVID DODWELL FT LEADING KNITWEAR manufacturers have over the past year invested more than HKJ3OO
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    • 492 8  -  Letter to the Editor Kuik See Juan Director, Bon vests Holdings Limited Dear Sir, We refer to the article "Departure of Isetan will leave a big hole in Bonvests' pocket" by Hock Lock Siew in BT on May 22, 1966. Your article assumed that Isetan
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 242 9 AP IN A RARE pre-tournament meeting of two World Cup qualifiers, Bulgaria scored a surprise 4-1 win over favoured Uruguay in Toluca, Mexico, on Monday. The Balkan team, under pressure at the start, came from behind to take control after replacing most of its regular lineup
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    • 79 9 AP DIEGO MARADONA scored a superb goal and created two others on Monday to set up a 3-1 victory for Argentina over the Mexican First Division team Neza in a World Cup preparation game. Replacement strikers Pedro Pasculli and Sergio Almiron added to Argentina's score, converting two clever
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    • 518 9 UPT TWO-TIME millionaire Snow Chief, making an assault on racing's all-time earnings record, pulled away from up-set-minded Mogambo in the stretch on Monday to win the US$l million Jersey Derby at Garden State Park by two lengths. Tasso, the 1965 2-year-old champion
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    • 169 9 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Open championship is back in the national athletics diary and a deluge of Asian stars are expected to hail the revival of the once spectacular affair at Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur in August. And the big names included Asian ace high jumper
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    • 448 9  -  Tennis association faces problems of getting a team By WALTON MORAIS IN SPITE OF difficulties in raising a team this season, Singapore is likely to take part in the LTAM Cup inter-state tennis team championship at Pulau Pinang on August 15-17. The Republic
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    • 523 9 Reuter TOP MEN'S seed Ivan Lendl and defending women's champion Chris Evert Lloyd cruised to confident straight-set victories in the first round of the French Open tennis championships at Roland Garros on Monday. Other seeds such as Czechoslovak Helena Sukova and
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    • 324 9 AFP 0 THE AMAZING runners-up record of Australian Rodger DaVfk ended at Wentworth, when he beat Ireland's Des Smyth to win the European PGA championship on Monday. A bizarre play-off was virtually a repeat of last year until Davis came through with an inglorious
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1124 9 to ma mm ALL THE WORLD'S A BTAQE "Entar Dionysus" Bpm, Channal 12 The emergence of the theatre from its ritual beginnings to the so-called high art form called modern drama is traced in this programme. It looks at the Greek's passion for the theatre, the emergence of the individual
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 325 10 Reuter RECEIVERS for Dubai entrepreneur Abdul Wahab Galadari, whose business empire crumbled in late 1963, have made their first payments to creditors totalling three-quar-ters of outstanding debts, an official said. Abdullah Hassan al-Rosta-mani, a member of the committee of receivers appointed by the Dubai
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    • 262 10 Reuter PR£USSAG AG, the West German metals and energy group, expects results to come under considerable pressure in 1966 after profits were hit in 1965 by weak metal prices, sluggish metal trading and the tin crisis. The group barely broke even
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    • 394 10 Reuter THE ARREST of Dubai entrepreneur Abdul Wahab Gala dari in New York on drug charges is the latest chapter in the collapse of a business empire that stretched from Hongkong to the US. Four years ago, Iranian-born Mr Galadari, 49, was at his
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    • 154 10 Reuter DEGUSSA AG should record good results again for the year 1965-86 in spite of continuing pressure on prices and from competitors, the firm said in a half-yearly report. No details were given of first-half profits, but it reported a 9.9 per cent
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    • 769 10 Amsterdam MAY 26 ABN 599 00 -8 110.00 -0.2 Ahold 82 70 -1.5 Akto 174 20 -3.1 AHnta ***** +0.3 A*€V 85.80 -It 112.20 -1.3 Am S*od 126 50 -0 5 Baikal 27.00 -2.5 Bonunij Buahrman Taftarc 721 00 -3 x>a... 187 00 -03 650 00 -5 Fkmar
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    • 72 10 Reuter THE FALL in value in French shares by nearly 10 per cent over the past two bourse sessions was partly triggered by selling by foreign investors. The chairman of the Stockbrokers' Association Xavier Dupont yesterday said the fall was made worse by concerns over tensions
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 388 11 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday closed firmer following news that Swire Properties Ltd bought a major site for HK$l.OO5 billion in a government land auction yesterday afternoon. But the price was within expectations and failed to trigger much buying in the stock market. The Hang Seng Index finished up 4.43
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    • 252 11 MAY 27 NT Kofcn 28 90 0.1 Al Smcere Indus Askj Cement 2 29 25 20 unch +02 Kuochan Dev Lee Chang Yuen 21 30 27 00 -0.1 -0 1 31 10 12 85 0 05 Chang Hwo Bank 44 70 26 20 03 1 6 Nan Yo Ptas
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    • 389 11 TOKYO: Share prices yesterday rose in active trading to boost the Market Average 57.86 to close at a record 16,467.35, surpassing the previous record close of 16,409.49 on Monday. Turnover was 630 million shares against 480 million on Monday, when the average gained 12.17. The market recovered from a
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    • 384 11 SYDNEY: Sharemarkets yesterday closed slightly easier in mixed trading, with BHP the centre of attention as the Bell partial takeover offer drew to a close. The All Ordinaries Index closed 3.3 points down at 1200.9 and the All Industrials lost 4.4 points to 1939.7. The All Resources Index fell
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    • 76 11 MAY 27 Won Hyundoi Const 910 12 Hyundai Motor 2395 15 Bank Seoul 68S •10 KAL 1280 70 Choheung Bk 647 2 Korea First 705 unch Commercial Bk 695 -5 2925 23 .1 540 5 435 Daewoo Corp 1024 40 Lucky Ltd 1250 31 1392 13 1210 29 487
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    • 140 11 BANGKOK: The Securities Exchange of Thailand Index yesterday fell 0.16 point to 129.54. Turnover was 163,468 shares valued at 16.8 million baht. MAY 27 •efcti SerrrruA u Sam Citizens SUSP Alio Ffere Ayudhyo Investment Bangkok Agro-lnd 135 26 3 -0 25 unch -1 Siam Citizens leosng Snm City Cement
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    • 62 11 AFP YAMAHA has expressed interest in acquiring a majority stake in the French manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles, MBK. Yamaha currently has a 10 per cent interest in MBK. MBK officials said on Monday the Japanese participation could be raised to above 50 per cent, but
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    • 113 11 UPI SHARP CORP, a major Japanese electrical appliance manufacturer, has recorded increases in unconsolidated profits and sales for the year ended last March 31. The company, based in Osaka, said on Monday ordinary profits rose by 1.6 per cent over a year ago to 64.37 billion
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    • 99 11 UPI TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO, taking advantage of the yen's appreciation and lower oil prices, has chalked up record unconsolidated profits for the year ended last March 31. The company said on Tuesday ordinary unconsolidated profits rose by 57.8 per cent over the preceding
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    • 405 11 Reuter THE PHILIPPINE government will name only six members to the 15-man board of San Miguel Corp, (SMC), even though it controls over 56 per cent of its shares, a senior official of the Presidential Commission on Good Government said yesterday. Ramon
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    • 180 11 Reuter KOREAN AIR LINES CO LTD has raised a US$76-million partly tax-spared loan secured by a mortgage on two Airbus A3OO planes, banking sources say. The 10-year loan comprises a US$3l.4 million British tax-spared tranche, a U5535.6 million Belgian tax-spared tranche and a US$9
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 526 12  -  By ELAINE KOH X REALISED GAIN of $6 million from the sale of quoted shares enabled Far Eastern Bank (FEB) to buck the indus- try's trend by chalking up a higher net profit of $4.2 million last year. This was the second consecutjye
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    • 295 12 Reuter FOREIGN BANKS that rushed In the 1970s to set up branches in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE) are now reviewing their presence after a tough 1985 in which most lost money. Mounting bad debts and sluggish business caused by lower oil revenues
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    • 509 12 Reuter KUWAITI BANKS' profits have suffered a serious blow as a result of central bank action to ensure they cover themselves against doubtful customer loans. The banks have entered a fourth year of recession, caused by falling oil income and a
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    • 315 12 Reuter BERYL SPRINKEL, the chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, said US Interest rates could firm up in the second half of this year but that the rise would only be temporary. He also told a meeting of Swiss bankers and
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    • 158 12 AFP NIGERIA is seeking to reschedule its debt to foreign banks before its debt to foreign governments. Finance Minister Chu Okoogwu said on Monday that to reschedule the private debt before the public debt "can be done, of course. We are working on
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 862 12 SINGAPORE The US dollar closed higher yesterday against major European currencies but slightly lower against the yen, in quiet late trading. The dollar's rise in the afternoon reflected European buying, in a market -'which was otherwise dull and featureless due to the absence of fresh factors following the
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    • 222 12 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Local dollar* to m* (j nit nt fftf inn Md Offer ifooo portly currency US dolor 2 2275 2 2285 2.8196 •21.00 Sterling pound 3 3200 ***** 7 3469 •54.81 Australian dollar 1.6038 1 6067 ***** -53 22 NZ donor 1 2373 1
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    • 329 12 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet trading yesterday. Most operators were cautious and unwilling to take positions due to lack of fresh factors and the closure of the UK and US markets on Monday also dampened activity. The market is now awaiting the
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    • 385 12 BA Futures THE RELEASE of minutes of the last FOMC meeting was seen as bullish in the EraisMar futures market. September Eurodollar gapped up from the previous CME close at 93.03 but could not make further progress initially from this level due to strong technical resistance. But Liffe opening
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    • 126 12 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank money market fell by 1/8 point from Monday to close at 5 per cent yesterday. The one-month term rate remained unchanged while the two and threemonth term rates rose by 1/16 point each. S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: Off* M
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      261 12 HONGKONG: The metal closed easier yesterday in the (ace of the strengthening US dollar but trading was quiet after the long weekend in the US and London. Bullion ended at U*****.20/50 an ounce against an initial $341.60/342.00 and Monday's close here of $341.70/342.20. It recovered from the day's low
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4104 13 THE MOMENTUM which was generated by Monday's strong rally on the Singapore stock market was carried into yesterday, with volume rising to an active 16.03 million shares valued at $22.14 million from the previous day's 10.07 million units worth $15.62 million. There were
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    • 251 13 SINGAPORE Rises Irv dicN Moy 26 Moy 27 517 93 526 77 FAN W. 615 310 7« 15 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 8T Compel it« WMfMI IT Indicotor *****06 *****60 /D 60 316 312 216 190
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    • 3469 13 SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL Acmo (11 OB) (8) 1.07(11) 1 08 (6) 1 09 (19) 1 10 (4) 1.09 (1) 1 08 (15) I.IOCD Alcorn (0 466) (2) 0.48 (2) 048 Amol Steel 50« (0 646 0 64*. S) (10) 0 60* (10) 0.60 (3)
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 724 14 NST THE REFUSAL by business partners Datuk Abdullah Mohamed and Datuk Mak Kok to make public their stake in Supreme Corporation Bhd has prompted interest in the actual size of their equity holding. Their persistence in keeping muni has raised doubts in some
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    • 470 14 SHARE PRICES moved steadily upward across the board in active trading at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Blue chips were active and attracted attention, closing substantially higher. The better sentiment spilled over to lower liners and these also ended in plus territory. Promet emerged as
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    • 661 14 MBT MERCHANT BANKERS in Kuala Lumpur are expected to ask (or an amendment to Section Six of the Securities Industry Act, upon which the High Court had ruled that a takeover bid must have prior approval from the Capital Issues Committee. Section Six, which
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    • 169 14 LEADING fertiliser producer Chemical Company of Malaysia Bhd (CCM) has reported a modest rise in its operating profits for the half year ended March 31, 1966. Pre-tax profits were up 14 per cent to MsB.l million, against $7.1 million in the cor- responding
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    • 2903 14 MDUSTRMLS Ajinomoto (3 06S) (I) 2 95 (1) 299 AMD (3 I OS) Alcorn (0 56*6) (4) 0 56 (1) 0 56Mi AISB (0 48* 8 0 495) (20) 0 48 AW (0 356) (8) 0.34(2)0.35 ASM (0.765) (31) 0.7) (2) 0.72 (27) 0 73
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    • 107 14 HONGKONG All Industrials Hong Kong Index Tuesday 1129 30 Tuesday 1939.7 Monday 1944.1 Monday 1126.70 Week ago 1910.4 Week ago 1105.97 NEW YORK Hong Seng Index Tuesday 1816.30 Dow Jones Monday 1811.87 Monday Closed Week ago 1777.27 Friday 1823.29 Week ago 1758.19 TOKYO Stondord Poors Nikkei Average Tuesday
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    • 279 14 Monogcrs' prices ♦or May 28 MARA-Bumiputra First B'putro 4 02 4 0" Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 0 75 0 80* Second B'putro Third B'putro Fourth B'putro 3 79 3 8' 3 20 3 2! 3 42 3 4; The Savings Fund 0 65 0 69 Fifth B'putro
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    • 421 15  -  By CHAN OI CHEE INTRACO LTD made a four-fold increase in provisions for doubtful debts to $7 million (from $1.4 million) which resulted in a trading loss for the group last year. The notes to Intraco's audited accounts for the year ended
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    • 313 15 SIME Sembawang Engineering Sdn Bhd has clinched a number of new orders for fabrication work in the offshore oil industry, and orders on hand are now worth some Ms6o million. The company, a joint venture between Sime Darby and Sembawang Engineering of Singapore, is expected
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    • 340 15 SHELL REFINING CO (FOM) Bhd's profits this year will depend on how well the company is able to preserve a reasonable margin between the price of crude and the price of the final products sold, said its chairman R M Charlton at
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    • 125 15 CYCLE k CARRIAGE Ltd's Chua Boon Unn will be stepping down as group managing director on June 30, but will remain as a non-executive director. The company announced yesterday that Mr Thomas Chua Boon Lee will assume the position of group chief executive of CAC with
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    • 347 15 THE HONGKONG ft Kowlooa Wharf ft Godowa Compaay Ltd has received acceptances totalling 715,000 shares for its takeover offer of Hotel Marco Polo Ltd. This, together with its original holding of 53.77 million Marco Polo shares prior to the commencement of the offer period, brings Wharf's total shareholding
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    • 533 15  -  Lyall Evatt, Hong Leong Finance the respective plaintiffs By HOMER CHEN MALAYSIAN businessman Yap Yong Seong, popularly known as Duta Yap, and his close associate, Datuk Mohamed Sal]eh Yusof, are the targets of civil court actions here. In the case of Duta Yap,
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    • 306 14 MALAXAN UNITED INDUSTRIES BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) Notice of Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fifteenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the MUI Plaza Conference Centre, Ist Floor, MUI Plaza, Jalan P Ramlee, ***** Kuala Lumpur on 13th June, 1986 at 11.30 а.m. for
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    • 263 14 MALAYAN UNITED MANUFACTURING BERHAD (Incorporated n Malaysia) Notice of Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the MUI Plaza Conference Centre, Ist Floor, MUI Plaza, Jalan P Ramlee, ***** Kuala Lumpur on 13th June, 1986 at 11 a.m. for the
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    • 264 14 ESTMACO TRADMG PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN mat at an txrraofoinary uanerai Mceong or ESTTMACO TOONG PTE LTD duty convened and held at 36 Robinson Road. IK-01/02 City House. Singapore 0106. on 22 May 1906 the Mowing resolutions were duty passed as SPECIAL RESOLUTION That the
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    • 235 14 NOTICES Kir i 3E m (IN UQUIDAnON) (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of members of EBKECH COMPANY (S) PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at 5001 Beach Road, #M-20, Golden Mile Complex, Singapore 0719, on the 22nd May 1986, the following Resolutions were duly passed: SPECIAL RESOLUTION
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 1328 15 Registered Office: 500 Bouri* Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Austral is. Balance Sheet as at September 30, 1985 National Australia Bank Limited and subsidiary companies. Statement of Profit and Loss for year ended September 30, 1985. Dollars in Thousands A I ith nUaa »A-I AutnonsM uaprtai 344,005,527 ordinary stock units of $1
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  • 298 16 SINGAPORE'S first two Mass Rapid Transit trains of six cars each arrived at the Tanjong Pagar Container Terminal early yesterday. The operation to unload the 12 cars will last two days. Each car costs $1.46 million. The first of the cars, all wrapped
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  • 430 16  -  By ANNA TEO A GOOD SHOWING in the past year has prompted Degussa Pte Ltd, one of only two gold refiners in Singapore, to double its refining capacity and office space. The company, a multi-mil-lion-dollar investment by German company Degussa AG to recover gold
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  • 171 16 AFP AP SWIRE PROPERTIES yesterday beat off three challengers with a successful HK$l billion bid for a prime development site on the edge of the Hongkong business district. Swire topped the auction with a bid of HK$l.OO5 billion for the 1.6-hectare site, the
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  • 209 16 Bernama THE NUMBER of cars entering Johore Bahru from Singapore every day increased by about 27 per cent in the first two weeks of this month. According to an adhoc survey by the Johore Immigration Department, the increase was largely to the abolition of
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  • 226 16 AFP MAIN NON-OPEC oil exporters, excluding Britain, have indicated willingness to reduce oil output if Opec can agree on a production-cutting scheme to boost prices. Indonesian Energy Minister Subroto said in Jakarta yesterday that five countries Malaysia, Mexico, Egypt, Angola and Oman had
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  • 217 16 Reuter THE RULING Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, faced with the prospect of a July general election, is considering introducing a major reflationary economic package, party sources said. They said LDP executives agreed on Monday to seek up to an extra 3,000
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  • 130 16 Reuter WHEN NIGHT NURSE Daphne Connell goes off duty, she starts her day job as an undertaker. She sees no conflict of interest, saying the funeral business is a natural progression from her nursing at Ham Green Hospital near Bristol. "They
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  • 90 16 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES rallied to unchanged levels in thin c morning dealings yesterday, c with support generated by the i dollar's retreat. Gold for delivery in June i moved up from a low of < U*****.30 to trade unchanged at i $342.40 an ounce. <
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  • 70 16 Reuter THE WALL STREET stock market rose yesterday, extending the recovery that boosted it last week to the best gain in over two months, traders said. Declining rates, carry-over buying and ideas that oil prices could bade off aided the rise. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was
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  • LATE FILE
    • 49 16 Bernama THE PROTON SAGA is expected to be marketed in six nations Singapore, Sri Lanka, Brunei Darussalam, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Hongkong by the end of this year, Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Sdn Bhd (Proton) executive director Datuk Wan Nik Ismail said yesterday. Beraama
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    • 46 16 Reuter SOUTH KOREA'S two most prominent dissidents, Kim Dae-Jung and Kim YoungSam, yesterday said they had reversed an earlier position and agreed to President Chun Doo Hwan's offer to set up a special parliamentary committee to study constitutional changes. Reuter
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    • 43 16 Reuter INDONESIA, bowing to US pressure, has agreed to end government subsidies on steel exports to China, the state-owned Krakatau Steel Company said yesterday. The move effectively will halt the trade once contracts are completed in July. Reuter
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    • 56 16 Reuter THE AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) guerilla group has vowed to attack white civilians, Including children, in South Africa. The ANC representative to Zimbabwe told The Herald newspaper that Pretoria had shown its disregard for life by killing defenceless civilians and that his organisation
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    • 54 16 AP CHINESE-FOREIGN joint ventures in China that sell products on the Chinese market must use the metric system, the State Bureau of Measures and Weights said. China decided in 1984 to start using the metric system this year on all new equipment and to phase out
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    • 761 16 Pricaa will fall say experts, page 4 THE FLAVOUR OF JAPAN IN SINGAPORE IXAl.lkl OMOPJI/MVN FIXEST RESTAI RAMS IS \OW HfRI IX SI\(,AI\ )RF AT THE \\I:STI\ I'l \ZA IO( UNTINt I lIS TRADITION OF MORI THAN \HI \I)KI I) YEARS, IN THE EXQI ISITE ART < >FIAPA MM I
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    • 57 16 Outlook toe todov: Showers over several areas in the kite morning ond early afternoon. Rep. art for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on May 27 at the airport: Maximum temperature 32.2 Associated humidity 70 Minimum temperature 26.5 Associated humidity 91 Hours of sunshine 6.10 Romfall in millimetres nil Roinfoll this
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 246 17 Seatrade Week THE US Federal Maritime Commission has again pulled the rug from under the Transpacific Freight Conference of Japan/Korea and the Japan/ Korea-Atlantic Gulf Freight Conference. The FMC seems to be regularly at odds with these two conferences regarding provisions
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    • 53 17 Lloyd's List CHINA Ocean Steamship Co is to reactivate roll-on, roll-off calls to the port of Houston, resuming the service started in 1963, but which was suspended not long after. A Texas port spokesman said the service would begin today with the arrival of the
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    • 362 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ A WEEKLY rail service has been planned to transport containers and conventional traffic between Johor port and Butterworth. The proposed service will use Kuala Lumpur depot as an intermediate station. Sources say trial runs conducted by
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    • 172 17 UNITED STATES LINES will discontinue its allwater, weekly domestic service between the US east and west coasts next month. These changes are made in an effort to concentrate on the offshore and foreign markets. The American Resolute will make the last sailing from the
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    • 194 17 SIX large ore/bulk carrier newbulldings are to be ordered at a cost of more than US$l2O million by Japanese owners on the strength of cargo guarantees from Nippon Steel. Lloyd's List reported that the Japanese steelmaker will provide 10-year employment contracts for the
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    • 118 17 Opecna THE KUWAIT Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) is considering buying secondhand tankers to meet increasing demand for crude transport. Company chairman Abdulfattah Al-Badr said the used tankers cost less and had "positive consequences" for corporate profits. Cheaper oil prices had attracted more customers and increased
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 103 17 Reuter ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA Heavy Industries Co Ltd's current account may swing to a loss in the year ending March 31, 1987 because of low profitability in shipbuilding and the yen's appreciation against the dollar. Managing director Mitsuo Watanabe said sales in 1986/87 were likely to be below
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    • 697 18 Reuter ONCE, when Britannia ruled the waves, there were 27 yards building ships on the river Tees in north-east England. Now the remaining yard has begun work on its final ship. A decision by state-owned British Shipbuilders two weeks ago to close Smith's
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    • 303 18 Reuter MARINE SALVAGE teams battled on Monday to save a fullyladen supertanker, blasted twice in 24 hours by Iraqi missiles in the Gulf. A Teheran newspaper reported 10 of the crew were injured. The daily Islamic Republic newspaper said 10 of
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    • 453 18 May 28-29 Subsea Defence '86 conference, the applications of commercial subsea technology to the defence industry, Crest Hotel, Bristol. June 2-7 Posidonia, international shipping exhibition and conference, Piraeus, Greece. Juno 3-5 Power Europe '86, power supply and conversion exhibition and conference, Rhein-Main Halle, Wiesbaden, West Germany. June 5-6
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    • 201 18 UPI AN OVERLOADED ferryboat capsized on the Yellow River in northern China killing 129 people, according to official newspaper reports in Beijing yesterday. At mid-day on April 11, a ferry carrying more than 170 passengers was crossing the Yellow River in
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    • 421 18 "IT TOOK the bankruptcy of Sanko, Nakamura and the problems of Hongkong to demonstrate to a large number of so-called shipping financiers just how little they knew about the business of financing shipping." Fairplay magazine was speaking to an executive of one
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    • 559 18 Fairplay "JAPANESE shippers have a traditional way of thinking and have, in general, been unaffected by the cheap offers of space that have been available". The speaker, from one of the most famous Japanese shipping companies, continued. "Mind you, there are a
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    • 856 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Afea Line VI 3 Ahrenkiel Liner X 1 AC Toepfer X 5 Arvro Service IV 3/4 Aqua Lines X/IX 2/4 Arrow Lines X 4 Atlas Line X 3 ANL 1 1/2 APC Line V 4 APL HI 2/3 ASCL
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    • 184 18 UP TO 600 people are now feared to have been killed when a crowded river ferry turned turtle during a storm in southern Bangladesh. The double-decker ferry Samia overturned in the Meghna River with at least 1,000 people aboard shortly after sailing from
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    • 206 19 UPI AN APPELLATE court in Piraeus reduced the jail sentences of the officers of the Liberian-registered tanker Salem and the ship's agent, convicted last year for what the prosecutor had described as the greatest maritime fraud in history. The crew of the Salem, acting
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    • 405 19 Lloyd s List EXPENDITURE in 1986 for leasing and rental commitments running from one to seven years will amount to Danish Kr9o million (US$lO.9 million), said the Copen-hagen-based J Lauritzen shipping and offshore group in its annual report. The fleet it operated at the
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    • 165 19 FT FJELLSTRAND, a west Norwegian shipyard which specialises in building high-speed aluminium passenger ferries with catamaran hulls, has booked its largest order for 10 vessels each 38.8 m long, with seating for 450 passengers. The contract, worth about US$3B million, comes from a new-ly-established company
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    • 308 19 UNIFORM legal rules on the liability of operators of transport terminals are being prepared by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (Uncitral). The rules will govern liability for loss of and damage to goods involved in international transport while
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    • 205 19 AP INDONESIAN authorities may move to claim the rights to US$l5 million worth of china and gold bullion that were auctioned in Amsterdam earlier this month. The goods might have been recovered illegally from the wreck of a Dutch ship, the Geldermalsea, which
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    • 187 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. "K" Line. Korean Shipping Corporation. Neptune Orient Lines. Orient Overseas Container Line. Cho Yang shipping. ANRO (3TRAITB/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line. Australia/Straits Container Line.
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    • 94 19 AFP AN AUSTRALIAN sailing ship with eight tourists on board have been put under detention in the Moluccan town of Ambon for carrying firearms. Antara news agency said the sailing boat, the Kya passim, called at Ambon port on Sunday to replenish provisions.
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    • 4985 20 3®aß[pqEß 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
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    • 716 25 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Godws FCL Arrival for LCL movement Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Chev V Belle 46/409 28.5.86 1600 Optorg F1 0700-0800 W5 N Beryl 15W 28.5.86 2359 NAPL F1 1400-1600 B6 B Kemuning 71N 28 5.86 2300 S'pore Shpg
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    • 540 25 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vessel Berth Agent Arrival Departure &SPL, K24W SSPL olongside 28 5/0600 Larkspur KI5 Borneo alongside 28 5/2300 Roioh Brooke K25W SSPL alongside 28 5/0600 Tongbaishon K33 Y Fung olongside 28 5/1500 Yuheng No 2 KI1 J Manners olongside 28 5/2300 Auby K25W SSPL 28
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    • 63 17 rasa THE SANKO FIASCO has scared many institutions away from shipping financing. Pag« II EXPENDITURE in 1986 for leasing ond rental commitments running from one to seven years will total US$lO.9 million for J Lauritzen. The Baltic exchange was closed on Monday. P«g« 111 Index to odvertiiers II Shipping Schedules
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    • 372 20 Hapag-Lloyd TO CONTINENT/UK EXPORTS Wand haulage to inland destinations in Europe S'pore Itnorißfc UUWd L£M€* 15/$ 17/$ l»/$ M TOMS 24 6 2t/C 6 M. NUBMMUH 9/7 U/7 13/7 7/1 tan Ma* Bkrrw A'werp 24/7 15/7 U/7 2/1 22/7 25/7 23/1 IC/I 18/1 12/1 FROM N. CONTINENT &UK IMPORTS Brmn
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    • 783 21 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL MAJAPAHIT QOWA KOTA SINGA SIN JKT SBV SIN HKG KAO «TCH KEE BUS In Port Sailed Sailed 29/5 2/6 3/6 5/6 5/8 6/6 4/6 6/6 8/6 11/6 16/6 17/6 16/6 19/6 21/6
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    • 888 21 BENLINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT Mmo Mara Oiaka Bit Bremen Eipress K osteon Bit Kim* Mara City ol Ednbufy Frankfort Eipreu Toluo [iprns Krtanc Mara Osaka Bit STOW P KIANG s jfcd 29/s 4/6 11/6 12/( 11/6 20/ C 26/6 21/6 4/7 C/ 7 11/7 11/7 20/7 22/7
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    • 1183 22 USA CANADA ATLANTIC COAST (Round Tho World Sorvico) *jKline KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. PACIFIC COAST PACIFIC SOUTH WEST PACIFIC NORTH WEST FEDEX VS. SP PK PN SP MOTIO VSL T/S PORT LA/LB OAK MOTHER VSI ASM STAR *41 29 MAY 30 MAY 31 MAY 2 JUN B. BUDGE VS (TK)2O
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    • 790 22 AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Contain*™ CAIABAR V? 6 20 tun ESTECEIPPERVS 1 Jul FSTEatPFERV6 3 Au( PManf linn Vfss* RAMDAS V 23 Sydo Aho Accepts 6 M Adel/Bris 19 M AM Bos RAMOAS V 73 I? Kin tun 7 tut 5 tut AdH/Bfis CHANOIOAS V? 0 78 tun
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    • 779 23 „NOL NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Agenh S p»e ICPTUNE AGENCCS PTE. LTD. Id Hi office Ttrmut CTS BOOMNCS 27W»77 Ft EU/AUST TPA/SEA *****77 *****22 *****53 MKCT UK *****53 *****42 I. Bahru HARPER MM SON. BM>. 2361 M f Kebm HARPER MM SON. BHD *****91 ?w P. la»a HARPER MM SON.
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    • 170 24 Regional Weather m ILaT 1 7 x""*r> «#kV*^4 'f Ik SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. P Temperature c A\ Thunderstorm Weather Wind direction with speed in knots Shower Rain Wave height Cloudy Sky Surface winds ore indicated by arrows which fly with the wind One
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    • 226 25 SERVICE TO MADRAS MV RONJAY STORE MADRAS 15/6/86 25/6/86 AGENTS: KYC LIC (S) PTE LID TIL: *****77 (I LMES) TEH: *****63 KTCI BOOKMG: *****97/*****93/*****40 fewtt MENG HORNG SHIPPING PTE LTD Wml* TEL: 33(2947 (5 Lin«s) Tlx: R8 ***** HWICO ACCEPTING LCL TO CHITTAGONG KOlUt SfIMCE TO Mm PORTS Vessel ETA
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    • 268 25 r RT. PERMTIS LINES METM 3MO/M 31/5 1/S 41-42/16 S/S 1/S 43-44/16 13/6 IS/C General Aoents: Asia Perintis Lines Pte Ltd Tel: 2258(33 REGULAR LINER SERVICE TO INDIA/BANGLADESH PORTS. ETA ETD OBTMATON PAIS! VOT OSA/S6 1/S S/S CMTTMORG MAMA BETI VOY 22/S6 PI 31/5 CMTTAGONG AQENTB: SEACUPPER IWHIB A ENTERPRISES
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    • 429 25 GLORY NAVIGATION .it-: hi* sl.U' fti TlfTX*"* 6. SELATAH V V 44 31/5 1/1 6. SELATAN VI ¥39 5/6 7/8 t/C 6 VESSELS OF LOG CARRERS 5 VESSELS OF BRAND NEW TfflN DECKERS REGULAR UNER SERVICE FROM TAIWAN TO SM6A* PORE AND W. MALAYSIA BULK CARGO FROM SOUTH-EAST-ASM TO TAIWAN;
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    • 553 26 10; EUROPE It MAN STORE KIUMKM S/ll to 5/6 toi EXPRESS CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO AND FROM UK/CONTINENT PtNANG FOR 15/ II km UK. «TM. «6 BHVN. AHP FM: EUROPE PENANG KANNKM SM NT ANN 12/13 I PENANG PKELANG SPORE BANGKOK FRON Sid M Pwt 5/8 to 31/3 to W£. BMW.
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    • 332 26 HEAP SENG TRADING SHIPPING PTE LTD 6001 BEACH ROAD #13-01 GOLDEN MILE TOWER SINGAPORE 0719 TEL NO. *****22 (3 LINES) TLX NO. RS ***** HEAPCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO PORT KELAN6/ MIDDLE EAST BULK TIMBER SERVICE SABAH NX* K'TAN SPORE 10ACTNG FOR BMIO Sid Ldg 30/5 Hod/Jed/Aqaba BMH 10/6 Dam/Dub/KWT
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  • BANKING & FINANCE '86
    • 664 27  -  By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent THE RECESSION has given banks and financial institutions in Singapore an opportunity to take stock of their present situation. To them, it is a crucial time for consolidation, sober reflection and re-thinking of strategies. Also, they are
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    • 1685 28 The development of global financial markets is entering an interesting and exciting phase. The implementation of various measures recommended by the Economic Committee will take Singapore into the next stage of its development as an international financial centre. The following article is by George
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    • 1682 29 SINGAPORE'S financial services sector, which has emerged as a major driving force of the economy, has to brace itself for new challenges. Three major developments in the international financial marketplace will exert considerable influences on the domestic financial scene over the next couple
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    • 1635 30  -  Time ripe for the formation of an Asean think tank By DR ROBERT CHIA KAY GUAN Lecturer in School of Manegement, National University of Singapore OVER the past few years, the international financial/monetary systems have been severely affected by tidal waves of transformation (in terms of
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    • 1603 31  -  By The China Desk Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation IN A HISTORIC and strategic move, the central committee of the Communist Party of China embarked on its "Open-Door Policy" in December 1978. This decision to open China to the outside world was aimed at actively developing
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    • 1554 32  -  By BILL FOXLEE Chief Manager (Asean) of Commonwealth Bank of Australia IN RECENT YEARS the pace of change in the A us- I tralian financial system i has been extremely rapid. < This follows the period pri- I or to 1982 when only tenta-
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    • 574 32 FT IN A BASEMENT two storeys below the bustling main floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange is the hub of one of the world's more unusual, but most successful, futures markets. There are some of the features you would expect to find: flurries
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    • 1821 33  -  By JEREMY GWEE Assistant Manager (Training), European Asian Bank SINGAPORE'S economy has always been subjected to the developments of the external economic environment. In the *****, the economy was buoyant because the external environment was favourable. The banking and finance industry, being a
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    • 1321 34  -  This article was contributed by Mr BT LAM, General Manager, Systems/Methods EDP Division, United Overseas Bank Mr BT LAM THE USE OF computers together with telecommunication facilities has brought about a whole new range of services in the banking industry. Prior to this technological "breakthrough",
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    • 727 34  -  By GRAEME CAREY Reg iona I Director, Access Computing Consultants THE BANKING INDUSTRY today is one of the best examples of the positive benefits of computerisation. Twenty years ago, most banking systems, both in the retail and corporate sectors, were slow and ponderous
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    • 1832 35  -  By TEO LAY KHIM Manager, Investment Banking Division, Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia THERE HAS BEEN a conscious effort by the government to encourage investment fund management in Singapore since 1983 by way of fiscal incentives. The Fund Management Incentive Scheme (FMIS), introduced from
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    • 2441 36  -  Floating rate system helping to reshape international investments During the past decade, forex markets have grown in size and scope as global trade expanded. The floating exchange rate system has not always had a smooth ride but despite its shortcomings, talk of replacing it
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    • 1499 37  -  By TAY SAI HUAY Head of Leasing Department, Singapore Finance THERE IS a close correlation between leasing and the economic and financial conditions of a country. This is because leasing is closely linked to trends in capital investment. Given the right
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    • 669 37  -  By PIERRE FUJIMOTO Pierre Fujimoto is the regional director (Asia Pacific) for NYNEX International of New York. IN THE WORLD of financial services, information not time is money. As communications technologies continue to evolve, successful banks and other institutions will be the
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    • 1218 38  -  By ANTHONY SPROW ANTHONY SPROW, Vice-President and Regional Petroleum Market Manager for South-east Asia; Chase Manhattan Bank OIL PRICES have fallen steadily since 1982. The price decrease has been even more dramatic since the beginning of the fourth quarter of 1985. In this
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    • 901 39  -  By BOEY KIT YIN SMALL and medium-sized Singapore companies received government financial assistance to the tune of about half a billion dollars in the past 10 years to improve their production capacity, growth and profit potential. The cheap loans, at an
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    • 1035 39  -  By PAUL MA, THAM SAI CHOY PETITIONS for bankruptcies and companies winding up orders have been growing in number over the last three years and appear to be still on the rise. This trend has attracted much publicity and significant media discussion
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    • 1090 40  -  The new government bond market is expected to be launched towards the end of the year. But it will face an uphill struggle unless its liquidity is developed and the critical role of market makers to provide liquidity is understood and performed adequately.
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    • 884 40 THE WORLD'S first global gift voucher service was launched in late September 1965 by Thomas Cook Financial Services. The idea came after considerable research which the company, a member of the Midland Bank group, undertook in the area of international gift-giving.
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    • 2150 41  -  By CHEW LOY KIAT By CHEW LOY KIAT, Managing Director, ICS Reinsurance, Executive Chairman, Reinsurance Management Corporation of Asia THE ECONOMIC COMMITTEE, in its report touching on the Banking Financial Services sector, highlighted reinsurance and captive insurance operations as one of the areas which
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    • 1408 42  -  By ALLEN PATHMARAJAH General Manager, Great Eastern Life Assurance Company LIFE INSURANCE industry performs an important social and economic role in Styftgapore. It provides financial protection and security for individuals, families and businesses tfirpugh the various products it offers. ;life insurance is also an effective
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    • 1915 44  -  By JIMMY TAY Manager, Treasury Banking Services, Barclays Bank PLC, Singapore, and President of the Forex Association of Singapore CORPORATE TREASURERS can no longer afford to ignore the highly innovative new treasury products that the financial world has "invented". Whether one likes
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    • 1255 45  -  By LEE YOKE MENG By LEE YOKE MENG, Assistant Manager (Corporate and International Relations), Export Credit Insurance Corporation WHEN THE Export Credit Insurance Corporation of Singapore Ltd first participated in the government's financing scheme for small- and medium-size companies, there was a fair
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    • 1271 46 By The Corporate Finance Department off the Development Bank off Singapore YOUNG AND GROWING local companies that do not yet qualify for full listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) will have an alternative source for long-term financing when the Unlisted Securities
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    • 1199 47  -  A step-by-step account of how the stock index works and what it has to offer Simex will be introducing stock index futures contracts based on the Nikkei Index in September. Such contracts enable stock market investors to hedge against market volatility while offering profit opportunities for active
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    • 1448 48 A banker's and broker's view on the entry of banks into the stock market By STAFF OF DBS SECURITIES FEBRUARY 1966 was an historic month for the Stock Exchange oC Singapore as it permitted the entry of corporate-owned member companies for the first time. With
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    • 848 48  -  By CHUA HONG THUAN NG THUAN, Investment Manager, Ong and Company THE EVOLUTION of the listed capital market in Singapore has quickened its pace in recent months. Corporatisation has been accelerated by the entry of the bank-backed brokerages, the result of unprecedented events in the stockbroking
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    • 2051 49  -  By RICHARD YEH Vice-President and Manager, BA Futures Inc, Singapore EARLIER THIS YEAR, the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) announced its intentions to list options on its financial futures contracts in early 1967. What are options on financial futures? Why is there a growing worldwide
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    • 1004 49  -  By LEE SOO JIN Vice-President and General Manager, American Expreee International, Inc OVER THE PAST ten years, the use of charge and credit cards has grown tremendously in Singapore. At present, I estimate that the top five issuers alone (American Express, Carte Blanche,
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    • 946 50  -  By SOB TIANG KENG THE Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) is "ready to move forward" after establishing a sound base for futures trading in the Republic. Summing up its future strategy, Simex deputy chairman Francis Yeo Teng Yang said: "We are now on
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    • 564 50 DEPUTY SIMEX chairman Francis Yeo has expressed cautious optimism that the daily trading volume of the exchange can hit 20,000 contracts by end-1989. The present average trading turnover per day on the Simex floor is about 3,000 lots. Mr Yeo was
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    • 234 27 SINGAPORE'S financial services sector has to brace itself for new challenges, one of which is to be Asia's Switzerland Think tank for Asean 4 Ensuring the region's fiscal health is in no jeopardy W ■71 nil etc n W Come in, come in AN OPEN CHINA beckons to investors Automated
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    • 306 28 m m: m mm--. i 4 I-;-:-.-.-, v PS X-y-: U.S. w* tv; OOLiIiAII wC*& miS'r.i LERS I:HI > AT ANEr v te cas^ 7* ftiCANi EXPRCS ll\l UMITE M > •■>>.* Bfc EW YORK N £R COUNT UN»FIVITB« d STAT t o' O 1986 marks the 95th anniversary of
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    • 146 29 Don't believe everything you hear about doing business in Australia. Second hand perceptions of life Commonwealth Bank of Australia. business with Australia, come and talk in Australia often fall nothing short of bizarre. (Kangaroos living in our business district is a classic example.) For an infinitely more realistic and informed
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    • 400 30 m m Keep a watch on the international money-market for effective and successful trading. Immediate access to a wide range of real-time information. Accurate and timely data for professional investors to function faster, more efficiently and profitably. Dynamic updating monitors trades as they occur. Up-to-the-second information on dispersed financial markets.
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    • 291 31 wmmmmmm 7^ mHBSiB v ✓"V Diners Club International X Z. st;>y V C* .r- sk£* 'ir> X •a' r 1* 1 > v V. *W -p-" 1 .w'J. -^MUR YOU CAN EVEN USE IT TO BUY MONEY UP TO USSIOOOABROAD Perhaps, one of the most MM gratifying reasons for carrying
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 220 32 Company finances being what they are, shouldn't you know your exact position anytime you choose? Of course you should. With the state of today's economy, it's even more vital to know exacdy how your business stands financially. Now you can with UniView, Singapore's first computer-banking service. It allows you to
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    • 124 33 SING INVESTMENTS FINANCE LTD \cTd/ wm Fixed Deposits Rates: i 1 month *4%% pa. 6 months 5Vi% pa. i 3 months 5 %p a. 9 months 5Vi% pa. v\\ 12 months 5 1 2 p.a. A\\ On Call **4 1 /2% p.a Savings sVi%p.a. (calculated daily) Rates are subject to
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    • 27 33 It§ time to get into the Black e l -rt> CO B V ov lO> x\o^ t £>to ©v> A JOHNNIE WALKER BLACK LABEL /> 12 YEARS OLD
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  • Page 34 Advertisements
    • 185 34 Turn to lis when you need help for life's more important occasions 111 l la -MM Chase Personal Loan We all realise that it is not always possible to meet current financial obligations with what we have at hand. The arrival of a new baby. A wedding your family will
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  • Page 35 Advertisements
    • 159 35 We designed the NCR 9800 to grow the way your business grows. Most businesses don't grow by leaps and bounds. They grow gradually. But if you need to add to your mainframe gradually, so it keeps up with your business, guess what? It's impossible. You have to spend more money
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    • 119 36 v We know that under current conditions even if your business is viable and you have the collateral such as property, quoted shares, plant and machinery and accounts receivables, you may have difficulty in getting a loan. If you are having this problem, call us. Our team of experienced loan
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  • Page 37 Advertisements
    • 192 37 Hongkong Bank opens the door to business opportunities in China. I longkongßank's China Desk can help you make inroads into C hina. Our special ties and business connections v\ ith that country are more than a ccntur\ old. And, in more recent times, we've assisted in the development of more
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    • 111 38 Bein z. is not enough NOT IN INTERNATIONAL BANKING The Dutch have a worldwide reputation. For l>eing good, astute businessmen. We're proud of this. But we also know that it's just not enough. Not in the world of international banking which grows daily more complex and sophisticated. Today, AMRO has
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    • 158 39 Private Investors just can't get wider portfolio coverage. Important investment opportunities can be lost without instantaneous access to the financial markets of the world. As a private investor, you'll want to get the widest possible coverage. And Bache Securities can take your portfolio the whole distance. We trade in stock,
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    • 77 42 We provide your financial needs in the Arab world and Asean HE X Frankfurt ft Seoul e Osaka Hongkong Bahrain SINGAPORE b A t/a Si Union de Banques Arabes et Franpaises An Arab and International Association in Banking and Finance Head Office: 190 Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle, ***** Neuilly Cedex, France. Tel:
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    • 294 42 apex systems NEC ♦GROUP* For Group Life Insurers QUOTATIONS 9 HEW BUSINESS POLICY MAI NTENANCE V. ADJUSTMENT ENQUIRY MANAQEMENT REPORT'S OPERATION® PERFORMANCE IREPORTINO REINSURANCE •Only package of its kind available relating to this high growth area of the insurance business. Processes comprehensively everything from Quotations to Claims For General Insurance
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