The Business Times, 11 October 1986

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 192/12/85 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, IIM 75 CENTS
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  • 206 1 Ownm markets FWDAY HK Hang Seng Index 2279.52 (+8.37 Tokyo Nikkei Average Closed Sydney Al-Ordinaries 1329.91 (-8.2 THURSDAY New York (Dow Jones) 1796.82 (-7.03 London (FT 30 Index) 1268.1 (+2O) BMEX AN ESTIMATED 2,617 contracts were traded on Simex yesterday, well below the total volume of 7,902
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  • 480 1  -  By AMY CHEOK THE RALLY on the Singapore stock market continued yesterday albeit at a much slower pace than in the previous two explosive sessions. Most share prices moved ahead and total volume was the highest in the stock market's history. Both foreign
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  • 119 1 UPI FLAGGING overseas investment in China is unlikely to pick up till next year in spite of new efforts to lure foreign capital. "We are aware of the fact that in recent months some foreign friends have complained about China's investment climate,"
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  • 103 1 AP WHOLESALE prices in the US rose 0.4 per cent In September as the pear's biggest gain in petrol price* more than offset cheaper food. So far this year, wholesale prices have fallen 4.0 per cent The September rise followed a 0 J& per cent hike
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  • 315 1 CHINA'S Vice-Premier Tian Jiyun arrives In Singapore today on the first leg of a tour of South-east Asia to boost Beijing's trade and business ties with the region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Mr Tian would be here until Tuesday at the invitation of First
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  • 549 1  -  Seller believed to be Daim Zainuddin By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN IN THE LARGEST ahare placing of a local slock awn in the current bull ran, UK stockbroker Smith New Court Far East haa placed over $m million worth of Stane Darby Bhd
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  • 509 1  -  FOO CHOY PENG, Chief Reporter TWO SEPARATE STUDIES one on the systems of sales taxes in other countries and the other on how Singaporeans spend their money are being carried out by the Finance Ministry ahead of the proposed implementation of a consumption tax
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 341 1 Receivers for Promet units 0 TWO PROMET subsidiaries in Shigapore have met the same fate ss their sister companies in Kuala Lumpur. The High Court yesterday appointed receivers and managers for Promet Pte Ltd and Promet Holdings i i Whisky and bridge HOW DO YOU MAKE the six diamond contract
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 627 2  -  HOTEL NEW WORLD 4f£m INQUIRY ImF By LUCY NG THE PUBLIC UTILITIES Board (PUB) and the Development A Building Control Division (DABCD) will be coordinating their efforts to ensure the safety of buildings. At the Hotel New World Inquiry yesterday, PUB's deputy general
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    • 406 2  -  By LIM SOON NEO THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) made a surplus of 190.3 million in fiscal year 1985/86 which will be used to finance future airport development projects. According to the latest CAAS annual report 1986/86 at the end of March 31,
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    • 158 2 AN EMERGENCY food exercise Involving 23 wholesalers, Civil Defence members and community leaders will be held from tomorrow to October 19. The exercise is to test an emergency food distribution system where selected items are rationed and kept in controlled warehouses. The commodities
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    • 114 2 THOUGH THE US has lifted the ban on tropical aquarium fish imports from Singapore, exporters say it will take time for them to resume business. Mr Anthony Chua, the vice-president of Ornamental Fish International (Asia), said there were still some troublesome
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    • 124 2 A TOTAL of 299 trainees have obtained certificates from the Construction Industry Training Centre (CITC) since it was set up in January 1964. So tar, the centre has also taken in more than 1,380 trainees for its full-time courses where training is provided tree and
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    • 182 2 WORK BEGINS on Monday on the stretch of the Central Expressway (CTE) running from Norfolk Road to the Ayer Rajah Expressway. This second phase of the CTE, totalling 5.9 km, will be the most ambitious part of the CTE and the most
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    • 206 2 MR LAWRENCE C Mah, group personnel director and executive director of Keppel Corporation, will )o*n the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) when he retires next month. He will take up the post of executive director at SNEF, replacing Mr Tan Peng 800 who is leaving
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    • 290 2 BELEAGUERED businessman Ho Kok Cheong, who owes more than |11 million in taxes, was yesterday granted a last chance to save 11 of his companies from being wound up. Judicial Commissioner Chan Sek Keong decided on the final reprieve after Mr Ronald Lee, counsel
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    • 228 2 THE NEWLY-installed Central Provident Fund phone information services received favourable response in its first month of operation. More than 17,000 calls were recorded with the two services, CPF PAGE (Phone Answers on General Enquiries) and CPF PAL (Personal Auto Link) in the month
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    • 162 2 MR JB JEYARETNAM wants to know if the government is backing its words with action by taking steps to cease all trade with South Africa following the statement by the Foreign Affairs Minister in support of sanctions against that country. In questions submitted for written answer at
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    • 81 2 THREE more constituencies Potong Pasir, Nee Soon and Tlong Bahru have opted for the Housing 6 Development Board's scheme of free parking on Sundays and public holidays. With the addition of these three constituencies, which begin their six-month pilot scheme tomorrow, 46 constituencies will now
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    • 156 2 THE SINGAPORE River will come alive next month with a crocodile, a mermaid, a tortoise, a whale, a dolphin, a dragon, a hippopotamus, and the Merlion. These 'creatures' will be racing up and down the river, along with some prominent local buildings, on Nov
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    • 334 2 A TOTAL of MM square metres la exhibition space has been booked by the German Aerospace Industry Aseodation and the Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies lor the next Asian Aerospace iwv to be held inim Announcing this yesterday at a preview of die
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    • 250 2 EIGHT MANAGERS yesterday won awards for their efforts to promote quality control circles at their workplaces. The "outstanding QOC manager" award went to: Nathnud» deen Kader (PhQips Stagapore); Patrick Lin (Mltsuboahl Belting); MM J Subramanlam (Port of Stagapore Authority); Tan TV) Hal (Jurong Town Corporation); Tang
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    • 864 2 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmmI Bsctti Arrhnl Qspsrturs KEPPEL WHARVES Equator 5 Frotano Koeoofy Ned Mop Aros A moo Argosy Auby Equator 3 Equator 4 Ganquan Giobai Uranus Intercast Johneverett Koto Muharo Longso M Medrterrane N WSermkerk AAM MAM IAMA K22 KI2 <20 KI7 K36 K28 K25W K23
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    • 166 2 DESPITE FIVE YEARS of promotion, quality control circles have yet to flourish In New Zealand. One reason, says New Zenland university lecturer Qyndwr Jonss, for thta leas-than-enthnsiastic approach to productivity Is the lack of a csntral body. Mr Jones, from the
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 627 3 Plan to strengthen financial position of public sector MBT CONCERTED EFFORTS to stimulate private sector initiative through improving business confidence in Malaysia are on the cards, according to Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin. The government would also strengthen the public sector financial position by
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    • 383 3 MBT AN INDUSTRIALISED Malaysia will have a greater choice of steps to take to stimulate the economy in tough times, and the effort by the government to promote industrialisation through local effort and foreign investment is a step in the right direction. Making this observation at
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    • 835 3 ARRIVALS Operator nwdbcr 1 ml tint* From SIA SQ41 0615 MAA MAS MH601 0705 KUL MK MK746 0755 MRU MAS MH681 0820 KUL KAL KE624 0640 KUL CV CV796 0645 LUX/DXB MAS MH811 0910 PEN MAS MH67I 0920 KUL AC AC858 0950 YYZ/YUL/ LHR/BOM CPA CX710 1015
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    • 172 3 Reuter WESTERN Australian Premier Brian Burke said he was "quietly confident" the federal government would not impose a tax on the gold mining industry. Speaking after a meeting Prime Minister Bob Hawke on Thursday night, Mr Burke said he had not been told categorically gold mining
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    • 186 3 AP INDIA registered a record trade deficit of 86.2 billion rupees (US$6.9 billion) in fiscal year 1986, according to official statistics released on Thursday. The government said exports declined to 110 billion rupees from 115.5 billion rupees in the previous year. India's fiscal year
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    • 270 3 AP TAIWAN'S former Defence Minister Admiral Soong Chang-Chih has proposed that Asian-Pacific nations form a regional security system in face of the recent Soviet shift of emphasis from Europe to the region. "Undoubtedly, the Soviet Union will adopt a more aggressive policy toward this area,"
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    • 124 3 AFP THE Japanese government has reacted calmly to the decision by the European Community to file a complaint with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) against the Ja-pan-US semiconductor trade agreement. Officials of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) said Japan
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    • 314 3 Bernama MORE THAN M&7 billion worth oI projects are awaiting foreign and local investors in the heavy industries sector in Malaysia over the next five years, the Canada-Malaysia Conference was told yesterday. The coordinator of the Industrial Master Plan, Dr Mohamed Yusof
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    • 161 3 Bernama THE CABINET committee on the economic recession has agreed on the setting up of a Malaysian fruit export council to step up export of fruit Deputy Prime Minister Outfar Baba said on Thursday that the council would be set up by the agriculture
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    • 162 3 AFP THE PHILIPPINES again registered a negative inflation rate in September compared with the same month last year, said the government economic monitoring agency on Thursday. The September rate of negative 1.12 per cent, also called a deflation rate, was lower than the negative
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    • 360 3 NYT PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino says her government has completed the groundwork for an economic recovery and that it is now up to the private sector to become more active. Speaking to a conference of business leaders on Thursday, she said her economic
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    • 639 3 AFP QUEEN ELIZABETH II arrives in Beijing tomorrow, the first British monarch ever to visit China, on a trip which British diplomats say will put a royal seal of approval on plans to return Hongkong to China. The Queen's eight-day visit is
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 506 4 AP UK CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson has ruled out a state "spending spree," saying the government's target was tax cuts and aero inflation. In a keynote address to the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth, England, on Thursday, Lawson made no reference to
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    • 255 4 Reuter MORE THAN 325 million tourists were on the move throughout the world last year, showering US$lO5 billion on the countries they visited, the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) said on Thursday. It said the number of tourists was up by 4 per
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    • 157 4 AP MOZAMBIQUE stands to lose about US$9O million a year because of South Africa's ban on employing Mozambican miners. Richard Japp, manager of the Maputo office that recruits for South African mines, said nearly 62,000 Mozambicans were working at 51 gold
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    • 369 4 AP A BLUE-RIBBON PANEL of American business executives forecast yesterday that the US economy would continue to muddle through the next two years without a —tm but without much pickup in growth either. In its semi-annual economic outlook, the Hihlmsi Council expressed a
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    • 147 4 AP AMERICA'S decreasing share of world agricultural trade is, in part, a reflection of increased global competition and the lack of competitiveness of some US farmers, according to a congressional research agency. "Unless domestic research and development efforts are continued and strengthened, foreign competitors may
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    • 146 4 Reuter FRANCE'S industrial trade deA" cit with West Germany is expee-' ted to Jump 25 per cent to S£ billion francs this year from 43T billion francs last year, sayi; French Trade Minister Michel Noir. In the first half of this year France's
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    • 346 4 UPI OIL PRICES will unravel again despite the rebourd that has occurred since Opec agreed to restrict temporarily Its production, says the Economist Intelligence Unit. The EUTs Middle-East quarterly energy review forecast an end to this "Indian summer" and a new
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 128 4 BMQAPORE The market yesterday closed firmer with November One RSS buyers quoted at 19L50 cents per kilo, up three cents from Thursday. The morning session gained 2.25 cents on short-covering interest of nearby positions with firmer overseas advices also aiding sentiment. Prices rose further in quiet afternoon trading on
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    • 98 4 OIL PRODUCTS ALL MARKETS were quiet with Japan on holiday and Opec still deliberating. Crude prices were gently easier with concern that the current output ceiling may be abandoned. Most products firmed slightly in the Far East on relatively tight supplies. Source: Petroleum Argus Closing prices for crude (fob origin)
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    • 215 4 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday closed lower on reserve of buyers, further profit-taking after recent gains, and in sympathy with weaker palm oil futures. Talk that India bought four cargoes of Malaysian/Indonesian RBD palm olein and two cargoes of neutralised palm oil for Nov/Jan shipments failed to
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    • 107 4 THE PRICE sf til si Ike Koala Lumpur Til Market yesterday gained a eeit to Mf14.1l per ktte li qiiet tradiig, si light sippert at lower levels. Biyiig was isted frem Japaiese aid leeal operators, with a steadier Enrcpean spot tin market also siding sentiment. Eirepeai interest cm
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    • 66 4 Bangkok :US$/t0MM. FOB) White Rice 100% 1st class 255 100% 2nd class 220 100% 3rd doss 215 5% 205 10% 200 15% 195 20% 185 25% 175 35% 175 Broken Rice A-l Super 128 A-l Special 125 C-l Special unq C-1 Od unq Loonzain Rice 100% 1st grode unq
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    • 360 4 RAS prices in S conti/Ug, FOf m 1 K)tot NOON CLOSt Int 1 RSS Prompt 190.00 191.00N 191 50 192 50N Int 1 RSS Nov 86 189 75 190 25 191.50 192 00 Int 1 RSS Doc 86 191.00 191.50 192.75 193.25 Int 2 RSS OP 187
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    • 107 4 (c«Mtt/kg, 1-ton poltoti) NOV 86 DEC 86 (currant month) (forword month) NOON NOON RAS B«r* r ScNtci luyfi S#Ntrs SSR 20 172 00 174.00N 173 00 I75 00N SSR 50 169 00 171 00N 170 00 172 00N MRELB Uyn 5<H<n SMR CV 281 00 283 00N
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    • 147 4 Chinm Produce Exchange StHtn' noon ciosmo pricti on Oct 10(S$/100 kg). Coconut oil Bufc FOB Old drum FOB N«w drum FOB 40.00 53.00 57.00 Copra Mixed (kx>s«) 19 buyers Pepper Muntok Whitt FOB NLW Sarawak Whit* FOB foq NLW Sarawak special black FOB NLW Sarawak Asta block FOB
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    • 159 4 WHEAT futures in Chicago on Thursday closed firm, up 6V« US cents a bushel in near December to one cent in July. The offer to Egypt of another one million tonnes of wheat under the USDA's export enhancement program attracted buying interest which included commercials. Egypt's preference for soft
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    • 191 4 SOYBEAN futures in Chicago on Thursday closed two to Vi US cent a bushel lower. Heavy professional selling in the later part of the day pushed futures down after earlier gains based on light country movement and prospects of rain at the weekend. Soybeans had been surprisingly strong for
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    • 769 4 COFFEE Robusta futures on Thursday closed between £40 and £60 lower from Wednesday, mainly on Jobber selling and a lower New York opening. The physical market continued very quiet, with most dealers believing roasters were now well covered at least until December, and plenty of spot coffee available
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 725 5 SINGAPORE: THE US DOLLAR closed higher against most major currencies yesterday except sterling, helped by some position squaring and short-covering ahead of the long weekend holiday in the US. Trading was quiet all day as most operators were reluctant to take large positions in the absence of fresh
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    • 181 5 Interbank rates of 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to om tmH of lorsiyi Md Oder a reee portly US dolor Sterling pound AustraBan dotar NZ dolor Canodkm dolor 2.1750 3.1037 1.3865 1.1114 1.568) 2.1760 3.1073 1.3893 1.1141 1 5694 ***** 7.3469 ***** ***** 3.4206 •22 86 -57.75 -59 56
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    • 47 5 RESULTS OF TENDER held yesterday for 91-day bills to be issued from Oct 13 to 17 Ottered: $120,000,000 Appled far: $391,880,000 Allotted: $130,000,000 Accepted bids: $99.48 approximately 40 per cent, higher bid. in full. Average rale of disco—t m alletaMat: 2.035 per cent per annum.
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    • 106 5 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market yesterday closed at 3V4, up Vi point from Thursday. But the one-, two-, and three-month rate fell 1/16 point each. S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: Offer Bid Ov«rr»ght 3 1/4 3 1/8 1-month 3 2 7/8 2-month 3 2
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    • 196 5 HONGKONG: Gold closed lower yesterday on moderate selling by overseas interest. Bullion settled at U*****.75/428.50 an ounce against an initial $429.75/430.50 and New York's close of 1429.50/430.25. On the local market, gold finished HK$77 lower at $3,969 a tael. The Krugerrand price lost $65 to $3,295, equivalent to
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    • 125 5 Reuter BANK OF JAPAN governor Satoshi Sumita says Japan's current state of credit is fully relaxed. In a television interview yesterday, he said that following three cuts in the official discount rate this year, credit "is quantitatively and qualitatively in a fully relaxed
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    • Article, Illustration
      334 5 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet afternoon trading yesterday. Most operators were sidelined as the market lacked fresh factors and the closure of the Tokyo market yesterday for a local holiday. Monday's Columbus Day holiday in the US also dampened activity. Short-dates finned
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    • 660 5 BA Futures FOLLOWING the sharp decline in precious metals on Thursday night, US Ttoa4m yesterday opened sharply higher at the day's high at 96.23. However, trading activity fizzled out in a sideways market due to the closure of Tokyo with prices slipping off to 96.18 initially. Prices backed up
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    • 406 5  -  By AMY BALAN SINGAPORE BANKS looking for credit worthy customers may well want to look east to China. The country is short of money and needs foreign funds urgently to help it continue its modernisation drive. China's intention to increase its borrowings in
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    • 155 5 Reuter THE BATTLE for a larger slice of the retail banking market in Hongkong is hotting up with Chase Manhattan Corp and Standard Chartered Bank PLC taking the lead in the scramble for high net-worth clients. Bankers say their focus is
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    • 483 5 Reuter NEW US BANKING figures show fairly conclusively that the drop in the federal funds rate earlier this week was due to technical factors and was not engineered by the Federal Reserve, said economists in New York. Spirits in the money markets
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • TIME-OFF
    • 686 6  -  Letter from England If MAX COMMANDER had his way, joggers would be banned from running in parks and disturbing the peace and ecological balance. After they've pounded their way through, the birds are gone and the fish ain't biting, he reports grimly in his Letter from
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    • 530 6 WE ALL KNOW what it is to be happy. But do we know where happiness is situated? Is it to be found in the heart, the soul or the frontal lobes of the brain? Why do babies smile, besides gas? If a man is injected with a
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    • 891 6 What's on from Oct 11-17 VPWPM Bhhhl SMQAPORE HERITAGE WEEK: What We Cofcct Notional Museum Rotunda, tin 110pm. An exhfcition featuring manuscripts, archival records, rare books, belts, brass pots, sewing machine, domestic crafts and more. Admission fee: $1 for adult* and 50 cents for children. Lost day today. TradWonal
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    • 256 6 THE NEWS from China thu week was that military leader Marshal Liu Bocheng died at the age of 91 The background information was that he was born in UN in Stehuan province. This works out to only 92 years. Western news agencies carrying the report obviously
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    • 202 6 AN EXHIBITION South-east Asian textiles aad garments will be held at the Nattenal Museum Art Gallery, starting tomorrow. Textiles, which are Important expressiens ef traditional Southeast Asian enltnres, have heen prodneed and traded In Senth-east Asia far centuries. The exhibition will give a
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    • Article, Illustration
      463 6  -  •r Mike Thumba Problem: How would you make the six diamond contract as South declarer? Send your answers to Mike Thumba, c/o Business Times, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. Please state your name, address, telephone number and IC number. The cut-off date for entries is Oct 21. Mike's
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 581 7 PRO-AM OCT 13, 1986 Tee-off times AM —1st Tw. 745 David Ng Thom Koi Woe Y Hassan Ramafangam 752 Lm Kion Km CT Arosu Ajrt Smgh Robert Khoo 7 59 Toy Liari Huot Gordon Ton Wong Loke Pmg C Siva 8 06 Ljm Kkm Tiong BH Khoo
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    • 454 7  -  By WALTON MORAIS AS FORTUNES fluctuated, Filipino Mario Siodina grabbed pole position while Singapore's M Marimuthu made a championship charge on the third day of the $50,000 Singapore PGA golf championship at the Sime course yesterday. Siodina's and Marimuthu s four-under-par 68s counted as
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    • 214 7 Reuter DEFENDING CHAMPION Severiano Ballesteros, fellow Spaniard Juan Anglada and Briton Tony Charaley shared the lead with flve-under-par 67a in the first round of the Barcelona Open on Thursday. They finished two strokes clear of a large group of players which included Spaniard
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    • 264 7 Reuter BRITAIN'S White Crusader did not let a dispute over Its name affect performance yesterday when the yacht easily outsailed FKnch Kiss on the sixth day at racing In the America's Cup challenge series In Fremantle. Irish-born skipper Harold Cudmore made it (our wins
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    • 157 7 AP UNSEEDED Susan Leo of Australia upset second-seeded Mercedes Paz of Argentina 7-6 (14-12), 7-6 (7-5) on Thursday in the second-round match of the US$5O,OOO Taipei International Women's Tennis Championship. In other second-round matches, Gigi Fernandez of the US beat Louise Field of Australia
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 410 7 NOTICES IN THE MATTES OP TEE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 1H AND IN THE MATTES OP (PRIVATE) LOOTED (laetrytnM la Stagapare) At an extraordinary general meeting of RELIANCE AERO MARINE (PRIVATE) LIMITED duly convened and held at 116 Middle Road, #06-01ICB Enterprise House, Singapore 0718 on Monday, 6 October 1906 the
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    • 432 7 THE COMPANIBACT, CAP. m BAOUNG JEVBiJXT PR. At an Extraordinary Oeneral Meeting of the members of the above named company duly convened and held at 163 Tras Street, #09-43, Singapore 0307 on the 10th day of October, IM6 the special resolution set out below was duly passert:"Resolved that the company
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    • 389 7 K COUP AMDS ACT, CAP. BEBOUBCE (PR) LID VOLUNTABT J' I W At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 90 Jalan Sultan; #21-04, Singapore 0710 on., Monday 0-10-86 at 12.00pm 1 the following Special R*o-|' lutlon was passed: IT WAB RESOLVED that the Company be wound up»
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 1169 7 to ma mm CINE SHOWCASE It Happened On* Night 9pm, Channel 12 A runaway heiress, Ellie Andrews, meets Peter Warne, a newspaper man, on a bus to New York. Peter shields her from her father's searching agents in order to get a scoop, but romance soon steps in. This 1934,
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    • 762 7 J CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 8 Notes the time (7) 9 Be brief when answering what "miniscule" means (3, 6) 13 That's great: colour it in (5) 14 Soy nothing when the deputy comes round (5) 15 Bear up and have a meal with wine (7) 16 There's wind and more
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 371 8 UPI US GAMBLING GIANT Harrah is seeking a new partner to form a consortium to make a fresh bid for the A|4oo million casino contract in Sydney. Applications close in midDecember. Malaysian-based Genting Bhd which lost out in the last bidding round has indicated that
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    • 168 8 Reuter RETT J. GROUP International Ltd and its parent Bell Group Ltd of Australia had increased their stake in Standard Chartered PLC to 15.57 million ordinary rikares, or just over 10 per cant, a Bell statement said. The statement contained no
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    • 303 8 Reuter PRICES closed mixed in moderate trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (ell 7.03 points to 1,796.82. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index dropped 0.39 to 135.90. The price of an average share decreased
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    • 205 8 OCT 09 1md MOUSTtMLS A AJpho 1100 275 15 Aad 1425 4S0 -25 -5 AMI? fnP 5200 C G Smith 3050 50 CNA 280 -5 Cum* Franc* 485 •5 F«j Vofc 190 unch Fug* 675 unch 595 Ub Hofcfc 3000 25 1400 LTA M And R 700 -20 Mafcok
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    • 874 8 Amsterdam OCT 09 Hi AflN 543.00 -4 5 9170 -1.3 Ahold 9950 -1.1 146 00 -2.1 Afranta 152 00 -0 3 AMCV 72 50 -0 3 94 40 unch Am Stod 126 50 -I FWk«t 40.20 -II Boh 166 00 inch Bontani Buahrmon Tattai 128 50 -0 5
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    • 166 8 Witere id mim. di<i« aiui entertain A great moment in history When some of the world's greatest composers. Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Strauss, come together for the first time in a concert. with a difference From September 15 to October 15. the Baron's Table proudly presents: conducted by Executive
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    • 125 8 It's the NEU FACES... Fresh from their European tour. rhe Nf II I AC I S Veteran and versatile musicians Rock n Roll rop 1" New Wave excellently performed tor gMnd entertainment Nightlv except Sundays \t the Alcove l ounge where the I>eer is cheapest jmong hotel lounges MAGICALLY HYATT
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    • 179 8 TEOCHFW PORKTDGF BUTTTT S5 SC T" A *A 'A $5! *«v"hnmrtv P enon i You can «yy savoury r homefy dohes such as braced pork 9 steamed stuffed bean cud 9 sambaf bnrja( y fned salted fish saixeed chicken with mushroom sauteed cha poh omelette fned black pomfret in soya
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    • 91 8 com* to the Tiffany Coffee House whore the best of Indonesian cuisine awaits you at our Indonesian Food Festival. Try our sop Buntut. Nasi Uduk. Guiai AyanvPanoa ttcan, Tapal and a whole lot more. Fashion Shows and lucky Draws every Friday at &ispm. Indonesian handcrafts and betlk on sale daNy
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    • 127 8 on Rao* 11 That's how we count at Th€ Lounge during our Happy Hours from 5 pm to 7 pm daily. When a guest has had two similar drinks, the third is free. And every night at 8 pm except Sundays. VTB Wizard comes on with its dynamic brand of
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 412 9 HONGKONG: Share prices yesterday recovered after (airly heavy profit-taking sales in the morning. The rebound was caused by rumours that Jardine Matheson requested a suspension of trading in its shares and might be a takeover target. Although the rumours were subsequently denied by a Jardine spokesman, the Hang Seng
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    • 192 9 Reuter BANGKOK: The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index rose 3.25 to 168.46 on a total turnover of 1,418,236 shares valued at 280.95 million baht. Renter Tokyo and Taipei markets wira eloMd for Physical WW! W Iwl llj WWW Culture Day and National Day respectively. OCT 10 Ukt Ao Khom
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    • 427 9 SYDNEY: Australian share markets yesterday retreated from record levels and closed lower across the boards in heavy trading, dragged down by a sharply weaker gold sector. Brokers said the fall was tied to easing world bullion prices and investors' unwillingness to commit funds ahead of Wall Street trading. At
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    • 90 9 OCT 10 Pom Ac Of* Mvwig Anglo PM Ap«x Mrtng B 0 0032 0026 Toooob 0 002 Alfa* Con. B Boguio Gold Bone Pctruktfi i 20.50 ***** 0 01 unch 0.0015 unch Banguat Con. B Firtt Phi HMgi Leponto B 123 7 00 0.14 -2 0 5 -0005 Morcoppar
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    • 125 9 OCT 10 Wn Chorf Sugar 1890 -5 Doatm tod 579 unch Daewoo Corp 1045 Do«woo Haovy 1340 -20 Daahn Secuntwt 2710 -70 Dong Ah Phor 823 -7 Dong St* Stock 1450 -60 Donflbu StMt 1645 -15 Gold Star 1700 -23 Hani Bank 891 -9 Haral Camanr 1150 i*»ch Hankuk
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    • 171 9 AFP THE LARGEST integrated plywood producer in West Kalimantan, PT Harapan Kita Utama, has been seized for failure to repay its enormous debts. The daily, Suara Karya, reported on Thursday that the seizure, made on the order of the provincial court, took place on Tuesday
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    • 99 9 Reuter WORLD International (Holdings) Ltd has arranged a placement of 85 million shares of Wharf (Holdings) Ltd at HKJB.3O each. World International said that the placement is underwritten by WartDey Ltd and is being handled by James Capel (Far East) Ltd and Hoare
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    • 81 9 Reuter ASIA TERMINALS Ltd. a US-Hongkong joint venture controlling one of the British colony's main container terminals, will set up a packaging unit with American Polymers Industries Inc. The Asian Packaging Industries will start operation by January 1987. Asia Terminals is a
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    • 525 9 FT THERE can be few countries in Asia where making cars is not making money. However, Indonesia is one. According to a recent report, only three of the 21 local assembly plants are managing a real return on investment. "It's a procesi of
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    • 78 9 Reuter PRUDENTIAL Insurance Co of America has formed a Hongkong subsidiary, Prudential Asia Investments Ltd, which will be Jointly owned by two subsidiaries, Prudential Asset Management Co Inc and Prudential Securities Group Inc, the holding company of PrudentialBache Securities Inc. Prudential Asia will be involved
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    • 288 9 Reuter FIRST PACIFIC Holdings Ltd has revised a plan to acquire the entire capital of Hong Nin Bank Ltd, following an agreement with the bank and its controller China Hong Nin Life Insurance Co Ltd. According to a joint
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 621 10 STRONG institutional demand (or local heavyweight blue chips yesterday swelled total turnover to its highest level in the history of the Singapore stock market. The wave of buying pushed local share prices up, but at a much slower rate than the previous two
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    • 3581 10 1906 I High Low Company Loot Mo orQr*o Dhf fir's Not Dtv Yld P/l Vol C*w C«00> Day «gh jam SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL 169 82* 133 251 228 137 128 110 260 190 402 260 490 422 330 176 400 530 83 83 478 280 196 925 834 420
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    • 250 10 SINGAPORE Rises Indies® Oct 9 Oct 10 Metre HUf> 590 55 TCi >nH 759 02 74*54 C 1 life 1790 30 RTMctto 21B**********428 UOB 494 24 ITOt/OS lit -fit* Paafc Hm 140 +22 ITCAM -4565 -6547 DBS 970 +20 ITOCV +-472*4 +***** SI A 950 +20 STMuH.i.h
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    • 4354 10 BID and offer price* officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of Aares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT'. Big
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 402 11  -  By LORETTA McLAUGHLAN LONG SUSPENDED Sealion Hotels has asked the Stock Exchance of Singapore to lift the suspension of trading in its shares for a period of three mnntha Hie request has been made to give those shareholders who wish to realise their investment in
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    • 394 11 TAKING ADVANTAGE of stock prices, United Industrial Corporation has disposed of its remaining 14.65 mininw shares in properly company United Overseas Land for about $22 million. A preliminary calculation based on the average selling price and holding cost shows that UIC stands to reap
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    • 107 11 MALAYAN BANKING Bhd has reported a 58.6 per cent drop in group profit after tax and minorities to MH6.27 million (from Mf111.63 million previously) (or the year ended June 30, 1906. The bank itself saw a 61 per cent drop in net profit to M 537.25
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    • 2484 11 MDUS1MLS Aqm xd 004S) AL. hu AlcaaiieOB 62S) (1) 60 AJSB (626 62.55) (1) 65 (8) 64 (9) 63(9)62 API (67.56 68S)(11)71 (1)70(2) 69(1)68.5 01)68(5)67(6)66 (3)67.5 ASM (1426 143S) (19) 146 (26) 145 (10) 144 (13) 143 (1) 141 (44) 142 AM* (2675) (*****2 (12)
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    • 674 11  -  Subsidiaries to appeal against judgment By ELAINE KOH TWO PROMET subsidiaries are to appeal against a High Court yesterday appointing receivers and managers to the two companies. Justice Punch Coomaraswamy, in a brief oral Judgment, iHimlssfrt all but one of the applications put
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    • 531 11 PROFIT-TAKING caused the Kuala Lumpur stock market to close mixed yesterday but buying support was evident at lower levels. Most counters mauled small losses as buyers moved in during the last hour of trading and helped stocks to regain some lost ground. Blue chips
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    • 774 11 LONDON share prices opened mostly easier yesterday on profit-taking at the end of the account but banks moved higher as trading in the new 50p part-paid TSB shares got underway at 96p each. At 11.00 am, the FT 30 Index was down 3.6 points to 1,264JS while the
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    • 116 11 HONGKONG AM Indutfri k>b 2053.2 o a 1--L rnooy Hongkong 1 Frtdoy NMOX 1434.63 Thursday Waak ogo 2058.9 2010.5 Thursday 1432.77 Waak ago 1346.56 NEW YORK Hong 5 too ZZ5?52* Dow Jom M rnooy Thursday 1796.82 Thursday 2271.15 ■LA/ ,L, W^OnfMOy 1803.85 WMk ogo 2134.80 Waak ogo 1781.21
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    • 224 11 NOTICES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of SUPERSHP FERRIES PTE LTD duly convened and held M 36 Robinson road. Kft-01 City House, Singapore 0106 on 2 October 1986 the Mowing resolutions were duly passed as:RESOUmON voluntarily ORDINARY RESOLUTION That Mr PMtfc A. K. Ue of 36
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  • 576 12  -  Select Committee hearing on Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill By FOO CHOY PENG, ChM Reporter PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Tew yesterday suggested that the Law Society work with the Attorney-General's Chambers to the amendments to the Legal Profusion Act. While the government was
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  • 370 12 SINGAPORE needs lawyers who could be trusted to handle information which was highly sensitive and very lucrative, said Mr Lee Kuan Tew yesterday. The future for lawyers, he therefore suggested, did not lie in running around courts but in trade,
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  • 1007 12 CPF TRUSTEE STOCKS led by Singapore Airlines and DBS Bank were keenly sought after as the Singapore stock market went into a frenzied buying mood this week. Never before has the market seen so many trustee stocks hitting all-time highs in a
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  • 161 12 Reuter INDONESIAN ministers have denied buslnrsi rumours and speculation about possible follow-up measures to last month's devaluation of the rupiah. National Development Planning Minister Johannes Sumarlin appeared on television on Thursday to deny suggestions that the government planned to freeze time deposits snd Introduce
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  • 24 12 PETER LUM CHONG KING replaced Miss Lim Soh Ha ss the Registrar of Trade Unions from Oct 2, it wss gazetted yesterday.
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  • 89 12 Bernama THE JOHOR State Economic Development Corporation will include a new clause in its housing sales and purchase agreement which will provide for buyers of houses in future to be refunded the difference, following any price reduction of its non-low-cost houses or flats in the
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  • 201 12 NST MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday criticised certain groups for attempting to condemn the government as undemocratic by abusing the very freedom they enjoyed under the country's system of democracy. He said these groups would not waste
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  • 250 12 Beraama MALAYSIAN Indian Congress President Datuk SSamy Vellu said yesterday that the party's discontentment with the New Economic Policy was over the private sector's failure to give Malaysian Indians their due share of employment at all levels of management. He said that the private sector,
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  • 395 12  -  f HOMER CHEN AT LEAST (our stockbrokers were nominated yesterday (or election as members of the expanded Stock Exchange of Singapore rVwwmttt— The (our are Tang Wee Lake (ran Kay Hian, Um Hua Mln (ran PhOttp Securities, Ronald Ooi from Kim Eng Securities
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  • 119 12 Bernama DATUK Bandar Datuk Dr Elyas Omar, the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur, yesterday confirmed that the Singapore-based Chase Group, which had offered to finance the light rail transit (LRT) system, had also made a bid to undertake the aerobus project tosiklf to leporters after
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  • 89 12 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES rose US92JO early yesterday on support stemming from a lower dollar. Gold for delivery in Hfxwuhff was ahead UBQSO at USMSJO an ounce. Analysts said support increased on sentiment that Thursday's setback of USHO.OO might have been exaggerated. Silver futures edged up
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  • 68 12 Reuter WALL STREET stocks were mixed in moderate trading yesterday after an initial decline, agm of a mapback in IBM provided some encouragement to those who regard that stock as a market bellwether. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up a fraction to 1797 after being down
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  • 139 12 Reuter PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN held last-minute consultations with top aides in Reykjavik yesterday and was pronounced ready and confident for his weekend meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Administration officials suggested that the president was prepared to press a determined line with Mr Gorbachev
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  • LATE FILE
    • 40 12 Reuter THE LAND BANK of Taiwan, the Farmer*' Bank of China and the Cooperative Bank of Taiwan win km deposit Inter eel rates by U5 percentage point enecuve on Monday, sources aid yesterday. Renter
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    • 46 12 UPI ASEAN will leave the reootution of Cambodian rule primarily to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Indonesian Foreign Morhfr Kusumaatmadja said yesterday. He said SBisnonk, a former Cambodian ruler, had dearly stated that the Cambodian question could only be solved by CambodUns. UPI
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    • 52 12 Reuter SOUTH KOREAN President Chun Doo Hwan's party yesterday rejected an opposition proposal for a lefeienrtmn as a plot to destroy the country's constitution. Democratic Justice Party chairman Roh TaeWoo tokl Parliament: "We cannot accept the refer enduui proposal became it oqb* travenea the provisions of the
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    • 34 12 UPI NORTH KOREA yesterday again denied responsibility for the 1983 In Burma that killed 17 visiting South Korean officials. It said Seoul Itself had "staged" the to incite anti-communist fervour.
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    • 33 12 AFP THE DATE for Hongkong's return to China, 1197, could not be the same for Marsn, said Pinto Machado, the Governor of Marsn, in a ramo TTrnftftvwF yesieraay.
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    • 29 12 Reuter SRI LANKAN President Junius Jayewardene has said Tamil guerillas must end their violence before a plan to end his country's bloody ethnic crisis is implemented.
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    • 37 12 AFP ISRAELI Prime Minister Peres submitted his resignation to President Chaim Henog yesterday, under the rotation agreement which will put Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in charge of the nstkwsl unity government next week.
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