The Business Times, 26 February 1987

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 112/12/86 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 191 1 Ovaraaaa markets Wednesday HK Hang Song Index 2873.58 25.39 Tokyo Nikkei Average *****.33 (+109.85) Sydney Ail-Ordinaries 1584.0 (-13.9) Tumday New York (Dow Jones) 2223.28 6.74 London (FT 30 Index) 1559.2 2.3) 1566.2 (noon, Wednesday Slmex DM (Mor) 0.5487 42 Euro-$ (June) 93.66 (unch) Yon (Mar) 0.*****8 6
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  • 525 1  -  By LUCY NG THE BRUNEIAN GOVERNMENT is a preferred creditor to all other creditors of the National Bank of Brunei (NBB) as it holds a charge against NBB which gives it preferential treatment. A Bruneian official disclosed this yesterday following earlier
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  • 507 1  -  Approval of exchange committee expected soon By AMY CHEOK TRANS-ISLAND Bus Services (Pte) Ltd (TIBS) is seeking a listing on the recently established second securities market, Sesdaq (Stock Exchange of Singapore Dealing and Automated Quotation system). BT understands that TIBS has already submitted
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  • 198 1 Bernama SINGAPORE is keen on buying natural gas from Indonesia, Second Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong said in Jakarta yesterday. He said that the gas produced by the Natuna gas field in South China Sea could be piped to
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  • 524 1  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE GOVERNMENT yesterday challenged The Asian Wall Street Journal to take legal action against the move to limit its sales in Singapore. The government also said the Journal could distribute as many free copies as it wanted in Singapore as
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  • 169 1 THE SINGAPORE stock market closed mixed on active trading yesterday. There was still much profit-taking. The Straits Times Industrial Index fell 1.21 points to 1,056.80, while the all-sector BT Composite Index fell 2.36 points to 936.75. Total turnover stood at 37.7 million worth $93.5 million, down
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  • 197 1 AP UPI BUOYED by surging exports, Hongkong's economy grew about 9 per cent last year, well above what had been predicted. Financial Secretary Piers Jacobs said yesterday that the government had initially expected the Gross Domestic Product to rise by 5.6 per cent. In
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    • 297 1 Going full steam ahead THE BIG FOUR ship-repair yards are faring better than anyone dared to expect, thanks to the appreciation of major world currencies and a mini-boom in the tanker trade. Stock market analysts, meanwhile, expect marine-based companies to show encouraging results for 1986 and further improvements this year.
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 465 2  -  The government's reply to the editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal Martin Marini Minister for CommunicaMows Dear Sir, I refer to your letter of Feb 20, 1967, addressed to the Minister for Communications and Information, and to your letter of the
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    • 271 2  -  By MONICA GWEE IGNORE the importance of research at your own peril, media owner», advertiser* and ad agenciee were warned yesterday. Mr Michael Gilbert, a Britieh publishing consultant said all three groups needed as much information as they could get to ensure a competitive
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    • 220 2 PETER YAP KIM KEE was appointed general manager and principal officer of Overseas Union Insurance (OUI) from Feb 1. Mr Yap, 42. has experience in the insurance industry as well as in underwriting and broking. He is a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Institute
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    • 433 3 Seminars and r 1 Cahners I el *****13 Courses fl J Exposition Tlx ■Ln N Group Fax: RS ***** *****66 DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER TELEPHONE Mar 9 Psychological Skills National Sales Troining *****36 for Survival Productivity Systems Pte ltd Board Building Mar 9 Small and Medium National National
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    • 177 3 ALTHOUGH China cannot become totally Westernised, it will continue to work at improving the business climate further for foreign investors, a Chinese official assured yesterday. Mr Liu Chun Ting, director of the Guangdong Administration for Industry and Commerce, said China had gone
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    • 98 3 THE SINGAPORE Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) has been appointed by the Chief Inspector of Factories to test safety shoes. Under the Factories (Industrial Safety Helmets and Footwear) Notification 1986, which will take effect from May 1, occupiers of factories must ensure that
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    • 432 3  -  Regional sales of machines and spare parts up By WILLIAM CHIA THE MARKET for tractors and spares, generally used in regional logging markets, has begun to show an upturn after several years of rock bottom sales. The general manager (marketing) of Komatsu Singapore Pte Ltd, Mr
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    • 249 3 THE ELECTRONICS SECTOR is expected to grow by more than 10 per cent this year. Or Lee Boon Yang, addressing the first group of graduates of the French Singapore Institute (FSI), said yesterday that the electronics industry accounted for a quarter of manufacturing output
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    • 274 3 WITH LESS THAN 700 metres to go, tunnelling for the Mass Rapid Transit system is now virtually complete. The MRT system will have 20 km of underground tunnels, out of the total 66 km of tracks. And all but one pair of tunnels have been completed.
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    • 374 3  -  By MARTIN SOONG TROUBLESHOOTERS would be bored to death at Changi International Airport, as members of the Communications and Information Parliamentary Committee found out yesterday. After talking to senior officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) while touring several airport facilities, the committee's
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    • 91 3 THE HEAD OFFICE of the Economic Development Board will move to new premises at Raffles City this weekend. The EDB, which was located at the World Trade Centre over the last seven-and-a-half years, will take up five floors in the Raffles City Tower. Its
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    • 70 3 THE TYPEWRITER OUR COMPETITION DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE OR HEAR m i s m •:> U Brother Business Mo<hin«s Singopore 7 Kaki Bufcit Rood 2 *02 08 Great Fbcrfic Warehouse Singapore 1441 let 743-8000 Malaysia 37 Jolon Dewan Sudan Sulaiman Satu. Off Jaian Tuonku AtxJul Pahmon ***** Kuala Lumpur
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    • 97 3 Commercial FOR SALE By tender on 2 April 1987. Dunn House Cecil Street, Singapore. This fine 1979 built detached 16 storey office building is situated close to the prime Raffles Place Financial District. Tenure 999 year leasehold Total Net Floor Area 47,058 square feet Site Area 8,564 square feet Tenancies
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 455 4 Reuter US POLITICAL MUSCLE flexing over a US$6 billion Japanese airport project underlines how raw power can outweigh free trade in the battle to open Japan's markets, according to Japanese and foreign officials. The officials, who are involved in the project, said a
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    • 223 4 Reuter JAPAN'S big department stores, outraged by government proposals to introduce a controversial sales tax, have launched a financial challenge to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The Japan Department Stores Association and the Japan Chain Stores Association said yesterday that they had refused
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    • 214 4 AP OPPOSITION PARTIES and Sikh leaders condemned on Tuesday the judicial report on the antiSikh riots that followed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination because it absolved the government. The report, made public on Monday, said police and a few low-ranking officials of the governing Congress
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    • 462 4 FT INDIA'S economy faces serious problems on its balance of payments and the levels of public expenditure during the next few years, despite an improved trend of industrial and general economic growth which pushed the gross national product up by 5.5 per cent
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    • 190 4 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND government is facing a number of economic pressures in the lead-up to an election which must be called before Sep 19, says Westpac Banking Corp in its regular economic preview. Inflation, currently 18.2 per cent, has not fallen as rapidly
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    • 254 4 AP LEADING Thai academics are criticising a govern-ment-promoted "visit Thailand year", warning authorities of economic shortsightedness, environmental damage and cultural "sell-out" by opening the country to millions of foreign tourists. Defenders say it is the country's No 1 foreign exchange earner. They maintain tourism will
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    • 657 4 ARRIVALS Operator Servic* Local From number tim* SU SO 201 1145 CGK su SQ191 1155 PEN THAI TG403 1155 BKK MAS MH682 1230 KCH GU GA940 1235 MES SU SQ107 1250 KUL SiA SQ203 1300 CGK BA BAll 1300 LHR/MCT GIA GA900 1310 PKU SIA SQ1 1330
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    • 318 4 Europe likely to ba hit by Japan's Invastmants, Paga Are you buying A jour mother used to m buy jour dothes? ~T f 7A r p ffe® r*so 1 Remember when Mum bought you clothes several sizes too big and waited for you to grow into them? Well, it seems
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 639 6 FT GOVERNMENTS and industries in Western Europe are likely to face considerable strains adjusting to the impact of increased inward investment by Japanese manufacturing companies, according to a study sponsored by Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). The study says
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    • 328 6 Reuter WEST GERMANY'S three-party coalition on Tuesday agreed to cut corporation tax and the top rate of income tax, ending a deadlock in post-election talks on the government's programme for the next four years. Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg and senior party
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    • 210 6 UPI CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl, in an interview released yesterday, said Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's new policies might be a turning point in East-West relations. He told the Neve Osnabruecker Zeitung newspaper that the West should use the opportunity offered
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    • 66 6 AP DELEGATES to a Soviet trade union congress on Tuesday accused the country's labour organisations of not doing enough to improve salaries and working conditions. The Tass news agency reported that some delegates also took the floor during the first day of the congress in Moscow to
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    • 208 6 AP DOMESTIC steelmakers, battling pressure from foreign producers and increased use of plastics, are calling upon US car companies to process steel more effectively. Many steel parts could be produced more cheaply than plastic if US car companies could match their Japanese rivals' efficiency
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    • 282 6 Reuter EUROPEAN COMMUNITY research ministers have reported progress in efforts to resolve a row that has held up a key community research and development programme. Belgian Science Minister Guy Verhofstadt said after a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday that the 12 EC states were
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    • 324 6 UPI THE US PLANS to crack down on trade imbalances with emerging economic powers like Taiwan, possibly using access to the US market as leverage. US Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, speaking to the US National Association of Business Economists in Washington, said
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    • 219 6 UPI THE US went another US$2.l7 billion into debt last month while getting back on track towards hitting the Reagan Administration's deficit target for this fiscal year, the US Treasury Department announced on Tuesday. The announcement means Washington has outs pent its income by
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    • 216 6 Reuter THE SWISS GOVERNMENT unveiled plans on Tuesday to make the practice of "laundering" money attempting to conceal the criminal origin of a sum of money a criminal offence. A report published by the Justice Ministry recommended that it should be a
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    • 361 6 Reuter BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government is drafting new legislation to curb trade union power and reinforce individual workers' rights. Employment Minister Kenneth Clarke, presenting the proposals in Parliament on Tuesday said they included the creation of a special commissioner for trade
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 806 7 COFFEE Robusta coffee futures eased from Tuesday's highs as jobber profit-tak-ing emerged and closed unchanged to £6 a tonne higher. The market appeared to run out of steam during the afternoon, having made gains of up to £39 at one stage. Concern about the timing of the reinstatement
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    • 109 7 THE PRICE OF TIN on tha Kuala Lumpur tin markat yastarday fall another five cants to dose at M$l6.W par kilo on persistent sailing activity and a continued lack of damand. Daalars said strong buying ramainad abaant from abroad as moat conaumars hava alraady mat thair
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    • 296 7 RAS prices in S cents/kg, FOB In bi ■toe NOON CLOSE Buyors Saltan Bwyars Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 188.00 189.00N 189.00 190.00N bit 1 RSS Mar 87 188.00 189.00 188.50 189 JO Int 1 RSS April 185.00 185 JO 185 JO 186 JO Int 2 RSS
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    • 301 7 SINGAPORE The market closed quietly yesterday with March 1 RSS buyers quoted at 188.50 cents/kilo, up one cent from Tuesday. The morning session lost 0.75 cent on light prof-it-taking, after hovering narrowly in thin trading. Prices recovered in thin afternoon trading on some short covering after market reports of
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    • 85 7 (canM/ltg, 1-ton poNctt) MAR 87 APR 87 (currant month) (forwai d month) NOON NOON RAS •vy«n S*N*n bym SM 30 171.00 173.00N 169 JO 170 JON SSI 50 169.00 171.00N 168.00 170.00N riijii SMI CV 260.50 263JON Iwytfi 361 JO 363JON SMI I 260.50 363J0N 361 JO
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    • 156 7 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices eased from initial steadiness to close weaker yesterday on renewed short selling and reserve of buyers, in sympathy with the fall in palm oil futures. A higher overnight Chicago soyoil futures close had supported early sentiment, dealers said. Mar deliveries in the south
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    • 65 7 Bangkok (USS/Mmm, FO») Whit* Rice 100% l« don 100% 2nd dots 255 220 100% 3rd doa 215 5% 205 >0% 200 '5% 195 115 25% 180 35% 1(0 Broken Rice A-l Supar 133 A-l SfMdol 130 C-l Spadal «nq C-l Ord unq Loonzain Rice 100% 1« grodi «nq 100%
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    • 113 7 OIL PRODUCTS GENERALLY QUIET in the Far East spot products market as traders reassess price revels and watch European levels for direction. Gasoil weaker on news of a Taiwan tender award. Fuel oil stable to weak. Naphtha basically unchanged. Jet kerosene static. LSWR stable for the time being with potential
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    • 123 7 Chinese Produce Exchange Nutmeg no re* nsw IWI Mi MCW *****0 imoo Seiers' noon doling print on Fob 25 (SS/100 kg). Coconut oil M K* CM Onm KM Nn dnm re* Copra 90.00 ***** ***** Gambler re* NSW ***** London Commodity Exchange ariiM M Ml 24 Warn* (lam)
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    • 91 7 WHEAT FUTURES in Chicago extended midsession gains and closed higher after a choppy session on Tuesday, with prices ending 1-1/4 to 4-1/2 US cents higher and spot March at US$2.BO-1/2 a bushel. Uncertainty over the outlook tor sales of US wheat to the Soviet Union buffeted the market Produce
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  • FEATURES
    • 470 8 THE WORST SEEMS to be over for the property market. Signs of the improving situation are surfacing quite strongly. In its latest annual review of the market, Jones Lang Wootton reports that the residential property sector and part of the commercial property sector bottomed out last
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    • 1446 8  -  Ship-repairers appear to be on the mend after suffering three years of declining workload. Executives of the big four spoke to RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI and JUNE LIM on how the industry managed to turn around. RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI THE SHIP-REPAIR INDUSTRY has emerged from the storm in much
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    • 406 8 No speak Japanese no get Japanese contract. Ah so! WHICH SHIPS local yards can repair apparently depends on what languages their workers speak. Or rather, what language they do not speak. This may seem far-fetched. But time and again, Sembawang and Keppel executives are told that the reason they are
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 320 8 raHKHDCE mmmm CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 A pre-breakfast snack? (6) 7 To do with goH, naturally? (2. 6) 8 Face a couple (4) 10 Plncar movement in royal circles (6) 11 Something to read on board (6) 14 Allowed to go in a cattle truck (3) 16 You can see
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    • 315 8 8 Small bay (4) 10 Divided (6) 11 Needing speedy action (6) 14 Favourite (3) 16 Ghoetly (5) 17 Sleigh (4) 19 Piece of land (5) 21 Religious celebration (5) 22 Lead (5) 23 Feiines (4) 26 Flower (5) 26 Distant (3) 29 Make a great effort (6) 30 Show
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  • SPORTS
    • 201 9 UPI ZOLA BUDD said in London on Tuesday she was back in training for the first time in six months after treatment in West Germany for pains in her right leg that she had feared would end her international track career. Budd
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    • 430 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS OUTSIDE the fence, a towering branch came crashing down under the buzzing saw of environment workers. On centre court, Singapore's hopes for glory in international junior tennis suffered a similar fate. As the morning sun blazed mercilessly over the Kallang Tennis Centre, Pakistan's
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    • 263 9 Reuter IVAN LENDL, world number one and top seed, breezed through his opening match in the US$l.B million International Players' tennis championships on Tuesday with a 6-2 6-3 6-2 win over unseeded Chilean Ricardo Acuna. The tournament, which is being held in
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1453 9 ***** TO (Ml) ■i Mary Staenbergan (right) turns In a Una parformanca as Malcolm McDowall's Amarican glrtfriand. THURSDAY FEATURE SPECIAL Tlma Altar Tlrna 10.30pm, Channal 5 Famed scholar, author and inventor H G Wells (Malcolm McDowell) pursues Jack the Ripper from 19th century London to modern day San Francisco in
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 574 10 FT PRICE WATERHOUSE, the third largest UK accountancy firm, has been reprimanded by the Joint Disciplinary Scheme (JDS) of the accountancy professional bodies for its role in covering up an attempted fraud by a public company it was auditing. The reprimand, the most serious
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    • 377 10 Reuter WALL STREET stocks closed slightly higher on Tuesday as investors regained most of their composure following Monday s volatile session. Trading, however, remained cautious with the Brazil debt situation and the course of the dollar playing a prominent role in investment decisions. The Dow
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    • 194 10 FEB M MOU HAND STOMALS Truat 8k Un Staal WooNru 150 80 1460 2 unch -25 A Alpha 1580 50 MM Angloa MM 8675 -100 A#ci Angvaal *****8 unch 510 Blyvoor 2300 -150 5400 Buffais 7725 -125 1950 66 Chartaf 212SS C G Smitti 3625 Cone Gold 4800 50
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    • 564 10 A lean Alumin Alcoa 37 43% Allag Intt 14% Alliad Sig 45% Allied Storaa AJUa-Chalmara Am Brand* Inc 3* #0* 106* •1* 2* MM Am Elac Pwr 2K 69* Am Horn* Prod 66* 3* 1* 17* Amtrtdt Hm 27* -1 71* •1* 50* 19* AD RtchfiakJ 66* AH
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    • 776 10 Amsterdam PU M n.• ABN 310.00 2 5 AhokT M.ao 106 SO •0.1 -05 Akzo 131 SO -02 Alranta 142.20 AMEV Amro Bank. Am Stad 06.20 86.10 ***** uneh 0 5 Barkal BOLS 17.10 147 SO -0.1 .1 Boraumij 142 Buahrman TaBaroda 51.90 Calva OK Elaaviar Ma 00
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 399 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed sharply higher yesterday in hectic trading as overseas and local investors continued their buying spree, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index rose 25.39 to end at 2,873.58. The Hong Kong Index rose 16.93 to 1,837.54. Turnover was HKSI.S6 billion. Brokers said the market met light
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    • 220 11 pa m All Sinew* Indus Asia Camant. Caihay Cons MTt 2.46 33 10 42.70 unch -0.3 -0.1 Kuochan Oav Laa Chang Yuan Cham Indus Lisn Hwa Indua .26.20 .32.90 21.40 37 60 0.1 •0.3 unch •0 5 Chang Hwa Bank 52 00 -0.5 Pacific Cons 29.50 0.1 Chfa Hain
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    • 387 11 TOKYO: Prices closed mixed in very active trading yestsrdsy as investors shiftsd funds from rscent msrkst Issders into sscurities, chemicals and selected domesticdemand related issues. The market average clossd up 109.85 st 20,186.33. Volume was s heavy 1.5 billion shsres. Previously strong Nippon Telegraph and Telephone fell sharply along
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    • 121 11 FU M Kal 1300 70 Chad Sugar 2000 1 Kangwon Ind Kia Motor ***** 1020 140 70 Daaltm bid D—woo Corp .986 1006 10 37 Koton tod. ...3040 -31 -100 12M 32 1400 30 Daiahln Sacurfttaa. Dong Ah Phar .3600 ***** -11 000 Oriental Ch*m 1600 ...***** 12 •100
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    • 389 11 SYDNEY: Australian share markets closed weaker yesterday in bearish trading as traders sold leading resource stocks, banking and media stocks. One broker described the market as tired and looking for fresh news. "Investors are really looking for some signs of interest rate* coming down or a significant rise in
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    • 151 11 Reuter BANGKOK: The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index slid 0.99 to 207.70 on a turnover of 1,396,603 shares worth 169.3 million baht. Reuter PCI a Ao Kham Thai Ayudhya Invaatmai Bangkok Agro-lnd. Bangkok Bank BAMT 254 71.90 263 -2 unch +2 Saha Union Siam Cafnant. Slam City Cafnant Siam
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    • 184 11 Reuter SOUTH KOREA, which produces no oil, plans to invest US$l5.3 million this year in joint oil exploration off the Korean peninsula. Energy ministry officials said the state-run Korea Petroleum Development Corp (Pedco) is seeking foreign partners to drill a well in
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    • 341 11 Reuter GREEN ISLAND Cement Co Ltd is to reorganise its share capital to form a new public company and acquire the China Cement Co (Hongkong) Ltd in a share transaction worth HKs2B4.gB million. The company said in a statement that under a proposed scheme
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    • 284 11 AP THE Japanese government is considering rescue measures for its two aluminium joint ventures with foreign governments, in Brazil and Indonesia, which have been having trouble paying outstanding debts following the yen's sharp rise. An official of the International Trade Industry Ministry said "a
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    • 153 11 Reuter PROPERTY DEVELOPER T S Cheng and Sons Ltd will buy Beauforte Holdings Ltd, s shipowning subsidiary of Wharf Holdings Ltd, HK, cancel its capital and float a new wholly-owned unit through the shell, Cheng and Beauforte said in a joint statement. Beauforte shareholders
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    • 73 11 Reuter INDONESIA is putting two stateowned hotels up for sale, the first offerings in a campaign to sefi off loss-incurring stats enterprises. The hotels are the Putri Bad Hotel on Bali Island and the Samudra Beach Hotel on the Indian Ocean shore south of Jakarta.
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 277 12 Reuter THE CHIEF ECONOMIST of Salomon Brothers Inc, Henry Kaufman, expects at least one more cut in the US discount rate by midyear. Speaking in Tokyo yesterday, he said the rate might not be cut within the next month, but that by
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    • 775 12 SINGAPORE: The US dollar yesterday closed lower against most major currencies in thin trading as sentiment remained bearish. It met light selling pressure in the morning after Mr Kaufman's remarks that he expected another cut in the US discount rate and the US currency could fall to 140
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    • 235 12 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: Cvmncftw Nominal ralN SnMiMnlMi BM Okf aeeeperHr Local dollars to me unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2.1400 2.1410 2.8196 -24.10 Staffing pound 3.2966 3.3003 7.3469 -55.13 Australian dollar 1.4402 1.4430 3.4286 •57.99 NZ dollar 1.1812 1.1839 3.4286 -6555 Canadian dollar 1.6102 *****
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 12 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market yesterday closed unchanged from Tuesday at 3 per cent. The term rates also closed unchanged. prime landing nrtsaTel 12 S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: Offer Md tornnight 3 2 7/» lnwMti 3 1/3 3 3/t 2-mon* 3 1/3 3
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    • 201 12 ASIAN OOLLAR deposit rates closed steady at the morning's levels. Inferos r ik d#ooftit ratee us$ Offw Md 7 days 6 1/4 6 1/S 1 month 6 5/16 6 3/16 2 iwm«hi 6 9/16 6 7/16 3 mcmda 6 9/16 6 7/16 6 mm ill ii 6
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    • 358 12 HONGKONG: Gold yesterday closed steady in quiet and dull trading in the abeence of fresh factors. Dealers said that light buying interest in the morning quickly thinned out as traders awaited further developments in the debt repayment plans of Latin American countries. The metal ended at U*****.70/U*****.20 an
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    • 594 12 BA Futures AFTER OPENING at the day's high of 93.69, June Eurodollar eased oft sharply to 93.63 in active trading on rumours that a major US bank was facing financial difficulties over Latin American debt problems. However, the market saw support at 93.63 on Mr Kaufman's forecast of a
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    • 291 12 NOTICES Resolnttom At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of LI-Yin Beauty Saloon Private Limited duly convened and held at 111 North Bridge Road #13-01 Peninsula Plaza, Singapore 0617, on 23rd February 1987 the following Special Resolutions were duly passed: RESOLVED: 1. That LI—YIN BEAUTY SALOON PRIVATE T.TMi'i'iei) be
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4278 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market eased yesterday on moderate trading as it went into its third day of consolidation. The Straits Times Industrial Index fell 1.21 points to 1.056.80, while the BT Composite Index fell 2.36 points to 936.75. Total turnover stood at 37.7 million worth
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    • 261 13 SINGAPORE Rises Indices 1 c s 930 110 Fab 24 Fab 25 KMnghol 50* 290 100 IT Camp) Mb* 939.11 93*75 MmidiHu U O 1 630 50 ITMn tor 4M72I44 4*224*79 344 32 •T Ot/OS 27» +243 D S 1210 30 IT Cadi -*3M -*332 CCM 5*0
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    • 4403 13 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 1504 14  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM MARINE-BASED companies are expected to report encouraging results for 1986 and most analysts see further improvement this year. This is because the full benefits of the marine sector recovery and the government-inspired cost-cutting measures will only be felt this year.
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    • 518 14 THE TECHNICAL correction from the recent bull run continued for the third consecutive dey on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Share prices closed mixed to easier again. Except for selective second liners, most counters finished on an easier note on continued profit-taking. Some of
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    • 2838 14 BID and offer prices officially listed and tmsirwi in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number at shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Aana (187B) Ajbsomoto ***** 01 312 19 320 Akom
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    • 119 14 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Wednesday 1837 54 Tuesday *****1 Week ogo *****3 Hong Song Index Wednesday 2873 58 Tuesday *****9 Week ogo 2801 48 All Industrials Wednesday ***** Tuesday ***** Week ogo 2497.5 NEW YORK Dow Jones Tuesday *****8 Monday 2216.54 Week ogo 2237 49* TOKYO Nikkei Average Wednesday
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    • 241 14 Monog«rj' prices for Feb 26 MARA-Bumiputra First B'putro 601 60S Singapore Unit Trust S*cond B'putro Third B'putro 536 420 541 425 T1» Coamwrc* 1 03 III Fourth B'putro 480 485 Th« Savings Fund 093 100 Fifth B'putro 318 323 S pore frog Fund 041 045 Sixth B'putro 324
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    • 181 14 FRASER ft NEAVE Limited: 88th AGM at 475 River Valley Road, Singapore 1024, today at 10am. GLENEALY PLANTATIONS (MALAYA) Berhad: EGM at Wisma Taiko, No 1, Jalan S P Seenivasagam, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, tomorrow at 11.30am. PALMCO HOLDINGS Berhad: 10th AGM at the Conference Room, The Casuarina Beach
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    • 570 15 HOCK LOCK SIEW MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS would surely want to know where they stand in Sim Lim latest restructuring proposal. One thing for surs is that if the plan goes through, they will suffer a drastic dilution of their sharshoidings. The new scheme, which
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    • 415 15 MBT CHEMICAL CO of Malaysia (CCM) ha* projected a pre-tax profit of M 116.1 million after its proposed bonus issue and restructuring scheme. This com- pares with M 510.5 million before 'the scheme is implemented. CCM made the projections in a
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    • 132 15 PROMET BHD confirmed yesterday that it had withdrawn all its suits againat the group's creditor banks, as part of the overall restructuring negotiations currently in progress. On Monday, the High Court in Kuala Lumpur dissolved an injunction stopping 17 creditor banks from winding up Promet and its subsidiaries
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    • 966 15 EQUITIES opened higher across the board yesterday after Wall Street's sevenpoint rise overnight, but some dealers were surprised at the scale of the gains given that the underlying client business appeared be fairly thin. Prices were helped to some extent by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's comments on
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    • 510 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM METAL BOX Singapore (MBS) has taken a partner from Austra-lia-New Zealand for its sxpanding corrugated fibreboard box operations in the Republic. Its new partner, Anfor Pty Ltd, jointly-owned by NZ Foreet Products Ltd and Amcor Ltd of Australia, ia
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    • 420 15 Bernama ALTHOUGH TOBACCO will remain as its cor* business, Malaysian Tobacco Company Bhd (MTC) is looking at diversification to broadsn its earnings base. MTC chairman Gordon Watson said the company is actively looking for investment opportunities as it believed that Malaysia "is
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    • 155 15 Reuter SOUTHERN BANKING BHD has spplied for listings on the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges. The bank wants to enlarge its capital to M 5110.3 million from Ms7s million now by offering about 14 million shsres in April. Southern Bank's chief
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    • 383 15 KUALA LUMPUR KEPONG has teamed up with the Boustesd group to form s joint-venture research company. The latter will cater to the increasing demand for scientific sgronomic advice while at the same time carry out reeearch into supplying better planting
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 61 15 Group after-tax profit of M 53.44 million on turnover of M 540.3 million for the half year andod Dec 31, 1906. An interim dividend of 7 per cent leee tax will be paid on April 10 to eharehoiders registered on March 20. UAC eaye the overall reeults for
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      • 62 15 Operating pre-tax profit of M 5646.000 on turnover of M 56.42 million for the six months ended Nov 30, 1006, due to a severe drop in crude palm oil price. At an average palm oil price of MS7SO per tonne, it said
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    • 110 15 Company. Featuring Russell Manoy, Mac FSIAD, London-based Head of Ergonomics and International Product Design, Allied International Designers. He will talk about adding the third dimension in selling to help you sharpen your competitive edge in home and export markets through Design. Supporting speakers from Japan, US and Singapore will highlight
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    • 192 15 m •If SINGAPORE COMPANY LAW GUIDE (For professionals and students) Written by: Dinyar B. Framjee Luke Thomas Rayman Mok Yeow Fay Balbeer Singh Mangat of F.TMS. Consutranfc (Singapore) Pre Lfd the exclusive Singapore agents of CHART FOULKS LYNCH, PLC (UK) indudes: Free updates for CA 1987 Amendments SES and SESDAQ
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  • 540 16  -  Government sees at least 10pc growth this year By BOEY KIT YIN BOOSTED BY strong US demand, the electronics industry last year chalked up a record output of $12 billion. Detailed figures are not available, but sources said the industry's output last year rose about
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  • 270 16 Reuter IN A MIXTURE of carnival gaiety and religious solemnity, 500,000 Filipinos jammed Manila streets yesterday to celebrate the first anniversary of the revolt which brought President Corazon Aquino to power. The police said that up to half a million people wearing the yellow
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  • 339 16  -  By ELAINE KOH BRUNEI-BACKED QAF Ltd has withdrawn its offer to buy into the Emporium group as a result of a last-minute hitch yesterday. The Lim family, one of the three parties in the agreement, did not show up for the signing ceremony yesterday,
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  • 276 16 UPI THAILAND'S economy is expected to expand by 5.4 per cent in 1987, spurred by strong growth in industrial exports, foreign investment and tourism, Bangkok Bank said yesterday. "It is estimated that the Thai economy in 1987 will expand by 5.4
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  • 353 16 AP BRAZIL'S decision to suspend payments on part of its international debt should not be seen as a signal to other Latin American debtor nations to follow suit. US Treasury Secretary James Baker said. Mr Baker was confident Brazil would
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  • 263 16 AFP CHINA hopes to move in the next five years from a centrally planned economy to a new system of a "planned commodity economy", says a confidential Chinese memorandum prepared for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). The memorandum, dated Feb 13,
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  • 296 16 Reuter JAPANESE COMPANIES, already wary of investing in China in spite of the soaring yen and pressure from Beijing, have become even more cautious since the removal last month of Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang. Investment from Japan, China's biggest trading partner and supplier
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  • 369 16 Reuter DEBTOR NATIONS in Asia are unlikely to follow Brazil's decision to suspend interest payments. bankers and economists in the region said yesterday. Philippine Finance Secretary Jaime Ongpin yesterday ended speculation about whether the Philippines would make a similar move by announcing that
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  • 83 16 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES gained more than US$6.OO on speculative buying yesterday morning following firmness in overnight markets. Profit-taking cut into the advance. Gold for delivery in April was ahead US$6.2O at US$4lO.BO an ounce. Silver futures went over Tues- day's highs on buying spurred by
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  • 65 16 Reuter WALL STREET stocks were lower in moderate trading yesterday. Anticipation of continuing weaknees in oil prices provided incentive for more profit- taking in the energy sector. Pharmaceutical issues, led by Merck, remained in the leadership position. The Dow Jonee Industrial Average el id a fraction to
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  • LATE FILE
    • 56 16 Bernama ES MALAYSIA has no choice but to become a low-coet producer in order to ensure the competitiveness of its products in the world market. Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin said yesterday. "If we fail to keep our costs down, I am afraid inveetors will lose
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    • 40 16 Reuter FRENCH Finance Minister Edouard Bahadur said that there would be no changes in French economic policy in spite of inflation being higher and growth lower than expected in the first months of this year. Reuter
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    • 66 16 Reuter ONE WEEK before a visit to Beijing by American Secretary of State George Shultz, a Chinese epokesman called Sino-US ties stable but indicated that Beijing continued to chafe at Washington's tiee with Taiwan. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman told a weekly preee briefing
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    • 38 16 Reuter KREMLIN leader Mikhail Gorbachev made a fresh attack on opponents of his drive tor political renewal yeeterday, declaring that more democracy was eeeential to stop the Soviet Union from lapeing into stagnation. Reuter
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    • 31 16 Reuter THE INDONESIAN government has banned the current issue of the Far Eastern Economic Roview, apparently becauee it contained a story about Preeident Suharto's family business interests.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 354 17  -  By G DURAIRAJ PENANG PORT posted a satisfactory increase in its throughput last year. The Malaysian port handled 7.86 million tonnes of cargo, representing a 5.6 per cent increase over 1985. The increase was significant in view of the continued economic slowdown in the
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    • 220 17 Reuter ASIAN rubber producers should strive for ways of obtaining fair freight rates for shippers of the commodity, said Ling LeeHua, chairman of the Rubber Association of Singapore. Ling told a regional rubber seminar in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Tuesday that he hoped shipping
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    • 126 17 THE SINGAPORE and Taiwan shippers' councils will look into joint freight operations and ways of maximising the use of feeder services between the two countries. During a visit by the chairman of the Taiwan Shippers' Council to Singapore, the two sides also agreed to
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 59 17 Reuter THE JAPAN/lndia-Pakistan-Gulf/Japan conference said it will cut the currency adjustment factor on shipments from Hongkong to India and Pakistan to 38.5 per cent from 40.5 per cent, effective March 1. A similar change will apply to Gulf shipments not covered by the existing temporarily reduced
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      • 104 17 AN INDONESIAN IMPORTERS GROUP has accused the Swiss-based Societe Generate de Surveillance (SGS) of overstating prices of goods it inspected by up to 300 per cent. Chairman of the Association of Importers (Ginsi), Zachri Achmad, told AFP recently that the Swiss surveyor firm had
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      • 96 17 Reuter ITALIAN PORT WORKERS plan to go on a 24-hour strike today to protest against a government decree establishing early-retirement benefits, labour union and port officials said on Tuesday. Italy's three national labour confederations called the strike to protest against the decree issued last month
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    • 1119 18 FAIRLY ACTIVE chartering is reported throughout the freight market on Tuesday with a lower trend seen for some grain fixing out of the US, ship brokers said. Grain from the US Gulf to Japan received an unchanged U5513.75 but two cargoes were covered from the Gulf to the
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    • 795 18 Conflict over move to cut workforce and modernise operations Reuter AMBITIOUS PLANS which port management says aim to revive Genoa, Italy's largest port, after years of losses and re- i store its former dominance of < Mediterranean trade have run < into tough
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    • 709 18 AB Shpg V 5 Accord Shpg VI 3 Africo Ocean IX 4 Alltrans VII 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANL 1 1/2 APC Line V 4 API III 2/3 ASCI III 1 Bolt-Canada Line VII 4/5 Bait-Orient Line VII 4/5 Bank Line V 5 BBS II 4/5
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    • 296 18 AP A PANAMANIAN FREIGHTER was yesterday heading towards 19 Filipino fishermen in life boats whose ship apparently capsized in a vicious North Atlantic storm, hundreds of kilometres off Newfoundland, the US coast guard said. The freighter, the Friasi, was expected to reach
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    • 177 19 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang Shipping ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line
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    • 151 19 AFP SOUTH AFRICAN produce worth millions of dollars is getting into the US despite the partial embargo ordered last October, said the Journal of Common*. US government officials and merchant marine sources told the paper that South African exporters
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    • 591 19 UNITED STATES LINES and Crowley Maritime Corporation have confirmed that they are discusaing the sale of US Lines's weekly service to the South American east coast. Crowley's subsidiary, American Transport Line (Amtrans), is understood to be interested in buying the service. Spokeswomen for both
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    • 125 19 Reuter CAROLINA FREIGHT CO president end chief operating officer Kenneth Meyhew has projected an increess in rsvenue in 1987 to US$62O million from US$59l million in 1986. Msyhew ssid on Tuesdsy thst he expected the growth to come from cost-cutting msasures, incrsssed efficiency, continued expension
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    • 282 19 THE THAI Board of Trade has opposed plans to instsll six Yugoslav gantry cranes at Bangkok's Klong Toey port ss the surcharge levied for us* of the cranes would push up ths price of Thai exports and maks them less competitive. The
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    • 242 19 Reuter THE TRUSTEES of Sanko Steamship Co of Japan and Shell International Marine Ltd. a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Group, have reached an agreement under which Shell will charter 12 Sanko vessels of 80.000 to 100.000 dwt on
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    • 210 19 ALL SURVEYS are conducted on Fob 10 Argentina Buenos Aires 10 vessels operating. Australia Brisbane Normal operation; Melbourne Normal operation; Sydney Normal operation. Bangladoeli Chalna 10 vessels operating; Chittagong 15 vessels operating. Brazil Santos Waiting time of up to 2 weeks. Cameroon Douala Normal operation. Chile Valparaiao Normal
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    • 119 19 LLOYD'S REGISTER'S Research Laboratory in Crawley. Britain, which offers a wide range of testing and analytical services for marine, offshore and land-based industries, has received accreditation under the National Meeeurement Accreditation Service (Names). The approval covers chemical analysis of ferrous and non-ferrous metals; dimensional teeting,
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    • 6301 24 §®aBG)(!EB A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 1742 25 Who acts for whom The leading shipping lines operating from local ports and their agents A —B A Top Enlerpriaee PM LM Sam* (S) AS Shipping Bouataad Shpg Aganciee. AIM Lin* African Shpg Agenciea (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S). Alfred C Toeplei Oceanua Shipping Agenciea (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd
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    • 124 26 Area/Port Viscosity Density Water CSTstSOC G/ML at 15C Volume 0/0 Africa/Red Sea Jeddah 133/181 0.945/0.955 0.0/2.5 Durban 50/157 0.974/0.992 0.0/0.5 Arabian Gulf Ras Tanura 136/245 0.946/0.968 0.1/0.2 Bahrain 181/194 0.969/0.978 0.1/0.2 Europe Rotterdam 38/510 0.963/1.009 0.0/0.8 Hamburg 35/402 0.937/0.996 0.0/0.7 Le Havre 25/360 0.926/0.985 0.1/0.1 Genoa
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    • 454 26 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Viml Barlh Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Arrow Prince K18 olongside 2702,0600 Bongo Se'owor K36 alongside 2702/0700 Globe Trotter K33 alongside 01 03/0600 lucky Star K30 alongside 27.02/2300 New Goloctica KI7 alongside Polembang K35 alongside 28.02/2300 Straits Pride K24C alongside 27 02/0600 Straits Venture K25W
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    • 915 26 CO TEI RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Gdna FCL Arrival LCL movamant Ship Voy date/time Operator cargo schadula Locatk Uni Fortune 0I5C 26.0287 1800 Green Asia F5A 0900-1000 F4 Z Sydney IIIW 26.02.87 1900 Star Shpg F7 0900-1000/1000-1100 P5/S5 As Princess 0S4 2602.87 2300 lAft
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    • 70 17 AMBITIOUS PLANS which aim to revive Genoa port after years of losses have run into tough opposition from dockworkers. Page II UNITED STATES LINES and Crowley Maritime Corporation have confirmed that they are negotiating over the sale of US Lines's weekly service to the South American east coast. Page ill
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    • 360 18 j^3 O J f BOUND TO NORTH CONTINENT [■'.Mi :tm COMPAGNIE MARITIME D AFFRETEMENT REGULAR CONTAINER SERVICE FAR EAST TO MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPE ALSO ARABIAN GULF AND INDIAN SUB CONTINENT n —n ITT m an w v WLU oe Mima OUTBOUND TO MEDITERRANEAN OUTBOUND TO ARABIAN GULF AND INDIAN SUB
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    • 417 20 CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT CONVSEMI CONTAINER SERVICE TO FUROPE CONVSEMI CONTAINER SERVICE TO MED EUROPE CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE FROM UK CONTINENT Htari B'havan Mm LaHavra Stan PK S'parai A'warp wrt Eipraaa SM SM SU SM SM 27/2 10 lar SM SM SM SM SM 7/1 *3 ■w* SM 21/2 SM
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    • 562 22 AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE »tH»H FCUFCL Cywuimn CALABAR V 32 ESTECLIPPCR CALABAR «3 ESTECLIPPCR S port IMb Frwi Sfdn Ate Am* »FA 16 Mar Iter 23 Mv AM/Bra INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE AooaaWng KURI ConHlmci *5yjSL «Ti" OhT r^, i IM^WMa/CafcMtta/C'Gi CALABAR VJ2 S.OA. PRADESH VJW S.O HAfiftUMIP (UK V.
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    • 716 23 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD iiEnn- <ij 'titit TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ) >pn NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Fl EU/AUST TPA/SEA T«4 No OMca TtnntMl CFS OOOWNCS WW *****S *****42 «mm maw *****53 tmW OK 04KECT LINES 27*U» 27*11* mil NEPLINE SON. BHD. mm NEPIINE SON. BHD. 2U468 NEPLINE SON. BMO. HOB9S/627M6/H7661/H7662
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