The Business Times, 13 March 1987

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 112/12/86 FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 185 1 Exchange rates THE SINGAPORE DOLLAR ended finished weaker at 2.1490/1500 (2.1475/85) against the US currency in the forex market yesterday. It remained unchanged against both the ringgit, at 84.75/85, and the Hongkong dollar, at 27.50/55. US$: 153.65/70 yen, 1.8640/50 DM, US$1.5930/40 M$> S$0.8477/82 Overseas markets Thursday HK
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  • 479 1  -  By LEE HAN SHIH, Property Correspondent MAJOR CHANGES are in store for the government's land policy, but details will only be disclosed during the Parliament sitting next week. A related question that will certainly come up in the budget debate is the future
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  • 198 1 THE CORRECTION on the Singapore stock market continued yesterday with share prices falling on lower volume. The Straits Times Industrial Index lost 4.86 points to 1,066.04 while the BT Composite Index was down 8.39 points to 933.14. Declines led advances nar- rowly by 79 to
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  • 629 1  -  More than half to come from Steamers's share placement, rights issue By NAJEEB JARHOM THE KEPPEL GROUP is taking advantage of its impressive return to profitability to raise new funds totalling some $280 million. This huge sum of money is coming from
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  • 290 1 BARBIE DOLLS, teddy bears and rock and roll memorabilia are among some of the valuable collectibles the rich and the not-so-rich are collecting for posterity and investment. Malcolm Forbes, the man behind Forbes magazine, began his collection by buying some miniature World War
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  • 47 1 WHEN BIOTECHNOLOGY moves out of the laboratory and into the real world, lawyers step in. The entire biotechnology industry is now embroiled in a series of patent fights that could cause serious damage to its growth. For details, see Technology on Page 7.
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  • 391 1  -  By LEONG WEN WAH LIQUOR LOVERS hoping to stock up on their favourite brands at pre-Budget prices will have to make a quick dash to the supermarkets. They have just a few more days before prices go up, by between $4.50
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  • 119 1 Bernama THE SARAWAK State legislative assembly was dissolved yesterday to pave the way for a state election within 90 days. The dissolution was announced by Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud in Kuching. The official notification of the dissolution, signed by Sarawak Yang
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    • 326 1 Getting that star quality PRODUCT DESIGN in Singapore lags behind economic and industrial progress. This was noted by two British design experts when they were in Singapore recently to prepare a programme to develop and improve industrial design among Singapore manufacturers. Good product design needs to reflect originality and creativity
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 377 2  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE DESIGN is an essential ingredient for export success. No matter how good the product may be,*it will not sell if the packaging is not accepted by consumers. This message was emphasised by speakers at a one-day seminar, "Design success
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    • 429 2  -  Several teams due to visit Republic By BOEY KIT YIN LOCAL JEWELLERS have scored in the "difficult and most demanding" Japanese market with sales worth $1 million and negotiations for a further $4 million. The Trade Development Board (TDB) said the success at the first
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    • 343 2  -  By SHAHRIR ARIFF COOPERATION with Singapore in the field of communication technology could help Northern Ireland upgrade as a distribution and entreport trade centre in Europe, says a visiting dignitary. Mr Peter Viggers, Northern Ireland's Minister for Industry, said the UK province would be
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    • 142 2 A JOINT management-union delegation from the shipbuilding and shiprepairing industry will spend two weeks in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan to examine labour issues and concerns. The mission, which will leave on March 15, will look at how shipyards and marine engineering establishments handle
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    • 247 2 SINGAPORE COMPUTER Systems Pte Ltd (SCS) is now the sole distributor of Relational Technology International (RTI) products in South-east Asia. SCS claims to be the largest systems house in Singapore today with more than 300 employees and an annual turnover of over $39 million.
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    • 143 2 MANAGERS and professionals are the best informed when it comes to the emergency land transportation exercise. This was one of the findings in a recent survey conducted by the Registry of Vehicles. The survey, covering 1,000 participants in the recent exercise, showed that eight of every 10
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    • 110 2 THE BUSINESS Enterprise Committee has clarified two points in the BT report on March 12. entitled "More red tape falls away from businesses." One is that although certain industrial projects on land owned by the Jurong Town Corporation and the Housing Development Board would not require permission
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    • 133 2 STAMPS of yesteryear but only last year will be available in an all-in-one pack from Monday. The Annual Stamp Album of Singapore 1986, containing all the stamps issued last year, will be on sale at all post offices, the Mail and Parcels Centre
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    • 729 2 Seminars and r Cahners Tel *****13 Courses fl I Exposition Tlx N. Group Fax RS ***** *****66 DURATION TITLE VENUE ORGANISER TELEPHONE Mor 22 Job-Hunter's Workshop Dynasty Hotel Communiskil ond John Robert Powers *****05 *****90 Mar 23-25 Value Added Workshop National Productivity Board National Productivity Board *****66 Mar
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    • 277 3  -  By LUCY NG DEVELOPERS tendering for a site along Netheravon Road at Changi to turn it into a holiday resort now have more time to put their ideas on paper. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday extended the tender s closing date
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    • 209 3 THE NEDLLOYD shipping group is moving into Hong Leong Centre at the end of next month. The shift comes about six months after the group sold its Nedlloyd House to the Hong Leong group, the owner of Hong Leong Centre. Nedlloyd House in
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    • 285 3 Public learning to use A E departments properly THE DRIVE to keep non-emer-gency cases off the hospitals' A E departments has paid off. Far fewer people called at the accident and emergency units fast year and, of these, eight in to were critical cases. Attendance at A E departments averaged
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    • 633 3  -  By GOH YEE LING THE WEDDING business is booming. Just six weeks into the Rabbit year, hotels and restaurants are reporting huge jumps in bookings for wedding dinners. The Shangri-La Hotel, for instance, saw just 28 wedding dinners last year. It has
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    • 371 3 CONSUMER SPENDING in Singapore resumed its upward climb last year after a one-year interruption. Latest Government statistics showed that private consumption expenditure (PCE) in Singapore based on current market prices totalled $17.93 billion in 1986, up 2.3 per cent from $17.52 billion in 1985. In 1985,
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    • 284 3 COPYRIGHT PROTECTION and what it means to consumers, traders, manufacturers, distributors and publishers will be examined closely at two forthcoming events. At a seminar, to be held from March 26 to 27 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, copyright laws and its impact on the business
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    • 525 3 THE FAR EAST regional head office of Commercial Union Assurance has extended its feebased services to Sri Lanka, where a technical services agreement has been signed with the Union Insurance Company. The regional operations, with headquarters in Singapore, has about $120 million in
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    • 227 3 BACKED BY popular demand, the Singapore Polytechnic has increased the number of places in its courses for the 1987 academic session starting June About 4,500 "O" level holders 80 per cent more than last year opted for Singapore Polytechnic during the Joint Admissions
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    • 196 3 A JOINT VENTURE company, Imprex Products (SEA) Re Ltd, has been set up to manufacture phenolic resin impregnated films for the plywood industry. The venture, set up by En-so-Gutzeit Oy of Finland and Bumi Raya Utama group of Indonesia,
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    • 80 3 AN ITALIAN trade mission will arrive in Singapore on Mar 23 to explore opportunities for joint ventures. The trade mission, comprising a large number of members of the Italian Manufacturers Association (Confindustria), will be accompanied by an official of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade.
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    • 331 3  -  By LISA LEE HARPERS Gilfillan Group has sold off the shares, assets and ongoing business of trading arm Harpers Trading in Singapore and Malaysia to Swiss-based Diethelm (S) Pte Ltd. Diethelm's managing director, Eugene Wipf, said the deal, signed last week, was
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 360 4 Bernama ES BANK NEGARA says the economic outlook for Malaysia in the fourth quarter of last year and for 1967 was generally optimistic, especially in view of the marked improvement in primary commodity and oil prices towards the latter months of 1986. Its latest quarterly
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    • 883 4 ARRIVALS Operator S•rvk* Local From number Mm* THAI TG981 0025 BKK FT FT71 0046 JFK/BOS/ORO/ ANC/NRT/ MNL/TPE UA UA805 0100 SFO/HKG KAL KE697 0530 s& MAS MH681 0820 KlU SiA SQ43 0910 DHA/KHt MAS MH811 0910 PBM MAS MH671 0920 KUL SIA SQ103 0950 Kin CPA CX710
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    • 270 4 AP FOREIGNERS celebrated on Wednesday Saudi King Fahd's decision to relieve them from paying 5 per cent of their salary to the state pension fund. A royal decree issued also stipulated that those who paid contributions in the past would have some refunded,
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    • 186 4 HONGKONG is setting up a high-level steering committee to coordinate various government and non-gov-ernment agents in its fight against protectionism. This was disclosed by Mr Hamish Macleod, Director of Trade, at a Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday. According to the South China Morning Post.
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    • 161 4 AFP HONGKONG is expected to spend an estimated US$2O6 million on defence, for the year to March 1968, representing an increase of 9.9 per cent. The specialist publication, Jane's Defence weekly magazine, said the rise was forecast in spite of a recent reduction in troop strength
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    • 137 4 Bernama THE BOARD of Trade of Thailand (BOT) has predicted that the Thai economy will grow by an average of 5 per cent this year. In its forecast released on Wednesday, BOT said good growth performance would be seen in the industrial, consumer,
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    • 441 4 Reuter SOUTH KOREAN Trade Minister Rha Woong Bae said South Korea would maintain its trade surplus for three to five years as a way to bring down its foreign debt. He said in an interview that his country's barriers
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    • 446 4 Reuter A FUEL EMBARGO imposed in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated northern Jaffna Peninsula will be partially lifted in a way that will help the civilians but not the separatist guerillas, a senior minister said yesterday. National Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali said that
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    • 119 4 Philippine tariffs the cost AFP PHILIPPINE companies, shielded from foreign competition by high trade barriers, contribute only 2 per cent to employment and frustrate industrial growth, a government study has concluded. The report, which endorsed the current administration's controversial programme to liberalise imports, said the protected industries, described as mostly
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    • 250 4 Reuter A SOVIET OFFER to pull its troops out of Afghanistan in 18 months is not serious, a senior Reagan administration official said on Wednesday. The latest round of United Na-tions-sponsored talks in Geneva has narrowed differences between Pakistan
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    • 220 4 UPI BUSINESS INVESTMENT picked up for the first time in more than a year indicating a temporary reprieve for some sectors of the troubled Australian economy. According to a Australian Bureau of Statistics survey, private new capital expenditures rose by 4 per cent during
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    • 115 4 UPI TNT LTD. the Australian transport giant, is launching a new overseas postal service. Postage rates for the new service. Mailfast, are claimed to be cheaper than post offices around the world, and travel times at least comparable and to many destinations, faster. The 24-hour
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    • 576 4 Reuter AFTER CONSULTING European and North American Nato allies and puzzling over Soviet intentions, Britain has decided against endorsing for now the nuclear-free zone proclaimed by its former colonies in the South Pacific region. Western diplomatic sources said on Wednesday that the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 55 4 Doonesbury MR.SIACKM&ER'' HE DID IT, SIR! CLAYTON HAPE HIS HFST MILLION! V. till BP I mS wm n BY GARRY TRUDEAU NOUJ, THArSUJHAT I CALL A CLUTCH PERFORMANCE! I MUST QO CONGRATULATE THE KIP! 21 w t I JUST HOPE HE PtDfTTCUT TOO MANY C0R.../ OKAY,ML, /mjMETHE POS/VON. TM ONLY
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 404 5 Reuter BRITAIN'S opposition Labour Party, trying to muster support ahead of a general election widely expected this year, has unveiled a plan to cut near record unemployment by more than a third if it wins power. Labour leader Neil Kinnock said
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    • 321 5 AFP FORMER Irish premier Garret Fitzgerald, defeated in last month's general elections, has made a surprise announcement that he is resigning as leader of the Fine Gael party. Mr Fitzgerald. 60, said in Dublin on Wednesday that he wanted to make way for
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    • 380 5 UPI A TOP El Salvadoran government official, reflecting mounting concern over a possible mass return of refugees in the US, has said that his country must "sound the alarm" about the dangers of such a move. Communications Minister Julio Rey Prendes, a close adviser
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    • 615 5 AP FOR THE FIRST TIME this decade, strikes and lockouts are on the increase in the US as both unions and employers are showing a renewed willingness to launch or fight work stoppages. New Labour Department figures for 1986 in three categories
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    • 594 5 NYT IN WHAT would be a significant escalation of America's trade dispute with Japan, US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige have asked the Reagan administration to consider blocking a major Japanese investment in US industry, government officials in Washington
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    • 247 5 AP JAPANESE COMPANIES' overseas production will rise by about 30 per cent in fiscal 1967, according to a report released yesterday by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti). The ministry based its report on a survey of 35 major companies with
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    • 342 5 AFP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY would retaliate if the US Congress adopts a Bill to limit US imports of textiles, a spokesman for the Commission of the European Community (EC) said on Wednesday. EC External Relations Commissioner Willy de Clercq has
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    • 437 5 UPI MORE THAN half of Americans over 18 report at least "moderate" stress in their lives and the more educated and best paid are most likely to report stress, according to the first large national survey on the subject. The study by scientists
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    • 233 5 AP THERE ARE MORE pre-school children in America today than at any time in the last 20 years, as the post-World War II baby boom generation produces an echo of itself, the Census Bureau reports. The under-five age group has grown by 10.9 per
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    • 290 5 AP CHILEAN President Augusto Pinochet, marking the 6th anniversary of the Constitution that allows him to rule until at least 1989, has signed into law a Bill that legalises non-Marxist political parties after a 13-year ban. The Bill gives the military government strong control over party
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    • 301 5 AFP US INTELLIGENCE officials have obtained T-72 main battle tanks and are shipping them to the US for close study, a Reagan Administration official said on Wednesday. The deal was not connected to the clandestine US sale of arms to Iran,
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    • 503 5 AP AN AMNESTY PROGRAMME designed to coax Italy's large population of illegal foreign workers from the underground onto government computer rolls has attracted small participation since taking effect six weeks ago. The new law is intended to guarantee full rights and benefits
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    • 384 5 FT THE AMERICAN trade deficit in 1986 amounted to U*****.7 billion, up from U*****.4 billion in 1985, according to figures calculated on a balance of payments basis by the US Department of Commerce. The U*****.7 billion figure which is still an estimate
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 333 6 Reuter TAIWAN IMPOSED strict currency controls yesterday in what bankers described as a desperate move to prevent speculation as the Taiwan dollar appreciated against the US currency. The controls will require proof that large remittances to Taiwan are connected to commercial transactions rather than
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    • 146 6 AFP AMERICAN EXPRESS Co has unveiled a credit card providing an alternative to the company's traditional charge card, and ending months of industry speculation. The new "Optima" card will allow holders to pay only a portion of their monthly balance and is to compete with
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    • 345 6 CREDIT CARD HOLDERS of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation can now get cash advances from 47 ATM locations in Singapore and gain access to the bank's savings and current accounts. This has been made possible through the ATM-credit card link the first offered by
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    • 311 6 FT BRITAIN IS to have a new gold bullion coin. The Britannia a 22carat coin will be available in one ounce, half ounce, quarter ounce and tenth of an ounce sizes. The Britannia will compete with the Canadian Maple Leaf, which in 1965 captured
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    • 302 6 HONGKONG: Gold yesterday closed higher in fairly active trading featuring short-covering by Mid-East interests. Bullion ended near the day's high at U*****.25/65 an ounce against an initial $406.80/407.30 and New York's final $406.50/407.00. Dealers said the MidEast buying attracted folio w-suit purchases from local investors, against hedge-selling by
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    • 180 6 Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on March 12 us$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 day* 3 mfh 12 mfh 6 5/16 J/16 6 5/« 1/J 6 9/16 7/16 6 9/16 7/16 6 5/« 1/2 ii 3/a —1/4 10 7/16 5/16 10 9 7/« 9 7/i 3/4 9 3/4 5/<
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      132 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market closed 14 point lower at 1% per cent yesterday, while one-month closed 1/16 point higher. Two- and three-months were unchanged. Indicates the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banks in Singapore r V S$ Interbank rates at
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    • 159 6 AFP THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of Japan has said that the central bank is not likely to cut further the official discount rate which now stands at an all-time low of 2.5 per cent per annum. Mr Satoshi Sumita said in
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    • 340 6 AFP THE US Federal Reserve intervened on the foreign exchange market on Wednesday to stabilise the dollar against West Germany's deutsch'emark in a move that inaugurated an agreement signed in Paris last month by six major industrial powers, traders said.
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    • 1004 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar yesterday closed mixed against major currencies in thin trading, after fluctuating narrowly as some buying alternated with selling. Operators were afraid to open fresh positions amid fears of possible Central Bank intervention, after reports that the Bank of England sold sterling on Wednesday and
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    • 210 6 Interbank rates at 3pm yesterday: M Mhr «e» party ctange local dollars to i me unit of foreign currency: US dollar 2.1485 2.1495 2.8196 -23.80 pound 3.4225 3.4263 7.3469 -53.42 Auitroflan dollar 1.4792 1.4820 3.4286 -56.86 NZ dollar 1.2257 1.2264 3.4286 -64.25 Canadian dollar 1.6288 1.6308 3.4206 -52.38
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    • 612 6 JUNE Eurodollar opened 4 ticks higher at 93.53 following short-covering at Chicago's close. The June contract, however, was narrowly traded from 93.51 to 93.53 as market participants awaited the outcome of retail sales and industrial production figures for direction. Short-term technical outlook favours a slight upmove to 93.60 while
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    • 298 6 ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed steady at opening levels in quiet trading yesterday. Short-dates weakened between 1/16 and point at the outset despite a steady US federal funds rate but were, unchanged in subsequent trading. Overnight closed at 6% 614 per cent, weekend and week-fixed at 6-5/16
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  • TECHNOLOGY
    • BITS & BYTES
      • 132 7 Bernama MALAYSIA and Japan have exchanged notes on technical cooperation and a grant of M 514.3 million for the Asean Poultry Disease Research and Training Centre project. Japan will start by releasing the grant for the construction of the main research and administrative building and the
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      • 126 7 AMERICAN Telephone and Telegraph is bidding for one of the biggest high technology contracts ever to be awarded in the US a US$4.5 billion job to wire up the federal government. The job calls for laying a telecommunication network across the entire general services
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      • 124 7 THE PICTURE above shows how electronics is helping Mannesmann AG of West Germany to test the stress limit of its car wheels. A wheel is mounted on a rotating stand with pressure applied on its four cardinal points. An electronic infra-red camera scans the
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    • 216 7 JAPAN now spends as much money on fusion research as the whole of Europe, and is likely to overtake the US before the end of the century. Its enthusiasm can be explained by the fact that Japan has no natural energy resource of its own.
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    • 702 7 NYT THE REMARKABLE SUCCESSES by scientists in developing new means of combating some types of cancer and treating heart attack victims have led to a fight over the legal rights to market advances in biotechnology. In recent months, nearly all of the more sophisticated products
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    • 291 7  -  By CHARLES SAVAGE VOYAGER'S record-setting nineday flight round the world would have been impossible had it not been for a rather special aviation engine oil. The lubricant is a formulation of Mobil Oil Corporation, which is known for many aviation firsts. Mobil oil
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    • 91 7 UPI AGE SPOTS, sun spots and freckles can be evaporated with a few well-timed blasts from a low-dose carbon dioxide laser, says Or Bruce Smoller, a pathologist with Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The procedure is highly effective, virtually painless, leaves
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  • FEATURES
    • 517 8 BEHIND EVERY RED TAPE, there is probably a good reason. Licences have to be obtained, forms filled, approval sought, fees paid, because there is a need for some control and orderliness in the way things are done. The government has to ensure safety, keep records, collect
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    • 1781 8  -  Good product design is critical for the made-in-Singapore label to make its mark in overseas markets. In a move to promote industrial design, the Trade Development Board extended its Market Development Assistance Scheme to help companies upgrade their product design and packaging. To date, a total
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    • 305 8 FACED WITH a make or break crisis, traditional shoe-maker Desborough Shoes of Britain decided to use design to restore its fortunes. A turnaround came after a stint under the Support for Design scheme, run jointly by the Design Council and the Department of Trade
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 356 9 Reuter TESTS to determine whether athletes have indulged in the banned practice of blood doping are only 50 cent reliable. Professor Manfred Donike, head of the Dope Test Laboratory at Cologne Sports College, said on Tuesday that researchers were not able
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    • 141 9 AP ARGENTINA'S 16-year-old women's tennis sensation Gabirela Sabatini said on Wednesday she would switch coaches in an effort to improve her play, already good enough to earn her a 10th place ranking in world standings. Sabatini, accompanied by her father Osvaldo, said in Buenos
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    • 186 9 AFP STEVE CRAM, world recordholder over a mile and 2,000 metres, may try for a golden double at September's World Athletics Championships after all. Last September, the English middle-distance star ruled out the possibility of competing in both the 800 and 1500 metres
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    • 778 9 Reuter YANG YANG was the onty player to admit on Wednesday he has a chance of winning the coveted men's singles title at the All-En-gland badminton championships at Wembley. The Chinese star has surged into the position of favourite on the basis of two
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    • 579 9 NYT IF YOU ASK the Mets which team in the American National League East has the best chance of threatening them this year, they say the Philadelphia Phillies, the only team that had a winning record against the Mets last year. The
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    • 209 9 AMOASSAAAAAA a golf tournament with a name like this simply cannot fail to be noticed. For years now, the tournament has come in for quite a bit of ribbing because of its unusual name. And the fact that it is a
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    • 91 9 AP SEAN KELLY of Ireland, seeking his sixth straight Paris-Nice victory, won the final sprint in the third stage of the cycling race on Wednesday but still trailed in the overall standings behind countryman Stephen Roche. The winning time was 7 hours, 46 minutes,
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    • 477 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS DEFENDING CHAMPION Greg Turner, Hongkong Open winner lan Woosnam and Malaysian Open winner Terry Gale have still to submit their entries, but with the Chen brothers heading the charge, this year's Singapore Open golf championship is expected to
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1248 9 to vm mm FRIDAY AT THE MOVIES Modern Romance *10.30pm, Channel 5 r nV Robert Cole dumps his girlfriend with the intention ot finding someone "better". But can he really survive without her? Albert Brooks (above) and Kathryn Harrold star in this semi-realistic study of modern relationships. FRIDAY BACKGROUND 7.50pm,
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 357 10 Reuter THE BANK of England is not in favour of the introduction of rules to shield companies from hostile takeover attempts, its governor said on Wednesday. Instead, merchant banks advising bidding companies must show restraint and responsibility to avoid the excesses that have
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    • 154 10 Reuter THE GUINNESS brewing group has challenged a £5.2 million payment to a US lawyer Who says he masterminded its controversial takeover of Distillers, the Scotch whisky makers. But attorneys for lawyer Thomas Ward, a member of the Guinness board, told a court on
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    • 379 10 Reuter WALL STREET stocks closed lower in active trading on Wednesday. Arbitrage related program trades accounted for much of the market's volatility as stock prices whipsawed around for much of the session. Takeover stocks again dominated the most active list. The Dow Jones Industrial
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    • 211 10 MAR 11 MB RAND uttrials Trust Bk Un Sisal Woottru 155 90 1500 5 +5 -25 A Alpha 1525 3W unch Angloa MS 8600 100 Aad 1650 -25 10 •6 Angvaal 2175 75 jsit p 5700 2025 Buffets Charter 7300 1760 unch -20 C Q Smith 3500 Cone Gold
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    • 226 10 Reuter THE WALL STREET Journal has reported the deletion of Owens-Illinois Inc and Inco Ltd as components of the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average, effective with the start of trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. They have been replaced with Coca-Cola Co
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    • 101 10 Reuter BRITISH FURNITURE retailer Courts Furnishers PLC is to close its Australian operations after 17 years of trading, due to continuing loeaes. in a statement issued in Brisbane, Courts said group turnover laat year from its 100 stores in 10 countries was more than £90
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 354 11 HONGKONG: Share prices closed lower yesterday on late selling by investors, following speculation of an imminent increase in local interest rates, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index lost 10.76 to 2,750.14. The Hong Kong Index was off 4.36 at 1,762.53. Turnover fell to HK$953.36 million. Brokers expect the banks
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    • 225 11 MAR 12 All Sincara Indus NTS 2.46 0 06 Kuochan Oav Laa Chang Yuan 28 60 31.10 -0.5 -0.5 35 20 -0.3 20 10 •06 Cathay Coos .43.40 0.4 36.50 -0.4 Chang Hwa Bank 61 00 0.5 29 40 •0.5 .31.40 -0.6 Pacific Elact Chia Ham Camant... Chin Main
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    • 432 11 TOKYO: Shares yesterday soared to their third straight record close in heavy trade as Wednesday's bull market and good news for securities firms ignited buying. The market average shot up 157.24 points to a closing record of 21,470.20, but earlier rose to 21,474.68, a record.' Advances led .declines five
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    • 81 11 MAR 12 1 •CSO* Marslaal 0.0026 0 0006 Oriental B 0.026 0.001 Acoj# Mining 0 008 unch Phil Ovaraaas 0 041 unch Phi lax B 0 39 0 01 Apax Mining B 0 049 unch 2 Picop B Pt-DT 282 50 Baguio Gold Basic Patroiaum.... Banguat Con. B First
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    • 417 11 SYDNEY: The downward correction on Australian share markets gathered momentum yesterday as early profit-taking among key industrials turned to heavy selling and spilled over into other sectors. At the close of trading, the All Ordinaries Index was down 8.5 at 1,625.7, the All Industrials slipped 15.4 to 2,572.5, the
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    • 112 11 MAM 12 Clwil Sugar WON 2050 Kangwon Ind ***** 1779 8000 •11 Oaalim Ind 546 *12 Koton Ind 3010 Ohwoo Corp 925 •20 2200 +100 Daawoo Haavy 1200 Luc*y LM 1480 -24 Oalahln Sacurtttaa... Dong Ah Phar .4120 ***** -100 •10 Oriental Bfvwy 1900 ***** -20 •400 Dong Suh
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    • 149 11 Reuter BANGKOK: The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index was down 0.68 to 216.67 on a turnover of 1,692,911 shares worth 205.3 million baht.— MAM IX I IAHT fSaha Union. .179 1 Ao Kh«m Thai Siam Camant 825 -12 Ayudhya Invastmant 264 -2 Stam City .764 Bangkok Agro-ind 73.50 -1
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    • 54 11 Reuter ROTHMANS International PLC aims to set up a jointventure with Jinan Cigarette Factory in Shandong, China, to produce high quality cigarettes. The factory has produced high-quality "General" brand cigarettes using advanced machinery and technical assistance worth US$2.5 million donated by Rothmans under a co-operation agreement
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    • 666 11 Reuter INTERNATIONAL efforts to redirect Japan s export-driven economy towards domestic sales face heavy going if Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is anything to go by. MHI, the world's biggest shipbuilder and the country's largest defence contractor, has responded to the challenge of the
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    • 206 11 Reuter US COMMERCIAL banks are expected to receive Finance Ministry approval in late April to operate securities subsidiaries in Japan, according to US bank officials. A senior official at one of four prospective banks said the ministry told his bank it would give approval
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 98 12 OIL PRODUCTS THE EAST ASIAN petroleum products spot market had its first relatively quiet day for more than a week with few dramatic changes. Fuel oil was the only product to firm sharply on speculative trader and bunker demand in Singapore. Closing prices for crude (FOB origin) Dubai (April) WTI,
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    • 227 12 SINGAPORE The rubber market closed slightly higher yesterday with April One RSS buyers quoted at 192.00 cents/kilo, up 0.75 cent from Wednesday. On the TSR-20 market, trading remained very quiet all day and prices closed little changed due to lack of interest TSR-20 April and May closed at 162.00
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    • 273 12 RAS prices mie onta/kg, FOO In bata NOON QOSE buy art SeMen Buyon 5sHsn tnt 1 tSS Prompt '93.50 194 JON 194.00 195.00N In* 1 RSS April 87 191.25 191.75 192X0 192 JO lot 1 RSS May 18*75 189.25 189 JO 190.00 In* 2 RSS Of 180.00
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    • 86 12 (canto/kg, 1-ton potato) APRIL 87 MAY 87 (currant month) (forward month) I NOON NOON RAS Bvysrt t B < n *j,H >rl SS* 30 166.50 167JON 165.00 166.00N SSI 50 165 JO 166.50N 164 JO 166.00N MRELB tvy«n lvy«n S*M*n SMt cv 247JO 249JON 248.50 250.50N SMI
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    • 137 12 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon dosing prk M on Mor 12 (SS/100 kg). Coconut oil M FOB 88.00 Otd dram FOB 98.00 Ntw dram FOB 102.00 Copra Mixed (Ioom) 50 Pepper MuMak WNm FOB NLW 1225.00 SofQwofc While FOB foq NIW rn g ij-|J 1210.00 oorowai specKM Mack
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    • 220 12 CRUDE palm oil prices eased yesterday after initial steadiness to close slightly lower on renewed speculative selling, in sympathy with the easiness in palm oil futures. Higher overnight Chicago soyoil futures supported early prices. Trading was thin and cautious as operators preferred to await the outcome of India's
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    • 124 12 THE Malaysian tin price weakened at the close yesterday to M 516.01 a Uto on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market, down 17 cents itom wMnftaiy on iicx of buying demand. The market began unlAame gi Ufa il« -J-— cningta n wtonMoay s level with offers of 70 tonnes
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    • 625 12 COFFEE Robusta coffee futures on Wednesday ended a day dominated by technical trading £30 to £10 a tonne firmer. Near May slipped off its high of £1,348 a tonne to close at £1,340, partly due to some commission house selling, but it remained £25 up on the day.
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    • 65 12 Bangkok Broken Rice (US$/mmm, FO«) A-l Swp*r A-1 Spcdol 143 140 White Rice C-l Spadal mq 100% lrf'ckns 255 CI Ord unq 100% 2nd don 225 Loonzain Rice 100% 3«d don 220 5% 100% 1*1 grod* unq 210 100% 2nd grod* 219 10% 205 100% 3rd grod* «mq 15%
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    • 95 12 WHEAT futures in Chicago on Wednesday recovered near the close and ended higher, gaining K US cent to 1% cents a bushel. March closed at $2.97%. Volume was light amid a lack of developments. The weak close on Tuesday prompted follow-through selling that weighed on prices through midsession. Corn
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    • 116 12 SOYBEAN futures in Chicago on Wednesday held narrow midsession gains and closed US cent to cents a bushel higher, with spot March at $4.88. The rally in soyoil prices and the lack of deliveries against futures boosted soybeans amid an absence of other developments. Soyoil closed 0.14 cent a
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    • 1209 12 H Straits Steamship Company Limited (Incorporated in Ihe Republic of Singapore) AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1986 The audited results of the Group and the Company for the year ended December 31,1966 are as toNows: COMPANY GROUP fia aJn a aan ai nba ■ba i' vi mnnsncf
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    • 467 12 Keppel Corporation Limited (Incorporated in Vw Republic of Singapore) AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1986 The directors of Kappal Corporation Limited adviee the toiowring audited reeults of tie Group and tie Company lor tie year anded 31 Daoambar 1966: COMfIPANY GROUP Tumovar uperaong pronv(ioas) a investment mooma
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 4331 13 SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market finished lower yesterday as selective bargain-hunting alternated with bouts of profit-taking. The BT Composite Index shed 8.39 points to 933.14 and the Straits Times Industrial Index fell 4.86 points to 1066.04. Total volume declined to 35.83 million units
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    • 252 13 Rites 1 no ices Mordt 11 Mm* 12 S* MM tad 316 34 8T ***** 933.14 1 C S 10*0 20 ST MeMc *****673 *****894 Hwo Hi mg 1S4 19 6T OS/OS 338 +139 Strang b<g 50* 410 16 BTCADt -6104 -6094 AiwfaoM odor 174 14 8T08V
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    • 4220 13 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of sharee traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unteee otherwiee specified Alt Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "St!!".
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 921 14  -  Directors relieved over pull-out from South Yarra project By FLORENCE CHONG JACK CHIA Australia is relieved that the group has made the hard decision to get out of the South Yarra project, described by one director, a significant shareholder, as a "bleeding arm"
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    • 470 14 RENEWED BUYING interest in the afternoon reversed an early downswing to push share prices slightly firmer across the board in active trading. Buying was concentrated on second liners. A broker said the buying interest could be due to dabblers thinking that the sharp market
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    • 110 14 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Thursday 1762.53 Wednesday *****9 Week ago 1791.70 Hang Song Index Thursday 2750.14 Wednesday 2760.90 Week ago *****4 All Industrials Thursday 2572.5 Wednesday ***** Week ago 2604 4 NEW YORK Dow Jones Wednesday 2268 96 Tuesday *****9 Week ogo 2257 45 TOKYO Nikkei Average Thursday *****.20*
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    • 639 14 FT THE US Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Nahum Vaskevitch, the head of mergers and acquisitions in the London office of Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street investment bank, of masterminding an insider trading scheme which netted more than US$4 million. The civil
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    • 3196 14 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise sptcffltd. INDUSTRIALS (3225) Alcorn t—) (ICS 94 (I) 93 OS 95
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    • 252 14 Managers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for March 13 first 8 putro Sacond 8 putro 407 412 646 6 60# I Singapore Unit Trust Third B'putro 427 4 32 Tha Co*«arca Tha Sovingi Fund S'pora ''og fund S'pora Sac fund S'pora fund S'pora Equity fund 1 04 1 12 090 *****1
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    • 215 14 CHEMICAL COMPANY of MALAYSIA Berhad: EGM at the Kedah Room, Basement 2. Shangri-La Hotel, 11 Jalan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday, March 17, at 9.30am to be followed by the 25th AGM. THE NEW STRAITS TIMES PRESS (Malaysia) Berhad: EGM in the Theatrette, Balai Berita. 31
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    • 760 15 mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW STOCK SPLITS are common features in a rising market when share prices, especially in the case of blue chip counters, climb to very high levels. As such, a company will split its shares so as to broaden the shareholding
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    • 258 15 INVESTMENT INCOME, rather than tobacco sales, provided the main profit impetus for the Rothmans Industries Ltd. The tobacco company posted a consolidated operating profit after tax of nearly $13 million for the six months ended Dec 1986, a one-fifth increase over the same period in
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    • 221 15 Bernama ES MALAYA GLASS BHD. one of Malaysia's leading bottle makers, plans to diversify into the manufacturing of tableware products. Managing director Leslie Struys said that an additional M 5750,000 over and above the already committed $16 million for the company's expansion plan
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    • 430 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM FAR EAST LEVINGSTON Shipbuilding. with a $145 million cash hoard as at end-1985, will continue to seek new but related opportunities to invest in and develop. This is because market prospects in the rig-building and oil service industry are not expected to
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    • 623 15  -  By AMY CHEOK STRAITS STEAMSHIP Company, which has steered away convincingly from its record losses, is planning to tap the market for almost $100 million thrbugh a rights issue, its first since becoming a member of the Keppel group in 1983. The proposed
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    • 61 15 Reuter THE HONGKONG government has handed over control of Hong Nin Bank Ltd to First Pacific Holdings Ltd. This followed First Pacific's acquisition of the entire share capital of Hong Nin and the appointment of new directors to the Hong Nin board. Management control of Hong
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    • 913 15 SMALL SCALE profit-tak-ing and a reluctance by many investors to adjust their positions ahead of next Tuesday s UK budget left prices easier at the opening yesterday. By 0910 GMT the FTSE 100 index was down 5.1 points to 1,974.3. On Wednesday, the FTSE 100 was down 8.3
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    • 336 14 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. ISS AND IN THE MATTER OF MINORU ENTERPRISES PTE LTD s (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of MINORU ENTERPRISES PTE LTD duly convened and held at 101 Upper Cross Street #06-10, People's
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    • 307 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 185 TOLLEY CORPORATION LIMITED (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary Oeneral Meeting of the members of Tolley Corporation Limited duly convened and held at 111 North Bridge Road #12-01 Peninsula Plaza, Singapore 0617, on 10th March 1967
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    • 248 14 In the matter of The Companies Act Cap. 189 and In the matter of MAGNETO INVESTMENT PTE LTD (Members' Voluntary Winding Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 35th Floor, Bank of America Tower, Hong Kong, on Monday, 9 March 1967 the
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    • 264 14 PTE LTD lim IklimhM M/lnrflnn llni NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN mat at an Extraordinary General Meeting of FDELITY ASSET MANAGEMENT PTE LTD duly conwned and held at 36 Robinson Road, *36-01/02 City House. Singapore 0106 on 9th March 1967 the foaming resolutions were duly passed SPECIAL RESOLUTION That the Company
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    • 220 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 188 AND PTE. LTD. VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 306 of The Companies Act, Chapter 185. that the Pinal Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company will be held at 585 North Bridge Road #08-08, Blanco
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 209 15 m NOTICE OF OPTIONAL REDEMPTION SABAH DEVELOPMENT BANK BERHAD U5540,000,000 FLOATING RATE NOTES DUE 1989 Notice is hereby given pursuant to condition s(c) of the above mentioned Floating Rate Notes created by a Trust Deed dated 11th May, 1982 between Sabah Development Bank and the Law Debenture Corporation p.l.c. as
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    • 365 15 TT TTTTTITT'T HMPB PLANTATIONS BERHAD (INCORPORATED IN MALAYSIA) TTTM Directors: Tun lamal bin Mohamad AM (Chairman) Tunku Manaur Yaaoob (Ahemeta: MA St CMr-George) Abdul KhaM bin RvaNm Zam Azahart bin Zamal Abidbi Detuk Jamaa S. Ong Mohammad bin AbauMah Registered Oflioa: 14th Floor, j lanara DiiD WwMOl fl rND 201-A,
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  • 512 16  -  Bureau offering matching service By LOH HUI YIN GETTING COMPANIES to team up with foreign partners is the Small Enterprise Bureau's latest effort to build up Singapore's small and medium-sized firms. The bureau or SEB has come up with a
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  • 241 16 Reuter THE COMMUNIST STATES of Indochina want to open talks with China and Asean to settle the war in Cambodia. Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has said. Voice of Vietnam Radio yesterday quoted him as having said that Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
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  • 361 16 Reuter SOUTH-EAST ASIAN nations should coordinate energy development to prepare for a tight oil market in the early *****. Indonesia's Energy Minister Subroto yesterday told a conference in Jakarta of energy ministers from the six Asean nations that
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  • 200 16 THIS AFTERNOON'S debate on the 1987 Budget promises to be more lively and thorough with the participation of one of the nine government parliamentary committees. The parliamentary committee on Finance and Trade and Industry headed by Dr Augustine Tan (Whampoa) is making its
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  • 385 16 THE Singapore Merchant Bankers' Association (SMBA) has joined the Association of Banks in Singapore and the Stock Exchange of Singapore in refuting suggestions that its members have negative views on the need for a second stock exchange, Sesdaq. in the latest development involving
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  • 81 16 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES yesterday reached highs for the week on fresh worries over Middle East tensions following news of Iran's attack on Wednesday night on a Saudi Arabian supertanker. In the most lively dealings so far this week, gold for delivery in April was up US$2.7O at
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  • 66 16 Reuter WALL STREET stocks moved lower in moderate trading yesterday. Investors were concerned about a possible correction and were taking profits before any downturn, yet they were buoyed by the better-than-expected retail sales numbers reported yesterday morning, traders said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell five points
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  • LATE FILE
    • 50 16 Reuter US RETAIL sales rose 4.1 per cent in February, a welcome pick-up in economic activity after January's slow performance. Excluding car sales, a major category within the overall retail sector, sales still increased by 1.5 per cent, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
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    • 40 16 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government is studying Employees Provident Fund investment in non-trustee stock, which is against the EPF Act, 1951. Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Sabbaruddin Chik told Parliament yesterday that remedial action would be taken. Bernama
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    • 39 16 Bernama MALAYSIAN Air Force Chief Lieutenant-General Datuk Mohamed Ngah said yesterday that Malaysia's fighter pilots were of world standard. He added that their abilities had been acknowledged by US and British Air Force evaluation teams.
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    • 32 16 Reuter JAPANESE opposition parties yesterday accepted a compromise by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and agreed to resume a stalled parliamentary debate today on a draft Budget for 1987.
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    • 43 16 AFP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino's powerful Executive Secretary. Joker Arroyo, is to leave the government soon. Mrs Aquino said yesterday that Mr Arroyo "wanted to return to private practice". Mr Arroyo is one of the country's top lawyers. AFP
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    • 42 16 AFP THE EUROPEAN Community Court yesterday ruled that West Germany's stringent laws on the purity of beer, dating to 1516, breached EC free-trade principles. The decision is likely to open the German market to foreign beers. AFP
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    • 43 16 Reuter THE BANK of Thailand yesterday announced reduced duties and simplified Customs procedures for border trade with Malaysia. Burma and Laos. The bank said that the new regulations would increase the volume of border trade and undercut smuggling. Reuter
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  • 317 16 Reuter THAILAND'S coalition government faced mounting criticism yesterday as a former prime minister accused it of usurping Parliament s power and an exarmy chief said that he was being prevented from speaking out. Former prime minister Kukrit Pramoj said that a recent restructuring of the
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  • 164 16 Bernama MALAYSIA'S economic growth for 1986 is estimated to exceed the 0.5 per cent rate projected in the 1986/1987 Treasury Economic Report. In a written reply to a question by Nasaruddin Alang Saidin of the National Front, Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddm said in
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  • 465 16 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Parliament yesterday passed the Railway Ordinance Bill (Amendment) 1987, enabling the government to privatise Malayan Railway (KTM). Five new sections were incorporated in the 1948 Railway Ordinance to ensure that the privatisation was carried out according to the law, Deputy
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  • 216 16 Bernama US AMBASSADOR to Thailand William Brown has called for redoubled efforts by the US and "like-mind-ed" countries to combat protectionism, which he terms the single most pernicious threat to the economies of the trading world. Reiterating the US Administration's resolve to fight protectionism, he
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    • 41 16 HH Outlook: Showors sxpoctod ovor sovoral ami from •round midday. This should Rsport lor 2S hours prior to 7Jopm on March 12 at ths airpoet Maximum tomporaturs 32.6 Aassclatod humidity ®1 Minimum tomporaturs 25.2 Aaaodatod humidity S3 Hours of sunshlns 9.70
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 241 17 A NEW handbook on port and shipping in Singapore will be published by Charter Pacific Publications this year. The book will contain information on port facilities and services. liner services calling at Singapore and a listing of freight forwarding, shipbroking
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    • 289 17  -  By JUNE LIM AMERICAN PRESIDENT Lines will boost its trans-Pacific capacity by 15 per cent this year. This follows an agreement with Lykes Bros Steamship in which APL will swap its one 352-TEU multipurpose C 5 vessel and three 1,094-TEU C 6 vessels
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    • 407 17 Bernama MALAYSIA SHIPYARD and Engineering (MSE). which recently laid off 342 workers, has unveiled a new five-point proposal costing an additional quarter million ringgit to resolve the dispute with the Shipyard Workers' Union over the retrenchment exercise. MSE chairman Haji Daud
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 104 17 AFP A REGULAR once-a-month container snip service between the Chinese port of Dalian and Kitakyushu in southern Japan was inaugurated on Thursday with the arrival of a Chinese container ship, Japanese port officials said. The new service between the two ports will mean a reduction in distribution costs
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      • 67 17 Reuter TWENTY-TWO crew were rescued from a South Korean cargo ship which sank off the southern Philippines on Wednesday, shipping officials said. The 3,000 ton-Eastern Dragon ran aground off Mindanao Island and was sinking when it was spotted by a passing Philippine ship. It was
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      • 68 17 Reuter CARGO HANDLING resumed at Bangladesh's Chittagong port after 7,000 workers ended their three day walk-out triggered by a pay dispute, port officials said. Loading and unloading of 14 ships stranded by the strike started and will be completed as quickly as possible, they said. The
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      • 102 17 Reuter THE LIBERIAN ro-ro/container vessel K H Enterprise has sunk after a collision with a British container vessel Oriental Faith off Hongkong, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence Service reported. The crew of the K H Enterprise were transferred to the Oriental Faith and are all safe, although
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    • 1188 18 Fairplay THE PAINT INDUSTRY is having a hard time producing the advanced coatings of today's shipping industry demands at prices it can afford. According to the economic theory of oligopalistic competition, a market involving a small number of sellers should see
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    • 996 18 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Contoiner VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahrenkiel liner X 1 Africa Ocean IX 4 Alltrons VII 3 AC Toepfer X 5 Anro Service IV 2/3 Arrow lines X 4 Atlas line X 3 ANl 1 1/2 A PC line V 4
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    • 1831 18 VERY ACTIVE time-charter business featured the freight market on Wednesday, with continued interest seen in period chartering and further talk of Soviet grain activity, ship brokers said. A 62.000 tonner was reported fixed from South Korea for 12 to 14 months trading at U554,650 daily for the first
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    • 179 19 THE MAJOR «hipping consortia operating between the Far Eaa(/European, Far East/Persian Qulf, 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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    • 162 19 Reuter WEST GERMAN retail group Kaufhof of AG is considering taking a stake in shipping and transport group Hapag-Lloyd AG but has yet to reach a final decision, a spokesman said in response to queries. Press reports said Kaufhof wanted a stake
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    • 476 19 Reuter BRAZIL's striking seamen have been resigning in droves rather than end a 13-day-old national stoppage on management terms. The strike is part of a grim set of labour problems facing the government of President Jose Sarney, which has despatched troops to the
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    • 192 19 SAUDI ARABIA has decided to award France a US$4 billion contract for the construction of submarines and port facilities, the West German newspaper Bild Zeitung has reported in its Thursday editions. But French industrial sources contacted in Paris said no choice had yet
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    • 116 19 AFP THE FIRE aboard a Danish freighter carrying 400 tons of dynamite is almost out the Wijsmuller salvage company announced after three of its experts boarded the freighter offshore from Plymouth England. There is hardly any more smoke on the Hornestrand, a company spokesman
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    • 411 19 Lloyd's List ANOTHER major name in British shipping has announced plans to transfer its fleet from the UK to an offshore register in a bid to reduce costs. Liverpool-based Ocean Transport and Trading, which operates under the Elder Dempster and Barber Blue
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    • 87 19 AP THE HONGKONG government wants to make sure sailors who receive tattoos and patients who undergo acupuncture treatment are not infected by the Aids virus. Health and Welfare Secretary John Chambers said the government is preparing a pamphlet that will include guidelines on pre-
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    • 337 18 fE2 OUTBOUND TO NORTH CONTINENT COMPAGNIE MARITIME D AFFRETEMENT REGULAR CONTAINER SERVICE FAR LAST TO MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPE ALSO ARABIAN GULF AND INDIAN SUB CONTINENT I n n FELIXSTOWE ROTTERDAM up m VlLit DC VENUS Villi DC JUPITER urn Also actejjtmg ca'go to all U K deviations ScanJi'vavian (Aa'hus Copenhagen
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    • 699 19 The Straits Steamship Group f STRAITS SHPPiNG Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok i Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd p&o Containers Limited CONTMNERSMP SERVICE TO UK/CONTMENT: KIT AMO BMU LMW MT LIVERPOOL BAY at* towo am MM cmoromuMM aa Abe Accepting Cargo Fori t>M P Jom( fta trtari
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    • 379 20 CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO UK CONTINENT S'part PK Staa Htwi l*tatM BBw/A'aMp LaNaira FrMkfwt Ufm Wl» IK iK 'D *4 UP ■mmhw an 22/3 UP U/4 1*« M* NMftwi Eipnaa w W W W UP lift Kttaaa am 27(3 2*3 15P« 17/4 I*4 3*4 a/4 Uipkr w W W ID ax
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    • 274 21 "a PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street. 03-00 Singapore 0106 Tel *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE MAJAPAMT QOWA •COT A MNA SIN JKT MY SIN 3/4 10/4 12/4 IBM an r/i omt an im si/3 an i«m -MUM MUROftAN (HOKKABO) *HTC MTACM •MM *HTC YOK 17/4 M/ 4
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    • 457 21 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. DJAKARTA LLOYD P.T. CESURI LLOYD P.T. SAMUOEM INDONESIA P.T. TRIKODA LLOYD ALSO ACCEPTING POUTS, NULL. LE BILBAO BREREN A'DAN/R'DAM M'BUffG 14/4 17/4 2*4 W W 24/4 -WW 2S/4 m w w 3s m 1» Alexandria, Qtnoo, Trtooli. riNC BOTH CONTAINERS, CONVENTIONAL CARGO VIA
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    • 341 21 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES BURMA FIVE STAR m SAGAING V7W LASHIO V7W PA-AM VMM* LOtKAV VIM PAGAN VIIIW (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon S'por* P.Kelang Penang Bangkok to Ptrt/13 »r 15/17 Iter 2*22 mm agfcr urea* HB7«r BANK LINE EXPRESS SEMI.CONTAINFRj FORTH BANK VIIM IVY BANK VUN TOANA NIUGINI V3N
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    • 774 22 USA CANADA ATUIiHIC CIMT (Wound Tho World Sonrico) *jKline KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. 0. FORTUNE V 2 N. GARNET V7/N. JAOC VI 0. FAIR V 2 STORE LB a Iter 11 Apr 27 Iter 18 Apr 3 Apr 25 Apr MILS (IT l»* 21 Apr 23 Apr 25 Apr 29
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    • 630 23 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. yiNom* iMriMi cn mokincs Ml mm mum n tU/AUST TPA/SEA NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD ST TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): A COMORO RR+ at mm a RJACEJMSV ocmum K CHANCESN> NEPUNE SON. BHD. NEPIINE SON. BHD. NEPUNE SON. BHD. NEPIINE SON. BHD. of Mm ACS Contort* FROM
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    • 328 24 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPN.(PTE) LTD. TEL: 225-6868 (30 LINES) TELEX: RS ***** A/B SSCMA, RS ***** A/B SSCAD RE I DEKE HuLiTOCK FORTNIGHTLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE 553 55*31 CGI Cufll I **VIA LARNACA: Accepting cargo for Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Istanbul, Mersin, lattakia, Limassol, Beirut Alexandria, Port Said, Iraqi, Iranian and other
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    • 265 24 SF SURF A CE FREIGHT jSEi WEEKLY LCL FCL SERVICES TO M.fin.u |J. Also accepting to oil inland destinations 20 WcCaHtiir Stree' «17 03 Ciarrbe r s Singapore o'o6 Te 225 2616 |4 lines) T i RS ***** SUfifPT Cable SUR f ACLFRT d ICORMORANT BULK CARRIERS P. T. WASESA
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    • 427 25 International Freight Forwarders WEEKLY-CONSOLIDATION ACCEPTING FCL/LCL ETD SINGAPORE TRANSIT TIME HONG KONG BANGKOK HAMBURG/ROTTERDAM COPENHAGEN SYDNEY/MELBOURNE FREMANTLE FELIXSTOWE LOS ANGELES Booking; Tolophono *****33 Miss Katharine Pang Miss RacM Chia jgycgflHamburg West Germany Tiger Line Common Carrier Feeder Services SINGAPORE INDIA KATHRINE SIF 014 PORT HARCOURT 015 KATHRINE SIF 018 SINGAPORE
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    • 234 25 PERCH OCEAN LINES (Perfect China Ocean Shipping Line*) CHINA SERVICES Destinations: Etd. STORE Etd. PKLG SHANTOU, GUANGZHOU UIPPI#I u HUANGPU, XIAMEN WEEKLY HAIKOU, ZHANJIANG A... iypc XINGANG, QINGDAO OAILINUO SHANGHAI t OTHER PORTS JkAMD aMPNIO PR LTD FORTRAN! NRVI m smm iu. am hl nntsv tjjtiw WORLDWIDE SERVICES ACCEPTING CONVENTIONAL,
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    • 390 26 MLOiOiBi INTEROCEAN LINE TEL- *****34, *****94 TLX NO. MA ***** ACCEPTING CARGOES FOR THE FOLLOWING PORTS *>CROSSWATER ACCEPTING FCL A LCI AUSTRALIA FREMANTLE USA/CANAOA UNITED KINGDOM/EUROPE POUT KELANC TOKYO/YOKOHAMA ETA SINGAPORE IS/3 24/3 19/3 21/3 17/3 24/3 17/3 20/3 16/3 30/3 17/3 24/3 17/3 25/3 22/3 1/4 11/3 25/3 14/3
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    • 386 26 NEAP SENG TRADING ft SNIPPING PTE LTB •001 SEACN ROAD #1«1 GOLDEN MILE TOWER SINGAPORE 0719 TEL NO. *****22 (3 LINES) TLX NO. RS ***** HEAPCO jP.T UNITFD SHIPPING ORGANISATION LTD JAKARTA DIRECT REGULAR SERVICES TO JAKARTA ft SURABAYA Accapt cargo** to all other Indonesian ports with transhipment at Jakarta
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    • 522 26 H C.Y. LINE (A Member Of The ACE Consortium) CNO YANG SHIPPING CO. LTD FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO EUROPE (VIA SUEZ) A CONCORD VW C» PARIS VW ROMAN J ACL) IN VM ORIENTAL CHIEF VSN S P«r» Latter** Mm FrtM HW| tnm Anhraq W M 7* W 11/4 li/4 W
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    • 811 26 Everett Lines! COMPANIA PERUANA D€ VAPOREES (C.P.V.) 2 "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" J loading lor Cattao. Matarani. 110 and aM other Peruvian ports with transhipment at' W. Kobe On CPV Through BiHs of Ltd>t| to final destination Pananf* P. Kelanf MURRAYEVERETT THOMASEVERETT HUGH EVERETT WA "EVERETT ORIENT LINE" \J=A JAPAN/BAY OF
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