The Business Times, 14 September 1987

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 112/12/86 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 682 1  -  By AMY BALAN PLANS BY United Industrial Corporation and United Overseas Land to marry their interests in the purchase of Goldhill Square fizzled out because the dowry proved $5 million too much for UIC. This was the difference in the
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  • 208 1 UPI WARNING, "there is cause for alarm", two authors have launched a book on what they called Japan's global assault on financial services. "It is serious because creative financial decisions are shifting more and more to Tokyo and Osaka from New York and London,"
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  • 55 1 Reuter THE COUNTDOWN has started for tomorrow's vital launch of Europe's space rocket Ariane from its jungle base on the north coast of South America. The European Space Agency said yesterday that the 50-me-tre-long launcher, carrying Western European and Australian satellites, is scheduled to blast
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  • 531 1  -  Company beats four other tender bids By LOH HUI YIN DBS LAND, which has a diverse portfolio of properties and is strongly tipped to go public soon, has bought the Federal Hotel in Scotts Road. BT understands that the purchase. for
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  • 112 1 UPI SOUTH KOREAN dissident Kim Dae Jung said yesterday that he and rival leader Kim Young-Sam will decide who will represent the opposition in December's presidential elections without a showdown at the Pallot box. Speaking during a visit to Taejon, 144 km south of Seoul, the
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  • 388 1 Bernama THE SIMILARITIES in various aspects among the communities can form the basis for the strengthening of relations among the people, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. He said that while there were some differences among the communities, "there
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  • 124 1 UPI TWO TAIWANESE JOURNALISTS said yesterday that they had obtained travel permits from the Chinese government and are prepared to fly to Beijing today, defying a Kuomintang government warning. "They (Chinese officials) said they welcome us very, very sincerely and emphasised their sincerity," Hsu
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  • 336 1 Reuter THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts a tepid economic growth rate of 2.6 per cent in the industrial world next year, slightly higher than the 2.4 per cent rate for 1987, monetary sources said yesterday. The forecast is contained in the IMF's
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    • 289 1 MARKET REVIEWS MONEY EXCHANGES COMMODITIES AIRCRAFT SCHEDULE CROSSWORDS TV RADIO BRISTOW DOONESBURY MALAYSIA HAS BEEN urged to consider investing abroad as it has a large reservoir of agricultural expertise. ASIA-PACIFIC, Page 4 THE US has sided with Britain against an affirmative action programme to increase employment for Northern Ireland's Catholics.
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 758 2  -  An increasing number of companies are taking over others much bigger than themselves. Mr Simon Gibbs of merchant bank N M Rothschild Sons gives the five conditions necessary for a successful takeover. LILIAN ANG reports. LILIAN ANG A SLING and some stones were
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    • 799 2  -  By FRANK COOK UPI SEARS. ROEBUCK and Co and McDonald s Corp, the world s largest retailer and the biggest fast-food chain, have come to lead their industries using large numbers of first-time workers to serve their customers. Both companies use employee training
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    • 379 2 THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTE of Management will be organising three seminars on what it takes to be an effective and successful professional trainer. The seminars, to be held at the SIM Conference Room, will be conducted by Dr Phyliss Cooke. She is the
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    • 569 3  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA EXPORT MARKETING can greatly increase the competitiveness of not just the entrepreneur but the entire nation, says Mr Adrian Villanueva. principal consultant of Advill Consultancy. It creates additional employment, encourages product diversification and is a major source of foreign
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    • 1423 3 When all else fails complain Customers urged to do something about poor service UPI IS THERE ANYONE who doesn't have a favourite aggravation? The salesgirl who talks away on the phone while customers stack up at the register. Is there anyone who can't recite a horror story? "The clerk said
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    • 230 3 ONLY TWO out of 72 "companies" incurred losses in spite of the economy taking a downturn. The remaining 70 returned net profits ranging from $74,680 to $1.85 million. This would have been great in real life. It happened. however, only in the 17th
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    • 122 3 JLW Property Investment Services Robinson Centre SOLD Cecil Point SOLD Now what can Jones Lang Wootton do for you? P ■i > Finding buyers for commercial buildings, residential properties, development sites, hotels, etc, undertaking valuations feasibility studies on investment opportunities in real estate in Singapore worldwide these are some of
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 861 4 1 |:ie r Operator IT ARRIVALS Service number Local time From t SIA fe rUA fT MAS rslu AC MAS SIA J"! MAS MAS MAS "SIA CPA »BA -•gu SIA SIA SIA sia THAI KLM SIA MAS GIA •>U i SIA TK THAI CPA MAS i -"GIA
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    • 505 4 Bernama ES MALAYSIA should seriously consider investing abroad, especially in the Pacific region, as it has a large reservoir of agricultural expertise, an official of the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) said. The CDC's representative in Kuala Lumpur, Mr John Langton, said on Saturday: "There
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    • 126 4 Bernama THE ECONOMY of the Malays, particularly the rural Malays, is in a state of decline and has led to several manifestations of restiveness among them, such as indulgence in gambling and escapism. Universiti Malaya Vice-Chancel lor Royal Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz said the
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    • 208 4 Bernama ES AMIDST CALLS for a review in the country's corporate tax structure by several quarters claiming that it is highest in the region, Malaysian Trade and Industry Minister Datin Paduka Rafidah Aziz has said that so far, the corporate tax rate has not served
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    • 345 4 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Ulamaks Association has said that non-Muslims need not worry if an Islamic constitution is imposed in Malaysia because Islam ensures prosperity and fairness. Association president Haji Ahmad Awang said many non-Muslims who had read books written by Islamic religious figures were attracted to
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    • 148 4 AFP TRADE BETWEEN China and Asean grew to US$2.l2 billion during the first seven months of this year, the China Daily reported on Saturday. The figure compared with US$l.B billion during the same period last year, the official newspaper said, recalling that total
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    • 211 4 AFP THE EUROPEAN Common Market is going to increase its pressure on South Korea to get Seoul to grant the EC the same kind of protection of intellectual property rights it gives the US. EC sources said in Brussels on Saturday. The rights
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    • 54 4 AP RISING incomes and housing construction have improved the standard of living of China s one billion people, according to a State Statistical Bureau report released last week. The annual per capita net income in rural China rose to 424 yuan (US$ll3) in 1986 from 134 yuan
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    • 334 4 Bernama ES MALAYSIAN plastic manufacturers are looking into the possibility of forming joint ventures in China in view of the potential and large market for such products there, an industry official said. Speaking at a press conference in Petaling Jaya on Saturday,
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    • 206 4  -  By DAVID CHEW THE SRI LANKAN government will give maximum cooperation and security protection to the country's growing tourism industry. This was the assurance given by President J R Jayawardene at the official opening of Hilton International Colombo last Friday. Other dignitaries present were
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 115 4 Singapore OUTLOOK: Shsatri over H«ifil areas in Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Sep 13 at the airport: Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain Haze Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Showers Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Sunny Clear Clear Clear Showers Cloudy Clear Fine Cloudy Clear Sunny Showers
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 518 5 UPI THE US long pursuing quota systems to help minorities get jobs has sided with Britain against an affirmative action programme to increase employment for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, who suffer twice the jobless rate of Protestants. "It is counter-productive," said US Ambassador
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    • 255 5 AP PRIME MINISTER Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said on Saturday his government was forced to raise a sixth army brigade to fend off South African destabilisation in the region. Mugabe, reviewing about 5,000 soldiers of the new 6th Brigade at Llewellin Barracks near Bulawayo,
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    • 168 5 Conservation and growth go together Baker AP AMERICAN Treasury Secretary James Baker told the Fourth World Wilderness Congress on Friday that nations should pursue a policy of combined economic growth and environmental conservation. "Sound conservation in and of itself is good economics,'' Baker told delegates from 55 nations assembled at
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    • 103 5 AFP LIBERALS should be deliberately tolerant of the Soviet Union without approving its system, John Kenneth Galbraith declared in Ottawa on Saturday. "From that tolerance comes our hope for survival and our hope for keeping our own military power, a power also deeply inimical to
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    • 162 5 AFP TURKEY'S application to join the European Community (EC) is the most important issue in the country's history since it became a republic in 1923, Prime Minister Turgut Ozal said in Ankara on Saturday. Mr Ozal said Turkey had enjoyed an economic growth rate
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    • 524 5 Reuter WINNIE-the-Pooh and his battered band trekked through the wilds of Manhattan last week to take up residence in their new home, a booky place tar, far away from the trap for heffalumps and the 100 aker wood. "'They are world citizens and
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    • 246 5 FT BRITAIN'S rate of inflation remained steady at 4.4 per cent in August but the government is confident of a fall by the end of the year. The Employment Department said on Friday that the retail price index increased by 0.3 per cent from July
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    • 92 5 Reuter FRANCE was the highest taxed of the top five industrial nation» in 1986, says the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Taxes were worth 45 per cent of its gross domestic product (GOP). The OECD measured the relative tax burden in the five nations
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 543 6 Reuter A WEAK DOLLAR does not seem to be cutting the trade deficit of the US the way economic theory says it should, a fact economists find worrying. Currency dealers and economists say news last Friday of a record monthly US deficit means the dollar,
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    • 441 6 Reuter NEWS THAT growth in the Bundesbank money stock stabilised at an annualised 7.4 per cent in August, unchanged from the slightly-upwards revised July figure, should please the West German central bank. However, economists said that it still seemed unlikely this year's 3 to 6 per
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    • 630 6 Union Bank of Switzerland ZURICH: THE US discount rate was raised, as expected, without any significant impact on exchange rates. Bond markets, on the other hand, were hard hit. with capital market investors around the globe groping in uncertainty. However, since interest differentials remained fairly static, the foreign
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    • 308 6 Gold Financial futures Green Collier Bullion Pte Ltd. PRECIOUS gold ended marginally lower in dull trading with little fresh news to provide near-term direction last week. At New York's Commodity Exchange, spot gold last traded at U*****.80 an ounce, a drop of US$6.3O over the previous Friday's settlement. The yellow
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    • 205 6 Asian market ASIAN CURRENCY ovorag* deposit roto» for 1 Iho wook ondod Sop 11 MO P High WCES Low US 1 7 doyt 7 3/1« 7 1/16 1 month 7 1/2 7 5/16 2 mmttm 7 9/16 7 3/8 3 nmatii 7 3/» 7 1/2 6 wO 1/16 7 13/16
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    • 32 6 The range of call rates for the week ended Saturday, Sep 12 tank fund 2.3 2.8 Gen fund 2 2.55 Mowtwfi of fundi M$ 1,919m Source: Short Deposits (M) Bhd
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    • 365 6 United Overseas Bank DEALERS in the government securities market saw increased trading activity last week. T-bill yields climbed up steadily while bond prices fell. 91-day T-bills opened the week at 3.25 15 per cent and rose to a high of 3.36 31 per cent before closing at
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    • 480 6 Indicates the average of the prime lending rate* of 12 major bank* in Singapore PLR of bonks at th« dose of business on Friday, S«p 11, as supplied by th« Association of Banks in Singapore. BANK PLR Algemene Bank 6% Allied Irish Bank PLC 6/4 American Express
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 366 7 Reuter EUROPEAN COMMUNITY finance ministers have agreed to step up monetary cooperation to strengthen the ability of the EC's joint currency float to resist exchange market turbulence. Danish Finance Minister Palle Simonsen said last Saturday that the accord, reached at informal talks
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    • 759 7 NYT THE Federal Deposit Insurance Corps pledge last week of nearly US$l billion to help recapitalise the troubled First City Bancorp of Texas dramatised not only past blunders of Texas banks, but the certainty of more trouble ahead, analysts said. "The overall outlook
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    • 366 7 Reuter US INTEREST RATE futures are poised to extend a short-term rebound that started last Friday, but the market has yet to shake off the bearish sentiment that has plagued prices since late August, according to financial analysts. Key to near-term direction will be
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    • 459 7 Reuter THE OPPOSITION Peronists, fresh from election victory, have vowed to keep up pressure on President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina for a debt moratorium. But they say they oppose any break in talks with the country's creditor banks and have assured
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    • 458 7 Bernama MANY credit card holders are said to be reluctant to use their cards to settle travelling expenses because they have to pay a surcharge. A random survey among Malaysian tour operators revealed that most of them imposed surcharge on clients who made payments
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    • 261 7 FT THE working lives of some of Britain's most unpopular people the life assurance salesmen may never be the same again following publication of a new code of conduct. Drawn up by the Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Organisation (Lautro). it would effectively
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    • 210 7 AP A COLOMBIAN government delegation held a meeting with 35 American creditor banks last Friday to explain the details of a US$l 06-bilhon loan Colombia is seeking from international commercial banks. The Colombian delegation, headed by Finance Minister Luis Fernando Alarcon, will visit Tokyo, London,
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 1231 8 Gulf tension lifts London prices AFP GROWING HOSTILITY in the Gulf following reports of Iraqi attacks on oil targets gave a lift to energy values last week, which began on a quiet note due to Monday's Labour Day break in North America. The weaker
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    • 227 8 Bernama ES A JAPANESE banker has suggested that Malaysia quote her oil and gas exports to Japan in yen because of several benefits. Mr Teruhiko Mano. adviser to the president of the Bank of Tokyo, said last Friday that the strength of
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    • 318 8 CRUDE palm oil futures rebounded on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange last week in fairly active trading. The bulk of the week's gains were registered last Friday when sentiment was boosted by news that India had purchased six parcels of palm oil in the Malaysian market. Prices rose
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    • 169 8 Chinese Produce Exchange Setters' noon dosing prica* on Sep 12 (S$/100 kg) Coconut oil Wk FOB 95.00 Otd drvim FOB 105.00 New drum FOB 109.00 Copra MJxad (Ioom) 56 Sarawak Asta block FOB NLW Lompong block FOB Asto NIW Coffee API FOB NSW AP2 FOB NSW BO FOB
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    • 334 8 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller do* Ing prices on Sep 1 1 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous dosing p icas in parenthesis. Coffee Basis in-store London, s*tl*rs option CIF London s^> 1292/1293 (1291/1293) High/low 1300/1291 Nov 1321/1322 (1329/1330) High/Low 1335/1321 Sales (1957) Cocoa Sop 1155/1167 (1169/1173) High/Low 1167/1154 Ok 1198/1199
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    • 162 8 SOYBEAN futures in Chicago rallied from a mixed tone at midsession last Friday to close five to two US cents higher. November settled 3% cents higher at US$5 29 Soybeans closed near session highs in sympathy with strong soymeal futures. after following price swings in soymeal most of the
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    • 157 8 THE Malaysian rubber market was steadier last week with SMR 20 tor October rising seven Malaysian cents to 245 cents a kg on speculative demand. However. International One RSS for October again saw little price changes and ended the week two cents higher at 266 cents a kg. Dealers
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    • 196 8 THE PRICE of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market rose eight Malaysian cents to M 516.89 a kg last week on fairly well-sustained demand from European and Malaysian buyers. The price, which had fallen 12 cents the previous week, dropped another four cents last Monday as sentiment
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    • 177 8 WHEAT futures in Chicago closed one to three US cents lower last Friday with December off 1% cents at U552.95. Wheat opened lower and traded on both sides of Thursday's close as corn and soybeans responded less bullishly than expected to the USOA crop production report. USOA's lowering of
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  • FOCUS
    • 1175 9 AP AUSTRALIANS OWN a movie maker in Hollywood. Danes own a baloney maker in Mississippi Japanese own skyscrapers in Manhattan. Hungarians own a coal business in West Virginia. Foreigners have a bigger stake in the US now than perhaps ever before even more than
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    • 789 9 AP BACKED by a heady stock market and their own financial strength, British corporations have been snapping up American businesses at a furious pace this summer. leading Britons into Some new US territory. .In addition to their past forays into oil and
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 800 10  -  The British unions are deeply divided and some are reluctant to change. But a more serious fact is that they have a formidable enemy: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Clearly, the heydays of the unions are over. COTTEN TIMBERLAKE reports. COTTEN TIMBERLAKE AP BRITAIN'S trade
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    • 1003 10  -  By THOMAS H NAYLOR NYT FOR MANY YEARS, the Soviet Union has borne the brunt of American jokes about the poor quality of its consumer goods. A 1985 Wendys commercial ridiculed Soviet fashions by featuring a matronly Soviet woman dressed in
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • THE ARTS
    • 666 11  -  SHAUN KOH TIMES ARE CHANGING. And I am glad. A couple of decades ago, musicians and avid music supporters few as they were then lamented the lack of support for classical music. Then, there were impressarios such as Donald Moore who brought to Singapore several well-known musicians;
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    • 572 11  -  By SHAUN KOH WHEN a popular and familiar work such as Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 is performed, much is expected. After all, almost every inch of the score has been memorised through hearing countless performances and recordings of that work. This
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    • 646 11  -  The Shell Discovery Art Exhibition By VANESSA LEE THE ART LOVER would look at the pictures. The art buyer would have noticed small signs below which read: "Sold". This was on Wednesday, at the Shell Theatrette. The Fourth Shell Discovery Art Exhibition had just
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    • 812 11  -  VANESSA LEE "SOMEONE asked me to lend him my negatives," Vincent Yip laments. "Don't people understand what photo art is about?" The possibility of photography as an art form is clearly not well understood by the layman, who knows only of wedding, birthday and
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1203 11 w cm BasjQ 12 THE CREATION OF OMO 9pm, Channel 12 PM SBC Text Sample Pages. Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The Paper Chase The Groduatior Yeor: A Wounded Hart. Musical Interlude. Newsnight Ozone Layer/South African Army. The Creation Of OMO (See highlights). Coming Attractions. 14th SEA Games, Jakarta
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 324 12 Bernama RECORDS TUMBLE with every meet, but there is this one that will remain forever in the SEA Games records book. In 1973, Kyaw Myint of Burma won the 50 km walk in a recordbreaking 4:53.16.2s in Singapore. Since then, the event has been scrapped
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    • 250 12 Reuter OLIVIA NIESZAR, 13, does not like shoes. And so far, she has done just fine without them, beating bigger, older and bettershod opponents on the track. The elfish Olivia is Indonesia's hope in the women's 800 and 1,500 metres when the athletics events at
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    • 139 12 AP REFERENCE POINT, ridden by Steve Cauthen, led from start to finish to win the £125,000 Holsten Pils St Leger stakes in England on Saturday and create a record for his trainer, Henry Cecil. The three-year-old colt s 114 length triumph was Cecil's 147
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    • 666 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS "WHAT I WOULD like you to project is the car," the former rally driver was saying now. "The car is an absolute identity, we're just transients." As navigator of the winning Indian team in the First Vintage Equator Run (Aug
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    • 345 13 UPI IN THE YEAR Steffi Graf became the No 1 player in the world, Martina Navratilova came away with the two biggest prizes in women's tennis. Navratilova added the US Open crown to her Wimbledon title last Saturday, whipping Graf 7-6 (7-4), 6-1
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    • 398 13 UPI FOR AN HOUR last Saturday afternoon, it looked like old times at the National Tennis Centre. Jimmy Connors was running down every shot, controlling the net and smacking his service returns. And the crowd of 20,000 at the US Open responded, urging him on with calls
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    • 268 13 AP AT EIGHTEEN. Steffi Grafs future as queen of tennis seems certain. For now, despite her No 1 ranking, she remains a princess-in-waiting. Graf has lost only two matches this year. Both were to Martina Navratilova. Both were in the most important events of the season.
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    • 282 13 UPI WEST GERMANY'S Bernhard Langer headed straight (or the practice ground after retaining the lead in the third round of the U*****,000 European Open Golf Championship at Wawton Heath on Saturday. Langer scored a 73 for a six under par 210 and a one-shot
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    • 273 13 UPI SAM RANDOLPH fired a 7-un-der-par 64 last Saturday to set a 54-hole record of 14-under-par 199 and take a four-stroke lead after three rounds of the US$5OO,OOO Bank of Boston Classic. Randolph, the 1985 US Amateur champion, broke the mark of 201 held by
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    • 146 13 Bernama WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPION Jansher Khan of Pakistan bagged the Malaysian Open Squash Championship title when he beat defending champion Qamar Baman 9-2, 9-0. 9-3 at the Subang Squash Centre last Saturday. The 18-year-old Pakistani, ranked as the world s number four, took about 35 minutes
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
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      4836 14 k TOP TEN STOCKS FOLLOWING i> a Ito of th« 10 most actively traded stocki on 1 «He Stock Exchange of Singapore last week Compwry Turnover Price* Htgb Low 000 Sep 11 1987 1967 QAf ltd 5.561 146 161 103 Sim* Darby 4031 356 392 193 .".Toe Chong 3818 094
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    • 651 14  -  "1 Singapore P L J By CORRINA LIM INVESTORS kept to the sidelines last week to monitor the new delivery and settlement system launched on Sep 7. As a result, turnover shrank considerably and trading was lacklustre. The stock market opened the week on a
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    • 359 14 K.Lumpur m 4 MBT THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market displayed its resilience by rebounding to higher ground after the weak spell of the previous week. Fairly widespread double-digit gains were recorded last week. Buyers dominated the scene for three days. There was
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    • 221 14 AFP STRONG INTEREST in market leaders helped the Australian share market end the week on an active and firm note after an otherwise quiet week. The market was quiet on Wednesday and Thursday, but firmed up on Friday. Brokers said the market was playing a close game
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    • 642 14  -  Week ended Sep 11 compiled by JULIANA TAY CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS EXCHANGE of Singapore has made on exception for financial institutions under which the latter will receive payment ogainst delivery of share scrip insteod of one day later as it applies to all others under the
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    • 793 15  -  n fcnnij London PJ fr" 1 A From RAY HEATH IN A NEUTRAL WEEK for news on the UK economy, and with institutions issuing few buying orders, the London stock market found itself easy prey to foreign influences last week. Wall Street
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    • 290 15 UBS THE ZURICH stock market opened the week on a weak note with moderate turnover. But options on registered stocks raced ahead although profit-taking soon set in to check the advances. At midweek, the market brightened slightly, although the selling pressure and restrained buying
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    • 76 15 AFP THfc-FRANKFURT stock overcame a slow sta?t" last week, as the Commerzbank Index tacked on 13 points for the week to finish-at 1,974.2 on Friday. The US dollar's recovery above the DM 1.80 level and the hope for a drop in the US
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    • 218 15 NMB Bank Securities THE AMSTERDAM bourse got off to a rough start last week as the discount rate increase in the US on Monday led to a panic reaction, with the ANP/CBS Index losing almost seven points to 302.5 Shares, however, recovered in the rest of
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    • 1163 15 Gains chalked up mostly by second liners L n I j Hongkong m DBS Securities HK INVESTORS experienced a period of volatile trading on the Hongkong stock market last week. In the first three trading days, the Hang Seng Index lost
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    • 337 15 AFP SHARE PRICES fell last week on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in lacklustre trading as investors took to the sidelines. The 225-issue Nikkei Average, a 203.93-yen loser the previous week, plunged 915.76 yen to close at 24,828.27. The TSE Composite Index of 1,080
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    • 982 15 m J ew M A FT WHOEVER SAID that no news is good news? These days, all news is good news, no matter how bad it is. This was the main lesson to be drawn from last week's action on Wall
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 603 16 mm mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW INVESTORS were cautious on the Singapore Stock Exchange in recent weeks due to a lack of fresh factors, uncertainty over the new delivery and settlement system and a lack of direction in the market. A transition from
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    • 606 16 Only two institutions have taken up stakes THE PACE of corporatisation among the eligible financial institutions in Malaysia has been slow. Only one commercial bank and one merchant bank out of the six merchant and six commercial banks eligible to participate
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    • 127 16 Bernama ES KUALA LUMPUR Industries Bhd (KLI) has joined a growing list of public listed companies making cash calls by proposing a three-for-five rights issue. The property and financebased company said Saturday it will be issuing 78.65 million shares of 50 cents each at par
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    • 67 16 Bernama ES PROPERTY-BASED Faber Merlin (M) Bhd said it has received notice that Fleet Group Sdn Bhd intends to start converting its 8% per cent convertible unsecured loan stock (CULs) with immediate effect. Fleet Group holds 61 per cent of the CULs. In a
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    • 185 16 Bernama ES THE PROPOSAL to merge Malaysia's Capital Issues Committee (CIC) and the Foreign Investment Committee (FIC) is under study, according to Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Jaffar Hussein. Speaking to reporters after the closing ceremony of the Asean Banking Council seminar on
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    • 292 16 Bernama ES PILECON ENGINEERING Bhd reported a 39 per cent increase in group pre-tax profit to M 51.48 million for the half year ended June 30 from M 51.06 million previously. This was in spite of a 40 per cent drop in group
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    • 153 16 Bernama ES ACMA ELECTRICAL lndustri.es Ltd (AEI) scored an improved performance in the first half £f this year by registering a group pre-tax profit of $86,000 as against a loss of $953,000 previously. Group turnover rose 10 per cent to $27,57 million. Attributable profit
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1043 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks closed sharply higher in active trading last Friday, shrugging off the potential negatives of a record high trade deficit and welcoming a second day of bargain hunting. A rebound in the bond market and a slightly firmer US dollar eased
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    • 861 17 .London AFP THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF a record trade deficit for the United States in July sent share prices into a retreat last Friday on the London Stock Exchange, after a steady start. But a late recovery was prompted by Wall Street's robust reaction to
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    • 296 17 Reuter THE government-owned Hang Lung Bank Ltd said it had a HK$l.9 million profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 after three years of losses. Managing director David Beath said the bank will continue its return to profitability this year. Last fiscal
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    • 592 17 Deal could gross between USsl.7sb and $3b Reuter CBS Inc on Friday confirmed the long-circulated rumour that Sony Corp is interested in buying its record division, a sale analysts said could gross between US$l.75 billion and $3 billion. Reading from a prepared statement,
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    • 578 17 IHT COMPAQNIE du Midi, a leading French insurer, was immediately spurned on Friday when it launched a £403 million bid to take over Equity and Law PLC, a British life insurance company. The rejection came a week after Equity and Law rejected another takeover bid,
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    • 474 17 AFP CLUB VOLVO, a palatial night-spot boasting a bevy of beautiful hostesses, will go public here in November when it becomes the first institution of its kind to get a listing on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. But the plans for Club Volvo's flotation have ruffled
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    • 333 17 NOTICES THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50) POWERTEC PLANT ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION PTE LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of POWERTEC PLANT ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION PTE LTD duly convened and held at 585 North Bridge Road #11-07 Blanco Court Singapore 0718 on the 9th day of
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  • 764 18  -  Total fertility rate in '86 among lowest in the world By ANNA TEO SINGAPORE'S problem of declining births worsened last year. The total fertility rate (TFR) fell to an all time low in 1986, a year when marriages and
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  • 532 18 MORE MALE GRADUATES are marrying their educational equals. The wives of nearly half of last year's graduate bridegrooms also had tertiary educatton. Since 1983, the percentage of male graduates who paired off with a fellow graduate has been rising from 37.6 per cent four years ago
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  • 547 18  -  By ZHOU MEI THE FUNDAMENTAL factor is people. Once the right people are in place, problems like money are much more easily solved. Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, Acting Minister for Health and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, was commenting on the
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  • 97 18 Reuter THE US should buy more rare earth and strategic metals from China instead of from the Soviet Union and South Africa, an American businessman was quoted yesterday as saying. The China Daily newspaper quoted Joseph Waterman. president of Strategic Metals International (SMI),
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  • 323 18 IT WAS LIKE a carnival and for the 10,000 people who were at Clementi Swimming Complex for Community Day '87 yesterday, the day was simply full of fun and games. Among those present were ministers. Members of Parliament, leaders of
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  • 300 18 AFP POLLS are indicating that the Chinese are no longer interested in politics, but are primarily concerned with their material well-being an apparent victory for Deng Xiaoping as he seeks a fresh boost for his reforms at a Communist Party
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  • LATE FILE
    • 40 18 Bernama SABAH Chief Minister Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan has accepted the resignation of Assistant Social Services Minister Haji Adib Said Besar Sigoh, who was sentenced last week to four months' jail for committing zina (illicit sex). Bernama
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    • 59 18 UPI HANOI has ordered the release of nearly 7,000 prisoners, including two former South Vietnamese ministers and nine generals. The Vietnamese News Agency said yesterday that the Vietnamese Council of Ministers celebrated their 42nd National Day on Sep 2 by ordering prisons to free 6,685 inmates
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    • 62 18 AFP LIBYA has put forward the outlines of a plan to end the Iranian-Iraqi war, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Oabas said yesterday. Quoting Lebanese political sources with close ties to Libyan leaders, it said the plan was presented to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein last
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    • 30 18 Reuter RAGING forest fires in Borneo have forced an airport to close and destroyed at least 180 homes. Indonesia's Antara News Agency said yesterday. Reuter
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    • 54 18 Reuter AUTHORITIES in some regions of the Soviet Union are failing to push the Kremlin's anti-drink drive, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda said yesterday. It said that after some initial success, party and state bodies had slackened off and were devoting less attention
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    • 445 18 r SERVICE MANAGEMENT Singapore, November 2 3,1987 wT making service your competitive weapon using the moments of truth OBJECTIVES Everybody talks about service... very few manage it. This workshop will introduce an exciting new way of thinking about service a dramatic reappraisal of what it means to make customer orientation
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 489 19  -  By JUNE LIM BARGES are in good demand following a pick-up in the transportation of timber and coal. The biggest requirement is for barges of 180 ft. Barges of this length, particularly suitable to meet current demands centred around the timber
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    • 262 19 SRI LANKA plans radical changes to its maritime Isws in the next two months to make it easier for foreign shipowners to flag-in, says a Lloyd's List report A new law will allow parallel registration of vessels under bareboat charters to
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    • 176 19 Antara AN INDONESIAN customs patrol boat has foiled a clove smuggling attempt by an Indonesian vessel. The vessel, MV Wthyuni, which was believed to be carrying some 70 tonnes of cloves, was apprehended on Wednesday by the patrol boat in Tanjung Todang waters, said a
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 70 19 ORIENT OVERSEAS Container Line (OOCL) last week received a Montgomery Ward quality service award recognising the line s service in 1986-87 to the US retailing giant. Montgomery Ward, with suppliers in 15 locations in South-east Asia, has been using OOCL for the last decade to
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      • 108 19 Antara A THAI CITIZEN caught red-handed in East Kalimantan, Indonesia,for possessing 17.76 kg of pure heroin may face death penalty if found convicted. The Thai, identified only as KK, was a crew member of a cargo ship flying the Thai flag. He was arrested
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    • 521 20 Cargonews Asia WITH EVERGREEN already established as the world's biggest container line, Taiwan has now set its sights on having the world s biggest container port as well. Already handling about three-quarters of Taiwan's container cargo, the port of Kaohsiung in the south-western
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    • 211 20 AP FOREIGN SHIP ORDERS won by South Korea in August decreased 63 per cent from the same month last year to 46,000 gross tons, the Korea Shipbuilders Association reported last week. The orders were for two ships valued at US$3B million. Association officials said the
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    • 103 20 Cargonews Asia FREIGHT FORWARDERS in Jakarta's Tanjong Priok port have been hard hit by the increasing number of shippers forwarding their own cargoes over the past few years, says a source in the Directorate General of Sea Communication. For instance, of 92 freight forwarders registered at
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    • 257 20 Reuter A SOVIET JOURNAL hu painted a picture of groaa incompetence after last year's sinking of the luxury liner Admiral Nakhimov, describing how the other boat involved crushed survivors floundering in the sea. The monthly Yunost said the captain of the cargo carrier Pyotr
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    • 932 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahrenkiel liner XI 1 Africa Ocean XN 2 Albrons VN 3 AC Toepfer XI 5 American Tpt XN 4/1 Anro Service IV 2/2 Arrow lines XN 2 Asian Oceon VI 3 Arias line X 5
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    • 1263 20 UNCONFIRMED reports circulated the freight market pn Thursday that grain has been covered from the US Gulf to Holland at around U559.75 to $10, shipbrokers said. Although no name was mentioned it is believed to be a combined carrier for September loading with light grain on the Krohn
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    • 166 21 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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    • 138 21  -  Kingsley Wood THE AUSTRALIAN Submarine Corporation begins construction this month on its Port Adelaide assembly facility in the first stage of a Asl2o million investment at the site. The navy's six new submarines will be built there with the first expected to be commissioned
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    • 976 21 The ship manning industry has done much to alleviate two pressing problems in the Philippines unemployment and scarcity of foreign exchange. However, the industry has come under criticism for exploiting and abusing Filipino seafarers. Lloyd's Maritime Asia THE PHILIPPINE ship manning sector is often
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    • 713 21 FIVE fairly large motor tanker* built between 1974 and 1975 are reported to have been sold to a Norwegian concern for around US$65 million en bloc, secondhand tonnage brokers said. These are the Aenlas 137,309 dwt, the Agamemnon 140,905 dwt. the Argonaftts 140,905 dwt. the Odyssaas 140,905 dwt and
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    • 8333 26 aeaBEKMfl 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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    • 1944 28 a—B AB Shipping Boustead Shpg Agencies. ABC Containerline NV S pore Shpg (S). Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S). Africa Ocean Lines Sealion Shpg (S). Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S). Alfred C Toepfer Ocean us Shipping Agencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK). Alltrans Alltrans Express. American President
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    • 1118 29 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Gdns FCL Ship Voy Arrival LCL movement date/time Operator cargo schedule Location Elbe 0 IS 14 09 87 1900 Eagle Corp Fl 1000-1100 R4 Kiti Bhum 122N 1409.87 2000 S'pore Shpg F5 1100-1200 H4 Uni Forever 018E 14.09.87 2300 G
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    • 348 29 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmmI Bertf i Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Arrow Duke K18 alongside 15.09/0600 Berlin Hdd K28 alongside 15.09/1500 Equator III K23 alongside 14 09/1500 Hoi Fong C09 alongside 14 09/0300 Monte Palomo K20 alongside 16 09/2300 Lampung K27 alongside 14 09/0600 SO Tripura CIO alongside
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    • 360 30 FT RECENT SIGNS of recovery in the world shipping market could be short-lived, with buoyancy still vulnerable to MiddleEast conflict, subsidised newbuildings in countries like Japan, and low levels of ship demolition, according to Mr William Purves, chairman of the Hongkong and
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    • 218 30 Seatrade Week A DELEGATION from the Norwegian Shipowners' Association was in Bombay and Manila over the last fortnight to discuss agreements with local unions. The Manila talks seemed to have broken down, although leader of the delegation, Rolf Hasselgaard, said accord had been reached
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    • 73 30 AP A NORTH KOREAN patrol boat seized a Japanese vessel last Friday night for violation of North Korean territorial waters off Hamhung on the eastern coast. The official Radio Pyongyang identified the Japanese boat as No 56 Kaiaai-Maru. Japan s Maritime Safety Agency said No
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    • 124 30 UPI A 5.050-TON spent nuclear fuel transport ship will be turned over to its British owner, Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd, today. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said the ship was christened as Pacific Pintail by Princess Takamado at a ceremony held last Friday at the company's
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    • 113 19 jsmds WITH EVERGREEN already established as the world's biggest container line, Taiwan has now set its sights on having the world's biggest container port as well. P»ge N THE MANNING SECTOR is the sole bright spot in the Philippine shipping industry. However, on unacceptable price is being paid for the
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    • 493 20 02 OUTBOUND TO NORTH CONTINENT COMPAGNIE MARITIME D'AFFRETEMENT REGULAR CONTAINER SERVICE FAR EAST TO EUROPE/MEDITERRANEAN WEST AFRICA VIA FEEDER STORE ETA/ETD FELIXSTOWE ROTTERDAa ANTWERP LI HAVRE ETA ETA ETA ETA ETA I. "ga'TTTrM r.m i i.vi.iM OEJ wi w (Aarhw. CinshigM, Gothenfcuri) and othor I InUnd points t Wost African
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    • 98 20 Lines and services represented by -Members of the ReoJstry of Accredited f? Shipping Agents, Singapore National V s Shipping Association. IS! C SAV Ccrrp.im.i Sucl Amrnc.in.i tf>' I'.Jcctr r S A (I »•••#•.i n I EXPRESS SERVICE TO/from CHILE FEEDER VESSEL |S PORE[BOTHER VESSEL HK ARtCA IQQ ANTOF VALP SAI
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    • 275 24 fl, Accepting LCL and containerised cargoes Direct to South Africa HAYAKAWA MARU 3534F S A. WAAL 3932F S. A. VAAL 3S3IC NEDLLOYD COLOMBO 3630G Spore Durban P.Eliz 28/9 11/10 13/10 10/10 23/10 25/10 C.Town Durban Sid Sid SM Sid Jardincc JAROINE SHIPPING AGENCIES (REG. *****4/ OOK) l« 200 CANTONMENT ROAD
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    • 715 24 'M AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Container* Fewtef p Ketong Lmw Vase! S port MHb Ffem Sr<f Aho Accepts "CHANOIOAS" ¥27 lg Sep* 4 Oct 13 Oct 11 Oct AM/Bris RAVIDAS" *36 IS Oct 30 Oct 9 No» 7 Nov Add Bm INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE S O TRIPURA
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    • 592 24 TS-7 golden line s£> GUAN GUAN SHPPMG (PTE) LTD 23 left* Ayf Strift UKtfW AIM TU S34HU (II l»K) Fir S4SM STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Spore P KetongPetv GOLDEN HARVEST Colombo/Karachi Dubai 23/24 S«p< GOLDEN HAVEN Cotanbo/KarachiKuscat S/S Oct CHINA SERVICE A VESSEL Hsinnjnt Shanfhii Ufa Sept CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING CO.,
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    • 807 25 \\NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE a NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD It EU/AUST TPA/SEA Terminal CFS BOOKINGS 27C7U *****2 *****22 *****53 *****19 2/***** uiiau uiuM J798U1 *****41 NEPLINE SDN BHD M*Mt7 NEPLINE SON BHD *****33 t U, ,IS NEPLINE SDN BHD *****5/6276M/*****1/S27tt2 NEPLINE SDN BHD *****0/*****1 V*
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    • 246 25 r* TAYO SHIPPING LINES PTE LTD] TEL: *****25 (3 Line*) TLX PS ***** TAVOIN VESSEL ETA ETD DESTINATION PIYA I 20/9 30/9 KRABI/COLOMBO* SINAR MEGA 12/9 17/9 PEKAN BARU/DUMAI A VESSEL 15/9 22/9 CIGADING A VESSEL In Pt 15/9 BANGKOK A VESSEL 20/9 27/9 PORT MORESBY, LAE, TERNATE REGULAR SERVICES
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    • 569 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN, INCHON Vessel's Name S pore P Kelang Inchon Buun ttoji M Enterprise/71JN 19/09 22/09 02/10 07/10 No 8 Donam 707N 22/09 2S/09 05/10 10/10 Worn 715N 2MW 2MB 09/10 11/10 12/10 No 7 Do*um/707N 03/10 07/10 U/10
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    • 775 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 pWe Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Tele* Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANG M/S HANDLINC SYSTEM CO SOW BHD No 14 Jaian Cunph. Port Ket«f>|. ScUncor. kblaysu Tel
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    • 305 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 i3O Lines' FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX AS ***** A 8 SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTF RACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE IFAHRLAND 7/87 123/10 I- 17/11 117/11 117/11 119/11 {20/11 •VIA COLOMBO: Accepting cargo fof INDIA Bombay. Cochin i
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 163 26 m a Regional Weather *>■ HI m N < k 55 Wi *A 2 > fc a > a? m 5 i L* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. Wind direction with speed in knots Wave height LEGEND: R, Thunderstorm Temperature °C y Shower Weather Wind
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    • 373 27 i CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE I K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 04-*****2/4, *****3 07-*****8 07 *****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 02-*****22 *****08 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE FEEDER B. BUTANC 373 B BUTANC 375 EZ2E3 li'inij." iMii.' 1 ''iMr-nin.'i ;H.M N OCJNM SURIA 17.09
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    • 483 28 TSa KINK-I.INKR SIIII'l'INt; I'TK I.TIJ 70 Aiy M 0?C Mirim House S pore 0?07 TEL ??5907? (f> Lines) TLX RS ,VWI Fl INFR FAX M ROPK SERVICE ItiinVi'i 1 'ini' "TTrTT^B FAR EAST SERVICE MIDDLE EAST GULF SERVICE WEEKLY HKG/CHINA SERVICES Wj m a V" i a •i' International Freight
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    • 460 28 ZIM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE accepting FCL/LCL cirnts to USA East A West Coast, Carribbean.East Canada, HAITI, Port Au Spain, Barbados N ST. LUCIA. AUSTRALIA CONTAINER SERVICE ZIM SPORE ZIM BRISBANE ZIM PIRAEUS ACCEPTING CARGO TO ADELAIDE VIA MELBOURNE AND ALSO FCI TO GUAM =r ZIM EILAT CONTAINER UNE Accaptini FCL
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    • 622 28 Everett Lines/ COMPANIA PERUANA DE VAPORES "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" LOADING FOR CAIIAO. MATARANI, LLO* AND ALL OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH TRANSHIPMENT AT KOBE ON CP* THROUGH BILL Of LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION Penang* P. Kelang Singapore THOMASEVERETT 19/20 S^> HUGHEVERETT 27/28 Sep MANOLOEVERETT 17/11 Oct "EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF
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    • 214 29 Hamburg West Germany Tiger Line VKSEL VOY SIN CALCUTTA MADRAS CHITTACONC LOTTE SCHEEL 24 14 SEP 20-24 SEP V SEP SCHWABENLANO 3 PHELUDC 4 LOTTE SCHEEL 25 Common Carrier Food* 22-24 SEP 28-30 SEP 3 OCT 1-12 OCT 15 OCT Service For Main Lin* Operators Only. BEN LINE AGENCIES (S)
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    • 142 29 PERCH OCEAN LINES Je (Perfect China Ocean Shipping Lines) Destinations: SHANTOU, GUANGZHOU HUANGPU, XIAMEN HAIKOU, ZHANJIANG XINGANG, QINGOAO SHANGHAI OTHER PORTS CIINA SERVICES Etd. S PORE EM. PKLG WEEKLY SAILINGS CONSOLIDATION SERVICE FROM: SINGAPORE/P.KELANG PORT LOUIS AUSTRALIA BANGKOK KE/KAO USA O J (MEMBER OF THE PRESS GROUP) O WEEKLY CONSOL
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    • 180 29 PERINTIS LINE WEEKLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE SINGAPORE/JAKARTA General Agents Pw**l« Lint Ltd 19 Keppel Road Jit Poh Btdg Singapore 0206 Tel *****33 Tlx. ***** a/b pt axa (5) HANLIM SHIPPING CO.. LTD. REGULAR LINER SERVICE TO BOMBAY AND PERSIAN GULF VSL NAME Korean Sapphire S'pore 25-30/9 LDG FOR Bombay Note:
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    • 625 29 lif.m/.vi Alio AccaptinfFCL Containers for Charleston, Miami, Tampa and US Inland Points. KIM SHIPPING A TRADING PTE LTD Tel: *****8 Tlx; KMTRA RS ***** Fax: *****17 Malaysia SEGANI SDN BHD SUBANG JAVA: Tel *****25 Tlx: MA 3(1(1 Penanj Ttl (131(3 Tlx: MA 40(21 POH TIONG CHOON SHIPPING (PTE) LTD >iy
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    • 348 29 ***** l MARITIME TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT PTE LTD •'W'l.'al'i'J LUCKY SEAWAY SERVICES PTE LTP Tel 3 36b' 26C61 f?i ***** 7 7 v Ge= c t ***** eoeu S.E.ASIA/CHINA SERVICES PNG PKLANG SGP FOR CHIFENG KOU 18/9 Hongkong PU CHIANG 10/10 14/10 Huangpu, Shanghai COLOMBO SERVICE TO/FROM PNG PKLANG SGP COLOMBO
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    • 522 30 n FARGO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTE) LTD regular express full container AND LCL SERVICE INBOUND AGENT FOR ABC CONTAINERIZE From USA/Canada/Europe/Mediterranean Vtl TNT EXPRESS E. HUOIG BRUSSEL ANTWERP unmmmi nrrcf nnrTniw ETA SINGAPORE DESTINATION JENLINK PIYA BHUM 35N 16/9 104W 16/9 VIRA BHUM 24-25/9 BUNGA BUTANG KITI BHUM Port Kelang, Penang
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    • 594 30 SMN Y SOCIETE MAURICIENNE DE NAVIGATION LTEE INDIA OCEAN, SOUTH/EAST AFRICA REGULAR SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE SEALION SHIPPING(S) PTE LTD TEL *****81 (i> lines) TELEX RSWM SEIIOV FAX 2250/41 AhiicA Ocian Lms Ltd. NIGERIA. WEST AFRI SERVICE VESSEL ETA SPORE MV EFESSOS 25/9 Loading for APAPA/LAGOS, PORT HARCOURT. LOME, TEMA. CALABAR AND
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    • 263 30 WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE TO/FROM KEELUNG ACCEPTING LCL CARGO ONLY ETD S PORE ETA KEEIUNC CON-CARRIERS 12/17 17/0 25/9 CON-CARRIERS 13/17 23/9 9/9 CON-CARRIERS 14/17 S/10 13/10 WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE TO MELB/SYDNEY ETD S TORE ETA SYD ETA NELB CON-CARRIERS 21/17 11/9 1/10 12/10 CON-CARRIERS 22*7 2/10 22/10 20/10 Alio accepting
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    • 699 30 POSEIDON CONTAINER \piWX TRANSPORT J REGULAR TBR SERVICE LCUFCL KABUL/HAIRATON/TORG/IRAN/E.BLOC WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK HONG KONG BANGKOK HAMBURG ROTTERDAM Agent NIHON-ASIA SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD T*i: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: ***** NAN SHIN SHIPPING AGENCY JAPAN HONGKONG S PORE MALAYSIA WEEKLY SERVICE TO:HONGKONG BANGKOK TOKYO PENANG
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