The Business Times, 1 December 1987

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 112/12/86 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 159 1 Overseas marfcets *>>»<■> HK Hang Swig Index 2138.39 (-55.79) Tokyo Nfckei Average *****.78 (-365.45) Sydney All-Ordinaries 1328.2 6.8 gi-» Now York (Dow Jonet) 1910.48 (-36.47 London (FT 30 Index) 1308.2 (-6.2 (Monday noon 1257.2 US*MI3Ztt/38 yon 1.6407/14 DM SS2.0270/80 M$t S $0.8140/7 9hnei Curo-$ (Mac) 91.98 (-21
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  • 168 1 THE SINGAPORE stock market closed lower in line with sharp I falls in the Tokyo and Hongkong i markets amid a further drop in the US dollar. I In quiet trading, the Straits Times Industrial Index fell 14.84 points to 800.01. The Business l Times
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  • 305 1 THE US DOLLAR yesterday plunged to new record lows against the yen and Deutschemark on the world's foreign currency markets, trading below 133 yen and 1.64 marks. In Singapore, the greenback fell to an all-time low of 552.0225, while in Zurich, it registered a
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  • 427 1 AFTER months of public discussion, s proposal to introduce the team MP concept in the next slection was tabled in Parliament yesterday. Between 33 and 39 constituencies will be involved initially. Plans
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  • 398 1 DISMISSING claims that the Singapore dollar is undervalued, Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong told Parliament yesterday that Singapore has not artificially depressed the value of its currency to build up a trade surplus. Unlike the currencies of some other newly-industrialising countries. the Singapore dollar is today
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  • 513 1  -  By MONICA GWEE A SPRAY of bullet holes hit the bull's-eye and more yesterday as two courier companies tussled over the large print in fullpage advertisements in BT and The Straits Times. In full-page advertisements yesterday in the two papers, TNT Skypak International Express fired
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  • 422 1  -  DEALS ARE TECHNICALLY OFF By LISA LEE BONVESTS Holdings Ltd'* controversial proposals to acquire seversi assets have gone into limbo. The Stock Exchange of Singspore, whose approval is needed for the listing snd quotation of new Bonvests shares to be issued to finance the acquisitions,
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  • 423 1  -  By AMY BALAN AFTER TEN HARROWING days. Neptune Orient Lines has finally received the full underwriting support it needs to go ahead with the one-tor-one rights issue of up to 199.3 million ordinary shares. But the terms of the issue had to be further
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    • 320 1 Mora Parliament reports, Page 7 raps A $60 MILLION resort hotel will be built on Sentosa by Seaufort International Hotels (S) Pte Ltd. HOME NEWS. Page 2 THE NATIONAL Association of Purchasing Management said the US economy continued to grow in November but at a slower pace than was reported
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 507 2  -  Work on first-class resort to start in May By TONG SUIT CHEE A $60 MILLION resort hotel will be built on Sentosa by Beaufort International Hotels (S) Re Ltd. The 275-room deluxe hotel, spanning 9.7 hectares, will be developed on the former Apollo Sentosa Hotel
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    • 331 2  -  By LONG SHIH ROME MAURITIUS OFFERS a good investment climate in terms of du-ty-free access to markets in Europe and the US as well as the incentives available in Economic Processing Zones, said Mr Herve Duval, Minister of Industry of Mauritius. Mr Duval,
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    • 245 2 SOME 2.500 PEOPLE srs expected to take part in the fourth International Exposition of Quality Control Circles, to be held st ths Mandarin Hotel from Dec 2 to 4. Started in 1664, the annual event is organ iaed by eight national organisstions. Mr Freddy
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    • 55 2 THE METEOROLOGICAL Service has invited tenders far the suopfr of a. speech. «ytJMiMKjIM .tour other The tenders are oaty open to orgsniMttons ragwwrw wtm of iMiong rijistraUon with the Central Supplies Depertment, Construction Industry DevetopRltDl A/ DepiKtnsiit J.—^ V Inill LUT tour f nders wW deee on.
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    • 59 2 THE SPECIAL adviser to toe Button and Yang £>-Pertuan t* Brunei wltf arrtve in ■Btojapars today an a vie#. Yang Berhormst Petrin Oato Haft tea will be meeting Singapore Prime Mints- tar Lea Kuan Ypsr on Thursday Aflaila to the immSr2Si!P22!? rupt Praclicaa IniiMfiQslinn Bureau, Narcotics
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 211 3 UPI AN EXTENSIVE investigation of China's foreign trade contracts has turned up bribery, embezzlement and poor import quality control that have cost the government "great losses'", a senior Chinese official said. China's Minister of Supervision Wei Jianxing said on Sunday his
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    • 143 3 AFP CHINA and Laos have normalised relations after a nine-year break and have agreed to exchange ambassadors. the China's Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday. The normalisation of relations between Beijing and Vietnam's ally, Laos, came during a visit to Beijing by Laotian Vice-Foreign Minister Khamphay
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    • 94 3 AP SOUTH KOREA s trade surplus with the United States between January and October widened to U557.63 billion from US$6.O4 billion in the same period last year. The Trade and Industry Ministry reported yesterday that the 10-month trade excess surpassed the US$7.3 billion
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    • 488 3 MBT THE MALAYSIAN ECONOMY may grow in real terms by at least 3 per cent this year, with exports expected to experience double-digit growth and the manufacturing sector expected to play the catalytic role. This is the projection made by the Hongkonghbased
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    • 332 3 Reuter PRIME MINISTER Turgut Ozal claimed a big new parliamentary majority yesterday after Turkey'» most open general election for a decade. "We will be the party in power... The people voted for stability,'' he said. Mr Ozal had campaigned on his record of political stability
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    • 140 3 UPI NEC CORP. a major Japanese high-tech enterprise, said yesterday it plans to complete the initial stage of what could lead to the development of a "dream" computer which imitates the nerve system of the human brain. Company officials said in Tokyo simulation experiments
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • REST OF HTE WORLD
    • 482 4 NYT THE STOCK MARKET may still be down in the dumps, but those who expected a downturn in business activity so far have been proved wrong. According to the National Association of Purchasing Management, the US economy continued to grow in November but at
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    • 231 4 Reuter THE UNDERLYING GROWTH of UK average earnings is likely to have risen to an annualised rate of 8 per cent in October after a long spell at 7.75 per cent, possibly reawakening short-term inflation fears, according to broking firm Greenwell Montagu.
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    • 272 4 Reuter THE US is ending all military assistance and suspending nonhumanitarian economic aid to Haiti following the postponement of presidential elections there on Sunday. "The US government has decided to remove all military assistance personnel from Haiti and to suspend all military assistance to Haiti
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    • 330 4 NYT ORDERS FOR Americanmade machine tools surged 46.2 per cent in October from the previous month, to U*****.3 million, according to a report by the industry's trade association. Industry experts said that machine tool orders typically pick up in autumn, but they
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    • 328 4 Reuter JACQUES DELORS. president of the European Community's Executive Commission, has accused member states of settling for mediocrity in the run-up to a vital EC summit meeting this week. After 10 hours of talks on Sunday between foreign ministers
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    • 271 4 Reuter EIGHT Latin American leaders agreed to work towards a European-style common market during a three-day meeting in Acapulco on political and economic affairs. A 28-page statement called "The Acapulco Commitment to Peace. Development and Democracy", issued on Sunday after three days of talks,
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  • FOCUS
    • 366 7  -  JMM- By FOO CHOY PENG Chief Reporter FINANCE MINISTER Richard Hu thought that his bill which sought to sat up Singapore Totalisator Board to control income darivad by the Singapore Turf Club from horse racing and four-digit draws would paas without comment; He was
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    • Briefly
      • 116 7 VOLUNTARY contributions to the Central Provident Fund by the self-employed will be exempted from income tax and astate duty. The examption would take effect from the Year of Assessment 1967, Finance Minister Richard Hu announced yesterday during the second reading of the Estate Duty (Amendment) Bill which was
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      • 116 7 THE GENERAL INSURANCE Association (GIA) is working out a new motor insurance rate structure to reflect better the risks of the insured vehicle and driver. The move was not a proposal to introduce a rate cartel, aaid Finance Miniater Richard Hu in response to a question about his
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      • 114 7 NEW TRAINING STINTS for nurses and scholarships for nursing degrees are among the measures taken to upgrade the status of the nursing profession. Moves to recruit and train more Florence Nightingales are being taken to help fill the 1,000 vacancies for nurses in government hospitals. From next year,
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      • 82 7 THE HOUSING and Development Board will demolish some rental blocks with high vacancy rates and the land will be used eventually for new developments, said Lee Boon Yang, Minister of State (Ministry of National Development). In reply to a question posed by Othman bin Haron Eusofe (MP for
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      • 116 7 NO WARRANT of arrest has been issued against Catholic priest Father Edgar D'Souza because he was not directly involved in the Marxist conspiracy. But the Internal Security Department may want to question him. Father D'Souza, former associate editor of the Catholic News and closely associated with aeveral members
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      • 55 7 RESETTLEMENT shopkeepers will not be given the option of renting shops in lieu of the cash grant of $26,000 which the government deems a fair amount. Those who wish to rent shops are given preferential margin of 10 per cent. HDB intends to build 150 shops each year
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      • 67 7 THERE HAS BEEN a small rise in the prices of building materials. and any further increase in prices is bound to affect the building coats of HDB flats. But unless the price increaae is significant, prices of flats will not go up. The price of granite aggregate in
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    • 378 7 NON-MEMBERS of the Central Provident Fund who jointly service housing loans with CPF members can soon join the home protection insurance scheme under a bill passed yesterday. The new provision under the Central Provident Fund (Amendment No 2) Bill is designed to protect families from
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    • 387 7 THE GOVERNMENT decided not to hold by-elections in Anson and Geylang West because the two constituencies could be affected by plans for town councils to be formed, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. Mr Goh said that when the plans were implemented, some constituencies
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    • 132 7 SINGAPORE'S Mass Rapid Transit system incorporates the latest proven technology in fire safety, said Communications Minister Dr Yeo Ning Hong. In reply to a question by Dr Wong Kwei Cheong (MP for Cairnhill), Dr Yeo said the fire safety measures include an extensive
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    • 274 7  -  By ANNA TEO THE GOVERNMENT does not have an obligation to prop up the stock market, said Finance Minister Richard Hu yesterday. Or Hu was asked by the opposition member, Mr Chiam See Tong, if the government intends to intervene in the local stock exchange, especially
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 400 8 Reuter IRAN'S push to raise oil prices has been checked by most Arab producers lining up behind Saudi Arabia to keep the benchmark unchanged at US$lB a barrel. Oil analysts in West Asia said Iran lost an important ally when Algeria on Saturday
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    • 426 8 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed firmer in fairly active trading on continued buying interest from both local and overseas investors, dealers said. They said sentiment on gold was boosted by technical strength amid a weakening US dollar, which hit a record low of 1.8380 marks in Europe just before
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    • 179 8 ChlniN Product Mart* mam cMh9 p rtttl an Ne« X) (SS/100 k 9 Coconut oil M> FOI 93.00 Otd drvn» FO* 103.00 N*w drum FO* 107.00 Copra AM«*d (loo**) 53 Popper FO* NIW Sarawak 1210.00 FO* foq NIW 1195.00 btadi FOt^LW •37.50 f Q Mack FOI MW 952J0
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    • 244 8 Reuter Cnida palm ofl Mam clOMd marginally higher yestsrday on continuad battar buying intsrsst on tha KLCE. Spot month Oacembar rosa $25 to $873 par tonna and January addad $19 to $874. Forward month Fabruary incraaaed $19 to $883. Turnover incraaaad to 789 lots from 722 laat Friday.
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    • 251 8 Reuter COCOA producar and conauming nations hava schadulad ftva days of talks starting yaaterday to try to raacua thair international cocoa sgraamant and atop prioaa crashing in an ovarsuppttad world markaL Succaas hingaa on whathar mambars of tha International Cocoa OrganIs telon (ICCO).
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    • 64 8 CRUDE MARKETS continued quiet because of the long US Thanfcgiving holiday. The Singapore products market was slightly firmer. tOt/fc nil Oa|i 0M (DacJ WM Taaai 1*43 wn (OacJ 11*3 wdi Products (FOB S'pore) UM/bffl Oim Kinmn 2XU ♦0J0 Oai u>- im6t 20S3 ♦an ISWt too «mA lAt/Mm
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    • 131 8 Reuter THE PRICE of tin on toe Kuala Lumpur Tin Mart* (KLTM) yesterdey roN •I* cants from Friday's dooo Is M 517.09 s kg after quiet trading, dsolsrs said. A lowar European spot tin mart ot did not dampon sentiment as a strong sterling rata against Mm ringgit
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    • 159 8 Reuter •MQAPORE THE MARKET yaatarday doaad slightly lowar with Dtctmbtr 1 RSS buyars quoted at 215.25 cants/kilo, down 0.25 cant from last Friday's ciosa, daalars said. Tha morning saaaion tost 0.50 cants in modarata trading on soma trada sailing and long liquidation following lowar Tokyo advicaa. thay said. Prioaa
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 506 10 MUCH HAS BEEN SAID about protecting the public against the unscrupulous professional, but little attention has been given to the professional worried about a rising tide of claims. In Singapore, this applies largely to the lawyers and accountants, who are beginning to feel the sting of negligence suits
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    • 1848 10  -  Credit and charge card companies are set for a clash, especially with the arrival of the festive season. ALVIN TAY looks at the 'bells and whistles' that these companies are using to entice more members to their fold. ALVIN TAY WITH THE FESTIVE holidays
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    • 897 11 IHT For some Japanese, Eishiro Saito, as head of the country's moat powerful employers' organisation, the Keidanren, exercises influence on par with the finance minister or central bank governor. As a new government takes shape in Tokyo, and is faced with the
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    • 761 11  -  Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita (atx>ve), who took office last month, will face his greatest challenge in foreign policy, where he has to reconcile demands made on Japan by its allies and constitutional limitations on its military and
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 985 12 Reuter SINGAPORE: THE US dollar closed lower against most major currencies in moderate trading as sentiment remains overwhelmingly bearish. It ended at a postwar low of 132.33/38 yen against an early 132.65/75 and Friday's New York 133.45/55 close. Dealers said the US unit met selling pressure at the
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    • 1647 12 INTEREST RATES OPTIONS nmoooi i Mm doy, Nm m •■Mar JO, 1*07 Dm or Mh I ft 1 Lav •Ml Lav Ml •too CA4 •MO 3*4A 223 CA4 9000 3I4A 203 CA4 *030 1*4* 199 CA4 •100 114* 103 CA4 *I2S 47 A •0 1 •190 *4* 34 2
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    • 61 12 THE overnight rata on the Singapore interbank market rose I*l/4 points to close at 1-3/4 per cent yesterday. The one- and twomonth rates rose by 1/16 point while three months remained unchanged. S$ interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: otm mo Oom"V 13/4 1 1/J 3 t/l* 3 7/1*
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    • 134 12 Gold futurM on Nov 27 100 troy ouncac USt par troy ma Opaa Law MM 1Ok ***** 407.40 477JO 404.10 *9.30 Jan ***** -9.40 Nk M 4UK *91.50 moo 492JO 940 A#r 490.20 490 90 4*04)0 490J0 970 Jw« 495.50 J04J0 495-50 TO ♦040 *-9 502.50 510.00
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 654 13 NYT MOST EUROPEAN officials want Washington to stabilise the dollar and Bonn to kesp stimulating its economy whethsr or not those things happsn within ths framswork of a formal masting of ths world's industrial loaders. Japan, for ths moment, seems to
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    • 612 13 MARCH Eurodollar futures yesterday gapped lower at 92.00 during Simex opening on negative tone set by a tailing US dollar to new record lows in the Far East Trading activities remained light and thin as the March contract drifted lower to 91 .g7 support level in a bearish market.
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    • 86 13 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Doy's code Maturity ftio Offft HIGH LOW 3 momtw BQ*****A 25.2.88 2.90 2.85 3.05 2.90 6 momtw •S*****S 21.4.88 3.02 2.97 3.25 1.86 1 yeor IY*****T 24.11.88 2.88 2.83 3.05 2.84 Government notes and bonds Period issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing
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    • 72 13 THE POST Office Savings Bank reopened its Upper Thomson Road branch yesterday and will reopen its Ghim Moh branch on Dec 14. Both offices had been closed in recent weeks for renovation. The branches are located at 301 Upper Thomson Road and Block 10, Ghim Moh Road,
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    • 277 13 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rstss yesterday firmed between 1/8 and 1/4 point at the outset reflecting a drop in US bond pricea, a 190 beeie points increase in US Commodity Research Bureau's futures index and moderate bidding interest by Japanese namee. Thereafter rates remained unchanged. Overnight and weekAxed cioeed
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    • 538 13 Reuter FOREIGN EXCHANGE dealers in Asia can pick and choose where they want to work at well-paid jobs despite the uncertainty on world financial and share markets. Chief dealers and bank treasurers attending the Asia Pacific Foreign Exchange Congress in Manila said they were
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    • 357 13 Coupon Number Li rlli ■KnCOiTTl Grow Amount k^oro®^ of day* of middle price f edefttptiofi Maturity Yoar ra(Md rat* mWflon) payment occrued (excluding ywo P<>) datot Interest accrued interest) po) 1.3.83 Loan 1 1973 •5* 321.94 1/3. 1/9 90 •100.80
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    • 172 13 Xfee prime Isndbig'raSs sI 12 aM|sr banks la S pore Interbank market n 1 i I i do us* t DM SWfC Y«n 7 tap 7 l/l* IS/I* V* l/l* f l/l* IS/I* la* l/l* 7 IS/I* IS/I* IS/1* 7 is/i* t i/i* is/i* i> s/i* s/t*
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    • 179 13 Reuter CITIBANK NA Hongkong branch has privately placed the first issue of gold-linked certificates of deposit in Hongkong, according to arranger Citicorp International Ltd. A Citicorp spokesman said the CDs are in HKSI million denomination, mature in two years, and carry a 536 per
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    • 591 13 Reuter CHINA'a foreign debt ia rising too faat, with too many borrowers and a lack of unified management, and the money is not being put to its best use, Chinese experts have told the Financial Time» newspaper. Foreign bankers, however. said the debt,
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 390 14 UPI IVAN LENDL defeated Pat Cash on Sunday to claim a healthy cheque of U*****,200 and leave the Australian broke in the US$l million stakea match. The Czechoelovakian won the best-of-five of 21-point games 11-21, 21-18, 21-7, 22-20 at the
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    • 261 14 AP THE WORLD'S third-ranked women's tennis player, Chris Evert, dominated native Baltimorean Elise Burgin with steady baseline play and periodic topspin lobs to win 6-2, 6-3 in the third round of the Cystic Fibrosis Tennis Festival at Loyola College on Saturday. Evert, a
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    • 447 15 AFP AMERICAN Curtis Strange lifted the major share of prize-money in the two-day U*****,000 skins tournament between four top international golfers in South Africa on Sunday. Strange, who admitted playing the poorest golf, picked up US$l6O,OOO to upstage fel-low-American Lanny Wadkins, US$100,000; Bernhard Langer of
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    • 184 15 Bernama THE SECOND annual Pansea Cup sailing competition from Phuket in Thailand to Pangkor Laut off the Perak coast will be held from Jan 31 to Feb 4 next year and is expected to attract more entries than the inaugural race. The- event,
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    • 528 15 AP LEE TREVINO lofted a 6-iron shot 167 yards (150 metres) and into the cup for a hole-in-one worth U*****,000 in golf's skins game on Sunday. Trevino watched in apparent disbelief as the ball hit the island green of the 17th hole at PGA west
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    • 392 15  -  By WALTON MORAIS THE SINGAPORE Sports Council has agreed to be co-organ-iser of the four-day fitness festival to be held next year in conjunction with the visit of fitness guru Or Kenneth Cooper. Or Cooper, who has been credited as being the
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    • 1075 15 NYT IT WAS GOOD to be in Leimen, West Germany, Boris Becker said, where he could sample his mother's cooking and spend time with friends he rarely sees. The past three years have been like a trip to Oz, as Becker was swept off his
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 3979 16 SHARE PRICES drifted lower in quiet trading yesterday on now* of a weak US dollar and a sharp fall in the Tokyo stock marfcat Tha Straits Timea Industrial Indax droppad 14.64 points to 800.01 white tha broadar-baaad Buainaaa Tims» Composite Indsx shad 13.00 points
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    • 253 16 SINGAPORE. Rises inc ICM Na* 37 Na* 30 HW I fm 3*0 1* IT 1)11 III 1 73a4* 707.40 HmWiiii «Ma 30* •T OS/OS -13$ -430 IVtlwVK XX) 0 •T Cadi -70*3 •71 SO •aafHMMl 23* J •T 10-day MA -*•7* -**33 Tat Lm tan 110 ♦s
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    • 189 16 BRITISH MALAYAN TRUSTEES Limited: AGM at the Board Room, 17, Phillip Street #08-00, Grand Building, Singapore 0104 tomorrow at noon. TASEK CEMENT Berhad: 26th AGM at the Factory, Tasek Industrial Estate, Tasek Drive, Ipoh on Friday, Dec 4. at 11.30am. AYER HIT AM TM DREDGING MALAYSIA Berhad: 11th
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 667 17 mm* mm:l» HOCK LOCK SIEW SINGAPORE LAND chairman S P Tao s broad hint that work will resume on the half-com-pleted Gateway project has raised some questions. It is interesting to see how many will be answered in the forthcoming AGM on Dec 11. In deciding
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    • 124 17 New executive committee at ICB FOUR United Overseas Bank directors have been appointed to the executive committee of Industrial Commercial Bank Ltd. They are Messrs Wee Cho Yaw (chairman), Richard Eu Keng Mun (vicechairman), Ho Sim Guan and Lim Kee Ming. They replace the former committee of executive
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    • 614 17  - Cycle Carriage makes turnaround to profitability Profit of $18.28 m compared with loss of $17.4 m previously By CORRINA LIM CYCLE CARRIAGE Ltd, distributor of Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi vehicles, is firmly back on the profit path and is intent on staying profitable in the current financial year. For the 12
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    • 706 17 NST FOOD and beverage manufacturer Yeo Hiap Seng (M) Bhd is going downstream into the retail business, with the opening soon of its first supermarket at the Asia Jaya complex in Petaling Jaya. The planned launch of the 12,000-sq-ft supermarket will make
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    • 98 17 All these Bonds having been sold, this announcement appears as a matter of record only. [X The Nippon Credit Bank, Ltd (Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Saiken Shinyo Ginko) U. 5.5150,000,000 1% per cent. Convertible Bonds 2002 Asian Tranche in the amount of U .S .$50,000,000 Nippon Credit International (HK) Ltd. Daiwa
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 303 18 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S largest retailing group, Coles Myer Ltd, will invest more than As3so million in new stores, refurbishment and technology this year, chairman and chief executive Brian Quinn said. Mr Quinn told the annual meeting that Coles Myer did not expect the share market slump to
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    • 169 18 Reuter PIONEER CONCRETE Services Ltd has bought 18.9 per cent of the issued capital of mining and exploration group Giant Resources Ltd from Ariadne Australia Ltd for A 5168.84 million. The purchase, made through Pioneer's listed petroleum subsidiary Ampol Ltd. takes its holding
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    • 2580 18 SHARE prices retreated for the third consecutive session at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday in continued thin trading. Losses were mostly marginal which probably indicates no real urge to liquidate. However, selective buying was noted among tin and plantation issues. Reflecting the
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    • 1363 18 Hongkong Reuter SHARE PRICES in Hongkong closed sharply lower yesterday, pressured by s week stock market in Tokyo and concerns over a falling US dollar, brokers said. The Hang Seng index finished 55.79 points lower st 2.138.39 and the broader based Hongkong index lost 35.90 points to
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    • 321 18 JAPANESE share prices fell broadly in light trad* yesterday at market hopes for currency stability were dashed by an increasingly faabte dollar, brokers said. "Investors are not sure about how the market will go from here and there is increased caution," said strategist Hank Sawa of Prudential Bache in
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    • 507 18 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market doaad firmer yesterday but off its highe as nervousness crept into trading ahead of Wall Street's reopening later in the day, brokers said. They said the early surge, fuelled by solid demand for gold stocks, gave way to Scattered selling in late business, especially
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    • 59 18 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index loet 8.97 points to 290.42 on a turnover of 2.750.067 shares worth 244.57 million baht. Reuter nov m BAMT Ao Kham Thai t 270 -12 BW|MK A0fO4M. SlnfoTAiMdhy.. CtMroong TtMi VNr t CM 313 .314 4 •16 Otwna Stem «n Aaii Flfcr*
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 634 19 NYT THE COMPETITION to buy EF Hutton Co is being complicated by the amount of capital the brokerage house has tied up in its new Manhattan headquarters 1 building, according to several Wall Street professionals close to the bidding. Also, the professionals
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    • 878 19 NYT THE DOLLAR IS FALLING and that means the Britiah may be heading for the US and the Germans, the Japanese, the Swiss and the French too. A combination of a cheaper dollar and a depreased stock market is making corporate America even
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    • 597 19 UPI FOR THE THIRD YEAR in a row. Minneapolis-based Cargill has topped Forbes magazine's 1 ranking of the top 400 private companies in the US, outpacing the No. 2 company's sales by nearly 60 per cent. The commodities trading company's annual revenues to-
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    • 275 19 ManoQors' priest for Dk 1 Singapore Unit Trust Tka Co—area 0* 0*3 Ttm Semap fund 075 081 S'pora frog Fund 035 040 S'pox Sac hind 056 042 S'pora h—gi Fund 042 067 S'pora Couaty f«ad 043 0 46 Asia Unit Trust Mai Ikvm) hjnd l» 1 32 Mai
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    • 454 19 FT THE STOCK MARKET crash in October has completely changed the outlook for gold coin producers because small but serious investors] have rushed to put gold bullion and good coins back in their portfolios, according to Mr Murray Church, director of communications
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    • 649 19 FT MK ELECTRIC GROUP has long been the subject of takeover j speculation; so long, in fact, that the City of London had almost up hope that a bid would materialise and seemed content to classify the UK's largest supplier
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    • 261 19 All these securities having been sold, this announcement appears as a matter of record only. New Issue September, 1987 ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED U. 5.5250,000,000 3 PER CENT. NOTES 1992 WITH WARRANTS TO SUBSCRIBE FOR SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OF ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED ISSUE PRICE 100 PER CENT European
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  • 243 20 AFP ARMED TROOPS yesterday began securing the site for the Asean summit in Manila after it was hit by a minor explosion believed to be caused by a bomb planted by rightist or leftist extremists. Brigadier-General Alexander Aguirre, chief of security for the
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  • 526 20  -  By JEFFREY TSANG HEWLETT PACKARD is setting up Singapore's first centre to develop software to connect computers together. Although computer networking is a relatively undeveloped area in computerisation, it is one of the fastest growing. And expertise in this area is crucial to Singapore's
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  • 302 20 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S gross foreign debt rose to U*****.19 billion in the third quarter of 1987 from U*****.71 million in the second quarter and U*****.64 billion a year earlier. The Statistics Bureau in Canberra said yesterday that net foreign debt fell to U5581.65 billion
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  • 117 20 Reuter UK SHARES were in free-fall yesterday on the London Stock Exchange, in the wake of a fresh slide in the US dollar. The Financial Times-Stock Exchange index of 100 leading UK shares, which opened 45.2 points lower at 1,606.4, skidded further to post a
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  • 355 20 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Bob Hawke now in the Soviet Union on a four-day visit is expected to discuss with Soviet leaders the Kremlin's initiatives towards Asia and the Pacific. Mr Hawke and his entourage of more than 60, including 12 senior businessmen, will also
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  • 406 20 Reuter A PLUNGE of nearly 50 per cent in Japan's interim November trade surplus is one of the most positive signs that international economic coordination policies are finally starting to bite. Economists in Tokyo said yesterday that the trade surplus for the first
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  • 130 20 Reuter INDONESIA will have to repay US$ll billion in government debt and interest in the fiscal years 1987/88 and 1968/89. Finance Minister Radius Prawiro told Parliament on Saturday that the debt burden would be around US$5 billion in fiscal year 1967/88, compared with the budget estimate
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  • 93 20 Reuter WALL STREET STOCKS fell sharply over a wide range early yesterday, following a decline in the dollar to record lows against the mark and the yen, raising inflation fears, said brokers in New York. Declining issues led gainers by over ten-to-one. Blue chips fell steadily with
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  • 81 20 Reuter COMEX SILVER FUTURES softened on profit-taking by day traders early yesterday, following a quick jump to four-week highs following a rally overseas on buying against a weak dollar. In moderate morning business. December silver was ahead 9.5 cents at U557.23 an ounce after coming down from a
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  • LATE FILE
    • 55 20 UPI A TEAM investigating Sunday's crash of a Koraan air passangar jat said yeeterday that initial reports indicate "a tima bomb-like davica'" exploded on tha plana as it flaw ovar tha Thai-Burmaaa border. A KAL official said tha davica was put in tha luggaga or
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    • 37 20 AFP A LOUD explosion followed by a second blast rocked Dhaka's business district yesterday as ministers left the nearby presidential palace after a special Cabinet meeting, ssid diplomatic sources in New Delhi. AFP
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    • 44 20 AFP HONGKONG Governor Sir David Wilson left the colony yesterday on a six-day visit to China for talks expected to focus on the introduction of controversial political reforma in the colony before it reverts to Chinese control in 1997. AFP
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    • 31 20 AFP PREMIER Hun Sen of the Hanoi-backed Cambodian government haa arrived in Moscow, en route to France for talks with Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk. AFP
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    • 39 20 AP A FRENCH diplomat held for months in Teheran waa exchanged yesterday for an Iranian tranalator who had taken refuge in Iran's Paris embassy, signalling an apparent thaw in frozen relations between the two countries. AP
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    • 37 20 AFP AN ASIAN-PACIFIC conference on ways to stop illicit drug traffic opened in Tokyo yesterday, with about 70 army, police and customs experts from 20 countries and international organieations taking part. AFP
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    • 58 20 Bernama ES THE PRICES of dieael and kerosene throughout! Malaysia will be raised from today. The Trade and Industry Ministry said yesterday that the price of dieael will be raised between 1.3 cents and 1.7 cents per litre while that of kerosene will be increased between
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  • 170 20 SMALL- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can make use of a special assistance scheme developed by the Skills Development Fund (SDF) Secretariat to help them plan training programmes for their employees. The Generic Training Plan (GTP), which will benefit local SMEs, was announced yesterday
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  • 260 20 UPI AWARD-WINNING choreographer Goh Choo San, whose ballets have been performed around the world, has died of an Aids-related illness. He was 39. Goh died on Saturday night at his Manhattan home in New York of viral colitis, a disease that frequently afflicts victims of acquired
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  • 301 20 Bernama SABAH'S State Assembly Speaker Pandikar Amin Haji Mulia resigned from his post yesterday. In a five-paragraph statement released in the state capital of Kota Kinabalu, Mr Pandikar Amin said he resigned from the post of his own accord for personal reasons, part of which, he said,
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  • 263 20 Bernama UPI MALAYSIAN POLICE yesterday released 11 more people detained under the Internal Security Act since Oct 27. The release brings to 26 the total number of people freed out of the 106 detained. Police in Kuala Lumpur said the people were released unconditionally
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 434 21 Bernama PORT KLANG is expected to be designated a free trade area by April next year, Klang Port Authority (KPA) chairman Datuk Michael Chen said. The Customs department had agreed to the move and the KPA was finalising the details
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    • 258 21 Bangkok Post THAI OIL Co, the semi-state-owned oil refinery firm, will form a shipping subsidiary to transport refined oil products to its clients. A company called Thai Oil Transport Co will be formed to take over the operations of coaatal tankers from Thai Petroleum
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    • 221 21 THE STATE of Qatar has decided that Abdul-Aziz Salatt, the chief executive of the United Arab Shipping Corporation, return to Qatar to take over the management of a vital Qatari institution. The board of directors of UASC has seconded Abdul Fattah Al
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 106 21 THE PORT of Monrovia will from next month impose weight limits on containers moving in and out of the port. From Dec 15. boxes must not weigh more than 20 tons for 20-footers and 25 tons for 40 ft containers. Fines of US$5OO per 20-footers and
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      • 80 21 International Transport Journal THE FOUR Taiwanese container manufacturers. Evermaster. Union Container Industries. Neptune Containers and Associated Industries China (AIC) are confident that they will be able to increase their last year's production figures by a third this year. In total, they expect to build 83,000
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    • 773 22 Fairplay SEAGOING radio officers won an important victory in their struggle against redundancy when the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) agreed to retain the requirement for on-board radio operators after the introduction of the automated Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) in
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    • 245 22 AP TWO BOATS a day sink on China's .inland waterways as the growth of private transporting haa resulted in a sharp increase in boat accidents, the China Daily said. Tf>e official daily said 1,060 people were killed in 3,235 river transport accidents in the
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    • 1143 22 SINGLE voyage business was slow to emerge following Thursday's US Thanksgiving holiday, although there were several time-charter bookings reported, including one to Soviet charterers, brokers said. A vessel of 72,000 tonnes dw was booked by Soviet interests on a trans-Atlantic round voyage from Piombino to the Skaw-Cape Passero
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    • 464 23 Lloyd's List A NEUTRAL self-policing body is to be appointed by the powerful Asia North America Eastbound Rate Agreement (Anera) to try to stamp out rate cutting by its member lines. Anera managing director. Mr Albert Pierce, said owners had voted to employ a
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    • 119 23 Bernama A 400-TONNE cargo vessel sailing from Singapore to Sandakan sank about 35 nautical miles off the Mukah coast near Sibu after it sprang a leak on Sunday. Six of the 11 crew of the Soon Ping No 2 managed to reach Mukah in a
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    • 258 23 Cargonews Asia SHIPPERS OF fresh produce and fruit to the US are finding the port of Philadelphia to be a good distribution point for the eastern seaboard as well as Phoenix, Arizona and Boise. Idaho. In the past several years the port,
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    • 59 23 THE PORT of Amsterdam registered a 18 per cent decline in transhipment cargo for the nine months to September this year. In the period under review. 22 million tonnes of cargo were transhipped. Losses were seen in dry and liquid bulk cargo sectors. Fertilisers and gravel,
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    • 269 23 AFP THE SHORTER trading week caused by the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States spurred charterers into a flurry of activity at the beginning of the week on the tanker market, with particular emphasis on larger tonnage loading in the Gulf. London brokers E A Gibson pointed to
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    • 215 23 Reuter A KUWAITI oil tanker which used the name of a Rumanian vessel in an attempt to escape attacks in the Gulf last week also flew a West German flag, Tehran Radio said. Gulf shipping sources said Iranian Navy vessels fired on the 66,652-tonne
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    • 8672 28 3®aßGmß A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list.below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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    • 66 21 SEAGOING radio officers won on Important victory in their struggle against redundancy whan the ITU agreed to retain the requirement for on-board radio operators. Pege ll A NEUTRAL self-polidng body is to be appointed by the powerful Asia North America Eastbound Rate Agreement (Anera). Page 111 index to odverttsers N
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    • 702 25 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES \V\ PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street. 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE KOTA EAGLE MAJAPAHfT OOWA VOY SM XT MY VOY SIN fod hko km m htc yok ngo kom jus MM 14/11 imi 14/11 MMB It/12 14/12 24/12 24/12 24/12 34/12 OWT OtMT
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    • 543 25 \a BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT ST OH HAM r HAVEN RBMI NAVM W! VI! SI) Bfll »1 w w itu an uu mi in mm w in «i «i m u/i wi wi wi wi I*l i7,i an wi 21/1 an an nn on an wi
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    • 393 25 -A 4 m m T,l •WQi "Wil MVUIIwWa WVIM| I nWMi ALSO ACCEPT HK ROTH CONTAINERS, CONVENTIONAL CARGO VIA T/S TO I MNTTI NULL. Li HAVRE. OSLO. COPENHAGEN. AARHUS, GOTHENBURG HELSINKI V I:'w\w :1 >n DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINF EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES SINGAPORE TO EUROPE VSUVOT SPORE BILBAO
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    • 307 25 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES 1* BURMA FIVE STAR mam smmm (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon Spore P.foUng Penang Bangkok PA-A* VUM 7/1 OK PAGAN VUIW M Ok PAGAN VI22W M 7» Ok BANK LINE PRO-ATLANTICA VIN (CALLING LEIXOES 1/1) TAUSALA SAHOA VIIN MORAYBANK V4N CLYDEBANK V22N SOyTMBQUND FROM UK MOKAYBANK
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    • 1251 26 928^ ATLADTtC COAST (Round-The-Wortd Service) •W/PNC S'PORE LB CHLS NEPTUNE J ADC VW SID 3Ok XOk 5 Jan OMENTAL FAIR VI sOk 10 0k lZ 12 n ORIENTAL FAIR VS sOk 10 Dk 2 Jan •VIA FEEDER PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST FEEDER VSL 'PK/PNG SP MOTHER VSI NEPTUNE JADE VlO SID 3
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    • 784 26 GOLDEN LINE MSi.SV GUM GUW SWTME (fit) LTD S, Tatot Afar Sml 1 —'4 SINGAPORE MM TtL: SMM (M LINES) FM: BO STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Sport P Mm* hw QOLDEN KAJt Colombo/Mracht/DuOai/Oamnwr VI Ok 001OCN HARVEST Cofanto/KaradM/Outw I/W Jan CHINA StKVltt A VESSEL Xmmm, Shanfha< VI Ok •AI TUN SHAN
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    • 448 26 y.wj'jtxtmur.t:* Tuesday, DecemDer i, iw/ PHILI OmeNT UN€S PT€ LTD HEAT o'f Zi 63 PD6 S!CN -r ft gj in S"; 5 C l ff if j* ps EAST/FAR EAST Fa A LCI SEHWCE 5/12, UA2 ►Oi 22.17 DOHA. MUSCAT, BAIBIAIN, MU OMAN i SHARJAH. JHXMH. HOOBDAM. AQASA R. KONG
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    • 805 27 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTO. ft EU/AUST TPA/SEA Tonmnal CFS BOOKINGS *****53 *****42 man *****41 Z7w» 27*111 27*1 <1 NEPIINE SON BHD. 3M8887 inward/outward NEPLINE SON. BHD. *****33 ENQUIRIES ***** M nepiine SDN BHO. um&ivimnzmiitzm NEPLINE SON. BHD. zamnmn Alm -"if-t ttrjo to/froai Sundtiuvu SS nRIOGE Spar*
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    • 420 27 OOMAM HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON Vessel s Nam* No 9 Donam/7WN No Donam/709N M E'PriM/715N No Donam/712N No J Dona«/70M No 7 Donam/709M No I Donam/710N Gloria/721N ETO BS BKK U/ll 23/11 17/11 ani 07/12 11/12 13/12 25/12 20/12 31/12
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    • 770 27 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P. KELANG PENANC ||S HANDLING SYSTEM CO SON. BHD MESSRS MAI THONG SHIPPING 127 fW* Strwt. FW*
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    • 279 28 1 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 (30 Linesi FAX *****39 *****76 TUEX RS ***** A B SSCMA. RS ***** A B SSCAD VLB OF UTF RACHT SEEREtDEREI INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE "VIA COLOMBO Accaptmf cargo tor INDIA Bombay, Cochin, Madras I Calcutta "VIA LARNACA: Aatptinf cargo tor
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 180 28 Regional Weather a u It r 7a m 38 *1 V id SP SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND BEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND: C yA a Wind direction with speed m knots Wove height R Thunderstorm Temperature c XS V Shower Weather -V Wmd direction with speed m knots
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    • 261 29 WE UNI-OCEAN LINES PTE. LTD. 60 C«cil St. *52-01, Kn ftuitding S'pore 0104. T»l: *****66 15 LinM) T«Wx.- ts ***** UNISHff CMTAMQ FOB SOVICi Tl IMtUKSI VESSEL SIN CMCTMONG CMALNA :-M I f w m LI YANG B 1(1 U-IVI l«-l«n M TONS MAX. LTT 49 NOW POMTS. ScanDutchV TO
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    • 586 29 UNIPACIFIC TRANS. TRADING AGECY PTE. LTD. IRAQI LINE •t; r:'i <*•»•»• Sf «C« EAST BOUNO SERVICE ETA STORE LOADING FOR WEST BOUNO SERVICE ETA S"PORE LOADING FOR S/12 MM, A^ab* 1502 MM, A*te. ALSO ACCEPTING B/U to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST CONTAINERS UPTO AOABA BAI Red Sea Express Vsl ETA i.V.
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    • 269 30 Wax Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd TFI ??0490h Lines) TI Rf> ?20M RS ?o<Sn' \M I K\ \K I l\l K III) CAR CARRIER SERVICE TO MUARA/KUCHING KK Loading at appropriated Berth P4-P5 MOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG, TAIWAN t CHINESE PORTS. SUBJECT INDUCEMENT I IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA
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    • 500 30 COLUMBUS LINE REEDEREI GMBH (A SERVICE OF HAMBURG SUDi W EXPRESS SEM-CONTAfCR SERVICE TO PRO ATL ANTICA VIN 12/12 TAUSALA SAMOA VIIN 3 MORAYBANK V4N 13/1 CLYOCBANK V22N 27/1 Calling Leuoes 'Mm Ace *tu* FCL ti AnUiaipfti MM/ADAM HBC HULL (U.K.) 12/1 11/1 2/1 27A 2/2 V 2 *(2 l«/
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    • 166 30 LCL WEEKLY SERVICE TO: WEEUm 2/12 MM/MEM 1/12 BANGKOK 2/12 MTTBMM 8/12 MMWK 2/12 TUNY 1/12 FRBMRTIf 7/12 SYB/MHJ IS/12 WEEKLY CONSOL. SERVICE FROM GERMANY CON-CARRIER 46/17 CON-CARRIER 47/17 ETD GERMANY ETA S'PORE IQ/11 1/12 17/11 1/12 LCL SERVICE TO CARRIBEAN PORTS ST. VINCENT, GRENADA, ARUBA, GRAND CAYMAN, BERMUDA, BELIZE,
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