The Business Times, 22 December 1987

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 150 1 Overseas markets Monday HK Hang Seng Index 2278.13 97.67 Tokyo Nikkei Average 22,956.84 129.87) Sydney All-Ordinaries 1250.7 (+10.5 Friday New York (Dow Jones) 1975.30 50.90 London (FT 30 Index) 1377.8 (+11.2 noon.- Exchange rates US$: 126.75/85 yen 1.6280/90 DM SS2.0040/50 US$1.8295/8300 M$: SS0.8026/33 Simex Euro-$ (Mar) 92.33
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  • 292 1  -  By AMY BALAN AN INDICATION that trading conditions in the stock market have returned to normal was given by Singapore's two leading unit trusts' managers yesterday. Both General Investment Management (GIM) the manager of Shenton Growth fund, Shenton Thrift Fund and Japan
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  • 337 1 THE STOCK Exchange of Singapore (SES) is proceeding with its new brokerage commission scheme despite the "thumbsdown" from its counterpart in Kuala Lumpur. BT understands that the SES is likely to implement the graduated commission rates early next year. When contacted yesterday, an
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  • 474 1  -  Market rallies to close 34.85 points higher By CORRINA LIM SINGAPORE STOCK prices rose sharply yesterday in active trading. lending further credence to the belief that the market is on the road to recovery. Analysts said that prices surged as buyers had to pay the asking
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  • 318 1 AN AUDITOR who pleaded guilty to making a misleading statement in his audit report on a Pan-Electric subsidiary was sentenced to two months' jail by a district judge yesterday. However, James Tan Giap Hong, 38, is appealing against the judgment handed
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  • 227 1 THE AMERICAN CURRENCY sagged yesterday in Asian currency markets as doubts continued about the commitment of the US to support the greenback, dealers said. Sentiment remained bearish due to a persistent belief that the US will let the US dollar fall in an
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  • 151 1 Reuter FOUR SWISS banks led by Credit Suisse are making two loans totaling 155 million Swiss francs to the Bank of China to finance the purchase of Swiss equipment for a major power plant in Shanghai, Credit Suisse said in a statement yesterday.
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  • 69 1 AFP THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY is expected to grow faster in 1988 at a rate of 5.1 per cent against 4.5 per cent in 1987. Private Development Corp of the Philippines, an investment company in Manila, yesterday forecast that the country's GDP would go up by 4.9 per cent
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  • 59 1 Reuter WALL STREET stocks were narrowly lower in early trading yesterday, with floor sources reporting some futures-related selling. Traders said profit-taking was a more significant factor. The Dow 30 index was down about four points at 1971 and declining issues held a small lead over gainers in
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  • 481 1 AFP THE JAPANESE government is to seek steady increases in economic assistance to developing countries and national defence spending in the fiscal year beginning in April, according to official sources. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita indicated yesterday that the government's fiscal 1988 budget
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    • 379 1 Full report, Pag* 16 Regional marfcata, Paga 18 A Hart act to follow FORMER US Senator Gary Hart shocked friends and ex-followers when he recently announced his decision to re-enter the Democratic presidential race he quit in May over allegations of an extramarital affair with a 29-year-old model. Politics-watchers and
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    • 102 1 Exclusive SES interview V.v L THE CHAIRMANSHIP of Tan Chok Kian on the Stock Exchange of Singapore has been marked by great change. The SES chairman talks to BT about the achievements in his first year and the challenges ahead. Turn to Pag* 12 for the exclusive interview. z 2*35
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 499 2  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE THE WORLDWIDE MERGER of the Swedish Asea AB Group and the Swiss BBC Brown Boveri Group will not affect their Singapore operations, although the merged group intends to close about 100 companies and factories within the new organisation. Mr
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    • 275 2  -  By WILLIAM CHIA AN ADVERTISEMENT placed in The Straits Times yesterday by a bank offering the services of its retrenched employees attracted good response. A spokesman for the Standard Chartered Bank told BT that its personnel department was kept busy with telephone
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    • 204 2 SINGAPORE AIRLINES' second Airbus A3lO-300 will arrive today from Toulouse, France. The airline's first A3lO-300 was delivered in July. Including engines and parts, the two planes cost about $345.5 million. The wide-body twin-engined aircraft is part of an order SIA placed in May last year
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    • 41 2 IN OUR FEATURE article yesterday "Out of his Shell and into law practice", it was said that the Shell Lunchtime Theatre was a daily occurence. This is incorrect. Performances are held every Friday. We apologise for thfe error.
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    • 35 2 MR CHANDRA DAS. the Member of Parliament for Chong Boon, will ask at the next meeting q1 Parliament how the stronger Singapore dollar has affected the economy, especially new investments. exports and tourism.
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    • 217 2 JAAP SLOTEMA has been appointed general manager of the Singapore operations of Algemene Bank Nederland NV. Mr Slotema, who has been in Singapore for the past two years as deputy general manager, takes over from A B Oikken. Mr Oikken will leave shortly for Sydney to assume
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    • 446 2  -  By RICHARD SEAH FOR SOMEONE who has written more than 6,000 songs, what's another? Big deal that Indian spiritual leader Sri Chtnmoy composed a song about Singapore the day after he arrived here, this reporter thought. When lyrics of this new song were distributed, it did
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    • 118 2 Business Quiz winners TEN PARTICIPANTS of the Businessman of the Year Business Quiz will each be $500 richer this Christmas. The winners, who will be notified by post, were picked from among 43 people who had submitted correct entries. They are Ms Ong Lee Wha, Mr Toh Heng Wah. Mr
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 270 3 AP VIETNAM'S Communist Party said in a communique that acute economic problems remain and the average per capita income has fallen in the year since reformer Nguyen Van Linh became .party chief. Mr Linh led the self-criticism at the party central committee s fourth
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    • 498 3 AP A PAINTING of Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who gives shelter to the poor and homeless, brought the top price on Sunday night at the first auction ever conducted in India by Christie's of London. More than 500 members of
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    • 104 3 AFP CHINA has imported more than US$25O million worth of secondhand equipment since 1983 to counter its currency shortage. The same equipment would have cost US$l.2 billion if they had been bought new, the China Daily reported on Sunday. They include production-line machinery, precision instruments and
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    • 617 3 LAST WEEK'S presidential election in South Korea has cleared up many political uncertainties, but the country's booming economy is still expected to slow down in 1988 due to increasing export difficulties and simmering labour unrest. The surprisingly big win by government candidate Roh
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    • 207 3 AP THE KOREAN Finance Ministry yesterday announced tariff cuts for 194 items effective on Jan 1 in a move to ease trade friction with the United States. Ministry officials said the tariff reductions, averaging 23.6 percentage points, are designed to facilitate US exports to
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 613 4 Government shutdown averted AP THE US CONGRESS has approved an emergency spending bill to prevent a government shutdown yesterday while officials worked to put the final touches on measures to provide money to Nicaraguan rebels. Law-makers negotiated late last Sunday night with President Ronald Reagan's top
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    • 422 4 AFP THE SOVIET UNION'S law on company self-financing goes into effect in one week's time, but no-one seems prepared for the drastic reform termed "crucial" by party officials. Plenary sessions of party, union and youth organisation officials with appeals to prepare for the "new
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    • 110 4 AP UNDER GLASNOST. a Muscovite should be able to pick up the telephone and call a government agency, but he now has no easy way of getting the number. Moskovskaya Pravda newspaper complained last Sunday that the Kremlin's policy of greater openness does
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    • 238 4 THE OCTOBER stock market crash has prompted a recession in New York that will last until at least late 1988, erase as many as 71,000 jobs and cut projected city tax revenue by up to US$2OO million, a business magazine says. "Wall Street
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    • 288 4 Reuter THE US BUDGET DEFICIT, after falling significantly in fiscal 1967, is likely to climb sharply in the current 1968 fiscal year, the Conference Board has predicted. The American business research group said yesterday that the deficit, which was
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    • 183 4 AFP THE UN Security Council will next month discuss a possible arms embargo against Iran following Teheran's failure to implement a UN-sponsored truce in the Gulf war, a senior British envoy said in Kuwait on Sunday. Mr Oavid Mellor, Minister of State at the Foreign
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    • 785 4 Reuter AS CHRISTMAS skiers .across Europe head for the Alpine slopes, a debate rages Jn the valleys tfelow on the environmental consequences of a favourite Swiss pastime. Downhill skiing may be -fuii* but -environmental ists say it upsets the delicate balance between Alpine flora and
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 504 6 Reuter CHOCOLATE MAKERS are enjoying a bumper year as low cocoa prices bring higher profits and sales. Trade analysts also see signs this Christmas that the solid chocolate bar may be making a comeback, after a period when cerealfilled bars took more of the market.
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    • 75 6 THE DOWNWARD movement continued yesterday. Crude and products all showed weak tendencies. Most Asian markets were quiet and weak, hoping that New York would strengthen. USS/barraJ Chang* Duboi (Jon) 13.90 -0.12 W#it T«xos lntsrm#<i}ot®, WTI (ion) 13.44 -0.42 Products (FOB S'pore) USJ/borr«l Chang* Ktfonna 22.35 -0.05 Goioil
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    • 270 6 Crude palm oil futures closed limit up for nearby months yesterday while spot month soared Ms9s a tonne to close at M 51,121 a tonne, the highest recorded this year on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange. Crude palm oil price* closed firmer on strong buying interest, aided by
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    • 361 6 HONGKONG: Gold closed a shade lower in exceedingly dull and thin trading in the absence of fresh factors yesterday. Gold held within tight ranges throughout the day after a weak opening, and attracted only light buying interest towards the close when European centres opened. Sentiment was cautious as
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    • 124 6 SINGAPORE The rubber market closed slightly lower with January One RSS buyers quoted at 217.75 cents/kilo, down 0.50 cent from last Friday. MALAYSIA Prices were mixed yesterday, reflecting an absence of fresh news and overseas forex market directions. January International Ones RSS buyer closed half a cent higher at
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    • 93 6 TIN PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market eased six cents from Friday's dose to M 516.96 a kg after a very quiet trading sesalon yesterday. The easiness reflected lack of buying interest as most operators had already met their requirements ahead of the Christmas-New Year holidays. Volume
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    • 194 6 Chinese Produce Exchange SoNors door doling pHcoi on Doc 21 (SJ/100 kg) Coconut oil Mk FOt 103.00 Old drum FOt 113.00 Now drum FOt 117.00 Copra Mixed (looto) 58 Pepper Muntok «M* FOt NLW 1210.00 Sarawak w+Wf® FOt foq NtW 1195.00 Sarawak tpodaJ black FOt NtW 860.00 Sarawak
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    • 236 6 RAS prices in 8 conta/kg, FOB In bmkm B NOON CLOSE Buyon S#U#ft fciyori SeHen Int 1 RSS Prompt 219.50 220. SON 219.00 220.00N Im 1 RSS Jon 88 218.25 ***** 217.75 218.25 Int 1 RSS Fob 88 216.75 217.25 216.25 ***** In* 2 RSS OP 216.50
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    • 78 6 IcMt/kg, l-*on poHan) JANUARY 88 FEBRUARY 88 (currant month) (forwoi ■d month) RAS NOON Bvywcs Sflitn NOON SS* 30 223.00 225.00N 223.00 225.00 ssi so 221 JO 223-50N 221.50 223JON 1 dl:l S»4Wc» SMI CV 276-50 278.50N wytn 277J0 Silin 279JON SMI I 276.50 278-50N 277JO 279JON
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    • 233 7 Reuter ■RECOVERY in the Canadian oil industry is once again threatened by a sharp slump in international oil prices but analysts believe companies are in better shape to weather a downturn this time around. Following conclusion of the latest meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum
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    • 432 7 Reuter COFFEE TRADERS have said it ;is uncertain if there will be another cut in the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) global export quota before Dec 31. As the deadline approaches, traders in Europe and the US are trying to guess whether conditions will
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    • 166 7 AFP INDONESIA plans to ship 20,000 •tonnes of rice to Vietnam this Imonth and another 20,000 tonnes Fiji in January. The official Antara news agency last Friday quoted the •chairman of the National Logistic [Agency (Bulog), Mr Bustanil Arilin, as saying that the exports should
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    • 616 7 NYT AMERICAN consumers will save billions of dollars next year and inflation will slow because of Opec's (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) inability to curb its members' crude oil production, oil industry analysts say. The price of crude oil on spot markets and in contracts
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    • 201 7 Reuter JAPAN plans to more than double oil import tax revenues in the year ending March 1989 to enable it to expand its oil stockpiles, an official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) said. The stopgap measure to levy the
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    • 608 7 AFP A YEAR THAT BEGAN with new unity within the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and relative stability in the oil price is drawing to an end amid discord and fears of a new collapse in crude prices. After the 1986 'price war* that
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  • FOCUS
    • 932 9  -  Following the battering that the financial markets got this year, some private economic experts are warning that the danger has not passed, reports LEONARD SILK. According to the accompanying article, however, some governments are painting a rosier picture. LEONARD SILK NYT ALTHOUGH the securities
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    • 705 9 Reuter THE FINANCIAL CRASH of 1987 has so far failed to do much damage to leading industrial economies, say US government officials. Last Thursday brought optimistic statements from officials in Japan, West Germany and France to the effect that weak share prices and a dollar
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 481 10 WITH THE EVENTFUL presidential elections behind them. South Koreans now face another equally daunting political test. Indeed, if peaceful, free and fair legislative elections are to be held on Feb 10 next year, the ruling Democratic Justice Party must sit down with the Opposition to discuss
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    • 1791 10  -  Tan Chok Kian knew it was no easy task when he took on the post of executive chairman of the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) a year after the Pan-Electric debacle. The task ahead of him was daunting, with the Monetary Authority of Singapore
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    • 498 10 QUESTION: Can you explain tha criteria for corporatisation? ANSWER: The main criterion of our scheme was guided mainly by the need, among other factors, to revamp and strengthen the existing member firms. By that I mean that at that time, at the
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    • 859 11  -  By CHRISTOPHER HANSON Reuter GARY HART, who stunned Americans by rejoining a Democratic presidential race he quit in May, is among the most perplexing figures in US public life. The former Colorado senator, 51, withdrew from the campaign after allegations he had an extramarital affair
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 712 10 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Supporters of soma systems (5) 8 Just the chap to steal some wine? (5) 10 Land in hospital yearly (5) 11 Desired by Ted to be pale and sickly* (3) 12 Ran me ragged in France! (5) 13 Wise men with some call to be wonderful
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1730 12 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Monday, Docof nbot 21, 1987 DEUTSCHE MARK (SIMEX) Jan M calla Low Safl Jan Hkfh 88 puM Low ftatt 56 57 5* 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 MINIMUM I S05A 405A 290A 203A 125 A 69A 32A 15 •A k 88 cad
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 1004 13 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed lower against most major currencies on interbank selling in thin trading yesterday. Dollar sentiment was still bearish, mainly on a growing belief that the US wanted a lower dollar to correct its huge trade deficit. Adding to the dollar's bearishness was speculation in
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    • 180 13 Indicates the avaragt of ttw prim# tending nlti of 12 ma|or bonks In S'poro Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Dec 21 US$ DM SWFC Yen 7 doyi 6 13/16—11/16 8 1/2 3/8 3 1/8 3 3/» 1/« 4 7/16 5/16 1 mlh 1/8 8 8 3/4 5/8
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    • 58 13 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market fell 3/16 point to close at 1/16 per cent yesterday. One-month tell point, two-months 3/16 and three-months point. S$ Interbank rates at 7pm yesterday: Off€* M> Ovtrnigta 1/16 o 1 -monrti 3 1/4 3 l/j 2-moniti 3 5/16 3 3/16
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    • 339 13 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed little changed from opening levels in quiet trading yesterday. Most operators were sidelined due to lack of interest in the absence of fresh factors. Short-dates firmed and 3/16 point at the outset reflecting a higher US federal funds rate but were little changed
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    • 81 13 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity KID OfFER HtGH LOW 3 months BQ*****X 17.3.88 3.33 3.28 3.21 3.15 6 months BS*****S 21.4.88 3.30 3.25 1 year BY*****T 24.11.88 2.45 2.40 V Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code rate
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    • 117 13 Bernama BANK NEGARA's gold and foreign exchange reserves totalled M 518.4 billion in October, compared with Msl33 million at the time of the bank's establishment in 1959, deputy Finance Minister Senator Farid Ariffin said. Last year the reserves amounted to M 515.5 billion. in 1985
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    • 501 13 BA MARCH EURODOLLAR opened sharply higher at 92.33 in Simex yesterday from last Friday's close due to falling oil prices and a stable US dollar. Profittaking saw the March contract backing off to the day's low of 92.27 before rebounding to close at 92.33. Currency futures opened sharply lower
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    • 130 13 Gold futures on Dec 18 100 troy ounces; USS per troy ounce Opon High Low s«m« D«c 483.00 484.50 479.00 479.80 -5.30 Jon 487.10 487.10 487.10 480.70 -5.70 F»b 88 488 80 488.80 482.10 484.00 -5.70 Ap< 494.50 495.00 488.20 489 90 -5.90 Jun 500.50 501 00
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 607 14 AFP NO SOONER HAD "Iron" Mike Tyson beaten former Olympic gold medallist Tyrell Biggs senseless than his handlers were talking about the next defence of his world heavyweight title fight against ex-champion Larry Holmes in January. At the same time as Holmes was being
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    • 117 14 Reuter SOUTH AMERICAN champion. Adilson "Maguila" Rodrigues boat veteran Spaniard Alfredo Evangelista by unanimous decision in a non-title 10-round heavyweight boxing match in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The Brazilian Rodrigues, ranked fourth by the World Boxing Council (WBC), had Evangelista under control virtually throughout the
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    • 520 15 AFP THE INDIAN TEAM returned home beaten but far from disgraced despite the Davis Cup final scoreline which read Sweden 5. India 0 Sunday's two reverse singles, with only pride at stake, saw Anders Jarryd and Mats Wilander effortlessly beat Ramesh Krishnan and
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    • 216 15 AP ANDREY CHERKASOV and Vladimir Petrushenk of the Soviet Union won the deciding doubles match to push their sixth-seeded team past fifth-seeded Sweden. 2-1. in the finals of the Sunshine Cup junior boys team championships in Florida on Sunday. The Soviets, who also captured the
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    • 299 15 Reuter AMERICANS Nancy Lopez and Miller Barber set a tournament record total of 22-under-par 191 on Sunday and captured the US$B5O,OOO Sandy Bay championship team golf tournament. Barber and Lopez shared the US$5OO,OOO first-place cheque after posting a final-round 63 on the strength of
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    • 402 15 UPI THE LOS ANGELES RAMS, one of the NFL's major disappointments at mid-season, last night resumed their push for respectability in a game against the Dallas Cowboys. "They are playing as good as any team in the league right now," Dallas coach Tom
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    • 239 15 UPI THE AMERICAN TEAM contesting the Southern Cross Cup yachting races withdrew from the series yesterday because of allegations of cheating. The US decision came after the organisers of the races, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, announced on Sunday that it was
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    • 530 15  -  MUSIC By JAIME LYE I WOULD NEVER have thought it possible. You're too young to feel nostalgic about anything, I used to tell myself. In the first place, you've got a rotten memory. But that was before Saturday night, when
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 97 15 Play golf the Sevvy way 11 Peter Davits** >*l v-» TENS/ON a 1 TIGHT LOTS OF AMATEURS TEND ID GRIP THE CLUB TOO HARD y TEHSfON fxmmmti w v IX rr ;s like in K BOXING. IF TME BOXES IS TENSE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUNCH AS FAST
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4358 16 SHARE PRICES yesterday closed sharply higher in active trading but off their day's peak as late profittaking pared gains slightly. The market opened firm and forged ahead with buyers snapping up shares, from blue chips to secondliners. By midday, the Straits Times Industrial Index
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    • 4600 16 SECTION ONE MDUSTRIAL ft COMMERCIAL Acma (1.15 6 1.22 S) (6) 1.15 1141 I 16 ID 1.14 (41 1 16 M) 1.17 (30 1 15 Amal Stool 50« 1121 6 1 22 S) HOD 122 189 123 (23 121 (7) 120 (23 1.24 1981 123
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    • 72 16 HONGKONG TIN CORPORATION (MALAYSIA) Barhad: 4th AGM at the Conference Room, 57-2 Jalan Bukit Bintang, ***** Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Dec 22. at 11am. AMALGAMATED STEEL MILLS Barhad: 12th AGM at Room 506, 5th Floor, Wisma SPS, 32 Jalan Imbi. ***** Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Dec 23, at
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 832 17 MBT MALAYAN CABLES has plans to widen the scope of its activities in telecommunications services and is shopping for telecommunications companies abroad. Company sources say the company has to look overseas for acquisitions in this field to benefit from the latest technology in the
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    • 167 17 UNITED Overseas Bank's (UOB) earnings and net tangible assets per share will change slightly following its purchase of the shares in Chung Khiaw Bank (CKB) which it does not already own. In a circular to shareholders relating to the acquisition of the remaining
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    • 547 17  -  Other smaller companies bide their time following market crash By CORRiNA LIM FUJI OFFSET PLATE Manufacturing Pte Ltd is going ahead with its plans for a listing on Sesdaq in spite of the October market crash. However, ceramic tile dealer Hua Tong
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    • 124 17 Bernama ES UNITED PLANTATIONS BHD said yesterday that neither the company, its subsidiary nor associate company has submitted any proposal to purchase ailing Gula Perak Bhd. The company said this in response to a Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange request for comments on a news report last
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    • 219 17 MBT PARKSON GRAND, the new neighbourhood department store in Damansara Jaya in Kuala Lumpur, has a bright inviting look about it. It is part of the new Parkson chain consisting of high-fashion department stores, supermarkets, stores and mini-stores under the Lion group. Lion associate
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    • 310 17 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Ayer Hitom Tin Three-for-one $200 per share C 1 Holdings 27 million loon stocks in the ratio of $3 loon stock for every five ordinary shares held Duta Cons One-for-one $1 10 per shore F A C B One lor one $0 60 per shore
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    • 666 17 MBT KAMUNTING Tin Dredging (M) is expected to be transformed into a corporate giant with interests in properties, finance and plantations following the completion of its Kepong toll rights exercise. Director Tiah Thee Kian told reporters this after the company's extraordinary general meeting (EGM)
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    • 157 17 AFP THE HONGKONG Stock Exchange's new chairman Charles Sin is willing to close the British colony's stock market again if necessary. Mr Sin, who was quoted by the International Herald Tribune yesterday, said: "If it were necessary, yes. I would do
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    • 279 17 for Ok 22 Singapore Unit T h* Co*M*rc* 0 rust 87 0 ♦3 h* Sovingt Fund 0 76 0 81 por* frog Fund 0 35 0 3» por* S*c Fund 0 5V 0 63 'por* lnv*tt Fund 0 63 0 67 S'por* Equity Fund 0 41 045* Asia
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    • 72 17 Company RIGHTS ISSUE N O I One-for-one $1 06 per shO'e toch rights will be issued together with on* tronsferobie subscription rights ITS!) having a $1 value rights Eoch TSI holder will be entitled to subscribe, during the neHt hve yeors. for further NOl shores at $1 OS
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    • 102 17 UCHIDA JAPAN S BEST SELLER! UCHIDA OFFERS FINE QUALITY AT AFFORDABLE PRICES 0 r 3 ii i UCHIDA CHECKWRITER PI 5 Single Currency PISN-Multi Currency EG-100 Electronic (High Speed) Of FICE DESK OFFICE CHAIR CUPBOARD FILING CABINET HOME/OFFICE SAFE KEY CASE COMPUTER DATA SAFE SAFE LOCK REPAIRS FIRE-PROOF CABINET VISIBLE
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  • INTERANTIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 321 18 More than 300 London staff laid-off Reuter US broker E F Hutton is likely to half the number of its staff worldwide. say analysts. The prediction follows a report last week that Hutton would be laying off more than 300 of its
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    • 209 18 Reuter SHAREHOLDERS in Anglo American Corp of South Africa Ltd and De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd have overwhelmingly approved a plan to give free shares to over a quarter of a million employees. Under the scheme, announced last month, Anglo American plans to offer about
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    • 297 18 Caledonian Airways Reuter OPPOSITION is growing among British government ministers to Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) taking over British Caledonian Airways (BCal), the British Sunday Telegraph newspaper has reported. It said Trade and Industry Minister Lord Young, who had been opposed to
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    • 199 18 AFP A PROMINENT Indonesian businessman has dropped a US$6 million libel suit against Tempo, the country's leading news weekly, opting for an out-of-court settlement. The lawyers for Proboeutedjo. the brother of President Suharto and chairman of a large business conglomerate, told the court in Jakarta
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    • 228 18 AP THE SWISS PARLIAMENT has given final approval to a Bill making insider trading on stock exchanges a punishable offence, bringing Switzerland into line with other European countries and the US. The amendment to the Swiss Criminal Code was passed 136-1 by the National Council,
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    • 698 18 Reuter POLITICAL pressure could mount on the French government to block the bid by Canada's Seagram for control of Martell et Cie, but the European Community may overrule Paris if it tries to step in, analysts and
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    • 566 18 NYT IN THE LATEST struggle to enable Pan American World Airways Inc to survive snother winter when traffic is low and cash is short, some managers and union leaders have put their hopes in being taken over by Mr Jay A Pritzker. the chairman
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 215 19 UPI MAZDA MOTOR CORP, Japan s No 3 motorcar maker and affiliate of Ford Motor Co of the United States, has named a former career bureaucrat as its new president, succeeding his ailing predecessor. The choice of Norimasa Furuta, 59, former official of the Ministry of
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    • 4005 19 BULLS WENT on a rampage and share prices were chased higher for the swtfi consecutive session at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Gains however were pared by a bout of late profit-taking. The advance was over a broad front and a wide spectrum
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    • 80 19 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S anti-monopoly agency has temporarily halted media magnate Rupert Murdoch's proposed acquisition of a controlling interest in the Australia's domestic news agency and leading newsprint manufacturer. The Trade Practices Commission said in a statement it obtained temporary injunctions, until 500 GMT on Dec 24,
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    • 1541 19 Hongkong SHARE PRICES ended sharply higher on the Hongkong stock marke yesterday, as strong technical support emerged after the Hang Seng Index breached the key 2,150 chart point last week. The Hang Seng Index surged 97.67 points, or 4.48 per cent, to finish at 2,278.13, while
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    • 106 19 Reuter THE JAPANESE Finance Ministry will grant licences to run securities businesses in Japan to tour more foreign brokerages, it said in a statement. Fidelity Investments Brokerage Services (Japan) Ltd and Garban Ltd of the US and BNP Securities Ltd and
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    • 505 19 Reuter SHARE PRICES closed higher on the Tokyo market yesterday but concern over the dollar coupled with reluctance to act ahead of the Christmas holidays abroad pulled them off peaks. "The market is waiting to hear news about a G-5 or G-7 meeting, and when it will be," said
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    • 453 19 Reuter DEMAND FOR blue-chip industrials and base metal miners saw the Australian share market close firmer in thin trade yesterday. Local investors were encouraged by Wall Street s 50-point rise last Friday and higher nickel, copper and aluminium prices. Trading activity was thin as investors took to the sidelines
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    • 164 19 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 9.84 points to 287.31 on a turnover of 30,250,640 shares worth 1206.18 million baht. OCC tl BAHT 1Ao Kham Thai Ayudhya Invaatmant Bangkok Agro-lnd Bangkok Bank Bank CM Ayudhya 264 785 301 310 24 7 6 14 Charoong Thai Wire Cable
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    • 132 19 DEC 21 WON Cheil Sugar ***** -400 Daelim lr>d ***** 150 Daewoo Corp ***** -►670 uaewoo Heavy Daishm Securities Dong Ah Ptiar ***** ***** ***** -600 -3200 -1100 Dong Suh Stock Dongbu Steel Gold Star ***** ***** ***** 1260 -400 -700 Hand Bank Hanil Cement Hankuk Glass ***** *****
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    • 99 19 DEC 21 PESOS Acoie Mining Anglo Phil Apex Mining B 0 0550 0 0025 Atlas Con B 27 50 0 5 Baguio Gold B«»ic Petroleum 0 016 0 001 Benguet Con B 106 31 First Phil Hidgs 8 10 -03 Lepanto B 059 003 Marcopper 1 36 -ooa Marsteel
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 503 19 -> NOTICES THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 HUNTY ENTERPRISES (PTE) LTD (In Liquidation) a general meeting of NTY ENTERPRISES (PTE) LTD duly convened and held on the 16th day of December. 1987 the following special resolution was vaased: SPECIAL RESOLUTION That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to section
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    • 464 19 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ART KEY PRODUCTS (S) PTE LTD (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of Art Key Products (S) Pte Ltd duly convened and held at Tan Boon Llat Building, 315
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    • 226 19 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP.SO BUILDER FOUR PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above Company duly convened and held at 585 North Bridge Road #14-05, Blanco Court, Singapore 0718 on Friday, 18th December 1987 at 11 a.m., the following special resolution
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  • LATE FILE
    • 52 20 AFP CRUDE oil prices fell back to their level of December 1986 early yesterday on the London market, after staging a technical recovery last Friday. Prices for North Sea Brent oil for February delivery dropped below US$l5 a barrel at U5514.85 against Friday s
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    • 44 20 Reuter SWEDEN has decided to sink foreign submarines violating its territorial waters instead of trying to force them to the surface. Social Democratic Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson gave notice of the tougher policy in a radio interview yesterday. Reuter
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    • 29 20 Reuter TURKISH Premier Turgut Ozal yesterday announced a Cabinet of both familiar and new faces to grapple with pressing economic and other domestic issues. Reuter
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    • 43 20 Reuter HUNGARY yesterday said it would participate in the 1988 summer Olympic Games in Seoul, the first Soviet bloc ally to confirm it would take part. The Hungarian National Olympic committee would send 210 sportsmen and 90 officials. Reuter
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    • 29 20 Reuter MIDLAND Bank PLC shareholders yesterday approved the agreement for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp to acquire a 14.9 per cent shareholding in the UK bank.
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    • 42 20 Reuter THE Paris Club of creditor nations has agreed to reschedule Ivory Coast's official debt by allowing repayments to be stretched over 10 years, including a six-year grace period, the French finance ministry said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 75 20 COMEX GOLD futures held unchanged in extremely quiet dealings yesterday, with the key traders sidelined on the run-up to the Christmas holiday. After one hour of business, February gold was unchanged at U*****.00 an ounce after drifting between U*****.00 and U*****.10. Analysts said the market was dominated by
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  • 203 20 UPI AS DISSIDENT STUDENTS continued their violent protests against the outcome of South Korea's presidential elections for the fifth day, the public prosecutor's office in Seoul yesterday warned that anyone spreading allegations of election fraud would be prosecuted. The warning said that those spreading
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  • 391 20 AP Reuter INDONESIAN Mines and Energy Minister Subroto said yesterday the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) may call an extraordinary meeting if oil prices continue to decline. He told reporters that the oil cartel may take "corrective measures" to maintain its official price
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  • 120 20 AFP TWO OIL COMPANIES, one British and the other American, were awarded contracts yesterday to explore for oil and natural gas in frontier areas in Indonesia, the state oil company Pertamina said. Britoil Indonesia Ltd and Amoseas Indonesia Inc signed production-sharing contracts
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  • 474 20  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ BUOYED BY THE continued rise in external demand for its computer and telecommunication goods and re-exports, Singapore's exports went up sharply again in November. Exporters sold goods worth $5.8 billion last month, nearly 37 per cent higher than the same month last
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  • 201 20 Reuter CHINA is setting up a business conglomerate reported to be backed by the crippled son of leader Deng Xiaoping which will donate profits to the handicapped. Foreign traders and diplomats said yesterday the China Kanghua Development Corporation was approved by the
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  • 392 20 AP A SEVEN-STOREY hotel yesterday set sail from Singapore on a 3,500 km voyage to open for business as a floating resort off the coast of Australia. The 12,000-ton structure departed aboard the Dutch heavylift ship Mighty Servant 2 for the 13-day trip. The
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  • 214 20 Reuter TAIWAN, facing mounting pressure from Washington for faster appreciation of its currency, will not allow a free-fall of the US dollar against the Taiwan dollar. Central bank governor Chang Chi-Cheng last Friday defended the bank's policy of buying US dollars to
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 191 21 AFP STRIKES and political unrest in November led to a 60 per cent fall in customs revenue at Bangladesh's main sea port of Chittagong, a Dhaka newspaper reported. The Bangladesh Observer quoted customs sources as saying that November revenue for Chittagong, about 210
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    • 346 21  -  By JUNE LIM BUOYANT trading conditions lifted container throughput via Singapore close to 2.2 million TEUs for the first 10 months of this year. Containerised cargo handled at the Tanjong Pagar Terminal and the conventional gateways grew by 18.9 per cent to
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    • 193 21 THE FEDERAL Maritime Commission has decided to make member lines of the Trans-Pacific Westbound Rate Agreement justify the conference s decision to bar independent action once shippers have agreed to loyalty contracts with a steamship line. A host of shippers and
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    • 210 21 Reuter THE JAPANESE Ministry of Transport approved a plan filed last month by Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co to cut its group shipbuilding capacity by 26.2 per cent by next March 31, a ministry official said. This follows the approval
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 107 21 LEADING Danish operator Maersk Line has confirmed that it will seek membership of conferences covering the trades from the US Atlantic coast and Canada to northern Europe. But the Copenhagenheadquartered A P Moller subsidiary revealed that it would trade as a conference outsider on the less
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      • 106 21 AFP ALL 13 South Korean crewmen of a Panamanian freighter have been rescued by a Japanese patrol boat from their disabled ship in a rough sea north-east of Taiwan, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency reported. The agency dispatched a patrol boat to waters 36km north
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    • 1380 22 Various options are being considered to stem the flight of Japanese-owned ships from the country's registry. Seatrade talks to researchers, union and government officials, on the problems confronting the Japanese industry and the options available. Seatrade WITH THE WORSENING of the economic climate, the
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    • 768 22 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIII 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Africa Ocean X 2 Alltrans VII 3 American Tpt X 4/5 Anship Int'l V 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 «/2 ARC line V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI III
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    • 1204 22 ACTIVE grain chartering from the US west coast to Egypt featured the freight market on Friday with further business also seen from the Gulf to the Continent, shipbrokers said. At least four cargoes of grain are reported to have been arranged from the US North Pacific to Egypt
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    • 540 23 Lloyd s List TAIWAN has reacted vigorously to the Federal Maritime Commission's latest stand over alleged discrimination against US flag carriers at dockside in Taiwan and the problems US carriers have encountered in trying to establish terminals and other services. Politicians have also
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    • 408 23  -  From KINGSLEY WOOD WOODSIDE OFFSHORE Petroleum has told Australian industry to improve its indifferent record in the supply and delivery of equipment or miss out on future work contracts for the North-West Shelf natural gas project. In a highly critical appraisal of the
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    • 274 23 AFP OIL MARKET instability in view of Opec's failure to agree unanimously on a price and quota structure and escalation of attacks on neutral shipping in the Gulf led to "one of the most traumatic weeks that the tanker market has experienced for a considerable time", according to
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    • 59 23 Reuter AN INDONESIAN ship is believed to have sunk off the coast of Borneo with 55 people aboard, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency said. The MV Binter, a 489tonne cargo and passenger ship, sent out a distress signal during a storm off the west coast
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    • 201 23 Reuter BARGAINING in the grain workers' strike that has shut one of Canada's two west coast ports resumed yesterday. Government mediator Mike Collins met briefly with the striking Prince Rupert grain handlers and Prince Rupert Grain Ltd, which operates the Ridley Island terminal. Both
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    • 191 23 Reuter MORE THAN 1,500 people were missing on Monday after a Philippine ferry crammed with Christmas travellers sank in flames late on Sunday in what could become the world's worst peacetime shipping disaster. Both the inter-island ferry Dona Paz and the Victor, a small tanker, sank
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    • 8022 28 aoaßGmß 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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    • 68 21 WITH THE WORSENING of the economic climate, the flagging out of the Japanese fleet has gone full speed ahead, threatening the viability of the Sunrise fleet. Page II TAIWAN has reacted vigorously to the Federal Maritime Commission's latest stand over alleged discrimination against US flag carriers. Page 111 Index to
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    • 1108 23 The Straits Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping PteLtd p&ocLm p&o Containers Limited <Y."ai'irri»:i ,ii; a;i»] S tan N'burf B'toMn R'<m um iw Mm ism nm i*m MI am am vm am mm «w« *n H Wl M UK 1W IMB Uffi W 11/02 2MB OK am am 2MB vm am
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