The Business Times, 18 January 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI <P) 95/12/87 MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 718 1  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE HONGKONGBANK's management and its staff union are deadlocked over whether senior managers had given assurances on three key labour issues. Leaders of the Hongkongßank branch of the Singapore Bank Employees' Union have been asked by the bank's management to retract
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  • 239 1 AP PAPUA NEW GUINEA is conducting preliminary negotiations with Singapore Shipbuilding and Engineering, a company owned by the defence ministry, on the construction of ships for his country's defence, visiting Prime Minister said yesterday. Mr Wingti gave no details. He said Papua New Guinea
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  • 453 1  -  Hongkong Bank to take over business and customer portfolios By LEONG WEN WAH FOLLOWING its tie-up with Hongkongßank. the Midland Bank group plans to close three of its financial installations in Singapore by the end of March. They are the offshore branch of
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  • 123 1 A BANKER and a businessman will ba charged in court thia morning for offencee under the Companies Act A two-paragraph press advisory from the Commercial Affairs Department over the weekend said the charge will be heard In Court 26 at about 11am. In its usual fashion,
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  • 112 1 AP SOUTH KOREA, helped by growing foreign exchange res>rvss from Its booming exports, plane to pay back US$3 billion in foreign debts ahead of schedule this year, government officials said yeeterday. TNe, plus echeduled rejr, a ee^ ptyilWlHl, Will rwp oOUIn Korea reduce its foreign
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  • 373 1 FOXBORO FAR EAST, a whollyowned subsidiary of an American multinational, has become the latest company to be accorded tax benefits for using Singapore as the regional headquarters for its Asia-Pacific operations. This brings to nine the number of companies
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  • 132 1 Bernama THE TOTAL INVESTMENT in Malaysia's manufacturing sector is expected to ilea to MsB.3 billion by 1906 compared with Ms3.B billion in 1906, said an official of the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (Mida). Speaking at a seminar in Kuala Trengganu yeeterday, Mr Ahmad
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  • 379 1 Agencies LAST FRIDAY'S euphoria over the sharp decline in the US trade deficit is expected to spill over into this week's currency trading. Still, some analysts caution that the dollar may not be able to sustain any significant gains for long. A currency
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  • 200 1 AP VIETNAM will send more than 10,000 workers, including several thousand in the construction field, to the Soviet bloc and other countries this year as part of its ongoing labour export programme, the Vietnam News Agency said on Saturday. The agency, monitored
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    • 311 1 Need a housing ban? WvviooM, I 737-7977 mTti Wj> kxxig Mortgage And Finance (S) Ltd A wholly-ownci) suKidiary ol Hongkongßank 6 Claymore Hill #03-01 Claymore Flaza Singapore 0912 AN INCREASINGLY turbulent environment; more organisations will streamline their operations; a larger span of control; more training and retraining of workers needed
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    • 273 1 MONEY EXCHANGES AIRCRAFT SCHEDULE PRIME MINISTER Noboru Takeshlto's first North American trip gave him closer personal ties to his US and Canadian counterparts but left him with a heavier burden. ASIA-PACIFIC, Page 4 NEWS OF A sharply trimmer US trade deficit will give the dollar a temporary boost. REST OF
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1099 2  -  An increasingly turbulent environment, more organisations streamlining their operations, a larger span of control and more training these are Just some of the challenges facing managers in the next decade, says a management consultant. Management Correspondent TSANG SAU YIN has the details. TSANG
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    • 965 2  -  By GOH YEOW TIN INTERNATIONALISATION a concept once thought to concern only larger enterprises is today a prospect facing smaller businesses, particularly in the more developed nations and the newly industrialising countries (NICs). The advent of advanced manufacturing technologies coupled
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    • 1101 3  -  Two young men in advertising and communications are beginning to make their presence felt In a fiercely competitive field. Typically, they started off with virtually nothing but lots of enthusiasm and enough entrepreneurial savvy have brought their firm up to the mark within
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    • 720 3 FT Tie; The Learning Orgenteatlon Author Bob Garrett A NEW OFFICE, a new car, a new title. Becoming an executive director should be e high point in any manager's career. Ineteed, many new arrivala to the boardroom are haunted by one question: what does a
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 465 4 AP THE PHILIPPINE Election Commission chief has predicted generally peaceful voting in today's regional balloting, and a senator urged President Corazon Aquino to do her best to guarantee an honest vote. As the military went on full alert on Saturday to prepare for the
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    • 197 4 AFP A HOME-MADE bomb exploded in a barber's shop outside the US Subic Naval Base near the northern city of Olongapo before dawn yesterday, a day before nationwide local elections, police said. The bomb, which exploded in a barber's shop in the city's entertainment district,
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    • 149 4 AFP JAPAN is sending a delegation on a 10-day tour beginning this week to explore the investment climate in India, Tokyo's embassy in New Delhi said on Saturday. The 'investment environment' mission led by Mr Ken-lchi Suematsu, deputy president of the Mitsui bank, will
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    • 476 4 Reuter JAPAN'S Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita's first North American trip gave him closer personal ties to his US and Canadian counterparts but left him with a heavier burden. Mr Takeshita, who was to head for San Francisco yesterday on his way home
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    • 364 4 Reuter ON THE EVE of resumed Kampuchean peace talks in France, leaders of the three guerilla groups opposing the Indo-Chinese state's Vietnam-ese-backed regime have pledged a continued and more united struggle. A statement signed last Saturday by the military commanders of the
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    • 146 4 AP KUWAITI Emir Sheik Jaber Ai-Ahmed Al-Sabah has called for a mini-summit of Islamic leaders to discuaa a plan of action to counter Israel's crackdown on Arabs in the occupied West Bank and Qaza Strip, a newspaper reported last Saturday. The daily
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 532 6 Clear signs of US economic recovery vital Reuter NEWS OF A sharply trimnw US trade deficit will give the dollar a temporary boost but a long-term recovery depends on clear signs of a turnaround in the American economy, according to Tokyo
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    • 512 6 Reuter AFTER YEARS of pressure from foreign steel importers, the beleaguered US steel industry has begun to show signs of renewed strength. Five years ago it was wallowing in overcapacity. High labour costs and heavy debt burdens weighed down domestic
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    • 490 6 UPI SENIOR AUSTRIAN government officials helped former US embassador to Austria Ronald Lauder bend Austrian export laws to smass and export to the US a multimillion dollar collection of Austrian art, according to a weekly magazine. The Austrian news magazine Profit, in
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    • 375 6 AFP FIVE MEMBERS of the US Congress have urged President Ronaid Reagan not to recognise the results of yesterday's slated presidential election in Haiti. In their letter, dated for release last Friday, the congressmen called on Mr Reagan to "inform the National Governing
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    • 206 6 AFP HAITI yeeterday prepared for its Mcond general election# in two months amid widssprssd calls for a volar boycott and fsars of renewed violanca. Tha Nov 29 alactiona, to chooee a naw prsaidant and legislatura, wara cancallad whan armad thugs shot and killad
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    • 313 6 AFP THE ARGENTINE ARMY dispatched armoured units yesterday to rout a rebellious Argentine officer who eecaped from houae arrest and aet up a "command poet" at a military baae in the country'a interior, defence aourcea said. Army Chief of Staff General Jose Dante Caridi
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    • 194 6 Reuter MCARAGUAN rsbsl leaders on Baturday accepted an oiler from Ntearaguan President Daniel Ortoge for direct ceaeeflre talks but they socussd him of undermining the peace procees in Csntrsl America. In Miami, the Nicaraguan Resistance, ths contrs rebel umbrella group, issued a statement
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 772 7  -  by PAUL FRANKLAND Thia week'a column (Mwumn the need for insurance poiicm to bo written In plain and aimpie terms that conaumera can eeaily understand. Happily. Inaurora are beginning to throw all that gobbledygook out of their poUdoe. The author, Paul Frankland, la manager of Commercial
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    • 347 7 AFP FOREIGN BANKS owed money by South Africa can, H they wish, convert their financial claims into investments in South African shares or property, Finance Minister Barend du Pleesis said on Friday. Senior South African Reeerve Bank executive Chris Stals
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    • 313 7 AFP FIJI'S Reserve Bank governor Ssvenscs Siwatibau Mid on Friday that a lack of confidence in the country's future had reduced demand for loans, discouraged new Invsetmonl and blocked the creation of new Jobs. Mr Siwatibau said in a statement that, while there was
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    • 351 7 AP THE US government's Export-im-port Bank announced on Friday that It would raiee intereet rates by 0.6 per cent for loane to promote sale of US goods abroad, in accordance with an international agreement Minimum ratse will range for the next elx months
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    • 203 7 AP THE CHAIRMAN of the Polish National Bank said on Friday that a rscant debt rescheduling agreement with western creditor governments had paved the way for Poland to receive its first credits from the World Bank. The bank chairman, Mr Wladyslaw Baka, aaid
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    • 128 7 Bernama THE ESTABLISHMENT of B«* Mam in Malaysia it to fulfil the requirements of Mam and not to •at up a bualnsea rival to otfier bank#, Bank lalam Malaysia managing director Datuk Or Abdul Halim Ismail said on Saturday. "Tha setting up of tha bank
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    • 61 7 Reuter CARLINQFORD Insurance Co Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Hongkong end Shanghai Banking Corp. said it had agreed to buy Private Patients Plan Ltd (HK) for an undisclosed sum. Mr Anthony Hope, chief executive of the Hongkongßank's insurance group, seid in a statement the acquMtion would
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 847 8  -  South America undaunted in its love affair with the dollar By JUAN DE ONIS IHT THE DOLLAR may have bowed before the West German mark and the mighty Japanese yen, but in much of South America, the greenback remains king. "The dollar's continuing strength
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    • 549 8 PLR of bonks at Itw dot* of business on Friday, Jan 15, a* supplied by the Assodation of Banks In Singapore. iTmaJoT BANK put (%> Aigemene Bonk 6* Allied Irish tank PIC 6% American Express tank 6% Am'Dam Rterdam Bank 6* Arab Banking Corp 7 Arab Bank
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    • 180 8 Asian market ASIAN CURRENCY ovtrog* d«po«lt rates for Aw wk •ndod Jan 15 us I 7 day* 3 UrtL mo n >•* *7/« 7 7 7 1/4 7 3/« 7 3/« 7 13^1* C *L»w 13/1* 15/1* 7 1/1* r >/• 7 3/1 7 9/1* 7 3/4 S Ft a
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    • 110 8 Spurce: Investment Bank (S) Ltd THE GOVERNMENT bond market opened the week on a Arm note with some buying interest from dealers. However, profit-taking set in end yields for the fiveyear bonda due Nov 15/92 doeed the week at around 4.97 per cent as compared to 4.94
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    • 277 8 Gold Financial futures Green PRECIOUS GOLD last week pared recent gains to settle sharply lowsr in further dollar rallies. At New York's Commodity Exchange, spot gold last traded at U*****.00 an ounce, down about $10 from the previous Friday. The bullion initially hovered between the $<80 486 zone, supported by
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    • 1424 8 Union AFP ZURICH: THE FORMING of positions prior to the weekend climax with the publication of US trade figures characterised, ss expected, events on ths forsign sxchangs markets. Dollar sentiment underwent s surprisingly rapid turnabout sarty in ths week, reverting to its negstivs wsys. Gains fuelled by intervention
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 748 9 AFP THE DOLLAR'S volatility and its effects on the stock markets created some nervousness on the commodity markets over the past week. Traders often hesitated to take new poetttona, aa they could not predict the future of the greenback before the releass of the
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    • 160 9 Chinese Produce Coffee Copra lMl/100kfl) Exchange AN FOt NSW 165.00 No 1 (onato) 834)0 Sdm' noon doring prl loo* on AF3 FOt NSW 400.00 ktenl 784)0 Jon 16 (SS/100 kg) BC1 FOt NSW Robotfa 20/25% ***** London Commodity Coconut oil FOt NSW 360.00 Exchange M FOt OM drvm
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    • 94 9 Reuter CHICAGO Board of Trade aoybean futures on Friday sold off late and closed with trimmed gains of 101/4 to 18 US cents a bushel. March settled 10-3/4 cents higher at U556.22-3/4. Soyoil futures closed wtth pared gains while soymeal held firm. Soyoil prices were up 0.33 to 0.50
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    • 231 9 Bernama ES THE MALAYSIAN rubber market closed steadier last week with February International RSS One buyer quoted at 282.00 cents per kg, five cents higher than a week earlier. February SMR 20 buyer was aleo stsedisr at 274.90 cents per kg, up one cent Dealers attributed the higher trend
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    • 242 9 Reuter WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade last Friday ended with iossss of 3-1/2 US cents to one cent a buehel. March ctoeed two cents lower at U593.30-1/4. Traders said prtcee rallied for a short period before the close on mixed buying emid unconfirmed rumours that India
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    • 337 9 Bernama ES THE MALAYSIAN crude palm oil (CPO) market was Arm last waak with the January local delivery average price at M 51,253.00 per tonne on Friday, up 196.50 from a week earlier. Dealers attributed the sharp rise to short-covering and speculative buying interest as well aa the
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    • 222 9 Bernama ES THE Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) closet the week steadier at M$ 17.37 par kg on Friday, up eight cents from a week earlier. Dealers said strong overseas buying intereat. eepecialty from Europe in the later part of the week, pushed prices higher. They added thst
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  • FOCUS
    • 999 10 Dynasties dominating Philippine regional elections AP DOMINATION of Philippine politics by rich and powerful families ia at etake in today's regional electiona, in which the role of political dynaatiee haa emerged as a major national issue. In Cebu City and elsewhere, politically powerful
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    • 633 10 AFP FROM DEEP in the jungles and hamlets of the Philippines, communist guerillas are marching into towns with their guns drawn. By killing 39 candidates and supporters and kidnapping 10 politicians, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its New People's Army
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  • THE ARTS
    • 575 11  -  SHAUN KOH EVERYTHING evolves with time. This is especially true in mueic, specifically jazz. It started out with black slaves in America working on roads and plantations singing work songs with the strong rhythmic and syncopated form of the music of their
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    • 331 11  -  By SHAUN KOH IT WASN'T THE CASE when the Preservation Hall Jazz Band laat came to Singapore in 1982. Then, other than the piano player, the members were well paat their 60s. They belonged to an older breed of musicians, their style
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    • 612 11  -  By VANESSA LEE WHEN the fifth Shell Discovery Art exhibition of paintings and sculptures begins this evening, members of its advieory committee can look back with pride. "Thia ia becauee out of 24 artiets who have taken part in the paat four shows,
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    • 576 11  -  ■y CHARLES SAVAGE LOOKING at the paintings of Ad Merx. you are at one* struck by the similaritiee between hit work and that of French master Paul Cazanna or calabratad Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Not exact replicas, of course, but the rich, colourful scenes
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1168 11 TO iMD Q&QQ® a 12 7JB PM Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Lord Peter Wlmsey Clouds Of Witness. 120 Coming Attraction*. 9.90 Adam Smith's Money World Opoc Oil Problems. f.OO Classical Moments Music is the Koy (Soo highlights). 0.59 Dane* Month London Contemporary Dane* Theatre (r). 11.00 New*. 11.25
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    • 646 11 CRYPTIC PUZZLE 1 Last of the coal in the sack? (5) 6 Triangular lattar hi wrought laadt (5) 9 A time to enjoy being pious about a girl (7) 10 Sam Browna'a part? (5) 11 A horse of natural promInanca (5) 12 Noisy way to aat? (5) 13 Saintly aurnama
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 435 12 AP THE LAST TIME there was a National Football League (NFL) strike the Washington Redskins won the Super Bowl. That's one of many precedents that could be shattered yesterday when the Redskins took on the Minnesota Vikings for the right to represent
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    • 265 12 AP US SPORTS COMMENTATOR Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder was fired by the broadcasting network CBS on Saturday, one day after making controversial remarks about blacks. A statement by the network said: "CBS Sports today ended its relationship with Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder. The action
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    • 431 13 AP IVAN LENOL shrugged off a determined challenge from Australian Wally Masur, and Michiel Schapers of the Netherlands pulled off his second big upset in three years to advance to the quarter-finals of the US$l.9-mil-lion Australian Open Tennis Championships yesterday. The unseeded Schapers, ranked 62nd in the
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    • 184 13 Reuter CUBA risks poeeible isolation in the international sporting world following its decision to boycott the Olympic Games in South Korea in September, say diplomats. "It's difficult to predict how Cuban sportsmen will be affected on the International scene, but surely this is not
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    • 164 13 Reuter EXPENSIVE, wstered-down fuel almost put Frenchman Patrick Tambay out of the Paris-Dakar rally on Saturday and sparked a strong reaction from drivers nearing the end of the 22-day race, still led by Finn Ari Vatanen. Drivers threstsned to boycott the event when trsders
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    • 236 13 AP ALEXANDER FADEEV failed to make skating history on Saturday by abandoning his attempt to land the first quadruple jump ever in competition, but still won the men's event at the European Figure Skating Championships. The 24-year-old Soviet won his third European title with
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    • 542 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS WARREN GOLF CLUB, parading a young and balanced taam, served notice that it could be the team to watch this season after yesterday's second round of the Premier League golf championship at Seletar. On a day when conditions made good
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    • 198 13 AP STEVE PATE, the leader all the way, made hie first bogeys of the year but retained his one-etroke advantage on Saturday in the third round of golfs Tournament of Champions in California. Pate, a rookie in the elite tournament that brings together only the
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    • 707 14  -  r 1 Singapore P L. 4 By CORRINA UM CONCERN over the US November trade deficit figures, which were announced laat Friday, plagued investor* throughout the week. Most investors and institutions stayed on ths sidelines, reluctant to commit themselves to large poeitions ahead of the
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    • 832 14 i H j New York y j FT THE monthly trade figures may or may not show a true picture of US trading relationships, but Wall Street does not mind either way. The trade figures may be six weeks late, in nominal dollars
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    • 547 14  -  compiled by JULIANA TAY Week ended Jan 15 CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS Bank of America has filed a petition on Jon 6 to wind up Ginner Investments Pte ltd, the largest shareholder of Malaya Tin Printing. First Capital Corporation chairman Allan Ng Poh Meng was charged on
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    • 1017 15  -  ffunj London A From RAY HEATH SHARE PRICES in London last week opened like sheep, cowed by the pre-weekend fall on Wall Street, although the feared stampede of stocks did not occur. But the market went out like a lion, emboldened
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    • 588 15 1 MM K.Lumpur 4 SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market plunged into minus territory last week as investors and dabblers liquidated their positions to take profit in listless trading. The market started weak as sellers swarmed the trading floor on Monday to
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    • 805 15 11 b J Hongkong m DBS Securities THE WEEK saw the market losing 30 points as sentiment began to centre on the US trade data. After gaining 158 points in the index the previous week, the market lost 6C points on the first day
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    • 257 15 AFP SHARE PRICES eased in volatile trading last week amid uncertainty over the dollar. The holiday-shortened fourday week ended on Thursday with the main market barometer, the Nikkei Stock Index, down 268.91 yen to 22,603.65. In the previous week, the first trading
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    • 182 15 AFP AUSTRALIAN STOCKS finished strongly on Friday after a nervous week of trading, with the exchange essentially quiet ahead of the publication of the US trade figures for November. The market was still waiting for a clear direction from offshore, analysts said.
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    • 284 15  -  From SHIRISH NADKARNI IT IS INEVITABLE. Whenever the stock market, sfter a prolonged phase of depression, suddenly booms and turns cheerful, a sigh of relief makes the rounds, and investors of all hues rush to book their profits before things sour up again. Events
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    • 143 15 ABN Bank THE FINE TREND of the preceding week on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange could not be continued last week. Fears of a new record high for the US trade deficit resulted in a very lacklustre trading environment, with falling prices. The Dutch General
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 521 16 MBT ARAB-MALAYSIAN Securities chairman Datuk Malek Merican has appealed to the Treasury and the Capital Issues Committee to require the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) to introduce graduated commissions. He told Malaysian Business Times last Friday that graduated commissions would enable Malaysian
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    • 550 16 MBT MOUNT PLEASURE Holdinga' offer to aell the 350-room Forringhi Beach Hotel in Penang through a public tender haa attracted potential buyera moatly from Weet Aaia. Hongkong and Singapore. It ie underatood that the hotel and property group intenda to atart preliminary
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    • 984 16 FABER MERLIN Malayaia, tha hotel and property group currently In dire financial atraita, ia very much in the news theee days. The only problem is it isn't good news. Only recently, a police report was filed againat former directors and management
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    • 435 16 MBT KUMPULAN GUTHRIE'S primary objective ie to be the moet productive and coatefficient plantation houee in Malayaia In the next three years. Chief executive Datuk Anl bin Aropa aaid tha group, which aleo has nonplantation activitiee, will give its clients the confidence that
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    • 488 16 fAU FT GOOD TIMES have returned to Malaysia's commodity sector with prices of palm oil and rubber surging to three-year highs. Last year's export earnings from the two commodities are estimated to have exceeded M 57.2 billion (US$2.9 billion), a rise of
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    • 199 16 Bernama ES Dl RECTORS of Hong Kong Tin Corporation Bhd (HKTB) have recommended to ehareholders that they vole in favour of the company's propoaed acquisition of Syarikat Pembenasn Yeoh Tiong Lay (SPYTL). The directora. who do not have a direct intereet in the transaction, eaid
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1041 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET erupted with a powerful rally last Friday after a surprisingly good November merchandise trade report set off a surge of buying. Rallies in the dollar, bonds and gtob*J financial markets confirmed the importance of the trade figure and provided underlying support
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    • 696 17 London Reuter THE ANNOUNCEMENT of a big contraction in the US trade deficit in November prompted a surge in share prices last Friday on the London Stock Exchange, where more than £10 billion were added to the value shares in less than an hour. The US
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    • 366 17 FT THE legal and stock market battles for control of New Zealand Forest Products Ltd once New Zealand's largest company over the past four years, appear to be finally resolved with the deal announced last Friday between Fletcher Challenge Ltd (FCL)
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    • 897 17 Amsterdam JAM 18 ABN M 38 X 13 Aipon 60 SO i 3,2 AhoM M 40 4-|| Afcio AJranta M.M 144 ao ♦11 -06 AMEV 3* SO 2.* Amro Bank. 57 80 17 Aaa Stod 103.00 1 8 BOLS Boraumll Butdnntn Taaa Ciivi n.oo *300 rod* 43 .10 ♦4 2.8
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    • 103 17 AFP THE FIAT Uno car is to be produced in Indonesia by the Daha Motor Company, Fiat announced in Turin, Italy last week. A statement releaaed late last Thursday said agreement had been reached with the Indonesian industry and that assembly would be
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    • 323 17 NYT THE COMMITTEE of Texaco Inc's shareholders has said it will back the company's proposed bankruptcy reorganisation plan, although its support is subject to further negotiation. "If the negotiations (with Tsxaco) fa 11... then we would revisit the question of whether to support Mr (Carl)
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    • 177 17 AFP THE BRITISH beverage and hotel group Grand Metropolitan raised Ha offer for F ranch cognac maker Martell to 4.57 billion franca (US$B26 million) iaat .Friday. according to authorities at the Parta bourse. The new offer by Grand Metropolitan, bidding againat Canadian beverage
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    • 419 17 Reuter BRITAIN'S opposition Labour Party haa urged the government to block any attempt by newapaper magnate Rupert Murdoch to add the preatigioua Financial Times to hia International media empire. The call came laat Thuraday, a day after the Pearson group, which owns the
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    • 489 17 The announcement appears as a matter of record only THE AMERICAN CLUB SINGAPORE 31 i SGD 13.Q Million Syndicated Term Loan SGD 1.0 Million Overdraft Guarantee Provided by Banque Rationale de Paris malagan Banking Berfaad Tat Lee Bank Ltd PKbanken International (Rsia) Ltd Uod Manog«r and Ag*nt PKBANKEN INTERNATIONAL (ASIA)
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    • 526 17 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF PORISON LINES PTE LTD (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of Porlaon Lines Pte Ltd duly convened and held at 63 Market St
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    • 483 17 VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company convened and held at 50 Bayahore Road #08-06 Aquamarine Tower 81nga>pore 1646 on 14 January 1966 the following special resolution was duly paaaed: "That the company bei) wound up voluntarily and that Mr Khoo Sen* Huat be and la hereby
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  • 583 18 NYT TWO deeply ingrained practices of American business are likely to prevent the nation s trade deficit from declining sharply in the 1960s and perhaps beyond, according to a number of economists snd executives. One is the practice of manufacturing products
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  • 385 18 Reuter A REDUCTION in the US trade deficit for November haa given financial markets some comfort, but economists say the data leave many queations unanswered. They said strong exports, a lower volume and price of oil importa and seaaonal factora were behind
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  • 143 18 AP A VISITING US Congreaaman saya he expects Taiwan to maintain political stability in spite of some uncertainty following the death of Preaident Chiang Ching-Kuo. On hia arrival in Taipei yeeterday, Mr Stephen Solarz told reporters, "Other countriee have gone through political tranaitions
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  • 327 18 Reuter SOVIET MILITARY SPENDING is probably five to seven times higher than the Kremlin admits, but may still be far below that of the US and its alliee, according to a new study by prominent Western military analysts. "Russian traditions of secrecy and deception
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  • 209 18 THE NUMBER qf passengers passing through Singapore's Changi Airport last year was the highest ever since the airport opened in 1961. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said that a total of 11,181,641 passengers passed through Changi Airport. an increase of 11.3 per
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  • 273 18 MORE RESIDENTS living in private property should come forward to participate in community activities and help make Singapore a vibrant society, said Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister of State for National Development and for Home Affairs. Those who lived in private housing belonged
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  • 153 18 AFP INDIAN Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's government yesterday rejected a ceasefirs appeal from Tamil rebels fighting Indian troops in Sri Lanka. The truce call by Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the dominant rebel group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). was dismissed by
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  • 337 18 THE ECONOMIC Development Board is holding s week-long brsinstorming session from todsy to chsrt its futurs strstegies and directions. The Minister for Trade and Industry, Brigadier-General (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong, will open the corporate planning seminsr, which is to be held behind closed
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  • LATE FILE
    • 43 18 AFP THE European Community has threatened to reduce its aid to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees if it is not granted an observer status in ths UNHCR executive committee, ssid diplomstic sources in Geneva yeeterday. AFP
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    • 60 18 Reuter PERCY Ooboza, editor of an anti-government weekly newspaper called City Press aimed at black South African readers, died yesterday, his 50th birthday. A Johannesburg clinic said Ooboza, who had been ill since Christmas day with heart and lung trouble, was formerly editor of The
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    • 43 18 AP THE Supreme Court in Jerusalem yesterday temporarily blocked the deportation of four Palestinians accused of inciting anti-Israeli unreet in the occupied Gaza Strip. Judge Shlomo Levin ordered the army to show cause why the men should be expelled.
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    • 67 18 Reuter A US congressman who returned from Vietnam aaid yesterday that Hanoi appeared to have adopted a policy of openness and that humanitarian aid to the communist state should be encouraged. Chester Atkins of the House of Rsprssentatlwee Foreign Affairs Committee told a news conference in
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    • 40 18 UPI THE spiritual leader of the pro-iranian Hezbollah group yesterday denied he told a British newspaper that hostage Church of England envoy Terry Waite would not be freed while Preeident Reagan Reagan was in office. UPf
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    • 35 18 AFP CHINA hopes to boost grain production to 410 million tonnes in 1968, up 10 million tonnss from last year, the official New China News Agency said yesterday. AFP
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 102 19 Reuter TRANSPORT and textile group Chargeurs SA said it would sell its Chargeurs Reunis shipping subsidiary to French transport group Delmas Vieljeux. Chargeurs gave no financial details but said in a statement that the capital gains realised on the deal would be devoted
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    • 340 19  -  By D DURAIRAJ CONTAINER THROUGHPUT via Port Klang last year surpassed all expectations. Preliminary figures indicated that Kelang Container Terminal, at Port Klang, handled 12 per cent more containers in 1987 compared with a marginal decline in the previous year. The terminal which had
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    • 194 19 Reuter WAR RISK insurance premiums have been cut for non-oil cargoes carried by ships sailing to and from certain areaa in the QuM, a London-baaed Insurance industry body said. The new rale for nonoil shipments to and from Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabian
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    • 235 19 PT MOGES, a member of the Geeuri Lloyd group, haa announced the expansion of its forest products service from Southeast Asia to the United States. Its ships will extend their calls to the Philippines on a regular basis. Philippine Transmarine Carriers Inc
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    • PORT SIDES
      • 53 19 Reuter VERACRUZ, Mexico's msin Gulf port, was closed to shipping Isst Thursday because of winds of 56-65 km per hour, the official Notimex news agency said. Port navigation chief Rene Novates Betanzos said port loading and unloading of cargo continued despite the atorm, the news
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      • 107 19 THE NUMBER of ship srrests in Britain declined by 45 laat year to 161. Admiralty Marshsl Vincent Ricks sttributed the substantial drop partly to an improvement in freight rates over the yesr. "Creditors sre tending to let the ships perform in the hope of
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    • 201 20 Seatrade Week PANAMA'S Department of Maritime Safety claims that the Panamanian registry has greatly improved its casualty record over the last six years. Statistics in the 1987 annual statistical survey of casualties involving Panamanian-flag vessels show a reduction in casualties in all categories except
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    • 933 20 AlSHpi V s Ewfnw IV 4/S ABC Co««o*»or vw 1 IX 5 Accord SKpg VI 3 fmco tiaw VI 4/S AAroflfaol Immr n 3 fM*LN**r X 3 O Africa Oc«on xi 2 FMGCAVN VI 3 AUtom v» 3 FfM COM V S AC Tooplor XI 5 Frwgfcl
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    • 898 20 RUMOURS o» Soviet involvement to covar grain import naada In Via time-cher tar market helped kaap th* London •nipping freight* markat Arm on Thursday Dataiiad pny*ic*i buainaaa ramalnad predominantly ooncamad wtta time-charier booking* with Panamai unite proving particularly papular Ml toe Far Eaat tor bo*i tripa and parlod
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    • 613 20 THE IMPORT DUTY on scrap vnnli destined tor Pakistan Km baan reduced to 40 par cant from 64.5 par cant. Brokars said this should give a booat to braakars thara and a highar bid of about U*****.50 par light ton is raportsd to hava baan alraady mada for a
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    • 439 21 Lloyd's List THE LONG-RUNNING battle for control of Cool Carriers, the Swedish operator of the world's largest pool of refrigerated vessels, is over. Control of the new group is now in the hands of Bilspedition, a major Scandinavian group best known for its trucking interests.
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    • 99 21 LYKES BROS Steamship has appointed Kersten, Hunik Co as its agent for inland Germany. Founded in Germany more than 25 years ago, Kersten Hunik has its headquarters in Frankfurt and other offices in Dusseldorf and Stuttgart. The US carrier offers weekly full container service between
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    • 7933 26 §®aBS)(DBJ3 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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    • 1208 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES JUROMG PORT Aulio Seroyo Jl alongside 1801/2300 Barth Arrival Departure Budi Utomo J5/6 alongside 1801/2300 Vlllll Bolton Mos H Confidence Jl J8 alongside alongside 1801/2300 1801/1800 KEPPEL WHARVES Ananot Atinuke ABIO Bog Mod Bangkok Nov* B««co Amer Dongguong forth bank Hong Sheng Ko Heng
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    • 2024 28 A—B AB Shipping Boustead Shpg Agencies. ABC Containerline NV S pore Shpg (S). Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S). Africa Ocean Lines Sealion Shpg (S). Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S). Alfred C Toepfer Ocean us Shipping Agencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK). Alltrans Alltrans Express. American President
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    • 622 30 Reuter NORWEGIAN businessman Torstein Hagen said a group of Norwegian firms which has a 4 per cent stake in Dutch shipping firm Koninklijke Nedlloyd Qroep is currently not buying more shares and does not aim at controlling the Dutch group.
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    • 106 30 AP FIRE engulfed a passenger ship-turned-hotel anchored at a port in south-east China, but all staff and guests escaped unhurt. the official Xinhua news agency reported. The fire, caused by sparks from an acetylene torch, broke out on Thursday aboard the ship anchored
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    • 106 19 PANAMA'* Department of Maritime Safety daims that the Panamanian registry has greatly Improved Its casualty record over the last six years. Page N THE LONG-RUNNING battle for control of Cool Carriers, the Swedish operator of the world's largest pool of refrigerated vessels, is over. Page IK NORWEGIAN businessman Torstein Hagen
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    • 733 25 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD FE EU/AUST TPA/SEA Tarmmal CFS BOOKINGS *****53 ***** C Z212K2 *****43 *****11 27*111 27*111 *****« NEPtINE SON. BHD. J6MB7 INWARD/OUTWARD NEPLINE SON. BHO. 2tMM ENQUIRIES *****44 NEPLINE SON. BHD. *****5/t27M*627K1/627fC2 NEPLINE SON. BHD. 23*140/***** /EUROPE TO EUROPE/UK (VIA SUEZ): PK(lan| MK CONTAINS
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    • 545 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG, PENANG. BUSAN. INCHON Vhml i Nam* No 7 Donam/7UN •Glofn/aOIN No 9 Donam/lOIN No t Donam/lOIN No I Donam/lOIN No 7 Donam/lOIN •Gloria/WN ETD BS BKK S PORE PKELANC 30/12 11/01 In Port 19-21/01 09/01 20/01 23-23/01 24-24/01 15/01
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    • 702 25 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. reuwc PINANG n/s HANDLING SYSTEM CO SDN BHD Mam MAI THONG SHIWNC 127 Pmnt Malaysia No
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    • 263 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING 1 CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 <30 Lines. fAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE COLOMBO: Accepting cargo for INDIA Bombay. Cochin. Madras Calcutta •"VIA LARKACA Accepting cargo tor Ljttaka, Piraeus, Thessatoniki, Inror,
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 174 26 °5* Regional Weather h 1 ■> if?*- m Vj M e sK 8 SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. cT* Wind direction with speed in knots Wove height LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperature «> c Shower Weother Wind direction with speed m knots Ro,n Wove height Cloudy
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    • 1084 27 onterm REGULAR WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE LCL/FCL TO: JAKARTA, BANGKOK, HONGKONG JAPAN, TOKYO, YOKO, Al<c xccptinf to other tetinatiom. Pte»«e call: CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE. LTD. 10, Anson M. #25-04 IBM TOWERS (0207) Tel: 225K33 Fax: *****53 Tlx: RS ***** CONTEM spa ll 11 t=GRR SHIPPING PTC LTD TEL: *****33 (4
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    • 229 27 UNIPACIFIC TRANS. TRADING AGENCY. PTE. LTD. i IRAQI LINE '"*0" ST4TI fmilMlSt fO* ■IRtTIMf TM«JPO«T EAST BOUND SERVICE ETA SPORE LOADING FOR m i»m 20/2 Jfcun WEST BOUND SERVICE ETA S PORE LOADING FOR ALFARABI MV SINDBAD THROUGH B/l« to BAGHOAO UPON REQUEST ALSO ACCEPTING CONTAINERS UPTO AQABA i BAGHDAD
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 506 28 T» FINK LINKR SHIPPING I'l K IT!) 70 Shenton Aty M 0/C Minni Hou\e S p»ire O'O.' TFI ??59C'7 (f line<-) TIX RS ??M1 FIINFR fA* kuropk service *****3 mgggc QQj| MIDDLE EAST GULF SERVICE WEEKLY HKG/CHINA SERVICES TATSUMI MARINE CO. LTD. JAPAN DIRECT SAILING TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA (ACCEPTING
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    • 500 28 ZIM SI J# nv a ACCEPTING CARGO TO ADELAIDE VIA MELBOURNE AND ALSO FCL TO GUAM ZIM BUT CONTAINER UNE VESSEL KESTREL SINOFA ZIM KAOKSIUNC Accajtinf FCI T* E»ri»ain *nd Mediterranean Ports Alia ICL/FCL to all ini« destination in Italy Austria. Switzerland Vu(otJana Ml Dm Germanf Accarfmf FCL Te Constanta
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    • 561 28 3 Everett Lines J d COMPANIA PERUANA 5 OE VAPORES J "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" K, LOADING FOR CALLAO, MATARANI, ILO* AND ALL OTHER K PERUVIAN PORTS' WITH TRANSHIPMENT AT KOBE ON 0 CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION. Penang* P. Kelang* Singapore d MANOLOEVERETT 24/25 Jan R JOHNEVERETT
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 84 29 P.T. TYTYAN SAMODRA SHIPPING COY /V POH AIK 12 RICROL 3 DUMAI RUMBAI Vessel RICROL 3 Sailing Every Monday Every Wednesday (Fortnightly) Every Wednesday Envi Services Pte Ltd Tel P*****5 Tlx. RS *****1 EMVISV Fnx ?9507? <S>m» Spitirii Farwar*l«| (S) Mi LM (International Fretfht Forwarders) *97 Tel: *****20 Tatol. RS
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    • 36 29 cgypnan imtrntuonM snipping vompsny i TITAN SHIPPING SINGAPORE SPORE FOR BETH 23/1 BOMBAY, KARACHI SANA J/2 JEDOAH, ROTTERDAM FOR BOOKINGS PLB CALL TITAN SHIPPING PTE LTD TEL: 225M73, 228M77, IQHM FAX: *****15. TLX: RS 42M) SCANEM
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    • 417 29 LCL/FCL SERVICE cargo to PNG P. MORESBY, KJETA, MADANG, WEWAK. AABAUL, LAC MAOANQ, WEWAK. S. GLANDS HOMARA N. CALHX3MA NOUMEA TAHTTI-PAPEETE E MALAYSIAN A BRUNBAN PORTS TEL: *****11 FAX: *****47 TELEX: RS ***** SKHST LUCKY SEAWAY SERVICES PTE LTD TIl 25Q51 Fit *****77 S.E.ASIA/CHINA SERVICES SCP PKLANG PNC FOR Til
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    • 578 29 COMPANY OF SAUDI ARABIA REGULAR RO-RO SERVICE TO MIDDLE EAST Acceptinf Breakbulk. Ro/Ro. Containers i FCL Containers for Sttarjah. Doha and Riyadh REGULAR RO-RO SERVICE TO USA/CANADA VESSEL S. DIRIYAH FEA 032 Also Acceptinf FCL Containers for Charleston Miami. Tampa and US Inland Points FCL onlv acceptable feederinf via Baltimore
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    • 264 29 Dtstinations: SHANTOU, GUANGZHOU HUANGPU, XIAMEN HAIKOU, ZHANJIANG XINGANG, QINGOAO SHANGHAI A OTHER PORTS Etd. S PORE Etri. PKLG WEEKLY SAILINGS I ~Vr\nn/ ir o C:'y M.'MBFP Or THF PR[ss GROUP) WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE L~L/FCL U.S.A. (East West Coast all inland points) UK/EUROPE Continents (All Ports) v- ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 318 30 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd TEL ??0 :onf, Of! t IMPS) Tl X RS .NV>l S. RS ,'iH, v t I \S| I K\ \k I I\ I K II!) STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG, TAIWAN CHINESE PORTS,
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    • 452 30 FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA-EAIT COAfT/6ULfjCAWAPAOKXiCO ANO FRENCH WEST INDIES i mnirm CUtF Savannah, Miami, i Cruz. Miico City/ FRENCH W. Indict Far. Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, N«w York, Balmitore, Portsmouth, Northfolk uu fVUftiM UiMntiui/liaiiffl Part Da Franca, Pointra A. Pitra, V COLUMBUS LINE REEDERE! GMBH
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    • 270 30 LCL WEEKLY SERVICE TO: KBLOM a/1 MM/MBM 27/1 BMWW 28/1 MTTHBMM 27/1 NMW 11/1 TUNY 27/1 ntaUNTU 20/1 STI/MHfl 22/1 ADELAIDE 20/1 (transit Mm* 12 days) WEEKLY CONSOL. SERVICE FROM GERMANY CON-CARRIER 54/17 CON-CARRIER 55/87 ETD GERMANY ETA S'PORE 5a 25/1 14/1 4/2 LCL SERVICE TO CARRIBEAN PORTS ST. VINCENT,
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    • 716 30 /M CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 04-*****2/4, *****3 •07-*****8 •07-*****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 '02-*****22 *****88 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE 825E31 TO EUROPE FKDCR I BUTANC m I BUTANC CI B. BUTANC 413 B. BUTANC <15 ■THK VSL NINON DUMA B
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