The Business Times, 9 February 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 304 1 AFP Dow Jones lower WALL STREET share prices, which fell last week, continued their downward spiral at the start of trading yesterday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling below 1,900. After less than 15 minutes of trading, the Dow was off 17.08 points at 1,893 40.
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  • 350 1 MAJOR Asian stock markets closed lower yesterday with sharp falls seen in Hongkong and Australia, while Tokyo and Singapore registered smaller losses. Last Friday's 13-point fall to 1910.5 on Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average led to even more caution in the
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  • 696 1  -  Parliament could amend the Societies Act retroactively From M G G PILLAI MALAYSIA'S premier political party, the United Malays National Organisation, cannot be reregistered, according to a Registrar of Societies official. Members of the 42-year-old party, which had its funds and assets frozen as a
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  • 325 1 Bernama TWO FORMER Malaysian prime ministers, Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn, former trade and industry minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and several other leading Umno members have set up a pro tem committee to establish a new Malaysian political
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  • 208 1 AFP THREE MAJOR Japanese banks are getting the green light to enter the securities business in West Germany, a sector which remains prohibited to them at home, according to bank spokesmen in Tokyo. "Our understanding is that (Mitsubishi Bank, Fuji Bank and
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  • 134 1 THE US DOLLAR held steady yesterday against major currencies in thin trading in Tokyo, Singapore and other Asian foreign exchange markets. In Tokyo, a bullish bond market and speculation that the US trade deficit would narrow in December prompted buying of the dollar. But strong
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  • 591 1  -  By ALVIN TAY PLANS by the Rubber Association of Singapore (RAS) to launch a new futures contract to replace the de-listed Technically Specified Rubber 20 (TSR-20) contract are about to bear fruit. The RAS management committee has endorsed a proposal for a new TSR-20
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  • 276 1 BUSINESSMAN Allan Ng and Standard Chartered Bank manager Michael Taylor were granted more time by the court yesterday to arrange a date for trial. Their case will be brought up in court again on Feb 26. Taylor has already engaged a Queen's
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    • 372 1 Vying for seats A TRAVEL BOOM to Australia has been created in recent years, what with it being a comparatively cheaper holiday destination and aggressive marketing on the part of the travel industry. Yet, it's not that easy to fly Down Under as evident bv numerous complaints made by travellers
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 510 2  -  Interim injunctions taken out against six local companies By JEFFREY TSANG AMERICAN computer and video 3ame manufacturer Atari Corp nas taken out interim injunctions against six local computer dealers for infringement of its copyright and design patents. The company and its local agent,
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    • 326 2  -  By BOEY KIT YIN DUTCH electronics giant Philips has expanded its operations in Singapore following the purchase of North American Philips Corporation at the end of last year. As a result, N A PC's new subsidiary in Singapore SMT Circuit Assembly has enhanced
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    • 155 2 A FOUR-DAY conference on the clothing industry will be held at the Marina Mandarin from June 21 to June 24 this year. The International Apparel Federation Conference, which is being held outside member countries for the first time in 12 years, is hosted by
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    • 396 2  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE A $50 MILLION theme park planned for Jurong has taken snother step towards reality with two bids received for developing the project. Both bids are from foreign companies. The companies are ATV Holdings Ltd and Dominion Auctioneers Appraisals
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    • 173 2 FAR EAST-LEVINGSTON Shipbuilding has joined hands with two companies to form a new subsidiary to make products for the oil exploration and production industry. Called the Oil-Equip-ment Manufacturing Pte Ltd (OEMPL), the new company is located in Jurong. A. statement from Far EastLevingston
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    • 204 2 AT THE TOUCH of a button, visitors in Singapore can now directly reach their home country's international operator. Telecoms yesterday introduced a new service, the Home Country Direct Service, to make it easier and more convenient for visitors to call home. Miss Ying
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    • 44 2 SIX government mints will take part in the second Singapore International Coin Convention starting this Friday at Hotel New Otani. They are the China Mint. Perth Mint Royal Canadian Mint, Royal Mint of Britain, the US Mint and the Singapore Mint.
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 235 3 Reuter BUSINESS CONFIDENCE in New Zealand has slumped and investment is expected to drop dramatically, according to the private New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. Its December quarterly survey of business opinion, taken after the October share market collapse, shows no sector of the
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    • 454 3 AFP SOUTH KOREA is likely to bow to US pressure to open up its markets despite widespread domestic opposition, but could delay a decision until after coming parliamentary elections, analysts said. Opposition parties are expected to make the problem a top issue in
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    • 272 3 Reuter SRI LANKAN President Junius Jayewardene predicted that Tamil Tiger guerillas fighting his government would be defeated by Indian troops before April. "I don't think they can continue their opposition after April. The fight will go on till they cooperate or
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    • 242 3 Reuter SLOW GROWTH in major world economies combined with the world share market slump is likely to limit Australian economic growth in fiscal 1988-89, according to the Australia New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ). Sensitivity to commodity prices would make it difficult to
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    • 178 3 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S ruling Labor Party faces an uphill battle in local elections next month after suffering a shock by-election defeat over the weekend. The elections in New South Wales, the country's most populous state, would be the first major test
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    • 161 3 AP CHINA'S economic reforms are being undermined by a "disturbing new phenomenon" of price-fixing by industry cartels, an authoritative weekly said. Some industries, taking advantage of reforms which allow them greater freedom to set prices, are "seeking unfair profits by conspiring to monopolise prices", the Beijing
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 230 3 City Max/ Note Mm (•C) Adelaide 23/14 Fine Amsterdam 05/02 Clear Athens 16/09 Clear Bahrain 19/14 Clear Bangkok 34/24 Sunny Barbados 28/24 Cloudy Beijing 03-10 Clear Beirut 17/06 Sunny Belgrade 12/03 Clear Berlin unov Bermuda 20/10 Cloudy Bonn 03/01 Rain Brisbane 30/19 Fine Brussels 06/02 Clear Buenos Aires 30/17 Clear
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
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    • 596 4 Emergency meeting on farm subsidies and staving off bankruptcy AP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S mounting cash crisis enters a new. possibly decisive stage this week as leaders of the 12 member countries prepare for an emergency summit. The West German government, which will be chairman of the
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    • 319 4 NYT THE WEST GERMANS' faith in nuclear energy, never too strong and even shakier since the Chernobyl disaster, has been further battered in recent weeks by a barrage of revelations about embezzlement, bribery and illegal shipments of nuclear wastes in the industry. The scandal
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    • 230 4 UPI A SOVIET tobacco factory haa bean closed in Minsk becauae its products were not wanted by conaumers, Radio Moscow said last Sunday. Shutting the factory was in line with both the perestroika reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and apparently an anti-smoking
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    • 173 4 Reuter ALFRED HERRHAUSEN. speaker of the management board of Deutsche Bank AQ, said the West German economy had weakened but he saw no reason to predict a recession or a depression. Mr Herrhausen told Die Welt newspaper in Bonn that investments were holding relatively stable
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    • 253 4 UPI LESLIE MANIGAT was insugurated on Sunday as Haiti's first elected president in 30 years and said his victory in srmy-run elections condemned by many as rigged ensured "the chances of a true democracy" in the impoverished Caribbean nation. Mr Manigat, a 57-year-old former political scientist,
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    • 466 4 Reuter SECURITY-MINDED businessmen can now buy gadgets that will let them see in the dark or open a door with a glance. On the other side of the shadowy world of industrial espionage a growth industry in Britain the spy can photograph
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    • 231 4 Reuter AMERICAN CONSUMER confidence improved again in January, but consumers are becoming more concerned about job proepects, according to the Conference Board in its latest survey. It said the board's Consumer Confidence Index rose to 110.9 in January from 107.7 in December. Following the
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1770 6 Reuter SINGAPORE: THE US dollar yesterday ended slightly higher against major currencies in light trading, dealers said. They said sterling s weakness, coupled with market speculation that the US December trade figures will show a narrower deficit than November's U5513.22 billion shortfall, helped the US unit. The US
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    • 188 6 Indicates the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banks in S'pore Average of prime or equivalent lending rate on Feb 8 London 9.0% Hongkong 5.25 New York 8.50% Bangkok 11.5 Tokyo 3.375 Jakarta 25 Zurich* 4.5% Kuala Lumpur 75 Frankfurt* 4-5% Manila 15 <£
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    • 61 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market fell 5/8 point to close at 2-3/4 per cent. The term rates were unchanged across the board. S$ Interbank rates at 12 noon yesterday: OFFE# »ID Overnight 2 3/4 2 1/2 1 -month 3 3/16 3 1/16 2-month 3 3/16
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    • 321 6 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at opening levels, after a day ot light trading. Dealers said-most operators were awaiting this week's release of US January retail sales data due on Thursday and December merchandise trade figures on Friday. Term rates initially weakened between 1/8 and 3/16
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    • 82 6 Treasury bills —> Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER HIGH IOW 3 months BQ*****N 05.5.88 3.02 2.97 2.99 2.98 6 months BY*****S 30.6.88 3.02 2.97 1 year BY*****T 24.11.88 3.00 2.95 3.00 3.00 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's
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    • 553 6 EURODOLLAR futures yesterday gapped sharply higher from the previous close during Simex opening after the weak US unemployment figure which encouraged hopes of easier monetary policy. March Eurodollar opened 20 ticks higher at 93.22 but traded between 93.21 and 93.23 initially. However, prices slipped off to the low of
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    • 1697 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Monday, February 8 1988 DEUTSCHE MARK (SIMEX) Mar M call* Iter M pud 94 99 94 57 9a 99 60 41 62 63 64 69 64 47 M. 2I3A I38A 40A 40A 20A 10A 4A 430 430 390 208 134 74 38 18 8 4 2
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 430 7 BANKS in the US are heading towards greater competition and further deregulation in spite of the 'hardships' faced by some banks, say two visiting professors from America. Professor George Parker of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and Professor Henry Reiling
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    • 336 7 AFP CREDIT RATING AGENCY Capital Information Services Ltd says it has downgraded its ratings for two Hongkong banks due to their heavy exposure to the world stock market crash in October. The two banks affected are 181 Asia (Holding) Ltd, a Hong-kong-listed bank
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    • 278 7 UNITED OVERSEAS FINANCE yesterday lowered its loan rates for the purchase of new and used cars, commercial properties and equipment. The finance company cut its commercial property loan rates by one percentage point to 7.75 per cent for maturities of up to 10 years. The interest
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    • 359 7 AFP INDIVIDUAL CHINESE will be able to trade Treasury bonds on open markets beginning this year. The move is aimed at stimulating bond sales and stamping out illegal bond trading, according to the New China News Agency (NCNA). Bond
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    • 81 7 DBS BANK yesterday opened its biggest bank branch in Serangoon Gardens. The DBS Bank's new addition, its 30th branch in Singapore, occupies 475 sq m of ground floor space in Maju Avenue. It is headed by Mr Tan Boon Tuck, the former branch manager of DBS
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    • 561 7  -  By LEONG WEN WAH THE SINGAPORE branch of Citibank, the largest US bank, enjoyed improved results last year, according to the head of the branch here. And the bank expects even better performance this year with signs of a pickup in the local economy,
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 401 8  -  Cottonseed crushing plant to cost USsl2m By ALVIN TAY INTERNATIONAL trading group Cargill has set up a US$l2 million (5524.2 million) joint venture in China to build a cottonseed crushing plant in the country's largest cotton-producing province of Shandong. The plant will be Cargill's first
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    • 434 8 Reuter THE GROWTH in oil consumption in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is expected to slow to one per cent in 1988 after rising by 1.4 per cent in 1987 and 2.6 per cent in 1986, the
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    • 355 8 AP THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' oil production fell sharply last month, mainly because of cutbacks by the cartel's Gulf exporters including Saudi Arabia, the International Energy Agency (lEA) said yesterday. The lEA cited a reduction in buyer interest in Opec oil,
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    • 462 8 Reuter JORGE CARDENAS, president of the Colombia Coftee Growers' Federation, said he expected Colombian coftee prices to remain steady and strong for the next few months because customer stocks had fallen significantly. Mr Cardenas, commenting in Bogota on the recent sharp increase in Colombian
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    • 307 8 Bernama ES INDIA'S State Trading Corporation (STC) office in Singapore has yet to receive any fresh directive to purchase refined, bleached and deodorised (RBD) palm oil from Malaysia although prices have dropped sharply below the Msl,ooo per tonne for forward months
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    • 195 8 Reuter SINGAPORE The rubber market yesterday closed slightly steadier with March 1 RSS buyers quoted at 218.50 cents/kilo, up 0.50 cent from last Friday's close. MALAYSIA Speculative short-covering and an absence of sellers helped the market close slightly higher in continued thin and dull trading. March Int RSS Ones
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    • 77 8 (cents/kg, 1-ton pallets) MARCH 1988 APRIL 1988 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SSR 20 213.00 215.00N 213.00 215.00N SSR 50 211.50 213.50N 211.50 213.50N MRELB Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers SMR cv 274.00 276.00N 275.00 277.00N SMR L 274.00 276.00N 275.00 277.00N
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    • 233 8 R AS prices in S cents/kg, FOB in bales NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 222.25 223.25N 222.00 223.00N Int 1 RSS Mor 88 218.75 219.25 218.50 219.00 Int 1 RSS Apr 88 218.00 218.50 217.50 218.00 Int 2 RSS OP 216.75 218.75N
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    • 115 8 Reuter THE TIN PRICE on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday ended unchanged from laftt Friday at M 517.15 a kg after a fairly quiet trading session. Buyers and sellers agreed to close deals at the opening price of M 517.15 and 70 tonnes were traded compared with
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    • 354 8 HONGKONG: GOLD yesterday closed firmer in active trading, supported by substantial physical demand from Japan and the rest of the Far East, dealers said. They said buying by speculators who previously held short positions also helped the metal. Bullion ended the day at U*****.30/80 an ounce, above Saturday's
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    • 56 8 Bangkok Closing prices on Feb 8 (US$/tonne, FOB) White Rice 100% lit ctosi 355 100% 2nd doss 320 100% 3rd doss 315 5% 310 '0% 305 >5% 295 20% 293 25% 290 35% 285 Broken Rice A-l Super 225 A-l Special 223 Loonzain Rice 100% 2nd grade 315
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    • 72 8 THE oil markets had a mixed start to the week. Crude oil and the European opening were firm but Singapore products were weaker. USJ/barr*l Chang* Dubai (Mar) 15.52 0.02 Wm WTI (Mar) 17.30 -I-0.14 Products (FOB S'pore) USS/barral Chang* KtroND* 22.13 -0.30 Go soil 20.50 -0.50 Low
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    • 190 8 THE ALUMINIUM market is expected to return to surplus in 1988 and prices should fall from their present high levels, a leading metals analyst said last Friday in London. Shearson Lehman Brothers Ltd said, however, that while it expects prices to weaken "no immediate slump is
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    • 255 8 Reuter Crude palm oil futures yesterday closed firmer. April was up Ms3s at M 51,047 per tonne. May up Ms 29 at M 51,005, March up Ms 26 at M 51,061 and Feb Ms 22 higher at M 51,065. Turnover rose to 1,002 lots. Crude palm oil prices
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  • FOCUS
    • 658 9 AP AFGHANISTAN'S best-educated citizens seem split over the role of Islam in a future government, with some hoping for an Islamic state and others for a secular republic. Some analysts in Pakistan, where about four million Afghan refugees live, expect those who
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    • 826 9 If and when the Soviet forces pull out of Afghanistan, will the Afghans remain heavily dependent on their 'big brothers'? Will they opt for an Islamic form of government? The articles throw up some possible answers. Reuter AFGHANISTAN will remain heavily dependent on
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    • 170 9 •J Aeroflot Day, February 9, marks the 66th Anniversary ot the tounding of Aeroflot Soviet Airline, the USSR State Airline. This day of significance is also dedicated to the great achievements of USSR Civil Aviation. Since its early beginning in 1923, Aeroflot has been growing with every passing year. The
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 524 10 IN RECENT MONTHS, frustrated travellers have been shooting off complaints to the press about how difficult it is to get airline seats to Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile, some airlines are locked in an argument: Is there indeed such a long waiting-list for seats
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    • 1375 10  - Tempers fly high over seats It's become increasingly difficult for travellers to obtain seats on flights to Australia, one of the most popular holiday destinations today, especially during the peak periods. LIM SOON NEO looks at what's holding up the traffic. LIM SOON NEO AUSTRALIA has become one of the
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    • 330 10 AIRLINES trying to find a solution to the problem of travellers not getting seats on flights Down Under might want to consider working a "trigger mechanism". This approach was suggested by Singapore Airlines' managing director, Or Cheong Choong Kong, at a Financial Times
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    • 650 11  -  The Reagan administration is particularly anxious to avoid a recession this year. What course of action will the US Fed decide to take following its meeting this week? DONNA SMITH discusses the possibility of an easier monetary policy. DONNA SMITH Reuter US CENTRAL bankers
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    • 1016 11  -  By BARRY JAMES IHT IS THE COMMON agricultural policy harming Europe's environment as well as emptying its pockets? Some ecologists say the policy, which consumes twothirds of the European Community's annual budget of US$2O billion, seriously endangers wildlife and natural habitats by encouraging
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    • 768 11  -  By CHARLES ALDINGER Reuter US FOREIGN aid cuts in 1988 and beyond could spark an erosion of America's military and political influence around the world, according to officials of the Reagan administration. "You can tell people times are tough, that you have
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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    • 285 11 Australia invites you to the exhibition of the year. A visit to Sydney, Australia during the Asian Pacific Trade and Industry Fair is a great opportunity for you to make new contacts, exchange information and ideas and foster new business for your company. On show will be a whole host
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1195 11 wm>) Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood star in City Hoat 1 TUESDAY PREMIERE City Heat 10.30pm, Channel 5 The time, 1933. The place, Kansas City, rampant with extortion, kidnapping and murder. A cop and a private eye, both trying to stamp out underworld crime, cross paths and lock horns. The
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 272 12 Reuter WORLD CHAMPION Patrick Sjoberg of Sweden made three unsuccessful attempts to break his world indoor high jump record on Sunday but believes he can improve the mark soon. Sjoberg, in spite of being troubled earlier by stomach problems, said only small technical
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    • 433 12 AP STEVE JONES, twice teetering on the brink of collapse, scored the first PGA victory of his career with a five-metre birdie putt on the second play-off hole on Sunday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Jones's winning putt blunted the comeback
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    • 417 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS WITH THE NORMALLY STAID York Hotel lobby slowly being invaded by pretty ladies lugging golt bags, the eyes of Singapore's golfing fraternity will focus on the Tanah Merah Country Club this week where the US$5O,OOO Kosaido
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    • 509 13 AP ON PAPER, the Davis Cup contest between Denmark's Michael Tauson and Spain's Emilio Sanchez was a mismatch. On the tennis court, it turned into a stunning upset. Tauson, ranked 311 th in the world, beat No. 17 Sanchez 3-6, 6-1, 13-11, 6-4
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    • 151 13 AFP COUNTRIES who boycott future Olympics are to be hit where it will hurt most their bank accounts. The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Calgary, Canada, on Sunday accepted a recommendation to share the millions of dollars
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    • 204 13 UPI THERE WERE disgraceful scenes before the International Boxing Federation world middleweight fight between American Frank Tate and Britain's Tony Sibson on Sunday when gas canisters were exploded by hooligans before the fight started. Tate retained his IBF crown when he knocked out Sibson in
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    • 377 13 UPI MICHAEL JORDAN of the Chicago Bulls capped a glittering weekend in front of his home-town fans on Sunday, scoring 40 points and earning Most Valuable Player honours in leading the Eastern Conference to a 138-133 triumph over the Western Conference
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4238 14 BARGAIN-HUNTING in the afternoon helped the Singapore stockmarket recover from what would otherwise have been a miserable start to the trading week yesterday. Dealers said relatively heavy selling of mid- and heavyweight blue chips such as F&N and DBS Bank accounted for the
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    • 262 14 SINGAPORF Rises Indices Fab 5 Fab Not Iron 560 5 IT CompotlM 761.16 751.90 Horrtslom M#o 334 4 8TO8/OS -341 -459 Cam Ho* SO* 211 3 JTCAO -7193 -7261 M Cw— 50« 79H 3 IT 10-doyMA -6966 -7012 CASHSOl 31 3 ITOIV +*****65 *****59 Falls ST Muariob
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    • 3622 14 BID and offer prices offldaUy listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. SECTION ONE MOUS TRIAL COMMERCIAL Acmo 1109 8 (31 109
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    • 135 14 WEARNE BROTHERS, Limited: 73rd AGM at 65 Chulia Street #19-00, OCBC Centre, Singapore 0104, tomorrow, Feb 10, at 10.30am. ARAB-MALAYSIAN DEVELOPMENT Berhad: 21st AGM at the Dewan Arab-Malay-sian, 7th Floor, Bangunan Arab-Malaysian, Jalan Raja Chulan, ***** Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. Feb 11, at 10.30am. FABER MERLIN MALAYSIA Berhad:
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    • 265 14 Managers' prices for Feb 9 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 009 095 The Savings Fund 078 083 S pore frog Fund 036 040 S pore Sec Fund 040 065 S pore Invest Fund 064 069 S'pore Equity Fund 042 046 Asia Unit Trust Mo* Invest Fund 1 24
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 447 15  -  By CORRINA LIM DBS SECURITIES, a whollyowned subsidiary of DBS Bank will have the honour of being the first stockbroking firm to have a building named after it. The former UMBC Building at Malacca Street, which is now undergoing extensive renovation work, will be
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    • 399 15 Bernama ES ICI (MALAYSIA) Holdings Sdn Bhd has assumed the responsibility of supervising the operations of ICI (Imperial Cttemical Industries PLC) in the South-east Asian region since January. ICI (M) now heads the group in the region by supervising the interests of
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    • 516 15 Bernama ES KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange chairman Nik Mohamed Din Yusoff has defended the exchange's stand in rejecting the proposed graduated commission structure, saying that those who criticised the KLSE decision lacked depth in their thinking. He added crusaders placing the future of
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    • 1105 15  -  From FLORENCE CHONG IPOH GARDENS Bhd (Australia), the property arm of Malaysian listed company IGB Corp, is undertaking Australia's largest inner city redevelopment project, costing around A 51.58 billion, in Sydney. Work is well underway on the project, known as World Square,
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    • 606 15  -  mm. *>y Corrina Lim SENTIMENT is the key factor influencing equity and money markets trends in the near term as the aftermath of the October crash has yet to be fuily revealed, said an investment analyst with a local stockbroking firm. Mr Brian Hwang,
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    • 217 15 Reuter TAIWAN PROSECUTORS are investigating 'underground' investment houses that control a huge slice of the island s cash supply. Court officials said at least 10 companies are under investigation for breach of company, tax and banking laws. Financial analysts said the move reflected government concern
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 101 16 Reuter PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino has ordered the dispersal of the ownership of the Manila Electric Co (Meralco), the Philippines' biggest electric power company now under sequestration, a senior government official said last week. The chairman of the state-owned Development Bank of the Philippines,
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    • 465 16 FT THE YEAR of the Dragon, which begins this month, will bring the Hongkong Stock Exchange the first outlines of a comprehensively overhauled settlement system which Mr Robert Fell, drafted in late last year as interim chief executive, sees as the most important
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    • 3394 16 SHARE prices were dealt lower across the board on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday in fairly active trading. While selected counters managed to close off the day's lows on renewed buying support in late trading, stocks on the whole ended the session deeper in the
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    • 1403 16 Hongkong Reuter SHARE prices on the Hongkong market closed sharply lower yesterday after the market plunged through its technical support line during the morning session, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index fell 69.03 points, or 3.01 per cent, to 2,223.56. The broader-based Hongkong Index was 46.59 points
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    • 137 16 FEB M WON IChail Sugar ***** *2600 Daalim Ind Oaawoo Corp Daawoo Maavy Daiahin Sacurttiaa Dong Ah Phar ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** 2600 2000 1000 1500 700 Dong Soh Stock Dongtou Staal ***** 1300 *600 Goto Star Harol Bank Hand Camant Hankuk Giaaa Hanyang Cham teal Hyundai Const
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    • 422 16 Reuter SHARE prices on the Tokyo market closed narrowly mixed in thin trade yesterday in the absence of fresh factors and ahead of a holiday in Tokyo on Thursday and a three-day weekend in the US, brokers said. The Nikkei Average slipped 19.59 points, or 0.08 per cent, to
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    • 476 16 Reuter SHARE prices closed sharply weaker yesterday on the Australian market, as selling ot mining stocks, sparked by softer bullion prices, spilled over into other sectors. Brokers said a 13-point fall to 1910.5 by Wall Sreet's Dow Jones Industrial Average last Friday also put selling pressure on industrials. At
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    • 113 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 2.90 points to 323.0 yesterday on a turnover of 1,957,133 shares worth 260.41 million baht. wwiiiTi I? 4*" Industrial Finane* Corp .201 2 Inti Coamaflc Jalaprathan Cement 463 6 Metal Box I 140 +4 Poet PuWIahinfl Sana linton 342 2"" Stam
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 731 17 'More closely coordinated international standards needed' Reuter CALLS FOR TIGHTER controls have echoed through many of the world's financial centres since the global stock market crash last October. But a Reuter survey of current post moderns on the Crash of 87 shows some
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    • 292 17 Reuter EXXON USA is seeking US$6OO million in refunds and interest from schools, charities and a number of individuals and companies who received royalty payments from it as owners of an oilfield in Texas, a Texan newspaper said. Many of the smaller owners
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    • 341 17 Reuter CARLO DE BENEDETTI 8 French holding company, Compagnies Europeennes Reunies (Cerus), aaid in a statement it had raised its offer for Societe Generate de Belgique by 600 Belgian francs to 4,000 francs per share. Mr de Benedetti
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    • 223 17 Reuter DUN BRADSTREET Corporation, the world's biggest information services group, has agreed to a US$l.77-billion merger with IMS International Inc, a market research company that specialises in health care and drugs. The acquisition of IMS, a New York-based company with annual sales of US$4l2
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    • 732 17 Reuter MEDIA MAGNATE Rupert Murdoch has agreed to sell the New York Post to real estate developer Peter Kalikow for US$37 million provided unions at the newspaper agree to major concessions. "I have today sold the New York Post,"
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    • 293 17 UPI IN A VENTURE that would link the world's largest retailer with the world's largest fast-food chain, Sears, Roebuck and Company is negotiating a deal to put McDonald's restaurants in Sears Stores. Although the number of restaurants and the specific Sears stores have not been
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    • 209 17 Reuter JAPANESE stockbrokers can choose whether to follow a recent directive by the industry's regulatory body instructing them to avoid selling high risk investments to women, a spokesman for the group said. But a Securities Dealers Association spokesman said the membership, which
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    • 185 17 Reuter INDIA'S 15 stock exchanges will be linked to form a national stock market system by 1990 to serve effectively growing investors' interests across the country, according to Bombay Stock Exchange president Mahendra Kampani. "The objective of creating a national market is to ensure liquidity to
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    • 141 17 Reuter SHAREBROKER National Pacific Securities Ltd, 50 per cent owned by insurance group National Pacific Corp Ltd. ceased trading yesterday, a company spokesman said in Wellington. It is the eighth New Zealand sharebroker to cease trading since the October share market fall, although one Paine Belcher
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    • 127 17 Reuter ISUZU MOTORS Ltd and General Motors Corp have agreed to study the feasibility of forming a joint venture in Australia to assemble and sell commercial vehicles. Isuzu plans to hold over half of the venture and to use its own brand name. The move
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    • 195 17 Reuter NOMURA SECURITIES Co Ltd said its American subsidiary Nomura Securities International would lay off 36 locally-hired employees by the end of this month to streamline its operations in the US. A Nomura official in Tokyo said the lay-off was decided mainly
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    • 265 17 Reuter AUSTRALIAN diamond producer Ashton Mining Ltd, responding to new securities trading disclosure rules, said the market value of its securities investments was less than half of book value as of December 31. Ashton told the stock exchange the market value of its securities
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    • 111 17 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Monday 1.***** Friday 1.497.87 Wee* ogo 1,540 95 Hang Seng Index Monday 2.***** Friday 2.***** Week ago 2,***** TOKYO Nikkei Average Monday 23.771*0 Friday 23 650 80 Wee* ago 23,***** TSE Index Monday 1.926 94 Friday 1.***** Wee* ago 1.***** SYDNEY All Ordinaries Monday 1.2036
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    • 336 17 THE ATLAS ICE COMPANY. BERHAO (INCORPORATED IN MALAYSIA) NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventy-Third Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Registered Office, No. 22 (Upper floor of No. 20) Jalan Hang Jebat ***** Melaka on Friday 26 February 1988 at 10.00
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  • 683 18  -  By LEE HAN SHIH AGAINST all expectations, the construction industry managed to reverse a three-year downtrend and chalk up a small growth last year. Preliminary figures released by the Ministry of National Development yesterday showed that the industry secured $3.95 billion worth of new jobs
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  • 287 18 Reuter SHANGHAI is close to deciding which of six foreign consortia will win contracts for a US$6OO million subway, one of China's biggest construction projects open to foreign bidding. Chinese banking and subway officials said in interviews that financial evaluations of the
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  • 399 18 Reuter THE SRI LANKAN government is to sell off a hotel, restaurant and firms that make sugar, leather, textiles, paper and ceramics under the first phase of a privatisation plan. Baku Mahadewa. head of the Presidential Commission for Privatisation,
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  • 248 18 Reuter SRI LANKA will launch a US$5O million scheme to raise employment and reduce poverty in advance of crucial elections during the next 18 months. A senior government official said in Colombo yesterday that the 1.5-billion-rupee (US$5O million) programme would provide more than 200,000
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  • LATE FILE
    • 51 18 Reuter JAPAN should limit nominal wage rises to avoid widening the gap between Japanese and US wages, Eiji Suzuki, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations, said in Tokyo yesterday. The federation felt that wage rises should be linked to productivity, he said.
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    • 59 18 Reuter VISITING US Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng yesterday rejected Malaysian allegations that the US was dumping vegetable oils on the Indian sub-continent and defended Washington's large farm subsidies. "In every case, we had commitments from these (sub-continent) countries that our sales would not be displacing
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    • 44 18 Opecna PERT AM IN A, the Indonesian state oil company, will this month begin processing about 20,000 barrels per day of Malaysian crude tor Petronas, its Malaysian counterpart, in east Kalimantan, a Pertamina official aaid in Jakarta yesterday. Opecna
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    • 38 18 AFP MALAYSIA'S major timber producing states. Sabah and Sarawak, are reducing log exports to Japan temporarily by 50 per cent from Feb 16, industry sources in Kota Kinabalu said yesterday. AFP
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    • 47 18 Bernama THE SESSIONS COURT in Kuala Lumpur yesterday sentenced former Perwira Habib Bank branch manager Raja Safian Raja Ahmad to two years' jail after finding him guilty of committing two counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT) amounting to M 5957.379. Bernama
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    • 25 18 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Immigration Minister Mick Young yesterday resigned from Parliament in a row involving a donation to the ruling Labor Party. Reuter
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    • 26 18 Reuter MORE than 32,000 Ford workers began their first national strike in 10 years yesterday, shutting down Britain's largest car manufacturer. Reuter
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  • 95 18 AFP SOUTH KOREAN opposition figure Kim Young-Sam announced in Seoul yesterday that he was stepping down from the presidency of his party in order to pave the way for unification of the opposition camp. "I have decided to resign from the presidency of the Reunification Democratic Party
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  • 165 18 Bernama RECLAMATION WORK by Singapore along the Johor Straits has not altered the water boundary between Johor and the Republic, Malaysian Land and Regional Development Minister Datuk Dr Sulaiman Daud said yesterday. The reclamation was part of the hydrographic survey undertaken jointly
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  • 286 18 AFP THE PHILIPPINES has the highest risk potential for foreign investors and Hongkong has the lowest among eight countries surveyed in a regional study of country risks released in Hongkong yesterday. The Hongkong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd said the survey focused
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  • 127 18 AP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino defended a controversial ban on allowing Filipino women to work abroad as domestics and said the temporary measure was designed to guarantee their safety. From March 1. the Philippine government will no longer certify permits for Filipino women to
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  • 105 18 Reuter GOLD FUTURES rose on buying by local traders and commission houses yesterday morning as the market added to last Friday's recovery from eight-month lows. The firmness in crude oil prices also buoyed gold. April gold went ahead US$3.6O at U*****.80 an ounce before slipping slightly on dealer
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 120 19 Fairplay THE JAPANESE Ministry of Transport (MOT) has stated its intention of steping up its inspections of ships calling at Japanese ports. It is aiming to achieve the level of 25 per cent of all visiting vessels said to be scrutinised in European
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    • 358 19  -  By LINDA CHEE SINGAPORE shipping group Pacific International Lines is extending its interests into the air cargo business. It has linked up with a Chinese partner, Sinotrans Beijing, to form a 50-50 joint venture agency called Trans Maritime Pte Ltd. The new company
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    • 365 19 Reuter EVERGREEN Marine Corp (EMC), the largest pri-vately-owned shipping company in Taiwan, plans to issue 200 million shares later this year, a company spokesman said. He said the new issue worth NT$2 billion would be used to buy six sec-ond-hand container ships
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    • 147 19 Seatrade Week SOUTH KOREA shipowners appear to be making a partial recovery. The final figures for their net freight earnings for last year reveal that their overall loss was reduced to 95 billion won (US$l2l million) last year from a 243.4 billion
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 131 19 UPI AN EGYPTIAN government spokesman has denied reports that Egyptian gunboats escorted vessels through the Suez Canal as a precaution against mine-sowing in the vital waterway. But the spokesman, in a statement reported by the Middle East News Agency, said Egypt was providing protection to
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    • 287 20 AFP CONDITIONS remained favourable to owners over the past week on the tanker market, with continuing strength on the dry cargo market tending to absorb combination carriers, thus assisting rate levels, London brokers E A Gibson said in their latest report. There was a "healthy" absorption of very
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    • 488 20 IN THE ONGOING dispute over the introduction of mobile crane services at Klong Toey. the exclusive crane operator says it is prepared to provide exporters with transportation services at no extra cost to overcome any problems created by shipping lines. Shipping
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    • 109 20 AP DIVERS found th« bodies of two* s«am«n in the engine room oC a capsized Chinese cargo veesel early yesterday, while two other crewmen remained miss** ing after the ship keeled near Hongkong. Hongkong Marine Police' rescued the rest of the 10-man-crew in
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    • 278 20  -  From KINGSLEY WOOD WITH THE excitement and success of its arrival now receding, the First Fleet Re-enactment Company is again coming to grips with its long-running financial problems. Owners of
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    • 774 20 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 1/2 A PC line V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI
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    • 357 20 UPI THE IRANIAN strike on an Ameri-can-owned tanker in the Gulf could bring more pressure to bear on the navy to protect all US shipping in the volatile waterway, regardless of its nation of registry. Iranian gunboats
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    • 291 21 Lloyd 's List SHIP MANAGEMENT specialist Barber International has signed a collective agreement with Portuguese seafaring unions to provide crews for tonnage on the Norwegian International Ship (NIS) register The crews will be provided through Portugal's leading tanker operator Soponata and involve both officers
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    • 303 21 VERY LARGE crude carriers are shaking off their dependence on the Persian Gulf. In the past month, nine vessels of 200,000 tonnes deadweight and above have been chartered for voyages from other loading areas, Lloyd s List reported. Changing trade patterns are
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    • 8056 26 3®aBG)(!EB 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
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    • 1475 27 GRAIN chartering on Friday increased out of the US with rates moving irregularly while the time-charter sector featured several period bookings. shipbrokers said. Grain shippers paid a lump sum of U551,052,000 for a 75,000 tonner sailing from Mississippi to Antwerp-Rot-terdam-Amsterdam which brokers said equated to about $14.25 basis
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    • 817 25 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE A mtmbtr of th« ACE Consortium NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. EE EU/AOST TPA/SEA Ttrminal CFS BOOKINGS *****53 *****7 *****22 222L253 27W1* 27*11t 27*111 27*141 NEPLINE SDN BHD )HM7 INWARD/OUTWARD NEPLINE SON. BHD. 2(***** ENQUIRIES *****44 NEPLINE SON. BHD 62U35/627M0/*****1/*****2 NEPLINE SDN.
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    • 343 28 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd TEL *****06 (20- Lines) TLX RS ***** RS ***** ft I \s I I K\ \K I l\l K III) STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE PECIALIST IN RO-R0 HEAVY LIFT? Sentooku •Subject to cargo inducement NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG, TAIWAN CHINESE PORTS,
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    • 346 28 LCL WEEKLY SERVICE TO: KEELUNG BANGKOK FREMANTLE HAM/BREM 18/2 ROTTERDAM 18/2 TILBURY 18/2 SYD/MELB 21/2 ADELAIDE 16/2 (transit time 12 days) WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE FROM GERMANY CON-CARRIER 56/87 CON-CARRIER 57/87 ETD GERMANY ETA S PORE a/1 11/2 28/1 18/2 LCL SERVICE TO CARRIBEAN PORTS ST. VINCENT, GRENADA, ARUBA, GRAND CAYMAN,
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