The Business Times, 22 February 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 766 1  -  Fannie Mae plans to sell mortgage-backed securities By LEE HAN SHIH and PATRICIA M SCHERSCHEL ONE OF THE BIGGEST financial companies in the United States wants to tap the capital markets of Singapore and other newly-in-dustrialising countries in Asia to raise money
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  • 259 1 AP FINANCIAL EXPERTS want to tighten controls over China's foreign borrowing, which has zoomed from nothing 10 years ago to more than US$24 billion, according to an official report. The China Daily's weekly business edition said yesterday China's heavy borrowing had aided
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  • 95 1 AFP MACAU is committed to solving remaining technical problems so that its currency, the pataca, may be accepted internationally this year, Secretary for Economic Affairs Galhardo Simoes said on Saturday. The currency of this Portuguese enclave in southern China is directly linked to the Hongkong dollar and
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  • 101 1 AFP JAPAN is considering reopening the Cambodian Embassy building in Tokyo to provide quarters for Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kyodo News Service reported yesterday. The government is also considering paying the prince travel expenses in his bid to find a peaceful solution to
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  • 527 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING SHOPLIFTING, which has been plaguing department stores, is now proving to be costly for bookshops too. The problem has become so serious as to bring together the three major book retailers Times The Bookshop. MPH Bookstores and Kinokuniya to
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  • 534 1  -  By LIM SOON NEO A CONSCIOUS EFFORT must be made to preserve traditional practices by keeping them up-to-date in a society which has undergone considerable changes, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Mr Lee's call, made at a Lunar New Year
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    • 303 1 m MARKET REVIEWS 12,14 CROSSWORDS 11 MONEY ft EXCHANGES 6 TV ft RADIO 11 COMMODITIES 8 BRISTOW 10 AIRCRAFT SCHEDULE 4 DOONESBURY 4 MAJOR JAPANESE trading houses fear that their huge volume of trade with South Africa may come under international scrutiny and criticism. ASIA-PACIFIC, Page 4 A FOREIGN INVESTMENT
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1235 2 FT IT WILL GO DOWN in history as one of the great missed opportunities of British industry this century. After inventing the green club-shaped Perrier bottle nearly 85 years ago, the British owners of the famous sparkling water spring in southern France sold the business back
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    • 345 2 THE MANAGEMENT of human resource continues to receive attention among Singapore companies anxious to reach their organisational goals. To advise them on some strategies and approaches they could take, the Fourth National Human Resource Development Conference has been organised by the Singapore Institute of Management
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    • 612 2  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ ALBERTA, a western Canadian province, welcomes small- and medium-sized enterprises. In fact, the government is keen to attract more Singaporeans to set up businesses there. This is tied to two elements: Firstly, the government recognises the importance of SMEs as
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    • 837 3  -  By ROBERT M TOMASKO LAST YEAR'S holiday season was a time of mixed blessings for many American middle managers and staff professionals. The holidays coincided with the end of many corporate fiscal years, the time when the pressure is often greatest to
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    • 596 3 FT SWEDEN was once considered capable of sorting out its labour problems in a relatively amicable fashion. That is no longer true. As Mr Pehr Gyllenhammar, the country's leading industrialist and the chairman of Volvo, has been forced to remark: "Sweden has joined Britain
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    • 850 3  -  By SHERRY BUCHANAN IHT FOR EUROPEAN concerns, the days of "Our man in Peoria" are over. Traditionally, corporate headquarters in Europe tried to run newly acquired companies in far-off lands by putting in one of their own to teach the new acquisitions to
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 424 4 Bernama ES-Kyodo MAJOR JAPANESE trading houses fear that their huge volume of trade with South Africa may come under international scrutiny and criticism. 'Japan's top six trading houses accounted for about 50 per cent of Japan's two-way trade with South Africa in 1987, industry
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    • 222 4 UPI MAJOR JAPANESE steel manufacturers will trim their exports and shift greater emphasis to domestic sales this year in anticipation of a substantial demand growth at home, the economic journal Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday. The paper said sales overseas in 1988 will be
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    • 100 4 AP A 2.03-TRILLION-YEN (US$l5.6 billion) supplementary budget for fiscal 1987 ending March 31 was approved by Japan's House of Councillors, or Upper House, in a plenary session last Saturday. The Bill aimed at expanding domestic demand through increased public investment cleared the House of
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    • 334 4 Reuter INDONESIAN Energy Minister Dr Subroto has said he is trying to make life easier for oil companies operating in Indonesia by cutting red tape and simplifying licensing procedures, and will also grant selective contract extension*. "Foreign contractors, for example, will be allowed
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    • 291 4 AFP TOKYO has urged Washington to withdraw sanctions slapped on Japan for its controversial research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry. The US formally told the Japanese Embassy in Washington last Friday that it would halve
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    • 195 4 AFP SOUTH KOREA recorded an overall trade surplus of U556.26 billion last year, up from U554.25 billion in 1986, the Korea Foreign Trade Association reported on Saturday. Exports in 1967 amounted to U5547.2 billion, up 36.2 per cent from a year earlier, while imports
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    • 80 4 AFP PRESIDENT-ELECT Roh Tae-Woo. who takes office on Thursday, will carry out a massive amnesty including 1,200 political detainees on March 1, authoritative sources reported in Seoul yesterday. The sources said Mr Roh's first action as president will be to summon a Cabinet meeting the
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  • 864 4 ARRIVALS Operator otrvict nwmbor Local tkiw From SU MAS SU SU MAS SU SU MAS MAS SU CPA MA GU SU IOM SU THAI SU SU MAS GU MAS SU SU GU SU SU SU RJ ANZ SU GU THAI GU TK CPA MAS u MAS THAI
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    • 174 4 LONDON The business person's choice, every Tuesday. Thursday. Saturdoy and Sunday. Leaving Chongi Airport at 22:05 hours and arriving Heathrow early the following morning Call your Travel Agent or Air Canada at *****55. AIR CANADA (jfj) Here's why our tenants are extending their leases 15 minutes to the airport and
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 51 4 Doonesbury (SORE, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDAS, MAS BORN ALBERT, PRJNCE OF THE TEMESSee VALiSY... I CANT SEEM WSHAKBTHIS C? IFEEUN6OF...OF... DESTINY! m psi fxJ?im fv i WSS TO SON OF ALBEPT THE ELDER, THE YOUNG PRINCS GREW UP IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPTTOL DOME. rt Jiiil UAMtiyyKg Esa BY GARRY
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 331 5 AP DEMOCRATIC congressional leaders praise Republican President Ronald Reagan's proposed US$l.l trillion US government budget, including plans to slow down military spending. The Democratic-controlled Congress has begun its review of the spending plan for the fiscal year starting next Oct 1 as the Senate Budget
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    • 164 5 Reuter ITALY will seek this week to have Japan and South Korea excluded from a European Community (EC) proposal to end some import quotas, diplomats said on Friday. They said that at a meeting of EC foreign ministers today. Italy would argue
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    • 232 5 AFP THE SOVIET POLITBURO has discussed s nsw draft law regulating private cooperative businesses, snd recommended public discussion of the proposed legislation, the Communist Party dally Pravda said on Saturday. Legislation adopted by the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) last June providee for public discussion of
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    • 171 5 AFP EXPERTS from 130 nonaligned and other developing countries are meeting today in Mohammedia, north-east of Casablanca, lor a three-day discussion of those countries' foreigndebt problems. Information available in Rabat indicates that developing countries' forsign debt averaged a record high of US$l-020 trillion
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    • 473 5 AFP A FOREIGN INVESTMENT slump in West Germany has raised concern in Bonn about the long-term prospects of Western Europe's economic locomotive. West Germany, the strongest European economy, is also "the country where wages are the highest, working hours the shortest, with very little
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    • 399 5 AFP POLITICS is likely to take a backseat at an Organisation of African Unity (OAU) meeting in Addis Ababa today as ministers examine ways of restoring health to the battered and bruised African economy. The regular council of ministers
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    • 293 5 AFP ARAB LEAGUE foreign ministers will lobby UN Security Council members in March for a resolution calling for an international peace conference on the Middle East e Palestinian spokesman said in Tunis yesterday. The resolution would also demand that larael pull out of the
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 63 5 wm ZS"'. Singapore OUTLOOK: Showers ov«r many mn by neon. Report for 24 hour* prior to 7.30pm on Fob 21 at Hrs oI aunoNns— ft.2o Rainfall tai mm trace RaMall Ms m»... 18S.1 Rainy days Ms mbt... 10 Nassau Now DoftW Now York Nicosia Oslo Paris forth Wo 'Janotro Rome
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 331 6 Competitiveness of Malaysian goods enhanced Bernama THE WEAKENING of the Malaysian dollar against other major currencies since the last quarter of 1987 has enhanced the competitiveness of Malaysian goods. Noting that Malaysian goods faced competition, in particular from Indonesia and Thailand, foreign exchange dealers said
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    • 179 6 Reuter THE RESERVE BANK of Australia mounted a major operation in the fourth quarter of 1907 to stabilise the Australian dollar and domestic financial markets after the October stock market collapse. The Australian economy, with relatively unrestricted foreign exchange and money markets, felt the brunt of heavy
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    • 347 6 AFP JAPAN'S Export-Import Bank has agreed to extend yen-denomi-nated loans totalling six billion yen (U5546.2 million) to five Central American countries. Bank officials announced in Tokyo that the government bank signed an agreement on Friday with the Central American Bank
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    • 152 6 AP NEARLY 50 per cent of the local deposits withdrawn from banks in Panama City have been returned in the past four months. The National Banking Commission said last Friday about US$lO3 million of the US$2OB million withdrawn until last October had been recovered by
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    • 104 6 Reuter FRENCH Finance Minister Edouard Balladur has ordered an enquiry into the use made by French state firms of the financial futures market and other new financial instruments. The enquiry follows the decision by state nuclear fuel organisation Cogema to file a fraud suit against
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    • 316 6 Bernama ES MALAYSIA'S narrow money supply or M-1, which comprises currency and demand deposits of the private sector, rose marginally by 0.1 per cent or MslB million in November last year from the previous month. Bank Negara said on Saturday the rise was due to
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    • Forex markets
      • 741 6 Union Bank of Switzerland AFTER the numbing effect of the long wait for the US December trade balance figures, last week was surprisingly calm and stable. The only significant occurrence was a jump of over two centimes in the greenback following the previous Friday's release of the
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      • 92 6 Overseas Union Bank Ltd IT WAS a relatively quiet week with the market closed at mid-week for the Lunar New Year. Dealers were also awaiting the auction of the new 5-year note before taking fresh positions. Bond prices closed mixed. The price of the May 1992 note
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      • 247 6 Asian market z < CURRENCY avorogo deposit roto* for 1 lh* wook •ndod Fob 19 High RICES Law US 7 doyi 6 11/16 6 11/16 1 mmOi 6 11/16 6 11/16 2 iwumttt 6 13/16 6 13/16 3 iwuiiittt 6 13/16 6 13/16 6 6 7/8 6 13/16 9 inmiHw
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      • 94 6 Reuter JAPAN'S M-2 plus CDs money supply is forecast to grow at about 12 per cent after an 11.9 per cent monthly rise in January. However, according to senior Bank of Japan officials last Friday, the current growth of money supply would
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      • 84 6 Silver futures on Feb 19 5.000 troy ounces. US cents per troy ounce Open Htgh Low SoW« Fab 638JO 5.00 Mot 638.00 643 00 634.50 640.00 5.00 Apr 643.90 5.00 Mo r 645.50 652.00 643.00 648-50 4.90 M 655.00 658 00 651.00 656.60 4.80 S^. 664JO 4.70
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      • 490 6 Indicate* tha avaraga of tha prima landing rata* of 12 major banks In S'por* PLR of bantu at the dose of business on Friday, Fob 19, as supplied by the Association of Banks in Singapore. BANK PLR (%> Algemene Bank 6% Allied Irish Bank PLC 6 Amorican
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      • 218 6 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES' US$27.B billion foreign debt makes it a small player in attempts to find solutions to the debt crisis, and Manila prefers to let large debtors take the initiative, according to Central Bank governor Jose Fernandez. "I think anybody who pretends
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 1189 7  -  by PAUL FRANKLAND COMPUTERS HAVE proved a blessing to modern businesses but as in life itself, the good things in computers are counterbalanced by the bad things. The bad news about computers is that they are habit-forming, even addictive. Once you use them, you
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    • 463 7 Reuter LONDON THEATRE managers said last Thursday that a new law brought in to regulate financial markets might affect how they raised money for new shows. A new Financial Services Act, designed to protect investors against fraud, requires anyone even a theatre producer who
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    • 232 7 Reuter BRAZIL and its bank advisory committee are near agreement on a mediumterm financing deal, and a longer-term package could be on the table before the end of March. Finance Minister Mailson Nobrega said in New York on Friday: "If we consider
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    • 241 7 Bernama ES BANK NEGARA has approved a total of 433 applications for M 51.314 billion for financing various projects under the New Investment Fund (NIF) as at Dec 31. 1987 Of this, s total of Ms7l4 million or 54.3 per cent of the approved
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    • 262 7  -  By LEONG WEN WAH A LARGE, US dollar, floating-rate note issue has been put together in Singapore for a state-owned Australian corporation. Singapore International Merchant Bankers Ltd has arranged and lead managed a US$2OO million facility for Tricontinental Corporation Ltd. one of Australia's largest
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    • 642 7 NYT THE BALANCE of power in the US banking industry has shifted dramatically since the October stock market crash, leaving many of America's largest institutions vulnerable to takeovers, according to a study released last Friday. The report by MAC Group, a
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 1261 8 Precious metals weaken after early gains AFP THERE WAS a quiet start to last week due to the closure of US markets for George Washington's birthday, a carnival in Brazil and the Lunar New Year celebrations in the Far East. Precious metals gained ground
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    • 259 8 CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES ended lower last Monday, the only trading for the week as the market closed for the Lunar New Year celebrations. Spot month March was traded Ms 6 lower at Ms99o a tonne on a day which saw cautious trading due to overhanging uncertainty on
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    • 119 8 Chinese Produce BC1 FOt NSW 425.00 Exchange Raburfa 20/25% FOt NSW 3754)0 Si*»n' noon dedng pr fob 20 (SJ/100 kg) Icm on Nutmeg 110 FOt NSW 1455.00 Coconut oil tWP FOt NSW 1223.00 Mb FOt 12.00 Gambler OW drum FOt 122.00 FOt NSW 180.00 Ntw drum FOt Copra
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    • 68 8 Bernama ES OILSEED CULTIVATION in India will undergo tremendous change in the coming yeara in view of experiments at the Indian Agriculture Research Inatitute. The experiments are aimed at producing an ideal plant to bring about stability in oilseed production. A significant development haa already been
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    • 178 8 SOYBEAN FUTURES in Chicago. which rallied sharply at midsession on heavy computer fund buying, plummeted amid late profit-taking and hedge selling on Friday to settle well off session highs. Prices closed up 2tt to 6.0 US cents in heavy trading. March was up 2)4 cents at US$6.3l a bushel,
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    • 173 8 WHEAT FUTURES in Chicago closed mostly higher on Friday as new-crop months firmed against a mixed tone in nearby March and May. Prices were off US cent in May to up 6.0 cents higher in deferreds. New crop December was up 6.0 cents. July through March set new contract
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    • 518 8 AFP WORLD OIL PRICES fell at week's end to their lowest level for two months. Oil circles said late Friday that prices weakened because of the continuing mild winter weather in Europe, excess supplies, and rumours of discounts being granted by members of
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    • 294 8 AFP VIETNAM'S coal industry is facing a crisis of shrinking coal deposits. Nguyen Ngoc Buu. external relations officer with the Hong Gai Coal Co in north-east Vietnam, said last week: "During the *****, you only had to extract three to four cubic metres of
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    • 104 8 PRICES on the Malaysian Rubber Exchange and Licensing Board were unchanged to steadier last Monday before closing for the rest of the week for the Lunar New Year. Deslsrs said there were little price movements throughout the day as there was not much 01.l interest ahead of the long
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    • 181 8 THE TIN PRICE on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) firmed another four Malayaian cents to M 517.24 a kg in the two days of trading last week on fairly strong demand. The metal rose three cents on Monday on European and Japanese demand following the US dollar's
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    • 119 8 Reuter THE EUROPEAN Community (EC) cannot prevent companies from swepping consignments of uranium to beet s US embargo on imports of the mineral from South Africa. Qeorg von Klitzing. director of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) supply sgency, was commenting
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    • 266 8 London Commodity Exchange Contain ln-<to) OF London London, wltn option Mar High/low 1265/1266 (1270/1272) 1266/1250 May Mgh/Low SaWi 1295/1296 (129®/1299} 1298/1279 (Nil Cocoa Mor Ngh/Low 1042/1043 (1039/1040) 1046/1033 Moy High/Low Sotw A 1066/1067 (1062/1063) 1070/1056 (3523 No 6 FO# (USS/H mm) Mar Kgh/Low 191.40/191.60 196J0/190.00 May 191.60/191.80 Mgh/tow
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    • 63 8 I For a welcome change, Hop on the train and head for Raffles. Lunch today at The Elizabethan Grill of Raffles Hotel, where we present traditional English food. We're conveniently close to City Hall MRT Station, just a stop or two from your office. For reservations, call *****76 P Raffles
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 714 9 US wins first gold medal in figure skating AFP BRIAN BOITANO won the gripping finale to the "Battle of the Brians'' in Calgary last Saturday night and left a whole host nation to weep. The 24-year-old Californian took the men's individual figure Skating title at the expense of his food
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    • 328 9 UPI TIRED Of paying rent for no return except cancelled cheques? frustrated by your landlord's failure to fix the leaky roof? Weary. of worrying whether the custodian remembered to empty the manure bin? If so, then the equine condominiums
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    • 122 9 Reuter YANNICK NOAH of France upeet top-seed and title-holder Boris Becker in the semi-finals of the Italian indoor tennis tournament last Saturday, winning through to a final meeting with American veteran Jimmy Connors. Second-seed Connors, seeking his first tournament win since the Tokyo indoor
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    • 460 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS AT THE END of the round, as he kicked off the sludge from his spiked shoes in the golfing wing of Warren Golf Club, M Murugiah pondered his card and groaned miserably. "I'm very disappointed with my score. Putt no
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    • 622 9 UPI MIKE TYSON, who punched a hole in his dressing room wall before his last bout, was nearly as nervous before his wedding to actress Robin Givens. This time, he refrained from doing damage. "Mike said, this is worse than a fight,"
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 912 10 How should outsiders react to plans for a single European market by 1992 with glee, because there will be great opportunities for all comers, or with alarm, for fear the result will be a protectionist 'Fortress Europe'? This article from The Economist tackles
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    • 650 10 The Economist BUILDING the brave new Europe requires hard slog, not just heady slogans. Delays are already visible. The European Commission's frontier-free programme requires the passing of no fewer than 300 separate pieces of legislation between 1985 and 1992. The commission has supplied
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    • 677 10 The Economist SOME ECONOMISTS are again fretting about Britain's balance of payments the cause, they say, of so many of the country's economic woes in the past 30 years. Most forecasters reckon that the current-account deficit could reach a record £5 billion next year. The British
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • THE ARTS
    • 452 11  -  -by! SHAUN KOH ON FEB 5 TO 7, The Edinburgh String Quartet, one of Scotland's leading chamber ensembles. performed to s good reception at the Hongkong Arts Festival. The performances marked the group's debut in the Far East end it followed them up by playing
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    • 395 11  -  By TOH HAI LEONG THE FILM, The Pawnbroker, is s searing study of a Jewish survivor of a German concentration camp, brilliantly played by Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront). Directed by veteran New York film-maker Sidney Lumet (The Verdict and Prince of the City) and
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    • 522 11  -  Mountain Boys to offer Singaporeans a taste of the music By SHAUN KOH BLUEGRASS MUSIC is traditional in one way. and modern in another. After all, bluegrass just like funk and third-stream is an amalgam of several genres of music. It is a brand of music
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1242 11 to tSGE) mm a 12 7JO PM Op«nino and Programme Highlights followed by Lord Polar Wlmsey The Nino Talon (Pt U 8.30 Adam Smith's Money World The Groat Crash Of 1987 (Pt M, Soo highlights). 9.00 Shoaxlng Operas A Dream Of The Red Mansions. It it performed by the PRC
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    • 648 11 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Talk steamily? (5) 6 Do badly as runner and politician (5) 9 Such a wedding may go off with a bang! (7) 10 A show to see again, from the sound of it (5) 11 It makes one red in the face (5) 12 Bird author
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 4809 12  -  r Sinyapore P L. 4 By LISA LEE THERE WERE no fireworks for the Dragon which made a rather subdued entrance in the stockmarket on the last day of a week that saw many investors and dealers in a festive mood. Most of the speculating was
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    • 376 12 K.Lumpur MBT THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market had the shortest aver trading period last week, opening for only one-and-a-half days before closing for the Chinese New Year holidays from Feb 17 to 19. Nonetheless, share prices finished on higher ground, taking the New Straits Times
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    • 444 12 m r \lAustraiia AFP A SERIES of strong profit results and improved Australian trada figures for January saw the Australian share market finish the week firmer for the first time in four weeks. Brokers said the market took encouragement from the release last
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    • 143 12 AFP WEST GERMAN stocks jumped by 2 per cent at the start of last week on the Commerzbank Index, but the market stagnated the rest of the week. The US dollar's firmness and talk of a falling US trade deficit initially gave the market a
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    • 323 12  -  Wnk ended Feb 19 compiled by JULIANA TAY CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS The court has ordered the winding up of an associate company of Faber Merlin Malaysia Bhd, President Merlin Hotel Pte ltd. which is the operator of a hotel by the same name in Kitchener Rood
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    • 872 14 Investors remain cautious 1 L Hongkong Sm! DBS Securities HK THE HONGKONG market registered a gain of 41 points on the Hang Seng Index during the one-and-a-half days of trading before the Lunar New Year last week. Activity during the short week was
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    • 307 14 H Tokyo 4 AFP SHARE PRICES kept rising on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week as investors returned to the market, encouraged by a boom in the second section and the stability of the US dollar. The Nikkei Average, a 210.60-yen winner
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    • 762 14  -  ■mml London L-i A From MICHAEL CLARK ANY LINGERING WORRIES among investors that the British economy was heading for a recession must have been mostly dispelled last week following the latest batch of economic news from the Treasury. If anything, the figures indicated that
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    • 207 14 UBS THE ZURICH stock market reached a new high for the year last week as the buying trend strsngthened. A lower-than-ex-pected US trade deficit for December confirmed November's positive trend. The growing confidence in the US dollar, coupled with the low level of intereat rates,
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    • 929 14 B1 I I J New York I 1 FT TO THE DWINDLING number of investors who still believe that economic policies and prospects are the fundamental forces behind finsncisl market performance, the most important event on Wall
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    • 348 14  -  From SHIRISH NADKARNI and AJIT AGHARKAR IT WAS BOUND to happen. The members of the Bombay Stock Exchange once again decided to adopt a militant stand against the continuing controls over trading. Although the market was officially open on Friday last
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    • 111 14 ABN Bank AMSTERDAM stock prices roe* substantially on Monday and Tuesday, stimulated by better-than-expected US trade deficit figures, takeover activities (Nedlloyd and Audet) and the merger between Amro Bank and Belgian Generate de Banque. The general stock index rose 5.9 points to 229.0 on
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    • 980 15  -  By ROSIE TAN MANY INVESTORS in Singapore have never ventured beyond buying and selling stocks that are quoted on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. They are understandably apprehensive about forking out a small fortune to purchase stocks in a company that is
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    • 721 15 MBT SENIOR PARTNER of accountancy firm Peat Marwick, Mr Paul Geh said quite confidently that business conditions this year will be better than the whole of 1987. Interviewed on the eve of Chinese New Year, Mr Geh said the improvement in business conditions
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    • 1021 15 Strong export-oriented listed companies making substantial recovery MBT THE FIRST definite signs that listed textile-based companies in Malaysia would be seeing better times came sometime last year. Traditionally strong and export-oriented companies such as Dragon, Phoenix and South Pacific Textile Industries, which had experienced
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    • 256 15 MBT SISTEM Televisyen Malaysia (STMB), which is expected to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) in April, expects to make a pre-tax profit of M 517.58 million for the year ending August 31 1988. Based on the enlarged paidup capital of 44.12 million
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 297 16 AFP THE AMERICAN airline company PanAm Corp has announced losses of U*****.5 million for the last quarter of 1987 and U*****.3 million in red ink for the year. PanAm announced its poor 1987 results three days before its employees were scheduled fo carry
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    • 762 16 New York Reuter WALL STREET ended the week with a strong advance, encouraged by a rally in airline stocks. Short covering amid the expiration of several futures and options contracts aided the gain on Friday, traders said. The tranaportation index posted its strongest
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    • 318 17 UPI THE CHAIRMAN of Japan's justice committee was caught in the act of evading taxes on stock market profits. His colleague, the chairman of the budget panel and an infamous gambler, was fingered for handing out US$75O gift certificates to the opposition. These two
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    • 193 17 FT FORD Motor is to reward its US employees for record corporate earnings last year by paying out US$635 million under a union-negotiated profit sharing agreement. Ford claimed on Friday that the total payment would be the largest ever made by a
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    • 176 17 Reuter ALLEGHENY International Inc has said the company and certain subsidiaries have filed in Pittsburgh for reorganisation under Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy laws. Allegheny also announced that it has received a financing committment of US$l75 million from Chemical Bank and Marine Midland
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    • 117 17 AFP TWO leading Japanese car makers are considering producing pick-up trucks in the US in a bid to dodge expected dumping charges, a leading economic newspaper reported on Saturday. Nihon Keizai said Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's top car maker, is studying a plan
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    • 809 17 Amsterdam FU 18 FL8 IABN Aaoon Ahold Ahzo 39 60 66 80 72 40 97 20 147 60 0.1 -2 2 -09 1.2 •0.1 AMEV Amro Bank Am Stad ....44 20 59 70 116 00 •06 -08 -2 Barkal BOLS ***** Borsumij 8180 Buahrman Taftaroda 42 30 Calva Elsaviar 40
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    • 373 17 Kodak disputes amount NYT THE POLAROID Corp is seeking damages of up to US$5.7 billion from the Eastman Kodak Co for Kodak's infringement of Polaroid's instant photography patents, according to documents released on Friday by the US District Court in Boston. The estimate includes interest and
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    • 750 17 London Reuter UK SHARES showed little net change over the week as measured by the FTSE 100 Index, with traders saying the moet significant factor was the continuing slump in volume. Uncertainty over the path of both the UK and US economies and a
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  • 162 18 Reuter US SECRETARY of State George Shultz yesterday opened talks in Moscow that will try to narrow differences on a US-Soviet strategic arms pact and agree on details of a Soviet pull-out from Afghanistan. Mr Shultz met Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze at an official guest-house
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  • 513 18 Bernama THE PRO TEM COMMITTEE of the new Umno yesterday held its first meeting since its registration on a day when critics of Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad were urged not to join the new party being set up.
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  • 184 18 Bernama MALAYSIAN vegetable farmers are worried they may be edged out of the lucrative Singapore market by Thai vegetable exporters using Malaysian roads to transport their produce to the island republic, according to Deputy Agriculture Minister Datuk Alex Lee. Datuk Lee said yesterday the farmers
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  • 91 18 Bernama SARAWAK recorded a trade surplus of M 54,241 million last year, an increase of Ms9o9 million or 27 per cent over that of 1986. The increase was mainly due to higher earnings from sawlogs, according to preliminary figures released by the State Statistics Department.
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  • 133 18 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government has identified some 60,000 new tax evaders among business men, including petty traders, last year. Deputy Finance Minister Senator Farid Ariffin said warning notices would be issued to them to submit their income tax returns. He was speaking
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  • 598 18 Reuter FEAR AND DOUBT still stalk the Wall Street and London stock exchanges four months after the crash, but Tokyo is one bright spot where brokers predict share prices will soon match their record highs. The New York Stock Exchange, the
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  • 151 18 UPI PRIME MINISTER Noboru Takeshita said yesterday he would try to deepen personal friendship with new South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and offer all Japan could do to make the Seoul Olympics a success. Mr Takeshita will make his first trip to
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  • 294 18 THE INSURANCE Corporation of Singapore (ICS) is taking steps to identify individuals who face a higher risk of contracting Aids. It plans to do this by introducing questions on Aids Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome which kills by destroying the body's
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  • 91 18 AFP CHINESE Communist Party head Zhao Ziyang reappeared yesterday in China's official press, dissipating alarmist rumours but without giving reasons for his absence during the Lunar New Year holidays. The People's Daily said in a front-page report that a group of about 100 entrepreneurs
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  • 295 18  -  By WILLIAM CHIA THE SECOND Singapore Jewellery Show, held in Tokyo from Jan 26 to 28, had succeeded in securing increased orders as well as improving the number and quality of visitors, said the Trade Development Board, its organiser. The show, supported by the Asean
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  • LATE FILE
    • 40 18 AFP THE PHILIPPINE military should stop making excuses about inadequate laws to fight communist insurgents and concentrate on finding and destroying the rebels. Special Presidential Assistant Teodoro Locsin wrote in the Daily Globe newspaper yesterday. AFP
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    • 29 18 AFP FRENCH Defence Minister Andre Giraud arrived in Canberra last night, hoping to heal relations with Australia after a bitter rift over New Caledonia. AFP
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    • 63 18 Reuter THE West German member of an historians' panel which probed Kurt Waldheim's wartime past yesterday said the Austrian president should resign. Historian Manfred Messerschmidt told a British television interviewer in London that the question at stake was not only whether Waldheim knew about Nazi
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    • 51 18 Reuter GREEK Cypriots voted for a new president yesterday with both candidates pledging early talks with the TurkishCypriot community to end the 14-year division of the island. Polls close at 6pm (1600 GMT) with the result expected from a simple majority by today morning.
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    • 45 18 Bernama THE Barisan National and Partai Social ia Rakyat Malaysia (PSRM) have finalised preparations for the Tajung Puteri state by-election. Nomination day for the by-elec-tion is today and if there is a contest, polling will be on March 5. Bernama
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    • 41 18 AFP OPPOSITION leaders from India's 13 left- and right-wing parties have identified 22 "urgent" issues at a meeting yesterday and decided to "coordinate floor action" against the government when parliament opens today, a spokesman said. AFP
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 204 19 Seatrade Week AMERICAN PRESIDENT Lines wants to build and operate modern container handling facilities at three Indian ports. .It has reportedly made overtures to the Indian Surface Transport Ministry for permission to build and manage terminals at Ballard Pier in Bombay,
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    • 281 19  -  By G DURAIRAJ PORT KLANG has been chosen by the Bangkok-based Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (Escap) to develop a model port tariff structure. The Malaysian port is one of four ports in the region selected by the UN agency
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    • 277 19 THE "PRICE" of getting cargo off Sydney's clogged wharves has jumped from the usual bottle of whisky to cash payments of between Assoo in a few weeks, the Federal Opposition claimed in parliament. Industrial Relations spokesman Senator Fred
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 122 19 Reuter ARGENTINE port workers continued an indefinite strike in demand of a 32 per cent wage increase, union sources said. However, the stoppage called by the Sole Union of Port Administration Workers only affects about 20 per cent of the goods coming into Buenos Aires port,
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      • 65 19 Reuter THE FAR Eastern Freight Conference said it was adjusting currency adjustment factors (CAF) for cargoes from France to 32 per cent from 36.5 per cent and from Taiwan to 36.5 per cent from 41 per cent. After adjustment for the 3.35 per cent European Area Differential,
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      • 130 19 Reuter TOURISTS aboard a Swedish-flagged cruise ship had their vacations cut short by a mutiny off Costa Rica, Costa Rican Security Ministry officials said. Crew members of the Galaxias, which was to cruise the Caribbean via the Panama Canal, staged a rebellion off the
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    • 163 20 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European. Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia. Straits/Japan and the member lines ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang Shipping ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Djakarta Lloyd Nedlloyd
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    • 118 20 A JOINT Arab company for land and sea transportation will be operational as from March 1. The company named Arab Bridge Company is a joint venture involving Iraq, Jordan and Egypt It will run goods and passengers' sea transport from the fled Sea port
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    • 348 20 Lloyd's List TWO OF LONDON'S leading shipbroking firms have merged to become one of the largest sale and purchase houses in the capital. Eggar Forrester (Holdings) Limited has acquired C W Kellock and Company, although both will continue to trade under their original identities. The move
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    • 893 20 PRICES continue to rise in the demolition sector to surpass the US$24O per light ton level Brokers reported that sale of the Century Castie (ex Esso Castellon), motor tanker of 15,420 light tons built 1968, to a Taiwanese breaker for about US$245 per light ton. Taiwanese breakers also purchased
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    • 1020 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Contain*' vw 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahroniuol linor XI 3 Africa Ocaan XN 2 ANtrora VI 3 AC Toaplar XI 5 AmarKOn Tpit XN 4/5 Anro Sarvica IV 2/3 Arrow linos H 5 Anon Ocaon 4 Attas lin* 1 s AN(
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    • 317 20 Reuter THE FREQUENCY and scope of strikes over pay and conditions at two of Rotterdam's giant oil storage companies increased as the FNV port union piles on the pressure and calls on foreign unions to refuse to handle diverted ships. FNV spokesman Bert
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    • 414 21 Lloyd s List TWO UNITED STATES oil majors have switched their tankers to the Bermuda register so that they can fly the British flag to obtain UK Royal Navy protection in the MidEast Gulf. Mobil Corp has placed three large tankers while
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    • 213 21 THE President Truman, one of five vessels to be built by American President Lines in West German yards, will be completed at the end of April. The naming ceremony will be performed in Kiel by Mrs Hannelore Kohl, wife of the Chancellor
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    • 65 21 Reuter THE St Lawrence Seaway Authority said it expects the seaway to open for navigation during the week of March 28. The exact date will depend on the progress of work on the Wei land Canal. Firm opening dates will be announced as early in
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    • 166 21 Reuter AN IRANIAN oil tanker recently repaired after an Iraqi air attack has collided with a Cypriot ship in the Gulf, shipping sources said. They said the 106,790tonne Khark 2, hit by a missile in September, collided with the 217,257tonne ore
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    • 174 21 Reuter WORLD LAID-UP tanker tonnage fell slightly to 11.16 million tonnes dw (121 vessels) in January from 11.09 million (128) at end-December, Lloyds of London Press said. The latest total included 14 vessels of 200,000 to 299,999 tonnes dw totalling 3.62 million tonnes
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    • 59 21 DATUK TIK MUBTAFFA, 42. has been appointed as the general manager for Kuantan Port Authority (KPA). Datuk Tik, a career civil servant, last held the post of Pahang state financial officer. He was appointed to the new position succeeding Haji Fadzil Yusof who has returned to the
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    • 8316 26 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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    • 1323 27 GRAIN bulkers offering March loading days in the US Gulf found rates for the Japan voyage weakening to US$26 (fio) on the London shiping freights market on Thursday. Continental paid that rate to the Milito for a 52.000-ton first-half March consignment The US North Pacific loading area, on
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    • 1385 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES JURONG PORT Pomorac J8'9 alongside *****700 VMMt Barth Arrival Departure Seiahtera J2 alongside 22 02/2300 KEPPEL WHARVES Citra JuwitO J3 *****000 23 02 1500 Darsa Jaya IX Jl 2202,0700 22 02-2300 Aconcoguo Amur No 2 Cherry Koto Mutioro Koto Rotnc K18 KI9 <33 K3I
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    • 2038 28 Who acts for whom A—-B AB Shipping Boustead Shpg Agencies. ABC Containerize 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). All trans Alltrans Express.
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    • 348 30 AP Reuter SOUTH KOREAs shipbuilders received less new orders last year but had more backlog orders than their Japanese competitors. Industry officials at the Korea Shipbuilders Association said that South Korean shipyards received 3.43 million gross tons of new orders for
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    • 190 30 Feb 22-25 Insurance solvency assessment, Insurance Reinsurance Research Group course. The Gloucester Hotel, Harrington Gardens. London SW7. Feb 28-March 4 Forecasting shipping markets. Cambridge Academy of Transport course. University Arms Hotel, Cambridge. March I*3 Cargo insurance clauses workshop organised by Insurance Reinsurance Research Group. Royal Horseguards Hotel, Whitehall
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    • 178 30  -  From Kingsley Wood AUSTRALIAN maritime trade unions have lifted a seven-year old ban against flag of convenience ships loading coal in New South Wales. Following talks between the New South Wales Coal Owners' Association, the maritime trades unions and the
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    • 98 19 mm TWO OF LONDON'S leading shipbroking firms have merged to become one of the largest sale and purchase houses in the capital. Pag* II TWO UNITED STATES oil majors have switched their tankers to the Bermuda register so that they can fly the British flag to obtain UK Royal Navy
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    • 584 21 The Straits Steamship Group STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok F&O Containers I 1 i»"rii BENAVON OtMUk MY RITANOMMI LAMS BAY NOW ROW EXPRESS CAftOMMM BAY Hamburg express yokio ana Abo Accepting Cargo For: NaaMwf to Capanhagan. Airtoia, ctlintn. Mm*. Stockhotn. Matamti. *»n«iton to Awhwra. Otto
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    • 374 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG, PENANG, BUSAN. INCHON STRAITS/KOREA 1 MO JI container to be transhipped at Buvin Korea CALLING INCHON DIRECTLY ON OMM General Survey at Godown PPW PIC on 22/02/ M from I DONA* HIS/N I— 1200 H«MV Nol S POHf A
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    • 365 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 (30 Lines FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDERE I ROSTOCH INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE "VIA COLOMBO: Accepting carfo tar INDIA Bombay, Cochin, Medras i Calcutta "VIA LARNACA Accepting cargo tor Lattako, Piraeus,
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    • 775 27 CRYSTAL 4 CFS freight services pte ltd Tel: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: ***** Fa*: *****88 REGULAR CONSOL PORTS: LA/NY 23/2, 1/3 BOMBAY 27/2,19/3 ROT/HAM 24/2,27/2 COLOMBO 23/2,29/2 AUCK/WEL 23/2, 4/3 CHITTG 22/2,27/2 SYD/MEL 23/2, 2/3 BUSAN 25/2, 3/3 KEE KAO 21/2,28/2 H.KONG 21/2, 1/3 TOK/YOK 22/2,29/2 BANGKOK 22/2,27/2 P.K/PEN 20/2,27/2
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    • 703 28 FINF-LINFH SHIPPING PTK LTD 1 Wi, 04 0?C Marin i House Spore 0?07 Tf t ??S9on 1 mes) T[* RS .'MI FI INF R fAX ??W* EUROPE SERVICE n: n y,.n rm ijna:'.iv 11 n im U/l V 3 FAR EAST SERVICE an jm 11/1 I u/i w m a/i
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    • 158 29 Lpttb mmm LCL WEEKLY SERVICE TO: BAMOKOK HAM/BAH* «/3 HONOKONO 2?i "OTTtROAM 1/3 2SS®*°JJ® TILBURY PM MANTLE 1M SYD/MELB J/, aoclaioc an (transit Mm# 12 days) WEEKLY COMSOL. SERVICE FROM GERMANY rn« mm, IXO ET* SPORE COH CARRIER Sift! vj *n CON-CARRIER S7j«7 11/2 LCL SERVICE TO CARIBBEAN PORTS aun
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    • 488 29 POH TIONG CHOON SHIPPING (PTE) LTD TEL: *****66 (10 LINES) FAX: *****41 TELEX: R*****6 POHSHIP PTC GROUP LCL/FCL SERVICE TO KEELUNG/KAO 28/2 6/3 13/3 BUSAN 1/3 ft/3 15/3 HONG KONG 22/2 1/3 7/3 TOKYO/YOKO 25/2 3/3 18/3 BANGKOK 27/2 5/3 12/3 UK/EUROPE 24/2 9/3 21/3 JAKARTA 25/2 USA/CANADA 6/3 14/2
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    • 1176 30 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd TFL ??***** (20 Lines! TLX RS ***** 8. RS ***** fc. I \M I K\ \K I l\l K III) STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE iPECIALIST IN RO-R0 HEAVY LIFTS 'Subject to cargo inducement NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG. TAIWAN CHINESE PORTS, SUBJECT
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    • 722 30 BSBO, CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG i. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR *****3/*****1 04-*****2/4, *****3 07-*****8 '07-*****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 •02-*****22 *****88 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE fEEDCR B. BUTANC 415 B. BUTANC CI B BUTANC m B BUTANC 48 OTHtR OCSTINATIONS AARHUS AMSTERDAM ANTWERP. BASLE,
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