The Business Times, 23 February 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 280 1 Dow Jones lower WALL STREET stocks were narrowly mixed in early trading yesterday with blue chips showing small changes. Brokers said some general buying extended over from Friday. The Dow Jones 30 was off one at 2013 and declining issues were slightly behind gainers. Eastman Kodak was
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  • 270 1 A RALLY ON Wall Street last Friday triggered buying interest in major Asian stock markets which closed moderately higher in steady trading yesterday. In Singapore, share prices rose steadily over a broad front with light profit-taking well-ab-sorbed. Brokers said there was some
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  • 637 1  -  Only 4pc of aspiring remisiers and dealers pass exam By ROSIE TAN ASPIRING REMISIERS and dealers are finding it increasingly difficult to enter the world of stockbroking, a profession which can be extremely lucrative. Would-be stockbrokers are discovering, much to their chagrin, that passing the compulsory
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  • 545 1  -  By BOEY KIT YIN TWO YEARS of operating in Singapore have convinced Micropolis Corporation to sink deeper roots. It is investing $80 million to $100 million over the next two years in its local disk drive factory. Most of this will go towards a
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  • 155 1 THE US DOLLAR finished easier against major currencies in another dull session on the Tokyo currency market yesterday. Recent mild bullishness gave way to confusion over the dollar's direction due to the lack of price-moving factors, dealers said. The confusion arose from last week's
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  • 238 1 AFP TAIWAN'S President Lee TengHui yesterday advocated closer cooperation with Singapore in the financial fields to spur the industrialisation of the Asian region. "As a city state, Singapore can obtain much of its needed raw materials and food from nearby member countries of
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  • 244 1 Reuter TAIWAN, faced with growing protectionism in the US and competition from other Asian countries, is boosting investment and trade with 11 Third World nations to diversify its markets. Taiwan's trade with India, Pakistan, Turkey, Bangladesh, Egypt. Morocco, Kenya. Brazil, Chile, Argentina and
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  • 305 1 MICROPOLIS Corporation's decision to pour more money into its Singapore operation is in spite of the possibility that the US may impose import duties on disk drives next year. Chairman and president Stu Mabon said growing protectionist sentiment in the US might result in a
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    • 245 1 Full report, Pag* 14 Regional markets, Paga 16 rasa SINGAPORE IS TO BECOME the centra of the Hitachi group's radio cassette tape recorder exports. HOME HEWS, Page 2 THE GOVERNMENT'S policy of turning more to the private sector for its goods and services has been reinforced by the Auditor-General's latest
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    • 123 1 The electronics of economics THE ELECTRONICS revolution is changing the way people live and companies do business. But a distinguished American professor, now at the National University of Singapore as the Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor of Economics and Banking, explains why electronics will even have a profound impact on
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 296 2  -  By ANNA TEO SINGAPORE is to become the centre of the Hitachi group's radio cassette tape recorder exports from May following a production shift from its Taiwanese subsidiary. Hitachi Ltd has decided to move the production of audio goods from the wholly-owned Hitachi Television
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    • 491 2  -  By LOH HUI YIN PLEASED with the results so far, the government will press on with its move to turn to the private sector as much as possible for goods and services. The Auditor-General, in his report for the financial year
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    • 271 2 OVER-ESTIMATION of the amount of revenue from a few key items resulted in the government collecting $1.5 billion less than it projected for financial year 1986/1987. This was revealed in the Auditor-General's report for the financial year from April 1, 1966, to March 31. 1987.
      Source: Report of the Auditor-General for the financial year 1986/87  -  271 words
    • 372 2 THE TRIP by Singapore's first industrial machinery mission to Japan has resulted in negotiations for contracts worth about $18 million. About $9.4 million of this amount are for subcontracting work on Japanese projects in third countries, according to the Trade Development Board (TDB),
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    • 359 2  -  By WILLIAM CHIA SINGAPORE sold about $2.6 billion worth of industrial machinery to overseas customers last year, a jump of about 25 per cent from the year before. About $953 million of the goods sold were domestic exports, according to figures released by the
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    • 153 2 AN EIGHTEEN-MEMBER Singapore trade delegation will visit Shandong Province, China, from March 2 to March 8 to foster closer trade ties. Led by Trade Development Board (TDB) chairman Alan Yeo, the delegation hopes to increase trade with Shandong in the
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    • 135 2 A PIONEER in cell biology and Nobel Prize winner, Dr George E Pelade, is the latest Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor. Dr Pelade, who is senior research scientist at Yale University School of Medicine, will speek on "Structure and Function at the Celluler Level" in
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    • 182 2 ANY INCREASE in student intake by the National University of Singapore can only be made after careful consideration, the government said yesterday. Responding to a call last week by the Parliamentary Estimates Committee to review NUS's admission policy to take in
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    • 172 2 THE FIRST Deputy Prim® Minister and Defence Minister, Mr Qoh Chok Tong, has tabled two motions for Thursday's parliamentary session. He has proposed that four ministers be added to the Select Committee looking at two bills on the concept of Team MPs. The four ministers
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    • 55 2 HOW to finance health care and contain coat will be discussed extensively at a half-day seminar at the NUS this Saturday. Ten academic papers will be presented at the seminar "Economic issues in health care" to be opened by Associate Professor Aline Wong, chairman of the Government
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    • 227 2 PJ QEORQE has joined Datacraft Computer Services Re Ltd in Singapore as managing director, with effect from Feb 11. Mr George was formerly with Unisys Asia Distributor Operations and South East Asia ISO functions. He has more than 18 years" experience in the information systems industry and
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    • 183 2 THE Singapore Chineae Chamber of Commerce arid Industry (SCCCI) and the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce (SMCC) are organising a seminar next month on the use of computers by small- and medi-um-sized enterprises. The seminar, part of efforts by the chambers to promote racial
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 489 3 MBT A MEETING of industry experts from Asean countries is expected to be called soon to finalise a Mitsubishi Motor Corp propos*v al for "brand-to-brand ex- change" among its affiliated companies in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. But it will be some time before
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    • 396 3 AP -'"CHINA reaped a US$l-billion bonanza from weapons sales to Iran last year, but is not expected to block an Iranian arms emi., bargo the United States is x seeking in the United Nations 0 Security Council, according to US officials. The most recent
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    • 61 3 Reuter AN EGYPTIAN trade official tour- Jog the Gulf has said that Cairo seeking Arab investment for large industrial projects. A list of 79 industrial ventures be presented to an Arab investment conference in Cairo next month, Dr Muhyiddin Ghar- Ib, deputy chairman of Egypt's Investment
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    • 154 3 AFP THE THAI GOVERNMENT lost a parliamentary seat to the opposition in a by-election in northern Phrae province, state-owned television announced in Bangkok on Sunday. In unofficial results, Thai Unity Party candidate Chuwit Chitsakul won the lower house seat with 115,656 votes against Democrat
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    • 327 3 AFP THE AUSTRALIAN Labor Party's winning streak in federal and state elections will be put to the test next month when New South Wales elects a new state parliament. Premier Barry Unsworth, who has admitted he is the underdog, announced on Sunday
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    • 281 3 Reuter MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Or Mahathir Mohamad, who successfully warded off challenges after his party was declared illegal, has dropped all rivals from the leadership of his new party. Dr Mahathir announced the line-up for the New United Malays National Organisation after
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    • 228 3 AFP PRIME MINISTER Rajiv Gandhi of India on Sunday accused Pakistan of damaging relations with India, adding that Islamabad had failed to implement agreed measures to ease tension, officials in New Delhi said. Addressing his ruling Congress (I) Party's parliamentary leaders, Mr Gandhi said that
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    • 61 3 AFP NORTH KOREA and India on Sunday signed a trade and economic promotion agreement in New Delhi, according to Pyongyang Radio in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo. The official North Korean Central News Agency had reported that a North Korean team led by Premier
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    • 163 3 AP A PROPOSED SYSTEM of national identification cards intended to help the Philippines fight the communist insurgency by isolating rebels would be a sensitive and costly measure, a high-rank-ing official has said. Transportation and Commerce Secretary Raineno Reyes said on Sunday the card system
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    • 141 3 An era of growth. NEC is helping open new horizons in business growth all across Asia. With increasingly powerful networks of business and personal computers that allow offices to operate more efficiently. And integrated voice, data and image communications that help people work more closely together. In Asia and all
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 304 4 Reuter AFRICAN foreign ministers meeting in Addis Ababa hope to revive the continent's campaign for an international conference bringing together African debtors and their western creditors. The conference proposal. first mooted by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1985 and renewed at a
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    • 257 4 AFP SOVIET authorities are offering incentives to encourage people to build their own homes in efforts to combat the country's housing shortage. Pravda reported last Sunday that planners wanted every Soviet family to have a flat or house to itself by the year 2,000.
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    • 440 4 Negotiators fear trade bill will be threatened AP US HOUSE trade negotiators plan to jettison Congressman Richard Gephardt's retaliatory trade amendment from the House-passed trade bill because it threatens to scuttle the legislation, according to congressional leaders. As a courtesy to the presidential contender
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    • 294 4 Reuter FORMER US central bank chief Paul Volcker has said financial chaos and recession could result if the United States did not cut its federal budget deficit. Mr Volcker, who stepped down as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board last August, said
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    • 182 4 Reuter ARGENTINA LOST US$l2.2 billion in agricultural earnings over six yesrs because of protectionist measures imposed by the leading industrialised nations, a government official said on Friday. "In the five years to 1986, including a 40 per cent growth in production, we calculate we lost
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    • 104 4 Reuter EUROPEAN COMMUNITY foreign ministers had hoped to tie up yesterday the loose ends of the February summit deal to repair EC's finances by agreeing to a final set of curbs on community farm spending. Diplomats said that during
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    • 315 4 Reuter WEST GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl, back from talks in Washington, has said that the West should take Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at his word over conventional arms cuts. Mr Kohl told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview published last
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    • 152 4 Reuter ITALY SAID 1987 had shown the country's economy was doing well and Italian companies were increasingly competitive on world markets. The satisfaction was expressed in a statement on Sunday from Prime Minister Giovanni Goria's office on the significance of economic indicators released
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    • 289 4 AFP COMMUNIST-BACKED millionaire George Vassiliou won the Cyprus presidential election early yesterday, winning 51.63 per cent of the votes and defeating veteran right-wing politician Glafcos Clerides. As the results were announced, Mr Vassiliou issued an appeal for calm and emphasised that "unity, unity and
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    • 196 4 Reuter THE UNITED STATES and the Soviet Union have signed a fishing agreement that gives American fishermen access to the Soviet Pacific coast. The accord was signed by US Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on the first
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    • 201 4 Reuter BRITISH INOUSTRY is shrugging off the effects of the October stock market crash, according to a survey by the national employers' group released yesterday. The Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) monthly industrial trends survey of 1,500 manufacturing firms shows
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    • 372 5 As corporations have expanded their operations globally, the greater the range and complexity of their financial needs have become. So much so that only a handful of financial institutions can now offer anything like the full range of services that are required. Global finance is moving increasingly diverse directions Fewer
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 473 6 THE more active June Eurodollar yesterday opened unchanged from Chicago's close but two ticks lower than Friday's closing level at 92.89 Trading was locked within a very tight range of 92.89 to 92.91 in thin and quiet trading. The June contract managed to close one tick lower at 92.90.
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    • 212 6 Reuter IMM foreign currency futures ended last Friday with most contracts holding slight to moderate gains. Dealer buying triggered buy stops and pulled prices to daily highs early in the session's most active dealings. But dealer selling and local long liquidation soon pared the gains, and prices held near
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    • Article, Illustration
      1009 6 Reuter SINGAPORE: The US dollar yesterday closed slightly lower against major currencies on light interbank selling, dealers said. Trading was generally quiet and featureless following an absence of fresh factors and ahead of this week's release of a batch of US economic data, including revised fourth quarter GNP
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    • 351 6 Asian market ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed steady at opening levels after quiet trading. Most operators were sidelined as they await this week's release of a batch of US economic data. Short-dates were unchanged to slightly higher at the outset following a steady US Fed funds rate but were
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    • 63 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market fell 1/2 point to close at 2 per cent yesterday. One and two months fell 3/16 three months fell 1/8. S$ Interbank rates at 12 noon yester day: OfFfB BO O—r--xflht 2 I 3/4 1 -month 3 2 7/8 2-fnomh
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    • 173 6 Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Feb 22 us$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 doyt 6 13/16 11/16 8 9/16 7/16 3 1/2 3/« 1 1/2 1/4 4 1/1-4 1 m*h 6 13/16 11/16 7/S 3/4 3 1/2 i/B 1 S/« 1/2 41/1-4 3 n*h 6 15/16 13/16 9
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    • 82 6 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****A 20.5.88 2.90 2.85 2.91 2.85 6 months BY*****S 30.6.88 2.97 2.92 2.94 2.92 1 year BY*****T 24.11.88 3.00 2.95 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code
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    • 1694 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Monday, Febrvory 22 1988 DEUTSCHEMARK (SIMEX) Mar M CMS He M puis Htgti Low Ml Htfh Low Sett 54 CA» 55 CAS 56 CAt 57 17S» 180 4A 3 3 58 871 91 16A 14 59 311 33 56* 52 60 8A 7 131A 127 61
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 284 7 Reuter THE SALE of France's largest bank, the Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole, to regional savings hanks, is priced at 327 francs per share, according to the Finance Ministry. In a statement in Paris last Friday, the ministry said it and
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    • 287 7 Reuter US FEDERAL RESERVE chairman Alan Greenspan will go before Congress this week seeking to map out a policy that preserves the calm on US financial markets, according to economists. For the first time since he took over from Paul Volcker last August, Mr Greenspan
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    • 662 7 Reuter WALL STREET may be divided on where the US economy and the Federal Reserve's credit policy are heading, but most agree that US Treasury prices can go nowhere until a clearer picture is painted. "Recession/discount rate cut fever has given way to
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    • 280 7 Reuter A SERIES of meetings between the chairmen of two of Spain's largest banks. Banco Central and Banco Hispano-Americano. has sparked rumours that they are planning a merger. The Madrid daily El Pais reported last Friday that Banco Central's chairman, Mr Alfonso Escamez, had
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    • 104 7 Reuter SENIOR OFFICIALS of major Japanese and US financial firms will meet in New York on Feb 25 and 26 to discuss problems with financial deregulation in both nations. according to a spokesman for one of the sponsoring institutions. The Japan Centre for International
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    • 291 7 AFP INDONESIA'S top government economist has reaffirmed that Jakarta has no intention of reschadullng its U5535.2 billion torsign dabt. praas raports in Jakarta said yastsrday. Dabt rsachaduling will toad us into s mora dangarous situation Such a stop would bring us mora harm than
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 467 8 Reuter THE DECLINE in tin stocks will slow under a new agreement to control supplies reached by the Association of Tin Producing Countries plus Brazil and China, according to an association official. Controls agreed to at a meeting of the seven-member ATPC
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    • 150 8 Reuter THE WORLD BANK and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are jointly funding a 2.5 billion rupee project to develop Sri Lanka's privately-owned tea and rubber plantations. The Sri Lankan Ministry of Plantation Industries said in a statement yesterday that the
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    • 656 8 Reuter HIGHER oil prices and better 1967 company earnings are snding a two-year slump in Alaska's oil patch, as major oil companies plan to expand exploration and development this year, industry sources say. "There is a more positive, optimistic feeling in Alaska about the
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    • 161 8 Reuter SWISS ALUMINIUM Ltd (Alusuisse) expects aluminium prices to remain firm as demand for ore outpaces supply. In an interview published in Saturday's Finanz und Wirtschaft, a twiceweekly business journal, chief executive Theodor Tschopp said the aluminium market had recovered quickly after last autumn's
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    • 95 8 Reuter TIN rose two cents yesterday from Friday's clom on the KLTM to M 517.26 par kg In fairly thin trading. Scattered buying interest from Japan and Europa and locally spurrad tha market's rise, although tha local price is holding a £20 premium ovar the European spot tin
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    • 71 8 ALL Far East products began the week largely unchanged from last Friday apart from naphtha which continued it's upward movement' USS/barrel Chang# Dubai (April) 14(7 2.00 Wmi T*xa* WTI (April) 16.67 0.21 Products (FOB S'pore) US$/barr*l Chang* Ktroimt 21.65 undi GoioM 19.60 und» low Sulphur Woiy R*«du*,
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    • 255 8 Reuter SINGAPORE THE rubber market closed quietly steadier yesterday with March 1 RSS buyers quoted at 220.00 cents/kilo, up 1.50 cent from last Monday's close, dealers said. The market was slightly steadier at the outset on some short-covering interest after the long Lunar New Year closure. Thereafter prices fluctuated
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    • 196 8 Chinese Produce Exchange S*ll*n' rtoon closing pricn on F»b 22 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 112.00 Old drum FOB 122.00 N«w drum FOB 126.00 Copra Mixed (loote) 63 Pepper Muntok whit* FOB NLW 1162.50 Sarawak whit* FOB faq NLW 1147.50 Sarawak tpecial black FOB NLW 862.50 Sarawak
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    • 429 8 AFP THE EUROPEAN Community has denied charges that the community was violating international agreements on uranium trade by relabelling cargoes of the ore imported from South Africa. The West German weekly Der Spiegel charged last week that West German companies and the EC were
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    • 572 8 Reuter THE FIVE-MINISTER Opec price committee will have to meet to consider the situation in the oil market if spot prices remain at current depressed levels for another two or three weeks. Algerian Oil Minister and price committee member Belkacem Nabi said last
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    • 253 8 Reuter Cruel* palm oil futures yesterday finished steady in quiet trading on the KLCE. Trading was dull. Spot month March was MslB higher at Msloo6 per tonne while April rose Ms 26 to Msloo4. May was at M 5979 for a Ms 27 rise. Turnover fell to 317
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    • 85 8 (caMi/kg, 1 -tor po*en) MARCH 1988 APRIL 1988 (currant month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON ivy an Saltan Ivyan Saltan ssc 20 210.00 212.00N 210.00 212.00N SSI 50 206.50 210 JON 200.50 210 JON MRELB •uyao Si (tin 1vyaa Settefi SMC CV 277.00 279.00N 278.00 280.00N SMC
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    • 248 8 RAS prices m s cmms, fob m m* NOON CLOSE Buy*rs 5 K #fl Buyers Severs Int 1 RSS Prompt 222.00 223.00N 223.00 224.00N Int 1 RSS Mar 88 219.00 219.50 220.00 220JO Inr 1 RSS Apr 88 217 JO 218.00 218.50 219.00 Int 2 RSS OF
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    • 273 8 Reuter HONGKONG: GOLD closed little changed in thin and dull trading yesterday with no fresh factors. Gold finished at U*****.20/60 an ounce against 445.40/90 on Saturday and 445.00/50 in New York on Friday. On the local market, gold shed HKSI.OO to end at HK54,149.00 a tael. Coins were
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  • FOCUS
    • 1242 9 The success with which Japan's economy has adapted to the soaring yen in the past two years has enabled Japanese companies to acquire American companies in both the finance and commerce sectors. But the Japanese, uncomfortable with the confrontational tactics of American and
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    • 721 9 Reuter JAPANESE COMPANIES should be able to survive another rise in the value of the yen thanks to the thorough restructuring they have undergone to handle the currency's rise in the past two years, economists say. The success with which Japan's economy
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 471 10 THE DECISION by or\e of the behemoths of the American financial markets, the Federal National Mortgage Association, to start tapping the capital markets of Singapore and the other newly industrialising countries of Asia is a sign of the times. The billions and billions of
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    • 443 10  -  This is the age of the economists, a group that has become successful because of the alliance between economics, mathematics and sophistry, according to American economist Professor Dudley G Luckett. But today, this same group will have to grapple with an economic event that threatens to rock the
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    • 558 10 THE GOVERNMENT as an entrepreneur is a new concept to Professor Dudley G Luckett. "But I am extremely impressed by the development of Singapore into a financial centre for Asia, initiated largely by the government," said the 59-year old professor in an interview with BT. "It has caused
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    • 1390 10 ECONOMIC theory itself is unlikely to escape the sweeping impact of today's electronic finance. Mainstream economics has largely consisted of filling in "empty boxes" whereby abstract categories are derived from a purely deductive system of thought. This system, in Professor Luckett's
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    • 816 11  -  Good ethics is good business, says Klaus Leisinger of Ciba-Geigy Klaus Leisinger NYT SOME SAY multinational corporations threaten the economic and political independence of developing countries and represent one of the greatest obstacles to development. Others find progress in the Third World inconceivable without companies
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 170 11 BTs new Tuesday column, Regional Viewpoints, focuses on foreign newspapers and magazine commentaries on issues of regional interest. HONGKONG "MOST PEOPLE in Hongkong have entered the New Year with hope, but for many it is tinged with a degree of trepidation; public confidence, now carefully gauged
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      • 81 11 "THE FIRST public opinion poll conducted on the White Paper on political reform in Hongkong shows that 66 per cent of the public is behind the introduction of direct elections to the Legislative Council in 1991 rather than 1968... The fundamental reason behind calls for political
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      • 129 11 THAILAND MR AKITANE KUICHI, Japan's Ambassador to Thailand, recently expressed concern over the increasing criticism of Japanese influence in reaction to Japan's increased investment. Meanwhile, the Thai construction industry held a two-day seminar that included complaints about foreign, often Japanese, competition in the Thai construction industry...Many construction
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      • 117 11 WHAT has been happening at Rom Klai in Phitsanulok province is a Laotian intrusion and armed occupation of a piece of Thai real estate. Laotian soldiers have crossed the Nam Huang River, a branch of the Mekong, which marks the border at that point to take
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      • 193 11 SINGAPORE "Today's issue carries a paid advertisement from the Singapore government, complaining once again about Tho Asian Wall Street Journal. We disagree with much of it, but we're pleased to let Singapore officials or anybody else say whatever they like, within reason, as long as they pay
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      • 120 11 SOVIET UNION "IT MAY get a bit tiresome to observe after every teaser from Moscow that Soviet deeds are more important than Soviet words. But this warning is especially urgent now, when so much is at stake, and when its importance has been tragically impressed on us by
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      • 126 11 MALAYSIA WHILE newspaper columns in Malaysian highlighted developments about the formation of the New Umno, editorials in the New Straits Times spent the entire week on medicine. Last Monday's editorial, "Prevention is Better", dealt with the problems of diphtheria following a student s death. The next day,
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    • 880 11  -  From KEVIN HAMLIN BATTERED BLACK and blue in last October's stock market craah, Hongkong's securities industry awaits reforms that once could have been introduced only over its collective dead body. While the bull market raged and punters profited, few people recognised the need for reform.
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    • 661 10 ■mMMm CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 Passes for workers (5) 8 Gets one's teeth into out-of-the-way bits (5) 10 Uncle seems less than remarkable to us (5) 11 A determined group of people (3) 12 He doesn't give a luncheon voucher out (5) 13 Alarm with rattles, possibly (7) 15 Chosen
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 610 12 AFP GOLDEN DOUBLE TREATS for Austria and Sweden pushed into the background the announcement in Calgary last Sunday that a Polish athlete had been thrown out of the Winter Games for illegal drug-taking. The Swedish double was a personal triumph for veteran speedskater Tomas
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    • 288 12 Reuter TOMAS GUSTAFSON was as low as he could go two years ago, but last Sunday after winning his second Olympic gold, he was moved to poetry. When asked after his 5,000 metres speed skating triumph last Wednesday to describe his joy, the convivial Swede
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    • 415 13 AP JIMMY CONNORS's dream of winning his first Grand Prix title in four years disappeared when a pulled muscle forced his withdrawal in the final of the US$5OO,OOO Stella Artois Milan indoor tennis tournament against Yannick Noah on Sunday. The veteran, whose last Grand
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    • 280 13 AFP STEVE PATE holed a two-metre birdie putt on the final hole to clinch a dramatic second victory of the season in the Andy Williams Open in La Jolla, California, on Sunday. Pate's winner broke a tie with Jay Haas
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    • 211 13 UPI MARTINA NAVRATILOVA needed just 62 minutes to crush Larisa Savchenko of the Soviet Union 6-1, 6-2 on Sunday and capture the 1 U*****,000 Virginia Slims of California title. The victory followed Navratilova's Virginia Slims triumph the week before in Dallas and
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    • 446 13  -  By WALTON MORAIS AS WORD REACHED the organisers that delays in flight arrangements meant that many of the golfers would reach Singapore late, the good news is that current Asian Circuit hotshot Hsieh Chin Sheng has confirmed his participation in
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    • 784 13 Ist tee morning session: 7.15 am Pro, Mervyn Neo, W Lippmann, Yeo-Khoo K S; 7.22 am Pro, Cecil Wong, C P Chan, Winston Loong; 7.29 am Pro, Robert K C Khoo, Y K Kon, Tan Hua Tiong; 7.36 am Pro, James Loh, Low Kee
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    • 201 13 AP MYCHAL THOMPSON converted a three-point play with 41 seconds left and Wes Matthews added five points in the last 30 seconds as the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 16-point deficit to beat Detroit 117-110 in New York on Sunday. In
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    • 46 13 AFP FORMER English amateur 4 champion Roger Chapman won the Zimbabwe Open Golf"* Championship in Harare on*Sunday after a final round oC 71. This it the first big win in*' Europe or Africa for who finished on 275, six-* under-par AFP
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    • 328 13 AFP AMERICAN TEENAGER Andre Agassi dropped just one set all the way to winning his second Grand Prix tennis title in Memphis on Sunday. The 17-year-old became the youngest champion in the Memphis event when he beat Mikael Pernfors 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 in two hours
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    • 196 12 Austrian Fest From the land of' 'The Sound of Music'' oomes another art form delicious food like Wienerschnitzel, Fiaker goulash, P&pnka Chicken, sausages, salads, apple strudel, Sacher Cake, Emperor's pancakes and much, much more! At $31 for adults and $15 for children, we're sure you'll enjoy the feast as much
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    • 466 13 and entertain 4 PALM GRILL FROM 9-24 FEBRUARY, THE BEST OF FRENCH CUISINE WONT BE FOUND IN FRANCE. Instead it will be found at Palm Grill, where Monsieur Crotet, one of France's leading chefs, will dish up a gourmet spread. Reservations: 338 8585 ext. ***** or 330 8310. ThiWectin Plaza
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    • 60 13 Play golf the Sevvy way IT Peter ImtiH tr« Ptrci Kiqui e THE REASON FOR THIS IS THE PfTCHfN6 WED6E DOES NOT WAVE THE BULGE UNDERN£ATU, AND SO rr W1U GO UMDCR THE y MORE EASILY. r BUT SCVMETI/WES WHEN THE B*IL rs 8URIEDOR ALMOST BURIED, THE PITCHING WtOOE fS
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 4305 14 THE SINGAPORE stock market, cheered by a rally on Wall Street and gains in major Asian markets, closed on a steady note yesterday. Retail investors were the main market players with activity centred on Malaysian speculatives and lower-priced issues. But Singapore-based blue
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    • 278 14 SINGAPORF Rises Indices Fafc 19 Fob 22 900 20 8T Compocft* ***** 792-36 Motro MWgi baton XX S«S S10 20 20 •T OS/OS IT CADI -15 -7031 177 ■6932 HorrMont Mita i 358 I 228 U •T 10-dovMA -7179 -7161 Spofi Carabot S0< +16 IT OIV +*****73
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    • 3331 14 BID and after price* officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of share* traded shown In brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. SECTION ONE MOUSTMAL ft COMMERCIAL Aono (I 15 81 161
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    • 195 14 RAHMAN HYDRAULIC TIN Berhad: 76th AGM at the Penthouse, 19th Floor, Wisma Jerneh, 38 Jalan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur. tomorrow, Feb 24, at noon. THE AVER MOLEK RUBBER COMPANY Berhad: 73rd AGM at N0.22 (Upper floor of N0.20), Jalan Hang Jebat, ***** Malacca on Saturday, Feb 27,
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    • 271 14 Managers' prices for Feb 23 Singapore Unit Trust Ttw Commerce 091 097 The Sovmps fund 080 086 S pore frog Fund 036 040 S pore Sec Fund 061 066 S pore Inves) Fund 065 070 S pore Equity fund 044 048 Asia Unit Trust Mtol Invest Fund 127
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 504 15  -  By AMY BALAN CHEMICAL-BASED Hexza Corp, which is still waiting for the final nod from the various authorities and its own shareholders for a much-delayed rights issue to raise Ms 33 million, has gone ahead with its diversification plans by bringing in
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    • 220 15 KEPPEL SHIPYARD has clinched a major contract worth $16 million to upgrade a Soviet fish factory ship. The work on the 18,000-grt Severodonetsk will take four to five months during which Keppel will replace all its existing equipment. The yard will also carry out general
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    • 626 15  -  Funds to come from reserves and earnings By LEE HAN SHIH Property Correspondent THE United Overseas Bank group's new headquarters, on which work is to start in the middle of the year, will cost around $400 million. At a press briefing yesterday,
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    • 370 15  -  From SELWYN PARKER BREWER Lion Corporation is pushing ahead with its plans for a merger with retailer L D Nathan without waiting for the outcome of the New Zealand Securities Commission s inquiry into the deal. Lion Corp served a formal notice
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    • 574 15 Research department of CI MB Securities, Malaysia THE OCTOBER CRASH left the global equities market directionless with investors and dabblers feeling unsure of the appropriate action to take. The prediction for the Malaysian stock market in the Year of the Dragon can only be made
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 60 15 SINGAPORE PRESS Holdings shareholders passed a resolution at the annual general meeting last Saturday to allow directors to issue shares in the company at any time for purposes which they deem fit. However, the aggregate number of shares to be issued should not
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      • 40 15 TWO NEW counters have been added to the list of 190 securities which may be traded on margin accounts. These are Sembawang Maritime and Jurong Shipyard, said the latest issue of the Singapore Stock Exchange Journal.
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    • 149 15 Reuter A FRENCH COURT will rule today on the validity of nuclear group Framatome's tactics in making a friendly bid for control of La Telemecanique Electrique SA, officials at the Paris Tribunal de Commerce said. The case was brought by Schneider
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    • 15 15 Company BONUS ISSUE Ajinomoto Om-for-fiv* Ex date Mo' 4 Books dOSS: Mor 18
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    • 323 15 Company RIGHTS ISSUE A M 0 B One-for-tour JO 50 per shore C 1 Holdings 27 million loan stocks in the ratio of $3 loan stock for every five ordinary shores held Duta Cons One-for one $1 10 per share fAC8 One-for-one $0 60 per share Hexza Corpn
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    • 278 15 NST FORMER BMF chairman Lorrain Esme Osman takes his fight to the High Court in London this week to resist extradition to Hongkong to stand trial for alleged crimes over the BMF-Car-rian loans scandal between 1979 and 1983. The hearing
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    • 310 15 Ii Ex d*t* Book* eioM Data payable Total tor toe year Total tor AMDS l%«bl Feb 2 Fata 16 Mor 17 1 2%(ol A ok am 2%Cb) Jon 25 Feb 8 Mor 5 2% 5%W Avimo 20%TE Fob 25 Mor 8 Mor 21 20%TE Ayer Hitam Tin 5%l
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    • 132 15 The Essential And Authoritative 1988 Conference On INSIDE THE WORLD OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FRIDAY. 18 MARCH 1988 THE PAVILION INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL SINGAPORF CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS The Changing Investment Environment Organising The Investment Management Functions Managing Individual And Institutional Portfolios Investment Management Process Investment Timing Performance Measurement And Reporting Investment Management And
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 200 16 Reuter DIRECTORS of ACI International Ltd said a Asl.6 billion bid for the glass and packaging group remains inadequate despite having won more than 50 per cent acceptance. Austrac Investments Ltd earlier said it holds 50.8 per cent of AG's 398 million shares under its
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    • 2826 16 i SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market started higher yesterday on n expectations of a firm note following five consecutive sessions of advances the '"previous week. Brokers said sentiment was also helped by last Friday's rally "•<1 Wall Street and the strong Tokyo
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    • 117 16 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Monday 1.***** Friday Closed Week ogo 1.504 83 Hang Seng Index Monday 2.***** Friday Closed Week ogo 2.301 75 TOKYO Nikkei Average Monday 24£44 71 Friday 24.7734) Week ogo 24.207 47 TSE Index Monday 2.038 56 Frtdoy 2.031 90 Week ogo 1.***** SYDNEY All Ordinaries
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    • 191 16 Insider trading HK dealers face ban AFP THE HONGKONG government could bar from the stock market dealers involved in insider trading, a practice that is discouraged but not illegal in the British colony, a newspaper said yesterday. The names of company officials who used inside information to benefit from share
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    • 317 16 Reuter A RESOLUTION to the discord between the music industry and electronics companies over digital audio tape (OAT) recorders may be close, Japanese makers said. An anti-copy device made by NV Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken could offer a compromise to end the stalemate which has
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    • 190 16 AFP SOUTH KOREA s leading carmaker Hyundai has rejected anti-dumping surcharges imposed on its passenger cars sold in Canada, saying they stemmed from differences in accounting. "The Canadian authorities did not take our Canadian dealers' margin into account and they compared the wholesale price in Canada against
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    • 1378 16 Hongkong PRICES on the Hongkong market closed steady yesterday but off their highs on light profit-taking in the afternoon, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index rose 19.13 points to end the day at 2,347.17 after being up 34 points in midmorning. The Hong Kong Index rose 13.45
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    • 129 16 fii a WON Owl Sugar Daalim Ind Daawoo Corp Daawoo Heavy Datahin Sacuritiaa Dong Ah Phar Dong Soh Stock Oongbu Staal Goid Star ***** ***** ***** ***** *190" ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** 1400 •100 -900 -800 1400 ♦1500 900 -400 -800 -800 Haral Camant Hanfcuk Qlaaa Hanyang Chamical
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    • 506 16 Reuter SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo market closed higher yesterday for the eighth straight session on momentum from recent gains and a generally promising trend overseas. Brokers said profit-tak-ing by investment trusts pulled prices off their peaks but investor sentiment remains confident. "It's the largest Monday volume we've had
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    • 419 16 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed yesterday higher in response to a stronger finish on Wall Street last Friday and firmer bullion prices over the weekend, brokers said. Brokers said the national share market remained cautious but sentiment appeared to be improving. The futures market indicated prices could move
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    • 174 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 8.82 points yesterday to 362.79 on a turnover of 12,294,097 shares worth 1,026.70 million baht. FEB 23 MOT Ao Kham Thai 220 Ayudhya ln»aaIniant. 364 Bangkok Agro-ind 96 5 Bangkok Bank 339 Bank CM Ayudhya 346 Charoong Thai Wira A Cahf
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    • 288 16 FEB 22 WT All Sinew* Indua.... Asia C« ma nt Cathay Cona Chang Hwa Bank. Chang Loong Chta Hsin Camant Chin Hain Flour— China Cham China Day China Elact Wira China Gulf Plaa China Rabar Wlnii Dllfl Chung Hwa Pulp Chung Shing Tax. Far Eaat Dapt Far Eaai Tax
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    • 85 16 FEB 22 PCSOS Aco|« Mining A'>yio PWI 0 027 +0.002 Apai Mint no B 0.04 unch AUM Con B 22 -4 Baouio QoM BM4C P«tro»«om 0.016 -0.001 B*ngu«1 Con. B 74 -19 FirW Phil HMga 10 29 +0.29 Lapanto B. 0 50 -0.02 Marcoppw SSTB n< Phil Oversew 0.04
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    • 415 16 •NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF UNI-FTVE (PRIVATE) LIMITED (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act, Chapter SO, that the Final General Meeting of the Company will be
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    • 162 16 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE OF SHIP'S NAME We, Ngshlp Maritime Pte Ltd of 63 Robinson Road, Afro Asia Bldg, #03-10, Singapore 0106, hereby give notice that in consequence of oar Intended purchase of the vessel "KANIKA" we have applied to the registrar of Singapore Ships, under section 386 of
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 507 17 Reuter SWISS ANALYSTS expect BBC AG Brown Boveri Und Cie to report net 1987 profit of between 140 million and 170 million Swiss francs compared with 96 million francs in 1986. The figures, due yesterday, cover the engineering group s last year
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    • 152 17 AP TALKS between Pan American World Airways and the 4,500member union representing reservation clerks broke off on Sunday, but workers' representatives have promised to delay a threatened worldwide strike. However, one union official in New York said following the end of the talks that workers
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    • 390 17 Reuter FRENCH and Belgian companies fighting to prevent Italian tycoon Carlo de Benedetti from gaining control of Belgium's biggest company continued talks yesterday to cement an alliance, according to financial sources. The sources said in Brussels yesterday that the French and Belgian
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    • 215 17 Reuter FEDERATED Department Stores Inc said it stands by its prior rejection of Campeau Corps proposal to agree to an acquisition of Federated for US$B6 per share. Campeau has offered to raise its US$6l per share tender offer for all Federated shares to US$66 if
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    • 292 17 Reuter TALKS BETWEEN loss-making sports goods producer Puma AG Rudolf Oassler Sport and a foreign party interested in buying a stake in the company boosted Puma's shares in Bonn last week, but analysts say its short-term future remains cloudy. In an attempt to rescue Puma from
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    • 161 17 Reuter UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (UPI) has announced that a US management group had taken operational control of the 81-year-old news agency. UPI said Paul Steinle, 48, electronic publishing executive and broadcast journalist, was the agency's new president and would have total operational control of
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    • 703 17 The information-hungry age has made publishing one of the most lucrative industries with media moguls rivalling each other to get an even bigger slice of the plum pie Reuter MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS are reshaping modern publishing now that, in an electronic and information-hungry age,
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    • 393 17 NYT WITH THE HARD bargaining past and a rescue package for the New York Post in place, only a few details remained for the completion of Rupert Murdoch s U5537.6 million sale of the newspaper to the real-estate developer Peter S Kalikow. Lawyers
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    • 218 17 AP ROBERT MAXWELL has announced that his family fortune will be given away to worthy causes, leaving nothing for his children. A report which appeared in the Maxwell-owned British newspaper Daily Mirror last Friday was the publisher's response to critics who accused him of
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    • 291 17 Reuter THE AGREEMENT by Britain's Pearson PLC to buy the Las Echoa financial daily poaes a thorny dilemma for French -authorities careful to shield communications firms during the current takeover wave, company analysts said. An official announcement on the £88 million deal is expected this week.
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  • 241 18 AP TAIWANESE President Lee Teng-Hui said yesterday the Communist Chinese government should drop its threat to take over Taiwan by force to help bring about the reunification of China. Speaking in Taipei at the first news conference held by a Taiwanese president
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  • 102 18 AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad arrived in Bangkok yesterday for a four-day official visit. One topic on the agenda for talks between Dr Mahathir and Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda is a dispute between the two countries over commercial fishing. Malaysia has impounded
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  • 298 18  -  Details of project being worked out By TONG SUIT CHEE A CAUSEWAY similar to that linking Singapore to Johor Baru will be built to Sentosa, says the Public Works Department in its newsletter Spectrum. The causeway will start from a point west
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  • 414 18 AP UPI PRIME MINISTER Noboru Takeshita said yesterday Japan would not comply with foreign demands calling for liberalisation of rice imports into the country. It was the first time Mr Takeshita publicly declared his opposition to lifting a ban on importing foreign
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  • 180 18 Reuter IRANIAN Foreign Minister AM Akbar Velayati arrived in Jakarta yesterday for a three-day visit that Indonesian officials said would focus mainly on developing trade. Mr Velayati said in a brief arrival statement he was returning last year's visit by Indonesia's Foreign Minister
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  • 478 18 Reuter EUROPEAN COMMUNITY foreign ministers yesterday agreed on a final set of farm spending curbs, clearing the way for a huge cash injection for the community over the next five years, an EC spokesman said. The package was adopted without discussion after
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  • 285 18 AFP SOVIET LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev had outlined plans for a Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in a personal message to Indonesian President Suharto, Soviet Ambassador Vladimir Semyonov said yesterday. Mr Semyonov said in Jakarta, after a 30-minute meeting with Mr Suharto, that the
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  • 220 18 Reuter PAKISTANI deputy foreign minister Zain Noorani left Beijing yesterday after a brief visit to consult China on international efforts to end the war in Afghanistan. China and Pakistan are close allies and give military support to Afghan rebels fighting occupying Soviet forces
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  • 576 18 AFP THE INDONESIAN Parliament yesterday enacted two new laws that will enable the government to boost the size of the military reserves through voluntary and compulsory conscription. The government Bills, amending a 1982 law on basic points of national defence and on a
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  • 232 18 AFP THE MALAYSIAN ringgit could appreciate by up to 3 per cent against the US dollar this year but is likely to fall against other major currencies, according to a report released in Hongkong yesterday. "The ringgit is expected to stay firm against the
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  • 90 18 Reuter COMEX GOLD futures hovered at unchanged on small interest yesterday morning, with the market making traders sidelined ahead of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's mid-year economic report today to a Congressional Banking Committee. April gold held at Friday s close of U*****.00 an ounce after drifting between
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  • LATE FILE
    • 60 18 AFP SOUTH KOREAN student activists opposed to Presidentelect Roh Tae-Woo succeeding President Chun DooHwan violently clashed with riot police yesterday. At Korea University in Seoul, about 500 students hurled stones and fire bombs at riot police who fired a barrage of tear gas bombs to
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    • 65 18 Reuter FOUR Sri Lankan leftist parties formed an alliance on Sunday at the funeral of an assassinated film star-politi-cian attended by up to half a million people. Chandrika, wife of murdered leftist leader Vijaya Kumaranatunga, signed an agreement on behalf of his Sri Lanka Mahajana (People's)
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    • 61 18 Bernama ES MALAYSIA and Norway yesterday signed a new textile agreement which will enable more textile products from Malaysia to enter Norway. The new agreement, effective for a period of four years beginning Jan 1, 1988, replaces the old one which expired on Dec 31
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    • 32 18 AFP FRANCE has offered development aid to Fiji worth 15.5 million Fijian dollars (US$lO.7 million) in grants and concessional loans, the Fijian Information Ministry said yesterday. AFP
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    • 56 18 Reuter EMPLOYEES of the British vehicle builder Land Rover began a strike yesterday demanding a pay deal to match a 14 per cent increase won by striking British Ford car workers. The 6,000 Land Rover workers walked out as the Ford Motor company employees resumed
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    • 47 18 AFP MAYOR Roberto Saturnino Braga declared Rio de Janeiro to be in a state of disaster yesterday in the wake of torrential rains which have killed 251 people across Rio de Janeiro state and at least 66 residents of the city.
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    • 52 18 AP AN UNIDENTIFIED US dealer paid a record price of 3.96 million Swiss francs (US$2.B3 million) for a 62.02-carat sapphire, breaking the previous record for a coloured stone set at the April 1987 auction of the jewels of the Duchess of Windsor, auctioneers Sotheby's said
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 404 19  -  By LINDA CHEE NORWEGIAN car carrier Hoegh-Ugland Auto Liners (Hual) is introducing a new ro-ro express service to the Far East on expectations of a significant pick-up in shipments of European-made cars this year. The fortnightly call loads in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, Felixstowe
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    • 202 19 Seatrade Week EUROPEAN shippers have submitted evidence to the European Commission urging it to reject the complaint against Hyundai Merchant Marine's Europe/Australia service. The shippers, led by shippers' councils in UK and West Germany, and supported by those in Denmark, the Netherlands
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 123 19 A PANAMANIAN freighter with 15 South Korean seamen aboard is believed to have sunk in the Bashi Channel between the Philippines and Taiwan. The 4,252-ton lumber carrier Star Kim of Panamanian registry sent out a distress signal and its skipper Jang Ok Sang said all crewmen were
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      • 49 19 Reuter SEAMEN at Dover. Britain's busiest Channel port, voted unanimously on Sunday to continue their three-week-old strike. All 11 Dover-based ferries of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co have been halted by the walk-out of the company's 2,300 seamen over changed working practices.
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      • 71 19 AS PART OF the company's investment plan, Essar Shipping will acquire two LPG tankers for carrying gas for Bharat Petroleum Company. It will be the first Indian shipping company to own LPG tankers. The tankers will be of 12,000 cubic metres and 24,00 cubic metre
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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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    • 109 20 Reuter TURKEY has signed a protocol to boost its exports to Iran through ports and a cross-border railway, the semi-official Anatolian News Agency said. The amount of goods sent to Iran will more than double to 800,000 tons in 1988 from
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    • 1633 20 Ultra large carriers a big mistake for owners? ULTRA Large Crude Carriers can be viewed as the dinosaurs of the tanker industry given the fundamental change in trading opportunities since the first vessels of this type were ordered in the early *****. In this article Lloyd's Shipping Economist examines the
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    • 898 20 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container VIM 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Africo Oceon X 2 Alltrons 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 ID 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI
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    • 440 21  -  From KINGSLEY WOOD MORE THAN Asl billion of capital investment will have to be poured into Qantas, Australian Airlines. National Railways and Australian National Line in the next five years if full ownership is retained by the government, according to a
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    • 255 21 Fairplay FOR THE THIRD TIME in less than a year, a merchant vessel tonnage pool has been launched by owners and ship operators in Hamburg in a bid to improve rates and lessen competition. The latest pool is for cargo ships for up
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    • 62 21 Reuter AT LEAST 44 Filipino sailors have been killed and 35 injured in the Gulf in more than seven years of fighting between Iran and Iraq. A Philippine Overseas Employment Administration spokesman said the casualties included 21 crewmen who were reported missing and feared
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    • 231 21 AFP THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) has joined other Arab Gulf states in accepting Japan's plan for a US$lO million navigation system along their coast, Japanese diplomatic sources in the region said. The UAE formally accepted the plan, by which Japan aims
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    • 175 21 Lloyd's List ISRAEL'S national shipping line Zim Navigation is close to finalising a timetable for its US$2OO mil-lion-plus newbuilding programme. It will sign a contract "not later than the end of March,'' said president and chief executive officer Matty Morgenstern. Mr
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    • 272 21 AFP THE COMBINATION of a US holiday on Monday and the influx into London of world oil traders and merchants for their annual gathering had the effect of reducing business on the tanker market over the past week, London brokers E A Gibson say in their latest report.
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    • 225 21 Reuter FIVE JAPANESE crewmen aboard a Japanese cargo vessel fell overboard after their ship collided with a Soviet freighter in Osaka Bay, Japanese Maritime Safety Agency officials said. The 499-ton Ryusei Maru capsized after the collision, but all five crew members were
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    • 69 21 Reuter SHAREHOLDERS of Britain's biggest workerowned company, National Freight Consortiums (NFC), voted on Sunday to seek a stock market quotation. Chairman Sir Peter Thompson said he hoped the road haulage firm would remain essentially worker-owned. NFC was privatised six years ago in an
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    • 8675 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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    • 912 27 DEMAND remained sufficiently strong to maintain a fully steady rate tone on the London shipping freights market on Friday. Most reported business emanated from the time-charter sector where Far Eastern offtake included Shinwa's booking of the 140,000-dwt Akashi Maru at US$3.6O per dwt per month for a trip
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    • 1434 27 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES i > Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Aconcoguo «C 18 o'ongfde 23 *****0 Am Teaiouctie K3S alongside 2*02 0700 Amur No 2 KI9 olongside 24 02/2300 Kowo Moru KX olongvde 2302 1500 Koto Mu'ioro Ol o'ongs.de 27 02 0600 l.q Bulk Eqo IC29 o'ongs'de
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    • 715 19 vV > hi i TIMES STP Distributors SINCA** 6 rul slt^ .r-" OOCL Orient Overseas Co**Limt Line NORTH AMERICA ATLANTIC EXPRESS (ROUND-THE WORLD ROUTING' EXPORT WW/ UNDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES (Re| No 242K4/ OOK) 200 Cantonment Road #12-05 South pent. Sinppore 0208 TH *****1! TELEX NO RS 2*179 TERMINAL/CFS Ttl *****1S
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    • 136 19 mm THE ULCC fleet was specifically designed to meet the need for long-haul crude transport around the Cape. However, the Arab oil embargo in retaliation against the Israelis and their Western allies caused a near quadrupling of oil prices in 1973. The events leading up to the outbreak of the
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    • 683 19 BALT-ORIENT LINE Baltic Shipping Co Regular Services from South East Asia to United Kingdom and North Continental Ports Agent: Singapore Soviet Shipping Co Pte Ltd Td *****33 MAERSK LINE FAST TRANSIT TO PORTUGAL SINGAPORE/LISBON 23 DAYS SINGAPORE/LEIXOES 21 DAYS Tt» »h> Luna M Cloong Tim* CY 24/2 2300 MRS CFS
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    • 598 20 4f Hapag-Lloyd CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO: ALL UK INLAND DESTINATIONS, BELFAST. DUBLIN. COPENHAGEN, AARHUS, GOTHENBURG. MALMO. HELSINKI. OSLO. AMSTERDAM. CARIBBEAN A S. AMERICA CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT FRANFURT EXPRESS BENAVON OSAKA BAY KITANO MARU LARGS BAY HONGKONG EXPRESS CARDIGAN BAY BREMER HAVEN Sid VOY NO HAMBURG
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    • 20 20 Lines and services represented by f* k Members of the Registry of Accredited (f Shipping Agents. Singapore National Shipping Association.
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    • 230 20 CHARGEURS REUNIS SINGAPOOf f NQUlOif S 2223 7 44 Ul 22SS3S Optorg Shipping Pte. Ltd I Poll to«*0C1 7 PelalmQ Java 756?593'7j7 Ppnang *****5 EL M A EVPR6SA LINf AS VAC* VAS AOGENTtNAS ARGEN T INE \ATIONAL LtNE AGENTS SINGAPORE ANGLO-FRENCH SWPMNC Tel *****11 Tetei R*****0 Fn Z7SMSI MALAYSIA ELBA
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    • 726 21 The Straits Steamship Group r STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok J Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd F&O Containers CONTAINERS** SERVICE TO UK/CONTWENT: k casus progress vsun PEGASUS PROGRESS VS2M SPORE B-KOK In Part/24 FA 21-27 Fab •J-B Mar 04-M Bar TOWO EXPRESS KPMOON lAT KMVON
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    • 563 21 EUROPE ItJI nil ail MJI 14* ILK ll* IS* M* 17* H* M* U* ILB ll* IS* mm USA/PANAMA id 1. y iH[!?. .11. y..l\i yII i y Thl TO USA/CANADA WEEKLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE FEEDER P. MADISON V 144 P. HOOVER VSI NUPTSE V 123 P. MADISON V 145
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    • 424 22 IHSINOSE m MARITIME PTE LTD IRAN SHOJAAT ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICE Singapore Loading for:29/2 BANDAR ABBAS (2nd call) KYOWA LINE PNC/S. PACIFIC SERVICE Singapore Loading for: 27/2 JAVA, LAE, HRA, TLG, LTK, MALAU MICRONESIA SERVICE SPORE PK LOAD FOR A VESSEL 25/2 27/2 SAIPAN. GUAM, TRUK,
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    • 486 22 JC.SL.INE IplFULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE MM* tmrrmt CM*** TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ ORIENTAL CHIEF SM NEPTUNE DIAMOND 74W KOREAN JACEWON (2W NEPTUNE CRYSTAL 44N CHINA CONTAINER 44N HONGKONG CONTAINER KOREAN JACLIIN 43W A Mtmbtr of the Act Consortium fROM C'JROPE VIA SUE/ B A Mtmbtr ol the Act Conso't-um CONVENTIONAL SERVICE
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    • 330 22 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS PTE LTD NEW WEEKLY DIRECT SERVICE TO CHITTA6OW6: SAILING 26/2 6/3 FOR: PORTO, LISBON, ORAN, BILBAO MADRID, MALAGA, MELILLA, TANGER, TENERIFE, LASPALMAS, TUNIS, VALLETTA, (RUN, CEUTA, ALGIER ISTANBUL U.S.A. NYC ALSO ACCEPTING TO: PORT MORESBY, RABUAL, LAE V 3 KIETA, MADANG a KIMBE NOUMEA 31/3 SUVA/LA UTOKA
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    • 1206 22 r w *ZA jnurinu lun&Ot i utrauay, rtfuruary icoo EVERGREEN Full Container Service Round-The-World East Bound (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/FE) SGP HKC KSC KLC PUS OSK TYO KSN CHS BAL NVC EVER GLOK 1/3 70 HIUHWWIIDMu^m EVER GENTLE WUOUOIWaO%WW]MIM&M EVE* GENTRY 17fl flfl Sfl !M W W EVE* GUIDE «J 2W TS Tl
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    • 596 23 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES *V\ PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE JAKARTA CONTAINER SERVICE SURARAYA/SEMARANG CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL SEA ORAGON SEA HAWK SEA DRAGON SEA HAWK BANGKOK CONTAINER SERVICE SLD 25/2 27/2 1/3 29/2 3/3 9/3 V 3 7/3 IW] 12/3 15/3 13/3
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    • 252 23 3 gNORBUL NORBULK CARGO SERVICES LTD REGULAR CONVENTIONAL SPORE MARATHON UNITED AGENCY PTE LTD TEL *****66 KL PK S P YEO SHPG TRDG KL 'WW PK 36M101 PENANG TANJONG MARINE SDN BHD TEL *****5 SABAH TRANSPAC UK TEL M *****1248 i t BREAKBULK SERVICE TO EUROPE/UK S pore P.Kelang Loading
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    • 649 23 irm BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT Tot Ml Eumi U'P Ui Mongkonf bim T«*r* i» T«*w Eiprau STOW IM «0 «0 m IW I*l an v* *4 I*4 nj* jw sn un i« an IHAWN tOMI HAVM an m m an an w *t* M 11/4 1W
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    • 527 23 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: f.T. DJAKAITA LL6YD P.T. 6ESBM LLOYD P.T. SAMUBEIKA INMNESUL f.T. TMKORA LLOYD EXPRESS SEMI CONTJUNERSNIP SERVICES SINGAPORE TO EUROPE VSI/VOY PALEMBANG/IWB 27/2 GANDA BHAKTI 20WB 12-14/3 15/4 S. PANJANG/13WB 23-25/3 KUTAI/14WB 28-30/3 S PORE BILBAO ANTWERP H'BURG/ RDAM/ADAM BREMEN RDAM/ADAM BREMEN 30/3 2/4 11/4
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    • 505 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES HTOWEYWA V232W PA-AW VUIW AVA VMW PAGAN VI2SW PA-AM VI22W BURMA FIVE STAR (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon S'pore P.Kelang Pcnang Bangkok 22/24 Feb njvr* 2V2i f*t im Fat 3/5 Mar 13/15 Mar BANK UNE EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER SFRVirc FORTH BANK V2IN TAMAITAI SAMOA VI2N IVY BANK
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    • 1231 24 kl K"LinE SHiPPiriG-DflTfl ATLAfITIC CDAST (Round-The-WorW Service) •PK/PNG SPORE LB CHLS NFK NYC HFX NEPTUNE GARNET Vl3 SW 25 Ftb 19 Mar 29 Mar 31 Mar 2 Apr (Apr ORIENTAL FREEDOM VII 21 Fab 3 Mar 21 Mar S Apr 7 Apr 9 Apr 13 Apr ORIENTAL FAITH V 7
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    • 627 24 •'m INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCL/FCL Containers SMBpon f LMd«| tar Muthf V* Br r«£r ByTSto THEOOOR FONTANE V. ISN In Pt/23 Fa* 10. NAGAUNO V M Kft n r«k THEOOOR FONTANC V 1(N 20 Mar 13 Mar U Mar INDIAN COURIER VJJN a Mar S Mar O Mar
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    • 688 24 GOLDEN LINE GUAN GUAN SHPffK (PTE) LTD a. TM kym St) Singapore out STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: GOLDEN HAVEN Coiomto/KaraciM/Out)* GOLDEN LANO Cotonbo/Ktrachi DutMi CHINA SERVICE A VESSEL ShMfh*i/Hsmk«n| Sport P K«*»ng Ptnane nm Feb 12/14 Iter a F LINGQUANHE Tin N/2 CUCIftNC J/J 4/3 GAOCMCNC 23/3 J4/3 5* Kwt W
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    • 547 24 Mrruw iuna,a, luesaay, r eoruary su Tl yrr w ft I'jf i,y y i VI 7/3. 14/3 W ■l > l i '!l''- > liilJ 'B PHI LI OnifNT LIN €5 PTC LTD HfflD Off CE 63 808 NSON BOftO *C* V AffiO AS A BUUDING S'SGAPOBf EIC6 TfLf* RS
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    • 807 25 EL NOLI NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. FE EU/AUST TPA/SEA Ttrminal CFS BOOKINGS ******3 *****2 *****22 *****53 *****19 *****16 *****11 *****40 NEPLINE SON BHD. 3UW7 INWARD»OUT*AI»D NEPLINE SDN BHD. 2C***** ENQUIRIES 27*7044 NEPLINE SDN. BHD. t*****/t27tco/t27ttl/t27tt2 NEPLINE SON BHD 239M0/23»41 FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE A member
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    • 414 25 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P. KELANG, PENANG. BUSAN, INCHON Vmml'i Nam* ETC BS BKK S PORE PKELANG BUSAN MO JI •Gloria/MBN 10/02 ***** ?5 2MJ2 27 27/02 10-11/03 13«3 No 7 Donam/NBN 21/02 04 06/03 (*-07)03 17 20/03 22/03 No S Oonam/KBN 20/02 02/03 0641/03
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    • 711 25 m sinsov SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** P KELANC PENANG M/S HANDLING SYSTEM CO SON BHD MESSRS HAI THONG SHIPPING 127 Paw* Street.
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    • 298 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 225 6868 .30 lines* FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCWA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCh INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE "VIA LARNACA; Accaptini cargo for Lattakia, Piraaus, Thassaloniki, Izmir, Istanbul, Maron, Limasaol, Btirut, Alaundria, Port Said. Iraqi, Iranian. FROM
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 175 26 Ii iT7n Regional Weather l A > VL 'A M Va s9 ft SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. LEGEND: C! 1, Wind direction with speed m knots Wave height One holt fleche represents 5 knots R Thunderstorm Temperature c A wpr Weather Wmd direction with
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    • 398 27 s> CRYSTAL r3 r FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Tol: *****88 Tlx: ***** Fax: *****88 UNI-OCEAN LINES PTE. LTD 60 Cecil St #02-01. KPB Buildinfl S'pore 0104 Tel: *****66 15 Lines) Telex: RS ***** UNISHIP 23: CHALNA CHITTACONG 21-24/3 4-7/4 21-24/4 VESSEL LIYANG LIYANG LIYANG 8-10/4 25-27/4 TITAN SHIPPING PTE LTD
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    • 445 27 UNIPACIFIC TRANS TRADING AGECY PTE. LTD. IRAQI LINE IPAQ S'» T I S» «0» BAHHHM TMNSPCAT EAST BOUND SERVICE ETA SPORE LOADING FOR ALFARABI m km MV SIN MAO an J afar WEST BOUNO SERVICE HA SPORE LOADING FOR BN ALFARABI V* J*M«. A-ta. THROUGH B/Ls to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST
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    • 329 28 UL Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd Tl *****06 t2O Lmpsl. TLX RS 220 M H, RS ***** fc. I \s| K\ \K I I\ I K III) STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS •Subject to cargo inducement NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG. TAIWAN CHINESE
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    • 499 28 B. PIRMAI VQZ2 22/7 KOMKAN ap JUTUUMMA 7/3 FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE Canneettnf VSI |ftL M 7= Halifax, Montreal, RUtRNVtRii AIL. t a, *a w^l ATUWTK CONCERT I o^" 0 mm lor% jtutt6A*t ixmss Baltimore, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Savannah Alio sarw* 6ULF -Mi am, Mobil*. Not Ortaant,
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    • 243 28 WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK Agent MMMHISM SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD Tel: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: RS ***** SHIPPING PTE LTD TEL *****55 I TLX: IS ***** FAX *****14 28^5^UNESi TIMBER/BREAKBULK SERVICE RANGOON S PORE BKK HKG KEE QINGDAO SILVER HAWK In Pt 4/3 LATANGAN 29/2 14/3
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    • 615 28 /M CALL US AT; AZ P KELANG rr~ J PENANG VV 1 J BAHRU kmsm p gudang p&M SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 04-*****2/4, *****3 •07-*****8 •07-*****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 •02-*****22 *****88 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE FEEDER ■jmr.M MTMR VSL I PERMAI tm GOTHENBURG ISM u7i rrn rn
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