The Business Times, 30 May 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 MONDAY, MAY 30, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 658 1  -  REVISION BASED ON ROBUST FIRST QUARTER GROWTH By ALAN LEE LEADING BRITISH investment house James Capel has forecast a real GDP growth of 7.5 per cent for Singapore this year, 2 per cent higher than an earlier forecast of 5.5 per cent
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  • 359 1 Reuter PRESIDENT REAGAN and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev kicked off the Moscow summit yesterday with an exchange of Russian proverbs that appeared heavy with symbolic meaning for their five-day meeting. At a Kremlin ceremony, Mr Gorbachev and Mr Reagan
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  • 501 1 Reuter MAYBE they were feeling guilty about soaking up the sun at their banks' expense, but the world's foreign exchange dealers last week ended an annual convention held in Hawaii agreeing that they were going to have to work
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  • 444 1  -  By WILLIAM CHIA A WEST GERMAN firm is suing the Export Credit Insurance Corporation of Singapore in a case which could set a legal precedent. Hildebrand, a company selling woodworking machinery and plant, is suing Ecics for not settling a claim arising
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  • 118 1 AFP THE PHILIPPINE government is to make a study on the rise of mental disorders among Filipinos who had worked abroad, a Labour Department agency said yesterday. The department's Overseas Workers Welfare Administration study, to begin in September, seeks to determine the
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  • 125 1 Reuter HONGKONG punters bet a record HK$734 million on the final day of the 1987-88 horse racing season, more than HK$l46 million above the record set last year. The last race alone at the Shatin Race Course on Saturday netted more than HK$93 million. The fling
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  • 235 1 Reuter MALAYSIA has suspended the head of its judiciary over allegations of misbehaviour, including partiality in cases involving the main ruling party. Tun Salleh Abas said yesterday he had been suspended as Lord President by Malaysia's king on May 27 on the recommendation
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    • 295 1 Need a car or truck loan? W\Yl<><>\(. 737-7977 iLTj Wfcyixng Mortgage And .Finance (S) Ltd A wholly-owned subsidiary of Hongkongßank 6 Claymore Hill #OJ-Ol Claymore Plaza Singapore 0922 MOHAMED SALLEH, the first Malay/Muslim Businessman of the Year, is tougher than the tough clothing business he is in. SHOEB KAGDA takes
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    • 364 1 Asia-Pacific OECD unlikely THE ODDS are not in favour of setting up an Asia-Pacific OECD. While such organisations may be useful for research and the collation of statistical data, they tend to degenerate into grossly inefficient paper mills whose goals are self-perpetuation. TAN KEE WEE makes a case against an
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    • 77 1 Taking stock of the Crash THE BLEAK scenarios painted by many a prophet of doom following last October's stockmarket crash have not come true. That does not, however, make management in uncertain times superfluous. As Spotlight on Management points out, this is a good time for management to take stock
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 861 2 FT PIZZA HUT has a programme in the US called "Book It", under which it has enrolled about 13 million students. They are set reading goals which, if achieved, are rewarded with three pizzas. To date, the fast-food chain has given away $100 million worth
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    • 700 2  -  MALAY/MUSLIM BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR Mohamed Salleh is tougher than the tough clothing business he is in. Persevering and ever ready to turn mistakes to account, he has survived and prospered in a competitive trade. SHOEB KAGDA reports on his brand ot business. SHOEB KAGDA YOU CANNOT
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    • 531 2  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ MORE THAN $1 billion in low interest loans have been taken up under the Small Industry Finance Scheme (SIFS) since its 1976 launch The SIFS is just one of two finance schemes available to small uiiainesies when they n?ed asf.istanc«t with development
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    • 808 2  -  Spotlight on Management By DAVID WONG THERE IS A wide range of views regarding the economic outlook for businesses in Singapore. Since last October s stock market crash, many prophets of doom have emerged and sinister comparisons have been made with 1929. The
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    • 529 2 IHT ALMOST EVERYBODY has received rejection letters at one time or other. To soothe bruised egos, some candidates paper their bathroom walls with their rejection letters. On business school campuses, students throw parties where "by rejection only" guests have to show their rejection
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    • 76 2 Welcome to Spotlight on Management, BT's weekly column which will attempt to answer your questions on management issues. Your queries will be handled by experts from Ernst Whinney Consultants. To get the series going, we have posed questions frequently asked by managers. You, the readers, should take It from there
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 232 3 AP THE SOUTH KOREAN economy, paced by brisk exports and domestic demand, grew 15.1 per cent during the first quarter of this year, the Bank of Korea has said. The figure compares with 15 per cent growth in the same period last
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    • 291 3 Be neutral or resign Thai ex-premier tells Prem AFP AN ELDER Thai statesman was quoted as saying last Saturday that Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda should resign if he is not neutral. Former premier Kukrit Pramoj was quoted by the Bangkok Post as making the remark after 99 academics questioned Mr
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    • 939 3 ARRIVALS Operator Sorvtco numb«r Km* From SU MAS JAL HA SU SU SU SU MAS SU SU MK MAS MAS SU SU CPA MAS KIM GU SU MA SU GU SU THAI SU THAI GU MAS GU SU SU SU tj SU SU THAI GU SU TK
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    • 185 3 AP A LEADER of the Paleatine Liberation Organisation met President Suharto in Jakarta on Saturday and discussed latest developments in the Middle East, including the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. "The president showed great concern and expressed support for the just cause
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    • 109 3 AFP THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has started to buy Israeli government bonds to finance Palestinian resistance against Israel in the occupied territories, a US magazine reports. US News and World Report, in its latest edition which will be on newstands today, says this
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    • 211 3 AFP ISRAEL is secretly helping China to build "a modern, electric version of the Great Wall" as a defence along its 6,640-km border with the Soviet Union, according to a US magazine. The US News and World Report, in its latest edition which hit
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    • 266 3 AP TWENTY-FOUR major building projects got the axe from China's highest governing body as part of a move to cut back on capital construction, the official People's Daily reported on Saturday. The State Council announced last week it would cut back some
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    • 307 3 AP CHINA'S year-old anti-corruption ministry has been authorised to set up bureaus inside most other ministries and top-level departments to better observe alleged wrongdoings, an official report said on Saturday. The only offices that the Ministry of Supervision will not
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    • 193 3 AFP CAMBOOIAN resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday that Vietnam was seeking to deceive international opinion by saying it would withdraw half its troops from Cambodia by the end of the year. "I cannot believe that Vietnam really intends to withdraw
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    • 533 3 Philippines welcomes international aid programme Agencies PHILIPPINE Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos, returning from a two-week visit to the United States, said US officials exerted "no conscious pressure" on him in an attempt to retain their bases in the Philippines. Mr Ramos said
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    • 272 3 AP FORMER US defence mcretary Caspar Weinberger Mid on Saturday ha was imprassad with Taiwan's development of sophisticated weapons "Tha davalopmant of (military) technology hare is quite remarkable and impressive." Mr Weinberger said at the end of a fourday visit to Taiwan. "The best wsy to prevent
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    • 259 3 AFP THE UNITED STATES will have more than a 30-per-cent work share in Japan's multi-million-dollar development of fighter support planes under a broad agreement reached in Tokyo, Japan's leading newspaper reported last Saturday. The nationally circulated
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    • 206 3 AP JAPANESE Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. who will visit the United States and Europe, said on Saturday he hopes to uphold Japan's commitment to the international community. "As a nation with one of the world s highest levels of per capita gross
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 460 4 Reagan's call for freedom of worship meets sharp retort AFP THE UNITED STATES expects limited progress on disarmament at the Moscow summit, but no breakthrough in talks on strategic arms limitation, US officials said in Helsinki on Saturday, on the eve
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    • 233 4 Reuter A SENIOR Kremlin advisor said last Friday that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher displays ignorance and egotism about nuclear weapons. Georgy Arbatov, director of the institute of the USA and Canada at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, told British television that he believed
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    • 377 4 AP SOVIET LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev is looking to this week's summit with President Ronald Reagan to strengthen his hand as he faces economic difficulties and struggles within the ruling Politburo. While the summit holds little hope of major progress on arms control or other
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    • 239 4 Reuter BEHIND the multi-coloured onion domes of St Basil's Cathedral in the heart of Red Square on Saturday sat a piece of Americana that might have given Lenin, in his nearby tomb, pause for concern. There it was a red, white and blue
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    • 196 4 Reuter ETHIOPIA has assured the European Community (EC) that it will allow the Community to monitor the distribution of its relief food in the north of the country, EC delegate Benno Haffner said on Saturday. Mr Haffner had written a strong protest to Berhanu
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    • 253 4 AFP "AFTER seven-and-a-half years of charisma in the White House, it's time to bring some competence, don't you think?" Michael Dukakis combative and biting, with a delivery even more staccato than usual uses an old campaign line on a new crowd and gets the reliably enthusiastic reaction.
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    • 188 4 AP THE YUGOSLAV government last Saturday introduced its new austerity programme, including a 23.9-per-cent devaluation of the dinar and massive price increases. The programme provides for further wage cuts and a widespread lifting of price controls at a time when inflation is hovering around
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    • 166 4 AFP ORDERS for machine tools in the US fell a scant 0.6 per cent from March to April, following a strong rise since the beginning of the year, according to a survey published today. But despite the slight drop, machine tool orders reached US$253
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    • 359 4 AP ON THE EVE of US President Reagan's visit to Moscow, the Soviet Union hinted that it might halt its withdrawal from Afghanistan if neighbouring Pakistan fails to stop aiding Afghan rebels. The Soviet Union also blamed the United States
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    • 360 4 AP ALTHOUGH President Ronald Reagan has often criticised protectionist trade legislation, he has erected more anti-consumer trade barriers than any president since Herbert Hoover, says a former top economic adviser. William Niskanen, a former member of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers,
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    • 352 4 AP SOME 1,267 companies from 20 Western countries continue to do business in South Africa, but 188 companies from seven countries have pulled out, according to a survey by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Britain leads the field with 374
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    • 179 4 AFP SOUTH AFRICA'S tourism industry is booming, the tourist board has said after an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at allaying (ears over racial violence. According to the chairman of the South African Tourist Board (Satour), Danie Hough, the number of foreign visitors rose by 14.2 per cent
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    • 202 4 AP PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan, thf target of embarrassing disclosures in books by former aides,, says he probably will write a book of his own to "straighten 1 out the record". However, he indicated that h+ was not happy about the idea. *T don't look
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 393 5 Reuter MALAYSIA is too optimistic about rubber prices because demand is not as tight as it has portrayed, according to a visiting Chinese rubber delegation. "Malaysia is over-optimistic about the rubber market. Prices should not have shot up so much," the head
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    • 409 5 KL Tin Rubber Bernama ES CONTINUED overseas demand and a higher European spot tin close pushed tin prices 30 cents higher to close at M$ 17.80 from the previous Friday on the KLTM last week. Trading was active due to strong Japanese and European short-covering following nearby shortage in Europe.
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    • 164 5 Chinese Produce Gambier Exchange FOB NSW 180.00 Silttn' noon pricos on FAMA Mor 28 (SS/100 kg) Oaring prfcvs on May 28 Coconut oil Coconut oil (M$/100kg) kk FOB 107.00 Now drums 161.00 OW drum FO* 117.00 2nd hand drums 155.00 Now drum FO# 121.00 Bulk 146.00 Copra Local
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    • 219 5 SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade rallied late last Friday in a fast market to close on a steady note, up 16V4 to five US cents per bushel in moderately active trade. July settled at US$7.6B after posting a 12-cent range on the day. Rumours that some
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    • 195 5 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade rallied late last Friday in sympathy with strength in soybeans to close mostly higher in moderate trade, ranging from up 3% US cents per bushel in September to down 14 cent in new crop July. Rumours that some private weather forecasters
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    • 1564 5 AFP ATTENTION CENTRED on platinum and rubber last week, as activity slowed on most other commodity markets mainly because of the closure on Monday of many European markets for the Whitsun holiday. Platinum, which is currently at its highest level for seven months,
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    • 350 5 Bernama ES MALAYSIAN crud* palm oil prices ended mixed to steadier in very active trading on the KLCE last week with prices breaching the MSI.OOO level. Prices held firm for two days around this level on news of lower crude palm oil output expected in May. Speculative buying
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    • 305 5 London Commodity Exchange fcjyer/Seller doting prices on May 27 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous closing prices in parenthesis. CoffM Bath in-store London, sellers option CIF London May 1040/1042 (1040/1048) High/Low 1045/1035 M 1058/1059 (1063/1064) High/Low 1065/1051 Cy| 1 a* OOlfl (2781) Cocoa May 905/911 (910/922) High/Low 910/898 Jul 923/925
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 497 6 Reuter JAPANESE CITY, trust and long-term credit banks reported strong earnings increases in the year to March 31. 1988, helped by lower interest rates, good domestic loan demand and lucrative sales of securities holdings, industry analysts and bank spokesmen said last Friday. Dai-lchi
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    • 564 6 Reuter THE NEW HEAD of China s central bank warned in a speech published last Saturday that money supply and loans were growing much too fast, with savings slowing and consumption soaring. A Western banker said the economy was showing serious signs of overheating
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    • 254 6 Reuter THE PEOPLE'S Bank of China is allowing 28 foreign and joint venture banks to do limited renminbi business on an experimental basis, according to the official Beijing Financial Times. A Western banker said last Friday this was a result of pressure from Sino-foreign joint ventures
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    • 372 6 Reuter TRADING IN THE currencies of the four Newly Industrialising Countries (NICs) offers little opportunity for profit, despite calls by the US for the NICs to allow their currencies to appreciate, dealers say. International currency traders gathered in Honolulu for their annual meeting
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    • 883 6  - If you're making a claim ramaa MM. by PAUL FRANKLAND HOW ARE CLAIMS processed? Why do some claims fail and what can you do to make your claim work? To begin, let's consider some typical damage claims. For convenience, I'll restrict my comments to fire damage, but they also apply
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    • 1071 6 AFP LAST WEEK. th« US dollar retained its momentum, while the Swiss franc continued to dip. Amid a market environment free of significant influences, the attractive Australian dollar was again at the centre of position shifts and. with its sound fundamental underpinnings. registered renewed gains. The number one
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    • 342 6 Gold Financial futures Green Collier SEPTEMBER Simex/IMM currency contracts attempted a feeble rally early last week but subsequently turned southward on account of the strengthening US dollar. Looming support for the dollar for most of the week cultivated in its ability by Friday to trade up to 1.7200 D-mark in
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    • 533 6 NDC Merchant Bank Ltd TREASURY bill and government bond yield* soared across the board last week due mainly to firmer interbank rates. A flatter yield curve is evident with the short-end rising steeply while the yield on the fiveyear bond lagged behind. Both the five-year bonds maturing
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    • 157 6 Gold futures on May 27 100 troy owe* USS par boy inn Opt* IN MB* Mm 453.X ***** 430.20 430JO XX M -2JO 45I.70 454.70 455 30 -170 Oa •ttl 00 ■Hi TP 1frf) 4*1 JO -1*0 Ok 464-70 464.70 ***** 4*6.20 •2J0 tab M 474.00 474
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    • 494 6 PlJt of bonks at ihe dot* of business on Friday, May 27,at supplied by the Association of Ranks in Singapore. BANK PL* Algemene frank 6% Allied Irish Bank PIC 6 American Express Bank 6% A/n'Dam R'terdam Bank 6* Arab Banking Corp 6% Arab Bank Ltd 6K Asia
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 746 7  -  'Worn BARRY WOOD Paris -THE WEEKEND produced high at the French Open for Mats Wi lander and Chris Evert. -Wilander survived, Evert did not. It was never going to be easy fpr Evert to defeat Arantxa Sanchez even if she was fully fit, for Evert only
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    • 815 7  -  From SHIRISH NADKARNI ANYONE ATTENDING one of the Iraining-cum-practice sessions of the Indonesian Thomas and Über Cup squads at the Stadium Negara will find a stocky, paunchy figure with buck teeth and a buccaneer-like scar across the right eyebrow, directing operations. This is Tahir
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    • 334 7 Reuter MARY DECKER SLANEY. showing no effect from two years of injuries, breezed to victory in the women's 3,000 metres on Saturday at the Bruce Jenner Classic Grand Prix athletics meet at San Jose. The former world champion never trailed as she won
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    • 189 7 AP DON LALONDE of Canada was scheduled to defend his World Boxing Council (WBC) lightheavyweight title for the first time yesterday afternoon against Leslie Stewart of Trinidad. The 12-round title fight was to take place in the open National Stadium at 1825 GMT in Port-of-Spain,
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    • 504 7  -  By CHARLES SAVAGE WARREN GOLF CLUB finished second best on the day but did enough to snatch the Premier league title from defending champions Sembawang yesterday. Needing to finish one point behind Sembawang to clinch the title. Warren carded a combined score of
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    • 470 7 AP JOE DUMARS finished with 29 points and Isiah Thomas with 23 on Saturday to lift the Detroit Pistons 98-94 over Boston Celtics for a 2-1 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference finals. Dumars. shooting 42.2
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    • 469 7 AP VETERAN Hale Irwin turned back a host of challenges with a 4-un-der-par 68 and retained his one-shot lead on Saturday in the third round of the US$l-miliion Memorial tournament in Ohio. Irwin, whose last victory was in this event three seasons ago, completed
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    • 403 7 UPI ALTHOUGH the McLaren team had a miserable time in the Mexico City Grand Prix last year, this season their turbo-charged RA168e engines have proven more powerful and fuel efficient than rival engines. McLaren has won all three of this season s
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    • 224 7 UPI THE SCARIEST MOMENT in yesterday's Indianapolis 500 for many drivers was expected to come in the first 30 seconds of the race. That would be when the 33car field, aligned in 11 rows three cars wide, tries to squeeze into turn one at Indianapolis
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  • THE ARTS
    • 360 8  -  By WALTON MORAIS IF THE Arts Festival had opened to a mixed reaction on Saturday night, the Festival Fringe got into the groove at the Botanical Gardens yesterday evening on a clear day when there was willing suspension of
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    • 615 8  -  By VANESSA LEE THE LOBBY OF the Pavilion Intercontinental has, since last October, become a permanent art gallery for young local artists. To date. 14 artists have been featured in monthly two-man shows. Quite a big family it is. Playing "mother" is
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    • 568 8  -  By SHOEB KAGDA THE HISTORY of art in all its forms has been to invoke a response from an otherwise docile audience. From the time it was first conceived in Frankfurt in the *****, video art has sought to lend a different dimension
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    • 338 8  -  By SHAUN KOH AS FAR AS the Singapore Symphony Orchestra Familiar Favourite concerts go, they are glaringly strides behind the London Prom concerts they attempt to emulate. It's not as though the concerts were initiated quite recently. Quite the contrary. These concerts catering
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    • 270 8  -  By BHAUN KOH THE FUTURE IS an ominous one. For the La Salle Baroque Players it could mean a premature end. Which certainly should not happen to a group with such enthusiasm and promise. The problem that looms before it this moment is
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1290 8 TO QKE) QIMK) 7.30 PM Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Call Me Mister The Other Woman (Last episode). (.30 Adam Smith's Money World. 9.00 Sporting Class. 9.30 Hot House People. 10.30 Video Ordnance Fight For The Sky. This progromme takes a dose-up took at the world of today's fighter
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 1485 9  -  It has been suggested that the Asia-Pacific countries form a new regional grouping along the lines of the OECD. This may be useful for research and the collection of statistical data, says TAN KEE WEE. But he argues that most organisations of
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    • 886 9  -  By JOAN MOWER AP WITH NO chance of an arms reduction agreement, American officials are focusing on a variety of other issues that they hope will make President Ronald Reagan's trip to Moscow more than just a travelogue. When the Moscow
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    • 626 9 THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as we know it today, waa instituted in 1961. It ia an extension of the Organ iaation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) formed in 1948. The OEEC was set up in response to
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 281 10 Reuter THE INDIAN OCEAN island of Mauritius intends to open a stock exchange early next year "twinned" to the French Bourse de Lyon. Preparations coincide with steps to develop Mauritius as Africa's first international offshore banking centre the first licences are expected to be issued this
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    • 902 10 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks finished moderately lower last Friday in a session dominated by concerns over a possible rise in the Federal Reserve's discount rate. Analysts said the fears were rekindled by last Thursday's upward revision in the US first quarter gross national product
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    • 45 10 AFP THE BOARD of Texaco Corporation has rejected a US$6O-a-share buyout offer from corporate raider Carl Icahn. It said the bid was a pressure tactic and called on Mr Icahn to abandon his attempt to secure five seats on the board. AFP
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    • 1047 11 London Reuter LONDON shares last Friday remained mixed throughout the afternoon, showing little response to news of a larger than anticipated UK current account deficit in April of £525 million compared to £285 million in March, dealers said. The FTSE 100 Index closed down 1.6 at
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    • 1390 11 Amsterdam MAY 27 FU ABM Aagon Ahold Akzo 17.70 76 50 71.10 107 90 -0.1 -0? 0.1 -06 Airanta AMEV Amro Bank Am Stad 151 70 50 10 63 00 120 50 unch -02 0.4 -2.5 Barkat BOLS 12 30 120 30 -02 0 5 Borsumi) Boahrman TaOaroi Calva ElMvxr
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    • 101 11 AFP JAPAN AIR LINES (JAL) said on Friday that its US subsidiary would buy up to 20 per cent ol the outstanding stock of HAL Inc. the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, for about US$2O million. The Honolulu-based JAL subsidiary. Pan Pacific
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    • 279 11 MAJOR Japanese steel makers said on Friday that they recorded profits in the business year ended March 31, after suffering losses or reduced profits in the previous year because of recession. Nippon Steel Co, Nippon Kokan K K, Kobe Steel Ltd, Kawasaki Steel Corp,
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    • 318 11 Reuter REUTERS Holdings Pic has bought a 48.8 per cant interest in Australian Aasociated Press Pty Ltd (AAP) for A 574.2 million Reuters acquired 44.65 per cent of the Domestic News Agency's holding company from the John Fairfax Ltd Group and 4.15 per cent from
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    • 166 11 AP VOLKSWAGEN, West Germany's largest car maker, is considering a cost-cut-ting programme of US$76O million, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. A Volkswagen spokesman confirmed the report in a radio interview. Spiegel said Volkswagen planned to gradually cut salaries and reduce vacation
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    • 89 11 AFP THE US publishing group McGraw-Hill has sold its 49 per cent stake in a Japanese joint-venture for US$2B3 million. The company said in a statement issued in New York that it had sold its stake in Nikkei-McGraw-Hill Inc to the Japanese group
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 220 11 WITH A SHORT DELAY, the bet-ter-than-expected data on the US economy had a positive impact on world stock prices. Amsterdam performed slightly better as well but on very low trading volume. Last week, the US GNP deflator for the first quarter of 1988 was
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    • 344 11 m m'/i J ew IJ AFP A SULKING and pessimistic Wall Street registered a mediocre performance last week in light trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fluctuated tightly to end the week 3.84 points up at 1,956.43 against 1,952.59 the
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    • 5399 12  -  r Singapore P 4 By LONG SHIH ROME AFTER WEEKS of lethargy, the market perked up on Friday s news that Singapore achieved 10.9 p«r cent growth in the first quarter the highest quarterly growth in two decades. The strong economic fundamentals
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    • 365 13 i" K.Lumpur s m i BUYERS made a strong come-back last week and share prices were chased higher across the board on the Kuala Lumpur stock market. Initially, it appeared that the previous week's softer trend would be extended when share prices headed for
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    • 287 13 m Toky l^rJ A AFP SHARE PRICES dropped further in mixed trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week, with the key Nikkei Stock Average going below the 27,000-yen mark for the first time in more than one month. The 225-blue chip average. a
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    • 610 13 L L 1 Hongkong y DBS Securities HK THE PREVIOUS WEEK'S fears over interest rstes continued into esrly Isst week ss the Hongkong market got off to s particularly quiet start. Activity was centred on a few speculative stocks and blue chips were
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    • 722 13  -  |nn)j London E'"' A From RAY HEATH A 'FOR SALE' notice has been put up over British industry, thundered the leader of the opposition in the British Parliament last week. A decision by the UK Trade and Industry Minister, Lord Young, not to refer to the
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    • 276 13  -  From SHIRISH NADKARNI,AJIT AGHARKAR FOR THE FOURTH WEEK in succession, the Bombay stock market continued to climb, sending the Bombay Stock Exchange equity index to a new peak of 557.69 for 1988 Starting the week on a firm note, the index retraced
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 699 13  -  Week ended May 27 compiled by JULIANA TAY SCRIP ISSUES C K Tang; Proposed rights issue of one-for-two at $2.25 per shore Each rights share comes with two detachable TSRs. The exercise price for the TSRs, expiring on May 31. 1990. is $2.25. Cham Ind:
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    • 182 13 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 BT Comp 1 ***** 839 70 ***** 859 90 869 57 BT OB/OS 10 -203 -184 45 1 98 BT CADI 11 -7060 -7093 -7014 -6980 -6932 BT 10-day av 11 -6973 -6992 6996 -6996 6986 BT
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    • 112 13 C toeing nfAtfi/VM Closing w 1MS High 1S8S Low BT Comp Index 869.57 847.38 869.57(27/5/88) 737 83(4/1/881 ST Ind Index 983 43 965.26 983.43(27/5/881 833.61 (4/1/881 NST Ind Index 1607.88 1590.61 1607.88(27/5/88) 1305.59(4/1/881 Hong Seng 2513.70 2491.24 2623.08(7/4/88) 2223.04(9/2/88) Dow Jones 1956.43 1952.59 2090.18(8/4/88) 1879.14(20/1/881 FT Ind
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    • 65 13 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 NST Inds 1 1578.01 1578.20 1591.11 1598 71 1607.88 NST Finance 5 *****3 2215.32 2196.06 2222.45 *****0 NST Hotels 5 ***** 600.89 600.74 600.82 600.97 NST Prop 3 770.03 771.28 771.07 775.04 778.28 NST Tins 2
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    • 152 13 AFP THE AUSTRALIAN share market gave an overwhelming endorsement to Treasurer Paul Keating's economic reform package as a scramble for quality stocks sent prices surging. The All Ordinaries Index soared 82.2 points over the week to close at a postcrash high of 1,538.0.
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    • 103 13 Bernama PERMOOALAN Nasional Bhd's group investment grew from Mssl million in 21 companies to more than Ms 6 billion in 153 companies in its 10 years of existence. Of that number. 94 were quoted on the stock exchange. PNB's chairman Tun Ismail Ali
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    • 402 13 Bernama THE EFFICIENCY of the Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) in ensuring the success of the New Economic Policy (NEP) has spurred the Malaysian government to use its facilities to keep tab on the operations of all governmentowned companies or companies in which the government has an
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  • 420 14 Cheap brings boom back to Silicon Valley Higher demand boosts number of high-tech jobs Reuter A CHEAP DOLLAR is helping California's Silicon Valley boom again. The Valley's often-brash executives who have built multi-million-dollar computer businesses from almost nothing had a rough few years in the mid-1980s. Tough competition, especially from
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  • 316 14 Reuter PRICE INFLATION threatens to send industry in Shanghai into recession and has already triggered hoarding and speculation among its 12 million hardpressed residents. The China Daily Business Weekly, in unusually strong language, yesterday quoted economists as saying "unfair" pricing had slashed
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  • 379 14 Reuter THOUSANDS of people crammed into tape shops in Jakarta and the resort island of Bali over the weekend to beat a June 1 ban on the sale of pirated music cassettes. "Our sales have tripled. Some people are buying 40, 50
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  • 169 14 UPI THE Pentagon is exploring using a three-stage rocket dropped from a high-flying B-52 to loft military satellites into space, the New York Times reported in yesterday editions. The project is being examined by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), a Pentagon unit,
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  • 272 14 THE HIGH GROWTH rate experienced by the insurance industry would continue in the future, said Acting Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong. The prediction, however, was based on a fundamental assumption that the Singapore economy would continue to grow at a satisfactory rate, said Mr
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  • 178 14 Reuter THE UNITED STATES is arbitrarily accepting thousands of Armenians as refugees without even trying to determine if they have been persecuted in the Soviet Union, the New York Times reported yesterday. The newspaper which said its report was based on a probe by State Department
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  • 196 14 NYT SURROGATE motherhood contracts should be declared void in New York state and payments to surrogates and brokers should be banned, a state panel has recommended. The panel the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law said
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  • 156 14 AFP THE INDIAN government yesterday detained seven top-ranking Sikh politicians including former Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal under the National Security Act. police in Chandigarh said. The seven leaders were served with detention orders in Chandigarh jail where they had
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  • 348 14 FT JAPANESE civil engineers are going from the sublime to the ridiculous. Having just completed the world s longest undersea tunnel and one of its biggest suspension bridges, the country's construction industry has turned its attention to rebuilding a tiny
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  • 200 14 GOOD DESIGN is one of the critical success factors for Singapore's export-oriented economy, said Mr Yeo Seng Teck. The Trade Development Board (TDB) chief executive officer was speaking at the opening of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts' 4th Graphic Design Diploma
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  • LATE FILE
    • 35 14 AFP PAKISTAN'S President Mohammed Zia ul Haq dissolved the National Assembly and suspended the cabinet with immediate effect yesterday, the state-run television reported. He said elections will be held in 90 days.
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    • 39 14 AFP WARNING of a smouldering volcano inside the Nato alliance. secretary general Lord Carrington said yesterday the United States and its European allies must strike a better balance over sharing military costs and responsibilities. AFP
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    • 49 14 Bernama THE TIME has come for Barisan Nasional (BN) component party leaders to lead and advise their supporters instead of seeking popularity by following the narrow thinking of certain groups, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said last night at Gerakan's 20th anniversary dinner. Bernama
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    • 49 14 Bernama KOPERASI Usaha Bersatu Malaysia Berhad (KUB) chairman Datuk Haji Harun idris yesterday admitted that the cooperative had suffered financial losses but denied suggestions of malpractices by board members. Datuk Harun said this in his welcoming speech at the KUB's annual delegates' meeting yesterday. Bernama
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    • 40 14 AP THAI Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, returning from an official visit to the Soviet Union, said yesterday he and Soviet leaders agreed that the conflict in Cambodia had to be solved through political means. AP
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    • 40 14 AFP THE Organisation of Petrolaum Exporting Countries (Opec) may agree to a minimal cutback in production at its next meeting on June 8, an official of a Belgian oil company said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. AFP
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    • 23 14 UPI FRENCH journalist Alain Guillo returned to Franca after nine months in a tough Afghan jail yesterday. UPI
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    • 33 14 Reuter ISRAEL reopened schools for 70,000 West Bank Palestinian students yesterday to try to restore order following a four-month closure, but fresh unrest erupted in the occupied territories. Reuter
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  • SATURDAY ROUNDUP
    • 94 14 FIFTEEN per cent more firms in the services sector expect an upturn in their business, according to the second quarter Survey of Business Expectations. For the six months from April to September, those industries looking forward to better times included computer hardware and software, radio
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    • 111 14 SINGAPORE'S Malay community was urged to build a pool of capable young Malays who could be the models of success in the community. The call was made by First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at Saturday's Hari Raya dinner organised by the Singapore Malay Chamber of
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    • 86 14 SINGAPORE Airlines' managing director, Dr Cheong Choong Kong, asked the Indian travel industry to join a megacomputer reservations system (CRS). He was addressing members of the Travel Agents Association of India at Srinagar, India. Referring to Abacus a mega-CRS being developed by SIA, Thai International
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    • 77 14 A PUBLISHING grant scheme will be launched to give more Singapore writers, poets, playwrights and literary critics the opportunity to have their works published. The scheme will be launched by the Singapore Cultural Foundation and the National Book Development Council of Singapore. Council chairman, Hedwig Anuar,
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    • 407 14 Free clippings of BT exclusive stories Free copies of these exclusive stories in last week's Business Times are now available 1. A second wave of foreign stockbrokers is coming, much to the chagrin of the small brokers. 2. Results of a comparative study on office rental rates in several major
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 232 15  -  By G DURAIRAJ FOREIGN DEEPSEA fishermen fishing in the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal are turning to Penang Port as a base for landing their catch. Japanese and Taiwanese fishermen have found the northern Peninsular Malaysia port an ideal location
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    • 282 15 THAI PRIME MINISTER Prem Tinsulanonda will hold a cabinet meeting tomorrow to discuss unions' demands that the government should assume direct responsibility for terminating a contract on container handling. Over two thirds of 6,300 unionised Bangkok port workers threatened to
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    • 241 15  -  From Kingsley Wood AUSTRALIA Japan Container Line has invested in nearly 4,000 new refrigerated containers costing AsB million. They were made by the Japanese firm, Nippon Fruehauf, and incorporate many new features. AJCL has two cellular container ships the 23,000-dwt Arafura nd 34,346-dwt
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 96 15 AFP ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA Heavy Industries Ltd (IHI), Japan's second largest shipbuilder, said it had managed to increase its earnings in fiscal 1987 despite a drop in sales due to the high yen. Sales were down by 7 per cent to 715.7 billion yen in the year
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      • 101 15 AFP LAOS and Vietnam have signed a shipping agreement to allow landlocked Laos to ship exports through Vietnam's ports, the Laotian news agency KPL said. KPL said that under the agreement Vietnam would arrange ships for transporting Laotian goods to third countries through Danang, Haiphong and
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      • 103 15 HUTCHISON WHAMPOA has been approached by several parties who have interests in having a stake in the development of Terminal 7 in Hongkong. The development rights for the new terminal at Kwai Chung was won by its subsidiary, Hongkong International Terminals, recently. Mr Simon Murray, chairman of
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      • 72 15 Reuter THE PORT Authority of New York and New Jersey said it selected General Electric Co's GE Information Services unit to provide an electronic data interchange, or EDI, capability for the Automated Cargo expediting system to be used by its members. EDI is the computer-to-computer
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      • 57 15 Reuter THE JAPAN/lndia-Pakistan-Gulf/Japan Shipping Conference will raise its currency adjustment factor on shipments from Hongkong to India and Pakistan to 58 per cent from 55, effective June 1. A similar change will apply to Gulf shipments not covered under the existing temporarily reduced commodity box rate
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    • 163 16 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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    • 1070 16 Carribean ranks as number one cruise arena UPI CARIBBEAN CRUISE vacations are once again in demand this summer, much to the delight of Miami's major cruise operators. Advance bookings for summer sailings are running even with or ahead of last year, according to cruise line executives
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    • 1033 16 AB Shpg V s ABC CoMoinor a 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahrenfciel liner 3 AC Toopter VI xi 3 9 A»#r«on Tpt 4/5 Aoro Service IV 2/3 Arrow linos IX Asion Oceon XI 4 Assoc Corriogo XI s Alios Lin* X s ANl 1 1/2 AFC
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    • 366 17 Reuter THE British-owned shipping fleet has shown some stability after many years of sharp declines. It totalled 908 ships (100 grt and over) of 17.7 million dwt at end-1987 against 922 of 17.9 million dwt a year earlier, the General Council of British Shipping (GCBS) said.
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    • 101 17 Reuter A DUTCH tanker which collided with a Swedish vessel and sank in the North Sea on Friday did not seem to be spilling its cargo of highly toxic chemicals, s Dutch Coast Guard official said. "We sent out a measurement
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    • 608 17 AP OIL POLLUTION in the Persian Gulf has never been worse, but environmentalists say there is little they can do about it as long as the waterway is a major arena in the fighting between Iran and Iraq. "We're in the middle of a
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    • 645 17 THREE MOTOR bulk carriers are reported to have been sold en bloc to Chinese interests. No prices have been disclosed but brokers said they believe they will be in the region of US$l5 million each. They are the Pacific Pride of 64,919 tonnes dw built 1981. the Pacific Prestige
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    • 7485 22 apasipqEß 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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    • 2097 24 Itr-B Shipping Bouatead Shpg Agenciea Containerkne NV S pore Shpg (S) Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S) M>ca Ocean Linea Seaiion Shpg (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Krni Shpg (S) Ored C Toe pier Oceanue Shipping Agencies A Muitiport Sdn Bhd (PK) Blrene Alltrans Express American President Linea APL
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    • 1274 24 AMID rumours of yet weaker rates having been accepted by Panamax grain loaders in the US Gulf and US North Pacific, the general tone of bulk carrier nates on the London shipping freights market on Thursday Oecame less favourable. Detailed single-yoyage fixing was confined to the coverage of
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    • 278 26 THE DEVELOPMENT of a port in Yantian in the Shenzhen economic zone has generated strong interest particularly from Hongkong companies. Zhu Yuening, vice-major of Shenzhen municipality, in charge of the transportation development of the city, said there were five or six overseas syndicates
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    • 263 26 Reuter The WORLD bulk carrier market will remain prosperous for the next two years, although a slight setback may be seen this summer, Wah Kwong Shipping Group Ltd president Frank Chao said. "The market will be slightly weaker from now on and during the
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    • 399 26 P 0 investigates Channel ferry fire Reuter THE PENINSULAR and Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P O) has begun an investigation into a blaze on one of its cross Channel ships. The European Trader, sailing from Dover to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge with 44 passengers, was crippled by a fire
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    • 863 17 -fThe Straits Steamship Group mem Mansfield Container Shipping Re Ltd STRAITS SHIPPING Singapore to Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Ports and Bangkok P&O Containers CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES TO/FRO* BANGKOK P to| STa* H'tarf Btavw R'dm UHi kin Ml am am am am mm mm am M/m am nm am um am am nm
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    • 248 22 XT SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TU 225 6868 (30 lines. FAX *****39 *****76 TUEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD f PACHT SEtREEDERE I J i¥T N* carfi tar Nmi Km«. •mm. Tatya W Kato REGULAR CONVENTIONAL SERVICE 1M I > REGIONAL CONTAINER LINES BANGKOK
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 161 22 n m m m m c ft ss t i V 33 I °c y^s cr" Wind direction with speed Hi knots Wave height SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 AJM. May 30, 1968 LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature °C Shower Weather s~S Wind direction with speed in knots Rain
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    • 481 23 ft'FARGO SHIPPING COMPANY (PTE) LTD. No 15 Hoe Chiang Road «13-02 Sanford Building. Singapore 0208 Tel *****22 Tlx ***** FASCO a e ABC CONTAINERIZE N.V. TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND 7 DATS TO FREMANTLE! Also accepting cargo to:AUSTRALIA —MM, Britten* NEW ZEALAND —KMlinfton. Napier Christehurch TO USA/CANADA USA —Houston, Savannah. Tampa. Jacksonville,
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    • 153 23 CSP SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE. LTO Tel *****66 (16 Lines* Fa* *****15 I G w la m i »I»m;K»HI »l\l w;n i s 3 Mil \m\ M sUtoni Voy HE VESSEL U«ICOS Voy JVN S pore to Bombay (LCL) ETD 5.6.88 S'pore to Osaka (LCL) ETD 3.6.88 S'pore to Sydney (LCL)
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    • 752 23 UNIPACIFIC TRANS TRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. 0 IRAQI LINE IRSQI STflTf f NTf RPRISf fOR MJRITIMi T Ri*$PrRT WEST BOUND SERVICE NV ROW) RALQEES WV BARTLON ETA SPORE In Pwt THROUGH R/Lt to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST ALSO ACCEPTING CONTAINERS UPTO AQARA BAGHDAD REEFER SPACE AVAJLARU UPTO AQASA LOADING CONTAINERVCONVENTIONAI COO
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 594 24 FINE-LINER SHIPPING PTE LTI) n<, ii V,.,", h" ip Sr. Ml I nps) "i« Rs ,vn (iinfr ra« IT> a* IJU ■r» w M I in i*n Iw FAR EAST SERVICE 3 un W 1M M* M ilti H A :4«j f 0 Hamburg West Germany Tiger Line T ICC
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    • 417 24 ZIM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE *cc«ftM| FCL/LCL urfws to USA Eatt i M«t Coast Garribboan East Canada. HAITI Cotta Rkj. El Salvador Guatemala Hondiirai Venezuela Peru Ecuador Colombia »if Miami Trinidad Barbados. Antma St Lucia Mentiarrat. Cuayana via Kingston MONTREAL MONTREAL I."-". 1 li 2IM BRISBANE ZIM EILAT ZIM KOPER ACCEPTINB
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    • 403 24 Everett Lines/ &l COMPAMA PERUANA 9 l>f VAPORES B "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" LOADING FOR CALLAO, HAT ARAN I. N.o* AND ALL OTNOI 1 i I m \u (i fi CPV THROUGH BILL Of LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION. tounf* P. SMp^ori HUGHEVERETT $0 Jw, MANOLOEVERETT 17/11 >w JOHNEVERETT 4/5 M "EVERETT
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 308 25 Seabrfqge "gssimsw' SEABRIOGE TRANSPORT SINGAPORE MALAYSIA (A member of the JEURO SWOP of COMPANIES. Jo**) Singapore: *****11 Tlx: R*****1 SEAAifI Fax: *****90 Warehouee at PSA Muttlatorey Complax *****08 Malayaia: *****33 Tlx: MA37ISO Fax: *****88 WEEKLY FROM Singapore Port Kelang Penang UK/EUROPE: FAR EAST United Kington Banfkofc, Hone Kong. Kaehinf, Kaoshiung
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    • 275 25 Consolidation Service NEW CALEDONIA TAHITI SIN 6/6, 7/6 NOUMEA 7/7 PAPEETE 22/7 MAURITIUS REUNION ISLAND SIN 3/6, 29/6 PORT LOUIS 13/6 REUNION 9/7 FRANCE SIN 19/6 MARSEILLE 6/7 LE HAVRE 19/7 TRANSTAINERS DCLMASVKDEUX WEST AFRICA SERVICE CASABLANCA/NOUAKCHOTT/DAKAR/BANJUL/ CONAKRY/COTONOU/ÜBREVILLE/ P. NOIRE/MATADI Thru direct B/L to BAMAKO/NIAMEY/ OUAGADOUGOU/BANGUI/KINSHASA TTA Fril|ht Ptl Lti
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    • 348 25 LCL/FCL SERVICE if tJ IkLi ULi I Ml !iu:K!J LUCKY SEAWAY SERVICES PTE LTD Tlx: ***** Fai *****77 S.E.ASIA/CHINA SERVICES SGP PKLANC PNC FOR W SHANGHAI COLOMBO SERVICE TO/FROM SGP PKLANC PNG COLOMBO M ARABIAN QULF SERVICE KTN SGP PKLANC FOR 10* VI HOOCIOAH/JEOOAM/ADCN Sid ADENMOMRAttA CARGO ROOKING; MALAYSIA: EJMLAYSIA.
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    • 548 25 FMrTrSrSI TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* sP m n K« KAON GLORY SELATAN VI I*s Zl/S GLORY SELATAN VIII V.71 SID JM GLORY SELATAN VII VH 2S/S 30/5 6 VESSELS OF LOG CARRIERS 5 VESSELS OF BRAND NEW TWIN DECKERS ON REGULAR LINER
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    • 359 25 PIC CONTAINER LINES FCI ICI SERVICE 5/6 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 4/6 BANGKOK 4/6 MANILA 4/6 JAKARTA 4/6 PORT KELANG/PENANG 30/5 BUSAN 3/6 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE 31/5 HONG KONG also accepting cargo to Huangpu/Shenzhen/Fuzhou/ Xiamen/ Xingang/Shanghai 31/5 RDM/HAM/ANT/LE HAVRE/GENOA V.Jt 8/6 L.A./NYC/SFO 8/6 VANCOUVER/TORONTO/MONTREAL L! i 111 6/6 SYD/MELB/ADEL/FREM 4/6 AUCKLAND/WELLINGTON i;.\ M.iVi .it 7
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 303 26 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd T EI *****06 (20 Lines) TLX HS ***** RS ***** jfc 1 \SI I K\ K I I\ I K. Ill) IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK SPORE PK DBN WL vjt m 1/7 tp a/7 'Also calls LI. I P.E. GENERAL
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    • 398 26 CGMi FOR RELIABLE AND FAST TRANSIT WEEKLY FCL SERVICE TO USA-EAST COAST/GULF/CAN ADA/MEXICO AND FRENCH WEST INDIES For Gulf Miami, Mobil*. Now Orleans Houston/Mei ico Vera Cruz, Mexico City Also serving Halifax. Montreal. Toronto. New York. Baltimore. Portsmouth. Norfolk, Savannah/FRENCH Indies Port Oe France. Pointre A Pitre, Oetrad D. Cannes
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    • 123 26 ULTIMATE FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD T«fc *****11 Tlx: ***** Fas: 224MR2 LCL Acceptance ROTTERDAM Closing 1/6 Noon \29 WEEKLY LCL/FCL CONSOL SERVICE L.A., SFO, NEW YORK LONDON, MARSEILLES NHHMHUU SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD Tel: *****88 (8 Lines) Tlx: RS ***** BALTIC ORIENT SHIPPING PTE LTD. REGULAR CONTAINER SERVICE TO CALCUTTA
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    • 835 26 MJWMKcj CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR *****53/*****11 •04-*****2/4, *****3 •07-*****8 •07-*****3, *****5, *****0, *****1 '02-*****22 *****88 FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE FEEOCR >. BUTANC 447 B. BUTANC 44) B. BUTANC 4SI OTHER OCSTINATIONS AARHUS. AMSTERDAM AMYWW nat BRQItRNAVCN, COPENHAGEN. HELSINKI. MALIK),
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