The Business Times, 8 November 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 153 1 Stock Indices Monday HK Hang Servg Index 2,567.02 (-17.49 Tokyo Nikkei Average 27,866.36 (-180.39) Sydney All-Ordinaries 1556.7 (-12.7 Friday Now York (Dow Jones) 2,145.8 (-24.5 London (FT 30 Index) 1,485.6(-3.9 Exchange rates* US$> 125.00 yen 1.7910 DM S$ 1.9870 US$1.7670 M)t SS73.91 Simex* Euro-$ (Dec)91.20 DM (Dec)0.5597
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  • 114 1 THE UNITED Overseas Bank group will raise its prime lending rate by a quarter of one point to 5.75 per cent with effect from tomorrow. Its savings and fixed deposits rates will also be increased by one-quarter point across the board to between 2.75 and
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  • 186 1 REGIONAL stock markets ended lower yesterday in sluggish trading ahead of the American presidential elections today. Taking the lead from Tokyo, share prices on the local stock market started on a weak note, but ended slightly above the day's low on thin volume.
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  • 120 1 THE AMERICAN DOLLAR yesterday rallied against the Japanese yen in early Tokyo trading session, following Friday's release of a better-than-expected United States employment data for last month. It opened at 125.28 yen, up 0.42 yen from Friday's finish. Dealers were generally reluctant to move the
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  • 474 1  -  Deficit likely to hit at least $10 billion this year By JAYARAM MENON EXPORTERS may be making inroads into the Japanese market but they are not doing it fast enough to narrow Singapore's trade deficit with Japan. The deficit, going
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  • 397 1  - Dun Bradstreet to sell credit and market information here By QUAK HIANG WHAI DUN BRADSTREET, the world's leading information services company, has installed an international communication system in Singapore which allows its clients access to credit and market information of over 17 million businesses worldwide. The company's customers here can
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  • 478 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN THE GROUNDWORK is now being laid for a dialogue between the developed countries and Asia's newly-industrialising countries about the global economic system. Invitations have been issued by the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation to Singapore, Hongkong,
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  • 140 1 POLITICAL PARTIES, labour unions and other interest groups in the US are fighting voters' apathy and disgust as they urge a reluctant electorate to go to the polls. Only half of the citizens eligible to vote are expected to cast ballots today, down from
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  • 416 1  -  By LEONG WEN WAH IN AN ATTEMPT to assure its customers that it has not been affected by recent laundering charges, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International yesterday bought advertisement space in The Straits Times to announce that all its
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 542 2 Prebble accuses PM of being irrational, dictatorial AFP NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister David Lange yesterday announced a reshuffle of his Cabinet, after his sacking on Saturday of fifth-ranked minister Richard Prebble. Mr Prebble was sacked after he accused Mr Lange of being irrational,
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    • 512 2 AFP LEADERS of the nine-party Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA) have accused the rival Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leadership of submitting Pakistan to Indian hegemony. Campaigning last Sunday for the Nov 16 elections, they led a large procession, marching along Rawalpindi's main streets
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    • 245 2 AFP INDIAN SCIENTISTS have developed a new male contraceptive technique by which sperm is incapacitated for a temporary period, according to the Press Trust of India (PTI) on Sunday. S S Riar, a senior scientist at the Defence Institute of Physiology, said the
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    • 169 2 AFP BURMA'S military government has purged 18 Foreign Ministry officials along with official radio newscasters who came out in support of pro-democracy protests. Rangoon-based diplomats, reached from Bangkok over the weekend, said eight ministry officials were dismissed last week after resignations were requested from 10
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    • 406 2 AFP THAI AUTHORITIES have urged greater participation in local government and non-interfer-ence in the use of the local language by Thailand's five Muslim-dominated southernmost provinces. A new administrative policy, mapped out by Thailand's National Security Council and expected to be submitted to
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    • 142 2 Bernama A COOPERATION agreement was signed in Kuala Lumpur yesterday between the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers and the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. The agreement signed between FMM vice-president Ghazali Yusof and the leader of a visiting Canadian manufacturers' association mission, R David Brothers, would facilitate indus- trial
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    • 394 2 AFP FOREIGN BUSINESSMEN, eager to cash in on Iraq's multi-million-dollar postwar reconstruction plan, have flocked to an international trade fair in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. "The fair has not attracted such crowds since 1961," according to an Iraqi official
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    • 327 2 AFP JORDAN WANTS the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to refrain from hardening its position if the right-wing Likud bloc of Yitzhak Shamir assumes power in Israel. A senior Jordanian official on Sunday said Jordan wanted the PLO to maintain a "positive attitude" at a
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    • 126 2 AFP THE JORDANIAN government has banned imports of cars and television sets and will raise some taxes as part of a plan to save US$2OO million in hard currency, according to official sources. The measures are designed to help Jordan weather a severe economic crisis
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 361 3 AP THE FRENCH have approved a 10-year programme on the future of the Pacific territory of New Caledonia, but nearly two of three voters did not cast ballots in Sunday's referendum and many white residents of the archipelago voted against the plan. The programme
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    • 239 3 AP SOLIDARITY leaders have threatened to unleash broad protests. including strikes, if the government does not reverse its decision to close the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. "The Gdansk shipyard has to be defended," declared a Solidarity statement, the strongest yet by the banned trade union born
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    • 339 3 UPI ENTRENCHED DEMOCRATS, well-heeled and well-organised, are headed for control of the 101 st Congress in today's elections, but a number of senators from both parties are battling for political survival. Under the gun are Republican senators Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, Chic Hecht
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    • 503 3 Projections too optimistic, say European diplomats AFP SOME members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, including Japan, fear that newly-revised projections by OECD economists paint a too-rosy picture of economic prospects, senior economic diplomats said in Paris at the weekend. They
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    • 209 3 AP THE CHILEAN government on Sunday ordered the largest reshuffling of the navy in 15 years, retiring two vice-admirals and seven rear-admirals. Retired were Vice-Admiral Hernan Rivera, who served as Navy General Chief of Staff, and National Defence Chief of Staff Vice-Admiral Rigoberto
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 241 4 ASIAN dollar deposit rates finished slightly firmer yesterday compared with Friday's levels after a moderate day's trading, dealers said. Rates were supported by news of stronger than expected US October employment data. Asian dollar CD rates ended slightly higher compared with last Friday's level after a quiet
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    • 212 4 Reuter IMM CURRENCY futures were lower on Friday but well off the lows of the session set after unexpectedly strong US employment growth in October. Non-farm payrol employment grew by 323,000 jobs last month compared with expectations for an increase of about 230,000. In addition, Sept non-farm payrolls were
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    • 234 4 Interbank rates at noon yesterday: Local dollars to c MO OfBII craee pertly me unit of foreign currency! US dollar 1.9865 1.9875 2.8196 -29 .55 Sterling pound 3.5091 3.5129 7.3469 -52.24 Australian dollar 1.6408 1.6436 3.4286 -52.14 NZ dollar 1.2365 1.2392 3.4286 -63.94 Canadian dollar 1.6183 1.6204 3.4206
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    • 1130 4 Hongkong Bank SINGAPORE: The US$ ended the morning session at D-Mark 1.7910/ Yen 125.00/ Stg 1.7670/ S$ 1.9870, near where New York closed on Friday. The range was D-M 1.7914/1.7903. Yen 125.32/124.95, Stg 1.7613/1.7630 and S$ 1.9685/1.9670. US October unemployment was reported last Friday to be down 0.1
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    • 425 4 December Eurodollar futures yesterday gapped sharply lower than previous Simex close at 91.20 on follow-through selling tolllowing a higher than expected non-farm payroll of 323,000 against a forecast of 232.000. The Dec contract traded to a low of 91.18 on news that democratic candidate Dukakis had gained ground in
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    • 245 4 Reuter JAPANIS likely to start the longoverdue process of decontrolling small deposit rates, possibly in the spring of 1989, as talks on a compromise between the government and banks move into high gear. Confronted with the continued shift of cash out of their tightly regulated, low-interest
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    • 191 4 Indlcslei the mm> oI th« priiM tending rate* of 12 ma|or bank* In B'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Nov 7 us$ DM SWFC Y»o 7 days a 7/14 j/id 12 1/16— 11 13/1* J-47/1 4 i/» I/t 4 i/t 1/4 1 7/16 3/16 ia i/t ia
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    • 60 4 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore money market cloeed unchanged yeeterday while the term ratee went up by 1/16 across the board. S$ »nt •rbonk rates at th« dot* y*st*rday: A.— OfKt MO W9 1/4 S 1 -Menrti 3 t/4 3 l/« 2 mon* 3 3/14 3 3/16
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    • 113 4 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's noon Day's code Maturity MO OFFER MGH LOW 3 monttw 8Q*****A 02.02.89 4.45 4.40 6 Hicmlht IY*****Z 23.03.89 448 4.43 1 y*or 8Y*****S 20.07.89 4J3 4.48 Government notes and bonds Period issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's noon Day's code rate <%) 110 OWW
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    • 1048 4 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IM/V l Friday, Nov 4, 1 1988 MUM IM POUNO E2S Ca ,000; can M par t Pa MM. PrtM 1700 Mm-* *u04 Dim *4* JM4 Mm-P 0404 0m-» 049 143 1735 344 444 44* 0404 044 343 1750 144 24* 34* 0u004 149 3.12 1775
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    • 163 4 Reuter JAPANESE and Iraqi bankers have held talks to reschedule some of Baghdad's debt to Tokyo, the president of Bank of Tokyo said. Minuro Inouye said his bank was working with Iraq's Rafidain Bank and some negotiations had already been completed.
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    • 312 4 NYT US BANKING regulators agreed on Sunday to back down temporarily from their plans to order M Corp, a troubled bank holding company, to transfer capital into its ailing subsidiaries. The decision was a minor victory for M Corp, which had threatened to file
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 639 5  -  by PAUL FRANKLAND Paul Frank land la manager of tha Singapore branch of Commarelal Union Aaauranca, and a member of the management committee of the General Insurance Association. The views expresaed here do not necessary reflect those of his company or the GIA. THIS week
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    • 365 5 Reuter WORLD OIL PRICES will remain near current levels through the end of the century because of slowing demand growth, the threat of an economic recession and excess Opec production, oil analysts said. Much of what happens to
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    • 235 5 Reuter SINGAPORE: RUBBER prices ended yesterday morning little changed with December RSS 1 buyer quoted at 204.00 cents a kg, unchanged from Friday. Dealers said prices were marked down slightly at the outset and then hovered narrowly throughout yesterday morning. Trading was very quiet as most operators kept to
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    • 350 5 Reuter THE JAPANESE Finance Ministry plans to increase sharply the number of eligible issuers of corporate bonds in the domestic market by easing issue standards. a ministry official said. The move is designed to bring Japanese companies home from the Eurobond market on
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    • 151 5 Reuter BRAZIL, the Third World's biggest debtor, has brought interest payments on its commercial bank debt up to date for the first time since early last year, the Central Bank said. A spokesman said on Saturday that Brazil had paid U553.76 billion
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    • 190 5 Reuter TWELVE cocoa-producing countries have called off a two-day summit to discuss ways of supporting flagging prices on the world market. A brief statement issued by the Togolese government on Saturday said last-minute problems prevented soma leaders from attending. The summit, organised by the 12-nation
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    • 115 5 Reuter The UN price clOMd another five cants higher yesterday at M 519.67 a kg, extending last week's gains on fol-low-through buying. Final volume roae to 144 tonnes from 90 on Friday mainly due to weekend accumulation and miners' disposale ahead of the market holiday closure here on
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    • 201 5 Reuter THE CHICAGO Mercantile Exchange (CME) board of governors created a new membership category for Globex market-maker members, said a CME special executive report CME members under the category will be required to make a market in futures traded on Globex under conditions yet
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    • 508 5 Bernama COMMERCIAL banks and finance companies in Malaysia are becoming more aggressive in marketing their loans to house buyers by offering various housing loan scheme packages This scenario is a far cry from the 1984-85 era when the country was badly hit by recession. Competition
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    • 290 5 HONGKONG: GOLD closed easier in quiet trading yesterday. Bullion ended at U*****.70/422.20 an ounce. Gold closed hers at U*****.10/60 on Saturday On the local market, gold fell HK$2 to close st HK53.941 a tasl. Coins wers unchanged to slightly higher. The Krugerrand rose HK$5 to HK53.290. or U*****.10.
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    • 201 5 Chinese Produce Exchange S*M*n' noon doting prfcot on Nov 7 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil ht FOB 116.00 CM drum FOB 126.00 Now drum FOB 130.00 Copra Mlxod (Ioom) 68 Pepper Muntok whit* FOB NLW 595.00 Sarawak wNlo FOB foq NLW 585.00 Sorawak spodol block FOB NLW 392.50 Sarawak
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    • 78 5 (canii/kg) DECEMBER 1988 JANUARY 1988 (currant month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON Bvyari Sallan Buyan Saltan SSR 20 193.00 195.00N 193.00 195.00N SSR SO 191.00 193.00N 191.00 193.00N MRELB ftuy*M Saiiart Buy art SaMar* SMR CV 305.50 307.50N 307.50 309.50N SMR L 298 00 300.00N 300.00 302.00N
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    • 160 5 Fuel oil prices open steady in the Singapore market yesterday. Trade remained scattered and buyer seller indications were relatively unchanged from late Friday s levels of $64-66 MT FOB Sing for CST 180. Short-term market Oct was seen as steady as demand and supply for the
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    • 191 5 Reuter MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices were lower at midday yesterday on light selling and buyers' reserve, in sympathy with falls in palm oil futures and Friday's Chicago soyoil futures, dealers said. Prices were quoted about Mslo a tonne below last week's closing levels, they said, adding that
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    • 276 5 RAS prices In S c*nWkg, FOB In balM 1 NOON CLOSC Buyers S*ll*rs Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 201.50 203.50N 201.50 203.50N lot 1 RSS Dec 88 204.00 205.00N 203.50 204.50N Int 1 RSS Jon 207.00 208.00N 206.50 207.50N Int 2 RSS OP 200.50 202.50N 199.50
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 302 6 THE Traffic Police is trying out a scheme that has proved very effective in Japan in ensuring safe driving of heavy vehicles. It would mean urging Singapore companies with large fleets of motor vehicles to employ a safety co-ordinator. This person's job would be to
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    • 140 6 THE DECISION by the Soviet authorities to allow human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov to travel abroad is testimony to the new atmosphere of freedom which is slowly but surely spreading through the Soviet Union. Dr Sakharov, a first-rate physicist who helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb
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    • 1588 6  -  Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who is on a tour of three South Pacific countries, today leaves New Zealand to begin a four-day visit to Fiji. FLORENCE CHONG, reporting from Sydney, profiles the New Zealand economy. In tomorrow's article, she will take a look
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    • 884 6  -  Countertrade has long been important in commercial dealings with Iran, but as SCHEHERAZADE DANESHKU explains, it is becoming even more significant as the country embarks on post-war reconstruction. SCHEHERAZADE DANESHKU FT THE MESSAGE from Tehran to companies keen to do business during the reconstruction period
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 213 7 Our weekly summary of what other publications have to say about issues of regional interest. MALAYSIA "MANY PEOPLE were shocked when Datuk Seri Or Mahathir Mohamad invited Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and Datuk Musa Hitam to join his Cabinet on Sunday. They feared that the Prime Minister would
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      • 225 7 "IT'S BACK to individual land titles for all the settlers in the Felda schemes. The Government has abolished the share system of land ownership and restored the original individual land ownership scheme. Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba announced the return to individual land ownership ('land for
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      • 154 7 UNITED STATES "IT IS not an invasion, and it is not a takeover, but there is a very definite trend among Asian investors to take advantage of the weak American dollar and purchase a greater share of US real estate, companies and financial institutions. This has
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      • 154 7 THAILAND "THE WASHINGTON POST s report over the weekend that Thai military officers and perhaps some businessmen have been involved in skimming about $3.5 million of a total $12 million in aid intended for the non-com-munist faction of the Khmer resistance last year contains serious
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      • 168 7 INDONESIA "THE GOVERNMENT'S decision to tax incomes accrued from time deposit interests as part of the package of financial monetary and banking reforms introduced on Oct 27 is very bold indeed. Only a few months ago, the sheer public debates about the need to tax deposit interest
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      • 175 7 HONGKONG "THE PROPOSAL for means-testing hospital care, though not new, remains highly controversial. It clearly goes against the traditional Hongkong belief that medical care does not discriminate. The recently retired director of Medical and Health, Or Thong Kah Leong, touched a raw nerve
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      • 253 7 ISRAEL "NOBODY could have been surprised at the results of the national elections in Israel last Tuesday. The inconclusive contest between the right-wing Likud bloc and the leftist Labour Party is a reflection of the unfinished debate on the essential nature of a Jewish state. The electorate wasn't
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      • 273 7 THE PHILIPPINES "MRS IMELDA MARCOS has not lost her flair for the neo-baroque even during trying times. She has travelled to New York to face trial today, accompanied by a fair-sized entourage, and by a blaze of publicity. She flew into New York in a
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    • 1198 7  -  Washington is paying close attention to Europe for the first time in many years. The focus of the newest attention is the European Community programme to establish by the end of 1992 a single internal market. There is deep
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    • 923 7 AP A BATTLE over America's industrial future is being fought in the Chicago suburb of Glenview, where the nation's last major television maker is under siege from Wall Street. The struggle for Zenith Electronics Corp is being watched closely by Washington, US
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • LEISURE
    • 532 8 AP CAMELOT wasn't what it used to be. With her millions, Jackie Onassis could have done absolutely nothing, enjoying her 14room apartment in New York, her estate in Bernardsville, New Jersey, and the ocean front compound on Martha s Vineyard while raising her two children,
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    • 615 9 Reuter TRAPPED in the burning wreckage of a crashed plane, Helmut Knosp had only his wits and his Swiss army knife to save his life Mr Knosp used both well, hacking away his jammed seat belt and chopping a hole to safety. "Since
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    • 438 9 NYT GEOFFREY BEENE brought the week of Spring fashion openings in New York to a triumphant close last week with a brilliant collection solidifying his position as a modern master of design. At a time when wearable clothes are earmarked for popularity by stores, Geoffrey
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 649 10 UPI SUGAR RAY LEONARD has avoided calling Donny Lalonde a Great White Hope.' The Great Right Hope' would be a more appropriate tag. Lalonde's only hope of defeating Leonard this morning in their clash for the World Boxing Council super middleweight and light-heavyweight titles is landing
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    • 592 10  -  By WALTON MORAIS OF ALL THE THINGS that can be said of Sugar Ray Leonard, dumb is not one of them. You'd have to have lots of smarts to be able to earn US$l5 million for a fight that has no right
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    • 658 10 UPI THE BREEDERS' Cup victories by Personal Ensign in the Distaff and Alysheba in the Classic inflamed, rather than settled, the long debate over which of the two four-year-olds should be Horse of the Year. Who is the better, more accomplished
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    • 380 10 AP SOUTH AFRICAN David Frost, unchallenged by ailing Mark Wiebe, compiled a 5-under-par 67 and coasted to a five-stroke victory on Sunday in the Tucson Open Golf tournament. Frost acquired his second title of the season and his second in a four-year PGA
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    • 93 10 AP AMERICAN Don Johnston thundered across the finish line on Sunday to win the eighth-leg of the Powerboat World Championships Series in Penang. US racer Chris Bush came in third, gaining enough points to win the world championship title, Bernama reported. Johnston, who was Northern
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    • 383 10 AP AL UNSER Jr ran away with Sunday's Nissan Indy Challenge, winning the season-ending Indycar race at Tamiami Park by nearly a full lap over Rick Mears. Unser led 82 of the 112 laps in the 199.8-mile event, including the final 70 trips around the
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    • 413 10 UPI JOHN McENROE is still on the comeback trail and he has taken another step in the right direction. He beat injured Soviet Andrei Chesnokov 6-1, 7-5, 6-2 in Antwerp on Sunday to win the US$l million (Ssl.9 million) European Community Championship.
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    • 338 10 AP MARTINA NAVRATILOVA was pushed to the limits on Sunday by young Soviet Natalia Zvereva before rallying to win the US$3OO,OOO New England Virginia Slims championship. The 32-year-old Navratilova took her 137 th career singles title and prevented the 17-year-old Soviet
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    • 452 10 UPI GRETE WAITZ of Norway won her ninth New York City marathon on Sunday, and Steve Jones of Wales sauntered to an easy victory in the men's division after taking the lead just before the halfway mark. i Waitz, who had knee
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    • 377 10 NYT THERE WAS every reason to believe on Sunday afternoon that whichever team had the ball last would walk away smiling. A day highlighted by several lofty passes and booming kicks ended with Doug Williams, with four seconds left, kneeling as time expired. The Washington Redskins
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  • COMPANIES & STOCK MARKETS
    • 460 11 MBT BRITISH AMERICAN Life and General Insurance (Balgi) is disposing of its entire stake in whol-ly-owned subsidiary British American Investments (BAI) for 5522.22 million cash. Balgi said it has signed a memorandum of intent with Northerneastern Investment to dispose of 14 million
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    • 762 11 H Ex data Books do## Data payaMa Total tor tfta yaar Total lor laal yaar A Entarprisas A 1 S 8 Asiatic Dav Austral Amol 5% I" 10% lb) 2% 15% Nov 2 Jon 6 Oct 12 Oct 7 Nov 17 Jan 20 Oct 26 Oct 21 Dm
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    • 245 11 Bernama MYCOM BHD is still looking for viable business ventures to broaden its activities and enhance its earnings, its chairman Mohd Tamrin Abdul Ghafar said. "The company has announced on July 21, this year, its acquisition of 10 million shares in Panglobal Equities
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    • 573 11 NST IGB CORPORATION Bhd is making a big comeback to the Malaysian property scene after an absence of four years. Taking advantage of the recovery in the residential property market, the company has launched six separate condominium projects with a total of
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    • 219 11 Bernama THE NEW STRAITS Times Press (M) Bhd's proposed acquisition of 10 per cent stake in Cold Storage (M) Bhd is expected to contribute to the future earnings of the NST group. In a circular to shareholders, NSTP chairman Tan Sri Mohd
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    • 159 11 PLAZA YOW CHUAN, the shopping complex at the junction of Jalan Tun Razak and Jalan Ampang in Kuala Lumpur, has been put up for sale. Notice of a sale by tender was recently put up by Hongkong property agents Richard
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    • 179 11 Bernama HUME INDUSTRIES (Malaysia) Bhd has acquired three fully paid shares of Msl each for cash at par in Hume Premix (HPM) Sdn Bhd representing the entire issued and paid-up capital for the time being of HPM. Hume acquired HPM. formerly known as Circuit Systems
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    • 404 11 MALAYSIAN conglomerate Multi Purpose Holdings Berhad (MPHB), riding high on a successful revamp of its management and business operations last year, is continuing its rationalisation exercise. It has bought out the investments held by two Hongkongbased subsidiaries Mulpha Securities (Hongkong) Ltd and
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    • 199 11 PAN MALAYSIA Cement Works Bhd: Group profit after tax and minorities of M 54.65 million ($525,000) for the half year ended Sep 30. 1988, giving earnings per share of 2.7 cents (0.3 cent). The improvement in group results was due to increased contributions from its associated companies and
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    • SES
      • 1462 12  -  KEVIN GWEE TRADING on the local stock market was almost a non-event as turnover yesterday plunged to its second lowest level for the year. From the opening bell, share prices fell on a broad front in dull trading as institutional investors
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      • 123 12 QLENEALY PLANTATIONS BERHAO: 29th AGM at Wisma Taiko, No.l, Jalan S.P. Seenivasagam, Ipoh, Perak on Monday Nov 14 at 2.15pm. HUME INDUSTRIES BERHAO: 29th AGM at the Conference Room, 14th floor,, Bangunan Hong Leong, 117, Jalan Bandar, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday Nov 17 at 2.30pm. INDUSTRIAL OXYOEN
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      • 5149 12 19*8 Tel High Low Cod* SESOAQ Company Last Sal* NOV 07 Qr*s Dtv OC- Dtv C'vr fir's rw N*t Vol P/E f000) Day High Low Last Buyer luol* l H 9f M Cap tmll 107 120 170 59 110 130 199* 144 92 135 126 122 114
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
      • 642 13 Three-cornered fight could boost bid above US$2l b Reuter A THIRD bidding group has emerged as a potential buyer of major tobacco and food company RJR Nabisco Inc making it possible that RJR could receive a bid well above the highest offer of
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      • 484 13 Reuter AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSMAN Alan Bond may use the proceeds from the sale of his 14.9 per cent stake in Standard Chartered pic to build up his stake in Lonrho pic and launch a bid for it, analysts have said. "There is a good
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      • 766 13 FT WHEN SCOTT Paper, the US-based but globally minded toilet-paper maker, first started making tissue in Europe in 1956. it had no thought of tackling the market any other way than country by country. The group, which is now the largest maker of
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      • 224 13 Reuter THE KUWAIT Investment Office (KIO). ordered by Britain to cut its 21.6 per cent stake in British Petroleum Co pic by more than half within a year, has asked for a five-year deadline. a British official has said "They did
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      • 118 13 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Mondoy 1.690 87 Fnday 1.***** Week ago 1 730 80 Hang Seng Index Monday 2.***** Friday 2,584 51 Wee* ogo 2.627 41 All Industrials Monday Friday Wee* ago NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday Thursday Week ogo 2.5622 2.5808 2411.5 2.1458 2.1703 2.1498 TOKYO Nikkei Average
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  • 424 14 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Chinese Association's State Assemblyman for Tanjung Bungah, Khoo 800 Yeang, said yesterday that he was prepared to vacate his seat if Gerakan secretary-general Datuk Alex Lee would do the same. Datuk Alex Lee. who is MP for Batu, on Sunday asked Mr Khoo to
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  • 85 14 A TWO-MEMBER US International Trade Commission (USITC) team arrived here yesterday to study prospects for the US forging free trade arrangements with countries in the region. Economists Constance Hamilton and Lee Tuthill are to meet government and private trade and business officials and academics
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  • 314 14  -  Competition pits local firms against foreigners By SUZANNE SOH SINGAPORE furniture companies took four of the six awards yesterday in the design competition held in conjunction with the 7th Singapore International Furniture Show. Creative Brass won both the silver and bronze awards for its contemporary
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  • 239 14 AFP ASEAN's initiative to seek a settlement to the Cambodian conflict must continue, the foreign ministers of Singapore and Malaysia said in Kuala Lumpur yeshterday. Visiting Foreign Minister Wong Kan Seng and his Malaysian counterpart, Datuk Abu Hassan Omar, told reporters separately that
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  • 325 14 UPI AN ATTEMPT to invite a Khmer Rouge representative to attend inter-Cambodian talks in France presided over by Prince Norodom Sihanouk fell through on Sunday after objections by Viet-namese-backed Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodian sources said. "The Khmer Rouge will not be represented," Prince
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  • 199 14 AP NATIONAL SECURITY Service agents in the Maldives yesterday interrogated about 100 suspected supporters of a failed attempt to topple President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The handcuffed prisoners were being questioned at the National Security Service office in Male, the capital, said Major Mohammad Zahir,
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  • 226 14 AFP SOVIET DISSIDENT Andrei Sakharov, on Western soil for the first time in his life, prepared yesterday for a busy two-week US visit laden with symbolism of Soviet reform and openness with the West "I think that my country, the country I came from,
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  • 138 14 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND Institute of Economic Research said that its quarterly survey of business showed a marked increase in confidence for the next six months. The institute said that a net 10 per cent of respondents were optimistic in the September quarter, compared with
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  • 220 14 FAMILY PLANNERS from around the world have gathered in Singapore this week for the annual council meeting of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The three-day meeting will be opened today by Mrs Constance Goh Sai Poh, a founder-member of the Singapore Planned Parenthood
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  • 417 14  -  By SHOEB KAGDA THE Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) is to devslop basic textbooks for lower-level courses as a way of improving the quality of its curriculum. This is one of the seven legs of the strategic plan for
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  • 392 14 AFP ASIA AND Australasia should increase their economic relations becsuse of developments in world trade, Prime Minister Lee Kwsn Yew said in Wellington yesterdsy. He said that any formal arrangement between Asesn and Austrslia and New Zealand which have a bilateral
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  • LATE FILE
    • 69 14 AP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino •aid yesterday the Philip* pines was no longer the "sick man of Asia." and urged her nation s South-east Asian neighbours to invest more to help sustain economic growth here. "Today, perhaps more than at any other time in the past 20
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    • 41 14 Reuter THE south China city of Canton plans to build a subway coating US$l.l6 billion, ViceMayor Lei Yu said. He said that the subway would be the only way the city could solve its worsening traffic problems. Reuter
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    • 71 14 Reuter A SOUTH KOREAN lawmaker yesterday called former president Chun Doo Hwan'a shadowy security chief a national traitor, accusing him of directing brutal repression and maaaive extortion of funds. Chang Se-Oong, arguably the most feared man in the country during Chun's eight-year strongman rule, faced a
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    • 50 14 Bernama INDONESIA and Papua New Guinea have agreed to the setting up of consulates in both countries next year to facilitate better understanding. the agreement waa reached at a meeting in Jakarta on Sunday between visiting PNG Foreign Minister Michael Somars and his Indonesian counterpart Ali Alatas Bernama
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    • 62 14 AFP AT LEAST 18 people died and 54 were injured in a major earthquake, meaauring 7.6 pointa on the Richter scale, which htt south-west-ern China late on Sunday, a Seismological Institute official said here. "The toll could get worse," said the official, adding that the earthquake had
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    • 51 14 Reuter TYPHOON Skip pummelled the central Philippine# with 175-kph wind* yesterday, just two weeks after typhoon Ruby killed almost 500 people and laid waste to large tracts of countrysids. The Coast Guard banned all commercial ships from leaving Manila harbour as Skip threatened provinces around the capital.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 119 15 VOLVO, the diversified Swedish car manufacturer, may buy a 15-20 per cent stake in Norway's Kosmos shipping group. A spokesman for Volvo AB confirmed that the car maker had been approached by MG Industrier, the investment vehicle linked to the IM Skaugen group
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    • 359 15  -  Singapore Marine Police looking into the matter By JEAN FOONG ARMED ATTACKERS boarded the Hai Hui in the early hours of Friday morning while the ship was heading towards Jakarta. The master of the vessel, Mr Tsui Hung Ting, has not been
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    • 317 15 THE INDONESIAN police have impounded a Thai ship a second time after having to release it earlier by a court order. A police spokesman said they have proof that the ship has been stolen. The theft of the Cherry Novee, the
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 68 15 Reuter VIETNAM will start a regular shipping service between Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore next month and plans similar services to Taiwan and South Korea. Vietnam News Agency said three cargo ships would be reserved for the Singapore route, served irregularly till now. The official agency
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      • 78 15 CARNIVAL Cruise Lines Inc said its agreement to purchase 70 per cent of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Admiral Cruises Inc from Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corp has been terminated because I M Skaugen A/S and Anders Wilhelmsen and Co A/S have exercised their right of first refusal
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      • 77 15 A FILIPINO-AMERICAN joint venture plans to set up a shipyard in Cebu to build small ships for Europe and the US. Naval architect and businessman Vincete Sandoval, owner of the Sandoval shipyards. Inc. said: "We are at the talking stage with our foreign
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      • 60 15 THE FINANCIALLY striken Scindia Steam Navigation Co will charier six of its vessels to Shipping Corporation of India in order to improve its situation. Another eight vessels are to be sold to repay a government interim loan. An overall solution to the shipping
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    • 248 16 SINGAPORE'S shipyards are playing an increasingly important role in the offshore oil industry in Asia and the Western Pacific, according to an Australian company. Mr Neil Ferguson, project manager for BHP Petroleum, said in Melbourne that Singapore shipyards were becoming an important
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    • 795 16 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container IX 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Adrich Shpg VII 1 Alltrons VII 3 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 ARC line V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI III 1 Asian Ocean VI 1 Awards Shpg V
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    • 452 16 Bangkok Post THE Port Authority of Thailand has advised the Transport and Communications Ministry not to pay any compensation to Bangkok Cranage Corp claiming it did not breach any clause in its contract with the private firm. PAT director-general Pongsak
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    • 136 16 Reuter THE Saudi Seaports Authority (Seapa) has approved a request by local shipping lines to allow container transhipment at the Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP). The approval, three years after the initial request, is expected to have an immediate impact on the port. Sources said the move
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    • 435 17 Lloyd's List FINANCIALLY-TROUBLED Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation is facing an order crisis as continuing uncertainty over its future ownership deters customers from placing work at its yards. KSEC has failed to win a single foreign contract, on which the yard relies heavily, since
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    • 191 17 Reuter A GOVERNMENT report has cleared the former head of Mexico's state oil company of allegations that he embezzled millions of dollars. The Mexican Comptroller General's Office said it found no illicit conduct by former Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) director general Mario Ramon Beteta or
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    • 220 17 AFP CAPTAIN Mario Buracchia, commander of Italy's five warships in the Gulf, expects Rome to withdraw his forces from the region soon as the ceasefire in the Iranian-Iraqi war holds. Buracchia said he expected other West European countries to pull out their
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    • 60 17 THE New Zealand-based Owens group plans to sell its 25 per cent stake in Union Shipping, a major operator between Australia and New Zealand. The concern has decided to dispose its minority shareholdings to retain only wholly-owned subsidiaries. Other shareholders of Union Shipping
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    • 240 17 AN U5511.25 million claim on hull insurance arising from the total loss of the Greek cruise ship Jupiter has been paid by London underwriters within eight working days. The claim, from owners Epirotiki Lines of Piraeus, was serviced by leading Lloyd's broker
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    • 244 17 AFP THE TANKER market exhibited a firmer tone over the past week, as traders continued to take advantage of excess production by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, London brokers E A Gibson say in their latest report. Opec production is currently estimated at more than 21 million barrels
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    • 248 17 UPI REPRESENTATIVES of US, Canadian and Japanese international telecommunications firms will meet in the near future to discuss details of a US$56 million joint project to build ships used for laying optical fiber submarine cables across the Pacific. American Telephone and Telegraph, Teleglooe
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    • 77 17 Reuter TYPHOON SKIP slammed into Leyte island on Monday with 175 km per hour winds, and storm warnings were hoisted in Manila as the capital braced for the second typhoon in two weeks. The government weather service said Skip came ashore near Guiuan, about 655 km
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    • 1192 22 UNCONFIRMED reports on Friday circulated the freight market that Bocimar has secured a Panamax vessel for grain from the US Gulf to Japan at higher levels, shipbrokers said. The business was reported to have received US$24 basis one combination discharge port or $23.50 without combination. Meanwhile, a wheat
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    • 4994 22 AARNUS An He. Chin* OcMn Nov B Benavon Trtot. Nov Ever Gaining Evergreen Nov >0 M Tokyo Mirv Lin* Nov 10 Ming Promotion Yang Ming Nov 12 Korngen. ScanDulcht Nov 15 Osaka Bay Triot Nov 15<P«) Ever Guest Evergreen Nov 16 Villa
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    • 1183 22 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmmI Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Anonos K2I olongstde 1311/2300 Donglar S wo poo K27 alongside 0811/0600 Donggoong K29 alongside 1111/2300 FE Cheer ICI9 alongside 09 11/0600 Gold Mounlom K32 alongside 09 11/1200 G Odyssey It <36 alongside 09 11/1446 Hef Chong K3I alongside
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    • 72 15 mm SINGAPORE'S shipyards are playing an increasingly important role in the offshore oil industry in Asia and the Western Pacific, according to an Australian company. Page II FINANCIALLY-TROUBLED Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation is facing an order crisis as continuing uncertainty over its future ownership deters customers from placing work
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