The Business Times, 24 April 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Tuesday April 24 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 67 1 WORKERS at Bangkok Port have lifted a threat to strike this week after the Thai government took a tough stand against their attempt to block private companies from running the new deepsea port at Laem Chabang. The port's six unions do not have
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    • 25 1 SINGMARINE Industries, aggressively gearing up for the leisure industry, plans to have its new shipyard in Jurong ready by 1993 Page 2
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    • 34 1 A JOINT VENTURE between local trading giant Intraco and Soviet corporation Electronorgtechnika is evaluating a plan to assemble its own PCs in Singapore for export to the Soviet Union Page 2
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    • 29 1 INDONESIA'S gross domestic product is expected to increase by about 6 per cent this year, slightly down from 6.5 per cent in 1989 Page 7
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    • 28 1 LITHUANIAN leaders have urged their citizens to tighten their belts as the Kremlin's economic blockade of the breakaway republic started to bite Page 8
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    • 35 1 CHINA yesterday disclosed data showing that a tough austerity campaign squeezed the economy further in the first quarter of this year and may even have pushed it into recession Page 8
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    • 25 1 FOR EX-DREXEL employees in the US, just wearing the old company windbreaker around town is turning out to be hazardous Page 17
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    • 29 1 HAPAG-LLOYD is shifting control of its Asian operations from the head office in Hamburg to its new regional headquarters located in Singapore. Shipping Times Page One
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 40 1 WALL STREET stocks showed steep losses on the recent fall in US bond prices, though bonds recovered. The Dow was down 18 at 2678 in early trading and decliners outran gainers by more than three to one.
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    • 42 1 LONDON shares were sharply lower near the close in depressed trading after UK money data and a steep loss on Wall Street discouraged business. By 1556 GMT the FTSE 100 was 25.5 points, or 1.18 per cent, down at 2,161.4.
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    • 22 1 PARKWAY has executed a series of completed share swap among its Hongkong associates to "rationalise their operations" Page 3
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    • 14 1 A NEW FACE enters Malaysia's gambling scene. Page 3
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    • 31 1 HONGKONG share analysts are reviewing their forecasts for blue-chip trading house Swire Pacific Ltd following a bullish prediction by Londonbased securities house Cazenove and Co Ltd Page 3
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    • 22 1 A GERMAN reinsurer is to transfer assets from its Munich headquarters to its new Singapore branch Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      30 1 Monday Change BT-MGA 755.05 -7.38 Kuala Lumpur ....532.12 -9.76 Hongkong 3,056.86 -10.44 Tokyo 29,679.07 -156.37 Sydney ..—.1,484. i -7.3 Friday Change New York 2,695.95 -15.98 London 2,187.1 +2.4
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates USS S$ 1.8750 Yen (100) S$1.I9I2 MS SS0.6898 Money market rate* Overnight 6 1/2 7/16 3-montn 6 11/16% 1/8
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    • 25 1 London Gold PM fix US$375.25 USS-0.75 Rubber S'pore May l57.50Vkg +0.25 M'sia May 229.00*/kg +18 KL Tin Turnover...... 140tonnes +50 Spot MS 17.31/kg -0.15
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  • 573 1  -  By Conrad Raj KEPPEL CORPORATION, which yesterday completed its takeover of Asia Commercial Bank, has moved quickly to beef up its management and also announced the merger of Keppel Finance with the finance subsidiary of ACB. At the same time, other financial services subsidiaries of Keppel
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  • 331 1  -  By Magdalene Ng INVESTORS may be barred from applying for new mainboard share issues if they do not have a securities account with Central Depository Pte Ltd by April 27 for corporations and May 7 for individuals, said the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) yesterday.
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  • 348 1  -  By Kenneth James HONGKONG BUSINESSES should distinguish quickly between business activities with "staying power" with rcspcct to China-related developments and those whose days arc numbered, and act accordingly, advises a Hong-kong-based risk analysis firm. The Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Pcrc),
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  • 221 1 Reuter LITHUANIA has halted exports to Soviet republics and foreign customers in the face of the Kremlin's crippling economic embargo, said Deputy Premier Romualdas Ozolas of the secessionist Baltic republic yesterday. The Baltic republic also began closing down its only oil refinery yesterday due to lack of
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  • 99 1 Reuter PRIME MINISTER Li Peng, the highest-ranking Chinese leader to visit Moscow in 25 years, yesterday arrived for talks that could lead to troop cuts at the long-disputed frontier of the two Communist giants. Mr Li, welcomed by Pfime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov and
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  • 156 1 AFP TAIWAN approved a record U*****.7 million worth of overseas investment projects by local businessmen in the first quarter of this year. The Taiwanese Investment Commission announced in Taipei yesterday that the investment value of the 78 approved projects represented a whopping 595 per
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  • 340 1 Reuter BONN yesterday yielded to East German pressure and agreed to convert East Germany's nearly worthless currency into West German marks at the highly favourable rate of one-to-one. The decision sent Franfurt share prices reeling. Within an hour of the announcement
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 130 2 THE Automobile Association of Singapore (AAS) has said that it is both relieved and satisfied with the results of the first vehicle quota tender exercise. In a press statement yesterday, AAS said it is happy to note that motorists have exercised restraint, and have been
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      • 104 2 A GROUP of senior officials from Britain's polytechnics will be in Singapore between May 7 and May 11 to show educationists, industrialists and government representatives the range of courses they offer at their institutions. Comprising 29 members, the team is led by Professor Gerry Fowler, Rector of
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      • 90 2 THE Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) is organising a conference which will look into the main concerns in human resource management. The conference Human Resource Management in the *****: Key Issues and Initiatives is to be held at the Shangri-La Hotel between July 18 and July 20
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      • 106 2 NEARLY 70 Italian manufacturers will take part in the South-East Asia International Building Exposition (Sibex), which will be held at the World Trade Centre between May 16 and May 19. The manufacturers, part of an Italian pavilion, will display building materials and products, ranging from granite and marble
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      • 79 2 PIDEMCO LAND and its tenant, Sin Hua Gallery, will jointly organise a solo exhibition featuring the work of Professor Wu Guanzhong, an eminent Beijing artist. The exhibition, on from May 5 to May 13, will comprise about 60 paintings which are being displayed outside China for
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    • 366 2  -  By Elaine Koh SINGMARINE Industries, which is now aggressively gearing up for the leisure industry, plans to have its new shipyard in Jurong ready by 1993. Part of the Kcppel group of companies, Singmarine has already alloted 5>76 million of its $114-million bond issue
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    • 238 2 THE fast-growing Asean region is likely to see about US$25 billion worth of construction contracts every year for the next 10 years. The contracts, which reflect the market potential in the region, will come from the infrastructure!, engineering and building sectors, said
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    • 339 2  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand INT-ELORG, a joint venture between local trading giant Intraco and Soviet corporation Electronorgtechnika (Elorg), is evaluating a plan to assemble its own personal computers in Singapore for export to the Soviet Union. If the idea takes off, the operation will produce 2,000
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    • 165 2 AN AGREEMENT signed yesterday will lighten the tasks of local manufacturers wanting to export to Britain and, by extension, Europe. The agreement signed between the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) and British Standards Institution, Quality Assurance (BSI) gives mutual recognition to quality management systems
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 427 3  -  By Lee Han Shih THE TAN family, which controls Parkway Holdings and the IGB group, is pursuing a complicated share and property swap among its Hongkong interests. If it goes through, the swap will see the Tans reducing their stake in Hongkong in
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    • 354 3  -  By William Chia THE Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) has suspended trading in Cerebos Pacific Ltd following a weekend announcement that Suntory Pacific Ltd has received acceptances of 96.81 per cent of the issued capital of Cerebos at the close of its takeover offer last
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    • 422 3 Bernama PENGKALEN HOLDINGS Bhd has entered into an agreement to acquire an additional 3.6 million shares, or 60 per cent, of Marco Shoe Sdn Bhd to raise its stake in the company to 90 per cent. Pengkalen is buying the shares
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    • 269 3 Bernama SHELL REFINING Company (Federation of Malaya) Bhd has cautioned shareholders not to expect a repeat of 1989's exceptional returns with the programmed maintenance shutdown in midyear. Shell reported an exceptional 186 per cent increase in net income after tax to MS
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    • 839 3  -  MARKET TALK By Ranjit Gill TRADITIONAL gaming operations, both the legal and illegal variety, have been the preserve of Chinese groups in Malaysia as well as other countries in the region where state-controlled gambling is tolerated. Those who remain
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    • 389 3 Bernama SOUTHERN BANK Bhd has proposed a rights issue of MS 175.35 million loan stock which will result in a near doubling of its issued and paid-up capital to more than MS2OO million. It said the proposed issue of irredeemable convertible unsecured loan
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 95 3 DBS LAND announced yesterday that at the close of the offer for sale by DBS Bank of 161.14 million warrants to registered shareholders of the company, acceptances for 156.73 million warrants were received, representing 97.3 per cent of the total number of warrants offered. Excess
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      • 56 3 SIM LIM Investments Ltd announced yesterday that it has obtained in-principle approval from the SES for the listing and quotation of all its rights shares, warrants and new shares to be issued upon the exercise of its warrants, subject to stockholders' approval at an EGM
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      • 75 3 CYCLE Carriage Ltd said yesterday that at the close of its 2-for-5 rights issue of 50 million new shares at $2.10 each on April 17, acceptances and excess rights share applications for a total of 52.02 million rights shares representing an over-subscription of 4 per cent have
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      • 109 3 WORLDWIDE Holdings Bhd's (WHB) offer for sale of 3.36 million shares of Msl each at par to the public has been oversubscribed by 48.74 times while its public offer for MS I million nominal value 6 per cent convertible unsecured loan stocks (CULs) was oversubscribed by
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      • 86 3 SRI WANTO Sdn Bhd, a company from Sandakan, purchased 650,000 shares in Gadek (M) Bhd on April 12 from the open market. Under the same disclosure, Mr John Chia Sin Tet of Seremban said he had purchased 780,000 Gadek shares from the open market, also on
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 79 4 SUZUKI MOTOR CO, the Japanese car and motorcycle manufacturer, said it had begun studying the possibility of building motorcycles in Hungary. Suzuki officials said the company had already reached a basic accord with the Hungarian authorities to start production of small cars in 1992 by establishing
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      • 126 4 NICHIMEN CORP, a major Japanese trading house, said it had won a three-billion-yen (US$l9 million) order to reconstruct a power plant on the Philippine island of Cebu. Nichimen officials said the company will finance two-thirds of the project and the rest will be supplied by
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      • 114 4 THE JAPANESE Finance Ministry has decided to have securities companies inform it in advance of major transfers of stock ownership in a bid to protect small and mediumsized securities companies from becoming the target of unfriendly mergers and acquisitions, Jiji Press reported yesterday. Guidelines are
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    • 511 4 Reuter HONGKONG stock analysts are reviewing their forecasts for blue-chip trading house, Swire Pacific Ltd, following a bullish prediction by Lon-don-based securities house Cazenove and Co Ltd. "The Cazenove report has to be taken seriously because they are so close to
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    • 249 4 NYT DAYS INNS and an Indian corporation are planning to collaborate on a series of hotels in India aimed at travellers on modest budgets. Days Inns, the American operator of modestly priced hotels and motels, has an equity
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    • 169 4 DIVERSIFIED food group Lam Soon was affected by the political unrest in China last year and profits fell 40 per cent to HK566.01 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1989. I Despite the fall, directors offered a one-for-10 bonus issue, although the
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    • 160 4 Reuter ASHTON MINING Ltd said early results from one of its five joint venture gold exploration projects in Indonesia were promising. Work at the project, owned equally by Ashton and PT Mercu Buana Raya Contractors, found alluvial gold mineralisation of about 20 million cubic metres
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    • 181 4 Reuter FRIENDS OF Freesia Co Ltd of Japan will not give up its plan to buy a majority stake in Avon Products Inc's Japanese subsidiary Avon Products Co Ltd, and both companies will continue talks, says a spokesman for Friends of Freesia. The Japanese
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 372 5 NYT MICHAEL R MILKEN, the financier who agreed last Friday to plead guilty to six felony charges and pay US$6OO million in fines, is not required to provide evidence of further wrongdoing to the US government as part of the settlement,
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    • 158 5 Reuter DAIMLER-BENZ AG, West Germany's biggest firm, has suffered a drop in 1989 profits because of poor results from its Mercedes-Benz AG automotive and AEG AG electronics units. Yesterday's edition of the weekly Der Spiegel said Mercedes' profits had fallen drastically, cutting operating profits
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 107 5 Simon Schuster withdraws bid for Grove Weidenfeld SIMON SCHUSTER, which had been expected to buy Grove Weidenfeld, has abruptly withdrawn its bid, according to executives in the New York publishing industry. Last week, Simon Schuster was involved in intense negotiations to buy Grove Weidenfeld, which was put up for auction
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      • 106 5 UK quality clothing manufacturer and retailer Aquascutum Group pic said Renown Inc of Japan has made an agreed cash offer for the group which values Aquascutum at around £73.8 million. Japan's largest clothing manufacturer is offering 550p cash for each Aquascutum ordinary and 200p cash for
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      • 101 5 FRENCH state-owned oil firm Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine has finalised its previously-announced agreement to buy the exploration and production assets of BP France. It gave no price for the purchase. The assets consist of 28 exploration permits, of which nine are in Aquitaine, southern France and
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      • 90 5 SWISS engineering group Gebrueder Sulzer AG expects profit to grow significantly in 1990. "We again expect marked growth in group profit for this year," managing director Fritz Fahrni told the company's annual news conference. Sulzer recently reported 1989 profit rose to 121 million Swiss francs from
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    • 434 5 Alliance with British firm offers access to merger market before 1992 NYT IN A SIGN of Europe's increasing importance in the merger business, the Blackstone Group a New York merchant banking concern is forming an alliance with a British mergers firm. Under the agreement, Blackstone will
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 86 6 GLENEAGLES Hospital Ltd and Gleneagles Medical Centre Ltd, which are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Parkway Holdings Ltd, yesterday signed two loan agreements worth a total of $68 million. The two subsidiaries will issue five-year floating rate notes which are severally guaranteed by the Mitsui Trust
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      • 67 6 HONGKONG Financial Secretary Piers Jacobs has granted a restricted banking licence to the Bank of California, whollyowned by the Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp. A restricted licence means the bank can call itself a merchant or investment bank but it cannot accept deposits of less than
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      • 55 6 MOODY'S Investors Service Inc has cut its credit rating for Japan's Orix Corp, citing the company's exposure to rising Japanese interest rates, real estate and leveraged trans actions. The move, which reduces the credit rating of the country's biggest leasing company from "A-3" to "Baa-2", affects some
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      • 92 6 DEN NORSKE BANK (Dnß), Norway's biggest bank which was formed in a merger last week, said foreigners held close to the limit of 15 per cent of its share capital set by Norwegian authorities. A statement to the Oslo bourse said foreigners owned 14.7 per cent.
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    • 262 6  -  By Soh Tiang Keng FRANKONA Reinsurance Company, which opens its first Asian branch here today, will transfer a substantial portion of its Asian holdings in terms of premiums and assets from its Munich headquarters to Singapore soon. Dr Achim Kann, the company's visiting
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    • 334 6 Reuter GLOBEX, the automated futures trading system, is soon expected to be approved in Japan after a year and a half of negotiations. Leo Melamed, who is overseeing the birth of Globex for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), said only technical
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    • 176 6 Reuter THE New Zealand government plans to sell State Insurance Office, the country's largest fire and general insurance group, by the end of June. State's general manager Lin Stirton said: 'The minister (Associate State-owned Enterprises Minister Peter Neilson) has indicated that he hoped the
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    • 299 6 Reuter AN ADVISORY body to the Japanese Finance Ministry is expected to recommend in June that commercial banks be allowed to enter the securities business by setting up wholly owned subsidiaries, securities industry sources said. The Securities Exchange Council is also expected to urge
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    • 154 6 Reuter FOREIGN banks will be allowed to set up offices in Guangzhou's Economic and Technological Development Zone, China News Service (CNS) quoted Mr Lei Yu, deputy mayor of the southern Chinese city, as saying. Allowing foreign banks, including Hongkong banks, to operate in the
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  • THE REGION
    • 267 7 MBT MALACCA has become the most unlikely success story in terms of attracting investments. As one of the smallest states in Malaysia, Malacca lacks many facilities which traditionally attract investors; the state does not have an airport to speak of, it does not boast
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    • 424 7 Agencies INDONESIA's gross domestic product is expected to increase by about 6 per cent this year, slightly down from 6.5 per cent in 1989, the Asian Development Bank has predicted. "Prospects for Indonesia remain good although the economy might lose momentum in 1990," the
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    • 341 7 VIETNAM is drafting new laws to smooth the way for foreign investment, but firsttime investors should still tread warily, according to Nguyen Trung. Vietnam's ambassador to Thailand. "We plan to pass new laws, especially in the areas of finance and banking, to
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    • 428 7 Agencies THE GOVERNMENT cut power to 300 major buildings in Manila yesterday as part of a new energy rationing schcmc aimed at dealing with debilitating daily power shortages that arc undermining national economic development. The government's powersaving plan began one day after President Corazon
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 78 7 A TAIWAN mission led by Economic Minister Chen Li-an is in the Philippines to scout possible sites for industrial estates, Trade and Industry Secretary Jose Concepcion said in Manila yesterday. "We are trying to encourage them to develop industrial estates in northern Mindanao
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      • 67 7 VIETNAMESE workers in Bulgaria have been harassed by police, physically abused and saddled with such poor living conditions that they wish to return home, Radio Hanoi reported last Friday. The report by a Radio Hanoi correspondent who visited Bulgaria added that many Vietnamese workers had
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      • 91 7 AN INDONESIAN district court has sentenced a businessman to 30 days' jail for paying labour under the minimum wage level set by the government, the Kompas daily reported on Sunday. The East Jakarta court found Mulyadi, 41, a producer of neon lamps, guilty of violating
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      • 95 7 FORMER guerillas of the now-defunct Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) are to help Malaysian authorities to clear some 10,000 land mines on Malaysia's border with Thailand, a Thai army officer said on Sunday. The officer, attached to Thailand's southern 4th Army Region Command, said the
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      • 84 7 THE MALAYSIAN government will be requested to hold talks with the Singapore government to enable inshore fishermen in the Gelang Patah area near Johor Baru to fish in the waters of the island republic, Information Minister Datuk Mohamed Rah mat said in Johor Baru on Sunday.
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      • 60 7 EUROPEAN and Philippine business groups in Manila issued an open letter yesterday denouncing communist rebels for last month's killing of a senior local executive of the Swiss food giant Nestle. "This senseless violence must end," the European Chamber of Commerce and local business and professional associations said
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 99 8 THE Sino-British Joint Liaison Group on the future of Hongkong opened a five-day meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing yesterday. Diplomatic sources said its agenda was not made public, but observers expect that Britain's controversial plan to give passports to 225,(XX)
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      • 94 8 PARK TAE-CHUN, co-leader of South Korea's ruling party, left yesterday on an unscheduled trip to Japan to iron out thorny bilateral issues ahead of President Roh Tae-Woo's expected trip in May. Officials said Mr Park, who acts as co-leader of the Democratic Liberal Party on
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      • 104 8 THE Soviet Union is ready for dialogue but "will not capitulate" to Japan over its 45-year claim to four Soviet-occupied islands off Japan. The Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda said on Sunday that solving the dispute over the islands at the south of the Kurile chain
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      • 133 8 BRITISH salaries rose much faster during the first three months of 1990 than productivity, dealing a bjow to industry's competitiveness, the Confederation of British Industry said yesterday. The employers' organisation said that while salaries rose by 8.5 per cent, compared with 8.1 per cent for the
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      • 78 8 WESTERN nations must upgrade their high-technology defence equipment despite the easing of tension between Nato and the Warsaw Pact. Authoritative British defence publication Jane's Military Communications Yearbook said as superpower arms accords bring a reduction in conventional forces and weapons, the West's military communications
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      • 98 8 THE Emir of Kuwait said on Sunday that he had issued a decree to establish an interim national assembly in the oil-rich northern Gulf state. "I have issued an Emiri decree to set up a national assembly to serve during an interim period to evaluate our
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    • 387 8 Reuter LITHUANIAN leaders yesterday urged their citizens to tighten their belts as the Kremlin's economic blockade of the breakaway republic started to bite. Many petrol stations in the capital Vilnius had no fuel on Sunday and Lithuania's president Vytautas Landsbergis urged people
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    • 313 8 Reuter PRIME MINISTER Vishwanath Singh of India on Sunday warned Pakistan against fomenting trouble on the border, a day after Indian and Pakistani troops clashed in Kashmir. Indian media said Mr Singh told a rally in the Himalayan state of Sikkim
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    • 263 8 Reuter THE European Community may write codes of conduct for EC industries setting up in central and eastern Europe to ensure they run to high environmental standards. The idea is one of several that emerged at weekend talks between the
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    • 402 8 Reuter CHINA disclosed data yesterday showing that a tough austerity campaign squeezed the economy further in the first quarter of this year and may even have pushed it into recession. A problem of widespread debt defaults remained unresolved, despite a massive
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    • 163 8 AP SOVIET REFORMIST Yuri Afanasyev said on Sunday that President Mikhail Gorbachev's bids to restructure the Soviet Union's troubled economy have failed and called Moscow's treatment of Lithuania "imperialism". Mr Afanasyev, who has split from the Communist Party, said Mr Gorbachev's policy of perestroika
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  • 474 10 EDITORIAL m i IRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh W4 Chok Tong is returning from a whirl- 1 wind tour of Washington and London with confidence-building reassurances that Singapore's new leadership its policies and politics is accepted and understood. The messages from both international powers one
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 233 10 PRESIDENT AQUINO is still not saying anything concrete in spite of her latest statement that the US military would not be asked to leave the Philippines when its lease of the bases there expires next year. Manila's tactic seems to be one of using non-commitment as a bargaining
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    • 127 10 THE QUOTA PREMIUM for luxury cars over 2,000 cc costs only $528, a figure totally unexpected. The initial feeling was that people who can afford luxury cars would not mind paying more. However, it turned out to be very much lower than the 1,004 premium for
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    • 122 10 EARTH DAY symbolises the global will and strategy to save this ailing planet from pollution by Man. While more environmental treaties are expected to be signed, saving the Earth should not be just mere rhetoric who is to blame, and who should underwrite the costly programmes.
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 194 10 BOTH India and Pakistan insist they do not want a fourth war with each other. This assertion is about the only thing at the moment that both sides seem to agree on. All other statements contribute to a discordant chorus of warlike rhetoric, of charge and counter-charge, further
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    • 179 10 AUSTRALIA'S Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, who has managed to keep his job as a result of the Labour party's close victory in the recent elections, apparently is determined to continue his country's active diplomacy in the search for a negotiated settlement of the 11-year-old Cambodian conflict. He
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    • 132 10 MALAYSIA'S industrialisation strategy relies to a large extent on foreign investment and it is facing stiff competition from even within the region in luring this. It is in the best interest of the nation that it develops its own manpower to meet its own needs. The country has
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  • 796 10  -  Are the economic ways of the West best for the East bloc? Paul Samuelson thinks so Paul Samuelson Paul Samuelson is a Nobel prize-winning economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eastern europe is in a ferment. State socialism is at a discount. It has worked badly
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 891 11  -  A new term is needed to describe the sluggish growth marked by sluggishly rising prices in the US economy, writes Leonard Silk Leonard Silk NYT IS THE American economy on the verge of stagflation, that baleful mixture of stagnation and inflation from which it suffered
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    • 972 11  -  President Gorbachev's brinksmanship in Lithuania is aimed at all restive republics, writes Francis Clines Francis Clines NYT IN CLOSING the energy tap on rebellious Lithuania, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is struggling with a far larger sovereignty crisis than the one presented by the resilient
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    • 651 11  -  Britain is criticised for not developing democracy in Hongkong, reports Nicholas Knstof Nicholas Kristof NYT THE FEELING of betrayal is heavy in the Hongkong air, but when people there dissect the territory's crisis, they sometimes speak most bitterly not of hard-liners in Beijing
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    • 2292 12 Asia Commercial Bank Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) AND ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES BALANCE SHEETS AS AT 31 ST DECEMBER, 1989 Th« Group Th« Bank The Group The Sank Pfc, ,w <M IM SHARE CAPITAL »'<*» St'OOO Ssooo MTOO *000 SSOOO ***** 3000 Authorised: Shares Of Ssl each 250,000
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  • FOCUS 1
    • 744 13 Grand Metropolitan's commitment to cut bureaucracy ana take risks to rebuild Pillsbury Co has generated enthusiasm on Wall Street. NYT Four years ago, with the roof about to cave in on his head, Jay Morgan still could not get his bosses at the Pillsbury
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    • 527 14  -  The Indian computer industry is taking off. And Singapore firms will do well to gain a foothold before it is too late. Shoeb Kagda, who accompanied a recent trade mission to the sub-continent, reports. Shoeb Kagda WITH a revving economy, India is
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    • 347 14  -  INNOVATION By Genevieve Cua ONE TOUCH and coloured lines on a computer screen can show you just where and how you could save on your building's electricity bills. Homegrown energy management specialist Econoler has developed a computerbased system that monitors the performance
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    • 245 14 NYT A VAST transformation is beginning in the way computer programs arc designed. The changc promises to allow software to be produced more quickly and to BUfcc carnpul£rs easier lo use. Like handcrafted furniture, software has traditionally been customised for a ta|k in a laborious process mcye
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    • 1452 13 Asia Commercial Finance Lbd (incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) A wholly-owned subsidiary of Asia Commercial Bank Ltd BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 ST DECEMBER, IW9 Not. 1900 1908 I S® 18 S s$ SS MM SHARE CAPITAL Authorised: FIXED ASSETS 6 1,02*000 1.014.560 Shares of Ssl each 2*000.000 25,000,000
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    • 155 14 H^l Ei"'ij -Wt*"* JlJ* 3K5fcK& ~< ■F^S^r Jr v-L-'CS^^BKlt' »^%nWStw9&im" •f* m 'i Jggyf-' < *Js ybu make ttwfeelffi.M brand new. illS 3 Mt-P' The thirst for Perrier is finally over. Brand new stocks i•; > of the long awaited "champagne of water" have just arrived, jfip&m carrying labels that
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    • 331 14 W/ I Straits Steamship Land Limited I (Incorporated irvthe Republic of Singapore) H I Notice of Annual General Meeting I I ALL MEMBERS ARE CORDIAL Y irSvTTED to attend the Annual I I General Meeting of Comeany which will be heldtn the Straits Room, 10 Colly«j Quay Oceaii Building, Singlpore
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  • SPORTS
    • 308 15 AP BERNHARD LANGER of West Germany shot a 5-un-der-par 67 on Sunday to win the Madrid Open despite a course-record 61 by Brett Ogle of Australia. Langer's total of 18-un-der-par 271 gave him a onestroke victory over Australia's Rodger Davis, who knocked in a 60-foot putt
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    • 212 15 AFP AUSTRALIAN Steve Elkington got his first victory on the US PGA Tour in memorable fashion on Sunday, shooting a six-under-par 66 to come from behind in the Greater Greensboro Open in North Carolina. "I came from a long way back," said the 27-year-old from Sydney. Elkington,
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    • 279 15 AP, AFP RICK LEACH and Jim Pugh strengthened their Davis Cup credentials on Sunday with a 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 victory over Ken Flach and Robert Seguso in the US$3OO,OOO WCT World Doubles Championship in Dallas, Texas. Leach and Pugh, both from
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    • 343 15 I EVERYTHING'S AUTO/ I I An exciting car accessory from Hertz that makes most things automatic. I I AUTO NAVIGATION I I AUTO PARKING I I r^r^ r K'^'cx 1 c\ I Qy A 8 a ;s\ < I I L —J w I I 6tS 0U tra^'C WhBre I
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    • 233 16 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN... WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN... WHERE TO WINE, DINE... Some like it hot. >r I >, T 'J*r- S y- |F^ Spicv Szechuan dishes served at lunch and dinner dailv in the cool, inviting atmosphere of Szechuan Court. Reservation, 330 8310 or 338
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    • 381 16 mwtßegencyQsngapore Presents CAREER WOMEN OF THE 1990s BY RENE SALUD 23 to 25 April, 27 28 April 1990 (5 days) Crystal Ballroom $35 nett per person 12.00 NOON to ZOO PM inclusive of a local buffet menu and fashion show OutetandinQ models and beauty queens from the Phippnos and Imp
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    • 155 16 Monday to Thursday :6pm—2am •Friday. Saturday&PH Eve :6pm-3am Closed on Sunday HAPPY HOURS: 6 pm—B pm •Fntdnnkcturge after Bpm-J/5 nea ■WML0X M ltK? Sec^etaries Weekly Get away from the 'gnnd' at the office —to a delightful V,: k Evian mineral water. Vx'^v m Lucky secretaries can also get away for
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    • 318 16 saviiurS k v An all consuming passion for Spain sweeps into The Belvedere this month It's an extraordinary, spread to be relished and savoured, along with specially imported Spanish wines. The Belvedere's Spanish Buffet It's worth '-v fighting a bull to get to. Spanish Buffet Lunch 1 30 April *90
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    • 723 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO Heaven. Guest starring Ken 1.35 Malay Drana Bara. X" 1 SBCIg jf', Jenkins and David Wilson. 10.00 World How* At 10 (M). I 1 ItinO 10.3# T,m<U, Pr~tar. n-tar. HJO WWFWm#tafSM**t BBC, 00.0 «Hl li VHf (Mi 0 1 >***** IH ,s ourChoi 11.50 Tl» Fartval tkt
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 868 17  -  Is there life after Drexel Burnham Lambert? Deirdre Fanning looks at how former employees of the US securities firm, which filed tor bankruptcy in February, are coping Deirdre Fanning NYT TO WEAR a Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc windbreaker around town these days is to invite abuse.
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    • 250 17 CHATTERBOX^ THE Israel Philharmonic s first tour of the Soviet Union will be a homecoming for nearly one-fourth of its musicians, who are Soviet emigrants. The three-city concert tour, which begins on Thursday, also is considered a sign of deepening cultural relations with the
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    • 234 17 AND ENTERTAIN Add A Little Spice To Your Secs Life. SECRETARIES WEEK If.) -jMPBHBpik Jfek SPECIALS: APRIL 2} TO 25. 27 AND 21 I RESERVATIONS jk 712 1222 EXT IMX I PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO 10% SERVICE IP CHARGE AND 4% CESS. It's Secretaries' Week, April 23 to 28. So
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    • 284 17 FANTASY This exquisite 95 ft yacht fully airconditioned with 2 bars, promenade deck, dance floor, lounges, and all other comforts. Abo available PUJA A classic elegant 90 ft yacht is fully airconditioned with sun deck, lounge, dining room, and five staterooms. Add to the great memories of your life. Fantasy
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    • 87 17 If you're looking for a superb lunch in a quiet, pleasant ambience, come for our Business Banquet. Begin with our appetizer buffet that includes fresh oysters, salmon and pate. Then choose from 4 main courses daily, with U.S. Beef Tenderloin and Prawns with Crab Meat among others. Round off a
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    • 288 17 W itsSecretaries'Weekboss! f I (April 23,24,25,27 fc 28) Pi Impress your secretary with your generosity. B 111 Bring her to the finest continental restaurant with cosy and friendly ambience. H II OUR SPECIAL 5-COURSE SET LUNCH/ I m DINNER AT ONLY $38.00++ (PLUS SPECIAL 9 II FREE GIFT FOR THE
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    • 2280 18 JL BANK OF INDIA (Government of India UniiH^ihii) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH 1989 CAPITAL LIABILITIES INDIAN RUPEES PROPERTY A ASSETS INDIAN RUPEES PAID UP CAPITAL CASH-IN HAND AND WITH RESERVE BANK OF INDIA A (Wholly owned by the Central Govt) 1,190,000,000.00 STATE BANK OF INDIA (including foreign currency
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4308 19  -  By Lim Mui Khi SHARE PRICES in Singapore weakened further on little buying interest, and some selling. The Straits Times Industrials Index of 30 Singapore blue chips closed at 1,504.61, down 15.95 points, after falling 8.46 points on Friday. However, market observers are expecting
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  • 3729 20 Main Board Isetan 50" 960 +15 +1.6% Spore Land 1480 +10 +0.7% FELSWt 286 +7 +2.5% Saangyonj 50« 354 +6 +1.7% Shangri-La 985 +5 +0.5% Keppet Corpn 760 5 +0.7% FELS 50* 620 5 0 8% Roth Inds 50* 328 +4 +1.2% Amtek Eng 20*
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3635 21 Bernama, Reuter STOCK PRICES closed lower across the board, extending last week's declines on further liquidation and lack of fresh buying support, brokers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 9.76 points to 532.12 while the New Straits Times Industrial Ordinary Share
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 101 22 cMOT Data Yaar Nat Mt -mtag. Qrw' aM to (K«t1tyia»» (L) Hf dlyWand (•too) (c«tt») ■MB Apr 18 No* 89 I«S6.670(MIS6.6S1) 10.7(21) U Apr 17 Dec 89 $2,673(13.465) 2 8(3.6) 4<-) feu** Ape 16 ton 90 M$13,157(IW11.576) -<-) 12(~) S Apr 12 Dac 89 $250,338(8200.168) 58.1(47 8) 16(16)
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    • 1299 22 tanwrt Ei Ort. T«Mfcr WWfcr WMX date cteM wtota jmt ImI yMr IdiM En| 6*TE0) Apr 11 Apr 17 Apr 28 J*TE 6*Tt A*no 15*TE Fab 28 tor 12 May 15 25*TE 25*TE BAT 909%(n) Apr 6 Apr 19 May 3 12Z7*(ii) J2* Bouataad 5%(l) Apr 18 Iky
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    • 335 22 Company Rights htm C-iii) bar Capital reductaw sdtamt to raduca par niu* oi shares from $1.00 to JO 60: ftyts nut of 3:2 SO 60 par share I v F K» Ow4wom WO 50 g» share j f+m Iter* Ont-tor-ont MS0.25 par share tobowad by a tfare swap
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    • 228 22 CMMNy Oat# Yur Grown pca-ta* Nat unliip «r*M im to pr*ftt/tMS (L) Hf »lwri <M4aad ('000) (caato) 8 Raya Ape 12 Oac 89 M$11.901 (M$6,626) 1.8(1.8) 2(1) MuKfta Intl Apr 10 Oac 89 M$20,6i6l($3.165l) Tat Laa Bank Aof 7 Oac 89 $22,579c($14,675c) 14.4(8 6a) S(6.5a) taronaEna Ape 6
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    • 54 22 INTERIM RESULTS t«n *2*?* 222L mn ti pnlll/lMI (L) dhfUIiM Item Ox, Apr 12 Mar 90 MJ19.612(W13.783) m Apr 5 Feb 90 M$16.467(KI$13.742) 8(8) Fabtr Martin Mar 31 Oac 89 M$7,0551(822.3111) m Corpn Mar 31 Dec 89 MS8.58KS5.247) -<-> Emta Mar 30 Dk 89 M$41(J523) -<-> Swl mc
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    • 569 22 Stefan Stocks Last F«l Ytar Cvapany NU JV. TMr MV> M M yav Cmt) 8MT term Jm 27 Ma 90 10.6 100.0 516 Ma FM Fab 28 Nw «9 391 10.0 11.78 ItoHM FmI Mv 27 Ok 89 3.4711 Law Mat Mm Mv 30 Ok 89 5381(1) MM*
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    • 271 22 Apt 21 AmelgMuted StMl Mb Bhd has acquired 5,494,051 more Lion Corporation Bhd shares, bringing its shareholding in the company to 16,479,051 shares. tori 20 hp Offset Ptates Manufacturing has subscribed for 700,000 new shares m Fuji Printing Cylinder Pte Ltd at $1 per share. Apri It Hnht
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    • 295 22 Ctwpmy Rtgfct* Htm Ow-to< orw |185 par jhar* Ei«t 23 Books One May 7 Atctpunca 4 Ppywant WYA MM Ona-tor tour MS2 40 P* *are Ei-Mr Mar I Books ctosa Mar 22 *cc«ptanci 4 fp|—t May 10 Dm Hm CapM tatrvctimni Sdwm (C«) nvotwm Hit crnMv o< 75
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    • 621 22 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS C-»—y Cmwata pmU4 Cwrarata *wtr mm iitairy Mn C—aray I— J M 2/10/19 to 20/10/94 1 warrant plus $1 a* or I warrant ptos f SI wound mwunt of loan dock O—taltaa Oh Mf II Mrcti 17 to 31/12/91 1.55 wrwb pto 11.56 cart. Qm Mq MM
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    • 234 22 (MM Owiw Land LMted: 27th AGM at the Board Room. 30th Storey, UOB Building, 1 Bonham Street, Singapore 0104 on Tuesday, Apr 24, at 12 noon. Bolton Properties Bhd: EGM at Room 502, sth Floor, Campbell Complex, iatan Dang Wangi, ***** Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Apr 25, at
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    • 258 22 CmCORPO CITIBAN< Citicorp School of Finance Asia Pacific Banking Institute A Subsidiary of Citicorp presents 14 -17 May 1990 Singapore US $2,000 WHAT IS THE RATE RISK MANAGEMENT GAME? It is an intensive four-day course which provides a basic understanding of the functioning of the principal interest rate and exchange
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2268 23 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS closed broadly down but off their lows in extremely thin trading as pre-holi-day caution and worries about Wall Street declines drove players to the sidelines yesterday. An early rebound is unlikely ahead of three market holidays in Japan next week, brokers said.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2625 23 Reuter CONSOLIDATION after last week's strong performance kept Hongkong trading within a narrow range and the Hang Seng Index shed 10.44 points to 3,056.86 yesterday. Turnover was HK$l.32 billion against HK$l.55 billion last Friday. The key index had stayed little-changed in the morning session
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Australian prices close sharply lower
      • 88 24 Apr 23 Apr 20 SYDNEY AH Ordinanoa Index 1,444.1 1,491.4 -7.3 All Induitrials Index 2.311.2 2,323.7 -13.9 All Kciourrcs Index 132.8 833.4 -2.6 Turnover (million) 62.67 16.2 -23.53 BANGKOK SET Index 844.33 840.36 3.99 Turnover (nearest TOO) 11.723 14.967 -3,244 JAKARTA Composite Index 643.91 641.49 +2.42 Turnover (nearest *000) 11,380
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      • 300 24 la fecal eanaacy la SI la U8I day %ymt fey %ymt fey far Apr 20 Iafex chaaw cfeap chaags chaag» cfe—i cfe—i World 411.2 +0.3 -11.6 -0.2 -13.4 -0.2 -142 1EAFE 377.4 +0.2 -13.2 -0.1 -19.9 -0.2 -119 Europe 433.4 +0.3 -3.4 0.0 -2.9 0.0 -1.6 Pactfc 984.3 +0.1 -22.3
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      • 1043 24 HEAVY SELLING in some leading industrial stocks pushed Australia's snare market to a sharply weaker close yesterday, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished 7.3 points off at 1,484.1, only slightly up from its low at 1,483.2, while the All Industrials Index tumbled 13.9 points to 2,311.2. "The falls
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      • 578 24 THE STOCK EXCHANGE of Thailand index closed 3.99 points hiaher at 844.55 on a turnover of 11,723,186 shares worth 1,516.01 million baht. The Bookclub Index finish 3.96 points higher at 734.66. Bangkok Baht VoHW) Alucon Manufact 514 14 85 American Stand* Asia Credit 91 5899 Asia Hotel 215 18
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      • 412 24 NEW ZEALAND SHARES closed slightly higher with some renewed interest in second line stocks yesterday, but brokers see a quiet week ahead due to the Anzac day holiday tomorrow. The Barclays index estimate finished up 6.40 points at 1,753.93 and turnover was light. Some players were quietly soaking
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      • 340 24 TAIWAN STOCKS reversed early losses on investor bargain-hunting in the r wS33a y 5n < S B 62.70 points to end at 9,428.63 against Saturday's 9,365.93 finish. Turnover rose to NT5116.6 billion frorp NTSIIO billion. Dealers said periodic corrections would continue, but the near-term outlook might be improving. "Growing
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      • 449 24 MANILA SHARES yesterday feil across the board in listless trading traced to the uncertain political situation and a power crisis that has forced the government to implement a power rationing programme. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 12.46 points to close at 1,062,85. The combined volume at the
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      • 418 24 THE JAKARTA stock index closed 2.42 points higher at 643.91 with sentiment generally bullish yesterday, brokers said. Strong demand for Bank Niaga and! United Tractors sent turnover up sharply to 11.58 million shares from 4.46 million on Friday. Bank Niaga was the most heavily traded at 6.65 million shares.
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      • 887 24 SEOUL'S stock market, which opened hours late due to a computer failure, faltered on disappointment when certain supportive rumours were proved wrong yesterday, broken said. The Composite Index closed at 774.40, shedding 5.64 points from the previous session. Turnover was low at 83.7 billion won, mainly due to the
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      • 116 24 Reuter BOMBAY share prices recovered from a weak start to finish selectively higher in dull trading yesterday. Broken said the market was concerned that the government may not raise administered prices of commodities such as steel and fertilisers because they might add to inflation. The Bombay Stock Exchange rote
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1122 25 FOREX MARKET REPORTS THE US DOLLAR moved up slightly during early trading in Europe yesterday following news that the West German government will offer to convert East German wages and much of the country's savings at a one-for-one rate into West
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    • 391 25 Cross rates Apr 23 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AJ NZS USS 1.8775 2.7195 1.6935 157.35 0.6109 1.4915 1.2979 1.7153 SS 0.5326 1.4485 0.9020 0.8381 0.3254 0.7944 0.6913 0.9136 MS 0.3677 69.04 0.6227 0.5786 0.2246 0.5484 0.4772 0.6307 Dm 0.5905 1.1087 1.6058 92.91 0.3607 0.8807 0.7664
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    • 570 25 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 6 1/2 6 1/4 1-montn 6 1/2 6 5/8 2-month 6 5/8 6 3/4 3-month 6 11/16 6 13/16 Overnight mode: 6-3/8 US$ Bid Offer 7 days 8 3/8 8 1/2 1 month 8 3/8 8 1/2 2 months 8 7/16 8
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    • 291 25 Reuter TOTAL clearing bank lending to the UK private sector in March, seasonally adjusted, rose by some £3.5 billion, the London Banking Information Service said. This compares with an increase of £3.6 billion in February. Most of this rise came from advances, which
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    • 247 25 Reuter NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer yesterday welcomed a drop in consumer price inflation in the first quarter of 1990 but said interest rates were still too high. "That inflation figure means that the government's economic targets in that area are certainly being
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    • 1303 25 MB HHODWIH Open High Low Sett Eat Vol Op/lnt Vol Jun 90 91.30 91.30 91.27 91.28 7855 ***** 4436 Sep 90 91.14 91.14 91.09 91.11 5566 6540 4052 Dec 90 90.91 90.91 90.89 90.90 940 2605 698 Mar 91 90 80 90.81 90.79 90.79 170 645
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 331 26 Bernama LIQUEFIED natural gas and petroleum gas are expected to become Indonesia's largest foreign exchange earner in the 1990s as the country's crude oil reserves dwindle, Mines and Energy Minister Ginandjar Kartasasmita said yesterday. Indonesia's proven gas reserves in excess of 90 trillion
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    • 167 26 INDONESIA is ready to help Malaysia develop its timber processing industry in the areas of technology, skilled labour and finance. Executive director of the Indonesian Wood Panel Association (Apkindo), Mr Tjipto Wignjoprajitno, said Indonesia offered assistance to Malaysia since 1987 but there had
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    • 280 26 Reuter INDONESIA, worried that a new-look Eastern Europe may steal its aid, now appears to be in with a good chance for another record amount from donors. But it may not be able to use it all if oil prices fall much further
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    • 855 26 REPORTS HONGKONG: Gold closed easier on a softer silver price in quiet and thin trade. "Selling pressure on gold was stimulated by a local commission house selling silver which depressed the silver prices in late trade," one dealer said. A slightly firmer
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    • 1357 26 Rubber Apr 20 >M(WliMi») S cents/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt I54.2VI55.25N 154.50/155.50 Int I RSSMay 90 157.25/157.75 I57.5WI58.00 Int I RSS June I59.7VI60.25 *****/160.50 Int 2 RSS OP 152.00/154.00N 152.2 V154.25N Int 3 RSS OP 146.50/148 50N I46.7VI48.75N Int 4 RSS OP 142.50/144 50N I42.7V144.75N Int 5
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 839 27  -  LETTER FROM MUFINDI ?y Nicholas Woodsworth ON MY Michelin map of Africa it looked substantial enough: a thick red line running from Dar-cs-Salaam on the coast of Tanzania to the Zambian capital of Lusaka, high on the continent's southern plateau. The name,
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    • 153 27 At at 3pm yesterday: Load dollars to oae unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4370 I.4S70 Canadian dollar 1.3980 1.6180 NZ dollar 1.0783 I.I 183 Sterling pound 3.0540 3.0840 US dollar 1.8730 1.8830 Local dollars to 100 units of lorrign currency Austrian schilling 13.40
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    • 114 27 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Apr 21-26 International Motorcar Business and Aocenones Exhibition Barcelona Feria di Barcelona (34)3/*****01 Apr 24-21 Exhibition of the of Synthetic Materials A Composites Belgium Fouc Internationale De Bruxelles A.S.B.L (32)2/*****77 Apr 25May 1 Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Zimbabwe Zimbabwe International Trade Fair
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 194 27 6 Leading character on the 10 Bound to hurt one's feelto do so in a cut- JR I |H HH— ting in a round (7) 24 Ship's company in a state tives (5) 29 Staunch supporter (4) character-forming styles (8) 30 Cries in the post very 4 $ce down chancy
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    • 223 27 Singapore OUTLOOK: Showers over several areas in the enrty morning and Inte afternoon Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Apr 23 at the airport: Max leap 346 Assoc humidity 55 Mia imp 25J Assoc humidity 85 tin of sunshine 9.55 Raialall in mm trace Rainfall thbmth.™ 50.5 Forecast
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  • 385 28  -  IDPM's interview with Japanese TV By Martin Soong TOKYO should continue to focus its economic attention on the Asia-Pacific region, rather than follow the West in the drive to wean Eastern Europe from communism, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told a Japanese audience
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  • 207 28 Reuter SECURITY FORCES yesterday sealed off central Kathmandu and gunshots rang out after demonstrators surged through the streets venting their fury against the police and King Birendra. After hours of violent protests in the Nepalese capital, gunfire was heard as police drove back crowds from
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  • 455 28  -  From Anna Teo in LONDON THE NEED to keep the doors of the proposed single European market open to international trade was conveyed by First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in his meeting yesterday with Conservative Party MP Michael Heseltine. Mr Heseltine,
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  • 95 28 AFP SOUTH KOREA'S economy grew at an annual rate of 7.1 per cent in real terms during the first quarter of the year, showing a recovery, the central Bank of Korea (BOK) reported yesterday. The country's economic growth was 6.7 per cent last year, and
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  • 662 28  -  77?e Bottom Line CONRAD RAJ CONRAD RAJ The writer is a senior correspondent on BT's Companies Desk THE RECENT DECISION by the Urban Redevelopment Authority to reject Sogo's application to build a hotel in the Cairnhill area once
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  • 261 28 Reuter THE JAPANESE government is to submit a revision to the copyright law in the next regular session of Parliament to extend protection to records imported before 1978. The move, which was announced yesterday, was seen as an attempt to avoid being singled out for
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    • 573 28 DaupHiN l f® l °f your back fm\ Dauphin (SEA) Pte Lid =3 _L Tel: *****00 I |< til t I att 9 km OmkhtCmJ hm -1 *|THE SIM 1990 ANNUAL MANAGEMENT LECTURE THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER Moulding Tomorrow's Corporate Winners by: Prof Noel Tichy Professor of Organisation Behaviour and Human
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  • Shipping Times
    • 366 29  -  By Dexter Lee HAPAG-LLOYD, West Germany's largest shipping line, is shifting control of its Asian operations from the head office in Hamburg to its new regional headquarters in Singapore. Mr Olaf von Maydell, currently the president of New York-based Hapag-Lloyd (America), will
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    • 358 29  -  From Shirish Nadkarni IN BOMBAY AT LEAST five major international shipping lines are seriously considering the introduction of regular sailings from the port of Nhava Sheva in New Bombay, say senior port officials. At the same time, Soviet lines now calling at the
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    • 367 29  -  From Julie Chatterjee IN BOMBAY A HEARING on the findings of a judicial inquiry into a February crash that killed 90 people in Bangalore starts today in India. After an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus crashed in Bangalore last February, the Minister
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    • 326 29 HONGKONG'S air cargo traffic rose 12 per cent to HK5234.2 billion last year compared with 1988, with Taiwan as its fastest growing export market. The South China Morning Post reports that air transport moved 29 per cent of domestic exports, 20 per
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    • 158 29 WORKERS at Bangkok Port have threatened to strike today or tomorrow in a renewed move to prevent the government from allowing private companies to run two piers at the new Laem Chabang port. A port union leader said about 800 workers have voted to
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    • 334 29 Reuter THE JAPANESE Transport Ministry will soon instruct Japanese shipbuilders not to boost their production volumes to raise their combined world market share from the current level of around 50 per cent, a Tokyo financial newspaper reported Monday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun,
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    • 143 29  -  By Al O Labita THE STATE-RUN Philippine Shippers' Council (Shippercon) has assured Filipino shipping companies of a substantial market share in the shipment of the country's import and export cargoes. Under a presidential edict, Philippine-flagged vessels are given preference as carriers of government
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 54 29 THOUSANDS of workers at South Korea's largest shipyard staged a work slowdown yesterday and union leaden said they would call a general strike if four union members were not released from jail Union leaders at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co said about 20,000 workers joined
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      • 62 29 Reuter DOMESTIC and international flights in Australia may face disruption next week because of industrial action by aircraft engineers protesting at new Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) licensing proposals. Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association industrial manager Brian Farnham said the association, which represents 2,300
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      • 61 29 FOR more than 40 years the little black box, or flight recorder, has been widely accepted in aviation. While it has not caught on in shipping, the fact that the black box can present a lot more than evidence after the accident
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      • 37 29 PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino has vowed to improve air transportation and the safety of domestic shipping in the Philippines, where the world's worst peacetime sea disaster occurred three years ago Back Page
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 122 30 JAPAN'S C Itoh Co has formed a new subsidiary to handle airplane leasing operations in Japan, the US and Europe. The subsidiary, based in Japan, is capitalised at 100 million yen, with C Itoh and Mitsui Trust Banking Co owning 95 per cent and 5
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      • 121 30 CHINA EXPECTS A new rail link with the Soviet Union to be finished in September, enabling shippers to slash the cost of moving goods between Europe and Asia by up to 20 per cent. The line through the far-west Xinjiang region will link up with Soviet tracks
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      • 59 30 CALLS FOR PILOTING to be mandatory for all ships transiting the inside passage of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been renewed following the grounding of a ship over the Easter holidays. The 3000-tonne Indonesian cargo ship Carakajayaniaga-3 was reportedly grounded on South Warden Reef, about 200 km
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      • 133 30 AUTHORITIES IN THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to ban the entry of two ships they believe are carrying Australian sheep, port officials in Ras A 1 Khaimah said on Sunday. They said the vessels, known to them only as the Unicef and Arwa, were expected
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      • 62 30 A BOAT FAIR, bringing together the designs of Thai and Taiwanese producers, will be held in Thailand at Amphom Gardens from April 25 to May I. Boat Show '90 will feature Thailand's eight leading producers and distributors of Thai boats. These are Four Sea Marine, Euro-Thai
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    • 1021 30 In the world of aviation, planes have long accepted the need to carry a flight recorder. Commercial ships, however, have so far resisted being fitted with a similar recording device. Now things may be changing. Lloyd's Maritime Asia FOR upwards of 40 years, the
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    • 928 30 Feb 7-Jun 6: Sea Transport covers transport geography, liner and tnunp shipping, conducted by the Singapore Freight Forwarders Associatioa. The Manager, SFFA, 7500 A Beach Road, #13-314 The Plaza, tel ao: *****45 Feb 22-May 3: International Freight Forwarding L, contacted by the Singapore Freight Forwarders Association. The Manager,
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    • 12190 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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    • 3314 43 A. BC Coataiaeriiae NV: KYC Line (Syßenown Shpg (PK/PN). Accord Shpg: Accord Shpg Ptc Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (M) Sdn Bhd (PKyAccord Contr Line (PG) Sdn Bhd (PN). Adkris Basiaess Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkid Liner Service; Kim Shpg A Trdg(S). Aibatros Sea-Air Service:
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    • 203 43 AkanCoakn Tet 345-4011, 448-6415. Ak Express Scrrtoc Tet 533-5771. Fix: *****44. Akknt Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: *****16, *****80 Clty-Liak lateraatkaal TeL 344-3377. Fax: *****50. Claater Uak Sappika A Services TeL 296-5720. DHL lateraatkaal Tet 344-8955, 344-8933. Fax. *****61. DPECMriar Tet 284-6611 (7 lines). Fax: *****88 Emtrj Worldwide
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    • 1296 43 \bcx Lx|ress Freight Tet 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actfak Farwwdar Tet 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Sl^porr Tet 542-7822. Fax: *****20. AaraMak KG FMgkt lateraatkaal Tet 545-5991 T* 542.5911. Fax: *****18. AkGaqgaNaaaEappaaa Tet 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Ak Expreaa lateraatkaal Tet 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Ak Market Expraaa Tet 542-5966. Fax: *****10.
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    • 2053 44 ANGOLA Soyo; One vessel berthed, none anchored; 6 vessels due by April 30. Ijanda Seven vessels berthed of which 3 general, 2 bulkers, 2 reefers; no vessels anchored; 12 vessels due by April 30. ARGENTINA Labour working normally. Buenos Aires: Port busy; all general cargo berths occupied; no
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    • 494 44 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES <>p Might Type ETA From Op Flight Type ETD To TODAY TODAY KAl KE697 B747F 0155 SEL RJA RJ025 B70F 0001 BOM/AMM NCA k/205 B747F 02J5 NRT FDX FM66 B747F 0200 BKK/HKG/ JAI J 1.617 B747F 0345 TYO NRT/ANC/ CLX CV7% B747F 2359 LUX/DXB/HKG ORD/LCK/
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    • 484 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES rHfc ROYAL Dutch/Shell group bought four tankers from the trustees of the estate of the late Christina Onassis and the Onassis group of companies. These are the Olympic Banner (268.889 dwt and built 1972), Olympic Bnlhancc (269.070 dwt and built 1973). Aristotle S. Onassis (273.900 dwt
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      • 523 45 MM) laii ■a* Mm J— "Si K17 daapiia 23.04/ 1700 Kip Swim 03/90A C09 25.04/ 2200 Koto Mm 5 K30 itayato 25.04/ 0800 Hob Abai E-847 K31 dnr* 1 25.04/ 1830 Koto Mm 19/90 K32 ikwcadt 2104/ 0400 Nk Skaaka 8048 K1S itoapMi 23.04/ 1700 Pnyat 1
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      • 1498 45 Ji,l» JIM -IV 9# fey Nl frr Date TtM fim T« Bi M 1 k 0» Gdn Aca Concord OS/364 26.04.90 0700 24/1330 24/1429 Pi 25/0430 25/0459 rtnet 1 00 F05 Anaai *****N 25.04.90 0700 24/0000 24/0029 Pi 24/1300 24/1329 Pi 24/2100 24/2129 Dt rtnet rtnet ic tai
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      • 299 45 Nrt W—t Souli Nrt: Gfaoa berth 1; Kobe J berth 2; Hong Soon I I. ,li 71, n«iin li .Hi I OkJI Dertn /A, retro vantap Denn J snal KCT: Anro Melbourne berth 8; Sea Leopard berth 8; Saudi Tabuk berth 9; Ocean Centaurus berth 10; Thana
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      • 987 45 THE RECENT fall in rates on the freight r market gathered momentum amid reports on S Friday of sharply easier levels in key grain routes. Dealers said there was a fixture on the US I Gulf? Japan grain run at U5523.75 and un- t confirmed talk that $23.50
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    • 234 46 AFP THE SEARCH for three seamen missing and presumed dead since their cargo ship sank in a collision off Hongkong last Friday has been called off, a government spokesman said on Saturday. Meanwhile, another collision off China's Hainan island left an oil slick,
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    • 341 46 AFP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino pledged on Sunday to improve air transportation and the safety of domestic shipping in the Philippines, where the world's worst peace-time sea disaster occurred three years ago. "Navigational facilities are being improved and present rules and regulations reviewed to ensure
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    • 256 46 ANOTHER 24 Caraka Illtype ships will be ordered by Indonesia's National Mercantile Fleet Development Company (PT Pann) at local shipyards to meet the growing demand for merchant vessels, says company president W M Nayoan. Nayoan told Antara news agency recently that the purchase
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    • 302 46 Reuter VENEZUELA intends to choose its international partners within the next six weeks for a USS3 billion project to develop a vast offshore gas field in the Gulf of Paria, a top oil executive said. The newly appointed chairman of state oil company
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    • 165 46  -  By Al O Labita CONTAINERISED traffic at Philippine poets, especially in foreign boxed cargo, showed a marked improvement at the end of 1989. The Philippine Ports Authority said the number of boxes handled increased by 21.7 per cent to 1.3 million TEUs over the previous
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    • 128 30 SINGAPORE BUSINESS/SAMSONITE SUBSCRIPTION PROMOTION I i THIS MONTH'S LUCKY DRAW PRIZE W-*"•1 1 s?• r t*~? »S3 :V irktifp f nnrp.,rt nrfcit) ;■'M RM I SUBSCRIPTION/RENEWAL FORM I (Subscription/renewal orders received by 27th April'9o will be entitled to the lucky draw.which will be held on JOth April'9o)| Name: Address:— i
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    • 2207 31 Im»I jardine shipping agencies 200 CMtonmwt Road #12 OS Singapore 0208 jBKU&w tm *****11 telex no rs 2*179 W Iff Hill! TCTMINAL/CFS Td *****11 220 Bmnin BOOKINGS Td *****34 23S J PESAKA J Alt DINE SNIPPING AGENCIES SON. MO. MM PORT KELANG TEL *****18 TELEX NO. MA*****/MA***** i: i.T PENANG
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    • 935 32 djf (sj/MBAIMI PTE LTD ON SATURDAY, 28 APRIL 1990, WE WILL BE MOVING TO: 17, UPPER CIRCULAR RD #02-00 JUTA BUILDING SINGAPORE 0105 OUR CONTACT NUMBERS ARE: TEL- 534-0456 221-0108 (SALES/ BOOKINGS) FAX: 534-0040 TELEX: RS ***** trans pacific service TJf WEEKLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO IMA SIN HKG I
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    • 1487 33 SjjgSteainers Maritime Holdings Ltd > PJg.n I f STRAITS SHIPPING JL 19bv r SkMMaca ta Bmml East NWavsia. Containers Spare P.KImTI S'ton N'burf B Kawn R dam La* ACCEPTS DUE SAILS LAUGS BAY 2V04 27* M IMB 17/05 IMB W5 22,W CARGO MONTI ROSA nm M BINTANG SERIA V(*E Sibu.
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    • 27 33 REGULAR SERVICE TO KARACHI S PORE LOADING FOR TBN 7/5 KARACHI Ago* »MuaiW> ICHt N.T.Y DttMPOHTATON 00. pre) LID. Tot BMB Ttc m 2WII Fac 2298 M
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    • 628 34 A Joint Europe Service 01: P.T. MKMTt um M. KtM um P.T. SUMKM HHHHKSU e P.T. THIKOM LLOYD > CR NBR **********0-0 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE VSLyVOY S PORE R DAM/ H BURG BREMEN ANTWERP ADAM MATARAM/HWB O/4-ljS i/f 10/6 2/t 15/6 BAAB ULLAH/22W8 2S-21/S 25/6 1/7 4/7 7/7 FAST TRANSIT
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    • 1740 35 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE (CR No: **********0 E) BOOKINGS/ENQUIRIES: UK/EUROPE SERVICE *****19 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE *****18 B K USA SERVICE *****16 FAR EAST SERVICE *****48 K DOCUMENTATION: *****44/*****14 TERMINAL: *****22 CPS: M 2 IMPORT: *****69/*****50 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA K.L.-*****33, P.Kelang-*****87, Penang-*****0, J.Bahru-*****3, *****4 jlr.rsr as ss ss.
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