The Business Times, 5 February 1991

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Tuesday February 5 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 82 1 SABAH's predominantly Christian PBS state government has offered to share power with a Muslim-based party of the ruling National Front. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in Kuala l.umpur yesterday that Sabah's Chief Minister, Joseph Pairin Kitingan, offered to form a coalition
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    • 37 1 MALAYSIA will review whether sanctions against Pretoria should be lifted after apartheid reforms announced by South African President F W de Klerk. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said vesterday.
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    • 19 1 NEW TAX INCENTIVES are on the cards to promote Singapore as an international trading centre Page
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    • 21 1 SINGAPORE'S aviation policies will continue to be both liberal and innovative, assures the Minister for Communications Page
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    • 29 1 THAILAND was upset that the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association had filed a petition against it for failing to provide patent protection for pharmaceutical products Page 7
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    • 30 1 THE US has so far had more success fighting the war in the Gulf than in battling the recession at home, according to private economists Page 8
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    • 45 1 THE latest steps to reduce interest rates are no more likely to provide relief to US developers and investors in the commercial real estate market than other interest rate cuts in the last six months, developers and financiers say Page 8
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    • 16 1 NUMBER-CRUNCHING supercomputers are now helping to keep the environment safe and healthy Page 13
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    • 22 1 THE EUROPEAN Shippers' Council has queried the Far Eastern Freight Conference on its latest Gulf surcharge. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 33 1 SHARE PRICES slipped at the opening hell on Wall Street yesterday, with the Dow Jones index of leading industrials dropping 0.74 points to 2,729.95 in the first five minutes of trading.
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    • 52 1 AFTER opening sharply ahead of last Friday's close on hopes for an imminent interest rate cut, London shares gave up most of their advances as early optimism receded yesterday. But early gains were sufficient to leave the Footsie index of 100 shares 4.5 points ahead at 2.170.2 at
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    • 33 1 A PRIVATE company owned by Technology Resources Industries (formerly Roxy Electric) executive director Tajuddin Ramli has teamed up with California-based DMC to produce digital microwave communications equipment in Malaysia Page 3
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    • 26 1 INTER-ROLLER Engineering Ltd's $3.8 million share issue which opened for subscription over the weekend has generated a lot of attention. Page 3
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    • 33 1 A BUNDESBANK board member has played down the significance of key rate rises, describing the moves as a technical adjustment which would not drive other interest rates higher Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      31 1 Mondav Change BT-MGA 620.19 +6.70 Kuala Lumpur ...500.88 +3.62 Hongkong 3,250.43 26.94 Tokyo 23,287.36 +130.66 Sydney 1.320.2 +18.4 Frida> Change New York 2,730.69 -5.70 London 2,165.7 -4.6 r 1
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    • 18 1 Exchange rates USS SSI.7210 Yen SSI.3107 MS SS0.6387 Money market rates Overnight 4-1/4% +1/4 3-month 4-9/16% -1/16
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    • 36 1 London Gold PM tlx US$367.15 Rubber S'pore Feb 147.00*/kg unch M'sia Feb 231.5(P/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 75 tonnes-20 Spot MS 14.72 /Vg -0-23 Crude palm oil Turnover 929 lots -792 Feb MS855 /tonne -3
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  • 462 1  -  Poor business due to Gulf War, drop in tourism By! Suzanne Soh LUXURY GOODS retailer DFS Singapore has temporarily closed its store at Claymore Hill, the first "drastic" action taken by a major retailer to counter the sudden fall-off in tourist arrivals because
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  • 356 1  -  By Chitra Rajaram BIG-TIME international conference and seminar conveners experiencing a spate of cancellations from overseas participants because of the Gulf War are adopting new strategies to keep their business going. Some of them are working harder on Singaporeans as their target audience, while others
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  • 604 1 THE GULF Mtti Agencies IRAN'S President Hashemi Rafsanjani yesterday offered to meet Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for talks on ending the Gult war. He indicated a sharp change in the Iranian position towards the US, offering to resume official contact
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  • 509 1  -  From Lilian Ang in JOHOR BARU SINGAPORE and Johor will discuss the possibility of signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will serve as a framework for greater cooperation in promoting the Growth Triangle concept. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that such
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  • 103 1 DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry BG (Res) Lee Hsien Loong will leave for Jakarta tomorrow to attend the first ministerial meeting of the Joint Indonesia-Singapore Committee on the development of the Riau province. The meeting is a follow-up on the signing
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    • 24 1 Iran calls for regional action to tackle oil slick problem, Pg 9 F.ditorial, Pg 10 Israeli pullout will help after Gulf war. Back Pg
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 79 2 ESSO yesterday raised the pump price for its premium and intermediate grade unleaded petrol by five cents a litre to 121.5 cents a litre and 112.5 cents a litre respectively. The announcement followed a press release issued on Sunday that said the oil company
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      • 79 2 The fifth Singapore International Coin Convention, organised by Taisei Stamps Coins and sponsored by the Singapore Mint, will be held from Feb 22 to 24. Some 80 dealers and 10 mints from around the world will take place in the event. These 10 mints are from Mexico, the
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      • 100 2 MAYBANK's staff will be visiting kidney patients at the Kim Keat Dialysis Centre during the Lunar New Year festive season in a show of goodwill and giving. On Thursday afternoon, Maybank's director and general manager Dato' Ong Kim Hoay, together with key personnel, will bring gifts and
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      • 169 2 IN CELEBRATION of the coming Lunar New Year, Haw Par Villa will be extending its opening hours. From Feb 15 to March 3, its opening hours will be from 9.00 am to 10.00pm Monday to Saturday, and from 8.30 am to 10.00pm on Sundays and public
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      • 96 2 THE world's largest dancing lion will make its debut at the Chingay Fantasy 1991 Procession on Feb 23. The procession is jointly organised by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, the People's Association and Singapore National Pugilistic Federation. The lion, about four times the size of a standard
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    • 425 2  -  TDB also outlines plans to boost exports By Schutz Lee NEW TAX INCENTIVES are on the cards to make Singapore even more attractive and competitive as an international trading centre. A hint about this was given in a press release issued by the Trade
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    • 237 2 THE Trade Development Board (TDB) has set aside $7.6 million to be spent on trade missions, overseas fairs and seminars half a million dollars less than for the financial year ending this March. This figure works out to eight more fairs for the new
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    • 541 2  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE'S aviation polices will continue to be both "liberal and innovative", said Or Yeo Ning Hong, Minister br Communications, yesterday. Dr Yeo, who was speaking it the opening of a confer:nce of Airports Association Council International (AACI), Europe and
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 394 3 Joint venture with California firm will market in Asean as well ALPINE Resources Sdn Bhd, a private company owned by Technology Resources Industries (formerly Roxy Electric) executive director Tajuddin Ramli, has teamed up with California-based DMC to produce digital microwave communications equipment in Malaysia.
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    • 459 3 MBT TAN CHONG Auto Parts is expected to undertake a US$47 million (SSBO.B million) venture with DAF, the giant Dutch truck maker, to produce truck rear axles in Malaysia. The Tan Chong Motor Holdings subsidiary will hold a 45
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    • 790 3  -  MARKET TALK Inter-Roller Engineering's $3.8 million share issue By S N Vasuki INTER-ROLLER Engineering Ltd's 53.8 million share issue which opened for subscription over the weekend has generated a lot of attention. The small material handling company which is seeking a listing on
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    • 286 3  -  By Schutz Lee ABOUT 100 companies, including publicly-listed Metro, Intraco and The Hour Glass, have lined up business talks with eight Hungarian companies during the week-long Hungarian trade display which began yesterday. The local companies from the trading, retail, electronics, and shipping sectors
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 62 3 OVERSEAS Union Bank yesterday appointed Professor Lim Pin, the Vice-Chaneellor of the National University of Singapore. as a director of the bank. The hank said that Prof Lim Pin's wide knowledge and broad experience would make him a valuable addition to the board. He
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      • 72 3 MESSRS Heng Chiang Meng and Goh Hup Jin have been appointed as directors of Overseas Union Trust (OUT). Their appointments took effect yesterday. Mr Heng is currently group managing director of First Capital Corporation Ltd, while Mr Goh is a director and vice-president of Wuthelam
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      • 34 3 LIM CHEE ONN, managing director of Straits Steamship Land, sold 10,000 Keppel Corp shares at $6.10 each and another 10,000 shares at $6.15 each on Jan 28, 1991.
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      • 43 3 MADAM Kimiko Kasuya, a substantial shareholder in Ses-daq-listed Horiguchi Engineering, has increased her interest in the company from 51.41 per cent to 52.19 per cent with the purchase of 200,000 shares at 68 cents each on Feb 1, 1991.
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      • 43 3 SIME Singapore appointed Mr Abdul Shukor Nagor as a director to the company on Feb 1, 1991. Mr Abdul Shukor replaces Mr Din Merican who resigned to take up a new assignment within the Sime Darby Bhd group.
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      • 92 3 PERUSAHAAN Otomobil Nasional (Proton) exported 24,263 units of Proton Saga valued at M 5352 million between 1987 and October last year, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Chua Jui Meng, said yesterday. The cars were exported to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Brunei, New Zealand, Malta, Eire,
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 462 4 Reuter IN LESS THAN four months, John Prescott will assume command of Australia's biggest company. The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd, but a drastic change of direction is unlikely. At 50, Mr Prescott, who has spent his entire career at BHP, will
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    • 291 4 THAI MUI Import Group, established 38 years ago and with a current equity of 2.4 billion baht (S$ 164 million), has opened two joint-venture factories which will manufacture tyre cord and induction motors. The Nation reported. According to the Bangkok daily, Thai Mui's new
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    • 160 4 Reuter AN ARREST warrant was issued for former Australian media mogul Christopher Skasc after he failed to appear in a Queensland court yesterday, a court official said in Brisbane yesterday. However, the court did not activate the warrant in order to give Mr Skase's
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 81 4 JAPANESE DEVELOPER Daikyo Inc has purchased a perpetual lease on two Australian islands. Green Island and Fitzrov Island, off Cairns, from Jenkins Group of Australia for A 546.68 million (Ss63 million). Daikyo announced in Tokyo that it had set up two wholly-owned firms.
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      • 96 4 JAPAN'S Iwatani International Corp and China's Shenzhen Petroleum Co will form a joint company to import and to sell liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Guangzhou, an Iwatani official announced in Tokyo last Friday. The joint venture company will be named Shenzhen Iwatani Gas Machinery Co Ltd
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      • 110 4 WITH demand plunging in the wake of the Gulf war, three major South Korean car makers has reported that their combined domestic sales of cars, trucks and buses declined 14.5 per cent from December to January. Hyundai Motor Co, Kia Motors Corp and Daewoo Motor
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      • 97 4 AUSTRALIA'S largest retailer. Coles Myer Ltd, announced vesterday that its retail sales rose by 1.6 per cent to A 57.84 billion (S$ 10.58 billion) for the six months to Jan 27 from A 57.72 billion a year earlier. Coles Myer chairman and chief executive Brian
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      • 77 4 JAPANESE watch and clock maker Hattori Seiko Co Ltd will establish a sales office in Dusseldorf, Germany in April, to market plastic eyeglass lenses in Europe. A company spokesman in Tokyo said yesterday that the Dusseldorf office would import plastic eyeglass lenses made by Seiko's
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      • 72 4 JAPAN'S Terumo Corp has bought the rights to make and sell medical equipment from Du Pont Co Medical Products, a medical equipment unit of E I Du Pont de Nemours and Co, for an undisclosed sum. The agreement would let Terumo produce and sell the
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 321 5 Reuter THE DUTCH small shareholders association said it will sue NV Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken over its failure to warn shareholders of deteriorating performance if Philips offers no talks about a settlement. "We will definitely go ahead with legal action if Philips declines
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    • 422 5 Reuter SIX JAPANESE banks are participating in a previously announced US$6OO million (Ssl billion) film financing partnership formed by Walt Disney Co and Japanese investors. Disney announced in October the formation of Touchwood Pacific Partners I, which would base financing on US$lBO million of
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    • 255 5 Reuter AB ELECTROLUX, which earlier reported a 61 per cent drop in 1990 profit, said it was hopeful that results can quickly get back on track. President and chief executive Anders Scharp said the firm's decision to leave its 1990 dividend unchanged at 12.5
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    • 255 5 Reuter GENERAL Motors Corp, faced with a depressed car market and strained cash resources, may be forced to cut its dividend this year, analysts said. GM said its board of directors was scheduled to cuss the dividend at a meeting yesterday, but declined further comment.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 102 5 BRITISH Telecommunications pic withdrew from future phases of the Ministry of Defence's Corporate Headquarter Office Technology System (CHOTS) programme. British Telecom was one of the consortia shortlisted in 1988 to participate in the development of the programme. Neither the MoD nor British Telecom would
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      • 85 5 SAN DIEGO GAS and Electric said it disagreed with a recommendation by two administrative law judges of the California Public Utilities Commission against its proposed merger with SCEcorp's Southern California Edison unit based on anti-trust concerns. "This is in direct contradiction to the findings of
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      • 86 5 A DIRECTOR of British aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce pic warned employees to be on their guard against a computer vims epidemic he said had already affected personal computers in the firm. Systems and computing director Mike Roberts said, "It takes a vast amount of man-hours
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      • 75 5 UK FOOD and drinks group Grand Metropolitan pic has filed a preliminary registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its proposed listing on the New York Stock Exchange. A Grand Met statement said that subject to SEC review, trading is expected
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      • 79 5 INTERNATIONAL Business Machines said a team led by its Federal Sector division in Manassas won a five-year, US$25 million contract to provide a nationwide data communications network for federal courts. The value of the contract could reach US$233 million if the courts exercise all options for
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      • 70 5 PEPSICO Inc is issuing US$2OO million of notes due February 1, 1993 yielding 7.454 per cent through Morgan Stanley and Co Inc. The notes have a 7% per cent coupon and were priced at 99.854 to yield 60 basis points more than comparable Treasury securities.
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 82 6 THE combined assets of Taiwan's offshore banking units (OBU) continued to climb to reach a record US$2O.BB billion (5535.9 l billion) at the end of December, the Central Bank said in a statement. OBU assets were US$l9.l billion in November and US$l6.7 billion in
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      • 90 6 CITICORP said it would sell the main financial data processing units of Citicorp Information Resources Inc (CIR) to Fiserv Inc, resulting in the loss of about 700 jobs and saving the bank US$75 million (Ssl29 million) in annual operating expenses. The transaction also allows Citicorp
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      • 107 6 THE FDIC has approved the assumption of debts and other liabilities of the Maine Savings Bank of Portland, Maine, a subsidiary of The One Bancorp, by the Fleet Bank of Maine, also of Portland. Maine Savings Bank has assets of US$l.3 billion (552.23 billion). Fleet
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      • 84 6 NATIONAL BANK of Bahrain (NBB), the island's largest commercial bank, said 1990 net profit rose to nine million dinars (5541.3 million) from 8.1 million dinars in 1989. Operating income before provisions for bad debts fell to 13.9 million dinars from 14 million, it said in a
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      • 2 6 Dollar$ Non$en$e
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    • 318 6 NYT THE TOP US AGENCY regulating the nation's banks was dealt a potentially costly blow last Friday when a federal judge in Dallas ruled that the agency violated banking laws two years ago by seizing a dozen banks owned by Mcorp.
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    • 493 6 Reuter BUNDESBANK board member Hans Tietmeyer last Saturday played down the significance of key Bundesbank rate rises, describing the moves as a technical adjustment which would not drive other interest rates higher. "The decisions we made were not dramatic decisions, but an
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    • 417 6 BANK OF JAPAN (BOJ) Governor Yasushi Mieno said changes in the official discount rates of the US and Germany last week were in line with what the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial nations agreed at their last meeting. The G-7 nations said
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    • 374 6 SIMEX has refuted some of its members' complaints that the extended trading hours on the Singapore exchange are not justified. Commenting on the complaints made by some Simex members, the exchange's senior vice-president for operations, Wong Peng Kong, said a survey by
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    • 297 6 II tF I I Keppel Finance Limited I (IncorDorated in the Republic o* Singapore) H I PROPOSED BONDS WITH WARRANTS ISSUE I The Directors of Keppel Finance Limited are pleased to announce that on H I 4 February 1991, in-principle approval was granted by the Stock Exchange of Singapore Limited
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  • THE REGION
    • 327 7 THE THAI government was upset that the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association had filed a petition against Thailand for failing to provide patent protection for pharmaceutical products, The Nation reported last Saturday. However, Commerce Permanent Secretary Bajr Isarasena said he was hopeful Washington would
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    • 167 7 AFP ISRAEL is sending agricultural experts to Manila to share their experience in successful settlements and cooperatives with farmers and government officials, according to a Philippine Cabinet member. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) secretary Benjamin Leong said yesterday the experts would come under an
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    • 346 7  -  From Al O Labita Jr in MANILA THE MANILA-BASED Asian Development Bank (ADB) disbursed U554,004 billion (556,919 billion) in loans and investments last year, up 9 per cent from the previous year. Of the total amount, $3,972 billion consisted of government and governmentguaranteed loans and
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    • 436 7 Bernama THERE ARE some people in Kelantan who say that as long as the Golok River keeps flowing, smuggling along the 100-km MalaysiaThailand border in the state will continue. For some of the residents on both sides of the river, smuggling, sometimes involving
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    • 437 7 THE THAI government has asked six petroleum traders to increase their combined diesel stocks by 89 million litres from March 1 to ensure adequate supplies in the event of a prolonged Gulf war, says The Nation. Korn Dabbaransi, the Thai Prime Minister's Office
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 56 7 THAI PRIME MINISTER Chatichai Choonhavan yesterday agreed to organise a new round of talks among the four battling Cambodian factions in an effort to find a settlement to their 12-year-old conflict. Government spokesman Pridiyathom Devakula said Mr Chatichai agreed to arrange the meeting at
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      • 74 7 AUSTRALIA'S economy is on course for recovery later this year and today's current account data for December should show a further improvement, Treasurer Paul Keating said. He said there had been a 30 per cent improvement in the current account deficit over the past 12
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      • 63 7 CHINA'S first stock market in Shenzhen has stabilised as prices and turnover rose after a government effort to pull it back from the brink of collapse, a semi-official Beijing news agency said yesterday. The bourse has recovered from a spate of panic selling late last month, when
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      • 63 7 GOVERNMENT LAWYERS brought new charges yesterday against rebel leader Gregorio Honasan and 31 military officers and civilians under a new Philippine law that severely punishes coup plotters. The law, which took effect in January, increased the penalties for coups d'etat to up to 40 years in
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      • 50 7 RETAIL SALES in Hongkong jumped to HK59.79 billion (552.16 billion) in November, up 11 per cent year on year, a survey by the Census and Statistics department showed. November retail sales volume rose by 3 per cent from the same month a year earlier.
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 91 8 GERMAN ECONOMICS MINISTER Juergen Moellemann savs Germany, the world's largest exporter, eannot afford a failure of theCatt trade talks even if it has to risk striking a note of diseord with France. "The time has come when Germanv, in disagreement with France if
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      • 91 8 WESTERN pharmaceutical companies tested their products for years on patients in East German clinics, according to Monday's issue of Der Spiegel magazine. Under the deal, the former East German government earned millions of deutschemarks in hard currency. In 1989 alone, the testing brought in 17
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      • 63 8 CHILE'S economy should grow by at least 4 per cent this year after rising by just under 2 per cent last year and inflation will fall sharply, says the president of the country's central bank. "1991 will be a good year for the Chilean economy,"
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      • 94 8 TWO Japanese stcelworkers' unions yesterday unveiled their annual pay increase demands, seeking an average 8.05 per cent wage rise and an extra four to six holidays a year. The demands by the 43,192-membcr Nippon Steel Corp Labour Union and the 23,570-man Kobe Steel Ltd Labour Union
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      • 56 8 ARGENTINA has announced plans to hunt down tax evaders by publishing lists of citizens who do pay and seeing which names are missing. The proposed measure was announced by the new Economy Minister, Domingo Cavallo, as part of an economic reform plan aimed at boosting
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      • 104 8 THE INDEPENDENT Soviet news agency Postfactum has said that the KGB and police will begin checks of all foreignbacked joint enterprises today as part of a crackdown on fraud and organised crime. Quoting "competent sources", the agency said on Sunday that the inspection would be
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    • 537 8 No easy answers found in lower interest rates and higher spending Reuter THE US has so far had more success fighting the war in the Gulf than in battling the recession at home, according to private economists. Hamstrung by a mountain of debts piled
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    • 170 8 NYT THE latest steps to reduce US interest rates the Federal Reserve's half-point cut in the discount rate on Friday and a similar cut in the prime rate used by banks are no more likely to provide relief to developers and investors
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    • 327 8 Reuter BRITAIN'S building industry faces a rough ride in 1991 as firms slash tender prices to stave off bankruptcy in a deepening recession. Building firms have appealed to the government to help prevent further casualties in an industry hit by low demand and a squeeze
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    • 289 8 Reuter THE OCCUPATION of key buildings by Soviet troops in Lithuania has cost the Baltic republic's economy 36 million roubles (S$ 111.8 million), an official spokesman said in Vilnius on Sunday. Soviet troops seized a number of buildings last month. During a Jan 13
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  • THE GULF WAR
    • 466 9 Reuter IRAN has proposed regional action to tackle history's biggest oil slick in a move which could bring together Iraq and some of its Gulf war foes to fight an environmental crisis. An Iranian representative at a meeting of Gulf
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    • 411 9 Reuter TURKISH President Turgut Ozal has called on Middle Eastern states to set up a new economic community to link countries in the region once the Gulf War ends. "It is essential to realise comprehensive economic and commercial cooperation in the region with security guarantees,"
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    • 156 9 AFP PAKISTAN has suffered a 30 per cent decline in its exports to the Gulf since war broke out between the allied coalition and Iraq, say officials in Karachi. Businessmen and industrialists were to meet in the city yesterday to consider ways to offset
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    • 49 9 PARK POLICE in Washington removing a sign from anti-war protesters in Lafayette Park over the weekend. Brian Barett of Falls Church, Virginia was being restrained as the authorities attempt to enforce laws pertaining to signs being used during demonstrations. AP picture AP picture
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    • 488 9 Arabs, West expect M-E peace drive after war Reuter ARAB and Western officials expect a new drive to break the Israeli-Arab peace deadlock as soon as the Gulf War is over, but many predict a strengthened Israel will block any progress. Hostile Israeli reaction to a
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    • 302 9 UPI KING HUSSEIN of Jordan is growing increasingly agitated with Saddam Hussein's insistence on keeping Kuwait and is apparently re-evaluat-ing his country's close ties with Iraq, according to an Egyptian newspaper. This shift in sentiment by the Jordanian monarch was partly a result of
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  • 519 10 EDITORIAL THAT the US-led multinational attack on Iraq should result in rising antiAmericanism in many Muslim countries was expected to an extent. Some Muslims, and not exclusively Muslims, are disillusioned with the West, and particularly the US, for its historical handling of the Palestine issue. They
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 198 10 1T IS almost two years since the first independent school appeared in Singapore. The aim of setting up these schools was to nurture the best of the country's talent a forbidding task for principals and teachers. To achieve this, the schools need geniuses and time to evolve. While
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    • 139 10 I HE SENIOR Parliamentary Secretary (Education), Mr Sidek Saniff, has again stressed the need to adopt a total approach in uplifting the educational status of Malays. In a recent talk, he outlined the major areas to focus on. Basically, the approach (.alls for heavy investment in manpower
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    • 136 10 SOME PARENTS may be sending their five- or six year-olds to two separate kindergartens because they see them merely as day-care centres. Others may think their children can learn two languages better if they are sent to different language medium kindergartens. But the majority of parents
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 162 10 M R KUKRIT Pramoj dropped a bombshell earlier last week with his remark that Education Minister Gen Thienchai Sirisamphan is most qualified to be the next prime minister. His only shortcoming, however, is that the retired general's Rassadorn Party, with only 21 MPs, is too small
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    • 226 10 HOW LONG Beijing carries on asking questions without giving any answers remains to be seen. Since early last year China has been seeking detailed explanations on the port-and-airport project, and still the requests for more information keep coming. There have been two scries of expert meetings already,
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    • 140 10 RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS Minister Munawir Sjadzali said that the Gulf war is not a religious war. The Indonesian Muslims arc, therefore, warned not to be provoked by the issue of a religious war. The cause and the reason for the war is not religious but
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  • 1087 10  -  What are the implications for the Exchange Rate Mechanism with the recent rise in German interest rates? Carl Gewirtz reports Carl Gewirtz NYT Major policy strains arc looming within the European Monetary System following Germany's decision to raise interest rates, analysts said over
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 548 11 President F W de Klerk is to scrap the Act which decrees that South Africa's four main races live in separate areas, but experts say the segregated areas will stay for years Reuter LUSH suburbs reserved for South Africa's white minority are likely
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    • 1245 11  -  Oil development in South-east Asia has been stepped up as a result of the Gulf war. David Sanger reports David Sanger IN the months before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Asia was beginning to despair of its role as a producer and refiner of
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    • 853 11  -  Eric Ellis reports on the internment controversy Eric Ellis The writer is a London-based journalist who contributes occasionally to BT Q: When is a Briton not a Briton? A: When he has an uncle not seen for 20 years who is a Palestinian
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 1
    • 353 13 Reuter Americans, frustrated by watching Japanese rivals take the lead in key manufacturing industries, have long consoled themselves with the belief they were superior in software. Now that faith may be undermined. A new study, the most comprehensive ever of the Japanese software
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    • 848 13 Number-crunching supercomputers are now helping to keep the environment safe and healthy NYT The world's fastest computers, once used almost exclusively to build nuclear weapons and crack codes, are finding a variety of new uses as environmental tools. In the Persian Gulf, for instance, supercomputers were
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    • 225 13 Caffeine is good for health it kills dust mites NYT WHILE the debate rages on about the pros and cons of the coffee stimulant caffeine, Florida scientists now know one thing for certain it kills household dust mites. The mites are microscopic organisms that commonly worsen the symptoms of asthma,
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    • 172 13 THE government has awarded a $2.8 million contract to provide computer disaster recovery services for 12 ministries. A two-year contract has been signed between the Ministry of Finance and Computer Engineering Systems (CES), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the govern-ment-owned Singapore Computer Systems. It will
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    • 198 14 THE Indonesian subsidiary of Singaporebased SIS Technologies Pte Ltd has secured the appointment as the distributor for Lotus Development Corporation. P T Sistech Kharisma was chosen for the quality of its support service, and its network of dealers and val-ue-added retailers (VARs), according
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    • 341 14 Move will give portable PCs more flexibility NYT APPLE Computer Inc has asked the Federal Communications Commission to set aside radio frequencies to allow personal computers to receive and transmit data without wires. Allowing computers to communicate by radio would give more mobility
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    • 507 14 UPI Multimedia, networking, and CDROMS are some of the fancier buzzwords pointing to the future of desktop computing, but computer makers also are zeroing in on a potentially vast market for a tool of powerful simplicity the pen. Specifically, software and hardware manufacturers
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    • 304 14 NYT AROUND the turn of the century, Orville and Wilbur Wright started using a homemade wind tunnel for tests that led to their triumphant airplane flight in 1903. Millions of flights and almost 90 years later, engineers still find wind tunnels vital for
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  • CORPORATE FOCUS
    • 1245 15  -  Like other banks, Hongkongßank (Australia) took a battering in the 1980s. But unlike other banks, it has no plans to leave. Florence Chong reports Florence Chong THE HongkongBank is going back to its roots its Asian business and trade finance. It
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    • 590 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO A I j SBCI2 7.30 N«n(M). 5.30 tin tdwitons'« Gii»Mr aiiair Hasr"-* ffl agr mmsoNMM min |m Ms srr!!rrT-^ e decide to take cnme preven Our Choice) 700 Cable News Network 7.10 am, 9.25 am, 1.30pm, The Ocean lul JUT ST»,» ?S&- A by 5.30pm. 3.25-.: Financial
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1052 17  -  Not long ago, the voice of a singer and the songs he sang could send his fans into rapture, because a certain bond existed. John Pareles finds that, alas, times have changed John Pareles NYT NO ONE ever became a musician for job security
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    • 443 17 NYT Donna karan calls denim the new gaberdine. She uses it for much more than jeans. She has had a denim blazer in her DKNY line for two years and included denim in her latest high-fashion collection for spring. She uses a silk-and-cotton denim for
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    • 592 17 CHATTERBOX THE troops of Operation Desert Storm aren't exactly bereft of mail. Some just aren't satisfied with the mail they get. Take the case of Master Sergeant Dan Lucero of the 76th Weapons Flight Crew, who took pen in hand on what he said was
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    • 276 17 AND ENTERTAIN Set Your Heart On Our Set Meals. I wit' LLN< II n ro I Hfiflrini w jh. I wH I .i DINNIK fcJCPM ro I IOJOPM SIf.SC. I <<«*«. PER PERSON I The Cafe-in-the-Park is well known for its excellent food. And now, for its value-for-money set meals.
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
      • 133 18 TONY MEO had to fight back from 3-2 down to beat "wild card" entrant Gary Wilkinson 5-3 and reach the second round of the £350,000 Benson and Hedges Masters snooker tournament in London on Sunday. Meo, who is fast coming back to form,
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      • 54 18 THE furious pace set by Kenya's Ezekiel Bitok won him the Amorebieta cross-country world challenge race in Spain on Sunday. Bitok took the lead in the third kilometre and went unchallenged after, finishing in 35 minutes and four sees. Another Kenyan, Stephen Nyamu, was second and Argentina's
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      • 87 18 SPRINTER Linford Christie ran the fastest indoor 60 metres in tKe world this year at the British national indoor championships on Sunday. Europe's fastest man raced to the 60 and 200 metres crowns to give substance to his boast that he wilt win titles at
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      • 83 18 AMERICAN Hurley Haywood won the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance motor race for a record fifth time as he and his fellow-drivers on the Joest Porsche 962 team took a comfortable victory on Sunday. Teaming up with Hurley were Frenchmen Bob Wollek, who recorded his fourth victory
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      • 99 18 EARVIN "Magic" Johnson was knocked unconscious in the third quarter, but the Los Angeles Lakers recovered and pulled away from the Chicago Bulls 99-86 for their 15th straight victory in Los Angeles on Sunday. Johnson sustained a concussion and some possible amnesia when he tripped over
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    • 345 18 Davis Cup Agencies BORIS BECKER staged a remarkable comeback from two sets down to keep Germany in Davis Cup contention in Dortmund on Sunday. The Australian Open champion and world number one squeezed past Omar Camporese to level the world group tie with Italy
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    • 253 18  -  Cassandra How reviews the Dunhill Cup qualifying round and laments the lack of course etiquette among the spectators. She also gathers feedback from the organisers Cassandra How FOUR fairways of the Sime Course were taken up on the last day of the Dunhill Cup World Qualifying Round.
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    • 560 18 NOW THAT all the excitement and pressure of the Dunhill Cup World Qualifying Round is over, one really wonders whether the past week has taught the local crowd anything at all to do with golf. The pre-qualifying round teed-ofT on an even
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    • 456 18 AP DESPITE the best efforts of a professional actor to upstage him, Paul Azinger grabbed the spotlight and the Pebble Beach National ProAm title with a magnificent 5-iron shot on Sunday. Azinger's tee shot on the storied 17th where Jack Nicklaus won
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    • 1111 18 The Sumitomo Trust Banking Co., Ltd. Non-Consolidated Statements of Income Non-Consolidated Statements of Source and Application of Funds For years ended March 31, 1990 and 1989 For years ended March 31, 1990 and 1989 Muttons of Yen I—one o« Yen 1990 1969 I 1989 jP cow y,„ 129,7*1 144,110 N*Hncome
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    • 122 18 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Naresh Kshmchrod Mansukham of Blk 35, Bedok South Ave 2, #***** Bedok South Ave 2, Singapore 1646, have applied for a Public house, Tint class licence in respect of premises at Mfc Taps Pub Entertainment Pte Ltd at 54 Boat Quay, SmgaporeOHM, and
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4241 19  -  By Diana Oon WARRANTS again dominated trading yesterday in the clearest sign yet that investors believe the current market rally is sustainable. Yesterday's market also saw a surprise renewed interest in property counters. A property stock analyst said the outlook for this sector is
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  • 3475 20 -|M> |i»TiWiU'lll' V.# Main Board OUE 580 +30 +5 5% Spore Land 575 +25 +4.5% S Land Wrts 234 +24 +11.4% ICB Wrts 168 +23 +15.9% SI A Foreign 1330 +20 +1.5% Keppel C Wrts 374 +16 +4.5% FELS Wt 225 +16 +7.7% OCBC Wt
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3995 21 Bernama SUPPORT FOR selected sec-ond-liner stocks helped share prices on the Kuala Lumpur stock market to close higher yesterday but off-best in fairly active trading. The K.LSE Composite Index added 3.62 points to 500.88 while the Industrials Index was 4.32 points higher
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 241 22 CMpaay Date Year Group Not Net earnings Gross ann to proM/kss (L) per share dividend COOO) (ce«ts) C4C Jan U Sep 90 *53,947(534.649) 30 8(23 5a) 15(8 5a) Ian 14 Sep 90 $53.080($62,868 30.1(36.5) 17 9(17 9) Hlk w lan 14 Sep 90 $l,886($402) 11 4(24) 20(5) Pub
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    • 184 22 Cwm«t Datt Year Ctm» prt-tai Not earnings Gross to profit/loss (I) M* dlvirfo«4 ('MM) (e«rts) M Cement Jan 17 No* 90 M$61,313($39,640) 185(115) 68 3|(16TE) H Leong Credit ton 8 ton 90 M*35,181(l«25.440 21 8(16 4) 10(10) leong Huat ton 2 Dec 89 $1821($3561) -<-> Pacific Can Dec
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    • 292 22 Company Oat* HaH yoar Group pre-tax l»ten« ana to profit/loss (L) dividend (000) Ktong Guar Ian 31 Oct 90 $139($451) Inter Pacihc Ian 26 Oct 90 M$63.497($55.405) 4(5) Centrepomt Ian 25 Dec 90 J10.309<J7.926) 29(2.9) Beriaya Corpn Ian 24 Oct 90 M$56.996($55.012) 5(6) Sports Toto Ian 23 Oct
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    • 930 22 Feb 4 y.iWi Kepong Bhd has entered into an agreement with Kung Hing Plantations Sdn Bhd to buy the entire issued and panhip capital of five companies Renong Bhd announced several proposed acquisitions and a disposal in a move to rationalise its overall corporate structure. Straitj Steamstwp Land
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    • 309 22 Carrwrt Ex B««4u Date T«M tar total tar v „mm\ date ctox tayaMa last yarn MffFT 3C(«) Oec 14 ton 3 Fet) 18 3< 2 8* kmrnfwd USJO 10(b) Mar 18 Mar 28 Apr 8 US» 10 SITE Feb 25 Mar 7 May lb 12 5*1E 25*TE Bcrun
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    • 574 22 Shppw Stocks M CamM Pnd Date Tea N«t EW &ws nwml «*< pn* iwi r** OB Pidum Intern No* 13 Dec 90 297 112 11.616(e) BMT mtenr) ton 10 lur 91 2541 1500 (Siartn Fral Feb 8 Dec 90 2-0 75 1102 took! F«rt Feb 16 Dec 90
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    • 147 22 Company Rights Issue M 0r» for one w MSI 50 pe< share Li-date Oec 10 Bonks dose Ok 26 Acceptance t Payment Feb 11 Company Bonus Issue Onaitt Hdp One-for h* btfate Feb 8 Books dost feb 25 Company Others MSB Otter tor sale o« 56.970.950 onfcary stares
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    • 687 22 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Ti j Caw.antaa pm+* Cwniatia tar tm m*mn CM Mt Before 26/4/93 1 warrart pta $109 cart Cwi) Laaa Cauaway Ml 2/10/89 to 20/10/94 1 wmnl plus SO 77 cart or 1 aarrart pta 50 77 nonanai amount of loan stod Chan tk» Hotas On* Mt March
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    • 166 22 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Industrials index 1991 to* *****1 (4/2/91) 2JJ5J }}J{J5jj 1991 tar 1022.52 (16/1/91) "J J" "J** g/3/90 1990 to0t 1435.43 (16/7/90) J* S 1990 1m: 981 07 09/11/90) S/5 19S9N.lt 1322.00 (28/12/89) J* g"| Gggg 1919 tar 917.42 (4/1/89) »jj. 19SS*t *****6 (8/8/88) J»Jf
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    • 124 22 Cyde fc Carnage Ltd: 22nd AGM at Mandarin Court B. 4th Floor, Main Wing. Mandarin S*rgapore, 333 Orchard Road, Singapore 0923 on Tuesday, Feb 5, at 12 noon. Hotel Malaysia Ltd 28th AGM at the Tudor Balroom, Goodwood Parti Hotel, Scotts Road, Singapore 0923 on Wednesday, Feb 6,
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    • 275 22 Company Rights Issue Mean One-tor hw MSI 00 per store Issue of 40m Cumiabve Redeemable Preference Shares of MSO 10 each at MSI per share vwth 10m detachable ISR Bdtan Oretor tour MS2 00 per dure FAC8 Caprtal Reducbon Scheme to reduce pat value of shares from 50
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2241 23 Reuter TOKYO stocks yesterday closed firmer for the first time in six trading days. Traders said most participants ignored developments in the Gull in particular and overseas in general and concentrated on corporate earnings over the past year and other domestic
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2032 23 Reuter INSTITUTIONAL buying of blue chips and generally positive sentiment boosted share prices to close firmer in quiet trade yesterday, brokers said. "The sentiment is very positive, with many investors thinking the market can go higher," said Percy Au-young, research manager of DBS Securities.
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Sharp rally in bonds boosts Aussie stocks
      • 928 24 AFTER a shaky start, the Australian sharemarket bounced to a stronger close yesterday as buyers took heart following a sharp rally in the bond market. The All Ordinaries Index surged 18.4 points to 1,320.2. Brokers said interest in equities was revived by sinking bond yields. Bond prices reached a
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      • 710 24 BANGKOK stocks closed broadly higher in heavy trade for the eighth straight session yesterday but prices ended off their highs on late profit-taking. The SET Index closed 15.43 points higher at 692.29 on a four billion baht turnover after the indicator gained 20 points halfway through the session. "The
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      • 584 24 PFIILIPPINE shares resumed their upward climb yesterday on cautious optimism of an ultimate Allied victory in the Gulf war, brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 19.76 points to end at 758.86 from last Friday's close of 739.10. "We are seeing that people are still confident in
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      • 376 24 TAIWAN shares rose across the board yesterday as the market extended Saturday's slight gains, but dealers said most investors were still waiting for the next move by big players. The Weighted Index gained 98.31 points, or 2.4 per cent, to close at 4,124.32 compared with Saturday's 4,026.01 finish. Turnover
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      • 81 24 NEW ZEALAND shares yesterday continued last week's momentum to end higher. "Volumes are increasing, overseas interest is increasing, confidence has risen, bond prices have rallied the market continued along the samevein as last week." Peter Halligan Oi Buttle Wilson said. The Barclays Index rose 13.05 points to end
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      • 757 24 SEOUL share prices inched down in extremely thin trading yesterday due to lingering concerns over economic uncertainty and a protracted war in the Gulf. The Composite Index slid 1.93 per cent to finish at 632.79. Declines led advances 321 to 205 of the 717 issues traded. Volume stood at
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      • 73 24 BOMBAY share prices finished sharpty up on widespread buying by state-ruiv mutual funds yesterday. The Bombay Stock Exchange Index rallied 30.09 points to 1,052.04. The National Index firmed 16.26 to 531.21. "It was a one-way rally," said broker Ramnik Parikh. "There weren't any sellers." But he was cautious on
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      • 1076 24 Close Prr>to«n K«b 4 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1,320.2 1,301.8 18.4 All Industrials Index 2,067.6 2,038 5 >29.1 All Resoua-es Index 751.4 741.0 +10.4 Turnover (million) 63.22 79.48 -16.26 BANGKOK SET Index 692 29 676 86 +15 43 Tumovcftmillion bah!) 4,000 3,400 f600 JAKARTA Composite Index NA 383.63 MANILA Composite
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 959 25  -  Sang Kancil decides to abandon trend trading strategy for the time being THE S KAN CIL By David Gabriel Using technical methods, the Sang Kancil weekly report tracks the profit/loss position of a $50,000 deposit, leveraged up to 10 times, for trading in a
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    • 464 25 STERLING fell sharply against the mark in volatile trade in Frankfurt early yesterday, under pressure from remarks by Bundesbank president Karl Otto Poehl who said mark instability could lead to a collapse of Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism. The pound dropped as low as 2.8935 marks
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    • 1044 25 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol Mar 91 93.26 93 29 93.24 93.28 ***** ***** 6405 Jun 91 93.25 93.32 93.25 93.31 ***** ***** 3886 Sep 91 93.10 93.17 93.09 93.15 3000 4244 959 Dec 91 92.73 92.81 92.73 92 80 2000 4465 635
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    • 397 25 Cross rates Feb 4 1—n i 1 US$ S$ MS Din Yon Sir AS NZ$ USS 1.7260 2.6950 1.4690 131.35 0.5065 1.2540 1.2771 1.6667 SS 0.5794 1.5614 0.8511 0.7610 0.2934 0.7265 0.7399 0.9656 MS 0.3711 64.04 0.5451 0.4874 0.1879 0.4653 0.4739 0.6184 Dm 0.6807 1.1749 1.8346 89.41
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    • 567 25 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 4 1/4 4 3/8 1-month 4 7/16 4 9/16 2 month 4 9/16 4 11/16 3-month 4 9/16 4 11/16 Overnight mode: 4-5/16 LS$ Bid Offer 7 days 6 9/16 6 11/16 1 month 6 1/2 6 5/8 2 months 6 5/8
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 515 26 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA is discovering its short-term oil production limit is more like nine million barrels per day (bpd) than the 8.5 million it reckoned on two months ago, a Gulf oil industry source said. But testing the claim will have to wait.
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    • 300 26 Reuter MERCHANTS, producers and analysts say last Friday's opening of the London Metal Exchange's (LME) first US warehouse could prove helpful to the LME and the US aluminium industry. "This is a very positive, constructive development," said Fred Demler, metals and mineral economist at PaineWebber
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    • 852 26 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market fell 23 sen yesterday to a new 51-month low of M 514.72 per kg on selling pressure. The previous lowest level reached was on Oct 20, 1986, when the price fell
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  • 1438 26 Rubber fcm f MS (h» In ta>w) S cenls/kg Noon Close Inl I KSS I'mnipl 145.25/146 25N I4525/I4625N p Inl I KSS Mar 91 I47.«VI47 50 147.***** 50 N Inl I KSS Apr 148 25/148.75 148 25/148 75 p Inl 2 KSS OP I42.75/I44.75N 142.75/144 75N Inl 3 KSS
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    • 830 26 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND RUDY HADISUWARNO hairdressing salon PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting ot the Company duly convened and held at 143 Cecil Street #09 03 GB Building Singapore 0106 on the 29th January 1991, the following
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    • 650 26 In the Matter of The Companies Act, Cap. Si and In the Matter at FOLKWAYS TRADINt. (PTE)LTD (Members' Voluntary Liquidation) KINAL MKETINO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap. 50 that the Final General Meeting of the Members of Folkways Trading (Pte) Ltd will
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 873 27  -  LETTER FROM LOS ANGELES By 1 Robert Reinhold THE old Brown Derby restaurant is gone, and so is Schwab's Drug Store. Pickfair and the Pan Pacific Auditorium. And now the Formosa Cafe, once the hangout of Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Douglas Fairbanks and
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    • 143 27 As at 3pm yesterday: I>oail dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3390 1.3690 Canadian dollar 1.4730 1.4930 NZ dollar 1.0210 1.0610 Sterling pound 3.3850 3.4050 US dollar 1.7190 1.7290 Iyocal dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 16.50 17.20
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    • 209 27 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Forecast: Maximum temperature 31.6 Assoc humidity 66% Minimum temperature 24.4° C Assoc humidity 93% Hours of sunshine 4.50 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 2.1 Rainy days this month I World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/IjO* Cond. Auckland 22/14 Fair Bangkok 32/21
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    • 58 27 HOLE) ON— UJO CMOANING rro PF.D UP NOT PI_AY fVT BRistop J orfLV Rm I sHOUJeD UNPeR USITH -n I Vv °fOU)M UjORK BUT vrn HRVINO iT SICK "Tt> Coßc. UMTVt "TUPO" mpiUrJG&RINGj Sj\ |C 1 rtKlft JO ME. 5' U)OR< RS U)eu r L__ \\v) 1 \U 8363 O
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  • 315 28 Move to ensure long-term supply of oil to M'sia Bernama PETRONAS will offer new exploration blocks in deep-sea waters towards the year-end once it has finalised exploration terms by June, its president Tan Sri Azizan Zainul Abidin said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. This,
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  • 350 28  -  From Magdalene Ng in ACAPULCO WITHOUT a free trade agreement with the US, Mexico may take six to eight years to reach its economic growth targets instead of just two to three years, reckons Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The
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  • 352 28 ISRAEL'S withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank will be a contributory factor to peace in the Middle East and stability in the new balance of power once the Gulf War is over, says Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Speaking to
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  • 152 28 AFP VIETNAM'S top economic planners are holding talks in Kuala Lumpur with their counterparts from Malaysia, South Korea and Indonesia on how to manage Hanoi's tentative moves towards a free market economy. World Bank officials said yesterday that Vietnam's first Deputy Premier Vo
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  • 467 28  -  From Kenneth James in DAVOS CONSENSUS "remains intact" for a successful conclusion of the nearly-aborted Uruguay Round of trade liberalisation talks, the head of the world's main trade-regu-lating body said yesterday. Arthur Dunkel, the direc-tor-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt),
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  • 352 28 NYT SOME ITEMS in US President George Bush's 1992 budget, which was to be made public late yesterday, will be worth careful scrutiny. Others can be safely ignored. One figure that is not worth much attention is the projection that the deficit for the
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  • 687 28  -  The Bottom Line ALVIN TAY ALVIN TAY The writer is one of BT's Mens Editors WITH PRIME lending rates of the Big Four local banks having come down by half a percentage point in the past three months, some home owners
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  • Shipping Times
    • 403 29  -  By Selva Kumar THE EUROPEAN Shippers' Council (ESC) has queried the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) on its latest Gulf surcharge at a meeting held in London last Thursday. An FEFC press release last Saturday said the ESC had accepted the Conference's right to
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    • 228 29 SEMBAWANG Aviation has launched a joint venture with a Beijing-based company to market Chinese made commercial aircraft within the Asia-Pacific region. The joint venture, CA-TIC-Sembawang Aviation Development Company, a 50-50 tie-up between Sembawang Aviation and the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC),
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    • 192 29 NYT NEW YORK City's human rights commissioner said on Sunday that Pan American World Airways' new policy of excluding all Iraqis from its flights was "shameful". Commissioner Dennis de was speaking after the city's Human Rights Commission, which he heads, subpoenaed the company's chief executive
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    • 142 29 AFP CHINA created a new airline on Friday as it continued to decentralise the flight operations of its civil aviation authority, the official Xinhua news agency reported. China Southern Airlines, based in Guangzhou, operates more than 80 domestic and international routes.
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    • 377 29 THAI Airways International is now listed among the 20 largest scheduled airline companies in the world, having achieved record freightage in 1990. Its cargo traffic grew 38 per cent for the financial year ended September 1990, more
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    • 370 29  -  By Khaidir Abd Majid THE RECENT PURCHASE of Interflow, the Londonbased tank container operator, by Nippon Riku-Un Sangyo (NRS) of Japan is expected to give its regional agent in Malaysia a bigger share of the tank container throughput to Japan. Port Klang-based
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    • 249 29 TRAVEL AGENTS in Singapore can now be sure that all airfares displayed by the Abacus system are correct and accurate. Singapore-based computer reservations systems (CRS) company Abacus Distribution Systems said yesterday: "Abacus will guarantee that all fares calculated for the respective itineraries are accurate
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 99 29 THE AIRLINE industry has a lot of excess baggage to tote around these days too bad it's not on the planes. Since the Gulf war began, worries about acts of terror have combined with The anaemic world economy and usual off-season sluggishness to
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      • 52 29 THE GULF WAR has sabotaged Gulf Air. putting a bil-lion-dollar expansion plan in jeopardy just as the airline was recovering from the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. "We really have suffered a lot," observed new Gulf Air president and chief executive Salim Bin Ali Assiyabi
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      • 58 29 FRIDAY night's collision at Los Angeles International Airport was the second fatal runway accident involving a USAir Boeing 737 in 17 months, but safety experts said the crashes appeared very different and that there was no indication so far that USAir or its
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 93 30 SHIPBROKING expert William Packard will conduct two seminars at the ANA Hotel in Singapore, jointly organised b\ Merchant Prospect ot the UK and SC Lim Management Services. In the first seminar, Shipping Pools, to be held on May 7, he will explain the benefits
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      • 76 30 MIDDLE EAST airline Emirates will resume operations to Jeddah from tomorrow. The twice-weekly service will leave Dubai on Wednesdays and Fridays at 1505 hours and arrive at Jeddah at 1700 hours local time. The return flight will leave Jeddah at 1825, landing at Dubai at 2150
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      • 59 30 THE JAPAN Seamen's Union has rejected a request by oil importers to ease a ban on ships sailing to Saudi Arabian ports in the Gulf to take on crude deliveries, Japan Shipowners Association officials said. The officials said the union recalled that two Japanese seamen
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      • 79 30 FRENCH state-owned airline Air France said it would vary at 24 hours notice surcharges it has imposed on flights to the East Mediterranean and Middle East. Air France said that the precise amount of each tariff will be fixed in relation to the insurance surcharge on
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      • 42 30 DEUTSCHE Aerospace AG (Dasa), the aerospace unit of Daimler-Benz, said its operating results and those of all its subsidiaries in 1990 were "predominantly positive". Dasa's management board chairman Juergen Schrempp said he was quite satisfied with its finances.
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      • 67 30 PANAM CORP said it still hopes to close the sale of its London routes to UAL Corp by mid-February despite US transport authorities' moves to end talks with their British counterparts on the issue. A PanAm spokesman said the end of the talks on trans-Atlantic air routes
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      • 53 30 THE US Department of Transportation approved transferring the Chicago to London air route now operated by Trans World Airlines to American Airlines Inc. The Transportation Department said the US$llO million (S$ 189.2 million) cash infusion TWA will get from the route sale could help bolster the
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    • 1332 30  -  International air traffic has fallen by as much as one-third since the Gulf war began. Nevertheless, investors see better days ahead, reports Conrad de Aenlle Conrad de Aenlle IHT THE AIRLINE industry has a lot of excess baggage
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    • 982 30 Feb 3-5: ICAA/AOCI Conference on Competition in the European and Asia/Pacific Air Transport markets, organised by ICAA European Community Bureau, The Oriental. Singapore. Feb 6-8: World Trade and Transport Exhibition, organised by World Trade Promotions Ltd, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Feb 6-9: Asian Civil Aviation Airport
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    • 12970 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around 1 the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the j ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for
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    • 3281 43 A l\lK Containertine NV: Belsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PKyPN) Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg(S). Albatrus Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd (S).
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    • 250 43 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: *****98. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: *****44 Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: *****16, *****80. Airawift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188 Fax: *****83. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines), 747-7421. Fax: *****75. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: *****50. Cluster Link Supplies Services Tel:
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    • 1493 43 Abe* Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Actirair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. AeroUnk Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aerosoccd Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air
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    • 3212 44 ARGENTINA San I orvn/o. Six vessels in port of which 4 loading pelleti/cd meal. I loading grain. I loading vegetable oil, 4 vessels in roads awaiting berth of which 3 to load pellets. 1 to load grain, sailing draft reduced to approx 21 ft 4 in. Rosario: Four
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    • 535 44 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type FTP T To TODAY TODAY JAL JL6I7 B747F 0200 I NRT SI A SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0220 I SEL FDX FM66 B747F 0300 I BKK/HKG/ NCA KZ205 B747F 0310 I NRT
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    • 551 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES VESSELS SOLD FOR FURTHER TRADING Some of the sales reported below may not be final as they may be subject to survey, inspection or other conditions before completion. Tankers Anito: 155,505 dwt and built 1976, sold to French interests for about US$l7 million. The buyers are
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    • 395 44 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dep Name of Vessel ETA FIT) Ports of Calls Port Agent FEBRUARY 08 08 Cora Princess 1000 1800 Sin-Jakarta Sembawang Johnson 08 08 Vignesswara 1000 2000 Cruise-To-Nowhere Greenseas Shipping 09 09 Vignesswara 0700 1800 Cruise-To-Now here Greenseas Shipping 10 10 Vignesswara 0730 1730 Cmisc-To-Nowhere
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      • 642 45 Vtud Voy No Barth Armal Dtpartu* Keppei Wharves Continent 1 2/91 K33 alongside 0502/1230 Cora Pcess 003 (P) K29 04 02/1800 Kota Bertan 3/91 K31 alongsde 05 02/0600 Kota Wirama E 884 K32 alongside 05 02/2300 Leona 1 K34 alongside 0802/2300 Siti Aienna 1 K30 alongside 05
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      • 1286 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookinf/Balance Rilb Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX Jade 33A 06/1500 2 04/1700 05/0659 05/0900 3 05/0700 05/1159 05/1400 4 05/1200 05/1459 05/1700 ACX Lily 7A 05/1500 1 04/1500 04/1659 04/1900 Al Waiba 57A 06/0900 2
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      • 359 45 Port Klang Berth at South Port on Feb 4: 1; Global Neptune; 2 Chariot Venture L; 3: Sang Thai Silver, Kinryu; 4: ml; 5: nil; 6 New Line No 1; 7: Mutia Hayu; 7A: Hong Soon J Shell: ml. KCT: 8: Bunga Seroia; 9 Bunga Raya, 10:
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    • 1138 45 CHARTERING on the dry cargo freight market on Friday featured active time-char-ter business including Soviet bookings and firmer trans-Pacific Panamax fixings, brokers said. There was also talk circulating that a grain house had paid a firmer rate equivalent to about U5515.50 on the key US Gulf to Europe
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    • 613 46 Plans for expansion after Iran-Iraq war now in jeopardy THE war Reuter THK GULF WAR has sabotaged Gulf Air. putting a bil-lion-dollar expansion plan in jeopardy just as the airline was recovering from the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. Gulf Air president and chief executive
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    • 418 46 NYT FRIDAY night's collision at Los Angeles International Airport was the second fatal runway accident involving a USAir Boeing 737 in 17 months, but safety experts said on Saturday that the crashes appeared very different and that there was no indication
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    • 1749 35 7 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: UK/EUROPE SERVICE— *****19 USA SERVICE— *****16 mmm AUST INOIA/PAK SERVICE— *****18 FAR EAST SERVICE— *****48\ TERMINAL OFFICE :*****22 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/ *****14 CFS: K27-IMPORT: *****69/*****50 CFS: K27 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 .1 K L P (O3) E 26I^X *****87. Penang
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    • 1501 37 giasPff PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD gj M fIV p,l Building, 140 Cecil Street »03-00. Singapore 0106. I JAKARTA "1 I BANGKOK U VESSEL VOV SIN JKT SIN PEGASUS PROGRESS 6MN 10/2 U^2 KOTA PANJANG 9106 11/2 13/2 M!?HUY PR GRESS ,ios 7/2 10/2 14/2 MAJAPAHIT 9102 11/2 13/2 SEA
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