The Business Times, 11 February 1991

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    11 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Monday February 11 1991 75 <t
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
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      Japanese workers' wages up 5.4pc last year
      75 1 THE average real growth rate of Japanese workers' wages grew 5.4 per cent last year, the sharpest increase in nine years. The labour ministry report, released yesterday, showed monthly wages, excluding bonuses, averaged U552,871, up 5.4 per cent from 1989 in real terms,
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      All reaps benefits
      25 1 LOCAL FIRM American International Industries (All) is finding that there are business opportunities to be tapped in the Gulf war Page 2
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      Comprehensive plan
      27 1 A FIVE-YEAR PLAN to improve the Malay/Muslim community's performance should cover its educational, social and economic advancement, says Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Page 2
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      Overseeing Timor Gap
      27 1 INDONESIA and Australia have set up a joint authority to oversee exploitation of resources in the potentially oil- and gas-rich Timor Gap Page 7
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      HK property rebound
      35 1 HONGKONG'S property market seems to be pulling out of a recent slump and many in the sector are looking optimistically at 1991 to put the oncebooming market back on track Page 7
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      Bush plan previewed
      34 1 US PRESIDENT George Bush is proposing only modest incentives for conservation, but wants domestic oil output stimulated and nuclear power revitalised, according to draft documents of his energy strategy Page 8
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      Deming rediscovered
      21 1 A TRIO of reverential new books have been published to celebrate quality guru Edwards Deming's management principles Page 13
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      Touching art
      23 1 AT the Runnymede Sculpture Farm in Woodside. San Francisco, visitors both young and old can interact naturally with art Page 17
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      Bunker price falls
      37 1 THE PRICE of bunker, or ship fuel, has fallen over the last two weeks, reflecting the ample supply available in the major bunkering centres of the world, including Singapore. Shipping l imes Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
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      Launch set for May
      32 1 BANDAR RAYA Development Bhd, the property-based associate of Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd, will launch the first phase of its billion-ringgit Capital Square project in May this year Page 3
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      Surprise, surprise
      36 1 A SURPRISE MOVE by General Lumber (Holdings) to dispose of its entire 30.23 per cent stake in Nanyang Press (M) has given rise to a possible takeover of the newly-listed publishing company. Page 3
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      SHK prefers ventures
      31 1 SUN HUNG KAI Securities prefers joint ventures with local stockbroking firms to the soon-to-be-introduced Stock Exchange of Singapore international membership, says an official of the firm Page 3
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      First Pac undaunted
      34 1 FIRST PACIFIC Bank is considering syndicating HK.S6OO million worth of its home mortgage loans to other banks in spite of the disappointing result of a similar issue by Citibank Page 4
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      Credit crunch worsens
      25 1 THE US 'credit crunch' is still worsening, according to the latest survey of bank lending practices by the Federal Reserve Page 6
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      STOCK INDICES
      27 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 628.10 -2.03 Kuala Lumpur ....518.93 -0.57 Hongkong 3,359.09 +25.11 Tokyo 24,296.08 +191.65 Sydney 1,341.4 -2.9 New York 2,830.69 +20.05 London 2,245.2 +1.5
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      CURRENCIES
      18 1 Exchange rates USS SSI.7140 100 Yen SSI.3359 SS0.6365 Money market rates Overnight 4-1/4% -1/4 3-month 4-5/8 +1/16
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      COMMODITIES
      36 1 London Gold PM fix USS370.00 US$6.50 Rubber S'pore Mar 144.75Vkg unch M'sia Mar 228.50*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 24 tonnes-1 Spot MS 14.77/kg +0.05 Crude palm oil Turnover 530 lots -603 Feb MS838 /tonne -1
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    Malaysian telecom sector looks set for boom time
    560 1  -  Tremendous growth prospects fiiel investor interest From William Chia in KUALA LUMPUR THE FAST-GROWING telecommunication sector is edging out construction to become the hottest investment theme in Malaysia. Investor interest in this sector received a boost from the listing of state-controlled telecommunications
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    Guarded welcome for Anwar
    633 1  -  Finance minister-designate must win businessmen's confidence From James Shyong in KUALA LUMPUR THE BUSINESS community in Malaysia says an immediate task of Datuk Sen Anwar Ibrahim, who will take over as his country's finance minister on March 15, will be to win its confidence. Most of
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    Lock icon Iraq rebuffs ceasefire call; delay to ground battle unlikely
    367 1 THE GULF .WAR Agencies IRAQ has ruled out a ceasefire in the Gulf conflict and called on Arab states to rally against what it called US aggression aimed at dominating the region. "Iraq rejects any attempt to establish a ceasefire in
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    Banks welcome approval for satellite dishes
    415 1  -  b* Magdalene Ng LOCAL FINANCIAL institutions welcome the government's move to allow them to install satellite dishes and thus gain immediate access to the latest news on the Gulf war. But they would prefer that everyone in Singapore have such access. They also feel
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    Lock icon KL ready to help Hanoi economy
    183 1 Bernama MALAYSIA is prepared to help Vietnam reconstruct its economy, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said yesterday. Economic recovery would allow Vietnam to mitigate the problem of its people leaving the country, some of whom Malaysia has had to shelter. "It is not
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      19 1 Mideast peace plan must come from region: Hurd, Pg 10 China looks ahead to post-war Gulf markets, Back Pg
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      145 1 Dulux THE BETTER PAINT Stanchart's Hanoi office to play crucial role, Pg 6 HOW TO STAY ONE STEP AHEAD In business, being punctual is always important, especially when a major proposal is being presented to the board, or an international contract is at stake. You can't afford to be late.
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Ministry studying NTUC proposal
        101 2 ABOUR Minister Lee Yock Suan is studying the proposal v the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to change ie laws that prevent executives from joining or remaining in nions He said the problem stems from the confusion over ie term "executive". Some employers give executive job
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        Sempati to increase flights
        45 2 INDONESIA'S privately-owned Sempati Air, which started t aily tlights to Singapore from Jakarta last Friday, plans to i lcrease its flights to twice a day from next month. Sempati's resident-director, Hasan M Soedjono, said the airline would he targeting business travellers.
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        Community hospitals
        92 2 THE new chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health, Dr Hong Hai, has said that community I ospitals will help reduce the demand for subsidised beds in {overnment hospitals and might be a less costly way of caring I >r the elderly. He added that most patients
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        Vigilant outlook
        81 2 «)UTLOOK, the in-house newspaper for the Singapore Air--1 nes Group, has reported that a "fraud squad" and a staff icward scheme saved SIA hundreds of thousands of dollars l ist year by stopping counterfeit tickets from getting through, it said the staff are able to spot errant ticket
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        Night banking for Bishan
        70 2 'HE night banking service introduced by the United Overseas Hank (UOB) Group at the newly-relocated Chung Khiaw Hank (CK.E) Bishan Branch will begin operations from today. The service, the first for the UOB group in Singapore, is offered every Wednesday from 9.30 am to B.oopm for
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        More health-conscious
        51 2 4TLIC secretary-general Ong Teng Cheong said yesterday that heakh-conscious and affluent Singaporeans are spending more on sports and recreational activities in their leisure time. Mr «)ng, who was speaking at the NTUC Inaugural Shooting at the Singapore Gun Club, said the NTUC Sports Secretariat reviews its sports programmes
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        Ignore crank calls
        50 2 t HE Singapore Cancer Society has denied that its members ire conducting a public survey through telephone calls in vhich questions asked were personal and embarrassing. The ociety has advised members of the public to ignore such auisance calls from people who claim to be its members.
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      All sets up Soviet-ME marketing link
      396 2  -  By Jean Wee, Dexter Lee LOCAL FIRM American International Industries (All) is finding that there are business opportunities to be tapped in the Gulf War. All, owned by former Intraco director Baey Lian Peck, has established a marketing network to sell raw materials, like
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      All Marketing takes over business of Nadstar
      258 2 All MARKETING was established last month to take over the business of Nadstar, an Australian company which had developed a sales network across the Soviet Union. One of Nadstar's biggest deals recently was the leasing of four heavy-lift Soviet helicopters worth US$lOO million
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      PM on 5-year plan to improve Malay/Muslim community
      255 2 A FIVE-YEAR PLAN to improve the Malay/Muslim community's performance should cover its educational, social and economic advancement, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. Speaking to reporters after presenting hong baos and hampers to 20 needy people in the Marine Parade constituency,
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
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      Bandar Raya launching M$1b project
      573 3  -  First phase of Capital Square development in KL's Central Business District will begin in May From William Chia in KUALA LUMPUR mt N D n? RAYA Developko j the propertyoased associate of Malaysian conglomerate Multi-Purpose oldmgs Bhd, will launch me tirst phase of its billionpnggit
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      Sun Hung Kai not keen on SES international membership: official
      268 3  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SUN HUNG KAI Securities prefers joint ventures with local stockbroking firms to the soon-to-be-introduced Stock Exchange of Singapore international membership, according to a senior official of the Hongkong-based broker. Sun Hung Kai's vice-pres-ident for Hongkong stocks,
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      Lock icon Mabuchi factory will make Malaysia a major world supplier of micro-motors
      483 3 Bernama MABUCHI Motor (M) Sdn Bhd is to make Malaysia one of the world's main suppliers of micro-motors, used in motorised toys and electronics items, through its multi-mil-lion ringgit factory near Ipoh. Its managing director, Raymond Sun, said the
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      Lock icon Rubber body renamed Mardec Bhd in move towards privatisation
      389 3 Bernama THE Malaysian Rubber Development Corporation Malaysia Berhad, or Mardec, a company established in 1971, has changed its name to Mardec Berhad in a move towards privatising the government corporation. In launching the new name and logo of Mardec Berhad in
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      G Lumber's sale of Nanyang stake gives rise to speculation
      406 3  -  By Lee Han Shih A SURPRISE MOVE by General Lumber (Holdings) to dispose of its entire 30.23 per cent stake in Nanyang Press (Malaya) has given rise to a possible takeover of the newly-listed publishing company. According to the Malaysian
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Burmese-Singapore venture to mine gravel
        59 3 BURMESE authorities signed a joint-venture agreement on Friday with a Singapore firm to mine and market gravel, the official Radio Rangoon said. The radio, in a despatch monitored in Bangkok, said the joint-venture company was formed by state-run Myanmar Mining Enterprise and the Singapore-based EC
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        Datuk Yap to quit as IGB MD
        135 3 IGB CORP has announced that Datuk Yap Lim Sen will be retiring as managing director at its forthcoming annual general meeting and will be succeeded by Tan Boon Seng, who was recently appointed executive director. Mr Tan has been a director and a
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        Trading in new MWE shares
        106 3 MWE HOLDINGS said its additional 29.88 million new shares of Msl each issued at M 52.10 a piece pursuant to the l-for-2 rights issue will be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange from Tuesday. The new shares will not be entitled to any dividend
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        Kanura plans to spread network
        59 3 KANURA. a direct sales company for household items, plans to increases the number of its distributors to 5,000 this year and the next, the company said on Friday. The plan is aimed at improving its marketing efforts for Emarhome. a liquid cleanser. The company said
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        Cheras toll company sold
        37 3 SYARIKAT Teratai (STKG), which holds the concession to collect toll at Cheras in Kuala Lumpur, has been sold to Metro Juara. It disclosed in December that the Malaysian government had requested the sale.
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Caltex to spruce up petrol kiosks in HK
        60 4 CALTEX OIL HONGKONG LTD said it will invest HK.SSOO million to expand and modernise its service stations in Hongkong this year. Caltex, which operates more than 100 service stations in the colony, will open seven new outlets by the end of the
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        Jardine Strategic doing better
        58 4 JARDINE STRATEGIC HOLDINGS LTD said its unaudited consolidated net asset value (NAV) as of Jan 31, 1991 stood at HK526.02 per ordinary and preferred ordinary share, compared with HK525.22 a month earlier. On a fully diluted basis, assuming conversion of all outstanding 331,199 convertible cumulative preference
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        Lucky-Goldstar's Soviet venture
        47 4 SOUTH KOREA'S Lucky-Goldstar Group will take part in a US$4 billion project to expand petrochemical and oil refining facilities in the Soviet Union. The group has exchanged a letter of intent with the Soviet Ministry of Chemical and Oil Refining Industries for the project.
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        Seoul detains labour activists
        101 4 SIXTY-NINE labour activists were detained yesterday after discussing steps to support strikers at South Korea s second largest shipyard, Yonhap News Agency said. Yonhap said police took away the activists when they were due to leave a conference hall in the city of Uijongbu, north of
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      First Pacific Bank may sell loans worth HK$600m
      455 4 FIRST PACIFIC Bank is considering syndicating HK$6OO million (Ssl 32 million) worth of its home mortgage loans to other banks in spite of the disappointing result of a similar issue by Citibank. Citibank's issue of HKSSOO million last October marked the first
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      Thai petrochem group to invest in China, M'sia
      313 4 THE THAI Petrochemical Industry Group (TPI) is preparing to invest substantially in two large-scale projects in China and Malaysia for petrochemical products and titanium dioxide. According to a report in The Nation, if the group reaches final agreement with the Chinese and
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      Lock icon Suspect of Jakarta bourse scam nabbed
      171 4 AFP INDONESIAN POLICL have arrested the director of a broking firm suspected of masterminding an alleged fraud scam on the Jakarta stock exchange. The daily Kompas quoted Jakarta police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Latief Rabar as saying that Sutrisno, 50, director of PT Wira Unggul Securitas,
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      Lock icon Chinese steel firm eyes plants in S-E Asia
      118 4 AFP CHINA'S Capital Iron and Steel Corp is looking to set up its first overseas plants in the Philippines and Thailand, according to a pro-Beijing newspaper in Hongkong. Zhou Guanwu, the chairman of giant Beijing-based state enterprise, said talks to set up
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      Lock icon Volkswagen enters venture in China
      138 4 Reuter VOLKSWAGEN AG and China's First Automobile Works have established China's largest joint car venture in the northeastern city of Changchun, according to a Hongkong newspaper. The 4.2 billion renminbi (about S$ 1.37 billion) project will turn out 60,000 cars annually when production begins in
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      Lock icon Itoman to announce restructuring plan by end of month
      212 4 Reuter JAPAN'S Itoman Corp, which plunged into crisis due to excessive investment in property development, is likely to announce its latest restructuring programme by the end of February, according to a company spokesman. "We are working on a new restructuring plan
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      248 4 Strike cripples Daewoo Shipbuilding, Shipping Times, Pg 1 y w&*>/^^HI -Pautomatic chronograph GP 7000 This new chronograph has a mechanical, self winding movement. Its water resistant case is available in a variety of combinations, such as steel with yellow gold, steel with pink gold, as well as 18k yellow or
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Thorn-EMI gains control of Thames TV
      504 5 Takeover strengthens London television group NYT HORN-EM I pic announced over the weekend that it had token control of Thames Television pic, preparing a defence of the lucrative London franchise against foreign and domestic bidders. The offer values all of Thames at £149 million
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      Lock icon Sucden's chairman cedes day-to-day trading control
      341 5 Reuter SERGE VARSANO, chairman and 80 per cent owner of France's Sucres et Denrees (Sucden), is letting go of day-to-day operations of the commodities trade house, which probably lost money in 1990, according to a senior Sucden executive. Trade sources said the shift in
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      Lock icon Pickens' oil group to sell 11pc of gas reserves for US$275m
      473 5 NYT MESA LTD Partnership, the oil and gas company headed by T Boone Pickens, has agreed to sell 11 per cent of its natural gas reserves for US$275 million (about Ss46B million) in cash. The properties will be acquired
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        US computer makers to take on the big boys
        89 5 A GROUP of American computer makers and software publishers, led by Microsoft Corp, Compaq Computer Corp and Digital Equipment Corp, is nearing agreement to develop a new personal computer that can challenge industry leaders by the middle of the decade. The
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        Shearson ups ratings for banks
        63 5 SHEARSON LEHMAN BROTHERS analyst James Rosenberg has raised ratings on Citicorp and Continental Corp and initiated coverage of six money centre banks. Mr Rosenberg raised his Citicorp and Continental ratings to outperform from neutral. He also initiated coverage of Bank of New York Co Inc,
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        Pub merger gets underway
        56 5 A £1 BILLION-PLUS financing for Grand Metropolitan pic and Foster Brewing Ltd's pub deal is finally entering syndication. An official for joint arranger SG Warburg said: "The Inntrepreneur transaction is seeking underwriters." Foster's, via UK unit Courage Brewing Ltd, and Grand Met, plan to merge 8,500
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        UK-European stock index soon
        48 5 THE INTERNATIONAL Stock Exchange said it would launch on Feb 25 an FTSE Eurotrack 200 index, combining both UK and continental European stocks. The real-time FTSE Eurotrack index is the first pan-European index to have all its stocks traded in a single financial centre.
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        Adidas on the fast track again
        57 5 ADIDAS AG, the German sports goods maker taken over by French entrepreneur Bernard Tapie last year, said it expected group pre-tax profit of more than 76 million marks in 1990 after a pre-tax loss of 95.9 million marks in 1989. Adidas had extraordinary revenue
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        GM workers want huge pay rise
        63 5 ABOUT 2,600 WORKERS at the US-owned General Motors Corp vehicle assembly plant in Mexico City walked off the job last Saturday in a dispute over wages. The plant, which produces trucks for the Mexican market, was "completely paralysed", strike committee president Julian Tapia said.
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        Water plant unaffected by slick
        46 5 SAUDI ARABIAN oil company Saudi Aramco said its desalination plant at the Safaniyeh offshore oil field was running normally in spite of the Gulf War oil slicks. It said reports that the plant had been closed because of contamination were incorrect.
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        A lip-smacking proposal
        60 5 THE NESTLE CO said last Saturday it was setting up a "Pro Gastronomia" Foundation in connection with its 125 th birthday, with a share capital of 2.5 million Swiss francs. The purpose is to support professional training in the restaurant and hotel field, and to contribute to
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
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        Tokyo to activate bank deposit insurance system
        121 6 JAPAN'S long dormant deposit insurance system, designed to help prevent a banking crisis, may soon get its tirst practical test. But the system is more likely to be used to encourage weak banks to merge with strong ones than to pay ofl depositors'
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        UBS joins cash bond rate cuts
        77 6 UNION Bank of Switzerland (ÜBS) joined a second round of cash bond rate cuts started on Thursday by Swiss Bank Corp. The round is the second since Swiss money market rates began to ease last month. ÜBS said it was cutting all rates b\
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        NZ to go ahead with BNZ sale
        73 6 THE New Zealand government is going ahead with plans to sell its 63 per cent share holding in the troubled Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), State-Owned Enterprises Minister Doug Kidd said on Friday. The bank, which was put up for sale four years
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        No plan for EPF district offices
        66 6 THE Malaysian Finance Ministry does not plan to set up Employee's Provident Fund (EPF) offices in each district in the country, the Dewan Rakyat was told on Friday. However, in line with the EPFs aim to provide better service to employers and its contributors,
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        Dollar$ & Non$en$e
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      Lock icon US credit crunch getting worse, says Fed survey
      366 6 FT THE US "credit crunch", the apparent unwillingness of banks to lend, is still worsening, according to the latest survey of bank lending practices by the Federal Reserve, the US central bank. The Fed said a survey of senior loan officers in
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      Lock icon Stanchart banking on office in Hanoi to play crucial role
      322 6 Bernama IN VIEW OF the trade potential between Vietnam and Malaysia, Standard Chartered Bank says that its representative office in Ho Chi Minh City can play a crucial role in establishing contacts between businessmen of both countries. The chief executive
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      Lock icon FDIC may raise deposit insurance premiums
      375 6 Reuter THE FEDERAL Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) will decide later this month whether to increase banks' premium payments to pay for loans needed to replenish the agency's bank deposit insurance fund. The chairman of the FDIC, Mr William Seidman, says that the size of
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      Lock icon Bid to save state-owned South Australian bank
      165 6 Reuter THE GOVERNMENT of South Australia said on Sunday it will inject AS97O million (SSI.3 billion) into a state-owned bank which is facing potential losses of around Asl billion. State Bank of South Australia chairman David Simmons said a review of the bank
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      Lock icon Does Brady have enough political clout to push reforms?
      755 6 NYT NICHOLAS BRADY is facing the most difficult political battle of his two-and-a-half years as US Treasury Secretary. He has to persuade a sceptical and cautious Congress to approve the most far-reaching overhaul of American banking for more than 50 years.
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      Lock icon Plan to lure new capital into banking likely to find few takers: analysts
      645 6 NYT WHAT IF the US Treasury Department threw a party and nobody came? That could be the response to the department's proposal earlier last week to reshape the financial system by making the banking franchise more attractive
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  • THE REGION
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      Lock icon Joint Indon-Australian authority for Timor Gap
      324 7 Move to oversee exploitation of resources in area AFP INDONESIA and Australia have set up a joint authority to oversee exploitation of resources in the potentially oiland gas-rich Timor Gap, Indonesia's Antara news agency said yesterday. At a meeting of Indonesian and Australian ministers
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      Lock icon HK property market on road to recovery
      504 7 AFP HONGKONG'S property market seems to be pulling out of a recent slump and many in the sector are looking optimistically at 1991 to put the once-booming market back on track. The real estate market, a key economic barometer in the land-scarce British
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      Lock icon Tough bargaining expected at US bases talks in Manila
      438 7 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES and the US face tough bargaining over money this week as the long-time allies try to conclude a new agreement on the future of American bases in the country. The fifth round of talks, which began in May
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      Lock icon Australia may free wool market
      368 7 Reuter AUSTRALIA, which produces 85 per cent of the world's apparel wool, may scrap the regulated minimum price for the commodity and free up the market, Prime Minister Bob Hawke said in a television interview yesterday. "Quite clearly, the reserve price scheme is not working,"
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Business opportunities in Vietnam
        88 7 MALAYSIAN Export Trade Centre (Mexpo) director Rusdi Haji Salleh has suggested that Malaysian exporters invest more in Vietnam. He said there were plenty of business opportunities in that country which Malaysians were not aware of as there was a lack of information on them. The Vietnamese
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        Myanmar: Stop calling us Burma
        82 7 MYANMAR complained to the United Nations on Friday that members of the European Community persisted in calling it by its former name, Burma, instead of the Union of Myanmar, officially adopted in June 1989. The complaint came in a letter to Secretary-General Javier Perez de
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        Talks on Cambodia
        81 7 SENIOR Japanese diplomat Yukio Imagawa is scheduled to arrive in Phnom Penh on Wednesday for talks aimed at ending the war in Cambodia. Sources in the Cambodian capital said on Saturday that Mr Imagawa, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Thailand and fluent in Khmer (Cambodian),
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        Kelantan on Islamic dress code
        69 7 MALAYSIA'S north-eastern Kelantan state will advise foreign visitors to dress in line with its objective of implementing Islamic values. "Many foreign tourists come to Kelantan wearing revealing dress," the English language Sunday Star quoted Chief Minister Nik Aziz Nik Mat as saying yesterday. Kelantan is
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        Allegations 'ludicrous'
        64 7 THE Thai premier's son has dismissed as "ludicrous" anonymous allegations that he was involved in a reported 1984 plot to kill national leaders. Kraisak Choonhavan, son of Premier Chatichai Choonhavan, and Major General Manoon Roopkachorn, alleged leader of a 1985 coup bid, last week asked police to act
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  • THE WORLD
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        EC holding talks with E European nations
        103 8 THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION and experts from Czechoslovakia began talks last Friday on closer ties with the EC short of membership, a European Community spokesman announced in Brussels. Similar talks will also be held with Poland tomorrow and Hungary on Thursday. The Commission is
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        Call for Caribbean integration
        107 8 THE TINY tourist-dependent economies of the Caribbean islands must adopt a common tariff and other measures to compete with emerging trading blocs in Europe, North America and the Far East, say Caribbean Community (Caricom) officials. "On top of (economic integration elsewhere), the ripple effects of the
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        Soviet soldiers patrol 449 cities
        106 8 ALMOST 12,000 Soviet soldiers are patrolling 449 cities as part of a new security programme and the number could climb even higher, Moscow officials said last Friday. The patrols have been rejected by seven of the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics, and democratic reformers have
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        Leaking N-plant shuts down
        62 8 A NUCLEAR REACTOR in northern Japan automatically shut down last Saturday following a leak of radioactive water into other parts of the reactor. Officials of Kansai Electric Power Co, operator of the second nuclear reactor in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, said they had not detected high levels
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        IMF disputes Poland's budget
        92 8 EXPERTS from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have raised "objections" to Poland's proposed 1991 budget which they judge to be "unduly optimistic", reported the Warsaw daily Gazeta last Friday. The draft budget, which should be put before Parliament on Feb 14, allows for a deficit of
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        Indian PM rules out early polls
        81 8 INDIAN Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar has ruled out early elections in the country, which has had three governments in the last two years. "I don't see any possibility of elections immediately," he said in New Delhi last Friday. There has been press speculation that
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      490 8 Proposals emphasise production over conservation AP US PRESIDENT George Bush is proposing only modest incentives for conservation, but wants domestic oil production stimulated and nuclear power revitalised, according to draft documents of his energy strategy. The US government's long-awaited national energy plan is expected
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      Lock icon New US-Japan chip agreement likely
      503 8 NYT THE JAPANESE semiconductor industry believes some agreement aimed at opening the Japanese computer chip market is likely, in spite of publicly opposing a government plan to formulate a new pact with the US, according to government and industry sources in Tokyo. Officials of Japan's
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      Lock icon Sharp rise in China's industrial output fuels fears of inflation
      245 8 AFP CHINESE industrial production rose an alarming 23.9 per cent last month to U5533.74 billion (5557.70 billion) on a > ear-on-year basis, the country's State Statistics Bureau has announced. The output was up 38.2 per cent in terms of the
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      Lock icon US manufacturers seek pro-export policy
      452 8 NYT ARGUING that exports are the bright spot in an otherwise bleak economy, the US National Association of Manufacturers is urging the Bush administration to play a much more aggressive role in promoting the sale of American products abroad. The lobbying effort, outlined last Friday
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      587 8 AFP FOUR MONTHS after the two German states were unified, rapid economic recovery continues to escape the grasp of eastern Germany in the face of an economic and social crisis exacerbated by lack of confidence engendered by the Gulf war. "Daily life at
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      359 8 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Khoo Sim Hu* of Blk 103 Bishan Street 12 *05-276, Singapore 2057, have applied for a Public Howe first Class (extended) licence in respect of premises at M/i Shintaro Karaoke Lounge at Blk 921 Yishun Central #01-273 (2nd storey) Singapore 2776, and that
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      355 8 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Ho Choon Fong of Blk 309 #07-154 Serangoon Ave 2, Singapore 1955, have applied for a Second Class Beer House licence in respect of premises at M/s Hanchen Korean Eating House at 669 Geylang Road Lorong 35, Singapore 1438, and (hat this application
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  • THE GULF WAR
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      Lock icon Kuwait pledges US$1.3b to UK war effort
      228 10 AFP KUWAIT had decided to give Britain US$l3 billion as a contribution toward its Gulf war effort, says the British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. Mr Hurd arrived on Saturday in the Saudi capital of Riyadh from Taif, western Saudi Arabia, where he met
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      Lock icon Mideast peace plan must come from region: Hurd
      320 10 Britain seeks no long-term presence in the Gulf AFP BRITISH Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has denied that the West was seeking to decide the future of the Middle East after the end of the Gulf war. "I have no plan because the
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      Lock icon Turkey could be using water weapon
      418 10 AFP TURKEY'S decision to reduce the flow of the Euphrates for what it described as technical reasons has raised the possibility that Ankara's control of the river's headwaters could be used as a strategic weapon against Iraq. The Foreign Ministry said on Friday that
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      Lock icon Plans for rebuilding Iraq come under fire
      404 10 AFP CONGRESSIONAL leaders are challenging the Bush administration's plans for aiding Iraq's reconstruction and leading an effort to restore stability in the Middle East once the Gulf war ends. Secretary of State James Baker outlined the administration's strategy for rebuilding Iraq at appearances
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      Lock icon No plans to break US ties: Jordan
      187 10 Reuter JORDAN has denied it was considering breaking relations with the United States after Washington's move to review aid to the kingdom. Royal Court Chief Sharif Zaid Bin Shaker, in a statement to the official news agency Petra on Friday, said reports circulating
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      Lock icon War hurting Asian economies
      412 10 Most countries have lowered growth forecasts NYT THE WAR in the Persian Gulf is beginning to adversely affect Asian economies, some of which rely heavily on trade with Gulf countries, economic surveys show. Most countries now predict lower economic growth and larger trade deficits than they
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      Lock icon Airline competition rules will not be relaxed, says EC
      283 10 UPI THE airline industry's crisis stemming from reduced traffic during the Gulf war will not prompt a relaxation of European Community competition rules, the EC's top competition official has said. "The Community does not have the slightest intention of reviewing or
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      155 10 THE GROWTH TRIANGLE A Special Business Times Survey February 86, 1991 The Growth Triangle began casually as an idea. Singapore. Batam. Johor. Singapore has a rich pool of managerial talent. Batam and Johor are rich in natural resources, land and labour. Combine the three and they make a triangle of
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      14 10 \&SU \\i I Details in Business Times on February 13, 1991 I PfiM HoWingj
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      175 11 While others are raisingtheir prices, Federal Express is pleased to announce it's dropping theirs. As of February 1, 1991 we will have reduced our express rates to many of our destinations.* And though we've cut our prices, we haven't cut our service. In fact, we've just introduced the Federal Express
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  • ANALYSIS
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      Double trouble for the US economy
      1429 12 A war and a recession are not a good mix. The potion will be hard for Americans to swallow WAR abroad and recession at home: It's a combination that the US has never experienced. Economists are still grappling with how it is likely to
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      Lock icon Japanese workers gear up for spring offensive
      703 12 Asahi News Service JAPANESE unions are geared up for the muchstylised annual "spring offensive", when labour unions around the country issue demands for wage increases, fringe benefits and improved working conditions. The unions have scheduled this year's offensive to reach a climax in
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      127 12 S H A D E S OF L O V E. ONLY FROM R A Y B A N. Rayban Wayfarer Limited, Round Metals Tortuga/'Leathers, Traditionals II, Bravura, Leathers. I hese Ravban models will make the perfect gift for your valentine. Because each of these models arc classics in their
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
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      Lock icon They call him Mr Quality
      853 13  -  John Byrne reviews the latest offerings on the prophet of quality, Edwards Deming John Byrne YOU can't turn on the television set or open a magazine these days without hearing or reading about quality. General Motors Corp trumpets that its Cadillac division has won a
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      MEMOPAD
      325 13 Seminars and courses Duration ride Venue Onprniser Tel Jan 8 Program SMA House The *****87 Mar 12 Certificate In Manufacturers Purchasing Skills Association Jan 14 Training Within SMA House Singapore *****66 Mar 4 Industry For Manufacturing Supervisors Association Jan 15- Import Export SMA House Singapore *****66 Mar 19 Documentation
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      Great thoughts that go into training a great crew
      448 13 At the foundation stone laying ceremony for the $80 million SIA Training Centre recently, SlA's managing director Dr Cheong Choong Kong spoke on the national airline's training philosophy. Here are extracts from his speech WHAT is SlA's training philosophy? Dr Cheong
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      Getting it straight from the customers
      433 13  -  Chuang Peck Ming reports on quality management at Mobil Chuang Peck Ming STAFF at Mobil Oil Singapore from the chief executive right down to the dispatch boy will get out of the office to meet face to face with customers at least twice a
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      32 13 Management Consultancy S|/ I I T r 1/ Seminars And Training IK I I I I Business Assistance I L L I "L l\ Manpower Recruitment CONSULT ANTS Business Centre Direct Mailing
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      187 13 Thto announcement appears at a miner of record only UOB AUSTRALIA LIMITED (Incorporated wth Limited UaMfty in the State of New South Wataa. Auatrata and a Whoty-owned Merchant Banking Subsidiary of United Oversees Bank Umtod) A 5100,000,000 Multi-Currency Euro-Certificate of Deposit Programme Guarantor United Overseas Bank Limited (Incorporated wth Limited
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Leonard takes a beating from Norris
      449 14 AP TERRY NORRIS turned Sugar Ray Leonard's Madison Square Garden debut on Saturday into a retirement party, twice knocking down the winner of five world championships and beating him up over 12 rounds. "This was my last fight," the 34-year-old Leonard said after the
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      Lock icon Caratti Kid in first Grand Prix final
      495 14 AP CRISTIANO CARATTI beat Carl-Uwe Steeb 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 in a near three-hour marathon on Saturday night to advance to his first Grand Prix final at the US$6OO,OOO Milan Indoor Championships. The unseeded 20-year-old Italian, who had upset topseeded Ivan Lendl
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    • SIDE LINES
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        O'Meara breaks deadlock to take lead
        124 14 MARK O'MEARA shot a five-under-par 67 and broke out of a two-round deadlock for the lead with Tim Simpson after the fourth round of the Bob Hope Classic in California on Saturday. O'Meara, a 34-year-old with six career victories, was 24 under par at
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        Morceli's the best miler
        87 14 THERE is no question Noureddine Morceli of Algeria is the best miler in the world. The only question is how good he can become. For the second straight week, Morceli demonstrated his superiority over two-time world indoor champion Marcus O'Sullivan, blazing to the third-fastest indoor mile
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        Criminal Type clinches award
        104 14 CRIMINAL TYPE, winner of the four Grade I stakes before his season was ended by injury, edged out sentimental choice Go for Wand in balloting for the Eclipse Award as 1990 US Horse of the Year. Calumet Farm's five-year-old son of Alydar won seven times in
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        Great shot Hodges
        61 14 CRAIG HODGES, a disappointment as a player on the Chicago Bulls, proved on Saturday night that he is among the greats as a 3-point shooter. Hodges, who has not shot enough to qualify among the league leaders, won the NBA's 3-point Long Distance Shootout for the second
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        Daniel maintains lead
        69 14 BETH DANIEL struggled with the wind and slow play but her one-over-par 73 was enough to retain a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Inverrary Classic in Florida on Saturday. Daniel, who won seven times last year, got off to a quick start with three birdies
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  • THE ARTS 1
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      Good substitutes for the fading rose
      875 15  -  As Valentine s Day approaches, J Gordon listens to two CD anthologies that have been compiled with love and romance in mind J Gordon Even if Valentine's Day is just the concoction of enterprising florists and restaurateurs, there is no denying that love has
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      Playing with conviction
      450 15  -  Singapore Symphony Orchestra By P Y Van Broadway meets West End was the theme for last Friday's Familiar Favourites Concert with conductor Lim Yau and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. The programme included excerpts from American musical theatre such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Sound of Music, Bock's Fiddler
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      Blending sculpture with nature
      600 17  -  Magdalene Ng visits Runnymede Sculpture Farm in Woodside, San Francisco, where visitors young and old can interact naturally with art Magdalene Ng NOT SURE OF what to do with his family farm after his mother's demise in 1983, John N Rosekrans Jr son of Alma S
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      Lock icon Evacuating Beijing's ancient relics
      842 17  -  Kathy Wilhelm reports on how phoning the emergency response team at the Beijing Cultural Relics Research Institute has helped to save ancient treasures Kathy Wilhelm AP During peak construction season, the phone rings almost daily at the Beijing Cultural Relics Research Institute. A workman's spade has
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      12 15 Dm the International irovide a competitive 1 itional businesses. Telecom 'meet W
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      347 16 WHERE TO WINE. DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE I SUMPTUOUS SICHUAN CUISINE. DELICATE YANGZHOU DIANXIN. RICH PIPING HOT STEAMBOAT. LUNCH: 11.30 AM TO 2.30 PM DINNER; 6.30 PM TO 10.30 PM ICINGS A MKMBER OF CDL HOTKLS HOUI SINCAPOW Mavelock Road, Singapore
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      736 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO ft. 15 Aksi Mat Yoyo (cont'd). 5.30 The Road Runner Show <( ar RuSMESSON BAPK) W"W T "1 3BCIZ 6.40 Bast of Disney Ducktales. L°°. n) Wll VI O I 7.05 The Adventures of Don Coyote 5.55 Today to WW- mHz j n VHF Band II Wd\
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      91 17 Your heart's vw in the right place Show your valentine an extraordinary evening. I Savour romantic creations in our 4-course i I San Valentino Dinner. The Starting Point of smoked salmon salad fasty Hearty Soup Exquisite Love Me Tender veal or Hooked By You garoupa fillet Bnjy Special Sealed With
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      111 17 TorMl^^Restaurant and 1 Ki/IIV/% Karaoke Lounges FINEST RUSSIAN AND CONTINENTAL CUISINE f— VRLENIINE'B DRY BPE[iFIL v APPETIZER I Prawn Mousse A SQI2E Creamy Asparagus ENTREES VS US Striploin Tarra S on Caper Sauce Dutch Dover Whole Sole with Meuniere Sauce or Chicken Equator with Mango Sauce I DESSERTS Lever's Ice
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
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      5104 18  -  By Diana Oon THE stock market last week continued the uptrend begun since the outbreak of the Gulf war, with the best performances from warrants and property counters. The Straits Times Industrials Index gained 26 points during the week to end at 1,294.1,
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    3644 19 Main Board Jurong Ship 50* 685 +45 4-7.0% OUE 595 45 8.2% S1A Foreign 1350 +40 +3.1% Asia Pacific 1000 +40 +4.2% OUB 520 +40 +8.3% S land Wrts 246 +36 +17.1% OCBC Foreign 875 +35 +4.2% Isetan 50* 615 35 6.0% lCBWrts 179 +34
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
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      Lock icon Buyers defy prophets of doom
      780 20 Market anticipating a quick recovery from the current recession NEW YORK FT DO AMERICAN investors really know something hidden from the rest of us? Or are the money men of Wall Street simply at it again, conjuring a rosy picture of US economic prospects and
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      Hang Seng continues surge, gaining 4.2pc
      872 20 HONGKONG THE SURGE on Wall Street, driven by cash-laden investors frightened of being left out in the rally, expectations of lower Hongkong interest rates and the news of the Cavendish privatisation all served to ignite the Hongkong market last week. The Hang Seng Index
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      364 20 x TOKYO AFP LOWER interest rates and a stronger yen following a US discount rate cut drove the Nikkei Stock Average to its highest level so far this year on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The market's key indicator rose all through the
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      Sentiment still fragile despite rally
      848 20  -  LONDON By Ray Heath STOCK MARKETS seem to have hearts as icy as the weather which is gripping the UK and bringing to an end more effectively than any credit squeeze the tail end of any spending boom. If you can't get to the shops
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
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        SYDNEY
        112 20 OFFSHORE surges and hopes of interest rate cuts boosted the Australian market during the past week, brokers said on Friday. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, gained 39.6 points, or nearly 3 per cent, to 1,341.4. The All Industrials Index jumped 66.1 points to 2,104.6, while the
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        TAIPEI
        257 20 SHARE PRICES on the Taiwan Stock Exchange picked up steam last week as more players returned to the bourse to buy at the decline. Recouping the previous week's 2.7 per cent fall, the 221-issue weighted price index surged 457.59 points, or 11.4 per cent, including Saturday the previous week,
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        BANGKOK
        115 20 THE Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) index closed on Friday 7.6 per cent up on the previous week's close in a market dominated by speculators, analysts said. The index closed at 728.36, gaining 51.50 points from the previous week's close. The average index for the week was 710.78 points,
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        JAKARTA
        172 20 TRADING activities at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) continued to increase last week, especially in the regular market, but share prices remained mixed. The JSE index continued to slip to 381.275 on Friday from 383.626 a week earlier while the Jardine Fleming Nusantara index edged up to 89.28 from
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        MANILA
        121 20 THE Philippine stock market surged to a two-year high last week before a technical correction on Friday pulled it downwards, bourse officials said. At the Manila Stock Exchange, the Composite closed Friday at 841.72 points, up 102.62 points or 13.8 per cent from the 739.1 points the previous week.
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        182 20 AFP INVESTORS overcame Gulf war nerves and returned to the Indian stock market last week, pushing the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitivity index up by 21.8 points to close at 1,052. The bull run started on Thursday of the previous week and had pushed the sensitivity index up by
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
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      Lock icon Prices close higher for 11 consecutive days
      4196 21 MBT, Bernama IT LOOKS like investors and dabblers on the Kuala Lumpur stock market will be in for a lot of cheer as the much-awaited-for Chinese New Year rally is shaping up well. Share prices were taken to higher ground last week as
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      33 21 HER WORLD sell-out month after month Audited Net Circulation October '90: 36, 450 November '90: 39, 893 December '90: 42, 324 February '91 HER WORLD is out, grab a copy before it's gone!!!
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        NEW YORK
        1018 22 NEW YORK stocks moved higher on Friday, ending a week of near-record trading marked by strong price gains and widespread conviction that the bulls were in control again on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which zigzagged all day, ended at 2,830.69, ahead 20.05 points for the
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        LONDON
        787 22 LONDON shares ended slightly higher in light trading on Friday in the absence of any major investment news. Dealings were patchy due to severe winter weather which hampered travel to work in London. However, the stock exchange didn't follow the example of some other London markets by closing early.
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        FRANKFURT
        356 22 IN FRANKFURT, a burst of optimism based on the premise that "no news is good news" took shares to their highest levels this year on Friday. The DAX Index jumped 31.56 points or 2.2 per cent to end at a new 1991 closing high of 1,467.82, and five per
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        PARIS
        189 22 FRENCH shares on Friday staged a late-day rally with bond prices, surging to 1991 highs as investors continued to pour cash into the stock market. "It's just crazy," commented one trader after the benchmark CAC-40 Index soared to an eight-week high. The index ended up 24.53 points or 1.53
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        ZURICH
        282 22 SWEDISH share prices rose sharply in active trade on Friday, helped by a strong recovery in telecoms company Ericsson, dealers said. The Bourse General Index closed 0.98 per cent higher at 967.68 in total turnover of 379 million crowns. Blue chips were up 2.33 per cent. Ericsson free-B shares
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        AMSTERDAM
        277 22 DUTCH shares closed firmer on Friday with what little activity there was tailing off towards the close. The bond-market inspired rally of recent days ended in a bout of profit-taking early on, but shares later picked up and the CBS General Tendency Index closed 0.2 firmer at 81.9. "It
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        JOHANNESBURG
        415 22 IN JOHANNESBURG, the stock market remained firm on Friday after Thursday's strong gains, led by a further recovery in gold shares as world bullion prices rallied towards USS37O an ounce on light speculative buying, dealers said. However, some caution ahead of the weekend was evident, they said, noting that
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        MILAN
        216 22 ITALIAN shares shook off an uncertain start to make further gains in lively trading on Friday, with the all-share MIB Index closing 6.05 per cent higher on the week. The MIB Index advanced 0.59 per cent to 1,016, six points higher than Thursday. But for some brokers, the index
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        TORONTO
        233 22 TORONTO stocks resumed their recent upswing on Friday after a short bout of profit-taking, climbing moderately in heavy trade. "My belief is that this market is very strong. "We are only at the very beginning of this leg," said Ron Meisels, president of P&C Holdings Ltd. The Composite Index
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        192 22 Feb 8 Clow Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,830.69 2,810.64 20.05 NYSE Financial 139.67 139.04 +0.63 SAP 500 359.34 356.52 +182 Turnover (million) 187.8 292.0 -104.2 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,760.3 1,756.2 +4.1 FTSE 100 2,245.2 2,243.7 +1.5 Turnover (million) 373.9 585.1 -211.2 AMSTERDAM CBS Tendency Index 81.9 81.7 +0.2
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
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      Lock icon Major Asian units gain on US$
      775 23 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP THE YEN gained ground against the US dollar during the week, together with most other major Asian currencies. With the Gulf war having little impact on regional currency markets, domestic factors were the prime movers, with the Singapore and Taiwan dollars
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      Lock icon Intervention props up US dollar
      406 23 NEW YORK AFP FIVE DAYS of central bank dollar buying did not prevent the dollar from sliding but did thwart a freefall in the US currency, which is exactly what it was designed to do, US foreign exchange dealers said. The buying maintained an orderly
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      INTERBANK FOREX RATES
      399 23 Source: Astley Pearce Cross rates f<*> 9 i 1 i —■—i i j L'SS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS LSS 1.7110 2.6885 1.4562 127.72 0.5027 1.2440 1.2824 1.6639 SS 0.5845 1.5713 0.8511 0.7465 0.2938 0.7271 0.7495 0.9725 MS 0.3720 63.64 0.5416 0.4751 0.1870 0.4627 0.4770
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      MONEY MARKET
      563 23 Interbank rates 9$ Bid Offer Overnight 4 1/4 4 3/8 1-month 4 1/2 4 5/8 2-month 4 5/8 4 3/4 3-month 4 5/8 4 3/4 Overnight mode: 4-5/8 t'SS High Low 7 days 6 9/16 6 3/8 1 month 6 1/2 6 3/8 2 months 6 5/8 6
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      Lock icon Dollar recovery depends on US upturn: analysts
      640 23 Reuter CENTRAL BANK intervention may help soothe the ailing dollar, but nothing short of the start of a US economic turnaround will lead to a significant recovery, say currency traders and analysts. "When we begin to see the bottom of the economy, when
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      Lock icon Two agencies clash over proposal
      281 23 NYT IN THE OPENING round of this year's battle over overhauling regulation of futures exchanges in the US, the top officials of two rival regulatory agencies resisted a compromise proposal. The dispute over stock index futures pits Wendy L Gramm, chairwoman of the Commodities Futures
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      Gold rally still some way off
      472 23 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT THE U*****.00 support level for spot gold was confirmed when substantial profit-taking and fund-buying emerged at U*****.90/360.40 last Wednesday, making it the low point for the week. Upside momentum persisted till the week's high of U*****.80/371.30 was traded on Friday,
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      PRIME LENDING RATES
      530 23 BANNS ABN Bank X Allied Irish Bank PI C American Express Bank K Am'Dam R'terdam Bank X Arab Banking Corp X'/« Arab Bank PLC VU ANZ Banking Group X Ban Hin Lee Bank 7V« Banca Commercial X Banco do Brasil X Bangkok Bank 7V« Bank Bumiputra X
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      FINANCIAL FUTURES
      304 23 COMEX COLO FUTURES <100 02) USS/c« Open High Tow Settle Change heb 91 369 00 371 00 369 00 370.10 +2.30 Mar ***** 371.80 371.80 370.60 4-2.30 Apr 371.00 373.70 370.60 372.40 +2.40 J un 374.00 376.80 373.80 375.60 +2.40 Au« ***** ***** ***** 378.70 +2.50 OcT 381.90
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  • COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon Brazil heading for bumper coffee crop this year
      510 24 Reuter FAVOURABLE weather in the past month means that Minas Gerais, Brazil's biggest coffee-producing state, is heading for a better than expected crop this year, exporters and growers said. "I have travelled to the south of Minas four times in the past
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      Lock icon Cocoa price plunge could spell disaster for UK chocs makers
      206 24 Reuter THE COLLAPSE in world cocoa prices to close to 15year lows, could be disastrous for UK chocolate makers, one of the British food industry's largest trade associations said on Friday. Most British chocolate manufacturers buy cocoa from Ghana and
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      Lock icon Snowfalls boost gas oil, lead but dampen metals
      913 24 REPORTS AFP THE COLD SNAP that hit Europe last week prompted significant gains for gas oil prices due to an increase in heating demand but also due to tight trading conditions created by heavy snowfalls in south-east England which prevented a number
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    PRICES
    1075 24 Rubber MS (M hi Ml S cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Feb 4 147.00 Feb 5 145.00 Feb 6 145.50 Feb 7 144.75 Feb 8 144.75 MRELB (fat la Mm) M cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Feb 4 231.50 Feb 5 229.50 Feb 6 229.00 Feb 7 228.50 Feb
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    AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
    1083 25 City Flic* ETA Flight ETD MlllHl SQ228 1900 SQ227 2130 A—— FUl82 1400 Amsterdam KL841 1140 KL842 2105 SQ23 1325 •nrtitini NZ25 1655 NZ28 1815 SQ388 2030 tmlir Tirl 8W21 1105 SQ182 0915 Smmm SQ181 1410 BI422 1205 BI429 1830 BI430 2125 Baacjuili QF062 1135 CI664
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
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      Treasure trove for movie buffs
      576 25  -  LETTER FROM BEVERLY HILLS By Linda Rapattoni THE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Centre for Motion Picture Study is open to the public, but the average film buff and tourist may be disappointed. By "public", the academy means serious writers and researchers who
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      MONEY CHANGER RATES
      151 25 As at 3pm on Feb 8: Load dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.326 1.346 Canadian dollar 1.463 1.483 NZ dollar 1.020 1.060 Sterling pound 3.390 3.470 US dollar 1.7070 1.7230 Load dollars to 100 anits of foreign currency Austrian schilling
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      WORLD TRADE EXHIBITIONS
      80 25 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Feb 9-17 International Tourism, Caravan and Automobile Exhibition Hamburg Hamburg Messe Und Congress GmbH *****569-0 Feb 27March 4 Photo. Cine and Video Exhibition in Zurich Zurich, Switzerland Zuspa *****5055 Feb 13-17 Feb 19-21 International Water Fair Air
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      38 25 Johan, fly Finnair if you're going to Stockholm Swede home. Because Finnair gets you home at 0755 in the morning or onto over 30 other European destinations. Call *****77 for details. We know Europe from start to Finnish.
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      28 25 SINGAPORE SUPERjjIRL Madeline Zhu down from the sky during Lunar New Year celebrations. 11 1 Ke latest news more l«3itf l F r m lunch-time Monday to Saturday
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      311 25 1 The housekeeper's pantry —L— HH M H 8 Say goodbye when you go on holiday from work JH 11 To silence an expression of disbelief (4) 12 Oil dispensed in cubic centimetres for an abdominal jjHjj complaint (S) Hi WM 13 Father needs it for making 16 1 glass
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      209 25 Singapore Outlook: Fair, with showers in the late afternoon. Forecast Maximum temperature 32.1 Assoc humidity 56% Minimum temperature 23.9* C Assoc humidity 92% Hours of sunshine 9.70 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 6.2 Rainy days this month 2 World report Asia-Pacific Ili/Lo* Cond. Auckland 22/17 Fair Bangkok 34/23
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    Indonesia to gain greatly from trade arrangements: PM
    456 26  -  Singapore not too badly hit by Gulf war, says Goh b» Magdalene Ng INDONESIA will lead economic growth among the East Asian nations once trade arrangements, such as the proposed East Asian Economic Grouping (EAEG), take off, says Prime Minister Goh Chok
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    Surcharge may go once water supplies adequate
    142 26 SINGAPORE may eventually be able to lift the surcharge on water usage when more than adequate supplies of water are found, said Prime Minister Goh Chok long yesterday. Talks now on for Singapore to buy water from Pahang and the Riau Islands, as
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    Lock icon Overwhelming vote for Lithuanian secession
    376 26 AP LITHUANIANS defied Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's appeals and voted overwhelmingly over the weekend to make their Baltic state independent from the Soviet Union. Their president said yesterday that he hoped the result would lead other republics to take the same step. Lithuanian election officials
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    Lock icon No quick end to credit crunch: Greenspan
    402 26 Reuter THE US still has a way to go before ending the credit crunch that has contributed to the country's economic slowdown, says US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. Speaking to the US National Association of Manufacturers meeting in Florida last Saturday, he
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    Lock icon Our trade barriers will continue to come down: Hawke
    356 26 Reuter AUSTRALIA will continue to reduce barriers to free trade and not return to protectionism, despite a worsening domestic recession, Prime Minister Bob Hawke said in a television interview yesterday. "It would be a fair bet you should take... that we're
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    Lock icon China looks ahead to post-war Gulf markets
    190 26 THE GULF mmm AFP CHINA is negotiating civil engineering contracts with several Gulf countries and is hoping for a rapid end to the war that has already cost it hundreds of million of dollars. "If we did nothing in the Gulf region now,
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    Murders of two M'sians linked to Ka Wah case
    400 26  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY THE mysterious execution murders of a Malaysian-born doctor and his sister within 10 months of each other in Sydney have been linked to the Ka Wah Bank fraud case in Hongkong. Two Sydney newspapers, Sun-Herald and
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      10 26 PM on 5-year plan to improve Malay/Muslim community Pg 2
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  • Shipping Times
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      Fall in bunker prices reflects ample supply
      368 27  -  By Dexter Lee THE PRICE of bunker, or ship fuel, has fallen over the last two weeks, reflecting the ample supply available in the major bunkering centres of the world, including Singapore. Last Friday, spot bunker prices dropped to US$l3O per tonne, down
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      Lock icon Strike cripples Daewoo Shipbuilding
      334 27 UPI NEARLY 10,000 workers went on a strike at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Industries on Friday, crippling Korea's second largest shipyard on an island off the southern coast. News reports from the scene said management and union leaders continued negotiations even after the strike started but
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      Lock icon Toyota suffers fall in profits for six-month period
      283 27 NYT TOYOTA Motor Corp, Japan's largest carmaker, reported a 9.6 per cent decline in pre-tax profits for the sixmonth period ending in December over the same period in 1989, a company official said on Feb 8. It was the first year-to-year decline
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      Lock icon Final talks on Aussie-Taiwan air links to be held this month
      278 27 Reuter SENIOR Taiwan aviation officials will visit Australia this month for final talks on direct air links between the two countries, the chief executive of Australia Asia Airlines said on Friday. The director general and deputy director of Taiwan's
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      Lock icon Toshiba develops aircraft phone system
      199 27 UPI TOSHIBA Corp has developed a communications system that enables telephone calls from air-borne airliners to the ground via satellite. The Tokyo-based major electronics firm said the system, developed jointly with KDD (Overseas Communications Japan), consists of radio transceiver equipment and terminal equipment that includes
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      LR cuts permitted amount of corrosion on bulk carriers
      412 27  -  By Selva Kumar SHIP classification society Lloyd's Register (LR) has reduced the amount of corrosion permitted on certain areas of bulk carriers, following a spate of sinkings and damage to such ships last year. The LR made the move following preliminary
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      ABC Containerline to buy over TNT Express
      269 27  -  By Selva Kumar BELGIUM-based ABC Containerline has announced that it will buy over the vessel 77V7' Express from Australian transport giant Thomas Nationwide Transport (TNT). "We have exercised our option to purchase the TNT Express from TNT UK Limited. It will be delivered
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        Choppy seas for Lloyd's of London
        39 27 LLOYD'S of London, hit by giant catastrophes and low insurance rates, is counting on a direct descendant of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner's author to steer it through the swells Page 2
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        Fall in Gulf marine insurance premiums
        39 27 A LACK of major claims filed and competition for business has led to a decline in insurance premiums for shipping companies and airlines operating in the Gulf region, insurance brokers say Page 2
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        Insurance against wartime land terrorism
        42 27 THE LLOYD'S of London insurance market confirmed last week that it has decided to allow its underwriters to insure against terrorist attacks on land during wartime, such as the bombings of airline and bank offices Back Page
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        Interflug closes after failure of sell-off plans
        36 27 THE EAST GERMAN airline Interflug, once the flag carrier of the now defunct Communist government, has closed down after the failure of plans to sell it intact Back Page
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        Airlines having difficulties setting fares
        43 27 A WEEK when airlines in the United States first mulled raising tickets by US$l5, then frantically chopped fares in half, shows that the industry is incapable of setting realistic prices in such troubled times, analysts said Back Page
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    • LOG BOOK
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        Direct Container Line starts new service
        83 28 US BASED Direct Container Line (DCL) has started a new direct service to Christchurch from the US, eliminating up to one week in transit time. DCL is a non-vessel operating common carrier specialising in the consolidation and movement of LCL (less than container load)
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        Japan-Soviet ferry line
        104 28 JAVANESE and Soviet shipping authorities ended a twoJa\ meeting last Thursday with an agreement to open a feriy line between the two countries. They also agreed on •stablishing regular freighters sailings between Japanese onus and Vanino on the western coast of Sakhalin Island. working group consisting of
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        DMS may have to cut staff
        84 28 DE UTSCHE Maschinen-und Schiffbau AG (DMS), eastern Germany's only shipbuilding firm, said it may have to shed half its workforce of 46,000 in the next four to five years. Board spokesman Juergen Krackow said an analysis of DMS's 103 contracts showed not one of
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        More air travellers in 1990
        73 28 EUKOPE's airlines carried 107 million passengers on their scheduled services last year, an increase of 8.3 per cent over 1989, despite the Gulf crisis, the Association of European Airlines said. But since war broke out Jan 17, the 23-company AEA said that European airlines' passenger
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        ITJ to expand phone service
        66 28 fN lERNATIONAL Telecom Japan Inc said it will expand its telephone service to the Pacific islands of Saipan and Hawaii from Friday. The service will be operated jointly with Micronesian Telecommunications Corp of the US, a subsidiary of GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. ITJ, a newcomer
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        No left-hand drive Proton Saga
        86 28 MALAYSIA'S Proton Saga cannot be marketed in the US as there is no left-hand drive version of the car. Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Chua Jui Meng said that left-hand drive cars were expected to be introduced in 1994. He said the national car
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      Lock icon Choppy seas for Lloyd's
      1013 28  -  The world's largest insurance market, hit by giant catastrophes and low insurance rates, is counting on a direct descendant of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner's author to steer it through the swells. Cotten Timberlake has the details Cotten Timberlake AP LOW insurance rates and giant
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      Lock icon Fall in Gulf marine and aviation insurance premiums
      358 28 THE GUJiH W/M* Reuter ALACK of major claims filed and competition for business has led to a decline in insurance premiums for shipping companies and airlines operating in the Gulf region, insurance brokers say. "In some cases, marine rates are 50 to
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      COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
      860 28 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11948 36 I lis is a list of ships loading t Singapore for ports around ie world. It tabulates, by filiation, the name of the s lip, the shipping line involved and the estimated > kites of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. \dvaneed dates are published
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        528 43 VttMl ¥«y No Bath Arrival Dapartre Vestal Voy No Berth Arrive itapartw* Kappai Whi irves Sejati Praia 4A P2A 11.02/1500 1302/1800 B Kenanga 2/91 K32 alongside 15 02/2300 Setu Cedar 19 P1A 1102/1300 1202/0200 Iwy Bay 1 K30 atongsxje 1102/1500 S«i Fontaine 1 P2C 1102/2359 1202/1500 KoU
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULE
        1133 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Boofac/Babnce Rsfts Slap Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX IJy 7B 12/0100 1 10/1500 10/1659 10/1900 2 10/1700 11/0659 11/0900 AO Lotus 9A 12/2300 2 10/1700 11/0659 11/0900 4 11/1200 11/1459 11/1700 Ai Mirqab 53 12/1800 1
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        IN MALAYSIAN PORTS
        358 43 Port Klang Berth at South Port on Feb t: 1: ml; 2: Thai Yang; 3: Ouches; 4: ml; 5: ml; 6: Gma I; 7: Beriasa; /A: Hung lee 4; J.Shel: Petro Mewah KCT: 8 Anro Melbourne, Maersk Tauro, 9: Equator Pride; 10: Ocean Strength, Sea Laurel. North
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      950 43 CHARTERING on the dry cargo freight market was again quiet on Thursday but rates remained firm on the key routes, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index leapt a further 15 points to 1,525, with all the key routes being marked up. The US Gulf to Japan grain and
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      Lock icon Lloyd's to cover wartime terrorist attacks on land
      333 44 THE WAR AP THE LLOYD'S of London insurance market confirmed last week that it has decided to allow its underwriters to insure against terrorist attacks on land during wartime, such as the bombings of airline and bank offices. The decision was made
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      Lock icon Airlines having difficulties setting realistic fares
      448 44 AP A WEEK when airlines in the United States first mulled raising tickets by US$l5 (5525.50), then frantically chopped fares in half, shows that the industry is incapable of setting realistic prices in such troubled times, analysts said on Friday. "Half-fare you're going to
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      Lock icon Interflug closes after failure of sell-off plans
      294 44 Reuter THE EAST GERMAN airline Interflug, once the flag carrier of the now defunct Communist government, was closed down on Friday after the failure of plans to sell it intact. "It's not possible to privatise Interflug as an independent, internationally operating airline," said
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      142 27 Per Permit Of 1 to 5 ltem» 5516.00 6 to 10 Items 5525.00 11 to 15 Items 5535.00 We submit on your behalf to appropriate carrier. For more into tel: *****06 Samat/Sharon Orion Exprtu SwvkM Local Courier Servkee Cockett Report 2 Container Schedule 17 (My Fraghts 17 Index to Advertisers
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      89 28 Hotel service wars Those frequent flyer programmes (SINGAPORE f BUSINESS MCUP) 113/8/90 VOTTS NO 2 FEBRUARY 1991 MONTHLY S4 Investment strategies V\ nil lie I JN|k and choices for coping A -a j with IWI's uncertainties the (joat: Spotlight on Cerebos Pacific, Malaysian Airline System Available at your local newsstands
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      2165 29 JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES MO Cantonment Road #1? 05 Southpowt. Singapore 0208 Tel *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** marttti« terminal,cfs Tei *****18 220 BOOKINGS Tel *****34 2SB L VvCC# J 'ESAKA JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SDN BHD PORT KELANG TEL *****18 TELEX NO MA*****;MA***** HHBH PENANG TEL *****4 TELEX NO MA***** CFS
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      1295 29 INDEX! TjUDVERTISERS Pa«e Col Page Col A Line Fast Pte 14 1 Liner Shpg 16 3 ABC Containerize 13 S Lizena IS 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Lloyd Brasileiro 12 3 AFS IS I Lloyd Triestino 4 1/2 Ahrenkiel Liner 16 3 Lucky Seaway 15 3 Albatros Sea-Air 14 3
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      2268 29 NEXT SAILING TO HON6KONG AND JAPAN CECIUE MAERSK V.9104 ETA 16/2/91 Vessel Voy Et» I ETO "Port Penang DESTINATIONS Singapore Kelang rhi* m« Lmdoa Maeru 9io« Fe«der br iw? oaoo hrs rarco iMHI HHi CFS IS/2 2359 MRS M Taoro OAK LGfl MOU MEM ATL MIA CMS BAL PHL NYC
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      1305 30 ROfTf (JAM =^===1 VOY NO S PORE SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG ANTWERP LE HAVRE KATSURAGI 04/513 11/2 4/3 2/3 28/3 jjHB BENALDER 99/517 11/2 28/2 3/3 5/3 > *>• MCTtfiiilin P HAMBURG EXPRESS 01/516 14/2 7/3 5/3 4/3 4/3 KELANG A PEHANC CARGO HANNOVER EXPRESS 01/518 17/2 5/3 9/3 1/3 2/3 TO
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      559 30 DIRECT SOUTH PACIFIC SERVICE SIN NOU SUV PPT ISI .A H.OKKAN A 22-2*12 11/3 13/3 18/3 ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO VIA SUVA TO LAUTOKA, PAGO PAGO APIA ft NUKUALOAFA DIRECT CHILE SERVICE SIN IQO ANF VAP CALLAO SAN (PERU) ANTONIO ISLA FLOREANA 22-28/2 1/4 3/4 6/4 7/4 8/4 Call jo or
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      122 32 POL (M) SDN BHD 35, I*t «f J«l«" CungaK Port Kalantf Ta4: *****98. *****70 4*l —A W Malavila/S PQf to E Malaysia Sarvica Pen Pfc ig PC S oo'* KK Sdk u ,u Picif'c Simud'J V?»l VM 11/3 U-MO M-fl/3 2HW Cheunf Miof VMI M m I W Wfl Sabjni
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      1132 33 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: UK/EUROPE SERVICE— *****19 USA SERVICE— *****16 AUST/INDIA PAK SERVICE *****18 EAR EAST SERVICE *****48'. TERMINAL OFFICE :*****22 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/ *****14 ijgEyglgj CFS: K27 —IMPORT: *****69/*****50 CFS: K27 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 KI P (O3) E J1403^ H p D Kelang-(03)
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      479 33 j/ Int. Multf-Modal Forwarder SEAFREKSHT BOOKNGS: 222 0717 k AFFREIGHT BOOKUGS: 545 4255 1B SRECJKrICO A nw *****73*227*9 [astirn tuROPi mm J. India WBKMkkm CZECHOSLOVAKIA fi| I?£ HUNGARY 17/2 V U Y «g ROMANIA 17/2 mX* a? YUGOSLAVIA 17/2 jj BULGARIA 17/2 (AA&\ ml™ Z MOPI fUUSTmma^ ANTWERP 17/2 KnSr*
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      1120 33 m sin so v SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64/ *****59 (FESCO LINE) ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) DISCHARGING FROM EASTBOUND LOADING FOR WESTBOUNO VISStLS yprAGt |SPQ»t HKOHG VOtACt SPOUt PttUNC HBURG B H*¥tW
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      1219 34 (3 K LINE KAWASAKI KISUN KAISHA. LTD. EXPORT N. AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST IMPORT N. AMERICA- PACIFIC SQVTMHST j /FUO€* VESSEL VOY *INOO *PK PNG SCP MOTHER VESSEL VOY LB OAK CHI NYC *5£L VOYHOUS IB OAK TRY T ;&2 aes-111 isi \ll i /ys# 111 s i ss& si Im
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      1203 34 PHILI-ORI€NT UN€5 PT€ LTD 108 ROBINSON ROAD #07 00 GMG BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 y TEL *****22/*****69/*****00 TELEX RS ***** PHILI FAX *****76/*****38 W by air, land or sea WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION 24 FEB MONTREAL, Ottawa, toronto, vancouver, s'western ontario. 22
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      1523 35 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD -II ii—ii p |L Qyjifjjpg 140 Cecil Street #03-00, Singapore 0106. I JAKARTA I I BANGKOK I VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN EDEN 9106 12/2 14/2 19/2 HAI YING 9, ®j KOTA PANJANG 9106 14/2 16/2 HUI 9106 13/2 17/2
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      1224 35 r BEN LINE CONTAINERS LTD 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint M Fax: *****63 Singapore 0208. Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT VESSEL |VOY SPORE P KLANG S HAMPTON HAMBURG BHAVEN R DAM LHAVRE Kalsuragi f 04/513 11/2 4/3 2/3 1/3 VIA RO Benalder" 99/517 In Pt
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      323 35 Mk MYANMA FIVE STAR UNE V (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIg Pen P.Gdg PAGAN VI67W 14/17 Feb PATMEIN VIO9W 17 Feb W Feb THE BANK UNI (A service ol Andrew Weir Shipping) SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE \1 HEAVY LIFT CAPABILITY I EXPRESS TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA I SPORE
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      775 38 jnsß-iiNFsa^^ INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE FROM FAR EAST TO NORTH CONTINENT OUTBOUND SIN FLX BRV ROM ANT HBG CYS FRONTIER WflM 14/2 12/3 10/3 *3 13/3 LONDON SEN WflOS 17/2 17/3 IS/3 14/3 l*/3 CIS GLORY WFIIO 17/2 1»,3 16/3 IS/3 I*3 SOHLANO WMIO7 21/2 »/3 21/3 THUERINGEN WMlOt 1/3 30(3
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      1081 38 TEL: *****88/*****22 OUR CONSOLIDATION SERVICES TO: EUROPE 17/02 24/02 LONDON ROTTERDAM FELIXSTOWE ANTWERP SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG MANCHESTER LE HARVE AND ALL EUROPE INLAND DESTINATIONS FAR EAST •ORT KELANG 22/02 1/03 MANILA 16/02 23/02 'ENANG 22/02 1/03 BUSAN 17/02 4 22/02 BANGKOK 17/02 21/02 TOKYO 14/02 A 21/02 (ONG KONG 14/02 19/02
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      235 38 LOADING FOR VESSEL O.N .AIRES *lOEO SJO STS V.T PACUA MOSTWtIK a-4 4IS IVS V *****1 ni«XHARGING FM BRAZIL VESSEL SPORE MK6 MW. ME YOK NGO «0« MOSTHEEN I IW 1W 17/4 V 919*1 1 Regular BBulk and Container Service Direct H Turkey, Red Sea/ Med Ports. Seor* P P»«un«
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      1281 38 S CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY FULL CONTAINER LINER SERVICE telex te r l s £S°?oship 2, MISTRI ROAD. HMC BUILDING 1 FA X *****66 #15 00. SINGAPORE 0207 CABLE COSTARLINE CR NO **********0 M General Agents: 006 TAR SHOPPING PIE Lii> TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE VtSStL.'VOr SGP WOT HAM FLX
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      843 39 NIHON-ASIA CR **********0N TEL: *****22 FAX: *****86 Competitive Rates!! ETA USA All IPI Dcstns IN/2, 25/2 EUROPE all Ports 19/2. 26/2 BANGKOK 20/2, 23/2 HONGKONG/CHINA 15/2, 22/2 SYD, MEL, ADEL, BRIS 14/2, 21/2 FREMANTLE 16/2, 21/2 MANILA 14/2, 21/2 PKLG/PENANG 17/2, 24/2 Port Kelang Branch Tel: *****21/2/3 Fax: *****24 Penang
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      324 39 |r£ RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD Sf TEL *****33 (12 Lines) gym FAX: *****15/*****03 fTf TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) I]W\ ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES y (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSCI VOY ETA LOADING FOR SPORE ABBAV^ONZ TTwiT IrTpt OARESSAIAAM MOMBASA DJIBOUTI ASSAB MASSAWA NETSANFT
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      1365 39 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE BANGKOK [VESSEL VOY SPORE SYO MEL VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE BANGKOK I PIYA BHUM 0101 13-14/2 X 2117 02 04/3 MAHA BHUM# 46N Tut 17/7 Ffi 15/7 I PLANETA 0246 2101/3 13 15/3 17 19/3 NANTA BHUM 2»N Wed 13/2 Sat It'? I PIYA BHUM ***** IS 16/3 21-30/3 01
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      407 39 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND nil Eii Elk Kyi I*«i [npE |P CWAIM 1 •russei Hi ~m Ha *H w 11/ i TJi iw c verouk m 1/5 Iw i*3 aa wi iT/i 1 ANTWtRPEN !W tffl 27/T W W liS M/ 4 M TNT EXPRESS 2M UM 2/5 IS U/5 UH
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      1293 40 m MAC-NELS SINGAPORE EXPORT TEL: *****22 IMPORT TEL: *****02 PENANG TEL (CM) *****6 KK TEL (088) *****0 J TAWAU TEL (089)*****9 31 l\ ~/N~ 1 P KELANG TEL (03) *****77 K;UCHING TEL (082) *****31 SKAN TEL (089)*****2 Jj BAHRU TEL (07) *****2 SIBU TEL (084)*****2 LABUAN TEL (087)*****9 JAKARTA TEL
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      309 40 BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO NEW ZEALAND AND T/S FIJI FULLY CONTAINERISED MONTHLY SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT NEW PLYMOUTH PORT CHALMERS ACCEPTING FCI, *I£L FOR AUCKLAND. NAPIER. WELLINGTON. BLUFF, CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN. LYTTEI.TON. INVERCARGIL, FIJI AND TAHITI SIN N Pl* AUCR LVT MULBERA MS li Feb 24 Feb Vu NPL 27 Feb
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      662 40 /ST THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. 51 Bras Basah Rd #01-01 Plaza By The Park S (0718) m Tel: *****22 Fax No: *****73 CONVENTIONAL/CONTAINER SERVICES *****11 (BOOKING LINES~ SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA SINGAPORE TO SABAH VESSEL JvflT TeT* IdEST VESSEL VQT ET* BUT KIM SOON LI 6/91E 21 FEB PENANG
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      338 40 /WNORBULKV \lrv NORBULK CARGO SERVICES LTD. V REGULAR CONVENTIONAL I TIMBER AND PLYWOOD SERVICES SP PK LOADING FOR I SOLSVN NB 124 14/2 17/2 RDMM, ANT/NAN/UK I OCEAN TRADER NB 125 17/2 20/2 SETE/RDM/ANT/UK I ISWK/SABAH LOADING FOR I NBT-3S 20/2 KANDLA KARACHI ISP PK LOADING FOR I TBN 18/2
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      965 41 COMPANIA PERUANA de vapores "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO, MATARANI, ILO* OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH T/S AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING. Penang* P Kelang Singapore E Msia KARABIEVERETT In Pt,'l3 Feb ROSEEVERETT 17/19 Feb 20/22 Feb 25/27 Feb SHAPIAEVERETT 12/14 Mar 15/17 Mar 20/22
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      519 41 VSI IvOY ISPQRt [mainliwer |i»x [kst Isav Iwrc HFX VESSCL IV2 ZiM TOKYO 1« 3 2J/3 K/3 »3 »i 21* SINGAPORE 38t 21/2 ZIM PUSAN 23 3 W M W 2IM SYDNEY 123 C 21/2 ZIM PUSAN 23 3 1/4 44 M 1/4 A VESSEL 22/2 ZIM PUSAN 23/3 1/4
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      791 41 SING KWANG HANG SHIPPING ft TRANSPORTATION (PTI) LTO WEEKLY LCL/FCL SERVICE VESSEL SPORE JAKARTA SURABAYA MEKHANIK KURAKO V <8N 14/2 17/2 [jENWEL V 164N 16/2 I— 119/2 VESSEL SPORE BANGKOK A VESSEL 17/2 20/2 A VESSEL 2412 27/2 DESTINATIONS ETA SINGAPORE PORT KELANG 15 FEB MANILA '6 FEB HONG KONG
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      568 41 r» PERINTIS LINE ACCEPTING ALL FCL CARGOES BETWEEN SINGAPORE JAKARTA SURABAYA VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SBY PHASETIA 145 A 14/0? 17/0? PELOPOH 975 16/0? 19/02 PRASETIA 147 A 21/02 24/02 PELOPOH 976 23/02 26/02 TANTO UTAMA 141 14/02 17/02 TANTO UTAMA 143 21/02 24/02 TANTO UTAMA 145 ?8/0? 31/0? TANTO
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      378 41 SIN FAB EAST 17/2 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 16/2 BANGKOK 20/2 MANILA/CEBU 16/2 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 16/2 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. Malaysia 17/2 BUSAN 15/2 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 22/2 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 22/2 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 16/2 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 16/2 RDM/HAM/ANT/LE HAVRE/GENOA also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Roumania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 19/2 LOS
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      763 42 -OA CB SHIPPING (1 ,cs 7> tS MARINE SERVICES NORTH QUEENSLAND PAPUA NEW GUINEA SFRVICISI CONTAINE«/LCL/BREAKBULK SERVICE "ANKE" SERVICE iak spt rvtui WISB 313 12 2 1 *2258 23 M PNG FREIGHT RATES PER TEU LCL CARGO B/BULK GENERAL FAK USDISSO 050»5.R T USD7O/R T ISOM3 CLASS 3 USOI6M USD7S/R
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      434 42 SINGAPORE/MEDITERRANEAN FULL CONTAINER SHIP SERVICE VESSEL/VOY ETA SPORE NAPLES GENOA ILYICHEVSK MERSIN TRIESTE NC V 26 90VW 15/2/91 '5/3/91 4-3/91 10/3/91 MB VO3CW9I 26/2/91 20/3'91 21/3/91 26/3/91 2 KS VOl-91W 2/3/91 27/3/91 17/3/91 <?<?/J/»l KV T V 04LW91 14/3/91 7/4/91 8/4/91 13/4/91 Al Ai CP UNO CARGO K« Mil »NO
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      552 42 VESSEL SIN PTL DBN RBV DANAOS VO3W 03/03 13/03 17'03 23/03 A VESSEL VO4W ?1/03 31/03 06-04 B VESSEL VOSW 06/04 16/04 21/04 Accepting FCL and LCL' tor Johannesburg VESSEL BBV DBN PTL SIN KEE BOS ALS STRENGTH VOIE 22/02 26-02 03/03 13/03 22/03 26 03 ALS ENDf AVOCIR VO2E
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      1171 42 CUJI COIHURVJimRmmu\ J LCL/FCL SERVICE FROM JX/ fnl [h] 1 CUJi operates over 600 terminals/offices in UJS.A. I 111 iMk\ CUJI maintains over 35,000 tractors trucks. V H I A CUJI serves over 60,000 points in U£.A. lUI Ham m offer reliable services. X. General Agents 7TPAA/IT7/A/* Qf/} PENANG- KL:
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      437 43 TIDES AND WEATHER TODAY S Tints (heght in metres) HOI* 0000 0100 0?00 0300 OMO 0500 0600 0700 0100 0900 *****100 1200 **********001(00 1700 1800 1900 ?000 ?100 2200 2300 It 18 1 7 16 16 16 1 7 19 22 2.4 2.6 2.5 2.3 20 1.7 LS 10 08
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      390 44 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times PT. PELAYARAN. SAMUDRA AGUNG KUALA SIAK IV 11/2 BATU AMPAR/SEKUPANG/BATAM SAMUDERA 102 13/2 DUMAI/PEKAN BARU ABADI JAYA 11/2 DUMAI/PEKAN BARU KUALA SIAK V 15/2 BALIKPAPAN/SAMARINDA SENGGATA (TG BARA) 5 vessels (weekly) to PERAWANG/PEKAN BARU/DUMAI 3 vessels (weekly) to BAT AM SUMATRA PORTS Also accepting
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      666 44 Ahyundai MERCHANT MARINE CO- LTD. EASTBOUND TO USA WESTBOUND FROM USA TO PSW VOY SIN HKG LBH OAK SEA CHI FROM PSW VQY LBH OAK SEA HKG SIN HYUNDAI COMMANDER 23E 8/2 14/2 4/3 7/3 10/3 9/3 CGM PASCAL 00* 2S/12 JVI2 l/l 11/1 27/1 HYUNOAI CHALLENGER 40E 16/2 21/2
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      568 44 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times NOTICE FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE SARAH. RRUNEI AND SARAWAK FREIGHT CONFERENCE FAR EAST/GULF OF ADEN AND RED SEA PORTS CONFERENCE NOTICE TO SHIPPERS/ RECEIVERS BUNKER ADJUSTMENT FACTOR As a result of a radical situation the Bunker Adjustment Factor will be reduced to +4.94 percent
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