The Business Times, 13 February 1991

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  • 11 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Wednesday February 13 1991 75 c
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 65 1 TAIWAN will allow five American insurance firms to set up branch offices this year, stiffening foreign competition in an already ferocious battle for market share. The approvals bring to 20 the number of United States insurance firms allowed into Taiwan since
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    • 42 1 THE president of the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has called on other republics to immediately conclude a new union agreement, implying they should not wait for next month's national referendum on the issue.
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    • 30 1 INVESTMENT interest among manufacturers for the current year, hit by the Gulf war and the American recession, has fallen to its lowest level since mid-1986. Page 2
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    • 27 1 A SCHEME by the Thai government to revive a project allowing private companies to reafforest deteriorated land has run into growing opposition Page 6
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    • 36 1 AN unexpected surge in producer prices underlines the continuing virulence of British inflation, making it more difficult for the government to reduce 14 per cent interest rates anytime soon, say economists Page 7
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    • 38 1 THE EC's agriculture budget is running out of control with a record increase of 5518.6 billion now forecast for spending on farm price supports this year, according to a confidential Commission memorandum Page 7
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    • 25 1 THE latest successful economic power is the non-communist Chinese, who are growing richer faster than any other group in the world Page 9
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    • 18 1 ANTHONY HOPKINS is playing yet another psycho in his latest movie with Jodie Foster Page 13
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    • 29 1 NEARLY one month into the Gulf war, courier firms operating in Singapore are still going strong in the Middle East market Shipping l imes Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 37 1 OVERNIGHT sell orders, following Monday's share price surge, dominated early Wall Street trading yesterday. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials was off 15.85 points at 2,886.38 points five minutes after the opening bell.
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    • 48 1 AFTER an opening surge took share values through the 2,300 mark on the Footsie index, an outbreak of profit-taking and doubts about interest rate cuts sent shares into reverse yesterday. At 1220 GMT, the FTSE index of 100 leading shares was down 15.8 points, at 2,263.2.
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    • 36 1 METROPLEX has awarded a MS 169 million contract for the second phase of the construction of its Mall shopping complex to Metrobilt, a company in which it has a 60-per-cent stake Page 3
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    • 23 1 SEARS, Roebuck Co is cutting back 9,000 more full and part-time jobs in its struggling merchandise group Page 4
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    • 17 1 GERMANY has agreed to accept Britain's desire to go slow on monetary union Page 5
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Tuesday Change BT-MGA 639.97 +7.38 Kuala Lumpur ...526.01 +7.69 Hongkong 3,395.00 +0.92 Tokyo 24,935.01 +638.93 Sydney 1,385.6 +19.2 Monday Change New York 2,902.23 +71.54 London 2,279.0 +33.8
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    • 19 1 Exchange rates USS SSI.7105 100 Yen SS1.3384 MS SS0.6361 Money market rates Overnight 4-5/8 +1/2 3-month 4-11/16% +1/16
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix USS362.05 -US$5.95 Rubber S'pore Mar... 145.00«/kg +0.25 M'sia Mar.... 229.00«/kg +0.50 KL Tin Turnover 54 tonnes +1 Spot MS 14.64 /kg -0.07 Crude palm oil Turnover 417 lots -83 Feb MS846/tonne +2
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  • 591 1  -  Worst-case scenario sees 2.1 pc growth By Anna Teo ONLY A growth recession can be expected this year, with the economy expanding at 2.1 per cent even in a worst-case scenario, according to econometric projections by the National University of Singapore. The Department of
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  • 301 1 THE credit crunch in Japan and the electronics cycle are two external factors that merit some attention for their impact on the local economy, said a senior investment analyst of Crosby Securities. Commenting on the Econometric Studies Unit's analysis of the economy, Mr Manu
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  • 282 1 APART from the usual short-term policy options for dealing with a downturn, Singapore has to be more innovative in securing longer-term resilience, said two university economists. Outward expansion in economic ties to as far-flung as Mexico, and continued interest in North America,
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  • 271 1 ASIAN stockmarkets closed broadly higher yesterday as sharp gains in London and New York on Monday boosted sentiment. In the currency markets, the US dollar closed marginally lower against the Japanese yen in Tokyo but in early London trading, several European central
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  • 364 1  -  By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE will be able to receive American-based Cable News Network (CNN) telecast live from today with the help of sponsorship from nine banks and financial institutions. Singapore Broadcasting Corporation said yesterday that the arrangement will be for a month
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  • 214 1 Reuter SOVIET Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov said in an interview published yesterday that forces in the West tried to overthrow President Mikhail Gorbachev last month in an attempted economic coup. Mr Pavlov told the trade union daily Trud that he knew of plans to
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    • 209 1 —■^—1■ I EXECUTIVE I PLACEMENTS g *****62 Aircraft Schedule 23 Money Changer Rates 23 World News 7 Commodities 22 Money Market 21 Company News 3,4 Regional News 6 For market indices, editorial. Cryptic Crossword 23 Regional Stock Markets 19 advertising and circulation ex fditorial 8 SES 14,15 tensions, call Business
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    • 7 1 Oil prices of greater concern, Pg 2
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    • 234 1 ohermain y/ SINCE 1888 X- I J Made in WEST GERMANY Sole Agent: H. W Shelley Co. (Pte) Ltd. SBC group pre-tax surplus increases 13pc, Pg 3 |^|enthous^looj^J Enjoy a cushy life while on business. J— A business trip ran he lough But as a special guest of our Penthouse
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 90 2 LOCAL companies can now draw upon a wider pool of Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) to meet their financing needs. Seven more PFIs have joined the Small Industry Finance Scheme (SIFS). The new PFIs are Bank of Singapore Ltd, Four Seas Bank Ltd, Industrial Commercial Bank Ltd,
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      • 87 2 THE Education Ministry is introducing from next year an alternative preparatory year programme in 10 to 20 primary schools. The programme will offer Malay and Tamil besides Chinese. It will have varying exposure time for English and the mother tongue to compensate for differences in pupils' home language
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      • 99 2 BP SINGAPORE has reduced the wholesale price of its unleaded petrol while increasing that of its jet fuel and gas oil. BP announced yesterday that the wholesale price of its unleaded premium-grade petrol (97-octane) has been reduced by seven US cents per US gallon to 80
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      • 54 2 IN OUR story "Ngiam is now executive chairman of DBS Bank" on Tuesday, Feb 12, it was stated that the DBS Bank audit group was headed by Chong Kie Cheong. DBS Bank has since clarified that the audit group, which reports direct to Mr Ngiam, is not
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    • 184 2 EMPLOYERS, fresh from a meeting among themselves, will meet unions this evening to thrash out the issue of fake promotions. The closed-door session between the Singapore National Employers' Federation and the National Trades Union Congress is expected to discuss how widespread the practice
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    • 392 2  -  By Jean Wee SALES of the foodstuffs traditionally included in Lunar New Year hampers have been hit by the gloom cast by the Gulf War. Along North Canal Road, the stores selling sharksfin, cuttlefish, abalone and mushrooms report slower sales this
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    • 436 2 A DESIGN and technology centre for local furniture makers is being planned for Singapore, but at the moment it is not clear whether it will be a joint venture with the European Community (EC) or purely a local effort. At a press conference
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    • 411 2  -  By Carolyn Lim INVESTMENT interest among manufacturers for the current year, hit by the Gulf War and the recession in the US, has fallen to its lowest level since mid-1986. This is one of the findings of a survey on business expectations
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    • 299 2  -  By Christoph Pauly A DRASTIC slowdown for the Singapore economy is predicted by Wolfgang Driese, senior vice-president of Deutsche Bank's regional head office in Singapore. Even if the Gulf War should last only three months, economic growth this year will only be 5 to 5.5 per
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    • 261 2  -  By David Chew OIL PRICES pose a greater concern to Singapore's economy than oil supplies, an oil analyst told a seminar here yesterday. Dr Shankar Sharma, a research fellow of the Institute of South-east Asian Studies, noted that "the country imports
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    • 393 2 JUST ABOUT four months before Globex, the afterhours electronic trading system, is launched, the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) has set up an information technology committee to review its existing infrastructure and to propose and implement new systems to sharpen its
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 456 3  -  Property group also acquires 60pc stake in the construction company By William Chia MALAYSIAN property group Metroplex has awarded a Msl69 million (S$ 106.4 million) contract for the second phase of the construction of its Mall shopping complex to Metrobilt Construction Sdn Bhd (MCSB),
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    • 395 3  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) reported a 13 per cent increase in group's surplus before tax of §56.9 million for the financial year ended March 31, 1990. The figures, contained in its 1989/90 annual report, includes grants of nearly $7 million from
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    • 370 3 Bernama EDARAN Otomobil Nasional Berhad is proposing a one-for-two bonus issue to increase its issued and paid-up share capital to a level which will better reflect the company's current scale of operation, Bumiputera Merchant Bankers Bhd announced in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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    • 174 3 Bernama EDARAN Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON), listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange last year, has reported a maiden group pre-tax profit of M$ 112.84 million (Ss72 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1990. This was achieved on the back of a group turnover
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    • 193 3 Reuter INTER-PACIFIC Industrial Group Bhd has denied a Malaysian newspaper report that it is building up its stake in Malayan United Industries Bhd (MUI) for a possible takeover bid. Describing the report as purely speculative, InterPacific said in a statement to the Kuala
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    • 295 3 Bernama DUFF Berhad has identified property development as a sector for immediate growth and it will continue to look for more viable projects to expand the group's land bank, its chairman, Mr Leong Wing Hon says. However, the plantation sector would remain
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 36 3 THE BOARD of First Capital Corporation Ltd has formed an audit committee, comprising Sat Pal Khattar (FCC chairman), Heng Chiang Meng (group managing director), and Abdul Hamid Ghani Jinnah (director).
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      • 129 3 SECURITIES-BASED Pan Pacific Asia Bhd, which is making a public issue of 10 million ordinary shares of Msl (550.64) each at par, has forecast a group pre-tax profit of M 52.75 million for the year ending Oct 31, 1991. In its prospectus, in connection with
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      • 38 3 THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange will be closed tomorrow and Friday for the Chinese New Year. In separate statements yesterday, they said that trading would resume on Monday.
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      • 109 3 PEMEGANG Amanah Raya Malaysia-Sekim Amanah Saham Nasional has reduced its holding of loan stocks of UMW Holdings Bhd to 5.89 million, following the conversion of 18.6 million of loan stocks into ordinary shares in the ratio of one for one on Aug 30, 1990. At the
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      • 78 3 HIAP MOH Corporation Ltd said its subsidiary, Hiap Moh Paper Co (M) Sdn Bhd has acquired a piece of property under development at the Desa Tun Razak Industrial Park in Malaysia for M 51.21 million (S$780,000). The 99-year leasehold property has a land area of
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      • 52 3 GERMANY'S Siemens AG has secured a M 592.3 million contract to supply control and instrumentation systems to Malaysia's state-owned utility firm Tenaga Nasional Bhd. The systems will be installed at Tenaga Nasional's three thermal power plants being upgraded by India's Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd, Tenaga Nasional
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    • 531 4 NYT IT WAS BAD when the banks sent their people to monitor his debt-laden operations and worse when they slammed the brakes on his hectic pace of property acquisitions. But now the bankers say the three private jets must go. No,
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    • 287 4 NYT CARTER Hawley Hale Stores Inc, the largest department store chain on the West Coast of the USA, sought protection from its creditors under federal bankruptcy law on Monday, in an effort to shore up its deteriorating finances. In filing for Chapter 11
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    • 522 4 NYT CONTINUING a cost-cut-ting drive to try to regain its competitive edge. Sears, Roebuck Co announced on Monday that it was eliminating 9,000 more full and part-time jobs in its struggling merchandise group. The trims will bring to 33,000 the number of jobs cut
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 90 4 THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION has approved the revised terms of a beer industry cooperation deal between brewer Foster's Brewing Group Ltd and Grand Metropolitan pic after objecting to their original plans. A Commission statement issued in Brussels on Monday said the revised agreement would
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      • 87 4 A GERMAN CONSORTIUM led by Siemens AG's power unit, KWU, has won an order valued at about 360 million marks (***** million) to expand a gas-fired power generator near Bombay, India. KWU said on Monday that more than half of the order, from Maharashtra State Electricity
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      • 75 4 LION NATHAN LTD has said that the presence of Brierley Investments Ltd on its share register will have no impact on the management and future direction of the company. Lion Nathan chief executive Doug Myers said in a statement issued in Wellington yesterday that his company
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      • 107 4 GERMAN APPLIED CHEMICALS firm Joh A Benckiser GmbH has bought two cosmetics brands from US firm Revlon Inc, although the price is not known. The two brands will be incorporated in a new US unit, Lancaster Group (USA) Inc, which will sell Germaine Monteil products
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      • 69 4 ASEA BROWN BOVERI AG (ABB), the German unit of Swiss-Swedish group ABB Asea Brown Boveri, has taken over a second company in former communist East Germany. An ABB statement issued on Monday said it was taking over Automatisierungsanlagen Cottbus GmbH. The automation technology company, based
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      • 80 4 PACIFIC GAS and Electric Co unit Pacific Gas Transmission Co will be holding an open season from Feb 21 to March 13 for potential shippers on its proposed California natural gas pipeline expansion. Last month, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the expansion
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 552 5 FT GERMANY is willing to respect Britain's desire to "go slow" on fulfilling Stage 2, planned for 1994, of deepening European monetary integration, it emerged on Monday after talks in Bonn between Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany and Mr John Major, the UK
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    • 362 5 Reuter SECURITY PACIFIC Corp's decision to launch a record US$l.3l billion (552.24 billion) offering of fixed rate securities backed by home equity loans resulted from a drop in US interest rates that followed a recent cut in the key discount rate.
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    • 272 5 FT THE FORMER minister of finance of the Russian Federation, Mr Boris Fcdorov, is to join the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as a head of department. Mr Fedorov, 33, is the most senior Soviet citizen so far to be recruited by
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    • 229 5 FT THE South Australian state government has set up an inquiry into how the State Bank of South Australia (SBSA) accumulated bad debts estimated at Asl billion (551.33 billion), apparently without being aware of the size of the problem. The government said Ken
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 84 5 FRENCH bank Societe Generate will move most of its market-making operations in ECU-denominated instruments to London from Paris. The bank said in a statement that market-making in ECU-denominated French Treasury OATs will continue in Paris but other business would be handled in London by
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      • 70 5 BANQUE Nationale de Paris said its offer for Capital Leasing Group was unconditional in all respects. BNP said in a statement that it received Irish mergers, takeovers and monopolies clearance, the final regulatory hurdle for its recommended 44 Irish pence per share offer. On Jan 3,
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      • 72 5 JAPAN and other major nations will continue to cooperate closely to help ensure stability in the currency and other financial markets, Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said. He also told the finance committee of the parliament's Upper House that Japan's domestic prices are generally stable now,
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      • 76 5 MOODY'S Investors Service has downgraded its ratings on US$l6.5 billion (Ss2B billion) of New York bonds. The rating service said New York, the biggest city in the United States, was highly vulnerable to further downturns in the economy and cuts in state aid. Moody's lowered its
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 81 6 THAI INTERIOR MINISTER Pramarn Adircksarn has brushed aside calls from the union movement for the government to use its influence on the Wage Committee to raise the daily minimum wage, according to The Nation. Workers from four major industrial areas of Bangkok
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      • 60 6 CAMBODIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Hor Nam Hong is to fly to Bangkok on Friday for talks with Thai officials on peace efforts for his embattled country. Mr Hor is to meet Thai Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan during his stay in the Thai capital. He is expected to
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      • 83 6 VIETNAM'S coal industry has hit a crisis point, causing thousands of lay-offs. The official IWhan Dan daily attributed the slump in Vietnam's domestic and export coal markets to poor quality coal, management's inexperience and inadequate infrastructure. One of the three large state companies,
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      • 65 6 ASIA-PACIFIC COUNTRIES must introduce preventative programmes to save lives and reduce the crippling financial burden when natural disasters struck, said a senior United Nations official in Bangkok. Shah Kibria, executive secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, said it
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      • 75 6 THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT has approved supplementary funding of As 69 million (about SsB7 million) for this financial year to cover Canberra's costs in the Gulf War. Defence Minister Robert Ray told parliament yesterday the extra funding was for costs linked to Australia's three warships serving with
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      • 55 6 VIETNAM AND LAOS have signed a new five-year trade accord that includes an agreement to use convertible currencies. Laotian Commerce and Tourism Minister Khamphoui Keoboualapha and Vietnamese Commerce Minister Hoang Minh Thang signed the agreement on Monday, laying the framework for an estimated US$l4 million
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      • 71 6 MULTINATIONAL tobacco company Rothmans said yesterday it had contributed funds to New Zealand's two main political parties but denied a claim it was trying to buy favours. Opposition Labour Party health spokeswoman and former health minister Helen Clark claimed last week that Rothmans had funded the
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      • 72 6 DEMOCRACY in Papua New Guinea is threatened by a collapse of law and order. Prime Minister Rabbie Namaliu, in addressing a national conference on crime on Monday, said: "Crime is the greatest challenge and the greatest threat facing our young nation." He admitted that the
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    • 487 6 Demand for electricity far exceeds supply Reuter INDONESIA, Asia's biggest oil producer, is running short of power with its economy on overdrive. "Never in our history has demand for electricity jumped like this," Artono Arismunandar, who is in charge of the country's electricity
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    • 66 6 Burmese Karen guerillas carrying a mix of weapons, including M-16 assault rifles and M-79 grenade launchers, while watching a boxing match at their headquarters on the Burmese-Thai frontier. The Karen, an ethnic minority which has fought central control for more than four decades, use
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    • 514 6 Reuter RECESSION has stalled Australia's dream of building the world's first private spaceport, but the idea may get off the ground eventually. The Australian company planning the world's first private spaceport is up for sale. But the Australian government says the concept of a
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    • 340 6 BANGKOK'S attempts to revive a project allowing private companies to reforest deteriorated land have met with opposition from conservationists who claim the government is not able to see the woods for the trees. Two leading conservationists say the scheme will lead to more
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    • 238 6 UPI AMERICA'S economic recession and an anticipated slowdown of the Japanese economy in 1991 will combine to affect economies of some East Asian countries, a major Japanese commercial bank reported yesterday. "After maintaining a high growth rate on the strength
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    • 354 6 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Wong Chew Hwang of BDc 108 #06-26 Aljunied Crescent, Singapore 1438, have applied for a First Class Beer House licence in respect of premises at M/s Seafood City Restaurant at No. 2 Cactus Road, Singapore 2880, and that this application will be heard
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    • 358 6 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Seah Eng Seng of Blk 60 #02-213 Dakota Crescent, Singapore 1439, have applied for a Beer House, Fiist Clao licence in respect of premises at M/s Wong Fob Cafe at Blk 3004 Übi Ave 3 #*****, Singapore 1440, and (hat this application will
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    • 130 6 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Zaini Daing Basok of Blk 354 Hougang Avenue 7 #02-705 Singapore 1953, have applied for a First Class Public House Liquor Licence in respect of premises at M/s Jockey Bar at Mezzanine Floor, Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Road Singapore 0922, and that this
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  • THE WORLD
    • 395 7 NYT AN UNEXPECTED surge in producer prices underlines the continuing virulence of British inflation, making it more difficult for the government to reduce 14 per cent interest rates anytime soon, economists said on Monday. The analysts said January figures provide stark
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    • 229 7 FT European Community's agriculture budget is running out of control with a record increase of 7.9 billion ECUs (5518.6 billion) now forecast for spending on farm price supports this year, according to a confidential Commission memorandum. The new figure exceeds the budget approved
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 123 7 S3 VIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has proposed scrapping the Warsaw Pact's military structure by April 1. He made the proposal to Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel ii a message delivered on Monday by the Soviet ambassador it Prague, the Czechoslovak news agency CTK reported.
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      • 91 7 TAIWANESE businessmen continued heavy overseas investment last month, and foreign investment on the island also posted a hefty year-on-year increase. Taiwan's investment commission said on Monday that local investors ploughed US$275 million (Ss47o million) into overseas projects last month, topping December's US$267 million and nearly tricing
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      • 94 7 NORTH KOREA'S chronic food shortage has worsened lately because of an unusually poor harvest last year caused by bad weather. South Korea's Information Ministry said in a report on Monday that food crop production in North Korea last year was estimated at 4.8 million tonnes including
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      • 49 7 SOUTH KOREA is seriously concerned that workers are increasingly leaving manufacturing for service and leisure industries, the government Economic Planning Board (EPB) said in a report yesterday. As a result, small and mediumsized industries were suffering from a serious shortage of manpower, it said.
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    • 430 7 THE GULF Reuter EGYPT, which has found a new world standing because of its stance on the Gulf crisis, hopes economic reforms will turn Cairo into a financial centre for the Middle East, a senior government banker said. "We are aiming to
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    • 223 7 UPI SAUDI ARABIA is expected to enter world markets for the first time to borrow money to help finance the Gulf War and double the size of its military force. British economist Paul Rivlin said in Tel Aviv on Monday that the
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    • 8 7 Hoynor staff take a pay cut, Pg 8
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    • 169 7 The Clever Investment The fundamental axiom of commerce is to buy low and sell h.gh Recently launched, the New Accord is already ha.led the best buy in its cla Ne e dless to say. for its value added, the demand for New Accord exceeds supply as scarcity elevates pr.ce A
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  • 527 8 EDITORIAL SINGAPORE'S hotel industry seems to be one of boom alternating with gloom. And right now gloom is the forecast for the immediate future, no thanks to the dark clouds caused by the Gulf war. With occupancy rates having fallen to around the 50 per
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 212 8 IF SINGAPORE is to tackle the problem of rape, a number of harmful myths need to be dispelled and attitudes need to be changed. Unless the crime is understood for what it really is, misconceptions will prevail. The Criminal Investigation Department has singled out enforcement and education
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    • 138 8 THE Lithuanians have established a bold precedence for the rest of the Soviet republics with their overwhelming vote for independence from the Soviet Union. Despite the soft words used by Lithuanian politicians towards the Kremlin, there is no denying that independence means Lithuania is a separate entity,
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    • 156 8 LITHUANIA has gone ahead to vote for independence in defiance of Mr Gorbachev, at a time when the Soviet Union is in a precarious position. Although the Lithuanian poll is not unexpected, it aggravates the confrontation between the Soviet central government and the various republics. Whether or not
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 205 8 THE DAWNING of conceptual thinking regarding a new Middle East regional order in the post-Gulf War period, which was initiated by US Secretary of State James Baker, should not be considered premature. Of course, much will depend on how the war ends, and how soon Kuwait's
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    • 141 8 IF CHINA seeks to restrict media access to the third round of talks on Hongkong's airport-and-port scheme in Beijing later this month, it will be another mistake to add to the catalogue of errors already made by both governments in handling the project. Refusal to grant visas
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    • 175 8 IF THE Gulf War is prolonged it is predicted that the US will request additional funds. One possible step would be placing limits on the nature and use of the funds contributed by passing a Diet resolution. The government and LDP took quick measures to indicate their unwavering
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  • 1354 8  -  The battle for survival is being lost all over corporate Britain. Michael Cassell reports Michael Cassell FT IN a final, despairing effort to stave off the receivers, the 77 employees of Hoynor Trailers, a long-estab-lished manufacturer of car transporters, took a pay cut. The company
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    • 148 8 J Q Companies make news because they make V 1 IC profits or losses for you. m hbbba The Business Times' COMPANIES NEWS T Bfl E Ml E lMm pages are very widely read. f We reveal the latest deals in Singapore and the region, profile the movers and shakers
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 814 9  -  Hostile bidders, says The Economist, are not dead. They are just resting The Economist CORPORATE raiders make such convenient demons. Despite posing as champions of small shareholders, they have never been popular. During the 1980s they used fiendish new "junk" bonds to wreck scores
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    • 2518 9  -  What is it about Chinese management which gives it amazing advantages over 'modern' methods? Matthew Montagu-Pollock, Finance Editor for Asian Business, finds out Matthew Montagu-Pollock MODERN management was invented about 100 years ago by an American engineer named Frederick Taylor, whose time and motion studies were
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  • FOCUS
    • 756 10 Combined effort helps to cut costs and save paper Asahi News Service WHILE the problem of ever-in-creasing garbage continues to be a headache for Tokyo, more than 20 offices of major companies in the city's central business district arc uniting in an effort
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    • 474 10 Reuter AN American company thinks it has the solution to a waste disposal nightmare costing billions of dollars each year products that can be pulled apart when ready for the dustbin and recycled. "Construction for destruction" is the idea advocated by Polymer Solutions, which has begun production
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  • SPORTS
    • 616 11 AP GUILLAUME RAOUX scored a 6-4, 7-6 (9-7) win over Dan Goldie on the opening day of the US Pro Indoor tournament in Philadelphia on Monday and will face top seed Ivan Lendl in the second round. Raoux, a quarter-finalist in Paris last
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    • 210 11 AP NOW that Corey Pavin has his first PGA Tour victory in two years, it's on to bigger and better things like the majors. "I was tired of not winning tournaments," Pavin said after his playoff victory over Mark O'Meara at the Bob Hope
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    • 200 11 AFP SOUTH and North Korea agreed yesterday for the first time to form unified sports teams, saying they would join forces for this year's World Table Tennis and World Youth Football Championships. The verbal "complete agreement" came in a meeting at the border
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    • 298 11 Reuter AUSTRALIAN golfer Greg Norman, ranked number two in the world, said yesterday that he wept until dawn on a beach after narrowly losing one of golfs major tournaments. Norman, 36, has won only one major, the British Open in 1986, but has missed out on
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    • 198 11 SINGAPORE Press Holdings has donated $140,000 to the Tiong Bahru Constituency Sports Club. The money was handed over by the Chief Operating Officer of Singapore Press Holdings, Dennis Tay, to Ch'ng Jit Koon, Minister of State (Community Development) and Member
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    • 362 11 AP MAGIC JOHNSON is not the oldest or most experienced player in the National Basketball Association. Yet, after 10 All-Star game appearances, he has become a Karnak of All-Stars, all-seeing, all-knowing and all-understanding. The All-Star MVP in 1989, Johnson was a secondary figure in Sunday's
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      • 76 11 ONE-DAY specialist Simon O'Donnell, who has not played a Test match in five years, has won Australia s International Cricketer of the Year award. O'Donnell's win, announced in Sydney on Monday night, is a major surprise as he P»yed no part in Australia's 3-0 defeat of
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      • 81 11 PHIL BARKDOLL led the way on Monday in second-round qualifying for Sunday's Daytona 500. The veteran racer from Arizona improved from 305.584 kph in Saturday's first round of time trials to 309.956 kph, moving him up to 10th overall in the qualifying so far. "I told myself,
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      • 75 11 ASTON VILLA on Monday paid £400,000 for full back Neil Cox, who has played only 25 first team games for Fourth Division football club Scunthorpe. The fee equals the record fee paid for a Fourth Division player. Cox was to fly out with his new
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      • 67 11 EDDIE LAWSON of the United States, who has won four world 500 cc titles for Yamaha, will ride for the Italian stable Cagiva for the next two seasons. The firm announced on Monday that he will be partnered on the world championship circuit by up-and-coming
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      • 83 11 ENGLAND and India are among eight countries which have put themselves forward to stage the 1998 World Cup. The International Football Federation (FIFA) said on Monday that Brazil, Chile, England, France, India, Morocco, Portugal and Switzerland were the contenders when the deadline passed for first applications.
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      • 98 11 RUMOURS that Soviet skater Marina Kilmova was on drugs when she won the European ice dance title with her husband Sergei Ponomarenko in Sofia last month will be put to the test in Germany. A Cologne laboratory has been given the task of analysing a sample
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      • 107 11 GRACE JACKSON has ducked out of a confrontation with fellow Jamaican Merlene Ottey in England on Sunday. They due to meet over the rare indoor distance of 300 metres but Jackson haS switched to 200 metres. Ottey, the Commonwealth and Grand Prix champion, will be warming up
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1351 13  -  Anthony Hopkins tells Bruce Weber about his role as yet another movie psychopath, and says he does it only because people have this affinity with psychos Bruce Weber NYT THE perversely twisted mind has always been a favourite subject of storytellers. From lago to Norman
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    • 457 13 CHATTERBOX THREE of Prince's former managers have filed a lawsuit claiming the rock star owes them US$6OO,OOO and cost them potential commissions by making bad career moves against their advice. Robert Cavallo, Joseph Ruffalo and Steve Fargnoli claim breach of contract, fraud and badfaith
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4791 14  -  By SN Vasuki THE Singapore stockmarket closed firmer yesterday as investors picked up selective blue chip stocks. The market also received a boost from the strong showing of New York on Monday which sent share prices in Tokyo soaring. The Straits Times
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 244 16 vompany Date Yur Gro«p N«t Net earnings Grata mr to pram/tots (L) par share dividend (*000) (cents) Ci£ Ian 14 Sep 90 $53,947 ($34,649) 30 8(22 5a) 15(85a) •W Jan 14 Sep 90 $53,080($62,868) 30 1(365) 17.9(179) rl Msia Jan 14 Sep 90 $1886(1402) 114(2.4) 20(5) Ixnes Pub
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    • 204 16 Company Data Yaar Group pra-tax Nat earnings Cross ana to profit/loss (L) per share dMdond (000) (cants) UUtt Feb 8 Dec 90 MJ198,464(1100.841) 52.3(34 6) 15(-) q Securities Feb 6 Dec 90 $3.029($2.130) 3.1(2.0) 10(7.5) M Cement Jan 17 Nov 90 M$61,313($39,640) 18 5(11.5) 68.3|(16TE) H leong Credit
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    • 348 16 Umpaoy Oat* H«M-y«jr Group pre-tax lotorim ann to profit/loss (L) dhrMood ('000) EMI Feb 8 Dec 90 $600(1457) 50(-) Khonj Guan Jan 31 Oct 90 $139(5451) —(—> Intef-Pacifk Jan 26 Oct 90 M$63.497($55,405) 4(5) C entrepot* Jan 25 Oec 90 $10,309(57.926) 2.9(2.9) Beriaya Corpn Jan 24 Oct 90
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    • 939 16 Band* Raya Development Bhd will launch the first phase of its billion-ringgit Capital Square protect in May this year Jycto Matheson Hoidngs. its subsidiary Strategy Holdings, and associates Dairy Farm and Mandarin Oriental have received approval to list their shares and warrants on the Stock Exchange of Singapore.
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    • 250 16 Current Ex Books Date Total far Total for payaioot data doao pay aWe tfca yoar last yoar AMFfT 3C(e) Dec 14 Jan 3 Feb 18 3c 2 8C Asm* Find USSO 10(b) Mar 18 Mar 28 Apr 8 US$010 Mm SITE Feb 25 Mar 7 May 15 12
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    • 557 16 Singapore Stocks Last Full Year Company Period Date *«ar AH EPS Grots Net mmtd en*x (cmts) (to profit t»t year (1*000) CM Padum Interim Nov 13 Dec 90 29 7 132 11.616(c) BMT Interim tan 10 Jun 91 254 2 150 0 773 took final Feb 16 Dec
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    • 188 16 Company Rights Issue H Laong Cm»t Two-tor five MJ2 80 per share Ej-date Feb 21 Books dose Mar 7 Acceptance i Payment NY* Company Bonus Issue H Leong Cradt Three-tor live Ei-date Feb 21 Books dose Mar 7 Onental Hdgi One-torfrve Ex-date Feb 8 Books dose Feb 25
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    • 176 16 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Industrials Index 1991 htft 1135 40 (12/2/91) jjf JjJJjjJ 1991 to«r *****2 (16/1/91) JJJ J" JJ9.M jjjWJJ 1990 h* 1435 43 (16/7/90) «J J* «£.12 /n /S/2 1990 loir 981 07 (09/11/90) [J* J? J2£ 11/5/2 1989 1322.00 (28/12/89) J®JW-76 26/ 2/89 1989
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4076 17 Bernama SHARE PRICES in Kuala Lumpur yesterday soared 1.4 per cent in heavy trading, aided by a powerful surge on Wall Street overnight and the bullish performance of regional bourses. The KLSE Composite Index jumped 7.69 points to close at 526.01, its highest
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2236 18 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS yesterday closed sharply higher but off their highs after active, heavy trade. The gains were broad-based and were spearheaded by aggressive foreign purchases as bullish energy from overnight Wall Street infected Tokyo players returning from a three-day weekend. "It
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2073 18 Reuter HONGKONG stocks yesterday ended barely firmer in confused but robust trade, brokers said. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index gained more than 30 points in the first half-hour after the opening in a flurry of enthusiastic buying sparked by a stocks surge in
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Aussie stocks surge to four-month high
      • 1003 19 A FURIOUS morning buying spree which sent the Australian share market soaring to its highest close in more than four months yesterday had brokers heralding the start of the next bull run. The All Ordinaries Index surged more than 33 points to a high of 1398.7 in morning trade,
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      • 865 19 SEOUL SHARES were bolstered yesterday by soaring offshore markets and closed sharply higher in active trade as a buying spree ahead of Lunar New Year lifted the market, brokers said. The Composite Stock Index ended the day at 648.11, up 18.54 points from the previous session. Turnover was ac-
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      • 320 19 THE Taiwan Stock Exchange was closed yesterday for the Chinese New Year holiday. It will re-open on Feb 19. On Monday, the weighted index rose 188.73 points (4.2 per cent) to close at 4,729.65 on a turnover of NT568.85 billion. Taipei Feb 11 NTS All Sinccrc Indus 12.70 +0.2
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      • 226 19 PROFIT TAKERS and a drying up of orders pared the New Zealand share market's 3.5 per cent morning gain to a rise of 1.6 per cent at the close. The Barclays Index Estimate, which was up 49.93 at the morning close, ended 23.62 higher at 1,430.56. Brokers said
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      • 751 19 THAI STOCKS advanced sharply yesterday after big gains in New York and Tokyo, but prices closed off highs on late profit-taking on finance firms and second liners, brokers said. The SET index rose 22.08 points to a five-month high of 767.30. Turnover soared to 135,907,311 shares worth 7.14. billion
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      • 493 19 PHILIPPINE share prices opened stronger but closed off the session's high after investors took profit yesterday. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 10.73 points to close at 887.41. The combined volume at the two bourses slipped to 1.81 billion shares from Monday's 2.17 billion but value rose to
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      • 86 19 INDICES TURNOVER Close Keb 12 Previous SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index All Industrials Index All Resources Index Turnover (million) 1,385.6 2,170.3 788.4 121.61 1,366.4 2,140 4 777.3 74.82 19.2 29.9 11.1 46.79 BANGKOK SET Index Turnover (million baht) 767.30 7,140 745.22 6.200 22.08 +940 JAKARTA Composite Index Closed 381.23 MANILA Composite
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      • 347 19 FEB 11 Index In local currency S day year change change In S$ day year change change In LSS day year change change World tEAFE Europe Pacific Far East 383.8 496.7 388.1 822.2 1069.2 0.8 0.7 1.5 0.1 0.0 7.2 5.7 6.5 5.0 4.9 0.8
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Wall Street stages another big rally
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        1263 20 THE WALL STREET stock market beSin the week with a bold rally on Monay, as investors bet that the US will soon pull out of recession and that the worst of the economic news has been absorbed. The Dow Jones industrial average closed with a large gain of
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        882 20 UK SHARES were becalmed at lower levels just after midday yesterday, having slipped in mid-morning after an early rally prompted by sharp rises on Wall Street fizzled out. "Everyone is starting to think that we've gone too far too quickly. There is no doubt there was a bit of
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      • 350 20 SWISS SHARES traded slightly lower at a lively midsession yesterday as prof-it-taking and the expiry of Soffex options on Friday erased early strong gains of more than one pet, dealers said. But traders said the selling, which centred on blue chips, was easily absorbed by the market. The all-share
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      • 226 20 FRENCH SHARE PRICES turned lower by midsession after a buoyant opening yesterday, in what dealers described as a return to reality after a heady rise late last week. "It's the dawn of reality...lt just shows how shaky sentiment is," said one dealer. Dealers cited a realisation there was little
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      • 199 20 PROFIT-TAKING, which emerged around half-way through the session yesterday, pared early gains although Milan stocks still closed higher overall. "It was an obvious correction after a prolonged advance," said one broker. "I was ready to take profits now." The MIB all-share index closed 0.58 per cent higher at 1,032,
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      • 174 20 GERMAN SHARES started mostly lower in a quiet market yesterday, though some stocks bucked the lower trend to show isolated gains. Dealers said lower German bond prices and growing concern about the sharp rise in US stocks was weighing on the market. US prices are now almost at the
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      • 255 20 DUTCH SHARES stood lower in hesitant trade at midsession yesterday following a fall in stock prices in London and a weaker dollar, dealers said. Stock markets in Europe had started firmer on Wall Street's surge on Monday, but the effect ebbed to leave prices lower. "People took profit as
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      • 323 20 JOHANNESBURG gold shares shares extended Monday's losses in quiet early trading yesterday as world bullion prices lost further ground, but industrials remained buoyant, dealers said. At 10:15 the JSE All-Gold Index had slipped further to 1040 after easing to a 1062 close on Monday, but the industrial index was
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      • 203 20 TORONTO STOCKS trailed a surging Wall Street, rallying for a ninth straight day with sharp gains in 12 of 14 sectors on Monday, dealers said. "People not wanting to miss the bandwagon are jumping in for sure," said Ted Norris, a senior vice-president with Nesbitt Thomson Deacon. The Composite
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      • 159 20 BELGIAN SHARES yesterday opened higher in trading described by dealers as among the busiest in months. Trading worth 196 million francs was done within 15 minutes. "It's really busy. Booming foreign markets are pulling the others up, as are lower interest rates," one dealer said. Generale de Banque's shares
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      • 121 20 Feb II Ooae Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,902.23 2,830.69 +71.54 NYSE Financial 143.89 139.67 +4.22 S&P500 368.57 359.34 +9.23 Turnover (million) 265.35 187.8 +77.55 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,793.7 1,760.2 33.5 FTSE 100 2,279.0 2,245.2 33.8 Turnover (million) 478.4 380.2 98.2 AMSTERDAM CBS Tendency Index 83.7 81.9 +1.8 FRANKFURT
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1247 21 REPORT THE US DOLLAR started steady in early European trade, but dealers said the outlook for the currency continued bearish, after it hit a new all-time low against the mark in US trade on Monday. At 1.4475/80 marks the dollar
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    • 392 21 Cross rates Fcb>2 USS S$ MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZS USS 1.7085 2.6880 1.4470 127.60 0.5010 1.2375 1.2804 1.6598 SS 0.5853 1.5733 0.8469 0.7469 0.2932 0.7243 0.7494 0.9715 M$ 0.3720 63.56 0.5383 0.4747 0.1864 0.4604 0.4763 0.6175 Dm 0.6911 1.1807 1.8576 88.18 0.3462 0.8552 0.8849 1.1470
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    • 559 21 Interbank rates s$ (>ffeT Overnight 4 1/2 4 5/8 t-month 4 7/16 4 9/16 2-month 4 1/2 4 5/8 3-month 4 9/16 4 11/16 Overnight mode: 4-3/8 USS Bid Offer 7 days 6 1/2 6 5/8 1 month 6 7/16 6 9/16 2 months 6 9/16 6 11/16
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    • 429 21 Reuter THE US treasury market may be range-bound with limited downside in the short term, before resuming its upward long term trend, technical analysts said. A few options analysts predicted the March 30-year futures would hover around an "artificial" level around 98
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 388 22 Reuter A SLUMP in the European and US car industries has pushed natural rubber prices down to levels last seen before the 1986/88 Aids-related boom, analysts said. "The market is weak entirely because of expectations on the demand side with car sales
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    • 308 22 Reuter INSPIRED by deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off Brazil, North Sea oil firms arc being lured into previously untried depths off the edge of the continental shelf. Geologists reckon most of the easily developed oil reserves
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    • 875 22 REPORTS HONGKONG: Gold ended lower in thin and quiet trade on long-liquidation and speculative selling triggered by a softer silver price after Europe opened, dealers said. "Late selling pressure on bullion which pressured the metal to breach a psychological support of
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 695 23  -  POSTCARD FROM HAVANA By Pascal Fletcher THE streets of Havana and other Cuban cities are being filled with "goats." As fuel shortages bite across the communist-ruled Caribbean island and reduce the number of cars on the road, people are turning increasingly to imported Chinese
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    • 146 23 As at 3pm yesterday; Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3260 1.3460 Canadian dollar 1.4650 1.4850 NZ dollar 1.0180 1.0580 Sterling pound 3.390 3.420 US dollar 1.7020 1.7170 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 16.50 17.50
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    • 86 23 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tej Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Feb 13-17 International Spain Fcna Zaragoza (34)76/*****0 March 3 Trade Fair Germany Und Kongress Wa,cr Fa,r Protection Feb 28- 14th International Milan Trade Associazione 02/*****04 Feb 19-21 Air Traffic Holland Expoconsult (0707)*****5 March 4 Exhibition Of Fair.
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    • 217 23 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Forecast: Maximum temperature 30.5 Assoc humidity 68% Minimum temperature 23.5* C Assoc humidity 94% Hours of sunshine I 05 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 7.1 Rainy days this month 3 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond.
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  • 439 24 Exports and imports down from preceding months Bernama MALAYSIA achieved a turnaround in her balance of trade in November last year, registering a surplus of M 5531.5 million (*****.4 million), the first since June 1990. The statistics department said in its latest
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  • 310 24  -  From Michelle Rowe in BANGKOK THAI domestic airfares will go up 23 per cent because of a rise in fuel costs since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last August. International passenger fees at the popular tourist spot of Phuket would also be
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  • 376 24 Agencics THAILAND will for the first time seek international bids from private companies to invest in and build 12 of 59 new power plants planned for 1993-2001, a government spokesman said. He told reporters in Bangkok yesterday that this was part of
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  • 496 24 THE gGMir WAR. Agencies AN ISRAELI official said yesterday that Defence Minister Moshe Arens had sought US approval for Israel to play a role in wiping out Iraqi missile launchers. Earlier, Mr Arens was reported to have told US President George Bush
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  • 318 24 Reuter KUWAIT'S government-in-exile has ruled out a quick return of the Parliament it dissolved in 1986, setting itself on a collision course with pro-democracy activists. In Monday's announcement, the exiled government also refused the activists' request for speedy elections in a Kuwait
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  • 540 24 Reuter JAPANESE firms will lend more and invest more in China this year but anxieties remain over inflation and long-term political stability after the 1989 military crackdown, traders and bankers said yesterday. They said the unresolved question of China's political
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  • 458 24 AFP THE PHILIPPINES wants all American troops out of the country by 1996, when a proposed phase-out period for US bases ends and a regional security arrangement will have been forged. The two countries entered on Monday the final round of talks
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  • Shipping Times
    • 460 25  -  THE GULF «99A WAR By Rahita Elias NEARLY one month into the Gulf war, courier firms operating in Singapore are still going strong in the Middle East market. However, given the war's disruptive impact on air links in the region, shipments would
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    • 297 25 MALAYSIA has awarded a contract, worth an estimated US$l.3 billion (552.2 billion), for the construction of five liquified natural gas (LNG) tankers to a French shipyard. The contract will be signed today between Malaysia's national petroleum company, Petronas, and French shipyard Chantiers de l'Atlantique.
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    • 475 25 Reuter WASHINGTON'S trade embargo against Hanoi has prevented Vietnam Airlines from leasing a Boeing 737-300 from a Dutch airline, aviation officials in Hanoi and Amsterdam said this week. Amsterdam-based Transavia Airlines had agreed to lease the aircraft to Vietnam Airlines for one
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    • 340 25 Reuter POLAND'S biggest carmaker FSO closed down on Monday for seven weeks to clear its plant in readiness for a new assembly line producing cars designed by Fiat or General Motors. FSO spokesman Zbigniew Skoczek said the company would dismantle the
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    • 293 25 Reuter THERE was yet more bloodletting in the airline industry on Monday, with US carriers announcing big job cuts and stepping up a costly price war they can ill afford but dare not ignore. The fare war, coming on top of recession
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    • 377 25  -  By Dexter Lee MALAYSIAN International Shipping Corporation (MISC) is investing an estimated US$B million (S$ 13.6 million) in new containers as part of a plan to keep annual container leasing costs low. Yesterday, the Malaysian national carrier signed a contract with domestic container manufacturer
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    • 240 25 AFP AUSTRALIAN transport magnate Sir Peter Abeles has pledged his continued support for the loss-incurring Ansett New Zealand airline. "We're here to stay," he told a press conference after meeting Prime Minister Jim Bolger. Ansett runs air services in competition with Air
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      • 66 25 JUST as the concept of containerisation which excited only a minority of shipping companies 30 years ago has revolutionised the entire universe of general-cargo transport, so the concept of securitisation is thought to be likely to have no less an impact on the industry than containerisation by
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      • 39 25 DEMAND for ship financing has dropped since the onset of the Gulf crisis last August as clients defer purchasing decisions due to economic uncertainty and high interest rates, shipping sources said Back Page
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      • 42 25 USAIR INC is laying off 3,585 employees, including 660 pilots, as part of major new reduction in flights to try to survive through the current period of slumping traffic and high fuel costs Back Page
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      • 33 25 BELGIAN airline Sabena presented a restructuring plan to its major shareholder, the Belgian government, in Brussels on Monday in a bid to overcome worsening financial losses, sources said Back Page
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 81 26 THOUSANDS of workers at the giant Daewoo shipyard went into the fourth day of a strike on Monday, while about 1,000 workers assigned to the shipyard's defence-industry department went back to work following a government warning. I ifty-one officials led by union president Paek Soon-Hwan
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      • 75 26 1 IRE HIT a US ship off the southern Indian coast, killing at least one sailor and leaving five more missing. The blaze roared through the engine room of the Stonewall Jackson on Saturday as the ship sailed 450 km off the port of Cochin in
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      • 75 26 INTEREST to ship crude out of West Africa has picked up significantly and further cargoes were again seen coming from the area, brokers said. As overall tonnage availability for February has tightened, the region s tanker market has recently shown gradual advances in rates
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      • 68 26 A SOUTH KOREAN vessel carrying 150,000 tonnes of ore sank in the Pacific Ocean but all 28 crew were rescued, Japan's Maritime Safety Agency said. The 82,014 gross tonne Salvia sank near Minami Torishima Island, 2,000 km east of Tokyo. The South Korean crew
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      • 82 26 NIGERIA AIRWAYS carried 1.5 million full-fare passengers on its national and international network between January 1989 and September 1990. The airline, which is undergoing restructuring to deal with economic difficulties, carried 858,007 passengers in 1989, 647,841 on its domestic routes, 107,784 elsewhere in Africa and in
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      • 90 26 AN ATTRACTIVE contract will make pilots for AMR's American Airlines among the highest paid in the industry, the Allied Pilots Association said. If the package agreed on Saturday is approved, top scale MD-80 captains will be making more than their counterparts at industry-leader Delta
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    • 1559 26  -  Banks may be unwilling to provide the large sums required for fleet renewal in this decade. Peter Douglas argues that securitisation of ship mortgage debt could revolutionise ship financing Peter Douglas Seatrade Business Review JUST as the concept of containerisation which excited only a minority
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    • 974 26 March 5-7: Shipping 2000 Towards Improved Shipping Operations Over the Next Decade, organised by Institut Kelautan Malaysia (IKMAL), Hilton Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. March 12-17: Aviation/Airport Support '91, Manila, Philippines. March 26-28: SingaPort 91 International Conference for the Maritime Industry, organised by Times Conferences, World Trade Centre. For further
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    • 11829 34 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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      • 523 41 «nu» Voy No B«rth Vmii Dtparti™ Keppd Wharves B Kenanga 2/91 K3? alongside 1502/2300 Bays*ater 118 ****** *30 alongside 1202/1400 BuMita Kamys 1 H33 atongside 12 02/2300 Cora Pcess 05A (P) *29 alongside 12 02/1745 Kota Ratu E 889 K31 aior*side 1202/2300 Tapnta 2103 C09 alongside 15
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      • 1302 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookinf/Balance Rs#s Voy No Elb/Btr Period From To From cxiade 34A 13/1500 1 12/1500 12/1659 12/1900 ifx 9 15/0700 2 12/1700 13/0659 13/0900 S 3 13/0700 13/1159 13/1400 4 13/1200 13/1459 13/1700 k iftiN 14/1000 2 12/1700 13/0659 13/0900
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      • 356 41 Port Klang Berth at South Port on Feb 12: 1: nil; 2: Victoria Cob 3 Shoryu, 4 ml; 5 ml; 6 Pelita; 7 Megah Brooke I; 7A Itkas Venture; J.Shell: ml KCT: 8: Wan Hai 202; 9: Gulf Bridge. 10; Ever Genius North Port: 11: ml; 12
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    • 1121 41 CHARTERING on the dry cargo freight market on Monday featured active time-char-ter and coal fixings at firmer levels, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index rose a further nine points to 1,553. The Index has risen 87 points since Jan 30. However, the US Gulf to Japan timecharter sub-index
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    • 572 42 THE GULF flsn Reuter DEMAND for ship financing has dropped since the onset of the Gulf crisis last August as clients defer purchasing decisions due to economic uncertainty and high interest rates, shipping sources said. Already depressed by the worldwide tightening of credit,
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    • 260 42 AFP BELGIAN airline Sabena presented a restructuring plan to its major shareholder, the Belgian government, in Brussels on Monday in a bid to overcome worsening financial losses, industry sources said. They said the plan, expected to be made public yesterday, involves large-scale injection of
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    • 603 42 NYT USAIR INC is laying off 3,585 employees, including 660 pilots, as part of major new reduction in flights to try to survive through the current period of slumping traffic and high fuel costs. The cut, which is about 6
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    • 10 25 USAir to cut its work force by 6pc, Back Page
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    • 129 25 I HI UNITED EUI9 lIASNGI SERVICES FIE LTD Container Schedule 17 Daily Frwghts 17 Index to Advertisers 3 Shipping Gude 10.11 Shps m Port 17 Singapore Tries 17 Transport Diary 2 Weather and Sea Condrtons 17 Hotel service wars Those frequent flyer programmes SINGAPORE I VOl '5 No? "~"~~.."1 Z
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    • 101 26 FOR WHO, WHAT, WHERE AHD WHEN IN THE MARKET. ADVERTISING MARKETING, in BUSINESS TIMES every Thursday, covers a vital sector of the economy comprising the country's communications muscle. The page monitors business developments and the players in both international and Singaporean advertising agencies; it charts and reports on trends in
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    • 2162 27 JAROINI SHIPPING AGENCIES AlllM MO Cantonment Road 012 05 Southpomt Singapore 020* JnMwmw no rs ■ffima TERMINAL.CFS Tel *****18 220 EWFAAAfIfI BOOKINGS Tel *****34 258 L %CCGf J SAKA JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SON BHD ORT KELANG TEL ******8 MA***** MA***** PCNANG TEL *****4 TELEX NO MA4OO/3 CfS TEI *****6 D.-Ju.lh-J
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    • 1235 27 INDEX] TOMVEKIISERS Page Col Pige Col I X Line Fast Pic 14 1 I Liner Shpg 16 3 ABC Containciline 13 5 Lizena 15 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 «Lloyd Brasileiro 12 3 AFS 15 I Uoyd Triestino 4 1/2 Ahrenkiel Liner 16 3 Lucky Seaway 15 3 Albatros Sea-Air
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    • 1286 28 |rottedam/| VOY NO S PORE SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG ANTWFRP LE HAVRE ifIHH HAMBURG EXPRESS 01/516 14/2 7/3 5/3 4/3 4/3 M^SUMi HANNOVER EXPRESS 01/518 17/2 5/3 9/3 11/3 12/3 C T«rtii«n KOWLOON BAY 99/519 21/2 12/3 16/3 11/3 11/3 I AIt'toTWUNOI THAMES 04/521 24/2 13/3 16/3 18/3 19/3 KEUNG CA«O OSAKA
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    • 1340 28 KltlAilll &SSTB REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTAINER SERVICE WESTBOUND FOR EUROPE fSL/VOY SIN ALG BCL HAM BRE ROT ANT FEL LHA (VIA (VIA (VIA ALG) HAM) ROT) lORASIA SUN 9049-3 15/02 02/03 03/03 08/03 09/02 10/03 11/03 12/03 13/03 40RASIA PEARL 9050 3 18/02 10/03 11/03 15/03 16/03 17/03 18/03 19/03
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    • 1888 29 Steamers Maritime Holdings Ltd krv P&O fITIWSTRAITS SHIPPING I VML f— Singapore ta Brawl, East Malaysia. Containers M jw j Voy No P Klang S'poie S'ton H'burg B haven R"dam Lob HAMBURG EXPRESS 01,516 »*****,02 14 08 0703 OM>3 0303 ACCEPTS DUE SAILS MANNOvERfcXP 01,518 +BSER!O«ffi 17 02 DMI3 0/
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    • 1446 29 TQ- U S A /PANAMA FM; U,S,A,/PANAMA SP OAK LGB cm FOB SAV NOR NTC NTC NOR SAV C*l LGB OAK SP CMOTANG PARK IF 107 10(3 12/3 11/3 2M 27/1 2*l »3 JAPAN SENATOR HA 105 21/1 »1 »1 2*l M JO W NEW YORK SENATOR CF 101 2<M
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    • 352 29 ISSS STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS 1 C ,BSS SKST VOV. NO 15 15 14 Spore SLD W 23/2 P. Keljng IN PT 17/2 Penang Vinjon Mongla ChittJgong Calcutta Yokohama Nagoya Osaka Scflboku Hochiminh NOTE ALSO CALLINC OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG, TAIWAN t CHINESE PORTS, SUBJECT
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    • 721 30 f CR NBR **********0-0 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO EUROPE VSL.VOY S PORE RDAM ADAM H BURG BREMEN ANTWERP MATARAM.2BNB In Pt 2/3 »3 2/4 4/4 TRIAS UNITY «CWB 8/3 V* 15 J®'* SRIWIJAYA 31WB 29(3 VS 'P W fast transit time ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO 3ob|ect to Induccmanl. Alto »cc*ptlng cargo
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    • 867 30 J4 yfc 'M. HANJIN SHIPPING FEEOER VSL SIN LINE HAUL LAX OAK S port ILEH RTM ANR HAM BRV FEL HANJIN ROT TEROAM 012E I*2 H POHANG 107E 25/3 27/3 HANJIN LEHAVRE OUW 17 2 3 8.3 9 3 9 3 11.3 12 3 CHOYANC VICTORY 002E 2S/2 H TOHANC
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 1744 31 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: A UK/EUROPE SERVICE— *****19 USA SERVICE— *****16 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE— *****18 FAR EAST SERVICE— *****48\ TERMINAL OFFICE :*****22 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/ *****14 CFS: K27 —IMPORT: *****69/*****50 CFS: K27 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 K.L*(O3) E *(03) *****87, Penang-(04) *****0, J.Bahru-(07) *****3, *****4 PTI
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    • 1026 31 m sinsov 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 EASTBOUNO LOADING FOR WESTBOUND VESSELS VOTACt |SPO«f |MANl|> HKOWc" VOYACt SPOtE PKLAMC HBURC I'HAVtW TILXJUT
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    • 1242 32 Kt 4 M n AS AGENTS KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTO (CR No **********0 M) m M TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKI R*****5 FAX *****79 I MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD I TEL PJ *****22 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****5 JB *****1 mmmm kawasaki kisen kaisha, ltd. Indonesia /arorr N. AMERICA
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    • 1151 32 ,pw PHIU-ORKNT UNCS PT€ LTD V 108 ROBINSON ROAO «07 00 GMG BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 TEL *****22/*****69/*****00 TELEX RS ***** PHILI FAX *****76^*****38 BY AIR, LAND OR SEA WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION HQr 24 FEB MONTREAL, OTTAWA, TORONTO, pu l KJA!!!s
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    • 1495 33 snipping limes, nt*ant*>iaay reuru»rj id aaagfjff pacific international lines <pte.) ltd f Jgp PIL Building, 140 CecH Street HKXHX), Singapore 0106. JAKARTA BANGKOK 1 VESSEL VOV SIN bkk SIN b VESSEL VOV SIN SIN PEGASUS PROGRESS 655N 14/2 17/2 21/2 KOTA PAHANG 9106 16/2 20/2 SCA qlorv 9106 16/2 It/2
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    • 1069 33 r BEN LINE CONTAINERS LTD N 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint m iP.m Fax: *****63 Singapore 0208. Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT K VESSEL |VOY SPORE P KLANG SHAMPTON| HAMBURG BHAVEN ROAM LHAVRE Hamburg Express' 01/516 14/2 7/3 5/3 4/3 VIA RO Hannover Express 01/518
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    • 304 33 M MYANMA H FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yanoon (Rangoon) S'pore P.KIg Pw PAGAN VI67W 14/17 Fe* PATNEIN Vlo9* 17 Feb reo MPA AN VIMW Feb TgATHI BANK UNI (A eorvico of Andrew W*»r Shipping) VT SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE \> HEAVY UFT CAPABILITY I EXPRESS TO PAPUA NEW
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    • 758 36 m INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE FROM FAR EAST TO NORTH CONTINENT OUTBOUND SIN FIX BRV ROM ANT HBC CYS FRONTIER Wf 108 W 13/3 11/3 10(3 14 3 LONDON SEN *F1« 22/2 22/3 20(3 H/3 a/3 CYS GLORY WFUO 17/2 18,3 16/3 15/3 U/3 SOHLANO NNIO; 21/2 20/3 21/3 THUERINCEN WMIOB
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    • 1270 36 CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD TEL: *****88/*****22 LOADING FOR OUR CONSOLIDATION SERVICES TO: W t#o M N MMKS MV 0,0 ITS V.T PAGO. MOSmiN 4 71,4 4 5 ISrt Tlrt W OPT EUROPE I DISCHARGING FM BRAZIL J VtSSIL SPOKE HKG MNI Kit YOU NGO KO« MOSTWEEN t 17 4
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    • 1234 36 '"tea t %m. m > iff CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY FULL CONTAINER LINER SERVICE *J® 2. MIST RI ROAD, HMC BUILDING TELEX R J #15-00, SINGAPORE 0207 FA*- |Mr CR NO: **********0 M CABLE: COSTARLINE General Agents: CO6TAR SHIPPING FTC LTD T0 EUROPg mmmmam VCSSEL/VOY SCP NOT HAM FIX ANT
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  • Page 37 Advertisements
    • 847 37 NIHON-ASIA I CR **********0N TEL: *****22 FAX: *****86 I Competitive Rates!! ETA USA All IPI Destns 18/2, 25/2 1 EUROPE all Ports 19/2, 26/2 BANGKOK 20/2, 23/2 HONGKONG/CHINA 15/2, 22/2 SYD, MEL, ADEL, BRIS 21/2, 28/2 FREMANTLE 16/2, 21/2 MANILA 21/2, 28/2 PKLG/PENANG 17/2, 24/2 Port K«lang Branch Tel: *****21/2/3
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    • 297 37 MARINE A6ENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 Llnaa) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Llnaa) [P&FA ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES Y J (National Lines of Ethiopia) accTpting" fcl andconventional VESSEI Ivov ETA LOADING FOR SPORE NET SANE T TIWB 3(MB DARESSALAAM MOMBASA DJIBOUTI ASSAB MASSAWA ANOIMET 23W8 3CVO4 DARESSALAAM
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    • 665 37 MASKAPAI PELAYARAN WpULAU LAUT FULLY CONTAINERISED REGIONAL FEEDER SERVICE TWICE WEEKLY/WEEKLY FIXED DAY SCHEDULE BETWEEN THE PORTS OF S PORE. INDONESIA, MALAYSIA A THAILAND ALSO ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO ALL DESTINATIONS WE SERVE FOR BOOKINGS CALL SPECARGO FORWARDING AT TEL: *****55 aWOAPOm INPOWIA gtßvict VSL VOY SIN JKT PAJ SIN
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    • 1002 37 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE BANGKOK [VESSEL VOY SPORE SYD MEL |vtSSEL VOY SINGAPORE BANCKOK PIYA BHUM 0101 13-14/2 26-21/2 02-04/3 NANTA BHUM 2»N Thu 14/2 Sun 17/2 PLANETA 0246 21-01/3 13-15/3 17 19/3 NANA BHUM 02* Sat 16/2 Tue 19/2 |PIYA BHUM~ ***** 15 16/3 26-30/3 01-03/4 CHAIYA BHUM* UN Sun 1717 Wed
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  • Page 38 Advertisements
    • 1193 38 A MAC-NELS SINGAPORE uport TEL *****22 11 IMPORT TEL: *****02 ■LAB PENANG TEL: (04) *****6 KK TEL: (088) *****0 TAWAU TEL (089) *****9 ITTTzTm P KELANG TEL: (03) *****77 KUCHING TEL: (082) *****3 SKAN TEL (089) *****2 I-JV/X Ij BAHRU TEL (07) *****2 SIBU TEL (084) *****2 LABUAN TEL (087)
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    • 329 38 BLUE STAR LINE 11 SINGAPORE TO Ji NEW ZEALAND AND T/S FIJI FULLY CONTAINERISED MONTHLY SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT NEW PLYMOUTH PORT CHALMERS ACCEPTING FCL LCL FOR AUCKLAND, NAPIER. WELLINGTON. BLUFF. CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN, LYTTELTON, INVERCARGIL, FIJI AND TAHITI SIN N PtV AUCK LVT MULBERA 19S 17 Feb 24 Frt Via NPI
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    • 998 38 /3EI THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. 51 Bras Basah Rd #01-01 Plaza By The Park S (0718) Tel: *****22 Fax No: *****73 CONVENTIONAL/CONTAINER SERVICES *****11 (BOOKING LINES) SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA SINGAPORE TO SABAH vessel |m leta loest vessel vt I eta kit KIM SOON LI 6/91E 21 FEB PENANG
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  • Page 39 Advertisements
    • 970 39 COMPANIA PERUANA oe 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/13 Feb ROSEEVERETT 18,20 Feb 21/23 Feb 26/28 Feb SHAPIAEVERETT 12/H Mar 15/12 Mar 20/22
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    • 745 40 CB SHIPPING I (IM, MARINE SERVICES NORTH QUEENSLAND/PAPUA NEW GUINEA SERVICES CONTAINER/LCL/BREMBUIK SERVICE "ANKE" SERVICE JAK SPt Km LM T VILLI y 2LSB Jl/3 W 142 I*2 I" y 2?SB ?'3 5*3 19(1 1' 3 0.'3 PNG FREIGHT RATES PER TEU LCL CARGO B/BULK GENERAL FAK USDISSO USDM/R T USD7O/R
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    • 926 40 SINGAPORE/MEDITERRANEAN FULL CONTAINER SHIP SERVICE VESSEL/VOY ETA SPORE NAPLES GENOA ILYICHEVSK MERSIN TRIESTE NC V 26 90W 15/2/91 15/3/91 4/3/91 10/3/91 MB V 03CW91 26/2/91 20/3/91 21/3/91 26/3/91 K S V 01-91W 2/3/91 27/3/91 17/3/91 22/3/91 G M V 28CW90 3/3/91 24/3/91 MB V 03CW91 4/3/91 24/3/91 25/3/91 30/3/91 ALSO
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    • 383 42 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times PT. PELAYARAN. SAIKIUDRA AGUNG KUALA SIAK IV 13/2 BATU AMPAR/SEKUPANG/BATAM SAMUDERA 102 14/2 DUMAI/PEKAN BARU ABADI JAYA 12/2 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 BATAM SUMATRA PORTS Also accepting cargo
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    • 609 42 ICHARTPOINT I Every Saturday in Business Times NOTICE NOTICE M.V. "Stl Aaeriu" V»y. 1 krr* SiRX»pMT M.1.1l Consignees of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessel Is hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 13th February 1991 (Wednesday) at Keppel Wharves K 30 0900 hours 1200
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