The Business Times, 12 June 1991

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1 46 The Business Times
  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Wednesday, June 12, 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 49 1 WASHINGTON US President George Bush believes an economic turnaround is in the making. "If I can borrow a term from Wall Street, I am bullish on the economy," he said in remarks by satellite to the national conference of the American Advertising Federation yesterday.
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    • 57 1 COLOMBO Tamil rebels yesterday said they are ready for peace talks to end the eight-year civil war with the government and suggested negotiations in Europe. The offer came one year after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, rebel militia, broke a ceasefile and
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    • 21 1 S&JGAPORE is a slightly more expensive place than a year ago, judging from a world survey Page 2
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    • 25 1 MPTOROLA Electronics' research and development talent in Singapore has designed and manufactured a credit-card sizbd pager for the demanding Japanese market Page 2
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    • 18 1 A NEW multi-million-dollar airport is tipped to prove a big winner for Macau Page 9
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    • 32 1 THE WORLD BANK has been urged by the US to shift the bulk of its lending to helping private business rather than assisting Third World governments Page 10
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    • 28 1 TAIWAN faces the mammoth task of shaking off the Japanese who have emerged as aggressive businessmen with a hold on the island's economy Page 11
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    • 25 1 THE LATEST CHANGES in the Supreme Court, announced over the weekend, are likely to sharpen the courtroom expertise of lawyers Page 14
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    • 28 1 AFTER 15 YEARS of cinematic silence from Sherwood Forest, two feature films are coming out at once on England's most enduring legend Page 17
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    • 18 1 KELANG Container Terminal is to be floated later this year. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 39 1 WALL STREET stock prices rose in early trading yesterday as the market appeared to be searching for direction. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was up 17.89 points to 2.993.29 after one hour of trading.
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    • 29 1 SHARE PRICES in London were higher at midday yesterday. At about 1115 GMT, the FTSE 100-Share Index was up 19.3 points or 0.7 per cent at 2,531.2.
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    • 31 1 NTUC Fair Price has charted a new expansion strategy for the *****, and chairman Gopinath Pillai says the cooperative will explore the possibility of a listing Page 3
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    • 26 1 THE NEWLY-FORMED subsidiary of diversified property and engineering group Guthrie GTS has won projects worth over $260 million in Indonesia Page 3
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    • 33 1 THE American owners of New Zealand's Telecom Corp yesterday started selling off their shares in the company that will see their stake reduced by 19 p£r cent Page 4
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Tuesday Change BT-MGA 740.47 +3.24 Kuala Lumpur ....621.71 +3.17 Tokyo 24.662.59 +64.21 Hongkong 3,631.48 +10.29 Sydney 1486.0 +8.5 Monday Change New York 2,975.40 -1.34 London 2.511.9 +5.6
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    • 24 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.7810 100 Yen SS 1.2595 MS SS 0.6410 Money market rates Overnight 4 7/8 +1/8 3-month 5 1/2 unch
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix USS372.75 USS5.15 Rubber S'pore July 147.50«/kg -0.25 M'sia July 230.50*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 40 tonnes -51 Spot MS 15.46/kg -0.04 Crude palm oil Turnover 1,747 lots +240 June MS761 /tonne -2
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  • 636 1  -  By Shoeb Kagda, Chew Eng Han GOLD is shining again after languishing for months while the British pound, one of the top performing currencies in 1990, is in a rut. Gold prices soared yesterday to their highest levels since January. The precious
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  • 597 1  -  More rooms and fewer tourists will mean keener competition By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE hoteliers will face stiffer competition for guests and workers in the years ahead as nearly 7,000 new hotel rooms have been scheduled for completion by 1994. Besides more rooms,
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  • 216 1 NST PASIR GUDANG The Johor state government will eonsider stemming the outHow of labour to Singapore if it continues at the expense of the state's industrial growth, said Housing and IxKal Government committee chairman Datuk Bahari Haron. He said
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  • 78 1 INVESTOR RELATIONS is not well practised in Singapore. That may have to change in the light of the several stock market events over the past few days. With the Stock Exchange of Singapore now sabre-rat-tling, investor relations can no longer be the province of only a
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  • 311 1  -  By Sylvia Wong DESPITE a modest increase in tourist arrivals last month, figures from the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board show that visitor arrivals dropped almost 5 per cent to about two million in the first five months of this year compared
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    • 163 1 gpp O- Lanihcio Marjo Zbgna_ at leading tailors Thai airport taking off THAILAND'S Nong Ngu Hao airport project is finally taking off after nearly three decades of delays. Full report, Pg 12. Thai hotels hit by low occupancy levels, Pg 9 PENTAX The European compact camera of the yearl99o& 1991.
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 477 2  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE has been ranked 43rd in a world survey of expatriate eosts of living, making it a slightly more expensive plaee than a year ago, when it was ranked 45th. Aeeording to a study by Business International, Teheran
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    • 350 2  -  By Claire Leow MOTOROLA Electronics' research and development talent here has designed and manufactured a credit-card sized pager for the demanding Japanese market. Motorola sank US$l million (S$ 1.77 million) into the project which started last May and its Ang Mo Kio plant shipped
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    • 270 2 HITACHI Asia Pte Ltd is likely to set up a fifth support centre within the next one to two years. This was revealed yesterday by Akira Yukawa, managing director of Hitachi Asia, at a signing ceremony to mark the agreement for a Ss4s
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 147 2 THE International Merchandise Mart (IMM) will open the first cash-and-carry merchandise mart in South-east Asia on June 20. Called Mega Mart, the new wholesale mart will occupy the ground floor of the IMM, which has been partially opened since May last year. When IMM is
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      • 86 2 CHANG KUO-AN, chairman of Holmsgreen Holding Co Ltd of Taiwan, will deliver his lecture on "Quality consciousness in the service sector" tomorrow at 2pm at the Henderson Room, NPB Building. This is the second lecture in the National Productivity Board's Productivity Lecture series. This series of lectures
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      • 76 2 THE Ministry of Labour is conducting the mid-1991 Labour Force Survey during May and June. The purpose of the survey is to collect data on employment and unemployment, to understand the labour market situation, and to help evaluate and formulate plans and policies on employment. A sample
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 529 3  -  NTUC coop charts strategy for the 1990s By Genevieve Cua CASH-RICH NTUC FairPrice has charted a new expansion strategy for the *****, one that may even see it being listed on the stock exchange. Fair Price chairman Gopinath Pillai told reporters yesterday that the
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    • 168 3 FUJI OFFSET Plates Manufacturing Co Ltd, whose l-for-2 bonus issue was rejected by the SES last week, doubled its capital reserves from $2.48 million to $5.57 million in the year ended Dec 31, 1991. The company yesterday released its annual report, which revealed that its
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    • 365 3  -  By Quak Hiang Whai PUBLICLY-LISTED Singapore Reinsurance has stepped up its efforts to expand regionally. Its subsidiary, Singße Information Technology (SRIT), a software subsidiary, is now seeking suitable alliances in Indonesia and Thailand to promote and distribute its software packages. Singße chairman Hwang Soo
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    • 804 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN Odds stacked against Shakey's from the start By Genevieve Cua THE BEDROCK of Inno-Pacific Holding's steadfast expansion of its pizza chain, Shakey's, is the conviction that, in the near future, pizza will outshine
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    • 250 3  -  By Shoeb Kagda GUTHRIE CMS, the newlyformed subsidiary of diversified property and engineering group Guthrie GTS, has secured projects worth over $260 million in Indonesia. The projects include a four-star 300-room hotel in Jakarta, a comprehensive holiday resort development on the east
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    • 251 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Increased interest in the leisure and tourism industry has led the Keck Seng (M) Bhd group to diversify its activities to include leisure and tourism-related projects, its executive chairman Ho Kian Guan said. In line with this, the company has
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 81 3 KUALA LUMPUR Setron (M) said group pre-tax operating profit fell to M 54.23 million in 1990 from M 54.75 million in 1989. At company level, it showed a pre-tax loss of M 5512,000 compared with a pre-tax profit of M$ 160,000 in 1989. The
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      • 92 3 SINGAPORE Orchard Parade Holdings (OPH), formerly Ming Court Hotel, has announced an increase in the authorised, issued and paid-up capital of its subsidiary, First Choice Properties Pte Ltd (FCPPL). On June 10, FCPPL's authorised capital was increased from $25,000 to $13 million by the creation of
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      • 66 3 SINGAPORE Low Hua Kin, a director of Pacific Can Investment Holdings Ltd, has announced an increase in his vested interests in the company held through KZ Investments Pte Ltd. On June 10, KZ investments purchased 301,000 shares in Pac Can for $328,090, increasing Mr
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      • 83 3 SINGAPORE Ong Mui Eng, a director of Hwa Hong Corp, sold 23,000 shares of his personal holdings of the company's shares on June 10. Of this, 13,000 shares were sold at $1.61 and the remaining 10,000 were sold at $1.62. This reduces his stake in the
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      • 57 3 SINGAPORE Trans Oil Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of King's Hotel Ltd, bought another 6,000 shares of Apollo Enterprise for $12,730 on June 10. This increases Trans Oil's stake in Apollo to 17.13 per cent. CDL Hotels Ltd, City Developments Ltd and Hong Leong Investment Ltd
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 66 4 HONGKONG Hongkong-based Varitronix International Ltd is seeking a listing on the Hongkong Stock Exchange with an issue of 62 million shares at HK52.75 each to raise HK$ 170.5 million. The liquid crystal display manufacturer and designer says the share offer, which represents 25 per cent
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      • 107 4 TOKYO Japan's Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd expects its group net, current and operating profits to be flat in the year to March 31, 1992 compared with 1990-91. The company faces higher labour and material costs in Japan and uncertain business for its Brazilian subsidiary, according
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      • 64 4 TOKYO Idemitsu Petrochemical Co Ltd has signed an agreement to form two joint ventures in Malaysia with the state-run Petroliam National Bhd and BP Chemicals Ltd of Britain. The three companies will establish Ethylene Malaysia Bhd to produce ethylene and Polyethylene Malaysia Bhd to manufacture polyethylene.
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      • 96 4 SYDNEY A record number of 189 companies went into receivership in the Australian state of New South Wales in the six months to the end of May, it was reported on Monday. The figures, compiled by insolvency specialists Prentice Parbery Barilla, showed a jump of
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      • 61 4 JAKARTA Agribusiness company Sumber Wira Group (SWG) has planned to set up a sunflower plantation covering 50,000 hectares at Santong, Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggera, with an initial investment of US$lOO million (about SSI77 million). Fredrick Yunadi, SWG's president-director, said that the plantation would produce 100 tonnes
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      • 83 4 TOKYO Sony Corp plans to set up new production lines for VHS video tape recorders and eight millimetre camcorders at its Malaysian unit. Sony Video (M) Sdn Bhd, near Kuala Lumpur, currently produces about 30.000 VHS video tape recorders a month. Sony plans to boost
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    • 292 4 AP WELLINGTON The American owners of New Zealand's Telecom Corp began a sell-off yesterday of 420 million shares in the national telephone company that will see their stake reduced by 19 per cent. The overall worldwide issue was announced
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    • 152 4 AFP SYDNEY Treasurer John Kerin yesterday cleared the hostile takeover of Australia's largest sugarcane grower by British group Tate and Lyle. Mr Kerin said in a statement issued in Canberra that he had revoked an interim order which had blocked the bid for Bundaberg
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    • 167 4 AFP WELLINGTON Telecom Corp of New Zealand announced yesterday its annual profit had jumped 29 per cent to NZ5331.9 million. The result came as Telecom, which is owned by US companies Bell Atlantic and Ameritech, prepared to an- nounce details of a
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    • 259 4  -  From Selwyn Parker in AUCKLAND LOSSES on Miss Sally Aw's NZSIOS million (about S$ 107.4 million) Auckland tower block have been reduced by signing a top tenant, but her delisted company has no further plans in New Zealand. Telecom Corp
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    • 240 4 Reuter REDMOND. Washington The American customs authorities have arrested at least seven people associated with Taiwanese companies allegedly involved in making and exporting counterfeit Nintendo games, according to Nintendo of America Inc. "These arrests are the latest in Nintendo's worldwide effort to
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    • 389 4 Major stock market scandal involving prominent businessmen NYT TOKYO A prominent Japanese businessman has fallen into a big stock market scandal. Hirotomo Takei was arrested last week on charges that he failed to pay about US$24 million (Ss4l million) in taxes owed on profits
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    • 306 4 Reuter TORONTO Hongkong's Singer Co plans to jump back into the spotlight with a public offering worth up to Cs3oo million (***** million), company officials said on Monday. Founded in the United States in the 19th-century, Singer has been based in Hongkong
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 83 6 CANNES, France Apple Computer Inc plans to enter the retail business in Europe through the back door by allowing its Apple-only distributors to open stores. Guerrino de Luca, marketing director of Apple Europe, said on Monday that the company wanted to broaden its distribution
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      • 95 6 LONDON British supermarket chain Asda Group has warned that profit in the current year will not be much higher than the 1990-91 level and that chairman and chief executive John Hardman has resigned. Profit in the year to April would be "not less" than £170 million
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      • 68 6 LONDON Coal and liquid fuels distributor Anglo United pie announced on Monday that its interest charge for the year ending March 31 rose sharply to £42.9 million (S$ 127.8 million) from £26.3 million. The charge arose from the acquisition of Coalite in August 1989. Anglo's
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      • 60 6 PARIS French oil firm Total-Cie Francaise des Petroles has agreed to buy into a Chinese refinery group. West Pacific Petrochemical Company Ltd (Wepec), which is to build and operate a refinery complex of 100,000 barrels a day at Dalian, north-east China. Wepec would export
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    • 438 6 FT LONDON Siemens of Germany and Philips of the Netherlands has poured cold water on the idea of merging their semiconductor divisions with SGS-Thomson, the Ital-ian-French chip maker. Officials of Thomson, the French electronics group which owns SGS-Thomson together with IRI/Finmeccanica, the Italian
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    • 57 6 Reuter picture PARIS A worker arranging models of the European Consortium Airbus passenger jets prior to the opening tomorrow of the Paris Air Show at the Bourget airfield near here. The 10-day exhibition, held every two years, is considered the aerospace industry's largest trade fair, attracting about
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    • 466 6 Reuter NEW YORK Apple Computer Inc and International Business Machines Corp, by discussing an alliance, loom as a potential threat on the software front but few analysts expect them to shake hands on a chip pact. The companies are said to be mulling any
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    • 245 6 IHT NEW YORK Unisys Corp. the American computer concern that guessed wrong about the profit potential in most of its business strategies, announced on Monday that it was selling a major subsidiary to foreigners in yet another story of US corporations unwinding their
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 98 8 TOKYO Nippon Investment and Finance Co Ltd. an affiliate of Japanese stockbroker Daiwa Securities Co Ltd, plans to set up a venture-capital company in Taipei with the Taiwanese government. The joint venture was to be capitalised at NT$l.2 billion (552.88 million) with Nippon
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      • 74 8 ABU DHABI The Islamic Development Bank is seeking to boost the exports of its 44 members by guaranteeing export credits. "We have prepared a plan to guarantee export credits among Islamic countries," chairman Ahmad Mohammad Ali said on Monday during a visit to the United Arab
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      • 86 8 MILAN Italian state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro does not intend to eover the 200 billion lire (***** million) of debts owed by its 50 per cent-owned Agrifactoring finance company, says a source close to the bank. The source said on Monday that a senior
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      • 88 8 NEW YORK The American Stock Exchange has launched a pilot programme for the voluntary mediation of investorbroker disputes to serve as an alternative to the more comprehensive arbitration programme it offers. The exchange said on Monday that under the new programme, it would refer cases to
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      • 70 8 LOS ANGELES Cash-rich Bank America Corp is looking at possibly acquiring the mortgage servicing unit of Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc, a unit of American Express Co. A spokesman for Shearson said on Monday that several parties had expressed interest in the unit and that discussions were
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    • 190 8 SINGAPORE The Singapore International Monetary Exchange has prescribed the minimum margin requirements for its new gasoil futures contract. Simex said yesterday that the outright initial minimum margin for the contract prior to the month preceding the delivery month is US$l,OOO (S$ 1,700). The maintenance margin
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    • 327 8  -  By Diana Oon SINGAPORE PT Bank Pacific (BP), an Indonesian private bank, made its debut in the Singapore offshore funds market vesterdav, signing a US$29-million (5551.7 million) revolving credit facility with 13 banks. The facility, arranged by Schroder International Merchant Bankers (Simbl). was
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    • 375 8 AFP JAKARTA The former vice-president of Bank Duta has made an impassioned plea for a court to dismiss corruption charges against him stemming from the Indonesian private bank's USS42O million (Ss7l4 million) loss last year. Dicky Iskandar Di Nata told
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    • 226 8 Reuter LONDON A prosecutor alleged on Monday that a London financial dealer manipulated hundreds of millions of dollars in New Zealand's futures market by pretending to act on behalf of big international organisations. Stephen Francis, 29, has denied 10 charges of using
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    • 372 8 Reuter BASLE, Switzerland European banks overtook their Japanese rivals as the main driving force behind the expansion of the international banking market in 1990. the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said. The Basle-based agency said European banks accounted for more than 75 per cent
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    • 204 8 SINGAPORE Information giant Telerate and USbased broker Cantor Fitzgerald have teamed up to offer a new service to provide live broker quotes for US treasury securities and their derivatives on the Telerate system. Telerate officials in New York said they decided not to
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    • 553 8 NYT NEW YORK Citicorp will begin a financing programme this week that would help corporate customers borrow up to US$l billion (S$ 1.7 billion) in the commercial paper market. Under the financing arrangement, announced on Monday, Citicorp's Citibank subsidiary will refer corporate customers
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  • THE REGION
    • 752 9 From the Las Vegas of Asia to gateway to China Reuter HONGKONG A new multi-million dollar airport is tipped to prove a big winner for tiny Macau, regarded as the Vegas of Asia. Macau, perched uncomfortably on the rump of China
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    • 248 9 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Unka is seeking a greater share of the global garments trade with plans to set up 10 new textile mills and increase production, an official spokesman said. "We want to raise to one per cent from a current
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 81 9 JAKARTA Inflation will not rise as a result ot next month's salary rise for Indonesia's civil servants, Finance Minister Johannes Sumarlin said. "The government expects inflation will remain at an acceptable level ot below double digits in the 1991/92 financial year (which
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      • 86 9 WASHINGTON The World Bank has announced that it had approved a USSI(K) million (Ssl7B million) loan for an Indonesian development project. The money is to be used for the Sulawesi-Irian Jaya urban development project which has a total cost of US$lBB.2 million for selected cities
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      • 88 9 KUALA LUMPUR Asian nations should refrain from holding military exercises in the South China Sea or using force to settle their conflicting claims in the area, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Cihafar Baba said yesterday. Countries in the region are concentrating on economic growth and need
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      • 62 9 COLOMBO Security forces yesterday clamped indefinite curfews on parts of eastern Sri Lanka where fighting with Tamil guerillas resumed a year ago. A military spokesman said curfews went into effect in Lravur and several neighbouring areas in Batticaloa district from late Monday to provide cover
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    • 356 9 BANGKOK Thailand's hotel industry is reeling under a severe decline in the occupancy rate, which now runs at a nationwide record low of 30 per cent. The worst slump since 1984-85 is expected to force some hotels out of business soon, industry sources
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 90 10 TOKYO Japan's central bank chief voiced optimism yesterday about prospects for both the US and Japanese economies and said there is little chance of the present world slowdown turning into a recession. Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Yasushi Mieno told the annual meeting of
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      • 91 10 TOKYO France has lodged two protests with the Japanese Foreign Ministry over the country's restrictions on imports of agricultural products, a French official said on Monday. The protest takes issue with requirements, introduced by Japan after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, that food imported from
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      • 73 10 LUXEMBOURG European Community finance ministers have failed to reach agreement on measures to harmonise sales and excise taxes among the Community's 12 member states. EC taxation commissioner Christian Scrivener said on Monday that the ministers had decided to meet again on the issue on June
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      • 64 10 BRUSSELS The European Community has earmarked funds totalling 1.5 billion European currency units (553.03 billion) for research in such fields as the environment and telecommunications. The European Commission said on Monday that among the five projects which EC ministers approved was one in telecommunications designed to
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      • 78 10 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico The Caribbean economy is heavily dependent on tourism but the region has failed to keep pace with the tourism growth rate of Hawaii and other places. Speaking at a Caribbean hotel industry meeting on Monday, American Airlines chairman Robert Crandall said the
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      • 87 10 TEL AVIV Israel will turn to the International Monetary Fund for the first time in 13 years, seeking a loan of up to US$5OO million (SSB9O million) because of losses caused by the Gulf War. The request announced on Monday by the Bank of Israel followed
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    • 419 10 Washington agrees to back US$ 1 b boost in such aid AP WASHINGTON The US is pushing the World Bank to shift the bulk of its lending to helping private business rather than assisting Third World governments. The 155-nation bank lends
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    • 396 10 AFP DOBRIS, Czechoslovakia Aid money going to the Soviet Union should be earmarked partly to buy goods from Eastern European countries, a senior European Community (EC) official has said. Eastern European countries struggling to reform their economies should be
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    • 221 10 FT BONN Germany recorded Us first deficit on visible trade for 10 years in ApriL, underlining how German unity has led to a surge of imports in a country which last year registered the world's highest current account surplus. The 1.4 billion
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    • 442 10 Reuter WASHINGTON India is facing "one of its most serious crises of recent times" as it struggles to fill a large financing gap and keep payments on foreign debt up to date, says a World Bank official. "Although India (has) up until now
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    • 261 10 UPI WASHINGTON The Chinese government, helped by a big crop, is prepared to further deregulate agricultural prices and is now in a position to launch a "new wave" of economic reforms. World Bank vice-presi-dent for Asia Attila Karaosmanoglu said on Monday that
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    • 549 11 Former colonial power's clout causing friction AP TAIPEI Japan's occupation of Taiwan ended almost half a century ago but Taiwanese say their former rulers have returned as aggressive businessmen and now have a hold on the island's economy. "No other foreign products
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    • 265 11 FT LONDON Direct investment into the European Community has overtaken that into the US over the past year, according to the Bank for International Settlements. The change reflects the slowdown in the US economy, which has reduced the attractiveness of the country to
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    • 250 11 FT LONDON The Soviet Union faces "acute external financing difficulties" as it moves to reform its economy, says the Bank for International Settlement. By the end of last year, the country's external bank debt was more than US$33 billion (5558.7 billion), up from US$5.3
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    • 404 11 FT SEOUL South Korea's students and dissidents are on the streets protesting. Cabinet ministers have, since December, been replaced at the rate of more than three a month. But the Korean economy, amid the confusion, is expanding strongly. First-quarter figures released at the end
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  • 485 12 EDITORIAL SMOKING or no-smoking section? That question could be a thing of the past if international aviation authorities heed a recent call by three US groups to put a global smoking ban on all international flights. It was not a voice from the loony fringe,
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 230 12 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong's recent remark that he was in favour of putting up multi-lin-gual signs at selected public places to give the city an Asian "feel" cannot but leave many wondering why the issue, generally thought to have been laid to rest, is being given
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    • 156 12 IT IS crucial for a global city like Singapore to have an efficient and effective legal service. The on-going physical expansion of the Supreme Court and re- eruitmcnt of more judicial commissioners (JCs), magistrates and judges are some of the key measures in coping with a
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    • 137 12 THE general impression is that Singapore's monetary policies, including those for the Stock Exchange of Singapore, are very well regulated. Needless to say, in a free enterprise environment, it is easy to attract genuine investors as well as speculators. But we can say that because there
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 141 12 PRESIDENT Suharto led his country towards solid national stability and impressive economic growth. Under his leadership, Indonesia has become self-sufficient in rice when for so many years it had been the world's greatest importer of the staple food. Now he has brought this nation to
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    • 222 12 A SMALL item in the news last week could bring a little bit of relief to Bangkok's street users. The Cabinet has reportedly approved Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun's proposal to study measures to make motorcycling safer by requiring motorcyclists to wear crash helmets and observe
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    • 133 12 WITHOUT a genuine common desire on the part of China and Thailand to cooperate and help push for an early settlement, the Cambodian conflict may drag on until the next decade. At the same time, fewer and fewer outsiders will care about Cambodia anymore because peace is
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  • 889 12  -  In the second article in a series of BT features on Thailand, Rahita Elias, who was in Bangkok recently, gives an update of the country's airport project Rahita Elias, Thailand's airport project at Nong Ngu Hao is finally taking off after nearly three decades
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1552 13  -  Loretta McLaughlan tells how good investor relations can protect firms from the SES sabre Loretta McLaughlan IF NOTHING else, stockmarket events of the past week or so have proved that listed companies must take their obligations to the investing public seriously. Half-yearly announcements plus an occasional
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    • 495 13  -  Floyd Norris explains how the Big Board can regain its dominance Floyd Norris NYT JUST over 199 years ago, a group of securities brokers, suffering from competition and a crash in prices, made a deal to fix commissions and set up a cartel
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 835 14  -  The changes to Supreme Court procedures announced over the weekend are likely to sharpen the courtroom expertise of lawyers. David Gabriel reports David Gabriel THE new Chief Justice, Mr Yong Pung How, is now some nine months into his job as head of the judiciary.
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    • 387 14 JUSTICE Chan Sek Keong took an opportunity that arose in a case involving contract law to make critical observation on the judgment of Seow Kim Doi v Wei Yin Chen. That case was decided in 1968 by Justice Choor Singh. The issue
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    • 312 14 CASE WILLIAM LAU WAI MUN v HOLLAND GROVE ENTERPRISE PRIVATE LIMITED. High Court of the Republic of Singapore, Suit No 9000 of 1984 Justice Chan Sek Keong. The issue before the court involved a contract between an architect, the plaintiff, and the developer of a
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  • SPORTS
    • 743 15  -  Singapore's Davis Cup players are toughening up for their tie against Hongkong. Steve Mflakov reports Steve Milakov Steve Milakov is a free-lance writer NOEL Coward's tongue-in-cheek observation about his countrymen couldn't be truer. But this time it's the talented Hongkong Davis Cup
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    • 399 15 AP CHASKA, Minnesota If some seasoned pros were using the Buick Open as a tuneup for the US Open, then the tournament has served its purpose. The Buick Open definitely pointed to flaws that need correcting for such US Open favourites as Hale
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    • 131 15 AFP BIRMINGHAM Japan's Kimiko Date pulled off the first shock of the Dow Classic women's grasscourt tournament in the opening round here on Monday. She upset Stephanie Rehe, the number 14 seed from the United States, with a 6-4, 2-6, 7-5 victory. Pam Shriver, seeded two places
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 97 15 NEW YORK George Foreman is apparently mulling over a US$l5 million (5525.5 million) offer to fight Mike Tyson, which seems to hinge on whether Tyson can agree on a deal to take on heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield. A spokesman for Tyson's promoter, Don King,
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      • 86 15 GIBRALTAR Gibraltar, which had hoped to take part in next year's Olympics Games in Barcelona, has accused Spain of trying to block its application to join the Olympic movement for political reasons. A delegation from Gibraltar Sport is in Birmingham, England, this week to put its case
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      • 64 15 LONDON Athletics chief Primo Nebiolo yesterday reaffirmed his support for South Africa's return to international competition in time for the Wodd Championships in August in Tokyo. The president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation was responding to statements from black British athletes, who feel that August
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      • 77 15 LONDON Jeremy Bates, Britain's top-ranked tennis player but only 219 th in the wodd, beat American David Pate 6-4, 6-2 on Monday in the Queens Club tournament. In a rain-in-terrupted game, Bates outgunned the American who last year went past Frenchmen Henri Leconte and Guy Forget and
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      • 67 15 LONDON Holding world track championships every two years instead of four would boost the sport's image, highlight athletes better and produce more money for poor federations, according to World Track President Primo Nebiolo. A proposal to stage the World Championships more often will be put to
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      • 58 15 BIRMINGHAM Women's Softball is in and the three-day equestrian event is out for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. The executive board of the International Olympic Committee gave its backing on Monday to a series of changes in the programme for Atlanta. The recommendations go to the
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    • 155 15 MOST AIRLINES CAN TAKE CARE OF YOUR CARGO NEEDS. BUT WHO TAKES CARE OF YOUR CARGO AS WELL? F il ffl K wk -jW i THAI CARGO. YOU CAN DEPEND ON US. While most airlines can take your cargo just complexes, Thai Cargo has all the facilities to safely handled
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    • 655 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO T««*% U IIAO ~m*. X IM ,SSAI (M business ON RADIO JJOII J U3.11 DllieS j5 <u as mss.—"*™ 1 ,#3 szzszr 1 T i* «•S-SSSS- TV 1 S?mT ,1,,r jis-r Ftnanaal News Private Life of Don Juan 559 pn Naadaca Araacam (T) 4.15pm, 10.45pm: Business The
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 613 17 He's been called the Prince of Sherwood forest, a vagrant and England's first socialist. Two film updates of the legend may add to this list The Economist TO QUOTE a thousand tourism officials, Robin Hood and his merry men are England's "most enduring
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    • 329 17 CHATTERBOX KAM CHENG never waited tables. She doesn't have blisters on her feet from pounding the pavement to countless auditions. And she's never had a bit part in an offBroadway play. So what's this 22-year-old doing sharing the female lead role in the Broadway
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4870 18  -  By Chew Eng Han MOST STOCKS affected by the recent Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) crackdown staged a recovery yesterday, as the Straits Times Industrials Index rose 8.69 points to close at 1,538.31. Amcol Holdings recovered eight cents to $1.88, up from Monday's
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  • 4271 19 Main Board SIA Foreign I *>40 30 1.6% Keppcl Corpn 775 *25 3.3% OUt 765 +20 2.7% OCT 242 19 »8.5% Singnianne 50* 535 15 2.9% DBS Foreign 1450 10 +0.7% SIA 1350 10 10.7% Semh Shipvard 710 10 *1.4% Prima 575 10 f 18%
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 488 20 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Cross ann to profit/toss (L) per share dividend ('000) (cents) Htap Moh lun 10 Dec 90 $2101(5199b) 88(83) 5(5) Nat Hap lun 7 Dec 90 51 465(51 305) 12 7(12 4) 6TE(6TE) Tonho* Ind tun 7 Dec 90 $l,286l($44L) —(2) Bonvests
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    • 145 20 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend COOO) (cents) GB Hldgs Jun 10 Mar 91 $9951(513.105) 99(132a) lOTE(lOTEa) MAA Jun 4 Dec 90 M52.016(5839) 4.5(15) Murata May 31 Mar 91 51 552f(41 687f) 135 3(85 6a) 30(27 3a) General Corpn
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    • 154 20 Company Date Half-year Group pre-tax Interim ann to profit/loss (L) dividend (•000) Pacific Can Jun 3 Mar 91 $30(5681) Van der Horst Jun 3 Mar 91 S1.S17($1,836) KL Kepong May 31 Mar 91 M545.437(554.588) NYA(5) Wearnes May 29 Mar 91 521.878(528.406) 7(7) C4C May 17 Mar 91 $49.453(546.270
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    • 415 20 June 10 Inchcape Bhd has acquired Waleta (Singapore) Pte Ltd. a pharmaceutical products distributor, for $6.52 m. L&M Group Investments has reduced the subscription price for its TSRs to $1.04 from $1 25 The adiustment takes effect from June 27. 1991. Lum Chang Holdings is going into a
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    • 1061 20 Current Ex Books Date TotaJ tor Total (or payment date close payable the year last year Acma 5%TE Jun 5 Jun 17 Jul 1 10%IE AMFP NYA(e) Jun 19 Jul 4 Aug 15 NYA 28c Bousteadco 4% May 15 May 27 Jul 8 7% 5 4%(j) C&C 5%(l)
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    • 928 20 Main Board Last Full Year Company Period Date Year Net EPS Gross Net anrxxnced endng (cents) cftw profit last year (S'000) Cerebos Interim Apr 27 Jul 91 126 20 OTE(a) 38.911 j Spore Land Interim May 4 Dec 91 126 10.0 44 641(g) Avroo Interim Jun 8 Sep
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    • 441 20 Company Rights Issue Ate on) One-for-two <« MJ1 00 per share issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (CRPS) of MSO 10 each at MSI per share with 10m detachable TSR on the basis of 1 CRPS with I TSR tor every 4 CRPS Ex-date Jun 7 Books
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    • 865 20 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Company Cwmrilw period Convonioo torn lor oh orAury share Bmfl Nt Before 30 6/94 1 warrant plus HK$1 00 cash CftC Nt Before 26/4/93 1 warrant plus (3 09 cash Causeway Loan Causeway Nt 2/10/89 to 20/10/94 1 warrant p4us $0 77 cash or 1 warrant plus
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    • 1027 20 Prices as at 11.06.91 Conversion terms Premium/ Expiry f (discount) r r Amount Optional** using issued r Company (mil Wrts Share Loan Conv Exer Lnstfc Cash Cash Loan Gearing Date Mths units) stock ratio price nom Sth. Left value S S S Burw.ll 115 2 0
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    • 478 20 Company Rights Issue Bolton One tor-four (a M$2 00 per share Issue ot $90 978m nominal amount of 35* Redeemable Unsecured Guaranteed Bon<fc 1991 with *****m detachable warrants on the basis of $2 nominal amount of Bonds for every three existing shares held Every $2 nominal amount of
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    • 261 20 Bedford Bhd: 67th AGM at the Conference Room. 14th Floor, Bangunan Hong Leong, 117 Jalan Tun HS Lee. ***** Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, Jun 13, at 2.30pm. Berjaya Corpn (M) Bhd: EGM at the Banquet Room, Kelab Darul Ehsan, Taman Tun Abdul Razak, Jalan Kerja Air Lama. *****
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4230 21 Bernama BARGAIN-HUNTING activity and speculative interest in the afternoon helped share prices in Kuala Lumpur to finish slightly higher yesterday after a lacklustre morning session. The K.LSE Composite Index recovered from the day's low of 617.35 to close 3.17 points higher at 621.71 while the
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2218 22 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS yesterday closed firmer after a thin day's trade. The weak yen had done the worst of its damage on Monday, and soft bond prices were counterbalanced by a timid, bargainhunting return by institutional and individual investors after Monday's slump, brokers said. "The
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 1917 22 Reuter HONGKONG stocks yesterday finished the day stronger but off their highs in thin trade with the blue-chip Hang Seng Index up 10.29 points to 3,631.48. "It tended to drift away again in the afternoon. There's nothing really exciting
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Rush for gold stocks lifts Aussie shares
      • 810 23 HIGH BULLION prices prompted an international rush on Australian gold stocks, pushing the Australian share market to a stronger close yesterday. Brokers said the charge on gold was aided by global concern over inflation, this weekend's Russian election and institutional re-weighting of portfolios to include gold. "Institutions have been
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      • 139 23 SHARE PRICES in New Zealand drifted lower on light volume as investors' attention was directed off the mar- ket to news of Telecom Corp's public share float. The Barclays Index fell 12.10 points to 1,436.80. The size and pricing of the float 420 million shares to be offered
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      • 833 23 THAI stock prices finished lower in moderate trading yesterday, with the Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index closing at 813.41 points, down 8.19 points from Monday's close. "Selling pressures dominated the market since the session opened, though some shares received strong buying support," said Pisanu Wichitehonlachai, a broker from
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      • 606 23 JAKARTA stock prices barely changed, with the index easing to 390.36 from Monday's revised 390.51 but turnover up to 3.33 million shares from 2.29 million. Brokers said the market was dull in the absence of strong foreign interest. Jakarta Rupiah YoKDO) June II Abda 2100 Ahap Insurance 4300 50
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      • 470 23 TAIWAN share prices ended mixed in quiet, narrow trade as investors lacked interest as there was no major news to inspire the market, brokers said. The weighted index ended 1.47 points lower at 5,851.16 on light turnover of NT536.37 billion after Monday's NT541.66 billion. Industrials rose slightly, financials fell.
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      • 487 23 PHILIPPINE shares yesterday closed slightly higher, but gains were limited as investors lacked the capital to boost the market, brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 4.14 points to end at 1.150.68 from Monday's close of 1,146.54. "Investors are staying on the sidelines until they have enough
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      • 871 23 SEOUL STOCKS yesterday gained slightly for the second consecutive day on continued intervention by the Stock Market Stabilisation Fund (SMSF) but trade remained lethargic, brokers said. "The fund's intervention might help change investors' attitudes and get them to stop selling for the moment but it is not likely to
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      • 161 23 Wellington NZ Cents VoKTO) June 11 Air NZ 150 unch 122 ANZ Banking 435 5 25 Bank Of NZ 73 -2 4365 i Baycorp unch Brierley Inv 114 unch ***** Carter Holt 154 -2 5155 Cavalier 180 unch 1120 Ceramco 127 1 111 Cityrealties 25 3 123 Corp Inv 88
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      • 97 23 INDICES TURNOVER Close Previous June 11 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1486.0 1.477 5 f 8.5 All Industrials Index ***** 2.298.8 -2.3 All Resources Index 865.6 850.8 i-14 3 Turnover (million) 119.03 91.36 f 27.67 BANGKOK SKT Index 81.1.41 821 60 -8 19 Turnover (million baht) 3.200 3.300 -M0 JAKARTA Composite
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      • 361 23 In local currency In S$ In US$ day H year day S year S day year June 10 Index change change change change change change World 410.0 -0.3 14.5 -0.5 10.9 -0.9 8.2 |EAFE 534.8 -0.8 13 8 -1.0 6.7 -1.4 4.1 Europe 437.9 00
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow falls over interest rate concerns
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        1138 24 NEW YORK stock prices moved in a narrow range on light volume on Monday as many traders stayed on the sidelines amid deepening concerns over the recent surge in long-term interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average crept down by 1.34 points, to 2,975.40, while the Standard Poor's
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        766 24 SHARE PRICES ended higher on London's Stock Exchange on Monday, due to renewed optimism about interest rate cuts in the near future. The market took encouragement from a Confederation of British Industry survey indicating that average pay settlements in manufacturing showed their biggest fall for more than a decade
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      • 261 24 GERMAN SHARES on Monday recovered from their early lows after investors swooped into the market to pick up stocks at bargain prices. Dealers said trade was on the whole quiet, after losses in the US on Friday and in Tokyo on Monday. "Some demand came in as prices eased
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      • 239 24 SOME Italian stockbrokers, amongst them some of the larger brokerage houses, said they would ignore a call to strike on Monday issued by their national association and seek to work as normal. Officials at the Milan bourse said no decision had been taken as at 0730 GMT on whether
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      • 286 24 DUTCH SHARES on Monday closed a little firmer, having eked out a miserly gain on thin trade since lunchtime. Investors were listless, preferring to stay on the sidelines waiting fresh incentives. dealers said. The CBS General Tendency Index closed 0.2 firmer at 94.9, having been as low as 94.4.
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      • 121 24 Brussels June 10 Francs FORWARD MARKET Acec 2625 35 Arbed 4420 30 Astur 1040 Brascan 602 8 Canpac 628 unch Cock 189 I lie Beers 830 2 Ebes 8400 Gb-lnno-Bm 1412 -6 Gevaert 7140 unch Gr Bru Lamb 3780 15 Hobok Petro ***** 50 Ryl Dutch 2895 5 Sidro 1760
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      • 347 24 SWISS shares on Monday closed lower in lacklustre trading as no new factors emerged to bring an end to the recent consolidation, dealers said. The AllShare SPI index, which fluctuated in a narrow four-point range throughout the session, closed six points easier at 1,114.8. The SMI index of leading
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      • 339 24 Agencies TORONTO blue chips on Monday closed near the day's low while the broad market ended mixed in thin trade, dealers said. The market traded in a narrow range most of the day following an early round of profit-tak-ing among a few selected sectors, they added. The TSE-300 closed
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      • 362 24 THE PARIS BOURSE ended a dull session on Monday with trimmed losses as both buyers and sellers shunned a directionless market. "The market is down, but not with any great conviction," one dealer said. "There is no strong selling pressure, but people are only nibbling on the buy side."
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      • 356 24 GOLD SHARES closed sharply higher on Monday, after the bullion price rose further to around US$373 an ounce, dealers said. Shortly before the close, the JSE AllGold Index was 64 points up at 1417, while the Industrial Index was two point up at 3684. The All-Share Index also rose
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      • 82 24 INDICES TURNOVER NEW YORK Clmc Previous June 10 Dow Jones NYSE Financial SAP 500 Turnover (million) 2,975.40 2,976.74 154.31 155.30 378.57 379.43 127.7 168.1 -1.34 ■0.99 -0.86 -40.4 LONDON Financial Times 30 FTSE 100 Turnover (million) 1,964.4 2,511.9 372 1.955.2 2.506.3 393.8 9.2 5.6 -21.8 AMSTERDAM CBS Tendency Index 94.4
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1176 25 REPORTS ASIA TOKYO: The US dollar yesterday closed slightly easier on profit-taking and corporate selling. Yen buying in cross trading also helped push the dollar down against the yen, dealers said. The threat of Bank of Japan (BOJ) dollar-selling weighed on the
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    • 389 25 Cross rates June 11 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7820 2.7775 1.7680 141.40 0.5988 1.5090 1.3280 1.7346 SS 0.5612 1.5586 0.9921 0.7935 0.3360 0.8468 0.7452 0.9734 MS 0.3600 64.16 0.6365 0.5091 0.2156 0.5433 0.4781 0.6245 Dm 0.5656 1.0079 1.5710 79.98 0.3387 0.8535 0.7511
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    • 422 25 Reuter MILAN Italy is determined to push ahead with plans for its own futures market for government bonds, despite news the London International Financial Futures Exchange (Liflfe) will launch a contract next Sep 19, bankers and dealers say. In a sign of
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    • 228 25 Reuter BASLE, Switzerland Poland will probably reform its currency in 1992 and introduce a new heavy zloty, Grzegorz Wojtowicz, president of the National Bank of Poland, said last Sunday. "I believe it will be possible to do the operation next year, taking
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 434 26 Reuter SALAMANCA, Spain Opec secretary-general Subroto said on Monday he was optimistic demand for oil would revive and prices would head towards the organisation's USS2I (5535.70) reference price towards the end of the year. Predicting an oil price upturn in the third
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    • 272 26 AP NICOSIA, Cyprus Iraq is producing 700,000 barrels of oil a day as it patches up its war-damaged oil industry and expects to reach its prewar output level by the end of next year, the Middle East Economic Survey
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    • 818 26 REPORTS CONTINUED high offerings by miners sent the price of tin easing another four sen to M$ 15.46 per tonne on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday. Dealers said the metal eased US$55 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange overnight on market
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  • 1365 26 Rubber June 11 RAS (fob hi baits) S cents/kg Noon Close Int 1 RSS Prompt 146 25/I47.25N 146.00/I47.00N Int 1 RSS July 91 147.75/148.25 147.50/148.00 Int 1 RSS August 149.75/150.25 149.50/150.00 Int 2 RSS OP 146.50/148.50N 146.50/148 SON Int 3 RSS OP 144.50/146. SON 144 50/146.50N Int 4 RSS
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    • 525 27  -  POSTCARD FROM VIETNAM By Kathleen Callo VIETNAM is trying to save its old imperial capital Hue, which has been torn and scarred for four decades by war, fire and typhoons. Hanoi's communist government is hoping that growing ties with the West will bring the money it
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    • 150 27 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.336 I.3S6 Canadian dollar 1.543 1.S63 NZ dollar 1.015 1.045 Sterling pound 2.965 2.995 US dollar 1.7770 1.7870 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.00 15.00
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      • 173 27 BRITONS are celebrating the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Michael Faraday, the self-educated blacksmith's son whose discoveries formed the basis of today's electric conveniences. London's Science Museum will open a six-month exhibition on Friday about Faraday's discoveries, which led to electric transformers, generators, motors,
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      • 54 27 MOST visitors to Britain love the country and its people but. apart from breakfasts, are often singularly unimpressed with food standards there. If you are of this opinion, dine at the Four Seasons Restaurant at the London Hotel. Some diners describe the cuisine of chef
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      • 98 27 THE most elegant business hotel in Basle, Switzerland, has to be the Drei Koenige Am Rhein (8, Blumenrain, tel: 061-255-252) of the Leading Hotels of the World Group. It was built in 1026 and it was totally rebuilt and refurbished in 1983. The hotel (its
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      • 70 27 FOR those who can take a weekend break from business appointments while in Southern Germany, a couple of days at the famous Brenner's Park Hotel in Baden-Baden will give you a new lease of life. This remarkable Black Forest spa offers the ultimate in rest
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    • 66 27 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Duration Title Venue Organiser June 11-14 Maritime Offshore Skoyen. Norges Varcmesse *****8080 June 9-16 Poznan Poznan, Foire *****1221 International Norway International Poland Internationale Shipping Fair De Poznan Exhibition Conference June 11-14 International Germany Mode-Woche 89/***** June 13-16 International Padua. E.A Fiere Di
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    • 40 27 Apart from 35 European cities, Finnair Oslo flies to Norway. With a superb twice-weekly service from Singapore to Helsinki and then on to everywhere from Berlin to Bangkok. Call *****77 for details. Iff' We know Europe from start to Finnish
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    • 295 27 Sphere ■H~~ Hi party chief (6) the seat and resist change HI 9 Apprehensive of a foreign iy j 10 Subterranean passage the process of construction 12 To drill for oil is a nuisance 13 Paid a pound for hammer 14 Tale with a twist it (4) llfl 17 Courteous
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    • 211 27 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Report: Maximum temperature 32.4 Assoc humidity 68% Minimum temperature 27.3* Assoc humidity 88% Hours of sunshine 7.90 Rainfall in mm Trace Rainfall this month 87.9 Rainy days this month 4 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 15/07
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    • 37 27 (LEAVE. *TH£M WITH ru. Pkjt Tuern lIV A SPVFCI BKiSTOOJ BCRDRE I LEAve For") TuiMAT a S^Tvs^ r L>/OU My »*>UPAYS TVCRC ARC OR TUJO ivtiMGS w e&z i dwt GET \1 EVENING STANDARD CO LTD. MMM
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  • 400 28 More popular and pragmatic blueprint to be presented: Anwar MALAYSIA'S next Outline Perspective Plan, to be presented to Parliament later this month, will be more popular, more pragmatic and avoid the quantitative goals that marked the country's New Economic Policy, Malaysian Finance
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  • 329 28 AFP NEW DELHI The final two rounds of India's staggered general elections, postponed for three weeks after the assassination of former premier Rajiv Gandhi last month, will take place today and Saturday. The autonomous Election Commission has issued elaborate
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  • 316 28 AFP TOKYO Japanese banks criticised themselves yesterday for their role in overheating the country's real-estate sector and stock market while implicitly apologising for a series of controversial loan scandals. "We have behaved in many ways that require self-examination," said Kenichi Suematsu, the chairman
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  • 242 28 Reuter THE HAGUE Dutch Development Cooperation Minister Jan Pronk told a meeting on aid to Indonesia yesterday that the country should do more to develop its private sector. He praised Indonesia's economic restructuring efforts and last year's 7 per cent growth
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  • 368 28 AFP BANGKOK Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen said here yesterday that China wanted to play a part in reconciling Cambodia's warring factions. The remark came as the factions prepared for peace talks starting on June 24 in the Thai seaside resort of Pattaya
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  • 250 28 UPI BANGKOK The Cambodian government in Phnom Penh has invited foreign oil companies to bid for oil exploration rights in Cambodia. The Cambodian Ministry of Industry invited the bids for both onshore and offshore exploration blocks in a letter dated June
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  • Shipping Times
    • 416 29 Bernama PETALING JAYA Kelang Container Terminal, which is 51 per cent owned by Konnas Terminal Kelang, which in turn is 80 per cent owned by Kontena Nasional, will be floated "in the later part of this year", Kontena Nasional chairman
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    • 189 29 Lloyd's List MADRAS Common feeder carrier Bengal Tiger Line (BTL) is looking at the possibility of chartering in extra tonnage for its Madras to Singapore service. Marine Container Services (MCS), Indian agent for the line, said there was space for about one more vessel
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    • 234 29 UPI NEW YORK The cruise industry on Monday reported a 14 per cent gain for the first quarter, compared with the prior year. The Cruise Lines International Association said about 860,000 passengers cruised aboard member ships during the first quarter of this
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    • 200 29 UPI LONDON The British Foreign Office on Morulay denied a Soviet research ship's application to enter British waters this month, saying elements of its research programme threatened "national security". The H Petrov, a ship allegedly capable of detecting nuclear warheads, had applied to
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    • 367 29  -  By Magdalene Phang THE US$2O million reconstruction work on carriages for the Asian version of the Orient Express rail service linking Singapore and Bangkok has started. Carriages originally built for New Zealand Railways will be modified and regauged for use on the Southeast
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      • 60 29 EVA AIRWAYS, Taiwan's second international airline, will start flying on July 1 with passenger services to Bangkok and Seoul, company president Frank Hsu said. The airline is scheduled to begin flights to Jakarta, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur later in July. Rights
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      • 30 29 GERMANY'S new shipyards are facing a crisis. After the unification, the industry is left to face the sudden challenge of the market Page 2
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      • 34 29 IN AN ATTEMPT to put some buoyancy back into its operations, Finland's national carrier, Finnair, will cut its workforce by 1,000 by the end of 1993 Back Page
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      • 48 29 US FIGHTERS and bombers that mauled Iraq's military machine in the Gulf War will be among aircraft on display at the Paris Air Show which opens this week in a world of thawed East-West relations and shrinking defence budgets Back Page
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      • 40 29 FRENCH state aircraft and missile maker Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale will need around two billion francs in capital next year and is talking with the government about bringing in a new shareholder Back Page
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      • 96 30 LONDON Kuwait's Ministry of Transport is evaluating bids from salvage companies to clear Shuwaikh port of sunken wrecks, damaged cargo and container cranes, the Salvage Association (SA) said. The port has been closed to commercial tiaffic, which is being routed into Shuaiba on
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      • 135 30 DI'BAI The national flag carrier. Emirates Airlines, is borrowing U5564.5 million to finance the purchase of a new Airbus aircraft, a company spokesman said. He said Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmad bin Said Al-Maktoum has signed the syndicate loan agreement with four United Arab Emirates (UAE) banks.
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      • 92 30 LONDON Racal Telecom pic said it had a 25 per cent share in Moviefone-Telecomunicacoes Digitais SA of Portugal, set up to apply for the country's second Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) cellular mobile licence. Racal Telecom is the mobile telecommunications company 80 per cent
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      • 68 30 NLW JERSEY American Telephone and Telegraph Co's AT&T Easylink Services and Mainstream Data Inc announced an agreement that will provide a new option of satellite delivery for electronic mail messages using Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) delivery. The agreement will provide ATT Easylink customers with a satellite
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      • 64 30 LONDON The refloated Cypriot ship Queen Evi will proceed in ballast to Greece under its own power, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Service said. After being refloated on June 8, the 103,230 dwt vessel, which ran aground on May 23 off the Libyan port of Misurata,
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    • 827 30  -  Germany's new shipyards are facing a crisis. After the unification, the industry is left to face the sudden challenge of the market. Ute Ballay reports Ute Ballay Fairplay 'THE water reaches our W neck, they can't just let us drown." So laments Bernd Heydrich, a
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    • 1178 30 DRY CARGO freight chartering was slow to emerge on Monday with rates narrowly steady in the wake of another reduction in the Baltic Freight Index, brokers said. The BFI was marked down 11 [toints to 1,684, reflecting a generally easier tone on most routes. The US Gulf/West European
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    • 562 30 AFP AFTF.R four consecutive weeks of progression, freight rates eased over the past week as a slowdown of activity made itself felt on the dry-cargo market. The Baltic International Freight Futures Fxchange (BIFFEX)'s Baltic Freight Index lost 62 points on the week to finish at 1.695 points. Traders
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    • 11702 38 1 his 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
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      • 667 45 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Keppd Wharves 1 Trans Auto 29 SOI 1106/0830 12 06/0500 Gr Concert JC 211 K31 alongside 1106/1800 I 1/91 S03 12 06/0800 14 06/1500 Hai Lee 1 H33 alongside 1106/1900 I San Luis 34 WB
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      • 1387 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Adrian Ms 9106 12/2000 1 11/1500 11/1659 11/1900 2 11/1700 12/0659 12/0900 Anro Aust ***** 13/1200 1 11/1500 11/1659 11/1900 2 11/1700 12/0659 12/0900 4 12/1200 12/1459 12/1700 As
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      • 279 45 Penang Port Berth it Butterworth on June 12: 1: Dresden; 2 Timber Trader: 3: Million No 3, Sang Thai Ruby: 4: Kev Heron, 5: Gulf Bridge: 6 Aka Bhum. Penang Wharf: NB nil; CB: KD Handalan. SB Tanjung Bungah BCT. Bl: Philippines Express. 81l Kapitan Korotaev; IB
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    • 438 46  -  The airline intends to sell off five of its own planes By Quak Hiang Whai IN AN ATTEMPT to put some buoyaney back into its operations, Finland's national carrier, Finnair, will cut its workforce by 1,000 by the end of
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    • 303 46 Reuter PARIS US fighters and bombers that mauled Iraq's military machine in the Gulf War will be among aircraft on display at the Paris Air Show which open's this week in a world of thawed EastWest relations and shrinking defence budgets.
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    • 287 46 AP WARSAW International and domestic flights in Poland were halted on Monday after air traffic controllers went on strike to demand better pay and modern equipment. Poland has seen a wave of short-lived strikes in recent weeks. The government's economic reform policies are meant
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    • 389 46 Reuter PARIS French state aircraft and missile maker Socicte Nationale Industriellc Aerospatiale will need around two billion francs in capital next year .and is talking with the government about bringing in a new shareholder, said chairman Henri Martre. "We arc in discussions with
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    • 28 29 Container Schedule 17 Daly Fretghts 2 index to Advertisers 3 Shipping Guide 10.11 Sfops in Port 17 Singapore Tries 17 Weather and Sea Conditions 17 WeeWy Fre<hts 2
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    • 200 30 Mr® s 9. Argentine Republic Ministerio De Economia Y Obras Y Servicios Publicos Sub-Secretary of Transportation Sale of 6 vessels Decree Pen no. 775/91 E.L.M.A. (Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas) H p Invites tenders to International Public Tender No. 1/91 for the sale of ships mentioned below. Future flag at purcharsers's
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    • 2398 31 JAROINI SHIPPING AGENCIES tl||f# Cantonment Row) #12 05 Southpwnt. 0208 \IIVF# *****11 TELEX NO RS 24m WiliilW TERMINAL Tel *****18 220 jIK I* BAAftfl bookings TH *****34 258 VA 4 PCSAKA SHIPPING AGENCIES SON fORT TEL: *****18 TELEX NO MA*****/WA***** SSZS PENANG TEI *****4 TELEX NO MA***** CfS TEI *****6
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    • 1226 32 Irottedam/I TP* v^~H VOY NO SPORE SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG ANTWERP LE HAVRE LONDON EXPRESS 02/123 14/6 677 Til 3/7 KITANO 08/323 16/6 7/7 5/7 4/7 9/7 It i HAMBURG EXPRESS 03/124 20/6 11/7 9/7 8/7 ALL WESTBOUND P HANNOVER EXPRESS 03/324 23/6 10/7 12/7 15/7 16/7 KCLAM ft POMMGCAMO KATSURAGI 06/125
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    • 2224 33 S^gSteanlers Maritime Holdings Ltd Ml mSTRAITS SHIPPING WML C?. 3 Slifaport to BruMl, East Malaysia, Containers Mig Voy No ffw/ S port An Sou Ant Rot Hbf lf«f MAIHSU 9108 at OS 10 0C 12/04 27/06 30 0C 01/07 04/07 ACCEPTS M SAILS inr«fooi bay 05jo n/n io/n is/oi 02/07—
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    • 560 34 CR NBR **********0-D EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO EUROPE IS. IQI SPORE ROAM/ADAM H'BURG BttMtN ANTWERP tfATMAM 29W8 20/6 22/7 27/7 31/7 3/1 9MUATA/ 32M8 11/7 19/» 25/1 29/1 2/J nn/U/23«8 25/> 26/'J 1/10 6/10 10/10 FAST TRANSIT TIME ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO jutltct lo lnduc«m«nt Also ®cc«ptlng cargo to Casablanca. Port
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    • 2048 35 Z NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) -BOOKINGS: NEPTUNE LINK TEL: *****00 USA SERVICE-*****16 TERMINAL OFFICE *****22 UK/EUROPE SERVICE-*****19 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/*****14 am AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE *****18 CFS: K27 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 FAR EAST SERVICE-*****48 CFS: K27 IMPORT: *****69/*****50 ■My B NEPUNE SON BHD MALAYSIA K.L.-(03) *****33, P.
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    • 1662 36 KW yf AS AGENTS KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (CR No: **********0 M) W W V"\ TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****79 m 4 M MALAYSIA: "K" UNE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD 1 A HL A X MmJ TEL: PJ *****22 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****5 JB *****1 KAWASAKI KISHN KAISHA LTD
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