The Business Times, 12 February 1992

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  • 16 1 BUSINESS TIMES THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Wednesday, February 12, 1992 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 73 1 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's unemployment hit a record low in 1991 as a labour shortage in the booming economy spread to manufacturing from agriculture and construction. A Manpower Department's Employment Trend report released yesterday said unemployment was 4.3 per cent for the first
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    • 45 1 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Brunei have agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to increase cooperation in defence, broadcasting and air services, Malaysia's King Sultan Azlan Shah said yesterday. He did not say when the memorandum would be signed.
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
  • 371 1  -  Move follows split between S'pore building giant's 2 partners By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Local building giant Kumagai-Ze-necon Construction has been placed in the hands of provisional liquidators, as a result of a parting of ways between its two partners. The company's foreign partner, Japanese construction giant
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  • 385 1  -  Speculation rife, with Bank Negara named in one version By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, is understood to have sold 20 per cent of its stake in Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd to various institutional investors, including parties related to the Fleet
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  • 461 1  -  From Neel Patri in NEW DELHI ITC LTD, one of India's biggest manufacturing and trading companies, in which tobacco giant BAT has a significant equity stake, will make Singapore its base for overseas operations. The Indian government has given ITC approval to
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  • 536 1  -  From Genevieve Cue in BERLIN GERMAN investors lag behind other European countries in their rate of investment in Asia as they are too preoccupied with the task of rebuilding the former east Germany, says Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry
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  • 479 1  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA INDONESIAN central bank governor Adrianus Mooy is again in the hot seat. For days he has had to answer this question: Will Indonesia devalue the rupiah? The devaluation dirge is heard at least twice a year in Jakarta,
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    • 435 1 STAFFING SUPPORT SERVICES TEMPORARY PERMANENT PLACEMENTS £223•3362 Penang's new thrust PENANG will review its investment drive and seek more capital-intensive projects for its manufacturing sector. Chief Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon said in an interview yesterday that the shift would also help diversify the state's economy. Page 2 Residential reserve
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    • 138 1 Ten million new shares JURONG Shipyard Ltd has successfully placed out 10 million new Jurong Shipyard shares at $10.40 apiece to raise $100 million to finance two projects Page 4 SONY CORP's US$3.4 billion takeover of Columbia Pictures Entertainment in September 1989 seems to be paying off, but three other
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 527 2  -  Chief Minister outlines strategy to draw investments and overcome acute labour shortage Reports by Leslie Lopez in PENANG INCREASED competition for investment dollars from other Malaysian states and the acute shortage of labour and land has forced Penang to review its investment drive and to
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    • 193 2 TOTAL INVESTMENTS in Penang's manufacturing sector fell to M 5597.88 million in 1991 from M 51.22 billion in 1990, said Penang Development Corporation officials. "Apart from competition from other states, the shortage of land, labour and the effects of the Gulf War were
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    • 230 2 Reuter BANGKOK Five major Thai commercial banks will cut deposit and lending rates by half a percentage point, effective Feb 14. Bantoon Lamsam, president of Thai Farmers Bank Ltd, said the cuts had been prompted by high liquidity in the
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    • 422 2 Reuter MANILA The International Monetary Fund has agreed to resume lending to the Philippines, clearing the way for Manila to restructure US$5.3 billion (558.62 billion) of its commercial debt. IMF and Philippine officials said yesterday that IMF managing director Michel Camdessus had
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    • 355 2 Government, bank curbs fail to deter buyers: consultant Reuter HONGKONG The colony's home property market is set to jump again this year despite government and bank moves to curb prices, which leapt 50 per cent last year, an international property consultant yesterday forecast.
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    • 364 2 Agencies LONDON US Vice-Presi-dent Dan Quayle has renewed pressure on Japan to compromise on its ban on rice imports. "Japan's going to have to put the rice on the table," Mr Quayle told the British Broadcasting Corporation. Everyone had to make
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    • 338 2 Reuter SEOUL The United States has urged South Korea to open its financial markets and present a blue print for such a plan. Olin Wethington, assistant secretary of the US Treasury Department, sent a letter to his South Korean counterpart Lee Hwan
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    • 328 2  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY THREE large Singaporebased investors are believed to be among potential buyers of one of Australia's newer shopping centres, the 60,000 sq m Myer Centre in Brisbane. The three Pidemco, DBS Land and Strains Steamship Land are
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 633 3  -  Area bounded by Sixth Ave and PIE earmarked for low/medium density residential use by 2010 By Colin Tan WORK to transform Bukit Timah, the area bounded by Sixth Avenue and the Pan-Is-land Expressway, into a predominantly residential area has gathered momentum with several projects currently
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    • 513 3  -  By Claire Leow LOCAL electronics firm Lek Sun Industrial Pte Ltd will spend about S$ 18 million in the next five years upgrading its production facilities. The firm's key customers are Singapore-based multinational corporations, and half its revenue comes from disk drive makers.
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    • 305 3  -  By Hong Lee Tiam A NUMBER of hotels have stopped the distribution of Insight Citymag Singapore following a dispute between the magazine's publisher and the Singapore Hotel Association over a $52,000 annual endorsement fee. Insight Citymag Singapore, a local tourism magazine, has
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 118 3 POSB AN K chairman Chua Kim Yeow said yesterday that an average of 3.49 million withdrawals involving $580.85 million were conducted through POSB auto teller machines (ATMs) each month. This translates to a daily average of 116,333 withdrawals amounting to $19.36 million. ATM withdrawals
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      • 65 3 THE Singapore Polytechnic will offer a diploma course in instrumentation and control engineering for O-level school leavers, starting in July. Two-thirds of 440 local and multinational companies surveyed last year to determine the demand for trained people, in this field indicated interest in employing diploma
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      • 61 3 THE Trade Development Board said yesterday that the Export Institute of Singapore would conduct a course on oil trading from next month. The course, developed with the UK-based College of Petroleum and Energy Studies, will run over four days in two parts. The whole course will cost
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      • 55 3 THE Registry of Pawnbrokers has organised a two-day public auction of unredeemed pledges from 60 pawnbrokers beginning this Friday. Some 18,000 pledges from 30 pawnshops will be auctioned at the Depot Road premises of the Central Supplies Department. The pledges include chains, diamond rings, brooches, earrings,
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      • 38 3 THE International Business Women's Association will hold a talk on "Time Management for the Professional Woman" on Feb 20. The speaker is Lyn Hayden of Management Consultants. The event is open to members and non-members.
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      • 43 3 APPLICATIONS are invited for Shell Centenary Scholarships for the Arts. The scholarships, launched during the AngloDutch giant's centenary last year, are awarded for under-grad-uate and and post-graduate study in any area of the arts at approved institutions of higher learning.
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 335 4  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Capitalising on bullish sentiment, Jurong Shipyard Ltd has successfully tapped investors for some $100 million to finance two projects. About half the amount will be used to upgrade the company's shipyard facilities, while the other half has been earmarked
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    • 382 4 SINGAPORE Listed Singapore Automotive Engineering (SAE), which secured the sole distributorship for Opel cars in Singapore yesterday, expects to sell between 300 and 500 of them this year. The target is far higher than the 200 cars sold by former
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    • 254 4 SINGAPORE Jaya Holdings' public share offer has been oversubscribed 34 times, ranking the scrip among the most sought-after for a company seeking a Sesdaq listing. In comparison, the year's first public share offer, that of Pertama Holdings was oversubscribed 30.4 times. Singatronics, listed in
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    • 292 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR But-terworth-based stockbroking firm, Seberang Securities, which opted for voluntary suspension in May 1986, is believed to be in the midst of a revamp that may reactivate the firm's operations. Several individuals, three of whom are bumiputras, are believed to have acquired
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    • 265 4 SINGAPORE The United Overseas Bank group has set up a venture capital firm to invest in "emerging growth companies" in the Asia-Pa-cific, the bank said in a statement yesterday. UOB now joins a growing number of banks here which have gone into the venture
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    • 180 4 SINGAPORE Neptank Bunkering Pte Ltd, a whollyowned subsidiary of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (NOL), has sold one of its bunker tankers at a profit of about $1.8 million. In a statement yesterday, NOL said it sold the fullydepreciated 18-year-old Neptank IV to a
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    • 520 4  -  MARKET TALK Fewer promoted as Big Four keep an eye on operating costs By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Singapore's Big Four banks have yet to announce career moves among their senior executives, but the financial grapevine is already abuzz about the appointments. Said to be
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 100 6 TOKYO Two major Japanese high technology companies, Fujitsu and NEC Corp, will sharply cut capital investment due to a slumping semiconductor market, Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday. Fujitsu and NEC spokesmen were not available for comment. Yesterday was a public holiday in
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      • 55 6 LONDON British Airways pic yesterday reported a better-than-expected third quarter pre-tax profit of £100 million (*****.5 million) against £20 million last time. Analysts expected a pre-tax profit of £50 million. The airline's pre-tax profit figure included an extraordinary gain of £140 million from the sale
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      • 69 6 HANOI A Hongkong-Vietnamese joint venture will invest US$4O million (5565.1 million) to renovate two hotels and an 18-hole golf course at Dalat, a favourite mountain retreat of Vietnam's last emperor. The newly-licensed joint venture, equally capitalised by Danao of Hongkong and the Dalat Tourist Service,
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      • 60 6 SEOUL South Korea's Daewoo Electronics Co yesterday said it will invest US$3O million (5548.8 million) to produce television sets in France. The investment will be made over the next three years to build a plant in the suburbs of the north-eastern city of Thionville.
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      • 57 6 MIDLAND, Michigan Dow Corning replaced its two top executives on Monday and brought back a retired company leader to handle a crisis over the company's troubled breast implant business. The changes were announced hours after Dow Corning released documents that showed it knew for years about
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    • 274 6 FT LONDON Lasmo, the independent oil exploration company, announced it had paid £6.7 million (5519.9 million) to seven Ultramar directors, in one of the biggest post-takeover payments in British corporate history. The payment was made to terminate the contracts of the directors
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    • 347 6  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE A computer industry watchdog says two Taiwanese companies have been selling millions of dollars worth of counterfeit software in the US and Europe. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) a group representing such heavyweights as Lotus, Microsoft and
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    • 519 6 Turnaround caused partly by drop in interest expense NYT NEW YORK Time Warner Inc said on Monday that its latest quarterly results swung to a profit for the first time since it took on US$ll billion (5517.8 billion) in debt when Time Inc acquired Warner
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    • 473 6 NYT TOKYO Sony Corp's US$3.4 billion (555.5 biUion) takeover of Columbia Pictures Entertainment in September 1989 seems to be paying off, but three other Japanese electronics makers that bought a piece of Hollywood in the past two years have been less successful. Last
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    • 447 6 AFP SYDNEY Prosecutors began examining yesterday an Australian Securities Commission (ASC) probe into the spectacular collapse of Bond Corp Holdings Ltd, with criminal charges likely. The once powerful brewing, mining and property group, under the chairmanship of Alan Bond, crashed in December 1990,
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    • 261 6 Reuter TOKYO A United States court ruling ordering Minolta Camera Co Ltd to pay US$96 million (SS 155.5 million) to Honeywell Inc for infringing on patents has dealt a sharp blow to a firm already suffering a profit slump, analysts said. Last week's ruling, that
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    • 516 6 MARKET TALK Company's buying spree has analysts scratching their heads HONGKONG Cheung Kong's 14month buying spree has analysts divided, according to the South China Sunday Morning Post. Some view the HK52.73 billion (about SSS7O million) invested in listed companies as a simple Treasury operation
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 88 4 SINGAPORE Assets under management by the Templeton organisation, which is listed in Singapore and London, rose dramatically to U5519.05 billion (5530.8 billion), said Dr Mark Mobius, president of Templeton Emerging Markets Fund Inc. In a press release, Dr Mobius yesterday said there was a large increase
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      • 51 4 SINGAPORE Schroder International Merchant Bankers Ltd (Simbl) has made several senior level appointments. Richard Mountford has been appointed regional director, investments; Richard Tan as director, finance and administration; Elsie Choo and Michael Sng as directors, capital markets; and Arthur Tan and Tow Heng Tan as directors of corporate
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      • 57 4 SINGAPORE Three funds have informed the Stock Exchange of Singapore about their respective unaudited net tangible asset backing per preferred share. The unaudited NTA of the Asean Fund Ltd was U5512.93 and that of Yamaichi DAE Fund Ltd was US$lO.4O on Feb 6. Thai Prime
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      • 99 4 SINGAPORE Wing Tai Holdings Ltd, in response to an article published in BT on Feb 11, has told the Stock Exchange of Singapore that the company's directors have made no decision regarding a listing of Wing Tai Land Pte Ltd. Wing Tai Holdings said its
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      • 108 4 KUALA LUMPUR THE Association of Merchant Banks in Malaysia (Ambim) has recommended that the Ministry of International Trade and Industry look into reducing the requirements for listings on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's second board. In the annual dialogue session between the Minister of Trade
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      • 50 4 KUALA LUMPUR Worldwide Holdings Berhad will continue to concentrate on land and property development and is on the lookout for suitable and viable projects in the Klang Valley and Selangor, chairman Datuk Zabir Bajuri said after the company's extraordinary general meeting and loan stockholders' meeting here yesterday.
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 425 7 Agencies BANGKOK Combined net profits of the 15 Thai commercial banks rose to 19 46 billion baht (551.25 billion) in 1991, up 25.4 per cent from 15.52 billion baht a year ago, Bangkok Bank Ltd said. that Thai banks' 1991 earnings growth,
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    • 383 7 Agencies HO CHI MINH CITY Britain's Standard Chartered Bank said on Monday it planned to open a representative office in Phnom Penh next month, its first operation in Cambodia since the mid-*****. The Cambodian government's National Committee for Foreign Investment approved on
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 84 7 LONDON Members of a Lloyd's of London insurance syndicate managed by RHM Outhwaite (Underwriting Agencies) Ltd are in discussions towards an out-of-court settlement of a high profile case against the company and 80 members' agents, people close to the case said. A spokeswoman for lawyers
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      • 88 7 BERNE Swiss Volksbank, Switzerland's fourth largest bank, cut its dividend on Monday and said 1991 profits had plunged 38 per cent on loan loss provisions necessitated by a recession and a property slump. Profits fell to 68.4 million Swiss francs (5578.99 million) from 110.8 million last
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      • 89 7 TOKYO Yamaichi Securities Co Ltd, one of Japan's Big Four brokerage houses, said it would open four branches during March and May while shutting two small business offices this month due to low profitability. The decision is aimed at enhancing the efficiency of its branch
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      • 61 7 KARACHI Sir William Ryrie, executive vice-president of the International Finance Corp (IFC) said the IFC was interested in Pakistan's privatisation plans. He said the IFC would invest in Pakistani companies after Pakistan's bold decisions. Ryrie said the IFC had invested more than US$4OO million (*****.4 million)
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      • 99 7 COPENHAGEN Denmark's third biggest bank, Sparekassen Bikuben A/S, said it is taking over the small Bornholmer Bank A/S, which earlier on Monday said it was bankrupt. A Bikuben spokesman said Bornholmer Bank had lost all its own capital of 86.8 million crowns (5523.1 million) at end--1990
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    • 476 7 Agencies HONGKONG Beijing's China Resources (Holdings) Co Ltd has dropped plans to join a consortium to rescue the Hongkong unit of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), acting general manager Li Liangxi said yesterday. "We will continue to study our future
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    • 275 7 It's a rtvolution The long awaited VTEC Honda Owe is here A revolution with so many state-of-the-art changes To begin with, the critically acclaimed VTEC engine has placed the new Civic as a reference car, clearly ahead in its class JAPAN (Alt Of TIE JEini/'H. For the first time, here's
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 91 8 JAKARTA An economist has predicted that if Indonesia's tight money policy could be loosened and distortions jeopardising business efficiency eliminated, the country's economy could grow by 6.5 per cent in 1992. Otherwise it could only grow by 4.5 per cent. Speaking
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      • 87 8 BANGKOK The Thai palm oil industry has been advised to work closely with producers in Malaysia and Indonesia to cushion any impact from the establishment of the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta), the Bangkok Post reported. Commerce Ministry permanent secretary Bajr Isarasena said the
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      • 76 8 KUALA LUMPUR The Federal Territory branch of the Malaysian Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry has described the presence of Indonesian illegal immigrant traders as a serious threat to the economic prosperity of the country. Its chairman, Moehamad Izat Emir, said the problem should not be
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      • 72 8 JAKARTA The Finnish government has offered to cooperate with Indonesia in the manufacturing industry and in the procurement of power generators in a bid to improve trade relations between the two countries, says a Jakarta Post report. Visiting Finnish Trade and Industry Minister Kauko Juhantalo said after a
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      • 76 8 LAMPANG, Thailand The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) will scrap a SO billion baht (553.2 billion) scheme to build a mega-size lignite-fired power plant in this northern province, according to a Bangkok Post report. Instead, Egat is working towards consolidating the Lampang project
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      • 58 8 BANGKOK The Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan has endorsed the second phase soft loan to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) to improve and upgrade its tourism facilities, The Nation reported. The 2.4 billion baht (S$ 150 million) loan was delayed by the OECF following
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    • 587 8  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE The jockeying for political ascendancy within the ranks of the country's ruling coalition is expected to interfere with the running of Malaysia's economy in 1992, says the Hong-kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc) group. In
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    • 623 8 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's unemployment rate is forecast to have edged up to another record high in January, magnifying the need for the government to stimulate the depressed economy with an economic statement this month. Economists said continuing labour market weakness and further job
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    • 441 8 IHT JAKARTA Indonesia, the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas and Asia's leading oil exporter, is planning a major expansion of coal exports to cash in on growing international demand. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong and fastgrowing economies in Southeast Asia are
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    • 360 8 AFP HANOI China and Vietnam will take stock of their fast-growing economic ties during Foreign Minister Qian Qichen's visit here starting today, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam said. Competing territorial claims and other "historical problems" between the Asian neighbours will
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    • 653 8 Vietnamese now in charge of Vietsovpetro Reuter VUNG TAU, Vietnam The pay used to be so bad for Vietnamese working on the oil rigs of Vietsovpetro that mothers would threaten disobedient daughters with wedlock to one of them. These days, they're the most eligible
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  • THE WORLD
    • 335 9 Reuter MEXICO CITY The pace of joint ventures between American and Mexican companies has quickened, as companies on both sides of the border scramble to form alliances in anticipation of a North American free trade pact. Analysts say the flurry has been fuelled
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    • 425 9 Reuter BRUSSELS Cracks appeared on Monday in the Franco-German alliance, long the bedrock of the European Community, as the two traded diplomatic barbs during a discussion on the European economy. Diplomats said French Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy criticised Germany's tight monetary policy at
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    • 752 9 Competition for Western aid intensifying IHT DAVOS, Switzerland Poor Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, a country only recently at the forefront of the Cold War battleground, attracted barely a ripple of attention from the hundreds of businessmen and journalists attending the
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    • 227 9 Reuter CARTAGENA, Colombia Industrialised nations told poorer countries at a major United Nations development conference on Monday that they should not expect to live off aid and ought to become more efficient. The speeches on the first full day of debate at
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    • 461 9 Reuter LONDON The British consumer is still lacking the confidence to spend his hard earned cash and prefers instead to repay debt, government figures showed. "There is no sign yet that the British consumer is ready to lead the economy out of
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 113 9 BRUSSELS European Community finance ministers have adopted excise duty rules for companies and consumers to take effect when intra-community customs posts disappear from the single EC market after Jan 1, 1993. EC officials said excisable goods tobacco, alcohol and fuels will pass through
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      • 73 9 CARTAGENA, Colombia A United Nations body has drawn up a revolutionary proposal to tackle global warming through a system of trading permits for gas emissions, a UN official said. Roger Lawrence of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) said the organisation recently completed
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      • 66 9 BEIJING China's retail sales rose sharply in January, with heavy institutional spending setting off fears of inflation, the official China Daily said. Retail sales in January topped 87.3 billion yuan, 13.6 per cent more than a year earlier, it said, quoting an unnamed economist at
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      • 59 9 TOKYO Japan's Posts and Telecommunications Ministry said on Monday it would provide 100 million yen (551.28 million) in aid to Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti from special savings accounts launched last year. The ministry said the emergency aid was part of the 1.1 billion yen raised
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      • 59 9 NICOSIA Libya, Syria and Iran, accused of developing nuclear weapons, have for the first time allowed international inspectors into their countries following a challenge from International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) chief Hans Blix. The three are apparently drawing conclusions from the Gulf War but also from
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    • 504 9 Reuter JERUSALEM Israel's central bank governor Jacob Frenkel is seizing on the US demand for economic reform before giving US$lO billion (about 5516.2 billion) in loan guarantees to the Jewish state as an opportunity to promote long-resisted change. Mr Frenkel,
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  • 548 10 EDITORIAL IF MONEY buys power and prestige, why not school places? Not a few schools, and countless parents, have long engaged in this modus operandi, long before the Ministry of Education's public censure last week. In a society where parents stop at almost nothing to
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 280 10 DESPITE continuing bullish forecasts about the direction of the Singapore dollar, its value in recent weeks shows that a cap at least a temporary one has been put on its uptrend. The Malaysian ringgit and the US dollar, after hitting record lows against the Singapore unit, have both
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    • 108 10 THE EDUCATION MINISTRY'S warning that it will take disciplinary action against any principal found to have engaged in soliciting donations in exchange for school places, is a timely move. In view of the latest incident, schools should draw a clear distinction between the buying of places
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    • 106 10 JUDGING FROM THE various political, economic and social problems the Philippines is facing, what it needs most is a stable government. The prerequisite for this is to have a charming president who enjoys the support of the people and the military. During President Corazon Aquino's six-year leadership,
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 203 10 UNLIKE Hongkong, which has allowed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese boat people to land and be resettled over the years, the US government has taken a two-faced approach. While it deplores the coup and is committed to restoring democracy in Haiti, it is also determined to
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    • 158 10 INDEED, there could be more than a grain of truth in the argument that strong funding could even help news publications to sustain their social service by voicing the needs and aspirations of the common people. In view of the apparent unavoidability of big business
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    • 159 10 ABANDON the industry, Primary Industries Minister Datuk Seri Lim Keng Yaik told Malaysian tin miners this week. It's nothing new; he has been preaching that for the past couple of years or so after having deemed it to be a sunset industry. He has also been
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  • 1337 10  -  As resistance to Boris Yeltsin's government grows, John Helmer examines the components of the opposition which are assailing the Russian President and his policies John Helmer POLITICAL rallies in Moscow and several other cities across Russia early this week demonstrate the growing strength and diversity of the
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    • 10 10 The writer is a Moscow-based correspondent who writes for BT
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    • 81 10 DOONESBURY THATS RIGHT, KJPS, YOU HEARD GORRECTIY! IF YOU'VE SLEPT WITH ANY CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIOffTE, THIS FEATURE WILL PAY YOU *25 TO TELL YOUK. STORy t» OH, 9XE, YOU OOULD ALWAYS SELL mO THE TABS FOR MORE, BUT tUOUUMT YOU RATHER SEE A PGNIFIEP RE-ENACTMENT OF YOUR STORY BY NATIONALLY
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 973 11  -  Japan's stock market woes and plunging real estate prices are not an indication of the country's economic health, says Neil Gross Neil Gross TO SOME, Tokyo's financial woes seem an awful lot like the vital signs of a dying patient. The stock market has
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    • 1360 11  -  The past decade has seen the emergence of Asia as Australia's largest trading partner. BT's Sydney Correspondent Florence Chong finds out more about this relationship in an exclusive interview with the new MD of the Australian Trade Commission, Ralph Evans Florence Chong Australia has been making
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    • 60 11 100 Waymouth Street ADELAIDE PRIME COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT Leased to Workcover Corporation (South Australian Government) 10 5 5 lease Substantial taxation benefits For Sale by Tender Close Wednesday, 18 March, 1992 Declared Price: $31.5 million Net Income: $3,000,000 per annum Note:The vendor reserves the right to accept any offer prior to
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 1251 12  -  Selva Kumar looks at the development of the law and some recent House of Lords decisions Selva Kumar RECENT decisions in English courts on whether auditors are liable only to their clients or to any third party relying on their
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    • 463 12 PHNG SIEW HOON AND ANOTHER V PHNG SIEW LAN High Court of the Republic of Singapore, Suit No. 2260 of 1987 Justice Chan Sek Keong. THE SUIT was brought by the executors of the estate of Phng Yen San. The
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    • 392 12 CHING YUAN MARKETING PRIVATE LIMITED V YAOHAN SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED Court of Appeal of the Republic of Singapore, Civil Suit No. 49 of 1989 Chief Justice Yong Pung How, Justices Goh Joon Seng and S Rajendran. YAOHAN, the supermarket company, had granted Ching Yuan Marketing
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  • SPORTS
    • 523 13 Reuter INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was found guilty on Monday of raping a beauty queen in a hotel room last summer and faces up to 60 years in prison. The jury of eight men and four women took about nine hours
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    • 803 13 Reuter INDIANAPOLIS Trouble and Mike Tyson have been synonymous for most of the fighter's young life but his reputation and value as a drawing card have kept him from paying much of a price for his transgressions. Until now. The 25-year-old former
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    • 538 13 Winter Olympics NYT ALBERTVILLE, France Every four years they move in and out of the American sports consciousness as quickly as they move on their long blades. Their celebrity is usually measured by their time on the ice. Even when Eric Heiden flashed through Lake
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    • 283 13 AP NEW YORK Sprinter Andre Cason has run four sensational races this season. And he has not run a technically sound one yet. "A couple of times my head popped up in the first few steps, and once my legs started to bow
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 148 13 COLOGNE A leading German doping expert has leapt to the defence of sprint queen Katrin Krabbe and her colleagues Silke Moller and Grit Breuer, who are accused of trying to cheat on drug tests. In yesterday's edition of the daily newspaper Cologne Express, Dieter Baron,
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      • 175 13 SAN DIEGO America 3 syndicate chief Bill Koch was a winner and loser on Monday when his top boat America 3 narrowly beat its older sister Defiant in the third race of the defenders' second round. America 3 handed the Koch-skip-pered Defiant its first loss by 49
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      • 74 13 LONDON Two British Formula One racing teams unveiled big international sponsorship deals on Monday. The Jordan team announced it had clinched a multi-million-pound agreement with South African petro-chemical giant SASOL and Team Lotus had struck a deal with Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi. Jordan's deal, for
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      • 91 13 PERTH Kepler Wessels' South African side is good enough to win the World Cup, say two top Australian cricketers. Geoff Marsh, expected to be Allan Border's deputy in Australia's side to defend the Cup, and wicketkeeper-batsman Tim Zoehrer, a member of Australia's provisional squad of 20, were
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      • 43 13 CHICAGO Sixth-seeded Lori McNeil had too much experience and finesse for South Africa's Elna Reinach, winning 6-4, 6-2 in just 58 minutes on Monday at the Virginia Slims of Chicago tournament. Fifth-seeded Gigi Fernandez lost to Rosalyn Fairbank-Nideflfer 6-4, 6-4.
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    • 561 14 TELEVISION AND RADIO Buddy buddy OUR CHOICE Triumph of the Heart, 9.30pm, SBC 5 Professional football player befriends young handicapped boy who becomes a talented athlete under his guidance. The roles are reversed when the football player himself is afflicted with a terminal disease and the boy becomes his comforter.
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 976 15  -  If you are an Asian film buff, this year's Singapore International Film Festival's for you, says Salil Tripathi Salil Tripathi April will not be a cruel month for film buffs this year, as the Fifth Singapore International Film Festival gets underway at Capitol, Prince, Jade, Raffles
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    • 714 15 CHATTERBOX ELIZABETH TAYLOR is planning a 60th birthday extravaganza on Feb 27 for 1,000 guests, including many of Hollywood's biggest stars, at Disneyland near Los Angeles, her spokeswoman said on Monday. Spokeswoman Chen Sam said the evening birthday bash was being
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    • 725 15  -  Eric Pace on the acclaimed author of Roots, who died of a heart attack on Monday Eric Pace Reuter Alex haley, the Pulitzer Prize-win-ning author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which chronicled his ancestors' origins in Africa and their passage
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 866 16  -  By Claire Leow YESTERDAY'S trading was dominated by a consolidation in Malaysian counters and some activity on Keppel Corporation and Straits Steamship Land. Jurong Shipyard also garnered some attention with a private placement of 10 million new shares. But the effect of
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      73 16  -  -By Chew Eng Han Comment A SOLID triple bottom base has been forming at the 60-cent level over the past six months. Renong now looks ready to start a medium-term uptrend as daily, weekly and monthly stochastks all point up. First target is 80 cents, followed by $1.00-1.03,
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  • 194 17 I CPCKin Quoted have a par value of {1 and traded in lots of 1,000 shares each P/E ratio Reflect last annual consolidated results shares P/Es are adiusted for currency LLULIUS unless otherwise specified differences. ABN shares quoted in dollars. Gr Y*ld Forwgn shares adjusted
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  • 122 18 I CpCWn M uoted haw IP* wlue of tl and traded m lots of 1,000 shares each P/E ratio Reflect last annual consofcdated results Foreign shares P/Es are adjusted for currency LL.UL.iIL/ unless otherwise specified differences ABN shares quoted *1 dollars Gr Y*ld Forwgn shares
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    • 127 18 NOTICES LIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Sofa Lye Hock of Bk 238 #20-384 Jurong East St 21, Singapore 2260, have applied for a Fist Class Beer House licence in respect of premises at M/i LianHuat Seng Poh Eating House at Blk 802 #01-07 Tampines Ave 4,
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    • 120 18 UQUOR LICENCE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, HoHeeSay of Blk 03 Rocboce Centre #14-630 Rocfaore Road, Singapore 0718, have applied for a Second Class Beer House licence in respect of premises at M/s Hoya Steamboat ARestaunnt at2B2/282A South Bridge Road, Singapore 0105 and that this application will be
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    • 118 18 UQUOR LICENCE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY OVEN Dm. I, KHOOYEWTIAN of No. 129 Sunset Way #03-04 Singapore 2159, has applied for a Public House licence in respect of premises at M/s THE BAY RESTAURANT at #01-03, 5 Stadium Walk. Kallang Leisure Drome, Singapore 1439, and that this application will be
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 507 19 Bernama THE MARKET yesterday absorbed some profit-taking activities and share price finished higher with blue-chips leading rises. Prices earlier fluctuated on investors' wariness that the local bourse would consolidate after the strong rally since last Thursday. Foreign investors, who had been building positions then,
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    • 24 20 Forecast figures are contributed by Baring Securities. Crosby Securities, DBS Securities, GK Goh Securities, Hoare Govett Securities and Kay Hian James Capel.
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    • 66 20 Net Profit represents consolidated earnings after provision for depreoatnn.nterest charges, taxation and mnonty interests, I: Interim, F: Final; (a): In mHon yen; (b): In Australian dolars. (c): In m*on guilders; (d) In HKJm; (e) In USJm; (f) Period of 16 mths EPS annuateed, (g) Period of 9
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    • 12 20 Footnotes Deemed Interest Eriidrged share capital NA: Not Available
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    • 120 20 Figures in brackets are for the previous corresponding period L: Loss, IE: Tax Exempted, N: Net. KYA: Not Yet Available, (a): Adjusted for scrip issues, (b): In million Dutch Florins, (c): Profit after tax. (d): In million HK$, Company's profit, ki million yen. (g): Profit after tax minority
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    • 252 20 Feb 10 Straits Steamship Land and First Pacific Land will undertake a USs7sm property project a office and hotel/service apartment to be built along Ho Chi Minh's thoroughfare Dong Le Lai in Vietnam. Guthrie GTS Ltd's wholly-owned subsidiary, Guthrie Development (S) Pte Ltd has entered into a conditional
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    • 125 20 M shares quoted have a par value of SI unless otherwise specified. NY* Not Yet Available: Int Interest I Interim. N Net TE Tax Exempt S Special diwdend; (a) Adjusted tor scrip issue; (b) First and Final; (c) Includes 4% special dividend, (d) Includes 6% special diwdend; (e)
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    • 97 20 Frastr I Heave Ltd; 93rd AGM EGM at its registered office, 475 River Valley Road, Singapore 1024, on Friday, Feb 14, at 10am Chin Teck Plantations Bhd: 33rd AGM at No 107-1 Changkat Tambi Dollah, off Jalan Pudu, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, Feb 15, at 10am The
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 150 21 UPI PROPERTY developments yesterday continued to cause the Thai stock market to rise, with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index gaining 6.6S points in moderate trading to close at 786.91. "Bangkok Land still caused the index to rise when the market opened," said
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 102 21 PROFIT-TAKING set in, sending most leading shares down. "Prices have risen too quickly. I would expect the market to consolidate," one local broker said. Brokers said foreign buying, normally the main support of the market, has been selective, failing to follow up the bull run
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 242 22 Reuter STOCKS closed sharply lower yesterday on profit-taking with the blue chip Hang Seng Index falling 59.04 points to finish at 4,674.52. Heavy profit-taking on covered warrants in the afternoon further dampened prices, brokers said. Stocks opened lower as foreign selling alternated with selective buying
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 412 23 Reuter RENEWED confidence yesterday boosted Australian stocks which regained ground lost last week when the market was stuck in the doldrums. The market opened higher amid positive sentiment after a better-than-expected performance on Monday and after strong overnight rises on foreign markets.
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul shares plunge in active trade
      • 82 23 SOUTH KOREAN shares yesterday plunged in fairly active trade to close below the 680 level as investors took profits. "Investors cashed out of shares that saw an increase last week," said John Wardle, analyst at Barclays de Zoette Wedd. The composite index ended off 12.86 points at 674.32, the
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      • 157 23 THE STOCK index fell for the fourth consecutive trading day, plunging 2.6 per cent on heavy selling in late trade, brokers said. The weighted index opened higher but ended 132.51 points down at 5,072.04. Turnover was an active NT547.4 billion against NT$5l billion. All sectors fell. "Asset plays, which
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      • 92 23 SHARES fell in quiet trading but brokers said the market could perk up soon following the International Monetary Fund's approval of the government's austerity programme. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index slid to 1,212.79, a loss of 21.74 points. Brokers said the market appeared exhausted after the January price
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      • 142 23 SHARE prices closed firmer as the mood for equities in New Zealand improved. Banks began a new round of retail lending rate cuts on Monday night which helped set the tone. The NZSE-40 capital index ended 9.62 higher at 1,467.92 although at one point it was 16 points
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        398 24 STOCKS rebounded in quiet trading on Monday after the New York market managed to shake off weak bond prices and helped the Dow snap a three-day losing streak. The atmosphere in both stock and bond markets had been subdued in anticipation of the Treasury's US$36 billion quarterly refunding
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        208 24 HOPES of interest rates cuts in the United States and Britain pushed up share prices to close higher on Monday on the London Stock Exchange. The blue-chip Financial Times Stock Exchange 100-share index, which lost 17.1 points on Friday, closed 21.2 points higher at 2,538.4. The narrower Financial Times
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      • 131 24 THE STOCK market lost a little ground on Monday, as the DAX spot trend index finished at 1.682.13 points, off by 0.20 per cent from the Friday close, while the Commerzbank indica- tor ended at 1,942.60, off 0.12 per cent. Operators said the market was "seeking its way", aftd
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      • 135 24 THE PARIS bourse scored a modest rise on Monday in listless trading, despite strong volume in the Perrier mineral water company's shares, operators said. The CAC-40 stock price index ended the session at 1.865.55 points, up by 0.21 per cent from the Friday close. The indicator had been off
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      • 191 24 ITALIAN shares closed broadly weaker, with blue chips falling across the board, driven down by the weak performance of overseas markets and continuing worries about the international economic outlook. "People are just continuing to sell. Even the effect of the takeover law, which gave a small boost to the
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      • 240 24 SHARES closed steady with a slightly firmer bias in moderate trade as Wall Street's higher opening supported the market in late business, brokers said. The all-share SPI index edged 0.2 points higher to 1,120.4. Blue chips gained more, with the SMI index of leading shares up 5.8 points at
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      • 101 24 PRICES on the Stockholm bourse closed sharply lower in slow trade following Friday's Wall Street declines, dealers said. They added many investors were cautious ahead of Ericsson's 1991 results yesterday. The bourse's general index fell 1.28 per cent to 944.30 on turnover of 427 million crowns. Blue chips slid
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      • 214 24 THE STOCK market ended the day slightly easier on Monday in dull trading as continued volatility in the financial rand drove confused traders to the sidelines, dealers said. The foreign investment currency started steady at around 3.47 per dollar but quickly came under pressure again and soon equalled Friday's
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      • 94 24 STOCKS ended slightly firmer on Monday but in quiet trade as players stayed cautious ahead of this week's US Treasury refunding and Friday's US producer price index, dealers said. "It was quiet all day. Typical Monday, I guess," one trader said. Canadian biotechnology stocks ended stronger, escaping from profit-taking
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    • 29 24 The market reports for Amsterdam and Brussels were not available. Monday's closing prices are compared with as Friday's prices were not available Executive Jobs every Saturday in Business Times
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1195 25 REPORTS THE US dollar ended the Asian day slightly easier against the mark and a touch firmer against the yen after gently fluctuating in directionless trade here. Dealers said a Japanese holiday yesterday had subdued the market. Hongkong dealers said they
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    • 268 25 AP FRANKFURT United States Secretary of State James Baker held out the possibility on Monday that the US would contribute to a fund to support the Russian currency. But Mr Baker, speaking to reporters aboard a plane bringing him here to inaugurate a
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    • 367 25 Reuter NEW YORK Aided by the lowest interest rates in two decades, corporate America is in the midst of a massive effort to get its balance sheet cleaned up. Companies are calling in debt before maturity, offering to swap it for equity or simply repurchasing it
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    • 39 25 Rates quoted by Astley Pearce Rales quoted by NatWest Note: Based on latest issues Source: The Monetary Authority of Singapore Central bank discount rates Average of 12 banks. Float Source: National Westminster Bank Source: National Westminster Bank
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 370 26  -  By Dawn Tan SINGAPORE The Lon-don-based International Tin Research Institute (ITRI), a major tin research and development organisation, is to close five of its international tin information centres. Centres in Australia, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and the Netherlands will wind-down their operations
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    • 275 26 Reuter LONDON Platinum's rally of around US$4O in the past month and move from a US$2O discount to a US$l2 premium to gold may be tapering out as fundamental and technical factors move against the metal, analysts and dealers said on Monday.
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    • 831 26 REPORTS THE price of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market rebounded to close 29 sen higher at M$ 14.39 per kg yesterday, following the US$lO5 rise on the London Metal Exchange overnight. Dealers said market sentiment was well supported by renewed
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    • 1373 26 B uSINESS TIMES NOTICES Toll tr— Tel No 737 0043 -Fax No: 734 3698 o EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OF SINGAPORE LTD (incorporated with limited liability in Singapore) U. 5.550,000,000 Floating Rate Notes due 1997 In accordance with the provisions of the Notes, notice is hereby given that for the
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    • 363 27 NOTICE NOTiCE IS HEREBY GIVEN that. I, LOW FUNG JOKE of Block 3 Dairy Farm Road 401-06 Singapore (2367), have applied for a Public House Second Class licence in respect of premises at Mfe MLANO RESTAURANT at Yishun 10 Complex, 51 Yishun Central 1 Unit 01-07, Singapore (2776) and that
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 334 27 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 You get a minute portion for each boy (6,6) 9 Dine in the snuggery. It's most orderly (7) 10 Fascinated by a small glove (7) 11 I meet North Kentucky black (4) 12 Disorder is enormous after tea (5) 13 One in leading position is too
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    • 160 27 WEATHER Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Report Maximum temperature 32.3 Assoc humidity 64% Minimum temperature 24.8 Assoc humidity 94% Hours of sunshine 5.80 Rainfall in mm 6.5 Rainfall this month 6.5 Rainy days this month I World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 24/17 Goudy Bangkok 33/22
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  • 456 28 Agencies BRUSSELS Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said on Monday he might have to re-enter politics, if Russian President Boris Yeltsin strays from a pro-democracy, reformist course. In an interview with NBC News in Moscow, Mr Gorbachev said that he
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  • 378 28 AFP NEW DELHI The first Kashmiri marchers reached the Indo-Pakistan border at 1 pm yesterday (0730 GMT) but did not try to cross it and no incident of firing occurred, an Indian foreign affairs spokesman said. He said 150 to 200 members of the
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  • 328 28 Reuter ALGIERS Eight policemen were ambushed and killed in Algeria in the first full day of a state of emergency to crush Muslim fundamentalist unrest, sending political tension spiralling to new heights. Gunmen with automatic weapons attacked two patrol cars on Monday in the
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  • 391 28 Reuter BONN Germany urged the United States on Monday to be flexible at the Gatt world trade talks after a US warning that they were crucial for world security. Bonn government spokesman Dieter Vogel said the European Community was willing to
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  • 528 28 AFP PHNOM PENH The first Chinese foreign minister to visit Cambodia since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Qian Qichen, arrived yesterday urging all factions to stick to the Paris peace agreement. "The Paris agreement on Cambodia will not come
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  • 371 28 GENEVA The world trade body Gatt locked horns with environmental groups yesterday when it released a study arguing that increased trade and income should make it easier to protect the environment. The study by economists criticised the efforts of some countries, spurred by
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 357 29  -  Increased trade, decline in capacity main reasons for optimism By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Liner shipping is definitely on the road to recovery as a result of an increase in trade and output as well as a decline in containership capacity on order. According to Ms
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    • 249 29  -  By Jimmy Yeow KUALA LUMPUR Construction work on the 360metre long wharf of the North Butterworth Container Terminal (NBCT) is expected to start by the middle of this year. The project will begin after the Penang Port Commission (PPC) has awarded
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    • 281 29 Reuter ROME A decision by Czechoslovakia to link up with a Trans-Alpine pipeline network to secure oil that it used to get from the Soviet Union should turn the Italian Adriatic port of Trieste into Europe's No 3 oil port. "The
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      • 93 30 BONN The government of Yugoslavia has decided to end a ban on German trucks and coaches entering the country effective immediately, the German foreign ministry said. A spokesman at the foreign ministry confirmed a report by the German Federation for Freight Traffic that the
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      • 76 30 MOSCOW United States military planes start flying food and medicines to the former Soviet Union on Monday, amid complaints that the symbolic Operation Provide Hope is wasting money that could be better spent elsewhere. Billed as a dramatic end to decades of Cold War hostilities by
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      • 113 30 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A USAir Boeing 727 carrying 158 passengers made an emergency landing in San Juan on Sunday after the pilot detected a mechanical failure in one part of the landing gear, officials said. There were no injuries, airline and airport authorities said.
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      • 75 30 NEW YORK A pilot who was trying to make an emergency landing at Laguardia International Airport was seriously injured on Sunday when his small plane crash-landed onto a main road in Queens, a borough of New York City, authorities said. There were no other
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      • 91 30 RIO DE JANEIRO Two sailors were killed in a dawn attack by pirates on a Maltese-registered ship anchored in the bay off Rio de Janeiro, police said on Monday. About 10 masked and armed men swarmed aboard the Anand on Friday morning as it was
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      • 84 30 LONDON A tug on Monday reported that the 15,649-dwt Colombian freighter Ciudad de Pasto has developed a 10 per cent list after being holed in the northeast Pacific, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Service said. A second tug was expected to reach the vessel, which is drifting after
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    • 1193 30 THE Panamax sector on Monday maintained its downwards trend as the Baltic Freight Index eased a further nine points to 1,356, brokers said. "Cargo volume is thin and the adequate supply of tonnage for early positions seems to be driving rates further downwards," Clarkson Research Studies said in
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    • 812 30  -  United Airlines recently announced that it was putting off delivery of more than 100 Boeing aircraft. Agis Salpukas explores the impact this will have in the industry Agis Salpukas NYT IN THE face of persistent recession, United Airlines took a big step
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    • 435 30 Reuter Boeing co said its largest domestic customer, UAL Corp's United Airlines, has asked to delay delivery of some 737 firm orders, but that the majority of its delivery reductions involve options on 737s and 7575. Boeing Commercial Airplane Group spokesman Craig Martin said
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    • 182 30 BEARISH sentiment continued to engulf the freights market this week, leading to a sharp markdown in rates, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index tumbled 65 points to finish the week at 1,365, with reduced Far East interest due to the Chinese New Year contribut- ing to the slide.
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    • 4598 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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    • 371 46 The US firm beats Japanese and Canadian rivals in heat of'buy America' fever UPI SACRAMENTO The state of California awarded a US$l55 million (*****.2 million) contract to build passenger rail cars on Monday to Morrison Knudsen Corp, which plans to open at least one factory
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    • 380 46 AP CUMANA, Venezuela For as long as anyone here can remember, the giant tuna boats known as purse seiners for the nets they use have set sail from this gusty Caribbean port to cast their nets in surrounding waters. For fishermen, the fact that dolphins
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    • 239 46 Reuter NEW YORK Marine Drilling Cos Inc said on Monday its banks declared a principal payment default against its Keyes 303 LP subsidiary, accelerated a note having a current outstanding balance of US$l4.4 million (5523.3 million) and seized a related collateral account
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    • 461 46 NYT NEW YORK Two of the world's largest telecommunications companies. Northern Telecom Ltd of Canada and Motorola Inc of the US, said on Monday that they planned to market their equipment jointly to large operators of cellular telephone systems, many of which
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    • 27 29 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry ef Accredited Shipping Agents, Singapore National Shipping Association. For advertising enquiries, contact Shipping Times: lei 740- 2tm/741)- 2090.
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    • 238 29 SUMMARY United to slash capital spending by $1 lb IN THE face of persistent recession, United Airlines took a big step back from an ambitious expansion strategy on Monday, announcing that it was cutting its capital spending by US$6.7 billion (SS10.8 billion) over the next three years and postponing the
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    • 679 31 ■TOUTS FROM CANADA MPORTS FROM USA ■ffORT Ewi Tuesday trrn* at EXPORT Evary Saturday arrival at Simapnia 'Antavp Stiapments <na R'dam **Haanburf Slupmantj via B luvan 74ix6 /fuA&Mti* ANL nti.ii ........1., i ncssa/ww m HO9 MT A. ASM ***** 1/2 11/2 14/2 29/2 29/2 2/1 A. JAYAKARTA 64 7M 14/2
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    • 591 32 u Hapag-Lloyd CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT Aho Kcaptinf cargo to: M UK I N. Continent inland destinations. Belfast, Dutin, Copenhafen, Aartws, Gothenburg, Malmo, Helsinki, Oslo, Amsterdam, Caribbean, S. America, Ceuta, MeHa I Canary Islands. CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT ACCEPTANCE OF CARGO TO BREMERHAVEN VIA HAMBURG Agents. Singapore —HAPAG-LLOYD (BINQAPORE) PTE
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    • 825 33 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 15 Hoe Chiang Road #09-01 San ford Building Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fa*: *****17 SERVICE TO SABAH SARAWAK BRUNEI nc sms STRAITS HOPE STtAITS VENTURE STMITS SIM VO2E hhura. Skan, Tan VO4E khtara, lab. KK ¥OS€ Must*. Ls6. KK VOX Uuara, Shan, Ta> ACCEPTS CAP GO
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    • 819 33 P&O Containers SINGAPORE AGENT: P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd 15 Hoe Chiang Road #08-02 to 06 Sanford Building, Singapore 0208 Tel: 225 2233 Telex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 CR Number: **********0Z EXPORT TO UK CONTINENT JEDDAH FROM UK CONTINENT JEDDAH ALSO ACCEPTMO FCL/LCL FOR Al UK
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    • 351 34 DJAKARTA LLOYD INDONESIAN NATIONAL LINE CR NSR **********0-D EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES TO EUROPE VSL/VOY SPORE ROAM/AO AN H'BURG BREMEN ANTWERP MATARAM 31WB 24/2 30/3 5/4 8/4 12/4 FAST TRANSIT TIME ACCEPTING BREAK BULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO Sublet to Inducement. Also accepting cargo to Coaoblonoo, Port Sold, Port Aloxandrla, Gonoa. Trtooto. ALSO
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    • 575 34 HANJIN SHIPPING Also accepting Reefer Opentop. FlatrKk etc to San frincisco «m OMUand M USA Inland a*- -A 1 ft.li Dk.lMUlnk,• Mnrlnth r L«na,.,M« 1 Dm.at m.*r MOnTftW. BUTHTWI. BOVOfI, rnillOCipml WWI. JICMOfIWH, nfß rO«nf CtC LME HAUL mm PLEASURE 023* HANJM TONGHAE 087W HANJM SEOUL 120W HANJM SINGAPORE 004W
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    • 1111 35 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) >LL FREE) BOOKINGS: (TO USA SERVICE FAR EAST SERVICE UK/EUROPE SERVICE AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE NEPTUNELINK TEL *****82 DOCUMENTATION DEPT *****31 TERMINAL OFFICE *****89 IMPORT CFS MB2 *****32 EXPORT CFS MB2 NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA K.L.-(03) *****33, P.Kelang-<O3) *****87, Penang-(04) *****0. J.Bahru-(07)
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    • 455 35 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64/ *****59 (FESCO LINE) ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****} (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) BALT ORIENT LINE 1 l l \\\H I IM FULL CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES MA FOR OdCTMIg OUT Parang
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    • 1079 36 1 K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD AS AGENTS KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (CR No: **********0 M) TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAJCI R*****5 FAX: MALAYSIA: "K* UNE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD TEL SA *****00 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****0 JB *****1 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNUSA TEL JKT *****76. *****77. *****08 EXPORT n
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    • 740 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 REGIONAL CONTAINER SERVICES Mi.-.' II 9HTT VVVESSEL a KOZMTSEV PET* DUTOV KOTA BINTANO KOTA SUWA peoasus progrem KOTA MNTANO mmm vov BIN MM 13/2 704N 14/2 07N 15/2 KBTM7 W1 smao7 nn KSR2O7 It/2 IMN
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    • 783 37 EacßenV Ist1 st CLASS OONHMR TRANSPORT ()V|\l\|Rs|HV|C| 10 fly NORTH CON'IINIYI-'ONDINWIA WEEKLY NOTE: 1) SOU —IE HAVRE/BELFAST/BILBAO/DUBL IN 2) RTM: PARIS/BASEL/AN TWERP/CORK 3) HAM COPENHAGEN/AARHUS/VIENNA/WARSAW/GYDWIA 4) GOT OSLO/HELSINKI CLOSING TIME FCI: 18/2 0800 HRS iq u/2 1700 HRS I IXI'KI COM \IM R M IiVU I I'ROM HIWDINWIVNORIII (ONIINTNT I
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    • 316 37 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES M VI73W VIN« *11 VII4II V MYANMA FIVE STAR UNE (I Loatfinfl for Ynvm (Raatoon) Spor. 14/17 F* 23/25 FA 3/ 5 M* 4/ 7 Mar r.Kii nm P.Gdf 21/2 M* THE BANK UNE mi iit« ov AiWfw vnr inipping; tmi botfTAtwcn fgnvtct HEAVY UFT CAPABILITY 1
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    • 834 38 1/// Hai Sun Hup Co (Ptc) Ltii STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO t HEAVY LIFTS IN BOUND VESSELS IUStI TRAM I sou m asu cura RAUA ANA TRAM NT N IK U M PT M Ri IPT I» 11/2 11/2 14/2 ■PT I 19/2 21 21/2 2S/2 22
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    • 499 39 NEDLLOYD GIVES YOU MEDITERRANEAN EXPRESS TO EUROPE fNORTH CONTINENT—UK—SCANDINAVIA) WEEKLY MNEW ZEALAND FIJI VESSQ N Rotterdam/2103S N Rouen/****** N Rochester/*****# N Rosano/2106S ST>aya 22/2 1/3 13/3 23/3 6/3 16/3 27/3 6/4 n<«) 22/3 31/3 12/4 22/4 Unpmilk(A) 8/3 18/3 29/3 8/4 Accepting P. Chalmers via Timaru Cargo To Be Feedered
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    • 467 40 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND TO USA/CANADA USA -Houston, Savomah. Norfolk, Mttnoro, Noor Tort FROM USA/CANAOA/EUROPE/MEDrHRRANEAN <. I I R\ I \(,l \l■ i; m BELSIN SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE. LTD m \i.i;ms, M ACOLINE SEMI-CONTAINER FEEDER SERVICE i Robuou i Robuoto 01M/92 02N/92 yQY 13/93 14/93 Accepting LCL To: BUS AN 17/2
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    • 103 40 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD FOR BOOKM6S ft ENQURES niASE CONTACT: ft THUMB (MEHTM SMPTMB COVGUTOT COi 0) m. in. TEL IL 42M7V457M4 Mil. MTOMTIMH. PUH PORT BM MTMt MOM MM* UMTM jWMttj SMGtfOK 1217 MM SIMMS I7MMI til zaaam a uo) rumt rumm/cmm POSEIDON CONT TPT
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    • 736 40 CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY MALAWI'S MENTS: CHUNG CHIAO SUPPING SDN BHD Kl TE: 4425M1/S7 FAI *****92, ***** P. KLANC TE MMIM/I TU MA 3M03 KNANS -IE 12M41 HI MA ***** GUAN GUAM SHPPMG SDN BHD f JOANS IE JOS2M/7, ****** FU. 03 XSS764 TUL MA ***** POUK TE: 04-*****7/(***** FAt
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    • 596 41 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, SPORE 0207 HOT LINE *****33 24 LINES PORT KLANG PH: 03/*****66 (12 LINES) II PENANG: 04/*****7 (10 UNES) FARGO SHIPPING Call our TOLL FREE LINES at 566-4833 WE ARE OFFERING THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE RATES FOR OUR CONSOLIDATION SERVICES TO THE FOLLOWING
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    • 621 41 1 RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 UOM) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: R8 ***** RISHIP (3 (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL KIEN HUNG LINE FULLY CONTAWERISED FORTNIGHTLY LMER SERVICE TO MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA ACCEPTING BOTH FCL/LCL CARGO M.SO tCCEPTK TO C4PFTORR, W tUBM P.
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    • 740 42 AUSTASIA LINE AND MERLION SHIPPING AGENCY BLUE STAR LINE Singapore to from NEW ZEALAND AND T/S TO FIJI TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND PORTS SM NPI ML LYT SM MUUKRA 255 13/2 MAHSURI 0514 19/2 PROSPECT 17S 4/3 24/2 VU m 2C/2 2/3 MM 4/3 IC/3 VU NPL 11/3 14/3
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    • 627 42 THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. 77 ROBINSON ROAD #15-00, #16-00 SIA BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 TEL: *****88 FAX NO: *****11, *****22 TLX: RS ***** CARRIER. RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO EQUATOR CRYSTAL 1/92S 01/02 12/02 17/02 21/02 29/02 04/03 07/03 11/03 15/03 EQUATOR STAR 7/92S 22/02 28/02 03/03 13/03 18/03 19/03
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    • 733 43 Everett Lutes Wm COMPANIA PERUANA TOEX DE VAPOREB "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTMG BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO, MAT ARAM, 10* I OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH T/S AT KOK ON CPV THROUGH BJLL Of LADING. "EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAV Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG BREAKBULK/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE, YOKOHAMA, NAGOVA, MOJI, TOKYO*, MANIA*,
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    • 395 43 MULTI-MODE SHIPPING PTE LTD WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE MIDDLE-EAST/PERSIAN GULF ACCEPTING FCL/LCL DUBAI. DAMMAN SHARIAH DOHA MUSCAT BAHRAIN, ABU OHABI. BANDAR ABBAS. JCDOAH FAR EAST ACCCPTIMO FCL/LCL PENANG. P/KELANC. IAKARTA, BANGKOK. HONG KONG. TAIWAN JAPAN. MANIA. KOREA UK/EUROPE ACCEPTING FCL/LCL LONDON. FELIXSTOWE. LEEDS. TILBURY, ABERDEEN LE HARVE. HAMBURG, ROTTEROAM. ANTWEP. GOTHENBURG.
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