The Business Times, 21 April 1993

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    15 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA Mi l A (P) 552/12/92 Wednesday April 21 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon US shying away from air strikes in Bosnia
      57 1 UPI WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Warren Christopher indicated yesterday that the Clinton Administration is shying away from ordering air strikes against Serb positions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mr Christopher told Congress that although air strikes arc one option under consideration, such strikes may
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      Lock icon East Timor leaders support new UN talks
      66 1 Reuter ROME Leaders of East Timor's independence movement yesterday gave their full support to a new round of United Nations talks aimed at solving a dispute over Indonesia's rule of the territory. The leaders, however, held out little hope that UN SccrctaryCicneral Boutros
      Reuter  -  66 words
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    111 1 Slock market indices Iwsdi; Chang* Sill 1.763.07 -8.95 K.L.SE omposite 672.53 +7.58 Nikkei 19.828.43 -283.91 Hang Seng 6.638.54 -41.61 SEI Index 884.22 -6.51 Jakarta Composite ...312.51 CLSA China B 1.345.73 -4 71 Ausl All (Jrd 1.703.6 +7.2 USE 100 2,856.1 126.1 I iiesda) Previous Ipm close Dow Jones
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    Lock icon Rules will be strict for China gaming licences
    141 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Foreign companies wanting to run gaming operations in China will only be able to do so under strict conditions, China's ambassador to Malaysia said yesterday. Two Malaysian companies Magnum Corp Bhd and Dunlop Estate Bhd, both part of Multi-Purposc
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    Temasek and PUB study power-plant project in China
    536 1  -  By Loh Hui Yin, Yong Pow Ang in BEIJING SINGAPORE'S Temasek Holdings and Public Utilities Board arc studying a multi-bil-lion dollar power-plant project in China's northern Shanxi province. Sources say senior officials of the government investment company and the statutory board were
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    Be bold, Singapore's cautious small potato investors told
    367 1  -  From Yong Pow Ang in BEIJING SINGAPORE investors arc too cautious and their investments in China too small, said a Chinese minister yesterday. China's Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Madam Wu Yi, described Singapore's total investment so far in China
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    Chinese central bank to open S'pore office
    276 1  -  From Yong Pow Ang in BEIJING CHINA'S ccntral bank, the People's Bank of China, will open a representative office in Singapore next month. The office will oversee the growing trend of Chinese banks raising funds in Singapore as well as the management of
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    Lock icon IBM posts US$285m first-quarter loss
    190 1 Reuter ARMONK, New York Struggling computer giant International Business Machines Corp yesterday reported a USS2BS million (***** million) loss for the first quarter, saying sales of its core mainframe computers dropped significantly. But industry analysts said the results were in line with expectations, and that
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    Singapore developers to build $930m town in Vietnam
    423 1  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Small, fleetfooted and little-known United Land and Trading Ptc Ltd plans to build a 150-hcctarc "new international town" near Ho Chi Minh City at a cost of 5930 million. United, whose shareholders are a group of Singaporebased property
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    Lock icon Mahathir accepts Bank Negara's explanation for currency loss
    307 1 Reuter AFP, Bcrnama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says he accepts Bank Negara's explanation of the M 59.3 billion (555.7 billion) currency loss it suffered in 1992 and will take no action against the central bank. "I don't see why
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      218 1 AVAILABLE AT ETIENNE AIGNER Q SHOPS AUTHORISED J OPTICAL DEALERS cvkwi AR Clinton seeking allied support for tougher action, Pg 6 CONTENTS Regional News 3.4 Financial 13.14 Wo< Id News 6/ Futures Miftats Anal,* 21 Clob/»St. S£S 19.20 (ctitorial 26 Regional 1/ Spo'ts 21 WwM 18 TV lifestyle 23 Cwrencies
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      91 1 Regional Analysis Interview with President Ramos Pg24 'Lee Kuan Yew is a bit like Moses. The Senior Minister is very worried. But I think here again he is trying to persuade his flock to V 7 move outwards and use Hongkong as a model. /SS, k4 in modern industry entrepreneurship
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      11 1 Hock Lock Siew How attractive is the DBS issue? Pg 9
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      11 1 PIIps&P Savona $99 Malaysian companies get into the act, Pg 10
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Insatiable appetite for gold
        360 2  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPOREANS still go for gold, it" the level of retained imports of the precious yellow metal is any indication. Demand for gold grew by 15 per cent in the first two months of the year. Compared to the same month last year, the
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      Japanese cars cost up to $5,000 more due to rising yen
      448 2  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan THE rising yen has driven up the price of Japanese cars bv 52.000 to $5,000 in the past few weeks. Since February, the Japanese currency has risen nearly 10 per cent against the Sing dollar, which
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      Good times for those who provide car loans
      301 2  -  By Quak Hiang Whai BANKS and finance companies continue to do brisk business with car buyers. Low interest rates and high savings have underpinned demand for new and used cars, lenders say. People would rather spend their money on houses, luxury goods
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      Lock icon Preview of post centre
      73 2 THIS is a model of the proposed $320 million Singapore Post Centre, selected from among more than 20 entnes in a competition organised by Singapore Telecom with the help of the Singapore Institute of Architects. I he 137,500 sq m multi-storey complex sits on a site
      Photo by Chris Loh  -  73 words
    • Article
      Ex-banker fined for making multiple share applications
      268 2 FORMER merchant banker Patrick Teo was yesterday fined $5,000 and paid prosecution costs of nearly 523.500 alter admitting to a charge of cheating. Teo, 46. pleaded guilty to making multiple applications for the initial public offering ot Wing Tai Holding shares in early
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      NZ, S'pore can cooperate in research application: minister
      298 2 FOOD technology and environmental science are two areas which offer New Zealand and Singapore research scientists opportunities for cooperation and research application. The New Zealand Minister of Research. Science and Technology. Simon Upton, said the two groups could complement each other as
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      Lock icon We'll be lucky to maintain 4 to 6pc growth for 5 years
      709 2 Interview with Goh Kena Swee Reuter PLAIN-SPEAKING Goh Keng Swee. architect of the Singapore economy and a founding father of the booming island state, is no stranger to unorthodox opinions. "Throw awav all books published on economic growth
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      Venturing abroad? Slovenia beckons
      146 2 SLOVENIAN officials have arrived in Singapore to discuss an investment guarantee pact and a double taxation treat). They are expected to negotiate details with Senior Minister of Trade and Industry Lim Boon Heng this morning. Slovenia, a former Yugoslav republic, has been anxious to strengthen ties
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  • THE REGION
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Countries buying logs illegally exported from Cambodia: Untac
      568 3  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Several countries, particularly Thailand and Vietnam, are buyers of logs illegally exported from Cambodia, according to a reconnaissance report by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (Untac). Cambodia's Supreme National Council, which groups the country's four main
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      Lock icon US envoy has fresh doubts about report on POWs in Vietnam
      342 3 AP HANOI US President Bill Clinton's envoy has said that testimony from a retired Vietnamese general casts doubt on a Russian document said to show North Vietnam held hundreds of unreported US prisoners of war in 1973. Retired US
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      Thailand sacks intellectual property rights chief
      317 3  -  From Andrew Cooke in BANGKOK THAI Commerce Minister Uthai Pimchaichon yesterday ordered the sacking of Intellectual Property Rights Department director-general Pipat Intarasupht for failing to suppress copyright piracy. Mr Uthai's unexpected order came as a pirate tape producer handed over four truckloads containing 200.000
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      Mexico wants to be an Asean dialogue partner
      187 3  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Mexico wants to be an Asean dialogue partner and build up trade and investment links with the region. And Asean has reacted well to the idea, says Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister Javier Barros Valero. "We are very
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon KL welcomes Seoul's support
        55 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday welcomed South Korea's support for his proposal to establish a regional group to discuss trade issues. Dr Mahathir said the support would help make the grouping, which would include bast Asian nations and has been criticised as a
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        Lock icon China to speed up law making
        90 3 Reuter HONGKONG China's new foreign trade minister says her top priority is to speed up the introduction of legislation on economic ties with other countries. In an interview with the Beijing-con-trolled newspaper Hen Wei Po yesterday, Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Wu
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        Lock icon Whale of a demand
        48 3 Reuter TOKYO Japanese fishermen carrying a huge whale-shaped balloon up a Tokyo street on Monday to demand the resumption of commercial w haling. Preparatory meetings got underway yesterday in the city of Kyoto, ahead of a general International Whaling Commission conference in May. Reuter
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        Lock icon Court dismisses case against Imelda
        79 3 Reuter MANILA A Philippine court yesterday dismissed a civil case filed by the government against former first lady Imelda Marcos after prosecutors failed to submit the proper documents on time. Anti-graft court judge Rcgino Hermosisima dismissed the case after prosecutors failed to submit original documents
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        Lock icon Call to curb illegal foreign workers
        90 3 UPI TOKYO Labour Minister Masakuni Murakami yesterday called for a crackdown on illegal foreign workers, saying crimes committed by such workers could lead to anti-foreigner feeling in Japan. "If we fail to crack down, we fear our friendly relations with foreign nations would be
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      Lock icon Rising incomes in China cushioning shock of inflation
      617 4 Economic analysts, however, fear inflationary cycle may be only beginning Reuter BEIJING "The prices are all going up." the young truitseller said, survey ing her neat rows of apples, tangerines and bananas set up on a Beijing street corner. "It is getting
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    • Article
      Singapore is third biggest market for Australian exports
      311 4  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY SINGAPORE has overtaken South Korea to become Australia's third largest export market after Japan and the US. According to the latest trade figures released by the Australian government, exports from Down Under to Singapore totalled A 53.76
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      Lock icon Patten, UK envoy hold last-minute meetings before talks with China
      339 4 Reuter. AFP HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten held last-minute strategy meetings as a dispute with China simmered over what role his democratic reforms would play at this week's negotiations on Hongkong's political future. Britain's ambassador to China. Sir Robin McLaren. London's
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      Lock icon New Pakistan govt to continue Sharif's privatisation policies
      331 4 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan's new government will retain the privatisation policies of sacked reformist Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, honour all contractual obligations and further deregulate the economy, the Finance Minister said. "There will be no interference whatsoever in the maintenance of foreign exchange
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      Lock icon Taiwan bows to US demands on copyright protection Bills
      405 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan conceded yesterday to American demands to pass two Bills on copyright protection, although ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party MPs decried Washington's tactics of threatening trade retaliation. KMT MPs and the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) agreed to give
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      343 3 "Ik Jj[ Chinese Minister Wu Yi and a team from the Ministry of I I I T Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (MOFERT) will be I JL JL IVXCiy/ accompanied by a 60-member delegation of senior J government officials from various Chinese provinces for this T 1 7* 11 X
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      132 4 Editorial: Intrigues in Islamabad, Pg 26 Xin Kong Business Services, headquartered in Hong Kong, has opened its regional business centre in Singapore. We provide CONSULTING SERVICES for ASEAN clients, who are exploring booming investment/joint venture opportunities in the People's Republic of China. We aim to serve I.T. industry. The initial
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
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      Preparing for the day when the wells run dry
      1417 5  -  Brunei's economy From Stephen Vines in BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN A YOUNG official from Brunei Darussalam's One Stop Agency leaps to his feet as a foreign visitor enters his office. He is anxious to help and supply the glossy literature extolling his
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Clinton seeking allied support for tougher action in Bosnia
      412 6 Reuter WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton has sought allied support for joint action in Bosnia, including possible use of military force to make defiant Bosnian Serbs accept an international peace plan, say US officials. Mr Clinton discussed options with French President
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      Lock icon UK public sector deficit hit record high in March
      298 6 AFP. Reuter LONDON Britain's public sector deficit grew to £36.5 billion (5587.6 billion) or 6 per cent of GDP in 1992/93, after surging to a record £9.51 billion in March, officials said yesterday. The March figure was the largest-ever monthly deficit.
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      Lock icon EC central banks see more interest rate cuts
      164 6 AFP BASEL Governors of European Community central banks expect a further general decline of Kuropean interest rates, a press conference was told here yesterday. Wim Duisenberg, chairman of the lOC Committee of Central Bank Governors, told correspondents that "we see a gradual
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      Lock icon Arabs may be close to accord on M-E talks
      380 6 AFP DAMASCUS The four Arab parties to the Middle East peace talks are "close to an accord" on the stalled USsponsored initiative, Lebanese Foreign Minister Fares Bweiz said here yesterday. But a senior Palestinian peace negotiator, Saeb Erakat. said in Amman
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      Lock icon Latin Americans sceptical about Clinton's trade policy
      310 6 Reuter SAO PAULO Latin American diplomats and economists who are here to discuss regional trade said they were sceptical about US President Bill Clinton's commitment to develop free trade in the Americas. "The Clinton administration has stated clearly that its first priority will
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Germany to send troops to Somalia
        63 6 AP BONN Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government agreed yesterday to send 1,640 troops to Somalia. The deployment would be the first time German ground troops have been sent to a country at war since World War 11. Mr Kohl's spokesman, Dieter Vogel. said the government
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        Lock icon Inflation tamed, says Greenspan
        67 6 Reuter NEW YORK US Federal Reserve Board chairman Alain Greenspan said on Monday that inflation had been largely subdued and it must be kept that way to sustain long-term economic growth. He said interest rate cuts since 1989 had been "purposefully gradual" but cumulatively quite large
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        Lock icon OECD may accept Mexico, S Korea
        41 6 UPI TOKYO Mexico and South Korea are likely p ospective members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). the head of the 24-nation body of industrialised countries. Jean-Claude Paye. said on Monday. UPI
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        Lock icon Top Islamic guerilla leader killed
        51 6 AFP ALGIERS Security forces have killed a top Islamic fundamentalist guerilla leader, Omar El Eulmi. and three other activists, police said here on Monday. Eulmi was a founding member of the Islamic Workers Union (SIT), which is close to the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS).
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      Lock icon EC trade chief hits out at bilateral trade deals
      528 7 Reuter WASHINGTON Three days after the US and Japan sparred over the prospect of trade quotas, the European Community's trade chief lashed out on Monday at "cosy bilateral deals" that cut other nations out of the picture. "Managed trade has reared
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      Lock icon US may impose tax on border trade with Mexico
      435 7 NYT WASHINGTON Faced with rapidly climbing estimates of what the North American Free Trade Agreement would cost the government, the Clinton administration has opened two reviews of whether to impose a tax on trade across the US border with Mexico, say
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      Lock icon Clinton raps Republicans for blocking job stimulus bill
      530 7 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton on Monday ripped into Senate Republicans blocking his economic stimulus bill on budgetary grounds, saying they helped drive federal deficits to record heights and asking. "Have they no shame?" "Folks, this is the crowd that had the
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      Lock icon US to hit hard at countries that allow copyright piracy
      228 7 Reuter WASHINGTON The Qinton administration promised on Monday to take new and stronger action against countries that allow commercial piracy of US copyrights, patents and trademarks. Ira Shapiro, general counsel for US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor's office, told a Senate
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • Article
      Massive oversubscription not healthy for IPOs: MAS
      471 9  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE A massive oversubscription of an initial public offering simply means a massive underpricing of the shares at the expense of the vendors, rather than a big success, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said yesterday. In a letter responding to
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      Phillips buys stake in London broker
      409 9  -  By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE Phillip Securities, one of Singapore's largest retail-based brokerages, is expanding its international network with the purchase of a 40 per cent stake in London securities house Walker, Crips, Weddle, Beck. Phillips declined to reveal the purchase price. It said the
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      ADB again picks DBS as Chinese project financial adviser
      414 9 SINGAPORE Once again, the Asian Development Bank has picked DBS Bank as financial adviser for a major project in China. DBS Bank said in its latest annual report released yesterday that it was commissioned to advise a petrochemical company in Anhui
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      Lock icon Just how attractive is the DBS share issue?
      955 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Is DBS Bank's proposed issue of 530 million preference shares designed to favour itself, to benefit Singaporean investors in general, or to bring down its foreign shareholding to within the limit set by the Monetary
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      Lock icon Keppel Group sweetens takeover offer for RDC
      375 9  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE As expected, the Keppel Group has sweetened its general takeover offer for building materials supplier Resources Development Corporation (RDC). But instead of raising its $3.10 cash offer to match the open market value of RDC shares, now worth about
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      NatSteel, SPC, Transpac to take stake in Thai petrochem project
      268 9 SINGAPORE Three Singapore companies, led by NatSteel, will take a 45.5 per cent stake in a US$6O million (Ss97 million) petrochemical project in Thailand. Nat Steel will hold 27.5 per cent, while Singapore Petroleum will take 10 per cent and
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      Lock icon SUMMARY
      292 9 Source: Bridge Info Perform* MB Of STII'S index fttcftt Apr 20 S*cfc Last sate <S) Eactara ■overs Avimo 2.100 0.010 1.67 -1 56 CAC 7.050 -0.150 5.59 23.44 C'CTCtXK 5.350 -0.050 4.24 7.(1 FAN 12.600 9.99 GF Am 3.300 0.040 2.62 -6.25 Gen Mag 14*0 -0.010 1.17 1.56 Haw
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          SES nod for listing of new QAF shares
          88 10 SINGAPORE The Stock Exchange of Singapore has given food group QAF Ltd in-principle approval for the listing ot 22.5 million new 40-cent shares. The shares comprise a private placement with Tsang Ong Stockbrokers at Si each. Institutions from China are likely to
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          GenMag wins $40m cassette contract
          61 10 SINGAPORE General Magnetics has won a contract to supply $40 million of digital compact cassettes over three years starting from the middle of next year. The company will need to invest about $8 million in capital equipment for the project. The transaction will not have
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          Lock icon Oriental Holdings' profit down
          85 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Motor-based Oriental Holdings Bhd has reported a lower group pre-tax profit of MS 193.57 million (*****.95 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1992, compared with M 5254.11 million previously. Group turnover rose to MS 1.27 billion from MS 1.24 billion. Oriental said
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          Corrections and clarifications
          47 10 IN THE ARTICLE "Eltech to boost production capacity at two plants" in BT on April 17-18, the photograph accompanying the report was that of general manager C S Gan, not that of managing director Tan Geh as captioned. We are sorry for the error.
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        KL Finance Ministry puts Mobikom contract on hold
        501 10  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S Finance Ministry has intervened to suspend a controversial supply contract awarded by a local cellu-lar-phone operator to Swedish telecommunication giant Telefon AB L M Ericsson pending an inquiry over tender procedures. Officials familiar with the
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        Kinta Kellas, Hong Leong unit in Viet building projects
        297 10  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Malaysianlisted Kinta Kellas Investment pic has signed a jointventure agreement to build a high-rise office building in Ho Chi Minh City. And a Hong Leong subsidiary, Hume Piles Sdn Bhd, has proposed building a dam in Vung
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        A rally that came too late for Nomura S'pore
        337 10 DBS CHARITY SINGAPORE It was a rally which came too late. Nomura Singapore Ltd ended the second DBS Charity Investment Race with a profit of just $16,602, much of it coming from trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the past
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        Lock icon KLSE not planning to cut trading hours
        191 10 Knight-Ridder SINGAPORE The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) is not considering a cot in its trading hours in spite of the huge volumes and pressure from some investors, a spokeswoman said yesterday. The KLSE was coping with the recent high volumes, she added,
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        469 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manaan' print Apr 21 rrUOCnuJI Wnnra Unit Trust PruLink Mgd Fund 1.08 1.13 The Commerce 1.32 1.39 MARA Bmnipntri The Savings Fund 1.15 1.21 First B'putra 1.68 1.73 S'pore Prof Fund o.ss 0.58 Second B'putra 1.67 1.72 S'pore Sec Fund 0 8") 0.93 Third B'putra 5.74 5.79
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        Lock icon Thailand to raise ceiling on foreign shareholdings
        418 11 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission has set new rules governing the establishment of special funds that will allow foreign investor shareholdings in Thai stocks to exceed current limits. Individual funds, managed by Thai mutual fund firms, would be set up for
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        Lock icon Tisco directors sacks controversial chairman in shock move
        374 11 AFP NEW DELHI India's "man of steel". Rustomji Mody, has been fired as chairman of Tata Iron and Steel Co Ltd (Tisco) in a move that stunned the Indian corporate world. The sacking climaxed a bitter feud in the top management levels
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        Lock icon Canberra allows Black to lift stake in Fairfax to 25pc
        374 11 Bloomberg Business News CANBERRA Australian Treasurer John Dawkins yesterday approved an application by Canadian publishing magnate Conrad Black's The Telegraph pic to boost its stake in Australian newspaper group John Fairfax Holdings to 25 per cent. The decision would open
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Tokyo bourse suffers 3.46b yen loss
          62 11 AFP TOKYO The Tokyo Stock Exchange said yesterday that it suffered a net loss of 3.46 billion yen (SSSO. I million) in the year to March. Revenues comprising fees from TSE members and commissions on trading of stocks from listed companies tell 64 per
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          Lock icon Labour dispute at Timex factory
          44 11 Reuter DUNDEE. Scotland Angry picketers on Monday shouted abuse at workers entering the timex factory here. The plant has been the subject of an increasingly bitter dispute after 340 workers were sacked over a pay and conditions row. Reuter
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          Lock icon Matsushita unveils smart piano
          72 11 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Is the world ready for a smart piano? Matsushita Electric Industrial Co which yesterday unveiled a piano that teaches as it plays thinks it is. Matsushita's SX-PL7 digital piano instructed the aspiring artist in a computer-generated voice which gave advice on rhythm
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          Lock icon Underwriters reminded of liability
          71 11 Bloomberg Business News NLW DELHI More than 30 Indian companies which failed to attract minimum subscriptions for public issues have sent notices to underwriters reminding them ot their liability, according to Ajit Ambani. secretary ol the All India Broker Underwriters Association. The Indian primary market has
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        269 11 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's securities watchdog said it is tightening the takeovers code governing privatisation to provide greater protection for minority shareholders. In a statement last night, the Securities and Futures Commission said that in future. for a privatisation proposal to be successful
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          Lock icon Cable & Wireless-HK Telecom tie-up
          64 12 Cable Wireless-HK Telecom tie-up AFP HONGKONG A joint-venture company will be formed between Cable Wireless and its subsidiary Hongkong Telecom, to invest in telecommunications in Asia including China, the firm said. The still-to-be named company will be 51 per cent owned by Britain's Cable Wireless and 49 per cent by
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          74 12 Bloomberg Business News WILMINGTON, Delaware Applications Techniques Inc, a Massachusetts software maker, filed suit on Monday in federal court, claiming it lost business because computer users confuse its trademarked Win Dings program with Microsoft Corps Wingdings program. Both Win Dings and Wingdings operate within Microsoft's popular
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          Lock icon Berisford offers £165m for C&J Clark
          58 12 Reuter LONDON Berisford International pic, the commodities group, has said that it is bidding £165 million (SS27O million) for family-owned shoemaker C&J Clark. The purchase, still by no means certain at this stage because of a family dispute, would be funded by an ordinary
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          Lock icon Saudis to give UPI US$10 boost
          69 12 AP MANAMA, Bahrain The Saudi Arabian owners of United Press International plan to'inject about USSIO million (5516.2 million) over the next two years into the ailing US news agency, the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat reported on Monday. The paper, which is also published in
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          Lock icon Lafarge in takeover bid for Asland
          63 12 FT MADRID Lafarge Coppee, the big French construction group, yesterday announced a 36-billion-peseta (*****.5 million) share swap bid for full control of Asland, the second-biggest Spanish cement company, in which it already has a 54 per cent stake. Under the terms' of the bid,
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        Neste to halve capital spending, cut staff by 1,300 worldwide
        466 12  -  Company also planning divestment exercise By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Stung by its first net loss since 1986, Finnish state oil company Neste Corporation has launched a wide-ranging recovery programme that will halve its capital expenditure this year and cut 1,300
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        Lock icon Three big US drug firms post poor results
        359 12 NYT NEW YORK Three large drug companies Merck, Warner-Lambert and Eli Lilly reported on Monday mediocre results for the first three months of 1993. The three US-based drugmakers have come under sharp criticism of their prices by President Bill Clinton, but many
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        Lock icon Time Warner cuts first quarter loss to US$124m
        330 12 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Time Warner Inc said its first-quarter operating eash flow increased 12 per cent as all five of its businesses posted gains, with publishing and music performing above expectations. The media and entertainment giant's earnings before interest. taxes,
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        Lock icon LSE to discuss future after Taurus fiasco
        259 12 Reuter LONDON The London Stock Exchange will take a fundamental look at its future when its board meets tomorrow, five weeks after the demise of Taurus, the share transfer system that was to be its flagship to take it into the next century.
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        Lock icon M$ set to strengthen with low interest rates: think tank
        405 13 Three-month inter-bank money seen easing to at least 7.4 pc Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian interest rates will ease slightly over the next few months but will still be higher than rates elsewhere and this should underpin a strengthening of the
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        Lock icon China plans to launch US$600m of Eurobonds in next 12 months
        272 13 Reuter LONDON China, venturing into European markets for the first time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square riots, will launch at least US$6OO million (SS97B million) worth of Eurobonds in the coming 12 months, bankers said. Four Chinese banks plan
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        Indonesia to improve two airports with ADB's US$110m loan
        247 13  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The Asian Development Bank will give Indonesia a US$llO million (S$ 179 million) loan to improve two airports in the eastern part of the country. Manado Airport in North Sulawesi province and Ambon Airport in Maluku
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        Lock icon Bangkok Bank to take 5pc stake in ITF
        286 13 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter BANGKOK Bangkok Bank Ltd has agreed to take a 5 per cent stake in International Trust and Finance Co Ltd. Executive chairman Chatri Sophonpanich said his bank and ITF would negotiate this week on the price to be
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        149 13 THE US dollar opened lower across the board, amidst persistent bearish sentiments yesterday. The yen continued to gain ground as calls by Japanese officials for joint intervention (to support the dollar yen) and statements that Mr Clinton had been misinterpreted were ignored by the market.
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        194 13 Reuter LONDON The yen paused for breath in Europe yesterday but concerted efforts by the Japanese authorities to halt its rise in the long term appeared to have little hope of success. Profit-taking set in alter the yen reached a new high of 110.19 against the dollar in morning
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        73 13 Reuter NEW YORK The dollar edged higher on the mark yesterday in light short-covering after Monday's pullback, but it remained depressed against the yen. The dollar stood at 1.5998/03 marks and 110.65/75 yen at midday, compared to 1.5895/05 and 110.70/77 at the US opening. The Bundesbank could also
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          Lock icon First Pac in talks to sell bank stake
          86 14 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Diversified investment concern First Pacific said it was negotiating to sell a minority stake in a proposed liolding company tor its First Pacific Bank affiliate to two C hiflese state-owned enterprises. I he discussions with representatives of China
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          78 14 Knight-Ridder IfONGKONG The central banks of China and South Korea tmve agreed to open branches in each other's countries, the Official Xinhua News Agency reported. The agreement was Signed between the heads ot the People s Bank ot China and the Sank of South Korea
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          Lock icon Mitsubishi may set up securities arm
          99 14 Reuter TOKYO Mitsubishi Trust Banking Corp is considering setting up a subsidiary to deal in securities in the fiscal year that started on April 1. "It has not been officially decided yet, but we are considering whether to establish the subsidiary within the current
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          Lock icon Arab National Bank to double capital
          99 14 Reuter MANAMA Saudi Arabia's Arab National Bank (ANB) has received the go-ahead from the Saudi authorities to double its ppid-up capital to 1.2 billion rivals (***** million), a bank official said. ANB has invited its shareholders to a meeting on Mav 15 to agree
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          Lock icon Danish insurer sees return to profit
          105 14 Reuter COPENHAGEN Danish insurance and banking group Topdanmark A/S has forecast a return to profit for 1993 after two years of losses. "The overall expectation for 1993 is a reasonable net profit, but such a result will unfortunately not meet the group s objective
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          Aussies see derivatives as growth area
          70 14 SYDNEY A spokesman for Australian Treasurer John Dawkins has said a financial task force has identified derivatives trade as a strong growth area in domestic financial markets. Derivatives trade was a topic at the first meeting of a think-tank implemented by Mr Dawkins to
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        Lock icon Results of three top US banks clouded by extraordinary items
        716 14 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Three of America's largest banks reported mixed first-quarter results on Monday that were clouded by a number of one-time items. Nationsßank Corp, Chase Manhattan Corp and Shawmut National Coip recorded a slew of extraordinary gains
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        Chase Manhattan Bank's Asia-Pacific income up 15pc
        391 14 SINGAPORE Chase Manhattan Bank has reported a 15 per cent increase in operating income from its Asia-Pacific activities in the first quarter of this year compared with 1992. Singapore-based vicepresident Michael Barrett says the bank's five core businesses consumer banking, corporate finance, risk
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        Lock icon Bank of Japan head pledges timely action to check yen's surge
        316 14 AFP TOKYO Bank of Japan Governor Yasushi Mieno hit out at the surge of the yen yesterday, warning that the central bank was poised "to take timely measures without delay" to stabilise the currency market. "Looking at the impact
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        Lock icon Analysts question jump in prices of precious metals
        450 15 Reuter LONDON Platinum prices reached their highest level for eight months on Monday as precious metals markets rose on continuing unrest in South Africa, but analysts questioned whether the rises were really justified. Most precious metal prices had been on a downtrend
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        Lock icon Pentagon selling billion-dollar secret diamond stockpile
        450 15 AFP WASHINGTON The Pentagon is quietly selling one of its more unlikely secret stockpiles left over from the Cold War billions of dollars worth of diamonds. Some seven million carats of diamonds are languishing in the basement of a bank in New York state,
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        53 15 Reuter KORLA, China A transport truck passing an overturned and burnt-out oil tanker on a treacherous mountain pass in central Xinjiang province last week. Transportation hazards are one of the many obstacles facing foreign oil companies clamouring for exploration rights in this province in remote
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        Oil futures prices in tug of war for direction
        390 15 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures prices in London and New York were in a tug of war for direction yesterday as crude remained weak, while gasoline gained interest. After trading in a five US cent range, crude prices in London
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        Lock icon Three Tokyo firms to join Sumitomo in Viet oil project
        334 15 Platts TOKYO Three Japanese private companies, Nippon Oil, Nikko Kyodo and Sumitomo Petroleum Development Co, will join Sumitomo Corp in an oil and gas development project on the Dai Hung (Big Bear) field off southern Vietnam, a Sumitomo spokesman said.
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        Lock icon Euroyen, Eurodollars end steady
        1395 16 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures ended steady yesterday after a session of ehoppy trade when the contraet traeked movements in Tokyo's Nikkei-225 stock index as well as the upward spiral of the ven on Asian foreign exchange markets, dealers said. September ended at 96.78
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        KL tin price drops four sen due to stronger ringgit
        956 16 COMMODITIES REPORT Tin THE price of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market eased further to finish four sen tower to M 514.11 per kg despite heavy buying interest yesterday, dealers said. "There is heavy buying but the market is
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1564 16 Rubber Apr 20 HAS COHIMM Hty Cichi me* (Mi m do* lag at at lpn) MS (pkyskal prteat) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) As at 12 mm (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett volume (tonnes) open Interest RSS 2 May 93 129.75 I30.75N HO iin May 93
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        Australia
        1167 17 +7.2 Stocks pulled out of an opening dip to close higher as investors focused on banks. The All Ordinaries Index closed up 7.2 points at 1,703.6. Westpac Banking was the most active stock, up eight cents to A 53.41 on 15.7 million shares traded. Commonwealth Bank closed up 13
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        Manila
        571 17 -13.84 Share prices tumbled for the second straight day as investors took profits in the absence of fresh news, brokers said. The Manila Composite Index shed 13.84 points to close at 1,554.81. Brokers said the consolida- tion was healthy and predicted the Manila index would settle at a support
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        Seoul
        348 17 -4.1 Profit-taking in reaction to the sharp gains that pushed the index to a 20-month high on Monday dragged Seoul stocks down to close lower yesterday, brokers said. The Composite Stock In- dex, which touched a day high of 729.30 early in the morning, ended 4.10 points lower at
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        Taipei
        569 17 -129.05 Share prices ended sharply lower across the board, led down by late selling in financials, and brokers said the index would soon test support at 4.400 points. The Weighted Index plunged 129.05 points or 2.8 per cent to end at 4.448.43. Turnover was a slow NT$39 billion. Unconfirmed
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        New Zealand
        326 17 +8.53 The NZSE-40 capital index was nudging 1,600 at the close yesterday and brokers were in a bullish mood. "The market looks like it's got good momentum," Murray Doyle of Doyle Paterson Brown said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index rose 8.53 to 1,597.89 on heavy volume of $53 million.
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        Bombay
        59 17 -65.92 Indian stock prices fell to a 52-week low in nervous trading after leftist political parties said they would not support some of the minority government's budget proposals. The Bombay Index dropped 65.92 points to 2,202.23 and the National Index fell 26.14 points to a low of 991.45. Delhi
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        London
        618 17 +26.1 Share prices rose to nudge above the recent tradingrange high of 2,855 on the FTSE 100 index, buoyed by renewed confidence in UK economic recovery and a lack of selling interest. traders said. A late surge in drug stocks, battered recently by concerns over US health spending, and
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        Brussels
        161 17 -1.33 Belgian shares closed slightly lower, losing most of their early gains at the start of the new forward market account, as other share markets fell and the dollar stayed weak. Dealers thought the share market was likely to consolidate in the next few days. The Bel-20 index of
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        Milan
        112 17 -1.63 pc Profit-taking pared yesterday's referendum gains for some shares but key blue chips were now expected to hold steady as the market awaits political developments. The MIB all-share index ended 1.63 per cent lower at 1,150, with the underlying trend off 0.43 per cent. Milan \pr 20 Lire
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        Stockholm
        134 17 +0.66pc Swedish shares rose broadly in healthy turnover on support from easier bond yields and hopes of an imminent cut in the key marginal lending rate. Share prices fell back some late in the day, however, when debt market yields came off their lows, and the New York bourse
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        Frankfurt
        162 17 -6.19 Likely strikes in the east German engineering and steel industry will have no direct impact on the German bourse, currently fully absorbed by hopes of a cut in German interest rates soon. The DAX 30 index closed down 6.19 points at 1,687.11, just above its in- traday low
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        Amsterdam
        211 17 -1.34 Dutch shares closed down on dollar weakness and were pushed to their day's lows late by an easier Wall Street start. The EOE index finished down 1.34 points at 323.74. Some late profit-taking by option exchange professionals brought about first cracks in the recently firm market undertone, dealers
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        Zurich
        219 17 +6.1 Swiss shares closed firmer, benefiting from hopes of easier interest rates, dealers said. The SPI Index ended 6.1 points higher at 1,344.4 and the SMI added 3.9 points to 2,170.8. Financials attracted some buying support ahead of tomorrow's Bundesbank meeting. Zurich Apr 20 true* XluMihV Br 4W 5
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        Johannesburg
        303 17 +23 South African gold shares ended sharply higher but off their strongest levels of the day as light profit-tak-ing and a strong financial rand took their toll, dealers said. However, they said relief following the relatively peaceful funeral of slain black leader Chris Hani had helped the market. The
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        Toronto
        297 17 +11.34 Stocks firmed in early trade yesterday after breaking the key 3,660point upside technical level Monday, traders said. The TSE 300 rose 4.29 points to 3,667.51 on volume of 16.58 million shares valued at C$ 113.05 million. On Monday, stocks ended higher in record volume as junior oil and
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        New York
        592 17 -11.62 Wall Street stocks continued to trade lower yesterday in ongoing profittaking after the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a record high last week. The index fell 26.20 points, or 0.76 per cent, to 3,440.79 at 1 pm EDT. Analysts said the market was continuing a correction that
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        Paris
        106 17 -19.58 French shares were driven down by American-led selling to finish nearly 1 per cent weaker, setting its lowest close since Feb 25, dealers said. The CAC-40 index closed down 19.58, or 0.99 per cent, at 1,949.33. Volume was about 2.8 billion francs. Paris Apr 20 Fr \ir Lnuulr
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      3011 18 Reuter HONGKONG Share prices closed down lor the fourth consecutive day in quiet trade yesterday. brokers said. The Hang Seng Index ended 41.61 points, or 0.62 per cent, lower at 6,638.54. "The market remains cautious ahead ol Ihursday's Sino-British meeting" on plans for democracy in Hongkong, said Herbert Chung,
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      CHINA
      459 18 THE SHENZHEN A market fell in light trading yesterday. The CLSA Shenzhen A Index was down a very modest 0.58 per cent to close at 3.068.08. The Shenzhen B market was no better with Southern Glass being the only share traded. The CLSA Shenzhen B index rose a miniscule
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      2521 18 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended lower yesterday, with the Nikkei Average closing below 20,000 for the first time since April 12. Continuing worry about the surging yen discouraged potential buyers, brokers said. The 225-share Nikkei Average was down 283.91 points or 1.41 per cent to 19,828.43. An estimated 430 million
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      1783 18 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks traded lower across the hoard as investors anticipated government legal action against violators of Thailand's new securities law. brokers said. The SET Index slid 6.51 points to close at 884.22 on turnover of 3.28 billion baht. Declines led advances 159 to 49 with 63 stocks unchanged.
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      1057 18 Reuter STOCKS closed firmer in active trade yesterday, driven by local players, brokers said. The Composite Index ended 2.02 points higher at 312.51. "Surprisingly, locals are active. They are chasing undervalued stocks." a local broker said. Duta Anggada rose 150 rupiah to 2.X(X) and Gajah Tunggal edged up 75
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      1992 19 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Bedford Mfc. I7.47S.OW) \MI»B 50c 10 505 000 MuliiPurpi'*' 8,725.000 kamunting Mk 7.875.000 Kcnong Bhd MK. 7 400.000 Idm Hvd 50c ft .138.000 fromcl 6.051.000 Mulpha Intl 50c 6.00J.000 Mctropfc* 50c 5.413.000 Mia Pa: Ld 50c 4.8:0.000 Scl l>rcdg
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        Lock icon Index hits another high amid slower trade
        4812 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Losers almost matched winning counters on the Kuala Lumpur share market at the close yesterday but index-linked buying in late afternoon took the KLSE Composite Index 7.58 points higher to 672.53, another record high. The Industrial Index rose 12.34 points
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        Lock icon Profit-taking gives market room for breather
        6249 20  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE After four straight days of record closing highs, investors yesterday turned cautious and took profit while speculators stayed on the sidelines. "The market needs a breather before it attempts to scale new heights," said a research manager. He added that
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        67 20  -  HOT STOCK Paul Leo CAUSEWAY Investments has almost doubled its value to $1.16 from 60 cents in January. Investors should take profit now. A daily RSI at 100 and weekly and monthly RSls above 75 indicate that the stock is heavily overbought and a correction is imminent. Resistance
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      Ozaki to defend title at Asia's richest golf event
      541 21 Dunlop Open preview Golf TOKYO Defending champion Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki leads the contenders for the 17th Dunlop Open Golf Championship starting tomorrow. The Open, originally called the Yomiuri International Open in 1962, will mark its 31st anniversary this year as one
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      Lock icon Obscure Kenyan wins Boston Marathon
      546 21 NYT BOSTON Cosmas N'Deti came from way back, from nowhere on your top-50 marathoning charts. He was a postal clerk, a father running for his newborn son back home, and on Monday this 23-year-old Kenyan knew that he had enough energy left in his 60-kg
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        39 21 Reuter NEW YORK Major League results on Monday: American Boston Red Sox 6 Chicago White Sox O. Toronto Blue Jays 7 Cleveland Indians 1; Seattle Mariners 10 Detroit Tigers 6. National Houston Astros at Chicago Cubs postponed. Reuter
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        225 21 AP, Reuter NEW YORK NBA results Monday: Seattle SuperSonics 96 San Antonio Spurs 89; Houston Rockets 111 Phoenix Suns 97. Standings: Eastern Conference Atlantic Division (W L Pet. GB; x-clinched playoff berth, y-clinched division title, z-clinched overall best record): 1. y-New York 56 22 .718 —2. x-Boston 45 34
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        221 21 AFP Reuter LONDON World rankings issued on Monday: I. Nick Faldo (Eng) 23.57 pts 2. Bcrnhard Langer (Ger) 15.86 3. Fred Couples (US) 14.36 4. Greg Norman (Aus) 13.92 5. Nick Price (Zim) 13.72 6. Tom Kite (US) 12.07 7. Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spn) 11.81 8. Lan Woosnam (Wales) 11.77
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        49 21 Reuter AFP NEW YORK NHL playoffs on Monday (best of seven): Vancouver Canucks 4 Winnipeg Jets 2; Detroit Red Wings 6 Toronto Maple Ixafs 3. Reuter MUNICH World Championships second day results on Monday: Group A Russia heat Austria 4-2. Grovp B Finland beat France 2-0. AFP
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        74 21 AP BOSTON Top 10 men and women finishers on Monday in the Boston Marathon: Men 1. Cosmas N'Deti (Ken) 2 hours 9 minutes 33 seconds 2. Kim Jae-Yong (S Kor) 2:09:43 3. Luckctz Swartbooi (Nam) 2:09:57 4. Hiromi Taniguchi (Jap) 2:11:02 5. Sammy Lelci (Ken) 2:12:12. Women I. Olga
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        74 21 AFP IPSWICH, England English Premier l>eague on Monday: Ipswich 3 Norwich I. leading standings (played, won, tied, lost, goals scored, goals conceded, points): I. Manchester United 39 21 12 6 60 29 75 2. Aston Villa 39 21 11 7 56 34 74 3. Norwich 40 20 8 12
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      461 21 AP NEW YORK The NBA marathon is down to a sprint, with the play-off fates of five teams to be determined in the final week of the regular season. The remaining races are in the Eastern Conference, where Charlotte. Indiana. Atlanta. Detroit and
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        73 21 AFP LONDON Jansher Khan won the British Open squash title for a second successive year and kept it in Pakistan for a 12th year with a four-game victory at Wembley on Monday. His 9-6, 9-5, 6-9. 9-2 victory put paid to hopes of an Australian
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        81 21 Reuter SAN ANTONIO, Texas Unbeaten World Boxing Council super lightweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez of Mexico will fight Pernell Whitaker for the American's WBC welterweight title on Sep 10 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, promoter Don King announced on Monday. Chavez, who
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        150 21 AP WASHINGTON President Clinton told the collegiate hockey champions on Monday he understands their game better now that he's spent "three months getting banged around in this town". In a Rose Garden ceremony honouring the Black Bears of the University of Maine. Clinton said "Hockey
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        99 21 Reuter LONDON Britain's Prince Charles has hired the country's first Rastafarian shepherd to tend the royal flocks at his country home, newspapers said vesterday. Dreadlocked Julian McLauchlan, who also sports a gold ring in his nose, received a £1,500 (553.720) grant from the prince's
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        106 21 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Joe Montana said on Monday he still wants to leave the San Francisco 49ers for the Kansas City Chiefs despite a last-ditch offer by the 49ers of their starting quarterback job heading into training camp. The 49ers, meanwhile, said trade negotiations
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        84 21 AP ATLANTA University of Miami athletic director Dave Maggard, an Olympian 25 years ago, will be director of sports for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The 53-year-old Maggard, who placed fifth in the shot put at the 1968 Olympics, was named to the job on Mondav
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      550 23  -  A film about dinosaurs created for a theme park may save Universal studio Irom going the same way as the prehistoric creatures. Bernard Weinraub reports Bernard Weinraub NYT EVERY major film studio moves in cycles, good years and poor ones. And every so often a studio
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      473 23 Jackie O speaks up but only on publishing career CHATTERBOX AP AP AP AP IT WAS Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' first interview in three decades but there was a catch the former First Lady spoke only about her career in publishing. Mrs Onassis, 63, granted the interview to Publishers Weekly and
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      645 23  -  Chanticleer finds a new fan in Magdalene Phang Magdalene Phang IT WAS a concert certainly worth crowing about. Twelve-man vocal "orchestra". Chanticleer, impressed the audience at the Victoria Concert Hall on Monday night with its repertoire that spanned nearly 800 years from the early 13th century
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      90 23 Savour authentic specialities prepared by t v Italian "Chef Extraordinaire" Franco Gioco V n specially flown in from the Ristorante 12 i(fu Apostoli in Verona, Italy. A Michelin 1(1 Award-winning restaurant, )'J The Best Of jy it has hosted Jk many Heads f| AI V of State and 11nL 1
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      1286 23 TV RADIO The Dolphin Dilemma, jf 9.30pm. SBC 12 as Jj gMgjß dolhas attracted much atten- JjjM tion. Produced by Wolfgang Bayer. programme 4^9HH|F'.' encounter with and takes a j^Byp^Whr; look at truth behind that Switzerland's Berner Alps, jjm 9pm. SBC jiL 4 Rick Steves shares cultural and historical insights
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      1342 24  -  Change and reform in the Philippines In an exclusive interview with BT, Philippine President Fidel Ramos tells Nirmal Ghosh about his recent swing through the region and his plans for the country Nirmal Ghosh Q: What is your assessment of relations with neighbouring
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      Growth need not be at expense of democracy
      1220 24  -  Exclusive to BT JOSE ALMONTE JOSE ALMONTE Brigadier-General Jose Almonte is the Presidential Security Adviser to Philippine President Fidel Ramos, and Director-General of the National Security Council. Regarded as mentor of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), he was one of
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        Filipino Chinese rethink China plans
        121 24 PRESIDENT Fidel Ramos' discreel meetings with Filipino-Chinese business leaders to persuade them not to quit the Philippines have paid off. Department store tycoons Henry Sy and John Gokongwei have called off their plans to invest in China. They had planned to switch investments to China
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        S Korea's chaebols still eyeing North
        128 24 FACED WITH rising wage costs at home. South Korea's chaebols led by Daewoo Corp have been lobbying the government to initiate trade and investment links with North Korea. But South Korea's new president, Kim Young Sam, is not an active advocate of early ynification,
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        Now it's on, now it's off
        145 24 THE POSTPONED visit to China by Brunei's foreign minister. Prince Mohamed Bolkiah, has perplexed Bruneians. Prince Mohamed was due to visit Beijing on April 6, but this has been pushed back, probably to June. Brunei journalists assigned to accompany the minister have not been
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      Can Australia fit into Asia?
      1034 25  -  Change and reform in Australia Exclusive to BT MOCHTAR KUSUMAATMADJA MOCHTAR KUSUMAATMADJA The writer is a long-serving former foreign minister of Indonesia whose tenure covered the most serious diplomatic crisis between Jakarta and Canberra in the mid-Lighties THE answer is yes, because it has to.
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      The great Australian transformation: Will it work?
      1526 25  -  FLORENCE CHONG FLORENCE CHONG I hi' writer is lil n Sydney Corn'sp*mdcnt WORK on a sprawling Buddhist temple is about to be completed at Springwood. deep in the suburbia of Brisbane. The majestic temple with a pagoda to be built later sits awkwardly
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    Intrigues in Islamabad
    508 26 EDITORIAL FROM THE fate that befell Benazir Bhutto 32 months ago, the pendulum has swung again in Pakistan. The latest swing demonstrates how the country's political landscape is governed more by factional rivalries and intrigues than by clear national agendas. Nawaz Sharif, prime minister until his dismissal
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      Case to take out CPF later?
      166 26 NOW THAT the retirement age has been raised to 60, with provisions to up it to 67 by 2003, there is one question on many a mind. Will the withdrawal age for Central Provident Fund savings be raised as well? The answer is an
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      Join forces to strengthen families
      165 26 ALL EFFORTS by the Islamic Religious Council (Muis), the Coordinating Committee on Anti Drug Abuse and mosques are now directed at the main source of social problems: weakened family structures. Outlining the strategy, Muis president Zainul Abidin Rasheed said the efforts are urgent due to
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      Build up apprenticeship
      176 26 THE MOST INTENSIVE inter-ministerial meetings over the last few weeks have, perhaps, been the ones taking place between education and manpower officials. We would like to focus our attention on what the officials of the ministries called "link and match" in the demand-supply equation of skills for
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      Sending the right signal
      118 26 CHINA'S DECISION to reverse its ban and allow local journalists to cover this week's talks in Beijing on Hongkong's political reforms will help allay concerns about secrecy surrounding the deliberations. While it does not go far enough Beijing still has no plans to divulge details it
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      A smashing start
      181 26 FOR MANY YEARS, the complaints and problems attending Malaysian sportsmen had a tiresome familiarity to them: young talents torn between the demands of school or college and the gruelling hours needed to keep themselves in shape and to prepare for competition; studies often winning out because of
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    Becoming better friends with the 'enemy'
    900 26  -  Recently in Taiwan, Lim Soon Neo found old political animosities taking a back seat as China and Taiwan increasingly realise that collaboration pays Lim Soon Neo LAST YEAR, some 1.5 million Taiwanese crossed the Taiwan Straits into "enemy territory" that's what their government has
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      680 27  -  George Gedda discusses the disquiet generated by Secretary of State Warren Christopher's emphasis on human rights in US foreign policy George Gedda AP 1N DON ESI AN authorities were stunned last month when the Clinton Administration backed a United Nations resolution
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      816 27  -  lomeo to me inuit ivm-mm US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor puts the world on alert that US trade polio; will henceforth be far mote activist and be tiedtothe clinton AXinis ration-s domLtic economic policy. In the accompanying article Columbia University Jaedish tells
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      990 27 The Nikkei Weekly Q: How does the Clinton Administration's trade policy differ from that of the Bush Administration? A: 1 think it is going to be much more forceful in trying to open the Japanese market. The Bush Administration was worried about the Japanese
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      93 27 Banking, Finance and Insurance 93 1993 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Asian dollar market. It is a time to reflect on past achievements and ponder over the challenges ahead. This year's Banking, Finance and Insurance supplement of Business Times will commemorate this important milestone in the
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    Time running out in US-EC trade talks; sanctions loom
    361 28 WASHINGTON Up against a final deadline to clinch a deal or face US sanctions, top European trade negotiators sat down with their US counterparts yesterday for one last effort to resolve a public contracts dispute. As the talks opened yesterday morning
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    553 28 Reuter, AP, AFP WACO, Texas A firestorm of criticism has begun to hit ihe Clinton administration after cult leader David Koresh and more than 80 followers committed mass suicide in a fiery inferno when federal agents stormed his fortress
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    Lock icon Italian premier expected to resign tomorrow
    174 28 Reuter ROME Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato is expected to resign tomorrow evening. Deputy Speaker of the Lower House Silvano Labriola said yesterday that Mr Amato would presumably step down at the end of a parliamentary debate tomorrow in the aftermath of a referendum
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    Lock icon Harsh winter dampens new US home buildings in March
    198 28 Reuter WASHINGTON Construction starts on new homes and apartments slumped in March to their lowest levels since mid-1992, hampered by severe winter weather in much of the country. The Commerce Department said yesterday that the annual rate of starts on new
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    Lock icon Citicorp first-quarter profits up sharply due to cost controls
    222 28 Reuter NEW YORK Citicorp yesterday reported sharply higher first-quarter profits, saying the key was a continued drop in credit costs and cost controls that held expenses. Revenues benefited from strong trading results, hut were weak in the US consumer business. Both
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    China, Taiwan teams here to prepare for landmark talks on April 27
    292 28  -  By Lim Soon Neo SINGAPORE Representatives from China and laiwan arc here to prepare the ground for a historic meeting between the two states next week. It will mark the first time since 1949 when the Nationalists fled
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    Lock icon EC central bankers see no need to reform ERM
    301 28 Reuter BASLE European Community central bankers said yesterday that they had completed a long-awaited report on last year's currency crisis and found the system of managed exchange-rate parities sound and not in need of reforms. Dutch central bank president Wim Duisenberg,
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    765 28  -  The Bottom Line PAUL SAMUELSON PAUL SAMUELSON The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This commentary first appeared in the Los Angeles Times THb print and television media today pays much more attention to economic matters
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      459 29  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE NZ-Orient Lines (NZOL) will add a third vessel and two new ports of call to its South-east Asia-Pa-cific Isles-New Zealand service to celebrate the service's one-year anniversary. NZOL will deploy the multipurpose ship. Koral. to the
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      341 29 South China Morning Post HONGKONG New needs for seaborne transportation will develop in Asia as inter-region-al trade increases, according to Eivind Grostad, regional manager of Dct Norskc Veritas Classification. Mr Grostad presented his paper entitled "What about the shipping industry
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1151 29 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 16 4 Allied-Link 16 4/5 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 •ASCL 5 5 Asian Breakbulk 16 3 ASXC'L Shpg 15 2 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Ball
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      Leading tanker owners meet in HK for annual pow-wow
      235 29  -  From Rahita Elias in HONGKONG THE world's leading tanker owners are gathered here this week for their annual powwow. The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intcrtanko) kicked off its three-day annual meeting on Monday with an executive committee meeting headed
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      Thailand may set up central agency to control shipping freight rates
      618 29 Bid to ensure fairness in industry BANGKOK The Thai Transport and Communications Ministry is studying a plan to set up a central agency to control service charge and freight rates of shipping lines and other maritime transportrelated companies in
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      Lock icon Malaysia proposes to ban ship cleaning at sea
      201 29 Bernama JOHOR BAHRU Malaysia is proposing to ban ship cleaning at sea to check pollution. Deputy Science. Technology and Environment Minister Peter Chin said yesterday. It felt that ships should only be cleaned at the dockyard so that the authorities could easily
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      304 29 MBT KUALA LUMPUR A huge stock of new containers, coupled with heavy repositioning of boxes from other international ports, have pushed rental rates of containers in Port Klang down by 28 per cent since June last year, industrysources said. Container lessors said
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      Lock icon Penang gets set for privatisation
      756 31 The northern Malaysian port, now under consideration for privatisation, wants to work towards this end in gradual stages, beginning with corporatisation Lloyd's List Maritime Asia PENANG Port Commission. together with Kuantan. is being considered by the Malaysian government for some form of privatisation this year.
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11985 38 This is a list of ships loading at Ass Singapore for ports around the Ab world. It tabulates, by destination, 20. the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated Ma dates of arrival and departure from Vl the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN:
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1322 45 RATES remained steady for Panamax tonnage on the major US Gulf to Japan grain route, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,496 on April 19 from 1.488 on Apr 16. Yukong fixed the 1982-built Crusader Venture for a 52,000long tonne
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      WEEKLY FREIGHTS
      179 45 FIRMER sentiment in the dry freight market was reassured as new Pacific cargoes sought tonnage and as demand held up in the Atlantic, brokers said. The summer months will see a slowing of demand but freight lev- els will at least be underpinned by consistent fixing and ensuing
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        Garuda opens operational centre at Jakarta airport
        343 48  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE State-owned airline Garuda Indonesia has opened a 42.5 billion rupiah (5533.2 million) operational centre at Jakarta's SoekarnoHatta International Airport. Garuda president Wage Mulyono said the centre would help the airline handle an expected 18 per cent growth in passenger
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        35 48 Renter SARAJEVO, Bosnia A Bosnian man inspecting destroyed cars and selecting spare parts which he can re-use. The car dump is close to the city's market in the besieged Bosnian capital. Renter
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        Lock icon McDonnell predicts US$2b profit if C-17 plan materialises
        413 48 Bloomberg Business News LONG BEACH, California McDonnell Douglas predicted on Monday that the aerospace Firm's troubled C-17 programme could earn a US$2 billion (553.2 billion) profit by 2005 if the Air Force sticks with its current plan to buy 120 of the
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        Lock icon Ruptured fuel tank may have led to JAS plane fire
        272 48 UPI MORIOKA, Japan Transport ministry officials said on Monday that sparks igniting petrol leaking from a ruptured fuel tank was the possible cause of a fire which engulfed a Japan Air Systems (JAS) DC-9 that crashed on landing, injuring 20
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
        1300 48 atj npi tn nm OL AIM WMM GA893 1335 IMato I SQ227 2230 RJ183 2335 Amsterdam KLftti 0935 SQ324 2230 SQ323 1725 KL832 2310 nTtlUnil NZ21 1820 NZ22 1935 SQ228 2025 GF149 0650 B Sari Btpni B1421 U05 SQ182 0915 SQ181 1410 B1422 1205 B1429 2030
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        Lock icon Another frenzied air fare war expected in the US this year
        649 48 UPI NEW YORK Spring isn't quite a month old but the US airline industry is already locked in its second fare war of the year with major carriers slashing excursion fares by 35 per cent or more in the
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          Lock icon Mitsubishi-Hyundai engine tie-up
          52 48 Reuter TOKYO Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it has agreed to provide Hyundai Heavy Industries with its technology to manufacture steam-turbine engines for liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers. A Mitsubishi spokesman said the accord followed the recent order from Hyundai to Mitsubishi of two steam-turbine engines for LNG
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          Lock icon Sampling Shetlands salmon
          39 48 Reuter LIMERICK, Shetland Islands The Prince of Wales sampling Shetlands salmon during his visit to the island on Monday to learn how the islanders were coping with the after effects of the Braer tanker disaster. Reuter
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          Lock icon Aviation advice from Australia
          58 48 AFP CANBERRA A team of Chinese aviation officials began a three-day visit to Australia yesterday to study the technology and air traffic rules used here. Delegation leader Wang Shuming said that his country's aviation industry had undergone unprecedented development since 1978 "but our airways and air
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          Lock icon NZ airport hazards under study
          61 48 Reuter WELLINGTON The New Zealand government yesterday announced an investigation into safety at Wellington's airport, dubbed by pilots as a disaster waiting to happen. Pilots say fierce winds, the short runway, hazards at the end of the runways and the proximity of housing estates make
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      1288 31 OOCL (S) PTE LTD JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES TEL: 3313 FAX: *****42 DOCUMENTATION TEL: *****64 FAX: *****09 BOOKINGS TEL: *****80/*****81/*****82 \lllMr CFS (PSA F5) *****21/*****79 Ifßnill JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SDN. BHD. EQQQQ H PETALING JAVA TEL: 03-*****76 FAX: 03-*****42 LVAAfi Dedicated to Quality Service E 0 N H A^ L T
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      658 31 For advertising enquiries, contact Shipping Times: Tel 740-2089/740-2090 fmuAsc/| To US E—l Coot BL.WH M MC I ML I M M TIMMMM M B'4 2*/) II 5 1/1 1/t ft UMM MM 7/4 11.» IVJ tt/» »MJ PMB MM a 4 9/* VJ M SM M 7/1 14 I 1H
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      1650 31 NEXT SAILING TO CARIBBEAN/MEXICO/CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA MARCHEN MAERSK V.9304 ETA SIN 27TH APRIL 1993 Vessel Voy ETA ETD Feader by I MM DESTINATIONS IW I tk« marchen maersk v 9304 I CFS 2604 2359 MRS JOH LPK PEN OAK LOB MOO MEM ATI MIA CMS BAL PHI NYC TOR
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      1333 32 R'DAM/ LE ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG AWERP HAVRE WEST MALAYSIA TOKIO FXPRFSR 10/115 22/4 8/5 11/5 ?/5 Poet K«rt«nfl. Penarvg DANUBE 07/315 3/5 9/5 12/5 l_s/5_ _H£s Pasir Gudang KAMAKURA 28/116 29/4 «/5 *&T_ «/><<>«£ «/c ia/c <c/c iQ/c 22/5
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      579 32 FCL Breakbulk Service to: AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd. Sole Foreign Forwarder In Kabul for all services C.I.S.- Vostochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku, Irkutsk, Alms Ats North Korea Vietnam Mongolia Hungary CSFR Poland ocnssrrans A6Q|aßp^]P I nouakchott-banjul-bissau-luanda-bata I Foador Vosaol ETA fl|||| I POL EAST 25/04 I VILLE
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      1355 32 REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTAINER SERVICE R^LAfOV^ INORASIA MUBARAK 9314-3 22/04 14/05 15/05 16/05 17/05 19/05 20/05 21/05 22/05 M/ 05 INORASIA AL MANSOORAH 9315-329/04 20/05 21/05 22/05 23/05 25/05 24/05 26/05 27/05 21/05 INORASIA PRMCESS 9316-3 04/05 27/05 2S/05 29/05 30/05 01/06 02/06 02/06 03/06 04/06 NORASIA SUN 9317-3 11/05
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      1761 33 EKTKK STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD Kg 9 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line (a service of china navigation co> CARGO DUE SAM.S KRIS Ml Run Wit KK. Sk». In N»» 22 Apr FCL, LCI C OUT AIMER AMO MCAKBOLK
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      1894 33 Wv\ 4 SINGAPORE AGENT: TlO P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd l Afl w m jOflTHlllCra 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 KEPPEL TOWERS. SINGAPORE 0208 A V fcWA V Tel: 225 2233 Tetex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 W CR Number: **********0Z _EXPORT .MPORT m nnT HAM VESSEL
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      1909 34 (g) HANJIN SHIPPING]] I —ias urn «4 POX FDR VSL SM IIME HAUL SAV IH NYC I I MNRNMASAN 078E 13/5 HAIUN MASAN 07K 22 4 M SAVANNAH 0371 27/5 26/5 39/5 I 5?.,., r ;?L n«r! n/l n/s HAIUN SEATTLE 02* 21/4 M. ASM 09K 3/6 4/6 6/6 I
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      1372 35 ippillg l lUIC9) if tuuuauaj impmiß mi 1 II FOR THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: HI I OJh II VESSELS ETA/ETD/EXCHANGE RATES/SHIPPING SERVICES/ M II yCf II FREIGHT CHARGES PAYABLE/STORE RENT CHARGES/ AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS FOR COLLECTION [jn am*- lie* IMytUnPOfMTS .■■.■:■■>:■.■.■>■■■--■ I V n«« Iww sop x«tham v„,| ».:r m> vkssh.
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      1204 35 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BALT ORIENT LINE: *****64 FESCO: *****06 BLASCO ODESSA: *****51/*****31 ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) FULL CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES EASTBOUND—WSCHMGWG WCSTBOUND-iOADWC HAKSHWED VIA ROTTERDAM
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      1407 36 O AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (CR No **********0 Mi W V m.T TEL- *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****07/8/9 I IV LINE MALAYSIA; S KJgE&SISSHSSE'Szm* POU 51*25/6 L KATsHA, filf .NDONESIA: P.T. BARANA CAUT .NTERNUSA. TEL: JKT *****76. *****77. *****08 NAMERICA PACiFIC SOOTH WEST N.AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH WEST
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      1030 36 PHIU-ORKNT LINGS PTC LTD 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 A MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/SOUTH PACIFIC FCL/LCL SERVICE 28 APR SYDNEY. MELBOURNE. BRISBANE. FREMANTLE 1 MAY AUCKLAND. WELLINGTON. LYTTLETON. NEW PLYMOUTH. NAPIER. CHRISTCHURCH 28 APR SUVA.
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      977 37 /sSBSIII PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD j I I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I I SSSSSSSS CR NO **********0eJ VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN EQUATOR HAWK MM 3M S/4 SINO MARINE 18N 23/4 26/4 30/4 KOTA IMOAM 32" 2/1 4/5 I SI AM BAY 22N 23/4
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      1666 37 EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK-NORTH CONTINENT-SCANDINAVIA WEEKLY f P GUDANG PENANG" PKELANG OCEAN VSI'VOY SIN SOU(t) RTM (2) HAM <3) GOT (4) E 1674 17/4 ALSIA 3142 22/4 8/5 10/5 11/5 13/5 P "2371 23/4 2AT4 BENAVON 3152 28/4 15/5 17/5 16/5 20/5 D 3074 iTi jutlancxa 3162 4/5 FiTs
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      309 37 °BSA° TRANSPORTATION M MYANMA FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KI« Pen PGd| PAGAN VI96W 20/23 Apt HPA AN VI9OW 21/30 Apr MAIATSA AGENTS BOUSTEAO SMPfWG AdNCCS Kit IE 03 *****00 PW. TEL 03 PEN IEI 04 *****S PCD til 07 *****1 4 NIGERIAN NATIONAL
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      2389 40 Full Container Liner Services »j/ar««'/»<« htew s few**.* Mini,** "»<!-UminStoUi tkmCVMUim«S*BM f.r. Global Putra Indonesia Maritime totes**,rt.i« slltst HMCOuSi -15 00 Chinese Chamber of Commerce *07 05/07 Seiangor Darui Ehsan Jalan Rap Chulan. ***** K.L. Tel: (21) 36 163 c nW Sineaoofe 0617 Tel: 367 2855 368 796 J Tel:
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      700 41 ipping Times, Wednesday April *****3 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES I 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 I HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) I GOTHENBURG/SCAN 26/04 ROTTERDAM 26/04 I AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 26/04 HAMBURG/BREMEN 26/04 I MARSEILLE/FRANCE 22/04 FEIIXSTOWE/UK 22/04 I BARCaOHA/SPAW 22/04 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 26/04 I GENOA/ITALY 24/04 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 25/04 I
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      530 41 TEL: *****33 (12 Llrm) FAX: *****15/*****03 gl TELEX: R8 ***** RISHIP (3 Line*) m ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSEL VOV ETA LOAOtNG FO« SPOHE ANOtNE r 30WB 23/04 DAWESSALAAM. MOMBASA. DjeOUTI ASSAB. MASSAWA ABYOT 32WS 24/05 OAHESSALAAM MOMBASA OMBOUTI ASSAB. MASSAWA 0 KIEN
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      905 41 VHK Nf OM WWWI I£ mm I«7S M n 24/4 MBUOHUM 72* M 23/4 Mw 20/4 I IMM BHUM m 23/4 27?4 MAMTA MOM i»L _52» 5-_ I WACO* SENTOSA 32* W 24/4 Tw 27/4 THMM—I ?4/< UUMM THi SiT~ »/4 MM 2«/4 I WW BHUM IMS »/4 1/5 CHUT*
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      1020 42 CONTAINER LINES I £J\~/V"-~jAgents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) C/R No: **********0E PENANG: (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 COMPETITIVE RATE TO HOHG KONG 3 SAILINGS WEEKLY DEPARTURE EVERY:(TUES/THURS/SAT) FOR ROOKING, PLS CALL «»11-Hll» JMB. HB BIN. JO I HkJw MtLi'JMMT- 15
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      232 42 JjEtJE BLUE star line SINGAPORE TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC ISLANDS SM Ml ITT 1 FGUARD BAY 2S 29/4 13/5 15/5 1/fi PROSPECT 24S 12/5 25/5 27/5 12/B N Z STAR 7S 25/5 t/f t/t 25/6 FULLY CONTAINERISED SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT AUCKLAND. LYTTELTON, ACCEPTING FCL LCL FOR NEW
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      946 42 THONG SOON UNES PTE. LTD.] Mg 77 ROWNSON ROM) #IS-00, #16-00 SIA BULDMG SNGAPORE 0106 I TCL: *****58 FAX NO: *****11, *****22 I HBT TLX: RS ***** CMIRER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO COWVeWTK)HAL/CONiAJlMEH^^^^^l^y^||lttWfclKCTMf^j ftSSEL Ivor IS'POtE fttST VESSEL wi SPORE BEST I EQUATOR JADE 75/3E 21 APR KUCHING EQUATOR
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      764 43 nipping limes, weanesaiy April at iwj EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG BRIM BULK SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA, NAfiOYA. MOA. TOKYO*. MMU*. MVMT. Penang* P. Keiang Singapore Elfcia* SHAPLAEVERETT VISE 02/03 May IVYEVERETT V4E 12/13 May KAMAL EVERETT VICE 22/23 May ACOPTMG BKAKBU.iI/fCI/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHTTAGOHG. CALCUTTA
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      294 43 W&L GLORY NAVKATIOfI GROUP I T REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN VR 27/4 3/5 4/5 24/5 GLORY SELATAN V 2/5 7/5 S/5 IS/5 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN IX
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      704 43 KSI WORLDWIDE numw -tum stuukis ins REGULAR FCL SERVICE TO THE FOLLOWINQ WEEKLY SAILING TO HUANG PU SHANTOU Connecting Feeder to Huang PuSUI TUO CONTAINER NO 2 Connecting Feeder to Shantao LIAN BO NO. 9 WE HV LEASING CONTRS FOR RENTAL SAILING TO 'PHNOM PENH' FORTNIGHTLY FCL/LCL SERVICE TO SOUTHERN
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      614 43 FORTNtOHTLV DIRECT COO4TAINCR SERVICE I SIN TO DURBAN I VtSSCL SM DURBAN P ELI2ABCTH SIN I FENGANSHAN Vl2O 04/05 20/05 23/ OS 11 /06 I I FENGKANGSHAN VSO/51 19/ OS OS/OS OW/Oe 26/06 I I ALSO ACCEPTSM TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA I BOOKING AGENT FOB COSCO I I SIN TO
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      469 43 SIN FAi EAST I 27/4 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG I 24/4 BANGKOK I 26/4 MANILA/GEBU I 25/4 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA I 26/4 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA I 26/4 BUSAN I 25/4 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA I 26/4 HONG KONG I SM CHINA I 26/4 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN I FUZHOU XIAMEN SHANT OU SHEKOU I DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG I TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU I also accepting LCL
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      700 44 arum hubsifiSKßS HON6 KONG/CHINA 26/4 6 31/4 JAKARTA 25/4 30/4 BANGKOK 28/4 6 5/5 MANILA 25/4« 30/4 BUSAN 26/4 A 31/4 KEELUNG 27/4« 1/5 TOKYO/KOBE 25/4 30/4 KAOSHIUNG 23/4 J 30/4 POBT KELANG/PENANG 25/4 30/4 YOKOHAMA COLOMBO 27/4 A 1/5 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBURG 24/4 A 1/5 CHITTA6ONG/MAORAS 28/4 5/5 ROTTEHOAM/LE HARVE/AinTJfERP 24/4
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      475 44 y Conlerm CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND IST HAY ACCEPTING TO ALL PORTS IN NEW ZEALAND JAKARTA 25TH APR BANGKOK 25TH APR PORT KUANS 29 APR SYDNEY 28 APR MELBOURNE 28 APR BRIBBANE 30 I'ACCtPmiS TO All SCAWDmAWIA POtTS KARACHI 28 APR BOMBAY 26 APR COLOMtO 26 APR TEL:
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      406 44 This Week's Sailings T u i>zz FIRST FORWARDER IN To: ETD To: ETD asia awarded Singapore Singapore ,so 9002 lrqa EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Hamburg SAT \|M| EVERY EVERY if\ Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI ({flMlj X EVERY EVERY Colombo TUE Los Angeles SUN 1 MTEMATIONAL SEA FREIGHT FORWAMNNG
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      175 44 m NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACHVNEW YORK/ CHICAGO/SYDNEY/MELBOURNE/HAMBURG/ FELIXSTOWE/ROTTERDAM/DUSSELDORF WE ALSO DEAL IN FCL CARGO WORLDWIDE ARROW EXPRESS (SERVICE TO MALAYSIA) MALAYSIA TRUCK CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore DAILY to K.L, BANGI, SHAH A LAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore
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      857 45 IMt 4 iK J* BHBi~L.® #J "BANGKOK" P.A.T. KLONQ TOEY PORT NANTA BHUM 138N 24/04/93 28/04/93 ANrtKOK 25/4 28/4 I AUCKLANO 25/4 I ANTWERP 25/4 MM U* 28/04/93 05/05/93 SL I 2S |j VESSEL/VOYAGE SWWORE WWW PORT ELIZABETH W^ WI MAHA BHUM 156N 05/05/93 09/ JJKSAYA 26/4 I 25/4 I
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      312 45 TIDES AND WEATHER TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) MOUI 00M 01M 02M 03M 04M 05M 04M 07M OWO 09M 10M UM 12M 13M 14M ISM 1M0 17M MM MM 29M 21M 22M 2JM 2J 2.3 1.7 LI U U Of U 12 1J 2.3 2.5 2.5 2.3 1J 1.3 1.9
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      563 46 ■muni Ewood line SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE SPORE Pt DSN CT •VICTORIA ***** 30/4 19/5 26/5 4/6 •ALSO CALLS EX. AM) Pi. PK SEAFIX SHIPPING SON BNO TEL *7 5525TLX. ***** KJ(.: CAPRICORN FREIGHT BERVICEB TEL 213 202 TLX. ***** 4&L SECIL MARITIMA, U.E.E. Luanda, Angola. FAR EAST/ ANGOLA SERVICE SPORE
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      670 46 J EES FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD! #01-60 Wallich Building, Singapore 0207 AHI 3 Z&CI Tel: *****66 (10 Unes) Fax: *****69/*****44 U AIRPORT OFHCE: *****11 *****13 (FAX) I IMPORTING FROM USA I I tV."T.Va.-. ,T BaT.. I ENQUIRIES: SHIRLEY CONTAINER LINE, LTD. _f 2^guft t h.b HCWYORN LOS ANOELES SAN FRANCttCO^ATIAMTA^^OIEP^^>OSTO*^^NILAOELPNI^^<jAM^^AIIA^^CirWO^^
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      355 46 WORLDGATE EXPRESS LINES PTE LTD Tel: *****11 Fa*: *****73 Telex: ***** WGATE NEXT VESSEL CONSOLIDATION TO BOM/KAR/MAD 26/4 KEELUNG —28/4 COLOMBO 25/4 HOMO KONG 26/4 PORT LOUIS 23/4 KAOHSIUNG 24/4 CHITTAGONG 25/4 PENANG 26/4 BANGKOK 28/4 PORT KELANG 26/4 GENOA 24/4 JAKARTA 26/4 PCPOCATtO WVOCC COWBQUOATIOM MWVICt TO MBOU BABT
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      506 47 ihipping Times, Wednesday April 1119 M I A HYUNDAI If I MERCHANT WAB'HECO^TD^ir RSi mI-I wl »l wssas wt |»I w B1 m I jcj-jja 3«ji um mm JJJ" I see :s r« ss ss :E™ sisssssssss ss ss asag is ss ss :ss ~|%si as m »<*■»■ i I
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      484 47 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE I E SPECIALIST M RO-RO t HEAVY LIFTS I I ■Bonn vessels I I USSEI NT IP H A* AA I I ABAR CUPKI ISI ATI ZI/4 8/' H/l I I CWUSKSAT I IPT 21/4 I I wn 1 11/4 I I AAABUAH II 24/4 I
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      713 47 EXPORT TO: JEDDAH/UK/COKTIvENT STW ICD S7ON HTBt rDMI UM *«M Au»A« Cay Nr. rrwin rxmss lA/11S 22/4 l/S li/5 IV* :It 4 WmMb* Miii mM* Sw/M M/ 4 W 12/5 }VS 17/5 W/S »«■<■ :N MMwey MMMAU M/U4 M/ 4 IVS lA/S M/S <B 4"»»llw. SfS«WJM nHBOI EVKSS 18/31 C
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      60 48 I TECHNOLOGY I mii— > M.V. "DOOYANG OPAL-TOY. 1 Arrived 13th April 1993 Consignees of aU damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessel is hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 22nd April 1993 0900 -1200 boors at PTIO. No further survey will be entertained thereafter. As
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      147 48 Tomorrow in Business Times I I The Regional Office of a Swiss-based leading International Freight Forwarding company with a global network of offices, affiliates and representatives is looking for a suitable candidate to ftH the post of Prerequisites: Age between 28-35 years Minimum 5-7 years of shipping/forwarding experience on a
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