The Business Times, 23 April 1993

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    14 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Friday April 23 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Gatt differences only ever nuances: Kohl
      82 1 Reuter BONN Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur made clear yesterday that they disagreed over the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade world free trade talks but Mr Kohl said the differences were only over nuances. They did not disclose details
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      Lock icon UK will guide EC away from federalism: Major
      54 1 Reuter LONDON A revitalised Prime Minister John Major went on the offensive over Europe yesterday, saying Britain would guide the European Community away from federalism and towards a "community of free, independent members". Mr Major hopes Britain's more evolutionary approach to European
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    109 1 Stock Market indices Tfaareday Chaage STII 1,773.21 +3.15 KLSE Composite 691.45 -0-25 Nikkei 19,591.31 -181.70 Hang Seng 6.759.24 -9.15 SET Inde* «99.0I +9.59 Jakarta Composite —311-21 -0.72 CLSA China B 1,290.2 -48.09 Aust All Onf 1,705.4 .5 FISE 100 2,881.1 H-5 IMqi Pint*" IpM do* Dow Jones 3.460.78
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    Lock icon S'pore interbank rates go up, prime expected to follow
    519 1  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Interest rates in the Singapore dollar interbank market have risen by more than one percentage point this week a strong signal that the 18-month fall in prime lending rates has bottomed out. The benchmark threemonth interbank rate
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    China-UK meeting opens with warning of no quick fix
    514 1  -  Talks on Hongkong's political future From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG BRITAIN and China began the first round of talks on Hongkong's political future yesterday with a warning that there was no quick settlement in sight. "We have started a process of
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    Lock icon US lawmakers revive tough China trade Bill
    183 1 Reuter WASHINGTON Legislation that attaches conditions to the renewal of China's favourable trade status with the US was to be reintroduced yesterday, with the expectation it would be signed by President Bill Clinton. Former President George Bush vetoed a similar Bill last year
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    Lock icon Beijing says solving HK dispute crucial to Taiwan issue
    266 1 Reuter HONGKONG Solving the Sino-British dispute over Hongkong is crucial to the reunification of the mainland and Taiwan, a senior Chinese official was quoted as saying by a Beijing-controlled newspaper yesterday. "If the problem with Hongkong could be resolved satisfactorily, it
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    Lock icon Beijing to dismantle unauthorised economic development zones
    185 1 AP BEIJING The ccntral government plans to destroy hundreds of unauthorised economic development zones that have cropped up across the country in the past year, an official report said. The China Daily said local governments last year set up at least 2,000 development
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    Singapore is advising Brunei on investment of reserves
    435 1  -  Lee Kuan Yew press conference Fran' Yang Razali Kassim in BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN SINGAPORE has for some years been advising Brunei on the investment of its national reserves, now estimated at USS3O billion to US$35 billion. Disclosing this yesterday at a press
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    Brunei adviser? Lee will consider if asked
    229 1 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday that he would seriously consider the role of economic adviser to Brunei should such a proposal be made. Mr Lee was asked at a press conference at the end of his four-day trip
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    Some speculation in stock market is okay: Lee
    219 1 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Some speculation must be allowed in the stock market, says Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. "There must be a certain element of speculation in any stock market. If you abolish them altogether, then that element of the unexpected will
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      12 1 Advertising Marketing Ikea turns 15 Pg22 Surprise German rate cuts, Back Pg
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      18 1 Hock Lock Siew Think big when investing in China Pg 9 China will protect Taiwanese investments, Back Pg
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      17 1 The Bottom M YA US-Japan ties: fe si equals Rack Pg Editorial: China vs inflation Pg 24
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Good weather on the business front
        269 2  -  By Anna Teo BY AND LARGE, it was good weather on the business front during the first quarter of the year there was healthy growth in company start-ups, while the number of firms that went out of business dropped sharply. Figures from the Registry
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • Article
        20 new Aids cases this year
        92 2 THE NUMBER of Singaporeans infected with HIV rose by 20 in the first three months of this year. Nineteen were men and one woman. Last year, 55 new cases were detected. The Ministry of Health said "95 per cent of the new cases this
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        Trade mission to Yixing
        49 2 A SINGAPORE mission comprising businessmen and industrialists left for China yesterday to finalise new investment agreements and identify emerging businesses there. It is led by William J E Lee, an economic adviser to the Yixing government. Yixing is a city in the province of Jiangsu.
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        DBS Finance lowers housing rates
        65 2 DBS FINANCE, a subsidiary of DBS Bank, yesterday lowered its housing loan rates by 0.25 to 0.375 percentage point. The rate for one to five-year tenure was lowered by 0.25 point to 5.75 per cent. Rates for tenures of six to 10 years and 11
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      Corrections & clarifications
      56 2 Corrections clarifications IN OUR ARTICLE yesterday headlined "Conner to trim staff worldwide, S'pore office affected", we erred in saying that Henry Loi is managing director of Archive Singapore. He is in fact general manager for drive operations. The managing director is BC Ang, who is also vice-president. We apologise for
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      CPI does not reflect changes in cost of living: study
      466 2  -  Reports by Anna Teo CONTRARY to popular belief, the Consumer Price Index does not reflect changes in the cost of living particularly if they result from changes in spending habits and living standards. This point was made in a recent
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      Survey shows Singaporeans to be an asset-rich lot
      764 2 Almost 16pc of sample of 1,400 households buy shares SINGAPOREANS are assetrich. even going by new symbols of wealth such as stocks and insurance policies, preliminary findings from the 1992-93 household expenditure survey show. Advance data based on 1,400 households, or about
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      Ministry clarifies new requirements for those studying law
      284 2 THE Law Ministry yesterday clarified four points in the report on reducing the number of practising lawyers in Singapore released on Wednesday. First, national servicemen who have already been accepted into the law faculty in the National University of Singapore will not
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      What it'll take for S'pore to have external economy
      373 2  -  Lee Kuan Yew press conference From Yang Razali Kassim in BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN ONE in five of Singapore's graduates, and preferably the better ones, will have to live and work abroad if Singapore is truly to develop an external economy, in
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      A soluble business opportunity
      157 2 LEE KUAN YEW says he is tempted to go into business selling glucose. Asked about the recent hunger strike by former university lecturer Chee Soon Juan, who on medical advice drank glucose water during his fast, Mr Lee said: "I'd go into the glucosemaking business if
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  • THE REGION
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      Lock icon Soaring yen sparks rumours of devaluation of rupiah
      527 3 But Jakarta officials deny any plans to lower the currency's value Reuter JAKARTA The soaring Japanese yen is sending shivers through the tiny Jakarta foreign exchange market, sparking rumours that it will force Indonesia to devalue its currency. But government officials deny
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      Lock icon Vietnam hands new POW list to US to prove Russian document false
      420 3 Reuter AP HANOI Vietnam has handed the United States a newlyfound list of 492 American prisoners of war whom the communist North Vietnam held at the end of 1972, the head of the government office dealing with the
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      Lock icon China will not back any Cambodian party in civil war
      293 3 AP BEIJING A Chinese spokesman said yesterday that Beijing will not support any of the four Cambodian factions if civil war breaks out, but declined to say if it would use its influence with the Khmer Rouge to prevent fighting.
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      Lock icon KL to probe purchase of military aircraft
      251 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian aviation authorities were ordered yesterday to investigate the reported purchase by a local firm of a Botswana military transport plane whose documents were allegedly falsified in the United States. Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik ordered the probe after the
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      Lock icon Thai SEC to file share manipulation charges against 30
      317 3 AFP BANGKOK The watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday said it would seek criminal charges of stock manipulation against 30 major Thai investors. The commission accused the 30 of trying to manipulate shares in the Krisda Mahanakorn real-estate company, the
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • Article
        Lock icon Small rise in support for Miyazawa
        79 4 Reuter TOKYO Only one in four Japanese back Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's Cabinet, a small increase from last month, and disaffection over its handling of the economy remains strong, according to a survey published yesterday. The Yotniuri Shirnbun. which carried out the poll, attributed
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        Lock icon All for the sake of health
        32 4 AFP MANILA A woman grimacing in pain while receiving an anti-tetanus shot as part of a nationwide health programme aimed at immunising 15 million Filipinos. AFP
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        Lock icon Pakistan denies role in bombings
        66 4 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan yesterday rejected as "incorrect and mischievous" an Indian charge that it had apparently conspired in last month's bombings in Bombay that killed 250 people. Indian Interior Minister Shankarrao Chavan told Parliament in New Delhi on Wednesday that a conspiracy appeared to have
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        Lock icon Bhutto's husband sworn in as minister
        81 4 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's four-day old government was enlarged yesterday as President Ghulam Ishaq Khan swore m 15 more ministers, including former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's husband, recently released from prison. Mr Ishaq Khan swore in the ministers at the presidential residence, according to the
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        Lock icon Japanese household spending down
        68 4 Reuter TOKYO Japan's household spending in February decreased 3 4 per cent in real terms from a year earlier to an average 298,013 yen per household, the Management and Coordination Agency said. In nominal terms, it fell 2.1 per cent from a year earlier. In January,
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        Lock icon Aussie business optimism hits high
        81 4 Reuter SYDNEY Australian business optimism in March was at its highest point for four years. "The recovery of the Australian economy is resuming at a stronger pace with the uncertainty that was associated with the March 1993 federal election now resolved," Dun Bradstreet said in
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      Lock icon Pact with Viets will help Taiwan to expand ties in Indochina
      315 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's signing of an economic pact with Vietnam this week will pave the way *for the island to expand trade and investment ties throughout Indochina, officials said yesterday. "We can use Vietnam as a stepping stone to
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      Lock icon Pyongyang to return to nuclear treaty: reports
      570 4 AFP SEOUL North Korea will return to a nuclear verification treaty which it pulled out of last month to protest against planned inspections of suspected weapons sites, a South Korean news agency said yesterday, quoting a Pyongyang diplomat. Yonhap News Agency quoted a
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      Lock icon S Korean firms irked by controls over business with North
      404 4 Reuter SEOUL South Korean companies, itching to expand contacts with the communist North, are losing patience with Seoul's rigid controls over in-ter-Korean ties, businessmen say. Firms looking to expand over the border say Seoul's ban on economic links, because of
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      Lock icon Chinese businessmen to join Li Peng on Central Asian trip
      203 4 Reuter BEIJING China will for the first time allow top businessmen to accompany a state leader on an official overseas trip when Premier Li Peng travels to Central Asia next week, Xinhua said yesterday. Mr Li will travel with the
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      UK outfit becomes first international law firm to open office in Shanghai
      263 4  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG IN SPITE OF low ebbs in Sino-British relations, Britain's largest law firm, Clifford Chance, has become the first major international law firm to be given approval to open an office in Shanghai. The
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      Lock icon Taipei planning to apply to rejoin UN in 1995
      336 4 AFP 7 TAIPEI Taiwan will formally apply to rejoin the United Nations in 1995 more than 20 years after it was ousted by the world body which admitted Beijing instead, the semiofficial Central News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday. The application should
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      Lock icon Leading Taiwan bankers to visit China
      136 4 AFP TAIPEI A high-powered Taiwan banking delegation is scheduled to leave for China on May 5 to explore joint investment opportunities on the mainland, a banking official said yesterday. Dah An Commercial Bank chairman Lu Jun-kang. a former finance minister, will head the delegates
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      Lock icon Japan to prepare US$ 22b supplementary budget for stimulus plan
      449 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Finance Ministry will draw up a supplementary budget bill worth some 2.5 trillion yen (U5522.7 billion or 5536.5 billion) by mid-May to help fund the nation's largest-ever economic stimulus package unveiled last week, officials said yesterday. "Many
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      Lock icon Aussie central bank sees faster rise in consumer price index
      349 6 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australia's consumer price index will rise quickly this year, said its central bank, but underlying inflation, which removes volatile items such as fresh fruit, will remain low. In a wide-ranging article on the economy in its
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      Lock icon Scepticism over Tokyo's political reforms
      446 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan's political leaders are promising a revolution to stamp out corruption and scrap a voting system that nurtures fund-raisers, not policy-makers. But analysts say the chances of Japanese voters however disgusted with scandal following the Italian lead and forcing a radical constitutional shake-up
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      Lock icon Strike in support of Sharif paralyses Karachi industries
      296 6 AFP ISLAMABAD A strike call paralysed industry in Pakistan's biggest city yesterday, a day after deposed premier Nawaz Sharif received spontaneous mass support for his resistance to President Ghulam lshaq Khan. Tens of thousands of people gave a tumultuous welcome to Mr
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
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      Lock icon N Korea being seen as a wild card in region's arms race
      754 7 Arms build-up in the Asia-Pacific AP TOKYO Instead of a peace dividend, the end of the Cold War has brought Asia-a costly arms race that could accelerate if North Korea continues resisting controls on its nuclear programme. By
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      Lock icon Tokyo awakens to strategic realities
      344 7 AP TSUIKI, Japan At this remote air base in south-western Japan, 36 Japanese-made F-l and F-l 5 jet fighters stand ready to scramble, with pilots on a round-the-clock watch. Fighters have scrambled from Tsuiki more than 3,000 times since 1952, usually because of intrusions by
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      Lock icon Who's got what
      222 7 AP NORTH KOREA: World's fifth largest army, with 1.1 million soldiers in active service and six million in paramilitary units. Suspected of developing nuclear weapons. CHINA: Armed Forces number three million. It's major nuclear power in Asia. Has said will comply with nuclear controls only after other
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • Article
        Lock icon Fight against Mafia seen riding on vote
        116 8 Reuter ROME A vote on letting ex-premier Giulio Andreotti stand trial for alleged ties to the Mafia will show how far Italy can go in the battle against organised crime, parliament s chief Mafiahunter said yesterday. As a Senate panel prepared to vote
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        Lock icon Holocaust memories
        36 8 Reuter WASHINGTON Shoes of Nazi death camp victims are displayed at the Holocaust Memorial Museum that was dedicated by US President Bill Clinton yesterday and which opens to the public on April 26. Reuter
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        Lock icon Rabin rejects further peace gestures
        85 8 Reuter JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has said he is not obliged to make further gestures to Palestinians even though they and Arab states have agreed to return to Middle East peace talks. Mr Rabin said his announcement on Wednesday, hours after the Arab
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      • Article
        Lock icon Nato reports no-fly zone violation
        90 8 Reuter VICENZA, Italy Nato yesterday gave details of what appeared to be the second violation of the United Nations no-fly zone over Bosnia. A statement said two fighter aircraft patrolling the zone on Tuesday investigated a radar contact near the town of Banja Luka after
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      Lock icon UK Parliament votes against Maastricht referendum
      181 8 Reuter LONDON The British Parliament voted overwhelmingly yesterday against holding a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on closer European union. A hid by Conservative and rehel opposition Labour Members of Parliament to force a national poll on the EC treaty was quashed by 363
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      Lock icon Brazilians set to keep present system of govt
      220 8 AP RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian voters have firmly rejected rule by a king or a prime minister, deciding to keep their current presidential system of government, exit polls showed. A vote for the status quo had been expected in Wednesday's referendum, in
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      Lock icon W German GDP could shrink by 2pc, says minister
      519 8 Economists say inflation looks set to stay stubbornly high this month Reuter HANOVER Battling its worst recession in decades, west Germany's economy could decline much further this year than government economists initially forecast. Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt said on Wednesday. He
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      Lock icon Advertising trouble
      56 8 Reuter TEL AVIV An ■tors-orthodox Jew appears to be nnder the knife Palestinian as he walks past a billboard advertising a shooting range. ng a controversy, and Members of Parliament are asking for it to be removed as the) be in bad taste amid the recent increase In
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      Lock icon British unemployment down unexpectedly in March
      310 8 AFP LONDON Britain's jobless total unexpectedly fell by 26,000 in March to 2,940,800, the Department of Employment said yesterday. The proportion of the working population that remained unemployed fell to IO.S from 10.6 percent, officials said. The second consecutivc monthly fall in unemployment since
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      Lock icon Cash flow problem for UK small firms: poll
      239 8 Reuter LONDON Britain's very small company sector, the area most likely to provide new jobs in the economy, is facing mounting cash flow problems, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) announced yesterday. The organisation earlier published details of its latest quarterly survey
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      Lock icon US-EC truce could help world trade talks, say diplomats
      588 8 Reuter AFP GENEVA Signs that the US and the European Community aim to contain their dispute over government contracts could help revive long-stalled world trade talks, trade officials and diplomats said yesterday. The dispute, in which both the US and the
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      Lock icon Yeltsin to take tough steps on reforms if he wins referendum
      330 8 Reuter MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin yesterday said he would act firmly to reform the countiy's political sysr tern if he wins a vote of confidence in Sunday's referendum but would not resort to armed force. "We shall have
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • Article
      Fels to sell 75pc stake in US$ 150m jack-up rig
      420 9  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (Fels) is likely to get rid of its 75 per cent stake in West Epsilon, a harsh environment jack-up rig worth US$l5O million (***** million) but only in 1995. The Keppel Group
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      DBS Asset Mgt reaps rich rewards from HK stocks
      425 9  -  By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE DBS Asset Management made a highly profitable bet on the Hongkong stock market for the second DBS Charity Investment Race which ended on March 31. The 1992 results had yet to be released. Under the rules, the
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      CMB Asia, Saigon Brewery sign deal to set up US$ 45m can-making plant
      482 9  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE CarnaudMetalbox Asia Ltd (CMB Asia) and Saigon Brewery have signed a joint-venture agreement to set up Vietnam's first US$45 million (SS73 million) plant to produce beverage cans in Ho Chi Minh City. A
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      Investing in China: be a major player or be played off the field
      862 9  -  By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Will the kiasu attitude of i Singaporeans frustrate their efforts to make big money in China? One top Chinese official certainly thinks so. Former Beijing mayor Wu Yi said Singaporean investments are too
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      Pacific Can turns around
      281 9 SINGAPORE Pacific Can Investment Holdings Ltd has posted earnings of $55,000 for the six months to March 31, against a loss of $2.05 million previously. The group, which released its results yesterday, said it had recovered from the severe strain it suffered in 1992. The company
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Cerebos Pacific forms new subsidiary
          32 10 SINGAPORE Cerebos Pacific has set up a new subsidiary. High Tech Foods Singapore Pte Ltd, with an authorised capital ol $15 million. The paid-up capital is $2.
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          Conversion of Metroplex loan stock
          104 10 SINGAPORE All the outstanding balance of a MS I°° million (SS63 million) unsecured loan stock issued by in 1990 has been converted into ordinary shares, two years of schedule Metroplex said in a statement yesterday that holders of M$V6 59 million nominal value of the
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          Lock icon Harbinger of better times?
          52 10 Reuter MANILA Filipino workers put on the finishing touches to the Shangri-la hotel in Makati's financial district in the Philippine capital after several hotels sprouted like mushrooms in the area, possibly heralding better times for a tourism industry battered by coups and a rash of natural
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          Lock icon Leader Universal upbeat on expansion
          85 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR In view of the bright future of the local cable industry. Leader Universal Holdings Bhd is confident of implementing all its expansion programmes in full in the foreseeable future. In the company's latest annual report, deputy chairman and group managing director H'ng
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          52 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd has completed the acquisition of a 70 per cent stake in Skellerup Industries (M) Sdn Bhd and a land lease for 90 years in Johor Baru. The company said the acquisition and land lease were financed by internallygenerated funds and bank
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          Lock icon Setron (M) pares loss to M$ 3.7m
          73 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Setron (Malaysia) Bhd has reported a group pre-tax loss of M 53.74 million (552.35 million) for the year ended Dee 31, down from a loss of MS 16.17 million previously. Group turnover fell to M 5170.10 million from M 5201.65
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        Lock icon Citic Pacific profits up 212 pc after purchase of HK firm
        481 10 AFP HONGKONG Citic Pacific Ltd, the fast-growing, Chinaowned Hongkong holding company, yesterday said its 1992 profits soared 212 per cent to HKSI.O4 billion (*****.4 million) after it acquired a local trading house. Earnings per share rose 21 per cent
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        S'pore finance firms set to gain from reduced competition of foreign banks
        307 10  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Finance companies in Singapore stand to benefit this year from weaker competition of foreign banks which are reducing their domestic business. This is the view of Kwek Leng Beng, chairman of Hong Leong
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        Renong, Ekran in Philippine ventures
        449 10  -  Projects include highway construction, bay reclamation, hotel development By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Malaysian conglomerate Renong Bhd will participate in two Philippine infrastructure projects worth US$l3O million (*****.6 million). Renong signed two agreements with its Philippine partners in the projects on Monday, Eloisa Lim. assistant director
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        Takeover of San Miguel, PLDT marks start of the end of monopoly
        272 10  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE Philippine government has virtually taken over two corporate titans, signalling the start of "demonopolising" of the economy. But officials say the takeover did not mean meddling in the management of San Miguel
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        Gordon Wu's US$ 933m Philippine power station project gets financing
        318 10  -  From Rahita Elias in HONGKONG A DEAL to finance tycoon Gordon Wu's US$933 million (S$ 1.521 billion) power station project in the Philippines was sealed yesterday in Hongkong. Institutions extending the loan for the project are the International Finance Corporation.
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        443 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Mangm' prteas (S) Apr 23 PlM—tisI IMt Tf¥lt PruLink Mfd Fund 1.09 1.1$ The C omment 1.33 1.40 MAKA fcwjpttrl The Savings Fund I IS 1.21 Fir* B puua 173 17® Spore Prog Fund 0 55 0 58 Sccond B'putra 1.71 1.76 ?:S Me- in 7 ij
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        Lock icon First quarter US corporate results hold pleasant surprises
        379 11 Reuter NEW YORK Despite a few prominent disasters, US corporate results for the first quarter are so far showing more positive than negative surprises, said analysts who track the data. In addition, cyclicals including basic industries like chemical and paper companies and
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        Lock icon AT&T net profit up 12pc before accounting for US$ 7b provision
        267 11 AFP Reuter NEW YORK Telecommunications giant AT&T said its net profit rose 12 per cent in the first three months of 1993 if a US$7 billion (5511.4 billion) provision for new accounting rules is not taken into account. But
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          Dan Quayle joins Central Newspapers
          64 11 INDIANAPOLIS Central Newspapers lnc has elected former Vice President Dan Quayle (right) to its board of directors, where he will join his uncle and father. Dan Quayle becomes the company's eighth board member. The Pulliam Trust controls about 65 per cent of the company's voting
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          Lock icon UK brokers question £40m project
          92 11 Reuter LONDON Five of London's biggest securities houses have produced a study questioning the need for the London Stock Exchange's lastest £40 million (Ssloo million) computer share trading project. The move comes just a month after the exchange scrapped its Taurus paperless settlement system, which
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          Lock icon No bank default for House of Fraser
          115 11 Reuter LONDON The House of Fraser pic, owners of Harrods department store, said there has been no default in a £590 million (Ssl.s billion) bank facility that matured on April 18. It was responding to a Reuter story saying some of the loan
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          Lock icon High power charges threaten jobs: ICI
          90 11 Reuter LONDON Imperial Chemical Industries pic said high electricity prices which have risen 60 per cent in the past two years in Britain threatened 7,000 jobs in its chlorine operations. In a background report to the committee ICI said the large price rises, following
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        Lock icon Compaq more than doubles net income
        464 11 NYT DALLAS As a savage industry price war intensifies, Compaq Computer Corp provided fresh evidence on Wednesday that it stands tall, reporting that its net income and sales more than doubled in the first quarter. Compaq reported that its net income rose from US$45
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          Telerate gets South China deal
          50 12 HONGKONG The newly-established South China Commodity Futures Exchange has awarded an exclusive contract to Telerate to feed live news to the exchange. Traders in the Chinese futures exchange will be able to obtain market information from other major commodity exchanges, including Singapore's RAS Commodity Exchange.
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          Lock icon Philippine bank cuts prime rate
          69 12 AFP MANILA Philippine National Bank (PNB), the country's biggest, yesterday cut its prime lending rate by 2.5 percentage points to 14.5 per cent. State-controlled PNB, with total assets of 103 billion pesos (556.7 billion), said in a statement that the reduction would make credit more
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          100 12 AFP BANGKOK Three of Thailand's largest banks have said they will not raise deposit rates at least for the next few weeks despite being urged to do so by the Thai central bank, The Nation newspaper reported. Bangkok Bank, Thai Farmers Bank and Siam
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          Russia plans insurance firm
          87 12 WASHINGTON Russia intends to set up a US$l billion insurance company to help shelter foreign investors against losses from sudden changes in political conditions there, a senior Russian official said. The government-owned firm has been discussing the proposal with American International Group but has not completed
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        Two Thai firms raising funds for working capital
        393 12  -  Both loans syndicated through Singapore From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK ITs not the best of times on the Thai stock market but two leading Thai brokerage and finance companies are raising funds to boost their working capital. Yesterday saw Thai Investment
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        454 12 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK US bank holding companies continued to exceed first-quarter earnings expectations. Generally, banking companies continue showing higher net interest income as a result of lower interest rates and improved asset quality. Following are the individual companies' results: Fleet
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        Lock icon Rating agency keeps HK govt, MTRC debt on credit watch
        310 12 AFP TOKYO Standard and Poor's Asia Ltd said it was keeping its ratings for debt issued by the Hongkong government and Mass Transit Railway Corp (MTRC) on "credit watch" with negative implications. The announcement, which came as Sino-British talks on
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        664 12 IHT LONDON When Jacques Attali presents the annual report of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the bank's lavish new London headquarters will probably receive more attention than a lending and investment performance that many insist is surprisingly good. "Starting two years
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        Int'l Petroleum Exchange eyes new business in Asia, M-E
        502 13  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON LONDON'S International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) is actively campaigning for new business in Asia and the Middle East. Oil dealers believe that the exchange's effort will be highly successful. Volumes and, hence, liquidity of IPE s main
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        313 13 UPI MOSCOW Russia, a crippled oil giant, politely pleaded on Tuesday for foreign investment to help get the country's oil industry back on its feet and boost production and thus bolster reforms. "Russia is a great oil power and will always
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        407 13 Reuter KUWAIT Kuwait said on Wednesday it had re-estab-lished itself as a major player in the world oil market after repairs to Gulf War-damaged oilfields and refineries. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), the state-owned conglomerate, said it was determined to continue rebuilding a
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        Lock icon Japan thinking of importing gold to build up stocks
        220 13 Reuter TOKYO The Japanese government is considering importing gold this year to build up its special stocks used to issue commemorative coins, finance ministry (MOF) officials told Reuter. "When and how many tonnes of gold the ministry will buy is undecided
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        207 13 Knight Ridder Tokyo Japanese tin imports are seen falling further as demand from steel mills is declining due to reduced tinplate exports to China, say trading sources here. The tinplate sector accounts for about 30 per cent of total Japanese tin demand, estimated at about 30,000
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        Oil futures tumble as gasoline plunges
        430 13 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT NEW YORK Oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and Londoq International Petroleum Exchange were tumbling as commodity funds and traders bailed out of gasoline and heating oil. Gasoline has fallen about a cent during the last three sessions on
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        1403 13 lraJe-*rtghtnJ index cakuialed against Spore's tup 14 IraJiwt partners Ba# >mr Wg US$/S$ forward rates Noon Apr 22 s$ •M Offtr 1-month ***** 1.6200 2-fnonlh ***** 1.6207 J-month ***** 1.6210 6-month ***** 1.6235 Sounr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at Ha yntrtor Singapore dollars to oae aait
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        Banoue Indosuez REGIONAL CURRENCY REPORT
        158 13 THE Singapore dollar continued to strengthen against the US dollar as offshore parties continued to sell the US dollar yesterday. The fall was partly cushioned by local support but the local currency is likely to stay strong over the next few weeks as these offshore
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        190 13 Reuter LONDON The German Bundesbank gave the dollar and European stock markets a boost yesterday with a surprise cut in its key interest rates. European stocks markets climbed and the dollar strengthened as the German central bank announced it would lower its discount rate by 0.25 points to 7.25
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        91 13 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was uneven early yesterday, falling against the yen and pound sterling but rising against the German mark and Swiss and French francs after Germany lowered its primary interest rates. About 9:30 am, the dollar traded at 1.61 German marks up from 1.5990 late
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        Euroyen ends firmer, yen rises on dollar
        1407 14 SIMEX REPORT SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures' early losses were overwhelmed by speculative buying after the yen rose against the dollar in Asian foreign exchange markets yesterday. The dollar fell sharply to a new post-war Tokyo low of 110.20 yen. hurt by heavy institutional
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        S'pore rubber futures slide with mixed outlook in Tokyo
        940 14 COMMODITIES REPORT Rubber SINGAPORE: After a brief steady spell in the morning, rubber futures resumed falls at the end of the afternoon yesterday with sentiment sliding in line with a mixed outlook for the Tokyo rubber market, traders said. "Japan is
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1582 14 Rubber HAS Commodity Exchangt (fwtur— dodng as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sctl (tonnes) Interest MI793 12*75 129.75 129.75 50 ~950 Jun 131.00 130 75 131.00 50 4.875 Jul 131.75 131.75 132.00 200 4.100 Aug 133.00 132.75 133.00 425 4.800
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        Australia
        1177 15 11.5 Stocks pushed back above the key 1,700 level as banks continued to attract interest yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index closed up 11.5 points at 1,705.4. Among banks Westpac surged to its highest level since June 9 last year, rising 10 cents to A 53.54, with 9.3 million shares
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        Manila
        594 15 Manila share prices rose as investors tried to shake off fears caused by the government's takeover of the board of directors of market leader Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT), brokers said. "The market is realising they may have overreacted to the fears of a government takeover of PLDT.
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        Taipei
        533 15 +149.06 Taiwan stocks closed sharply higher on buying of industrials after parliament on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to copyright laws designed to avert threatened US trade sanctions, brokers said. The Weighted Index rose in early trade and a late, strong wave of buying pushed it up further to close
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        Seoul
        388 15 +4.01 Seoul stocks ended on another 20-month high with electronics and chip shares, particularly Samsung Group counters, leading the field, brokers said. Mid-afternoon profit-tak- ing eclipsed a nine-point morning gain, but late advances on financial counters pushed the Composite Index to a 20month high of 735.57, a gain of
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        New Zealand
        271 15 +22.07 A surge in forestry stock prices pushed the New Zealand share market index to a 32-month high yesterday leaving market analysts mostly bullish. "Under any measure it (the New Zealand share market) still represents good value," said Michael Clare, investment manager at fund manager AMP Society. The
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        Bombay
        45 15 -33.21 Indian stock prices fell further yesterday. Investor confidence in the secondary market is quickly evaporating, traders said. Most stock exchange indices have declined throughout the week. Bombay fell yesterday by 33.21 points to 2,156.30 and the National Index dropped 12.04 points to 975.49.
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        737 15 Britannia Funds Sterling C«*h Bid Oflff Mim Cap Deposit 38 6300 38 MOO Mim Jerses Gilt 0 1402 0 2003 Mim Mat Income ****** ****** L'S$ Cask Income Plus Fund 10 3100 10*600 PS Reserse Fund 5 2000 5 2100 Sterling Lquit> Euro Performance 0 4592 0 4938 Far Easl
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        London
        616 15 +11.5 London shares were pushed up by a bullish Wall Street, positive UK jobless figures and a Bundesbank cut in its Lombard and discount rates yesterday. The FTSE 100 Index, which gained 11.5 points to 2,881.1 points by the close, nipped up to the day's high at 2,881.2 when
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        Paris
        100 15 +12.57 French shares shot up after the Bundesbank cut the Lombard rate half a point and the discount rate a quarter point in a move utterly unexpected by the bourse. Stocks climbed 12.57 points to close the day at 1,944.46. Paris Ape 21 Fr Air-Liquide 762 00 Alcatel Anahom
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        Stockholm
        125 15 +0.78pc Shares rallied strongly on the German rate cuts, reinforcing market expectations of an imminent drop in the Riksbank marginal lending rate of 9.75 per cent. The upswing had gathered pace after right-wing New Democracy said it will help the minority government push its supplementary 1993-94 budget through parliament.
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        Frankfurt
        152 15 -0.13 German shares closed virtually unchanged as caution gripped the market ahead of the weekend and the Russian referendum. The 30-share DAX index finished 0.13 lower at 1,936.53. Frankfurt Apr 21 DM Or* 154 20 -2 40 BASF 237 JO -2 40 BMW 477.50 -4 20 Baser 275 60
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        Milan
        151 15 +I.9pc Stocks closed higher in good volume yesterday although the buying was selective. Dealers said there was optimism that Monday's massive endorsement of change at the electoral referendum marked a point of no return in the reform process sweeping Italy. "There's no turning back now. All we have to
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        Amsterdam
        241 15 1.23 Dutch shares edged higher again. on news the Dutch central bank cut its special advances rate to 7.70 pet from 7.90 pet. The move by the Dutch central bank was in line with a Belgian rate cut which followed a Lombard and discount rate cut in Germany. The
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        Zurich
        232 15 -1.1 Swiss shares ended mixed to marginally lower with the Bundesbank's cut in German key interest rates making little impact. The broad SPI Index eased 1.1 to 1,345.5 while the SMI index of leading shares fell 0.8 to 2,177.3. Dealers said the market was unlikely to show major movements
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        Toronto
        276 15 +0.4 Stocks were virtually flat at midday yesterday, pressured by losses in the conglomerates group, but dealers reported the market's heaviest activity in junior oil and gas shares along with selected diamond stocks. The TSE-300 Index rose 0.40 point to 3,663.50 on volume of 31.6 million shares. On Wednesday,
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        New York
        784 15 -4.05 The cut in German interest rates pushed Wall Street stocks higher yesterday, confounding analysts who had expected a down day. At I pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 21.07 points at 3,460.78. Advances were about even with declines on New York Stock Exchange volume
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        Brussels
        176 15 •0.43pc Sharp knee-jerk gains in Belgian shares after the Bundesbank's surprise in- terest rate cuts were pared by the close after a wave of profit-taking. The Bel-20 index of leading shares ended 0.43 per cent weaker at 1,241.86 after advancing to an unchanged level in the immediate aftermath of
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        Johannesburg
        291 15 -6 South African golds found late direction as the gold price moved above US$339 an ounce, breaking out of an earlier slow downward drift. The overall index ended six points lower at 3,565 and the industrial index lost 19 points to 4,350. The gold index ended two points up
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      2857 16 Reuter HONGKONG Share prices ended lower yesterday as futures-led selling overcame early optimism on the outcome of Si noBritish talks in Beijing, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index closed 9.15 points down at 6.759.24 after touching an intraday high of 6.831.23 in morning trade. It was still just 30.5
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      CHINA
      457 16 HONGKONG Chinese stocks were nearly all down yesterday, with Shenzhen B shares posting the steepest fall, while Shanghai A shares soared on bargain hunting. brokers said. The Credit Lyonnais All China Index closed almost 2 per cent higher, as the Shanghai domestic shares' 4 per cent surge managed to
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      2453 16 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended lower for the fifth straight day after a roller coaster session yesterday, shedding early gains in the afternoon as the yen turned firmer. The market is likely to remain fragile for a while as it consolidates following the big gains since March, brokers said. 'it's
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      1619 16 Reuter BANGKOK Strong buying of shares of big banks boosted the stock index at the closc while investors waited for an official announcement about investigations into suspected breaches of Thailand's new securities law. The SET Index rose 9.59 points to finish at 899.01 on turnover of 4.24 billion baht.
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      1070 16 Reuter JAKARTA Profit-taking dominated Jakarta stock trading yesterday, with prices ending mostly lower, brokers said. The official index closed at 311.28. down from Wednesday's 312.00. "Trading was active but it was not as active as in the past few days. Many investors gave up their shares for profit-taking." a
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2179 17 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Proract ftXVSR Kcnon* Bhd MK 'l JftXS Muhi-Purpose S AMDB MX Z-1&2X Asia Pac I d MX J ££2K Idm H>d MX- t™'JKi MclropWx MX 5.W.OOO Fabcr (iroup Mulptia Inll MX Ind ()\>»cn MX i ijinoo Bedford MX i
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        Lock icon Selling of component stocks takes index down
        4931 17 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices here retreated from earlier highs to close mixed to easier yesterday as investors took profits after the strong surge in blue chips since Tuesday. Component stocks came under selling pressure from mid-morning and this yanked the KLSE Composite
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        Lock icon STII record streak continues; downturn on Clob
        5930 18  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Selective blue chip buying yesterday took the Straits Times Industrials Index to another new peak but speculative stocks succumbed to profit-taking. The STII rose 3.15 points to a record 1,773.21, just a Traction above the previous record of 1,772.02
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        69 18  -  HOT STOCK Paul Leo Since the beginning of this month, Renong Bhd has surged 109 per cent to a high of 51.60 before falling to yesterday's close of $1.34. Sell the share as it is still oveibought. Monthly RSI is above 75 and heading towards 100, indicating that
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      Lock icon Fans' uncontrollable adulation wearing Couples out
      324 19 Golf AFP GREENSBORO, North Carolina Fred Couples* biggest problem at the moment is not his golf swing it's his uncontrollable popularity. Laid-back Couples, who last year became the first American in five years to win the Masters and has made close to US$4OO,OOO (*****,000)
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      617 19 AFP KUALA LUMPUR ShiTing Wang and Li Fang are best of friends, and shining examples of the way in which sport in general, and tennis in particular, ignore political boundaries. For while Wang hails from Taiwan, Fang comes from communist China. But instead of seeing
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      67 19 NEW PLYMOUTH, New Zealand It seemed like an idea whose time had come. With an eye on the bottom line, a local netball team had placed its sponsor's logos on players* knickers for effect. Fearing perhaps that the move would be the butt of jokes, the
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      325 19 NYT SANTA CLARA. California A 14-year-old boy sobbed for IS seconds on live television, grown men vowed to shred their season tickets and a somewhat militant crowd gathered outside the San Francisco 49ers training complex this morning to echo, "We want Joe! We
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        80 19 Reuter NEW YORK Maior League Wednesday: American Detroit 5 Texas 4; Chicago White Sox v Baltimore (ppd): Milwaukee 10 Minnesota 8 (10); Kansas City 6 Toronto 5; California 7 Cleveland 6; NY Yankees 5 Oakland 3; Seattle S Boston Red Sox 0. National Houston 2 Chicago Cubs 0; Atlanta
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        246 19 AP Reuter NEW YORK NBA Wednesday: Boston 126 Orlando 98; Charlotte 119 Milwaukee 111; New York 105 New Jersey 74; Philadelphia 107 Miami 97; Atlanta 119 Washington 98; Denver 137 Dallas 112; Cleveland 111 Indiana 9S; Utah 113 LA Lakers 102; Golden State 132 Sacramento IOS. Eastern Conference Atlantic
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        129 19 AFP AP INAMACHI, Jspsn Dunlop Open first roand leaders Thwsday (Japanese unless noted): 67 John Kemohan (US). Naomichi Ozaki. Ryoken Kawagishi 68 Brian Jones (Aus). Yeh Chang-ting (Tai). Stewait Ginn (Aus). Akihito Yokoyama. Frankie Minoza (Phi). Masahiro Kuramoto. Hideyuki Sato. Chen Liang-hsi (Tai). AP LONDON An Olympic golf tournament,
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        51 19 Reuter NEW YORK NHL play-offs Wednesday: St Louis Blues 2 Chicago Blackhawks 0 (St Louis leads best-of-seven series 2-0); Detroit Red Wings 6 Toronto Maple Leafs 2 (Detroit leads 2-0); Calgary Flames 9 LA Kings 4 (Series tied 1-1); Vancouver Canucks 3 Winnipeg Jets 2 (Vancouver leads 2-0).
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        99 19 Reuter AFP DOHA Davis Cap Asia/Oceaaia Groan 3 raaai rofcia Wednesday: Saudi Arabia b Bahrain 2-1; UA£ b Bangladesh 2-1; Singapore b Lebanon 2-1 (Singapore names first) Mark Choy lost to Hussein Bad reddin 4-6 1-6, Chee Yen Chen b Karim Khouory 7-5 6-1, Wei Oin Choo/Art Hobbs b
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        179 19 AFP AFP PARIS Wednesday's Ewopeaa Cup champions league Group A results: Olympique Marseille (Fra) I FC Bruges (Bel) 0; Glasgow Rangers (Scot) 0 CSKA Moscow (CIS) 0. Final positions (P, W, D, L, GF, GA, Pts): 1. Marseille 6 3 3 0 14 4 9 2. Rangers *****583. Bruges
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      325 20 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN Award-winning Thai-Cantonese cuisine [r created by I Thailand's Royal Princess. I 23 April 14 May I ihark's Fin Soup in Bamboo Pith. Steamed Abalone wrapped with I Winced Prawns. Bird's Nest in Baby Coconut, in Pear or with I Coconut Milk. I rhese are
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      456 20 YOUR SECRETARY CALLS TH E SHOTS It's her week. Pamper her with a lunch and fashion show at V The Stables or Pine Court. She deserves it. ~<r^n Secretaries' Week 19 24 April 1993 For reservations, please call 734 6151. j To commemorate Earth Week, The Mandarin Singapore will be
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Quo vadis, Asian cinema?
      761 21  -  Nirmal Ghosh laments the dearth of publicity for Asian films Nirmal Ghosh ASIAN cinema, little known and largely neglected by the Western press, is finally getting a voice of its own. Aruna Vasudev, Indian critic and filmmaker, is the editor ot Cinemaya, the only magazine devoted
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      555 21  -  An uncanny trend is sweeping Hollywood. Pat Broeske discusses the phenomenon of writers going spiritual Pat Broeske NYT IN HOLLYWOOD, where Daily Variety is better read than the Bible, and big agents and studio executives are widely hailed as higher powers, a curious
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      201 21 CHATTERBOX Reuter Reuter Reuter THE husband of pop singer La Toya Jackson was released without bail on Wednesday on charges that he hit his celebrity wife with a chair at their New York apartment, police said. However, lawyers said assault charges
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      1148 21 I TV RADIO Carts MayfMd, 9pm, SBC 12 the talented soul j his perfor- J China Rising: Paradise of Advenbrers, Bpm, SBC 12 A new series depicting the formation of modern-day China. This First episode looks Shanghai and charts its growth |B, |J^^Hi^^^^HraflH^^^KJ|£gpF: taking us from the era of kv^Bg^if^^v
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        Saatchi clinches London award
        146 22 THE VIEW of a city street from behind a steering wheel is blocked by more and more beer glasses, until the view ends with a screech and a violent crash. This television commercial exhorting viewers not to drink and drive has won an accolade in London,
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        Hongkong Bank's Green card
        96 22 HONGKONGBANK has launched a Green privilege card that mixes business with preservation. The Nature Card is issued to new customers who put a minimum qualifying balance into any number of accounts such as savings, time deposit or a prime account. For each of these customers, the
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        Lock icon S African agency wins annual award
        103 22 Advertising Age SOUTH African agency Hunt Lascaris TBWA has been named the International Agency of the year by US trade publication Advertising Age. The Singapore office of Euro RSCG Ball Partnerhsip had also been shortlisted as a finalist for the award along with six
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        Lock icon Ad spending in China set to top US$lb
        91 22 Advertising Age AD SPENDING in China is expected to exceed US$l billion this year, up from US$l75 million just five years ago, but doing business there is anything but easy, said Gary Burandt, chief executive of Dentsu, Young Rubicam Partnerships. The market
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        Lock icon More media ads for US packaged goods
        131 22 Reuter NEW YORK US packaged goods groups will this year continue shifting promotion dollars to media advertising, according to a survey by Donnelley Marketing Inc. "They are saying they want to continue shifting dollars from trade promotion to media advertising," Donnelley vice-chairman John
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      Young, virile Viking to hold birthday sleep-over party
      554 22  -  Helen Ching takes a look at Ikea as it stands today Helen Ching AT 15 years of age, knockdown furniture firm Ikea is a "young, virile but mature Viking", says marketing executive Lars Svensson. And this Viking is a family man to
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      Lock icon US airline flying with new theme: Respect
      666 22  -  Pitted against aggressive campaigns by bigger rivals, cash-strapped America West is pitcnmg something money can't buy. Stuart Elliott reports Stuart Elliott NYT Beginning on Monday, America West Airlines offers passengers a new twist on the old song and dance. In its largest campaign
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      More to direct marketing than meets the eye
      302 22 DIRECT marketing, you might have thought, consists mainly of those leaflets you get in the mail urging you to buy white stocks last. For US-based direct marketing agency Wunderman Worldwide, however, it is a discipline that involves everything from behavioural science to
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      Lock icon Leo Burnett's international billings exceed US revenue
      658 23 Results emphasise global nature of business and strong growth in Asia South China Morning Post Advertising agency Leo Burnett's international billings in 1992 exceeded its domestic revenue for the first time in the history of the company. Of the US$4.3 billion (Ss7 billion)
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      Lock icon Cadillac puts its stamp on luxury goods
      670 23 The car maker's entry into non-automotive products is an ambitious plan on the part of its agency NYT Cadillac. Standard of the world, according to its longtime advertising slogan. Symbol of the hegemony and excesses of the American automotive industry. Inspiration for singers
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      76 22 How Asia's next business high will come fn»m inside The Golden Triangle. March 20th. Why Britain and Germany are going bananas over bananas. March I.ith. Why it's a man's world for women in China. March l.ith. Why South Africa's problems have little to do with apartheid. The more informed weekly.
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      71 22 Trends AmonWy puMj«rioi»of<»ln*l—eaf 3a^— Nine articles are featured in this month's Trends, which appears with tomorrow's Business Times Washing criminals' 'dirty' money Leisure, enterprise and the future of a city-state Confucianism the key to E. Asia's prosperity? Think again! Different habits of mind a Chinese puzzle Uncrunching Asia's energy crunch
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      375 23 LIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Loh Nyen Yiu of 5001 Beach Road #15-77, Singapore 0719, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises at M/s Yuen-Chang Trading at Bk 441 Pasir Ris Drive6#ol-68, Singapore 1851, and that this application will be heard
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    China vs inflation
    521 24 EDITORIAL CHINA'S economy continues to grow at a blistering pace. In the first three months of the year, GDP growth surged ahead at 14.1 per cent; the official 1993 growth target of between 8-9 per cent will once again surely be left by the wayside. That's the
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      Best to let buyers beware
      220 24 MICRO-CONTROLS run counter to a tide moving towards liberalising strictures and cumbersome regulations to allow entrepreneurs space to develop. How are the putative licensing authorities to establish that consultancies are not out to diddle the ambitious young? It is arrant nonsense to suggest that the
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      New life for the SKSGMS
      146 24 THE MOVE by the Singapore Malay Teachers Multipurpose Cooperative Union (SKSGMS) to open its door to the religious teachers is a positive development in the Malay-Muslim community. It will not only benefit the cooperative itself, but also the teachers concerned. It can also be a
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      High price of growth
      189 24 CHINA'S INFLATION RATE so far exceeds the deliberately cautious 6 per cent estimate for the year set out by Prime Minister Li Peng to the National People's Congress last month. That in itself comes as no surprise. With last year's growth running at an annual rate
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      No need for special exemption
      105 24 EVEN IF the benefits of the conference system do outweigh the costs, why should the shipping lines be exempted from the Trade Practices Act? The Trade Practices Commission can (and frequently does) authorise anti-competitive arrangements if they are found to provide sufficient public benefit. The
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      Resolve the East Timor issue
      163 24 EVEN BEFORE Indonesia became an independent country, the leaders realised that the separation of East Timor from the rest of Indonesia was due mainly to the aspirations of colonisers. In a special interview with the daily newspaper Suara Timor Timur, Dili's Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes
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      Time for some soul-searching
      200 24 MANY PEOPLE in the US, including critics, have blamed the US government and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the mass suicide of cult members and their leader, David Koresh. The offensive taken by FBI agents was thought of as unnecessary as food supplies in the
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    718 24  -  Roy Denman discusses the historical, political and practical reasons for the European Community's apparent unconcern about the Bosnian crisis Rov Denman IHT EUROPE HAS been getting a bad press. It often does, because the European Community is called upon to deal with
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      11 24 'm V: I) MOIR in The Sydney Morning Herald. CAW Syndicate
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      The seductive vision of a gigantic market
      1721 25  -  It's a different system from home and takes some getting used to but Lim Soon Neo, recently in China, found a number of Singapore businessmen who have gained a firm foothold with projects in Guangdong and are full of optimism about the future
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      Aether eyes a listing in 3-5 years
      596 25 Aether limited, which is developing a US$lO million shopping-cum-entertainment complex in Guangzhou, hopes to go for a listing in Shenzhen or Shanghai in three to five years' time, according to Y C Lim, the company's managing director. By then, the company's assets will
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      Samta sets its sights further inland
      488 25 THE Samta group, which has a majority stake in the Furama Hotel Guangzhou, is putting the experience it gained from its first Chinese investment to negotiate two deals in other parts of China. One is to buy a stake in a Beihai hotel and
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    Lock icon Clinton suffers big blow as filibuster sinks stimulus Bill
    499 26 Reuter WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton suffered a major political defeat on Wednesday as Senate Democrats gave up on efforts to break a Republican filibuster of his stimulus Bill and instead passed only US$4 billion (556.5 billion) in unemployment aid. The
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    Lock icon Italian PM resigns following referendum
    205 26 AFP ROME Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato announced his resignation yesterday, saying it was the logical conclusion after a national referendum in which Italians voted overwhelmingly for reform of the political system. His decision, announced at the end of a debate on his government's policies
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    China will protect Taiwanese investments on the mainland
    511 26  -  ByS Schutz Lee Lim Soon Neo SINGAPORE There is no question of China not protecting Taiwanese investments on the mainland, the deputy leader of China's delegation for next week's Taiwan-China talks said last night. "We have always had protection for investments from
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    Lock icon US weekly jobless claims point to steady growth
    214 26 Reuter NEW YORK United States weekly unemployment claims, which continue to hover around 360,000, indicate steady if not rapid growth in the employment sector, economists said. The US Department of Labour reported claims for the week ending April 17 at 359,000. Claims
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    Lock icon Bundesbank cuts key rates; Belgium, Holland, Austria follow
    328 26 AP Reuter FRANKFURT The German central bank took international financial markets by surprise yesterday by announcing cuts in leading interest rates that were far steeper than had been expected. The Bundesbank said it was cutting its Lombard emergency lending rate to 8-1/2
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    Japan is setting a dangerous precedent in its US dealings
    894 26  -  The Bottom Line S N VASUKI S N VASUKI The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Japanese and South Korean affairs. JAPANESE Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa has just returned from a bruising trip to Washington, his first since Bill
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    Top Shandong official urges S'pore companies to invest in province's infrastructure projects
    426 26  -  From Yong Pow Ang in SHANDONG SHANDONG'S Party Secretary Jiang Chunyun yesterday urged Singapore companies to look to the province's infrastructure projects for investment opportunities. Mr Jiang, a politburo member of the party's Central Committee and Shandong's most
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    Singapore group's US$ 50m Guangzhou hotel-cum-shopping complex nears completion
    462 26  -  By Lim Soon Neo SINGAPORE A Singapore group led by medicated oil manufacturer Leung Kai Fook has almost completed the building of a US$5O million (SsBl million) hotel-cum-shopping complex in Guangzhou. The first phase was completed in 1991 with the opening
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      10 26 W German GDP could shrink by 2pc, says minister, P*B
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      21 26 I Tomorrow in Business Times On Pg 25: The seductive vision of a gigantic-market Aether eyes listing Samta sets sights inland
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      UN tanker owners' agency welcomes 9 new members
      462 27  -  Intertanko annual meeting From Rahita Elias in HONGKONG NINE shipping companies, including IMC Shipping of Singapore, have joined the ranks of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners. The other eight tanker companies hailed from Argentina, Cyprus, Greece, Norway and Switzerland. The
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      Lock icon Yacht owners to skip EC ports to avoid VAT
      482 27 Reuter ANTIBES, France Thousands of luxury yachts owned by princes, tycoons and movie stars will be boycotting ports in European Community waters this summer to avoid a new value added tax (VAT). On July 1, their owners will have to pay
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      1141 27 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 ASXCLShpg 15 2 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient
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      HK port sets up waste disposal facilities for ships
      409 27  -  From Rahita Elias in HONGKONG HONGKONG port is doing its bit for the environment. Earlier this month, it set up waste disposal facilities for ships. The facilities are currently offered free of charge. Announcing this on Wednesday afternoon at a function
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      Lock icon Luxury cruises hit by recession in Japan
      204 27 Reuter TOKYO Japan's luxury cruise operators are floundering as the economic slowdown forces companies to cut spending on their major source of income chartered cruises. "Japan's economic slowdown has affected cruise charters. Now that the economy seems to be bottoming out, we hope
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      Lock icon Australia's govt-owned shipping line makes plans to restructure
      219 27 Bloomberg Business News CANBERRA Australian National Line Ltd (ANL), Australia's government-owned rational shipping line, said that it will cut staff and reduce overhead costs as part of a major restructuring of its domestic and international operations. ANL n-ifgiwg director Barry McGuinness said
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      Lock icon Trouble on the Straits-Japan route
      816 29 Dedicated box carriers on the trade struggle to maintain profits as long-haul liners undercut intra-Asian freight rates Lloyd's List Maritime Asia DEDICATED carriers in the Straits-Japan liner trade are hoping to ride out the current depressed market as best as they can. "Rates are now
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      12809 36 This is a list of ships loading at Z Singapore for ports around the L world. It tabulates, by destination, Z the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from t the Port of Singapore. 2 LEGEND PN:
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1024 43 BOOSTED by firm freight rates, the Baltic Freight Index continued its virtually uninterrupted rise of the past two weeks and rose seven points to reach 1.506 on Apr 21. dry cargo brokers noted. This level was 33 points up on a week ago and exceeded the previous 1993
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        TNT to launch intra-Asia service on Monday
        377 46  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE TNT Express Worldwide will launch its longawaited intra-Asian network on Monday, delivering the next stage of air express competition to the region's doorstep. The international distribution giant originally planned for the dedicated Singapore-Brunei-Manila-Taipei service to take-off in January. But
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        Lock icon Run for your life
        49 46 Reuter LONDON Tourists dashing across the road, dodging the traffic in front of Buckingham Palace. The traffic arrangements were branded as a 'national disgrace' by the Royal Parks Review Group, who added that they were surprised that more tourists had not been seriously injured. Reuter
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        Lock icon First-quarter profit a dramatic turnabout for McDonnell Douglas
        429 46 NYT WASHINGTON At a time of huge reductions in military spending, McDonnell Douglas Corp, the nation's largest military contractor, reported a first-quarter profit on Wednesday of US$2l6 million (*****.9 million) a dramatic turnabout from its US$l.5l billion loss in the period a
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        Lock icon Thai Airways disputes draft report on Kathmandu crash
        263 46 Reuter BANGKOK Thai Airways yesterday criticised the Nepali authorities over a report into a plane crash in Kathmandu last July that killed 113 people. A final draft report prepared by the committee comprising French, Nepali and Thai representatives was incomplete as it
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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        Lock icon AMR results bring hope to troubled US airline industry
        470 46 NYT NEW YORK AMR Corp, the parent of American Airlines, reported first-quarter results on Wednesday that delighted investors and analysts, sparking the second rally in airline stocks in two weeks, as well as rare optimism for the long-troubled industry. AMR reported
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        Lock icon McDonnell to decide on fate of copter unit before 3rd quarter
        205 46 Bloomberg Business News ST LOUIS McDonnell Douglas Corp expects to announce a buyer or joint venture partner for all or part of its helicopter business before the second quarter ends, its chief financial officer said on Wednesday. McDonnell Douglas
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          S'pore marine firms at Jakarta show
          74 46 SINGAPORE Marine-based companies will be in Jakarta next week to promote their services at the Marine Indonesia 1993 Exhibition. They will represent Singapore under the Association of Singapore Marine Industries banner. Five of the companies are shipyards, including Jurong Shipyard and Sembawang Shipyard, while
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          Lock icon New Mercedes to replace 190' model
          44 46 Reuter SINDELFINGEN, Germany The new Mercedes Benz C class car that will be delivered in June and it will replace model "190". Some 189,000 units are planned for production this year and over 200,000 the following years. Reuter
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          Lock icon Mazda develops new car engine
          103 46 NYT TOKYO The Mazda Motor Corp has developed a car engine that the company says provides both high power and low fuel consumption using a design that has long stymied automotive engineers. The design is for a Miller-cycle engine, named after Ralph Miller, an American
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          Lock icon US rail can be sued for negligence
          95 46 Reuter WASHINGTON A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that railroads may be sued under state law for negligence over allegedly dangerous conditions at crossing areas. Justice Byron White said that a 1970 federal law on railroad safety does not preclude lawsuits brought
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      1361 30 AQABA R OAM/ LE ALSO ACCEPTING FROM 11 VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG AWERP HAVRE i MALAYSIA I DANUBE 07/315 24/4 3/5 9/5 12/5 15/5 17/5 i9/5_ Port K elang. Penang 1 1 KAMAKURA m Gudang I— DRESDEN EXPRESS 10/316 TJT~ 10/5 16/5 _J9/5
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      662 30 FCL Breakbulk Service to: I AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd. EJj Sole Foreign Forwarder in Kabul tor ail services I C.I.S.- Vostochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashksnt, I hoi Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku. Irkutsk, Alma Ata I nof North Korea Vietnam Mongolia Hungary I£J CSFR Poland I \rr ocTSTrans AGENOES (FAR EAST) LTD
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      1952 31 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Churns Road #11-01 Koppd Towers ■K JIV Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 ■uj,WHi»jtmiMiiM.MUMWlllllMlf NEW GUINEA PACIFIC UHE iSroßp (a service of china navigation co) ACCEPTS CARGO DUE was STRAITS PMK VIII khufj I* 23 Apt 24 H* FCt, LCL CONTAMER AND MEAKBULK SERVICE
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      1777 31 W% M SINGAPORE AGENT: TlOY\ P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd I"VV1 F m jllllltftlllCia 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 KEPPEL TOWERS. SINGAPORE 0208 ■mim M. Te| 225 2233 TeJex RS ***** PNOCSP Fax 2 25 5327/222 7517 ■pT'qr CR Number **********0Z EXPORT IMPO R T v AMYNOT NAM VC9SCI
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      719 32 P859 I raw |w f ""tl —I mnar I MAIARAM 341* I 31/4-4/5 I 29/5 I 3/6 M_ j*Z» TO AUSTBAU/^^Tlllw^ I EAST COlttT m»T* a/w m. store sto melb mb pm wa mo MM 24/4 H/S 13/5 _z— WO 888 54S 29/4 30/4 17/5 20/5 14/5 27/S_ AMM tATWUWTA
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      1647 32 (g) HANJIN SHIPPING FM KL LK HAUL (W M HMUM SEATTLE 02* 29/4 OKCT 20/5 22/5 HAMM »/4 NAHM TONGHAE 10QE 6/5 DKCf 27/5 HMM TMOWEIOOE 6/5 H WWWW HMUN ROTTERDAM 022E 13/5 OKCT 3/« 5/« "*2 """25 nil 24/« 27/« HANJM FELIXSTOWE 017E 20/5 OKCT 10/« 12/« "*"2 I
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      1306 33 lipping Times, Friday April 23 IH3 CALIFORNIA MERCURY 52E" ETA SGP 28/04/93 M II II ARRIVING LOS ANGELES 16/05/93 IN 17 DAYS II II AEX; 'heptunE RHODONITE 00E* ETA SGP 01/05/93 ■1 X ARRIVING NEW YORK 24/05/93 IN 22 DAYS H IwSSPpfi-.- "h u ::'r -"'"L: l' MERCURY' V2E I
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      831 33 m sinsov SINGAPORE SOVIET SHTMNG CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BAIT ORIENT UNE: *****64 FESCO: *****06 BLASCO t ODESSA: *****51/*****31 ENQUMES: *****33 Kl: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE MSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) FULL CONTAINERBHIP SERVICES MSimp-nBOWMME IKSTBOWC ItWCWC
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      1263 34 Page 8 K~ AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (01 Nr. 1Z*****0000*) v M TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****07/8/9 i §4 MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD V M 2i TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 I *V^AKI LTD **********06 T >J
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      1007 34 PHILI-OMCNT LIN€S 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 t 1 MAY AUCKLAND. WELLINGTON. LYTTLETON. NEW PLYMOUTH. NAPIER. CHRISTCHURCH 28 APR
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      989 35 /ssssfflf PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I I 'g' 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. 11 I SSSBIS VJM CW NO **********06 B VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN I hawk NN 24/4 27/4 Ts EQUATOR CRYSTAL 138N 24/4 27/4 1/5 KOTA INDAH 3271 MM »/4 2/S I ROTA
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      1421 35 EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK-NORTH CONJWENT-SCANDINAVIA WEEKLY t p GUDANG PENANG P KELAWG OCEAN VSL/VOY SIN sou (1) RTM(2) HAM (3) GOT (4) E 23/4 24/4 BENAVON 3152 28/4 15/5 18/5 20/5 E 3V4 JUTLANOtA 3162 4/5 21/5 23/5 24/5 26/5 D E R E ~~ZZ XI II I—l NOTE
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      312 35 °BSA° TRANSPORTATION M MYANMA \HBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KI| Pen P.G4| PAGAN VI96W 24/27 Apr MERGUI Klin 04/04 May HPA AM VI9OW 01/U May PATHEW *123* 17/10 May MAIAYSA AGENTS: BOUSTEAO SMTPM AGENCK HI: IQ 03-*****00 I*l IE 03 *****47 tOt TU
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      2137 38 i——— Full Container Liner Services General Agents: SkHMf S* >M C»..|, Ck» SM BM Luanda M/ 14 Costar Shipping Rte Ltd Freigkt Booking Ceotre S*BM 58 Persian Rata Muda Musa Lot 3.34. 3Wflw, Pusa, sssSSr" Sir of commefce 07 05/07 s&ssr ***** KL r w36 1637 /36 1764 gapo e
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      680 39 iijg FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES I 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, SPORE 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 29/04 FELIXSTOWE/UK 24/04 I BARCELONA/SPAM 24/04 LEHAVRE/FRAWCE 26/04 GENOA/ITALY 24/04 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 25/04 I LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 29/04 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 24/04 I
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      1393 39 JAKARTA BANGKOK I ma vot MI «i «a m wmtmt umm MIA BHUM 74S MPT 27/4 IAM) BHUM 72N MPt 23/4 Mw 28/4 THANA BHUM 27S 24/4 5/4 NANTA MM 138 M Sat 24/4 W* 28/4 771 PBA6ON SENTOSA 32N Ijt 24/4 T» 27/4 ULA BHUM 01N Sun 25/4 Owl
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      318 39 Baagsfl ima-uw BAY OF BENGAL SERVICES »aa w an mm m I noiMoa is* X-Z7/M uS/os im/B I ran sim mm zt-zi/M «Mt/as 12-13/ os I CAKOONANSTA 2S4H 0344/05 05-11/05 17-11/ M I ng« mm m tnim IM3/05 i»-»/05 J *ga ww sw cn mi I lhoTse 4fl n-zc/M oz-os/os
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      1060 40 *>*4mn container lines ijSc/VoJAgMte: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (20 LINES) C/B Ifcv 12O0S7S0000E PENANG" (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KUCHING: (082) *****3 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 COMPETITIVE RATE TO HONG KONG 3 SAILINGS WEEKLY DEPARTURE EVERY:(TUES/THURS/SAT) FOR ROOKING, PLS CALL *****22 XIU-HUA. jAMES t _Wgt_6lll i _JO_ j forwarders
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      234 40 BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC ISLANDS SM AKL LYT SM FGUARD BAY 2S 29/4 13/5 15/5 1/6 PROSPECT 24S 12/5 25/5 27/5 12/6 N 2 STAR 7S 25/5 6/6 1/6 25/6 FULLY CONTAINERISED SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT AUCKLAND. LYTTELTON, ACCEPTING FCL LCL FOR NEW PLYMOUTH.
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      1047 40 THONfi SOON UNES PTE. LTD.] Mj 77 ROBWSON ROM) #15 00, #10-00 SM BUUXNG SINGAPORE 0106 I TEL: *****88 FAX NO: *****11, *****22 I ■Sr TLX: RS ***** CARRER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO CONVENTIONAL/COHTAIHM POOKIMQ LIME: 2278Q58 I: MHOAFOfM TO > ARAW AK I: gSSa WT STORE lEST KSSCI
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      715 41 nipping Times, Friday April za iraa WJ\"EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BEN6AL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG OREAKBU.K/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA, HON. TOKYO*. MNM* OAVAO*. Penanf* P. Kelani Smtaporo EH»a SHAPLAEVERETT VISE 04/05 May IVYEVERETT V4E 13/14 May KAMALEVERETT VI6E 27/21 May ACCEPTMG MMMUU/FCI/SOC CARGOES TO/FMM CWTTAGONG. CALCUTTA MB MOWU*. Smapert
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      285 41 Pi, 6LOWY WAWCATW SSTII REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: *****84M00W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN VN 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 25/4 2S/4
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      659 41 pgsl -worldwide PANAMA CLOSE STEAMERS LINES REGULAR PCL SERVICE TO THE FOLLOWING WEEKLY SAILING TO HUANG PU A SHANTOU Connecting Feeder to Huang PuSUI TUO CONTAINER MO. 2 v Connecting Feeder to Shantao LIAN BO NO. 9 f WE HV LEASING CONTRS FOR RENTAL F SAILING TO 'PHNOii PENH' FORTNIGHTLY
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      544 41 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE M SIN TO DURBAN f VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH SM ll' FENCANSHAN Vl2O OA/OS 20/0S 23/ OS 11/06 II FENCKANGSHAN VSO/S1 19/ OS 05/06 06/06 26/06 I I ALSO ACCCPTINO TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA I DURBAN I BOOKING AGENT POR COSCO I SIN TO MADRAS
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      408 41 SIN FAN HIST I 27/4 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG I 24/4 BANGKOK I 26/4 MANILA/CEBU 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 SjN CHINA I 26/4 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN I FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU I OALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG I TIAN JIN /QINGDAO HAIKOU I also accepting LCL cargo
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      653 42 HONG KONG/CHINA 26/4 31/4 i***"!* SKJ 32^1 BANGKOK 28/4 5/5 MANILA 25/4 A 30/4 SUSAN 26/4*31/4 KEELUMB 27/4* 1/5 TOKYO/KOBE 25/4 30/4 KAOSHIUNG 30/4 4/5 POBT KELAN6/PENANS 25/4 1 30/4 27/4IM/5 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBUR6 1/5* 8/5 CHITTAGONG/MADRAS 28/4 5/5 ROTTERDAH/LE HARVE/ANTWERP 1/5 8/5 BOIIBAY/KARACHI 26/4 31/4 BARCELONA. MARSEILLES. GENOA 4/5 14/5 CALCUTTA
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      546 42 y Conform CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 29TH APR ACCEPTING TO ALL PORTS IN NEW ZEALAND JAKARTA 25TH APR BANGKOK 25TH APR PORT KELAMG 29 APR FREMANTLE 28 APR SYDNEY 28 APR MELBOURNE 28 APR BRISBANE 30 APR |'ACCEPTING TO AIL SCANDINAVIA HWTS KARACHI 28 APR BOMBAY 28 APR
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      438 42 CONSOLIDATION TO LIMASSOL rnm4J aSS^ FIRST FORWARDER IN ASIA AWARDED VESSEL SINGAPORE SENATOR V.WM3I7 ISO 9002 BY LRQA ETD 28 APRIL 1993 CLOSING: 24 APRIL 1993 VESSEL CHOYANG FRONTIER V.WM3IB ,4*. ETD 4 MAY 1993 CLOSING: 1 MAY 1993 Wi /j 1 k ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO VIA LIMASSOL TO (ft/SJ\
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      225 42 NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOK.OHAMA/NAGOY.VKAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACH)/NEW YORK/ CHICAGO/SYDNEY/MELBOURNE/HAMBURG/ FELIXSTOWE/ROTTERDAM/DUSSELDORF WE ALSO DEAL IN ECL CARGO WORLDWIDE ARROW EXPRESS (SERVICE TO MALAYSIA) MALAYSIA TRUCK CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore DAILY to K.L. BANGI. SHAH ALAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore every TUESDAY
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      1106 43 VtSStL/VOYACE SW6AWRE DWBAH POBT ELIZABETH WE TOWI OSAKA MAIM Vs4<sf 20/4 2/5 4/5 8/5 HAKATA V5332F 30/4 12/5 14/5 18/5 OKMUE WSQSF 5/5 21/5 23/5 25/5 HAYAKAWA MAKIJ HWf 15/5 31/5 2/6 4/8 VAAI W7BOF 25/5 10/8 12/8 14/8 NEDU.OYD COIOMBO V5085F |/8 2t/8 22/8 24/8 OSAKA MAW) V5970F l|/8
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      65 43 "BANGKOK" PJLT. KLONG TOEY PORT ETA ETA VESSEL VOY SM BANGKOK MAHA BHUM 15SN 28/04/93 02/05/93 NANTA BHUM 139N 01/05/93 05/05/93 MAHA BHUM 156N 05/05/93 09/05/93 NANTA BHUM 139N 08/05/93 12/05/93 (MAHA BHUM IS A FULL THAI FLAG VESSEL) ETA ETA ETA VESSEL VOY SM MANLA CEBU AKA BHUM 122
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      79 43 p— uaSBXL. ss— MWMTO eCs^ 0K 2 ii 1; HONG?™* 26/4. 30/4 FREMANTLE 25/4 ROTTERDAM 25/4 SURABAYA II"' 2 "SST* gj KEELUNG 28/4 SYDNEY 25/4 KAOHSIUNG 1/5 JW— —IT* KOBE 26/4 W" W* TOKTO 25/4 BOMBAY 26/4 CHITTAGONG 26/4 YOKOHAMA 25/4 COLOMBO 26/4 30/4 PENANG 29/4. 6/5 KARACHI 26/4 DURBAN
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      294 43 TOPAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOW 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 OSOO 0900 1000 1100 1200 1310 1400 1500 INI 1700 IHO 1900 2000 21N 2200 2300 3.0 2.1 23 1.7 1.1 0.7 OS 0.4 0.6 1.1 1J 2.3 2.5 2.C 2.3 1.9 1.3 1.1 OJ 0J
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      552 44 Ewood line SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE SPOKE Fl DBN CT "VICTORIA ***** 2/5 22/5 29/5 7/6 ♦ALSO CALLS LI. AND H. flfaL SECIL MARITIMA, U.E.E. upT Luanda, Angola. FAR EAST/ ANGOLA SERVICE SPORE LOMNNG FOR: SEC*. NAMBtA SM 532 17/5 NANBE, LCMTO^UMO* •ACCEPTING CONTAINERS SOC ft COC •ALSO CALLS OTHER ANGOLAN
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      237 44 j EES FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD H #01-60 Wallich Building, Singapore 0207 3 "T7l Tel: *****66 (10 Line#) Fax: *****69/*****44 AIRPORT OFFICE: *****11 *****13 (FAX) IMPORTING FROM USA WE PROVIDE WEEKLY SAILINGS WITH FAST TRAR S I T TIMES ARO LOW INLARD RATES ENQUIRIES: CONTAINER LINE, LTD. CHICAGO NEW YORK
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      550 44 CROSSWATER HEAD omCt: 291 SXMGOOK ROM) #ot-M 9MNGOON MOMS 5(0121) INKHOUSE (CFS): HI 37 #00-25/20 Tt PKM FKKMT SIMON IE: *****05 26/4 1 23/4 ■IM 511 I BUBAN 124/4 \25/A ta^vEE&aHHHHE^ZIJ I BYP/MELB 124/4 MNEWZEALANP 125/4 I 8/5 Jd: *****81 Tlx: RS ***** Fax: *****03J BINTAN6 MAS SHIPPING PTE. LTD.
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      305 44 WORLDGATE EXPRESS UNES PTE LTD Tel: *****11 Fax: *****73 Telex: ***** WGATE NEXT VESSEL CONSOLIDATION TO BOM/KAR/MAD —26/4 KEELUNG —28/4 COLOMBO 25/4 HONG KONG 26/4 PORT LOUIS 23/4 KAOHSIUNG 24/4 CHITTAGONG 28/4 PENANG 26/4 BANGKOK 28/4 PORT KELANG 26/4 GENOA 24/4 JAKARTA 26/4 BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORPN. REGULAR SERVICE TO/FROM CHITTAGONG
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      771 45 A. HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. P I WESTBOUND TO EUROPE I VESSELS VOY PNA PKE PCD VESSELS VOY_ SW RTM ANT* LEH* HAM BRE| FEL_ I MM ADVANCE MR 2WM 21/04 22/04 H. INNOVATOR 303W 25/04 14/05 M/ 05 15/05 18/05 16/05 11/05 I HMM ADVANCE 15A 27/04
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      536 45 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE I E SPECIALIST M RO-RO 4 HEAVY UFTS I I mBOUMP VESSELS I It SSI W V M uc II I I uui ami in in n/4 zs/« nrt II mbekkaf MUI IWT I I U2MA (MM l*T M/« I I mm Mi I 24/4 17/4
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      795 45 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT STORE ICD STOH HMM I DAM lIH •Mm Act** Cvp Fa: MNMEM7/315 M/ 4 VS 12/5 IVS 17/5 15/5 M MIMMMM mt M UMMRA 21/111 M/ 4 IVS 11/5 M/ 5 RMtartw :M A AM—»AmI« Ml, AO. IMAM MEMO) DWEM 11/314 1/5 11/5 15/5 M/ 5 24/5 21/5 Till
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      145 46 INVESTMENT Tomorrow in Business Times Freight Forwarding company with a global network of offices, aflttatet and rpprpsgntathies is looking for a suitable candidate to fi the post of Pre requisites; Age between 28-35 years Minimum 5-7 years of shipping/forwarding experience on a management level, preferably in traffic to/from Europe Preferably
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