The Business Times, 23 February 1994

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Wednesday February 23 1994 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 50 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks were mixed at midday yesterday. Analysts said Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony to Congress had a limited efTcct on trading. At lpm EST. however, the Dow Jones industrial average stood at 3.901.75. up 14.29 points from Friday's close. Reuter
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    • 51 1 Reuter VIENNA Russia faces "huge, enormous, looming problems" in drafting its 1994 budget. Central bank head Viktor Gcrashchcnko said last night that he did not expect the Russian government to be able to keep its 1994 budget deficit below 60 trillion to 70 trillion roubles.
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  • 168 1 Stock market indices Tuesdat Change ST1I 2.400.36 +49.49 KLSEComp 1.104.45 +17.54 Nikkei 19 342.63 -51.31 Hang Seng 10.674.01 +217.56 SET Index 1.428.93 -17.94 Jakarta Comp 552.85 +9.09 CLSA China B ...1.237.79 -6 13 Aust All Ord 2.202.5 +24 FTSE 100 3.333.7 -16.6 luesda) Previous I pm close Dow
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  • 639 1  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR BANK NEGARA yesterday summoned commercial bank chiefs to announce a ban on non-trade related currency swaps in its latest move to flush out speculators who swooped in on a crashing ringgit in December in the hope
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  • 359 1 Reuter, AP WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan said last night that short-term interest rates are more likely to rise than to fall in the period ahead although he was uncertain about the exact timing. In his semi-annual testimony before
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  • 311 1 Knight-Ridder. AP TOKYO Ichiro Ozawa. sec-retary-general of the ruling coalition Shinseito party, said yesterday that the Japanese government may accept nonbinding trade targets if the US vows not to impose sanctions. "Targets based on each others' efforts are not bad per se,"
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  • 471 1  -  By Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE Indonesia, which is taking part at the Asian Aerospace Show here this week, says there is a long-term possibility of Asean members joining forces for an aircraft-making consortium like Europe's Airbus Industrie. Dr BJ Habibie, the
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  • 348 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Firm institutional buying and the return of retail punters yesterday lifted Singapore and Malaysian prices strongly on good volume, while bargain hunting ensured a recovery in the Hongkong market. Dealers here said renewed buying by foreign institutions
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  • 385 1  -  By i Anna Teo SINGAPORE Will Finance Minister Richard Hu deliver yet another bumper crop of fiscal goodies when he presents the Budget this afternoon? Unlikely, most quarters think, given the generous package already handed out last year and an
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    • 220 1 THE HEN'S FASHION W i s m a Acria CONTENTS News Cofn ponies S'pore News 2 S pwe M'sij 19-22 Regional News 3.4.5 Financial 23.24 World News 6.7 Fotwtt Markets Analysis 17 Ctoto KLSE. SES 28 30 Editorial 16 Regional 26 Sports 11 World 21 TV Lifestyle 13 Currencies 24
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    • 10 1 Regional Analysis: p* is Putting S'pore on the biomedical map
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    • 19 1 Hock Lock SigHra 19 2 f f W/7/ C reative set&irend? Foreign share investors may reap windfall, Pg 19
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    • 15 1 Small man. big vision. Regional Analysis, Pg 14 Reports on Asian Aerospace '94, Pg 2
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    • 128 1 MAM m ITALY THE FASHION Paragon By So go Bottom Line: Pg is e to release Suu Kyi Creative Tech files for SES listing, Pg 19 Aztech: Trading starts today, Pg 20 S Plaza Hotel and VJOB Card Centre proudly present the Xian Food Festival, featuring a tearauof 5 renowned
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 325 2  -  By Anna Teo WHILE all projections point to slower growth this year, the signals from the main economic forecasting gauge seem considerably more bullish. The Ministry of Trade Industry's composite leading index (CLI), estimated to forecast economic activity three quarters ahead, continued to rise sharply
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    • 512 2  -  By A J Leow COCKPIT HOTEL'S Tco Lay Swee has put up for sale by tender a land parcel in the Changi/Tampines area suitable for residential development. The 1.28 million sq ft parcel is bounded by the Pan-Is-land Expressway, Upper Changi Road
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    • 578 2  -  The OSA trial By Ramesh Divyanathan THE prosecution in the Official Secrets Act (OSA) case suggested yesterday that a government economist gave inaccurate evidence on Monday about his handling of a secret document at a meeting with a stockbroking research head in
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 49 2 JUDICIAL COMMISSIONERS G P Selvam and Mohideen M P Haja Rubin have been appointed High Court judges, effective March 1. The two men were originally appointed judicial commissioners on March I, 1991 for one year. Their appointments were later extended for further one-year terms.
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      • 78 2 A DIVERSIFIED manufacturer of engineered industrial products officially opened its first Asia-Pacific office here yesterday to strengthen its market coverage and help boost turnover. Crane Co, founded in 1855 in Chicago, serves niche markets worldwide in the aerospace, fluid handling, automatic merchandising and construction industries. Joseph
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      • 68 2 A MAJOR seafood company has set up joint ventures in India to iron out supply problems and boost turnover. The managing director of Asia Pacific Seafoods, T Ravindran, says the moves are expected to help push turnover to $20 million this year, from $10 million in
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      • 69 2 THE Housing and Development Board pays particular attention to its junior staff when it comes to training, says Acting Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang. Speaking at the opening of the HDB training centre in Henderson Crescent yesterday, Mr Lim said the board had set
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    • 269 2 SOUTH Korea's Ssangyong Engineering and Construction Co Ltd has won the tender from the Singapore government to build the proposed Kandang Kerbau Hospital development at the junction of Kampong Java and Bukit Timah roads. Details of the various bids •are in
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    • 224 2  -  Asian Aerospace '94 By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE companies are well placed to support the development of regional aviation, airport infrastructure and air traffic handling. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. In his opening address at Asian Aerospace '94,
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    • 255 2 EUROPE must react to the US government's direct involvement in negotiating a major aircraft deal with Saudi Arabia, the head of France's Aerospatiale said here yesterday. Aerospatiale chairman Louis Gallois was commenting on US President Bill Clinton's announcement last week that Saudi Arabia
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    • 306 2  -  By Alec Almazan PRATT Whitney will enter into a number of joint venture and expansion agreements with several Singapore aerospace companies, the US engine maker announced yesterday. Pratt Whitney and SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC) will operate a repair facility for jet engine
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 514 3  -  Move will help country compete in region, says KL federation From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR THE Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) yesterday said a deeper cut in corporate tax was needed in Malaysia as the country was facing increasing competition
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    • 373 3  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THE prime ministers of Singapore and Thailand will both visit Vietnam next month just one month after the US lifted its trade embargo on Vietnam. The official visits each with an extensive business delegation in
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 81 3 Reuter MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos yesterday moved closer to abandoning a controversial oil import levy after Senate leaders pledged to pass a package of alternative tax measures. Mr Ramos may announce the scrapping of the levy on Friday, Senate President Eduardo Angara
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      • 81 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government should initiate joint ventures between large non-bumiputra companies and those belonging to the bumiputras to speed up the bumiputra participation in the economy through the transfer of technology and expertise, especially in high-technology industries. Non-bumi-putra companies could act as
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      • 44 3 Reuter MANILA Filipino workers retouching the memorial which commemorates the "People's Revolt" yesterday. Big crowds are expected to gather at the memorial on Friday for the eighth anniversary of the revolt that ousted former president Ferdinand Marcos. Reuter
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      • 34 3 Reuter MANILA Japan has issued a warning to the Philippines that it may stop importing bananas from the country unless it ceases to use high amounts of pesticides. Reuter
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    • 555 3 The Straits Times TOKYO The Asean countries arc likely to review the free trade agreement among them and decide whether its implementation should be accelerated. Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Brigadier-Gen-eral Lee Hsien Loong. in an interview with Japan*s
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    • 183 3 AFP JAKARTA President Suharto will open tenders for the construction of three power plants if negotiations under a repeat order scheme with three foreign companies fail, an official said here yesterday. Indonesia's state power company PLN last year awarded a repeat order
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    • 153 3 1 Telecommunications Ariane 5 Exocet Building partnerships in aerospace technology. Aerospatiale's success is built upon technological and qualitative supremacy, plus the Group's unique ability to exploit the synergy which characterises its achievements. This is clearly shown by Aerospatiale's pioneering development of satellites with military and civil launchers such as Ariane.
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 471 4 AFP BEIJING Hundreds of foreign firms are locked in a battle of wills with the Chinese government, protesting against officially sanctioned pay hikes to their Chinese staff and "discriminatory" pricing practices. Foreigners in China pay more than Chinese citizens
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    • 271 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi has rejected "excessive" demands made by US trade officials during talks on China's re-entry to the General Agreement on TarilTs and Trade (Gatt). The official Xinhua News Agency yesterday quoted Ms Wu as
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    • 408 4 Eastern Express HONGKONG Since Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's recent frail appearance in Shanghai, hardly a day has passed without one rumour or another about his death sweeping the colony's dealing rooms. However, the issue has suddenly gained importance amid talk that the day
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    • 231 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has warned residents to prepare for stiffer competition if, as expected, the island becomes a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) member before the end of the year, officials said yesterday. Taiwan will sign the Gatt agreement at the
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 90 4 AFP BEIJING China's top think-tank is to radically restructure its research and mangement programmes, strengthening its economic arm at the expense of other departments, its president was quoted as saying yesterday. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Cass) will pool its resources to lend
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      • 112 4 Reuter BANGKOK Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen is duflt in Thailand less than two weeks after Beijing rapped Bangkok over a visit by Taiwan's president. A Chinese embassy official said yesterday Mr Qian will arrive in Thailand from Bangladesh on Sunday for a one-day visit.
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      • 95 4 Reuter BEIJING Demand for fax machines in China is increasing at a rate of 80 per cent a year and is expected to reach an annual one million machines by 2000. the Market newspaper said yesterday. It said new demand was coming from small
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      • 153 4 AFP HONGKONG Inflation fell to a seven-year low in Hongkong for the year to January, but the government warned that the significantly lower outcome was likely to be reversed. The Census and Statistics Department said in a statement yesterday that the inflation rate for
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      • 108 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Sales in China's free markets for vegetables and other rural produce jumped 50 per cent in 1993 to 534.3 billion yuan (5597.5 billion). The official China Daily yesterday reported that turnover at the markets, which first appeared in the 1950s for
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 498 5 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's plan to privatise more than half its state-owned and state-run companies in the next five years was welcomed by analysts yesterday but they said success depended on government resolve. "Direction is well-placed and the scale of the programme
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    • 414 5 Reuter WELLINGTON US credit rating agency Moody's said yesterday it may upgrade New Zealand's sovereign debt rating, the most concrete reward so far for 10 years of far-reach-ing and painful social and economic restructuring. Moody's Investor Services said
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    • 121 5 AFP TOKYO Japan's leading index of economic indicators stood at 36.4 per cent in December, down from the crucial boom-or-bust line of 50.0 points for eight months in a row, the Economic Planning Agency said yesterday. The leading index, which foreshadows future trends
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    • 104 5 AFP HONGKONG South Korea and Japan have been singled out for inadequate and ineffective protection of intellectual property, particularly computer software, it was reported yesterday. In a filing to the US Trade Representative, the Business Software Alliance and other intellectual property industry
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    • 329 5 Opera gallerV paris JL The first French Art Gallery in Singapore T 5? Jan Monchablon (1855-1904) 'Landscape In Les Vosges* Oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm Presenting French figurative contemporary artists Raya, Ernesto, Le Kinff, Ambriogiani, and more. The works of these artists which are exclusively represented at our
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  • THE WORLD
    • 289 6 Bloomberg Business News Reuter WIESBADEN, Germany Germany's trade surplus widened to 8.5 billion deutschemarks (557.9 billion) in December from a revised 7.5 billion marks in November, the Federal Statistics Office said yesterday. November's trade surplus was originally reported as 8.2 billion marks.
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    • 270 6 AP HAMBURG Weeping over the hard-working generation that rebuilt Germany from the ruins of World War 11, Helmut Kohl has sought to inspire his party to work harder to get him re-elected. At his Christian Democrats' campaign convention on Monday, Mr
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    • 242 6 Bloomberg Business News BRUSSELS France added its voice to Japanese claims that the US is reneging on promises made over tariff cuts in the Uruguay Round world trade accord, and said the EU could be a loser. The disagreement at
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    • 291 6 AP NEW YORK Confidence by US consumers fell in February for the first time in three months but remains higher than most of 1993. The Conference Board yesterday attributed the decline in its monthly survey to lower optimism about business
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    • 244 6 Bernama-Kyodo LONDON The alienation between Honda Motor and the Rover group may cast a chill over Japanese investment in Britain, Japanese business sources said yesterday. They said a mood of caution is growing among Japanese companies doing business in Britain as they
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 62 6 AFP ARLES, France The world's oldest woman listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the past three years Jeanne Calment, 119, smiling next to her birthday cake on Monday. Now down to 45kg, she has been confined to her wheelchair in a home for the
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      • 80 6 Reuter LONDON News that UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 1993 over the third quarter confirms the recovery is intact, the Treasury said. "The data confirms the message of preliminary estimates, that
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      • 101 6 UPI GENEVA Russia has given the chief of the General Agreement On Tariffs and Trade a letter of understanding on its foreign trade policy, signalling further progress in its application for membership in the world trade pact. The memorandum, delivered a month ahead of schedule,
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      • 90 6 Reuter BUCHAREST Romania's main telephone company, stateowned Rom-Telecom, said yesterday it had been granted a USSSO million (5579.5 million) loan from South Korea to help upgrade rural communications in an area north of the capital Bucharest. "We will use the USSSO million credit, which
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      • 60 6 AFP GENEVA Ethnic cleansing is continuing throughout BosniaHerzegovina where the Muslim community is threatened with "extermination," according to a UN report published yesterday. "The dynamic of destruction set in motion by ethnic cleansing has affected almost every area of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Tadcusz Mazowiccki. spccial investigator
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    • 489 7 AP WASHINGTON Nearly five years after the US government launched its clean-up of the savings and loan industry, the end is in sight, but the cost to the taxpayers is steep USSISO billion (***** billion) and counting. While the industry is
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    • 54 7 AFP BELGRADE, Rump-Yugoslavia Good show, comrades! Members of the Rump-Yugoslavian organisation "White Rose-New Byzantium** rallying in front of the Russian embassy here on Monday. They met to show gratitude for the Russian initiative during negotiations on the Nato ultimatum requiring Bosnian Muslim and Seifc forces to withdraw
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    • 169 7 Reuter LONDON The developed world has made good progress on combating inflation but it is premature to say the problem has been eradicated. Britain's National Institute of Economic and Social Research says. Indeed the main reason inflation across the
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    • 573 7 AP WASHINGTON Federal regulators will order cable television companies to reduce their rates by at least 7 per cent, sources said on Monday, in the government's second attempt in 10 months to lower prices for the nation's 58 million cable
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  • SPORTS
    • 790 11 XVII Winter Olympic Games AP LILLEHAMMER, Norway Lyubov Egorova, the cool runner of the cross-country trails, climbed atop the Olympic victory podium for the sixth time in two years. Sweden, Switzerland* and Austria ended frustrating medal droughts. Teamwork was the key as the Russians
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    • 525 11 AP LONDON Has the sport of ice dance ever been so scrutinised and over-analysed as it has in recent days in Britain, a country starving for any kind of victory at the Winter Olympics? "Surely, it must be," cried the usually impartial
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    • Article, Illustration
      144 11 AP HAMAR, Norway Oksana Gritschuk and Evgeny Platov skated to a rock beat and led a Russian 1-2 finish in the ice dancing competition. They broke down in tears on learning they had won the gold medal. They beat compatriots Maia Usova and Alexander Zhulin for the gold.
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    • 323 11 AP PARIS Tennis guru Nick Bollettieri looks set to relaunch Boris Becker's career after immediately diagnosing the key to his dramatic decline his bulging waistline. Becker, who spent most of last year questioning the meaning of life as he spiralled down the world
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    • 676 11  -  Are two point guards better than one? Dave Anderson takes up this point Dave Anderson NYT NEW YORK Point guard is usually too important a position to be shared successfully, although it has been done. The previous three seasons, the Chicago Bulls
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        57 11 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia will apply to host a Grand Prix meeting in the run-up to the 2000 Olympics. athlctics officials said on Tuesday. Athletics Australia, the sport's governing body in this country, said it would submit the proposal for a Grand Prix event to the annual meeting of the
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        31 11 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Monday: Minnesota 89 San Antonio 114; Chicago 118 Charlotte 93; Detroit 88 Dallas 98: Miami 128 Washington 98; Phoenix 112 Sacramento 86: Utah 119 Philadelphia 92.
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        106 11 Reuter KINGSTON England was left with virtually no cscape route in the first test on Monday as West Indies demolished their top order batting to end the third day within sight of a crushing victory. Forced to endure a torrid final session after conccding a first innings lead of
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        57 11 AFP LONDON World rankings published Monda>: I Greg Norman (Aust) 20.04pts 2 Nick Faldo (Eng) 19.53 3 Bcrnhard Langer (Gcr) 17.36 4 Nick Price (Zim) 16.89 5 Fred Couples (US) 16.85 6 PaulAzingcr (US) 14.23 7 lan Woosnam (Wales) 11.38 8 Corey Pavin (US) 11.02 9 David Frost (SA)
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      • Article, Illustration
        36 11 Reuter NEW YORK NHI. Monday: NY Islanders 4 Washington O. NY Rangers 4 Pittsburgh 3 (OT): Philadelphia 8 Montreal 7; San Jose 3 Dallas 6; LA 4 Toronto 6: Buffalo 2 Quebec I. Reuter
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      • Article, Illustration
        347 11 AFP AFP Reuter Reuter MONACO Swede Stefan Edberg moved up two places in the men's world rankings on Monday following his Stuttgart Open victory- Rankings: I Pete Sampras (US) 4573 pts 2 Jim Courier (US) 3007 3 Stefan Edberg (Swe) 2993 4 Michael Stich (Gcr) 2928 5 Sergi Bruguera
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 515 13  -  Paul Recer reports on US doctors' studies on the secrets of long life Paul Recer AP People who slow down after retirement may speed up their slide towards the grave, say doctors studying what keeps people healthy and alert into their 70s, 80s and beyond. People may
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    • 411 13 Reuter A CONTROVERSIAL film about Ireland's "Guildford Four", who were convicted in 1975 for an IRA bombing, won the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear award on Monday. In The Name Of The Father, directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, was
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    • 484 13 CHATTERBOX Reuter UPI Reuter UPI Reuter MOVE over, Demi Moore, here comes Leslie Nielsen. Paramount Studios have released a composite photograph of Nielsen from an advertisement for the new movie. The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. The movie, which will open at theatres
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1139 13 TV RADIO I ■'I'liHilM t w r Yankee Doodle Dandy, "Tl nil' 11.55pm, SBC 5 then again, life is but a dream. Amanda Donohue and Sarah Angel in devil's shoes? James Cagney presents the revue in PoUev star. Yankee Doodle Dandy, lOpm, SBC 12 SfVrOumvrf 13 4 -3® Six Dreams
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  • REGIONAL ANALYSIS
    • 1507 14  -  Leaders of Science and Technology in Asia YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer is BT's Regional Analysis Editor AMONG three of Asia's future powers, Indonesia. more than China or India, faces a problem of how far it should pursue self-reliance in science
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    • 1780 14  -  FACE TO FACE Yang Razali Kassim speaks to B J Habibie, the father of Indonesian aerospace Yanh Razali Kassim Q: You are a strong advocate of science and technology as Indonesia's fast-track to progress. How did this come about? A: My education was sciencebased. I
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    • 1272 15  -  Special to BT Leaders of Science and Technology in Asia YOGI AGGARWAL YOGI AGGARWAL The writer is editor of Associated News Features, Bombay Scientists have always held a special place in India. If giant dams and factories were the "temples of modem India" to the first Indian
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    • 1057 15  -  NIRMAL GHOSH NIRMAL GHOSH The writer is a BT correspondent BACK in 1983. YH "CHRIS" Tan received a phone call at his home in Alberta. Canada that was to bring him back to Singapore to start the Institute of Molecular and Cell
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  • 536 16 EDITORIAL THE backdrop to this year's Budget a sizzling growth performance in 1993, combined with buoyant revenues and a sizable fiscal surplus should permit Finance Minister Richard Hu sufficient leeway to complete the major task he began last year, namely to move Singapore's tax structure
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 207 16 IN tomorrow's Budget, there is perhaps a need for further explanation on why, despite recurrent budget surpluses and already strong reserves, the government cannot match its policy of minimum subsidy wherever possible, by reducing taxes further. Doing so will not contradict the policy to move
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    • 201 16 THE REMOVAL of the Serb guns does not end a 22-month siege. More should be done by Nato even after abandoning the air strike. Russia persuaded its Serb allies to bow to the Nato ultimatum by promising to send peacekeeping troops to Sarajevo to guarantee
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    • 180 16 ANALYSTS say Parti Bersatu Sabah managed to retain power because it relied mainly on the support of the Kadazans. But the sharp drop in its number of seats and votes shows clearly that the other races, including Muslims and Chinese, have diverted their support
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    • 149 16 IN ALLOWING the Federation of Livestock Farmers' Associations to import frozen chicken, the Cabinet neatly addressed the dual issue of the nationwide shortage and the farmers' livelihood. Or. so it fondly hoped, for this would have allowed the farmers to have their chickens and sell them.
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    • 149 16 THE HOUSING over the years of hundreds of thousands of people who flooded into the territory, and their families who grew up here, is a modern miracle. Refugees were given homes, and squatter camps cleared, through a public housing programme which now gives shelter to almost half
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    • 160 16 THE Malaysian Orphans Welfare Foundation, a private sector trusteeship launched on Friday, is not only altruism in wealth; it is proof that personal success is not unsweetened by social conscience. There are few things worse than greed; one of them is contempt for the needy. Malaysians
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  • 832 16  -  Being in the same time zone as Australia is an advantage Asian companies can exploit in choosing to list Down Under. Florence Chong reports Florence Chong The writer is BT's Sydney• Correspondent BROKERS are backing a move to establish an Asian board
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    • 1255 17  -  Nirmal Ghosh, who was recently in India, reports on the opening of the telecom sector there Nirmal Ghosh, N VITTAL could do with a cellular phone. As secretary of India's Department of Telecommunications (DOT), secretary of the Department of Electronics, and chairman of the Telecom
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    • 394 17 THE dozens of telecom firms waiting in the wings could be excused for thinking that India's telecom sector, for all the hoopla, was going nowhere until last month when long-delayed paging network franchises in 27 cities were offered to 16 companies. The sighs of
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    • 1035 17  -  Jasjit Singh says although India's defence expenditure is dropping, an arms build-up has been continuing unabated in China and Pakistan Jasjit Singh The writer is director of the New Delhi-based think-tank Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. He is a member of
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  • 416 18 AP. AFP TOKYO In an embarrassing technological reversal, a government agency yesterday said it planned to support development of an all-digital high-definition TV system likely to replace Japan's current analog version. A change in standards Mfould cause millions of dollars oif
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  • 315 18 AP TOKYO The Lower House of Parliament approved a third supplementary budget last night to cover the gap resulting ffom the deiay in passing the budget for the fiscal year beginning in April. The 2.185-trillion yen (SS3I trillion) spending plan now goes to the
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  • 55 18 AFP PHNOM PENH A stranded French construction worker standing atop the burning Tonle Bassac theatre waiting to be rescued yesterday. The landmark, which was burnt to the ground, was a centre for cultural events and political meetings and was being renovated under French supervision when
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  • 300 18 Reuter. AFP HONGKONG Hongkong's Cabinet has approved Governor Chris Patten's plans for a second and more drastic set of democratic reforms and the Bill will be published at the end of the week, government radio said yesterday. The decision to proceed
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  • 737 18  -  The Bottom Line NIRMAL GHOSH NIRMAL GHOSH The writer is a BT correspondent LAST month. United States Congressman Bill Richardson paid a visit to a sprawling bungalow on University Avenue, on the shores of suburban Yangon's picturesque Inya Lake. Apart from
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  • 233 18 Reuter SHANGHAI The Shenzhen stock exchange announced yesterday it would halt all new listings effective immediately. New listings would be resumed according to the market situation, an exchange statement said. The statement gave no further details. In early afternoon trading, the Shenzhen
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  • 314 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Exports of textiles, electronics and wood arc helping to underpin Malaysia's strong economic growth, the central bank said yesterday. The bank confirmed that Malaysia's gross domestic product grew 8.1 per ccnt in the third quarter against 10.1 per ccnt
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  • 447 18 KOTA KINABALU Smelling blood, the National Front is going in for the kill in Sabah and is predicting a change of government in the state within six months. Umno Sabah information chief Karim Ghani made this forecast while speaking
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 565 19  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR THE Bank Negara-initiated fall in the Malaysian ringgit has hurt currency speculators badly but could spell a windfall for foreign investors who can now buy Malaysian shares more cheaply, foreign stockbrokers said. But there
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    • 412 19  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Marco Polo has tasted the first fruits of its property investment. Figures released yesterday show group earnings for the year ended Dec 31, 1993. rose almost tenfold to $35.92 million. The jump was based on a turnover
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    • 267 19 SINGAPORE Nasdaqlisted Creative Technology, a world leader in the computerbased sound market, has filed for secondary listing on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The firm, which is using DBS Bank to manage the issue, said to the Nasdaq exchange last
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    • 141 19 SINGAPORE Asia Pacific Breweries shareholders yesterday rc-clectcd Chua Kim Yeow to the board at the company's annual general meeting yesterday. Mr Chua had been expected to "retire" from various directorships because he became chairman of the Stock Exchange of Singapore in January. He
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    • 742 19  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Having established itself on Nasdaq, the secondary securities market in the US, Singapore-born and bred Creative Technology now wants to offer its stock to local investors. There is nothing, of course, to stop local investors
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    • 410 19  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Sembawang Maritime Ltd yesterday reported record group earnings of S2B million on turnover of $127.7 million for 1993. catching analysts off guard for the second consecutive year. The Sembawang Group member chalked up earnings per share of 38.3 cents nearly
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        45 19 Firm 'Market Mix*/' indicates the likely trading sentiment unlaw Ixivd on brokers filled at 5-ftpm yesterday Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polUtl: Alliance. Harinvs. Iktiwa. Fraser. Kay Hum James Capet. Morgan (JrenleU Asia. Smith \en Court. lat Lee and Ong A Co.
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        146 19  -  -By Quak Hiang Whai At current level, furniture dealer Hwa Tat Lee has more upside potential than downside risk. The downside risk appears to be limited to $1.33 while the stock could easily test 51.50 again, having spent much of this year in the doldrums. With volume coming
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    • COMPANIES
      • 739 20  -  By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE Malayan Banking, which reported a 40 per cent increase in pre-tax profit to MS4B6 million (*****.1 million) for the six months ended December 1993, is confident of surpassing its forecast profit of MSB9S million for the full year.
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      • 226 20 NST KUALA LUMPUR Faber Group Bhd is likely to sell its 50 per cent stake in toll operator Projek Lebuhraya UtaraSelatan Bhd (Plus). The other 50 per cent in Plus is held by United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd. Both Faber and
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 85 20 Reuter HONGKONG Sum Cheong International Ltd said it will distribute to shareholders and offer to the public in Singapore shares in wholly-owned Sum Cheong Corp Private Ltd. The company will distribute 96.9 million shares of SSO.2S each to shareholders and offer a
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        • 82 20 SINGAPORE Dollar Sweets Holding (DSH), an Australian subsidiary of Jack Chia-MPH Ltd, has agreed to take up 1.78 million new shares at 76 Australian cents in Players Group Ltd (PGL), a confectionary company which is applying for listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. DSH's
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        • 73 20 SINGAPORE There will be two separate quotations of Berjaya Group Bhd shares on Clob International with effect from today. Shares entitled to the interim dividend of 6 per cent for the financial year ending April 30 will be quoted as Berjaya Group Bhd while
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        • 91 20 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian property giant PT Ciputra Development will list on the Jakarta stock market at the end of next month, its lead underwriter said yesterday. PT Barings Securities Indonesia, said the company would offer SO million shares at 5,200 rupiah each during the
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      • 479 20 mrnrntm ntrnm F* 23 UMB Invest Mgt Ltd "ihrMWfi Half True* Unifund I.SS 1.61 W 1 ■>■»* Unibond+ 1.025 1.05 The Commerce 1.86 1.95 United Gr Fund 1 170 I.T7 p'"f rlOf nil nil Un,led Fund 1 92 2 S pore Prof Fund 0.76 010 S pore Sec Fund 1.13
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      • 249 20  -  By Bernard Chew SINGAPORE Trading of sound card manufacturer Aztech Systems Ltd's shares will start today on a "when issued" basis, the company announced yesterday. This means that investors can buy and sell the company's shares even though final share allocation has not
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      • 411 20  -  MARKET WATCH By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE A major US broking firm has put out a "buy" signal on Singapore Telecom even while rating it as "the most expensive telephone company in the world". Lehman Brothers says in its Jan 31 report on the
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      • 287 21  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG CHINA Strategic Investment (CSI), a company controlled by Indonesia-born tycoon Oei Hong Leong. is planning a US$4OO million (***** million) expansion to its paper mill in Ningbo, to make it the largest paper producer in China. CSI said its
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      • 244 21 SINGAPORE An associate company of Cycle Carriage Ltd (CCL) became Australia's fastest-growing car distributor last year despite the sluggish state of the motor industry. Against a 2 per cent gain in total passenger car sales in Australia over 1992, Hyundai Automotive Distributors
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      • 308 21 BANGKOK A bidding war is likely to break out for Thai Tinplate Manufacturing Co Ltd between Somsak Tirapstanakul. owner of Foodland Supermarket and See Yong Ltd Partnership, which has a controlling stake in Thai Tinplate. The Nation yesterday said that excitement
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      • 156 21 AFP MANILA Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief Rosario Lopez yesterday ordered 71 stock brokerage firms and a major bank investigated for allegedly "short-selling" their clients. She told reporters she had formed a special committee to audit the stock brokerage companies. under the
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      • 293 21 BANGKOK In its latest negotiation for provincial expansion, Shinawatra Data Com proposed to restructure its revenue sharing with the Telephone Organisation of Thailand (TOT) for its "Data Net" service in Bangkok and the provinces. Both met this month to discuss what Shinawatra
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      • 214 21 AFP BANGKOK The new president of Thailand's Siam Motor Co plans to withdraw the firm from a multi-million-baht joint venture in China because there is no feasibility study for the project; The Bangkok Post said yesterday that the decision by
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      • 292 21 BANGKOK The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) plans to establish, by December, a new company to oversee its securities depository centre to accommodate the establishment of Thai Trust Fund. The Nation newspaper yesterday quoted a high-ranking official as saying the fund, named
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      • 316 22 AP TOKYO Its sales battered by weak consumer demand and its earnings sliced by the high yen, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. the world's largest electronics maker, announced a 12 per cent drop in group earnings yesterday for its third fiscal quarter. Matsushita
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      • 276 22 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's largest brewer yesterday reported lower profits for 1993, as the nation's longstanding thirst for a tall cool one was sated by an unusually temperate summer and an unusually long economic slump. 1 Kirin's two largest competitors, Asahi
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      • 124 22 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Honda Motor Co said its third quarter consolidated net profit fell 1.92 per cent. Honda said its net profit totalled 6.759 billion yen (SS 101.7 million) in the three months ended Dec 31. down from 6.891 billion yen a year
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      • 160 22 Reuter PARIS Chemicals group Rhone-Poulenc launched a three billion franc (SSBI6 million) friendly takeover bid on Monday for Cooperation Pharmaceutique Francaise (Cooper), one of two key distributors to French retail chemists. The move follows the 2.6 billion franc takeover of Cooper's main rival. Office
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      • 215 22 Reuter FRANKFURT Metallgesellschaft AG. the German metals group which was saved from bankruptcy last month, said yesterday that its operating losses had fallen in the first quarter of the 1993/94 year. In a statement released ahead of a news conference. MG
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      • 139 22 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp has increased the pace of its charge into the lucrative market for liquid crystal displays with plans to open a new plant two months ahead of schedule. NEC will begin production of the
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 51 22 Reuter AMSTERDAM Hongkong-based First Pacific Co Ltd is to sell its 21.8 per cent stake in Dutch wholesale group Internatio-Muell-er NV. an Amsterdam stockbroker said yesterday. The broker was commenting after the Amsterdam bourse suspended trade in Internatio shares until further notice.
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        • 144 22 Reuter SHANGHAI Three Chinese companies will be listed on the Shanghai stock market tomorrow, according to separate press statements. State-controlled Shanghai Lingqiao Tapwater Co Ltd will list 24 million A shares, issued at 1.50 renminbi per share in June. 1992. Proceeds are mainly
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        • 73 22 Reuter DALLAS Texas Instruments Inc said it received a USS3.B million (SS6.O million), six-year contract from International Business Machines Corp's Federal Systems unit to build an infrared laser targeting system for US Navy helicopters. The contract contains options to build 90 Forward Looking Infra Red
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        • 70 22 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Hitachi Consumer Products Thailand Co will invest one billion baht (5562.5 million) to expand its manufacturing facilities in Thailand over the next three years. The Nation reported yesterday. The strong yen is the main reason behind the decision by the company
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        • 82 22 Bloomberg Business News ROTTERDAM Unilever NV said its 1993 net profit after items fell by 6 per cent to 3.61 billion guilders (SS3.O billion) from 4.0 billion a year earlier as a result of a one-time restructuring charge of 1.33 billion guilders in the
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 353 23  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Thai banks have been busy raising secondtier capital ahead of future loan expansion. Basis Points, a regional debt newsletter, reported that the banks are increasing capital by way of subordinated loans or new equity-linked issues classified as
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      • 261 23 SINGAPORE Land and Houses Public Co, one of Thailand's largest listed property groups, yesterdav raised a U5537.5 million (5559.5 million) term loan to refinance its short term Thai baht debts. Arranged by merchant bank Morgan Grenfell Asia Ltd and Thailand's
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      • 273 23  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE No serious financier of aircraft can afford to ignore the huge Chinese market, said Chase Manhattan Bank technical director William Pank yesterday. In fact, he said, the bulk of the global demand for aircraft over the next few
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      • 240 23 BANGKOK Finance One Co, confident of obtaining permission to upgrade itself to a commercial bank, has started to prepare for that day by appointing Prapat Srisatyakul as a second managing director. Mr Prapat will be responsible for working out strategy on potential
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      • 287 23 SINGAPORE Fraudulent insurance claims cost the US economy more than US$l2 billion (Ssl9 billion) a year, says an American private detective who specialises in workers* compensation. And the trend is likely to spread to other parts of the world including
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      • 178 23 HONGKONG Salomon Brothers has named Trevor C Rowe as its head of Asia-Pa-cific and Australasian Investment Banking group, to be based in Hongkong. Mr Rowe, who worked in the Singapore office of Private Investment Company for Asia (Pica) SA in the 1980s, and the
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 138 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hongkong Stock Exchange is writing a new set of rules to speed up and simplify the listing of bonds, the South China .Horning Post reports. The rules, drawn up by the exchange's working group for debt securities listing, will
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        • 118 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Yamaichi Finance Co. a subsidiary of leading Japanese brokerage Yamaichi Securities Co, will receive 10 billion yen (SSISO million) from other companies in the Yamaichi group to shore up its finances. Jiji Press said. About half of the 370 billion
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        • 81 23 Reuter TOKYO Japanese banks need to take much more time to write off their bad loan holdings, although an early solution to the problem is necessary. Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Yasushi Mieno said. Despite current low interest rates in Japan, money supply
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        • 142 23 Bloomberg Business News MOSCOW The minimum capital requirement for new Russian banks will rise 20-fold on March 1 as a first step towards reaching "the European level" of regulation, a central bank official said on Monday. People wanting to launch a new bank have
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        • 60 23 Reuter ROME Italian banks arc set to report higher profits for 1993. much of which will go towards boosting their reserves, said Pier Luigi Ciocca, the Bank of Italy's central director for economic research. He said banks' balance sheets should improve and
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      • 260 24 Bloomberg Business News BOMBAY The National Association of Securities Dealers Inc, operator of the Nasdaq trading system, agreed to cooperate with Bombay's OTC Exchange on technology, regulation and business development as part of its drive to lure Indian companies to list American Depository Receipts
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      • 391 24  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The US junior board Nasdaq posted record dollar and volume trading figures last year. Figures just released show the Nasdaq Composite Index reached a record 787.92 points on Oct 15, up 110.47 points or 16.3 per cent from
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      • 384 24  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON ASIAN gold demand fell 8 per cent to 650 tonnes last year, estimates the World Gold Council. The fall in consumption was mainly the result of a 20 per cent increase in prices, says the Council,
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      • 192 24 BANGKOK China poses a new threat to Thailand's diamond manufacturing industry, one of the strongest sectors in the Thai gems and jewellery industry. A Bangkok Post report said last week that at least one Bangkok-based company had set up operations in China. Four
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      • 170 24 RUMOURS out of Tokyo on talk of acccptancc of US trade targets if sanctions were not imposed caused a rally in the USS/yen over lunch yesterday, but subsequent denial brought the USS/ycn to its original level before the rally. The USS/SS was bought up in
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      • 86 24 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The dollar slipped against the deutschemark yesterday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the central bank expected low inflation and moderate economic growth in the US this year. The dollar last traded at 1.7275 marks, down from 1.7290 marks just before the
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      • 172 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar skidded lower against the deutschemark and yen here after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that US inflation is still subdued. Traders had been buying dollars this week on the belief the Fed chairman would highlight nascent inflationary pressures in the US
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      • 168 24 Btoomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures prices were boosted by renewed demand for gasoil in Northwest Europe yesterday as cold temperatures and snow swept across the continent, brokers said. Prices were also lifted by speculation Opcc might take firm action to curb
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        1624 24 'rade-netglued index calculated against S pore's lop 14 trading partners Base year 198? US$/S$ forward rates Noon Feb 22 SS BM Oder I-month 1.5912 1.5927 :-month 1.5911 1.5926 *-momh 1.5911 1.5926 6-month 1.5910 1.5930 Sourer OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at IOm m Fat 22: Singapore Mm
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      • 1338 25 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen interest rate futures finished firmer and off intraday lows on short-cov-ering by market operators yesterday. Dealers said benchmark September Euroyen started off on a weak note. It tested the downside of 97.78 but did not manage to break it
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      • 625 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN continued its downtrend to close three sen lower at MS IS. 11 a kg in cautious trade yesterday despite a lower London market, traders said. "There are fears prices might be heading for a technical correction after hitting a
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 118 25 LONDON Metallgesellschaft is still in discussions with Thailand's Padaeng Industry Co (PDI) about the future of the companies' lead/zinc smelter project in the wake of the German group's financial woes, according to a Metallgesellschaft official. South East Asia Metals Co (Seamet). a joint venture investment
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        • 71 25 HAMBURG German cocoa bean imports during January-October 1993 totalled 242.059 tonnes, down 6.8 per cent from 259,608 tonnes over the same period a year earlier, the Federal Statistics Office said yesterday. In October, imports totalled 24.367 tonnes, down from 35.907 the year before, the office said.
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        • 84 25 LAGOS Nigeria's 150.000-barrel-per-day Har court refinery in the southern part of the country has been shut following violent protests by workers demanding improved welfare services, sources ai Nigeria's National Petroleum Corp said. The ck> sure of the refinery, the largest in the country, was ordered
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        • 69 25 PARIS French wheat prices were unchanged tc up slightly at midday in a market marked by weak demand and traditional February holidays, dealer said. A backdrop of low demand, most notablv from Russia, is likely to remain a major factor foi months to come, since
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    • 1621 25 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Mar 94 000 OOO 138 50 0 To25 Apr 140 50 140.25 140 00 123 4.225 May 143.75 143.75 142.00 200 4.800 Jun 144 75
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1187 26 +24 Robust futures trading helped boost an otherwise subdued Australian share market yesterday following the previous day's slump. Brokers said the market was awaiting a speech by US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan overnight to offer clues on the Fed's policy on interest rate tightening, which is expected
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      • 549 26 +2.17 Philippine share prices barely moved in weak trading yesterday as investors continued to stay on the fringes for lack of stimulating news, dealers said. The composite price index at the Manila Stock Exchange inched up bv a mere 2.17 points to close at 3.003.43. Index heavyweight Philippine Long
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      • 576 26 •49.98 Taiwan stocks closed lower for the fourth straight session and turnover continued shrinking, though brokers said late buying in selected financials was a positive sign. The weighted index opened higher but soon gave up its gains and ended 49.98 points down at 5.733.91. off a low of 5.706.
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      • 404 26 +7.22 Stocks closed moderately higher prodded by strong buying concerns for primary blue chips despite selling pressure which knocked the index off an early peak, brokers said. The composite index closed 7.22 points higher at 953.22. having touched 959. II in the morning. Some 33 million shares changed hands,
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      • 374 26 -23 The New Zealand share market ended weaker, after a mercurial day's trading that saw the NZSE-40 capital index lose 30 points, recover to be four points above the opening mark, and then collapse again to finish the day 23 points lower. The index opened at 2.241.40 and
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      • 49 26 -44.63 Share prices drifted in a narrow range in low volume kerb deals and brokers said the late evening quotes were slightly lower than the close. During the official session, the BSE 30-share index fell 44.63 points to 4.084.89. The 100-share national index fell 4.88 points to 1.979.57.
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      • 785 26 Britannia Funds Strrliag Cash Bid Offer MimC ipDrjKx.il *8 MOO 6500 Mim Icney Gilt 0 189? 0 1992 Mim Mat Income I OnH) I 1000 ISi Cash Income Plus Fund *10 2'00 *10 U200 PS Reserve Fund 2400 5 2J00 Sterling Foui(> Euro Performance 0 45*2 0 49Ji Far Ea*
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      • 646 26 -16.6 Shares prices closed easier yesterday but with losses cut by a recovery in gilts, a rally in FTSE futures and a firmer Wall Street following bond market volatility on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony to Congress. The FTSE 100 share index closed 16.6 points down at 3.333.7
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      • 130 26 11.53 French shares finished higher on the first day of the March account, with most trading concentrated in the futures market, traders said. There were few surprises in US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's comments to the House banking subcommittee. traders said, and a firm tone in bonds reassured
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      • 168 26 -0.56 pc German share prices closed a low-volume, lacklustre bourse session lower, with investors worried that US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan might signal a rate increase yesterday. The DAX index ended at 2.107.62. down 0.56 per cent or 11.91 points on the day and down 0.44 point from IBIS
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      • 187 26 -8.08 Belgian shares ended 0.53 per cent lower on worries that US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan might signal a rate increase, a possible negative reaction to his speech on Wall Street, and general bond weakness. Business was thin as many investors shunned the market ahead of the speech by
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      • 127 26 -1.93 pc A long-awaited correction swept the market on Tuesday and brokers say share prices will probably fall further before the bourse steadies. The selling drove prices lower virtually across the board, with key stocks Generali. Fiat and Olivetti all falling in line with the overall market. The Mibtel
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      • 263 26 -3.3 Dutch shares closed lower, dragged down by poor results from Unilever and fears of rising US interest rates, dealers said. Stocks were seen losing more ground in thin trading today. "Unless Wall Street closes 50 points higher, we will most probably trend further down." said a dealer at
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      • 251 26 -7.2 Swiss shares ended easier, but off the day's low. as the market profited from a firmer opening on Wall Street, dealers said. They added that trading was nervous and still bound in a narrow range with support at 2.950 to 2,970 points. The SMI index of leading shares
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      • 283 26 -7 South African gold shares finished off earlier lows as bullion perked up later in the day. but dealers said investors remained nervous about New York trade. The overall index ended nine points lower at 4.822. industrial index oft' seven points at 5.697 and gold index off seven at
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      • 331 26 -8.41 Stocks weakened early as investors extended Monday's sell-off in a nervous market ahead of Canada's 1994/95 budget due later yesterday. Declines in precious metals, conglomerates, and real estate offset gains in transportation and consumer products. The TSE 300 index fell 8.41 points to 4.340.63 in early turnover of
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      • 783 26 +7.32 The Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 35.18 points last Friday, was ahead 7.32 points to 3.894.78 at 11 am EST yesterday. Markets were closed on Monday for President's Day. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was ahead 0.34 to 260.21. while S&P 500-stock index was
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      3107 27 Reuter HONGKONG Stocks ended sharply higher yesterday on active bargain hunting and futureslinked buying, brokers said. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index closed near the dav's high at 10.674.01. up 217.56 points. Fund profit-takers kicked off the choppy day by dragging the index down 151 points before bargain hunters intervened.
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      500 27 THE CLSA Shanghai B Index eased 15.26 points to end at 924.16 yesterday. The market turnover dropped to U552.27 million. Major losers included Phoenix Bicycle. Wing Sung and Friendship, shedding some 8 per cent on very light turnover. In contrast. First Pencil gained 6.1 per cent. In Shenzhen, the
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      2423 27 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended mixed after careful trade yesterday, with the Nikkei Average moving directionlessly. Recent falls in the yen kept sentiment up. But the market lacked energy as investors were reluctant to move, waiting for further developments in the US-Japan trade dispute, brokers said. The Nikkei indicator of
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    • 403 31 Reuter AMSTERDAM Warehouses in Rotterdam are competing fiercely for the record amounts of surplus metal that have entered the port. "You can give big discounts when you are sure the metal will stay for one or two years," said Simon Yntema, metals
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    • 1462 47 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,128 on Monday from 1,133 on Feb 18. It was a slow start to the week on the freight market with a holiday in the US curtailing activity, brokers said. Cargill paid a fairly steady US$2l.OO
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      • 400 50 Bloomberg Business News ROME Fiat SpA and its unions have agreed on a jobreduction plan that will lay off 16,500 workers at the Italian carmaker for the next few years, RAI Tre television reported on Monday. The accord brings to an end
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      • 367 50 AFP BEIRUT Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines (MEA), needs USSIOO million (SSISB million) over the next three years, agreements with other airlines and a modern fleet to ensure its survival, its chairman said in an interview published here. "We have
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        • 95 50 Reuter ROME Italian state engineering group Finmeccanica SpA is mulling possible shareholding links with aerospace group McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Italian newspapers said on Monday. A spokesman for Finmeccanica parent Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industrial declined detailed comment on a report in La RepubNica daily that the Italian group
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        • 59 50 AFP LONDON British shipbuilders VSEL on Monday announced the loss of 500 jobs its yard in Cumbria, north-west England, which builds Trident nuclear submarines. TTie jobs at the yard at Barrow-in-Furness will be shed by May in what the company, which currently employs 6,000 people,
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    • 665 43 (i£ FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 28/2 ROTTERDAM 28/2 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 24/2 HAMBURG/BREMEN 28/2 MARSEILLE/FRANCE V 3 FELIXSTOWE/UK 28/2 BARCELONA/SPAIN 24/2 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 28/2 GENOA/ITALY 24/2 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 28/2 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 27/2 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 26/2 NEW YORK/EC 25/2 FREMANTIE/ADELAIDE 26/2 VANCOUVER
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    • 715 43 Guaranteed Sailings to-. BANGKOK *LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANGj •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU I SURABAYA PEN ANG HONGKONG I We also serve other ports: USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL ■iwiaißiiiiiiiiiuiymwiwiiAiwHßUioiMiiaßoiiwnMioauiHMiii md pLI PONGNAMA LINE CONTAINERISED SERVICE BTWAITS/BLW/INC/BSN wssti m a.M n b» nc HONGKONG GLORY V4O2N »/2 27/2 1/3
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    • 1673 44 HLiiMM eaUtAINER line 6, in6l ZIV/VvMAgenta: MAC-NILS SPORE: *****22 (84 LINES) (PANAMA *J\S > 'cm Hm mrnmmm SHU (064) *****0 KUCHINB (063) *****3 PENANGk (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MAMLA (632) *****61 P KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 i HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK
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    • 187 44 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD n« ET» n« INK. PORT KEMC KMNG BLUE JAM 5/3 27/2 S*M Lo*din| tof Matt < Bangkok) RUVM HUOHU 28 2 OncMrrni n <) Loading for Bombay OOLMN 24/2 S«M Loadinf for MM HOC* SUPKEME 27/2 Loading For MM UMMEEDH 4/3 Loadrni
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    • 988 44 JL THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD 1 I 78 SINGAPORE 0207 I I V/ TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRER, RS ***** JCNHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL ¥0T |S POKE IdEST VESSEL |VOT I STORE It EST EQUATOR JADE 104/4E 26 FEB KUCHING
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    • 666 45 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCtFTMG BKMBUU SOC CMGOtS TO/FWM KOK. YOKOHAMA, NAGOTA. HOI. TOKYO*. MAM.A*. DAVAO*. Peiunf* P. Keiaig Singapore E'lfeu* SHAPLAEVERETT VI9E 01/02 liar IVYEVERETT VBE 01/02 Apr KARABEVERETT VI6E 10/11 Apr 12/13 Apr ACCEPTING MEMBU.K FCI SOC CAAGOfS TO/FROM CHTTTAGONG, CALCUTTA MO MONO.**. Sinfapare P.
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    • 228 45 Yak GLORY navigation group REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ft ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 20/2 22/2 27/2 GLORY SELATAN V 15/2 22/2 25/2 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN IX 29/2 30/2 •ALSO
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    • 607 45 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAK BULK CONTAINER SERVICE KSgl HOT I SI HWACH WKM* 145-UN 05/03 IS/03 HVBERABAD M7-HW 19/03 24/03 WW 139-HW a/03 00/04 sargoqha im-hw 04/04 u/x FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY ttSSO. ¥0T law HK6 I BSN OS* NAG TOR sargoqha 139-ow 01/03 00/03 10/03 10/03
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    • 661 45 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/CAPETOWN/ LAGOS/P. ELIZABETH VESSEL SIN DURBAN CPT LOS P ELIZABETH VI HE/96 26/02 09/02 14/03 21/03 27/03 SHUNHE/10l 11/03 2S/03 27/03 OA/OA lA/OA TAO HE 82 26/03 10/04 12/04 09/OA 29/04 NAN HE/82 11/04 25/04 27/04 OS/OS IS/OS ACCEPTS CARGO TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA
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    • 269 45 ■0 (r S|N FAR EAST 01/03 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 26/02 BANGKOK I 27/02 MANILA/CEBU 26/02 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA Z 28/02 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA Z 27/02 BUSAN 27/02 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 27/02 HONG KONG J sm gym 27/02 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN F UZHOU /XIAMEN SHANT OU SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG Z TIAN JIN/QINGDAO HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S!N EUROPE/UK l
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    • 811 46 Handling System Co. Pte. Ltd. 136 A 138, Neil Road, #03-00, Singapore 0208 YT7 VT7 M CFS-20, Gul Road, Singapore 2262 Tel: 02-*****28 Handling System Co. Sdn. Bhd. N0.9 Lorong Cungah, ***** Port Klang, Selangor, Malaysia 24th Floor, UMBC Main Building, ***** Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Handling System (HK) Co. Ltd.
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    • 346 46 y Contemn CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 27 FEBRUARY (Accepting to aN Now Zaaland porta) PENANG 25 FES JAKARTA 27 FER PORT KLANG 04 MAR RANOKOR 27 FER HONGKONG 27 Fa MELBOURNE 20 FER SYDNEY 20 FER FREMANTLE 27 FER QRISRAHE 01 MAR ADELAIOE 20 FER I 'ACCEPTING TO
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    • 530 46 This Week's Sailings Singapore* ETD TO: ETD N Singapore Singapore ISO 9002 BY LRQA FVFRY FVFDV Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN cteii EVERY EVERY Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI Is fPj 111 JL I EVERY EVERY d Colombo TUE Limassol THUR VgggX L-g-l HTERfMTKMM. SEA FROGHT FORNMDM WW Tel: Fax:
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    • 156 46 I H NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACH)/NEW 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 ALAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore
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    • 1258 47 m -mmm. —M m r crystal freight services pte ltd iaomLi BANGKOK 27/2 AUCKLAND 6/3 ANTWERP 28/2 BUSAN 3/3 ADELAIDE 4/3 FELIXSTOWE 26/2 HONG KONG 26/2 BRISBANE 3/3 HAMBURG 28/2 JAKARTA 1/3 FREMANTLE 4/3 ROTTERDAM 28/2 I A I/O lIPI MAI Mkip IM SURABAYA 1/3 in KEELUNG 1/3 SYDNEY 4/3
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    • 340 48 VESSEL VOYAG£_ SINGAPORE MANILA VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9408N 18/02 26/02 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9408 AN 21/02 26/02 LOADWG EVERY VIGOUR PACIFIC 9409N 25/02 05/03 VIGOUR PACIFIC 28/0 5^03 VESSEL SINGAPORE GENERAL SANTOS DAVAO CEBU VIGOUR LUZON 9408E 18/02 24/02 25/02 27/02 VI6OUR ATLANTIC 5 2 I 03/03 04/03 06/03 BRUNEI (MUARA) PULL
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    • 324 48 GffiAMY ON HOLIDAYS WHEN YOU SHIP WITH US C*» Jv*t BHEAKBI.LK Sr CONSOLIDATIOPi SERVICES PTE LTD J H|||(]|l LjrscJu£Ju W. 5 HOUSE 37 imxton Hill Singapore 0208 Tel: 22.') 8332 fax 224 3343 »c TITIMAS SHIPPING W TRADING SDN. BHD. TITIMA?P KELANG (03)36*0455 (H/Lin«) Fax 03-36M253 Tlx: MA 3M15 TIBITA
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    • 222 48 I cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/02 Rotter dam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 15/03 20/03 Huangpu/GuangzHou COSCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CMNA/B AMGK OK/HONGK ONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI
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    • 690 48 TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOW 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 0800 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 JR 1.8 16 1 4 14 1.4 1.5 18 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 2.4 2.1 1.6 1.2 0.9 0.7 0.6
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    • 1004 49 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 VESSELS VOT I WW I PKE I PCD I VESSELS VOT SW HTM ANT* LEH* HAM BRtj FEL HMM ADVANCE 038 A 21/01 22/02 24/02 SL FREEDOM 309W 21/02 11/03 19/03 21/03 20/03 20/03 22/03 NOR MALACCA 9409 A
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    • 476 49 I STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS WSSU HI V n IK u itm i) 7 «/i i/i i/i Mill Nil *31 S/l NUB MY 111 11/ l TAMBMI II 1/1 S/l mum am mi i/i u/i KMBMBYI IN I/I I/I OUTBOUND VESSELS LOAPIWC FOR
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    • 865 49 —I JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENTT SPORE JED STON HUM IDAM LEX •Mm Accqrt* Carp Fw LA SM 34/107 23/2 12/1 15/3 13/3 SouOunvlw to MUK intnta Mm and o*fa HOECMSI EXPRESS 13/307 21/2 7/1 11/ l 11/ l 21/1 21/1 IMl«*m :to AMwrp. Mmtowtm. 0* HMbMb D«u» 12/ m 2/1 11/ l 22/1
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