The Business Times, 28 March 1994

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    14 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA M ITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday March 28 1994 75*
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      Lock icon Japanese producers badly hit in Europe
      73 1 FT LONDON Japanese companies manufacturing in Europe were badly hit by the recession last year and their poor performance led to a sharp fall in their investment plans. More than half the 728 Japanese manufacturing groups in Europe say they lost money last year
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      Lock icon Crumbling Tower of Pisa
      49 1 AP PISA, Italy The Tower of Pisa may be leaning less but now it's crumbling. During the night, stone from the first tier was found by a guard at the tower base, reports said yesterday. It was 30cm in diameter. No one was injured. AP
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    164 1 Stack market indices Friday Week rhangr STII 2.***** -20.6 KLSE Comp 970.10 -36.96 Nikkei 19.836.48 -632.97 Hang Seng 9.234 21 101 SET Index 1.280.07 33.23 Jakarta Comp 490 84 -18.04 CLSA China B I 039.49 -77.24 AuslAUOrd 2.***** -11.9 FTSE 100 3.129.0 -89 1 Dow Jones 3.775.02 -120.97
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    S'pore senior managers top earners in Asia outside Japan
    582 1  -  Reports by Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE The Republic's senior managers arc Asia's top earners after the Japanese, says the latest survey by Geneva-based Corporate Resources Group. The survey, which covered 400 companies in 10 countries, found senior managers' annual pay jumped
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    China to widen lead as Asian country with biggest pay rise
    351 1 SINGAPORE The forecast for average pay rise in China this year has been revised upwards from 20 to 30 per cent by Geneva-based Corporate Resources Group. The revision for China, which widens its lead as the country with the
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    Lock icon Up with the lark to check on stocks
    116 1 AP BEIJING Yawning and sleepy-eyed, this would-be investor on the right was up early yesterday to study the prospectuses of four local staterun companies whose shares are open to subscription in the first such public offering by the Chinese capital. Thousands lined
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    Lock icon Saudi Arabia dashes Opec hope of higher oil price
    309 1 Reuter GENEVA Saudi Arabia declined at an Opec meeting in Geneva to cut its oil production to help revive depressed world prices. But the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries was able to agree on Saturday to freeze current output quotas until
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    Lock icon Multimedia stocks plummet as Nasdaq company forecasts loss
    345 1  -  By Bernard Chew SINGAPORE Stocks of personal computer sound card makers plummeted in three days of hectic trading after Nasdaq-listed Media Vision the number two sound card maker announced that it expects to post its firstever loss in the coming financial quarter.
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    Lock icon HK firms delay IPOs as demand falls
    255 1 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong companies planning to list on the local stock exchange are delaying their initial public offerings after prices on a recent batch of IPOs fell when the shares started trading. The Sunday Morning Post reported that share prices of
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    Lock icon Beijing reverses decision on swap markets
    169 1 Bloomberg Business News LONDON China has reversed a decision to close currency swap markets and will bar foreign-invested companies from its freer bank-based currency exchange system, the official Economic I>aily reported. Beijing's sweeping New Year currency reforms originally called for swap centres to be
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      9 1 Business IT: Px SCS to increase outlets in Australia
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Loans, loans and more loans
        311 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling BANK LENDING to nonbank customers remained strong in January, boosted by activities in the property and stock markets. Total loans extended as at end-January amounted to 579.6 billion, up 14 per cent compared with a year ago. Professionals and private individuals
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      US firm sees IT equipment market in Asia growing
      376 2  -  By Juliette Walker US-BASED Odetics. which opened a regional office here in December, sees a growing market for its information automation products as Asia steps up investment in broadcast and telecommunications infrastructure. The Anaheim. California, company makes equipment to automate the
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      Lock icon Boat auction fails to ride the crest
      298 2  -  Onlv 17 of 35 vessels put up for bidding sold By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE'S first auction of pleasure boats conducted yesterday got a relatively lukewarm response with gross sales of just 5408.500. Only about half of the 35 cruisers, yachts and fishing boats
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      329 2 CAN EXP India's First Ever Emerging Industries Fund Scheme Closes On 30th March 1994 HIGHLIGHTS India's first ever emerging industries fund from Canbank Mutual Fund tor investments predominantly in Export Oriented Industries and companies having forex earnings. A pure growth Indian Rupee Fund. Duration 5 years. Listing on the major
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Thai govt to build next stage of tollway without private funds
      604 3  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK THE Thai government will build the next stage of a troubled city expressway itself to avoid further contractual problems, reversing a commitment to private sector funding of major infrastructural projects. Cabinet ministers during the
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      Lock icon Vietnam aims to be PC producer despite fierce competition
      314 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam is determined to becomc a centre for computer manufacturing despite warnings that declining prices and fierce competition could deter firms from opening plants in the country, according to a report yesterday. Low labour costs and abundant raw materials
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Golkar backs demands for inquiry
        111 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's ruling Golkar party has backed demands for a full investigation into a multi-million-dollar letter of credit scandal that has tarnished the country's state hanking image. "We fully support any effort towards the establishment of a government that is free from any irregularities."
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        Lock icon Homecoming of sorts
        43 3 AFP. CHUNTABURI. Thailand Truckloads of Cambodian refugees mov ing back across the Cambodian border over the weekend to a special area set up to house them. These were some of the 25.000 who had tied heavy fight:ng into Thailand. AFP.
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        Lock icon ADB predicts 9pc growth for Vietnam
        37 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam's economy is expected to grow by 9 per cent this year and will speed up to 10 per cent in 1995, the Asian Development Bank said yesterday. AFP
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      Bank Negara may have recouped large part of forex loss
      477 3 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara is believed to have reeouped a significant portion of the widely rumoured MS2O billion (SSI 1.6 billion) loss arising from its foreign exchange trading. The Star newspaper reported on Saturday that market observers believed Bank Negara's
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      Ramos visits Hanoi to expand economic ties
      344 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA PRESIDENT Fidel Ramos leaves today for Hanoi to expand economic ties with Vietnam following the recent lifting of a US trade embargo. Topping Mr Ramos' agenda is the signing of a trade protocol to increase bilateral trade which
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Beijing moves to stem drain of state assets
      304 4 Transformation of state firms to be better supervised AFP BEIJING China is to intensify supervision over the transformation of state firms into shareholding companies in a bid to stem the huge drain of state assets, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Taipei calls off mainland visit after hijack row
      121 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan called oil' at the last minute a Taiwanese delegation's visit to China for economic talks amid deep differences in ongoing negotiations, officials said yesterday. The spokesmen, from the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEE), said the question of repatriating airline
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      Lock icon Charge!
      54 4 AFP FFNGSHAN, Taiwan Cadets of Taiwan's Army Academy dashing to the finish line to win the 500 m run during the six-day 1994 Armed Forces Athletics Meet on Physical Agility and Tactics. The meet saw some 6,000 cadets and officers competing in 21 events at the academy in this
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      Lock icon China to unveil new rules for foreign trade arbitration from June 1
      280 4 Xinhua BEIJING China is to introduce a set of new rules for foreign trade arbitration from June 1 this year. The move is aimed at accelerating the modernisation and intemationalisation of China's international economic and trade arbitration. Cheng
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      Lock icon Shanghai has more than 4,000 foreign-funded firms
      307 4 Xinhua SHANGHAI More than 4.000 foreign-funded enterprises in Shanghai have gone into operation and most of them are profitable. A survey published yesterday showed that business people from 54 countries and regions had set up 7.547 projects in this, China's largest economic centre,
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Kuwaiti minister to visit China
        68 4 Reuter BEIJING Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Ahmed al-Baghli will visit China in mid-May for talks on improving cooperation in the oil sector, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. In a report from Kuwait, it said he would visit China at the invitation of Wang Tao.
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        Lock icon Ban on foreign maids to be lifted
        68 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan plans to lift a ban on the employment of foreign domestic helpers due to growing demand here, labour officials said yesterday. More foreign maids will be allowed to work for families here in June if the revision of a foreign
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        Lock icon Defence Minister off to South America
        55 4 AFP BEIJING Chinese Defence Minister Chi Haotian left here yesterday for a tour of three South American countries. Xinhua news agency reported. Mr Chi. also a member of the State Council, will make official goodwill visits to Brazil. Uruguay and Chile, the agency said
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        Lock icon China to host copyright forum
        92 4 Reuter BEIJING China, embarrassed by charges of soaring copyright piracy by private and even state firms, said on Saturday it would host a major forum on protection of intellectual property rights. The symposium in May would bring together more than 200 Chinese and foreign experts
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Haryana chief minister taking trip to woo foreign investors
      279 6  -  From Rajendra Bajpai in NEW DELHI BHAJAN LAL. the chief minister of India's Haryana state, once a barren fiatland that produced little, is embarking on a jaflrney to woo foreign inves'turs to pour money into his province. Mr Lai, accompanied by
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      Lock icon Appliances on sale? No, home grown rice
      56 6 Kyodo TOKYO Hundreds of people queueing in front of a electrical appliance discount store to buy domestically grown rice at 3,000 yen (SS46) per 5-kg bag yesterday. The store, which is not licensed to sell rice, defied a government warning to drop its
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      Lock icon G-15 nations prepare for summit in India
      379 6 Reuter NEW DELHI Six heads of government were due in New Delhi yesterday for a three-day meeting of the G-15 group of nations aimed at plotting a path for the developing world through rapid global political changes. Officials said it appeared only 14
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      Lock icon Red face for navy chief as Sri Lanka drops ships deal with China
      349 6 AFP COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government has decided to drop a deal with China under which Beijing was to have supplied four ships for the navy costing US$23 million (5536.6 million). The Sunday Island newspaper said. "Defence
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
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      Developing nations baulk at ADB's lending rigidity
      1045 7  -  Impasse over Asian Development Bank's capital increase From Anthony Rowley in MANILA WHAT some Asian nations, including India and China, regard as ideological bias or even cultural imperialism has intruded into the affairs of the Asian Development Bank, provoking a breakdown of negotiations
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Brazilian minister to resign
        70 8 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian Economy Minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso is expected to submit his resignation to President Itamar Franco today. The official announcement of his resignation is expected to be made on Wednesday. Environment and Amazon Minister Rubens Ricupero, formerly Brazil's ambassador to Washington, has
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        Lock icon Chile in fruit deal with China
        90 8 AFP SANTIAGO Chile could become Latin America's leading fruit exporter to China under an agreement signed here, officials said on Saturday. The accord, which regulates health inspections of the fruit, was signed on Friday. It calls for the export of apples and kiwis starting
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        Lock icon Somali warlord signs pact with rival
        92 8 Reuter MOGADISHU Warlord Ali Mahdi Mohamed flew back to Somalia on Saturday after signing a peace pact with his arch rival M9hamed Farah Aideed which offered a slim chance of restoring government in the country. "The politicians signed because they realised if they didn't
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        Lock icon Peru, Shell to evaluate gas reserves
        94 8 Reuter LIMA, Peru Peru has signed a contract with a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Co to study the commercial possibilities of the huge Camisea gas deposits, an official decree said. Officials of Peru-Petro SA, a new state entity which negotiates energy contracts,
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      Lock icon Qatar Petrochemical signs contracts worth US$ 385m
      177 8 Reuter DOHA The Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) signed three contracts with French and Italian companies for a US$3B5 million (SS6OB million) petrochemical expansion plan. The contracts were signed with Technip of France, Italy's Snamprogetti and TPL Technologic Progetti Lavorie SpA, which is a
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      Lock icon US Senate passes Clinton's US$ 1.5 trillion budget
      422 8 Reuter WASHINGTON The Senate has passed President Bill Clinton's US$l.5 trillion (552.37 trillion) budget for fiscal 1995, challenging the House to match its US$26 billion in new spending cuts. The measure left to be decided the difficult choice of where to make
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      Lock icon Not just an ordinary haircut
      36 8 AFP MOSCOW Two employees taking care of dogs in a hairdressing salon for pets in Moscow. This salon, located on the Lobochevskogo street, charges each haircut at 50,000 roubles (5547.70). AFP
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      Lock icon Gatt trade rules will boost job prospects: director general
      276 8 Reuter RABAT New world trade rules will proteet the poor and weak and open up vast employment opportunities. Gatt director general Peter Sutherland said. "The most important area of the new rules is that they will protect the poor and weak
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      Lock icon German minister wants party coalition to continue
      233 8 Reuter BONN Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt urged his liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) to announce soon that it would remain in coalition with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats after elections in October. In an interview with the Frankfurter AUgemeine Zeitung published on Saturday,
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      Lock icon Ukrainians head for polls in historic but confusing election
      522 9 LA Times KIEV. Ukraine In a historic but wildly confusing exercise in democracy. Ukrainians headed for the polls yesterday to try to elect their first post-Commu-nist Parliament. The contest could bring an end to the chronic political chaos that has plagued
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      Lock icon Turks begin voting amid economic crisis and Kurdish insurgency *
      344 9 Turks begin voting amid economic crisis and Kurdish insurgency Reuter ANKARA l urks began voting yesterday in nationwide municipal elections seen as a crucial lest for Prime Minister iansu Ciller's embattled coalition government which is beset by an economic crisis and a Kurdish insurgency. A spate of bombings have marred
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      Lock icon Wild animals in Disney's 4th Florida theme park
      222 9 Reuter ORLANDO. Florida Walt Disney World's fourth Orlando theme park, which eould open as early as 1997. will mix wild animals with nature walks and elaborate thrill rides, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Saturday. citing a confidential marketing video. Disney sources cautioned
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      Lock icon French polls may boost Balladur's position despite youth unrest
      488 9 Reuter PARIS Polls opened yesterday in French local elections expected to confirm the dominance of the ruling centre-right coalition and strengthen Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in the face of continuing youth unrest. Polling stations opened at Bam (2pm in Singapore) for
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      Lock icon Bosnian Croat parliament approves federation plan
      249 9 AFP ZAGREB The "parliament" of the self-styled Croat republic in Bosnia-Hercegovina on Saturday approved the Washington accord for a Mus-lim-Croat federation in Bosnia, the Croatian news agency Hina reported. The parliament, sitting in Mostar in southern Bosnia, voted to instruct its representatives to approve
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      Lock icon Arab League discusses M-E peace, consensus decisions
      416 10 Reuter CAIRO Arab League foreigh ministers met in Cairo over the weekend to discuss issues ranging from Middle East peace to replacing their tradition of consensus decisions with majority voting. Arab League officials said the Middle East peace process, stalled by the Feb
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      Lock icon Colombian, Costa Rican vie for OAS leadership
      354 10 UPI Reuter WASHINGTON Foreign ministers attending a meeting of the 34-member Organisation of Ameriean States (OAS) wrapped up their diplomatie deals over the weekend and prepared for the election of a new secretary-general. Colombian President Cesar Gaviria and Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bernd
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      Lock icon Lighting up the S African election
      58 10 Reuter PRETORIA A supporter of the right-wing Afrikaner Peoples Front (AVF) trying to set fire to a National Party election poster during a meeting at which right-wing leaders declared Pretoria the capital of their "Yolkstaat" or homeland on Saturday. The AVF is refusing to
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      Lock icon New Nafta bank to be located in Texas
      208 10 Reuter SAN ANTONIO. Texas A new bank created to provide up to USS3 billion (554.74 billion) in financing for USMexico border projects as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement will be located here, according to the San A nionio Express-.\eus.
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      Lock icon UK paper uncovers evidence of arms scandal
      165 10 Reuter LONDON Three men were jailed for illegal arms trading with Iran despite British government knowledge of their activities in a case that closely parallels the "arms-to-lraq" scandal, according to a London newspaper. The Independent said on Saturday it had discovered that Britain's
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  • Business IT
    • Article, Illustration
      Aztech launches low cost 16-bit sound card on a chip
      662 11  -  The company aims to have its new "super integrated chip" built into all personal computers. Bernard Cnew learns Bernard Chew FOR Singapore's Aztech Systems Ltd. being world number three in the personal computer sound card business is not enough. Since
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      SCS plans to increase outlets in Australia
      307 11  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY SINGAPORE Computer Systems (SCS) plans to greatly increase the number ot' computer retail outlets in \ustralia through its firanchised company ComputerLand. Last September SCS took over the master franchise in Australia and New Zealand for ComputerLand, described as
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      Creative piles on the pressure
      353 11 HOT on the heels of its new top-of-t he-line AWE 32 sound card. Singapore's Creative Technology has introduced more multimedia upgrade kits, including one with the company's first triple-speed CD-ROM drive. The Digital Edge 3X kit. described by Creative product marketing manager Hoi Chong as
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      All that space won't go to waste; 500 MB drive not far off
      813 11  -  What do people want from hard drives? Claire Leow finds out at the recent Disk Con *94 show in Singapore Claire Leow Remember the first personal computer more than a decade ago that came with 10 megabytes
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      Lock icon Novell to acquire WordPerfect
      330 11 Reuter NOVELL Inc said last week it agreed to buy WordPerfect Corp for about USSI.4 billion (552.21 billion) in stock, creating one of the world's largest software firms with programmes ranging from word processing to electronic mail. The merger would create a new software powerhouse designed
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      OCBC is first Asian bank to buy Tandem's new system
      348 14  -  By Bernard Chew T andem last week sealed a $11 million deal to sell its Himalaya KlO.OOO fault-tolerant computer systems to OCBC Bank -j- its first sale to a bank in Asia. i OCBC chief executive Jony Tan said at
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      IBM says interest in AS/400 systems still strong
      453 14  -  By Bernard Chew IBVI has come out strongly to refute a study by an industry research firm which suggested that interest in its AS/400 mid-range computer systems was waning. The study, by Cambridge. Massachusetts-based. Forrester Research, said the popular mini-computer faced a
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      Taiwan ramps up PC output by 28pc
      380 14  -  By Claire Leow I \INN AN made strides last year as its production of personal computers (PCs! swelled 28 per cent to exceed 3.58 million units valued at USS2.B2 billion (553.60 billion). The dollar value was 29.9 per cent higher than 1992. The
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      Lock icon IntePs test version of P6 expected this year
      129 14 Reuter INTEL Corp president Andrew Grove said the company would produce the first test versions of its next generation microprocessor, codenamed the P6. bv the end of 1994. "We are expecting 'first silicon' by the end of the year on the processor
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    • TECH TAKES
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        TI launches top-end notebooks
        107 14 SINGAPORE Texas Instruments has announced its new Travel Mate 4000E Win DX4/75 notebook computer with an active matrix colour screen. The model is based on the fastest 486-serics Intel computer chip on the market today the DX4/75. which runs at a 75 Mhz clock speed. To
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        Western Digital's Caviar hard disks
        74 14 SINGAPORE Western Digital Corp has announced two new members of its Caviar family of 3.5 inch hard disks: the 1096 MB AC3IOOO and the 730 MB AC2700. The new drives feature enhanced IDE and otTer performance levels the company says will establish new benchmarks. Shipment
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        TI giving away free printers
        42 14 SINGAPORE Texas Instruments Singapore will give away its micro Marc injet printer free, while stocks last. There's one catch, though. You first have to buy the company's microLaser Pro 600 laser printer, which costs 552.549. excluding GST.
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        72 14 SINGAPORE Lotus recently celebrated the first birthday of its "Improv" dynamic spreadsheet by slashing prices a sign that competition is alive and well in the software industry. The new Improv version 2.1 for Windows carries suggested retail price of SS2IS. down from the hefty SSBIS. Among
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        72 14  -  Compiled by Bernard Chew THE Singapore Institute of Management has organised a workshop on Computer Audit and Security which runs from April 18 to 22. Aimed at organisations which are concerned about the security, integrity and confidentiality of data held on computer equipment, the five-day
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      861 15  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Fong Kim Hong kicks off a new series by discussing the dangers of introducing technology without an assimilation plan Fong Kim Hong The writer, a manager with Andersen Consulting, lias helped organisations in various industries implement new technology in
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      599 15 NYT OFFICIALS in charge of Mitsubishi Electric Corp's semiconductor division in Tokyo have been visiting computer and computer parts makers in the United States and South-east Asia the last few months to apologise for a somewhat satisfying situation its inability to meet demand. With orders
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      208 15 Bloomberg Business News AN EIGHTY per cent jump in sales of Win-dows-compatible programs pushed North American software sales to a record USS6.BI billion (5510.7 billion) in 1993. the Software Publishers Association reported last week. Total revenue increased 18.5 per
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      875 16  -  Lin Hsin Hsin plays architect with the latest version of Intergraph's Micro Station Computer Aided Design software Lin Hsin Hsin The writer is an information technologist at Infotech Research and Consultancy. She is the author of Low (o> Ist Byte THESE days, whether composing a
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      710 16  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA). a Brooklyn-hased management consulting and software development firm, and also w rites on I T issues. He contributed this commentary to Business/T. ITS longest-running quest has been the pursuit of that
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      406 16 Mil// 1 Highlights 1993 I Jardine Strategic Further Steady Growth Net assets per share 79% Earnings per share 6% Dividends per ordinary share 9% "The financial strength of each of the Company's strategic investments, the diversity of their businesses and the quality of their management provide good reason for confidence
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      405 17 Goir Reuter PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida Greg Norman shattered scoring records at the US$2.5 million (553.9 million) Players Championship on Saturday to widen his lead to four strokes after three rounds. He completed three rounds without a bogey with a five-under-par 67 that put him at
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      681 17  -  Reports by Shahiron Sahari in HONGKONG AFTER a four-year drought, New Zealand finally won its first Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Invitation Rugby Sevens title since 1989 when it defeated arch-rivals Australia 32-20 in an exciting final yesterday. Returning with a vengeance after losing
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      303 17 SINGAPORE became the first team knocked out of the Hongkong Invitation Rugby Sevens when it lost 19-14 to Sri Lanka in the Bowl competition quarter-finals yesterday. Playing in the opening game of the second-day knockout stage, Singapore shot into a deserved 14-0 lead at half
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      Lock icon Johor edges out Singapore 10-9
      96 17 SINGAPORE The grounds of the Singapore Polo Club thundered with excitement over the weekend as two teams, the Royal Johor A Team and Singapore Mercedes Team, battled for the Mercedes-Benz Cup. Johor beat Singapore in a closely fought match 10-9 to bring back the challenge
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      Lock icon Magic's first practice as coach is 200 minutes of hard work
      576 17 AP INGLEWOOD, California Forget glitz and glamour. It was all work when Magic Johnson held his first practice as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday. The threehour, 20-minute practice was the Lakers' longest of the season. The
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      173 17 AP NEW YORK Babe Ruth's 1930-31 contract, which netted him a then-record US$BO,OOO. sold for almost US$3O,OOO (5547,400) at an auction on Saturday. Ruth's contract, a two-year deal signed in March 1930 with the New York Yankees, and other sports memorabilia brought in
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        94 17 AP BUDAPEST, Hungary World Cross Country Championships Saturday, Senior men 12,060 m Course: 1 William Sigei (Ken) 34min 29sec 2 Simon Chemoiywa (Ken) 34:30 3 Haile Gebresilasie (Eth) 34:32 4 Paul Tergat (Ken) 34:36 5 Khalid Skah (Mor) 34:56 Team Platings: 1 Kenya 34pts 2 Morocco 83 3 Ethiopia
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        43 17 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Saturday: Atlanta 100 Miami 90; Charlotte 121 LA Clippers 109; New Jersey 103 Washington 100, Chicago 90 Indiana 88; Houston 98 Utah 83; Denver 112 Dallas 101; Seattle 113 Minnesota 93; San Antonio 112 Golden State 101. Reuter
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        393 17 AFP Reuter AFP AP JAKARTA New Zealand's Frank Nobilo won the U*****,000 (*****.000) Indonesia Open cham- pionship by three strokes with a three-under par 69 in the final round. Final results: 273 Frank Nobilo (NeZ) 69 67 68 69 276 Jerry Smith (US) 68 72 70 66 277 Philip
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        34 17 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Saturday: Florida 3 NY Islanders 1; Boston 6 Montreal 3; New Jersey 7 Philadelphia 2; Anaheim 3 Hartford 2; Calgary 5 Pittsburgh 3; Toronto 6 Quebec 3. Reuter
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        86 17 Reuter SYDNEY Australian GP 500 cc: 1 John Kocinski (US) Cagiva 2 Luca Cadalora (Ita) Yamaha 3 Michael Doohan (Aust) Honda. Leading standings: I Kocinski 25pts 2 Cadalora 20 3 Doohan 16. 250 cc: 1 Massimiliano Biaggi (Ita) Aprilia 2 Doriano Romboni (Ita) Honda 3 Loris Capirossi (Ita) Honda.
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        71 17 AFP HONG KONG Hongkong Sevens quarterfinals yesterday Bowl: Sri Lanka 19 Singapore 14: Hongkong 21 (twang- Hua Taipei 0; Malaysia 0 Romania 36: Thailand 17 Portugal 24. Plate: US Eagles 14 Ireland 12; Scotland 12 Japan 26: Tonga 17 Papua New Guinea 14; Canada S South Korea 28. Cup:
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        90 17 AP HILTON HEAD ISLAND. South Carolina World No 1 Steffi Graf has withdrawn from the Family Cup Circle due to a knee injury sustained in practice, tournament officials said. Graf, who had been enjoying an injury-free, undefeated season, hurt her left knee on Thursday while practicing in Boca Raton.
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      734 17  -  By Dave Anderson NYT NEW YORK It's inevitable. Sooner or later, Jimmy Johnson or Jerry Jones will file for a Dallas divorce. They're incompatible. And after the latest spat between the Cowboy coach and the Cowboy owner-general manager, it might be sooner instead of later.
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      It pays to help new staff start right
      1647 18 PEOPLE POWER Ideas you can apply Managers should invest time, money and human resources in well-designed orientation programmes The writer is director of customised training at the Service Quality Centre. He can be reached by fax at *****92. Copyright. 1994, Ron Kaufman
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      Seven strategies to deal with change
      791 19  -  Adrian Furnham looks at the different methods used by managers Adrian Furnham The writer is head of the business psychology unit at University College London The trouble with the idea and practice of organisational change is that it is both boring and anxiety provoking.
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      61 19 Lobster with Frosh Fruit T!\>* v Shark's Fin with Spring Chicken k Steamed Duck with Sour Soya Bean Crumbs Tom Yam Prawns i i Sweet and Sour Pork Rib Seasonal Vegetable with J Mushroom E-Fu Noodles with imp Mushroom a >> Daily Dessert Daily 11 am-2.4Spm 6.30pm-10.45pm MAPLE LEAF Restaurant
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      2252 19 INANYANG FINANCE LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANY BALANCE SHEETS AS AT 30 SEPTEMBER 1993 GfIQUP COMPANY ncFcooFD TAMTKW Noli 198} IH2 IWJ 1)12 Deterred taxaton is accounted lor under lit katxkiy metood wtve tax charge A < 9 1 1 lor Iw year is based on toe dsdosed book proOt
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      197 20 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN rB —a, wocoi»oim •'gj' >c from our seafood menu. Sample T"* 1 too our other f specialties like 'g* Bird's Nest A > dishes, Herbal liiiiiii wiiiwww ww "41 NEW /Ca^ones e Lunch S/mp/y •<£££££* Irresistible! Freshly steamed and baked daily! New dishes added
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      872 21  -  What is it that makes Jose Carreras one of the three top tenors in the word? Andrew Lim highlights the unique qualities of his voice Andrew Lim U"W" T DOES not I worry me if I'm I perceived as the I third of the three tenors." is
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      1268 21 TV RADIO Anna, 11.55pm, SBC 5 -J Based on .^fl this series revolves around the -JF .'SB: B She jii-_^^^^Pf| becomes paralysed a moaccident. Her a fleets ■f^l her plans to become a ballen- jQ^HrjH w,/, Wildlife Journeys. 9pm, SBC 12 Tales journeys ha\e inspired mankind throughout "*w J the
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    463 22 AFP. Reuter TOKYO A candidate fielded by Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's coalition force won a gubernatorial election in central Japan yesterday, news reports said. Masanori Tanimoto beat his main rival. Hiroshi Ishikawa, supported by the former ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in
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    Lock icon Computer sales in China jump 43pc to more than US$ 3: report
    253 22 AFP BEIJING Computer product sales in China jumped by 43 per cent last year to more than US$3 billion as economic reform brought modern technology to more and more people, it was reported yesterday. Sales will jump another
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    378 22 AFP Reuter TOKYO North Korea yesterday said US plans to put more sophisticated weapons in South Korea would only push the peninsula towards a "catastrophic war phase". Accusing US Defence Secretary William Perry of launching a weapons build-up, the official Korean Central News Agency
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    Lock icon End of Christian Democrat era as Italians go to the polls
    372 22 Reuter ROME Italy began voting in two-day elections yesterday that will end half a century of Christian Democrat-led government and take the country into uncharted political waters. Three new alliances from the right, left and centre are vying to
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    155 22 Reuter MANILA Philippine and International Monetary Fund negotiators have worked out a provisional economic programme envisaging a 3.5 to 4.5 per cent growth rate for the country this year, official sources said yesterday. The programme, which could be finalised in further talks today, calls
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    921 22  -  The Bottom Line CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING The writer is a B l correspondent FREE traders around the world seored a hig win last December when the long-running Uruguay Round of trade talks at last reached an agreement. It looked
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    186 22 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong billionaire Li Ka Shing is launching a new property project in China costing about HKSI billion (SS2OO million). Beijing-controlled newspaper Hen Wei Po yesterday said the project, undertaken by a unit of Mr Li's flagship Cheung Kong Holdings
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      Inchcape serves up 35pc rise in net earnings to $66.4 m
      635 23  -  By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE International services and marketing group Inchcape Bhd has weighed in with group net earnings of $66.4 million for 1993, up 35 per cent from the $49.3 million the previous year. The results, announced over the
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      Lock icon Interim pre-tax profit at YTL Corp Bhd up 34 per cent
      219 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR YTL Corporation Bhd has reported a 33.84 per cent jump in group pre-tax profit to M 534.964 million (5520.31 million) for the half year ended Dec 31, 1993, from the previous corresponding period. Releasing its unaudited
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      Steel bar price cut may hit Nat Steel earnings: analysts
      263 23 SINGAPORE A cut in steel bar prices could affect NatSteel's earnings this year, investment analysts say. The company announced a 4.3 per cent reduction in reinforcement bar prices when it released its financial results recently. This brings the price of
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      Marriage of Manila's stock markets may not mean a honeymoon rally
      751 23  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE After years of bitter wrangling, the merger of Manila's two rival stock exchanges is finally a reality. A computer link was established between the two bourses on Friday, creating a single-price
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      Tat Lee Finance profit up 68pc, Pan Malayan up 212 pc
      311 23  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Tat Lee Finance Ltd announced a 67.7 per cent jump in its 1993 earnings to $6.87 million, while its sister company. Pan Malayan Holdings Ltd. reported a 212 per cent earnings improvement to 52.72 million.
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      Tat Lee Bank's earnings jump 36pc to $49.35 m
      315 23  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Tat Lee Bank has reported a 36 per cent jump in net earnings to 549.35 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1993. Though not as impressive. Tat Lee's earnings growth is in line with the
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      Lock icon Creative Technology's orders healthy as rival hits doldrums
      412 23 Bloomberg Business News SINGAPORE With a major competitor set to announce a substantial loss, local multimedia hardware manufacturer Creative Technology Ltd says its orders and demand are good. "We have very healthy inventory levels," said K S Chay, Creative's president and chief
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        Petronas to stop awarding new deals to British companies
        373 24 KUALA LUMPUR Petronas will not award future pro-duction-sharing contracts to British companies and oil-giant Shell will be a major casualty, Malaysian press reports said on Saturday. The reports quoted Petronas president Azizan Zainul Abidin as saying the move was in line
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        Lock icon Industrial Oxygen's interim pre-tax profit up 29.6 pc
        287 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Industrial Oxygen Incorporated Bhd (lOl) has reported a 29.6 per cent rise in group pre-tax profit for the halt-year ended Dec 31. 1993. to M 532.85 million (5519.1 million), up from M 525.35 million previously. Turnover for the group
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        Hong Leong Credit gets nod for rights, bonus issues
        204 24 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Securities Commission has approved Hong Leong Credit Bhd's proposed bonus and rights issue. HL Credit has proposed a one-for-three bonus issue of 76.43 million shares of MSI.OO (550.58) each and a rights issue of 38.21 million shares
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        Lock icon Kg Lanjut proposes Promenade acquisition
        260 24 MBT Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kampong Lanjut Tin Dredging Bhd has proposed to acquire a 100 per cent stake in Promenade Development Sdn Bhd for MS 120 million (SS7O million). The acquisition will be satisfied by issuing 14.63 million new Kampong Lanjut ordinary shares of MS
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        OYL in advanced talks to acquire two US companies
        260 24 KUALA LUMPUR OYL Industries Bhd and other partners are in advanced negotiations to buy Snyder General Corp and Snyder General Holding Company. The Star newspaper reported last week that Snyder General Corp is America's leading air-conditioning and air filtration equipment manufacturer.
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          Lock icon HK telecom firm's profit up 42pc
          67 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong telecommunications company Champion Technology Holdings said its profit after tax rose 42 per cent to HKSB6.4 million (5517.4 million) in the first half of the financial year ended Dec 31, 1993. Champion will pay an interim dividend of 1.8
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          Lock icon Dutch Baby profit up 39pc to M$ 15.8m
          107 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Dutch Baby Milk Industries (Malaya) Bhd has announced a 39 per cent increase in after-tax profit to MS 15.84 million (559.18 million) for the financial year ended Dec 31. 1993. Turnover also rose 12 per cent to M 5277.09
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          Lock icon EPE net earnings rise 20pc
          85 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR EPE Power Corp Bhd has reported a 45 per cent jump in its pre-tax profit to M 55.52 million for the financial year ended December 1993. This was achieved on an 18 per cent rise in turnover to M 570.07 million, compared
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          Lock icon Landmarks' purchase of KLTG stake
          127 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Landmarks Bhd will be acquiring two ordinary shares of MSI each and 4.2 million redeemable preference shares of one sen each in KLTG Assets Sdn Bhd. Responding to a KLSE query. Landmarks said KLTG Assets' present paid-up capital is MS2 comprising two
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          Lock icon Gold Coin's pre-tax profit slips lpc
          101 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Gold Coin (M) Bhd reported a one per cent decrease in its pre-tax profit to M 522.945 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1993, from M 523.268 million previously. Releasing its unaudited results here on Friday, it said turnover, however,
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        Lock icon Japan's equity bulls in for a damp squib
        364 25 Reuter TOKYO Japan's equity market bulls are headed for disappointment. They have been ehilling the champagne in preparation for a surge in share prices today the first trading day for settlement in the new fiscal year which they expect to be driven
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        Lock icon HK bourse aiming for improved disclosure
        191 25 Reuter HONGKONG The Stock Exchange of Hongkong says it is proposing listing rules changes to improve disclosure, including forcing banks to reveal their inner reserves within the next two years. The Exchange would consult market participants and advisers on the proposed changes, it said
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        Lock icon Lonrho considers enhanced scrip dividends instead of cash
        229 25 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Lonrho pic is considering giv ing shareholders the choice of enhanced scrip dividends instead of cash, chairman Rene Leclezio told the company's annual general meeting on Friday. The move could save millions of pounds for the agriculture, mining
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        Lock icon Switching on to a brighter future
        67 25 AFP SUBIC, Philippines President Fidel Ramos, flanked by officials of the US Enron Power Corp, inaugurating a 116-megawatt power plant in this former US naval base yesterda>. The new plant the country's fifth in three weeks is a joint venture of Enron Corp and
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        Lock icon Dongfang postpones HK listing
        121 25 Reuter HONGKONG China's Dongfang Electrical Machinery Co has postponed its listing plan in Hongkong mainly due to the recent poor performance of the latest initial public offerings (IPOs), securities sources said. "Dongfang"s Hongkong listing would be postponed to the end of April or May this year."
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        Lock icon US analyst warns against rushing into hedge funds
        539 26 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Mark OstrotT. who advises wealthy families on using alternative investments. has one major piece of advice this year: don't rush into a hedge fund just because it returned 70 per cent last year. Mr OstrofT is a
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        190 26 Reuter ZURICH The takeover by Dutch brewery concern Heineken International Beheer BV of Switzerland's second largest brewer, Calanda Haldengut. has taken another step forward. according to Credit Suisse, which is handling the transaction. Before Heineken launched the current takeover, it already owned 10
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        159 26 Reuter BERLIN The Treuhand agency says it has reached an agreement that will clear the way for Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine to reduce its stake in a controversial oil refinery. The agreement last Friday ended weeks of tortuous negotiations that had cast a
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        249 26 Reuter BRUSSELS Mierosoft Corp worldwide products vice-presi-dent Mike Maples said the software company's future product development would tap into the growth of digital networks and the so-called information highway. Mr Maples told a news conference that Microsoft believed the application of software to
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        773 26 MARKET WATCH An investment strategist sticks his neck out Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK It's a cold, damp day in April. You pick up your newspaper and the headline reads: "Dow Hits 6.500". You're not dreaming, says Jeffrey Applegate. investment
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        Lock icon BSN gets Bank Negara's nod to buy stake in Bank Buruh
        486 27 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN) has received Bank Negara's approval to acquire a stake in Bank Buruh from the Cooperative Central Bank (CCB). BSN ehairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on Saturday said details of the acquisition would be
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        336 27 Reuter PARIS Credit Lyonnais has left traders and analysts reeling at the sheer size of its property exposure and provisions and news of two capital increases to come. "Its property exposure was double what we thought. It's enormous. The market is shocked," said one
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        204 27 Reuter MADRID Shareholders of Banesto voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to take legal action against the Spanish bank's former board and its ousted chairman Mario Conde. A marathon extraordinary general meeting started at noon and went late into the night. Acting chairman Alfredo Saenz said
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          80 27 FT PARIS Societe Generate last year bucked the downturn in the French banking industry to increase net profits by 10.5 per cent to 3.61 billion French francs (***** million) from 3.28 billion francs in 1992. The bank is stepping up its dividend by 6.7 per
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          Lock icon China ups extra interest on deposits
          78 27 Reuter BEIJING Responding to rising inflation, the People's Bank of China raised the additional interest it will pay on long-term bank deposits maturing in April, the Economic Daily reported. It said that, on deposits of more than three years, it will pay an additional
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          80 27 AFP TOKYO Major Japanese commercial banks will become key members of consortia to be formed by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to extend loans to China, a local daily said yesterday. The Bank of Tokyo will head a consortium to
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          Lock icon Offshore banks' assets in Bahrain down
          39 27 Reuter MANAMA Total assets of offshore banking units operating in Bahrain dropped 1.2 per eent to U5560.20 billion in the fourth quarter of 1993 eompared with three months earlier, offieial figures showed. Reuter
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        250 27 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Federal Reserve polio makers considered a larger increase in interest rates last month before settling for a limited advance to avoid shocking financial markets. Minutes of the Fed's Feb 3-4 meeting released yesterdav show that policymakers decided
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        269 27 NYT FRANKFURT The Bundesbank on Frida\ issued a forceful public warning on the mounting risks presented b\ the proliferation of financial derivatives trading in global markets. Financial institutions should take care to install controls to ensure the> had a realistic picture of the
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        347 28 Reuter NEW ORLEANS US oil firms are turning their attention to China and easing away from the former Soviet Union, where a web of bureaucracy and high export taxes make it difficult to exploit its huge untapped
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        253 28 Reuter LONDON Indonesia, leaping up the league of world coeoa produeers. still has not deeided whether to join an international pact on the commodity. the country's Agriculture Minister Sjarifudin Baharsjah said on Saturday. "We are not quite ready yet to enter into production
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        168 28 Reuter LONDON Coffee producing and consuming members of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) have the basis for a new administrative pact after a week of talks, an ICO spokesman said. "We have the basis for a new agreement. Outstanding issues have been solved
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        243 28 Reuter NEW DELHI India is exploring the possibility of exporting 500.000 tonnes each of wheat and rice from its stocks after bumper foodgrain production in 1993/94. a top government official said. "We are exploring the possibilities of exporting half a million tonnes each
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        303 28 Reuter WARSAW The government's economic committee (Kerm) approved late on Friday a plan to group Poland's state-owned sugar refineries into at least three holdings, the government press office said in a statement. Under the plan. 70 state refineries would be divided into three or
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        206 28 THE USS started the week on a high firm rate with evident weakness in the yen but dropped towards the weekend led by strength in the Deutschemark. Market focus centred on news from the Korean front, the Whitewater affair. German M 3 and money
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        710 29  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By James Foo MMS International SINGAPORE The dollarmark was pushed higher on Monday to 1.7017 as traders speculated that the Fed woujd increase US interest rates later in the week. However, selling emerged when the Fed announced a 25 basis points increase as
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        1155 29 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP LONDON Silver reached its highest level for over four years last week, trading at USSS.B2 an ounce on Friday at midday, as US investment funds fought to push the price higher, lifting it 40 cents last week. In
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      1374 29 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 94 152.50 152.50 154 00 2200 800 May 157.00 155.00 156.50 1525 2 WO Jun 157 00 1050 7.075 Jul/Sep 158 00 2775 5.625
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      5122 30 CORPORATE RESULTS Nrt Kara KPS Date n l\ n L\ I <>iitpan\ ann (Nml (>m) (rts> Ids) \BK HIJus Mar II I I 407 2 851 V2 7 .U \una Mai I 7 I* 41 >44 14.268 62 6 2' I \polk> Vb l> I' I
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      754 30 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 1(X). In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        703 31 New York FT RISING interest rates, fresh revelations in the Whitewater atTair, an assassination in Mexieo and the threat of war between the two Koreas: last week's news was bad enough to satisfy the gloomiest pessimist. No wonder shares on Wall Street took
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        400 31 London AFP SHARE prices plummeted on the London Stock Exchange last week after a series of poor indicators, including higher-than-expected inflation figures, dashed hopes of a cut in British interest rates. The FT-SE 100 index of 100 leading shares fell briefly through
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        387 31 Tokyo AFP SHARE prices plunged in Tokyo last week with investors concerned about the unstable Latin American political situation and refraining from active trading ahead of the start of fiscal 1994 on April I. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed at
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        Delisting of Jardine units fails to deter index from rising
        440 31 Hongkong THE HSI closed up at 9.234.21 for the week. Turnover finally picked up. though not to the January levels. The major news of the week was the delisting announcements of both Jardine Matheson and Jardine Strategic. Significantly. a clear
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          121 31 Australian shares closed the week lower on Friday as investors focused on fears of an interest rate hike in the United States, brokers said. The key market barometer. the All Ordinaries index. eased ahead of the US Federal Reserve decision to raise rates on Tuesday. After the US decision,
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          144 31 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), spurred by an easing of maintenance margin rules, gained 33.23 points (2.7 per cent) for the week to close at 1.280.07. The average daily volume for the week was 64.7 million shares, up sharply from 49.4 million shares the week before. The average
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          102 31 Selling pressure pushed down the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) last week, forcing the market index down below the 500 mark. The JSE index, which dropped below the psychological 500 barrier on Tuesday to hit 485.466. inched up during the remainder of the week but finished short of the previous
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          85 31 Share prices edged up slightly on Saturday, but trading remained bearish. The Composite Price Index closed Saturday's halfday session at 872.68. up 4.65 points from Friday but down 21.31 points from a week ago. Daily turnover averaged 3.2 million shares worth USSS93 million. During the week, the market had
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          114 31 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange chalked up fairly good gains in light trading during the week ending on Friday. After a 52.76-point drop the preceding week, the 374issue weighted price index regained 78.06 points, or 1.5 per cent, over the week to settle at 5.352.87 points on
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          78 31 Share prices dipped sharply on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) although average daily business volumes marked an improvement in India's largest bourse during the trading week. The 30-shares BSE sensitivity index closed on Friday at 3.678.16 points, losing 123.74 points over the previous week's close of 3.801.90 points. The
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        745 31 -46.07 Blue-chip stocks ended lower on Friday, closing off the market's worst week in more than four years with a steep drop. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 46.07 points at 3.775.02. On Thursday, the key index crumbled 48.37 points, bringing the week's loss to nearly 121
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        Toronto
        329 31 -38.98 Stocks dropped deeper at midday on Friday into an abyss dug by prime rate increases. "They raised primes. I don't see any other reason for it. Gold was better this morning and you don't see the Dow getting creamed." one dealer said. Canada's major banks hiked their prime
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        5654 32 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Heavy liquidation by foreign fund managers amid bearish investor sentiment caused share prices here to tumble last week. Trading was volatile with bargain hunting outmatched by selling by both retail and institutional players, causing the benchmark Composite Index to end
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        1926 34  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Trading this week is forecast to be subdued, as investors are expected to keep a watchful eye on the recent adverse global developments and the performance of the US market that helped depress prices at the end of last
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      339 35  -  Vessel-sharing agreement to start in July By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Denmark's Maersk Line is expanding its coverage of the Central American market through a vessel sharing agreement with US carrier. Sea-Land. The agreement between the two carriers will start in July
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      Unithai plans more services in next 2 years with expansion of fleet
      369 35 BANGKOK Unithai Line. Thailand's leading shipping company, plans to expand its services to China, Vietnam, the Middle East. South Africa and the US in the next two years, the Bangkok Post said last week, quoting Unithai Group executive
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      389 35 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will strictly enforce its laws according to the spirit and intent of the Basel Convention in dealing with ships found to be carrying out desludging activities in areas under its jurisdiction. "If the disposal is
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      275 35 AFP SEOUL South Korea has pledged to cut off government financial support to local shipbuilders. responding to international worries over a global over-capacity, government officials said last Friday. The government pledge followed an international trade meeting convened last week in Paris under
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        2055 36 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From A< i lilac 029A 29 0/00 IB 2/1500 27/1659 27 1900 3 28 0/00 ?8 1159 28 1400 4 28,1200 28
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11753 44 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1107 51 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1, 190 on Thursday from 1,179 on March 23. Panamax time-charter rates in the Atlantic are firmer, but hoth charterers and owners appear to he at a stand off. brokers said. I he new building 70,(XH)
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      423 51 COURSES I itle: Container Survey Duration: Apr 4-18 Organiser: Port of Singapore Authority lei: For further details/registration contact SPI at 321-1707/321-1824/321-1825 or fax: 321-1416. Title: Marine Insurance (SDF 50%) Duration: Apr 4 May 16 Organiser: Singapore National Shipping Association Tel: For further details/registration contact SNSA at 278-3464 or
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      845 52 With the expansion of facilities large enough to handle 50,000 tonne panamax cargoes at Port Klang, the US may finally be able to ship its corn to South-east Asia Knight-Ridder ANAMAX cargoes I U of US corn and oth- er
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        World airlines likely to lose US$ 4.5b: Iata
        312 54  -  Reports by Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Battered by recession, the high cost ol borrowing and over-capacity, world airlines are likely to post losses of close to US$4.5 billion (SS7.I billion) for 1993. Giving the figure, the di-rector-general of the International Air Transport Association
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        Air Russia postpones operations till '95
        314 54 SINGAPORE Air Russia, the first joint-venture international airline between the former Soviet Union and a Western carrier, has postponed the start of operations until 1995. Director Geoff Bridges told Business Times: "All our plans were finalised but recent upheavals and the fluid Russian political
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        149 54 AFP SYDNEY Australia Air International, which has rights to fly to China, is getting close to take off, the new airline's boss, Colin Hendrick, said here yesterday. He told the Channel Nine television network that Australia Air should be flying within the next
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          69 54 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR United Parcel Services (UPS) will increase its package limit to 70kg starting today in Australia. Hongkong, Indonesia. Malaysia. Singapore. South Korea. Taiwan and Thailand. The new weight limit applies in both UPS Worldwide Express and UPS Worldwide Expedited Service. In a
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          Lock icon JAL will not hire certain staff
          80 54 AFP TOKYO Japan Airlines Co Ltd (JAL) will not hire new ground staff or flight attendants in the fiscal year beginning April 1995, for the second straight year due to sluggish business, a spokesman said last week. The move is part of JAL's streamlining
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          Lock icon Renault forms van venture in China
          99 54 Reuter BEIJING Regie Nationale des Usines Renault and Sanjiang Aviation Group of Hubei have jointly set up a USSIOO million (SSI36 million) venture to make family vans in Wuhan, the Hubei Daily said last week. The venture, Sanjiang Renault Auto Ltd. is owned 45
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          Lock icon Toyota to set up plant in Argentina
          98 54 AFP TOKYO Japan's Toyota Motor Corp said last Friday it planned to set up a joint venture in Argentina with a local partner Decaroli SA to make and sell Toyota's commercial vehicles, starting at the end of 1996. The new company, Toyota Argentina
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          Lock icon Fiji, NZ to meet again on air services
          104 54 AFP SUVA New Zealand and Fijian officials announced last Friday they would meet again soon following four hours of talks here over a disputed air services agreement. "Following today's meeting. the delegations are expected to report to their governments on the exchange
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        Lock icon After landing one record, 9-year-old aims for another
        73 54 Reuter LANCASTER Rachel Carter, 9, from Julian, California, rests after she landed in on Saturday. Rachel set up a new one-way transcontinental flight record starting in Montgomery field in San Diego on March 20 and finishing in Brookhaven, New York, on March
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        Lock icon UAL, unions reach accord on buyout
        388 54 Reuter CHICAGO United Airlines and two of its unions have cleared away last-minute obstacles and reached agreement on a buyout of the airline that will create the largest US employeeowned company, parent company UAL Corp said last Kriday. The agreement between United, the Air
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        Lock icon British Airways cuts fares to lure leisure travellers
        392 54 Reuter LONDON British Airways pic (BA) cut selected fares by up to a half last Fridav in a hid to win British leisure passengers hack from other airlines and from discount "bucket shops" that buy up unsold seats from airlines. "We are
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      423 36 OTSKUNE AGENCIES (S) PTE. LTD. T TT WmTTI Tel: 226-3363 J. •3«l\« I J l\l r. Fax: 226-1972/3 W Tlx: RS *****/TSKSIN. TOKYO SENPAKU KAISHA, LTD. CR No: **********0N I Itamm m PAC MWOW 0228 23.03 25.03 29.03 02.04 04.04 01.04 08.04 09.04 10.04 jj CYfMNE 07t 30.03 03.04 ACX
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      2012 37 ■I J1.1.M MJUm J THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VESSELS VOY ETA EXCHANGE RATE ETA ETA ETA MAERSK TACOMA 9406 28/3 1.5915 29/3 31/3 01/4 CARDIGAN BAY 5636 28/3 1.5915 29/3 31/3 01/4 VILLE DE VEGA 9404 28/3 29/3 31/3 01/4 EUROPEAN SENATOR 9405 30/3 1.5900 05/4 31/3 01/4 MARCHEN MAERSK 9403
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      1599 38 AQABA R'DAM/ LE ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDDAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE 9 WE gj MALAYSIA KATSURAGI 20/112 30/3 16/4 19/4 17/4 p Qft Kelang, Penang KITANO 24/312 2/4 11/4 18/4 2Q/4 23/4 ?5/4 27/4 Pasir Gudang KAMAKURA 33/113 6/4 23/4 26-4
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      667 38 FCL Breakbulk Service to: AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Sole Foreign Forwarder in Kabul for all services C.I.S.- Vostochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku, Irkutsk, Alma Ata North Korea Vietnam Mongolia t Hungary FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO NORTH/WEST AFRICA VESSEL SIN DKR Ned Oceania V 2074 29/3 27/4 Ned
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      1864 39 M STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW guinea pacific une ctWbp <a service of china navigation co> CARGO W* SAILS RAJAH BROOKE VO9E Muara. Lab 26 t2B Mar 29 Mai 30 Mar FCL> LCL CONTAINER ANO MEAKBULK SERVICE
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      3221 39 SINGAPORE AGENT: 1 «iAt*C P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd B I\l W m j! Bill rm 11 M 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 X Tel 225 2233 Telex RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 V W V CR Number **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT j VESSEL
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      626 40 If m GENERAL AGENT C R NO H*****-OOOOD ifK EKA JAYA AGENCIES TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE MYAHMAR TRADE PAGER 1 HANDPHONE/DIRECT WLIAM WTf *****26 *****06/S3SSSM AMOJ 7 HO CHI MIHH CITY HENRY HOE 2HM24 727tt«/M4IW KELVIN CHAN i'WB HM7a/M«W ►TO MYANMAR/YANGON »> SEMI CONTAINER
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      2028 40 HANJIN SHIPPING BOOKING TEL:- *****35-237 OPERATION TEL: *****41-253 SALES TEL:- *****22-233 DOCUMENT TEL: *****71-275 FDR VSI SIN LINE HAUL SEA TVR POX F0« VSI S* IIK H*W SAV IN NYC HANJIN HAMBURG 017E l 4 DIRECT 22/4 23/4 24/4 HANJIN HAMBURG 017E 1 4 KEEIUNG 0471 5'5 (75 1/5 HANAN
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      2379 41 I sf II PLEASE DIAL 1-800-*****00 (TOLL-FREE) II HSB I| FOR ALL BOOKINGS (NOL SERVICES) II *ff| connecting California Pogasus Voy 21 in HK6 23/04/94 II H *112 Connecting California Jupiter ¥oj 72E in HK6 30/04/94 l| jr *113 Connecting Neptune Cyprine Voy 001 in HKG 07/05/94 EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW
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      1233 41 A MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD wm (a member of SMSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64. *****51. *****31. *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS: KL: 03-*****75/697 PKLG:
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      1705 42 44 AS AGENTS "IT LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CM No: **********0 M) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX *****-6/7 8 9 W T MALAYSIA "K" UNI MMITIMI (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I B B TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 I A INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA IAIIT
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      1243 42 ©APPENSHIP /2\ HAMBL KG V«V CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSELS LOADING PORTS DISCHARGE LOADING FOR HONESTY SZE 16/02 HAM 22/02 SPORE 28/03. LAEM BKK SUMMER SZE 14/03 BREMEN 18/03 SPORE 26/04 BKK FRUITION KLA 28/03 ANT 05/04 SPORE 05/05 BKK LORELEY HAM
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      1058 43 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 1 I 140 Cecii street> #03 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I CR WO: **********06 «iiyjifjaii» r-t--———■wwpii. wmrnmmmm VESSEL VOV SIN SKK SIN VESSEL VOV SIN JKT SM SMMANEE (THAI FLAG) MNI3N 29/3 1/4 5/4 KUATO7SUBV 5N 30/3 2/4 6/4 5 KOTA EAGLE (BMT) EAI2N
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      1364 43 VCSSUS VOT SM I HAMKOtG ROTTERDAM AW WAT IHA»*S U HAR« \fltLt M «GA 9932W 29/03 22/04 24/04 25/04 20/04 27/04 Will H VCSTA 7432W 07/04 01/05 03/05 04, OS 05/ OS o</0S mi H TIT AHA TO3W 12/04 OS/OS 07/05 00/05 09/05 10/05 Wit Of rUC ANA 40 JW
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      398 43 I BSA mm MYANMA pBBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loadinf for Yangon (Ranjoon) Spore P. Klj Pen P.Gdg PAGAN V2OSN 2/ 3 Apr HPA-AN N2OIN 8/10 Apr PAGAN V2O9W 15/17 Apr MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAO SWPWG AGENCfS KU. m 03-*****00 PHI TU 03-300(707 PIN m 04 *****5 PCD: TU
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      54 45 1/C VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD g| Established Since 1984 OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR GROUPAGE lcl consolidation AUCKLAND SYDNEY import export mmm fREHANTLE SERVICES FOR BOOKING ft SAILING SCHEDULE, CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800 *****66 TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800
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      1210 46 "^_^:*+<=<}[<&!,^^`[(&@';\{`@]^ /^NORBUU^ I NORBULK cargo services ltd. 1 I REGULAR CONVENTIONAL I I TIMBER AND PLYWOOD SERVICES ISP PK LOADING FOR MLAGRO 5/4 10/4 FLU/ANT/UK AOAMASTOS 10/4 5/4 FIU/ANT/NAN/UK ISP PK LOAOMG FOR NORBULK TBN 5/4 D6N/CT AiSO LOADS T6 MMi AND KK PK SWK/SABAH LOAOMG FOR NORBULK NAMR 15/4
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      190 46 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND !~VV S* htm I I*l* St<l «»■<* f Q«tn MUIWIRfIN J2SM 14/4 575 17/4 hi >/>' clun huuc m 1575 H75 i 575 i75~ t/i HtUSSCI 127 575 1775 17/5 575 2S/S Wi MMrtw j?1 575 i 75 5/5 i 2/« tv»* Vl* 4UCKIM® TO USA/CANADA «i
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      686 47 /jg FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES —10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 2/4 ROTTERDAM 30/3 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 274 HAMBURG/BREMEN 3/4 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 30/3 FELIXSTOWE/UK 30/3 BARCELONA/SPAIN V 4 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 30/3 GENOA/ITALY 4/4 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 3/4 LOS ANGELES/WC/m 31/3 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 29/3 NEW YORK/EC 31/3 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 1/4 VANCOUVER 30/3
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      1018 47 MAHA BHUM 203H W»d 30/3 Sat 2/4 1 WANA BHUM 222S Tin 5/4 S.t t/4 fc DEJA BHUM 45H Unn 4/4"" «77~ M VIWA BHUM 14N Fri 1/4 Mon 4/4 I SWA BHUM 4SS Fn t/4 Tua 12/4 qcja QIIUM 4557 Frt 8/4 Sat 9/4~~ NANTA BHUM H7N Sal 2/4
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      663 47 Guaranteed Sailings to.BANGKOK LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA PENANG HONGKONG We also serve other ports: USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATIONS TEL: *****33 (12 Lineo) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lineo) ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL
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      1666 48 BjfcßMN CONTAINER LINES, INC IZKi/VVlAflents: MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) LJ \s J C /n NK i2OOf79«MOK SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHING (082) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKI SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK
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      216 48 I SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD lift lift H« SPOftf rani HUANG PfNftNG BIUI IftK 3 4 loading toi Mjir KUVAI MUDHU 10 4 DistlMrgffli! jnd luddir,' tor iMbay (XXPHN ft 3 I Oddity foe Mate PIOMIER SUMIME 71 3 lo*fcrg Fof Mjk UMftEDH ft 3 loading
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      1062 48 O THONG SOON LINES PTE LTD I 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I Vy W TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I V_ TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I rwo«M *oom, I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL Nor SPORE PEST VESSEL VOY S'PORE PEST EQUATOR ROYAL
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      643 49 WpV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTKK BKMBU.K SOC CMGOCS TO FROM KOK. YOKOHAMA NAGOTA. MO*. TOKYO*. MANIA* OAVAO*. Penant* P. Kelanj Smjapore E'Msu* WYEVERETT VSE 04/05 Apr 06/07 Apr KAMALEVERETT V2OE 24/25 Apr 26/27 Apr SHAPIAEVERETT V2OE 30/01 May ACCtPTMG BREAKBU.K FCL SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHITTAGONG. CALCUTTA AND
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      249 49 Bt 6LORY NAVIGATION CROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0N SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 30/3 1/4 7/4 16/4 GLORY SELATAN V 31/3 2/4 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN IX 28/3 31/3 3/4 7/4
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      594 49 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE vessel vor sw karach SARGOOHA 141 HW 07 04 17/04 KAPIAI H5-HW 09/04 ?l/04 ISLAMABAD i?i Hw M/ 05 19/05 MAKRAN L 147 HW 10/05 70,05 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL vor SIH HKG BSN OS* IMG TOK MARRAM l<t
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      707 49 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/P. ELIZABETH CAPETOWN/LAGOS VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS TAOHE/82 26/03 10,04 11/04 13/04 20/04 MAN HE/82 II 04 25/04 26/04 28/04 OS/OS HUIHE/104 26/04 10/ OS 11/ OS 13/05 20/05 VI HE ,98 I I/OS 2S/05 26/ OS 28, 05 SHUNHE/103 08/06
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      315 49 SjN FAR EAST 02/04 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 02/04 BANGKOK 03/04 MANILA/CEBU 03/04 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 04/04 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 03/04 BUSAN 03/04 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 03/04 HONG KONG SIN CHjNA m*±mma) 03/04 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DAL lAN SHANGHAI/ XINGANG TIAN JIN QINGDAO/ HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SjN EUROPE/UK 04/04 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 04/04 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to
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      789 50 Handling System Co. Ptc. Ltd. 136 138, Neil Road, #03-00, Singapore 0208 XT7 \T7 4 CFS-20, Gul Road, Singapore 2262 Tel: 02-*****28 Handling System Co. Sdn. Bhd. N0.9 LoronK C unnah, 4204 M) Port Klann. Svlanjjor. Malavsia 24th Floor. IMBC Main Buildinu. 54NHNI Kuala l.umpur. Mala>sia Handling System (Ilk) Co.
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      446 50 p' Con term Oj CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 31 MARCH (Accepting to *11 New Zealand porta) PENANG 01 APR JAKARTA 03 APR PORT KLANG 01 APR BANGKOK 03 APR MANILA 03 APR HONGKONG 03 APR MELBOURNE 31 MAR SYDNEY 31 MAR FREMANTLE 01 APR BRISBANE 31 MAR 02
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      597 50 This Week's Sailings II MRS I FORW ARDE R IN To: KID To: KID asia aw akdkd Singapore Singapore ls<) 9002 BY LRQA KVKRY KVKRY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SL N KVKRY KVKRY kM Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI [sficJSj JL KVKRY KVKRY Colombo ILK Limassol IHL'R INTERNATIONAL SEA FREIGHT
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      132 50 ETA ETD LOADING FOR NANA 25 MAR 27 MAR PHNOM PENH TROPICAL ROSE 30 MAR 31 MAR PHNOM PENH JUN 3 30 MAR 31 MAR PHNOM PENH (30 TON DERRICK AVAILABLE) THE NEW STRAITS SHIPPING CO. (PTE) LTD 51 ANSON ROAD #09 S3 ANSON CENTRE SINGAPORE 0207 TEL: *****07/*****22 TLX
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      1204 51 CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD U BSg TEL NO: *****88/*****88 rl/1« FAX: *****88 3? asiam poets 1 kw gAuuß/mrmw I a—« BANGKOK 1/4 AUCKLAND 31/3 ANTWERP 4/4 BUSAN 2/4 ADELAIDE 31/3 FELIXSTOWE 30/3 HONGKONG 30/3 BRISBANE 14/4 3/4 JAKARTA <;/4 FREMANTLE 1/4 ROTTERDAM 3/4 jnrvnn i n j/h SURABAYA 5/4
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      198 51 rffgts CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN Nsgg) National Line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO UK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS nauak mmeoßum MI7 ib»/w m/M ma m wa> wim »/«i i?/m U'/w I ihu m/m »/m «t* I WLU Dt KST» 7Vm»| M M 79/ M M/M K/K li/ti tt/ti HWWPg MIH
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      288 51 LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.30 I PORTS *0Y BUENOS MONTEWEO DURBAN MKARTA psswa?n WOW KONQ KAPOSI—A NAOOYA YOKOHAMA «MIH MBI— PEKABRIIT MOT MUO 1MB) tAMXO 24-27/01 IMM>4 07/04 11 13/04 IQ/Q4 N- mjWWW OM MUD lAUP 24/03 0400/04 1014/Q4 U/M IHI/M > 10W IK EBOB nM/Ol 21/03 07/04 20/04
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      473 52 NORTH PHILIPPINES PULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE I SMGAPORE MANIA LHOTSE 9401N 01/04 (FRI) 09/04 (SAT) LHOTSE 9401 AW 04/04 (MOW) 09/04 (SAT) rJSKSL22L VIGOUR PACFIC 9415W I 08/04 (FRI) 16/04 (SAT) HOMT NV mxwht VIGOUR PACffIC 9415 AW I 11/04 (MOW) 16/04 VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE I GENERAL SANTOS) DAVAO
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      185 52 G® AMY ON HOLIDAYS IVHEN YOU SHIP WITH US ,IRI AKIU,LK CONSOLIDATION SERVICES l*Tt LTI) UaSatJU Kb HOLM 37 1-UM.HI Mill Mivi.ij«h- <>2<m 1.1 12 ■> "332 t w 224 3343 PT BAHARI HALUAN SAMUDERA Weekly COMMON FEEDER SERVICE VESSEL VOV SW6ATOKE POM KELAN6 BCLAWAH TAMBANG VIII 1018 04 05/04
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      174 52 I JL cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOB: A VESSEL 28/03 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.G LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 15/04' 20/04 Huartgpu/Guangzhou COSCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CMNA/BANGK OK/HONGKONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Please refer
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      20 52 STRAIGHT TALK You shouldn't have to read between the lines to get the full picture. Companies Markets. Everyday. BusmessDmes mmmmam
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      688 52 TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOUR 0000 0100 0?00 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 OSOO 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 ft 29 26 21 1.5 09 OS 04 OS 01 1.5 2.4 29 3.1 30 25 1.1 12 07 OS
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      916 53 I HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 PNA* PKE* PGP* VESSELS VOY SIN RTM *NT- LEH* HAM BREt PEL 23/03 25/03 26/03 NOR FRBOURG 310W 04/04 22/04 23/04 25/04 23/04 23/04 26/04 30/03 01/04 02/04 H. CHALLENGER 309W 11/04 30/04 01/05 03/05 01/05 01/05 04/05
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      523 53 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS HSStI »OY V Ml HOC RK OR MCE MOON V5O 12/1 11 4 14 4 It 4 CHAMMO* TRMKR V3I 4 4 14 HEISMUH *27 31 I 1 4 4 4 C/l TIMS MTO MS S MAIGI SRI Vl7
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      943 53 JEDDAH/UK/CONTINENT S PORE ItD S lON HBURG RDAM LIH Aho Acceptnj C*|o F« RAISURAGI 20,112 30/3 l(/4 19 4 21/4 Souttumplor to al UK MMM. BriM and OMto RIIANO 24/312 2/4 11/4 20/4 23/4 25/4 27/4 Rott«<Um to al Antwerp Amsterdam (Mi. Htfea* KAMARURA 33/113 6/4 23/4 2t/« 2S/4 Southampton
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      118 54 Tomorrow in Business Times The following shipping lines wish to inform all Singapore shippers and consignees of containers in the above trade route that Terminal Handling Charge of Sslls per 20ft box and Ssl7s per 40ft box is applicable and shall be payable only in Singapore. The above will take
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