The Business Times, 1 April 1994

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    14 1 Business Times E KSOW ASIA M ITA( P) 010/12/93 Friday April 1 1994 75*
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      Lock icon Pearson to buy US software publisher
      49 1 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Pearson pic, a UK media and publishing company, plans to expand into interactive multi-media by buying the US software publisher Software Toolworks for US$462 million (SS72O million). Pearson yesterday said it would offer U5514.75 for each Software Toolworks share.
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      Lock icon Mobil buys 25pc stake in second Viet Mock
      68 1 Bloomberg Business News FAIRFAX, Virginia Mobil Corp has acquired a 25 per cent stake in its second block of acreage offshore Vietnam where it will explore for oil. The second-largest US oil company yesterday said it bought the stake in Block from
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  • Article
    MARKET SUMMARY
    163 1 Stock market indices Thursday Change ST1I 2,080.9 -47.49 KLSEComp 952.72 -14.05 Nikkei 19,111.92 -447.99 Hang Seng 9,029.91 -202.30 SET Index 1,239.99 -7.34 Jakarta Comp closed CLSA China B ....1,023.62 -6.65 Aust All Ord 2,053.1 -39.3 FTSE 100 3,086.4 -6 Thursday Previous lpm close Dow Jones 3,582.70 3.626.75 Average
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    OSA trial: all five accused found guilty and fined
    700 1  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE All five men charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act (OSA) were yesterday found guilty and fined between $1,500 anil $6,000 each. Senior District Judge Richard Magnus said the prosecution had proven its case on the eleven
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  • Article
    Bank Negara loses M$5.7b, governor expected to quit
    626 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S central bank declared a staggering loss of over M 55.7 billion (553.3 billion) last year due to "judgement errors" in foreign exchange transactions, forcing the government to throw a life-line to keep the bank financially
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    Lock icon Intervention slows rise of ringgit
    136 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The ringgit closed oft" the day's high yesterday against the US dollar on intervention by the eentral bank, brokers said. "Bank Negara was very aggressive, buying the dollar from around 2.6750 to 2.6870." one dealer said. "Offshore players eontinue to sell the
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    Regional stock markets take a knock
    151 1 SINGAPORE All the region's stock markets fell yesterday in sympathy with Wall Street's tumble. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 72.27 points in heavy trading on Wednesday to close at 3,626.75 on fears that interest rates will rise further. The long-bond yield climbed to
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    URA to sell Marina South land for world-class theme park
    381 1  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE The Urban Redevelopment Authority is releasing a 19-hectarc site at Marina South for a theme park a move aimed at bolstering Singapore's reputation as a tourist destination. The sale by tender, jointly conducted with the Economic
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    Lock icon Heavy selling drives Dow nearly 70 points lower
    514 1 Reuter, AP NEW YORK Heavy selling weakened the stock market yesterday for the sixth straight day, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average down nearly 70 points and raising more anxiety about whether a 3 1/2-year-long rally on Wall Street was over. The
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      28 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 13 Is pessimism over broking stocks justified? Bank Negara: 1 he fight against speculators is not over yet. Page 3 Full reports, Pages 18-22
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      3 MPs and Amara tee off Qingdao projects
      359 2  -  $20m hotel to be built on golf-course development By Yong Pow Ang AMARA Hotel Properties is developing a resort hotel in Qingdao, Shandong Province, on a golf course being developed by three Singapore Members of Parliament. Third Dragon Development Pte Ltd. a
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      Heavy goods vehicles: no double COE rates but higher registration fees
      281 2 HEAVY goods vehicles will no longer pay double COE premium rates hut registration fees will rise starting today. The Registry of Vehicles (ROV) yesterday said all heavy vehicles weighing three tonnes fully loaded, registered with category 5 or 7
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      Michael Fay's appeal dismissed
      416 2 THE High Court yesterday dismissed American student Michael Fay's appeal against his sentence of four months' jail and six strokes of the cane for vandalising two cars. Chief Justice Yong Pung How. who noted that Fay had also vandalised 16 other cars, told a packed court
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      Telecom gears up for its video-on-demand trial project
      294 2 SINGAPORE Telecom is gearing up to launch a video-on-de-mand trial project in what would be its first step into the emerging technology of interactive multi-media. Telecom would be the second company in Asia to explore VOD. Asia's pioneer. Hongkong Telecom, will launch
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      Wah lau a, use Singlish also kena fine ah?
      341 2 THE DAYS of cannot meh and damn terok man and other such Singlish terms may be numbered. The government plans to set up a committee to look into the proliferation of the use of Singlish terms on products such as watches
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      Response to property auctions reflects buoyant market
      223 2 RESPONSE to two property auctions indicates that demand is still buoyant, estate agents say. Knight Frank Chcong Hock Chye and Baillieu sold four out of 17 properties at auction yesterday. And Jones Lang Wootton said five out of 10 put up for sale
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article, Illustration
      Central bank posts first operating loss
      605 3  -  Bank Negara annual report Reports by Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S economy is poised to grow a strong 8.4 per cent in 1994. However, Bank Negara said it is paying a heavy price in its fight against inflation in order to sustain
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      Fight against speculators not over yet
      404 3 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara governor Jaflar Hussein reiterated yesterday that the fight against ringgit speculators was not over yet and cited the inflow of hot money as one of two threats to the banking system and the economy. The other threat is the creation
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      Lock icon KLSE plans more investment instruments
      140 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. which saw one of its best performances last year, is planning to provide investors with a wider choice of investment instruments for 1994 as a further step towards contributing more liquidity into the equity market. Bank Negara
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon S Koreans to get 5-8.7pc pay rises
        103 3 AFP SEOUL South Korean labour and management leaders have agreed on a pay rise of between 5 and 8.7 per eent for this year, an employers group said yesterday. The agreement was reaehed on Wednesday between negotiators from the Korea Employers Federation (KEF)
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        Lock icon 10,000 Viet families face famine
        104 3 AFP HANOI The Vietnamese authorities have appealed for aid for more than 10.000 families in northern Vietnam who are facing (amine after drought destroyed crops in the province of Lao Cai, a report said yesterday. About 4.900 families have been suffering from food shortages for
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        Lock icon Guangdong trade team in Cambodia
        80 3 AFP PHNOM PENH The deputy governor of southern China's Guangdong province and other top provincial officials are spending a week in Cambodia to look for investment and business opportunities, officials said yesterday. The group arrived on their week-long stay on Sunday and has looked at
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        Lock icon India to buy Russian rocket engines
        101 3 AFP BANGALORE India is to purchase cryogenic rocket engines from Russia, but plans for technology transfer have been dropped under pressure from the US. the head of India's space agency said. Udupi Ramachandra Rao. speaking on the eve of his retirement after 10 years
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        Lock icon Earthquake hits Mindanao
        84 3 Reuter ILIGAN, Philippines An earthquake shook the north-eastern area of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines on Wednesday night, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, seismologists said. Residents of lligan port city, 800 km south of Manila, ran into the streets when the tremor,
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      Lock icon Viet power line to start service in May
      273 3 AFP HANOI A 500-kilovolt power line running the length of Vietnam, a first for the country and its largest infrastructure project ever, will enter into service in mid-May. about one month behind schedule, an official report said yesterday. The Communist Party's Shan
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      Lock icon Petronas tops Asiaweek's net profit rankings again
      479 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is tops again in terms of net profit in a ranking by Asiaweek of Asia's 500 largest industrial enterprises. It retained its pole position despite a 1.6 per cent decline in net profit to US$l.6l billion
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      Idemitsu joins UK-Aussie group in Cambodia oil hunt
      387 3  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE A consortium led by British oil explorer Premier Oil Pacific Ltd has signed an agreement with Japan's Idemitsu Oil Gas Ltd to jointly explore for oil in offshore Cambodia close to the Gulf of Thailand. Premier's managing director
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      Lock icon Thai govt suffers setback as Senate backs opposition's charter amendments
      474 3  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK PRIME MINISTER Chuan Leekpai's ruling coalition, seeking pro-democracy constitutional amendments, suffered a major setback yesterday when the army-dominated Senate backed an opposition draft instead. Although it wasNi procedural vote, it marked the first time
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      Experts say China holds key to any compromise on Spratly
      549 3 Manila's call for talks on demilitarisation hailed MANILA The Philippine call for talks on demilitarising the disputed Spratly islands has been cautiously welcomed by fellow claimants, but regional experts and officials say China holds the key to any compromise. The
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Foreign firms in China may buy forex at previous day's mid-rate
      384 4  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE From today, foreign enterprises in China may buy foreign exchange at swap centres at the previous day's mid-rate of trading on the interbank market, the Chinese government announced early this week. This is a compromise
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      Lock icon Beijing starts price-checking campaign in desperate struggle to contain inflation
      441 4 AFP BEIJING China launches today its latest plan to control prices and investments in an effort to rein in galloping inflation. but experts doubt it will be effective and consider the target of 10 per cent set for this year
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      Lock icon HK auctions land after property clampdown pledge
      284 4 Reuter HONGKONG The Hongkong government held its first land auction yesterday since it announced plans to clamp down on soaring property prices amid protests over alleged collusion with local developers. Three sites were sold to local developers for a total of HKS3.7 billion
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Horse flu epidemic hits China
        81 4 Reuter BEIJING An outbreak of equine influenza has killed 30,0Q0 horses in China and left 1.5 million seriously ill in the most destructive epidemic since 1949. The official China Daily said yesterday the epidemic began last May and had now spread across northern and western
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        Lock icon Reaction to sanctions plan
        84 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday expressed regret over a move in the US government to impose sanctions against it for tolerating an illegal trade in tiger and rhinoceros parts, foreign ministry officials said. The US National Security Council has decided to seek trade sanctions against Taiwan and
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        Lock icon Taipei to open insurance market
        97 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan will fully open its insurance market to foreign companies as early as October under its bid to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a finance ministry spokesman said. "We will finish a draft of regulations for all foreign insurance firms
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      Lock icon Jardine taipan replaced on HK racing board
      351 4 CITIC head gets post in prominent symbol of establishment Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG In an evocative symbol of Hongkong's changing of the guard as 1997 approaches, Jardine Matheson's taipan has been succeeded by a prominent mainland Chinese businessman on the Royal Hongkong Jockey
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      999 4 UNITED PUIP PAPER COMPANY UMITED (hKorpormtml la lit The Directors of United Pulp Paper Company Limited are pleased to announce the audited results of the Group and the Company for the year ended 31st December 1993 as follows: INCREASE/ (DECREASE) THE THE THE THE < GROUP > <-COMPANY-> GROUP COMPANY
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Hosokawa denies charges of questionable NTT stock deal
      386 5 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa yesterday denied allegations that he carried out a questionable transaction of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone stocks in 1986. Mr Hosokawa has claimed that the NTT stock deal was made by Shohei Ueda, his fa-ther-in-law, and
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      Lock icon S Korean industrial output up 10.1pc
      316 5 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL South Korea's industrial production rose a healthy 10.1 per cent during the first two months of this year from a year earlier, officials said yesterday. The National Statistical Office said the healthy growth was caused by a sharp 14 per
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      Lock icon A Korean war may hurt Japan and US, warns Pyongyang
      287 5 AP TOKYO North Korea declared yesterday that a new Korean war would bring damage to Japan as well as the US. which has troops based in South Korea. The warning on the official Radio Pyongyang was the latest in a
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      Lock icon Russia to beef up security around Kurile Islands
      246 5 AFP MOSCOW Russia is to increase security around the disputed Kurile islands after fresh incursions by Japanese fishermen in Russian waters. Russia's senior naval border official was cited as saying on Thursday. Admiral Nikolai Kudinov. head of Russian maritime border security, told
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      Lock icon NZ central bank proposes new banking regulations
      300 5 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON The Reserve Bank of New Zealand yesterday proposed new requirements on registered trading banks that would usher in fuller and more regular public disclosures on their financial affairs. The proposal follows the latest review into the way the central
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      Lock icon NZ labour unrest threatens recovery
      183 5 Reuter WELLINGTON A strike at New Zealand's biggest company and the threat of more labour unrest to come has jolted employers just as the economy was starting to show signs of a strong recovery Seven thousand employees at Telecom Corporation of New Zealand marked the
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Car blows up near Yeltsin's home
        103 6 AFP MOSCOW A car blew up near Russian President Boris Yeltsin's new flat in the west Moscow suburb of Krylatskoye on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring Ave others, the Russian counter espionage service (FSK) said. But a press spokesman for the president told
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        Lock icon Clarke defends tax hikes
        95 6 Reuter LONDON Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke yesterday defended pending tax increases, saying they were essential to bear down on the public sector deficit. "This is a sensible and a prudent move," he said in remarks prepared for a Conservative party news conference. "Both the
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        Lock icon Israel, PLO sign pact on Hebron
        58 6 Reuter CAIRO Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation signed an agreement on security arrangements for the West Bank town of Hebron yesterday. Nabil Shaath of the PLO and Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Amnon Shahak signed the document at a public ceremony in the
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        Lock icon 18pc more new German homes
        83 6 Reuter BONN German new housing construction rose 18 per cent last year from the previous year, boosted by the highest number of new housing completions in western Germany for the past 18 years, official data showed. The Federal Statistics Offices said 455,503 new homes were
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      Lock icon Big jump in foreign capital entering Mexico in first two months
      227 6 Bloomberg Business News MEXICO CITY Mexico, which is counting on foreign investment to help modernise its economy, attracted US$4.O9 billion (556.42 billion) of foreign capital in the first two months of 1994 more than double the US$l.6B billion in
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      Lock icon US slaps over 300pc tariffs on Japanese photographic paper
      593 6 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The trade dispute between the US and Japan took another turn for the worse yesterday when the Commerce Department proposed surprisingly high punitive tariffs on imports of Japanese photographic paper. Commerce's preliminary ruling against Fuji Photo Film
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      Lock icon Washington eases up on sales of telecom equipment
      250 6 AFP WASHINGTON The United States has decided to liberalise sales of non-military telecommunications equipment and most computers except to nations determined to have supported terrorism, officials said Wednesday. Russia and China are expected to he the major beneficiaries as they seek to
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      Lock icon Just me, my donkey and my satellite dish
      55 6 Reuter TIRANA, Albania An Albanian peasant from Mdroq looking pleased as he carted the spoils from his trip to the capital a satellite dish and receiver. Europe's poorest country has seen sales of satellite dishes shoot up from zero to a staggering
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      Lock icon Global arms sales fell to 20-year low in 1991
      197 6 AFP WASHINGTON International arms sales fell to a 20year low in 1991. dropping by nearly two-thirds from the peak years in the 1980s, the US government said on Wednesday. The US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said worldwide arms sales in
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      Lock icon Patten hits out at media barons Murdoch and Turner
      277 6 Reuter HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten has made a thin-ly-veiled attack on media barons Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner, saying freedom of speech cannot be curtailed for short-term commercial expediency. "It would be the most seedy of betrayals for broadcasters or journalists,
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Pro tour warms up for Masters on tough New Orleans course
      343 7 Golf AP NEW ORLEANS The Free-port-McMoRan Classic a US$1.2 million (SSI.9 million) tune-up for next week's Masters has sent its share of unknowns away as stars. And any golfer mastering the 7,116-metre Jack Nicklausdesigned course do deserve stardom. "It's
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      Lock icon More major league stars emerge from Pacific rim
      334 7 AFP WASHINGTON A top Australian pitcher-catcher combination and two Asian hurlers with impressive control have got US major league baseball teams looking across the Pacific Ocean for talent. While South American and Caribbean nations have provided more than 150 major league players,
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      Lock icon Blue Jays seek third straight title in year of change
      705 7 AFP WASHINGTON Forget Michael Jordan. Remember Joe Carter. That's the best way to approach Major League baseball's 125 th season. The season opens on Sunday with new divisions, a new play-off format and World Series champion Toronto leading a familiar
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      Lock icon England goes down in worst test innings in 107 years
      539 7 AP PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad England was bowled out for its second lowest total in history on Wednesday. 46. sending it to a humiliating 147-run defeat to the West Indies in their third test. Courtney Walsh finished up where bowling partner Curtly
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      Lock icon Tyson's woes worsen
      657 7 NYT PLAINFIELD, Indiana The news that Mike Tyson, inmate No *****5 in the Indiana Youth Centre in Plainfield. Indiana. flunked his high school equivalency test indicates that the former heavyweight champion may still be having difficulties with English and math, as well as his attitude. The reason
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    • SIDE LINES
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        Lock icon Switzer is Cowboys' new coach
        144 7 AFP DALLAS, lexas Barry Switzer took over coaching duties of the reigning Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys here on Wednesday, vowing to stress continuity and motivation. The choice by owner Jerry Jones comes one day after coach Jimmy Johnson resigned, ending a feud that proved
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        Lock icon Gaze likely to get return-invitation
        139 7 AFP WASHINGTON Australia's Andrew Gaze ended his second 10-day contract with the Washington Bullets here on Wednesday, with an invitation to return likely from the NBA club. Gaze played four minutes late in Tuesdays 120-101 loss at Orlando, sinking one ot two three-point attempts and
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        Lock icon Holyfield aims to be undisputed champ
        126 7 AFP HOUSTON, Texas The next item on Evander HolyfielcTs agenda is next month s world heavyweight title defenee against Michael Moorer. But his long-range plans are focused on a greater prize. "I still have a goal, to he the undisputed champion of the world
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      • Article
        Lock icon New ruck and maul rules
        231 7 AP LONDON Rugby s rule makers, under pressure to encourage a more open game by penalising the forwards for not moving the ball, came up with different regulations on Wednesdav for the ruck and the maul. For two years, players and referees have been unhappy
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        Lock icon S Africa to guarantee spectators' safety
        132 7 Reuter LONDON South Africa is prepared to give up hosting the Rugby World Cup 1995 if it cannot guarantee spectators' safety but as of now it still intends to host the sport's top tournament. despite increasing political violence. "Sarfu (South African Rugby Football Union)
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    • SCORE CARD
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        Lock icon Basketball
        205 7 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Wednesday: Boston 99 Indiana 103: New Jersey 111 Miami 101; Golden State 104 Houston 114. Standings (won, lost, winning percentage and games behind; clinched playoff spot) Hast em Conference. Atlantic Division: I xNew York 50 19 .725 2 x-Or-lando 41 28 .594 9 3 New
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        Lock icon Tennis
        200 7 AFP AFP OSAKA, Japan Salem Open 2nd rd yesterday: Lionel Roux (Fra) b Ivan Lendl (US) 6-3 6-3: Aaron Krickstein (US) b Alex Antonitsch (Aus) 7-5 6-4: David Wheaton (US) b Robbie Weiss (US) 6-3 6-2; Pete Sampras (US) b JcfTTarango (US) 7-6 7-6: Guillaume Raoux (Fra) b Kenneth
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        Lock icon Ice hockey
        38 7 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Wednesday: Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 3 (OT): Flor- Ida 1 St Louis 3: Hartford 3 Chicago 2 (OT): Ottawa 6 Quebec 4: Los Angeles 2 Anaheim 5; Vancouver I Pittsburgh 3. Reuter
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Tenderness in generous measure
      558 9  -  Andrew Lim reviews Tuesday's recital by Jose Carreras Andrew Lim JOSE Carreras' concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Tuesday night was a triumphant demonstration of how a top class operatic tenor can provide sheer entertainment with a lighter programme. It was the grandest of after-dinner
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      Lock icon Animation is serious business
      548 9 UPI Animation has become one of the hottest areas for new films this year as rivals of Walt Disney try to cash in on Disney's success. Disney is leading the pack so far with The Lion King, the studio's 32nd animated feature and an early favourite
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      Lock icon Real life in reel life
      697 9 CHATTERBOX UPI UPI UPI UPI UPI UPI ACTOR Joe Pesci says he lived through moments like those depicted in his new film Jimmy Hollywood when he first went to California seeking acting jobs. "Everybody who goes out there has this dream about becoming a movie
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      189 9 Sample the many tastes of Spring at our Sakura Festival. At Cafe de Prince, our international buffet comes with Japanese specialities like norimalci, Japanese pear salad, mixed tempura, grilled teriyaki chicken and more! Lunch at $20.50 (adult) and $15 (child under 12). Dinner at $25.50 (adult) and 16 (child under
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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      1257 9 TV RADIO ■'I'liHiMIM mm 1 City Slickers, Bpm, SBC S U Billy Crystal copes with his *m midlife crisis by taking two friends (Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby) and two weeks ofT for a cattle drive. Complete with trail boss Jack Palance this is a 4«< IT> child's fantasy which becomes
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  • Article
    The ball is in Myanmar's court
    558 10 EDITORIAL PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong's recent three-day visit to Myanmar must rank as one of the more significant developments for that country in its efforts to rejoin the world community. For 26 years to 1988, Myanmar had shut out the world and attempted
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      The key to China's future
      196 10 THE KEY WORDS of China's future are reform, development and stability; the challenge for its leaders is to balance these needs. That, in a nutshell, was the message of the second session of the eighth National People's Congress (NPC), held in Beijing this month. The
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      Going halal in a big way
      188 10 FIRST, the halal food and technology exposition (Imfex), and now the halal data bank. It seems the Malay Chamber of Commerce has not given up its role to promote entrepreneurship in the halal field. However, like the first project, what is a cause of
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      Nuclear power think carefully
      180 10 THE Science and Technology Association (STA), organiser of today's seminar titled Nuclear Power Plant: Thailand's Future Energy Option?, is urging the government to act soon to build a nuclear power plant. The association's chairman, Pranot Mikasen, said this week it's a question of now or never
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      In search of excellence
      136 10 THE OLD TRADITION, almost resembling a ritual, of going abroad for higher education continues to this day a habit which is costing the country billions of ringgit in foreign exchange every year. It is a phenomenon that is not exclusively a Malaysian hang-up. with other countries
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      South-South ties vital
      149 10 EVEN AFTER being postponed once, only six members of the Group of 15 (G-15) turned up for their fourth summit in New Delhi this week. The question to ask is why the other nine countries stayed away. Are their pressing domestic commitments more important than the obvious
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      Washington, heal thyself
      189 10 THE RECENT DEATH of two Japanese students who were shot in the head in Los Angeles occurred at a time when US-Japan ties are at a low ebb as a result of trade disputes. The US cannot help but worry that this unfortunate episode will keep Japanese
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    Is big business dictating US moves on Kashmir?
    954 10  -  Yogi Aggarwal says there may be more than meets the eye in Washington's drive to get India and Pakistan to give up nukes and settle their differences Yogi Aggarwal The writer is a Bombay-based journalist who contributes to BT INDO-PAKISTANI relations, always
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      Battle of the colas hots up as Pepsi leads in taste survey
      782 11  -  But Coke calls Pepsi's finding merely a sip test and marketing gimmick. Juliette Walker reports Juliette Walker PEPSI-COLA International (PSI) threw down the gauntlet here yesterday to arch-rival CocaCola. The beverage maker stoked the island's simmering Cola War
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      Two luxury watch lines to be launched
      340 11  -  By Joycelyn Shu THE man whose name is most commonly associated with Les Must de Cartier in Singapore is now set to launch into luxury watches. Geoffroy de Drouas will be the sole distributor of two brands of watches Vuarnet and GB in
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      Lock icon Child-proof packaging unveiled
      238 11 AP PROCTER Gamble Co and the Consumer Product Safety Commission in the United States will unveil new packaging on Wednesday that is intended to be both child-proof and easy for adults with arthritis to open. The federal product safety agency will use the announcement to introduce a
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      Lock icon Learning to win media respect when disaster strikes
      898 11 Crisis management courses come close to real life Reuter A SHIP carrying lethal chemicals has exploded in Rotterdam port. Local television wants information. You have to respond. "There was an incident.*' stammers a British spokesman, blinking into the television lights. "It is
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    Lock icon US revises fourth quarter growth downward to 7pc
    450 12 Reuter. AP Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON THE US economy grew slightly less briskly in the final three months last year than originally thought, though it was still at a 10-year peak, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. In a final rev ision of
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    Lock icon US prepared to risk war over N Korea nukes
    455 12 Reuter WASHINGTON US Defence Secretary William Perry said in remarks published yesterday that the United States planned to stop North Korea from developing a major nuclear arsenal even at the risk of war. "We're looking at two very grim alternatives" in
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    Lock icon Japan likely to top US list of global trade barriers
    311 12 Reuter WASHINGTON The Clinton administration was set last night to release an annual inventory of global trade barriers with Japan sure to be named as enemy No I. The National Trade Estimate (NTE). due to be unveiled at 1900 GMT.
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    Shanghai calls — but are Singaporeans listening?
    694 12  - Shanghai calls but are Singaporeans listening? The Bottom Line KHAW WEIKANG KHAW WEIKANG Ihe writer is managing director of Khaw Sons, which serves as marketing and public relations consultant to several major economic zones in eastern and northern China and to Shanghai s Jingan district. IN 1990. not long after
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    India expects bigger role for foreign investment as economic reforms kick in
    459 12  -  By Vikram Khanna SINGAPORE The response of foreign investors to India's economic reforms has been "extremely good" so far, and in future. India envisages a bigger role for foreign investment, says Shankar Acharya, chief economic adviser to India's
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    Lock icon Major faces growing threat of mutiny within his party
    317 12 Reuter LONDON British Premier John Major faced the growing threat of a mutiny against his leadership yesterday after a Cabinet colleague staked a claim to be his successor. Parliament has been rife with rumours that Mr Major's humiliating climbdown in a
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    Lock icon De Klerk declares state of emergency to halt violence
    312 12 Reuter PRETORIA President FW de Klerk yesterday announced a state of emergency to halt spiralling violence in South Africa's Zulu heartland, a move praised by the ANC and bitterly condemned by its Inkatha Freedom Party rival. The government was working out
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        MARKET MOOD
        42 13 Mixed Market Mood indicates the likely trading sentiment next week. based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday Overnight events may alter sentiment. Hrokirs polled Alliance. Barings. OA' Cioh. Kay Hian. Morgan (irenfell. Ongco, Phillip. Tat Lee and Smith S'ew Court.
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        HOT STOCK
        147 13  -  -By Quak Hiang Whai Uniphoenix Corp TSR finished two cents higher at $1.21 yesterday on volume of 184.000. The daily RSI is showing some bullish divergence, moving up from oversold region, while the weekly RSI has reached a one-year low and turning up. The daily MACD directional indicator
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      SBS revs up 33pc increase in group net earnings
      432 13  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Bus operator Singapore Bus Service (1978) last year achieved a 33 per cent rise in group net earnings to $84.4 million, bolstered mainly by investment income. In yesterday's statement, SBS said the buoyant stock markets had boosted
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      Intraco's group earnings treble to $12.9m
      303 13  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Trading group Intraco unveiled strong year-end results yesterday, with earnings trebling as most of its core businesses lifted their gains. Earnings were more than $12.9 million up from 54.3 million in 1992 on turnover that rose 21 per cent to
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      RDC earnings slump 56pc
      319 13  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Building materials supplier Resources Development Corp has reported a 56 per cent drop in group net earnings to $6.65 million for the year to Dec 31, 1993. The listed group said yesterday the drop was on a 2 per cent fall in
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      Transpac shares dip below offer price in debut trade
      242 13 SINGAPORE Shares of main-board debutante Transpac Industrial Holdings fell below the initial public offer price in poor trade yesterday. The counter, which began trading on a "when issued" basis, opened at $5 but tumbled to its day's low of $4.70 within
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      Is the current pessimism over broking stocks justified?
      827 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE If there are stocks which reflect how fickle-minded some brokers and analysts can be, they ironically come from the stockbroking industry. Consider the hard sell which brokers and analysts embarked on last year when
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      Winfoong loss pulls Hong Fok into the red
      319 13  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Losses related to its Hongkong-listed subsidiary Winfoong Investment has led Hong Fok Corporation to declare a bottom-line loss of SI 2.6 million for 1993. This was in stark contrast to the 543.7 million profit registered in 1992
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      ICS erases red ink with net earnings of $12.5m
      183 13 SINGAPORE The Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ICS) is back in the black. The insurance arm of the DBS group reported net earnings for 1993 of $12.57 million, a turnaround from the previous year's loss of $517,000. Turnover, however, declined by 2.1
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    • COMPANIES
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        Sunshine blames relocation for 98pc plunge in earnings
        378 14  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Confectionery manufacturer Sunshine Allied Investments Ltd has blamed the relocation of its manufacturing plant for a 98.6 per cent plunge in group earnings to 566.000 for the year ended last Dec 31. Sunshine, which released its final results
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        Lock icon Malaysian bourse has bottomed out: US analyst
        289 14 AFP' KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). whose indices have touched worrying lows recently, is regaining strength after nearly three months of "recuperating" from a super bull run. analysts said yesterday. "The Malaysian stock market is still one of the most
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        Lock icon Renong in talks to buy stake in Aerospace Industries (M)
        189 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Renong Bhd is negotiating with the relevant parties to acquire a stake in Aerospace Industries Malaysia (AIM), the consortium that holds a 51 per cent stake in Airod Sdn Bhd. Renong's chief operating officer Yusli Mohamed Yusof
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Avimo unit applies for name change
          61 14 SINGAPORE Avimo's wholly-owned subsidiary. Avimo Precision Optics Ptd Ltd. has applied to the Registrar of Companies to change its name to Avimo Electro-Optics Pte Ltd. It said the move will better reflect its proposal to make the subsidiary the group's operating company responsible for
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          Landmarks denies it's close to takeover
          76 14 KUALA LUMPUR Landmarks Bhd executive chairman Samsudin Abu Hassan yesterday denied that the company was on the verge of acquiring a controlling interest in Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd (BBMB). Landmarks had never made any offer to any relevant authority for a stake in state-owned
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          SES nod for GP Batteries share split
          65 14 SINGAPORE GP Batteries International said the Stock Exchange of Singapore has given in-principle approval for it to split its shares. The company plans to divide each of its 51.60 shares into two new ordinary shares of 80 cents each. Shareholders of the company
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          New Metro corporate secretary
          29 14 SINGAPORE Metro Holdings announced that Chuang Sheue Ling has been appointed corporate secretary in place of Wong Cheng Han and Chan Kwang Cheng from yesterday.
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          Chua Kim Yeow quits Times Pub board
          38 14 SINGAPORE Times Publishing Ltd announced that Chua Kim Yeow has resigned as one of its directors as of yesterday. He is also stepping down as chairman of the group's audit committee.
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          New director at SIA unit
          32 14 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines said yesterday that it has appointed Goh Yong Hong as a director of its subsidiary SATS Security Services Pte Ltd, with effect from today.
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          Kim Eng given shares in subsidiary
          46 14 SINGAPORE Kim Eng Holdings Ltd subscribed for and was allotted four million ordinary shares of SI each in its whollyowned subsidiary, Kim Eng Securities Pte Ltd. yesterday. The issued and paid-up share capital of the subsidiary is now $54 million.
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        UNIT TRUST & FUNDS
        503 14 UNIT TRUST FUNDS Managers' prion Apr 2 A 4 Unifund 140 145 ||_ia Unihond 1.025 1.05 J "W ore unn UnitedGrFund! I 59 1.65 The t'ommerec 161 169 United Asia Fund 168 1.78ft The Savings Fund 1.46 l.53*d S'porv Prog Fund 0 68 0 71 PnKKIUUl S pore See Fund
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      • MALAYSIAN RESULTS
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          Lock icon Advance Synergy's pre-tax rises 65pc
          92 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Advance Synergy Bhd has chalked up a group pre-tax profit of M 55.60 million (553.2 million) for the year ended Sep 30. 1993. up 65 per cent from 1992. ASB yesterday said turnover edged up 3 per cent to M 555.89 million.
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          Lock icon Tan Chong turns in 7pc pre-tax fall
          114 14 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd has posted a 7 per cent fall in group pre-tax profit to MS 104.28 million (5560.48 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1993. This was achieved despite a 6 per cent increase in its
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          Lock icon ASM's interim earnings double
          101 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Amalgamated Steel Mills Bhd (ASM) has reported a 101 per cent increase in group pre-tax profit for the six months ended Dec 31, 1993. to MS 123.23 million (5571.47 million) from M 561.27 million previously. The company yesterday said group turnover added 16
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          Lock icon Grand Central Enterprises' profit down
          76 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Grand Central Enterprises Bhd (GCE) has reported a lower group pre-tax profit of MS 15.11 million (558.76 million) for the financial year ended Dec 31. 1993. down 11.1 per cent from 1992. GCE yesterday said turnover also experienced a drop of 6.7
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          Lock icon Amalgamated Con posts M$3.6m profit
          103 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Amalgamated Containers Bhd has reported a group pre-tax profit of M 53.58 million (552.07 million) for the six months ended Dec 31, 1993, on a turnover of MS 139.99 million. No comparative figures were given for the group as it was only
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          Lock icon Damansara Realty incurs M$1.2m loss
          83 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Damansara Realty Bhd has reported a group pre-tax loss of MS 1.20 million (*****.000) for the six months ended Dec 31, 1993, compared with a M 5538.000 loss previously. The group yesterday said turnover increased 14 per cent to M 56.01 million
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          Lock icon M'sia Packaging Ind's earnings dip
          75 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Packaging Industry Bhd's pretax profit has declined by 66.5 percent to M 52.12 million (551.21 million) for the financial year ended Dec 31, 1993, against M 56.33 million in the previous year. The company said turnover was also down by 10.5
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        Brierley and Thai investment house in agribusiness tie-up
        400 15  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK NEW ZEALAND'S Brierley Investments, partly owned by the Singapore government, is setting up a joint venture with General Finance and Securities of Thailand to invest in the agribusiness and resources industries. To be known as GF
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        Lock icon Shareholders call for shake-up of Chinese state-owned firm
        278 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG In a first for China, a group of minority shareholders have called for a major shake-up at a stateowned conglomerate which is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Trading in the shares of Shenzhen Vanke Co Ltd was
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        Lock icon AT&T to buy Hutchison's stake in HK joint venture
        242 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG US telecommunications giant American Telephone Telegraph Co says it is buying Hutchison Telecommunications' 51 per cent stake in their Hutchison AT&T Network Services (Hans) electronic messaging joint venture in Hongkong. The price for the transaction would not
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        Lock icon One title, two men
        76 15 Reuter BL'RBANR. California Warner Bros chairman and chicf executive officer Robert Daly (left) 57, announced on Wednesday that he had decided to share his titles with second-in-command Terry Semel. Mr Semel. 51, has been president and chief operating officer of the studio. I he two men
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        Lock icon AT&T plans Aussie cable-making plant
        240 15 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY American Telephone Telegraph Co said it would develop an advanced cable manufacturing production plant in Australia in order to increase its stake in the emerging Asia-Pacific market. Total direct investment in the AT&T Systimax Structured Cabling System will be more than
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Sum Cheong interim profit up 120pc
          72 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Engineering and construetion company Sum Cheong International said its net profit rose 120 per cent in the six months ended Dec 31, 1993. Its profit increased to HKS32.I million (556.5 million) from HKSI4.6 million in the year-earlier period. The figures
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          Lock icon IBM Japan suffers first-ever net loss
          88 15 AFP lOkyO IBM Japan Ltd said yesterday that it suffered a net loss ot 18.4 billion yen (***** million) in the year to December 1993. the first ever net loss since the company was established in 1937. The Japanese unit of the US computer
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          Lock icon ITT may restructure businesses
          76 15 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK ITT Corp has said it may put its diversified businesses into three distinct corporate groups in insurance and financial services, manufacturing and hotels, a structure that could improve its financial flexibility. Analysts said the proposed move will make it easier for
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          Lock icon Northrop may raise bid for Grumman
          81 15 AFP NEW YORK Northrop Corporation increased pressure on rival Martin Marietta on Wednesday by announcing it could raise its hid for the Grumman Corporation to US$2.ll billion (553.31 billion), or US$62 a share. Martin Marietta is so far sticking to its original oiler of
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          Lock icon Woolworth appoints probe committee
          84 15 NYT NEW YORK In an announcement jarringly at odds with a corporate image straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Woolworth Corp said on Wednesday that its board has appointed a special committee of outside directors to investigate allegations of accounting irregularities. The discount and specialty
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        Lock icon Hon Kwok makes takeover bid for Chee Shing
        163 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Real estate group Hon Kwok Land Investment has made a HK5586.5 million (SSI 17 million) takeover bid for construction and real estate concern Chee Shing Holdings. It is offering HKSI.SO for every Chee Shing share. The shares closed
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        Lock icon US media firms to post mixed results in first quarter
        660 15 Bloomberg Business News LOS ANGELES Just as the American entertainment industry's two big mergers got a thumbs-up and a thumbs-down in the December quarter, earnings for leading American media and broadcast companies also will be mixed in the first quarter
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Lock icon E Asia petrol prices expected to rise on tight supply
        382 16 Reuter SINGAPORE Petrol prices in East Asia look set to rise on healthy demand amid tight supplies of high octane fuel, industry sources said yesterday. While it is normal to see petrol demand pick up ahead of the period when
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        Lock icon US mutual fund investors more cautious as rates rise
        310 16 NYT NEW YORK With interest rates rising and stock prices dropping, mutual fund investors are showing more caution than they have in years, fund managers said on Wednesday. But stock funds still appear to be taking in more cash from new
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        Lock icon NY state banks get right to sell annuities
        302 16 NYT NEW YORK The Court of Appeals. New York state's highest court, has given statechartered banks the right to sell annuities, a form of investment usually sold by insurance companies. in 1991. the State Banking Department let banks set up subsidiaries to
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        224 16 Reuter ABU DHABI Gulf Arab oil producers see the appetite for Gulf oil in Asian countries, especially China, as growing faster than demand in traditional markets, industry sources said on Tuesday. "China and India will become the main markets for Middle
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        Lock icon UBS' American unit to buy Resource Investments
        241 16 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Union Bank of Switzerland's American unit said it has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the privately owned timberland management firm Resource Investments Inc of West Lebanon. New Hampshire. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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          Lock icon 3 M'sian banks cut prime rates
          81 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Three eommereial hanks, ineluding Mayhank. cut their base lending rates yesterday. Maybank cut its BLR to 7.20 per cent from 7.4 per cent as of today. This is the third BLR cut for Maybank this year. Citibank said it was lowering
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          Lock icon Japan banks' capital adequacy ratios dip
          77 16 Reuter TOKYO Most of Japan's major banks yesterday said they posted lower capital adequacy ratios at the end of fiscal 1993/94 compared with six months ago. mainly due to drops in stock prices. Japan's authorities allow banks to count unrealised profits on shareholdings as
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          Lock icon Indonesia's Astra to issue Eurobonds
          43 16 Reuter JAKARTA PT Astra International, one of Indonesia's largest groups, said it plans to issue seven-year Eurobonds totalling US$l25 million (SSI96 million) at a coupon of 2.5 to 2.7 per cent above the US seven-year treasurv rates. Reuter
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          Lock icon Thai debt instruments hit US$10b
          42 16 Reuter BANGKOK The value of debt instruments issued by Thailand's private sector has reached US$lO billion (5515.7 billion) in the four years since financial liberalisation began in earnest. Bank of Thailand governor Vijit Supinit said yesterday Reuter
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        Lock icon AMFB offers interest-free housing, property financing
        158 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR ArabMalaysian Finance* Bhd will be ofYering interest-free housing and property financing under the "Interest Free Banking Scheme" effective today. AMFB said in a statement yesterday that the Al-Bai Bithaman Ajil House and Property Financing schemes refer to the sale of an
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        Banque Indosuez REGIONAL CURRENCY REPORT
        153 16 THE USS/yen again led moves in the US$/majors market yesterday with demand for yen evident. The USS basically drifted lower after the overnight fall in the US stocks and bonds market. The USS/SS saw good twoway business with demand for SS by offshore commercial interest
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        179 16 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar fell against the deutschemark ahead of the Easter holiday weekend in Europe yesterday as traders here guarded against a further shift of capital out of US stocks and bonds next week. News of an unexpected 2.1 point rise in the Chicago Purchasing Managers
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        Oil futures prices on hold ahead of holiday
        140 16 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures prices were held within narrow ranges yesterday with traders cautious before the long weekend, brokers said. The International Petroleum Exchange in London will be closed today and Monday for the Easter holiday. The New York Mercantile
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        80 16 AFP NEW YORK The dollar fell against other major currencies yesterday following the release of the government's latest economic indicators. At about 10:25 am (152S GMT), the dollar was trading at 1.6690 marks, down from 1.6750 here late Wednesday, and at 102.70 yen, down from 102.85. Gold, meanwhile,
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        Lock icon Euroyen ends firmer on stronger yen
        1367 17 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures closed firmer on the back of a strengthening yen yesterday. A dealer with a US commission house said the rise was technical in nature as there were still good offers for the Euroyen. He said sentiment for
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        KL tin sinks on stronger ringgit
        575 17 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN fell another nine sen to close at MS 14.31 akg yesterday, as sentiment was affected by a stronger ringgit against the US dollar coupled with a lower London market, traders said. A higher local premium of US$65 per tonne to
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          Low soyoil sales due to USDA stance
          117 17 CHICAGO The recent downturn in US soyoil export sales reflects a tougher stance by USDA on accepting bids under the Export Enhancement Programme. US exporters and industry sources said. They refuted comments last week by a senior USDA aide that sales had dried
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          Panel to watch India's sugar imports
          80 17 NEW DELHI The Indian government has appointed a panel to monitor white sugar imports by Indian companies, the food ministry said in a statement. The five-member committee will liaise with importing agencies to ensure that importers do not face port-related problems, such as during
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          Australia seen as top sugar exporter
          107 17 SYDNEY Australia is on the verge of becoming the world's largest exporter of raw sugar in 1994 following poor crops in Cuba and Thailand, the Queensland Sugar Corporation contends. Chief executive David Rutledge said figures released by the International Sugar Organisation showed that last
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          Aussie beef industry turns to China
          68 17 SYDNEY The Australian beef industry will intensify its focus on China this year to develop a long-term niche in supplying higher-value beef. Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation Southeast Asia marketing coordinator Andrew King said the AMLC would exhibit at the first international Eood and
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1503 17 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sell (tonnes) Interest Apr 44 I I ISO 50 450 Mav 152.50 2.975 Jun 153.75 15.1.00 ***** 600 6.550 Jul/Sep 154.50 154.50 153.50 525 5.025 Oct/Dcc 154.25 5.775
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        Australia
        1258 18 -39.3 Australian stocks closed sharply lower yesterday, with investors reluctant to take positions ahead of the Easter break following a sell-off on Wall Street overnight. The All Ordinaries Index closed 39.3 points down at 2.053.1. only 4.1 points off its low for the da>. "Every negative indicator you could
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        Taipei
        612 18 -70.84 Taiwan stocks closed 1.3 per cent lower in thin trade on selling triggered by sharp falls in overseas markets, especially Wall Street, brokers said. Ihe weighted index ended 70.84 points down at 5.249.22. off an intra-day low of 5,225. Turnover was NT536.55 billion against Wednesday's NT530.86 billion. Financials
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        413 18 1.54 Stocks recouped early losses in a day of thin trading as a late rebound of primary blue chips lifted the index, brokers said. The composite stock index stood 1.54 points higher to close at 867.22 from a dav Urn of 860.90. "The institutional investors whose fiscal year ended
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        238 18 +8.35 Investors bucked the trend of declining global equities markets yesterday, aided by some of end-of-quartef price sprucing, traders said. The market closed early yesterday for the Easter holiday. The New Zealand Top 40 capital stock index closed up 8.35 points at 2.084.58. New Zealand Mar .<1 \7
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        81 18 +2.8 Stocks closed mostly higher as financial institutions and mutual funds, seeking to improve their net asset values, bought to push up prices at the close of the financial year, traders said. Turnover was light, however. since most brokers were busy preparing year-end accounts, traders said. The Bombay index
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        626 18 -6 Shares ended weaker v esterday ahead of the long Easter holidays but near the day's best FTSE 100 value, helped by gilts after the Dow posted only modest losses. The mood remains cautious particularly in the light of important US jobs data due for release today when the
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        163 18 +6 French stock and bond prices rose and then recoiled after an unexpected cut by the Bank of France in its key money market rate. The Bank of France cut its intervention rate to 5.9 per cent from 6 per cent, the third consecutive cut of 10 basis points.
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        119 18 •8.59 Swedish stocks closed lower in line with most European stock markets as investors remained cautious ahead of the long Easter weekend, traders said. The Stockholm stock exchange will be closed today and Monday for Easter weekend. The 30-share OMX Index fell 8.59 points to 1.070.74. It was the
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        161 18 +4.3pc A wave of euphoria swept over the Milan bourse yesterday as investors bet on the swift creation of a Silvio Berlusconi government and anticipated rich rewards for the market under his leadership. The stock market's Mibtel index finished 4.3 per cent higher, with trade having to be extended
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        214 18 -0.86 Dutch shares ended a turbulent day only slightly negative after the key AEX index hit early three-month lows. But dealers said volume was thin ahead of the long Easter weekend and most of the support had come from short-covering. The AEX index finished at 403.85 points. 0.86 lower.
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        139 18 1.75 Belgian stocks rebounded in late trading as falling European interest rates and lower bond yields boosted investors' confidence, traders said. The Bel-20 Index of leading shares rose 1.75 points to 1.464.51 after falling all morning. On Wednesday, the Belgian central bank shaved 10 basis points of its central
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        214 18 -19.7 Swiss stocks fell 0.8 per cent as investment funds sold shares at the end of this year's first quarter and ahead of a four-day Easter weekend. The Swiss Market Index of 22 stocks fell 19.7 points to 2.794.8 points, with 19 stocks declining, two unchanged and one advancing.
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        193 18 -14.42 German stocks finished weaker in the official trading session as markets around the world were dragged down by Wall Street's overnight dive. However, shares closed well above the day's lows, as hopes for lower interest rates in Germany provided some support, traders said. At the close of the
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        299 18 -50 Gold shares recorded small gains on the back of the gold price rise at close of trade yesterday while industrials moved lower on Wall Street losses and continued political tension. The overall index was two points up at 4.937. The industrial index was 50 points lower at 5.644
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        254 18 -1.6 Toronto stocks edged down in early trading yesterday as nervousness over the sagging Canadian dollar extended the carnage of the previous two days. The TSE 300 composite index eased 1.60 points to 4,312.30 on volume of 10.20 million shares valued at CS 138.00 million. Advancing issues led declines
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        690 18 -67.08 The Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 72.27 points on Wednesday. was down 67.08 points to 3.559.67 at II am EST its lowest level since mid-October. The key barometer was ahead 23.61 points shortly after the market opened. The New York Stock Exchange's "uptick rule" went into
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      3072 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks fell yesterday as investors reacted to interest-rate concerns in the US and to government plans to push down real estate prices, traders said. The Hang Seng Index of 33 leading stocks ended down 202.30 points, or 2.19 per cent, to 9.029.91. Turnover was HK54.52
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      560 19 THE Shanghai CLSA B index closed 3.04 points lower at 735.92. Turnover was boosted to US$4.4 million by active trading in Material Centre. The counter saw 10 per cent of its shares changing hands and closed up 4 per cent. After Wednesday's hefty 14 per cent gain in Shangling
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      2594 19 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks declined for a third straight day as major export issues were battered by concerns that a surging yen will cut deeply into their profits. "The yen's getting stronger and it's putting more doubt into next year's earnings recovery," said Chuck Lambert, a senior salesman
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      1758 19 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai stocks declined 0.59 per cent yesterday because the prospect of political turmoil cast doubt on development projects, analysts said. The lightest trading in nine months took place as parliament began a special session in which the weakened ruling coalition faces attacks by a strengthened
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        5560 20 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's benchmark stock index fell 1.45 per cent yesterday as Wall Street's decline overnight added to concerns that US interest rates will draw foreign funds out of South-east Asian markets. analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's
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        1946 22  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE After a twoday run which added 68 points to the Straits Times Industrials Index, share prices collapsed in thin trading yesterday on news that the US equity and bond markets took a hammering overnight. The STII finished 47.49
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      317 23  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Shipowner Osprey Maritime has upped its stake in former associate company Golar Gas Cryogenics. Osprey, which became an Approved International Shipping Enterprise in January this year, used to hold a 17.5 per cent stake in Golar, owner of
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      270 23 Reuter KUWAIT An environmental body called for imposition of an anti-pollution tax on shipping in the Gulf to fund a clean-up, newspapers reported on Wednesday. "Taxes on ships makes sense because there is no ship that does not pollute," said Abdul Rahman al-Awadi,
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      242 23 Reuter DUBAI At least 7,000 tonnes of crude oil have leaked into the Arabian Sea after two tankers collided just outside the Gulf in one of the world's busiest oil tanker lanes, officials said yesterday. "So far we know of a spillage of 7,000
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      295 23  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY FOREIGN vessels should be permitted to operate in the Australian coastal shipping trade to increase competition and reduce cost, according to a key government report. Vessels should also be allowed to employ both national and non-national crews
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      44 23 Reuter INVERNESS, Scotland The Loch Ness submarine sets out on its maiden journey into Loch Ness on Tuesday. The submarine will carry passengers into the depths of the loch to try to find a glimpse of the legendary Nessie. Reuter
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      189 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The 11 members of the Eastbound Management Agreement (EMA), which is part of the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC), on Wednesday announced that there would be a further "rate restoration" of US$l5O (*****) per 20-ft container and US$2OO per 40-ft
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      14936 32 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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      1109 39 t KklGHl business has turned relatively quiet ahead of the taster holiday period and is perhaps a little weaker in a few plates, brokers said. Early panamax rates in the far East have been noted as slightly easier. with some tonnage sueh as the Angelic Grace and the
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      612 39 is 00 n *|ys«d by DNV Petroleum Services and is an abstract from their more detailed fuel quality statistics which is mailed to <^<ra^?. l r^ ows J* has been made with the International Specification Cation March 24 Density Water Residue Ash Akaimm Sedmnt MM E**on
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      858 40 At a recent seminar held by the Swiss Shippers' Council, various solutions were suggested to deal with the problem of transporting freight in an ecologically friendly manner at a reasonable cost ALL freight transport is damaging to the environment. This was
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        398 42  -  Cargo documents must be submitted before departure By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The nation's position as an export centre could be hurt by a GST (Goods and Services Tax) regulation that requires shippers to submit cargo documents before departure, exporters and air freight forwarders say. "The
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        434 42 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Five UK-based airlines, including British Midland, on Wednesday asked the EU Commission to investigate the relationship between British Airways pic and the Galileo computer reservations system. The airlines called for a "full investigation" and asked that the EU study whether
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        168 42 Reuter MOSCOW A deal for Russia's Aeroflot international airline to lease four Boeing 767-300 ER long-range jets will go ahead now Russian worries over expense have been overcome, US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown said. "We have finally broken through on the
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        54 42 Reuter LONDON Workers carry a stained glass window, depicting the development of the Channel Tunnel, to the Science Museum, on Tuesday. The window is being installed in the museum to herald the opening of an exhibition celebrating the development of the first transport link
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        397 42 AP WASHINGTON Exactly one year after he applied to the Department of Transportation to start a new airline, Frank Lorenzo got an answer on Tuesday: He can have a new public hearing. The department's ruling came in response to an appeal
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          84 42 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Martin Marietta Corp received a US$ll6 million (SSIB3 million) Navy contract for ship-based test equipment. the Defence Department said on Tuesday. By July 1996. the company is to make 64 consolidated automated support system (CASS) test stations, which are used on aircraft
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          88 42 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Aerospace pic said it has aircraft leasing obligations totalling £2.9 billion (556.7 billion), the Financial Times reported. That compares with income of £1.8 billion it expects to receive from sub-leases to airlines. BAe sold aircraft to banks and leased them
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          97 42 AFP SYDNEY Qantas Airways is to increase its capacity on the growing Taiwan route following the signing of a bilateral agreement between the two countries. Qantas said on Wednesday that it would replace the 242-seat Boeing 767-300 aircraft with 321seat Boeing 747-SP planes on the
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          60 42 Reuter AMMAN Jordan and Japan initialled an air agreement on Wednesday under which the national carrier Royal Jordanian will operate two or three flights per week between Amman and Osaka, liie announcement by the Japanese embassy said Kansai Airport, under construction on a man-made island
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          104 42 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Honda Motor Co of Japan will hold secret talks after Easter, the Daily Telegraph reported, citing BMW director Wolfgang Reitzle. The meeting will take place on "neutral territory, possibly the US", and will attempt to arrange a
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          81 42 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Aer Lingus' executive chairman, Bernie Cahill, predicted that the carrier's trans-Atlantic routes would return to profitability in its next fiscal year, which ends March 31 1995. Speaking in Toulouse, France, at the rollout of the flrst Airbus A 330 that
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        310 42 AFP BANGKOK The start of a Cambodian national airline later this year may hurt two small Thai carriers that serve Phnom Penh but should not have much impact on Thai Airways International (THAI), a report said on Wednesday. The Cambodian government last November
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      3253 27 SINGAPORE AGENT: HMik IJXtO A|tt*oltlAl*C p& Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd X iX.V/ -i" flj| 1 llyl 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 Tel 225 2233 Tele* RS ***** PNOCSP Fax 225 5327/222 7517 l*y Wv' CR Number **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT VESSEL VOY PWG -p*o SM SOU
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      8 27 HO CHI MINH TEL: *****26 FAX: 5454*27 LENNON
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      37 27 VESSEL ETA I TO DESTINATION SOMO T*N 03 11/ M IS/04 NO CM MMN NMUT TAO 31/09 M/M MO CM MMM SUBJECT TO IHOUCEMtWTS VIETHONG SHIPPING PTE LTD TEL: 225 1511 FAX: 225 0633 TLX: R*****1 VIETHK
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      615 28 *****avOOOO^^^^^ i§i\ eka jaya agencies TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE MY ANN AN TNAPt PAQCH IHAMPPHOWE/PMECT WE HAM WK 23W1 n<? CM Mtuem MitwTHßt tmm Tgwraiwi I KiYfl CHAN 2JM23 MM7I2/MM2«3 rro MYANMAR/YANGON k> BEAM CONTAINER L BERVICE M OCEANLINES stok 1 31/3 4/4 11/4
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      1536 28 @HANJIN SHIPPING] BOOKING TEL:- *****35-237 OPERATION TEL: *****41-253 I SALES TEL:- *****22-233 POCUMEWT *****71 275 I fob wi sm Ilk haul sea vm pox nam sm lie haul sav ui ntc I HAMJM HAMBURG 017E 1/4 DKCT 22/4 23/4 24/4 HANJM HAMBURG 017E 1/4 KOLUNG 047E 5/5 t/5 1/5 HANJM
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      1357 28 _i .urnrn^ "A.□"l CI 11 3Zj C I m scp me uc iw kin n at no ui at h dkim n m irk n ai I L GERTU «tv 7/4 12/4 14/4 IS, 4 11/4 IS/4 20/4 21/4 22/4 2J/4 S/S 17/5 U/S M/ 5 JO, 5 11/5 1/1
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      2368 29 sex: 'CALIFORNIA SATURN 64E' eta sgp 06/04/94 II II II ARRIVING LOS ANGELES 23/04/94 IN 16 DAYS Hjg UfA# II AEX:'NEPTUNE DIAMOND 19E P ETA SGP 07/04/94 Ml ■I •jgF m II ARRIVING NEW YORK 30/04/94 IN 23 DAYS II HI *m Conflicting California Pegasus Voy 2M Iw NKG 23/04/94
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      1328 29 A I MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD ■V (a member of SMSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 A —BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARO *****10 T/S *****10 A BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS:
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      1021 30 Ktt w Mff AS AGENTS: "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTI LTD (CI NO; 1244J73QQ0N/6ST REG HO: M2-*****M-O M TEL. *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I W TV! Mi* MALAYSIA -T' LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BNO I 1 2J TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 INDONESIA:
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      235 30 oomwemav racmc Skipping J TIMBER PLYWOOD SERVICE TO U.K./CONTINENT KKU STORE IK LOAONG FOR SEA CONCERT SID SID SID FIU/ROT/ANT/UK WORLD WAX 5/4 10/4 14/4 FIU/ROT/ANT/UK Loads Sabih/lndonesu C R NO. **********0H CONTIPAC SHIPPING PTE LTD Tbl: *****32 Fax: *****49 P.K. MULTIPORT SDN BHO. TEL: *****09 TLX- MA ***** MULTRA
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      330 30 ITTSX FOONG SUM V SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. WHOLESALE CENTRE, BLOCK 1, #03-10 SINGAPORE 0511 BOOKING/ENQUIRIES CR NO: 1096M*****W TEL: *****55 (12 lies OUTBOUND) *****77 6 Lies INBOUND FAX: *****16 TELEX: RS *****/2SOM FSSHIP WSSEL TOY EJA HO PESTWATION MUTT MM 3/94 5/4 S/4 PIAJU/PALEHBANG SEAMAR 4/94 S/4 S/4 PONTMNM/SMTETE SUN
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      1098 30 @APPENSHIP /QV HAMBURG \7\r: CONVENTIONAL A INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE S EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST KSSaS LOADMG PORTS DISCHARGE LOADING FOR •UMMEW SZE 14/03 BREMEN 18/03 SPORE 26/04. BKK FRUITIOR KLA 28/03 ANT 05/04 SPORE 05/05 BKK LORELEY HAM 23/03 ANT 28/03 SPORE 28/04 BKK. LAEM KOALA
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      1064 31 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE! LTDN 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I I I CR NO: 100a*****00e I I=M1 =M J H ;i»l l#i If IHF.I 4H p IvTttffL VOY «M BKK 1M VMOBL VOV SIN 5cT MN KOTA BABAS SBI4N 3/4 8/4 10/4 MAJAPAHTT 4331 3/4 8/4
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      881 31 VESSELS DOT S« lIAMBUKC ROTTERDAM ANTWERP THAAMS U WWW MLLE Ot WSTA 7432W M 04 01/05 03/05 04/05 05/05 ot/05 WILE PI TIIMW TO3W~ 12/04 05/05 07/05 00/05 W/05 10/05 Will 01 TUCANA UO3W 19/04 12/05 14/05 15/05 U/05 17/05 HANS* CARMM 1203W 22/05 24/05 25/05 2«/05 27/05 •ALSO ACCEPTMG
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      466 31 BAM&I SHIPPMG TEL: *****88 FAX: *****00 DIRECT REGULAR SERVICE J JAKARTA SURABAYA J ACCEPT CAMOOCS TO ALL OTHER INDONESIAN PORTS WITH TRANSHIPMENT AT JAKARTA OR SURABAYA DESTVMTIOR ETA ETD VSI JAKARTA 31/3 2/4 P. JANA 1 12/4 13/4 f. KALRMNTAN I 15/4 16/4 P. SUMATERA 20/4 21/4 P. IANA 30/4
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      395 31 1 M MYANMA Vflßßk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KI| Pen PGdj RUVAi HUDHU VIW 4/ 5 Apr HPA-AN N2OIW 1/10 Apr PAGAN V2O9N 15/17 Apr MAUTSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAD SHPPtNG AGEHCCS KU.: TEL 03 *****00 PHI TEI 03 36W757 PER TEI 04-*****5 PGD: TEI
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      1148 34 _$*./:(_|+*@\,({-)/?*?|<*$@-*%\ te| SHINYEI SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD 10 Anton Road #15-01/02 International Plaza Singapore 0207 j CR NO. **********0N HOT LINE: *****38 (8 LINES) HHHRRBHRHHRRHiiIiMMfiUi|IIIiyAiiiIIiMfiHHBHBHI^HiH HOMOKONO/CHINA 10/4/94 I m KOBE/YOKOHAMA 10/4/04 BAMOKOft 10/4/94 TOKYO/NAQOYA 10/4/04 BUSAN 10/4/04 H OSAKA 10/4/04 POUT KELANO 10/4/04 H FOR BOOKINGS, PLEASE CONTACT PENANO 10/4/04
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      181 34 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND [75 Ik Fran S *r* km* t. Ckaka~| unworn imm ii/i 24/4 21/* 77s i/s* UUM HUDK 17* 11/4 21/4 2»/4 175 575 575 Muna U7 575 ii/ 5 1 7/5 2»/s »/s 575 mmtm* ■ui »75 3! 575 575 1575 w/5 <M MJCftl AM) TO USA/CANADA
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      700 35 r S& FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 2/4 ROTTERDAM 3/4 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 2/4 HAMBURG/BREMEN 374 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 474 FELIXSTOWE/UK 374 BARCELONA/SPAIN 174 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 674 GENOA/ITALY 474 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 374 LOS ANGELES/WC/P1 3/4 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 2/4 NEW YORK/EC 374 FREMANTLE/ADELADE 274 VANCOUVER
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      1025 35 9 521 =F 1 VESSEL VOY SM PENj^B ISHABHUM 448 Fn WW Tw 5/4 DgJA BHUM «M Fri IIPT *mt 374 M Bg VESSEL VOY BWI BKK 1 ■HATHA BHUM MS S»t 2/4 Ty S/4 ZJ7K| VWA BHUM 14N Fri In Pt Sat 2/4 WANA BHUM 222S Ty 5/4 Sal
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      598 35 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 I DONGNAMA LINE KSStI SSP K M fl BSD MC TU.SDAS MOW 1/4 11/4 12/4 21/4 23/4 SMOMC lUOa MMN 13/4 IV4
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      1460 36 WAC-MELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LtNCS) W V V BBU (064) Sim KUCHMG (062) *****3 I PENAN& (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MAMLA (632) *****61 I P.KELANQ; (03> *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 BURABAYA: (31) *****0 I HKG/TWN/BKK I GENOA/EUROPE I PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN B 3/4 4/4
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      66 36 50 TELOK BIANGAH ROAO #02-02 CITPORT CENTRE, STORE 0409 TEL: *****11 (6 fcws) FAX: *****05 TLX: RS ***** CR WO. **********0W VESSEL VOY. ETA ETC DESTMATION KAOIQ 11/94 3/4/94 3/4/94 PALEWANC/PKI. BALAM MUNTOK (FAC) UMMU 10/94 4/4/94 4/4/94 FONTIANAK BABELA 10/94 4/4/94 5/4/94 BELANAN MABIKNA 02/94 1/4/94 9/4/94 MTAM/NUOK/raNTIANAK MMANA
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      204 36 I SEAWARD SHIPPING AND I TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ll* It* ll* SWK KMT HUANG PfJMNG am MUX 10 4 Lo«hng tot Male IHWM HUDHU lb 4 ftMhiiging *nd lojdmt tin Bomtu* OOfHN ?0 Loading Fof Male HOC* SWKME 16 4 Loading Fof Mate UaCEON SM(O Loading Foi Mate
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      978 36 f JSk TH O N G SOON UNES PTE MM I /W\ 78 SHENTON WAY #1001, SINGAPORE 0207 f I \y V/ TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 ft I TLX: RS ***** CARRER. RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOY S'PORE DEST VESSEL VOT STORE IST EQUATOR
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      673 37 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTWG MEAKBUU/SOC CAMOES TO/FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA. MOM. TOKYO*. MANIA*. OAVAO*. Pemnj* P. KManf Singapore EHm* WTOBETT ME 05/06 A«ir 07/01 Apr JUMALEWIfTT V2OE 24/25 Apr 26/27 Apr SHAPLAEVERETT V2OE 30/01 May ACCtPT* BKAKBUM/FCI/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CMTTAGONG. CALCUTTA AMO MONGLA* Saifaporc P. KHanj*
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      244 37 glory navigation group to A 4fct Jtiut* REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 30/3 1/4 7/4 16/4 GLORY SELATAN VIII 9/4 11/4 17/4 28/4 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN
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      512 37 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE vessel VOY "^tARACH^™ KAPTAI IISHW 11/04 23/04 BLAMABAO 147HW 27/04 06/05 HYDERABAD I»HW 12/05 21/05 MAKRAN 147-HW 27/05 05/05 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL ""vor St HK6 BSW OSA HAE TOK HYDERABAD 121 0W 05/04 13/04 17/04 22/04 24/04
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      648 37 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/P. ELIZABETH CAPETOWN/LAGOS VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS JIAN HE/82 1 1 /OA 25/04 26/OA 26/OA 05/05 HUIHE/104 26/OA 10/ OS 11/ OS 13/05 20/05 VI HE/98 11/ OS 2S/OS 26/ OS 28/05 SHUN HE/103 08/06 28/06 26/ OS 2S/06 ACCEPTS CARGO
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      302 37 ~o S!N FAR EAST 05/04 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 03/04 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 S|N CHINA (+B*±B*n) 03/04 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S|N EUROPE/UK 04/04 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 04/04 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 03/04
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      788 38 Handling System Co. Pte. Ltd. 136 A 138, Neil Road, #03-00, Singapore 0208 \JT/ VJP7 _J CFS-20, Gul Road, Singapore 2282 Tel: 02-*****28 Handling System Co. Sdn. Bhd. N0.9 Lorong Cungah, ***** Port klang, Svlangor, Malaysia 24th Floor, l \IB( Main Building, ***** kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Handling System (HK) Co.
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      420 38 y Con term CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 07 APRIL (Accepting to all Nw Zaatond ports) PENANG 08 APR JAKARTA 03 APR PORT KLAN6 07 APR BANGKOR 10 APR MELBOURNE 07 APR SYDNEY 07 APR FREMANTLE 04 APR BRISBANE 14 APR I 09 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA PORTS COLOMBO
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      588 38 Next Week's Sailings Singapore* 7 FIRSI FORWARDER IN EID lo: LTD ASIA AWARDED Singapore Singapore 'so *002 bv LRQA EVERY every t Bangkok SUN Jakarta SL T N EVERY EVERY /^s^\lTW\ Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI ulUjlll I EVERY EVERY Colombo TUE Limassol TIIUR p M j MTERNATKMAL SEA
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      126 38 ETA ETD LOAOMG FOR KAMA 2AM 4AM PHNOM PENH TROPICAL ROSE S APR 11 APR PHNOM PENH JUN3 2 APR APR PHNOM PENH (30 TON DERRICK AVA&ABLE) THE NEW STRAITS SHIPPING CO. (PTE) LTD i ANSON MAO #09-S3 ANSON CCNTOE SMOAMNE 0207 TEL: *****07/*****23 TUt NS33ISO FAX *****5S CO NO:
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      1243 39 if jygggjT CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD iflnHL. sg. ASIAN POUTS MRI ZEAUMO/JUISTIAHA EUROPE BANGKOK 5/4 AUCKLAND 7/4 ANTWERP 4/4 BUSAN 5/4 ADELAIDE 4/4 FELIXSTOWE 4/4 HONG KONG 6/4 BRISBANE 14/4 HAMBURG 3/4 JAKARTA 5/4 FREMANTLE 8/4 ROTTERDAM 3/4 SURABAYA 5/4 MELBOURNE 7/4 KEELUNG 6/4 SYDNEY 7/4 KAOHSIUNG 9/4 KOBE
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      188 39 /3Rs CEYION SHIPPING CORPN KagOT National Line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERMCE TO Ik AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS wssr^^^^ M^)^Hi^^B^nsrTTsi^sir^isKruw NMIASIA Hl-MMCOWAH »4»-3 30/03 04/04 -I wit 01 mm W3m n/03 o?/P4 21/04 a ,04 m/ 04 I»m I« WLli DC *S« 75Wl| 00 04 W W 30/04 02/05 03,0S
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      287 39 LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE I EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.31 |552,« VOY aUtNOS MOWTEVWtO MJMAM JAKARTA SMOAPORC MONGKOIW HAQOSMMA MAOOYA YOKOHAMA" Bt WtT COOT IMID SAMP SAILED" 24 30/03 0105/04 05/04 13 15/04 1575 wjwwsmrA Eaoa saaep mud sailed qto»/04 iiu)m 20/04 am/w' raiMoom ebos 23 24/oa 21/03 07/04 20/04 28/04 21/0402/05 0510/05
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      466 40 VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA LHOTSE 9401N 01/04 (FRI) 09/04 (SAT) LHOTSE 9401 AW 04/04 (MOW) 09/04 (SAT) LOAONG EVEKY VIGOUR PACFIC 9415W 08/04 (FRI) 16/04 (SAT) FW)AY AND MONDAY VIGOUR PACIFIC 9415 AW 11/04 (MOW) 16/04 (SAT) e/\irrti Quti iiMMkice ctti i /«AitTAiiic& ccduiac rHiJmfttS FULL CONTAWcH ScRVICc VESSEL VOYAGE
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      162 40 G® AWAY ON HOLIDAYS WHEN YOU SHIP WITH US BKEAKBULK «r CONSOLIDATION SERVICES PTt LTD H| Qll LJfftKKJU tl b MOLbl 37 l>uxt<>n I till blnq.iporr <>2<)H Ul 22*5H332 t.x\ 224 3343 PT BAHARI HALUAN SAMUDERA Weekly COMMON FEEDER SERVICE vessq vor swwqg tout helms beimwh TAMBANG VIII 1018 04
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      178 40 i. cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P G LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/03 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.G. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 15/04 20/04 Huangpu/Guangzhou COSCO FULL CONTAMER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CHINA/BANGKOK/lIONCKONQ EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Please refer above
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      21 40 STRAIGHT TALK You shouldn't have to read between the lines to get the full picture. Companies Markets. Everyday. Businessfimes mmn tm
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      945 41 HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 WW* PKC* PCD* VESSELS VOY I SIN I RTM ANT* I LEH* HAM BREt FEI 23/03 25/03 26/03 NOR FRSOURG 3101* 04/04 22/04 23/04 25/04 23/04 23/04 26/04 30/03 01/04 02/04 H. CHALLENGER 309* 11/04 30/04 01/05 03/05 01/05 01/05
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      479 41 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO ft HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS WSSU *OT V PR IK M MABCt MM IM 12/4 11/4 14/4 11/4 CUMI TIAMI 111 4/4 1/4 KtISMH m 4/4 1/4 TIMS MTI Nl 1/4 Mlßd SIT 117 1/4 HI 11/4 MM HIM 124 7/4 t/4 FMI
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      900 41 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENTT I STORE IHI S-TON KBURG I DAM lEH Al» Accept!* Cap For ESj!']". 11/4 17 :laM (A dntautm. BcMist and DuUr RANAWBA 33/113 t/4 21/4 2C/4 21/4 Rttlcrlm :la al Antwerp Imslndan Ode Hcfeati w/ju t \i* in «/s mm. LIRE 21/114 11/4 N/4 3/5 S/S ftatterdam :la N
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