The Business Times, 4 April 1994

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    13 1 Business Times U i: KXOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday April 4 1994 75<
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Indian opposition blocks Gatt signing
      72 1 AP NEW DELHI A state government in eastern India has filed a lawsuit to block New Delhi's planned signing of Gatt patent laws next week because it will push up prices and ruin the textile industry. Yesterday's decision by Orissa state capped months of protest
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      Lock icon Iraq disregarding UN resolutions: GCC
      48 1 AFP RIYADH Gulf foreign ministers yesterday warned that Iraq was failing to respect UN resolutions and seeking to destabilise the region. A final statement issued after the twoday Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting said Iraq was "prevaricating over the implementation of UN resolutions".
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  • Article
    MARKET SUMMARY
    165 1 Stock market indices Closing Week change STII 2.080.90 -2.52 KLSE omp 959.94 -101.16 Nikkei 19.277.16 -559.32 Hang Seng 9.029 91 -204 3 SET Index 1.232.53 -47 54 Jakarta omp 492.37 -t 1.53 CLSA hina B 1.023.62 -15.87 AuslAIIOrd 2.053.1 -98.5 USE 100 3.086.4 -42.6 Dow Jones 3.635.96 -139.06
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    Lock icon Beijing may let foreign airlines invest in its carriers
    178 1 AP BEIJING China plans to begin allowing foreign airlines to invest in their Chinese counterparts this year. "We will select at least one or two of our airlines for cooperation with foreigners this year," Wang Xuejiang. deputy director general of the
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  • Article
    Economists expect S'pore to post 7.5-8pc growth in first quarter
    831 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Economic growth in the first quarter should remain robust at 7.5-8 per cent, economists say. For the year as a whole, the BT average of GDP growth projections culled from 21 forecasters is 7.5 per cent
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    Thailand plans to cut tax rate to compete for investments: paper
    479 1 BANGKOK Thailand is studying a corporate tax cut a plan which could bring the rate down to 25-27 per cent from j0 per cent and an overhaul of the tax system after having used value-added tax (VAT) for several
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    Lock icon 10 Japanese chip makers grouping together to form research institute
    275 1 NYT TOKYO Japan's leading semiconductor companies, worried that they are falling behind their American competitors. are planning a collaborative research institute aimed at improving their technology and competitiveness, industry officials said on Friday. Ten companies are expected to join the
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  • Article
    Lock icon S'poreans snap up M'sian properties with hard cash
    361 1 Bernama SINGAPORE Singaporeans snapping up properties in Malaysia is hardly new but the way some make their purchases could still surprise many Malaysian developers. "People are paying cash," said Ronald Chiew, director of operations for Kuala Lumpurbased Protemp Services which coordinated an
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    Volume of shares traded on SES falls 43pc in 1st qtr
    354 1  -  By Lewis Mitchell SINGAPORE The volume of shares traded in the Singapore stock market plunged by 43 per cent in the first three months of this year from the final quarter of last year. From an all-time quarterly high
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    Salim Group setting up US$1b China fund: report
    251 1 SINGAPORE Indonesia's largest conglomerate, the Salim Group, is rumoured to be establishing a USSI billion (551.56 billion) "war chest" for investment in China. Hongkong's Sunday Mornin,? Post reported that the funds were being raised by selling Indonesian corporate assets, half of which
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Manufacturers face keen competition
        266 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling WHOLESALE prices appear to have bottomed out, the latest figures from the Department of Statistics show. The manufactured products price index for February was 79. L unchanged from January. But compared with February last year, there was a 3 per cent drop.
        Source: Department of Statistics  -  266 words
    • Article
      When all means to obtain property tax fails
      246 2  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chin Li Fen (Ms) Head, Public Relations Unit Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Dear Sir, WE REFER to the report "Developer catches up with his taxmen" by A J Leow (March 19, 1994). The caption accompanying the picture
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      GST registration not for policy-holders
      174 2  -  Chin Li Fen (Ms) Head, Public Relations Unit, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Dear Sir, WE REFER to the letter, "The GST not just 3 per cent morer (BT, March 26). Under the law, only businesses with annual turnover exceeding $1 million are required to
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      Lock icon FairPrice plans to open $20 million megastore
      530 2  -  New outlet will be more than five times the size of its largest store Reports ay Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE'S largest supermarket chain, NTUC FairPrice. plans to open a megastore that will cost about $20 million. Chief executive Lim Ho Seng said in
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    • Article
      Chain drops listing plan because of price role
      268 2 NTUC Fair Price has dropped plans to seek a stock exchange listing because it wants to concentrate on its social role of holding down prices. Chief executive Lim Ho Seng has confirmed this after former Minister of Trade and Industry S Dhanabalan
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      Housing Board to sell first batch of rental flats
      232 2 THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) has identified the first batch of rental flats for sale to the sitting tenants at an average of between $30,000 and $55,000. In a statement issued by the Ministry of National Development yesterday, it said
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Bank Negara right to stop forward forex trading: Daim
      580 3 Bernama. AFP JOHOR BARU The Economic Adviser to the Malaysian government, Daim Zainuddin, says Bank Negara's step to stop forward foreign exchange transactions is the right decision. "If you aren't ready to take losses, then don't enter such deals." he said
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      Lock icon Indonesian trade union delays nationwide strike
      179 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's largest independent trade union yesterday announced it had delayed a planned nationwide strike scheduled for today, as it was making progress in talks with the government. But Muchtar Pakpahan, chairman of the Sejahtera (Prosperity) Indonesia trade union (SBSI), warned the action
      AFP  -  179 words
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      Lock icon Vietnam proposes tax cuts for some foreign investors
      189 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam is expected to offer foreign investors in infrastructure and export-ori-ented schemes tax exemptions for four years and a 50 per cent reduction in profit tax. The Vietnam Investment Review yesterday said that under a Bill submitted to the National
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mahathir launches work on world-class resort in Sabah
      335 3 Bernama KOTA KINABALU. Sabah A fishing village near Sepangar Bay in Menggatal. about 25km from here, will be turned into a world-class golf and beach resort in about 15 years' time. The Karambunai International Golf and Beach Resort, on the shoreline facing
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      Lock icon Taiwanese keen to develop petrochem industry in E Java
      145 3 AFP JAKARTA A consortium of Taiwanese businessmen has expressed readiness to develop a US$l billion (551.56 billion) petrochemical industry in East Java. The official Antara news agency yesterday said 45 businessmen, led by Taiwan's Thai Ying Liu, conveyed their interest at
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • Article
        Lock icon Power grid for South-east Asia
        101 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR South-cast Asian energy ministers have agreed to expedite work on a power grid linking the electricity supplies ot the six members of the Association of South-east Nations. Malaysian Energy Minister Samy Vellu yesterday said the grid, proposed three years ago. would allow
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        Lock icon Fallen glory
        59 3 Reuter SAPIAREE, Thailand Thai soldiers guarding a pile of timber logs along the Thai-Cambodian border after retrieving them from the Cambodian side on Friday. A United Nations ban on exporting logs from Cambodia ended last Friday and Thai logging sources said they were able to retrieve only 40
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        Lock icon M'sian king to visit Philippines
        42 3 Reuter MANILA Sultan Azlan Muhibuddin Shah, the king of Malaysia. will make an informal visit to the Philippines from April 14 to 16. The Presidential Palace yesterday said President Fidel Ramos invited the king last year. Reuter
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        Lock icon Viet-Cambodian border committee
        85 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH The prime ministers of Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to set up a technical committee to demarcate their common border in an effort to resolve a lingering disagreement over territory. A Cambodian official on Saturday said the two countries might also appoint a technical
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        Lock icon KL to review passports for Sabah
        78 3 Bernama K.OTA K.INABALU The regulation requiring Malaysians from Peninsular Malaysia to use passports to visit Sabah will be looked into. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said he felt that the ruling could hamper tourist travel and was contrary to the government's desire to promote
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China says it can live without Gatt membership
      380 4 The bottom-line is equal treatment, says trade official Reuter. Bloomberg Business News BEIJING While China wants to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, it will not take membership at any price and can live without the world free trade body
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      Lock icon China plans to create electronic giants
      239 4 UPI BLUING China is planning to engineer a Japanese-style build-up of its electronics industry and claims it will create two or three industry titans by the year 2<KM). a ministry official said yesterday. Under the ambitious programme. the Ministry of Electronics Industry would inject
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      Lock icon HK to appoint Chinese to finance post
      211 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's government next year will announce the appointment of a Chinese to succeed Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod. a government spokesman said. The appointee will he the first local Chinese to serve in the post, said Mike Hanson, information coordinator
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    • Article
      Lock icon Chinese salaries surge 26.3pc
      222 4 AFP BEIJING China's gross payroll leapt 26.3 per cent in January and February compared to the same period last year, putting added pressure on the government's programme to control inflation. The country's gross payroll hit 89.2 billion yuan (SSI6 billion) in the two months, with salaries
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      Lock icon Privatisation of state firms to continue: Taiwan PM
      202 4 Reuter TAIPEI The Taiwan government will continue efforts to transfer state firms into private hands this year, despite the flop of a big privatisation exercise last month. Premier Lien Chan said last Saturday. Mr Lien directed a meeting of economic ministers to
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon HK govt seeks HK$4.3b airport funds
        96 4 Reuter HONGKONG The government said last Friday it would seek approval this month from the local legislature for allocation of HKS4.3 billion (SSB73 million) to enable some urgent work to proceed in the new airport project. Some HKS3.B7 billion will be spent on government
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        Lock icon Chinese dissident missing
        94 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng had not returned to his Beijing home yesterday morning, more than 12 hours after the Chinese government said it released him. the Associated Press reported. He was taken into custody on Friday, says the Xinhua News Agency, and let
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        Lock icon Taiwan raps China over boat fire
        113 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan denounced China yesterday for its secretive handling of investigations into a fire on a Chinese tourist boat that killed 32 people, including 24 members of a Taiwanese tour group. Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, the semi-official body which handles tics with China,
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        Lock icon Lee to visit S Africa, Costa Rica
        78 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui will visit Costa Rica and South Africa next month, his first official overseas trip since he became president in 1988. the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Mr Lec will attend the inauguration of Costa Rican President-elect Jose
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon US 'social clause' push casts shadow over Escap talks
      550 5 AFP NEW DELHI Delegates from 58 countries open the 50th annual session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) here tomorrow to discuss ways to improve their infrastructure and boost trade. But the theme of the
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      Lock icon Indian firms delay Euro-issues as demand by overseas investors wanes
      423 5 Reuter BOMBAY Indian firms have put off plans to raise foreign money in the wake of a slump attributed partly to more finicky overseas investors, which has cooled off a foreign romance with Indian scrip. Analysts with foreign stockbrokerages and
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      Lock icon Flour price rise goes against the grain
      64 5 Reuter RAWALPINDI W omen activists of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League part) chanting anti-government slogans against an increase in flour prices during a demonstration here on Friday. Prices of oven-baked bread have risen by 50 per cent after the government increased the support
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    • Article
      Lock icon Swedish firm begins Japanese cell phone service
      190 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO L M Ericsson says Tokyo Digital Phone has put into service the first digital cellular system in Japan delivered by a non-Japanese supplier. The Stockholm-based telecommunications equipment manufacturer yesterday said the system included 145 base stations with capacity for
      Bloomberg Business News  -  190 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Seoul bourse in first monthly net fund outflow
      248 5 AFP SEOUL South Korea's stock market posted its first monthly net outflow of foreign capital last month, with British investors actively liquidating their holdings, according to central bank figures published during the weekend. Foreigners cited high global interest rates, restrictions on their
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Russian Cabinet gives nod to private ownership of farmland
      363 6 FT MOSCOW The Russian Cabinet has agreed to a plan allowing state and collective farms to auction otT land to their workers as private property, the first time Russians will be able to acquire title to land in the country's history.
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      Lock icon Expanded EU will promote stricter budget policy: Waigel
      218 6 Reuter FRANKFURT German Finance Minister Theo Waigel said the entry of Austria, Norway, Sweden and Finland into the European Union should help Germany push through its calls for a stricter European budget policy. Mr Waigel, in a contribu- tion to Saturday's edition
      Reuter  -  218 words
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      Lock icon Where hitch-hiking is a way of life
      54 6 Reuter PANCEVO, Yugoslavia People tiding to pick up a lift from this suburb of Belgrade to the cit> centre on Saturday. This has become the common way of r ring aruir J > public transport is drastically reduced due to fuel shortages and
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      Lock icon British press says Major's days as PM numbered
      323 6 Reuter LONDON Embattled Prime Minister John Major received some fresh hammer blows from Britain's newspapers yesterday which said voters wanted him to quit and his days at the top were numbered. The Sunday Times said in a jamming editorial that Mr Major
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    • Article
      Lock icon US-subsidised commodities sales lagging: report
      124 6 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON US-subsi-dised sales of most major commodities under the Export Enhancement Programme (HEP) in the first half of fiscai 11>94l l >94 (October-September) have lagged behind last year's levels, despite sharply higher subsidies. A government report released during the weekend showed that in the
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon UN intercepts 20,000th ship in Red Sea
        98 6 Reuter MANAMA International forces have intercepted their 20.000 th ship in enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq, the US Na\y announced yesterday. A US Navy squadron of a frigate and a destroyer intercepted the Singapore-flagged container vessel MV Kola H irawan in the northern
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      • Article
        Lock icon Russia becoming West colony: Rutskoi
        86 6 AFP MOSCOW Alexander Rutskoi, Russia's former vice-president, complained yesterday that the country had lost its historic identity and was in danger of becoming "a colony" of the West. "Look what's happening," Mr Rutskoi told a small group of supporters after he laid a wreath behind
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        Lock icon Next round of Ukraine voting starts
        95 6 Reuter KIEV Voters went to the polls yesterday at the start of a second round of Ukrainian parliamentary elections which have exposed a growing rift between the east and west in the former Soviet republic, officials in Kiev said."Elections began successfully. We have received
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      Lock icon Russia invites Hungary to take part in privatisation projects
      335 6 NYT BUDAPEST A Russian delegation led by Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin last week presented a list of 80 privatisation projects in which Hungarian participation was invited. Bela Kadar. Hungarian Minister of International Economic Relations, said Hungarian companies were pressing for shareholdings
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      Lock icon Whitewater inquiry strains ties between White House, Treasury
      472 7 NYT WASHINGTON The strong bond between the Treasury Department and the White House a link that has been central to the Clinton Administration's effort to turn the economy around has been strained in recent weeks by the fallout from the Whitewater investigation.
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      Lock icon Americans believe economy is improving: poll
      240 7 Reuter NEW YORK Thirty-seven per cent of Americans polled about the US economy think that despite last week's decline in the stock market, the economy is improving while 26 per cent said it was getting worse, according to a Newsweek poll released on Saturday.
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      382 7 GST REDUCES THE COST OF SEMINARS GST registered companies isomk. it all will receive a credit for all GST paid, without leaving Singapore so if you hold your seminar at Le Meridien save h av j n g your Changi, you can save 3%! seminar at Le Meridien Changi. Prior
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Crenshaw, Torrance tie for lead entering final round
      409 8 Golf Reuter NEW ORLEANS Ben Crenshaw and Britain's Sam Torrance finished the third round on Saturday at the US$l.2 million (SSI.B million) New Orleans Classic golf tournament tied for the lead at 11 under par. Crenshaw had eight birdies and four bogeys
      Reuter  -  409 words
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      Lock icon Sampras trounces giant-killer Roux
      360 8 AFP OSAKA, Japan Top-seeded Pete Sampras beat giant-killing French qualifier Lionel Roux 6-2, 6-2 yesterday and won the U*****,000 (551.02 million) Salem Open Tennis Championships, his fifth victory this season. Roux had upset two other Americans fourth seed Ivan Lendl and sixth-seeded Aaron Krickstein on his
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      Lock icon Sometimes, the bull wins
      37 8 AFP MALAGA, Spain Spanish bullfighter Rkhardo Ortiz being carried by his father, the "BanderiUo" Manolo Ortiz (right) and unidentified helpers after being seriously injured by a bull during a bullfight on Saturday. AFP
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        Lock icon Basketball
        41 8 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Saturday; Indiana 128 Orlando 113; Washington 104 Milwaukee 96; Cleveland 95 Dallas 88; New York 110 Miami 87; San Antonio 117 Charlotte 111; Utah 101 Denver 91; Seattle 119 Golden State 109; Sacramento 102 Minnesota 87.
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        Lock icon Golf
        297 8 AP AFP AP MIKI, Japan Final scores of Munsingwear Cup yesterday (Japanese unless stated): 280 Brian Watts (US) 67 71 69 73; 283 Hideki Kasc 70 70 71 72. Frankic Mi no/a (Phi) 70 70 71 72. Hisao Inouc 71 71 68 73. Tsukasa Watanabe 70 68 72 73;
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        Lock icon Ice hockey
        52 8 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Satwday: Detroit 3 Calgary 3 (OT); Edmonton 5 Los Angeles 3; Florida 2 Ottawa 2 (OT); Philadelphia 6 Hartford 5; NY Rangers 4 New Jersey 2; Buffalo 6 Quebec 2; Anaheim 3 Toronto 1; Montreal 3 NY Islanders 3 (OT); San Jose 7 Vancouver
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        Lock icon Tennis
        69 8 Reuter HILTON HEAD, South Carolina Natalia Zvereva of Belarus was trounced in the first set in the semifinals at the Family Circle Cup tournament on Saturday, but came back to beat Mary Pierce of France 0-6 6-3 6-2. In the other semifinal, second-seeded Conchita Martinez of Spain battled foot
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        Lock icon Yachting
        93 8 AP PUNT A DEL ESTE, Uruguay A navy cannon boomed and thousands cheered as 12 yachts sailed on Saturday towards Fort Lauderdale. Florida, on the (8.809 km fifth leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race. Technical problems delayed for two hours the departure of Whitbred 60-class US-Ukrainian entry
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  • Business IT
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      Silicon Valley groups busy building links with Asia
      652 9  -  Asian groups in Silicon Valley are being actively encouraged to look for business opportunities in Asia. Joseph Rajendran, who was there recently, finds out more about the groups Joseph Rajendran, ASIA is where the action is that's the key from computer industry
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    • Article
      Lock icon Software earnings surge despite mergers as demand beats forecasts
      737 9 Microsoft and Lotus, whose programs are practically mandatory for office computers, are seen to post another quarter of double-digit earnings growth Bloomberg Business News WHILE US software companies were reshaping their futures with a string of mergers in the first quarter,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Apple keen on tapping engineering talent in India, rules out subsidiary
      398 9 Reuter APPLE Computer Inc said last week it wanted to tap India's engineering talents for developing new products, but ruled out launching a manufacturing subsidiary. Michael Spindler, the American company's president, said India's small domestic computer market and high
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    • Article
      Lock icon China's IT market to hit US$48b by 1997, says Dataquest
      685 9 Bloomberg Business News VORACIOUS demand for everything from pagers to advanced computer software will more than double the size of the information technology market in China to US$4B billion (5575.84 billion) in 1997, with much of the business going to
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    • Article
      Future is with Internet, says head of Sun
      341 10  -  By Joseph Rajendran in MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA INTERNET is the information highway of the future, regardless of what US vice-president Al Gore thinks, says Sun Microsystems chief Scott McNealy. He told an invited audience at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Silicon
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    • Article, Illustration
      Epson targets $30 million regional printer consumables market
      339 10  -  By Bernard Chew THE local arm of PC and printer maker Epson is planning to corner the $30 million regional market for printer consumables ink cartridges, printer ribbons and the like currently dominated by third party suppliers. Epson Singapore hopes to achieve
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    • Article
      Lock icon Intel to tap vast China market with tie-up
      496 10 Reuter THE US giant, Intel Corp, last week entered a high-tech partnership with China's top state-run electronics firm, cementing its microchips as the dominant architecture for a vast, untapped computer market. The powerful China Electronics Corp pledged its "best efforts and expertise"
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    • TECH TAKES
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        Anixter, Kalpana sign distribution pact
        68 10 SINGAPORE Anixter, a worldwide networking and wiring systems integrator, has signed an agreement with Kalpana to market and distribute their Ether Switch products. Kalpana designs and makes networking products that use special switching technology to increase the capacity of ethernet computer networks. "As networks grow,
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        Intel unveils verified computers
        80 10 SINGAPORE Intel has released the first list of computer systems that have been verified under its verification programme. These "Intel Verified" system designs can be upgraded using the the more powerful Pentium Overdrive chips which will be available later this year. So far, more than 450
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        New Symantec OS/2 back-up software
        78 10 SINGAPORE Software developer Symantec has extended its range of back-up and data protection software by introducing Fastback Plus for OS/2, a version of its data back-up software that runs on IBM's OS/2 operating system. The new product makes full use of OS/2s multi-tasking capability, offering
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    • It's happenin'
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        Sun plans regional seminars
        73 10 SINGAPORE US-based Sun Microsystems is organising a two-day event titled "Promise to Reality Enterprise Solutions Show". It will have a total of 42 seminars covering four themes business application development, information management, business and financial management, and enterprise-wide management. It will be organised in Singapore (April
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      • Article
        Microsoft to launch Access software
        54 10 SINGAPORE Microsoft Singapore will be launching the latest version of its Microsoft Access database software on April 26 at the Westin Hotel, Collyer Room from 2 pm to 4.30 pm. An exhibition by Microsoft's authorised distributors will be held from 12.30 pm to 5 pm
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      • Article
        IBM to hold manufacturing conference
        85 10  -  Compiled By Bernard Chew SINGAPORE IBM Singapore will be holding its Manufacturing Industry conference on April 8 at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom from 9.30 am to 5 pm. The conference is targeted at executive officers and key decision makers in the manufacturing industry. Speakers from
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      Condition the man before the machine
      734 11  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Continuing her series on technology assimilation, Fong Kim Hong explains how to take care of workers when new technology is introduced Fong Kim Hong The writer, a manager with Andersen Consulting, has helped organisations in various industries implement new
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      Lock icon Media Vision sued for securities violations after dive in share price
      248 11 Bloomberg Business News MfcDIA Vision Technology Inc said it had been served with at least three class-action securities suits, following a 52 per cent drop in its stock price on March 22. The maker of devices that enhance the
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      734 11  -  NET WATCH! TRACKING THE NETWORKING WORLD In the first of a two-part article, Tomi Chen explores the possibility of getting tireless electronic agents to work for you Tomi Chen The writer is managing partner of Set Centre Pte Ltd, which specialises in network sen ices.
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      641 12  -  The company has also introduced a new software for added power. Joseph Rajendran, who recently visited the company's headquarters in Mountain View, reports Joseph Rajendran, ALIFORNIA's Sun Microsystems has unveiled new computers to help the company keep its top spot
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      586 12 NYT IT COULD be a marriage made in tech no-geek heaven. Big banks and other trading institutions are venturing ever deeper into derivatives exotic financial instruments like "equity-spread call options" or "guaranteed performance bond options" that can be as complex to monitor as a space shuttle
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      569 12  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is a Support Contracts Specialist with Hewlett Packard's Americas' Field Operations (AFOj. He also has extensive experience as a computer consultant helping businesses to use in formation technology productively. HAVE you ever wondered what
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      386 12 NYT THE multimedia revolution promises to put news, information and entertainment at America's fingertips. It will also earn a lot of money for the companies whose programming fills interactive television screens, computer bulletin boards and CDROM disks. Yet many of them are just
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      284 10 Knocking on Wood What kindled the timber fever and "7 7 can timber stocks deliver what they've L promised'? mSKn ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: New life for old flats Bargains on KL's Second Board Are Sydney's apartments really good buys? How liable are non-executive directors? flßnilpiH Why foreigners are betting
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      550 13  -  A survey reveals that Singapore workers prefer flexible benefits. Ven Sreenivasan reports Ven Sreenivasan AN overwhelming majority of Singapore workers are dissatisfied with their employee benefit paekages. a reeent survey discovered. Childless, double-income couples complain about benefit plans that favour families. Singles
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      667 13  -  Ben Dobbin talks to Stephen Frangos who accomplished the herculean task in just 18 months Ben Dobbin AP IT ANGERS Stephen Frangos that so many Americans don't enjoy their work. It baffles him even more when companies fail to realise that it makes
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      513 13  -  John Cunniff meets quality management guru Joseph Juran John Cunniff AP APPROACHING his 90th birthday. Joseph M Juran. the man who literally wrote the hook on quality management, is optimistic about America's future. And his own. He is about to embark on a
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      1392 15  -  For composer John Tavener, music is inseparable from religion. (Christian Tyler finds out more about his beliefs Christian Tyler FT ICONS hung on the walls and a candle flickered on the mantelpiece. In the comer stood the concert grand on which John Tavener composes his music. This
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    589 16 Reuter. NYT NEW YORK A huge jump in US employment growth in March has raised expectations that stronger-than-expected economic growth would prompt the Federal Reserve to push interest rates higher. Traders and investors fear that overly rapid economic expansion
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    37 16 SANTANDER, Spain Locals watch as nature takes over in this Spanish seaside resort, where heavy storms have caused massive waves to come crashing down on the promenade. AFP photo AFP photo
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    Lock icon 3 private investment funds with US$2b assets liquidated
    437 16 NYT NEW YORK Three private investment funds that had assets of US$2 billion (SS3.I billion) two months ago were liquidated in a series of fire sales on Wall Street last Thursday, virtually wiping out the holdings of a group of wealthy individuals
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    172 16 AFP WASHINGTON Defence Secretary William Perry yesterday said the United States was "not on the brink of war" with North Korea and ruled out a pre-emptive strike to halt Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. "I would reject that because it has
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    200 16 Reuter CAIRO PLO chief negotiator Nabil Shaath said during talks with Israel yesterday that barring last-minute hitches, the two sides could wrap up negotiations on implementation of their self-rule deal in two weeks at most. "Barring any major catastrophe 1 think the agreement
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    Lock icon Bank Negara's M$5.7b loss part of huge profits made earlier: Dr M
    366 16 Bernama KOTA KINABALU Bank Negara's loss of M 55.7 billion (553.3 billion) last year in foreign exchange dealings was only pari of the profits which the central bank had made in the preceding years. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
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    900 16  -  The Bottom Line GARY BECKER GARY BECKER The writer, the 1992 Nobel Laureate, teaches at the University of Chicago and is a fellow of the Hoover Institution. Reproduced from Business Week International by special permission. Copyrighted by McGraw-Hill. Inc. All rights
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      Lock icon M'sian companies register 19pc growth in pre-tax profits
      722 17 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Riding on robust economic fundamentals, listed companies with their financial year ending June 30 registered an overall growth of 19 per cent in pretax profits for 1993. More than 90 per cent of these companies, accounting for some 20
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      ANA Hotels still locked in a profit squeeze
      253 17  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The dividend drought at Japanesecontrolled ANA Hotels Singapore Ltd continues, as the company reported lower turnover and operating profits for the year ended Dec 31 1993. As in previous >ears. ANA directors did not propose any dividend for
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      US stocks set for 'not pretty' Monday
      647 17  -  HOCK By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE "No tme believes thai there is a serious problem with the underlying American economy. It is healthy and it is sound. It 's important that we not over-react." US President Bill Clinton It's hard to dispute Mr
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          Lock icon Lion Land's profit drops 20pc
          101 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Lion Land has registered a 20 per cent drop in group pre-tax profit to M$ 12.63 million (557.4 million) for the six months ended Dec 31 1993. This came on top of a 197 per cent jump in turnover to M 5248.52
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          Lock icon Kulim's pre-tax earnings up 6.9pc
          101 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd announced a 6.9 per cent increase in its group pre-tax profit to M 521.974 million for the year ended Dec 31 1993 from M 520.555 million previously. Its turnover, however, decreased 1.1 per cent to MS 136.662 million from
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          Lock icon Leong Hup sees M$18.36m gain
          111 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Leong Hup Holdings Bhd has forecast its pre-tax profit for the year ending March 31 1994 and 199S at MS 18.36 million and M 531.28 million, respectively upon completion of two proposals. The forecast was contained in a circular pertaining to a
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          Lock icon Chew Piau turns in M$4.35m
          62 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Chew Piau Bhd has reported a company pre-tax profit of M 54.35 million for the financial year ended Dec 31 1993, up 3.3 per cent from M 54.211 million previously. Releasing its unaudited results, it said turnover, however, fell 7.7 per cent
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          Lock icon Jardine Fleming files 4m share IPO
          66 18 Reuter WASHINGTON Jardine Fleming Asia Infrastructure Fund Inc filed with the US Securities and Exchange- Commission for an initial public offering of four million shares. The closcd-end fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation. Smith Barney Shearson Inc and Robert Fleming Inc will underwrite
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          Lock icon Thai refinery to be listed in May
          143 18 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Trading in shares of Thai refinery Bangchak Petroleum will start on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in May. Bangkok Post quoted the firm's officials as saying on Friday. The firm plans to offer 104.4 million shares, equal to 20 per cent
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        Lock icon Pan Pacific to be less dependent on securities
        199 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pan Pacific Asia Berhad expects to be less dependent on the securities industry following the completion of its proposed acquisitions to purchase some timber businesses, says chairman Koh Kee Tee. To provide a more stable income base, he said
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        Lock icon Hume acquiring M$16m land through subsidiary
        223 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Hume Industries (Malaysia) Bhd through its subsidiary. OYL Industries Bhd, is acquiring a 11.53 ha piece of land in Putra Industrial Park, Sungai Buloh. Sclangor from Sabna Development Sdn Bhd for MS 16.12 million (559.3 million). In a statement to the
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        Lock icon Cold Storage (M) will continue rationalisation programme
        197 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Cold Storage (Malaysia) Berhad will continue to pursue its extensive rationalisation programme by refocusing on the group's core businesses, says chairman Samsudin Abu Hassan. He said in the company's 1993 annual report released on Friday that it would continue to
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        Lock icon Indon copper firm identifies up to 60 potential mining sites
        633 18 Reuter TEMBAGAPURA. Indonesia FT Freeport Indonesia, operating in some of the world's most inhospitable terrain, says its eopper exploration teams have identified up to 60 fresh sites for potential mining in Irian Java. "We don't have anvthing classified yet hut
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        Lock icon Malaysian Oxygen to invest up to M$60m in extensive expansion plans
        313 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Oxygen Bhd (MOX) will invest between MSSO million (SS29 million) and MS6O million this year to meet future eonsumer needs. "For the last six or seven years we have followed a proactive and visionary policy
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        Thai exchange approves listing of 15 new issues
        217 18 BANGKOK The Stock Exchange of Thailand has granted listing approval to 15 new issues and unveiled a new measure aimed at preventing brokers or sub-brokers from showing favouritism to customers. the Motion newspaper reported on Friday. The paper said the stock exchange
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        Lock icon Nestle (M) a good buy for long-term gain: broking firm
        186 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A local stockbroking firm rates Nestle (Malaysia) Bhd's shares as a good buy for long-term gain as the group is expected to grow further in line with the strong economic growth, high spending power and growth of
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        Lock icon US chipmakers expected to surprise with strong earnings
        341 19 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK For those who believed the big surge in the growth of semiconductor companies ended last year, the industry's first-quarter numbers will come as a surprise. Semiconductor companies, belying concerns of lost momentum, will post strong earnings in
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        Lock icon Renault exceeds analysts9 forecasts with profit of 1.07b francs
        396 19 Renault exceeds analysts 9 forecasts with profit of 1.07b francs FT LONDON Renault, the French slate-owned vehicle group, suffered a sharp fall in profits last year, but managed to achieve a net result of 1.07 billion francs (***** million) despite the contraction in the European car market. Louis Schweitzer, chairman,
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        Lock icon Slump in bond, share prices partly reflects a healthy global economy
        594 19 MARKET FT LONDON Painfully few at Christmas predicted that the world's financial markets would look as shaky as they now do at Easter. Yet there is at least one important respect in which the unsettling behaviour of the markets
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        Lock icon Companies consolidate cable operations in Britain
        141 19 AFP LONDON Cable and Wireless said its C and W unit has signed a letter of intent with Bell Canada International, Jones Intercable and Jones Global Group to consolidate cable television and associated telephone operations in Britain. No financial details of the transactions were
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        Lock icon Lehman expects US$30m 1st-qtr charge for job cuts
        218 19 Reuter WASHINGTON Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc expects to take a US$3O million (5547.7 million) pretax charge against first-quarter earnings for costs related to job cuts, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Last week. Lehman said it planned to
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        US$ falls in sympathy with equity despite resurgent economy
        581 20  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON THE DOLLAR and pound are slipping in the face of sliding bond and equity markets. Both currencies weakened in the past few weeks. The ven is flirting with 100 to the US dollar and at 102
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          42 20 Reuter LILLE, France Customers at a Lille supermarket looking at a sheep let loose by an angry French farmer into the shop on Saturday. The unidentified farmer was protesting about the low prices charged for lamb within French supermarkets. Reuter
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          86 20 AFP NEW DELHI India's first private bank opened on Saturday with Finance Minister Manmohan Singh saying he hoped the competition would help make state banks more efficient. Mr Singh, after opening the doors of the first branch of UTI Bank Ltd in the western industrial
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          122 20 AP ABU DHABI An Abu Dhabi court on Saturday again postponed hearings in the trial of BCCI bank executives until next Saturday pending a report on civil claims against the defendants. But legal sources said the postponement of one week, instead of the usual one
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          80 20 Reuter KUWAIT Kuwaitis owing US$3 billion (Ss4.B billion) have missed a deadline for taking part in a government plan to settle a US$l9 billion difficult debt problem. Finance Minister Nasser Abdulla al-Rodhan said in remarks published yesterday. A law regulating settlement of the debt may have
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        Quotation of Singapore Government Stocks as at March 31, 1994
        328 20 Number Indicative Gross Yaar Coupon Interest ol days of midde prices (ademption raised l%m) W"*"* eccnisd (excluding yield pa) dates interest accrued pa) interest) 15.6.94 N*****0Z1989 51/4# 600.00 15/6 15/12 106 100.60« 2.33* 15.10.94 N*****1A1992 1 7/8* 850.00 15/4 15/10
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        512 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Wall Street bought and sold home mortgages at an increasing pace the past 10 years. Now it has indigestion and that's driving up interest rates. Countrywide Credit Industries, the nation's largest mortgage lender, raised the mortgage rate
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        Lock icon Credit Lyonnais to speed up sale of assets
        193 20 FT PARIS Credit Lyonnais. the troubled French bank which is the subject of a 44.9 billion franc (5511.9 billion) govern-ment-backed rescue package, plans to accelerate its asset sales by selling up to 35 billion francs of its industrial holdings. says its chairman
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        221 20 THE USS traded generally lower than other currencies last week led by the USS/yen amidst negative views on the Japanese stimulus package. Japanese year-end book squaring and fall in the US stock and bond market towards the weekend. A German and Belgium rate cut did
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        Lock icon Japan's top steel producers face bleak quarter
        718 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's steel companies. some of the world's largest producers, face a bleak April to June quarter as they attempt to restructure following huge losses in the year to March 1994. Japan's economic recession, a higher yen and weaker demand
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        Crude oil lower after Opec meeting rolls over production
        1170 21 SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP LONDON Oil prices fell slightly at the beginning of last week in a muted reaction to the Opec countries' weekend decision to roll over current production quotas till the end of the year. The price of Brent crude
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1412 21 Rubber Singapore Commodity EidMMi (fataras dasiag m at lp) IBS I C—tract (S ccms/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 94 I I 150 50 I 450 May 152 50 2.975 Jun 153.75 153.00 153 00 600 6 550 Jul/Sep 154 50 154 50
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      5509 22 CORPORATE RESULTS Net l am KHS ih.u in l\ i\ n (naipun) ann (Sm) (Sinl <rts> (els) \HK Hklp Mai II I I 407 2X51 *2 7 .0 Vrna Mar 17 P 41*44 14 26X 62 6 ill Mlianee Tixh M.ir HI I* I V>4I I
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      753 22 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and KM). 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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        819 23 N«w York FT ASKED on national news last Wednesday what was wrong with the stock market, the investment analyst smirked at the camera and said: "It's a four-letter word that begins with a *b' and ends with an *r\ and we're not allowed to say
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        Lock icon New economic package fails to boost sentiment
        328 23 Tokyo AFP SHARE prices plunged in Tokyo last week with investors greatly disappointed by a new economic package announced on Tuesday by the Japanese government. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed at 19,277.16 yen on Friday, down 559.32 points or 2.8 per cent
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        Lock icon Major woes and Wall St falls roll back prices
        276 23 London AFP SHARE prices dropped significantly during the week, falling on large declines in Wall Street and on political uncertainty in Britain over the future of Prime Minister John Major. The London Stock Exchange. however, stabilised on Thursday, and the FT-SE
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        Lock icon Stocks fall in lacklustre trading
        149 23 Hongkong AFP HONGKONG stocks fell 2.2 per cent in lacklustre trading during the holiday-shortened week with the key Hang Seng Index losing 204.30 points to close at 9,029.91 on Thursday. Average daily turnover totalled HKS5.686 billion (SSI.15 billion), against the previous week's HK57.844 billion. The
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          106 23 Australian stocks lost almost 5 per cent of their value in one week as investors reacted to sharp falls on New York's Wall Street, brokers said on Thursday. The market's key barometer. the All Ordinaries index, slumped 4.6 per cent to 2,053.1 points. 98.5 below the previous Friday's finish.
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          Bangkok
          106 23 A week marred by domestic political turmoil pushed the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index down 47.54 points (3.7 per cent) to 1,232.53, negating the previous week's gain of 33.23 points. The average volume of stocks traded was 48.7 million shares, compared to 64.7 million shares the week before.
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          Manila
          85 23 Philippine share prices rose 3 per cent last week in thin trading as investors prepared for the long Easter weekend. The newly unified Philippine Stock Exchange's Phisix index advanced 80.43 points to close at 2,711.5 on Wednesday, the week's last trading day before the nation closed down for Maundy
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          Taipei
          147 23 With no fresh incentives around, prices on the Tai- wan Stock Exchange lost momentum during the holi-day-shortened week. Eroding a 78.06-point jump the preceding week, the 372-issue weighted price index lost 44 points, or 0.82 per cent, to settle at 5,308.87 points on Friday. As the market was undergoing
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          Seoul
          67 23 South Korean shares shed 2 per cent in value during the week as foreign investors divested from the bourse in reaction to rising US interest rates and lingering tension over North Korea's nuclear programme. The Composite Stock Price Index closed Saturday's half-day session at 855.37 points, down 17.31 points
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          Jakarta
          119 23 A sharp rise in share prices of Indonesia's leading timber firm PT Barito Pacific Timber helped push up the Jakarta Stock Exchange index last week, although it failed to reach the 500 mark. The index, which fell below 500 on Friday the previous week to 490.836, gained 1.537 points
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        2270 23 London M«r 31 Hhk* Industnals A. A. Corp Adr 414/8 MO Abbe* National 4M -3 Allied Lvons 540 -I J Amec 128 Aigsll 254 4 Asda Group 57 2/8 2/1 BAT Ind 455 6 BK't" 4)8 2 BOC (litmp 714 7 BR Petroleum 348 unch Bid Ml 2 Barclays 525
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        837 23 +9.21 US stocks were mixed on Thursday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded from an initial plunge to close higher for the first time in six sessions. The broader market fell amid concern that rising interest rates will depress the economy and slow the growth in corporate
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        269 23 +15.71 Toronto stocks pulled out of another steep slide in late action on Thursday and ended mixed with a positive bias after plunging for six straight sessions. Toronto's TSE 300 composite index finished a busy session 15.71 points higher at 4329.62. Total trading volume was 80.44 million shares valued
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      469 27 International Transport Journal BASLE, Switzerland Feeder operator Regional Container Lines (RCL) is on an expansion drive to cope with growing demand in South-east Asia. The Bankok-based company will increase its current fleet of 16 vessels to 22. RCL also has plans to include
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      475 27 AP, AFP DUBAI A Gulf emirate appealed for international help last Saturday to clean up nearly 15,900 tonnes of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Oman and was soiling its beaches, killing marine life and threatening its industries.
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      216 27 AP DAM MAM Nosac. a Norwegian shipping company, will soon start a roll-on/roll-oflf shipping service from the Gulf eastern side of Saudi Arabia under a joint-venture with Japanese company NYK, the Saudi agents said last Saturday. Nosac discontinued a similar
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      230 27 Bloomberg Business News ST PETERSBURG. Russia The seaport of St Petersburg and CSX's Sea-Land Service Inc agreed to form a 50-50 partnership to develop and operate a new container berth in St Petersburg. Initial investment in equipment and infrastructure will exceed US$3O million (5547.4
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      359 27 International Transport Journal BASLE. Switzerland The latest Shipping Statistics and Market Review of the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) in Bremen showed slightly weaker growth by the world merchant fleet. In 1993. the container capacity grew 6.2 per cent. The
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      12690 36 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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      1421 43 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1.206 on Thursday from 1.207 on March 30. Activity was mostly on hold on the freight market until after the Easter- break, but rates were steady and brokers here remained optimistic rales they continue* to rise
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      407 43 COURSES Title: Container Survey Duration: Apr 4-18 Organiser Port of Singapore Authority Tel: 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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      596 44 International Transport Contractors is breaking into the towage/salvage industry Seatrade Review Monthly The netherlands and the towage and salvage industry are virtually synonymous. The names, Smit and Wijsmuller often spring to jpind when daring feats of salvage are discussed, although International Transport Contactors (ITC) is also building
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        290 46  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Federal Express Corporation will expand from this month its serv ices to Vietnam and several Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, the company said on Thursday. The US express transportation company said it will begin services to
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        316 46 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON United Parcel Service Inc (UPS) said last Friday it will pay US$3 million (554.7 million) to US' Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to settle a dispute related to the company's hazardous-materials shipments. In 1992, the
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        228 46 Bernama JOHOR BARU The Sultan Ismail Airport in Senai, near here, should be upgraded into at least a regional airport, Menteri Besar Muhyiddin Yassin said last Friday. He said this was necessary to meet the increased transportation needs following
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        476 46 Reuter TOKYO Japanese airlines introduced cheaper economy class fares last Friday for individual international travellers to generate demand but the carriers fear a new airport may hamstring efforts to spark business. Although consumers have been delighted with the new fares and ticket
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        248 46 Reuter PARIS Air France staff are likely to back chairman Christian Blanc's plan for job cuts and a wage freeze as the only way of unlocking 20 billion francs (555.5 billion) of state aid for the loss-making airline, trade unionists
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          103 46 Reuter TOKYO Honda Motor Co Ltd has set up a subsidiary in Budapest to distribute cars in Hungary, a spokesman for Honda said last Friday. The new company, named Honda Hungary Kft. capitalised at 29 million forints (about ***** million), is wholly owned by Honda's Austrian
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          58 46 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Suzuki Motor Corp announced last Friday it has signed an agreement to purchase Heron Suzuki, its British sales arm. Jiji Press reported. Heron Suzuki, to be renamed Suzuki G B pic. has been marketing Suzuki vehicles in Britain for
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          130 46 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Air cargo levels rose 2.1 per cent in February as strong international markets made up for US routes battered by severe winter weather, an industry group said. Revenue-tonne miles of cargo flown in February on 13 leading airlines and cargo
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          95 46 Bloomberg Business News AVON LAKE, Ohio Ford Motor Co reached a tentative agreement with UAW Local 2000 last Thursday, averting a strike at its Avon Lake plant, said Karl Mantyla. a spokesman for the United Autoworkers Union. The 1.800 members of Local 2000 who work
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          66 46 Reuter NEW YORK The Russian-built UAZ sport-utility vehicles on display at the New York Auto Show last Friday. The vehicles will go on sale in the US next year. They are equipped with US-built V-6 engines and sell for about USS 13,000 (5520,500). UAZ has five
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          116 46 Reuter LONDON The first trains to use the Channel tunnel will run in June, but the full serv ice will not be ready until the end of the summer. Eurotunnel said last Friday. Vice-chairman, Sir Alastair Morton, denied a press report that no
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        344 46 Reuter NEW YORK American Airlines lnc said last Thursday it will continue to restructure operations in 1994 by expanding its information technology business, eliminating unprofitable flights and reducing costs. In an annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, AMR for the
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      1962 31 K STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppd Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line aPEp (a service of china navigation co> CARGO DUE SAILS V0 S 4n Tjw 02 104 Apr 04 Apr 06 Apr FCL, LCI CONTAINER AND MEAKBULK SERVICE TO
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      366 35 I BSA jj. mm MYANMA pHHk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loadinc for Yanfon (Rangoon) S'poro PKIf Pen P Gdt RWVAI MUDMU VIH 4 5 Apr HPAAN N2OIM |/10 Apr PAGAN V2O9W 15/17 Apr INUYSIA MINTS BOBTttD SNPPOK AGENCtS TU 03-*****00 r*L Ttt 03-*****(7 ra. 0441(135 PCD TU 07-*****1/4
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      56 37 I/C VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD £5} jJmmWO Established Since 1984 OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR GROUPAGE lcl consolidation AUCKLAND SYDNEY < r IMPORT EXPORT mmMMin MELBOURNE FREMANTLE SERVICES FOR BOOKING 9t SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL* 1800
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      3322 38 SINGAPORE'S GENEKAI AGENTSMALAYSIA'S AGENTS I I I\| I I COSTA* SHIPPIHG PTE LTD Ckaag Chua Slmmu 54» SM 2 MMrl Ko«, HMC Mg *15 00 Sngmrt 0207 Njm Uk pZ«| 3U 9106 Cff NO; ********** M UCK NO: CCSU Kaala turner 03 241 HIS A MAIN UNE: 22S 1900 BOOKINGS:
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      184 38 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND ["55 Sta Fr«n I IMb I Sr< fact |P. CMM ANTNUPEM i 555 157* 5575 5775 575 S/S* cum Nunc 555 1575 5575 FTi I7i 575 575 WUSSU 127 5/5 1175 17/5 2t/5 25/5 2575 MM 32i 5175 575 575 1575 5775 M MJCKIMD TO USA/CANADA Hi
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      679 39 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 10/4 ROTTERDAM 6/4 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 10/4 HAMBURG/BREMEN 6/4 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 6/4 FELIXSTOWE/UK 6/4 BARCELONA/SPAIN fl/4 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 6/4 GENOA/ITALY fl/4 ANTWERP/BELGIUM fl/4 LOS ANGELES/WC/PI 10/4 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 7/4 NEW YORK/EC 10/4 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 8/4 VANCOUVER 8/4 BRISBANE
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      987 39 vessel I Hi vessel voy sin pen M WANABHUM Ty 5/4_ Sat S/4 1 OEJA BHUM Mm In PI Wadl S/4 jyUiHUM W 1 OEJA BHUM M ~£T "ST Bgj XETHA BHUM 42N Ty 5/4 Fri S/4 BHATRA BHUM 248 Sat S/4 Ty 12/4 |j Tmtlfl BIIUM 35N Fri S/4~
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      622 39 Guaranteed Sailings to-. v* v BANGKOK LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELAN& •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA PENANG HONGKONG 3 We also serve other ports: USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATION DONGNAMA Ulffi II nmiT mwtmm mma jwwffIWEM«JEL MP m BLM m t» K TU.SDAS *404*1 1/4 11/4 12/4 21/4
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      1709 40 PJIIMN CONTAINER LINES, INC I B»KVVVM A O #nto: MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) V 'C/WHK SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHING (062) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN
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      213 40 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD (I* (H (I* STOH KM! lIUMK PIMMG Btm lUK 14 4 11 4 loading tor Ma* MUVM HUM) 4 OischaigMif and loadinf tut Bombay DOirHN lb 4 loading For Ma*« lIONKII sumw 18 4 loadmj for Mal» UMfftDH 16 4 loadinj for
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      1118 40 £> THONG SOON LINES PTE LTD I I /TA 78 SHENTOW WAY #10-01. SINGAPORE 0207 K I \y TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 l I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOY "SPORE PEST VESSEL |VOY [SPORE IDEST J EQUATOR ROYAL 98/4E 06
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      713 41 WSVEVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG MEAKBUK SOC CMSOfS TO/FMM KOBE. YOKOHAMA, NAGOYA. MOI, TOKYO*. MANIA*, DAVAO*. Penanc* P. Ketanj Singapore EUsia* mEVHETT VK 05/06 Apr 07/08 Apr YAMAIEVERETT *20E 24/25 Apr 26/27 Apr JHAPIAEVERETT V2OE 30/01 May ACCffTHG BREAK9U.K FCI SOC CAKGOfS TO/FROM CHTTAGONG. CALCUTTA ;«MO MONGLA*.
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      243 41 til GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP 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 VI 16/4 19/4
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      572 41 JPAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VtSStl VOY KARACHI KAPTAI 11S-HW 11/04 23, 04 CIAMABAO 147-HW 27/04 06/05 HYDE RABAO 12S-HW 12/05 21/05 MAKRAN 147-HW 27/05 05/05 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY vessel VOY SW HHG BSN OSA HAG™ Toil HTDBIABAP 124-OW OS/04 13/04 17/04 22/04 24/04
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      620 41 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/P. ELIZABETH CAPETOWN/LAGOS VESS£L SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS JIAN HE/82 11/04 25/ CM 2S/04 28 04 05/05 HOI HE/104 26/04 10/ OS 11/05 13/05 20/05 VI HE 98 11/ OS 2S/OS 26/ OS 28/ OS SHON HE/103 08/06 28/06 26/06 25/06 ACCEPTS
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      305 41 SHI FAR EAST 12/04 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 09/04 BANGKOK 10/04 MANILA/CEBU 10/04 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 11/04 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 10/04 BUSAN 10/04 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 10/04 HONG KONG S!N CHINA (+B*±**n) 10/04 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 11/04 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 11/04 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SjN USA/CANADA 10/04 LOS
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      782 42 Handling System Co. Pte. Ltd. I 138 ft 138, Neil Road, #03-00, Singapore 0208 W —M CFS-20, Gul Road, Singapore 2282 Tel: 02-*****28 Handling System Co. Sdn. Bhd. N0.9 l.orong Cungah, ***** Port klang. Svlannor, Malaysia 24th Floor. I'MBC Main Building. ***** kuala Lumpur. Malaysia Handling System (Hk) Co. Ltd.
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      441 42 jjr Contemn CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 07 APRIL (Accepting to all New Zealand ports) PENANG 08 APR JAKARTA 10 APR PORT KLANG 07 APR BANGKOK 10 APR HONGKONG 10 APR MELBOURNE 07 APR SYDNEY 07 APR FREMANTLE 10 APR BRISBANE 14 APR 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA PORTS BOMBAY
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      588 42 This Week's Sailings Singapore j 7Z FIRST FORWARDER IN I°. E |l> lo: LID ASIA AWARDED Singapore Singapore 'so «hh>2 by l-RQA EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN GL)j every every Manila SUN 110 Chi Minh FRI (zfw\V EVERY EVERY Colombo lUE Limassol THU'R v 1 l| INTERNATIONAL SEA FREIGHT
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      118 42 ETA ETD LOADING FOR NANA 2 APR 4 APR PHNOM PENH TROPICAL ROSE 5 APR 11 APR PHNOM PENH JON 3 2 APR APR PHNOM PENH (30 TON DERRICK AVAILABLE) THE NEW STRAITS SHIPPING CO. (PTE) LTD 1 ANSON ROAD »09 53 ANSON CENTRE SMOAPORE 0207 TEL: *****07/*****22 TLX RS23ISO
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      1187 43 CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD iftllKL. 3s. MMIWIII I wmuiwwMi a—t ——1 1 I l> I HI, .Mill II I BANGKOK 8/4 AUCKLAND 7/4 ANTWERP 11/4 BUSAN 11/4 ADELAIDE 13/4 FELIXSTOWE 6/4 HONG KONG 6/4 BRISBANE 14/4 HAMBURG 10/4 JAKARTA 12/4 8/4 ROTTERDAM 10/4 SURABAYA 12/4 V,a KEELUNG 6/4 SYDNEY
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      182 43 CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN National line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERVO TO UK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS Ts^a^^^wS^SrnSTTnssni^ ■■immmm wm »/u m/M mujMg» mm tt/u urn n/x ?vw m/m a/w itm «U K IBI> 7VHB M/M M/W C/«S M/W M/«S MUM WWgg *413-3 17/ M 11/ M WBMSASR Ml4-I IVM 11/N
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      263 43 LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.31 vessels ■BWIWBBB BMByw iah/wta ""jf l mmjmm "N—m mmn rmamm MM—IT mgt MUD MU» MM» »W/M Sl-SB/M 88/84 18/84 a «WHMM lAIN MM MU» ITN/M IIIM4 IS/S4 IHM4 M/»4 OM ™?L BT/«4 2M/Q4 88-18/88 an 2*41/94 wa Ml/848 84/88 88/88 IHBOBHQREII 8811 11-18/84 l»ll/»4
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      465 44 I SEAMAR ARGENTINA LINE I CONTAINERISED "HUB" SERVICE f DIRECT TO ARGENTINA/BRAZIL URUGUAY V ANNOUNCING THE COMMENCEMENT OF OUR MONTHLY FAR EAST/EAST COAST SOUTH AMERICAN SERVICE MV ANANGEL DIGNITY" or substitute ETA SINGAPORE 06/05/94 BUENOS AIRES 03/06/94 USHUAIA 07/06/94 SANTOS 16/06/94 1. Transhipment cargoes from P. Kelang, Penang, Jakarta, Bangkok,
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      247 44 +&=@)%):%`*:~{?~`<>\\{)]@'"\<*| I JLcosco I COCO FULL COWTAMER IBWCtI (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CHMA/HONQKONQ EUROPE/CONTINENT AL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST/CAST COAST PERSIAN QULF/KARACHI PIMM refer above mentioned services to CMna Ocean Shipping Co. Advertisement In Page 12. CHRIA/SXJL FULL CONTAWER SBIVICE VESSEL PEN PKL SOP HKQ SHA QIN LUANHE/153 16/04 17/04
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      22 44 j STRAIGHT h TALK 4 You shouldn't have to read between the lines to get the full picture. Companies Markets. Everyday. BusinessEmes
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      698 44 TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOW 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 OSOO 0700 0100 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1100 1900 2000 2100 2200 230 ft 1.4 1.7 2.1 2.4 2.6 26 2J 2.2 1J 1.5 1.2 10 01 01 09 1 1 1.4 1.6
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      957 45 ▲HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. ITD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 i ww* fKE* pcd* vtssas vor sm urn out* lew* ham brei fel I OS/04 08/04 09/04 H. CHALLENGER 309W 11/04 30/04 01/05 03/05 01/05 01/05 04/05 13/04 15/04 16/04 H. PIONEER 30SW 18/04 06/05 07/05 09/05 07/05 07/05 10/05
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      498 45 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS VESSEL HI V n RK U MAKE MM VSO 12/4 11/4 14/4 It/4 CNMMN TRADER V3I 4/4 1/4 REISMM V 27 4/4 1/4 TRANS AUTO lit 1/4 MARCE SNV 117 9/4 RRR 12/4 lAAI IKLAN 124 2/4 1/4 FAR
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      821 45 JEDDAH/UK/CONmNENT I STORE JED S'TON HSURG RT)AM LEH •Mm Acccotw Can fm RMRARURA 33/113 4/4 23/4 K/4 5/2 :ta fMfN UPRISS OS 312 4/A li/i «/i 3 J 21 to j4 Ant*«fp Aimtefdjm Oilo, Hehrtu [S ?1/H4 13/4 2'/ /i l,\ /S Swßuwploii to al IR( tfntaular BcMast and Dubßn
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      80 46 t4P asiapac Weekly FCL/LCL Service To Bangkok, Hong Kong, Busan, Taiwan, Japan MHIM "N M.V. "SHI NORJAS" VOY.I Arrived 25di Math 1994 M.V. "REYSOL" VOY.I Arrived 27th Mad) 1994 Consignees of all damaged cargoa a the captioned vessels are hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the
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      9 46 AP ASIAPAC TEL: *****22 "Atyour senice, anywhere and anytime''
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