The Business Times, 18 July 1994

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    12 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday July 18 1994 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon French minister resigns ever graft probe
      63 1 AP PARIS Communications Minister Alain Carignon yesterday resigned to aid his defence against a corruption probe, becoming the first member of the right-wing government to step down in a growing climate of scandal. Mr Carignon, 45, quit so that he could formally be charged
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      Lock icon Serbs to reject peace plan
      31 1 AP BELGRADE Bosnian Serb leaders yesterday urged their Parliament to reject an international peace plan and called on their people to prepare for all-out war. AP
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    158 1 Stock narket indices Krktay Wc*k chant* STII 2.198.32 f 35.38 KLSE Comp 1.012.11 +24.33 Nikkei 20.770.15 243.64 Hang Seng 9.117.02 +634.06 SET Index 1.344.17 56.83 Jakarta Comp 461.83 +9.63 CLSA China B 995.00 -7.20 Aust AH Ord 2.058.00 +92.2 FTSE 100 3.074.80 +112.4 Dow Jones 3.753.81 +44.67 Average
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    Lock icon Microsoft in anti-trust accord
    121 1 NYT WASHINGTON Microsoft Corp, which thus far has reigned as the premier creator of software for personal computers, bowed before US antitrust regulators on Saturday and agreed to immediately abandon a number of important licensing practices, which the government said had smothered competition. Under a consent
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  • Article
    Group to set up $500 m S'pore-wide cable network
    492 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE A consortium is to invest nearly $500 million in a Singapore-wide cable network, an ambitious project that will herald the arrival here of the "information superhighway". The consortium members are Singapore International Media (SIM), a subsidiary of
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    SBC's privatisation moves into higher gear
    268 1 SINGAPORE The privatisation of Singapore Broadcasting Corporation has moved into higher gear with the establishment of Singapore International Media's (SIM) role as an umbrella holding company. BT understands that SIM at the moment is a "paper company" with stakes in a number of broadcasting
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    S'pore buyers of Suzhou apartments reject units
    561 1  -  Developer said to have deviated from building plans By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Up to 100 Singapore investors in a residential development in Suzhou city in China plan to reject their apartments because the developer has deviated from the original plans. Because of this,
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    Lock icon Governor Clinton snorted cocaine, neighbour claims
    291 1 AFP LONDON United States President Bill Clinton was a regular consumer of cocaine and marijuana when he was governor of Arkansas, and also took part in wild parties, the Sunday Telegraph reported, quoting witnesses. The main evidence in a "series of exclusive interviews" came
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    Strong S$ weighs on S'pore firms with foreign earnings
    733 1  -  By Genevieve Cua and Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The recent strengthening of the Singapore dollar against the US dollar is expected to hit the earnings of listed Singapore companies with substantial regional and international revenues. Particularly affected will be those in the
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    Lock icon Singapore dollar will remain strong this year, say analysts
    176 1 SINGAPORE Most analysts expect the Singapore dollar to remain strong for the rest of the year. A report by Nat West has projected the Singapore dollar to dose the year at a high of 551.48 to the US dollar. A Merrill
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon 7pc growth in next 6 months: UOB
        302 2  -  By Anna Teo THE economy should continue growing healthily at around 7 per cent in the six months to September, says United Overseas Bank (UOB) in its latest economic and financial quarterly. The outlook is supported by the continued uptrend in the official
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      SIA re-appoints auditors Ernst & Young
      130 2 SIA re-appoints auditors Ernst Young SINGAPORE AIRLINES reappointed Ernst Young its auditors for the 23rd year running over the weekend but not without opposition from one of its shareholders. The shareholder, P C Shivadas, said on Saturday at SlA's annual general meeting that the company should consider appointing other auditors.
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      NEC to pump another $62m into chip plant here
      306 2  -  By Claire Leow NEC Corp of Japan has revised upwards its investment in the manufacture of highend memory chips by about 20 billion yen (SS3OB million), a fifth of which will go into its plant here. This means its investment in
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      Govt to offer for sale second batch of rental flats to tenants
      420 2  -  By Rahita Elias IN acknowledgement of the overwhelming response, the government will offer for sale a second batch of rental flats to sitting tenants, the Acting Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang announced yesterday. In September, 270
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      COE prices rise for all categories except motorcycles
      186 2 PRICES of certificates of entitlement (COEs) have climbed higher for all categories, except motorcycles, in the latest tender exercise. Car buyers are especially affected by the increases, with COE prices for five of the six ear categories hitting record levels. According to
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      Lock icon Waiting for a Sunday unlike other Sundays
      255 2 SHOPPERS showed great patience at CK Tang yesterday when it opened its doors on a Sunday for the first time in 63 years. It was almost as if they had been waiting all this time to get a taste of buying something from
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Indonesia sees need to review migration policy
      266 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia needs to review its programme of shifting people from crowded Java island because moving large numbers of people has had a negative impact on remote areas of the country. Transmigration Minister Siswono Yudohusodo yesterday said: "The system for transferring the
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      Lock icon Enough is enough
      54 3 Reuter ZAMBOANGA, Philippines Filipino surgeon Nilo Barandino (left) helping his son to put up a poster in Isabela, Basilan province, where kidnappings by Muslim extremists have gone unabated. Dr Barandino and son Bunny (centre) were themselves kidnapped in 1992 by the same group which killed IS Christian
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      Lock icon Lawyer for independent Indon union lashes out at minister
      256 3 AFP JAKARTA A lawyer for the Sejahtera independent labour union yesterday lashed out at Manpower Minister Abdul Latief for reportedly calling the union illegal. Mr Latief was quoted on Saturday by newspapers as saying that Sejahtera and other non-governmental organis- ations
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      Lock icon Indon Islamic body to urge banning of Darul Arqam
      321 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's highest Islamic authority is to call on the government of the world's most populous Muslim nation to ban a radical religious sect already outlawed in Malaysia. Hasan Basri, chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI), said a
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      Lock icon Filipino exporters seek government help to be more competitive
      239 3 Reuter MANILA Filipino export groups will press the government to issue US dollardenominated Treasury notes as part of reforms they are seeking to make them more competitive abroad, exporters said. They said the demands would be presented to President Fidel Ramos
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      Lock icon Crackdown on Al-Arqam teachers
      104 3 Bernama TELUK INTAN The Education Ministry is identifying teachers involved in the Al-Aiqam movement, whose teachings the government said have deviated from true Islamic teachings. Education Deputy Director-General Matnoor Daim said the state education officers, district education offices and headmasters had been directed to submit reports
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      Lock icon Aussie wins pageant
      39 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Miss Australia Georgina Danahy (centre) expressing her joy after she was named Queen of the Year International 1994. She beat 23 other contestants at a pageant held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Reuter
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      Lock icon Thai human rights stance attacked
      96 3 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's two main English-language dailies criticised the government's stancc on regional human rights issues in editorials yesterday. The Bangkok Post called the government's decision on Friday to impose restrictions on foreign members of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) "another setback for the human rights movement
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      Lock icon Viet travel firms offering tours of battlefields
      255 3 AFP HANOI In a constant search for the tourist dollar, travel firms here have hit on a new idea opening up the old Vietnam War battlefields for veterans and the simply curious. Previously difficult to get to, former United States bases and fortified
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      Lock icon Anwar: ties with Daim are good
      152 3 Bernama BUTTERWORTH Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday confirmed that there was no rift in his relationship with economic adviser Daim Zainuddin. He said he had a good relationship with Mr Daim and also his family members. "Don't entertain what other people say," he
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Taiwan offers friendly-nation aid
        112 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday it wanted to encourage private investment in the 29 nations that maintain diplomatic ties with Taipei, and offered preferential loans and financial aid. In the 1994/95 year, the ministry will offer NTS 12.87 million (*****,000) in
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        Lock icon Nationalists win poll for local chiefs
        100 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party won local government elections for community chiefs, seen as crucial for future major national polls, but with a reduced majority, newspapers said yesterday. Preliminary results showed the Nationalists won 7,007 seats, or 67 per cent, of the 10,456
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        Lock icon Date proposed for renewed China talks
        108 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan has proposed that a fifth round of talks with rival China should start from July 28, resuming a process that has so far reported no substantive progress, an official said yesterday. Taiwan's quasi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) sent a message on
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        Lock icon New curbs ordered in Muslim region
        82 4 Reuter BEIJING Chinese authorities have ordered new curbs on religious activity in the heavily Muslim north-western region of Ningxia, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The move comes at a time of growing concern in Beijing over rising Islamic fervour in central Asia
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      Lock icon Beijing hopes Brown's August visit will repair Sino-US ties
      496 4 AFP BEIJING China hopes the visit here next month of US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown will put Sino-US economic ties back on the fast track following the resolution of the damaging Most-Fa-voured Nation trade row. Mr Brown, who is expected
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      Lock icon Prices of imported rolled steel may plunge
      241 4 AFP BEIJING A glut of imported rolled steel could send prices on the Chinese market plummeting this year. Experts from the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry yesterday warned that prices had been steadily declining since April because of oversupply. The experts said the situation
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      Lock icon Taiwan food makers waiting for China ventures to bear fruit
      616 4 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan's food processors arc pouring millions of dollars into ventures in mainland China, hoping 1.2 billion new consumers will help them survive increasingly tough competition at home. So far, however, the returns have been meagre. Food
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      Lock icon War games
      57 4 Reuter BEIJING The word takes on a different meaning for these Chinese primary school children, on holiday, at a reservoir on the outskirts of Beijing yesterday. They are training to be sailors on a fake boat using fake weapons by sailors of the People's Liberation Army. Their trip
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      Lock icon China pushing for use of plastic money
      265 4 AFP BEIJING China plans to issue 200 million credit cards by the turn of the century in a bid to restrict the amount ,of cash in circulation and strengthen control of the money supply, a central bank official was quoted as saying yesterday.
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      Lock icon China closes reactor near HK to repair leak
      211 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Chinese officials early this month shut down a nuclear reactor at a power plant 50 kilometres north of Hongkong to repair a minor leak in its hydrogen cooling system. Zan Yunlong, general manager of operator Guangdong Nuclear Power
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon China, India in talks to cut border troops
      213 5 AFP NEW DELHI India and China are expected to explore the prospects of reducing troops along their disputed frontier and build on warming relations as they begin high-level talks here yesterday. Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen arrived in New Delhi yesterday for
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      Lock icon Seoul to outline policy on North Korea today
      221 5 Reuter SEOUL South Korea will officially spell out today its future policy on the Stalinist North after the death of president Kim U Sung, government sources and news reports said yesterday. Prime Minister Lee Yung Dug was due to hold a cabinet
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      Lock icon India's Maharashtra state rocked by sex and porn film scandal
      340 5 AFP BOMBAY A sex and pom film scandal involving politicians, industrialists and teenage girls has rocked Maharashtra, India's most industrialised state. Lurid details of the racket have been splashed across the front pages of newspapers in Bombay, Maharashtra's capital, for
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      Lock icon Australia defends human rights approach in E Timor
      235 5 AFP CANBERRA Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans yesterday defended his government's approach to Indonesia over human rights in East Timor province. Yesterday was the anniversary of the former Portugese colony's integration with Indonesia in 1976. The United Nations still recognises Portugal as
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      Lock icon Beer, air-con sales up in Japan
      120 5 Reuter TOKYO Japan has been sweltering in its harshest July heat wave for years, and beer and air conditioner makers are celebrating. Tokyo temperatures topped 30 Celsius on 13 of the first 17 days in July. Most years it goes above 30 only 14
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      Lock icon Plain sailing for the bullock cart
      59 5 Reuter AHMEDABAD, India The age old Indian vehicle bullock cart and a cyclist sailed smoothly on Saturday while a scooterist was having a tough time taking out his machine out of the water logged Gomtipur road of Ahmedabad. Roods and torrential rains in India's
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      Lock icon US awaits N Korea talks in Geneva
      76 5 Reuter WASHINGTON The United States expects to hear this week from North Korea on when talks can resume in Geneva on Pyongyang's nuclear programme, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said. The Geneva talks broke off after one day earlier this month due
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Decree may free 4,000 from Italian jails
      601 6 Premier Berlusconi accused of stifling anti-graft drive Reuter ROME Thousands of ordinary Italians held without trial in rundown, crowded jails could go free under a decree that has put Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on a collision course with the country's graftbusting magistrates. The
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      Lock icon Germans urged to be flexible on working hours
      142 6 Reuter BONN German Economics Minister Guenter Rcxrodt said companies should abandon fixed working hours and opt for flexible labour time in order to create new jobs. "Trade unions too must recognise that holding on to 40 or 35-hour weeks belongs to yesterday,"
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Kuwaiti art sold on black market
        109 6 AFP LONDON Antique art objects worth millions of dollars looted during the 1990 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait have been sold on the black market, the Sunday Times said here, reporting the arrest of three suspects. It said most of the objects belonged to the
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        Lock icon Remembering Apollo's mission
        40 6 Reuter CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida German tourists pose next to a mock Apollo 11 moon landing suit, after a commemorative ceremony at Spaceport USA marking the 25th anniversary of the launching of the Apollo 11 moon mission. Reuter
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        Lock icon Israel breaking promises: Arafat
        70 6 AFP GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat accused Israel on Saturday of breaking agreements on Jerusalem by making topographical and population changes, and restricting entry to the city by residents of the West Bank. He said the Palestinian flag would fly over
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        Lock icon Mexico May deficit hits US$1.5b
        101 6 Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexico had a trade deficit of US$l.5l billion (552.29 billion) in May, the Finance Ministry said. The trade deficit in April was US$l.43 billion, according to figures released last month. The shortfall in May 1993 was US$l.O7 billion, according to figures released
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      Lock icon Europe unlikely to rein in CO2 pollution: report
      257 6 AFP LONDON Europe's carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution problem will outstrip European Union (EU) targets over the next 20 years. A report to be published today by US research group DRI/McGraw-Hill says: "National measures are unlikely to be sufficient for the EU to
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    • Article
      Tory fury at press over fees-for-questions expose backfires
      449 6  -  From Neville Stack in LONDON THE tactics of the Sunday Times in exposing the activities of two MPs last week nearly overshadowed the furore over MPs who allegedly took money for asking parliamentary questions. Conservative indignation at the "sting" ran so high
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      Lock icon OECD foreign investments on upturn: report
      384 8 Outflows slow to 3pc but inflows jump lOpc Reuter PARIS Direct investment flows in and out of the world's rich industrial nations is showing signs of recovery, after sliding in the early *****, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said yesterday. It said
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      Lock icon Group reaches deal to axe shipyard subsidies
      362 8 Reuter PARIS Major shipbuilding nations yesterday agreed after five years of talks to scrap subsidies to their shipyards, but France rejected the deal, negotiators said. The accord between officials of the United States, European Union, Japan, Korea and Nordic states was hammered out
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      Lock icon Three supermarket officials in Brazil arrested for raising prices
      161 8 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO A judge in Brasilia ordered the arrest of two directors and the president of a chain of supermarkets for "criminally" raising prices, Brazilian newspapers reported over the weekend. The judge based his decision on a new anti-trust
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      Lock icon Celebrating comet's encounter with Jupiter
      48 8 Reuter BALTIMORE Scientist Heidi Hammel holds a photograph of the Shoemaker-Levy comet colliding with Jupiter at a news conference here to celebrate the event on Saturday. With Ms Hammel are the comet's discoverers, from left: Carolyn Shoemaker, David Levy and Eugene Shoemaker. Reuter
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      Lock icon Leading brands in UK in bitter battle over copy-cat products
      558 8 Reuter LONDON Manufacturers of leading brands are sharpening their swords in an increasingly bitter British battle to protect what they insist is the "real thing". Angry that the British government has failed to back their calls to ban supermarkets' copy-cat
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      Lock icon Russia not aiming to rebuild Soviet empire: Chernomyrdin
      156 8 Reuter MOSCOW Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said Russia wanted to see economic union between former Soviet republics but had no ambitions to rebuild the old Soviet empire. Asked in a Russian television interview on Saturday how he saw relations developing between Russia
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      Lock icon Uncertainty in bond market to persist OECD
      471 8 Reuter PARIS The sharp collapse in prices in international bond markets is likely to leave investors and borrowers jumpy for some time to come, subduing new borrowing in the months ahead, the OECD said yesterday. "Even if conditions have become somewhat calmer in
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      Lock icon Germany alarmed over plutonium smuggling
      196 8 Reuter BONN Germany has warned that the smuggling of nuclear materials has reached grave new dimensions following the seizure last May of smuggled weapons-grade plutonium which it says came from Russia's nuclear industry. Chancellery Minister Bernd Schmidbauer told German TV on Saturday plutonium smuggling had
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      123 8 International Graduate School of Management D UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA MBA IN A NUTSHELL ■HBI 20 August 1994 Pan Pacific Hotel First in Singapore! 18 modules over 6 weekends Cutting-edged management thought and practices Power-packed presentation by prominent speakers A weekend management development programme; not a degree No assignment or
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      New clout, new product, perfect time for the kill
      622 9  -  WordPerfect Asia believes the climate is ripe to go for gold. Kenneth James finds out why Kenneth James BUOYED by a marriage made in computer heaven and a hot new product on the horizon, WordPerfect Corporation's Asian arm says it is
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      TI joins the race to develop advanced DRAM packages
      475 9  -  Claire Leow takes a closer look at the R&D project that the NSTB is helping to fund Claire Leow THE chase for next-gener-ation computer memory products is on and Texas Instruments (Tl) Singapore has started a five-year 57.4 million research and
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      Lock icon US firms plan PC-based business information service
      297 9 Bloomberg Business News COWLES Business Media and Ziff Communications Co said they were working on an interactive news and information network that will be aimed at business executives. The service will allow Cowles to put its stable of business publications on the ZiffDavis
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    • Article
      No substitute for planning when adopting client/server
      841 9  -  David Welcher reports from a San Francisco forum which produced down-to-earth guidelines for aspiring client/server adopters David Welcher THE forum was sponsored by Uniface, an Alameda. California vendor of client/server development tools, but main-frame-bashing was certainly not on the agenda. The audience was
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    • Article
      Treat for Windows fans and experts
      434 10  -  By Claire Leow Windows Expo '94 starts today, a three-day showcase of software technology and solutions designed around Microsoft's Windows operating system. For managers of information systems (MIS) personnel, it will be an enormous opportunity to find out what the industry has to offer.
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      Are investors in semiconductor stocks living in the past?
      638 10  -  John Markoff believes the semiconductor industry has changed profoundly and the old wisdom no longer holds John Markoff THE common wisdom is that the US semiconductor industry is heading into its annual summer doldrums, which are accentuated this year because the
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      Lock icon Japan chip makers turning bullish on investment
      519 10 Reuter JAPAN'S semiconductor makers, after years in the doldrums, are boosting their capital spending as the economy shows signs of picking up and global demand for computer memory chips remains strong. NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd, both emerging from the worst of the
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      New name and focus for IBM unit
      266 10  -  By Jennifer Lien IBM's Singapore-based Regional Business Unit became the IBM-SAP Business Solutions Centre last Tuesday, to better reflect the centre's primary purpose of selling, supporting and servicing German company SAP's software for IBM computers. The Business Solutions Centre serves IBM-SAP customers in
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      First local conference on client/server computing
      240 10  -  By Jennifer Lien MOVING from the conventional host-based computing environment to client/server computing is nothing less than a cultural change, says well-known lecturer and author Shaku Atre. The New York-based Ms Atre will explain why when she gives the keynote address tomorrow morning at
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    • TECH TAKES
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        Singapore on a disk — at half price
        44 10 Singapore on a disk at half price SINGAPORE Local software firm, EPS Information Technology is promoting its new electronic directory. Smart City Singapore, with a special half price oflcr. Buyers now only need to pay $30 to have the use of Smart City Singapore.
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        New payroll software promotion
        98 10 SINGAPORE Local software house Allied Computer Services is selling its newly developed Super Pay for Windows 2.0 at half its original price for this month. Super Pay is a payroll and personnel management software which was launched at the Software Show held at the World Trade
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        CSA is Clariion's regional distributor
        56 10 SINGAPORE CSA Automated, a subsidiary of the public listed CSA group, will be distributing Clariion Series 1000 and Series 2000 disk arrays and Clariion Series 4000 tape arrays in Singapore, Malaysia and Hongkong. This adds to the range of CSA Automated's current offerings of Sun
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        Taiwan deal for Northern Telecom
        72 10 TAIWAN Northern Telecom has succeeded in its bid to provide a GSM (Global Standard for Mobile communications) digital cellular phone system in Taiwan. The contract is worth about US$lOO million (SSIS2 million) and will serve up to 500,000 subscribers in all the major urban areas
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    • It's happenin'
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        HP seminar on networking
        79 10 SINGAPORE Hewlett-Packard is organising a seminar and workshop tomorrow to introduce its newest networking product. The event, to be held at Ballroom 3 of the Pan Pacific Hotel, will comprise a morning seminar introducing the HPOOVG-AnyLAN network and a workshop in the afternoon for planning and
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        Maximising information processing
        76 10 SINGAPORE AT&T Global Information Solutions will be presenting an information management programme, From Data to Strategic Corporate Information, on Wednesday at the Centre for Advanced Technology, Ngee Ann Polytechnic. The presentation will deal with issues and strategies for large companies wishing to maximise the utility of the
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        Conference on outsourcing
        91 10  -  Compiled by Diana Oon SINGAPORE Asia's first conference on Outsourcing IT will be held on July 28 and 29 at the Marina Mandarin. The focus of the two-day programme will be to introduce companies in the region to outsourcing and the situations in which it would help
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        Lotus adds to its Asia-Pacific team
        148 10 LOTUS Development recently made several key appointments in its business units, reflecting the company's expansion into the Asia-Pacific. Donald Mason is Lotus' new business partners manager. Based in Singapore, he will be implementing the Lotus Business Partner programme in nine countries. Before joining Lotus,
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      Why the organisation of the nineties needs groupware
      782 11  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Ray Ee explains the forces that have helped groupware technology Ray Ee The writer, a manager with Andersen Consulting Singapore, has experience in implementing leading-edge technology solutions for clients. HISTORICALLY, information technology has been a helpful, passive
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      Getting to the hub of the matter
      862 11  -  Hill WATCH NETWORKING WORLD Tommi Chen looks at another key element in a LAN the hub Tommi Chen The writer is managing partner of Net Centre Pte Ltd, which specialises in network services. He managed one of the largest enterprise networks in the
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      A union clicks, resulting in an impressive suite
      984 12  -  Kenneth James previews a stunning new offering from WordPerfect Kenneth James TAKE a look at WordPerfect's new logo. The name remains the same, but to its left is a familiar-looking box of diagonal stripes. Look harder, and the stripes coalesce into the
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      An ever-expanding community called cyberspace
      757 12  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is a Support Contracts Specialist with Hewlett-Packard's Americas' Field Operations (AFO). He also has extensive experience as a computer consultant helping businesses to usf information technology productively. O boldly go I where no man M, has gone before!"
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      Lock icon Apple soups up operating system
      343 12 Reuter APPLE Computer Inc has unveiled the latest, souped-up version of its operating system for Macintosh personal computers that the company said was easier to use so as to make people more productive. The new model, called Macintosh System 7.5, will be available in late
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      Lock icon Price's sweet revenge
      695 13 British Open AP TURNBERRY, Scotland Nick Price rolled in a 75-ft (25metre) eagle putt on the 17th hole yesterday to win a British Open championship that only moments earlier seemed to be in the hands of Jesper Parnevik. Price, twice a runner-up in the British Open, appeared
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      Latest results from the Open
      606 13 TURNBERRY, Scotland Latest scores in fourth and final round of British Open Championship here on Sunday (GB unless stated; par 70): 268 Nick Price (Zim) 69 66 67 66 269 Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 68 66 68 67 271 Fuzzy Zoeller (USA) 71 66 64 70
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      Lock icon Norman writes himself off after double bogey on third day of play
      572 13 AP TURNBERRY, Scotland Greg Norman's chances of successfully defending his British Open title virtually disappeared on Saturday at the bottom of a creek known as Wilson's Burn. After a sparkling front nine of 32, Norman was 5-under-par and
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      Lock icon Inspired Sweden routs Bulgaria for third place
      544 14 AP PASADENA Sweden played like it was a championship game. Bulgaria played like it wanted to go home. The Swedes ended their surprisingly successful World Cup run on Saturday with a 4-0 rout of Bulgaria for third place. It was an unexpected match-up
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      Lock icon Three tenors' hit rematch scores three encores
      523 14 World Cup finals AP LOS ANGELES Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras reunited on Saturday night on the eve of soccer's World Cup final for a concert that was expected to draw the largest TV audience ever for a musical performance. Dodger
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      Shootouts keep you on the edge
      550 14  -  Soh Tiang Keng says penalty shootouts should stay, despite being unpopular Soh Tiang Keng The writer is a BT journalist SINGAPORE There is a powerful body of sports opinion wanting to eject the penalty shoot-out from the knock-out competition in soccer matches. Opponents of
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        Lock icon World Cup
        62 14 AP PASADENA, C alfornia American Vice-President A 1 Gore causcd a small stir at Saturday's World Cup third-place match. His decision to attend the match apparently was made late, requiring reporters to go through a laborious search of their bags by security personnel as they entered the stadium.
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        Baseball
        67 14 NEW YORK Major league Saturday National: Atlanta 7 Florida 5; Cincinnati 2 Chicago 7; Colorado 5 St Louis 4: Montreal 2 SF 4: NY 5 San Diego 4; Philadelphia 10 LA 6; Pittsburgh I Houston 7. American: California 4 Baltimore 3: Chicago 0 Cleveland 2; Kansas City 7 Detroit
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        96 14 AFP KUAI.A LUMPLR Organisers have called off the women's event in the Commonwealth basketball championships in Kcdah because of the number of withdrawals. But chief organiser Chuah Boon Kheng said the men's contest would go ahead from Tuesday with Fngland favourites among the six competing countries. Canada. Singapore. Nigeria.
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        Golf
        220 14 TL'RNBKRRY, Scotland British Open 3rd rd leaderboard Saturday (GB unless stated: par 70): 201 Fuzzy Zocllcr (US) 71-66-64. Brad Faxon (US) 69-65-67 202 Konan Raffcrty 71-66-65, Nick Price (Zim) 69-66-67. Jcspcr Parnevik (Swe) 68-66-68. Tom Watson (US) 68-65-69 205 Mark James 72-67-66. UKNOHARACHO, Japan 50 million yen (US$500,000) Resorttrust
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        112 14 AFP COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado Taekwondo and triathlon protv ably will be included as new medal sports at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Australia, international Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch said. Samaranch. speaking at the US Olympic Training Centre here, also said boxing "is safe" as an Olympic sport
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        Tennis
        188 14 BKOOKLINE, Mass. U*****,000 US Pro Championships Saturday Singles Quarterfinals: Ivan Lendl (US xl) b Mats Wilandcr (Swc) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3: Patrick McEnroe (US x 7) b Jimmy Arias (US) 6-3 6-4. Semifinals: MaliVai Washington (US x 3) b McEnroc 7-5 6-2. PARIS Davis Cup World Group quarter finals Saturday
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      S Africa's return to Test arena a study in contrasts
      532 14  -  By Michael Karem in LONDON THE restoration of South Africa into the family of international cricketing nations comes to its formal conclusion this Thursday with the opening of the first EnglandSouth Africa Test at Lords. So understated has been South
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      Lock icon All Blacks make changes for 2nd Test
      88 14 AFP WELLINGTON New Zetland's selectors have made onic change, forced through injury, to their team for the second Test against South Africa next Saturday. Robin Brooke has beefc brought in at lock to replace lan Jones, who took a kick in the face
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      133 14 Doing Business in Singapore? Come to the Orchard Parade Hotel We offer competitive rates for today's corporate travellers and back them 100% with excellent communications support and efficient secretarial assistance so doing business can be a real breeze with us. o" J ijjp *Rates include daily American breakfast For those
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      Graduates find business a relative turn-off
      980 15 They are discouraged by the tough experience of the self-employed in their families. Chuang Peck Ming reports A UNIVERSITY graduate with kin or close friends in business is unlikely to follow in their footsteps, says a local study. Why? Because he or she will
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      Lock icon Corporate women handicapped by the Green Ceiling
      1123 15  -  In the job advancement game, even lack of golf skills can be a handicap, writes Dottie Enrico Dottie Enrico Newsday Barbara sat down in the executive conference room and began to go over her notes for the next day's presentation a pitch to
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      10 15 Doonesbury is not available today; Bristow is on page 4
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      387 15 The Gold Peak Group is an established multinational group engaged I in the development, manufacture and marketing of batteries, electrical installation H products, car audio equipment and related products, home and professional audio H equipment and electronics parts and components. H Headquartered in Hong Kong, the Group has manufacturing operations
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      935 16 Noll ling Beats A Bud. ftHV/lfl WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN or July 1 August 7 Tuck into wholesome hawker fare and indulge in local dishes like Hainanese Chicken Rice, Beef Rendang and Rojak, plus a range of tempting desserts. $16.50 (Adult) $10.50 (Child) Menu changes regularly. A Sflhft!
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      367 16 If" SndW j WHAT'S HAPPENING [I ifcj ON TUESDAY NIGHT jS. jr AT THE NEPTUNE. \v S~' 4 y VT W Every Tuesday night, The Neptune is reserved for all who love ballroom dancing. Special srt Jmnrr menu available at $2J** per penon *.*9® ©J*® j [l Ttti floor Oveneat
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      Lock icon Death throes or death wish?
      980 17  -  The demise of the British film industry is said to be inevitable. But, argues producer and director Ismail Merchant, it may have only itself to blame Ismail Merchant FT BARELY a week passes without another lamentation. The British film industry, according to hand-wringing obituarists, is
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      Din and Tonics go down a treat
      780 17  -  The Harvard singers hit the right note with their fun show, writes Juliette Walker Juliette Walker Fourteen young men from Boston's Harvard University. If their tuxedos, smiles and razzle-dazzle energy don't wow you, their acapella singing definitely will. The Harvard Din Tonics sang,
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      205 17 I WEATHER I Singapore: Fair. (Temperature range: 25-33). AsiaPaoflc Hi/la* Caad Europe Mi/La* Caad. BuenotAaw 16/10 Oe» Auckland 15/08 Cloudy Amstenlam 26,14 Cloudy CMcago 32/10 Cloudy Bangkok 33/29 Cloudy Alliens 31/20 Cloudy Honolulu 31/25 Oar Beijing 33/22 Clear Befit 32/18 Clear Houston 38/22 Cloudy Bombay 30/26 Cloudy Bonn .28/18 Cloudy
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      1087 17 TV ft RADIO I j'incri JFK: Reckless Youth, two-partcr on the American president. Conccntrates on Jack's developmental years, from 16 to 29. Tonight, J" a look at Jack's college \ears. A when he learned to be a ladies' r I'iaSM man. Competition with brother Jfl Joe Jr and conflict with
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    Lock icon Beijing pressing N Korea for economic reform: analysts
    607 18 Leadership change provides chance China has been waiting for Reuter BEIJING Beijing is using the change of leadership in North Korea to press its case for economic reform there, anxious not to have to prop up its ailing ally on a long-term
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    Lock icon Race that set off squeals of protest
    43 18 Reuter ARKLOW, Ireland Residents of Arklow enjoying this pig race, which is the highlight of the town's 'garden of Ireland festival. The annual controversial race was held on Saturday amid protests from animal rights activists. Reuter
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    Lock icon Stanchart seeks probe over bullion unit's alleged bribe offers
    105 18 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Standard Chartered pic chief executive Malcolm Williamson has asked the Bank of England to investigate Mocatta, its fully-owned bullion division, the Sunday Times newspaper said. The investigation follows allegations that executives from Mocatta offered bribes to government
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    Lock icon US$ will recover from losses, say economists in survey
    454 18 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Foreign exchange analysts and economists say they will stick with their view that the dollar will rebound from this year's massive losses against the mark and yen. A survey yesterday quoted Stuart Thomson, economist at Nikko Europe,
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    Lock icon Tata reveals hostile takeover threat
    159 18 AFP NEW DELHI Indian tycoon Ratan Tata has sparked a sensation in the country's corporate world by revealing that a predator was out to grab the flagship of the Tata business dynasty. Mr Tata, who returned to Bombay on Saturday night from a visit to
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    Lock icon Mahathir celebrates 13 years as Prime Minister
    276 18 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad quietly celebrated his 13th year in office as he prepared to embark on what is seen as a nation-wide drive to set the stage for an early general election, analysts said yesterday. At a dinner
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    Lock icon UK ministers wait in suspense as Major plans Cabinet reshuffle
    282 18 Reuter LONDON British ministers hovered nervously by their telephones yesterday as Prime Minister John Major prepared a Cabinet reshuffle designed to spike the guns of Tony Blair, the opposition Labour party's heir apparent. Mr Blair, a young, telegenic barrister, is
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    Why women must get out of the home and into the House
    926 18  -  The Bottom Line KANWALJIT SOIN KANWALJIT SOIN The writer, a Nominated Member of Parliament, is a former president of the dissociation of Women for Action Research. THE SUBJECT of women in politics, and especially with regard to the
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      12 18 Little hope of early election-led rally, Merrill Lynch advises investors, Pg 19
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      Cargill muddies Prima's plan for Viet flourmill
      569 19  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Flourmiller Prima Ltd's plan to build a wheat mill in Vietnam has been impeded by the entry of a major competitor, US multinational Cargill Corp. The entry of Cargill the sixth foreign firm that plans to set up a
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      Lock icon PIHP unfazed by flood of office space
      299 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pernas International Hotels and Properties Bhd (PIHP) does not anticipate its future results will be adversely affected by the increasing office space. Chairman Shahriman Tunku Sulaiman yesterday told newsmen after PIHP's 27th annual general meeting that although by the end
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      Good buys among recent Indon bank listings
      849 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE Investors are understandably sceptical about investing in the Indonesian banking sector, which has not been helped one whit by the current scandal involving the state-owned Bapindo bank and an adverse report by the USbased Standard Poors
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      Little hope of early election-led rally, Merrill Lynch advises investors
      538 19  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR INVESTORS should not pin too much hope on an early general election in Malaysia to spark a major stock market rally and should instead adopt a selective stock-picking strategy. Merrill Lynch Co said.
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      Khong Guan to buy 20pc stake in HK biscuit firm
      348 19  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Khong Guan Flour Milling has agreed to buy a 20 per cent stake worth HKS24 million (SS4.B million) in Far East Biscuit Factory (Hongkong) Ltd. The Singapore company's move is the second proposed ownership change in
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          Lock icon Why Olympia switching to rights
          89 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Olympia Industries Bhd's decision to replace its proposed rights issue of loan stock with a rights issue of shares was because the latter provided a better alternative and it would also strengthen the shareholders funds of the group. D&C Sakura Merchant Bankers
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          Lock icon Promto buys into Fuller CMS
          99 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Promto Bhd said it would subscribe for 300,000 ordinary shares of Msl each at par in the capital of Fuller CMS Sdn Bhd, representing 60 per cent of the enlarged issued share capital of M 5500,002 (*****,000). Fuller trades in construction materials
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          Lock icon Thai Farmers profits surge 56pc
          60 20 AFP BANGKOK Thai Farmers Bank on Friday reported a 55.85 per cent increase in net profits for the first half of 1994 over the first six months of 1993. The bank said it recorded first-half profits of 5.1 billion baht (SS3OB million), up from 3.28
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          Lock icon Tronoh seeks to diversify
          82 20 NST KUALA LUMPUR Tronoh Mines (M) Bhd is looking into various opportunities to diversify its business activities in Malaysia. This is in line with its aim to have a more balanced income from both its overseas and local operations, director Faisal Siral said after Tronoh's annual
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        Lock icon Tanjong expects healthy growth in gaming business
        380 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tanjong pic expects its gaming business to grow, in keeping with the growth of the Malaysian economy, despite the increase in gaming tax and betting and sweepstake duties. The tax and duty hike is expected to affect negatively the group's
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        Lock icon Towards speed-of-light telecommunication
        58 20 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Workers laying the fibre-optic cables alongside Malaysia's new 900 km North-South Expressway that runs from Singapore to the Thai border. Time Engineering Bhd, with its subsidiary, Time Telekom, will be the first to offer consumers access to broadband fibre-optic communications when they launch their
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        Lock icon Assar buys 10pc stake in SCIB for M$3.9m
        203 20 Bernama KUCHING Amanah Saham Sarawak (Assar) on Saturday bought a 10 per cent stake in Sarawak Concrete Industries Bhd (SCIB), a company soon to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Second Board, for M 53.96 million (552.3 million). The vendor
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        Lock icon Gula Perak to concentrate on property development
        248 20 Bernana KUALA LUMPUR Property development is expected to feature prominently in Gula Perak Bhd's activities following the recent purchase of several freehold industrial and residential land in Selangor and the Federal Territory by the company. Chairman Megat Najmuddin Haji Megat Khas said in
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        Lock icon Court petition may dampen Philippine Petron's IPO
        351 20 AFP MANILA Philippine refiner Petron Corp is set to launch a mammoth initial public offering (IPO) today, but analysts say a court petition contesting the previous sale of a 40 per cent stake to Saudi Aramco could dampen investor interest. Energy officials have
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        Lock icon Sarawak Concrete wins M$30m road contract
        319 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Sarawak Concrete Industries Bhd has secured a Ms3o million (5517.7 million) contract for the supply of concrete materials to Jabatan Kerja Raya Sarawak for the construction of the road to Bakun. The total project is estimated to cost Ms2oo million and
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        Lock icon Advance Synergy's 1-for-5 rights issue proposal approved
        391 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Advance Synergy Bhd's (ASB) proposed acquisitions, one-for-five rights issue of 35.68 million new shares at M 53.50 per share and the listing and quotation for new shares arising from the proposals has been approved by the Securities Commission (SC). ASB
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        Shanghai Diesel Engine a good buy, brokers say
        426 21  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Despite the slump in China's stock markets, there is still money to be made in some counters, say brokers Sun Hung Kai and DBS Securities. One such counter is Shanghai Diesel Engine, which both firms believe will
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        Lock icon Japanese supermarket chain Daiei believes bigger is better
        715 21 Reuter TOKYO Isao Nakauchi, chairman and president of Japanese retail giant Daiei Inc, says that when it comes to the supermarket business, bigger is better. Mr Nakauchi, 71, whose aggressive business expansion strategy transformed a supermarket he set up in Osaka, western
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        Lock icon Davids Holdings launches on-market bid for IHL
        277 21 Reuter SYDNEY Recently floated grocery wholesaler Davids Holdings Ltd said it has launched an on-market bid for Independent Holdings Ltd at A 54.25 per share or at a higher price, valuing IHL at ASI33 million (Ssl4B million). IHL's shares last traded at A
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        Lock icon Fuji Photo forms US digital imaging unit
        247 21 Bloomberg Business News ELMSFORD, New York Fuji Photo Film Co has created a US unit to sell digital imaging products, pitting it against Eastman Kodak Co, which is focusing on the same fast-emerging marketplace. The Japanese photographic giant's Electronic and Applied Imaging unit,
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          Lock icon Hughes wins C$20m Indon deal
          122 21 Bloomberg Business News RICHMOND. British Columbia Hughes Aircraft of Canada Ltd said its systems division won a Cs2o million (5521.8 million) contract to rcplacc the air traffic control system at Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia. The new system will improve safety and efficiency,
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          Lock icon Sega, Fujitsu to launch cable service
          67 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Electronic game manufacturer Sega Enterprises and computer maker Fujitsu Ltd will join forces with software and karaoke machine manufacturer Daiichi Kosho to offer interactive cable television services. The Daily Yomiuri newspaper reported. Sega and Daiichi Kosho will provide video game
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          Lock icon China awards 7.3b yuan dam contracts
          96 21 Reuter BEIJING Impregilo SpA of Italy, Zueblin AG of Germany and Dumez SA of France were awarded contracts worth 7.3 billion yuan (S$ 1.2 billion) for a multipurpose dam project on the Yellow River, Xinhua news agency said. It said that three contracts for
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          Lock icon Disney's chief undergoes heart surgery
          66 21 Reuter LOS ANGELES Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Co, underwent heart bypass surgery on Saturday, his doctor said. Dr Alfredo Trento said the operation at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles was successful and he expected Mr Eisner, 52, to have a
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        Lock icon India is top emerging market for global depositary receipts
        330 21 Reuter BOMBAY India has shot to the top rung of emerging Asian markets in the number of global depositary receipts (GDRs) it issues, the head of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange said on Friday. "The first (GDR) to be listed on the
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        Lock icon UK phone operator Cellnet launches digital network
        476 21 Reuter LONDON UK mobile phone operator Cellnet said it was launching its new digital network aimed at business users with 90 per cent coverage of Britain's population. "We'll have two networks working side by side," Cellnet managing director Bob Warner told a meeting
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        Lock icon Texas Instruments' earnings gain on strong chip sales
        394 21 Reuter DALLAS Texas Instruments Inc, one of the world's leading semiconductor makers, reported higher second-quarter profits and sales on Friday, adding that growth in the worldwide chip market made its earlier 1994 growth forecast too conservative. But it said it believes the
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        466 22 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES For Novell Inc, Lotus Development, Borland International and many small computer software companies that have complained long and loud about Microsoft Corp, Saturday's settlement of a government anti-trust case against the industry leader is at least a moral victory.
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        Lock icon Gates dealt a humbling, but maturing, blow
        741 22 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Even Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp and the second-richest man in America, can't win every time. For years, Mr Gates defiantly rejected allegations that Microsoft unfairly or illegally exploited its position as the dominant supplier of personal
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        320 23  -  ty Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The Big Four local banks DBS, OCBC, OUB and UOB are lending money to a Chinese group to develop a commercial and retail complex in Beijing. The four are part of a syndicate which
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        Lock icon M'sian cooperative KUB to move into finance
        294 23 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Koperasi Usaha Bersatu (KUB) is seeking to expand into the finance industry through its wholly-owned subsidiary Permodalan Bersatu Berhad (PBB). KUB chairman Hassan Harun said the cooperative will seek a licence to operate a financial institution from the Minister of
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        248 23 Reuter SOFIA Bulgaria, under pressure from international lending organisations to tighten monetary policy, is scraping around for a way to save at least two major banks from collapsing under the weight of non-performing loans. An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to
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        Lock icon US companies reel from losses on derivatives trades
        423 23 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Federal Paper Board Co was on its way to a solid second quarter when it all turned sour because of a derivatives transaction. A currency contract between the Montvale, New Jersey, forest products company and Bankers Trust
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          Lock icon Foreigners' 17pc stake in Bank Islam
          107 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Foreign share ownership in Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad as at June 30, 1994, amounted to 22,672,540 ordinary shares or 17 per cent of the total ordinary shares of the bank. A Bank Islam statement here on Friday said a Singaporean company
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          76 23 NYT NEW YORK Charles Allen Jr, who quit school at the age of 15 to become a runner on the New York Stock Exchange, founded the influential investment house of Allen Co, and became the financial speculator known as the shy Midas of Wall Street, died
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          89 23 Reuter KARACHI, Pakistan Shares of Crescent Bank rose 5.50 rupees or 7 per cent to 84.50 rupees on rumours of good half yearly results, dealers said yesterday. Turnover in the shares reached 19,000 in the first hour of trade. "Good half yearly results are expected
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          82 23 Reuter CARACAS Creditor banks are to take a 70 per cent stake in Venezuela's biggest insurance firm, Seguros La Seguridad, in exchange for writing off debts of 13.6 billion bolivars (SSI2I million). The announcement was made by Jose Maria Nogueroles, president of Banco Provincial, which
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          106 23 Reuter BEIJING The Bank of China will start issuing banknotes in Macau from October 1995, four years before the Portuguese enclave is handed back to China, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. It quoted Guo Jiading, chief representative of the Chinese side of
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          80 23 Reuter MANILA The Philippine government will not impose capital gains taxes on new two-year fixed rate Treasury Notes the Finance Department will launch next month to replace the floating rate Treasury Notes (FRTN), officials said yesterday. Finance officials said the new Treasury instrument will
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        311 24 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's central bank has decided to relax controls on the capital account and will allow forward foreign exchange trading on the account as a first step, local newspapers reported on Saturday. Foreign institutions approved by the central bank to
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        300 24 Reuter LONDON Palladium moved back into the limelight last Friday as prices reached their highest for five years on booming demand from electronics and mobile phones. Palladium, like its sistermetal platinum, is used in catalytic converters to reduce toxic car fumes.
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        426 24 Reuter DUBAI Opec's Gulf members, often the most willing to put a damper on oil price rises, appeared yesterday to be content to let the oil market fret about possible reduced supply due to unrest in Nigeria. Gulf sources familiar
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        239 24 Bloomberg Business News MUNICH While Allianz AG Holding dismisses reports that it is entering the bidding battle for control of Creditanstalt 'Austria's second biggest bank analysts are wondering whether it might be a good idea. "It may be that as
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        615 24 Bloomberg Business News VUNG TAU, Vietnam Anyone trying to find out how a run on Mitsubishi Oil shares got started in Tokyo last Monday three hours before the company announced it had struck oil in Vietnam
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        436 24 AFP HONGKONG The US dollar suffered more losses against most Asian currencies last week and dealers said they expect little improvement. Japanese yen: The yen ended the week at 98.30 to the US dollar in Tokyo, up 0.23 from the previous Friday's
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        Lock icon Wild, mixed week for dollar
        646 25  -  By Meryl Phang SINGAPORE A wild week saw dollar falling by about Five and a half pfenning and rising two pfenning. At the start of the week there was a rush of funding from Europe for yen-denominated bonds issuance. While these deals were going through,
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        772 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Coffee prices leapt 26 per cent higher during the week, reaching a new peak after a second cold snap hit Brazil caused feverish buying. Oil prices also rose, though not by as much, with the price
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      753 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. 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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        774 27 FT New YorK CALL it the World Cup Effect. Since the week the tournament kicked off on US turf (real, not artificial) US shares have been on the slide. Now, with the end finally in sight, stock prices have clawed their back
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        Lock icon Firmer Wall Street and positive economic news buoy share prices
        361 27 AFP London AFTER a disappointing few weeks, share prices bounced back last week as Wall Street rose and as positive British economic news encouraged investors. The FT-SE Index of 100 leading shares closed at 3,074.8 points on Friday, showing a
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        Lock icon Share prices rebound as US dollar claws back some ground
        377 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week as players welcomed the dollar's recovery, which is believed to help support exportoriented issues. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section rose 243.64
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        Lock icon Stocks soar 8.1pc as rate fears fade
        266 27 AFP Reuter Hongkong THE stock market here soared 8.1 per cent to its highest in a month as investor fears of US interest rate hikes ebbed. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index gained a sharp 684.06 point to close the week's trading at 9,117.02
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          85 27 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange posted a six-month apex last week as a result of buying interest spurred by a promising business outlook, brokers said. After a 0.12 per cent decline the preceding week, the 374-issue Weighted Price Index regained 215.71 points, or 3.48 per cent, to
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          141 27 Anti-inflation measures pushed South Korean share prices further down on Saturday, with investment funds draining away and amid uncertainty triggered by the death of North Korean President Kim II Sung. In a three-day slide, the Composite Price Index closed on Saturday's halfday session at 949.66 points, down slightly from
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          Manila
          134 27 Technical rebounds augmented by a government decision to lower the bank reserve requirement, finally pulled the Philippine stock market out of its downturn, analysts said here Saturday. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose *1.05 points, or 0.8 per cent, over the week to 2,604.9 points on Friday, compared
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          Bangkok
          186 27 A sharp surge on Friday gave the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index a 56.83-point, or 4.4 per cent, gain for the week to a close of 1,344.17 points, brokers said. The average daily volume of shares traded during the week was 93.6 million, up sharply from 52.9 million
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          119 27 Share prices remained mostly stagnant on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) last week despite more enthusiastic trading as the market's blue chips showed a mixed performance. The JSE Index closed the week at 461.828 on Friday, slightly up on the 458.736 at the previous week's close. The daily transactions
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          New York
          776 27 14.56 Blue-chip stocks closed higher on Friday after trading in a narrow price range much of the day, with options expirations providing the only excitement in an otherwise quiet session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 14.56 points to close at 3,753.81. The index ended the week up
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          276 27 -2.33 Stocks ended mixed with a slightly soft bias, but traders said the underlying tone of the market remained positive. The TSE 300 Composite Index edged down 2.33 points to close at 4193.41 in turnover of 53.48 million shares valued at C 5688.58 million. Advancing stocks outraced declines 404
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        Lock icon Prices firmer on positive news
        6121 28 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Positive corporate developments and selective buying of blue chips by institutional investors brought share prices here to a firmer note last week. Reflecting this trend, the KLSE Emas Index added 6.57 points to 284.47 while the Composite perked 24.33 points to 1,012.11.
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        Lock icon Stocks may continue to firm this week
        1884 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Against a sixmonth backdrop of uncertain US inflation, interest rates and a weak US dollar, analysts here are predicting the local market will continue to firm this week. In its weekly roundup, OCBC Investment Research said this was "mainly
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      CMA applies to join FEFC
      301 31  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE French carrier Compagnie Maritime D'Affretement (CMA) has formally applied to join the Far East Freight Conference (FEFC), a London-based group of 12 shipping lines that cover the Far East trade, except Japan. The Marseilles-based line, France's second largest container carrier, indicated
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      697 31  -  A fortnightly focus on people in the shipping industry Singapore-based Thome Ship Management recently underwent a demanding quality assurance programme, reports Alec Almazan Alec Almazan SINGAPORE For Olav Thorstensen, quality is not a matter for compromise. "I'd rather lose business than be associated with a
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1093 31 Page Col ABC Containerline 16 4 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrcnkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 1/2 Antaco Mgmt 17 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 8 4/5 Arabian Express 15 5 •ASCL 5 5 Assist Marine 6 I Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait
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      Lock icon Yen stirs fresh competition in Japanese shipbuilding
      530 31 Reuter TOKYO The relentlessly appreciating yen has breathed fresh competitive air into the procurement practices of Japanese shipbuilders and their suppliers, industry sources said on Friday. The latest evidence came last week when IshikawajimaHarima Heavy Industries Co Ltd (IHI) announced plans to increase
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      Lock icon Yang Ming's pre-tax profit doubles
      135 31 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp, one of Taiwan's largest shippers, said provisional pre-tax profit for the business year ending on June 30 rose 103 per cent from a year earlier to NTSBSS million (5548.4 million). Profit gained on reductions in interest
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      Lock icon Port states detain record number of ships
      324 31 Seatrade Week Newsfront BRUSSELS Nine hundred and twenty-six detention orders were issued last year by European port state control, well over 50 per cent up on 1992 and more than double the number in 1990. giving a detention rate of 8.2 per cent
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      Lock icon An exception to Malaysia's buoyant economy
      863 32  -  The shipping sector's current weak performance has led to the formation of: a shipping fund and the establishment of the Malaysian Institute of Maritime Affairs, reports David Hughes David Hughes Fairplay SINCE the early 70s, the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) has been more
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      12972 40 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. LE6ENO PN: ship calls at Penang after
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1308 48 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO IRecord Bookinf/Babnce Rslts §Mp Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From IcxLtoc 033A 19/0700 IB 17/1500 17/1659 17/1900 3 18/0700 18/1159 18/1400 4 18/1200 18/1459 18/1700 Wi 145M 19/1200 1A 17/1500 17/1659
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      Daily Freights
      840 48 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,405 on Thursday from 1,402 on July 13. Although trading remained slow in most sectors of the freight market there was slightly increased activity for handy sizes, brokers said. Albatross was said to have fixed 3f,425-deadweight-tonne
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        BMW expands regional office, focusing on Asia
        613 50  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE BMW is expanding its regional office in Singapore to boost its focus on Asia an area which has the highest priority in its market development strategy. And top of this list is the China market, a senior executive in
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        Lock icon Govt to divest 20pc of Air India: airline official
        312 50 Reuter NEW DELHI India will divest 20 per cent of its shares in the international carrier Air India as part of its plans to privatise state-owned firms, a senior airline official said. The official, who declined to be named, said last
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        Lock icon US airlines fly into crowded West Coast skies
        389 50 Reuter NEW YORK US airlines arc taking off at full speed for California sunshine, but carriers could get burned by a major expansion of West Coast flights that is likely to further drag down low fares. Already locked in a fierce fight
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        Lock icon Toyota to focus on China partners
        142 50 Reuter TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp plans to develop its Chinese car business by making its current Chinese partners, Shen-yang-based Gold Cup Automobile Co Ltd and Tianjin Automobile, the focus of its activities, president Tatsuro Toyoda told a news conference last Friday. Mr Toyoda did
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          Lock icon HK freight forwarder's profit up
          140 50 Bloomberg Business News Hongkong Hongkong freight forwarding company AWT World Transport Holdings Ltd said its net profit rose 10.25 per cent to HKS2B.O million (555.5 million) in the financial year ended March 31, 1994. The figures are after tax and payments to or from minority
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          Lock icon Mitsubishi to hire more workers
          84 50 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors Corp, a major Japanese car maker, will double the number of temporary factory workers at a suburban Tokyo plant in Kawasaki to 800 by March, the Nihon Keiiai newspaper said in its evening edition last Friday. Hie move is
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          Lock icon European court rejects Matra claim
          73 50 AFP LUXEMBOURG The European Court of Justice rejected a claim by Matra-Hachette against the EU commission for approving an arrangement between Ford and Volkswagen, on Friday. Matra-Hachette, a French company which makes a so-called monospace family vehicle called the Espace, had objected to a decision
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          Lock icon McDonnell gets US$90m Navy deal
          80 50 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON McDonnell Douglas Corp received a US$9O-. million (S$ 135.9 million) Navy contract to help continue assembly of 36 F/A-18 fighter jets, the Pentagon said last week. Work is being done by the company's aerospace division, based in St Louis. The planes
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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        Lock icon High yen creates level playing field, says GM chief
        446 50 Reuter TOKYO The high yen has made a much more level playing field possible between Japanese and US car makers, the president of US giant General Motors Corp (GM) said on Friday. "My own view is that the strengthening of the
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      34 31 the FAMOUS CiUROPg ■BEißnil 224 1833 For more information pleaiie refer to Pg. IS PORT SHOTS The latest in sea, air and land transportation. Shipping Times. Monday to Friday. VswoAfotu;* m Business Times wmotawAm
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      2046 32 ttPQiIT,,,, IMPORT.... IMPORT I NORTH AMERjCAj I OTHER PEBTINATIONB 1 I NORTH AMERICA I D—CT CALL TO Mil COMT IXUTI ~l (MUMM CAUKMMA BMN (SMCT FROM WICT COJWn 1 VESSEL VOT STORE I* OM ICI SU DU HOUSTON CMC NY MEXICO an VESSEL STOKE BUENOS AMES MONTEVIDEO HO DE MM
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      2109 33 JAWDIME SHIPPING AGENCIES SON. BHD. 2OOCANTONMENT ROAO, #12-05 SOUTH POINT, SINGAPORE 0208 PETALING JAYA TEL: 03-*****76 FAX 03-*****42 CFS 03-*****42 CR NUMBER: **********0 C £5t^ NG 111" r mVM DOCUMENTATION TEL: *****55 (INWARD)/*****90 (OUTWARD) ,POH TEL: *****3/4 FAX: *****6 C CUSTOMER SERVICE TEL: *****92/*****01/*****93 P.GUOANG TEL: *****12 FAX: *****14 (OPNS)
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      1712 33 u^mssasm THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: >« VESSELS VOY NRT ETA EXCHANGE ETA ETA ETA i>, RATE JOH LPK PEN TABLE BAY 5497 ***** 18/07 1.5295 19/07 21/07 22/07 i MAERSK KOBE 9411 ***** 18/07 1.5315 19/07 21/07 22/07 *'< CARDIGAN BAY 5487 ***** 18/07 1.5295 19/07 21/07 22/07 MC-KINNEY MAERSK 9405
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      1487 34 AQABA R'DAM/ IE ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S'TON H'BURG A WFRP HAVRE WEST MALAYSIA KIRISHIMA 05/128 20/7 9/8 7/8 Port Ketang. Penang LUOWK3SHAFEN EXPRESS 14/328 23/7 1/8 8/8 10/8 '3/8 '5/8 17/8 Pas FRANKFURT EXPRESS 74/129 27/7 '3/8 '6/8 14/6 EAST MALAYSIA LEVERKUSEN EXPRESS
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      543 34 t »I AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Hairatan. Torghundi. Islamqata (Doqharun) C.1.5./RUSSIA: Voatoclmy, Vladivostok, Moscow, Baku, Taalikant, Irkutsk, Alma Ata, Ashgabad, Dushanbe Kiev N Korea: Pyongyang. Nampo Mongolia: Ulaan Bator LCL TO CIS EASTERN EUROPE ""nSSKSB&SKS? t VESSEL SIN DKR Bunga Pelangl V.2234 19/7 16/8 Ned Asia V.2244 26/7 23/8 Ned
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      1266 34 NORASIAI ARABIAN SEA 428* 21/07 12/08 13/08 14/08 15/08 18/08 17/08 19/08 <9 MLLE O'AQULA AO4N 16/67 23/08 17/00 A SEA AMCIOONA 429W t»/07 19/08 20/08 21/08 22/08 23/08 24/08 26/08 VILE D HYDRA HO4W 82/08 30/08 24/00 3 NORASM Al MUNTA/AH 9430 3 03/08 28/08 27/08 29/08 30/08 31/08
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      1754 35 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD mm mm *<> Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 I fog Hew GUINEA pacific l,ne CARGO QUE SMS A SUN VCNIURE VO4E KK. Skan. law PT3 18 Jul Fcli LCL CONTAINER AND BREAK BUCK SERVICE TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA Sit
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      3115 35 SINGAPORE AGENT: IJJPyA Arft 4-A{f«at*C P&o Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd xs i M. m. .J 6PM M K-£m. M M J 3 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 .w Tel: 225 2233 Telex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 W CR Number: **********02 2 ap
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      536 36 GENERAL AGENT C.R NO *****81-***** aK eka jaya agencies >31§r TEL- *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES M CHARGE I—4 CITY I PAOM* iHAMPrHOWBWKCT j I I^l^^ >T6 VttTHAM7miytt m MWMMWj «y«» w 1 ni stai wt I nt hok T IMfT im Oil Ml BB an M/I7 2211
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      814 36 DIRECT CALL TO TOKYO FIXED SAILING EVERY MONDAY 6E FRIDAY Please contact the following persons for enquiries bookings Chiu Hai Beng DID *****27 Pgr *****49 Frederick Phua DID *****29 Pgr *****48 Nevine Chuah DID *****33 Rosilah DID *****37 UmjKBMT UKKS EXPRESS 62 Toh Guan Road, FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS DISTRIPARK, (w
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      1289 36 —i A —T-T >H 1 H H 1 I -Xf M 1 L I 1 k 9 A ■II I m 9 PiI^HiyLIIUIIIIHAIMIHSHBaMUHI3IBiIIIUBH33HaIMU3^HIIIHB. Ipu i» w nc u «i m 98 m ui as mi ntc uw w nr k n n K* l guh h oti it/; a/7 24/7
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      2359 37 This week s arrival/departure (18/07 22/07):mm H VESSEL VOYAGE EXCHANGE RATE (USS) H II out in out ■1 mII ANROGOWA 14N 15S I ■I Wf^tP» CALIFORNIA 1.5215 I H ■MM II NEPTUNE AVENTURINE 04E 04E HI II HI AMBASSADOR BRIDGE 32E 32E 1 5268 1 5268 I HI HI NEPTUNE
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      1124 37 A MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD ■V (a member of SINSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 |fcv BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS: KL: 03-*****75/697
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      1469 38 v ff AS AGENTS: 1" LINE PUME) PTE LTD (CI NO; **********0U/GSI KG NO: M 2-*****99-6) I TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I T T MALAYSIA: K" LINE MAIUTIMI (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I u M TEL. SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 INDONESIA: P.T.
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      698 38 ©APPENSHIP o,= HAMBURG < CONVENTIONAL A INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE V—V < EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSCIS LOMNNG PORTS DBOMKE/UMOM FOR MERINI ANTW 27/06 SPORE 30/07 SEAKITTIE HAM 29/06 SPORE 02/08 I ELENA V ANTW 03/07 SPORE 06/08 /i IA ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF accepting cargo to gulf
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      459 38 /V*sn GOLDEN LINE GUAN guan shipping IEvXA (PTE) LTD I 1 23, T<M Anr Str»»t SMGAPOK 0104 TU: U***** (M UK) Fu *****04 m (CM fe IOimSMOOM) tTtAm/WIWUM OOljr UKTICT S pore P Mang Penanf GOLKN HAMCST Karachi/Dubai/Kuwait 20/22 My GOIKN STAR Karachi 'Dubai/Kuwait 29/30 My CHIHA lUTKI 2KN XM6
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      1075 39 |j PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I t>IBSBSS»V I CR NO: **********0E j ■RTR7VV!P33XI^rfcPi3THHI -JBBSSBiH^SSSHBSSisBS^^HE-I-l' 1 VOY SIN BKK MN VESSEL VOY IIN JKT US <■••J /l cH BNAOIS IS/7 22/7 26/7 BUNGA TERATAI 4773 IS/7 22/7 2S/7 fk AO) 81,8015 20/7
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      932 39 ncsms W)T sm umm hambu»g iha*ks nonmow ANiwtnf Mill M SAGIITA SO4W 19/07 10/01 12/08 13/08 14/01 18/08 win o *qwt» *m* n/07 w/os ivot ip/ot 21/ M wot vail O HYDM NO4W 02/08 24/01 28/08 27/01 28/08 30/01 Wit Of ITM YO4W 31/01 M/W 03/09 /0 'AISO ACCIfTMG CARGO
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      785 39 1 BSA ii. M MYANMA \jBßk FIVE STAR LINE V (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Ran|oon) S pore P Kl| Pen P.Gd| PAGAN V2IIW 20/22 Jul AW* VI29W 24/24 Jul FPA-AN V2O4W JO/J1 hi PATTCN VI3OW 30/31 hi 25/2* Jul MALAYSIA AGENTS: OOUSTEN) SMTPO* AGENCKS MA TU 03-*****00 PW.
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      63 41 1/CT VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Q Established Since 1984 f? OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR GROUP AGE lcl consolidation AUCKLAND SYDNEY BRISBANE import*export MELBOURNE FREMANTLE i iV T f wjKgp o JBBSv FOR BOOKING ft SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL FTE
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      2026 42 DIRECT 8 AILING t ft ml BUENOS MVS I IIHHH MONTEVIDEO DAYS I wTO3 —sPMrs I S SHIPPING*PTE LTD (General): *****00 Silts/Booking: Agency Dept: ottlrti, wit *17 an F <•■■»■* *****66 Container *****41/844 Container Svc B/L- *****02 Operation Container: *****15 DBSUdi Tamer 2 u,tx: ***** COSH IP Conventional: *****50 0/0;
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      770 42 /iriCROATIA LINE^\ I < EX JUGOUNIJA) I VtSXI SPOtt PK £56 LOWW6 fo> RAB SIO «PT Alexandria. Beirut. Istanbul. Trieste. Koper. lattakia. Limassol. Mersin. P Said Riieka Venice lOSINJ 24 AUG 11 AUG -do Ganaral Agantr EAST MOUNT AGENCY (PTE) LTD S«i(aport Kuala Lumpur Port Ktlang Penary SPORE CARTAGENA DE
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      171 42 /4<norbuu% I NORBULK CARGO SERVICES LTD.-l I REGULAR CONVENTIONAL I TIMBER AND PLYWOOD SERVICES I SEA SONNET 19/7 21/7 FLU/ROAM/ANT/W 1 TUN IMG 10/1 12/1 FUI/ANT/UK J PK LOADING FOR I NORBULK TBN 20/8 24/8 DBN/CPT/El J ALSO LOADS TAWAU, KK, TG. MAM J PK SWK/SABAH LOADING FOR NOR BULK
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      743 43 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 25/7 ROTTERDAM 23/7 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 25/7 HAMBURG/BREMEN 24/7 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 20/7 EELIXSTOWE/UK 25/7 BARCELONA/SPAIN 25/7 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 20/7 GENOA/ITALY 25/7 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 25/7 LOS ANGELES/WC/W 24/7 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 22/7 NEW YORK/EC 24/7 FREMAWTLE/ADELAIDE 22/7 r VANCOUVER 22/7 BRISBANE
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      1135 43 Blj 9 wanajnum 2378 1,77 23/7 1 bunoa sewoja 4hs ~mow tn pi wad 20/7 H| VESSEL VOY «W K 3 BHUM 6M Fri 22/7_ Tw 2*/7 AKA BHUM 14SN/6 Tjja IS/7 Thu 21/7 XETHA BHUM S7W Moo In Pt Tim 21/7 BHATWA BHUM 3M Sat »/7_ Tin 2t/7 1
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      522 43 for* BANGKOK/1101 CHA6AMC/LAOS 19/7 (TUE). 23/7 (SOT) POUT KELAMG/POIAHG 21/7 (THUB). 22/7 (FW) NOW KONG H/7 (TUE), 22/7 (FW) j JAKARTA 23/7 (SAT) MRMLA/CEBU 19/7 (THE) t HO CM MM 22/7 (FW) SURABAYA 24/7 (SUN) j BUSAM 24/7 (SUW) pi DONGNAMA LINE resa rs I n aui rat me m
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      1578 44 ASIA HKG/TWN/BKK ~GENOfI/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 19/7 20/7 21/7 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Genoa/Barcelona/Marseios 19/7 20/7 21/7 21/7 22/7 23/7 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH G'burf/C'hafen/S'holm/Osto 17/7 18/7 19/7 23/7 24/7 25/7 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Pira«u» 29/7 30/7 31/7 HONGKONG/BANGKOK/PUSAN JPN/KOREA/MANILA K??L^KA% P cm^ 0/P UDANQ Mania/Cebu 20/7 21/7 22/7 Tokyo/Kobe/Osa/Yoko 22/7 23/7 24/7
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      175 44 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ll« UK ll* SPOKE POKI HUANG PfNANG KUi JAW S*W Loading lot kbit RUVAI HUOHU 31/; loading tor Oulmi WWMN 25/7 22/1 Loading Foi Mak now* sum* ao/7 loading F<k Male UMMtDN In Poet Loading Foi Male FKO6MSS UHHT 10/8 Loading lor
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      1233 44 f JCL THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD 3 I /W\ 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I V/ TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 ft I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO ft SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK SINGAP<S« TCTTHAH-AND VESSEL VOY_ DEST VESSEL VOY_ S'PORE DANGKOX EQUATOR ROYAL 110/4E 22
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      649 45 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE KCOTM BREAKBULK/SOC CARCOES TO/FROM KOBE YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA. HOI. TOKYO*. HAMLA* DAVAO*, 5* Penanj* P. Kelanf Sinjapore Msia* SfIPLAEVERETT V2IE 25/26 Jul 27/21 Ju! BMKVERETT VISE 08/09 Au( 10/11 Auf JVYEVERETT VIOE 31 Au|/01 Sep 02/03 Sep >CC£PTK BREAMBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHITTAGONG. CALCUTTA MO
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      248 45 181, ELQBV NAWBATIOtI CROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN X 29/7 1/8 7/8 16/8 GLORY SELATAN V 12/7 19/7 25/7 SP KOMPONG SOM GLORY SELATAN VIII 28/7 31/7 LINER SERVICE USA, VANCOUVER,
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      539 45 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL WOY %m KARACHI MAKRAN 149-HW U/07 2»/07 HYDERABAD 131 HW 24/07 02/0« SARGOOHA 145HW 09/08 U/06 ISLAMABAD 124-HW 21/ M 30/01 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY "voT SW HKG*" BSK WAG TOK~~ ISLAMABAD 123-OW 24/07 21/07 01/0» 03/ M
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      686 45 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/P. ELIZABETH CAPETOWN/LAGOS VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS VI ME/100 26/07 09/08 10/ OS 12/08 30/0S SHUN HE/105 11 /OB 2S/OB 26/08 28/ OS 15/ OB TAO HE/87 28/08 09/09 10/09 12/09 30/09 JIAN HE/87 11/09 2S/09 26/09 28/09 15/10 HUI HE/108
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      259 45 SjN FAR EAST 26/07 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 24/07 BANGKOK 24/07 MANIIA/CEBU 24/07 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 24/07 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 24/07 BUSAN 24/07 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 24/07 HONG KONG Si CHINA (*a*±**n) 24/07 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SjN EUROPE/UK 25/07 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 25/07 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSI/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. Si USA/CANADA 24/07 LOS
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      667 46 PHI LI-ORIENT LINGS Pit LTD 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 P. Keiang: 03-*****98 Penang: 04-*****6 (CR CODE: **********0H|L Sflt fiEfS XT A MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION AUSTRAUA/NEW ZEALAND FCL/LCL SERVICE 23 JUL SYDNEY. MELBOURNE, BRISBANE. FAEMANTLE 21
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      601 46 y Conlerm CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 22 JULY (Accepting to ail Now Zoolond porta) PENANG 22 JULY JAKARTA 24 JULT PORT KLANG 21 JULT BANGKOK 24 JULT MELBOURNE 23 JULT STDNET 23 JULT BRISBANE 23 JULT FREMANTLE 22 JULT AOELAIOE 29 JULT I6OTHENBURG 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANOINAVU PORTS
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      379 46 •So This Week's Sailings Singapore To: ETD ETD "SSd Singapore Singapore 'SO 9002 BY lrqa EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN EVERY EVERY Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI IS IKJ 1)1 jL I EVERY EVERY I»SbI J Colombo TUE Limassol THUR —l| L———————^^—l——————i -L—" MTEMMTIONAI SEA FREIGHT FOftNAKf* Tel:
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      34 46 •P t# m Calling: W FAR EAST, INDIA. AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, U.SJL 9 > ss© I^l ear CMT Liner Express Agencies Pte Ltd Hot Line i 22-007-22 i 1 ••l I 4
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      1502 47 ISEAMAR ARGENTIN/UJN^Zg^ CONTAINERISED "HUB" SERVICE DIRECT TO ARGENTINA/BRAZIL URUGUAY i ill*: I- I I [»M ['>•' CAMOPUS OIE 24/07 28/08 30/08 04/08 j 08/08 J 08/08 04/10 e t FRANC)SCA BCHULTK 02C 13/08 17/08 18/08 24/08 I 28/08 28/08 I 24/10 ALEXANOCR SCMJLTE 02C 02/08 07/10 08/10 14/10 I 18/10
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      420 47 CEYION SHIPPING CORPN Notionol Una of Sri lonko CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO UK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS mm* 5 lam 2M7 n/n I j 1 HU»IMI I turn IS/S7l 14/ M 12/ M 11/ M 11/ M lt/M I ddd mamnnmai |mjh|si/n|n/m| I iumu [WW |«2/N| I 24/M|n/M|27/M| 2S/M |»/M I
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      511 47 C CONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.45 I VESSEL OCKARRI6T N. KRUP6KAYA PMMONSK PAVIOORAO PRTNOOVONFITI I Rill lOR 111 "WTS ny KRI4 E6IS nto 8817 BBia autROQ ARIS; MM SMM 00-12/07 20-20/07 66-06/06 24-27/00 BBSBBI MSN 00-07/07 06-07/07 >0/07 06-07/00 20/00 MO ORAM oooy MM 16-16/07 31/07-01/06 13-14/00 04-00/00
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      453 48 HHIBDiH WORTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE I SINGAPORE MANILA PERVQMAVSK 94Q07N 22/07 (FRI) 27/07 (WED) WW* WlflC *****N 26/Q7 (Tft) 30/07 (SAT) ff MAWQIA ****** 29/07 if FRI) 03/08 (WED) FWDAY AND TIE3OAY PERVOMAYSK *****N 02, 08 (Q&J 06/08 (SAT) VESSEL VOYAGE I SINGATORE GENERAL SANTOS 13AVA0 CEBU
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      802 49 ▲HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO.LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 |PNA« PKE* rGD* I Vtssas VOY SIN RTM AWT* LEH* HAM BREj KL 20/07 22/07 23/07 H. MNOVATOR 310N 25/07 13/0« 15/08 10/00 15/00 15/00 17/00 27/07 29/07 30/07 H EXPLORER 3120 01/00 10/00 21/00 22/00 21/00 21/00 23/00 03/00
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      454 49 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS Kssa not? n iuc m mm mi orange sky n in 21/7 DAIIA KM 01 ft 20/7 MM DIMS US 2 23/1 Vll OUTBOUND VESSELS LOADINC FOR HO CM MHIH I MflttS (pure car cmm SHANTAR Vlt SP Si/1
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      936 49 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT I SPORE £0 S TON ITBURG IDA* L£H •Km Cm Fk KBBHMA 05/121 20/7 5/0 0/1 10/0 to MUK dnknakw. Mint Ml OutB) lUMWSHAFEN EVRESS 14/320 23/7 1/0 10/1 13/1 IVO 17/0 Rtn«ntom :to M Mm, Anstortan. 0* ItoMM FRAMFIBI EXPRESS 74/129 27/7 13/0 10/1 11/0 Sowttumpton :toM IK
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      103 50 I construction! Tomorrow in Business Times NOTICE TO SHIPPERS T\ VESSEL DELAY SURCHARGE AT PORT OF MOMBASA Due to the increasing delays experienced by vessels calling at the port of Mombasa, the following lines have decided to introduce Vessel Delay Surcharge at port of Mombasa as follows on all cargo
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