The Business Times, 8 May 1995

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  • 12 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KXOWtihd MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday May 8 1995 m.
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    • 63 1 Reuter PARIS Conservative Paris mayor Jacques Chirac won the French presidential election yesterday, beating Socialist opponent Lionel Jospin by a clear margin. Forecasts broadcast on three TV stations as soon as the last polls closed at 1800 GMT gave Mr Chirac between 52 and
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    • 47 1 Reuter LONDON Sea Containers Ltd plans to raise $250 million (Sss6o million) through asset disposals to help fund bids for two of the rail service franchises on offer in the privatisation of the UK rail system, the Sunday Times said. Reuter
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  • 159 1 Stock market indices Friday Week chaafe ST1I 2,058.80 ->2.47 KLSE Comp 956.44 +4.64 Nikkei 17,088.66 281.91 Hang Seng 8,332.17 -28.86 SET Index 1,283.06 +74.37 Jakarta Comp 427.01 +10.56 CLSA China B 740.69 -8.32 Aust AH Ord 2,065.9 +15.7 FTSEI00 3,251.7 +35.0 Dow Jones 4,343.40 22.13 Average of prime
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  • 129 1 AFP JAKARTA The police will re-investigate the two-year-old murder of a labour activist after the Supreme Court last week released seven people who had earlier been sentenced for the murder. The daily Kompas yesterday said the East Java regional police will form
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  • 776 1  -  By Jenny Lam Compiled by BT SINGAPORE Several fashion retailers are bucking the sluggish retail trend in Singapore by stepping up investments and opening more stores, albeit at a cautious pace. While some plan to simply add more outlets for specific labels, others
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  • 229 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE While stockbrokers agree that the downside for local stocks is now very limited, most are reluctant to commit themselves to predictions that prices will rally significantly this week. The main reason for this is that the market has repeatedly
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  • 441 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Barely a decade old but Goldbell Towers along Scotts Road will be torn down early next year to take advantage of a more generous plot ratio for the site. In its place will rise a new $100 million
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  • 490 1  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY SINGAPORE listed contractor Ipco International Ltd is suing Australian contractor McConnell Dowell and Thai company Si Chuan Tong for damages of more than US$4O million (Sss6 million) for breach of copyright. Ipco, a specialist infrastructure developer,
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  • 374 1 Yen's rise likely after failure of US-Japan vehicle talks AFP TOKYO The yen is likely to surge again after the breakdown of bilateral talks on vehicle trade disputes, financial sources said yesterday. Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and United States Trade Representative Mickey Kantor announced last Friday
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 289 2  -  By Kenneth James IT'S a welcome development on the surface, at least. Among Singapore computer firms planning to expand overseas, more 47 per cent compared to 38 per cent last year are now likely to set up subsidiaries rather than go for joint ventures
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    • 275 2  -  By Claire Leow COMPAQ Computer Asia has appointed the former managing director of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices to head its manufacturing operations, sources close to both companies say. Wong King Yoong, a Malaysian, reportedly took over from Kirk Moul as
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    • 551 2  -  PM Goh: Singaporeans must change their way of thinking now that the nation is deemed to be developed By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE will lose out on trade concessions and gain new responsibilities when it is classified a developed nation next year.
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    • 122 2  -  Photo and text by Arthur Lee WALK in, register and wait for the interview. Then you may receive a job offer. If you accept it, you join another queue to be measured for uniforms. Hotel In- tercontincntal Singapore adopted this quick no-nonsense approach to mass
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    • 255 2  -  By Susan Tsang GOLDEN Village has raised ticket prices at all its multiplexes, surprising some movie-goers. The cinema operator lifted prices by $1, or about 16 per cent, to $7 a ticket on April 27. Golden Village said it raised prices because its
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    • 107 2 I INNOVATION I TECHNOLOGY 1 I in Business Times i every Thursday I Inchcape I With effect from 8 May 1995, I I Inchcape Berhad Head Office and I Inchcape Marketing Services I I Regional Office (SEA) I I will be located at: I B Hoe Chiang Road Engqor Street
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    • 54 2 TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 PAX.74I-1298 This announcement appears for the purpose of record only 8 May 1995 PT BUDI ACID JAYA (Member of Sungai Budi Group) Public Offer in Indonesia of 30,000,000 new shares of Rp 500 each at Rp 3,000 per share Financial Adviser ©DBS BANK THE DEVELOPMENT UMSK
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 452 3  -  By Walton Morais SINGAPORE The coalition government of Thai Premier Chuan Leekpai is cautiously optimistic that it can survive a no-confidence motion over land reform policy when parliament resumes next week, officials say. The debate on the motion is scheduled to start
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    • 403 3  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE After falling steadily for eight straight quarters, the Philippines' overall risk rating has risen sharply this quarter, according to the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy. The country's overall risk grade is now 0.5659 of a point, compared with 0.5476
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    • 195 3 Reuter HANOI Motor giants Ford and Toyota will be test cases for exemptions from a Vietnamese government ban on building factories in rice fields. The semi-official weekly Vietnam Investment Review (VIR) yesterday said both firms needed exemptions from Prime Minister Vo
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    • 300 3  -  By Kevin Sullivan SINGAPORE Asian values may be in vogue, but Asian executives prefer to study at Western business schools. This, according to two leading Western academics who visited Singapore recently, is not a contradiction. Strategic management skills can transcend culture, said
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    • 250 3 Bernama BUKIT MERTAJAM. Pahang Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday said that following reports of dissatisfaction among the people, the Cabinet will discuss the move by Tenaga National Berhad to raise the electricity tariff by 0.8 sen per unit from
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 75 3 AFP MANILA President Fidel Ramos yesterday swore in Jose Brillantes, a career civil servant, as Labour Secretary to replace Nicves Confesor, the official Philippine News Agency (PNA) said. Mr Ramos announced on Saturday that Ms Confesor was leaving the Cabinet. She had been widely blamed
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      • 109 3 AFP HANOI South Korea's Daewoo Group, one of Vietnam's largest foreign investors, is to add a department store to a hotel, office and residential complex currently being built in Hanoi. Company officials yesterday said the plan was announced by Chung Hee Ja, wife of the South
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      • 58 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia plans to sign three production-sharing oil contracts and two technical assistance contracts next month in a move to boost oil exploration. State oil company Pertamina exploration director Priyambodo Mulyosudirdjo yesterday said: "We plan to sign five oil contracts next month, because the
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 52 4 Reuter BEIJING China's President Jiang Zemin left Beijing yesterday for Moscow to attend celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, the Xinhua news agency said. In Moscow, Mr Jiang joined leaders of other countries in commemorating the
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      • 107 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's Central Bank does not plan to tighten domestic money supply even though the increase in last month's Consumer Price Index was the second highest ever recorded, the Economic Daily News reported yesterday. "When our exports continue to rise while economic vitality is
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      • 82 4 Reuter BEIJING Chinese urban wages in the first quarter of this year rose a real, inflation-adjusted 6 per cent, the State Statistical Bureau (SSB) reported. The total urban wage bill for the period was 166.38 billion yuan, an increase of 31.7 per cent,
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      • 70 4 AFP BEIJING China is to pump US$5.6 billion (557.72 billion) into the technical renovation of state firms this year, indicating that the need to reinvigorate the loss-making sector is greater than that to maintain tight finances, the China Daily Business Weekly said
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    • 378 4 SCMP HONGKONG Chinese authorities are to investigate the business dealings of mainland corporations based in Hongkong as part of a nationwide anti-corruption campaign, it has been revealed. Sources say the investigations will focus on transactions involving Chinese companies over the
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    • 48 4 Reuter BEIJING A worker erecting a neon sign of the Chinese character "electricity" on a giant billboard here over the weekend. Such signs are among the most visible indications of a huge rise in demand for electricity throughout the country, which frequently outstrips supply Reuter
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    • 302 4 Reuter BEIJING The downgrading of four banks by Moody's Investors Service is a warning to them to improve the deteriorating quality of their loans, an economist of the People's Bank of China said. In April, Moody's downgraded Shanghai's Bank of
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    • 215 4 Reuter SHANGHAI Beijing wants a shift in foreign investment from low-technology to hightechnology and from coastal to inland areas, the China Securities News reported. It quoted an official at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation as saying China would
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  • ASIA
    • 497 5 First quarter's robust 9.5% growth attributed to surge in capital investment Reuter AFP SEOUL South Korea's booming economy will push the country's per capita income above the US$lO,OOO (SS 13,800) level for the first time this year, a top economic policymaker said. Chief
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    • Article, Illustration
      64 5 Reuter TOKYO Peace marchers, led by a symbolic peace torch, walking across a bridge in Tokyo on Saturday as they began a 1,000 km trek to Hiroshima. About 800 people are taking part in the 90-day march which will end on Aug 3, just in time to commemorate
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    • 302 5 AFP SYDNEY Australian business leaders warned the government yesterday that its budget on Tuesday would have to be close to balanced to reduce the need for further interest rate rises. Business Council executive director Paul Barratt said the business community was expecting Canberra
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 87 5 AFP NEW DELHI India's inflation rate has further dropped towards the official target for fiscal 1995-96, which began on April 1, to around 8 per cent, a government statement said yesterday. The inflation rate, measured on an index of wholesale prices, has declined to
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      • 85 5 Reuter SEOUL North Korea's trade with foreign countries fell last year as the country confronted the world over its suspected nuclear weapons programme, a senior South Korean official said. A presidential spokesman said that Yoo Chong Ha, a senior secretary to President Kim Young Sam
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      • 65 5 Reuter NEW DELHI India's main opposition group, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is strongly opposed to allowing foreign newspapers and news agencies into the country, the Press Trust of India said yesterday. "We have strong reservations particularly about the print media since the printed word counts
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      • 64 5 Reuter DUBAI Australia missed a chance to restart sheep exports to Saudi Arabia when its first consignment in more than four years was diverted to Jordan, chief executive of the Bahrain-based Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation said yesterday. The Saudi importers decided not to dock their
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 101 6 Reuter TORONTO Canada said it recovered an illegal-sized trawl net full of dead Greenland halibut that a Spanish fishing vessel released into the seas off Newfoundland to evade detection. Canada's Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin said late on Friday that the Spanish vessel, the Mayi
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      • 89 6 AP SALT LAKE CITY Hongkong millionaire John Wong has been sentenced to two years in prison for ordering the kidnapping of a Utah man he believed had ripped him off for millions of dollars. US district judge J Thomas Greene also ordered Wong,
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      • 88 6 AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres yesterday pledged that Israel would do its utmost to reach an agreement by July 1 to spread Palestinian autonomy across the West Bank. "We are going to try our utmost to wrap up the negotiations before
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      • 68 6 Reuter ROME Italians yesterday began voting in run-otT elections for 189 mayors and 54 provincial presidents in another test of strength between the centre-right and the centre-left. Some 31 million Italians are eligible to vote in the second-round contests between the top two candidates
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      • 70 6 Reuter THE HAGUE The UN tribunal for former Yugoslavia stung by criticism that it is targeting only Serb war crimes suspects will turn the spotlight on atrocities alleged to have been committed by Bosnian Croats. At its third public session tomorrow, the tribunal will consider
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    • 575 6 Reuter WASHINGTON The once high-flying US economy may be coming in for a soft landing, but the touchdown is proving to be bumpier than expected. A spate of statistics last week capped off by Friday's surprise news of the first monthly drop in jobs
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    • 215 6 AFP DUBAI Dubai is targeting high-tech manufacturing industries for the new free zone it has launched at the international airport here, civil aviation officials said yesterday. The first stage of development has begun with the construction of 10 parking bays capable of handling up
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    • 311 6 Reuter BAGHDAD Iraq lashed out at Turkish President Suleyman Demirel yesterday as relations between the two neighbours soured over border issues and ties with Kurdish rebels. For the third day, stateowned newspapers carried editorials and commentaries lambasting Turkey and stressing that
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    • 442 7 Reuter WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton heads for Moscow today for high-stakes talks with Russian President Boris Yeltsin that appear unlikely to produce foreign policy triumphs and may undercut Mr Clinton's standing at home. Mr Clinton will first pay tribute to Americans who
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    • 749 7  -  pfN WORLD VIEW By Kevin Sullivan FIFTY years ago today, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. Victory in Europe together with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three months later ensured a speedy end to the war in Asia. The post-war settlement
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    • 431 7 Reuter LONDON World leaders hailed 50 years of peace in Europe yesterday but there were grim reminders of old divisions as fighting raged to the east and arsonists attacked a synagogue in Germany. Officials from almost 60 nations packed
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  • SPORTS
    • 580 8 Americans Cup AFP SAN DIEGO Team New Zealand took on the best crew on the best boat from the defender trials, and came up with a convincing victory here on Saturday in the first race of the America's Cup. Russell Coutts opened the
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    • 687 8 Reuter LONDON Rugby manager Jack Rowel I faces a difficult task filling the role of England captain following the controversial sacking of Will Carling and Dean Richards subsequently declining the job. Richards, captain of champions Leicester and England's number eight, said: "I
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        90 8 AFP SAN ANTONIO, Texas David Robinson scored 33 points and nabbed 11 rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers 110-94 in the first game of their NBA Western Conference semi-final series on Saturday. The Lakers, who upset Seattle 3-1 in the best-of-five first round, trailed
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        68 8 Reuter lAS VEGAS Oscar De La Hoya made quick work of a dangerous opponent on Saturday, as the 1992 Olympic champion stopped Rafael Ruclas in the second round on Saturday to wrest away the International Boxing Federation title. De La Hoya. 22. who also holds the World Boxing Organisation
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      • Article, Illustration
        74 8 WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina lour DuPont 10th stage (177.03 km) on Saturday: I Vassilli Davidcnko (Geo) 4hrs 17mins 38secs 2 Norm Alvis (US) at 03secs 3 Miguel Angel Pena (Spn) at 12 4 Gilles Dclion (Fra) at 27 5 Franck Bouyer (Fra) at 36. Standings: I Lance Armstrong (US) 45:28:27
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      • Article, Illustration
        283 8 AFP MILAN Scotland's Sam Torrance. who nearly pulled out of the tournament here last Thursday, shot a course record 63 to take a third round lead in the Italian Open on Saturday. Torrance had nine birdies and nine pars in an almost flawless round which could have been three
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      • Article, Illustration
        130 8 SYDNEY World champions Australia staged a barnstorming sccond-half comcback to down Argentina 30-13 in a World Cup warm-up at the Sydney Football Stadium on Saturday. Argentina led 13-3 at half-time and looked a much better side in every facet of the game. But the Aussics snapped out of their
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      • Article, Illustration
        19 8 TIANJIN, China World championships yesterday Men's team semi-finals: Sweden b France 3-1; China b S Korea 3-2.
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      • Article, Illustration
        188 8 Reuter ROME Mary Pierce of France, battling to overcome health problems. is a welcome late addition to the women's Italian Open which began on the clay courts of the Foro Italico yesterday. The Australian Open champion requested a wild card entry to Rome after illness forced her to drop
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    • 218 8 (^^BulinesS Japan fares gram) mi of all New /raiand packs a punch r Scoring goals »ith sponsorship Big guns k«p Ihcir cash in Asia In this issue: The customer is king Asian Business fourth annual survey of Asia's most admired companies finds that companies providing quality goods and services are
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  • Business IT
    • 754 9  -  Larger show, but late big-name pullouts mar Network Asia '95, Lee Wai Leong reports Lee Wai Leong DOING business on the Internet was clearly on the minds of the more than 5,000 networking professionals who attended the Network Asia '95 exhibition, held at Suntec City's Singapore
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    • 90 9 SINGAPORE The Singapore Electronic Forum is a section of the Singapore Internet Community (Sintercom), which resides in a little corner of the global information highway called the Internet. Started in December last year by a group of Singaporeans based here and in the US, England and
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    • 707 9  -  David Welcher, reporting from San Francisco, checks out the winners and the trends at the world's biggest database show David Welcher Life mirrored art this past week, as DB/Expo 95 honoured sueeessful implementations of four modern data processing technologies in the annual
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    • 284 9  -  By Lee Wai Leong COMPUTER giant Digital Equipment last week launched six new models in its bestselling Venturis series, all based on Intel's new 3.3-volt Pentium chips, running at 75 MHz, 90 MHz and 100 MHz. The company also cut the prices on
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    • 663 10  -  The US disk drive maker is banking on a new technology to increase its global market lead. David Mok reports David Mok Not content with extending its lead in the global disk drive market last year to 23 per cent, US-based Quantum Corp
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    • 326 10  -  By David Mok ISRAEL-BASED VCON Ltd is aiming for a 10 per cent slice of the worldwide videoconferencing market next year. VCON's founder and chairman, Moti Gura, told BusinesslT in a recent interview that the firm hopes to sell 100,000 videoconferencing systems
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 72 10 SINGAPORE A high-level team from Vietnam was here last week to unveil the country's IT development plan and to invite participation in a computer show later this year. The Vietnamese IT market offers "tremendous opportunities", team officials said. The sth Vietnam IT Week and Vietnam
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      • 69 10 SINGAPORE KT Technology, creator of the portable storage device known as the PhD (Portable Hard Disk), has announced "sister products", among them the Personal Data Shuttle (PDS), a 3.5-inch version of the 2.5-inch PhD. The PDS will be available in capacities from 250 megabytes to
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      • 28 10 SINGAPORE Edmond Ng was elected president of the Singapore Microcomputer Society (SMS) at a recent annual general meeting. The SMS has over 1,300 members.
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      • 38 10 SINGAPORE Local imaging service company Pacific Media has launched QuickTopix 2.0, touted as the world's first multisession CD recording software. The program allows users to record data or audio onto CDs in multiple sessions.
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      • 58 10 SINGAPORE IBM's promotion of its Chinese 32-bit operating system. OS/2 Warp P3.0, gathered steam when the Chinese Ministry- of Railways recently announced a pilot project to put Warp. IBM TCP/IP and IBM Communications Manager/2 into all major railway stations in China. The IBM system
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    • It's happenin'
      • 47 10 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science is conducting the following series of courses in May: Structured Analysis Workshop on May 22-26; Planning for Client/Server Computing on May 25-26, and Business Process Reengineering on May 30-June 2. For details, please call Elizabeth at 772-2020.
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      • 58 10 SINGAPORE The Asia Business Forum is holding a conference entitled "Applications, Business Strategies and Case Studies of ATM" at Le Meridien Hotel from June 26-28. The conference will discuss the practical problems of implementing ATM and highlight the latest ATM developments, with updates from the ATM Forum.
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    • 742 12  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Tan Ah Hwee explains the ISS' unique approach to builaing an intelligent machine Tan Ah Hwee The writer is a researcher in the Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System research programme at the Institute of Systems Science. He can be
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    • 339 12 US electronics firms urge Japanese and European developers to adopt unified standard NYT HOPING to put an end to a fierce format war, leading American computer companies have urged Japanese and European consumer electronics companies on Wednesday to develop a unified standard for
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    • 941 13  -  Seamus Phan is wowed by Canon's new sleek and slim BJC-70 and the battery technology in its latest Pentium notebook Seamus Phan The writer is a zone partner oj XlcGallen Bolden Associates, a strategic quality management, training and technology consulting firm THE FIRST thing you notice about
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    • 652 13  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. DESPITE the obvious risk of market backlash against ever faster equipment obsolescence, the
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1065 14  -  How to win business and influence clients in a variety of cultures around the world? Kevin Sullivan finds out Kevin Sullivan WHEN Canadian drinks company Seagram announced in early April it would pay US$5.7 billion (SsB billion) to acquire Hollywood film studio MCA
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    • 1023 15  -  Ramesh Divyanathan talks to the chief of BMW about his plans in Asia Ramesh Divyanathan WITH two new car assembly plants in South-east Asia and plans to expand further in the region, luxury car-maker BMW is gearing up to stay ahead of the
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  • 527 18  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON THE United States and Japan face a major trade confrontation that could involve the new World Trade Organisation (WTO) after the two countries failed to resolve their dispute over cars and car parts. President Bill Clinton
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  • 313 18 Reuter HONGKONG Japan will continue to be the economic powerhouse of the Asia-Pacific over the next decade, followed closely by Hongkong and Singapore, according to a report prepared by the Australian National University. "Only the most high-value goods and services that are potentially
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  • 447 18 Reuter AFP UPI PARIS Conservative Jacques Chirac was favourite to win France's presidency yesterday, although underdog Socialist Lionel Jospin appeared to have clawed his way closer to a shock upset. The successor to ailing 78-year-old Socialist Francois Mitterrand, stepping down after
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  • 190 18 Reuter BEIJING The two biggest headaches plaguing foreign investors in China are high inflation and defaults of credit, says a business survey. The China Daily yesterday quoted the US-China Business Council survey as saying rising prices had driven up production costs, while credit
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    • 673 19  -  By Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE Creative Technology reported disappointing third quarter results over the weekend, with net earnings falling 60 per cent to US$ll.2 million (S$ 15.5 million) from that in the same period last year. The earnings in
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    • 139 19 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's only private television station on Saturday posted a 77 per cent increase in group pretax profit for the half year to February due to strong advertising support. Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd turned in a profit of
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      • 394 20  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK STRONGER protection for intellectual property and growing affluence among Thais have helped Thai businessman Swadi Horrungruang to clinch a franc hi 4b from top US firm Blockbuster Entertainment Group to set up a video chain in
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      • 399 20 KUALA LUMPUR Teh Soon Seng, managing director of Aokam Perdana Bhd which surprised analysts with a 13.4 per cent drop in interim earnings on Friday, quashed market talk that he was being questioned by the authorities on any matter. The Star
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      • 409 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Outgoing Bank Utama Bhd chairman Effendi Norwawi plans to assemble General Motors vehicles in Malaysia through his family company, the Encorp group. Mr EfTendi said he intends to set up an assembly plant in Malaysia
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      • 785 21  -  gfc. HANG SENG gS INSIGHT By Steve Vines THAT fragile creature known as market sentiment is wavering again on the subject of the property sector. At the beginning of the year analysts were vying with each other to see who could make the most gloomy
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      • 383 21 South China Morning Post HONGKONG The stock exchange may ask directors of companies seeking a listing to obtain an official Certificate of No Criminal Conviction from the police, according to Herbert Hui Ho-ming, head of the exchange's listing division. The
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      • 266 21 AFP BEIJING US telecommunications giant AT&T will invest at least USSISO million (*****.3 million) more in China and further expand its business in the next two to three years, according to the official Xinhua news agency. The investment programme includes an
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      • 390 21 Sunday Morning Post HONGKONG Stockbroker* here may not be able to tolerate for much longer the dismal daily turnovers before they start structurally reallocating their resources. In all probability, they will have to cut back the research desk, pare the trading floor and renegotiate remuneration packages
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      • 320 22 Report says deal may cover one or more channels and an ad agency Reuter ROME Rupert Murdoch's News International has held high-level talks with managers from Italian ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest company wi|h an eye to buying its television concerns, the
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      • 259 22 FT Bloomberg Business News LONDON SG Warburg, the UK investment bank, is expected to pay its advisers about £10 million (5522.4 million) if its fund management business is successfully spun ofT and the sale of its investment banking business to Swiss Bank Corporation goes
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      • 327 22 AFP LONDON Ireland's Independent Newspapers (IN) has. jointly with the Tony O'Reilly Trust, bought a 28.3 per cent stake in New Zealand newspaper publisher Wilson and Horton for NZ5292.7 million (*****.3 million) from Brierlev Investments Ltd (BIL), IN announced last Friday. The
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      • 284 22 Financial Times LONDON British Sky Broadcasting and two of the largest UK cable communications companies have announced a 10-year agreement on the supply of television channels. The agreement is designed to take the heat out of the sometimes acrimonious relationship between BSkyß
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      • 476 22 Reuter PARIS Defence electronics firm Thomson-CSF said on Friday that its losses narrowed sharply last year due to a smaller impact from its stake in troubled state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais. It added that it should return to profit this year. It
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      • 393 23 FT LONDON The early release of recent profits and a range of options for raising finance from Names and elsewhere are being considered by Lloyd's of London as part of a radical restructuring plan to be unveiled this month. Chairman David Rowland
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      • 249 23 Reuter Knight-Ridder TOKYO Supermarket giant Daiei Inc denied Japanese media reports that it will lead a bailout of Hyogo Bank Ltd. "There is no truth to the statement whatsoever," a spokesman for Daiei said. On Saturday, Kyodo news agency said Daiei
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      • 283 23 Signs of soft landing in US economy help sales Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Unit trusts recorded a net inflow for the first time in seven months in March on indications that the US economy is heading for a soft landing,
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      • 525 23 FT PARIS Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti is unlikely to be too concerned this week about the international arrest warrant issued against him on Thursday by the French authorities. His supporters paint him as a rags-to-riches success, while his detractors have accused him
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      • 408 24 Reuter NEW YORK Asian central banks are very unlikely to be buying gold to boost their reserves, said New York-based consultancy CPM Group in an advisory to clients. "There probably is not a single central bank in the world that wants
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        52 24 Reuter WASHINGTON American dollar bills being processed along conveyor machines at the Bureau of Engraving here on Friday. The examiners look for ink spots, smears, discolourations or irregular cuts on the currency. At any one moment, up to US$2OO million (Ss27B million) may be in production in the
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      • 305 24 AFP HANOI A South Koreanled consortium has announced a third oil find off the coast of Vietnam in an undersea basin that is expected to yield large reserves of gas, a report said yesterday. The Korean Petroleum Development Corp (Pedco)
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      • 427 24 Reuter DRESDEN, Germany Siemens AG sees garbage as the energy source ot the future and believes as many as 65 new power plants using waste as fuel could be built in Germany in the next 10 years, company officials said last
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      • 232 24 Reuter BEIJING China will import up to 20 million tonnes of wheat a year in the first two decades of the next century, up from an actual 7.18 million last year, a foreign trade official was quoted as saying yesterday. Qiu Xichun
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      • 154 24 Reuter BEIJING Most of China's large and medium-sized state textile mills are closed or working half-time because of a shortage of cotton, an official newspaper said yesterday. All the mills in Yantai, in Shandong province, a major cotton producer, have closed, as have one-third
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      • 450 24 Crude supplies limited, little hope of substantial new finds AFP HONGKONG Asia's growth is fuelling a seemingly insatiable thirst for oil in a region where petroleum supplies are limited and prospects of substantial future finds are dim, analysts say. "Although the region is a hotbed
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      • 633 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Suresh Sadasivan MMS International SINGAPORE Last week was a relatively quiet one for the currency market following the Tokyo Golden Week holiday. the car talks and the runup to the US employment report. All of these ensured that both dollar-mark and dollaryen
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      • 640 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The prices of oil and silver soared last week, marking the most spectacular rises among commodities. Oil lifted to its highest level since 1993 after the US announced a trade and investment embargo
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    • 1397 25 SICOM Futures Rubber (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jwi 254.00 254.00 254 00 50 1225 Jul 246.50 246.50 246.00 150 2425 Aug ***** ***** 243.50 225 2025 Sep 241.50 241.50 241 00 150 1650
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    • 5494 26 CORPORATE RESULTS Net tarn KPN l)atc n L\ IV LY •Miipan\ jnn ($m) (S<n) (lis) (cts) MSB* Mar 31 I 1.973 0*4.1 2 92 0 92 Alliance Iwh Mar H) I' I I.564L \mcol Mar 24 P 4} 566 N l(K 14 9 6 9 Aintck
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    • 754 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory 1 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/
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        • 119 27 SYDNEY Australian shares crawled 0.8 per cent higher during the week to Friday in cautious pre-Bud-get trading as the market hailed better than expected financial data and a bond market rally. The bourse's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, climbed to 2,065.9 points, up 15.7 points, or 0.8 per cent,
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        • 75 27 Philippine share prices rebounded by 2.22 per cent last week on positive sentiment of a majority win for the ruling coalition's senatorial candidates today and renewed foreign investor buying, analysts said on Saturday. The Philippine bourse broke the 2,500 resistance level to close at 2,520.66 on Friday, 54.79 points
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        • 83 27 The return of foreign money to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) saw the index gain 74.37 points, or 6.15 per cent, during a holi-day-shortened week to close on Thursday at 1,283.06 points, brokers said. The average daily turnover was 178.8 million shares, up sharply from 63.0 million shares
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        • 80 27 Low share prices that followed weeks of selling at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) prompted foreign investors to start refurbishing their portfolios, lifting the index up slightly. After closing the previous Friday at 416.449, the JSE Composite Index gradually strengthened during the week to finally close about 2.5 per
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        • 89 27 The Taiwan bourse extended a downswing for the fifth consecutive week because of battered market confidence and increasing share liquidations by investors, brokers said. Following a 1.97 per cent loss during the previous trading, the 409-issue Weighted Price Index on the Taiwan Stock Exchange lost another 251 points, or
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        • 100 27 Share prices rose substantially in a holiday-curtailed trading week on the Korea Stock Exchange, boosted by the announcement that the limit on foreigners' share holdings would be cased on July 1. The Composite Price Index on the half-trading day on Saturday fell by 3.59 points to close at 918.46.
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        • 79 27 Share prices bounced back on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in the week ending Friday as investors purchased heavily during the slump in the market to earn easy margins on downbeat stocks. The 30-share BSE Sensitivity Index gained 70.53 points, or 2.2 per cent, over the previous week's close
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      • 851 27 New York FT WALL Street was not sure where it was going last week, but it seemed determined to get there fast. Sharp gains and falls were the pattern. That was shown on Thursday when the Dow Jones Industrial Average raced
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      • 349 27 Hongkong AFP Reuter STOCK, prices fell slightly in roller-coaster trading during the week due to worries over the political stability in China, dealers said. The key barometer of top shares. Hang Seng Index, lost 28.86 points, or 0.35 per cent, to close at 8,332.17
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      • 453 27 London Company results and a surge in takeover activity boost sentiment AFP Reuter SHARE prices marched forward last week, with market optimism little affected by in-terest-rate uncertainty and by the spectacular defeat of the ruling Conservative party in local elections in England and Wales.
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      • 359 27 Tokyo Bloomberg Business News STOCKS rebounded in two days of trading last week on expectations that bullish sentiment would spread on the market after the holiday break which finished yesterday. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ended
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      • 2439 27 London May 5 Pence Industrials A. A. Corp Adf 57 2/8 -I 2/8 AB Pons 287 2 Abbe* National 464 -4 Allied Lyons 547 4/8 -7 4/8 Amec 67 f 2 Argsl 289 -3 4/8 Asda Group 77 6/8 2/8 BAT Ind 474 2 BICC J29 -7 4/8 BOC Group
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      • 775 27 -16.26 Blue chip stocks ended with double digit losses on Friday after a surging April unemployment report prompted fears the economy may be heading towards a potential recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 16.26 points lower at 4.343.40 a downturn after its recent record highs. For the
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      • 310 27 -20.59 Stocks closed sharply lower, ending a volatile week pummelled by weak gold shares and a sluggish performance in other heavyweight stocks. The TSE 300 Composite Index fell 20.59 points to 4,278.32 on volume of 64.58 million shares valued at C 5801.49 million. Declining stocks defeated advances 415 to
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    • 2495 28 Gr Cr l«5 Lot Vol Week Lm< Qnote l)i> Di> VM N«1 MC*» ll«h Im Coopnay Snle (D00) H«h Low Buyrr SrlWr CV WE MALAYSIAN STOCKS 471 1% m AIS8 50c 306 -12 4298 320 268 304 306 3.0 -2.9 0 3 JM 127 77.} m AMDS 50c
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      • 6901 28 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian shares closed higher after drifting over the week, perking briefly on news of the government's new cabinet line-up and assurances by the central bank it was not about to tighten credit, brokers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's
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      • 9679 29 MAIN BOARD Gr Ut M «l HM Usl Vol Week Ijwl Qwle Di> Dh VU Net C« A»f High I o** (omptiny Sale (*000) High I Am Buur Seller C*»r S P'F- ricr INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 48: 388 mt s Vma M)c 406 cd -14 767 418 400 404 406
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      • 2003 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE For the umpteenth time this year, the local stock market faces uncertain sessions in the holiday-short-ened week ahead, with no clear signs of a move cither upward or downward. On current evidence, prices should start some sort
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    • 11143 40 This is a list of ships loading at 1 Singapore for ports around the 1 world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN:
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      • 555 43 VwH Voy Wo 8erth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy Wo Berth Vnval Departs Jurong Port Sun Sjwed 04A/95 POl atongsde «<» 2300 Baling 110 alongside 0805,2300 Arktis Dream IS P03 0805,0/30 Batam Indah N194 J1 alongsde 08 05,2330 Batam Speed3 ****** P01A 08.05 0/00 0805' 0** Batam Mumi
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      • 2337 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookint/Balance RsJts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ag 062* 08 1500 1* 07/1500 0/1659 0? 1900 Ac, S»ai 169* 10 1000 4 08/1200 08 1459 08 I/PC Aci
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      • 437 50  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Airlines must group together to light some of the impediments to profit and progress, especially recent changes to the operating environment in the AsiaPacific. Carlos Chua, commercial director of a 15-member group of Asia-Pacific carriers known as Orient
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      • 53 50 Reuter BANGKOK Thais admiring the latest model Japanese sports car, a Mitsubishi 3000GT, displayed at a motor show here yesterday. About 400 new cars roll out of Bangkok showrooms every day onto the already packed streets of the Thai capital, reputed to be Asia's
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      • 254 50 Reuter TORONTO PWA Corps Canadian Airlines International (CAI) said it expects to boost cargo capacity significantly when it becomes the first North American airline to fly to Shanghai and Beijing via Russian airspace. CAl's former VancouverChina route ran south of
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        • 82 50 AFP TOKYO Japan Airlines (JAL) and American Airlines plan to tie up their ticket sales operations through a computerised reservations system, a newspaper said on Sunday. The move marks the first such cooperation between Japanese and US carriers and is to start some
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        • 95 50 AP SEOUL Daewoo Motors Co said recently it would start shipping cars to the US in 1997. Kim Tae Gu, head of South Korea's third largest car maker, also said he is seeking to expand overseas production to one million cars in
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        • 107 50 AFP PARIS Five hundred thousand people crossed the English Channel using the tunnel in April and the Eurotunnel Shuttle tourist service hit a new monthly record by transporting 96,735 cars (72,618 in March), Eurotunnel has reported. The volume of traffic went up sharply over the
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        • 90 50 AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka was seeking a foreign partner to upgrade the country's ageing railway system and for the first time introduce electric trains. Information Minister Dharmasiri Senanayakc said last week. Investors from Japan, India and the US were already showing interest in the
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        • 89 50 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong and Germany signed here last week an air services agreement that would enable both sides to continue to develop and expand respective services after the handover to China in 1997. The new air service agreement was signed by Gordon Siu, economic
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      • 120 50 AP CLEVELAND TRW Inc said recently it had agreed to a joint venture with Hyundai Cement Co of South Korea to produce air bag inflators. Separately, TRW said it signed a 10-year agreement to license its air bag module technology to South
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      • 326 50 NYT WASHINGTON Government investigators have compiled evidence that Linda Daschle, second in command at the Federal Aviation Administration. may have used her position to help her husband. Senator Tom Daschle, reduce safety inspections of an air-charter company owned by a
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    • 127 31 a in 9, Lubricant Index to shipping lines and freight forwarders is on back page China sets sail on a wave of shipping growth, Page 3 Airlines urged to cooperate and solve problems together, Back Page Every cargo is special to us. No matter what type of cargo you're shipping,
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    • 1780 32 NO*rM AMMG*' I OTHER DESTINATIONS I I NORTH AMERICA DIRECT CALL TO WEST COAST fSCX) WEST COAST Of CENTRAL AMERICA (MARGARITA SERVICE) SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS (DIRECT FROM WEST COAST) vtssa. wr spore ui on vc*| sea on. Houston i cmc *y meoco w. wr w [ncn| waunm] mum| nmpnuwlft caubmlian
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    • 1056 33 T^^§4m^^p FAX:*****13 It BNB4UJAH CIISW 8* 22* 205 22* 24A 23* 23* 24*~ 28* BN BAJJAH CIISW 8* 23* 25* IBM BAJJAH CIISW 13* 27/5 AL MIRQAB CII6W ISS 2« flfi 2U 3tiS IK 318 31/5 2/6 AL MIRQAB CII6W 15/5 30* 1* At MIRQAB CIIBW 15/5 21V5 3* BN
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    • 1335 35 K STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Koppol Towers Singapore 0200 Tel: *****00 Fax: *****17 hew guinea pacific line (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO DUE SAILS STRAITSHOPt V9501E Muara. Lab. KK 08-09 May 11 May 12May n,-,., STRAITS VtNTllflE V96OK KK. Skan, Taw 11-12 May
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    • 422 36 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND I TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ETA ETA ETA SPORE PORT KELANG PENANG BLUE JADE 17/5 15/5 Loading tor Male IRUVAJ HUOHU 22/5 Loadmg tor Japanese Ports PIONEER SUPREME 25/5 Loading tor Mak UMMEEDH 20/5 Loading tor Male PROGRESS LIBERTY 30/5 Loading tor Bangkok PIONEER ELEGANT 28/5
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    • 2551 37 H**** EXPRESS HBS FELIXSTOWE, ROTTERDAM AND HAMBURG Sliftfiri t Gimril Aftats Til IGmrill 220 Itti MmMMf Aftacf Dill COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD f f r «>««"« c ,s 2 o„„<„. c..«/..r <»»/»« I Shimon Wit 117-10 T*****0030 COSHIP Cinrintunli *****50 0/0 *****05 Clliinliinil *****40 wtiTC> ii7inmum f ?;»m oicnturs* c,.i,mi,t
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    • 873 39 Cas»Pll pacific international lines (pte) ltd 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I Cfl NO **********06 VUSIL VOY SIN CMS JIB MOO JKO AOJ AO! MUK KU MSW ASA HOT A SCRAM I BRNI7S 10/8 14/8 20/5 22/5 24/8 2S/8 30/8 3/S 4/S 31/5 KOTAWUAYA WJASSP 18/8 23/S
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    • 520 42 g RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 LINES) FAX: *****19/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO: **********0E Y$A ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES r (National Lnes of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AHD CONVENTIONAL Vsaael Voy ETA Loading for Spore assay H KIEN hung line FULLY CONTAINERISED REGULAR LINER
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    • 384 43 SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. WW I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. 1 TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI r S'PORE HKG SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA ETP ETA ETD ETA ETD LATMOS 931/932 6/5 9/5 14/5 15/3 18/5 19/5
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    • 1488 44 ■niasMii THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VESSELS VOY ETA EXCHANGE VESSELS VOY HA EXCHANGE RATE RAH EDINBURGH MAERSX 9606 08 MAY 1.4 LIVERPOOL BAY 5677 IS MAY 1 3947 SINGAPORE MY 5064 08 MAY 1.4 SHENZHEN BAY SOU 15 MAY MAERSK VANCOUVER 9606 0B MAY ***** MAERSK HAMBURG 9606
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    • 1021 45 TWO SAILINGS/MONTH EX AUCKLAND J? Container /8080 Break Bulk Service 1 jjiy !Tiji^l Mlllllllin v mm i/a/£s iwrNiiniiwiii-fiii'iinri SERVICE: SGP/S.E. ASIA PANAMA/NORTH AMERICA (INCL HOU*( fva i»r Im- Iwltu I M I mo ci I 11/u latlwliwl w I I I ibt wmT~] SM AMKMISIt 11/5 11/S 13/S 10/5 77/5
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    • 814 46 STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I ifIEMTS FOft* ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOU) STAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 fcfc *****12 (MARKETING) (CW NO. *****6500Q0-E) N. AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SERVICES \Swmmfim VKStL IVOT SJW ImiWHWtl Id KST SAV I NT( H» Wflßfig ust TT7s i. savannah
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    • 1674 47 W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 00R Y.S.N. LINEm.i-ijiiii.bm.i.iii]||.iiuJ VESSEL VOY Honj Kong P.K*I«H thimofld Star 1 SAILED IMPORT SM(TS SHSf 9 IH PORT 13-14 A IS-1«/S ,7 l>/5 OKI Ot CMn»«« 50
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