The Business Times, 9 May 1995

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    10 1 Business Times WE KSOW MITA(P) 194/12/94 Tuesday May 9 1995
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 14 points
      57 1 Reuter NEW YORK Stocks rose yesterday, taking their cue from strength in banking and technology issues. At 1 pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 14.53 points at 4,357.93. In the broader market, advancing issues led declines 11-8 on moderate volume of 155 million
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      Lock icon US bans almost all trade and investment with Iran
      42 1 Reuter WASHINGTON The White House yesterday issued an executive order banning virtually all US trade and investment with Iran. The order gives 30 days for US companies to wind down existing contracts. Reuter
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    164 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STII 2.075.88 +17.08 KLSEComp 957.82 +1.38 Nikkei 17.103.69 +15.03 Hang Seng 8.488.36 +156.19 SET Index 1.288.01 +4.95 Jakarta Comp 428.53 +1.52 Manila Comp closed Taipei WPI 5.674.53 +32.37 Seoul Comp 910.39 -8.07 Bombav BSE30 ..3.197.74 +5.23 CLSA China B 736.18 -4.51 Aust All
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    SPH, Keppel, HK Telecom win mobile phone licence
    675 1  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE The consortium comprising Singapore Press Holdings. Keppel Corp and Hongkong Telecom has won the tender for the much-sought-after licence to set up Singapore's second cellular mobile telephone network. MobileOne(Asia) Pte Ltd was the surprise winner over the front-running
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    Lock icon $ weakens in early US trading in wake of failed car talks
    379 1 weakens in early US trading in wake of failed car talks AFP, Reuter, Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK After holding its own in recent days, the dollar started drifting yesterday on news of the breakdown in USJapan car talks. The dollar fell against other major currencies in quiet New York
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    SINGAPORE in CHINA
    52 1 Singapore is now the fifth largest foreign investor in China. Who are the major Singapore players in China? Which provinces are they in? And what are they doing there? Look out for our special report on Singapore investments in China. In BT tomorrow. Make sure you get
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    Regional stock markets gain ground
    169 1 SINGAPORE Share prices yesterday rose across the region, including those in Singapore and Malaysia where sentiment was weighed down by the sharp plunges in the prices of Creative Technology and Aokam Perdana shares. In Singapore, the Straits Times Industrials Index gained 17.08 points to close
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    Lock icon Shanghai goes down as the buildings go up
    376 1 Reuter SHANGHAI The Chinese metropolis of Shanghai is sinking, subsiding under the weight of the most intense construction boom on earth, Xinhua news agency and officials said yesterday. The city has been sinking by 10.2 mm a year on average since 1991,
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    Lock icon Prices of private residential property up 2.7% in 1st qtr
    462 1  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Prices of private residential properties rose by a moderate 2.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year, a further indication that the property market has cooled after several years of sizzling price rises.
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    Bimantara set to be first Jakarta listing under new rules
    184 1  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesian conglomerate Bimantara Citra is expected to be the first company to be listed under the country's new listing requirements. PT Makindo Securities, which is lead underwriter for Bimantara Citra's public offer, says the company's listing
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      8 1 Property: Pg 8 Retailers fight for market share
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      22 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg is What happened at Aokam? Gold standard may return, Pg 20 Currency turmoil a global concern, Pg 20
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      13 1 Telecom raises stake in Yorkshire Cable, Pg 15 Regional market reports, Pg 22-26
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Independent travel growing popular
        268 2  -  By Agnes Wee NEARLY two out of three visitors, or 64 per cent of all visitors to Singapore last year, were free independent travellers (FITs) those not travelling with packaged or group tours. Figures released by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board show the total ot 3.84
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      Small travel agencies at a crossroads: Natas study
      594 2  -  Reports by Agnes Wee SINGAPORE travel agencies have arrived at a crossroads either they have to grow into mega-operators or they will have to position themselves in specialised niche markets. This was the conclusion arrived at in a study commissioned by the
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      S'pore needs more IPCs to grow: Chee Hean
      325 2  -  By Claire Leow IPC CORP is the kind of local multinational corporation the government wants to develop for the country's long-term economic growth, the Acting Minister for the Environment and Senior Minister of State for Defence, Rear-Admiral Teo Chee Hean, said yesterday.
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      Exploit opportunities in South Africa, local developers urged
      294 2 SOUTH AFRICA offers immense opportunities for Singapore property developers, according to a visiting business delegation from that country. Speaking yesterday at a seminar jointly organised by the Trade Development Board. Construction Industry Development Board and Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore, A
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      Lock icon Women more affluent, making more trips abroad
      331 2 WOMEN are becoming very important customers of travel agencies and airlines. And they are not just going with hordes of holidaymakers on package tours a growing number prefer to go as free independent travellers and on adventure trips. Travel agencies say that women
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Voice processing show in June
        74 2 A THREE-day exhibition on voice processing and computer telephony, the first of its kind in Asia, will begin in Singapore on June 7. With companies such as Singapore Telecom, Northern Telecom, AT&T and Telsis taking part. Voice Asia *95 hopes to attract 2,500 trade visitors.
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        S'pore upgrades Hamburg consul
        61 2 THE government has upgraded Singapore's Honorary Consul in Hamburg. Dieter Lorenz-Meyer, to Honorary Consul-Gcneral, said the Ministry of Foreign AfTairs. Appointed in January 1993, Dr Lorenz-Meyer also has jurisdiction in Bremen. MecklenburgWest Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig Holstein. Dr Lorenz-Meyer is also a partner in Arnold
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        S'pore property listings on Internet soon
        46 2 BY YEAR-END. property buyers will be able to view prospective homes on Internet when real estate agency ERA Realty Network posts its Singapore property listings on the service. ERA's US property listings have been posted on the Internet since January.
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      Esso to spend $35m upgrading capacity of lubricant plant
      238 2 ESSO SINGAPORE will invest $35 million to expand lubricant manufacturing capacity at its Pulau Ayer Chawan refinery. The expansion will boost capacity from 500.000 tonnes to 650,000 tonnes of base stock per year, the company said in a statement yesterday. Demand
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      SDP economic report calls for more spirit of enterprise
      262 2 THE Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) has called for less government control and more entrepreneurship in Singapore business in its newly published SDP Economic Report 1995. At a press conference to launch the report yesterday, SDP secretary-general Chee Soon Juan said: "Politics
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      93 2 UNIVERSITY OF mastoi of business administration MBA. (International Business) structure >j 18-month programme "Executive Training Series" workshops to enhance participants professional image Conducted by the University's faculty, complemented by local academics Class size is limited to 20 candidates per class International focus Syllabus covers political, cultural and socio-economic aspects in
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon M'sian shopkeepers warned against hoarding goods
      336 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday issued stiff warnings to shopkeepers against hoarding essential items as public complaints mounted over a spate of post-elect ion price hikes. Bernama news agency quoted Domestic Trade Minister Abu Hassan Omar as saying the government would withdraw the business
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      Lock icon Ramos coalition headed for victory in Senate polls
      306 3 Reuter MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos' coalition party appeared heading for a convincing win in yesterday's Senate elections, according to early unofficial returns compiled by Manila television stations. His Lakas-Laban coalition is likely to take at least eight of the 12 scats
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      Lock icon Indonesia set to unveil new deregulation package this month
      256 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia will unveil later this month a new package of economic deregulation measures aimed at boosting the country's competitiveness, State Secretary Murdiono said. "The measures will be announced later this month to make our economy more efficient and boost
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      Lock icon KL govt earns billions from selling state firms: official
      230 3 AP KUALA LUMPUR The sale of government-owned projects and shares to private companies had resulted in earnings and savings worth billions of dollars, an official said yesterday. The government has earned MS 10.8 billion (SS6.I billion) from the sale of 131
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        Lock icon New KL cabinet sworn in
        100 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad led eabinet ministers and deputy ministers in taking the oath of office before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Ja'afar at Istana Negara here yesterday. They also took the oath of secrecy and pledged loyalty to the Yang di-Pertuan
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        Lock icon Indon MPs query govt yen plan
        111 3 AFP JAKAR IA The Indonesian parliament has asked the government to declare its strategy for coping with the recent dramatic rise in the value ot the Japanese yen. the Antara news agency said here yesterday. The president has already said that for every one
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        Lock icon BBC to build new Asian transmitter
        72 3 Reuter BANGKOK A ceremony has been held in central Thailand to mark the building of a new BBC radio relay station which should improve reception for listeners from Beijing to Bombay. The relay station in central Nakhon Sawan province, about 240 km north of
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        Lock icon Foreign investment up in Vietnam
        60 3 Reuter HANOI Vietnam has licensed 122 foreign investment projects with a total capital of USS2.4 billion so far this year, officials said yesterday, indicating a rising rate of investment pledges. Authorities gave licences to 35 joint-venture projects worth USSSSS million in April, an official of
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      Lock icon M'sian business climate seen hurting trade with Taiwan
      144 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Tai-wan-Malaysia trade grew more than 60 per cent last year, but Malaysia's scarce labour and high export duties may stunt future growth in two-way trade, Taiwanese officials said yesterday. "Some of these problems include labour shortages together with rising
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Beijing bans ads on some drugs
        86 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China has issued now regulations on advertising of drugs, banning adverts for eertain drugs, the Xinhua news agency reported. The rules, to be enforced in a probe to be launched on June 1, forbid advertisements that claim to treat mental
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        Lock icon Hongkong's GDP up 5.5%
        114 4 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 5.5 per cent for the whole of 1994. a government estimate showed yesterday. The figure was lower than the revised government estimates of 5.6 per cent. The territory's GDP rose 5.7 per cent in 1993. In the
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        Lock icon More mentally ill in Hainan
        56 4 Reuter BEIJING Mental illness is rising in the booming south China province of Hainan, with asylums admitting patients unhinged by lottery losses, bad stock investments and business flops, an official newspaper said yesterday. No figures were given but the Beijing Youth Daily said a large
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      Lock icon China's top forex official fired over inflation: reports
      489 4 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI China's top foreign exchange policy maker will be replaced after a government review found his policies had fuelled inflation, according to a Hongkong newspaper and Chinese bankers. The director of the State Administration of Exchange Control. Zhu Xiaohua.
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      Lock icon China secret service warns of looming chaos: report
      237 4 Reuter BONN China's secret service has warned in a confidential report to 200 leading politicians that the country faces severe unrest once the older generation of leaders dies. Der Spiegel magazine reported in yesterday's edition. "As long as Deng Xiaoping and the
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      Lock icon Spratlys claimants unlikely to go beyond sabre-rattling: analysts
      387 4 AFP HONGKONG Despite recent moves to rapidly upgrade weapons systems, none of the claimants to the Spratly Islands could afford to fight or have the capability to do much more than sabre rattle, experts said. "All sides in the dispute have said
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      1049 4 WOCBCH Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Fifty-Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held at 65 Chulia Street #19-00, OCBC Centre. Singapore 0104, on Saturday, 10 June 1995 at 12 o'clock
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon EIU risk ratings put India as better bet than China
      406 5 Reuter, AFP LONDON India's improving economy and rising foreign exchange reserves make it a better bet than China which continues to suffer from political uneertainty, the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) said. "India's major economic parameters are more encouraging than they
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      Lock icon Japan's 20-day trade surplus in April down 19.3%
      151 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's merchandise trade surplus for the first 20 days of April shrank 19.3 per cent from the same period a year ago to U553.75 billion (555.19 billion), the Finance Ministry said yesterday. The trade balance measures the flow
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      Lock icon Aussie govt expected to unveil hefty budget cuts as elections loom
      370 5 Reuter CANBERRA Australia's Labor government, under pressure to slash its budget deficit to rein in galloping economic growth in an election year, is expected to announce deep spending cuts and tax hikes in its budget today. Budget-cutting measures leaked
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      Lock icon India launches massive supply to oil-starved north
      293 5 AEP NEW DELHI The Indian government, faecd with a looming fuel crisis, has begun the country's biggest peacetime delivery of petroleum products to supply oil-starved regions in the north, officials said on Sunday. The officials quoted Petroleum Minist|7 secretary VL Kelkar as saying
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      Lock icon Japan's gloom engulfs Premier Murayama
      208 5 Reuter TOKYO Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's trip to China last week received only modest marks for diplomacy, but Japan's beleaguered leader may come to view it as the high point in a year of endless setbacks. While China's hard-nosed leaders gave Mr Murayama a strong
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Accidents hit Seoul foreign construction
        65 5 AFP SEOUL Following a series of devastating accidents here, overseas construction orders for South Korean firms fell 6.5 per cent in the first four months of this year over the same period last year, the Overseas Construction Association of Korea (OCAK) reported yesterday. It said
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        Lock icon NZ rates may rise despite slowdown
        65 5 Bloomberg Business News WFLLINGTON The New Zealand economy slowed further in March, but the central bank may have to raise interest rates again, said broker Ord Minnett Securities. Its indicator of economic growth, which is designed to indicate changes in the rate of growth,
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        Lock icon Japanese to help Thais cut power use
        70 5 AFP TOKYO The Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc said yesterday it would provide Thailand's Electricity Generating Authority with an air-cooling method to cut power consumption during summer peak times. The method requires the installation of a tank in a building to store cold
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        Lock icon Call to revamp New Delhi admin
        70 5 AFP NEW DELHI The Indian capital faces a disaster unless its chaotic administration is quickly and thoroughly overhauled, a former governor of the city warned in remarks published last week. MP Jagmohan Malhotra said the New Delhi authorities were unable to solve a variety
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      Thakral group buys hotel in Melbourne
      243 5  -  From Surinder Singh in SYDNEY THE Singapore-based Thakral group has extended its hotel interests in Australia with the purchase of the Kingsgate Hotel in Melbourne's central business district for just under ASS million (555.15 million). Sources close to the family group have confirmed it
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      9 5 Budget aims to win back Labor's heartland, Pg 13
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EU states ponder future of Europe as Chirac takes presidency
      580 6 AFP, Reuter BRUSSELS France's partners in the 15-nation European Union are pondering the meaning of their new president, Jacques Chirac, who is seen as less pro-European than his predecessor. They know that Mr Chirac is less an enthusiast for European
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      Lock icon Support from countryside pivotal to Chirac's victory
      274 6 Los Angeles Times PARIS Jacques Rene Chirac. the new leader of France, is a flamboyant, doggedly energetic political survivor who has long worn his presidential ambitions on his sleeve, inspiring both deep loyalty and intense hatred. Although Mr Chirac, 62, has spent his
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      Lock icon Iran freezes dollar rate to save its rial amid financial crisis
      313 6 AFP TEHERAN Iran tried to prevent the collapse of its national currency yesterday by freezing the rate of the dollar on the country's open market amid a deepening economic crisis, financial sources said. Agents of the central bank, accompanied
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      Lock icon US savings, deficit hold key to dollar's rise: Tietmeyer
      504 6 NYT FRANKFURT The head of Germany's central bank, in his most pointed remarks to date on the prospects for the beleaguered dollar, said it would not rise against the Japanese yen or German mark until the markets were convinced that President
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Weak $ may trim OECD forecasts
        107 6 Weak may trim OECD forecasts Reuter PARIS The OECD may have to trim its growth forecasts for the 25-nation group to 2.75 per cent both for this year and next if the dollar does not recover, French newspapers said. Last December, the 25-nation economic think-tank forecast gross domestic product (GDP)
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        Lock icon Nine US papers team up in venture
        83 6 AP NEW YORK The New York Times Co will join eight other large newspaper companies in the formation of New Century Network, a venture to promote electronic publishing, the company said on Sunday. The venture's first step will be to link their current
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        Lock icon Italian govt, unions sign reform pact
        72 6 Reuter MILAN The government and Italy's main trades unions announced an accord yesterday to reform the country's costly state pensions system but employers immediately criticised the deal as unsatisfactory. Agreement on the reform, seen as vital to controlling Italy's debt, was announced after Prime
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        Lock icon Dubai issues warning on Fayed firms
        115 6 Reuter DUBAI Dubai has warned its government departments against dealing with two companies which it says are owned by Harrods chairman Mohamed al-Fayed, saying there were questions about their legal status in the emirate, an official said on Sunday. The official at the Dubai
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • Article, Illustration
      Sizing up a Suntec City risk
      841 7  -  mmm the PROPERTY s: COLUMN By Lee Han Shih WHY ARE there so many people interested in buying office space in Suntec City? Yes, Suntec is known for its quality, and its location at the reclaimed Marina Centre is not bad either. But assuming
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      Road show aims to draw more retailers to Jakarta
      362 7  -  Maggie Ford reports on the moves to woo foreign retailers Maggie Ford PROPERTY managers Colliers Jardine will launch an international road show covering European and Asian capitals to persuade more international retailers to set up shop in Jakarta's new shopping malls.
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      Lock icon When the going gets tough some shops get bigger
      1381 8  -  Jenny Lam looks at retailers' battle for the shoppers' dollars Jenny Lam SINGAPORE'S overcrowded retail scene has forced many retailers to consolidate their business and to rethink their strategies over the past couple of years. The rethink has resulted in a
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      Location's even more crucial for fashion retailers' flagship stores
      554 8 AS MORE fashion retailers go for fewer but bigger shops, they have become much more selective about the location of these shops. Generally, fashion retailers prefer to locate their flagships in Orchard Road, which is regarded as the most important shopping
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      PROPERTY WATCH
      299 8 Selected transactions in the past week Date of r~~l TTZ Built In Sdipric* trwctton pt<trict Projw* Type land arm (»q ft) T nur (S$) PWVATE May2,1995 0512 Hong LeongGdn Condo3 i 1250 L999 685,000 548 May 2,1995 1 2776 I Orchid Park Condo3 1145 L99 750,000 655 May2,1995
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      157 8 ran irviTCu111 ywi\ii I BUY A DISTRICT 10 PROPERTY AND: I a) Develop immediately OR b) Rent existing apartments and develop later Residential zone, potential plot ratio of 2.1, Redeveloped units can be sold to foreigners g Land area of 21,412 sq ft 18 May 1995 at 12 noon for
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Orlando Magic turns tables on Jordan in dying seconds
      430 9 NBA playoffs Reuter ORLANDO Michael Jordan has been Chicago's main man for so many memorable winning finishes. On Sunday, Jordan was the improbable goat for the Bulls' stunning 91-94 loss in Sunday's opener of their Eastern Conference playoff semifinals against the
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      Cheers to the halcyon daze of a win over Windies
      490 9  -  By Michael Karem LONDON Nothing takes your mind off your own troubles so well as contemplating those of somebody else especially if they are the troubles of an old enemy and one can gloat a little. Thus it is that
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      Lock icon Horse power
      81 9 Reuter GOLD COAST, Australia Equestrian Cathy Green and her mount McGuire showed car owners just what horse power really means. Both rider and horse soared over a 1.6 m high, 1.8 m wide jeep at an invitational showjumping event at Sanctuary Cove on the Gold Coast on Sunday.
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        Baseball
        124 9 DENVER, Colorado Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo. the first US major league baseball player from his homeland in 30 years, struck out seven but struggled to no decision here on Sunday in his second start. Nomo surrendered seven runs on nine hits, three of them home runs, in four and
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        Basketball
        37 9 NEW YORK NBA pla>offs on Sunday Western Ist rd: Utah 91 Houston 95 (Houston wins best-of-fivc series 3-2). Kastern s-finals: NY 105 Indiana 107 (Indiana leads bcsl-of-seven series 1-0); Orlando 94 Chicago 91 (Orlando leads 1-0).
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        Cycling
        129 9 GREENSBORO, North Carolina lour DuPont 48 km time trial final stage on Sunday: 1 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Novell I hr 44.65 sec 2 Andrea Peron (Ita) Motorola at 1:05.62 3 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapci-GB at 1:18.91 4 Norman Alvis (US) Saturn 1:51 5 Lance Armstrong (US) Motorola at 1:55.37.
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        135 9 BADMINTON, England Bruce Davidson became the first American to win the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials on Sunday as he rode Eagle Lion to a clear round in the show jumping portion of the three-day event. Lying third overnight after the dressage and cross-country. Davidson took home the £22.500
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        Golf
        347 9 MARIETTA, Georgia Mark Calcavecchia, the last American to win the British Open in 1989, snapped a three-year winless drought on Sunday with a come-from-behind. two-shot victory in the US$l.3 million (SSI.B million) Bellsouth Classic. Five shots behind third-round co-leader Jim Gallagher Jr. with 11 holes left to play. Calcavecchia
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        Rugby
        142 9 LONDON Will Carting coulc be reinstated as England's World Cup Rugby Union captain after a scries of dramatic developments on Sunday. The sensational sacking of the popular skipper took a new turn on Sunday night when Rugby Football Union (RFU) president Dennis Easby, the man who stripped him of
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        Tennis
        170 9 ATLANTA Michael Chang our lasted world No 1 Andre Agassi 6-2 6-7 (6/8) 6-4. here on Sunday Ic retain his title at the ATP Chal lenge and serve notice he will be a major contender for the French Open crown. "Beating Andre in the Tina! makes this very sweet."
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      Lock icon Auld Mug's undercurrent of power
      576 9 America's Cup FT SAN DIEGO The 29th America's Cup match began on Saturday off San Diego, with New Zealand's Black Magic winning the first race. Will the plucky New Zealanders eventually defeat Dennis Conner, the ultimate cup gladiator, in the best-of-nine series? History says yes.
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      Lock icon Battle scars
      608 11  -  Claire Leow watches, for the second time, a play about Asian women during times of war Claire Leow WAR AND its after mat h were the focus of Coming into Passion: Song for a Sansei, a play performed by Jude Narita over the weekend. In it. Asian women
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        Lock icon Cliffhangers a turn-off for Turner
        389 11 UPI THERE are no action movies in actress Kathleen Turner's future. Turner, 40, now starring in the Broadway production of Jean Cocteau's Indiscretions. says her forays into the theatre and directing have convinced her never to do another movie simply to maintain a high profile
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        Lock icon Carly Simon's kiss-and-sing
        117 11 AP SINGER Carly Simon strapped her autobiography rather than kiss and tell. But kissing and singing is another story. "You can do it in a song because you don't have to name the people you're writing about. But in an autobiography, they want names and action." the
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      1226 11 I TV* RADIO -I Blind Fury, Hpm, Ch 5 ijgjl' Rutger Hauer is a blind Viet vet who wields a samurai sword. He looks up an old ar- y ilm T^lk my chum (Terrance O'Quinn), r saves the chum's son from gangsters, then spends the rest of the film involved
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    New era for Asean
    508 12 EDITORIAL RETREATS are supposed to be therapeutic, helping a person to reflect on the past and focus his mind on the challenges ahead. In this sense, the Asean economic ministers' retreat in Phuket last weekend achieved its objectives. Not only did the six Asean ministers undertake
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Ramos needs to win big
      246 12 WHATEVER the comical aspects of the Philippine mid-term elections today, and there are a few, unfortunately, voters who have a choice of about 100,000 candidates to fill 17,338 congressional, provincial and local level offices do not face that bewildering a task. All they need is
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      Focus on the family
      107 12 THE FAMILY seems to be the most vulnerable social institution today. The concern is widespread both in developed as well as developing nations. Singapore is no exception. With the restructuring of the Ministry of Community Development, the family is getting attention with the setting up of
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      Better pay, better service
      128 12 THE GOVERNMENT has been seeking to improve the remuneration of civil servants and to raise their status. It has constantly been stressed that to maintain a highly efficient and honest public service, civil servants should be paid a competitive package. Conversely, the public has good reason
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      Deregulation breeding bullies
      163 12 THE three-day conference on the deregulation of the Indonesian economy co-sponsored by the World Bank in Jakarta last week recounted the great achievements of the massive packages of economic reform measures over the past 10 years, while also charting out the agenda of future reforms. The problem
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      Stark message for Yangon
      161 12 SOMEWHERE in the fuzzy world of foreign diplomacy, a line has to be drawn. Yangon crossed the bounds of civilised behaviour decades ago but until recently the brunt of their barbarity was visited exclusively on their own citizens. Now Thais are dying and being forced to
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      Self-fulfilling prophecies
      241 12 LIKE astrologers, palmists and racehorse punters, proponents of the theory of economic cycles like to believe that there are irrevocable factors underlying their prediction of a future outcome. Cyclical pundits rely on the self-actualising principle if they keep going against the grain of current trends stubbornly enough, they
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    Yeltsin guns for generals
    1093 12  -  The army Marshal Zhukov fathered is feared by the Russian president. John Helmer has the details John Helmer The writer is BT's Moscow correspondent BEFORE the equestrian statue of World War II hero Marshal Georgy Zhukov was lowered on to its pedestal in the centre of
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      Budget aims to win back Labor's heartland
      1465 13  -  Word is out that the Australian budget to be announced today will be a tough one, reports Florence Chong Florence Chong The writer is BT's Sydney correspondent THE Australian Government is likely to deliver what will be a typical "Labor" budget to buy
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      Lock icon Bits of dross start to show in Buffett's Midas touch
      892 13  -  Billionaire investor strays from his own rules, reports Peter Truell Peter Truell NYT WARREN BufTett, America's folksy billionaire investor from Omaha, confessed recently that his investment in USAir Group was a result of "sloppy analysis" that might have been caused
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      192 13 HEADS OR TAILS 1 movoz HHnsnimaHi .999 The Lucky silver Dollar The only collector's coin accepted in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno and Monte Carlo casinos. The US lucky Silver Dollar. That's the silver American Eagle coin. events and institutions that have patriotic It's a worthwhile gamble. Because currency value
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    US set to announce record Japanese hit-list this week
    355 14  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON THE Clinton administration is expected to announce in a few days what senior US aides describe as "recordbreaking sanctions" against Japan to punish it for its restrictive car and car-parts trade policies. President Bill Clinton met
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    Lock icon Clinton sounds conciliatory on Russia
    371 14 Reuter WASHINGTON Looking ahead to a trip to Moscow this week. President Bill Clinton complained on Sunday of Russian policy towards Iran and Chechnya, but said United States-Russian relations must not be held "hostage to any one issue". His remarks came ahead of his departure
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    Lock icon ABN Amro uncovers suspected fraud
    305 14 Reuter AMSTERDAM Dutch bank ABN Amro NV said yesterday that its Swiss branch had uncovered a suspected multi-mil-lion guilder fraud by a former member of staff, but there appeared to be little danger this would lead to large losses. Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblad said sums
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    Lock icon First for China banks as new law will let them reject loans
    307 14 Reuter BEIJING A draft law on commercial banks will for the first time empower China's four biggest financial institutions to turn down any organisation seeking a loan, the China Youth Daily said yesterday. Political influence and expediency have
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    Lock icon Indian market reforms irreversible, says minister
    220 14 Reuter NEW DELHI India's freemarket economic policies will not be reversed but the pace of reform could slow if a leftist alliance wins power in general elections next year. Commerce Minister P Chidambaram said yesterday. "1 think economic reforms have now reached the point
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    A malaise eating away at Japanese society
    610 14  -  The Bottom Line REGINALD DALE REGINALD DALE The writer is a columnist ml/i the International Herald Tribune, where this commentary first appeared JAPAN today is an unhappv place. Traumatised by the Kobe earthquake. last month's Sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway
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    Lock icon Taiwan open to talks on plan for direct links with China
    160 14 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan is willing to negotiate with China on its proposed programme of offshore transhipment centres that would allow direct links between the two rivals for the first time since 1949. officials said yesterday. Speaking after a local
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        MARKET MOOD
        52 15 Mixed Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled Alliance. Barings. Credit Lyonnais Securities Daiwa. Fraser. G K Ooh, Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell. Ong Co. Nomura. Phillip. Smith New Court. WI Carr and S
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        HOT STOCK
        58 15  -  By Quak Hiang Whai KEMAYAN Corporation, like many of the Malaysian counters, is heavily oversold. It is oversold on its daily, weekly and monthly RSI and stochastic charts. Any further fall would likely be limited to the level of $1.60. With so many overwhelming oversold signals, chances are
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      Lock icon Aokam share price plunges as massive selling continues
      389 15  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Disappointment with Aokam Perdana Bhd turned to disillusionment yesterday. The day saw further mass selling of Aokam shares following the big sell-off on Friday just before it announced interim earnings of Ms 39 million (Ss22 million) which fell
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      Creative shares plunge $3.60 after sharp fall in earnings
      415 15  -  Arch-rival Aztech's share price soars By Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE Multimedia kingpin Creative Technology's share price plunged $3.60 or 26 per cent to $10 yesterday as investors sold heavily after its disastrous quarterly earnings. And in an ironic twist, the share
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      Singapore Telecom raises stake in Yorkshire Cable to 50%
      295 15  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom has raised its stake in loss-making The Yorkshire Cable Group by 4.5 per cent, bringing its total interest in the UK company to 50 per cent. Telecom yesterday announced that it paid £10.5 million (5523.3
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      Aztech has plans for more offshore manufacturing
      263 15 SINGAPORE Multimedia company Aztech Systems intends to announce more offshore manufacturing plans later in the year, says president Michael Mum in the latest annual report. It will invest $20 million to add surface mount technology lines to make products such as audio telephony
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      Wunderkid Aokam comes down to earth with a bump
      689 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Amy Balan SINGAPORE It was a success story too good to be true. Yet, year after year, tim-ber-based Aokam Perdana Bhd would confound the sceptics. That is, until last week. It was the wunder stock that every
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      Shing Kwan quits hotel venture to focus on other projects
      310 15  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE Tycoon S P Tao's Shing Kwan Investment has withdrawn from its partnership with Pidemco Land and Hotel Equatorial to build a hotel in Yangon because it wants to "concentrate on other major developments". Shing Kwan has
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      Lock icon MBf Leasing plans to offer cross-border service
      121 15 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MBf Leasing Sdn Bhd intends to introduce cross-border leasing facilities later this year to support Malaysian companies in their overseas expansion, it was announced yesterday. "This facility will be made available to Malaysian companies with investment in foreign countries." said
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    • COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Berjaya wants court to stop bank from pursuing swap case in UK
        429 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Industrial Bhd and Berjaya Corporation (Cayman) Ltd, which are suing Public Bank (Labuan) Ltd and three others over alleged unauthorised transactions involving Mssoo million (Ss2Bo million), are seeking an injunction to stop the bank
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        Esso farms out M$500m in contracts to 6 M'sian firms
        355 16  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR ESSO PRODUCTION Malaysia Incorporated (EPMI) has awarded 10 contracts worth some MSSOO million (SS2B2 million) to six Malaysian companies for the construction of a natural gas production platform and offshore facilities off the eastern
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        Lock icon Sime makes offer for rest of listed Aussie unit
        214 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sime Darby Investments Pty Ltd has announced an offer of A 51.25 (551.28) cash for each of the Sime Darby Australia Ltd shares it does not currently own. The company said in a statement yesterday that it currently
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        Harder to maintain high profit growth for 1995: OCBC
        364 16  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE OCBC Bank is finding it difficult to maintain for 1995 its high profit growth achieved over the last few years. Its chairman and chief executive officer, Tony Tan, said in the annual report that "undoubtedly 1995 is
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        Lock icon Diethelm M to set up Selangor factory
        244 16 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Diethelm Holdings (M) Bhd, is to set up a factory in Bukit Kamuning. Selangor, to produce its own pallet racking products and systems by early next year. A memorandum of understanding was signed
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        Lock icon Foreign brokers in M'sia riled over strict enforcement of fee
        399 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Foreign and local stockbrokers in Malaysia are facing oflf over stiff brokerage fees and the upshot may be less Malaysian stocks marketed to foreign investors, industry executives said yesterday. Foreign brokers are unhappy with the strict enforcement
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Hai Sun Hup rights issue approved
          71 16 SINGAPORE Hai Sun Hup shareholders approved a one-for-one rights issue at an extraordinary general meeting yesterday. One rights share at the priee of 50 cents each will be given for every existing ordinary share. The proposed issue will increase the group's ordinary shares by
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          Reminder from OCBC
          52 16 SINGAPORE OCBC Bank yesterday reminded investors that its 1995 warrants will cease trading after July 3 (last trading day is July 3) and the last date for the exercise of the warrants would be July 14. The exercise price of the warrants is currently at $8.17 per
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          Cam Mechatronic's new subsidiary
          34 16 SINGAPORE Cam Mechatronic said yesterday that it paid $3.00 for the entire issued share capital of Cam Manufacturing, comprising three shares of $1.00 each, making the concern a wholly-owned subsidiary.
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          Sunshine completes land surrender
          29 16 SINGAPORE Sunshine Allied announced yesterday that it had completed the surrender of Lots 435 and 436 Mukim 3 to Jurong Town Corporation for $14.5 million.
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          ST Computer, Straco in China venture
          38 16 SINGAPORE ST Computer Systems Services and Straco Investment have agreed to form a joint venture company in Singapore to undertake projects and market products and services in the People's Republic of China.
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          Comfort MD joins Stamford Tyre panel
          43 16 SINGAPORE Stamford Tyres (STC) has appointed its non-ex-ecutive director. Sam Chong Keen, as an audit committee member. Mr Sam is also managing director of Comfort Group and Comfort Transportation and will therefore represent Comfort's interest in STC.
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          Lock icon Mulpha's pre-tax up 69%
          90 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Mulpha International Bhd's group pre-tax profit leapt 69 per cent to M 560.47 million (5533.8 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1994. from M 535.75 million in 1993. Turnover went up to M 5457.38 million versus M 5279.5 million previously. Profit attributable
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        Lock icon Tan Chong expects strong yen to affect actual earnings
        167 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd's actual performance will be affected by the strong exchange rate of the yen, which has strengthened further against the US dollar and regional currencies. chairman Tan Kim Hor said in the company's latest
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        539 16 H«apn prion May 9 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce I 60 169 The Savings Fund 1.43 1.51 S pore Prog Fund 0.57 0.61 Spore See Fund 0 94 100 S pore Invest Fund 1.12 1.19 S pore Equity Fund 0.71 0.75 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest Fund 2.28 2.4ltd Mai
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        Lock icon Hualing posts marginal 1% profit growth to HK$94m
        368 17 AFP. Reuter HONGKONG Chinese refrigerator maker Hualing Holdings announced yesterday its after-tax profit last year rose a mere 1.01 per cent to HK.594.2 million (S$ 17 million) from 1993. The China-based firm, which is listed on the Hongkong Stock Exchange, said turnover
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          Lock icon Vitasoy founder dies at 85
          112 17 Reuter HONGKONG Lo Kwee-seong, who helped stave off malnutrition in Hongkong in the 1940s and 1950s by hawking a nutritious and inexpensive soya bean cocktail, has died in hospital. His death, at 85, was announced by his widow Elizabeth yesterday. Mr Lo's drink founded Vitasoy
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          Lock icon Cosmopolitan suffers 72% profit fall
          67 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Cosmopolitan International Holdings said its 1994 net profit tumbled 72 per cent as revenue from its property management, investment and rental business declined. Profit after taxes and payments to minority interests fell to HK$l4.6 million (552.6 million) from HK551.41 million in
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          Lock icon Help for China firms' Aussie listing
          56 17 Reuter BEIJING Chinese firms will soon be able to get themselves listed on Australian stock markets under a new bilateral cooperation accord, the Xinhua news agency said. The Australian Stock Exchange will work to help Chinese firms list in Australia under the deal signed
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          Lock icon US brokerages do well in Japan
          112 17 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Salomon Brothers Asia, while seeing profit for the year to March 1995 drop 10 per cent to 10 billion yen (S$ 168 million), still earned almost twice the expected profit at Japan's largest brokerage, Nomura Securities Co, the Nihon Keizai
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        Lock icon India's electronic bourse to add 317 firms to trading list
        198 17 Reuter BOMBAY India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) is adding 317 more companies to its trading list tomorrow, taking the total number of traded firms to 1,002, a senior official of the electronic bourse said yesterday. "The new list will include
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        Lock icon Pacific Basin's income falls 20% in third qtr
        220 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Pacific Basin Bulk Shipping yesterday said its net profit fell 19.8 per cent in the third quarter ended March 31, 1995, to U552.64 million (553.67 million), from U553.29 million in the previous quarter. Net profit, after tax and
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        Lock icon Yanion returns to profitability
        130 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Yanion International Holdings, which makes cassette drives and other audio equipment, said it returned to profit in 1994 as sales surged almost 36 per cent. The company said it posted a profit of HK517.91 million (553.2 million) after taxes and payments to
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        Lock icon Asia Pulp to gain majority stake in Ningbo Zhonghua
        159 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Strategic Holdings Ltd. Asia Pulp Paper Co Pte and a Chinese company will invest an additional 1.36 billion yuan (***** million) in Ningbo Zhonghua Paper Co. one of the five largest paper manufacturers in China. After
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        Lock icon Far East Aluminium's profit soars
        144 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Aluminium manufacturer Far Hast Aluminium Ltd said its net profit rose 1,033 per cent in the year ended Dec 31, 1994. In a statement, the company said net profit after tax and payments to minority interests rose to HK536.37 million (556.5
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        Lock icon China's top brokerage not shaken by bond fiasco: chief
        428 17 Internal audit will show up those responsible for scandal Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI The new president of Shanghai International Securities said business has been largely unaffected by a 10-week-old bond trading scandal that brought China's largest brokerage firm to the brink
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        France's Rhone-Poulenc expects recovery to be sustained
        381 19  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE A senior official of French chemical and pharmaceutical giant RhonePoulenc said yesterday the company's impressive turnaround in 1994 would be sustained and he expected the Asia-Pacific region to be a steady contributor to growth. In an interview with
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        Lock icon Amcor retreats from stamp printing business due to low returns
        304 19 Reuter MELBOURNE Paper and packaging group Amcor Ltd is retreating from the stamp printing business because of low returns, according to managing director Stan Wallis. He said the recent loss by Amcor's wholly-owned unit Leigh Mardon of a contract to
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        Lock icon Shareholders' nod clears way for Ampol-Caltex merger
        354 19 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Petroleum companies Ampol Ltd and Caltex Australia Ltd were to merge yesterday after Caltex shareholders removed the last hurdle by approving the transaction. The shareholders' ratification has created Australia's largest petroleum refining and marketing company. At the end of
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        Lock icon Telecom NZ's earnings expected to top NZ$625m
        141 19 AFP WELLINGTON Telecom New Zealand was expected on Thursday to report the largest corporate annual profit in the country's history, the Evening Post reported yesterday Profit for the former state company was expected to top NZ$625 million (SssB7 million) for the year to
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        Lock icon Digital expands links with Microsoft through software deal
        375 19 Reuter BOSTON Digital Equipment Corp is widening a strategie alliance with Microsoft Corp in personal computer operating systems software to both keep its VAX large-com-puter users and court new customers. "This is a major expansion of an ongoing alliance with Microsoft." said
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        Lock icon NZ's Carter Holt Harvey set to post another record profit: analysts
        437 19 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand forestry firm Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) will report a record annual profit tomorrow, thanks to sharply higher pulp and paper prices and earnings from Chilean interests, analysts said yesterday. They forecasted an after-tax net profit
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        Bimantara riding on Indonesia's economic growth
        1354 18  -  Indonesian conglomerate Bimantara plans to launch an IPO this year. William Chia looks at what the company has to offer to investors William Chia SINGAPORE When I told some analysts I was going to interview the management of Indonesian business conglomerate Bimantara Citra on
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        Lock icon Bank competition threatens ratings of insurers: S&P
        475 20 NYT NEW YORK— The expansion of banks into the insuranee business is enough of a competitive threat to reduce the ratings of many insurers eventually, according to a study released yesterday by rating agency Standard Poor's Corp. Even if Congress does not approve
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        Lock icon Pressure on pound seen after decision not to raise rates
        418 20 FT LONDON The pound may hit fresh lows on the currency markets this week as doubts surrounding the UK government's anti-inflation commitment continue to dog the currency, economists in London's business district forecast. Analysts saw little in weekend comments from
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        Lock icon Gold standard may return: P C Roberts
        238 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Gold may become the world's reserve currency, displacing a worn-out US dollar, Paul Craig Roberts told the Bloomberg Forum last Friday. The economist and journalist said the dollar's weakness against the Japanese, German and Swiss currencies could signal
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        Lock icon World Bank cautious about new lending to Russia after wrangles
        451 20 FT WASHINGTON Some World Bank officials are concerned about plans to press ahead with new lending to Russia, when the Russian government has proved unable to make full use of the huge volume of loans already committed to it. World
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        Lock icon Japan enjoys boom in petrochem exports to S-E A
        211 20 BernamaKvodo TOKYO Japan's petrochemical exports to South-east Asian countries are surging in response to strong demand there and the increasing shift of Japanese manufacturing production away from Japan, industry sources said yesterday. "Demand for petrochemicals in South-east Asian countries is particularly
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        Lock icon China starts importing bulk refined sugar
        243 20 Reuter SYDNEY China has begun importing bulk refined sugar for the first time in many years because of rapidly growing demand for the finished product, said an Australian refiner that claims to have sold the first shipment. Mackay Refined Sugars (MRS), an equal joint
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        Currency turmoil a global concern: BoT chief
        331 20 He warns ol danger in Japan's excessive dependence on the dollar TOKYO Bunk of Tokyo (BoT) chairman and former finance ministry official lo>oo Gvohten said yesterday that the current turmoil in the currency markets is not just a problem between the US and
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        Lock icon Opec April output nearly hits 25m bpd
        320 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter NICOSIA Opec oil output rose to just under 25 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, the Middle East Economic Survey (Mees) said yesterday. Production from the 12- member Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries hit 24.99 million bpd in April,
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        291 20 AFP, Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The dollar fell against other major currencies yesterday in quiet New York trading following the breakdown in US-Japan auto talks. The US is threatening to impose punitive tariffs on imports from Japan. Japanese officials have said they will appeal such
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          1307 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures closed mixed in quiet trade while Eurodollars weakened after the release of US non-farm payroll data last week, dealers said. There is market speculation that the US may lower interest rates, some dealers noted. "Personally I don't think
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          Palm oil lower in quiet trading
          569 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Palm Oil KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian crude palm oil physical prices ended broadly lower yesterday in quiet trading due to the absence of fresh incentives. Dealers said the cash market was directly following the CPO futures contracts with prices drifting following selling
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            Bigger Indon tin sales to hurt prices?
            108 21 KUALA LUMPUR Bigger Indonesian tin exports will hurt a price recovery under way in the world tin market. Malaysian smelting firm sources say. The world's largest tin exporter, Indonesia, plans to ask the Association of Tin Producing Countries to allow it to raise
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            India's gas oil demand seen firm
            147 21 SINGAPORE India's recent thirst for gas oil is not expected to be quenched until July because of continued shortage of the oil product in the north of the country, traders said. A significant drop in oil production at the Mathura Refinery, the harvest season
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            Foodgrain output put at 185m tonnes
            79 21 NEW DELHI India's 1994-95 (July-June) foodgrain output has been estimated at around 185 million tonnes, versus 182.12 million a year earlier, the food ministry said yesterday. The ministry's 1994-95 annual report said the final estimates will be available in June. The annual report said
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            Quexco's lead output to go up
            85 21 NEW YORK Quexco's planned purchase of Metallgesellschaft lead operations should boost production. currently centred on its US production facilities, operated by wholly owned RSR Corp. Quexco will produce around 275,000 short tons of secondary lead through the Dallas-based RSR. and it also owns a
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        COMMODITY PRICES
        1466 21 SICOM Futures May 8 Rubber (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest I 254 00 1225 Jul 246.00 2425 Aug 243.50 2025 Sep 241.00 1650 Oct/Dcc 234.50 233.50 234.50 600 5250 Jan Mar 96 234.50 2850
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        Australia
        1104 22 +0.4 SHARES closed fractionally firmer despite subdued trading yesterday ahead of today's hudget, with new data reducing fears of an imminent rise in interest rates, dealers said. The key All Ordinaries Index closed 0.4 points firmer at 2.066.3 and the All Industrials Index rose 2.8 points to 3,074.4 but
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        Taipei
        614 22 +32.37 Taiwan share prices closed higher as a wave of late buying in plastics and textiles boosted market sentiment, brokers said. The Weighted Price Index fluctuated within a narrow range all morning before ending up 32.37 points or 0.57 per cent at 5,674.53. Turnover was a modest NTS3O billion.
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        New Zealand
        326 22 -11.21 Shares declined, led by newspaper publisher Wilson Horton Ltd after Friday's restructuring of its major shareholders. The company said it would pay shareholders a NZSI.SO a share special dividend. That included Brierley Investments, which sold its 28 per cent stake to interests associated with Irish entrepreneur Tony
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        Seoul
        450 22 -8.07 Share prices took a dive on the Korea Stock Exchange yesterday. as a consolidation mood prevailed following a substantial climb last week, brokers said. The Composite Price Index slid 8.07 points to settle at 910.39 points in cautious trading. Trading was moderate with 20.89 million shares worth 361.3
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        Bombay
        149 22 +5.23 Indian blue chips traded in a narrow band as speculators and local funds stayed on the sidelines. brokers said. On the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), shares were stagnant and cautious brokers said they were waiting for the outcome of a governing board meeting to discuss the M S
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        Frankfurt
        241 22 +9.43 German stocks tracked bonds higher amid optimism that easing US interest rates would eliminate pressure for a German rate rise. "The only positive influence in the market today has been the German bond market." said a trader. Ten-year government bond, or bund, futures for June settlement traded on
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        Brussels
        168 22 1.87 Belgian shares consolidated recent gains to end little changed in lacklustre trade but dealers said they were confident of further gains on the back of lower interest rates. "The picture of interest rates has changed completely," said an analyst. Some dealers said the upcoming May 21 general election
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        Milan
        170 22 -119 Italian shares closed more than one per cent down after market confidence in the pension reform accord between unions and the government was undermined by Italian employers' dissent, traders said. Domestic players also were seen seizing profit-tak-ing opportunity after recent market strength. The Mib-30 Index closed 196 points
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        Amsterdam
        270 22 -0.80 Dutch shares edged sideways in the second half of the session leading the AEX Index to a marginally lower close in thin trade. Dealers said a holiday in London markets had taken the edge off trade in Amsterdam, but were comforted by the relative stability of the index.
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        Stockholm
        135 22 -4.57 Swedish stocks fell on concern that a spate of record first-quarter earnings merely signals the beginning of an slowdown in earnings growth. Yield-sensitive shares in banks, insurers and construction companies benefited from a rise in bonds. The yield on the benchmark 6 per cent bond due 2005 fell
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        Zurich
        254 22 +8.3 Swiss shares ended slightly firmer with prices firming in the afternoon after remaining little changed during the morning session. Dealers said volume was low due to a holiday in London. but the outlook was nevertheless positive. The Swiss Market Index of leading shares closed 8.3 points at 2.658.8.
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        Johannesburg
        402 22 -28.2 South African shares ended generally softer yesterday as a London holiday dampened trade and few fresh factors emerged to influence direction, dealers said. Traders said the market was hopeful that foreign interest, which buoyed prices earlier last week, would return and help stocks resume a recent strong run.
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        Toronto
        233 22 +0.80 Stocks were mixed in lacklustre early trading as the market takes its direction from sluggish Canadian bonds, traders said. The TSE-300 Index edged up 0.80 points to 4,279.10 on volume of 5.70 million shares valued at C 568.30 million. Toronto's eight weak sectors were led by communications and
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        New York
        735 22 10.72 Stock prices turned moderately higher in quiet trading early yesterday as the market tried to bounce back from late last weeks sell-off in the blue chips. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 16.26 points on Friday, was ahead 10.72 points to 4,354.13 at II am EDT.
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        1334 22 London Ma> 5 Pent* Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 57 2/8 -I 2/8 \B Ports 2*7 2 Abbes National -464 -4 Allied Lyons 547 4/8 -7 4/8 Amcc *7 >2 Aigyl 289 -3 4/8 Asda Group 77 6/8 2/8 BAT Ind 474 2 BICC 329 -7 4/8 BOC Group 743
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      3032 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks registered their biggest gains in seven weeks yesterday as investors interpreted a rally in US bonds on Friday to mean that interest rates would not go higher here. The Hang Seng Index rose 156.19 points to 8.488.36. That was the biggest one-day rally since
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      Lock icon CHINA
      574 23 CLSA H shares in Hongkong rallied in active trading, up 20.73 points to 1,081.14. outperforming the Hang Seng Index. Turnover increased 24 per cent to HKSB9 million with Shanghai Petrochemical remaining the most actively traded stock. Despite robust trading in H shares, turnover in the two B share markets
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      2543 23 AFP, Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Share prices closed fractionally higher yesterday on futures-linked buying in light of post-holiday trading as many investors sat on the sidelines for a lack of clear direction. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 leading issues rose 15.03 points to finish at 17.103.69 while the
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      1754 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed slightly up on late buying of some pulp and paper, finance and communication counters by foreign-led institutional investors. brokers said. The SET Index closed up 4.95 points at 1.288.01 after fluctuating between 1.277.16 and 1.297.84 in heavy trade. A total of 131.9 million shares worth
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      1186 23 Reuter JAKARTA Shares closed higher in moderate trading on buying of some big capitalised stocks despite profit-taking, brokers said. "Buying interest was recorded in big-capped stocks such as Gajah Tunggah. Indosat and BDNI." one broker said. Budi Acid Java, a chemical company which made its debut on the market
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2703 24 Gr <-r IW Last Vol Da) IjbI Quote Dh Dh VH JW M f «P High Low Company Sale (DOOl High law Bu»r Seller CV P't 'n" 1 MALAYSIAN STOCKS 478 146 m MSB 50c 290 -16 494 314 2*9 2*9 290 3 0 -2 9 0.3 J»
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        Lock icon Shares fall, trading marred by computer hitch
        7032 24 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Most Malaysian share prices ended a technically-troubled trading day lower despite a slightly higher close of the key index, with institutional buyers still sidelined, brokers said. The KLSE Composite Index added 1.38 points to 957.82 points on small gains by
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        8924 25 M W. IW I ail V«J Da, IM QtwU D» Di. Vy Cap A* High Low Coapaay Sale C000) High Low Buyer Seller Or P't I*"" INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 482 382 mis Ainu 50c 382 cd -24 638 400 382 382 384 22.5 3.0 8.0 526.6 405 450 450 is
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        Lock icon Property enjoys some interest but Creative plunges
        1948 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Malaysian stocks were unable yesterday to add significantly to the gains they made last Friday, but local blue chips enjoyed some institutional interest. Property stocks were among the day's top gainers here, while the biggest loser not unexpectedly was
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      546 15 NEWS VALUE SPH, Keppel, HK Telecom win mobile phone licence (pg 1) Immediate impact on prices of affected stocks likely to be muted. Private residential prices up 2.7% in first quarter (pg I) No surprises. S'pore needs more IPCs to grow (pg 2) IPC trading close to its low. Aokam
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      26 21 The London market was closed yesterday. As and when the latest London/ Rotterdam prices are not available, the previous trading day's closing figures are carried instead.
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      354 26 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Tang Tat Cheong of 30, Saraca View, Singapore 2880, have applied for a First Class Beer House Licence in respect of premises at M/s Swee Kee Fish-Head Noodle House at 96, Amoy Street, Singapore 0106, and that this application will be considered in
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      Lock icon Container traffic at PSA rose 15% in January
      334 27  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Container throughput at the port of Singapore jumped 15 per cent year-on-year in January to 946,400 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs). This is lower than the 23 per cent achieved in January 1994. The fall is due mainly to
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      600 27 Page Col Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 ACL 9 1/2 •Ahlers Lines 12 1 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •Appenship 4 4/5 •ANL 3 4/5 •ASCL 5 5 Astro Shpg 8 4 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 •Bank Line. The 9 5
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      Lock icon Shell merges shipping and trading operations in revamp
      354 27 FT LONDON The Royal Dutch Shell Group has merged its international shipping and oil trading arms as part of its efforts to streamline the business. It expects to cut the costs of its oil trading and shipping operations by 15 per cent
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      Shipowner pays the price for vague telex
      587 27  -  This is a fortnightly column that highlights important shipping court cases By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE A shipowner paid the price for a vague telex when the High Court made it liable for a lawsuit by an agent. The case. Marco ship Agencies SJn
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      Lock icon William Lines expected to profit from growing Philippine economy
      254 27 Reuter MANILA An expanding Philippine economy and a deregulated domestic shipping industry are expected to strengthen the position of William Lines Inc, which is due to be listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange on May 15. analysts say. The country's biggest
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      2103 28 TH£ Baltic Freight Index edged down slightly on Friday but the prevailing view among brokers is that rates in the near future wiH remain at least steady. "There are guts in this market yet," said one broker of a grain house looking for a modem Panamax in the
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      Lock icon Box lessors set ambitious agenda despite setback
      723 29 The container leasing industry as a whole appears to be recovering as the beneficial consequence of two years of cautious investment Seatrade Review FOR more than 20 years, the Institute of International Container Lessors (IICL), which represents the world's leading container leasing companies,
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      10547 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls
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      Hyundai gets into top gear Down Under
      725 39  -  The Singapore connection in Australia is proving bountiful for the South Korean car maker, reports Florence Chong from Sydney Florence Chong WHEN Singapore businessman Ong Beng took over the dealership for Hyundai cars in Australia from Alan Bond's Bond Corporation in 1991, the
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3391 40 A Xm.BC. C ontainerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (Sy Marine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Lid (Sy Accord Contr Line (PK/PN). Vdkris Business orporatkm Philippine Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Xhrenkiel liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata
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      COURIER SERVICES
      288 40 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air txpms Intel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844 Fax: 542-3716 *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Td: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. Cit)-lank International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450 C luster link Supplies Sen
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1531 40 Xbex Fx press Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84 Aclinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Td: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight Inlernalional Tel: 545-8033 Fax: *****05 Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911 Fa*: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax *****06 Air I xprevs Inlernalional Tel: 542-7666 Fax: *****74.
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      2300 41 AUSTRALIA Queensland: Abbot Point: Coal: 6 vessels due, no delays. Dalrymple Bay: Coal: Two vessels loading, 1 waiting, 22 vessels due. 1 day delay. Hay Point: Coal: Two vessels loading, 5 waiting, 7 vessels due, 2-3 days delay. Gladstone: RG Tanna: 1 vessel loading. 21 vessels due. no
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      CRUISE & FERRY SCHEDULES
      1323 41 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Arr Hep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of ills Port Agent [fkpbot No MAY 09 09 Renaissance I Cruise to Nowhere Renaissance Cruises 222-3388' 09 09 Columbus Caravelle Kukup Harpers Shipping 221-1388 09 09 Megastar Taurus Port Kelang Star Cruise Shpg Ag 276-7828-09 09
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      SHIP SALES & TANKER RATES
      1165 41 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES WHILST we expect to see less activity next week due to the Japanese holidays and the usual May Day celebrations in Europe, there have been a flurry of sales reported this week throughout various sectors. It would appear that last week's rumours on the Chinese built
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        663 42 VetMt Voy No Berth VtnjI Departure 05/02/95 J2 alongside 0905,2300 &i(*a Angget* V536 112 alongside 0905 0600 Cte Oriente 15, 6 alongside 0905/0600 M* Be 05/02/95 12 alongside 09 05/2300 Hondo 05 03/95 )1 alongside 0905/1300 Pauo PV166 1/ alongside 09 05/2300 Prasetya lestan P96 12 alongside
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1605 42 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AMP LCL CARGO Record Bookinf/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From k s*ar 169A 10/1000 IB 08/1500 08/1659 08 1900 3 09 0/00 09/1159 09 1400 4 09/1200 09/1459 09 1/00 Aitetory
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        837 42 TtllS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more cqmprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements a* indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        527 42 Carbon Cartxw May 4 (tarty Wator Rente A* Akimm Scdmnt Density Rater Residue Ash Miiui SeftnenC W 1 M/M t** 0 Luani KGIT3 t*/V MM MM PPM method KG,M*3 V/V ".MM MM PPM method 10 im .10 oio- M 03 1,3 0 08 28 *,C» 180
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        Boeing completes first B777 for Cathay Pacific
        451 44  -  From Alec Almazan In SEATTLE CATHAY Pacific's first Boeing 777-200 was rolled out yesterday from the assembly line of Boeing's plant here. The plane represents the first of 11 firm orders for the 8777 and an option for 11 more by Cathay in
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        152 44 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China National Aviation Corp (CNAC), a Chinese state-owned company trying to establish a Hongkong airline, has bought a new Boeing 757-200. The purchase has heightened concern that CNAC will challenge the territory's leading carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways, the
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        199 44 AFP SYDNEY Cut-price airline Virgin Atlantic Airways is expected to announce this week direct flights from London to Sydney, exposing existing operators to tougher competition on the trans-Asia route, government sources said yesterday. The British carrier has held rights to fly here since
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          82 44 UPI NEW DELHI An Uzbekistan Airlines passenger plane made an emergency landing in India on Sunday after a mid-air collision with a bird left a 60cm hole in the aircraft's fuselage. The Tashkent-bound airplane hit the bird immediately after takeoff from New Delhi's Indira
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        201 44 AFP CAIRO The private Egyptian airline ZAS which temporarily closed a month ago because of financial problems has rejected a US$l2O million (*****.8 million) takeover bid from an Israeli company, a ZAS official said on Sunday. "ZAS has rejected an offer from the Israeli
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      1417 31 Ml STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD mgßt 10 Hoe Chlani Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Sißiapora 0200 Ttl: *****00 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line (A service of china navigation co) CAfIGO DUE SAILS bsZZr^ STTUUTSHOK V9501E MMra.Lat.KK MMay 11 M«y 12May STRAITS VENTURE V9SOK KK.SkM.Ta* 11-12 May 13 May IS May
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      426 32 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADIN6 CO (S) PTE LTD ETA ETA ETA SPORE PORT KELANG PENANG BLUE JADE 17/5 15/5 loading lor Male IRUVAIHUOHU 22/5 Loadmg lor Japanese Ports PIONEER SUPREME 25/5 loading for Male UMMEEDH 20/5 Loading tor Male PROGRESS LIBERTY 30/5 Loading tor Bangkok PIONEER ELEGANT 28/5 Loading for
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      523 38 SRICHRELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 LINES) FAX: *****18/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RtSHIP (3 Lines) CR NO: **********0E 1® ETHIOPtAN SHIPPING UNES J (N*lmml Lines of ElHopta) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vmml Voy ETA Loading for Spor» AtotoayWon* 44W8 27/06 And Hat 40WB 20/07 H KIEN HUNG
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      190 38 FOONG SUN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD WHOLESALE CENTRE, BLOCK 1, #03-10 SINGAPORE 0511 ■OOKNMVKNQUIRIKS CR NO: 10MM*****W TEL: *****55 (12 LINES) FAX: *****16/*****25 TLX: R*****0/***** FBSHIP VESSEL VOY ETA ETD DESTINATION SUN RAY 8/95 15/5 17/5 PUkJU/MLEMBANG NEE OIAKI 7/95 15/5 17/5 PONTIANAX/SINTETE GULF KHALID 1/95 10/5 11/5 BENGKULU^AOANG GULF SULTAN
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      368 38 JLAfI MN CONTAINER LINES, INC rT~wT3 Agents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 UNES) l IV/ V J CW MO» **********01 SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHMG (062) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 P. KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31)*****0 I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE I PEN PKL
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