The Business Times, 17 May 1995

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  • 12 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW^tSIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Wednesday May 17 1995 85«
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    • 67 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks edged lower as the market took a breather yesterday. At 1 pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 2.07 points at 4,435.40. On Monday, the index closed at a record high of 4,437.47. In the broader market, advancing issues
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    • 29 1 Reuter WASHINGTON US inflation looks to be under control, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said yesterday in prepared testimony to a House banking subcommittee.
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  • 170 1 Stock market indices Tuesday Change STII 2,193.77 +13.9 KLSEComp 1,036.06 +22.12 Nikkei 16.388.90 -220.80 Hang Seng 9.162.32 -27.47 SET Index 1.359.26 -0.93 Jakarta Comp 461.53 +1.97 Manila Comp 2,769.07 +51.13 Taipei WPI 5.799.88 -28.33 Seoul Comp 885.33 -1.78 Bombay BSE30 ..3.147.52 -31.15 CLSA China B 748.05 3.37 Ausl
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  • 809 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Economic growth slowed to 7.2 per cent in the first three months of this year, down from 8.3 per cent in the last quarter of 1994. The first quarter figure
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  • 585 1  -  From K P Nayar in NEW DELHI THE CONFUSION surrounding the Singapore Airlines-Tata venture deepened yesterday following remarks by Commerce Minister P Chidambaram that the Indian government had made no final decision on the proposal to set up a domestic airline.
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  • 485 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPANESE direct investment in Asia surged 47 per cent to a record US$9.7 billion (5513.6 billion) in the year to March 31. And the rise is certain to be repeated this fiscal year
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  • 224 1 AFP TOKYO Japan's top income taxpayer last year was the 26-year-old president of a taxi company who paid 4.89 billion yen (Ss79 million) in taxes, the National Tax Administration Agency said yesterday. Among the nation's top 100 tax payers, 32 made profits from
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  • 603 1  -  From Leon Hadar Anthony Rowley THE Clinton administration yesterday announced a proscription list of 13 luxury cars that would face up to 100 per cent punitive tariffs, unless Japan accepts US demands to open its car and car parts markets
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    • 9 1 Regional Analysis: Pg 17 Changing face of Philippine politics
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    • 26 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 19 Local banks' twin challenges MORE REPORTS, Pg 2 Slower growth: What analysts say Businesses upbeat on outlook for 2nd, 3rd qtrs
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • SURVEY SNIPS
      • 92 2 THE cost of doing business rose sharply in the first quarter. The unit business cost index for manufacturing, after creeping up 1.9 per cent in 1994's last quarter, increased by 5.6 per cent. The unit labour cost index rose 4.1 per cent from a year
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      • 90 2 LABOUR productivity in the first quarter slackened, with growth slowing from 3.8 per cent in the last quarter of 1994 to 2.8 per cent. The slowdown cut across all sectors. Productivity growth in the manufacturing sector sunk from 9.3 to 4.1 per cent. Productivity in the construction
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      • 97 2 SLOWER economic growth in the first quarter did not stop the job machine from churning out more jobs. Total employment rose 12,400, up from 9,000 in the same period a year ago. Almost half 5,900 of the total were manufacturing jobs. The financial and business services sector
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      • 80 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming THE $1 billion investments committed in the manufacturing sector in the first quarter will spin off gross value added of 1.8 billion. Almost four-fifths of the total investments were in the chemicals and electronics industries. The United States was the biggest foreign investor,
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    • 470 2  -  First-quarter Economic Survey of Singapore Reports by Ven Sreenivasan THE first quarter economic results surprised economists yesterday and sent them back to the drawing boards to revise their annual growth estimates. However, all the economists polled by Business Times welcomed
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    • 335 2 FIRMS are upbeat about prospects for the six months from April to September, says the latest business expectations survey by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The survey sums up business sentiment among manufacturers and companies in service sectors for April
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    • 72 2 SINGAPORE The newly appointed director-general of the World Trade Organisation, Renato Ruggiero, will visit Singapore from May 25 to 26 at the invitation of Minister for Trade and Industry, Yeo Cheow Tong. Mr Ruggiero will call on Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister
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    • 99 2 SINGAPORE Singapore's construction exports surpassed the 1 billion mark for the fifth consecutive time last year, with more than $1.1 billion worth of contracts secured, Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. Speaking at the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) awards night, he
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    • 60 2 SINGAPORE The High Commissioner of Jamaica, Earl Alexander Carr, and the Ambassador for Italy, Enrico Augelli, presented their credentials to President Ong Teng Cheong in separate ceremonies at the Istana yesterday. Dr Carr, who is resident in Tokyo, is the first Jamaican High Commissioner accredited to Singapore.
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    • 60 2 SINGAPORE Taiwan's International Telecommunication Administration (ITA) yesterday launched its commercial integrated services digital network (ISDN) service, with Singapore as the first overseas ISDN destination. The service was launched in a videoconference between ITA and Telecom officials. ISDN, whose applications include data transmission, offers more reliable. better
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    • 108 2 SINGAPORE Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with India's Golden Eagle Communications (GEC) to include a Tamil channel in its programme line-up when it launches cable television at the end of next month. The Tamil channel will include
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    • 46 2 SINGAPORE Cofreth Technology (S) Pte Lt, a French multinational company, has been awarded a $4.8 million three-year contract to carry out the operation and maintenance of the mechanical and electrical building and other facilities at SIA Air Freight Terminal 5.
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    • 338 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi IN ANOTHER sign that benchmark prices for en-bloc property sales are no longer the flavour of the month, the sale of two blocks comprising 24 apartments in St Martin's Drive through a tender that closed late last week failed
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    • 398 2  -  Singapore Airlines-Tata Group joint venture By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE entrepreneurs are not unduly worried about investing in India despite recent reports that a Singapore Airlines-Tata Group joint venture has hit turbulence. "If the SIA-Tata deal takes off, its a real
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    • 367 2  -  By Jenny Lam MOTI Melwani, managing director of fashion retailer Jay Gee Enterprises, has set up a new joint venture company in India to distribute, retail and manufacture branded fashionwear. Mr Melwani told Business Times that the joint-venture company, Jay Gee
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 416 3  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK PRIME Minister Chuan Leekpai's coalition government faces a no-confidence debate in parliament this week which could prove to be its toughest ♦est since taking office two and half years ago, say analysts. For unlike the three
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    • 187 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The East Asia Economic Caucus (EAEC) must not be seen as giving rise to an Asian racial spectre or to one great racial divide, Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz said. "No one should have such a
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    • 281 3 Reuter OFF MISCHIEF REEF. Spratly Islands Two Chinese vessels blocked a Philippine Navy ship carrying a top general and a group of foreign and Filipino journalists in a tense 70-min-ute confrontation on Saturday near a Chinese-held reef in the disputed Spratly Islands. The
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    • 380 3 AFP JAKARTA A telecommunications consortium from Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines has opted for Batam as the satellite system operations base to back up a cellular telecommunication system in the region, according to media reports yesterday. "From our meeting in Bangkok last week,
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    • 68 3 AFP TAIPEI Taiwanese investments have created at least 600,000 jobs in South-east Asian nations, an economic think-tank said yesterday. Each Taiwan-invested firm employed on average 403 local employees, a survey by the Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research showed. It said Taiwan had created 161,000 jobs
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    • 82 3 AFP MANILA Special export processing zones in the Philippines posted U*****.29 million (551.03 billion) in exports in the first quarter of 1995. The authority governing these zones yesterday said this was a 5.8 per cent increase over the same period last year but was only
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    • 77 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippines will probably import rice if a feared dry spell trims output and hits supplies in the seasonally lean third quarter of the year. Agriculture officials yesterday said several rice-growing areas had been affected by rainfall levels of up to
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    • 90 3 AFP JAKARTA Paper producers have said that prices for newsprint will rise in July. "I can't confirm how much the price in the new contract would be, since it will only be discussed next month. For sure it won't stay at (the current) 76 US
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    • 86 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's inflation for April 1995, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose by 3.3 per cent when compared to that of the same month in 1994. Compared with the previous month, the CPI for April remained unchanged at 102.6, the
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    • 219 3 AFP HANOI The Vietnamese government has given South Korean industrial giant Daewoo the green light for a major US$l.43 billion (Ss2 billion) investment project near Hanoi, a Daewoo Corp source said yesterday. Daewoo is planning to build a huge industrial
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  • CHINA/ HONGKONG/ TAIWAN
    • 96 4 Reuter BEIJING Trade liberalisation will be the theme when Beijing hosts the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council's 1995 meeting, the first gathering of the unofficial 22-member body in China, Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The non-governmental council, devoted to promoting economic cooperation in Pacific Rim
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    • 75 4 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.8 per cent in the three months to March from 2.2 per cent in the previous corresponding period. The Census and Statistics Department said in a statement that the underemployment rate in the first quarter was
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    • 116 4 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong has established its own "home page" on the Internet providing information on living, working and doing business in the British colony. The page was developed by the Hongkong government's Economic and Trade Office office in San Francisco and is carried on the World
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    • 110 4 AFP WASHINGTON Forty-five leading Chinese scientists have sent a petition to the government calling on it to end the persecution of those who took part in the 1989 pro-democracy movement at Tiananmen Square, The New York Times said yesterday. Drawn up by Professor Xu Liangying, 75,
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    • 90 4 UPI BEIJING Impoverished migrant women were blamed yesterday for "seriously violating" China's one-child-per-family policy, with some producing four offspring. The capital has 2.8 million migrant workers including one million females who have flocked to the city from the squalor of the countryside in search
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    • 356 4 AFP BEIJING British Secretary of Trade and Industry Michael Heseltine announced here yesterday the signing of commercial deals with China worth some £1 billion (552.19 billion). Some of the deals, which include initial agreements as well as firm contracts, were signed
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    • 305 4  -  From Steve Vines in HONGKONG WHILE Michael Heseltine, Britain's president of the Board of Trade, was in Beijing hailing the signing of £1 billion (552.2 billion) worth of contracts and letters of intent yesterday, Lu Ping, China's most senior official responsible for Hongkong
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    • 194 4 BEIJING Russian Defence Minister Pavel Grachev yesterday proposed setting up a "consultation system" to improve security in the northern Asia-Pacific, embracing China, Japan, the two Koreas, Russia and the US. Speaking to Russian journalists shortly before leaving on a tour of the Chinese
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    • 340 4 Bloomberg Business News Reuter BEIJING Beijing should use the opportunity of its soaring trade surplus to liberalise its trading system and raise imports to ease domestic inflation, analysts said yesterday. In the first four months of 1995, China posted
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    • 206 4 AFP BEIJING China has set up a state agency to oversee the country's 30.000 rural supply and marketing co-operatives, which economic tsar Zhu Rongji recently accused of greed and betrayal of their socialist roots. The agency will be responsible for guiding
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    • 569 4 Reuter HONGKONG Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho won a money-spinning gaming business with his biggest gamble in life, but he says he has never liked gambling. Maybe that is why the 73-year-old tycoon decided that his pre-retirement swansong would be something different from
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  • ASIA
    • 402 5  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN has warned China that the relationship between them could be undermined by China's detonation of a nuclear bomb on Monday. Tokyo has indicated that its future foreign aid to China could be jeopardised. A
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    • 184 5 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand opposition parties yesterday attacked the sale of former government land to a company controlled by Singapore's City Development Group. CDL Investments NZ Limited paid NZ$5.OB million (554.7 million) for 26 hectares of prime waterfront land in
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    • 295 5 AFP TOKYO Economic Planning Agency director general Masahiko Komura said yesterday that a timely resolution of the recent series of poison gas attacks should have a beneficial impact on the Japanese economy. "If the issue is resolved, that will be going
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 96 5 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand's high court ruled against Maori activists in a dispute over land yesterday, saying the protesters would have to leave a public garden they have occupied for more than 10 weeks. The high court ruling threatened to bring to a head the
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      • 113 5 AFP TOKYO The Export-Import Bank of Japan said it signed an agreement yesterday to guarantee a syndicated loan of up to 20.25 billion yen (*****.58 million) for a power plant project in Pakistan. The guarantee runs for about 11 years, a spokesman said. The
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      • 103 5 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan will ask for a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss "threats of war hurled by Indian leaders", the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) said yesterday, quoting Foreign Minister Assef Ahmed Ali. The minister said he will write to
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  • THE WORLD
    • 459 6 AP Reuter WASHINGTON A Republican plan to fold three foreign policy agencies into the State Department and cut US foreign aid by 8 per cent next year was approved on Monday night by the House International Relations Committee. On a
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 6 Reuter LONDON Tycoon Richard Branson, head of the Virgin group, displaying his new "hangover-free" Virgin Vodka here on Monday. He says the triple distillation process to produce his vodka lowers the factor that causes a hangover feeling. Reuter
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    • 134 6 Reuter MOSCOW Russia expects a long-term debt rescheduling deal with its creditor banks by the end of this year, Interfax quoted Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Davydov as saying. A long-term deal, one of Moscow's key demands to the international financial community. would
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    • 415 6 IMF dips into own pocket for Mexico 1 after US$ 10b snub FT WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund has quietly abandoned a plan to ask central banks from the developing world to contribute up to US$lO billion (S$ 14.1 billion) to its bailout loan to Mexico. Instead, the IMF will
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    • 373 6 AFP CAPE TOWN A commission designed to lift the lid on South Africa's dirty political past is expected to be given the go-ahead by parliament today when the Truth and Reconciliation Bill will be debated before being enacted into
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    • 444 8 Bloomberg Business News Reuter NEW YORK America's factory executives expect a slowdown this summer as demand eases for manufactured goods, according to Dun Bradstreet Corp's latest monthly survey. An April index that measures industrial sentiment for the coming three months dropped four points
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    • 278 8 AP WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton's popularity has jumped to its highest level in more than a year, the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll shows. Fifty-six per cent of those interviewed said they approved of the job Mr Clinton was doing,
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    • 292 8 FT BRUSSELS Flaws in EU legislation and growing protectionism in many member states are seriously jeopardising achievement of a single European securities market, according to a study by the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The study says the faltering liberalisation drive could
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    • 264 8  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON THE inaugural meeting of the US-Singapore Consultative Study Group, organised by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) of Singapore and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), was held in Washington on Monday. Ten Singaporeans and 12 Americans,
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    • 120 8 AFP SAN JOSE World sales of semiconductors will double by 1998 to exceed US$2OO billion (Ss2B2 billion), according to the results of an industry study published on Monday. This year alone sales will grow by nearly 40 per cent over last year to more
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    • 77 8 Reuter MOSCOW A tiny cut in the Russian central bank's refinancing rate reflects government confidence that tight monetary policies are beginning to work, economists said. The bank shaved the rate to 195 per cent from 200 per cent on Monday evening and indicated further
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    • 111 8 Reuter LONDON Regulators of the world's largest futures exchanges are meeting in Windsor, just outside London, for a hastily-ar-ranged gathering to search for any lessons they can learn from the collapse of investment bank Barings. After two days of private sessions, the regulators from 18
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    • 70 8 Reuter JERUSALEM Hold the cheese on that Big Mac. McDonald's is opening its first kosher restaurant in Israel. McDonald's Israel announced yesterday its restaurant opening in July in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, would be the first in its worldwide chain to adhere to Jewish dietary
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    • 76 8 Bloomberg Business News WIESBADEN, Germany Retail sales in Germany fell 4 per cent in March from February and were down 7 per cent from a year earlier, the Federal Statistics Office said. The monthly figures take both inflation and seasonal variations into account, while
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    • 321 8 Reuter PARIS Conservative French President Jacques Chirac takes power today for seven years and is expected to appoint pro-European liberal Gaullist Alain Juppe to head a "tighter, younger and more feminine" government. Outgoing President Francois Mitterrand will brief Mr Chirac, 62, on
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    • 446 8 Reuter LONDON Hailed as a European visionary or derided as arrogant and out of touch. President Francois Mitterrand certainly left his mark on France's European partners and the United States during his term in office. Mr Mitterrand, who steps down today after 14
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  • WORLD FOCUS
    • 1180 10 Peru under Fujimori FT MODESTY apart, says Alberto Fujimori, the Peruvian president who was recently and over-whelmingly re-elected for second five-year term, "there are many people around the world who would like to have president like me and plenty of heads
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 566 13  -  New filmmakers have a chance to shine at the movie world's huge get-together starting today, reports Michael Thurston Michael Thurston AFP THE world's movie industry descends on the French Riviera from today for the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, with Europe expected to figure largely in
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    • 239 13 PARIS Here is the full list of the films, in order of appearance, in competition at the 48th Cannes Film Festival: La Cite des Enfants Perdus by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro of France. Waati by Souleymane Cisse of Mali. %Sharaku by Masahiro Shinoda
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1215 13 TV RADIO ten species in Britain. *^S.j; P A v m cracking cherry stones, or nip- >k'^^mping out the seeds of a thistle. Suddenly Last Ch 12 V Dame Maggie Smith is Mrs Veneble. whose precious son goes to Spain with his cousin -*r f Catharine (Natasha Richard- Hg*' son).
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  • SPORTS
    • 338 15 Golf AFP HONGKONG Rupert Murdoch has further extended his television sport empire by signing a television and sponsorship deal with the controversial new Asian PGA Tour. Under the deal, the media magnate will take a financial stake in the 20-event tour
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    • 565 15 SAN DIEGO Team New Zealand formally received the America's Cup on Monday. It was only the second time in 144 years that sailing's top prize has left American hands. The outdoor ceremony at the San Diego Yacht Club was anticlimactic after Saturday's
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    • 180 15 AP MAROTTA, Italy Mario Cipollini on Monday outsprinted the pack to capture the third stage of the Tour of Italy cycling race and score his second victory in three days and his 11th this season. The powerful Italian cyclist, known as the
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    • 526 15  -  America's Cup Conner's humiliation not undeserved? Michael Karem tells why Michael Karem LONDON In this world where so many leading sports figures leave a lot to be desired as role models, let us celebrate what should be the final exit of
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    • 288 15 Rugby World Cup Reuter SYDNEY Australia left for South Africa to defend the Rugby World Cup in buoyant mood on Monday with coach Bob Dwyer insisting the squad was even stronger than in 1991. Dwyer said the Wallabies were better prepared than
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    • 334 15 AFP PARIS Four years ago, winger David Campese retired from international rugby after inspiring the Wallabies to the World Cup title. This year, he will probably do the same. That may defy the rules of probability, but then rugby's most famous player who was soon persuaded back
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    • SIDELINES
      • 102 15 AP KATHMANDU, Nepal Ang Rita, a 47-year-old Sherpa mountain guide, has created histoiy by climbing Mount Everest for the ninth time, the managing director of his trekking company said yesterday. Rita reached the top of the world's highest mountain on Saturday from the
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      • 104 15 AP JOHANNESBURG Springbok star winger Chester Williams pulled out of the World Cup on Monday after a recurrence of a hamstring problem. He is to be replaced by Transvaal winger Pieter Hendriks. Williams, who made his debut against Argentina two years ago. was the
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      • 94 15 UPI ROME Second-seeded American Michael Chang cut big-serving Australian teenager Mark Philippoussis down to size on Monday to reach the second round of the 2 million mark Italian Open as the sun finally shone on the Eternal City after a weekend of rain. Chang, who won
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      • 113 15 Reuter NEW YORK San Antonio Spurs teammates David Robinson and Dennis Rodman were named on Monday to the 1994-95 National Basketball Association All-Defensive Team. Forward Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls and guards Gary Payton of the Seattle SuperSonics and Mookie Blaylock of the Atlanta
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      • 148 15 AFP LONDON The West Indies head for Worcester on Monday with plenty of room for improvement after a shock setback at Southampton. West Indies slipped to a 43-run defeat against Hampshire with a performance that was way below par on Sunday. Curtly Ambrose, lan Bishop
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      • 199 15 Reuter JsLW YORK Mary Decker Slaney, America's star-crossed PHMm* middle distance runner, still hopes next year's Olympics Smd 20 years of personal disappointments. "It's not impossiWkT said the 36-year-old Slaney of her chances to win the Olympic 5,000-metres in Atlanta. Slaney, who says she has
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      • 143 15 Reuter SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts The father of Russian basketball has seen his pupils and their European counterparts make great strides over the years, but Aleksandr Gomelsky concedes there is still a long way to go to challenge US hardcourt supremacy. "Basketball in Europe is getting better
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        107 15 LONDON World rankings, Monday (US unless stated): 1 Nick Price (Zim) 21.03 pts ave 2 Greg Norman (Aust) 18.32 3 Nick Faldo (GB) 18.22 4 Ernie Els (SA) 15.52 5 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 14.74 6 Fred Couples 13.37 7 Jose Maria Olazabal (Spn) 13.05 8 Colin Montgomerie (GB) 12.85
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        27 15 SYDNEY Rugby League State of Origin, Game One on Monday: Queensland 2 (Pen: Wayne Bartrim 30th min) New South Wales 0. Queensland leads three-game series 1-0.
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        360 15 ROME US$2 million (552.82 million) Italian Open, Ist rd Monday: Vincc Spadea (US) b Carlos Costa (Spn) 6-4 6-3; 12-Stcfan Edberg (Swe) b Arnaud Boetsch (Fra) 6-2 4-6 6-3; Jaime Yzaga (Per) b Alexander Volkov (Rus) 6-2 6-7 (6/8) 6-4; 10-Todd Martin (US) b Alberto Costa (Spn) 7-6 (7/3)
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  • 629 16 EDITORIAL AFTER two straight years of double-digit growth, the economy appears to be taking a breather. That's the main message of the first quarter economic survey, which was released yesterday. Although the 7.2 per cent expansion in real GDP in the year to March is the slowest
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 316 16 EARLIER this month, the public service sector issued its manifesto. Public Service for the 21st century, or PS21 to give it its snappier title. It is a commitment to push public servants into coming up with new ways to provide better service to the people. PS21 is also
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    • 105 16 AFTER an arduous bout of negotiations, Washington has decided to slap higher tariffs on Japanese car imports, which make up two-thirds of its deficit with Tokyo. The act is a sad phase in the history of free trade under the aegis of WTO. Why is the US undermining
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    • 158 16 AS VOTE-COUNTING for the Philippine elections continues, it seems that the ruling party led by President Fidel Ramos will win by a big margin. To a large extent, this can be seen as Mr Ramos' personal victory. Election results will show the people's recognition of the changes
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    • 149 16 US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton deserves a half cheer for his recently concluded summit with his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin. Adopting his trademark softlysoftly approach, the American leader avoided confronting Moscow over its brutal war in Chechnya. But at the same time, he also avoided pushing US-Russian ties
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    • 138 16 GOVERNMENT agencies should feel a greater obligation to work with the people whose lives they affect. An aloof, centralised approach bereft of the human element often misses essential information that could change a constructive objective into a destructive force. Perceived instances abound. There is, for example, the
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    • 151 16 "EDUCATION is crucial to ensuring Indonesia's ability to survive in an era of international competition in the next century." There is no denying the truth of this statement made by President Suharto at a seminar on education in Magelang, Central Java the other day. It does seem
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  • 756 16  -  Split personality on trade will hurt US and its partners, Leon Hadar warns Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton's announcement that he plans to use both multilateral and unilateral means to persuade Japan to
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  • REGIONAL ANALYSIS
    • 1031 17  -  Recent elections showed the changing face of Philippine politics. A 1 Labita says the new spirit of compromise is a breakthrough Al Labita The writer is BT's Manila correspondent ALTHOUGH results are yet to be finalised, last week's elections in the Philippines are showing up one
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    • 836 17  -  ASIAN VIEW By Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's Regional Analysis Editor LAST Thursday, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong met his Chinese counterpart Li Peng in Beijing. As is usual for leaders when they meet privately, Mr Goh and Mr Li touched on a
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  • 469 18  -  Tariff protection for Chandra Asri petrochemical plant won't be raised From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA THE Indonesian government will not give increased tariff protection to the controversial Chandra Asri petrochemical plant, a move which will reassure investors and lenders of its commitment to free
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  • 590 18  -  PMGoh in China By Alvin Tay CHONGQING Fly to Singapore, stay a few days on Sentosa perhaps, and then take a flight from Changi to Chengdu or Chongqing in Sichuan province to enjoy some beautiful scenery. That was basically what Prime
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  • 174 18 Reuter WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday called Tor a stepped-up attack on the US budget deficit, warning that the US can't count on foreign money indefinitely to finance its economy. "It is essential that the momentum towards reducing, and
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  • 150 18 AFP Reuter WASHINGTON US industrial production dropped for a second straight month in April, the first back-to-back monthly declines in nearly 3'/t years as the manufacturing sector lost steam, the Federal Reserve said yesterday. Total industrial output by the nation's mines, factories and
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  • 785 18  -  The Bottom Line NEVILLE STACK NEVILLE STACK The writer is a political commentator based in London. He writes regularly for BT AS THE new president of France, Jacques Chirac needs all the friends he can get. And one
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  • 418 18 Tycoon says tax exemption, not politics, the reason South China Morning Post HONGKONG Property tycoon Li Ka-shing said his decision to shift shares in the flagship Cheung Kong (Holdings), of which he is chairman, to a trust under his name is mainly for tax
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  • 148 18 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Microsoft Corp and General Electric Co's NBC network are forming an alliance to develop products for new media such as CDROMS and for traditional broadcast and cable television. The companies yesterday said the alliance will combine NBC's global reach
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 423 19  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Bambang Trihatmodjo, President Suharto's son, has bought a 5.2 per cent stake in Van Der Horst Ltd. Mr Bambang, who controls Indonesian conglomerate Bimantara group, bought 5.3 million Van Der Horst shares at different prices on
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    • 461 19  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Property group First Capital Corp issued a circular yesterday explaining the rationale and financial effects of buying more Yeo Hiap Seng shares and clearing the way for a possible takeover of the listed beverage group. FCC, controlled by
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    • 324 19  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Engineeringbased Sembawang Corp has again built up its war chest as it prepares for expansion. The listed group's cash hoard nearly doubled last year to $315 million. In the previous year, the group's cash, bank balances and deposits
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    • 114 19 SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank's proposed tenancy agreements with two companies linked to its directors are fair and reasonable, says JLW Property Consultants. The proposed tenancy agreements, for space in UOB Plaza, involve Kheng Leong Co and Wee Ramayah Partners. Kheng Leong is controlled
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    • 730 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE When officials of the Big Four banks said they have to work a lot harder to achieve earnings growth this year, they were not just talking about the difficulty of
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    • 385 19  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Morgan Grenfell Asia Securities has been hit by another top-level resignation, two years after the broking firm and the merchant bank were rocked by an exodus of senior and middlelevel executives. Stuart Cook, head of Morgan Grenfell's regional
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
      • 51 19 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 Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co, Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court, WI Can and SG
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        111 19  -  By Paul Leo SINGATRONICS Warrants is a medium-term buy. Weekly and monthly RSIs bounced up from the oversold region with further upside. Buying interest is strong yesterday's volume of 449,000 units is nearly 4 times the 10-day average of 115,000 units. Weekly MACD is also encouraging. But investors
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 56 20 SINGAPORE Liang Huat Aluminium has formed a joint venture to paekage and distribute silieon sealants under the brand name Silteeh. The new eompany. Silteeh Pte Ltd, began operation on May 2. Liang Huat's joint venture partners are CT Chemie, a German maker of sealing and adhesive
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        • 68 20 SINGAPORE Keppel Corp said last night that two of its convertible bonds would not be convertible from June 16 to 19 because the share transfer books and register of members would be closed to determine entitlement to dividends for calendar year 1994. The bonds involved are US$7O
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        • 47 20 SINGAPORE CWT Distribution said yesterday that at the close of its rights issue on May 11, applications had been received for $70,022,033 of loan stock and 32,850,570 warrants, representing about 100.03 per cent of the loan stock and 109.50 per cent of the warrants.
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        • 130 20 IN our May 13 report headlined "Hwa Tat Lee ties up with Shanghai furniture maker", we said Hwa Tat Lee's Chinese joint venture partner was a furniture manufacturer and retailer. Hwa Tat Lee has clarified that before the joint venture, its Chinese partner was not involved in
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      • 559 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices May 17 Mendaki (ir Fund 102 105(a US Gr Fund 1.03 1.07" Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.59 I 68xd UUb ASS6I Rlgl LIQ The Savings Fund 1.54 1.63 Unifund 1.43 1.50 S'pore Prog Fund 0.62 0.66 Unibond*- 1.03 1.055 S"pore See Fund 1.00 1.06
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      • 217 20  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Industrial equipment company Wearnes International has returned to profitability, reporting net earnings of $6,065 million for the six months to Mar 31. In the same period a year earlier, the firm posted a net loss of 1.105 million, and for
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      • 464 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Westmont Bhd may have plans to dispose of its entire stake (49.9 per cent) in Samanda Holdings Bhd by this month but is intent on keeping Westmont Bank one of the 10 largest commercial banks in the Philippines
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      • 285 20  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE The hospitality arm of Liang Court has been awarded its second management contract in China. Liang Court Hospitality will manage a luxury hotel and service apartment project in scenic Zhaoqing, near Guangzhou, in south China. The apartments
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      • 339 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Cold Storage (M) Bhd hopes to set up at least 75 supermarket outlets throughout Malaysia within a span of eight years as part of its joint venture with Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd. Cold Storage chairman Samsudin Abu Hassan yesterday
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      • 360 20 Reuter Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Bank of Asia officials yesterday denied media reports that Thailand's biggest finance company. Finance One, was launching a takeover bid for the bank. "We have no knowledge of this," Bank of Asia president Chulakorn Singakowin told a
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      • 188 20 Bernama PETALING JAYA MRCB Telecommunication Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd, is expected fo invest a total of more than MSI billion (*****.2 million) in the next three to five years in Malaysia's first fully digital mobile
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      • 303 20 Thai corporate results Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Shinawatra Computer Communications pic said its net profit in the first quarter came to 677.6 million baht (5537.9 million), a decline of 5 per cent. The decrease was mainly because of slower-than-expec-ted growth at Shinawatra's
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      • 193 20 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai Telephone Telecommunications pic said its net profit in the first quarter rose 336 per cent from the same period a year earlier, as it installed more phone lines. The company earned 219.9 million baht (S$ 12.46 million), or 0.44
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      • 162 20 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Jasmine International pic, a telecommunications group, said its net profit in the first quarter surged to 212.9 million baht (5512.1 million), an increase of 284 per cent from the same period last year. The jump was due in part
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      • 419 21 Bloomberg Business News. Reuter HONGKONG Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd yesterday said its net profit rose 15 per cent in the year ended March 31, as booming mobile phone sales make up for a slump in business handling calls to and from China.
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      • 293 21 Reuter HONGKONG Denway Investment Ltd said yesterday the worst was over for its China joint venture Guangzhou Peugeot. But whether the Hongkong company can reverse last year's net loss of HK.SI4B million (Ss26 million) will depend on sales in the next
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 61 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Electronics maker Orient Power Holdings Ltd said its net profit rose 35.7 per cent to HK$ 13.76 million (552.49 million) in the year ended Dec 31, up from HK$lO.l4 million. Earnings per share rose to 5.7 HK cents, from 4.6
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        • 53 21 Reuter SYDNEY British tourists Alan Bailey, 36, and wife Zoe after being awarded A 525,000 (5525,500) in a Sydney Court on Monday. Bailey was awarded the damages after he broke two of his teeth on a McDonald's hamburger while on a visit to Australia
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        • 55 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Clothing chain Giordano Holdings Ltd plans to spend between US$3 million (554.2 million) and US$5 million on expanding into Indonesia and India, the South China Morning Post reported. Executive director Jimmy Chan reportedly said the expansion will also include stores in Korea
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      • 267 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Aiwa Co is finding itself unable to sustain last year's rapid profit growth as competitors copy its strategy of producing overseas to beat the strong yen. Current profit in the year ended March 1995 rose 49.1 per
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      • 162 21 Reuter HONGKONG Smith New Court Far East said it launched its "Smith New Court SmallCompanies Index" to track Hongkong's small capitalisation companies. The brokerage firm said the index comprised stocks that form the market's bottom 10 per cent in terms of value. In
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      • 235 21 AFP TAIPEI More than half of Taiwan's listed eompanies suffered losses or posted dwindling gains in foreign exehange deals in the first quarter of this year as the local currency performed weakly against major foreign units, the Economic Daily
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      • 570 22 Los Angeles Times NEW YORK— Dow Coming Corp, once the biggest manufacturer of silicone gel breast implants, on Monday filed for federal bankruptcy protection, dealing a severe blow to hundreds of thousands of women who received implants and now elaim
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      • 306 22 Reuter SEATTLE Microsoft Corp executive vice-president Mike Maples has said he will retire in two months, sparking a reorganisation of top management at the personal computer software giant. Mr Maples, 52, a top lieutenant to chairman Bill Gates with responsibility for the company's
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      • 230 22 Bloomberg Business News TROY, Michigan Kmart Corp yesterday reported a fiscal first-quarter loss as customers flocked to its sales racks, boosting sales but cutting into its gross profits. The nation's second-largest retailer reported a loss from operations not including an accounting change
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      • 366 22 Reuter PARAMUS. New Jersey Toys R Us Corp said on Monday its earnings and same-store sales both fell in the year's first quarter, in financial results that showed the importance of video game sales for the toy
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      • 295 22 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter WASHINGTON Two weeks after being told by the US Federal Communications Commission that it did not have to restructure its finances in order to comply with foreign ownership laws, News Corp is doing just that. In a
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 352 23  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE A Chinese government ruling introduced last year to regulate loan guarantees has held up some loans for joint ventures in China. Under the new ruling introduced by the State Administration Exchange Control last year, loans to joint
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      • 426 23 AFP TOKYO Japanese brokerages Kankaku Securities Co Ltd and Cosmo Securities Co Ltd yesterday announced plans to slash their capital in a fresh attempt to clear away losses inherited from the speculative 1980s. Kankaku, a leading secondtier broker affiliated with DaiIchi Kangyo Bank
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      • 323 23 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zealand banks had a bumper year in 1994 as bad debt recoveries lifted earnings but increased competition has reduced their profit margins and threatens to make 1995 a less memorable year, according to a survey by
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      • 328 23 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Zurich Insurance Group and Insurance Partners agreed to acquire Kemper Corp in a takeover that values Kemper at US$2 billion (552.78 billion). Zurich Insurance, a Swiss insurer, is expected to own about 80 per cent
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 95 23 AFP BEIJING Japan's Bank of Tokyo has been picked by the Chinese government to become the first foreign bank to open a branch in Beijing, official sources said here yesterday. VicePremier Li Lanqing congratulated the bank's president, Tasuku Takagaki, on the news
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        • 86 23 UPI HONGKONG Standard Chartered Bank announced yesterday that it plans to establish its China headquarters in the commercial capital of Shanghai later this year. It was unclear whether the new headquarters would be located along the city's famous Bund strip, where the bank's olTices had been based
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        • 71 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MasterCard International is targeting to have 10,000 terminals "live" by the end of this year to support the rapid expansion of its Maestro network in Malaysia, director of member serv ices Elsie Chia said yesterday. MBf Finance Bhd and Standard Chartered Bank
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        • 91 23 AFP TOKYO Combined net operating profits of six leading Japanese commercial banks are estimated to have fallen 15 per cent to 1.485 trillion yen (Ss24 billion) in the year to March, an economic daily said yesterday. This compared with their earlier estimates of
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      • 321 23 Reuter ZURICH Credit Suisse, one of Switzerland's big three banks, said it was making "intolerable" losses on services for corporate customers and planned to return this activity to profit by the end of 1998. Paul Meier, director responsible for
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      • 354 24 Reuter SHANGHAI China's securities watchdog warned of severe punishment for anyone violating the rules in the treasury bill (T-bill) futures market, newspapers said yesterday. In an urgent notice, the China Securities Regulatory Commission reaffirmed the need for strict margin requirements
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      • 56 24 Reuter ORKNEY, South Africa President Nelson Mandela speaking to an injured mineworker during a visit to the Vaal Reef gold mine on Monday, where 104 miners died in an accident last week. Mr Mandela called for South Africans to observe a national day of mourning today
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      • 208 24 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Thai economic ministers on Monday gave the commerce ministry approval to supervise the country's first commodity futures market. Deputy Commerce Minister Chaiyot Sasomsap said on Monday. The first parliamentary reading of the commodity futures bill proposed by the ministry will take
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      • 397 24  -  Upbeat outlook buoyed by 11% surge in demand last year From Nell Behrmann in LONDON PLATINUM prices could recover to US$47O (*****) this year, says Johnson Matthey in its latest annual review on the metal. Platinum, which has encountered speculative selling in recent weeks,
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      • 246 24 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian groups representing rubber, cofTee, tea and cocoa producers want the government to scrap a controversial value-added tax they say could hurt the plantation sector and lead to higher local prices, trade sources said yesterday. The groups submitted a joint memorandum
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      • 341 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Demand for oil from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries is likely to at least double by the year 2010, the International Energy Agency says. The need for Opec to supply oil to the world could rise to
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      • 314 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's Mass Transit Railway Corp (MRTC) will sell HKSSOO million (SS92 million) worth of debt securities on Friday, the first issue out of a HKSIO billion funding programme that it and the local
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      • 264 24 ENERGY REPORT Reuter LONDON Strong demand for motor petrol in the US led oil prices higher again yesterday putting a two-month-old rally firmly back on the road. London June delivery futures for North Sea Brent blend crudc consolidated on a
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      • 210 24 Reuter LONDON The dollar was steady at lower levels early in Europe, after dropping more than a pfennig overnight, but traders expect further losses to be limited and an underlying bullish sentiment to persist. There was no fresh news behind the decline, though traders in New York
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      • 88 24 AFP NEW YORK The dollar edged up against the other major currencies yesterday in New York as the US announced trade sanctions against Japan. In early New York trading, the dollar was at 1.4473 marks from 1. 4360 late Monday and 86.75 yen from 86.35. In London. the
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        1713 24 trade-neifhted inde\ calculated S'pure's top 14 1 ratlin* partners Hum' year IW* US$/S$ forward rates Noon /May 16 s$ Rid Offer 1-month IW8 1.3973 2-month ***** ***** 3-month I 3859 1.3874 h-month 1.3727 1.3747 Source IX H( Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on May 16 Singapore
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1341 25 SiMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen ended easier while Eurodollar futures were firmer at the close. Dealers said the Euroyen was trapped in narrow range trading ahead of details of the US trade sanctions against Japan. Euroyen had firmed earlier on the back of the
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      • 654 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Gold TOKYO: Gold futures closed lower as the stronger yen against the dollar overrode modest overnight gains in gold prices. Prices ranged from three to nine yen per gram lower. Benchmark April closed eight yen down at 1,079. Activity was led by
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 72 25 LONDON Prices paid to coffee growers increased significantly on the back of last year s rise in world coffee prices, according to data released bv the International Coffee Organisation. In the draft issue of its second Coffee Newsletter, the ICO's latest data shows that prices
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        • 96 25 NEW DELHI The Indian government said yesterday it gave permission to set up 75 sugar mills between the 1991-92 and 1993-94 sugar seasons. Food Minister Ajit Singh told Parliament that the government had received 246 applications for mill licences, but only 75 applications
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        • 87 25 LONDON The copper market will record a deficit of 170.000 tonnes in the first six months of 1995, according to a metals analyst at Macquarie Equities. He suggests that in the second quarter of this year, which is historically the strongest quarter of
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        • 76 25 TOKYO Japanese zinc smelters were scrambling to secure supplies of concentrates even before Australia's Mount Isa Mines announced force majeure on deliveries on Monday. Now they're desperate. with some smelters reportedly holding less than one week's worth of stock. Mount Isa Mines was forced to
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    • 1424 25 SICOM Futures May 16 Rubber Physical Prices (futures closing as at 5.30pm) Buyers Sellers RSS1 Contract (S cents/kg) As at 12 neon (S cents/kg) lose Volume Open a AAkl Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS Jun 95 -55.00 „56.00N 260.00 260.00 259.00 50 U75 RSS 3 Jun
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1003 26 -4.3 SHARES closed weaker yesterday due to selling pressure in the banking sector focused on Westpac Banking Corp and National Australia Bank. The All Ordinaries Index fell 4.3 points at 2,044.5. The All Industrials ended 10.3 lower at 3,077.5. The All Resources climbed 0.6 to 1,262.9. Turnover was '.84.49
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      • 619 26 +51.13 Share prices rose 2 per cent amid foreign buying and good First quarter results of listed firms. The PSE Index advanced 51.13 points at 2,769.07. Turnover was 977 million shares valued at 2.1 million pesos. "There is a shift again of foreign funds from Europe and the US
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      • 583 26 -28.33 Stocks fell for a second day on concern over the outlook for sales and profits in the plastics and petrochemical industry after a drop in the price of a key material it produces. The price of imported dioctyl phthalate, or DOP, used in production of plastic materials, has
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      • 450 26 -1.78 Share prices continued to retreat yesterday, plagued by fears of a directionless future. The Composite Price Index eased 1.78 points to close at 885.33. Turnover was 18.83 million shares worth 284.9 billion won. Falls swamped rises 539 to 180, while 148 other shares ended unchanged. With bond yields
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      • 341 26 -0.91 Shares gave up solid morning gains by the close after the index touched new highs for 1995. The NZSE-40 Capital Index actually closed 0.91 point off at 2,142.58 on volume of over $60 million. The index had risen to a high of 2,156.28. The market came off
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      • 77 26 +31.15 Shares finished slightly higher but brokers said prices traded in a narrow band. The BSE 30-share Index ended 31.15 points up at 3,147.52 while the National Index ended 2.69 up at 1,517.48. Index heavyweights ITC, Reliance, Telco and Tisco recorded gains on moderate buying by local and foreign
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      • 693 26 -9.9 STOCKS declined as Glaxo Wellcome pulled down drug stocks and interest-rate sensitive bank stocks retreated. Hanson was another casualty as first-half profits at the industrial conglomerate were no better than analysts expected, while Allied Domecq fell after lower-than-expected earnings. The FT-SE 100 Index fell 9.9 points to 3,300.8.
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      • 169 26 +9.74 French shares ended above the 2,000 level again, after profit-taking on Monday had pulled its below that hard-won level, on a rally in bonds on expectations of easier German rates and a rise in the dollar. But the market closed well below the high of the day of
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      • 189 26 17.36 German stocks rose as the dollar regained ground against the mark, easing concerns about the curren-cy-driven squeeze on exporters' earnings. Corporate news also drove several shares higher Mctallgesellschaft was the star performer with a gain of 16.5 per cent. A bond market rally supported stocks' gains. Boosted by
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      • 188 26 -3.45 Belgian shares closed lower after a weaker dollar ended a tentative recovery. The Bel-20 Index closed 3.45 points lower at 1.463.39. Generale de Belgique and Electrabel were heavily traded. Generale de Belgique eased 40 francs to 2,220 on a volume of 121,500 shares. Electrabel climbed 20 to 6,480.
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      • 196 26 +43 Italian stocks rose for a sixth day, taking the benchmark index to a threemonth high, amid optimism about the stability of the government and speculation on lower interest rates. "The market just doesn't want to do down," said a trader. "There are some people looking to sell but
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      • 258 26 -1.04 Dutch stocks closed mixed as declines in Philips Electronics and DSM were offset by higher bond markets. The EOE Index closed 1.04 points lower at 428.50. Among the 25 leading stocks, 14 fell, three closed unchanged and eight rose. About 11.7 million shares changed hands. The decline was
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      • 141 26 10.52 Swedish shares closed short of a new all-time high yesterday morning. The OMX Index peaked at 1,257.92 points, surpassing the previous high of 1,253.3 points on Feb 3, 1994. However, shares slipped back later in the day as bond yields began to edge up. The index closed at
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      • 238 26 Swiss shares fell back from earlier highs due to profittaking, but still managed to close with slight gains. Dealers said the market was technically overbought and yesterday may have been the beginning of a mild consolidation period. The broad SPI Index closed 4.82 points higher at 1,799.86 after an
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      • 749 26 -6.57 Stock prices turned narrowly mixed in active trading early yesterday as profit taking restrained the markets response to a bond rally following weaker-than- expected economic news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose 6.91 points to a new all-time high 4,437.47 on Monday, was down 6.57 to
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      • 379 26 -19.4 A dip in London shares and concern about local economic prospects dampened sentiment, leaving shares mildly lower in slow trade. Dealers said investors had been sidelined amid concern over prospects for extended world equity market strength and about local GDP figures released on Monday, which they said could
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      3096 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks were mixed as property shares slumped and utility stocks rose following a positive earnings report from HK Telecom. Cheung Kong, the territory's largest property developer, led the property sector lower after press reports that its chairman. Li Ka-shing. put most of his personal fortune
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      626 27 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index added 3.82 points to 1.165.21 on a turnover of HKSBO million. The major gainers were Yizheng Chemical and Tsingtao. up 3.6 per cent and 3.2 per cent respectively. Shanghai B shares continued their upward momentum. rising 0.4 per cent on improved turnover
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      2558 27 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks declined yesterday as trouble at two of Japan's second-tier brokerages underscored a weak earnings outlook for the industry. "What it comes down to is that the whole market is very weak," said a trader. "It's really something that's long overdue, and it just brings
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      1901 27 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Stocks were mixed as bank issues rose on profit reports and prospects for economic growth. Brokerage issues were mostly lower, as many investors decided recent gains were excessive given earnings potential. Communications issues were mixed, as several reported first quarter earnings. "The big rally has
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      1187 27 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed, with players seen taking profits following a sharp rise last week, brokers said. "Now it seems to be the best time to unload stocks and take profits after the rise last week." one broker said. Smart was among the biggest losers, falling 400
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    • 2683 28 (.r IW Last \ul Day iMgwlr Di» IN* 1M Vrt M Cap •i«h l ow C utnpan) Sale ('000) High l ow Bum Seller S Cur N PIt S«il MALAYSIAN STOCKS 478 196 m AISB Mfc 402 +40 1980 404 364 402 406 JO -2•» 02 41 2
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      • 7333 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose for a third day as foreign investors continued buying Malaysian shares on hopes of stable interest rates, analysts said. "It is still foreign money coming in," said a dealer. "Buying was reasonably well spread
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      • 1904 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The local stock market yesterday picked up where it left ofT last week, powered mainly by sustained interest in Malaysian shares throughout the day. Interest in local stocks was first muted after news that the economy had slowed
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    • 489 30 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF RT CONSULTANTS PTE LTD (la Mcmbm- Votuntnry Uqaidarioa) NOTICE or RESOLUTIONS Al an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of die *MMMd Company duly convened and held al 27 Fock Road •02-06 Hoa Nn Building Singapore
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    • 403 31  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Sembawang Maritime Ltd has further expanded its fast-growing ferry services business through the $1.75 million acquisition of ferry operator Star Ferry Services. In a statement issued yesterday, the company said that the purchase was transacted through SML subsidiary Kalpin Tours.
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    • 471 31 Journal of Commerce SEOUL The end of 1996 will see Jiarsh rate pressure on the container shipping industry as enormous new ships come on line and intensify competition. Carriers, however, will cooperate more closely than they did during the mid-1980s bloodbath to
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    • 303 31 Reuter HOUSTON The upcoming privatisation of Mexico's ports will spark greater activity at US port facilities as more cargo is carried to and from Mexico by ship rather than by truck, Mexican officials say. "A more efficient Mexican port system will convince more
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    • 324 31 SES *000 \lay 16 S$ Vol CWT Distribution L 1.73 +0.03 118 CWT Distribution A 1.51 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.2 +0.01 Cosco Investment S 1.69 -0.01 Cosco Investment A 1.6 unch Far East Levingsto 6.6 -0.25 273 GB Holdings Ltd 0.785 -0.015 Hai Sun Hup Group 1.45 +0.12
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    • 602 31 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The world's shiprepair facilities are expected to rise to 563 in 1996. and 570 in 1998, with Asia spearheading the new development and capacity expansion, Ocean Shipping Consultants Limited said. In a report, it said
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    • 394 31 AP MANILA At least 38 people were killed in a blaze aboard an inter-island ferry in the central Philippines early yesterday, coast guard and police said. Rescuers were searching for the 23 others confirmed missing, said Lt Commander Benjamin Niebres, chief of the sth
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    • 152 31 SINGAPORE Steamers Maritime, a member of the Keppel Corp stable, has acquired a new container ship for about USS2O million (Ss2B million). According to a company statement issued yesterday, the ship is called ACX Aster. The ship is the second new generation container
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    • 71 31 AFP TOKYO Japan received 452,300 tonnes in export ship orders in April, down 42.5 per cent from a year earlier, hit by a stronger yen. the Japan Ship Exporters Association said yesterday. The actual number of ships ordered in the month was nine, down from 21
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    • 968 32  -  The global express market is one with above average growth. It is dominated by four major companies UPS, FedEx, DHL and TNT. Ron Sulser takes a look at their activities Rolf Sulser International Transport Journal THE EXPRESS market is an extremely heterogeneous field of
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    • 495 32 Page ABC Com 16 •ANL 3 •APL 12 Able 7 Accord 8 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrenkiel 4 Antaco 13 •Appenship 4 Arowana 15 Astro 8 Austral 9 Avant 6 B'tang Mas 12 BSA 9 BTL 16 Bangladesh 12 Batamindo 7 •Blue Star 8 •C-Polish
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    • 9912 40 This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the location of the schedule advertisement. ETA ETA Llm Vessel Voyage Pg ETi SM testa Nam
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      • 625 49 Voy Wo Bertfc Arrival Departut inrong Port Batam Bahagia 05/03/95 J1 alongside 17 05.2315 08 05/03/95 J1 alongside 17.05/2330 05/05/95 J1 alongsde 17 05/1300 .Prasetya Leslari P97 J1 alongside 17 05/2300 Surya Sakti 05/05/95 J4 alongside 17 05/2300 Swyati I Y19 J9 alongside 1705/2300 Usaha Baru 07/95
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      • 1439 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Boofcini, Balance Rstts SNp Voy No Etb/Btr Penod From To From Ac* Daisy 065B 19/2359 4 17/1200 17/1459 17/1700 Aa Jade 238B 19/1100 3 17/0700 17/1159 17/1400 4 17/1200 17/1459 17/1700 An Fremantle 25S 18/1900 1A 16/1500 16/1659 16/1900
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      • 900 49 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 424 50  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Demand for new planes is expected to hit 15,400 units with a value of USSI trillion" (SSI.4 trillion) over the next 15 years, according to US aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co. "From 1995 to 2010 the
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      • 336 50 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO UAL Corps United Airlines is set to service transatlantic routes with its first Boeing 777, which Boeing will officially deliver in Seattle today. The new jet, the world's largest two-engine airplane, and the first of 34 UAL is getting,
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      • 351 50 Bloomberg Business News NEWARK, New Jersey Kiwi International Air Lines, which underwent two management shakeups earlier this year, is making money, the company said on Monday. The employee-owned airline said it earned U*****,000 (SSI.3 million) on revenue of US$l5.4 million in April.
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      • 145 50 AFP SEATTLE, Washington Boeing, the world's largest planemaker, is considering building a shortened version of its next twin-engine 777 passenger jet for long-haul flights, the company's spokesman said on Monday. "We are studying it," said Boeing spokesman Donna Mikov, who added that discus- sions
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      • 160 50 AFP PARIS British Rail (BR) and the French national rail company SNCF will seek to overturn a European Commission ruling forcing them to hand over 25 per cent of usage rights to Eurotunnel to other rail firms, they said in a
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      • 371 50 AP LONDON The longest line at Heathrow airport is the queue of people waiting to denounce plans to make Europe's busiest airport even bigger. More than 2,000 people arc signed up to testify at a public hearing that started yesterday, most of
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      • 164 50 Reuter STOCKHOLM Scandinavian Airlines System said on Monday it had been forced to stop its flights to the Ukrainian capital Kiev due to a 15 per cent tax levied on all its earnings on the route. "The Ukrainian government has imposed
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        • 57 50 Reuter JERUSALEM Korean Air, the national carrier of South Korea, is starting flights to Tel Aviv. Israel's transport ministry has announced. It will operate a weekly flight between Seoul and Tel Aviv. Israel's national carrier El Al began flying to Seoul last month and
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        • 83 50 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Australian transport group Brambles Industries said it had acquired a forklift rental business from P&O Australia for A 525.8 million (5526.9 million). Brambles said the business was regarded by P&O, a subsidiary of British shipping group Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co,
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        • 84 50 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hongkong government wants to legally bind Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) to its ferry service franchise after piers in Hongkong's Central district are moved as a pa»t of waterfront reclamation, the Chinese-language Hongkong Economic Journal has reported. The government
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        • 85 50 Reuter MOSCOW France will loan Uzbekistan U5537.7 million (5553.2 million) to help the former Soviet republic modernise its air traffic control system, a French economics ministry official said. The official, who asked not to be identified, said this loan would help Uzbekistan pay for a contract
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      • 185 50 Ber-nama-Xinhua SEOUL South Korea's car production has increased by 17 per cent to 869.500 units during the first four months of this year, the International Trade and Industry Ministry said yesterday. The figure included 631,600 passenger cars, 47,000 jeeps and 190,900 commercial vehicles.
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    • 824 38 VOY r? =£1 9 |VESSEL VOY }^m zm Wd fct Pt st avs kota jade jaoom id mpt ~7rt —HST" 1328 Thu 18/5 Sun _21/5_ BUNQA SEROJA ~5075 ThJ~" "iij Sat XVtT I 80S Sun 21/5 W«d 24/8 I THANA BHUM 122N "tIS 23/5 W«5~" S4/1 2788 Wd 24/9 St
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    • 648 39 BSA MYANMA WUMI FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S»r« P Klg PEN P.Gdg SITTWE nn SLO PATHEIN VI32W SLO PAGAN V22OW 18/05 MALAYSIA AGENTS: BOUSTEAO SHIPPING AGENCIES KUI TEL 02-03-*****00 PKL: TEL 02 03-*****01 PEN: TEL 02-04-2C***** PGO: TEL 02 07-*****21/4 |gH NIGERIAN NATIONAL SHIPPING
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    • 1950 42 44_ AS AGENTS: "K" UNE (SINGAPORE) PTI LTD (CK»I244«7MM*«T HK N& K2-0017MMI TEL. *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI RS23I6SfAX: *****16/7/8/9 V V MALAYSIA: T UNE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BND I U TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU*****256 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT INTERNUSA, TEL JKT *****08 f export n.
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    • 643 43 (A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSOARY OF Ml) Official Agent of; CAsKl^laA (SKA ft AIRFREIGHT) wwlll IUCV TRANSPORT QMBM Uim INTERNATIONALE SPEDmON MAINLINE: 278 7772 WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT ETD ETD COLOMBO 22/06 ***** CHfTTAQONO 23/06 29/06 CALCUTTA 26/06 06/06 60MBAY/MSW DCLHI 22/06 29/06 KARACHI 22/06 29/06 MADRAS 22/06 26/06 USA/EUROPE btd
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    • 1471 44 ■□li'lHiHH'L'ia U.S.A. CANADA 3 TIMES A WEEK MAERSK TACOMA V.9508 ETA SIN 22ND MAY 1995 MARIT MAERSK V.9506 ETA SIN 23RD MAY 199S AXEL MAERSK V.9510 ETA SIN 24TH MAY 1995 Vm* toy ETA I ETD 1 DESTINATIONS N«t wMk STH sirmq MARIT MAERSK *9506 AXEL MAERSK V.9510 |g|||g|»|gH|g||gM|||ggßaf|jgQ mm
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    • 925 45 CONSOLIDATION TO BUSAN Singapore FIRST FORWARDER IN OFFERING TWICE WEEKLY i&^2 W .VB& LCL SERVICE TO BUSAN db. Call SANISA at DID 277 1058 (f(S)j)l 3L| for bookings NOW!!! Tel: Fax: Singapore 561 1668 272 9838 iMTtRHATXXAL SEA FREIGHT FORWARONG fk Also has offices in:- aho logbttcs services fi MALAYSIA
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    • 381 45 •JOINTLY OPERATED IY ATLAS UNE, CHITTAGONG KMTC UNE, SEOUL (ATLAS SHIPPING LINES LTD) (KOREA MARINE TRANSPORT CO. LTD) Vmml VoJ Sh CMWium Mngla H.YLOSHU 001 M/ 005 M/ 005 M/05/fS M V Al SWUttU I 007 04/005 10/005 14/005 1W 003 1 l/wn JVOOS H/105 TW 004 77/005 03/07/15 05/W»5
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    • 303 46 Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN IVCMCL VOY rw—l BOM coc ML KUfMKO MKO4M 17/06 WW 01/06 OLORY OUW43 29/06 03/06 KOTA MUTIAMA MUTO29 31/06 06*06 MANASLU 613 07/06 HOCHIMINH/HAI PHONG VESSEL VOY SIN HCM HPM VYSOKOOOnSX 06SVS6 21/06 *7/06 VYSOKOOOMSK 06M6 H/06 06/06 VYSOKOQOMSK 10«V»6
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    • 388 46 VESSEL VOY SIN MAASIN| TIGER BAY 331N 18 20/05 24 2005 *****6 I TIGER CAPE 332N 22 2306 28-3106 050*06 I TIGER ISLAND 333N 2S-2705 3104/06 06-1006 I TIGER BRIDGE 334N »3005 *****6 12-1306 I TIGER BAY 336N *****6 07-1106 15-1706 I TIGER CAPE 336N 0506/06 11-1406 I I VESSEL
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    • 317 47 xgx NEO SHIPPING n?n AGENCIES PTE LTD Tel: *****29 Fax: *****59 SPORE WEEKLY RO/RO-CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO HO CHI MIHH TRANSIT 2 DAYS LOADING SINGAPORE ON ALSO ACCEPTING FCL' CTNRS TO HAIPHONG 25 MAY 95 HAIPHONG 30 MAY 95 WEEKLY CONTAINERS SERVICE TO BOMBAY TRANSIT 10-12 DAYS LOADING SINGAPORE ON: WEEKLY
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    • 451 47 FULL CONTAINER SIRVICI PROM SIN TO MADRAS VESSEL/VOV ETA SM ETA MAA TtOER CAPE 332N 22-23/05 29-31/05 PRAVDINSK 19 25-2S/0S 31-01/06 MV TtOER BRIOGE V 3JON SAILED 21-24/06 MV PESTOVO V.IS 1 9-20/05 25 28/05 MV BUNOA TERATAIV TERO39 11-IMS 24-27/05 TIGER BAY VI3IN 19-20W5 25-26/05 SEA DRAGON V ORGOSS
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    • 320 47 CHINESE-POLISH I MA JOINT STOCK SHIPPING CO CONTAINER/BREAKBULK SIN PRACAV44 ANTWERPROTTERDAM/HAMOURGAjDYNIA JIAXING V.14 1H ANTWERPfIOTTEROAM/HAMBURGHDYNIA CEYNOWA VSO 19/5 CASABLANCA/ROTTERDAM CHONGMING VlO 23/5 HONGKONG/HUANGPUtINGANGDALIAN CHIPOLBAL SHIPPING PTE LTD (A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN CHINESE POUSH JOWT STOCK SHIPPING CO AfC BALnC FAR EAST SUPPING PTE LTD) 2 MISTRI ROAD #10-00, HMC BUILDING,
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    • 315 47 &9 ROHLIG ROHLIG INTERNATIONAL (S) PTE LTD Shipping I omardiag Virfm^M DAILY RECEIVING LCL CARGO TO YANGON ETA Destination 22/05 29/05 Hamburg. Bim>c»i 22/05 29/05 Loodoa. Manchester. Birmingham 12/05 22/05 Johannethurx Durban. Port Louto 18/05 25/05 Sydney. Frrmantic. Mrlboume 22/05 29/05 Bonhay. Madia* 20/05 24/05 Bangkok 18/05 30/05 Yangon WEEKLY
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  • Page 48 Advertisements
    • 715 48 AFGHANISTAN M&M Afghanistan Ltd., Hairatan, Torghundi, Islamqala (Doqharun) ■wlOklVl C.1.5./RUSSIA: Alma Ata. Ashkhabad, Baku. Dushanbe. I Miiitror a. Ui Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Korsakov, Moscow. wimuer a Muncn Novosobirsk, Sochi, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Vladivostok, Vostochny International Forwarders Mongolia: uiaan Bator N Korea; Pyongyang, Nampo EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE to WEST COAST SOUTH AMERICA
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    • 137 49 REGIONAL WEATHER J loot. LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperoture C A\ V Viower Weother _y Wind direction with speed in knots Ro,n Ui Cloudy Sky Wov Surfoce winds or* indicated by arrows which tty with the wind One fu« circle represents calm or light and variable winds 1 One hotf Heche
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    • 32 50 KBMTRANS JV CARPENTARIA (S) PTE LTD 49 BEACH ROAD, #05-00 HEXAGON HOUSE, SINGAPORE 0718 TEL: 337 1117 FAX: 336 5488/337 5488 CONFIRMED SAILING EX SINGAPORE 20/5/95 HEAVY LIFT TO 80 TONS AVAILABLE
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