The Business Times, 29 May 1995

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE fay W ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday May 29 1995 85*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 60 1 UPI JERUSALEM Leaders of Israel's right-wing opposition met in the occupied Golan Heights yesterday and condemned Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's willingness to evacuate a Jewish settlement on the strategic plateau. Senior members of the Likud Party met at Kibbutz Elrom, rumoured to be one of
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    • 34 1 AFP BRUSSELS King Albert yesterday appointed Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene to form Belgium's next government following the strong victory by his centre-left coalition in elections last week. AFP
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  • 158 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change ST1I 2,163.24 +4.31 KLSE Camp 1,047.57 +35.95 Nikkei 15,694.25 -446.6 Hang Seng 9,329.18 315.86 SET Index 1,389.91 +66.17 Jakarta Comp 473.69 14.98 CLSA China B 789.94 19.46 Aust All Ord 2,023.8 +30.8 FTSE 100 3.311.1 +50.1 Dow Jones 4,369.00 27.67 Average of
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  • 137 1 SINGAPORE The local stock market faces a difficult week ahead as investors will have to grapple with renewed weakness in the US dollar, a wobbly US equity market and the release of a host of economic reports which should shed some light on the
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  • 576 1  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE The boom in demand for personal computers and multimedia products has created a worrying shortage of components in the industry. While some industry executives say the shortage is short-term, others see the shortage getting worse as the PC boom
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  • 425 1  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK TELECOMMUNICATIONS tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, who is contesting for a seat here in the July 2 polls in his political debut, has set himself the task of solving the capital's traffic problem. Describing himself as a person
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  • 285 1 Bernama NEW DELHI The Indian government has decided to appoint a magistrate to inquire into the Singapore government's request for the extradition of former biscuit tycoon Rajan Pillai. The appointment of an inquiry magistrate is in efTect a declaration by the
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  • 184 1 MBT KUAL\ LUMPUR A consultative committee comprising representatives from Bank Negara and the financial sector has been formed to chart the future direction for Malaysia's banking industry. The committee is also charged with reviewing the banking industry and predicting Malaysia's banking needs in the
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  • 474 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA THE already intense competition in Indonesia's cellular phone market is set to get a bit more heated. Over the weekend, a statecontrolled telecommunications concern announced that it will significantly expand its Global System for Mobile
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  • 390 1 SINGAPORE Wage increases for workers in Singapore should average about 5 per cent this year. NTUC's secretary-general Lim Boon Heng, speaking at NTUCs Family Day celebrations at the zoo yesterday, said that with the economy growing at a slower pace, civil
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 367 2  -  By Agnes Wee THE hotel room occupancy crunch is unlikely to hit the industry until next year when a huge supply of some 3,000 rooms are ready. Occupancy projections for the second quarter of this year are still at healthy levels, according to the
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    • 615 2  -  Computer components shortage By Claire Leow rHE current components shortage may be worrying to some, but component supplijrs are laughing their way to the bank. They are enjoying higher prices and firm margins as the personal computer boom continues throughout the
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    • 504 2  -  By David Mok LOCAL CD-ROM drive makers are struggling to keep up with soaring demand for quad-speed drives. A poll of the four local players and the Japanese majors that dominate the industry shows current demand for quad-speed drives far outstrips deliveries by
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    • 272 2 UPI, Reuter YANGON Myaamar's prime minister, General ThanShwe, will pay goodwill visits to Singapore and Indonesia "in the near future", the Myanmar Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. Than Shwe, who is also chairman of the ruling military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council
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    • 245 2 Reuter SINGAPORE The Asia-Pa-cific region may get its own trade dispute ombudsman if the recommendations of a private business lobby are accepted at the next meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum later this year. The trade ombudsman idea has been put forward by
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 520 3  -  Commentary By Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK FINANCIAL largesse, a slick election campaign employing high-tech gizmos and a more business-like management style. That's what Palang Dharma Party (PDP) candidates can expect when they campaign for the July 2
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    • 170 3 Reuter MALANG, East Java Indonesia needs new rules to boost low incomes and support small businessmen to help narrow the country's growing social gap. Planning Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita said in a speech, at Brawijaya University here, on Saturday: "We must stop weak
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    • 232 3 Reuter HANOI Vietnam has licensed a US$3OO million (SS4I7 million) project involving two Swedish companies to install Vietnam's first nationwide mobile telephone network. The semi-official Vietnam Investment Review (VIR) reported yesterday that Comvik International and its parent company, 4ndustriforvaltnings AB Kinnevik, were partners in
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    • 332 3 Bernama ALOR STAR Malaysia has proposed that Penang and Songkhla (in Thailand) be made centres for the unloading of cargoes, including oil, as a move to cut down the number of ships passing through the Straits of Malacca. Malaysian
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    • 162 3 Reuter HANOI Chrysler Corp has applied for a licence to set up a U*****.5 million (***** million) plant to manufacture vehicles in Vietnam, becoming the second US carmaker to try to enter the market. The Vietnam Investment Review yesterday said Chrysler
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    • 70 3 AP MANILA The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday said new members of the diplomatic service will have to go through sensitivity training, including exposure to slum dwellers, before foreign assignments. Department Secretary Domingo Siazon said the requirement was one of the changes being adopted by
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    • 77 3 AP MANILA In a new tack to gain China's cooperation in resolving the Spratly Islands dispute peacefully, a senior diplomat yesterday said Manila will push for a multi-nation discussion which will initially exclude Vietnam and Taiwan. "We are going to suggest that we start with
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    • 53 3 Reuter BANGKOK A Thai worker testing water-filled condoms for safety standards at the London Royal Consumer Products (Thailand) factory here. Business is booming for condom manufacturers as the number of Aids cases multiplies in Asia and more people in the area start to protect themselves from the
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    • 74 3 AFP HANOI The Vietnamese government has approved a plan to attract at least nine million foreign tourists between now and 2010. The army daily Quart Doi Nhan Dan yesterday reported that the plan, formulated by the general tourism department and signed by Deputy Prime Minister Phan Van
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    • 84 3 AP KUALA LUMPUR Top United States and North Korean negotiators held one-on-one talks yesterday amid hopes that a compromise could be reached in an ongoing nuclear dispute. The discussions between Thomas Hubbard and North Korean counterpart Kim Gye Gwan were believed to have focused on
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  • CHINA /HONGKONG /TAIWAN
    • 574 4 Officials fear that inflation will reverse recent price declines Reuter BEIJING Inspectors will fan out across China next month to check price controls amid concerns that inflation may reverse a six-month decline because regions have ignored state directives, the People's Daily said on Sunday.
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    • 52 4 Reuter BEIJING Women jockeys, wearing race sponsors' sashes, preparing to exhibit their mounts before bets are placed at the first race of the 1995 season at the Xiang Cun course yesterday. Horse-racing, banned under years of communist rule, has revived in recent years with a relaxation on
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    • 405 4 Reuter HONGKONG Just months ago, newspapers in Hongkong were considered among the most profitable in the world. But rising costs of newsprint and a fall-off in advertising revenue have led to a dip in profits and have forced some newspapers to re-evalu-ate strategy.
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    • 192 4 Reuter BEIJING China's large petrochemical companies must reform if they are to fight off the challenge from international caavetf&on after Beijing joins the Worid Trade Organisation, a senior Wastry expert said. "We most lose no time in forging several high-powered that can explore,
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    • 88 4 UPI HONGKONG Protesters marking the sixth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre marched through the streets of Hongkong yesterday. The peaceful protest in advance of the June 4 anniversary attracted around 1,000 people a far cry from the hundreds of thousands who marched through Hongkong
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    • 90 4 Reuter BEIJING The number of workers in non-farm jobs in China fell to 146.75 million in the first quarter of 1995, from 150.95 million at the end of December, according to figures released by the State Statistics Bureau. That marked a decline of 2.78 percentage
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    • 67 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's economy continued its bullish trend in April with key economic indicators giving an encouraging "green light", the Council for Economic Planning and Development said yesterday. However, officials fear a downturn owing to a world economic slowdown. "The economy in April remained promising and
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  • ASIA
    • 456 6 Reuter SYDNEY Australia yesterday said that its relations with China, one of its major trading partners, would not be harmed by media reports that Australian spies had bugged the Chinese embassy in Canberra for the United States. Australian Trade
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    • 62 6 Reuter SEOUL South Koran riot police using force to remove the wife and child of a fugitive labour leader from the city police headquarters where she and 12 other women gathered to protest against the ransacking of their homes early yesterday. Police conducted the raid in
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    • 439 6 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand Finance Minister Bill Birch, in his Budget on Thurv day, will attempt to spread the dividends of growing economic prosperity more evenly ahead of elections in 1996, political analysts and economists say. New Zealand has
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    • 484 7 AFP TOKYO Political vultures were hovering over Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's Social Democratic Party yesterday as internal divisions and a lack of direction threaten its survival in Japan's political shake-up. Newspaper editorials yesterday spoke of the end of the party's "historical
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    • 298 7 Reuter SYDNEY Australia faces another recession unless it cuts its current account deficit, forecast by the government to be around As 27 billion (Ss27 billion) for the year to June 1996, the head of one of the country's biggest banks said. "Australia's
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    • 155 7 AFP TOKYO Twenty-four countries, including Russia, will begin talks in late August or early September on setting up a mechanism to regulate exports of conventional weapons and related goods, a press report said here yesterday. The mechanism is to succeed the Coordinating
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    • 366 7 AFP CANBERRA The number of Hongkong-born immigrants to Australia has surged as the British territory approaches its return to China, according to an official report released here yesterday. The number of Hongkongborn people in Australia doubled in the five years
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    • 97 7 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels claimed they killed 23 soldiers when they overran an isolated army camp in the country's east early yesterday, a senior military officer said. The military intercepted Tiger radio messages after the attack on the Taravikulam camp in
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    • 105 7 AP SEOUL An international aid group is sending 500 tons of com to North Korea to help ease its acute food shortage, South Korean officials said yesterday. The shipment, the first of 10,000 tons planned by California-based charity World Vision International, was being
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    • 89 7 AFP DHAKA A 48-hour transport strike called by a group of workers took effect across Bangladesh yesterday, disrupting interdistrict road communications. Suspected pro-strike workers set off homemade bombs at Syedabad terminus early yesterday. There were no injuries, but few buses left for southern parts of the
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    • 82 7 AP SEOUL Two South Korean fishing boats with 17 crewmen on board were apparently seized by China, maritime officials said yesterday. The 103-ton 85 Woosung and the 101-ton 86 Woosung went missing on Saturday soon after they radioed that they were being captured by Chinese
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    • 78 7 Reuter NICOSIA An Iranian company has outbid foreign firms to build a bridge expected to cost US$ll million (5515.4 million) in the southern port city of Karachi in Pakistan, the Iranian News Agency reported on Saturday. It quoted Iran's ambassador to Islamabad, Mohammad Mehdi Akhundzadeh,
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  • THE WORLD
    • 549 8 Time for both sides of House to reflect, make provisions more acceptable Reuter WASHINGTON House Republicans have declared a temporary ceasefire in what President Bill Clinton calls a "frontal assault" on his foreign policy role, and officials say they hope cooler heads
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    • 393 8 AP KIEV Ukraine has appointed a group of Western firms to help it close the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant and build a gas-fired power plant to replace it. Ukrainian officials, keeping up a quick pace in arranging Chernobyl's closure, announced on Saturday that
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    • 343 8 AFP JERUSALEM Israel will not carry out any withdrawal, even limited, from the Golan Heights before wrapping up an "overall agreement" for peace with Syria, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday. "Israel will not withdraw from a
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    • 386 8 AFP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The head of the drive by the United Nations to disarm Iraq begins a new mission to Baghdad today to press authorities for missing materials with chemical and germ warfare potential. Rolf Ekeus, chairman of
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    • 828 9  -  WORLD VIEW By Kevin Sullivan THE grounds of the US President's residence in Washington have, in the past few months, turned into a shooting gallery. In quick succession, enterprising if unstable individuals have tried to breach the building's defences. One man crashed his plane into
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    • 230 9 Reuter FRANKFURT West German inflation could drop below the 2 per cent level during the remainder of the year, Bundesbank board member Edgar Meister said. The chance of seeing "a one in front of the period, during the rest of the year,
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 94 9 AFP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Germany yesterday launched a big push to sell high-tech products to the Gulf when it opened the "first purely" German exhibition in the region, a senior official said. Germany, which has deployed 120 firms for the
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      • 78 9 Reuter AMMAN Jordan plans to approve millions of dollars in foreign investment along its coast of the Dead Sea to create a top world resort, a senior official said yesterday. "We asked investors, Jordanian, Arab and foreign, to submit their requests to ascertain
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      • 70 9 Reuter LONDON American President Bill Clinton has to delay a visit to London, Belfast and Dublin planned for September because Queen Elizabeth declined to interrupt her annual holiday in Scotland, the Observer said yesterday. The weekly newspaper, citing Irish sources, said the Queen was
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      • 35 9 Reuter MOGADISHU Faction leader Ali Mahdi Mohamed, who controls part of the Somali capital, has told ships not to dock in Mogadishu port following its shelling on Friday night. Reuter
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    • 314 9 Reuter GUANAJUATO, Mexico Mexicans cast votes yesterday in two state elections in which punishment for the country's economic crisis is almost bound to fall on the all-power-ful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the party of President Ernesto Zedillo. In the races for governor
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  • SPORTS
    • 793 10 WORLD CUP -1993 AP, AFP, Reuter JOHANNESBURG Jonah Lomu paraded his extravagant skills for the first time at the Rugby World Cup on Saturday as the New Zealand All Blacks opened their campaign with a 43-19 win over Ireland. The 20-year-old winger scored tries in
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    • 570 10 Reuter, AFP JOHANNESBURG Rugby union, long the religion of South Africa's whites, has performed an unexpected miracle the conversion of blacks to the cause and the unification of the country behind a Springbok captain. South Africa's black majority, with President Nelson Mandela foremost
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    • 581 10  -  French Open From Michael Harem in PARIS AS THE elite of tennis come together today for the start of the French Open, the question on everybody's mind is whether Andre Agassi is on his way to becoming the third man in
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        104 10 LAUSANNE, Switzerland World championships on Saturday Men's s-finals: 1-Heryanto Arbi (lndo) b 3/4-Poul Erik Hoyer-Lar-sen (Den) 15-10 15-7; 5/8-Park Sung-woo (SK) b 5/8-Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen (Den) 8-15 1-5. retired injured. Doubles: 2-Jon HolstChristcnsen/Thomas Lund (Den) b 9/16-Kim Dong-moon/Yoo Yongsung (SK) 15-12 15-2; 1-Rexy Mainaky/Ricky Subagya (lndo) b 9/16Cheah Soon Kit/Yap
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      • Article, Illustration
        211 10 AP INDIANAPOLIS Indiana's defence shut down ShaquiUe O'Neal and his teammates in the fourth quarter on Saturday, enabling the Pacers to beat Orlando 105-100 and win Game 3 of their NBA Eastern Conference Finals playoffs. Indiana can tie the series 2-2 with a win today at Market Square Arena.
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      • 339 10 AP ASO, Japan American Brandt Jobe posted his first victory in Japan. winning the rain-delayed 100 million yen (SSI.6 million) Mitsubishi Gallant Tournament yesterday with the Japan PGA tour's best under par score ever. Starting the final two rounds with a three-shot lead, Jpbe, who began playing in Japan
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      • Article, Illustration
        156 10 AP SYDNEY Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates said yesterday that the International Olympic Committee was unlikely to take the 2000 Games from Sydney despite uncertainty over financing. "They can, but it is not likely. There are contractual obligations which have to be met," Coates said on ABC Radio.
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        128 10 WIMBLEDON A new. slower ball will be used at this year's Wimbledon Championships in an eftort to curb the domination of the power servers at the grass court showpiece, according to the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The paper says experts believe the switch could reduce serving speeds by 12-14
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    • 486 10 Golf Reuter WENTWORTH, England Frank Nobilo of New Zealand overcame an eye problem that felt like a hangover to shoot a second successive 68 for the halfway lead in the British PGA Championship on Saturday. The popular 35-year-old from Auckland, runner-up to
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  • Business IT
    • 666 11  -  David Mok finds out why Singapore's first multimedia-focused event generated a lot of interest David Mok FROM the large crowds that swept through intermedia. Asia '95 and the high level of excitement among visitors, it was clear that multimedia has found its way
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    • 612 11  -  The networking specialist believes the fast-growing region is an ideal market for its advanced products, Kenneth James learns Kenneth James High-flying Madge NV, whose Token Ring network products have bitten huge chunks out of the market IBM created, is upping the stakes in
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    • 491 11 Reuter Microsoft Corp executives said last week that they were very close to a "gold disk" the final version of a software programme of its long-de-layed Windows 95 operating system software. Executives of the computer software giant were in New York to preview the
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    • 486 12  -  There's plenty going for this Sardinia-based online service. But the team didni do some crucial homework, Kenneth James discovers. Kenneth James ITALY'S Grauso Group blew into town last week to treat more than 200 invitees to a dazzling preview of Video On Line (VOL), the
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    • 427 12  -  Video on demand is only part of a larger information network strategy, David Mok learns David Mok SOFTWARE giant Oracle Corp of the US is moving aggressively to market its video-on-demand (VOD) solution in this region. According to Oracle's vicepresident, New Media Division,
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    • 260 12 US-BASED software firm Progress Software Corp plans to double the number of resellers it has in Singapore this year in an effort to expand its business here by over 50 per cent. In an interview with BusinesslT last week, the firm's director
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    • 235 12 US-BASED computer firm Hewlett-Packard has cut prices on its entire range of Omnißook 4000 notebooks by up to 20 per cent, and has launched new models with faster chips and more storage space. According to HP, the suggested retail price of an entry level Omnißook
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 35 12 SINGAPORE Germany-based Software AG has set up an Asia-Pacific support centre in Singapore. The new centre would handle technical support, localisation of products and high-level management and consultancy, said the firm.
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      • 74 12 Reuter TOKYO Toshiba Corp said it would invest some four billion yen (5564.4 million) through 1998 in a new, wholly-owned personal computer parts subsidiary in the Philippines. The unit will be formed in July and will make hard-disk and CD-ROM drives and PCBs. By
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      • 48 12 SINGAPORE Microsoft Singapore has announced its latest version of Bookshelf '95, a CD-ROM reference library. The product features enhanced multimedia, and a Year in Review section that contains newsworthy events from the past year, claims Microsoft. The product will sell for about Ss96.
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      • 59 12 SINGAPORE Local firm ATS Technologies and Chinese companies Jingkou Science Technology Development Company and Jiangsu Industry Civilian Construction Design Institute last week signed an agreement to set up human resource and skills training centres in Singapore and China. The centres will provide training on skills needed
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      • 78 12  -  Compiled by David Mok California Sun Microsystems Inc has unveiled new Internet products designed to make doing business on the Internet easier. The company launched the Netra Internet Server, a computer that provides access to the Internet, and the Internet Gateway for Solans, a software that
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    • It's happenin'
      • 67 12 SINGAPORE The National Computer Board and Novell Inc are jointly organising a seminar entitled "From the LAN to the World: The Road to Pervasive Computing" on Wednesday at the NDB auditorium. The talk will examine various issues, including conducting business on information highways, the
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      • 48 12 SINGAPORE Bay Networks is organising a seminar that addresses the issue of network failures on Wednesday at the Westin Hotel. Admission is free but the event is limited to 250 people. To confirm attendance, call Mandy at 323 7377 or fax your namecard to 323 7366.
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      • 57 12 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom and Longman Singapore are organising two talks by John Levine, the author of best-selling titles such as Internet for Dummies and Internet Secrets. The talks will cover various Internet topics and will be held on Thursday at the Comcentre Theatrette, at 2
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      • 28 12 SINGAPORE CSA Automated and Clariion will be holding a seminar on data management in mission-critical applications on Thursday. For more information, call Gurbir at 371 9737.
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      • 61 12 SINGAPORE Voice Asia '95, Asia's first exhibition focusing on voice processing and computer telephony, will be held at Suntec City from June 7 to 9. AT&T, Northern Telecom and Singapore Telecom are among the more than 40 companies from eight countries taking part. Organisers expect about 2,500
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      • 73 12  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE The annual METAmorphosis Conference, organised by Meta Group Asia Pacific, will be held this year on July 10-U in Kuala Lumpur, and on July 13-14 in Singapore. The theme is Creating A Customer-Focused Information Infrastructure. Meta says participants will get
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    • 798 14  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Liya Ding explains why Neural Logic Brain research is an improvement on artificial intelligence techniques Liya Ding The writer is a researcher with the Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System research programme at the Institute of Systems Science. She can be
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    • 31 14 Professor Wang Peizhuang, the author of last week's Next Wave column, is a Member, and not software engineer, of the Institute of System Science. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 462 14  -  Martin Wolk finds out what this means for the electronic commerce market Martin Wolk Reuter Microsoft Corp's decision to abandon its planned US$2 billion (SS2.B billion) acquisition of Intuit Inc will slow but not stop the computer software giant's move into the emerging electronic
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    • 333 14 Reuter THE Internet, long the preserve of academics and computer experts, is poised to enter mass markets. With computers becoming cheaper, smaller and easier to use, the public will soon be signing up in droves to become Internauts, to shop, order
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    • 558 15  -  From affordable video-conferencing systems to a 3-D mouse, the products showed why multimedia is a whole new ballgame. David Mok reports. David Mok A HOST of new and exciting computer products were launched at last week's intermedia Asia '95 multimedia expo.
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    • 729 15 Bloomberg HOW do you sell a new computer disk drive that offers a huge leap in capacity but sells for more than US$7OO (S$980)? Not very easily, Sony Corp is likely to find. Sony soon will introduce a mini-disk system, called the MD
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    • 577 15  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is a Support Contracts Specialist with Hewlett-Packard's Americas' Field Operations (AFO). He also has extensive experience as a computer consultant. AS A matter of principle, I try to keep a positive focus on the vast majority
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    • 417 15 Bloomberg AT&T Corp and Apple Computer foe have teamed up* to* provide videoconferencing capabilities through personal computers. The agreement will allow Macintosh users to use Apple's QuickTime Conferencing software along with AT&T's WorldWorx network to make and receive calls with voice, video
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    • 1021 17  -  Millionaires who set up charitable foundations could end up saving much of their wealth for their children, according to Joe Rogaly Joe Rogaly FT HAVE your handkerchief ready. In a moment you will be weeping. Listen. Rich families, defined as
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    • 526 17 Juliette Walker speaks to Robert Kwan, head of McDonald's and ex-chairman of the Environment Council C Cf 1 ODAY's business I leaders no longer A have a choice. They must keep an eye on the environment along with the .bottom line. They must support sustainable development by
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  • 468 20 AFP BEIJING China yesterday took its boldest step yet in protest against a United States decision to allow Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit by calling off key weapons proliferation and nuclear energy talks. The move, announced by a foreign
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  • 219 20 AP NICOSIA Iran and China will sign US$2 billion (Ss2.B billion) in trade agreements, increasing economic ties at a time that the United States has sought to isolate the Islamic republic. The official Iranian News Agency, monitored here, yesterday said seven agreements
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  • 233 20 Reuter TOKYO Japan will send a moon probe by 2002 as the first part of a plan to mine fuel for future nuclear fusion reactors and find a site for a possible lunar observatory. Kyodo news agency yesterday said the National Space Development Agency
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  • 149 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Cox Communications Inc yesterday removed Salomon Brothers Inc as the top underwriter for a planned stock sale because of turmoil at the nation's secondlargest securities firm. "We changed underwriters because of personnel changes in our account
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  • 460 20 Reuter VLADIVOSTOK, Russia Thousands of people were feared killed in Russia's Far East yesterday, in an earthquake which authorities said could turn out to be the worst Russia had ever seen. Russian news agencies said most residents in Neftegorsk, an oil-producing town
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  • 343 20 AP TAIPEI Taiwanese and Chinese negotiators yesterday agreed on an eight-point agenda for the most important talks between the arch-rivals to be held in Beijing in July. The breakthrough came in two days of talks between the front organisations that
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  • 449 20 Bloomberg Business News AP NEW YORK Philip Morris USA launched an unprecedented domestic recall on Friday of up to eight billion cigarettes including top-seller Marlboro because of defective filters that could make smokers cough and wheeze. In a sweeping preemptive strike,
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  • 914 20  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THE United States will go to almost any lengths, it seems, under the current administration to force an entry into Asian markets even to suggesting spurious linkages
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  • 308 20 AFP BONN The head of Germany's main opposition party, the Social Democrats, joined business leaders yesterday in renewing calls for breaking with the country's tradition of not working on Saturdays. "We can hold our own in world markets only if
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 461 21  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Hongkongbased The Wharf (Holdings) has agreed to transfer its stake in Singapore-listed Marco Polo Developments to a sister company in Hongkong. Under the agreement, Wharf will transfer its entire interest of 296.97 million shares or 74.46
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    • 276 21 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Commerce International Merchant Bankers Bhd (CIMB) has issued 10 million units of Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) call warrants priced at M 54.885 each the first call warrant issue in Malaysia. A CIMB statement said that CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd
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    • 604 21  -  m MARKET W MATTERS By Amy Balan Malaysia got its first cellular phone network when Telekom Malaysia Bhd launched Atur4so in 1985. It was four years before competition came in the form of Celcom's Art9oo and another five years before
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    • COMPANIES
      • 388 22 NST KUALA LUMPUR Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd (TV3) is expanding its business by venturing into providing a video news service to local and foreign television stations. The news service, which will be in the form of edited video footage of local news events
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      • 486 22 Malaysian company to focus on big project investments, says chairman Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Landmarks Bhd's strategy in South Africa will focus on big project investments to ensure efficiency in investment spending, the company's executive chairman Samsudin bin Abu Hassan said here on Saturday. He said
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      • 790 22  -  HANG SENG INSIGHT By Steve Vines THAT roller coaster, sometimes known as the Chinese stock exchanges, has been at it again. In the past 10 days, the two stock exchanges have soared when bond futures trading was banned and plunged when the securities regulators announced
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      • 304 22 NST KUALA LUMPUR Members of Koperasi Pekeija-Pek-eija Kerajaan Sabah (Kopeks) have approved the cooperative's sale of Repco Holdings Bhd after numerous unsuccessful attempts to divest its stake in the company. Kopeks members, in an extraordinary meeting on Thursday, voted in favour of selling
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      • 421 22 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR In a classic no-guts-no-glory story, Shamsuddin Abdul Kadir swapped a comfortable director's post in a large Malaysian company 20 years ago to sweat it out in a cramped office and try to strike it rich. His friends and colleagues
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 132 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR KL-Kepong Bhd on Saturday said it would accept the M 5320.953 million (S$ 180.37 million) awarded as compensation by the government for 1,776 hectares of its estate land acquired from the group's Ladang Tanjong Malim. The company said that based on the amount awarded,
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        • 76 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR EMC Logistics Bhd is optimistic that it will continue to benefit from investment in its subsidiaries, said chairman Tengku Adnan Mansor. In the company's 1994 annual report, he said the subsidiaries were expected to be involved in projects such as the Kuala Lumpur
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        • 84 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kumpulan Construction Sdn Bhd, which has won a contract from the Sarawak state authorities to build the outdoor Kuching Stadium at Petra Jaya, on Saturday received MSI2O million (5567.44 million) in syndicated financing facilities from the MIDF group. The financing facilities comprised
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        • 113 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Geahin Engineering Bhd on Saturday reported an increase of 18.94 per cent in its pre-tax profit for the year ended Dec 31, 1994, to M 57.139 million (554.01 million) from M 56.002 million previously. It also reported an income of M 5286,000
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      • 476 22 KaaaavV prtcM May 29 Sh Greater China Fd 1.00 Mendalu Gr Fund 1.03 106$ Singapore Unit Trust us Gr Fund i.oi i.os* The Commerce l 168*1 IIAR k%*M IM Ltd The Savings Fund 1.54 1.63 S pore Pro, Fund 0.62 0.66 Unwind 47 54 sw S<v Fund 100 1 06
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      • 291 23 AFP BEIJING The China International Trust and Investment Corporation (Citic) announced yesterday the creation of a finance and banking arm, indicating the priorities of the new team heading the largest group engaged in overseas investments. The new company made up of
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      • 56 23 Reuter TOKYO A girl sitting on a single-seated ejectric vehicle, Mini Sway, from Japanese carmaker Daihatsu at an exhibition on low-pollution vehicles here yesterday. The vehicle can travel for a distance of 55 km at an average speed of 40 kmph after charging its batteries for 10 hours
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      • 266 23 Reuter WILMINGTON, Delaware General Motors Corp, acknowledging that the car market has slowed, said it was cutting its forecast for total 1995 US car sales to 15.3 million units but said its own May sales were better than in April. At a
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      • 458 23 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Gas pic, once the monopoly supplier of natural gas in the United Kingdom, will stop revealing its prices to big industrial users in the wake of its market share falling enough to satisfy the industry regulator.
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 72 23 AFP MILAN The Olivetti computer group saw losses increase by 46.1 per cent to 678.9 billion lira (***** million) on a net consolidated basis last year from 464.6 billion lira in 1993 the company said last Friday. But operating losses were down to 16.7 billion lira
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        • 65 23 AFP SYDNEY Australian television broadcaster Seven Network Ltd's chairman, lan Holmes, said yesterday that investor Kerry Stokes would be welcome to take one seat on the company's board. Mr Holmes told a television interviewer that Mr Stokes, who has an 18.9 per cent stake and
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        • 82 23 Reuter MELVILLE, New York Fonar Corp, a leading maker of magnetic resonance imaging systems, said last Friday it was awarded US$llO million (S$ 152.9 million) in damages, about a third of what it sought, in its MRI patent infringement suit against General Electric Co.
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        • 87 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's leading electrical engineering group, Kandenko, reported last Friday a 22 per cent fall in pre-tax profits to 24. 4 billion yen (Ss4o2 million) in the year to March, down from 31.1 billion yen a year ago. Sales dropped 8 per cent to 532
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        • 77 23 AFP MILAN Fininvest, the media holding group controlled by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, is to cut its stake in the Standa store chain sharply from 75.4 per cent within 12 to 18 months, Standa said last Friday. Standa president Giancarlo Foscale told shareholders in
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        • 91 23 Bloomberg Business News MUNICH Allianz AG Holding, Europe's largest insurer, said it expected 1994 net profit to be "clearly above" 1.3 billion marks (SSI.3 billion). Its 1993 net profit was 1.46 billion marks. The company said it expects to improve earnings this year. "Unless
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 505 24  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON ASIAN central banks precipitated a renewed slide of a beleaguered US dollar, which in turn dragged down Wall Street and other stock markets last week. "Near the top of the recent rally, there were reports of persistent sales by
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 72 24 Reuter MANILA An international adviser to south-east Asia's central bankers last Friday ruled out an emergency fund as a way to tackle the foreign exchange jolts which rocked the region following the Mexican crisis. A currency stabilisation fund was not an appealing idea and
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        • 91 24 Reuter TORONTO The Royal Bank of Canada said last Friday it had won approval from the People's Bank of China to establish an office in Guangzhou, capital of the province of Guangdong. "The Guangzhou location provides us with a strategically important vantage point in South China
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        • 57 24 Reuter SHANGHAI China will open its interbank foreign exchange market to foreign-invested companies within 1995, an unnamed official of the State Administration for Foreign Exchange Control said. A detailed proposal to allow this is being considered by the State Council (cabinet), the Shanghai Securities
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        • 92 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Rating Agency Malaysia Bhd (RAM) said it was reaffirming the short-term standalone rating of P3 accorded to UMBC Securities' Msloo million (5556.4 million) Revolving Underwritten Facilities. RAM said on Saturday that it recently put UMBC Securities on a "rating watch" pending
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      • 59 24 AFP PI J AO, Colombia A coffee dealer emptying bags of newly purchased coffee beans in a warehouse here recently. The Colombian National Federation of Coffee Growers report that up to 80 per cent of the country's plantations are plagued by an insect called broca or
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      • 359 24 Boost for coffers from buffer stock operations Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Intemational Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) may have run out of buffer stocks to cool world rubber prices but it could find its coffers flush with cash, the head of the group
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      • 223 24 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia, the world's third largest coffee producer, will be pressed to meet its export forecast this cropyear ending in September following a delay in the main harvest by up to two months, senior traders said. They said the flow of beans
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      • 281 24 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK PaineWebber Group Inc is changing the way it sells the shares of one of its international bond funds. Shareholders voted to fold the assets of Global Income Plus Fund Inc into the PaineWebber Global Income Fund by the end
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        1884 24 Rates are the average of 9 selected banks rade-*nghled index cukulalnJ a taint Spare') tap 14 trading partner, Base year 198 5 1 ftt— BMMS ABN Amro Bank NV 1% ANZ Banking Group 6Vi Allied Irish Bank PLC 7 American Express Bank 7 Arab Banking Corp 7 Arab Bank PLC
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 616 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE Major developments last week were the dollar's sharp declines due to technical factors as well as increased speculation that the recent slew of weak data may lead the Fed to ease policy. After consolidating against the mark
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      • 662 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Continuing bad weather in the spring wheat growing areas of the United States alarmed dealers last week because they fear that the world's biggest exporter might suffer a poor harvest. A fall in US production which
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    • 1364 25 SICOM Futures Rubber (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jun 233.50 475* Jul 227.00 2225 Aug 223.50 220.00 224.00 700 2650 Sep 221.50 2275 Oct/Dee 215.00 215.00 214.50 75 5100 Jan Mar 96 215.75 211.50
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    • 5190 26 CORPORATE RESULTS Net tarn KPS Dale TY LY TY LY Com pom win (S») «*> (c») ABR HWgs May 22 F 2.007 1.407 4 6 3.2 ANA Hotels May 5 F 3.392 2.591 7.07 5.40 Avimo May 19 I 2.546 4.668 2.44 4.50 Aitcch May 2
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    • 753 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 787 27 FT New York BY THE time you read this, US stock prices could well be much higher. Or, then again, they may be much lower. Volatility has returned to the stock market with a vengeance, and strongly conflicting views about which direction
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      • 360 27 London PRICES on the London stock exchange rose sharply last week, boosted by signs of a slowdown in the British and US economies which eased market fears of higher interest rates, dealers said. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares rose by 50.1
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      • 184 27 AFP Hongkong STOCK prices jumped 3.5 per cent on strong overseas buying last week as investors believed the equity would stay in the region for some time, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index, the key barometer of top shares, gained 315.86 points to
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      • 375 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices lost ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week in thin trading, with traders concerned about the yen's renewed advance against the dollar. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section fell 446.6 points or 2.8
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 142 27 Australian shares closed the week 1.5 per cent higher amid heavy trade on Friday after slavishly tracking Wall Street's daily fortunes, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, closed at 2,023.8 points, up 30.8 points, or 1.5 per cent, on the previous week's finish. The
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        • 83 27 The Philippine stock market rose earlier last week, then fell slightly, following the ups and downs of the Dow Jones, analysts said here on Saturday. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index closed at 2,764.51 points, up 1.4 per cent from the 2,725.96 points posted on May 19 despite the
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        • 68 27 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index rose 66.17 points, or 5.0 points, during the week on a heavy inflow of foreign institutional funds to close on Friday at 1,389.91 points, brokers said. The average daily turnover was 217.9 million shares, up from 160.8 million the previous week. The
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        • 101 27 The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) ended with a healthy increase after an eventful week which saw the introduction of automated trading and a new government deregulation package. After closing the previous week at 458.675, the JSE Index finished the fourday trading week, shortened by the Ascension Thursday holiday here,
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        • 79 27 The index was down 28.59 points or 3.26 per cent in value compared to a week ago. The index kept declining throughout the week except for Thursday when prices rebounded on a widespread belief that the announcement of market boosting measures was imminent. The major issues which sharply declined
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        • 95 27 Taiwan share prices finished 3.4 per cent lower last week at a 13-month low as investors continued reducing shareholdings in the absence of fresh incentives, brokers said. The Weighted Price Index of 409 issues on the Taiwan Stock Exchange slumped 196.5 points to settle at 5,561.15 points Friday, the
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        • 59 27 Share prices closed lower on the Bombay Stock Exchange last week despite better than expected financial results from Tata Steel and the forecast of a good monsoon. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index lost 92.13 points during the week to close on Friday at 3,235.55 points. Average daily volume was
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 801 27 -43.23 Stocks took a beating for the second straight session on Friday amid growing concern over the health of the economy, with the pressure heightened by thin trading before the long Memorial Day weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 43.23 points, or nearly one per cent, to
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        • 340 27 -21.47 The stocks ended sharply lower, following losses on Wall Street, as Canadian equities paused after swallowing recent large gains, analysts said. The TSE 300 Composite Index fell 21.47 points to 4,425.92 on volume of 62.97 million shares valued at C 5785.3 million. Declining issues galloped past advances 450
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        • 2240 27 London May 26 Puct Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 53 2/8 unch AB Pom 213 -3 Abbey National 479 4/8 -3 4/8 Allied Lyons 526 -4 Amcc 67 -I Argyll 322 -3 Aida Group 82 unch BAT Ind 488 -4 BICC 335 5 BOC Group 792 -3 BR Petroleum 447
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    • 2328 28 Gr Cr 1995 Ijtsl Vol »«k Las! Quo4e l)l» D«» VM fStt M tip High Low (ompant Sale COOO) High law Buyer Seller C"»r P/t MALAYSIAN STOCKS '77.5: Xoc iv is s 3 ;s is y Si «i 4s US \mueel 50c fiT J? ft in ?S ,50
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6965 28 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian shares ended last week sharply higher, with the benchmark index soaring 3.5 per cent to a new high for the year on strong foreign buying of blue chips. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted Composite Index closed the
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      • 8742 29 M Wi I4M Lni Vol Mnk IjD Quote Di» Dt> YM 1W fip *1 High Lao r —J Sak (°000) Hifk Low Buyer Seller Of P'E S"il W» INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 482 382 mis Acma 50c 424 cd 1-20 1892 426 400 420 424 22 -2.7 8.9 584 5 401
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      • 1846 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The local stock market this week faces a stern test of its resilience and of the growing view that the investment climate for local equities is improving. A veritable barrage of economic numbers both US and Malaysian should keep
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    • 1666 30 i i i i i MIME MATTER OP THE COUP AMES ACT, CAP. M AND FNAELECTKOMCSA (In Votenlvy yquhMltii) MBMBtTVOUMTAirnMHDMIMP At an EMraanlnaiy Ganarat Mealing of Ihe shareholders of A ENGINEERING PTE LTD duty convened and ImM to 50 Jaton Sutan •20-07Jaton Sutan Centre. Singapore 0710 on Ihe 240) day
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    • 421 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Many pitfalls await forwarders and distributors wanting to do business in China, says a leading forwarder who deals with Hongkong and the mainland. "China can be particularly difficult to understand," Tommy Chan said in an address to
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    • 93 31 SINGAPORE Marinteknik Shipbuilders has delivered a 42-metre passenger catamaran to Trans Antilles Express. I be vessel, Turquoise Express (above), has a top speed of 43 knots and can take up to 395 passengers. Trans Antilles Express will operate the new vessel in the French West Indies together
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    • 385 31 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The latest collision between two ocean-going vessels along the busy Malacca Straits focuses again on the demand by Malaysia that the costs of managing safe navigation along the narrow waterways be shared among the littoral and user states. The
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    • 155 31 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Panama registered tanker Eastern Bliss, which caught fire following a collision with a cargo carrier in the Straits of Malacca off Port Dickson last week, will be towed to Singapore, according to the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) at
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    • 164 31 Lloyd's List AUCKLAND Three major European shipping lines are to establish independent agency representation in New Zealand following a decision to discontinue co-operative arrangements. Dutch line Nedlloyd, Hap-ag-Lloyd of Germany and Italy's Lloyd Triestino will disband Seabridge New Zealand and set
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    • 315 31 SES '000 May 26 S$ Vol CWT25* 1.63 unch 64 CWTA 1.51 Chuan Hup 1.24 +0.07 168 Cosco Inv 1.75 Cosco Inv A 1.63 +0.03 FELS 50* 6.75 -0.10 94 GB Hldgs 20* 0.79 0.01 I Hai Sun Hup 20" 0.87 -0.01 498 Hitachi Z 20" 1.04 -0.01
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    • 177 31 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's eight container ports handled 18 per cent more freight in the first four months of the year compared with the same period in 1994, the government's Port Development Board announced. The terminals handled 2.5 million twenty foot equivalent
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    • 354 31 Bernama PENANG While the new North Butterworth Container Terminal (NBCT) would help ease congestion at the existing Penang port, its surrounding infrastructure appears to be not much help as it has a narrow access road which could hardly accommodate two containercarrying trailers at
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    • 198 31 Reuter DUBAI More than 500 passengers from a cruise liner which caught fire in the Red Sea flew home to Germany from Saudi Arabia on Friday after being royally feted by King Fahd. The crew, mostly Filipinos, are still stuck on the stricken
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    • 885 32 Ideology keeps its iron grip on an industry with a bloated work force and company town NYT IN CHINA'S Motor City of Changchun, the culture of communism is changing so slowly that only recently have the city fathers considered changing the name of
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    • 496 32 Page ABC Coot 16 •ANL 3 •APL 12 A Me 7 Accord 8 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrenkiel 4 Antaco 13 •Appcnship 4 Arowana IS Astro 8 Austral 9 Avant 6 B'tang Mas 12 BSA 9 BTL 16 Bangladesh 12 Batamindo 7 Bengal Br 15
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    • 10201 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 e ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the location of
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 436 49 HwmI Voy Hi Berth Vrtvd Dtpjrtwt iurocig Port Arktts Pride 9508 J12 alongside 27.05/0800 Dm Guna 05/03/95 J9 alongside 27.05/2300 Fook Tat 01/95 J15 alongside 27.05/0600 Harta 1 08/95 J16 alongside 27.05/0700 He* 05/08/95 il alongside 27.05/0300 Hero Queen 4/95 J7/8 alongside 27.05/0700 Hye Mefco 080/95 J5
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      • 1573 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rifts SNp Vo 1 N» Etb/Btf Poriod From To From Aa Swn 172A 31/1000 3 29/0700 29/1159 29/1400 4 29/1200 29/1459 29/1700 175 30/0600 IB 28/1500 28/1659 28/1900 2A 28/1700 29/0659 29/0900 28 28/1700 29/0659 29/0900 B Butang
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      • 316 49 MAY 29 Central African Republic Mothers' day. Colombo, Venezuela: Ascension. Pakistan: Karachi only. Hazarat Umer Farooq Syria: New Moslem Hijra year. United kingdom: Holiday. United States: Memorial Day. MAY 30 Bahrain: Moslem New Year. Egypt Islamic New Year approximate date. Kuwait, Lebanon. Morocco, Oman, Uae, Yemen: Moslem New
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      • 535 49 tatai Catai tM/M *M/M En» Eno* K6/1P3 V/V MM MM PPM «0»d t,/Vt M/N M/N PPM nwttoc BO/Ctac 1Mb Son: 991 10 15 0 010 80* 010* IM 988 0.3 113 108 29 000 Spac 635 991 1.0 110 115 80- 010* 10 17 4 114
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      • 435 50 Reuter SEATTLE A new effort by Boeing Co to modernise its airplane production process is positioning the manufacturer to branch out into the burgeoning market for airline industry data, analysts and company executives say. Analysts say Boeing, the world's largest commercial airplane maker,
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      • 222 50 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodia's national carrier Royal Air Cambodge (RAC) will expand its destinations to include mainland China by October after undergoing a restructuring, senior company officials said on Friday. "We will add more flights to existing destinations during the second
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      • 43 50 Reuter PYONGYANG Some of the 400,000 Pyongyang residents who use the North Korean capital's underground railway to commute to work every day, pictured here looking up the train schedules on the platform of the ornate Puhung or Reconstruction station. Reuter
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      • 155 50 Reuter SHANGHAI Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport is to double the size of its domestic passenger terminal to ease serious overcrowding. Wen Hui Bao newspaper said on Friday. The airport, which handles both domestic and foreign traffic, was built for seven million passengers a year
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      • 125 50 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it created an alliance with South African Airways to coordinate flights and frequent flyer programmes. The alliance, signed recently in Johannesburg and made public on Friday, doesn't involve any cross-shareholdings. "The new alliance
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      • 71 50 Reuter BUENOS AIRES Argentina has handed over to private owners two major metropolitan train lines that carry millions of commuters. The Sarmiento and Mitre railways were handed over to an Argentine-American consor- tium in a long-delayed, controversial operation that was freed up by President Carlos
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      • 260 50 Reuter GENEVA World airports have reported a 5 per cent rise in passenger traffic for February, compared with the same month a year ago, with the Latin America/Caribbean region and Europe leading the growth. The Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI) said 143
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      • 264 50 Reuter LONDON Britain plans to crack down on organised gangs that steal trucks, motorcycles and high performance cars and sell them worldwide. A new organised vehicle crime unit will be part of the National Criminal Intelligence Service which comprises police, customs and other civil
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 83 50 SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines of Korea is now a member of the Orient Airlines Association. An announcement last week by OAA said it is the 16th airline to join the regional grouping of major international schedules airlines. Asiana was established in 1988 and currently flies to some
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        • 62 50 AP ATLANTA United Parcel Service says it has a quicker way to get packages to foreign destinations. The Atlanta-based shipper will begin offering "next flight out" service from the United States to 183 countries and territories beginning tomorrow. UPS said the new service is an extension
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        • 98 50 AFP TAIPEI Aviation authorities here will allow China Airlines (CAL) to fly to the Netherlands without the national flag marked on its planes, as part of an understanding with Holland, a top official said last week. CAL, the national flag carrier, and KLM,
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        • 71 50 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Canada have concluded an air services agreement which provides for Malaysia Airlines (MAS) to fly to Vancouver twice weekly tentatively beginning in November. A statement issued by the Malaysian High Commission in Ottawa said that at the signing ceremony, Transport Ministry
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        • 105 50 AP GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestinians will get their first airport under a contract signed on Friday. Mahmoud Farra, chairman of the Arab Contractors Co, said construction would begin within several weeks. The airport is scheduled to open Jan 1, the anniversary of the founding
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        • 106 50 AP TOKYO A Northwest Airlines jumbo jet carrying 395 people punctured all eight tyres on one side when landing on Friday at Tokyo's Narita airport. But it came to a halt safely, an airline official said. Masako Tominaga, a Northwest spokeswoman, said there were
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    • 901 33 FOONG SUN \f SHIPPING (PTE) LTD WHOLESALE CENTRE, BLOCK 1, *03-10 SINGAPORE 0611 T*L: *****55 (12 LINES) FAX: *****16/*****25 TLXa W*****0/***** FSSHIP VESSEL VOY ETA ETD DESTINATION SUN RAY a/96 3/1 S4 PLAJU/PM.EMBAM6 NEE OWKI 7/96 3A 5/8 PONTMNM/SINTCTE 6ULF SULTAN 2*6 3* 5/8 BENGKULU/PAOAN6 SULfKHAUD 9/96 IN PORT 31/5
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    • 1165 35 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Mm ChlMf Road #11-01 Kappal Tower* SlaiMort 0200 Tal: *****00 Fax: *****17 iwv i) MTHf *"'*****9 nriTtf* I IMf r ll J&KgLJ sCRVICt Of CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO DUE SAILS IOw» C JNMAAM-8 mm Maaia.Ut.KX WPORT2I May fS^T r n'li'nm lIKT 110 wui i—
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    • 2177 37 exphess MrfTVaOllft OBiKVIWIMEf HwV IBMOTHi tfffnt lutnl Afittj r*l (9frtl) m*Mf WM*»H| COS TAR SHIPPING PTE LTD f I'—n'J mim c—ui—r umuimu c—M~r <« m.«hb op«in- c—«*»»r Mini rn I If»BH Titm wiiUM iotm cmwmiww SSIfXIH Hiiniiiii MMIM r.w V c« imjtmm m fu mtt* tn ott umru *>./,.«/ umni
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    • 643 39 BSA iiH MYANMA MD, FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) \W Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Span PKIfl PEN P.Gdfl SITTWE VB7E SLO PATHEW VI32W SLO PAGAN V22OW 28/05 MALAYSIA AGENTS: BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL: TEL 82-83-*****00 PKL: TEL 82-83-*****01 PEN: TEL 82-04-*****82 P6O: TEL 8217-*****21/4 NIGERIAN NATIONAL SHIPPING LINE SPORE
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    • 321 46 Singapore Soviet Shipping a® Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN Ivcsscl voy SCA QLORV QLMM3 2SA» 09/06 ROTA MUTIAMA MUTO26 31/06 ON/06 M KUMAKO MKO6N 06/06 16A6 24/06 MAMA6LU 513 OM6 16/06 6EAOLOWY OLWM6 16/06 26/06 HOCHIMINH/HAIPHONG vena vov sin mcm hph VYSOKOOOMK 060W66 01/06 06/06 WeOKOQORSK 108V96 12/06
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    • 168 46 SIM FAR EAST 6/6 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 4/6 BANGKOK 4/6 MANILA/CEBU 5/6 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 5/6 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 6/6 BUSAN 6/6 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 6/6 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 4/6 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIM EUROPE/UK 5/6 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 5/6 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM USA/CANADA 5/6 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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    • 383 46 STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I AGENTS FOR: ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOU) STAR UNE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 UNES) FAX: *****70 U *****12 (MAMETINC) (CR HO. **********0-g) N. AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SERVICES fSBw vnii Ivor m iwaun I it* list uv I mrt I m rwrttfcmu TTT ~ijl
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    • 294 47 POUR TMES/WEEK SAUIGS: P. GUDANG/SPORE Sta eta VMB. VOY Mam QUDAMQ VOY SB4QAPORE KUALA HAK V 408SS 29/06 (MOM) 4086N 30/06 (TUE) KUALA SIAK V ***** 31/06 (WED) 4006N 01/06 (THU) KUALA SMK V ***** 02/06 (FRQ 4067N 02/06 (FN) KUALA SIAK V ***** 03/06 (SA"n 4088N 04/06 (SUN) KUALA
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    • 401 47 FULL CONTAINSR MRVICS FROM SM TO MADRAS VESSEI/VOY iTA SM ETA MAA pravomsk is 27-asws oa-oa/oe TWER BRIDGE 334N 2S-MAM 04-07/00 PMVOLYE V.20 30-11/08 OS-OSAM BUNOA TERATAI V.TERO4I 31/8-1/8 OS-00/OS DOER BAY 33SN 01-OJ/OS 07-11«S PESTOVO VIS oa-owos OMMS TWER CAPE V.JJON O*«S/08 11-14JM KOTA JASA VJSAO7S 11-12/08 IS-ISAM SEA
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    • 285 47 xax MEO SHIPPING mm 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 30 MAY 95 HAIPHONG 12JUNSS WEEKLY CONTAINERS SERVICE TO BOMBAY TRANSIT 10-12 DAYS LOADING SINGAPORE ON: WEEKLY CONSOL TO
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    • 745 47 yum voYAar"^^^^ntcnAW—mw6Rl66l M II y H m qui u qui ■I >V II CALIFORNIA MERCURY 69W 70 1 4016 ***** U NEPTUNE CRYSTAL 32E 32E 1 3863 1 3863 H B9 II OOCLHONOUR 38W 36W ***** 1.4068 ■I ED M ANRO FREMANTLE 2SN 268 1 3608 1 3808 ■I m
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    • 878 48 AFGHANISTAN M&M Afghanistan Ltd., ■kJH ■kJH Hairatan, Torghundi, Islamqala (Doqharun) WWm€JLmWW C.1.5./RUSSIA: Alma Ata, Ashkhabad. Baku. Dushanbe. Irkutsk. Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk. Korsakov, Moscow Milltzef Mlincfl Novosobirsk Sochi, Tashkent, Tbilisi. Vladivostok, Vostochny International Forwarders Mongolia Ulaan Bator N Korea: Pyongyang, Nampo I EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE to west COAST SOUTH AMERICA Also ACCEPTING
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    • 384 48 am MM CONTAINER LINES. INC I Agents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) 1 JOR MOi laoosraooooa BBU (084) *****8 KUCHINQ (082)*****3 PENANQ: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P. KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE I PEN PK SIN PEN PKL
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    • 579 48 STRAITS JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE ft RORO CARRIER SPECIALIZE IN HEAVY LIFT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO 50 TONS Tftt [ftt IOADMCKM 1 vo' SM w AMDMU AMUIKA t 30/S 1/4 kUOMK 4/*, WWII 7/1 U 14/4, NAGOTA 11/« TOKYO 71/4,MSMMO 14/4 onmua 7 1/4 SUKAAAYA 4/4 OtAHGtSIY
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    • 120 49 REGIONAL WEATHER LEGCNO R Thunderstorm T #C A, X o hou<J Weother Wind deectton with speed in knot* J*", Wove Height Goody Sky Serfoce wiadt ore mdketed by orrowi wfcdi fty witti tlte wind One Ml card* represents cotm Of light ood vonoble wind* -1— On# ho# Heche represents 5
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    • 194 50 M.V. "GLORIA ACE" VOY M ARRD 19TH MAY 1995 Consignees of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessels are hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 30th May 1995 0900-1200 hours at FT4. No further survey will be entertained thereafter. As Agents: "K" Line Kinkai AB
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