The Business Times, 4 September 1995

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    13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday September 4 1995 85^
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  • Article
    Lock icon Monday deadline for Serb compliance
    65 1 AFP WASHINGTON US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke said yesterday "the bombs will recommence to fall" today if Bosnian Serb leaders do not comply with conditions set by the UN commander in the former Yugoslavia. Mr Holbrooke told ABC television the timing of a
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    148 1 Stock market indices Friday Week changc STII ..2,132.53 +7.45 KLSfComp 1.009.29 -19.47 Nikkei IS.120.73 350.05 Hans Seng 9.196.47 +116.08 SET Index 1.319.82 -29.51 Jakarta C«aip 502.00 +1.40 £LSA China B 862.40 -21.06 usi All Ord 2.133.2 +15.9 FTSE 100 3.509.4 -15.5 Dow Jones 4.647.54 46.14 Awmfi of prime or Singapore*
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    Lock icon Computer king Gates pays US$31m for da Vinci paper
    187 1 AP ROME Computer software mogul Bill Gates finally got to see what he had wanted so badly: a Leonardo da Vinci manuscript he bought by telephone for nearly US$3l million (Ss44 million). Mr Gates got his first look at the 72-page
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    China's biggest broker sets up fund unit in S'pore
    505 1  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG CHINA'S largest securities house has teamed up with a former fund manager at Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) to set up an international fund management company in Singapore. Shanghai International Securities Co Ltd (Sisco),
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    DBS Land joins Sino Land in HK$8b residential project
    351 1  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG DBS Land has teamed up with property magnate Ng Teng Fong's Sino Land again in Hongkong this time possibly to bid for an estimated HKSB billion (551.47 billion) residential project above a mass rapid transit
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    Cyberspace gets boost with third Internet provider named tomorrow
    352 1  -  By Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE The third Internet public access provider is expected to be hamed tomorrow, further stimulating growth and diversity in the quality and range of Internet services. That's when Minister for Communications Mah Bow Tan addresses a conference
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    Regional investors in the lead in bid for Aussie homebuilder
    378 1  -  By Donald Turner SINGAPORE Investors from this region appear to be among the front-runners in the bidding for Australia's largest builder of residential homes, AVJennings. AVJennings is being sold as a whole by debt-laden Jennings Group Ltd, which is listed
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    Lock icon Suharto's relative leads group in general offer for Asiamatrix
    537 1  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE A group led by a daughter-in-law of Indonesian President Suharto is making a general offer for Sesdaq-listed Asiamatrix, confirming what has been on the grapevine for weeks. Led by Ranawati Sigit Harjojudanto, the group is offering $1.10
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    Lock icon US govt finances deeper in mire: experts
    218 1 Reuter JACKSON, Wyoming US government finances are in far worse shape than is commonly thought and the country's US$l6O billion (***** billion) annual budget deficit is only the tip of the icebeTg. That was one of the main conclusions of a conference here
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      7 1 Business IT: pg 13 Supercomputer for S'pore?
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      20 1 Market iMßfters: pg 21 KL fund managers wait for govt answers New Internet player will have toagh job, Pg 2
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      160 1 World View: Pg 20 The metaphysics of money m MIKIMOTO The Originator of Cultured Pearls hoo •01-22 Tangiin Shopping Centre, -Singapore JB.Zm Do ame for developing world, World Bank bead urges US, pg 20 Development the best is always yet to be, Pg 9 Hpnl When you're acquiring has\he time
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • Eye on the Economy
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        Lock icon GNP growth forecast at 8.1%
        346 2  -  By Anna Teo GROSS national product, which grew 8.8 per cent last year, is likely to expand by 8.1 per cent this year, the National University of Singapore's Econometric Studies Unit (ESU) forecasts. Growth in the next two years will be slower at 7.5 per
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      Toa Payoh renewal may lead to more such projects: Lim
      493 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE selective en bloc redevelopment scheme (SERS) in Toa Payoh, if supported by the residents, may start "a small chain reaction", in that more redevelopments will be implemented in the estate, said Minister for National Development
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      New Internet player will have a tough job
      430 2  -  But three-way competition will bring better rates and services for users Lee Wai Leong WHOEVER wins the third Internet public access licence tomorrow is going to have its hands full just catching up with Sing Net and Pacific Internet, which will literally
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      Insurance scheme for Muslims launched
      244 2 SINGAPORE'S first Islamic insurance scheme, called the Takaful Fund, was launched yesterday. The scheme, the brainchild of Ampro Holdings Singapore, will give Muslim Singaporeans an investment vehicle that will not compromise their Islamic beliefs. The fund will invest only in halal (permitted) stocks, instruments and
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      Power trade mission for the US
      138 2 SINGAPORE Singapore has mounted a power generation trade mission its first to the US to pave the way for local companies and their American counterparts to jointly invest in power projects in Asia. The mission, which leaves today, comprises the Singapore Trade Development Board
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      Team to explore Hubei's potential
      129 2 SINGAPORE A unit formed to promote trade and investment in Hubei has sent a delegation of local government officials and businessmen to the Chinese province to get first-hand information on opportunities there. The 19-member delegation, which left yesterday, is led by the unit's Singapore chairman
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon Manila to borrow US$3.5b next year for government projects
      369 3 AFP Reuter MANILA The Philippine is to borrow about US$3.5 billion (554.97 billion) from bjlateral and multilateral creditors next year to fund government projects, Finance Department data obtained yesterday showed. The documents indicate that Manila plans to draw US$l.7 billion from
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      Lock icon Indonesia one of least competitive countries in region: minister
      278 3 60% of private firm workers have only basic education AFP JAKARTA About 60 per cent of private company workers in Indonesia only have elementary school education, making this one of the least competitive countries in the region, a minister was quoted
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      Lock icon Ramos marks Japanese surrender
      52 3 Reuter KIANGA, Philippines Philippine President Fidel Ramos, in a native Ifugao costume, dancing with villagers here yesterday. Mr Ramos was taking part in ceremonies to mark the 50th anniversary of the surrender of Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Kiangan towns in northern Philippines on Sep 2,
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      Lock icon Bush visit to Hanoi will be first by a US ex-president
      368 3 AP HANOI In a further sign of improving ties between old enemies, former US President George Bush plans to arrive today for a historic if unofficial visit to Vietnam. Mr Bush will become the first American ex-president to meet
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      Lock icon 22 Indon dams in bad disrepair: official
      67 3 AFP JAKARTA A total of 22 Indonesian dams are in such a bad state of repair that they constitute a "potential source of disaster", a top ministerial official was quoted as saying last Saturday. The Director-General of Irrigation of the Public Works Ministry,
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      Lock icon Hanoi wants in on hotel ventures
      74 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam is taking steps to boost the state's share in joint ventures in the country's booming hotel sector and in the office construction industry, press reports said yesterday. The Prime Minister's Office has asked ministries and the State Committee for Cooperation and
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      Lock icon Aussie minister in Bangkok
      49 3 AFP BANGKOK Australian Trade Minister Bob McMullan arrived in Thailand yesterday on a swing through South-east Asia to promote Australian business and bilateral ties. He said yesterday that trade performance between Australia and Thailand was "very good, very encouraging, but it should be more". AFP
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      Lock icon Carrie Models recruits in Myanmar
      67 3 AP YANGON A female university student and a male goldsmith have emerged winners of the first foreign-sponsored model search contest in conservative Myanmar, organisers said yesterday. The "Traditional Came Asian Model Search '95, Myanmar" was staged last Saturday by the Singapore-based agency Carrie Models. The
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      Lock icon US, Japanese carmakers to open plants in Vietnam
      277 3 AP HANOI Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet has given approval in principle for two American and two Japanese car giants to invest in assembly projects worth more than US$4OO million (Sss6B million), a business report said yesterday. Ford Motor Co and the
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Beijing continues to encourage investment from Taiwan
      382 4 Senior China official vows strained ties will not affect business relations AFP AP BEIJING A senior Chinese government official has pledged that Beijing's policy of encouraging Taiwanese investment will not be affected by strained ties between the mainland and the island. President Jiang
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      Lock icon Chinese trade team visits Taipei
      241 4 Reuter TAIPEI A 32-member Chinese trade delegation has arrived here for a 10-day visit, the biggest such group to visit the island from China since bilateral relations started to sour in June. A spokesman for the Taiwan organiser, the National Academy of Management, yesterday said:
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      Lock icon Top China bank to crack down on bad loans
      196 4 AFP BEIJING China's chief creditor for key state projects, the People's Construction Bank of China (PCBC), has vowed to get tough with recipients responsible for more than US$6O billion (5585.2 billion) worth of outstanding loans. To improve loan quality, the PCBC
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      Lock icon Chinese state firm settles £3m row with UK company
      263 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Zoneheath Associates Ltd, the company of British businessman Richard Gosling, won an out-of-court settlement with a Chinese state trading house to end a £3 million (556.6 million) breach of contract row. v In a joint press release,
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      Lock icon China says problems with NGOs over police surveillance resolved
      442 4 AFP UPI BEIJING. The Chinese authorities and the organisers of a world forum on women have reached agreement on all their problems, a Chinese official said yesterday, after an ultimatum because of police surveillance. Forum organisers declined to confirm immediately that
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      Lock icon Low steel exports may make China net importer
      284 4 Knight-Ridder BEIJING Sluggish exports of steel products in the coming months are expected to turn China into a net steel importer this year, the official China Daily reported yesterday. Quoting industry sources, the newspaper said China is expected to import about 7
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      Lock icon China president blasts Japan, Taiwan
      431 6 Jiang Zemin hits out during speech at 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of WWII AFP BEIJING China marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the anti-Japanese war yesterday, with President Jiang Zemin taking a swipe at Japanese conservatives and Taiwan. Virtually ail the
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      Lock icon Postal savings in China hit 130b yuan
      200 6 Reuter BEIJING Chiiufs postal savings climbed 30 billion yuan (SSS. 1 billion) to 130 billion yuan in the first seven months of the year, the China Daily Business Weekly said. Postal savings have averaged an annual increase of 50 per cent since they
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      Lock icon Protesters condemn Taiwan's N-plant, French test
      301 6 AFP TAIPEI Some 3,000 antinuclear activists, including about 30 foreigners, took to the streets here yesterday to protest against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific and Taiwan's construction of a nuclear power plant. They also condemned China for testing nuclear bombs at Lop
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      Anson Chan sees autonomy, but no democracy after '97
      275 6  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG HONGKONG will not have democracy after 1997, but it will have a high degree of autonomy, said the territory's chief secretary, Anson Chan, over the weekend. In an interview with CNN International, Mrs Chan said
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      Lock icon Commodities body goes international
      84 6 Reuter BEIJING The Zhengzhou Commodities Exchange, in central China's Henan province, has been accepted as a member by the International Options Market Association (IOMA) as its first member from China. Xinhua news agency hailed the move as an indication that China's fledgling futures markets are drawing
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      Lock icon Taipei mayor to visit Warsaw
      101 6 Reuter TAIPEI The mayor of Taipei, Chen Shui-bian (right), will visit Warsaw this week and next to promote relations between Poland and. Taiwan, which do not have diplomatic ties, the United Daily News newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Chen, a leading member of Taiwan's main opposition
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      Lock icon Taiwan budget to rise 4% next year
      123 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's central-government budget may rise bV 4 per cent in fiscal 1996/97 due to increasing government debt and higher spending on social welfare and infrastructure, a budget official said on Saturday. The budget will rise to NTS 1.18 trillion (5560.9 billion)
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      Lock icon Taipei ups defence budget
      126 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan will raise its defence budget as the island faces increasing threats from its giant neighbour China, the China Times newspaper reported yesterday. Defence Minister Chiang Chung-ling was quoted as saying the defence budget would rise slightly. Taiwan has set its defence spending for
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      Lock icon Leading Chinese dissident jailed
      82 6 Reuter BEIJING Chinese dissident Liu Gang has been jailed for 10 days for refusing to renounce his ideas and for failing to report to police every week, a relative said yesterday. About eight policemen arrived at Liu's home in Liaoyuan, 700 km north-east of Beijing on
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      1038 4 9 SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT The first educational and training institute in Asia to achieve SISIR ISO 9000 Certification The Following September November 1995 Executive Development Programmes Are Open For Registration How. SENIOR MANAGEMENT I 32. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 63. How PR Can Enhance Corporate Accreditation Programme Oct 2-6 Positioning
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      139 5 Announcing the launch of the SIA Cargo 8747-400 Mega Ark to New York the gateway to the entire US East Coast and Mid-West From 3rd September 1995, the Big Apple's skyline will see some big changes. In the shape of the largest, most advanced commercial cargo aircraft in the world.
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Maharashtra unhappy with Enron's fresh power plant bid
      402 7 AFP Bloomberg Business News BOMBAY India's Maharashtra state government may ask Enron Corp to make a fresh bid for its cancelled power project in competition with other companies, says Chief Minister Manohar Joshi. The option is "under consideration," he said in reply
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      Lock icon Japan plans to launch computerised quake warning system
      266 7 AFP TOKYO Japan plans to introduce a computerised earthquake warning system that is capable of halting water, gas and transport services seconds after a major quake occurs. The Asahi Shimbun said yesterday that under the planned system, the meteorological agency would specify
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      Lock icon Aussies seen on course to trim jobless rate to 5% by 2000
      267 7 Reuter CANBERRA Australia is on target to cut its jobless rate to 5 per cent by the year 2000 from the current 8.2 per cent after latest official figures put annual economic growth at 3.7 per cent, says
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      Lock icon Aussie building industry faces 2-year slump: report
      311 7 Reuter CANBERRA Australia's building and construction industry faces a fall of 17 per cent in the value of building starts, mainly home building, over the next two years. A report by industry analysts BIS Shrapnel, released yesterday, said that housing starts would drop
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      Lock icon Seoul firms bag building deals worth US$4b
      93 7 AFP SEOUL South Korean contractors received construction orders worth U554.36 billion (556.2 billion) for 118 overseas projects in the eight months to August, a survey showed yesterday. The figure is compared with US$4.3 billion in 83 projects during the same 1994 period, says
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      Lock icon Too much finger-lickin' goodness
      89 7 AFP BANGALORE Kentucky Fried Chicken's controversial first outlet in India has been threatened with closure by Indian authorities here for allegedly serving adulterated chicken, officials said yesterday. The Bangalore city corporation has asked the multinational fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to explain why it
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      Lock icon Killer gas blast in S Korea city
      71 7 AFP SEOUL A gas explosion ripped through a three-storey commercial building in a residential area in the eastern South Korean city of Chunchon yesterday, killing one person and injuring eight others, television said. The early morning blast in the building's basement cafeteria destroyed
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      Lock icon Ethnic strife hurts Lankan growth
      103 7 Reuter COLOMBO Ethnic strife since Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain in 1948 has been the dominant cause of economic losses that have cost the country 2.4 trillion rupees (SS6O billion), a newspaper said yesterday. Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, and city state Singapore had the
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      Lock icon Peaceful end to Dhaka strike
      53 7 Reuter DHAKA Bangladesh returned to normal yesterday afternoon as a 32-hour national strike over opposition demands for early elections ended with no major violence reported in the last few hours, police and witnesses said. They said transport rolled back on to the streets at 2pm
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      Lock icon India says Pakistan has hand in Punjab chief minister's killing
      281 7 AFP NEW DELHI India has alleged that Pakistan was responsible for the assassination of Punjab state chief minister who was blown up by a car bomb three days ago, a report said yesterday. Home Minister Shankarrao Chavan told The Economic
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      208 7 Everyday Acer delivers Some PC companies have inventory levels of 100 days or more. For months, their the newest, freshest PC technology to customers all over the world. Last year that amounted products just sit around in warehouses. to US$3.2 billion in revenues. And this year we'll do even better.
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      1427 8 I The Sime Darby Group I I PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT I OF RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 1995 I I Sime Darby Berhad I I Unaudited reeulte of the Group for the year ended 30th June 1995 In a buoyant commodities market, the Plantations Division realised higher selling prices
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  • FOCUS
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      Development: the best is always yet to be
      1352 9  -  By Anna Teo WITH typical efficiency, Singapore seems to have achieved its developed country goal a few years early. And with typical prudence, the leaders are now saying hold it, we haven't quite got there yet. They are right, and not just
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  • THE ARTS
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      Reaching out to non-viewers
      781 11  -  TV 12 executives tell Kevin Sullivan their targets for new channel, Premiere 12 Kevin Sullivan TVI2 HAS chosen a feminine French word for its new sports and arts station, rather than the dowdy English neuter. The 'e' in Premiere 12 presumably indicates an aspiration to sophisticated
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      Lock icon A feast of facts
      776 11  -  Bill Dermody drools over recipes and kitchen gadgets in what is probably the world's laigest culinary museum Bill Dermody AP WHEN movie director Martin Scorsese needed to know how to set a table for an 1870s New York high-society dinner for his film The Age of
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
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      A manager who believes in the human factor
      1210 12  -  Chuang Peck Ming meets ICl's Wong Hong Sze, the human resource manager who has made it to MD Chuang Peck Ming THE GOOD news came while Wong Hong Sze was on holiday with his family in Europe two months ago; it was
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      687 12 COMFORTGROUP Comfort Group Ltd I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OP ANNUAL OENKRAL MUTING I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Second Annual General Meeting of the Company wiN be held at Orchid H Country Club, 1 Orchid Club Road, Singapore *****2 on Wednesday, 27 September 1995 at
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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  • Business IT
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      New-age printers set to make big impression in Singapore
      780 13  -  Lee Wai Leong checks out the early players Lee Wai Leong ANEW wave of do-it-all desktop printers, which have taken the overseas markets by storm, is expected to hit Singapore in the next few months. Known as multifunction printers (MFPs), these
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      S'pore could get region's mightiest supercomputer
      397 13  -  Surinder Singh reports from Sydney on moves to purchase a supercomputer two generations ahead of the region's best Surinder Singh SINGAPORE'S National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) is negotiating with Cray Computer Research to buy a Cray supercomputer which will put Singapore at least
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      Thai IT market set to hit $1.7b this year
      272 13  -  By David Mok COMPANIES venturing into the Thai IT market will be able to capitalise on the brisk 37 per cent growth that the computer business there is expected to post this year. According to the Thailand Computer Directory (TCD), the
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      Zenith moves into Asia-Pacific
      674 14  -  This latest PC player will focus on niche corporate markets, David Mok learns David Mok US-BASED computer company Zenith Data Systems has become the latest in a line of foreign firms hoping to grab a chunk of the fast-grow-ing Asia-Pacific PC market. The move by ZDS
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      NUS embraces Windows 95 with open arms
      395 14  -  By Lee Wai Leong WHILE most companies and organisations are still holding back on Windows 95, the National University of Singapore is already rushing forward to embrace Windows 95 with arms wide open. The university, which last week launched a pilot programme to
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    • TECH TAKES
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        New notebooks from Epson
        97 14 SINGAPORE Epson has introduced two new notebooks, the Action Note 660 C and the 880 C. The 660 C is powered by a 486DX2 66Mhz chip, and comes standard with 4MB RAM, a 340M8 hard disk, built-in 1.44M8 floppy drive and a 10.3-inch colour screen. The
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        Symantec C++ Win 95 compatible
        43 14 SINGAPORE Software company Symantec Corp has announced its updated version of Symantec C+ for Windows 95, which has been certified Windows 95 compatible. Symantec C++ version 7.2 will be sold at an estimated retail price of US$459 (*****).
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        NEC's new product
        50 14 SINGAPORE NEC has introduced a new six-speed CD-ROM drive bundle which includes the Multi Spin 6Xi Internal CDROM Reader, a 16-bit SCSI-2 host adapter and 26 CD-ROM titles. The drive has a data transfer rate of 900 KB per seoood, and the whole pack retails for $700.
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        87 14  -  J Km. tonpuN uy David Mok SINGAPORE Networking firm Proteon Inc has expanded its local area networking (LAN) range of products with the announcement of the Series'7s Token Ring Stackable Hub family. Proteon said that the Series 75 is baaed on the p7500 base unit, a
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        Learning AutoCAD Release 13
        48 14 SINGAPORE A seminar on "Tips and Tricks for AutoCAD Release 13" will be held on Sept 18 at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom. Speakers include Steve Hunter and Phil Baird, two well-known AutoCAD experts in the Australasian CAD industry. For details, call Sheryl at 324-0838.
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        ISS Technology Day
        58 14 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science (ISS) will hold its Technology Day on Sept 19 at its premises at Heng Mui Keng Terrace. There will be a showcase of technologies in areas such as multimedia systems and multi-language processing, and also technology lectures by ISS staff. Call
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        55 14  -  Compiled by Lee Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE The Construction Industry Development Board is organising a seminar on BauCON-IT on Sept 27 at the World Trade Centre. It covers topics such as CORENet (Construction and Real Estate Network), concurrent engineering and the Integrated Landuse System in Singapore. For details,
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      Have a cappuccino, surf the Internet
      494 15  -  But only if you sign up for the training courses, Lee Wai Leong learns as he checks out Singapore's first Internet cafe Lee Wai Leong INTERNAUTS and the other unearthly denizens that inhabit cyberspace can now hang out at Singapore's hippiest in fact, only
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      Clariion eyes more growth in Asia
      364 15 BARELY three years after opening its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, data storage systems specialist Clariion is already experiencing revenue growth of 65 per cent quarter to quarter. And with increasing demand for its storage systems, fuelled in part by new storagehungry applications such as
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        47 15 SINGAPORE Compaq Computer Asia-Pacific has appointed Philip Leung as vice-president and managing director, East Asia Group (Hongkong, Taiwan and Korea) of Compaq Computer Hong Kong Pte Ltd. Mr Leung was previously president and managing director of Quantum Asia-Pacific before his current appointment.
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        75 15 SINGAPORE Lotus Development Asia-Pacific has appointed Loh Tiak Koon managing director for Asia at Lotus Consulting Services. Before joining Lotus, Mr Loh co-founded Quorum Growth Asia, a venture-capital funded start-up company that specialised in identifying, evaluating and marketing new grouDware technologies in Asia Pacific. It
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      197 15 Bloomberg Microsoft Corp said four versions of its Microsoft Word software program are the target of a virus and it is making the remedy available to customers over the Internet. The software programs that can be afTected are Word 6.0 for Windows 3.1, Word
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      910 17  -  The PC age has a new consumer. And Microsoft is learning just how difficult he or she can be, says Claire Leow Claire Leow WHEN worldwide sales of Windows 95 crossed the million mark after only four days, Microsoft Corp was swift
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      346 17 Goal! English soccer hits the Net FT AS ENGLISH football welcomes the new Premier League season, fans are pulling on their jerseys and diving on to the Internet. First stop for the supporters' bus on the superhighway should be the virtual library which collates all known soccer Web sites worldwide
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      749 18  -  The product is aimed at the growing small office market, reports Claire Leow Claire Leow HEWLETTPACKARD clearly does not believe in waiting. Over the weekend it launched the first of a family of printers and scanners for the coming Christmas season, signalling
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      811 18  -  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 WINDOWS 95 makes its way onto millions of hard drives everywhere, one thing has become
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    412 20 Fragile democracies at risk if rich nations focus on their own woes Reuter Jackson, Wyoming World Bank president James Wolfensohn warned the United $tates and its rich allies that they risked undermining fragile pew democracies in the developing world by
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    53 20 Reuter PAPEETE, French Polynesia Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura (centre) marching with his colleagues in an anti-nuclear rally in Tahiti's capital during the weekend. The march included politicians from a global who's-who demonstrating with local Tahitians against the French government's plans to resume nuclear testing in
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    295 20 Bloomberg Business News WOLFSBURG, Germany Volkswagen AG said reports that the vehicle maker plans to eliminate a further 30,000 jobs in the next four years concern a "theoretical scenario" based on productivity targets. The company also said it expects temporary
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    116 20 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej underwent heart surgery yesterday after admission to hospital earlier in the day, the Royal Household said. A team of doctors at Siriraj Hospital took two hours to enlarge a narrowed main blood vessel to the
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    815 20  -  WORLD VIEW By Kevin Sullivan A state-of-the-art French Mirage fighter was shot down by a primitive SAM-7 missile last week as it took part in Nato's onslaught on Serb siege positions around the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. French press reports have suggested that equipment designed
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    297 20 AFP BONN Iraq's biological weapons programme had the world on the "verge of a massive catastrophe", Rolf Ekeus, head of the UN special commission overseeing Iraqi disarmament (UNSCOM), said in an interview to appear today. Mr Ekeus told the German weekly
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    185 20 Reuter HAMBURG, Germany The German private television network RTL has paid about US$24O million (SS34I million) to Time Warner Inc for the rights to an extensive collection of Alms and television programmes, a report said yesterday. German news magazine Der Spiegel said the
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    93 20 AP GENEVA A hijacker who reportedly demanded an end to French nuclear tests was overpowered by police yesterday, three hours after he forced a Paris-bound jet to land here. All 279 passengers had been released minutes earlier, but 10 crew members were still on board when the hijacker
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    53 20 AFP NEW DELHI At least six people died and several others were injured when a hotel collapsed yesterday in the northern Indian city of Meerut. National television station said rescuers had so far dug out six bodies from the debris of the three-sto-rey hotel which collapsed during
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    73 20 AFP TORONTO Officials yesterday confirmed that they had given up hope of finding alive any of the seven British airmen in a Royal Air Force Nimrod which crashed into Lake Ontario during an air shoW the day before. The Nimrod plunged into Lake Ontario after
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    53 20 UPI PARIS A powerful bomb exploded in a busy outdoor market here yesterday, slightly injuring at least three people. Police said they could not immediately confirm whether the explosion was linked to two other recent bomb blasts here that authorities suspect were the work of Algerian
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    71 20 Reuter JOHANNESBURG Thousands of guerillas who fought white rule in South Africa are to lose their jobs in the country's integrated post-apartheid forces as part of deep cuts in defence spending. The government is offering severance packages to up to 10,000 former guerillas from the ruling African National
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    70 20 AFP JOHANNESBURG President Nelson Mandela is planning to marry Graca Machel, widow of former Mozambican president Samora Machel. Two South African newspapers yesterday quoted Mr Mandela's aides as saying the planned marriage was the reason the president on Aug 21 filed for divorce from his estranged
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    48 20 Reuter LONDON A Texas policewoman who fefT in k>vc with a British shop manager while surfing the flown to Britain to many her high-tech Romeo. It was love at firstfcpte for Donna Qalawi when she spent hours oiute gtattfd iofer Mr Bottomley. Reuter r
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    246 20 AFP MUSCAT South Korean Energy Minister Park JaeYoon held talks here yesterday on importing three million tonnes of gas annually from Oman beginning in the year 2000, an Omani official said. "Important progress has been achieved towards finalising the agreement," Omani Energy Ministry
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    366 20 Reuter ALDERSHOT, England Britain's arms industry faces stiffer competition in a shrinking market and must offer packages of equipment rather than individual products, the defence ministry's chief salesman said yesterday. Charles Masefield, head of the Defence Export Services Organisation, said the
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      693 21  -  Company makes group pre-tax profit of more than M$ 1 billion for first time jspwti by Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd lived up to market expectations by breaching the billion-ringgit mark at pre-tax level but turned in a higher-than-anticipat-ed
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      M'sian-listed subsidiaries post mixed results
      395 21 SIME Darby's three Malay-sian-listed subsidiaries repotted mixed results for the year ended June 30, 1995. Sime UEP Properties Bhd and Tractors Malaysia Holdings Bhd posted higher profits for the year but DMIB Bhd suffered a drop in profits. Sime UEFs group net earnings jumped a
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      585 21  -  11 MARKET r! MATTERS By Ho Kay Tat Malaysia turned 38 as a nation last week and the people had many reasons to celebrate and be upbeat about the future. Political stability and racial harmony two factors often cited by foreigners as
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        96 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Securities Commission has given the green light to General Lumber Fabricators Builders Bhd's proposed rights issue but has approved with revisions the acquisition pf Nilam Mestika Sdn Bhd and the listing of General Lumber's shares on the Kuala Lumpur Stock
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        Lock icon TA unit buys stake in broker
        64 22 Bernama MELBOURNE TA Securities Australia Pty Ltd (Tasa) has Required a 5.1 per cent shareholding in Mcintosh Securities Ltd. Sydney-based Tasa is the Australian stockbroking associate of TA Enterprise Mid while the Melbourne-based Mcintosh is Australia's largest stockbroker and the country's only publicly listed
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        137 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kumpulan Emas Bhd will get an extraordinary gain of Ms4s million at group level from its proposed disposals of interests in Metropolitan Utilities Corporation Sdn Bhd and shares in IMD Sdn Bhd. Kumpulan Emas said in a Circular in relation to its proposals
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        Lock icon IOI bonds reviewed to A2
        59 22 Bernama CUALA LUMPUR Rating Agency Malaysia Bhd has reaewed and rationalised 101 Properties Bhd's M 550.5 million [uaranteed bonds (1994/1999) from a long-term enhanced rating rf" AAA to a stand-alone rating of A 2, it was announced on I Saturday. The A 2 indicates adequate
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        101 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Cagamas Bhd, the national mortgage corporation, on Friday announced the issuance of Cagamas Fixed t Bonds amounting to an aggregate of MS9OO million 12.6 million), comprising MSSOO minion of three years matuand MS4OO million of four years maturity. It said in a ment
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        221 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Kejora jfcga Bhd has obtained apfrom the Securities |Kjpiss>on for tly proposed ■Recording to a statement isB by Commerce InternaMerchant Bankers on |Blf of the company, the ■■rosed restructuring cornBps the acquisition of PerM»a Construction Sdn Bhd, a
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        Lock icon KL Securities Commission gives nod for Medas listing
        206 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Medas Corp Bhd has obtained approval from the Securities Commission (SC) for the listing and quotation of its enlarged share capital of M$ 14 million (557.9 million), comprising 14 million shares of Msl each, on the Kuala Lumpur Stock
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        536 22 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Small and ailing Malaysian listed companies are potential gold mines as asset-rich private companies target them to get a listing on the local exchange, analysts said over the weekend. They said holding stock in small and loss-incurring companies could
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        Lock icon Phileo property arm set for backdoor listing
        545 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR THE Phileo Group of Companies, which already has a listed entity controlling its financial activities, appears set to obtain a backdoor listing for its property development arm. It is believed that Kampong Lanjut Tin Dredging Bhd, listed on the main
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        Lock icon More hiccups before Manila shares rebound: analysts
        456 22 Reuter MANILA The gloom hanging over Philippine stocks is expected to linger for a few more weeks before dispersing as the market approaches the traditionally strong October to December period, brokers say. Joven Babaan, an analyst at brokerage SBC Warburg Manila, said last
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        Global healthcare firm IHG plans tie-up with Berjaya Leisure
        248 22 LONDON The International Hospitals Group (IHG), a world-wide hospital management and health-care consultancy company, plans to form a joint venture with Berjaya Leisure Sdn Bhd to promote healthcare services in Malaysia and other parts of South-east Asia. The two parties are
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        Nomura to woo S-E Asian firms to list in Tokyo
        619 23  -  Ftmi Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN'S leading securities house Nomura will do its bit to help revitalise trading of foreign stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It plans to hold seminars in the major capital markets of South-east Asia
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        New World owes a few explanations
        671 23 Sk HANG SENG S INSIGHT INVESTORS in New World Development, controlled by the Cheng family, may be excused for being confused by the proposed reorganisation of the group, one of Hongkong's more prominent companies. It involves placing New World's hotel management activities in the
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        Lock icon First half profits of Taiwan firms rise 32%
        157 23 Reuter TAIPEI Pre-tax profits of Taiwan's 320 listed Arms totalled NTS 151.3 billion (SS7.B billion) in the first half of 1995, up 32 per cent from a year, earlier, the Commercial Times newspaper reported. The financial sector led the earnings totals with
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        Lock icon Fletcher plans to expand in S America
        181 23 AFP MELBOURNE New Zea-land-based diversified manufacturer Fletcher Challenge Ltd has said it will target South America for expansion of its building materials business. Chief executive Hugh Fletcher told a television interviewer yesterday the company aimed to expand each of its operations in pulp
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        Lock icon Dow Chemical starts US$2b buyback
        88 23 Bloomberg Business News MIDLAND, Michigan Dow Chemical Co says it has starting buying back 25 million shares of common stock, valued at almost US$l.9 billion (552.6 billion). The repurchase programme is a good use of its surplus cash", Dow said on Friday. The secondlargest chemical
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        Lock icon Philip Morris sees US$1b China sales
        104 23 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING US-based tobacco and foods giant Philip Morris Companies expects its annual sales in China will grow ten-fold to US$l billion (551.42 billion) by the turn of the century, the official China Daily reported on Saturday, citing Jack Keenan, president and
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        Lock icon CLBN profit up on cost-cutting
        98 23 Bloomberg Business News ROTTERDAM Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland NV (CLBN) said first-half net profit rose 30 per cent as the effects of cost-cutting more than made up for falling income. The company earned 30.5 million guilders (5526.2 million), compared with 23.4 million guilders in the
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        Lock icon S Korea okays London receipts listing
        82 23 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it has approved listing this month of USS2IO million (SS23B million) worth of global depositary receipts issued by two units of the LG Group on the London bourse. LG Electronics plans to list US$l45
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        Lock icon Shanghai car firm becomes umbrella body
        453 23 AFP SHANGHAI Shanghai's largest car company has restructured itself to become an umbrella grouping of all state firms involved in the car industry, news reports said on Saturday. Shanghai Auto Industry Company was formally turned' into Shanghai Auto Industry (Group) Company with the approval
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        Lock icon Fujitsu to up computer sales target a second time
        175 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's computer giant Fujitsu Ltd will revise its personal computer sales target upwards to I.S million units for the year to March 19%, more than three times the amount sold last year, a report said on Saturday.The move would
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        379 24 AP Bloomberg Business News MILAN A plan to create Italy's second largest conglomerate drew fire on Saturday from critics who saw it as a typical manoeuvre by the country's close-knit club of powerful businessmen. Under plans announced on Friday,
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        Lock icon TCI demands prolong talks on Time, Warner deal
        294 24 FT LOS ANGELES Three-sid-ed talks aimed at buying out a major shareholder and merging the entertainment and media empires of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) were expected to have continued over the weekend. Negotiations over the proposed US$B billion (SS
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        143 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON US pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Group Inc may add as much as US$22O million (Ss3l2 million) to its US$2.6 billion hostile takeover bid for UK-based Fisons pic, the Financial Times reported last week. Analysts said Collegeville, Pennsylvania-based
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        Lock icon Total Thai bond issues may reach 150b baht this year
        469 25 Reuter Bangkok The primary market for Thai bond issues is expected to recover in coming months after tight money supply in the first half of this year squeezed new issues. Total bond issues by Thai companies and state enterprises in
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        Lock icon US investors snap up Yankee bonds
        538 25 Waning domestic issues and fatter yields make them attractive, say analysts Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK What do you do if you are a non-US company, you want dollars and you see some American investors champing for better yields? You issue Yankee bonds and
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        Lock icon Abbey National cuts home loan rate by 0.35 points
        370 25 FT LONDON Abbey National, the UK's second largest mortgage lender, has cut its home loan rate by 0.35 percentage points. It is the first time since January 1992 that Abbey has acted unilaterally by cutting its rate without a preceding cut
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          Lock icon NZ bonds expected to outshine others
          115 25 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand bonds are likely to outperform those elsewhere, investment banking firm CS First Boston said on Friday. "The Reserve Bank has twice tightened monetary policy to keep inflation low and inflation looks like it is indeed headed down," CS First Boston
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          Lock icon Shanghai loan market raises 214b yuan
          111 25 Reuter SHANGHAI The Shanghai Short-term Fund Financing Centre, an interbank capital market, raised 214.1 billion yuan (5536.3 billion) in the first seven months of this year, up 116.9 billion yuan, or 121.73 per cent from the same period last year, Xinhua news agency reported.
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          79 25 Reuter SHANGHAI China's Ministry of Finance has agreed to conduct trial inter-exchange trade in treasury bills, the Shanghai Securities News said. The trial will start with one-year treasury bills issued this year, with the China Securities Trading System as the centre of the trading, the
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          Lock icon Taiwan's overdue loan ratio at 2.5%
          61 25 Reuter TAIPEI Overdue loans in Taiwanese banks accounted for 2.5 per cent of their total loans in June, matching a record set in March this year, the central bank said. The record set in March at 2.5 per cent was the highest ratio since
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        Lock icon Colombian bank to sell US$150m in Euronotes
        309 25 Bloomberg Business News BOGOTA, Colombia Banco de Colombia, Colombia's second-largest bank, said it plans to sell US$l5O million (Ss2l3 million) in five-year Euronotes once Colombia's political crisis subsides. "We're waiting for this commotion to pass," said bank president Alvaro Jaramillo. "I'm not pressed
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        Lock icon Malaysia's cocoa producers urged to look downstream
        464 26 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia urged its cocoa, producers on Friday to venture into downstream industries such as beverages and confectionery to capitalise on the huge volume of processed cocoa made in the country. "Malaysia is the seventh foremost producer of ground cocoa in
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        Lock icon Shanghai Metals Exchange now independent
        186 26 Reuter SHANGHAI The Shanghai Metals Exchange has become an independent exchange administered by its members instead of government departments, the Liberation Daily said. Under the new system that took effect on Thursday, members' meetings have ultimate authority and government officials should not assume exchange posts,
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        Lock icon Buyers in Asia undeterred by soaring wheat prices
        261 26 Reuter SINGAPORE Soaring world wheat prices, lifted by news of European withdrawal from the world markets, are unlikely to deter Asian buyers who have yet to cover their year-end requirements, traders said. "Asian countries are reasonably well covered for the nearbys and
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        Lock icon Asian diesel prices set to recover slightly
        459 26 Traders cautious about demand from big regional importers Reuter SINGAPORE Diesel prices in Asia are set to recover only marginally between October and December as traders said over the weekend that they remain cautious about demand from major regional importers. Additional demand will
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        556 27  -  By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE The Japanese financial system was the focus of the forex market last week. The announcement of trouble at two Japanese financial institutions on Wednesday had a negative impact on the the yen, fuelling concerns about the Japanese banking system, and
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        649 27 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Last week witnessed a spectacular plunge in base metals on the London Metal Exchange (LME), as speculators liquidated their holdings en masse. Tin led the rout, losing over 10 per cent of its value during the week,
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1334 27 SICOM Futures (Mm cMai m at SJtpa) IBS 1 C—>TKt (Scents/kg) Clow Volume Open Month High Low Sen (loans) Interest Oct 93 201.30 200.50 201.30 30 1923 Nov 200.30 200 50 200.30 23 1323 Dec 200.30 200 50 200.30 23 1323 Jan/Mar 96 198.50 194.30 ***** 223 3123
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      4881 28 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Earn EPS Da* TV LY TY LY Coapuy inn (cts) (cts) ABK Hldgs Aug 13 I 0.364 1.109 0.8 2.S Alex Hide Aug 28 F 2.1 $9 12.421 7.2 62.1 Alliance Tcch Jun 12 F I.380L I.564L Amcol Jun 9 F 43.566 19.108
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      749 28 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        Lock icon Merger fever pushes banking stocks into the limelight
        746 29 New York AP BANKING stocks got a boost last week when Chemical Banking Corp and Chase Manhattan Corp, long rumoured to be courting, agreed to tie the knot. The proposed US$lO billion (5514.2 billion) deal, which needs shareholder and government approval, is
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        387 29 London AFP Bloomberg Business News AFTER reaching new record heights the previous week, shares in London retreated slightly last week on heavy profit-taking, dealers said. The FTSE-100 Index of 100 leading shares fell by 15.5 points to close on Friday at 3,509.4, registering a weekly
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        369 29 Tokyo AFP JAPANESE share prices gained ground during the week, with the key index closing 2 per cent higher from a week earlier despite the news of two bank failures. "The market perceived the authorities' resolve to rebuild Japan's battered financial system" after the business
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        Lock icon Prices rise 1.3% despite no fresh leads
        286 29 Hongkong AFP Bloomberg Business News SHARE prices rose 1.3 per cent in a series of gains during the holiday-shortened week, despite a general lack of fresh incentives, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index gained 116.08 points to finish at 9,196.47 on Friday.
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          114 29 Australian weekly share S> rices closed 0.8 per cent irmer on Friday in cautious trade marked by a resources sector struggling against weak metal prices, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange All Ordinaries Index rose 15.9 points, or 0.8 per cent, to close at 2,133.2 points as rallying industrial
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          90 29 Philippine share prices fell 0.6 per cent last week as investors remained cautious, waiting to see if the market would slide further. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index ended the week 15.73 points lower at 2,761.49 points as foreign investors stayed on the sidelines. Average daily volume rose 42.3
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          Bangkok
          92 29 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index fell 29.51 points, or 2.2 per cent, during a week of quiet trading that saw the index close on Friday at 1,319.82 points, brokers said. The average daily turnover was 49.5 million shares, up from 45.9 million shares the week before. But
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          73 29 The bourse closed higher following speculation by local buyers, with most foreign investors sidelined especially in the latter part of the week in anticipation of the Labour Day weekend in the United States. The Composite Index closed 2 per cent higher at 501.78 on Friday compared with the previous
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          77 29 South Korean share prices rallied on institutional buying in half-day trading on Saturday after a week-long slide. The Composite Price Index closed at 918.82, 7.46 points up from Friday, but down 2.8 points from the previous week's close. Gainers outnumbers falls 373 to 351 with 190 counters remaining unchanged.
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          Taiwan
          78 29 Taiwan share prices chalked up a 2.5 per cent gain last week on improved market sentiment among investors, brokers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index put on another 114.68 pojnts to settle at 4,785.29 points on Friday, following a 6.1 per cent jump the preceding week. Average
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          101 29 Dull trading kept share prices static on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Transactions took place on three days of the five-day trading week as the market remained closed on two days to mark religious festivals. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index slipped 14.28 points from the previous week's top of
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        2260 29 London Sep I Pmcc Industrials A. A. Co«p Adr 53.450 -.050 AB Ports *****0 -2.1)0 Abbey National 534 4/t +4/1 Allied Lyons 514 11 A met 59 4/1 -2 4/1 Argyll WO 4/1 I 4/t Asda Croup 109 lit BAT lad SOt 4/1 +4 4/1 BICC 319 -4 BOC Group
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        771 29 +36.98 Wall Street stocks rallied on Friday as signs of economic strength sparked a shopping spree in economically sensitive companies and as long-term bond interest rates fell on hopes for easier credit. Trading slowed to a crawl ahead of today's Labour Day holiday, when stock markets will be
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        262 29 Reuter +9.20 Stocks closed a few points higher in quiet trading, boosted by higher New York stocks but held back by a weak gold sector, traders said. The TSE 300 rose 9.20 points to 4,525.9 on volume of 45.68 million shares with a value of C 5671.35 million. Toronto's
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2531 30 Gr Or IMS La* Vol We«k Lai Qaott Dh 01* VH NR MC* High Lw S«o Cuign) Sate (DM) H«h Low Bayer SHkr Or P/E Ml MALAYSIAN STOCKS 478 196 m 5000 MSB 50c 414 12 523 420 392 412 414 3.0 -2.9 0.2 424.6 127 77.5 m
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        Lock icon Worries of overheating economy dampen market
        6921 30 AFP Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian shares ended lower after a lacklustre week plagued by worries of the economy overheating but analysts said they expected the market to recover this week with the year's biggest listing, Petronas Gas. "Players are trying to set a comfortable
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        Lock icon Syndicates may be calling it a day on Sesdaq
        1978 32  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Friday's smart bounce on Clob International that coincided with a meltdown of prices on Sesdaq must have caught many punters by surprise. The burning question therefore is: have we seen the end of the bull run on
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      497 33 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ACTIVITY picked up again after the slight lull of the previous week with some significant sales being reported along with rumours of a number of other vessels under negotiation or being inspected. A number of 1980s-built handy/handymax bulkcarriers were committed including the Ned
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      427 33 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp's plan to order 10 new container vessels is likely to be positive for the firm despite concerns over oversupply in 1996, analysts said last week. Evergreen has placed an order with Japan's Mitsubishi
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      168 33 AFP SYDNEY International transport group Brambles Industries Ltd has emerged from the red to post a A 597.7 million (SS 103.5 million) consolidated net profit after abnormal in the year to June. The Australian group's turnaround from a loss of A 5233.2 million the
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      327 33 SB 000 Sep 1 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.69 -0.03 24 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.36 -0.03 978 Cosco Investment 2.28 -0.16 626 Far East Levingston 6.25 unch 93 Freight Links Express 0.895 -0.025 720 GB Holdings Ltd 1.16 -0.04 1963 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.995 -0.015 5077 Hitachi
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      Japan maps out 21st century targets for its ports
      434 33  -  From Bruce Rutledge in TOKYO AN AGGRESSIVE programme by Japan's Transport Ministry has set lofty goals for the country's ports in an attempt to jolt them into form to compete for northeast Asian cargo traffic. The programme calls for more than
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      340 33 AFP SYDNEY A delay over the sale of the ailing Australian National Line has, for the time being, averted a waterfront strike. Prime Minister Paul Keating on Friday hailed a deal that would enable privatisation of the state-run ANL shipping line to go
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      BHP unit takes over Darwin centre
      172 33 SINGAPORE Australia's BHP Transport has taken over the operation of a logistics centre in Darwin. The base, previously operated by BHP Petroleum, provides support for BHP's production facilities in the Timor Sea and for exploration vessels. BHP Transport will take over existing contracts, including
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      111 33 AFP TOKYO Japan's Kumagai Gumi Co Ltd has received an order jointly with an Australian company to construct an undersea tunnel at Port Headland, Western Australia. The Japanese construction company and Transfield Holdings Pty Ltd of Australia won a contract to build an
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      534 33  -  SHAPE A special focus on people in the shipping industry Rahita Elias talks to the president of ASMI Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Talking to Tong Chong Heong is like taking a walk down memory lane, back to the early days of the
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      1017 34 American airlines are getting a bigger slice of business from weaker Latin American carriers NYT THE past five years have been unkind to United States airlines. But not in Latin America. Air travel is booming south of the border, and heavy investments by American
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      524 34 P*e ABC Cool 16 •ANL 3 •APL 12 Able 7 Accord 8 •Ahlcrs 6 •Ahrenkid 4 Air India 20 Antaco 13 •Appenship 4 Arowana 15 Astro 8 Austral 9 Avant 6 B'tang Mas 8 BSA 9 BTL 16 Bangladesh 12 Batamindo 7 Bengal
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      10264 42 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 AfrertUw Vtstti Voyage Pg m »wn Mm No.
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1662 51 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Mb Ship Wg Ik Ett/Bb Prtd Ff— j» Fr— Aa Lfac 048A 05/0/00 IB 03/1500 03/1659 03/1900 3 04/0700 04/1159 04/1400 4 04/1200 04/1459 04/1700 Aa Swan 186A 08/0200 3 04/0700 04/1159 04/1400 4 04/1200 04/1459 04/1700 Aa VWet
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAYS
        388 51 SEP 4 Canada: Labour Day. Laxmboarg: Holiday. (Jailed Stales: Labour Day. SEP 6 Pakistan: Defence Day. SEP 7 Brazil: Independence Day. SEP 8 Brazil: Local holiday, Santos Parana. Pakistan: Karachi only, Ghiarween Sharif approx date. Sri Lanka: Poya Day. South Korea: Chusok, Korean Thanksgiving (to SEPt 10). SEP
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
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        Lock icon Aussie govt and Qantas silent on MAS charges
        359 52 Bernama MELBOURNE The Australian Transport Department and Qantas were cagey when asked to comment on Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) anger and frustration at not being allowed more flights into Australia. At a seminar for travel writers held on Hay man Island, North Queensland,
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        51 52 Reuter TORONTO A British, four-engine Nimrod bomber is seen crashing into Lake Ontario and sending debris flying as it made a low-flying turn during a Canadian airs how on Saturday. Royal Air Force officials said the plane had a crew of seven, who were all missing.
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        Lock icon Demand for new models boosts Chrysler's sales
        311 52 NYT DETROIT Chrysler Corp said August sales rose 4 per cent from a year ago, with consumers rushing to buy new models even as the company cut its incentives. The No. 3 US car maker announced total vehicle sales rose 4 per cent
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        Lock icon Qatar to privatise national airline, buy more planes
        305 52 AFP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Qatar is planning to privatise its national carrier this year as part of expansion plans involving the purchase of more than 10 aircraft. Qatar Airways, which was set up in early 1994 to become the youngest airline
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        Lock icon Mercedes truck sales up 15% in first 7 months
        199 52 Reuter STUTTGART, Germany Mercedes-Benz AG, car unit of Daimler-Benz, said unit sales at its commercial vehicle division rose IS per cent in the first seven months of this year to 181,200 vehicles. The company, the world's largest heavy truck maker, said
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        Lock icon KTM expected to be privatised after Aug '97
        248 52 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd (KTM) is expected to be fully privatised only after August 1997. Managing director Abdul RaHim Osman said although full privatisation is part of KTM's objectives, "it is difficult to specify an exact date". But he
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        Lock icon Railway site to be developed
        104 52 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) and KTM Bhd are to jointly develop an integrated transport terminal at a cost of between MS$2 billion (SSl.l billion) to Ms 3 billion, local newspapers reported over the weekend. The project will include a central station,
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          Lock icon BAe's 23-jet deal with Sabena
          99 52 AFP LONDON Aviation group British Aerospace (BAe) has won a "multi-million" contract to supply 23 regional passenger jets to the Belgian airline Sabena. A BAe spokesman said the sale of 23 Avro FUBS aircraft to Sabena represented the largest-ever single order won by the company
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          101 52 AFP REDWOOD CITY, California DHL Worldwide Express, an air shipping company, has reported strong growth in its Asia-Pa-cific market over the first half of 1995. Patrick Foley, chairman of DHL Airways, Inc, the US arm of the DHL network, said intra-Asian shipment in terms of
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          Lock icon Plane hits embarkation bridge
          104 52 AFP MANILA A Korean Airlines Boeing 747-SP jet struck an embarkation bridge when parking at Ninoy Aquino International Airport here yesterday, damaging its left wing, airport oftlcials said. Allan Baranda, head of airport operations, said none of the 159 passengers and crew of the plane, which
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          75 52 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines will begin flights to Vancouver, Canada, starting in November, Chairman Tajudin Ramli said on Saturday. The airline will also operate a cargo service to Chicago starting Sep 15, Mr Tajudin told reporters. Chicago will be the third MAS cargo destination in
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          Lock icon Toyota plans new US plant
          121 52 AFP TOKYO Japan's biggest carmaker, Toyota Motor Corp, is firming up plans to launch commercial vehicle production at a new plant in the United States, the Nihon Keizai Shim bun said. Production of 100,000 units a year is planned from 1998. Toyota is to produce
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          64 52 Reuter RUESSELSHEIM, Germany Adam Opel AG, a unit of General Motors GM, is recalling 15,000 of its Astra turbo-diesel cars from German buyers to have motor-cables checked, the company said in a recent statement. Opel said it would check the layout of cables around the engine and
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      881 36 I NORAgnr WE'RE ACCEPTING LCL CARGO ON OUR REGULAR WEEKLY SAILING TO THE FOLLOWING PORTS:VALETTA, TRIESTE, VENICE, ANCONA, PIRAEUS, ALEXANDRIA, PORTSAID, BARCELONA, VALENCIA. FOR MORE DETAILS/BOOKING:CONTACT M/S TAN SEOW CHUAN M/S KATHY CHAN mcnewiMßir: NORASIA AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD AtSO ACCBTHQ UX TO: if"" ""mum c* no. uasiaaooooo THAAJkMD AOBfT
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      1094 37 PW STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD JBM II Nm Chiaaf Road #11-91 K*#p«l Tswors Hh«MW Wis Tel: «587W Fax: *****17 guinea PAcre um 6*58*7 (A SERVICE Of CHWA NAVIGATION CO) CMWO DUE MU bSP gwwwwwi vmue «.»■>.»■ Hh> hs* mm* "g™g T0 rJLtlu g rJJJJJ2JJJJS vZul SS "5 muhmce m tJMdltlM
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      1906 37 iMifc fllMltajllWC (Singapore A«cnci«) Ptc Ltd i First Class Connections WORLDWIDE CR Number *****9 *****/ WWt vov *PNO *FK« MM SOU MIT MOT NAM OOT M UN VOML VOV MT OOT NOT HAM Ml sou LMI ALU JMD Sm *mI <fM MAERSK HONQKONO MlO 01/00 02AM 04/09 23/00 24AM 29AM
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      334 38 B TEL: *****33(12UMa» FAX: ***** IS/*****09 TELEX: US ***** MSMPpUnaa) CftNOe **********0E ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL v—ml r~Wy iwT [I nfcufcr 525 Atoyot 41WB 17/10 )oU M*—t 4OWB mm 'SSSjiSmm' FULLY CONTAINERISED REGULAR LINER SERVICE ACCEPTING BOTH FCL/LCL ALSO BCMSOC o—l *t mm Pfto Da— JM [cTowii~| a* um mm
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      1714 39 CIUMO TO VARNA, OMSSA AMI CfNBTANTZA VIA UMAHQL "»I»W Blltrll 4f*»ft Til (Bllinl): ttUHt MwhlMr A#««r Out. aw"™ 1 »sS£T '—-sss swims' •;:t,-=ar— s&sss* mss: 0 &tssur" GST HO *2 O$U4$S X COSTAA MtHCtCt (HI SOU MO. Ill: I7J3UIH/117 Fit: I7JUH7I To; U.S. Eost Coost To: HoojMj/CMna From: U.S.A. Eost
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      760 39 HEUNG-A SHIPPING (KOREAN FLAG) I fUiTCQiroMMSßsavig I I amvßiTiom sawa I |w In [ill In lilw Ik Imlm wl w>l «r In. lm I m m Sim ms» vm nm ttrrlTfi'TT ITiTT T'lT Ttn TIHI llflilflMMl 11 TTill Will n/tt is/w m/w m/w fc= ft $is Sit sin i tmmm
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      589 39 (jg FAMOUS CONTAINER UNES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT UNE: *****33 (30 UNES) BARCELONA/SPAIN 07/09 LEHAVRE/FRAMCf 05/09 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 05/09 HAMBURG/BREMEN 00/09 GENOA/ITALY 09/09 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 00/09 GOTHENBURG/SCAN IQ/Q9 ROTTERDAM 00/09 AARHUS/COPENHACEN 10/09 FEUXSTOWE/UK 11/09 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 00/09 SYIHIFY/mfibqurne 08/09 NEW YORK/EC 08/09 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 06/09 VANCOUVER 08/09 BRISBANE 10/09 TORONTO/MONTREAL
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      1260 44 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. 18 KEPP€L ROOD #08-01 JtT POH BIIILDKO SNQAPOPE 0208 MAIN UH£ 2H Wll CUSTOMER 9gMC£ 225-1225 FAX 221-*022 EAfk£ VOCE CFS ***** immbmwmi FBI m. h* jkt 1 llttnuMraiM I**l»*iOMlM»ioi I h* MM im I I p aucNMMM n« mm mm mm nm rmoi mm MM
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      471 45 (AmuY-cw mimmmmp SXZS&n Seabriflge MAIN UNE: 278 7772 a*"™ WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT KTD BID COLO—O 07/09 11/09 KARACHI 07AM IS/00 wmi 00/00 11/00 CALCUTTA 07/00 IS/00 CMTTAOOMQ 07/00 IS/00 NHAVA SNBVA 07/00 IS/00 USA/EUROPE lib BTD USA (ALL INLAND P0M1) 11/00 IS/00 BUHOPB (ALL BAM MOT* 11/00 18/00
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      1525 45 Nedlloyd Ltoi THREE SAILINGS TO WEST AFRICA!!! |jfl I Pm (F) Pfn (F> Sin PV| Jed Sou La* mm Aw* Ha Brtt Manl ft, m. tkt THAMES /3355 3/9 3/9 7/9 8/9 17/9 26/9 27/9 30/9 1/10 29/9 MOSEL/2335 15/8 18/8 IVB 19/8 4/9 RHINE/1355 7/9 7/9 9/9 7/9<F) 29/9
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      189 45 I HOHUQ ROHLIG PIE LID DAILY RECEIVING LCL CARGO TO YANGON ETA Datobm SS/S IM» !!?r'i':ti., k„ i nh^rfiMii mm \im liiß i■■ i ill imj. Dmbm, totloafe 12/00 IMO 3ydhey.n 11 <i,Mi>uwn 11/ M 18/W Bonbanr, Madraa 00/00 00/00 lUa^ik mm 10 m ym** WEEKLY CHINA CONSOLIDATION VIA HONGKONG
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      357 45 W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCaMum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****06 CR No.: *****8 200 00R Y.S.N. LINEb;|J.wH:IHJ.IM!I.I.'' VttttL VOY I SMMPONE P.KRMK PBMM WmHM 4 MH W )4A Wwntef 11* 11-11/1 IMVI 47 ij/t IMV» 14-IVI 19-17/1 ClH»l Own J 0-140
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      1296 46 ■□Baiia IMS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: KHBJ K* EXCHANGE VESSELS *0Y ETA EXOMMK nm Mat i.<ms mmmmwmm mm n*r 141* moweow «i» msp 1.4M8 mowm mm n» MAMMNMMUM Mill Mtß> I.MM MMAfOK MY SIM 11» 1.4171 MMLOTMAOSX MM MSB> 1.427* MABMX VANCOUVER Mll 11» 1.014 mmlbjsat am 1«7» mabnkanimem
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      593 46 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF !£££££< .coca mw I PJ L M0 MORFOLK NORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPIGO HOUSTON USS2SSP 2£sSl i««n> £2£Z «2S aBOCT IMOV 2SOCT SNOV SNOV HOGQH DRAKE MM 24/26 SEP 111 4b* 08 NOV 11 NOV 14 NOV 21 NOV 16 NOV 2fi NOV 2ft NOV
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      376 46 11 Yprt PHIU-OnifNT 1 Y** UN(S PT€ ITP TEL: *****00 (16 LMEB) flHfc FAX: *****76/*****38 CWW% AUCKLAND, WELLMGTON, LYTTLETON, 17 SEP I NAPgR.CHRWTCHURCH. NEW PLYMOUTH I I- LONDON, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, ANTWERP I AND ALL BRAND DEBTMATIONB WTTMN EUROPE 11 SEP I KOBE.TCKYo!o3yU^^^^^^^^^^^^loB^^| BUBAN. MAMLA, BANGKOK. PJCELANQ, 10 SEP I PENANG.H.
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      775 47 ACCEPTING LCI CARGO TO pu m liiHmHh CFSdtatadbr SSS ~1 n«ST fokwaiou in M»(ii «fel h- -«r ASIA AWARDED .1 li B ISO 9002 BY LRQA w *i m I —rf* iwyiiluy Iwy ymmy QJ. iwfYW|iw /^\\U U—««•! fUntfimm 2i (fcr staff tf ywr Mn/kK- grfcTf OA *****64 mmmmamLm* *mmn
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      227 47 L_ -JWHT OfCIATtP n w AIUS UffEJffITTXGOtIG KMTC LME, SEOUL V! 1 ■i ujlas smrrwe Lines iid) (hmea marine tunspokt co. ud) Vmhl ft (Hhm la^i *«ma m nmm awn warn ■mm m *mm v/wn tvwn m m tvwfli nmm a/wn M Ml M/11A5 11/11/K 17/lt/K G«MralA|Mt: Mkia SlriMMf AfMrits
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      373 48 Singapore Soviet Shipping m Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: 100S*****00N BOMBAY/COCHIN Ivtsae. voy rfT"! mm coc KOTA MUTWRA MUTOM I«AW MAW OUOAK 210 1*» MAM MEKHAMK KUfMKO MMMN VMM Ml o*lo InoAaiowY olwom trm ongn SIHANOUKVILLE/PHNOIW PENH/HAIPHONG [VCTMI VOY «N MH PNH HPH HUMUK 51SVM o*oo 11AM 12AM 17AN momr
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      109 48 MM SIM FAR EAST 12/9 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 10/9 BANGKOK 10/9 manila/cebu 10/9 JAKARTA/BE LAWAN/SURABAYA 10/9 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 10/9 BUSAN 10/9 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 10/9 HONG KONG SIM CHINA (+B#±**n) 10/9 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIM EUROPE/UK 10/9 LDN/FLX/IVP/SOU 10/9 RDM/HAM/ANT/lEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM USA/CANADA
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      412 48 I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD iownm ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR UNE LTD SETH SNIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 tett3OII2(mAMITWG) (Q HO. 1031(tt*****-Q N. AMBKA/CAJtBKAN SERVICES 'JgJEfim rasa |w|aw}iM— mi pt uw wc w~ IUMMMIM U/fZ-WMItTI 11/19 a/19 a/19 a/19 a/19 mono m M/fZ-OHMMin i«/n
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      315 48 IVEM^^^^S^^SINISCksS^I TKS€R BRIOGE 362N 04-05 TO 10-12/09 18-19)09 I TIGER BAY 363N 07-0&09 13-17/09 21ZV09 I TIGER CAPE 364N 11-12A9 17-2009 25-2609 I TIGER SLANO 306N 14-1609 20-24/09 28-3009 I TIGER BftOGE 368N 18-1609 24-27/09 02-03/10 I TIGER BAY 367N 21-2609 27-01/10 06-07/10 I I "vessel voy sin cal sin
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      382 49 PUU. CONTAINER SERVICE FROM MM TO MADRAS VESSEL/VOV ETA SM ETA MAA TIQER amOQC V.M2N OS-OMM 10-1 MM KOTAJASA VJSABU S7-SMS 12-1 MS TOER BAY V. M3M 07-OMS IMMt PWAVPMSK V.2S S7-OMS IMW SEA ORAOON V MQO7I 10-11 AM IS-ISOS PWVOLVE VJS 10-11 AM IS-IMS TIOEH CAM VJM 11-1 MS
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      266 49 I MrcsHra* nfff AOINCIIS PTE LTD frl: *****29 fax: *****59 WEEKLY FUU. /LCL CONVENTIONAL SERVICE Hapta) 4 Dop Irons* Loodw, S^f/li/21 No Ori Nfcii 3 Days transit loot* S<» 4/13/20/77 lomfcoy/llodras Looing Sop 1/1 tmrnk Lootfng S«p 1/9 Colombo loodmg weekly Fa consoi service longkok looing Sop4/»/10/13 Hongkong looAng SopS/J/12/14
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      567 49 I B 'ZU YU LAN 01N' etasgp 27/09/95 I W I ARRIVING SHANGHAI 03/10/95 IN 6 DAYS, I FOR BOOKING, PLEASE CAli: IMO-2757M0 I EXPORT CAUFORP4AAJWIER 04 I 13/Q9 3Q/Q9 j Q^[ q av|Q Q |Q/|Q NEFIUNE RU>Y 43t 20/09 Q7/IQ Q9/IQ n/|Q ii/io ia/m n/in I 11/inl 17/ in
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      823 50 AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Hairatan, Torghundi, Islamqala (Doqhamn) C.1.5./RUSSIA: Alma Ata. Ashkhabad, Baku, Dushanbe, I HilitTor A U|.nrfi Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Korsakov, Moscow. jtaj n Novosobirsk, Sochi, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Vladivostok, Vostochny Mongolia: Ulaan Bator N Korea: Pyongyang, Nampo EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO WEST COAST SOUTH AMERICA AWCA, SANTIAGO, TALCAHUAMO, SAN
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      264 50 SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS Vissa KX SM n PI DON CT ARIA V 122 SID SID SID SID SID SU> TONVI23 20/09 30/09 01/10 14/10 20/10 27/10 •Also calls E.L L P.E. MALAYSIA AGENTS: PORTKBANG TG.MANI IB:*****00 TH: *****0 SUI AGENTS: KOTA KMABALU TMMMJ Wk *****7 TH: *****0
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