The Business Times, 18 October 1995

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    12 1 BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 194/12/94 Wednesday October 18 1995 85* WE KNOW ASIA
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    Lock icon Dow down 5.78 points
    51 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks were down yesterday amid earnings reports that included disappointing results from IBM. At 2 pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 5.78 points at 4,781.86. In the broader market, declining issues led advances 11-8. Volume was 199 million shares.
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    148 1 Tuesday Chuge STII 2,099.38 -12.42 KLSEComp 945.86 -11.51 Nikkei 17,916.60 -99.84 Hang Seng 10,032.93 >23.65 SET Index 1,309.91 -7.13 Jakarta Comp 498.85 +2.84 Manila Comp 2,638.82 -*-2.56 Taipei WP1 5,081.0 +42.02 SeoulComp 1,005.78 -1.7 Bombay BSE30 ...3,580.76 -1.21 CLSA China B 815.52 -1.50 Aust AllOrd 2,108.5 -1.5 FTSE 100 3,562.2
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    Barings execs expected to face prosecution in S'pore
    804 1  -  bi Catherine 0ng SINGAPORE Senior executives of the Barings group are almost certain to face criminal prosecution in Singapore following the report by govern-ment-appointed inspectors which claimed the bank could have been saved had these executives not actively covered up a fraudulent
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    Simex tightens risk analysis to enhance market integrity
    299 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) has implemented new risk analysis measures following the recommendations of an American consultant engaged in the wake of the Barings debacle earlier this year. Simex said yesterday after the release of the
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    ING group to begin trading futures on Simex soon
    197 1  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Dutch-based ING group, which took over Barings pic this year, will begin trading financial futures on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) soon. A Simex circular informed its members that ING Futures Options (Singapore) Pte Ltd (IFO)
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    Bank Negara hoists interest rates 20 basis points
    489 1  -  From I Ho Kay Tat Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR BANK Negara yesterday jacked up interest rates by some 20 basis points, just after slashing loan quantums for investment properties and cars with effect from yesterday. Although the stock market, in particular
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    SFO to review report for evidence to charge execs
    396 1  -  Fran Neil Behrmann in LONDON THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will review Price Waterhouse's report on the Barings collapse to see whether there is fresh evidence that would warrant prosecution of Londonbased Barings staff. "So far we have not uncovered fraudulent
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      284 1 ffIBRUNO MAGLI CENTREPOINT *01-30, TEL: 737 4509 BT Online Look as up at http:// www.asial.com.sg/biztimes y -M WL., Read any good Singapore thriller lately? Try this $61.80 Price Waterhouse report. SeePg4 Photo by Chris Loh takm Regional 28 Focus 16,18 World 28 Edtorial 19 Currencies 26 TXAJestyte 9 Simex 27
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      8 1 Focus: Pg 16 The big spending S*pore tourists
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      12 1 Hock Lock Siew: p g 21 What TAC listing says about SES
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      136 1 I ''cX MADE N ITALY M AT #01 -25 Paragon by Sogo The Bottom Line: Pg2o Global village MORE REPORTS, Pg 4 Auditors' finding could have saved bank The evidence of Norris and Bax Highlights and extracts from the report Incredible? Not if yon have the Canon Family Copier at
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Building sector set to grow 6.5-7.5%
        295 2  -  By Michelle Low BACKED by more public sector contracts, the construction sector should see 6.5-7.5 per cent growth this year, says DBS Bank in its latest investment digest. State housing apart, a steady stream of contracts should come from other public projects underway such
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      Lock icon After BHQ, Delifrance now plans listing
      512 2  -  Business Headquarters awards By Chuang Peck Ming FAST-growing delicatessen chain Delifrance, which was presented with the Business Headquarters (BHQ) award yesterday, plans to seek a listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore next year. With the BHQ status, which provides tax breaks for regionalisation,
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      BMW Asia assumes major role
      267 2  -  By Christopher Tan BMW sales in Asia have soared from 20,000 units in 1985 to more than 53,000 last year a growth of more than 2.5 times in nine years, the head of the carmaker's regional office said yesterday. But BMW Asia managing director Kay
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      Ciba-Geigy set for US$10b patent bonus
      446 2  -  Status-winner praises S'pore business environment By Kevin Sullivan SWISS diversifled chemicals giant Ciba-Geigy is set to capitalise on a US$lO billion (5514.2 billion) market in pharmaceutical products whose patents will expire in the next few years, a member of Ciba's executive committee, Jacques Barman,
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      France eyes bigger slice of Asian business
      234 2 FRENCH Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Christine Chauvet wound up a three-day visit to Singapore yesterday with a call for greater French participation in Asian infrastructure projects and more aggressive marketing of French consumer products in the region. "We would like to
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      No immediate plans for staff layoffs, says Conner official
      333 2  -  By David Mok THE 8,200-odd people working for American disk drive maker Conner Peripherals in Asia will have to wait till next February before their new boss, Seagate Technology, decides on the shape the regional operations will take. But indications are
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      NTUC posts 53% rise in surplus to $4.7 million
      190 2 THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) made an operating surplus of $4.7 million in the financial year ended March 31, an increase of 5.3 per cent from the year before. Honorarium from the NTUC Income Development Organisation rose by $532,400 to
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      SAFE Ent plans more resorts after Bintan
      319 3  -  By Michelle Low SAFE Enterprise, the travel and leisure arm of the Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation, intends to venture further into resort development once its Bintan project takes off. SAFE Enterprise general manager Shih Chih Chung yesterday said that SAFE was "in no
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      Delta House industrial space fetches $625 psf
      228 3 INDICATING the continuing strength of industrial property, an entire floor of strata-titled freehold space in Delta House recently fetched $624.67 per sq ft a jump on the $605 psf fetched in the same building in April. Marketing agent Richard Ellis said yesterday that
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      75% of Millenia Walk leased amid retail gloom, space glut
      268 3 SHOPPING mall Millenia Walk defied the current retail and complaints of a space glut by announcing yesterday it has now leased 75 per cent of its space, a surge from 60 per cent in May. Of the remaining 25 per
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      Ho Tian Yee has quit as Bankers Trust director: sources
      389 3  -  By Paul Leo BANKERS Trust director Ho Tian Yee has resigned, although he will remain as an adviser or consultant, sources said yesterday. Mr Ho, who is deputy chairman of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) and who is considered
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      S&P to set up shop in Singapore soon
      395 3  -  By Shiv Taneja INTERNATIONAL rating agency Standard Poor's will establish an office in Singapore in the next few months, around a year after its arch-rival Moody's set up shop last November. The Singapore office will be the centre for S&P's business development
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      Police chief takes over helm at SBA
      130 3 GOH Liang Kwang, chief of staff of the Singapore Police Force, will succeed Colonel (NS) Ho Meng Kit as chief executive officer of the Singapore Broadcasting Authority with effect from today. Col Ho relinquished his appointment on Monday. Mr Goh, 42, holds a
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  • BARINGS: THE SINGAPORE REPORT
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      Auditors' finding could have saved bank
      585 4  -  Inspectors' report alludes that top management failed to act on discrepancy, Conrad Raj reports Conrad Raj SINGAPORE If there was any single incident that could have saved Barings from its collapse, it would perhaps be the discovery in January this year of a 7.8
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      Lock icon Everything you've always wanted to know about...
      147 4 SINGAPORE Forget potboilers and unauthorised biographies. It looks like this week's "must-read" is a Price Waterhouse report on the Baring Futures investigation. Priced at $6LB£ the report details Price Waterhouse's findings following its appointment by the Minister of Finance as Barings inspectors in
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      Mr Norris' evidence
      990 4 £THE evidence which emerges suggests that: (i) Mr Norris knew about the SLK Receivable on or about Jan 30 or 31, 1995; (ii) Mr Norris had conversations with Mr Broadhurst, Mr Sacranie and Mr Bax between Jan 30, 1995, and Feb 1, 1995; (iii) Mr Norris had
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      Simex could have acted faster
      513 4 SIMEX does not have the w responsibility of managing the affairs of BFS or any of its clearing members. Simex is an exchange on which clearing members may transact trades. Nevertheless, within that context, Simex may have the opportunity to identify signals that suggest irregularity
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      Bank of England board seized transcripts
      303 4 SINGAPORE One of the few surprises in the Singapore inspectors' report is the revelation of the seizure by the Bank of England's Board of Bank Supervision of transcripts of interviews conducted by the inspectors in the UK. This happened after the inspectors had in
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      Inferences and findings
      1568 4 £WE DO NOT accept Mr version of the facts for the reasons outlined above. It follows from this that Mr Norris had been untruthful. He knew of the problem, certainly by late January, and was at the centre of an effort to: (i) downplay the significance of
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      The evidence of Mr Bax
      525 4 6 Mr Bax's evidence on the SLK transaction contrasted with his evidence on most other issues. Whereas he otherwise was able to recall facts with clarity, in relation to the SLK Receivable, his entire evidence when called upon to recreate the events in detail, was
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Filinvest corporate city will be Manila's new CBD: tycoon
      501 5  -  Fran Al Labita in MANILA A 244-HECTARE "corporate city," partly designed by a Singaporean firm, will rise from a Metro Manila district over the next five years, property tycoon Andrew Gotianun announced last night. The "corporate city" will be the Philippines'
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      Lock icon Thai govt to privatise Bangchak Petroleum
      243 5 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's cabinet yesterday approved the privatisation of Bangchak Petroleum Co Ltd to give the majority state-owned company more flexibility in its management, an official said. Thirty-one per cent of the company would be floated at an unspecified date, dropping the government holding
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      Lock icon Asean intra-regional trade jumps 43%
      257 5 Bernama KUCHING Total intra-re-gional trade within Asean increased by nearly 43 per cent to US$lll.l billion (S$lSB billion) in 1994 from U5577.7 billion the previous year. The figures were based on data submitted by member countries at the seventh meeting of the Asean Free Trade
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      Lock icon Indonesian general names key figures in dissident groups
      341 5 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian army general chief of staff Socyono has named three leading dissidents as the key figures behind groups said to be a national security threat, newspaper reports said yesterday. The threat of the so-called formless organisations, first raised by President
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      Lock icon Jakarta, KL to curb timber smuggling
      49 5 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia and Malaysia have formed a working committee to curb the smuggling of timber from Indonesia to its neighbour, the official Antara news agency said. Antara quoted Forestry Minister Djamaludin Suryohadikusumo as saying members would meet regularly and exchange information. Reuter
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      Lock icon A sweeping display of spacecraft
      58 5 Reuter SHAH ALAM Contract worker Ran imuihu sweeping the ground around the Russian Lunar Rover, one of 16 life size spacecraft showcased at the Sumur City Aerospace Adventure in Shah Alain, Malaysia yesterday. The exhibition is the first outside Russia of such an array of
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      Lock icon BOT told to probe bank margins
      97 5 AFP BANGKOK Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa has asked the Thai central bank to investigate interest rate margins earned by commercial banks after receiving complaints from mull retail investors. Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting yesterday, Mr Banharn said the Bank of Thailand (BOT)
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      Lock icon Sudomo holds talks with East Timor leaders
      310 5 Reuter DILI, Indonesia A senior adviser to President Suharto has held talks with East Timorese leaders in what residents yesterday said was the first such initiative in years to explore solutions to the territory's woes. Participants said Sudomo, head of the President's Supreme
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China slams US over entry into WTO
      532 6 But Washington stands firm on terms for China's membership Reuter AFP BEIJING China attacked the United States yesterday as the main obstacle to its entry to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), but Washington showed no signs of backing down from its terms for
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      Lock icon Chinese central bank vows to keep tight grip on money supply
      378 6 UPI BEIJING China's central bank said yesterday it will keep a tight grip on the money supply for the rest of the year in its drive to curb inflation. The People's Bank of China said it would continue to
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      Lock icon New Legco president is wary of party politics
      187 6 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Andrew Wong Wang Fat, the newlyelected president of Hongkong's Legislative Council (Legco), believes party politics isn't the way to win votes in a city that remembers China's bloody civil war of the 1920*5. "The peculiar history of China
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      Lock icon Call for better law and order in China
      134 6 Reuter BEIJING A top Chinese security official has called for better law and order to combat serious crime and said local officials would be held responsible if there were failures. Law and order in China was basically stable thanks to measures taken
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      Lock icon Taiwan to curb military sales: paper
      99 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's defence ministry has drafted regulations which aim to make transparent the island's exports of military-re-lated products, the mass-circulation United Daily News reported yesterday. Under the new guidelines, export orders of NTSSO million (552.6 million) or above and deals that may have
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      Lock icon Beijing official asks Lee Teng-hui to renounce independence policy
      261 6 AFP BEIJING Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui must renounce his "independence" policy before cross-Strait tensions can be eased and relation develop smoothly, Xinhua quoted a senior Chinese official as saying. Wang Daohan, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait
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      Lock icon HK eager to help Beijing promote post-1997 passport
      246 6 AFP HONGKONG The territory said yesterday it was eager to help China promote its special post-1997 passport for the territory's residents. But foreign governments say they need to study it closely before deciding if it is good enough for visa-free travel to
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      Lock icon Beijing's targets for raising incomes
      121 6 Reuter SHANGHAI China will strive to raise incomes of urban residents by an average 34 per cent and rural individuals by 30 per cent in the next five-year period from 1996 to 2000, the China Securities News reported. Among the measures to achieve the goal,
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      Lock icon Posco in Dalian steel joint venture
      107 6 Reuter SEOUL Pohang Iron and Steel Co (Posco) of South Korea said it would set up a joint venture in Dalian, China, capable of producing 100,000 tonnes of galvanised steel products a year. Posco and China National Ferrous Metal Material Corp (CFM) were due
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      Lock icon Taiwan PM urges China to drop threat
      202 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan Premier Lien Chan urged China yesterday to remove barriers to better relations and drop a threat of attack to show good faith following an offer by China's President for summit talks. "Although Chinese communist leaders say they are willing to
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      Lock icon China axes 2m govt jobs in overhaul
      91 6 AFP BEIJING China has axed more than two million civil service jobs and shrunk its ministries and commissions by 13 per cent since 1993, when it decided to overhaul government administration, the overseas edition of the People's Daily reported yesterday. It said that
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Corporate graft tales scaring Aussies off Asia
      330 7 Fraud seen as major problem for Australian business, conference told Reuter SYDNEY Tales of rampant corporate corruption are scaring Australian businesses away from dealings with other countries, particularly in Asia. John Banks, a director of accountancy firm KPMG Corporate Finance, told a conference
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      Lock icon Japan on alert to stave off deflation
      328 7 Reuter TOKYO Japan's economy has not entered a deflationary phase, but the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will continue to be vigilant and take proper steps to prevent it from slipping into deflation, BOJ governor Yasuo Matsushita told the Upper House budget committee yesterday.
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      Lock icon NZ median house price hits record
      69 7 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON The median price of a New Zealand house rose to a record NZ$l4l,OOO (*****,778) in September, exceeding the previous record of NZ5139,000 set a month earlier, said the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. The total value of the 7,326
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      Lock icon Adelaide awards water contract
      79 7 Bloomberg Business News "ADELAIDE A group of companies including Compagnie General des Eaux of France and Britain's Thames Water pic has r- been selected as preferred bidder for a 15-year state government j contract to run the water system in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
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      Lock icon NZ inflation up 0.2% in September
      83 7 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand's central bank breathed easier ■j yesterday as annual core inflation was squeezed back into a government-set 0-2 per cent target range. Consumer prices rose 02 per cent in the September quarter, bringing the annual rate down to 3.5 per cent
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      Lock icon Japan's public works spending
      67 7 Bloomberg Business News v TOKYO The Finance Ministry will propose public works spending totaling 9.7 trillion yen (Ssl3B billion) for the next fiscal year to start April, up 4.1-4.2 per cent from this fiscal year's i" initial budget, the Yomiuri newspaper said. The government's public works
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      Lock icon Apec should stick to free trade pledge: NZ minister
      199 7 Reuter AUCKLAND New Zealand Finance Minister Bill Birch called for Asian countries in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum to honour commitments to free trade. In a speech to the Asian Securities' Analysts Council annual conference, Mr Birch said Apec countries
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Costly bombs at the box-office
      1070 9  -  Hollywood's shaken by the failure of three big-budget movies, reports Bernard Weinraub Bernard Weinraub FLOPS and hits come and go in Hollywood and, for the most part, they are taken for granted. But three big-budget, high-pro-file movies Jade, Strange Days and The Scarlet Letter opened
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      Corporate golf draws interest
      199 9 ON FRIDAY, the first leg of the Golfing World 4 Business Times Corporate Golf League will tee off at the SICC New Course: The launch of this event was announced last month. Since then, organisers John Burgess A Associates (JBA) have received numerous enquiries from corporate
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      Lock icon Reeve thanks Robin Williams
      428 9 Reuter UPI UPI DURING his first public appearance since a paralysing horseback riding accident, actor Christopher Reeve recalled on Monday night the visit of an old friend to his hospital room four months ago. "My life was hanging in the balance and I had a SO-SO
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • Article, Illustration
    YCH Group is going places with Total Logistics
    1811 12 BT Special Advertising Feature The company has come a long way to become the region's major logistics company using the latest in information technology THE year 1995 marks 40 years for the YCH Group. Forty years of forging new business j partnerships
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  • FOCUS
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      Singaporean tourists are second biggest spenders in Australia
      1064 16  -  ATC expects double-digit growth in number of S'porean visitors to continue Bli Agnes Wee SINGAPORE Singaporean tourists rank No 2 among the big spenders in Australia, according to the Australian Tourism Commission (ATC). Each visitor spends an average of A$U8 (SS126) per
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      Lock icon Advice to investment advisers: focus on putting clients first
      1056 18 Personal financial management LA Times SAN FRANCISCO You should hear what financial planners and other investment advisers say behind their clients' backs. You should hear because it could only help both parties client and adviser better understand each other as the
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    Fleshing out a fab idea
    537 19 THE plan to make Singapore an international centre for wafer fabrication is a bold one, with immensely attractive prospects. Wafer fabrication plants, or wafer fabs, are the high-tech wombs that produce the semiconductor computer chips so crucial to today's electronic products. At 1 billion to
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    Public help for private estates
    222 19 ACTING Community Development Minister Abdullah Tarmugi's reminder on Sunday that the Government could consider improving the public areas of private estates, but could not be expected to do much beyond that, focused on an issue as old as the upgrading of Housing Board flats: the
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    Saddam's hollow victory
    167 19 MILLIONS of Iraqis voted overwhelmingly to give their internationally reviled president, Saddam Hussein, another seven years in power. It was the first time Saddam had put his leadership to the public test and followed weeks of mass celebrations and a media blitz trumpeting what Iraqi officials called
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    New look at drug problem
    180 19 v DRUG addiction remains a big problem in Singapore. Both the number of new addicts and relapse cases are high. Why? Is enforcement so ineffective that drugs are still easily available? Are the rehabilitation programmes effective? How can they be made better? A scheme to
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    From seller to buyer of oil
    181 19 INDONESIA'S days as an oil exporter will be gone before very long. Economist Hadi Soesastro, speaking in Jakarta last week, said that at the beginning of the 21st century, Indonesia will enter a new phase as an importer of energy, particularly oil. The reason
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    Foot in mouth ...
    138 19 Foot in mouth UNTIL NOW, it had always seemed that former senator Jim Sasser's long-waited confirmation as the new US Ambassador to Beijing would be good news for Hongkong, signalling a thaw in the relations between the territory's two major trading partners. Yet now his arrival is more likely to
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    Sweeping beyond your doorstep
    162 19 THE AGEING of several private estates in Singapore is a noteworthy phenomenon. Condos are not likely to encounter major problems of an ageing estate. But, in the case of landed properties, especially those decadesold, problems include poorly-maintained public areas, neglected facilities, poor transportation and environmental hygiene
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    Rush for insurance licences as industry doors open
    799 19  -  Smaller Thai firms vulnerable to influx of new players, says Alan Boyd Alan Boyd The writer is a Bangkok-based journalist who contributes to BT A DELUGE of applications for new licences in the Thai insurance business following the first phase of an
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    528 20 NYT WASHINGTON Worried by the financial health of Japanese banks, the Federal Reserve has arranged with Japanese authorities for it to provide billions of dollars almost instantly in exchange for Treasury bonds and bills in case of a sudden cash
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    381 20 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON US industrial output declined for the first time in five months in September as cool Fall weather flowed people across much of the country to turn off their air conditioners. Overall production decreased 0.2 per cent, the Federal Reserve reported.
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    312 20 Bloomberg Business News NORTH ANDOVER, Massachusetts US economic growth would pick up in the second half of this year with low inflation, said Cathy Minehan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Recent economic statistics suggest the economy could
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    258 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK International Business Machines Corp reported third-quarter net income that was below analysts' estimates because of product delays and shortages. Net income rose to US$l.3 billion (551.87 billion), or US$2.3O a share, excluding a one-time charge
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    185 20 Bloomberg Business News DETROIT General Motors Corp said its third-quarter profit rose 16 per cent, well above expectations, mostly on strength from its non-automo-tive subsidiaries. GM said net income rose to US$642 million (*****.64 million), or 42 cents a share, from US$552 million, or 40
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    117 20 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Rev Jesse Jackson told the Million Man March here on Monday that the next black protest rally may be on Wall Street. Rev Jackson said Wall Street investors are crassly cashing on a prison building boom, fuelled
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    Time to re-think the global village concept
    716 20  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent IN THE "global economy of the 21st century," declared United States president Bill Clinton at the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington last week, "we are all neighbours". Americans place
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    162 20 Reuter LONDON The British government borrowed £3.7 billion (SsB.3 billion) in September to plug the gap between its income and spending, making an overshoot of its forecast budget deficit for the year almost certainty. Figures released yesterday day showed the cumulative shortfall for fiscal 1995/96
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      Prominent Indon businessmen take 7.8% stake in Goldtron
      501 21  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed electronics group Goldtron Ltd has finally confirmed that two well-connected Indonesian businessmen have taken a substantial 7.8 per cent stake in the company following months of market speculation. Goldtron informed the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday that
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      CDL launches global brand of Millennium hotels
      586 21  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE CDL Hotels International last night launched a new global hotel brand, to be known as the Millennium Hotels and Resorts. The Millennium name will initially be adopted by 26 of the group's hotels worldwide, mainly of four-star rating, the
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      China medicine group ready for listing in HK or S'pore soon
      421 21  -  By Lu Ning SINGAPORE Tianjin Traditional Chinese Medicine Group Co (TTCMG) is ready for a listing either in Singapore or in Hongkong as early as April next year once negotiations between the securities regulators are completed, said its president
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      Lehman buys 1.4 m TAC shares for distribution
      139 21 SINGAPORE Lehman Brothers, the book-running lead manager for Thai cellular telephone services provider, Total Access Communication, has bought nearly 1.4 million TAC shares to distribute to institutions which have asked for more shares. The shares were bought at between US$6.2O (SS8.80) and
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      TAC listing is proof of SES flexibility
      643 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Loh Hui Yin BANGKOK More often than not, the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) has been branded as tight-lipped, tough and even intransigent when dealing with its constituents publicly-listed companies and those aspiring for listed status. But the manner
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      Halim moved 5% stake to family trust: Renong
      313 21  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR CONGLOMERATE Renong Bhd has come forward to explain that the private placements of 83.465 million shares made by its chief executive and controlling shareholder Halim Saad were merely a transfer of the shares to his
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        MARKET MOOD
        51 21 Uncertain Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance, Barings. Credit Lyonnais Securities. Daiwa, Fraser, G K Goh. Kay liian, Morgan Gre n fell. Ong Co, Nomura. Phillip, Smith New Court and W
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        HOT STOCK
        87 21  -  By Paul Leo UIC is a trading buy at yesterday's close of $1.23. Daily Relative Strength Index has bounced up from oversold region on strong buying interest yesterday's volume of 2.34 million shares was 2.4 times more than the 10-day average 0f997,000 units. However, any gain is likely
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        DBS Land enters into tie-ups with Health Corp of S'pore
        473 22  -  Regional partnership with HCS is second by a govt-linked company By Diana Oon SINGAPORE DBS Land has become the second govern-ment-linked company (GLC) after Straits Steamship Land (SSL) to go into a regional partnership with the Health Corporation of Singapore
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          CAM Mechatronics buys CTJ shares
          56 22 SINGAPORE CAM Mechatronics has subscribed for three million shares of M$ 1 each at par (including the transfer of three subscriber shares) in CAM High-Tech Diecasting (Johore) Sdn Bhd (CTJ). CTJ is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of CAM Mechatronics. CTJ will undertake high-tech diecasting using
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          Cycle & Carriage (HK) winds up
          57 22 Cycle Carriage (HK) winds up SINGAPORE Cycle Carriage Ltd announced that its whollyowned subsidiary, Cycle Carriage (HK) Ltd, which has been inactive since 1993, has started voluntary liquidation. The winding up, which is expected to take several months, will not have any effect on the financial position of the Cycle
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          Liang Huat warrants acceptances
          54 22 SINGAPORE Liang Huat has received acceptances for 53.15 million warrants and excess applications for 25.73 million warrants, representing 97.5 per cent and 47.2 per cent respectively of the total number of warrants offered. The 1.35 million warrants which have not been accepted will be allocated to
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          Showpla share trading
          57 22 SINGAPORE Trading in Japanese-owned plastic mould maker Showpla Asia Ltd shares will cease on a "when issued" basis and will start on "ready" basis with effect from Friday. Trades in the Showpla shares done on "when issued" basis will be due for settlement on Oct 27. Showpla
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        Group led by SSL ropes in Club Med for China resort
        241 22  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE A consortium led by the Keppel group's property arm Straits Steamship Land (SSL) intends to appoint French resort chain Club Mediterranee to operate a proposed holiday village it is developing in Kunming, China. SSL yesterday
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        Lock icon Global triple listing for Indonesia's Telkom on track
        270 22 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian telecommunications operator FT Telkom is on track with its ambitious triple listing in New York, London and Jakarta, shrugging off concerns about unfinished business, a company source said. The source said PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telekom) planned to list up
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        Ultrajaya to double beverage output capacity by mid-1996
        479 22  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesia's largest dairy and fruit juice producer, PT Ultrajaya Milk industry and Trading Company, will double its annual beverage production capacity from 30 million litres to 60 million litres by the middle of next year. Ultrajaya president director
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        Hopewell's Manila unit to pursue bid for power project
        359 22  -  Froa Al Labita in MANILA A COMPANY owned *by Hongkong tycoon Gordon Wu will pursue its winning bid for a power plant after Manila's decision to lift its ban on US firm Westinghouse. The bid was disallowed in a wrangle involving
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        San Miguel forms packaging subsidiary
        162 22 MANILA Listed food and beverage giant San Miguel Corp (SMC) has formed a new company to produce corrugated cartons for the local and export markets. SMC said in a statement yesterday that its subsidiary San Miguel Packaging Products (SMPP) has a 70 per cent stake
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        Coatings firm Rotol to offer 20m to 30m shares in IPO today
        215 22 SINGAPORE Coatings specialist Roto! Singapore will be unveiling its initial public offering (IPO) on Sesdaq today, adding momentum to the IPO scene. The offer of about 20-30 million shares will be leadmanaged by DBS Bank. Rotol, which makes
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        IBM plans quick expansion to tap China market
        408 23  -  It expects business volume in China to surge in the coming years Quak Hiang Whai in SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL Business Machines (IBM) sees China as its most exciting market in the Asia-Pacific and has plans to rapidly expand its presence in the country
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        Lock icon Acer Inc's 85m shares for foreigners oversubscribed
        190 23 AFP TAIPEI Foreign investors have snapped up an offer of 85 million shares by Acer Inc, Taiwan's largest maker of personal computers, with the issue oversubscribed before it officially goes on sale, officials said yesterday. "The shares turned out to be very attractive
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        Lock icon S China Strategic to buy HK paper
        83 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Drug manufacturer South Chinsl Strategic Ltd would buy Hongkong newspaper Express News from its owners, Robert H S Ng and South China Holdings Ltd, the companies announced yesterday. Mr Ng is the executive director of both South China Strategic,
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        Lock icon Wah Nam raises HK$29.7m
        64 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Conglomerate Wah Nam Group Ltd said it was selling 198.7 million new shares to three individual investors not previously associated with the company, raising HK529.7 million (555.5 million). The new shares would represent about 14 per cent of Wah Nam's enlarged share
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        Lock icon Galeries Lafayette narrows loss
        56 23 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Galeries Lafayette SA, the French department store operator, said its first-half losses narrowed to 282 million francs (SSBO.B million) from 508 million francs in the year-earlier period. It may be unprofitable this year because second-half business has been hurt by the threat
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        Lock icon Enterprise ups stake in US associate
        53 23 Reuter SYDNEY Electronic software distributor Enterprise Solutions Asia Pacific Ltd (Esap) said yesterday it was acquiring another 10 per cent stake in its US associate company Enterprise Solutions Ltd for U554.25 million (Ss6 million). Esap said the purchase had raised its stake to 40
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        Lock icon China securities official quits
        53 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The director of public offerings at China's central securities regulator said he was resigning effective this Friday because of ill-health, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. Gao Xiqing, 58, is also resigning his position as general counsel at the China Securities
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        Lock icon Fund managers look to Erdos to revive Shanghai bourse
        265 23 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Global fund managers hope the world's biggest cashmere company will help the comatose Shanghai stock market rise from the dead. But local investors say that's not likely. On Friday, Inner Mongolia Erdos Cashmere Products Co, which accounts
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        Lock icon Australian securities panel chief stirs Coles Myer row
        291 23 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia's corporate regulator stirred the controversy surrounding retailer Coles Myer Ltd yesterday by criticising companies that try to conceal transactions. Australian Securities Commission (ASC) chairman Alan Cameron said Australia was not far behind leading overseas markets in its standards of
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        Lock icon News Corp shares fall on talk of bid for EMI
        248 23 Reuter SYDNEY The share price of Rupert Murdoch's global media group News Corp Ltd fell yesterday on speculation that Mr Murdoch was planning a bid to acquire the EMI music business from Britishbased Thorn EMI pic. "There is talk that
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        Lock icon Takashimaya enjoys interim profit surge
        377 24 AFP TOKYO Takashimaya Co Ltd of Japan said yesterday its pre-tax profit surged 180 per cent from a year earlier to 2.7 billion yen (5538.3 million) in the six months to August. The Osaka-based department store operator said halfyear sales rose 1.2 per cent to
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        Lock icon Chase reports lower 3rd-qtr earnings
        509 24 Other big US banks post gains from robust lending activity Reuter NEW YORK Chase Manhattan Corp, which is merging with Chemical Banking Corp, on Monday reported a drop in third quarter earnings while Nationsßank, Bank of New York and other big banks posted healthy gains
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        47 24 AFP BEIJING Workers pulling into place a piece of an advertisement for Coca-Cola above an investment company office in Beijing yesterday. Coca-Cola is one of the many American companies angling to increase their chunk of the vast Chinese market. AFP
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        Swedish firm Scania unveils new truck model
        245 24  -  By Dexter Lee in STOCKHOLM SWEDISH heavy vehicle maker Scania CV AB yesterday launched a new truck model that is aimed at meeting truck operators' needs in the next century. The company said the 4-se-ries was designed to meet customers' demand for quality,
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        Lock icon Profits more than double for two US securities firms
        338 24 NYT NEW YORK Profits at Bear, Stearns Cos Inc and Smith Barney Inc more than doubled in the quarter that ended in September, providing clear evidence that Wall Street has recovered from last year's rout. Benefiting from strong trading and investment
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        Lock icon Intel and Sun earnings surpass expectations
        165 24 NYT SAN FRANCISCO Intel Corp rewarded the faithful on Monday with a 41.3 per cent rise in third-quarter earnings, meeting or exceeding most analysts' estimates. Primed by disappointing results at rivals like Motorola Inc and Advanced Micro Devices Inc, some analysts had expected Intel
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        Lock icon A bank that exists only in cyberspace opens in the US today
        398 25 Bloomberg Business News LEXINGTON, Kentucky Security First Network Bank, a unit of Cardinal Bancshares of Lexington, will today become the first bank to exist completely in cyberspace. Although other banks, including Wells Fargo Co, offer limited access to
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        Lock icon Moody's lowers Citic's debt ratings
        246 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China International Trust and Investment Corp (Citic), China's premier finance and investment vehicle, is a riskier credit than the government which controls it. US ratings company Moody's Investors Service yesterday lowered Citic's long-term debt rating to Baal from A3. The short-term
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        Lock icon Citicorp 3Q pretax profit up 10%, above analysts' forecast
        297 25 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Citicorp said third-quarter pretax profit rose 10 per cent, led by rising revenue from consumer businesses and trading. Net income fell 2 per cent from a year earlier when the company received more tax benefits. The
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        Lock icon Shenzhen clearing role for Stanchart
        73 25 Reuter HONGKONG Standard Chartered Bank said it had been chosen by the Shenzhen Securities Clearing Co (SSCQ as the cash clearing bank under the new central clearing system for Shenzhen 4 B' shares. From Oct 23, SSCC will assume the central depository and settlement function
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        Lock icon Softbank signs deal with 14 banks
        85 25 AFP TOKYO Softbank Corp of Japan said yesterday it had signed a contract with 14 banks, including major city banks, to cooperate in lending to software companies which would use their intellectual property as collateral. Under the agreement, the Tokyo-based software vendor will evaluate
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        Lock icon IBJ to underwrite Thai bond
        73 25 AFP BANGKOK The Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand (IFCT) has appointed the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ) as the underwriter for a US$5O million (Ss7l million) floating rate note isSue, an IBJ official said yesterday. The five-year bond was the second instalment of IFCTs US$5OO
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        Lock icon American Express scraps planned sale of banking unit
        268 25 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK American Express Co said it took its underperforming banking unit off the market because the bids it received were too low. "We believe the bank will create more long-term value as an ongoing part of the company
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        Lock icon Ex-Fed official sees number of global banks shrinking
        301 25 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The number of banks operating on a global basis will shrink to "only a handful" within five to 10 years. Gerald Corrigan, former president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, said yesterday that with intense competition
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        Lock icon Malaysia looks abroad to keep palm oil flowing
        491 26 Reuter TAWAU, Malaysia Malaysia, in a bid to maintain its multi-billion-dollar palm oil industry, was urging growers to acquire plantations and refineries abroad, industry officials said on Monday. Shrinking agricultural land and an acute labour shortage because of the fast industrialisation had
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        Lock icon Liffe plans to boost trading by linking with US and Asian exchanges
        276 26 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) plans to link up with US and Asian exchanges to increase its business, said chairman Jack Wigglesworth. "We're very keen to develop these links
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        Lock icon China credit crunch killing metals demand
        291 26 Reuter HONGKONG China, which is facing a credit crunch, is unlikely to return to the metals market in the short term regardless of how far prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) fall, according to Far East traders. Any feeling that China might come
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        Lock icon Turnover hits record at China futures exchange
        176 26 Reuter SHANGHAI Turnover on the China Commodity Futures Exchange in southern Hainan province hit a record high of 12.1S billion yuan (552.07 billion) on Monday, the Shanghai Securities News said. Combined open interest on the exchange also reached a high level at 160,000
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        Lock icon US mutual life insurance firms lose tax fight
        221 26 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON America's mutual life insurance companies may owe the US as much as USSS billion (557.12 billion) in back taxes and interest after the Supreme Court rejected their arguments on Monday in a tangled tax dispute. The justices, without
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        Lock icon Lehman to axe up to 4% of its workforce
        394 26 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, lumbering under the weight of lowmargin, over-staffed businesses, will cut up to 4 per cent of its workforce. The fourth-largest US securities firm in terms of capital is cutting 200 to 300
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        Lock icon Hainan port to rival Singapore
        327 26 Reuter SINGAPORE Europe's Hohbond International Petrochemical Co, the first foreign firm to wholly own an oil refinery in China, aims to develop Hainan port to rival Singapore as a regional trading hub, a senior company official said. "Mideast vessels heading towards the Far East will
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        195 26 AFX-Asia LONDON The dollar edged lower in mid-afternoon trading, with sentiment in the currency affected by a renewed move into the mark out of the franc which saw the German unit test 3.50 francs. The release of the US September industrial production and capacity utilisation data, which were broadly
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        87 26 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed within a narrow trading band against other major currencies yesterday in quiet trading. In morning trading, the dollar was worth 1.420S marks, down from 1.4230 at Monday's closing in New York. Against the yen, the greenback was trading at 100.52 from
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        Lock icon Euroyen lower, Eurodollars mixed
        1272 27 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures ended lower on profit-taking while Eurodollars were mixed, but with a bullish outlook. Euroyen futures saw some profittaking in late afternoon trade, bringing them down to the day's lows. "Technically, Euroyen has been overbought recently so we might be seeing a
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        M'sia rubber gains on China buying
        681 27 COMMOOfTY REPORTS IMMbw KUALA LUMPUR: Further buying interest from China to meet the country's falling stocks, coupled with tight supply, pushed up prices in Malaysia. "The Chinese buying is still on. They are looking for rubber in all producing countries," a dealer said. "We
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        Record world sunseed output
        109 27 HAMBURG Global 1995-96 sunseed production will possibly reach a record 24.89 million tonnes, up from year-ago's 23.98 million and up almost one million from the Sep 8 projection, said the newsletter Oil World in its latest issue. The newsletter said a "spectacular increase" by 24 per
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        Gencor-Cuba exploration projects
        90 27 JOHANNESBURG South African mining house Gencor said it was planning two exploration projects in Cuba, both in joint ventures with the Cuban government. Gencor said on Monday it was negotiating a 75 per cent stake in both the San Felipe nickel deposit and the Camaguey copper/gold deposit
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        Strong cotton buying seen on NY fall
        67 27 HONGKONG Recent limit-down losses in New York cotton futures have sparked buying interest from the region, with most buyers now eying a price fall to between 80 and 82 US cents (551.14 and SSI. 17), traders said. At those levels, mills in Taiwan,
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        63 27 NEW YORK The Ivory Coast is estimated to have sold forward 630,000 tonnes of its 1995-96 crop as of Friday, the General Cocoa Co said in its latest weekly newsletter. General Cocoa said estimates for the Ivorian main crop remained in a range between 800,000 and
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        Australia
        1045 28 -1.5 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday following a weak performance on Wall Street and other overseas bourses. "It finished down only slightly, which was surprising considering the poor overseas leads," said a broker. The All Ordinaries Index fell 1,5 points to 2,108.5. The All Industrials slipped 4.2 to 3,147.4
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        Manila
        545 28 +2.56 Share prices closed higher with foreign investors picking up selected bargains. "There were some selective bargain-hunting today by foreign funds," a dealer said. The PSE Composite Index gained 2.56 points to 2,638.82. Turnover was 3.6 billion shares valued at 2.5 billion pesos. Petron Corp was a favourite buy,
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        Taipei
        532 28 +42.02 Share prices ended higher in firm trading, led by electronics issues in response to the listing of a computer chip producer. "The market is still far from bullish as investors are waiting to see how the government is going to respond to Chinese President Jiang Zemin's statement, saying
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        Seoul
        437 28 -1.7 Stocks were little changed as large export shares rose on buying by cash-rich institutional investors while issues in companies with talks of mergers and declined. Kia Motors, which had recently soared on expectations of a takeover by larger conglomerates, plunged 1,100 won to 18,800 its daily limit following
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        New Zealand
        324 28 +4.85 Shares ended slightly firmer but are expected to make greater gains today in light of an interest rate rally. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 4.85 points higher at 2,142.04 on turnover worth NZ534.14 million. The market had closed before the Reserve Bank's latest comment on monetary policy,
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        Bombay
        81 28 -1.21 Shares traded in a tight range and closed little changed. The 30-share BSE Index closed 1.21 points down at 3,580.76 and the National Index lost 1.71 to 1,622.96. "The market was quiet. It weakened initially and later there was some covering up as tomorrow is the last day
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        London
        662 28 +4.9 SHARE prices closed firm but off highs, reflecting a dull performance on Wall Street in morning trade and a move lower in the FT-SE 100 index futures contract, dealers said. The FT-SE 100 Index closed up 4.9 points at 3,562.2. Volume was 552.6 million shares. Dealers said a
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        Paris
        129 28 -10.75 Share prices closed lower, extending Monday's losses as renewed franc weakness suggested that French interest rates will have to remain high for some time. > The CAC-40 Index was down 10.75 points at 1,779.74. Dealers said the franc's breach of the 3.50-per-mark level depressed share prices. The franc
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        Frankfurt
        181 28 +9.59 Share prices closed higher in quiet trading, lifted by an acquisition by Siemens and a steady dollar. The DAX index closed up 9.59 points at 2,201.03. Siemens closed up 7.40 at 739.90 on rumours it was acquiring a Cable Wireless unit. CAW confirmed Siemens is buying a 75
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        Brussels
        166 28 •0.96 Belgian shares languished, with no fresh news to jolt them out of their near-mori-bund state. The Bel-20 Index closed down 0.98 point at 1,423.05, with a low 928 million francs worth of shares traded. Dealers noted selective buying of stocks which have fallen recently, including steel maker Cockerill,
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        Milan
        154 28 -100 Italian stocks fell as a delay in the proposed Gemina merger troubled a market already drained by investors' need to find funds for share offerings expected later this year. The all-share Mibtel Index closed 100 points lower at 9,238. Fund managers said that the declines were caused by
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        Amsterdam
        256 28 -258 Dutch stocks extended their decline as a lower dollar and lower-than-expected earnings from IBM heightened concern that Dutch companies will report disappointing earnings next month. The EOE Index closed 2.58 points lower at 456.57. Among the 25 index stocks, 18 fell and four rose. The dollar fell against
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        Stockholm
        153 28 +2.56 Swedish stocks recovered after a weak opening, partly due to gains by drugs group Astra. Investors were stocking up ahead of US sales data for Astra's blockbusting ulcer drug Losec. "There is some speculation ahead of the Losec sales figures," said a broker. The data will be contained
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        Zurich
        212 28 Swiss shares slipped into negative territory after failing to overcome resistance between 3,125 and 3,130 SMI-points. Trading was directionless and volumes were small, one dealer said, adding that the market was consolidating and could move sideways in the next few days. The blue-chip SMI Index lost 4.0 points to
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        Johannesburg
        335 28 +54.9 South African industrial shares found renewed strength in the afternoon session to push the index to yet another record close while the gold index tumbled to a four-month low. Dealers said there was no single factor to explain the sharp surge in industrials in the afternoon session following
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        New York
        633 28 -11.56 Stock prices edged lower in active trading early yesterday as IBM's slightly disappointing earnings results weighed on the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retreated 9.40 points on Monday, was down 11.56 to 4,772.82 at 11am EDT. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was off
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      2393 29 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks were little changed, with the Hang Seng Index closing above 10,000 for a second day, amid optimism that declining bond yields will lure investors to shares. Gains in HSBC and Hutchison Whampoa balanced falls in Citic Pacific and Hopewell. "Overseas money is supporting this
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      634 29 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index gained 13.68 points at 990.45.48 on turnover of HK56.64 million. Beiren Printing, the day's biggest gainer, rose 3.7 per cent on thin trading. The Shanghai B Index closed 0.3 per cent lower in turnover of US$l.63 million. Jinqiao, down 3.4 per cent,
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      2431 29 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks were mixed as gains in paper shares, which rose on an expected recovery in earnings, were offset by declines in high-tech issues. "The view today is mixed paper demand is strong, while there are no new incentives for high-tech stocks," said an analyst. "Everyone's
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      1370 29 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks ended the day lower in thin trade as selling in the finance sector cast gloom over the bearish market, brokers said. The SET Index finished 7.13 points lower at 1,309.91 on lacklustre 2.9 billion baht trade. Falls beat risers 203 to 70 with 121 unchanged. "There
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      1034 29 Reuter JAKARTA Shares closed the day higher following late active buying in blue chip Astra. The Composite Index rose 2.84 points to close at 498.85. "Late active buying in Astra helped boost market sentiment following profit-taking in Citra Marga," one broker said. Astra rose 200 rupiah to 3,175, with
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      6678 30 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks slid to their lowest point since early May after the central bank raised interest rates and tightened rules on consumer credit to rein in inflation. The KLSE Composite Index fell 11.51 points to 945.86, its lowest
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        1836 32  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Three stock market indices in the region fell through key psychological supports yesterday, as prices slid further on forced selling and Bank Negara's just-an-nounced measures to curb speculative loans. In what dealers generally described as "yet
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      534 33 Reuter Knight-Ridder SIGNS of steadier rates and fresh enquiry for North Atlantic panamaxes gave some relief to owners but the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) continued to decline. Brokers said surplus overage capers in the Atlantic and the scarcity of firm business for panamaxes in the Pacific were persistently
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      MARITIME STOCKS
      327 33 SES '000 Oct 17 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.47 +0.01 52 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.21 -0.01 217 Cosco Investment 1.82 -0.04 50 Far East Levingston S.85 unch 118 Freight Links Express 0.72 -0.005 206 GB Holdings Ltd 0.935 -0.06 126 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.93 unch 237 Hitachi
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      S'pore container throughput hits 1m mark again
      274 33  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Total container throughput handled by the port of Singapore has gone beyond the one million mark for the second consecutive month. Figures released yesterday by the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) show that during the month of August, the
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      Survival will come only from pollution defence, industry told
      512 33  -  Conference on Towage and Salvage By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The salvage industry will only survive if it develops value-added services in the field of pollution defence, said Sembawang Maritime president Billy Lee. At yesterday's Asian International Conference on the Towage and
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      Port Klang Cruise Centre to open by year-end
      323 33 SINGAPORE Port Klang Cruise Centre, Malaysia's first cruise terminal, is due to start operations before the end of the year. This was reported by Star Cruise, which is building the terminal as a joint project with the Selangor state government. "The first
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      Lock icon Japan's foreign ship orders soar
      125 33 Reuter TOKYO Foreign orders for ships received by Japanese shipyards in September leapt 71.5 per cent from a year earlier to 447,950 gross registered tonnes (grt), the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA) said yesterday. "The year-on-year percentage rise seems very big but it is not
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      Starting an international training fund? Better to let market forces rule
      873 33  -  STRAIT T—l A regular comment column on shipping events that mate tne news By Seafarer PAYING for training has always been a controversial issue in the shipping industry. There is a certain unfairness in the way the market works.
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      Lock icon Hainan port aims to rival S'pore
      172 33 Reuter SINGAPORE Europe's Hohbond International Petrochemical Co, the first foreign firm to wholly own an oil refinery in China, aims to develop Hainan port to rival Singapore as a regional trading hub, a senior company official said yesterday. "Mideast vessels heading towards the Far
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      Lock icon Taiwan team to talk to China on links
      194 33 UPI TAIPEI Ignoring a government ban on direct shipping between the two countries, a group of Taiwanese representatives have announced plans to lead a delegation to mainland China for talks on opening shipping links. The government of Chiayi County, central Taiwan, has
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      Lock icon HK govt wants to introduce new container terminal operators
      274 33 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong wants to bring new operators into the container terminal business but that was not an effort to woo Beijing over the Container Terminal Nine (CT9) impasse, Secretary for Economic Development Gordon Siu said. The government was doubling efforts
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      Lock icon Brakes put on India's fleet growth
      603 34  -  As the political mood swings against economic liberalisation, the Indian government's restrictions are causing the shipping industry to stall, reports K Balasubramanian K Balasubramanian Fairplay tN India, business and politics are inseparable bedfellows. Closely controlled by government policy, commercial development mirrors the politico E
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      Lock icon Ports struggle to cope with traffic
      419 34 Fairplay INDIA'S exports are booming and the country's major ports are bursting at the seams. However, because of the government's constant dithering on port privatisation proposals, the ports find themselves unequal to the task of coping with the burgeoning traffic. The country's present Five-Year
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      505 34 Page ABC Com 16 ANL 3 APL 12 Able 7 Accord 8 Ahlers 6 Ahrenkiel 4 Appenship 4 Arowana 15 Astro 8 Austral 9 Avant 6 B'tang Mas 8 BSA 9 BTL 16 Bangladesh 12 Batamindo 7 Bengal Br IS Blue Star 9
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      10029 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 Mwrtlitr Vttul Voyagt P| 52L. >,> "SS 1
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        736 51 v— 1 Voy No Bfth Arrival Dpftuf Jl aton«s*Je 18.10/0030 U; urcL, tsis ESS it!§®§ y *5S»* llloflloo A*nx>ne 842 J8 alongside 18 10/1800 18/95 J2 alongside 18.10/2300 ££71!U 233 J12 alongside 18 10/1500 D*j F l ft jna °%95 J2 alongside 18.10/1900 Ggjkg Wonder 5/95 J6
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1504 51 RECEIVING of export pcl containers and lcl cargo Record Booking/Balance Rslts SNp Voy No Etfa/Btr Pariod From To From Acx Jade 260B 19/1700 1A 17/1500 17/1659 17/1900 3 18/0700 18/1159 18/1400 4 18/1200 18/1459 18/1700 Anda ***** 20/0700 2A 17/1700 18/0659 18/0900 3 18/0700 18/1159 18/1400 4 18/1200
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAYS
        217 51 OCT 20 Guatemala: Commemmoration of 1944 Revolution. Keaya: Kenyatta Day. OCT 23 Huagary: Holiday. ladia: Deepavali. Malaysia: Deepavali date subject to change. New Zealaad: Labour Day. Siagapore: Deepavali (although Eurodollar and Euroyen contracts still expected to trade). Thailaad: Chulalongkorn Day. OCT 24 Egypt: Suez Day. OCT 25 Taiwaa:
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        Sino-Swiss venture to start air charter service in China
        359 52  -  Qy Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Swiss air charter company Global Aviation's Singapore subsidiary, together with China Southern Airlines (CSA), will soon be operating the first western style executive charter service based in China. The service will be operational in November and will
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        Lock icon Shrouded in controversy
        60 52 Reuter KYLE OF LOCHALSH, Scotland Scottish Secretary of State Michael Forsyth taking in the view from Kyleakin on Skye of the Skye Bridge which he opened on Monday. The £40 million (SsBB million) bridge has been plagued by controversy and at £5.25 to cross, it is one
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        Lock icon HK-Australia air talks to resume next month
        301 52 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong and Australia aviation negotiators ended their latest meetings here on Monday night, a day early, but will meet again next month to resolve their air rights dispute, edging closer to an end-of-year deadline. "There were a number of ideas exchanged
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        Lock icon Japan Air Systems keen to invest in Subic Bay freeport
        171 52 UPI MANILA Japan's biggest regional airline company has expressed interest to establish operations at a former US naval base converted into a Hongkong-style freeport in the northern Philippines, officials said yesterday. The Subic Bay Metropoli- tan Authority (SBMA), the agency
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        Lock icon Japan-US dispute over airline routes may affect air cargo talks
        399 52 Reuter TOKYO Japan and US are taking hardline stances over renewal of their airlines' passenger routes and analysts say this could affect air cargo talks between them scheduled for November. Japan's transport ministry said yesterday that it had decided to
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        73 52 Reuter BEIJING The east China city of Hangzhou will build an international airport with a total investment of 3.1 billion yuan (SSS2B million), the Xinhua news agency said. The airport, for both civilian and militaty aircraft, has received approval from the State Council, or cabinet, and
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        74 52 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Taiwan and Hongkong will extend a landingrights agreement by a month so they can work out differences over the number of flights allowed between the two sides, Taiwan's semi-official Central News Agency reported, citing unidentified aviation industry officials. The two
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        Lock icon Mitsubishi helping Merc in Vietnam?
        84 52 AFP TOKYO Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp said yesterday it was considering assisting Mercedes-Benz AG of Germany in entering the Vietnamese car market. Mercedes-Benz is currently planning to produce cars and commercial vehicles in Vietnam next year. Mitsubishi Motors said it was considering painting cars for
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        77 52 AFP TOKYO Japan's Toyota Motor Corp said yesterday it would construct a second plant for its Indonesian unit, PT Toyota Astra Motor, raising annual output to 130,000-150,000 units from the current 80,000 by the end of 1998. A Toyota official, however, declined to give a
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        Lock icon Nagoya crash relatives' record claim
        77 52 AFP TOKYO Relatives of 124 victims of last year's China Airlines Airbus A-300 crash at Nagoya, central Japan, will seek 20-30 billion yen (SS2BO-430 million) in damages from the airline and manufacturer, their lawyers said yesterday. It will be the biggest damages claim ever filed
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        Lock icon US plans aviation talks in Asia next month
        276 52 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Buoyed by recent gains in Hongkong and the Philippines, US aviation officials are planning a whirlwind tour of Asia next month to press for more access to the booming airline market of the Pacific Rim. A delegation drawn
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      619 36 JAPAN/HONQKOMG/STRAITS REGULAR SERVICC Z LOAOINQ FOR PORT KLANQ/PENANQ VESSa VOY t'POW pbumm pu [75 3 CHUM BMW 818 «W "tjOCT~~* YAYASANTUJUH 17 MPT MOCT PWEMNBHT 1 1« OCT M OCT B<m* _i moct aOCT swtehakuyo n ami a oct ■ANOAWMSEA 1 MOCT MOCT AMWM _l MOCT >1 OCT «WW Mm
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      916 37 Ipnr STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD .1 mKBt Mf 1i Km Cfciaai Riai #11-01 Kappal Tmn t2M Tal: *****88 Fax: *****17 sMM GffjgMf (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) ra oZ7' STUNTS HOPE WIS MOd 21M Mm. M DmM BIMm 8MP...... straits sua «we son nod kn, imm *km iomWi pccux
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      1925 37 mil P&O Containers scO Container* (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd ""^1 First Class Connections WORLDWIDE Tefc 225 2233 PT^CSP7SI7 CR N«ben *****9 ItOtZ U EXPORT IMPOfIT I" M VBMBL VOV SRI SOU ANT NOT NAM OOT Mi UN VCMB. unv AMY OOT ROT MAM mmi ■HJ M A LARS MAtRSK MlO
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      717 38 MMTrnrrrT^nrTT^ PERSIAN OULF SERVICE B wssu «T $CP art 3J dmm rwr mi I KTMUA wmw ana svn aim am ami UMCONCcHT lU7WHWI 14/11 B/11 Ofll Mfll Mil UMCONCOTD 13" 024* 82"1 imi Wll *4/11 IVII Wtl Wll UM COMMA 037J-BSW HTII t*ll ail ft/11 a/11 an ait ALSO*CCtrTMFaTD(X»M.INMUM .aa«J«MOUMI.
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      636 38 gMCHFKLD MAMN6AOENCCS PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 UNO) FAX: ***** IS/*****03 TELEX; RS ***** RHMP (3 Una*) CD NO: **********06 IFT CTr i mm—m eutMflKßfltiiiiil£ wGtmwWHHm iJMMHp |r (NatkMMl Uoee of Etttopio) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vmml Voy NTA Loadbigfer Atoyot 41WB 24/10 NMml 40WB 07/12 Dptxx* AMD, MHMM H
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      1309 39 tcammtM«if fffinifl AM VVbjcowtaittzayia I UMAML' Hmmmrt &mm* M—ti th (U—r§Dtmttt MMnhi» tftrM COS TAR SHIPPING PTE LTD f "i MHS'LSSI m c-*»n* utuimu c,.t.,;, tn ounun cmunt «n;ii CllMfiiikv If74f wll/lIW COSmP C§artaUsasl 429$$$$ OX) 4 fts7ss C9mmssmmt 4tt§fM SuSFEiI '&?JV!2™ mm 2L2K2K mrnmmtm UfZtnim f- C Fnltiltll futnim
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      715 39 ®M HEUNG-A SHIPPING (KOREAN FLAG) CR MO: **********0 M JHT Ml® l ami a»_ ifZli. JiZiL M_ MIIL _sZii JSZII JMt JLOL <qffß I S5» 114/lf I|l/1f Ift/lf 111/lf 15/jH jfeMaaaaiaiataM 1 1 T mmm mm mm m w m m ac 1 »wg_ «iw s^7s—li7Tr tpTi- IT7iY h7T 57iT
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      590 39 I //i FAMOUS CONTAINER UNESI —80 ROBINSON ROAD, *22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 Z4 HOT UNE: *****33 (30 UNES) I WE PROVIDE I Is I Weekly Sailing DIRECT CONSOL HAIFA ASHDOD also accepting cargoes to TEL AVIV, JERUSALEM, REHOVOT BEER-SHEVA RISHON-LEZION i y Call us lor details *****33 Ken/Sylvia/Ramlah Imah/Molly P KLANQ
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      969 40 79 ANSON ROAD, *21 -01, SINGAPORE 0207 CR f **********0N PORT KLAHQ PENANO «ua voy sw m vessel voy m mi SEA LAUREL 425N 19nOTHU 2010FRI DRAGON NIAS 60N 21/10 SAT 23fl0M0N 218 A IariOTHU 21/10 SAT SUSAK &£j 22/10 SUN 24/10 TUC WRO ***** 2(yiomi 22/10 SUN LHOTSS 5063
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      930 41 f SSS&Srßfff PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) ltd I I 140 Ceci Street, *03-00 RL Building, Singapore 0106. I I CR NO: **********0E I mm vov mm emm mm aoo no mu ih ru msw aoa vU: ROTA WUAVA WJASIP 10/10 >4/10 1/11 8/11 8/11 18/11 18/11 14/11 18/11 Is KOTAiaauAa
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      858 41 [VESSELS VOY ~MN LEHWME HAMBURG THAMESPORT ROTTERDAM I ANTWWj "t \ALLE DESAOfTTA SIIW I*lo 07/11 o*ll I*ll IVII I*ll W-LED'AOUEA AIIW 2*lo 14/11 IVII 17/11 I*ll 3*ll MLLE DE QENSNA HIIW 31/10 21/11 22/11 34/11 3*ll 27/11 MLLEOEUTRA YIIW 3*ll 5/11 <R712 o*l2 o*ll ALSO ACCEPTING CARQO TO ALL U.
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      55 43 FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTDQ Established Since 1984 OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR QROUPAGE LCL CONSOLIDATION AUCKLAND SYDNEY IMPORT 6P EXPERT BRISBANE T MELBOURNE FREMANTLE SERVICES m i FOR BOOKING ft SAILING SCHEDULE, CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PIE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800-*****66 TOLL-FREE TEL:
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      1798 44 P— M AS AGENTS: H" UNI(«HQAPORg) PTI LTD (CWWftttflJ—milTl«ttMMW73»«> TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKJ R*****5 FAX *****167/^9 W TWT MALAYSIA: T UNI MIMTMI (MALAYSIA) MM WD TEL5A*****00PK*****75PEN*****20J*****101PGU*****256 1 NDONESU. P.T. SAHARA LAUT MTSRNUSA, TEL JKT *****08 i»oin —w AaniTA PAnnr soimi wit /Immt tmfmwtrr naanssa vot iw> ft/rw rSTI ■orwvissa vot
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      1273 44 I SINGAPORE OWOSI —m (a 110-*****W0000) ADI CUSTOMERSHVIG MS-I MS OOOWO^WIOH FAX H4+M4 I Wm GOBALUM XIS9 MA GBOALFAX Hl-MM «TwT 77&-S-065 EMU YOKE 311-MM We Carry Your Confidence TQHomw n—inA*n«w>ru—iwxvoownuwwmuwwwoß v.: IWMB/WWMi IWM I I—l-t I I ffi» I Ijj* *Sl~ \ML I Wby |«a I urc i wgg
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      432 45 (A WHOLLY-OMAa SJBSUAAY OF NOL) a OfVMal Agsat oft (SIA AIRFREIGHT) VVOUINKC I MAIN UNE: 278 7772 WTWMT,OMI£ i WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT ETD BTD COLOMBO 20/10 SS/10 KARACHI SI/10 aa/10 MAMAS 22/10 24/10 CALCUTTA 20/10 80/10 CMnTAOONQ 88/10 80/10 NHAVA SHIVA 81/10 88/10 USA/EUROPE BTD BTD USA (ALL
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      1699 45 NedlSdUni NLL VAN NECK/5316 eta Spore 9/11/95 eta Shanghai 22/11/95 |§||fSI CM **********0 M fBH Pm(F) P*MF) Sin Pfcg Jed Sou Led Rtm Am* Hm fet, u LA LOIRE /1415 18/10 18/10 20/10 18/10(F) 09/11 11/11 05/11 06/11 07/11 tmaucc "M* Lek Phg Sle NLL AMERICA/3425 22/10 22/10 24/10 2S/10
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      343 45 K /P_ SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCailum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tat *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****06 CR No.: *****8 200 OOR Y.S.N. LlNEb;|jjiii.l bmj,HU!l.l!UH.liuujj.mx4j.ilw W""" >i-a/it ?7-tvii twii 5! «m/ii n-u/n ii-ivii inyti M M-CT/11 jag P44/I1 Si &MOl HIM 2 n-ivn ~7m/ii £k_ M'SIAN AGENTS:
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      1558 46 uamssmm I DIRECT CALL TO PANAMA IN JUST 25 DAYS I WEEKLY SERVICE j MATHILDE MAERSK V.9510 ETA SIN 24TH OCTOBER 1995 L I j M Vby ETA I ETD 1 DESTINATIONS L NBt*MkiwMw N«t «M* STH smNQ ■HHWffWWWiWfftSWWHnWWffWfiBWfWtWHWWCTIffiyf'WWi^B^W MAMLDE ¥9610 MAERSK LONG BEACH *9612 B1 H■■HiHiH Hi Ml CY-
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      601 46 LOAOMQ VOY SPORE I P.KELANQ* HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N.ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPtCO HOUSTON HOEQH DYKE 0832 20/21 OCT I 29 NOV 020 EC 06DEC 12DEC 06DEC 16DEC 20 DEC HOEOHCAMN 0132 03AMNOV I 29OCT 16 DEC 19DEC 22DEC 29DEC 26DEC 02 JAN 06 JAN HOEQH DUKE 0632 26/27 NOV |21 NOV
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      342 46 tjQ PHI LI-OH If NT i Y** LIN€S PTi LTD TEL: *****00 (16 UNES) A FAX: *****76/*****38 GfWS CR COOB: 10M*****00H R KBLANQ 03-*****G6 iff** |BYDNE7MssoUßNrßWß3!^^^^^^^^^aOOC^*l I AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, 22 OCT "I NAPgR, OffISTCHURCH. NEW PLYMOUTH I ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, ANTWERP I ANO ALL INLAND DESHNATIONSWrTHM EUROPE 23 OCT *1
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      824 47 ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO Singapore DoslkaMm CFSdtkmdn Sdfap Day FIRST FORWARDER IN .Iggm ZZ^gg-r I■■ ag_ —aa r^Tr#ii 1 sr* I E5" 1 ElEu\ C@)KI r Oar staff at yarn sarvka:- i 'I Chris Ta Dtth *****64 hthinatohai. sea meow Sm/sa DID: *****5$ Te| Fax Singapore 561 1668 272 9838
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      402 48 I®. Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. AAPIIiIIUIJIiIIIAI v CR NO: **********0N 1 BOMBAY/COCHIN L VBOOKL VOV OM MM COC r KOTA MUTIAAA MUTO7 I*lo 2*lo MBOMMK KURAMO MKION «/10 29/10 M/ 11 xoun oomm «io 23/10 #1/10 HAOLORV QLMH 2*lo o*ll (HAIPHONG SERVICE Ivdml 5w HPH ~~1 mwßawi 11SVM
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      121 48 Egg* SIM FAR EAST 24/10 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 22/10 BANGKOK 22/10 MANILA/CEBU 22/10 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 22/10 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 22/10 BUSAN 22/10 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 22/10 HONG KONG SIM CHINA (+B*±B*n) 22/10 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIM EUROPE7UK 22/10 LDN/RX/LVP/SOU 23/10 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM lISA/CANADA 23/10
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      411 48 STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD mcSnSesavia GOLD STAR UNE LID SETNSMPPW6 CORPORATION TELEPHONE: *****6* (t LINES) FAX: *****70 mnomcu»gnN6) KRMO.IMH*SWOM} N. AMOKA/CARMiAN SB VICES w*bvs*a« mm Ivor m |«MW 111 gT MV wn m bii—i n ii/ii luwmozti n/u i/if »/i* 7/11 */it WHO MM— na 17/11 LHMM 1/1*
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      704 48 II VESSEL VOY SIN^IIAASI!^! H TIGER BAY 375N 20-21/10 25-29/10 02-04/11 I TIGER CAPE 378N 23-24/10 29-01/11 06-07/11 I TIGER ISLAND 377N 2S-2&10 01-06/11 06-11/11 I TIGER BRIDGE 378N 30-31/10 06-o*ll 13-14/11 I TIGER BAY 379N 02-04/11 08-12/11 16-I*ll I TIGER CAPE 380N 06-07/11 12-I*ll 20-21/11 I VESSEL VOY SM
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      1417 49 lIESS—— pull eoNTAMam service men mm to madiui VUSSUVOY ETAMN ETA MAA MA OAAOON VOAQO7S W POMT 23-14/10 KOTA MACHAN V.MAC97S 20-21 HO 2S-M/10 TIOER BAY V-171N Ml/10 2S-2S/10 PRAVWNSK V2S 23-21/10 27-2S/10 TIGER CAPE V.37SN 23-2VIO 2S-2VIO PRAVOMSK V2S 24-2S/10 2*40/10 ■J KOTA JAM V 037 27-2*lo 01-BVII TWER
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      106 49 REGULAR SBttAPORE/VgTBAIISBtVICE vests wr» in n» bcsihokm NOMFHff l/fi MPT n/H ¥—BHSCFOtT/IBU—I J •MMMO 4/IS Birr IS/11 WHWBHWWNi ■WW 1 m 25/10 11/10 fOOWB agents- IMKOV SHIPPING CO PTE LTD BUTTON WLL WtfMK *****7 THj *****73 FAX; *****85 caw.miMiisa i I MALDIVES wraiY 10/fq savw S FtOB POUHb/POIT KIAN6 ApHc
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      563 50 SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. V M W I 11 COLLYER QUAY #0«-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKQ/SHAI 3*PORE HKQ SHAJ VESSEL VOY ETA ETD ETA ETP ETA ETP 9545/9546 21Z12 25ast 27/10 ac/io 01/11 J. FASTER
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      184 50 iff MFL SHIPPING (INTL) SSSff PTE LTD SUBSIDIARY OF HAI SUN HUP GROUP FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION SERVICES i Hj MOT LINES: *****42/345 VESSd VOY HA (SIN) DESTINATION ASIAN OUUENGQI ***** 22/10 INGO ",i v-i ri WAM HAI 223 NOl7 22/10 HKG/KEI/KAO SEA RANGER 410 23/10 TYOAOK/OSA Z API KOREA 02E 24/io~lii(G
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      128 51 MHKAPAL KRIS Shipping Pt* Ltd 701DUXTON ROAD, 5%*rM9529 fcfc *****76 Fuu *****77 CI HO. KUCHINO I fsiiu] VBSa VOT CTDSKW VKSft VOY ETDSPOCi lUNGAIUUNG f541 11.10.1W5 KftSMBUII 9SS9 *****99S lUNGA ItfUNG 9543 2410im UtSMCIUII 9541 31.10.199S KtISMADUtA 9513 27.10.199$ vissa vot rmsratf vissa vot tospom lUNGA rQIAGA 9543 20.10.1995 MMGAfBIAGA
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      77 51 NIPPON EXPRESS (WofWwid# Consolidation Syst«m) HXED WEEKLY DEPARTURE ARRIVAL TO Arrow U.SJk. lIRynRVI- insiQtfOH EVHY MONDAY iHAllßiSiiiH eta long reach (VERY THURSDAY ETACHKABO (VERY TUESDAY Arrow Europe (17 DAYS TRANSIT ONLY) HD S'PORI EVHY SATURDAY ETA FHiXSTOWE EVHY TUESDAY ■TfflTTSfflH ETD STORE EVERY THURSDAY ETA ROTTERDAM EVERY SUNDAY Also o«spring
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      128 51 _j REGIONAL WEATHER LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature V Shower Weother -V Wind <Srect>on with speed in knot* J* ee Rom (J Cloudy Sky w °ve height Serf.ce winds or* mdkoted by nrrows wMdi fly with Hie wind Cl) On« hJ circle represents cotm or ight and variable wind* 1_» One
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      38 52 THE NAME FOR CRANES LIEBHERR SINGAPORE PTE LTD, HHP 1 8 PANDAN AVENUE M SINGAPORE 2960 < Bk Telephone 860 8305, Fax 861 6485 LET ME BEAR YOUR LOAD g Two Freighters Weekly To INDIA Bombay-Delhi-Bangalore-Calcutta M fl/Sgi VWf'ffSSqr*rmff
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