The Business Times, 31 January 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/5)5 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31,1996 85c
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    67 1 Own 2423.68 (-0.39) n BTOOMP mm 2228J5 (-0.29) OV| BT-MGA U *****2 1.01) ar"* STOCK MIMBTDIDICES Tuesday Chanc KLSE COMP... ...1052 89 +11.0 NIKKEI *****.44......+133.24 HANG SENG._ *****.4® +142.49 SET INDEX 1398.34 16.89 JAKARTA COUP-....MM +346 MANILA COMP 2868-38 -18.20 TAIPEI WPI 4803.80.—+111.30 SEOULCOMP 875.46 +U0 BOMBAY BSE30
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    FINANCE
    70 1 nCSAVQE BATES uss ss USI 1.419 S L907 tm DM— 0.S74.. .0.057 0t996— ISO *1. 0J01 0.555 HKI *19. 0.184 BAHT MM .0.036 RUPIAH 100 0.044, 0.082 PI1ME BATES SINGAPORE* ,M4 KUALA LUtfUR A15 JAKARTA 17.50 BANGKOK 14.75 MANILA. ..li.W HONGKONG t.« TAJPEi 8.M SYDNEY 11.75 mno SfOVL 11M
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    Lock icon MRCB, Renong in big asset transfer exercise
    577 1  -  Billion-ringgit restructuring will improve MRCB's cash flow From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S two most powerful conglomerates Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB) and Renong Bhd are set to implement a complex billion-ringgit asset transfer exercise aimed at streamlining MRCB, sources said. The
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    Stanchart sells stockbroking arm to Thai brokerage Nava
    325 1  -  S'pore nnit may be included after clearance is obtained By: Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Standard Chartered Bank has sold all its stockbroking operations, except the Singapore subsidiary, to Thai brokerage Nava Finance Securities. Sources said the Singapore subsidiary will also be sold eventually
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    GM of CPL charged with giving false info
    387 1  -  He allegedly sent letters that could hit Liang Court shares By\ Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The general manager of listed Centrepoint Holdings, Harold Tan Hock Chye, 39, was yesterday charged in a district court with offences under the Securities Industry Act and the
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    Lock icon Stronger case for Fed to cut rates
    181 1 Reuter {NEW YORK) A sharp drop in consumer confidence in January shows that Americans are less optimistic about the economy and strengthens the case for the Federal Reserve to let interest rates fall, analysts said. "People are concerned about the future and are
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    KL regulator checking if Repco has said it all
    490 1  -  Share trading to resume only after its assumptions in profit forecasts are verified From Ho Kay Tat in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S Securities Commission (SC) said yesterday it is "examining" if high-flying gaming firm Repco Holdings had revealed "all relevant and material
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      111 1 maps Park lannched Singapore and Vietnam yesterday launched a 1,000hectare industrial park in southern Vietnam with an investment of US$2lO million, Pg 2 ■BCBoilMgt* flMtrictariafc this pg. Renong's share price has held up well too. MaatotqffacMKrf Ifd, pg 15. There has been heavy trading in Amcol for months, but the
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      9 1 Stanchart See's losses tiny in group terms Pg 19
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      9 1 Dow sails past 5,300f0r first time ever, Pg 9
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon EDB goes all-out to speed up manufacturing growth
      611 2  -  Generous set of initiatives lined up to make sure sector's s}iare of GDP hits 2|8% by year 2000 Reports by i Genevieve Cua ALLAN TJIE Economic Development Bpard has launched an all-out effort to speed up the manufacturing sector's growth momentum, with
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      Targets to help companies expand
      280 2 THE ECONOMIC Development Board has mapped out an aggressive and wide-rang-ing set of targets until the year 2000, to help multinationals and local enterprises to expand here and in the region. The overriding goal, said EDB chairman Philip Yeo in a briefing yesterday, is to
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      Lock icon S'pore, Hanoi launch 1,000-ha industrial park
      438 2  -  Quick licences for investors in govt-backed park, gays Viet minister By] Harish Mehta {SINGAPORE and Vietnam ytesterday launched a 1,000hectare industrial park in southern Vietnam with an investment of US$2lO million ($5299 million) amid expectations that it would create 5f),000 jobs and generate annual
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      TDB gives 19 events AIF status and unveils new scheme
      307 2 THE Trade Development Board has awarded 19 trade fairs with its Approved International Fairs (AIF) awards for 1996 and 1997 and announced that it will introduce another new scheme along similar lines. I Called Approved Trade Fofium (ATF), the new
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      Toshiba moving VCR HQ to S'pore
      369 2  -  By Jennifer Lien TOSHIBA Corp is moving its video cassette recorder headquarters to Singapore, the first time the Japanese conglomerate has transferred worldwide control for a main product to a location outside Japan. From April 1, Singapore subsidiary Toshiba Video Products Pte Ltd (TVPP)
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      More cruise ships, more calls, more passengers
      212 2 CRUISE ships made a total of 1,707 calls at the International Passenger Terminal at the Singapore Cruise Centre last year, up 73 per cent from 1994, said the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA). Over the same period, the number of cruise ships rose
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      Lock icon Hotel occupancy dips below 80%
      296 2  -  ETE OH THE ECONOMY Hotels By. Agnes Wee HOTEL occupancy rates dropped 6.1 per cent last month from December 94, and dipped below 80 per cent for the first time since January 1995. according to figures from the Singapore Tourist Pro- motion Board (STPB). The
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      Natural landscape to be tapped in Bt Batok, Yishun
      491 2  -  Plans to make both housing suburbs By\ Diana Oon THE government plans to transform Bukit Batok and Yishun into residential suburbs that will maximise the benefits of the surround- ing natural landscape. The Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) development guide plans (DGPs)
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Standard format for charges on loans
        99 2 THE Association of Banks In Singapore and the Finance Houses Association of Singapore jointly announced yesterday that members would adopt a standard format for disclosing all charges and costs relating to loans offered. This would take effect immediately. In addition, the members would have
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        Olivetti to open training centre
        55 2 ITALIAN computer giant Olivetti, which closed its Singapore manufacturing plant last year, has announced plans to open a training centre here by March. Marco Davi, managing director for South-east Asia, said yesterday the new centre would serve Olivetti's internal training needs as well as the
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        S'pore'a first ambassador to Israel
        67 2 FOO Meng Tong has been appointed Singapore's first ambassador to the State of Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. Mr Foo, 54, will present his credentials to President Ezer Weizman tomorrow. Mr Foo has been ambassador to the Republic of France since April
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        Electricity rates to go up
        100 2 ELECTRICITY rates will be raised 6.3 per cent or 0.73 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) from tomorrow for the next quarter due to higher fuel oil prices, Singapore Power said yesterday. The new rate for residential use will be 14.47 cents per kWh from 13.74
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        HDB extends repair scheme
        84 2 FROM tomorrow the Housing and Development Board will extend the spalling concrete repair scheme to another seven constituencies: Aljunied GRC, Tanjong Pagar GRC, Thomson GRC, Ayer Rajah, Boon Lay, Buona Vista and Nee Soon South. Under the scheme, the HDB will pay 70 per cent of
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon Long uptrend ahead
      619 4  -  TECHNICAL VIEWPOINT Gold market's two-year consolidation will provide the required upthrust By\ Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South East Asia) at Dow Jones Telerate. The opinions in this column are personal and do not represent the views of the writer's employer.
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      Lock icon The rational road to riches
      658 4 Most investors don't act rationally so those who do make the most money, says a new fielcQ^gbdy Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Academics finally are sanctioning a point of view that any long-term market watcher knows to be true: Investors don't always buy and sell
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      Threat of rate hike looms
      612 4  -  Some analysts feel current prices have factored in the worst for Malaysian stocks By] Lee Yoke Har [SINGAPORE] Sentiment is decisively more negative against Malaysian stocks with threats of higher interest rates looming. Saturday's move by Bank Negara requiring banks to set aside a larger
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      150 4 Results off tender ffor 1996 due 1 February 1998 to be issued on 1 February 1996 Amount Offered Allotted *****,000,000 8 Amount Applied 551,422,104,000 Interest/Coupon Rate 1.625% p.a. on Allotment 1.65% p.a. and 99.951 Cut-off Yield and Price 1.67% p.a. and 99.912% cut-offaHotted approximatelyB9% H Issue Code N*****0T s COLLECTIVE
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Mahathir unveils Multimedia Super Corridor plan
      394 5  -  KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia hopes it will become a hub for all kinds of hi-technology development By\ David Mok ON what is mostly rubber and palm oil estates in Kuala Lumpur will rise a Multimedia Super Corridor. This vision was painted yesterday by Malaysian Prime
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      Lock icon Thailand's five-year plan calls for 8% GDP growth
      295 5 BANGKOK Reuter THE Thai cabinet yesterday endorsed a broad framework draft of Thailand's eighth fiveyear economic and social development plan calling for the gross domestic product (GDP) to grow an average 8.0 per cent a year. This compared to the 8.4 per
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      Lock icon Johor imposes a second house levy on foreigners
      189 5 ■JOHORBARU NST FOREIGNERS buying houses costing more than M 5250,000 (*****,000) in Johor from another foreigner will have to pay a second Msloo,ooo levy with immediate effect. Announcing this on Monday, Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said the move was aimed at
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      Europe can make or break it
      692 5  -  imxinv It could be mistake for Enrope to focus on human rights at Asia-Europe summit By Yang Razali Kassim IN a month's time, on March 1 and 2, the first-ever summit between Asia and Europe will take place in Bangkok. Like all things new
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Markets breathe easy again alter Li Peng's speech
      563 6 TAIPEI No reunification timetable, bnt Li's not promising that China won't use force to regain Taiwan SIGHS of relief were heard in Taiwan's financial markets yesterday after fears that China would announce a timetable to recover the island proved unfounded. China's Premier
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      Lock icon President is head of state and not a local govt leader: Taiwan
      312 6 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN yesterday refuted remarks by Chinese Premier Li Peng that the first directlyelected president of the island would be a local government leader, saying that the president is Taiwan's head of state. "The fact is the
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      Beijing city govt urged to regulate property market
      317 6  -  HONGKONG Seize back land, if needed, for capital's good: China Daily By i Quak Hiang Whai THE municipal government in Beijing should step in and regulate the city's property market and, if necessary, seize the land back from developers to protect the
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      Lock icon China refuses to rule out future nuclear tests
      198 6 BEIJING Reuter, AFP CHINA said yesterday it would not halt its underground nuclear blasts until a global test ban treaty takes effect, standing alone as the only country outside a global test moratorium. French President Jacques Chirac said on Monday France was
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      Lock icon China says its piracy laws as tough as in West
      329 6 BEIJING Bat experts point to poor enforcement of trademark laws Reuter CHINA'S anti-counterfeiting laws are now as tough as those in the West and it should not bear sole blame for trademark piracy, a Chinese trade official said yesterday. "It
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        Lock icon Decision soon on foreigners buying
        74 6 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's central bank deputy governor Paul Chiu said yesterday that the bank will give its opinion to the Securities and Tftchangs Commission before the Chinese New Year on letting foreign individualsbiveet in the island's stock market The liberalisation it currently being reviewed by
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        Lock icon Thriving trade in fake lubricants
        84 6 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Thriving trade in fake lubricants in China shas hit state refiner Sinopec and major oil companies, industry officials said yesterday. "The flourishing counterfeit trade in the last two years has been at the expense of the company's share of China's lubricant market," a
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        Lock icon In praise of peacock protein
        94 6 Reuter [BELJING] A farm in south west China hopes to profit from raising blue peacocks—not for their plumes, but for their protein value. The private Yunnan Animal Resource Development Centre has raised some 400 blue peacocks and plans to increase the number to 20,000 tn
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        Lock icon US$835m lian from Japan Hsim Bank
        52 6 AFP [TOKYO] The Export-Import Bank of Japan said yesterday it would lend US$B36 million (5f1.33 billion) to the Bank of China to finance industrial and inftvetractui* pittfeela.lt said the fUnds would be used for the construction of a pulp flactory and a natural gas
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        Lock icon Shanghai banks'earnings up 21.8%
        51 6 AFP [SHANGHAI] Shanghai's financial institutions recorded a 21.8 per cent increase in earnings last year to billion yuan (511.4 billion), the Shanghai Star bi-weekly newspaper reported yesterday. It said the figure wa» released by the governor of the Shanghai branch of the People's Bank of China.
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      8 6 Nuoie&r testa over, France calls for ban, Pg9
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Key index improves, sends stocks to a high
      559 8  -  TOKYO latest fignres are farther proof that Japan's economic recovery is becoming well entrenched By, Anthony Rowley FURTHER evidence that Japan's economic recovery is becoming well entrenched came yesterday with news that an official index of leading indicators improved last November for
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      Lock icon God save the Queen – from NSW's premier
      113 8 God save the Queen from NSW's premier [SYDNEY] Some 10,000 monarchists protesting outside Parliament House in Sydney yesterday. They waved Australian flags and placards calling for the sacking of New South Wales premier Bob Carr. The protest, organised by Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM), followed Mr Carr's decision earlier this
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      Lock icon Solid growth forecast for Aussie economy
      230 8 MELBOURNE Treasurer also sees core inflation falling below central bank's 3% ceiling by mid-97 Bloomberg Business News Reuter SOLID growth and a lower inflation rate are on the cards for Australia through 1996, Treasurer Ralph Willis said yesterday. "The economic outlook for 1996 is
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      Lock icon Pakistan puts off bank sale as bidders stay away
      101 8 ISLAMABAD Reuter DISAPPOINTED Pakistani authorities have put off the sale of a 26 per cent stake in the state-owned United Bank Ltd for two weeks after no bidders appeared at the planned auction on Monday. The bidding has been rescheduled for
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      Lock icon Three MPs face arrest over Kwangju massacre
      116 8 SEOUL Reuter SOUTH KOREAN prosecutors sought arrest warrants yesterday for three Members of Parliament, two of them from the ruling party, on sedition charges over a brutal army crushing of a 1980 civil uprising. A Seoul prosecution official said the warrants were for
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        Lock icon Indian farmers raid KFC restaurant
        55 8 Reuter [BANGALORE, India] Indian farmers opposed to foreign multinationals ransacked a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, police said. They said some 60 farmers of the militant Karnataka State Farmers Association raided the restaurant after surrounding it during the lunch
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        Lock icon Kim Jong Il in control of N Korea?
        66 8 AFP [TOKYO] Japan, South Korea and the United States agree that Kim Jong n is "more or less" in control of North Korea although the stability of his position remains unknown, a Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday. The three nations came
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        Lock icon Details of mortgage firm scheme sought
        64 8 Reuter [TOKYO] Japan's major opposition party Shinshlnto will not participate in a debate over the country's budget in a key parliamentary committee unless the government reveals more details of a scheme to wind up ailing mortgage firms, a party official said yesterday. The opposition
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  • THE WORLD
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      US weighing China trade and security moves
      359 9  -  WASHINGTON US trade officials say copyright piracy is actually getting worse in China By Leon Hadar CLINTON Administration officials are focusing on ways to manage the growing trade and security tensions with China, as they move closely to a decision on whether to
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      Lock icon Dow sails past 5,300 for first time ever
      258 9 NEW YORK Players are betting on an easing of interest rates at the Fed meeting Reuter THE Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to another record close and ended above 5,300 on Monday for the first time in history as some players bet
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      Lock icon Nuclear tests over, France calls for ban
      276 9 PARIS Reuter FRANCE launched a campaign for disarmament yesterday as its decision to halt a series of nuclear tests won grudging praise from European Union partners and Pacific nations who had spearheaded worldwide protests. Defence Minister Charles Millon, speaking on the eve of
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Most expensive for business travellers
        66 9 AFP [BRUSSELS] Moscow is the world's most expensive city for business travellers, ahead of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Hongkong and Copenhagen. A study, carried out by research group Euro Cost with the help of the European Union's statistics office Eurostat, yesterday said Minsk, the capital of
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        Lock icon Women a major force in US economy
        75 9 Reuter [WASHINGTON] Women have become a major entrepreneurial force in the US economy and own about 7.7 million American businesses. A report prepared from President Bill Clinton and released on Monday said female-owned US businesses were growing faster than other firms and, according
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        Lock icon Greek/Turkish tension mounts
        77 9 UPI [ATHENS] Tension mounted between Nato allies Greece and Turkey yesterday as both sides sent warships and jets toward a tiny island each claimed in the south-east Aegean. Respective flags have been put up and torn down by the opposing sides in recent days. Meanwhile, Greek Prime
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      Lock icon Retail sales lower than expected
      131 9 WASHINGTON Reuter RETAIL sales rose less robustly than anticipated in December, a Commerce Department report showed yesterday. Retail sales increased 0.3 per cent to a seasonally adjusted U*****.65 billion (Ss2Bo billion) in December after a revised 0.7 per cent rise in November. Wall Street economists
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      Lock icon German cabinet approves plan to spur jobs, growth
      245 9 BONN Reuter THE German cabinet yesterday approved a comprehensive action programme to stimulate jobs and economic growth in an attempt to reverse the country's slowing pace of growth and rising unemployment. German Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt called the plan a "vitamin dose"
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      Lock icon Paribas hit by hidden losses
      119 9 PARIS Bloomberg Business News BANQUE Paribas said it will take a charge of 250 million French francs (Ss7l million) in its 1995 accounts because bond traders at its Madrid branch concealed losses incurred in 1994. A bank spokesman said there would be an inquiry into
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      447 9 j«g»t .i^BKwiK The Melbourne Docklands provides a rare opportunity to develop 220 hectares of land and water adjacent to the central business district of Australia's most liveable city and its major commercial capital. Expressions of interest are invited from Australian and International organisations. Melbourne Docklands is situated at the heart
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Sri Lankans should note Afghan lesson
      824 10  -  OPINION THE BOTTOM LOVE By Mohan Kuppusamy The writer is BT's editorial page editor IF President Chandrika Kumaratunga hopes the recently tabled draft of a new Constitution will signal the end of her nation's separatist war, which has claimed more than 50,000 lives since
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      113 10 'Companies don't come into existence to create jobs, companies come into existence to create wealth.' -Bobby Godadl chief executive of Anglo American Corp's gold and uranium division, on his company's proposal that miners accept lower base pay and work more shifts to eliminate operating losses, save 10,000
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      Beyond the politics of food
      500 10 EDITORIAL AMERICAN strategy in relation to North Korea's food needs seems to be quite unnecessarily tortuous. No one could have blamed the United States if it had pressed at last week's inconclusive meeting in Hawaii that the alleviation of hunger should take priority over all
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      Lock icon Apple on Sun's mind
      1154 10  -  Son's tight-fisted chief Scott McNealy may want to bay Apple for market share, Irat he won't splash oat for it By i Steve Lohr NYT AT THE headquarters of Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California, there is no corporate art on the walls. There are no
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      853 10 THE Fed has...just released the minutes of its secret meetings held just as the last recession was starting. Economists can now date that recession from July 1990. At a Fed meeting on Aug 21, 1990, Greenspan said: "I think there are several things we can stipulate
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon French passion for art turns private
      942 11  -  And private collectors are no longer a major force in the French art market today, reports hj>m riding ALAN RIDING NYT WHETHER it is out of fear of thieves or of inquisitive tax inspectors or simply because of indifference to the work of today's
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      Lock icon Will La Fenice rise from the ashes this time?
      546 11 OPERA HOUSE vuiiiv t Venice's opera house has been razed by fire for the second time. The estimated damage: 500b lire Reuter tVENICE] Venice's opera house, fatefully named La Fenice or "The Phoenix" was destroyed by fire for the second time
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    • CHATTER Box
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        Lock icon Beetle Balley the movie
        88 11 AFP MORT WALKER, creator of the comic-strip character Beetle Bailey, has just signed a major deal with Fox Family Pictures to put the haplessGl on the big screen—in a feature film with live actors, not animated figures. As in the strip, the movie Beetle Bailey will
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        Lock icon Diana wanted to play Queen Victoria
        74 11 AFP A JAPANESE film-maker is trying to get Britain's Princess Diana to play the role of Queen Victoria in a Sino-Japanese movie on Britain's opium wars with China, a company spokesman said on Monday. The spokesman for Daiei KK said Yasuyoshi Tokuma, the president
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        Lock icon Alec Baldwin wants more kids
        84 11 UPI FATHERHOOD apparently appeals to actor Alec Baldwin, whose daughter Ireland Eliesse is three months old. "We want another one," he told TVs Extra. He said wife Kim Basinger would like to have another baby next year after she works for a while. "We theorise
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        Lock icon ACLU award for director Rob Reiner
        77 11 UPI PRODUCER-DIRECTOR Rob Reiner will be honoured by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California on March 11 at the organisation's annual Torch of Liberty award dinner. The award goes each year to an entertainment figure whose work affirms the democratic principles in the phrase
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      Lock icon An activist-actress takes on the hangman
      859 11 PROFILE LAT-WP [NEW YORK] Susan Sarandon surprises. On this particular day, the acclaimed motion picture actress appears eager to dispel her image as a super-se-rious political activist. For instance, her reasons for making the movies she makes may surprise you: "I hardly ever work.
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      352 12 HEALTH Memory problems can be identified by answering 4 simple questions: study NYT [NEW YORK] As you get older, do you feel like your memory is failing you? Answer yes to one of four simple questions and you may be right, according to a
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      Prizes galore in BT aviation quiz
      183 14 STARTING tomorrow, BT readers will have a chance to win a Breitling Duograph "World Cup" Limited Edition watch worth $5,686, fly business class on a tour to the Breitling aerobatics academy in Switzerland and experience a joy ride with world aerobatic champion, Xavier de
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      764 14 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS AMA's Artist of the Year, Garth Brooks, says someone else deserves to win UPI [LOS ANGELES] Garth Brooks said he appreciated the thought, but he wanted no part of the award. The country superstar was named Artist of the
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      Sukamto joins tussle for Amcol
      512 15  -  Deal to boy former MP's remaining 6.66% stake at $430 a share By Conrad Raj, William Chia [SINGAPORE] Indonesia-born businessman Sukamto Sia, executive chairman of listed Transmarco, has joined the tussle for control of trading and property group Amcol Holdings. He has agreed to buy
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      BZW to issue call warrants on 10m CCL shares
      302 15 [SINGAPORE] Barclays De Zoete Wedd Warrants Ltd intends to issue 100 million covered or call warrants at $0,468 each for 10 million shares of Mercedes Benz distributor Cycle Carriage, just after Robert Fleming's proposal last week to issue ISO million call
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      Amcol drama unfolds and it may not be a wayang kulit
      751 15  -  HOCK LOCK SXEW By William Chia THE goings-on at trading and property group Amcol Holdings are fascinating. Yet another investor, In-donesia-born Sukamto I {Sia, who is chairman of Singaporer listed Transmarco, has joined the 1 "party" by acquiring a
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      Tuan Sing to pay $157m for Raffles Quay offices
      359 15  -  De&l covers over 85,000 sq ft in John Hancock Tower By, Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Listed Tuan Sing Holdings is acquiring some floors of John Hancock Tower along Raffles Quay for $157.8 million. In a statement yesterday, Tuan Sing said its subsidiary
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      Research Analysts Meetings: five days' notice needed
      272 15 [SINGAPORE] Listed companies oil the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) will have to give the Singapore Society of Financial Analysts (SSFA) five working days' notice if they want to use the programme called Research Analysts Meetings. The programme was jointly set up by
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      OUE gets approval for Shantou hotel deal
      204 15 [SINGAPORE] Listed Overseas Union Enterprise's jointventure hotel project in the southern Chinese city of Shantou, announced in June last year, has obtained approval from the Chinese authorities. In a statement yesterday, the hotel and property company said approval of the country's State Planning
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon STIC to focus more on leisure, IT
        725 16 Group aims to reduce infrastructure's contribution to 50% by more rapid growth in other areas Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp (STIC), seeking to capitalise on Asia's growing affluence, wants to expand the share of its profit that comes from travel
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        SBS buys management software package for $5.3m
        285 16 System will integrate work in various departments [SINGAPORE] The SBS Group, Singapore's largest land transport company, has spent $5.3 million equivalent to the cost of 24 buses on a management software package from SAP Asia, a unit of the German application specialist. Yesterday,
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        245 16 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Post, Telecommunications and Energy Minister Leo Moggie will chair a news conference related to Tenaga Nasional Bhd this evening, a Tenaga statement said. The news conference is scheduled to start at 2100 local time, the statement yesterday said. The
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        Lock icon Yahya Ahmad named CCL director
        189 16 Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE! Cycle Carriage Ltd (CCL), a Singaporebased car dealer, said it has appointed Malaysian auto industry executive Yahya Ahmad to its board. The appointment of Mr Yahya, president of Hicom Holdings Bhd, was effective yesterday. Hicom, formerly the Malaysian government-con- trolled heavy
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        Lock icon Idris shares rise on timber concession news
        181 16 Bloomberg Business News NST [KUALA LUMPUR] Shares of Idris Hydraulic (Malaysia) Bhd rose 6 sen to M 53.84 yesterday after the company said it had won a long-term timber concession. Some 3.5 million shares were traded compared with its six-month average of 2.3
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          First Engineering leases land in Suzhou
          69 16 [SINGAPORE] Plastic injection moulding firm First Engineering has acquired a 18,794-sq metre site on a 50-year lease in the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park. Under an agreement with the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Co, a company wholly owned by First Engineering will be registered
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          Singatronics forms unit to acquire hotel
          43 16 [SINGAPORE] Singstronics announced yesterday that it has incorporated a wholly-owned subsidiary, Pinpeak Investment, which will be used to acquire a Melbourne hotel The hotel, Hie Parkroyal on St Kilda Road, cost Singatronics As 34 million (5935.7 million).
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          Lock icon IJM Corp in China project
          60 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] LJM Corporation Bhd has entered into an agreement with Southern Acids (M) Bhd and Falcrest Pte Ltd (S) to participate in JWS Projects Sdn Bhd. It said yesterday that the agreement was to invest, through JWS Projects, in a 51 per cent
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        Pahang govt agency signs M$180m loan facility in S'pore
        235 16 [SINGAPORE] The Pahang State Development Corporation yesterday signed a fiveyear MslBo million (5599.7 million) transferable loan facility in Singapore. The money, at an interest rate of 1.5 per cent above the prevailing Malaysian base lending rate, was provided by a consortium
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        Lock icon Samsung dashes Fokker rescue hope
        487 17 Firm says it's not approaching Fokker; analysts doubt its ability to fond rescue Reuter [SEOUL] South Korea's Samsung group yesterday dampened optimism it could emerge as an Asian saviour for troubled Dutch plane maker Fokker NV, and analysts doubted it could even afford the move.
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        Lock icon Yaohan's megastore in Shanghai opens today
        366 17 Reuter [SHANGHAI] Yaohan's Shanghai megastore, one of the biggest in Asia and the spearhead of its ambition to open 1,000 stores in China by the year 2010, officially opens today. A spokesman said the store would be opened by Yaohan president Kazuo Wada. The
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          Lock icon Mitsui,Rajawali eye Indon phone project
          67 17 Bloomberg Business News [JAKARTA) Japan's Mitsui Co Ltd and Indonesia's Rajawali group intend to start a US$3OO million (***** million) cellular phone venture in Indonesia, Bisnis Indonesia said. Mitsui and Rajawali are conducting a study on the feasibility of introducing Mitsui's "Personal Handy System" mobile
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          Lock icon New nylon fibre plant opens in China
          53 17 Bloomberg Business News [JINAN, China] China's biggest poly amide (nylon) fibre fiactory, a joint venture between Japan's Sumitomo Corp and Jinan Chemical Fibre Plant, h*»» begun operating, the Xinhua News Agency reported. It has a capacity to produce 5,000 tonnes of fibres a
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          Lock icon Tingyl's IPO 3.1 times subscribed
          93 17 Reuter [HONGKONG] Taiwan-owned instant noodle maker Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp said yesterday its initial public offering of shares in Hongkong was 3.18 times subscribed. Tingyi said it received applications f0r388.61 million shares after offering 121.66 million for public subscription. It will divert 81.11 million
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          Lock icon Taiwan mutual funds can invest overseas
          87 17 Reuter [TAIPEI} Taiwan's Securities and Exchange Commission (SBC) said yesterday that it planned to allow local mutual funds to invest in any foreign stock market except China's by file aid of June. It arrived at the decision after a public hearing with government officials
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        Lock icon Advance Bank's profit up 38%
        139 17 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] Advance Bank of Australia Ltd yesterday said net profit in the first half ending Nov 30 rose 38.5 per cent to AsBo.l million (SsB4 million). The result is the first to include earnings from Bank of South Australia Ltd, which Advance
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        Lock icon Hm, let me think...
        58 17 [TAIPEI] Sold short? Sold too early? Maybe neither reason. This Taiwanese sitting in front of stockmarket computer displays in Taipei yesterday was probably contemplating what stocks to buy now that fears that China would announce a timetable to recover Taiwan proved unfounded. The market recovered 111.50
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        Lock icon China denies 14 firms given nod for HK listing
        320 17 Watchdog scotches reports that firms will collect HKs2ob AFP (SHANGHAI] The watchdog China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has denied reports that 14 companies had been approved to seek listing on the Hongkong stock exchange, news reports said yesterday. "There is no
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        Lock icon Evergreen's stock sale: Taiwan says no
        218 17 Bloomberg Business News [TAIPEI] The Securities and Exchange Commission has cancelled approval of an application by Evergreen Marine Corp, one of the world's largest container shippers, to raise up to US$l5O million (Ss2l3 million) in an overseas stock sale. Permission was withdrawn because the
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        Lock icon China issues new rules on rights issues
        317 17 Reuter [SHANGHAI] The China Securities Regulatory Commission (SCRC) has published new rules on rights issues to stop irregularities, the Shanghai Securities News said yesterday. The rules were sent to provincial securities authorities and the country's two stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen on
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        Lock icon GM profits up 41% to record US$6.9b last year
        536 18 CAR RESULTS Net income in the three months ended Dec 31 soars 19%, surprising many Wall St analysts Reuter {DETROIT] General Motors Corp said on Monday it posted record profits for the fourth quarter and all of 1995, despite a slightly
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        Lock icon Ford 4Q earnings seen plunging 84%
        351 18 Bloomberg Business News [DEARBORN, Michigan] Ford Motor Co is expected to report its worst fourth-quarter profit in three years because the company spent heavily to launch its new pick-up truck and had to slash prices to reduce big inventories of other vehicles. Ford's automotive
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        Lock icon Apple, Sun merger talks collapse
        526 18 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News [SAN FRANCISCO] Merger talks between Apple Computer Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc collapsed after the companies could not agree on a price, sources familiar with the companies said on Monday. The breakdown in the talks came as Apple's debt was cut
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        Lock icon Mexican stocks hit new highs as peso surges
        180 18 Bloomberg Business News [MEXICO CITY] Mexican stocks rose for the second day to their highest levels ever as a stronger peso fUeUed optimism that company earnings wiU meet or exceed expectations. Grupo Elektra SA, Telefonos de Mexico SA and Grupo Televisa SA
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        Lock icon Sun Microsystems makes dumb terminals smarter
        409 18 Company on veils computer to fill void between PCs and terminals Bloomberg Business News SUN Microsystems Inc today unveiled its version of a computer that crosses the intelligence of a personal computer with the lower cost of a terminal connected to a mainframe. Sun's
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        Lock icon Micron chiefs return stirs doubts
        241 18 Reuter [BOISE, Idaho] Micron Technology Inc ahalrman Steve Appleton, who quit his post this month only to return eight days later, on Monday declined to give reasons for his "vacation", leaving nagging concerns about a power struggle at the computer chip maker. Micron's stock fell
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        Can the US$ rally be trusted?
        706 19  -  Yes, say the majority of dealers and analysts. Bnt a minority suspect the dollar's strength From. Neil Behrmann in London THE majority of foreign exchange dealers and analysts are predicting continued dollar strength this year. Yet there is a vocal minority who distrust the
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        Lock icon Outlook for rubber mixed altera good 1995
        260 19  -  By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Rubber traders are mixed in their outlook for 1996 after a very good year in 1995 which saw turnover rising by at least 50 per cent in value terms. Turnover for many companies surged at least 50 per
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        Lock icon Nomura in tie-up talks with Indian mutual fund: report
        245 19 AFP [BOMBAY] Japanese investment banker Nomura Securities is negotiating a possible tie-up with UTI Securities and Exchange Ltd (UTI SEL), a subsidiary of India's largest mutual fund, a newspaper said yesterday. The Economic Times said a five-member Nomura team met UTI
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        Stanchart Securities' losses tiny in group terms
        389 19  -  Analysts predicting group pre-tax profits of £640 m for 1995 From Neil Behrmann in London THE securities arm of Standard Chartered Bank has been a drag on group profit in the last two years, although its losses are not big in group terms.
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        Lock icon Lawsuit prompts California to bar Goldman Sachs from some deals
        244 19 Reuter [SACRAMENTO, California] Goldman Sachs Co has been barred from acting as financial adviser in California Treasury or authority transactions but may continue to work on certain bond financings, the state Treasurer said. State Treasurer Matt Fong said in a
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        Lower rates to boost US, European, Asian stocks
        338 19  -  Dow Jones set to breach 6,000-point mark, says economist By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Declines in Federal Funds rates and long bond yields will boost equity markets in US, Europe and Asia, according to LGT Global Trust economist John Greenwood. At a lunchtime
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        Lock icon Prudential's major revamp seen stabilising earnings
        226 19 Reuter [NEW YORK] The sale of Prudential Insurance Co of America's home mortgage unit will help to stabilise the financial giant's earnings and ends its nearly one-year effort to exit the volatile business. "Prudential is pushing forward with its strategy to focus on core
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        Lock icon Oil prices bounce as Mid-East holds centre stage
        325 19 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON) Oil prices continued to bounce yesterday after recent sharp falls, with the market dominated by events in the Middle East. In London, bellwether Brent crude futures for March delivery were up 18 cents at U5516.40 a barrel at
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        170 19 Reuter, AFP f THE dollar was showing little inclination to stage a rebound in Europe from its latest corrective leg lower, but economists see little on the events calendar this week likely to upset the US unit too much. Even in the event the Federal Open Market Committee
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        910 20 [KUALA LUMPUR] Tin price on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market ended firmer yesterday with price up four sen to M 515.80 per kg on strong interests from European and local buyers although the London Metal Exchange dropped US$75 overnight. At the opening level, buyers bid for 105 tonnes
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        1138 20 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Eurodollar futures finished higher on growing hopes the Federal Reserve would ease US rates at a two-day policy-making meeting. But dealers said Eurodollars were likely to be sold down from current levels if the Fed left rates unchanged or lowered them by the expected 25
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        Lock icon China still in the market for wheat
        498 20 Reuter [HONGKONG] China, the force behind rallying world wheat prices, is expected to keep buying because the need for social stability and inflation control drive its import programme, market analysts said yesterday. "I think China has been trying to build up stocks over
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      4817 21 n Tokyo ♦ma* SHARE prices closed broadly higher in lacklustre trading yesterday, with most gains recorded in opening trading. The Nikkei Average closed up 133.24 points at 20,722.44, moving between a high of 20,796 and a low of 20,602. The Topix Index was up 4.92 at 1,598.14,
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      1613 21 +017 SHARE prices closed virtually unchanged, recovering from sharp lows earlier as Wall Street rose to new highs on hopes that the Federal Reserve meeting will result in US interest rate cuts. The FT-SE 100 Index closed up a mere 0.7 point at 3,735.3, off a high
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      2482 22 AFX-Asia Han* Seng *142.41 SHARE prices closed sharply higher as foreign funds flooded the market in the afternoon. The Hang Seng Index closed up 142.49 points at 11,201.46. Turnover was HK56.529 billion. A dealer said that the market was driven higher by aggressive buying by US investors. "Some people
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      687 22 Reuter QShanghaiß Shire Index -OJ7 SHANGHAI B Share Index tumbled on heavy selling yesterday, as investors worry about firms' 1995 results. The index fell 0.57 point to 51.38 on volume of 5.5 million shares worth US$l.9 million. "With the approach of the release of the firms' annual results, investors
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      1223 22 Bloomberg Business News H SET Max ♦im STOCKS surged to a sevenmonth high, led by banks and other issues with big capitalisations, as investors wagered the US Federal Reserve would cut interest rates, analysts said. "If US rates go lower, Thailand will attract foreign money looking for better returns,"
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      1039 22 Bloomberg Business News fl Composite Index *3.46 STOCKS rose as investors bet that US interest rates will fall, prompting US investors to shift money into Asia. "A rate cut would benefit Indonesia and the region as a whole," said a trader. "Investors are hoping for comparatively better returns than
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        Lock icon Foreign funds move in ahead of Fed meeting
        7021 23 KUALA LUMPUR Reports Bloomberg Business News Composite Index +1L63 STOCKS rose as foreign investors bid up blue chips in anticipation of a cut in US interest rates. "Every time there's been an inflow of funds to regional bourses, we do get some
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        79 26  -  by Paul Leo JEN CHUA CLOB-TRADED FACB is building a base around 70 cents and should launch an assault on the strong resistance at 85 cents soon. Any break above 85 cents would result in a rally that would push the share up at least another 30 cents
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        Late surge: it may be more than just short-covering
        687 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Some dealers cite futures-related activity; others say late demand from HE detected By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] A last-minute surge in Malaysian stocks, possibly because of short-covering or futures-related activity, was the main feature in a generally cautious day
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        228 26 Sfcta Votane Amcol 25c 9,147,000 •PegiMsia 8,994,000 InsasBhd 7,823,000 *MrisHyd50c 4,727,000 •SriHartamas 4,500,000 Hotei Prop 3,815,000 •Goiden Plus H 3,509,000 •CASH 50c 3,328,000 •Mulpiia Ml 50 3,287,000 »IQi Corp Wt 3,178,000 ttetfcs Amcol 25c 39,293,764 City Dev 50c 17,449,880 MS Foreign 15,072,040 •PegiMsia 14,156,650 •Goiden Plus H 13,484,020 S Telecom
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          No Deutsche Telekom listing in Asia
          121 26 THERE is no basis to a Hongkong newspaper report that Deutsche Telekom is planning a secondary listing in Asia and that a three-horse race has developed for the Asian listing, said Hans Ehnert, a Bonn-based spokesman for the German telecom giant. The paper had
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          Worth a Tri?
          102 26 INVESTORS who closely watch the stock market would have noted the sharp run-up enjoyed by almost all US-dollar denominated stocks recently. The Jardine group, Datacraft, Showpla, among others, have all beeii in demand lately. However, the operative word above is "almost" there is (me counter that has
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          One market, many views
          97 26 IT TAKES all kinds to make a market. Last week, WI Carr's regional strategist said a strong US dollar Is not good for South-east Asian markets because It'll put upward pressure on Interest rates, while Jardine Fleming said a strong greenback is bound to be good
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          Petronas' Yankee bond scores
          65 26 THE New York-based Institutional Investor has voted Petronas' US$l billion Yankee bond for one of its deals of the year in 1996. The issue set records for both size and maturity and according to Pote Videt, Singapore-based managing director of CS First Boston, underscored both "the
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      324 26 Singapore Closing Share Prices 30/01/1996 CLOSE PREV LOW HIGH *811#* uss uss uss uss Mllff Jardine Mathoson 8.48 8.10 8.20 8.48 ■VJDDBDHI Jardine Strategic 3.38 3.38 3.38 3.38 E tod J Daley Farm 0.07 1.01 0.08 1.01 Hongkong Land 2.18 2.18 2.18 2.19 wmmmm Mandarin Oriental 1.28 1.27 1.27 1.28
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      291 27 Knight-Ridder, Reuter THE freight market made an uncertain start to the week with the persistent weakness apparent last week now also affecting trans-Atlantic and North Pacific Panamax rates, brokers said. The BFI fell nine points to 1,520, its lowest since mid September 1994. The Biffex was very lightly
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      298 27 SES *000 JmM II *h W CWTOMrlbutton 1.68 -0.01 34 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.27 -0.01 17 Coses Invaitmant —1.97 unch 2 FELS 7.35 unch 448 FntoMLMu 0.93 unch 187 08 Holdings 133 *0.02 296 Hal Sun Hup Group -1.02 unch 296 Hitachi Zosan in unch 77 IMC Holdings
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      436 27  -  CHUA CHOR TECK MEMORIAL LECTURE US Coast Guard initiative aims to build safety culture based on 4 pillars By Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] The United States Coast Guard has formulated a Prevention Through People (PTP) initiative aimed at addressing the human factor in maritime accidents.
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      316 27 It will have berths deep enough for 50,000-tonne ships NYT [TOKYO] An international shipping port with at least two deep berths capable of accommodating the biggest 50,000-tonne-class container ships is being planned on landfill in Kita-Kyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, city government sources said. The new port,
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      688 27  -  STRAIT TALE By i Seafarer WE ALL know the importance of the environment these days. At least we do in theory. Too many people in this industry still have a throw-it/pump-it-over-the-side mentality. But, in general, we are very much alive to
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      72 27 AFX-ASIA [MANILA] Philippine National OU Co wiU look for a joint venture partner to run its unit PNOC Shipping and Transport Corp rather than seU the company in one block, chairman Francisco Viray said on Monday. He said the new proposal, which was approved
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      224 27 AFX-ASIA [SEOUL] South Korea's five shipbuilders are expected to win orders for 164 vessels worth US$B.9 billion (5512.6 billion) this year, up 19.4 per cent in volume and 34.9 per cent in value from 1995, the Export-Import Bank of Korea
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      194 27 [SINGAPORE] The Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) will raise its Indonesia terminal handling charge for refrigerated shipments in a month's time. Effective March 1, TWRA will raise the THC from US$l65 (*****) to US$l75 per 40-foot and 45-foot refrigerated container (FEU) and from
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      723 28  -  PBUPPXinB CAR INDUSTRY: REJOICING AT RECORD SALES A recovering economy, lack of mass transport and easy finance for buyers have resulted in a car boom in the country, but some analysts have warned that car sales could start to wind down as traffic congestion
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      486 28 FAOt Ewrtl 18 ABC Coot 17 Ew9f«n 6 A£L )7 Eicel Point 17 •AMI 3 aS 13 API M FMC <3 Abie 7 Famous 7 Accord 8 Farwide 16 Ahrenluel 4 FoongSun 8 Appenship 4 Frt Links 16 Arowana Frt World 8 Astro
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      13749 36 This auide lists the sailina destinations from Sinqap mgapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the 'ocation of the schedule advertisement. CTA CTA Advortlsor V.»s* Voyago Pg ETA ETA Advortlsor Vossol Voyago Pg S1H Dost'n Namo Namo no Wo. SIN DgTn Nam*
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        833 45 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        608 45 FEB 1 Malaysia: Partly Market and Public holiday, Federal Territory Day (Kuala Lumpur and financial markets closed, other states open). FEB 4 Malaysia: Market and Public holiday, Hindu festival Thaipusam. Sri Lanka: Market and Public holiday. FEB New Zealand: Market and Public holiday, Waitangi Day. FEB 8 Slovenia:
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        258 46 Reuter [DETROIT] Samsung Motors Inc, the fledgling automotive arm of South Korea's giant Samsung Group, said on Monday that it planned to invest US$l3 billion (5518.5 billion) in its bid to rank among the world's top 10 car makers by 2010. Samsung Motors, elaborating on
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        56 46 [MOUNT ROBERTSON, New Zealand] The wreckage of a light plane lying in a wooded hillside on Mount Robertson near the top of New Zealand's South Island on Monday. The five passengers in the single-engined Cessna were killed. The pilot the only survivor—has been flown to
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        320 46  -  RUN-UP TO ASIAN AEROSPACE '96 Carriers now have greater leverage, says Orient Airlines Association head By\ Kevin Sullivan [SINGAPORE] Asian airlines can exert greater leverage than ever before over aircraft manufacturers and parts suppliers because of booming demand in the region for
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        295 46 It backs proposed expansion plan of joint venture Marnti AFP [NEW DELHI] The Indian government has extended an olive branch to Suzuki Motor Corp, saying that it is committed to the proposed expansion plan of the country's largest joint venture car
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        124 46 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwanese aircraft maintenance firm Air Asia Co Ltd yesterday signed an agreement with US-based Sikorsky Aircraft to establish a helicopter maintenance facility here, company officials said. The agreement was inked by Air Asia president James Chen and Sikorsky vice-presi-dent Robert Barlow in the
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        264 46 Drive to cope with massive growth in passengers, cargo AFP (BEIJING] China will pump nine billion yuan (US$l.42 billion) into aviation infrastructure this year in a bid to cope with the soaring growth in air passenger and cargo volume, a report said
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        157 46 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Japanese vehicle exports fell 15.0 per cent in 1995 to 3,790,778, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said yesterday. That was the tenth consecutive annual decline. Exports last December fell 13.2 per cent to 314,473 passenger cars, buses and
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          73 46 Reuter [BEIJING] The number of private vehicles in China is expected to reach 2.5 million by the end of this year, with private demand accounting for one-third of total demand, the China Business Daily said yesterday. China's total vehicle demand this year
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          72 46 Reuter [LONDON] Rolls-Royce pic is aiming to cut production costs of its airplane engines by 40 per cent over the next two to three years in a bid to remain competitive, the Daily Telegraph newspaper said. It quoted chairman Ralph Robins as saying that
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          72 46 AFP [TOKYO] The Japanese Transport Ministry said on Monday it would send a mission to China next month to exchange views with Chinese leaders on the country's project to build a high-speed bullet train between Beijing and Shanghai. Vice-Transport Minister Minora Toyoda will head the
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          114 46 Reuter [TOKYOI Hover Japan Ltd said yesterday it expected its Japanese sales in calendar 1996 to grow at a similar rate to 1995. "We anticipate achieving our medium-term target of one per cent of Japan's total car market at least by 1996, two years earlier
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          89 46 Bloomberg Business News [HOUSTON] Continental Airlines has signed an agreement with China Airlines to provide connection flights between the US and Asia. Under the agreement, US customers could fly on Continental to San Francisco, where they would connect with a China Airlines flight to Taipei.
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      14 27 Philippine car industry enjoys record sales Healthy growth forecast as economy recovers. Page 2
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      684 27 Asian airlines urged to work with suppliers Carriers now have greater leverage. Back Page lUftt, IWS-lIIShr Q/a, Bunkering Alliances Mr Robin Meech. Senior Consultant Cj Arthur D Little Ltd. United Kingdom A v> 1000- 1010 hr 11 IS-IMS hr WELCOME ADDRESS A Standard Purchashg Contract; BIMCO's i Mr David Lim.
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      64 37 1 //—VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD I st.iMishcil Siiuc I "S I Till TOTAI. TRANSPORTATION PTOPI T kic.ui aw (,uouru;i iu co\soi urviu>\ impoki i xi'oui si kviu s OCEANIA PORTS AUCKLAND SVL>Ni:V KKISHAN'K MKLBOIIRNi: J'RKMAXTI.i: mm tjgi VISA I KIK.IIT SI KVKISPII MM A ion iKM 111 isoo 2
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      421 38 BKAPAL KRIS Shaping Pte Ltd 701DUXTON ROAD, S'PORE *****9 U: *****76 Fgx: *****77 CR NO. 10y319S0000G SYARIKAT PERKAPALAN KRIS SENDIRIAN BERHAD 309-609 HOCK A GiOMAC MJSVKSS CBfTRE, 10 JAIAN SS 6/1, KEIANA JAYA, P.O. BOX 8428 ***** PHAUNG JKtk, SBANGOR. TEL *****77/7S/79 FAX: *****07 THfX: MA ***** KiLANG, PAMR GUDANO
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      591 38 fen uvmi nvih MltrolQSLK.Llees.lM I SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE "ooucrs SHVKI) FROM: U.K./ CBWTWKMT/ IHI EAST TO: FAN EAST DIRECT MONTHLY SAIUNQS EUKOff SERVICE VBSa/VOT m tAfIIOMiANt HOWWOW BW vnsa U TGM SW PV MTS DM CT TAW SKN KKU TMA TURANDOTVOIO 31/01 03/0! 07/12 09/02 CHUIT HOWIR V 124 SIB
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      646 39 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SJN I TIGER CAPE 404N 02-0302 07-I<VO2 15-1602 I TIGER ISLAND 405N 02-03/02 07-11/02 15-17/02 I TIGER BRIDGE 406N 05-0&02 11-14A)2 19-2002 I TIGER OCEAN 407N 08-1002 14-18/02 22-24/02 I TIGER CREEK 964 11-12/02 17 19/02 I TIGER CAPE 408N 15-1602 21-2402 29-01/03 I VESSEL
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      422 39 ISeaSZLand I FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANCE, PLEASE CALL SINGAPORE MAIN SWITCHBOARD *****22 OUTBOUND CUSTOMER SERVICE/BOOKINGS HOTLINE *****33 CHRISTINA LIM *****24 JOREEN LIEW. *****26 KAREN HENG *****48 ROHANA MOHAMED *****95 ROSNIE ARSHAD *****67 INBOUND CUSTOMER SERVICE LINDA TAN *****00 a OPERATIONS *****08/*****62 CFS OPERATIONS *****83 MALAYSIA PORT KLANG 03-*****28 CHRIS CHANG
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      1742 40 44— AS AGENTS: K" UNI (SMQARORE) PTV LTD (C"»:i2««73oooo*ttTßEfiNO:l«.oOi73oM) K T TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKI R*****5 FAX *****16/7/^9 V T MALAYSIA: K" UNE MAMTMHK (MALAYSIA) lON M I ll I Rl m% J TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 J6 *****01 PGU *****25/6 1 MDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT ■HBtRJtA.TBjJKT
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      1231 40 19 KEPfEI ROAD *02-01 JIT POM BUIUHNG SINGAPORE *****8 mm (a NO:*****9M000/W) 11VI CUSTOMBSOVKI 225-1-225 DOCUMENTATION FAX Z24-0-M4 MM GENERAL UNI 225-9-9 M GENOA! FAX 221-4-922 Wir Carry Your Confidence. 270-W65 lAGUVOKE Tfl HTMHU AMWftA M. fMMATfcA ffIfBtfMHBHP fflUVlfeff IP* Ina|ml jn mmjmnm priliSMOwei |ml ua\m\wm Io« dm Iwou \ai
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      636 41 IMPORT FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION V Milan t>s. 11TALY/SINGAPORE V Marshalling Forwadlng Services (MFS) V via Cenoa and Milan first forwarder in Stiff At Your S&fVICG: NICHOLAS/SALHA/MARIA ISO 9002 BY LRQA NapM^W DID-277-1077/71/75 i .111 yy& m <Mk> AND LOGISTICS SERVICES SUPER EXPRESS SERVICE TO SEA lAL SHIPPING AGENCY (S) PTE LTD
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      1364 41 pw** rrm ham sou w ml wm omt WM \m m nt msan n« m mr md ami no NOMA— 10M 02-01 01.07" 31.01 J 1.0? 24.07 2101 1142 ND. HONGKONG 202* 2ftjol* 3041 0102 0102 0102 07.02 0108 MS.OANUN 3044 0102 OUT 01.02 IM2 MJI BJI 2iH ND OCEANA
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      539 41 THRICE WEEKLY DIRECT TO HO CHI CITY \iXPORT TO M 0 CHI SSI CITY IMPORT PROM M 0 CHI MIMM CITY, >l vcsa |wtl w m rWWTI wt wssa m rowx iuwi "T mburc vrrtsst MO7 avoi) (M/oii nm m m/m momma mm 31/01 m/w m mm mm (31/01) (si/sti
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      534 42 SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD I 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE 0106 TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****36 (3 HUNTING LINES) TLX: R*****0 BOOKINGS CALL DIRECT LINE: *****41/*****43 JESSICA/GELIA 5 slgs/week 3 slgs/week IVCSSgL 1 VOY 1«N JAK [VESSEL IVOYIWW SUW KEDAH 927 IN PT 03/02 (SAT) LUMOSO EXP 903
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      516 42 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SPORE I PKBANO* HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N.ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPICO HOUSTON HOEOH DRAKE 0434 FEB 120 JAN 23MAR 20MAR 29 MAR 06 APR 01 APR 09APR 13 APR HOEOH DYKE 0534 2*27 FEB 21 FEB 14 APR 17 APR 20 APR 27
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      269 42 tpQ PHILI-ORKNT LIN€S PT€ LTD ®TEL: *****00 (16 LINES) FAX: *****76/*****38 QtjO CR COOK **********0H X>4Qf_ P. nUNQ 03-*****06 iff** SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, 08 FEB I SUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON 14 FEB I NAPIER, CHRSTQHURCH, NEW PLYMOUTH I ONOON, FELIXSTOWE, L£ HAVRE, 04 F»I ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, ANTWERP I kNO ALL INUkNO
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      657 43 Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN VESSEL VOY SIN BOM COC MCKHANIK KURAKO MKI4N 03/02 11/02 10/02 SCA QLORY QLRO63 08/02 16/02 XOtIRINA 002 12/02 20/02 k SCA EXPRESS EPROO7 10/02 21/02 WEEKLY SAILINGS RUSSIA: MOSCOW, ST. PETERSBURG j VLADIVOSTOK, VOSTOCHNNY UKRAINE: ILYICHEVSK, ODESSA AFGHANISTAN AND
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      434 43 Wiii m FAR EAST 06/02 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 04/02 BANGKOK 04/02 MANILA/CEBU 04/02 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 04/02 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 04/02 BUSAN 04/02 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 04/02 HONG KONG m CHINA (*S#±S*n) 04/02 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo m EUROPE/UK 04/02 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 05/02 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM usa/canad* 05/02
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      644 43 I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD AGENTS Mb ZIM CONTAINER SERVKI GOLD STAR LINE LTD SETN SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 1* *****12 (MARKETING) (CR MO. **********(H) N. AMERKA/CARIHEAN SERVKI msn Ivor 1 Inmmb lual cr I Iwwl NO zmoai m «/i mvomom 1/* 17/1 n/i
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      116 43 TOKYO SHINII KAIUN CO PTI LTD nllfil 10 ANSOM ROAD #23-15 ***** MTERNATIONAL PLAZA S'PORE 0207 TEL: *****28(6 LINES) FAX: *****06 4 *****10 I C/Ffc **********0E SERVICE TO: FAB EABT>CHINA/EUROPE 04/02/98) TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, KOBE NAQOYA 04/02/96) OSAKA, USA BANGKOK, HONGKONG AND ALL CMNA PORTS 06/02/96) KEELUNQ 04/02/96) HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM SOUTHAMPTON
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      679 44 SINO IXPRISS SHIPPING (PTI) LTD. V MM I 11 COLLYER QUAY *06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. TEL: *****00 (4 LINES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX 3INOTWANS SHANQHAI CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKQ/SHAI SPOKE HKO SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA ETD ETA ETP ETA ETD J-FASTER 9601/9602 20A)1 21/01 25/01 26/Q1 2S/01 29/01_ LATMOS
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      402 44 am MN CfIHTAIHER tIHES. IMC I Aleuts: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) kochwo«*2) *****3 I J mmmmmmmm aeu-. (<»4)aitt?# MAMLA:(H9)9iMOi *-J^ X PENANG: (04)***** BANGKOK: 238N57 SURABAYA;<JI)*!*» *MELANQ:«te)»M»77 JKT:grt)«C»IfI7MPK;fBI)S44MI BHNPUNQ:(B»«IPMW ACCEPTING TO:- CEBU mv "INTRA BHUM" V.25E ETA 3/2 SONGKHLA, THAILAND US$557m 2 FCL MADRAS US$375/20' +CAF Ex SINGAPORE CALL:
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      129 44 "HWPCLYIXL COWSOI^; HONG KONG 04/02/96 •t»«tftt«t»*»**«« t A9tcv#949tl949a9f aWGKOK 04/02/96 S^.«»:ZZ JAMRTA .04/02/96 MANILA 04/082/96 SERVK3NC ALL INDIAN. MIDDLE EAST AND EUROPEAN PORTS. THE RUSSIA SPECIALIST SERVICING MOSCOW FROM THE FAR EAST, INDIAN SUB CONTINENT AND CHINA MAIN PORTS. FHIL COMTAIIIEH SERVICE I VESSEL VOV SIN JKT SCNTOSA JAVA 370S
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      156 46 JAKDINE-OIL SHIPPING PTE LTD, is a joint rg9l venture between Jardine Transport Services and Oil Shipping of Rotterdam. The Singapore office is part of an international network of offices mainly involved in bunker trading. We are now seeking a dynamic individual with an entrepreneurial spirit to grow with us as:
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