The Business Times, 11 March 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, MARCH 11,1996
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    48 1 arocKMngrnmcBB Week Change STD .2,***** 40.58 KLSECOMP I.IW.10 +04.70 NIKKEI ..20,155.87 -507.97 HANG SENG 11,217.75 +105.98 SET INDEX 1J08.I7 -09.18 JAKARTA OOMP 668.10 +L24 MANILA COMP.—2,876.79 -15.97 TAIPEI WP! 4,805.09 -1S0.00 SEOUL COMP £49.15 -18.2* BOMBAY BSEM.-&34S.M +518J6 CLSA CHINA B ***** +0.07 AUST ALLORD—2JK7J0 +1170
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    FINANCE
    68 1 US* St US$._ 1.409 t .1.5*9 1155 DM .0.679 MB ¥1® 0.948 im m om 0.5M HKS 119 9.182 BAHT 9.040. .0.064 RUPIAH 100 .0.00 .0.061 PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 444 KUALA LUMPUR &1& JAKARTA 18.00 1MKM)K 1175 MANILA 14.50 HOWQKONO ATS TAIPB 8.M 8YDNEY 11.75 TOKYO tM SEOUL 1100
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    Lock icon Dow's 171-point plunge caste pall over markets
    572 1  -  Knee-jerk selling expected in S'pore, but Wall Street jitters may divert US funds here: analysts By. R Sivanithy, Leon Hadar in Washington THE Singapore stock market faces one of its most uncertain weeks ahead, partly because of the uninspiring corporate earnings that have
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    Analysts hope US fund investors won't panic
    247 1  -  From\ Neil Behrmann in London GIVEN the volume of US mutual and pension funds that have been aggressively invested in Asian and other emerging equities in recent months, the Wall Street tumble on Friday has deep significance for these markets, say analysts here.
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    Singapore tops Beri's global workforce ranking – again
    420 1  - Singapore tops Beri's global workforce ranking again By, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE! Singapore, grouped alongside the OECD countries as an advanced economy by Business Environment Risk Intelligence (Beri), has again topped the consultancy's annual global rankings of workforces. The Republic widened its lead this year with an overall labour force evaluation
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    Lock icon DBS profits rise 11.6% to $594m
    807 1  -  First of Big Four banks weighs in below analysts' earnings forecasts By Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank shares, especially the foreign tranche which was already under selling pressure last week, are expected to ease further on the back of lower-than-expected results announced over the
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      147 1 DfSXDE Enterprise 50 A homegrown personal computer company, GES Singapore, has been quietly keying in its own success story. But chief executive officer Goh Lik Tuan is realistic about the company's growth, Sine Bill's profit up Group pre-tax profit at Sime Darby Bhd rose to M 5506.2 m (Ss2Blm) from
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      258 1 The Asia One Business Centre, managed by The Business Times, intends to establish itself as the premier place on the Internet for business news and information on Singapore and Asia. Poll report, VTPf 10 (precision movements Steel and 18K gold. Scratch-reiiitanc sapphire crystal Water-re«mane co 50m. Ref. *****T Ladies 551.645
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      12 1 DBS mmj achieve $1 b profit target by year 2000, Pg 19
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Big opportunities in being small
      727 2  -  spotlight on m SINGAPORE'S BEST: GES Singapore's ze enables it to focus on niche markets and react quickly to ckantfM By, Jennifer Lien AMID the hype surrounding Singapore's booming electronics industry especially listed local players such as Aztech, Creative and IPC another homegrown personal computer
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      Minister did not suggest any listing date
      196 2  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Tan Yew Soon, Assistant director (public affairs), for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Development I refer to BT's report "Pidemco listing unlikely this year" (BT, Mar 9). The headline and the summary "Flotation in 1997 at the earliest based
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      19% rise in export of computer electronics in 1995
      384 2  -  TDB Ulead multimedia team to German trade fair By Abdul Hadhi DOMESTIC exports of computer electronics and related peripherals rose 19 per cent to $34 billion last year, said the Trade Development Board (TDB) yesterday. The figure was disclosed in an
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      Hand-outs from budget surplus won't become dole, says PM Goh
      242 2 THE government is aware of the pitfalls of being too generous and has buUt safety features into the system, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. Speaking at the Marine Parade Community Club's New Year and Hari Raya get-to-gether, he
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      No need for quake norms in building code: minister
      243 2  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng THE government has no plans to impose earthquake provisions in the construction of buildings here. Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday that Singapore's buildings were "absolutely safe" and strong enough to withstand earthquake tremors
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      Lock icon First-quarter growth put at 9.5%
      334 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY GDP By Anna Teo THE economy, which grew an estimated 9.1 per cent in the last quarter, will grow 9.5 per cent in the first three months of the year, forecasts Vickers Ballas. With the order books still strong and manufacturers
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        COE prices in four categories down
        71 2 CO E prices fell in four out of the f|v*ear categories this month. Distributors attributed t» drop to the traditional post-Lunar New Year lull in sale* The fbur are for small cars (down $410 to $21,588), mld-sfeed cars ($&248 to $37,480), big cars (8U22
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        Corrections and clarifications
        117 2 IN our story on Saturday "Triple Wow to Hanoi's first international club", as a result of an editing error, the summary erred in saying that creditors were claiming US$lO million from the club's owners. The US$lO million figure refers to the project's cost The club's owners have
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Budget allocation for rural roads sparks row
      471 3  -  BANGKOK Opposition charges Chart Thai with favouring its constituencies By, Alan Boyd RURAL constituencies controlled by major coalition parties will get a financial windfall from Thailand's national budget, which is due to come before parliament during the current sitting. Prime Minister Banharn Silapa-archa
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      Lock icon The last farewell
      54 3 [BANGKOK] The2oo-year-old Great Funeral Chariot bearing the urn containing the remains of Thailand's Princess Mother moving in procession from the Grand Palace to the site ofa specially-built seven-tier funeral pyre. Thais said their last farewell on Saturday to the Princess Mother, who died last July at the
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      Lock icon Sihanouk has serious arterial, brain problems
      329 3 PHNOM PENH Reuter CAMBODIA'S King Norodom Sihanouk says he is suffering from grave arterial and brain problems and has ruled that parliament president Chea Sim be regent when these ailments incapacitate him. But King Sihanouk, who has been in China for several weeks receiving
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      Lock icon Indonesia to take action against 15 publications
      229 3 JAKARTA Reuter THE government-backed Indonesian Journalist Association (PWI) will take action against 15 publications for various violations, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. The move comes in the wake of the 1994 banning of three popular magazines following their detailed coverage of
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      Lock icon Dr M launches sale of Proton Wira in Vietnam
      165 3 HO CHI MINH CITY Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Saturday launched the sale of the Proton Wira I.6GLi model in Vietnam the first batch of Proton cars to be assembled outside Malaysia. Proton's associate company, Vina Star Stars Motor
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      1414 4 I The Sime Darby Group I I INTERIM RESULTS I FOR THE HALF-YEAR ENDED 31 ST DECEMBER 1995 I I s Sime Darby Berhad I fl Unaudited results of the Group for the half-year ended 31st December 1995 The results of the Plantations Division reflect the higher crude palm oil
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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        Lock icon Fixed asset investment to slow down
        84 5 Reuter {BEIJING} China's average annual growth rate in fixed assets Investment is expected to halve over the next Ave years as the government tries to rein In inflation, the China Daify Business Weekly said yesterday. Investment in fixed assets would alow to 17 per
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        Lock icon 'Human rights record better than US'
        86 5 Reuter {BEIJING] China yeeterday issued a document hailing its human rights record, saying it outpaced the US in terms of [equality of distribution and guaranteeing fundamental freedoms.'The US is not qualified at all to feed its own arrogance and make indiscreet remarksor criticisms against
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        Lock icon Tianjin investment zone for Taiwan firms
        54 5 Reuter ISHANUHAIJ Tne norm China port city of TianJin Has started work on an investment zone tor Taiwan companies, the Wen Hui Bao newspaper said yesterday. The establishment of the zone shows that Taiwan businessmen have ftill confidence in China's investment environment, it quoted
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        Lock icon China has 124 million redundant farmers
        64 5 AFP {BEIJING] Some 124 million Chinese farmers are without work, Xinhua reported, quoting Vice-Minister of Agriculture Wan Baorui as saying only one quarter of the 900 million rural population was actually needed in the fields. Some 126 million surplus form labourers have already found
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      Lock icon Possible weapons used in the war games
      238 5 Reuter AIR FORCE: China has reportedly assembled about 300 warplanes in Fujian province ahead of the series of war games. Sukhoi-27: the most advanced warplane in China's air force is the Russian-made Sukhoi-27 "Flanker" air-superiority fighter. The rest: an assortment of the Jian-6,
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      Lock icon China plans to hold more exercises after Taiwan polls
      460 5 BEIJING Over 300 flights hit by war games due to start tomorrow Reuter, AFP CHINA plans to foUow missile tests and live-fire war games off rival Taiwan with more army exercises to menace the island after its first democratic presidential election
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      Lock icon Reform of state firms to cost 500b yuan
      290 5 BEIJING Government has to lay off about eight million workers Reuter THE urgent but arduous task of reforming China's lumbering state-owned enterprises is expected to cost the government 500 billion yuan (SsB4 billion) over the next five years, the China Daily Business
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      Lock icon EU turns up heat on China over human rights
      147 5 PALERMO, Sicily Reuter THE European Union has turned up the heat on China over human rights, telling it to improve its record or face a public telling off from the United Nations. EU officials said on Saturday that ministers attending an
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      Lock icon Central bank to boost NT$: report
      479 5 TAIPEI Dealers say the cost of defending NTS in the face of a scramble for USswasUSs2b Reuter, AFP THE Taiwan government yesterday continued to take steps to shield the economy from the effects of tensions with China, reports said. State funded radio reported that
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      Lock icon Emigration fair attracts tens of thousands
      139 5 TAIPEI AFP AS China steps up its military manoeuvres off Taiwan, an exhibition by emigration agencies yesterday attracted at least 10,000 people, some of them with their entire families in tow, an official said. An employment centre official reported at least a 30-per cent
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Five groups recommended for India telephone contracts
      330 6 NEW DELHI Move to open up basic phone services to private firms Reuter RELIANCE Telecom; Tata Tele Services, Techno Telecom, Essar Comvision and Basic Teleservices have been recommended by an Indian government committee to set up basic telephone services in five zones, Financial
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      Lock icon S Korea may cut stock tax to revive market: minister
      311 6 SEOUL Reuter, AFP SOUTH Korean authorities are seriously considering cutting the stock transaction tax to try to revive the flagging market, but such a move is unlikely to greatly boost prices, the Minister of Finance and Eqonomy, Rha Woong Bae,
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      Lock icon Main opposition party launches election campaign
      406 6 NEW DELHI BJP demanding ouster of Prime Minister Rao for alleged corruption AFP INDIA'S main opposition party on Saturday kicked off an election campaign with a 35day nationwide tour to demand Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's ouster for alleged corruption, the Press Trust
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      Lock icon Opposition urges president to set up caretaker govt
      328 6 DHAKA Protests will then be called off so neutral govt can supervise early polls, it says Reuter BANGLADESH opposition leader Sheikh yesterday asked President Abdur Rahman Biswas to assume powers to set up a neutral caretaker government which could supervise early elections.
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      Lock icon No headway on new party
      70 6 TOKYO AFP THE Social Democratic Party (SDP), the second biggest in Japan's ruling coalition, failed yesterday to make progress on forming a new centre party amid fears of a farther setback in the next elections. Debate on the new party lacked momentum in a two-day
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      Lock icon Two ex-presidents go on trial today
      198 6 SEOUL Reuter SOUTH Korean prosecutors were making last-minute preparations yesterday for the country's historic trial of two former presidents on charges of mutiny and sedition over a 1979 coup and a 1980 army massacre. "We are getting ready for tomorrow's trial. There is so
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      Lock icon Millions of Bangladeshis scrambling for 3,850 US visas
      279 6 DHAKA Reuter MILLIONS of Bangladeshis seeking to escape a life of turmoil and poverty have inundated Dhaka's central post office with applications in the latest US visa lottery scheme but chances of hitting the jackpot are slim. "We are processing up to
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      Lock icon Off to Tokyo University
      40 6 [TOKYO] Maiko Takaku is tossed into the air after passing an entrance examfor Tokyo University, one of Japan's most prestigious institutions, yesterday. Out of the over 10,000 students who took the exams, 3,147 have passed. AFP
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      Lock icon History panel to be speeded up
      180 6 USEOUL AFP SOUTH Korea and Japan agreed in a strategy meeting here on Saturday to speed up the formation of a joint history research panel and the start of ocean fishing talks, possibly as soon as next month. The panel, agreed on by former
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      Lock icon Japanese opposition aims to force elections
      252 6 TOKYO Reuter JAPAN'S angry opposition turned up the heat on Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto yesterday by demanding that he scrap a vexed plan to liquidate mortgage firms or risk general elections. The affair has delayed the annual budget and cast a pall over Japan's
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Global money market deposit futures hit hard
      418 7 LONDON Bit Europe seen relatively safe from imminent interest rale kikes Reuter GLOBAL money market deposit futures took a stinging blow on Friday, reflecting expectations of tighter monetary conditions, but analysts said Europe remained relatively safe from imminent interest rale hikes. In the
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      Lock icon GDP seen growing at 0.8% in '96 and rising to 2.6% in '97
      243 7 KIEL, Germany Bloomberg Business News GERMANY will steer clear of recession, even if the economy remains in the doldrums and joblessness stays near record highs for several months, the Kiel Institute of World Economics said. With the
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      A vote for Dole, for the status quo
      735 7  -  Ull 1 UK FROM WASHDIOTKOM The Grand Old Party's lords and barons beat the peasants with pitchforks By Leon Hadar SAVOURING the prospect of Anally winning the prize that eluded him in two previous tries, Senator Bob Dole was enjoying the finest
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      Lock icon Single currency row fails to ignite elections
      427 7 STUTTGART SDP urges priority for stability, jobs over monetary onion Reuter SOCIAL Democratic Party efforts to win votes by urging a delay in the European Union's planned single currency has sparked interest but not passion in a key German state election this month.
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      58 8 manufacturer of electrical and electronic equipment, Hitachi has had companies and more than 40 manufaduring companies in continues apace. With the addition of a new hoitl services relating to semiconductor products. While a managing OJitfiu^HßpNit^Wßß^^B^^^Mß^^^^B I r iiJw^'^ffpBIBIBBIBBBII^B^B wafer fabrication facilities for 16- and 64- megabit DRAMs in 19% I
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • IT WORLD
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        Lock icon Order for IBM supercomputer
        70 10 Reuter [WASHINGTON] IBM said a new molecular sciences laboratory in Washington state has placed an order for what will be the most powerful IBM parallel computer ever. The 472-processor RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems—an IBM parallel processing supercomputer— has been purchased by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
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        Lock icon US online subscriptions jumped 64%
        86 10 Reuter [CONNECTICUT! A surge in the consumer online segment spurred subscriptions to online services to climb 84.4 per cent to nearly 15 million last year from about nine million in 1994, Electronic Information Report's Year-End Online Subscriber Survey said. Consumer services jumped 86.8 percent to
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        Lock icon 19 m Windows 95 copies sold last year
        86 10 Bloomberg ([FLORIDA] Microsoft Corp said it sold 19 million copies of Windows 96 last year, putting sales of the computer operating system at the high end of analysts' estimates. The world's biggest personal computer software company also expects revenue from PC makers
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        Lock icon Pentium-upgrade chips from Intel
        68 10 Bloomberg ([CALIFORNIA] Intel Corp introduced four Pentium upgrade chips that will allow computer users to improve the performance of their computers by as much as SO per cent Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, said two of the "Pentium OverDrive" chips are available immediately, while two others
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        Lock icon HP software to link medical computers
        70 10 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Hewlett-Packard Co is developing software that links computers to make it easier for health-care providers to track the cost and outcome of medical treatments. Many companies offer communications systems but none has a standard format that can link all computers in a
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      Lock icon Acer Int'l comes up with low-priced computers
      622 10  -  CEO says the company's sales projection of 200,000-300,000 units in the first year is 'conservative' By David Mok [SINGAPORE] Acer Computer International, the Singaporebased regional arm of Taiwan computer giant Acer, believes it has the product for the masses of people who cannot
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      AsiaOne's business cyber-centre aims to tower over competition
      359 10 [SINGAPORE] Asia One's modestly-named Business Centre harbours ambitions that are anything but modest. This latest construction on the Singapore Press Holdings' Web site intends to establish itself as the premier place on the Internet, bar none, for business news and information on
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      IBM boosts role of business partners
      439 12  -  It hopes to bring in a lot more business for both itself and its partners through its Business Partners charter By] David Mok [SINGAPORE] In a dramatic shift in strategy, computer giant IBM has announced a new and wide-reaching Business Partners charter that it
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      Internet event to be added to top networking show
      332 12  -  It's because of 'phenomenal' response to Networld+lnterop '97 By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] The debut in Singapore of one of the world's leading networking shows will now include an Internet event targeted at business professionals. The new event, Interop Dot Com, will
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      Marcam, NEC form systems integration firm
      532 12  -  Singapore is one of three international offices for the joint venture By' Yeo Ai Hoon (SINGAPORE] Marcam Corporation and NEC have officially launched, a new joint venture company, Obtech, which is tasked with providing application and systems integration services to industrial and manufacturing enterprise
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    • IT TAKES
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        Tata Tech in car design venture
        56 12  -  Compiled by, David Mok [SINGAPORE] Singapore-based Tata Technologies teamed up with top design automation software company Concentra and vehicle manufacturer Lotus Engineering to develop and market an integrated concept car design system. The system, called Integrated Car Engineer, will "totally revolutionaliae the way that
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        IBM appoints dfirst RS/6000 ditributor
        34 12 [SINGAPORE] IBM Singapore has appointed CSA Pte Ltd as its first distributor here for its RS/6000 range of computers. CSA Pte Ltd is a subsidiary of mainboard-listed CSA Holdings.
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        New multimedia kits from Creative
        55 12 [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology has introduced two new multimedia upgrade kits featuring eight-speed CD-ROM drives. The Blaster CD 8X kit carries an estimated street price of US$249 (S$3S4) and includes an 8X IDE CDROM drive and the 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia software. The Blaster Performance 8X
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        Zenith sets up Web page
        53 12 [SINGAPORE] Computer maker Zenith Data Systems (Asia-Pacific) has set up its home page cm the Internet World Wide Web called Z-Connect Asia. The site will carry information on ZDS products, and users can download software and drivers for their ZDS systems. Z-Connect Asia can be
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        Sanyo to mass-produce 32Mb chips
        53 12 [SINGAPORE] Sanyo Electric Co of Japan has the development and planned production of a 32Mb flash memory chip. The company will begin mass production of the chip by mid-year and will invest some 60 billion yen (***** million) over three years to boost output of
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        LAN switching seminar
        32 12 [SINGAPORE] Madge Networks is holding a free seminar ,ri on Loeal AreatNetwork (LAN) Switching on Thursday at the Weetin Stamford starting at 9 am. To register, call 588 8330.
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        Seminar on legal issues in IT
        51 12 (SINGAPORE] A seminar on legal issues in IT contracts will be held on March 28 at the National Computer Board. It is jointly organised by the Information Technology Institute, the Singapore Computer Society and KT Urn Company. For more information, call Lynlca at 770
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        IDC Directions '96
        58 12 [SINGAPORE] Research firm IDC is holding Directions "96, its annual review and forecast of trends in the IT industry on March 28 (Kuala Lumpur) and March 28 (Singapore). TTie event will feature discussions on the size of the IT market developing channel strategies and networking market trends.
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      Lock icon IBM becomes biggest personal computer vendor in China
      294 12 AFP [BEIJING] US computer giant IBM has overtaken its rivals to become the biggest vendor of personal computers in China's rapidly growing market, Xinhua quoted a company executive as saying. IBM personal computer division general manager Xie Keren said that in the
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      New financial systems: Something for everyone
      794 13  -  If s now almost unnecessary for a company to resort to custom development of their software By, Mary Chong The writer is a manager with Andersen Consulting and has helped large Asean organisations re-engineer their financial systems in the region. Financial systems (General Ledger,
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      Lock icon PCs just get cheaper and cheaper
      453 13 Bloomberg MORE good news for our burgeoning generation of computer nerds. Texas Instruments Inc said last week prices of memory chips for personal computers are falling because of an oversupply. For example, four-megabyte dynamic random access memory chips that cost US$l2 (5516.80) in December
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      Choosing the right horse in the PC race
      663 13  -  By David Mok The writer is a BT journalist WITH the breakneck pace at which the computer industry is moving forward today, not only are many of the vendors themselves being thrown into tailspins, but consumers too are finding investment or buying
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      439 14 Bloomberg FORGET Microsoft Network, the on-line service of the world's largest personal-computer software company. Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates has already built an empire in cyberspace: Corbis Corp. Microsoft has missed out on creating software, like Netscape Corp's Navigator, that enable Internet users to
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      398 14  -  Its Warp Server, which boasts powerful networking features, takes the challenge to Novell and Microsoft By Jennifer Lien IBM last week served notice of its intention to give competitors Novell and Microsoft a run for their money with its OS/2 Warp Server software. OS/2 Warp
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      299 14 AP OUT of the sleeves, they certainly look like regular compact discs. Pop the silvery discs into the CD player, and they even sound the same. But stick them into the CDROM drive of your personal computer, and out'come all sorts
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      234 14 Bloomberg APPLE Computer Inc will help Silicon Graphics Inc and Netscape Communications Corp develop 3-D Internet technology that competes with software from Microsoft Corp. It will contribute technology to Silicoi Graphic's version of a programming for publishing 3-D images on the
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      1338 15  -  Three choreographers tell bolly Hmmo» how they intend to bend the rules for Singapore Dance Theatre's Ballet Under The Stars later this week HOLLY HARRISON AH YES, the ballet. A misty moonlit night of swans transforming magically into princesses and athletic princes leaping through the
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      287 15  -  MUSIC Last Friday's SSO concert left much to be desired By, Benjamin Loh AN UNINSPIRED evening of music-making characterised the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's performance last Friday night at the Victoria Concert Hall. With an unenthusiastic orchestra and a less than musical soloist, the concert left
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      A house with non-traditional views
      610 15  -  THEATRE Take a walk through a shophouse that resonates with its history By Holly Harrison -38, AMOY Street is an unpretentious building, a simple Chinese shophouse. Its whitewashed walls are cracked and ageing, its century old stairs narrow and rickety. It has been a rice
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      Lock icon Enjoying fame and fortune till 100
      527 16 OBITUARY Reuter [LOS ANGELES] George Burns, who died at his Beverly Hills home on Saturday nearly two months after celebrating his 100 th birthday, enjoyed more fame and fortune in his last 20 years than most performers do in a lifetime. At an age
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      1025 18 MUSIC His latest album is an eclectic showcase for his pop gifts, bat the mood is more buoyant NYT [WILTSHIRE, England] Surrounded by massive wooden furniture, thick Persian carpets and a dripping candelabra, Sting leans forward in the baronial sitting hall of his 16th century manor house
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      552 18 MOVIES Producers have thrown a security blanket over the sow Reuter {ROBERTSON, Australia] Australia's most famous pig has gone to ground as rumours of a sequel to the box-of-fice hit Babe take root among the green hills where the celebrity porker made its name.
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      174 15 THE WEATHER Singapore Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Temperature (33-23) HVLa* OmmL Ewipi HVLo* Good. 'imilni HVLo* OaL Shown Ma 06/01 Cloudy Attum «7/-S Cloudy g*y"* IVB6 Ooodv BuenosAvn *15 (l»u<h 11/1 CMr Brtu 06/-S Owen Ctanp 41« cloudy l¥Z g—- <W1 HomMB WW
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      291 17 CEVPTAC CROSSWORD 1 Flat belonging to a friend in which I wrote a short poem 9 Fellow who shows reckless disregard for road speed (9) 10 Concerning a sailor who goes on Hjj Hb iHf strike (5) n~~^II rr""— 11 Sounds as though this leader had ___J_—l—L_L_ i i 1
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      427 19  -  Acma, Nortel will each inject USsl7.sm into US modem maker Ipr a combined stake of 49 per cent William Chia [SINGAPORE] Engineering apd electronics company Acma has received approval from US courts to proceed with its rescue of bankrupt modem maker Hayes Microcomputer. The company
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      309 19 [SINGAPORE] If the DBS Bank group continues to grow at its present rate, it should achieve its targeted net profit of $1 billion by the year 2000, deputy president and chief operating officer Ng Kee Choe said over the weekend.
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      181 19 [SINGAPORE) Singapore Telecom plans to run more trials on new multimedia communications technology with other telecommunication companies in the US and Europe. Sing Tel president and chief executive officer Lee Hsien Yang, who spoke at the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with
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      557 19  -  ■unraumßg Economists proven wrong on deficit figures By Ho Kay Tat MALAYSIAN government officials and economists, particularly those at foreign stockbroking firms, have been engaged in a verbal slanging match since last year on the state of the economy. The economy is overheating and the evidence
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        Sime interim pre-tax up 4%
        608 20  -  Earnings rise surprises analysts after lower profits were reported by HE and S'pore units From Ho Kay Tat in Kuala Lumpur HIGHER contributions from its listed Malaysian units helped Sime Darby Bhd make up for the sharp decline in earnings from its Singapore and Hongkong
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        Lock icon Mycom acquires 51% stake in Veramax
        136 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Mycom Bhd has entered into a share sale agreement with Lim Wen Chih and Lim Wen Chuan (the vendors) to acquire 12,750,000 ordinary shares of Msl.oo each representing 51 per cent of the equity interest in Veramax Sdn Bhd for Msss
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        843 20  -  HAMO SEXG ZMSZOBT Consumer confidence will be hit hardest By Quak Hiang Whai WHAT if a Chinese missile lands in Taiwan? Having presented a glowing economic forecast for 1996 in his maiden budget speech last week, Financial Secretary Donald Tsang must now be praying
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        336 20 Strong economy likely to boost corporate growth in Malaysia Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Prospects for the Malaysian stockmarket in 19% are good on the back of the country's strong growth rate and improving current account deficit, analysts said at the weekend. But they were generally
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        212 20 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Multimedia company Aztech Systems, which reported a 49 per cent jump in its 1995 net profit last week, is seen maintaining its net profit growth in the 30-40 per cent range for 1996, analysts told Reuters. "I think Aztech should maintain its net
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        212 20 Reuter [HONGKONG] Clothing chain Giordano International, founded by outspoken China critic and media mogul Jimmy Lai, has shut its Shanghai business due to "internal adjustments," the South China Morning Post said. Company officials were not available on Saturday to comment on the report that the business,
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        Keppel Bank launches its third unit trust fund
        333 21  -  It will invest in listed Asia-Pac securities and hopes to raise $20m in six months Byl Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Keppel Bank has launched its third unit trust the Keppel Orientrust Fund, which will invest in the Asia-Pacific region. Keppel said over the
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        Lock icon CME sets one-day trading volume record
        151 21 Bloomberg Business News [CHICAGO] The Chicago Mercantile Exchange posted record one-day trading volume on Friday as investors sought to hedge their exposure to plummeting stock prices and soaring interest rates. The world's second largest futures market saw an estimated 2.491 million futures and options
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        Lock icon China to suspend red bean futures trading after end '96
        473 21 Move aims at curbing excessive speculation AFP [SHANGHAI] Chinese regulators wUI suspend a hot futures contract as part of on-going efforts to bring order and discipline to the country's fledgling chaotic futures markets. The Suzhou Commodity Exchange was ordered to
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        224 21 Reuter (HAMBURG] Commerzbank AG, Germany's fourth largest bank, underpaid its taxes regularly over the past 10 years, totalling hundreds of millions of marks, the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. In 1968 alone, the bank understated its taxable revenues by 700 million
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        Lock icon Tokyo-Mitsubishi bank said to be planning cost cuts
        171 21 Reuter [TOKYO) Bank of Tokyo-Mit-subishi, to be formed by a merger between Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo on April 1, plans to cut operating costs by 100 billion yen (551.34 billion) over seven years, a newspaper said on Saturday. The cuts
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        Thai firm raises US$75m loan
        172 21 [SINGAPORE] A newly-listed Thai company has raised US$75 million (Sslo6 million) under a loan deal signed in Singapore on Friday. Delta Electronics (Thailand) will draw on a five-year transferable loan facility and pay interest at 0.7 per cent over Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate). This
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        1737 21 ALLAN Aktiengesellschaft bv, Commercial Bank of Korea lv t Credi Lyomais 6V« Credit Suisse 7 DeHcW Kangyo 7 (Mm Bank 7 Den Danske Bank 6Vt D«n Norske Bank 7 Deutsche Bank AG tv* DBS Bank 6 Dresdner Bank AG 6v« Far Eastarn Bank .6 First Commercial Bank 7 FourseasBank 6
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        575 22  -  Hliwiii Weeklyßoundup Buba chiefs remarks fuel talk of rate cut; Fed likely to await more conclusive data By Callum Henderson. MMS International [SINGAPORE] Last week was another inconclusive one for the dollar. The greenback started off the week on a better note, gaining against
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        Lock icon Anxiety grips oil market ahead of UN-Iraq talks on limited sales
        869 22 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] The price of oil fluctuated a great deal last week, amid high anxiety ahead of today's resumption of talks between Baghdad and the United Nations, which may lead to Iraqi oil returning to the international
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      750 23 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory it ranges between zero and 100. In practice, however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: *****0/[(up average/down average)
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        Lock icon Worst one-day rout in 4½ years as jobs data fuel worries
        594 24 New York More key reports dne this week and badly mauled investors hope for no more surprises Bloomberg Business News AFTER suffering their worst one-day rout on Friday in four-and-a-half years, the last thing US stock market investors need
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        Lock icon Footsie ends week of company results down by 1.1%
        285 24 LONDON AFP THE stock exchange had a busy week, with a number of important company results, but it ended below the previous week's levels after sharp losses on Friday in the wake of weakness on Wall Street. The FTSE-100 Index of
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        864 24 nSydney -45.4 AUSTRALIAN stocks ended the week down 2 per cent as a much-touted post-election rally failed to materialise and concerns about a budget deficit under the new conservative government gained currency. The Australian Stock Exchange's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, closed at 2,267.6, down 45.4 points
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        WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        1915 24 P Paris -2.07% FRENCH stocks fell last week, led by financial institutions and construction companies, amid concern that a series of cuts in bank loan rates still leaves the economy in poor health. The CAC Index closed on Friday 32.57 points, or 1.62 per cent, lower at
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        Lock icon Prices lower as passage of budget is delayed
        293 24 TOKYO Investors depressed by the pace of govt in resolving the jusen issue AFP SHARE prices edged down on the Tokyo Stock Exchange during the week on renewed concerns over parliament's delay in approving the Japanese budget and the liquidation of failed
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        Lock icon Hang Seng up slightly amid China drills
        144 24 HONGKONG AFP WEEKLY share prices rose a mere 0.2 per cent in cautious trading amid worries over tensions between Taiwan and China, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Hongkong's key Hang Seng Index gained 22.85 points from a week earlier to finish at
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        Lock icon Better trade numbers boost blue chips
        7344 25 KUALA LXJMPURReports AFP, Bernama V% Composite Indei +22,54 MALAYSIAN blue chips ended the week 2.1 per cent higher on better trade figures although late profit-taking eroded initial sharp gains. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-stock weighted Composite Index surged 22.54 points to 1,116.10. Average
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        3714 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE'VE seen that when warrants move very deep-in-the-money, the conversion premium narrows substantially, sometimes to the point of a discount. This is especially so when the underlying shares are at or very close to their recent highs, which then suggests that the
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        70 28  -  -By Paul Leo ALLAN The Average Directional Movement Index indicates that Keppel Corporation will continue its decline started at the begining of the month. But the fall is likely to stow down as the daily Relative Strength Index gets into oversold region. Supports are at $12.50, $12.00 and
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        Lock icon Selling pressure expected but how long will it last?
        1132 28  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY US analysts see Friday's plunge as aberration, but mediocre S'pore corporate results won't help By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] It's going to be a very uncertain week ahead. Against a backdrop of continued China-Taiwan tensions, Wall Street's tumble on
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      295 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young INTEREST and activity in the dry bulk sector continues to be limited with most buyers adopting a "wait and see" attitude. Owners are endeavouring to resist the downward pressure being exerted on prices by buyers following the fall off in freight rates in
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      436 29  -  With boom in offshore oil industry it may take np installation and transport jobs By] Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Sembawang Maritime Limited (SML) may make a comeback to the offshore contracting business, which it pulled out of in 1992. However, SML president Billy Lee said
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      282 29 Lloyd's List A RADICAL reorganisation of the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) is under consideration in a bid to attract independent carriers. Moves are afoot to reduce levels of bureaucracy within the conference to cut costs and improve its image. Questions are
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      646 29  - Recent accidents put spotlight on casualty repair work again DOCKYARD By David Hughes THERE is a feeling of deja vu about this week's column. Late last year it talked about the importance of casualty repair work to yards. Then, a Suezmax tanker had just impaled itself on a rock near
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      129 29 Knight-Ridder [LONDON] Total world ship orders rose to 48.5 million gross tonnage at the end of December, compared with 45.8 million gt at the end of December 1994 and 39.8 million gt in December 1990, according to the latest issue of Lloyd's Register's quarterly
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      326 29 Shipyard may have to go into bankruptcy and a new firm set np Bloomberg Business News [BREMEN, Germany] Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, the German shipbuilder under courtmanaged reorganisation, plans to split its eastern German units. The court-appointed attorney overseeing the company's
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      127 29 AFP [WASHINGTON] A cruise ship run by the Disney group will sail on its maiden voyage in January 1988, Disney Cruise Line announced last week. Disney Magic will sail between Port Canaveral in Florida and the Bahamas and will be joined in November 1998
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      171 29 AFP [TAIPEI Taiwan will reroute sea and air traffic when China starts a huge naval and air military drill close to the island this week, officials said yesterday. Taiwan's Council of Agriculture has urged all fishing boats and other vessels to avert the
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      769 30  -  MOTORING: SEARCH FOR NEW POWER SOURCE Industry experts agree that the internal combustion engine is doomed and its successor is the hydrogen fuel cell when its technology is mastered, but the Geneva motor show proves there is no interim answer By Neil Winton Reuter AVI
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        165 47 MAR 12 Mauritius: National Day. MAS 10 Belarus: Constitution Day. Hungary: Anniversary of 1848 revolution. MAIM Iran: (tentative) Martyrdom of Sixth Imam. MARIS Ireland: St Patrick's Day. MARIO Iran: Oil Industry Nationalisation Day. Malta: St Joseph's Day. Nepal: Ghode Jatra, (for the Kathmandu Valley only). Spain: (tentative) Father's
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        442 48 Western partner picked to jointly build 100-seat plane to be announced in April Reuter [BEIJING] China and South Korea have narrowed their choice for a western partner to jointly build a 100-seat plane to just Boeing Co and Europe's Aero International (Regional)
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        267 48 Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] US Transportation Secretary Federico Pena has objected in a letter to Japan's transport minister about reports the Japanese may cancel certain Federal Express Corp routes if the US and Japan can't agree on overall air cargo talks. In a
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        42 48 [STAFFORD, Britain] Train cars sit off the tracks on Saturday following a rail crash at Rickerscote, Stafford, in which one person was killed and four others taken to hospital after a mail train and freight train collided. AFP
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        273 48 Moves to downsize the company by hiving off anits Reuter [AMSTERDAM] Fokker NV said on Saturday it had pulled its Fokker Aviation BV unit out from under a court-or-dered protection from creditors last week and bundled its remaining profit-making units into it, laying
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        Lock icon KLM, Maersk Air team up on route
        218 48 Bloomberg Business News [COPENHAGEN] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has agreed to cooperate with Maersk Air I/S on a route between Denmark and Amsterdam. The two airlines will begin a so-called code-sharing agreement on Maersk Air's route Billund-Amsterdam-Billund. According to the agreement, Maersk Air's
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        199 48 Bloomberg Business News [DETROIT] General Motors Corp said two more assembly plants were shut down because of a shortage of brake parts caused by a strike at two company plants in Ohio, raising the number of workers laid off to
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        389 48 But provision for restructuring costs pushes it into the red NYT [PARIS] Aerospatiale, the French state-owned aerospace and defence group, has reported improved operating profits in 1995, but said a 1.5 billion French franc (*****.5 million) provision for restructuring costs pushed it 981 million francs
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          89 48 AFP [HONGKONG] China is to set up its first air courier airline company in a move to improve its backward postal services, it was reported on Friday. The airline will be set up in the first quarter of this year, with eight
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          39 48 AFP [LONDONJ-AC, one of Britain's oldest independent car companies, has gone into receivership. Picture shows the AC Cobra Lightweight launched at Brooklands race track on Sep 23,1992, with chairman Brian Angliss at the wheel..
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          80 48 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea has agreed to loan some US$lO million (5514.1 million) worth of equipment to China's Jilin province to upgrade Yanji airport near the border with North Korea, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday. Yonhap cited a Chinese newspaper report as saying
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          Lock icon Continental Airlines Feb traffic up 6.7%
          113 48 Bloomberg Business News [Houston] Continental Airlines Inc said February passenger traffic rose 6.7 per cent from a year earlier. Continental's revenue passenger miles rose to 3.07 billion in February from 2.88 billion a year ago. A revenue passenger mile represents one paying passenger carried
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        249 48 Bloomberg Business News [ST LOUIS] McDonnell Douglas Corp chief executive Harry Stonecipher received salary and bonus of US$l.B7 million (552.6 million) in 1995, his first full year at the helm of the aerospace company. Mr Stonecipher, who also holds the title of president, •was
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      531 43 APM THRKTE"- WEEK" 1 DIRECT TO HO CHI MINH CITY EXPORT TO MO CHI MIMH CITY IMPORT FROM HO CHI MIRH CITY *N w m hmc vtssa ten etmok MMOUAUMNTAN UN JM/03J (04/W) 12/W f™E) IS/W gBIWII SIS 10/03 12/S3 (TK) 2" 'SS& S/S "m S, STSL 2" !£5 DKAGON(AIMAMTAN
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      601 44 —i— SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD —J— 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/CELIA EHZHaEBESB 7 SLGS/WEEK 3SLGS/WEEK [VESSEL VOY SIN JAK [VESSEL IVOY |SIW |SUR |XOUR TINGGI XTGOOS 10/03 (SUN) 14/03 (THU) ORIENT
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      513 44 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SPORE PXELANQ* HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N.ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPICO HOUSTON HOEGH CAIRN 0134 23/24 MAR 17 MAR 07 MAY 10 MAY 13 MAY 20 MAY 16 MAY 24 MAY 27 MAY HOEGH DUKE 0634 21/22 APR 14 APR 27 MAY 30 MAY
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      303 44 I XSn PHILI-Oni€NT V"* LIN€S PT€ LTD ®TEL: *****00 (16 LINES) FAX: *****76/*****38 CR COOK **********0H jMQI R KELANQ 03-*****08 PCNANQ TM flWOTft V AUCKLAND. WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, 18 MAR I NAPIER, CHRISTCHURCH, NEW PLYMOUTH I LONDON, FELIXSTOWE, LE HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, ANTWERP I ANO ALL INLANO DESTINATIONS WTTHM EUROPE 11
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      585 45 Singapore Soviet Shipping fife Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN VESSEL VOY SIN BOM COC XOUfl INA 003 09/03 17/03 VANESSA 02N 09/03 17/03 SCA QLORY GLRO6S 18/03 23/03 XOUR QEMINI 410 10/03 24/03 IHUIHYICHEVSK SERVICE VESSEL VOY SPORE ILYCHEVSK NUOVA TRIESTE 0007-014W 13/03 11/04 EVER GATHER OOOS-OOOW 20/03
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      432 45 S m FAR EAST 19/03 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 17/03 BANGKOK 17/03 MANILA/CEBU 17/03 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 17/03 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 17/03 BUSAN 17/03 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 17/03 HONG KONG SIM CHINA 17/03 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN v FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIM EUROPE/UK 17/03 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 18/03 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN I also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM USA/CANADA
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      626 45 I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD AQMNTSPOfb ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR UNI LTD SETN SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6664 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 fafc *****12 (MARKETING) (CR NO. **********0-Q N. AMfRKA/CAJtIBtCAN SOMCE ns» |»w w |iwn Ire bt m m wl mtuxmut m it/w ljmmkah 17/ M m/m m/m
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      1198 45 nSwMOMOHDNuE(rSU 1 (CI NOl **********04) —v J NEPTIINfiJN* TEt (03) *****23. H yy I OOOKK4OSHOTUNiIOIUS.CANAOA.UK/EUIOK.AUSTIIAUA. (aK -A' t K.L (********** I »OA WJOStAN HONGKONG, IATWAN JAMN V«/ I PKaiong- (03) *****87. OR ArOJo I wu (04)*****66. I NOriUMUNKIMi 1-000-*****00 (TOU-fM) JloU (07) *****42/3/4. B I as ML EMMT POMOOI/WOOH Ipoh
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      766 46 f ius wfl f| C /£Za SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. V M M I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIM/HKG/SHAI S'PORE HKQ SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA ETD ETA ETP ETA ETD CHANG YINQ
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      679 46 MN CONTAINER LINES, INC Agmitj: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) kucSkmomxm^b hIW V~ J OH NOt IMM7MOOM S®U: (064) *****9 MANILA: (632) *****61 W P€NANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK: (662) *****67 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 P- KELANO: (03) *****77 JKT: (21) *****07 MDN: (61) *****3 BANDUNG: (K) *****66 Lowest RATES to:HAM B/FXT
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      209 46 ATTRACTIVE FCL/LCL RATES TO: Indian Sub-Continent Ports MADRAS/BOMBAY/ CALCUTTA COLOMBO CHITTAGONG NHAVA SHEVA f: ijaar jx WENDER CONTAINER LINES ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS CALL TEL: 224 6744 Astro Shipping Pte Ltd WEEKLY CONSOLIDATION SERVICE 13/03 20/03 I BANGKOK I 'Ux o««0in w oiW TEL ?W-t045 (I? LINES) FAX: 325-4080 O.K. LINE FULL
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      120 47 LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature c A V Shower Weother _X Wind dkection with speed in knots ••Rain QJ Cloudy Sky Wov Serfeee «Mi or* indicated by arrows fly tfce wind 0 One hJ circle represents calm or Ight ond variable winds i_» On. half fleche represents 3 knots I—► One
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