The Business Times, 27 March 1996

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 04(Vt2/"95 Internet' http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27,1996 85$
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Bukit Timah poised to see a boom in property prices
    597 1  -  New benchmarks set by Blossomvale and nfth Avenue may lift area's condo prices by 10%: analysts By Lilian Ang Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Private property prices in the Dunearn/Bukit Timah stretch are poised to rise on the back of the levels
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    Lock icon US Federal Reserve keeps rates unchanged
    311 1 Move follows recent economic indicators suggesting economy on the mend Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] Seeing signs of a spring rebound in the economy, Federal Reserve policymakers have as expected refrained from lowering the overnight bank lending rate. This means the target for the federal
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    Regional stocks mixed; highs on KL 2nd board
    224 1  -  By 1 R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Regional equity markets closed mixed yesterday, with few brokers here citing the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting as being of much significance. Accordingly, business was focused mainly on second liners, although the Straits Times Industrials Index
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    Alliance Sec: No basis to report we are quitting business
    330 1 [SINGAPORE] Alliance Securities has said in response to BT's front page report yesterday that there is "no basis for any report suggesting that Alliance may have to quit business by end of this week". In a press statement yesterday, the
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    Clarification
    77 1 YESTERDAY we reported that Alliance Securities (Pte) may have to quit trading by the end of this week. We have been informed, and we accept, that Alliance Securities (Pte) has no plans or intention to cease trading. Alliance Securities (Pte) has said it will continue its business, on a
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      41 1 HongLeang sells Keppel Rd property for $157 m, Pg 2 Tang family in first housing project, Pg 2 Sonteo owner to keep at least 67% of net space, Pg2 Strong property income bolsters Tuan Sing, Pg 18 Market reports, Pgs 22-26
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Hong Leong sells Keppel Road property for $157m
      396 2  -  Office block bought by shipping group RCL, whose shareholders include PLKua By] Lilian Ang THE Hong Leong group has sold 11 Keppel Road to Regional Container Lines (RCL) a Thailand-listed shipping group linked to local businessman P L Kua for close to
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      Golf and Taiwan tensions
      181 2 THE Taiwan-China conflict would have been resolved in a more amicable manner If China President Jiang Zemin and his Taiwan counterpart, Lee Teng-hui, had got together for a game of golf, said former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke yesterday. He was making the point that golfs
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      Tang family in its first housing project
      227 2  -  By] Diana Oon THE Tang family has teamed up with three other local companies for its first housing project in Singapore, and it is planning more future projects. Dynastic Pacific Homes (Lakeside) Pte Ltd, which is 54 per cent owned by Dynasty Corporation,
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      Lock icon M2 growth slowed further in Jan
      287 2  -  EYE OK THE ECONOMY Finance By Paul Leo GROWTH in M 2, the chief measure of money supply, continued to slow in January, pointing to further slowing of credit growth. Figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore show M 2 grew 6.9 per cent
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      Suntec owner to keep at least 67% of net space
      299 2  -  This works ont to 23m sq ft of the 42m sq ft available By, Jenny Lam SUNTEC City Development (SCD) will retain at least 67 per cent of the net space in the entire Suntec City when the project is
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      Lock icon HK still costlier to live in than Singapore: survey
      414 3  -  Inflation driving up prices in HE, while an appreciating currency lowering costs in Republic By Chuang Peck Ming HONGKONG remains a more expensive city to live in than Singapore, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) latest global cost-of-liv-ing survey. It
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      S'pore PC market has big potential for growth: HP
      324 3  -  From. Jennifer Lien m Hongkong SINGAPORE'S PC market still has tremendous potential for growth, despite its maturity relative to other markets in the region, a senior HewlettPackard official said yesterday. "The market in Singapore is still growing very fast" said Jansen
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        UK group to promote transport on visit
        75 3 A BRITISH business delegation will be arriving here for a three-day visit, said the British High Commission yesterday. Led by UK Secretary of State for Transport George Young, the delegation aims to promote British transport expertise and explore opportunities for cooperation between local
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        ENV not banning British dairy products
        55 3 THE Ministry of Environment (BNV) has bo plans to boa dairy products from the UK. It said yesterday that there was no evidence to link the Creutafeldt-Jakob Disease to milk and milk products from the UK British beef was banned earlier this week following
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        Eng Lam gets job to widen Middle Road
        40 3 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded a $610,000 contract to Eng Lam Contractors Co (Pte Ltd) to of Middle Road from North Bridge Road expected to be completed by October r*
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        Mexican cement firm opens office here
        42 3 MEXICO-based Cemex SA de CV, one of the world's largest producers of cement, ready-mix concrete and aggregates, yesterday opened its Asian regional office here. The office is located at Tower 2 of Suntec Cily. :L f"
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        Pirated CD-ROMS seized in $1m haul
        54 3 POLICE seized about 5,800 pirated CD-ROMs on Monday, believed to be the biggest haul of pirated programmes here. The recall value of the CD-ROMs was estimated to be at leaet $1 million. Raids were made on two shops in Sim Lim Square and one
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      370 3 r EXECUTIVE MBA The MBA by Part-rune Study in Singapore by Full-Tune Study A part-time programme taught in MBA International Business Singapore by academics from the MBA European Business University of Birmingham. The Diploma in Business programme is completed by evening Administration and weekend study and is of 21 months
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon Time to buy 30-year US bonds
      502 4  -  TMUmiCAL VIHWPOUIT Downswing in US bonds has matured in time and price By Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South-east Asia) at Dow Jones Telerate. The opinions in this column are personal and do not represent the views of
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      Smaller companies in Hongkong a good bet
      621 4  -  CfrfSby picks MID 6 of the quality films with sustainable growth By( Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] 1997 is just around the corner but do not write Hongkong off because it is about to be returned to Chinese rule. Crosby Securities says there is
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      Banks studying demand for US$ credit cards
      480 4  -  Only two banks issne such cards; others have no immediate plans to join than By Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] US-dollar denominated credit cards are a rarity in Singapore. So far, only two banks Citibank and Hongkongßank issue such cards here, and then just
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      220 4 OPEL OMEGA J."- .1 .afcjmV- i T A* '4 %t BUCK THE TREND AND SAVE $6,000. "...we had an inkling something was going to replace BMW and "...add to this its superb German quality and the handling benefits of rear wheel Mercedes in our affections. Omega had arrived." drive...we have
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      222 5 9H Apparently the only mgm things that move Xv IH I faster than the lifts at I 1 Suntec City's office towers, are the floors. I wm H Office Tower 2 is completely sold out. Office Tower 1 is now open for bookings. Contact our quick Sales Response Unit on
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Press freedom is part of Asian values: Anwar
      437 6  -  KUALA LUMPUR Asia has history of vibrant journalism fighting feudalism and colonialism By. Ho Kay Tat MALAYSIA'S Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday described as a fallacy the argument that press freedom was incompatible with Asian values and a luxury fragile Asian
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      Lock icon Suharto wants more skilled labourers to work abroad
      218 6 JAKARTA AFP The Straits Times PRESIDENT Suharto yesterday called for more skilled labourers to work abroad, not only as a means of boosting foreign exchange earnings but also, over time, to replace Indonesia's largely unskilled expatriate workforce. He noted a rising demand
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      Lock icon Indonesia's March inflation rate expected to be lower
      238 6 ■JAKARTA Reuter THE head of Indonesia's commodity regulator (Bulog), Beddu Amang, said yesterday that the country's March inflation rate was expected to be lower than the 1.71 per cent gain in February, helped by lower food prices. Inflation, measured by the consumer
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      Lock icon Internet link for M'sian judges?
      168 6 BUTTERWORTH Bernama THE judiciary is considering linking all courts to the Internet to help judges keep abreast of the latest developments on law in other countries. Chief Judge of Malaysia, Haji Anuar Zainal Abidin, said yesterday that the link-up would be limited to judgments made
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      Lock icon Indon log production likely to rise by 17%
      256 6 JAKARTA AFP A SENIOR Indonesian forestry official yesterday forecast a 17 per cent rise in log production in the year to March 1997 that would prevent a recurrence of last year's shortage. "We expect there will be no problems regarding raw materials
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      Lakeside club in Hanoi appoints US company as managers
      369 6  -  SINGAPORE ClubCorp will ran Econlnt'l joint venture for at least 10 years By] Harish Mehta THE Hanoi Club, which is being built at a cost of US$lO million, will be run by Dallasbased Club Corporation of America (ClubCorp) when it is
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      Lock icon Defence minister raps army chief for supporting Golkar
      347 6 JAKARTA Law requires armed forces to work with aU political forces in InilwHfflfi AFP INDONESIAN Defence Minister Edi Sudrajat has criticised the chief of the army for declaring his support for the ruling Golkar party, reports said yesterday. "The Indonesian armed forces
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      Lock icon Foreign investment liberalised
      122 6 MANILA AFP LEGISLATORS in the Philippines have approved amendments to further liberalise foreign investment in the country, the politicians said yesterday. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives approved the amendments to the Foreign Investments Act ham- mered out by a bicameral committee on Monday evening.
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        Lock icon GM seeks site for plant in Philippines
        102 6 Reuter [MANILA] A General Motors team i» currently on a visit to gjttt fcf I frjlttnm (851.4 billion) car plant, a company spokesman Mid j yesterday. But GM had not yet decided to locate the plant in the Philippines, he said. "We are
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        Lock icon Visitor arrivals in Cambodia up 35%
        73 6 Reuter (PHNOM PENH] Cambodia sawaSS per cent rise in visitor arrivals in the first two months of the year and forecasts an in-bound tally of aboutBoo,ooo by the end of the year, the Ministry ofTourism said yesterday. The late* figures, based on visitor arrivals
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        Lock icon MOU on cable TV to be signed
        102 6 AFP [JAKARTA] US'Metro Goldwyn Meyer (MOM) is to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with tndonasla's Indovision Group for a cable television project, a press report said here on Monday. "The MOU, which was already agreed on some time ago, would be finalised
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        Lock icon Thailand to destroy beef imports
        66 6 Reuter [BANGKOK] Thailand Is to destroy all unauthorised imports ofbeef products tor fear of the "mad cow" disease, a government official said yesterday. But Taweesackdi Sesaweech, the director general of Department of Livestock Development, said there was little danger of "mad cow" disease, or bovine
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      282 7 R |M i Ml-'' 1 M jp^r. HH^^^39B9HH ►NEWTECH•PARK lb Singapore's Premier High- Tech Industrial Building tfii t t 1 I Come April 96, the new extension at site management and service support. MB^^H|S awa 7 New Tech Park will be available for Other amenities include an air-conditioned lease. With
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon White House will strive to renew China's MFN status, says Lord
      403 8 WASHINGTON Congress expected to give Clinton a tough fight over matter AFP Reuter THE Clinton administration will press Congress "very hard" to renew China's US trade privileges despite tensions over Taiwan and other issues, a top US official said
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      Lock icon Foreign project approvals may be reviewed
      296 8 SHANGHAI Bering fears loss of revenue if too many beat tax deadline AFP FOREIGN investors in China are being thwarted in their rush to beat an April 1 deadline to qualify for exemption from tax on imports of capital goods, sources said yesterday. A
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      Lock icon Beijing insists that HK civil servants support China-appointed legislature
      352 8 HONGKONG Reuter AFP CHINA further unnerved a jittery Hongkong yesterday by demanding that the colony's top civil servants support the controversial appointed legislature Beijing intends to set up to replace the fully-elected council. The deputy-director of China's Hongkong and Macau Affairs
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      Lock icon Japan pips US in Shanghai investments
      220 8 SHANGHAI Reuter JAPAN has overtaken the US as the largest source of foreign investment in Shanghai after Hongkong, thanks to the rising yen and the attraction of a booming market, a senior city official said yesterday. Japanese firms accounted for 9.56 per cent of
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        Lock icon Christopher to meet Qian on April 19
        45 8 AFP [WASHINGTON] US Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen will meet in The Hague on April 19, the US State Department said on Monday. The meeting was previously scheduled for April 21. AFP
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        Lock icon Real estate loans
        56 8 Bloomberg Business News [SHANGHAI] China expects foreign banks including the World Bank to lend US$l5 billion (Ss2l billion) to its real estate industry during the next five years, the Securities Times reported. Foreign investment in China's property industry totalled US$4 billion as of 1994, up from US$7OO
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        Lock icon Officials executed for corruption
        58 8 AFP [BEIJING] Two civil servants in China's Jilin province were condemned to death and executed last week for economic crimes, according to a report yesterday. Zhao Chunyou, planning department director of the province's external trade department, and Huang Ling, an accountant, were accused of having each
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        Lock icon KMT may forgive former vice-chairman
        52 8 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday that a rebel member who was expelled after challenging its candidate for president was welcome to come back—but not now. Former party vice-chairman Lin Yang-kang could return if he "shows remorse", a party official told state
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        Lock icon UN chief meets Jiang, Li Peng
        62 8 AFP [BEIJING] United Nations Secretary-General Boutros I Boutros-Ghali yesterday met Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng, state television and the official Xinhua news agency reported. Mr Jiang called Mr Boutros-Ghali "an old friend of the Chinese people" and the two agreed that
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        Lock icon Taiwan's US$1.7b net capital outflow
        65 8 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's capital outflows totalled US$l.B4 billion (552.57 billion) in the second half 0f1995, triggered by a series of Chinese missile tests since last July, a central bank official said yesterday. The island posted a total of US$l42 million of capital inflows in the
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        Lock icon S Africa hopes to establish China ties
        54 8 AFP [BEIJING] South African Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo said here yesterday he hoped his country could soon establish diplomatic relations with China. South Africa is a longstanding ally of nationalist Taiwan and Mr Nzo made the comment at the end of a 4&-hour
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      Lock icon Teng-hui restates reunification policy
      442 9 TAIPEI Bering says door to negotiations must be opened by Taipei and Washington AFP TAIWANESE President Lee Teng-hui yesterday reiterated the country's policy of seeking reunification with China, saying "the door to cross-strait negotiations is always open". Mr Lee won a landslide second term in last
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      Lock icon Taiwan state fund has spent NT$60b to support local bourse
      248 9 TAIPEI Reuter A TAIWAN government-pro-moted fund of NTJ2OO billion (5510.3 billion) has so far bought more than NT$6O billion worth of shares to help support the stock market hit by recent Taiwan-China tensions, a government official said yesterday. "Yesterday, the
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      Lock icon One US aircraft carrier to return to Japan
      196 9 WASHINGTON Reuter PRESIDENT Bill Clinton, encouraged by a cooling of rhetoric between China and Taiwan after Taiwan's presidential election, is set to remove one of the two US aircraft carrier battle groups from the area, a defence official said on Monday night.
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      Lock icon Americans still wary about investing in China
      110 9 NEW YORK Reuter THE softening rhetoric and an end to China's military exercises after Taiwan's presidential election have done little to soothe the frayed nerves of American investors. "We have to wait and see for something tangible to happen," said Barton Biggs, international
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      Lock icon Taiwan averted attack in secret talks: reports
      224 9 TAIPEI China, Taiwan strike deal during meeting in US, papers say AFP Reuter TAIWAN averted an invasion by China this month during secret talks in the United States with mainland representatives, newspapers reported yesterday. Representatives from Taipei and Beijing met at a secret
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  • ASIA
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      Big banks admit they need to post heavy losses
      483 10  -  TOKYO SmnlpluUeat staff, reduce salaries &ad dose offices to offset jasen harden By, Anthony Rowley MANY of Japan's major banks formally admitted yesterday they will need to post heavy losses in the current financial year as a result of their exposure
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      Lock icon Japanese cabinet approves stop-gap budget
      358 10 TOKYO Move comes after opposition ends three-week sit-in AFP JAPAN'S cabinet approved yesterday a 50-day stop-gap budget worth 11.62 trillion yen (Ssls3 billion) to carry the government until it can gain approval for its full bills for the year starting April 1. The cabinet decision
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      Lock icon Dr M to NZ: Let's promote investments
      296 10 WELLINGTON Reuter MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he saw room for stronger two-way investment flows with New Zealand. "Malaysia sees tremendous potential for both countries to increase investments in each other's country, particularly in the areas of timber processing, food processing
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      Lock icon Communists hope to be kingmakers
      345 10 NEW DELHI AFP INDIAN communists, playing an increasingly assertive role in national politics, hope to emerge as kingmakers after elections expected to result in a hung parliament. The country's two main communist parties and their smaller leftist allies plan to contest some 150 seats with
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      Lock icon Investments still flowing in despite unrest, says report
      217 10 DHAKA Reuter BANGLADESH is still attracting foreign investment despite a political crisis and bureaucracy, Crosby Securities said in a research report. "Despite the political unrest which plagued the country for the last two years foreign investors have shown a persistent interest in
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      Lock icon Real estate stocks rise 3% on hopes of turnaround
      330 10 ■TOKYO Bloomberg Business News Reuter AN INDEX of Japanese real estate stocks rose 3 per cent amid optimism that a fouryear slide in land prices may be ending. Real estate stocks rose after the end of a 1996 budget stalemate opened
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        Lock icon S Korean business prospects improving
        71 10 Bloomberg Business News [SEOUL] South Korea's business prospects look brighter in the second quarto' 0f1996 than in the first, a survey conducted by the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry concluded. The Chamber of Commerce's Business Survey Index was 119 points for the second quarter,
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        Lock icon Qian to visit Japan this month
        61 10 AFP [BEIJING] China confirmed yesterday that Foreign Minister Qian Qichen is to make a (bur-day official vittt to*! Japan later this month. Mr Qian will make the visit from I March 31 to April 3 at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Ikeda Yukihiko,
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        Lock icon Workers to strike for 8 rupee pay rise
        75 10 Reuter [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka's powerful Ceylon Workers' Congress, representing 900,000 plantation workers, begins 1 h a six-day strike on Monday, its president Saumyamoorthy Thondaman said yesterday. The workers are pushing 8* fi an eight rupee (SI0.20) a day pay rise and guaranteed
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        Lock icon Okinawa governor's stand on land leases
        74 10 AFP [TOKYO] Okinawa governor Masahide Ota refused to force local landowners to renew land leases for US military bases yesterday as central government authorities braced themselves for anti-US protests on the island If Mr Ota maintnina his stand, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto ifljjf expected
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      126 10 r# t i W^ <w f» »><"'♦ M« BAHRU Jt h (>(> l VARIETY IS TRULY THE SPICE OF LIFE Colourfal shopping and refreshing beaches. Over a dozen golf courses and vibrant nightlife. And a variety of Asia's great cuisines to choose from. Diversity is the very essence of Johor
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon G-10 panel to unveil plan on forex settlement risk
      400 11 ZURICH Emits like the Barings collapse can shatter the complex chain of payments Reuter CENTRAL bankers from leading economies plan to unveil a strategy today to reduce the possibility of a breakdown in the foreign exchange settlement system and to contain
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      Lock icon Largest US labour body backs Clinton's re-election
      312 11 WASHINGTON Reuter AFL-CIO, the largest US trade union federation, on Monday gave its earliest-ever presidential endorsement to President Bill Clinton and approved a fund-raising plan for its most ambitious drive in 50 years to elect labour-friendly lawmakers. A special convention of the 78-union
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      US rates peaking: Soros
      119 11 BUENOS AIRES US FINANCIAL guru George Soros said on Monday he believes US interest rates have nearly reached their peak. "My guess is that the upward correction in interest rates has probably largely run its course. My personal guess is that you will not have a
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      Lock icon Confidence in US economy falters: survey
      197 11 WASHINGTON Reuter Bloomberg Business News BUSINESS executives' confidence in the US economy faltered in March as interest rates rose and financial markets stumbled, a survey showed. While the Cahners Business Confidence Index fell to 66.2 this month from 68 in February, analysts said the
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Russia drops import tariff hike plan
        90 11 AFP [WASHINGTON! Russia has dropped plans to increase its import tariflk, clearing the way for a US$lO.2 billion billion) loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMP), The New York Times said yesterday. Unidentified Western diplomats told the daily in Moecow that Russia had met
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        Lock icon France chalks out plans for Euro
        73 11 AFP [PARIS] French Prime Minister Alain Juppe yesterday ordered ministers to start concrete preparations for Introducing the Euro within six years, including "battle plana" for each government department, officials said. In a circular, he ordered them to set up working groups and a general
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        Lock icon Former senator Edmund Muskie dead
        69 11 AFP [WABHJNGTONJ U8 secretary of state during the height of the US-Iranian crisis, Edmund Muskie, died yeeterday at the Georgetown University Medical Centre. The craggy Democratic legislator's political career «aw him through two decades in the senate and a run for president. Muskie's last tour
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        75 11 AFP [DAMASCUS] Syria yesterday appealed to the United States to rush to the rescue ofthe filtering peace process which it accused Israel of taking "hostage". The i English-language Syrta Tbrm wrote: "The Middle East is in a state ofwalthkg. A quick, well-timed move
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      Lock icon 'Mad cow' drives bulls from UK markets
      352 11 LONDON Reuter Bloomberg Business News WORRIES over "mad cow" disease blighted British financial markets yesterday as dealers expected the government to suffer political damage because of its handling of the affair. British government bonds were down almost half a point, waving goodbye to
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      Lock icon Dole hoping for big California win
      360 11 LOS ANGELES He wants to drive rivals out for clear field against Clinton AFP SENATE leader Bob Dole is hoping for a wave of support so strong in California's Republican primary today that it will drive out rivals and leave him a clear field
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      402 11 BRUSSELS Reuter EUROPEAN Union leaders meet on Friday to chart a course for the bloc's future, but the one issue which can most influence their plans has been deliberately put aside the single currency. The EU's treaty review, called
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      US flat tax is ideology in guise of reform
      794 12  -  THB BOTTOM EJHB OPINION By i Mukul G Asher The author is Associate Professor ofEconomics at the National University of Singapore. He contributed this article to BT THE 1996 presidential election campaign in the United States is witnessing many proposals to
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      151 12 'In '92, blacks were not that wild about Clinton but what they were wild about was getting the decade of Ronald Reagan policies offtheir backs.' u Watflrg Howard University political scientist on how far Clinton has come in the eyes of African-Americans. 'I told them not to
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      Indian business steps backwards
      658 12 EDITORIAL OVER the last five years, the attitude of India's industrialists has undergone a sea change. From being inward-looking, technologically backward and complacent, they have become globally-minded, innovative and dynamic Or so we've been led to believe. Lately, however, they seem to be reverting to some
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      987 12  -  Bears who say the dollar is deemed as the world's principal reserve asset forget its dominance in other areas By\ Robert Chote WHEN currency analysts need an excuse to be bearish about the US dollar's long-term prospects, one of the first they light upon
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      730 12 TEXAS tycoon Ross Perot appears poised once again to seek the presidency, this time as the candidate of his self-cre-ated Reform Party. As he did four years ago, Perot is not declaring his candidacy outright... He is conducting an elaborate fan dance, offering teasing glimpses of
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      1005 13  -  With Manhattan gripped by an Asian art fever carol vogel looks at whafs on offer CAROL VOGEL NYT IS THE rarefied world of Asian art moving into the mainstream? It certainly looks that way. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's gigantic "Splendors of Imperial
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      Lock icon Opera house shakes off jinx
      494 14 OPERA Paris Bastille wants to double its audience after solving money and labour problems Reuter [PARIS] A phantom who stalked Paris's troubleplagued flagship Bastille opera house has been exorcised, new managers said on Monday. They reported that the theatre had Anally shaken off a curse-like
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  • THE OSCARS
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      1142 16  -  robbrtwbuos captures some special moments at the 68th Academy Awards ROBERT WELKOS LAT N the tradition of such Oscar-winning epics as Dances with Wolves, The last Emperor and Lawrence of Arabia, the medieval battlefield movie Braveheart won best picture at Monday night's 68th annual Academy Awards.
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      Lock icon Director Gibson shows he's more than just a sex symbol
      436 16 Reuter [LOS ANGELES] Mel Gibson, long considered little more than a heartthrob actor, shed that image when he captured double Oscars for Best Director and Best Film for Brave heart. "(I feel) victorious. It's great," Gibson said backstage after the
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      Lock icon Choices which weren't made by brave hearts
      439 16 The Academy failed to truly open opto films that dared to depart from the norm Los Angeles Times [LOS ANGELES] Oscar night is when dreams die hard. Not only the dreams of the nominees who didn't succeed, but also the dreams of those
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      Lock icon Erring on safe side of Oscar night fashion
      487 16 Reuter [LOS ANGELES] Fashion victims stayed home on Monday night, making the arrivals parade at the Academy Awards one of the most tasteful and dull in recent memory. Gawkers looking for colour in a scene known for its downright garishness instead found
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      UIC, SingLand post flat results in line with forecast
      462 17  -  Both groups revalue investment properly t054.09b and $3.6b respectively By Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] United Industrial Corporation and its subsidiary Singapore Land yesterday announced flat results, but sweetened the news by yet another upward revaluation of their properties.. Last year UIC,
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      Amcol proposes 1-for-2 rights
      346 17  -  By' William Chia [SINGAPORE] Property and trading group Amcol Holdings is proposing a l-for-2 rights issue of up to 179.08 million shares to raise between $302.9 million and $96&4 million. Amcol said yesterday the rights share would be offered at $2.05 each. This is a 43.99
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      UOL raising $200m to refinance loans
      160 17 [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Land is raising a $200 million loan to refinance its bank borrowings. As at Feb 29, the group's borrowings stood at about $723.6 million, which UOL expects to increase as it expands its core business and makes further investments. United Overseas
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      Unintentional advantage for interested parties
      786 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Tan Sai Siong WAS the brouhaha over the sale of 15 luxury condominiums to some directors of Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL), their family members and a few HPL staff, warranted? Most of them had booked units in Scotts 28, next to the
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      United Engineers profit jumps 35%
      200 17 [SINGAPORE] United Engi neers Ltd yesterday reported a 35 per cent surge in net earnings to $9.8 million for the year ended Dec 31,1995. UEL said group turnover which rose 29 per cent to $369.9 million was boosted by increased sales in the engineering construction
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      Hotel Prop's profits dragged down 36% by Aussie losses
      311 17  -  By, Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL) yesterday reported a 36.6 per cent drop in group net earnings to $29.29 million for 1995, mainly because of a fUll year's share of losses from the company's retail acquisition in Australia, BrashsPty.
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        Strong property income bolsters Tuan Sing profit
        302 18  -  Group makes $16m, subsidiary SPP's earnings np 37% By* Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE! A strong performance by its property division saw Tuan Sing Holdings' group after tax profit for 1995 leaping 86 per cent to $16.09 million, while subsidiary SPP's net earnings improved 37
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        L&M names its new chief executive
        194 18  -  By William Chia [SINGAPORE] Specialist contractor L&M Group Investments has appointed John Ong Kee Yoo as group managing director and chief executive officer with effect from April 18.1996. L&M said in a press statement yesterday that Mr Ong replaces Liew Mun Leong, who has
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        Alliance Tech plans rights, warrants as loss widens
        287 18 [SINGAPORE] Alliance Technology and Development (ATD), reeling from a disastrous virtual reality operation in Clarke Quay, yesterday announced a big jump in net loss to $7.68 million from $1.38 million before and proposed a rights and warrant issue to raise $23.4 million.
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          Superbowl earnings jump 42%
          41 18 [SINGAPORE] Superbowl Holdings' net earnings grew 42% in 1996 to $7.1 million on the back of a 65% rise in turnover to $36.4 minion. Directors recommend a first and final dividend of 5% per share lees tax.
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          Rotary profit down despite higher sales
          43 18 (SINGAPORE] Rotary Engineering's group net profit last year fell 23.4% to $1.96 million. But turnover roee 28% to 575.3 million: Directors are proposing a first and final dividend of 0.3 cents per share of 10 cents each.
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          Compact Metal suffers 37% earnings fall
          38 18 [SINGAPORE] Compact Metal Industries' group net earnings fell 37% to $4.6 million for 1995. Group turnover roee by 27.4% to $82.4 million. Directors are recommending a first and final dividend of 5%.
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          Mayfran's gain slides 23% to $830,000
          32 18 [SINGAPORE] Mayfran International has posted a 23.8% decline in group net profits to $890,000 in 1996. Its group turnover last year roee 19% to $10.97 million.
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          Superior Metal profit up 9.6% to $3.3m
          26 18 [SINGAPORE] Superior Metal Printing's group net earnings roee 9.6% to million in 1996. Turnover surged 48% to $49.7 million.
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        Prima defies forecast with gains surging 50%
        204 18 [SINGAPORE] Milling and food-based Prima Ltd enjoyed a 50.3 per cent rise in earnings to $12.3 million for the year ended Dec 31,1995. Although turnover only inched up 1.9 per cent to $123.4 million, the group managed to post a healthier bottomline because
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        Armstrong profit up 34% to $4.4m
        283 18  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Armstrong Industrial Corporation, which made its debut on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last December, posted a 34 per cent rise in group net profits to $4.4 million in 1995. This is 7 per cent above the earnings forecast
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        Pidemco starts Shanghai project
        168 18 [SINGAPORE] Pidemco Land yesterday broke ground for its 50 per cent-owned Pidemco Tower project in Shanghai, which will cost a total of US$l2O million. The office and commercial complex is jointly developed by Pidemco, Natsteel and LKN. Natsteel and LKN each hold a 25 per cent
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          OUB, GK Goh to underwrite Eltech issue
          106 18 [SINGAPORE] Eltech Electronics yesterday signed an underwriting agreement with Overseas Union Bank and GK Goh Stockbrokers to underwrite rights shares with 12,446,749 warrants. The proposed issue, .7 offered on the basis erf 15 rights shares with three free ;j| warrants for every 10
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          GPE in Chongqing car parts venture
          56 18 [SINGAPORE] GPE Industries said its China unit had formed a new joint venture to make and sell automotive wire harness products. Chongqing Changhua Automobile Harness Co is based in Chongqing and is half owned by GPE subsidiary China Auto Parts. The other half is
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          Corrections and clarifications
          38 18 IN OUR story "Acer Computer's maiden net earnings up 19% to $31m" yesterday, we reported that ACI expects to sell 420,000 Aspire PCs this year. ACI has since clarified that the figure should be 120,000.
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        Lock icon Belgacom profit up 10% in final year as full state firm
        299 19 Consortium, including Sing Tel, bought 49.9% stake in firm in December FT [LONDON] Belgacom, the par-tially-privatised telecommunications firm, increased net profits in its final year of fUll state ownership from 9.7 billion Belgian francs to 10.7 billion Belgian francs
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        Globe Telecom losses up 98%
        371 19  -  SwgTel-Ay&la venture reports net loss of 155 m pesos From Al Labita tn Manila LISTED Globe Telecom, the Singapore Telecom-Ayala Corp joint venture, almost doubled its net loss last year, company officials said yesterday. In a report to stockholders, Globe chairman Jaime Zobel de Ayala
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        Henderson Land posts 5.5% rise in interim gain
        319 19  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong OUTPERFORMING analyst expectations, Henderson Land Development Co has lifted net profit for the six months to Dec 31,1995, to HK$4.Ol billion (*****.4 million), a 5.5 per cent increase from HK$3.B billion. The Hongkong property giant, controlled
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        Lock icon Gates sees PC prices at US$700
        254 19 AFP [NEW YORK] Prices of personal computers (PCs) could fall as low as US$7OO (Ss9B7), Microsoft's chief executive Bill Gates said here on Monday. "I think you'll see US$7OO or US$BOO PCs," Mr Gates told a conference on electronic trading and the Internet. PCs
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        Lock icon Corporate America's stormy season
        255 19 Reuter [NEW YORK] Shareholders are flooding companies with record numbers of proposals and proxy fights as Corporate America braces for the oftenstormy annual meeting season. Investor demands are now reverberating through boardrooms, before being formally addressed in April and May when companies typically meet their shareholders.
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        Lock icon Rockefeller Centre Properties shareholder approve sale
        204 19 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Rockefeller Centre Properties Inc shareholders voted to approve the US$l.2 billion (SSI.7 billion) sale of the company to a group of investors led by Goldman, Sachs Co and David Rockefeller. The vote brings the Goldman/Rockefeller group one step closer
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        53 19 [BEIJING] A Beijing Telecom technician trying to figure out the maze of wires in a telephone exchange conduit on a busy street yesterday. In 1995,14.5 million new telephones were installed in China, 2.8 times the number of installations in 198&1990.1.95 million people in the country use
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        Citic Pacific earnings up 20%
        392 19  -  Company to invest np to HKslob in new projects this year Prom* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong RED chip Citic Pacific, which lifted earnings by 20 per cent last year to HK$3.O7 billion (SSSSB million), will invest about HK$B billion to HK)10 billion in new
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        Lock icon Time Warner to sell stock
        148 19 NYT [NEW YORK] Time Warner Inc plans to sell US$l billion (Ssl.4 billion) in preferred shares linked to its Time Warner Entertainment venture, using the proceeds to ease its debt load. The 20year securities will mirror a portion of the company's stake in Time Warner
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        Jardine Fleming unit's chief investment officer plans to quit
        213 19  -  From* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE chief Investment officer of Jardine Fleming Investment Management said he plans to quit the fund management group within the next three to six months, the Asian Wail Street Journal reported yesterday. Colin Armstrong, who
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        Lock icon Marks & Spencer to open in Australia, says paper
        370 19 Marks Spencer to open in Australia, says paper Reuter [SYDNEY] Britain's biggest department store chainj, Marks Spencer pic, plans to enter the competitive Austra lian retail market by opening the first of 18 planned stores by Christmas next year, ths Australian Financial Review reported yesterday. It plans to invest As2oo
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        Thailand, M'sia to compete with Singapore in petrochemicals
        461 20  -  Thailand's olefin capacity will be three times largor than Republic's by year 2000: Merrill Lynch By Ronnie Lim [SlNGAPOßE] Thailand and Malaysia will soon compete with Singapore to be a leading international manufacturing base for petrochemicals and downstream chemical products, says Merrill
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        US funds may use Internet to deal with clients
        475 20 Retail brokers, Bt office could be if the SEC approves the move DIEGO, California] American regulators are considering new rules that would ..allow mutual funds to use the r internet to communicate with t their shareholders instead of the US Mail.
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        Lock icon Chinese volatile chemical buying a threat: Moody's
        264 20 AFP [BElJlNG] China's volatile chemical buying patterns, lack of market discipline in state-owned plants, and unstable fiscal and legal frameworks are posing threats to the sector worldwide, Moody's said yesterday. "The assorted risks to both individual chemical firms and the broader market are
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        Lock icon World market for insurers to swap risks
        163 20 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Catastrophe Risk Exchange Inc plans to create the first international market for property and casualty insurance companies to swap blocks of coverage, lowering their financial exposure. On Oct 1, the New Yorkbased reinsurance intermediary plans to start an
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        209 20  -  By Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] British bank Nat West Group is planning to set up a representative office and a joint-venture equity business in Indonesia. Philip Deer, regional managing director of Nat West Markets Asia Pacific, yesterday revealed that the group had
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        Lock icon New coffee quotas likely
        95 20 Reuter [LONDON] Coffee growing nations ended talks in London on Monday and are likely to press ahead with export quotas after a current accord expires in June, producer sources said. "The meeting was very successful We worked hard in terms of possible programmes to be implemented
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        Lock icon Euroyen under pressure
        215 20 SIM Kit Report Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures, which ended easier after testing crucial support yesterday, will face continued downward pressure as Nikkei futures stay buoyed by strong buying, dealers said. December hit a low at 98.69 before ending at 98.72 against its CME settlement at 98.79.
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        167 20 Reuter AFP THE dollar gently tested its downside against the yen again, weighed down by selling of sterling/yen. Trading was quiet ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting and the approaching fiscal year-end in Japan at the end of the month. The mark's drop back below 72
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        Lock icon Opec crude oil basket price passes US$21
        328 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] The Opec crude oil basket price reached U5521.17 a barrel on Monday, the first time it has achieved the US$2l "minimum reference price" since October 1991, an Opec official said yesterday. The basket price derived from the daily spot
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      2261 21 LONDON M>W hm *h A. A. Corp Adr 633/4 unch AB Ports 288 -2 Abbey National 552 -14 Allied Lyons 493 -31/2 Amec M)0 unch Argyll 304 -1 AM Group 104 -1/2 BAT Ind 493 6 BKC 3381/2 4 BOC Group 874 -12 BR Petroleum 588 *12
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      1618 21 Reuter H«m» THE Nikkei 225-share Average closed above 21,000 points for the first time in more than a month after Japan's main opposition party ended a three-week parliamentary sit-in, allowing debate on the national budget to resume. But stocks ran out of steam in the afternoon and ended well
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      1668 22 AFX-Asia Q Hang Seng -127.M SHARE prices closed lower, with the market depressed by the latest corporate results and rumours that Henderson Land will show weaker-than-expected earnings growth. The Hang Seng Index closed down 127.29 points at 10,984.47. Turnover was HK$4.B7 billion. The market opened firmer after gains in
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      Lock icon CHINA
      631 22 Reuter fl Shanghai B Share Index jjj THE Shanghai B market closed lower largely due to a fall in Shanghai Dazhong Taxi after it announced worse-than-expected bonus and rights issue plans. The B Index lost 0.28 point to 50.70 on volume of 4.8 million shares worth US$2.4 million. Dazhong
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      Lock icon TAIPEI
      374 22 AFP OwPMn +26.41 SHARE prices finished higher for the 11th consecutive winning session amid improved sentiment among investors. "The market was consolidating its recent gains while few investors decided not to trade," said a trader. The Weighted Price Index rose 25.41 points to 5,092.92. Turnover was 999 million shares
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      709 22 Bloomberg Business News P Composite Index -0104 STOCKS were little changed as Tambang Timah rose on higher world tin prices while Indofood fell on signs of slowing profit growth. "Higher tin prices mean higher profits for Timah," said a trader. "But there's also some speculation that the company's plans
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      812 22 Reuter P SET Intel -142 STOCKS closed slightly lower, but losses were pared by late bargain hunting for blue-chip banks and finance companies. Brokers said the market was sluggish as investors were concerned that Thai economic indicators, due for release by the central bank tomorrow, would disappoint the market.
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      Lock icon MANILA
      322 22 AFP n Manila 4g STOCKS fell as investors were sidelined by a lack of leads. The PSE Composite Index fell 6.82 points to 2,871.79. Turnover was 10.9 billion shares valued at 1.98 billion pesos. Petron Corp closed unchanged at 11.75 pesos, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co fell 15 pesos
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      398 22 AFP n Composite Index -420 SHARE prices closed lower as investors were concerned at a perceived lack of action by a government-led stock market stabilisation fund. The Composite Price Index fell 4.20 points at 859.07. Turnover was only 19.0 million shares worth 340 billion won. Falls beat risers 454
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      617 22 AFP QADOrdmahet SHARE prices rose marginally as an uninspired performance on Wall Street and the lack of any new economic data left the market to flounder. The All Ordinaries Index gained 6.2 points to 2,261.6. Turnover was 303 million shares worth A 5552.3 million, with rising stocks outnumbering those
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      274 22 Reuter n Wellington -dD4 SMALLER company stocks took centre stage and helped the market close steady after a lacklustre performance by blue chips. The NZSE-40 Capital Index lost 0.04 point to close at 2,165.14. Reuter IXrM WW ANZ tanking 7 10 0.05 ***** Advantage HMqt 1.63 until 5600 Ak
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        7471 23 KUALA Lvmaruiißeports Bloomberg Business News Fl Composite Index +3JS STOCKS rose for a sixth day, led by foreign funds buying big companies like Petronas Gas and Hicom Holdings. "The foreign funds go through the composite index and look for what's underperformed," said a
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        3825 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy A READER yesterday called in with what he thought was one of the worst warrant buys in the Malaysian stock market those written on the shares of Malaysian Helicopter Services. On the face of it, he got it right as
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        67 26  -  By Paul Leo BERJA YA GROUP JeU one cent to 905 cents with 135 million units done -50 per cent more than the Kkkty average of6BXoooshares. With weekfy and monthfy RSI boundng up from oversold region, the Ck>b counter is likely to be well supported in the medium-term.
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        624 26  -  mOKHAIIBT OOMMHMTAKT Second-liners in focus as institutional investors stay on sidelines in mixed and quiet trading By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Second-liners, mainly those on Clob International and the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Second Board, were the main features in a mixed day where
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          81 26 THE 1995 financial results of listed Alliance Technology were awash with red ink. Released yesterday, the group's bottom-line showed a net loss of $7.7 million, with nearly half of that sustained by its Clarke Quay Virtual Reality operations. With such lacklustre performance, minority shareholders may want
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          107 26 INDONESIAN cigarette shares have been undo* selling pressure recently on news that the government planned to introduce a new excise duty structure. The long wait is now nearly over. Changes to the excise system will be announced this Friday, an official from the Director-General of Customs
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          89 26 BUY properties, and not cars, tycoon Ng TengFong suggested in an interview last week with Hongkong's Chinese language newspaper Apple Daily. The founder of Far East Organisation said property price* may fall sometimes but they can only go up in the longer term. On the other hand,
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          101 26 MERCEDES-BENZ is apparently paying more attention now to Asian buyers. In an unprecedented move for the it invited 180 potential customers from three of its biggest Asian markets —Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan—to a hush-hush product clinic in Bangkok recently. At the closed-door affair, the guests had a meek
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          90 26 MORE (encouraging) news on Indonesia's beleaguered timber stocks. The Forestry Minister yesterday disclosed that the country's log output in the year to March 199? will rise to 3&27 million cubic metres from 31 in the previous year. Indonesian m timber producers heeds major embarrassment recently whan
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      1223 18 E3| Pan Malayan Holdings Limited (Incorporttsd In Um RapsMlc of Singapore) The Board of Directors of Pan Malayan Holdings Limited is pleased to announce the: UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1995 THE GROUP THE COMPANY 1906 1994 lncwiK(Plcmn) 1995 1994 lncreeea/(Decreaee) $'000 $'900 $'000 $'000 $000 $'000
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      211 22 AtY Batam continues to boom. Private foreign and domestic investments totalled $6.2 ADVERTISEMENT RATES IIIJ 11 l\\ i\ I mmm m. m billion in 1994. Revenues from tourism stood at 5240 million in the first six months of III) II f\ IVII P 1 Monday Times **■*<-"" M JL Am.
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      1041 26 Singapore Closing Share Prices 26/03/1996 CLOSE PREV LOW HIGH t US$ US$ US$ US3 Miff/ Jardine Matheson 7.98 8.25 7.80 84*0 imniTl Jardine Strategic 3.18 3.24 3.18 3.28 I IfiAfiAf J Dairy Farm 0.915 0.92 0.905 0.92 Hongkong Land 2.32 2.32 2£l 2.34 ■■■pal Mandarin Oriental 1.23 1.25 1.20 1.28
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      294 27 Knight-Ridder Reuter THE freight market had a fairly slow start to the week but some brokers believed the shortage of suitable early tonnage in the Atlantic should lead to firmer freight rates being fixed later this week, brokers said. Meanwhile the BFI was little changed on Monday, up
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      414 27  -  SlngaPort *96 PSA to look for partners to develop sites into world-class ports and facilities By Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] The Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), when corporatised next year, will strive to ensure that Singapore continues to be a
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      661 27  -  STRAIT TALE By Seafarer THE salvage Industry is rarely at the front of the public's mind. It is not something the rest of the shipping industry gives a lot of thought to. Except of course when something dramatic happens, a Sea Empress or a
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      241 27 S'pore Intl Bunkering Conference [SINGAPORE] More than 200 people from the bunkering industry worldwide are in Singapore to attend the Bth Singapore International Bunkering Conference, which began yesterday. The three-day event, organised by the Port of Singapore Authority, has as its theme "Alliances: A New
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      303 27  -  EDB, 5 shipyards sign MOU for programme launch By. Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Five major shipyards and the Economic Development Board yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the Marine Local Industry Upgrading Programme (LIUP). The five yards involved are Hitachi Zosen, Jurong Shipyard, Keppel
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      63 27 [SINGAPORE] Mexican shipping giant Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM) is planning to boost its transpacific service to the US, Mexico and Central America. The new service will begin in mid-April from Hongkong. With six vessels averaging 22.5 knots and over 3,000 20-ft equivalent unit capacity, the company aims
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      947 28  -  CONTAINER INSPECTION AND UPKEEPiINDUSTRY EXPERTS DIVIDED OVER METHODS The process of maintaining and repairing marine containers needs consensus-based universal standards between various sectors like lessors, surveyors, depots, repair yards, insurers and ocean carriers to streamline operations Richard Knee American Shipper NO TWO of the 34 participants at
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        735 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 Blinker Price Index change and the individual
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAY
        534 45 MAX 27 Nepal Chaitrastami/Chaite Dasain. aUKM Nepal Ram Navami. ■AIM Taiwan. Youth Day. MABSI Iran: (tentative) Birthday of Eighth Imam/Islamic Republic Day. tfll Iran: Thirteenth Day of New Year Holi day. tfll Israel: Pasaover. Sri Lanka: Market and Public holiday Taiwan: Women's and Children's day. APS 4 Colombia:
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        431 46 Amsterdam's Schiphol a dose third in poll of 43 major airports, says lata Reuter {GENEVA] Manchester in north-west England and Singapore's Changi have been voted the world's two best airports by world airline passengers, the International Air Transport Association (lata) said on Monday. Amsterdam's
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        236 46 AFP [WASHINGTON] US airlines, committed to winning greater access to Japan and Asian points beyond, are divided on how to reach their goal, and US officials say the rift is hampering negotiations with the Japanese. Tokyo and Washington are currently engaged in
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        259 46 AFP [BEIJING] Beijing government advisers have slammed new local regulations aimed at easing traffic congestion as rash and ineffective, a report said yesterday. Beijing Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference members said they "thought the local government had acted rashly in issuing such
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        Lock icon Continental Air places US$260m plane order
        132 46 Bloomberg Business News [TOULOUSE, France] Aero International Regional said Continental Airlines Inc has ordered eight turboprop airplanes and placed purchase options on 12 more, for a total value of US$26O million (*****.6 million). The order for the eight ATR 42-500 airplanes, to be used
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        330 46 Corporate executives to debate industry consolidation Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] An aerospace industry conference which started yesterday is likely to provide some hints about what corporate executives expect for the industry following the wave of mergers and acquisitions that's now reshaping the business, analysts
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          108 46 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Nissan Diesel Motor Co Ltd said recently it would set up a joint venture in Hangzhou, China in June to start producing trucks and buses in April 1997. The move followed approval from the Chinese government, the first for production of
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          Lock icon Cathay, China Airlines extend air accord
          62 46 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd and China Airlines have extended an air agreement for flight* between Hongkong and Taiwan for another month, Cathay said in a statement on Monday. The existing agreement gives Cathay 12 flights a day to Taipei and
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          60 46 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp said on Monday it was studying plans to boost car production capacity at its 50-00 joint venture with the Indian government to meet rising demand in India. The company did not elaborate on the new output target. Thel996output
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          Lock icon LOT, American Air to start code-sharing
          68 46 Reuter [WARSAW] Poland's national air carrier LOT said on Monday it would launch code-shared flights with US American Airlines to Miami and Los Angeles, most likely from the forthcoming winter season. "Realistically speaking, these connections should open in the winter season," LOT spokesman MarekSlawatynlec
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          Lock icon Yanase to launch GM models in Japan
          95 46 Reuter [TOKYO] Yanase A Co Ltd. a major dealer tor foreign cars, said on Monday it would launch tour 1906-year recreational vehicle (RV) models made by General MotorT Corpin Japan on April 6 with cheaper price tags. The new models are the BlaierLT,
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        299 46 Strike unlikely to have a big impact on car sales analysts Bloomberg Business News [DETROIT) General Motors Corp said that more than half of its North American assembly plants shut during an 18day strike reopened on Monday. The walkout by 3,000 United Auto Workers members
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      219 27 Changi, Manchester voted best airports Schiphol a close third in poll: lata. Back Page '96® IntenMtkmol Maritime Bth Singapore Inteniatioaal Exhibition and Conference Bunkering Conference 26 29 March 1996 26 2t March 1996 World Trad* Contra and wooa iroot kuiiivi viry Vponvtnnon vviiii Mn^aporv incorporating the following international conferences: Container
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      552 32 B TEL: *****33 (12 UNO) FAX: *****16/*****03 TELEX: R8 ***** MBMP <3 Urn* CD NO; **********0E BSj cfMntti wmmmm tSSnuNwumcfiwnmS^^^ Vnml ns; RTA |l nMngfcr R»«» Abyot owe law tT CM AJabay Wonz 40WB 20*06 Mwnhaw. DM»M Aw*, M—— Iff KIBfIUMUII FULLY CONTAINERBED REGULAR LINER SERVICE ACCEPTING BOTH PCL/LCL ALSO
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      533 33 OKAPAL KRIS Shipping Pte Ltd 701MIXTON ROAD, S'POSE OMS» to *****77 q, NO. .073.*****06 SYARIKAT PERKAPALAN KRIS SENDIRIAN BERHAD 309-409 HOCK A GtOMAC BUSINESS CENTRE, 10 JAIAN SS 6/1, KHANA iAYA, P.O. 80X 8428 ***** KttUNG JAYH SBANGOt. 1H: *****77/78/79 FAX: *****07 THE* MA 30M5 I KUCMNO I SHU I
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      402 33 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 HOT UNE: *****33 (30 UNES) P. KLANG PH: 0203/*****02 (10 LINES) PENANG PH: 0204/*****7 (10 LINES) j. BAHRU PH: 0207-*****22 ~^^^~QLOBEUMK^ORWARDERSRfEIifD iISHi TULj *****33 (19 UM99) FAXi TLXs ft* 4T779ACT MCU (03) *****97 jm (07) *****97 (3 UNM9I BAMOUMOI *****7 wfc
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      667 34 ASA CONSORTIUM HANJIN SHIPPING, LLOYD TRIESTINO, NYK LINE AND REGIONAL CONTAINER LINES ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THEIR ONGOING COMMITMENT TO THE SOUTH EAST ASIA/ AUSTRALIA TRADE. j MEMBERS HAVE RECENTLY UPGRADED TONNAGE IN THIS TRADE WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEWLY BUILT "HUNSA BHUM" AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE "NUOVA
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      540 34 11 DUXTON HILL, SINGAPORE *****3 CR **********0N PORT KLANG SHUTTLf SttVICE PENANG wsa vot m m Bvbsb I vot I 1m ffl gfflM .yum mm "5*55 SStS? S* —Sw m vmm mm *B*uin hwc yoiw iMawi tuts r»/w no v/iawa tfm warm ri/nm fin® m irarat woam nancuor *02i ?io3f*
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      196 34 #09-00 NEHSONS BUILDING 24 PECK BEAH STREET SINGAPORE *****4 ■nnriWWiQUW en NOe iommsoooow T*Li 323 1133 PAXI 221 4053/56/58 vcssb vot sura sunt obimrm SNRfIU 4/H (MM OVO4 nAi/NUMMS J wowi i/h 02/04 m rmmmni 2 tf& m oi/M ii/M faun/mm GWfDMUD J/% 71/03 31/03 JtfNR/MMK a GUfSUM 7/N OHM
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      885 35 I PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. I I CR NO **********06 I ivKsn vot So si stb m Si «i no I lOTA NAM* HIM 15 20/S »/> JO/4 J2/4 15/4 19/4 20/4 I (XXI ACCOM MOW 5/4 4/4 I J/4
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      715 35 |CR WO: **********0Z VCMaS P*»»1» ILEHAURE WMBURB THAMfUII ROTTERDAM AMT¥>ERP VllfDtCtfßU TI«W MAOO 06AM 18AM 17/04 18AM 20/ M 2204 \6LLEOEUBRA LHW OWM 16AM ~2M4 26AM 27/04 ***** VHXE VMULA AI4W OM4 22AM 30A4 01/06 OM6 OMB OMR WUIDtCWm CI4W 29/ CM SB ora KVO6 11/08 IM6 ALSO ACCCPTMQ CAAQO
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      74 35 PRO LINE CONTAINEK/MUEAItBULIt SERVICE LOAOMG FOR SOUTH AMERICA VOT VOK MM Mm MO SMm» M'VIOEQ nwMM IM SUN IM4 MI MI M WM mo mm im mm nm mm mm movroa in MM 17m am mm FROM SOUTH AMERICA ffif M n V,KO K n «SHF g i» Si is
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      70 37 //—VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD I si.iMishcil Siiuc I I, S 1 Tilt: TOTAI. TIx.WSPi )I\T.\TI( >.Y /'/(>/'// lv I (.111 \U (iKOlllVUil Kl CON'SOI 11 >Alli >\ IMI'OKI M\l'(»Kl s| K\ k I S OCKANIA PORTS AUCKI A\D SYDXKY I>I\ISI>A\I Mi l IU)LIK\K KRKMAXTI i: *mm '(P VIS\ IKI
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      556 39 I VESSEL TIGER BAY 419N 29-3003 (XH)7yO4 12-13(04 I TIGER CAPE 420N 01-02/04 07-1004 15-1004 I TIGER CAPE 420 M 01-02/04 07-1004 15-1004 I BEER ISLAND 421N 06-0004 10-1404 19-2004 I TIGER BRIDGE 422N *****4 14-17/04 22-23(04 I TIGER BAY 423N 12-1104 17-21/04 26-27/04 I I VESSEL VOY SIN CAL
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      925 39 Sea EZ Land I DIRECT CALL TO I NAHA L__ lw«i Iwtl at I mTmTwTw wln I n I ni« i I—a iwWWWWWWWWIWir BM I 7« 11/ M M/M ftIUM M 3 M/M 17/ M M/M M/M M/M 17/ M M/M M/W M/M IS/W aiMUm lUH 17/ M 17/ M
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      896 39 "Z" Nedlloyd Lines wimismy/vmmy/minmv SINGAPORE PHONE (GENERAL) 221 MM RATE ENQUIRIES *****41/24M60 CFS (PHONE) *****10 CFS (FAX) *****23 I hwh twwriwwwwwi OOCL HONOUR /5126 27/03 18/04 16/04 17/04 14/04 OOCL BRITAIN /1126 28/03 14/04 15/04 16/04 DANUBE /3126 30/03 15/04 16/04 20/04 21/04 18/04 OOCL FREEDOM /5136 03/04 25/04 23/04
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      1226 40 AS AGENTS: "K" UNI (SMOAPOfW) PT« LTD (CR Mc wmmmmm HCQ NO; MMtl7aM) omm TH_ *****77 TELEX K*VAKJ R*****5 FAX *****1&7/&9 ?I .V T T MALAYSIA: "K" UNI MARTTMI (MALAYSIA) SON BHD sikj TEL5A*****00PK*****75PEN*****20J*****101 PGU*****25/6 3 MOONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAt/T MIUNUSA, TEL JKT *****06 W.aMWIfWMffIWyWWW-WWT /MWWT M. mmwwacthc WHTTH-WMT 22
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      745 41 ,MPORT PCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION lITALY/SINGAPORE V Marshalling Forwading Services IMFS) V via Genoa and Milan nasTR*WA*DemN V our Staff At Your Servtce. N CHOLAS/SALNA/MARIA j BOWWiYUtQA DID-277-1077/71/98 j cto j AND LOOOTIC3 MBKVK3B W V MUM. SUPER EXPRESS SERVICE TO SEA lAL SHIPPING AGENCY (S) PTE LTD TEL NOS: *****60 (INBOUND)
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      572 41 f I AfH -iW& 0 to HO CHI MINH <?lf¥ S '|j"' EXPORT TO HO CHI MIHH CITY IMPORT FHOM HO CM! MIHH CITY vcsa Iwrlw m- MMI kmc msa. wr mmm nfM mmm MIS w/m» m/m n/n m m/m mmm mm vm mm MMM MM 07/ M» CM/MI »I/M
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      535 42 T SAMUDERA INDONESIA IS) PTE LTD "SP 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S PORE 0106 TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****36 (3 HUNTING LINES) TLX: R*****0 -100KIM8S GALL DIRECT LIME: *****41/*****43 JESSICA/GELIA j222aBSaBBH 7SLGS/WEEK 3slgs/WEEK pBBST —]-£N JJAK IVWL IV6V IftN jgg IHSJR 53S 28/03 (THU) 31/03 (SUN) ORIENT INDEPENDENCE 975
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      475 42 HOEGH UGLAND AUTO LINERS A/S 3SSS RO-RO SERVICE FOR MACHINERY HEAVY EQUIPMENT TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF UMOMQ VOY SPORE 1 PJCBANQ* HMJFAX N.YORK NORFOLK K.ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPICO HOUSTON HOEQHCAJRN 0134 MPT I- 07 MAY 10 MAY 13 MAY 20 MAY 16 MAY 34 MAY 27 MAY HOEQHOUKE
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      279 42 XSm PHILI-ORICNT Y*+ UN€S PTC LTD ®TEL: *****00 (16 UNES) FAX: *****76/*****38 CR COOS: 10H yiDOOOH I«VDNEXMaßoWNTwieeAN^^^^^^^^3lW^^ AUCKLAND. WBLUNOTON, LYTTLETON, 30 MAR.. I NAPCR, CHROTCHURCH, NEW PLYMOUTH I LONDON, FELIXSTOWE, LE HAVRE, 01APR-J ROTTERDAM, HMMBURQ, ANTWERP 1 AND ALL MLANDDESTMATONSWITHM EUROPE 01 APR I KOBE, TOKYO, OSAKA 31 MAR I
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      483 43 j X Singapore Soviet Shipping w Co. Pto. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N < BOMBAY/COCHIN JVEWe- WY ilk BOM OOC~ j gOKHANK KURAKO MKI6N 28/03 06/04 mADe FAST TFBISS 31/03 OIA4 VANESSA 03N 02/04 10/04 XOUR MA 804 02/04 10/04 REBMLAR EYICHEVtf SERVICE fiwi VOY IVMMI ILYCHKVBK 1 Wttß OOMUB 0100-000W
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      384 43 SIM FAR EAST 02/04 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 31/03 BANGKOK 31/03 MANILA/CEBU 31/03 JAKARTA/BE LAWAN/SU RABAYA 31/03 PORT KELANG/PENANO/E. MALAYSIA 31/03 BUSAN 31/03 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 31/03 HONG KONG SIM CHINA 31/03 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/OINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIM EURQPEAiK 31/03 LDN/FIX/LVP/SOU 01/04 ROM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM USA/CANADA 01/04
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      606 43 STAR SHIPPING AGENQES (S) FH LTD MiniAM ZM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR UNI LTD SETH SHIFTING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: ***** M (I LINES) FAX: *****70 UMSMHI (CK NO. **********0-C) N. AMBKA/CARMIAN SBtVKE »*ST?omam YWi |WT |f— \m IPI Mf WW I 1 MUMNFMI ISM 27/H LMMHMM SB/MTM/H M/M 11/ MS IS/MS
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      1091 43 3 WOl I n A»«nty (Ho) m., HNOAWB TSL 17W000 (CR NOi 12J*****000* /s&S —N It NEWUNBMC 18. (03| *****23. I aOOMMMM NOTUNS TOi US, CANADA. UK/BMCM, AUSTHAUA, (Mc A. •ll K-L- (03) *****33. I NttA, MKBIAN, HONGKONG, lA/WAN, AAAAN ig' %s>y/ *.MO." I 1 PK*»v (03) 36WM7 I TOL
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      103 43 TOKYO SOOO9ORI KAIUN CO PTI LTD HirSl 10 ANSON ROAD #23-16 null MTBMATIOOOAL PLAZA SVOfM 0207 TEL: *****28 (8 UNO) FAX: *************** C/R: **********08 M 1 *i| I SERVICE TO: FAR EAST/CHWA/EUROPE f 31/03/98) TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, KOBE _J NAOOYA J 31A»/98) OSAKA USA V~-( 31/03/96) HONQKONO AND ALL CHMA PORTS
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      696 44 ACj SINO IXPRISS SHIPPING (PTI) LTD. MM I 11 COLLYER QUAY *06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. 1 TEL: *****00 (4 LINES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SiMOTWAWS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) »IN/HKQ/»HAI STORE HKQ BHAJ VWEL VOY ETA I ETP ETA I ETP ETA lUP -JKLEU aeoi/9«g 22m 2HH 2MB 2am
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      435 44 liil MN CONTAINER LINES, INC I Agtnts: MAC4IBLS SPORE: *****22 (24 IMS) KucMMt|m)4M4*» l~|V/\~ J SBU: (004)*****9 MAMLA: (632) *****61 V w PENANQ: (04) *****6 BANGKOK: (882) *****87 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 P. KELANG: (03) *****77 JICR (21)*****67 MD* (61)****** BANDUNO: (22)*****06 i M i 20TH ANNIVERSARY OFFER:-(Lowest-Lowest Rates) PEN7PK SIN
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      17 44 EXPRESS (S) PTE LTD WEEKLY CONSOU TO MUARA MANILA HONGKONG 44 AT COMPETITIVE RATES" PLEASE CALL: *****96
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      241 44 ATTRACTIVE FCL/LCL RATES g Indian Sub-Continent Ports MADRAS/BOMBAY/ CALCUTTA I COLOMBO i CHITTAGONG NHAVA SHEVA k_. *3S i i-- r Bb li; 1 WENDER -T2 >NTAINER LINES"? ..<■ QUIRIES -f PLS CALL TEL: 224 6744 Sg 5 -3; •w* *-.C Astro Shipphg Pt» Iff; WEEKLY CONSOLIDATION SERVICE! HHpVPPHMVPH^H|HHHptMPp|HNHNH|HK«r t# ifci
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      151 46 NOTICE TO TRADE The undermentioned shipping lines in the Intra Asia trade would like to inform all shippers that: (i) the Singapore Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF) will be maintained at US$25/20', US$4O/40' and USS2/RT (LCL CAF) for the period Ist April 1996 to 31st July 1996. (ii) the Japan Yen
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