The Business Times, 17 February 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 85e SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Thai govt blames foreign dealers for baht devaluation rumours
    674 1  -  Weakening currency weighs down an already floundering stockmarket From. Alan Boyd in Bangkok THE Thai government yesterday accused money dealers in offshore markets of planting reports about an imminent devaluation of the baht, which led to heavy selling of Thai stocks
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    Lock icon Weak yen now seen as good for Japanese shares
    649 1  -  Bad loans, concerns over financial system discounted: analysts From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE weak Japanese yen, and its positive impact on corporate profits, is leading to a reassessment of the Japanese stock market, with analysts now predicting that Tokyo's Nikkei-225
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    Three factors push up building costs by more than 7pc
    443 1  -  By' Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE! The clampdown on illegal workers, new regulations and higher material prices have pushed up construction costs by at least 7 per cent in the last six months. The Singapore Contractors Association Ltd (SCAL), however, reports
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      93 1 OBBPB Wtaan* wirites The regents of this year's IT Leader Awards reveal their technology wish IMS for 1987, Pf 2 iMachMniM Uf If Investors cashing out of Hongkong stocks may be calling it quits too early as the fundamentals still look good. P|lB Asfearimm Weak DRAM sales in Asia pull
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      61 1 landmark tdecnms [p® NE Y A MAww/ Yamaguchi (Ml), Japanese Minister of Telecommunications, being welcomed a!7?? Rugglero > director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), on Saturday before global telecommunications talks which led to a landmark agreement. The accord could increase ln tetecoms industry by as much as US$1 trillion
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Winners' wishes: PCs for all, Net growth in business
      609 2  -  rr LEADER AWARDS By, Jennifer Lien COMPUTERS for everyone, more world-class information technology (IT) companies, upgrading of critical skills, an on-line learning community for all, and a bigger role for the Internet in business these were the wishes of the four
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      NCB to be transferred to MTI to help lead IT drive
      255 2 THE National Computer Board (NCB) will be transferred from its parent ministry, the Ministry of Finance, to the Ministry of Trade and Industry to help spearhead Singapore's drive to be a major information technology hub for the Asia-Pacific region.
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      378 2 LARRY KESSLER has been appointed president of VeriFone AsiaPacific. Based in Singapore, Mr Kessler will be responsible for all businesses including sales and marketing in Asia, Australasia and the Indian sub-conti-nent. In addition, he will oversee the implementation and execution of VeriFone's strategy for the Asia-Pa-cific region. Mr
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      Lock icon Better estimates on downswings
      470 2  -  EYE OH THE ECONOMY Forecasts By Anna Teo FORECASTING the economy last year proved tricky as usual. If there was any pattern to the forecasting performance, the estimates seemed better when the economy was slowing than when it was on an upswing. Economists got left behind
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      Lock icon New hair products franchise making waves
      491 2  -  Sales at first salon, Tresses, hit $30,000 in a month, way above average By< Audrey Tan IT LOOKS like The Body Shop, but sounds like a hair salon. Step behind the rows of shampoo and mousse that occupy half the shop and it's the
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      209 3 Centennial TOW I R O, s j-s r 6 I premier office address. Scheduled to complete in December I ill Jpl Henry Moore and Andy Warhol, to name but a few. Set of The Kitz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore and Conrad 1 1991, Centennial Tower provides the ultimate working lif j n
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Philippine VP to thwart extension of Ramos' presidency
      512 4 MANILA Top official had earlier nn veiled plans to get President to stay on Reuter AFP A TOP Philippine official has unveiled plans to extend President Fidel Ramos's term into tfea 21st century, provoking \%e-President Joseph Estrada to declare yesterday he wbuld
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      Lock icon Karen villagers flee as Myanmar forces step up attacks
      526 4 UMPHANG, Thailand AFP MYANMAR government forces have swept through territory held by ethnic Karen just across the Thai border as routed rebel guerillas scattered into the jungle, rebel sources said yesterday. Clashes between troops of the Yangon junta and fighters of
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      Lock icon Khmer Rouge holding govt negotiators after faking defection
      330 4 SIEM REAP, Cambodia Reuter HARDLINE Khmer Rouge guerillas grabbed government negotiators yesterday after pretending they wanted to talk peace, senior officials said. "Everything is going well, we are still negotiating," said regional military commander Gen Khan Savoeun. His deputy, Nuon Vana, said
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      Lock icon Pahang to supply water to two states, S'pore
      496 4 KUANTAN Water sale to S'pore, Selangor, Negri Sembilan to start by 2000s deputy MB NST PAHANG will start supplying water to Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Singapore by the year 2000, deputy Mentri Besar Hasan Arifin said here last Friday. The states and
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      Lock icon Trade union group asks UN to monitor trial of Indon labour leader
      409 4 JAKARTA Brands-baaed group accuses Jakarta of suppressing onion Reuter THE International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) yesterday said it had called on the United Nations human rights investigator to investigate the trial of an Indonesian independent labour
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Taiwan's OTC market aims for new record in '97
      548 5  -  TAIPEI The introduction of futures trading is seen boosting the market farther By\ Bruce Cheesman REGULATORS of Taiwan's soaring over-the-counter (OTC) stocks, which notched up the best performance among global rivals last year, have set their sights on another world record
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      Lock icon Diplomats sure Deng's health deteriorating
      331 5 BEIJING They cite credible reports but China denies ramonrs AFP RE PORTS that Deng Xiaoping suffered a massive stroke last week were bolstered yesterday by diplomats who said they had received similar information from a variety of sources. Western diplomats in China's capital said they
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      Lock icon Tung to announce team soon
      279 5 HONGKONG He dismisses talk that Bering has a hand in vetting list Reuter HONGKONG'S future leader Tung Chee-hwa said yesterday that he would announce within days his team of top civil servants who will help him govern the territory after Britain hands it back to
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      Lock icon Rifkind, Tung fail to bridge the gap
      412 5 HONGKONG Reuter AFP BRITISH Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind met future Hongkong leader Tung Cheehwa yesterday for the first time since Mr Tung was chosen, but failed to narrow the gulf between the territory's outgoing and incoming governments. Mr Tung, a shipping magnate anointed
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      348 5 *> 71m >i\ > c 14i»«1 r./w v f y it i/i»* j 4 iv j -fiffV* t ■k\ 'lwiHfc'4tV* I l f» v How we made the Cefiro fly. On September 8, 1996, in Arizona, USA, a team of engineers fitted the engine of the 143 horses and a
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon North Korean agents blamed for revenge shooting in Seoul
      485 6 SEOUL Incident comes after Pyongyang threatens retaliation for a top official's defection AFP Reuter SUSPECTED North Korean agents shot and critically wounded a top-level defector, a nephew of North Korean lfeader Kim Jong Il's ex-wife, police said yesterday. Police said the
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      Lock icon N Korea's warning of force over defector
      584 6 BEIJING Pyoogyang determined to prevent him from going to S Korea Reuter AFP A NORTH Korean embassy official warned yesterday that Pyongyang would respond with force if the South compelled the highest-level defector from the Stalinist state to go to Seoul. "If the
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      Lock icon Sharif nominee elected speaker of Pakistan's new parliament
      531 6 ISLAMABAD Benazir polls out her candidate, premier elect salutes move AFP VETERAN politician Elahi Bakshh Soomro of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was unanimously elected speaker of Pakistan's new National Assembly yesterday after former premier Benazir Bhutto's party withdrew its candidate. Mr
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      Lock icon S Korean prosecutors to question president's 2nd son
      335 6 SEOUL Reuter SOUTH KOREAN state prosecutors yesterday said they would question a son of President Kim Young Sam, in connection with a loan scandal involving failed Hanbo Steel Co. Prosecutors said they would question Hyun Chul, President Kim's second son, sometime after
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      Lock icon Arnotts may lay off up to 25% of staff after poison threats
      376 6 MELBOURNE It removes cookies from supermarkets in Queensland and NSW Bloomberg Business News ARNOTTS Ltd, Australia's largest cookie maker, said it may lay off up to 1,000 workers, or a quarter of its staff, after an extortionist threatened
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Pact to open up global telecoms signed
      741 7 GENEVA Deal wiQ lower costs, benefit poor countries, says WTO chiet some issues to be resolved Bloomberg Business News Reuter COUNTRIES controlling 95 per cent of the booming world telecommunications trade have reached agreement to open their markets to broad competition. "We are
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      Lock icon Bank of England chief has doubts about euro launch
      447 7 BONN There is the danger some countries may rash into monetary onion, he says AFP THE governor of the Bank of England, Eddie George, has expressed doubts over whether the new European single currency will be launched as planned in 1999.
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      Lock icon US campaign funds: more claims about China's contributions
      256 7 WASHINGTON Reuter REPUBLICAN lawmakers on Saturday voiced serious concern about new allegations that the Chinese government may have given money to the Democratic Party for the 1996 presidential election campaign. US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms said his committee would
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  • BUSINESSIT
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      Anixter to showcase intelligent buildings, multimedia intranets
      378 8  -  Demonstration centres to be set op in key Asian cities By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US-based networking services company Anixter Inc plans to introduce "integrated intelligent building systems" and multimediaenabled intranet infrastructure solutions in the Asia-Pa-cific this year. As a first step, it will
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      Finnish software firm Teamware sees stepping stone in US
      401 8  -  From' Toh Han Shih in Rovaniemi, Finland HIGH on this year's agenda for Finnish software company Teamware is a substantial increase in its market presence in the US, which it sees as a vital stepping stone to the world. 'To be
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      Weak DRAM sales in Asia pull down semiconductor market
      298 8  -  By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] A severe slump in sales of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chips drove down the entire semiconductor market in the Asia-Pacific by 7 per cent last year, said a Dataquest report. The Asia-Pacific semiconductor market was down
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      StorageTek keen to pioneer 'Storage Farms' in S'pore
      364 9  -  Concept will be tested first in Australia and Switzerland By 1 Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US-based data storage provider Storage Technology Corp (StorageTek) is keen on pioneering "storage farms" in Singapore which could be used by individuals, companies and government organisations like a
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    • ITTAKES
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        Asia-Pac boost for System Software
        95 9  -  Compiled by Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Asia-Pacific revenues for System Software Associates jumped 50 per cent in the fourth quarter last year over the same period in 1995. Global software licence fees rose to US$Bl.6 million (Ssll4 million), or up 81 per cent from the previous
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        S'pore govt mega Office 97 buyer
        60 9 [SINGAPORE] The Singapore government has become the largest licensee in Asia of the Microsoft Office 97 suite of desktop applications. The government's purchase 0f20,000 units of Office 97 is "the single largest sale in Asia and one of the largest sales worldwide" of the
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        Equant, Sita sign up Cisco
        67 9 [SINGAPORE] Equant and Sita have launched a three-year programme to increase the capacity and speed of their jointly-operated global communications network. An open-ended contract has been signed with Cisco Systems to provide carrier-class Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches for installation at network points worldwide. The private
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      Teamware cashing in on the mobile wireless market
      441 9  -  From 1 Toh Han Shih in Rovaniemi, Finland FINNISH software company Teamware sees a lucrative market in the wireless network of mobile executives using devices such as handphones, laptop and palmtop computers. "The mobile wireless market, intranet and extranets are key markets
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      NCR moves regional headquarters here, repositions focus
      209 9  -  By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US-based NCR Corp, which was spun off from AT&T late last year, has moved its regional headquarters in Hongkong to Singapore. The company now has three regional headquarters, Seoul for South Korea; Beijing for China, Hongkong and Taiwan; and
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      Lock icon Digital fears it's now tougher to achieve goal
      336 10 Difficulties in first half of this year make task harder Bloomberg Business News [hfEW YORK] Digital Equipment Corp said the risk has increased that it will need more time to get earnings to 7 per cent of revenue, which the company set
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      Take a SIP of PC paranoia
      721 10  -  By Kenneth James The writer is BT's Technology Editor IF INTEL Corp president and CEO Andrew S. Grove is right, the personal computer industry should be screaming bloody paranoia right now. Mr Grove runs the world's largest chipmaking company. He is also the author
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      Lock icon Intel to invest in Samsung's Texas memory chip plant
      159 10 Bloomberg Business News [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp wUI make an equity investment in Samsung Electronics Co's memory chip plant in Austin, Texas. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Intel will receive a specified supply of dynamic random access memory
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      Lock icon International group plans more Internet addresses
      390 10 Reuter [WASHlNGTON] An international Internet group released its plan last week to dramatically increase the number of available addresses in cyberspace while quelling disputes over the use of trademarks in those address names. The International Ad Hoc Committee, which includes members of Net standards-set-ting
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      Lock icon Cybersurfers lament paying more for usage
      524 10 Access fees main grouse of e-mail Internet users Reuter [LOS ANGELES] If anything gets Internet users mad, it's the prospect of paying more for their online fix. At least that's the consensus expressed in an avalanche of e-mail Internet users are sending the Federal
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      Informix revenue increases 48 per cent to $1.3b
      266 10  -  By, Annette Pan [SINGAPORE] High-end database specialist Informix's revenue for database products worldwide rose 48 per cent for last year, from US$7l4 million to US$94O million (Ssl.3 billion). Revenues for Informix South-east Asia grew 32 per cent. Its server business grew 39
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      S3 unveils fruit of its sound investment
      698 11  -  US company banking on Sonic Vibes to 'revolutionise the PC audio market' Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] US-based graphics chip maker S3 Inc is "bringing a new segment" to the PC audio market with its Sonic Vibes "sound card on a chip" product, said chief
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      Lock icon Netscape to raise prices to boost revenue
      882 11 It believes loyal customers will pay up for 'a clear advantage' Reuter Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Netscape Communications Corp said it will raise prices on three key products and change the way it charges for software to boost revenue. As of April
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      Lock icon Three senior Apple execs to leave after reorganisation
      400 11 Bloomberg Business News [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc said three senior executives are leaving the personal computer maker, after a reorganisation left them without power. Satjiv Chahil, senior vicepresident of worldwide marketing, John Floisand, senior vice-president of worldwide sales, and Fred Forsyth,
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      Lock icon HP reduces prices on Vectra PCs
      98 11 Reuter [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Co said last week it is making list-price cuts of up to 23 per cent on its line of HP Vectra commercial personal computers. The company said an en-try-level HP Vectra VE PC would now start at an estimated
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      Lock icon Apple to unveil new laptop and PCs
      206 11 Reuter [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc, carrying out its promise to flood the market with new products this year, said last week it would unveil today a new Powerßook laptop, updated Power Macintosh desktop computers, a new digital camera and a laptop for
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Upping the stakes in Berlin
      775 12  -  The German film festival is betting on French movies to outdo Cannes, says buibst gill ERNEST GILL DPA FFICIALS of the Berlin Film Festival have raised the ante this year in their perennial high-stakes bid to rival Cannes as Europe's premiere film event. What better
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      Lock icon HK film sector anxious about handover: Maggie
      682 12 ENTERTAINMENT Bat Maggie Cheung is optimistic jus sbo 8008 the Chinese film market growing DPA [BERLIN] Actress Maggie Cheung lounges in a leather chair and philosophises about Hongkong's impending change-over to direct Chinese rule, and the growing strength of the Asian movie industry.
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      Discovering musical gems
      739 14 CD REVIEWS /fy Andrew Lim [SINGAPORE] La Bonne Chanson French Chamber Songs Anne Sofle von Otter (mezzo-soprano) Bengt Forsborg (piano) DO 447 752-2 (60 minutes) THIS is certainly one of the most delightful and richly rewarding discs of French melodies. It takes its title from Faure's most
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      Lock icon Italy's Urbani family rules the truffle world
      521 14 FOQD Group has annual turnover of 65b lire from the fungi Reuter [SCHEGGINO, Italy] The dog scratches excitedly at the frosty ground. Her owner rewards her with a cube of ham for sniffing out another truffle. The skills of that mongrel in finding
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      Lock icon UPA puts more stress on reconditioning business
      474 15 Diary maker sees turnover from this area growing from 22% to 50% of total Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] UPA Corporation Bhd, which accounts for about a third of Malaysia's diary output, expects its other business of reconditioning of printing and printing-related machines to contribute
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      Lock icon Cahya Mata to list 2 units on KLSE
      274 15 MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd has applied to the Securities Commission and other authorities for the flotation of two subsidiaries Steel Industry Sarawak Bhd (SIS) and Sara Premix Bhd on the second board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. SIS'
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      727 15  -  onchlngnw* nf UK rim H«h nlfiling!* qiHt« ftflMy HAKG SEMO DTSZOBT By Quak Hiang Whai MANY of those who have invested heavily in Singapore and Malaysian stocks in the past week would like to believe the two-year-long rally in Hongkong is over.
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        Lock icon Jakarta, mining firms closer to deal on Busang
        570 16 Govt guarantees major stake to Bre-X after criticism of its handling of bid Bloomberg Business News (JAKARTA] The Indonesian government is moving towards an agreement with Bre-X Minerals Ltd of Canada and Freeport-McMoßan Copper Gold Inc of the US on development of
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        Lock icon Indofood buying six affiliates for 1.75t rupiah
        311 16 Bloomberg Business News {JAKARTA] PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, the largest instant noodle maker in Indonesia, is buying control of six affiliated companies for 1.75 trillion rupiah (551.05 billion), or about 15 times their projected 1996 profit. The acquisition of 80 per cent stakes
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        Lock icon Buildcon rights, bonus to bring NTA to M$2.91
        449 16 Profit after tax for the year seen to remain at M523.6m MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Buildcon Bhd's proposed bonus and rights issues will increase its net tangible asset (NTA) per share to M 52.91 from M 52.11 previously on the assumption that all
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          Lock icon Repco delay buyout applications
          83 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR) Repco Holdings Bhd says it Is delaying its applications to the Securities Commission (SC) on three acquisitions because it is in the process of changing its merchant banker. In a statement on Friday, Repco said the application on the proposed acquisitions of the
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          Lock icon Inchcape completes Kewangan purchase
          70 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Inchcape Timuran Bhd said its acquisition of Idris Hydraulic (Malaysia) Bhd's entire 100 per cent interest in Kewangan Bersatu Bhd for MSBOO million (***** million) was completed on Feb 14. It said the acquisition, which enabled Inchcape to move into the financial services
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          Lock icon OSK unit to buy monetary exchange seats
          81 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR} OSK Holdings Bhd said its wholly-owned subsidiary, OSK Futures Sdn Kid, has entered in to a sale and purchase agreement with Sri Comm Options Futures Sdn Bhd for the purchase of two corporate Broker Member seats on the Malaysia Monetary
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        Lock icon Appliance maker aims for China-Taiwan first
        403 17 Tsann Knen's IPO will make company the first listed in both Taiwan, China Bloomberg Business News [TAIPEI] Appliance maker Tsann Kuen Enterprise Co is offering 20 per cent of its shares to investors in a bid to become the first company to have listings
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        Lock icon Swire Pacific further pares insurance business
        379 17 Group sells majority stake in Swire Fraser to US firm SCMP [HONGKONG] Swire Pacific has further pared its insurance interests, agreeing to seU a majority stake in Swire Fraser, its UK-based loss-suffer-ing insurance broking business, to EW Blanch Holdings of the United States. Last
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        Lock icon Toyota figures reveal weak yen bonanza
        346 17 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO) A forecast that Toyota Motor Corp's earnings win be above company estimates is the latest sign the weak yen is giving a bigger-than-expected boost to profits in Japan. Toyota Motor Corp's pretax profit will likely rise 82 per cent in
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        183 17 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Hongkong Electric Holdings, the territory's second-largest utility, lashed out against a suggestion it help bail out its bigger rival China Light and Power. Facing overcapacity and government plans to alter a contract that links its profitability to its capital
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        385 17 Foreign and domestic fands are finding good bargains analysts Reuter [BOMßAY] Volatile Indian stock markets are expected to repeat their traditional prebudget rally this week, brokers and analysts said. "I expect the market to be buoyant but choppy at times," said Bombay Stock Exchange
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        288 17 Bernama [MELBOURNE] Lend Lease Corp Ltd, which has several Malaysian backers, is negotiating to buy giant US property group Equitable Real Estate Investment Management (ERE) for an undisclosed price. If the deal comes through, Lend Lease will become the world's
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        456 18 Mo conspiracies have been made poMic, while trader's trial opens in Japan Reuter [LONDON] British and US investigators have yet to finger anyone in the Sumitomo copper mystery as former star trader Yasuo Hamanaka goes on trial in Japan this week.
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        Lock icon Trump Hotels 4th-qtr loss widens by more than six times
        252 18 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Trump Hotels Casinos Resorts Inc said its fourth-quarter loss widened more than sixfold, badly missing earnings forecasts, as revenue fell at its Atlantic City, New Jersey, casinos. The company, headed by New York real estate
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        Lock icon Earnings figures now count for more, say some accounting experts
        552 18 Tighter accounting rules helping to make balance sheets cleaner today NYT (NEW YORK] The earnings season is upon us, and some accounting experts say the numbers you are seeing tell a more truthful story about corporate America than they once
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        257 18 Swiss firm to launch new watch collection with Calvin Klein Bloomberg Business News [BIEL, Switzerland] SMH SA, the world's largest watchmaker, said last Friday that 1996 sales rose 6 per cent to a record 2.8 billion Swiss francs (552.7 billion), and it will launch
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        176 18 Bloomberg Business News [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp said it spent US$l.l billion (Ssl.s billion) to buy back its shares in the last half of 1996 and will continue to repurchase its stock this year to keep pace with employee stock option grants. The
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        Lock icon Total assets of US mutual funds surge to US$3.6t
        629 19  -  At least 63 million households in the US own units in equity mutual funds From Neil Behrmann in London THE Dow Jones index hit the headlines as it broke through 7,000 last week, but growth of US mutual fund assets has
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        394 19 It agrees to beef lip governance, audit, financial reporting FT [NEW YORK] Asahi Bank, one of Japan's top 10 commercial banks, said on Friday it would maintain its US operations in spite of fines imposed by the US Federal Reserve for
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        274 19 AFP [BOMBAY] A leading British insurer forecast on Friday that the Indian insurance market would boom as soon as New Delhi opened it up to domestic and foreign private companies. "Once New Delhi opens up the market it will grow faster than the
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        Japanese still buying foreign shares despite G-7 warnings
        463 19  -  Rising amounts going into European bonds and equities From, Neil Behrmann in London JAPANESE purchases of foreign shares and bonds continue apace despite G-7 warnings that the US dollar has reached fair value against the yen. Major Japanese banks with branches here
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        Lock icon Dresdner debt may lose AAA rating
        270 19 Bloomberg Business News [FRANKFURT] Dresdner Bank AG's "AAA" debt rating could be downgraded by Moody's Investors Service, the rating company said last week. Approximately US$3O billion (SJM2 billion) in securities are involved, Moody's said. If Dresdner Bank is downgraded, it would leave only Union
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        138 19 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian rubber export earnings are projected to grow to Mslo billion (555.7 billion) by 2010, from M 57.9 billion last year, according to Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik. Domestic consumption of rubber, which reached 326,126 tonnes in November, is expec-
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        550 20  -  STMTTff Weeklyßoundup Confusion after Japanese, French remarks; US$-mark continues to climb Callum Henderson MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] The G-7 spoke and markets completely ignored them. Their message would have been successful,
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        872 20 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] A surge in coffee prices last week, when dealers broke out into a cold sweat amid fears that exports of the world's favourite pick-me-up may tumble, was matched only by cooling cocoa prices. Robusta coffee
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        COMMODITY PRICES
        1572 20 SICOM FUTURES Feb 14 MJ66ER (Marat cM*« at SJQpa) RSS1 C0#TRACT(S cwrtsA?) CtaM MM OpM mil Low Srtt (to—h) tatamt 172.00 75 «25 S97 17X50 ***** 174.00 300 1000 97 17*00 1250 Jw 97 176.00 H00 •M/Sep 97 177JO 177.00 177.50 60 5535 OeWac 97 179.00 2700 JBtftar*
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        195 21 Market's Outlook In the past week, the Straits Times Industrial Index was able to bounce off interim support at the 2,200 index level. As mentioned earlier consolidation around the 2,200 level offers investors a great opportunity to accumulate stocks for long-term core holdings. Market sentiment has improved with the
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        141 21 Outlook Thakral, offers an interesting buy as one of the premier retail distributors in China benefitting from a surging economy. The company may surprise on the upside as the local economy picks up steam. Thakral distributes Panasonic, Sony, and Sharp audio-visual products in China and Hong Kong. It's China
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        128 21 Outlook Singapore Finance provides various financial services to the commercial/consumer sectors. With a rebounding economy, most finance companies should outperform the market in the interim. For two years, Singapore Finance has underperformed but it has recently started to outperform. Currently, the stock is only trading at 11.3 X
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        EXPLANATION OF TERMS
        266 21  -  Source: Analysed by. Johan Tellvik a director of Bridge Int 7 Broking Email: jtellvik(*bridgecom RaUtfoe Strength Index RSI measures the rate at which prices move. As a rule, an RSI above 80 indicates an overbought condition while RSI below 20 indicates an oversold market. RSI is more
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        863 22 NEW YORK Wall Street analysts don't share the same optimism abont the Bow hitting 8,000 AFP FT JSf ALL Street was in an upbeat •wood the past week, as the Dow Jones Industrial Index conquered the psychological 7,000-point barrier, leading traders to wonder if there were no
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        197 22 ■HONGKONG AFP THE Hongkong share market is expected to remain cautious after slumping 4 per cent in the past week amid rumours about the health of China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, dealers said on Friday. "The correction will continue," in the week to come in
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        416 22 LONDON AFP THE London stock market enjoyed another record week, mainly on the back of a bullish Wall Street, but also encouraged by the near-certainty that British interest rates will not change in the immediate future. For the fifth consecutive week, the Footsie
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        268 22 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices are expected to remain firm following a 4.8 per cent rally in the past week after government officials vowed to support the banking sector. "Although some profit-tak-ing would be seen this week, market sentiment is expected
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        ASIAN MARKETSRoundup
        890 22 Sydney +36J SHARE prices could be hurt by any correction on Wall Street in the week ahead but are robust enough to rebound, brokers said on Friday. "The US market has all the hallmarks of a speculative surge this week but I doubt it will last," a Colonial
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        WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        1901 22 Qhrii -2M FRENCH stocks closed mixed on the final day that French companies can legally release their 1996 sales. Among the 165 companies reporting on Friday, shares of carmakers suffered most. The benchmark CAC-40 Index fell 0.99 point, or 0.04 per cent to 2,627.42, as declines in
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        8166 23 CJ*m Pr*vte*§ ClMBfc KLSC Compotito 1244.91 *****5 *4.96 XST Industrial 4434.40 4337.90 *74.70 MSTmnncT 1548X40 *****.71 >94.69 N5T Proparttas 3208.70 3143.29 *45.41 NSTMMnq 3192.52 3152.39 *40-t3 TM»hm> (*000) Ma* Board Vatuma* *****0 191.435 ****** Main Board VM (MS) 1,731.544 *****50 *550,238 ConaumorProd 55.442 ***** ****** Industrial* Pro* 45.607 29.94* *15,659
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        345 23 AFP AFX-Asia F1 Composite Index *4.9> TRADE on the Malaysian bourse is expected to be mixed this week with the focus on cheaper stocks and selective blue chips following a 0.4 per cent rise in the holiday-shortened week to Friday. "Sentiment will remain
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        211 24  -  WARRANT WATCH -By Ven Sreenivasan AS WE pointed out in this column last Friday, the upbeat mood across the local bourse has lifted several hotel stocks to new highs. In fact, the run-up by hotel stocks has lifted the SES Hotels Index to
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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        1446 25 TUMOVCft COOO) VAlUf (*000) Itote g» 7»1 CK> T«Ui MwtrM 439.279 255.290 694.549 955,653 450.416 1,406,069 rfeMnu 79.786 201.702 281.490 545,474 262.418 607.692 Hot** 14,266 21,072 35,336 40,525 44,919 65.444 ProMrttM 45.438 286.(02 331.540 253,029 380.887 633.716 HSMM 14.237 14.257 37,629 37,629 MtJ 6.494 6.494 19.941 19,941 BtW 108,228 330,711
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      77 26  -  Shiv Taneja HOTEL PROP closed last Friday at 12.59: up 11 cents on a volume of 3.3 million shares, which is more than five times its 10-day average traded volume. In the near term, there might still be some oupside for this counter, but investors with a longer
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      668 26  -  Staggering volumes and jumps rekindle hopes of long-awaited resurgence STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The staggering trading volumes and breathtaking surges last week have again rekindled hopes that the Singapore stock market is finaUy getting out of its long slumber. Some two
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      426 26 SOURCE: Research Slacks Vataw •MBf Hldqs 50c 96,028,000 ♦MBF Land Bhd 76.659.000 •InsasBhd 60.379.000 *8erj*ya Ind 50,8%,000 »f ACS 50c 48.966.000 ♦Renong WtOO 47,032,000 •Asia Pac Ld 43.479.000 ♦Promet 41.512.000 {MB United 10c 38.753.000 'Amsteei Wt 36.107.000 Macks S QOSForetgn 209.229,559 Keppel Corpn 144,454,566 OCBC Foreign 137,146.848 DBS Foreign 133.205.629
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      281 27  -  f ♦Contributed by Simpson Spence Young LAST WEEK saw a spate of Panamax bulkers reported sold and whilst interest for such tonnage persists there are fewer serious candidates obviously available and many buyers therefore are trying to line up inspections from tonnage which may be secured basis later
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      Melbourne picks group to develop box terminal
      487 27  -  OOCL/Cosco-led team picked; P&O Ports says bidding process is unfair From Jerzy Farynski in Sydney THE Melbourne Port Corporation (MPC) is discussing with an OOCL/Cosco-led group a proposal to develop a dedicated container terminal within Australia's premier port, amid protests over the way
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      289 27 Bloomberg Business News [CANBERRA] Australia's ports are the most unreliable in the world, the country's Transport Minister John Sharp said on television yesterday. Its ports had the worst record in the world for strike insurance claims in the year to June 30,1996, Mr
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      S'pore's Middle-East competitors eyeing conversion market
      614 27  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes NOBODY in Singapore's shiprepair industry should need telling where their strongest competition comes from. The two big Middle East Gulf yards, Arab Shipbuilding Repair Yard (Asry) and Dubai Drydocks, have made considerable inroads into the market, particularly in the ULCC/VLCC
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      Lock icon Port Klang mishap: up to M$5m needed for repairs
      224 27 Bernama [PORT KLANG] About Ms 4 million (552.3 million) to Mss million is needed to repair the catwalk at the West Port Liquid Cargo Terminal which broke and sank after being hit by the cargo vessel China Glory on Feb 7.
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      Lock icon Exxon appeals against US$5b award
      141 27 Reuter [IRVING, Texas] Exxon Corp has filed an appeal to reduce a US$5.l billion (Ss7.l billion) amended final judgement against it stemming from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground off Alaska in March 1989, leaking about 11 million gallons of
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        Itochu to lease shipping containers
        63 27 [TOKYO] Itochu Corp has set up a Joint venture to enter the worldwide shipping container leasing business as early as the end of February, said a recent Nikkei News report. The new firm, Gateway Container International, is capitalised at about 6.4 billion yen (Ss7l3 million).
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        Lock icon Cruise ship's poker machine on fire
        69 27 AFP [SYDNEY] More than 1,000 passengers yesterday were sent scurrying on deck clutching life-jackets when a gambling machine caught fire on a new cruise ship in the South Pacific, it was reported here. The Australian Associated Press (AAP) said the Are was in the
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        71 27 Reuter [ISTANBUL] Turkey's biggest oil tanker was engulfed in flames in Istanbul's Tuzla dockyard late last week after an I explosion. "The fire is continuing and we won't be able to I put it out until all the fuel inside is burned up," Tusla governor
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        Plan to sell Kuwait shipyard shares
        98 27 [KUWAIT] Kuwait plans to sell 106 million of its 106 million shares in Kuwait Shipbuilding and Repairyard Co in a two-stage privatisation. The official Kuwait News f Agency said last week: "Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) has announced its intention to offer 40 million I
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      923 28  -  PRIVATISATION: US FIRMS BUYING UP NATIONAL RAILWAYS Small and medium-sized US railroads are discovering the financial benefits of an overseas rail sale while certain governments find they can turn a money-losing, state-owned operation into quick cash by selling it off liy Rip Watson Journal of
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      424 28 PAGC Ethiopian 6 AEL 13 hroHansa 6 ANL 3 Euroeast 12 Abie 16 Evergreen 6 Accord 8 Fl-Bright 9 AhreMuel 4 Ffnous 7 Appenship 4 Farwide 13 Astro 3 FoongSun 8 Austral 9 Frota 14 Avant 6 f Frt Links 13 B'tang Mas
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      14425 36 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advartiiar Vassal Voyaga T»Wohoo« ETA ETA Advartiiar Vassal Voyaga Ttlapftom SIN Dasl'n N«M N*m. NumBar NumDar SIN Dast'n Nam. Nam# Ngmoar NumOac ■■■■■MMMHMNMMNMMNMMMMMMNMMMIMMMMMNMMNHi MWBBBHH*B!****II8B***BB***************B*****8'**8*8™*^^^^* 21/02 n/03 N.<Jlloyd NLL AMERICA 5077 45 22WW1 A 21/02 12/03 OOCL NCOLLOYD AMERICA 5077 45 *****U T« ARin IAN
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        735 43 Vassal Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JniM It Nat *****7 JOI dot*** 17.02/0(00 R Mm SM S7 *****7 J01 *at*u*t 16.02/0300 R NMtw *****7 JOI Ml«M. 17.02/0600 H fa IM *****7 J01 iKmpMf *02/88 MIX 2*6 0197 JOI *onqna« *02/0330 r Saltan *****7 JOI *02/830 udhm M JM
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        1759 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/BMnc* Rstis Ship VoyWo Etb/Btr Ptrtod Frow Tp Frow Ao D«, MM I7A300 U (t/1900 14/1*59 H/1900 tola UM MMO H/MO H/H99 H/MO J 17/0700 17/1199 17/MM 4 nmoo trfmt nmo ia tJtac MM M*M i *m00 H/H59 H/MO J
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        751 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine OU Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        211 43 Fab 17 United States: Washington's Day. Mir 3 Australia: Trades Labour Day. Mar 17 Australia: Canberra Day. Mar 20 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Mar 27 Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Mar 28 Australia: Good Friday. Canada Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        480 43 Carte* MOO IWtir Water twWw Art <U—W,M Sa—It Com WW! %«/M H/M WW 1M ISO/Cimc Uauti Spec m io is!o o!» 8? o!io* U Spat 635 991 to WO 0.C 80* O.W Northern Europe MO Am 900.8 0.2 0,7 0.04 20 0.01 WO Mm 991.au 17.4
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        380 44 European aircraft consortium aims to pat A3ZX in service in 2003, says MD Reuter [TOULOUSE, France] European aircraft consortium Airbus expects to make a decision on whether to go ahead with its planned 550-seat A3XX towards the end of 1998 or in
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        Lock icon Boeing pressuring US sub-contractor not to take part in Airbus project: Dasa
        277 44 FT [MUNICH] Daimler-Benz Aerospace of Germany has accused Boeing and McDonnell Douglas of putting pressure on one of their US sub-contrac-tors not to participate in Airbus Industrie's 550-seat jet project. Manfred Bischoff, chief executive of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)
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        238 44 European Commission probes into car pricing policy FT [BRUSSELS] European competition authorities have raided offices of MercedesBenz and General Motors' Opel subsidiary in an investigation into complaints that some of their dealers refused to sell cars to cross-border bargain hunters. The European Commission has received complaints
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        Lock icon American Air flints resume with almost no disruption
        245 44 NYT [WASHINGTON] American Airlines' jets were flying on schedule on Saturday after pilots walked off the job, then were ordered back to work minutes later by President Bill Clinton. The brief walkout by the 9,300 members of the Allied Pilots Association (APA)
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        Lock icon Slot delays affect Cathay's plan to add Tokyo cargo service
        206 44 Reuter [HONGKONG] Slot restrictions at Tokyo's Narita and Hongkong's Kai Tak airports are delaying plans by Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd to start an additional freighter service between the two cities, said James Barrington, general manager for Cathay Pacific Cargo. Cathay
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        Lock icon UK starts probe into safety of Boeing 777
        263 44 AFP [LONDON] Britain has launched a probe into the new generation Boeing 777 superjets used by British Airways (BA) after one of the airline's planes began to roll mysteriously and had to return to London's Heathrow airport. BA flight 133 carrying 85
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        Lock icon Fokker receivers play down hopes of survival
        242 44 Time ranning oat for Dutch aircraft maker: paper Reuter [AMSTERDAM] The administrators of bankrupt Dutch aircraft maker Fokker NV are not encouraging hopes that the company can be saved, Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad said over the weekend. "All the fuss in the reporting
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          Lock icon New Cambodian int'l airport terminal
          67 44 AFP [PHNOM PENH] Cambodia's Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk last week laid the first stone for a new USSIOO-million (Ssl4o million) international airport terminal here. The terminal, part of extensive renovations to Phnom Penh's Pochentong International Airport, is being constructed by a Franco-Malaysian joint venture with
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          Lock icon Cash cod netted in India
          66 44 AFP [NEW DELHI] Indian customs officers yesterday seized a batch of fish which had been stuffed with foreign currency worth some U*****,000 (*****,000) and was being exported to Singapore, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. Suspicious officials took the container of fish from a
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          Lock icon Europe's Jan car sales down
          81 44 AFP [BRUSSELS] New car sales in western Europe fell by 2.9 per cent in January year-on-year, dragged down by plunging French registrations after the end last year of a state incentive scheme, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said last week. New passenger car registrations
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          Lock icon MAS plane skids off runway, ali safe
          104 44 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian Airlines aircraft carrying 156 passengers and six crew skidded at an airport in the eastern state of Sabah Saturday but all on board were safe, reports said. Sandakan Malaysia Airports Bhd Emergency Operations Centre liaison officer Ghazzalih Hussain
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        Lock icon Emirates replacing Airbus fleet this year
        240 44 AFP [DUBAI] Emirates airlines, Dubai's national carrier, will start replacing its ageing Airbus fleet with new Airbuses this year as part of plans to expand services, its manager said over the weekend. Maurice Flanagan said two of its 16 Airbuses A-300-600 and A3lO would
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      1105 28 NORTH AMERICA 1 I EXPORT 1 I OTHER DESTINATIONS I DIRECT TO WEST COAST WEST COAST Of CENTRAL AMERICA (MARQARfTA SERVICE) ~~1 vcsa VOT IETASM IfTPSM I m|OAl|vq|siA|BM|HOU|o*c| MY |MBOCDOrr <b» wt m Inorot Ixonu" naumlwßMVßmM jmiMagolMUMOßg NttZttCON *****0 10/02 20/02 07/03 00/03 11/03 13/03 11/03 11/03 12/03 13£3 17/03
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      1032 29 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE Vfsm VOY SM RTM HAM MV SOU l£H IvfSSE VOT KTM HAM MV SOU LB4 KG SoT" MAAS 1077 21/02 09/03 11/03 14/03 IS/03 IAIOIRf 7057 16/01 20/01 31/0101/02 11/02 OOanANd 3077 21/02 14/03 13/03 10/03 11/03 NBUOYD NOtMANDK 4057 31/01 30/01 27/01 20/01 10/02 NHHiOYD
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      1909 29 HANJIN SHIPPING USA CANADA' I —I i sa Ira\ m i top |oi m |doi |p* own ami oos wtc~T~o« rv» I rrz Im I m tk J«Z« JiZ" IS/M 14/ M U/M U/M U/M 15/13 U/M 14/ M )|/M 11/ M H*j~ li^T ~Z *Z a/w ?I/M a/M a/M
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      1519 30 <<r DSR-SENATOR BjKb Round the World Container Services TO UK/CONTINENT FROM UK/CONTINENT ««a WT "MM BTM I OHV HAM IFU MT LHA I VtMIL I VOY IIHA HTH WV HMI BJ *lff HMUM MM FMMCISCO **710 17 H N O 1103 13 03 14 03 ST PFItRSOUWi SMATOB E£7M 20
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      909 30 NOR ASIA FIXED DAY WEEKLY DIRECT CALL TO SHANGHAI, QINGDAO XINGANG, CHIWAN WITH FAST TRANSIT TIME FOR MORE DETAILS/BOOKING CONTACT:- PATRICIA/CALVIN/WILSON mmurcmm HSA SHIPPING PTE LTD ALSO ACCCPTWG LCLTO: SSiiS 8 3 ZiOJiamZZ... m «>Hl»iimiic ma^mttwiMUMVKtxHaxHran THMLANP PB AQENCCS CO IJD TEL: 002-*****88 SAJO/PVtAEUS/MALTA/BARCELONA A VALENCIA MDONHU :PT HALUAN SELATAN
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      298 30 Direct Container Service to Fangcheng Zhanjiang Vessel S'pore Fangcheng Zhaniiang UANBAO 08/03 13/03 15/03 1 -tt /VO/?TRANS CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO THAILAND AND MALAYSIA BREAKBULK, RO/RO AND HEAVYUFT ANY WBGHT THAI FLAG STATUS PRIORITY BERTHS Aria byws V.42A SAILED 27-21/02 20-21/02 21-24/02 A*Expra»V.43A 27-01/03 04-05/03 050S/03 Ado Expms V.44A 11 13/03
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      1226 31 »^^^^^STRAIT^SHIPPIN^^H^TD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Kappal Towars Singapof *****5 T»l: *****%$ Fax: *****17 SABAH ft BRUNEI CONVENTIONAL SKRVKE |H0 CHI MINH FULL CONTAINER SIRVKI Ivissa Eg win Ivisia vot i T M n?sfpw''l mHanraroT u/w ii/w nm obbwmmov www nm I nm smmsra wo« vm w/n 04/03 oMonaumov vo/m
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      1598 31 WIIKIY TO IBAfffAftfllft Ml au Mums ram via iomkom I 4 SHfNTON WAY TIL 226 IWO FAX: *****04 OUTWARD (IA) *****02 JOHOftE OFFICE; U i RH2 IWWIITD Dts HOC SAUS/BKGS *****41/43 WWAID MPT (D/ 0) *****45 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BND 4M5450/55 T/SHH»TMfT *****25 TIL 02-07-35 ***** FAX; 02-07-*****70 IMP
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      405 31 /.iJPERKAPALAN DAI ZHUN l/Jf TONG JOO SHIPPING PTE LTD CR NO: **********0 C iREGULAR CONTAINERISED SERVICES TEL- (65)535 7793 FAX: (65) 533 2952 wow-rawr mum/ mtuA-ttMHnrr urn/ wo tm mmumum cm »7«i u/w cm »;i» u/ti GISWH 9741 21/03 GUOO 9743 11/92 GtHUAI A 5047 23/92 APPU ***** 26/92 GIHO
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      98 32 SENLIM SNIPPING PTE. LTD. 133. Naw Bridge Road, *08-00. CNnatown Point S'por*ooo4l3. Tot *****00 Fax: *****04 Tate* Ftt ***** SENUM WBKLY RfGUUUt SBVKIIO IAST/VKBT IPSA tMMN Ciiliai i aad C—i'maa—< Cary) vissa voy rasa sm cuomg pbmm nsum sunu aw ii/i W7 lunsauu iki) iv? wi SMM I A/17 xv?
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      434 32 NANTAI LINE FUU.Y CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO MAURITIUS SOUTH AFRICA VBSE VOT SMI fUI DUt CPT MMBMFBB 013S 20/02 07/03 11/03 MMUIvauS 01IS 05/03 13/03 17/03 21/03 ROW 013S IS/03 25/03 29/03 02/04 RAMAIPBKESS OI3S ?4/03 01/04 12/04 MWW» 0»W 03/04 12/04 14/04 20/04 Mimifßltg OI4S 13/04 21/04 02/05 HANTAJ VENUS
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      58 38 TOKYO SHINEI KAIUN CO PTE LTD IIVVI 10 ANSON ROAD #30-06 ***** l INTERNATIONAL PLAZA S'PORE 0207 TEL: *****25 (6 LINES) PAX: *****05 A *****10 C/R: **********0E I SERVICE TO: FAR EAST/U.S.A/EUROPE 23/02/97 JAPAN, HONG KONG 23/02/97 USA 23/02/97 INDIA, SURABAYA, JAKARTA 23/02/97 HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, FELIXSTOWE ALL BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES.
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      72 38 ~7T~ ~1 IVHtY SATURDAY CONTAINCR ryjjL POUSH SERVICE TO nil POCANO (OOYfMA) QfJ OCEAN RUSSIA (MOSCOW) KV as PORTS LINES (ESTONIA/LATVIA/LITHUANIA/ J WLARUS/ UKRAXK Acctf thq brMkMk aryMS (tmr EUROEAST LINES S.A. *Whwrme/Emfe/ldlk Pirti (YSI ait nkjKl to bdeceewrt) Cliff I 1 cwift m |vu s» WW SHIPPING ""mMTWMR i*/«
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      105 38 KAWASAKI KINKAI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. JAPAN/ HONG KONG STRAITS I'port Maini P.Kdang P*nan« OCEANIA QUEEN *11 m h su> JU) TWINKLE ACt VK IMB 2M2 UON HEART *W M/R 2M2 Oman ms n» n/n tun NfVER-ON SUNDAY VK IM2 SIHBAPOBE TfIMAMOIIAI. HOKKAIDO Regular fully containerised service available SPORE AS SHIPPING
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      99 38 FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO ASIA/F.E., EUROPE, USA, AUST, NZ, INDIA, S. AFRICA, MED., ETC. PHASE CALL: *****00 (16 LINES) VIETNAM CONVENTIONAL SERVICE "DOOR TO DOOR" SERVO VBSa EIASH LOAPWIG FOt lATO 15/0? tttJfHOUG IMA KONG Of 20/0? HOCMMMM Alio Accepting Cargo For AM Otfwr VwlnanwM Porh PLEASE CALL 223 >622
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      1278 40 fll yangmmgune jjMaaafiaaflaf TWICE WEEKLY EVERY THURSOAY/SUNOAY I.'.IJ.IiV* ARRIVAL FIXED OAY-MONOAY frasw 11MB 5E JZL !5. m IH FT HAM MR HfA M Smmmmoge www Imto I ?25 ??S I<Mn wngo.or* «af sid sio su> slo slo imb SJHmfoG£ ™>! ISffi 1 1) m *2 ,im IMXS MINGMOON AWE SID
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      395 40 Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN vessel voy ism bom trade FAST TFSI79 17/02 26/02 SEA SUCCESS I 01N 23/02 03/03 MEKHANIK KURAKO MK29N 04/03 13/03 KOTACAHAYA CAHI77 07/03 16/03 ANNOUNCING REGULAR MONTHLY RO-RO BREAKBULK SERVICE SIN/BOM/N.SHEVA I VESSEL VOY SIN BOM/NLSHEVA TRANSOCEANIC 02-97 11/03 19/03
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      1054 41 1 ASIA MEDITERRANEAN EXPRESS (AME) WESTBOUND SERVICE 1 VESSEL I VQY I SIN I PKG CMB MIA GEN BCN RTM FEI LEH MSC JASMINE 9706-3 18 FEB 20 FEB 24 FEB 05 MAR 07 MAR 08 MAR 13 MAR 14 MAR 15 MAR I NKIEL 9707-3 26 FEB 27 FEB
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      437 41 ARM SAIGQN SHIPPING THRICE WEEKLY DIRECT TO HO CHI MIHH CITY \iXPORT TO HO CHI MIHH CITY IMPOHT FHOK HO CHI MIHH CITY 1 ypsn 1 wt wr w r"TffBBT"I wax vesa w irate mvcw wnw ww 00/ ob (ii/ob 14/01 m 17/01 rant mi ii/oi u/oi m MHONtonou otoo
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      363 42 OSINO EXPRESS SHIPPING r 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE iSINOTRANSI S (*****7). TEL: *****90 FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) VESSEL VOYAGE ETA SIN ETAHKG ETA SHA G. WELL 9704 16/02 21/02 25/02 G. LUCK 9704 21/02 26/02 02/03 0. GLORY 9706 CANCELLED G. WELL 9706
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      337 42 |*Aa MAC-NELS S'PORE M'SIA I CarrlM: MM CONTR UNES, INC 1 l\~/ J OWMOHM6S7S6UOIIK SBU: (064) *****9 MANILA: (832) *****61 PENANO: (04) *****6 BANGKOK: (662) *****67 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 P. KELANG: (03) *****77 JKT: (21) *****07 MON: (61) *****3 HONG KONG MV "NEDLLOYD NORMANDIE" V 4057 ETA SIN 19-2-97 MV
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      137 42 WEEKLY GROUPAGE* AUST, NZ. THAILAND, HKG, CHINA, KOREA, TAIWAN, PHUPPINES, INCHA, SRI LANKA, PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH FLU, MAURITIUS, NEW CALEDOMA, S. AFRICA, EUROPE, UK, USA&S. AMERICA. AIR-SEA CARGO QUOTES BL NSURED FOR US$6OO,OOO PER CLAUfHC BONDS) •mummm FOR ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT mjCki #14-01 EURO-ASIA CENTRE I*™ l 15 HOE CHUNG RD,
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      130 43 LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature c X\ n Shower Weather —J Wind cfcrection with speed m knots Rom \J Cloudy Sky Wov Surfoce winds ore indicated by arrows which tty with the wind one fu circle represents calm or bght and vanabte wmds One half Heche represents 5 knots L-» One
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      57 44 M.V. "ORIENT QUEEN" VOY. 43 ARRD 8 FEB 1997 Consignees of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessel is hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 18th February 1997 0900-1200 hours at PTS. No further survey will be entertained thereafter. As Agents: "K" Line Kinkai AB
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