The Business Times, 25 May 1998

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 110/12/97 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, MAY 25, 1998
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  • 49 1 Week Chuge 8TO 1,313.67 -8J6 OTS81 568.26 -181 KLSE COUP. *****—+10.38 NIKKEI 15.801.66 „+568.79 BANG SENG J,6«.98 +17.58 SET INDEX. 356.82 1361 JAKARTA COUP. 445.14 +35.2 MANILA CMIP„_2,13» .2&_...+10.66 TAIPEI WPI. ...+318.76 SEOUL COUP .366.06 +173 CLSA CHINA B .900.68 -IM AUSTALLORD 2,726J -39.9 DOW JONES 9,114.44-.+18.44
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  • 79 1 FOBEX BATES USS SI US$ MM X (USJ/S* per S) l.Ol 2J74 DM 1.711 .MM ¥W 1JM. UN* Ml 1.790 MS HKI 7.748 1.212 BAHT 39JO O.MS Rl'PIAH 10,860 .MIS* *S$ to 100 units FUME RATES SINGAPORE* 7.83 KUALA LUMPUR— 11.50 JAKARTA ..28.0I BANGKOK 14.75 MANILA ....219# HONGKONG ....-18.25
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  • 1021 1  -  New president risks losing momentum without economic, political agenda soon From SN Vasukl in Jakarta AFTER a tumultuous week, newly-installed President B J Habibie holds his first cabinet meeting today and as his administration faces mounting pressure to introduce reforms and call new elections
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  • 181 1 AFP [JAKARTA) The brother of Indonesian President B J Habibie has resigned as head of the Batam Island Industrial Development Park, in a move to avoid allegations of nepotism in the new government. "On Saturday, I Junus Effendi Habibie sent my resignation letter
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  • 673 1  -  By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Taking another step to becoming a major regional property player, gov-ernment-linked Pidemco Land plans to invest $750 million over the next three to five years to grow its hospitality business. This will be done through its newly-formed
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  • 675 1  -  Uncertain economic prospects, rising credit risks cited From l Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HONGKONG is facing one of its worst credit crunches in years as the banking sector cuts back sharply on loans amid the uncertain economic prospects
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    • 169 1 IMSIDE Owpuries target Asab cfaipmakers Hewlett-Packard and semiconductor test equipment maker Schlumberger are setting their sights on the growing chip foundry business in Asia in line with the growing trend of chipmakers outsourcing their production, Pg2 IT services boom oespne sivwitown IT firms such as Computer Associates (CA). EMC IBM
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    • 7 1 Pidemco to upgrade, lease colonial bungalows, Pg2
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    • 392 1 I fOM-WG STATION FOP iFGULATIVf: COUNCIl tLfCTKW H W a m m I |k 4,( I T J |r -ag Surprises at BE polls [HONGKONG] Written off by cynics as a non-event and as too complicated for the average voter, the Legislative Council elections in Hongkong threw up some mild
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 591 2  -  Companies see most promise in growth of 'f&bleSS' rhipmaking activities From< Jennifer Lien in San Jose, California HEWLETT PACKARD and semiconductor test equipment maker Schlumberger, both of which count Singapore Technologies-owned ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) as a customer, are setting their sights
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    • 373 2 It will keep close watch on economy over next month and act qnickly if needed THE government will focus on the business sector if there is a need to introduce a package to give the economy a boost, said Deputy Prime
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    • 273 2 AFP THE Asian currency crisis and the improving ties among business communities of Singapore, the United States and China will top discussions of the Singapore-US Business Council (SUBC). The second meeting of the SUBC formally opens here today and the 14 council members, led
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    • 389 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Inflation Teh Hooi Ling CONSUMER prices rose a mere 0.7 per cent last month year-on-year despite a substantial rise in healthcare costs. Figures released yesterday by the Department of Statistics (DOS) show inflation stayed low for the sixth month in April,
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    • 392 2  - Pidemco to upgrade, lease black-and-white bungalows Bungalows to come under subsidiary in $50m-sl2sm plan By, Jenny Lam PIDEMCO Land's growth plans for its new hospitality subsidiary Somerset International Management include a protktejrt'tb'sperfd between $30 million 1 and $125 million to refurbish 250 black-and-white colonial bungalows for lease to expatriates. Pidemco
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    • 201 2 WHERE SUCCESS SHOWS 9V Hong Kong jfIHHHK|HH^HHj H|Bl Trade Development Council fIBB I Roadshow Seminars over ,200,000 visitors from over the attended TDC fairs Hong Kong. The Council known the Premium |m worid for I I international trade shows. Last year, ■fl H ®BI JTSfInnSS the TDC hosted 18 fairs
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  • HE'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS
    • 444 3  -  By (L3opm turnout rate was 3&2% against 30-35% predicted From, Loh Hni Yin in Hongkong BAD weather threatened to foul up Hongkong's legislative elections yesterday, but voter turnout was surprisingly high, confounding all expectations. By 6.30pm, four hours before the polls were due to close,
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    • 383 3 HONGKONG AFP ECONOMIC storm clouds hanging over Hongkong are more of a worry to voters than the thunder and flooding which hit the territory's first post-colonial election. As drenched government leaders and Legislative Council candidates struggled to entice reluctant voters to the polling stations "D-Day
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  • INDONESIA IN TRANSITION
    • 629 4  -  LBTTHEFROM JAKARTA, If it's open for business today, that will be the best vote of confidence In Habibie By S N Vasuki JAKARTA'S sprawling Chinatown is usually chaotic on weekends. Shoppers from all over the city throng its narrow streets and shopping malls
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    • 413 4 Reuters [JAKARTA] Top economy minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita, whose call this weekend for general elections as soon as possible sent a tremor of excitement through Indonesia, is possibly the country's biggest asset right now. The ex-air force general, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economics and
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    • 240 4 70% of the lift yen credits not insured or guaranteed AFP [TOKYO] Of the 1.5 trillion yen (SslB billion) in credits Japan's seven major trading houses have with Indonesia, 70 per cent is not backed by insurance or repayment guarantees, a report said yesterday.
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    • 46 4 [JAKARTA] A street vendor replacing the portrait offormer Indonesian president Suharto (bottom) with images of the newly-appointed President B J Habibie at a Jakarta market yesterday. The vendor estimated a loss ofsoo,ooorupiah (5574.50) from his unsold stock of Suharto portraits. AFP
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    • 155 4 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Former Indonesian president Suharto has committed a big mistake by not having an affirmative policy like the new economic policy (NEP) in Malaysia to spread the country's wealth to ethnic Indonesians, Malaysia's largest selling newspaper, Mingguan Malaysia, said yesterday. Ethnic
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    • 164 4 AFP [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Armed Forces (Abri) will today reveal the results of its inquiry into the killing of six university student protesters two weeks ago, newspapers yesterday quoted its spokesman as saying. Brigadier General Wahab Mokodongan said the results of the probe
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  • REGION
    • 407 5 HONGKONG Bnt economy's 3.8% gfrrinhngA in QJ forces review of scale of downsizing Reuters A SHARP contraction in South Korea's economy caught many people by surprise, but for some analysts it was a welcome sign that the country is adjusting and better days
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    • 272 5 BANGKOK Officials now expect 4-5.5% contraction instead of 3-&5% Reuters THAILAND and the International Monetary Fund are likely to be more pessimistic about the country's economy in their fourth letter of intent, a government source said yesterday. The source, who is involved in drafting the letter,
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    • 261 5 m NF.W DELHI AFP INDIA is making a concerted push to defuse the slanging match with China and Pakistan, which has pushed tension in South Asia to dangerous levels since the nuclear tests, officials said yesterday. Both the prime minister's office and
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    • 267 5 < J#- J Emirates, Airline of the Year. See inside for details. At this year's OAG Airline of the Year awards, Emirates walked off with Best Airline for Food and Wine, Best Cabin Crew and Best Economy Class, to name but a few In fact, Emirates scooped nine awards in
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 365 6 WASHINGTON No deft response to developments in Indonesia, India, Israel Reuters DEVELOPMENTS in Indonesia, India and Israel are not just testing President Bill Clinton's foreign policy skills, but also exposing the limits to what US foreign policy can achieve around the world.
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    • 31 6 [NEW YORK] This oil on canvas titled Musicos by Ruftno Tamayo will be auctioned by Christie's New York. The painting is expected to sellfbr about USs7oo,ooo(Ssl.l million). AFP
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    • 133 6 ■BELFAST Reuters ELATION at the resounding endorsement of a peace deal for Northern Ireland was tempered yesterday by apprehension over the obstacles that must still be cleared if the agreement is to work. World leaders hailed the news that 71 per cent of voters
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    • 248 6 WASHINGTON Commerce Dept seen raising Q1 growth to 4.5% annual rate Bloomberg US ECONOMIC reports this week are expected to show strong growth, high consumer confidence and low inflation, a combination that supports last Tuesday's decision by Federal Reserve policymakers to leave interest
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    • 480 7 Moving large numbers of people through an international airport is no easy task. You need dedicated people, supported by intelligent systems. Like Knowledge Engineering Pte Ltd' s innovative information technology (IT) solution. Developed in Singapore for the airport, it works quietly behind the scenes, coordinating aircraft gate and baggage belt
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 522 8  -  Firms like Computer Associates, EMC, IBM and Unisys are hiring services professionals By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Information technology services continue to boom in this region, in sharp contrast to the rest of the regional IT industry which is shrinking because of the Asian
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    • 426 8  -  New Web quality products set to make debut next month From] Raju Chellam in San Francisco, California WHEN the World Wide Web turns to World Wide Wait, ecommerce on the Net can get both delayed and denied. With surging numbers
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    • 324 8  -  Ry] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] There is no change to plans to launch Windows 98 in Singapore and the region on June 26, Microsoft Singapore managing director Saw Ken Wye said last week. "We're going ahead with that," Mr Saw said
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    • IT TAKES
      • 79 9 [SINGAPORE] According to a recent survey by IDC, Asian businesses are going ahead with plans to deploy Internet/intranet technology despite the region's economic woes. Shipments of Internet/ intranet software not pre-installed in hardware servers are forecast to rise from 68.000 units last year to 78,500
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      • 79 9 [SINGAPORE] US direct-marketing PC company Gateway 2000 has shed its millennium tag. Henceforth it's just Gateway, said South Asia managing director Robert Chu at the company's launch of its Gateway Solo 2500 multimedia notebook. Mr Chu also unveiled Gateway's new logo, which he said symbolises a
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      • 51 9 [SINGAPORE] Olicom, a supplier of networking solutions, opened on May 13 its Asian office in Singapore. Headed by Asia general manager Claus Hansen, the office will have 10 employees by the end of this year. Olicom's customers include Singapore Airlines and Malaysia
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      • 64 9 [SINGAPORE] Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is upgrading its Disaster Recovery Centre in Singapore to meet new customer requirements. The upgrading involves boosting the centre's processing capacity from 170 MIPS to 250 MIPS and its storage capacity from 700 Gigabytes to more than 1 Terabyte, over
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      • 51 9 [SINGAPORE} Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) and the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) will be organising the IT Best Practices Seminar 98, focusing on The Year 2000 Testing. The seminar will be held on May 27 from 9 am to 5.30 pm at the Grand Plaza
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      • 53 9  -  -Compiled by 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] A seminar on enterprise computing, EC2I, will be hosted by SCO, Compaq, Oracle, Intel and Computer Associates (CA). It will be held on May 29 from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm at the Raffles Hotel. Admission is free but
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    • 352 9  -  Regional economic crisis may be a blessing in disguise, say organisers Byy Chin Jit Fong [SINGAPORE] Comdex/Asia at Singapore Informatics '98, the number one show for the region's IT industry, will be backed by a bigger promotion budget this year despite signs that the
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    • 247 9  -  By. Annette Pan [SINGAPORE] Homegrown IT firm Vivid Technology and Motorola Semiconductors have entered into a strategic alliance to integrate its Wide Area Versatile Extension Architecture (Wavexa) into Motorola's latest 56K modem solutions. Under the MOU agreement, Vivid and Motorola will jointly develop PCI and
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    • 263 9  -  By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Local firm Kemtec Technology's Internet phone Server, which enables cheap long distance calls through the Internet, has found buyers in Singapore, the region and Canada Kemtec founder and managing director Kevin Chia says. Using its Internet phone server, called
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    • 1149 11  -  Economies that say they don't have a Year 2000 problem could be the ones that need most help, Cap Gemini chief Geoff Unwin tells EEMMETB JAMES KENNETH JAMES IT'S a tale of two cities, with a millennial twist. Geoff Unwin, CEO of Europe's leading
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    • 494 12  -  Plans to more than double share this year; fonr new models introduced By Kau Yi Kang [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard, up to now a small player in the local notebook PC market, has introduced four new models and signalled its intention to more than double its
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    • 363 12  -  Continuous speech recognition software integrated into Corel WordPerfect Snite 8 By. Imelda Tham [SINGAPORE] Corel WordPerfect users now have a natural alternative to the hassles of typing manually. Dragon Naturally Speaking, a continuous speech recognition software, has been integrated into Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 to allow
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 99 13 JAPAN'S Canon has introduced a high-speed document scanner that also stores scanned images directly on CD-Rs (recordables). Canon says its CD4046 CD Recorder (above) is the world's first document scanner that is designed to convert paper to digital data and record to CD-Rs. The $15,000 system scans
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      • 74 13 IN FOCUS Systems Inc has come out with what it calls the world's first personal projector, that works with palmtop computers, weighs 3 kg, offers 500 lumens of brightness at 800 by 600 pixel resolution, and comes with a three-watt speaker. Called LP42O (above), the
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      • 69 13 COMPAQ Computer has announced its new Proliant 3000 server, calling it the only server in the market with a 333 MHz Intel Pentium II processor capable of supporting up to 3 GB of system memory. Priced at $8,674 with support for up to two 333
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      • 53 13 ELIXIR Technology brings to Java developers, StudioJ, a suite of Java tools that offer a package of integrated components for graphical user interface development, data analysis, charting and database access. Developed by US-based Rogue Wave, the suite is priced at $2,080 for a single-user licence. For
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      • 61 13 HYPERTEC Memory Singapore Pte Ltd is ready with Hyperßace MxPro 180 (above), an MMX processor upgrade product that enhances CPU performance by up to 360 per cent. Priced at $269, it can be installed in 10 minutes and "provides a simple alternative to buying a new
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      • 53 13  -  -Compiled by: Raju Chellam SOLOMON Software will bundle "Solomon IV for Windows" accounting software with Hewlett-Packard's Intel-based NT Net Servers for the small and medium enterprises market. Solomon said its module prices range from $700 to $1,900, depending on the edition and the features. For
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    • 380 13  -  Its two inlyet solutions can produce printed matter up to 54 inches wide By] Imelda Tham [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard is offering its new DesignJet 3000CP Series printers to companies that need atten-tion-grabbing, larger-than-life quality print-outs. Launched last week, the new series offers two inkjet
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    • 331 13 Reuter [PALO ALTO, California] Infoseek Corp last week unveiled a new search technology and said it delivers the most relevant results on the Internet, echoing the claims that most of its rivals have made for their entries. The new technology, called Extra Search Precision or
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    • 362 9 Is your accounting software I going to crash on Jan 1,2000? I The Millenium Bug (also known as the Y2K Bug) is going to cost the IRS (USA) some US$B5O million to fix. This bug is likely to hit your current H accounting software too. H H Luckily, you do
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    • 334 12 CmgmeAsa3B'' T The 10th Asian International Information and Communication Technology Exhibition Conference incorporating MobHeCammAsiagß The 3rd Asian International Cellular, Radio Satellite Communications Exhibition Conference UteflwrtMfflffl SWWS The 4th Asian International Networking Exhibition Conference Held concurrently with BroadcastAsia9B The event for the communications and networking professionals of today. 2-5 June 1998
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    • 9 12 HP takee on large format printer market, Page 13
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 562 14  -  Evocative playing of Debussy erases untidy start, says benjamin lob BENJAMIN LOH LAST Friday evening's celebration of French music by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Shui Lan, heard varying standards of performance, from an imaginative La Mer by Debussy to a
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    • 617 16 CANNES FILMFEST Quality of 22 films competing for Golden Palm is uneven but yonnger directors have the edge Reuters [CANNES, France] As the stars prepared their glitzy evening gowns and tuxedos for the Cannes Festival award ceremony yesterday evening, suspense reigned over which of
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    • 404 16 AFP THE Taiwanese film The Hole, by Tsai Ming-liang. was awarded the International Critics (Fipresci) prize on Saturday for "the daring with which it combined realism and apocalyptic vision, desperation and joy, austerity and glamour". The film is a slow-burning love story set
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    • 340 14 '$.!«s*, s s; People who are IT-savvy are also interested in TUg World Cup The World Cup soccer's premier megaevent will dominate the lives of Singaporeans. And it's the perfect time to advertise and score points with World Cup fans who are also interested in computers, cars, hi-fi, phones, fast
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • COMAPANIES & MARKETS
    • 488 17  -  It is paying USs22.sm for Silicon Engineering Inc acquisition Bif Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Home-grown multinational Creative Technology has added Silicon Engineering Inc (SEI), a US chip design firm, to its list of acquisitions. Creative said in a statement over the weekend that it
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    • 653 17  -  HANG SENG DTSIOHT Market more concerned about impact of Jakarta crisis on currency peg, interest rates By Quak Hiang Whai A NEWLY arrived foreign broker asked last week: "Which party does Tung Chee-hwa belong to?" He wasn't kidding. Many of Hongkong's professionals find
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    • 276 17 Bernama {KUALA LUMPUR] Antah Holdings Bhd (Antah) on Friday said it proposed to restructure its oil and gas division. It also proposes to list its 60 per cent-owned subsidiary, Oiltools International Ltd (OIL) on the London Stock Exchange (LSE),
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 262 18 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON) IDG Books Worldwide Inc is about to become the first publicly traded company that specialises in making money from a bunch of "dummies". The Foster City, California, publisher of Windows for Dummies, Wine for Dummies and other instructional books, filed
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      • 465 18  -  Penang-based firm, in which DBS Sec holds 24%, is looking to buy a KL broker From Eddie Toh iit Kuala Lumpur HWANG-DBS Securities in which Singapore's DBS Securities has a 24 per cent stake is the soundest brokerage in Malaysia with minimum liquid funds
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      • 318 18 Scandal comes at bad time, as Nasdaq, Amex join forces Bloomberg [NEW YORK] A second New York Stock Exchange floor broker pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy in a trading scandal at the world's top exchange. Christine Beyer one of eight NYSE
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      • 315 18 Bild publisher's offer may come at £1.2b, say analysts FT [FRANKFURT] Axel Springer Verlag, Germany's biggest newspaper publisher, is considering making a bid for Mirror Group, the UK tabloid newspaper owner. In a hurriedly prepared statement published after the London Stock Exchange closed on
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      • 265 18 US$l OOm to pay execs to ensure deal is not delayed FT [LONDON! Seagram has agreed to give PolyGram president Alain Levy a discretionary fund of nearly US$lOO million (Ssl64 million) to distribute among his senior executives to secure their co-operation with
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      • 162 18 AFP [FRANKFURT] Daimler-Benz, the biggest German industrial concern, has no current plans to cooperate with or take over an Asian carmaker, said management board member Eckhard Cordes on Friday. "TheoreticaUy, one can ask the question whether it would be a good idea to purchase
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      • 484 18 Asian downtnrn and soft domestic economy cited Reuters [SYDNEY] Salomon Smith Barney Australia Securities said yesterday it switched its forecast for the Australian share market, predicting a lower finish at the end of 1998 due to Asia and a weakening local economy. The Wall Street
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 300 19 Bloomberg [LONDON) Barclays pic, Britain's third largest bank, said it expects profits to grow in its credit card division in 1998 and that funds under management grew by 10 per cent in the first quarter. The bank made the announcements on two of
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      • 404 19 Its USsBoom offer is 8 times the investment bank's book value FT [LONDON] Bankßoston, the US commercial bank, has offered US$BOO million (Ssl.3 billion) for Robertson Stephens the investment banking boutique bought last year by Bank America, according to people familiar with the negotiations. The
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      • 172 19 Reuters [SYDNEY] Asia's economic crisis will make it tough for Australian banks to better their first half 1997/98 profits in the second half of the year, Westpac Banking Corp managing director Bob Joss said yesterday. "It definitely will be a much bigger impact in the
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      • 361 19 Sale could be announced in a week or two, says source Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Daiwa Securities America Inc, a unit of Daiwa Securities Co, is in talks to sell its three-year old prime brokerage business, a person familiar with the firm said.
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      • 180 19 AFP [SHANGHAI] Shanghai has selected the local branches of two foreign banks to participate in its electronic banking system, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. The central People's Bank of China's Shanghai branch picked Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the United
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      • 146 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nippon Credit Bank, Japan's smallest long-term credit bank, will liquidate Eastbridge Capital Inc, its US-based securities affiliate, the bank said. NCB will also liquidate Eastbridge Capital's four related companies, the bank said. Eastbridge is a New York-based US primary deal- er with
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        1907 19 PRIME LEWPDIO RATES BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV 8* ABSA Bank Limited B". ANZ Banking Group Allied Irish Bank PIC 7v» American Express Bank 8V4 Arab Banking Corp 8vt Arab Bank PIC 7W AsaM Bank Ltd 8W Ban Hin Lee Bank BM 8V» Banca Commercial Italiana 7V« Banca Narionale Dei
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 540 20  -  Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE) The relative calm in Indonesia following the abrupt resignation of President Suharto last Thursday will allow domestic factors to be more at play this
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      • 853 20 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON] Aluminium prices rose slightly last week in reaction to disruption caused by striking Russian coal miners, while the easing of the Indonesian crisis sent coffee prices down. GOLD: dull. Gold lost ground last week on
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    • 1917 20 L' JHI JtrtVKi JJI MM ij'M.Ui MWi MMMtli'Mi SICOM FUTURES May 22 MM8CR (Mar*s dosinq *t SJOim) RSS1 CONTRACTS cMts/kq) Close Volume Open Month Hjgh Low Sett (towns) Interest Jun 98 127.00 127.00 127.50 50 650 Jul 98 129.00 128.00 129.00 100 1615 Aug 98 129.00 129.00 129.25
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    • 5149 21 Nat tin CPS New Toyo 25c Maris P 7.821 10.078 3 88 na Oat* TV LY TY LY N.ppacratt Mar 31 P 1.610 7.9821 0.81 4.0L Company aim <$m) ($m) (eta) teta) Noel Gilts Mar 31 I 1262L 0.972L 1.91 2.21 Nobel Design Mar 30 P
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    • SINGAPORE WEEKLY MARKET OUTLOOK
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        207 21 gfS THE Straits Times Industrials Index closed at 1,313.67 last Friday, down 9 points or 0.7 per cent for the week. The market started weak on news of the rising death toll from riots in Jakarta and the exodus of foreign residents and wealthy Indonesians from the country.
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      • 92 21 DBS Bank's announcement last week that it will be appointing John Olds, a former managing director of JP Morgan, as its CEO has been positively received by investors. It is a clear sign that the banking sector is liberalising very rapidly. Once the dust around the region
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        106 21 KEPPEL Land's marketing strategy seems to have paid off. It attracted buyers for its Villa Verde apartments by slashing prices. Then as more buyers came in, it raised its prices. Keppel Land seems to be using the same strategy for its 694-unit Palm Gardens. For this project, the
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      • 264 21 Source: Analysed by Peter Coker, a director of Bridge Int 7 Broking Relative 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 effective in
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 607 22 NEW YORK Dow on downward swing as traders show reluctance to chase prices up AFP BLUE-chip share prices scored modest gains for the week ending Friday as the US Federal Reserve opted to leave interest rates unchanged and traders seemed reluctant to push share prices up further.
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      • 331 22 HONGKONG AFP TRADING in Hongkong stocks is expected to remain cautious this week amid political uncertainty in Indonesia in the early days of President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie's rule. "Basically, I think trading will be cautious with 9,800 points being the resistance level,
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      • 373 22 LONDON AFP SHARE prices on the London market rose slightly last week, as dealers reacted with some relief to the calm afforded by the resignation of former Indonesian President Suharto and unchanged US interest rates. After a slump on Monday, shares
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      • 347 22 mTOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices will face a tough climb in the week ahead despite fading fears of uncontrollable turmoil in Indonesia, brokers said. "With the Indonesian situation in a lull for now and excessive pessimism being modified, it is getting
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      • 838 22 □Sytoy -319 THE momentous events in Indonesia and persistent expectations of a correction on Wall Street would severely hamper trade on the Australian bourse in the week ahead, analysts said. The Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, ended the week down 39.9 points, or
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      • 1852 22 -13 Paris ♦59.56 FRENCH stocks were mixed on Friday as declines by oil producers countered gains in Alcatel Alsthom SA and Renault SA, buoyed by optimism about economic growth. France's benchmark CAC 40 Index rose 1.86 points to 4,049.78. For the week, the index was up 59.55
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 9266 23 INDUSTRIALS Consumtr products <998 Last Vol Net Cap High Low Company Sal* OOO High tow Wl $a* 310 180 A|inomoto 220 2 20 222 218 12.1 89.2 148 65 Angkasa 73 7 133 74 66 1.7 107.6 290 123 Apollo food Hlg 160 -5 6 160 132 4.7 64.0 388
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      • 475 23 AFP Composite Index +10.38 MALAYSIA'S stock market will track the movement of regional bourses in the coming days amid uncertainties in Indonesia, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted Composite Index rose 10.38 points to end the week at 577.23 but the lesser
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
      • 3774 24 BONOS, LOANS WARRANTS wt 1998 Last Vol Last Quote Avq Hl«ll Low Mm Company Sal* tor- COOO> High Law Buyer Seller Price 23.5 9 m 3000 m AMOB c5.5******6 Z 12.5 3 12.5 12.5 10 20.5 8 3160 "Acer ******1 USS 8.5 12 95 8.5 3164 Acme ******4 17 »1.5
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      • 171 24  -  WARRANT WATCH -By) R Sivanithy IT's been some time since we last featured Malaysian plantation firm Kemayan Holdings' warrant in this column, so now is an opportune time to review the instrument's numbers. Kemayan's warrant expires in August 2000. so time is still on
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    • 2495 24 Week ended May 22 j MALAYSIAN STOCKS Or Gr 1998 List Vel WMt LMtOuete CXv Dtv YW N«t M Cap High Low Stno Company SM COOO) High Law Buyer SePer C'yr P/E Smii 135 28 ms 5000 AIS8 50c 60 *7 2333 70 48.5 60 60.5 5.0 3J
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    • 6622 25 Week ended May 22 Sr Sr M Wt 1998 Last Vol «Ht Last Quote Dlv 01* VM Net Cap Avg Hl<l> Low StNo Company Salt COOO) Mlqh Low Buyor Seller C »r P E mH prlc INDUSTRIALS 43 16.5 e 1020 ACE Dynamic s60c
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    • 1302 25 Or Cr M Wt 1998 Lnl Vol «Mt List Ouote Dlv Ot» VM Net Cap Avq Mlqh Law StNo Company Solo COOP) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E $mM Price 134 82 e 2000 ABRHIdqsSc 82 -3 51 84.5 82 81 92 40.0 84 243 76 2049 AS Auto
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 423 26 Stocks Volume •RHBCap Wt99 74,264,000 *M Resources 58,574,000 •Renonq Bhd 50c 58,101,000 SingTel 15c 54,483,000 ST Engg 10c 47,970,000 •Rekapacific Bh 47,186,000 •MBf Capital 46,812,000 HK Land USIOc 37,756,000 •Pub Bk Foreign 24,386,000 DBS Land 18,616,000 Stocks DBS Foreign 172,003,438 SingTel 15c 131,836,327 SPH 125,218,760 SIA Foreign 110,566,471 OCBC Foreign
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        55 26  -  -by Shiv Taneja OUB Foreign closed five-cents higher last Friday on a volume of 1.71 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 1.4 million units. Although the daily and weekly RSI and stochastics are oversold, it is unlikely that the stock will see more upside in
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      • 702 26  -  THE WI!I!K ABBAB Regional market reaction to Habibie's appointment has been mixed with negative bias; analysts are taking wait and see stance By R Sivanithy THE Straits Times Industrials Index's net fall of just nine points to 1,313.67 last week belies the anxieties
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    • 26 21 FREE! If you have found something, you can advertise for free in Classification 821 (Found) to seek its owner. tCall C.A..T.S. at 1800-737-1166. Another Classified Service
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    • 532 26 BUSINESS Notices ACE DYNAMICS LIMITED NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 34th Annual General Meeting of ACE DYNAMICS LIMITED will be held at 1 Shipyard Road, Singapore *****8 on Wednesday, 10 June 1998 at 10.00 am for the following purposes: AS ORDINARY BUSINESS 1. To
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 300 27 Contributed by Simpson SpenceA Young THE major activity in the market continues to be the number of inspections taking place rather than the number of firm negotiations, with a very limited number of sales coming to light this week. Continuing the recent trend, a couple of handy bulkers
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    • 293 27 set '000 Uf 22 w CWT Distribution 0.58 -0.02 4a Chuan Hup 0.425 »0.005 83 Cosco lnv»»tm«nt ..0.74 -0.01 80 FrdgM LMu 0.27 -0.01 226 GB Hoidinqs 0.28 -0.005 3 Hal Sun Hup 0.51 -0.005 148 Hitachi Zoxn 0.88 -0.01 57 IMC Holdings HK 5.60 Jaya Moldings 0.42
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    • 487 27  -  It plans purchase in next 5 years and is likely to acqnire one smaller than itself By Rahita elias [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), which completed last November the acquisition of US-based APL, plans to acquire yet another shipping line within the next
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    • 58 27 [PANAMA] Panama Canal workers putting in new pre-fabricated rails last week during a renovations project at the Miraflores lock. The rails and the 70-ton locomotives used to pull cargo are being replaced at a cost of US$l million (SSI. 6 million), in a project to improve the
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    • 854 27  -  DOCKYARD By] David Hughes HHO PUT it politely, accounis not always identified as being one of the most exciting of profes■i sions. And on first sight a new debate in shipping accountancy circles appears arcane in the extreme. It would be a
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    • 302 27  -  By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] APL, the container division of Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), is expanding rapidly its presence in the Latin American market. In just three years APL has gone from serving only San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a total of 34 ports
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    • 368 27 UASCs USsslm earnings dne to lower shipping rates AFP [ABU DHABI] The biggest joint Arab shipping venture reported a slide in profits in 1997 although it stayed in the black for the third year running following a series of losses, its balance sheet
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    • 158 27 AFP [MANILA] Marubeni Corp of Japan is seeking to acquire a 20 per cent stake in a joint venture that will handle cargo operations in a port south of Manila, the potential partner said. Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Co said it is
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    • 959 28  -  Pain in the shipping industry remains, with no sign of basic restructuring being made Hy. Mathew Flynn Maritime Asia THE drama of the crisis facing Korean shipping companies has seemingly ended. But that stabilisation does not mean that the pain
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    • 364 28 PAGE ESP Lines 14 ACL 9 Ethiopian 6 ANL 3 E*wgreen 6 tt Accord 8 M Ahrenkiei 14 FoongSun 8 Appenship 5 frot4 15 AsiaOCL 15 FrtUnks 16 tt Astro 3 CUn 4 Austral 9 Gemartrans 8 Avant 16 Genshpg 9 B'tang Mas
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    • 17021 36 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 30/05 T5/07 Clan S A ESTORIL V.EST049/L V 9810SB 65-*****36 To BUENOS AIRES (BUE) 2060 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 lo Ara
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      • 567 43 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port Baikal I 3/98 J04 alongside 25.05/1500 Batulicin 008 J09 alongside 25.05/0230 Chen Yu No 7 To2398 J02 alongside 24.05/1700 Crane Hope 78 J09 alongside 24.05/1700 Fanouia 001 J17 alongside 30.05/2300 Georgios 130/98 J06 alongside 26.05/2300 Hung Yun 9807 J08 alongside
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      • 2027 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Bookinq/IUItnct Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ported Fro«n To From Ac* 0124 24/0700 24 24/1700 25W459 2V0100 2* 24/1700 25/0*51 25/0900 3 25/0700 25/1159 25/MOO 4 25/1200 25/M51 25/1700 ACTUK MS 2t/l«0C 24 24/1700 25/0454 25/0900 21 24/1700 25/045* 25/0100
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      • 178 43 May 29 Hong Kong.Tuen Ng Festival. May 29 United Kingdom: Spring Bank Holiday. United States: Memorial Day. May 30 Taiwan: Dragon Boat Festival Jan 1 Austria: Whit Monday. Belgium: Whit Monday. Brunei: Anniversary of Royal Brunei Malay Regiment. Denmark: Whit Monday. France: Whit Monday. Germany: Whit Monday. Ireland
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      • 942 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 400 43 Carton WO MM 992.2 0.9 18.0 0.11 46 0.07 May 21 Density W«tw IhMm Ask Aluminium Segment No above £25 5 0 8 J 0 0 —1— 380 AM 966.8 0.2 16.5 0.06 32 0.03 380 Mm 991.5 0.8 19.3 0.16 72 0.09 WW »»/v »M/M
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT HEWS
      • 382 44  -  DHL, UPS largely operational while FedEx briefly suspends dealings By) Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] International air express services to and from Indonesia remained largely operational throughout the turmoil of the last two weeks, although some disruption was reported. Both DHL Worldwide Express
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      • 258 44 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese minicar maker Daihatsu Motor Co Ltd announced a 53.2 per cent drop in group pre-tax profit for the year to last March, citing a slump in the domestic auto market. Daihatsu, an affiliate of Toyota Motor Corp, said its pre-tax profit fell
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      • 109 44 AFP [LONDON] British Airways has begun negotiations to include the Hongkong carrier Cathay Pacific in its proposed global alliance with American Airlines, the Observer newspaper reported yesterday. It quoted a senior industry source as saying the three were negotiating to secure a major marketing
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      • 68 44 [HAVANA] An employee of the Cuban Transportation Ministry bringing several tricycles, designed to carry goods, to a local state factory in Havana last week. Recent government surveys reveal that since the use of bicycles was massively promoted as a principal mean of transportation in 1993 to compensate
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      • 287 44 Ferry services from Penang to Belawan near Medan also full Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Flights to Indonesia from Malaysia were fully booked yesterday as Indonesians began returning home. A Malaysia Airlines' ticketing official said no seats from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta were available until tomorrow.
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      • 731 44 While Boeing touts the smallest plane it has designed, Airbus is going big on A3XX Reuters [BERLIN] Boeing's first appearance at the Berlin Air Show last week revealed a glaring contrast between the Seattle giant's long-term strategy and that of its European challenger Airbus.
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      • 302 44 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's new nine billion Malaysian ringgit (553.9 billion) international airport will begin commercial operations next month but faces hitches in taxi and bus shuttle services, reports said yesterday. The two companies, which were awarded the contracts to provide taxi services
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      • 1748 44 QTT FU6HT CU FLIGHT ETC Amstardam KLS43 0450 K1838 2300 TC407 ,M0 ***** 1435 S0343 0735 MWW WO MUM MB KL837 1455 AWT 1335 >W» 2135 Auckland N***** 2050 N***** 2045 SOW? 1TOO SOW! 0130 S02W 2080 S0205 2045 Ho CM Mlnh VN741 1310 VK742 0905
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    • 1433 30 DSR SENATOR LINES I TO UK/CONTINENT TO RED SEA/MKUniiIKRANEAN/CANADA VtSStl VOY SIM LtH RTH MB HOI WY FU Vttttl VOY SM MO BIT SP* TOS VIC MT* HAKJiM WILMINGTON WNB2? 2* 06 12 M 14.H 15 06 17.06 17* 11« •MZAIOOUIt IOTM2S 20 06 MHI4 06 1160 II« ?0 06
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