The Business Times, 12 April 1999

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MFFA (P) 646/12/98 85c SINGAPORE /nr^r^eK^np^^siness^MjuKial.com.sg/ MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1999
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
    73 1 ran Bins USS St US* 1.734 £(USS/S$perf) 1.M7 A7* RJHO(USfS$ PBS E)1.079 1JJ71 m km «m tm ..tm HKfc. 7.7« Bl224 ■AHT MJt 0.M6 RUPIAH 8,613 OjBT *S$ to 100 units *S$ to 100 units FUME BATES SINGAPORE*—: 5.826 KUALA LUMPUR ll.fiO JAKARTA .28.80 BANGKOK 14.76 MANILA. .22.90 BONGK0NG
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    Lock icon Korean upturn splits analysts' views of Asia
    1037 1  -  Doubters see weak global markets, depressed commodity prices undermining any Asian recovery From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SOUTH Korea's stronger-than-expected growth in the first quarter is convincing many economists that East Asia is finally emerging from its crippling recession, although sceptics looking for
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    Half of listed S'pore manufacturers 'destroy' shareholder value: study
    667 1  -  EPM6 study breaks with conventional practice to focus on shareholder value By. Anna Teo (SINGAPORE] About half of 85 Singapore mainboardlisted manufacturing companies have "destroyed" shareholder value over the long term, according to a study using an increasingly popular yardstick that
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    Lock icon 10% slide in three months tames euro bulls
    447 1  -  From Nell Behrmann in London EURO bulls have quite a bit of egg on their faces one hundred days after the birth of the new European currency. Most market analysts believed that the US dollar-euro rate, which opened at US$l.l7 on day
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    Lock icon M'sian corporates hit the road to woo foreign investors
    405 1 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Some of Malaysia's biggest companies and government agencies are hitting the road in a bid to improve their image among for-' eign investors and end an eight-month exile from international financial markets. This week, four of the country's
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      105 1 IMHUMB Ao*r ej«B tw* Ixteis After a failed bid to buy Hotel Properties' Meridien hotel, French hotel operator Accor is likely to hit the right chord 90CH1 with two other hotels, Pg2 PSG Provisions Suppliers Corp, best known for its Econ Minimart business, plans to expand its healthcare, leisure and
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Accor expects to land two hotel contracts soon
      414 2  -  French group likely to bag hotel management within two months By i Carol Eng AFTER a failed bid to buy Hotel Properties' Meridien hotel in Orchard Road, French hotel operator Accor is likely to hit the right chord soon with two other
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      Lock icon Upturn in economy seen by Q2
      338 2  -  BYE ON THE ECONOMY GDP By, Anna Teo THE Singapore economy is likely to have pulled out of recession in the first quarter, and latest by the current quarter, according to Fraser-AMMB Research's in-house indicator. Growth, however, is unlikely to exceed 1.5 per cent.
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      Citibank S'pore cashes in on sale haven search
      543 2  -  Treasury business increased by almost 50% last year By' Ven Sreenivasan THE regional financial crisis and the accompanying flight-to-safety by fUnds helped Citibank Singapore's treasury operations record a "monster" year in 1998. Citibank Singapore, which last week topped Asiamoney's Forex Rankings under
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      Axa's new chief is confident sales will turn up this year
      344 2  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng AXA Insurance of France, which saw a 15 per cent fall in premium income in Singapore last year, is confident of a turnaround this year with a possible 3 per cent rise in premium sales.
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      SNS comes up with system to manage inventories via the Net
      258 2  -  Toh Han Shih MANUFACTURERS seeking to cut costs might want to look at a system of managing inventories via the Internet developed by Singapore Network Services (SNS). This system, called the Virtual Warehouse Management System, provides real time information
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        PM Goh on two-day Brunei visit
        68 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong leaves today for Brunei for a two-day working visit during which he will call on Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and meet top government leaders and officials there. He will be accompanied by S Jayakumar, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law,
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        Lock icon Sumitomo unit ups stake in joint venture
        109 2 Nikkei [TOKYO] Sumitomo Bakelite Co has increased its stake in a Singapore phenol resin joint venture with Occidental Chemical to 75 per cent from 50 per cent company officials said. The major synthetic resin producer bought all the new shares worth $3.3 million
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        FPDA exercise starts Wednesday
        82 2 MEMBERS of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) —Singapore, Malaysia, Britain, Australia and New Zealand—will conduct an eight-day air defence exercise, starting on Wednesday. This exercise is coordinated by Headquarters Integrated Air Defence System located at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Butterworth, under the
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        Govt paper on grocery business
        64 2 THE Department of Statistics has announced the publication of an occasional paper on The Grocery Trade in Singapore, 1987-1997. This latest paper examines the profile of the grocery trade and three types of stores— supermarkets, mini-marts and provision shops. This paper, at 15 per copy,
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
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      Lock icon The finishing touch
      64 3 [MANILA] A Filipino worker sprays textile paint on a Japanese-style headdress in a Manila shop yesterday. Such costumes have a high demand among Filipino women planning to work as cultural entertainers in Japan despite that country's current economic difficulties. Thousands of Filipinos are forced to do odd
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      Lock icon Japan recovery in H2 of current business year?
      313 3 Bloomberg [TOKYO] The Japanese economy will probably recover in the second half of the year ending March 2000 as companies reduce excess personnel and banks continue cleaning up bad loans, Japans' chief economic planner said. "My prediction hasn't changed," Taichi Sakaiya, Economic
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      Lock icon HK not out of the woods yet: analysts
      691 3 Stock market is bullish, tourists are back but economic picture is mixed AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong has regained its feel-good factor stocks are soaring, Mickey Mouse may be coming to town and the tourists are back but analysts warn against popping the champagne
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      Lock icon Rates may fall further, says HKMA
      136 3 Bridge News {HONGKONG] Joseph Yam, chief executive at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), said Hongkong interest rates may be cut further in the future, the local press reported yesterday. Mr Yam was reported as saying that if the financial crisis is over and
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      Lock icon Bank Negara has reserves of US$28b
      446 4 Amount enough to finance 6 J months of retained imports, says NEAC Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Bank Negara Malaysia's international reserves as at March 13 amounted to U5527.7 billion (Ss4B billion), which is sufficient to finance 6.1 months of retained imports, the National Economic Action
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      Lock icon US business delegation on four-day M'sia trip
      140 4 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR) Some 40 representatives of 20 major US companies will begin a four-day visit to Malaysia from today, the Malaysian Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The group, from the USMalaysia Business Committee of the US-Asean Business Council, sought a better understanding of
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      1885 4 CYCLE CARRIAGE LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 30th Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held in the Renoir Suite, Level One, The Oriental, Singapore, 5 Raffles Avenue, Singapore *****7 on Thursday, 6 May 1999 at
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      1809 4 MCLland MCL LAND LIMITED NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-Seventh Annual General Meeting of MCL Land Limited will be held in the Renoir Suite, Level One The Orient* Singapore, 5 Raffles Avenue, Singapore *****7 on Thursday, 6 May 1999 at 11.30 a.m. for the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon East Timor violence seen a threat to balloting
      628 5 JAKARTA MBITO ANALYSIS Territory may not be able to take part in Indonesian elections and UN vote on autonomy Reuters A SURGE in violence in East Timor is likely to prevent any ballot being held there, political analysts said yesterday. A UN
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      Lock icon Philippine businesses nervous as full trade liberalisation looms
      349 5 MANILA AFP PHILIPPINE business leaders are voicing worries about the readiness of local industries to face competition from abroad, with full trade liberalisation a mere three years iWay. Many firms, already crippled by the Asian financial crisis, have voiced concern that liberalisation
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      Lock icon Mahathir's getting better and may go home soon
      160 5 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's health is improving and he is expected to return home from hospital early this week after treatment for bronchitis. "His health is getting better. He is likely to be discharged in the next few
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      Lock icon Anwar case: 2 important decisions on Wednesday
      132 5 KUALA LUMPUR AFP. Reuters MALAYSIA'S longest court case yet reaches a climax on Wednesday as a high court judge delivers his verdict in the marathon corruption trial of ousted deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar, whose sacking and arrest In September last year plunged
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      Lock icon Australian probe fails to clarify church killings
      266 5 CANBERRA Different people tell different stories, says Aussie minister Reuters AUSTRALIA has run into conflicting information in its investigation into a reported massacre in East Timor, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday. Australian diplomats visited a church in Liquiga on Saturday where people
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  • FOCUS
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      Creating value for shareholders
      855 6  -  Firms need to start looking at economic profit By R Satyanarayan The writer is director, KPMG Consulting CAPITAL productivity is a key issue in Asia in these difficult times but companies are doing precious little to change the way they manage their business. Looking after both
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      A matter off management
      1150 6 Manufacturing sector's top value creators and destroyers Singapore Press Holdings As the leading publishing and printing group in South East Asia, SPH tops the list as the best value creator in the manufacturing sector, with a whopping market value-added of $2.7 billion. As a result of
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Zhu disappointed by failed trade talks with US
      502 7 DENVER, Colorado Bat Chinese Premier suggests that it has only delayed China's entry to WTO AFP CHINESE Premier Zhu Rongji wrapped up a visit here, suggesting that failed trade talks in Washington had simply delayed China's entry into the World Trade Organisation
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      Lock icon China-US WTO dispute troubles Taiwan
      448 7 MEWS ANALYSIS Taiwan's entry dependent on China getting in too Reuters [TAIPEI] US and Chinese negotiators' failure to ink a hotly anticipated deal for China to enter the World Trade Organisation could darken the outlook for Taiwan's longcoveted WTO accession, analysts say. Though the diplomatically
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      Lock icon Gitic hasn't sold securities operations: China court
      328 8 SHENZHEN Bat Jan statement by liquidation committee said the nnits had been sold Reuters IN a reversal of past statements, a Chinese court said the failed Gitic trust firm's securities operations remained part of the company's assets, an official newspaper reported at the
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      Lock icon Macau chief exec to be named in May
      200 8 BEIJING AFP THE new leader of Macau to take charge of the Portuguese enclave when it returns to Chinese rule in December is set to be announced next month, the Xinhua news agency reported over the weekend. "The candidate for the first
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      Lock icon New bird flu not a public threat: HK
      248 8 HONGKONG Reuters THE Hongkong government said yesterday that a strain of flu detected in humans for the first time posed no threat to public health, but experts did not rule out an epidemic. Deputy director of health Paul Saw told a news
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      995 8 IHlM'«!JI Hitachi Zosen Keppel Hitachi Zosen Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company will be held at the New Conference Room at 325 Telok Blangah Road, Singapore *****1 on 28
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon India's ruling alliance could be ousted this week
      570 10 NEWDELHI AIADMK tipped to pull ont of BJP-led coalition, depriving it of its majority AFP INDIA'S foundering Hindu nationalist-led coalition yesterday braced for serious trouble in the week ahead, with a key ally-turned-foe and the opposition leader intensifying a no-holds barred ouster
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      Lock icon India test fires ballistic missile
      336 10 NEW DELHI Pakistan says it might give 'befitting response' to the test Reuters INDIA said yesterday it successfully test fired a longerrange version of its Agni ballistic missile, ending a fiveyear period of restraint on the controversial weapon. Soon after, rival neighbour Pakistan said Islamabad
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      Lock icon Japanese regulators to take over regional bank
      318 10 TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE financial regulators said yesterday they would take over a failed regional bank while the Bank of Japan said it would supply funds to protect its depositors. Japan's Financial Reconstruction Committee (FRC) said it was putting troubled Kokumin Bank under state
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      Lock icon Nationalist wins race to become Tokyo governor
      485 10 TOKYO Ishihara win poses potential headache for Obnchi govt Reuters NATIONALIST Shintaro Ishihara yesterday won a hotly contested race for the governorship of Tokyo on Sunday, leaving a ruling party rival in the dust and posing a potential headache for Prime Minister Keizo
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      Lock icon Major Aussie banks have left Asian crisis behind them: S&P
      275 10 SYDNEY AFP AUSTRALIA'S major banks have shrugged off the Asian economic crisis and reasserted their dominance in traditional markets, Standard and Poor's said Sunday. The international ratings agency said the banking sector could look forward to a "more forgiving" mediumterm
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      440 10 XTXT PACIFIC CAN INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LTD III! (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) PacMeCan NOTICE- EXPIRY OF WARRANTS Renounceable right issue of $20,834,886 principal amount of 2.5 per cent unsecured loan stock due 1999 ("Loan Stock") at par with 20,834,886 detachable warrants ("Warrants") to subscribe for new ordinary share of
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon IMF, G-7 to seek ways to mend financial flaws
      462 11 WASHINGTON Less worrying global scenario will allow focus on remedies at meetings this month Reuters RELIEF that the world economic nightmare may be coming to an end will dominate top-level financial meetings in Washington this month, letting policy-makers concentrate on mending
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      Lock icon Air strikes working, no plans for ground troops: Cook
      223 11 LONDON AFP. Reuters BRITAIN'S Foreign Secretary Robin Cook insisted yesterday that Nato's air campaign was working and said the alliance had no plans to send ground troops into Kosovo. Mr Cook said Belgrade was beginning to realise how determined the North
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      Lock icon Asians, entrepreneurs, women overtaking old money in Britain
      302 11 LONDON AFP YOUNG entrepreneurs, women and Asians are joining the ranks of the super-rich in Britain at the expense of old money, the Sunday Times' latest annual survey of the country's wealth elite shows. Meanwhile, fuelled by the boom in the stock
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      Lock icon Ideology same despite rate cuts: ECB
      416 11 FRANKFURT Unexpected large cuts more reminiscent of Fed, say analysts Reuters TWO European Central Bank board members said at the weekend the bank's interest rate cuts last week did not mark a change in its ideology and called for unemployment to be tackled with
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Workstation mart shrinks US$280m
      487 13  -  S'pore market fell 29% and Malaysia's shrank 59% last year, says IDC By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Shipments of computer workstations in key countries in the Asia-Pa-cific shrank by US$2BO million (Ss4B4 million) in 1998 over the previous year despite an 8 per cent rise in unit
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      Lock icon Some bright spots at Singapore N+I this year
      700 13  -  Another pins: More firms exhibited their wares despite shrinking show By l Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] The Networld+lnterop (N+l) show in Singapore keeps shrinking but it had some bright spots this year. The networking show, held at Suntec City last week, had
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      15 high-tech start-ups to get seed capital
      499 14  -  Two new NSTB-driven schemes to provide fands for them By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] A total of 15 high-tech start-up companies will get seed capital and management support from three new incubator management companies (IMC) under a new scheme initiated by the National Science
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      How call centres transform the business of government
      640 14  -  By Jeffrey Lee The author is managing consultant with Hewlett-Packard Singapore UNTIL recently, call centres were seen as a tool mainly targeted at the telemarketing sector. At best, it would be linked to an Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) to provide basic
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      Lock icon Dell consumer PC demand to sustain growth
      156 14 AFX-Asia [SAN FRANCISCO] Dell Computer Corp chief executive officer Michael Dell said a growing focus on services and increased sales of personal computers to consumers will help sustain the company's revenue growth rate. He told analysts at the company's annual meeting in New
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    • IT TAKES
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        NetWare 5.0 seminar date
        44 14 A TWO-DAY seminar on Novell NetWare 5.0 win be held on April 22 and 23, targeted at support and sales engineers, consultants, network managers and Novell reeellars. Organised by Novell Inc, the course fee is ISOO. For details, call 1800-*****62.
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        Gateway to make servers in Malacca
        40 14 GATEWAY will this year produce its ALR family of servers at its manufacturing facility in Malacca, Malaysia. Currently, Gateway servers sold in Asia are produced in the US. The change will shorten delivery times.
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        Trend Micro's solotuin against Melissa
        46 14 TREND Micro has announced a five tool to stop the Melissa e-mail virus. The tool uses rule-based scanning to detect known and unknown variants of the Melissa, Papa and Madcow viruses. It is freely available from Trend Micro's Web site, www.traidmicro.com.
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        Electronic document management
        38 14 CANON Marketing Services will hold a seminar on how a company's archived documents can be managed over the Worldwide Web. The seminar will be held on Thursday. For details, call Lynette Low at *****00. V.
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        Onyx/Meta roadshow
        34 14 A SEMINAR (m enterprise relationship management will be held by Onyx Software and the Meta Group in Singapore on May 4. For details, call Rachel Foster at *****06 or e-mail priority @cyberway.com.sg.
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        Compaq offers Healthcheck
        69 14 COMPAQ is offering a suite of Year2oooHealthcheck Services to meet the needs of customers in tackling the millennium bug. Two new services from Healthcheck Services sre available worldwide from April 1, namely the Year2ooo Desktop Healthcheck Service and the Year 2000 Network Healthcheck Service. The former service
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        IBM opens Singapore design centre
        53 14 IBM officially opened its regional Microrelectronics VLSI Design Centre in Singapore on April 5. Located at IBM Towers, the mission of the centre is to provide microelectronics design services to customers in die Asia-Pacific. IBM will invest about US93O million (Sss2 million) over five years
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        ThatWeb gets NSTB grant
        34 14  -  -Compiled fay Toh Han Shih THATWEB Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Aztech Systems, has received a Research and Development Assistance Scheme grant from the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB).
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      Lock icon Compaq going all out to do e-commerce
      753 15  -  Its target is to have at least half its sales online by 2003 Reports by' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Compaq Computer Corporation is going all out in the area of electronic commerce. "If we don't have half our sales online by 2003, we've
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      Virtual Private Network poised for big take-off here
      549 15 The technology will mean a hnge cut in traditional telecommunications charges [SINGAPORE] A new technology that enables electronic commerce and communications to be conducted cheaply is poised for a big take-off in Singapore and Asia, according to two companies that showcased their
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      Lock icon When closing a sale is more important than making money
      727 16 The 'volume' Argument has become a mantra in the Net economy New York Times [WASHINGTON] Thousands of companies, online and off, are blossoming because of the Internet's fertile new soil for conducting commerce and serving customers. But the blush may
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      Lock icon Apple to unveil faster iMacs
      164 16 Bloomberg [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc will begin selling iMac home computers that work faster than current versions this month, computer retailers and people familiar with the company said. The new 333 MHz models will have the same U551,199 (552.070) price tag currently on 266
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    • IT TAKES
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        New projectors from InFocus
        95 16 1NF0CUS Systems Asia has announced three new pereonal projectors, two of which weigh 33 kg e«ch and come with a sootn lens and remote control facility All three deliver a contrast ratio of40&l and come with DCJP (digital light processing) technology from Twaa Instruments Inc, and
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        AMD's 475 MHz processor ready
        73 16 ADVANCED Micro Devices has Introduced its 478 mfe AMD-K6-2 processor with 3DNow! technology thai the company says "offers a powerful combination of system price and performance and exceeds the clock speed of Intel's fittest available Pentium 11 proceasor". Among is the first systems based on
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        79 16 ADOBE Systems Is ready with Acrobat 4.0, its major upgrade for sending and receiving using Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format). The new software comae with a rich set of annotation and security tools, HTML to PDF conversion, the ability to reuse information within PDF flies, and
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        65 16 IBM has introduced its Win NT-based workstation, the IBM IntelliStationZ Pro, running on up to two Intel Pentium mXeonproceeeors at 500 MHz each, targeted at customers in the inuring and 3D graphics markets. Ths systems come with graphics enhancements each ae tile IBM Fir* GLI accelerator
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        102 16 AUTODESK Asia has launched AutoCADBOOO, a major advance on the popular design software that now incorporates over 400 individual enhancements to boost near productivity. Among them are the ability to work on multiple drawings in a single seesion of AutoCAD; addition ofa central repository for
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        78 16 CREATIVE Technology has put on sate Its new Modem Blaster V.90 with data, ffcx and voice capabilities. Available in both ISA and PCI configurations, it oflSrs Internet access at 56 kbps, comes with a voicsmail feature to turn PCs into answering machines, snd a aat
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        Uniface WebApplication Server here
        78 16  -  Raju Chellam COMPUWARE Asia-Pacific has introduced its Uniffece Web Application Server, a highly scaleable mgrtlcatton fore-business use. It lets companies deploy new and existing components and applications on the Web with an integrated visual HTML page designer. The company also announced Xpediter/Code Coverage, a new system-wide
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      521 17  -  In the US, the notion of a millennial baby has created a marketing frenzy, says david wchem DAVID W CHEN NYT T| HE Fitzpatrick I Manhattan I Hotel in New I York was bracing for it. With night approaching, the manager was reporting a rush
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      676 18  -  SOCIETY Having domesticated men and feminised society, women are into Rodeo and Jnliet By\ Maureen Dowd NYT AS that wacky Freud gloomily observed: "My God, what does a woman want?" When we were gatherers, we wanted hunters. Then we wanted clean-cut doctors and
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      PSC to boost health-care, leisure, property business
      763 19  -  But consumer and industrial products will remain its core business, says MD By Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Provisions Suppliers Corp (PSC), best known for its Econ Minimart business, plans to expand its health-care, leisure and property divisions over the next few years. Managing director
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      784 19  -  HAMCI SEMG Df SIGHT Rising confidence and too much money chasing too few scrip By Quak Hiang Whai IT is getting increasingly difficult for brokers (and columnists alike) to explain the Hongkong share market. A sales director told BT last Friday
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        775 20  -  BEATING ™*ODns Conversion jobs propped up the company's performance last year and they are expected to continue to underpin profit and sales growth in '99 "y Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] JURONG Shipyard shareholders have a lot to cheer about. At a time when Singapore companies
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        393 20  -  By. Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Li Fung Distribution (Singapore) has succeeded in garnering over 90 per cent of acceptances for its offer on Inchcape Marketing Services (IMS), paving the way for the privatisation of IMS. By Friday evening, it had received valid acceptances
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        956 20  -  Rising confidence could swing action to penny stocks By] Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Helping the portfolio outperform both the Straits Times Index (up 7.8 per cent on the week) and the All-Share Index (up 8.1 per cent) were double-digit advances from DBS
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        Amsteel sues eldest son of Genting patriarch
        383 20  -  Two others named in suit for alleged nnpaid stock losses From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur AMSTEEL Securities has sued the eldest son of Malaysia's richest man, Lim Goh Tong, for unpaid losses from his alleged stockmarket forays. The brokerage firm sued Lim
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        PLDT's US$175m bond fully taken up
        309 20  -  From, Al Labita in Manila THE US$l75 million (*****.2 million) bond floated last week by a unit of Hongkong's First Pacific Co on the global financial markets has been fully taken up. The bonds were offered by New York and Manila-listed Long Distance Telephone
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        275 20  -  From Surinder Singh in Sydney INTERNATIONAL Equities Corporation, in which Kuala Lumpur-based Austral Amalgamated Bhd has a majority stake, has regained control of its Sobel of Perth Hotel from receivers after trimming its debts. A report in the Australian Financial Review last Wednesday
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        477 21 'White knight' among options under study to counter Olivetti's bid: report Reuters, Bridge News [TURIN, Italy] Olivetti's US$65 billion (*****.6 billion) bid for Telecom Italia is still alive as the latter failed yesterday for the third day in a row to hold a
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        Lock icon Compaq says Q1 profit less than half of US$540m analysts' forecast
        443 21 PC maker hurt by falling sales, shift to low-margin products NYT [NEW YORK] Compaq Computer Corp said late on Friday that its profits would be less than half of what analysts had expected, dragged down by declining sales and
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        358 21 Reuters, FT [LONDON] Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, in his first reaction to the British government's decision to block his USSI billion (551.73 billion) bid for Manchester United soccer club, said he was disappointed but would not be battling the government over it.
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        356 22 It plans to raise core capital by 2.8b marks next month, says chairman FT, Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Dresdner Bank, Germany's third largest, on Friday signalled it was preparing a large acquisition when it announced plans to increase its core capital by 2.8 billion deutschemarks (552.67
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        120 22 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] John Meriwether's Long-Term Capital Management LP (LTCM), which was bailed out last year, did better in the first quarter than the biggest hedge fund managers, George Soros and Julian Robertson. LTCM gained 11.76 per cent this year through March,
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        314 22 FT, Reuters THE hostile takeover battle between France's three largest listed banks took a surprise turn, when it emerged that two of the protagonists had complained to regulators about erratic moves in their share prices. Banque Nationale de Paris, which is bidding
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        251 22 Reuters [LONDON] Oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell has cut exploration and production spending this year by another US$BOO million (551.39 billion) and wants offers for assets in three West African states, its chief of upstream operations said on Friday. Shell now plans to spend US$5.7
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        148 22 Bloomberg (WASHINGTON) Golden State Bancorp Inc won a nearrecord US$9O9 million (Ssl.6 billion) in damages against the US for a broken 1981 promise of special regulatory treatment. It paves the way for claims that could add tens of billions of dollars to the
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        535 23  -  Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya [SINGAPORE] With few major events on schedule, relative fundamentals are likely to drive otherwise largely consolidative currency trades this week. Sentiment for the US dollar is likely to remain positive on the back of the strong stock markets and sound economic fundamentals,
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        814 23 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Sugar and cocoa prices fell to the lowest level for six years last week after a turbulent five days on the international markets. Cocoa fell amid intense speculation over the effect on a largely
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        280 24 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG stocks could be vulnerable to profit taking this week, with Friday's cut in interest rates already largely factored into the market, dealers said. "The market could take a bit of a breather," said Howard Gorges, vice-chairman of South China Brokerage. "Volume
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        882 24 Sydney +8M THE Australian share market will turn its focus overseas in the week ahead in an effort to continue its record breaking run as the domestic data mill grinds to a halt, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index closed a four-day Easter
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        785 24 NEW YORK These stocks have been among the most profitable and are also the most "liquid" Bloomberg BIG companies have led the market higher for almost five years. Professional investors see no end to the trend. Money manager Cambridge Financial Group Inc has
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        1774 24 Paris +***** THE Paris rate-cut party faded towards the end with stocks posting their highest 1999 close on Friday but coming off an all-time record as cheer at the European Central Bank's 50-point interest rate cut gave way to profittaking. The CAC-40 Index ended up 0.75 per
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        Lock icon Foreign investors likely to propel Nikkei higher
        422 24 TOKYO AFP TOKYO'S heady stock market, already the best performing major bourse this year, will likely head higher still in the coming week buoyed by optimistic foreign investors, dealers said. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 Index will climb above 17,500 points in the coming sessions,
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        Lock icon Footsie scales new heights on rate cut euphoria
        319 24 LONDON AFP THE London stock market brushed aside the menace of war in Europe and soared instead to record heights last week after the sixth interest rate cut here in seven months and a record-breaking surge on Wall Street. The FT-SE 100
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        Lock icon Uptrend expected to be sustained
        441 25 AFP |T| Composite Index +***** MALAYSIA'S stock market is likely to sustain its upturn in the coming week despite wariness over the verdict due in ousted deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's corruption trial, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange weighted Composite Index jumped 5.2 per
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        Liang Huat wrt: Only price in its favour
        287 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy A FEW reasonable conclusions can be drawn from the way the market has behaved over the past few months. The first is that absolute price is important the cheaper, the better. The second is that there's an
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        CLOB INTERNATIONAL
        229 26 HONGKONG STOCKS Cr Cr 52-Wk Last Vol *m> Last Ouota CNv OK YM Nat DC# High Law Itna Ciwawy tata COOP) Hlqh Law Buyar Sa»ar Cw P/t S«n* 235 173 5123 CDL*****)MK 230 Cd 8 2A 3.5 11.8 ***** 5124 C«MMy Pac 20c Hfc—720 Cd 265 2.1 7.4
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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        524 28 Source: JM Sassoon Unfa Wmm Hotel Prop 79,224.000 JC-MPH WtOO 77.624.000 Singatron 20c 61,428,000 GES Intl ltd 20c 60,021,000 JC-MPH 54,986,000 Wing Tai 25c 54,896,000 Chosen HMgs 10c 52,918,000 Total Automation 5c 52,300,000 UK 51,710.000 STEngglOc 49,001,000 Stocto DBS Foreign 184,392,794 SiA 152,674,110 SU Foreign 141,642.790 0U8 Foreign 134,219,028 UOfl
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        2,000 target by year-end looking more achievable
        674 28  -  THB WEEK AHEAD But ride ap likely to be bumpy even though there are more reasons to expect uptrend to continue than otherwise By R Sivanithy WE'VE said it before but we'll say it again this market never ceases to amaze. Two weeks
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        HOT STOCK
        65 28  -  By Wong Wei Kong KIM Eng shares closed up $0,055 last Friday at $0,755 with 12.1 million shares transacted compared with its 10-day traded average of 1.19 million shares. Technical indicators like the RSI, stochastics and MACD charts suggest that the upside may be limited in the short
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      138 22 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF KAJA TRADING PTE LTD (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At the Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 133 New Bridge Road #25-08 Chinatown Point Singapore
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      109 26 I The course of true love never did run smooth. With so many beauties on display in The Straits Times Classified daily, it's no wonder our readers are easily tempted. Advertise in the Vehicles section (Classifications 302 to 394). Call C.A.T.S. at 1800-737-1166. CATS. I 8 Buy h. Sell ft.
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      484 28 DBS investor Online. You ve read about it, now hear us on Newsßadio 938, Mon Fri, from 8.22 a.m. 'V 1 438-1188 OimSBANK NOTICES To advertise call toll-tree 1300-741 1883 Fax No; 741 1298 I I Marine Industries I Keppel Marine Industries Limited I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore)
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      449 28 <* QII. -M. I IfJ '.1 '»TJ I Land Keppel Land Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company will be held at 230 Victoria Street #15-05, Bugis Junction Towers, Singapore
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      278 29 Key freight route blocked dne to bombing of bridges over D&nnbe river Reuters [VIENNA] Austrian shipping on the Danube to the Black Sea is at a standstill due to Nato bombing in Yugoslavia and the industry is set to suffer heavy losses, shipping
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      NOL arm launches customised Web page
      447 29  -  It allows clients to manage information, transactions in box transportation By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] With its focus firmly trained on building up its logistics business, Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) container shipping arm APL has launched what it describes as the industry's first customisable Web
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      Opec cuts bad news for repair yards
      898 29  -  DOCKYARD By] David Hughes LAST year the large tanker markets appeared to be, relatively speaking at least, one of the few bright spots in the shipping scene. That was good news for the repairers, like Singapore's major yards, of large tankers and especially
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      1239 30 CRUISE INDUSTRY World's biggest cruise-line company hopes to ride wave of popularity with USs3.4b worth of new ships Bloomberg Micky Arison, chief executive of Carnival Corp, the world's biggest cruiseline company, says he's not worried if the US economy slows. He's so confident that he's
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        383 44 Continental, United, Delta raise rates but Northwest not following suit Reuters [CHICAGO] Major US airlines, led by No 5 Continental Airlines Inc, said that they raised domestic fares in a move that would mark the third rate increase this
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        138 44 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch airline KLM will be charged with failing to carry out the proper checks before transporting radioactive supplies in 1997, public prosecutor Jacqueline Hemmes said. A KLM spokesman said the company was aware of the charge but had not yet received a
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        278 44 AFP (MONTREAL] Efforts to recover the wreckage of the Swissair plane that crashed along Canada's eastern coast last September are to resume in about a week, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said. Before suspending the search due to the winter chill, divers had recovered
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        373 44 It cites potential injury risks to children and adults Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US regulators plan to study whether a new generation of automobile air bags designed to protect occupants in side-impact crashes could seriously injure children and other small passengers. While inflatable side bags
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        303 44 Reuters [DENVER] The Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that the US air traffic control system has passed a major public test to see if it can cope with the Year 2000 computer problem. "We are pretty confident with what we saw tonight," FAA
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          71 44 Reuters [MINNEAPOLIS] Northwest Airlines Corp said its March load factor rose one point to 76.7 per cent while revenue passenger miles were up 0.8 per cent to 6.27 billion. The nation's fourth largest airline said cargo ton miles were up 0.5 per cent at
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          86 44 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways' passenger traffic in March rose 9.6 per cent on a year ago but the airline said a 10.5 per cent rise in capacity pushed down average seat sales by 0.7 percentage points to 73.1 per cent of capacity. BA
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          70 44 AFX-Asia [WASHINGTON] The US Export-Import Bank said it will guarantee financing to help Zhongyuan Airlines acquire two Boeing 737-300 aircraft for US$64 million (*****.9 million). "Ex-Im Bank's support of the latest transaction is contributing to strong growth in domestic and international business around Zhengzhou
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      2346 33 Sailing Ad«n NodtMik, 1 Djibouti (Via Dubai) -i ri j j I" SINGAPORE'S GINiRAL AGENTS: 6 SNENTON WAY TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (l/L) COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #i7-o« disbldg saus/bkgs *****57/60 inward oept (o/oj *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD CRNO: **********0* TOWEI TWO (*****9) CONVENTIONAL *****50/S5 T/SHPWT
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      727 34 r PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I SSSSV MM 140 Cecal Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. CR NO **********06 I Ilvissa V9T w sto h m »n ffl Bfl \V\ v< U'.J M/ 4 .yflf 1 Jiaz l/s f yft 11/1 niv ooqkcuim 03/ iy/4 n/i ?t/< i/> i/s
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      453 34 NANTAI LINE FUUY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO MAURITIUS SOUTH AFRICA VtSSEI VOY SIM PU) DUB JNR CPT K» GOLDEN ORAGON Y.OIIS 17/04 25/04 W/04 01/05 03/05 NAWTAIQUEEW VO34S 28/04 06/05 10/05 "u/oT 14/05 "ii/oT NANTAI DRAGON VOI3S 06/05 15/05 19/05 22/05 23/05 NANttl VENUS V.Q345 18/05 24/05 30/05 02/06 03/06 06/06
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      58 37 VafU| STEftDi,74O-6000 Oil dCmSfIQ (Retrieve more schedules!) Press "1" ■|f I Select the port and key in STfIC m the four digit code Jftr eg: To New York (NYQ 2275 ST£i Key in your fax number |p STHjjEnter your phone number Anotherlnnovative lervice offered by eT The document Will be
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      140 39 bsh FREE Rpddpr Enquiry Sorvic6 cut out and fax to 65-*****29 jjHHHJJ x Need HELP or INFORMATION on the following? (please tick relevant boxes) SHIPPING SERVICES Port of Origin: Cargo Type: Cargo Ready by: Port of Destination: Cargo Volume: Special Requirements: ADVERTISER:PRODUCTS/SERVICES Saw an advertisement in Shipping Times of a
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      130 40 (FOREST PRODUCTS SERVICE) FROM: U.K./ CONTINENT/ MIDDLE EAST TO: FAR EAST WlWtSffiYKi vßsa/WT j LAEM CHAIANG MANILA HONGKONG KEfIUNG OCEAN QUEEN 25/04 S/M OONVOYOI6 15/04 17/04 22/04 10A0M6 KM: PASQUAIi JEDOAH/Sm/RlßieK/AMTWier lUIAYSIA- HSM (M) SON IHO TAWAU CtftKMNIFHKWT SVCS PORT KELANG AGENT: SUNSHP AGBKKS (M) SON WD P. KELAMG Ttt:
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      184 40 i«iiM«in^^^^WTTTTTTTTWT7TTTT7TTTTrTTT7ry7i¥TT^^^^M SHIPPING LINE .ill ,1 111 L BiVj 111 II I k l(1lf I I LIBYA BENGHAZI TRIPOLI YISSII NAMI VOT. WO WOWH SMKfOtt DUOAI bWI HUM DAK HNGMAJ TMPOU TFTTOUKI 1140 02MM IMXW WMM HAO4UT IIMM »MW 01.05 M MAUD 1341 MM* IIM.M »MM Mt lAGHEKI 21 MM 0105
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      146 40 ESP LINES WttKlY ICI AMD FCI SltVKt —mism-com mm CMTTAGONG, MAMAS IANGCOK, HONG IOM6 HAMMK. tOTTBOAM MMMAY, COIOMO JAIAJtTA, MAMA AMTWEtP, FHJXSTOW! (AKUTTA wooa—(.WUWIOMC REGULAR CONTAINERISED INDONESIAN SBVKX vpsa/voTACt sfott mt sm w at S.CAMJII/174 tl/to 11/ M Bg WWII/»43M3» 11*4 Ij/M HCAUm/HM/H 11*4 IS/14 11/14 H/M PfMUU 1 /OW6
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      40 42 REGULAR DIRECT CONTAINER A BREAKBULK SERVICE TO PORT LOUIS 5 DURBAN EXPORT VOY SIN PTL DBN ALS ENDEAVOUR 04WB 15/04 26/04 02/05 ALSTBN 05 WB 13/05 24/05 30/05 ACCEPTING TO JOHANNESBURG AGENTS: SINGAPORE BEN LINE AGENCIES Tel: *****22 Fax: *****53
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