The Business Times, 26 October 1999

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1999
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    60 1 SB *****1 (+4.98) ■FVBT-SKI U 775J2 (+SS9) n snisa muiEs JJj 28L80 (-1.80) STOCK IIIIKT 1KDJUSB Monday <*««f ■t KLSE COUP ***** +L4I NIKKEI A 17,648.71 *imt JULNGSENG SOTWDEX ikmi JAKARTA COMP __»7.I7 -7.11 MANILA COMP _1JM.4« -M2 TAIPH 7,680.87 +12L24 «EOLXOO«P 798-84 -20.(8 OSA CHINA B 764.07
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    74 1 F08EXIATES U8t 81 u#—~ \m S(ffi®/S$per£) 1.669 2.761 ElJBO(USS/S$ per E) 1J06 L77I DM li08 OJM YIN MKJ LS71 RM UN 0.438 ma 7.771 M14 BAHT S&S9 IN) WJPIAH 1316 0.014* •stmmwuu ran sates SINGAPORE* MO KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK MOO MANILA 11.00 BONO KONG 8.25 TAIPH
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    Lock icon Banks revive credit bureau idea to cut defaults
    634 1  -  l-iriexclusive But new proposal is limited to information abont consumer eredit and credit card spending By( Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has revived the proposal to set up a credit bureau to gather information on loans and
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    Lock icon Sharp struggle over final line-up of Indon Cabinet
    898 1  -  f'it exclusive From Yang Razali Kassim in Jakarta A STIFF last-minute struggle to determine the outcome of the new Cabinet took place yesterday as President Abdurrahman Wahid tried to push for an earlier than scheduled announcement of the Cabinet, to the dissatisfaction
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    Lock icon HP,PM discuss building e-services across Asean
    374 1  -  US firm explores bringing some of its e-service hub efforts to Singapore By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US giant Hew-lett-Packard Company has discussed with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong the development of e-services capabilities across Asean countries. Carleton "Carly" Fiorina, HP's new president and CEO
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      74 1 mgmE BT Comment Lee Han Shih on how CPF members are paying dearly. Pg 11 Top stories DBS Land unit buys Australia's Walker Corp. Pg 2 Acer proposes buyback, delisting of all shares. Pg 4 M'sian lawyer makes offer for Gob shares. Pg 7 US-based LaSaNe Investment to set up
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        232 2 IN a recent interview with that wonderful journal of anatomy, Playboy, ex-wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura (right) revealed that if he were ever to be reincarnated, he'd like to come back as a 38-double-D-bra. Barron's Alan Abelson has latched onto this confession with much gusto and
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        82 2 OVERSEAS Assurance Corporation (OAC) is boosting its profile. It recently started a marketing strategic unit which will focus on branding. Chin Gek Mei, formerly at Overseas Union Bank, is heading the unit with two other people. With the insurance industry opening up, and the number
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        Lock icon No hawker fare for banks
        143 2 EVEN as banks trip over themselves to sell housing and other consumer loans, few apparently are keen to lend to the humble hawker. According to one civil servant, a number of local banks were recently invited to make presentations to hawkers who needed to take
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      Lock icon DBS Land unit buys Aussie developer for A$245m
      459 2  -  Australand purchase of Walker will posh its growth in industrial property By] Marissa Chew DBS Land subsidiary Australand Holdings is buying Australian developer Walker Corporation for A 5245 million (*****.4 million) to help push growth of its industrial property business. Australand is
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon ACI plans to buy back and delist all its shares
      501 4  -  Premium: 76% over last traded price; exercise to cost USs73.7m By- Audrey Tan ACER Computer International (ACI) is proposing a buyback and delistment of all its shares, at a hefty 76 per cent premium over the last traded price. The
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      Lock icon Local tech firm eyes SES listing
      482 4  -  SingaTrust also plans to list two units on Nasdaq in two to three years By' Toh Han Shih THE SingaTrust Group, a local technology firm, plans to list on the Stock Exchange of Singapore mainboard in six to nine months, then list two of
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      Lock icon Good times are back
      744 4  -  PEOPLE Jannie Tay tells hew The Hear Glass' shift in focus has paid #fl Byt Andrea Tan THINGS are looking up for luxurious watch manufacturer and retailer The Hour Glass after two years of tough times. The company has inched away from its "super-rich" customers to
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      Lock icon China toll bridge firm gets SES listing nod
      366 5  -  Pi'Rvi listings CTBR is involved in building, operating, managing China toll bridges and roads By' Teh Hooi Ling CHINA Toll Bridges Roads (CTBR) has received in-prin-ciple approval for a primary main board listing here. CTBR is a specialist infrastructure company principally engaged
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      Lock icon IRE: some upside potential but..
      364 5  -  Analysts point to weak market sentiment, hot competition in construction industry By\ Marissa Chew ANALYSTS have recommended a stag on the initial public offer of IRE Corporation, pointing to its reliance on the construction industry as weU as the relative low price of the offer.
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      Lock icon Lobby for higher thresholds
      858 5  -  ■r.y^iocks^r catherine ong WHEN the share prices of DBS Group Holdings and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) tumbled recently after rulings by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Ministry of Information and the Arts (Mita) on Brandes and Capital groups' purchases, the wags at Raffles
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      Lock icon SIA seen flying high in H1
      537 7 Reuters NATIONAL carrier Singapore Airlines is likely to produce rosy interim results boosted by an upswing in passenger traffic, aviation analysts said yesterday. The airline is expected to report its earnings for the six months ended Sept 30 on Friday. Analysts forecast that SlA's
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      Lock icon M'sian lawyer makes offer for Clob shares
      538 7  -  She's willing to buy some shares at 10% discount From, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur AN unknown Malaysian lawyer who would like to remain so has emerged as the latest contender for the frozen Clob shares, offering to buy some of them at
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      Lock icon Taiwan lifts foreign cap on telcos
      351 7  -  Bill passed; Sing Tel said to be looking at investment in Koo's telecom consortium From Macabe Keliher in Taipei FOREIGN investors, like Singapore Telecom, will be able to take majority ownership of companies vying for a slice of the island's fixed line telecommunications market
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      Lock icon DBS up on tie-up talk
      143 7 [SINGAPORE] Shares of DBS Group Holdings rose 40 cents to $18.40 yesterday, a gain of 2.2 per cent, on expectations that it will announce a tie-up with American Express today. Despite a generally lacklustre and quiet day in the wider market, DBS still managed to
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      376 6 Stocks Voksna Kappat LandSOc 6,088,000 AMFood&PropUS$ 5.988.000 Qottan Agri US10c 5.693,000 *Gar*nQ»nt.— 5.664.000 STEnaQ 10c 4.808,000 *TanCnonglrit50c 4,608,000 CM Tatacom HK75c 4,324,000 QES (rrtl Ltd 20c 4,272,000 8tngTai15c 3,832.000 SunwayWIHKIOc 3,683,000 Stocfca 8 DBSGip 19,752,635 SPH— 18.801.040 Kami LandSOc 14.779.790 SIA 14.565,460 0C8C- 13,166,600 C*yDsv50c 12,154,326 STEnofllOc 11.901,630 aTal15c 11,472,586
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      Lock icon Market players sit out another lacklustre day
      581 6  -  |:i I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IT was a frustrating session yesterday on the local stock market as prices weakened gradually throughout the day despite a strong rally on Wall Street on Friday. Liquidity continued to remain as low as interest levels and
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      Lock icon Keep Liang Huat warrant in mind for later play
      197 6  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy DURING the huge liquidity-driven rally in June and July, Liang Huat Aluminium's warrant was one of the market's best performers. Since then, however, the combination of trading curbs by brokers and rising US interest rates have
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      Lock icon More upside seen for SembCorp
      270 6  -  HOT STOCK fvwi j -ty Wong Wei Kong SEMBCORP Industries shares rose sharply yesterday, finishing among the biggest net gainers on news that it was listing its subsidiary Singapore Food Industries (SFI). The stock closed up 12 cents or 5.8 per cent at its day-high
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      Lock icon Diary of events
      92 6 Tuesday, Oct 26 Singapore ♦Bam. Press briefing: International Swaps and Derivatives Association's AsiaPacific Regional Conference ♦9.15 am. PUB Y2K programme and readiness press briefing ♦10am Sony Singapore officially launches Wega DRC ♦10.45 am DBS announces strategic alliance with an international financial institution ♦Ham. Robinsons holds press briefing
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      Lock icon US$ starts week mixed after Dow's sharp rebound
      503 6  -  -H comment CURRENCIES Rupiah strength shores op Sing dollar and baht against greenback larry wee THE US dollar had a mixed session yesterday, strengthening smartly against recent favourites like the sterling pound and the euro in a carry-over from New York trading
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Call to SES, SEHK to cooperate on high-tech start-ups
      487 8  -  SM Lee s&ys this can spur development of regional capital market Reports by Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE stock exchanges of Singapore and Hongkong should look into linking up trading in their markets for highgrowth or high-tech start-ups to create
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      Lock icon Patten's reforms make changes difficult
      558 8 Different groups need to arrive at social contract: SM SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday blamed accelerated political reforms left behind by former governor Chris Patten for sabotaging the current political, economic and social systems which have now made both the running of Hongkong and
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      Lock icon LaSalle Inv to set up fund management ops in S'pore
      440 8  -  p:il exclusive By\ Carol Eng LASALLE Investment Management, the world's second largest property asset manager, will "soon" establish fund management operations out of Singapore. US-based LaSalle Investment, which now manages over US$2O billion (5533.3 billion) worth of funds, is understood
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      Lock icon NTUC Income cuts its board rate for housing loans to 4.75%
      278 8 THE NTUC Income Insurance Co-operative will reduce its board rate for housing loans by half a percentage point to 4.75 per cent, effective Nov 1. The cooperative said the new board rate would apply not only to those making
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      Lock icon Peak Pacific buys into China power project
      226 8 SINGAPORE-BASED Peak Pacific Investment Company has acquired a 70 per cent stake in a 100 megawatt coalfired power station in China for US$2B million (5546.6 million). The plant, Peak Pacific's largest investment in China to-date, will sell electricity to the Gongyl Power Bureau
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      Lock icon Soon, you can do the dishes via the Net
      355 8  -  By* Toh Han Shih THE Internet will be on your dishwashing machine, television, handphone and car, not just your computer. This is starting to be a reality and will become widespread in about two years, said Sun Microsystems' chief operating officer
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      Lock icon FCC's $72m bid for Shell residential site highest: sources
      609 9  -  I si I exclusive Tender said to have drawn 7 bids ranging from abont $300 to $350 psf of potential built-up area By. Kalpana Rashiwala FIRST Capital Corporation (FCC) has emerged as the highest bidder for the freehold residential plot at
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      Lock icon Unity does trial run of high-tech pharmacist scheme
      450 9  -  By! Soh Tiang Keng UNITY NTUC Healthcare is conducting a trial run of a high-tech scheme enabling a pharmacist to counsel patients and dispense medicine by remote control. Under this scheme using video-conferencing technology, a pharmacist in one outlet can see, talk
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      Lock icon Liberalise fast – or lose out to other financial centres
      531 10  - Liberalise fast or lose out to other financial centres MAILItm Share brokerage commission rates should be freed up quickly CH Lim Singapore I REFER to the letter "Brokerage fee fully negotiable by 2003" (BT, Oct 15) by Soh Sun Oh, the public affairs manager of the Stock Exchange of Singapore
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      Lock icon Share buybacks: There are benefits and exceptions
      240 10  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore via Internet I WRITE in reply to Curtis J Montgomery's article "No gains in wrong type of share buyback" (BT, Oct 20) citing the losses that he (and, no doubt, many others as well) had to suffer consequent to the
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      Lock icon Value of connections in some markets
      104 10  -  Eric Ang Singapore via Internet I REFER to your report "Renong as a blue chip? That's really ftinny: analyst" (BT, Oct 22). It is a reflection of the business culture in some Asian markets where the right connections are the main factor in corporate
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      Lock icon 5.4% growth for S'pore: poll
      321 10  -  Pon the economy inflation By i Carol Eng CONSENSUS Economics, based in London, has raised its economic growth forecast for Singapore this year to 5.4 per cent. Its poll of 11 research houses earlier this month showed a more optimistic outlook, hence the increase in
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Making CPF members pay dearly
      683 11  -  I-i| comment PROPERTY Hard to see why mortgage payments need to be transferred early to banks, causing loss of Interest amounting to iwini«wi« lee han shih AN interesting issue concerning the Central Provident Fund was raised by a letter published in The Straits Times yesterday.
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      Lock icon 125-unit condo coming up on Mt Sophia
      610 12  -  Methodist Centre to be redeveloped and marketed in second quarter of next year By] Kalpana Rashiwala THE Methodist Church in Singapore will redevelop the Methodist Centre on Mount Sophia into a 125-unit condominium which will be marketed in the second quarter of next
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      Lock icon Pidemco's Premas ties up with HK firm
      212 12 [SINGAPORE] Premas International, the property management arm of gov-ernment-linked Pidemco Land, yesterday said it teamed up with Davis Langdon Seah Hong Kong for a joint venture which will tap the Hongkong market for business opportunities. The tie-up is part of Premas' larger plan
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon India reforms need drastic attitude change
      755 14  -  1 bottom line OPINION rajendra bajpai The writer is a New Delhi-based journalist who contributes to BT INDIA'S newly inaugurated coalition government led by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has an obligation to the country to provide a
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      113 14 'In Russia today, you don't do well by doing better. You do well by seeking favours, tax preferences and subsidies. This reduces the government's income and increases the deficits.' -Bill Lewis head of the McKinsey consulting firm's Global Institute, on the Russian economy. 'Aids threatens to reduce,
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      Lock icon Layoffs aren't the answer for Japan
      613 14 EDITORIAL WHEN Nissan announced that the Japanese motor giant would cut 21,000 jobs and drastically reduce reliance on its myriad parts suppliers, many at the briefing where the dramatic restructuring plan was unveiled broke into applause. But at a time when Japan's economic recovery
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      Lock icon How to make billions selling cups of coffee
      699 14  -  Entrepreneurs who can change habits or take advantage of rhangpg in habits become very rich By Lester Thurow The writer is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alfred P Sloan School of Management LAT-WP IN A little more
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      944 14 Ronton PC lacks OS THE most important story out of Russia last week was buried in the business pages: Russia's top stock-market watchdog quit after declaring that Boris Yeltsin's government was simply not interested in enforcing laws to protect shareholders in Russia. Imagine if you found
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Worries over TRI build up as bond redemption nears
      582 15 KUALA LUMPUR Debt-laden telco may need to fork ont USss3om to repay bondholders Reuters CONCERN is mounting over whether Malaysia's Technology Resources Industries Bhd (TRI) can cobble together a debt restructuring plan ahead of a bond redemption deadline just days away,
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Capital reduction for P&D
        120 15 TRADING of financially-troubled Plantation and Development (Malaysia) on the Kuala Lumpur bourse has picked up substantially as market players speculated on how big a capital reduction the company will be making. Construction-based P&D had announced a restructuring exercise that involves the cancellation of shares, revamp of
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        Lock icon Harrisons makes strong debut
        76 15 TRADING-BASED Harrisons Holdings made a strong debut on the KLSE yesterday, closing 69 sen or 58 per cent above the initial public offer price of RM1.20 on active trade. Group managing director Chan Kim Poh told the media yesterday that the company was on the lookout
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        Lock icon MRCB shares up marginally
        96 15  -  Compiled by Ruth Wong THE Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd share price rose marginally yesterday following the company's announcement that it will sell its 30 per cent stake in an independent power producer to Sime Darby and Tenaga Nasional. MRCB, which plans to get out of the
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      Lock icon Dr M's son settles with Nanyang Press
      167 15 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's son, Mirzan Mahathir, has reached an out-of-court settlement with a unit of Nanyang Press Holdings Bhd over a libel suit, Nanyang Press said yesterday. Nanyang Press said in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock
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      343 15  -  From, Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur TELENOR International AS of Norway has agreed to buy 30 per cent of DiGi Swisscom from Vincent Tan for a whopping 787.5 million Malaysian ringgit (*****.8 million) cash or RM5.25 per share more than double DiGi's
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      415 15  -  From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday directed all component parties of the ruling National Front to re-activate their election machinery and announced the setting up of a committee to draft the Front's manifesto, signalling an election could be
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      564 16 11 I JI bank restructure JAKARTA Bat the UK bank says purchase of 20% stake in the Indon bank is on track Bloomberg, Reuters STANDARD Chartered Pic and Indonesia's central bank sent conflicting signals on the status of the British bank's takeover of
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      214 16 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency said it restructured debt worth 3.78 trillion rupiah (***** million) held by 19 firms under its control. Another 1.05 trillion rupiah worth of loans owed by seven firms is in the final stage of restructuring, Ibra
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      240 16 Reuters INDONESIA'S central bank governor said yesterday that he expected the rupiah would not strengthen beyond the 6,000 barrier to the dollar. Syahril Sabirin, speaking after a meeting with President Abdurrahman Wahid on monetary policy, also said he saw year-on-year inflation
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      422 18 MANILA Buenaventura wants to avoid an oligopoly resulting from wave of bank mergers Bloomberg THE Philippine central bank governor said the country needs more foreign banks to prevent the bank merger wave that he has encouraged from leading to a cartel. "What we want to
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      262 18 MANILA Index declines to eight-month low led by developers Bloomberg THE Philippines' benchmark stock index dropped to an eight-month low yesterday, as developers such as Ayala Land Inc fell on concern that accelerating inflation will push interest rates higher. The Philippine Stock
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      191 18 MANILA Bernama THE International Air Transport Association (lata) has readmitted the Philippine Airlines to its clearing house facility after PAL settled its US$32 million (5553.4 million) obligation, an official said yesterday. PAL spokesman Rolando Estabillo said the readmission restored PAL's inter-line links with nearly
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      244 18 HANOI They say the move won't do much to stimulate economy Reuters [HANOI] Foreign and local banks criticised Vietnam's fresh cut in the ceiling rate on monthly dong loans yesterday, saying the move would probably do little to stimulate economic growth.
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      139 18 She's just called to say that she'll be half an hour Do A) Sigh and pick up the menu? B) Sigh and try to pick up the waitress? C) Say 'No problem darling', take out your Ericsson MC2IB and reply to your e-mails. r «p° '*v'"^*s ■.v e M A
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      416 19 MILLENNIUM COUNTDOWN Computer server firm sees no hiccups at Asian, US exchanges it services Reuters THE head of Stratus Computer Inc in Asia said yesterday that the fault-tolerant computer servers it has provided to some of the region's major stock exchanges were Y2K-ready and would not
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      384 19  -  Hutchison won't leap at Vodafone's hostile offer: analysts From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong HUTCHISON Whampoa said yesterday that it expects the takeover of its cellular unit Orange pic by Mannesmann AG, the German-based telecommunication company, to go through. It said this in
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      514 19 HONGKONG Investors line up hours before the start of the sale of np to HKslob in shares Bloomberg THOUSANDS of people lined up for the Hongkong government's sale of part of its HK$2OB billion (5544.7 billion) share portfolio, raising hopes of strong demand for
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      245 20 NKW DELHI 55% of respondents in CII survey expect things to get better Reuters THE general business situation in India will improve in the next six months, a survey released by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) said yesterday. CII said it surveyed 205
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      445 20 NEW DELHI President says India to push reforms to achieve foster growth of 7-8% Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP INDIAN President KR Narayanan said yesterday that the country will aim to boost its software exports to US$5O billion (5583.4 billion) a year by 2008. "The Ministry
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      127 20 ■BOMBAY INDIA'S largest housing finance company yesterday posted a 16 per cent year-on-year rise in net profits to 1.7 biUion rupees (Ss7o mUlion) in the six months to September. Housing Development Finance Corp Ltd (HDFC) said overaU income had risen 11 per cent
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      186 20 NEWDELHI Bloomberg RANBAXY Laboratories Ltd, India's second-biggest drugmaker, said its third-quarter profit rose 54.6 per cent, boosted by money the company earned by licensing its technology. Profit rose to 779 minion rupees (Ss2B million) in the three months ended September from 504 million rupees
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      124 20 KARACHI Bloomberg PAKISTAN yesterday lifted the ban it imposed two weeks ago on money changers that prevented them from conducting foreign exchange transactions soon after the country's military took control of the government. "We have aUowed money changers to resume normal business from today,"
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      402 21 TOKYO Rise in volume of goods sold overseas points to region's revival: analysts Bloomberg IN a further sign that Japan's economy is coming back to health, the country's merchandise trade surplus with the rest of the world rose more than one-fifth in September. The
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      263 21 TOKYO It suffers worse than forecast interim loss of 4&Bb yen Bloomberg NEC Corp, Japan's largest maker of personal computers and microchips, said firsthalf losses widened as sales of computer memory chips slumped and it sold less telecommunications equipment overseas. Tokyo-based NEC
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      195 21 TOKYO Bloomberg WORLDWIDE sales of equipment used to make microchips surged 74 per cent in August, the second straight gain after 15 months of decline, supplying further evidence of recovery in the global chip market. Chip equipment sales rose 74 per cent
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      422 21 USYDNEY The Aussie exchange's lst-qtr profit rose 40% to Aslo.9m Bloomberg THE Australian Stock Exchange Ltd (ASX), which yesterday reported a 40 per cent rise in its first-quarter operating profit, disclosed that it is holding talks with Asian stock exchanges, including
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        92 23 Reuters INEW YORK] AT&T Corp, the No 1 US long distance telephone company, yesterday said its third quarter operational profits fell 4.5 per cent as price competition and weakness in its consumer long distance unit offset growth in its wireless, Internet and business units.
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        55 23 Bloomberg [IRVING, Texas] Exxon Corp, the largest publicly owned oil company, said third quarter earnings rose 7 per cent as crude oil prices surged. Net income rose to US$l.5 billion (552.5 billion), or 61 cents a share, from US$l.4 billion, or 58
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        83 23 Reuters [ST PAUL, Minnesota] Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co, the industrial conglomerate better known as 3M, yesterday posted an 18 per cent jump in third quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street estimates, buoyed by productivity gains and a strong flow of new products. 3M, whose
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        63 23 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) yesterday said it was considering cutting jobs and investments in a restructuring move ahead of a planned government sale of NTT shares next month. NTT said it may cut its group work force to
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        97 23 Reuters [DANBURY, Connecticut] Chemicals company Union Carbide Corp yesterday posted lower third quarter earnings that fell short ofWall Street's expectations, due mostly to higher costs of raw materials. Union Carbide, which is in a deal to merge with Dow Chemical Co, said third quarter net
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        68 23 Bloomberg [WHITE PLAINS, New York] Texaco Inc, the third largest US oil company, said third quarter earnings more than doubled on a rise in oil and natural gas prices. Profit from operations rose to US$453 million (***** million), or 83 cents a share, from US$2OB million,
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      537 23 NEW YORK The industry must prepare for keener competition as US banks will now be able to merge with securities and insurance firms IHT THE global financial industry, fresh from a round of megamergers, now must brace for another jolt
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      394 23 WASHINGTON Govt figures to show 0.9% rise in salaries, 4.6% growth Bloomberg US economic reports due out this week will be highlighted by numbers likely to show that labour costs and overall economic growth rose in the third quarter, analysts said. "Thursday
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      473 23 PEOPLE Reuters Billionaire Donald Trump, calling Republicans "too crazy right", said on Sunday he is quitting the Republican Party a key step in any bid for the Reform Party nomination for the 2000 presidential election. "I really believe the Republicans are just too crazy
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      910 23 Trend of selling ideas, instead of planning viable businesses, may cause Net firms to stumble NYT [NEW YORK] The desire to cash out big is not a new motivating force in the technology industry. But what is striking about today's Internet economy is
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      265 25  -  simri ik Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed mixed in quiet trade yesterday, ignoring the solid gains on Wall Street last Friday despite firmer regional markets. Besides the lack of interesting market-stirring scoops, investors remained sidelined while
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      169 25  -  MSCI Taiwan (Mores Charlie Kuo Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures rose yesterday following Taiwan Semi conductor Manufacturing Company's announcement after tht mcuKet closed on Friday that net profit had tripled in the third quarter, reinforcing investors' confidence in the
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      256 25 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] OU prices yesterday were lifted within a dollar of the year's high after fresh signals from Opec that it would consider extending the duration of its limits on exports. International benchmark Brent crude gained 23 cents to U5523.16 a barrel
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      320 25 Reuters London THE euro shook off early weakness and bounced modestly against the US dollar yesterday, supported by rekindled expectation of a near term European Central Bank credit tightening and concern over US asset markets. The single currency, which extended its decline from an Oct 15 high of
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      2792 26 HONGKONG AFP Hang Seng +17L10 HONGKONG shares rose 1.3 per cent yesterday to reclaim the 13,000-point psychological level on follow-up buying sparked by positive corporate developments and a firmer Wall Street, dealers said. "Sentiment has been boosted by the outperformance of several
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      946 26 AFP Index -&21 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares gave up their early gains to close slightly lower yesterday amid weak market sentiment, brokers said. The B Share Index shed 0.21 point, or 0.3 per cent, to 76.24 as turnover fell to HK510.39 million from HK119.68 million on Friday. Shenzhen's
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      350 26 AFP QWP Intel +12U4 TAIWAN shares rallied 1.6 per cent yesterday led by the financial sector as investors were relieved the second earthquake to rock the island in a month did little damage, dealers said. "Investors rushed to buy financial issues on expectation that Friday's quake would not further
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      1952 26 TOKYC AFP Qnum ♦awii SHARE prices in Tokyo gained 1.2 per cent yesterday, with investors encouraged by strong gains on Wall Street at the week-end, brokers said. The Nikkei Average 0f225 selected issues finished up 209.99 points at 17,648.79. The Topix of all issues
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      7644 27 INDUSTRIALS CoASMMf products 1999 Last Vol Day N«t Cap High Low Company Solo 'BOO Htgll U» Pit 440 255 Ajinomoto 310 19.7 125.6 174 46 Angkasa 99 4 13 99 95.5 146.0 404 220 Apollo food Hlg 320 2 2 320 320 7.6 128.0 294 115 Borjoyo Land 179 -1
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      436 27 AFP MALAYSIAN share prices ended mixed yesterday, with profit-taking paring early gains as the market settled into a lull before an expected gain in momentum preceding the national Budget. "The market is falling into a quiet moment for now," said a dealer with a
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      672 28 AFP D Composite Index -?il INDONESIAN shares closed down yesterday as Investors locked in profits notched up on the back of the outcome of last week's presidential elections, dealers said. The market was also pressured by negative sentiment prompted by concerns over the Cabinet after President Addurrahman Wahid said
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      276 28 AFP Qlbml* -2122 SHARES dropped 1.3 per cent yesterday on renewed worries of inflation following a series of oil price hikes, brokers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 26.22 points to close at 1,920.46. A total of 1.6 billion shares worth 1.6 billion pesos changed hands. —AFP
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      566 28 AFP QAD Ordinaries +18J MAJOR blue chip companies boosted Australian shares 0.6 per cent yesterday, dealers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index finished up 18.1 points at 2,855.4. News Corp, Telstra Corp and the National Australia Bank led the All Industrials Index 44.5 points higher to
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      278 28 AFP n Composite Index -20.68 THE Korea Stock Exchange Index closed down 20.68 points at 798.84. Volume was 2.7 million shares worth 2.7 trillion won. —AFP MM *b AnamSwitf- MaOO HIM Brain Tacfi 22*0 uneh C antral Bank 294S -105 Ctwtt Comm ***** 500 Dm Gu Ban* 4280 130
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      72 28 TheßusinessTimes INTELLIGENCE CHANGES EVERYTHING. The stock markets in Thailand and New Zealand were closed for a public holiday yesterday The grass is always greener on the other side. With so many choice properties for sale in The Straits Times Classified daily, it's no wonder our readers are tempted to seek
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      625 30  -  City residents air their views on its restaurants, cams michaud reports CHRIS MICHAUD Reuters TAKING in everything gastronomic from kosher hibachi tables to the Big Apple's lone outpost for German-Caribbean fare, the year 2000 Zagat Survey of dining habits made its debut yesterday, with
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      581 31 GOLF At jnst 23 years old, this driven golfer still has his best years ahead NYT [LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida] Instead of being spoiled by success, Tiger Woods seems motivated by it. As darkness fell on Saturday night after
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      338 30 Special Feature November 30, 1999 ,&M v- v itt TMMB E The tide has turned. The shipping industry has picked up dramatically in the past year. It's all systems go! z Around the world, aging fleets have to be repaired, converted or if replaced and local shipyards can develop more
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      1134 31 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Desultorily read some lines in 1 PI I I—X 5 A skilled worker ran it as re10 Let in— for the first time! II IB! SB HI 9^ 11 Strike directors as a good ba 13 A hard case a woman will join 28 Beg leaderless men
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      875 32  -  Some MNCs tell toh bam ssm how they encourage their staff to share work know-how TOH HAN SHIH [SINGAPORE] Employees must share knowledge if a company is to have effective knowledge management. And that's something that few people from the highest to the lowest ranks
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      725 32 ATKITa.TTM There are solutions for online merchants MUCH has been said over the past few years about the exciting business prospects that the Internet offers. However, the problems that challenge e-commerce have often been overlooked. Even more neglected are some of the solutions to these
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      165 33 Bridge News Reuters PAN AM AXES ended the week on Friday holding recent gains but several brokers said the market was nearing the top of its current run. This was reflected in the Baltic Panamax Index which rose just two points to 1,352, while the Baltic Freight Index
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      270 33 tta a w CWT Otttrrtsuttoc 1.19 unch 2 Chuanm® L69 0.07 22t4 Cosco Inyastnoanl U1 0.05 3 FrataM Unlu OJO aoi 464 osHoMnes an ouos o Hal Sun Hup 0.65 0.02 33S MCHotdlngs-HK —3.60 unch 0 089 0.01 28 JurangShtpyard 7.70 -0.15 68 KappalCorp 4.62 unch 954 K*0P«
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      516 33  -  Aussie fast craft builder seeks S'pore partners for alliance to look into feasibility of project By. Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Australian fast craft builder Austal Ships is actively seeking Singapore partners to join a soon-to-be-formed alliance to evaluate the feasibility of a fast freight catamaran
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      479 33  -  Shipping lines last year carried more cargo bnt earned less revenue: Dre wry From David Hughes in London CONTAINER shipping companies are no nearer solving the riddle of how to turn growth into profit, according to a new report which casts doubt on the
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      184 33 [SINGAPORE] The region's shippers are facing more bunker surcharges as shipping lines continue to act to recover rising ftiel costs. A group of 10 main line operators (MLOs) on the Far East-Mediterranean trade are imposing a US$37 (5561.42) per TEU bunker adjustment factor (BAF) from Nov
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        764 34 Order for long-range A34os and 20 planes in the A 320 family loosens Boeing's stranglehold on Chinese market Bloomberg [LYON, France] CHINA will order 28 planes from Airbus Industrie worth about US$l.B billion (Ss3 billion), French President Jacques Chirac announced after meeting Chinese President Jiang Zemin
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      191 34 PAGE 0)* Lloyd 8 ACL 6 Oongnama 3 m 3 ECUUne 6 Accord 8 ECl 4 Appenship 5 lm 6 KM FOOO,SUn 6 Link 4 Balaj.Shpg 5 GetMrtrare 6 BSA 7 Hangli 7 BtangMas 8 7. Hanjw 3 CCIM 7 Heung-A 4 CMA 8 Hyund* 7 C0SC0
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      19885 41 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyaqe Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Destn Name Name Number Number n/n 21/n Han M n KAMA BHUM 471 65 *****35 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvolre n/n 19/12 ncpl cmekiang vmt
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        606 45 VmmI Voy No 6*fth Arrtv»l D#p«rtur« 2A J M '51 25/10/0:45 31/10/730 L2to»67 Nc/23 J02 25/M:tt 26/10/830 j™ ***** J01 25/10/835 26/10/2030 J02 2VMM nnomo T2?SW« 4 J05 25/10/8:30 25/10/2030 D S«Wrt*r» 1002*9 J03 25/10/8:15 25/10/23X10 650 J03 25/10/8:45 25/10/23:59 Bt MMur *****9 J01 25/10/10:10 25/10/1830 rwortT 8A
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        1779 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Boohing/Bolonco B»tl$ Sfilp Voy No Etb/Btr Ptrtod From To From 2 SS88 in Aa™ bos n**oo a sg jgs SSS J 2V0700 25/WM S2J2 4 25/1200 2WW 25/1700 SSStH -S, 26/13 00 a -2VJ700 25/0JM 2VM00 I 25/0700 25/H59 2VT400
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        169 45 Oak 9t Austria: National Day. Oct 28 Greece: Oxi Day. Nov 1 Philippines: All Saints Day. Nov 3 Japan: Culture Day. Nov 5 Brunei: Meraj. Nov 9 Indonesia: Ascension Day of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Sweden: All Saints Day. Nov 7 Malaysia: Deepavali. Singapore: Deepavali. Russia: Day of
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        738 45 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma line 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 averagesized stem. Market movement* are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        226 45 180 Mai WW 12 M "I 74 0.09 llk s«dlewit No rtow E25 1 1 Oct 21 PwWt Itotf Afc—M 9Q9 0.4 RJ 0.06 20 0.02 MO to WW 0.9 *1 0.06 56 0.04 M/IM %1ft M/M »M/» W »*«W635 2 g£ a a a a
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        489 46 Cargo volume also rose in first half of this year by 3JB per cent Reuters [GENEVA] Strong growth in Europe and continuing recovery in Asia and Latin America helped to expand passenger traffic at airports by 4.5 per cent in the first
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        329 46 Reuters [MUSCAT] Oman is considering allowing local and foreign investors to set up a new private airline to help boost tourism and trade in the country's southern port city of Salalah, a chamber of commerce official said. The official said the Oman Chamber of Commerce
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        382 46 Reuters (TORONTO] Canadian conglomerate Onex Corp demanded that Air Canada reveal any "poison pill" provisions contained in the airline's Cs93o-million (551.04 billion) plan to merge Canada's two main carriers and place them in the Star Alliance code-sharing network. A "poison pill", or
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      388 33 DQKQH wmvwtxm Malta* PMttop E-ftßtahf'99 ShUlcerCourtaf S N SC> The Maritime and Port IQPC Worldwide is is oroanteirraa tour to Pa- Authorit V of Singapore is organising the first Asian organising a seminar on conference on Nnvu?at ?Innm The port design and operation E-Purchasing from Nov 29 wifwlwl technology on
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      646 34 Unas services represented u »»y Members of thm Registry of 9 <* Accredited Shipping Agents. U|U Singapore Frwght Forwarders Sfeore National Shipping Assoc. Association PH ULY UNE MALE Ivissa I voy I iu HS m P. KLANC SfOtl mil Princes Lily V 0999 23/10 27/10 05/11 Empress lily V 0699
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      1786 35 ®HANJIN SHIPPING jik Pl -am nan mmw swmwG(S)rn lip km* m nom, imrnw smb rmm m documht mnn v* oftmioK rercsom maun ru mmi ax nsvnooooM TO NW USA CANADA USA ri*\NAITA* FM VSL/VOY OAM SM UM HAUL/VOY id TIW KM POX 01 HSF fTT DTT MEM pit MM TVS
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      87 35 ACCEPTING LCL CARGOES TO JAPAN, CHINA, KOREA AND HONG KONG FOR ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CALL 220 8558 WORLDGATE EXPRESS LINES PTE LTD Tel: *****11 Fax: *****73/*****63 Email: wgate©mbox2.singnet.com.sg Calcutta f Chlttagong PORT~LQUIS [30/10 I Karachi COLOMBO 29/10 I KARA CHI/LAHORE 28/10 Bombay V bombay 27/10 I MADRAS/BANGALORE 29/10 CALCUTTA 30/10 Colombo*
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      1340 36 DSR-SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MiaJfIIBHANEAN€ANADA vcssa Ivor fan lb> btm urn mi |mv lax] *aa w* J! ?E ?!—————!s!L mummtum B7iw aw an n.n mi nil *1.11 Shanghai wnaton bmw mm mji m.ii w.ll aii nil puoownMTon Bin* bii mi mi an an an aw mm trade s&bc H2CW
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      851 36 m. Am MAR-HELS SPfiRE M'SIA I UtTaTj Carriw. Mil COUTH LHIES, INC p.guoang:(ot)3B6372B I JVy I OK MO: **********0 C SOU: (084) *****9 MAMLA: (832)*****24 PENANG: (04) *****36 BANGKOK: (882) *****67 SURABAYA: (31) *****11 P. KELANG: (03) *****77 JKE (21) *****46 KUCHWQ (082) *****1-3 HO CHI MINH PORT KLANG MV
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      580 36 lis EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR N.SHEVA/COLOMBO VKMI SPORf N. SHEVA COLOMOO P.KLANS CAPE CANAVERAL V II3W 25 OCT K NOV M NOV 14 NOV TULSIDAS V.IH r NOV (OCSCH/ DRY DOCKING ONLY) TARPON SILVER V IBOW M NOV II NOV 23 NOV 20 NOV CAPE CANAVERAL VII4W 15 NOV a
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      1702 37 [vessel vov khh hkc sin pko pqb dxb dmm Iba I bik IRAN BAAKERI PCL-5125 20/10 22/10 20/10 27/10 05/11 06/11 07/11 09/11 11/11 IRAN TEYFOURI PCL-5126 27/10 29/10 02/11 03/11 12/11 13/11 14/11 16/11 18/11 IRAN SHAHRYAR PCL-5127 03/11 05/11 09/11 10/11 19/11 20/11 21/11 22/11 24/11 IRAN BAABAEI
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      1098 37 Sailing to Mm NoMdM, 1 Djibouti (Via Dnhwi) J MRO#, MSOHRO TIL- 226 1900 FAX; *****08 OUTWARD (l/L) 4205#O^^OHOREOFFKr^^™ ~^™"^^™,1 COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #12-00 SAIIS/IKGS *****57/60 INWARD DEff (0/0) *****05 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD 06M98 CONVENTIONAL *****50/55 T/SHPMT DCfT <*****5 nLQ2-0M*****6 FA*02******170 (ID "WW* ON UN W/W ON
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      1454 38 50 TEL OK BLANGAH ROAD 402-02 OTPOfIT CENTRE S'PORt *****1 fEL: *****11 (6 lines) FAX: *****05 fLX: RS ***** CR NO. **********0W lESSEL VOY ETA ETD (DESTINATION NABUKWA 3MB 3(IM 31/IIMB PALBAANGm BALAM LMAMU 1 4,99 311W9 30.1 MB PONTIANAK RSKAWA OM9 (Tlll® IMLAYSIA&JMATBWtAIJMAinAN PORTS For enqvirie* and bookings plane
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      479 39 M MYANMA I WBBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myaanar National Line) P loading for Yangoß (Rangoon) j yESSEI VOY SIN PEL PEN rGU J KENG TUNG 4W SIB SAGAMG «W SU MALAVStA AGENTS: OOUSTEAO SMFFM6 AGENCIES KUL TEL (03)*****00 PKL TEL (03) 37*6101 PEN: TIL (04)2****** PGth TEL (07)*****21/4 BANK LINE
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      809 39 WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA RORO HEAYYUFT SOVKI* [VESSEL VOY RAMP HEIGHT I SIN LAX CRL MIA SAV RAI I ORF I NYC I NEW I MOO TALAOOT jujoT 400 tan U* ***** it/11 04/12 07/12 09/12 11/1? 12/12 14/11 IS/12 19/12 TAMPERE AHO9 400 Ims 4.3 M
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      55 41 n NEW BREAKBULK SERVICE I osojMira im For Complete MjHMM Schedules Information See PACC CONTAINER LINE Turn To Pg 5 on 5 FR. MEYER'S SOHN iMfllfßfa SPECIALISTS IN Dedicated Forest/Paper Machinery EAST MALAYSIA products Heavy Lift Service Container Project Crosstrade Turn To Pg 14 every Mon/Wed/Fri Details See Pg 4
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      169 45 Kli Special Feature November 30,1999 s aJM r The tide has turned. The shipping industry has picked up Zmm. dramatically in the past year. If s all systems go! E Around the world, aging fleets have to be repaired, converted or E replaced and local shipyards can develop more market
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      409 46 A two-day, practical workshop on The Supply Chain 24th-25th November 1999, Concorde Hotel, Singapore WHO should attend? Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers, Analysts, Project Managers, MIS/IT Directors and Design and structure a powerful process of CONTINUAL a Professionals who are involved in: IMPROVEMENT Supply Chain Management, Operations, Maximize economic value to
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