The Business Times, 29 January 1988

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    11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1988 75 CENTS
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    Lock icon FINANCIAL NEWS SUMMARY
    260 1 Reuter Dow Jones higher WALL STREET stocks moved higher in early trading yesterday as investors pinned their hopes for stronger corporate growth on lower interest rates while trying to shrug off indications that the economy will slow this quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 15 points
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    Sydney falls amid rise in Asia
    166 1 DESPITE an easier overnight closing on Wall Street, major Asian markets managed to finish higher but Australia ended lower on profit-taking. In Singapore, DBS Land dominated trading in an otherwise quiet market. The counter yielded to selling pressure and fell to a low of
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    American GNP results fail to lift dollar
    174 1 THE US DOLLAR fell slightly against the Japanese yen in Tokyo yesterday in spite of some small purchases of the greenback by the Bank of Japan. The release of the US GNP figures for the fourth quarter of 1987 on Wednesday failed to
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    Lock icon Bank Negara unveils plan to rescue DTCs
    785 1 Finance company to take over liabilities of twelve Bernama ES BANK NEGARA Malaysia has unveiled its MsB93 million rescue plan to help the remaining 13 beleaguered deposit-taking cooperatives (DTCs) and their 271,000 depositors. The long-awaited plans announced by central bank governor Tan Sri
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    Lock icon Japan to cut oil bill in February
    180 1 Reuter JAPAN will mv« itself more than US$3 million a day on its oil purchases next month because it has refused to pay Opec's high official petroleum prices, oil industry sources said yesterday "Japan will be paying at least a dollar a barrel
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    Lock icon Jakarta asks for debt relief
    112 1 AFP WIDJOJO Nitisastro, a special envoy of President Suharto of Indonesia. has asked for Japan's cooperation in debt relief, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mr Nitisastro, who arrived in Tokyo on Monday, made
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    Dassault to transfer manufacture of some aircraft parts to SAI
    415 1  -  By LILY FERNANDEZ FRENCH aircraft manufacturer Dassault-Breguet Aviation plans to transfer the manufacturing of some aircraft parts to the gov-ernment-owned Singapore Aircraft Industries. In an exclusive interview with BT yesterday, Mr Hugues de L'estoile, senior executive vice-president (international affairs) of
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    Popiah maker buys over American food manufacturer
    587 1  -  By LOH HUI YIN POPIAH MAKER Tee Yih Jia is now the proud owner of a wellestablished American food manufacturer after paying $15 million for it, the company's first overseas acquisition. A Tee Yih Jia company spokeswoman disclosed yesterday that the deal was
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      434 1 Swedish connection THE SE Bank, Sweden's largest bank, is aggressively seeking global business With relaxation of control over the financial sector in Sweden, it is setting up branches overseas, instead of mere subsidiaries. Singapore is on its expansion network. Chairman Curt G Olsson notes in an interview with BT that
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Office and retail leasing sectors remain resilient in spite of Crash
      452 2  -  Property consultancy firm sees signs of rise in rentals this year By TONG SUIT CHEE THE PROPERTY investment market has suffered some setbacks as a result of the recent stock market crash, but the office and retail leasing sectors
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      VSL International sets up regional HQ in Singapore
      377 2  -  By BOEY KIT YIN A SWISS civil and building engineering company, VSL International Ltd, has made Singapore its headquarters for the Far East market. The newly incorporated office, VSL Far East Pte Ltd, will cover and coordinate activities of its subsidiaries, affiliates
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      PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
      283 2 KEISUKE AKEBOSHI is now general manager of Mitsui Trust and Banking Co Ltd in Singapore. Mr Akeboshi, a graduate in political science from the University of Keio in Japan, has 20 years of experience in the banking industry. He was previously deputy general manager at the bank's
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      Review not prepared to offer ad-free edition for free
      370 2 THE Far Eastern Economic Review has accepted one of two conditions for unrestricted circulation in Singapore. While it ia prepared to print an advertise-ment-free edition of the weekly magazine for Singapore, it waa only prepared to sell the magazine at cost
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      Indonesian minister on official visit
      93 2 THE INDONESIAN Defence and Security Minister, General (Retired) S Poniman, arrived yesterday morning for a three-day official visit. He paid a courtesy call on the Prime Miniater, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. at the letana yesterday. To- day, he will call on the First Deputy Prime
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      Hong Leong turns out to be sole buyer at auction
      306 2  -  By LEE HAN SHIH Property Correspondent THE HONG LEONG group emerged as the only buyer in a property auction yesterday, snapping up a piece of residential land off River Valley Road for $1.8 million. At 1,842 sq metres, the property.
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      Private sector has role in nation-building too
      131 2 AMPLE OPPORTUNITIES exist for the private sector to join hands with the government in nation-building, said an official from the Ministry of Communications Information. Dr K I Sudderuddin, senior assistant director (publications) of the Ministry of Communications Information, said the private sector could
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      ATR to set up product support centre
      313 2  -  By HARISH MEHTA FRENCH-ITALIAN consortium Avions de Transport Regional (ATR) and the Economic Development Board signed an agreement at a ceremony at the Asian Aeroepace show yesterday to install and operate a regional product support centre in Singapore. Under the agreement, ATR will
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      Journey continues for Voyager pilots
      350 2 VOYAGER PILOTS Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager have their feet firmly planted on the ground and are in Singapore for the air show, not ss flyers but ss guests of Teledyne Continentsl Motors, maker of the engine that powered the Voyager. "With the Voyager parked
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      Sino-French missile venture under study
      186 2 FRENCH-DESIGNED missiles may be built in China in the near future if current talks between the French firm Matra and the Chinese government are successfully concluded, aviation industry sources told BT. It is understood that these missiles are to be manufactured in China using Matra
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      McDonnell Douglas making its mark in Asia
      226 2 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS is moving fast into Asian space and military markets Indonesia has ordered it to launch a satellite while several Asian air forces are holding top-level tajks to buy «ts new fighter aircraft, the AV-6B Harrier 11. The satellite will relay high-speed
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      Aerospatiale may build missiles with Indonesia
      137 2 AEROSPATIALE is prepared to enter into a licence agreement with Indonesia to produce missiles. according to a top company executive. Mr Gerard Hibon, Aerospatiale's senior executive vice-president for international affairs, said that he could not disclose the type or the name of the missile
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
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      Lock icon China criticises US over hostile nation listing
      264 3 AFP THE CHINESE government on Wednesday criticised the US for allowing the US Defence Department secrstly to list China as a hostile nation, saying the decision "contradicted" US public policy. Reports on Tuesday said the US Defence Department had secretly kept China on
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      Lock icon Soviets hit out at Tokyo's export curbs
      181 3 AFP SOVIET Chamber of Commerce president Vladimir Maljkevich criticised Japan on Wednesday for hampering Soviet-Japan trsde by tightening export curbs under Coordinating Committee for Export Control (Cocom) rules, Japanese industrial sources said. Mr Maljkevich was spesking on the first day of the 11th
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      Lock icon Sino-American trade rises despite protectionism
      136 3 AFP TRADE between China and the US totalled US$7.B billion in 1967, up US$5OO million from the previous year, the International Business daily reported in Beijing on Wednesday. It added, however, that China continued to have a substantial trade deficit with the US. Chinese exports
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      Lock icon Fuzhou to hold public land auction
      132 3 AFP THE CHINESE authorities in the coastal city of Fuzhou are to offer land-use rights at an auction open to foreign and Chinese users in February, the New China News Agency (NCNA) reported on Tuesday. The land auction, involving three pieces of land, is
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      Lock icon Aquino to visit China before Soviet Union
      159 3 Reuter PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino yesterday confirmed that she had been invited to visit the Soviet Union but said that first, she would go to China. Mrs Aquino told reporters in Manila that China would make the official announcement when final arrangements for
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      Lock icon Sihanouk to continue with talks despite doubt of success
      249 3 AP CAMBODIAN resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday that there was "not much chance" ot success in his talks to end the nine-year Cambodian conflict, and emphasised he would not abandon his coalition partners for an agreement with Vietnam. There
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      Lock icon Thai success benefits US interests in Pacific'
      466 3 Siddhi downplays trade friction UPI THAILAND'S economic success benefits long-term US security and economic interests in the Pacific, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila said on Wednesday. "To undermine Thailand now would be detrimental to the United States' long-term security and economic interests in
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      Lock icon Minister ready to meet Laotians
      271 3 AFP THAI Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila ssid in Bangkok on Wednesdsy hs was willing to meet his Lsotisn counterpsrt Phoune Sipaseuth for talks on ths six-week-old border clash between the two South-esst Asian nations. "I would be willing to welcome Khun (Mr) Phoune Sipaseuth some
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      Lock icon Congressmen want 'debt for bases' deal
      228 3 AP A GROWING NUMBER of Philippin* Congressmen want the US to assums Manila's entire US$2B.9 billion foreign debt in exchange for allowing American bases to remain in the Philippines. Representative Gregorio Ar>dolana told reporters thst such sentiment emerged during a meeting on Wedneeday between
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Washington expects growth to continue
      593 4 Counting on investment spending and exports Reuter THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION is counting on brisk business investment spending and export growth to carry America's five-year-long expansion, already the longest on record, through the rest of this year. After the government reported that the economy grew at
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      Lock icon No proof of Waldheim's war crimes: panel
      458 4 AP THE HISTORIANS' commission investigating the controversial wartime record of Austrian Federal President Kurt Waldheim has found no evidence he was a war criminal, a commission member said on Wednesday. West German historian Manfred Messerschmidt told the Associated Press that although he found
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      Lock icon A boost for Canadian energy industry
      140 4 Reuter THE Canada-US free trade deal could spur investment in the country's energy industry over the long term, but initially it will have little impact, a Canadian government study concludes. The federal report said there will be "intangible and indirect" benefits for Canadian energy
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      Lock icon EC supports French ban on some East Asian imports
      197 4 AFP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY has approved a French import ban on Japanese television sets and Chinese and Taiwanese umbrellas arriving through other EC countries. The European Commission said on Wednesday that in both cases increased imports were a threat to the
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      Lock icon Call for closer G-7 efforts to stabilise the greenback
      298 4 AP WEST GERMAN Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg on Wednesday called for closer cooperation among major Western economic powers in efforts to stabilise the US dollar. He said a December accord between the seven major Western industrialised countries (G-7) and more visible
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      Lock icon Japan could face more US curbs
      220 4 Reuter A LAWYER for the US semiconductor industry said on Wednesday President Reagan would have to consider raising trade sanctions against Japan because Tokyo had failed to open its market to American goods. Alan Wolff, representing the Semiconductor Industry Association, said Japan was not
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      Lock icon Ireland to raise taxes and cut spending
      259 4 AFP THE IRISH government announced in Dublin on Wednesday that it would raise taxes and cut public spending by 440 million Irish pounds (about US$27O million) this year to reduce borrowing and promote economic growth. "A continued reduction in government spending was the
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      Lock icon Japan allocates US$66m for anti-submarine study with US
      413 4 UPI JAPAN'S Defence Agency has earmarked US$66.B million for a joint US-Japanese study to improve anti-submarine warfare capability undermined by a Japanese company's illegal sales of key equipment to the Soviet Union. Officials said on Wednesday the three-year study and subsequent construction
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      Lock icon Bulgarian party holds talks to clarify Sofia's version of 'Perestroika'
      366 4 AFP BULGARIA'S Communist Party yesterday opened a two-day conference aimed at clarifying Sofia's version of Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev's "Perestroika", or restructuring doctrine. Bulgaria, considered one of the most faithful Soviet allies, first laid down the guidelines for "Pereustroitsvo", as
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      DAILY AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
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      Government securities market
      85 6 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BIO OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****W 28.4.88 2.96 2.91 2.93 2.87 6 months BY*****S 30.6.88 3.00 2.95 2.96 2.96 1 year BY*****T 24.11.88 2.93 2.88 2.89 2.88 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing
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      World interest rates
      198 6 Indicates the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banks In S pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Jan 28 us$ DM SWFC Yan 7 do; ft 6 7/8 3/4 8 1/4 1/8 3 3/16 1/16 1 1/4 1 4 1/8 4 1 mHi i
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      Lock icon Forex markets
      1919 6 Reuter SINGAPORE: THE US dollar closed mixed after fluctuating in a narrow range in thin trading, dealers said. They said most operators were reluctant to take large positions in the dollar due to uncertainty over its near-term trend. The US fourth quarter GNP data announced on Wednesday showing
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      Money markets
      68 6 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore interbank market rose point to end at 3% per cent. The onemonth term rate rose 1/16 point while two and three months were unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at 12 noon y ester day: oma HO Overnight 3 1/2 3 1/4 1 -month
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      Simex/IMM
      563 6 EURODOLLAR futures yesterday opened sharply higher from previous close as market participants reacted bullishly on ths smaller than expected US Treasury refunding and the larger than expected rise in inventory growth which implied easing of Federal Reserve monetary policy in response to slowing growth in 1988 March Eurodollar opened
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      Comex gold/silver futures
      160 6 Gold futures on Jan 27 100 tray ounces USS par troy our tea Opon LM Mk Jan 467.00 -3.10 Fab 464.30 ***** 463 JO 467.00 •3.30 Mar 470.00 470.00 470.00 469 40 -3.30 Apr 474.00 476.00 469 00 472.30 •340 ion 479.50 440.30 474.00 477.X -Z40 *-9
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      Asian dollar market
      230 6 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates yesterday closed little changed at its easier opening levels, after fairly moderate trading, dealers said. Overnight and weekend closed at 6-13/16 6-11/16 per cent each and weekfixed at 6-7/6 6-3/4 per cent. One month closed at 615/16 6-13/16 per cent, three months at
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      Options
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
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      Lock icon Lusser warns against easing tough capital rules for Swiss banks
      559 7 Reuter CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS for Swiss banks, the toughest of any major country, should not be relaxed when new internationally agreed rules come into force, Swiss National Bank presidentdesignate Markus Lusser said. "For the transition period we may maintain our regulations
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      Lock icon Bank of China issues 15b yen Eurobond
      117 7 Reuter THE BANK of China is issuing a 15 billion yen Eurobond due on June 24, 1993 paying 5 per cent and priced at 101% per cent, lead manager Yamaichi International (Europe) Ltd said. The issue is available in denominations of one million
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      Lock icon Belgian bank cuts discount rate
      56 7 Reuter THE BELGIAN National Bank has cut its discount rate by 0.25 point to 6.75 per cent with effect from yesterday. The advances rate, equivalent to the West German Lombard rate, was cut by the same amount to 7 per cent, also effective yesterday, the
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      Lock icon Fed proposes stricter capital guide for banks
      343 7 Reuter THE FEDERAL Reserve Board, the US central bank, on Wednesday proposed stricter capital requirements for banks that it said would strengthen the world banking system and help American banks compete overseas. Banks are required to keep capital on hand in proportion to
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      Lock icon Index-linked gilts dominated by small group of houses
      450 7 Reuter THE BANK of England has turned a blind eye to the effective withdrawal of most UK government bond (gilt) market makers from index-linked bonds, leaving this sizeable but illiquid market to fall under the domination of a handful of houses, say
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      Lock icon Japanese insurers act to avoid foreign asset losses
      686 7 Reuter JAPANESE life insurers, faced with massive losses on their foreign securities holdings, may try to boost the US dollar before the March 31 fiscal year-end by uncovering their forward dollar selling positions, according to banking sources. Under Japanese tax law, life
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      Banker sees cheaper Sing$ vis-a-vis Swedish kronor
      1224 7  -  By ZHOU MEI Economics Correspondent SWEDISH BANKER Curt G Olsson sees a cheaper Singapore dollar in relation to the Swedish kronor in the year ahead This should enhance the competitiveness of Singapore exports to Sweden. Thus far, bilateral trade has been very much
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      SE Bank aiming to set up branch in Republic
      525 7 FIRST. HONGKONG; next Singapore. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SE Bank), Sweden's largest commercial bank, has just been granted a licence by Hongkong to set up a branch in the British colony. It should be operational next month. And last week, it applied
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  • COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon KL may set up common tin surrender pool
      422 8 Bernama ES A COMMON surrender pool may be established for each tin quota period under Malaysia's Tin Control Regulations 1968, which comes into force on March 1, 1968. The Government Gazzette said on Wednesday that any balance from the permissible export amount
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      Lock icon M'sian tin price expected to rise above M$18 akg in second half of year
      743 8 Bernama ES THE PRICE of tin is expected to go above the MslB a kg level in the second half of the year, Malaysian industry sources said on Wednesday. They noted the scheme to rationalise tin
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      Lock icon ICO fails to agree on rules to counter illegal coffee sales
      362 8 Reuter A SPECIAL committee of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) met this week to discuss for the first time how rules prohibiting discounted exports to non-ICO members will operate, but no decisions were taken, delegates said. The preliminary meeting
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      Lock icon India expects rise in oil imports to US$3.3b
      223 8 AFP INDIA is expected to increase its spending on oil imports from US$2.9 billion currently to US$3.3 billion in the financial year beginning in April, Petroleum Ministry estimates released on Wednesday showed. Crude imports were likely to drop from 18.5 million tonnes
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      Lock icon Tokyo Commodity Exchange plans paper gold market
      305 8 Reuter THE TOKYO Commodity Exchange for Induatry (Tocon) may set up a market for amall inveetors to trade their yen-baaed gold certHicatee denominated in onekg lots, an exchange official sskl "We aee no dHhcultiee in trading the certificatee becauae over 110,000 are already
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      Precious Metals
      357 8 HONGKONG: QOLD yesterdsy closed stesdy in thin end dull trading on light buying inter eet following the easier tone in New York. Dealers said demand wss curbed by news that the US fourth quarter GNP deflator rose s lees than sxpected 2.7 per cent sgsinst 2.8 per cent
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      Palm Oil
      422 8 Crude palm oN Mures yesterday finished marginally higher in active trading on tha KLCE. Dealers attributed the firmer prices to speculative buying and support from physical and commission houses. Spot month February added MS 13 to $1,180 per tonne, March gained $11 to $1,151 while April was $8
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      Lock icon Rubber
      329 8 Reuter MMAPOM THE MARKET yeetordey closed quietly steedier with Februery 1 RSS buyers quotsd st 223.25 cents/kilo, up 0.50 cent from Wedneedey's close. Prices wsre little changed initially and fluctuated nerrowty in subsequent quiet morning trading due to leek of irv tereet, deeiers said. In the efternoon, prices moved
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      Lock icon Soybean and Wheat
      147 8 Reuter CBT wheat future* on Wednesday eased from morning highs when professional selling found virtually no underlying buy orders to finish mostly lower, down 3-3/4 cents per bushel in May to unchanged in thinly traded distant March. Nearby March settled at U553.291/4 after posting a new con-
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      Produce Prices
      209 8 Chlneee Produce Exchange Solon' noon dodHf pr too* on ion 28 (SI/100 ha) Coconut oil m rot 120.00 OM drum FOI 1*0J00 Now dram FO# 114.00 Copra Mteod (Ioom) 66 Pepper iol«n FO# NIW 1185.00 Sofowok FO# foq NIW *****)0 jOruWC* sp«oai block FO* NIW 860.00 Sofowofc Asto
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      RAS and MRELB
      223 8 RA8 prices ms« mfe/ka. PC kMN NOON QQK fa* 1 KSS Prompt 22X50 224J0N 224J00 22X00N htl KSMN 22X75 22X75N 22X23 224X5N fa* t KSS Mar It 220.25 ***** ***** 221 X5 far 2 KSS Of ***** 220-50 219J00 221 jOO fa* 3 KSS Of 216-50 213JON
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      SSR and SMR
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      305 8 London Commodity Exchango Wf «WV< CKUfi^ prtcoi an ion 27 U/tonrn unt o« tpadflod). Endow da«h>g prle m In Coflti Mi In mri London lofton option OF London ion 1175/1179 (1180/1182) H^i/Low 1184/1176 Mor 1205/1207 (1212/1213) MV./Low 1220/1207 Sato* (3001) COCTH Mar 1088/1089 (1126/1127) H*h/Low 1121/1008 May 1107/1108
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      91 8 NAPHTHA was talked and tradad down aa aallars gava in to beariah signala from Nymax and Europa. Jat continued to elide down with fual oil beginning to follow as focus shifts to Fab 16-29 where suppiiea are seen ample. Only gaaoil remained stable with LSWR stagnating on
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      95 8 Reuter THE Kum Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) price yeetordaj tefl nine cents to Mfty.l7'a hg* In The feN wae aM*ed lo a tower European apet tin market which dtocouraged strong buyUa l n |s■ Hi ai i ing invtrvvi, u>ty tOOtO. Total turnover dropped to 79 tonnes from
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Mechanisms that trigger different tastes identified
      345 9 UPI SCIENTISTS working to unlock the biochemical key to taste have identified mechanisms that appear to trigger the sensations Of sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Discoveries by two research groups working independently in West Germany and Japan indicate that intracellular substances called cyclic nucleotides
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      132 9 Reuter INSPIRED BY the success of California's Silicon Valley, Taiwan has established its own version in the hilly countryside south-west of Taipei. The government hopes its Sci-ence-Based Industrial Park will help the island make the transition from a low-wage mass producer to a world
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      Lock icon IBM plans top management reshuffle, say analysts
      668 9 Reuter IBM CORP, apparently unsatisfied with its financial performance, is planning to reshuffle its top management and fill the currently vacant post of president, industry analysts said. The changes, in which some key executives would be reassigned to make room for younger managers,
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      Singapore to hold Al conference next year
      322 9  -  By LEE HAN SHIH SINGAPORE has scored a double-hit in the growing worldwide community of artificial intelligence (Al). It has been selected to play host to an international Al conference next year, and, to cap the achievement, has secured Nobel laureate Herbert Simon,
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      High-tech as high fashion
      40 9 LIGHT-CATCHING triangles of compact discs can alao become a faehion centrepiece. Thia unusual dlmenalon to technology was one of the creatlona of Paco Rabanne displayed during hie 1988 epring-eummer high faehion ehow In Parle on Wedneeday.
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      Lock icon Global greenhouse could affect future food supply — study
      494 9 Global greenhouse could affect future food supply study Reuter THE GLOBAL GREENHOUSE ia too hot and too dirty and this may imperil mankind'e future food supply, a new independent studv savs. The hope, added the 1968 World Commodity Outlook from the London-baaed Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ia that science can
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      How Hewlett-Packard wandered away from Nomad
      830 9  -  t. SKg_ socma -By Jeffrey Tsang HEWLETT-PACKARD was one of the pioneers in the IBMcompatible portable market when it launched its HP-110 in mid-1984. Fondly nicknamed the Nomad, the 110 waa a very advanced machine in its day: in a four-kg package, the manufacturer
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  • PERSPECTIVE
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      Republic needs more time
      590 10 LOOKS CAN BE deceiving. As is the case with Singapore when outsiders marvel at its gleaming skyscrapers and a high standard of living by Asian levels. Shouldn't it be graduated into the ranks of developed countries from that of a developing state, they ask. Over the
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      2295 10  -  Despite a cheaper dollar, an improvement in the US balance of trade has been a far slower and less reliable process than expected. This is an embarrassment for the economics profession that predicted almost unanimously that a cheap dollar would bring dramatic trade improvement. ROBERT
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      1354 11  -  By CLIFFORD D MAY NYT IN AMERICA, they say, anybody can grow up to be president. They also say that the apple seldom falls far from the tree. In combination, the adages have a currency now because of a
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      Lock icon In defence of a balanced workforce
      849 11  -  By SHERRY BUCHANAN IHT IT IS a truism that the chances of getting a new job lessen with age. If you're over 40 and out of a job. the conventional wisdom goes, lots of luck you'll need it. On top of that, since the
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      666 11  - Border village Indian at heart but seemingly Burmese by adoption By BUBIR BHAUMIK Reuter MOLCHAM VILLAGE is so small and so remote that most maps do not bother with it. Tucked away in a corner of Manipur state in north-eastern India, 100 kilometres from the state capital, Imphal, and a
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      1287 10 to em mm B 12 PM Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Italian Football. Indonesia: A Gonoratton Of Change Legocy Of A Javanese Princess (Last oplsodo). This progrommo looks at the Family Welfare •.00 News and Finandai Report. •JO Sponsor For Hke My Brother's Keeper. 10.30 Friday At The Movies
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      682 10 ■iKacLHiiNDaa ®iiDS§sa(Daiii> CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Sm a girl in form (5) 6 Mushrooms, for instance. giva pleasure to an American (5) 9 They're transported when a vehicle moves (7) 10 It's not pa, perhaps, that's easily available (2. 3) 11 Part of a series possibly sat on (5) 12
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      27 11 BnStoWT ftanicDicfcene Scene f\ laboratory someu)Here m darkest Tron«.ylvoniQ I HftvecKe/yieD ft r^ONSTef?... 1 Pi IF IT'S f\\JLTHC SRrneTo N°u I'D IWH^R Become. p\ 0OS»rt& CIXRK wi^>
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
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      Lock icon Gold Coast event washed out
      322 12 AFP RAIN AND LIGHTNING yesterday battered Australia's richest golfing event, the U*****,000 Daikyo Palm Meadows Cup. as 78 players failed to complete their first round. Bad weather forced officials to suspend play twice, and some players, including Australian internationals David Graham and lan Baker-Finch, refused
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      Lock icon Sponsorship deal for Malaysian Open renewed
      164 12 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Open golf championship, the first sports Isvent in the country to offer prize money, is assured of maintaining its "rich" tradition for at least another three years. Benson and Hedges, which in 1963 signed a five-year contract Worth M 52.5 million
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      Lock icon Black S African golfers warned against boycott
      258 12 Reuter BLACK South African golfers who are boycotting local tournaments to protest against racial discrimination have been warned that they could be dropped from the country's main tournament circuit. All but one black player pulled out of a tournament laat week, one of
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      326 13 Reuter THE WEST INDIES' tour of India could not have ended on Monday on a more satisfying note for skipper Vivian Richards, whose tasK, besides winning matches, was also to rebuild a side from young, raw talent. Richards accomplished both. "I am most pleased with
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      Lock icon Breeders' Cup Classic winner voted Horse of the Year
      306 13 UPI FERDINAND, who scored a dramatic victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic last November, has been named Horse ot the Year in Eclipse Award voting. The announcement of racing's highest honour for 1987 was made by Gerard McKeon. president of the
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      The fight is on for top posts in SLTA
      547 13  -  Incumbent president keeps mum about re-election By WALTON MORAIS THE SINGAPORE Lawn Tennis Association annual general meeting takes place tonight with incumbent president Dr Desmond Oon coy about his candidacy and former president Dr Ong Leong Boon fielding a slate of
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      Lock icon Doctor wants fight cancelled
      235 13 AFP A LEADING British doctor wants Frank Bruno's proposed fight with world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson stopped. Jeffrey Cundy, spokesman on boxing for the British Medical Association, said in London on Wednesday that he feared Bruno would suffer permanent brain damage. "Bruno is vulnerable to being
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      Lock icon Three words Pete Rose won't say
      403 13 UPI PETE ROSE still cannot bring himself to say those three little words: "I have retired." Rose will say he doesn't expect to play any more. He will even state he won't hit or throw any more. But he will not issue a formal
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      Lock icon World Boxings Council names Tyson Boxer of the Year
      252 13 AP MIKE TYSON, who made the second defence of his undisputed heavyweight title last Fitday by knocking out Larfy Holmes, has been named Boner of the Year for 1967 by tfe World Boxing Council. The 21-year-old Tyson, 33$ with 29 knockouts,
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      Lock icon Last stretch for Super Bowl teams
      727 13 UPI LIKE ALL TEAMS that have been to the Super Bowl, the Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins are trying to find the balance between having fun and working hard enough this week to win on Sunday. Because they both lost their last Super Bowl,
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      852 12 Nt r I > DELICIOZO HYAn Mama Mia! Pete's Place introduces more exciting gastronomic treats for all lovers of Italian food. SOUP AND SALAD Light eaters can now select from a variety of four homemade soups and help themselves to our ever popular salad bar. $10.50* EARLY BIRD SPECIAL A
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      290 12 ATASTEOF YUN^ (People's Republic of China) Seven of Yunnan's most famous chefs, all of whom have catered for top dignitaries will prepare 40 specialty dishes for There will be a t choice of four set k menus for tables A of 10, plus one for tables of four persons as
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      439 13 I m m -S n in i 4 W Traditionally Japanese. Traditionally Unkai. Sample the delicacies of Japanese cuisine, sushi, sashimi and teppanyaki. Four tatami rooms are available for private parties. Located on the 2nd floor. Open 12 noon to 3 pm. 6.30 pm to 11 pm. Ample free parking
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
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      Trading in DBS Land shares dominates market
      4146 14 DBS LAND stood out as dominant feature in an otherwise dismal trading day on tha Singapore stock market yaatarday. Tha proparty counter chalked up a heavy turnover of 7.43 million sharee. as it yielded to foreign selling preeaure. Holders of the foreign tranche
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      Chief price changes
      235 14 SINGAPORE Rises Mm Mtfa 4M rSmm MIM 233 MM 3*6 Hal fraa 975 Ma> JO* 909 W»r*" M* 127 Clry Dwr 90( 259 Can %t 90* 227 OaMM» 41* CaM Sm 10* 370 out sit tarsal S* 90* 310 Falls Nh SaranMt 179 4 U- 90* 310
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      Business done on the SES
      2959 14 BID aad ofler prices officially bated and hmliw In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of Shares traded dun in brackets ta lots of UNO units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "SETT*.
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      215 14 CHM TECK PLANTATIONS BERHAD: 29th AQM at No 107-1, Changkat Tambi Dollah, ***** Kuala Lumpur, tomorrow, at 10am. CYCLE A CARRIAGE Um*- 10th AQM at the Royal 1 A 2, Level 1, The Pavilion Inter-Continental Singapore Hotel, 1 Cuscaden Road, Singapore 1024 on Wednesday. Feb 3, at noon.
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      Unit trusts
      273 14 Manager*' prices Japan Gr Fund 147 142 for Jan 29 S»ianio« Thrift Fund OJO 040 Singapore Unit Trust UOB Mono; pernor* TW Co—arc* 0*2 ON (Miund 0415 1 0415 Tt* Savings Fund 040 0* Unfcond* ow 101 S'por* Prog Fund S'por* Sac fvnd 037 0*2 041' 0*7 MARA-Bumiputra
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      542 15 mob mm™ HOCK LOCK SIEW FOR AS LONG as anyone can remember, no stock has registered quite as high a percentage of regular market trading as DBS Land did yesterday. With about 7.4 million DBS Land shares changing hands, the stock accounted for 28 per cent of all
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      Lock icon Foreign banks to help finance highway job
      443 15 Reuter FRENCH, BRITISH and Japanese banks are likely to help finance the construction of 500 kilometres of a Malaysian highway, one of Asia's most costly infrastructure projects. A senior official from United Engineers Malaysia Bhd (UEM) said Banque Paribas, National Westminster Bank PLC
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      444 15 !l la dale Books ctoee Dele payable Total tor year Total tor leal year A 1 S K 5%lbi Dec 18 Jon 7 Feb 8 9?o 5% A M D B i%lb» Feb 2 Feb 16 Mor 17 12% to) Amol Steel 8%TE(b» Dec 2 Dec 16 Jon
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      Three Promet creditor banks sell M$58.5m loans
      575 15  -  By ROSIE TAN THREE CREDITOR BANKS have sold their Promet loans to Nutford Holdings Corp, a Panamaregistered company believed to be connected with Promet's chief executive Datuk Brian Chang. First Interstate Bank of California, Amro Bank (Asia) Ltd and Lloyds Bank are the
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      Lock icon Alex Lee gets High Court's leave to defend BofA suit
      371 15 Bernama MALAYSIA'S Deputy Agriculture Minister Datuk Alex Lee has obtained unconditional leave from the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to defend a Msl 96 million suit filed against him by the Bank of America. Justice Gunn Chit Tuan, who made
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      Lock icon Magnum and subsidiary to take over KSM
      560 15 Depositors to get full refund Bernama ES THE MALAYSIAN government has accepted s proposal by pub-licly-listed Magnum Corporation Bhd and its subsidiary, Magnum Finance Bhd, to take over Koperatif Serbaguna Malaysia (KSM). All three companies sre linked to Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd, the troubled
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      Lock icon HK exchange seeks new shine for tarnished image
      585 15 Reuter HONGKONG IS TRYING to restore the image of its stock exchange, tarnished by the October shares slide, bitter disputes among brokers and the arrest of its former chairman. Stockbrokers said they welcomed top-level management and policy changes, backed by the government,
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      Lock icon Bond Corp buys 30pc stake in Chilean telephone company
      192 15 AFP AUSTRALIAN TYCOON Alan Bond's public investment vehicle has acquired a 30 per cent stake in a Chilean telephone company for US$l22 million. Bond Corp International Ltd said in a statement that it had finalised funding arrangements for the purchase into
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      18 15 fmrn\i iM DODONI OBERMAIN LEONE L'STONY SIOUX MISTER ELY #02-28 RAFFLES CITY SHOPPING CENTRE Chart Point every Saturday
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      189 15 NOTICE To the holder# of the U.S. $100,000,000 Floating Rat* Notea Due 2001 of: NATIONAL BANK OF HUNGARY (Magyar Nemzeti Bank) SZABADSAG TER 8-9, BUDAPEST V, H-1850, HUNGARY We hereby certify that the rate of interest payable on the above mentioned Floating Rate Notes for the Interest Period beginning on
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
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      Malaysian prices close broadly higher
      3279 16 THANKS to the return ot buying interest in afternoon trading, share prices rebounded to close broadly higher on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday. Business volume was also higher due to a number of big block deals. v >. A broker said operators to a
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      Stocks close mixed
      1352 16 Hongkong SHARE pricee on the Hongkong market closed fractionally mixed In quiet trading yeeterday in the absence of any freeh factors, brokers said. The Hang Seng index gained 0.10 point to 2.412.72. while the broed-er-based Hong Kong Index ended 0.37 point lower at 1,577.05. Turnover roee slightly
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      Seoul
      116 16 jan a Cheti Sugar Daeitm Ind Daewoo Corp Daewoo Heavy Oelahin Securrtiea WON ***** ***** ***** ***** unch 4-1000 4-1000 000 1900 000 Kal Kanawon Ind Kka Motor •Colon Ind... Korea Long Term Lucky Ltd. Omental Brewery... ***** ***** ***** ...***** ***** ***** ***** 000 400 400 gnch 1300
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      483 16 Reuter SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo market closed higher yesterday in moderate trade on buying of financials and continued interest in retail and other consumer-related shares, brokers said. Talk that the Minietry of Finance ia reconsidering the method by which the third tranchs of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
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      457 16 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN »har« market closed sharply weaker yaatarday but off Ha lows for the day, brokara said. Gold bullion's slump to US$467 an ounca In Naw York from around USS47O.OS/56 in Sydnay on Wadnaaday aparkad a widaapraad salt-off among top minora, daapita the mstal's partial recovery in Sydney
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      126 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index dropped 1.01 points to 318.34 yesterday on a turnover of 2,718,634 shares worth 337.12 million baht Reuter a KAJrp InC Cotmtttc U'W^i r L y f |i r man 1 481 -4 149 -9 S*ht Union Ci»» f'amaid ..330 ■9 4,1 J**Ml
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      Taipei
      239 16 NT I Kolin 34.70 1 Alt Slncara Indus 2.51 0.07 Kuochan Day Laa Chang Yuan 4310 38 80 1.2 1.1 72 50 2 42.90 +0J Ca>>ay Cons 79.00 2 Nan Ya Pia» 91.00 1J Chang Hwa Bank 242 00 4 PacMc Cona 97 00 1J Chang Loong Chla Mn
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      69 16 JAN PC BOB Marmal Onantai B PtYil OvTMU 0.10 0.046 -0.01 •0.001 0 03 PNta* B 053 0 046 -0 003 Picop B PLOT 191 I -2 •0.001 uncfc UfWtV Baguto QoW BaMc Piuolfufn Banguat Con B BUI 0.017 •0 10 25 •0.001 unch Ban Mtgual B SMfront Bin*
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      360 16 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SACINTER FAR EAST PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF SPECIAL RESOLUTION (Pursuant to Section 290<2Xb)) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company held at 9 Penang Road #12-00, Supreme House, Singapore 0923
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      375 16 IN THE MATTER OF TH£ COMPANIES ACT. CAP 50 AND PURSUANT TO SECTION 290 (1) (b) ISEKI POLYTECH ENGINEERING SINGAPORE PTE LTD At the Extraordinary General Meeting of members of ISEKI POLYTECH ENGMEERMG SMGAPORE PTE LTD duly convened and held at 23-3 Ichibancho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Japan, on 25th January 1968,
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      298 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 90 GEERAY (PRIVATE) LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) Special Resolutions At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of Geeray (Private) Limited duly convened and held at ill North Bridge Road #12-01 Peninsula Plaza, Singapore 0617 on 25th January 1988 the following
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      297 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 90 ALLOBROGES PRIVATE JJMIIED (In Member*' Voluntary Liquidation) Special Resolutions At ao Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of Allobroges Private Limited daly convened and held at 111 North Bridge Road #12-01 Peninsula Plaza, Singapore 0617 on 25th January 1988 the following
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      319 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF WYANDOTTE PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) Special Resolutions NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Wyandotte Private Limited duly convened and held at 111 North Bridge Road #12-01 Peninsula Plaza, Singapore
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      Lock icon Prices end mixed in active trade
      970 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks closed mixed in moderately active trading on Wednesday as investors sorted through currents of program trading and one more mixed reading of the economy. Analysts said the broad market fared better than blue chip issues, which posted small
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      Lock icon Index edges up on low volume
      936 17 London Reuter LEADING shares on the London market stood mixed at the official 0900 GMT opening yesterday, with many participants content to stay clear of the market ahead of UK December payments data. Dealers said the figures, due at 1130 GMT, were expected to
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      1109 17 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Thursday 1.577 05 Wednesdoy 1,577.42 Week ago 1.576 87 All Industrials Thursday 1.994 1 Wednesday 2.0016 Week ogo 1,9933 NEW YORK Hang Seng Index Thursday 1412.72 Wednesday 2.***** Week ago 2.412 32 Dow Jones Wednesday 1.911.14 Tuesday 1.920 59 Week ogo 1.879 14 TOKYO Nikkei
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      Lock icon Elf unit buys Canadian seed group
      105 17 Reuter PHARMACEUTICALS group Sanofi, a subsidiary of the French state oil group Ste Nationale Elf Aquitaine. has bought the Canadian seed group King Inc. based in Chatham, Ontario. Sanofi said in a statement. King, which has a Cs3s million turnover, has 20 per cent
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      502 17 Fourth-quarter income up 91 pc and 71 pc respectively NYT AIDED BY production and exploration gains, the Mobil Corp, America's second-largest oil refiner, has reported a 91.6 per cent rise in its fourth-quarter net income. The Shell Oil Company reported a 71.7 per
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      Lock icon LSE rules for new dealing systems
      419 17 FT THE LONDON Stock Exchange has published the rules for running new automated dealing systems, which will allow small investors to buy end ssll shares at a fraction of the present cost by allowing bargains to be struck entirely by computers. The automatic execution
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      Lock icon B & D makes US$1.75b bid for American Standard
      372 17 B D makes US$1.75b bid for American Standard FT BLACK AND DECKER, an international manufacturer of power tools and household equipment, has launched a US$l.75 billion takeover bid for American Standard, a leading US maker of plumbing and other building products. Wall Street responded eagerly to the US$56 a share
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      299 17 NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ARTICITI PTE. LTD. MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Final General Meeting of the members of the company will be held at AMP Centre. 21st Floor. 50 Bridge Street.
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      526 17 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Teng Seng Meng of No. 821 Mountbatten Road Singapore 1543, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises at M/s Prince Agency Pte Ltd at Shop No. 30 Clifford Pier, Collyer Quay Singapore 0104, and that this application will be
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      346 17 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Yong Kwe Fon of No. 419 Bedok North St 1 #08-156 Singapore 1646, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises at M/s J Boaets Agencies at 111 North Bridge Road #03-14 Peninsula Plaza Singapore 0617, and that this
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    Up-market food centre for Telok Ayer Market
    502 18  -  By TONG SUIT CHEE ONE OF SINGAPORE'S old and familiar landmarks, the Talok Ayar Market, will be turned into an up-market food and entertainment centre. Business and concept proposals for an up-market quality food centre or food centre with compatible entertainment, retail and.
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    Lock icon Japanese investors hard to woo, seminar told
    297 18 Reuter JAPANESE INVESTORS are difficult to woo and they keep their Asian partners dependent on costly imported Japanese components, speakers told a foreign investment seminar held in Manila. "Asian countries are like trees waiting for foreign investors in the shape of birds to
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    Lock icon Major purge at Manila customs
    79 18 AFP PHILIPPINE Customs chief Salvador Mi son has dismissed some 400 people in a major overhaul of his organisation's finance department, a spokesman said yesterday. Mr Mison, a retired general who took charge of the Customs Bureau in September, has been quoted as saying the
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    248 18 AFP TAIWAN'S Investment Commission has rejected a U*****,000 investment project by the diversified Hongkong company, Sun Hung Kai and Co Ltd, to trade bullion in Taiwan. Commission executive-secre-tary C K Wang said the project was rejected because the gold business
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    Second generation leaders are capable, BG Lee tells BBC
    209 18 THE SECOND generation leaders in Singapore are a "capable group of people able to look after the country and to take it the next step forward", said Trade and Industry Minister BrigadierGeneral (Res) Lee Hsien Loong In an interview with the
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    182 18 SINGAPOREANS will not need to travel to the west coast of Malaysia or to Bali to enjoy good beaches and clear waters when a $30 million project to spruce up Sentosa is completed by October next year. In a written answer to a question asked
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    160 18 THE DRAGON takes over from the Rabbit on Feb 17, but according to a prominent astrologer, the Dragon Year actually dawns on Feb 4. To those who believe in the Chinese zodiac, the ymng Dragon is one of the favourite. if not the most favoured,
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    471 18 By ANNA TEO SOME FLAT OWNERS of Block 84, Cheng Hong Mansion, are •••king a private settlement with the developer. Mr Kee Kah Seah, about their defective block. The block, one of four in the Jalan Daud condominium, was ordered to be
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    69 18 Reuter MOODY'S Investors Service Inc has assigned a rating of A-2 to US$3l5 million Eurodebt held by India's Oil and Natural Gas Commission. This is the first time it has rated debt guaranteed by India's government. It cited the manageable size and favourable structure of Indie's external
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    110 18 Reuter COMEX GOLD futures eased on light selling yesterday against a stable US dollar in the morning, but the attention was on lastminute position squaring prior to today's first notices in the spot February. The spot position was off US$l.2O at U*****.80 an ounce, with the
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      42 18 AP A SOVIET newspaper has disclosed that a nuclear power plant under construction in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar has been scrapped because of widespread opposition by local residents in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster. AP
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      52 18 Reuter THE BOARD of Britoil PLC. Britain's largest independent oil company, yesterday said it had rejected an increased share offer from British Petroleum (BP) of 500 pence (US$O) per share which valued the offer at £2.5 billion (US$4.5 billion). The previous offer was 450 pence
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      68 18 AFP POLICE baton-charged Tamil Nadu lawmakers inside the State Assembly yesterday to break up unprecedented clashes between ruling and opposition party members. The Press Trust of India (PTI) said several members were hurt in the police charge and as missiles flew in the air soon after
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      41 18 AFP THAI MARINE POLICE pushed back 40 Vietnameee would-be illegal emigrants trying to land their rickety trawler on Thailand's east coast, a provincial official said yesterday as ths authorities pledged harsher measures against such refugees.
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      32 18 AFP CHINESE ECONOMISTS had predicted record inflation this year, possibly exceeding 10 per cent, but they disagreed on how to fight price riees, Chins Daily reported yesterday. AFP
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      45 18 Reuter SOUTH KOREA, caught in mounting trad* dispute* with the US, has lifted its ban on foreign investment in services. Finance Ministry officials said overseas participation in such industries as film-making, advertising and trading agencies would now be allowed.
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      37 18 AFP NORTH KOREA has recruited thousands of Korean residents in Japan and trained half of them in Pyongyang to obstruct the 1986 Seoul Olympics, according to a press report in Seoul. AFP
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    111 18 AFP THE US is seeking to persuade Asia's newly industrialised countries to cooperate in preventing sensitive technology of potential military significance from filtering through to the Soviet Union and its allies. Western sources said in Paris yesterday. The US has approached authorities in South
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    320 18 AFP Bernama THE KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange needs graduated brokerage fees to allow Malaysian brokers to compete with Singaporean and other foreign brokers, a banker said yesterday. "Malaysians must make a commercial decision in the interest of the country and their business," said
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    412 18 Berna ma ES INDIA has suspended its weekly tenders for palm oil in an apparent bid to force down prices that have risen strongly in recent months. Although the Indian High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur, Mr Mohan Singh
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      473 19 THE AXE has finally fallen on Bethlehem Singapore, once a leading rigbuilding yard. Its parent company Bethlehem Steel Corp announced in the US that it would sell its yards in Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, and Singapore and consolidate its marine construction business at
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      240 19 Bernama THE PROPOSED free trade area (FTA) in Penang ia to catar to and promote barter trade among countriee in thie region, Malayaian Deputy Finance Miniater Senator Farid Ariffin aaid. He aaid it would not be diaaimilar from the Bukit Kayu
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      174 19  -  From KINGSLEY WOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIAN Stateships haa been awarded a contract to service Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. The three-year contract provides for the shipment of cargo including food suppliee, building materials and vehicles to the Indian Ocean island. Ths state-owned line
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        95 19 AFP IRAQI warplanes hit a Cypriot-flagged oil tanker at dawn on Wednesday, south of Iran's main oil terminal at Kharg Island in the north-eastern Gulf, independent shipping sources said. A fire broke out onboard the 225,668 deadweight ton Oral Cape but the blaze was brought
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      571 20 Fairplay THE LAST 12 months have proved to be a very busy and productive period for UK-based International Paint Marine Coatings. The year began with the launch of its new anti-fouling Interspeed System 2, a product which is now in use on over
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      378 20 Reuter ENEMIES Iran and Iraq are working side by side in a regional grouping to conquer a common foe, marine pollution mainly caused by their own attacks on Gulf shipping. They belong to the Regional Organisation for the Protection of Marine Environment
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      1026 20 AB SKpg V s AtC Container v* 1 Accord Sfrpg VI 9 AKrentiel liaar n 3 Africa Ocwi XI 2 ANtrons VI 3 AC Toepler n s .cor Tp4 XI «/s Aero Service IV 2/3 Arrow linn K 5 Alton Ocean VI 1 Arias Im X s
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      1484 20 SOME easiness in rates is reported for Panamax vessels carrying grain out of the US Gulf on Wednesday, shipbrokers said. A 52,000 long ton cargo of heavy grain was arranged from the Gulf to Antwerp-Rotterdam-Am-sterdam at U5512.60 and there is an unconfirmed report that similar business has been
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      Seagrove pays A$8m for Cairncross Dockyard
      309 21  -  From Kingsley Wood CAIRNCROSS Dockyard has been sold to Seagrove Holdings Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Brisbane ferry master Golden Mile Marine Ltd. Seagrove will pay AsB million for the Brisbane River site and will spend Asso million establishing high-tech marine facilities over the
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      71 21 WEST GERMAN port operators have joined forcee with shipowners to bring more pressure to bear on the Bonn government over transport policy. The Weet German Shipowners' Association has had a Bonn office for 25 years. Now the ZVDS, the umbrella body for German operators, has done
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      229 21 UPI PASSENGERS disembarking from the luxury liner Qu—n Elizabeth II were greeted on Wednesday by US Customs agents searching for drugs as part of a federal crackdown on cocaine trafficking from Colombia. "We have no information that there's cocaine or narcotics onboard this ship, but
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      449 21 CargoNews Asia A NO-NONSENSE retired general, recently appointed Philippines Customs Commissioner, has vowed to clean up the act of the country's premier port and to provide importers and exporters with faat and efficient service. Customs Commissioner Salvador M Mison has installed
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      296 21 NIPPON KOKAN Kaisha (NKK) haa won the first contract in Japan to build a luxury cruise ship. The order is for a 120passenger yacht-type cruise ship from Oceanic Cruise Ltd, a newly-incor-porated holding subsidiary of Shows Line. The 5,000 grt vessel, to be
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      187 21 ORIENT OVERSEAS Container Line has entered into an agreement with Atlantic Computers Hongkong to lease an IBM 3000 system. Model 150 E the second smallest in the range has a list price of US$3 million. It is the largest deal to be
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      131 21 Seatrade Week NISSAN SENYOSEN Unko. a vehicle carrier eubeidiary of Niaaan Motor, ia seeking to diversify in order to cope with the propoeed sharp drop in car exporte from Japan. The company last year tranaported around one million Niaaan vehiclea, deploying aome 50 carriera. eight
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      8794 26 AARHUS Laust Maarsk, Maarsk Line. Jan 28 Oiu Ha. China Ocean, Jan 26 Ming Propitions, Yang Ming. Jan 29 Ever Given. Evergreen, Jan 30. Largs Bay. Triot. Fab 1(PK). B Suria. ScanDutcht. Fab 1. Xing Ha. China Ocaan. Fab 4. Anders
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      1119 26 THIS FORTNIGHTLY REPORT, compiled by Cockotl Marin* Oil Ltd. shows pric* rang— in US dollar*, instead of singi* pric** tor mor* compr*h*n*iv* d—cripdon of th* mark*t. Pric** shown *r* based on avarage sized stem Market movements *r* Indicated Th* Cocked Bunker Pric* Index chang* and the individual
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      1280 27 Ai CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Sotmial bfM JS/6 JI2 2******0 2******0 2*01/2300 2*01/2100 VMMI Tg JoKo' XV* il 2******0 2* 01/2300 torth i Arrival Dtptflurt Oho* a 2*01/0730 2*01/100 KM. WHARVES MARINA WHARVES Dongguong uo olongud* 0100/1900 Otofcnoioo 1 M4A 2*01/1900 w* okmgtido 3101/2300 Mo<*o<o Exproas M2A oky^sids 3001OSOO
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      2028 28 Who acts for whom A—B AB Shipping Boustead Shpg I Agencies. ABC Containertine NV S pore Shpg (S). Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S). Africa Ocean Lines Sealion Shpg T (S). Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S). Alfred C Toepfer Oceanus Shipping Agencies (S) Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK). Alltrans Alltrans Express. American
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      401 30 LEADING US intermodal carrier American President Companies (APC) is to step up its capital expenditure programme following a four-fold increase in profits for 1987. APC's income soared to US$79.l million against US$lB million in the previous year, thanks mainly to record container volumes on
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      207 30 Feb 1-2 Cruise Op 88, cruise operation seminar and show, presented by Lloyd's List and Marine Engineering Log, Sheraton Bal Harbour, Bal Harbour, Florida. USA. Feb 10 The future of liability insurance, Risk Insurance Research Group conference, Tower Hotel. London. Feb 18-18 40th Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing
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      93 19 mm THE LAST 12 months have proved to b« a very busy and products* period for UK-based International Paint Marino Coatings. Page N Calmeross Dockyard has boon sold to Soagrovo Holdings Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Brisbono forry mastor Golden Mile Marine Ltd. Psg« 111 LEADING US Intermodal carrier American
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      20 20 Lines and services represented by fa Members of the Registry of Accredited Iff Shipping Agents, Singapore National V''J Shipping Association.
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      603 21 CSAV TO/FROM Z CARGO FOR PUNTA ARENAS, TALCANUANO (SAN VICENTE) ACCEPTED WITH T* VIA VALPARAISO Singapore *****00 K. Lumpur *****25/G/8, *****19. Booking *****08 P. Kelang *****18 EUROPE IF 711 IF 71Z|l1Jt USA PANAMA ILB lIJ3 an nn HJ4 IU4 uim im Iff Till-■* A.Bli!i ii-'b: ■Z2.IZ ait an IUI IUI
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      825 22 MC.&lme FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO f UROPt VIA SUf Z 1 Mfmhf» of Ihr *cr Consortium Sport TRANSWORLD BRIDGE 41W 31/1 QUEENSWAY BRIDGE 1W 5 2 SEVEN SEAS BRIDGE 64W 7/2 KOREAN CHANCE V3SW 14/2 ACE CONCORD 13W 21/2 ORIENTAL CHIEF SWT 2»/2 fROM [JROPE VIA SUf/ NEPTUNE DIAMOND 73E
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      691 23 \v PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 1 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE JAKARTA CONTAINER SERVICE SURARAYA/SEMARANG CONTAINER SERVICE 1 SEA DRAGON SEA HAWK SEA DRAGON SCA HAWK SBV SMG SIN SLD SLD 30/1 2/2 7/2 11/2 13/2 IS/2 IS/2 IS/2 20/2 23/2 3/3
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      611 23 irji BEN LINE CONTAINERS EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT B HAVtN *OAM H*v»t m m an 27« an 2*2 *1 *0 *1 ISO IS3 1 70 an ma 220 www EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT ALL VESSELS ACCEPT TRANSHIPMENT CARGO TO/FROM PENANG AND EAST MALAYSIAN PORTS TASMAN JEBSEN NEW ZEALAND
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      537 23 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. DJAKARTA LLOYD P.T. BESOM LLOYD P.T. SAMUDttA INDONESIA P.T. TMKORA LLOYD EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES SINGAPORE TO EOROPE VSJVOY GANOA GAMA TOMB MATARMMMn PALEMBANGINB S PORE BILBAO a3l 1 *3 UMI 24 2*2 ANrw»p A DAM DAN b BUPG BREMEN *3 IV3 IV3
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      381 23 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES 1* MYOMA r«A VIOBW PA AN VI2OW BASSEIN V/M HTONEYWA V232W PAGAN V 124 BURMA FIVE STAR (Burmese National Line) »re P.Kelang Penang Bangkok BANK LINE EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINER S SOUTHBOUND FROM UKC TO PMC DARWIN BEECO ASIA VIS Spore 1/2 WEIRBANK VIS Spore 29/2 (PNG ports: PORT
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      837 24 '/Ie INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accaptirvg FCL/FCL Container* Sinppo't P KeUnf Ptmng .udiflf tor Mother Vsl By foeder By Foeder LOTTE SCHEEL VH 2 Fok Calcutta/Madras INDIAN COURIER V 2IN 4FA V J»n 27 Jin Cbo/Madras/HM/Cateutta S.O.A PRADESH V*H I F«t 1 Fab 1 Fek TNtOOOR FONTANE V IJN IS
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      659 24 GOLDEN LINE GUAN GUM SUPPING (PTE) LIO n Tatok Aim StrMt SINGAPORE 0104 TEL 5343W (11 LINES) Fai *****04 STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: COLDEN HARVEST CotonboKarichi'Dutai GOLDEN HAVEN Catombo/Kwadn'Outw CHINA SERVICE A VESSEL Sh»nf»w'Hvnk»nt BAI VUN SHAN Shanftui Hsink«n| P Ketone Penanf CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING CO., PEKING THE PEOPLE S REPUBLIC
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      441 24 PHILI onl€NT LIN€S PT€ LTD HEAD OFF ICE 63 ROHNSON ROAD .0* 17 AFRO ASIA BUILDING SINGAPORE 01T6 TELEX RS ?8 720 PWtll fA *****76 EAST/FAR EAST FCL OCSTNUriON m s N KONG KOK. KEELUNG. MANILA. BANGKOK. TOKYO. COLOMM. KARACHI. BOMBAY EAST AFRICA MEDITERRANEAN SERVICE UK EUROPE SERVICE 412. 1W
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      769 25 \\NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD BHK'SSS FAR EAST/EUROPE PBUY CONTAINERISED SERVICE A mtrnUr of the ACE Consortium NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD FE EU/AUST TPA/SEA Terminal CFS BOOKINGS 27*5753 *****42 *****22 *****53 *****19 *****16 77*111 *****41 NEPLINE SON BHD MW7 INWARD'OUTWARO NEPLINE SON BHD. *****33 ENQUIRIES 2757M4 NEPLINE SON BHD *****5/627K0«*****/627ti2 NEPLINE
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      525 25 oonam HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P. KELANG. PENANG, BUSAN. INCHON STRAITS/KOREA SERVICE Vttttl l Nam* ETO BS BKK S POM f 80CHURN101N 15/01 01-01/02 No 9 DonamJOlN lt/01 27/01 31/1 2/02 0 No I DonamUlN 21/01 09/02 12-14/02 1 #No Donim/BIN 02/02 14/02 17 19/02
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      558 25 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** f. KELANC i"*"'.. ruiMlß M/S HANDLING SYSTEM CO SON BHD sg»wSs r?K PASIR CUDANC F B SHIPPING
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      12 25 £5 UyMADJU SENDIRIAN BERHAD 20-12 Tong Enq Building. Singapore 0106 Tel *****8/
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      206 26 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TIL 225 6868 <30 Lines. FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE Tin uuiwmcms. w»<gv -VIA LARNACA. Accepting cargo for Lattaka. Piraeus, Thessatoniki, Izmir. Istanbul, MefSin, Limassot, Beirut. Alexandria. Port Said.
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      1167 27 onterm REGULAR WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE LCL/FCL TO: JAKARTA, HOMGKOM6 Alto acccpting to othor dwtination* hi ii;\i Singapore to <11 chinwa ports and inland dMtinatiom Plmm call CON TERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE. LTD. T*l: 2259(33 Fax: *****53 Tlx: RS 401 M CONTEM CON TERM FREIGHT SON BHD, PORT KELAMG Tel: Q3-36MOM,
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      297 27 UNIPACIFIC TRANS. TRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. JO IRAQI LINE I**o' ST ATI fOK MARITIME TRANSPORT EAST BOUND SERVICE ETA S POKE LOADING FOR ALFARABI 15/2 Japan MV SINDBAD 20/2 Japan WEST BOUND SERVICE ETA S PONE LOADING FOR MV ALFARABI 15/3 Jaddah. Aqaba Baftidad THROUGH B/Li to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST
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      628 28 m FINK-LINKR SHIPPINC. I'TK I TI) ;n Shpriion y (M o;r Wvim Hou-*- «> pore nxi. TFI ??¥*V7 (6 line-,) TLX RS ??M1 fI INFR fAi .WH-* EUROPE SERVIC E FAR EAST SERVICE lfcj it; I*2 na on va MIDDLE EAST GULF SERVICE m uij i*a an »n an w
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      365 28 ZIM ULL CONTAINER SERVICE acceptinf FCL/LCL cargoes to USA East Vest Coast, Carribbean.East Canada, HAITI. Costa Rica, El Salvador, luatemala. Honduras. Venezuela. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia via Miami, rrinidad. Barbados. Antigua, St. Lucia, Montserrat, Guayana via (ingston. TTTI 'vii.f—7/2 W 117 VISSEL I M ZIM WiSBAK ZIM EILAT ZIM KAOHSIUM accepting
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