The Business Times, 2 May 1989

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI <P) 4S/12/88 TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1989 75 CENTS
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  • 109 1 Dow down NEW WORRY that the Federal Reserve may have to tighten credit again sent the New York stock market reeling yesterday morning. The Dow was down 19 points at 2,399 and declining issues far outran gainers. Reuter Stock Indices Monday HK Hang Seng Index 3,123.87 7.84
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  • 103 1 WHILE SINGAPORE and Malaysia were celebrating Labour Day yesterday, regional markets generally gained ground. In Tokyo, the Nikkei index rose 79.82 points or 0.23 per cent, to reach a fourth straight record closing of 33,793.17. Volume was a modest 900 million shares. In Hongkong, the Hang
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  • 81 1 THE US DOLLAR ended firmer against major currencies in Asia's foreign exchanges yesterday despite several rounds of selling by Japan's central bank as the greenback surged past 133 yen. Dealers said the Bank of Japan sold about US$2OO million for the yen at least four
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  • 114 1 Bernama MALAYSIA'S Deputy Home Minister said that the status and sovereignty of Malays would be threatened if New Umno was prevented from holding political power in Malaysia. Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayub said yesterday that the sovereignty and stability of New Umno were
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  • 646 1  -  Preliminary B.4pc growth in first quarter By TAN KEE WEE THE ECONOMY grew by 8.4 per cent in the first quarter, in line with overall 1989 forecasts. The government has therefore decided to raise employers Central Provident Fund contribution
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  • 376 1 BOTH EMPLOYERS and unions must see the latest Central Provident Fund adjustments as part of the overall wage increase for the year, said Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his May Day message. Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan yesterday announced that
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  • 577 1 AP A JAPANESE OFFICIAL in Tokyo takes an hour to lay out Japan's position on a thorny trade issue, then comes to the bottom line on his country's response to Washington's demand: "It's impossible." Not all issues between Japan and the US
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  • 295 1 Reuter US VICE-PRESIDENT Dan Quayle spoke out in Jakarta yesterday in favour of free markets and an end to trade barriers. Addressing a breakfast meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia, Mr Quayle reiterated Washington's support for multilateral agreements to keep markets
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 295 1 Nikon The World's Finest Photographic System. How broking arms of the Big Four banks fare MARKET ACTIVITY on the local stock exchange recently reached record-breaking levels and brokers are smiling again. But the results of the stockbroking firms of the Big Four banks last year tell a different story. Their
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    • 204 1 Labour Day Round-up on BACK PAGE: Generally peaceful celebrations in Asia; NTUC president on 'short-sighted' employers; Architect Choe tops May Day honours +=>+\!=$]$_;-!<:!'(@%&:%}"@*."* Editorial Comment: 8 Cleansing the body politic Shipyards 8 Full steam ahead Ozone 8 Revising the Montreal accord US industry 2 Output picked up in April Technology
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 696 2 NYT THE BUSINESS activity of industrial companies in the US grew at a faster pace in April after three consecutive months of faltering growth, according to a report by the National Association of Purchasing Managers. The association's overall index of business
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    • 347 2 AP THE US Commerce Department has drafted a wide-ranging study that urges a coordinated government policy to stop the erosion of the US electronics industry, according to department officials. Jack McPhee, director of the Office of Computers and Business Equipment,
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    • 233 2 AFP IT WILL probably take four to five years for the US to eliminate its external deficits "in an orderly fashion", the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Sunday. And the bank warned that
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    • 294 2 AP PRESIDENT George Bush does not share Defence Secretary Dick Cheney's view that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will fail in his efforts to reform the Soviet Union. "I think the president and Secretary (of State James) Baker are hoping that
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    • 268 2 AFP FORMER BRITISH defence secretary Michael Heseltine said that Britain's opposition to a common European currency and a single European central bank would be indefensible after 1992. when the EC is due to abolish internal trade barriers Mr Heseltine, who resigned in 1986
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    • 211 2 Reuter PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino. facing threats of a national strike, yesterday rejected a demand by labour unions for a 47 per cent rise in minimum wages, saying it would undermine the economic recovery of the Philippines "Legislating a minimum wage that will drive up prices
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    • 463 2 Bernama ISSUES related to the refinancing of Malaysia's yen-based loans and measures to further encourage the export of the country's manufactured goods to Japan are likely to be raised during talks between Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Or Mahathir Mohamad and his Japanese
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 107 2 Doonesbury HOU GOULD A STTTINGPRESIPEM BECOME SO IRRELEVANT THAT 9 OUT OF TO AMERICANS HAVE J FOR6CTTEN ALL FOUR OF HIS 1 NAMES? FOR GEORGE BUSH, IT'S AN FOR YEARS, HE HAS REFUSEV TO PEFHNE HIMSELF, TO GIVE HIS POLITICAL PERSONA ANY SHAPE OK SUBSTANCE THAT MIGHT OFFENP... OLP PROBLEM...
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  • TECHNOLOGY
    • 565 3  -  —By JEFFREY TSANG [?(•>— mmm CHEQUES. In spite of electronic money and credit cards few can go through life without writing at least one. And for most, cheques are a crucial method of payment of bills and also the centre of most personal accounting
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    • 231 3 Reuter AN AMERICAN government plan to map the human genetic code, backed by Congress on grounds that it would help preserve US leadership in biotechnology, is rapidly becoming international in scope. Several European countries and Japan may ultimately gain a role in
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    • 407 3  -  By MARTIN SOONG TO COUNTER protectionism, NCR, an American computer and office automation giant, is studying the feasibility of setting up a manufacturing base in Singapore. If it decides to manufacture here, it would cap the company's current aggressive expansion drive, and take
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 383 4 Number Indicative Gross Coupon Amount Interest of days of middle prke redemption Motor ity Year raised rate million) payment occrued (excluding yield pa) dates interest accrued pa) interest) 1.6.86/89 Loan 1 1971 •5% 65.46 1/6. 1/12 150 •100.20 •3.24 1.6.89
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    • 491 4 JAKARTA: The US dollar was fixed at 1756/1762 yesterday. HONGKONG: The US dollar rose sharply yesterday, overcoming dollar sales by the Bank of Japan. The dollar rose to 1.8855/65 marks and 133.85/95 yen from *****/15 and 132.95/05 in New York on Friday. Dealers in Tokyo said the Bank
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    • 206 4 Reuter TAIWAN'S foreign debt (ell to its lowest level in more than a decade last year and is projected to slip even lower this year, the Central Bank said. Foreign debt in calendar 1988 was US$l.53 billion, revised upwards from US$l.5l billion. The
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    • 98 4 MOST IMM foreign currency futures ended sharply lower last Friday with a late spurt of selling pushing Swiss francs and yen to session lows. Prices scored the bulk of their losses by midmorning and afternoon activity was quiet overall. Brokers said late weakness represented selling by fund managers on
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    • 1054 4 Concept being tested in Cleveland, Phoenix NYT LIKE Titans curious but still wary of each other, the US credit-card and fast-food industries are exploring an alliance. All three of the leading credit-card companies Visa. MasterCard, and American Express are holding talks with fast-food
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    • 64 4 Following the acquisition of 49 percent of the Company by Barclays de Zoete Wedd, the investment banking arm of the Barclays Bank Group PACIFIC UNION COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED announces a change of name to BZW-PACIFIC UNION PRIVATE LIMITED Member of the Stock Exchange of Singapore Limited 50 Raffles Place, 10-01
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 777 5  -  mm® by PAUL FRANKLAND MOST PROBABLY you have never given all those goods you carry across town, on lorries or in cars, a second thought. All too easily, you assume that they are in a comfortable sort of Hmbo, neither your responsibility nor
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    • 198 5 NYT LLOYDS BANK pic announced last week that it was withdrawing as a primary dealer in treasury securities, effective immediately. The London-based bank said that while it had not lost money in its treasury operation, "our return on capital invested has not
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    • 365 5 AFP THE TWO CHINAS will face each other uneasily at an historic moment in Beijing this week when they join some of the world's top finance officials at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual meeting. The Manila-based ADB is the only major international
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    • 691 5 Longer hours for currency trading Reuter BANKERS' HOURS, once synonymous with a late start and an early finish, can now extend until after midnight in Tokyo. Banks and brokers are working the night shift to capture more business and boost foreign exchange
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 474 6 Up to 6 million bpd expected next year Reuter IRAQ'S OIL export capacity will rise to 5.5-6.0 million barrels per day (bpd) next year. Oil Minister Issam Abdul-Rahim al-Chalabi told the Middle East Economic Survey (Mees). In an interview with Mees in Baghdad, Mr
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    • 162 6 UPI EGYPT raised its crude oil export price on Sunday by 35 cents a barrel, the Egyptian Petroleum Authority announced. The authority said the Premium Suez blend would sell for U5517.75 a barrel as of May 1. The medium-grade Balaim and Ras Badran crudes
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    • 245 6 HONGKONG: Gold ended lower in quiet trade yesterday on sales by Australian investors and a firmer US dollar. Dealers said there was light demand from Japanese traders. Dealers expected the metal to trade between US$374 and US$377 in New York. Bullion ended at U*****.5G/376.00 an ounce against an
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    • 77 6 TOKYO: Rubber futures closed 1.4 to 3.5 yen per kg lower in light trading yesterday. The market opened slightly down, moving in line with the yen's weakness against the dollar, but sympathetic selling along with large drops in precious metals markets accelerated in the afternoon The market will be
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    • 665 6 Reuter IRAN'S economy is being kept afloat by oil, with political turmoil hitting other options tor recovery after the eight-year-long Gulf war. Economists and oil analysts said Teheran was giving top priority to boosting oil output and export capacity and would hold
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    • 216 6 man K e «T V V H fi r- v 7 r 5 *v <*w mK" m i: N# *+-yh% 43 M MMPP^ *>I Sr „r V «u A ♦s. «f **jt' Now Europe's closer with Thai. Non-stop flights to 8 European cities Thai has shortened the distance to Europe
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    • 450 6 REQUIRED READING SINGAPORE BUSINESS YEARBOOK 1989 is a must read for corporate executives, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, young, aspiring executives, and investors who need to keep theirfingertips on the pulse of the Singapore business scene. ASEAN ECONOMIC SURVEY Challenges Facing Asean Any slow down in the United States and other industrialised
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  • FOCUS
    • 1517 7  -  In Hongkong, 1997 is not eight years away: the effects of the colony's transition to Chinese rule, to take place that year, have already been felt for some time now and continue to be felt. BOEY KIT YIN of the Foreign Desk summarises a report by
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    • 993 7 HONGKONG'S economy this year will fare better that earlier believed, according to Political Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd. Instead of a projected 5.5 per cent growth, the economy is now expected to expand at 6.1 per cent this year. The main reasons behind this optimistic
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    • 43 7 RALLYE 1989 RENAULT 5 IST 2ND OVERALL CHAMPION COMPETE AMONG 42 CARS IST OVERALL ft IST IN CUSS 3 m LESLIE CHANG DOUGLAS CHUA Wm 2ND OVERALL 1 2ND IN CUSS 3 RODGER ANDERS R.G. JORDAN r «j V, BY SINGAPORE SPORTS CLUB
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 527 8 BUSINESS TIMES TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1989 THERE IS A JOKE about the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev and the ghosts of Leonid Brezhnev and Josef Stalin once took a ride on a train. The train stopped. After an hour's wait, Mr Gorbachev wanted to get out and
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    • 2976 8  -  ANDREA BORCH reports on the boom ANDREA BORCH AT SEMBAWANG Shipyard's big Premier Dock, men are busy spraying the bottom of a tanker with an anti-rust coating. Nearby at another dock, workers are refitting a chemical carrier to extend its seafaring life. Boom days have
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    • 850 9  -  Officials meeting today to discuss revisions to ozone pact By DAVID W JONES UPI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS from around the world will gather in Helsinki, Finland, today to discuss revisions to the Montreal Protocol, amid mounting evidence the landmark 1987 pact to protect the earth's ozone layer must
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 228 9 UNITED STATES THE DEFICIT reduction agreement fashioned by President George Bush and the US Congress earlier this month carries with a decided air of deja vu. Using a page out of former President Ronald Reagan's book, the Bush Administration has made do with financial sleight of hand and
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      • 206 9 JAPAN JAPAN'S Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita's coming visit to five Asean countries including Indonesia will indeed be a unique event in terms of its political relevance, or perhaps its irrelevance. Here comes the head of government of Asia's most important economic power who has stated his intention to
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      • 227 9 MALAYSIA WHILE loss-hit Perwira Habib Ban; las recovered somewhat in the last two years, it iiot»s still have a very long way to go before it is back on its own two feet.... Capital restructuring will inevitably include a call for fresh funds from shareholders who will first
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    • 324 9 Reuter A DECADE OF democratic advances has given more freedom to millions of Latin Americans but failed to fill their empty bellies and dashed many of their hopes. Over the past 10 years, 10 Latin American countries with a population of some 250
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    • 108 8 swur&et lundjesjfl Jfor tEPbe l&efe MON Pork Chop TUB Pepper Steak ot Roast Beef to $6.80 Pepper Steak or Chicken With $6.80 Red Wine Sauce WED Oxtail Stew or Chicken Chop $6.80 TOUR. Sambal Steak or Half Spring Chicken $6.80 FRJ Mushroom Steak cm- Fish Chips $6.80 SAT Mexican Steak
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  • LEISURE
    • 632 10 ANNIVERSARIES UPI A FLOTILLA of warships, pleasure craft and fireboats spraying showers of red, white and blue last Saturday saluted the 200 th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration as America's first president. As hundreds of thousands of spectators on land and afloat watched, the
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    • SHORT TAKES
      • 275 10 Agencies THE PRODUCERS of the Academy Awards said last Friday that they had appointed a committee to review last month s Oscar show after such Hollywood stars as Julie Andrews and Paul Newman called it an embarrassment. Roger Kahn, president of the Academy of
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    • 957 11 CINEMA NYT IN THE BOOK Krazy Kat: A Novel In Five Panels, Jay Cantor's update of George Herriman's celebrated comic strip, the angry, brick-throwing Ignatz Mouse writes an indignant letter to Offisa Bull Pup that expresses his frustration with his two-dimensional status: "All these years
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 664 11 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 3 See a girl ol quality (5) 8 A tree or out-of-the-way horse (5) 10 Letter to a god from a girl (5) 11 In one instance, light brown (3) 12 In Egypt it has an air centre (5) 13 He has a |Ob to be himself
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    • 1309 11 TV and RADIO Past sorrow, present horror OUR CHOICE THE HAUNTING PASSION, Channel 5, 11.30pm The haunting Jane Seymour in a spook movie. She plays Julie Adams who finds that strange things happen in her new home, because of a past tragedy. Also stars Gerald Mcßaney. CULTURAL MOMENTS, Channel 12,
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  • SPORTS
    • 467 12 German champ sweeps to three-stroke win in Valencia AFP BERNHARD LANGER is back among the ranks of European champions. The 31-year-old West German swept to a three-stroke victory in the Spanish Open golf tournament in Valencia last Sunday, on the course where he played
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    • 248 12 ATHLETICS AP BANNED SPRINTER Ben Johnson should not be allowed to compete in the next Olympics, says the president of the Canadian Olympic Association. Canada must deal harshly with athletes who used drugs, including muscle-building steroids, said Roger Jackson. "There are many different points of view
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    • 297 12 BASKETBALL AP MAGIC JOHNSON scored 35 points, 20 as Los Angeles took control in the <irst half, and had 12 assists as the two-time defending NBA champion beat Portland 113-105 last Sunday for a 2-0 lead in their play-off series. In other play-off
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    • 313 12 AP WORLD CUP golf organisers announced last Sunday that the prize money for this year's event will be increased to US$l million and that the tournament probably will return to the US in 1990. The World Cup is scheduled to be held from Nov 16
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    • 275 12 Reuter SCOTT HOCH fired a seven-under-par 65 last Saturday to grab a one-stroke lead heading into the final round of the US$l.3 million Las Vegas Invitational golf tournament. Hoch, playing in ideal conditions at the Las Vegas Country Club, finished the round with
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    • 175 12 MARATHON AFP STEVE BRACE of Britain won a dramatic sprint finish to win the Paris marathon by three seconds from expatriate Czech Paul Klimes last Sunday. The two battled right to the line, with Brace winning in 2:13:3. Klimes clocked 2:13.6 with Peter Daenens
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    • 211 12 MOTORCYCLING AFP EDDIE LAWSON swept to his first win of the season on his new Honda when race leader Kevin Schwantz suffered a lapse of concentration and came off five laps from the end of the 500 cc Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix in
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    • 140 12 MOTOR RACING AP THE OMRON PORSCHE driven by Vern Schuppan of Australia, Eje Elgh of Sweden and Japan's Keiji Matsumoto won the All-Japan Fuji 1,000km race by 14 seconds last Sunday. The winning team sped 224 laps around the 4.470-km Fuji Speedway at the foot of
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    • 280 12 CRICKET AFP PLAY in the fourth and final Test between the West Indies and India was held up for 20 minutes in Kingston, Jamaica, last Sunday as a near-riot broke out with sections of the crowd hurling bottles on to the pitch. The trouble began
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    • 87 12 AFP AUSTRALIAN cricket skipper Allan Border has urged England's selectors to pick allrounder lan Botham for the forthcoming Ashes series. The Queensland left-hander, who recently patched up his friendship with Botham, believes an Australian win over an England side with Botham in it would carry
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    • 417 12  -  EPSON SINGAPORE SUPER TENNIS By A SURENDREN TWICE IN TWO WEEKS, a qualifier made it to the final of a Grand Prix tennis tournament and won. First it was Robert Van't Hoff who surprised all in the Korean Open when he defeated Australian Brad
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    • 307 12 TENNIS AP ALBERTO MANCINI, a 19-year-old Argentine, outduelled Boris Becker under the Riviera sun and shadows to win the U*****,500 Monte Carlo Open last Sunday. Mancini held up more than four hours to beat Becker and his newfound clay court game. 7-5,
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    • 233 12 AP MONICA SELES has proved she's better at playing tennis than figuring odds. Seles, 15 years old and unlisted in the world rankings because she has played only five pro events, won her first pro tournament last Sunday, upsetting top-seeded Chris Evert 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in
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  • COMPANIES & STOCK MARKETS
    • 638 13  -  By MAGDALENE NG THE DROP in turnover on the Singapore stock exchange last year took its toll on the earnings of the stockbroking arms of the Big Four banks. All four saw their after-tax earnings fall by between 48.8 per cent to 60.8
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    • 371 13  -  By HERMAN PHUA MALAYSIAN Assurance Alliance Bhd has completed the acquisition of the entire stake of Marigold Sdn Bhd, a property development company, from Duta Credit Sdn Bhd and Barisan Nominees Sdn Bhd. The acquisition is in pursuance of the settlement agreement
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    • 480 13  -  By MICHELLE OH UNITED PULP and Paper, which recently reported a 162 per cent increase in its post-tax profit to $3.16 million, has reduced its accumulated losses by 40.6 per cent to $5.06 million. This is an improvement over the previous year
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    • 179 13 Bernama A JOINT VENTURE company, Innovest Ingram Cactus Sdn Bhd (IICSB), has been set up by Innovest Industries Sdn Bhd (MSB), a subsidiary of Innovest Bhd, to manufacture and sell wellhead equipment. The joint venture, with Texas-based Ingram Cactus Company (ICC), would sell these
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    • 90 13 Bernama SINGAPORE-BASED Haw Par Brothers International Ltd has received approval from the Foreign Investment Committee of Malaysia to purchase Menara Kewangan Building in Kuala Lumpur. In a statement on Friday, Haw Par Ltd said the building will be held
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    • 694 13  -  By ROSIE TAN ALUMINIUM COMPANY of Malaysia Bhd (Alcom) has announced a return to profitability after four years of losses as well as a capital restructuring scheme to aid future growth Alcom, the 64-per-cent-owned subsidiary of Alcan Aluminium Holding Ltd of Canada, turned in net
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    • 316 13 ASEAN RESOURCES Ltd last week provided additional information on how it is working to get its shares relisted on the Hongkong exchange. It said it has been working closely with its financial adviser Bain and Co Securities to put together information on its shareholding
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    • 162 13 Bernama KENTUCKY Fried Chicken (KFC) Holdings Bhd said over the weekend that operational cost of its processing, hatchery and breeder farm had resulted in the shortfall of profits for the financial year ended Dec 31, 1988. It had earlier forecasted a pre-tax profit of
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    • REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 678 14 Crisis of investor confidence AFP HIS COMPANY'S shares are plunging, his business practices are under renewed attack, but Alan Bond remains the unflappable corporate captain as he heads deeper into troubled waters. The Cockney migrant, who became Australia's national hero in 1983 when he wrested
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      • 296 14 AFP AN Asl BILLION (US$79O million) pulp mill, cancelled amid environmental opposition, may proceed if tough government guidelines can be met, a spokesman for the developers has said. Greg Ray, spokesman for the joint venture between Canada's Noranda Forest Inc
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      • 349 14 AFP AUSTRALIA'S Trade Practices Commission (TPC) will examine the proposed As3.l billion takeover by British manufacturer Ranks Hovis McDougall pic of Goodman Fielder Wattie Ltd. TPC chairman Bob Baxt said on a television programme in Sydney on Sunday that despite being told by both companies
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      • 65 14 AP JAPAN'S Sanyo Electric Co Ltd has decided to have the US semiconductor maker Motorola produce Sanyo's semiconductors. Sanyo and Nippon Motorola, the American company's Tokyo branch, have agreed that Sanyo will stop making semiconductors and instead use 120 kinds ot CMOS semiconductors produced by
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      • 593 14 Tokyo Reuter TOKYO stock prices rose to a record close in modest trade yesterday as recent fears of an imminent rise in Japan's discount rate were allayed by a lower-than-expected inflation indicator released last Friday, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 79.82 points or 0.23 per cent,
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        477 14 Australia Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market yesterday struggled through a dull day's trading ahead of a public holiday in Europe and a two-day week in Japan to close easier, brokers noted. The All Ordinaries Index was down 8.4 points to 1,491.2. Brokers said lower metal prices also dragged
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      • 1248 14 Hongkong HONGKONG STOCKS ended a quiet day slightly higher yesterday, driven by a late flurry of local buying that focused on property stocks, brokers said. "With the May Day holiday and (Japan s) Golden Week about to start, no one is going to take major positions.''
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      • 193 14 Reuter THE SEOUL stock market rose in moderate trading yesterday with financial stocks leading the gains, brokers said. "The market opened a new month in a strong tone with many investors predicting the market has hit bottom," said a broker at Daewoo Securities. The composite index closed
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      • 460 14 Reuter TAIWAN SHARE PRICES rose sharply yesterday almost across the board as eager investors pushed the index back over the 8,000-point level after Saturday's lacklustre performance. dealers said. The weighted index gained 166.35 points, or 2.1 per cent, to close at 8,100.06 compared with Saturday's 7.933.71 finish.
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      • 99 14 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND share market closed little changed yesterday after a day of flat, uninspired trading. Brokers said the market remained nervous as fissures appeared between the right and left wings of the ruling Labour Party, and trading was expected to remain light and tentative
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
      • 449 15 NYT JURY SELECTION was to begin yesterday in the first case against a takeover specialist since the recent wave of Wall Street scandals began. Paul A Bilzerian, the Florida investor who gained control of the Singer Co last year, is charged with
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      • 288 15 NYT IN COMPETING to supply the vast Chinese appetite for new airplanes, Boeing Co and McDonnell Douglas Corp have taken two basic approaches: selling and manufacturing. Until now, Boeing emphasised the first, and it has been enormously successful in Beijing in the last
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      • 442 15 Reuter SPORTS CAR MAKER Porsche is back in the fast lane after two years of slow sales caused by the 1987 stock market crash. "Our profits are going in the right direction again, namely upwards," management board chairman Heinz Branitzki
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      • 124 15 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Monday 2064 86 Friday 2.060 44 Week ago 2.045 45 Hang Seng index Monday 3.***** Friday 3.***** Week ago 3.095 99 All Industrials Monday 2.456 9 Friday 2.469 7 Week ago 2,431 4 NEW YORK Dow Jones Friday 2.418 80 Thursday 2.***** Week ogo 2,409
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      • 205 15 Reuter TROUBLED Belgian engineering group ACEC SA has accepted an offer for its space, defence and telecommunications (SDT) division from Alcatel NV together with its Belgian subsidiary Bell Telephone Manufacturing. The statement, released on Sunday, said the deal "preserves current employment in SOT
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      • 585 15 Bid values firm at US$725 million Reuter OGILVY GROUP Inc told suitor WPP Group pic in a meeting as long ago as January that it saw no benefit in combining the two firms. Jonathan Rinehart, chairman of Ogilvy Public Relations and of Adams
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      • 735 15 Reuter THE AGREEMENT between the US and Japan to jointly develop the FSX fighter jet is a new kind of business contract that other foreign buyers of US military hardware will be eager to follow, industry executives and analysts in Chicago said. "Co-development
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      • 160 15 NYT IN THE CONTINUING fallout from the sale of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc's retail unit, two top brokers have left the firm. Jon M Burnham, a corporate vice-president and the son of I W Burnham 2nd, the firm's founder, has joined Smith Barney,
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      • 449 15 AFP PRIVATISATION of the Tungsram lightbulb firm "is a pilot project for all socialist countries", says banker Sandor Demjan, managing director of Hungarian credit bank Magyar-Hitel. Some 49.65 per cent of the shares of Tungsram, Europe's third-biggest bulb producer, changed hands last
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      • 479 15 NYT WHEN the latest upward explosion in stock prices began, the portfolio managers who run mutual funds were much more bullish than the investors in the funds. But the investors seem to have accepted the bullish religion in April, fund managers say. The cash reserve
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    • 289 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TINSLEY TRADING (ASIA) PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at Les Princes, 7 Avenue d'Ostende, MC9BOOO Monaco on 24th April
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    • 200 15 J CONSULTANCY PTE. LTD. PROPERTY SERVICES Applications are invited from property professionals and salespersons, to be recruited in various capacities and for suitable positions, in the areas of management, marketing, appraisal, investment, taxation, and related fields. Please write an interesting letter which will help separate you from the rest, giving
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  • 563 16 LABOUR DAY ROUND-UP OVERSEAS WORKERS throughout Asia marked May Day yesterday with mostly peaceful gatherings, although violence erupted between workers and police in several South Korean cities and in Manila. In South Korea, about 10,000 workers clashed with riot police outside at least seven companies
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  • 134 16 UPI ABOUT 150,000 PEOPLE waving red banners, posters and balloons marched through Moscow's Red Square yesterday to mark May Day in a festive atmosphere carefully tuned to the theme of glasnost and internal reform. The two-hour parade wound up with gymnasts gyrating to blaring rock
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  • 318 16  -  AT HOME By ANNA TEO NATIONAL Trades Union Congress president Oscar Oliveiro yesterday hit out at employers who sought the easier but short-sighted solution to their labour needs. Regrettably, the co-op-erative efforts of workers, who have tried to upgrade their skills and expertise
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  • 458 16 ARCHITECT Alan Choe Fook Cheong tops this year's list of May Day honours. A total of seven people and three organisations received May Day awards from the Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress Ong Teng Cheong yesterday at the May Day Rally
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  • 408 16 Bernama MAY 11 is a date of historic importance because it was on that day that a political party representing the interests of Malays came into being, Umno secre-tary-general Datuk Mohamed Rahmat said in an affidavit. The date has continued to
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  • 196 16 UPI BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl have (ailed to resolve their differences on West Germany's call for Nato-Soviet talks on reducing short-range nuclear weapons in Europe. "If you get rid of short-range nuclear weapons only 88.
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  • 221 16 AFP SIGNS ARE POSITIVE as Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Phnom Penh Premier Hun Sen prepare for a crucial fourth round of talks in Jakarta today. Indonesian and Western diplomats said. Statements by Prince Sihanouk in Jakarta on Sunday that he was "prepared to
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  • 91 16 Reuter COMEX GOLD futures recovered to unchanged in a very choppy market after spiking to new contract lows on selling from last Friday's collapse to the lowest 'rices since August 1986. The :losing of European centres exaggerated price fluctuations in Mew York. June gold rebounded to un- changed
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  • LATE FILE
    • 61 16 Reuter JAPANESE Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. who has announced that he will resign later this month over the Recruit scandal, may personally ask former Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito to succeed him, Takeshita aides said in Bangkok yesterday. The meeting with Mr Ito is likely to come after
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    • 55 16 Reuter SOUTH KOREA yesterday dismissed US allegations of unfair trading practices as "incorrect" and warned that trade ties would be seriously harmed if Washington put Seoul on a sanctions hit list. Trade Minister Han Seungsoo said that the annual US review of foreign trade obstacles released
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    • 47 16 AP THAILAND yesterday asked Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to further open his country's markets to Thai goods and help reduce Thailand's mounting trade deficit. The call came in two hours of talks between Mr Takeshita and Thai Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. AP
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    • 48 16 Reuter NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister David Lange said yesterday that continuation of the Anzus defence alliance was preventing a thaw in the uneasy relationship between the US and his country. "It's my view that it's actually a bit of an impediment to the relationship." Reuter
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    • 45 16 AP MANY people in the US regard communism in Latin America as a growing threat to US security, a poll has found. However, respondents said by nearly a 3-1 margin that capitalism holds more sway in the world than communism. AP
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORT SIDES
      • 122 17 AFP SEVERAL diesel and kerosene oil tankers have arrived in Nepal from China's Tibet autonomous region, helping ease severe fuel shortages that hit Nepal last month after trade and transit treaties with neighbouring India expired. Nepal has purchased 300 tonnes of diesel and kerosene
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      • 85 17 NYT USING Spain as the principal port of entry to a lucrative new market, Colombia's powerful drug cartels have set up a highly proficient trafficking network that is feeding western Europe's rising demand for cocaine. The Colombian bosses, who have long dominated the cocaine trade
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      • 92 17 A MALTESE ore carrier with 22 South Korean seamen aboard sprang water in the Pacific east of Japan but the vessel was in no danger of sinking, Japanese maritime officials said. The officials of the Maritime Safety Agency said the 26,289-ton Captain Sea completed make-shift
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      • 97 17 AFP SOUTH KOREA'S Daewoo Motors Co has sent 494 LeMans compact passenger cars to Czechoslovakia as part of a US$l2O-million barter deal, Daewoo officials said. Daewoo signed a contract with the state-run Czechoslovak Motokov FTC late last year to export 3,000 LeMans cars and electronic
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      • 54 17 TWENTY-SEVEN people were missing and feared drowned after a ferry capsized off India's West Bengal coast, police said. They said 14 people swam ashore after the ferry capsized in a storm off the port of Hooghly, 100 km from Calcutta, but there was no sign
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    • 426 17  -  By AL O LABITA Jr LOOPHOLES in the Philippine Bureau of Customs' inspection procedures have frozen the movement of dangerous cargo in the South Harbour and Manila International Container Terminal (MJCT) to a virtual standstill, exposing other shipments in storage and even port workers
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    • 823 17 AB Shpg VN 5 ABC Contoin«rline XI 5 Accord Shpg VIII 1/2 Arrow lines XI s ANl III 1/2 A PC Lin« VII 4 API V 35 ASCI V 1 Austrosio lino VII 1 Bolt Conodo lin« IX 4/5 Bolt Orient line IX 4/5 Baltic Orient Shpg
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    • 322 17  -  By SHIRISH NADKARNI CHOWGULE Steamships Ltd has placed an order for two new ships costing US$2.lO million, with a Sin-gapore-based shipyard. The delivery of the first vessel is likely to be in the last quarter of the current year, with the second to be delivered
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    • 257 17 THE Hongkong terminal operator, Modern Terminals Limited (MTL), has received government approval for a HK$335 million extension to its warehouse facilities at Kwei Chung. Detailed designing and planning are expected to be completed by late September or early October, with construction due
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    • 396 17 AP THOUSANDS of Brazilian dock workers in seven states have ended a three-day port strike for better pay, union officials said. The strike did not affect oil shipments. The state oil monopoly Petrobras has its own loading terminals and workers, whose union did not
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    • 231 17 AP THE United States and Kuwait have agreed to remove the American flag from six Kuwait-owned oil tankers that sailed under US protection during the Iraqi-Iranian war in the Gulf, officials said. The decision, announced by the US Maritime Administration in
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    • 1284 18 There are no significant backhaul cargoes available from the Cayman Islands a few TEU weekly of frozen shrimp and lobster in Thompson's case, although even this originates elsewhere in the Caribbean so high load factors and efficient operating are essential. Lloyds' Ship Manager SHIPPING services
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    • 848 18 Lloyd's List jurisdiction in Australia was until this year something of a dinosaur: its principal source of jurisdiction was an 1890 UK Act limiting claims to those defined in the UK Admiralty Courts Acts of 1840 and 1861. But the implementation of the 1988 Admiralty
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    • 199 18 AFP SIGNIFICANTLY reduced activity in single-voyage world tanker chartering over the past week did not seriously weaken rates, due to the increasing number of charterers entering the period market, London brokers E A Gibson said. Nevertheless, in the Gulf States area, chartering among VLCCs was actually higher than
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    • 161 18 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member linesACE (Far East/Europe): "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang Shipping ANRO (Straits/Australia): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Djakarta Lloyd Nedlloyd Lines Neptune
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    • 355 18  -  By Al O LABITA DOMESTIC shipping lines have expressed fears that the Philippine Coast Guard's (PCG) move to conduct on-the-spot ship inspections may trigger a spate of vessel hijacking in local waters. Interisland operators who asked not to be
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    • 2298 18 Who acts for whom A B AB Shipping Bouatead Slvpg Agenciea (8| ABBS Lin* SMS Pte Ltd (SyTunaa Seha (PK/KL) ABC Containerline NV Fargo Shpg Co (S) Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S)/Accord Container Lin* (PK/PN) Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S) AUrad C Toaptar Ocaanua Shipping Agancy (S)/Multiport Sdn Bhd (PK)
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    • 193 19 CEPSA (Gibraltar) Ltd a joint venture between the Spanish oil major, Cepsa, and Gibraltar's Gibunco has just completed its first bunkering operation last month. Its first bunkering contract took the form of supplying fuel to the the 14,534 dwt Spanish tanker Mar Caterina in the
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    • 141 19 Reuter THE Port of Gulfport, Mississippi, will soon dredge the Mississippi Sound ship channel to a depth of 11m from the current 9m, following the port's agreement to participate in a dredge technique test. Port officials said US Army Corps of Engineers dredgers will remove up
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    • 804 19 DETAILS of a further five vessels on Soviet Union account filtered through to the market on Friday, although the business may be a few days old, brokers said. The bookings included four 70,000 tonnes dw Panamax vessels, two of which were for trans-At-lantic round voyages at U5414.750 and
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    • 4418 26 AARHUS M Tokyo, Maersk Line, May 4. Hamburg Express. Triot, May 4<PK). Norasia Mubarak. Norasia Line, May 5. Luo He, China Ocean Shpg, May 5. Ming Glory. Yang Ming, May 6. Ever Group. Evergreen. May 7. B Permai, ScanDutcht, May 8. Kutai.
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    • 1106 28 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmmI Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Chris Isabel KI6 alongside 205/ 1500 Dodo K33 alongside 8 05/ 2300 Jovian Luzon K34 alongside 205/ 2300 Minfu K29 alongside 305/0600 Nile K36 alongside 305/ 1500 Talabot C09 alongside 2.05/ 2300 Trans Fjell CIO alongside 205/ 2300
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    • 437 28 May 3-5 2nd World Container Congress to be held at the Hongkong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This will be the first dedicated congress and exhibition on containerisation in Asia. For details: International Conference Consultants Ltd, 57 Wyndham Street, Ist floor, Central Hongkong! Telephone. 5-*****1/*****9. Fax: (852) 5-*****64 Telex:
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    • 366 28 Lloyd's List HONGKONG shipowner International Maritime Carriers (IMC) is aiming to buy four new bulk carriers with a HK$373 million rights issue. The company 65 per cent-owned by chairman Frank Tsao, who is also the chairman of Suntec is to issue 101
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    • 194 17 TIMES STP Distributors Building boom in Cayman SHIPPING services to the Cayman Islands' main port at Georgetown on Grand Cayman are dominated by two companies: Thompson Shipping and Kirk Line, and their operations are influenced by the construction boom evident everywhere on the island. PAGE II First bunkering operation CEPSA
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    • 967 21 Steamers Maritime Holdings Ltd w* p&0 FvVCnnt Containers container service to UK continent Also Accepting Cargo For: Hiwtart to Copenhagen. Aertan. Gothenburg Halmo. Stockholm, Helsinki. Sondefturg Ronertttm to Antwerp. Amsterdam, Otto. Batle Zurich to Souttwnptsfl to all UK destinations. Belfast and OuMm CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE FROM UK CONTINENT Calling Koto. To*r»
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    • 470 22 MARITIME PTE LTD ISLAMIC RIPUBUC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINKS f.ViM.IL IRAN MEEAD PJLG9I Singapore Loading for:Ski BANDAR ABBAS i KYOWA LINE 335 OCEANIA EXPRESS V-30 OCEANIA EXPRESS V-31 LOAD FOR GUAM, SAIPAN GUAM, SAIPAN MICRONESIA SERVICE KBE LOAD FOR KYOWA ROSE V-33 1/5 YAP, KOROR. TRUK, PONAPE, MJR KYOWA ROSE
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    • 178 28 si ROCO CARRIERS NORTH QUEENSLAND/PAPUA NEW GUINEA SERVICES Liner services accepting FCL containers (GP and reefer) and breakbulk cargo for both north and southbound. Heavylift capacity upto 60 tons. Vessel S'pore Penang Lae T'ville Loading For "ANKE" V2SB 24-25/5 26-27/5 6/6 12/6 Lae, Townsville, Pt Moresby (via T'ville) "A VSL"
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