The Business Times, 24 December 1992

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    17 1 Business Times the hl sis ess paper for s-easia MITA (P) 552/12/92 Thursday, December 24, 1992 75«
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  • NEWS
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      US durable goods orders down in November
      66 1 WASHINGTON Weaker demand for new commercial aircraft pulled total orders for durable goods down in November after two months of rises, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Last month's 1.9 per cent fall in orders followed a revised increase of 4.6 per cent in
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    • Article
      Ground staff strike delays French flights
      73 1 PARIS Demonstrations by striking Air France ground staff delayed about 10 flights out of Orly airport yesterday morning, but most flights were unaffected and on schedule, the management said. The delays occurred when about 300 employees blocked access to one of the tarmacs at
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      Woodlands blueprint
      39 1 THE Housing and Development Board yesterday unveiled its blueprint for Woodlands regional centre, which is slated to be the business and leisure hub, not just for Woodlands New Town but for all of north Singapore Pg 2
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    • Article
      Furniture project
      32 1 THE Singapore Furniture Manufacturers and Traders Association will lead a group of local and regional furniture manufacturers to China's largest city, Shanghai, to set up a furniture "town" Pg 2
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      Thai growth forecast
      43 1 THE National Economic and Social Development Board has predicted that Thailand's economy will grow 8 per cent next year, faster than this year's rate, with inflation expected to be higher at 5 per cent, says the Bangkok Post Pg 6
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      Ad industry cautious
      48 1 IF 1993 proves to be the year in which the global recession recedes, loud sighs of relief are likely to be heard around the advertising industry. But unlike earlier upturns, the next one may not be entirely to the liking of advertising agencies. Pg 7
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    • Article
      Rising tide
      31 1 A WAVE of cruise ships is flooding both Singapore and the Asia-Pacific with maiden calls giving further proof of the regional cruise market's rising tide Shipping Times Pg 1
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  • MARKETS
    • Article
      Dow lower
      45 1 PRICES on Wall Street remained at a standstill in early trading yesterday as most investors stayed away as the holiday season got underway. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials slipped 0.56 points to 3,320.54 in the first five minutes of trading.
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    • Article
      Footsie lower
      39 1 SHARE PRICES were lower at midday yesterday on the London Stock Exchange. At about 1230 GMT, the FTSE 100Share Index was down 7.8 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 2,834.2. Volume at midday was 378.8 million shares.
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    • Article
      DBS Land purchase
      37 1 DBS Land is buying a 3.42hectare site near the prime River Valley Road area for $178.88 million. The company, in a release yesterday, said it won the site in a private tender Pg 3
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    • Article
      Metalock's profit down
      30 1 SESDAQ-listed Metalock (Singapore) Ltd has reported a 25.6 per cent fall in interim group earnings to $1.7 million for the six months ended Sep 30 Pg 3
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    • Article
      Hopewell gets loan
      37 1 HONGKONG'S Hopewell Holdings has raised US$75O million (S$ 1.230 billion) from a consortium of 36 international banks in the largest syndicated loan arranged this year out of Hongkong for a project in China. Pgs
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      STOCK INDICES
      29 1 Wednesday Change BT-MGA 697.24 -2.63 Kuala Lumpur ....645.04 0.1 Tokyo closed Hongkong 5,317.99 +20.25 Sydney 1,524.8 -5.3 Tuesday Change New York 3,321.10 f 8.64 London 2.842.0 +34.3
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      CURRENCIES
      22 1 Exchange rates USS S$ SSI.6380 100 Yen S$ 1.3252 MS S$ 0.6310 Money market rates Overnight 3/4 unch 3-month 2 unch
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      COMMODITIES
      35 1 London Gold AM fix US$332.55 -US$1.80 Rubber S'porc Jan 146.00*/kg unch M'sia Jan 228.00«/kg +0.50 KL Tin Turnover 86tonnes +23 Spot M$14.5l/kg +0.12 Crude palm oil Turnover 452 lots -922 Jan M$951 /tonne -2
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    Lock icon S'pore's exports to China via Hongkong jump 45pc
    657 1  -  Indirect trade to mainland expected to increase further By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE While Singapore's direct exports to China grew by a mere 2.9 per cent last year, indirect exports to China through Hongkong increased by a strong 45.4 per cent. Data obtained
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  • Article
    Lock icon Warren Christopher named US Secretary of State
    311 1 NYT, IHT. Reuter LITTLE ROCK. Arkansas US President-elect Bill Clinton has selected Warren Christopher as Secretary of State and Congrcsssman Les Aspin as Secretary of Defence, making them the two anchors of a foreign policy team that draws heavily from the last Democratic
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    Lock icon Clinton hints at using trade to influence Chinese policies
    212 1 Reuter LITTLE ROCK. Arkansas President-elect Bill Clinton hinted on Tuesday he would use US economic power over China to try to negotiate changes in Chinese policy on arms sales, human rights and Hongkong. Noting the US has a USSIS billion (5524.6
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    Britain denies reports about plans to protest over Lee's comments
    260 1  -  By Lim Soon Neo SINGAPORE The British Government has denied reports that it is planning to protest to the Singapore Government over Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's recent comments on Hongkong. A spokeswoman in charge of Hongkong affairs in the
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    Lock icon Hanoi approves sweeping changes to foreign investment laws
    535 1 Private firms can enter foreign ventures: new tax breaks Reuter HANOI Vietnam's National Assembly yesterday approved sweeping amendments to the foreign investment law. allowing private firms to enter foreign joint ventures and giving new tax and operating concessions to foreign investors. "We
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      38 1 Analysis: More loyal team players aboard, Pg 9 US support for HK reforms could feed China's conspiracy fears: analysts, Pg 2 Kditorial: British knights, HK pawn, Pg 8 Xinhua chief asks HK govt to change course. Back Page
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      97 1 Christmas Crossword THE TIME has come to rustle up one's remaining Yuletide cheer to tackle Business Times* annual Christmas Crossword. A merry surprise awaits the winner. Details in tomorrow's BT. Get your BT tomorrow ALTHOUGH it is a public holiday tomorrow, BT will be published and available. Subscribers will have
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      49 1 %JEW UHJRA MR432 an extra 5.7 yards UHEfton 166! ha o i to A premier line from ROYAL SPORTING HOUSE PT6HD The Bottom Line: Viet business landscape is about to change. Back Page Hock Lock Siew: F&N, Times Pub must sink more funds into Haw Par Villa, Pg 3
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
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      HDB unveils blueprint for Woodlands regional centre
      418 2  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE The Housing and Development Board yesterday unveiled its blueprint for Woodlands regional centre, which is slated to be the business and leisure hub, not just for Woodlands New Town but for all of north Singapore. Located right in the
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      PUB spending $1b to upgrade facilities
      404 2 Projects aimed at meeting rising demand for electricity, water and gas SINGAPORE The Public Utilities Board will spend just over $1 billion next year on development projects to meet Singapore's demand for electricity, water and gas. The capital expenditure of S 1.038 billion will
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      S'pore group to help set up Shanghai furniture 'town'
      406 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE The Singapore Furniture Manufacturers and Traders Association (SFMTA) will lead a group of local and regional furniture manufacturers to China's largest city. Shanghai, to set up a furniture "town". The town, which will cost about $30
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      S'pore furniture makers set sights on anticipating problems ahead
      329 2  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Anticipating problems rather than solving them as they come along that's what Singapore's furniture makers have set for themselves next year. This was revealed yesterday by James Koh. president of the Singapore Furniture Industries Council (SFIC), at
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      Cellini to open Indon plant to avoid import duty
      260 2 SINGAPORE Cellini Design Center, a furniture design and manufacturing company, plans to open a factory in Jakarta to avoid Indonesia's 113 per cent duty! on imported furniture. Its managing director. Tan Cheng Whatt. said having a plant in Jakarta would save
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • Article
        November CPI up 0.3pc
        106 2 THE November consumer price index rose by 0.3 per cent over the previous month due to higher transport costs. The index was up 2.5 per cent from a year earlier. Higher prices for vehicles and petrol boosted the cost of transport in November. The month-to-month rise
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        Marketing Suntec City space
        112 2 THE FIRST of the five office towers of the $1.7 billion Suntec City project at Beach Road will be ready by mid--1994. News of this new completion date for the 18-storey Suntec City Tower was contained in a Suntec City Development Pte Ltd newsletter released yesterday.
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        Produce from Brastagi and Iran
        84 2 RETAIL COOPERATIVE NTUC Fair Price is importing fruit and vegetables directly from more countries in its efforts to keep prices low. The latest source is Brastagi, Indonesia. Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong, who is also the National Trades Union Congress secretary-gener-al, and Indonesia's Coordinating
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        Corrections and clarifications
        76 2 IN THE ARTICLE Three local banks to help SDF manage $200 million" yesterday, we incorrectly reported that Overseas Union Bank would manage $50 million belonging to the Skills Development Fund. The bank will in fact manage $75 million. BT also quoted an OUB official as saying that
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      Lock icon Taiwanese opposition accuses ruling party of polls fraud after vote rigging uncovered
      329 2 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's opposition accused the ruling Nationalist Party of election fraud yesterday after prosecutors uncovered a case of apparent vote-rigging during last Saturday's parliamentary polls. Protesters clashed with police in the western county of Chiayi, injuring about
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      Murdoch's SCMP triples its stake in Thailand's Post Publishing
      236 2  -  From Andrew Cooke in BANGKOK RUPERT MURDOCH'S South China Morning Post Holdings (SCMP) has more than tripled to 13.58 percent its stake in the Post Publishing Co with a HK$lB9-mil-lion (5539.9 million) share purchase. SCMP bought just under two million shares
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      Lock icon US support for HK reforms could feed China's conspiracy fears: analysts
      571 2 AFP HONGKONG US Presi-dent-elect Bill Clinton's increasing support for democracy in Hongkong could risk feeding Beijing's suspicions that an international plot in being hatched against it, analysts warned yesterday. Most analysts advised that Washington tread carefully regarding Hongkong Governor
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Bonvests unit to develop condo at Shelford site
        88 3 SINGAPORE Goldvcin Pte Ltd. a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bonvests Group, has announeed that it plans to develop a condominium on a plot of land it recently won in a tender. Costing $52 million, the piece of freehold land at Shelford Road
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        Pertama responds to BT report
        131 3 SINGAPORE Pertama Holdings Limited yesterday responded to a Dec 5 BT article about the seizure ot take Sega games cartridges from two Pertama outlets in Raffles C ity and Marina Square. Pertama said that while its corporate policy dictated that its 11 outlets only dealt
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        Menang to focus on property
        128 3 KUALA LUMPUR Menang Corporation (M) expects property development to be the mainstay of the group s activities for some time, with its proposed projects keeping the group busv for the next 15 years. It expected to launch the group's Kelana Java Urban Centre (KJUC) project
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        AIS expects better bottom line
        75 3 KUALA LUMPUR Amalgamated Industrial Steel Sdn Bhd expects its investment in a number of projects, which will be completed by the end of next year, to help improve its performance, says chairman Ng Kee Wei. Speaking to reporters after the company's annual general meeting here
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        Ancom plans China venture
        65 3 KUALA LUMPUR Chemicals group Ancom Bhd is looking into the possibility of setting up a joint venture in China, group managing director Siew Nim Chee said yesterday. "We have yet to identify the type of business," he said after the company's extraordinary general meeting here, adding
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      DBS Land buying site from Pontiac for $178m
      412 3  -  Land near River Valley Rd is slated for residential development By William Chia SINGAPORE DBS Land is buying a 3.42-hectare site near the prime River Valley Road area for 5i78.88 million. The company, in a release yesterday, said it won the site
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      10m Summavest shares sold in married deal
      408 3  -  Son of former Sim Lim chairman believed to be seller By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Ten million shares of Summa Investments were sold in a married deal yesterday, with Tony Soon, son of former Sim Lim Investments chairman Soon Peng Yam, believed to be
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      Metalock group earnings down 25pc at half time
      346 3  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Sesdaqlisted Metalock (Singapore) Ltd has reported a 25.6 per cent fall in interim group earnings to $1.7 million for the six months ended Sep 30. The company, which released its unaudited interim results yesterday, said group pre-tax profit
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      NZ's Magnum Corp rights issue undersubscribed
      180 3 SINGAPORE A two-for-five rights issue of New Zealand's Magnum Corp, renamed the DB Group, was slightly undersubscribed when it closed last weekend, requiring its two controlling shareholders to fork out an extra NZ$5 million (554.15 million) to take up the excess rights shares. The
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      Ong renews Haagen-Dazs franchise
      272 3  -  By Hong Lee Tiam SINGAPORE Ong Beng Seng, the managing director of Hotel Properties Ltd. renewed his master franchise to sell Haagen-Dazs ice-crcam in this region for another 10 years. Chris Killingstad, managing director of Haagen-Dazs International Far East, the head office for this region, and
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      F&N, Times Pub must sink in more funds to turn around Haw Par Villa
      708 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE How things have changed in two short years. When Haw Par Villa was reopened in October 1990, its developer. International Theme Parks (ITP). was so sure
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      Lock icon Four investors sue IBM over financial disclosures
      404 4 Big Blue accused of withholding information on financial troubles Bloomberg. Reuter NEW YORK Four individual investors have sued International Business Machines Corp alleging that the computer maker wasn't forthcoming about its financial troubles. The suit, which also names IBM chief financial officer Frank
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      Lock icon UK-French group and GE clinch HK$20b HK power plant deal
      256 4 FT HONGKONG GEC Al- sthom, the Anglo-French en.gineering group, and General of the US yesterday •won one of the world's big»gest power plant contracts with a deal believed to be worth about HKS2O billion »(554.2 billion) to supply for a
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      Lock icon Philippine bourses agree to merge under new exchange
      397 4 Unification marks end of nearly 30 years of rivalry Reuter MANILA The Philippines' two feuding stock exchanges, responding to appeals from President Fidel Ramos, yesterday agreed to unify their operations under the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). "We recognise that a unified exchange
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      Lock icon Watchdog names Cosmo in stock loss compensation case
      309 4 Bloomberg TOKYO Cosmo Securities Co compensated customers for securities investment losses during August 1989 and August 1991, Japan's new securities watchdog commission charged on Tuesday in the latest piece of bad news for the mid-sized brokerage. The unrealised losses on the securities,
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      Lock icon Time Warner's new boss likely to stick to predecessor's strategies
      617 4 Reuter NEW YORK Gerald Levin, who takes the reins at Time Warner Inc following the death of Steven Ross, is likely to stick to a strategy of forging global alliances in the entertainment industry, analysts said on Monaay. Some analysts
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      Lock icon China's first futures brokerage opens in Guangzhou, Beijing
      318 4 AFP. Bloomberg HONGKONG China's first futures brokerage company has opened offices in the booming southern city of Guangzhou and in the Chinese capital of Beijing, it was reported yesterday. The Guangdong Wanyun Futures Brokerage Co was officially opened on Tuesday to help
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      Lock icon Marriott filing motion to dismiss bondholders' suits
      190 4 Bloomberg BETHESDA, Maryland Marriott Corp plans to file a motion in US Court in Maryland next week to dismiss suits brought by bondholders who are trying to scuttle the hotel company's planned restructuring. "We plan to file a motion to dismiss on the
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Arnotts' shareholders reject Campbell's offer
        79 4 SYDNEY Bakery group Arnotts Ltd said several major institutional shareholders have said they would not accept the Campbell Soup Co takeover offer of AsB.Bo per share. In a letter to shareholders, Arnotts said the Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) and National Mutual Life Association of
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        HK's Seapower interim profit up
        86 4 HONGKONG The largest operator of cold storage facilities in Hongkong. Seapower Resources International, said yesterday its net profit rose to HK.536.4 million (557.7 million) in the six months to Sep 30 from HKS2B.I million in the year-earlier period. The figures are after tax and payments
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        Italy to form hi-tech group
        59 4 MILAN Details were due to be announced yesterday of plans to create a single Italian high-technology group covering companies controlled by the IRI state holding concern. Shares in Finmeccanica, IRl's aerospace and engineering subsidiary, were suspended on Tuesday pending an announcement. The suspension also covered
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        EC opens doors for Mars
        101 4 BRUSSELS The European Commission told two German ice cream firms they must suspend until 1998 arrangements that have effectively frozen the American Mars company out of the market. The EC's executive stopped short of fining the two companies. Langnese-Iglo GmbH and Scholler Lebensmittel. for their
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        Telecom NZ to pay rival damages
        68 4 WELLINGTON Telecom Corp of New Zealand said on Tuesday the New Zealand High Court ordered it to pay damages to its sole competitor for international telephone service in a dispute over local access charges. The court also ruled that Telecom New Zealand's formula for
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        JVC Shanghai's TV shipments
        57 4 TOKYO JVC Shanghai Electronics Co, a joint venture set up by Victor Company of Japan in collaboration with Chinese companies, started shipments of 29-inch and 25-inch colour television sets on Monday, Japanese company officials said. The sets are being distributed through a network of about 1.000
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
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      Hopewell raises US$750m for China power plant
      330 5  -  By Dawn Tan SINGAPORE Hongkong's Hopewell Holdings has raised US$75O million (S$ 1.2 billion) from a consortium of 36 international banks in the largest syndicated loan arranged this year out of Hongkong for a project in China. Proceeds of the loan, which was
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      Lock icon Ringgit's slide gainst US$ seen as temporary
      448 5 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian ringgit's current weakness against the US dollar stems from temporary commercial demand, and the country's strong economic fundamentals should drive it up soon, dealers said. The local currency hit 2.60 to the US dollar yesterday morning before recovering
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      Lock icon Japan's 2 largest accounting firms call off merger talks
      274 5 Bloomberg TOKYO Japan's two largest accounting firms, Showa Ota and Asahi Shinwa, have broken off merger negotiations and affiliated separately with US-based accounting firms. Both had been affiliates of Ernst Young since that firm was created in a 1989 merger. Showa
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      Lock icon Canadian banks cut prime for sixth time in a week
      463 5 Reuter TORONTO Major Canadian banks, anticipating further drops in official interest rates, on Tuesday ushered in a sixth round of prime rate cuts in a week. Economists said the Royal Bank of Canada led the latest round, trimming its prime
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    • SMALL CHANGE
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        Nomura, Daiwa asked to take outsiders on boards
        100 5 TOKYO The largest US public pension fund has asked Nomura Securities and Daiwa Securities to accept outsiders on their boards of directors, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper reported yesterday. The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it had already sent letters to
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        US thrift purchase approved
        93 5 WASHINGTON A Texas subsidiary of Bank America Corp received approval from the Federal Reserve on Tuesday to purchase the assets and liabilities of First Gibraltar Bank, the largest thrift organisation in Texas. Bank of America Texas' purchase of First Gibraltar. Irving, Texas, creates the fourth largest
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        Green light for stake sale
        102 5 —SYDNEY Shareholders of Macquarie Bank Ltd have i, approved a plan by British merchant bank Hill Samuel Bank Ltd to sell about half its 29 per cent stake in the Australian bank. Hill Samuel is a unit of TSB Group pic. Macquarie will •-buy back
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        Italy cuts discount rate again
        69 5 ROME The Bank of Italy on Tuesday announced a cut of one percentage point in the discount rate, from 13 per cent to 12 per cent. It is the third reduction since the rate was raised to 15 per cent to protect the lira in
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      180 5 I L a It fc 4 _^k if! l 1 I m T|a H rl. i J Vi W i| k,& I rir Mkil si kiL^ He grew up on beluga caviar and Bizet's Carmen. He had a champion King Charles spaniel and a 52 roadster named Wanda. He had
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  • THE REGION/THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
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        UK Foreign Office Minister plans to resign
        83 6 LONDON Foreign Office Minister Tristan Garel-Jones a key minister in Britain's policy on Europe announced on Tuesday that he plans to resign from the government, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. But Mr GarelJones said he would not leave
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        Japanese govt's popularity poll
        84 6 TOKYO Reshuffling the Cabinet has not helped troubled Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. as the first poll since his sweeping change showed public support plunging to a new low. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper said support for Mr Miyazawa's new Cabinet had plunged to 20 per cent,
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        Court upholds deportations
        103 6 TEL AVIV Israel's Supreme Court has upheld the government's banishment of 415 suspected Muslim extremists. Chief Justice Meir Shamgar told the court that petitions submitted by civil rights lawyers on behalf of the Palestinians had been rejected. He said the deportees were on Lebanese soil, a statement
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        Mulroney vows to win next poll
        109 6 OTTAWA Canada's Prime Minister Brian Mulroney vowed in a television interview released on Tuesday that he will lead the governing Conservative Party into the next general poll and win. He promised his Conservative caucus in late October that he would stay on to fight
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        Inaugural flight to Subic
        80 6 SUBIC BAY, Philippines A Taiwanese plane carrying 80 tourists from Kaohsiung landed at Subic yesterday, signalling the start of commercial flights to the former US naval base. Richard Gordon, chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, welcomed the Taiwanese, who included tour operators, and gave them
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        Ukraine ends most price curbs
        95 6 MOSCOW The Ukrainian government on Tuesday issued decrees removing price controls on most goods and allowing millions of people to become owners of plots of land attached to their country homes. Deputy Prime Minister Vasil Yevtukhov told reporters that shortly after Jan 1, prices for
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      Lock icon Recovery in NZ will continue next year: minister
      250 6 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand Finance Minister Ruth Richardson said yesterday the country's fragile recovery is sustainable and should be strong enough to ensure re-election of her conservative government next year. She said in an interview that the painful recovery her economic policies
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      Lock icon US recession ended almost two years ago: economists
      332 6 NYT WASHINGTON Tuesday's GDP figures show that the US economy is on a definite expansion path but for the recovery to be sustained the growth rate must be faster than at present, analysts say. The country also needs more employment and somewhat
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      Major among soldiers
      47 6 TOMISLAVGRAD, Bosnia Visiting British Prime Minister John Major enjoying a joke with soldiers from the Royal Engineers at their base here on Tuesday. The Royal Engineers are helping to build a road to enable vital relief aid to get to towns in war-torn Bosnia.
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      Thai economy forecast to grow by 8pc next year
      513 6 Govt report sees inflation topping spc BANGKOK The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has predicted that Thailand's economy will grow 8 per cent next year, faster than this year's rate, with inflation expected to be higher at 5 per
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      Lock icon US govt headed for insolvency, warns Fed study
      258 6 Bloomberg WASHINGTON The US government is violating "the principles of long-run fiscal solvency", says a study published by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Unless President-elect Bill Clinton and Congress changed fiscal policies, the government was headed for insolvency or soaring inflation, the
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      Lock icon Wuhan textile industry struggling to survive
      612 6 State firms on the front line of reforms in China Reuter WUHAN, China More than half a century after British industrialists packed up and left this Yangtze river city, their Victorian-era textile factories are still cranking out cloth. Red brick factories, their roofs patched
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      Lock icon Gulf states to launch Arab development fund
      476 6 AFP ABU DHABI Wealthy Gulf Arab states will launch a proposed multi-billion-dollar fund in 1993 to help development in poor Arab countries, sources close to a Gulf summit here said yesterday. Three Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states had earmarked US$6 billion (Ss9.B billion)
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      Lock icon European arms industry still distant goal: analysts
      274 6 Reuter BONN Germany wants Europe's defence companies to join forces now that demand for arms has shrunk with the end of the Cold War. "We cannot go on developing different kinds of aircraft, ships and other systems in Europe," said German Defence Minister
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      Lock icon British retailers hoping for a merry Christmas
      377 6 Reuter LONDON Britain's annual Christmas shopping binge is almost over and nervous retailers hope final statistics will show that recessionhammered consumer confidence is reviving and that the tills rang louder than they did last year. But chances of a bumper Christmas look slim
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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      Lock icon Ad industry cautious about outlook for 1993
      611 7 Return to growth likely to be shallow and slow: report FT IF 1993 proves to be the year in which the global recession recedes, loud sighs of relief are likely to be heard around the advertising industry. But unlike earlier upturns, the next
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      Lock icon Editor of Barron's sacked
      507 7 Exit follows apparent fallout with magazine's owner over redesign NYT Alan abelson, the outspoken editor of Barron's, told his stunned staff on Monday that he had been asked to step down from his post, which he has held since 1981. For 16 years before that, he
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      Lock icon US retailers return to time-honoured methods to lure shoppers
      407 7  -  This year's promotions are less likely to hurt profits, says Stephanie Strom Stephanie Strom NYT Although sale signs that promise 25 per cent off are as übiquitous as ever in stores across the US this holiday season, retailers are turning to
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      Noel Hampers seeking to change its image
      525 7  -  Kooi Cho Teng on how the firm is carving a niche for itself in a highly competitive industry Kooi Cho Teng NOEL Hampers and Gifts, which recently bagged a contract with Yaohan to supply the chain with festive hampers, wants to change its
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        Aramis re-thinks men's toiletries brand account
        159 7 NEW YORK The Aramis unit of Estee Lauder Cos said recently that it had placed in review its men's toiletries brand account after more than two decades at AC&R Advertising in New York. Michal McKay, a spokeswoman for Aramis in New York, said the
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        SBC move highlighted
        131 7 SINGAPORE The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's ban on the display of revealing lingerie and cleavage in local television advertising has attracted the attention of a foreign advertising magazine. Advertising Age International said in a recent issue that the ban was apparently in response to a report by the
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        Thompson wins US$10m account
        164 7 NEW YORK Bristol-Myers Squibb said on Monday that it had moved its US$lO million (Ssl6 million) Clairol Loving Care hair colour account to J Walter Thompson New York after nearly seven years at DDB Needham New York. Both agencies also handle other Bristol-Myers Squibb accounts. Connie
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        Footwear chain changes its tune
        194 7 NEW YORK The Lady Foot Locker retail footwear chain and its agency, AC&R Advertising in New York, have made changes in a humorous television commercial after some viewers took it at face value. The spot, which began running earlier this month, advertised Nike running and
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    British knights, HK pawn
    501 8 EDITORIAL RARELY does Mr Lee Kuan Yew pull his punches, whether at home or abroad, especially on subjects he feels passionately about. So it shouldn't have come as a surprise that his remarks in his recent speech in Hongkong and in a subsequent newspaper interview created
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      Flying high without Qantas
      271 8 THE Australian government's rebuff of the Singapore Airlines bid for a stake in Qantas, coming within a week of Singapore Telecom's failure to win a multi-million-dollar contract to develop and operate Australia's third mobile phone network, must make certain quarters wonder whether Australians are as keen
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      Cruel action
      127 8 IT IS CRUEL and unbecoming on the part of the Israeli government to chase out about 400 Palestinians from their refugee camp and push them into Lebanon, where they do not belong. The move was taken as part of Tel Aviv's revenge for the death of an Israeli
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      Democracy thrives
      106 8 SOUTH KOREAN elections hogged the international limelight last week because, for the first time in 40 years, no politicians from the military ran for the presidency. In other words, it was a test of survival for South Korea's budding democracy. Kim Young-sam promised during the election campaign to
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      Reform with stability
      175 8 LAST WEEKEND, South Korea's bid for democracy paid off. Although the final election turnout was only 81.6 per cent, down from 89 per cent in the last presidential election in 1987, almost all South Koreans conceded that it was the fairest and cleanest election ever held in
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      Opposition must shape up
      187 8 MANY POLITICAL ENTHUSIASTS watching the marathon Budget Bill debate on television last week may not have had the patience to follow the programme all the way through. Some may have switched off their sets while others switched to programmes that were more entertaining, pleasing, or more
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      More goodwill needed
      137 8 FOR SOME of Hongkong's Legislative Councillors, the Chrismas holiday break will not be spent relaxing, but in a ferment of creativity and tactical planning, as they attempt to devise a counter-pro-posal to the governor's controversial political reform package. The pro-China Democratic Alliance for the betterment of Hongkong
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    695 8  -  China is making its presence felt as the Asian political balance is gradually redefined by a combination of factors, reports Yvan Chemla Yvan Chemla AFP CHINA has made its mark in the redefinition of the political balance in Asia as the only real counterweight
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      46 8 DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU Bmnupe, MOSTLY. YOUR AS FOR THE FOUL-frITRT-LtVeL SMOKSRIS VE& 3S7AOUSHEP pn* BRSATH.OROUJN CDNCGRH&O MTH B&NO OOOL, SMO&RSJ&jeSS i TUTH.SM^U-Y SOI HAD TO POSITION THE L TH6Y JUSTIPFNTIFY 1 HAIR—YOU J PRODUCT AS TH& CHILLIEST. A. MTH A CAM&L. NAMT? IT!^^ POM&ST, &AP9£ST I
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      1332 9  -  Thomas L Friedman discusses the rationale behind Bill Clinton's choices for his foreign policy team, while Robert Reinhold and Michael R Gordon respectively profile two major appointees Warren Christopher and Les Aspin Thomas L Friedman Robert Reinhold Michael R Gordon NYT RESIDENT-elect Bill B Clinton
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      1205 9 NYT IN THIS dissonant world of uncertainty, disorder and fear. Warren M Christopher sells confidence and trust. The quiet, discreet, almost shy Los Angeles lawyer was the man IBM turned to when it needed help in fighting a major anti-trust suit, the man President Jimmy
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      Lock icon From Peticare to matters of much greater import
      813 9 NYT IN SELECTING Representative Les Aspin to be his secretary of defence. Presidentelect Bill Clinton has picked a military specialist who favours further cuts in Pentagon spending but will also fortify the new administration's inclination to intervene in the fighting in Bosnia.
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Christmas without the trimmings
      496 11  -  'Tis the season to tighten one's obi in recession-hit Japan following the bursting of the bubble economy, says Yagoi Noguchi Yagoi Noguchi Economic recession has ended years of spending fever in Japan this Christmas, with trend-setting magazines advising readers to forget the annual obsession and save
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      759 11  -  Andrew Malcolm pops into a US store selling toys for handicapped children and suggests some items to put under the Christmas tree Andrew Malcolm NYT ITs a tricky time of year, these holidays, when so many joys bubble so visibly everywhere. Yet, not far beneath
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      Schiffer keeps mum about royal romance
      766 11 CHATTERBOX THE PRINCIPALITY of Monaco needs an heir. German model Claudia Schiffer has been linked romantically with Prince Rainier Ill's son, Albert, so people are talking. But not SchifTer. "I prefer not to talk about that," she told Vanity Fair magazine. "But one thing
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      A little Lloyd Webber
      558 11  -  Shahiron Sahari previews a coming show by Broadway artiste Richard lanni who pays tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber Shahiron Sahari Andrew Lloyd Webber might be one of the most successful composers of recent times, but his music doesn't necessarily appeal to everyone's taste. Composer Stephen Sondheim,
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      252 11 AND ENTERTAIN <A *ttwl Srp&c-l&H Sumptuous Seafood Artichoke, Roast Tom Turkey with all its trimmings, delicious I Plum Pudding with brandy I sauce a traditional set dinner on Christmas Day J At Hubert us Grill $65 per person 7.00 pm to 10.30 pm ANA HOTEL For reservations, pUm«c*h SINGAPORE 732*1222
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
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        Turnbull reappointed Australian captain
        76 12 MELBOURNE, Australia Wendy Turnbull was yesterday reappointed as Australian Federation Cup tennis eaptain for the ninth straight year. Tennis Australia president GeofT Pollard announced Turnbull had retained the non-playing position ahead of Lesley Hunt and Judy Dalton, both of whom lodged challenges. Former top 10 player
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        Jacoby bound for Japan
        81 12 NEW YORK Free agent Brook Jacoby is going to Japan, having signed a one-year contract with the Chunichi Dragons. Jacoby. 33, hit .261 with four home runs and 36 RBls in 120 games for Cleveland this year. He was let loose by the Indians when the
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        Magic invited to Philippines
        65 12 MANILA The Philippines has invited former US basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson to Manila next year to help the government's Aids awareness campaign. Health Secretary Juan Flavicr told reporters on Tuesday that Johnson, who is infected with the HIV virus that leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency
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        NFL reaches deal with players
        91 12 NEW YORK The National Football League (NFL) and their players have agreed in principle on a collective bargaining contract that would end a five-year labour dispute here. Both sides said they had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, which would be the first
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      Lock icon Knicks seen with NBA's best defence in years
      588 12 Coach Pat Riley exploiting team's natural strengths AP NEW YORK The last time an NBA team was as stingy on defence as the New York Knicks, Wilt Chamberlain was in high school and Michael Jordan was eight years away from drawing his
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      Lock icon For some NFL teams, winning could mean losing
      445 12 AP NEW YORK You're the Houston Oilers. You're already in the NFL play-ofTs and you play the Buffalo Bills at the Astrodome on Sunday night. If you win, you might have to go to Buffalo next week for a play-off game outdoors
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      Lock icon Psychiatrist protests against annual SI swimsuit issue
      571 12 AP CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina Linnea Smith doesn't want to cancel her subscription to Sports Illustrated, just to its most famous issue. Smith, a Chapel Hill psychiatrist and wife of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, recently completed a letter-writing campaign to 56
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      Lock icon Johnson and Bird's exit signals changing of the guard
      277 12 AFP WASHINGTON Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their second straight National Basketball Association title, but 1992 will be remembered more as the year that Magic left the game. Earvin Magic Johnson, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to five
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      Lock icon NZ maxi-ketch is favourite in Sydney-to-Hobart race
      447 12 Reuter SYDNEY In spite of a lack of racing form, the recently launched New Zealand maxi-ketch Endeavour is the favourite for the 48th Syd-ney-to-Hobart Race starting on Saturday. The 25-metre sloop, designed for the 1993/94 Whitbread Round-The-World Race, was launched on Nov 7.
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      Lock icon Year of sweet successes ends on bitter note for Mansell
      668 12 AFP PARIS Nigel Mansell correctly predicted that 1992 would be his year, but he could never have imagined that it would also see him quit the sport he loves. The British driver with the bulldog spirit clocked up a record
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
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      Summa steals limelight while STII weakens
      3900 13  -  By Moiz Tyebally SUMMA INVESTMENTS stole the limelight yesterday as share prices slipped in quiet trading. In a married deal, 10 million Summa Investments shares changed hands at 59 cents a share. Brokers said the seller was believed to be the Soon family, the
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      76 13  -  Paul Leo HAW PAR Brothers International Ltd at $2.29 has broken above a downward sloping trendline on the weekly chart and will trade towards objective at $2.65. The 5-week moving average line has just cut the 15-week moving average line from below, confirming the bullish trend. On the daily
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    STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 2
    3162 14 SPH Foreign 1570 70 4.7% DBS Foreign 1410 +40 +2.9% SIA Foreign 1780 30 +17% B Scmbawang 720 +20 +2.*)% Spore BusF 500 695 +15 +2.2% Summa Inv 72 +11.5 +19.0% CMB Asia 800 +-10 +-1.3% Centrepoint 50c 223 +-10 +4.7% GE Life 1160 +10
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    3436 15 Dunlop Est CULS 454 +16 +3.7% Dunlop Est 520 +15 +3.0% M Resources 164 +15 +10.1% Keck Seng 150 +7 +4.9% George Kent 50c 306 +6 +2.0% H Leong Credit 428 +6 +1.4% Cons Plant 50c 147 +5 +3 5% Gentings 50c 885 +5 +0.6%
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      811 15 BUSINESS TIMES Toll free Tel No: 737 0043 Fax No: 734 3698 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF P.G. PAK-POY ASSOCIATES (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) (In Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of P.G. Pak-Poy Associates
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      190 15 PARFAIT TRADING PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap 50. the Final Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company will be held at the Liquidator's Office. 2 Finlayson Green #09-10. Asia Insurance Building. Singapore 0104, on Friday
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
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      5585 16 Bernama PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange finished mixed yesterday, extending Tuesday's trend, as selling alternated with buying activity in a market lacking institutional support. The absence of most fund managers and institutional players who were already on or planning vacations discouraged
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
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      Lock icon Prices edge higher on selective buying
      2485 17 AFP SHARE PRICES rose slightly on selective buying on the local stock market yesterday amid fears that US Presi-dent-elect Bill Clinton could use economic pressure on China in a bid to obtain more democracy for Hongkong. The key Hang Seng Index gained 20.25 points,
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      AUDITED RESULTS
      248 17 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss per share dividend ('000) (cents) SPH Dec 21 Aug 92 $186,682(5153,802) 76(62 6) 27(25) Asia Pacific Dec 18 Sep 92 $64,193($65,969) 50 7(52.1) 42 9(40 6) F&N Dec 18 Sep 92 $72.110($57,443) 40 9(32 6) 192(19.2) Material
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      PRELIMINARY RESULTS
      65 17 Company Date Year Croup Not Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss per share dividend ('000) (cents) Pacific Can Dec 22 Sep 92 $2,4081 ($323) -(0 5) Van Def Horst Dec 21 Sep 92 $4,484l($2.739) —(4.7) —(1) C&C Dec 1 Sep 92 $65.010($71.942> 8.7(14.8) 17(17) Tunes Pub No* 20
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      INTERIM RESULTS
      351 17 Company Date Half-year Group Not Interim ann to profit/loss dividend ('000) Kamunting Dec 23 Sep 92 M$9.340(M$10.532) M Plantations Dec 23 Sep 92 M$6.783l(M$4.234l) Metalock Dec 23 Sep 92 51.697($2.291) Alexandra Dec 22 Sep 92 *844(1584) Hitachi Zosen Dec 22 Sep 92 $23.699($22.683) 15(-) Isetan Oec 22 Sep
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      671 17 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date dose payable the year last year MSB 5%(b) Ian 8 lan 22 Ian 29 5% 12% Amal Steel 50c 12%(b) Nov 19 Dec 3 Ian 2 12% 12% Amtek E/< 20c 6%TE Dec 4 Dec 10 Dec 30
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      CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS
      102 17 Dcc IS The shareholders of Sunshine ASed Investments have passed a resolution to buy over the entire stake of GCIC Singapore for $17.4 million. Benta Plantations Bhd plans to diversify into housing development in Penang, the company's first move into property development from its plantation activities. Dec 17
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      368 17 Company Rights Issue Alance Ted) Three tor hve <«. $1 00 pet share Ej date Dec 10 Bks Close Dec 22 Acceptance and Payment NY A Guthrie GTS One tor one JO 23 pet share Ex date Nov 26 Books Close Dec 8 Acceptance Payment Ian 18 luon(
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      396 17 Company Rights Issue Anui Steel One tw two (a. MJ2 20 pef share Issue of *****m 50% Cumulative Redeemable Preference shares of 10 sen each 1992/97 (CRPS) with up to *****m Transferase Subscnpton Rights (TSR) foe an aggregate price of MSI per CRPS with one TSR. on the
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      187 17 Hani Leong Craft Bhd: EGM at the Conference Room. 14th Floor, Bangunan Hong Leong. 117 Jalan Tun HS Lee, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. December 26, at 10.00 am Aokam Perdana Bhd: 38th AGM at the iohor Room, Shangrt4a Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Monday.
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      MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
      360 17 in local curr In S$ In USS dy )T dy >t dy yr Dec 22 index chgt ..hut ihtfr chge chge World 399.5 0.5 -2.2 0.0 -4.4 0.0 -5.3 $EAFE 466 8 0.7 -7.0 -0.1-10.8 0.0-11.7 Europe 434.8 1.0 5.7 -0.3 -5.2 -0.3 -6.2 Pacific.
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  • CHINA STOCK EXCHANGES
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      416 18 CLSA IN Shanghai, the share prices of the foreign market posted a 3.57 per cent gain, pushing the CLSA Shanghai B Index higher to 708.52 yesterday. The surge is mainly on the back of the rumour that Chlor Alkali and Tyre Rubber will
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      1078 18 Reuter PRICES on the Jakarta stock exchange fell across the board yesterday but Astra International rose slightly on speculation that a consortium of investors would bid the share at higher prices, brokers said. The Official Index closed at 271.75, down from Tuesday's 272.19. They said
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      Lock icon Index almost unchanged amid profit-taking
      2096 18 Reuter INVESTORS sold major property firms and some small banks to take profit while most shares traded near their previous close with the stock index finishing almost unchanged yesterday, brokers said. The SET Index lost 0.37 points to close at 863.50 on turnover of 4.72
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      2042 19 Reuter THE Australian share market closed lower yesterday after overseas buying faded to make way for institutional profit-taking. Domestic and offshore buyers had helped the market recover ground after it dropped at the opening bell, but it dipped again towards the close as sellers moved
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • NZ shares end flat in thin trade
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        NEW ZEALAND
        345 19 VOLUMES continued to thin as the New Zealand market wound down for its summer break yesterday. The larger stocks were generally steady. "The feel of the market is very good but there just wasn't a lot of price highlights today," said Cavill White Securities' Don Turkington. The NZSE-40
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        MANILA
        520 19 INVESTORS snapped up selected blue chips yesterday in anticipation of a good 1993 first quarter, sparking a rally that ended a two-day slide. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index closed 16.51 points higher at 1,223.67. "The market was due for an improvement because the downside in the commercials had
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        54 19 1 INDICES TURNOVER Close Prnioin Dec 23 NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1.535.0 1.534.13 0.87 MANILA Composite Index 1.223.67 1.207.16 +16.51 Turnover (mil pesos) 182.12 126 56.12 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index <r\ 00 3 3.579,97 131.82 Turnover (NTS billion) 16.2 8 +8.2 SEOUL Composite Stock Index 670 43 657.01 13.42 Turnover
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        TAIPEI
        480 19 STOCKS plunged to end 3.7 per cent lower on worsening political tensions, brokers said. The Weighted Index closed 131.82 points lower at 3,448.15, about 15 points above its intra-day low. Turnover was an active NT$l6.2 billion against Tuesday's NT$B billion. Fears of major conflict between the opposition and the
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        BOMBAY
        78 19 SHARE PRICES moved in a narrow range yesterday in low-key trading restricted to one hour against the normal three, brokers said. The 30-share Bombay Stock Ex- change (BSE) Index ended at 2,571.36, up 9.26 points. The National Index fell 4.42 points to 1,169.32. Trading was mainly restricted to short-covering
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        SEOUL
        790 19 AN ACTIVE stock market soared yesterday as investors went on a buying spree in anticipation of a solid rally ahead, brokers said. The index closed up 13.42 points at 670.43. Most stocks went limit-up. Small and medium-sized companies led the pack. Brokers said the market was expected to remain
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        1380 20 BLUE-CHIP STOCKS closed higher on Tuesday, propelled by a rebound in shares of International Business Machines Corp. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 8.64 points higher at 3,321.10. In the broad market, advancing issues led declines 985 to 885. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 250
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        848 20 SHARES hit a new record high for the second day running on Tuesday, buoyed by hopes of an economic upturn and a cut in German and British interest rates at the start of the New Year. The FT Index of 100 leading shares closed 34.3 points or 1.2 per
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        FRANKFURT
        280 20 STOCKS made a moderate gain on Tuesday, in continuation of the uptrend that got underway on Monday, dealers said after the close. The DAX Spot Trend Index rose by 0.53 per cent by comparison with the Monday close to end at 1,523.57 points, while the Commerzbank indicator tacked on
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        AMSTERDAM
        331 20 DUTCH SHARES ended firmer across a broad front on Tuesday, with bullishness on interest rates, a stronger dollar and firmer UK and US markets all lending support. But dealers said the rise was partly attributable to end-of-year "window dressing" by portfolio managers bidding up prices in a thin market
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        PARIS
        236 20 A GROWING VIEW among fund managers that one way or another French interest rates will fall next year sparked a solid rally, driving blue chips to their highest close in three months. After weeks of hitting a brick wall at 1,800 the CAC-40 Blue Chip Index crashed through that
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        ZURICH
        338 20 A RISING DOLLAR and Wall Street's firm opening led the Swiss share market higher in moderately active trade on Tuesday, dealers said. Export-oriented blue chips in particular were helped by the dollar, while second-tier stocks got support from window-dressing. The SPI Index closed at a final 1.215.0 points, 6.4
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        TORONTO
        308 20 BLUE CHIP stocks ended virtually -flat with a slightly stronger bias as earlier gains on Wall Street ebbed and pulled Toronto's heavier weighted shares and broader index down from earlier gains on Tuesday. Gold shares, pinched by falling bullion prices, led losses on the TSE. The TSE-300 Index rose
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        BRUSSELS
        214 20 BELGIAN shares closed more than one per cent higher as a two-day-old rally continued on Tuesday. Dealers said the market was fired by some positive company news, renewed hopes for lower interest rates and some technical end-of-year portfolio adjustments. The Bel-20 Index of leading shares closed up 14.32 points,
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        408 20 Milan Dec 22 Ure Assitalia 7990 -52 Bastogi 90 FiatT. 3780 -10 Gcncrali ***** 160 If, Priv 7650 -100 Italgas 3215 +53 Italccmenti 7200 120 Montedison 1082 Mediobanca ***** -60 Magncti 648 *JMagncti Risp 620 -18 Olivetti 1710 -19 Olivetti Priv 1447 -2 Pirelli Spa 1078 Pirelli Co 3800 -40
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        75 20 INDICES TURNOVER NEW YORK (lo%< Previous Dec 22 Dim Jones SAP 500 Turnover (million) 3.321.10 440 31 250 3.312 46 440.70 225 8 64 -0.39 25 LONDON FTSE 100 FT-30 Turnover (million) 2.842.0 2.184.5 802.3 2.807.7 2.159.7 795.4 34.3 24.8 6.9 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1.523.57 1.515.58 7.99 AMSTERDAM EOE Index
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKET
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      Aussie dollar ends flat against greenback in lifeless trading
      1161 21 REPORTS AStA Sydney: The Australian dollar closed almost unchanged yesterday after a lifeless day's trading that saw it wander aimlessly across a 20-point range, dealers said. Business was next to non-existent and dealers reported more interest in the upcoming Christmas holidays
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      398 21 Cross rates Dec 23 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.6380 2.5930 1.5890 123.80 0.6510 1.4410 1.4493 1.9380 SS 0.6105 1.5830 0.9701 75.5800 0.3975 0.8797 0.8848 1.1831 MS 0.3857 0.63 0.6128 47.7439 0.251! 0.5557 0.5589 0.7474 Dm 0.6293 1.0308 1.6318 77.91 0.4097 0.9069 0.9121 1.2196
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      606 21 Interbank rates SS. Bid Offer Overnight I 11/8 1-month I 15/16 2 1/16 2-month 2 1/16 2 3/16 3-month 2 1/8 2 1/4 Overnight mode: I ISS Bid Offer 7 days 4 3/4 4 7/8 1 month 3 1/2 3 5/8 2 months 3 7/16 3 9/16
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      424 21 Bloomberg NEW YORK Bonds of America's largest blue-chip corporations tumbled this year while high-yield, highrisk junk bonds rallied, an index of corporate bonds compiled by Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc shows. Bonds sold by the biggest banks in the US
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      1344 21 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/lnt Mar 93 96.34 96.35 96.34 96 34 2350 6588 ***** Jun 93 95.92 95.94 95.90 95.90 765 6383 ***** Sep 93 95.48 95.48 95.46 95.47 500 3554 5545 Dec 93 94 84 94 84 94.82 94.82 170 2661
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      Lock icon S-E Asia mulls idea of rubber screen trading
      415 22 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Rubber industry experts are considering a proposal to link South-east Asia's rubber markets through electronic trading with Singapore's futures market but the idea faces political pitfalls, officials said. "The proposal is to link various rubber exchanges based on a fee-sharing
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      Lock icon Natural gas deposits beneath Sydney basin to be explored
      282 22 Reuter SYDNEY Test drilling will begin next year on massive natural gas deposits beneath the greater Sydney basin, where geologists estimate there are enough reserves to supply Australia's biggest city for 60 years. A spokesman for Natural Resources Minister lan Causley
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      Weaker ringgit boosts KL tin price
      769 22 REPORTS BETTER buying demand from European buyers in view of the weaker ringgit against sterling, boosted the price of tin to close 12 sen higher to M$ 14.51 on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday. Dealers said the "cheaper tin" seemed to attract the
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      1608 22 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (future* dosing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 93 145.50 145.50 146.00 1.200 1.000 Feb 146.75 146.75 146.75 450 3,525 Mar 146.75 146.75 147.00 400 5.200 Apr/Jun 147.50 147.25 147.50 1.725 21.300 Jul/Sep
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      1273 23 Clt > HA Flight ETD City Flight ETA Flight ETD S0228 2040 <IF82 2050 SQl07 1305 SQ\06 1145 SO 109 1405 MH641 1315 Anwnan RJ183 0005 MH609 1455 MH610 1415 Amsterdam SQ319 0810 KL838 0040 MH611 1555 SQl 10 1445 W-837 1515 MH613 1625 BR215 1450
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      Pilgrimage through Three Gorges
      734 23  -  LETTER FROM YICHANG By Andrew Browne OUR captain has sailed the treacherous Three Gorges of the Yangtze river since 1949, knows every wrinkle on the boulder-strewn bottom and is a communist down to his black cloth shoes. "We rely on the collective wisdom of the masses
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    FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES
    152 23 As at 10am yesterday: Local dollars to oik unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1244 1.1402 Canadian dollar 1.2835 1 3095 NZ dollar 0.8348 0.8600 Sterling pound 2.5048 2.5400 US dollar 1.6350 1.6420 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling
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    53 23 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Jan 19-24 International Cologne. Messe-und (49)221/ Furniture Fair Germans Ausstellungv *****74 Gcs.m b h. Koln Jan 25-27 Fishing Aberdeen. Trenton 081-680 0587 Scotland International tvent Ltd Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Jan 26-30 Bl'RfcXPO 93 Geneva Orgexpo 01/*****09 4ih Western Sm iuerland\
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      243 23 6 Somehow, Agatha's out a horror-struck solu--10 Was he never 'in' writer J^i famous 13 Late for example? 16 Upsetting ratings, vote leaves )Hf iBL—pHHBHL—pW 21 It drains ofT water when P9| I r 2 royal egg is cooked (8) for the H II bedspread (4) 1^— 24 Of special
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      180 23 Singapore Outlook: Showers over many areas in the earl) morning and again in the later afternoon and early evening. Report: Maximum temperature 31.1 Assoc humidity 63% Minimum temperature 23.3 Assoc humidity 97% Hours of sunshine 6.50 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 450.2 Rainy days this month 17 World
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    406 24 Beijing retaliates over sale of fighter planes to Taipei Reuter BEIJING China yesterday ordered France to close its consulate in the booming southern city of Guangzhou in retaliation for the sale of French jet fighters to Taiwan, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
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    122 24 Reuter TAIPEI A scmi-official Taiwanese trade body plans to establish a branch in south-eastern China next year, the island's first such office on the Chinese mainland. The China External Trade Development Council (Cctra), a Taiwanese trade promotion body, would use the office to
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    Lock icon Taipei investors favouring China over S-E Asia
    413 24 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan, one of the biggest foreign investors in South-east Asia, is cutting back new investment in the region as it focuses on China's booming economy, officials and businessmen said yesterday. Capital flows to Southeast Asia had been shrinking since early this
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    190 24 Reuter MOSCOW At least four ministers from the last Russian government will keep their posts under new Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, but the fate of key economic ministers remains unknown, Itar-Tass news agency said yesterday. It quoted Boris Saltykov, Deputy Prime Minister in
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    335 24 Reuter JERUSALEM Palestinian leaders said yesterday Israel's expulsion of 415 Arabs to Lebanon was killing Middle East peace talks and could make the Palestine Liberation Organisation resume armed struggle. In the occupied Gaza Strip, soldiers shot and wounded 41 Arabs as Israel lifted a 16-day
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    273 24 AFP HONGKONG China's top man in Hongkong, in a blunt year-end message, yesterday urged the colony's British rulers "to change their course, realise their mistakes and mend their ways" over its future. Zhou Nan, director of the local branch of the Xinhua
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    702 24  -  The Bottom Line HARISH MEHTA HARISH MEHTA The writer is a BT correspondent THE ball game in Vietnam has changed. The fierce competition that Japanese. European and Asian firms had been expecting has arrived with the return of some of the biggest American
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    517 24 NYT TOKYO In a bluntly worded warning to US Presi-dcnt-elect Bill Clinton, a panel of influential Japanese business leaders have said in a government-sponsored report that the US is focusing on "its own narrow national interests" in economic matters. The
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    427 24 Reuter PHNOM PENH Government troops and the Khmer Rouge have fought an artillery duel in north-west Cambodia. the most intense shelling since the signing of a peace accord last year, a UN military official said yesterday. The battle
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      Regional cruise market meets rising tide
      608 25  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE A wave of cruise ships is flooding both Singapore and the Asia-Pacif-ic with maiden calls giving further proof of the regional cruise market's rising tide. The Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) told BT that eight cruise ships will call at
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      Lock icon Traffic builds up at closed Houston channel
      237 25 Reuter HOUSTON About 50 ships were backed up in the Gulf of Mexico awaiting the re-opening of the Houston Ship Channel as divers assessed how to move a damaged barge blocking traffic in the 80-km-long waterway, officials said. "Until we see what the
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      Lock icon Ship with Chinese refugees seized in San Francisco
      522 25 AP SAN FRANCISCO An Indonesian crew faced charges on Tuesday of attempting to smuggle 180 Chinese refugees into the United States after their filthy ship was escorted into San Francisco Bay by officials responding to a radio plea for help. Coast Guard
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      876 25 Page Col ABC Containcrline 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 APL 5 3-5 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Avia Airways 14 4 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bangladesh Shpg 9 3 Bank Line. The
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      Lock icon Reported ship trading said to be illusory
      141 25 Knight Ridder NEW YORK There was some increase in the volume of drycargo ship activity reported on Tuesday, but brokers said it appeared to be more of an illusion rather than of substance. Reports of several Capesizc and Panamax size coal and ore
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      Training centre in China plans to go regional
      463 25 HONGKONG Ming Wah Shipping Co plans to develop its seamen's training centre in Shekou. southern China, into a full maritime centre for the Far East. Ming Wah legal counsel Lin Yuen-mun said the centre. which was opened in March, could help shipowners
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      Lock icon Greenpeace spots ship in Vanuatu waters
      321 25 The Akatsuki Mam saga AFP PORT VILA Environmental group Greenpeace spotted the Japanese plutoni-um-carrier Akatsuki Xtaru early yesterday morning as it was inside Vanuatu's 200 mile-exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the group's mission said. The small Piper Chieftain charter plane, which flew to Port Vila
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        64 26 WASHINGTON The US National Transportation Safety Board called on Tuesday for tougher standards for the 104,000 railroad cars that transport four billion tonnes of hazardous material a year. The board's recommendation lor stricter testing and inspections was prompted by two cases this year
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        Cyprus iron ore carrier refloated
        42 26 LONDON Cyprus flag bulk carrier Panagiotis L Periwliotis was refloated on Tuesday evening in the River Orinoco, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence said. The 76,323-deadweight-tonne vessel, aground since Nov 25, had discharged part ot its cargo of iron ore.
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        US agency retains sipping role
        59 26 WASHINGTON The US Agency for International Development will continue to provide transportation procurement services for commodities donated by the Agriculture Department under two food-aid programmes, it was announced. The Agriculture Department said its agreement with AID covered shipments under the Food for Progress and Section
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        39 26 COLOMBO The capsized hull of the cargo ship The Pharos flying a St Vincent Flag, lying in Colombo port after developing a leak while loading a cargo of rubber bound for Ethiopia on Tuesday
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        Algeria, Portugal in gas deal
        66 26 ALGIERS The Algerian Oil company Sonatrach said on Tuesday it had signed a contract with the European Natgas consortium for the supply of 2.1 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year to Portugal. Natgas is made up of Portuguese, French and German gas companies,
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        Over 150 killed in Libyan crash
        57 26 NICOSIA A Libyan Airlines Boeing 727 jet crashed on a domestic flight on Tuesday killing 157 people aboard, the Libyan news agency Jana reported. The Libyan government has ordered three days of mourning for the victims of the crash, who were identified by Jana
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      Lock icon A doubtful victory for US
      1050 26 The aborted deal between USAir and British Airways may represent only a short-term victory for the American carriers that had lobbied against it NYT WHEN Robert Crandall. the chairman of American Airlines, began to speak out four months ago against the British Airways plan to
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      COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
      978 26 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      12130 34 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3396 39 Asia-North America Eastbound Rate Agreement (Far East/North America, excludes Japan): American President Lines; Sea-L-and; Neptune Orient Lines; Maersk Line; Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line; Mitsui OSK Lines; Nippon Liner system; "K" Line. Trans-Pacific Westbound Rate Agreement (North America/Far East): American President Lines; Sea-Land; Neptune Orient Lines; Maersk Line; Nippon
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      COURIER SERVICES
      279 39 Abacus I utuim lei: 545-6011 l ax: 545-1698 Air Kxprns I ravel lei 533-5771. Fax 535-6144 Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8644 Fax 542-3716. *****80 Airswift Worldwide ourier Tel: 278-0188 Fax 2 7 3-8283. AJS Supplies Tel ''48-6322 (2 line*). 747-7421 Fax 742-8975. Cits-link International Tel: 344-3377 Fax: 345-6450
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1483 39 Abcx F.xpress Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fav *****84 Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42 Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20 Aerolink Freight international Tel: 545-8033 Fax: *****05. \eruspeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Fxpress Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air F.xpress International Tel: 542-7666 Fax: *****74. *****50 Air
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      1191 40 ALBANIA Durres: Seven vessels in port of 3 diseharging general cargo, 1 chicken feed, 1 bulk wheat, 1 loaded coal vessel. 1 loaded chrome vessel waiting to sail. ANGOLA Luanda: Conditions in town and port normal. All cargo berths occupied, 3 vessels waiting with 1-2 days delay expected.
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      AIR FREIGHT SCHEDULE
      565 40 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Might hpr ETA I' l-rom <)p Hijjht lype Ell) I lo TODAY TODAY KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SLL KAL KE697 B747F 0440 I BKK SJA SQ827 B747F 1730 2 CPH/DXB SIA SQ/ B747F 0715 2 DXB/LON CLX CV794 B747F 1845 I LUX/DXB BA822
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      333 40 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Art Pep Name of Vessel ETA LTD Ports of Calls Fort Agent telephone No DECEMBER 24 24 Cora Pnncss 1600 2000 S-E-Asia Cruise Harpers Shpg 221-1388 24 24 Delfin Star 1200 1800 Cruise to Nowhere Ocean Trade 229-0366 25 25 Auroral 0600 1200 World Cruise
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      775 40 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES The information was contributed by Simpson Spence Young AFP rHE SCRAP market has remained very active, especially for •ankers with three further VLCC deals being concluded. Following earlier unconfirmed reports during last month that the Heina had been sold for about U*****.50. She now seems to
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        586 41 Voy Wd Berth hmd Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departue iurong Port Kota Pusaka PusO/w P02 alongside 2/ 12 0600 Abbay Worn 34WB (8 alongside 24 12/1800 Longchuan ia 72 P06 alongside 2412.0600 Bennevu 1989 150/92 11 alongside 24 12/0400 Mahaia 13/92 P04 alongside 2312/1700 DW1
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        160 41 Penang Port On the way: 1: Penbunker. Hang Jun 4006. Kastun, Nagoya-1, krari Maru 3002,8g. Soon Hock, Helen N, Palm Sea Horse, Malayan Princess, Thai Yang, Hang Too 905, Hang Bo 3502, Hang Bo 4502, Hang Yang 802, Pernas Sek«, Yang Cheng Hu. Million Id, Cara Timur Tiga,
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        1731 41 >1 JihV 52 a D a 2 RESS SNp Voy No Containers avaiabfc Ship Voy No Containm avafaWo B Teratai 513 COO(EST) 23.1292 0700 Kota Pusaka PUS07A 22.12.92 0145 Kota Machan 347 COO(EST) *****2 1500 Tiger Bridge 235N 22.12.92 0650 Lhotse 433 COO(EST) 22.12.92 2300 Cy Moscow WF302
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      653 42 \*.in some mcuMse in the iwlumc ot di\cargo ship activity reported on Tuesday, but brokers said it appeared to be lUorc of an illusion rather than of substance. The Baltic Freight Index rose three points to 1.378. US Gulf/Japan heavy grain was fixed at U5525.50 for late Jan
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      1009 42 COURSES Shipping courses organised by Singapore National Shipping Association. 1993 Feb 3 Apr 7 (10 evenings): Effective Written Communication- in Shipping Management (SDF 50%). Feb 11 May 20 13 evenings): Principles of Shipping Documentations Practices (SDF 70%). Feb 26: 1-day Familiarisation Course on Singapore Bunkering Procedure (SDF case
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      Laos, Hongkong resume talks to set up air link
      291 44  -  From Philip Wakefield In VIENTIANE LAO AVIATION International, headed by Hu Chang, and the Department of Civil Aviation, headed by Sadapheth Bodhivarn, have resumed face-to-face negotiations with the Hongkong government and Cathay Pacific in an attempt to reestablish a direct air
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      371 44 US defence contractor to focus on aerospace business UPI ST LOUIS McDonnell Douglas Corp. citing the need to focus on its core aerospace business, said on Tuesday it plans to either sell its Laser Systems business or find a joint-venture partner for it.
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      525 44 UPI MOSCOW Russia's giant state-owned airline Aeroflot, plagued by debt and fuel problems that consistently ground parts of its fleet, expects to carry far fewer passengers next year because of higher fares, aviation officials said on Tuesday. "We expect the number of passengers that
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      553 44 Reuter LONDON Relatives of British victims of the Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner asked the government on Monday, the fourth anniversary- of the disaster, to hold a full public inquiry to satisfy "truth and justice". Jim Swire, whose daughter was
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      542 44 Crash of Dutch DC-10 in Portugal UPI LISBON Investigators examining the crash of a Dutch jetliner were trying on Tuesday to identify the bodies of the dead and determine whether a strong gust of wind caused the plane to tilt, drag a wing and
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      1109 30 HANJIN SHIPPING f0« «l I SM lIM HAUL SEA K* FDR VSI SM IIM HAU SAV AM NYC FISHGUARD BAY 301N 28 12 I H NENYORK 046E 21/1 22/1 FISHGUARD BAY 301N 28 12 N HONGKONG 0371 4/2 5/2 7/2 HANJIN CKJU 090 C 4 1 H CHUNGMU 095E 2S/1
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      1201 31 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BAIT ORIENT LINE: *****64 FESCO: *****06 BLASCO ODESSA: *****51/*****31 ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) FULL CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES EASTBOWO—DISCHARGING WESTBOUND-LOADING TRANSWPCD Vl* ROTTERDAM
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      1717 32 44 f AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD < CR **********0 M) W W A TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****07/8/9 Ml MALAYSIA: "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD U M. A f/ ,K ir r o TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 ■■■1
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      989 32 .f-Mf© PHI LI on l( NT UN€S PTi LTP 1 0® Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 1 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Tetex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 &A BV AIR, LAND OR SEA.... WE TAKE 0/V THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION S>r 1 MBttM—| Mln 28
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      845 33 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD^ I SSSSSSSS 14 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I mm cr no iooao« "ooiiof VESSEL VOY SIN HKG SIN CMB JIB HOD JEO AQJ KOTA WIJAYA WJAOI7 25/12 29/12 3/1 9/1 11/1 14/1 KOTA SINGA SGAOI9 7/1 13/1 21/1 23/1 27/1 KOTA WIRAWAN
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      1683 33 EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK-NORTH CONTINENT-SCANDINAVIA WEEKLY p|P GUDANG PENANG PKELANG OCEAN VSI VQV SIN SOU (1) RTM (2l HAM (3) GOT (4) EJ2S 1? ~:6 12 JUTLANOM2SI2 15/1 IT/1 '8 1 20 1 Ej 1 T~i 2~1 SELANDIA 2522 s~i 22~1 24/1 2571 ITTI D 8 1 B'' 9■
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      283 33 °BSA° TRANSPORTATION MA MYANMA Vttttk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S pore P Kl| Pen P Gdg HP* AN VIB4W In Port PAGAN ¥191* 4/6 I*l HPA AN VIBSW 9/11 lan NIGERIAN NATIONAL M SHIPPING LINE ■IP NIGERIA EXPRESS SERVICE RIVER NGADA V.50 SPORE 28
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      2886 36 Full Container Liner Services Malaysia's Ajents: Indonesia's Ajents: General Agents: Booking Agents: Guan Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiso Shipping Sdn Bhd P.T. GMaf IlintHl Msribm Costar Shipping Pte Ltd SMopog freight Btekmg Cartre Ma SM 56 Persiaran Raja Muaa Musa Lot 3 34. 3rd Floor. Ji« 14 2 Mistri
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      43 36 SPORE IBN YOUNUS 00-170 26/27 DEC To Buenaventwa/Barranqula/Santa Marta Cartagena Santo Dorwijo Port Au Pritce Pto Quetzal AcajuUa/San Lorenzo/Corinto/Pto CaMera SPORE MAKEDONIJA JC-266 7/8 JAN To: Maracafco/Puerto Cabelo Georje Town/Guaranao/ la Guara/PTo Sucre Matanzas Port of Spam Paramaribo Panama Colon Cristobal El Guamache
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      598 37 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) LIMASSOL/PIREAUS 26/12 ROTTERDAM 26/12 HAIFA/ASHDOD/ALEXANDRIA 26/12 HAMBURG/BREMEN 26/12 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 26/12 FELIXSTOWE/UK 26/12 BARCELONA/SPAIN 26/12 LEHAVRE/ANTWERP 26/12 GENOA/ITALY 26/12 GOTHENBURG/SCANDINAVIA 26/12 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 26/12 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 26/12 NEW YORK/EC 26/12 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 25/12 VANCOUVER 26/12 BRISBANE
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      767 37 OT RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD S TEL *****33 (12 Lines) =L FAX: *****15/*****03 KH TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSEL IvO* ETA ILOADING FOR SPOKE NETSANFT 28WB 15/01 DARE SS ALA AM MOMBASA DJIBOUTI ASSAB MASSAWA
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      175 37 ninrs i REGIONAL CONTAINER LINES I Jouous I i TONG JOO SHIPPING PTE LTD TEL: *****93 CR NO. **********0 C ACCEPTING FULLY CONTAINERISED CONVENTIONAL CARGO KMCfpif am APPLE Cl 2 31/12 APPLE Cl 2 31/12 GIGI C4l 31/12 GIGI C4l 31/12 GIGI 9342 6/1 GIGI 9342 6/1 APPLE 9313 7/1
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      327 37 w&mi mm VSL VOY SINGAPORE MADRAS SINGAPORE VESSEL VOY SM MAX SM TKER SPEED 236* 2*29/12 03 05 01 10 11/01 ncn arro* <7N 30-31/12 os-oc/12 11-12/01 TIGER BRDGI 2m 04 95 01 10-12/01 17-11/01 TIGER SIM 4SN 06 07/01 12-13/01 19 20/01 VSL VOY SMGAPORE/CALCUTTA/SMGAPORE VESSEL VOY SM CM
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      1674 38 groupage I I [\~/\"~jPENANG: (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KUCHING: (082) *****3 w N P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 I HKG/TWN/BKK GOTH/U.K/MED PORTS PEN PKL SIN PEN PK SIN 24/12 25/12 26/12 Hong Kong Ldn/Flx/Rdm/Ant/LHV 24/12 25/12 26/12 27/12 28/12 29/12 Hong Kong G'burg/C'hagen/S'hohn/Oslo 27/12 28/12
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      255 38 w BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC ISLANDS SIN AKL LYT SIN AUST STAR 84S 25/12 6/1 8/1 25/1 PROSPECT 22S 6/1 IS/1 20/1 6/2 N2 STAR 5S 19/1 31/1 2/2 19/2 FULLY CONTAINERISED SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT AUCKLAND, LYTTELTON. ACCEPTING FCL LCL FOR NEW PLYMOUTH.
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      859 38 f THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. Mi 77 ROBINSON ROAD #15-00, #16 00 SIA BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 TEL: *****88 FAX NO: *****11. *****22 TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOI CABLE: TOSOCO I CONVENTIONAL/CONTAINER 66NTAIMER SERVICES SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA VESSEL Nor jsTORE 1 PEST VESSEL VOT
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      184 38 CCNI Compania Chitana da Navagacton Intarocaanica S.A. SEASPAC SERVICE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS AND BREAKBULK DIRECT SERVICE TO SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS SIN NOU SUV PPT PM.EMBANG 4304C8 30 12 13/1 16/1 22/1 U BON TANG 4410E8 29/1 10/2 13/2 18/2 DIRECT SERVICE TO CHILE. PERU. BOLIVIA SM IQQ CQ6 SAI'VAP ANF PAUMBANG
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      137 40 UP. rS? LIVING IT EACH WEEKEND, put up your executive feet, and let us shuffle through your imagination. We usually tread lightly, but even when we don't, you'll know you're alive after that exciting, exacting or simply emaciating week of work. So don't throw in the high-flying towel, or take
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      23 40 IF YOU HAVE HAD IT MADE, GO FOR THE FINEST THINGS IN LIFE. FIND IT AT THE BACK PAGE OF THE CLASSIFIED SECTION-
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      134 41 > it /fkt V i£ :><-;:J^^^Blb > Wfyf* mf ifi^i^H Wt& B Scalpel...scissors...sutures... Business Times Whether you're a surgeon, lawyer, contractor or engineer, all the current trends that affect them. you need to be kept well informed to maximise returns on vour monpv Essential information accessible every business day y
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      303 42 jZ NORTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERV CE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA 1 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 43N8 25/12/92 01/01/93 FRDAVAND MONDAY yteOUR SINGAPORE 43ANB 28/12/92 01/01/93 VIGOUR LUZON BNB 01/01/93 08/01/93 VIGOUR LUZON BANB 04/01/93 08/01/93 PORT KLANG/PENANG FULL CONTAINER SERVICE > VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE PORT KLANG PENANG FIAOS 9233N8 23/12/92 25/12/92
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      296 42 ■&.COSCO UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/12 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 15/01 20/01 Huangpu/Guangzhou CQBCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CMNA/BANQKOK/HONGKONQ EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Please refer above mentioned services
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      204 42 CONTAINER LINF\ Q BANGKOK MANILA)^-;;;. FAR EAST WEEKLY (i V 7 CONSOLIDATION PENANC I \i i HONCKONC JAKARTA PORT KfLANG KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG MANILA T N BUSAN PENANG/PORT KELANG X f BANGKOK TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/KOBE j Tel: 538 0155 OWENS CONTAINER LINE (S) PTE LTD CV" 133 New Bridge Road #09-06 Chinatown Point S'pore
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      36 42 CONTAINER SERVICE S'PORE/JAK ART A/SEM AR ANG/SURABAY A VESSEL/VOY STOW JAKARTA SEMARANG SURABAYA VENABU 0039 039 24/12 27/12 VENABU 0040 040 31/12 3/1 PERMAI 0134 134 28/12 30/12 1/1 3/1 PERMAI 0135 135 4/1 6/1 8/1
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      1072 43 4 H YUNdTST MERCHANTMARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE ttSSILS "T'pim- PKE PGP f SIN RTM AHT» LEH* HAM BKtt Fa 1 SI MARINER 302VW 24/12 25/12 26/12 27/12 15/1 15/1 16/1 16/1 16/1 15/1 H EXPLORER 303W 31/12 1/1 2/1 3/1 22/1 22/1 23/1 24/1 24/1 26/1 H CHALLENGER
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      455 43 BBS STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS VESSEL MY 9 P« IK U COSMC CNAUEKEI 12 SEO H/12 SOMAI II ■PT Ml 2 TAUMCPEIA* II H/12 27/12 TIMS Am 41 2< 12 27/12 MM 31/12 COSMC MASTER l( 21/12 cosac noKEi 27 i/i S/i o*lll
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      144 43 BINTAN6 MAS SHIPPING JPTE. LTD. 39 NEIL ROAD SINGAPORE 0208 TEL: *****88 TLX: R*****5 SINMER FAX: *****64 ACCEPTS WIS Of CARGO STOW DESTMATNN BMTANG BEL AIT ¥27E 23-24 DEC 24-25 DEC Brtub. I*i KBdat MERCURY PEARL V2SE 26 2« DEC 21-29 OEC Muari. Labuan BMTANG SERtt V2SE 28 29 DEC
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