The Business Times, 9 April 1993

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  • 13 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Friday April 9 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 72 1 Reuter SARAJEVO More than 7,500 rounds of ammunition were found hidden in a United Nations relief truek which was halted yesterday at a Serb checkpoint en route to a Mus-lim-held district of besieged Sarajevo. UN officials said Serb soldiers threatened the lives of
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    • 70 1 Reuter UNITED NATIONS The Security Council has dccidcd to continue the sanctions it imposed on Libya a year ago for failing to hand over for trial two men accused of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Scotland in 1988. The US, in a separate
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    • 39 1 AFP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa will ask United States President Bill Clinton to increase mutual understanding with China when he visits Washington next week, Kyodo News Service says. AFP
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  • 118 1 Stock market indices I hurvtay Change srrn 1,718 JO -2.8 KLSE Composite 657.2? -4.12 Nikkei 19,967.27 f 138.04 Hang Seng 6,285.67 t 3.97 SEI Index 858.49 +3.46 Jakarta Composite ...307.81 -0.56 CLSA China B 1.363.21 +5 4 Ausl All Orel 1.665.7 +10.8 FTSE 100 2.821.8 -0.3 I hursday
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  • 536 1  -  From Stephen Vines in HONGKONG THE Chinese government is developing a new approach in the bitter dispute over Hongkong Governor Chris Patten's plans for more democracy in the colony. Chinese officials and Hongkong-based advisers to the Chinese government
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  • 215 1 AFP HONGKONG Britain said yesterday it was determined to mote a naval base located near downtown Hongkong and have the area land-filled, despite C hina's protests that it wants to move its military there after taking over the colony in 1997. The
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  • 428 1  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE In another sign that the buoyant residential property market is not about to flag, ERA Realty Network sold more than $275 million of residential property in the first quarter of this year. This is twice as much as
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  • 376 1 Former Thai prime minister faces jail term if convicted AFP BANGKOK Former Thai prime minister Anand Panyarachun appeared in a criminal court to face charges filed by a former judge who alleged that Mr Anand had blocked his appointment to
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  • 449 1  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Speculators continued their rampage in the stock market yesterday even as caution from blue-chip buyers started to surface ahead of the long weekend. In just the first hour of yesterday's trading, speculative frenzy engulfed the Singapore
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  • 285 1 AFP PHNOM PENH Khmer Rouge guerillas are suspected of detaining and then killing a Japanese United Nations electoral officer and his interpreter in central Cambodia yesterday in what may have been their second cold-blooded execution of UN personnel in a week.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 342 2  -  By Anna Teo THE PAWN BROKING figures for January and February have set a poser: is business for the traditional lenders of last resort on the decline, or is the pawnshop clientele in fact a changing, more sophisticated set? The January figures indicate that fewer
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    • 372 2  -  By Joseph Rajendran IN AN unusual move. US multinational Mentor Graphics has spun off a major part of its Singapore operations to form a new company, with former managers as majority shareholders. Mentor Graphics Associates, which has a paid-up capital of $800,000, will
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    • 472 2  -  Former provincial official heads Sophos Consultancy By Teh Hooi Ling SOPHOS Consultancy, a local company set up by a former Sichuan provincial official now turned Singapore permanent resident, has been appointed to help sell the province's projects to foreign investors. Sophos director and
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    • 375 2  -  By Yong Pow Ang A SINGAPORE group led by architect Liu Kah Tcck, the younger brother of Liu Thai Ker, is developing a US$5O million (about SsBo million) business park in a suburb of Beijing. It has asked the Chinese authorities for permission
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    • 138 2 THE Korean consortium of Hyundai-Ssangyong has awarded four Suntec City contracts worth a total of $12.75 million. Philips Singapore has won a $6.9 million contract to supply architectural light fittings for Suntec's convention and exhibition centre, the retail complex and three
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  • THE REGION
    • 543 3  -  From Koichi Ishiyama in TOKYO JAPANESE Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa called on Singapore yesterday to take t helead in supporting a continued US military presence in Southeast Asia. "Singapore is in a better position to take the lead
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    • 445 3  -  Run-up to Cambodian general elections From Harish Mehta in PHNOM PENH UNITED NATIONS Secretary General Boutros BoutrosGhali has persuaded Prince Norodom Sihanouk to continue heading Cambodia's Supreme National Council for at least a short time after next month's general
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    • 384 3 AP BANGKOK Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao yesterday invited Thai businesses to invest in his country's new market-oriented economy, assuring them that reforms will continue. Mr Rao said his government would support Thai investors and suggested that Indian businessmen living
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    • 268 3 PHNOM PENH The Cambodian Human Rights Association and other pressure groups have called on all political parties to ensure that the May general election is peaceful, free and fair. The peace groups have urged all factions to shun violence and to talk, rather
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    • 287 3 Reuter BEIJING Money worship, the result of China s capitalist reforms, is behind an upsurge in crimes such as prostitution, robbery and drug-smuggling. Public Security Minister Tao Siju said yesterday that law and order problems were more severe now than when Chinese leader
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    • 371 3 Bernama PENANG Wanita Umno yesterday demanded the expulsion of Usno from the Barisan Nasional (BN). saying Usno's coalition with Parti Bcrsatu Sabah (PBS) was similar to "stabbing BN in the chest". Its chief. Rafidah Aziz, said the BN could not accommodate a
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 94 3 AFP BFIJING Beijing is willing to accept triads in Hongkong as long as they arc patriotic and refrain from crime. China's Public Security Minister Tao Siju said yesterday that triads could turn from crime and "do good," citing the example of one group that dispatched
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      • 73 3 AFP BLUING Authorities in southern China's Guangdong province yesterday issued a circular ordering all illegal firearms and ammunitions to be surrendered within 30 days. The circular ordered all people engaged in illegal manufacturing, smuggling, and selling of firearms to surrender to the public security within 30
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      • 81 3 Reuter TOKYO New Japanese Foreign Minister Kabun Muto said yesterday that Indonesia's President Suharto should be invited to the Tokyo Group of Seven (G-7) summit. Mr Suharto has bid for attendance at the summit to represent the views of the nonaligned countries. Indonesia assumed chairmanship
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      • 76 3 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's trade surplus for the first three months this year shrank to US$l.35 billion (552.2 billion), a 47.3 per cent decline from the same period last year. The Finance Ministry said yesterday that the sharp decrease was due to the worsening trade deficit with
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      • 73 3 Reuter TAIPEI Anti-pollution protests yesterday forced the temporary closure of two major chemical factories in the southern county of Kaohsiung. The county magistrate ordered plants of state-run China Petrochemical Development Corp and Premier Chemical Corp at the Tashe Industrial Zone to halt production on Wednesday,
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    • 508 3 IHT HONGKONG China has become the new El Dorado for the world's power station builders and electrical equipment suppliers. But financiers in Hongkong believe few of a recent flurry of deals to boost the power grid across China involving foreign companies will ever
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    • 243 3 AFP BANGKOK Thailand is committed to cracking down on video and music tape piracy and will introduce new laws to facilitate action against copyright violators. Press reports yesterday said that the Cabinet reaffirmed its commitment to get tough with tape piracy at
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    • 521 4 Reuter TOKYO Japanese financial mandarins who crafted a government support programme for share prices now appear worried they may be getting too much of a good thing. Japan's stalled economy is only now showing signs that it may be about to
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    • 378 4 Reuter CANBERRA Australia, long accused of preferring the beach to business by its fastgrowing Asian neighbours, is emerging as a genuine competitor in the region, with economists in the capital talking of a historic change. Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating will
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    • 403 4 Reuter TOKYO A keenly awaited government package to stimulate Japan's ailing economy will total about 12 trillion yen (*****.9 billion) and involve major spending on public works and infrastructure projects. the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported yesterday. That would make the package
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    • 71 4 Reuter DHAKA Artists putting finishing touches on Wednesday on portraits of south Asian leaders ahead of a seven-nation regional summit due in Dhaka tomorrow and Sunday. The portraits from left to right are of: Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe
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    • 305 4 AFP SYDNEY New data showing an unexpected drop in Australian unemployment to below 11 per cent boosted local markets, but analysts warned it was too soon to celebrate. The unemployment rate fell to a seasonally adjusted 10.9 per cent in March from
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  • THE WORLD
    • 364 5 Reuter WASHINGTON Businesses plan to increase their investment in new plants and production equipment at the strongest pace in four years during 1993, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Spending to boost output this year is expected to gain by 6.6
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    • 158 5 Reuter WASHINGTON Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans has expressed optimism about the future of world trade talks after two days of meetings with senior Clinton administration officials. Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday before returning to Canberra, be said he found
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    • 398 5 AFP FT TOKYO Japan will pledge an additional US$l.l billion (SSI.BI billion) in aid to Russia next week at a meeting of finance and foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations, the Kyodo News Service said. The new aid
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    • 213 5 NYT WASHINGTON A White House plan to assemble US$2 billion (about 553.3 billion) in federal loans to the Russian oil and gas industry by next Wednesday is unrealistic, according to American and international financial officials. For a year and a half, the deal
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 65 5 Reuter PARIS Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing has been elected chairman of Parliament's foreign affairs committee, giving him a platform from which to campaign for closer European integration and possibly launch another presidential bid. He easily won election to the post, which he held in
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      • 70 5 Reuter MOSCOW Russia's monthly inflation rate slowed to 16 per cent in March, from 25 per cent in February and 28 per cent in January, according to government figures published in the l:vestia newspaper. The report said March prices were 1.7 times higher than in
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      • 51 5 Reuter AYOD. Sudan A man and his three-year-old son, both suffering from severe malnutrition, lying in a feeding centre. Fighting between rival factions of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes, putting them at risk of starvation.
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      • 69 5 Reuter PARIS French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe yesterday said that Paris could demand tougher United Nations sanctions against Libya if Tripoli refuses to comply with UN resolutions over the bombings of US and French airliners. "We have given our agreement for sanctions to be renewed. If
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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      479 6  -  Helen Ching finds out the marketing techniques of NZ Apple and Pear Helen Ching APPLES aren't like Pump Reeboks, says James Milne, the export marketing manager of New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board. "Consumers have a low consciousness of them." said Mr Milne, who was in town
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    • 504 6  -  Clarissa Tan looks at how Swedish brewer Gammel Brygd got the most out of the April 1 beer spoof Clarissa Tan THE people behind the hoax X.O. beer advertisement might have enjoyed their April Fool's joke, but Swedish brewer Gammel Brygd hopes to have the last
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    • 302 6 SOFT DRINK CocaCola, which in the 1970s was the real thing and the early 80s simply it, has launched a new advertising campaign that will swamp Singapore cinema audicnccs with a series of 27 commercials shown before each movie. In a first-ever "roadblock blitz"
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 395 7  -  Keypad maker plans to develop property, make PVC pipes and build wharf By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Sesdaqlisted San Teh is capitalising on its presence in China by diversifying into three infrastructural projects that could require it to invest US$l6.B million (5527.2 million) over
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    • 306 7  -  By AJ Leow SINGAPORE United Overseas Land's (UOL) land and buildings assets were revalued at nearly $950 million as of Dec 31, 1992, according to the group's annual report. In his statement, group chairman Wee Cho Yaw noted that this gave a surplus
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    • 255 7 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Tonhow Industries returned to the black in the second half of last year, reducing its loss for the year to $239,000. This is a sharp improvement on the $1.32 million loss it reported for the previous year. Tonhow, a plastic components subsidiary of
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    • 1167 7  -  Corporate results review: Hotels By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE The total earnings of Singapore's 11 publicly-listed hotels rose 45.4 per cent to $126.06 million last year. But no hotelier is popping the champagne. For one, 1991 was a bad year
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    • 386 7 Malaysian companies in Hainan MBT KUALA LUMPUR Ekran Bhd is developing a beach resort on 809 hectares of land on China's Hainan Island, the company said in a statement. Its executive chairman Ting Pek Khiing will be in Beijing to sign
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    • 280 7 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Associated Kaolin Industries Bhd, which is expected to be listed on the second board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in June, has teamed up with three partners for a property venture in China's Hainan province. Its
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    • Article, Illustration
      389 7 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's index stocks Apr 8 liM Set* IlKkV Stork tal« hge factor anm (S) (i) A»imo I 960 0010 159 -5 00 CAC 6 900 5 61 (crctim 5 400 4.W FAN 12 400 -0 200 10 09 100 00 tiF A».a J 200
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 58 8 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong is strengthening rules on the disqualification of company directors with proposed legal amendments that were published yesterday. "The amendments are necessary to fulfil the need for more effective measures to deal with company directors who abuse their office or fail to comply
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        • 77 8 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Ssangyong Oil Refining Co Ltd, which earlier denied rumours of a major fire at its refinery, admitted it had unspecified problems which were likely to disrupt oil product supplies. "A problem has occurred. But wc don't know how major or minor it
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        • 69 8 Reuter TAIPEI Walsin Lihwa Corp. Taiwan's second biggest wire and cable maker, said it would target the China market in a joint venture with Carpenter Technology Corp of the US. Walsin and Carpenter signed an agreement on Wednesday to form a US$24O million (*****.6 million)
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        • 69 8 AFP SYDNEY The timing of the public float of Australia's national airline Qantas is again in limbo after the Australian government said it would consider further delaying the move until the middle of next year. A spokeswoman for Finance Minister Ralph Willis yesterday
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      • 530 8  -  Transformer manufacturer Trafindo Perkasa hit by problems at subsidiary From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA TWO companies in Indonesia's infrastructural sector, the flavour of the year for foreign investors in 1992, have turned in substantial increases in income. They are PT Sucaco and
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      • 506 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Mmcm' prim (S) \prui« Prudential Singapore Unit Trust 4 Ihc (iwimcrci' I <i) 137 MARA BufTHputra The Savings Fund I II I I7*d First Bpulra I 65 I TO S"porc Plug Fund 0 5? 0 56 Second B pulra 16) I 68 Spore See Fund 0*6 0«
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      • 1529 8 Payment F\ Books Pay (S) dale clove date Acma F 7.5 Jun 10 Jun 22 Jul S Amtck Eng 20* i 6TE Apr 15 Apr 21 Apr 30 Apollo F 2.S Jun 21 Jun 25 Jul IS Avimo 20* F I2.5TE Feb 17 Mar I Apr 15 Bcrjaya
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      • 272 8 FT NEW YORK US firms will have to disclose the value of options granted to executives and deduct them from profits under an accounting rule change proposed on Wednesday by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). But, the FASB, a private sector
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      • 56 8 Reuter TOKYO Floor traders flashing hand signals in hectic trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Tokyo stocks closed higher that day after the Nikkei Average tentatively pierced the 20,000-yen level a few times for the first time in more than a year. Yesterday, the Nikkei closed
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      • 269 8 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand brewer Lion Nathan Ltd is considering tapping into the beer market in China, says international division managing director Keith Thorpe. The company was looking to establish one to three joint ventures to take advantage of a market
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      • 657 8 MARKET WATCH AFP NEW DELHI Indian stock market players are cautiously predicting an upturn, after watching the share-price massacre since a huge market swindle was exposed a year ago. The market had bottomed out and it was time for buyers to
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      • 552 8 Reuter HONGKONG The government has proposed reforms in the wake of the huge oversubscriptions of China-related share floats which are potentially risky and give local markets a "Mickey Mouse" image. Monetary Authority chief Joseph Yam said yesterday. In a speech to the
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      • 349 8 IHT HONGKONG Asia's dominant satellite broadcaster. Star TV, has offered to join ranks with its regional rival. Asia Business News, as part of Star's plans to build a multipartner regional pay-TV service. the company's chief executive says. The
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    • FINANCE
      • 328 9  -  OCBC to arrange and lead-manage USS 100 m issue By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The influx of Chinese banks into Singapore's Asian Dollar market continues, with the Shanghaibased Bank Of Communications planning its second floating rate notes here. The bank recently gave
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      • 368 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank of Commerce (M) Bhd has received the Bank Negara Malaysia's approval to start an offshore banking subsidiary in the Labuan International Offshore Financial Centre. BOC president and chief executive Mohamad Nor Mohamad Yusof said the
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      • 51 9 Reuter LONDON Ihree-year-old Max Lincoln handed his Mickey Mouse piggy bank for neighing to the Bank of England Gate-keepers on Wednesday. The Bank of England launched its Grand Easter Weekend Piggy Bank competition with unique prizes including £50 banknotes signed by the bank's chief cashier.
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      • 236 9 AFP SYDNEY Australia's largest life office. The AMP Society, has announced a profit of more than ASI billion (SSI. 15 billion) for 1992 despite property and share writedowns and falling premiums. The group, which rates as the sixth largest mutual life
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      • 393 9 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Sun Alliance, the UK's largest general insurance company, said its pre-tax loss narrowed in 1992 due to reduced losses on household mortgage policies and it predicted a return to profit this year. Group chief
        Bloomberg Business News  -  393 words
      • 132 9 THE dollar opened at 1.6250/60 against the Singapore dollar and touched a low of 1.6245 before short covering emerged. Amidst some corporate buying of US$. the dollar was taken up to close around 1.6275 as dealers rushed to cover short positions ahead of the long
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      • 190 9 Reuter LONDON A bout of dollar selling and a yen rally livened up the last trading session in most major centres before the long Easter weekend yesterday but European share markets had a quiet day. Tension returned to the European Community's Exchange Rate Mechanism currency grid as dealers left
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      • Article, Illustration
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      • 378 9 Bloomberg energy report LONDON oil futures prices fell in New York and London as a build in US crude stocks was seen outweighing a fall in product inventories. The American Petroleum Institute released figures Wednesday evening showing crude stocks rose 3.8
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      • 81 9 Reuter NEW YORK The dollar hit a record low against the yen overnight under renewed speculative selling pressure yesterday. Rising Uj wholesale prices and a small decline in weekly jobless claims had little immediate impact. The dollar opened at 112.96/01 yen, down from 113.54/59 at Wednesday's US close.
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1473 10 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simcx Euroyen interest rate futuies ended mixed in late profit-taking yesterday but the market remains dominated by bears, dealers said. "When the shorteovering is o\er. there will be no factors to support the Euroyen and we should see it diving further."
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      • 941 10 COMMODITIES REPORT Tin Tin prices extended losses to close six sen lower at VIS 14.29 per kg on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market on higher offerings yesterda>. Dealers said the market was easier on lack of buying interest as the higher
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    • 1682 10 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) lose Volume (>pcn Month High Low Sell (tonnes) Interest Mas ilToti I 13.50 ilT(lio 8~500 1 825 Jun' 0.00 t) (H) 135.75 1.775 6.550 Jul 0(H) 0(H) 137.00 7S» 5.175 \ug 0.00 0.00 I
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1168 11 10.8 STOCKS rebounded at the close, powered b\ lower-than-expected jobless figures. Ihe unemplovment rate fell to a seasonally adjusted 10.9 per cent in March from 11.1 per cent in February, the Bureau of Statistics said. The All Ordinaries Index closed up 10.8 points at 1.665.7. The All Industrials climbed
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      • 374 11 closed The stock market will be closed today and tomorrow for public holidays. Manila \p, 7 Pr«» UNI 4V*un»<«<p XBStBN "SM Xk.mlVl "»> ulkh Xk.xnPri H Xngk<PM4hi "IS «U l*«»l Xpr\ Mining X Xpr* Mining B \iLh( fWM \IU(<«<H \tb- lei *S» \lbs In R VjLi«.<rp\ >'»«' s»l \.in»pH
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      • 615 11 -88.13 Share prices closed sharph lower, pushing the index helow the S.(XX) level, due main- l\ to profit-taking aimed at speculative issues. I he Weighted Index closed 88.13 points down at 4.925.15. Turnover shrank to N 1556.57 billion. Profit-taking was heav\ in speculative stocks, which had risen sharplv in
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      • 430 11 -4.42 Stocks fell for the first time in four days after sharp gains in large-capitalisation shares, brokers said. They said this was a correction following recent rises and that the market remained positive in general. The Composite Index fell 4.42 points to close at 695.07. Volume and turnover remained
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      • 283 11 1.91 Shares continued the trend of earlier in the week to end the halt-da> session steady in very quiet pre-holiday trade. The N/SL-40 Capital Index ended at 1.562.30 points, up 1.91 Fletcher Challenge rose four cents to N/52.55. "There was a chunky seller of FCL around yesterday and
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      • 81 11 -87.83 Stock prices lost some of Wednesday's gains after the Reserve Bank of India refused to lower bank lending rates in its credit policy for the first half of the financial year. The BSE Index, which gained nearly 100 points on Wednesday before the credit policy was announced, fell
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 704 11 Britannia Funds Sterling C «h Bid Offer Mim ap Depowi M VW Mim Jervs (.ill 0 I** 0 AWT Mim Mat Income *0 ■>•*«» •I.OMO I SS ash Income Plus I unJ 10 1100 I0fc500 PSS Rewve Fund 5 2000 5.2100 Sterling Fquit> Euro Performance 0 4 WJ 0 4*08
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      • 607 11 -0.3 Shares ended mixed yesterday after a lacklustre session in which interest focused on just a few specific stocks and marketmakers squared their books ahead of the Easter break, dealers said. The FTSE 1 (X) index finished 0.3 points easier at 2.821.8 after its sixth straight day of weakness.
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      • 151 11 +2.9 The absence of any easing from the Bank of France and Prime Minister Edouard Balladur's remark he is considering raising indirect taxes to balance the social security system's accounts obliterated the market's early gains yesterday. Also, his emphasis on the franc-mark parity and failure to give the slightest
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      • 97 11 +0.23pc Supported by lower money market rates, but little else. Swedish stocks edged upwards in thin prc-holi-day trade to close about 0.25 per cent ahead. The all-share index rose 0.23 per cent to 988.31. Ihe OVIX index closed up 0.27 per cent at 768.24 points. Total turnover was worth
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      • 180 11 5.42 I he slim gain-* seen on the Frankfurt share market yesterday. wh-*n a key support level on the DAX index managed to stay intact, leave the outlook for the coming week distinctly mixed, dealers and anaKsts -.aid. Technical trading and position-squaring in thin turnover before the long Easter
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      • 133 11 -3.99 Belgian shares closed slightly lower in listless trade yesterday with major holding company Societc Generale de Belgique (SCiB) a notable exception. It closed 2 per cent higher at 2,315 francs ahead of its 1992 earnings. The Bel-20 index of leading shares closed 3.99 points, or 0.31 per cent,
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      • 130 11 +2.18pc Italian shares closed higher and dealers expected continued progress over coming sessions following yesterday's setting of targei dates for privatisations by Treasury Minister Piero Barucci. Dealers expected investor attention to focus on shares in firms to be privatised. But full impact of yesterday's news would only be felt
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      • 201 11 +0.62 Dutch shares closed Hat to firmer, helped by higher bonds after the central bank cut a key money rate yesterday. Philips Electronics was well sought by IJS investors and gained 0.70 guilders to to 25.30. dealers said. the bOK index finished 0.62 points higher at 318.36. Amsterdam Apr
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      • 184 11 3.9 Swiss shares closed a quiet pre-holiday session slightly higher yesterday. The market will be closed today and Monday Ihe broad SHI index ended 3.9 points up at 1.344.4. Zurich Vpr H Krum VUjMiisw Bi 505 uiKh Briwn B*»*m Bi -10 t S Br J4UI 10 tS ll.<Minf Re*
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      • 283 11 29 South African shares ended stronger across the board on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange yesterday after a gold-related spurt of foreign interest and some bargain hunting of industrials at the lower levels, dealers said. The JSb Industrial Index. which has been drifting lower the entire week on lack of
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      • 269 11 +2.61 Toronto stocks slipped in quiet early dealings yesterday. buckling under the pressure of tumbling base metals issues. The metals and minerals index fell 48.20 points or 1.68 per cent, to 2.822.12. chiefly on weakness in heavyweights Inco l td and Alcan Aluminium Etd. The ISE 300 lost 5.38
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      • 788 11 19.45 Wall Street was virtually unchanged at mid-morn-ing yesterday, subsiding from a slight initial rise. At 11 am. the Dow Jones Industrial Index stood at 3,396.46. down 0.56 point. Trading was very heavy with 98 million shares changing hands. Blue chips closed higher on Wednesday, with airline stocks
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      3095 12 Reuter AFP SHARE prices recovered early losses and closed slightly firmer in a day of largely featureless trading, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index finished 3.97 points higher at 6.285.67. Turnover was HK52.35 billion against HKS2.2 billion Wednesday. The All Ordinaries Index closed at 3.369.96. up 3.79 points "It
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      472 12 THE Shenzhen A market was active again yesterday with ail stocks on the exchange moving higher in brisk trade. One of the main reasons for the recent surge appears to be the prospect of companies issuing bonus shares in rapid succession. The CLSA Shenzhen A Index was up 95.30
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      2556 12 Reuter STOCKS ended moderately firmer on a last minute rally by dealers. The Nikkei average extended this year's closing high but failed to end above 20.000. It last closed above 20,000 in March 1992. Bullish sentiment remains and buying on dips supported the market, brokers said. "Overall, price moves
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      1668 12 Reuter THE stock market gained a few points after institutions, mainly local funds, started buying in the heavily-weight-ed banking sector, brokers said. The SET Index rose 3.46 points to close at 858.49. with 2.7 billion baht traded. Gains edged out losses 120 to 100. with 63 unchanged. "Many people
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      1044 12 Reuter STOCKS closed mixed in moderate trade in selected counters. Volume was boosted b\ trading on the crossing and block board. The Official Index closed at 107.81 points, down from 308.37. Losers led gainers 19 to 17 with 22 counters unchanged. "Bank Intemasional Indonesia met selling pressure on fears
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    • 3114 13 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volum Ami Pac Ld 50c 62.PI.OOO Mctroptcx 50c 49.590.000 Kcnong Bh«] 50c J7.9I4.000 Idm H\d MX 22.427.000 Ind OMB 50c 21.679.000 Mulpha Inil 50c 1* 456.000 Ind < )\vgcn Wt 15.189.000 Promct 9699.000 \MDB 50c K.I46 000 Monangtorp 8.019.000 Fabcr
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 4811 13 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Widespread profittaking took share prices here to an easier close in active trading yesterday on further selling of situational and selective blue chips across the board. The K.LSE Composite Index also continued to slide by 4.12 points to 657.23 at the close,
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 6877 14  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Profit-lakers came into the market yesterday following four consecutive sessions of rises on the Straits Times Industrials Index. The benchmark index ended the day -.80 points lower at 1,718.40. The market is closed today for Good hriday. Yesterdav's close was
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      • 72 14  -  HOT STOCK Quak Hiang Whai PARKWAY Holdings broke out of a downward sloping trend line at $1.50 and has risen sharply since. It is now trading within the Si.7o-80 hand, a slightly over-bought region. Some bearish divergence is also seen in its weekly RSI which is falling while
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    • 32 13 PERSONAL FINANCE I INVESTMENT Informatics chairman Wong Hai has built a business which makes almost half its money outside Singapore. Should you put your money into his company? Tomorrow, in Business Times
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  • SPORTS
    • 604 15 The 57th US Masters Golf Reuter AUGUSTA, Georgia Defending champion Fred Couples was anxious for the Masters to start yesterday, although he admitted his game was not 100 per cent. "I'm a little nervous about tomorrow but I'm not sure why." he said in a
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    • 276 15 AP LOS ANGELES John McEnroe says he's certain Tom Gorman won't he coach of the US Davis Cup team in 1994 following the Americans* loss to Australia in a first-round match two weeks ago. "I don't think there's a chance in hell Gorman will
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    • TOURNAMENT DIARY
      • 93 15 AFP AUGUSTA National Golf Club chairman Jack Stephens has said the club is not too disappointed that the proposal to hold a 1996 Olympic golf tournament here fell through. He said the club members felt an obligation to make the famed course available when Atlanta Games organisers
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      • 59 15 AFP THE COLOURS of the Augusta National Golf Club course are muted this year, thanks to lingering winter weather. The bright pink blossoms of the azalea bushes and the delicate dogwood tree flowers were still missing on Wednesday. However, warmer weather could produce the
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      • 103 15 AFP DEFENDING CHAMPION Fred Couples says he has tried to duplicate his amazing shot of 1992. when his ball perched on a steep bank but somehow stayed out of the water. The gravity defying lie at the 12th helped Couples to his first major title, but he
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      • 52 15 WHEN Fred Couples arrived at Augusta National to begin the defence of his 1992 championship, he reported to the wrong locker-room. Champions have their own locker-room. "I went in the regular locker-room the first day because I didn't know where the champion's locker-room was,"
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      • 62 15 AP TEN YEARS AGO. the Masters allowed players to start bringing their own caddies, spelling the demise of the locals who have been totting bags. This year, only three local caddies are carrying the sticks for the players in the 57th Masters. Those using Augusta caddies
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    • 845 15  -  Jaime Diaz on Augusta's 11th, 12th and 13th holes, which produce more drama than any other stretch in golf Jaime Diaz NYT AUGUSTA, Georgia No other words in golf are quite as evocative as Amen Corner. The three holes, the 11th, 12th and 13th,
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 103 15 AP AUGUSTA Chip Beck missed a share of the Par 3 record by one shot when he posted a 6-under-par 21 on Wednesday to win the preliminary event to the 57th Masters. Beck will have to overcome a jinx if he hopes to win
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      • 52 15 Reuter SEATTLE Toronto Blue Jays pinch runner Alfredo Griffin (left) beats the tag at home plate to score in the ninth inning against Seattle Mariners catcher Dave Valle at the Kingdome on Wednesday. He scored on a single by Ed Sprague. Toronto won the game
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      • 111 15 Reuter TOKYO World number one and defending champion Jim Courier of the US crashed out in the third round of the $1.19 million Japan Open tennis tournament yesterday. Top-seeded Courier, playing in only his second match since losing to Amos Mansdorf in the semi-finals
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      • 117 15 AFP PARIS AC Milan made it to the final of the European Champions Cup on Wednesday by extending their record number of consecutive wins in the competition to nine against IFK Gothenburg. A spectacular Daniele Massaro goal in the 70th minute gave Milan a
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      • 108 15 AP LOS ANGELES Indiana forward Calbert Cheaney, the all-time leading scorer in the Big Ten conference, was selected on Wednesday as the winner of the John R Wooden Award, which goes annually to college basketball's male player of the year. Cheanev. who led Indiana to a
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      • 52 15 AP ATLANTA Atlanta is "well ahead of the norm" in planning and financing the 1996 Summer Games, an International Olympic Committee panel said on Wednesday as it welcomed another major sponsor. Bausch and Lomb will sponsor both the Atlanta Olympics and the 1994 Winter Games in
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    • SCORE CARD
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        102 15 Reuter NEW YORK Major l>eague results Wednesday: National league Atlanta Braves 5 Chicago Cubs 4: Los Angeles Dodgers 4 Honda Marlins 2: Philadelphia Phillies 6 Houston Astros 3; St Louis Cardinals 6 San Francisco Giants 2; Montreal Expos 5 Cincinnati Reds 1; New York Mets 6 Colorado Rockies I.
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        27 15 Reuter NEW YORK NBA results on Wednesday: Philadelphia 76ers 98 Washington Bullets 90; Orlando Magic 109 Charlotte Hornets 96: Indiana Pacers 113 Minnesota Timberwolves 105. Reuter
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        51 15 Reuter Dl RBAN Transvaal won South Africa's Benson and Hedges limited overs cricket competition when thev beat Natal bv one run in the final on Wednesday Scores: Transvaal 193-7 in 45 overs (Mandy Yachad 86. Jimmv Cook 50). Natal 192-8 in 45 (Andrew Hudson 85. Neville W right 65).
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        119 15 AFP TOKYO leading first round scores in the 80 million yen (ISS700.000) Pocari Sweat Open on Thursday (Japanese unless stated): 65 katsuji Hascgawa. Kyi Hla Han (Bur) 66 Nobuharu Ikeuchi 67 Chen Tze-ming (Tail 68 Hirofumi Mlyase. Akio Tcramoto. kazunari Matsunaga. Akira Fujimoto. Also: 76 Samson Gimson (Sin). Kcutcr
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      • Article, Illustration
        162 15 AFP PARIS Wednesday's results from European club tournaments: Champions Cup league Group A: Olympique Marseille (Fra) 1 Glasgow Rangers I: FC Bruges (Bel) 2 CSKA Moscow (Rus) I Standings (played, won, drawn lost, goals for, against points): Marseille 5 2 3 0 13 4 7; Rangers 5 2 3
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        268 15 Reuter TOKYO Japan Open results Thursday (x denotes seeds): Men's singles 3rd Rd Jonathan Stark (US) b Jim Courier (US xl) 6-4. 6-2: Neil Borwick (Aus) b Alexander Volkov (Rus x 4) 6-7 (3/7). 6-4. 7-6 (7/3): Pete Sampras (US x 2) b Guillaume Raoux (Fra xls) 6-4. 6-7
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 916 17  -  Gong Li is being recognised as much for her talent as her beauty, writes Howard Feinstein Howard Feinstein NYT IN CHINESE, Hua Ping, actually a flower vase, is a pejorative term for a beautiful but empty actress. Some Chinesespeaking moviegoers reportedly applied the words
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    • 262 17 CHATTERBOX UPI UPI UPI MARLA plus Donald makes 3? The New York Daily News says Maria Maples, who is starring in the Broadway musical The Will Rogers Follies and has been Donald Trump's on-again-off-again girlfriend, is pregnant and Donald is the fa-ther-to-be. Columnist Linda Stasi
      UPI  -  262 words
    • 652 17  -  Stephanie Pierson on the world's most adorable and oldest storybook rabbit's centenary celebrations Stephanie Pierson NYT HE'S THE subject of museum exhibitions in Paris, Melbourne. Australia, and Edinburgh. He's the star of ballet galas in London. He just got his own trendy boutique
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    • 93 17 j hoWyour appreciation your right-hand ladies say'Thanks'at Marina bay China China Restaurant Set menus from $98.00 (4 persons) Nishiki Restaurant Set menu at $25.00 per person (Inclusive of a glass of plum wine) Tee-Off Cafe Buffet Lunch at $16.80 per person (Inclusive of a glass of Champagne and a rose)
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1258 17 1 TV RADIO Narrow Margin, 10.30pm, SBC 5 jßs '<* I his remake of the 1952 classic fl .^g'V" has Gene Hackman as a cop ■«!>' 4kfC who escorts key witness Anne BR,*/ Archer to testify against a g» gangster. When his teammate jW M is killed. Hackman and Archer
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  • 547 18 EDITORIAL NEVER IN history has a political organisation which perpetrated one of the worst known pogroms against its own people been given the respectability that the Khmer Rouge was accorded in the Paris Peace Conference on Cambodia. Here was a group many consider beyond
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 193 18 THE CRISIS created by North Korea pulling out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) last month may not be easy to defuse. What can be done to tackle a bellicose regime whose nuclear ambitions threaten regional stability and the global non-prolifera-tion system? An incentive-based approach
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    • 165 18 AT LAST teachers may heave a big sigh of relief that the Ministry of Education intends to ensure a better working environment for them. The news is long overdue but it is better late than never. Teaching is a challenging career. With a limited talent pool and
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    • 151 18 IT IS vitally important that the South should develop its own indigenous capacity for coming up with equipment and processes to deal with environmental pollution. Any country which depends wholly on others to do things for it will certainly not go far in its own development. North
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    • 146 18 AFTER ALL the talk and controversy about economic liberalisation, the time for some concrete action is here that seems to be the thinking behind Indian Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's latest push to lure foreign investors to India, especially those in Asia. The pressures for the country to take
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    • 229 18 WHETHER Dr Chee's punishment is too severe has to do with the question of principle, not the amount of money involved. No third party is in a position to judge. But the party that feels wronged can make appeals through the proper channels. On the one
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    • 141 18 IT HAS BEEN a week since the Social Action Party kicked up a political storm by threatening to pull out of the six month-old Chuan coalition government. The undated resignation letters submitted by the party's five Cabinet members are still in the hands of leader Montree Pongpanit,
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  • 1221 18  -  Alec Almazan, who was in Manila recently, met the lady charged with creating the framework for the peace process and making contact with rebel groups Alec Almazan THE SCENE inside the gym seemed unremarkable, just a group of mid-dle-aged men playing basketball.
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1503 19 In a recent discussion with former Japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in Tokyo on the future ot East Asia, Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew made the following comments, which were published in the spring 1993 issue of New Perspective Quarterly U-W-F PRESIDENT
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    • 290 19 NE of the biggest prob- I lems Asia faces is President Clinton's human rights stand on China and the issue of a United States withdrawal of Most Favoured Nation status. Although Clinton has talked very strongly about human rights, he has also talked about not isolating
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    • 971 19  - No recovery in Japan yet it's just a PKO S N Vasuki warns against reading too much into the 18pc Nikkei Average gain over the last month S N Vasuki SEVERAL investment analysts have pronounced that a Japanese economic recovery is just around the corner. They point out that the
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  • 574 20 AP Reuter UPI WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton sent Congress a US$l.52 trillion (552.47 trillion) Budget yesterday that reduces the deficit next year through sharp defence cuts and higher taxes on the wealthy, corporations and energy users. The plan will "restore hope
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  • 236 20 South China Morning Post HONGKONG The intergovernmental Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) organisation is discussing the establishment of a free-trade zone covering the Pacific Rim. Apec secretariat executive director William Bodde said yesterday: "This is something that has come up in discussions.
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  • 535 20 AP Reuter PARIS New conservative Prime Minister Edouard Balladur yesterday outlined consensus policies to revive a stagnant economy and combat unemployment, pledging that reform and renewal would set a "new French example". He also called for an European Community-led European peace conference to
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  • 178 20 Reuter TOKYO Justice Minister Masaharu Gotoda. a bureaucrat turned conservative politician. yesterday accepted the post of Deputy Prime Minister vacated by the ailing Michio Watanabe. Mr Gotoda. 78, said he has accepted the largely ceremonial post offered by Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. His appointment
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  • 344 20 AP Reuter WASHINGTON Inflation, as measured by the March producer price index (PPI), is well under control, economists say, suggesting price data released earlier this year were somewhat of an aberration. Prices charged by US producers such as farms and factories
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  • 889 20  -  The Bottom Line PAUL SAMUELSON PAUL SAMUELSON The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AS AN American citizen. I was proud of my country back in the mid-century days of the Marshall Plan and the Mac Arthur occupation of
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  • 349 20 South China Morning Post HONGKONG Leaders of two quasi-official bodies from China and Taiwan are to sign an agreement on ways to upgrade cross-Straits ties at the end of an historic summit to be held in Singapore this
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  • 305 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The cousin of the ruler of Malaysia's state of Kelantan yesterday claimed to be the rightful heir to the throne, ahead of a Saturday rally meant to censure the ruler for his alleged involvement in politics. Tengku Ibrahim Petra. in
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  • 287 20 Reuter NEW DELHI India's defence ministry yesterday portrayed Iran as a potential military partner to arch-foe Pakistan, reflecting worries in Delhi's high command about Teheran's modernisation of its forces. "The modernisation and expansion of the Iranian armed forces present the possibility
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 443 21  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Baker Hughes, a US-based oil service and supply company, last week set up a division in Houston to serve as a onestop centre for oilfield services and products. The New York-listed company formed Baker Hughes Inteq in response
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    • 491 21 Reuter UNITED NATIONS The UN Security Council is expected to agree to an American plan outlawing all shipping in Yugoslav waters as part of a draft resolution tightening sanctions against Yugoslavia, diplomats said on Wednesday. The maritime exclusion zone would prohibit
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    • 171 21 STOCKHOLM One of the two owners of the largest Baltic Sea ferry operator Viking Line, privately-owned Rederi AB Slitc, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, according to Swedish national news agency TT. The company contributes two 2,200-bcrth giant car ferries, Kalypso and Athena, to
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    • 1137 21 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 16 4 Allied-Link 16 4/5 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 ASCL 5 5 Asian Breakbulk 16 3 ASXCL Shpg 15 2 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait
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    • 227 21 SINGAPORE National carrier Neplune Orient Lines' (NOL) newly-built containership, which Mill be deployed on the Far East-Europe trade, is to be christened today. The Neptune Almandine, a 3,600-TEU containership, is the second containership to be built by Kovo Dockyard for NOI„ The vessel will
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    • 430 21 KnightRidder WASHINGTON Once a freight funding issue is resolved, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release US$7OO million (SSl.l billion) in new tood aid for Russia all at once and not in monthly installments ot USsloo'million, a key USDA official said
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    • 160 21 SINGAPORE The latest marine technology and equipment that France has to offer will be on show next week at a two-day conference. Organised by the Association of French Marine Equipment Manufacturers, the Technical Conference on French Marine New Technology and Equipment will be held in
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 589 22 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port *SI 168 B 11 alongside 09 04 2200 Hye Prosperity C 93 C 3 alongside 0904 1400 Hauraa laya 04 01 93 alongside 0904 0500 Ion Valoui 112 alongside 09 04 0400 Pengadan S93 20 13 alongside 0904 0200
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      • 1834 22 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO DELIVERY OF FCL IMPORT CONTAINERS IN PROGRESS S* Voy Wo Containers avaHbte Ship Voy fte Contain »atobte Swloong ***** *****3 0715 Chop* 9303 COO(EST) *****3 1500 Oqti f m io£ *****3 0905 Kota Wirawan WRN023 COO(EST) *****3 0700 HUule 0702EB
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    • 792 23 Finance Minister Manmohan Singh has brought India out of an economic crisis by initiating a reform process which is further consolidated in his third budget DESPITE the doubts and uncertainties caused by the political turmoil of recent months, there has been no let-up in
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    • 11902 30 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 Penang after
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    • 326 37 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,476 on April 7 from 1.477 on April 6. FIXTURES Metal: There were no metal fixtures reported on the freight market. Sugar: There were no sugar fixtures reported on the freight market. Grain: Sea Diamond 6.(KK)
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    • 233 37 COURSES Title: Strategic Investment Decision Analysis Duration: April 12-14 Organiser CAI Consultants/Heriot—Watt University. Tel: 339-2733 or fax: 339-1733. Title: Strategic Information System. Duration: April 15-16 Organiser: CAI Consultants/Heriot —Watt University. Tel: 339-2733 or fax: 339-1733. Title: Shipping and Transport Executive Programme Duration: April 15-17 Organiser CAI Consultants/Her-iot-Watt University.
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    • 618 37 Carbon Apr i Density Water Residue Ash Aknw*m Sednwnt *0 M/M Exxon KG/M*3 V/V M/M M/M PPM method BO/Cinac Lmts Spec E25 991 10 1?0 010 30* 010* Spec G35 991 1.0 18.0 0 15 30* 010* Northern Eirope 180 Ave 980 02 114 005 8
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 370 40 UPI WASHINGTON Citing the continuing woes of US airline companies. President Bill Clinton signed legislation on Wednesday establishing a blue ribbon panel to study the troubled industry for 90 days and recommend steps to revive it. "The condition of the
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      • 656 40 Blizzard of' 93 blows away fragile hope of recovery Bloomberg Business News ATLANTA The Blizzard of '93 buried any hopes for improvement in first-quarter results from the nation's airlines, analysts said. Analysts expect major carriers to post wide losses and modest revenue growth for
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      • 254 40 AP CHICAGO United Airlines said on Wednesday it has reached an agreement with Boeing Co to convert orders for 49 aircraft into options and delay their delivery for up to three years. The deliveries, originally scheduled for between 1993 and 1996, has been rescheduled into
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      • 200 40 KnightRidder SINGAPORE Jet fuel premiums for late April and early May have begun to come down because of the recent cancellation of an Indian Oil Corp tender and because it has become economically feasible to ship cargoes here from the US Gulf Coast. Traders say
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      • 497 40 Continuing cost, pricing pressures the reasons Reuter LOS ANGELES AMR Corp will continue downsizing in the face of continuing cost and pricing pressures, said Robert Crandall. chairman of AMR and its American Airlines unit. "That is the option." he said when asked what option
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 64 40 Reuter WASHINGTON Aeroflot. the huge Russian airline, said on Wednesday it is working on a joint venture with US investors to create a worldwide cargo network. Aeroflot North America president David Siegfried said the cargo network will operate from central hubs in Columbus, Ohio and
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        • 41 40 Reuter NEW YORK Production of the 1994 Lincoln Continental was announced on Wednesday at the New York International Auto Show here. Ford Motor said the U5534.000 (5555.000) car would be introduced to the public on May 6. Rcutcr
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        • 88 40 Reuter NEW YORK B&H Maritime Carriers Ltd said an amendment to the company's secured term loan agreement prohibits it from paying dividends until it meets certain requirements. The company said it and its lender agreed on terms of an amendment to its secured term
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      • 38 40 Reuter BY ALA, Bulgaria Rescue workers earning the body of a passenger after a Turkish coach collided with a truck on Wednesday. Twenty-nine people died in Bulgaria's worst bus crash. Reuter
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    • 501 22 EXPORTS TO HONGKONG, TAIWAN, MANIA JAPAN "TWICE WEEKLY" MALACCA STRAITS SERVICE I outbound wt mi kh «t a» m hkg km m tto au km ko»~| »ngi dot |sw |m roi >■ ai (CI HK£ Tffl 07 04 **7 04 01 04 13 04 17.04 10.04 23.04 24.04 24.04 25.04
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    • 1568 23 OOCL (S) PTE LTD JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES TEL: *****11 FAX: *****09 BOOKINGS TEL: *****34 *****58/ *****40 \llVfr SWA CFS (PSA F5) TEL: *****21/ *****79 TMTTT^^i JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SDN. BHD. Bflflflfl H PETALING JAVA TEL: 03-*****76 FAX: 03-*****42 k A RENANG TEL: *****4 FAX: *****1 CFS TEL: *****6 Dedicated to
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    • 694 23 For advertising enquiries, contact Shipping Times: Tel 740-2089/740-2090 fSUASC/i jUNfTED ARAB SHIPPING CO. (SAG) IU W To US Ea»t Coast I I 1 1,1 1 at I I At (HA* I MUM U/I M/l 11/ l W» U/M swni iosa hom« a/t a/i i/i VJ} •1 KHAMAM MM 7/1 U*
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    • 2221 23 ■Bumrni WE WON THE ASIAN FREIGHT INDUSTRY AWARDS 1993 BEST SHIPPING LINE INTRA ASIA LET US CONTINUE SERVING YOU VessH voy ETA ETO Feeder toy Sea Lmk/Aries DESTINATIONS This *«ek MATHILDE MAERSK V 9304 l l' i^^gTTT?" r *gtTT t H 'I' CV 0800 CFS 13/04 2359 MRS JOH LRU
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    • 1458 24 AQABA R DAM/ ii ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VQY NO SPORE JEDDAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE WEST MALAYSIA KA I 01/113 10/4 26/4 29/4 27/4 Port Kelang, Penang I THAMES 16/313 10/4 19/4 25/4 28/4 1/5 3/5 5/5 Pa&r G"dang LA SEINE 29/114 14/4 1/5
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    • 581 24 I FCL Breakbulk Service to: I AFGHANISTAN M&M Afghanistan Ltd., I Sole Foreign Forwarder in Kabul for all services I C.I.S.- Vostochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, I Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku, Irkutsk, Alma Ata I North Korea Vietnam Mongolia Hungary I CSFR t Poland ooiirrans L AGBstaK CFAR EAST) LTD I
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    • 1536 24 £111 REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VSL/VOY SIN ALG BCL* VAL* HAM BRE# ROT ANT# FELLHA NORASIA SHARJAH 9306 3 16/04 07/05 08/05 09/05 11/05 12/05 13/05 14/05 15/05 16/05 I NORASIA MUBARAK 9314-3 23/04 14/05 15/05 16/05 18/05 19/05 20/05 21/05 21/05 22/05 I NORASIA AL MANSOORAH 9315-327/04 19/05
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 1987 25 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO DUE SWLS KRIS MADURA VO6E KH. Sfcan. In PI 10 Apt CONTAINER ANO BREAKBULK SERVICE TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA RAJAH BROOKE
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    • 2424 25 V SINGAPORE AGENT: t P*° Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd 1 t¥l W VjIVII I Ctlllvl 9 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 KEPPEL TOWERS. SINGAPORE 0208 Te) 225 2233 Tetex RS ***** PNOCSP Fax 225 5327/222 7517 CR Number: **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT VO* FPSO "PKG MM ALG SOU AWT ROT
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    • 725 26 INDONESI^4ATIONA^NE^ ifflnrnirTTiniinniff rx ww |swk| wuanaT w—ll wool mnar mmm 34we I 2-s/i I »/s m 9/6 u/t TO FUU^Xj^T^NEff EAST COAST WWTS tti/WT rut stow srp melb I bib I fre I mil Utto AUSTRALIA 435 13/4 12/4 29/4 2/5 26/4 i/i WHO gjg* 04S 19/4 11/4 4/5 7/5
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    • 1671 27 I,- SCX: CALIFORNIA JUPITER 63E' ETA SGP 14/04/93 II II ARRIVING LOS ANGELES 02/05/93 IN 17 DAYS SS AfOlar l| AEX: NEPTUNE AGATE 09E'ETA SGP 11/04/93 Bl 11 ARRIVING NEW YORK 04/05/93 IN 22 DAYS nTO PWW USA INLAND POINTS I rocMjroimu •WLtwPoiwTt-Aruwric vmwj I U I™ SI" I MOHIIH
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    • 1259 27 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BALT 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) I FULL CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES I EASTBOUFCDttCHAfiONC MSTBOUHD-LOAOWC THAKSHFTED
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 1511 28 AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (CH No: 1Z*****0000M) W W TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****07/8/9 mm MALAYSIA: "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD I m JL 1 m v TEL. SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD Indonesia: p.t. sarana
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    • 413 28 GOLDEN LINEA MX GUAN GUAN SHAPING tt?<X\ (PTE) LTD w zi. icM «t« stn« mourn. «im TU *****U (10 UK) Fai *****04 (01 No *****SSOOOOH) BTRAITB/PERBIAH GULF »UTICT S pore P Ketong Penang GOUXM HMVIST Urartu M» Damnum It/11 Ap tit AH (XACE Haractn Dubai 21/22 Apr CHINA SERVICE GOIMN
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    • 1020 29 'rr"'P v "> asafHf pacific international lines (PTE) ltd] ■jaigßgiag» J J 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. J SSSSSSSS KK CR NO 10Q8Q6700Q06 ycecci VOY SIN JKT SIN VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN BUNGA TERATAI 3253 13/4 16/4 20/4 KOTA BINTANG KBTI3N 11/4 14/4 18/4 EQUATOR HAWK
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    • 1809 29 EXPRESS CONTAINER SERV ICE TO UK-NORTH CONTINENT-SCANDINAVIA WEEKLY c\p GUDANGI PtNANG PKELANGI OCEAN VSLVOY SIN SQUID RTM (2) HAM (3) GOT (4^ p 974 10/4 BENARTY 3132 15/4 2/5 4/5 5/5 7/5 E ii~4 1775 ALSIA 3142 201* 7/5 9/5 IQ/S 12/5 D 24/4 BEN AVON 3152 27/4 14/5 16/5
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    • 314 29 °BSA° TRANSPORTATIPN M MYANMA Pik FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S pore P.KIf Pen P Gd| HP* AN VIBBM In Port PAGAN VI96W 19/21 Apr HPA AN VIB9W 26/28 Apr MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTf AO SMPPWG AGENCKS KU. TEI 03 *****00 PKI 111 03 3M6761 PEN:
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    • 2435 32 Container Liner Services 'tut*. if»s Cm* Ijerts. Booking Agtnls: C«m Cma Shipping Sdn BM Chung Chiio Skipping Sdn BM f.T. CMaf ftrtw Indonesia Mantimt Cost,r Shipping Pie Ltd sm* mm w i^SES""" i'K'SS.K.V, OLBan ***** U. W (21) 36 MOT 36 1764 WiT re/ 367 2855/ 368 7961 Tel: 03
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 717 33 (jF FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN TI/04 ROTTERDAM 11/04 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 11/04 HAMBURG/BREMEN 11/04 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 12/04 lEUXSTOWE/UK 11/04 BARCELONA/SPAIN 11/04 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 11/04 GENOA/ITALY 11/04 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 11/04 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 10/04 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 10/04 NEW YORK/EC 10/04 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 10/04 VANCOUVER 14/04 BRISBANE
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    • 756 33 m RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD V TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) S FAX: *****15/*****03 JXJJ TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) Pt\ ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSEL Ivor ETA LOADING FOH SPORE ANLMNEI 30MB 22/04 DAHESSAIAAM MOMBASA DJIBOUTI ASSAB MASSAWA ABYOT 32W8
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    • 1023 33 JAKARTA BANGKOK VESSEL Wl fHI KT VESSEL WW SH6APORE BAHG»O* RAIA BHUM 72S In Pt 13/4 D StNTOSA 30W Sat 10 4 Tue 13/4 I HAN A BHUM 25S 10/4 14/4 NAHTA BHW 136N Sit 10,4 Wed 14 4 GURU BHUM TSi W* UT* Wed 14_4 Sat 17/4 MAHA BHUM
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    • 1307 34 *AfIMN CONTAINER LINES I j|J\c/\HjAgents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) PENANG: (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KUCHING: (082) *****3 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 COMPETITIVE RATE TO HONG KONG 3 SAILINGS WEEKLY (TUES/THURS/SAT) FOR ROOKING, PLS CALL JWBIOT--HII.IIIU. JAMES. WEE SIM. JO I GLOBELINK FORWARDERS PTE
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    • 250 34 BHfflfMilM Wffli fW BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC ISLANDS SM AKL IYT SM PREMIER 23S* In Pt 17/4 19/4 4/5 AUST STAR 86S 22/4 4/5 6/5 22/5 FGUARD BAY 2S 1/5 13/5 15/5 1/6 WITH OPPORTUNITY TO CALL MEL ENROUTE TO NZ FULLY CONTAINERISED
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    • 1013 34 THONG SOON UNES PTE. LTD.] Mi 77 ROBINSON ROAD #15-00, #16-00 SIA BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 TEL. *****58 FAX NO: *****11. *****22 SBr TLX: RS ***** CARRER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO CONVENTIONAL/CONTAINER BOOKING LINE; *****55 SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL |yOT_. I s P° RE D[ST VESSEL WT SPOtE OEST EQUATOR
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  • Page 35 Advertisements
    • 781 35 ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTWG BREAKBUU SOC CARGOES 10 FROM KOtt YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA. MOM. TOKYO*. MANHA* DAVAO*. Penang* P. Kelanj Singapore E'Msia* KARABEVERETT VIIE 14/15 Apr 16/17 Apr SHAPIAEVERETT VISE 01/02 May IVYEVERETT V4E 12/13 May ACCEPTING BREAKBU.K FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHITTAGOWG. CAICUTTA AND MONGLA* Singapore P.
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    • 294 35 181 GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP to |fc REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG "AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 27/4 3/5 4/5 24/5 GLORY SELATAN VIII 8/4 13/4 14/4 4/5 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN X
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    • 693 35 PGSL -WORLDWIDE PANAMA -GLOBE STEAMERS UNES REGULAR FCL SERVICE TO THE FOLLOWING WEEKLY SAILING TO HUANG PU A SHANTOU Connecting Feeder to Huang PuSUi TOO CONTAINER NO 2 Connecting Feeder to Shantao LIAN BO NO 9 WE HV LEASING CONTRS FOR RENTAL SAILING TO PHNOM PENH' FORTNIGHTLY FCL/LCL SERVICE TO
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    • 510 35 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN ALSO CALLING PT. ELIZABETH/JOHANNESBURG TWICE WEEKLY CONTAINER SERVICE SIN/MADRAS/SIN ALSO ACCEPTING CONTAINERS TO TUTICORIN/ BANGALORE/COCHIN AND NEW DELHI WEEKLY CONTAINER SERVICE SIN/CALCUTTA/SIN WITH TRANSHIPMENT TO: ASEAN/AUSTRALIA/FAR EAST/MEDITERRANEAN/EUROPE WEEKLY CONVENTIONAL SERVICE SIN TO CHINA WEEKLY CONVENTIONAL SERVICE MADRAS/COLOMBO/ BOMBAY/KARACHI WEEKLY CONVENTIONAL SERVICE EAST AFRICA/RED
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    • 372 35 M— SIN FAR EAST 13/4 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 17/4 BANGKOK 12/4 MANILA/CEBU 11/4 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 17/4 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 17/4 BUSAN 11/4 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 12/4 HONG KONG SIN CHINA B*±««n) 12/4 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/ XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG Tl AN JIN QINGDAO HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo Si EUROPE/UK 12/4 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 12/4 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to
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  • Page 36 Advertisements
    • 661 36 HONGKONG/CHINA 12/4 19/4 JAKARTA 11/4 18/4 BANGKOK 10/4 14/4 MANILA 12/4 19/4 BUSAN 12/4 19/4 KEELUN6 13/4 20/4 TOKYO/KOBE 11/4 4 18/4 KAOSHIUNG 9/4 16/4 PORT KELANG/PENAN6 11/4 18/4 YOKOHAMA 11/4 18/4^^ COLOMBO 13/4 20/4 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBUR6 10/4 17/4 CHITTAGONG/MAORAS 14/4 21/4 ROTTERDAM/LE HARVE/ANTWERP 10/4 17/4 BOMBAY/KARACHI 12/4 19/4 BARCELONA. MARSEILLES.
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    • 514 36 y Con term CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 21ST APRIL ACCEPTING TO ALL PORTS IN NEW ZEALAND PENANG 15 APR PORT KELANG 15 APR BANGKOK 18 APR JAKARTA 18 APR FREMANTLE 19 APR SYDNEY 18 APR MELBOURNE 18 APR BRISBANE 15 APR GOTHENBURG 10 APR •ACCEPTIN6 TO Alt SCANDINAVIA
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    • 481 36 CONSOLIDATION TO LIMASSOL Singapore I FIRST FORWARDER IN ASIA AWARDED VESSEL ARABIAN SENATOR VWM3IS isow»2B% lrqa ETD 14 APRIL 1993 CLOSING: 12 APRIL 1993 ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO VIA LIMASSOL TO BEIRUT, HAIFA, LATTAKIA, MALTA (hS) CALL US NOW FOR BOOKINGS INTERNATIONAL SEA FREIGHT FORWAXOMG 0% Tel: Fax: **> LOGISTICS SERVICES
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    • 184 36 H NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACH)/NEW YORK/ CHICAGO/SYDNEY/MELBOURNE/HAMBURG/ FELIXSTOWE/ROTTERDAM/DUSSELDORF WE ALSO DEAL IN FCL CARGO WORLDWIDE ARROW EXPRESS (SERVICE TO MALAYSIA) MALAYSIA TRUCK CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore DAILY to K.L. BANGI. SHAH ALAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore every
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  • Page 37 Advertisements
    • 1358 37 VESSEL/VOYAGE SINGAPORE DURBAN PORT ELIZABETH CAPE TOWN NEDtLOYD COLOMBO V9364F 10/4 22/4 24/4 26/4 OSAKA MARU V9469F 20/4 2/5 4/5 6/5 HAKATA V9332F 30/4 12/5 14/5 16/5 ORANJE V9509f 9/5 21/5 23/5 25/5 HAYAKAWA MARU V9668F 19/5 31/5 2/6 4/6 "ALSO ACCEPTING AIR CARGO ON THE ABOVE DESTINATIONS AND TO
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    • 64 37 "BANGKOK" P.A.T. KLONG TOEY PORT ETA ETA YESSEL VOY SIN BANGKOK MAHA BHUM 153N 14/04/93 17/04/93 NANTA BHUM 137N 17/04, 93 21/04/93 MAHA BHUM 154N 21/04/93 25/04/93 NANTA BHUM 138N 24/04/93 28/04/93 (MAHA BHUM IS A FULL THAI FLAG VESSEL) ETA ETA ETA VESSEL VOY SIN MANILA CEBU PACIFIC EAGLE
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    • 110 37 j —y CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Z TOLL FREE LINE *****88 &J& MA(N LINE; *****88 3^ ASIAN pouts I ikwzmmo/Mismml timopt bam,-*™ iA/A IA/4 AUCKLAND 18/4 ANTWERP 18/4 SilcAM i VIA ADELAIDE 28/4 FELIXSTOWE 10/4 Snwr kriKir ia/a ifi/A BRISBANE 16/4 HAMBURG 18/4 t/1' Ri FREMANTLE 18/4 ROTTERDAM 18/4
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 183 37 TIDES AND WEATHER TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOUR 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 0800 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 LEGEM) R: Juronf. PP Pis* Panfanf. BK Bukom. TP: Tanionj Pat*. SW: Sembawanf Source Port of Snfapore
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  • Page 38 Advertisements
    • 576 38 Ewood line SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE SPORE PI D6N CI •A VtSStl ***** 20/4 10/5 19/5 28/5 •ALSO CALLS E.L AND PI. PK SEAFIX SHIPPING SDN BHD TEL 367 5525 TLX. ***** K.K.: CAPRICORN FREIGHT SERVICES TEL 213 202 TLX. ***** SECIL MARITIMA, U.E.E. Luanda, Angola. FAR EAST/ ANGOLA SERVICE SPOR£
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    • 245 38 EES FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD! #01-60 Wallich Building, SiFigapore 0207 Hill 3C| Tel: *****66 (10 Lines) Fax: *****69/*****44 AIRPORT OFFICE: *****11 *****13 (FAX) IMPORTING FROM USA I WE PROVIDE WEEKLY SAILINGS WITH FAST TRANSIT TIMES AND LOW INLAND RATES I ENQUIRIES: I CONTAINER LINE, LTD. |cHICAGONEWYORI^O^NGEL£^A^RANCISC^TIANT^O^D^OSTOj^^W^«^^^»^^ETR^J USA, Hong Kong SHIP
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    • 511 38 crosswater] HEW OFFICE Ml SERANGOON ROW #06 00 SERANGOON BULWNG $<0<?1) RARE HOUSE (CFS): BIK 37 #04 25,26 !C PAGA* FREIGHT STATION TEL: *****05 PT KELANG/PENANG I 12/4 ■;JJ jßiisfcyj^«]'gTnnTciMi374 1 TOKYO/YOKOHAMA 12/4 ***** I BUSAN I 12/4 go 11 rr;^—^Mi374 I USA I 17/4 OQ23S«EI3^^HI^^HHjIZ±. SYD/MELB 18/4 NEW ZEALAND
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    • 359 38 V Oj WORLDGATE EXPRESS UNES PTE LTD Tel: *****11 Fax: *****73 Telex: ***** WGATE NEXT VESSEL CONSOLIDATION TO BOM/KAR/MAD 12/4 KEELUNG 13/4 COLOMBO 12/4 HONG KONG 12/4 PORT LOUIS 23/4 KAOHSIUNG 17/4 ROTTERDAM 12/4 PENANG 12/4 USA PORTS 11/4 PORT KELANG 11/4 BANGKOK 14/4 JAKARTA 11/4 g^(argo(julf DEDICATED NVOCC CONSOLIDATION
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  • Page 39 Advertisements
    • 798 39 I A HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARI NE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE VESSELS VOY PNA PKE PGP VESSELS VOY_ S« RTM ANT* LEH* HAM BR£t FEL HMM ADVANCE TIA 06/04 07/04 08/04 H. COMMANDER 303W 11/04 30/04 30/04 01/05 02/05 02 05 04/05 HMM ADVANCE 13A 13/04 14/04 15/04 SI
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