The Business Times, 24 May 1993

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  • 14 1 SINGAPORE Business Times MITA (P) 552/12/92 Monday May 24 1993 WE KNOW ASIA 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 59 1 Reuter LUCKNOW India's federal government removed the governor of a key northern state where Hindu fanatics demolished a mosque last December. Nearly 2,000 people were killed in religious riots which followed the demolition. B Satvanarain Rcddy was replaced by Moti Lai Vohra as governor of Uttar
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    • 74 1 Reuter HAVANA Cuba and Russia agreed to try to boost their flagging bilateral economic ties and signed a memorandum outlining joint trade, production and investment initiatives in sugar, oil. machinery parts and fertilisers. The agreement came at the end of three days of
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  • Article, Illustration
    118 1 Stock market indices Krida) We*It change STII 1.861.86 -1.53 KLSE Composite 729.35 +9.35 Nikkei 20.557.47 f 83.32 Hang Seng 7.169.96 +164.67 SET Index 858 37 -23.02 Jakarta C omposite ...326 44 +2.89 CLSA China B 1.158.14 -108 7 Aust All Ord 1.695.60 -2.9 FTSE 100 2.812.20 -34 8
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  • 615 1  -  Bankers becoming more selective in projects and countries they finance By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE There may soon be too many infrastructure projects in Asia going after too little money. Many cash-strapped Asian developing countries suffer from chronic basic infrastructural shortages and
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  • 170 1 Reuter BKIJING China and Britain ended their third round of talks about political reform in Hongkong yesterday with no sign of any agreement other than to keep talking. A joint statement issued after three days of negotiations said merely that
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  • 505 1  -  From Harish Mehta in PHNOM PENH MORL than a million and a half Cambodians voted yesterday in their country's first free elections in two decades. The heavy turnout accounted for about one-third of the 4.76 million voters expected to
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  • 627 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Economic growth this year will be between 6.8 per cent and 7.3 per cent, predicts the National University of Singapore's Centre for Business Research Development (CBRD). And, going on past cyclical growth trends, the economy may not
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  • 258 1 Reuter SINGAPORE Surging clccIronics exports will power Singapore's first-quarter gross doincstie product to between 7.0 and 7.5 per cent real growth, hut the outlook for the second half of the year is less rosy, say economists. "The strong first-quarter growth will be
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 224 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE anticipated rebound in prices because of the economic upturn has not materialised. The revised March and preliminary April numbers show that wholesale prices barely moved during the first tour months. The manufactured products price index, which measures changes in ex-factory prices
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    • 689 2  -  Regionalisation forum ByG a Genevieve Cua Helen Chang BOTH businessmen and bureaucrats see the weekend's regionalisation forum as a milestone a rare, almost no-holds-barred dialogue between the public and private sectors. Some 500 chief executives and senior civil servants took part in the Economic Development Board-organised
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    • 311 2  -  By Joseph Rajendran AUSTRALIAN computer peripherals company Datacraft Ltd has sold 26 per cent of its stake in its Singapore-based regional headquarters to local managers and venture capital firm Transpac. The US$6 million deal will inject fresh capital into the publicly-listed
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  • THE REGION
    • 549 3 AP JAKARTA Thanks to Hollywood, the script seems to call for an unhappy ending for the film industry in the world's fourth most populous country. The great popularity of American imports among Indonesians is pushing local film production toward extinction. Only 36
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    • 302 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA PRESIDENT Fidel V Ramos left yesterday for South Korea to firm up closer defence and economic links. He is, however, expected to run into difficulties over his plan to buy a dozen USmade F-5E fighter jets
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    • 302 3 AFP JAKARTA Officials and other public figures have joined the controversy over the golf-course construction boom in Java, and the farmers there, forced to sell their land for a pittance, are getting lost in the fray. "Ten square metres of
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    • 360 3 Bernama PEKAN. Pahang Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Mahathir Mohamad has reminded workers that they stand to gain more by being responsible and disciplined instead of resorting to strikes and industrial action. Launching the Automative Manufacturers (M) Sdn Bhd (AMM) industrial park here,
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    • 133 3 Bernama BANDAR PERMAISURI Furniture exports are expected to increase to Msl billion (Ss63o million) by 1995 when four Malaysian government-run furniture complexes become fully operational by then. Deputy Primary Industries Minister Vlahmud Mansur said on Saturday that the ministry was setting
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    • 347 3 Reuter BANGKOK Hongkongbased Hopewell Holdings Ltd I yesterday drove in piles to launch construction of its longdelayed US$3.2 billion (555.2 billion) Bangkok rail and toll- way project. Hopewell chairman Gordon Wu conducted the launching ceremony at a construction site on the way to Bangkok's
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    • 213 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Kuala Lumpur, which docs not enjoy diplomatic relations with Pretoria. is planning to recruit medical nurses from South Africa, a government official was quoted by local newspapers as saying yesterday. "We have received a positive response from several nurses in
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    • 1548 3  -  Harish Mehta reports from Phnom Penh on the prince's efforts to promote himself through his films, perhaps to prepare for his role as president Harish Mehta PRINCE Norodom Sihanouk's films often imitate his own life. He has directed about 20 feature
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 60 4 AFP COLOMBO Sri Lankan President Dingiri Banda Wijetunga has appointed a former army commander and the country's top diplomat in London, Gen Sepala Attygalle. as his new national security advisor. The Sun Jay limes reported yesterday. In addition to his new job. General Attygalle
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      • 79 4 Reuter TAIPEI A leader of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party^yesterday urged its warring factions to settle their differences an'd avert a disastrous split of the party. Local media quoted Lin Yangkang, president of the government's judicial branch and a member of the Nationalists' Central Standing
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      • 37 4 Reuter MANILA Outgoing Philippine national police director-general Raul Imperial is joined by his four-year-old grandson in saluting policemen passing in review in his honour at a grandstand at police headquarters in Manila on Saturday. Reuter
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      • 73 4 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's anti-graft prosecutors arrested a powerful relative of ex-president Roh Tae Woo on charges of receiving bribes, a Seoul Prosecutor's Office official said yesterday. He said United People's Party legislator Park Chul Un was arrested late on Saturday for accepting 500
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      • 77 4 Reuter SYDNEY Australian authorities yesterday said they would clean up soil contaminated by lead in a mining town after a leaked report showed there was up to 67 times as much lead as is considered safe. The official report into lead contamination of soil
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    • 286 4 AFP QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand New Zealand will not seek to become the next Australian state no matter how well they get on with Australians, Prime Minister Jim Bolger said yesterday. "No matter how much we get on with the Australians, I don't see
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    • 499 4 Reuter BLUING China may gradually phase out "foreign exchange certificates" (FECs), the special currency used by foreigners. because the economy has become too sophisticated to need them, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. It quoted an official of the State Administration of
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    • 39 4 Reuter DHAKA Police beating a Dhaka university student yesterday for protesting against the presence of Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia at a campus ceremony to honour a Pakistani Nobel laureate, scientist Abdus Salam Keuter
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    • 273 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is to increase the quota of foreign workers allowed on the island by 15.000. labour officials said yesterday. The extra quota would be granted to six industries, including dying, pottery, cement, and cotton spinning to resolve a serious labour shortage
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    • 161 4 AP BEIJING Chinese banks are complaining that the May IS interest rate increase is not enough to lure back depositors, an official newspaper said yesterday. In its first increase since 1990, the central bank raised the interest rates on total bank deposits
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    • 267 4 Reuter TOKYO The Japanese government. battled to a standstill by a group of farmers, is set to throw away old blueprints and start anew to plan for the longdelayed expansion of Tokyo's Narita Airport, news reports said yesterday. The reports said that
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    • 555 4  -  From Florence Chong in SEOUL SENIOR executives from some 8(H) companies and government officials from 26 Pacific Basin countries are meeting here to discuss the impact of the trend towards regional trade pacts. The theme of the meeting. Open Regionalism: A New Basis
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    • 193 4 AFP NEW DELHI Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao left for Central Asia yesterday on his first visit to two former Soviet republics since the break-up of the union in December 1991. Mr Rao. accompanied by several officials, would try and boost
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    • 628 4 Reuter BEIJING An International Monetary Fund (IMF) study that shows Asian eountries are mueh richer than anybody thought has produced a flush of pride in the region. But it could also ignite disputes between First and Third Worlds and lead to
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 99 6 AP AMMAN, Jordan In the latest split among PLO leaders, a longtime supporter of chairman Yasser Arafat said on Saturday he will quit as speaker of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile because of opposition to peace talks. Mr Aratat has been harshly criticised for ordering a return to
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      • 107 6 AFP MADRID The conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) has begun to get the edge on the ruling socialists in the run-up to Spain's general elections on June 6. two opinion polls reported yesterday. The PP would take 35.2 per cent of the national vote, against
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      • 78 6 AP JOHANNESBURG African National Congress protesters clashed with a rival black group on Saturday in a shootout near Johannesburg that killed at least 13 people and injured 61. police said. The fighting broke out as ANC marchers headed for a police station in Tokoza, south-east
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      • 87 6 Reuter UNITED NATIONS Measures aimed at building confidence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots seem likely to figure in talks opening today between leaders of the rival communities, diplomats said. Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash will first hold separate meetings
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      • 85 6 Reuter PORT LOUIS Mauritian police have arrested three Pakistanis and seized large quantities of travellers' cheques alleged to have been stolen. Cheques with a face value of U5559,045 were recovered from hotel rooms occupied by the three men, who left Pakistan in April and arrived in
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      • 83 6 Reuter BELFAST A car bomb exploded early yesterday in Belfast, causing extensive damage but no serious casualties, police in Northern Ireland said. Several people were treated for shock after the bomb exploded outside the Drumkeen Hotel. No one was believed to be seriously hurt, a
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    • 470 6 EMS found 'not badly flawed' despite battering of currencies Bloomberg Business News AP Knight-Ridder KOLDING. Denmark The dozen ministers of the European Community trading bloc decided against any tampering with the European Monetary System, which has suffered the worst battering in its 14-year history.
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    • 253 6 AP NEW YORK President Bill Clinton has criticised Senate opponents and their "big oil lobby" friends for trying to kill his energy tax, saying they were trying to shove the deficit reduction burden onto the elderly and working poor. In his weekly
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    • 229 6 Reuter BERLIN Employer and union officials said yesterday they had agreed on a pay deal aimed at ending a three-week-old strike in the east German steel industry. Under the accord reached after 13 hours of talks, wages in the former Communist
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    • 63 6 Reuter SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia A man yelling for help after a fourth Serb shell hit a crowded pedestrian walkway in the centre of the besieged Bosnian capital on Saturday. In the worst day of shelling for months, six were killed and more than §0 injured, including Bosnian
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    • 452 6 Reuter BERLIN The Treuhand agency will end its work to save cast Germany's core industry with a deficit of about 270 billion marks (*****.5 billion). much higher than expected. Chairwoman Birgit Breuel explained on Saturday that transforming a decimated com-munist-run command economy to a
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    • 282 6 Reuter KOLDING, Denmark EC finance ministers agreed at a meeting here to put the controversial issue of withholding tax back on the political agenda in a bid to give stalled talks at technical level new impetus. Diplomats said Britain and Luxembourg had
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    • 164 6 Reuter LONDON One in four of Europe's poor is British and only Portugal has more people living in poverty than Britain, a newspaper said yesterday. The Observer said according to the European definition of poverty an income of less than half
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    • 449 6 General Motors files criminal complaint against former worldwide purchasing chief AP BONN Volkswagen AG has denied that an executive it hired away from General Motors Corp stole a huge hoard of GM secrets before his defection. But Adam Opel AG. the German GM
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 430 9  -  New office and retail tower will cost company $57m By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Listed Centrepoint Properties Ltd (CPL) is planning to build a $57 million extension to its Orchard Road Centrepoint Shopping Centre. A company spokesman recently told BT that a new office
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    • 477 9 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Dataprep Holdings Bhd. following its successful merger with Solsis (M) Sdn Bhd. is hack in the black. It turned in a group pre-tax profit of M 57.30 million (554.6 million) on a turnover of M 595.53 million for the year
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    • 285 9 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Technology Resources Industries Bhd has proposed to sell the entire issued and paid-up share capital of 11 million ordinary shares in Technology Resources Properties Sdn Bhd (TRP) to Malaysian Helicopter Services Bhd for MS 135 million (5585.05 million) in
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    • Article, Illustration
      383 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks May 21 IjisI Sense Index Slock vale thee factor moten <S> <S> s s Avimo 2 290 0 040 1.72 -185 t&< 6950 -0 150 522 1442 < crcbos 5 350 -0 050 4 02 4 81 F&N 12 J00 -O
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    • 295 9 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Fuelled by the country's favourable growth rate, Esso Malaysia Bhd is poised to strengthen its business and tap various opportunities arising from the rapidly changing market. Managing director Charlie M Bateman said natural gas would fuel the nation's industrialisation
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    • 290 9 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Timber Master Industries, which is expected to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's second board on June 18, will concentrate on its wood-based manufacturing activities and will strengthen it by introducing a new range of wood-based furniture by
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    • 616 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE The pieces do seem to fit the market talk that specialist contractor L&M Investment Group is being stalked by Malaysian construction companies. Let's assemble the pieces. First, Nomura Asia Holdings has fully divested itself of
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 74 10 Reuter TAIPEI Two of Taiwan's biggest food companies, facing rising wage and raw material costs in a small domestic market, plan major investments in China, the companies said on Saturday. President Enterprises Corp, Taiwan's largest processed tood maker, said it planned to invest US$2OO
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        • 100 10 Reuter LONDON Britain will launch today the marketing campaign for its remaining shares in British Telecommunications pic, which is scheduled to culminate in trading by mid-July. A spokeswoman for the offer said further details on whether or not all or part of the state's
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        • 122 10 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Anson Perdana Bhd and Malaysia's Penang state government will jointly develop a MSSOO million (SS3IS million) tourist complex on the resort island of Penang. The firm said it and state-owned Penang Development Corp (PDC) will turn a 27-hectare site into a
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        • 76 10 Reuter BURBANK, California Warner Bros said on Friday it will combine with a Japanese television network giant and an American producer to make and distribute films. The agreements with Japan's Fuji Television Network Inc and Outlaw Productions involves four to seven movies which will
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        • 100 10 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's second largest conglomerate, Hyundai Group, said on Saturday it would spin off four units and merge some subsidiaries as the first step towards separating management from ownership. Hyundai would hive off its Keumkang Development Co Ltd, Hyundai Marine and Fire Insurance
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        • 62 10 Bloomberg Business News PALO ALTO, California Hewlett-Packard Co, which last week posted better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter earnings, said its board increased its quarterly dividend to 25 US cents a share from 20 US cents. The second-largest maker of computers and peripherals in the US said the dividend will
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      • 320 10 Reuter ST LOUIS May Department Stores Inc, the biggest department store company in the United States, announced a massive US$4.6 billion (557.4 billion) expansion plan on Friday that will increase its number of stores by a third. The company said it
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      • 147 10 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong's Star TV has signed a US$35O million (Sss6o million) satellite deal that would allow it to broadcast programmes to receivers as far away as Berlin, a newspaper here reported. Under the deal, Star TV will lease 20 transponders, or transmission
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      • 334 10 Reuter DALLAS J C Penney Co Inc is testing sales of its own line of clothing in its Middle East and Pacific Rim stores, its chairman and chief executive officer said on Friday. "We're experimenting... in the Middle East
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      • 356 10  -  Provisional approval given for operation of mobile phone system From Al Labita in MANILA INDONESIA'S Salim Group has formed a company in Manila to cash in on the Philippines' critical need for more telephones. The firm. Smart Information Technologies, is a joint venture between
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      • 42 10 Reuter ATSUGI, Japan A boy touching a US-made dummy, which costs about 1.5 million yen (5521,900), before a car crash test is opened to the public at a technical centre of Nissan Motor Co Ltd here yesterday. Reuter
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      • 406 10 South China Morning Post Reuter HONGKONG The Chinachem group has launched a counter-bid for Asia Securities International, in the face of a cash ofTer for shares in the company by the Lippo Group's property arm, Hongkong China. announced only four days ago. The
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      • 447 10 South China Morning Post HONGKONG IHD Holdings has signed a letter of intent for a 100-m ill ion-yuan (SS2B million) department store development in Shanghai. Chief executive Ch'ng Poh revealed on Friday that the development would be a cooperative project with the
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      • 254 10 AFP TOKYO Japan's top construction companies announced on Friday mixed results for the year to March, with Shimizu Corp and Taisei Corp posting higher earnings against lower profits at Kajima Corp and Obayashi Corp. All four companies saw revenue increase thanks to a backlog
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      • 737 10 MARKETWATCH Share prices are only slightly cheaper than those of more developed countries Knight-Ridder SINGAPORE Indonesia's main stock market, the Jakarta Stock Exchange, is seen more and more as an emerging market. but fund managers and analysts in the Indonesian capital advise caution.
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    • FINANCE
      • 657 11  -  Merchant bank seeks to tap regional business By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE Banque Indosuez is banking on its heritage to build more business between Europe and Asia. Visiting president and chief operating officer Jean Francois Lepetit told BT recently that the French-based giant
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      • 220 11  -  By Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE Standard Chartered Bank has retrenched 13 staff at various levels from its information technology department. Further retrenchments are expected in the coming months. Sources said the 13 employees were told at a morning meeting on Friday that
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      • 419 11  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Tat Lee Bank Limited will continue in its search for viable business opportunities abroad and hopes to further enhance its presence in the fast-growing Asian economies, now that it has established a modest regional network. said
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      • 362 11 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO Inovision Corp said on Friday it received a US$lOO million (S$ 161.4 million) settlement in a suit filed against Security Pacific National Bank after the bank withdrew a line of credit to Vestron Inc in 1988. Vestron's
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      • 237 11 IT WAS a week of featureless tight trading in the regional currency market last week. Indeed, the dollar traded in almost the same range as for the previous week. Despite a generally firmer dollar in the European currency market, the US currency failed to
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 670 12  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By James Foo MMS International SINGAPORE The US dollar traded higher to 1.6300 deutschemarks as speculation of a cut in Germany's interest rates prompted short-term buying. The "yes" vote in Denmark for the Maastricht treaty was a non-trading event.
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      • 1199 12 Bounce in precious metals prices cut short by talk of Soros 9 sales COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Precious metals prices jumped to new highs again last week, though the initial euphoria in the metals markets was cut short later on by profit-taking and doubts over how much further prices
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    • 5102 13 CORPORATE RESULTS NH hjn KHS Dale IV LY IV I.V Company ann (Sm> (Sm) (eta) (cts) VBN Amrot Mav 5 F 1.718 1.560 \lliance Tech Mas 20 h 1079L 0 962L \na Holds Ma\ 12 F 3.673 2.706L 7 66 C&C Mav I 38 439 38.6W
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    • 750 13 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 684 14 FT New York THE WILD and unpredictable swings in share prices lately have left investors understandably light-headed, and none more so than those who follow the banking sector. If the market as a whole has taken investors on a rollercoaster ride, investors
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      • 419 14 Reuter Hongkong SHARE PRICES arc likely to trade sideways in the coming week as the stock market pauses for breath following its surge to new highs last week, analysts said. Stocks hit records on Friday after Beijing endorsed three
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      • 565 14 Australia THE Australian share market ended the week marginally down, in spite of considerable activity in gold stocks on the back of bullion rises. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, finished at 1,695.6, down 2.9 points on the previous week's finish. The All Industrials ended
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      • 399 14 AFP London SHARE PRICES fell last week, depressed by several rights issues and a series of disappointing company results. News of several good economic indicators, with inflation down to 1.3 per cent a year, a third monthly fall in unemployment and higher bank credits, were seen
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      • 210 14 AFP Tokyo SHARE PRICES rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week in sluggish trading as buying by public funds offset futures-led selling. The Nikkei Stock Average edged up 83.32 points over the week to 20.557.47 after falling 337.21 the previous week. The broader-based
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 862 14 -30.45 BLUE-CHIP stock prices on Wall Street fell below the 3.500 point mark on Friday due to computerised selling and in line with the bond market, where declining bonds boosted long-term interest rates. The Dow Jones Index of 30 leading industrials closed at 3,492.83, down 30.45 points. Some
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        • 365 14 +4.4 Stocks kept to a narrow range throughout the day and closed with slight gains before the long weekend. Trade was active in the morning but thinned in the afternoon as players headed home early for the Victoria Day holiday today. The TSE 300 closed up 4.4 points at
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        • 2294 14 London May 21 Pcoc* Industrials A. A Corp Adr .10 *00 200 Ahfoey National 411 -2 Mlied I torn 533 11 Amec 92 unch Asda Group 67 4/8 4/* BAT Ind *17 f 4 ■ICC MS -3 BOC Group 612 2 KK (iroup 6*2 t 2 BR Petroleum 307 4/*
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    • 2786 15 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Kcnong Bhd MX I42.IM.000 M lAWM t B -,v IHMUH Bedford MV I02.*»2.000 Idris H\d MV 7«J W2.000 Mrlropicx MX 72.431.000 \MI)H MV 71.711.000 I-Jbcr Ciroup 6I.72S.OOO lnd(>\\gcn MV 5^.842.000 MBf Capital 54.106.000 Asia Pat I d MV 53.180
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5410 15 Bernama THE Kuala Lumpur Slock Exchange experienced a record-smashing week last week as prices surged forward and the KLSE Composite Index soared to new highs. Right from Tuesday, the KLSE Composite Index broke record after record until Friday morning when the index touched a
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 1274 16  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SPECULATIVE trading of Malaysian and Sesdaq counters reached frenzied levels last week as punterv rammed lower priced stocks to new highs. Underpinned by the concerted speculative play, trading value reached an all-time high on Thursday when $798.9 million worth of shares
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    • 121 9 The Puteri Pan Pacific would not In fact, the Puteri Pan Pacific has be out of place in the heart of Paris, everything you'd expect from a five Tokyo or Rome. star international hotel. And it's in the And yet here it resides in the heart heart of Johor Bahru.
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  • SPORTS
    • SPORT SHORTS
      • Article, Illustration
        75 17 Reuter NEW YORK Major League Saturda) American: New York 7 Boston 3; Oakland 6 Chicago 4; Texas 4 California 2; Detroit 5 Cleveland 1; Toronto 7 Minnesota O. Kansas City 4 Seattle h Baltimore 5 Milwaukee 4 (in 14). National: New York 6 Atlanta I; Cincinnati 6 San Francisco
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        216 17 Reuter AFP Reuter AJISUCHO, Japan Pepsi Übe kosan tournament leading final scores Sunday (Japanese unless stated): 264 Shigeki Maruvama 63 72 63 66 266 Todd Hamilton (US) 66 66 66 68 270 Tsukasa Watanabc 69 68 68 65. Teruo Nakamura 66 69 67 68 271 Hiroshi Makino 70 69
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        24 17 Reuter LNIONDALE, New York NHL Stanley Cup Wales Conference finals Saturday: NY Islanders 4 Montreal 1 (Montreal leads best-of-seven series 3-1). Reuter
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        201 17 AFP AFP AFP WELLINGTON The British Lions kicked off their tour of New Zealand with a 30-17 win over second division North Auckland Sat- urdav. hut have u lot to do before meeting the All Blacks in the first rest on June 12. Lions eoaeh lan McGecchan was reasonably
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        22 17 AP IRBID, Jordan Opening World Cup Asian zone Group A qualifiers Saturday: China 6 Pakistan 0. Jordan 1 Yemen 1. AP
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        146 17 AP TOKYO Ozeki (champion) Takanohana crushed down American yokozuna (grand champion) Akebono in a showdown match yesterday and won the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a 14-1 record. The popular Takanohana and Akebono. Japan's first foreign grand champion, came into the final match tied at 13-1. Wrestling before
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    • 412 17 Basketball Reuter SEATTLE It came down to overtime in the seventh and deciding game, but the Seattle SuperSonics got the job done at crunch time on Saturday to beat the Houston Rockets and advance to the Western Conference finals. Sam
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    • 295 17 Reuter POTOMAC. Maryland US Open champion Tom Kite, in a fine display of sportsmanship, saved chief rival Grant Waite from a two-stroke penalty before overtaking the New Zealander for a one-shot lead after three rounds at the US$l.3 million
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    • 188 17 Reuter WASHINGTON Riddick Bowe knocked down Jesse Ferguson at the end of the first round and again in the opening seconds of the second round with a six-punch combination to retain his World Boxing Association heavyweight title on Saturday. From the opening bell of the
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    • 1063 17 TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-737 0043 FAX:734 3698 M THE MATTER OF THE COMPAMES ACT, CAP. 90 AMO M THE MATTER OF BLUE BOX HOLDMG PTE LTD At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on 13 April 1993. the following resolutions were passed pursuant to Section 179(6) of the
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    • 359 17 SHOWCASES We take your golfing needs very much heart. And when it comes to better golf, believe only an of golf clubs will do You have already seen the extensive range of quality clubs from Hon ma. We now showcase two new additions LB-300 Series. THE EXCITING NEW LB-280s and
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    • 758 18 M NothingßeatsAßudrfe^fl OF ISfl Thai Buffet I Sp""* $13.80++* Visit Cafe Carousel in May for a sampling of exotic dishes from the land ofa thousand smiles. There's yam khamol (barbecued beef salad), gai phad bai ka-pao (sauteed chicken with hot basil leaves), pu pad phong ka-ree (fried curried crabs), sang
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    • 249 18 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN This May, Oar Chefs i||Pft Delidotis Healthy Treats. ft JTV Cafe Plaza goes big on health this IfA; m 1 month. With a buffet spread of fT tZlzsfmS&Juwt Healthy Treats. And all in delectable Asian style, too. Available for lunch I (WW DISCOUNT 11
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    • 370 18 WHAT'S HAPPENING [J j, ON TUESDAY NIGHT §JL y AT THE NEPTUNE. Every Tuesday night, The Neptune is reserved I for all who love ballroom dancing. I r Special srt dinner menu available at $3 J per pentm I L **t*~ "11 "i in ii' I t in— ciiflu i
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  • THE ARTS
    • 1508 19  -  Or is there one? Suzanna Andrews on Hollywood and the movies it makes for men and women Suzanna Andrews NYT TUt current hit Him. Indecent Exposure, in which Robert Red ford offers Woody Harrelson USSI million (SSI.6 million) for the privilege of sleeping with
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    • 58 19 G. ORIeSIFJSRP A delightful treat! Cantonese Cuisine from $6.00 per dish Bong Kong Dian-Xin from $2.00 Set Menus from $38.00 j "El Wedding/Birthday Dinner/ Company Functions Menus Karaoke Rooms (Free: 2 tables above) Karaoke Stage Dance Floor Q. Oriental m Restaurant /Pi 401 Macpherson Road #03 00 Great Eastern Hotel
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    • 79 19 FREE 1 TRIP TO SENTOSA COME LUNCH/DINE AT TAKARAJIMA! Relax Enjoy a sumptuous healthy Japanese meal in a quaint, picturcsquc resort setting. FREE TRANSPORT will be provided daily every 15 45 minutes of the hour by Beaufort Hotel's shuttle bus at Jardinc Step (in front of Port of Singapore Institute).
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1351 19 TV RADIO SBC 5 Stolz as this sequel to M3r whose genes were mixed with those of a housefly, he has to find a cure for himself when he realises he is turning into a fly. Pc V VN Not to or p|i?' A Hundred Years of Algonquin, > >^M
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1285 20  -  Martin Dickson explains why business morality is a big issue on both sides of the Atlantic Martin Dickson FT THHY WFRH nicknamed "the perverts' conventions". They were wild, lewd business parties thrown in Florida in the 1980s by employees of Nynex.
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    • 684 20  -  Barbara Presley Noble reports on two recent studies that show the benefits of such corporate policies Barbara Presley Noble IT IS hard-shell gospel among advocates of so-called family friendly or family supportive corporate policies that helping employees helps the bottom line. But gospel doesn't crunch
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    • 1153 21  -  SINGAPORE'S E MTRE RREN EJJRS Shotam Kesava has made a comeback after losing a business which he took 20 years to build. Joseph Rajendran talks to the head of Bradford Joseph Rajendran THL MORI: a person is educated and learns about risk,
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    • 479 21 JOHN WILSON was elected president of the British Business Association (BBA) at its recent AGM. Mr Wilson works for the TI Group and is president of John Crane Asia Pacific. a company specialising in the supply of engineered sealing systems to a wide range of process industries in
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    • 216 20 pUI s=l Property Investment H=i h 1 THE apital arkets g 24 &25 JUNE 1993 HILTON SINGAPORE Q KEY TOPICS A How property fits into a portfolio of A Reducing risk in your portfolio investments A Diversifying your portfolio How efficient is the property market in A Developing a portfolio
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    • 73 20 \Ne^)jnj»JgHavei^^ TE PPAN J B™' (Individual Private Rooms Available) BbL__ JJ JAPANESE SET LUNCH/DINNER Available daily from $8.00 onwards BBQ BUFFET Lunch at $12.50 Dinner at $10.50 Open to Public -No Admission Fee A Panoramic View of the Enchanting Tang Dynasty Village gl msmrMMMT jjjj) 2 Yuan Ching Road Singapore
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    • 58 20 A Modern 6-Storey Warehouse Complex Incorporating Quality Office Space Ready For Occupation October 93 Close Proximity to CBD and Orchard Area. Easy Access to AYE/CTE/ECP Near to Redhiß MRT Station Total Lettable Area: 57,000 sf Developer SHRIRO PAPER (S) PTE LTD Sole Marketing Agent Jones Lang wootton Tel: 220 3688
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    • 110 20 iiilkiE.M/gWflSgl \'?r\ soße its ive Twe n* iopvS f\ catalogue Mete sbu such W OFRce SUPPLieS OF OFF ice IT'S PSLL. Typpr> Hf\S &G£>4 US€£ IH (^o^EL^f) T^SS^S^MPQN) C AiSOCIATtO NtwyAltßS LTO IWi lM) &92 S j POOWESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU ANY CLASSMATES IT'S NO &G W EVER SINCE THEN, IHAVEMT
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    • 76 21 Banking, Finance and Insurance 93 1993 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Asian dollar market. It is a time to reflect on past achievements and ponder over the challenges ahead. This year's Banking, Finance and Insurance supplement of Business Times will commemorate this important milestone in the
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    • 44 21 The Durffee personality is fully aware of the g multifarious dimensions of life, and appreciate Mm i W jyr swiss gh that it is exactly these experiences of laughter x jBHr and tears that bring meaning to life. <$ ***** UNDERSTANDS THE MEANING OF TIME.
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  • 603 22 If Uruguay Round not completed this year, it may never be: Dunkel Reuter GENEVA Gatt chicf Arthur Dunkel has taken aim at the US, saying strong-arm tactics by big countries to impose policies on others could endanger the world trading system. In
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  • 394 22 Reuter BELGRADE Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic callcd yesterday for talks with Croats and Muslims to create separate states in Bosnia after the US and its allies unveiled a plan to contain the war. He praised US President Bill Clinton for hacking
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  • 227 22 AFP TOKYO Japan's invisible trade account, measuring services like tourism and shipping, is likely to swing into the black in the year to next March, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. It will be the first such surplus since 1965
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  • 42 22 Reuter NEW YORK A representative for the Counter Spy Shop demonstrating the use of a voice changing device at the company's store here. Business executives gathered there earlier to learn about the latest technology in industrial espionage. Reuter
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  • 322 22  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE A high-level delegation of Myanmar ministers led by Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt arrives in Singapore today for a five-day visit at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt was visiting
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  • 224 22 AFP TOKYO Two Japanese food makers will set up joint ventures to produce and sell instant noodles in China next year, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. The Hongkong unit of Nissin Food Products Co, Japan's largest instant noodle maker,
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  • 275 22 UPI NEW DELHI Authorities have decided to crack down on polluting industries in the northern Indian city of Agra to protect the Taj Mahal. India's monument to love, from further discoloration and corrosion. a newspaper reported yesterday. The white marble of the
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  • 188 22 AP ISLAMABAD Pakistan has reached a USSI billion (551.61 billion) agreement with the International Monetary Fund to bail out its ailing economy, Finance Minister Farooq Leghari announced yesterday. "This agreement will ensure continuation of liberal economic reform and discipline." Mr Leghari told a
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  • 276 22 AP MANILA Nearly 4(H) years after being sent to the bottom by a marauding Dutch warship, the Spanish galleon San Diego has yielded a huge trove of archaeological treasures. Fusebio Di/.on. chief of the underwater archaeology department of the National Museum.
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  • 977 22  -  The Bottom Line PATRICK DANIEL PATRICK DANIEL The writer is BT's Editor AS I LISTENED to the speeches and discussions at last week's Regionalisation Forum. I was reminded of two items I read recently in the newspapers. One was an amusing little
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  • Business IT
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      822 23  -  Telecommunications was the buzzword last week at Asia Telecom '93. and information technology was a key component. Joseph Rajendran reports Joseph Rajendran ASIA Telecom '93, held at Singapore's World Trade Centre last week, proved the ideal venue for a spate of announcements of new commitments in the region.
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    • 192 23 US-BASED Digital Equipment Corp is setting up a network management centre in Singapore that will enable the company and its strategic partners to enjoy 24-hour computing around the world. The company's vice-presi-dent for the telecom business segment. Michael Thurk. said the centre
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    • 525 23  -  Don't count Japan out, Fujitsu's chairman told reporters in Singapore last week. Claire Leow finds out why Claire Leow THE chairman of Fujitsu, Japan's electronics giant and second largest computer company after NEC, concedes that Japan has been losing its technological lead.
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    • 503 23  -  Windows World '93 Technology Editor Kenneth James previews the year's biggest Windows showcase Kenneth James Windows world '93, immodestly but accurately billed as The World's #1 Windows Event, opens this week (Monday, Atlanta time) in Atlanta, Georgia, with the coronation at long last of Windows NT.
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 89 24 SINGAPORE Logicel Systems Pte Ltd has launched a new fax software program called Faxworks. The software is able to send and receive faxes in the background while the user performs other tasks. Its innovative features include built-in optical character recognition (OCR) to convert
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      • 87 24 SINGAPORE Compaq Computer Asia has launched a new range of personal computers targeted specifically at the Thai market. The PCs will use a special Thai language keyboard and comes installed with the Thai version of Microsoft's Windows 3.1 operating system. The system will be fully compatible
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      • 78 24 SINGAPORE Creative Technology Ltd. market leader in the PC sound and video business, has added a new member to its 16-bit sound card family. The product. Sound Blaster 16. comes packaged with a voice recognition software. Voice Assist. VoiceAssist enables Windows applications to be customised
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      • 68 24 SINGAPORE Singapore Computer Systems Ltd (SCS) has been appointed the IT Consultant for the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre (SICEC) at Suntec City. As IT Consultant, SCS will configure and make the necessary recommendations to meet the IT needs of SICEC. When completed
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      • 87 24 SINGAPORE Local educational consultancy. Educational Trend, has signed an agreement with US software house, EduSoft, to market its products throughout Asia. In concluding the deal. I Asher, president of Nasdaq-listed EduSoft said that there was an enormous demand for quality educational software in Asia which it
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      • 78 24  -  Compiled by Bernard Chew TOKYO Kyocera Corp, the world's largest maker of ceramic packages for computer microprocessors, plans to spend four to five billion yen to boost output by 50 per cent by the end of August, a spokeswoman said last Friday. Most
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    • 694 24  -  It's drawn up a client/server strategy for PC-based networking. Claire Leow reports from Kuala Lumpur Claire Leow A LATECOMER to the personal computer (PC) game. Britain's ICL made up for lost time last week when it launched a slew of PC products aimed
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    • 805 24  -  The message that came out of a seminar on fault-tolerant PCs was "yes, but not yet", as Claire Leow found out Claire Leow IN the eagerness to downsize. or move to smaller computer systems, companies have had to sacrifice some
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    • It's happenin'
      • 67 24 THE 3rd Asia-Pacific Imaging Information Management Exhibition Conference (AIM' 93), will be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre from June 14-18. AIM' 93 will showcase the latest equipment and serv ices in imaging and document managment and related technologies, such as micrographics, multimedia systems and
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      • 69 24 CHARLES WANG, chairman and chief executive officer of Computer Associates (CA) International, will be speaking on "Powershifts in the Computer Industry" on May 28, 2.30pm at the Raffles Hotel. CA is the largest independent software provider for integrated systems, database management, business applications and applications
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      • 108 24 APPLE Singapore Pte Ltd will be holding a workshop on CDROM from May 31 to June 4 this year at its Ang Mo Kio factory. Participants at the five-day workshop will learn how to use CD-ROM technology and how to produce their very own
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      • 69 24 THE Information Technology Institute (ITI), the applied research and development arm of the National Computer Board, will be organising an international forum from July 7-9 at the Raffles City Convention Centre. Entitled "Deploying Useful IT Innovations". the forum focuses on products and applications with economic
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      • 84 24 GARTNER GROUP'S director for high-performance computing (HPC). Howard A Richmond 11. will be in Singapore on May 28. During his stay, he will be giving two presentations: "The Changing Paradigm for Large Systems" and "Overall Trends in HighPerformance Computing and the Impact on General-Purpose Computing".
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      • 141 24  -  Compiled by Bernard Chen THE Taipei International Computer Show, better known as Computex Taipei *93. will be held at the World Trade Centre Exhibition Hall in Taipei next week. The five-day show starts on June 1 and ends on June 5. Get ready to
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    • 858 25  -  At Asia Telecom '93, Joseph Rajendran asked industry experts to put the dazzling array of new and emerging telecom technologies into perspective. His report follows Joseph Rajendran There was no dearth of discussion on telecommunications technology at last week's Asia Telecom '93 exhibition
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    • 361 25  -  Bernard Chew reports on a lesser-known side of HP Bernard Chew NOT many businesses here know that Hew-lett-Packard is also in the consulting business. HP hopes to change that. HP Professional Services (HPPS), the consulting arm of the US computer and test equipment maker,
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    • 177 25 Singapore's furniture makers took a big step forward in their plans to computerise their operations when they recently awarded a key contract to local software vendor Frexen Management Services. The Singapore Furniture Industries Council (SFIC) said Frexen will help develop and implement a Furniture
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    • Article, Illustration
      266 25  -  Compiled by Bernard Chew TEXAS INSTRUMENTS has appointed Edmund Tang as their Memory Local Business Entity (LBE) Manager for the Asia-Pacific Region. Mr Tang, who will be based in Singapore, will be responsible for market penetration, product information, engineering support and profitability of Tl's memory business. Prior to
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    • 648 26  -  Survey finds better management to be an expected key benefit, reports Bernard Chew Bernard Chew COMPANIES in the region are keen to implement Executive Information Systems (EISs) in their organisations, according to a recent survey by Coopers Lybrand (C&L). a leading accounting
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    • 606 26 A computer-created man is helping doctors and patients AP Need arthroscopic surgery? Don't know what that is? Don't worn your doctor may just peel the skin off the knee of a guy named Adam and show you exactly what's wrong before you go under the
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    • 824 26  -  David Welcher reports on a computer tracking system David Welcher 44T he postal service I delivery loop beJL tween the United States and Asia can run anywhere from 14 days to never." exclaimed Anu Shukla. vicepresident for California-based Uniface Corporation. "Worse yet, there is
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    • 966 27  -  InTerVIEW NEC is serious about being 'open to the world'. One of the Japanese giant's top managers tells Kenneth James why. Kenneth James NEC Corporation's senior executive vice-president, Tadashi Suzuki, bristles at any suggestion that the Japanese market and the Japanese personal computer (PC) market
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    • 776 27  -  Stephen Yeap traces the evolution of the executive information system IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Stephen Yeap The writer heads Andersen Consul tint's Software Division. which provides packaged software and support solutions for clients in various industries THE Executive Information System (EIS), now called Enterprise Information System,
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    • 687 27  - Internet exploring the digital frontiers CONNECTIONS COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH CONNECTIVITY Tommi Chen outlines the diversity of the world's largest network Tommi Chen The writer is deputy director of the National University of Singapore's Computer Centre. He manages the campus' network the largest in the region and Technet, Singapore 's national R&D
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    • 1110 28 Claire Leow looks at the launch of Pentium products in the region THE first of two ea-gerly-awaited computer events this year happened last week. A string of computer firms announced that they were making machines based on the latest microprocessor from Intel Corp. the world's leading
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    • 609 28 COMPAQ Computer's product line consists of two servers and two desktops. Its 5/66 application server uses a trademarked TriFlex/Systems Architecture to increase server manageability and claims to be fault-tolerant. This is Compaq's most powerful server, priced from $46,384. Compaq has also unveiled an affordable Pentium server,
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    • 1127 28  -  vwiigws<*.Qaiftiai TOM AMBROSE The writer is president of Ambrose Consulting, a Sacramento, California consulting firm that helps businesses use information technology productively MY FAMILY recently celebrated my daughter's oneyear birthday. As I watched her enjoying the festivities. I reflected on the changes we've had
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    • 983 28  -  Peter H Lewis casts a green eye over IBM's upcoming environment-friendly PC Peter H Lewis NYT BIG BLUE is about to go green. IBM Personal Computer Co is preparing to introduce a compact computer that addresses key issues of environmental* interest energy conservation and electromagnetic
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    • 258 24 International Data Corporation I Announces D DIRECTIONS *93 Charting the Course of D j Information Technology tj IDC's Annual Computer Industry Briefing Session J June 7 June 9 H J Hyatt Regency Singapore Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur H J Crystal Ballroom Mahkota Ballroom I H J For further information, please
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    • 327 25 AST COMPUTER eSPIM AST .^^emmia™ For security-conscious users Who will benefit most from AST Premmia? Security-minded executives/companies who wish to have the most secure PC. As AST Premmia provides users with multiple levels of security: AST's Walk-n-Lock provides security whenever you leave your desk Two-level Passwords Floppy and I/O Write
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    • 251 26 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-737 0043 FAX:734 3698 ®SJ SECURITIES SDN BHD 4 Mrmbrr ompini of The Kuala l.uiii|Mir St«M-k Kirhinfr We are a Company engaged in the business of stockbroking and we invite bright, motivated and capable individuals to apply for the positions of: HEAD OF RESEARCH The
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    • 75 26 1 Austria Style '94 Singapore May 24th 25th, 1993 2.00 p.m. 6.30 p.m. ANA Hotel Singapore PARTICIPATING COMPANIES APPAREL FABRICS ACCESSORIES GETZNER TEXTII HB-BRDfTSCHKA GRARCA OHUBER KLEINSORG PLANNER SCHIELSEIDE QPURKERT SiLZ TEXTIL □RUPERTUS SCHOEFFEL READY TO WEAR MAKWANA OTHERS PAS DE DEUX QMATKA BRUEDERBAUMANN EMBROIDERIES AND LACES FRANZ GABLER ANTEX
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    • 540 27 Bi ia m m PE I I Pan Malayan Holdings Limited I Notice of Meeting I Notice Is hsrsby given that the 33rd Annual General Meeting of Stockholders of the Company will be held in the Conference Room, 63 Market Street, #14-00 Tat Lee Bank Building, Singapore 0104 on Friday,
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    • 104 28 From the the we present a gourmet yj ts best. The freshest i ingredients, choice selection all-time I authentic Japanese preparation all presented y in impeccable Japanese m. hospitality and service. Set in l|i| 1 a cosy and warm Oriental ambience, you can request for our tranquil |^Cl!£ anc P
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  • Shipping Times
    • 439 29  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Singapore's two largest privately-owned liner operators Pacific International Lines (PIL) and Thong Soon Lines have merged their Singaporc-Bang-kok container services to sharpen their competitive edge. PIL container division general manager Lawrence Yap told BT last week that the merger was
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    • 487 29 Old vessels arriving without proper documentation to sell their cargo Seatrade Week NEW YORK The case of the Kanin highlights an altogether new trend of aged vessels owned by the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) arriving in Europe without proper certification and
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    • 1111 29 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 15 3 Ahrenkiei Liner 16 4 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Arabian Express 15 5 ASCL 5 5 Asian Breakbulk IS 1 ASXCLShpg 15 2 Avant
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    • 225 29 Knight-Ridder LONDON Rates last week weakened for very large crude carriers (VLCC)s from the Persian Gulf and new cargoes were still slow to emerge. Ssangyong covered a Jun 6, 260,000-tonne cargo from the Persian Gulf to South Korea at a weaker worldscale 37.5. The charterer
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    • 444 29 BANGKOK The Chinabased Shanghai Port Machinery Plant Co and Sahaisant Co have won concessions from Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand to construct two cranes and four tug boats for Mab Ta Phut Port in Rayong, The Motion reported last week. The Chinese state-owned company
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    • 213 29 SINGAPORE National carrier Neptune Orient Lines is' expanding its global network with the launch of a container service between China and Japan in July. In a statement issued on Friday, the line said it had tied up with two Chinese companies to jointly operate a
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 436 30 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Depart** Vnstl Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Marina Wharves Goit kium 0993 P04 24 05 0800 2«05/1800 Arena Indah 003 M02 24 05 0900 25 05/2300 Hoegh Dene 0318 P06 2305/S1815 24 05/2300 Batam Baru B244 M04 24.05 0900 2505/2300 Hsiehyung 178S
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      • 1263 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Alk Triumph ***** 26 0900 1 23 1500 23/1659 23/1900 2 23/1700 24/0659 24/0900 4 24/1200 24/1459 24/1700 Arabian Sea 319W
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    • 10530 38 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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    • 891 45 WE Haiti*. I rcight Index tor spot dn. cargo flipping rales rose to I ,t>2 < on Max 20 from 1/.12. In the hands sizes. British Steel took the *o'WHVVeaJweight- tonne Hcrta Dan with delivers sailing from Cardiff for a trip irMo the (ireat lakes at a firm
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    • 796 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, sflows 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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    • 820 46  -  Investors who want to test US cruise waters can choose only between Carnival Cruise and Royal Caribbean, reports Edwin McDowell Edwin McDowell NYT INVESTORS looking to buy stock in a cruise company have had nearly as few options as did customers for the Model T.
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      • 596 48 UPI TORONTO Chry sler chairman Robert Eaton told shareholders on Thursday the company has made a "fragile recovery," but warned the automaker's strong performance could make it a potential strike target when union talks get under way this summer. "We came
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      • 285 48 Pratt Whitney wins Chinese order UPI EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut Pratt Whitney said on Thursday that China Northern Airlines has selected the PW4OOO engine to power its new fleet of up to 15 Airbus A3OO-600R aircraft in an agreement worth nearly US$4OO million (***** million). The airline announced earlier this year
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      • 304 48 Reuter NEW YORK General Motors Corp's chief designer said the company is not seeking one new corporate image, but instead will build off its individual divisions. "We really don't seek a GM design image because we want eight very different, distinctive divisional
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      • 313 48 Reuter NEW YORK El Al Israel Airlines will soon be sold to investors as part of Israel's effort to privatise state-owned industries, a top El Al official said on Thursday. "Very shortly we will see El Al privatised," Leon Hasdai, the airline's vice-president and
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      • 342 48 Reuter ATHENS The Greek government has abandoned plans to privatise Olympic Airways quickly and now aims to restructure the state carrier, its chief executive said. "Let's leave out for the time the word privatisation. This is not the objective. The objective is to have
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      • 170 48 Bernama KOTA KINABALU, Sabah The Treasury has allocated more than Ms3o million (S$ 19 million) to reconstruct the sinking Sandakan airport runway, Malaysian Transport Minister Dr Ling Liong Sik said on Friday. Priority would be given to the project by the Public
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        • 81 48 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd signed a USss7s million (S$ 121 million) contract to build platforms and process skids to be used for oil exploration in the Xijiang area off China's south-east coast. A Daewoo spokeswoman said Daewoo
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        • 53 48 Reuter LONDON A horse drawn hearse leads a procession of traditional black taxi cabs down Whitehall last Thursday. The mock funeral procession was held to protest the possible end of an era for licensed taxis in view of possible licensing for mini-cabs which would bring
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        • 56 48 AFP KARACHI Pakistan National Shipping Corp plans to start a ferry service to Dubai and other Gulf countries in August, its chairman said. It is aimed at providing a cheaper passenger transport and expansion of bilateral trade between Pakistan and United Arab Emirates
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    • 1624 32 AQABA R DAM/ [I ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDDAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE MONTE ROSA 24/120 26/5 13/6 16/6 14/6 Port Ke|ang Penang KATSURAGI 15/320 29/5 7/6 13/6 16/6 19/6 21/6 23/6 Pasir Gudang ELBE 16/121 2/6 18/6 21/6 19/6 9 EAST
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    • 2068 33 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****58 Fax: *****17 I NEW QUINKA PAOFIC UNB jßree <a service of cmna navigation coi acclpts VyyV CARGO DU SAILS *«IS MADURA VOSI KR. Skan.Taar ta Pt 24 May FCL. LCI CONTAMER AND BREAK BULK
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    • 1737 35 In? NEPTUNE PEARL 09E' ETA SGP 02/06/93 l| AEX service will be upgraded to weekly II II FREQUENCY SAILING H I simgapore California express fsex; I PfiW* USA tMLAMD POfMTS ITO CAUFOHHU»</f QULF tHLkMO POUTO* ATLAWTTC VtA MM I 1/ FEEDER VSL VOY SGP MOTHER VSL VOY SET PLD MIN
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    • 1570 36 44 -V AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SMGAPORE (PTE) LTD p^2JW73OOOOM) w W TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****07AV9 XV LINE msssa:™™ s —KAWASAKI RISEN KAJSHA, LTD HPONESIA: P.T. SAHAMA IAUT MTBWMSA TEL. JKT 57P7176.*****77.5T0906 ■•'AC**>C I KSSIL *0* -UNDO SO" Moll€R WSSEI WO* U 18 OAK CHI NTC MCI MOTHER WSSEI
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    • 1001 37 raaalM PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil street. #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I CR NO **********06 IWi'WJWJWI HMVjTfeXM wceeci WAV ttiy RKK SIN JICT Mi VESSEL VOY SIN BUNGA TERATAI 3313 2S/5 2t/S 1/6 KOTA SURIA KSR2IN 26/5 29/5 2/« EQUATOR HAWK 93N 30/5 U% 6/6 SI
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    • 2723 40 Page 12 Shipping rimes, Monday way si iro Full Container Liner Services Malaysia's Agents: Indonesia's Agents: I General Agents: Booking Agents: Gun Gun Skiving Sdn Bhd Cheng Chine Shipping Sdn Bhd P.T. Global Pntra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pie Ltd smpp* rmgu inu« cmtre s* sm 58 Persiaran Raja Muda
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    • 641 41 fit FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA. S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 31/05 ROTTERDAM 25/05 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 31/05 HAMBURG/BREMEN 25/05 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 27/05 FEUXSTOWE/UK 31/05 BARCELONA/SPAIN 27/05 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 25/05 GENOA/ITALY 29/05 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 31/05 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 27/05 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 25/05 NEW YORK/EC 27/05 FREMANTIE/ADELADE 25/05 VANCOUVER 26/05
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    • 1538 42 ijiiuijiMNC^ si I Agents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) *V J\y Jr/B No **********06 PENANG: (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KUCHINQ: (082) *****3 J P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 I J HKG/TWN/BKK I GOTH/UKC/MED PORTS PEN PKL SIN EVERY TUE/THUR/SAT PEN PK SIN 23/5 24/5 25/5
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    • 243 42 JjfgjE BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC ISLANDS SM AKL LYT SM N 2 STAR 75 26/5 6/fi 1/6 25/6 PREMER 24S 1/6 21/6 23/6 S/7 AUST STAR 87S 17/6 29/6 1/7 17/7 FULLY CONTAINERISED SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT AUCKLAND, LYTTELTON. ACCEPTING FCL it LCL FOR
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