The Business Times, 29 September 1993

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    13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Wednesday September 29 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Consumer confidence edges up in US
      61 1 UPI NEW YORK Consumer confidence in the US economy improved moderately in September, but consumers remained depressed, the Conference Board said yesterday. The private business-re-search organisation's closely watched Consumer Confidence Index, which uses 1985 as a base of 100, rose to 62.6 per cent
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    • Article
      Lock icon HYT's buyout off Boston Globe approved
      79 1 AP BOSTON The New York Times' USSI.I billion (SSI.B billion) buyout of The Boston Globe was approved yesterday by shareholders of both companies. The deal, which marks the highest price ever paid for an American newspaper, is scheduled to be completed on Friday. The
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    107 1 Stock market indict i Tmday Chaste ST1I 1.989.14 -0.21 K1SE Composite 849.92 3.74 Nikkei 20.172.72 +78.61 Hang Seng 7.470.50 +18.41 SET Index 968.50 3.60 Jakarta Composite ...418.40 -2.5 CLSA China B „..uoav AostAHOrd 1.942.3 0.7 FTSE 100 3.036.9 +10.6 TmAqf Pit»h«i aridday dose Dow Jones 3.567.98 3,567.70 Exchange
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    SES sets new rules for IPO applications using CPF funds
    654 1  -  Reports by Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE The stock exchange has revised its rules on applications for new share offers using Central Provident Fund (CPF) money. To weed out bogus applications, as well as bids by those without adequate CPF funds, investors
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    Curbs on remisiers expected
    438 1 SINGAPORE The Stock Exchange of Singapore is expected to tighten control over remisiers following recent reports of misappropriation of share scrip entrusted by investors to their remisiers. According to recent press reports, two remisiers from Kim Eng Securities absconded last month with clients' share scrip worth
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    Asean ministers to bring Afta back on track next week
    502 1  -  By Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE Asean economic ministers meeting here next week will aim to bring the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) back on track following delays in tarifT reductions that have threatened to derail the project. A senior Singapore
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    Lock icon Key index points to worsening Tokyo economy
    132 1 Asahi TOKYO An Economic Planning Agency (EPA) report released yesterday shows the Japanese government's key economic index stayed below the boom-or-bust line of 50, for the third consecutive month in July, suggesting the economy could get worse. The coincident index of economic indicators,
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  • Article
    Singapore and India plan to step up two-way investments
    451 1  -  By Helen Chang SINGAPORE India and Singapore are expectcd to step up two-way investments as New Delhi continues on its path of "irreversible" economic reform. In talks with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday, leading Indian industrialists discussed ways to boost
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    Singapore dollar set to stay strong for rest of the year
    366 1  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar came within a hair's breadth of breaching its all-time high against the US dollar this week and is likely to stay strong for the rest of the year. The currency is expected
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      8 1 Regional Analysis: Pg 24 Is Beijing losing control?
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      10 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 9 Hotel stocks headed for recovery
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Spending on fast food drops
        300 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming WITH CHILDREN back at school, sales at fast-food outlets fell 5.8 per cent in July compared with June. The fall followed a 2.5 per cent rise in fast-food spending during the June school holidays, according to the Department of Statistics. Turnover
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    • Article
      Businesses expected to incur low compliance costs over GST
      412 2  -  Findings of the Cost Review Committee Reports by Schutz Lee THE Cost Review Committee says compliance costs from the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax next April arc expected to be low. This will be similar to the experiences of
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    • Article
      Corrections and clarifications
      288 2 OUR REPORT yesterday headlined "The good life as a package" cited a study by the Monetary Authority of Singapore which simulated the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increases that would have resulted if the Singapore dollar had not appreciated between 1988 and 1992. The simulated inflation rates were
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      Suggestions for keeping health-care costs affordable
      253 2 THE government should spell out the time-frame for achieving the target subsidy rates for different classes of wards in hospitals so that the amount of future hospital fee increases can be determined. This will ensure that future increases in ward fees, where necessary, will
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      Raise school fees only to reflect higher costs
      295 2 THE Cost Review Committee has recommended that future rises in school and university fees reflect only increases in underlying costs and not a reduction in government subsidies. In particular, it has urged the government to maintain the subsidy for university fees at
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  • THE REGION
    • Article
      Lock icon Italy signs military pact with Malaysia, eyes naval deal
      366 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Italy has signed a pact for military cooperation with Malaysia and signalled its interest in participating in a USSI.6 billion (552.5 billion) venture to build naval patrol vessels. "This venture is one of the aspects which we have
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      Lock icon KL's electronics workers among top earners in manufacturing
      334 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Electronics workers in Malaysia are among the top earners in the manufacturing sector and this has been achieved in the absence of trade unions in the industry for more than two decades. In addition, the average wage increases of
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      Lock icon Former Thai premier sues to recover assets
      207 3 Reuter BANGKOK Former Thai Prime Minister General Chatichai Choonhavan has filed a law suit demanding the return of more than USSIO million (5515.8 million) in assets seized by an anti-graft commission in late 1991. Gen Chatichai is one of 10 politicians whose assets
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      Singapore is region's biggest foreign investor in Philippines
      430 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA SINGAPORE, Asean's only "tiger economy", emerged as the region's biggest foreign investor in the Philippines in the first eight months of this year. Statistics released yesterday by the Board of Investments (BOI) showed that Singaporeans injected USSI2
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      Lock icon Suharto calls for unity among Indonesian generals
      290 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's President Suharto, long caught in a tug of war with disgruntled generals, has called for unity among retired and serving military officers. The official Antara news agency yesterday quoted Mr Suharto as saying they must present a unified front on
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    • Article
      Telstra to invest A$155m more in Vietnam
      236 3  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY AUSTRALIAN telecommunications company Telstra is to invest a further Aslss million (S$ 159.6 million) in Vietnam. including a submarine cable to link Vietnam to the international telecommunications system. Telstra, the second largest investor in submarine cables in the
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Taiwan firms drop investment plans
        119 4 AFP TAIPEI Two state firms in Taiwan have decided in principle to drop plans to imest in the setting up of a refinery and a steel plant in Malaysia, the Lniteil livening Men's reported yesterday. The paper said the main reason for the change was
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        Lock icon India shows commitment to investors
        104 4 AFP NEW DELHI India plans to sign bilateral investment treaties with at least four countries in a hid to boost the inflow of foreign capital. Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao said yesterday. The pacts would be signed with the United States. Germany. Britain and
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        Lock icon China plans rail modernisation
        108 4 AP BEIJING China plans to spend USS6(X) million ($954 million) on equipment and expertise from foreign companies to modernise its rail sy stem, an official newspaper said yesterday The pledge is the latest in a scries of financial commitments made by the government to upgrade and
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        Lock icon Thai king wants govt for the people
        97 4 Reuter BANGKOK King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand has told his ministers to stop manoeuvring for better jobs and start working for the benefit of the nation. "(Cabinet members) should comply with their oath to the best of their ability for the sake of
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      Lock icon Taiwan's opposition confident of wresting power from ruling party
      349 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's main opposition party, buoyed by opinion polls showing a record drop in support for the ruling Nationalists, celebrated its seventh birthday yesterday and said it would win power by the end of the decade. "The Democratic Progressive Party
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      Lock icon Beijing warns of Anther unrest as strikes hit Tianjin
      584 4 AFP. MYT BEIJING China warned that strikes at Si no-foreign ventures could surge after hundreds of workers at South Ko-rean-funded firms in Tianjin protested against work conditions. an official newspaper said yesterday About 10 strikes had hit joint venture and whollyowned
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      Lock icon Taipeh accuses Beijing of sabotage
      267 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday I issued an official statement aci cusing China of using various means to sabotage its international and diplomatic activities in the past five months. The 7.000-word statement, released by the Foreign Ministry. accused Beijing of try ing to lure away countries
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    • Article
      China to set up two banks to handle 'policy-lending'
      364 4  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG CHINA will soon set up two specialised banks to concentrate on long-term fixed assets lending and import and export financing, mainland economists said. The proposed State Long-term Development Trust Bank and the Import and Export Credit
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      Perc says China, India offer greatest telecoms potential
      489 4  -  By Said Abdullah SINGAPORE China and India have the greatest growth potential in Asia for telecommunications. says Hongkongbased Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc). China, with 1.1 billion people, is expected to install 18 million new lines between now and 1997. or
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      Lock icon S Korean key indicators point to economic stagnation
      265 4 Reuter SEOUL Three key indicators of South Korea's economic health released yesterday showed gloomy signs of economic stagnation but economists cautiously predicted recovery next year. Unusually cold weather, sluggish domestic consumption and labour strife pushed South Korea's current account into deficit in
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      Lock icon Another Japanese governor suspected of bribe-taking held
      504 5 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Acting Prime Minister said yesterday that the government would clamp down on illicit ties between politicians and construction firms as a growing scandal brought the arrest of a second regional governor. "It is extremely regrettable that a second incumbent governor
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      Lock icon Strong support for Hosokawa from US execs
      392 5 Asahi News Service TOKYO An Asahi Evening News survey of US business executives in Tokyo and Osaka has shown 90 per cent of respondents expressing support for the cabinet of Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. a higher figure than among Japanese answering other surveys.
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      Lock icon Australia postpones proposed income tax cuts
      277 5 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter SYDNEY The Australian government's proposed reduction in personal income taxes on workers earning less than about A 550,000 (5551,500) a year will be delayed, the Australian Financial Review reported yesterday. The first phase of the tax cuts, valued at about
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      Lock icon Japan won't campaign for UN Security Council seat
      449 5 AP NEW YORK Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa says Japan still wants a permanent United Nations Security Council seat, but will not actively campaign for the post on the most powerful United Nations body. In an attempt to show Japan's willingness to assume
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      Lock icon Economists expect bigger Aussie current account deficit
      313 5 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia's current account deficit is expected to have widened in August due to a fall in exports from July's unseasonally high levels. Economists yesterday forecast a seasonally adjusted deficit of between Asl.2 billion (551.24 billion) and AS 1.4 billion from AS
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Deadlock remains over US-EC trade talks
      390 6 Reuter LONDON US and EC negotiators failed to reach agreement at crucial trade talks on Monday, though both sides tried valiantly to paper over the cracks. Deadlock remained as US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor reaffirmed that Washington would not renegotiate the Blair House accord
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      Lock icon Euromoney honours Czech central bank chief
      273 6 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Josef Tosovsky. the president of the Czech National Bank who guided the country through a monetary separation with Slovakia. will be named Euromoney 's central bank president of the year. The 43-year-old Mr Tosovsky has managed to bring down inflation,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Opec mediators renew bid for a quota accord
      435 6 Reuter GENEVA Opec mediators worked yesterday to try to put together a new quota agreement under which Saudi Arabia may consent to freeze its output at its current 8.0 million barrels per day (bpd). delegates said. This may depend on concessions by
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Georgian rebels propose ceasefire
        72 6 Reuter LONDON Abkhaz separatists in western Georgia, who have captured the city of Sukhumi, intend to propose a ceasefire from midday (0900 GMT) tomorrow. Radio Russia reported yesterday. The broadcast, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation, was quoting Itar-Tass news agency. It quoted an Abkhaz parliament
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        Lock icon NAM, G-7 to meet on African debt crisis
        80 6 AFP JAKARTA A delegation from the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is due to hold talks with the G-7 at a ministerial level meeting in Tokyo next month in an attempt to find a solution to Africa's debt crisis, a senior African official said
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      • Article
        Lock icon Mexico, PNG may join Apec
        108 6 Reuter SEATTLE Mexico and Papua New Guinea may be welcomed into the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation when the four-year-old group holds its annual ministerial meeting in November, a White House official said on Monday. Both countries have expressed an interest in joining the 15-nation body, intended
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        Lock icon Bomb blast at US embassy in Estonia
        60 6 Reuter TALLINN, Estonia A bomb blast knocked out satellite telecommunications at the United States' embassy in the Estonian capital. Tallinn, early yesterday, an embassy spokesman said. Police said the skg bomb was placed on the roof of a garage in the courtyard of
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    • Article
      Lock icon Kinship between Clinton, Hosokawa may rub off on US-Japan trade ties
      580 7 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter NEW YORK Differences between the US and Japan over trade and currency exchange rates might be made smoother by the cordial relationship developing between US President Clinton and the new Japanese Prime Minister, Morihiro Hosokawa.
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      Lock icon Electric candy
      36 7 Reuter LONDON Automation, it seems, has no limit. Here s a battery-operated lollipop that spins in your mouth. The Chinese-made 'Spin Pop Candy' was exhibited at an international confectionery fair here on Monday. Reuter
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      Lock icon Strike forces New York Post to stop publication
      410 7 AP NEW YORK The New York Post stopped publication on Monday night after two other unions refused to cross a picket line and potential buyer Rupert Murdoch cancelled his agreement to buy the newspaper. "Union members have refused to work at the
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      Lock icon UK business failures down 20pc in 3rd qtr
      179 7 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Business failures in England and Wales tumbled by more than 20 per cent during the third quarter of 1993 from the previous three months. Dun Bradstreet said. The business information company said 10,363 businesses collapsed between July and
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    • Article
      Lock icon Clinton adds new conditions to sending troops to Bosnia
      400 7 AP WASHINGTON Facing deep concerns in Congress, President Clinton is adding tough new conditions to his criteria for sending American troops to Bosnia, insisting that he must know who will pay for them and when the forces will come home. After
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  • WORLD FOCUS
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      Lock icon The hard part is to make a start
      1000 8 Israeli-PLO Accord NYT JERUSALEM Two weeks after the handshake that stunned the world, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation are only just beginning to put together the political machinery needed to transform Palestinian self-rule in Israelioccupied territories from a principle on paper
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      Lock icon Power failures take its toll on Syria's industry, farming
      479 8 Reuter DAMASCUS City dwellers in Syria are brightening up their lives with wax and wicks. But it's not for romance that candles are replacing lightbulbs here. Power cuts of up to nine hours are besieging Syria as new industries overload ageing
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      344 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND BLOOM MANAGEMENT SERVICES PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company deemed to have been held, pursuant to Section 179(6) of the Companies Act. Cap 50. on 22 September 1993. the following resolutions were 1.
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      343 8 M THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 DORF BERG (S) PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company convened and held at 3-5-12, Akehara. Kashiwa-City. Chiba 277. Japan on the 20 September 1993. the following resolutions were duly passed 1. SPECIAL RESOLUTION WINDING-UP
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • Article
      Lum Chang posts 145pc jump in net profit, plans bonus issue
      362 9  -  By Quah Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Lum Chang Holdings matched market expectations yesterday when it announced a 145 per cent jump in net earnings to $8.9 million and a one-for-three bonus share issue. The improved performance for the year to
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      Packaging firm Teck Wah applies for listing on Sesdaq
      368 9  -  By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE Homegrown Teck Wah Paper Products Pte Ltd, a leading packaging company, has applied for a listing on Sesdaq. Group managing director Thomas Chua said yesterday that the company was given in-principle approval for a listing two years
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      Singatronics in venture to develop China land
      231 9 SINGAPORE Singatronics will be investing in a joint venture to develop land in China for industrial and commercial use at a cost of about US$2O million (5531.8 million). The 6.7 ha land is in Hebei province. The group will build a new manufacturing
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      Bonvests Holdings' interim profit dives 94pc
      296 9 SINGAPORE Bonvests Holdings yesterday unveiled a poor set of interim results as earnings were dragged down by a substantial writedown of old and slow-moving stock in its retail division. Turnover for the six months ended June 30 remained flat at $60.8 million while net
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    • Article
      Hotel stocks looking attractive again with likely rebound in room rates
      784 9  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Analysts who are touting hotel stocks again believe that a rebound in average room rates (ARRs) is in sight after a painful and prolonged period of price-cutting. The more optimistic among them point to the
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      Parkway poised to unveil sparkling full-year results
      399 9  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings looks set to post a sparkling set of full-year results as it recognises the profits from two major projects. The property and healthcare group said in a prospectus for its $126.6 million bond and warrant issue that
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      LC Devt doubles net earnings, proposes 1-for-3 bonus issue
      298 9 SINGAPORE Listed LC Development, formerly known as Eu Yan Sang Holdings, yesterday announced a doubling of net earnings to $1.71 million for the year ended June 30, and at the same time proposed a one-for-three bonus issue. The property-based group said
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      320 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Sep 28 last Sent ladex Stock salt Ch«« lector «o.(n ft) A\imo 1850 0 020 1.32-133.33 C4C 7 250 -0 050 5.18 333.33 terebos 5 850 -0 050 4.18 333.33 FAN 14 800 0 300 10.5* -2.00 GF Asia 3 080
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          SAe unit wins US$10m in contracts
          40 10 SINGAPORE Singapore Aviation Services Co. a subsidiary of Singapore Aerospace, has clinched three contracts totalling about US$lO million (about 5515.8 million). The contracts were signed with Pakistan International Airlines. Air Hongkong and Air China.
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          Fuji Offset earnings up 285pc
          102 10 SINGAPORE Scsdaq-listed Fuji Offset Plates Manufacturing (FOP) has reported a 285 per cent jump in net earnings to Si.o4 million for the six months to June 30. Group turnover rose by 44 per cent to Si 1.6 million. The company, whose main business is the
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          Lock icon Pepsi to let courts handle claims
          94 10 Reuter MANILA Pepsi, besieged by Filipinos claiming cash prizes after a sales promotion that involved a numbers game misfired, said yesterday that it would leave the matter to the courts. Raul Contreras, a consultant for the company, said there were no on-going negotiations for
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          Lock icon Benta's loss up 45pc
          66 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Benta Plantations Bhd reported a group consolidated operating loss before tax of M 53.2 million (SSI.9 million) for the year ended June 30, up 45.4 per cent from a loss of M 52.2 million previously. Announcing its unaudited results here yesterday, the company
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          Lock icon Golden Frontier replies to KLSE query
          88 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Golden Frontier Bhd says Pcna-Land Corp Sdn Bhd, in which it is buying a 71.43 per cent stake, is expected to register sales of MS 19 million trom its Phase One project, which involves medium-cost apartments. Development costs were expected to
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          Corrections and clarifications
          51 10 SINGAPORE In our Company Briefs item on DBS preference shares yesterday, we were mistaken in saying that the conversion price is now $12.90 per ordinary share, compared with $10.32 previously. The new conversion price is $10.32 while $12.90 is the current price. We are sorry for the
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        Lock icon Taipei selling more China Steel shares
        181 10 KnightRidder TAIPEI The Commission of National Corporations has called for bids from financial advisers to arrange the privatisation of 1.53 billion shares of state-run China Steel Corp. A CNC official said yesterday that the government planned to raise more than NTS3O billion (SS 1.74
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        Indon chicken producer to offer 18m shares
        511 10  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE One of Indonesia's biggest chicken producers, Anwar Sierad, will be offering 18 million shares to the public for listing on the Jakarta Stock Exchange late next month. The shares are likely to be priced between 3,750 and 4,500
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        Lock icon Flotation of China firm well received in Australia
        238 10 Reuter SYDNEY The first-ever float of a Chinese-backed firm in Australia was warmly welcomed yesterday by local investors seeking an inroad into China's surging economy. An offer of 9.6 million shares, worth A 57.5 million (557.7 million), in Hongkongbased investment company Guangdong
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        DEC to set up $100m plant at Batam
        396 10  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), a new player in the merchant market, is investing $100 million in Batam over the next three years to assemble components used in hard-disk drives. Tim Stucci, general manager of Asia-Pacific operations. said the
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        Lock icon Strong yen makes Matsushita cut profit outlook
        302 10 Reuter TOKYO The recent surge of the yen and a prolonged economic slowdown at home and in Europe forced Japan's electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial yesterday to slash its earnings forecasts for this business year. Analysts say other electronics makers will follow suit.
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        Lock icon Hopewell's listing plan
        101 10 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hopewell Holdings, a real estate and construction group, is finalising plans to separately list its electric power generation interests in China and the Philippines. Hopewell said yesterday it made the announcement at the request of the Hongkong Stock Exchange after the publication of
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        487 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS M«ucm prtcM (S) Sep 29 Insurance F*»d Simaper* Unit Trust ITT 1 TS*" ib2 The Commerce I-50 1.58 The Savings Fund 139 I 46 PniUnk M»d Fund 1.24 I.JO S pore Pro* Fund 0 62 0 65id Ulll.lliniiwili S port Sec Fund 0.W 0.97 S pore Invest
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        Lock icon SEC says it will not lower standards on foreign listings
        336 11 Reuter WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission made clear on Monday it was not prepared to soften its requirements for foreign firms that want to list shares on US exchanges. German firms arc angry about the SEC's demands to report
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        Lock icon Financier Koch plans bid for MGM/UA
        213 11 Reuter LOS ANGELES Financier William Koch says he intends to put together an offer to purchase all or part ot MGM/UA Communications from French financial group Credit Lvonnais. The financier behind the US victory in the America's Cup said on Monday he had already
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        Lock icon Verdict on French insider trading scandal tomorrow
        278 11 Reuter PARIS A French court will hand down its verdict tomorrow in France's biggest insider trading scandal which tainted the former Socialist government and continues to dog the party in opposition. Alain Boublil, a former aide to late prime minister Pierre Beregovoy, is
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          Lock icon Matsushita Electric sees fall in profit
          92 11 AFP TOKYO Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd, the world's biggest electronics group, announced yesterday that it expected its 1993 profits to fall by 11 per cent over its 1992 performance. It had initially predicted a 25 per cent increase in profit for fiscal 1993
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          Lock icon Hitachi to buy TVs from Goldstar
          57 11 Reuter TOKYO Hitachi Ltd will acquire low-cost video-recorder-cquipped television sets from a South Korean maker in order to cut production costs, a company official said yesterday. South Korea's Goldstar Electron Co will produce 5,000 units a month ot 14-inch, video/TV sets to sell in
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          Lock icon Indian firm ITC sees profit rise
          83 11 Reuter BOMBAY Tobacco, trading and hotels company ITC Ltd is expected to post a 39 per cent rise in net profit in the first half of the 1993/94 fiscal year ending in March, share analysts said yesterday. Brokers and analysts polled said India s
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          Lock icon Ferruzzi family members warned
          83 11 Reuter RAVENNA, Italy Five members of what was once one of Italy's richest families were warned by magistrates on Monday that they were being investigated for false reporting and fraud, the Italian news agency ANSA reported yesterday. It said Arturo Ferruzzi, son of the Ferruzzi firm's
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        Lock icon Perrier sued for alleged false advertising
        241 11 AP PHILADELPHIA The makers of Perrier bottled water have been hit with a class action suit claiming that they misled their customers with false advertising. The suit in federal court says that Source Perrier SA, a French company, claimed the gas bubbles in its
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        Lock icon Paramount gives Viacom time to sweeten merger offer
        274 11 NYT NEW YORK Martin Davis, the chairman of Paramount Communications, averted a potential rift with his board on Mondav when he convinced it to stall a bit before negotiating a merger with QVC Network Inc. His aim was to give Viacom Inc.
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        Lock icon Grandmet takes £175m charge in revamp
        255 11 FT LONDON Grand Metropolitan, the British-based food, drinks and retailing group, has announced a restructuring which will involve the loss of about 3,000 jobs, mainly in the US, and lead to a provision of £175 million (SS42O million). The main shake-ups will affect Green
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        ECICS joint venture gets new foreign partner
        319 13  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE ECICS Credit Insurance, the credit insurance ami of ECICS Holdings, has swopped foreign partners in its 50-50 joint venture. ECICS-Svenska Guarantee Company (Singapore), which specialises in the issue ot bonds and guarantees. French credit insurer Compagnie Francaise d'Assurance
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        Lock icon Amex finds it tougher to make people not leave home without it
        316 13 AP NEW YORK The chaos in American Express boardroom may be over, but the company has its work cut out: halting the attrition in its trademark green and gold charge cards. Several analysts say American Express charge card
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        GE sets up Thai venture to tap financing business
        163 13 SINGAPORE American conglomerate General Electric has moved into the highgrowth consumer and commercial financing business in Thailand. GE Capital, a wholly-owned financial services subsidiary ot GE. has tied up with Thailisted General Finance and Securities and the Government Savings Bank of
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        Federal Insurance to offer prospectus liability cover
        282 13 SINGAPORE Federal Insurance. a member ol the US Chubb group, plans to offer prospectus liability cover to Singapore directors and senior company otTicials next month. The scheme insures company directors and otlicials against litigation risks arising from the release ot a prospectus giving
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        PT Astra raises US$125m through syndicated loan
        207 13 SINGAPORE Indonesian conglomerate PT Astra International has raised USSI2S million (*****.5 million) through a syndicated loan to retire its existing debt. The one-vear loan with a bullet repayment was arranged by Barclays Bank. Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank. Internationale Nederlanden Bank N V and Sumitomo
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        Lock icon Former BCCI treasurer given six-year jail sentence
        423 14 AFP, FT LONDON Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar, former treasurer of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, was jailed for a total of six years for his part in the bank's collapse, court sources said yesterday. The judge said the 19 months Akbar
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          Lock icon Tokai Bank denies bad loans report
          82 14 AFP TOKYO Japan's Tokai Bank Ltd yesterday denied a news report that it has decided to sell claims worth 180 billion yen (552.7 billion) on loans that have real estate as collateral, in a deal that would cost it about 100 billion yen. A
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          Lock icon UK panel to streamline procedures
          55 14 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Britain's financial reporting review panel will streamline its procedures for investigating companies believed to have breached accounting standards, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The accounts regulator will also provide more information to other regulatory and professional bodies on the reasons behind
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          Lock icon Lloyd's chief threatens to quit: paper
          81 14 Reuter LONDON The chief executive of the Lloyd's of London insurance market, Peter Middleton, has threatened to resign if members, known as Names, do not support plans to introduce limited liability funds, the Daily Telegraph said yesterday. The newspaper said Mr Middleton told a
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        Lock icon Euromoney names Anwar one of top four finance ministers
        192 14 Bernama WASHINGTON Malaysian Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim has been named one of the top four finance ministers of the year by Euromoney magazine. The magazine said: "Malaysian Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim's main challenge has been to manage the problems of success,
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        Lock icon Malaysian credit agency wants ratings for banks
        170 14 Knight-Ridder KUALA LUMPUR Agency Malaysia wants local banks that guarantee private debt securities to have themselves rated by the agency from Jan 1 next year, the agency said in a statement. "It is clearly in the interest of m&rket development that the ratings
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        Banque Indosuez REGIONAL CURRENCY REPORT
        164 14 THE yen seemed to be back in favour yesterday with it being purchased against most related crosses. The rumour of a UK rate cut continued to perpetrate in the market resulting in continual sale of pound sterling. Over in the regional market, demand for most
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        175 14 Reuter LONDON The dollar lost half a pfennig in European trade, unable to respond to a dose of good news on west German inflation and US consumer confidence. It also drew no impetus from Russian political upheaval, which last week drove it up three pfennigs. Market conviction grew that
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        Lock icon Four Japanese banks set up securities units
        176 14 AFP TOKYO Four Japanese banks established subsidiaries to manage securities investment trusts on Monday under deregulatory moves allowing banks and stockbrokers to compete on each other's turf. The subsidiaries set up by Fuji Bank Ltd, Sakura Bank Ltd. Sanwa Bank Ltd and Sumitomo
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        98 14 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed yesterday in light trading ahead of the release of fresh statistics on US consumer confidence. Around 9:45 am, the greenback was trading at 1.6285 German marks against 1.6320 earlier in London and 1.6385 Monday in New York. Against the yen, the
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        1562 14 Trade-weighted index cakidaled against Spore's lop 14 trading partneri Base year 198* US$/S$ forward rates Noon Sep 28 S$ Bid Offer I-month 1.5191 ***** 2 -month 1.5890 ***** J-month ***** 1.5905 6-month I.5M2 1.5902 Sourer OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at IBm m Sap 2t: Singapore dollars
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        Lock icon Opec remains deadlocked over production quotas
        454 15 Reuter GAIEVA Opec ministers, the"redibility of their organisa':on at stake, strove for a foish day yesterday to nail do#n a plan that could pull oil pridJs off three-year lows. Organisation of Petroleum Exerting Countries ministers, prodded into action by a joint call for higher
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        Lock icon ICO reconsiders budget without US contribution
        231 15 Reuter LONDON The executive board of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) has begun working out its 1993/94 (October/September) budget without the contribution of the United States. The US officially announced it was not acceding to the one-year extension of the curtent administrative pact, and
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        Lock icon Cargill pulling out of salt plant in India
        267 15 Reuter NEW DELHI US-based multinational Cargill said on Monday it was pulling out of a salt plant in India after protesters campaigned against the project. Cargill said it was no longer interested in building the ex-port-oriented US$25 million (5540.2 million) salt works
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        Oil futures buoyed by Opec quota discussions
        423 15 atoormmg ENERGY RETORT LONDON Crude oil futures prices in London and New York were buoyed by continued discussions among Opec ministers in Geneva on the allocation of production quotas, brokers said. The producing group agreed to a ceiling in the fourth quarter of
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        Lock icon Eurodollars steady on continued buying
        1469 16 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures ended steady on continued buying following its spiral up on the I MM on Monday, dealers said. Market perception that the US Federal Reserve is adopting a neutral bias on monetary policy continues to buoy sentiment,
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        Tin sharply down on London losses
        619 16 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin Tin's recent run-up seemed to be shortlived and prices fell hack on sharp losses in London overnight, dealers said. Tin finished 17 cents down at MS 11.12 a kg on renewed producer selling prompted hv the US$lO5 fall on the LME
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          Thai miner to start gold output
          96 16 BANGKOK Thai gold miner Cholsin Ltd plans to start producing gold metal in January at an initial output of 300 kilograms per year, a company official said. The company is confident that reserves at its mine in Narathiwat province. 540 km south of Bangkok,
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          Strike unlikely to hit gas tender
          121 16 SINGAPORE The 12-day nationwide strike called by Indian truckers is unlikely to affect imports of gas oil through a spot tender issued for November by the Indian Oil Corp. regional and Singapore-based traders said. The effect is expected to be minimal despite news that
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          Japan tin demand up 5.5pc in June
          90 16 TOKYO Japan's demand for tin totalled 2.476 tonnes in June, up 5.5 per cent from May's 2.348 tonnes, according to the Japan Mining Industry Association. Tin demand from the tinplate sector fell 10.7 per cent to 491 tonnes in June from 550 tonnes
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          Indian firm buys copper wire rods
          64 16 NEW DELHI India's Minerals and Metals Trading Corp has bought 300 tonnes of electrolytic continuous cast copper wire rod for OctoberNovember shipment, an industry official said. The state-owned Indian company has bought the metal of Australian origin at a premium ot US$lB6 per tonne
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1694 16 Rubber HAS Commodity Exciting* (futures dosing as at lpa) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Oct 93 OOO OOO 123 50 0 525 Nov 0 00 0.00 124.00 700 3,700 Dec 124.00 124.00 124.00 550 3.450 Jan/Mar 94 124 75
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        Australia
        1107 17 -0.7 Nervousness ahead of the release of the August balance of payments data and a softer currency took the Australian share market to a slightly weaker close. "There is a general hesitancy ahead of the current account figures, even though the market has a fairly bullish undertone to it."
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        Manila
        611 17 +4.95 Share prices closed slightly higher after market leader Philippine Long Distance Tele- phone Co (PLDT) rose overnight on Wall Street, brokers said. "It's the turn of PLDT to prop up the market sinee there were no corporate developments to move the index." Jose Salceda of Baring Securities Ine
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        Taipei
        491 17 Closed Taiwan's stock market was closed yesterday for a holiday and will reopen today. On Monday, the Weighted Index closed 28.99 points down at 3,848.46 in thin turnover of TS 12.89 billion. Taipei Se»~27 n TT- Vri All Sincere Ind 2 7* 4)07 22 Awa Cement 4700 0 10
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        Seoul
        442 17 1.04 Stocks recouped earlier losses to close the day higher on buying by individual investors, brokers said. "At first it seemed the index would fall further, but late buying emerged as investors expect a rally after the C'husok holidays," Ko Kvung-bae at Hyundai Securities said. "The market is stable
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        New Zealand
        279 17 +6.22 I he New Zealand share market finished another lightly traded day slightly higher. Brokers said there is a lack of institutional interest ahead of the quarter's end and ahead of upcoming new issues. They expect the market to continue to consolidate, possibly until after the election. The
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        Bombay
        98 17 +20.33 Shares closed higher despite profit-taking by speculators in a session restricted to one hour against the normal two to enable settlement in cash shares, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-Share Index closed at a provisional 2,760.79. up 20.33 points. The 100-share National Index closed 11.21 points higher
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        789 17 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim ap Deposit it 6400 MimJcnesGill 0.IS9) 0.IW2 Mim Max Income ****** *1 IXiOO I SS ash Income flu* Fuml lOft'OO *****0 PS S Rcscrse Fund 5 2100 5 2200 Sterling Kquit\ Euro Performance 0 4542 0 4m* Far Fast Fund *2 7650 *2
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        London
        647 17 10.6 FTSE futures provided the main positive factor behind a 10.6-point closing gain in the FTSE 100 index to 3.036.9, spurred by arbitrage related-demand, although the blue chip stocks ended below the day's best. December FTSE futures was showing a 17.5 points rise at 3,074.5 at settlement. on a
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        Paris
        106 17 +0.54pc Shares held their positive tone in midsession trading, with operators saying there was no reason to sell and everything to play for, with talk of a rate cut this week. The CAC-40 Index ended 0.54 per cent up at 2,119.97 Paris Se* 28 Fr Vir-LmulJe T7700 I 00
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        Brussels
        199 17 +6.04 Shares extended Mondav's technical rally to close higher as market confidence was quietly returning and buyers were venturing back. Traders expected shares to edge up further in the short term, but doubted the market was ready to resume this year's bull run. "The sentiment has improved a lot,
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        Milan
        156 17 -0.42 pc Blue chips fell in nervous trading before Fiat was due to announce its first half results, which are forecast to show a loss of up to one trillion lire. The Mibtel Index ended 0.42 per cent down at 10.528. Although dealers say a heavy loss has already
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        Frankfurt
        195 17 1.43 The 30-share DAX index is unlikely to stray far from the 1.900 level until market players see concrete signs that the German economy is beginning to recover from recession, traders said. The DAX closed a quiet session yesterday 1.43 points higher at 1.913.61, having declined from earlier highs
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        Zurich
        233 17 -4.1 Swiss shares ended mixed with a lower bias after blue chips see-sawed through the day rising in the first hour, then falling on profit-taking before later rebounding again on scattered buying at lower levels. The blue-chip SMI index closed 4.1 points lower at a provisional 2.478.3 after the
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        Amsterdam
        248 17 -0.15 Stocks ended mixed to lower, as many traders sought to lock in gains, traders said. Some stocks, including oil giant Royal Dutch, gave away earlier gains with a decline in the final hour of the session, they said. The EOE Index of the 24 leading Dutch stocks declined
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        Johannesburg
        316 17 unch Shares finished down but off the day's worst levels as the market found some relief from the recovery in the gold price, dealers said. But the firm financial rand was seen having a depressing effect on prices. The Gold Index was 42 points lower at 1.554 and the
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        Toronto
        315 17 1.46 Stocks opened weak in moderately active trading expected to continue for the rest of the day, dealers said. "There's a bit of a blase mood in the market. It should meander sideways for a while." one trader said. Gaining indices were led by gold issues while the sluggish
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        New York
        783 17 +24.59 Prices on Wall Street held steady at midday yesterday as traders waited to see which way the bond market would go after the latest interest rate drop. The Dow Jones Index of 30 leading industrials inched up 0.28 points to 3.567.98 points. Trading was heavy with some
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      2954 18 Reuter A LATE round of institutional buying offset light profit-taking and pushed stocks to a modestly higher close, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index finished up 18.41 points, or 0.25 per cent, at 7.470.50. It stood seven points higher at midday after being ahead by more than
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      562 18 Reuter SHANGHAI 'A* shares ended sharply higher as investors rediscovered their enthusiasm for low-priced counters, brokers said. The index gained 18.41 points to end at 930.26 as small investors returned to the market in droves to take a speculative punt on counters such as Shanghai Yanzhong and Shanghai Vacuum
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      2553 18 STOCKS ended firmer on higher Nikkei futures and index-linked buying from investment trusts, brokers said. Overnight rises in New York and London stock markets were also positive factors for the Tokyo market. Some unwinding of arbitrage-linked trade was noted. "Investors are focusing on in-centive-backed shares in the pharmaceutical, retail,
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      1731 18 Reuter STOCKS traded near their previous close in the afternoon. but bargain buying before the close edged the index to a higher tlnish. brokers said. The StT index closed 3.60 points higher at 968.50 on thin turnover of 4.01 billion baht. It had moved in tight range during afternoon
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      1061 18 Renter SHARE prices ended broadly lower after profit taking swept through the market in moderate trade, brokers said. The Official Index fell 2.5 points to 4 1K.40. "Corrections on overbought positions and liquidation for new issues dominated market activity but the index may rebound on Friday's Barito listing." a
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2345 19 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Multi-Purpose 50.781.000 Metroptex 50c 34.284.000 Kamunting 50c 26,221.000 Idns Hyd 50c 15.953.000 Cianda Hldgs 12.858.000 MBf Capital I0.4M.IJ00 Rcnofig Bhd 50c 8.903.000 Undmarks Bhd 8.841 000 Prome! 7.408.000 Sateras Res 6.935.000 Ind Oxygen 50c 6.481.000 Mill 5.962.000 Faber Group
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        Lock icon Profit-taking trims early gains
        5518 19 Bernama SHARE PRICES closed mixed to steadier as late profit-taking pared gains from strong retail interest and selective institutional support. The KLSE Composite Index ended at 849.92, 3.74 points above Monday's closing, despite reaching 850.50 in the morning session, near the all-time high of 851.94 set
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        Lock icon Malaysian counters steal the limelight
        1137 20  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Share prices closed virtually unchanged yesterday, with almost all activity focused on Malaysian counters traded on Clob International. The Straits Times Industrials Index, which at one stage was about six points up. eased late in the afternoon to close 0.21 of
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        79 20  -  I HOT WOW Paul Leo TIGER Medicals fell 25 per cent to $2.02 yesterday from its recent high at $2.69 on Aug 30. The stock will fall a further 10 cents and investors should buy it then. The daily RSI is zero, indicating a deeply oversold condition, and
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        6769 20 Gi Cr 1993 Last Vol Day Last Quote Di* Di» \W Net M C« High Low Compaa> Sale ("000) Higk (/>* Buyer Seller Cn H P/l. Smil INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1350 260 Acma 1010 nd +45 324 1010 955 1000 1010 12.5 2.1 1.2 43.7 696.2 270 220 i J
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      730 21 Samuel Ryder, the man who created this tournament, must be pleased to know that the Golf AP SUTTON COLDFIELD, England The Ryder Cup is far beyond having to fight for attention with golfs major tournaments. This is about as good as it gets. A
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        11 21 Reuter NEW YORK NFL Monday: Pittsburgh 45 Atlanta 17.
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        54 21 Reuter NEW YORK American League Monday: NY 9 Baltimore 1; Toronto 2 Milwaukee 0, Chicago 4 Seattle 2; Minnesota 11 California 3; Kansas 6 Cleveland 5; Detroit at Boston postponed. National: Florida 3 Montreal 1; Philadelphia 6 Pittsburgh 4; St Louis 4 NY 3; Chicago 7 LA 3; SF
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        216 21 AFP VICTORIA, Canada Malaysia, host of the 1998 Commonwealth Games, is leading what appears to be a successful drive to open up the Games to more team sports. Already, Malaysia has received the okay for netball to be included in the 1998 Games and delegates of the Commonwealth
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        159 21 AFP LONDON Nick Faldo is world No 1 golfer for a record 63rd consecutive week, according to computer rankings released on Monday. He beat the 62 weeks set by Australia's Greg Norman between September 1986 and November 1987. Faldo has been No 1 since his British Open victory in
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        25 21 AFP MANAMA Asian Nations Cup Monday: Bahrain b India 34-17; Saudi Arabia b Taiwan 32-25; Kuwait b Iran 33-27; UAE b Kazakhstan 35-28. AFP
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        86 21 AFP LLANELLI, Wales Japan are hoping their foreign imports can help them pack a punch against Wales A in their opening tour match at LLanelli today. Fijianbom Bruce Ferguson and Tongan Sinali Latu add beef to a pack which has traditionally been outgunned on the international scene. And former
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        129 21 AFP SOUTHAMPTON, England Switzerland's Merit Cup kept up its explosive pace in the Whitbread Round the World yacht race on Monday. The leaders, with New Zealand Endeavour 8 km behind in second place and Japanese challenger Tokio. skippered by Kiwi Chris Dickson, in third, played a cat-and-mouse game as
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        156 21 Reuter Reuter LEIPZIG, Germany Leipzig women's Grand Prix Ist rd: MagdaIcna Maleeva (Bui) b Meike Babel (Ger) 3-6 6-0 6-3; Nicole Muns-Ja-german (Neth) b Radka Zrubakova (Slovak) 6-2 6-4; Natalia Zvercva (Rus) b Nadine Ercegovic (Cro) 6-2 6-3; Christina Singer (Ger) b Sabine Appelmans (Bel) 6-4 7-6 (7-3); Meredith
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      606 21 NYT BALTIMORE Beat the Orioles. Watch the scoreboard for the Toronto result. Pray. Beat the Orioles. Watch the scoreboard. Hope. Beat the Orioles. Watch the scoreboard. Hope and pray for an unprecedented change in the American League East standings. Really hope
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      752 21 AP NEW YORK Students, bartenders. waiters, former military officers, lawyers, health club workers the US national rugby union squad would be Avery Brundage's dream team. They play for nothing, and often times have to pay to get to games. While their contemporaries
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      720 23  -  China once banned Moon Festival celebrations. But things are different this year. In a show of cultural solidarity with Hongkong. Beijing will send performers to participate in a sweeping carnival in the British colony. Peter Lim reports Peter Lim AFP Tradition may succecd where politics have
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      1217 23 TV RADIO Insight, B.oopm, SBC 12 This programme looks at the ,f consequences of having an extremc and orderly society like Japan. Are the Japanese paying too high a price in surrender- V' ing their civil liberties to <*** achieve such a low rate of crime? Wfr V. Candors, 9.30pm,
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      1469 24  -  Special to BT China: change and reform YANG MU YANG MU Dr Yang Mu is a research fellow with the Singapore-based Institute of East Asian Political Economy (lEAPE) CHINA CLAIMED recently that while its drive to cool down the overheated economy was
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      Wanted: a consistent monetary policy
      1348 24  -  Special to BT YU QIAO YU QIAO Dr Yu Qiao is a lecturer at the Department of Economics and Statistics, National University of Singapore. FOR THE past two years the world has witnessed an astonishing change in China. At the age of 88 last January,
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      Red chips in the Lion City
      1155 25  -  China: investment inflow and outflow Joyce Quek and Yong Pow Ang report on the growing presence of China-linked companies in Singapore Joyce Quek,Yong Pow Ang Joyce Quek is a senior correspondent in BT's Corporate Analysis Group; Yong Pow Ang is a BT correspondent specialising
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      The S'pore investor: small potato going big guns
      1565 25  -  YONG POW ANG YONG POW ANG The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Chinese affairs EIGHT YEARS ago, Briga-dier-General Lee Hsien Loong was in Shekou, part of the Shenzhen special economic zone, to grace the opening of the US$2O million (Ss32
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    Time to get sensible
    536 26 EDITORIAL VT:- L 1 •> WHO can be surprised that the Chinese and British governments remain at odds over Hongkong's political future? The final session of the latest two-day round of talks ended in Beijing yesterday with the two sides holding views so divergent that it
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Lessons from a correction
      281 26 A CERTAIN nervousness has crept into the world's buoyant stockmarkets, with reminders of the crash of October 1987 growing louder as its sixth anniversary approaches. Markets had risen between 10 per cent and 50 per cent this year and many investors were looking for an excuse
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      Mendaki's trickle effect
      168 26 SOON THE Mendaki Growth Fund will be issuing its first dividend averaging 5 per cent. Its performance has been modest compared to other unit trusts. But, it signals a very important development in the Malay community. It is the first of such funds raised by the community
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      Looking after the elderly
      195 26 WITH THE Singaporean emphasis on education and career, the increase in income level, and the trend of a lower birth rate, our children are almost certain to receive better care in the future. It is the elderly who seem to pose a problem, if any. As
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      Reforms needed in the UN
      218 26 THE END of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of Japan and Germany as economic powers, the decline of American influence in Europe, new threats to world peace and security in the form of ethnic and religious extremism and other
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      Civil service lump sum payment
      217 26 NO ONE should begrudge the lump sum payment that Britain plans to offer British expatriate civil servants in 1997. The deal, if accepted would mean that those British civil servants who qualify would be entitled to a HKSI million payout as well as the normal
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    Lock icon Let the people decide
    869 26  -  St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak looks at Russian President Boris Yeltsin's decree dissolving parliament Anatoly Sobchak The writer is a law professor and one of the first major public figures to break with the Soviet Communist Party during the reform years of Mikhail Gorbachev 's perestroika
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      886 26 The Sumitomo Trust Banking Co., Ltd. Non-Consolidated Balance Sheets Non-Consolidated Statements of Income As at March 31, 1993 and 1992 For years ended March 31, 1993 and 1992 Mtfions of Yen tlMhom Of Yen 1993 1992 1993 1992 STlm Due Iron Banks 3,010.476 3.380.314 127 867 1,7 516 Call Loans
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      Learning the East Asian lesson
      1714 27  -  The World Bank has published a study of the East Asian economic miracle. Leon Hadar examines the findings Leon Hadar The writer is a Washington-based journalist who contributes to BT FROM policy makers to policy analysts, from journalists and academics to your "average guy" in
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      No single recipe for economic miracle
      823 27  -  Regional Economics Editor Vikram Khanna analyses the various interpretations of East Asian economic success Vikram Khanna THE World Bank's report "The East Asian Miracle" suggests that there is a Rash-omon-like quality to the region's economic success: interpretations of this success differ among observers faced
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    Experts against US-centred Apec free trade area
    494 28  -  By Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE Trade policy experts from the Asia-Pacific who met here recently are not in favour of an Apec-wide free trade area revolving around the United States. They, however, uphold the need for a bigger role for Apec from a
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    IMF head warns of vicious economic circle threatening global recovery
    419 28  -  From Anthony Rowley in WASHINGTON lINTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus yesterday warned that a "most vicious economic circle" was developing among the world's leading trading nations, one that threatened to abort economic recovery in the developed world and
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    Lock icon China supports seat for Germany on UN Security Council
    288 28 Reuter, AP UNITED NATIONS China has, for the first time, clearly supported a seat for Germany on the Security Council. A German official said on Monday that Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, in discussions with his German counterpart, KJaus Kinkel, "responded
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    Lock icon Russian police give hardliners 24 hours to surrender arms
    544 28 Reuter, AFP, AP MOSCOW Police have given hardline lawmakers holed up in the Russian Parliament building a 24-hour ultimatum to surrender their arms in President Boris Yeltsin's biggest show of force yet against his opponents. Senior police officers yesterday used loudspeakers
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    Politics is the enemy of an emerging Greater China
    912 28  -  The Bottom Line YONG POW ANG YONG POW ANG The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Chinese affairs IF THERE is one thing that can upset the economic integration of China, Taiwan and Hongkong the emergence of Greater China it
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    Lock icon US to unveil new export strategy proposal
    210 28 Reuter WASHINGTON Throwing its full weight behind US business, the Clinton administration will unveil an ambitious strategy today to propel exports that could spawn billions in new sales. Farmers the winners in today's export promotion scheme may be wary of any shakeup but
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    Time to rethink Japan-US security treaty: academic
    275 28  -  By Said Abdullah SINGAPORE The JapanUS security treaty should be reviewed and the constitutional ban on the export of weapons by Japan should be lifted, says a Japanese academic. Terumasa Nakanishi, professor of international politics at Shizuoka Prefectural University, says the end of
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      10 28 Japan wont campaign for UN Security Council seat, Pg 5
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      Sembawang, Keppel among 30 bidders at Philseco briefing
      368 29  -  From Al Labita in MANILA SINGAPORE's Sembawang Shipyard and Keppel Corporation were among the 30 prospective buyers for Philseco at a pre-bidding meeting yesterday. The bidding list for the Philippines' largest shipyard also included South Korea's Hyundai Group, Japan s Kawasaki Heavy
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      S Korean oil imports boost demand for tankers
      552 29 SINGAPORE The surge in South Korean oil imports is having strong impact on tanker demand. According to an article in this month's issue of Lloyd's Shipping Economist. South Korean oil imports, which have increased dramatically, are now one third those of Japan's.
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1123 29 Page Col ABC Containerlinc 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 16 I Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 3/4 Arabian Express 16 3 •ASCL 5 5 ASXCLShpg 15 2 Avant Shpg
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      Lock icon 3 M'sian container makers get nod to use UN marking
      217 29 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Three local container manufacturers have been granted licences by the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Sirim) to use the United Nations Marking on the Recommendation of the Packaging and Transportation of Dangerous Goods on their
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      Lock icon Owners, charterers clash over stagnant market, ship safety
      374 29 Seatrade Tanker Industry Convention Reuter LONDON Tanker owners and charterers locked horns on Monday the first day of a shipping convention over the issues of market inertia and ensuring vessels' safety. "The charterer does not have control over the owners and cannot
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      Lock icon Last 33 rules of OPA 90 to be completed
      257 29 Knight-Ridder LONDON There are still 33 rules under the US Oil Pollution Act 1990 to be completed before the act can be fully implemented, US Coast Guard Rear-Admiral Gene Henn said on Monday. Speaking via satellite from Dallas to delegates at
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11804 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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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      561 45 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1.424 on Monday from 1.426 on Sep 24. FIXTURES Tanker: There were rumors this morning of rates dropping 25 US cents on. the key US Gulf to Japan grain run with a South Korean charterer fixing
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      471 45 COURSES Title: Marine Legislation, Administrative Procedures Practices in Singapore (SDF case-by-case basis) Duration: Oct 4-25 (4 evenings) Organiser: Singapore National Shipping Association Tel: For further details and application forms contact SNSA at tel: 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079 Title: Principles of Shipping Operations and Practices (SDF 70%) Duration: Oct
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      Riding out the currency crisis
      943 46 Shipowners believe they can weather the latest storm in the Japanese teacup THE PUBLIC address system interrupts the meeting again like a grim doomsday countdown: "102.35, dollar still falling." "We face a trilemma," NYK Lines executive vicepresident Hiroshi Takahashi says quietly as the speaker earned
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        484 48 AFP BRUSSELS France called on Monday for European Community aid to help pull EC airlines out of the red, but the European Commission said there could be no going back on a plan to liberalise the air industry. French Transport Minister
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        Lock icon SAS chief resigns to finalise merger of airlines
        379 48 FT STOCKHOLM Jan Carlzon resigned on Monday as chief executive of Scandinavian Airlines System, a post he had held for 12 years, to concentrate on the effort to build a new force in European airlines. The surprise move was an attempt by
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        Lock icon Ford to pump another £300m into Jaguar
        454 48 FT LONDON US car maker Ford is injecting another £300 million (***** million) of equity capital into UK luxury car company Jaguar. THe amount is in addition to the £255 million already put into Jaguar, which it bought in 1989 for £1.56 billion.
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          111 48 AFP LONDON P&O European Ferries announced on Monday it was to cut 450 jobs at its base in the British port of Dover and on its ferries operating cross-Channel links, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The cuts are to come from voluntary redundancies, with
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          Lock icon India's Essar Shipping buys 4 tankers
          105 48 Reuter BOMBAY Essar Shipping Ltd, India's second biggest private shipping company, announced on Monday it has concluded an agreement to buy four second-hand 153,000 deadweight tonne tankers from Russia's Sovcomflot. Essar said in a statement the four vessels would together cost US$2OB million (*****.7
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          Lock icon Brazilian plane maker to privatise
          90 48 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil's privatisation commission will examine in three weeks a programme to reorganise state aircraft maker Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica (Embraer), a company official said. Embraer, whose voting shares are 96 per cent owned by the government, is to be privatised when
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          Lock icon CSX to pay US$7m pollution fine
          120 48 KnightRidder WASHINGTON Rail giant CSX Transportation agreed to pay US$7.l million in penalties and environmental assessment work for water pollution violations at its locomotive facilities, the Justice Department said on Monday. The freight rail company will spend US$4.l million to conduct environmental assessments at
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        Lock icon Deadline set for new Chrysler labour pact
        492 48 Selective strikes likely if settlement not reached by then Bloomberg Business News DETROIT The United Auto Workers union gave Chrysler Corp until tomorrow midnight to agree to a new three-year labour contract the union worked out at Ford Motor Co on Sep 16.
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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        Lock icon Ford, GM recall 1.6m defective pick-ups
        363 48 UPI DETROIT Ford Motor Co and General Motors announced separate recalls on Monday covering nearly 1.6 million pick-up trucks and vans. Ford ordered recalls of 1.2 million 1990-93 F-series trucks due to a defect involving the vehicles dual fuel tanks. The company said the
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      507 32 M&M Militzer Munch International Forwarders FCL Breakbulk Service to: AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Sote Foreign Forwarder in Kabul for aH services C.I.S.- Vostochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku, Irkutsk, Alma Ata North Korea Vietnam Mongolia Hungary CSPR Poland ocwrans AGENCIES (FAR EAST) LTD FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO WEST
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      1949 33 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Keppd Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE (A service of china navigation co) accepts Scjjyy CARGO (MJC SAILS sAaITS P*OE wit I*. S*»a Iw 21-25 Sep 30 Sep 01 Oct FCL. LCL CONTAINER ANO MEAKSULK
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      2568 33 SINGAPORE AGENT: /Y«r* PAO Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd V I i\l F m illlll/ill 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 Tel: 225 2233 Telex RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 y CR Number: **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT ullltl wov =S ALQ OOU AWT HOT HAM MC
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      801 34 B r GENERAL AGENT C.R NO: *****81-***** ifK EKA JAYA AGENCIES TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE MYANMAR TBAOC PAQgR HAHOfWOWE/WWCCT WILLIAM WEE *****28 N.S. TAN/MANOJ HM7B NO CHI mWM CITY IBAfiS HENRY HOC 21*0624 HMMM wjc-kqwo =—rarwsuMm KELVIN CHAN *****29 1 H*****/M***** > TO MYANMAR/YANGON
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      1824 34 (g) HANJIN SHIPPING FM ttl IN HAUL PCI TDK VSL S»l |l«t HAUL SAV ILM HYC FUJIMI HMBURG 01X MffCT 21/10 23/10 NMM HAMBURG 01* 30/9 H. WWYOM OSlt 4/11 Vll 7/11 SSSSSSiiSi ifSmuw "j; fS2" 8! HANJW LEHAttf 0231 14/10 OKCT 4/11 ft/11 iw n M M/ii H/ll M/ll
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      1749 35 PLEASE CALL II II tfZ NEPTUNELINK (1800 *****00 TOLL-FREE) M H R U FOR THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: HI H VESSELS ETA/ETD/EXCHANGE RATES/SHIPPING SERVICES/ ■I ■I FREIGHT CHARGES PAYABLE/STORE RENT CHARGES/ AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS FOR COLLECTION ■II EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS (BCX) TO: USWC —US QULF MIDWE&T USEC CANADA
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      1168 35 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BALT ORIENT LINE: *****64 FESCO: *****06 ENQUIRIES: *****33 BLASCO ODESSA: *****51/*****31/*****13 INVENTORY: *****45 INWARD: *****81 OUTWARD: *****80 TRANSHIPMENT: *****78 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 CR NO: **********0/N
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      1142 36 H. AS AGENTS: "I" Ll* (SIN6APOK) PTi LTD (CR No: *****7300Q0M) TEL *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 T lfcT MALAYSIA: T" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD 1.1 Bj* TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 I JL A A INDONESIA: P.T. SAAANA LAUTINTEANUSA, TEL: JKT
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      1105 36 PHILI-ORKNT LINGS PTC LTD 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 A MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/SOUTH PACIFIC FCL/LCL SERVICE 7 OCT SYDNEY. MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, FREMANTLE 06 OCT AUCKLANO, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, NEW PLYMOUTH, NAPIER, CHRISTCHURCH 28 OCT SUVA.
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      1020 37 /ssssss PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil street #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I SSSSSSSS CR no iooao67ooooe KQ£Ll£l VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIM 3MI jyio J e/l0 10/W SINO MARINE 15N 2/10 5/10 9/10 BUNGA TERATAI 3303 S/10 8/10 12/10 KOTA SABAS KSBI9N 3/10 S/10 10/10 EQUATOR
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      1017 37 kssus ior vail hambukg rouiroaaii nmwotf Thames it hadc giuecksburg mm bs/io 01/11 oi/n 04/n Q5/ti ,7/11 HEIIAS MACfDOMA M3OW 10/10 04/11 00/11 <7/11 10/11 *lll£ Of A QUIA 7530W 11/10 10/11 12/11 11/11 W* l IVII WMF DC TUCAHA 0530W 21/10 17/11 i»/" 20/11 21/11 H/H •AISO ACCFPTMG C
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      883 37 BSA M MYANMA WHtk, FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yancon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIc Pen P.Gdf PATHEM VI2SW In Port IPA-AN VI9SW 2/3 Oct PAGAN V2OIW 10/20 Oct MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAO SHPPM AGENCES KUI Til 03 *****00 PKI TEL 03 368(7(7 PEN TEL 04 (1(135 PCD TEL 07-*****1/4
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      85 39 MARITIME INSPECTION CORPORATION Naval Architects/Marine Engineers/Marine Surveyors, established in 1967, more than 20 years experience in international ships' registries. Specialise in: Ship registration under open registry countries Offshore business company formation Statutory survey and issuing of mandatory Load Line, SOLAS, MARPOL Certificates on behalf of the Governments of several open
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      2586 40 Container Liner Services Malaysia's Agents: Indonesia's Agents: General Agents: Booking Agents: Guae Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Cheng CMm Shinning Sdn Bhd P.T. GhM Rntra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Rte Ltd 51mm Frnght Mug Ceotre sat IM SI fwwr* mMs Mm Lat 3.34, 3r* Floor, l». IM. M. hunda Ml/23 Of
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      624 41 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 j HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 4/10 ROTTERDAM 2/10 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 4/10 HAMBURG/BREMEN 4/10 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 30/09 FELIXSTOWE/UK 4/10 BARCELONA/SPAIN 3710 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 4/10 GENOA/ITALY 2/10 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 4/10 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 3/10 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 30/09 NEW YORK/EC 3/10 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 1/10 VANCOUVER VlO
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      1081 41 I VESSEL VOY SIN JKT VESSEL VOY SIN PEN I I 1 WANA BHUM mg_ Wad InPt _Sat_ g JAB U WWM 2157 Fri I 1/10 Sat 2/10 I Iff! VESSEL VOY S N BKIC ISHA BHUM I>S Fri VlO Ty 5/10 PERKASA OJN Fri 1/10 Ty 5/10 I MAHA_BHUM
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      629 41 Guaranteed Sailings to-. BANGKOK *LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA PENANG HONGKONG We also serve other ports-. USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATIONS L^sssns!!cttnspTnfD UTEL: *****33 (12 Lines) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) \W\ ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING
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      1610 42 AAAmn container lines 12N=/\-~|Afl«nt»: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 UNES) I J\y Jr/m Mo: **********06 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK I GOTH/UKB/MEP PORTS PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 29/9 30/9 1/10 Hong Kong Genoa/Barcelona
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      181 42 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ETA ETA ETA SPOW rail KELMK PtNANG Bill INK 4/10 Loading tor U* RUVIU HUDHU 72/10 Discharging and loading lot Bombay 001PH* 15/10 loading Pot Male mui sum* 20/10 loadMig f<x Malt UMftEDH IS 10 loading F<x Male PROGRESS IKRIf IVIO loadmg
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      1055 42 /C THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD 1 I 1 M' 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOT SPORE PEST VESSEL VOY SPORE DEST EQUATOR JADE 91/3E 01 OCT
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      772 43 v F399BSmßz^l WSV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEFTWG BKAKBULK SOC C/WGOtS TO/FKOM KOBE. YOKOHAMA, NAGOYA, f HOI. TOKYO*. IMMLA*. DAVAO* Penam* P. Kelant Skitapore E'Msia* I SHAPLAEVERETT VI7E 16/17 Oct NYEVERETT V6E 20/21 Oct 22/23 Oct KAMALEVERETT VISE 7/8 Nov 9/10 Nov ACCEPTWG BKAKBUU/FCL/SOC CA*GO€S TO/FROM CWTTAGONG. CALCUTTA
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      324 43 Yfe GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP to 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 V 1/10 3/10 8/10 THAI YUNG 28/9 5/10 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN IX 13/10 15/10 22/10 4 ALSO
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      544 43 PCSL -WORLDWIDE mm -GLOPE STOMtIS UWES REGULAR FCL SERVICE TO THE FOLLOWING WEEKLY SAILING TO HUANG PU SHANTOU Connecting Feeder to Huang PuSUI TUO CONTAINER NO 2 Connecting Feeder to Shantao LIAN BO NO 9 v WE HV LEASING CONTRS FOR RENTAL SAILING TO 'PHNOM PENH' FORTNIGHTLY I FCL/LCL SERVICE
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      568 43 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH SIN FUYUSHAN V4B/49 04/10 20/10 23/10 11/11 FENGSHUNSHAN V49/SO I»/IO OS/11 08/11 24/12 FENGANGSHAN VI2B 04/11 30/11 23/11 11/12 ACCEPTS CARGO TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA DURBAN BOOKING AGENT FOR COSCO LCL CONSOL SIN TO DURBAN/ P.
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      264 43 SIN FA* EAST 5/10 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 2/10 BANGKOK 4/10 MANILA/CEBU 1/10 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 1/10 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 1/10 BUSAN 1/10 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 1/10 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 1/10 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN /QINGDAO/ HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S!N EUROPE/UK 1/10 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 1/10 also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romama/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 2/10 LOS
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      760 44 «T UB HftßS MSB I HONG KONG/CHINA 4/10 JAKARTA 4/10 BANGKOK 29/9 MANILA 5/0 SUSAN 4/10 KEELUNG 6/0 TOKYO/KOBE 4/10 KAOSHIUNG 2/10 PORT KELANG/PENANG 5/10 YOKOHAMA FELIXSTOWE/HAMBURG 5/10 CHITTAGONG/MAORAS 4/10 ROTTERDAM/LE HARVE/ANTWERP 5/10 5/10 BARCELONA. MARSEILLES. GENOA 4/10 CALCUnA 29/9 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 30/9 CMT LINER EXPRESS AGENCIES PTE LTD ffajgSß I
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      334 44 y Conrerm CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 6TH OCTOBER ACCEPTING TO ALL NEW ZEALAND PORTS PENAN6 01 OCT PORT KELANG 07 OCT I JAKARTA 03 OCT BANGKOK 02 OCT SURABAYA 05 OCT FREMANTLE 05 OCT MELBOURNE 07 OCT SYDNEY 07 OCT BRISBANE 15 OCT I GOTHENBURGO2 OCT I*ACCEPTING TO
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      561 44 This Week's Sailings FIRST FORWARDER IN To: ETD To: ETD asia awarded Singapore Singapore 9002 B\ LRQA EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN QDj EVERY EVERY Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI f: fPI |j V EVERY EVERY Colombo TUE Limassol THUR 1 HTER NATIONAL S£A FREIGHT FORWAROM6 Tel: Fax:
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      135 44 m NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACHVNEW YORK/ CHICAGO/SYDNEY/MELBOURNE/HAMBURG/ FELIXSTOWE/ROTFERDAM/DUSSELDORF WE ALSO DEAL IN FCL CARGO WORLDWIDE ARROW EXPRESS (SERVICE TO MALAYSIA) MALAYSIA TRUCK CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore DAILY to K.L. BANGI. SHAH A LAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore
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      1136 45 rcONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND PORTS VOY BUENOS MONTEVOCO DURBAN SINGAPORE I HONG KONG I KAGOSHIMA YOKOHAMA VESSELS AIRES*** N. KRUPSKAYA EBOI SAILED SAILED SAUD SAILED 21/03 30/08 02/10 06/10 DEKABRIST EBO3 03-07/10 02/10 20-21/10 OS-08/11 14/11 17 24/11 26/11 PRIOZERSK EBO4 30/10 08/11 08/11 2122/11 09/12 11/12 14-24/12 26/12
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      599 45 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 ft 2.4 1.9 1.4 0.9 0.7 0.6 0.7 1.0 1.6 2.2 2.5 2.6 2.4 2.0 1.5 1.0 OJ 0.7 08
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      329 46 NORTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA VIGOUR SHKWORE 63W S" FROAY WD MONMT VIGOUR SINGAPORE 63ANB 04/10/93 09/10/93 VIGOUR PACIFIC 28NB 08/10/93 16/IQ/93 VIGOUR PACIFIC 28ANB 11/10/93 16/10/93 PORT KLAiIG/PENANGFULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE PORT KLANG PENANG VIGOUR SINGAPORE 62W 01/10/93 Q2/IQ/93 PENANG JAYA SJ£ 04
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      512 46 ®APPENSHIP (2\ HAMBURG \J\/ CONVENTIONAL A INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA ANO FAR EAST VESSELS 10AWNG PORTS MSCHAAGf AOAONG FOR GLIDER HAMBURG SLO SPORE 10/10. JKT 15/10 AGAMEMMON BREMERHAVEN 8/9 SPORE 8/10. SHANGHAI. RIZHAO. XINGANG YOU MING 23.09.93 SPORE 28/10, BKK 2/11 KOALA CONTAINER LINE STORE FIX
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      439 46 jL cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOAONG FOR: A VESSEL 28/09 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: I A VESSEL 15/10 20/10 Huangpu/Guangzhou COSCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CHINA/BANGKOK/HONGKONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Ptesae refer above
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      878 47 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE I asms w» I km I wt I m I «sas ml a I m w mr w "1 m NORASIA MALACCA 9329 A 28/09 29/09 30/09 H. PIONEER 305W 04/10 22/10 22/10 23/10 24/10 24/10 26/10 HMM ADVANCE 28A 06/10
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      445 47 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE RO RO SERVICE T° BANGKOK, HOCHIMINH AND MUARA Orange Moon V 44 eta Sin 7/11 Koushun VSI eta Sin 8/19 For booking please contact P.K. Chiam tel: 220-4906 ext. 275 IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK STORE PK n DBN CT ADAMASTOS Vlll 9.0
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      951 47 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT [STORE ED S TON ITBUBG I DAM LEH *Mm Acuptaf Cmf fm: ESSEN EKPVESS 02/131 2/10 11/10 20/10 23/10 25/10 27/10 to dUK fetoutmv Mint ami DuUn ELK 11/110 6/10 21/10 26/10 24/10 Rotterdam :to d Antwwp Aimttfdan. (Mo Hcfertu HAWKNOI EXPRESS IC/1A 0/10 11/10 27/10 10/10 1/11 3/11
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