The Business Times, 7 March 1994

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    12 1 Business Times MITA(P) 010/12/93 Mondav March 7 1994 WEKSOW ASIA 75 c
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Norway in last-ditch talks on joining EU
      53 1 Reuter BRUSSELS Norway entered last-ditch talks on European Union membership yesterday under intense pressure to meet EU fisheries demands or face missing the bloc's train to enlargement on Jan 1. Norway was left lagging behind when Austria, Finland and Sweden agreed membership deals
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      Lock icon OH tanker in collision off Thai coast
      60 1 AFP BANGKOK A Thai oil tanker, struck by another vessel off Thailand's eastern coast, bled nearly 500,000 litres of diesel fuel into the sea before limping back to port, local reports said yesterday. The Visahakit 5 was hit early yesterday in a busy
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  • Article
    MARKET SUMMARY
    159 1 Stock market indices KrMa> Week change STII 2.248 61 -IOK.76 KLSEComp 1064 34 -59.77 Nikkei 19.966.00 162.62 Hang Seng 9.918.19 -182.06 SfcT Index 1.359.23 -60.29 Jakarta Comp 521.38 -26.13 CLSA C hina B I I60.07 -61 02 Ausi All Ord 2.116.8 -32.0 USE 100 3.278.0 -3.2 Do» Jones
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    Lock icon Japan says economy recovering
    158 1 Reuter TOKYO Japans finance minister yesterday offered hope after weeks of depressing economic news, saying the economy had bottomed out and showed early signs of recovery. Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said in a speech that the Japanese economy has "clearly bottomed out", according to Kyodo news
    Reuter  -  158 words
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    S'pore gains strength as a regional securities centre
    545 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The value of non-Singapore-dollar stock and share transactions executed here almost doubled last year to $42 billion, reflecting the growing importance of Singapore as a regional securities trading centre. According to industry sources, which provided the figure,
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  • Article
    Sime Darby's interim earnings up 19pc
    514 1  -  From No Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd has turned in a 19 per cent rise in its half-year group net earnings to M 5203.9 million (Ssl 18.4 million) from MS 170.9 million a year ago, boosted by strong contributions
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    S'pore's regionalisation drive has built up momentum: PM
    340 1  -  Prime Minister Goh in Vietnam From Loh Hui Yin in HO CHI MINH CITY MAKING the assessment that Singapore's regionalisation effort is succeeding. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said there is enough momentum generated to carry the strategy forward for the
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    Bakrie to make biggest cash call on Jakarta exchange
    511 1  -  From William Chia in JAKARTA INDONESIA'S largest indigenous conglomerate, Bakrie Brothers, is planning the biggest rights issue on the Jakarta Stock Exchange a cash call of 1.21 trillion rupiah (about SS9IO million). Bakrie president Tanri Abeng says the proceeds will be
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    Lock icon Taiwan to take in threatened HK residents after Chinese takeover
    260 1 AP TAIPEI Hongkong residents whose freedom is threatened after the Chinese takeover in 1997 will be given special rights to settle in Taiwan, a leading newspaper reported yesterday. Currently, only Hongkong residents with special credentials or family in Taiwan are
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      19 1 Enterprise Management: pg 18 Looking for fresh challenges Scenario: Wall Street headed for meltdown in slow motion, Page 26
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      33 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 23 Missed out on Lityan? Rest of the results, Page 24 Vietnam's leaders committed to market reforms: PM Goh, Pg 22 Keppel sinking more funds into Vietnam, Pg 23
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Travel fair forecast to rake in $15m worth of business
      471 2  -  By Sean Ang SALES of at least $15 million worth are expected to be done during Travel 94 fair this month. The amount, estimated by Robert Khoo, the president of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas), is a
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    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Flurry of plastic activity
        293 2  -  By Corinne Kerk VISA CARD spending by tourists continued to grow strongly in the fourth quarter of i 993. Visa billings of foreigners in Singapore grew 9.8 per cent year-on-year in the October-December quarter, compared with 5.5 per cent in the previous quarter. Growth picked up
        Source: VISA International  -  293 words
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        HDB lots for commercial development
        196 2 THE Housing Development Board (HDB) is offering four land parcels for commercial development for the first time since it began its land sales programme in 1989. The board is inviting tenders for the four 99-year leasehold land parcels for hotel and finance park developments. The
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      • Article
        S African team to learn from STPB
        63 2 A FIVE-MEMBER delegation from the South African National Tourism Forum (SANTF) will arrive tomorrow to study how the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) implements its marketing strategies abroad. Leading the team will be Peter Mokaba. who is earmarked for the Minister for Tourism
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        Honing their export skills
        109 2 THE FIRST Advanced Programme for Export Market Development (APEMD) for 25 Commonwealth delegates will begin today at the Amara Hotel. Delegates from countries such as Tonga. India. South Africa, and Mauritius will be attending the two-week programme, which is organised by the Export Institute of Singapore
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      2 2 BROKERS'STOCK PICKS
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Thai coalition's two key partners slug it out in Bangkok polls
      327 3 UPI BANGKOK Voters went to the polls yesterday in a city election pitting the ruling coalition government's two leading parties against one another. The election, in which 55 Bangkok city assembly seats and 222 local council seats are being
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      Lock icon KL says it's ready for British retaliation to trade ban
      336 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said yesterday it was prepared to face possible retaliation from Britain to Kuala Lumpur's ban on government contracts for British firms. Foreign Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the government was ready to face any form of
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      Lock icon Cambodia calls for Thai border talks after oil find
      269 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH A senior Cambodian government official has called for urgent talks with Thailand to settle the issue of the two country's maritime boundaries following the first-ever discovery of local offshore oil. "As the Kingdom of Cambodia we are preparing
      Reuter  -  269 words
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      Lock icon Mahathir visits Hyundai plants in S Korea to build business ties
      230 3 AFP SEOUL Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday inspected South Korea's biggest auto plant in the southern city of Ulsan as part of a three-day private visit to promote business cooperation with the Hyundai group. Hyundai officials said. Dr
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      Lock icon Imelda Marcos, tobacco tycoon head tax hit-list
      269 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippine Justice Department has named tobacco tycoon Lucio Tan and former first lady Imelda Marcos at the top of its hit-list of 100 major tax cases and ordered their speedy prosecution, officials said yesterday. The 104 individuals named in the
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon One killed in Philippine mosque shooting
        76 3 AP ZAMBOANGA Armed men barged into a mosque in the southern Philippines, killing one worshipper and wounding three others, poliee said yesterday. A poliee report said that the shooting happened at dawn on Wednesday in the town of Sumisip on Basilan island. 24 km
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        Lock icon S Korean farm chief arrested
        40 3 Reuter SEOUL Han Ho Sun. chairman of South Korea's National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, being taken away from the Seoul district prosecutor's office on Friday after he was formally arrested on a charge of embezzlement. Reuter
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        Lock icon Philippine foreign investments slip
        113 3 AFP MANILA Foreign direct equity investments in the Philippines slipped by 0.02 per cent to U*****,942 million (SSSI9 million) in 1993. continuing a two-year trend, the central bank said yesterday. Bank data show a sharp decline in investment from the country's two major trading partners, the
        AFP  -  113 words
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        Lock icon M'sia looks at Manila defence ties
        67 3 Bernama PORT KLANG Malaysia may have defence cooperation with the Philippines similar to its bilateral arrangements with several other Asean countries, said Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak. He said a study was made by his ministry following Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's recent visit to
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      357 3 IST SYMPOSIUM OF ASEAN CAPITAL MARKET REGULATORS APRIL 5 6,1994 THE CROWN PRINCESS KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (Officially endorsed and supported by the Securities Commission of Malaysia) Overview of region's capital markets and future challenges ASEAN bourses: In-depth Assessment by Securities Commissioners fo each country Asset Management: The Need To Develop
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China arrests another top pro-democracy leader
      568 4 AFP, Reuter, AP BEIJING Chinese police detained 1989 pro-democracy movement leader Zhai Weimin yesterday, continuing a crackdown on dissidents ahead of the US Secretary of State's visit this week, a friend said by phone. Four policemen picked up Mr Zhai, who was sixth on
      AFP,; Reuter,; AP  -  568 words
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      Lock icon China will not allow new car plants until year 2000
      233 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China will stop licensing new auto plants until the year 2000 and allow smaller car manufacturers to "wither in the face of competition", the official China Daily said. The move is part of a plan to
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      Lock icon Taipei bourse to get fillip with new foreign equity limit
      633 4 Pent-up selling pressure will limit rally, say analysts Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's stock market would receive a moderate boost from a higher ceiling on foreign investment, but the reform was unlikely to ignite a bull run in the near term, analysts
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      Lock icon Dolled up, now rolled up
      31 4 Reuter HONGKONG Three workers removing a giant Chinese New Year decoration of a smiling Chinese girl in the central business district of Hongkong on Saturday. Renter
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Law to protect Taiwanese investors
        91 4 AFP BEIJING China has passed a law protecting the rights of Taiwan investors on the mainland in a bid to promote further economic exchanges with the rival island. The People's Daily reported yesterday that the law, passed at a National People's Congress standing committee session
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        Lock icon China paves way to Gatt with new law
        125 4 AFP BEIJING China is to pass its first foreign trade law this month to promote the development of unified national policies to facilitate the country's re-entry to Gatt. "The law will unify the national foreign trade policies and create a fair environment
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        Lock icon Chengdu's budget for infrastructure
        57 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Chengdu, capital of the Western Chinese province of Sichuan, will invest two billion yuan (***** million) on infrastructure projects, the semi-official China News Agency reported yesterday. The agency didn't report the sources of funds and the timeframe of the projects, which cover
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        Lock icon People smugglers may get death
        148 4 AFP BEIJING Criminals responsible for organising illegal emigration from China faced severe punishment, including the death penalty, under a tough new law passed last week, the People's Daily said yesterday. The law, passed at a National People's Congress standing committee session last Saturday, warned that
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      Lock icon Hijackings to feature in Taipei, Beijing talks
      294 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan would reopen talks with long-time rival China to try to resolve the hijacking issue and other disputes that had created frictions across the Taiwan Strait, officials said yesterday. "We have tentatively decided to hold five days of talks in Beijing
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      289 4 The world currency today is information. As much as 90 per cent of the information inputs we receive daily comes through visual cues. Most of these visual cues are captured by our brain through the process of reading. Surviving and thriving as a professional today, therefore, demands two new approaches
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Japan's coalition may split at poll time
      456 6 Reshuffle wrangle has resulted in two opposing camps Reuter TOKYO Japan's ruling coalition, after almost splitting up over a cabinet reshuffle wrangle, has polarised into two opposing camps prepared to go separate ways at election time, its leaders revealed yesterday. Prime Minister Morihiro
      Reuter  -  456 words
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      Lock icon Prosecutors to grill former Japanese minister in scandal probe
      253 6 Reuter TOKYO Prosecutors are preparing to grill a former construction minister and he could become the first national politician to be arrested in Japan's bribery and bid-rigging scandals, NHK public television said yesterday. Kishiro Nakamura, a construction minister in the previous
      Reuter  -  253 words
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      Lock icon Japan's first 24-hr airport faces shaky debut on reclaimed land
      538 6 Reuter OSAKA, Japan With just six months to go before Japan's first around-the-clock airport opens, engineers are battling to stop buildings from sinking and swaying on the man-made island site. Business executives in Osaka and other west Japan cities are
      Reuter  -  538 words
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      Lock icon S Korea's foreign debt falls, but adds to inflationary pressure
      327 6 AFP SEOUL A sharp rise in foreign reserves has brought down South Korea's net foreign debt this year, but left the country's economic planners with a dilemma over the effect on monetary controls aimed at curbing inflation. South Korea's net
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      Lock icon Aussie treasurer hints at upgrading GDP forecast
      184 6 Reuter SYDNEY Official forecasts for Australian economic growth in 1993/94 may need to be raised again because of recent strong economic data, Australian Treasurer Ralph Willis said yesterday. But Mr Willis played down financial market concerns the strong pickup in growth could push
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Ukraine gas row threatens nuke pact
        85 8 Reuter MOSCOW Ukraine's fulfilment of nuclear disarmament accords has been thrown into doubt by Russia's threat of a cut in gas supplies to its neighbour yesterday. The gas firm Gazprom said it would reduce daily deliveries by 80 million cubic metres, possibly this week,
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        Lock icon Intifada strike grips occupied lands
        100 8 AFP JERUSALEM A strike to mark the 75th month of the Palestinian uprising or Intifada paralysed the occupied territories yesterday after a week of rioting and bloodshed over the Hebron mosque massacre, correspondents reported. The stoppage came with a curfew still in force in the
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        Lock icon UN envoy in Bosnian visit
        102 8 AFP SARAJEVO UN special envoy Yasushi Akashi was expected for talks with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in Pale near here yesterday in a bid to speed up the Serb-besieged Bosnian capital's return to normality. Mr Akashi will make the trip to the Bosnian Serbs'
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        Lock icon Emir of Kuwait appeals for austerity
        51 8 AFP KUWAIT CITY The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, on Saturday appealed to Kuwaitis to abandon their "ostentatious" spending habits and called for privatisation of the state sector to overcome the country's economic difficulties. He described the economic situation as "very delicate".
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      Lock icon Privatisation of Renault may be put off until 1995
      227 8 AFP PARIS The privatisation of the French auto firm Renault could be postponed until next year as the sale of the company is not financially indispensable this year, said the office of the prime minister. His announcement on Saturday was made
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      Lock icon Clinton paying high personal price for White House tenure
      482 8 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton is finding there is a high price to pay for living in the White House a cost not only to himself, but those close to him. Years ago, when Mr Clinton was governor of Arkansas, his
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      Lock icon Clinton aims to create two million more jobs this year
      323 8 AP WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton said on Saturday that his administration will seek to create two million more jobs in 1994 atop the nearly 2.1 million added to the American economy during his first 13 months in office. "We began
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      Lock icon Franchise bonanza south of the border lures US firms
      317 8 Reuter MEXICO CITY US companies offering everything from muffins to biotechnology or a better postal service are flooding into Mexico as the franchising market here booms, experts and businessmen say. While the more mature US franchising market is growing at around
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      Lock icon Last burst to finish water main
      47 8 Reuter LONDON Thames Water engineers carrying out final preparations on Thursday before the 80 km London water ring main is filled with drinking water, supplying six million Londoners. The tunnel, Britain's longest, runs in a continuous loop around the capital. Renter
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    • Article
      Lock icon Accountants cook the books to keep their jobs, says study
      624 8 Bloomberg Business News DAYTON, Ohio Ask an accountant what two plus two makes, goes the old joke, and he'll answer, "What do you want it to be?". It's funny, but it's no joke, according to a survey conducted by Kenneth
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  • Business IT
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      Creative ups the ante with new card
      583 9  -  The sound card leader launches its latest product. Joseph Rajendran has the details Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE'S Crealive Technology, the world leader in sound cards for the personal computer, last week launched its most advanced sound card yet, delivering on its promise of bringing
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    • Article
      Small users likely to miss DoubleSpace most
      652 9  -  David Welcher reports on the impact of Stac Electronics' court win over Microsoft David Welcher The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, ami also writes on IT issues. He contributed this article to BusinesslT THE US
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      EDI networks soon in Philippines, Mauritius
      456 10  -  Bernard Chew reports on S'pore Network Services' plans in the two countries Bernard Chew SINGAPORE Network Services will soon be setting up Trade Net-style electronic data interchange (EDI) networks in the Philippines and Mauritius. This was revealed last week by the electronic network operator's
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    • Article
      NCB surveying 5,000 groups on IT usage
      320 10  -  By Joycelyn Shu THE National Computer Board has launched its most comprehensive information technology usage survey to date, covering some 5,000 public and privatesector organisations. The survey, launched last week, aims to track the sophistication of IT usage in Singapore. This will help
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    • TECH TAKES
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        NUS installs high-speed system
        72 10 SINGAPORE The National University of Singapore (NUS) has appointed network firm Datacraft Singapore to install and maintain a high-speed networking system that will speed up and make research easier. The system is a network switch using an emerging technology called asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). The NUS'
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        Willy Wabbit goes global
        58 10 SINGAPORE Local firm Systems Education Centre, creator of the interactive CD-ROM "Willy Wabbit His Magical Books" has appointed Chartered Electronic Industries to market and distribute the product worldwide. The educational title, in Mac and PC versions, is taigeted at children three years and above and comprises
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        Lotus opens Indon office
        70 10 SINGAPORE US-based software major Lotus has opened a sales and marketing office in Indonesia. The US firm has already been working with distributor PT Sistech Kharisma in the country. Both had earlier set up a network of eight authorised dealers. Lotus has just appointed two other
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        Robust semiconductor sector this year
        82 10 SINGAPORE Texas Instruments, in a meeting with US financial analysts, expects the worldwide semiconductor market to grow 17 per cent to US$9l billion (SSI43 billion) this year. The growth will be driven by demand from the US and the Asia Pacific. The US market is
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        Banyan group buys another US firm
        38 10 SINGAPORE Banyan Asia Pacific has reported that its parent in the US has bought another American firm. Beyond Inc. Banyan plans to incorporate Beyond's messaging solutions into its own line of products.
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        Intel to launch fester processors
        53 10 NEW YORK Intel Corp will introduce two faster versions of its Pentium microprocessor today aimed at stepping up acceptance of the chips in the PC industry, the Nch York Times reported. They are a 90-megahertz and a 100-megahertz version priced at US$B49 (S$ 1,340) and
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    • It's happenin'
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        Digital's multimedia seminar
        54 10 SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Singapore is holding a graphics and multimedia workstation seminar for computer professionals. The seminar will focus on emerging technologies in the areas of graphics. Rise and development tools. It will be held on March 9 at the Sheraton Towers Ballroom 4, Call Lynette on
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      • Article
        Wang to hold imaging fair
        47 10 SINGAPORE US-based Wang Computers, which emerged from Chapter 11 last year, is organising its first imaging fair in Singapore. It will display a range of its offerings on March 10-12 at the Pan Pacific Hotel. Call Cristina for more details on 283-6833.
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        Fifth annual SEC conference
        62 10 SINGAPORE Local computer house System Education Centre is organising its fifth annual conference which will focus on internetworking and interoperability. The five-day event is oiganised in three parts: Distributed Computing Environment (March 15); International Conference on Internetworking and Interoperability (March 16-18); and Groupware: Software Direction for
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        SCS workshop on IT law
        61 10 SINGAPORE The Singapore Computer Society (SCS) is holding a two-day workshop titled "Practical Aspects of Information Technology Law". The key speaker at the forum is Lim Kien Thye. partner at Haridass Ho and Partners. It will be held at the Regent Singapore hotel on March
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        Workshop on networking
        53 10  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The SCS is also holding a Data Communications Networking Fundamentals workshop at The Centre for Computer Studies. Ngee Ann Polytechnic on April 25-28. It will be conducted by Fabian Ng. Lum Fook Choon and Lee Chin Seng. For more details, call the
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    • Article, Illustration
      Digital raises stakes in client-server battle
      508 11  -  The US giant's more than 100 new products shows it means business. Joseph Rajendran has the details Joseph Rajendran IN A major rollout in Singapore last week, LIS giant Digital Equipment unveiled more than 100 hardware and software products in a second wave of
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      Lock icon Turning point nears for 2.5-inch drive
      896 11  -  Industry is upbeat on mass production of smaller drives taking off this year. Claire Leow reports Claire Leow THE popularity of portable computing, long anticipated, has finally gained momentum. Colour has come to notebooks and they are increasingly used as complementary second computers. This
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      Local Area Networks: the multimedia hook-up
      968 14  -  Tommi Chen examines how you can plan your LANs for the coming wave of multimedia applications CONNECTIONS COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH CONNECTIVITY Tommi Chen The writer is managing partner of Set Centre Fie Ltd. which specialises in network services. He managed one of the largest enterprise
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      Bringing businesses closer together through the enterprise network
      609 14  -  Robert Plotke continues his series on advanced network solutions by explaining tne importance of enterprise networks IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Robert Plotke The writer, a senior manager with Andersen Consulting s Technology Integration Services group, is in charge of the firm
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      Novell launches DOS in bid to beat Microsoft at its own game
      873 15  -  THE new DOS builds in networking capability and can run two or more applications simultaneously, Bernard Chew finds out Bernard Chew Novell has made another attempt to unseat Microsoft's domination of the personal computer disk operating system (DOS)
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      1097 16 /fSjjjS^L I The Sime Darby Group I I INTERIM RESULTS I FOR THE HALF-YEAR ENDED 31 ST DECEMBER 1993 I Sime Darby Berhad I I Unaudited results of th» Group for the half-year mkM 31st Dictmbtr 1993 The significant decline in the earnings of Plantations reflects the lower palm product
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      1005 17  -  Sarah Mahoney looks at the basic homework that candidates for top jobs ought to do before taking up an offer Sarah Mahoney NYT Philip marlowe might have spared John Sculley a few lawsuits and one big headache. Just some basic sleuthing
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      1298 18  -  Chuang Peck Ming talks to former Metro managing director Steven Goh who left the retail chain after 16 years to set up his own consultancy business SINGAPORE'S —imiIEBBINEMBSi Chuang Peck Ming t was like walking out of the school gates for the last I time," Steven
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      351 18 IT WILL take sales of at least another $1 billion yearly to keep the extra retail space unleashed last year in the black, says Steven Goh, Metro's former managing director. Almost 180,000 sq m more of retail space were
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      594 17 I^* lllllilMIIIMIII Darby (Fit) fly I m Consolidated Plantations Berhad Sime UEP Properties Berhad I Unaudited results of the Group for the half-year ended 31st December 1993 Unaudited results of the Group for the half-year to 31st December 1993 I 1993 1992 I RM Million RM Million 1993 1992 Turnover
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      116 17 /fU. SE*»D »T OFF ftT ONC£,Ft -UNG CP\Bin€.T,\ K*C &RtSTOW UH6> IT'S JUST TMe <>iviD OF THe CHIKe.SE. VOJ u>e-Re rrpv-reßifM- Mioses IN HIS J COLLAR DtGP INi THOUGHT ftND t V P^CT f r. o~> I OOrn&DtP\N.... ovdm t disturb vou J y a OUT\~T-'i^^ p. l-»N&f?...THG.R£,S A ck"/
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      200 18 TWO FOUR to HOTEL there's a new bum every minute. In G^y' an B 1 L—-55^2^— —vi joo this instance, there are two. Two golden or some ar^Awo Wl ~~^J* Four FINANCE PARK Ck*vlang, three Regional -j. up for bv tender on *Av\ \V\ X VA V>\ of 5,605.9,2,595.0 and
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      709 19 Golf AP MIAMI Sparked by an eagle-3 on the first hole, Billy Andrade cruised to a six-under-par 66 and a two-stroke lead on Saturday in the third round of the Doral-Ryder Open. "I've been putting good, playing good," Andrade said. "I just
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      373 19 AFP PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad England cricket team manager Keith Fletcher launched a scathing attack on his bowlers as England crashed to defeat at the Queen's Park Oval to lose the one-day series 3-1 with one game still remaining. Despite two rain interruptions, the West
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      304 19 AP INDIAN WELLS, California Top-seeded Pete Sampras struggled for the first time last week before beating No 3 Stefan Edberg of Sweden 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on Saturday in a semifinal match of the US$l.72 million (552.7 million) Champions Cup. Sampras will meet 10thseeded Petr
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        41 19 AP HIROSHIMA, Japan Results of the 49th Mainichi International Marathon yesterday: 1 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) 2hr 11 min ssec 2 Hiroshi Tako (Jpn) 2:11:35 3 Weislaw Perszke (Pol) 2:11:52 4 Shinji Kawashima (Jpn) 2:11:53 5 Johannes Amaramane (SA) 2:12:10. AP
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        101 19 AFP PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida Reitred basketball star Michael Jordan started and plated a run with a sacrifice fly, but went hitless in three times at bat here on Saturday for the Chicago White Sox. Jordan Kounded out twice and struck up ;fore coming to bat in the seventh inning
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        42 19 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Saturday: Atlanta 90 Indiana 88; Miami 120 Philadelphia 83; Washington 124 LA Lakers 118; Utah 103 Dallas 90; Houston 124 LA Clippers 107; Milwaukee 117 Detroit 108; Seattle 114 Sacramento 98; Golden State 129 Charlotte 112. Reuter
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        52 19 AP SURFERS PARADISE, Australia Former British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing champion Joe Bugner, has quit as a fight promoter after staging just four cards. Bugner. 44, who twice went the distance with Muhammad Ali during his 19-year fight career, said he suffered heavy financial losses on the four
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        37 19 Reuter. AUCKLAND, New Zealand Pakistan beat New Zealand by 36 runs in the second of five 50-over one-day international matches yesterday. Scores: Pakistan 146 all out. New Zealand 110 all out (Wasim Akram four for 23).
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        275 19 AP AFP AFP TAMACUSUKUSON, Japan Final scores of the Daikin Orchid Tournament yesterday: (Japanese unless stated): 213 Akiko Fukushima 71 70 72 217 Ayako Okamoto 70 73 74 Hiromi Takamura 69 74 74 218 Kaori Higo 72 76 70 Yoko Morioka 75 72 71 Kim Ae Sook (SK) 74
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        32 19 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Satwfey: New Jersey 6 Calgary 3; Boston 6 Ottawa 1; NY Rangers 5 NY Islanders 4; Tampa Bay 4 Hartford 2; Quebec 4 Toronto 1. Reuter
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        50 19 Reuter MANILA Japan has regained the Asian men's crown, thrashing the defending champion Philippines, in the final of the fifth Asian championship. Pitcher Nobunori Nishimura threw a one-hit-ter and struck out nine batters in the six-innning contest at Manila's Rizal stadium on Saturday to lead Japan to victory. Reuter
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        62 19 AP AP INDIAN WELLS, California C hampions Cup Saturday Singles semifinals: Pete Sampras (US) b Stefan Edberg (Swe) 6-3 3-6 6-4; Petr Korda (Cze) b Aaron Krickstein (US) 6-4 6-4. AP DEIJIAY BEACH, Florida Virginia Slims of Florida Saturday Singles semifinals: Steffi Graf (Ger) b Helena Sukova (Cze) 7-5
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      332 19 AP BEAVERTON, Oregon This time, Tonya Harding says she is the assault victim. Nursing scrapes and bruises, Harding was interviewed on Friday by police investigating her report that she was attacked as she walked through a park near the apartment where she has
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      691 19 Sime Singapore Limited INTERIM RESULTS FOR THE HALF-YEAR ENDEO 31 ST DECEMBER 1993 The Directors are pleased to announce the following:1. Unaudited resuls ol the Group and ol the Company for the hall-year ended 31st December 1993. Group Company 1993 1992 1993 1992 S$ Million S$ Million TURNOVER 274.t 2506
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      666 20 Nothing Beats A Bud, or Bl" ourfamouslScal Ta Kg FOOD EUFFETISBAGK M E3N Featuring tempting local favourites like barbecued sting ray. ngoh hiang IJVVn IjKSfl hae piah, chai tow kuay, seafood mee ■iTauy KSyH goreng, mutton briyani, muah chee, nlljfl HH LUNCH BUFFET DINNER BUFFET Utt im $15.00++ (adult) $17.00++(adult)
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      1065 21  -  Craig Whitney reports on the reaction at the German premiere of Schindlers List Craig Whitney NYT LAST Tuesday night, 800 people Germans and Jews, diplomats and artists, filmmakers and people who had known Oskar Schindler when he lived in Frankfurt came solemnly together in the municipal theatre
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      709 21 Tokyo museums from the esoteric to the eccentric Reuter Mention museums and the mind tunes in automatically to New York, Paris, Rome, London, Madrid. Few if any think of another of the world's great cities, Tokyo. Yet Japan's capital boasts hundreds of museums displaying the traditional to the esoteric and
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      1266 21 TV RADIO Reasonable Doubts, man confidence the char- C^^HL ges being dropped sets Tess .^^Ks*, 1 |^4'; and Dicky the of some !M?m l who B the Drug Inside Asia, 9pm, SBCS V^ China would hardly seem to be 2 V 1 the best place to a rock Hm f\
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    415 22 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa and key ministers will begin drafting a package of marketopening steps this week to try and resolve the trade row with the United States, government officials said yesterday. Mr Hosokawa told aides
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    148 22 AFP BANGKOK Thai Foreign Minister Prasong Soonsiri has called for a 10-member forum grouping all states in Southeast Asia and Indochina for better cooperation and regional development, The Nation daily reported yesterday. Mr Prasong said he had suggested the forum in talks in Manila
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    Vietnam's leaders committed to market reforms: PM Goh
    419 22  -  From Lok Hui Yin in HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAMESE leaders were committed to market reforms and there was no turning back, but the question was whether they would move cautiously or speed up the pace of change, Prime Minister Goh Chok
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    38 22 Reuter VILNIUS Lithuanian soldiers, members of the 'Steel Wolves' military unit, running around a snowman on Friday to keep warm. They were on a military exercise at a shooting range outside Vilnius. Renter
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    516 22 Reuter WASHINGTON Brushing off widespread global economic malaise, a devastating California earthquake and one of the worst winters in memory, the vital United States recovery continues to surprise analysts. The 7.5 per cent jump in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter
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    878 22  -  The Bottom Line MOHAN KUPPUSAMY MOHAN KUPPUSAMY The writer is a BT associate foreign editor SO, The Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil now thinks that the story that sparked a trade dispute with Kuala Lumpur has been misrepresented. In a curiously-worded letter to The Times,
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    220 22 AFP TOKYO China has deployed warplanes and expanded an airbase on the largest island of the disputed Paracel chain 'in the South China Sea to enlarge its striking power over the region, according to a Japanese press report. The Jiji Press news agency
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      452 23 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Lien Hoe Corp Bhd, to be acquired by Sabah State government agencies, is positioned to become the controlling shareholder of Repco Holdings Bhd even though there will be three other groups of substantial shareholders in Repco. Lien Hoe said
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      419 23  -  Group raises investment fund to USsBom, plans second shipyard Frta Loh Hui Yin in HO CHI MINH CITY KEPPEL GROUP, arguably Singapore's biggest investor in Vietnam, is about to plough even more money into the country. It is increasing its Vietnam Investment Fund from
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      278 23 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Petronas Dagangan Bhd shares are expected to make their debut on the local bourse tomorrow at about Ms 6, for a premium of at least Ms 3 over the offer price of M 52.80. Most analysts, considering the weak
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      683 23  -  HOCK By Amy Balan SINGAPORE What an explosive debut! On March I. the share priee of Lityan Holdings Bhd shot up on opening to M 58.90. then surged to a high of M 59.05 before settling down at M 57.30 more
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          Lock icon Guthrie to target South America
          109 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Guthrie Group, one of the general trading companies (GTCs) selected to promote trade and economic links with developing countries, will focus on the South American region. Its international division senior general manager SharifT Mohd Shah said as a first step, it will
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          Lock icon Bank Buruh's pre-tax profit soars 105pc
          87 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Buruh (M) Bhd reported a pre-tax profit of M 514.5 million (SSB.4 million) for the year ended June 30, 1993, a rise of 105 per cent when compared with the previous year. It announced it would pay a dividend of
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          Lock icon Leong Hup sees big profit boost
          68 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Leong Hup Holdings Bhd expects its pre-tax profit for the year ending March 31, 1995 to increase to M 531.28 million (5518.16 million) on completion of its share proposals, compared with M$ 18.36 million previously. Gross earnings per share is expected
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          Lock icon Worldwide to buy Genting Sanyen stake
          86 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Worldwide Holdings Bhd is subscribing for four million new shares of Msl each and 760,000 redeemable preference shares of Msl, representing 20 per cent of the issued and paid-up capital of Genting Sanyen Power Sdn Bhd for MsBo million (Ss46 million),
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        367 24  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR PERFORMANCE of the various Malaysian-listed subsidiaries of Sime Darby Bhd for the six months to Dec 31, 1993: Consolidated Plantations: Pretax profit fell 19 per cent to M 548.4 million (5528.1 million) from M 559.8 million, while
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        Globe Telecom raising 263m pesos to fund expansion
        397 24  -  From Al Labita in MANILA GLOBE TELECOM, a Filipi-no-Singaporean joint venture, is raising its capital from 487 million pesos (SS2B million) to 750 million pesos to finance expansion. In a report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company says the new
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        Lock icon Mingly forms HK$10m investment firm with Great Wall
        235 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Investment company Mingly Corp has teamed up with China-owned industrial and real estate enterprise China Great Wall Industry Corp to form a HKSIO million (SS2 million) investment firm. Mingly Great Wall. It is the second Chinese company in
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        59 24 Reuter MANILA Philippine brokers taking orders at the Makati stock exchange trading floor in Manila on Friday the first day of the electronic unification of the Philippines* two rival stock exchanges. But just after this picture was taken, computer problems marred the merger and forced the
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        Lock icon Public Bank well-placed to make most of regional growth: chairman
        295 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Public Bank, optimistic about prospects for 1994. is wellplaced financially and geographically to capitalise on business prospects from AsiaPacific's expected high growth, says chairman Thong Yaw Hong. The group would continue its pursuit of excellence, not
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        Lock icon Sri Hartamas to buy building, hotel, make rights issue
        363 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sri Hartamas Corporation Bhd. in a bid to turn around the company into a viable business concern, is undertaking a corporate exercise which includes acquisition of a multi-storey commercial building, two international hotels and a one-for-two rights issue.
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        Lock icon Damansara Realty's town centre project to include hotel, hospital
        331 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Damansara Realty Bhd is planning to develop the 6.9 hectare piece of land in Damansara Town Centre which it is acquiring for MS6OO million (Ss34B million), into a commercial complex which will include a hotel and hospital. The
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        Lock icon Japan's Kao sees record profit despite economic slump
        427 25 Reuter TOKYO Despite the persistent economic slump, Japan's largest household products maker Kao Corp is likely to post record parent earnings in the year to March 31, top company executives said on Friday. They expect the uptrend to continue next year. "We
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        Lock icon No getting around bald fact of Aderans' rise to top of Japan's hair care market
        619 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The promise, or illusion, that one of life's little indignities can be covered up has set the stage for a big turnaround at Japan's largest toupee purveyor, Aderans Co. Founded back
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        158 25 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK G-111 Apparel Group Ud has signed a joint venture agreement with the Chinese government to operate a leather clothing factory and sell the clothes throughout China. G-111 will own 39 per cent of the manufacturing plant and the
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        Lock icon Auction of Taiwan Machinery stake may flop
        335 25 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's auction of a 60 per cent stake in Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corp is on the brink of failure and the government may have to break up the ailing firm in order to privatise it, officials said on Saturday. The maker
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        227 25 AFP BEIJING China is to delay planned stock issues on the country's two exchanges in a bid to breath new life into dull markets, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. Listings worth S.S billion yuan (*****.5 million) on the Shanghai
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        219 25 AFP HANOI A Swiss firm is to build a US$234 million (SS37O million) cement plant with a Vietnamese company that will boost local production by more than 30 per cent. Officials granted a licence last week to Morning Star Cement Ltd, a
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          Lock icon Shanghai exchange's Shenyang link-up
          75 25 Reuter SHANGHAI Computerised trading between the Shanghai stock exchange and the Shenyang securities trading centre is to begin today, Shanghai Securities News reported. The Shenyang trading centre will in effect become a remote trading floor of the Shanghai market with members directly executing buy and sell
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          Lock icon Shanghai Steel Tube to list A shares
          102 25 Reuter SHANGHAI Shanghai Steel Tube Co Ltd said it will list 9.6 million A shares this Friday. The shares were issued at four renminbi (72 S cents) per share in October last year along with 1.26 million employee shares. Proceeds from the issue
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          Lock icon Beiren targets April Shanghai listing
          89 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China offset printing press maker Beiren Printing Machinery hopes to issue stock on the Shanghai exchange by early April, the Sunday Morning Post reported. The company plans to issue 50 million A shares to raise money to buy equipment, the newspaper
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          Lock icon Motorola, Japan's IDO near deal
          96 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Illinois-based electronic equipment maker Motorola Inc and Japanese cellular telephone service provider Nippon Idou Tsushin Corp (IDO) are close to agreement on a plan for increasing Motorola's access to Japan's cellular telephone market, the English-language Daily Yomiuri said. The paper cited
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          Lock icon Ericsson rings up new order in India
          96 25 AFP STOCKHOLM India's Ericsson Telecommunications Private, a division of Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson, has won an order for 100,000 local telephone lines from the Department of Telecommunications in New Delhi, Ericsson said on Friday. The contract is valued at some 100 million kronor
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        Lock icon Wool worth posts fourth quarter and full-year losses
        295 26 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Woolworth Corp has reported losses in the fourth quarter and year on charges stemming from the sale of most of its Woolco Canadian stores to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The struggling discount store retailer said its loss for
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        Lock icon Tackling a new option
        55 26 AFP PARIS French traders gesturing at the Paris bourse on Saturday with a screen in the background displaying the France-England Five Nations Championships match, as French bank La Societe Generate kicked off a new market.. on rugby. The Rugby Option Market is for French option traders
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        Lock icon Qatar to set up stock exchange
        126 26 Reuter DOHA Qatar's Justice Ministry has finalised a draft law to set up an official stock exchange in the Gulf Arab state, official sources said. The sources said the draft law drawn up by the ministry's legislative affairs committee headed by Undersecretary Ali al-Noaimi
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        Lock icon Bertelsmann and Canal Plus to form pay-TV venture
        270 26 Bloomberg Business News GUETERSLOH, Germany Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's largest media companies, and Canal Plus of France, a pay-television broadcaster and film producer, said they plan to form a joint venture to develop various forms of "non-advertising-financed" television internationally. "In
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        126 26 AFP HANOI France's Alcatel is to link up with Fujitsu of Japan to build a US$l5O million (***** million) optical fibre network linking Vietnam to Hongkong and Thailand, it was reported here yesterday. The two firms beat off competition from the US giant AT&T. Japan's
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        Lock icon US analysts fear a creeping crash may be in the offing
        485 26 MARKET WATCH NYT NEW YORK When Americans worry about the stock market, they dread The Big One. a crash like the 1987 stock market meltdown. But after a three-year rally that carried the Dow Jones Industrial Average up almost
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        Lock icon Huge increase in M'sia capital transactions by non-residents
        560 27 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Transactions by non-residents in portfolio investment in Malaysia have increased significantly since 1992, reflecting heavy trading in both corporate and government securities. A net inflow of M 515.17 billion (SSB.BI billion) in portfolio investment was recorded in the first
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        Lock icon China begins trial forex market link-up to pave way for unified interbank network
        389 27 AFP BEIJING Five Chinese foreign exchange swap markets began coordinated trading last week, it was reported yesterday, as a senior banking official said tight control would continue under the new system. The linking of foreign exchange swap
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        Lenders to Rakyat may be asked not to recall funds
        368 27 KUALA LUMPUR Commercial banks, believed to have lent out more than Ms3oo million (SSI74 million) to Rakyat Merchant Bankers Bhd through the interbank money market, may be asked not to recall their funds. Banking sources told The Star Business on
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          Lock icon Beijing project gets US$300m loan
          109 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Two Chinese banks the Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China will arrange a US$3OO million (***** million) loan to fund Beijing's largest-ev-er Sino-foreign retail and commercial development project, the Sunday Morning Post reported. Hongkong real estate
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          57 27 Reuter DHAKA Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank, has lowered the bank rate to 5.5 per cent from 6 per cent, officials said. They said the new rate, effective last Thursday, had been offered to allow commercial banks to advance loans at a lower rate
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          Lock icon Oman Arab Bank's net profit up 20pc
          118 27 Reuter MUSCAT Oman Arab Bank said on Saturday its 1993 net profit rose 20 per cent to 3.0 million rials (S$ 12.34 million). A bank announcement said it had posted a 2.5 million rial net profit in 1992. The board of directors proposed
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          Lock icon Daiwa Bank to write off 100b yen
          87 27 AFP TOKYO Japan's Daiwa Bank Ltd said it would write off about 100 billion yen (551.51 billion) of bad debts in the year to March 1994 as part of its three-year plan to complete write-offs of non-performing loans. Daiwa Bank said its non-performing
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        52 27 AFP HO CHI MINH CITY Motorcyclists passing by a big Visa card advertising billboard here on Friday. With the lifting of the US embargo, Visa and other international credit cards such as MasterCard and American Express are trying to get their share of the new
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        Lock icon Maybank expects savings under Yippie account to hit M$350m
        280 27 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) is confident that deposits under its Yippie Club savings account will be able to hit between MS3OO million (Ssl74 million) and MS3SO million by the end of this year, it announced last Thursday. Maybank's
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        Lock icon Amex seals 4-yr tie-up with China's national tourism authority
        269 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG American Express Co is poised to maintain its biggest slice of the thriving China market with a 30 per cent to 40 per cent projected growth for its card activity in the country in 1994. Amex now
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        403 27 AFP NEW DELHI India plans to reform its huge insurance sector in line with an expert report calling for an end to the state monopoly over the lucrative business. Finance Minister Manmohan Singh said. Mr Singh said in the northem city of Patiala on
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        Lock icon Kuwait Petroleum unit strikes oil in eastern Indonesia
        352 28 Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA A unit of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co, in a development -executives say could stimulate exploration in Indonesia's remote east, has struck oil in a type of rock not previously expected to yield any. During more than a
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        Lock icon Nigerian cash crisis puts foreign oil ventures at risk
        445 28 Reuter LAGOS Officials of foreign oil firms said the future of Nigeria's lifeblood oil industry was being threatened by a cash crisis at the state oil corporation. They said the state oil giant Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was not meeting
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        Lock icon Coffee producers and consumers move closer to new pact
        303 28 Reuter LONDON Coffee producers and consumers inched towards a new pact on Friday but still have to decide whether it should play a more active role in the market. "The bottom line is producers insist there has to be something about
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        Lock icon Oman likely to resume non-Opec contacts
        137 28 Reuter DUBAI Six Gulf Arab oil ministers ended talks in Jeddah, with Oman expected to resume contacts with non-Opec producers to help coordinate efforts to boost weak oil prices, a conference source said. There was no immediate sign of any joint decision by Gulf
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        Lock icon Canada's Metall halts zinc/copper project, seeks C$200m funding
        291 28 Knight-Ridder WINNIPEG, Canada Metall Mining Corp would not proceed with development of its Izok Lake zinc/copper metal project in Canada's Northwest Territories until additional funding for infrastructure costs was acquired, a company spokesman said yesterday. As part of a feasibility study, the
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        Lock icon Met life to reject US$20m fine offer
        279 28 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Metropolitan Life Insurance Co said it was likely to reject an anticipated proposal to pay a US$2O million (5531.8 million) fine to settle a multi-state investigation of the company's sales practices. Florida Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher was expected
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        Lock icon Europe's bank for development hits the brakes
        394 28 NYT LONDON Only three years after it was formed, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is slowing down. In a development sure to spark controversy, sources said on Thursday that the bank would inform its shareholder countries at next month's annual meeting
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        Banque Indosuez WEEKLY REGIONAL CURRENCY REPORT
        224 28 THE USS/majors met with mixed fortunes last week with early week USS sales ending in weekend short-cov-ering and position squaring. Talks of the imposition of Super >01 on Japan, tensions in Bosnia, a big increase in German M-3 and rumours of funds repatriation to
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        1869 28 'Rous are the average of 9 selected banks Trade-weighted index alkylated against S pore's top 14 trading partners Base yetr I9BS RANKS ABN Am no Bank NV 5* ANZ Banking Group 6 Allied Irah Bank PLC W American Express Bank 6W Arab Banking Corp 6Yi Arab Bank PLC 6 Asahi
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        Lock icon Dollar-mark likely to trade higher
        605 29  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By James Foo. MMS International SINGAPORE The dollarmark fell to 1.6990 on Monday in sympathy with the weak dol-lar-yen which fell in the absence of a consensus amongst the G-7 nations on the need to defend the dollar-yen at current low levels.
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        Precious metals fluctuate widely on world events
        1149 29 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP LONDON Prices of precious metals fluctuated widely last week, with gold rising at first on tension in Bosnia-Herzegovina and unrest in the Middle bast, but down later on fears of a rise in US interest rates. The meeting of the
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1353 29 Rubber Mar 4 Singapore C>wUlty Excfcaaga (fataras dasiag at at SICOM (physical pricas) Buy#fi Sallars RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) (S cents/kg) Clo* Volume RSS 2 Apr 94 140.50 141 SON Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 3 Apr 94 139.50 I40.50N Apr 94 142.50 142.00 142.50
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      BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      4382 30 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Em EPS Date TY LY TY LY Camfmy mm (da) (eti) A (SB* Oct 28 P 2 095 0.334 2.04 0.3 ARiance Tech Sep 30 I 0.490L 0 150 0.5 Ala Hldgs Dec 3 I 12.106 0.844 60.5 4.22 AnuU Steel* Dec 15
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      Lock icon CHARTING SERVICE
      753 30 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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        700 31 FT Hew York AFTER an anxious wait, Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief when the February employment report was released on Friday. In the financial markets, the monthly jobs report is always the most keenly awaited of economic indicators, but this latest set
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        Lock icon Shares close higher after roller-coaster week
        447 31 AFP Ttkyo SHARE prices closed the week higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after bobbing on movements in the bond and foreign exchange markets. The Nikkei average of 225 leading issues finished at 19,997.20 points, up 0.8 per cent from 19,803.38 a week earlier.
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        Lock icon Interest rate uncertainty casts pall over London bourse
        305 31 AFP London THE London stock exchange closed out a volatile week on Friday, dominated by uncertainty on the future of worldwide interest rates. A surge in Germany's M 3 money supply and the upward revision of fourth quarter gross domestic product in
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        Slide in HSBC, Hang Seng Bank drags market lower
        571 31 Hongkong THE Hang Seng Index closed the week at 9,818.19, down 182.06 points or 1.8 per cent on continuing low turnover. The market had been quiet and downbeat before 1993 full year results of HSBC and Hang Seng Bank were announced
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
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          Sydney
          81 31 Australian shares dropped to a lower weekly close on Friday, largely due to nervousness on international and local bond markets, analysts said. The key All Ordinaries Index closed at 2,116.8 points, 36.0 below the previous Friday's finish while the All Industrials tumbled 30.5 points to 3,257.5 and the All
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          Manila
          153 31 The Philippine stock market plunged last week as US interest rates drew investors away from Asia, analysts said. The so-called unification of the Manila Stock Exchange and the Makati Stock Exchange on March 4 failed to have any effect on the fall. The preliminary joint listing of only one
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          Bangkok
          118 31 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index fell 60.29 points (4.2 per cent) during a week of continued lacklustre trading to close at 1,359.25, investors kept cautious by local and offshore events. The average trading volume was extremely thin, with just 69.7 million shares changing hands, compared with 89.9
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          Jakarta
          77 31 The majority of share prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) remained stagnant last week or fell as pressure to sell continued to dominate the market. The JSE index continued its slide for the fourth consecutive week, closing at 521.377 on Friday compared to 547.513 a week ago. The
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          Seoul
          74 31 During the week the price indicator at the Korea Stock Exchange dropped 23.54 points which was equivalent to a 2.54 per cent loss in value. Share prices rebounded in slow trading on Saturday, ending a five-day slump. The composite index of the exchange picked up 6.22 points to close
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          Taipei
          124 31 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange staged a marginal rebound last week. Following a 3.06-per cent drop the previous week, the 376-issue weighted price index recovered 6.29 points or 0.1 per cent to close at 5,672.87 points on Friday. The market got off to a bearish start with
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          New York
          761 31 +7.88 Blue-chip stocks closed slightly higher on Friday as investors took advantage of a flat bond market to shop for bargains among car and technology shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 7.88 points at 3,832.30 but ended the week down 6.48 points. In the broader market,
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          Toronto
          321 31 +28.31 Stocks closed up on Friday on positive sentiment and a slightly higher gold price. "The economy continues to register modest growth, that's the only way to put it," said Ira Katzin at Richardson Greenshields of Canada Ltd. The TSE 300 index closed up 28.31 points to 4398.56 on
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2834 32 MOST ACTIVE volume AMDS 50c 34.316,000 Mulpha Intl 50c 31.949,000 Promet 29.559.000 Pegi Mm 28.297,000 Johan Hldgs 50c 27.305.000 McnangCorp 25.223,000 Kamunting 50c 24,526,000 kins Hyd 50c 22.7g8.000 FACB 50c 21.752.000 Faber Group 20.121.000 Bcqaya Group 20.082,000 Rcnong Bhd 50c 19,304.000 L«n Hoe TSR97 17,555,000 MOST ACTIVE value
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        Lock icon Poor overseas sentiments spark sell-off
        5949 32 Bernama BEARISH overseas sentiments, coupled with an absence of fresh leads prompted investors to dump their stockholdings last week. The daily scenario was almost the same: gains chalked up in morning sessions were trimmed in the afternoon as market players took profits on being cautious
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        Lock icon Prices may rebound after last week's falls
        1821 34  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE After last week's 108.76-point or 4.6 per cent fall in the Straits Times Industrials Index, analysts expect a better performance this week. Last week saw continued weakness in world equity markets, triggered by concerns that short-term interest rates in
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      NOL to pull out of Ace consortium after 1995
      371 35  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE National carrier Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) will pull out of a shipping group trading between East Asia and Europe after 1995. NOL will leave the Ace consortium, in which its partners are K-Line of Japan and Orient
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      Keppel forms venture for clean and green hull blasting
      582 35  -  New method of blast-cleaning is dust-free, cuts use of copper slag By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Keppel Corp has jumped on the green bandwagon. The local conglomerate, through Keppel Integrated Engineering, has formed a joint venture which provides large-scale, dust-free blast-cleaning services
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1103 35 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 5 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 16 4 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 AOEShpg 15 4/5 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 8 4/5 Arabian Express 15 3 ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Onent
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      Lock icon End of cruise
      69 35 Reuter PORKKALA, Finland The Salty Albatross, which was holed after it went aground on Fnday, lies off tte Porkkalapeninsula in southern Finland on Saturday. The 169-metre Finnish cruise ship went aground while returning to Helsinki after a 24-hour cruse in the Gulf of Finland. It freed itself
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      S'pore-HK venture builds $40m warehouse
      386 35  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE A Singa-pore-Hongkong partnership is building a $40-million warehouse complex in Clementi, barely 16 months after selling a smaller building in Jurong for 514.35 million. Partners Roland Chen and Nomi Sin, a Hongkonger, held a ground-breaking ceremony yesterday for their new warehouse
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        305 36 *«Ml Ig Wo Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Marina Wharves lucky Star 2/94 P01A 07 03/0900 07 03/2330 M Yamaman 82 83 M03 alongside 07 03/0700 Mam Hua 04/94 P04 07 03/0730 0703/2300 8atamindo 2 2276S* M01 atongsrfe 06 03/0300 Marine P 07/03*
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1472 36 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookini/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From fciU*c 0788 08/0700 1A 06/1500 06/1659 06/1900 IB 06/1500 06/1659 06/1900 2* 06/1700 07/0659 07/0900 3 07/0700 07/1159 07/1400 4 07/1200
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      13677 44 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
      908 51 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,112 on Thursday from 1,115 on Mar 2. FIXTURES Tanker: Worldscale rates for tankers throughout all sectors were seen as generally steady to slightly firmer, brokers said. Mideast Gulf VLCC chartering was showing no sign of
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      TRANSPORT DIARY
      422 51 COURSES Title: Helicopter and Military Aircraft Emergency Management Duration: Mar 7-10 Organiser: Singapore Aviation Academy, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Tel: For further details/registration contact Mr David Teo at 065-540-6259 or fax: 065-542-9890. Title: Principles of Shipping Operations and Practices (SDF 70%) Duration: Mar 8 Apr 22 Organiser:
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      Maritime transport: still at sea
      1111 52 No policy was formulated for international shipping during the Uruguay Round of Gatt talks which ended last December Although the Gatt Uruguay Round was brought to a conclusion for the time being on Dec 15-16 after having gone on for something over seven years, further
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        UPS opens Jurong site to service manufacturers
        487 54  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Air express major United Parcel Service will soon open its Jurong distribution centre to handle shipments by manufacturing companies clustered in the western part of Singapore. "The office will handle existing volume, increasing volume and get us closer to
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        Lock icon A hand for Pavarotti the locomotive
        50 54 Reuter FOLKESTONE, England World-renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti gestures towards the media after officially christening the first Eurotunnel's Le Shuttle locomotives at the Eurotunnel terminal here last week. The locomotive is one of 38 that will be named after famous opera singers or operas. Reuter
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        Lock icon GM to recall nearly 82,000 vehicles
        280 54 Bloomberg Business News DETROIT General Motors Corp is recalling a total of 81,900 cars, minivans and pickup trucks from the 1994model year to fix three separate problems. No accidents or injuries have been reported to GM as a result of the problems, said company
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        Lock icon Northwest Airlines cuts fares, others follow suit
        336 54 Reuter NEW YORK Northwest Airlines sparked a new round of airfare cuts last Friday, with steep discounts for spring travel that other major American carriers immediately matched. The discounts marked the second round of cuts in just a few days. Earlier last week.
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          Lock icon Swissair's passenger yields fall
          102 54 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Swissair's passenger yields, a measure of how much money a carrier makes from each passenger per kilometre flown, fell in the first months of 1994. while sales so far this year .are below company expectations, chief executive Otto Loepfe said. Mr Loepfe.
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          Lock icon S Korea's shipbuilding orders down
          101 54 Reuter SEOUL South Korean shipyards won orders of 338,889 gross tons (GT). comprising 13 ships, in the first two months this year, down from 553.220 GT, or 14 ships, in the same period last year, the Korea Shipbuilders' Association said last week. All of the
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      604 47 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 LIIMBMMIUMIHIMUIMIMIIMMB |»H«« pi DONGNAMA LINE C99mVMKtKKKHB WMWCB B»WMrBrBPBHHOrBWt KSSa SK ME BIN K KM MC TU.SMS VMM 11/3 12/3 14/3 25/3 27/3
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      664 49 FORTNIOMTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/P. ELIZABETH CAPETOWN/LAGOS VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS SHUNHC/IO! 11/03 25/03 26/04 28/03 OS/04 TAO HE/82 26/03 10/04 11/04 13/04 30/04 JIAN HE/82 11/04 25/04 26/04 28/04 OS/OS HUI HE/104 26/04 10/06 11/05 13/ OS 20/08 ACCEPTS CARGO TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA
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      308 49 SjN FAR EAST 15/03 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 11/03 BANGKOK 13/03 MANILA/CEBU 13/03 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 14/03 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 14/03 BUSAN 13/03 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 14/03 HONG KONG SjN CHINA 14/03 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SjN EUROPE/MR 15/03 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 15/03 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romama/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech Si USA/CANADA 14/03 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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      852 50 Handling System Co. Pte. Ltd. 138 A 138, Neil Road, #03-00, Singapore 0208 TT7 VT7 V CFS-20, Gul Road, Singapore 2282 Tel: 02-*****28 Handling System Co. Sdn. Bhd. W N0.9 Cungah, ***** Port Klang, Seiangor, Malaysia 24th Floor, UMBC Main Building, ***** Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Handling System (HK) Co. Ltd.
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      507 52 VESSEL VOYAGE I SINGAPORE MANILA VIGOUR PACFIC 941 IN 11/03 (FRI) 19/03 (SAT) VIGOUR PAOFIC 941 lAN I 14/03 (MOW) WQ3 (SAT) PENANG JAYA 9402N I 18/03 (FRI) 26/03 (SAT) FFDAY AND MONDAY PENANG JAYA 9402 AN I 21/03 (MON) 26/03 (SAT) 1 WBKBM fflftJPPifMlß PULL CONTAINER SERVICE '■I I
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