The Business Times, 29 November 1994

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    14 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KHOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Tuesday November 29 1994 75 C
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Renault to be privatised in second half of 1995
      49 1 AFP PARIS Frcnch carmaker Renault is to be privatised during the second half of 1995, Industry Minister Jose Rossi said yesterday. Outlining his department's 1995 budget details, lie said Renault "must prepare to take a new step, that of privatisation".
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    • Article
      Lock icon US firms win battle over telecoms patent policy
      38 1 Reuter BRUSSELS US clcctronics companies have won their long-running battle to kill a European policy on telecommunications patent licences they said was far too restrictive, industry sourccs said yesterday. Reutcr
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    165 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STI! 2.237.97 +0.22 KLSEComp 1.005.23 -6.29 Nikkei 18.811.36 +144.43 Hang Seng 8.662.37 +3.54 SET Index 1.342.13 -7.26 Jakarta Cornp 486.84 -0.73 CLSA China B ....1.024.36 -0.37 Ausl All Ord 1.911.6 11.6 FTSE 100 3.047.1 +13.6 Monday Previous 1 pm ESI closc Dow Jones
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    Royal Brothers adds NZ$25m hotel to its growing portfolio
    493 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE The Singa-pore-based Royal Brothers group has bought another hotel in New Zealand, bringing its investment in Australasia to more than $186 million in six hotels. The group paid NZ$25 million (5522.7 million) or about NZ5166,000 a room
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    Transco Holdings buys 14% of New Zealand textile company
    403 1  -  By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE Mohan Mulani's Transco Holdings group has bought a 14.4 per cent stake in New Zealand-listed Designer Textiles, with plans to raise it to 20 per eent eventually. Mr Mulani, managing director of Transeo Holdings, told BT in
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    Dow keeps tight grip on regional bourses
    314 1 SINGAPORE Worries that US equity prices might weaken further after last week's steep slide continued to weigh down sentiment yesterday, with most of the region's stock markets ending lower in thin trading. In Singapore, analysts said fears that Wall Street could crumble again
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    Acma, Russian news giant to co-operate on satellite services
    286 1  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Electronics group Acma is strengthening its business ties with Russian news agency Itar-Tass through an agreement to co-operate on satellite and business communications services. This follows the signing of a letter of intent by Itar-Tass chairman Vitali
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    Asean countries likely to gain from Taiwan's go-south policy: DBS
    517 1 SINGAPORE Singapore and other Asean eountries are expected to benefit from the "Go-South Policy" being pursued by Taiwanese businesses, says DBS Bank. After falling from US$3 billion (then 554.89 billion) in 1991 to US$O.7 billion (then $1.12 billion) in 1993.
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    Lock icon Dow up 18 points but sell-off still possible, say analysts
    422 1 2am LATEST Bloomberg Business News UPI Reuter NEW YORK US stocks, recovering from last week's rout, were higher for a second day yesterday, amid signs that rising interest rates had not discouraged home buyers or holiday shoppers, traders said. But
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      235 1 rThe WorkTs SmaM 35mm Auto "il/ Z® o Camera 4 i ZODWI3QDQD CONTENTS News Companies S'pore News 2 S'pore-M'sta .19,20.21 Regional News 3.4.5 Financial 23.24 World News 6.8 Features Markets Analysis 17 CW) KISt. SES 28 30 Editorial 16 Regional 26 Sports 13 World 21 TV; Lifestyle 15 Currencies 24
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      10 1 Property: p k io China office rents set to soar
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      11 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 19 BHP's Asia drive fuels share rise
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      21 1 The Woricft Smatat 35mm Auto Focus Zoom Camera H| Nikon ZQDWI3GDQD US existing home sales up slightly in October, Pg 18
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Loans grow, but pace set to slacken
        301 2  -  By Shiv Taneja LOANS to professionals and private individuals surged 49.1 per cent year-on-year to $12.4 billion in the third quarter, pushing overall loans growth to 15.7 per cent or $87.4 billion. But with interest rates on the rise the average prime lending
        Source: Monetary Authority of Singapore  -  301 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Tampines begins countdown to cable television by June next year
      331 2  -  By Michelle Low PHASF one of Singapore's $500 million island-wide cable TV network will be in place in Tampines by June next year and the entire island will be hooked up within three or four years. Singapore Cable Vision has
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      S'pore to keep up investment in logistics industry
      343 2  -  Asia Pacific Transport and Logistics '94 Reports by Alec Almazan TO MAINTAIN its position as a regional logistics hub, Singapore will continue investing in infrastructure, information technology and the development of a larger logistics manpower base. Minister for Communications and the Environment
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      Boeing picks Republic for Asia-Pacific's first avionics repair centre
      261 2 US aircraft manufacturer Boeing will set up an avionics repair centre in Singapore, its first in Asia-Pacific, a senior Boeing official said yesterday. Boeing will invest between US$B million and USSIO million in the centre which will open in February. It
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      NTUC Club aims to raise workers' status with Orchard branch
      317 2 THE opening of the Paradigm club, the fifth and latest braneh of the National Trades Union Congress Club, will hopefully bring the public's esteem and regard for the NTUC and its elub to an even higher plane. Lim Boon Heng.
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      172 2 Epson Makes Business A Pleasure. EPSON nothing quite like an 'out of order' sign pasted to your copy machine m t lB mic c e a k us y wor^cc a y to g |V e y° u a nervous breakdown. Minolta understands. That's why our brand new CS P
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      14 2 Boeing hoping to replace SlA's Airbus A3lO with its 8777, Shipping limes Pg 20
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Rahim charged with corruption
      532 3  -  Ex-chief minister's charges related to two land deals From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR FORMER Malacca chief minister Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, who was cleared of allegations that he had an affair with an undcragcd girl, was yesterday charged for corruption related to two land
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      Lock icon Suharto, top businessmen buy shares in new firm
      147 3 AFP JAKARTA President Suharto and many top Indonesian businessmen have bought shares in a new venture firm whose paid-up capital totals more than US$l.5 million (552.19 million), a press report said here yesterday. The Kompas daily quoted Finance Minister Mar'ic Muhamad as
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • Article
        Lock icon Sabah expects 7.9% economic growth
        96 3 Bernama KOTA KINABALU The Sabah government yesterday presented to the State Assembly a surplus budget of M$ 1.292 billion (***** million) for next year, estimating revenue at MS 1.315 billion. State Finanee Minister Mohd Salleh Tun Said, in his budget speech, said 1995 economic growth
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        Lock icon Imelda may run for office
        69 3 Reuter MANILA Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos yesterday said she was considering running for office in elections next year and was ready to do so even from prison. Mrs Marcos said she was under pressure from supporters of her late husband, former president Ferdinand
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        Lock icon International airport at Clark air base
        63 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippine government has downgraded a plan to convert the former Clark US air base into the country's premier international airport in favour of expanding existing facilities in Manila. Fmilio Osmena. chairman of the presidential committee on flagship programmes and projects, yesterday
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        Lock icon Indonesia approves US$1b investment
        59 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia approved a total of US$l.O2 billion (SS 1.5 billion) of foreign investment in the month leading to Nov 15. The Antara news ageney yesterday quoted data from the Investment Coordinating Board showing the government gave the go-ahead to 36 new projects worth US$9l2
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      Lock icon Third qtr Philippine growth to exceed 4.1%: economists
      251 3 Reuter MANILA Economists yesterday forecast higher Philippine economic growth in the third quarter hut expressed concern that a rising peso and low savings could stunt the country's recovery in the long haul. Government and private economists say gross domestic growth in the
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      Lock icon Four S-E A nations to cooperate in developing Mekong
      358 3 AP AFP HANOI Four South-east Asian nations yesterday agreed to cooperate in developing the lower Mekong River for better irrigation, power generation, flood control and tourism. Representatives of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand pledged to allow freedom of navigation on the
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      Petrovietnam gains oil export monopoly in industry revamp
      215 3 SINGAPORE Vietnam's homegrown oil giant, Petrovietnam, has acquired state oil exporter Petechim, ending Petechim's monopoly with effect from Oct 1. Vietnamese oil officials told Business Times that Petrovietnam had reorganised the oil sector in a bid to integrate the operations of the
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Beijing puts US$3b power station project on hold
      472 4 Eastern Express HONGKONG Two of the world's loading electricity companies. which plan to build a US$3 billion (554.4 billion) power station in Shandong province, have had their project put on hold by Beijing. Hongkong's China L ight Power (CLP) and Llcctricitc de
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      Lock icon Patten no longer wanted in HK, says survey
      218 4 AFP HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten is widely regarded here as a lame duck who is no longer useful in the run-up to China's takeover of Hongkong in 1997, according to a survey published yesterday. Public opinion sees Mr Patten as wounded and
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      Lock icon Abuse of workers' rights rampant in China firms: study
      330 4 UPI BtIJING A nationwide inspection of management practices in China's state and for-eign-funded businesses has uncovered flagrant and widespread abuses of workers' rights and blatant safety hazards in the pursuit of profits. A March to September survey of 137.000 state-run and
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      Lock icon China, Taiwan fail to make progress in talks
      348 4 Differences remain over repatriation of air hijackers Reuter BEIJING Negotiators from arch-rivals China and Taiwan failed to make progress in six. days of talks in the eastern city of Nanjing, despite early expressions of optimism. Chinese media reported yesterday. The Chinese side
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      Lock icon HK's release of lawyer in graft case sparks fresh controversy
      359 4 AFP HONGKONG The central figure in one of Hongkong's most notorious corruption cases will be freed from prison today amidst reported threats to his life and renewed controversy over the handling of his case. Whether Warwick Reid, a 47-year-old former
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Beijing determined to rejoin Gatt
        88 4 AFP BEIJING Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng has reaffirmed China's determination to rejoin Gatt by the end of the year and become a founding member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), major newspapers reported yesterday. "The conditions arc ripe for China's re-entry to Gatt," Mr
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        Lock icon Forum on economic problems
        71 4 AFP BEIJING A government-sponsored national conference on China's economic problems opened here yesterday. Chinese sources said the meeting, which gathers the country s most senior governmental and provincial officials, will attempt to identify China's major economic policy goals for 1995. The conference coincs two months after
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        Lock icon HK trade moves into HK$3.5b deficit
        91 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's merchandise trade lurched into a deficit of I 1K53.5 billion (*****.5 million) in October against a surplus of HKS2.B billion in the ycar-carlicr month, according to government figures issued yesterday. The deficit, equivalent to 3 per cent of the
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        Lock icon HK, Thailand in Liaoning grain JV
        83 4 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG China, Hongkong and Thailand have set up the first joint venture dealing with grain exports from China's northern Liaoning province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. The Jinyuan International Cereals Co Ltd, loeated in Panjin city, is the country's first project
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka to partly privatise state phone company
      398 5 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka will partially privatise its stateowned telephone company by selling 20 per cent of its equity to domestic and foreign buyers, its deputy finance minister said yesterday. "We have taken a decision in principle to sell up to 20
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      Lock icon Aussie figures show exports stagnant, imports surging
      263 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australian balance of payments data, released yesterday, showed a sharp deterioration in the country's trade position in the third quarter with exports stagnant and imports surging. The dramatic lift-off in imports saw the seasonally adjusted merchandise trade deficit balloon to its
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      Lock icon US probes timber firms1 claims of Japan discrimination
      262 5 US probes timber firms 1 claims of Japan discrimination AFP TOKYO The United States government is investigating whether American lumber suppliers were discriminated against in bids to supply wood for a skating rink for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. The Yomiuri newspaper yesterday said the US I rade Representative's Office
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      Lock icon Police hunt Maoist bombers
      61 5 Reuter MAHADEVPUR, India Indian policemen conducting a search operation over the weekend here after a land-mine blast by Maoist guerillas opposing state assembly elections in the southern state of Andra Pradesh killed 16 people last week. Fourteen policemen and two civilians were killed on the way
      Reuter  -  61 words
    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Soros Fund to invest US$200m in India
        102 5 Financial Express NEW YORK Soros Fund Management, part of the holdings of investment guru George Soros, will invest US$2OO million (***** million) of its US$l2 billion portfolio in India, the Financial Express said yesterday. Purnendu Chatterjee, who handles Soros Fund Management's Indian operations,
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        Lock icon Canberra urged to review visa rule
        93 5 AFP SYDNEY Australia's peak tourism lobby group yesterday called for a review of tourist visa requirements, arguing that the current policy threatened industry growth in the lead-up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The government should trial the scrapping of tourist visas in "high volume,
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        Lock icon Kim Il Sung backed economic opening
        108 5 AFP TOKYO North Korean strongman Kim II Sung had endorsed a cautious economic opening of his isolated Stalinist state in a meeting with top cadres just two days before he died, on July 8. Han Tok Su, chairman of the Pyongyang-guided General Association of
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        Lock icon Strike cripples Bombay
        95 5 Bloomberg Business News BOMBAY A general strike yesterday called by a radical Hindu revivalist political party, Shiv Sena, crippled most areas of Bombay, India's commercial hub, and stopped some commuter trains and buses. Most offices and shops did not open and the city's streets, usually crowded with
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        Lock icon Flash floods in Sri Lanka
        83 5 AFP COLOMBO Rash floods in eastern Sri Lanka have left an estimated 65,000 families homeless following the heaviest rains in 31 years. Relief officials yesterday said more than a dozen villages in the coastal Batticaloa district were completely under water and the government had arranged
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        Lock icon Japan's jobless rate to stay at 3%
        72 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's unemployment rate will probably stay at 3 per cent in October. Economists' forecasts compiled by Bloomberg Business News showed that that was just shy of the record high 3.1 per cent set in May 1987. Economists had been
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  • THE WORLD
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      US Congress opens deferred debate on Gatt bill today
      514 6  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON SEVERAL months later than originally scheduled, the US Congress meets today to begin a week-long debate on the global trade treaty, negotiated and signed under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt),
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      Lock icon Berlusconi ready to meet graft investigators anytime
      347 6 Reuter ROME Italy's Prime Ministor Silvio Berlusconi, declaring "I have nothing to hide", yesterday said he was ready to meet Milan's "Clean Hands" investigators at any time and on their own turf to answer allegations of corruption. "If they want, and if (my)
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Scams thrive in Iraq amid embargo
        69 6 AFP BAGDHAD Picture taken on Sunday off Iraqi television showing Sami Hassan Kadhem. a 34-year-old hairdresser who set up a bogus company called SAM-CO which made him 1.3 billion dinars (553.4 million) over two years. A new breed of billionaires has sprung up in
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      • Article
        Lock icon EU slaps duties on Asian textiles
        90 6 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission yesterday re-estab-lished customs duties on textile imports from India. Indonesia. Malaysia. Pakistan and the Philippines. The duties, which had been suspended from July 1. will re-apply from Nov 28 to goods such as various yarns, woven synthetic libres. mens
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        Lock icon Former Uruguay president re-elected
        93 6 AFP MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay Former president Julio Maria Sanguinetti won Sunday's presidential election with 33.5 per cent ot the vote, two polling firms said on the basis of exit surveys. Mr Sangumetti. 59, ot the Colorado Party, who scr\ed as the first civilian president from 1985 to
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        Lock icon Hungary to privatise state-held firms
        63 6 Reuter BUDAPEST Hungary's government has decided on the privatisation of major five companies or company groups in which the state holds all or majority stakes. They are national electrical utility Magyar Villamosmuvek Rt. National Oil and Gas Industry Co Ltd, all five rural gas suppliers,
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      Lock icon Russian leaders vow to curb inflation, stabilise economy next year
      313 6 Reuter MOSCOW Russian leaders have promised to stabilise the economy in 1995. slashing monthly inflation and bringing the budget deficit under control. But it will take more than words to turn Russia's ailing economy around. Parliament seeks changes to government
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      Lock icon UK chancellor expected to stick to his guns on taxes
      382 8 FT LONDON Kenneth Clarke, the chancellor, on Sunday made the final adjustments to a budget that is expected to cut government spending plans sharply and make tax and benefit changes to help the long-term unemployed back to work. Although the
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      Lock icon Fancy trading a shopping cart for a Rolls?
      70 8 AFP BORDEAUX, France Shoppers at a supermarket in Bordeaux, south-western France, are being given a chance ot a lifetime: to win this shiny 1973 Rolls-Rovce Silver Shadow during the store's British Week promotion. All a customer has to do is answer two
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      Lock icon US leads in direct investments abroad, says World Bank
      380 8 AP WASHINGTON US direct investment abroad reached a record USSSB billion (5584.8 billion) last year and Americans had more control of foreign business than people of any other nationality who buy into enterprises abroad. "Despite the US economic recession of the
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      Lock icon Brokers urge UAE firms to split shares to make them more affordable
      289 8 AFP ABU DHABI United Arab Emirates (UAH) banks and eompanies should split their traded shares into smaller units to spur the stock market and end a monopoly by major investors. dealers said. Steady profits by most trading institutions
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      Lock icon World Bank warns about Aids as economic threat
      198 8 The Washington Post WASHINGTON The World Bank will emphasise the importance of Aids as a threat to economic development in a new and larger campaign of lending to countries wracked by the epidemic disease. The effect of Aids on income and work
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
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      Lock icon China office supply set to soar
      563 10 Strong demand from foreign firms will hold up prices, say analysts Reuter OFFICE space in China's major cities is expected to soar in the next four years but demand for prime offices is likely to remain strong and keep prices and rents from crashing,
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      Walshe Rd area property deal kindles high hopes in vicinity
      719 10  -  Lilian Ang reports on the ripple effect of five bungalow owners selling out en bloc to a developer Lilian Ang NEXT week a group of five property owners in the Walshe Road area will seal an agreement to sell their
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      Phnom Penh tower launched by JLW
      324 10  -  By Abdul Hadhi Commercial space in the US$5O million (Ss73 million) Olympic Tower and Hotel project in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh was launched yesterday by Jones Lang Wootton (JLW). The project is being developed by three former Simex traders and a Cambodian
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      Lock icon Group offers 20b pesos for Fort Bonifacio project
      296 10 AFP A CONSORTIUM led by Philippine property giant Fil-Estate Land Inc said it would offer a minimum bid of 20 billion pesos (S$ 1.22 billion) to develop a massive real estate project. Fil-Estate, which heads a consortium of property and investment firms,
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      Indonesia regulates launches of apartment sales
      480 11 New decree expected to benefit both developers and buyers INDONESIAN Minister of Public Housing Akbar Tandjung announced last Saturday that his office has issued a new decree to regulate launches of apartment sales, in order to protect consumers, the Jakarta Post reported. The new
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      PROPERTY WATCH
      255 11 Selected transactions in the past week Date of n f Built in area/ TT ~~T Sale price T~ transaction District Project Type land area (aq ft) enure (S$) p8 PRIVATE Nov 21.1994 I 0923 j Pacific Mansions Condo apt 1528 FH 625,000 409 Nov 21,1994' 1953 Rosalia Park
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon More Chinese athletes said to have failed doping tests
      520 13 AP TOKYO The performances of China's athletes at last month's Asian Games often seemed too good to be true. Reports yesterday quoting Games officials said some of them probably were. According to several Japanese media reports yesterday, the Olympic Council of
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      Lock icon Marino powers Dolphins' victory over Jets
      709 13 UPI MIAMI With their season hanging in the balance, the Miami Dolphins turned to Dan Marino on Sunday and asked him to do what he does best. And when he did. the New York Jets couldn't stop him. The Dolphins are still something of
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        286 13 NEW YORK NFL on Sunday: Atlanta 28 Philadelphia 21; Cleveland 34 Houston 10; Minnesota 17 Tampa Bay 20 (OT); NY Jets 24 Miami 28; Washington 19 NY Giants 21; LA Raiders 3 Pittsburgh 21; Denver 15 Cincinnati 13; Arizona 16 Chicago 19 (OT); San Diego 31 LA Rams
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        25 13 NEW YORK NBA on Sunda>: Detroit 1 tXS Golden State 91; Phoenix 115 New Jersey 110; Sacramento 89 Utah 94; Portland 99 Indiana 89.
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        246 13 AFP Reuter PAL\I DESERT, California Five-time British Open champion Tom Watson sank a US$l6O,OOO (*****.600) putt from 6 metres feet here on Sunday to win the Skins Game, his first golfing triumph since the 1992 Hongkong Open. Watson won the two-day. madc-lor-television event by taking away US$2lO,OOO in an
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        Hockey
        130 13 SY DNEY Eighth men's World Cup. sixth day >esterday Group A: Australia 2 Spain I; Argentina 4 Belarus I; Pakistan 0 England 2. Standings (won, draw, loss goals for, goals against, points): I Pakistan 3 0 1 8 4 6 2 Australia 3 0 17 4 6 3 England
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        Lock icon Rugby
        184 13 Reuter AP BELFAST South Africa will field a radically altered midweek side against Combined Provinces in their penultimate tour match today. Springbok coach Kitch Christie. announcing the side on Sunday. made six changes from the team which beat Pontypridd 9-3 last Tuesday. Transvaal wing Pieter Hendriks is selected out
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      Koreans steal the limelight
      1022 13  -  Shahiron Sahari recounts how the Koreans stormed their way to victory at the Dubai International Rugby Sevens Shahiron Sahari DUBAI It was an outcome against all odds. South Korea, the first East Asian team to play in the Dubai International Rugby Sevens. confounded all pundits last
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      Lock icon England keeps alive slim hopes of victory
      443 13 AP BRISBANE A determined unbeaten third-wicket stand between Graeme Hick and Graham Thorpe yesterday kept alive England's hopes of scoring an extraordinary victory over Australia in the first cricket Test at the Gabba Ground. Hick was unbeaten on 72 at stumps and Thorpe
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      Grant's big birthday bash
      722 15  -  Susan Tsang finds Amy Grant's impromptu party relaxed, even cosy Susan Tsang AMY GRANT'S House of Love concert got off to a great start last Friday with Michael W Smith. The singer performed his "Christianbased" songs, including the overtly religious Cross Of Gold and Secret Ambition.
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      Lock icon Presley's new house not a sign of discord with Jackson, say friends
      644 15 CHATTERBOX UPI AP AP AP UPI YOU'RE never too rich to pass up a bargain in Southern California's sluggish real estate market. At least that's what friends of Lisa Marie Presley are saying. Presley recently bought a US$l.5
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      124 15 "J (1 TO iO NOVEMBER '94) To celebrate our (>th Anniversary, Cafe Aladdin is offering selected local dishes at only $<>.00 e«H li tor lunt h and dinner daily. Fried Hokkien Mee Fried Yee Mee Cdfc Fried Noodles (Hong Kong style) Beef Noodles Mee Rebus Mee Siam i For reservations,
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      1223 15 TV RADIO Valerie Bertinelli as Harvard law graduate Molly Kil- f w 1 coin. The beauty with brains i 44 \~I i^" 1 also has ideals, and turns down I mK a V \Jj )j private practice to become an Jifci assistant district attorney. She Jij f finds herself investigating
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    Republican brinksmanship
    502 16 EDITORIAL IN THE end, good sense prevailed over petty politics. After days of backroom scheming. America's Republicans decided this week to support Congressional ratification of the historic free-trade treaty hammered out by signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). In the process the party averted
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      Half measures won't do
      448 16 JAPAN may have found that it can no longer duck and weave over the issue of comfort women and how to atone for their war-time violations. In August, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama did that with an eyewash of a plan to promote an exchange of scholars
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      A shortsighted move
      146 16 THERE are only two weeks to go before the Geneva conference on starting up Gatt's successor the World Trade Organisation (WTO) goes ahead. The rest of the world is still anxiously awaiting the deliberation in the United States Congress to see whether America will ratify the 123-nation
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      Religions must heal themselves
      100 16 THE sixth World Conference on Religion and Peace has just closed in Italy. It was attended by 850 people from 63 countries politicians and scholars as well as religious people such as Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Judaists and Shintoists. The discussions brought home to us the sense
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      Keeping promises in Sri Lanka
      148 16 CHANDRIKA Kumaratunga's landslide victory in the recent presidential elections in Sri Lanka gives her a clear mandate to pursue the two big promises on which she campaigned. One is the continuation of peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The other is the
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      Arming the Bosnians
      100 16 WHAT more can the United Nations expect from the Serbs after their recent attack on Bihac, supposedly one of the safe havens guaranteed by the world body? The world should not talk about peace when Bosnia bleeds horrendously. It is time for the so-called champion of human
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      Help for senior citizens
      109 16 THt suicide rate among the elderly Chinese in Singapore is the highest in the world. Therefore, we should pay attention to the mental needs of our senior eiti- zcns. To maintain the mental health of senior citizens, society should not only give them more medical attention
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    Preparing for the great leap forward
    1115 16  -  As chairman of Apec for the coming year. Japan plans to emphasise the building of infrastructure that will support greater trade and investments, says Anthony Rowley Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THE Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum has constructed a grand edifice
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      70 16 GUN RND f-'Ames? <iDHeyc,..iao... UHPST'S THtreuepHoHc'N r i2sgc foE°FftS S OF" LeJrocE Vmc\R Nun&eß is J GUN J *ND P> Tfa OF CAnvjcd V 170 IQ9S ZZ~y vT Cok ,C <r ONA A ~~92)) r\ A\ ITB (Sr„ r cf\ L MY CJMORiC ti 4 <«SSOCIATtONeWSPAPCRSI.TO.tMMM4 J f- I P
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      New face of Asian investment in Australia
      1477 17  -  Asian investors in Australia tended to concentrate on property and tourism. Now. however, direct investment from the region has diversified both in geographical and industry terms, reports Peter Osborne Peter Osborne The writer is a BT eorrespondent ASIAN investment patterns in Australia have
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      Perilous frontier of the human genome
      974 17  -  Jessica Mathews on why the world is not prepared for the torrent of genetic information that is about to be unleashed Jessica Mathews The writer is a senior fellow at the L'S Council on Foreign Relations. The human genome is about to become the
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      Asian investments will drive Aussie growth
      255 17 ASIAN investment in the resources sector, which draws around 15 per cent of Australia's proposals for direct investment, will continue to underpin Australia's economic growth. "Foreign investment in the mines and resource sector will drive growth in the Australian economy," says Bruce Teele. chief
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      159 17 I Jfs£&FOß THE PRESTIGIOUS OF VALES MSc iVfj. Health Care Management The University of Wales, established in 1892, is second in size to the University of London. It is recognised today as the centre of excellence for the provision of a wide range of education, training and research. Its expertise
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    Lock icon Washington backs Fed's goal of curbing inflation
    556 18 Bloomberg Business News AP WASHINGTON The Clinton administration backs the Federal Reserve's goal of curbing inflation to help foster continued economic growth. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen yesterday said the Fed aimed for "solid growth with sustained low inflation", and "we share that objective".
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    Lock icon Major poised to win crucial vote on EU
    458 18 Rebel Tories cowed into backing PM over raising payments Reuter LONDON Prime Minister John Major yesterday counted the cost of forcing rebels from his ruling Conservative Party to back him on a crucial vote to boost Britain's payments to the European Union.
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    Lock icon Campbell Soup to buy sauce-maker for US$1.16b
    228 18 Bloomberg Business News CAMDEN, New Jersey Campbell Soup Co said it has agreed to purchase Pace Foods Ltd, the world's leading maker of Mexican sauces, for US$l.l billion (SSI.6 billion). The acquisition is expected to dilute Campbell's per-share earnings by about 7 cents
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    Lock icon Israeli satellite on show
    65 18 AFP YEHUD, Israel Amos-1, Israel's first communication satellite that will be sent into orbit in November next year by a French Ariane rocket, being shown to the press for the first time on Sunday. The satellite, built by the Israel Aircraft Industries, will cover 750,000 km
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    Lock icon US existing home sales up slightly in October
    316 18 Reuter WASHINGTON Sales of existing homes rose 0.5 per cent in October to a 3.91 million unit annual rate, up from, a revised 3.89 million units in September. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) yesterday said that in comparison with the rate
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    Walter Woon makes Time list of 100 young world leaders
    251 18 SINGAPORE Seventeen Asians are among 100 young world leaders picked by Time magazine. Among them is law professor and Nominated Member of Parliament Walter Woon. 38. the only Singaporean on the list. Other Asians in the 100 young world leaders
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    Lock icon Japan offers package to aid Russian economic reforms
    339 18 AFP TOKYO Japanese Trade Minister Rvutaro Hashimoto yesterday unveiled a package to support Russia's economic reforms by stimulating trade and industrial activities. The minister presented the so-called Hashimoto Plan during a meeting here with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets. The
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    326 18 Reuter OSLO Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland yesterday predieted Norwegians would say "yes" to Europe yesterday after casting her vote in a referendum on European Union membership as final opinion polls turned the vote into a last-gasp thriller. "I believe
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    Gas it ain't easy displacing Old King Coal after all
    928 18  -  The Bottom Line SN VASUKI SN VASUKI The writer is a B'T correspondent specialising in regional infrastructure ABOUT llOOkm north of Jakarta. near a small island in the South China Sea. American petroleum giant Exxon Corporation and Pertamina. the Indonesian
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    Lock icon EC challenges summit on public works programmes
    230 18 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission yesterday challenged EU leaders to accept or reject plans at their forthcoming summit for a series of major public works programmes and ways of paying for them. "What we ask them to do is to make our recommendations
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Jurong Engineering arm bags US$40m steel job
      415 19  -  From Al Labita in MANILA JURONG Philippines has landed a US$4O million (SS6O million) sub-contract, its biggest since it began operating in Manila in 1979. The job involves the fabrication and erection of steel structures for a US$2 billion baseload power plant in
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      ITE Electric hopeful of 87% profit leap
      398 19  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Electrical equipment distributor ITE Electric, which yesterday launched its Sesdaq public share offer, said it was confident of raising its net earnings by 87 per cent to S 1.1 million this year. The company, which is offering 11 million
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      Cosco Investments adds $2m in third quarter
      319 19  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE China-con-trolled Cosco Investments Singapore could be in for a turnaround this year, with $2 million worth of earnings believed to have been added in the third quarter alone. The listed shipping group, formerly known as Sun Corp, reported
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      BHP's Asia drive fuelling share rise
      712 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Peter Osborne SINGAPORE The shares of Australia's biggest company. Broken Hill Proprietary, closed yesterday at AS 18.74, compared with Asl6 in April and a record of A 520.78 at the end of last month. At yesterday's closing price, BHP is
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      Broadway debut offer of 28m shares subscribed 1.03 times
      215 19  -  By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE Eoam packaging maker Broadway's initial public offer of 28.647 million shares has been subscribed 1.03 times. Its placement tranche of 11.38 million shares was fully taken up while the public offer of 14.49 million shares, excluding 2.86
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      Marco Polo unit seals $400m loan to buy Ardmore Park
      187 19 SINGAPORE A wholly owned subsidiary of Marco Polo Developments, MP-Bilt, signed a bridging loan agreement with a consortium of five banks yesterday to finance the purchase of residential property Ardmore Park. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp, OverseaChinese Banking Corp, Development
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        MARKET MOOD
        47 19 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance. Baring. Daiwa. Fraser. G K Goh. Kay Hum. Morgan (jrenfell. OngCo. Nomura. Phillip. Smith New Court. W/ Carr and SO Warburg.
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        HOT STOCK
        119 19  -  Quak Hiang Whai CHOCOLATE Products has been displaying patterns quite similar to many Clob counters. The stock appears to have traded to a short and medium-term base, possibly at around $1.20, with all its short-term indicators such as daily RSI and stochastics near the oversold zero level. The
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          Superbowl lifts stake in Sentosa unit
          68 20 SINGAPORE Sports and leisure group Superbowl Holdings has inereased its shareholding in wholly owned subsidiary Superbowl Sentosa by subseribing for an additional 1.25 million ordinary share* of SI eaeh for cash at par value. The authorised capital of Superbowl Sentosa is $2 million and
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          Clipsal adds to S African unit stake
          71 20 SINGAPORE: Electrical accessories maker Clipsal Industries Holdings yesterday said its associate company in Australia, Gerard Industries has, through wholly owned subsidiary Clipsal Industries, had acquired an additional interest of 15 per cent in the issued and paid-up capital of company Lumex Clipsal in
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          Comfort buys 12m Stamford shares
          58 20 SINGAPORE Local transport group Comfort has completed subscription of 12 million ordinary shares of 25 cents each in Stamford Tyre?; Corp by way of a private placement at 80 cents a share. The Comfort Group now owns 12.16 million shares, representing 20.27 per cent of
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          INS' CEO buying 6% stake
          62 20 SINGAPORE Singapore Reinsurance Corp yesterday announced that is selling 30.000 ordinary shares at Si each in subsidiary INS Communications to the latter's chief executive officer, Mokanasivam Subramaniam. This comprises 6 per cent of total paid-up capital of $500,000 ordinary shares of $1 each in INS
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          Lock icon Siam Cement profit up 34%
          56 20 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Siam Cement pic, Thailand's largest building materials conglomerate, said consolidated earnings for the third quarter were 1.38 billion baht (SSBS million), up 34 per cent from 1.03 billion baht a year ago. Earnings per share were 11.58 baht compared with 18.48
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          Lock icon Renong completes bond issue
          54 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Renong Bhd's issue of up to US$3OO million (***** million) 10-year unsecured Euroconvertible bonds has been completed. Commerce International Merchant Bankers Bhd said. The issue was completed at an issue size of USS22S million with a coupon rate of 2.5 per cent per
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        Lock icon KL bull run unlikely to be replayed in short term
        172 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The strong bull run on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange as seen in the last quarter of 1993 is unlikely to be repeated in the short to medium-term, says securities firm Omega Holdings Bhd. Omega executive chairman
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        Lock icon Hicom posts 34% rise in interim pre-tax profit
        157 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Hicom Holdings Bhd yesterday reported a group pre-tax profit of M 5151.84 million (5586.55 million) for the six months ended Sep 30, 1994, up 34 per cent from M 5113.31 million in the previous corresponding period. At the company
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        Petronas Gas to be listed on KLSE in June
        454 20 KUALA LUMPUR Petronas plans to list its whollyowned subsidiary Petronas Gas Sdn Bhd on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) in June next year. Petronas president Azizan Zainul Abidin said Petronas Gas' prospectus on the listing would be issued in March
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        Lock icon Reliance Pacific posts 18% rise in profit
        340 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Reliance Pacific Berhad's aggressive expansion into the local tourism sector led it to register an 18 per cent rise in its unaudited group operating profit to M 53.665 million (SS2.I million) for the six-month period ended Sep 30, 1994, against
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        Indosat stock forecast to be top performer
        231 20  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE PT Indosat, Indonesia's leading international telephony provider, is expected to be the best performing telecommunication stock in Asia in the next 18 months, US broker JP Morgan Securities said yesterday. In a report released in Hongkong yesterday, Morgan forecasts
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        FCC launches $40m redeemable share issue
        278 20  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Listed property group First Capital Corporation yesterday announced a S4O million redeemable preference shares issue by its wholly owned subsidiary. First Capital Investment Pte Ltd. The issue, which is managed by the newly set up HL Bank and is believed
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        Indocement sales soar 25% amid construction boom in Indonesia
        397 20  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA INDOCEMENT. Indonesia's largest cement producer, controlling 52 per cent of the market, has boosted sales by 25 per cent in the first nine months of the year. Yesterday it announced revenues of 2,452 billion rupiah (SSI47
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        Lock icon HK-listed C P Pokphand in Indonesian expansion
        117 20 Reuter HONGKONG Agri-busi-ness specialist C P Pokphand has agreed to a conditional sale and purchase pact and conditional share subscription agreement with chicken-care product maker PT Surya Hidup Satwa (SHS) of Indonesia. Hongkong-listed C P Pokphand yesterday said it would sell 21.1 per
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        551 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager*' pricn (I) Nov 29 Mcndaki Or Fund 1.10 1.13 c A Trllc US Gr Fund 0.93 0 96xd" Unit TriSt 1IAD Acca4 M<ri |M The Commerce- 1.65 I 75 UOB ASS€t IWgt Lt0 The Savings Fund 1.58 1.67 L'nifund 1.46 1.52 S'pore Prog Fund 0.61 0.65
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          Lock icon Prudential Securities Japan to sell seat
          90 22 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Prudential Securities (Japan) Ltd said yesterday that it will sell its seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and cut its Japanese equities stall, the latest in a series ot foreign brokerage houses to reduce its presence here. Prudential Securities Inc
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          Lock icon Brierley ups stake in Tasman Agriculture
          112 22 Reuter WELLINGTON Brierley Investments Ltd yesterday said it acquired a further 15.9 per cent of Tasman Agriculture Ltd, bringing its total holding in the farm operator to 45.6 per cent. BIL said it acquired the shares a mix of rights and ordinary shares between
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          Lock icon Marubeni's 1st-half profit plunged 55%
          61 22 AFP TOKYO Marubeni Corp. a Japanese major trading house, yesterday said its group pre-tax profit plunged 54.9 per cent from a year earlier to 12.2 billion yen (S$ 180 million) in the six months to September. For the full year, the company forecast a net
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          Lock icon Beijing approves convertible bond issues
          59 22 AFP SHANGHAI China's State Council has given approval in principle to two companies to issue convertible bonds tor the first time to gauge market response to such debt instruments, sources here said yesterday. The two companies are Shanghai Tyre and Rubber Company, China's largest tyre
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        Lock icon Coca Cola to boost Sri Lanka output through S'pore venture
        213 22 Reuter COLOMBO Soft drinks giant Coca Cola is boosting production in Sri Lanka through a Singapore-based joint venture to fight its global rival Pepsico and consolidate its position in the local market, its domestic bottler said yesterday. "We are increasing
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        S'pore's Pacific Union buys into China firm listing in Australia
        396 22  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY A SINGAPORE-registered investment firm. Pacific Union Pte Co, has taken up a 35 per cent stake in a soon-to-bc-floated Chinese company. Pearl River Tvre (Holdings) Ltd. Pearl River Tyre is expected to list in early
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        Investors snap up share placement by China cable maker CDC
        275 22  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG CHENGDU Telecommunications Cable Company (CDC), which is seeking to raise HKS44B million (SsBs million) through the issue of 160 million H shares at HKS2.BO each, is offering half the shares to the public. The
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        Harbin Power Equipment H-share offer proves a winner
        416 22  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Institutional investors have oversubscribed for the H-share offer by China's Harbin Power Equipment Co Ltd even before the global private placement closes today. Yesterday, representatives of lead underwriter for the issue. SG Warburg, said investors who had placed
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Car insurers buffeted by high ratio of claims, competition
        350 23  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE The loss ratio in motor insurance in Singapore the ratio of claims to premiums has worsened in the past three years. This was revealed by Lee Yoong Sin, a National University of Singapore don, at a
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        Lock icon US investment income goes negative
        517 23 Net international debt estimated at USsss6b at end of last year IHT PARIS The clock started ticking in 1987, when for the first time since the early years of this century foreign debts owed by Americans began to exceed their overseas assets. It was only
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          Lock icon GKM gets loan for property project
          104 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR GKM Wilayah-Prescon Sdn Bhd has obtained a MS 123.5 million (5570.4 million) syndicated loan for its Sentul Perdana development project in collaboration with the Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur. GKM chairman Mohamed Tahir Salam said yesterday the redevelopment project with a total
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          Lock icon Renminbi strength fleeting: JP Morgan
          94 23 Reuter HONGKONG The strength of China's renminbi against the dollar this year will not last in 1995, said JP Morgan. The brokerage said in a report that in China, exchange rate system reform, a trade balance turnaround to surplus from deficit, a flood of direct
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          Lock icon Siam Commercial Bank gets debt licence
          65 23 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Siam Commercial Bank has been granted a debt-trading licence from the Finance Ministry, and will start trading tomorrow, a statement by the bank said. The bank will trade debt instruments such as bonds, promissory notes, debentures and convertible debentures. The bank will
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          Lock icon Indon private banks up deposit rates
          99 23 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's privately run banks raised their deposit rates by up to one percentage point in response to a central bank discount rate rise, bankers said yesterday. Bank Niaga quoted its six-month deposit rate at 14.00 per cent compared with 13.50 per cent
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          Lock icon US insurer Liberty to move into Japan
          76 23 AFP TOKYO The Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, a major US non-life insurer, plans to begin operating in Japan in the autumn of 1995, pending Finance Ministry approval expected to be given in the summer, an industry source said yesterday. The business daily Nihon
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          Lock icon Manhattan Card launches loan issue
          61 23 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Manhattan Card Co, a credit card company 54 per cent owned by Chase Manhattan Bank, has launched a HKS2OO million (5537.9 million) oflenng of five-year floatingrate certificates of deposit, said a spokesman for joint arranger Jardine Fleming Bank. The FRCDs, launched on Friday,
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        Lock icon Disability is now a bad risk for US insurance firms
        533 23 NYT NEW YORK Companies that sell disability insurance to individuals are reporting a sharp rise in claims for certain ailments that were little known 10 years ago, leaving the insurers with losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. The companies
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        Lock icon Two KL banks lead W Asian banks in assets in Islamic system
        243 23 UPI KUALA LUMPUR Two Malaysian banks. Malayan Banking Bhd and Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd. lead all other Western Asian banks in assets in the increasing popular Islamic banking system. The London-based magazine Enromoney yesterday said the two banks
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        Lock icon Asia's forex drive may upset central banks
        429 23 Knight-Ridder SINGAPORE: Since early 1994, major banks in Singapore have come together to map a strategy to make the Republic already a key banking centre a viable market for banks and corporates elsewhere to obtain liquid Asian currency prices. But South-east Asia's central
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        Lock icon UK firms face problems in getting adequate insurance cover next year
        269 23 FT LONDON Many British companies face difficulties in obtaining adequate or even the legally required amounts of insurance cover from next year for deaths and injuries at work, corporate risk managers and insurance experts say. Government officials will hold
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        Lock icon Pakistan banks fret over curbs on lending
        478 23 Reuter ISLAMABAD Banks in Pakistan are fretting about limits on lending to the private sector. but officials want to ensure that no credit explosion saps the fight on inflation. "We have told the banks we are committed to liberalising the credit deposit ratio
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        Lock icon S-E Asia's gold demand surged 26% in third quarter
        402 24 Reuter SINGAPORE South-east Asia's gold demand rose 26 per cent from a year ago to 95 tonnes in the SeptemberNovember period, the World Gold Council (WGC) said in its November trends report. This brings total demand for the nine-month period to
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        46 24 Reuter DHAKA Thousands of private jute mill workers demonstrating here on Sunday to demand higher wages and benefits. 1 rade unions at private jute mills called for a 48-hour factory strike beginning on Sunday to back their demands. Reuter
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        Lock icon C America, Colombia pledge to bring order to coffee market
        307 24 Knight-Ridder SAN JOSE, Costa Rica Central American and Colombian cofTee producers, saying it will "order the marketplace", agreed at a meeting here last Friday to coordinate exports and distribute them quarterly. The countries agreed not to flood the market at
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        420 24 Buying from West also affecting supply Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Regional rubber prices are expected to firm on expectations of a further supply squeeze due to a seasonal monsoon and consumer buying from the West, traders said. A trader from the north Sumatran
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        Lock icon Indonesia's bauxite trial shipments to China well-received
        229 24 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Indonesia's stateowned PT Aneka Tambang's trial shipments of bauxite to China have so far proven successful, but the company has not received word on supplies for next year, a senior Aneka Tambang official said on Sunday. This year, Aneka Tambang has
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        Lock icon It's all systems go at BHP's Griffin gas plant
        236 24 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Australian resources giant Broken Hill Proprietary Co said the Griffin gas plant in the state of Western Australia has begun full scale commercial gas operations. The first sales of gas began last week following extensive start-up trials,
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        324 24 Reuter TOKYO Minister of International Trade and Industry Ryutaro Hashimoto has asked Kuwait to renew promptly Arabian Oil Co Ltd's drilling rights in oilfields otT the Gulf emirate, a VI iti official said. Mr Hashimoto asked visiting Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdulmohsen al-Mudej
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        Crude dips as Brazil's strike ends
        289 24 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Crude oil futures reversed a seven-day, 4.3 per eent rise following u return to work Saturday by Brazilian oil workers, ending a four-day strike over pay. Futures had been boosted last week as Brazil purchased 300.000 tons of gasoil to
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        196 24 Reuter LONDON The dollar was hanging above 1.56 marks in late European trading with the mood still bullish, although much attention was focused on events in Europe. With Norway voting on membership of the European Union and Prime Minister John Major facing a crucial vote in the
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        96 24 AFP NEW YORK The dollar firmed against other major currencies except the yen and the pound yesterday in moderately calm trading. Gold fell to U*****.20 an ounce, shedding 50 cents from its close on Wednesday. At about 1430 GMT, the dollar traded at 1.5635 marks, up from 1.5587
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        Lock icon Eurodollars, Euroyen ease in quiet trade
        1305 25 SMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars and Euroyen futures ended easier in moderately quiet trade. Dealers said Eurodollars were basically range-bound with market participants mostly sidelined in the absence of fresh news. "The market is still a little nervous and it is looking to
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        Palm oil higher on speculative buying
        680 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Palm Oil CRUDE palm oil prices closed higher yesterday on short covering and speculative buying. The market continued to draw strength from its bullish undertone coupled with talk that Pakistan would tender to buy nearby month shipments this week. The stronger close
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        India to export 150,000 tns of wheat
        87 25 NEW DELHI India's government-owned State Trading Corp (STC) last week finalised a contract to export 150,000 tonnes of wheat to West Asia, a company spokesman said yesterday. He did not identify the buyer. Although the identity was not announced, it is possible Iraq
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        Aussie commodity prices recover
        97 25 SYDNEY Australian commodity prices have recovered from a slump in October to continue a strong upward trend, according to the International Commodity Price Review, released yesterday. The review, published by the National Farmers Federation (NFF) and Dresdner Australia, said commodity prices rose 3.1 per cent in
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        Seoul buys less Australian beef
        69 25 SYDNEY Australia's share of the South frozen beef tender market dropped to 32.5 per cent in 1994, from 43.8 per cent last year, according to the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation. South Korea tendered for a total of 104,350 tonnes (boneless equivalent), of which Australia
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        Japan Oct copper exports down 60%
        56 25 TOKYO Japan's customs-cleared exports dt copper cathode and sections of cathode totalled 5,026 tonnes in October, down 60.1 per cent froiifr Oct 1993, according to figures released yesterday bj the Ministry of Finance. However, exports of zii* were 3,316 tonnes in October, up 30.3
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1406 25 Rubber Nov 28 Singapore Commodity Exchange Pfcyskal Prices (futures closing m at 5.30pm) Buyers Sellers As at 12 neon (S cents/kg) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) rr— KSS 2 Dcc 94 200.25 20I.25N Interest RSS 3 Dcc 94 199.25 200.25N Monlh High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 4
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        Australia
        1049 26 1.6 STOC KS closed up a shade yesterday despite jitters preceding release this week of a crucial round of economic data which kept trading to a minimum. The key All Ordinaries Index finished 1.6 points up at 1.911.6, while the All Industrials Index closed 3.4 higher at 2,758.5 and
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        Manila
        659 26 -44.37 Share prices fell yesterday, helped along by foreign investors trimming local portfolios amid a gloomy Wall Street outlook for 1995, analysts said. The PSE Index retreated 44.37 points to close at 2.678.99. Turnover was 9.49 billion shares valued at 1.39 billion pesos. "The market was very weak today,
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        Seoul
        460 26 -11.97 Share prices slumped yesterday, as overall market sentiment remained indolent, brokers said. The Composite Price Index shed 11.97 points to close at 1.069.48, after a slight comeback the previous trading day. Trading volume reflected a lacklustre trading day with 30.9 million shares valued at 704.5 billion won. Decliners
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        New Zealand
        335 26 14.59 Stocks closed stronger yesterday, but off its highs after a quiet session. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed 14.59 points higher at 2.006.81. Dealers said trade on the day was leader-driven with activity in the smaller companies limited. All the leaders finished higher, with the exception of Carter
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        Taipei
        633 26 -55.45 Stocks dropped across the board in slim trading amid uncertainty over upcoming elections, with all eight major categories of shares suffering losses. The 394-issue Weighted Price Index slipped 55.45 points to settle at 6.384.2. Turnover was 885 million shares worth NT534.19 billion. Falls overwhelmed rises 240 to 60,
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        London
        691 26 13.6 STOCKS gained as US shares leapt and a gaining dollar brought hopes of a boost in the sterling value of the profits British companies make in the US. Gains in shares on Wall Street eased concern that the US is about to see a meltdown after last Tuesday's
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        Paris
        138 26 +6.49 French shares ended up after a moderately active day in the wake of small gains on Wall Street. But investors remained wary as they expect further price corrections on the Dow. Volume was boosted by the start of Air Liquide buyout of minorities in two subsidiaries. The CAC-40
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        Brussels
        180 26 +9.55 A firmer dollar, steady bonds and strong gains on Wall Street helped Belgian shares to close higher after the Bel-20 index of leading shares breached the 1.400 resistance level at the start. Traders said that this move may indicate the market has bottomed out and was ready for
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        Milan
        196 26 +60 Italian shares were becalmed through the session, desperately seeking ideas as trade dried up, dealers said. The long-awaited futures contract made a shy debt, just 762 trades completed in the front month contract as most investors preferred to see how the index fared before commiting themselves. One dealer
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        Amsterdam
        235 26 1.99 Dutch shares closed firmer, but off the day's high, in line with the dollar and bond markets, which failed to build on early gains. The AEX Index ended 1.99 points higher at 408.44. Chartists are broadly neutral on the short term AEX trend, but dealers said hopes of
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        Stockholm
        131 26 +6.95 Swedish shares closed a quiet day higher supported by lower bond yields and positive Wall Street sentiment. "It was a sleepy day and it looks as if players want to see if Wall Street's rise will last," a broker said. The OMX Index was up 6.95 points at
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        Zurich
        255 26 +6.9 Swiss shares lost some of earlier gains in afternoon trading. Dealers said shares slipped from highs on a lack of following-through buying. Brokers said the outlook was cautious ahead of several sets of US data this week, including November nonfarm payrolls on Friday. The SMI Index of leading
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        Toronto
        256 26 -2.50 Stocks eased in early trading due to weakness in Canadian fixed-income and currency markets, traders said. Dealers expect a cautious week of trading as the market watches for signs of inflation in economic data due this week. The TSE-300 Index slipped 2.50 points to 4.096.80 on light volume
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        New York
        697 26 18.17 The Dow Jones industrial Average, which rebounded 33.64 points o Friday, was ahead 18.17 to 3,726.44 at 1 lam EST. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was ahead 0.34 to 247.94. while Standard Poor's 500-stock Index was up 0.84 to 453.13. Advances edged declines 957-815 among
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        Johannesburg
        334 26 +4.9 South African shares finished little changed yesterday as limited interest and a lack of fresh factors dragged stocks off earlier highs. Dealers said prices had been boosted at the start following the Dow's rally on Friday but eased at the close as concern rose about further declines in
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        830 26 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Oder Mim Cap Deposit #MUO 3*6500 Mint Jerwv Gilt 0 IHH 0 1992 Mim Ma* Income 0 9200 0 9600 I S$ Cash Income Plus F und 9 5*10 10 0500 PS Rcvnc Fund 3400 5 3500 Sterling hiiuih Euro PcSorSJn.' 0 4592 0 493*
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      3069 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stock prices were little changed amid concerns about the impact of increasing interest rates on the territory's real estate market. Traders said there was a shift in assets from companies that were perceived to carry high risks to those that had predictable earnings growth, such
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      521 27 CLSA H SHARES eased 0.12 per cent yesterday on turnover of HKS7O million. Bohai Chemical and Luoyang Glass dropped 3 per cent after a two-day rally. Hai Xing Shipping accounted for 40 per cent of the total turnover. Trading in the Shanghai B market was concentrated on Luijiazui which
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      2546 27 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended higher as a firmer dollar and a rebound in New York shares on Friday encouraged buyers in the morning. Buying by public funds also supported overall prices. However, many brokers were not convinced that the recent falls have stopped. "The Nikkei should have risen more
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      1762 27 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed lower on a lack of incentives after gaining almost 10 points in the morning, brokers said. The SET index closed 7.26 points lower at 1.342.13. after fluctuating between 1.331.87 and 1,358.86 points on thin 3.52 billion baht turnover. "Investors are basing their investment on technical
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      1100 27 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices ended mixed in listless trading. "It was a boring day. Share prices were mixed with slight upward indications but volume was very thin." one broker said. lndofood eased slightly to 8.975 rupiah on thin volume despite posting a tripling in earnings. Astra International moved up
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2415 28 MB! Capital 2.240.000 Idns Hvd 50c 2.195.000 KL Industries 1.713.000 PixHiKt 1,263.000 B Rava TSRV7 1 .200.000 Ind Ox>gcn Wt95 1.197,000 Mulli Purpose 1,036.000 MBf Hldgs MX 919.000 Mulpha Inll 50c 821.000 (joldcn Plus H 818.000 Bcqaya L Wt99 733.000 Pcgi Msia 729,000 Fabcr (iroup 728,000 MOST ACTIVE-van*
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        Lock icon Prices down on uncertainty over Dow's performance
        5472 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks fell yesterday, ending two days of gains, on concern that global markets will resume their declines again. "Everybody is waiting for New York tonight, and the feelings are mixed about what New York's going to do," said
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        8204 29 MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Nov 28 Gr Cir M »l IWI Lax Vol Dn> Usl y«oie Di« Di» VM Net <«J> A»t High l ow (ompan) Sale («00) High Urn Bu,« Seller C »r P'E S«d Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 720* 417 5* mt Vc«a 50c 470 -4 103 4*0
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        Lock icon Early gains wiped out by lingering fears of weak Dow
        1946 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Local stock prices rose promisingly in early trading but soon faded as nervous investors sold in fear ot further cracks on Wall Street overnight. The Straits Times Industrials Index opened stronger, albeit in low volume, and
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      360 30 THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. SO INO US-COMMERCE CORPORATION (PTE) LTD (in Liquidation) At a general meeting ol INOJSCOMMERCE CORPORATION (PTE) LTD duty convened and held on the 24th day ol November. 1904 the following special resolution wae pMMd: SPECIAL RESOLUTION Thai the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to aection
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      Precious Shipping's profit up 53% in first nine months
      458 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Listed Thai shipping firm Precious Shipping Public Company posted a 53 per cent increase in profit in the first nine months of 1994. The Bangkok-based company recorded net earnings of 207 million baht (5512.1 million) against 135
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      Lock icon Panama passes law to protect canal
      353 31 Reuter PANAMA CITY Panama passed a law on Friday to protect the Panama Canal from mismanagement when the United States hands over the waterway at decade's end. The National Assembly passed the measure by a wide margin early on Friday in a move to
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      Lock icon Shipwreck off Oman yields 3 million silver coins
      445 31 AFP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates An Omani company, Ocean Group, announced on Sunday that it had recovered three million silver coins from the wreck of a United States ship sunk ofT Oman by a German submarine during World War U. The coins
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      733 31 Page Col Accord Group 8 1-3 •Ahlers Lines 13 5 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 4/5 •Appenship 4 4/5 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Astro Shpg 8 4 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 •Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 •Bank Line. The 9
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      Lock icon KL shipping industry facing sector-specific challenges: Shell
      326 31 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian shipping industry is facing sector-specific challenges on supporting infrastructure, investment outlay and international policy in line with the country's thrust into rapid industrialisation. Berita Shell said in its latest quarterly issue that the industry stakeholders and affiliated players
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      Lock icon US$100m yacht club planned for Phuket
      171 31 Bernama PHUKET Singaporean Marine Laser Associated and Seafarers International, a branch of Hongkong's Marine Laser Group, jointly announced that they were planning to build Phuket Seafarers Club at Phuket. Marine Laser Associate president John F Corrigan, said that the USSIOO million (SSI47 million) project,
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      Lock icon World shipbuilding orderbook at highest level since March 1992
      355 31 Knight-Ridder LONDON The world merchant shipbuilding orderbook has reached its highest level since March 1992, according to figures published yesterday by Lloyd's Register. The Merchant Shipbuilding Return for the third quarter of 1994 shows the total tonnage under construction and on
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1367 32 HOLIDAYS this week have had little impact on the freight market with rates strong for most types, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index reached another all time high Friday at 1,906 up from 1.895 Thursday. Some "cheaper" fixtures circulating in the Atlantic trades belied a still strong market,
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      13101 40 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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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3334 45 Containerline NV: Belsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN) Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service Kim Shpg Trdg(S). Mbatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd (S). Alfred C
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      COURIER SERVICES
      279 45 Urrus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898 Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771 Fax: 535-6144 Airborne Freight C orporation Tel 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716. *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188 Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplier Tel 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-link International Td 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster link Supplies Seniors
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1511 45 Abex txpress Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Actitair Singapore Td: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Td: 545-8033 Fax: *****05 Verm peed Td: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo No*o txpress Td: 542-5454 Fax: *****06 Air txpress International Td 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50.
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      2667 46 ARGENTINA Diamante, Santa Fe: No vessels berthed, no vessels in roads, no vessels due. San Loren/o: Five vessels berthed of which 4 loading soya bean meal pellets, 1 maize, 6 vessels in roads, 19 vessels due at 9 terminals during the coming week. Rosario: Three vessels berthed of
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      SHIP SALES
      823 46 THE demolition market was given serious attention this week with the sale of 4 ULCC/VLCC's at very firm levels, together with various other tonnage. Additionally the Chevron VLCC Chevron Antwerp is expected to be sold early next This pushes the number of such units sold for demolition this
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      CRUISE & FERRY SCHEDULES
      304 46 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Arr Dep Name of Vessel E l A EID Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No NOVEMBER 29 29 Sea Goddess 2 0900 1800 Indonesia Jardine Shpg Agencies 224-1052 29 29 Renaissance I 1000 2000 Cruise to Nowhere Renaissance Cruises 222-3388 29 29 Delfin Star
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      TRANSPORT DIARY
      220 46 SEMINARS Title: Maintenance Management and Computerised Maintenance System Duration: Dec 1-2 Organiser Added Advantage Associates Tel: For further details contact Eveline Yeng at (65) 563-7778 or fax (65) 564-1268. Title: Seatrade Asia Pacific Cruise Convention Duration: Dec 7-9 Organiser The Seatrade Organisation Tel: For further details contact Chris
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        655 47 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port Tane 2811* P01A Angyde 2811/1400 Batam 11/08,94 II alongside 2911/2315 6 Donam 412N PtM alongs*le 2911/1500 Batam Indah fl alongside 2911/2300 Ah Danaos 18EB P01 2811/2300 2911/1100 Balam Muim 12 alongside 2911/2300 Bangkok
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        1512 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From to Swan 145B 29/1500 1A 28/1500 28/1659 28/1900 to S»an U6A 30/1500 1A 28/1500 28/1659 28/1900 2A 28/1700 29/0659 29/0900 4
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        855 47 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      1050 48  -  The 1969 Tonnage Measurement Convention, which has just come into force, will use ship volume as a basis for levying port charges. Erik Heirung argues that the 25-year-old rules have embraced the wrong concepts Erik Heirung Lloyd's List THE 1947 tonnage measurement rules
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      691 49 Reuter SOUTH Korea's largest carmaker. Hyundai Motor Co, has pinned its hopes on untapped markets in Asia and Africa in its drive to vault into the world's "top 10" club. Facing faltering sales in its main export market in North America, Hyundai
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        433 50  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Boeing has not given up on Singapore Airlines as a customer for its latest aeroplane, the 8777. This was disclosed yesterday by its regional director for product marketing, Paul G Dubeck, at a press briefing. He
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        370 50 AFP HANOI German luxury automaker Daimler-Benz has applied to open a joint venture assembly line in Vietnam to build Mercedes cars and small trucks, a report said on Sunday. A Singapore-based subsidiary of the company has asked to open the US$7O million
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        336 50 AFP Reuter SYDNEY A strike by Australian aircraft refuellers and oil tanker drivers disrupted the travel plans of thousands of passengers yesterday as new industrial relations laws were put to the test. The strike led to two international flight cancellations and delayed other
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        357 50 Reuter BONN German car maker Volkswagen AG confirmed on Sunday that it would go ahead with mass production of a new version of its legendary Beetle car. A company spokesman said Volkswagen's supervisory board had approved a management board decision to proceed with production of
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        349 50 Reuter LONDON Britain's car industry, beset as it is by intense pressures from environmentalists and a faltering sales recovery, is praying for a broadly neutral budget this week that won't penalise the motorist. Although some firms want government to take a more proactive,
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          102 50 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Foreign companies and financial groups are bidding for a piece of a US$2.l billion (Ss3.l billion) airport project in southern China, the China Daily newspaper reported on Sunday. Companies from the US, the UK, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and Switzerland are
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          81 50 AP MINNEAPOLIS A blustery snowstorm shut down the Minne-apolis-St Paul International Airport for part of the afternoon on Sunday, one of the busiest travel days of the year, and cancelled about 100 airline flights. Thunderstorms along the storm s southern edge spun off tornadoes in Tennessee,
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          84 50 AP HOUSTON Two Continental jets clipped wings as they taxied past each other on Saturday at Houston Intercontinental Airport. No one was hurt. A 737 jet with 127 passengers and five crew members was backing out of a terminal for a trip to Chicago
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      2199 33 OOCL (S) PTE LTD JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES JAROINE SHIPPING AGENCIEB SON. BHO. 200 CANTONMENT ROAD. #12-05 SOUTH POINT, SINGAPORE 0208 PETALING JAYA TEL: 03-*****76 FAX. O^*® 5342 CFS °3- 756 342 CR NUMBER **********0 C PENANQ TEL: *****4 FAX: *****1 W DOCUMENTATION TEL: *****55 (INWARO)/*****90 (OUTWARD) ,p OH TEL: *****3/4
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      1663 33 AZERBAIJAN/TURKMENISTAN/ UZBEKISTAN/KAZAKHSTAN VIA BANDAR ABBAS TREIN MAERSK V.9425 ETA SIN 2ND DECEMBER 1994 Vo» ETA ETO DESTINATIONS N*«t Met marit maersk v 55 1 cy 06/12 0000 MRS CFS 06/12 2359 MRS OAK LGB SFO MEM ATI. MIA CHS BAI PHI NYC TOR 06/12 7 2 24/12 26/12 25/12 24/12
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      1399 34 0 ROAM LE SOUTH- PORT P VOV MO HAMBURG ANTWERP HAVRE AMPTON KELANG S PORE HKG KAO TYO SHI KOB NAG THAMES ***** 8/11 10/11 12/11 29/11 8/12 S/,Z HANNOVER EXPRESS 23/445 12/11 14/11 16/11 9/11 /lz 7n2 9/1? 12/12 13/12 15/1? "KAI 10/246 ***** 17/11 19/11 6/12 15/12 12/12
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      487 34 S pore P.Kelang Loading for I BALABAN 1 30/11 3/12 fVm/Atw/UK/Nantes I I 'Loads E./W. Malaysia. Indonesia Loading for V I PAN RISER Dubai/Bahram/Damman/Kuwait H I SADANK ALKAVAN Jeddah/Aqaba I 'Loads Singapore. E./W. Malaysia. Indonesia Y Loading for J STAR MAN Los Angeles/New Orleans/ Charleston/Norfolk/Camden I PAN QUEEN Los Angeles/New
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      1398 35 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD ■fif 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE EQ|y|3gUSEUgU|S|l|U|UlHamiyHH £XC§3? (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) lU\ CARGO DUE SA».S STRAITS VENTUM V2S€ Muva, Lib. KK 29 30 Mo. 01 D«c 02 Otc FCL. LCL CONTAINER
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      3321 35 A flAflC P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd JL IU Hoc Chiang Koad. *07-01 Kcppcl Towers. Singapore 0208 First Class Connections WORLDWIDE Js££?&g mmT PN < SP,Ka,: 5 >5r 2n7,17 EXPORT IMPORT wov -Ptta 'NO SIM SOU ANT ROT MAM GOT BRE LEM VESSEL *OY ZEE OOT ROT HAM BRE
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      579 36 C fn JOINT VENTURE SAMUDERA INDONESIA QIR RICKMERS SINGAPORE CHINA MSA SEPU.UH VOY 2NB 02 DEC SHANGHAI GKEN ERA VOY 3NB 20 DCC Q»«0A0 D4SA SEPULUH VOY 3NB 12 JAW XINGANG INDUCEMENT CALL P.KEIANG INDUCEMENT CALL HK, P.GUOANG, BEL A WAN. TG MANI XIAMEN, ZHANGJtGANG SUTAMA HARTA WEEKLY FULL CONTAINERSHIP
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      1101 36 I HANJIN SHIPPING I I TEL:- *****35-237 OPERATION TEL: *****41-253 I I SALES TEL. *****30-233 I I *SL HAUL SAV AM KYC I fDA VSI I* H*m I™ 12 WXI HANIM POHANG ISIE 312 M ASIA 01* 5/1 6/1 1/1 HMUM 10NGBEACH OSOE *2 JO/12 »r HANKN BUSAN 1«* 10/12
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      93 36 CHAHAYA SHIPPING TRADING CO. PTfc III U T«l- *****13 (6 Linti) Fax: *****68 Tlx: RS ***** VIETNAM. BANGKOK. INDONESIA CONVENTIONAL. SERVICES SMHMLE "/12 J/12 lAKARTA SOAARANG CHAHAYA SfIATI 5/12 «/}2 niMcJrm KURNA StIAII 30/11 SJ2SSSS NORTH STAR 4/12 VII BANGKOK MAGA 54 10/12 12/12 WHOM* ,rr iro war ro CARAKA
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      2953 37 GULF WEEKLY EVERY FRIDAY Singapore* Gtntral Agtntt: T* ,n r 'j C *****841/844 Co«7»L«*Src B/l: *****02 Operation CmMmt: COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD 'tZFZ&ISXF s« iSS#"* 57 %ZtS%%L*2 7 M i R CR%o ll C 7 c'sU ***** JOH0 2 2 0i°F?Ct: fZxSsIIS KTSSIfM 353t170 To! U S. East Coast To:
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      969 37 A MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD ■V (a merrber of SINSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****54, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 A BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****99/*****01 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS: KL: 03-*****88
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      1192 38 AS AGENTS: "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR NO **********0 M GST R£G NO M 2 *****99-6) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 MdZ V W Y7* MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD I W\j TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****25/6 1 A
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      1228 38 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N STRAITS SHUTTLE SERVICE PORT KLANG PENANG VESSEL VOT SIN PKL VESSEL VOY SH PEN PfRMSA 7/N 29 11 <TUt> 30 11 <WED> SEA IAURfI 341N 30 II (WED) 02/12 (W) MCC CONVEYOR 4K48 29 11 <"<) 01/17 (THU)
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      905 39 Rgggflil PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I SSSSSSSS! 14 0 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. SSSSSSSSK CR NO **********0E ——I VESSEL WOY SIN CMB JIB MOD JED AOJ ADE PZU MSW ASA KOTA WIRAWAN WRN49S 1/12 5/12 11/12 13/12 15/12 17/12 12/12 IS/12 IS/12 KOTA BE RANI BRNIIS
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      906 39 vessels ¥0T "s« it mm hambukg thank aottekpam antwup mH k carina co6w 2»/n 20/12 21/12 23/12 2 l2 n/l2 t|l[ K SAGITTA SOCH OC/12 21/12 n/\2 31/12 01/01 03/01__ VILE iif AQUIA AO«M 13/12 04/01 05/01 07/01 0,/01 10/01 VftLE D HYMA HUH «H/°l 13/01 15/01 18/01 1? 01
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      554 39 BSA 4 tegk MYANMA IMMBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIf Pen P.Gdf HP* AN V2O6M 06/10 DM PAGAN V2ISW 06/10 Dtt 13/15 Dec AVA VI3IW 10/12 Occ 13/16 Dec MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAD SHPWNG AGENCCS KU. la 02 03 *****00 PHI TEI 02 03-*****67
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      1126 42 FOR BOOKING 1800-*****00 (TOLL-FREE) OUTBOUND PRL PfN K)H SM HUG RAO TM REE YOR THY WAG "06 °S* M 0) BUS SEA RANGtR N044 ?8 ll 29 II 3001 12 OS 1? 0612 08 12 10/17 T/S km RAO 13/1? 14 12 16 1? IM2 MAN HAI 205 N066 30/11
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      435 43 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 05/12 ROTTERDAM 03/12 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 05/12 HAMBURG/BREMEN 05/12 MARSEILLE/FRANCE ***** FELIXSTOWE/UK 05/12 BARCELONA/SPAIN 02/12 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 06/12 GENOA/ITALY 03/12 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 05/12 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 02/12 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 30/11 NEW YORK/EC 02/12 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 03/12 VANCOUVER 02/12 BRISBANE 03/12 TORONTO/MONTREAL 02/12
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      915 43 M T T7T vessel voy sn jrt vessel voy sin pew B WANA BHUM MM 3/12_ I THAN* BHUM 97N Tua In Pt TKu 1/12 VESSEL VOY SIN BKK WH* BHUM 778 Fri 2/12 W«< 7/12 KOTA JADE JADOI7 Wad 30/11 Fri 2/12 VANTRA BHUM 82N Tut InPI Fri 2/12
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      223 43 ■JfcMJWMMJMIMBHIIIMJUIM Gumrmnt—d Sailing« to:|BAHGKOK/IAEM CHABANG/LAQS| 3/12 (SAT). 6/12 (TVI) PORT KELANG/PENANG 1/12 (THUR). 2/12 (FM) HONG KONG 1/12 (FW) JAKARTA 3/12 (SAT) MANIA/CEBU/SUBC BAY 5/12 (MOW) HO CHI MWH 1/12 (FW) SURABAYA 4/12 (SUN) BUSAN 5/12 (MOW) MADRAS 2/12 (FW). 5/12 (MOW) I DONGNAMA LINE CONTAINERISED SERVICE STWAITS/ltW/INC/ISN VCSSU (IBS)
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      595 43 S^^^^RlcHnK^Slßlli^lCtNClE^S^TT^^^ TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) m FAX: *****15/*****03 m TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Line*) CR NO.: **********0E I}® ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES J (National Lines ol Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vmml Voy ETA I Loading For lpof> Abbay Woni 42W8 08/02 Mombasa. Djibouti Assab. Massawa Abbay Won* 43W8 28/03
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      182 44 LAAnIn container lines, inc ISIVS/VHAgtntt: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) vJU\-/ Noc uooeTSOOOoe SiBU (084) *****9 KUCHING (082) *****3 PENANQ: (04) *****8 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOfI/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 25/11 26/11
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      300 44 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD it* El* ft* SPOtt rati ML WIG PI HANG BLIf MUX ?0 12 loading to» Mjl' RUVAI HUDHU 10/12 loading tw Dub* OOtPH* SMfD Loading fo< Mai* nONII SUPMMI 15/12 Loading Fck Mate UMCIDH 6 12 loading For Male PROGRESS I BE*lt
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      433 44 f THONG SOON LINES PTE LTD 1 I 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I \J V/ TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK SINGAPORE T^TH/ULAND VESSEL VOY SPORE PEST VESSEL VOY SPORE [BANGKOK EQUATOR ROYAL 125/4E 29 NOV KUCHING
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      426 49 A. HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTDWESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG; *****61 m PKE TCP VESSELS VOY SIN I RTM j AWT I LEH HAM BREt FEL lii 02/11 03/11 H. EXPLORER 314»T 05/12 23/12 25/12 24/12 25/12 25/12 27/12 07/12 09/12 10/12 SEA PROGRESS 314W 12/12 30/12 01/01 31/12 01/01 01/01
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      363 49 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO i HEAVY LIFTS IMBOUND VESSELS VESSEL DOT SP ft KUC M MM «T (ASTERN rtARt 1/12 4/12 SOWAI 30 hPI FAR EAST EXPRESS 4 3/12 «/ll ORANGE MOON *1 11/12 13/12 KEBHUN IS 12/12 13/12 11/12 17/12 COSMC LEADER 41 12/12 14/12 IRANS
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