The Business Times, 24 April 1995

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    12 1 Business Times WE MOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday April 24 1995 85«
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Second Oklahoma bomb suspect arrested
      52 1 UPI OKLAHOMA CITY A second suspect in the Oklahoma bombing has been arrested in California, US Justice Department officials said. They named the man as David Iniquez and said he was arrested in San Bernardino, California. Department sources said he was a deserter from the
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      Lock icon Japan sect 'minister' dies after stabbing
      36 1 AFP TOKYO The Aum Supreme Truth religious sect's "science and technology minister", Hideo Murai, died at a Tokyo hospital after being stabbed by a right-wing activist, Jiji news agency said.
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    159 1 Stock market indices Friday We«k change STII 2.079.50 8.08 KLSEComp 977.84 +11.87 Nikkei i6.968.24 +920.35 Hang Seng 8.645.39 -16 6 SET Index 1,173.16 -19.73 Jakarta C'omp 419.52 +0.07 CLSA China B 782.04 -12.6 Aust All Ord 2,000.9 -19 8 FTSE 100 3,199.9 -8.9 Dow Jones 4,270.09 61.91 Average
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    Japan, Germany to demand raising of US interest rates
    443 1  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON JAPAN and Germany, backed by the International Monetary Fund, arc set to confront the US over the plunging dollar when the Group of Seven finance ministers and ccntral bank directors start their meeting in Washington tomorrow.
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    Lock icon BOJ bought US$18b to cap yen rise: report
    246 1 Reuter TOKYO Japan's central bank bought as much as USSIB billion (SS2S billion) on the foreign exchange market in the first four months of this year to halt the runaway surge of the yen, a leading economic journal reported yesterday. The Nihon
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    Market rally sustainable barring negative G-7 news
    252 1 SINGAPORE Sentiment in the local stock market is likely to improve this week, although much will depend on the outcome of tomorrow's G-7 meeting of finance minsters in Washington to decide on measures to stabilise the US dollar. Brokers point to the rising
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    Listed firm eyes S'pore Internet company
    380 1  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Asia Online, a fast-growing firm which helps other companies get onto the Internet, is negotiating to sell a stake to a publiclylisted company, managing director Wong Toon King said. He would not disclose which company but market talk suggests that
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    Charoen Pokphand plans shopping centres in China
    344 1  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THAILAND'S giant Charoen Pokphand (CP) group, having built up a successful retail business at home, has set its sights overseas and plans to establish shopping centres in China, where it is already one of the largest foreign
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    Lock icon Four lead list for Clinton economic adviser
    124 1 Reuter WASHINGTON A top Brookings Institution economist and three senior administration economists lead US President Bill Clinton's list of candidates to succeed Laura D'Andrea Tyson as head of the Council of Kconomic Advisers, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Quoting unidentified administration sources,
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    NF win in 12 out of 13 states seems assured on eve of poll
    594 1  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday wrapped up a bruising eight-day campaign for re-election, with a smooth victory assured in all but one of Malaysia's 13 states. Dr Mahathir campaigned
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    Chevron set to open S'pore plant
    318 1 SINGAPORE Chevron Chemical Company of California is making final arrangements for a plant here to manufacture chemical additives. Work on the plant is due to start next year and be completed in 1998. according to the UNS news agency. Chevron declined to reveal the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon M2 money supply up 16.6% in Feb
        287 2  -  By Paul Leo THE chief measure of money supply, M 2. rose 16.6 per cent year-on-year to $94.61 billion in February slower than the 17 per cent growth in January. But given that January's sharp growth was due to an early Lunar New
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      Govt eases rental rules for stalls in wet market
      132 2 THE Singapore Government has relaxed the rules for wet market stallholders. Acting Environment Minister Teo Chce Hean said yesterday. Under the new scheme, wet-market stallholders can rent adjoining stalls or transfer their stalls more easily. Those who want to expand their
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      Lock icon Travel operators see no surge in visitors from Japan
      427 2  -  Reports by Agnes Wee JAPANESE travel trade operators in Singapore are neither experiencing nor expecting a surge in the number of Japanese tourists although the strong yen has made it cheaper for Japanese to travel overseas. The major Japanese tour agencies
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      More Japanese spending their honeymoons abroad
      315 2 MORE Japanese honeymoon couples are travelling overseas during the March to May spring season this year, but they are spending less per couple, according to a study by a major Japanese travel agent. Japan Travel Bureau, which recently did a survey of 2,400 couples
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      Finance companies cut interest rates on car loans
      502 2  -  By Shiv Taneja FINANCE companies have reduced interest rates on car loans since last month, making new cars a little more affordable. At Overseas Union Trust, for instance, the interest rate has been reduced from the flat rate of 4.875 per cent
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Govt charges: BG Lee gives assurance
        114 2 THE government will be careful in raising government and statutory board charges. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday. He was speaking at an Istana party for professionals and business and community leaders. He said charges had in fact been kept in
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        External trade up 21% in March
        99 2 SINGAPORE'S external trade rose by 21 per cent last month, on a three-month moving average basis. The trade value rose 19.5 per cent to $28.9 billion, the government reported on Saturday. Exports rose by 28.6 per cent, boosted by non-oil domestic exports of electronic
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        Jayakumar to attend NAM meeting
        57 2 THE Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prof S Jayakumar, will be attending the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Bandung. Indonesia, from tomorrow to Thursday. Today, he will also attend the Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Asian-African Conference,
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        Siemens unit to boost marketing
        102 2 SIEMENS PN. the private communication division of Siemens AG of Germany, has announced that its Centre of Competence here will play a bigger marketing role in South-east Asia. It will market and service high-end private communication systems such as the Hicom System for business communication.
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        Singapore gives US$300,000 to Kedo
        126 2 THE Singapore government is contributing US$3OO,OOO (*****,000) to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (Kedo) at the request of South Korea, the United States and Japan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the government is confident that the successful implementation of the Framework Agreement through
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Weak dollar could lead to tightening of monetary policy
      576 3 AFP SINGAPORE South-east Asia's fast-growing economies could face problems requiring policy adjustments if the US dollar persists at current weak levels, a report on the outlook for regional currencies has warned. Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand could come under pressure to tighten
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      S'pore govt dismayed by Philippine remarks
      392 3 SINGAPORE The government yesterday conveyed its "astonishment and dismay" to the Philippines government at remarks made by members of the Philippine panel who had, together with Singapore pathologists and their American consultants, re-examined the remains of murdered Filipino maid Delia Maga last week. In
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      Lock icon Analysts divided over potential of Spratlys' oil
      583 3 Reuter SINGAPORE The amount of oil hidden deep under the disputed Spratly islands is as mysterious as the motives of some of the countries trying to claim them. China, desperate for more oil supplies to keep its huge economy booming, estimates as much
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Mayban raises base lending rates
        116 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Mayban Finance Bhd has joined a host of commercial banks and financial institutions here which are increasing base lending rates (BLRs), revising its rate 25 basis points upwards to 8.2 per cent from 7.95 per cent. The revision is based on the
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        Lock icon Philippine politicians on murder rap
        88 3 Reuter MANILA Police yesterday filed murder charges against two politicians and 16 bodyguards for the killing of a rival and his aide in the latest outbreak of violence in the Philippines' fiercely fought election campaign. Police said Nueva Ecija governor Tomas Joson 111 and his
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        Lock icon A heartfelt thanks
        55 3 Reuter HANOI Vietnamese workers unloading medieine and pharmaceutical supplies worth US$7 million (559.7 million) from a Federal Express MLMI cargo plane at Noi Bai airport here yesterday. The airlift, organised by Heart to Heart International, is the largest private humanitarian shipment to Vietnam since the end of
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        Lock icon General's call to save wild orchids
        100 3 AP BANGKOK Thailand's top general is try ing to rally the public to the defence of wild orchids, one of the country's rapidly vanishing natural resources. Cultivated orchids are a major Thai export, but those that grow wild have been disappearing along with Thailand's
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon More incentives for Pudong investors
        76 4 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI China's Premier Li Peng said during a visit to Shanghai's massive foreign investment zone of Pudong that measures would be taken to help the area open wider to investment, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. He said the tax and other
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        Lock icon Tax refunds boost 1st-qtr exports 62%
        73 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Chinese enterprises anxious to secure government tax refunds for exports were the main reason for China's 62 per cent surge in exports during the first quarter, the official China Daily reported yesterday. China's strong first-quarter exports generated a US$7 billion
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        Lock icon Shanghai toymaker wins US lawsuit
        58 4 AFP SHANGHAI A California court has ruled in favour of the Shanghai Toy Import and Export Co, which fought an order to pay damages to a US company for allegedly delivering faulty products, an official of the Chinese firm said last Friday. He said that
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        Lock icon China to monitor state pay rises
        62 4 Reuter BEIJING Cash-strapped China is to tighten control over pay increases at state-owned factories and government agencies, the China Daily said on Saturday. Wage rises must be in accordance with national economic conditions and requirements of economic reform, said a labour official. Money-losing enterprises
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      Lock icon China plans HK supreme court: paper
      181 4 Reuter HONGKONG China said it will prepare to set up a supreme court for Hongkong by itself, even as Britain pleads for Beijing's approval of its court blueprint, the Beijingbacked Ta Kurtz Pao newspaper reported yesterday. Chen Zuoer, China's top representative to the Sino-Brit-ish
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      Lock icon Taiwan, China in joint oil exploration in South China Sea
      339 4 Reuter, AFP TAIPEI Taiwan and China have been jointly searching for oil in the South China Sea since last year, the state-funded Central News Agency reported yesterday. The joint exploration has been conducted by Taipei's Overseas Petroleum and Investment Corp.
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      Lock icon Beijing to deregulate transport price controls, attract investment
      104 4 AFP BEIJING China will deregulate transportation price controls to encourage foreign investment in a sector where low returns caused by strict price ceilings have scared off overseas funds, a report said yesterday. The move would mean a drastic reform for the transport
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      Lock icon Brolly good show
      35 4 Reuter BhIJING Middle school children taking shelter from the spring sunshine yesterday in I iananmen Square. Celebrations were under way to mark the 3,040 th anniversary of the founding of Beijing. Reuter
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      Lock icon China brings back estate tax to reduce income gaps
      265 4 AFP BLIJING China is set to revive an estate tax hardly used since its inception in the 1950s in a further bid to reduce income disparities fuelled by economic development, a senior tax official said yesterday. While previously meagre incomes had
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Peace talks still on: Kumaratunga
      469 5 Reuter NEW DELHI Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was quoted yesterday as saying she wanted to continue peace talks with rebels despite deadly attacks on the government's armed forces. But Mrs Kumaratunga told the Times of India in an interview that she was prepared
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      Lock icon China seen as Japan's biggest future partner: poll
      245 5 Reuter TOKYO The Japanese expect China to replace the United States as Japan's biggest political and economic partner in the next 20 years, according to a survey published yesterday. Asked what country will become the most important partner in the future. 66
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      Lock icon Beijing, Seoul fix production schedules for plane project
      254 5 AP SEOUL China and South Korea have fixed production schedules for their first joint project to produce passenger jetliners and agreed to select two foreign partners in September, newspapers reported yesterday. India and Indonesia were among the Asian candidates to be selected
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      Lock icon Seven S Asian nations to offer mutual trade concessions
      192 5 Reuter KATHMANDU Seven South Asian countries have agreed to offer one another trade concessions to boost commerce in one of the world's poorest regions, oflicials said on Saturday. Negotiators from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) agreed to prepare
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      Lock icon Strong yen to boost S Korean economy: govt think-tank
      187 5 AFP SEOUL Helped by the strong yen. South Korea's economy is expected to grow 8.5 per cent this year and 7.3 per cent in 19%, a government think-tank report showed yesterday. The Korea Development Institute (KDI) predicted that South Korea's booming
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      Lock icon Bowing to pressure
      43 5 Reuter SEOUL South Korean petrol station attendants practising boning to customers under the tutelage of their manager here on Friday. With fierce competition between rival businesses, many petrol stations are hating to resort to unusual stunts to lure customers. Reuter
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      404 5 The the Comex the 518 m below the surface the Mediterranean. they relied on extraordinary time- H piece: the Rolex Sea-Dweller. Part of what makes a Rolex •*{<' m Oyster so dependable is the design V JL case, which is j _c— —sculpted from further protected by the Triplock fV
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  • MALAYSIAN ELECTIONS '95
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      Mahathir counts on economic growth to win over Kelantan
      653 6 WILL money win over religious fervour? Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's National Front (NF) has dangled a whopping Msl billion (***** million) carrot to the people of Kelantan in the hope of wresting the state back in this election. And that amount
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      National Front expected to coast to an easy win
      636 6  -  Reports from Ho Kay Tat in PENANG AT THE start of hustings, the prediction was for Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's 14-party National Front (NF) coalition to coast to an easy win in Malaysia's ninth general elections. After eight days of sometimes
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      Lock icon Model of opposition firepower
      58 6 AFP ROTA BHARU A supporter of the fundamentalist Parti Islam Malaysia (PAS) setting up a model of a cannon in front of an operation centre to attract voters here yesterday, at the capital of Relantan state. National Front is fighting hard to recapture the state lost
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    • Article
      The Chinese dilemma in Penang
      846 6 Few analysts predict victory for DAP's Lim Kit Siang "WE ARt very comfortable now. Why should we change things?" asked a 35-year-old remisicr. who had voted for the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) in 1990 but now favours the National Front (NF). Retorted a career
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      Lock icon National Front facing strongest ever challenge in Terengganu
      612 6 Bernama KUALA TERENGGANU The National Front is facing its strongest ever challenge from the opposition PAS and Parti Melayu Semangat 46 in the oil-rich east coast state of Trengganu. the national news agency Bernama reports. A plumb prize for the victor is
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      Lock icon Players betting on rout by NF to revive bourse
      528 6 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian stock market players are betting on a big win by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's National Front (NF) in polls this week to lift prices on a languishing local bourse, analysts said yesterday. "We expect prices to move
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      288 7 The days of reading a fax where the middle is missing are over. j /1%1 B; -jtp^Wi^j^BL Because of inadequate communications infrastructure in access to reach even the most out-of-the-way locations. many of Asia's developing countries, having most of the We also offer the flexibility to implement message eaten up
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  • WORLD FOCUS
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      Lock icon Gaullist rivals pull no punches in bout for top position
      889 8 The French presidential elections NYT PARIS Charles de Gaulle might have been horrified by the spectacle: two members of a party founded to preserve his legacy scratching each other's eyes out over the presidency. But Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac and
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      Lock icon Working towards closer Europe-Asia ties
      889 8  -  As the French presidential elections goes into its final lap, Jackie Masse catches up with Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, who is a leading contender in the race Jackie Masse The writer is a Paris-based journalist who contributes to BT Q. What is your vision for
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      551 8 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL FREE TEL. No. 1 -BQO-741-1 883 FA X 741 -***** JCjl HUP SENG HUAT CO. LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT The Directors of Hup Seng Huat Co. Ltd are pleased to announce the following unaudited interim results of the Company and of the Group
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  • THE WORLD
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      Foreign distractions
      795 9  -  WORLD VIEW By Kevin Sullivan Oklahoma, the state celebrated in the eponymous musical as an embodiment of conservative, prosperous, optimistic America, has a mausoleum in its midst. The murder of tens, perhaps hundreds, of people in a car-bomb explosion at a government building in Oklahoma City last Wednesday
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      Lock icon Saudi Arabia hits out at non-Opec oil states taking advantage of fixed output
      424 9 Reuter KUWAIT Saudi Arabia on Saturday hit out at non-Opec oil states it said took advantage of Opec restraint to boost output to meet more demand, thereby weakening prices. The world's biggest oil producer said non-Opec states
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      Lock icon Chile flexible about when it joins Nafta
      302 9 Reuter SANTIAGO Chile will be flexible about the pace of its entrance into Nafta and is not "obsessed" with joining the free trade pact according to pre-set timetables, Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Insulza said on Friday. Mr Insulza, speaking after trade officials from
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Disneyland nerve-gas hoax
        113 9 AFP WASHINGTON Americans already rocked by the devastating car-bombing in Oklahoma City awoke on Saturday to a new nightmare scenario a reported plot to flood Disneyland with lethal nerve gas. The Baltimore Sun reported that US authorities thwarted plans for an attack on the California amusement park
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        Lock icon Bill Gates' plans for Portugal
        101 9 AP LISBON Computer magnate Bill Gates has decided to base his new multi-million dollar satellite network in Portugal's southern Alentejo region, a news report said on Saturday. Mr Gates, founder of the Microsoft software company, will use the base to launch small satellites for his
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        Lock icon Cardoso's currency suggestions
        76 9 AP RIO DE JANEIRO In a recent meeting with US President Bill Clinton, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso proposed measures to protect currencies from speculative attack, a newspaper reported. Mr Cardoso's proposals involve greater cooperation and exchange of information among governments to prevent economic crises, the daily
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      Lock icon 8,000 found dead in massacre at Rwanda refugee camp
      312 9 Reuter KIGALI UN troops found more than 8,000 people dead and 650 wounded in Kibcho camp in south-west Rwanda yesterday after a search of the site, a UN official said. Only the dead, the wounded and about 250 children were now
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      1329 9 Th* S>roit» Tiiw», So'urdcuy, April 1 1995 Motoring Nissan Cefiro nudges Honda Accord in the opulence stakes LAST YEAR. Mithnary car egory (from Y" those miw i S» WuJIB, aM I vntWlnf v I 20 spncrnlind72|icrc(M. ll respectively. than Category I or 2. had increased by IK per r i
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
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        Lock icon Peter Senior takes Dunlop Open
        89 10 AP INA, Japan Australian Peter Senior kept his lead intaet despite a one-over-par 73 in strong winds yesterday and won the 100 million yen (551.66 million) Dunlop Open Golf Tournament by five strokes. Senior, who had led by six shots after a 67 on Saturday,
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        Lock icon Schoolgirl fails drugs test
        92 10 AFP JOHANNESBURG A 14-year-old South African schoolgirl has become the youngest athlete in the world to fail a test for banned drugs, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Johannes-burg-based Sunday Times said the unnamed girl was found to have a cocktail of steroids and banned stimulants in
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        Lock icon Never on a Sunday
        97 10 AP AUCKLAND Michael Jones, one of the world's best Hankers, may be left out of the New Zealand squad for the rugby union World Cup in South Africa because of his religious beliefs. Jones is a devout Christian who declines to play matches on Sundays and
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        Lock icon Aussie cricketers back on track
        102 10 AFP PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad Glenn McGrath put Australia back on track in the third cricket Test against the West Indies here on Saturday when he snapped up six wickets for 47 as the home batsmen folded for 136 ail out. The Australians had been dismissed for
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        Lock icon Beattie a winner at Japan Grand Prix
        72 10 AP SUZUKA, Japan Daryl Beattie, riding a Suzuki, overtook world champion Michael Doohan on the last lap in heavy rains yesterday and won the 500 cc division of the Japan Grand Prix, third leg of the World Motorcycling Championships. Beattie sped 18 laps
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        Lock icon Parnevik left out of Masters
        107 10 Reuter GREENSBORO, North Carolina Despite almost winning last year's British Open, Jesper Parnevik was a notable absentee from this year's Masters. When the cream of the world's golfers, or most of them at least, gathered at Augusta National two weeks ago, Parnevik was forced to
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      Lock icon Chang beats heat, Bjorkman to win Salem Open
      467 10 UPI HONGKONG Top seed Michael Chang thrived on court in sweltering temperatures yesterday to put on a winning performance in the finale of the Salem Open for spectators including Britain's Princess Diana. Chang defeated Swedish fifth seed Jonas Bjorkman 6-3, 6-1 to
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      Lock icon Foreman retains IBF belt with controversial win over Schulz
      683 10 UPI LAS VEGAS What had appealed most to George Foreman about the prospect of fighting Axel Schulz was that he was coming out of nowhere to challenge Foreman's heavyweight title. Twelve rounds later against the little-known German who had never fought
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      Lock icon Mighty Mary rallies to defeat Young America
      419 10 America's Cup NYT SAN' DIEGO On the brink of being eliminated from its historie entry in the America's Cup. the mostly women's crew on Mighty Mary rallied one more time on Saturday to stave off defeat in the defenders' finals. In a race
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      Lock icon Campese's comments on team-mate Horan irresponsible: McLean
      384 10 AFP BRISBANE Australian chairman of rugby selectors Paul McLean yesterday blasted Wallaby David Campese, describing the world's greatest rugby test try scorer as "totally irresponsible" for comments he made about team-mate Tim Horan. McLean was bemused by Campese's claim in Melbourne yesterday that
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    • SCORE CARD
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        Basketball
        208 10 NEW YORK NBA on Saturday: Chicago 116 Charlotte 100: Golden State 129 Denver 130; LA leakers 104 Portland 109. Standings (W L Pet GB; xclinched playoff berth, >-clinched conference title, /-clinched division title) Eastern Conference, Atlantic Di>ision: 1 v-Orlando 57 24 .704 2 x-NY 54 27 .667 3 3
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        Golf
        94 10 INA, Japan 100 million yen (SSI.7 million) Dunlop Open final scores \esterda\: 279 Peter Senior (Ausl) 69-70-67-73 284 Brian Watts (US) 71-74-69-70 285 Katsuvoshi Tomon (Jpn) 74-73-70-68 286 Masashi "Jumbo" Oiaki (Jpn) 73-68-71-74 288 Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 72-72-70-74 289 Masa'hiro Kuramoto (Jpn) 69-78-70-72: Lin Chie-hsiang (Tai) 75-72-70-72; Steve Flcsch
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        32 10 KDINBLRGH Test match on Saturday- Scotland 49 (Tries: Hastings. Stanger 2, Shiel. Peters. Joiner. Logan. Conv: Hastings 4. Pen: Hastings 2) b Romania 16 (Tries: Racean. Conv: Nichitean. Pen: Nichitean 3).
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        101 10 JAKARTA Federation Cup tie between Indonesia and Argentina yesterday Singles: 21-Yayuk Basuki (Ina) b 7-Gabricla Sabatini (Arg) 7-5 6-4: 44-Florencia Labat (Arg) b 296-Romana Tejakusuma (Ina) 6-3 6-2. (Teams tied at 2-2). In SEOUL, South Korea b China 3-0. HONGKONG Hongkong Open final yesterday: 1-Michacl Chang (US) b 5-Jonas
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        Yachting
        31 10 SAN DIEGO America's Cup on Saturday Defender finals: America J b Young America by 1 min 8 see Standings: I Stars Stripes 5 pts 2= Young America; America J 4.
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  • Business IT
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      Going tough for local PC makers as market shrinks
      755 11  -  Singapore PC firms find they have to be quick and innovative as the heavyweights step up the pressure, reports David Mok David Mok LOCAL personal computer makers are finding the going tough as they face a failing market share and ever
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      HP aims Jets at Asia mart
      493 11  -  I he Singapore operations will play a bisger role not just in marketing hut in manufacturing as well, Kenneth James learns Kenneth James AS THE Asian printer market explodes, Hew-lett-Packard's Singapore operations are playing a key role in the company's efforts to stay ahead
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      Lock icon Power Computing delivers first Mac clones
      620 11 Reuter THE first company to clone Apple Macintosh computers said last week it would begin selling the machines at a 20 per cent discount to those from Apple Computer Inc. The Macintosh clones are made by Power Computing Corp, a small Silicon Valley start-up
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      US client/server companies coming to Singapore
      320 12  -  By David Mok AT LEAST two USbased companies specialising in client-server computing software plan to set up offices in Singapore soon to tap the growing opportunities here. BMC Software, a U***** million (Ss4l7 million) company based in Houston, Texas, will open a Southeast Asian
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      Forum features Naisbitt, virtual reality show
      491 12  -  It's all about decision-making in an information-flooded world, the organisers tell Kenneth James Kenneth James IMAGINE 500 senior executives sporting Ray Charles-like spectacles in a darkened hall, and seeing more than they could without glasses in the light. A virtual reality "walkthrough" will be
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      Compaq to set up support centre for enterprise computing
      329 12 COMPAQ Computer will set up a Technical Competency Centre in Singapore. its first in the world, to enhance support for its enterprise computing products. Lim Soon Hock, the company's Asia-Pacific managing director, said last week that the establishment of the centre
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    • TECH TAKES
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        Creative's music learning packages
        79 12 SINGAPORE Creative Technology last week launched two packages for learning music, called Blaster Keys and Sound Blaster AWE 32 Home Music Studio. The company said that the kits would allow users to learn music and to play the keyboard, using a PC. Blaster Keys is expected
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        NEC cuts monitor prices
        49 12 SINGAPORE NEC Singapore has lowered the prices on several of its MultiSync line of computer monitors. The XVI 4 monitor now retails for about $478 from $600. the XVIS retails for $699 from $900. while the XVI 7, a new model, will sell for $1,350.
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        HP ranked third in PC sales
        68 12 SINGAPORE Computer market research firm Computer Intelligence Corp said last week that US-based Hewlett-Packard ranked third in worldwide personal computer sales in February, overtaking Apple Computer. HP. with 13 per cent market share, ranks behind IBM with 21 per cent, and Compaq Computer with
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        Lotus reports strong Asian sales
        67 12 SINGAPORE Software firm Lotus Development has announced a 17.7 per cent increase in Asian sales for the first quarter of this year. Sales of desktop software remained flat, but communications software sales increased by 63 per cent, said Lotus. On a worldwide basis, the company
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        On technology leadership
        56 12 SINGAPORE International Business Forum Group is holding the 1995 technology leadership conference at the Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza hotels on May 16. The conference will explore technology issues in the areas of enterprise computing. Topics to be covered include emerging technology and the distributed computing environment.
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        ISS courses
        62 12 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science is holding the following series of courses for IT professionals. Database Mining: Knowledge Discovery in Databases on May 4 and S; Scheduling and Resource Allocation: Computerised techniques for difficult problems from May 17 to 19; and Cased Based Reasoning: Solving problems from
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        Elixir course
        68 12  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE Elixir Technology is organising a three-day course on Object-Oriented Software Engineering With the LORE Method from May 3 to 5. The instructor is Mr Jonathan Priddey, a well-known trainer in object-oriented technology. The course covers the object-oriented system life cycle using the LORE
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      On the road to quick form processing by computer
      790 13  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Guo Yan says the technology is forming and will soon be robust Guo Yan The writer is a stall member of ISS. IN TODAYS business world, people are writing less and less with the pen. Instead they
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      Making PCs an integral part of the enterprise
      895 13  -  Lionel Lim has some tips for managers who need to integrate their company's PCs into the enterprise network Lionel Lim The writer is Sun Microsystems' managing director (Asean). ONLY a short time ago, two different worlds of computing existed; the desktop PC
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      Lock icon The ISDN way to speed up access to online services and the Internet
      625 13 Prodigy will be the first online service to offer this souped-up access. Others cannot be far behind. Reuter WHEN you're on the Internet, twiddling thumbs while waiting for a large graphics file to download can be downright
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      TI's notebook in aggressive media drive
      556 14  -  The company claims its latest offering "leaves others in the dust", reports Lee Wai Leong Lee Wai Leong Notebook maker Texas Instruments is embarking on an aggressive advertising campaign to reach out to its potential customers. The company, which in the past had been
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      Local rock magazine goes online on Internet
      569 14  -  By Catherine Ong BIGO, Singapore's most established rock and roll magazine, has become the first local magazine to go online on Internet, the world's biggest computer network linking more than 20 million users. From April 15, Internet users were able to read the
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      Technology, trials and truth
      467 14  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE Ihe writer is a Support Contracts Specialist with Hewlett-Packard's Americas' Field Operations (AFO). He also has extensive experience as a computer consultant. YOU probably have heard of the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, a professional athlete and television personality. Simpson
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      HP comes up with its slimmest and most portable inkjet
      476 14  -  By Lee Wai Leong PRINTER giant HewlettPackard's DeskJet 320. launched last month, is its slimmest and most portable inkjet to date. Unlike its previous PCsized inkjet offerings such as the DeskJet 500, the new DeskJet 320 measures just 33 cm
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      15 11 Computers Increase Efficiency, Boost Productivity And Streamline Operations. 0 Unless Of Course, They're Delivered Late.
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      67 12 Mj Chief executive of Acer Computer International William Lu is banking on a slew of new products, such as the Acer Altos 7000 Premium (picture), and a new support programme to lift it into the top five in worldwide sales of computer servers this year. Acer hopes to get there
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
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      Lock icon Building a world class agency
      1187 15  -  Agnes Wee tracks the rise of Chan Brothers, the home grown travel agency that plans to become a billion-dollar company in 10 years Agnes Wee CHAN Brothers' head office in Fook Hai Building, on the fringe of Chinatown, looks like that of any other local
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      340 15 PROPERTY consultant Newman Goh has appointed Colin Williams to head its recently set up valuation department. A chartered surveyor and valuer. Mr Williams brings 32 years of experience to the job. He first started out as an assessor with the then City Council here, before going on to
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      Tours unit forms 65% of Chan Bros revenue
      357 15 TOURS are the mainstay of Chan Brothers Travel, the travel unit of the Chan Brothers Group. The tours division accounts for 65 per cent of revenue, says Cheong Tack Hoong, chief executive of Chan Brothers Travel. The ticketing (retail and corporate) division
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      A go-getter with an insatiable drive to succeed
      580 15 Anthony Chan took over the helm of Chan Brothers when he was just 26 years old. In the 12 years since, he has turned the family-run travel agency into a modern, professionally-run organisation. Last week, his achievements were recognised nationally when he
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      Lock icon Voices of the past
      744 17  -  Singapore International Film Festival The movie Farinelli has aroused interest in the castrati singers of the 18th century. But who were these men with the voices of angels? Jane Morrison has some answers Jane Morrison Reuter The celebrated castrati singers of the 18th century had the
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      1052 17 TV&RADK)^_ ch W i^o.ooo cukm rivers. The layer hard- 'M ened. the inner lava flowed on, leaving hollow tubes. The Undara tubes in Australia the longest sueh tubes in the l^V^H number of eave-adapted species. Observe the changes that wet and dry seasons bring to yL J bats, mites, beetles
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    Financial turmoil threatens global recovery, warns IMF
    500 18  -  IMF 1995 World Economic Outlook report Reports by Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that recent changes in financial market sentiment towards some emerging markets, together with turmoil in exchange markets, could threaten the global recovery. The caution,
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    East Asia nations lead list of strong performers
    333 18 WASHINGTON EastAsian economies led the list of "strong performers" among developing countries last year, according to the IMF 1995 World Economic Outlook report. Several of these countries, which managed to sustain a fast pace of growth last year, now have high per
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    E Asia must invest more in infrastructure
    235 18 WASHINGTON Higher investment in infrastructure in line with high growth rates represents a major challenge for the strong performers in East Asia, says the IMF report. In China, weaknesses in in-ter-city transport systems have adversely affected the supply of coal, which is used
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    Lock icon Jospin leads race for French presidency
    304 18 Reuter PARIS Socialist Lionel Jospin took a clear lead in the first round of France's presidential election yesterday with Paris mayor Jacques Chirac narrowly ahead of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur for second place in the May 7 run-off, televised computer forecasts said. About 40.1
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    Lock icon US takes strategic view of emerging markets
    516 18 Reuter WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin returned home from an eight-day tour of Asia vowing to avoid the same mistake that the United States made in China falling behind in the race to develop ties with the world's fastest-growing markets. "As a nation...
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    Lock icon Japanese vote for winds of change in mayoral polls
    263 18 AP TOKYO The outspoken mayor of the atom-bombed city of Nagasaki became one of the latest casualties yesterday of Japanese voters looking for change. Hitoshi Motoshima. 73. lost to his 49-year-old opponent Icho Itoh in Nagasaki. He was among 17 mayoral
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    Check out Japan's trade surplus before betting on yen
    988 18  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA The writer is BT's regional economics editor WITH the yen having leapt from around 100 to the US dollar to under 80 in the course of this year, it's tempting to suppose that it's
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    389 18 Reuter HANOI Vo Nguyen Giap, architect of the Communist victory in Vietnam, has offered rare praise for Robert McNamara in the row stirred by the former American Defence Secretary's admission that he was wrong in pursuing the war. "I think
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      203 18 CONSfKOCTroRI Tomorrow in Business Times DON'T MISS THE VIETNAM BUSINESS W DIRECTORY 1994/5 For businessmen and Investors: An official reference published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vietnam in Singapore. Reference data at your fingertip General guide to doing business in Vietnam 1994-95 Social Economic ■nHnHHHHHH Development Data
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      UOL revalues properties in line with office rental rise
      344 19  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORK United Overseas Land (UOL) has revalued its commercial properties. In its recently released 1994 annual report. UOL said: "With the improvement in the capital values of commercial properties, particularly the office sector, the Asset Revaluation Reserve increased
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      DBS Land likely to settle purchase of Australian Housing & Land next month
      477 19  - DBS Land likely to settle purchase of Australian Housing Land next month From Florence Chong in SYDNEY DBS LAND is expected to settle its purchase of one of Australia's largest development companies, Australian Housing Land, next month. DBS Land and its parent, DBS Bank, agreed to buy the Australian company
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      Mayfran S'pore gets nod for 10m new shares
      246 19  -  By Jenny Lam SINGAPORE Leading bcdlincn-makcr Mayfran Singapore has secured the Stock Exchange of Singapore's approval to make a public offer of 10 million new shares, .which will listed on the second board. Mayfran managing director Henry Koh told ttusiness Times the
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      What price, healthcare?
      622 19  -  L MARKET MATTERS By Amy Balan Healthcare is an "in" topic these days, what with the ageing population and all. And of late, it's been a hot topic on the corporate news pages. Last week, the market waited with hated breath (OK. I exaggerate a little perhaps)
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      L&M wins $2.9m Hongkong bridge job
      101 19 SINGAPORE L&M Group Investments Ltd. through its wholly-owned subsidiary L&M Prestressing Pte Ltd. has clinched a 52.9 million bridge construction job in Hongkong. L&M said in a statement that its subsidiary will assist China Harbour Engineering Co in the construction of the Tung Chung
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        Americans see better growth in Asian firms: NYSE official
        590 20  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE More Americans are now interested in investing in Asian companies as they provide better growth opportunities than US corporations, according to Richard Grasso, president and vicechairman of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). "There's a growing interest
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          Lock icon JSE postpones computerised trading
          65 20 AFP JAKARTA The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) will postpone the scheduled start of its computerised trading due to technical problems, the bourse said on Friday. "The computerisation of trading at the Jakarta Stock Exchange, which should be started on April 24. is now postponed." a JSE
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          Lock icon Cygal's pre-tax profit up 150%
          62 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Cygal Bhd has reported an operating pre-tax profit of MS 12.807 million (557.2 million) for the year ended Dec 31. 1994, up 150.7 per cent from M 55.108 million previously. Announcing its audited results here on Friday. Cygal said its turnover was
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          Lock icon Sriwani's pre-tax earnings up 25%
          106 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sriwani Holdings Bhd's group pre-tax profit jumped 25.03 percent to M 535.16 million (5519.9 million) for the year ended Dec 31. 1994 from M 528.12 million previously. Group turnover for the period under review increased 18.6 per cent to M 5221.32 million
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          Lock icon Repco wants suspension to be lifted
          54 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Repco Holdings Bhd has requested the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange to lift the temporary suspension on the trading of its shares effective from today. Repco had earlier requested a temporary suspension on the trading of its shares on the KLSE on
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          Lock icon Polypulp's interim profit up
          76 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Polypulp Paper Industries Bhd has registered a group pre-tax profit of M 53.13 million (SSI.B million) for the six months ended March 31, 1995. up 25.8 per cent from M 52.49 million previously. A Polypulp statement released here on Friday said group turnover
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        614 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager?' prices Apr 22 A 24 Mcndaki t.r fund 0«x (ll c IS <ir fund UW I 02** Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.5* I UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Savings Fund 144 152 I'nifund 1.15 141 S'pore Prog Fund 0 5fl 0 62 llmhoad 10* 106
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        Lock icon Muhibbah's results in line with expectations
        235 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Marine specialist contractor Muhibbah Lngineering (M) Bhd's results are within expectations, according to Zalik Securities Sdn Bhd. The group reported a strong 51 per cent jump in pre-tax profit to M 521.4 million (SSI 1.8 million) for the year ended last
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        Lock icon Kwong Onn sees transfer to KLSE main board next year
        560 20 NST KUALA LUMPUR Kwong Onn Industries Bhd. which on Friday announced a 61 per cent jump in group pre-tax profit to MS 14.9 million (SSB.4 million) for the year ended Jan 31, 1995. expects to transfer to the Kuala Lumpur
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        Lock icon Bescorp, Ireka respond to KLSE queries
        292 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bcscorp Industries Bhd says no new joint venture company will be set up for the proposed development of an industrial and commercial centre in Sungai Petani. Kedah. and the construction of two high-rise office buildings in Jalan Ampang. Kuala Lumpur. A
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          Lock icon Bank drops plan to buy HK fund
          84 22 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Banque Internationale A Luxembourg has dropped out of negotiations to buy Hongkong investment fund Matheson PFC, the South China Morning Post reported. The Luxembourg-based bank deeided against pursuing the purchase after the fund was reprimanded by the Hongkong Seeurities
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          Lock icon Tatung notches up 54% earnings rise
          58 22 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's largest electrical appliances maker, Tatung Co, said on Fridav that its after-tax profit surged 53.6 per cent to NT55.39 'billion (***** million) last year. The handsome result was attributed mainly to profits from affiliate Chung Hwa Picture Tube Co, in which
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          Lock icon Motorola to add new plant in Mexico
          56 22 Reuter BOYNTON BEACH, Florida Motorola Inc said its paging products division plans to construct a new facility in Chihuahua, Mexico, to support expansion of its paging manufacturing operations in the Latin American region. The 23,230 sq m facility is expected to begin operations
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          Lock icon Japan's Daiei to axe over 2,000 jobs
          73 22 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Daiei Inc, the largest supermarket operator in Japan, will cut 2,000 to 3,000 jobs in the current financial year ending February 1996, according to president Isao Nakauchi, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported. As a result, the company will have
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          Lock icon Saab's pre-tax gain hits 111m kronor
          59 22 Bloomberg Business News STOCKHOLM Saab Automobile AB made a pre-tax profit of 111 million kronor (5520.8 million) in the first quarter of this year, compared with a loss of 63 million kronor in the previous corresponding quarter. The Swedish carmaker said sales rose to
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          Lock icon Shenzhen firm's profit leaps 25%
          54 22 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Shenzhen Health Mineral Water Co, China's largest mineral water producer, said its net profit after tax and payments to minority interests rose 25.3 per cent to 35.3 million yuan (555.7 million) last year, compared with 28.1 million yuan the year
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          Lock icon HK punters to get research centre
          88 22 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Securities and Futures Commission, Hongkong's securities industry regulator, will start a research centre for small investors, the South China Morning Post reported. The centre will contain annual reports, listing prospectuses and the trading records of Hongkong-listed companies. It will
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        194 22 Reuter BEIJING China's largest beer brewer, Tsingtao Brewery, plans to build new and expand existing plants to boost annual production to 1.4 million tonnes in the next five years, the Xinhua news agency said. The plan would increase Tsingtao's market share to 7
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        655 22  -  Sfe HANG SENG INSIGHT By Steve Vines IN many ways it is a pity that Robert Gilmore, the departing deputy chairman of Hongkong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). chose to make the issue of minority shareholders' rights the theme of
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        388 22 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Shanghai Petrochemical Co. China's largest petrochemical company, said its net profit rose 72 per cent last year as the global economic recovery boosted the prices of chemicals. In response to booming demand. president Wu Yixin said the company
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        478 22 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Shares in Yang Iron Works Co, one of Taiwan's largest makers of machine tools, soared to their 7 per cent daily ceiling on Friday after it pulled off a feat matched by only one other company
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        406 23 Reuter PHILADELPHIA DuPont Co plans to sell about US$65O million (Ss9lo million) worth of assets in its Conoco oil subsidiary to help finance the US$B.B billion repurchase of a block of its stock from Seagram Co, a DuPont spokesman said on Friday.
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        256 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's Sumitomo Bank Ltd has suffered a 62 billion yen (551.03 billion) loss from devaluation of securities holdings for the year to March. A spokesman for the major commercial bank said the losses were traced to a recent stock market slump and
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        207 23 AP DETROIT Chrysler Corp's board of directors will hold an emergency meeting today to discuss possible legal and financial responses to a buyout bid by Kirk Kerkorian, a newspaper reported yesterday. Directors are unlikely to take specific steps during the
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        213 23 Bloomberg Business News BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania Unisys Corp's first-quarter earnings have declined 7.2 per cent following the sale of its defence business to Loral Corp. Unisys said profit from continuing operations totalled US$32.l million (5544.6 million), or two cents a share, compared with
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        421 23 Reuter AMSTERDAM Analysts say first-quarter net profit from ordinary operations at Philips Electronics NV, due on Wednesday, should spurt ahead with strong trading from consumer electronics and components leading the charge. Out of 11 analysts polled by Reuters, the average forecast for net
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        421 23 Los Angeles Times-Washington Post ATLANTA l ed Turner has moved to strengthen his control over Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System Inc. In two separate transactions last month, the chairman of the media giant increased his voting control to about 66.7 per cent from 65.2
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        261 23 Reuter NEW YORK Consumer products giant Colgate-Palmo-live Co reported record firstquarter sales and profits last Friday on the strength of its US and Latin American operations. Colgate, whose products include Colgate toothpaste and Palmolive dish washing liquid, said sales rose 12 per cent
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        1089 21  -  Profile of Mayfran Singapore By Jenny Lam SINGAPORE For seven years after bedlinen-maker Mayfran Singapore was founded in 1977, its workers comprised just eight family members. Henry Koh, its managing director and founder, recalls that everyone in the family his wife, parents, uncle and
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        441 24  -  By Chew Farn Chyi SINGAPORE The regional manager of Internationale Nederlanden Bank said last week Barings group would be a perfect fit with the ING group's other activities. Jaap M Manse said ING Bank which itself resulted from a merger in
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        Why silver and platinum are outshining gold's performance
        537 24  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON GOLD requires a further significant dollar slide to push it over the US$4OO (Sss6o) barrier. Without such an impetus, the market could continue to disappoint. While silver, platinum and even palladium prices have shone so far this
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        231 24 Reuter TOKYO Japanese life insurers feel their business has been driven into a corner by the recent slump in share prices and the yen's appreciation, said Takahide Sakurai, chairman of the Life Insurance Association of Japan. "In general, Japan's life insurance industry
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        163 24 Bernama JOHOR BAHARU A total of 132.3 million units or 53 per cent of the 250 million units in the Johor Fund launched last Wednesday had been sold to 6,930 investors as of Saturday. The chief executive of the Johor
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        478 24 Reuter HANOI French oil company Total has submitted a feasibility study for Vietnam's first oil refinery that raises major doubts over the project's location and cost, the Vietnam Investment Review said yesterday. The semi-official weekly, published by the State Committee for
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        410 24 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON Future derivatives-related crises will only be prevented if firms aggressively improve their risk management programmes and regulators the international settlement systems, former Federal Reserve Board vice-chair-man David Mullins has said. "If they (firms and regulators) fail to do this, derivatives will continue
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        2266 24 *Rates are the average of 9 selected banks IraJe keifhieJ injt s tmk u luted atainst S'iw's hip 14 liaJimt paitners year 198'f Base year: 1985 BANKS S ABN Amro Bank NV 7S% ANZ Banking Croup 6Vi Allied Irish Bank PLC 7 American Express Bank 7 Arab Banking orp 7
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        626 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE The US dollar started the week in Asia on a weak footing, but corrective pressure emerged mid-week, helping the currency to recover both against the Deutschemark and the Japanese yen by Friday's close. The failure of
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        Lock icon Silver jumps to six-year high on speculative buying by US funds
        978 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The price of silver shot up to a six-year high of USS6 an ounce last week on a wave of frenzied speculative buying by American investment funds spurred on by a sharp fall in
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      1466 25 SICOM Futures Rubber (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS I Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sell (tonnes) Interest May 95 255 50 1975 500~ Jun 249.00 249 00 249 50 1950 2825 Jul 245.00 243.00 ***** 150 1650 Aug 243.00 241.00 241.00 450 2050
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      5319 26 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Karn KPS Date IT LY TY LY (ompant aim (cts) (cts) MSB* Mar 31 I 1.973 0.843 2.92 0.92 Alliance Trail Mar 30 P I.380L I.564L ANA Hotels Apr 3 P 3.392 2.591 7.07 5 40 Bonvcsts Mar 30 P 15.557 5.563 7.36
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      754 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        804 27 FT New York WALL STREET is beginning to tire after its hectic run this year. Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit new highs again late in the week, the advance has been based on a few large stocks. Most of
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        277 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE PRICES rose on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in a week of steady buy-backs after the market's downside risks were alleviated by a cut in the official discount rate at the previous weekend. But the market remained susceptible to the yen's recordbreaking advance
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        665 27 Reuter London SHARE PRICES fell on the London Stock Exchange over the week. The ETSE 100-share Index closed at 3,199.9, down 8.9 points from the previous week's close. Blue chips will have a choppy start this week, with some signs that UK economic
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        Lock icon Market likely to see lacklustre trade
        169 27 Reuter Hongkong STOCK PRICES inched lower in Hongkong last week, as the Hang Seng Index declined by a mere 16.6 points or 0.2 per cent to go into the weekend at 8.645.39. Turnover was better, but still thin, averaging HKS2.OS billion per day. compared
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          82 27 Lower commodity prices, interest rate fears and soaring imports sucked confidence out of the Australian bourse as shares dropped one per cent over the week. The market barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, fell to 2,000.9 points, down 19.8 points or one per cent, over the previous week's finish, despite
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          78 27 After a slight dip earlier in the week, the Philippine stock market recovered on renewed confidence in the country's blue chips. The Composite Index rose to 2,502.48 points on Friday, up 0.2 per cent from the April 12 close, the last day of trading in the previous week. Average
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          75 27 The Stock Exchange of Thailand, worried about the fall of the US dollar, fell 19.73 points, or 1.65 per cent, to end the week at 1,173.16 points. The average daily turnover was 43.4 million shares, up from 39.9 million the week before. The average daily value of shares traded
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          109 27 After dipping most of the week due to ongoing speculation on interest and exchange rates, a slightly stronger dollar helped lift the Jakarta Stock Exchange Index towards the end of the week. After closing the previous Friday at 419.452, the JSE Index slipped earlier in the week, then rose
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          83 27 Share prices plunged through the psychological 900-point barrier in the half-day trading on Saturday, losing 11. 32 points to close at 891.84. Saturday's fall dragged the Composite Price Index down 19.57 points from a week earlier when it stood at 911.41. Blue chips, however, survived the downward trend and
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          90 27 Selling by institutional investors pulled down the Taipei bourse to a 10month low last week due to a lack of confidence among market participants, brokers said. Extending a 2.5 per cent slide the previous week, the Weighted Price Index on the Taiwan Stock Exchange lost another 413.34 points, or
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          113 27 The Reserve Bank of India's tight credit policv for the first half of fiscal 1995-96 pushed down prices on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) with the Sensitivity Index closing lower by about 100 points compared to a week ago. The 30-scrip BSE Sensitivity Index shed 101.97 points over the
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        2506 27 London Apr 21 Pence Industrials A. A. Corp Adr S6 6/8 6/8 \B Pods 27g 2 AN*\ National 468 f 7 Allied Lyons 531 030 8 030 Amec 72 I 2 Argyll 286 4/8 7 4/8 \sda Ciroup t-»830 > 330 BATInd 15 460 IK( 313 J B<X Group 734
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        877 27 +39.43 The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared to a record high for the second straight day on Friday, boosted by surprisingly strong corporate reports. The Dow Jones index gained 39.43 points to 4,270.09, surpassing the previous high of 4.230.66 set on Thursday. For the week the blue-chip index
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        273 27 +8.12 Toronto stocks closed higher in heavy trading on Friday, ending a volatile week as Canadian equities lagged far behind record highs on Wall Street. The TSE 300 Composite Index rose 8.12 points to 4,258.10 on 70.38 million shares worth C 5937.00 million. Despite solid earnings, strength in other
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      2684 28 Cr <»r 1999 Ijtl Vol Knk last Quote l)i» IN* VM M M < ap High Low uoipant Sal* C000) High lam Bu).r Viler N O P/fc Sail MALAYSIAN STOCKS 478 m AISB 50C 386 -12 4060 428 360 384 386 30 -2 9 0 2 39 6
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        Lock icon Market ends week firmer on late rebound
        244 28 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian share prices ended last week higher on the back of a minor rebound on Friday after four days of listless trading, with foreign investors still sidelined by the falling dollar, brokers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Composite Index
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        7134 28 Source: Bridge Info WBIC«8 > TUWOVCT low PrrvkxK C lunge KLSE Composite .977.84 967.29 +10.55 NST Industrial ..5180 89 5235.37 -54 48 NST Finance 8916.26 8957 64 -41.38 NST Properties ...2578.08 2608.73 -30 65 NST Mining 2249 59 2289.74 -40 15 I ■now C000) Total volume 154.225 48.420 H05.805 Total
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        9448 29 MAW BOARD (,i trf M IW last Vol Week I JIM Qi».lc IH. Bh NH }f> W High I o. lomp... Sale i UOO) High U. B«»« Seller S »f P't Nm r,l INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 482 18* ml s Vcnu 50c 424 cd -4 326 428 412 424 42ft
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        Lock icon Investors bullish with eyes on G-7 meeting
        1968 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE This week is expected to begin on a bullish note after last Friday's advance in the face of a firming US dollar. But investors, who have for weeks been battered by the plunging dollar, are still worried that the
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      482 31  -  From Alec Almazan in HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAM is launching a US$3.B9 billion (555.41 billion) programme to overhaul its old and congested port system in the next five years. The government plan calls for the building of new ports and the
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      Lock icon Global Alliance to extend cooperation to joint purchasing
      456 31 Lloyd's List LONDON The recently formed Global Alliance shipping consortium is rapidly developing into a significantly more extensive organisation that may ultimately own ships. The member lines have decided to extend their cooperation into joint purchasing that is likely to go as
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      Lock icon Hongkong is world's busiest container port for third year
      157 31 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong was the busiest container port in the world last year for the third successive year, with annual throughput of more than 11 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), a government statement said yesterday. Total throughput increased 20.1 per cent
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1045 31 Page Col ABC Containerline 16 1 Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 •Ahlers Line 12 I •Ahrcnkiel Liner 4 1/2 •ANL 3 4/5 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 •APL 18 1/2 •Appenship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 4 •ASCL 5 5 Astro
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      54 31 AFP HELSINKI, Finland Passengers being rescued in lifeboats after a Tallin-bound Estonian passenger fern ran aground and took on Hater about an hour after sailing out of Helsinki last Saturday. Rescue workers safely evacuated the 977 passengers from the ship. Mo casualties or injuries
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      Lock icon Trading in tanker market unusually brisk but rates remain weak
      414 31 KnightRidder LONDON Brokers said the tanker market was "surprisingly active" at the end of last week, with a reasonable amount of action for very/ultra large crude carrier loaders in several areas. Despite the action rates remain weak in most sectors.
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      Lock icon Panama Canal more dangerous, say pilots
      117 31 AFP LONDON Passage through the Panama Canal has become more and more dangerous, according to those piloting vessels through it, the maritime affairs daily Lloyd's List said last week. The journal said the 230 officers servicing the canal, through which 12,000 ships pass annually,
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      2261 32 THE London dry cargo freight market continues to improve in most areas although brokers say the upward momentum may he weakening. The Baltic Freight Index (BF1) rose 17 more points on Friday to 2,288. just seven short of its historic March high. Futures displayed a different scenario with
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      Lock icon Piracy still a problem in Indonesian waters
      845 33  -  Pirates continue to prey on Indonesia's sailing fleet of more than 3,000 vessels, reports John Owen-Davies John Owen-Davies Reuter Helmsman sarifuddin emerges from the schooner's wheelhouse brandishing a razor-sharp sword. "This is for pirates. This is our protection." says the 28-year-old Indonesian sailor,
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      9808 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
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        512 43 Vewel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Armal Departure JurOOC Port Aung Se«n My 2/95A P01A 24 04 0900 25 04/2330 Callei Eicelence H7 J12 alongside 24 04/0500 Batam Spwd3 A4695* P01A 24 04/1300 24 04/1500 Eastern Heto 14 (4,5 a*x«side 24 04/1230 Batam
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1457 43 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 Utac 0438 25/0001 1A 23 1500 23/1659 23/1900 IB 23/1500 23/1659 23/1900 28 23/1700 24/0659 24/0900 3 24/0700 24/1159 24/1400
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        Daewoo signs MOU with Aussie state on rail project
        444 50  -  From Florence Chong In SYDNEY SOUTH Korean conglomerate Daewoo Corp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the state of Northern Territory in Australia to continue negotiations on the construction of a 1.500-kilometre railway. The railway, linking Darwin with Alice Springs,
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        75 50 AFP SHANGHAI Chinese Construction and Engineering Minister He Guangyuan (left) and Volkswagen chief Ferdinand Piech cutting the ribbon to inaugurate the paint shop of the Shanghai plant of the German car manufacturer last week. I he opening marks the start of production of the
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        Lock icon Denver Airport's baggage system progressing
        211 50 Bloomberg Business News DENVER United Airlines, the biggest tenant at the new Denver International Airport, said it has successfully begun using the transfer portion of the airport's US$232-million (*****.5 million) automated baggage system. The transfer portion of the system moves bags from arriving aircraft to
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          61 50 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong's Provisional Airport Authority (PAA) and BCJ Joint Venture said last week Leighton Contractors (Asia) Ltd has been awarded a HK5145.9-million (5526.4 million) contract to build the Ground Transportation Centre substructure for the new airport. The contract's cost is included in the HKSIO.I billion
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          Lock icon Bremer Vulkan plans China venture
          72 50 Bloomberg Business News BREMEN Germany's largest shipbuilder, Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, said last week it plans to create a joint shipmaking venture in China by buying 51 per cent of Shanghai Edward Shipbuilding Co. Pending approval from Chinese officials, Bremer Vulkan plans to buy a
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          Lock icon More air crash victims in Russia
          74 50 AFP MOSCOW The number of air crash victims in Russia has trebled since 1993, Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing a report from the ministry for emergencies. The report on accidents in Russia in 1994 said 402 people died and 466 were injured
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          Lock icon Fokker confirms Alitalia order
          65 50 Reuter AMSTERDAM Fokker NV confirmed it reached agreement to lease 15 regional jet aircraft to Italian state airline Alitalia. Industry sources had previously said the Alitalia board took the decision at a meeting earlier on Friday. A statement from Fokker said the order was for 15
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        Lock icon Sales of Toyota, Nissan cars in Japan increase
        292 50 AP TOKYO Japan's two largest car makers said last week their domestic sales increased in the fiscal year ended March 31 the first rise in four years for Toyota, in five for Nissan. Toyota Motor Corp. Japan's largest car maker, said its
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        Lock icon Vietnam gives green light to Suzuki factory
        216 50 AP HANOI Vietnam has authorised Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp to build a US$2l million (5529.2 million) truck assembly plant, a business publication said last Saturday. Suzuki won a licence from the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment to assemble as many as 500
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      808 39 SSaagfllg PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD J I imSSSSSSK— 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I SSSSSSSS JVfIHV CR NO **********0E I VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB HOD JED AOJ ADE PZU MSW ASA KOTA BERKAT BKT23P 21/4 25/4 1/5 3/5 5/5 7/5 15/5 19/5 KOTA WIRAWAN
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      533 42 g RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 UNES) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RtSHIP (3 Lines) CR NO: **********0E ISA ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES r (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vnml Voy ETA Loading for Spore Abbay Worn 44W8 27/06 40WB 20/07 H KIEN HUNG
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      265 43 I SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. v MM I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. TEL: *****90 (4 UNES) FAX; *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI S'PORE HKQ SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA I ETD ETA I ETD ETA I ETP J. FASTER 907/906 2JV4 27/4
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      1518 44 THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VESSELS VOY ETA EXCHANGE VESSELS VOY ETA EXCHANGE RATE R rt LONDON MAERSK 9506 24 APR 1.4043 MAERSK HONG KONG 9506 01 MAY PENINSULAR BAY 5056 24 APR 1 4043 PROVIDENCE BAY 5060 01 MAY MAERSK YOKOHAMA 9507 24 APR 1.4114 SEALANO DEVELOPER 221W
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      995 45 H ACCEPTING CARGO FOR XINGANG, CHINA 30TH APRIL Contdincr/Roßo/^^Jt^^KScn^B ■gßTgjgffiffiTOJll^LlllllJ mm mm i/a/£S nil n mniinwrrfli mm SERVICE: SGP/S.E. ASIA PANAMA/NORTH AMERICA (INCL HOU*) r*a Har* I mi* pin* sea log Ime [me la/lb cki [I** Tbm fwc [«f Tiby mom* sn 1 TALABOT 1509 ~2«74 3*7* »7i WW 1/5
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      687 45 PAKISTAN NATIONAL •fSjgT SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAK BULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VtSSCL VOY SIN KARACHI HYDERABAD 13<-HW 29/04 M/ 85 ISLAMABAD 134-HW 12£S 2Vto SARGOOHA 155-HW WK <*£« BOLAM 150-HW SjjS 10/W Wl AISO ACCfFTIIIO CAROOH TO DUIAI FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL I VOY I SIM I HUG
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      778 46 STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I AGENTS FOR: ZIM CONTAINER SERVKE GOLDSTAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 Tat *****12 (MARKETING) (Ot NO. *****650Q00-E) N. AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SERVKES Jo'BESM wssa Ivor mi Umuwumb vot igb Ust sav Sk mi ami iMprrwu —-nr-B7n7rTTT7ni7r A.VU JO/4 Z.
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      1021 46 CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) ITE LTD. AUCKLAND 4 MAY (Accepting to all New Zealand ports) PENANG 5 MAY JAKARTA 26 APR PORTKLANG 27 APR BANGKOK 30 APR MANILA 30 APR KEELUNG 5 MAY MELBOURNE 27 APR SYDNEY 27 APR BRtSBANE 27 APR FREMANTLE 4/5 APR ADELAIDE 4/5 APR ACCEPTING TO All
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      2224 47 j SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 00R Y.S.jlTui^i7iiMiM^ Vessel Voy Kong Singapore P l Kelang Penanfl Diamond Star 1 M-27/4 4J/5 Spfrf 70 24-25/4 30-1/5 2-3/5 Star Ruby T 9 3-4/5 9-10/5 11-12/5
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      405 47 (A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY Of NOL) Official Agent of: S62blld£6 (SEA AIRFREIGHT) T*AN«po«T omh INTERNATIONALE SPEDITION MAIN LINE: 278 7772 WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB CONTINENT ETA ETA COLOMBO 28/04 01/05 CHITTAGONG 27/04 04/05 CALCUTTA 26/04 04/05 BOMBAY/NEW DELHI 01/05 08/05 KARACHI 01/05 08/05 MADRAS 27/04 01/05 USA/EUROPE ETD ETA USA
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      925 47 I VESSEL VOYAGE EXCHANGE RATES (USS)I II I !U OUT IN OUT H I DEJA BHUM SSS 656N 1 4060 1 4080 H mmmm I ROYAL ACCORD 09E 10W ***** 1 4083 H I |Mi I CALIFORNIA SATURN 72W 73E 1 4020 1 3950 H I msNm m neptune pearl
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      532 48 ISLAND LINE PTE LTD Subsidiary of Hal Sun Hup Group 200 cantonment road #02-11 southro«nt TEL: *****57 FAX *****04 TLX: RS ***** RS ***** INTRA-ASIA CONTAINER SERVICE WEEKLY SERVICE TO INDONESIA VESSEL j VOT j SIN I JKT VESSEL VOY SIN j «UW I EAGLE TCE I VQ73 I 25/4
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      389 49 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE I RORO CARRIER SPECIALIZE H HEAVY LIFT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO 50 TONS l"« F* VESSfI W)Y _SJN PK IQMXNG W ALICE 5 SID 25/4 BATAM 27/4 BRIGHT VEGA 146 27/4 214 MUMA 2/5 FORTUNE EPOCH 1 2S/4 10/4 VTIAUSf 30 4
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