The Business Times, 26 October 1998

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  • 323 1 Rescue plan expected to be annonnced in time for Apec forum AFP [TOKYO] The Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised nations plan to establish an international debt-purchase organisation to rescue crisis-hit Asian firms, a newspaper said yesterday. The G-7 nations expect
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  • 532 1 But planning agency still sees economy shrinking 1.8% Bloomberg [TOKYO] Taichi Sakaiya, chief of Japan's Economic Planning Agency, said yesterday the economy is at its worst and will improve in "a few months" if bank managers, businesses and consumers
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  • 362 1  -  7,588 people applied last year compared with 6,869 in'9o By I Soh Tiang Keng THE cumulative amount of money withdrawn from the Central Provident Fund by members to finance their education or that of their children reached $322.8 million at the end
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  • 394 1  -  By 1 Diana Oon [SINGAPORE! Asiatic Enterprises. ranked among the 50 most enterprising privatelyheld local companies for three years running, has been put under provisional liquidation. The High Court appointed Michael Ng, Tham Sai Choy and Peter Chay of KPMG
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  • 60 1 [BEIJING] A woman waiting yesterday at a bus stop here which is covered with advertisement billboards ofpopular Hongkong movie stars showing off the latest mobile phones. China's telecommunications market is attracting the attention of overseas investors who see it as a bright spot
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 603 2  -  Venturing into India and South America helps it offset fall in volumes caused by the regional crisis Uy\ Siow Li Sen HIN Leong Trading, Singapore's largest independent oil trader, has nimbly stepped into new markets as volumes in its traditional strongholds
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    • 419 2  -  Competition gets tonkas they brace for challenging year By] Eugene Low FAST-FOOD chains are beginning to feel the bite of the economic crisis as sales fall and competition hots up. Michael Lee, general manager of Burger King franchisee Bon-Food, said that
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    • 306 2  -  BYE ON THE ECOMOMY Construction By< Corinne Kerk DRAGGED down by a sharp reduction in private sector work, the value of contracts awarded continued to plunge in August, falling 44 per cent year-on-year, latest preliminary numbers show. This follows a 43 per cent fall in July
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    • 472 2  -  GE/Fitch venture offers design services to manufacturers /tyj< Jennifer Lien ELECTRONICS companies in Singapore wanting to design their own products would do well to consider using the services of a specialist, the founder of a leading US industrial design firm said. As developing economies
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  • MALAYSIAN BUDGET
    • 758 3  -  ECONOMIC REPORT 1998/1099 Exports fell 10.4% in US$ terms in first seven months while imports dropped 27% bYom Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur WHILE Malaysia saw a surge in export earnings in 1998, much of this year's extraordinary trade surplus arose from
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    • 258 3  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian Ministry of Finance expects the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to rise to 5.2 per cent this year from 2.7 per cent in 1997. This is far less than what other forecasters are expecting. Aris Othman, secretarygeneral
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    • 496 3  -  Next year, deficit set to widen to RMI6b, or 6.1% ofGNP FYorn Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian budget is expected to show a deficit of 9.6 billion Malaysian ringgit (SS4.I billion) this year, or 3.7 per cent of
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    • 426 3 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's budget on Friday won applause but is unlikely to excite markets, economists said at the weekend. They said the generous tax cuts to some sectors, new taxes on others, a large spending plan and a budget
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  • FOCUS
    • 3393 4 The US has to play a strong leadership role in the current financial crisis and provide enlightened intellectual leadership to deal with fundamental and complex issues about the global financial system, says SM Lee, while the best contribution Japan can make is to get its
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 243 5 ■ZAMBOANGA AFP MUSLIM extremists have threatened to blow up two oil depots and a power barge in two provinces in the southern Philippines, military sources said yesterday. The rebels, identified as members of the separatist Abu Sayyaf group, allegedly were planning to
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    • 443 5 JAKARTA Not to help suffering Indonesians would be treachery, says armed forces chief AFP INDONESIA'S armed forces chief yesterday threw the military's weight behind former president Suharto's successor, B J Habibie, and said the military will continue to play a significant
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    • 317 5 JAKARTA 100,000 civilians to back 30,000 army and police personnel AFP AMID a massive show of force, the military warned it will not tolerate disruption of a crucial parliament session which will draw up the political parameters of post-Suhar-to Indonesia. Television reports yesterday
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    • 330 5 KUALA LUMPUR Bat they admit he is unlikely to step down without a fight AFP OPPOSITION and human rights groups yesterday urged Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to step down or hold early polls after an outbreak of political violence, but
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    • 135 5 JAKARTA AFP [JAKARTA] Hindu activists are planning a strike in Bali if the government does not sack a minister for remarks they considered smacked of discrimination, newspapers said yesterday. I Nyoman Japa, a protest coordinator in Bali, said the community gave the government
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 563 6 Indonesians waiting to see if currency can hold strength and bring down rates AFP (JAKARTA) Indonesians will be watching warily this week J. to see if the recent strengthening of the battered rupiah is a temporary phenomenon or will hold long enough to bring
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    • 51 6 [HONGKONG] A tourist taking pictures of the Hongkong skyline outside the Star Ferry on Saturday. Hongkong's tourism industry is bracing for more pain as it anxiously awaits the first signs of recovery from a recession at home and in Asian economies languishing in the doldrums.
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    • 185 6 Bridge News [SHANGHAI] Confidence in China's economy has improved, Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach told the official China Daily Business Weekly. "China has stood out for its extraordinary resilience in the midst of the unprecedented crisis in Asia," Mr Roach said. Meanwhile,
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    • 376 6 Finance minister says govt has to cat fiscal deficit Bloomberg AFP [NEW DELHI] The Indian government should try to cap its market borrowings at 3 per cent of gross domestic product, said Yashwant Sinha, the finance minister of the second most
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    • 35 6 China wont meet 10 export growth target, Pg 7 Vajpayee an veils package to boost economy, Pg 8 &vT"Y k I rtad it in Mews/ I Cifik Cat* 1 Mm it Clmlfltd tbl« wwlttid. CATjSI
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 154 7 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN'S Securities and Futures Commission is ready to raise the ceiling on foreign investments in the stock market by five percentage points next week, the Commercial Times said at the weekend. The cap on a foreign investor's holdings in a single
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    • 518 7  -  Funds to be injected into Guangdong Enterprises could hit HKssb: analysts From Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong THE Guangdong provincial government has promised to rescue one of its debt-ridden investment companies, a move that came shortly after Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji visited Guangzhou city
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    • 255 7 BEIJING Official says most optimistic estimate is 6% for this year AFP CHINA admitted defeat yesterday in its battle to reach export growth targets in the face of the grinding Asian financial crisis. "Given the slowdown of world trade, it will be
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    • 185 7 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG was bracing yesterday for the arrival of Typhoon Babs, which killed at least 140 people and wreaked a trail of devastation when it swept across the Philippines. At midday (0400 GMT), the slow-moving storm was 410 km south-east of Hongkong and
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  • ASIA
    • 448 8  -  Share buy backs and 280b mpee road project among measures announced bYmri. Rajendra Bajpai in Sew Delhi INDIAN Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee unveiled a "big bang" economic package at the weekend in a bid to boost the sagging confidence of the business
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    • 435 8  -  Group demanding 304b won from Samsung Electronics By Jennifer Veale in Seoul SHAREHOLDERS' meetings have traditionally been subdued affairs in South Korea. Usually it was a case of a few questions, even fewer answers and let the executives get on with the job. That's all
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    • 370 8 TOKYO Bloomberg DAMCHI Kangyo Bank, Industrial Bank of Japan and at least four more of Japan's biggest lenders said they boosted bad-loan write-offs for the half-year ended Sept 30 as soaring bankruptcies pushed more loans into default. Industrial Bank of Japan, Japan's seventh-largest
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    • 145 8 NEWDELHI AFP INDIA'S Defence Minister George Fernandes denied yesterday that India was engaged in a private deal with the United States to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). "There cannot be any kind of a private deal between the US and
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    • 219 8 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korea's jobless rate eased to 7.3 per cent in September amid government moves to limit ballooning job cuts through increased spending on state projects, official data showed yesterday. The statistics office, however, said the job market remained volatile as
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  • THE WORLD
    • 258 9 MOSCOW Reuters PRIME Minister Yevgeny Primakov said at the weekend Russia remained a great power despite its deep economic crisis and would not go begging for outside help. But the former foreign minister and spymaster, confirmed in his new post
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    • 452 9 SYDNEY Tighten regulation of institutions that lend them money, says McDonoogh AFP ONE of the world's leading central bankers yesterday backed global pressure for regulation of international hedge funds by calling for indirect controls on the institutions that lend them
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    • 473 9  -  Economists forecast 0.5% growth for year after 2 quarters of negative growth From Neil Behrmann in London SEVERAL economists are predicting that Britain wiii slip into recession next year. And for the first time, the City of London, previously the most
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    • 323 9 POERTSCHACH. Austria AFP EUROPEAN Union leaders yesterday signalled a shift to the left in the bloc's economic priorities, backing calls for Europe-wide interest rate cuts and pledging to put policies for jobs and growth at the top of the agenda. The tenor
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 558 10  -  15 solutions providers brought together for seminar for small enterprises By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard (HP), Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp last week launched the first initiative to encourage small and medium enterprises (SMEs) here to adopt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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    • 255 10  -  By: Kenneth Goh [SINGAPORE] Home-grown Eutech Cybernetics, which develops software for intelligent buildings, is hoping to be the Asian equivalent of Microsoft in the intelligent building industry. It believes that its Viva solution may be its best shot at making this a
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    • 199 10 ISINGAPOKEJ The Singapore Trade Development Board, supported by the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, will set up two national pavilions specifically for multimedia and telecommunications for Singapore companies next year at the world's largest IT trade fair Ce81T'99. The TDB will also promote
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    • 363 10  -  It hopes to spur more local companies to develop IT products By. Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] The National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) is pushing the greater use of information technology in the financial sector in the hope that this will spur more
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    • 499 11  -  Republic linked to five main R&D units for new product development By\ Raju Chellam (SINGAPORE] Software firm Sybase Inc will make Singapore its Asian hub for product development and business operations. As part of that effort, the US-based company last week
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    • IT TAKES
      • 51 11 [SINGAPORE] Some US$7.5 million (5512.2 million) worth of business was conducted by the end of GIobaITRONICS'9B from Oct 6 to 9, according to a survey of 1,400 participating companies by Reed Exhibition Companies, which organised the event. Exhibitors have forecast US$4B.5 million in sales in the next 12
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      • 57 11 [SINGAPORE] In Focus Systems Asia Pte Ltd, a maker of data/video projection systems, last week opened its 278 sq m premises in Suntec Towers as part of its expansion plan in Asia. The new premises will house the firm's Asia-Pacific headquarters and the international purchasing
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      • 58 11 [SINGAPORE] Cabletron Systems recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ngee Ann Polytechnic Centre for Computer Studies to benefit students in a programme of technology transfer. The agreement is the first of many initiatives by Cabletron to extend training of its networking
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      • 48 11 [SINGAPORE] QAD, a vendor of supply-chain-enabled ERP software, recently launched Factory Optimirer and Supply Chain Optimizer. The Factory Optimizer is targeted at manufacturers which wish to optimise their plant-level operations. The Supply Chain Optimizer enables companies to optimise all their planning and scheduling activities.
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      • 40 11 [SINGAPORE] GartnerGroup has appointed Tay Kheng Tiong as director of Dataquest research operations for the Asia-Pacific. Mr Tay is based in Singapore. Before joining GartnerGroup, Mr Tay worked as Scotts Holding's general manager for IT services.
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      • 29 11  -  -Compiled by 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Dr Hanns Zeltinger has joined debis Systemhaus' Singapore office as regional manager for the Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan.
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    • 527 11  -  Software firm registers protest by gatecrashing event W Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE) Software major Oracle Systems last week took the unusual step of complaining publicly that it had been excluded by Microsoft Corp from a seminar here. Oracle, the second largest independent software
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    • 479 12  -  Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney will be the primary hubs Hi/ Toh Han Shih (SINGAPORE) Microsoft is upgrading to a new network in Asia, with Singapore as a hub, its chief information officer John Connors said. On a visit to Singapore last week to review Microsoft's Asian
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    • 467 12  -  By Narendra Nagpal The author is general manager, Asean and South Asia, Eastman Software Messaging seats are being shipped at a rate of well over two million per month globally now. Messaging has become an integral part of many corporate IT infrastructures. Market reports
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    • 130 12 Reuters [BEIJING] Chinese government agencies and stateowned enterprises are scrambling to tackle the millennium bug to meet a September 1999 deadline imposed by Beijing, the China Economic Times said last week. The State Council, or Cabinet, ruled last month that all state computer
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    • 584 14  -  Latest version, Communicator 4.5, includes features for the serious business user ffy Koh Su Haw [SINGAPORE] With the release early last week of Netscape Communicator 4.5 Netscape Communications showed that it really means business. Communicator 4.5 is a well-tested and dependable Web browser suite incorporating
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    • 234 14 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp last week unveiled a hard drive with a higher capacity than any now available for notebook computers, its latest push to dominate that high-profit market. The Travelstar 14GS, which weighs as much as a baseball
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 740 16  -  With a lively duo performing, Sonata Soiree should be a foray into fun, says sttsamtsamo SUSAN TSANG IF FOO Say Ming and Benjamin Loh ever decide to give up music, the duo can take to the stage as a comedic partnership. The two, who will be
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    • 734 16  -  m music A bright start to Rachmaninov, a powerful conclusion to Shostakovich By' Vivian Wang [SINGAPORE] Throw an all-time concert favourite together with an epic work from similar origins but of a totally different flavour, and a Saturday night out with the Singapore Symphony
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 361 17  -  It will introduce new varieties of fruits and vegetables to the Longkou project By- Lu Ning [SINGAPORE! Mainboardlisted fruit and vegetable distributor Fook Huat Tong Holdings (FHTK) has signed a contract with a Chinese company to set up a new US$3O million (5548.8
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    • 222 17 Bank statement says he can't devote enough time to it Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] James Riady. the Indonesian businessman whose family controls the Lippo Group of financial and real estate companies, is in talks to sell the group's California bank,
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    • 843 17  -  HANG SENG INSIGHT Residential market expected to see severe shortage in future By Quak Hiang Whai A POTENTIAL homebuyer arrived in a taxi at a property launch. Before she could get out of the cab. dozens of property agents had already swarmed her
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 427 18 Merger with SNET will take group to the heart of Bell Atlantic's territory Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] SBC Communications' US$6.5 billion (5510.5 billion) purchase of Southern New England Telecommunications Corp (SNET) has won approval from federal regulators, allowing the second largest US local telephone company
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      • 231 18 New company to target LA, Houston, Galveston markets Bloomberg [NEW YORK) AT&T Corp, the largest US phone company, and Bell South Corp, the No 4 US local phone company, will form a new company to man age their wireless properties in three
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      • 250 18 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Nissan Motor will sell about half its shareholdings in 70 non-affili-ated parts suppliers by March 2001 as part of its restructuring programme, a report said yesterday. The nation's second largest carmaker is aiming to generate some 40 billion yen (*****.6
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      • 409 18 MostofNWl's growth to come from China projects Bloomberg IHONGKONG] New World Infrastructure Ltd, a subsidiary of Hongkong property developer New World Development Co, will announce today a 37 per cent rise in net profit for the year ended June 30, according to
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      • 290 18 Reuters Bloomberg [SEOUL] Online trading will account for about 15 per cenl of daily stock trading volume in South Korea soon, the pres ident of Korea's first cyber brokerage said on Friday. "About 15 per cent of total stock trading volume will b€
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      • 484 18 Defence against Allied Signal's hostile bid gets tougher Bloomberg [HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania] AMP Inc said third-quar-ter profit dropped 35 per cent on slumping sales of its electronic connectors, making it harder to defend against Allied Signal's US$9.B billion (5515.9 billion) hostile takeover offer.
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 342 19 Japan's No 9 lender to have just nine overseas offices by 2000, says chief Bloomberg [OSAKA] Daiwa Bank, Japan's ninth-largest lender, plans to reduce its overseas operations in preparation for the country's financial deregulation. Osaka-based Daiwa will reduce its 35 overseas operations
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      • 229 19 Bloomberg [MINNEAPOLIS] US Bancorp shares dropped 9 per cent on Friday on concern that a slowing domestic economy will erode earnings after the 14th-largest US bank reported lower-than-expected thirdquarter profit on Thursday. The Minneapolis-based bank reported that profit before a charge rose 14
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      • 446 19 Bank can now seek public funds under govt rescue package: Toyota president AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Toyota Motor Corp might back down from its pledge to help Sakura Bank seek a 300 billion yen (Ss4.l billion) cash injection from its allies.
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      • 383 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Bankers Trust Corp, the seventh largest US bank that has been in merger discussions with Germany's Deutsche Bank, said it operated profitably in October, after reporting its biggest quarterly decline in nine years. "Daily financial reports produced for
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      • 256 19 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] One of GIO Australia Holdings Ltd's largest shareholders has reduced its stake in the general insurance firm, taking advantage of record-high prices generated by a hostile As 3 billion (Ss3 billion) takeover bid. Templeton Investment Management Australia Ltd reduced its stake
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      • 410 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Hitachi Credit Corp, a unit of Hitachi Ltd, plans to set up a brokerage in December to repackage assets held by Hitachi Group companies and sell them to its clients. The new company, capitalised at one billion yen (5J13.6 million), will
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 571 20 SIMEX Weeklyßoundup [SINGAPORE) Key questions going into the new week will be whether the US dollar can maintain its new found corrective tone and what the fate of the yen, which remains in nervous consolidation as the three-week anniversary of the hedge fund credit crunch
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      • 831 20 COMMODITY Weeklyßouridup AFP [LONDONI Most commodities continued to suffer from low demand last week, as the world's economic slowdown and fears of reduced growth in the months ahead dogged investor interest. Even gold, which had risen in
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    • 1924 20 SICOM FUTURES Oct 23 RUBBER (futures dosing as at 5 30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTUS ceotsAt) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Nov 98 120.00 1250 Dec 98 121.50 1450 Jan 99 122.50 550 Feb 99 124.50 725 Mar 99 125.75 125.75 125.75 275 1175 Apr/Jun 99
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    • 5049 21 Net urn EPS Liann Huat Sep JO I 4 323L 2324 21 1.0' °*«e T* LV TV LV Low Kwng Huat Sep 31 I I 685L 2 432L 1.41 21 Company ann (Sm) ($ml lets) lets) Lee Kim Tan S«p IS I 2 901 1.192 3.62
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 273 22 HONGKONG AFP STOCKS are likely to breach the psychological 10,000-point level this week, buoyed by hopes of further interest rate cuts, after hitting a fivemonth high on Friday, dealers said. "The market will trade higher depending largely on the movement of interest
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      • 871 22 J Sydney +32JS AUSTRALIAN share prices are expected to remain stable this week amid an improving market outlook, brokers said on Friday. "Australian shares have underperformed and offer value for bargain hunters," Colonial State Bank economist Richard Grace said. "Timing is always crucial but the outbreak of
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      • 785 22 NEW YORK Evidence from corporate America doesn't point to new highs for the Dow FT WALL Street went wild on Friday. Cheering throngs gathered in the streets while office-workers hurled tickertape out the windows. They were celebrating the success of New
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      • 435 22 TOKYO Tokyo's recent measures are seen to bring in fresh fnnds AFP JAPANESE stocks are expected to extend their gains this week as the government's plan to recapitalise banks and form a fresh economic package revive sentiment, analysts said on Friday. The market
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      • 306 22 m LONDON AFP THE London stock market closed only slightly higher on the week on Friday after prof-it-taking and a fall in hopes for a quick British interest rate cut ate into the previous week's strong performance. The FT-SE
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      • 1973 22 Paris +3.66 FRENCH shares closed lower but above their lows on Friday, in line with Wall Street, in very modest turnover on a settlement day due to a lack of impetus. The CAC-40 Index closed down 27.16 points, or 0.79 per cent, at 3,393.76, up 3.66 points
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      • 454 23 AFP Composite Index +23.46 MALAYSIAN stocks are likely to trade mixed in the coming days as investors assess the expansionary 1999 budget unveiled on Friday by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, dealers said. The Composite Index surged 5.9 per cent or 23. lb points
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      • 9585 23 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products '*98 Last Vol Weeh N«t Cap Low C omt»any Sale OOO High Low P/C $mil 310 170 A,*nomoto 240 »0 13 240 230 13 2 97 3 Mb 3-5 AH0MM 6' 1 220 65 60 89 9 290 123 Apollo Food Mlg 194 4 4 194 192
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      • 2812 24 BONOS, LOANS ft WARRANTS ,998 1 La»t Vol «Nt Last OuoU Avq HH> U» Company Solo +f COOO) HI* Low Buyof SoNor Me* 20.5 3 3160 "Acar ******1 USS 9.5 *2 5 1419 11.5 6.5 9 95 I 95 4.5 3164 Acma ******4 IT »2 5 9174 21.5 14.5 17
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      • 159 24  -  WARRANT WATCH R Sivanithy WE'LL continue our focus on penny stocks as this segment has attracted much interest at the moment. Among the laggards is the warrant issued by Tibs. The instrument expires in April 2000 so time is not a problem yet. The
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      • 230 24 HONGKONG STOCKS Cr Gf Last Vol WMk LMt Ouott W* Wv YW N.t MC« Mt9K Lh Stn» Company >m (OOP) HtgH low Bwyor Cyr P/I Sm« "400 iio 5123 COL (2000) HK 400 400 8X) 24 2.0 20.5 7744.7 5124 C«ttw§v P*c 20c MK— 720 265 0 2.1
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    • 7011 25 Wwk Oct 23 I Cr Or M Wt 1998 Last Vol Wooli Last Quote Dlv Dtv YW Net Cap Avq Mtqh Low StNo Company Sato COOO) Hlqh Low Buyor SoNor H C vr P/E $mH Prko MULTI-INDUSTRY 142 49 5 mt 1000 Ac ma
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    • 1294 25 Cr Cr M Wt 1998 Last Vol Day L«t Owota (Mr Otv Y* Not Cap A»« Loo StNo Cggg tld f000> H» Loo lny Cw W W Wei MANUFACTURING 243 30 2049 'AS Auto 10c 01 *1 ***** 89 T7.S 81 81.5 IS ON 7.0 1.9 7.6 92 5
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • Article, Illustration
        571 26 Source JM Sassoon Stocks Volume Keppel Land50c 91,024,000 Van der Horst 88,455,000 Hotel Prop 70,689,000 Keppel Corp 63,576,000 DBS Land 54.470,000 Asia FoodS Prop 53,021.000 Wing Tai 25c 51.045,000 Goldtron 20c 48,003,000 Hotung Inv NT5 47,196,000 TAC BtIO 200 44,312,000 Stocks OCBC Foreign 427,979,954 City Dev 50c 347,623,689 Keppel Corp
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      • 718 26  -  THE WEEK AHEAD Both bears, bulls have convincing reasons to justify their positions; liquidity seen tapering off R Sivanithy THE market seems to be at some kind of crossroads after two weeks of nearly non-Stop rises, it's now encountering staunch resistance in
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        63 26  -  by Ven Sreenivasan VAN der Horst has been racing up in a liquidity-driven rally in recent weeks The stock's price is now more than three times what it was in August. The technicals suggest that the counter is deeply overbought. It will thus not take much to trigger
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    • 1194 18 a' CREDITO ITALIANO GROUP HEAD OFFICE: MILAN (ITALY) CREDITO ITALIANO SPA-SINGAPORE BRANCH 80 Raffles Place, #51-01 U. 0.8. Plaza 1, Singapore *****4. Consolidated Balance Sheet Consolidated Statement of Income As at December 31, 1997 As at December 31, 1997 (millions of Italian Lire) <millions of Italian Lire) 31/12/97 31/12/96 31/12/97
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    • 506 26 TO ADVERTISE CALL TOLL-FREE 1800-741 1883 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP.SO AND IN THE MATTER OF ASTRAL TRADING PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company duly convened and held on 15 October 1998 at
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 289 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young AFTER the spate of sales reports recently, the uneven nature of the market has re-asserted itself and we have seen only one sale of mainstream tonnage being reported. This deal involves clients of Ernst Jacob in Germany, who, having been linked with the
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    • 291 27 mm Oct a CWT Distribution.. 0.395 *0005 213 Chuan Hup 0.43 -0.0» 290 Cosco Invastmant 0.45 -0.01 3 fr«*grrt Lin*i 0 JO unch 2521 OB Holdings 0.345 -0.015 64 HaiSunHup 0.385 unch 472 Hitachi Zosan 0.56 *0.01 319 IMCHoMngs HK 5.60 J ay* Holdings 0.505 unch 56 Juronq
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    • 552 27  -  Mandatory reporting will make vessels identifiable: MPA senior official By: Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Mandatory ship reporting (Straitrep) in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore will help enforce the extended traffic separation scheme (TSS) when both are introduced on Dec 1,
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    • 239 27 [SINGAPORE] Samudera Shipping Line (SSL) is expanding into cement shipping, and has won its first long-term US-dollar contract for charter of a cement carrier from January 1999. The 10-year contract, with additional five years at the charterer's option, was awarded to Foremost Maritime
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    • 639 27  -  DOCKYARD I By\ David Hughes AS previewed in this column some weeks ago, lIR held its Cost-Efficient and Time-Effective Quality Maintenance in Shipping Conference in London recently. There were lots of highly technical presentations and in general the delegates mainly
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    • 340 27  -  Move part of bid to draw private sector into inland river transportation From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi THE Indian government plans to develop three major national waterways as part of a bid to attract private participation in inland river transportation. The
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    • 158 27 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Indonesian president B J Habibie said the government is considering scrapping import and val-ue-added taxes on imported ships so as to stimulate growth in the sea transportation sector. "Ships can be considered as strategic goods," Dr Habibie said late last
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    • 692 28  -  CHINA-TAIWAN SHIPPING Taiwan ship enters Shanghai port day after Taiwan envoy ends landmark visit to China to reopen political contacts Ny William Kazer Reuters in Shanghai POLITICAL rivals China and Taiwan took a tentative step in expanding commercial ties last Tuesday as a Taiwanese shipping firm
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    • 375 28 PAGE ESP Lines 12 AA M time 12 Ewqreen 6 ANl 3 Express T L 14 Accord 8 f °0"9Sun 8 Ahrenkiel 12 Frot4 '2 Appenship 5 Frt Links 14 Austral 8 GUnk 4 Avant 14 Gemartrans 8 B'tanq Mas 6 Genshqp 12 BSA 7 Glory Nav
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    • 17348 35 THEBUSINESSTIMES thebusinesstimes EXPORT ETA ETA AdvtrtlSftf Vnvana Taionhnn. I ct a r-r* I 11 advertiser vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Oestn Name Name Number Number sin Oestn Name Name Number Number n/n 06/12 MOL CAPRICORN CHALLENC 2409A 65 *****84 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 585 41 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Juronq Port An Giang 5 8/98 J03 alonqside 25.10/0501 Arktis Mayfl 9514 J18 alongside 26.10/1000 Armada 5 45 J02 alongside 25.10/030( Bt R8 2288 0698 J01 alongside 25.10/1700 Bulk Orion 08 J22 alongside 26.10/230( Butl 10/98 J10 alongside 27.10/1800 Kobe Oueen 25A
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      • 1869 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Boofclnq/Btiwic* Rstls hip Voy No Etb/Btr Portod From To From tei Clow *07 28/2359 U 29/1900 25/1*59 25/1*00 N 25/1500 25/1459 25/1900 U 25/1700 24/0459 24/0900 21 25/1700 24/04)9 24/0900 24/0700 24/1199 24/MOO 4 24/1200 24/1459 24/1700 HajUTi 25 4/1200
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      • 197 41 Oct 26 Austria: National Day. Ireland Republic Of: October Holiday. New Zealand: Labour Day. Oct 28 Greece: Oxi Day. Oct 31 Finland: All Saint Holiday. Sweden: All Saints Holiday. Taiwan: Birthday of President Chiang Kai-Sek. Not 2 Luxembourg: All Saints Day Holiday. Mexico: All Souls Day (optional). Not
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      • 972 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. ihow* price range* In US dollars instead of tingle price* for a more comprehenuve description of the market Price* shown are baaed on average-toed item Market movement* are Indicated The Cockett Bun ker Price Index change and the
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      • 512 41 Carbon 180 Mai 989 8 0.7 16.0 0.06 51 0.04 Oct 22 Density Hater ImMim Ask AMiiwmym Sediment No above E25 0 0 5 0 0 0 380 Aw 986.8 0J 0.9 0.07 28 0.03 tin* 380 Mm 996.0 0.7 19.8 0.12 154 0.11 Wri »M/M
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 552 42 Officials from both sides blame each other for breakdown in negotiations IHT [LONDON] The prospects for a liberalisation of airline traffic on the busiest North Atlantic routes appeared to recede last Friday as British and US officials blamed each other for a breakdown in
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      • 311 42 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] United Airlines, one of Boeing Co's biggest customers, threatened to buy more planes from rival Airbus Industrie if the world's biggest planemaker doesn't resolve its year-old production problems. Executives at the largest US airline called Boeing "dysfunctional"
        Bloomberg  -  311 words
      • 373 42 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US federal government moved last Friday to preserve competition by blocking a major part of Northwest Airlines Corp's alliance with Continental Airlines Inc, but the airlines said their plans were unchanged. The Justice Department's lawsuit filed in Detroit
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      • 317 42 Bloomberg [NEWARK, New Jersey] Continental Airlines was sued by former Eastern Airlines pilots seeking more than US$l billion (Ssl.6 billion) in back pay they claim was illegally denied them after Continental filed for bankruptcy in 1991. The suit, filed in US
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      • 421 42  -  Alliance with SIA includes code-share services, joint marketing plans By. Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] South African Airways (SAA) unveiled separate bilateral partnerships with Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and Swiss Air on Saturday ahead of its planned privatisation. The alliance with Singapore Airlines (SIA) takes off
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      • 58 42 I BERLIN] Visitors at the carmaker Seat's stand looking at the different models the manufacturer presented at the international automobile exhibition "AAA 98" in Berlin on Saturday. In the centre of the attention at the Seat stand this year teas the new Toledo model (in front),
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    • 21 27 Expansion of China-Taiwan shipping links Taiwan ship enters Shanghai port day after Taiwan envoy ends landmark visit to China. Page 2
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    • 77 27 Deadlock in American, British 'open-skies' talks Officials from both sides blame each other for breakdown in nogotiations. BackPage v A r^JvVv^ H n n IT n I ,/lTi 11 n lit i i 1 111 t I if"* T /in iH ft h HI WmM I Any Destination, j I
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    • 1051 29 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE VOY SIN HTM ANR HAM IV SOU FXT liH VfSStl VOT RTM AMU HAM WV SOU FIT liH SIN HY FEDERAL JI4W 26/10 12/11 14/11 17/1111/11 MAAS S2SC 04/10 04/10 09/10 10/10 27/10 THAMES SSIW 29/10 21/11 10/11 14/1114/11 API AIMANCHNE 3041 10/10 07/10 00/10 OS/10
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    • 1571 30 DSR-SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO RED SEA^VIEDITERRANEAN/CANADA VtSStL VOY SIN ItH RTM ANR HAM BRV FIX VESStt VOY SIM GIT SK fOS VIC MTR HANJIN VALENCIA WNB-M 27 10 13)1 15 11 16 11 17 11 18 11 19 11 SHANGHAI SENATOR WMB47 MlO 15 11 17 11 19 11
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    • 1637 32 EUROPE UK/SCANDINAVIA/FINLAND/RUSSIA SGP RDM ANW HBC THP ZK LHV IHV IMP RDM ANW HBG PKL SGP E. DIAMOND RW 002 01/11 13/11 25/11 21/11 23,11 24/11 25/11 E RACER RE 024 01/10 03/10 02/10 05/10 06,10 29/10 30/10 E. DELUXE RW 005 08/11 27/11 02/12 28.11 30/11 01/12 02-12 E
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    • 137 37 mmmmmm \_free Rpddpr Enquiry Sprvicp cut out and fax to: 6 5 *****29 KTTIDDHHIDin Need HELP or INFORMATION on the following? (please tick relevant boxes) SHIPPING SERVICES Port of Origin: Cargo Type: Cargo Ready by: Port of Destination: Cargo Volume: Special Requirements: j ADVERTISER:PRODUCTS/SERVICES Saw an advertisement in Shipping Times
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    • 1047 38 SAMUDER A shipping line ltd "Tg"— 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE *****5 TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****08 (OUTWARD) *****69 (INWARD) TLX: R*****0 CR NO. **********00 BOOKIWGS C*tL JESSICA/CELIA/MEI CHAM 7 slgs/week [2E2]2231 2 slg/week vessel voy sin jak "n [vessel"" ivoy isin iplb CONTI BARCELONA 9862 27/10 (TUE) 29/10(THU)
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    • 706 38 CONTAINER FEEDER SERVICE I DIRECT SERVICE FROM S'PORE TO KARACHI ACCEPTING BOTH SOC AND COC CONTAINER VESSEi VOYAGt [TA SINGAPOOI tTA COtOMOO ETA KAAACHI SHAUMAI ooaw OS/11/W 10/11 m IS/11/H swat ooww 12/n/w 17/11 m n/\ i/n shaumah 003HW u/w/n 01/12/ti oi/n/n SWAT 003HW OVI2/W Ot/12/W IVI7/W SHAMMALAi 004HW 17/12/W
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    • 417 38 m FAR EAST 02/11 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 02/11 BANGKOK 02/11 MANILA/CEBU 01/11 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 01/11 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E MALAYSIA 03/11 BUSAN 01/11 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 01/11 HONGKONG SIN CHINA 01/11 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU SIN EUROPE/UK 02/11 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU RDM/ANT/LEH/HAM/GOT/OSL also accepting cargo to EASTERN BLOCK COUNTRIES m USA/CANADA 01/11 LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK all IPI points 03/11
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    • 577 38 rrrg Singapore Soviet Shipping CPL CI No 1 OOSOtMOOON Multiline Shipping PI W33J (WWlyO-wdSUMIQr,) U No **********0 C VESSEL VOY SIN BOM PNG PKL KOTA RUKUN RKNOI7 30/10 08/11 20/11 KOTARATU RTUO2S 07/11 14/11 28/11 BUXMOON 120N 15/11 23/11 05/12 VESSEL VQY SIX CALCUTTA SW |M REGINA RGAO7I 32-03/11 08/11
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  • Page 39 Advertisements
    • 1021 39 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO PKG SIM JKT SUB I PPO 1 ILW (Ml lOM I HAL 1 NYL ob 7 j SAV WW TAW ~HOU HOtGH MINERVA '0843 30/10 06/11 10/11 12/11 17/11 22/11 28/11 01/12 27/12 30/1? 31/12 03/01 07/0) 11/01 15/01 HOEGN DUKt /OS4B
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    • 1700 39 |VESSa/VOYAGE SPQRE SOU WW HAM 181 H VESSU/VOYAGEI SOU I RTM HAM LEH SPORE KOK NAGOYA SHIMIZU TOKYO] NYKANMOMEOA 06WA43 79.10 1111 16.11 17.11 21.11 PONL ROTTERDAM 03WA44 05.11 21.11 2111 24.11 2111 CANOPUS 02U40 04.10 06.10 07.10 11.10 27.10 0111 03.11 OS.II 04.11 CANOPUS 03WA4S 12.11 2111 30.11 01.12
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    • 122 39 <S*TOYOFUJI SHIPPING CO., LTD. MULTI-PURPOSE VESSEL FOR RO/RO, CONTAINER I BREAK BULK CARGO VESSEL VOY H SW JIT i l> JW TRAMS PACIfK S M 18/10 20/10 22/10 25/10 26/10 04/11 DCIPHIHUS 54 01/11 03/11 05/11 M/ 11 09/11 19/11 TRANS FUTURE 1 10 |o»/11 10/11 1 I 124/11 VESSEL
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  • Page 40 Advertisements
    • 1007 40 MIL J 1 I ■HE^SSB^^ES^Q^H vessel voy sin maa SIN I TIGER PEARL 656N 28 2&10 01 07/11 11 12/11 I TIGER ISLAND 655N 30-31/10 04 10/11 14 15/11 I TIGER BRIDGE 657N 02 03/11 08 12/11 17 ia/11 I TIGER BAY 658N 06-07/11 17/11 21 22/11 I TIGER PEARL
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    • 810 40 J% FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS Tel: *****66 (60 Lines) Fax: *****33 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.sg REGULAR CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO THE FOLLOWING DESTINATIONS: SCANDINAVIA (GOTHENBURG, AARHUS, COPENHAGEN, OSLO, HELSINKI) ITALY AND MEDITERRANEAN (LA SPEZIA, VALENCIA, BARCELONA) CANADA (VANCOUVER, TORONTO, MONTREAL) FOR BOOKING, PLEASE CALL TEL: 1800-*****66 Overseen Offices Hongkong *****113 flms@osiaonline.net Port Kelang *****40
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
    • 141 41 —THH f i *yj vTTTTTT^— [Regional Weather ffJ "«T^^ LEGEND Thunderstorm Temperature o c X\ V Shower Weather Wind direction with speed in knots Rain vy Cloudy Sky Wove h "9 h wmds e in< ,<o,e< by orrows which fly with the wind One full circle represents calm or light
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  • Page 42 Advertisements
    • 63 42 fcS Cathay Pacific H4 Swir* Group oar ftaghti Landing in Hong Kong. Thai mean* th<rt arc ev«r JyOOO tidua to ix voft. 1 win lof 4 Volvoi. Thcrt't ilto otir "Fik Hong Kor|; Stoporcr" pMb|e. Hill xrtu nn fly fa tfnng fniH Mill tiariffrlT Hft* Trr Hir«llltnnaiarilM> call your travel
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