The Business Times, 13 April 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Friday April 13 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 67 1 THE US has decided to scrap an import embargo it had imposed on Indonesian textile imports worth US$4.6 million amid an outcry in the country, Indonesian Trade Minister Arifin Siregar said yesterday. Washington has also agreed to tolerate imports 15 per cent above
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    • 28 1 HAVING JUST spent $100 million to boost capacity at its Singapore plant, Hitachi has earmarked a further $60 million to automate it Page 2
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    • 16 1 THE URA is offering another 14 shophouses in Chinatown for tender Page 2
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    • 31 1 THE RECENT depreciation of the yen is prompting Japanese importers to raise prices, thus widening the price gap between Japan and other countries even further Page 6
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    • 25 1 A CANADIAN trade official has proposed the establishment of a new world trade organisation with more powers to settle disputes Page 6
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    • 20 1 THE COPYRIGHT ACT in Thailand is expected to be revised to cover computer software Page 6
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    • 25 1 EAST GERMAN conductor Kurt Masur has been appointed to succeed Zubin Mehta as music director of the New York Philharmonic. Page 11
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    • 21 1 KONTENA Nasional is working towards smoother deliveries of containers from Port Klang to their destinations. Shipping Times Page One
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 40 1 WALL STREET stocks levelled off higher in early trading yesterday after a surprise 0.6 per cent drop in March retail sales when the market expected a 0.2 per cent rise. The Dow was ahead 12 at 2742
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    • 36 1 LONDON share prices were slightly lower at midday yesterday in very light trading ahead of the four-day Easter holiday break. At about 1115 GMT, the FTSE 100-share index was down 1.1 points at 2,214.2.
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    • 22 1 WEARNE BROTHERS has floated its highly successful California personal computer subsidiary, Advance Logic Research, on the American market Page 3
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    • 26 1 UK-BASED Harrison and Crosfield pic has agreed conditionally to sell its Malaysian trading arm to a management buy-out consortium with Indonesian interests Page 3
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    • 15 1 HOCK LOCK SIEW looks at the road ahead for Antah Holdings Page 3
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    • 22 1 HWA HONG's insurance subsidiary has chalked up a 30.2 per cent rise in after-tax profit to $5.1 million Page 4
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Thursday Change BT-MGA 764.59 -1.01 Kuala Lumpur .2,912.40 -9.88 Hongkong 2,995.69 +35.71 Tokyo 29.623.20 +182.92 Sydney 1498.4 -7.2 Wednesday Change New York 2,729.73 -1.35 London 2,209.9 -2.00
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    • 24 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.8775 Yen (100) SS 1 -1860 MS SS0.6877 Money market rates Overnight 6 5/16% +3/16 3-month 6 9/16% +1/8
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    • 36 1 London Gold AM fix USS375.50 US$1.00 Rubber S'pore May 158.50*/kg +0.75 M'sia May 228.50«/kg +1.00 KL Tin Turnover 76 tonnes +3 Spot M$17.35/kg +0.10 Crude palm oil futures Turnover 1,461 lots +267 April M$669/tonne unch
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  • 447 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE LAND'S directors have dismissed the offer by United Industrial Corporation to take over the Republic's premier property company as having no merit. A brief statement issued on behalf of Sing Land by its advisers Baring Brothers said that
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  • 439 1 Reuter THE WELL of Japanese cash which has bankrolled the world's borrowing spree may be running dry, threatening to end the good times of cheap money from Tokyo. Economists say that the weak yen and shaky Tokyo stock market are ushering in
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  • 388 1  -  By Anna Teo THE FIRST Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong, leaves tonight for a week-long visit to the US and the UK. Making a working visit to renew ties with American and British leaders, Mr Goh will be calling on
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  • 411 1  -  By Rosie Tan ONE-AND-A-HALF years after the sale of its last property in Hongkong, construction group Hong Fok Corporation is returning to the colony to build a HKS24O million residential and commercial development. Hong Fok, whose 1989 half-year net profit of 556.97 was
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  • 169 1 AFP, Reuter THE NEW East German coalition government yesterday said economic, social and monetary union with West Germany should occur on July 1 on the basis of the West German constitution. A unification document, dated April 12, 1990, was signed at the
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 56 2 NEARLY 3,000 sets of tender documents for the Townerville apartments, a URA residential restoration project, have been snapped up, just two weeks after the board offered them for sale. Gosing date for this tender is April 25. The sale is expected to rake in more
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      • 67 2 A NEW CAFE along Orchard Road will be celebrating its opening tomorrow on a charitable note. The Talk of the Town pub, opposite the Dhoby Gaut MRT station, will be asking for donations for Singapore's 25th anniversary charity fund. Every dollar the customer
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      • 69 2 THE Ministry of Health has licensed one local manufacturer to produce contact lens saline solution for sale in Singapore. There are 33 brands of imported contact lens saline solutions which have been approved for sale. MOH checks all imported solutions before these are allowed on retail
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      • 50 2 THE Building Administration Branch of the Public Works Department at 25, Peck Seah Street, will move to the MND Building along Maxwell Road on April 16 and 17. Three sections licensing, enforcement and building administration will be on the 6th storey of the MND Building.
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      • 78 2 DBS ASSET Management Ltd and the Nanyang Technological Institute have tied up to launch a new series of annual lectures and have invited Professor Philip Brown from the University of Western Australia to deliver the first lecture on April 17. The joint project is aimed at
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      • 83 2 MADE-IN-SINGAPORE furniture exports increased by more than two times over the past five years to reach $305.8 million last year. According to the latest issue of Tradespur the Trade Development Board's monthly publication furniture sales to Japan and Australia increased substantially to account for the higher
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      • 67 2 MORE Singapore manufacturers are beginning to realise that good design is critical to their success. In Tradespur the Trade Development Board's monthly publication design consultants were quoted as saying that more companies, especially the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), are using their services. Applicants for the
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    • 499 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling JAPANESE consumer electronics giant Hitachi will invest $60 million more to further automate its Singapore plant. The company, which recently spent $100 million on Hitachi Electronic Devices Singapore (HEDS), announced the new investment yesterday at the 10th anniversary celebrations of its
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    • 241 2 THE political challenges facing Singapore, drug abuse and drug smuggling, and Chinese emigrants abroad these were the topics that won three Singapore journalists the 1990 American Express Journalism Awards. The three winners are Han Fook Kwang of The Straits Times, who wrote a series
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    • 294 2 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has announced that it will be selling 14 more shophouses in the Chinatown area, even as restoration work in Tanjong Pagar gathers momentum. The latest public sale by tender, which begins today, is in response to the success
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 292 3  -  By Abdul Hadhi INNO-PACIFIC Holdings Ltd, a member of the Innovest group, has acquired an 8 per cent stake in Eu Yan Sang Holdings from the Lum Chang group for $4.66 million. In an announcement yesterday, Inno-Pacific said it had entered into
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    • 307 3 H C agrees to sell M'sian trading arm Bernama UK-BASED Harrison and Crosfield pic (H C) has agreed conditionally to sell its Malaysian trading arm to a management buy-out consortium with Indonesian interests. The agreement to sell Harrison and Crosfield Malaysia Sdn Bhd to its management backed by Jantoco Trading
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    • 350 3 MBT PUBLIC BANK has projected a group profit before tax of MS 103.05 million for the year ending Dec 31, 1990, compared with M 586.03 million last year. According to a circular to shareholders on its proposed rights and bonus
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    • 537 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By Abdul Hadhi ANTAH HOLDINGS, once a low-profile Malaysian group, has quietly diversified into almost all sectors of the Malaysian economy, except mining which no longer presents good opportunities for growth. Once the fanfare subsides,
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    • 357 3  -  By William Chia HOME-GROWN multinational, Wearne Brothers Ltd, has floated its highly successful California personal computer subsidiary Advance Logic Research (ALR) on the US market. Wearnes, confirming a BT report on Tuesday, said yesterday that ALR has made an initial public
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    • 256 3 CHANGES IN name and direction are on the cards for garment group Polly Peck Far East. According to the South China Morning Post, Polly Peck, under new management, will become a Southeast Asian garment manufacturer and will be known
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    • 209 3 Agencies THE GIANT US conglomerate Bechtel Group Inc has won a contract to manage a US$l6 billion construction project in Hongkong, which includes a new airport and the world's longest suspension bridge. Bechtel won the managing contract from the Hongkong government for the construction
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 65 3 DBS LAND Ltd announced yesterday that the exercise price of its A-warrants has been fixed at $3.10 per share which represents a 1.3 per cent premium over the average of the last transacted price of the company's shares on the Stock Exchange of Singapore
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      • 144 3 THE CAPITAL Issues Committee (CIC) has approved the bonus and rights issues proposed by IGB Corporation Bhd last Sep 19, but ordered changes to the terms of the rights issues, which consist of new ordinary shares and convertible unsecured loan stock (CULs). The CIC approved
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      • 90 3 TIME ENGINEERING Bhd (TEB) has formally notified of its acquisition of 37.5 million shares or 30.5 per cent equity in United Engineers (M) Bhd (UEM), registered under Rothputra Nominees Sdn Bhd. It said the shares were converted on Jan 11 from the 37.5 million 10
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      • 74 3 THE FOREIGN Investment Committee (FIC) has approved Selangor Dredging Bhd's (SDB) proposal to acquire a 43 per cent stake in Oriental Metal (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (OM) subject to certain conditions. The conditions for the acquisition of 3.4 million shares in OM included approval from
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      • 73 3 OYL INDUSTRIES Bhd said the proposed paid-up share capital of its joint-venture company with Acma Electrical Industries Ltd will be increased to Ms2o million by December 1990. Responding to a query from the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, it added that the consideration of 559.5 million
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      • 40 3 SETRON (M) Bhd said its subsidiary, Scott and English (M) Sdn Bhd, has acquired a 49 per cent stake comprising 1.47 million shares of Msl.oo each in Apex Engineering Sdn Bhd for M 51.47 million.
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 98 4 THE BANK of Japan (BOJ) masterminded European central bank intervention to back the yen earlier this week by letting the banks use Japanese foreign exchange reserves, a newspaper reported in Tokyo yesterday. The Asahi Shimbun said in its evening edition that the central banks of West
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      • 104 4 A JAPANESE and a Dutch bank have been granted licences to operate in Hongkong the first two so far this year, a Hongkong government spokesman said. Nishi-Nippon Bank Ltd, Japan's 40th largest bank, and Rabobank Nederland, the largest bank in Holland, have since 1985 and
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      • 82 4 INDUSTRIAL Bank of Japan Ltd (IBJ) has won clearing house membership at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) through its US securities subsidiary. Aubrey G Lanston Co Inc, wholly-owned by IBJ Schroder Bank and Trust Co, of which IBJ holds 98.3 per cent, acquired the status and
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      • 89 4 THE ITALIAN government is considering a plan to establish a regional state development bank for Italy's depressed south. Plans to set up the bank were drawn up by the president of the state industrial holding company Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI). The proposals
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    • 298 4  -  B* Hong Lee Tiam PEOPLE'S Insurance Company (PIC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of publicly-listed Hwa Hong Corporation, has reported a 30.2 per cent increase in after-tax profit to $5.1 million for its 1989 financial year. This was the insurance company's best performance in
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    • 361 4 FT SUBSTANTIAL limitations on bank secrecy are being proposed by 15 leading Western nations to fight money laundering. They are part of 40 proposals agreed by a task force set up at last year's summit in Arche, France, by the Group of Seven
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    • 262 4  -  By Soh Tiang Keng FRANKONA Reinsurance Company of Munich, one of the world's leading reinsurers, will open a branch in Singapore on April 24. The branch will serve as a regional office responsible for the company's business in the Far East, excluding Japan.
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    • 268 4 AFP THE LEADER of an international bankers' group in South Korea has urged the government to guarantee fairer competition with local banks before South Korea liberalises its capital market in 1992. Richard Mounce, who heads the foreign bankers' group in Seoul and
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    • 238 4 Reuter JAPANESE bankers are keen to open branches in Taiwan, one of Asia's most profitable markets, but say they are barred by an unofficial Japanese government ban. One banker said all the big Japanese banks had staff working unofficially in Taiwan banks and wanted to
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 81 6 THE WHOLESALE and retail prices of about 70 per cent of goods sold in the Soviet Union are to be freed on Jan 1, and could double on average. The Vice President of the Economic Reform Commission of the Supreme Soviet, Pavel Bunich, said yesterday
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      • 105 6 AP THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH and Telephone Co will begin its first direct phone service from the US to Albania next month and wants to open a link to Vietnam. Albania was one of four major nations without direct telephone service with the US until the hardline communist
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      • 70 6 INDONESIA'S population is expected to increase to 179 million by the end of this year, up by 2.2 per cent from the 175 million at present. The head of the National Family Planning Board, Dr Haryono Suyono, said in Jakarta yesterday that Indonesia the fifth
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      • 93 6 THERE IS GROWING AGREEMENT in the Bush administration on the need to ease restrictions on sales of hightechnology computers and other products to Eastern Europe. US Commerce Undersecretary Dennis Kloske said in Washington on Wednesday that President George Bush would be given a package of recommendations
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      • 84 6 POPULAR SUPPORT for the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu has jumped to 45 per cent this month from 33 per cent in January. According to a poll by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, which was released yesterday, voter support for the ruling Liberal Democratic
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      • 93 6 SOVIET-CUBAN TALKS in Havana this week aim to make the Soviet Union's future economic ties with Cuba more flexible and efficient and bring them closer to the realities of the world market. Leonid Abalkin, head of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reform team, is leading
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      • 60 6 BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, mired in political and social crises at home, flew to Bermuda yesterday to meet US President George Bush in hopes of burnishing her world image. Their talks on the Atlantic resort island today will focus mainly on developments in Eastern Europe
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      • 69 6 AVERAGE GLOBAL LEVELS of the air pollutant ozone may increase by 21 per cent to 50 per cent by the year 2020, making local efforts to control the pollution harder, according to a study conducted in England. The increase of 21 per cent or
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      • 97 6 JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN can now fulfill obligations to their bosses and corporate allies by paying their respects at funerals via closed-circuit television. When a Japanese top executive dies, his firm will usually hold a corporate funeral about a month after the family funeral. The company's subsidiaries,
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    • 339 6 AFP SOVIET monetary expert Lev Broginsky has called for the creation of a Soviet monetary policy, which he said was non-existent at present. In an interview with Agence France-Presse on Wednesday, referring to the Soviet economic reforms being prepared, he said that
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    • 241 6 AP US BUSINESSES, shrugging off economists' gloomy recession predictions, have significantly increased their plans for modernisation and expansion this year. The US Commerce Department said on Wednesday that a survey completed in March found businesses planning a record U*****.4 billion in plant and
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    • 558 6 Asahi THE RECENT depreciation of the yen is prompting Japanese importers to raise prices, thus widening the price gap between Japan and other countries even further. But according to major Tokyo department stores, the buying power of affluent Japanese consumers with a weakness
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    • 40 6 Shimon Peres, who is trying to form a new Israeli government following the collapse of the Likud-Labour coalition, is the target of this»effigy of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat with a placard saying "I also recommend Peres".
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    • 155 6 AFP CHINA plans to boost its space programme by developing new rockets and satellites and widening its cooperation with other countries. the China Daily has reported. The front-page report in Wednesday's edition came four days after the Asia Sat I satellite, owned
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    • 153 6 Reuter FRANCE, reaping the benefits of a tough anti-inflation policy, looks set for the first time in two decades to achieve faster growth and lower price rises than the average among its Western partners, the OECD said yesterday. Although the annual report on the
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    • 456 6 AP A CANADIAN trade official. has proposed a new world trade organisation with more powers to settle disputes. Mr John Crosbie said he presented the proposal to Mr Arthur Dunkel, director-gen-eral of the 96-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which currently
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    • 231 6 THE COPYRIGHT ACT in Thailand is expected to be revised to cover computer software, according to the Wednesday edition of The Bangkok Post. It quoted a source as saying that the sub-committee considering amendments to the Copyright Act BE 2521 recently agreed on
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    • 128 6 Bernama MYANMAR is looking into the possibility of establishing economic cooperation with Indonesia, particularly in the areas of transportation, telecommunications and tourism. Myanmar Minister for Transportation, Communication, Manpower and People's Welfare, Tin Tun, said he conveyed his country's desire during talks with President Suharto
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  • SPORTS
    • 289 7 Reuter TOP SEED StefTi Graf became the first quarter-finalist at the U*****,000 Amelia island Women's Open when she defeated I3th-seeded Hungarian Andrea Temesvari 6-0 6-1 in 40 minutes in Florida on Wednesday. Two months away from tennis while recovering from a broken thumb did nothing to slow
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    • 224 7 AP LED BY top-seeded Ivan Lendl, all seven top seeds yesterday advanced to the men's singles quarter-finals of the US$l.l5 million Japan Open Tennis Tournament. Lendl of Czechoslovakia, the world's top-ranked player, outlasted Joseph Russell of the US 7-6 (8-6), 6-2
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    • 183 7 Reuter MANCHESTER UNITED beat second division Oldham 2-1 after extra time on Wednesday to clinch a place against Crystal Palace in the English FA Cup soccer final. Substitute winger Mark Robins scored the winner in the 11Oth minute to take United to the final
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    • 286 7 AFP STEVE DAVIS is banking on his familiarity with The Crucible pointing him towards a record seventh world snooker crown in Sheffield over the next fortnight. The pressure of playing in the Sheffield theatre has broken many a heart of
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 127 7 MARK LANGSTON, a US$l6-mi|lion free agent, made his Angels debut by combining with Mike Witt on a no-hitter on Wednesday night as California beat the Seattle Mariners 1-0. Langston was taken out after seven innings and 98 pitch«. Witt finished baseball's first nine-inning no-hitter
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      • 89 7 MARK AGUIRRE scored 13 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter, including seven straight as the Detroit Pistons beat New Jersey 98-93, handing the Nets their 25th straight road loss. Michael Jordan scored 22 points as Chicago won its eighth straight game, dropping Cleveland a half-game
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      • 82 7 NICK FALDO, who joined Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win back-to-back Masters titles, will compete in the fifth edition of The International, scheduled for Aug 16-19 at Castle Pines Golf Club in Colorado. The Englishman prevailed over Raymond Floyd in a Masters playoff on
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      • 108 7 LEE TREVINO said his task is simple to identify. But not easy to accomplish. Not at all. His mission, he said, is to "stay close to Jack Nicklaus". "If you're close to Jack, you're close to winning," Trevino said on Wednesday after a final practice round for the
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      • 65 7 FORMER world middleweight champion Rocky Graziano was in critical condition yesterday, four days after suffering a stroke, according to a published report in New York's Daily News. Graziano was stricken at his home and taken to New York Hospital. A spokeswoman at the hospital said the 69-year-old
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      • 55 7 NELLI KIM, an Olympic Games gold medallist from the Soviet Union, will coach South Korean gymnasts for the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. The Korea Gymnastic Association said yesterday that the Soviet Gymnastics Federation had agreed to send Kim, a Soviet-Korean, to Seoul for three
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  • 433 8 EDITORIAL IT was a curious one, as far as invitations go. During a 90-minute talk with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on Wednesday, visiting West German state premier Dr Lothar Spaeth invited Singapore to send a representative to a July meeting in East Germany to explore
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 215 8 THE CALL by Indian Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh for Indians to be "psychologically prepared" for a war with Pakistan is indicative of a fast deteriorating situation in Kashmir. With almost 400 dead from the bloody agitation within Kashmir this year, India's new prime minister is
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    • 146 8 THE ATMOSPHERE surrounding the recent visit of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to Washington underlined the supreme importance attached to the improving relationship between the two superpowers. But as the events in the Soviet Union unfold, the Western alliance, in particular the US, could not help
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    • 121 8 ALTHOUGH US-JAPAN economic contradictions abound, there are no anti-American sentiments in Japan. Indeed, some would even welcome US pressure on Japan in the belief that this is the only way to get the country to mend its conservative ways. Yes, the Americans have succeeded in
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 163 8 TRUE TO the American criticism in the Japan-US Structural Impediments Initiative talks that Japanese businesses are extremely clannish, it is virtually an automatic reflex for Japanese corporate workers lo think of intercompany group ties when they decide to drink beer, shop at a department store or take
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    • 182 8 FOREIGN MINISTER Datuk Abu Hassan Omar has announced that the newly-formed Group of 15 developing countries for South-South consultation and cooperation (the G-15) will hold its inaugural summit meeting in Kuala Lumpur from June I to June 3. By hosting the first get-together of the top
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    • 155 8 BUYING PEACE in the civil service has a high price. An across-the-board 15 per cent increase, approved by the Executive Council yesterday, will drain the exchequer of about HK$5 billion this year, but the real cost could be much higher if it triggers copycat rises in the private
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  • 1064 8 A dispersing flock and a lacklustre economy are just two crises facing President Gorbachev Economist AS THE Lithuanian and Soviet governments inch towards compromise. President Mikhail Gorbachev might be tempted to think that he has headed off the toughest challenge to his authority, and can settle
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 965 9  -  Why has Yaohan decided to move its head office to Hongkong? Lan Rodger finds out what chairman Kazuo Wada's long-term plans are Ian Rodger FT KAZUO WADA, chairman of Yaohan, a Japanese retail chain that is expanding rapidly in South-east Asia, made
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    • 1565 9  -  Japan's industrial investments at home continue to be heavy, reports David Sanger David Sanger NYT EVEN AFTER some turbulent months for the Japanese economy, the nation is expected to far outpace America this year in spending for new plants, equipment, research and development. This will be the
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1165 11  -  The board of the New York Philharmonic has picked a surprise choice to take over the baton of Zubin Mehta, reports Allan Kozinn Allan Kozinn NYT THE EAST German conductor Kurt Masur has been appointed to succeed Zubin Mehta as music director of the
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    • 601 11 Reuter Britain is showing its age-old Hair for theatre in a dispute over money for the arts. The country's hallowed arts companies are short of cash but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government says culture must pay its way like any
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    • 270 11 CHATTERBOX "GERMANY! Germany! Germany! They are not my feelings. My country is not the Germany of 60 or 70 years ago. It is East Germany. (West Germans would) buy up every centimetre. The country I know won't be here anymore. It
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4464 12  -  By Lim Mui Khi MOST INVESTORS stayed away from the market yesterday ahead of the long Easter weekend. Trading was dominated by small investors as most institutional players were reluctant to take up fresh positions. Dealers said that they would rather wait out
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  • 4258 13 Main Board SPH Foreign 950 +25 +2.7% Nat Iron 910 +20 +2.2% NOL Pref I0« 585 +15 +2.6% Bousteadco A 190 +14 +8.0% Bousteadco 194 +13 +7.2% OCBC Foreign 1070 +10 0.9% Jurong Ship 50* 785 +10 +1.3% Keppel Corpn 755 +10 +1.3% UOB Foreign
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 82 14 Company Data Year Group Nat Nat earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend (000) (cents) Pacific Cltem Apr 4 Dec 89 MJ484,490(MJ7«0.636) (67) S0(30TE) 0 Kramat Apr 5 Jan 90 M$7.533iM$4.001) 44(34) Inch Kenneth Apr 6 Dec 89 M$3.153($3.407) 764(82 6) 105(85) U0L Apr 6 Dec
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    • 234 14 Company Data Yaar Group pre-tax Nat earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) par share dividend ('000) (cants) Mulpha Intl Apr 10 Dec 89 M$20.616l($3,165l) Tat Lee Bank Apr 7 Dec 89 $22.579c($14.675c) 14 4(8 6a) 8(65a) Jurong Eng Apr 6 Oec 89 $2.7201(15.049) —(15.1) 7.5(15) MBS Apr 5
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    • 49 14 Company Date Half-year Group pre-tax Interim ann to profit/loss (L) dividend (•000) TV3 Apr 5 Feb 90 MJ16.467(MJ13.742) 8(8) Faber Merlm Mar 31 Dec 89 M$7,055l($22.316l) YTLCofpn Mar 31 Dec 89 MJ8.581 ($5,247) Emtex Mar 30 Dec 89 M$41($523) Seal Inc Mar 30 Dec 89 M$5.892 ($4,780)
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    • 312 14 Aocil 11 Kamuntinc Corpn Bhd and Malaysian Plantations Bhd are to merge and take on the new name of Kamunting Amalgamated Bhd (KAB). The amalgamation will provide KAB with a much larger capital base of about Mssoo million. Metal Box Singapore (MBS) has proposed to acquire Man ree
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    • 1296 14 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total tor payment data close payable tho yoar iMt year Anf«* Eng 6%TE(I) Apr 11 Apr 17 Apr 28 6*TE 6*Tt A»no 15*Tl Feb 28 Mar 12 May 15 25*Tl 25*TT BAT 90 9*(n) Ape 6 Apr 19 May 3 122 7*(«)
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    • 718 14 Singapore Stocks Last Full Year Compjr* PentxJ Diti Tiar Rrt EPS Gran Net mnouKM) endng (cents) <fc profit uit r» <rooo) BMT Interim Jan 27 Jun 89 1696 1000 516 tut* F 1( ai Feb 28 No« 89 39.1 100 11.728 Marc* Wo Final Mar 27 Dec 89
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    • 381 14 Company Rights Issue Apoh One-tor one fe SI 85 per share Cauwway km Capital reduction scheme to reduce par value of shares from $100 to 10 GO, Rghts issue ot 3:2 (g, JO 60 per share FAC8 One tor one MSO 50 per share Fiber Merfri One lor
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    • 656 14 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS C—Pf Cwwtfrion pttUA Cnwri— tw tw tm wimy «hara Cauwwiy Lost Cauuway Wt 2/10/89 to 20/10/94 1 warrant phis $1 cash or 1 warrant plus $1 nominal amount of loan stock Char Hb«> Notes Chan *9 Nt March 87 to 31/12/91 1.55 warrants plus $155 cash. Chan
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    • 335 14 Company Rights Issue MM One-tor four MS? 40 pet share Ei-date Mar 8 Books close: Mar 22 Acceptance t Payment May 10 Ct: Two-tor five fe S210 per share Three warrants tor every 10 existing shares held at JO 48 per warrant Ei-date Feb 7 Books close Feb
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    • 146 14 Bonvests Hokfings Limited: EGM at 541. Orchard Road. #16-00. Liat Towers, Singapore 0923 on Monday, Apr 16. at 9.30 am Pacific Chemicals Bhd: 21st AGM at the Regent IV Room. Hotel Regent of Kuata Lumpur, ialan Bukit Bintang. Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, Apr 19. at 11.45 am. Tonhow
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3717 15 MBT, Bernama SHARE PRICES failed to sustain a firm start yesterday, closing mixed on the Kuala Lumpur stock market. It initially appeared that the market was headed for the third consecutive day of gains when share prices opened a shade higher. This was probably
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2247 16 Reuter TOKYO SHARES closed firmer yesterday but were well off their late afternoon peak in thin, but volatile trade. Brokerages attempting to prcjfit on positions ahead of April options expiry yesterday pushed the Nikkei up, brokers said. Bargain-hunting in electrical issues helped. "It's been
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2729 16 SHARE PRICES closed firmer in Hongkong yesterday on a surge of buying encouraged by the longer settlement period associated with the Easter holiday, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index rose 35.71 points to 2,995.69 on a healthy turnover of HKSI.3I billion against 956.93
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Position-squaring pares Australian prices
      • 1091 17 AUSTRALIA'S sharemarket closed weaker yesterday, ending the abbreviated session below the 1500 mark as players squared their positions ahead of the Easter break. The All Ordinaries index finished 7.2 points off at 1498.4, its lowest close since April 27 last year. "There wasn't a lot of buying around and
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      • 1329 17 I Bangkok The following are Wednesday's prices, the market being closed yesterday. Baht VoK'OO) Alucon Mfg 478 6 86 American Standard Aokam Thai 470 20 4 Asia Credit 851 56 353 Asia Fibre 117 2 204 Asia Sec. Trading 32 0.25 1290 Ayudhya Ins 549 12 83 Ayudhya Invest 67
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      • 300 17 NEW ZEALAND shares ended the week on a positive note at noon yesterday, led by rises in most major stocks. Trading ceased at midday because of the four-day Easter holiday. Brokers said trade was reasonable for a shortened session with turnover at 6.69 million shares, worth $11.30 million.
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      • 346 17 TAIWANESE STOCKS finished higher yesterday on a technical rebound but investors were cautious and trading was thin, dealers said. The weighted index rose 196.88 points to close at 9,978.86. Turnover rose to NTSB4.2 billion from $76.6 billion on Wednesday. Dealers said while some big players had come back to
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      • 58 17 SHARE PRICES fell sharply in Bombay on heavy nervous speculative selling triggered by fears that India and Pakistan may go to war over Kashmir, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange index slumped 32.38 points to 748.79. The national index dropped 11.46 to 406.08. The Bangkok and Manila markets were
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      • 698 17 STOCKS FELL in moderate trading in Seoul yesterday, threatening to pierce the 800 psychological-support level, brokers said. The composite index closed at 806.86, shedding 6.8 points from the previous session. Turnover was 224.5 billion won compared with 226.7 billion on Wednesday's close. Investors dumped stocks after a news report
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      • 88 17 INDICES TURNOVER Close Previous Apr 12 Apr II SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1498.4 1505 6 -7.2 All Industrials Index 2315.7 2320.4 -4.7 All Resources Index 872.8 881.3 -8.5 Turnover (million) 85.24 74.26 +10.98 BANGKOK SET Index closed 844.80 Turnover (nearest '000) closed JAKARTA Composite Index unav 634.70 Turnover (nearest '000)
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      • 344 17 In local currency In S$ In USS day yew S day year S day yew Apr II Index change change change change change change World ...411.2 +0.2 -11.5 0.0 -15.3 +0.2 -14.3 |EAFE 571.5 -0.2 >16.1 +0.1 -20.7 +0.2 -19.8 Europe 434.6 -0.2 -3.6 +0.4
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Wall Street stocks close narrowly lower
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        987 18 A WIDESPREAD sell-off in oil stocks countered gains in the technology group on Wednesday, resulting in a virtual standoff in US share prices. Blue chips ended a touch lower, while the broader market lagged narrowly. Volume was once again reflective of Wall Street's holiday mood. The Dow Jones
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        1000 18 UK shares closed slightly weaker in quiet afternoon trading on Wednesday with an uncertain opening on Wall Street offering few fresh incentives. "It's all very quiet with no new features and it's likely to continue pretty quiet," one dealer said. Sterling was steady against the US dollar and slightly
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      • 311 18 WEST GERMAN shares closed mixed in very thin trade on Wednesday, with most investors sidelined for the Easter holidays. "The market simply lacks drive," one dealer said. Dealers said volume remained low, as was the case earlier in the week. German markets will be closed today and Monday. The
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      • 280 18 DUTCH shares were mixed in quiet trading yesterday, backed by Wednesday's higher Dutch bond market, a weaker dollar and a lack of activity ahead of the Easter break. "The interest issue has improved today, but what lacks here is conviction," a dealer said. At 1100 GMT, the CBS all-share
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      • 188 18 BELGIAN share prices generally edged higher in uneventful trade on Wednesday with the forward market index up 14 points to 6,081.95. A feature of trade was ACEC-UM, a unit of Societe Generale de Belgique, which gained 30 francs a share to close at 4,770 francs after at one point
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      • 116 18 IN MILAN, share prices yesterday were stable at midmorning in active trading on the final session of the April account. The MIB index edged up 0.4 per cent at 0930 GMT after having been unchanged at 0900 GMT. Milan April lire Ass Gen ***** -260 Bastogi 352.00 -2 Fiat
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      • 293 18 SWISS shares closed mostly lower on Wednesday. Dealers said attention centred on shares in Bank Leu and CS Holding, with trading in Leu brisk. The all-share SPI index closed 6.3 points lower at 1,072.1, about two points above the day's low. The SMI index of leading shares lost 11.4
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      • 324 18 SHARES closed steady to lower after thin trading on Wednesday, as the gold price held steady at around USS374 an ounce levels. Shares recovered slightly shortly before the close after the arrival on Wednesday of a senior European Community delegation, led by Irish foreign minister Gerard Collins, for a
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      • 232 18 THE Paris bourse set another record closing high on Wednesday, as the CAC-40 stock price index finished at 2,103.10, up 1.34 per cent for the day. The previous closing high was 2.084, set on Monday. The bourse then took a breather on Tuesday before going on to new heights
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      • 241 18 Stockholm \pr 10 kronor Alfa B Free 212 -3 Asca B Free Aslra Fnx 390 -7 Atlas Copco 100 unch Fricisson B Free 883 +3 Esab Free 345 10 S. E. Bankcn 72.50 Yi Sandvik B Free 275 -5 Skandia 170 -2 Skt B Free 150 F3 Volvo B Free
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      • 97 18 INDICES TURNOVER NEW YORK Close Pmiow Apr II Dow Jones NYSE Financial SAP 500 Turnover (million) 2.729.73 2,731.08 140 19 139.57 341.92 342 07 141.0 1360 -1.35 +0.62 ■0 15 5.0 LONDON Financial Times 30 FTSE 100 Turnover (million) 1733.3 2209.9 311.7 1,732.5 2.211 9 367.6 +0.8 -2.0 -55.9 AMSTERDAM
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1199 19 FOREX MARKET REPORTS THE West German mark yesterday touched a new 81-month high against the Japanese yen in an otherwise listless currency market. The mark rallied to a high of 94.92 yen during early Tokyo trading yesterday before retreating to
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    • 385 19 Cross rates Apr 12 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.8780 2.7290 1.6720 158.40 0.6086 1.4820 1.3072 1.7241 SS 0.5325 1.4531 0.8903 0.8435 0.3241 0.7891 0.6961 0.9181 MS 0.3664 68.82 0.6127 0.5804 0.2230 0.5431 0.4790 0.6318 Dm 0.5981 1.1232 1.6322 94.74 0.3640 ***** 0.7818
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    • 561 19 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 6 5/16 6 7/16 1-montn 6 7/16 6 9/16 2-month 6 9/16 6 11/16 3-month 6 9/16 6 11/16 Ovenii|ht mode: 6-3/8 LjS$ Bid Offer 7 days 8 1/4 8 3/8 1 month 8 5/16 8 7/16 2 months 8 5/16 8
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    • 351 19 AP A FLOOD of Opec crude oil and weak demand for gasoline and home heating oil are responsible for the recent sharp slide in oil prices, analysts said on Wednesday as the energy futures market gyrated wildly. Oil futures veered lower as
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    • 1407 19 SIMEX EUROOOlLAJt Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol Jun 90 91.48 91.49 91.48 91.49 1146 ***** 3572 Sep 90 91.41 91.42 91.41 91.41 677 5301 1725 Dec 90 91.23 91.23 91.21 91.22 235 2840 720 Mar 91 91.09 91.09 91 09 91.09 13 480
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 390 20 Reuter WEST European tinplate producers are confident that the recent fall in world tin prices will help them maintain their edge in the fiercely competitive packaging market, industry sources said. Tinplate, thin steel sheet covered by a fine coating of tin, is used
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    • 217 20 AFP DOMESTIC rice procurement by the Indonesian government will only reach 1.6 million tonnes this year, down from 2.6 million in 1989 due to an expected long drought, the official Antara news agency said yesterday. The government, however, has enough in
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    • 118 20 AP THE Chicago Board of Trade actcd within rules of ethics when it declared an emergency and ordered traders to reduce July 1989 soybean holdings. US congressional investigators said. The General Accounting Office was asked to probe last summer's order to liquidate large stakes in
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    • 809 20 REPORTS RUBBER SINGAPORE: Rubber prices closed slightly higher with May 1 RSS buyer quoted at 158.50 cents a kg, up 0.75 cent from Wednesday's close. Dealers said prices were slightly higher in forward positions on some covering interest in the afternoon following firmer Japanese
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  • 1433 20 Rubber Apr 12 J MSmiiMll) S cents/kg Noon Close j Int 1 RSS Prompt 154.75/155.75N 155.50/156 50 Int 1 RSS May 90 I57.7VI58.25 158 50/***** Int I RSS June 159 00/159.50 160 00/160 50 I Int 2 RSS OP 152.75/154.75N 153.25/155.25N Int 3 RSS OP 147.25/149.25N I47.75/I49.75N Int 4
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    • 1014 21 City Flight ETA Flight ETD City Flight ETA Flight ETD Abu Dhabi SRI 87 1955 GA976 2310 GA890 FA970 2240 2255 Karachi PK77T~ SQ418 0115 1315 SQ225 2215 Kathmandu RA408 0930 Amman RJ182 1445 RJ183 2320 Kota Kinabaiu MH633 1330 MH630 1000 Amsterdam KL835 1415 KL836
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    • 720 21  -  LETTER FROM BERCHTESGADEN By Daniel Green THEY TELL a story in Berchtesgaden: on the stained glass of Lake Konigsee, a trumpet sounds. In their electric boat, tourists crane their necks towards the pale cliffs that tower above them. They wait for the legendary echo
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    • 155 21 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid OrTer Australian dollar 1.4290 1.4490 Canadian dollar 1.5970 1.6170 NZ dollar 1.0730 1.1 ISO Sterling pound 3.0670 3.0970 US dollar 1.8740 1.8840 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling IS.SO
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    • 245 21 ACROSS Foreign officials ■V Hp ing fruit (9) ■MLJMI. 8 Account for ordinary sol- P j j j j diers being in beastly ac- LJ—aJ jH commodation 10 Laughing father turning into a disreputable place (8) 11 Slip away with composure lHi H H please (6) 13 Casting for fish,
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    • 227 21 Singapore OUTLOOK: Cloudy with occasional showers in the afternoon. Report for 24 hours pnor to 7.30pm on Apr 12 at the airport: Max temp 32.6 Assoc humidity 69 Min temp. 25J Assoc humidity Hrs of sunshine 3.40 Rainfall ia mm. 0.2 Rainfall this mth 33.4 Rainy days this mth 5
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  • 368 22 AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday declared his 11-party National Front "ready for elections" after reviewing polls strategy with top officials of the ruling coalition in Kuala Lumpur. Dr Mahathir said he had ordered the setting-up of a committee under
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  • 312 22 Reuter PLANS by Taiwan's state oil company to buy out a Texas oil firm for US$6OO million to US$7OO million will mark the island's single largest foreign acquisition, said company officials and bankers in Taipei yesterday. The deal may also be
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  • 166 22 Bernama HANAFIAH, Raslan and Mohamad (HRM), and Arthur Andersen and Co yesterday announced plans to merge and combine their Malaysian operations in a move that will create the largest integrated professional services practice in Malaysia. The new firm, bringing together the strength of HRM in
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  • 214 22 A FORMER director of Great Pacific Finance and Hongkong's Ka Wah Bank, Low Chang Hian, was sentenced to 30 months in prison yesterday for criminal breach of trust. District judge Colin Chai said in passing sentence that Low deserved a stiff punishment for his criminal
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  • 301 22  -  From Loh Hui Yin in SEOUL THE TRADE and Industry Minister, who is on his first official visit to South Korea, will be meeting key government officials in charge of economic planning and captains of industry over the next two days
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  • 296 22  -  By Martin Soong MULTILATERAL military exercises between Washington and Asean states can lend more stability to the region, according to the leader of a US congressional team studying alternative sites for American forces in the AsiaPacific. After two days of talks with Cabinet leaders on
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  • 105 22 Reuter NATO has flatly rejected a proposal from Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze that a united Germany could be a member of both the Western alliance and the Warsaw Pact. Moscow had previously ruled out demands by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that a single Germany
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  • 259 22  -  From Shoeb Kagda in MADRAS A SINGAPORE-MADRAS trade corridor has been called for by Indian industrialists to promote greater bilateral trade between the two cities. At a meeting held yesterday between the industrialists and members of the Singapore Trade Development Board trade delegation, the idea of
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  • 169 22 Bernama THE INFLUX of foreign investment in the lucrative plastics industry in Malaysia has deprived local plastics manufacturers of opportunities for further growth. Acting president of the Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association (MPMA), S Y Liew, said yesterday: "There is no necessity to welcome new foreign investment
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      • 90 23 MASTERS, OWNERS AND OPERATORS of harbour craft are advised to ensure that crew working on the open decks of the vessel wear suitable lifejackets or lifevests. This, says the Port of Singapore Authority, is particularly relevant to small harbour craft with limited open deck space
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      • 122 23 AP A CARGO SHIP CRASHED into the side of a tanker in western Japan on Wednesday, causing a three km oil spill, an official at the Maritime Safety Agency said. The Sumiryu Maru freighter lost control of its steering and smashed into the side of the
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      • 44 23 Reuter WORLD LAID-UP and idle tanker tonnage fell to 2,596,820 long dwt (20 vessels) in March from 2,643,220 (21 vessels) in February. Combination carrier tonnage involved was unchanged at 295,281 dwt (two vessels), London shipbroker John I Jacobs said. Reuter
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      • 115 23 Reuter A COURT FINED a British transport company £5,000 on Wednesday for allowing 79 beagle puppies to suffocate inside one of its trucks on a ferry bound for Sweden. Only 21 dogs survived out of a consignment of 100 being taken last
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      • 106 23 Reuter THE US COAST GUARD said it was investigating the cause of a grounding early on Wednesday of a Chilean solid cargo vessel in Hempstead Harbour off Port Washington, Long Island, in New York. The 570-foot vessel, the Aconcagua, was partially loaded when it ran aground,
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      • 47 23 Reuter THE PORT OF LONDON Authority reported that the Finnish roll on/roll off vessel Svano, 5,913 dwt, damaged and holed its starboard bow on Wednesday morning while berthing at Purfleet deep water, London. A pontoon sustained damage to its framework. Reuter
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    • 407 23  -  By OTHMAN ABU BAKAR KONTENA Nasional (KN), Malaysia's largest container haulage company, is working towards smoother deliveries of containers from Port Klang to their destinations. Elias Kadir, chief executive officer of KN, said the company was developing a two-hectare piece of
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    • 266 23 HONGKONG'S new independent shipping register is likely to exempt shipowners from tax, charging only the registration fees and annual tonnage dues as with other open registers. A report in the South China Morning Post quoted Frank Chao as saying that the
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    • 239 23 THE LISTING of Stolt Partner on the Oslo stock exchange is expected to commence after the Easter holiday. The newly incorporated Luxembourg holding company will be the first foreign company to come directly under the shipping list of the exchange.
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    • 840 24 FT LAST MONTH on the London stock exchange, a share price noted for spending weeks without moving began to rise sharply. Followers of Horace Clarkson, a shipping broker, searched for signs of a predator. but none was found. It soon became
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    • 827 25 THE DRY cargo freight market was quiet on Wednesday, with operators already beginning to wind down ahead of the long weekend, but rates generally continued to drift lower. Business included 16,200 long tons of heavy grain from the US Gulf to Venezuela at US$l6, with the route marked
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    • 464 38 A NEW GLOBAL maritime distress system developed by the London-based International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has been given the go-ahead and will be introduced between 1992 and 1993. The new system, described as
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    • 319 38 AFP BRITISH CUSTOMS AGENTS in the northeastern port of Teesport thwarted an attempt to smuggle to Iraq a 40-metre cannon capable of launching nuclear or chemical missiles, customs officials said on Wednesday. The cannon, 40 metres in length and
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    • 102 38 Reuter THE INTERNATIONAL MARITIME UNION said a US District Court decided to grant 90 former crew members of the Bahama Cruise Line proper overtime pay, a 13th month pay of repatriation expenses and other monies due them. The ship is encumbered by a US$2 5 million lien pending
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    • 284 38 Reuter THE ISSUE OF whether oil tankers should have double hulls to lessen the risk of oil spills in a grounding or collision is expected to be a point of contention during US congressional talks on oil spill legislation.
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    • 173 38 THE MAJOR shipping conferences operating between the Far East and North America: Asia-North America Eastbound Rate Agreement (Far Eaat (excluding Japan)/North America) American President Lines Sea-Land Neptune Orient Lines Maersk Line Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line Mitsui OSK Lines Nippon Liner system "K" Line Trana-Paclfic Westbound Rate Agreement (North America/Far
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    • 63 23 SWEE HENG METAL CO PTE LTD 13. TUAS AVE 14. SINGAPORE 2X3 TELE* OS ***** SMMCPL TEL: 861 5855 (SLn»s) TELEFAX 861 79*6 *S i H«ndl««* jnd S»-K* WareKxjse Truck* Hvxf Palet T ruck* n> s AJtobuy s<*. rental repa* BRITISH DESIGN INNOVATION A GERMAN QUALITY ENGINEERING For advertising and
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    • 217 23 BALTIC I MADRAS/CALCUTTA SHUTTLE NEXT SAILING Vessel/Voy SIN MAA CCU INGER RIIS 02 16/4 23/4 SUPER EIGHT 01 23/4 30/4 CALL: *****71 (See Page 13 Column 4). MSSI WE GIVE YOU AFRICA Jw Established in Singapore since 1888 tf/ Regular sailings to East, West and Southern Africa Wide range of
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    • 176 23 INSIDE Changes in bulk transport LAST MONTH on the London stock exchange, the share price of shipping broker Horace Clarkson, noted (or spending weeks without moving, began to rise sharply. Clarkson's performance has been one of the few outward signs in the UK of a transformation taking place in bulk,
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    • 2286 25 200 Cantonment Road #12 05 South pant, Sinppore 0208 mlllir T«i *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** Iff Hill! TERMINAL,CFS T«4 *****18 220 I* BMM *1 BOOKINGS Ttl *****34 235 VAy M PESAKA JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SON BHD PORT KELANG TEL *****18 TELEX NO MA*****/MA***** f i, >, 1.. c PENANG
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    • 1222 26 rage Foot ROTTERDAM/ VOY NO S PORE P KELANG SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG BREMERHAVEN ANTWERP LE HAVRE TOKYO BAY 97/542 16/4 3/5 5/5 7/5 8/5 10/5 HEIDELBERG EXPRESS 06/54« 17/4 20/4 8/5 10/5 12/5 13/5 15/5 OSAKA BAY 93/545 19/4 14/5 8/5 10/5 7/5 13/5 LARGS BAY 20/549 25/4 27/4 15/5 17/5
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    • 581 26 SOUTH PACIFIC SERVICE SIN POM LAE SUV PPT TBN 25/4 6/5 8/5 15/5 20/5 niRECT CHILE SERVICE SIN IQQ ANF VAP THO TBN 25/4 29/5 1/6 4/6 6/6 An«ntl- SINGAPORE: *****00 BOOKINGS: *****08 i S. JAYA: 03-*****25 JOHORE: 07-*****2 04-*****7 WOWTHBOUND TO UKC SPORE I RDM/A DAM HBG HULL(U K.)
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    • 1505 26 REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTAINER SERVICE I WESTBOUND FOR EUROPE VSL/VOY SIN CLM PRS ALG BCL FEL HAM BRE ROT ANT LHA (VIA (VIA (VIA AL6) HMQ Mm NORASIA SUSAN 9006-3 13/04 17/04 29/04 04/05 06 05 08/05 10/05 11 05 12/05 13-05 14/05 ARABIAN SEA 007W 20/04 24/04 07-05 12,"05
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    • 1612 27 S-jgSteamers Maritime Holdings Ltd feL ■> PJP.A flf jm STRAITS SHIPPING j Thuurt ta BpwmL East Malaysia. Containers S gort P Klanf S'ton H'burf S haven R'4a«i Leh ACCIPTS DUE SAILS via«n ray 16/04 oj«s 07W 05/05 06/05 CARGO HCIOtLMRG EXPRESS IM4 1«4 RAJAH BROOKE VOM Muara. Lib. KK In
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    • 1874 27 TO: EUROPE TO: FAR EAST SP LH ROM HAM ORE FIX SPORE HK KAO BU CHOYANC SUCCESS OMW 14/4 2/5 3/5 4/5 t/5 7,5 QUEENSWAY BRIDGE 013E 14/4 114 20/4 21/4 HANJIN TONGHAE 073* 21/4 t/5 10/5 U/5 13/5 14/5 HANJIN LEHAVRE OOtE 23/4 24/4 *7/4 3/5 HANJIN ROTTERDAM (WW
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    • 26 27 REGULAR SERVICE TO KARACHI S PORE LOADING FOR TBN 30/4 KARACHI Afanto: SHWUSAWA MEISHM N.T.Y TRANSPORTATION CO (PTE) LTD Tat 273*32 Tic RS ***** Fir 22M&X
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    • 647 28 muMi' DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. NAKJUmt LLOYD P.T. 6CSURI LLOYD P.T. lAMUDERA INDONESIA e f.T. TRIKORA LLOYD CR NBR **********0-D EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE VSLVOY SPORE ROAM/ HBURG BREMEN ANTWERP AOAM SPANjANG/2S*B 14/5 11/5 22/5 25/5 MATARAM/2CWB 2/5 5/4 10/6 2,« 15/1 BAAB ULLAH/22W8 25-21/5 25/ i 1/7
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    • 62 28 TRI-CEL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD 34A, Tanjong Pagar Road Tel: *****02/*****11 Fax: *****54 Tlx: RS ***** Contr Vessel SIN Loading for F.S. SHAN 29/4 Jeddah, Limassol, Mersin FY. SHAN 09/5 Alexandria, Tripoli/Lebanon FY. SHAN 29/5 Beirut, Lattakia, Piraeus L SHAN 10/5 Lagos, Matadi LEUVE/9122 17/4 Madras EXPRESS CONVENTIONAL SERVICE Vessel
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    • 1384 29 pacific international lines <pte) ltc /g Jf PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street #03-00, Singapore 0106. 1 JAKARTA ~1 I BANGKOK I VESSEL VOV SIN J'KT SIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN DELTA MAS 150S 15/4 t«/4 22/4 KOTA JADE 24N 14/4 10/4 22/4 OOWA 5958 17/4 19/4 PEGASUS PROGRESS 012N
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    • 1113 29 0 BEN LINE CONTAINERS LTD y 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint Fax: *****63 Singapore 0208. Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT VESSEL [VOY SP PK STON HAM B'HAVEN ROAM HAVRE Tokyo Bay 97/542 16/4 3/5 7/5 5/5 Heidelberg Exp 06/546 17/4 19/4 8/5 11/5 12/5 9/5
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    • 481 29 MYANMA ymk FIVE STAR UWE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.Kelang Penang Bangkok HPAAN Vl«* 7/14 Aflr PAGAN VISSW 73,» APR PATHEIN VlOl 24/30 APR MYOMAYWA VIK 25/21 APR MCRGUI V 99 15/20 MAY sg* THE BANK LINE (A tervice of Andrew Weir Shipping) \\f" SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE
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    • 554 30 <oiiEßiie IRANIAN SERVICE Singapore Loading for:A VSI MID Banda Abbas f^MUM (National Line Of Mexico) U.S. WEST COAST/MEXICO/CENTRAL AMERICA CONTAINER SERVICE HKG LB ENS£NADA I CAROCNAS S CRUZ MANZANILLO MITAL *24 MM— 13/5 OAXACA Vl2 lII* 13/5 10 115 20/5 25,5 MOftUOS VlO 27,4 22/5 24/5 2t5 31/5 2:* COL
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    • 400 30 Ahyundai MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTDEASTBOUND TO USA WESTBOUND FROM USA TO PSW SIN HKC IBM OAK SEA FROM PSW LBH OAK SEA HKG SIN HYUNDAI PIONEER 31E 1304 19/04 07 05 1006 13-05 HYUNDAI COMMANDER 15W 1903 22-03 25/03 1204 19/04 LALANDIA 31E 20/04 2604 14/05 17/05 20/05 HYUNDAI PIONEER
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    • 283 30 CCNI# Compartia Chilena de Navigation Intrrocrantca S.A. TO SOUTH PACIFIC PORTS SIN POM LAE SUV PPT IRINI 25/4 4/5 7/5 13/5 19/5 DIRECT CHILE SERVICE SIN IQQ ANF VAP IRINI 25/4 1/6 2/6 5/6 AGENTS B BORNEO SHIPPING PTE LTD MASBULDMGfIS«*O7 ETfRSFFHI 10SHENTON WAY. STORE 0207 ■IlfTTTliiill TLX. RS *****
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    • 857 31 HRE= InterCoa \l \MI lIMI in I FCL/LCL TO: FAR EAST JAPAN EUROPE FIJI ISLAND KAOHSIUNG —22/4 TOKYO —19/4 LE HAVRE —23/4 LAUTOKA 26/4 KEELUNG —22/4 YOKOHAMA —19/4 ROTTERDAM —23/4 SUVA 26/4 MANILA —20/4 KOBE —19/4 UK PORTS —23/4 BANGKOK —22/4 AUSTRALIA rnrnrnni inr EAST AFRICA rmcaim 21/4 GOTHENBURG —23/4
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    • 710 31 _^T Nedlloyd WE GIVE YOU THE WORLD Nedlloyd Lines NEW ZEALANO/FUI «r* I 9 VESSEL jkt PKg fM 5a S* ZSto* mm N Plymouth(A) Ttiwru LytteltaKß)Dum6H*) *>»<« immmv N Rochester 3006 SM 14/4 11/4 11/4 In Pi l«/ 4 1/5 Jfi 1 Jfi 21/5 22/5 23/5 N. RosartoflOO? 30,4 2M
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    • 1140 32 IHiSillflf VOY *INOO 'PK/PNG [sGP LB CHLS NFK NYC HFX OOCL FAITH 19 22/4 21/4 19/4 12/5 22/5 24/5 26/5 30/5 OOCL FRIENDSHIP 19 23/4 24/4 26/4 19/5 29/5 31/5 2/6 6/6 NEPTUNE JADE 24 30/4 1/5 3/5 26/5 5/6 7/6 9/6 13/6 OOCL FORTUNE 20 7/5 8/5 10/5 J
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    • 697 32 lETD SIN <1 DAY) HI OA*) Ml DAY) MENA 17/04/90 |PORT PENANG BANGKOK JACQUELINE TWICE/WKLY BOOKING CONTACT w ETD SIN <3 DAYS) *(2 DAYS) Ml DAY) 15/04/90 HONG KONG KAOHSIUNG KEELUNG JOYCE/JUDY —■TWICE/WKLY ETD SIN (6 DAYS) 0 DAY) (4 DAYS) F 115/04/90 BUSAN MANILA NAGOYA SERENE/SITI TWICE/WKLY ETD SIN
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    • 327 32 Continental Pacific Snipping r j TIMBER PLYWOOD SERVICE TO U.K./CONTINENT KKU S PORE PK LOADING FOR ARTEHISIOM Sid StTE/RMI/AIIT/FLUfUK BYRON V In PI 2V« S£TE,'RDM, ANT,FLU/UK ARBELA ISM SM S€TtyROHANT/fLU/UK Loads Sabah,lndonesia MULTIPORT AGENCIES (S) /0\ PTE. LTD. I J TEL: *****77 FAX: 2253C31 MTJ/ P.K. MULTIPORT SON BHO TEL:
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    • 662 32 GOLDEN LINE GUAN GUAN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD a. Teto* Ay«r Strati SINGAPORE 0104 1 TEL 5343*1 (10 LINES) Fa*: *****04 STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: S'pore P. tianj PWM| K GOLDEN HAVEN Cotomto KaradWDuba. I*2C Apr GOIDCN BEAR Cotomta, Karartt'Ouba. 26/2B Apr CHINA SERVICE YU QINC Hu*n|pu/Shanoia. 15/tt Apr DAI TUN SHAN
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    • 1853 33 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE jf, (CR No: **********0 E) Sy Bookings: UK/EUROPE *****19, AUST/INDIA/PAK *****18 USA *****16, FAR EAST *****48 Documentation: *****44/*****14 Terminal: *****22 CFS: M 2 IMPORT: *****69/*****50 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA K.L.-*****33, P.Kelang *****87, Penang *****0, J.Bahru *****3, *****4 I ~nv ~v p*r P MOTHKR
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    • 1263 33 m sinsov SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS *****JJS ***** RS ***** MESSRS* MAI TMONC SMIPfINC 12/ Ptmnj Street. Pen»nt Mjlarvj M/S HANOItNC SYSTEM CO SOW BHO CM*. JAYAPOH
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    • 839 34 jjflij "SRLjNESM^ DSR LINES VEB DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE MEMBER Of EACON SERVICE TO NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE, EAST MEDITERRANEAN UNITED KINGDOM VESSU SIN ICA fix ORE RDM ANT MBC RST RUEOELAND 11% MH W W* >* UIORICHT 4/10 01/5 15/5 24/5 24/5 20/5 27/5 PANAMA SEN 11% li/S OS/O
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    • 1151 34 UKC CONVENTIONAL MEM VICE Vassal P KLG PNC PC. Loading >v TONGCHUAN 30/3 Rotterdam/An twarp YANGCHUAN 21/4 Rotterdam Antwerp CHINA rou CONTAINED OMVICI VtsMl PKL PNC SPORE BKK HKC SHA QIN LYC WEI HE SO 27/3 2S/3 31/3 t/4 10/4 YANG FANC KOU 12S 31/3 2*3 S/4 U/4 10/4 20/4
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    • 272 34 FAST DIRECT REGULAR SERVICE TO INDONESIA PORT PADANG/PK. BALAM SEMARANG/ PANJANG/CIGADING/BENGKULU VSL ETA ETD LOADING FOR DELI INDAH In Port 15 490 PK BALAM NAGA JAVA 13 4.90 15 490 PANJANG LAMPUNG JAYA 18 490 21.490 PANJANG PINANG JAYA In PORT 16.4 90 PANJANG/PK BALAM PERITA JAYA 23.4.90 ***** PANJANG/JAKARTA
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    • 538 34 POSEIDON CONTAINER TRANSPORT GMBH HAMBURG TRANS-SIBERIAN CONTAINER SERVICE SOTRA GENERAL AGENTS ACCEPTING ALL FCL LCL CONVENTIONAL CARGOES [AFGHANISTAN I: Hairaton, Tourghundi, Kabul, Herat, Mazar-I-Sharif, Mashad, Kushka fIRAN I:Djulfa, Astara VIA ILYICHEVSK ETD SINGAPORE 16/4, 26/4, 2/5, 12/5, 18/5, 23/5, 29/5 1 EUROPE ITo all inland points: Ij If VIA VOSTOCHNY
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    • 518 34 ASEAN PORTS Ngow Hock Agency Co Ltd BKK (Tel: *****80) vcm jwt wwom mmo* PIYA BHUM HOW Ut 14/4 Tut 17/4 CMAIYA BHUM MM Hon 1M Thur IV* 1 ma iHinr oiw Ti» 171* fri an MAHA BHUM 05M «Nd 10/4 S«t 21/4 SHI BHUM 443 M Thur 15/4 Sun
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    • 1117 35 EXPRESS FEEDER SERVICE (Fully Containerised) VESSEL SIN CAL CTG A VSL 16/4 23/4 A VSL 21/4 27/4 A VSL 24/4 30/4 (Conventional Service) ETA S PORE LOADING FOR BANGLAR PROGOTI 16/4 S.KOREA/JAPAN BANGLAR MAYA In Pt CTG/MONGLA EAST BOUND SERVICE ETA S PORE LOADING FOR MV ALKINDI 23/4 Ummqasr/Baghdad :<<g>
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    • 192 35 ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSEL I VOY ETA I LOADING FOB SPOWE ANCMNET 19WB OUt DARESSALAAM MOMBASA OJtBOUTI ASSAB MAS3AWA MOOEIDAH abyot Imi ivoe daressalaam mombasa Djibouti ASSAB MASSAWA HOQ6IOAH fq KIEW HUNS LINE FULLY CONTAINERISED FORTNIGHTLY LINER SERVICE TO MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA ACCEPTING BOTH FCL/LCL CARGO Vessel Voy
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    • 603 35 MASKAPAI PELAYARAN WPULAU LAUT FULLY CONTAINERISED REGIONAL FEEDER SERVICE TWICE-WEEKLY/WEEKLY FIXED DAY SCHEDULE BETWEEN THE PORTS OF S PORE. INDONESIA, MALAYSIA t THAILAND ALSO ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO JKT, PKG, PNG AND. BKK. FOR BOOKINGS CALL SPECARGO FORWARDING AT TEL: *****55 SINGAPORE INDONESIA BCRVICC VSL VOY SIN JKT PAJ SIN
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    • 722 36 Vtowv COMPANIA PERUANA TOEX DE VAPORES X "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO. MATARANI, ILO' OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS' WITH T/S AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING. Penang* P. Kelang Singapore KAMALEVERETT 20/22 Apr 23/24 Apr THOMASEVERETT 30/ 2 May SHAPLAEVERETT 15/17 May "EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY
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    • 668 36 FULL CONTAINER SERVICE accepting FCL/LCL cargom to USA East West Coast, Cambbean.East Canada, HAITI Guatemala and Honduras VSL [S PORE IMAINLINER |UX |KST |SAV [NYC IHFX ZIM KOPER 19/4 ZIM CALIFORNIA 25/5 H ZIM KAOHSHINC 2*4 ZIM LIVORNO 31/5 W IZ/» 14/1 1W ZIM SINGAPORE 4/5 ZIM LIVORNO Jl/5 10
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    • 733 36 SING KWANG HANGI SHIPPWtG A TRANSPORTATION (PTI) LTD WEEKLY LCL/FCL SERVICE VESSEL S PORE JAKARTA SURABAYA JENLINK 19/4 22/4 JENWEL I 13/4 I 16/4 VESSEL SPORE BANGKOK A VESSEL 14/4 17/4 A VESSEL 21/4 24/4 DESTINATIONS ETA SINGAPORE yf PORT KELANG 13 APR MANILA 20 APR PE HONG KONG, ALL
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    • 496 36 PERINTIS LINE lj ACCEPTING ALL FCL CARGOES J BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND 2 JAKARTA SURABAYA j 2 EBBCL VOY SINGAPORE JAKARTA SURABAYA 1 ELOPOFt 937 14/4 17/4 RASETIA 85A 18/4 21/4 1 ELOPOR 938 21/4 24/4 RASETIA 87A 25/4 28/4 ANTO UTAMA 69 19/4 22/4 3 ANTO UTAMA 71 26/4 29/4
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    • 129 37 SINGAPORE SURABAYA/JAKARTA CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL/VOY SPORE SURABAYA JAKARTA PERMAI I 0034-034 14/4 17/4 19/4 PERMAI I 0035-035 20/4 23/4 25/4 PERMAI I 0036-036 26/4 29/4 1/5 PERMAI I 0037-037 4/5 7/5 9/5 [S>)ASG FORWARDMG (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD j SCANDINAVIAN I WEEKLY DEPARTURES I GOT STO OSL CPH HEL I TEL:
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    • 909 38 EXPORT TO: UK/CONTINENT (TRIO) IST T 3"" T E2=~ M»^"""• i PPd® MEDITERRANEAN (MED CLUB)* JEDDAH ttMßtl Pirxui Below ITmiHm Genoa Tne«te J IHHHM SKSU, T i i s OASIS ALTAIR *li TUi i*H Hfi M Ifi MIDDLE EAST (OASIS)** WiW SPORE DUBAI DAMMAN KUWAIT BAHRAIN N'QABOOS BABBAS figgngt FOfJOTA
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