The Business Times, 24 September 1993

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    13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Friday September 24 1993 75*
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      Lock icon FCC adopts wireless spectrum rules
      81 1 Reuter WASHINGTON US government regulators have voted to adopt long-awaited rules governing the allocation of US airwaves for the next generation of wireless communications called Personal Communications Services (PCS). In a landmark decision, the FCC, by a 2-1 vote, designated 160-mcgahertz of radio spectrum for
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      Lock icon Germany, China sign economic deal
      30 1 Reuter BONN Germany and China signed have an economic cooperation deal and agreed that economic links between the two countries arc becoming more important. Reuter
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      Lock icon Iacocca agrees to campaign for Nafta
      64 1 AP WASHINGTON Retired Chrysler chairman Lee lacocca has agreed to help President Bill Clinton's campaign for approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and immediately began by taking on Ross Perot. He called Mr Perot's claim that Nafta would lead to a
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    111 1 Stock market indices Thursday (hinge ST1I 1.995.03 f 25.06 KLSE Composite 830.33 11 Nikkei closed Hang Seng 7.***** 102.10 SET Index 986.08 +8.33 Jakarta Composite ...425.34 -2.42 CLSA China B 1.024.16 +4 63 Aust All Ord 1.928.6 +9.3 FTSE 100 3,001.3 -6.2 j Thursday Previous 1pm close Dow'Jones
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    Asian stocks rebound but jitters dog European markets
    522 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Regional stock markets rebounded sharply yesterday as investors regained confidence on news that the Russian military and the West have pledged their support for President Boris Yeltsin. But it was unclcar whether the rally would be sustained today
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    Lock icon Dow Jones down
    31 1 AFP NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks edged down on Wall Street on Thursday. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials dropped 9.22 points to 3,537.80 bv 11am. AFP
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    Lock icon Yeltsin tightens grip and calls for presidential elections in June
    438 1 Reuter AFP, AP, UPI MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin yesterday called presidential elections for next June, cutting short his own term by two years and strengthening his hand in the struggle with Russia's conservative Parliament. Mr Yeltsin indicated he would stand
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    Lock icon Bundesbank holds key rates unchanged
    187 1 Reuter FRANKFURT Germany's Bundesbank held its official interest rates unchanged yesterday, in line with the expectations of economists and financial markets. The central bank said its policy-making council had decided to leave the discount lending rate at 6.25 per cent and the Lombard emergency funding
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    Club Med ties up with Straits Steamship Land in Bintan
    491 1  -  By Helen Chang SINGAPORE Mega-resorts operator Club Med Ine will become the first Western company to invest in Bintan when it concludes a deal with Straits Steamship Land (SSL) by the end of the year. Club Med. a French-owned chain
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    Lock icon Sydney beats Beijing to host 2000 Olympics
    720 1 Reuter, AP. MONTE CARLO In a stunning upset. Sydney was selected to host the 2000 Olympics last night, beating out hot favourite Beijing in a choice of First World reliability over the political uncertainties of China. Despite the immensely powerful juggernaut of China's
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      204 1 I ASIAN'S N 1 I I COMPUTER PRINTER I RIBBON MANUFACTURER CONTENTS Nim Companies S pore News 2 SporeMsia ...9.10.11 Regional News 3.4.6 Financial 12.13 World News 7.8 Features Markets Analysis 25 Oob/KISE. SES 17.18 Edtonal 24 Regional 15 Sports 19 World 16 TV/Litestyte 21 Currencies 13 Advertising 22.23 Simei/Commo
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      32 1 Advertising: p* 22 Spotlight on Creative Circle Awards Editorial: Yeltsin's essential gamble Pg 24 Bottomlinc: Should Asia ignore Russian events? Back Pg Business comes before politics even in a crisis Back Pg
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon A blip before the bounce?
        315 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming CONSUMER prices were 2.4 per cent higher in August compared with the same month last year, the Department of Statistics said yesterday. On average, the consumer price index in the first eight months of the year were 2.33 per cent higher
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      Pisces taking stake in optical manufacturer
      271 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan LOCAL retailer Pisces Group Holdings is buying a three-quarter stake in optieal products manufacturing company Kingdom Corporation Ptc Ltd. The SS2O million deal forms part of Pisces* strategy to collaborate with Thai textile manufacturing giant TTI Ltd. which already has significant
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      S'pore firms pump another US$100m into China projects
      380 2  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE companies have committed another USSIOO million (SSI 59 million) to 18 projects in China, this time in Chengdu city in Sichuan province. This was announced by the deputy director of the city's Wuhou industrial district. Zhou Jian Nan.
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      HDB to sell 11 petrol station sites
      259 2 THE Housing and Development Board will release 11 sites for petrol stations over the next two years a move likely to be welcomed by oil companies. The board said yesterday the sites would be in housing estates such as Tampincs, Jurong West, Woodlands.
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      First URA land sales auction expected to reap $5m
      382 2  -  By Lilian Ang THE Urban Redevelopment Authority's first land sales auction, scheduled for November. could rake in over $5 million for the government. A URA statement released yesterday said four parcels of property will go under the hammer in a pilot
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      Econ Int'l teams up with M'sian developer for M$55m condo project
      248 2 DIVERSIFIED engineering and construction group Econ International has teamed up with a Malaysian developer to build a MSSS million condominium project in Kuala Lumpur. The proposed development, called Sri RiaPcng. is the groups first residential property venture in Malaysia.
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      International art exhibition opens on Wednesday
      231 2  -  By Corinne Kerk TRESORS 1993. the biggest exhibition and sale of international fine art and antiques in the region, will open at the World Trade Centre next Wednesday. The organiser and exhibitors look forward to establishing contacts with Asian collectors at the USS3OO million
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      Petroleum top revenue earner for Customs and Excise Dept
      214 2 PETROLEUM remains the top revenue earner for the Customs and Excise Department. According to the department's 1992 annual report, released yesterday, petroleum yielded 5558 million last year or 35.7 per cent of total revenue of 51.56 billion. The second biggest earner
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      Hitachi's engineering arm to expand beyond S-E Asia
      280 2  -  By Helen Chang HITACHFs engineering division plans to expand sales beyond South-east Asia as the region grows more competitive. Hitachi Plant Engineering and Construction Co expects Asian sales to increase 10 per cent by 1995. As part of its expansion plan, it
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  • THE REGION
    • Article
      Thai govt split over 360b baht nuclear power plan
      524 3  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK A SPLIT has emerged in the Thai government over plans to invest in a 360 billion baht (SS22 billion) nuclear power programme, with one coalition partner backing environmentalists opposed to the scheme. The conservative Palang Dharma
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      Mahathir's neutrality in Umno tussle reaffirmed
      339 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in Kubang Pasu, Kedah PRIME MINISTER Mahathir Mohamad's position to remain neutral in the battle for the number two position in his ruling party was reaffirmed yesterday when his division in the northern Kedah state abstained from nominating any candidate in
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      West not threatened by Russian sales
      482 3  -  Thai Air Show '93 From Ramesh Divyanathan in BANGKOK WESTERN aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus Industrie are not threatened by Russia's recent sales of passenger aircraft because the Russians still have a long way to go. In an interview with BT yesterday at the
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      Hanoi takes US$85m bridging loan to repay IMF
      358 3  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Vietnam has taken a bridging loan of US$B5 million (S$ 136 million) to repay its arrears to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), clearing the way to resume borrowing from the world's financial institutions. Ha Dan Huan, a deputy
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      Manila to put on hold swap scheme for easing debt
      365 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MANILA The Philippines will put on hold next month its debt-to-equity swap scheme which is meant to ease its foreign debt, central bank sources said yesterday. The move followed an inter-agency committee report recommending the
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      Lock icon M'sia to spend US$1.6b to build navy patrol boats
      331 3 Reutcr KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will spend US$l.6 billion (552.6 billion) to build 27 navy patrol vessels over the next 15 years and is seeking a foreign partner for the project. Defence Minister Najib Razak said yesterday. "The amount to be invested
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      Lock icon Jakarta urges US not to use labour as trade weapon
      219 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian labour activists told visiting US officials yesterday that the rights of workers were sparse but warned Washington against using the issue as a trading weapon. A team of US officials is visiting Indonesia to decide whether to
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Seoul jails 3 retired naval chiefs
        95 4 Reuter SEOUL Two retired South Korean admirals and a retired marine general were jailed for up to six years yesterday for taking bribes totalling nearly USSI million (SSI.6 million), a eourt official said. The three officers were arrested earlier this year in corruption scandals
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        Lock icon Japan to open up public works jobs
        59 4 Knight-Ridder TOKYO The Japanese government will make it easier for foreign construction firms to participate in the bidding for its public works projects. The Japan Broadcasting Corp said yesterday that Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa will inform US President Bill Clinton of the plans
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        Lock icon A past and future king
        39 4 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk greeting supporters yesterday upon his arrival in the country. The 70-ycar-old Prince will be crowned King of Cambodia for the second time under the country's new Constitution. Reuter
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        Lock icon HK property stock prices to rise
        86 4 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Continued strong demand for residential housing here will likely boost property stock prices over the coming years. Investment bank Salomon Brothers Hongkong said yesterday that property-related shares arc "severely" underrated because most property firms are evaluated on their net-asset value which is
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        Lock icon Index on Aussie consumer confidence
        62 4 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian consumer confidence plunged 9.5 per cent in September, as sentiment soured on weakness in the local dollar, a jump in national unemployment and government wrangling over the federal budget. Westpac Bank said yesterday that its Westpac-Melboume Institute monthly index fell
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        Lock icon S Korean rice crop likely to be poor
        104 4 AP SEOUL South Korea's rice harvest this year is expected to be the worst since 1980 bccausc of widespread crop damage from cold weather. This year's rice crop is estimated at 4.72 million tonnes. 10 per cent below the government's target and
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      Lock icon Beijing fires deputy chief of central bank, vice-ministers for steel
      286 4 AFP BEIJING A vice-governor of China's central bank and two deputy ministers for the steel industry have been fired, the People's Daily reported yesterday, without specifying the reasons for their dismissal. The state council decided to fire Tong Zengvin from
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      Lock icon Taiwan defence ministry censured for mishandling jet purchase
      156 4 Reuter TAIPEI The Taiwan government's highest watchdog body yesterday censured the Defence Ministry for mishandling the purchase of 150 F-16 jet fighters worth USS6 billion (559.6 billion) from the United States. The Control Yuan also censured General Wen Ha Hsiung. who was
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      Lock icon Chinese army official exhorts troops to train harder
      187 4 AFP BEIJING One of the Chinese army's highest officials has urged the military to train harder to avoid "historic errors". "Military commanders and political leaders must concentrate their efforts on training." said General Liu Huaqing, vice-president of the central military commission, whose
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      Lock icon China's shadow looms large over Taiwanese diplomacy efforts
      500 4 AP TAIPEI Taiwanese diplomacy suffered a double blow this week, reminding it that for all its economic might, the Great Wall of Communist China still looms over its quest for a place on the v/orld stage. On Wednesday, a resounding "no" from
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      Lock icon China plans to wipe out poverty for 80m people
      417 4 Reuter BEIJING The Chinese government plans to wipe out poverty for the 80 million Chinese who survive on less than US$44 (SS7O) a year, though the path of economic reform indicates the gap between the new rich and the very poor
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      Lock icon Seoul approves 13.4pc rise in budget for 1994
      303 4 Reuter SEOUL The South Korean Cabinet has rubber-stamped a 13.4 per cent rise in the nation's budget for 1994, aiming to revive the sagging economy and to hone international competitiveness. The Cabinet yesterday approved the proposed budget of 43.25 trillion won (5585.4
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      Lock icon Sino-UK talks on HK's future reach a crunch
      465 4 AP HONGKONG The longer Sino-British talks on Hongkong's political future drag on, the louder British officials warn that they cannot go on forever. Forever has arrived. On Oct 6, Governor Chris Patten must tell Hongkong legislators whether he has gained any concessions
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      Lock icon Budget defeat likely to wreck Australia's plan to haul in deficit
      447 6 Reuter CANBERRA Parliamentary defeat of the Australian Labor government's tax Bills would slightly reduce the 1993/94 budget deficit but would wreck its plan to haul in the deficit by its 1996/97 target year, analysts said yesterday. But sources in
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      Lock icon Australia firm on non-union move
      184 6 KnightRidder CANBERRA Australia's Industrial Relations Minister remained unbowed yesterday in the face of renewed criticism over his promise to extend enterprise agreements into the non-union sector. "We've said there's one outstanding issue that must be resolved," Laurie Brereton told reporters here. "Until that's done we
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      Lock icon Opposition backs Keating's attack on French
      227 6 AFP SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating won opposition support yesterday for a bitter attack on "selfish" French trade policies delivered in France as his latest shot in the fight to save global trade talks. Mr Keating said while visiting an Australian war graves
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      Lock icon Japanese workers bear brunt of rising yen, more production moving overseas
      515 6 Asahi News Service TOKYO The recent rapid appreciation of the yen against foreign currencies has added to the difficulties felt by Japanese companies already struggling in a slumping economy, and has spurred efforts by those firms to reduce their
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      Lock icon Japan to make subtle bid for UN seat
      406 6 Reuter TOKYO Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa will make a subtle bid for a permanent Japanese scat on the United Nations Security Council when he addresses the General Assembly next week on his first overseas trip. Mr Hosokawa will relay Tokyo's interest in
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon IMF warns Europe against keeping rates too high
      436 7 Reuter WASHINGTON The IMF saw room for significant cuts in European interest rates in the months ahead and warned nations there of the dangers of keeping rates too high to try to avoid depreciation of their currencies. "To maintain excessively high real
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      Lock icon Worldwide military spending has dropped, says report
      251 7 AFP WASHINGTON Worldwide military spending as a proportion of economic output has declined 25 per cent between 1986 and 1992. and should drop another 30 per cent by 1998. the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The reduction has taken place in virtually
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      Lock icon IMF ties further Russian aid to economic reforms
      504 7 AP WASHINGTON Officials at the International Monetary Fund have made it clear that further economic assistance to Russia will depend on the country getting its economic reform programme back on track. Even before this week's dramatic confrontation between President Boris Yeltsin and
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Third plane shot down in Georgia
        67 7 AP TBILISI, Georgia Abkhazian rebels hit another passenger plane at Sukhumi airport yesterday the third in three days as the death toll in the battle for the city soared and bodies littered the streets. It was not immediately known how many people were killed
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        Lock icon Clinton aide optimistic about economy
        69 7 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Robert Rubin, chairman of the National Economic Council and an adviser to President Bill Clinton, said he believed the US economy would be vibrant in the long term. He said in a speech to business leaders on Wednesday that US companies, individuals
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        Lock icon Barge may have caused train accident
        66 7 Reuter MOBILE, Alabama A train accident in which 41 people died in a crocodile-infested Alabama swamp and six are still missing may have been caused by a barge hitting a railway bridge, according to transport officials. The accident on Wednesday was the worst in
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        Lock icon Freed Swedes leave Iraq for home
        105 7 AFP BAGHDAD Three Swedish engineers freed by Iraq after serving 12 months of a seven-year prison term for illegal entry left for home yesterday, Swedish diplomats said. Stefan Wihlborg, 32, Christer Stroemgren, 43, and Leif Westberg, 42, were released from Abu Ghraib prison on
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        Lock icon W German inflation may fall below 4pc
        92 7 AFP FRANKFURT Inflation in the west of Germany might fall to below 4 per cent in coming months, a member of the central council of the Bundesbank Otmar Issing said yesterday. Issing, who is the chief economist for the bank, told the Wall
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      Lock icon Clinton promises money-saving first-rate health plan
      843 8 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton told Congress and the United States on Wednesday that his health care reform plan would provide every citizen with first-rate cradle-to-grave medical care while saving billions of dollars in waste. He said his plan could achieve all that without
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      Lock icon France plans budget that will take full advantage of global recovery
      280 8 Reuter PARIS France's conservative government unveiled a budget for 1994 on Wednesday which it said would help the country to ride a wave of international economic recovery and return it to growth next year. Economy Minister Edmond Alphandery. presenting
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      Lock icon Share of foreign chips in Japan's market slips
      428 8 NYT WASHINGTON US and Japanese officials announced on Wednesday that the market share of imports in the Japanese computer chip market, a widely watched trade figure, had dropped again, to 19.2 per cent in the second quarter. The lower market share for
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      Lock icon Opinion polls suggest a hung parliament in Canada
      332 8 AFP OTTAWA With just 33 days of campaigning left in Canada's general elections, the country's political leaders are pondering the increasing likelihood of having to deal with a hung parliament. Much of the debate has veered away from specific policy issues to
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • Article
      China Everbright outlines expansion plans for HTP
      322 9  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE China Everbright Holdings plans to use Singapore-listed HTP Holdings to expand into property development and international trade. The Chinese state-owned firm, which recently bought a 26.6 per cent stake in HTP, will also use the latter to invest
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      Yard yarn
      71 9 SINGAPORE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong (left) and Keppel Corporation chairman Sim Kee Boon at the launch o! Kep pel's 25th anniversary book, "lough Men, Bold Visions The Story or Keppel", at the kallang Theatre last night, which was also the opening night of the opera Die Fledermaus.
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      HTL's initial share offer subscribed 18 times
      479 9  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Sofa maker Hwa Tat Lee Ltd's initial public offer (IPO) has received an overall subscription rate of 18 times. A more detailed breakdown showed that the available fixed price portion was subscribed by 41 times, while the tender portion
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      You can tell when the market bull is running out of steam
      577 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Joyce Quck "You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, hut you cannot interpret the signs of the times. Matthew 16:3 SINGAPORE Since Matthew wrote that Biblical verse, we have come a
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      Participants chalk up good paper profit of $1.1m
      337 9  -  THE CHARITY IIiSIMESiIi By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE Contestants in the Charity Investment Race are already showing a paper profit of SI.I million, just four months after it started. The 1993-94 race, the third in a five-year scries, began in May with 10
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      Hotel Grand Central plans bonus and rights issues
      292 9 SINGAPORE Hotel Grand Central Ltd has proposed bonus and rights issues to enlarge its capital base. The bonus issue of 42.33 million shares will be on a threc-for-five basis, while the two-for-fivc rights issue of 28.22 million shares will be offered at
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      Lock icon SUMMARY
      309 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Sep 23 LMI SCMC MI Slock lak Cfcfr factor nui i Avimo 1 920 0.020 1.37 1.13 CAC 7 MO 0.050 5.20 2.»3 eretooi 5.950 -0050 4.23 -2.«3 FAN 14 700 0.100 10.46 5.67 CFAia 3.060 0 130 2.11 7.37 GcnM*
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Lee Kim Tah narrows losses
          61 10 CONSTRUCTION group Lee Kim Tah has narrowed its interim %>sses to $383,000 from $2.05 million previously, thanks to turnover, investment income and share of profits from companies. Turnover for the group for the six months jonded June 30, 1993 rose 13 per cent to 520.28
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          Straits Trading earnings drop 15pc
          81 10 THE STRAITS Trading Co yesterday announced a 15 per cent fell in interim net earnings to 5i2.58 million. Turnover slipped -20 per cent to $72.13 million due to lower tin prices and lower Ore intake. The bright spot was investment income, which rose 78 per
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          Fuji Offset to place out 3.6m shares
          85 10 SESDAQ-LISTED Fuji Offset Plates Manufacturing is proposing a private placement of 3.6 million new shares to raise 551.98 million. The company said the proceeds will be used to expand the group's business, enabling it to take advantage of investment opportunities as they arise.
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          Lock icon Renong pre-tax profit rises 29pc
          93 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Diversified Renong Bhd recorded a 29 per cent increase in group pre-tax profit to M 5203.40 million (S$ 127.1 million) for the year ended June 30. 1993. Releasing its unaudited results here yesterday, it said turnover increased 124.44 per cent to M
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          Lock icon Time Engrg interim profit up 22pc
          66 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Time Engineering Bhd reported a 22 per cent rise in group pre-tax profit to M 523.9 million for the half-year ended June 30, 1993. Group turnover rose 25 per cent to M$ 123.63 million. No interim dividend has been declared. Directors
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        Sembawang takes delivery of 3 tugs
        667 10  -  Deal signals start of partnership with China state firm From Catherine Ong in TIANJIN AMID the usual pomp of a ship christening ceremony. Sembawang Maritime Ltd (SML) took delivery of three new harbour tugs yesterday and sealed what looks to be an exciting partnership
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        Lock icon Firm to take over bridge loan
        231 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR A concession company led by United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd (UEM). which has been awarded the privatisation of the Penang Bridge, will take over the outstanding loan amount of MS3O9 million (SSI94 million), which the government had taken from several foreign sources
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        Lock icon Intraco, Acma shares up as Russian jitters fade
        186 10 Bloomberg Business News SINGAPORE Trading house Intraco Ltd. which saw its shares fall 8 cents on Wednesday on concerns over Russian political turmoil, was up 6 cents yesterday afternoon at $2.96 on news of a proposed one-for-four bonus issue. Intraco said on
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        CNN picks HK over S'pore as Asian centre
        363 10  -  From Juliette Walker in ATLANTA CABLE News Network (CNN) plans to adopt Hongkong over Singapore as home for its first Asian production centre. The president of the US cable television network. Thomas Johnson, told Business Times on Wednesday that he had recommended
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        CMB Asia sets up China joint venture
        165 10 SINGAPORE Container maker CamaudMetalbox Asia signed a joint-venture agreement yesterday with a Chinese firm to build and operate a plant in Shanghai. The joint venture with a division of Shanghai Maling Foods will make and sell cans and components. The agreement is subject
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        Lock icon L&G to restructure investments in 2 firms
        246 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Land General Bhd is proposing to restructure its investments in Cakara A lam (PNG) Pty Ltd and Odin Mining Investment Co Ltd. Commerce International Merchant Bankers Bhd said on behalf of L&G in a statement here yesterday. Cakara. a company
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        426 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices (S) Sep 24 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.49 1 56 The Savings Fund I 40 1.47 S'pore Prog Fund 0.62 0.65\d S pore Sec Fund 0 93 0 98 S'pore Invest Fund 1.09 1.14 S'pore Equil> Fund 0.72 0.76 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest
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        Lock icon Innovest cuts interim losses
        100 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Innovest Bhd has cut its group operating pre-tax loss to M 58.91 million (555.57 million) for the half-year ended June 30. 1993 from a loss of MS 14.47 million in the previous corresponding period. The group achieved a turnover of M 560.91 million
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        Lock icon Viacom seeks partner in Paramount bid
        530 11 UPI NEW YORK Speculation has grown on Wall Street that Viacom Inc was seeking a partner, probably one of the telecommunications giants, to help sweeten its bid for Paramount Communications Inc. Viacom has been widely expected to improve its offer, currently valued at about
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        Lock icon When spirits soar
        53 11 Reuter LONDON Richard Branson (centre) and Sir Freddie Laker (right), founder of LalAtr Airways, joining together in a water fight against Chris Evans, host of Channel 4's "The Big Breakfast", at an award ceremony here on Tuesday. Mr Branson collected the award for tbe best trans-Atlantic airline.
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        Lock icon Adelaide Steamship narrows net loss to A$484m for year
        263 11 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Adelaide Steamship group said that it narrowed its net loss in the year ended Aug 31 to A 5484.4 million (*****.7 million) from A 5746.3 million a year earlier. The group said its main profits came from
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        Lock icon German, UK, US telecom firms in joint bid for Matav
        201 11 NYT BUDAPEST Deutsche Telekom, the state-owned German telecommunications company, has linked with Cable and Wireless of the UK and Ameritech of the US in a consortium to bid for at least 30 per cent of Matav, the Hungarian national operator.
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          Lock icon End of the line for tin mining unit
          88 11 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK The Thai government has decided to either sell or dissolve the Offshore Mining Organisation because of chronic losses. An official said yesterday that the choice would be made in the next few months. The organisation was set up under the
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          Lock icon Waterford to buy Durham Dairies
          60 11 Reuter DUBLIN Irish food group Waterford Foods pic is to acquire the UK-based Durham Dairies. A spokeswoman for the company said yesterday that details would be released later. The Irish Farmers Journal said yesterday that, based on Watcrford's two previous acquisitions, the deal was likely
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          Lock icon Trading conditions tough: Wembley
          66 11 Reuter LONDON Leisure operator Wembley pic says trading conditions remain difficult despite increased activity in some areas of its business. Wembley, which announced a half-year pre-tax profit of £2.89 million, said yesterday it had continued its programme of disposal of non-core businesses and investments. Wembley said
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          Lock icon Flat outlook at Laura Ashley
          71 11 Reuter LONDON Laura Ashley Holdings pic says profit before tax in the second half is not likely to be significantly ahead of the first half. The group said yesterday it expected a full-year loss in North America after modest sales growth of only 4 per
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          Lock icon Higher turnover at Reliance
          95 11 Reuter BOMBAY Synthetic fibres and petrochemicals company Reliance Industries Ltd says its turnover in the first five months of the current fiscal year (April/March) was 21 billion rupees, up 40 per cent from 15 billion in the same period last year. Chairman Dhirubhai Ambani told shareholders
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          Lock icon Moet Hennessy profit down
          75 11 Bloomberg Business News PARIS LVMH Moct Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA has reported a drop in first-half net profit to 935 million francs. The French luxury goods company said yesterday that in the light of bad economic conditions, it was unlikely that net income for 1993 would
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          Lock icon BIS board to choose new head
          89 12 Knight-Ridder ZURICH The board of the Bank for International Settlements will choose a new head for the Basel-based banking institution and make its decision public by year-end, according to Michael Le Mesurier, spokesman for the BIS. Alexandre Lamfalussy, present chief of the BIS, will
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          Lock icon Sydney timetable for bank share sale
          83 12 Knight-Ridder SYDNEY The Australian government yesterday announced the timetable for its offer of a 19 per cent stake in the Commonwealth Bank. Finance Minister Ralph Willis said the prospectus for the offer will be available from Oct 5, with small investors having 14 working
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          Lock icon Argentaria's second share issue
          68 12 FT MADRID Francisco Luzon, chairman of Argentaria, the statecontrolled Spanish banking group, will decide within two weeks which international investment house will receive the mandate for the bank's second issue of shares. Argentaria 2 is likely to be the choicest mandate out of Spain this year.
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          84 12 AFP BRUSSELS The European Community proposed harmonised rules here on Wednesday to protect small investors against the bankruptcies of investment firms up to a limit of 20.000 ECU (5537.520). The European Commission said the measure was similar to one approved earlier to protect small depositors
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          Lock icon Bank recovers from BCCI crisis
          73 12 AFP ABU DHABI The former Bank of Credit and Commerce Emirates (BCCE), which was partly owned by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has recovered from the BCCI crisis and is expected to announce profits soon, local bankers said on Wednesday. The bank, renamed
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        217 12 FT LONDON Insurance companies paid a net USSIBS million to settle litigation claims against the largest six US accountancy firms last year, according to figures released on Wednesday. The figures, from a confidential survey of the US firms, increased from net payments
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        Citibank consumer division hopes to grow 20-30pc a year
        496 12  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Citibank's consumer banking division in Asia hopes to grow at a compounded 20-30 per cent rate annually during the rest of the decade, reflecting the region's dynamic economic fundamentals. Although Singapore and Hongkong would continue to
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        Thai oil firm tapping market for US$30m
        195 12 SINGAPORE An oil and gas exploration firm controlled by the Thai government is borrowing USS3O million (SS4X million) offshore. PTT (Exploration and Production) Public Company is seeking a three-year term loan. The interest rate is said to be 35 points above the six-month
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        Lock icon China bank opens Tokyo office
        117 12 Reuter BEIJING The People's Bank of China has opened an officc in Tokyo, the Financial AVw v said. It quoted vice-governor Chen Yuan as saying at the opening ceremony that the role of the officc is to keep in close touch with financial authorities in
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        Lock icon Taiwan approves setting up of first forex brokerage
        269 12 Reuter TAIPEI The central bank, seeking to develop local financial markets and make Taiwan a regional financial centre, has approved the creation of the island's first foreign exchange brokerage. Taipei Foreign Exchange Co. with paid-in capital of NTS 100 million (555.9 million),
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        Lock icon Net operating profits of Japanese banks seen lower
        251 12 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Net operating profits by major Japanese banks for the fiscal half-year ending Sep 30 will likely decline from the same period last year, the Nikkei Financial Daily reported yesterday. Profits earned from declining interest rates were lower in the first
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        CME, Simex members want mutual offset link to go on
        315 13  -  By Soh Tiang Keng INTERNATIONAL members of both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Singapore International Mercantile Exchange have voiced their support for the continuation of the mutual offset link between the two exchanges. This was revealed yesterday by Simex
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        Lock icon Kuwait Petroleum selling more oil products in Asia
        330 13 Reuter SINGAPORE Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC), faced with expanding refining capacity at home and fewer Middle East product outlets, is capturing a larger slice of the Far East oil market, traders said. Since Kuwait increased term crude processing volumes in Singapore and
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        372 13 AFP JAKARTA The moves of state-owned Indonesian banks to lower deposit interest rates will help boost the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) in the coming 12 months, an analyst said here yesterday. "As long as the interest rates do not start moving
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        Lock icon Philippine's coconut crown under threat from Indonesia
        195 13 Reuter. MANILA The Philippines' supremacy as the world's top coconut grower is under threat from Indonesia, which could overtake it within a few years, say analysts. Production has dropped sharply as farmers abandon coconuts for more lucrative export crops such as bananas which
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        70 13 WITH Tokyo centre closed for yesterday, the US$ moved in narrow ranges against most currencies, the regional currencies being no exception. The Singapore unit opened lower against the US$ at 1.5950 but demand for it soon pushed it to 1.5930. It settled at that level
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        259 13 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar rallied again against the deutschemark yesterday, boosted by nervous traders and investors who bought dollars in case the political tensions in Russia escalate, traders said. A series of unfounded reports and rumours about anything from Russian troop movements to a kidnapping of Boris
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        Prices fall with Saudi output cut unlikely
        192 13 ofOOrnOirg P€fH*V REPOH# LONDON Oil prices fell on the London and New York futures markets yesterday following an uncompromising stance on Saudi output by oil minister, Hisham Nazcr, brokers here said. Arriving at his hotel in Geneva for tomorrow's Opcc ministerial monitoring committee
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        119 13 AFP NEW YORK The dollar firmed up early yesterday against other major currencies and gold slipped as nervous traders kept a watchful eye on the political turmoil in Russia. At 9:40 am (1340 GMT), the dollar traded at 1.6360 German marks against 1.6315 German marks on Wednesday and
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        Lock icon Eurodollars end weaker in thin activity
        1472 14 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Eurodollar futures ended marginally weaker in extremely thin trade yesterday, with the close of markets in Tokyo dampening activity. "There was virtually nothing happening today, the markets were pathetic," said one senior dealer with a US bank. "The contract has
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        KL tin up on higher LME, demand
        618 14 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin KUALA LUMPUR tin closed three sen higher at MS 10.85 per kg yesterday, extending its technical correction on persistent demand and further recovery on the London market overnight, traders said. "The rise is just temporary," one trader said. "The undertone
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          Mindoro oil drilling to start in Feb
          82 14 MANILA US exploration company Anderman/Smith and its Philippine partners intend to drill for oil on Mindoro Island south of the main island of Luzon, the Department of Energy said yesterday. The Mindoro Block A-2 covers up to 8,162 acres, with 85 million to
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          No copper production cutbacks seen
          104 14 CHICAGO Copper refiners are unlikely to cut production any time soon, even though prices probably will remain under near-term pressure from lofty and rising inventories, Robert J Botwell. vice president of sales at Asarco, told an industry gathering on Wednesday. "I don't know when people
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          Thai govt to decide on tin mining unit
          109 14 BANGKOK The Thai government has decided to either sell or dissolve the Offshore Mining Organisation because of chronic losses, an official said yesterday. The choice will be made in the next few months, the official said. The organisation was set up under
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          Thai FOB corn prices ease
          78 14 BANGKOK Thai FOB com prices dropped to US$l32 per tonne FOB this week from US$l3B last week due to large deliveries to the maijxt of new-crop corn, traders said yesterday. Afcout 12,000 tonnes of com is coming to market each day and deliveries should rise
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1709 14 Rubber Sep 23 MS Comwdrty Exckango (hit if os closing as at l|w) MS (Hnrskal pricos) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) •nyors Sailors Close Volume Open As at 12 mm (S cents/Kg) Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 2 Oct 93 126 00 127.00N Oct 93 Nov
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        Australia
        1216 15 +9.3 Solid moves by BHP and News Corp took the Australian share market to a stronger close yesterday. The All Ordinaries index ended 9.3 points higher at 1.928.6 after opening at 1.927.3. Some brokers also said enthusiasm ahead of the Olympic bid announcement drove the main index higher. "Every
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        Manila
        605 15 16.77 Share prices staged a technical rebound after shedding nearly 80 points in three days of trading. and the index is seen rising slightly in the coming days because of high liquidity in the market, brokers said. Brokers said high liquidity will push the market up some more. The
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        Taipei
        557 15 -8.75 Taiwan stocks closed mixed as banks continued to fall because of Tuesday's bad news about dividends, while steel shares surged, brokers said. The weighted index opened slightly up and moved narrowly before ending 8.75 points down at 3,879.99 in modest turnover of NT$ 16.56 billion against Wednesday's NTS
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        Seoul
        430 15 +5.93 Across-the-board buying interest outweighed persistent institutional selling, sending the stock market back up above the psychological 700 mark, brokers said. They forecast the market would maintain its upward trend but said the index would show no drastic changes. "The market looks like coming out of its lethargy with
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        New Zealand
        314 15 18.88 New Zealand shares rebounded from what some said was an oversold position to end firmer. Brokers said trade was subdued and likely to remain that way until just before the Nov 6 general election. The multitude of demands on investors' cash over the next few months is
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        Bombay
        31 15 dosed The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) was officially closed yesterday as attendance was very thin following Wednesday night's floods in the city. BSE officials said the market would reopen today.
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        London
        641 15 -6.2 Share prices ended lower yesterday as the market was hit by further bearish company trading statements and weaker FTSE index futures, which traders said reacted to nervousness in Europe over the situation in Russia. The FTSE 100. reversing the pattern of the past few days, started higher but
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        Paris
        102 15 -22.43 French shares ended a volatile session in negative mood on the last day of the monthly account, swallowed up in gloom about Russian tensions and pessimism about French rate cuts after the Bundesbank left its rates unchanged. The CAC-40 index closed down 22.43 at 2,057.53. Paris S** 23
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        Stockholm
        125 15 1.44pc Swedish shares ended the day higher for the second day in a row, despite some uncertainty over debt market yields, with sharp rises in index-heavy Ericsson, Astra and Volvo. The OMX-index closed up 1.40 per cent at 1,001.78, while the blue-chip top-16 index rose 1.15 per cent to
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        Frankfurt
        198 15 +23.51 German share prices continue to be driven higher by strong liquidity levels, but the chance of any major gains will remain on hold as long as Russian political uncertainty lasts, dealers said. Shares suffered a setback in post-bourse trading when vague rumours of troop movements in Russia unsettled
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        Zurich
        230 15 +8.41 Rumours, later denied, that the Russian interior ministry was under attack pushed Swiss shares lower. Prices closed substantially off earlier highs. The broad SPI index added 8.41 to 1,539.68, with the day's high at 1,547.58. The blue-chip SMI put on 11.2 to 2,425.8 compared with a 2,446,7 high.
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        Brussels
        167 15 +0.08 Belgian shares closed stable despite a 5.4 per cent plunge in Belgian flagship holding company Ste Generate de Belgique after it announced a dip in firsthalf 1993 group net profit and the sate of its cementmaking unit CBR. Dealers said they expected the market to consolidate in the
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        Milan
        131 15 -0.78 pc After starting firmer, the market ran out of steam with figures showing a sharp fall in industrial output in July casting a shadow. Industrials were mixed with Fiat easing ahead of six month figures next Tuesday which are expected to show a big pre-tax loss, but Pirelli
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        Amsterdam
        252 15 1.17 Dutch shares closed ahead but off the session's best as Wall Street dipped on revived fears about Russia's political future, which had apparently eased earlier in the session. Dealers said volumes remained thin and predicted a jumpy session today with operators watching reactions in other markets, including German
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        New York
        572 15 -6.43 Worries over corporate earnings kept investors on the sidelines yesterday, sending blue chip stocks lower while Nasdaq shares edged higher on a rally in health maintenance organisation stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 6.43 points to 3,540.59 at 1 pm EDT, with gainers holding a
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        Johannesburg
        267 15 -24 South African gold shares mostly ignored bullion's late rally in anticipation of a correction overnight. Industrials softened but found buyers at the lows. The gold index shed 45 points to 1,602 and the industrial index lost 24 points to 4,339. The overall index was 35 points lower at
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        Toronto
        263 15 +4.28 Toronto stocks opened higher yesterday, propelled by improving golds, in moderate trade expected to continue all day, dealers said. The TSE 300 composite opened 4.28 points higher at 3,959.22 on volume of 10.66 million shares valued at C 5122.73 million. Advancing issues led declines 186 to 170, with
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      2700 16 Reuter HONGKONG Shares closed sharply higher yesterday, buoyed by strong overseas demand on expectations that China will win the right to hold the 2000 Olympics, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index ended the day up 102.10 points, or 1.3/ per cent, at 7,581.00, while the broader All
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      CHINA
      495 16 IN Shanghai, share prices closed mostly unchanged on low turnover on the B share market yesterday. Among the winners were No 2 TM, Dazhong, Jinqiao, Refrigerator and Outer Gaoqiao which rose between 1.2 and 2.3 per cent. The CLSA Shanghai B Index closed up S.Bl points to 786.21. In
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      1705 16 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks traded higher on a broad technical rebound yesterday after losing 2 per cent in the past three days and following recovery in international markets after their big losses on the Russian crisis, brokers said. The SET index closed at its day's high, gaining 8.33 points
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      1091 16 Reuter JAKARTA A selling spree by local players pushed down prices on the Jakarta stock exchange yesterday, dealers said. The official index closed 2.42 points down at 425.34. "Local players were raising cash to buy shares on the primary market as there will be several new issues in the
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2570 17 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE votorn Idrts Hvd 50c J7.8I4.000 Ind Oxygen 50c I9.S63.000 Asia Pac Lil 50c 15.800.000 FAC B 50c T.366.000 Kamunting 50c 7.325.000 Ind OxvBcn Wi 6.683.000 Hetza ionpn 50c 5.813.000 Renong Bhd 50c 5.149.000 Bedford 50c 4 602.000 Faber Group 4.445.000
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        Lock icon Prices rebound after scare from Russian crisis
        5602 17 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices here were broadly higher at the close yesterday, rebounding after Wednesday's sell-ofT when investors were spooked by the political crisis in Russia. Wall Street's recovery overnight and the positive leads from regional bourses brought buyers back into the
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        Lock icon STII recovers as players buy blue chips
        1068 18  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Investors and punters alike yesterday drew strength from the easing political tension in Russia to re-enter the markets on both sides of the Causeway. Strong institutional and retail buying throughout the day pushed the Straits Times Industrials Index up
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        Lock icon Dunlop Estates
        72 18  -  Quak Hiang Whai DUN LOP Estates is approaching the end of a consolidation phase and will find immediate support at $3.20. If it breaks that, the target is $2.80. The weekly and monthly RSls are neutral, while the daily RSI is already showing oversold signs. The stock is,
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      Lock icon Infamous 18th has fair share of heartaches
      677 19 Ryder Cup Golf NYT SUTTON COLDFIELD, England It all looked so simple on Wednesday in the light breeze and sunshine at the Belfry. Twelve Americans yanked out their drivers and long irons and took their best shots at the infamous 18th hole that
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      Lock icon Rival captains fret over 'marriages'
      428 19 Reuter Source: AP SUTTON COLDFIELD. England If it wasn't for all the men earrying golf clubs, you would swear someone was organising a high-society wedding. From the voluminous white marquees to the hushed discussions about perfect partners and how the guests will behave, the Ryder
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      Singapore leads in best-of-three series
      340 19  -  ROLEX By Shahiron Sahari SINGAPORE Singapore Rolex defeated Royal Johorc 5-4 to win the first leg of the best of three Gold Cup series on the opening day of the Rolex International Polo Tournament yesterday. In a fitful but absorbing match played in fading light
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        76 19 Reuter NFAV YORK American League Wednesday: Detroit 8 Milwaukee 4: Cleveland 4 Baltimore 2: Minnesota 5 New York 2: Boston 7 Toronto 5 (10): Chicago 1 California O. Kansas City 3 Oakland 2 (10): Seattle 7 Texas 4. National: Chicago 11 St Louis 9: Los Angeles 3 Cincinnati 1:
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        74 19 Reuter AMSTERDAM Russian former world champion Anatoly Karpov Peat Dutch grandmaster Jan Timinan in 53 moves in the 10th game of the FIDE world chess championship on Wednesday. Karpov widens his lead in the match to two points, with the score now at 6-4. The next game is in
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        86 19 Reuter TOKYO Leading first round scores in the Gene Sarsuen Open tournament if) Shiova on Thursday (Japanese unless stated): 68 Eduardo Herrera (Col) 69 Tsukasa Watanabe. Tsuneyuki Nakajima. Kikuo Arai 70 Tsutomu Higa. Wayne Smith (Aust) 71 Rick Gibson (Can) 72 Frankie Mino/a (Phil). Bradley Hughes (Aust) 73 Chen
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        199 19 Reuter Reuter JOHANNESBURG Women's World Open second round Wednesday (prefix denotes seeding): I Michelle Martin (Aust) b 10-1 iona Geavcs (Eng) 9-7 9-2 9-3: 3-Cassie Jackman (Eng) b 11-Rebecca OCallaghan (Ire) 8-10 9-7 9-4 9-0. 4-Su/anne Horner (Eng) b 15-Lisa Opie (Eng) 9-3 9-2 4-9 0-9 9-7; 6-Martinc l
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        358 19 AFP AP Reuter AP CHANDIGARH. India Australian Jason Stoltenbcrg will play India's No 1 Leander Paes in the opening singles match of their Davis up tennis semifinal here today. Wally Masur. the world No 16. faces Indian veteran Ramesh Krishnan in the second singles match on the grass courts
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        Lock icon Ryan's last pitch
        131 19 AP SEATTLE Nolan Ryan's 27-yard baseball career may have ended on Wednesday night when a doctor found a suspected torn ligament in the Texas Rangers pitcher's right elbow. Ryan failed to retire a Seattle batter, walking four and allowing two hits, including a grand slam to Dann
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        Lock icon Ice hockey's most expensive player
        103 19 Reuter LOS ANGELES Superstar Wayne Gretzky, 32. signed a three-year. U5525.5-million (5540.8 million) contract on Wednesday with the LA Kings that will once again make him the highestpaid player in the National Hockey League. The deal is believed to be the most lucrative contract in
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        Lock icon No sponsor, no LPGA tourney
        72 19 AP HONOLULU This year's LPGA Match Play Championship was canccllcd on Wednesday after the chief sponsor pulled out of the event. The tournament was scheduled for Dec 9-12 at the Waikoloa Beach Golf Course on Hawaii Island, hut was cancelled after Puza-La. last year's title
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        Lock icon Tyson's appeal rejected
        105 19 AP INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to consider the rape case that landed boxer Mike Tyson in prison. The justices issued a one-page order that gave no reason for the decision not to review an appeals court ruling upholding Tyson's conviction. The five-member court
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        29 19 Reuter TOKYO American Yoko/una Akebono throwing down top-rank-ed Maegashira Mitoi/umi during their bout on the llth da> of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament here on Wednesday Reuter
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      798 21 NYT VENICE is a mov-ie-haunted eitv. It is difficult to sail along the Grand Canal without looking over your shoulder for a sinister dwarf in a red-hood-ed raincoat, straight from Nicolas Roeg's chilling Don't Liwk Now. And it is impossible to walk up
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      Cosby the peace maker
      586 21 CHATTERBOX COMEDIAN Bill Cosby will be delivering a speech this fall at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, hoping to help case some racial tensions at his alma mater. As part of the school's drive to encourage racial harmony. Cosby will deliver a talk titled "Strategies
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      1403 21 TV RADIO Pink 10 SBC 5 A Clint Eastwood sheds his popular role of a squinty-eyed HDF tr detective hunting baddies, r J Instead, he pla\s a squinty- p Mr Jw eyed bounts hunter His target Jp is Bernadette Peters, vsho is on run from her ex-con hus- ft a
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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      Lock icon Saatchi comes out tops
      561 22  -  Creative Circle Awards By Sanjay Monsanto The writer contributes occasionally to BT SAATCHI Saatchi waltzed off last night with the cream of this year's Creative Circle Awards (CCA), popularly known as the advertising industry's Oscar night. The agency clinched The Golden Gong and all three gold
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      XO Beer spoof still getting attention
      338 22  -  By Corinne Kerk A SERIES of clever advertisements in March that got everyone excited about a non-existent XO Beer is still getting attention. This time, the ads garnered two silver and two bronze awards in the press advertisement section at the annual Creative Circle
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      Lock icon Revlon to use Dolly Parton to tap TV-shoppers
      725 22 Cosmetics firm aims to reach women who do not use makeup because they are put off by beauty advisers and displays NYT REVLON Consumer Products Corp is aiming to be the first big cosmetics company to sell lipsticks and mascara over the
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      Lock icon Ralph Lauren hits the road
      479 22 NYT WHILE other retailers arc taking their acts to television's home shopping networks, Ralph Lauren is taking his new line of jeans and rugged clothing on the road in an 18-whceler. A team of nine young salespeople yesterday started selling the designer's RRL, or doubleRL,
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      Neil French rejoins O&M as consultant
      646 23  -  Sanjay Monsanto speaks to the man who left to found The Ball Partnership Sanjay Monsanto The writer contributes occasionally to BT NEIL French joins Ogilvy Malher advertising agency this month as a consultant, some five years after leaving the same agency to jointly found
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      Lock icon Can Chrysler and Old Spice beat the generation gap?
      541 23 FT YOU are the US manufacturer of a product with an old-fash-ioned image. Teenagers and people in their twenties do not want to "check it out". It is cool. It is the antithesis of radical. How do you change their perceptions?.
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        New-look Horlicks to get extra zing
        62 23 SINGAPORE Smithklinc; Bcccham Consumer Brands is*' launching a new look and formulation for Horiicks added nutrients. It is also launching a three-in-one line in regular and chocolate flavours, where each sachet contains Horiicks. sugar and milk. The company said the per capita consumption of
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        Scent of a man ... from Europe
        58 23 Scent of a man from Europe SINGAPORE Shiseido is launching Basara. a fragrance for men that is the first to be made in Europe. Most of Shiscido's products are made in Japan. The fragrance was chosen in a competition in which eminent perfumers took part. The launch, beginning today at
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        Agency staff roll up their sleeves
        48 23 SINGAPORE Staff from Leo Burnett Advertising have gone a step further in serving their clients. From first-dav employee to managing director Flamish Banks, the whole agency turned up to donate a total of 30 litres of blood to the National Blood Centre.
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      36 23 "Ideal in cameras. Andlknow whereto getgood exposure. Red I NNca?' batterT^ l I W charger for MBlnif 3 Quick]' St oth*l' photo &raph»J ptr 60S?«,„ v «s. SSsj I Call today for results tomorrow. CA.T.S. 737-1166
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      232 23 TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX:74I-1298 I OFFICIAL NOTICE I, Chuan Hup Holdings Ltd of No. 1 Beno« Road, hereby give notice that in consequence of change of ship name, I have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ship's, under Section 386 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Chapter 179) in respect
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      329 23 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 HONG CHYE TRADING COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Al aa Extraordinary Gcaeral Meeting of tk« Member* of HONG CHYE TRADING COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED duly convened and held at 101 Upper Crou Suect #04-43 People's Park Centre, Singapore 0103 oo the 21st day of
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      321 23 M THE MATTER OF THE > COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND M THE MATTER OF ROMA KNITTING FACTORY (PTE.) LTD. (In Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 7500 A Beacn Road 11-322 The Plaza Singapore 0719 on Tuesday, 21st September 1993 at 10.30 a
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      318 23 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT. CHAPTER 50 UP AIR CONSTRUCTION CO (PTE) LTD (la Mamfeere' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai an Extraordinary General Meeting ol Members ol UP AIK CONSTRUCTION CO (PTE) LTD duly convened and held a! 4158 Jalan Besar, Singapore 0820
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      425 23 IN THE MATTER OF TIIE COMPANIES ACT, (CHAPTER 50) PI'RSI'ANT TO SECTION 290(1) (b) PACIFIC CONNECTION PTE LTD At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Pacific Connection Pte lid duly convened and held at 94-101 London Road. Brighton. England on 17 September 199,1 the following Resolutions set out below were duly
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    Yeltsin's essential gamble
    501 24 EDITORIAL RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin's dramatic decision on Tuesday to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections to a new, two-chamber legislature was a bold and desperate gamble. But considering his choices, it was also an essential one. Technically speaking, Mr Yeltsin's act was illegal. It was in
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      What's wrong with France?
      174 24 WHAT ON EARTH is the matter with France? By stonewalling (again) on behalf of its heavily subsidised farmers, it has put the Uruguay Round of the Gatt trade talks at risk of collapse. This is little short of holding the world to ransom and that, too,
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      Dreams of economic prosperity
      189 24 ONCE AGAIN, Russia is torn by duelling government bodies after President Boris Yeltsin suspended parliament and announced December elections for the new parliament. The hardline lawmakers reacted by voting to impeach him and named Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi as the new acting president. Yeltsin was gambling that
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      Threat of civil war in Russia
      196 24 THE OUTCOME of the Russian president-parliament power struggle largely lies with the people, who favour neither party at present. Judging from the April poll, Boris Yeltsin may have a slight edge if the people must make a choice. After all, he is Russia's first
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      Let nature be
      170 24 THE DECISION last week of the Council of Economic Ministers to reopen the country's degraded forests to commercial reforestation or, to be precise, eucalyptus tree farms, clearly demonstrated the dominant views still help by our top decision-makers. It is the same primitive view held by timber and
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      Business with honour
      169 24 JOHN MAJOR has said that he wants to see in Britain the revival of traditional values to restore the country to its past glory. He lists as the values respect, civility, and neighbourliness, which need to be revived to create a more disciplined society. He describes the
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      GSP is still important
      146 24 BEING INVESTIGATED and then having to wait for the verdict, particularly from someone who so clearly has the upper hand, is understandably an unpleasant experience. That is probably the feeling of many of us here concerning the current visit of a team from Washington whose findings
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    Showdown time for Major
    1276 24  -  Neville Stack expects next month's Tory conference to put John Major on probation and transfer its affections to Chancellor Kenneth Clarke Neville Stack The writer is a UK-based journalist who contributed this article to BT IF IT IS true that absence makes the heart grow fonder,
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      331 24 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX: 741-1298 Executive Positions Project Finance Debt Syndications Deutsche Bank (Asia Pacific) Ltd is the Singapore based merchant bank subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG. We are expanding our regional activities and seek experienced executives to join us. Project Finance We are looking for two
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      75 24 Ij•' W'i»' ftyy| U)V-*F»\*T'S ThPH- D>D n T IV-I£.n/ T6.LL YCX/ is wc -wooeD cn i\FTeR you've nece feg'STpuy J 03R\ST lf\ R5£Tt4«G*T v 9 TUPkNK YOU PpSffcOY j >MwaTHiimwMHMiTß.nM im r v DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU YOU'LL FIND ALL JUST DOUBLE CLICK AH... OKAY I 563 A PROOLSM UM^OKAY, 260F0URK-
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      This triangle will grow only with peace
      1105 25  -  Andrew Cooke finds analysts saying that the planned 1 hailand-Malaysia-lndonesia 'growth triangle' could be jeopardised if the situation in southern Thailand rocked by terrorist violence recently is not brought under control quickly Andrew Cooke The writer is a Bangkok-based journalist who contributed these
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      Luxury train will carry on rolling
      227 25 RECENT terrorist attacks in southern Thailand will not affect operations of the luxury SingaporeBangkok Eastern and Oriental Express, company executives say. The inaugural journey of the U552,300 per head (standard compartment) train left Singapore last Sunday for Bangkok. The train departed Bangkok on the
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      Aiming for a stitch in time
      806 25  -  Alan Boyd finds out why Thai textile producers are hurting and how they plan to overcome their difficulties Alan Boyd The writer is a Hangkok-based journalist who contributed this article to HT TEXTILE producers in Thailand have launched a rescue package for their declining
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      831 25 THE YASUDA TRUST AND BANKING CO., LTD. W (Incorporated in Japan with limited liability) Non-Consolidated Balance Sheets Non-Consolidated Statements of Income March 31. 1993 and 1992 and Retained Earnings Minions oi yen For the years ended March 31. 1993 and 1992 ASSETS 1993 1992 Cash and Due from Banks 970,899
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    Thai prime minister names new Cabinet after partial reshuffle
    416 26  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK EXACTLY one year after he was appointed, Thai Prime Minister Chuan Lcckpai named a new Cabinet yesterday, after a partial reshuffle. The lineup includes one new party and the nomination of three new ministers and
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    Lock icon Parliament votes to give S Africa's blacks govt role
    302 26 AP CAPE TOWN. South Africa Despite cri.es of "traitor" from right-wing whites. Parliament voted yesterday to give blacks a role in governing the country for the first time. President F W dc Klerk's National Party used its overwhelming majority in the
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    Lock icon Israeli parliament approves PLO peace pact
    444 26 Reuter JERUSALEM Israel's parliament, rejecting right-wing protests, gave solid support yesterday to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's historic peace pact with the Palestine Liberation Organisation. By a vote of 61 to 50, with eight abstentions and one member absent, the Knesset formally approved last week's
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    Lock icon Larger-than-expected rise in new US jobless claims
    245 26 Bloomberg Business News AP WASHINGTON The number of US workers filing new unemployment claims last week showed the largest increase in two months. The Labour Department said yesterday that the larger-than-expected gain suggested labour markets were still turbulent. The increase of 11.000 firsttime
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    Should East Asia ignore events in Russia?
    898 26  -  The Bottom Line SN VASUKI SN VASUKI The writer is a BT correspondent SURPRISE, surprise. East Asia has not forgotten the existence of Russia. President Boris Yeltsin's "democratic coup" on Tuesday evening, and an equally stubborn response from the Russian Parliament, led to
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    Lock icon US wants overhaul of the way UN decides on peacekeeping
    337 26 Reuter WASHINGTON The United States called for an overhaul of the way the United Nations makes decisions on peacekeeping and outlined general criteria for when America will use unilateral force. In the third and final speech by administration officials designed
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    Russian crisis: Business conies before politics
    438 26  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW AS PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin battles the Russian parliament, foreign investors with a stake in Russia are divided between the "seasoned players" and "the newcomers to Russia who may be more apprehensive", a ?0-year commodity trader told the Business Times.
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      Cruise centre sees drop in international passengers
      492 27  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The number of passengers using the Singapore Cruise Centre's (SCC) international terminal dropped by 38.6 per cent in the first eight months of the year compared with the same period in 1992. The Port of Singapore Authority, which runs
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      Lock icon M'sian police rescue 39 from sinking vessel
      220 27 Bernama KOTA KINABALU Marine police on Wednesday rescued 39 passengers of a Filipino barter trade vessel which collided with another boat about seven nautical miles from the shore of Kuala Meruap in Sandakan. However, the passengers claimed that a five-month-old boy, who was
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1124 27 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 16 1 Ahrcnkicl Liner 4 1/2 Alpha Feeders 6 I ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 3/4 Arabian Express 16 3 ASCL 5 5 ASXCL Shpg 15 2 Avant
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      Clansa to call here on Far East route
      389 27  -  Change will enable S American carrier to save on transhipment costs By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Compania Latino Americana de Navegacion SA (Clansa) will call Singapore direct on its Far East-South America semi-con-tainer liner service. The change will sharpen the carrier's competitive edge
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      Fewer pirate attacks in S-E Asian waters
      266 27 SINGAPORE Pirate attacks on ships sailing through Southeast Asian waters ebbed further in the first eight months of the year. In a statement issued yesterday, International Maritime Bureau's regional manager Mazlan Abdul Samad said: "Attacks in South-east Asia continue to show a welcome
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      SNSA clarifies bunker supplier registry plan
      84 27 WE REFER to an article titled "SNSA to launch bunker supplier registry on Oct 1" as reported by Mr Dexter Lec in Business Times/Shipping Times on Sep 21. We wish to point out to you that Mr Lee's report on the subject matter contains
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      LETTER TO THE EDITOR
      157 27  -  Daniel Tan Executive Secretary Singapore National Shipping Association The idea to set up an SNSA Registry of Accredited Bunker Suppliers was mooted when the SNSA dccidcd to amend its Constitution to admit bunker suppliers as associate members on July 31, 1991. (Rcf: SNSA's press release dated
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        857 28 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Juroiig Port Bmtan MuM 09 01 93 II alongside 2409 2314 H»e Mieko 150 93 13 alongside 24 09 0600 KeOon Katef 01 93 13 alongside 24 09 0700 Hi undo 09 07 93 II alongside 2409 0500 fcaga 50 *****
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        2050 28 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO ecord Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr eriod From To From Aci Liiy 41A 26,2200 24 1200 24/1459 24 1700 Aci Volet 25B 25,0400 23-1500 23 1700 24 0700 23 1659 24
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11474 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      671 43 THE FREIGHT market noted the absence of fresh grain chartering by the Russians, although this was not thought to have anything to do with the present political power struggle in the country. The Russian situation was being closely watched for signs of any possible cfTcct this could have
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      VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
      609 43 Carbon September IS Density Niter Residue Ash Mumnun Sedment M/M Ex ion KG/M*3 V/V 1 M/M 1 M M PPM method BO/Cmac Units Spec E25 991 1.0 15 0 010 30* 010* Spec 035 991 10 18 0 015 30* 010* Northern Etrope 180 Ave 98?
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      Lock icon NOL savours the pleasures of partnership
      1040 44  -  Neptune Orient Lines is pursuing ambitious goals which it hopes to fulfil by strengthening alliances, reports Kevin Chinnery Kevin Chinnery Fairplay Neptune orient Lines, maintain some of its biggest competitors. has a noticeable glint in its eye these days: one they believe signals a
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        Lock icon UPS plans more branches in M'sia
        393 46 MBT UNITED Parcel Service (UPS), although in Malaysia only for the past five years, aims to be the second biggest package delivery' company over the next few years. The Atlanta-based firm plans to establish branch offices in most major towns in the country. The
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        Lock icon India tells states to use emergency powers to tackle truckers' strike
        439 46 Reuter NEW DELHI The Indian government yesterday ordered state governments to use emergency powers against a crippling strike by 1.8 million truck-drivers that has brought the nation's major ports to a standstill, officials said. "The central government has directed
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        TNT forms US team to penetrate Asia-Pacific
        407 46  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE TNT Express Worldwide has formed a special US team to market the company in the Asia-Pacific and help American firms penetrate the region's markets. The five-man team is headed by Asia-Pacific Logistics managing director Rick Foxhoven. Mr Foxhoven. now
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      • LOG BOOK
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          Lock icon China invested less in railways
          99 46 AP BEIJING China invested 10.7 billion yuan (SS3 billion) on railway construction from January to August this year, far less than planned, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. Planned spending for rail construction this year is 28.38 billion yuan. This will be augmented with
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          Lock icon Mercedes picks N Carolina: report
          94 46 AP WASHINGTON Mercedes Benz will build its first US assembly plant in North Carolina, according to a published report. The Washington Post quoted unidentified company sources in its Thursday editions as saying the plant would be located in North Carolina but these officials would not
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          Lock icon KLLM Transport expects lower profits
          123 46 Bloomberg Business News JACKSON. Missouri KLLM Transport Services Ine said it expects net earnings to be 15 per cent to 20 per cent below last year's third-quarter earnings of 40 cents a share. At closing on Wednesday, the company's stock price dropped 3'A. or 16
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          Lock icon BP to close office in California
          76 46 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK British Petroleum Oil Co on Wednesday confirmed it will shut its jet fuel trading and marketing office in Long Beach. California by December, a company spokesman said. As reported, industry sources said BP will close the West Coast Air BP office
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        Lock icon On the brink
        37 46 Reuter MOBILE, Alabama An Amtrak passenger car dangling off the edge of a fallen bridge as rescue workers searched for injured passengers on Wednesday near Mobile. Alabama. At least 50 people were killed. Reuter
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      1660 30 AQABA R OAM/1 [I ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE WEST MALAYSIA KITANO 21/337 25/9 4/10 10/10 13/10 15/10 18/10 20/10 Port Kelang. Penang KATSURAGI 17/138 29/9 16/10 19/10 17/10 Pasir Gudang ESSEN EXPRESS 02/338 2/10 11/10 17/10 20/10
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      546 30 FCL Breakbulk Service to: AFGHANISTAN M&M Afghanistan Ltd., Sole Foreign Forwarder in Kabul for all services C.I.S.- Vootochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku, Irkutsk, Alma Ata North Korea t Vietnam Mongolia t Hungary CSFR Poland ocT#Trans AGENCIES (FAR EAST) LTD NOUAKCHOTT-BANJUL-BISSAU-LUANDA-BAT A Feeder Vessel ETA SIN NED AMERICA
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      2080 31 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line tivggD (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO DUE SAILS aXm RAIAH BROOKE V23E Muara. Lab 22 23 Sap In Pt 25 Sag FCL LCL CONTAINER AND MCAKBULK SERVICE
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      866 32 m m GENERAL AGENT C R NO *****81-OOOOD ijK EKA JAYA AGENCIES TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE MYANMAR TRADE PAGEH HANPfHQNfc/PIBECT WILLIAM WE I *****24 rmawm KB N.». TAW. MANOJ 414>07> USJZH HO cm MINH CITY ~RAPE HCNWY HOt 2TWW4 1215*1* i?"W W**Q*g !2«Z54^y45«6 KELVIN
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      2085 32 H ANJIN SHIPPING FM VSi S»T~ IK HAUL SEA POX FWT VSL S« lII* HAUI SAV HM NYC HANJM HAMBURG 015£ 30/9 O«£CT 21/10 23/10 HAMN HAtOURG OIK 30 9H. KWVOM 0511 4/11 VII 7/11 HANJM SMGAPOftt 01 IE 7/10 H. 10NGBEACH 04K 21/10 30/10 HANJOI SWCAfOtt 011£ 710 M.
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      2458 33 ll II sex: 'CALIFORNIA PEGASUS 16E' eta sgp 28/09/93 II II H ARRIVING LOS ANGELES 15/10/93 IN 16 DAYS HI II AEX: 'NEPTUNE DIAMOND 16E' ETA SGP29/09/93 II H ARRIVING NEW YORK 22/10/93 IN 22 DAYS PM EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS (SCX) TO: USWC US QULF MIDWEST USEC
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      1253 33 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BALT ORIENT LINE: *****64 FESCO: *****06 ENQUIRIES: *****33 BLASCO ODESSA: *****51/*****31/*****13 INVENTORY: *****45 INWARD: *****81 OUTWARD: *****80 TRANSHIPMENT: *****78 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 CR NO: **********0/N
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      1864 34 K46 AS AGENTS "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PH LTD (CR No: **********0 M) M w im TEL: *****77 TELEX KAWAKI R*****5 FAX *****16/7/8/9 I T*X MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 1 INDONESIA P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNUSA. TEL JKT *****08
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      1186 34 r-M'Si PHiu-oni€NT urns ph ltd V 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 1 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 A MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION W w' AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/SOUTH PACIFIC FCL/LCL SERVICE 30 SEP SYDNEY. MELBOURNE. BRISBANE. FREMANTLE 06 OCT AUCKLAND. WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON. NEW PLYMOUTH.
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      969 35 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. B CB NO: **********06 H uceeci VOY ciu RKK SIN VESSEL VOY SIN JUT SIM VESSEL VOY SIN 31 ICOTA BERK AT 3491 26/9 3/10 KOTASABAS KSBIBN 2«/9 29/9 3/9 BUNGA TERATAI 3493 28/9 1/10 5/10 SRISAMUT (THAI
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      2312 35 _bsa4 MYANMA VtSStIS 1 »OT STORE HAMBURG ROTTIROAM ANIRARP THAMES II HARVE I WHBk FIVE STAR LINE «W. on. jrim n/w £il!— T (Myanmar National Line) GIUICKSBURG %30W 04/10 31/10 02/11 I miias mactdoma M3o« io/io 04/11 «/n omi oooi 10/n Loading tor Tangon (Kangoonj will Dt aquia I 7J3OW
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      1897 38 Full Container Liner Services Malaysia s Agents: Indonesia 's Agents: I General Agents: Booking Agents: Guan Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiac Shipping Sdn Bhd P.T. Global Putra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pte Ltd Shipping Freight Booking Centre Sdn Bhd 58 Persiaran Ka/a Mudi Miisa Lot 3.34, 3rd Floor, J».
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      406 38 mm^^ mmmmmmmmmmhmmmmn■■mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi«mmm^ mm^^ toft SHINYEI SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD 10 Anson Road #15-01/02 International Plaza Singapore 0207 CR NO: **********0N HOT LINE: *****38 (8 LINES) FAjTeAS^ORT^I KOBE YOKOHAMA 2./. TOKYO/NAOOYA 2«/t I OSAKA 26/9 LWWIOK 29/9 BUSAN 26/9 I FOR BOOKINGS, PLEASE CONTACT PORT kelanq 26/9 DORIS, 8181, JASMINE, ANDY,
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      381 38 DIRECT BREAKBULK/CONTAINER SERVICE TO NOUMEA/SUVA/LAUTOKA MV. FIJI PIONEER V 2 ETA 5/10/93 SMGAFORI SEAWAY SHIPPING PTE. LTD. (GENERAL AGENTi fMTMEST CENTRE *1503 SPORE 0106 TEL *****33 FAX *****53 TLX RS23VB 222 W JHj POST KELANG GUFSHP AGENCtS SON Btt TEI 03 36/99/0 1 FAX 03 36/9969 TLX MA 3/404 GU.FPK
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      624 39 (i£ FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 27/09 ROTTERDAM 25/09 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 27/09 HAMBURG/BREMEN 27/09 MARSEILLE FRANCE 26/09 FELIXSTOWE/UK 27/09 BARCELONA/SPAIN 26/09 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 27/09 GENOA/ITALY 26/09 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 27/09 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 26/09 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 25/09 NEW YORK/EC 26/09 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 25/09 VANCOUVER 1/10
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      1964 39 r VOY w J T I] [VESSEL VOY SIN WIS 1 I i SHA BHUM En In Pt Tin 2S/» P6JA BHUM 2153 ~~Fri In PI Sat 1 25/S I i i VESSEL VOY_ i*_ BKK i| ,AKA WWW 285 Si! HH- Will W/> PERK ASA 02M Fri In PI
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      1898 40 ■UfcBMN CONTAINER LINES [-|\~/\"|Agents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) LJ \S VZ_Jc/R No: **********0E PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 I HKG/TWN/BKK GOTH/UKB/MED PORTS PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 26/9 27/9 28/9 Hong Kong Ldn/Flx/Rdm/Ant/LHV/Ham
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      197 40 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ETA ETA U« SFOItf PORT KdMG KNMK BlUt lAOE 9 load'-i! tor Mjt» KUVAI HUOHU IS 10 D>uh«t.n{ J'-d I jjdirg lor Bomtu» DOUWI 8 10 lo«fcrg For Mji» PIONI» SUPtf* S 10 loading For M<i UMMEDH Sailed lunhrj For Md* PtOGMSS
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      1035 40 THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD 1 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 i TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I TLX. RS ***** CARRIER. RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOT S PORE DEST VESSEL VOY S PORE PEST EQUATOR 111 101/3E 27 SEP KUCHING EQUATOR GRACE 99/3E
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      812 41 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTWS BREAKBUU SOC CMtSOtS TO/FROM KOK. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA. MOD. TOKYO*. MANIA* DAVAO" Penant* P. Kelanf Snjapor? EHbia* KARABEVERETT VI3E 26/27 S«p 28/28 Sep SHAPLAEVERETT VI7E 16/17 Oct IVYEVERETT V6E 20/21 Oct 22/23 Oct ACCEPT KG BREAK BULK FCL SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHTTAGONG. CALCUTTA
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      312 41 BE CLOBY JSSSSm CROUP 4ft REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO ;lory selatan v 25/9 27/9 3/10 IMBER TRADER VIII 24/9 30/09 SP PKL HCM HK KAO U.ORY SELATAN IX 2/10 4/10 10/10 'ALSO
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      553 41 P6SL WORLDWIDE PMMK CLOBE STEAMERS Ujjg REGULAR FCL SERVICE TO THE FOLLOWING WEEKLY SAILING TO HUANG PU SHANTOU Connecting Feeder to Huang PuSUI TUO CONTAINER NO 2 Connecting Feeder to Shantao LIAN BO NO 9 WE HV LEASING CONTRS FOR RENTAL SAILING TO PHNOM PENH' FORTNIGHTLY FCL/LCL SERVICE TO SOUTHERN
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      557 41 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH VCSSCI SIN DURBAN P EUZABETH SIN FENGHANGSHAN VS4/5S 23/09 07/10 OS/IO 28/10 FUYUSHAN V4B/49 04/10 20/10 23/10 11/11 FENGSHUNSHAN V49/SO 19/10 OS/11 08/11 26/12 ACCEPTS CARGO TO IOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA DURBAN BOOKING AGENT FOR COSCO LCL CONSOL SIN TO DURBAN/ P.
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      253 41 SIN FAB EAST 28/9 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 2/10 BANGKOK 27/9 MANILA/CEBU 26/9 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 26/9 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 26/9 BUSAN 26/9 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 26/9 HONG KONG S|N CHINA 26/9 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo Si EUROPE/UK 27/9 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 27/9 RDM HAM ANT LEH/ GOA/OSL GOT BCN also accepting cargo to
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      778 42 m wm grass Mas HONG KONG/CHINA 26/9 JAKARTA 26 9 BANGKOK 29/9 MANILA 27/9 BUSAN 26/9 KEELUNG 28/9 TOKYO/KOBE 26/9 KAOSHIUNG 2/10 PORT KELANG/PENANG 27/9 YOKOHAMA 26/9 COLOMBO 26/9 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBURG 27/9 CHITTAGONG/MADRAS 26/9 ROTTEROAM/LE HARVE/ANTWERP 27/9 BOMBAY/KARACHI 27/9 BARCELONA. MARSEILLES. GENOA 4/10 CALCUTTA 29/9 LAX/NYC 26/9 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 30/9 CMT LINER
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      269 42 Con Term CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 26th SEPTEMBER ACCEPTING TO ALL NEW ZEALAND PORTS PENAN6 01 OCT PORT KELANG 30 SEP JAKARTA 26 SEP BANGKOK 02 OCT SURABAYA 27 SEP FREMANTLE 09 OCT MELBOURNE 30 SEP SYDNEY 30 SEP BRISBANE 30 SEP I GOTHENBURGO2 OCT 'ACCEPTING TO ALL
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      704 42 Next Week's Sailings Singapore I I FIRS I FORWARDER IN To: ETD To: ETD asia awarded Singapore Singapore ,so 9002 'RQ A EVERY EVERY i Bangkok SL'N Jakarta SUN —^t~-^ wvi EVERY EVERY k# Manila SL'N Ho Chi Minh FRI (slßjl, EVERY EVERY ""S* Colombo TL'E Limassol THL'R ii INTERNATIONAL
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      1421 43 2C ONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND PORTS VOV BUENOS MONTEVIDEO DURBAN SMCAPORE~I HONG KONC KAGOSMMA YOKOHAMA vtSStLS AIRES"' W. KRUPSKAVA EBOI SAILED IMP SAIED SAIED 22/00 2S 30/00 02/10 POLESSK EBO2 SJULED SAIED 23-24/00 00 12/10 17/10 21 20/10 30/10 DEKABRtST EBO3 0100/10 30/09 21 22/10 04-00/11 12/11 1»21/11 23/11
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      331 44 NORTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA VIGOUR PACIFIC 2ML 24/03/33 Q2/lfl/S3 MONDAY VIGOUR PACIFIC 27AM 27. 09/ 93 02/10/93 B BOREAS 2MB IQZJ& 93 05/10/93 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 63N8 01/10/93 09/10/93 PORT KLANG/PENANG FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGA PGRE PORT KLANG PENANG VIGOUR PENANG 9317N8 24/09/93 26
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      477 44 @APPENSHIP /2\ HAMBURG VTVy CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSaS 10AMNG PORTS DISCHARGE/10A0*G FOR GLIDER HAMBURG SLO SPORE 10/10. JKT 15/10 AGAMEMNON BREMERHAVEN 8/9 SPORE 8/10. SHANGHAI. RIZHAO XINGANG KOALA CONTAINER LINE STORE FIX HAM ROT lEH DKK CS IPSWICH Vl3 24/09 19/10
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      427 44 ±cosco UKC COHVEWTIOWAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/09 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.G. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 15/10 20/10 Huangpu/Guangzhou COSCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CHINA/BANGKOK/HONGKONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACM Please refer above mentioned services
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      883 45 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE VESSELS VOY PNA PKE PCD VESSELS VOY SIN BTM ANT* lEH" HAM BKEt FEI luu •dvince 27A 21/09 22/09 23/09 OOCL CHARISMA 307W 27/09 15/10 15/10 16/10 17/10 17/10 19/10 NOftASIA MALACCA 9329 A 28/09 29/09 30/09 H. PIONEER 305W 04/10
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      473 45 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE RO RO SERVICE TO BANGKOK, HO CHI MINH AND MUARA Orange Sky VlO eta Sin 25/9 Orange Moon V 44 eta Sin 7/10 Koushun V3l eta Sin 8/10 For booking please eontaet P.K. Chiam tel: 220-4906 ext. 275 IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS KK
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      976 45 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT I STORE ICD S TON HBURG R DAM LEH J Aho Acceplnj C*jo Foi KITAMO 21/337 25/9 4/10 13/10 14/10 11/10 20/10 Southampton t* aUK dnteution BHtast and OuMn KATSURAGI 17/131 29/9 14/10 19/10 21/10 Rotterdam to al Antacrp Aimterdam o*. IMufa ESSEN EXPRESS 02, 331 2/10 11/10 20/10
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