The Business Times, 13 October 1993

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    13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Wednesday October 13 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow rises on upbeat earnings reports
      60 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks rose at mid-session yesterday after high technology and brokerage companies reported upbeat earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 2.23 points at 3,595.64 at 1 pm EDT. Advancing issues led declines by a modest margin. Volume
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      Lock icon Call for clear Nafta rules on subsidies
      78 1 Reuter WELLAND, Ontario Liberal leader Jean Chretien, strongly favoured to become Canada's next prime minister in two weeks, said he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to include clear rules on subsidies and the dumping of cheap goods. Mr Chretien, campaigning
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    111 1 Stock market indices Tuesday Change STI1 2.051.47 +4.9 KLSE Composite 905.71 +10 56 Nikkei 20.137.31 -241.33 Hang Seng 8.253.45 +61.27 SET Index 1,101.9 -21.78 Jakarta Composite ...443.87 +3.46 CLSA China B 1.053.66 +8.67 Aust All Ord 2,028 -11.8 FFSE 100 3,094.7 -7.5 Tuesday Previous Ipm clow Dow Jones
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    Regional telecom stocks drive markets to record highs
    478 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Interest in the Singapore Telecom listing on Nov 1 spilled over yesterday to other regional telecommunications firms, helping three stock markets to hit record highs. Locally, continued rc-rat-ing of blue chips which began on Monday after Telecom's listing
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    Lock icon Overnight rates sink in market awash with Telecom funds
    417 1  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The Singapore interbank market yesterday offered the ultimate borrower's dream being paid interest on money borrowed thanks to the Singapore Telecom share offer. In the Singapore dollar interest rate market yesterday, overnight rates went into a negative
    Source: Bloomberg  -  417 words
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    Thai exchange orders probe into dumping of blue chips
    294 1  -  From Andrew Cooke in BANGKOK THE Stock Exchange of Thailand has ordered an inquiry into a sudden slump which sliced 29 points or 2.6 per cent off the market in just a few minutes yesterday. The exchange will probe the dumping
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    Parliament passes GST Bill
    294 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Parliament yesterday passed the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, paving the way for the tax to come into effect on April 1, next year. "The new tax is a fundamental change in the government's taxation policy," Finance Minister Richard Hu
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    Lock icon Shimizu chiefs quit after indictment
    158 1 Reuter. AFP TOKYO The chairman and vice-chairman of Shimizu Corp. Japan's biggest construction company, resigned yesterday after they were indicted on allegations that they had bribed a prefectural governor. Shimizu president Harusuke Imamura said the Tokyo District Prosecutors Office on Monday indicted Shimizu chairman Tcruzo
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    Multiple share applications: Jail for blatant offenders
    477 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE People found guilty of lodging multiple share applications on a substantial scale must be jailed. Chief Justice Yong Pung How said yesterday. Dismissing the appeal of a businessman. Lim Choon Kang. against a three-week jail sentence for having lodged
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    Lock icon Dunlop price soars after Magnum announcement
    133 1 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Dunlop Estates Bhd hit a record high after saying it would sell its stake in gaming company Magnum Bhd to shareholders at below-market price. But Magnum and all other listed members of the Multipurpose group fell after the announcement,
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    Lock icon Taipei convicts 39 in NT$1.5b stock scam
    292 1 Reuter TAIPEI A Taiwanese court yesterday convicted a leading market speculator and 38 other people of breaking securities laws in a NTS 1.5 billion (SSB7 million) Taiwan stock scandal, the island's biggest. Lei Po Lung, one of the speculators known as "Big Hands"
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      8 1 Regional Analysis: Pg 26 East Asia taking centre-stage
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      21 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg Dun/op revamp: a defence move? S'pore Telecom takes to the road to sell C shares, Pg 11
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • IN BRIEF
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        Bill clarifying English law
        88 2 A BILL which clarifies how English law applies to the law here, and which makes Singapore's commercial law independent of future legislative changes in the UK. was passed in Parliament yesterday. The Application of English Law Bill 1993 repeals Section 5 of the Civil Law Act,
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        Heavy vehicle parking licence
        88 2 THE Public Works Department will begin licensing private heavy vehicle parking lots next year. From July 1. all owners of heavy vehicles must have a valid vehicle parking certificate before they can register a heavy vehicle or renew the road tax of an existing vehicle with
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        Subletting rules relaxed
        84 2 THE Housing Development Board has relaxed its rules on subletting of entire HDB flats under four categories: owners or tenants of HDB shops with dwellings: lessees of HDB flats who are owners or tenants of private commercial properties with dwellings to live in to look after their
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        Presidential polls: no recount
        46 2 THERE was no recount of votes at the Presidential Election. Instead. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said the two-and-a-half hour delay in the announcement of the results was due to the lack of fax machines as well as overly-cau-tious and cumbersome tallying.
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        Insurance Bill passed
        46 2 THE financial strength of Singapore's insurance industry was boosted yesterday with the passing of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill. Among other things, it allows the appointed actuary concept to be introduced and the setting up of separate funds for participating and non-participating life policies.
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      Govt will spend $29m to kick off GST
      382 2  -  Yesterday in Parliament Reports by Chuang Peck Ming, Schutz Lee THE Goods and Services lax will cost the government about $29 million to kick off. Finance Minister Richard Hu told Parliament yesterday. And it will cost around 2.3 cents to collect one
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      Call for control of varsity budget
      229 2 THE MP for Jalan Besar GRC. Peh Chin Hua. proposed yesterday that the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance jointly set up a committee to see to the universities* daily expenditure. Supporting the motion by Chng Hee Kok (Tampines GRC) that parliament discusses
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      Price-tagging one way to counter profiteering
      279 2 THE government may introduce legislation for compulsory price-tagging should the GST lead to profiteering. This is just one of many measures the government can take to ensure price stability before and after the GST is introduced next April, says Trade and Industry Minister S
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      Minimum purchase for GST refund
      192 2 THE minimum amount of purchases that would allow a tourist to claim a GST refund should be $500, retailers say. Based on this limit, the amount refunded will be $15 less any administrative charge proposed. But some retailers said they may waive the charge at
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      Lock icon Asian customers helping to put Rolls-Royce in the black
      387 2  -  By Christopher Tan OFFICIALS of red-ink splattered Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd say the company is poised to return to profitability by the end of this year, and Asian customers can take much of the credit. Michael Donovan, managing director (commercial) of
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      Boeing sold 1.000th 747 jumbo — and guess who bought it?
      214 2  - Boeing sold 1.000th 747 jumbo and guess who bought it? From Ramesh Divyanathan in SEATTLE SINGAPORE Airlines will receive Boeing Co's I,oooth 7 47 aircraft, one of the world's most successful commercial planes, at a ceremony here tomorrow. Guests scheduled to take part in the programme include Singapore ambassador to
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      Textile quotas: TDB revises guidelines
      348 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE Trade Development Board has revised guidelines for the allocation of textile quotas. For quota year 1994. the percentage of quotas allocated to manufacturers based on past performance will be increased from the present 75 per cent to 80 per cent. Manufacturers
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    • eye on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon An obsessive drive
        324 2  -  By Dexter Lee ACCORDING to the Cost Review Committee, life for most Singaporeans has improved despite rises in the cost of health-care, housing, transport and education. And the improvement in living standards has cut across all groups. In 1990. 24 per cent of households earned 54.000 a
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  • THE REGION
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      Bangkok may impose controls on foreign satellite broadcasts
      293 3  -  Fran Alan Boyd in BANGKOK THAILAND is considering imposing controls on foreign satellite broadcasts following a row over an unlicensed entertainment channel relayed from Singapore. The Mass Communications Authority of Thailand (MCOT) which regulates TV services said it would seek protection for
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      Lock icon Indonesia to seek natural gas for long-term energy needs
      375 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's President Suharto has emphasised the importance of natural gas for his country's long-term energy needs and called for expert hdp to find fresh deposits and phase out fuel oils in some sectors. "For long-term purposes, we will try
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      Indonesian plastic industry hit by higher import duties
      293 3  -  By Said Abdullah SINGAPORE Jakarta's recent four-fold increase in import duties on plastic raw materials and fierce competition within the industry have forced many downstream plastics manufacturers to go bust and depressed profit margins of those that have survived. Under the new
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      China's vice-premier forms personal think tank: report
      467 4 HONGKONG Chinese Executive Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji has put together a high-level think tank to consolidate his power before the demise of patriarch Deng Xiaoping, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. The brains trust, which consists of the cream of China's social science
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      Lock icon Beijing confident of soft landing for overheated economy
      437 4 Reuter, AFP. BEIJING China is confident it can engineer a "soft landing" for its overheated economy, even though slower growth and lower inflation will not start to show up until next year, official forecasters said yesterday. This year China is again likely
      Reuter,; AFP.  -  437 words
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      Shanghai team in S'pore to promote its Asean Industrial Town
      311 4  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE A 15-mem-ber delegation from Shanghai is in Singapore for the first stop of a roadshow to promote the setting up of an Asean Industrial Town in the city's district of Jiading. Jiading officials told BT
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      Lock icon Muslim uprising in western China crushed
      345 4 AFP BEIJING Communist authorities last month crushed a Muslim uprising in western China sparked by a book seen as insulting to Islam, police said yesterday. The uprising in Qinghai province lasted throughout September and was the worst reported incident of Muslim unrest since anti-Chinese
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • Article
        Lock icon China-S Korea trade to top US$10b
        73 4 Reuter BEIJING China's trade with South Korea will exceed US$lO billion (SSI6 billion) this year, up from an actual US$B.2 billion last year, the semi-official China News Service said yesterday. It quoted unnamed experts as saying that South Korea has become China's sixth largest
        Reuter  -  73 words
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        Lock icon Head-hunters move in on China
        92 4 AFP BEIJING International head-hunting agencies are starting to cash in on a lucrative market in China, where frustrated foreign investors welcome any help in tracking down well-qualified managers. Leading the way is Norman Broadbent International, which is to open an office here soon after finding
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        Lock icon US hails China human rights talks
        71 4 Reuter BEIJING The top US human rights official hailed renewed dialogue with China yesterday, but delivered a sharp warning that Beijing's billion dollar trade benefits depend on that dialogue producing results. John Shattuck. assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs, said
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        Lock icon Seoul ex-minister sentenced for graft
        77 4 AP SEOUL A former defence minister was sentenced to three years in prison and fined U5537,000 yesterday for taking bribes from arms dealers, court authorities said. Le* Sang Hoo, who served under former President Roh Tae Woo, received a suspended four-year sentence because "he repents
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      Lock icon Taipei to ease control over some businesses with Beijing
      225 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is to relax controls on selected business activities with China to meet fast expanding commercial ties across the Taiwan Strait, a Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) official said yesterday. The cabinet-level MAC is to revise laws allowing local people
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    • Article
      India to auction licences for value-added telecoms services
      513 5  -  From Nirmal Ghosh in NEW DELHI THE newly-appointed chairman of India's Telecom Commission has decided to auction licences for value-added services instead of putting them up for tender. Auction bids would go to those who were willing to share the most amount
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      Lock icon Delay in tax cuts viable if budget not approved: Aussie minister
      336 5 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Australian Finance Minister Ralph Willis said yesterday the government saw the option of delaying promised income tax cuts as a "very viable alternative" if its budget bills were blocked. "If the Opposition doesn't pass the (revenue) tax
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      Lock icon Good NZ economic news seen ahead of elections
      506 5 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand looks set to notch another low inflation figure this week as its economic recovery gains momentum and the National Party government presses an election campaign built on its economic record. Five indicators this week will provide ammunition for
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      Lock icon Pakistan interim PM offers to mediate between Sharif, Benazir
      437 5 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's interim Prime Minister Moeen Qureshi has offered to mediate between political rivals Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif in a bid to stop their war of words. Sources at Mr Qureshi's residence yesterday said he wanted them to stop
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      412 4 Government Assistance Schemes for Doing Business Overseas si Talk by The Economic Development Board t November 1993 9.30 am to 12.30 pm EPC Seminar Room Entrepreneur* who wish to expand their busnesses overseas need not do so alone. the government has several sdiemts which can help Singapore businesses venture abroad
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EC does not expect results from trade talks with US
      475 6 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News BRUSSELS European Community officials foresee no breakthrough in the latest round of talks today with US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. They said yesterday that Mr Kantor was set to reaffirm Washington's refusal to reopen a deal
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      Lock icon Two American pioneers win Nobel economics prize
      274 6 Reuter STOCKHOLM Two Americans, described as pioneers in economic history, won the Nobel Economics Prize yesterday for work which has helped explain economic growth and decline. Robert Fogel, 67, and Douglass North, 72, won the prize for creating a better understanding as to
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      Lock icon Russia pressing ahead with economic reforms
      499 6 Bloomberg Business News Reuter, UPI, MOSCOW Russia's economic reforms, at the centre of a bitter battle between President Boris Yeltsin and his hardline opponents for more than a year, are to press ahead, according to a senior minister. Boris Fyodorov, deputy premier and finance
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon EC jobless rate up 10.4pc
        82 6 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The European Community's seasonally-adjusted unemployment rose to 10.4 per cent in August from a year earlier. The Times newspaper reported. There was no change in the August rate compared to July. However, the original July figure of 10.6 per cent was
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        Lock icon Seeking freedom for their kin
        102 6 Reuter, UPI GAZA STRIP Palestinian women, carrying portraits of family members who are in Israeli prisons, demonstrate on Monday outside the Red Cross offices in Gaza City. They demanded the release of all Palestinian political prisoners. Meanwhile in Tunis the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's legislature, amid
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        Lock icon Italian minister withdraws resignation
        99 6 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Italian Industry Minister Paolo Savona. who resigned on Sunday, withdrew his resignation after Prime Minister Carlo Ciampi wrote him a letter asking him to stay on. Reuters reported in the Wall Street Journal Europe newspaper. Mr Ciampi's spokesman said Mr Savona told
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        Lock icon Libya may face tougher sanctions
        85 6 UPI LONDON The British government announced plans to slap tougher sanctions on Libya on Monday unless it hands over the two men accused of bombing a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in Scotland. A spokesman for the Foreign Office said the sanctions would apply to
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        Lock icon Thatcher undermining herself: Kohl
        91 6 Reuter BONN Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has undermined her own historic achievements by recounting her opposition to German and European unity in her memoirs. Chancellor Helmut Kohl said on Monday. Mrs Thatcher's memoirs proved her political thinking came from a pre-war period "before Winston
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        Lock icon EC's Van Miert chides Japan
        65 6 Reuter BRUSSELS European Community Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert said on Monday he planned to visit Japan soon to call for genuine steps to improve access to the country's markets. He said Japan. South Korea and other Asian states were not playing the game of
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      Lock icon De Klerk to call referendum if no accord reached on reform
      422 7 UPI JOHANNESBURG South African president F W de Klerk hinted strongly on Monday that he would call a referendum to decide the country's political future if no agreement could be reached between the major parties. He told the opening
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      Lock icon Ministers agree on structure of EC research programme
      394 7 Reuter LUXEMBOURG European Community research ministers have agreed on the basic structure of a multi-billion dollar research programme covering areas from nuclear safety to computer software. But they have not reached a consensus on how much to budget, partly because Germany was
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      Lock icon Kohl faces political backlash over his choice for president
      307 7 NYT BERLIN Chancellor Helmut Kohl is facing the prospect of a major political defeat as criticism of his hand-picked candidate for president spreads. The candidate, Steffen Heitmann, Justice Minister in the eastern state of Saxony, was almost unknown when Mr Kohl
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  • WORLD FOCUS
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      Lock icon Major wins battle but has still to fight war
      1020 9  -  Conservative Party Conference Reports by Neville Stack in LONDON IT WAS going to be more bloody than General Custer's Last Stand but in the event the hostile Red Indians have granted British Prime Minister John Major a reprieve. And he persuaded
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      27-point plan to tackle Britain's rising crime wave
      493 9 LONDON Home Secretary Michael Howard is launching a 27-point plan to tackle Britain's soaring crime wave. He unveiled the plan at the Conservative Party conference, to a standing ovation. "This is the most comprehensive programme of action against crime ever announced by
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • Article
      Telecom takes to the road tomorrow to promote C shares
      424 11  -  Singapore Telecom share offer By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom takes its initial public offer (IPO) show on the road tomorrow with a good start the quota of 49 qualified institutions in Japan wishing to participate in a private placement
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      Eleventh hour rush to top up CPF accounts
      264 11 SINGAPORE Singaporeans had months to top up their CPF accounts ahead of Singapore Telecom's share offer. But yet, the board's headquarters in Shenton Way has been swamped by an eleventh hour crowd the past few days. In addition to topping up their
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    • Article
      NOL awards three loan mandates to finance ships
      278 11  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines has given three loan mandates to banks to raise money for the purchase of new ships. Debt newsletter Eur owe ek reports that Fuji Bank is arranging a US$66 million (S$ 106.3 million) loan,
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      Lock icon Dunlop Estates revamp: asset shuffling or defence gambit?
      662 11  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Leslie Lopez KUALA LUMPUR How do you more than double your stock price without injecting any new business? Ask Lim Thian Kiat, one of Malaysia's youngest tycoons and chieftain of the diversified Multi-Pur-pose Holdings stable of companies. This
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      LKN enters into joint venture with Malaysian group
      332 11  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Listed Lim Kah Ngam is joining hands with Malaysia's Scientex group to develop residential, industrial and commercial properties on 132 hectares of land in Johor. LKN said yesterday that its wholly-owned property development subsidiary. LKN Development Pte
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    • Article
      FCC gets approval for first landed property project in Loyang
      429 11  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE First Capital Corporation has got the green light to build 421 terraee houses its first landed property project at the junction of Loyang Avenue and Tampines Road. The Urban Redevelopment Authority's Monthly Bulletin of Construction Statistics
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      Lock icon SUMMARY
      382 11 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Oct 12 Last Smw Ii4r\ Slock Mile Ctae factor <S) (V) Avimo I "WO 0 020 1.32 5 80 t At 7 850 -O 100 5.43 -28 99 Cocboi 6 450 4 46 FAN 14 500 -0 100 10 04 -28
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Takashimaya interim profit down 89pc
          78 12 AFP TOKYO Japan's Takashimaya Co said yesterday its unconsolidated pre-tax profit for the six months to August plunged 89 per cent from the same period last year to 380 million yen (555.6 million). The nation's oldest department store operator said sales dropped 9.5 per cent
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        • Article
          APB names ex-police chief director
          53 12 SINGAPORE Asia Pacific Breweries has appointed Goh Yong Hong a director. Mr Goh, 54, was Commissioner of Police from 1979 to 1992. He is executive deputy chairman of Bukit Turf Club, vice-president of the Singapore National Olympic Council, deputy chairman of ECICS Holdings and chairman
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          Nod for Lum Chang, LC Devt issues
          45 12 SINGAPORE Lum Chang Holdings and property arm LC Development separately announced yesterday that they had received in-principle approval from the Stock Exchange of Singapore for their l-for-3 bonus issues, subject to shareholders' approval at coming annual general meetings.
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          CMB rights issue approved
          46 12 SINGAPORE Carnaud Metalbox Asia said yesterday it had received in-principle approval from the Stock Exchange of Singapore for its proposed issue of two rights shares and two warrants at $7.70 a rights share and $2 a warrant for every five shares held.
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          HLF fixes warrants' exercise price
          63 12 SINGAPORE Hong Leong Finance has fixed at 53.25 per unit the exercise price of its warrants offered for sale by ÜBS (East Asia). The exercise price was arrived at on the basis of it being 80 cents below the weighted average price of Hong Leong's
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          Lock icon MAS agrees to 10pc of 2nd airline
          61 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is agreeable if it is given only a 10 per cent stake in the country's second airline, managing director Kamaruddin Ahmad told reporters after delivering a paper at the MAS Destination Service Excellence Convention 1993. It was
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          Lock icon Mancon shares hit limit-up
          79 12 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The shares of Mancon Bhd went limit-up after the company announced bonus and rights issues, brokers said. The share jumped to M$ 13.70 from Monday's close of MS 10.60. Mancon, a major civil contractor, has proposed a one-for-five bonus issue, and a one-for-one
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          42 12 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Trading in the shares of Kumpulan Emas Bhd on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange has been suspended at the request of the company pending an announcement. The share closed on Monday at M 53.98. Reuter
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        475 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Maaanra' whc*t Oct 12 Insurance Fund Singapore Unit Trust Income Bond Policy 3.75 388 The Commerce 1.54 1.62 Prudential 1.34 The Savings Fund 1.44 1.51 PruLink Mgd Fund 1.27 S pore Prog Fund S pore Sec Fund 0.63 0.93 0.66xd 0.98 MARA-Bumiputra 204 S pore Invest Fund
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        Ganda sells 29.9pc stake in Samanda for M$135m
        438 12  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Ganda Holdings Bhd is selling its controlling 29.9 per cent stake in adhesive tape maker Samanda Holdings for MS 135 million (5582.3 million) or M 57.50 per share. The diversified Malaysian plantation group announced yesterday that it had
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        PSA aborts plan to buy stake in RCL
        450 12  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK PLANS by the Port of Singapore Authority to buy a stake in one of Thailand's largest shipping companies, publiclylisted Regional Container Lines, have been aborted. In a statement issued to Business Times yesterday, the statutory board
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        CityDev forecasts 11pc yield on NZ hotel investments
        250 12  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE-listed City Developments has told shareholders that it expects an 11 per cent yield on the NZ$62 million (5553 million) purchase of five New Zealand hotels by its listed subsidiary CDL Hotels. In a circular to shareholders on Monday,
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        454 12 Reuter TOKYO Japanese investors are dumping shares of companies not included on a new index which is to be used alongside the long-established Nikkei average, known among brokers as the Tokyo "Dow", brokers said. Stocks ended lower in quiet trade yesterday after
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        Lock icon Osaka to launch Nikkei 300 futures and options contracts
        221 12 Reuter TOKYO The Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) said it will launch new stock index futures and options contracts based on the weighted average Nikkei 300 index, which was introduced on Friday. A selection committee of the OSE decided earlier yesterday in
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        216 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Singer Bhd has submitted applications to float two of its subsidiaries on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Second Board, says chairman JafTar bin Abdul. Speaking after the company's annual general meeting yesterday, he said the companies were Unza
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        Lock icon Perwira Ericsson secures US$42m Malaysian phone deal
        298 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Perwira Ericsson, the Malaysian joint-venture of Swedish telephone firm Ericsson, yesterday secured a U5542.4 million (5567.9 million) deal to set up Malaysia's third cellular phone network, ending a controversy over the award. Perwira Ericsson is contracted to supply both analogue
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        451 15 Reuter ADELAIDE Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has laid out bold plans to make his News Corp Ltd a multimedia broadcast company in nearly every quarter of the globe while reaffirming a commitment to newspapers. Mr Murdoch told the company's annual meeting on Tuesday in
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        271 15 Reuter. NEW YORK Some of the biggest US computer makers are expected to report hefty losses for a tough third quarter, a traditionally slow period which this year was exacerbated by continuing economic malaise in Europe. Already last week, the third quarter earnings
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          72 15 AFP WELLINGTON Bangkok's Palin Consortium is considering purchasing an upmarket housing development here to house rich Thai nationals, the Evening Post reported on Tuesday. It said if the Sanctuary Point development in Porirua, a Wellington satellite town, goes ahead the finished value would be around
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          Lock icon BP to sell Thai shrimp venture
          75 15 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK British Petroleum Co will sell its Aquastar shrimp farming affiliates in Thailand, which have combined assets of US$93 million (SSI46 million), according to The Nation newspaper. The decision to sell the five Aquastar group companies is in line with BP's
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          90 15 AFP MANILA The Philippine government plans to sell 4.9 per cent of Philippine Airlines (PAL) to PAL employees, the state privatisation committee said on Tuesday. The shares to be offered to PAL's 14,000 employees will come from the 10 per cent of PAL still held
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        301 15 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO The world's largest computer-chip maker, Intel Corp, posted record results for its third quarter but a slight fall in gross margins could indicate a slowdown in recent strong profit growth, say analysts. Intel's stock was down four at 66.25
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        373 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has shut the door on new foreign banks and insurance firms seeking to enter its financial services sector in a move apparently aimed at the United States, analysts said yesterday. Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah
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          44 16 AFP SEOUL Depositors queued yesterday at Financial institutions in South Korea to meet a deadline to register their real names on accounts after a government ban on alias transactions. Officials, meanwhile, promised to speed up money market reforms. AFP
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          92 16 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Deposits of Japan's 11 major commercial banks at the end of September decreased 0.4 per cent from the year before and were down 0.3 per cent from the end of August, the Federation of Bankers Associations said. Deposits as of September
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          78 16 AFP HONGKONG Inchcape Insurance Holding's (Hongkong) Ltd, a subsidiary of the international services and marketing group Inchcape, said on Monday it had formed a joint venture with a leading French brokerage firm. The new joint venture between Inchcape and France's third largest broker, Compagnie
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          77 16 Reuter COLOMBO Investment and merchant bank Vanik Inc will offer 8.5 million shares at 20 rupees a share to the public, a company spokeswoman said. She said the issue will open on Oct 22 and that 195 million rupees had already been collected in
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        280 16 FT MOSCOW Three of the strongest of Russia's many fledgling banks are to merge their operations. With assets of about 1,500 billion roubles (Ss2 billion), high by Russian standards, they will form one of the largest banks in the country. The
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        419 16 NYT TOKYO At the peak of Japan's property-buying binge a few years ago, little-known Azabu Building Co paid outrageous prices for real estate around the globe. Now, in a potent symbol of the severity of the financial hangover
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        141 16 SELLING of USS/majors resumed after overnight short covering ahead of NYK holiday failed to lift the US$ much higher. Over in the USS/rcgional market, trading was quiet and confined to ranges. The USS/SS saw demand resurface after two attempts to break above the 1.5720-25 resis-
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        1545 16 7rode-infilled index calculated against S pore's lap 14 trading partners Base year 198* US$/S$ forward rates Noon Oct 12 BW Offer 1-month 1.5621 I 5636 2-month 1 5617 1.5632 Vmooth 1.5610 I.S625 6-month 1.5600 1.5620 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 10mr m Oct 12 SiMifort dollars to
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        180 16 Reuter LONDON The dollar was sentenced to further punishment in Europe yesterday after it received only a temporary respite from a long-awaited German court decision. By 1530 GMT the dollar had fallen to 1.5930/40 marks from 1.6035/45 late in Europe on Monday. It made a half-pfennig rally to around
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        85 16 AFP NEW YORK The dollar fell in sluggish trading yesterday morning, following a lull the day before. At about 9:45 am, the dollar traded at 1.5960 German marks against 1.5995 earlier in London and at 1.6039 on Monday in New York. The dollar traded at 105.% yen against
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        400 17 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia predicted that crude oil prices would average US$l7 (5526.67) a barrel following the Opec deal to produce 24.5 million barrels per day (bpd) for the rest of this year and the first quarter of 1994. "I think
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        244 17 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT ment or outright cancellation would be decided, NNPC said. While oil futures prices reacted positively yesterday to a possible threat to Nigerian oil supplies, the gains could have been much greater, traders said. Competitive sweet, low sulphur, and medium to
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        209 17 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The European Community and its member states have decided to negotiate a new International Natural Rubber Agreement (Inra), an EC spokesman said. "In view of recent events, in particular the return to normal operations of Inro buffer stock, the
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        311 17 Reuter NEW YORK Higher cash costs and lower London Metal Exchange ingot prices could force some aluminium smelters in Russia to close down, reducing the amount of 1994 exports out of the former Soviet Union, according to Spector Report Inc. The
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        Lock icon Euroyen firmer on Nikkei-225 fall
        1371 18 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen interest rate futures gained in thin trade yesterday, helped by falls in the Nikkei-225 cash index, which was hurt by cautious reception to the new weighted Nikkei 300 index, dealers said. The return of institutional investors after a Tokyo
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        Crude palm oil ends firmer
        615 18 COMMODITY REPORTS Film Oil CRUDE palm oil prices closed firmer yesterday, extending Monday's gains, with a higher local futures close on talk of seasonal rains in the southern part of the country underpinning sentiment, traders said. Traders said sentiment was also buoyed by speculation of
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          LME's warehousing role questioned
          81 18 SYDNEY The London Metals Exchange should concentrate on its role as an active price-discovery arena and move away from warehousing facilities which encourage speculation, an executive of Australia's Pasminco said yesterday. "The provision of warehousing actually distorts the real market between the producer and the consumer
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          CME officials push use of Globex
          73 18 TOKYO Chicago Mercantile Exchange officials, including chairman Jack Sandner and president Bill Brodsky. yesterday kicked off a 10-day tour to Asia to promote use of the Globex automated afterhours trading system. The CME is a principal partner of Globex. which Mr Sandner called "a
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          Nestle India allows coffee check
          96 18 NEW DELHI Nestle India has agreed to allow the state-run Coflfee Board to verify the company's coffee stocks, industry officials said. Nestle wa furnish details about its coffee stocks and the§ locations to a Coffee Board committee this wedL The committee will determine whether the
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          M'sia crude palm oil output down
          78 18 KUALA LUMPUR Seasonal factors cauadty Malaysia's crude palm oil output to fall in earip October from September's production rates, groovers said. Output slowed at most plantations, including Kumpulan Guthrie, which recorded a decline pf 10 per cent. Production at another leading plant* tion fell
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      1697 18 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at lpai) RSS I Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Nov 93 000 (Too 127.50 1600 700 Dec 128.25 128.00 127.50 1750 4.150 Jan 94 0 00 0.00 127.50 0 4.925 Feb 0.00 0 00
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        Australia
        1244 19 •11.8 THE Australian share market ended a nine-day rttfly yesterday to close lower. Brokers said profit-taking, particularly in News Corp, was behind an 11.8 point fall in the kev All Ordinaries Index to 2.028. "You can't have nine days of a vertical run without having some sort of correction."
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        Manila
        573 19 +67.3 Philippine share prices soared to new highs yesterday on strong foreign buying and gains on the New York Stock Exchange by a local telephone firm, traders said. The composite price index on the Manila Stock Exchange rose 67.30 points, or 3 per cent, to close at 2,093.83, while
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        New Zealand
        291 19 +29.7 New Zealand's NZSE-40 capital share index closed up 29.7, 1.48 per cent, at 2,039.78, its highest close since December 1989. "The market built on a very strong performance from Telecom in New York and that gave the market very solid underpinning," Cavill White's Don Turkington said. Telecom,
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        Taipei
        606 19 +56.59 Taiwan stocks closed higher across the board in active trade on buying by institutions and major players after Monday's holiday, brokers said. The index opened firm and ended 56.59 points or 1.5 per cent up at its intra-day high of 3 942.25. Turnover was NT520.47 billion against NT$
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        Seoul
        434 19 1.48 Stocks closed a fraction higher in moderate trading although profit-taking emerged in the afternoon to erode the morning's gains led by export-oriented electronics and vehicle counters, brokers said. Brokers said the market remained unaffected by yesterdays deadline for identifying falsename financial accounts. The composite index ended 1.48 points
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        Bombay
        46 19 19.73 Stock prices slipped slightly from their closing levels as volumes in evening kerb deals were kept restricted by speculators, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 30-share index ended at 2,710.92 points, up 19.73. The 100-share national index closed 6.62 points higher, at 1,302.95.
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        952 19 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Oder Mim ap DepusM 38 6400 38 6500 Mim Jersey Gilt .0.1193 0.1992 Mim Ma* Income *1 0400 *1 0*00 LSS Cuh Income Plus Fund 10 *300 11 4100 PS Reserve Fund 5 2200 5 2300 F4|Mit> Euro Performance .0 4592 0.493® Far East Fund
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        London
        671 19 -7.5 UK shares closed with a small fall on the FTSE 100 index after a quiet and indecisive session ahead of September inflation data due today, dealers said. The FTSE 100 ended down 7.5 points to 3.094.7 after a high of 3.115.2. In a similar pattern to Monday's. early
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        Paris
        103 19 •11.87 French shares ended in negative territory, dragged down by softer blue chips, traders said. The CAC-40 index ended down 11.87, or 0.55 per cent, at 2.126. The volume was fair at around three billion. Paris Oct II Fr Air-LHiuide 778.00 -2 00 Akaicl Aiwhom 751 00 Elf-Auuit 432
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        Zurich
        267 19 1.4 Despite falling from earlier highs on a weak dollar and lower share prices elsewhere in Europe, the Zurich bourse closed at a new all-time high. Roche certificates. 40 Swiss francs higher at 5.450, and CS Holding bearers, up 25 at 3.175, were among the few blue chips which
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        Stockholm
        130 19 +0.61pc Sweden's OMX-index set a closing high for the second day in a row supported by foreign interest in indexheavy Astra and Ericsson. The OMX-index was up 0.82 per cent at 1,064.42. while the blue-chip top-16 index rose 1.02 per cent to 1.435.77. The all-share index climbed 0.61 per
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        Brussels
        175 19 •0.58 Belgian shares ended the day little changed to slightly weaker after a quiet session during which the Cats electronic trading system was paralysed for almost four hours following a power cut. The Bel-20 index of leading shares finished the day 0.58 points lower at 1,349.38, ending its fiveday
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        Johannesburg
        302 19 15 Shares finished a generally slow day's trade mixed as golds were weakened by a softer gold price and nervous sentiment and industrials rose amid generally tight supply, dealers said. They said some foreign interest had been noticed although it was insufficient to materially influence direction. The gold index
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        Toronto
        253 19 13.9 Toronto stocks gained ground in early morning trade yesterday as the market played catch-up after the holiday long weekend, dealers said. The TSE 300 composite index gained 13.90 points to 4,081.17 in volume of 4.2 million shares valued at C 547.3 million. Advancing stocks led declines 160 to
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        New York
        904 19 +2.23 Wall Street stocks rose at midscssion yesterday after high technology and brokerage companies reported upbeat earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 2.23 points at 3.595.64 at 1 pm EDT. Advancing issues led declines by a modest margin. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange
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        Amsterdam
        269 19 +0.3 A firming dollar helped most Dutch shares to close with modest gains after a lethargic day of trading in the absence of corporate news. "The market is waiting for impulses which would probably have to come from new interest rate cuts," said dealer Mark Wasscnaar at Bangert Pontier
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      2853 20 Reuter HONGKONG Stocks etched another record close yesterday, but ended well off the day's all-time high after profittaking cut into earlier gains. The blue-chip Hang Seng index finished 61.2/ points or 0.75 per cent higher at 8,253.45. its first time above 8.200. But the index peaked at a record
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      CHINA
      538 20 SHANGHAI B share prices ended mostly unchanged to higher yesterday with the CLSA Shanghai B Index gaining 10.67 points to close at 829.64. Turnover was low. Lian Hua, the new comer to the market was the best performer gaining 1.1 per cent or US$O.O4 higher on turnover of US$l.l
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      2509 20 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended lower in quiet trade yesterday and the Nikkei average fell sharply after a new stock index was launched on Friday, brokers said. Selling of the shares excluded from the new, weighted Nikkei 300 is expected to continue and lead the old Nikkei average below 20,000.
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      1733 20 Reuter BANGKOK Profit-taking triggered by heavy sales of Bangkok Bank and some other big-cap issues reversed a bull run of eight days, with prices ending down on across-the-board losses, brokers said. The SET index plunged 21.78 points to close at 1.101.96 on heavy turnover of 16.12 billion baht. It
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      1077 20 Reuter JAKARTA Trading on the Jakarta stock market was active and most prices closed higher yesterday, brokers said. The official index ended 3.46 points higher at 443.87. "Besides Barito Pacific, several other counters were active, partly caused by an anticipation of a rise in the level of foreign ownership
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      2512 21 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOOTACTttl-vafc** Asia Pat Ld 50c 35.057.000 Kamunting 50c 34.415.000 Promet 29.719.000 Faber Group 19.456.000 Peg. Mua 15,966.000 I nd Oxygen 50c 15.793.000 Muki-nwme 14.668.000 Bedford 50c 13.150.000 Metroptex 50c 12.628.000 FACB50C 386.000 Amah Hldgs 50c '9 JU222 Insas Bhd 10.280.000 MUI 10.263
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        Lock icon Index pushes above 900 level but ends off high
        5512 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR.,; Share prices here closed mixed yesterday as profit-taking in situational counters pared gains on indexlinked stocks, pushing the benchmark Composite Index to burst through the 900 mark. The Composite Index surged to a new high of 912.74 before
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        67 22  -  Teh Hooi Ling A MAJOR correction is due for Ganda Holdings, which fell 44 cents to $3.44 yesterday. The counter had shot up almost $3 in just four weeks. Its daily and weekly RSIs are in the grossly overbought region. And the daily MACD directional indicator has also
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        7787 22  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The slock market yesterday set its second successive record high this week, but interest in Malaysian counters took a sudden plunge after talk that the Stock Exchange of Singapore was about to tighten its regulation of broking firms.
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      532 23 Golf AP KNOKKE. Belgium One of the greatest streaks in golf is in deep trouble. Fortunately, getting out of desperate situations has made Sevc Ballesteros famous around the world. At the Belgian Open last weekend, the Spaniard was again slashing and whacking his way
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      707 23  -  Ira Berkow firmly believes the NBA star will nudge himself out of retirement in a years time Ira Berkow NYT NEW YORK At this very moment. Michael Jeffrey Jordan. the Man without a Team, may be driving around Chicago in one of his
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      342 23 AP ORCHARD PARK. New York The Buffalo Bills picked up against the Houston Oilers on Monday night where they left off last January. Except that this time, they didn't have to fall behind by 32 points before winning. With Jim
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      524 23 NYT ATLANTA Time will only tell if destiny is in the air for the Philadelphia Phillies. There is surely a sense of deja vu, however. For the second time in a topsy-turvy, four-of-seven-game National League Championship Series against Atlanta, the Phillies sank to the
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        221 23 Reuter FLAGSTAFF, Arizona Charles Barkley rejoined the Phoenix Suns at their training camp on Monday after a serious health scare and said he hoped to be ready to play by Friday. Barkley's legs went numb and he collapsed while running wind sprints here at the team's practice facility on
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        25 23 Reuter NEW YORK National Hockey league on Monday: Montreal 1 Boston 1 (OT); Vancouver 4 Edmonton I; NY Rangers 5 Washington 2. Reuter
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        210 23 AFP PARIS After months of anEished speculation, it has taken than a week to decide the shape of next year's Formula One season. On Friday night. Peugeot announced that it would be McLaren's engine supplier for the next few years.and on Monday, Frank Williams revealed his 1994 drivers Ayrton
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        207 23 AFP LONDON Geoff Cooke. England's most successful rugby union manager ever, is the subject of a fierce attack from veteran forward Jeff Probyn in his autobiography, which is to be published in a week's time. England's mostcapped prop, recently left out of the squad for next month's Test against
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        227 23 AP Reuter HILTON HEAD, Sooth Carolina Tom Gullikson. a retired doubles specialist who never played Davis Cup. was to be appointed captain of the US Davis Cup team yesterday. The Island Packet reported. The newspaper, in yesterday's editions, quoted former tennis star Stan Smith as its source. Smith, who
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        105 23 Reuter PONTE VEDRA, Florida US men's tour leading money winners, issued on Monday (US unless noted): I Nick Price (Zim) USS 1.419,757 2 Paul Azinger 1.329.256 3 Greg Norman (Aust) 1.160.903 4 Payne Stewart 932,475 5 Lee Janzen 877.135 6 David Frost (SA) 831.967 7 Fulton Allem (SA) 778.145
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      798 25  -  The Frankfurt Book Fair has lost much of its vitality and viability, writes Sarah Lyall Sarah Lyall NYT IN its salad days after World War 11, the Frankfurt Book Fair was a big genteel book party for the world's publishers, a place where they could gather to
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      1248 25 I TV RADIO BUSH —T To My Daughter, f W J »t 10 45pm. SBC 5 L V Rue McClanahan (of Golden iju C/'/rA fame) gives a credible Jm X^... performance as a strong moth- 3? f er of three who is heartbroken alter her favourite child, a i «S
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  • REGIONAL ANALYSIS
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      East Asia moving to the fore of world stage
      1947 26  -  Afta, East Asia and The Pacific KYUNG WON KIM KYUNG WON KIM Dr Kyung- Won Kim is president, Institute of Social Science, South Korea and concurrently President of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs. This is an excerpt of his paper
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      Afta all the talking, it's time to move on
      1083 27  -  Afta and Asia-Pacific economic cooperation YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer is BT's Regional Analysis Editor IN HIS opening address to the 25th Asean Economic Ministers Meeting (AEM) last week. Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong saw it fit
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      Apec — what's in it for Washington?
      1450 27  - Apec what's in it for Washington? LEON HADAR LEON HADAR The writer is BT's Washington correspondent WITH the Afta meeting over, Asean shifts its sights to the United States where an important gathering of Apec ministers and leaders will take place next month in Seattle. Coming from the US. the
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      35 26 H WM MH| Above: The floor of the Orang Utan, in Jiak Kim Street, where, as you see. the infamous and lethal X.O. Beer is now exclusively available, on X.O. Beer. Take it lying down.
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    Japan's kinder, gentler trade policy?
    491 28 WHEN a Japanese prime minister pledges to "assume appropriate responsibility for tackling the issue of how to boost imports and correct the current account imbalance" the reaction worldwide is likely to be a wide yawn. It has become standard practice for senior Japanese officials to
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      Travelling without wheels
      240 28 SINGAPORE'S tough measures to curb the growth of vehicle ownership began with the area licensing scheme nearly 20 years ago. It may have checked the people's passion for wheels but not killed it. Next year, the screws will be tightened when current morning and evening curbs on
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      A joint effort now
      157 28 IS THE leadership crisis of AMP over? The MalayMuslim community hopes so. The whole episode is a blemish on the Muslim professionals' track record in improving the community's lot. The new leadership's strong mandate signals members' endorsement and the urgency for quick recovery. AMP has many
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      NTUC's expanded role
      148 28 AMONG the six priorities that Lim Boon Heng, the new NTUC chief, spelled out for the labour movement, one of the most eyecatching is to increase the assets of workers by helping them to invest in the stock market wisely. This is an unusual work objective for
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      Dangerous obsession
      114 28 THE CHINESE economic authorities aim to bring the high-flying economy to a soft landing. The goal has proved elusive elsewhere in recent years and the result has been widespread international recession. This is not to say a soft landing is impossible to achieve but it is very difficult.
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      Afta back on track
      144 28 THE Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) is now close to one year behind its scheduled start-up on Jan 1, 1993, as most member countries have broken away from the ambitious economic move adopted by the summit in January 1992. Backtracking on pledges is not unusual within
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      Environmental responsibility
      197 28 APART FROM the obvious cost factors, multinationals have recently become aware of another dubious incentive to relocate to developing countries: environmental regulations. Many Third World countries still have enough fresh air and green to wink at some despoliation in their eager pursuit of economic development. But such off-handedness
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    1745 28  -  Jeanne B Pinder finds a growing horde of Americans willing to make risky investments abroad for what have proven to be lip-smacking returns so far Jeanne B Pinder NYT IT WAS partly the sight of construction on a four-lane highway in
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  • ANALYSIS
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      Eyes cast on that elusive recovery
      1051 29  -  Anthony Rowley examines how Japanese corporations are riding out the recession and also reports on fears that rice imports will be used to prise open Japan's fortress-like rice market. In the third article, David E Sanger describes the coming of age of discounting. Anthony
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      Keeping those rice bowls filled
      755 29 1T WAS more than just a "storm in a rice bowl" when controversy erupted over the Japanese government's decision two weeks ago to import large amounts of the staple grain this year. An interesting precedent is being created by the move. The 200,000-tonne import announced
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      Lock icon A big victory for the small consumer
      763 29 NYT JAPAN's new leaders were swept to power amid promises that the government would no longer tolerate ridiculously high prices, and that companies would have to stop enriching themselves at home while ofTering deep discounts on cameras and television sets in Manhattan and
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      89 29 Ip fc W'SMHJMU^L Successful executives possess an innate ability '^^B^ySl^r'J| ®E*JL to identify opportunities in a competitive world. > •^^^^■^^HHMK|^P In Singapore they choose the 245-room A M Melia at Scotts, recognising the advantages a fine location and first class service bring wSSU jefljE They enjoy the privileges of the
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    Lock icon Germany's highest court clears way for Maastricht Treaty
    424 30 AFP. AP BONN Germany's highest court ruled yesterday that the Maastricht Treaty on European union did not violate the country's Constitution, clearing the way for implementation of the historic accord. Shortly after the Constitutional Court gave the green light. President Richard von
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    499 30 Reuter, AFP, UPI. Bernama TOKYO President Boris Yeltsin made a dramatic apology yesterday for Stalinist atrocities on Japanese World War II prisoners and said Russian troops occupying territory claimed by Japan would be withdrawn. Mr Yeltsin, head bowed, told
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    SM Lee urges Brunei private sector to expand overseas
    309 30  -  From Lilian Ang in BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN BRUNEI'S private sector companies must strive to expand overseas in order to succeed. said Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday. Speaking to reporters after spending half a day visiting three Bruneian companies. Mr Lee
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    488 30 AFP BEIJING Britain's negotiator yesterday rejected a Chinese proposal aimed at breaking the deadlock in talks over pre-1997 political reform in Hongkong, but said there was "still a great possibility" for agreement. China's Foreign Minister Qian Qichen had said
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    Can Europe shed its prejudices and accept Asia as an equal?
    999 30  -  The Bottom Line TOMMY T B KOH TOMMY T B KOH The writer is Singapore 's .4 mbassador-at-large and director of the Institute of Policy Studies. He contributed this I comment to the International Herald Tribune THERE is a
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    246 30 AP, AFP BEIJING China's trade deficit grew to nearly USS7 billion (5510.9 billion) by the end of September as the booming domestic economy maintained high demand for imported construction materials and luxury goods. The official Xinhua news agency yesterday quoted Chinese customs as saying that
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      454 31  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The appreciating yen has provided a welcome boost to shipyards outside Japan including those here. According to the latest issue of Asmi News, mediumsize local player Pan-United Shipyard serviced more than 25 ships from Japan in the 18
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      395 31 Knight Ridder NEW YORK Hanjin was rumoured to have covered a couple of grain cargoes from the US-Canadian Pacific coast to Taiwan, brokers said on Monday. Details were not confirmed but Hanjin was linked with Halla Maritime tonnage for an Oct 21-30,
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      1128 31 Page Col ABC Containcrlinc 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 16 1 Ahrcnkicl Liner 4 1/2 Alpha Feeders 6 1 Alprimo Freight 16 I ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appcnship 18 3/4 Arabian Express 15 3 ASCL 5 5 ASXCLShpg
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      219 31 AFP GALVESTON, Texas Divers found the body of a third victim of an oil tanker explosion on Monday as they examined the ship to determine how best to empty its fuel tanks. Three people were killed in the blast on Saturday. Officials have not
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      436 31 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's heavy haulage business will soon get a major boost with several infrastructure and power projects coming onstream in the next few years. However, local companies are worried that foreigners could corner a significant share of the market. They point out
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      164 31 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Importers and exporters utilising the financial services of Malaysian French Bank Bhd (MFBB) can now use the bank to take up a marine cargo open policy with its selected insurance companies. The new facility will save MFBB clients time and effort
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      12412 40 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGENO PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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      403 47 COURSES Title: Air Traffic Control Supervisor Duration: Oct 18-29 Organiser: Singapore Aviation Academy. Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Tel: For further details/registration contact Vlr Ong Yew Lcng/Mrs Pang-Neo Guan Hwa at 065-540-6247/065-540-6216 or fax: 065-542-9890. Title: Fundamental in Shipping Practice Procedures Duration: Oct 20 21 Organiser Traffic Management
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      591 47 RATES dipped for prompt Panamax vessels moving grain from the US Gulf to northwest Europe, brokers said on Monday. Bunge paid a lumpsum equivalent of USS 10.00. at least 60 cents down, for a heavy grain, soya bean and sorghum cargo from the US Gulf to the Netherlands
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      Lock icon Battle for survival in Argentina's free market
      884 48 Since freight deregulation in 1991, the east coast Latin America trades have seen fierce competition with the arrival of new entrants Fairplay SHIPPING has not escaped unscathed from the 234 deregulatory decrees passed by Argentine President Carlos Menem in the past three years.
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        433 50  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA), which began flying to New York via Europe last year, is working hard to raise its profile as a transAtlantic carrier the world's single most competitive market for air travel. Lean Kian Hai. SlA's vicepresident for the
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        Lock icon Ticket to prison
        37 50 Reuter BEIJING Police march in front of Beijing's train station about 30 people sentenced on Monday for train ticket fraud and scalping. They were given jail sentences of three to 10 years each. Reuter
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        Lock icon 'Snakes' in EC hindering new airlines: Branson
        558 50 Bloomberg Business News BRUSSELS Virgin Atlantic Airways pic chairman Richard Branson chose the children's game of Snakes and Ladders to explain to a group of aviation executives what's wrong with the airline business in Europe. The problem, he told the Aviation Club at
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          52 50 SINGAPORE French carrier Compagnie Maritime d'Aflfretement (CM A) took delivery of a 3.424-box newbuilding on Friday. The l ille d'Aquila. built by Korea's Samsung Shipbuilding and Heavy Industries for Germany's Leonhardt Blumberg. is under a long-term charter to CMA for deployment on the Europe-Far
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          Lock icon Bus crash claims 43 lives
          54 50 Reuter TERSARIA DIARA. India People crowd round a bus that crashed ofT a bridge and fell into the dry riverbed at the town of Tersaria Diara in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Sunday. At least 43 people were killed when the driver of
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          Fedex offers freight spot price
          61 50 SINGAPORE Air express major Federal Express now offers customers in Hongkong. Singapore. Taipei and Tokyo a freight hotline number to find out daily spot prices on shipments above 20kg. In Hongkong, shipments must be above 50kg. Fedex said the service, which debuted on Oct I,
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          64 50 Reuter SYDNEY International transport group TNT Ltd said it has launched a trucking joint venture. TNT Shanghai Express, in China to run between Shanghai and the special economic zone of Shenzhen near Hongkong. The joint venture with the Shanghai Long Distance Road Transportation Co began operating
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          Site office for Lima '93 show
          68 50 KUALA LUMPUR Le Proton Lima, the organiser of the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition 1993 (Lima *93). has set up a site office at the Langkawi International Airport to coordinate preparations for the show. The event, which is the second since 1991, is
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        233 50 UPI MANILA The Philippines plans to revamp its main airport in anticipation of a sharp increase in the number of tourists and business executives visiting the country, officials said yesterday. "We are making the improvements to prevent an overload of existing facilities
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        Lock icon Japanese bank may help finance UK rail link
        347 50 FT LONDON The UK could be the first G-7 country to benefit from a new drive by Japan to recycle some of its massive trade surplus into public works in industrialised countries. Half the finance for the £300-million (SS72O million) high-speed Heathrow
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      2693 35 lliiA SINGAPORE AGENT: IJXtI 1 /\fif A|fi£k**C P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd i A M VjmiLlll M 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 ■P* v Tel: 225 2233 Telex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 Y W CR Number: **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT c VOT m
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      35 35 SPORE IBN TUf AIL OC-180 24/25 OCT To Buenavcntura/BarranquOa/Santa Marta/Cartatena/ Santo Domiifo/ rto Quetzal/Acajutla/San lorenzo/Corinto/Pto Caldera SPORE •A' VESSEL JC-290 7/8 NOV To: Marxafco/Pucrto Cabdo/Gcor(« Town/Guaranao La Guara/PTo Sucre/Matanzas/ Part of Spain/Paramaribo/Panama/ Coton/ Cmtobal/B Guamachc
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      707 36 EKA JAYA AGENCIES Vlr TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE rMYAWMAW TWAD« PAOtR HAWDPMOWE/Pm£CT~~| WH.LIAMWEE 21HS2S HiMHWM N.«. TAH/MANOJ Hiim HO cm MINH CITY TWAPf hcnwy MM a—| TCTH»/M4TM4 724iTM/H4MM KELVIN CHAW 2HOM3 1 MM72a/MB22M ►TO MYANMAR/YANGON SEMI CONTAINER SERVICE M OCEANLINES VSI vor SPOM CABAKA
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      2071 36 0 HANJIN SHIPPING FM VSI S* IME HAUI SIA fO* fOR VSI SW I llN€ SAV lIM NYC HANJIN LEHAVtt 02K 14,10 OKECT 4/U «/ll HANJW ItHAVW 0231 14 10 H 10NGIKACH Mst 11/11 IJ/1I 21/11 HANJIN MASAN 080 C 21/10 WECT 11/1113/11 HANJW MASAN 080€ 21 10 M AMERICA
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      2101 37 PLEASE CALL HI II II NEPTUNELINK (1800 *****00 TOLL-FREE) M II H FOR THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: HI ■I VESSELS ETA/ETD/EXCHANGE RATES/SHIPPING SERVICES/ ■I >' M FREIGHT CHARGES PAYABLE/STORE RENT CHARGES/ AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS FOR COLLECTION W EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS (SCX) TO: USWC US OULF MIDWEST USEC CANADA
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      1255 37 I 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 1 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 CR
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      1338 38 v 44 AS AGENTS: T* INK (SINGAPORE) HI LTD (CI No: **********QM) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 W W IkT MALAYSIA: "K" LINE MARfTMI (MALAYSIA) SON BHD W%j TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 I A Bto A INDONESIA: P.T. SAAANA lAIITINTWNUSA. TEL
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      710 38 PHI LI-on l€ NT LINGS PT€ LTD VlOB Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 I A MEMBER 0F THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION AUSTWAUA/NEW ZEALAND/SOUTH PACIFIC FCL/LCL SERVICE 17 OCT SYDNEY, MELBOURNE. BRISBANE, FREMANTLE 20 OCT AUCKLANO, WELLINGTON. LYTTLETON, NEW PLYMOUTH. NAPIER.
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      324 38 GOLDEN LINE A GUAN guan shppwg F\y\ (PTE) LTD W'l w 23, T(M Apr Slmt SMGMK 01M IB_ U439U (II HO) Fa *****04 (C* lb. MM—) ■TtAm/WMUII CULT WITICI Spore P Kelang Penang GOUXN KM k»k* Out* 20/22 Oct GOUm NAMES! Kinch, Out* 21/30 Oct CHIMA IHTICI GOLDEN WONOOt China
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      983 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I M CR NO 100e*****00E VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN cnfiirnn mmv Xnio 20/10 SINO MARINE 17N 16/10 19/10 23/10 MAJAPAHIT 3521 17/10 20/10 24/10 KOTA SABAS KSB2IN 17/10 20/10 24/10 BUNGA TERATAI 3923 19/10
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      1552 39 VtSSEIS VOY SPORE HAMBURG ROTIEROAM ANTWERP THAMES U HARVE Win 0' AQUA 7S3OW 17/10 M/ll »/ll IZ/H 13/11 14/11 VHU DC TUCAHA 9530W 22/10 *0/11 23/11 WUE Dt Cjjgm 9730* 30/10 25/" *7/11 2»/» 30/11 Wilt Dl VESTA 7430W 05/11 03/12 OVI2 04/12 07/12 04/12 •AISO ACCEPTING CARGO TO All
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      467 39 Mflfe MYANMA PHUk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.Kit Pen P.Gdf PA THE IN VI2SW In Port MAG WAY V29W 14/ It Oct MYITKYMA V4B4W 17/19 Oct PAGAN V2OIW 18 20 Oct MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAD SHTPMG AGENCIES AUL TEL 03-*****00 PHI TEL 03-XM7«7 PEN:
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      89 41 MARITIME INSPECTION CORPORATION Naval Architccts/Marine Engineers/Marine Surveyors, established in 1967, more than 20 years experience in international ships' registries. Specialise in: Ship registration under open registry countries Offshore business company formation Statutory survey and issuing of mandatory Load Line, SOLAS, MARPOL Certificates on behalf of the Governments of several open
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      2837 42 Full Container Liner Services Malaysia's Agents: Indonesia's Agents: I General Agents: Booking Agents: Guan Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiao Shipping Sdn Bhd P.T. Global Putra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pte Ltd Shipping Freight Booking Centre Sdn Bhd 51 Pervitin Rata Muda Musa Lot 134, 3rd Floor, Jl. I*. H.
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      612 43 r« —o y FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES Jlp* 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 9T HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 18/10 ROTTERDAM 16/10 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 18/10 HAMBURG/BREMEN MARSEILLE/FRANCE 14/10 FELIXSTOWt/UK 18/10 BARCELONA/SPAIN 14/10 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 18/10 GENOA/ITALY ***** ANTWERP/BELGIUM *****™ LOS AWGEIES/WC/IPI 17/10 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 16/10 NEW YORK/EC 17/10 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 15/10
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      796 43 I [VEBBEL VOY SIH J«T I vov l B IHHHI WAN* BHUM H7B Wad to Pl~ Sat K/10~ S DCJA BHUM 2165 Fri 15/10 M 10/10 BKK ~l k CHAIYA BHUM 21S Fri 15/10 Tw H/10 PERKABA 05M Fn 15/10 Tua 1»/10 j^l' s«» 1«/10 I AKAJUUM 212S Sol- Jitffl-
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      215 43 Guaranteed Sailings to: BANGKOK LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA* PENANG* HONGKONG We also serve other ports: USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATIONS UTEL: *****33 (12 Linee) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Line#) ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTINQ FCL AMD
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      425 43 -s ]j°l PONGNAMA LINE ussn l~« PHE M PV BS* wc TULSDAS 131 lR 21/10 23/10 25/10 5/11 7/11 SMQNCTRADES V3S2H 27/11 31/10 31/10 2/11 12/11 14/11 HONGKONG fiIORT T3IIN 4/U C/U »/U »/ll 21/U MBJH V3OSH 11/11 13/11 M/1I 18/11 2«/U 21/11 nigMS >***** 11/11 21/11 22/11 3/12 5/12
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      1596 44 P*4flMN CONTAINER LINES I I Aganta: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINEB) I J\y V Inn **********0€ PENANQ: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 OUR CFS/WAREHOUSE PBI WILL BE MOVING TO:— KEPPEL DISTRIPARK BLK 519 #01-111 TEL: *****77 (UNCHANGED) ON:
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      188 44 I SEAWARD SHIPPING AND I TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD Elk EU IT* SKX£ rOUT KEIMG POUNG BIUE (MX 24 10 Lojdirg tor Male RlftN HUDHU 22/10 [>«Mrgtcg jnd loidrnf for Bombay OOCftW 20/10 11/10 loadfflf foe M« nowE« sum* 20/10 lowkcf Fix Malt UMMEEDH SAHfD loadinf For Mal« PROGHSS
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      1001 44 THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD f I 78 SHENTOH WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOY S PORE »EST VESSEL VOY S PORE PEST EQUATOR JADE 92/3E 13 OCT KUCHING EQUATOR
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      777 45 snipping t UIIC3) n cuucsuaj wiwuvi tw *vw WSV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING B#EAKBU.K SOC CARGOES TO FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA NAGOYA MO*. TOKYO* MANIA' OAVAO*. Penanj* P. Kelant Singapore E'Msia* SHAPIAEVERETT VI7E 16/17 Oct IVYEVERETT V6E 23/24 Oct** KAMALEVERETT VIBE 13/14 No* 15/16 No* WCEPTMG BREARBU.K FCL/SOC
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      334 45 IftL GLOBV NAVIGATION GROUP to REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN V 18/10 20/10 25/10 TIMBER TRADER VIII 25/10 27/10 2/11 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN VIII 13/10 2/11 41
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      571 45 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE *0* 3** **MCH QHMWfI) IMHW 17/10 «/>« HYDERABAD 122HW K/10 3/H KIIGHMI 104-HW »/ll W/ll SMGOOH* 136-HW K/1I 1/12 FAR EAST CONT AIMER SERVICE OWLY ""voT"" SIN KG BSN OS* N«G TOW SARGOOHA 135-OW 22/10 26/10 30/10 2/11 */ll </H MAKRAN
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      566 45 fciuyaiililllllilJlJ FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH SIN FENCSMUNSMAN V49/SO 19/ tO OS/11 OS/11 2fi/12 FENGANGSHAN V 126 04/11 30/11 23/11 11/12 PENCKANGSHAN VS6/57 19/11 5/12 6/12 2S/12 ACCEPTS CARGO TO KWANNCSBURG PRETORIA VIA DURBAN BOOKING AGENT FOR COSCO LCL CONSOL SIN
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      272 45 S|N FAR EAST 19/10 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 16/10 BANGKOK 17/10 MANILA/CEBU 17/10 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 18/10 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 17/10 BUSAN 17/10 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 17/10 HONG KONG SIN CHINA (<t>B«£*«P) 17/10 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN SHANGHAI XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S|N EUROPE/UK 18/10 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 18/10 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA
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      773 46 HONG KONG/CHINA 17/10 JAKARTA 7/0 BANGKOK 16/10 MANILA 8/0 BUSAN 17/10 KEELUNG 9/0 TOKYO/KOBE 17/10 KAOSHIUNG 16/10 PORT KELANG/PENANG 18/10 COLOMBO 17/10 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBURG 18/10 CHITTA6ON6/MAORAS 17/10 !?llr, R S!? L E H c C l ll'F« N I«Sr 13/ IS BOMBAY/KARACHI 18/10 BARCELONA. MARSEILLES. GENOA 14/10 LAX/NYC 17/10 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 14/10
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      297 46 y Conform CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 20 OCTOBER ACCEPTING TO ALL NEW ZEALAND PORTS PENANG 15 OCT PORT KELANG 21 OCT JAKARTA 17 OCT BANGKOK 16 OCT SURABAYA 19 OCT FRiMANTLE 24 OCT MELBOURNE 16 OCT SYDNEY 16 OCT BRISBANE OCT I6OTHENBUR6 16 OCT 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA
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      350 46 This Week's Sailings Singapore I To: ETD To: ETD Vlß %iT\\vxrdlS M Singapore Singapore ISO 9002 BY LRQA EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN CDU EVERY EVERY Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI /W\ S) EVERY EVERY •Si Colombo TUE Limassol THUR l l| M TED NATIONAL StA FREIGHT FORWARDING
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      114 46 I H NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACHVNEW YORK/ CHICAGO/SYDNEY/MELBOURNE/HAMBURG/ FELIXSTOWE/ROTTERDAM/DUSSELDORF WE ALSO DEAL IN FCL CARGO WORLDWIDE ARROW EXPRESS (SERVICE TO MALAYSIA) MALAYSIA TRUCK CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore DAILY to K.L. BANGI. SHAH ALAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore
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      1160 47 I CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD ASIAN PORTS MEW ZEALAND/AUSTRALIA EUROPE BAwr krik ifi/10 AUCKLAND 19/10 ANTWERP 18/10 9n/ln ADELAIDE 28/10 FELIXSTOWE 16/10 Snwr KDkir 0 BRISBANE 15/10 HAMBURG 18/10 HONGKONG 17/10 FREMANTLE 24/10 ROTTERDAM 18/10 Q^iIRA RAY A 9/10 MELBOURNE 16/10 KEELUNG WlO SYDNEY KAOHSIUNG 16/10 OTHER PORTS TOKY0
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      142 47 5H GINZA ORIENT SHIPPING CO, S.A. (GOSCO LINE) VESSEL VOY SIN YANGON GINZA ORIENT 01/N 10 12 OCT 15-17 OCT GINZA ORIENT 02/N 25-27 OCT 2-4 NOV GENERAL AGENTS: SHEFFERFIELO NAVIGATION PTE LTD TEL: *****08 FAX: *****80 TLX: ***** BOOKING AGENT: CONFER SHIPPING: TEL: ATTN: MS JOAN SOM PORT KLANG:
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      261 47 LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND PORTS VOY BUENOS MONTEVIDEO DURBAN SINGAPORE*!HONG KONGI KAGOSHIMA YOKOHAMA VESSELS AIRES'" N. KRUPSKAYA EBOI SAILED SAILED SAILED SAILED SAILED SAILED 09/10 DEKABRIST EBQ3 09 13/10 08/10 09 14/11 19/11 2330/11 02/13 PRIOZERSK EBO4 04 11/11 12/11 2926/11 10 11/12 16/12 20 29/12 31/12 N. KRUPSKAYA EBOS
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      139 47 _gg. Regional Weather) \j f 8T•K/ ir lt IQS IQQE 110E IPS I LEGEND: P Temperature c v^S J Thunderstorm Weather V Wmd direction with speed m knots V Shower Rom Wave height Cloudy Sky Surface winds ore indicated by arrows which fly with the wind One tuM circle represents
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      179 47 A TIDES AND WEATHER TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOUR 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 0800 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 JR 1.7 1.2 0.9 0.6 06 OS 1.2 1.7 2.3 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.0 1.5 1.1
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      562 48 NORTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA VIGOUR LUZON SMB 15/10/93 23/10/93 FRIDAY AND MONDAY VIGOUR LUZON HAM 18/10/93 23/10/93 VIGOUR PACIFIC 22M8 22/10/93 30/10/93 VIGOUR PACIFIC 29ANB 25/10/93 30/10/93 PORT KLANG/PENANG FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE PORT KLANG PENANG VIGOUR MINDANAO 9323N8 15/10/93 17/10/93 VIGOUR LUZON
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      391 48 ®APPENSHIP (3\ HAMBURG V#V CONVENTIONAL A INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSELS 10ADMG PORTS DISCHARGE/LOADING FOR GLIDER HAMBURG SLO SPORE 14/10. JKT 17/10 AGAMEMNON BREMERHAVEN 8/9 SPORE 18/10 YOU MING 23 09 93 SPORE 28/10. BKK 2/11 KOALA CONTAINER LINE STORE FIX HAM ROT
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      441 48 1. cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/10 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.G. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 15/10 20/10 Huang pu/Guangztiou COSCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CHINA/BANGKOK/HONGKONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Please refer above
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      867 49 I HYUNDAI "Sis VQY j PWA 1 PKE PGP VESSELS VOV I SIN I RTM MIT' LEH' HAM «ttt FEL NORASIA MALACCA 9330 A 13/10 14/10 15/10 H. COMMANDER 306H 18/10 05/11 05/11 06 11 07/11 07/11 09/11 HMM ADVANCE 29A 20/10 21/10 22/10 SI FREEDOM 307W 25/10 2/11 2/11
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      516 49 iMTS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE I E •ECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS I I INBDUHD VESSELS I VOT Sf M *»C M I ADEN M hft IS 'M II NHLEKM 21 IS/M H/W II 23 U/U 11/lt I 21 IS, 18 I lASTEI 2) 22 18 II •YA tl 18/18 2J/H
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      958 49 EXPORT TO: 1 JEDDAH/UK/CONfiNENT SPORE CO S TON HBUS6 RDAM LEH *Mm Acctptnf Carjo for: Ml 04 340 18/10 25 10 3/U 6/11 1/11 10/U Souttamptw to jI UK destwtion Be«»t md OiMn LA SEME 32/141 20 10 8/11 J/11 U/U Mtcrdwn to il AM.trp Amjterdim 0* IkMi MOECKST EIPtESS
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      94 50 Tomorrow I "NOTICE TO II SHIPPERS IN THE SINGAPORE TO INDIA/PAKISTAN TRADE" The following Shipping Lines have agreed to reconfirm full implementation of Terminal Handling Charge (THQ of Singapore Dollars 149 per 20 footer and Singapore Dollars 211 per 40 footer for all exports to India/Pakistan and for all imports
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      51 50 [FTOHFiaEBBr^ Tomorrow in Business Times Regular Twice Daily Containerised Service EEE zz= Between Singapore and Batam 1 I GACSHIPXI 1 izzz Singapore Loading at Jurong Marine Base From Monday to Saturday <3> 0900 Hours 1500 Hours Please Call: 225 6942 G.A.C. SHIPPING AGENCIES (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD Tel: *****2, *****0 Fax:
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