The Business Times, 23 November 1993

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  • 15 1 Business Times It E k.SOII ASH MITA (P) 552/12/92 Tuesday November 23 1993 75 c
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 57 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stoeks fell sharply yesterday as renewed fears of higher US interest rates also tripped up stock markets in Europe and Japan. The Dow Jones industrial average was off a steep 29.9 points at 3,664.11 at I pm EST after
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    • 77 1 Reuter PARIS A treaty turning Western Europe's 19 countries into a huge trading bloc cleared its last hurdle yesterday when the French Parliament ratified the European Economic Area (EEA). The accord will come into force on Jan I, extending to seven member states
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    118 1 Exchange rates I ss ss USS 1.600 1.470 2.352 DM 0.582 0.932 100 Yen 0 921 1.474 MS 0.391 0.626 HKS 0.129 0.207 Baht 0.039 0.062 Rupiah 0.047 0.075 Crude oil LSS t hange WTI 17.01 -0.37 Brent blend 15.8- 0.05 Dubai fatch 14.05 unch Minas 15.15 unch
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  • 571 1  -  From Yang Razali Kassim in SEATTLE SINGAPORE will accept if there is an offer to join Nafta. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. "If Singapore is invited, Singapore will accept an offer to join Nafta," he disclosed in a post-Apee
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  • 420 1 SEATTLE Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong may not necessarily return to the Ministry of Trade and Industry when S Dhanabalan leaves the government at the end of the year, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. Asked by
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  • 307 1 SEATTLE High COE prices reflect people's confidence that the economy will remain buoyant, says Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Speaking to Singapore reporters here yesterday, Mr Goh said the fact that car buyers believed they could afford to repay such big
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  • 412 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S Berjaya Group Bhd, the flagship of businessman Vincent Tan Chec Yioun's stable of companies, has emerged as the front-run-ner in a joint venture with South Korea's Hyundai Motor Company to make commercial vehicles in
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  • 433 1  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Marinebased industrial group PanUnited Corporation is likely to be floated on the local bourse next month. BT understands that it has received in-principle approval for a listing next month on the stock exchange's main board. Pan-United Corp's initial public
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  • 226 1 Reuter JAKARTA Hundreds of angry Indonesian investors rioted yesterday, burning tents and jamming Jakarta streets after they were prevented from obtaining share application forms for Jakarta's resurgent stock market. An official said six fire engines were called to
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  • 140 1 SINGAPORE Worries about the Japanese economy and arbitrage-linked selling drove the Tokyo stock market down sharply yesterday, sending tremors throughout the regional bourses. The benchmark Nikkei Index ended at 17.384.84 points, down 556.35 points or 3.1 per cent as investors awaited a new government
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    • 63 1 Property: r* Review of office rentals in region We are ethnic Chinese...But we must be honest and recognise the fact that at the end of the day, jjjK, our fundamental loyalties are to our home, not ances- 7 tral, countries A L L mmT' x Senior Minister l.cc in liis
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 321 2  -  By Juliette Walker AIR passenger traffic into Singapore continued to climb in September, rising 7.7 per cent over the same month last year. Arrivals for the first three quarters reached 6.888.615. up 11 per cent over the same period last year, according to the
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    • 600 2  -  The OSA trial Reports by Ramesh Divyanathan THE JUDGE in the Official Sccrets Act (OSA) trial has decided to study the court documents of a previous OSA case on which both the defence and prosecution have centred arguments. In the 1986 case of Public
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    • 398 2 IN Public Prosecutor v Phua Keng Tong. Phua was charged with receiving confidential information from his friend, a senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official. Frederick Tan, then MFA director of protocol and consular division, was charged with communicating confidential information. He also faced
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    • 281 2  -  PM Goh's press conference in Seattle Reports from Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE businessmen must strike out and compete if they want to stay on top in the Asia-Pacific region of the future. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said this
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    • 300 2 A SECOND summit of AsiaPacific leaders has been called to keep up the new momentum in Apec, but future summits may tackle areas of disagreement. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said. The Jakarta summit to be hosted next year by President Suharto would tackle more
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    • 117 2 DETAILS of the civil service pay revision will he announced when Parliament convenes on Dec 3. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said. Asked about the pay increases. to take effect on Jan I. 1994 and aimed at bringing civil service salaries closer
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    • 138 2 On Clinton "Me strikes me as someone who is very bright and alert, very charming and very personable. He listens intensely to all views.' On Jiang Zemin and Clinton '1 am not privy to their bilateral discussions. I can only study the body language of both leaders when
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    • 258 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant AT&T officially opened its new $44 million semiconductor manufacturing facility in Kallang yesterday. The new 19,510 sq m AT&T Microelectronics plant, which is double the combined size of its former manufacturing locations at Toa Payoh and MacPherson, will
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    • 288 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Oxygen Air Liquide Pte Ltd (Soxal). the largest industrial gases producer in South-east Asia, has raised its total investment in Singapore to $210 million. At the inauguration of five new projects amounting to $35 million yesterday,
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  • THE REGION
    • 488 3  -  Second World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention Reports by Yong Row Ang in HONGKONG DO NOT let your investments in China be at the expense of your investments back home, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday told ethnic Chinese businessmen in
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    • 250 3 NETWORKING is a fact of business life, and ethnic Chinese who make use of their links to other Chinese around the world should not be apologetic about it, in the view of Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Addressing nearly 1,000 ethnic Chinese
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    • 385 3  -  Reports by Teh Hooi Ling in HONGKONG THE loyalty of overseas Chinese to their adopted countries may soon come under questioning in the new nation states of South-east Asia, said Professor Wang Gungwu, vice-chancellor of the University of Hongkong. But over
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    • 351 3 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew's statement that the loyalty of overseas Chinese entrepreneurs lie with their home and not ancestral country reflects the sentiments of convention participants. Mr Lee made his point yesterday in his keynote address at the Second
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    • 274 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia achieved a record MS 16.750 billion (S$ 10.38 billion) surplus in its overall balance of payments last year, from a M 53.423 billion surplus in 1991, owing to the large net influx of short-term capital. The exceptionally huge inflow
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    • 465 4 AFP BEIJING The Seattle meeting between American President Bill Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin signalled a victory for China, which received assurances of Jjetter bilateral relations without making any concessions, juialysts said here yesterday. I; "The Chinese played their 2iand well
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    • 114 4 AFP HONGKONG Shanghai has introduced mortgage lending to allow average salary earners to buy their own homes. The Huangpu branch of China People's Construction Bank and Shanghai Scnhua Property Development Co are offering mortgages of up to 70 per cent, the Wen Hei Po daily said
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    • 37 4 Reuter TAOYUAN, laiwan Election candidate Huang Mu-tien praying for assistance from an actor dressed as Judge Pao, a legendary Chinese Figure representing justice, on Saturday ahead of government elections on Nov 27. Reuter
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    • 391 4 Knight-Ridder, AFP HONGKONG China has agreed to some less controversial aspects of Hongkong Governor Chris Patten's electoral reforms to speed up talks with the United Kingdom, the Bei-jing-backed H en Wei Po newspaper said yesterday. China has reportedly agreed to lower the voting
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    • 245 4 AFP BEIJING China has nominated about 100 state-run Firms as guinea pigs for a "modern enterprise system" in the first move to implement the decisions of a recent party plenum for reforming the debtridden sector. Under the "modem enterprise system", the
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    • 256 4 Reuter BEIJING European Community officials have called for strong enforcement of China's new patent and trademark laws as a test of the success of its reforms. They were speaking at a news conference during a three-day symposium that opened here yesterday between
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    • 599 5 AFP WELLINGTON The United States is looking to mend ties with one of its oldest allies. New Zealand, which infuriated Washington in the mid-1980s by closing its ports to nuclear powered and armed warships. The breakthrough came
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    • 162 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO With big US companies hungry for capital and the economies of South-east Asia booming, major Japanese banks are lending more overseas. The Nihon Keizai newspaper yesterday reported that total outstanding lending by the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan in the United
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    • 357 5 AFP ISLAMABAD The freezing of Pakistan's nuclear programme has developed into a political firestorm, with no party or leader willing to accept responsibility for a deeply unpopular move. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced the programme's suspension early this month, only
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    • 359 5  -  From Rose Tang in SYDNEY A CLASS action suit on behalf of about 100 Chinese students over the rejection of their applications for refugee status will go ahead despite the Australian Immigration Department's decision on Nov I to grant residency
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      44 5 Reuter NEW DELHI India, a founder of the international movement against apartheid, has restored diplomatic ties with South Africa. South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha in India on an official visit, met Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao on Sunday. Reuter
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  • THE WORLD
    • 420 6 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Community and US began a round of high-level talks on vqorld trade yesterday, hard on the heels of US President Bill Clinton's Nafta victory and some behind-the-scenes meetings on farm trade. r The row between the two trade
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    • 345 6 Plan will give American firms larger slice of the USs3oob market Reuter WASHINGTON The Clinton administration yesterday unveiled a comprehensive strategy to give American companies a bigger share of the US$3OO billion (SS4BO billion) environmental technologies market. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown said the strategy
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    • 329 6 Reuter BRUSSELS Belgium's powerful trade unions began a series of strikes yesterday to try and force the government to soften its tough package of austerity measures. Antwerp port, the secondbiggest in Europe after Rotterdam, was paralysed by the strike, which affected the regions
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    • 321 6 UPI SAMARA, Russia Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar yesterday admitted that the government is in danger of losing the propaganda war with its opponents over Russia's new draft constitution and called on regional officials to convince voters of the new charter's virtues.
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 100 6 Reuter LONDON A cut in British interest rates expected after the government's November Budget is likely to be the last for some time as serious inflationary pressures re-emerge, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It said the government is likely to
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      • Article, Illustration
        38 6 AFP ATHENS A car resting on top of another in the southern Athens suburb of Glygada on Sunday following heavy rainfalls and storms early in the morning which caused serious damage in the district. AFP
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      • 93 6 Bloomberg Business News LONDON More British consumers expect the economy here to deteriorate over the next year than expect it to improve, according to Gallup's November poll of UK. consumers for the European Community. The poll covered 2,016 individuals between Nov 4 and Nov 16.
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      • 98 6 Reuter MADRID A stubborn standoff with Spanish unions threatens to leave the government's social pact dead in the water but may not seriously undermine markets, analysts say. They saw the peseta trading in its recent range of 80-82 to the mark for the near term, depreciating
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      • 83 6 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Construction subcontractors may be losing as much as £1 billion (552.35 billion) a year, owed to them by clients and main contractors who become insolvent, the Financial Times reported. According to a survey by the Specialist Engineering Contractor's Group. 889 companies
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    • 492 7 NYT, Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The United States is protesting against what it views as a Japanese plan to weaken copyright protection for computer programs and help Japanese companies catch up in software, an industry that Americans have dominated. The US government,
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    • 201 7 Reuter KUWAIT Kuwait yesterday denied it was selling off investments worth US$lO billion (Ssl6 billion) to pay for debts. With oil revenues rising, the need for ready cash was now declining, it said. It was responding to a British report which put pressure on the
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    • 176 7 Knight-Ridder LONDON The UK government has secretly ordered seven teams of top civil servants to draw up plans to demolish parts of the welfare state. The Observer newspaper has reported. The blueprint will be ready by February, the newspaper said. The measures
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    • 429 7 Reuter ROME Italy's voters swung to the left or to the right and slaughtered the scandal-tainted Christian Democrats (DC) in national local elections on Sunday, exit polls showed. They predicted that the party which had dominated Italian politics since the end of World War II
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 585 9  -  The S'pore version is as good as any other, says Jaime Ee Jaime Ee THERE was no revolving stage. No musty old carpeted stairs to elimb. No vendors in black and white carrying trays of ice cream that you once thought were free and
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1292 9 TV RADIO Rage Harlem, 10.30pm, SBC 5 ZMBf In in Hariem a swinging round of laughs and Im crime. Robin Givens is a gang- By on the run with sto- I iin-y lon gold, with Gregory Hincs ,> as hig-timc boss. This 1991 B HBgj^l film also stars Forest Whitaker.
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • 774 10  -  Mark Graham on why hoteliers on the Thai island are excited by the Johnnie Walker Classic Mark Graham The writer is a freelance writer who contributed this article to BT PHUKET hoteliers are hoping to reap a cash and promotional bonanza
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    • 470 11  -  A J Leow reviews the office rental market in the region A J Leow NEXT year could see more Hong-kong-based companies shifting some of their regional operations to Singapore to take advantage of the lower office rents, said property
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    • 263 11 Jones Lang #isWoottori Selected transactions in the past week Data of _T~ I Built In area Saleprica transaction W»«ct Property Type (>qf y Tanura (S g S$pf PRIVATE Nov 14.1993 0207 International Plaza Apt 1367 j 99LH 590,000 432 Nov 17,1993 j 0571 j Baimeg Court Apt t
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    • 367 11  -  By A J Leow THE Holiday Inn Worldwide group added an average of one hotel every two days to its international chain during its last fiscal year. A total of 159 hotels were added to its global chain between Oct 1,
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    • 659 12 It will feature Asia's highest steel tower and China's biggest department store Reuter ASIA's highest steel tower, thrusting 360 metres into the sky, will mark the site of what its developer hopes will be one of China's most fashionable shopping districts a "Ginza
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    • REGIONAL SKYLINE
      • 93 12 SINGAPORE Businessman Ong Beng Seng has just sealed the purchase of his third hotel in Australia. In a deal brokered by Colliers Jardine, he paid As 22 million (Ss23 million) for the Banks Hotel in Melbourne. The hotel has 204 rooms and is located
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      • 72 12 SINGAPORE Singapore's Thakral group recently sealed its purchase of a 1,700-room chain of Australian hotels from the country's Westpac Banking Corp. Thakral paid AS2SO million for the bank's mortgagee portfolio, comprising Oasis-on-Broadbeach, Pan Pacific Hotel, Novotel Australia on Collins, Northbeach Hotel on Wollongong, the
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      • 58 12 SYDNEY The hotel group of Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok is believed to be negotiating to buy one of Sydney's most controversial and long-running developments, Kajima Corp's Paddy Market site. Analysts have suggested a sale price of As 22 million. The site was originally meant
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    • 362 11 «c»c3 A 7[r>v>Ox Ao 3 lake lunck truly an occasion S v\s /mjv Nft, <£1 T«»o» »»S» *M r *Tj I- wortli savouring Lome ami dine T "°> Bu>~^^c/ 1 VsojOj 0 at Alkali .^Mansion Lunch at Alkaff Mansion is not just an exercise for the appetite. it is an
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  • SPORTS
    • 518 13 Golf AP Reuter THOUSAND OAKS, California Raymond Floyd sank a six-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the USSI.I million (SSI.B million) Shark Shootout last Sunday with partner Steve Elkington. Floyd and Elkington had a final round 10-under-par
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    • 546 13 NYT FRANKFURT It would have been the perfect ending, the light layer of powdered sugar on a big, fat piece of apple strudel. But unfortunately for Pete Sampras, Michael Stich was not willing to follow the script. Instead of the
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    • 437 13 NYT NEW YORK Sore hack or not. Steffi Graf closed the door on 1993 with a decisive fourset victors over Arantxa Sanchez Vicario last Sunday in the final of the Virginia Slims Championships. "It's been a great, great year, and that's the way
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • 162 13 Reuter MAN WRk The Dallas C owboys. alreadv playing without injured quarterback Troy Aikman. lost running back Emmitt Smith two minutes before half-time and saw their seven-game NFL winning streak end with a 27-14 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Smith was sidelined with a bruised right quadricep. Dallas
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        211 13 Reuter AP NEW NORk Mitch Richmond scored 28 points and Walt Williams scored 17 in his season debut as the Sacramento Kings snapped a four-game losing streak by beating Chicago 103-101 last Sunday night. The Bulls, which lost for the fourth time in five games, was led by BJ
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        66 13 Reuter JOHANNESBI KG Zimbabwe's Mark McNulty won the South African Pla>ers Championship by five strokes last Sunday with a six-under-par 66 that left his rivals trailing in his wake. McNulty turned his slim one-shot overnight lead into an unassailable lead with five birdies in the first nine holes as
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        120 13 Reuter LONDON Centre Phil de Glanvillc. who hurt his eye dunng a controversial rucking incident against the All Blacks last month, was called up b> England for the test against New Zealand last Saturday. replacing injured Bath clubmate Jeremy Guscott. De Glanville needed 15 stitches in the eye injury
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        33 13 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Sundav: Philadelphia 4 NY Islanders 5 (OT►: Buffalo 6 San Jose 5: St Loui- 2 Detroit 2 (OT): Dallas 7 LA 4; Edmonton 2 Anaheim 4. Reuter
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        50 13 AFP KARACHI World Squash Open quarter-finals Sunday: Peter Marshal (Eng) b Tony Hands (Eng) 15-8 15-12 15-14: Jahangir Khan (Pak) b Brett Martin (Aust) 17-16 17-15 15-11: Chris Walker (Eng) b Rodney Martin (Aust) 13-15 17-14 15-10 15-11: Jansher Khan (Pak) b Rodnev Evles (Aust) 15-7 15-7 15-7. \FP
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    • 353 13 f THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 SECTION 290(2)<B) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION SOCIETE QENERALE D ENTERPRISES CONSTRUCTION SINGAPORE PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Societe Generate □'Enterprises Construction Singapore Pte Ltd held at 6 Battery Road #32-00. Singapore 0104 on the 17th day of November
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  • 504 14 EDITORIAL DESPITE vast differences of culture, tradition and race, four days of meetings in Seattle seems to have produced a broad sense of community among Apec leaders. That itself appears to be Apec's greatest achievement to date. It does little good to dismiss Apec's
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 220 14 IT CALLS for no great perspicacity to appreciate the danger of an imbalance that is sooner or later bound to be reflected in declining profits so that companies may not have enough funds one day to meet statutory obligations. The National Wages Council special committee's formula is
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    • 158 14 MORE Singaporeans are likely to be hit by a "mid-life squeeze" as they reach their 40s. As heads of households, they will have to meet increasing expenses for their children's education and their ageing parents' healthcare bills. But as they are also likely to be at the peak
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    • 192 14 PRESIDENT Bill Clinton finally met his Chinese counterpart. President Jiang Zemin, at the Seattle summit. Jiang extended an invitation to Clinton to visit China and the latter, although unable to do so at once, will probably follow the footsteps of former US leaders in visiting China. The
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    • 163 14 THE GOVERNMENT'S Tax Commission has put forth a package of proposals that formally call for cuts in income and local taxes, coupled with a raise in the consumption tax rate. Its message is that not only working people, who already bear heavy tax burdens,
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    • 153 14 NAFTA'S PASSAGE on Thursday made waves because the United States' already 'pre-eminent position in the world economy has been muscled up into a near-continent-wide phalanx of trade armour. Just like the flurry of alliance-making that preceded the Second World War. when the rollicking shifts
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    • 159 14 THE ROW over the workings of the Education Commission has highlighted the need for government advisory bodies to be more open. They exert strong influence on the administration's policy-making, wielding considerable power over the way government affects our lives and spends taxpayers' money. In Governor Chris Patten's
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  • 1274 14  -  The US feels rewarding North Korea for allowing nuclear site inspections may be more effective than threatening it with sanctions. David Sanger reports David Sanger NYT EVEN AS President Bill Clinton and leaders from across Asia met in Seattle last weekend to declare the arrival of a
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    • 1800 15  -  While Roger Cohen reports that a eombination of economic pressure and psychological angst is producing a growing fascination with the notion of a four-day workweek in Europe, especially in France, Peter Kilborn discusses the resistance to the idea across the Atlantic Roger
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    • 476 15 NYT MANY American labour unions arc also promoting reduced workweeks, usually of 30 or 35 hours, as a way to spread work to people who would otherwise be laid off. A Democrat in Congress, Representative Lucien E Blackwell of Philadelphia, introduced
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  • 415 16 AFP, AP BRUSSELS European Community financc ministers gave a sceptical reception yesterday to an EC plan for halving unemployment. Diplomats said German State Secretary for Finance Gert Haller criticised a proposal that the EC should work towards lower interest rates so that
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  • 318 16 AFP, Reuter BRUSSELS The European Community has made a conditional offer to cut high tarifTs on fish products as part of negotiations for a Gatt world trade deal. EC Fisheries Commissioner loannis Paleokrassas told the community's fisheries ministers yesterday that the
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  • 90 16 AFP HAVANA Chinese President Jiang Zemin (above, left) being welcomed by his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro (right) on Sunday. The two leaders held talks on ways to boost bilateral trade and a review of key world issues. Mr Jiang's one-day visit, the first by a Chinese
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  • 360 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR China has slashed its import tariff on palm oil following a request by Malaysia, the world's largest producer and exporter of the commodity. China's Domestic Trade Minister Zhang Haoruo, who is on a visit here, yesterday disclosed the reduction in
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  • 877 16  -  The Bottom Line SN VASUKI SN VASUKI The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Japanese affairs JAPAN'S small but influential farming community regards the rumoured opening of the country's rice market as a great betrayal. Though the cynics feel
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  • 463 16 AFP, Reuter SEOUL Yielding to international pressure. South Korea is turning its promise to guarantee market access for foreign financial firms into a binding one. officials said yesterday. An aide to President Kim Young Sam said yesterday that South
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  • 253 16 AFP. Reuter BEIJING China's 1993 gross domestic product (is expected to reach 3.000 billion yuan (SSB42 billion), a year-on-year rise of 13 per ccnt. The State Statistical Bureau (SSB) yesterday said GDP climbed 13.2 per ccnt in 1992 over 1991 while
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  • 73 16 AFP TEL AVIV An Israeli husband has sued for divorce citing his wife's unfaithfulness with a computer. The Ycdiot Aharanot newspaper yesterday quoted the man, who cannot he named, as saying: "My wife watches a lot of porn movies and what's more she likes to cheat on me
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 533 17  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE The NatSteel group is negotiating a long-term tie-up with China's biggest steel producer a partnership which promises multi-million dollar deals for the local company. Nat Steel and the China Huatong Distribution and Industry Development Group (CHTG) began high-level talks
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    • 400 17  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE A consortium of three Hongkong and Singapore listed companies led by Hongkong's Pico group is developing a $100 million industrial park in the township of Ma Lu in Shanghai. The project, which covers 3.5 million sq ft, will
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    • 381 17  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Canning group Carnaud Metalbox Asia Ltd yesterday reported net earnings of $3.69 million for the July to September period this year on a turnover of $63.45 million. Announcing its third-quar-ter performance in relation to its $203.1 million rights
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    • 797 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE With Tenaga Nasional's share price having gone through the roof after it was included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) indices, the exclusion of Singapore Telecom appears an even bigger blow. Institutional investors flocked
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    • 422 17  -  By Bernard Chew SINGAPORE Semiconductor chip distributor Electronic Resources, which launched its initial share offer yesterday, will ride on demand from the personal computer industry to fuel its growth in the medium term. Responding to questions about alleged over-dependence on sales
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    • 314 17  -  By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE The diversified Jack Chia-MPH group yesterday announced cheerier interim results, with even better news anticipated for the second half-year. The red ink for the six months to Sep 30, 1992 had been generally replaced by profits. Group turnover fell
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      339 17 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Nov 22 I JIM Sense Index Slock sale C'hge factor mo\ers (S) (?l Avimo 1 820 0 100 1.27 35.71 CAC 7 700 -0.350 5.37 -12 0 O*T 2 710 0 020 1 89 7 14 Ccrctoos 6 7 00 467
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    • COMPANIES
      • 318 19  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR PETRONAS and tycoon T Ananda Krishnan, developers of Malaysia's largest property project, yesterday awarded contracts worth more than Msl billion (SS63O million) to two consortiums to build an 85-storey twin-tower. The main contract was awarded to
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      • 167 19 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The New Serendah Rubber Company Bhd has forecast a consolidated pre-tax profit after minority interests of M 5245.7 million (S$ 154.8 million) for the year ending March 31, 1994, following its proposed acquisition of the entire issued and paid-up capital
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      • 171 19 SINGAPORE Keppel Shipyard, a leading local shipyard, has clinched a S4O million contract to turn a tanker into a storage facility. Under the deal, the Keppel Corporation company will convert the 152,000 deadweight tonne steam tanker called NanHai Kai J'uo into a floating
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      • 257 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR YTL Corporation Bhd announced a proposed bonus issue of up to a maximum of 54.264 million new ordinary shares of 50 sen each on the basis of one new ordinary share for five existing held, managing director Francis Yeoh Sock Ping
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      • 260 19  - Tat Lee man tipped to be MGA Partners' new MD By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Morgan Grenfell Asia Partners Securities is expected to get a new managing director, broking sources say. Lai Hock Meng, executive director with Tat Lee Securities, is tipped to take up the job this week. Mr
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 63 19 SINGAPORE Engineering group Ipco International has bought a 40 per cent stake in Lumut Maritime Sdn Bhd. Ipco said yesterday it had subscribed for 3.92 million new ordinary shares of Msl each and 8 million new redeemable preference shares of MSO.OI each at a
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        • 45 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Autoways Holdings Bhd is proposing to acquire S J Securities Sdn Bhd for MSISO million (Ss93 million). The company said it was acquiring the entire issued and paid-up capital of SJ Securities comprising 20 million Msl shares.
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        • 42 19 Bernama IPOH Business tycoon Lee Loy Seng died at his house in Jalan Gopeng here early yesterday. He was 72. Funeral service would be held at the St Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Jalan Gereja tomorrow. Bernama
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        • 47 19 SINGAPORE Wong Hung Kim has resigned as a director of Times Publishing. His resignation, which took effect from Nov 19. was announced by the company yesterday. Directors said they accepted the resignation with regret and praised his contributions to the group.
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      • 473 19 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ■—pricM Nov 20 Sl 22 NTUC Income Singapore Unit Trust Incomc Bond Policy 4.02 4.17 rhe ComiTKTO I 58 166 Prudential Thc&v'ngs Fund 1.49 I 56 PniLink Mgd Fund 1.32 If) Spore frog Fund 066 0.69 S'porc Sec Fund 0 97 102 MARA-Dinuiput»a Spore Invest Fund III
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      • 400 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Paramount Printing Group, one of Hongkong's largest book and magazine printers, is expanding its Capital Communications' magazine publishing section. On Dec 12, it will launch the Chinese-language Sunday Magazines, a thrce-in-one concept that offers a gossip magazine. a children's
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      • 329 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A Hongkong investment company intends to introduce pizza to hundreds of thousands of people in northern China over the next few years, building a chain of more than 100 Pizza Hut restaurants and a highly profitable fast-food
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      • 163 20 AFP BANGKOK The United Communication Industry Public Co Ltd (Ucom) yesterday announced it will offer 17 million shares of stock to the public next month prior to being listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. The December 15-17 offering will raise about US$l2O million
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      • 458 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG British shipping group Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O) and Hongkong conglomerate Swire Pacific have bought 50 per cent of the largest container terminal operation in southern China for HK.S6IS million (Ssl2s million). The
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      • 181 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Kunming Machine Tool Co Ltd expects to raise HKSI2O million (Ss24 million) through a listing of 'H' shares on the Hongkong Stock Exchange from today. The manufacturer of large and precision machine tools will be the sixth Chinese stateowned
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      • 416 21 Agreement seen as defensive move to increase market share Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Apple Japan and Fujitsu will swap secrets about the systems that run their computers so that they can create compatible multimedia software. Multimedia software merges video, sound, graphics and text.
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      • 403 21 Forbes 400 have USss9Bb in sales AP NEW YORK This year's list of top US companies that shun the stock markets includes Levi Strauss, Hallmark Cards, Mars and United Parcel Service. It also includes some obscure firms that sell some popular products,
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 76 21 Reuter TOKYO— Japanese software development company TSD Co Ltd, whose shares are traded over-the-counter, has declared bankruptcy, said Teikoku Databank Ltd, a private credit rating firm. Tokyo-based TSD's debt came to 8.5 billion yen (USSI26 million), Teikoku Databank said. The firm became insolvent due to falling
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        • 72 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Sanyo Elcctric Co will build a new plant in Thailand to double its production of refrigerators there to 1 million units a year, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said in a dispatch from Bangkok. The move is in response to growing
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        • 113 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong engineering company Wai Kee Holdings Ltd is to form a joint venture with state-owned China Fujian Engineering (Hongkong) Ltd that will invest in a HK5778.8 million (S$ 158.6 million), highway project in southern China. The venture company. Easy Yield
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        • 80 21 Bloomberg Business News. HONGKONG China Motor Bus Co Ltd said it is selling a property to a joint venture between itself and Swire Properties Ltd, a unit of Swire Pacific Ltd, for HKS36O million (5574.5 million). The purchase price of the site, in the
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      • 173 21 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Eten Information System Co. one of Taiwan's largest software companies, has reached an agreement to sell an undisclosed Japanese concern software used to convert Chi-nese-language programs into Japanese. The company yesterday said it was not allowed under
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      • 396 21 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter SYDNEY Global media conglomerate News Corp's revised proposal to issue "super voting" shares has the support of institutional investors and may receive approval from regulators. The Australian Financial Review yesterday said a straw poll of institutional investors
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 469 22  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THERE'S no such thing as "Chinese banks" in the Philippines, said a banker in a paper at a recent symposium on Filipino-Chinese in Manila. The so-called "Chinese banks" are actually Filipino banks owned by Filipinos of Chinese descent,
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      • 313 22  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Poorer countries will need more than US$2 trillion (553.2 trillion) over the next 10 years to develop infrastructure, says a World Bank expert. And the private sector has to play a part, according to the
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      • 506 22 IHT PARIS The weakling US dollar and the powerful Deutschemark are beginning to trade places. The complete transformation will take some time. But the inevitability seemed apparent last week when long-term interest rates in the two currencies crossed over. For the first time in
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      • 171 22 SINGAPORE Citic Australia and merchant bank Hambros Australia have launched a company that will buy stakes in Chinese firms. CH Investments will be floated on the Australian Stock Exchange and aims to raise AS3S million (5536.8 million). Shares will
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      • 112 22 THE US dollar opened firmer against most currencies yesterday, but held steady against the SS and the ringgit. US$/S$ trading was confined to a narrow range between 1.5995 to 1.6007, with interests mixed on both sides. It spent most of the time around 1.6000. The
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      • 194 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar was a little easier in early European trading after failing to hold above key levels around the 1.7175 mark level, dealers said. Traders are looking forward to a quiet week with the US Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday usually spilling over into Friday and making for
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      • 97 22 AFP NEW YORK The dollar slipped against other currencies except the yen yesterday in quiet opening trading influenced by a rise in the German mark on news of an increase in German money supply. Around 1430 GMT, the dollar traded at 1.7075 mark against 1.7085 earlier in London
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      • 186 22 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures prices rose yesterday as delegates arrived in Vienna for the Opec conference and traders speculated on the outcome. Prices were also buoyed by colder weather in Europe. "Much of today's strength was due to the weather,
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      • 240 22 SINGAPORE PT Federal Motors of Indonesia has raised US$9O million (SSI44 million) through a multi-tranche facility. The deal, signed in Singapore last week, represents the largest single financing exercise for the company. The purpose of the loan arranged by Chase Manhattan Asia
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        1598 22 I rade-weighted index cakuiaied against Sport's top 14 trading partners Base year 198 US$/S$ forward rates Noon Nov 22 SS Bid Offer I -month I 5966 I.S9SI 2-month 1.5957 ***** 5-month 1 5953 1.5968 6-month I.59M I.S9SS Source OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 10m m Nov
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1348 23 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures ended softer as early selling pressure pushed prices off in moderate dealings. Sentiment is weak with US debt futures pressured by market talk of a rise in the Federal Funds rate before year end. March Eurodollars
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      • 673 23 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN closed 11 sen lower at M511.77/kg. extending last week's fall on lack of keen support despite a firmer close in London on Friday. Traders said news of a 115-tonne fall to 19,440 tonnes in LME stocks had little impact on
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 71 23 SINGAPORE Vietnamese sugar production is falling, while smuggled sugar is disrupting market stability, the Vietnam Investment Review reported. Vietnamese sugar output in 1992 was 363,000 tonnes, down from 375,500 in 1989, and officially imported sugar was 40.000 tonnes in 1991, down from 60,000 tonnes in
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        • 55 23 SYDNEY Australian energy explorer Command Petroleum yesterday said it has discovered hydrocarbon indications at its Onslow field on the North West Shelf off Western Australia. Command exploration manager Barry Smith said the company plans to log the Crackling I well over the next 12 hours
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        • 61 23 HONGKONG China's Guangdong province will produce an estimated 16.3 million tonnes of grain in 1993, the official China Daily newspaper reported on Sunday. This compares with 17.7 million tonnes of grain produced in 1992, according to official Chinese statistics. The province has recorded declining grain
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        • 55 23 SYDNEY The Australian Wheat Board's estimate for prime hard wheat pool returns has risen by AS2O (Ss2l) a tonne. The pool return for premium grade prime hard wheat at 13 per cent protein has been revised to AS24S a tonne in line with a world
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        • 73 23 TOKYO Japan s mixed feed production rose 2.7 per cent to 2.15 million tonnes in September from a year earlier, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said yesterday. Total stocks of mixed feed fell to 179,729 tonnes at the end of September, down
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    • 1619 23 Rubber Nov 22 MS Commodity Exchange (fvti arts dosing as at 1pm) RAS (physical pricos) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) loyors Sollors Close Volume Open As at 12 noon cenivKg) Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 2 Dcc 93 128.00 I29.00N Dcc 93 Jan 94 Feb 128.25
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1194 24 -33.9 A lack of interest from investors and a sell-off on the futures market combined to drag Australian shares lower yesterday. The key All Ordinaries Index closed 33.9 points down at 2,049.3. The All Industrials fell 57.8 to 3,169.7 while the All Resources shed 15.2 to close at 1,194.2.
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      • 588 24 15.23 The stock market inched up yesterday on foreign buying of blue chips and selected second-liners after falling for most of last week. The Composite Index in Manila jumped 15.23 points to close at 2,418.13. while the Makati indicator climbed 13.87 to settle at 2,492.23. One research director said
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      • 615 24 -30.15 Stocks closed lower yesterday in active trade amid profit-taking by cautious investors ahead of Saturday's local government elections. The Weighted Index ended 30.15 points down at 4,216.94 in turnover of NT525.52 billion. Profit-taking focused on electronics and paper, with United Microelectronics (UMC) down NT$2 to NT$49 and Acer
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      • 321 24 -23.9 Shares dipped in late trade in line with a sharp fall on the Tokyo market but trading was essentially featureless. The market is looking ahead to what could be a volatile day today when Prime Minister Jim Bolger is expected to announce his new Cabinet. The market
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      • 64 24 +61.74 The BSE Index crossed the 3,000-point barrier to close at a record high for the year, but many shares closed below their day's best on profit-taking. The BSE 30-share Index closed at 3,034.60 points, up 61.74. The 100-share National Index closed 20.12 higher at 1,449.86. The BSE Index
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      • 456 24 -11.89 Heavy across-the-board profittaking dragged the stock market down to close sharply lower in a day of heavy trading. The selling centred on expensive blue-chip manufacturers and shares with low price-to-book ratio. The Composite Stock Index shed 11.89 points to 834.58. "This is just profit-taking and a technical adjustment
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 674 24 -37.4 A PRECIPITOUS drop in Wall Street shares piled more pressure on the FTSE 100 of leading UK stocks, pushing the index to an almost 40-point lower close. The market had opened weaker after a more than 500-point plunge in the Nikkci-225 overnight and on worries about rising US
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      • 157 24 -62.62 French shares dropped through support at 2,100 points near the close to end almost 3 per cent lower as Wall Street tumbled and other European stock markets weakened. Dealers said with the November account ending today, there was no reason to buy shares now and investors would wait
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      • 128 24 •2.28pc Swedish shares ended sharply lower for the second trading day in a row on higher debt market yields and concern over continued profit-taking in index-heavy Ericsson triggered by its interim results last week. The OMX-Index fell 2.2 per cent to 1,031.32 and has declined more than 5 per
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      • 191 24 -47.37 German shares fell 2.3 per ccnt yesterday in a stronger than expected slide after last week's failure to post a new record high on the 30share DAX, deepened by unfavourable corporate news and strong German M 3 growth. The 30-share DAX ended 47.37 points lower at 2,030. Many
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      • 160 24 -29.04 Profit-taking after last week's record highs, deriva-tives-related selling and large losses on other European share markets and in Tokyo pushed Belgian shares to a 2 per cent lower close on the last day of the two-week trading account. The Bcl-20 closed down 29.04 points at 1,376.76 with 1.6
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      • 158 24 unav Share prices tumbled nearly 5 per cent as investors pulled out in the face of political concerns following local elections. "I think most investors woke up today and said it was better not to stay in a market whose political future looks uncertain," one analyst said. The vote
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      • 352 24 -9.16 Dutch shares closed sharply lower in line with other equities markets as many investors decided to play safe and pocket gains chalked up this year. The EOE Index closed 9.16 points lower at 372.35. Chemical group Akzo was the only gainer among the EOE's 24 constituent shares, closing
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      • 271 24 -37.4 Swiss shares ended lower in line with other world stock markets. "We were quite impressed by the fall in Frankfurt, and the lower opening on Wall Street did nothing to change this impression," one dealer said. However, the market fell to just below 2,700 points in the SMI
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      • 304 24 +4 Shares edged higher in mostly slow early trade as the market looked to extend last week's gains, especially in the industrial sector. Dealers said the sector continued to attract steady demand, although some nervousness about profittaking had taken the edge off potential gains. The Industrial Index was three
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      • 234 24 -15.69 Toronto stocks followed the lead of major world markets and slipped lower in quiet early dealings with further weakness likely. The TSE 300 composite Index fell 15.69 points to 4.222.48 in opening activity in turnover of 8.45 million shares valued at C 591.11 million. Most Toronto sub-scc-tors lost
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      • 531 24 -30.18 Blue-chip stocks fell more than 30 points yesterday morning following declines in foreign markets and technical trading related to the monthly expiration Kriday of options and contracts. The Dow Jones Index of 30 leading industrials dropped 30.18 points to 3.663.83 by 11:00 am. Trading was heavy with
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      • 727 24 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash BM Offer Mim Cap Deposit 38 MOO 38 6MX) Mim Jency Oik 0 1893 0 1992 Mim Max Income I 0600 I 1000 L S$ Cash Income Plus Fund 10 5500 III 100 PS S Reserve Fund 2200 5 2 300 Sterling Kquit) Euro Prrformancr 0
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      2987 25 AFP, Bloomberg Business News Stocks remained weak yesterday amid lack of buying interests with the key Hang Seng Index losing 93.30 points to close the day's trading at 9,170.64. Turnover amounted to HK55.27 billion, up from Friday's HK53.67 billion. The market opened on a strong note with the key
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      457 25 SLIGHT profit taking saw both Shanghai and Shenzhen B Indices closing moderately lower. In Shanghai, most of the share prices were down on profit taking except the two recently listed bicycle companies. The most heavily traded stock. Phoenix Bicycle, continued its momentum and advanced 5.6 per cent. The two
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      2459 25 Reuter TOKYO Stocks plunged and the Nikkei average ended down more than 500 points. Investors remained on the sidelines, waiting for the government to unveil additional economic stimulus plans while arbitrage-linked selling battered prices amid worries over the weak economy, brokers said. The Nikkei closed at 17,384.84 points, down
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      1704 25 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks were unable to recover from persistent selling from the opening and ended the day substantially lower. The index followed other Asian markets down to close at 1,310.13 points, 56.78 lower, with turnover at 14.6 billion baht. Reports that foreigners had started to liquidate portfolios built
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      1115 25 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in moderate late trading as local investors sold after Japanese stock prices plunged. The Official Index rose 1.35 points to close at 536.46. "Local investors panicked a little when they saw prices in Tokyo falling heavily although foreign investors were unmoved," a local
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    • 2770 26 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Hcwa C'orpo 50c 14.249.000 kamunting MV I4.OI2.OUO Asia Puc Ld 50c 12.083.000 Pcjy Mmj 9.247.000 Promct 8.861.000 B Kaya 8.745.000 Lien Hoc 1SR97 8.244 000 Mulpha Intl 50c 7.247.000 Idris Hyd 50c 6.922.000 Lien Hoc 6.835 000 Fa her
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5813 26 Bernama SHARE priccs in Kuala Lumpur closed o(T its earlier highs when the benchmark Composite Index breached the 1.000 psychological barrier on institutional support for key component stocks. The 85-stock Weighted Index closed at a record 989.40, 4.49 points above last Friday's
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7073 27 I MAJN BOARD Tranwclion date: Nov 22 Cr Gr 1993 Last Vol Day Last Quote Di» Di» VM Net M Cap High Law Coapaay Sale (TOO) High Low Bayer Seller C'»r S P/E trail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1380 260 I Aetna 1230 20 911 1280 1210 1220 1230 12.5 2.1
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      • 661 28  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Share prices surged early yesterday on news that several broking firms had lifted the ban on contra-trad-ing, but the gains were quickly pared by a plunge in Tokyo. The Straits Times Industrials Index broke the 2,100 resistance level before
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        142 28  -  HOT STOCK Quak Hiang Whai PUNTERS' favourite Hexza surged to a high of $2.65 yesterday on a hefty volume of 14.2 million shares. A small "gapping" appeared yesterday but since it was small, it might not be a confirmation or a prelude of a runaway stock unlike most stocks
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  • Shipping Times
    • 406 29  -  ICTSI officials heading for Pakistan to finalise contract From Al Labita in MANILA A FILIPINO firm is close to landing a contract to operate a container terminal in Karachi, Pakistan, a company official said yesterday. Nana Soriano, spokesperson of International Container
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    • 215 29 SINGAPORE Hamburg, a major German seaport, will officially open its representative office in Singapore on Thursday. Singaporean KC Tan, who is also Inchcape Shipping Services' marketing manager for shipping, will head the representative office here. Berne Tiedemann, directorgeneral in Hamburg's Economic
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    • 230 29 AFP ABU DHABI Saudi Arabia's second biggest petrochemical transporter in the world will start regular services to Japan and other Asian countries as part of a new strategy to meet growing demand, the company said. The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia
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    • 852 29 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrcnkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appcnship 18 1/2 Alpha Feeders 18 1/2 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bank Line. The 9
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    • 197 29 SINGAPORE South Koreabased Hanjin Shipping has started calling directly at Colombo, to serve the growing trade from the Indian subcontinent. M H Youn, director and vice-president of Hanjin Shipping's regional headquarters for South-west Asia, said Hanjin began making fixed-day weekly calls at Colombo on
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    • 365 29 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Tiphook pic, the battered British container company, said last Friday it reached an outline agreement with Transamerica Corp to sell its most valuable asset for £830 million (551.96 billion) in cash and debt. Tiphook's share price almost
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    • 213 29 Bernama LABUAN, Malaysia Malaysian shipbuilders servicing the oil and gas industry should venture to secure fabrication contracts outside the country, head of engineering of the offshore construction project division of Sabah Shell Bhd. Ton Coonen. suggested last week. He said that with improved competency
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 478 30 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vet set Vey Wo Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port Kota Be*af BNR09V* P01 alongside 22.11/2200 Malt kota tip 255/93 P01A alongside 22.11/1*00 Batam Baru B283A 11 alongside 23.11/2000 Marco Polo 3 1/93 P03 alongside 22.11/2359 Batam Murm 11/06/93 17 alongside 23.11/2300
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      • 1491 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record BooUnf/Bilanct Rtits Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Pifiod From To From A toratw 7131# 25/0300 3 23/0700 23/1159 23/1400 4 23/1200 23/1459 23/1700 Ac. Lotui 045* 23/1315 1 22/1500 22/1859 22/1900 Ac.
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    • 7529 38 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 Pcnang after
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    • 3346 43 A X &B( ontainerline NV: Belsin Shpg Agcncies Pte Ltd (SVMannc Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business C orporation Philippine Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service Kim Shpg Trdg IS). Albatrus Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg
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    • 274 43 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716, *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. CitvLink International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster link Supplies Services Tel:
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    • 1484 43 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833 Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Tel: 545-8033 Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454 Fax: *****06 Air Express International Tel: 542-7666 Fax: *****74. *****50. Air
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    • 2507 44 ALBANIA Duress: Eight discharging of which 2 general cargo, 2 bulk wheat, 1 bagged sugar, 1 butter, 1 bagged flour, 1 macaroni, 1 vessel in roads awaiting berth to discharge bagged cement. ANGOLA Luanda: The refinery is still operating at 50 per cent capacity, port busy but no
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    • 852 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES ALTHOUGH there is still a more cautious approach by buyers to the drycargo sector, with fewer deals coming to light, it is interesting to see that such sales still cover a variety of tonnage including capesize, panamax and handy vessels, with prices still holding firm. Despite
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    • 554 44 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 1 NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 I BKK/NRT JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I TYO KAL
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    • 296 44 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dtp Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No NOVEMBER 24 24 Scaboum Spirit 0800 2300 Port Klang-Sin- Harpers Shpg (S) 221-1338 Pcnang 26 26 Renaissance I 1000 1900 Cruise to Nowhere Lines Intl Holdings 224-2763 26 26 Leisure World
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    • 868 45 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1.289 on Friday from 1,294 on Thursday. Trading opportunities for Panamax tonnage in the Atlantic and Pacific areas appear limited, brokers said. Rates slipped for US Gulf Panamax grain cargoes in the past 24 hours and
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    • 1069 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows pnce ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 181 45 COURSES Title: Arrest of Ships/Associated Remedies Duration: Nov 24 Organiser The Institute of Chartered Shiphrokers (Singapore Branch) Tel: For further details contact Ms Amy Lim at 225-7388. l ifle: Moving Trends 2000 Traffic Seminar Duration: Nov 24 Organiser K. C. Dat Tel: For further details contact at 266-5489.
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    • 1066 46 Fast ferry builders in Scandinavia, Australia, Japan and South Korea are expanding their facilities to cope with booming demand in Asia Lloyd's List Maritime Asia THE recent commitments of major traditional ferry operating groups in Europe to high speed ventures must stimulate the investigation
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 522 48  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Singapore continued to see strong growth in air cargo as volumes from North-east Asia soared. Total inbound air cargo for January-September hit 318,901 tonnes, up 13.6 per cent over the same period last year. Outbound shipments shot up 19.4
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      • 510 48 American Airlines strike Reuter FORT WORTH. Texas American Airlines, on the fourth day of a strike by its flight attendants, said on Sunday it does not intend to give in to strikers' demands which include higher pay. The flight attendants union, representing
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      • 492 48 NYT NASHVILLE, Tennessee It is not so much the pay or the benefits or the sometimes grinding, four- and five-city, one-day trips or the interminable, unpaid delays between some flights. It is the little things that the striking
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      • 328 48 Reuter AMSTERDAM The collapse of talks on the most ambitious airline merger ever attempted left four mediumsized European carriers seeking new partnerships to survive the looming deregulation of Europe's skies. The aim had been to create Europe's largest airline, a "European fortress"
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      • 160 48 AP EVERETT. Washington Australia doesn't want The Boeing Co's new version of the Awacs radar plane. Prime Minister Paul Keating said on Sunday during a tour of Boeing's giant commercial airplane assembly plant. Boeing has been offering an Airborne Warning and Control System
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 95 48 SINGAPORE The Sembawang Group took the sixth spot in a 1992 composite ranking of the top 20 shipping and shipping-relat-ed companies by a US-based publication. It was the only Singapore company in this ranking by MARlNEmoney International which covers 100 shipping and shipping-related companies in
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        • 63 48 Bloomberg Business News MINNEAPOLIS Northwest Airlines said last Friday it is adding flights and larger planes in seven US cities because of increased demand. It will add passenger seats in Chicago. Detroit. Dallas. Minneapolis, Memphis, Nashville, and Raleigh/Durham. Extra flights will be added between
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        • 118 48 AP OH RID. Macedonia Rescue workers struggled on Sunday to recover the remains of 115 people killed when their plane crashed in the rugged, snowy mountains of south-western Macedonia. Officials said only one person aboard the Avioimpex charter flight survived. The Soviet-made Yak-42, flying for
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        • 92 48 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Mazda Motor Corp shut down all its operations yesterday in a bid to cut overhead costs amid the ongoing recession, Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) reported. Mazda, the first major car production company to temporarily halt operations recently, will again close its doors
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    • 182 29 m/±7M+Rf M R FORWARDING PTE LTD WEEKLY CONSOL TO EUROPE CALL: OQOOOOO Rapid growth in the fast lane, Fg 18 Intra-Asian trade boosts S'pore air cargo volumes, Back Pg A. INTRODUCING EXPRESSRAIL'S EXPANDED ON-DOCK SERVICE. Seamless, on-dock transfers are only part of it The Port of New York New Jersey
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    • 1995 31 FRANCE/ITALY/PORTUGAL/SPAIN/MOROCCO NEXT AVAILABLE SAILING LEXA MAERSK V.9312 ETA SIN 25TH NOVEMBER 1993 Vessel Voy ETA ETD Feeder by S Laural DESTINATIONS This week MAJESTIC MAERSK V 9402 F~ M 11 0600 HAS IB CfS 29/11 2359 MBS JOM LPK PEN OAK LQB SFO MEM ATL MIA CHS BAL PHL NVC
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    • 1632 32 AOABA R OAM/ [I ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S TON H'BURG A WERP HAVRE WFgT MALAYSIA FRANKFURT EXPRESS 70/146 24/11 11/12 14/12 12/12 p orl Ke anfl Penang KITANO 22/346 27/11 6/12 12/12 15/12 18/12 20/12 22/12 Pasir Gudang KATSURAGI 19/147 1/12 18/12 21/12
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    • 2013 33 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD ■Bj? 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Td: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) cargo" oui sails •AJAH BROOKE V2«£ Muara. lab. KK In M 24 No. FCL LCt CONTAINER AND BREAK BULK SERVICE TO NCW
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    • 2454 35 II II SCX:'CALIFORNIA MERCURY 57E'ETA SGP 24/11/93 II II fsjg£t M II arriving LOS AN6ELES 11/12/93 IN 16 DAYS HI I] II AEX NEPTUNE CORAL 12E' ETA SGP 24/11/93 II I|»£_ II ARRIVING NEW YORK 17/12/93 IN 22 DAYS HI EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS (SCX) TO: UStVC US
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    • 1772 36 W-t* AS AGENTS LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR No: **********0 M) M TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX *****16/7/8/9 I T B MP MALAYSIA *K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD I IW*J TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 INDONESIA P.T. SARANA LAUT INTERNUSA. TEL JKT
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    • 937 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I JSjßgggg 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I CR NO **********0E I VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB JED AOJ AOE HOD PZU ASA KOTA BERKAT BKTOO3 30/11 5/12 11/12 18/12 12/12 17/12 21/12 KOTA WIRAWAN WRNO3S 15/12 19/12 25/12 27/12 29/12 25/12
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    • 2638 40 Full Container Liner Services Malaysia's Agents: Indonesia's Agents: General Agents: Booking Agents: Gun Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiao Shipping Sdn Bhd P. 7. Global Patra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pte Ltd s*w«r Fn** Booking c*nrt sda bm 51 Peniaraa >#i Mad* Mm Let 3.34, 3rd Fbcr, H. IK. H.
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    • 566 41 (i£ FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES —10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 29/11 ROTTERDAM 29/11 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 29/11 HAMBURG/BREMEN 29/TI MARSEILLE/FRANCE 30/11 FELIXSTOWE/UK 29/TI BARCELONA/SPAIN 25/TI LEHAVRE/FRANCE ***** GENOA/ITALY 27/TI ANTWERP/BELGIUM 29/TI LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 28/TI SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 25/11 NEW YORK/EC 26/TI FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 26/TI VANCOUVER 24/TI
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