The Business Times, 25 February 1994

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Friday February 25 1994 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 46 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks were sharply lower at midday yesterday. Analysts said the market was under pressure from a decline in the bond market. At Ipm EST. the Dow Jones industrial average was down 40.89 points, at 3.850.79. Reuter
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    • 59 1 Reuter LONDON Britain's official export credit insurer last night said it had resumed cover for exports to Vietnam after a 12year gap. The Export Credits Guarantee Department said it had decided to resume cover following debt agreements Vietnam reached last year with the
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  • 161 1 Stock market indices Thursday Change STII 2.385.24 -38.67 KLSEComp 1.146.41 +5.36 Nikkei 19.765.48 +423.65 Hang Seng 10.432.02 -331.21 SET Index 1.419.54 -11.11 Jakarta Comp 552.52 +0.64 CLSA China B 1.244.64 +11.05 Aust All Ord 2.197.0 -21.9 FTSE 100 3.267.5 -74.4 Thursday Previous 1pm close Dow Jones 3.850.79 3.891.68
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  • 171 1 AFP LONDON International financier George Soros lost US$6OO million (SS94B million) on St Valentine's Day when the yen jumped against the dollar. The Times newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Soros christened "the man who broke the Bank of England" because of his role in forcing
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  • 487 1  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE The Singapore government has assured foreign companies wishing to invest in the Singapore-styled Suzhou township that the rules which have been agreed upon with the Chinese will not change. "We can guarantee that the agreement we have reached
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  • 539 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG GOVERNOR Chris Patten will gazette a Bill today containing the more controversial parts of his political reform plan for Hongkong. 16 months after he first unveiled them. The move followed the release by Britain of a 36-page
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  • 129 1 AP WASHINGTON Orders to US factories for durable goods jumped a surprising 3.7 per cent last month, marking the first time since 1987 that the indicator of manufacturing growth has climbed for six straight months. The increase, the largest since last June's 4.3 per
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  • 315 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Former Kim Eng Holdings director Ang Lay Leong was yesterday fined $20,000 after pleading guilty to two charges of cheating Wing Tai Holdings by making multiple share applications during the latter's initial public offering. Eight other charges
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  • 564 1 Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg Business News LOS ANGELES In a stunning announcement. Bell Atlantic Corp and cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc yesterday called off their US$33 billion (Sss2 billion) merger agreement, scrapping an alliance they promised would "make the information superhighway a
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  • 271 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Only the Malaysian market withstood a wave of profit-taking that swept the region's major stock exchanges yesterday. Analysts said the weaker ringgit attracted foreign investors to Malaysian shares, especially now that the central bank has slammed the door
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    • 179 1 CONTENTS Regional News 3,4.6 Financial 23.2* World News 10.11 Fuimt Marliets Analysis 17 CJob/KlSf. SES »30 Editorial 16 Regional 26 Sports 15 World 21 TV/Litestyle 13 Currencies 24 Advertising 14 Simex/Commo 24.25 SutacriytiM Tel 1800 *****77 Fa *****75 rr Edit Mill Tel *****18 Fai *****71 Sumptuous Delight** AT 1 /a
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 342 2  -  By Corinne Kerk RESTAURANTS, fast food outlets and other eating places enjoyed an average 5 per cent increase in sales last year. A breakdown of the catering trade index shows that, in volume terms, fast food outlets enjoyed the highest gains of 11.3 per cent.
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 162 2 THE 5% individual income tax rebate for Year of Assessment 1994, as announced by Finance Minister Richard Hu in the Budget on Wednesday, will be deducted against the tax payable before a $700 rebate, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore said yesterday. The $700 personal
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      • 110 2 SIX companies and businessmen have bid for the Ponggol site for boatel development, the Urban Redevelopment Authority announced yesterday after the close of tender at noon. The sale site comprises 1.8 ha of foreshore/seabed and 3.2 ha of land area for development of
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    • 498 2  -  By Sylvia Wong THE HOUSING and Development Board is selling four more pieces of land capable of supporting more than 1,000 residential units for private development. The four sites one parcel each in Geylang and Bukit Panjang, and two lots in Jurong West
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    • 343 2  -  By Joseph Rajendran GOVERNMENT-linked Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, which today breaks ground on a US$66O million (551.05 billion) plant at Woodlands, said yesterday it had signed up four jointventure partners. It also said it would spend US$lOO million expanding its existing plant,
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    • 300 2  -  Asian Aerospace '94 By Juliette Walker ASIA'S air travel market will continue to outpace world growth, driven by the region's thriving economies, the European aircraft consortium, Airbus Industrie, predicted here yesterday. Didier Lenormand, air transport development manager for Airbus,
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    • 728 2  -  The OSA trial By Ramesh Divyanathan BUSINESS Times editor Patrick Daniel told a Subordinate Court yesterday that he did not think publishing an article containing "official flash estimates" would be a breach of the Official
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    • 60 2 DBS president Patrick Yeoh (left) and NUS vice-chancellor Professor Lim Pin took time off on Wednesday to join the crowd at Asian Aerospace *94. Like the hundreds who were there, the banker and the academician were entranced by the RSAF Black Knights, who open
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    • 142 2 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority will auction 12 parcels of unrestored shophouses in the Chinatown and Little India areas on April 6. The URA said yesterday that successful bidders would have to pay a 3 per cent Goods and Services Tax on
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    • 393 2  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Aerospace will open a state-of-the-art hangar at Changi today aimed at capturing a bigger share of the commercial aircraft maintenance business in the Asia-Pa-cific. The $70 million two-bay facility will be opened officially by Minister of State for Finance and Communications
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    • 372 2 6 rmtt MANAGEMENT OiyuUsatkms UNIVERSITY w The Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) in conjunction with the Royal Melbourne Institute ot Technology (RMIT) invites applicants for the MBA in International Management. This regionally based programme is designed to assist managers in international business environment. The programme is sponsored by the Asian
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 443 3  -  Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Defence Reports by Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE East Asia's strong economic growth has led to a "massive shift" in defence spending to the regibn. Japan, Asean and the East Asian Dragons not including China spent
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    • 485 3 SINGAPORE China's assertive military posture, coupled with the modernisation of its armed forces and the country's strong economic growth, could mark a new era of great power rivalry in South-east Asia. This post-Cold War Big Power rivalry,
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 71 3 AFP MANILA President Fidel Ramos yesterday promised foreign investors that he would open up the protected banking and retail industries and solve the Philippines' traffic and electrical power problems. Mr Ramos admitted the country still suffered from a negative image abroad, but he stressed
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      • 82 3 AFP JAKARTA A court here yesterday sentenced a human rights activist to four years' imprisonment for insulting President Suharto. Nuku Sulaeman. 29. executive chairman of the human rights group Yayasan Pijar. was found guilty of intentionally insulting the Indonesian head of state during a protest
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      • 83 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian manufacturers said yesterday that they fear the local tyre market could collapse following a government decision to cut duties on imported tyres. The Malaysian Automotive Tyres Manufacturing Industry Group said in a memorandum to the Ministry of International Trade and
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      • 81 3 AFP TOKYO Japan's industrial production and shipments in 1993 fell for the second straight year, the longest losing streak since the 1973 oil shock, a government report said yesterday. The 1993 index of mining and manufacturing output stood at 91.2, against the base of 100
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    • 395 3 The Straits Times JAKARTA President Suharto, whose recent remarks on his tenure as Indonesian leader fuelled speculation that he might be preparing to step down, said yesterday that no one should make an issue of the political succession question. He said the
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 90 4 Reuter BEIJING Guangdong province attracted U559.65 billion (5515.3 billion) in foreign investment in 1993, vice-governor Lu Ruihua was quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying. Mr Lu said yesterday that, excluding the Daya Bay nuclear power station, Guangdong has attracted accumulative U5529.6 billion in
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      • 107 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's economy slowed slightly in 1993 because of sluggish global growth but is expected to rebound this year on the back of stronger exports and more private investment, the government said yesterday. Gross National Product growth eased to 5.9 per cent last year from
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      • 92 4 AFP BEIJING Fewer young Beijingers are going abroad to seek their fortune as China's economic reforms open up attractive new opportunities at home, the China Business Times said yesterday. Some 2,800 individuals left the Chinese capital last year for studies abroad funded by themselves, down from
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      • 121 4 Reuter 'SHANGHAI When it comes to book pirating in China, not even paramount leader Deng Xiaoping is safe. Illegal publishers are making a killing out of rip-ofT editions of a biography written by his daughter Xiao Rong, according to the latest edition of the 'Shanghai
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      • 84 4 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan's unemployment rate, one of the world's lowest, dipped to 1.2 per cent in January, down 0.04 per cent from December, the Cabinet said yesterday. The number of jobless persons fell 3,000 to 108,000, according to the Directorate General of Budget,
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      • 57 4 Reuter BEIJING Drought conditions in northern China threaten to ,cut the spring harvest of cotton and grain, although nationally a good harvest is still expected, the official China Daily said. Officials in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces told the newspaper, crops have grown poorly and seedlings have
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    • 469 4  -  Investment in infrastructure fund is single largest direct investment by GIC. Temasek Hldgs By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The Government, through Temasek Holdings and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), has pumped US$25O million (*****.5 million) into a fund set up to invest
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    • 61 4 Reuter CHENGDU, China Workers washing a Chinese-made van at the mandator) car-wash on the outskirts of Chengdu in Sichuan Province. All vehicles entering Chengdu must be cleaned to keep pollution down in the city. The service costs three yuan (about 50 cents) for a small
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    • 398 4 Reuter BEIJING China issued yesterday a set of new rules on computer security, thrusting a government road block in the path of any Chinese hoping to jump on the international information superhighway. The rules put computer information networks under the supervision of
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    • 305 4  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Leshan. a famous tourist spot in China's Sichuan province, needs about 10.000 new four- and five-star hotel rooms to cater to the six million tourists the city receives every year. And Singaporeans have been
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    • 294 4 AFP, Reuter TOKYO Chinese VicePremier Zhu Rongji tried yesterday to dispel Japan's fears that its economic aid to Beijing could result in a massive military build-up in the neighbouring communist giant. Mr Zhu told Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa that the Chinese military
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    • 278 4 Reuter BEIJING China will move ahead carefully with its domestic stock market experiment this year while increasing the role foreign markets play in bringing overseas capital to the country. Liu Hongru. chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). said yesterday
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 57 6 AFP JAMMU, India Muslims protesting outside a police station against the alleged failure of police to protect them after Hindus tried to attack Muslim homes following a bomb blast that killed three people here. Hundreds of demonstrators in Hindu-majority Jammu blamed the blast on Muslim
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    • 421 6 Indian economic surve Reuter NEW DELHI India revised downwards its estimate for growth in gross domestic product (GDP) for the current financial year ending March to 3.8 per cent, compared with 4.0 per cent in 1992/93, according to ofllcial projections. In its annual
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    • 458 6 Reuter NEW DELHI India's agricultural production in 1993/94 (April/March) is expected to fall by 0.9 per cent compared to a 3.9 per cent growth in the previous year. The government's economic survey for 1993/94. published yesterday, said food grain production was also expected
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    • 216 6 Reuter NEW DELHI India's trade deficit in fiscal 1993/94 ending March is expected to be around USSI.O billion (551.58 billion), against US$3.3 billion the previous year. The government's economic survey, published yesterday, said that based on this projection, the current account deficit was
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    • 476 6 AFP SEOUL The good news for South Korean President Kim Young Sam, who took office a year ago today, is that the country's economy has recovered from the slowdown that marked the two years before his inauguration. The bad news is
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    • 227 6 Reuter TOKYO Real estate prices in the Tokyo area are showing signs of recovery. A monthly survey by MRD Co Ltd. a private research firm, published yesterday, showed that of 621 real estate firms surveyed on Feb 14, 9.0 per cent said
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  • WORLD FOCUS
    • 631 7 Europe's economic challenges FT EUROPEAN economies are becoming more integrated, but European business leaders remain a highly diverse breed. A continent-wide opinion poll for the Financial Times and five other European newspapers shows marked differences in attitudes to the continent's economic challenges. The continent
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    • 738 7 Reuter OPENING up public procurement in the European Union is proving a hard nut to crack with all EU countries jealously trying to keep for their own firms a sector worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Muro Fenstertechnik Rol-laden-Muller is a small
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  • THE WORLD
    • 409 10  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin addressed both chambers of the new Russian parliament for the first time yesterday amid renewed opposition from parliamentary and workers* groups. The presidential address to the State Duma and Council of the Federation,
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    • 380 10 Reuter, AFP PARIS Western creditor countries have quietly granted Russia a further dose of debt relief to encourage Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin's newlyrevamped government to speed up the pace of economic stabilisation and reforms. Western diplomats said on Wednesday that creditors in
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    • 181 10 AP BRUSSELS The European Union's trade chief will travel to China this weekend for discussions on Beijing's desire to join the world trade body and other issues. Sir Leon Brittan. a vicepresident of the union's executive agency, is scheduled to arrive in
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    • 389 10 AFP BRUSSELS Difficult negotiations to enlarge the European Union enter a final four-day stretch today, with applicants Austria. Finland. Norway and Sweden still bargaining hard for favourable entry terms. After a year of haggling, all the applicant countries are still trying to bend
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 106 10 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The Institute of Directors yesterday urged a rethink of the role of companies and directors in the UK economy, the Financial Times reported. It said that too often, emphasis was on the integrity of company directors rather than how to best
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      • 47 10 AFP LONDON Pitiu. a peforming pony, walks under under Pip. a police horse held by PC Nick White. A 67cm-high representative of the Falahella breed, the world's smallest. Pitiu was stolen two months ago but was recovered in London on Tuesday after a tip-ofT. AFP
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      • 54 10 Reuter MUNICH German industry was more optimistic about its outlook in January, reporting better export prospects and improved tendencies in orders, the IFO economic research institute said in its latest monthly survey. Positive reports on the business climate narrowly exceeded negative ones for the first time
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      • 51 10 AP WASHINGTON The Clinton administration is cool towards Russian President Boris Yeltsin's call for a Bosnia summit. While not flatly rejecting the idea, administration officials said on Wednesday that it would take a lot more work before such a meeting would be productive.
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      • 46 10 Reuter WASHINGTON Secretary of State Warren Christopher will travel to China. Japan and Australia from March 4 to 14. The first stop would be Canberra for regional and economic talks followed by trade talks in Tokyo before moving on to Beijing.
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    • 48 11 Reuter METKOVIC, Croatia A Danish truck driver for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees waits in front of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid at the UNHCR base in this town on Wednesday. Eight of these trucks were to deliver aid to Muslims. Reuter
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    • 331 11 IHT BRUSSELS European officials are becoming worried that the trade dispute between the US and Japan could chill the climate for global commerce only months after the successful end of the Uruguay Round of Gatt talks. The US has been rebuffed
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    • 255 11 FT PARIS The French government pledged itself to an ambitious defence policy, working in greater cooperation with its European and Nato allies, in a White Paper designed to map out French military strategy into the next century. The dual purpose of the
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    • 317 11 AP WASHINGTON Friendlier government policies have been sparking a private investment boom in the Third World, says the International Finance Corporation, the part of the World Bank that deals with business. Most of the investment comes from within, said Guy PfefTermann, the
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    • 291 11 Reuter WASHINGTON The IMF said on Wednesday it gave the go-ahead to a US$9.6 billion (Ssls billion) fund to help the world's poorest nations reform and modernise their economies. International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus welcomed the decision by the IMFs board
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    • 186 11 AFP LONDON British banks are coming under increasing criticism for their handling of overdrawn accounts, amid accusations that they are driving clients to suicide. A father of two recently committed suicide after receiving two bank letters warning him that he was
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 595 13  -  And will carrots help you see better in the dark? Marian Burros takes a second look at some old wives' tales that defy scientific logic. Or do they? Marian Burros NYT EAT your carrots; you'll see better in the dark. Don't go swimming until an
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    • 583 13 CHATTERBOX AP UPI AFP AP AFP A WINEMAKER in Lowden, Washington, who botchcd a batch of sweet white wine is owning up to his mistake and trying to profit from it as well, selling it as sherry under the name "Faux Pas
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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  • SPORTS
    • 976 15 XVII Winter Olympic Games AP LILLEHAMMER, Norway In the long-awaited showdown on ice, count Round One to Nancy Kerrigan. She elegantly aced the technical programme against European standouts, while American rival Tonya Harding all but bobbled away any chance for an Olympic fig-ure-skating medal. Meanwhile on
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 170 15 Reuter NEW YORK Michael Jordan, the retired basketball superstar who is trying his hand at professional baseball, has turned down a USSIS million (5523.8 million) offer to use his fists to challenge lor boxings biggest prize. Main Events promoter Dan Duva confirmed on Wednesday
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      • 171 15 Reuter KINGSTON. Jamaica West Indies were within eight runs of winning the first test on Wednesday despite Graeme Hick leading a valiant but forlorn rearguard fight by England. Needing 95 to win. West Indies were 87 for two at the close and
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      • 110 15 Reuter ROTTERDAM Boris Becker and Karel Novacek on Wednesday bccame the first seeds to tumble out of the World indoor tournament here. Fourth-seeded Becker fell to Dutchman Paul Haarhuis 4-6 7-6 6-4 in the first round and last year's losing finalist, seventh seed Karel
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      • 128 15 AP SCOTTSDALE. Arizona San Francisco's Barry Bonds, in need of new goals after leading the Giants to 103 victories last year, is aiming for an unprecedented fourth straight National League Most Valuable Player trophy. "It's important for me to see if I can do something no
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    • SCORE CARD
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        43 15 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Wednesday: Atlanta 99 Seattle 92: Orlando 103 Indiana 99; Philadelphia 102 New Jersey 106: Washington 96 Cleveland 106; Chicago 123 Golden State 100; Denver 102 Boston 94; Utah 106 San Antonio 102 (OT2); LA Clippers 112 Portland 121.
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        52 15 Reuter CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand Pakistan were 334 for seven wickets at the close of the first day of the third and final cricket test yesterday after New Zealand won ihe toss and asked them to bat. Score: Pakistan 334-7 (Saeed Anwar 69. Aamir Sohail 60. Basit All 98 not
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        29 15 AFP CARDIFF Welsh Classic quar-ter-finals Wednesday: Rodney Eyles (Aust) b Peter Nicol (Scot) 11-15 15-4 15-13 15-11; Peter Marshall (Ens) b Danny Meddings (Eng) 15-7 15-10 15-I*o. AFP
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        184 15 AFP Reuter Reuter ROTTERDAM WorM Indoor Ist rd Wednesday: Goran Ivanisevic (Cro) b David Prinosil (Ger) 3-6 6-3 7-6; Magnus Gustafsson (Swe) b John McEnroe (US) 6*2 7-6: Paul Haarhuis (Neth) b Boris Becker (Ger) 4-6 7-6 6-4. 2nd rd: Rodolphe Gilbert (Fra) b Karel Novacek (Cze) 4-6 7-6
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    • 401 15 Golf AP JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA. Spain Jack Nicklaus, who designed the Montecastillo Golf Course, pronounced it ceady for this week's Andalusian Open and also said it would be a good site for the 1997 Ryder Cup, which has been awarded to
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    • 207 15 Reuter SYDNEY Three of Australia's top professionals, including former British Open run-ner-up Mike Harwood. grabbed the spotlight yesterday for playing like a bunch of weekend hackers. Playing together. Harwood. Lucas Parsons and Ken Trimble all previous winners on tour posted a combined score of 44 strokes
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    • 196 15 Beginning today. Business Times will publish a fortnightly column on practical golf tips courtesy of Patrick Sherry, Director of Golf, Palm Resort Golf Country Club The tee short getting off to a good start I he problem (Men golfers) I The clubface is open at ball contact, producing a slice.
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  • 544 16 iprroroAL ON MONDAY, India's economic mandarin Manmohan Singh will present his fourth budget in a row a record for any finance minister of that country. With his previous three budgets, he rescued the Indian economy from the brink of financial disaster and nursed it to
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 208 16 GERMANY has been more purposeful than most Western countries in responding to the changes taking place in the world as the centre of economic gravity shifts from the West to Asia. Germany's new policy is based on its document Asia Concept, which it adopted some months
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    • 191 16 WHILE THE MAJOR crime rate went down marginally last year compared with 1992, there are some worrying trends. White-collar crimes have gone up and so have sex crimes. Even more worrying is the fact that many petty crimes were committed by youngsters. Police believe these youngsters
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    • 130 16 ONE SHOULD NOT just look for personal gain in Budget announcements but also catch the message that the government is trying to convey. The message this year is how to increase our competitive spirit and improve our overall living conditions. On the government's side, encouraging
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    • 162 16 THE Housing and Local Government Ministry is obviously taking quite a few first steps in the right direction. We call them first steps because it is quite clear that a series of evolving actions would still be required from this point on before the ministry's stated
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    • 175 16 THE United States government's decision to grant Indonesia another six months in which to improve the protection of its workers' rights before deciding whether to extend or withdraw its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) surely portends an eventually satisfactory solution to that issue. We thus feel
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    • 149 16 STATISTICS on the Chinese economy do not add up. Economists and commentators have long suspected it. Yesterday the People's Daily confirmed that many of the numbers coming out of the mainland are at best suspect and at worst spurious. Now the country faces the prospect of having
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  • 1295 16  -  Shintaro Ishihara says the US brought its trade deficit with Japan upon itself Shintaro Ishihara The writer is co-author, with Sony chairman Akio Morita, of the controversial 1990 book, 'A Japan That Can Say No' New Perspectives Quarterly THE breakdown of the Japan-US economic negotiations
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    • 1291 17  -  Vladimir Zhirinovsky's electoral success last December scared a good many people around the world, who saw a Russian Hitler in the making. John Helnier talks to the man's chief foreign policy adviser to get an insight into what he really
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    • 784 17 THE chief foreign policy adviser to Vladimir Zhirinovsky has criticiscd China for its "penetration" of Siberia. and urged restrictions on the inflow of Chinese businessmen and workers into Russia. Speaking in Moscow, following the recent visit to China by Foreign Minister Andrei
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  • 399 18 Knight-Rider Bloomberg Business News, Reuter WASHINGTON Two United States lawmakers will introduce legislation today that would require the US to impose sanctions if it finds Japan to be in violation of bilateral trade agreements. Congressional aides said Senator
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  • 254 18 Bloomberg Business News Knight-Ridder TOKYO The yen soared against the US dollar following a denial by Japan's vice-fi-nance minister that the US and Japan had struck a secret accord on dollar-yen rates. Vice-Finance Minister Kosuki Nakahira told reporters at
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  • 47 18 AFP MANILA Toy guns became a symbolic offering before this steamroller yesterday as people in Manila protested against the glorification of violence. The event also marked the Bth anniversary of the near-bloodless popular revolt that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power. AFP
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  • 364 18  -  From Yong Pow Ang in TIANJIN, China A THIRTY-MEMBER Singapore business mission is in Tianjin to look into investment opportunities in conjunction with the visit of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew to the port city. Mr Lee. who arrived here yesterday, said
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  • 264 18 Reuter TOKYO Japan's ruling coalition looked in danger of splitting yesterday, with one group favouring and the other opposing a controversial plan to reshuffle the six-month-old Cabinet. The leader of the Rcngo union, part of the eight-group alliance, said Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's
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  • 179 18 The Straits Times JAKARTA Signals from four American television networks beamed into Indonesia and other parts of the region covered by the Palapa satellite will be scrambled by September as part of efforts to protect copyright of the programmes. Jack Porray. managing
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  • 893 18  -  The Bottom Line PAUL MARRIAGE PAUL MARRIAGE The writer is executive director of Hongkong-based corporate affairs consultancy Forrest International. The view's expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the company. THE Year of the Landlord is how International
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  • 99 18 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT A policymaker of the Deutsche Bundesbank yesterday expressed optimism that German interest rates would continue to fall despite a dim outlook for January money-supply growth. Prospects for further rate cuts were good, because German money-market rates remained above those for
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 399 19  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK REFINER Singapore Petroleum Company is stepping up its regional investment thrust. It has teamed up with another Singapore company, Dovechem Petroleum, to build an oil storage terminal near Shenzhen. China, and is finalising a similar investment in
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    • 350 19  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Scotts Holdings has reported a 32.4 per cent drop in interim earnings to $1.96 million for the six months to Dec 31 but says better times are around the corner. Group executive director Iqbal Jumabhoy said
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    • 347 19 SINGAPORE Listed Tuan Sing Holdings bought a warehouse with a two-storey office annex building in the MacPherson area for $14.2 million at a public auction yesterday. The winning bid for the 31,679 sq ft freehold property at Burn Road works out to $448
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    • 299 19 SINGAPORE United International Securities (UIS), the closed-end investment company of United Overseas Bank, announced yesterday that its net earnings for 1993 rose 91 per cent to $3.83 million from the previous year's $2 million. Total income increased 28.6 per cent to
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    • 641 19  -  HOCK LOCK SiEW By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesia's fast-growing and prosperous middle class has proved to be a dream market for dairy and fruit drink firm PT Ultrajaya Milk Industry and Trading Company. It has enabled Ultrajaya, incorporated in
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    • 238 19  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Manufacturing and property group Wearne Brothers is suing local firm Optics Storage for alleged copyright infringement. The suit comes after sound card maker Creative Technology sued rival Aztech for the same reason. The four local firms are moving
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    • 157 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pan Pacific Asia Bhd's group pretax profit for the financial year ended Oct 31, 1993, jumped nearly 16 times to M 543.29 million (5525.11 million) from MJ2.57 million a year before. Releasing its results yesterday, Pan Pacific Asia said
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        36 19 Mixed Market Mood indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance. Barings. Dat*u, GK Goh. Kay Hian. Phillip and Tat Lee.
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        149 19  -  -By Quak Hiang Whai Amalgamated Steel Mills finished two cents lower at $2.78 yesterday on a healthy volume of 1.44 million units. The stock will face some resistance at $2.80, having gone up from $2.50 in the past few sessions. But chances are it will break through. The
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 81 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kim Hin Industry Bhd's proposed bonus and bond issues along with its executive share option scheme (ESOS) have been approved by the Securities Commission. Malaysian International Merchant Bankers Bhd said in a statement on behalf of the company yesterday that
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        • 106 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Shangri-La Hotels (M) Berhad announced the acquisition of 20 per cent equity stake comprising 10,775,000 new ordinary shares of MSI.OO each at par and for cash in Johdaya Kerya Sdn Bhd. JK is a joint venture company incorporated in Malaysia for
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        • 86 20 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai telecommunications conglomerate Shinawatra Computer Communications made a capital gain of 414 million baht (SS24 million) by selling half its stake in International Engineering Co (lEC). Shinawatra sold 600,025 common shares, or 5.7 per cent of total equity of lEC, for
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        • 72 20 SINGAPORE In a circular from the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday, trading in Datapulse shares will cease on a "when issued" basis and will commence on "ready" basis with effect from 9am, Tuesday, Mar I. The circular states that trades in Datapulse shares done
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        • 47 20 SINGAPORE Pacific Can Investment Holdings Ltd, in a letter to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday, said its directors were not aware of any reasons or circumstances for the increase in the turnover and price of the company's shares on the exchange.
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        • 120 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Lim Kim Hai Holdings (M) Bhd returned a group pre-tax profit of M 57.05 million (554.02 million) for the half year ended Dec 31, 1993, up 3.86 per cent from M 56.79 million in the corresponding period of 1992. It
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      • 490 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS MwugtrV gricn Feb 2S UMB Invest Mgt Ltd ?inninnn i i.u Tract Unifund 1.60 1.66 Singapore unn imi t'mbood 102 i.os The Commerce 1.85 1.94 United Cr Fund 1.70 1.77 The Savings Fund 1.71 I 80 United Asla Fund 1.92 2.02S pore Prog Fund 0.76 0 80
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      • 475 20  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR GHAFAR BABA. chairing his first shareholders' meeting since becoming chairman of Union Paper Holdings Bhd, yesterday unveiled an ambitious shopping list to take the small paper products company into the financial, infrastructure and wood-based businesses.
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      • 410 20  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THAI DANU Bank, which yesterday reported a 13.5 per cent rise in net profits to 470.7 million baht (5529.4 million) for last year, plans to raise additional funds on the Thai market to finance its
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      • 215 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR FACB Bhd, a company involved in manufacturing, resort development and venture capital, has unveiled plans to become a household name in the home appliances sector. As a first step towards achieving its objective, it has entered into a conditional
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      • 277 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Gam-ing-based Magnum Corporation Bhd registered a remarkable 34.10 per cent hike in group pre-tax profit to M 5415.97 million (5X237 million) for the financial year ended Dec 31. 1993, from M 5310.22 million for 1992. This was recorded on
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      • 296 20 SINGAPORE Paper and food-based Inno-Pacific Holdings Ltd announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to sell its entire 50 per cent stake in the loss-mak-ing Inno-Pacific Foods Industries Pte Ltd to an associate company, K.MP Private Ltd, for *****,000.
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      • 186 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd (NSTP) will soon introduce new newspaper products, managing director Mohamad Noor Mutalib said yesterday. The group would be increasing its products to help it achieve greater profitability in years to come, he told reporters
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      • 282 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR TH Loy Industries Bhd's proposed acquisition of two companies in the oil and gas industry will enable the group to tap the industry's rapid growth prospects, its adviser D&C Sakura Merchant Bankers Bhd said yesterday.
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      • 347 20 Payment Ex Books Pi) dale close date BAT 21* F 86 9N Mar 18 Mar 24 Apr 6 Beijaya Group I 6 Mar 11 Mar 28 Apr 18 Beqaya Ind I 4 Mar II Mar 28 Apr 12 Beqava Leisure I S Feb 22 Mar 8 Apr 6
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      • 412 21  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG HONGKONG'S Wheelock group has teamed up with Britain's Virgin Megastores to open a chain of music and entertainment stores in Hongkong, Taiwan and China. The deal, a 50-50 venture between Wheelock Pacific and Virgin Retail Group Ltd, was
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 86 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Morgan Stanley Capital International will increase the percentage of Japanese stocks in its benchmark Europe, Australia and Far East Index to 44.5 per cent from 42 per cent on March 17. MSCI, a unit of US investment bank Morgan Stanley, set
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        • 69 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Takashimaya yesterday announced revised earnings estimates. The company says it now expects current profit to fall to 2.8 billion yen (5542.3 million) in the full year to Feb 28. The company reported a current profit of 4.93 billion yen for the year
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        • 92 21 Reuter SYDNEY Global transport group TNT Ltd reported its first profit in over three years yesterday and announced it would expand core operations after a series of capital raisings and asset sales to reduce debt. The once debt-laden TNT reported a net equity
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        • 105 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Garment and shoe maker retailer Chaifa Holdings Ltd plans to raise HKSS4.I million (SS 11.1 million) to further expand its retail sales network in China, the Hongkong Economic Times reported. Chaifa plans to issue 51 million new shares at
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        • 69 21 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ltd yesterday said profit more than doubled in the first half to A 582.1 million (SS94 million). Revenue in the six months ended Dec 31 rose 7 per cent from a year earlier to AS4I6
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        • 73 21 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zealand's Natural Gas Corp yesterday said strong sales growth and a one-time gain on the sale of its stake in Enerco led to a profit of NZ525.9 million (5523.8 million), or 61.59 cents a share, in the six months
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      • 258 21 Reuter BEIJING The Shenzhen stock exchange's decision on Tuesday to suspend introduction of new listings is a temporary slow-down and not a sign of any new national policy. Liu Hongru. chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said yesterday that Shenzhen authorities were within
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      • 232 21 Reuter TOKYO Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd will sell an estimated 52 billion yen (SS7BS million) of long-stand-ing holdings in Nissan Motor Co Ltd. major Japanese brokerages and other top companies before the March 31 end of the fiscal year, the
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      • 636 22 NYT NEW YORK The key to the break-up of the Bell Atlan-tic-Tele-Communications Inc merger, announced on Wednesday night, is likely to be found in the striking differences in the styles and goals of the two companies, which are run for two different kinds
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      • 259 22 AFP LONDON British Telecommunications is set to announce a huge investment programme aimed at creating "information superhighways" to bring a multitude of services into every home, reported the Financial Times yesterday. The programme, which would deliver a range of interactive services including videos, banking
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      • 355 22 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH SMH Societe Microelectronique et d'Horiogerie SA, the world's largest watch maker and creator of the Swatch, said on Wednesday it posted a group net profit of 440 million Swiss francs (Ss4Bo million) in 1993, from 413
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      • 360 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Gas pic, the world's largest integrated gas company, said it made a pre-tax loss of £613 million (SSI.4 billion) on a current cost basis for the year ended Dec 31, compared to a profit of £846 million
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      • 205 22 AFP PARIS A change in accounting procedures and early payment of debt resulted in a net loss of US$244 million (*****.5 million) last year for Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). But the US company on Wednesday reported an operating profit of US$3O2 million. In
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 455 23  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY US INVESTMENT bank Salomon Brothers plans to expand its operations in Singapore, says the new managing director of investment banking at Salomon Brothers Asia Pacific, Trevor Rowe. Mr Rowe, speaking on Wednesday before leaving for his new job
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      • 333 23 Reuter HONGKONG Asia's budding dragon bond market is already starting to diversify with the launch earlier this week of two issues by former debtdelinquent nations. Dragon bonds are ordinary debt issues aimed at raising capital from a growing pool of Asian wealth in
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      • 291 23 FT PARIS Credit Lyonnais. the French state-controlled banking group, plans to sell more than 20 billion francs (555.4 billion) of assets over the next two years as part of a plan to repair its balance sheet. The group confirmed
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      • 330 23 Reuter. LONDON Banks and securities houses in London's financial district are vying to snap up strategic thinkers with expertise in Europe's fixed-in-come markets. Massive profits from the 1993 bond market rally have fuelled the recruitment drive. "The marketplace is back," said a
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 92 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the territory's quasi-central bank, asked banks here to keep real estate loans under 40 per cent of their loan portfolios, the Hongkong Standard newspaper reported on Wednesday. The authority also asked banks to keep the annual
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        • 47 23 AFP CAIRO Egyptian security forces examining the site of.an explosion in front of an Egyptian-American bank in Garden City, a residential district of Cairo, on Wednesday. The attack against the banks is part of the Gamaa-Islamia fundamentalist group's effort to destabilise the country. AFP
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        • 74 23 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's central bank said up to USSI.B billion (Ss2.B billion) in equity investment funds is still waiting to be remitted into the island. Foreign institutional investors have received approval to bring in US$4.7l billion but have only remitted U553.34 billion so
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        • 72 23 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Chinese Vice-PTemier Zhu Rongji yesterday asked the Bank of Japan to continue cooperative efforts to improve the operations of the People's Bank of China, a Kyodo News Wire report quoted officials of the central bank as saying. Mr Zhu, who arrived
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        • 76 23 Reuter HANOI The Bank of America is applying to open branches in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, a senior executive said here yesterday. "Bank of America views Vietnam with high potential." Asia vice-president Larry Greenberg told a conference on business prospects in Vietnam.
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      • 435 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian sawntimber is slowly losing its pricing advantage among European buyers, particularly the Dutch, due to the rapid increase in prices of species like dark red meranti (DRM). Timber traders said at existing price levels, the country's DRM
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      • 57 24 Reuter VIRGINIA, South Africa Rescuers searching waist-deep in mud to find survivors on Wednesday after a wave of sludge from a burst gold mine slime dam buried people alive in their homes in Virginia, 200 km south of Johannesburg. Ten people were killed
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      • 335 24 IHT PARIS The traditional core business of commercial banks, lending money, may be on the wane, but the institutions are trying to cope by moving into new areas, a report by the Bank for International Settlements said on Wednesday.
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      • 280 24 Reuter BASLE, Switzerland International bond lending reached record levels in the final quarter of 1993 despite reduced borrowing by a number of governments, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said. "The record volume of net new issues occurred
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      • 220 24 Reuter KUWAIT Kuwait Oil Minister Ali al-Baghli said a proposal to privatise parts of the state-owned oil sector was the start of a major trend, the Arab Times newspaper reported yesterday. "The idea of privatising some facilities in the oil sector is
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      • 310 24 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian mining concern Savage Resources Ltd will double in size with the US$2OO million (Ss3l7 million) acquisition of Union Mining Inc. the US zinc subsidiary of Belgium-based NV Union Miniere. Union Mines, located in Clarksville. Tennessee, accounts for a quarter
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      • 195 24 Reutcr LONDON UK unit trust funds under management reached a record £99.9 billion (***** billion) in January, the Association of Unit Trusts and Investment Funds said yesterday. Rising stockmarket values and strong retail demand pushed levels above the previous high of
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      • 141 24 THE USS/majors traded sideways yesterday after a sharp rally overnight in a generally USS short market scrambling for cover. Trading resumed yesterday on a cautious tone. News about an emergency press conference out of Tokyo caused another flurry of activity with the market liquidating its
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      • 180 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar fell more than one pfennig against the deutschemark in Europe yesterday as hopes receded that ihe US would raise interest rates. The dollar started its decline after the US Commerce Department said orders for durable goods rose 3.77 per cent in January. The
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      • 176 24 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Brent crude oil futures prices were pushed moderately higher yesterday by stronger crude and heating oil prices in New York after a prediction of continued cold weather, brokers said. A new US National Weather Service forecast calling for
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      • 95 24 Reuter NEW YORK The dollar slackened after getting an early burst of energy on news of a surge in US durable goods orders yesterday. The 3.7 per cent increase in January durable goods orders initially fuelled talk of another possible US monetary tightening. But such talk quieted as
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        1604 24 Trade~*etgkird index cakvkued atawst S'pore's top 14 trading partners. Base year 198? l)S$/S$ forward rates Noon Feb 24 s$ Bid Offer 1-moMh ***** 1.5863 :-month ***** I SMI J-morah 1.5845 1.5860 6-month 1.5840 1 5860 Sounr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at ltM m Fab 24: Singapore
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1323 25 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures closed lower in volatile trading yesterday. Dealers said Euroyen was volatile on the back of the wild gyrations of the dollar. "The Euroyen was tracking the movements of the dollar today," said a dealer with a European
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      • 606 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Tiii Tin plunged 39 sen to close at MS 14.66 a kg as traders liquidated their positions after the ringgit firmed against the US dollar. "The ringgit "s rise pushed traders to liquidate their long positions and take profits. The fall
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        • 111 25 HONGKONG A drought in China's north and north-west is threatening to reduce harvests of cotton and grain, the official China Daily newspaper reported yesterday. More than 6.7 million hectares of farmland across China's north and north-west could be affected by the drought, the report said. "The
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        • 122 25 SYDNEY The Carmen Cebu underground copper mine in the Philippines will remain idle for at least four more months due to damage caused by a mudslide late last month. Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp president Rogelio Salazar said yesterday. However. Mr Salazar
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        • 55 25 SEOUL The Korea Feed Association bought 25.000 tonnes of Brazilian soymeal yesterday at U*****.9S per tonne C and F, an association official said. The meal was sold by Lucky-Goldstar and is scheduled for shipment March 22-April 10 to Inchon and Ulsan. A two-port charge of
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        • 57 25 SYDNEY The Australian 1993-94 shorn wool production forecast has been revised upwards to 751 million kilograms from 717 million with sheep numbers higher than expected. The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee yesterday also gave its first estimate for 1994-95. forecasting a slight decline in production
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    • 1456 25 Rubber Singapara CwmmMjf EickHfi (fitmt cMr( m it lpaQ RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Mar 94 138.75 850 Apr 140.25 225 4.400 May 142.00 4.800 Jun 142.75 142.75 143.00 100 5.250 Jul/Sep 144.75 144.25 144.50 600 4.200 Oct/Dec 146.25
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1139 26 -21.9 RUMOURS of a tightening of interest rates, weaker bonds and a close-out of options sent the Australian stock market tumbling at the close yesterday, brokers said. Brokers said the possibility of a rate rise in the US and speculation over a move on rates by the Reserve Bank
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      • 612 26 -40.21 Philippine share prices fell for the fourth day in a row, weighed down by the imminent doubling of a stock transaction tax, analysts said. The Manila composite index finished 40.21 points lower at 2.956 and an analyst said they were looking at 2.830 as the next support level.
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      • 496 26 -98.48 Taiwan's stock market gave up small early gains to close 1.7 per cent lower, undermined by a late plunge in shares of Formosa group firms after Formosa Plastics and Nan Ya reported 1993 results on Wednesday. The weighted index closed 98.48 points down at 5,670.71, off a low
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      • 388 26 •17.86 Massive sell-ofTs of blue chips and worries about liquidity constraints dragged the stock index to a sharply lower close, brokers said. The composite stock index closed 17.86 points down at 932.15. "Concerns about squeezing money in circulation reduced institutional buying and individual investors immediately followed suit," said Ha
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      • 335 26 +4.03 The New Zealand share market held firm in the face of weakness on Wall Street, US Treasuries and the local debt markets. The NZSE-40 capital index hovered around its opening level throughout the day before some late buying tipped it 4.03 points higher than Wednesday's close to
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      • 48 26 +85.44 Stock prices rose on buying by market players under the wrong impression that passenger fares and freight rates had been only marginally raised in the Railway budget being announced in New Delhi, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 30-share index rose 85.44 points to 4,114.22.
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      • 730 26 Britannia Funds Sfcrtiac Cash Btf Oflcr Mim ap Depot k II 6400 U 6 WO Mim Jeney Grit Alt93 ***** Mim Max laconic I 0600 I 1000 USS Cask Income Pto Fund *10 2700 ******0 PS I Rnerve Fu«d 5.2400 5 2900 0.4J92 ***** F«r Em Fund *2 7450 *2
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      • 665 26 -74.4 Sharp falls in bond markets tipped shares into a tailspin after worries over domestic and US interest rates and concerns over the political situation In Russia hurt an already bearish market. Wall Street was showing a 32 point loss when London closed, with US bonds down after stronger-than-expected
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      • 132 26 -43.71 French shares closed sharply lower after the Bank of France disappointed investors with a small rate cut and despite finishing above the critical 2,200 points on the CAC-40 index, dealers said nervous bonds could weaken shares further. The CAC-40 index ended down 43.71 points, or 1.94 per cent,
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      • 231 26 -7.5 Dutch stocks tumbled 1.8 per cent as investors grew concerned about rising bond yields, disappointing corporate earnings and political developments in Russia, traders said. The Amsterdam EOE Index closcd 7.5 points lower at 418.31. Twenty-two stocks declined, one closcd unchanged and two advanced. Volume was 12.14 million shares,
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      • 237 26 -69.1 Swiss stocks fell today on news that Nestle SA won't list its shares in the United States until after 1995, traders said. Tension in Russia helped depress the mood, they said. The Swiss Market Index, or SMI, which includes the top 22 blue-chip stocks, fell 69.1 points yesterday
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      • 262 26 -55 South African shares remain pressured at close as few factors offer support, dealers say. The overall index ended off 60 points at 4,756, industrial index off 55 points at 5,634 and gold index down 20 at 1,835. Johannesburg Fcfc 24 Ra»d +7INDOSTR1ALS A Mate 7250 ISO AEO 2000
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      • 310 26 -22.27 Stocks plunged across the board in early trading along with weaker Canadian dollar and bond markets yesterday. dealers said. The communications and media group led the market's freefall followed by consumer and industrial products. The TSE 300 composite index sank 22.27 points to 4,346.08 on volume of 15.87
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      • 836 26 -27.01 The Dow Jones industrial average was down 27.01 points to 3,864.67 at 11 am EST yesterday. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was off 2.01 to 259.12. while the SAP 500-stock index was down 3.76 to 466.93. Declines pounded advances 1,520-343 among the 2,469 issues crossing
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      2789 27 Reuter HONGKONG Stocks ended sharply lower yesterday on renewed selling triggered by a decision to press ahead with local political reforms, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index tumbled 331.21 points, or 3.08 per cent, to close the day at 10,432.02 shortly after hitting a low of 10,403.
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      470 27 THE CLSA Shanghai B added 24.92 points to 944.90 on improved turnover yesterday. Overseas buying pushed up Erfangji, Jinqiao and Phoenix by 4-7 per cent. Wing Sung and Vacuum also put on 5.4 and 4 per cent respectively on slim volume. Chlor Alkali which was actively traded by local
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      2428 27 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended sharply higher on active dealer buying and overseas purchases yesterday, with volume heaviest since Feb 8. Sentiment was helped by hope that the trade standoff between the US and Japan might see some improvement soon, stabilising currencies, brokers said. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed
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      1526 27 Reuter BANGKOK The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index dropped 11.11 points (0.78 per cent) yesterday to close at 1,419.54. Trading remained skimpy with 86.6 million shares worth 6.8 billion baht changing hands. Declines swamped advances 188 to 94 with 65 issues closing unchanged. One broker said investors were
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      1126 27 Reuter JAKARTA Share priccs closed mixed in moderate trading yesterday, with the release of a few yearly financial reports on individual counters helping to stem the market's downward trend, dealers said. The official index ended 0.64 points higher at SS2.S2. However, dealers said the reports did not come from
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      • 5884 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's benchmark stock index rose as foreigners took advantage of the local currency's weakness to buy blue-chip stocks yesterday, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Composite Index gained 5.36 points, or 0.47 per cent, to close
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    • 418 31  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The order books of shipbuilders worldwide continued to fill up further in the final quarter of 1993. According to the December 1993 issue of Lloyd's Register's Merchant Shipbuilding Return, yards had orders to build ships totalling 39.2 million gross
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    • 181 31 UPI SEATTLE Port of Seattle commissioners unanimously voted on Tuesday to lift their ban on doing business with companies that do business in South Africa. A resolution ending the sanctions was approved by the commissioners at a meeting at the Seattle-Tacoma
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    • 128 31 Reuter SYDNEY A port dispute that has halved the handling capacity for containers and conventional cargo in Sydney remained unresolved on Wednesday as a government deadline for settlement loomed. Since Sunday Australian Stevedores, Australia's largest stevedoring company, and the Maritime Union of Australia have been holding
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    • 869 31 Llovd's List BANGKOK A precious niche is the justification for a top broker to recommend that investors buy shares in a Thai shipping operation that is only three years old. Precious Shipping (PSL), which came to the Bangkok
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    • 181 31 SINGAPORE National carrier Neptune Orient has set up a liaison office in Beijing. The company said yesterday the office, headed by Sherry Bao Shiquan. would focus on forging closer tics between NOL and various Chinese organisations. It will also serve as a resource
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    • 117 31 SINGAPORE Three companies in the Keppel Integrated Engineering group have achieved ISO 9000 status. Keppel Engineering has obtained certification for the fabrication and erection of steel structures and associated mechanical and electrical works. Sister company Keppel Automation has obtained it for the supply,
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    • 286 31 Lloyd's List HAMBURG Bremer Vulkan has rejected claims of financial irregularities in handling the restructuring of its cast German acquisitions, in particular MTW-Werft in Wismar. Claims that the German shipyard group had siphoned millions of deutschemarks from the funds provided by Treuhandanstalt, the
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    • 1101 47 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1.123 on Wednesday from 1.127 on Feb 22. Confirmation of concluded business on the major US Gulf to Japan grain route remained difficult to obtain with rumors of weaker rates being paid. Hanjin was linked with
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    • 986 48 Major aircraft makers, anxious that China's inadequate aviation system will not damage their business prospects, are rushing to offer their training and know-how Bloomberg Business News WITH China's aviation system woefully short of pilots and air controllers. the world's major aircraft makers are
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      • 300 50  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Sextant Avionique Asia, the Singa-pore-based subsidiary of French avionics giant. Sextant Avionique. formally opened its USSIO-million (SS 15.8 million) customer support facility here on Wednesday. The purpose-built facility "will provide total quality service to all its customers in the
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      • 56 50 Reuter MOSCOW Vleg Lyakisnev, the commander of the Li-2 plane crew, answering a journalist's question in Moscow's khodynka airfield on Tuesday. The Russian crew will take off for a round-the-world flight by the end of this month on the Li-2 plane rebuilt by the
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      • 512 50 Reuter MANILA Philippine Airlines had asked Airbus Industrie to help broker a deal allowing it to cancel orders for two A340-200s and buy four to six secondhand aircraft. PAL chairman Carlos Dominguez said. Mr Dominguez said PAL wanted to acquire used
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        • 89 50 Bloomberg Business News PHOENIX Mesa Airlines Inc said it will join an investment group led by Fort Worth financier David Bonderman in offering more than US$2lO million (*****.9 million) to bring America West Airlines Inc out of bankruptcy. America West's board had until midnight
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        • 90 50 AFP TOKYO Japan's magnetic levitation high-speed train has set a new speed record of 423 km an hour during a test run in Hvuga in southern Japan, officials said on Wednesday. The officials from the Railway Technical Research Institute of the Japan Railways group
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        • 86 50 Reuter HONGKONG Officials from Brazilian flag carrier Varig are in Macau for talks on landing rights. Lusa news agency quoted official sources in the Portuguese enclave as saying. The officials will discuss Varig's use of Macau's 7.3 billion pataca international airport set for completion
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        • 75 50 Knight-Ridder LONDON The United Kingdom's national railways group. British Rail, plans to bid for its own franchises when the government privatises the network, according to a report in a Financial Times on Wednesday. "The view of the BR board is that it will bid
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        • 68 50 Reuter DETROIT General Motors Corp said the United Auto Workers union issued a five-day strike deadline for the company's Oklahoma City assembly plant. The union notified GM that about 4.300 members of UAW Local 1999 will strike at 1600 GMT on March 2 if UAW
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      • 503 50 FT LONDON The governments of Argentina and Spain are expected to announce soon that Iberia, the Spanish national airline, will complete its takeover of Aerolneas by lifting its stake to 85 per cent from 30 per cent. This will wipe out about US$7OO
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      • 177 50 Reuter HONGKONG Northwest Airlines will train 250 Chinese pilots from five carriers to help ease the country's acute shortage of skilled pilots, a senior airline official said on Wednesday. Pilots from China Southwest. China Eastern, China Northern. Shanghai Airlines, and Xiamen Airlines will take
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      • 384 50 NYT TOKYO Passengers aboard aircraft feel more comfortable in seats that face the back of the plane and would rather be fastened in with a shoulder-to-waist scat belt, according to a Transportation Ministry-affili-ated organisation on Wednesday. The finding surprised researchers because seats facing backward cause
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    • 1029 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 1 I 140 Cecil Stre€t #03 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. Cfl NO: 100e*****00£ r 7 KiAliXAlillaK j..«r s 1 f—i ill M I iHI i 1* VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN vati IUR ft room 77/9 MAJAPAWT 41S1 27/2 2/3
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    • 1021 42 ,@-{@|>~.+"({@,-_>}+.@`%++(_$__ /Cnorbul!^ I NORBULK CARGO BERVICEB LTD. 1 I REGULAR CONVENTIONAL I TIMBER AND PLYWOOD SERVICES YMA 5/3 NAN/FIU/ANT/UK I MLAGRO 13/3 20/3 ROT/ANT/UK I ISP PK LOADMG FOR I NORBULK TBN 13/3 DBN/CT/EL I ALSO LOADS TG MANI AND KK I PK SWK/SABAH LOADING FOR NORBULK NAMIR 10/3 XIAMEN/SHANGHAI
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    • 686 43 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 28/2 ROTTERDAM 28/2 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 28/2 HAMBURG/BREMEN 28/2 MARSEILLE/FRANCE V 3 FELIXSTOWE/UK 28/2 BARCELONA/SPAIN 28/2 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 28/2 GENOA/ITALY 28/2 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 28/2 LOS ANGELES/WC/PI 27/2 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 26/2 NEW YORK/EC 4/3 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 26/2 VANCOUVER 4/3 BRISBANE
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    • 637 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 IIBiIIIIHIIIBIIHIIIIIIWIt IHHIII—^MI Qa RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD H TEL: *****33 (12 Lineo) EL FAX: *****15/*****03 m| TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3
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    • 1734 44 MABMN CONTAINER LINES, INC I -KV\"l AoenU: MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 UNEB) (PANAMA) v l W V 'cm Not IMM7MOOOI SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHINQ (082) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5
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    • 1001 44 I THONG S OON UNES PTE LTD 1 I C JC J 78 SHCNTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I >/ TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK niUL W SPORE PEST VESSEL |VOT ISPORt IDEST pSP iJnr ,T/!r
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    • 707 45 ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BREAK BULK SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA. NAGOVA. MOI. TOKYO*. MAMI.A* DAVAO' Penang" P Kelanj Singapore E'Msia* SHAPtAEVERETT VI9E 02/03 Mar 05/06 Mar IVYEVERETT VBE 02/03 Apr KARABEVERETT VI6E 10/11 Apr 12/13 Apr ACCEPTING BREAKBUtK FCL SOC CARGOES TO FROM CHITTAGONG. CALCUTTA AND
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    • 232 45 131, GLOBY NAVIGATION SWfH to£4bi* IMS a 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 VII 20/2 22/2 27/2 GLORY SELATAN V 15/2 22/2 25/2 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN IX 29/2
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    • 640 45 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOT KARACHI KACHAN (BNKC) 106 HW 01/03 09/03 jjjjgjjl 145 HW 05/03 15/03 HYDERABAD 127HW IS/03 24/03 BOIAN 139 HW 28/03 06 04 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEI VOT SIN HKG BSN OS* NAG TOW SARGOOHA 140 OW 04/03
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    • 747 45 iLlUHSlllMilill FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/CAPETOWN/ LAGOS/P. ELIZABETH VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS VI HE 96 26 02 13/03 14/03 15/03 22, 03 SHUN HE 101 11/03 25 03 26/04 28 03 05/04 TAO HE/82 26/03 10/04 11/04 13/04 20,04 JIAN HE 82 1 1 04
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    • 230 45 SIN FAR EAST 01/03 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 26/02 BANGKOK 27/02 MANILA/CEBU 26/02 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 28/02 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 27/02 BUSAN 27/02 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 27/02 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 27/02 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S!N EUROPE/UK 01/03 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 01/03 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 27/02 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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    • 821 46 Handling System Co. Pte. Ltd. 138 138, Neil Road, #03-00, Singapore 0208 TT7 TT7 CFS-20, Gul Road, Singapore 2282 Tel: 02-*****28 Handling System Co. Sdn. Bhd. N0.9 Cungah, ***** Port klang, Selangor, Malaysia 24th Floor, UMBC Main Building, ***** Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Handling System (HK) Co. Ltd. Wing Onn Centre,
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    • 432 46 y Contemn CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 27 FEBRUARY (Accepting to all N«w Zealand porta) PENANG 28 FEB JAKARTA 01 MAR PORT KLANG 04 MAR HON6KON6 27 FEB MELBOURNE 03 MAR SYDNEY 03 MAR FREMANTLE 27 FEB BRISBANE 03 MAR AOELAIOE 01 MAR 05 MAR I 'ACCEPTING TO ALL
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    • 583 46 Next Week's Sailings Singapore Toi ETS To: ETO TSJKSKBS IN Singapore Singapore *****02 BYLJtQA EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN Hh EVERY EVERY IX2^ Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI ||Jj o>| ""every EVERY j Colombo TUE Limassol THUR f A ■ITEMIATIONAI SEA FREIGHT FORWARDMG MM Tel: Fax: r AJO
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    • 68 46 >: m NIPPON EXPRESS: Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACH)/NEW 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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    • 1180 47 CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Mtuwm I wr mummwimiiii i iumpt BANGKOK 27/2 AUCKLAND 6/3 ANTWERP 28/2 BUSAN 5/3 ADELAIDE 4/3 FELIXSTOWE 5/3 HONG KONG 2/3 BRISBANE 3/3 HAMBURG 28/2 JAKARTA 1/3 4/3 ROTTERDAM 28/2 SURABAYA 1/3 E 4/ KEELUNG 1/3 SYDNEY 4/3 KAOHSIUNG 1/3 J KOBE 27/2 OTHER PORTS
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    • 263 47 5C ONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.26 2Sf l4 VOT MONTEVIOCO| **NOS DURBAN JAKARTA SMOAPORE ImMMMT KAOOSMMA YOKOHAMT Htl AvrIrVORHS iM BAAED BAB.ED SAAEO T/S Spar* SAILED SAILED »ARfP 18-18/02 PtKABm,T §*®L SAILED 08-18/02 28/02 12 20/08 28/08 28/03-02/04 04AM W. KRUPSKAYA EROS 24/02 28/0208/08 18/08 08-07*4 12/04 ~TTTi%
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    • 380 48 HWTH PHttFWNfcB FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA I VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9408N 18/02 ~WO2 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9408 AN 21/02 26/02 I LOAMNG EVERY VIGOUR PACIFIC 9409N 25/02 05/03 "1 n,IDAY AND AY VIGOUR PACFIC 9409 AN I 28/02 05/03 1 VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE GENERAL SANTOS DAVAO CEBU VIGOUR LUZON
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    • 332 48 `{$"|?{<,.%\'\_||&(.'}$<[.)`=+" DLT CONTAINER LINE I SERVICE TO CIREBON (WEST JAVA) I S<n I Cbn T T Cbnl SlrT V——l Name Voy I Eta 1 Eta Voy Etd Eta TBN I SB-20| 27/*****/03 |NB2Q| 03/031 08/03| TBN SB 21 06/03 09/03 NB 21 10/03 13/03| TBN SB 22| 13/*****/03 INB-22{ 17/03|
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    • 220 48 I cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/02 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOP: A VESSEL 15/03 20/03 Huingpu/Guingihou 4 COSCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCLI EXPORT TO: I CHINA/BANGKOK/HONGKONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Please refer
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    • 958 49 HYUNDAI MERCHANT MAN CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 VESSELS VOY PHA I PKE P6O VESSELS VOY I SIW I RTM *HT* lEH» HAM BKEt FIL HMM ADVANCE 038 A 21/01 22/02 24/02 St FREEDOM 309W 21/02 11/03 19/03 21/03 20/03 20/03 22/03 NO* MALACCA 9409 A 21/01 01/03
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    • 478 49 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS nisi hi n m u A *****8 117 4/1 9AUA MM m S/l 7/1 «mi ai in M/i THM VI 1/1 1/1 HUB MM 1(1 1/1 18/S SMI IiCOTt IN 11/1 11/1 OUTBOUND VESSELS LOAPWC FOR SEN/NIC SEKI NAGOYA
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    • 790 49 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT STORE ED S TON KMC ADAM LEH *Mm Accwtm Cvn F«r I SSSSS 1 5 iwn 7/1 sg aa U/S 22/3 24/3 littifiw *Is il AnhMre AimMm I^^^ m 14/1 if,! iSSr ;*-«a£?2EAisr M/1M 21/1 29/1 RrttetM :to M Anhrdf. Anst*r4«m o*. HiM* MEDITERRANEAN (MED CLUB)* BUWAMM 4034 S/2
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