The Business Times, 16 May 1994

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    13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA M ITA(P) 010/12/93 Mondav May 16 1994 75«
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Executives happy about US business outlook
      97 1 Reuter WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia The United States' top corporate executives are optimistic about business prospects and not even the cloud of further Federal Reserve interest rate rises is darkening their mood. During their semi-an-nual meeting here over the weekend, members of the Business Council said
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    174 1 Stock market indices triday Week change Sill 2.286.12 f- 29.93 KLSt omp 1.004 55 -7.02 Nikkei 20.2/0.75 1-408 28 Hang Seng 9.134.72 hSI4.45 SET Index 1.259.1 7 t 18.46 Jakarta t'omp 467.40 K4.28 CI_SA t hina B 975.99 -10.83 Ausl All Ord 2.070.0 165.7 h rst 100 3,119.2
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    Lock icon US does not want falling dollar: Bentsen
    212 1 Reuter NBW YORK US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said yesterday that a feeling that Washington was content to sec the US dollar drop in value was a "misrepresentation". "There was a misinterpretation that we wanted to see the US dollar go down," Mr
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    Strong S$, competition erode SIA's earnings for 2nd year
    498 1  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines has turned in lower earnings for the second year running because of the strong Singapore dollar and intense competition. Despite higher turnover, SIA suffered a 5.8 per cent drop in group net earnings to $801
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    Lock icon US Fed set to raise interest rates — but by how much?
    476 1 US Fed set to raise interest rates but by how much? Reuter Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve is a sure bet to raise interest rates tomorrow to defuse inflationary pressures and calm skittish financial markets. The only question, analysts said, is by how much. "They've gotten themselves into a situation
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    Lock icon US braces for costly tit-for-tat trade war with China
    502 1 Reuter AFP WASHINGTON The United States is bracing for a multi-billion-dollar, tit-for-tat trade war with China if it fulfils its threat to yank Beijing's trade privileges, according to an internal Clinton administration study. The inter-agency estimate was prepared in the runup
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    Lock icon Major discovery in Thatcher's lineage
    162 1 Reuter LONDON Prime Minister John Major is distantly related to his predecessor Margaret Thatcher via a 17th-century labourer called Charles Crust and his wife lili/abeth Taylor, the Independent on Sunday reported. I'he newspaper said genealogist Paul Pcnn-Simkins traced Crust's family tree through local government records
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    Private property prices very high, but not much govt can do: PM Goh
    224 1 SINGAPORE Private property prices arc now "very high" hul there's not much the government can do if people are ready to pay such prices, says Premier Croh Chok l ong. "Private property prices, in my view, are
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    S'pore manufacturing sector posts broad-based growth
    512 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE The manufacturing industry chalked up broad-based growth in the first quarter, with exports in all sectors cxccpt food rising by between 5 per cent and more than 30 per cent. While encouraging, these figures culled from the latest available data
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Market expecting 9-10 pc growth
        328 2  -  By Anna Teo TUB first-quarter report eard on the economy will be out this morning, with the market keyed up tor good growth of 9-10 per eent. Or will private sector forecasts again prove conservative? lhe February data for several indicators such as electricity consumption,
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      First-time HDB buyers must have priority over upgraders: PM
      403 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE government has no objection to HDB flat-owners enjoying double subsidies as it encourages people to upgrade, says Prime Minister Goh Chok long last night. But the government must ensure that first-time flat buyers get their Hats
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      Delifrance plans to double outlets in Singapore, step up presence in Asia
      412 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming FAST-GROWING delicatessen chain Delifrance plans to double the number of its outlets in Singapore and step up its presence elsewhere in Asia over the next five years. The French company's expansion here is focused
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Those who threaten social cohesiveness
        79 2 GRASSROOTS I.EADERS and MPs have the "great challenge" of educating Singaporeans with the "not in my own backyard syndrome". Home AtYairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said yesterday. Such people want the convenience of ha\ing public amenities near home but complain if they are "too near".
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        Groups voice support for NWC's call
        118 2 EMPLOYERS and unions support the latest National Wages Council guidelines, particularly the call to companies that have done well to pay a one-oIT special bonus. The Singapore National Employers' Federation and the National Trades Union Congress also supported the call for a freeze on
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        PM Goh hosting dinner for Kiet
        78 2 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong will host a dinner for visiting Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet tonight at the Oriental Hotel. Tomorrow, Mr Kiet will call on Mr Goh at the Istana. During his four-day visit at Mr Goh's invitation, Mr Kiet will
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        New guide on available software
        66 2 THE National Computer Board (NCB) and the Singapore Federation of the Computer Industry (SFCI) have produced a new directory of the latest application software available in Singapore. The Application Software Directory 1994 has information on more than 460 software packages provided by about 130 major
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        Lock icon ERP for expressways
        71 2 FROM late-1997, motorists mlay have to pay for using congested expressways as well as roads in the Central Business District under the electronic road-pricing system. The Public Works Department is doing feasibility studies on how an ERP system can be implemented on congested stretches of expressways. Communications
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        Conference on agrotechnology
        61 2 SINGAPORE will be hosting an international conference on plant, fish and livestock farming later this month. The meeting will look at agrotechnology to see how commercial farming can be economically viable. The theme of the conference, to be held at the National University of Singapore from May
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon G-7 task force urges Asia to fight money laundering
      335 3 FT BANGKOK Industrialised nations are urging Asian governments that supervise fastgrowing financial sectors to join the fight against money laundering, according to members of a task force established by the Group of Seven countries. John Gieve, president of the Financial Action
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      Lock icon Foreign investment in Vietnam up 58pc in 1st qtr
      247 3 AFP HANOI Foreign investment in Vietnam shot up 58 per cent in the first four months of this year over the same period last year, with projects worth US$l62 million (SS2SI million) approved in April alone. The Vietnam News Agency yesterday
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      Lock icon BN preparing performance reports
      102 3 Bernama JOHOR BARU The Barisan Nasional (BN) and Umno headquarters are preparing performance reports on their elected representatives for use as a guide in picking candidates for the next general election. BN and Umno secrctarygeneral Mohamed Rahmat yesterday said there had been complaints from party members
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      Philippine-Indon dispute over E Timor conference settled
      357 3  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Philippine Vice-President Joseph Estrada says that a brewing dispute between the Philippines and Indonesia over the holding of a conference on Last Timor in Manila has been settled following a meeting between him and Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Thai investment team in Myanmar
        63 3 AP BANGKOK The head of Thailand's Board of Investment is leading a 45-member group of industrialists to explore opportunities in military-controlled Myanmar. The five-day visit started yesterday, the state-run Radio Thailand reported. Ihe trade board's secretary-general. Staporn Kavitanon. is urging Thais to invest in Myanmar
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        Lock icon Sultan approves hudud law
        62 3 Bernama KOI A BAHARU The Sultan of Kelantan has given his consent to the hudud law which was passed by the state legislative assembly last year. State Secretary Ismail Hassan yesterday said the Syariah Criminal Code (Hudud) Bill 1993. passed on Nov 25, was not gazetted
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        Lock icon RTM seeks alternatives to BBC, CNN
        110 3 Bernama JOHOR BAHARU Radio and TV Malaysia (RTM) is looking for alternatives to BBC and CNN as sources of information and foreign news. Information Minister Mohamed Rahmat yesterday said sueh alternatives were necessary so that there would be balance in the information available to
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        Lock icon Indian central bank raises deposit rule
        79 3 Bloomberg Business News NEW DELHI Reserve Bank of India has raised the proportion of deposits eommereial banks must place with it in a bid to help reduce inflation to 7 per cent. Governor Rangarajan yesterday said the one per cent increase in the proportion
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        Lock icon Japan deports foreigners
        72 3 AFP TOKYO The Japanese authorities last year deported a record 70,404 people. The Justice Ministry yesterday said deportations for violating immigration laws rose 3.8 per cent from 1992. It was the first time the number has topped 70,000. Illegal workers accounted for 64,341 of the total, rising
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      Lock icon Military discipline makes better civil servants: Indon minister
      289 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian Home Affairs Minister Yogie Suardi Memed says military training will be good for the country's civil servants. The official Antara news agency yesterday said the government, which employed about four million public servants, had said that to boost discipline
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Taiwan to open insurance sector
        62 4 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan said it will allow foreign insurance companies to set up units in the country, in an attempt to boost its chances of joining the General Agreement on TaritYs and Trade. Taiwan allows American insurance companies to operate branch offices. Insurers
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        Lock icon Beijing's A$ 10b shopping list
        92 4 AEP SYDNEY A Chinese trade delegation coming here next month will carry a shopping list worth Aslo billion (SSI 1.2 billion) in investment and development projects, Australian trade officials said. China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation told Austrade the delegation had a "shopping
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        Lock icon Fujian gets ready for Taiwan ferry link
        64 4 Reuter BEIJING Arch-rivals China and Taiwan still have no direct transport links, but that hasn't halted preparations for the first Taiwan Straits ferry route. A new hovercraft line in coastal Eujian province is poised to offer high-speed service directly to Taiwan as soon
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        Lock icon Taipei recruiting Chinese scientists
        64 4 AFP TAIPEI A Taiwanese institute is to negotiate the recruitment of Chinese scientists with a mainland body this month, the United Daily News said yesterday. Officials of the Taiwan General Research Institute will discuss cooperation and recruitment details with the Chinese International Technology and Wisdom Cooperation
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        Lock icon Fibre-optic cable to ease phone jam
        79 4 AFP BEIJING China is to lay a 4,000 km fibre-optic cable to ease the burden on the overtaxed telephone network in the booming south-east, China Daily Business Weekly said. The 1.4 billion yuan (***** million) cable will link Hangzhou in Zhejiang province with Fuzhou
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      Lock icon Foreign trade law meets Gatt demands: China
      341 4 AFP Reuter BEIJING China says its new foreign trade law has established a transparent and uniform national system in line with the two basic demands of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). In addition to standardising policy, the long-awaited law, which
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      Lock icon Beijing opens cigarette market
      161 4 Reuter BEIJING China's tobacco monopoly opened the country's first wholesale cigarette market to allow the forces of supply and demand more say in the economy's most lucrative sector, China Commerce News said yesterday. The China Wholesale Cigarette Market, opened in Beijing on April 29, is likely
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      Lock icon China focuses on quality as steel production soars
      303 4 Bloomberg Business News BFIJING China will realise one of Chairman Mao Zedong's dreams by becoming the world's largest steel producer this year, but its new priority is to counter serious quality problems, the official China Daily reports. China's steel output surpassed America's
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      Lock icon B B brings the blues to Beijing
      36 4 Reuter BKIJING US blues musician B B King playing to Chinese crowds yesterday as he opened the Hard Kock Cafe, the first Western rock-and-roll restaurant in China's capital. Keuter
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      Lock icon Entry of Chinese worries HK labour
      294 4 AFP HONGKONG Labour leaders, supported by academics and some politicians here, say Hongkong workers arc being made to pay the pricc for economic integration with China even ahead of the 1997 changeover of sovereignty, to raifce the Chinese will inand. inevitably, drive down wages.
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon No clear way seen out of Japan's political chaos
      551 6 Reuter lOKVO Japan's political arena resembles a mine-strewn no-man's land these days and, led by its weakest government in decades, appears without a leader or group equipped with a map to plot the way ahead. "It's useless to talk to politicians
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      Lock icon Tokyo bureaucrats lose people's trust
      167 6 Reuter TOKYO Over half the Japanese do not trust their nation's once hallowed bureaucrats, saying they work for the interests of business or their ministries rather than the people, according to a survey published yesterday. Thirty-two per cent of respondents to the survey conducted last
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      Lock icon Japan to open telecoms sector
      118 6 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO A package of economic deregulation measures the government is to unveil next month is likely to include a proposal to eliminate restrictions on new entrants into the telecommunications industry, Nihon Keizai newspaper said. The package will also propose that some areas
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      Lock icon BOJ bails out farm co-ops with secret loans
      151 6 Reuter TOKYO The Bank of Japan provided low-interest ioans in a secret deal to help financial institutions affiliated to farm cooperatives that invested large amounts in troubled companies, Asahi Shimbun said. The BOJ made the loans to help the institutions, which are
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      Lock icon Bolger on S-E Asian tour to boost ties
      215 6 Reuter WLLLING TON Prime Minister Jim Bolger left New Zealand yesterday for a weeklong trip to boost trade ties with South-east Asia. "We recognise our destiny increasingly lies with Asia, and it is timely to be visiting these countries," Mr Bolger said
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      Lock icon Five years old and wed for life
      55 6 Reuter SRIRAMPUR Amice, a five-year-old bride unties string knots from her husband, Ashok, 15, during their marriage ritual in this desert village in Rajasthan. Hundreds of children across the Indian state were married on Saturday, or Akha Teej, an auspicious day for Hindus,
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      Lock icon Mixed response to India's new phone policy
      452 6 Reuter NEW DELHI Global telecommunications companies, aiming to tap the huge Indian market, were cautious in welcoming the country's new phone policy and said yesterday that issues such as tariff and revenue sharing needed to be clarified. Starved of cash to expand its
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      284 6 I SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT I I The first educational and training institute in Asia to achieve I I SISIR ISO 9000 Certification I World renowned exponent on creativity and inventor of lateral thinking Dr Edward de Bono, is coming to Singapore for a two-day seminar on lateral thinking and
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      978 7 BUSINESS TIMES/OMEGA SPACE CHALLENGE 1994 Dare you take the Omega Space Challenge? The Omega Speedmaster I ProfeMtonal chronograph H with the inscription H "The lint watch worn on the I moon" worth r H History was created 25 years ago on 20 July 1969 at 21.56 hours —Omega Speedmaster time—when
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  • THE WORLD
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      WORLD WATCH
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      Lock icon Queen names officials to end crisis
      63 8 AFP THE HAGUE Queen Beatrix has formally appointed three party officials to negotiate a broad coalition government for The Netherlands, thrown into political turmoil after this month's general election. The negotiators will be Klaus IX* Vries for the Social Democrats, Gijs van Aardenne for
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      Lock icon Bulgaria to ease limits on brokers
      91 8 Reuter VARNA, Bulgaria Bulgaria is likely to review licensing requirements for brokerage houses with the aim of allowing the larger ones access to global capital markets. Finance Minister Stoyan Alexandrov said. He was speaking at a meeting of representatives of some 70 major financial
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      Lock icon Brazil rules out price, wage freezes
      78 8 Bloomberg Business News BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil Economy Minister Rubens Ricupero yesterday ruled out freezing prices or wages after a new currency is introduced on July 1. Mr Rieupero told some 500 members of the Federation of Commerce of Minas Gerais state that after the
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      Lock icon US to sell Israel 21 F-15i jets
      69 8 AP JERUSALEM The United States has agreed to sell Israel 21 advanced jet fighters, an official said yesterday. Oded Ben-Ami, a spokesman for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, said Israel would purchase the F-15i warplanes. He didn't provide further details. The sale comes amid
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      Lock icon Greece ditches controls on drachma
      75 8 Reuter ATHENS Greece has taken a high-risk gamble to stop a heavy speculative run on the drachma, removing all remaining foreign exchange controls from today and declaring the currency is tough enough to look out for itself. National Economy Minister Yannos Papandoniou, less than two
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      Lock icon US hopeful on Japan trade, but deal still seems distant
      460 8 Reuter Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The White House finds Japan's latest trade overture "quite encouraging" but wants some clear answers from Japan on a range of trade issues before agreeing to new talks. Last Friday, Japan's Foreign Minister Koji kaki/avva
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      Lock icon Former S African govt ran up huge debt: report
      244 8 AFP JOHANNESBURG South Africa's former government ran up huge debts of more than 60 billion rands (SS26 billion) in its final year of power. The Sunday limes reported that the money was spent on tidying up the nation's books and settling
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      Lock icon African bank chief fears for reforms
      200 8 Reuter NAIROBI Civil strife and social disorder are dampening prospects for the success of political and economic reforms in Africa, a top African banker said. "Most countries in the African region are striving to reform their political systems and economic policies," said Wondwossen Kebcde,
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      Lock icon EU ministers will be told to focus on jobless problem
      406 8 Reuter BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers will be told today that their economies are accelerating out of recession but there can be no let-up in their efforts to attack unemployment and get their debts down. Economic Affairs Commissioner Henning Christophersen
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      Jordan ripe for tourism links: SM Lee
      399 8  -  From Agnes Chen in AMMAN JORDAN'S tourism industry is one area where Singaporean businessmen could participate in the Middle East peace economy, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday at a meeting with a Jordanian Cabinet minister. Jordan's Industry and Trade Minister, Dr
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      Lock icon Failure to fund devt banks may hurt US businesses: Bentsen
      414 10 KR WASHINGTON US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said on Friday he was worried that US companies may be banned from bidding on contracts from multilateral development banks because the US has failed to honour its funding commitments to those institutions.
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      Lock icon Fall in Japanese tourism to California costing US$ 658m
      355 10 Recession at home, fears of American violence keeping visitors away AP LOS ANGELES California's traditional wave of Japanese tourists is ebbing. As Japan suffers through its worst recession since World War II and fears of American violence grow, the number of
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      Lock icon New Italian govt to give priority to privatisation, tax reform
      305 10 FT ROME The new Italian government on Friday suggested priority would be given to privatisation and reducing the state's dominant role, in a government programme due to be delivered to Parliament today. Another priority will be tax reform. These objectives
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      Lock icon German industry urges Yeltsin to help foreign investors
      278 10 Reuter STUTTGART, Germany Russian President Boris Yeltsin faced demands from industrialists on the last day of a three-day visit to Germany to make life easier and more secure for essentially willing foreign investors. In Germany's hi-tech capital, 13 captains of industry said
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      1328 10 SinGAPORE AIRLinES LimiTED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors of Singapore Airlines Limited wishes to make the following announcement:1 AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 1994 THE GROUP THE COMPANY 1993-94 1992-93 Change 1993-94 1992-93 Change S$M S$M SSM S$M Revenue 6,236.4 5,648.2
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  • Business IT
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      Lock icon Windows is changing Spore's software landscape
      680 11  -  Microsoft's products dominate although Windows 3.1 is barely two years old. Joseph Rajendran reports Joseph Rajendran IN OFFICES across Singapore, old workhorses WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 still rule the PC. But only just. Their battleground, the MS-DOS operating system, is shrinking fast, swallowed by
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      Unix market will boom in next two years: Sunsoft president
      595 11  -  New powerpacked PCs are the key, he tells Bernard Chew Bernard Chew SALES of the Unix operating system for desktop personal computers (PCs) are headed for a boom in the next one or two years, according to Sunsoft's president Ed
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      Lock icon US distributors feel pinch of PC wars
      402 11 Bloomberg Business News THE handful of giant distributors like Ingram Micro Inc, Merisel Inc, Tech Data Corp and Vanstar Inc are reporting booming sales and earnings. So are "aggregators" like Intelligent Electronics Inc and MicroAge Inc, which buy PCs from manufacturers, then customise
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      IBM launches revamped AS/400
      184 11  -  By Bernard Chew IBM last week condueted the Singapore launch of its revamped AS/400 line of minicomputers, at the same time signing on seven customers for the new machines. The revamped AS/400s Advanced Series, now sporting a new all-black futuristic look in contrast to its previous
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      218 11 Bloomberg Business News COMPAQ Computer Corp has displaced Apple Computer Inc as the leader in the US$l4.9 billion (Ss23 billion) global market for portable computers, according to a final tally of 1993 revenue by market researcher Dataquest Inc. "Compaq was clearly successful based on
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      Sony hopes to score in CD-ROM drive market
      399 12  -  By Joseph Rajendran JAPANESE consumer electronics giant Sony, which has moved a major portion of its CD-ROM manufacturing to Malaysia, believes it is well positioned to take advantage of the price erosion in this market segment. Sony International Singapore general manager Hirokimi
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      Zapper launches Windows-based personnel management software
      387 12  -  By Bernard Chew LOCAL computer consultancy and software developer Zapper Services has launched a new version of "PaySonnel", its off-the-shelf payroll processing and personnel management software. Sporting a new-look graphical interface in sharp contrast to the spartan front of the previous DOS version, Zapper's
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        SCS relaunches bulletin board
        60 12 SINGAPORE The Singapore Computer Society will launch its newly revamped electronic bulletin board tomorrow. The system, which runs on a Compaq System Pro. has a 540 megabyte (MB) hard disk, BMB of RAM and operates a Unix software called Linux. The machine has been further enhanced
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        Digital's new mid-range server
        47 12 SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Singapore has launched a new mid-range server which it believes is more economical for open client/server environments. The Digital 2100 Server Model ASOOMP system is a RISC-based departmental server that combines symmetric multiprocessing with industry standard PCI and EISA technology.
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        IPC introduces new suite of Pentium
        48 12 SINGAPORE IPC Corporation has rolled out a suite of Pentium-based products for the CAD/CAM, multi-tasking and networking. The IPC Dynasty SE P5-66C and the IPC Dynasty SEL P5-66C incorporates Intel's latest Pentium microprocessor as well as the latest PCI Local Bus technology.
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        TI announces sampling of SDRAM
        62 12 SINGAPORE Texas Instruments is now sampling a low-volt-age 16-megabit synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM). Current samples include 66Mhz and 80Mhz versions with IOOMhz versions expected later this year. SDRAMs address the higher clock speeds of emerging microprocessors by enabling faster memory operation with burst
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        Intel's video technology favoured
        62 12 SINGAPORE Intel Corporation has announced that a number of key software publishers and developers have selected Intel's Indeo video technology to provide software-only playback for their video CD-ROMs. Indeo allows publishers to create CDROM tiles that can display video clips on any Pentium processor or Intel
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        Best budget mobile PC
        63 12 SINGAPORE AST Research's Bravo NB 4/25s Color notebook was named the best budget mobile PC and scored the highest marks in PC World's "Top 20" in the April 1994 issue. In the review, portable systems were tested on battery-life, weight, size, keyboard and pointing device, expandability,
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        On the course of the industry
        84 12 SINGAPORE Leading computer industry market researcher International Data Corporation will be holding its Directions '94 conference in Kuala Lumpur at the Pan Pacific Hotel on May 18, and in Singapore at the Omni Marco Polo Hotel on May 19. The conference will be of
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        Technical seminar by GES
        74 12 SINGAPORE GES Singapore will be organising a technical seminar on the May 20 from 9.30 am to 5.30pm at the Marina Mandarin Hotel. "The GES/HP CAD Solutions Show" is a joint effort between GES and Hewlett-Packard Singapore. The seminar aims at improving the knowledge base of
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        Meet on Microsoft FoxPro version 2.6
        38 12 SINGAPORE Seminars on Microsoft's latest product MS FoxPro 2.6 will be held in Singapore on May 26 in four different centres. Call Florence on 220 7380 for more details. Attendance is free.
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        Multimedia exhibition put off
        49 12 SINGAPORE Systems Education Centre (SEC) has postponed the Multimedia World exhibition, but the new date has yet to be decided. The conference, part of the show, however, will still be held from May 19-20. The postponement is due to the limited number of confirmed exhibitors.
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        Making Unix secure
        78 12  -  Compiled by Sean Ang SINGAPORE The Singapore Computer Society will be holding a two-day seminar on the security of the Unix operating system from June 7-8 at the York Hotel. The course introduces the essential security features of the Unix operating system and how users and security
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      From sound of music to power of PCs
      770 14  -  InTerVlew Aiwa CEO Hajime Unoki talks to Claire Leow about moving from audio products to computers Claire Leow THE chief executive officer and president of Aiwa Co of Japan wants to steer the company to the production of computer peripherals and communications
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      659 14  -  Turks versus Armenians; electronic mail bombs. Peter H Lewis uncovers a disturbing trend in global electronic bulletin boards Peter H Lewis NYT HOSTILITY and repression are spreading in one of the most popular public forums in the global web of computer networks known as
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      Getting object orientation to deliver on its promise
      851 15  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS In this concluding article, William Ang examines the concerns that object technology needs to address William Ang The writer is a manager with A ndersen Consulting Singapore. He has experience in developing client-server, object-oriented systems. OBJECT orientation
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      Bringing middleware to messaging and e-mail
      940 15  -  NET WATCH TRACKING THE NETWORKING WORl? Tommi Chen examines further applications of this little-understood genre of software Tommi Chen The writer is managing partner of Net Centre Pte Ltd. which specialises in network services. He managed one of the largest enterprise networks in the
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      Talked to your printer lately?
      853 16  -  This laser printer even speaks. Juha Saarinen checks out the Lexmark Win Writer 600 and the technology behind it TEST RUNI Juha Saarinen The writer is a Singapore-based IT communications consultant IBM and Microsoft are mortal enemies, right? Well, not entirely. While their fight over
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      Lock icon Much-touted PDAs face uncertain future
      256 16 Reuter LESS than a year after Apple Computer launched its muchtouted personal digital assistant, the PDA market has proved to be disappointing and has few promising products on the horizon. Industry analysts are scaling back once bullish forecasts for the makers of the hand-held communications
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      Wired world not ready for prime time
      639 16  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT IT SEEMS like there's a new multi-billion dollar scheme reported almost daily,
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      192 13 The New IBM AS/400. The more sophisticated we made it, the simpler it became. Bit s one thing to build new power into a business computer. It's another thing entirely to harness that power and use it to manage your business information more effectively. The new AS/400 Advanced Series does
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      273 15 I/i Object Technology System engineering f f> concepts New methodologies New technologies .Jj[ U IYi ;f*' Languages w| I Object-Oriented database management sytems Architectures M Tools «ui Different organisational concepts m Re-oriented, re-educated and re-tooled developers Source Andersen Consulting All around us the structure and fabric of business are changing.
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      214 15 .r ,VJS£i jJStlfcl*" Vt>'#!■ 'MitMMC-MM—— w^!Ss*^J^h M^UUg^g mKSSM '''■HbSBBI ■HpPl fl| I|m H 18 jfe^sife^ifii V■ 2 I I 9 li IK s i f i jPK i Jl cshasJjßMaßAft-vTJTTT ev,. -v«\ J v "JWSSPI B?^k Ijß ia'^S il ?v3 *-ji Jl*| %j v How often have you felt the
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      294 16 "BY MEETING LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE, WE CAN COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER'S BUSINESS." Rachel Swee (Entrepreneur of the Year 1989) Your corporate success is determined by Ready People has been tried, tested and effective Human Resource Management. A a A improved upon to ensure greater efficiency and While our corporate aim is to
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      Lock icon Four-way tie for lead at weather-plagued Nelson Classic
      547 17 Golf Reuter AF IRVING, Texas Ben Crenshaw moved into a four-way tie for the lead on Saturday before play was halted for the day during the second round at the weather-plagued GTE Byron Nelson Classic. The tournament finally began early Saturday, two
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      644 17 1994 NBA play-otVs AP INDIANAPOLIS. Indiana With Rik Smits hitting from inside and Reggie Miller from outside, the Indiana Pacers needed less than 34 minutes on Saturday to prove they are a gang that can shoot straight. That's how much time it took
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      151 17 AP BOSTON Andre Dawson hit a pair of two-run homers as the Boston Red Sox handed the Toronto Blue Jays its fifth straight loss. Dawson homered into the centre field bleachers to cap a four-run fifth inning and then completed a three-run seventh with
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        73 17 AP NKYV YORK American League Saturday: Boston 11 Toronto 2; Cleveland 9 Detroit 3; New York 6 Milwaukee 2; Minnesota 8 Baltimore 5; Oakland 5 Kansas City 4; Texas 5 Chicago 2; Seattle 10 California 7. National league: St Louis 6 Montreal 3; New York 11 Atlanta 4; Florida
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        22 17 AP NEW YORK NBA play-offs Saturday: Indiana 101 Atlanta 81 (Indiana leads 2-1); Utah 111 Denver 109 (Utah leads 3-0). AP
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        63 17 AP LONDON Former captain Graham Gooch has been recalled to the England squad for the two oneday internationals against New Zealand on Thursday and Saturday. Gooch, a 40-year-old opener who made himself unavailable for England's West Indies' tour during the winter, probably will bat lower down the order because
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        356 17 AP AP Reuter AP STROL'DSBURG, PennsyKania At 81 and with failing eyesight. Philip l.opiano no long can see the flagsticks. It didn't matter. Lopiano hit the third hole-in-onc of his 66year golfing career last week. All three aces have come on the same hole the 17th at Glen Brook
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        22 17 Reuter NEW YORK Result of NIIL play-off game Saturday: Toronto 4 San Jose 2 (Toronto wins best-of-scven series 4-3). Reuter
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        179 17 AFP Reuter PERTH Australian side Perth Kangaroos continued their winning sequence in the Singapore Soccer League Premier Division despite a spirited effort by Tiong Bahru here yesterday. In an entertaining duel at Macedonia Park, the Australians romped to a 4-0 win. The matchwinners were Paul Strudwick. with headers in
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        144 17 Reuter AP CORAL SPRINGS, Florida Seventh-seeded Jamie Morgan of Australia outlasted Brazilian Fernando Mcligeni in a third-set tiebreaker on Saturday to reach the final of America's Red Clay championship against Luiz Mattar of Brazil. Morgan needed 185 minutes to put away Mcligeni 6-3 5-7 7-6. Mattar reached his second
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        76 17 AFP TOKYO World champions Italy outgunned Japan 3-1 here yesterday for their fourth consecutive win to remain unbeaten in Group A of the world league men's volleyball tournament. The Italians raced to a 15-11. 15-7. 10-15. 15-3 victory to lead the four-team preliminary competition. For Japan, it was their
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      695 17 An efficient and well-established auto sen/icing/repair centre located in the east of Singapore, we are only 15 minutes away from CBD. Residents in Katong, Siglap, Bedok, Tampines and Changi have long since experienced the convenience of CAR SERVICING BY PHONE. The overwhelming demand from EXECUTIVE CLASS customers have compelled the
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      94 17 JEWELLERS SINCE 1862 SAGA, the matchless SAGA W HITE GOLD The quality and craftsmanship of Tabbah is perfectly represented in the Saga Watch. Uncompromising dedication and savoir faire can be seen in the screwed-on tilting back cover mounted on a chenier hinge to guarantee water resistance to 30 meters. And
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      259 18 j WHAT'S HAPPENING [J ON TUESDAY NIGHT |SjL W AT THE NEPTUNE. i W h%. Every Tuesday night, The Neptune is reserved for all who love ballroom dancing Special iel dinner menu available at If* per person mm H;*® j| I 7ih floor. Union Houte Collyer <}uay. Singapore 0104 Td
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      926 19 The opening of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh was an occasion which the artist himself would have loved to attend AP Reuter Andy warhol, one of the most social and celebri-ty-fixated artists of his time, received the kind of star-stud-ded, glitzy reception he .would have
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      149 19 RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES The property market is 'hot'. With so many new housing developments flourishing all over Singapore, affluent locals as well as foreigners are eyeing the market most keenly to stake-out the best buys. This is a situation property developers, valuers, consultants and finance/insurance agents must take advantage of. Advertise
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      70 19 Surf Turf Poolside BBQ elegant alfresco dining Celebrate the euphoria that Friday and Saturday brings with choice succulent meats and an ocean harvest grilled to your satisfaction. Friday <4 Saturday only 6.30pm to 10.30pm Price: Ss26.oo++* adult) SSl4.oo++ child below 12 years (S§f^ th 24 Mount Elizabeth, Singapore 0922. Td
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      1346 19 TV RADIO J retrospective pPwh^A wanese cinema, this war film depicts the Battle of Shanghai in August 1937. during the Sin- <fIR o-Japanese war. This 1976 V movie won the Best Film and Best Actress awards (for Lin Ching Hsia) in the Asian Film y w Festival of the same
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      Lock icon It pays to hire better educated assembly workers
      1032 20  -  Chrysler is just one of the US car makers which has boosted its productivity by reshaping its workforce. Victoria Griffith has the details Victoria Griffith FT WHEN a handful of Chrysler assembly workers gathered late last year with suggestions on cost-cutting, they
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      Lock icon Delifrance tapping growth potential in region
      1318 21  -  Chuang Peck Ming looks at the deli chain's expansion plans and the recipe behind its success Chuang Peck Ming THt NAME Delifrance catches the eye easily in Singapore these days. Not just because it is set in distinctive blue and red against a white
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      420 20 ■Hi ;v _Bi ICL presents a minitower PC r/ that makes AST, 'CL h mm mh \alu t -9hn MD/G6 Compaq and IBM rsss I I m m imei x(mt,i)X2/6t> look over-priced. Pent,urn OverDrive) Just because you're on a budget doesn't mean you ■'Mfl kam have to compromise on quality.
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      217 20 Dooncshury has been delayed in the mail rjftm (^ARLZON E M I N A R From moments of truth towards the age of paradoxes Winning the Customers Revolution Seminar conducted bv: Mr. Jan Carl/on I'ormer C.K.O. and President of Scandinavian Airlines System and author of the best selling management book
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      26 20 (p\s H kves—to Restore some naucm jALi-r-Yi'i-rrr VD UWE.P* LF\f?GG. BOTTLE. )f=| FINCeOCQ GJ4&RGV -g\ CHEMIST \OF PEP- 0 aeRK.... JM I V IC~ iTTTT «^1
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      106 21 THE FIRST AND ONLY WATCH WORN ON THE MOON j Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph. r the moon f Neil Armstrong, the first man on the > A Moon, photographing fellow astronaut X y, Buzz Aldrin. Armstrong's reflection is OMEGA 1 has b^gun" 4 seen in the visor of A.drin s
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    Lock icon Britain, France settle dispute over rights to use airport
    571 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Airways pic backed down from a direct challenge of French authority yesterday after Britain and France said they had ended a dispute over the right to use Orly airport in Paris. BA had planned to confront
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    Lock icon Race for Britain's Labour Party leadership heating up
    395 22 Reuter LONDON The acting head of Britain's Labour Party has appealed for a delay in the contest for a new leader until after next month's European Parliament elections. But the battle to replace party chief John Smith, who died suddenly of a
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    Lock icon Taiwan offers record compensation for crash victims
    265 22 Reuter TAIPLI Taiwan's flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) offered yesterday to pay a record compensation of NTS4.I million (*****,218) to relatives of each of 101 Taiwanese killed in the airline's worst accident. "As for compensation for Japanese and Kilipino victims' relatives, CAL will
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    Lock icon In honour of King and Kennedy
    73 22 AFP INDIANAPOLIS —US President Bill Clinton (right) sitting with, from right, US senator Kdward Kennedy, Martin Luther King 111, Dexter Scott King, Kthel Kennedy and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds during a ground-breaking ceremony last Saturday for a Martin Luther King Jr and Robert
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    Lock icon Clinton likely to play down disputes with India during Rao's visit
    305 22 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton, preparing to welcome the first Indian premier to Washington since 1987, is expected to focus on improving tics with the world's largest democracy and play down nuclear and rights disputes. Prime Minister PV Narasimha
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    Lock icon Americans biggest film-goers, but watch only US-made shows
    213 22 AFP CANNKS Americans visit the cinema nearly twice as often as any of their film-going counterparts in other industrialised countries, according to a report released yesterday. But the survey, by the National Cinematographic Centre, shows that almost 99 per cent of the
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    Time the Fed exorcised its inflation spook
    913 22  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA I'he writer is BJ"s regional economics editor TOMORROW, the world financial markets will have their eyes and ears trained on the eagerlyawaited meeting of the US federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee, which will decide the
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    Lock icon Fire at big Russian arms depot extinguished
    243 22 Reuter MOSCOW Emergency workers yesterday put out a fire at a big ammunition depot in Russia's Far Bast, Interfax news agency said. The depot blew up on Saturday with such force that tremors could be felt in the city of Vladivostok. 100 km
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      SIA' s 5.8 pc dip in net earnings in line with expectations
      508 23  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines yesterday reported a 5.8 per eent dip in group net earnings to $801 million for the year ended March 31. 1994. This works out to earnings per share of 62.5 cents, down
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      Chemical Ind gives details of UK property investments
      181 23 SINGAPORE Chemical Industries (Far East) last week released more details of two commercial property investments in London. It said that one of these, Apex Tower in Surrey, now gave a rental yield of 4.56 per cent. About 20 per cent of space
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      Who's looking out for YHS minority shareholders while Yeo family feuds?
      944 23  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd (YHS) is a listed company and one of the major soft drink makers in the region. Yet, in the past few weeks, it has been treated as
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      Jurong Shipyard buys 26pc stake in Iranian shipyard
      371 23  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORH Jurong Shipyard Ltd has invested $617,000 in a 26 per eent stake in an Iranian shipyard. Chairman Lua Cheng Lng said in the 1993 annual report: "Sadra Jurong. our overseas joint venture eompany with Sadra of Iran, commeneed
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      Lock icon Innovest cuts pre-tax loss to M$ ll.7m
      119 23 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Innovest Bhd reported a group operating pre-tax loss of MSI 1.74 million (556.9 million) for the year ending Dee 31, 1993, a 70 per cent improvement from the M 539.65 million loss in the 1992 corresponding period. The company said
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      Lock icon Kuala Lumpur bourse's first quarter dominated by lethargic bulls
      432 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR After having had an outstanding year in 1993, a period of sustained bullishness never experienced before in its history, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange took a long journey south in the first quarter of 1994. Along the way,
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          Lock icon Berjaya to promote Madras theme park
          108 24 Bernama NEW DELHI The Berjaya Group Bhd of Malaysia will help the Madras-based Navodaya group to promote the Kishkinta project, a unique theme park for the city of Madras, the capital of the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu. The theme park will provide
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          Lock icon Nod for Sarawak Concrete's flotation
          73 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sarawak Concrete Industries Bhd's proposed flotation of its MS 18 million (SSII million) issued and paid-up capital on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Second Board has been approved by the Security Commission. The company is offering to sell 2.7 million ordinary MSI
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          Lock icon Gold-Face plans to sell 60m shares
          84 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Real estate company Gold-Face Holdings on Friday said it planned to sell 60 million shares now held by its chairman and his family off the market at HKSI.SI (550.30) per share. That price represents a 1.3 per cent discount on
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          Lock icon China turbine maker to sell H shares
          93 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Dongfang Electrical Machinery, one of China's two leading hydro-electric turbine makers, will sell 170 million H shares in Hongkong, the South China Sunday Morning Post reported yesterday. The company may raise between HKS2BO million (SSS6 million) and HKS32O million
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          Lock icon Integrated Logistics poised for growth
          69 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Integrated Logistics Bhd, a leader in the logistics industry, is poised to grow in tandem with the growth in the manufacturing, construction and export sectors, said chairman Raja Zainal Raja Sulaiman in the latest annual report. He said with the in-depth knowledge
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          Lock icon Rock Chemical sees improvement
          68 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Rock Chemical Industries (Malaysia) Bhd expects its contribution from white cement to improve in the current year, chairman Ahmad bin Harun says in the 1993 annual report. He attributes this to the higher capacity and the lower unit production cost, adding that the
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        Lock icon China Resources unit reports massive drop in net profit
        210 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Resources Enterprises Ltd, the Hongkong-listed arm of a large Chinese state-run trading firm China Resources (Holdings), said its 1993 net profit was HK$ 104.69 million (SS2I million), down from HK5333.31 million in 1992. China Resources Enterprises
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        NOL follows Liang Court into property devt in Thailand
        507 24  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK NEPTUNE Orient Lines, an established player in Thailand's transport industry, has ventured into property development to cash in on the demand for "inner city" housing in traffic-choked Bangkok. It is a member of a group
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        SCMP seeks to reassure advertisers and shareholders
        413 24  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG IN A MOVE seen as reassuring shareholders and advertisers. South China Morning Post (Holdings) published on Friday its results and daily circulation figures for the three months to March 31 for the South China Morning Post. The
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        Lock icon Delay in completion of HK utility's power plant
        311 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Light and Power will begin operating the third section of its Black Point power station in January 1998. the company says. An analyst at MeesPierson Securities said that failure to complete the plant by June 1996 would
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        Lock icon Listing of Philippine cement maker held up by foreign control fears
        242 24 AFP MANILA Bacnotan Consolidated Industries Ine. the Philippines' top eement concern, said last Friday the planned public listing of a subsidiary may be delayed due to a government order the company claimed could lead to the violation of a
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        475 24 MARKET WATCH Eastern Express HONGKONG Paul Chow, the chief executive of the Hongkong Stock Exchange, said last week exchange members were divided over whether the US philosophy of public listing, with its reliance on industry self-regulation, was suitable for the territory.
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        464 26 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Unilever's first-quarter profit slipped 5 per cent to £281 million (***** million), sending its shares tumbling on the London and Amsterdam stock markets. The multinational soup-to-soap company reported a,firstquarter net profit of £294 million, which was uncha'nged
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        298 26 Reuter ATLANTA Turner Broadcasting System Inc on Friday reported a surprising loss for its first quarter, due in part to costs of televising the Winter Olympics. The media giant posted a loss of U5513.62 million (5521.1 million), or seven US cents a share,
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        237 26 FT PARIS Euro Disney, the troubled leisure group, hopes next week to call an extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders to approve the terms of its 13 billion French franc (553.5 billion) emergency financial restructuring package. The meeting, which is expected
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        223 26 Bloomberg Business News AKRON. Ohio Goodyear Tire Rubber Co and the United Rubber Workers averted a union-wide strike on l*riday night when union leaders agreed to put the company's offer up for a membership vote. In an unusual move, union leaders
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          103 26 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Telecommunications pic said it could sidestep the UK government's ban on it carrying entertainment services on its network, the Evening Standard reported on Friday. BI chairman lain Vallance said he would be asking cable companies for an interconnection rate to
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          89 26 AFP LONDON The Ferranti defence business has been sold to GEC-Marconi. a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of British group General Electric Co (GEC), Ferranti receivers announced here on Friday. The receivers, from Arthur Andersen chartered accountants. did not indicate the value of the deal, which
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          105 26 AFP SEOUL Sinsegi Mobile Telecom, the consortium building South Korea's second mobile phone network, has decided to reolTer a share of the lucrative project rejected by GTE, according to a statement published yesterday. The statement was issued on Saturday after GTE Corp rejected the
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          90 26 AFP TOKYO Kawasaki Steel Corp, the only big Japanese steelmaker not to curtail capital spending this year, announced on Friday plans to streamline its steel activities while cutting its number of board members by six. The company said it would realign its four steel divisions
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          68 26 Reuter LONDON Conrad Black's British publishing group Telegraph pic. publisher of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday telegraph. posted a rise in first quarter profits on Friday boosted by continued recovery in newspaper advertising revenue. Telegraph pic said pre-tax profits for the first three months of
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          63 26 AFP TOKYO Japan Tobacco Co, a former public corporation which went under private management in 1985, is to be listed on the stock market in October, a newspaper said yesterday. Some 660,000 of its two million shares currently held by the government will
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        452 27 FT LONDON Schroders, the UK merchant bank, is to take control of Wertheim Schroder, its US affiliate, in a US$2OO million (SS3IO million) deal. The takeover will give Schroders the biggest whollyowned Wall Street investment banking business of any British merchant bank,
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        241 27 SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar posted the strongest gain against the greenback this year, says The Economist in its latest issue. Among the currencies of several emerging countries, the Singapore dollar strengthened the most by 2.9 per cent. It was trading at
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          Lock icon Sumitomo Life to write off 130b yen loss
          117 27 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Sumitomo Life Insurance Co will write oft* 130 billion yen (S$ 1.9 billion) as a special loss in the fiscal year to March 31, 1993, to bail out six non-bank affiliates saddled with bad loans, the Daily Yomiuri
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          99 27 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Argentina's Banco de la Provincia de Cordoba has set up a US$75 million (SSI 16 million) one-year programme to sell commercial paper in Europe, said an official at West Merchant Bank Ltd, which arranged the programme. The first sale ot
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          85 27 Reuter HONGKONG National Westminster Bank pie and Wheelock and Company Ltd on hriday said they will establish an equally owned joint venture to undertake equity stoekbroking, corporate finance and investment management in Asia. The new venture, to be called Wheelock Nat West Ltd, is
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          77 27 Reuter SYDNLY The Australian Treasury plans to offer tomorrow As4oo million (SS44X million) of indexed bonds due Aug 20, 2015, carrying a coupon of 4.00 per cent. The first interest payment is due on Aug 20 at a nominal principal value of AS 100.27. After
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          101 27 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mitsubishi Bank, a major commercial bank, will send its managing director Tomoaki Hirano to Nippon Trust Bank as president to help restructure the financially-troubled trust bank, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said on Saturday. Mitsubishi Bank is the second largest
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        248 27 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thailand's two major banks on Friday announced improved profits for the quarter ended March 31. Thai Farmers Bank pic, Thailand's second largest bank, had a net profit of 2.1 billion baht (SSI29 million), an increase of 35 per
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        340 28 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The executive council of the International Rubber Organisation (Inro) today begins a week-long meeting at which producers and consumers may clash over the role of a new buffer stock manager, analysts said. Inro is the last of the commodity
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        301 28 AFP KUALA LUMPUR China exceeded by 171 per cent its 1993 export quota set by the Association of Tin Producing Countries (ATPC), but had pledged to keep exports below 20.000 tonnes this year to fulfil its commitment as a new member, ATPC
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        344 28 Reuter AFP MANILA Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Hisham Nazer has ruled out any change in the current Opec quota level at the organisation's ministerial meeting on June 15. "Opec has already agreed on a production level for the rest of the year," he
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        262 28 Reuter TOKYO A surge in international coffee prices will keep Japanese coffee traders on the sidelines for a while as they pin hopes on a downward correction. industry sources said. Most Japanese coffee roasters have sufficient stocks and do not need to rush
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        290 28 rill: USS opened firmer last week due to the release of better than expected employment figures in the US the previous I riday. I he strong figures prompted the market to revise its expectations of the next l ed rate tightening to half a
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        621 29 SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP SINGAPORE The dollarmark started the week on a weak note as traders were disappointed with its failure to gain on Friday's strong US employment data. However, it found support at 1.6520 and rallied to 1.6820 by mid-week as traders spcculated that the
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        1197 29 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Copper soared during the week to reach its highest point for 13 months, lifting above the US$2.lOO per-tonne level on expected increased demand in Luropc and the US. and significantly lower stocks. Hut other metals
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      1325 29 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jun 94 154.00 153.75 153.75 200 1775 Jul 154.00 2700 Aug 153.25 153.25 153.50 100 1675 Sep 152.50 152.50 153.50 50 3375 Oct/Dcc 154.50 154.50
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      5009 30 CORPORATE RESULTS N« tani EPS Dale IY LY IY LY Company ann (Sai) (cts) (cts) MSB* Mar 31 I 0943 0.173 0.9 0.2 \mal Sled* Mar 31 I 65 982 33.718 10.5 8.2 ANA Mar 31 P 2.591 3.673 5.4 7 66 \nlah* Mar 31 I
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      753 30 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        797 31 FT New York IS RFLIFF for the beleaguered US finaneial markets just around the corner? Few on Wall Street are willing to make such a firm predietion. But if last week's positive inflation data is followed this week by a well-timed policy
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        Lock icon Overseas buying, continued fall of yen help share prices gain ground
        320 31 AHP Tokyo SHARL prices gained ground on the Tokyo Stock Lxchange last week, supported by active buying by overseas investors following a continued tall in the Japanese yen. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first
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        280 31 AFP Hongkong Hongkong stock prices surged 5.97 per cent in strong overseas buying backed by US economic growth during the week. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index gained 255.86 points to close at 9,134.72 on Friday its first gains in two
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        Lock icon Footsie spends week looking over its shoulder at US shares
        440 31 AFP London IMF Footsie rose slightly during the week, despite constantly looking o\er its shoulder at US shares and futures prices and generally taking little heed of reassuring performances from British companies. The IT-SI: 100 index of leading shares closed
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          108 31 Australian shares surged during the week to close 3.3 per cent higher on Friday, largely due to post-budget relief and rising commodity prices, brokers said. The market barometer, the All Ordinaries index, edged down on Tuesday hours before Treasurer Ralph Willis's budget but has climbed each day since. It
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          Manila
          82 31 The Philippine stock market took a fail last week due to technical corrections and anxiety that US short-term interest rates would increase, analysts said. The composite index fell to 2,937.28 points last Friday, down 22.95 points or 0.77 per cent from the 2,960.23 points on May 6. Average daily
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          90 31 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SE T) index added 18.46 points or 1.49 per cent during the week, thanks to a 26.45-point spurt on Friday, brokers said. The index closed Friday at 1,259.17 points. The average daily volume traded was 38.7 million shares, up from 37.1 million shares the
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          95 31 Most share prices stagnated or lost ground in slow trading during the four-day week at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates. The JSE price index rose slightly on Friday to 467.398 from the previous week's finish of 463.115. The
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          63 31 Trading was brisk on South Korea's stock market during the week, prompted by signs of improved industrial performances and rosy economic prospects, brokers said. The Composite Price Index closed at 942.38 on Saturday, up 5.97 percentage points from the previous week. Trading was heavy, with a daily average of
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          Taipei
          126 31 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange climbed above the 6.000-point level during the week on investor optimism about the future of the bourse, brokers said. Following a 3.9 per cent jump the preceding week, the 375-issue weighted price index piled up another 108.68 points, or 1.8 per cent,
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          71 31 Buying support from financial institutions and speculators saw share prices rise for the second successive week on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), India's premier bourse. The 30-share BSE index closed on Friday at 3,808.50 points, up from the previous week's close of 3,715.04 points. The 100-share national index moved
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          851 31 +6.84 Blue chip stocks rose modestly on Friday as traders chose to ignore a strong bond market and wait for a key Federal Reserve policy meeting this week, but a sell-off in computer networking stocks weighed on the broader market. Analysts said the session was marked by cautious
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          316 31 -5.69 Stocks slipped to a weaker close as investors rocked by the recent bond-driven roller-coaster ride continued to cling to the sidelines. "Toronto didn't know what to do with itself today." said Maison Placements Canada trader Rolie Bradley on Friday. Soft gold shares weighed on Toronto and kept it
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        6227 32 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Poor performance- in overseas bourses continued to depress sentiment on the Kuala Lumpur share market, leading prices to move on an easier note last week. Analysts said that even though prices were attractive for bargains, market players were cautious about taking positions amid
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        1980 34  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE I he local bourse which has displayed a significant sensitivity to US economic developments over the past three months is expected to keep a keen eye on tomorrow's US federal Open Market Committee meeting. OCBC Investment Research. Alliance
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      370 35  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Middle East carrier United Arab Shipping Corp has sealed a space-swap deal with Tricon Group members. According to a UASC statement last Friday, the slot exchange between UASC and Tricon members Cho Yang of Korea and DSR Senator of
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      272 35 AFP CAP GRIS NEZ, France Rescuers struggled late last Saturday to salvage a cargo of dangerous acids from the English Channel lost from a sinking container vessel after it collided with another ship, maritime officials said. The Ming Fortune, of Taiwan, lost several
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      1089 35 Page Col ABC Containcrlinc 16 4 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrcnkicl Liner 4 1/2 AOEShpg 15 4/5 ANL 3 1/2 Antaco Mgmt 17 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appcnship 8 4/5 Arabian Express 15 3 ASCI- 5 5 Assist Marine 6 1 Avant Shpg
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      208 35 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO The Brazil government's failure lo sell state shipping line Lloyd Brasileiro at an auction may be part of plan by private shipping companies to buy ofT the company's vessels cheaply, a senior Lloyd official said last week.
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      321 35 Reuter WASHINGTON A US House of Representatives panel is to begin formal drafting this week of a Bill to help the US maritime and shipbuilding industries, both hard-pressed by foreign competition. An aide to the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries sub-committee
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      265 35 AP ANCHORAGE Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazeiwood says his first reaction when the oil tanker ran aground was to throw up. The ship captain who had been drinking in the hours before his ship hit a reef in March 1989, completed three days
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        286 36 Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Oeparture Marina Wharves p lepeanna urn po9a 1505/1600 1/05/2300 Balamndo 1 1494S* MO I alongside 1406/1500 Pefccw SHO/9* POIA 1605/1500 1605/2000 BaJamndo 2 230/S* M01 1605/0800 1605/1900 S*****H 13/05* P01A 16 05/1500 16.05/2100 ftaa 18 K23 09
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1649 36 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance RsJts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ActVnM 0348 1//0/00 IB 15/1500 15/1659 15/1900 2A 15/1/00 16 0659 16 0900 28 15/1/00 16/0659 16/0900 3 16/0/00 16/1159 16/1400
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      14757 44 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 I'enang after
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      Turning on the smiles
      735 52  -  iWec Almazan, who was in Manila recently, meets the chairman of a shipping r line with a firm view of what customer service is all about Alec Almazan Most local shipping lines talk of balance sheets and bottom lines, for Aboitiz Shipping Corp of the Philippines,
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1869 52 > rriding was active despite the Ascension holiday and rates continued firm fof Panamaxes and capcsizcs in particulate brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cano shipping rates rose to 1.491 on from 1,477 on May 11, with the Jan 4 1985 equals 1,000. rates arc
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        442 54 Reuter AFP PARIS Paris and London pursued a flurry of diplomatic activity last Saturday to defuse a major row between the French government and British carriers over landing rights at the capital's Orly airport. Both countries' transport ministers were
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        PAL to expand services to cover Rome losses
        322 54  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Philippine Airlines (PAL) plans to expand its operations in Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and Spain. PAL will be expanding existing services in these routes to compensate for losses it will incur from the suspension of its services
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        266 54 AFP BOMBAY The Indian government will not privatise the two state-owned airlines. Air India and Indian Airlines, until their services improve, federal civil aviation secretary K Padmanabhiah said here last Friday. He said the government had delayed plans to sell a part of
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        Qantas share float by early next year: Aussie minister
        192 54 SYDNEY The planned sale by the Australian government of its remaining share of the national Hag-carrier Qantas would definitely proceed "this year or early next year". Pinance Minister Kim Beazlcy said yesterday. Qantas management, which had been forced to delay Canberra's
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          89 54 Reuter HANOI Myanmar and Vietnam have agreed to establish direct air links as soon as possible and to cooperate in fighting illicit narcotics. "I he news came in a joint communique issued on Saturday night at the end of a four-day official visit to Myanmar
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          Lock icon Northwest gets nod for China plans
          102 54 AP WASHINGTON The US federal government has approved plans by Northwest Airlines to double the number of weekly (lights into China. Northwest will operate four weekly round trip flights into China under the plan affirmed by the US Department of transportation, making the airline
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          71 54 AFP HANOI Vietnam is planning to spend US$l.B billion (SS2.B billion) to upgrade Ho Chi Minh City's airport into one of the largest in the region, eapable of handling 50 million passengers a year, a report said yesterday. Teams from the Ministry of Transport and
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          74 54 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Ford Motor Co's UK arm said it has instructed its distributors to cut the price of the top-selling Mondeo range by £265 (SS6I6) on most models, the Financial limes reported last week. The company denied reports that it was cutting
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          61 54 AFP PARIS Most flights of French domestic airline Air Inter will be cancelled tomorrow because of a strike called by all unions at the company. The carrier said the only flights to be maintained would be three for Corsica leaving from Orly airport. Air Inter added
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      1808 39 I STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD flUjto 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Kepp«l Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO QUI SAM.S STRAITS VENTURE Vl* Jfcara lab 12-13 Mar 14 May 15 toy FCI LCL CONTAINER ANO BfIEAKBULK SERVICE TO
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      947 40 0 HANJIN SHIPPING MegaFAX Service Launched for Our Valuable Customers Effective Mid May 94 Fast Accurate Information will be right on your desk. For any enquiry, please refer to the following personnel: B/L Draft Clarification Krh Teck Geok DID *****82 Arrival Notice Joseph Aw DID *****63 Booking Reference cum Releasing
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      1007 43 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD "J ggjgij 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I CR NO: **********0E VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN IVCMCL VOY SIN JKT MN K. BUANA (BMT/LCH) BUOIN 17/5 20/5 24/S BUNGA TERATAI 4703 17/5 20/5 24/5 SRIMANEE (THAI FLAG) MN2ON 17/5 20/5 24/5 SINO
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      53 45 1/C VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Q Established Since 1984 OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR GROUP AGE LCL consolidation AUCKLAND SYDNEY import export MELBOURNE FREHANTLE SERVICES yy FOR BOOKING 8e SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TELx 1800-*****66 TOLL-FREE TEL:
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      107 48 TITIMAS SHIPPING \J TRADING SDN. BHD. TITIMaSp! KELANQ (03)*****55 (H/Linw) Fax: 03-******3 Tlx: M* ***** TISITA VESSELS VOY P KLANG PORT OF DESTINATION NEW LINE NO 1 6/94 3-6-94 MUARA/MIRI SENG LEONG 8/94 26-5-94 KUCHING/SIBU SUTRA 8/94 31/5/94 KUCHING/SIBU O?PINESEAS MARITIME PTE LTD VESSEL VOY SPORE PKLG K K BRIS
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      208 48 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD (H Ell CIA SfOßf PORT HUANG PfNANG Btl* MM S loading (or Mate KUVIU HUDHU 27/4 Drctufginii and loading tot Bombay WXPMM 21/S loadirg fo» Mat* PUNEEI SUPttMI Loddrng For M,il» UNMKDH 1/6 I oJdir< For Mate NtOGKSS IBtRIT 25 i loading
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      248 49 GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP to REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN X 24/5 1/6 7/6 16/6 TIMBER TRADER OPEN IN PKL 15/5 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN VI 15/5 ACCEPTING HEAVY
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      578 49 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOY SIN KARACHI HY CURASAO 129-HW 2»/to 07/0* SARGOOHA 143 HW 09/06 H, 06 ISIAMABAO 122 HW 2«/0t 01/06 MAKRAW 149 HW 13/0/ 22/07 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL VOY SIN HKG BSW*" OS* NAG"" TOX ISLAMABAD 121 OW 22/05
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      358 49 SIN FAR EAST 24/05 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 22/05 BANGKOK 22/05 MANILA/CEBU 22/05 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 22/05 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 22/05 BUSAN 22/05 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 22/05 HONG KONG SIN CHINA (*a#±#fcn) 22/05 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/ XIAMEN SHAN TOU SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG riANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 24/05 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 24/05 ROM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech.
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      491 50 y Conform 9 CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 19 MAY (Accepting lo all N«w Zealand porta) PENANG 23 MAY JAKARTA 22 MAY PORT KLANG 19 MAY BANGKOK 22 MAY MANILA 22 MAY MELBOURNE 19 MAY SYDNEY 19 MAY BRISBANE 26 MAY ADELAIDE 17 MAY FREMANTLE 22 MAY 'ACCEPTING TO
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      479 52 VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA OPTIMA 9402N 20/05 (FRI) 25/05 (WED) VIGOUR PACIFIC 9420N 24/05 (TUE) 28/05 (SAT) TWO SAVINGS WEEKLY PERVOMAYSK 9402N 27/05 (FRI) 01/06 (WED) FWMY m TUESOAV OPTIMA 9403N 31/05 (TUE) 04/06 (SAT) SOUTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE GENERAL SANTOS OAVAO CEBU NIK PLAY MOROZOV
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